1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:05,759 Speaker 1: For members only and everyone else. Golf Smarter number three 2 00:00:05,879 --> 00:00:09,279 hundred and forty eight, published on September eleven, twenty twelve. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:14,519 Speaker 2: Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:14,599 --> 00:00:18,160 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:24,199 Golf Smarter podcast Great Golf Instruction Never Gets Old. Our 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:29,079 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:29,199 --> 00:00:32,759 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: Having a comedy night at a golf course is a 9 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:38,200 great idea. 10 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,039 Speaker 3: I think so too. 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, and the members just seem to really love it. 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: It's a really me especially as you're doing golf comedy. 13 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:48,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, a baked yeah. 14 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,039 Speaker 4: And it's a great even And you're getting a really 15 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:52,079 good bang for your buck too, because you're getting four 16 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:54,920 guys that you know tour internationally, a lot of us, 17 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:57,880 like I've been to Iraq in Afghanistan doing troup tours. 18 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,439 So you're getting a really good show. And the reason 19 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:02,960 you're getting that is because we're all golf freaks and 20 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:05,239 so we don't really care about if it's going to 21 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:08,280 be financially viable. If we're playing golf and drinking beer 22 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:08,680 and eating. 23 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:11,439 Speaker 3: We're happy. It's a high quality show. It's just a killer. 24 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:12,239 It's really fun. 25 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:23,519 Speaker 1: It's Golf Comedy Night with the Hacks featuring Paul Meyer Hawk. 26 00:01:23,719 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 2: This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,519 and golf professionals to help lower your score. It's worked 28 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:34,239 for your host, Fred Green. 29 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,719 Speaker 1: Welcome to Golf Smarter for members only. 30 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,079 Speaker 3: Paul, Hey, Fred, how you doing. 31 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm glad to be back doing the 32 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:46,519 show again. Hiatus made me kind of crazy, but I'm 33 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,760 excited to have a comedian on to help break the eyes. 34 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of weird on a golf show to 35 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:53,840 have a stand up comic, isn't it. 36 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: Well, No, you have to play golf standing. 37 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:01,439 Speaker 3: Up, that's yeah. And you also have to laugh a lot. 38 00:02:01,719 --> 00:02:04,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, You have to be able to laugh a 39 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,719 lot when you're playing golf or go home. And what 40 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 better thing in the world to make fun of other 41 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,759 than current day politics in the United States, But what 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,879 better thing to make fun of than golf. 43 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 4: Yes, it is such a frustrating because comedy comes from 44 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,280 real emotions, and I think every nerve. 45 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: Is exposed out on a golf course, so it is. 46 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's lots to talk about, lots to laugh about. 47 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: That's interesting you say that comedy comes from real emotions. 48 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,960 How did Where do you where? Where does your material 49 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,000 come from? I mean, how do you write? 50 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 3: Writing? 51 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 4: Writing for me is the most difficult part of it. 52 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,439 I'm I'm definitely more of a stronger performer, so I 53 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:55,599 try to use real life, ridiculous scenarios for my stand up. 54 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,240 So some of my most popular bits are well, definitely 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,039 the most popular one is a true story about getting 56 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:04,400 an adult circumcision. 57 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: Well, that's really funny. 58 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:11,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. 59 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,719 Speaker 4: I mean for a situation that you know, usually people 60 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:17,319 would wouldn't even admit to it or talk about it 61 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,719 in public, but since it's so raw. 62 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 3: No pun intended, but I mean it was. 63 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 4: It was one of the one of the most hilarious 64 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,719 things I've gone through in my life. So that turned 65 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:33,479 in when I first started talking about it. The bit 66 00:03:33,719 --> 00:03:38,479 was about fifteen minutes long, about about this day that 67 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,599 I got my adult circumcision done. And I think it 68 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:46,080 makes for the best stand up because the audience knows 69 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:50,439 it's it's real and also not there's no other comics 70 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:52,560 that would have the same bit because it's such a 71 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:53,719 true story. 72 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: Yeah right, you're not going to see Robin Williams ripping 73 00:03:56,719 --> 00:03:58,280 off your material all too soon? 74 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 3: No, definitely, not right. 75 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: Robin is notorious for being heard and being heard in 76 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,919 the back of the club and laughing louder than anybody, 77 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:12,400 And whenever a comic, here's Robin laughing. There going oh great, 78 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:13,599 he's going to be using that now. 79 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, there it goes well. 80 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 4: He tells so many jokes in one breath that I 81 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,839 think he needs to steal because he's told about sixteen 82 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,680 jokes in four seconds. 83 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 84 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,879 Speaker 1: And the best thing about Robin's material is there's no 85 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,040 way that anybody is ever able to repeat it at 86 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,439 the water cooler the next day at work. 87 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 3: No chance. 88 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes by so fast. It's like he was 89 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,759 really funny. What do you do? I don't know, but 90 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,199 I was laughing all night long. 91 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guaranteed. 92 00:04:43,439 --> 00:04:45,439 Speaker 4: And he goes through the most water I've ever seen 93 00:04:45,519 --> 00:04:48,240 a human being drink in an hour set. It's probably 94 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,240 seven bottles of water. I guess he's throwing most of 95 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,279 it around the stage, But yeah, he's amazing. 96 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: I actually, when I got started in radio in San 97 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:02,600 Francisco in the seventies. I was working at a radio station, 98 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,720 the FM Rock station in San Francisco. That kind of 99 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:09,120 started the whole FM rock routine, and we were doing 100 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,199 We had relationship with a lot of comics and clubs, 101 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,399 and that's when Robin was getting started. And I was 102 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:21,439 at like one of the first clubs, the Boarding House 103 00:05:21,439 --> 00:05:24,639 in San Francisco. He performed, which was outrageous. I was 104 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:26,920 at a party one night where he was doing his 105 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:29,240 stand up to I swear to god, he was doing 106 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,839 it to a lampshade. And I was at a benefit 107 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,800 concert for a friend who passed away that Robin was headlining, 108 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:39,920 and we got to sit in the front row and 109 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:44,279 I had a cast on my leg and Robin started 110 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:46,959 doing a bit about white guys playing basketball, and he 111 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,240 looked over at me and said, what's wrong with your leg? 112 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,639 And I said, I spring my ankle playing basketball. And 113 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,319 then he took my crutches and did five minutes on 114 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:57,120 my crutches. 115 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 3: Amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 116 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,439 Speaker 4: I think him and Steve Martin are got to be 117 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,360 the two best guys just to like Riff, and I 118 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,079 think that's why with their movie Roles and a director 119 00:06:10,079 --> 00:06:13,319 I'll just say, okay, talk about this elevator door for 120 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,120 as long as possible. And it's amazing. You know, I 121 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,040 really like, I do not have that talent on board. 122 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 3: I just so. 123 00:06:19,519 --> 00:06:22,199 Speaker 4: I can't believe how good those boys are at improv. 124 00:06:22,439 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he is remarkable, you know, Bobby Slayton the Bulldog. 125 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:30,000 Absolutely all right, So here's another one for you. When 126 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,920 I was starting out in radio here, I was working 127 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,079 the morning show. I was the morning show producer at 128 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:39,519 this radio station, and it really didn't pay me that well. 129 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,199 I just graduated college. I started working at the radio 130 00:06:42,199 --> 00:06:44,560 station as an intern, and then they hired me on. 131 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:46,720 I stayed down for two and a half years, and 132 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,720 the I would get off work, I had to be 133 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,240 at work at five point thirty in the morning, and 134 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:56,120 i'd be done. I'd run around doing things for other people. 135 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,759 I'd be done by eleven eleven o'clock that morning. So 136 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,519 I got a second job, and from noon to six 137 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,000 I was working in a record store. 138 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,199 Speaker 3: Remember records, I do remember records? 139 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: You remember hearing about them? 140 00:07:10,079 --> 00:07:12,439 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I remember my dad telling me about them, 141 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:13,160 right exactly. 142 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:16,279 Speaker 1: So I worked at a record store in a big 143 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:21,680 office complex. The Embarcadero in San Francisco, and Bobby Slayton 144 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,800 was starting in comedy and I was starting ready and 145 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,480 we worked together at this record store. 146 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:28,759 Speaker 3: Oh no chance, is that right? 147 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:33,439 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, so I and you know, you and I 148 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:36,279 all get off air because I have stories about Dana Carvey. 149 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:39,240 I went to college with Michael Pritchard. One's stand up 150 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,920 comedy is a friend. So I've had a lot of 151 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,079 relationship with different comics and I just love being around 152 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,279 comics because I get it. And there are so many 153 00:07:50,279 --> 00:07:55,639 different types of styles for comedy. There are storytellers, there 154 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,920 are people who just feed off the audience. There are 155 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:04,360 joke tellers and right, and you are just one of 156 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,000 those guys that what just does real life stories. You 157 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,240 just tell your stories of your life. 158 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:10,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd say so. 159 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:15,519 Speaker 4: Where where I grew up doing stand up in in 160 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,279 Western Canada, a lot of us have storytelling style. 161 00:08:19,439 --> 00:08:20,879 Speaker 3: So I'm I'm. 162 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 4: Definitely a storyteller with a little bit of conversational humor. 163 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:25,399 Speaker 3: I I talk to the. 164 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 4: Audience quite a bit and then and then and then 165 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,240 sink stories in between a it. 166 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:32,759 Speaker 3: So, but yeah, it's very much this style. 167 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 4: Western Canadian sort of that drawler sort of stoner pacing 168 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,639 and uh yeah. 169 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 3: So that that's how I describe it for sure. 170 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: And so you do allow the audience to chime in. 171 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I I talked to the audience quite 172 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:52,879 a bit. And for me, you know, I guess the 173 00:08:52,919 --> 00:08:55,600 trick being is if you can, if you can ask 174 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,279 them a few questions that you know is going to 175 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,759 load it into the story or pointed into that direction. 176 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:05,240 Is sort of my style, and then it all sort 177 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:08,200 of seems conversational, like you're just sort of hanging out 178 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,720 at a barbecue having a beer with the stand up is. 179 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:12,399 Speaker 3: Sort of my goal. 180 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 4: Just completely comfortable and yeah, so that's definitely my style. 181 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:23,919 Speaker 1: Oh well, why are Canadians so funny? Great comedy comes 182 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:26,200 out of Canada. Great comedy. 183 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean there it's such a it's such 184 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,200 a competitive circuit because I would say now that we're 185 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,679 getting there's probably only twenty seven clubs across the whole country. 186 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,559 And it's a huge country. So if you want to 187 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,519 get into it, you've got to beat a lot of 188 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:48,000 guys out. So the guys that are ready to the 189 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:50,600 professionals we have that are going to the United States. 190 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 3: I live in England. I live in the UK. A 191 00:09:53,279 --> 00:09:55,200 lot of us end up moving over there as well. 192 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 4: But when by the time you go, your road hard 193 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:03,679 and you know, I was working ten years before I 194 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:06,240 made my move to the UK, and. 195 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 3: I also have a visa for the States as well. 196 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 4: But so the comics you're seeing her started when they're eighteen, 197 00:10:12,399 --> 00:10:15,120 and they've been chewing nails up here. It's kind of 198 00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:21,799 like Russia, Rocky, you know, Rocky for training in Russia 199 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,720 because the gigs are rough like there. It's mostly bars 200 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:30,039 in Northern Canada, and you got to be pretty sharp, 201 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:30,279 you know. 202 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, So I guess the goal for Canadian comics is 203 00:10:34,039 --> 00:10:35,600 to make it to the United States, and the goal 204 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:39,039 for United for American or no, I'm sorry, United States 205 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,159 comics because you're an American United States comics is to 206 00:10:42,159 --> 00:10:42,840 get a sitcom. 207 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:47,279 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, yeah, that's right. 208 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, you pulls this jub Seinfeld. You you know, everyone 209 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,399 wants to be Seinfeld. 210 00:10:53,879 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody wants that. 211 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,519 Speaker 4: And the new one is Louis Now, Louis c K's 212 00:10:57,519 --> 00:11:01,600 got the best man and he's the best deal with HBO, 213 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,240 you know, complete freedom to do whatever you want. So 214 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,559 I'd say that's sort of the the new thing everybody's after. 215 00:11:07,639 --> 00:11:09,720 But yeah, for US Canadians, just getting down to the 216 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,720 US and and not driving on snow roads is basically 217 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,960 like if we if we have a road trip in California, 218 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,120 We're just like like. 219 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,159 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I've hit the big time, you know. 220 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 4: So yeah, and the UK is also good move for 221 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:26,559 US as well. The visas come a little bit easier. 222 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,480 And and you know, there's three hundred clubs in London alone, 223 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,360 three hundred comedy clubs, so it's there's a ton of 224 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:33,960 work out there. 225 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,039 Speaker 1: I can imagine just applying for a visa in the 226 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,039 United States is going to be funny. It's like, and 227 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,279 what is your profession? I'm a canedian. Okay, go ahead 228 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:41,840 and make me laugh. 229 00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:44,279 Speaker 3: You know what. 230 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,279 Speaker 4: Your border guards are so intense, and they do ask 231 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,200 you because my visa is for. 232 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:51,919 Speaker 3: It's it's it's funny. 233 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,159 Speaker 4: So it's a sports stars and and entertainer visa, so 234 00:11:55,639 --> 00:11:58,159 it says a visa of extraordinary talent. 235 00:11:57,879 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 3: Which is hilarious. I just basically tell dick jokes. 236 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sorry circumcision never mind circumcision dons. 237 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:12,759 Speaker 4: Yeah, but the most border guards and they're intense, like 238 00:12:12,799 --> 00:12:15,440 you your border guards are, I mean, and they'll look 239 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,200 at you with those serious eyes and be like, so, 240 00:12:17,279 --> 00:12:20,240 what makes you extraordinary? And I'll be like, well, stand 241 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:22,720 up comic, and they say, tell me a joke every time, 242 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:24,440 and it's yeah. 243 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,159 Speaker 1: I'm not a joke teller, yeah, more of a storyteller. 244 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,679 So you really want to hear about my adult circumcision. 245 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd get me weighed through pretty quick. 246 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:37,799 Speaker 1: I should never mind. 247 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. 248 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, but but yeah, the visas for for the Americans 249 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:49,039 are tough. You have to prove that you're the funny 250 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,159 and the top five percent of your field in in 251 00:12:52,399 --> 00:12:55,799 uh in your country before they'll give you a visa. 252 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,799 Speaker 1: So how do you quantify top five top five percent? 253 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,320 I mean, it's not like your golf scorecard. Yeah, well 254 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,519 I'm a thirteen handicap comedian. It's like, what does that mean? 255 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got a really funny elevator joke. No, 256 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,639 they but for me, I'd won a competition. Not a 257 00:13:17,639 --> 00:13:20,559 lot of Americans enter too. It's a televised for the 258 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,960 Comedy Network called The Great Canadian Laugh Off, and it starts, 259 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,559 I think with one hundred and sixty three competitors and 260 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,960 the winner gets twenty five grand. So I lucked out 261 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,200 and won it in two thousand and seven, So that 262 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,919 put me in a position where I could prove I 263 00:13:39,039 --> 00:13:41,399 was the top five percent at that time. 264 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 3: So yeah, but. 265 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: You haven't been funny since two thousand and seven. 266 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:46,919 Speaker 3: No, and the money's long gone too. 267 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: How do they judge comedy competition? What do they know? 268 00:14:00,519 --> 00:14:02,840 I know that they have the San Francisco stand of 269 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:06,080 Fest comedy festival, and annually each year. And I said 270 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,519 Mike Richard, you know, won back in the eighties, and 271 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:10,440 he's still writing that. 272 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. Yeah, that's a big one. The San 273 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,600 Francisco is a huge competition. That Seattle and Boston are 274 00:14:17,639 --> 00:14:20,519 your three big ones, but San Francisco is the biggest. 275 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:21,919 Speaker 3: And well, what they do. 276 00:14:23,399 --> 00:14:28,679 Speaker 4: Is on the preliminary nights, it's judged by radio DJs 277 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:33,559 and local stand up bookers and even like right down 278 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,759 to like bar managers and waitresses, so whoever they can 279 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:41,639 dig up to judge, and they'll judge it by audience response, 280 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,679 original material. And then there's time constraints as well, if 281 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,240 you have to if you go over your time, you 282 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:49,759 get docked. 283 00:14:49,759 --> 00:14:51,519 Speaker 3: If you go under your time, you get docked. 284 00:14:51,519 --> 00:14:55,799 Speaker 4: And that's basically how they do it, just by different criteria. 285 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,279 And then when the when you're in the finals of 286 00:14:58,279 --> 00:15:01,440 the competition, when you like the top five, then they 287 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:06,440 start bringing in uh, you know, like somebody from the 288 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,679 Comedy Network, I mean the or a booker for David 289 00:15:10,039 --> 00:15:11,879 Letterman or yeah. 290 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then that, to me is valid having a 291 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,759 disc jockey there. You know. It's like, if there's anybody 292 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,679 more insecure than stand up comics, it's disc jockeys. 293 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:26,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, is that right? 294 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: You tell me? Do we not? Do we not? Look 295 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:35,159 at Larry David or any stand up comic going what wow, 296 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:36,799 you guys are so insecure? 297 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, yeah, not true. 298 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,919 Speaker 1: I mean stand up comics are pretty insecure. It's like 299 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:46,720 I'm funny. Aren't I that good? I mean how many times? 300 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:49,399 How many? I know? When like if I see Bobby 301 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,639 Slayton after a show? Was that funny? Is that good? 302 00:15:51,679 --> 00:15:52,799 How was was that funny? 303 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 3: Yeah? 304 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,399 Speaker 1: Bobby, you were very funny? Really was I funny? What 305 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,000 was funny? 306 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? What what part did you like the best? 307 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: How was my Did you like this bit? I heard 308 00:16:01,759 --> 00:16:02,679 you do it? You don't have to do it again? 309 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:03,879 Speaker 3: Oh? For sure? 310 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 4: And I'd say well, if you have this, if you 311 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:09,399 feel the need to be in front of people and 312 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:12,159 talk about the things like talk about you know, your 313 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,399 life situations and there there's definitely something wrong with you. 314 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,559 I don't know what it is, if it's in security, 315 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,320 but it's one running theme with all this to all 316 00:16:20,399 --> 00:16:22,759 my friends and stand up. There's there's some sort of 317 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:25,399 need that you're trying to fill to to stand up 318 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,320 and talk about your adult circumcision. 319 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:27,519 Speaker 3: You know. 320 00:16:28,039 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: Okay, so there is audience participation in your show, it's 321 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,600 real life stories. How many times has somebody in your 322 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:40,360 audience raised their hand and said, why in regards to 323 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:45,080 your your opening bit, your your adult SUPERSTI superstition superstition, 324 00:16:46,279 --> 00:16:49,919 your adult briss as the tribe would call it, but 325 00:16:50,679 --> 00:16:53,879 why did you do an adult circumcision? 326 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 3: I get that question all the time. 327 00:16:55,679 --> 00:16:59,159 Speaker 4: So we end up talking about about my unit for 328 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,240 about forty minute. They're very interesting Why I did it? 329 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:06,920 A lot of people think it's cosmetic, but it was. 330 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,240 There's actually if one in about a thousand guys will 331 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:14,440 have this. Uh, it's it's it's just it needs to 332 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,279 be done. Your your foreskin is too tight, so. 333 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:22,279 Speaker 1: It okay, blab blab. That's good. That's that's really funny, Paul, 334 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,319 It's really funny. It's I'm glad that we're you know, 335 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,240 I had the exercise physiologist on last time. Yeah, I 336 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,680 was about a technical I want to get it's a yeah, 337 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:40,119 so to talk golf. Let's talk golf now. The way 338 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,119 I discovered you is when I was up in British 339 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,759 Columbia on vacation this summer. And this is kind of appropriate. Uh, 340 00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:51,920 when I was playing at the Colowna Golf Club. I 341 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,519 was in the bathroom and while I was sitting there 342 00:17:55,279 --> 00:17:58,720 there there was a flyer on the the you know, 343 00:17:58,759 --> 00:18:00,480 it's like graffiti, but there was a liar in the 344 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:05,440 wall is saying coming next month, the hackers, And at 345 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,680 dinner show beforehand and then the hackers and I'm like, oh, now, 346 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,880 this is an interesting idea. Did I get this straight? 347 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,599 They at this club they're having you know, come to 348 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,839 the club, have dinner, and then after dinner, we have 349 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,839 a comedy troupe that's doing golf humor. 350 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. 351 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 4: Absolutely, Well. The thing is is that I guess it 352 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:29,279 wouldn't be. 353 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:33,839 Speaker 3: I mean, it's four stand up comics together. 354 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 4: And after the show, so we do a UK style 355 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,640 of show. We each there's an MC that does twenty 356 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,880 minutes and then we all do twenty minutes of stand 357 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,759 up afterwards. So the show is about an hour and 358 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:50,480 a half to two hours because usually, you know, you 359 00:18:50,519 --> 00:18:54,119 have fun, you go a little long. And we do 360 00:18:54,279 --> 00:18:56,680 talk about golf because obviously we're on tour. 361 00:18:56,759 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 3: We're golfing every day. 362 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:02,279 Speaker 4: We're frustrated because we're playing, and so we're talking to 363 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:03,119 golf golf. 364 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,759 Speaker 3: But it but it is a stand up show, so 365 00:19:05,039 --> 00:19:05,880 they're the theme. 366 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 4: It's not like theme specific to golf, and and so 367 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:11,960 we are doing. 368 00:19:11,799 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 3: Our acts and stuff as well. 369 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 4: But it's uh yeah, four comics that love golf and 370 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,440 and uh and get out there and do. 371 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 3: The hacks tour. 372 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: What a scam. So you guys get to go and 373 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,119 you go to these really nice places and during the 374 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,960 day you play golf. In a night you work. Yeah 375 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,359 that's again at golf is part of the deal for you. 376 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, usually it's golf the carts included. 377 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 3: And then and. 378 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 4: Of course for the show we demand meal and and 379 00:19:46,319 --> 00:19:46,839 free beer. 380 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a pretty rough, rough week of work. 381 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: How and how is your bookings? Do you get work? 382 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:55,160 How have you been doing this. 383 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 3: Oh the tour? This is This was the second year 384 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,039 of the tour. 385 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,599 Speaker 4: The exciting thing is is when the first year we 386 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:08,160 did it I did. I would book out theaters and 387 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,960 get the golf courses as sponsorships for the theater shows, 388 00:20:12,079 --> 00:20:15,400 and we would run the production ourselves and sell tickets 389 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,319 because you know up in Canada here, all of the 390 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:21,880 guys on the tour are just for laughs, veterans. We've 391 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,599 all had our stand up specials on the Comedy Network, 392 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,119 so we can bring a few people in, so four 393 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,039 of us are enough to sell a theater. So this 394 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,279 year it moved into more doing the shows in the 395 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:37,720 clubhouse of the golf course, which. 396 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 3: Which started off with. 397 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 4: Black Mountain up there, and we've found that is a 398 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:47,839 lot more successful because it's something different for the members, 399 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,279 and especially at these more posh golf courses, they it's 400 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:55,359 just a completely wild idea to them. So so we 401 00:20:55,519 --> 00:20:58,440 moved more into that and it's and it's working out great. 402 00:20:58,839 --> 00:21:02,799 Speaker 1: Oh fabulous, congratulations, I'm glad it's working out. Do a 403 00:21:02,799 --> 00:21:07,039 lot of golfers take two? Do a lot of comedians 404 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,559 spend their days playing golf? Or are they just drinking 405 00:21:10,599 --> 00:21:13,920 and smoking pot all day or they are all of. 406 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,039 Speaker 3: It, all of it. 407 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, actually I'm friends with a ton of 408 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,079 comics that play golf, and I think, I think. 409 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:26,279 Speaker 1: Rock and rollers and comedians and baseball, you know, the 410 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,599 guys who had work mostly at night, that golf is 411 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,559 a great thing for them to do during. 412 00:21:32,319 --> 00:21:33,519 Speaker 3: The day for sure. 413 00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 4: And like you said, like it keeps you out of trouble. 414 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,200 You're you know, instead of sitting at home and doing 415 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,960 nothing or getting high or whatever you're into. 416 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 3: You you're out there in the sunshine. You're with buddies. 417 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:44,480 So a ton. 418 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 4: I mean, you should see how many comics are asking 419 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:49,599 me to be a part of the tour. 420 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,279 Speaker 3: And I got, you know, a lot. 421 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 4: Of good friends out there, so it's tough to disappoint them. 422 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,599 But yeah, I mean there is a lot of guys 423 00:21:56,599 --> 00:21:59,680 that play, tons of guys, and. 424 00:21:59,279 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: So the the four guys that you have in this show, 425 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,480 and the show is called. 426 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 3: It's called The Hacks. 427 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: Commed the Hacks okay with an X or a cksks X. 428 00:22:13,279 --> 00:22:15,559 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because hack is kind of it's a pun 429 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,160 of of kind of like a hacky comic, you know, 430 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:19,200 So the Hacks. 431 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:21,279 Speaker 1: Right right, oh right, A comic is a hack and 432 00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:26,880 a golfer as a hacker. Okay, so, and is it 433 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:29,000 you're you got four guys, the same four guys that 434 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:30,039 travel around to do this. 435 00:22:31,839 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 3: Last year. 436 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 4: We had two new guys on tour this year. One 437 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,880 of the guys is working in in Asia right now, 438 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,640 Carrie Younger couldn't make it because he's in Asia. And 439 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:48,359 another guy, Kevin Stobo, who that we run a tournament. 440 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 3: As we're doing this tour. We're keeping track of our scores. 441 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 4: And doing a tournament between ourselves and doing the updates 442 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,440 on Facebook and Twitter and stuff so people can follow along. 443 00:22:57,799 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 3: But the tournament's named after Kevin. 444 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 4: It's called the Kevin Stobo Classic and uh and insecure. 445 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 3: Insecure, Yeah, yeah for sure. 446 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,279 Speaker 4: So but he couldn't make it this year. So we 447 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:17,519 had a buddy, two good buddies, Damon schridd who who 448 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,559 was the first Canadian to ever win the Seattle International 449 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:25,200 Comedy Competition, and another guy, Tim Nutt. And and so 450 00:23:25,319 --> 00:23:26,920 I think we'll get a couple of new guys in 451 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,519 every year. So the audiences in in the Okanagan and stuff, 452 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:32,839 don't get don't get sick of the same. The same 453 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,599 four guys always performing. But I guess because I put 454 00:23:35,599 --> 00:23:38,319 on the tour, it'll I'll probably stay on it every year, 455 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:38,880 I imagine. 456 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, well I hope so. And and you just primarily 457 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,279 play in Canada. 458 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,319 Speaker 4: No, no, I I live in I live in London, 459 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,359 in England the Hacks. 460 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: The Hacks primarily tour in Canada, or you also play England, 461 00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:58,319 London and England and the United States. Where do you play? 462 00:23:58,880 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 3: Uh? 463 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,319 Speaker 4: No, this is this is only the second year, so 464 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:08,000 we're it's all Canada dates. It's and more specifically in 465 00:24:08,279 --> 00:24:11,680 the in the Rockies and in the Okanagan and a 466 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,839 little bit on the island, Vancouver Island. 467 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,839 Speaker 1: But so you're primarily in British Columbia. 468 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 3: M hm. 469 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,079 Speaker 1: And is that because golf doesn't necessarily happen twelve months 470 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,000 a year in Canada. 471 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,079 Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Yeah. 472 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,319 Speaker 4: And and the golf courses in the Rockies are I 473 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,519 mean the Bay Area, you guys have, Like I work 474 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,960 down in the Bay Area as a comic and I 475 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:36,920 take a week off to go golfing it there every 476 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,440 year as well. And I would put your golf courses, 477 00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:43,359 you know, pound for pound, but the scenery and the 478 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,519 views and the quality of the golf courses in the 479 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:48,079 Rockies in Canada is top notch. 480 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,279 Speaker 1: Yet I was blown away how beautiful the Okanagan area was. 481 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:56,960 It was absolutely blown away. It's like the secret. We're like, 482 00:24:57,039 --> 00:25:02,400 we discovered this breathtaking and actually there's if people haven't 483 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,039 checked it out. I threw up on our golf Smarter 484 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,319 TV YouTube channel a little bit of a tour of 485 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,319 the golf course that we played, and we even interviewed 486 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:22,680 the head teaching pro the GM at that course. When 487 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:25,960 are you going to make this a year long tour 488 00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:28,400 that you can come to the States and play the 489 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,440 southern part of the US. And how can people get 490 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,039 in touch with me so I can put them in 491 00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:36,880 touch with you to book some gigs in their private 492 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,160 courses or do you play public courses as well? 493 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:40,599 Speaker 3: Yeah? 494 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,599 Speaker 4: We played both public and private. Absolutely. If they can 495 00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:49,160 get in touch with you and you can fire them 496 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,440 off my way, that would be delightful. And the sooner 497 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,880 I can play golf all year, the better. So let's 498 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,319 get these phone calls flying in. 499 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,319 Speaker 1: And I will I'm going to become the booking agent 500 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,680 for the hacks in the in the United States. That 501 00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:08,400 is that is now my new role. 502 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,799 Speaker 3: That sounds perfect. 503 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 4: We'll talk percentages when we when we finish up here, 504 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:13,759 I think. 505 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:21,519 Speaker 1: We should make this a public conversation. Okay, so give 506 00:26:21,559 --> 00:26:24,920 me some golf comedy. Which what's your favorite story? Your 507 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,400 favorite golf story. I'm not that people are going to 508 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000 be you know, if they hear it a second time ago. 509 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,759 I know this bit punchline. 510 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,319 Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to take my favorite golf stories for sure. 511 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,920 Damon the guy that came on tour with us this year, 512 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,799 but he was playing down in Mexico. He was at 513 00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:47,440 a wedding and they went, they went and played a 514 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,359 course down in Mexico, and and you've probably played down there, 515 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,799 you you know. They insisted you have a caddy with you, and. 516 00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 3: So he what. 517 00:26:56,559 --> 00:26:58,759 Speaker 1: Part of Mexico? Because I haven't had to worry about that. 518 00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:03,319 Speaker 4: Oh really okay, well yeah, yeah, well anyway, maybe it 519 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,440 was this specific golf course, but you get. 520 00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:09,519 Speaker 3: A caddy, ye, And so he hit the ball in 521 00:27:09,559 --> 00:27:12,480 the rough and they go down there. 522 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 4: It's right beside a lake and there's a eight foot 523 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:22,039 alligator laying there and his ball is about what would 524 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:25,240 he say, twelve feet in front of this alligator. And 525 00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:28,480 Damon's obviously like, okay, I'm not going to play this ball. 526 00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 3: Let's go up in the fairway. I'll take a drop. 527 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:33,319 Speaker 4: And the caddy said, no, no, no, very lazy, this 528 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,599 type of year, very lazy. 529 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,839 Speaker 3: It's okay. 530 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 4: So he walked down there and really nervous about hitting 531 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,319 the ball. Of course, he catches the leading edge and 532 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,319 sculls it and hits the alligator right in the ribs. 533 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,559 And he's not too pleased about it. He cranks his 534 00:27:52,559 --> 00:27:58,559 head and hisses at him, and Damon freezes and all 535 00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:03,640 you can hear is the caddy yelling, and he's running 536 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,119 up the fairway. So that's got to be my favorite 537 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,319 golf story is Damon crank and an alligator in the ribs. 538 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: And what about your own personal golf stories? Would what 539 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:19,599 kind of golfer are you? 540 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,799 Speaker 4: I we were talking before. You know, when I was younger, 541 00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:26,400 I used to be able to play, all right, I 542 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,640 played in tournaments and stuff, and I mean nothing from 543 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:30,799 likely story. 544 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,079 Speaker 1: When I was younger, I could play well. 545 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:36,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, also, yeah for sure. 546 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:39,319 Speaker 4: But these days I was just out this morning, I 547 00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:42,119 shot in eighty seven this morning. 548 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,759 Speaker 3: I'm going out right after this round. 549 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 4: I'm gonna go play there's a Jack Nicholas course up 550 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,400 here called Northern Bear. 551 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go play right after I hang up 552 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:50,480 with you. 553 00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: And you said you played this morning. 554 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, I played this morning. 555 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're going and now we're gonna done? Is 556 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,839 that why he sent me an email going, can we 557 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,119 talk immediately instead of waiting because you had a second 558 00:29:01,279 --> 00:29:02,160 round scheduled? 559 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, yeah I got a second round. 560 00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: Okay, So where can we fill out a job application 561 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:09,279 to be a comic so that we can play golf 562 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:11,920 twice a day and still get work in I know? 563 00:29:12,079 --> 00:29:14,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well I just have to fire three emails. 564 00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:16,880 But yeah, I don't get a chance to play much 565 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,759 in the UK, so when I'm at home. The first 566 00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:22,400 ten days I was on this, I think I played 567 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:23,839 twelve rounds and ten days. 568 00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:27,279 Speaker 3: So yeah, you got to make sure you get out 569 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:28,240 there and enjoy it, you know. 570 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, give me I want more bits. 571 00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:34,960 I want more golf comedy. 572 00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 3: Okay. 573 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,599 Speaker 4: Well, when I was working at the golf course when 574 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:44,480 I was younger, we used to you would get for tournaments. 575 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,359 You would get the fleet carts in so you'd get 576 00:29:46,359 --> 00:29:49,480 a big semi trailer coming in. They bring it, you know, 577 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,079 fifty or one hundred extra golf carts for big tournaments. 578 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,480 And our job was is to meet these guys late 579 00:29:55,519 --> 00:29:59,119 at night and help them get the golf carts off 580 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,519 the semi trailer and park them. 581 00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 3: So all the guys wanted want. 582 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 4: We were young, and we thought it was really cool 583 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,279 to drive the carts and everything. And one of the 584 00:30:09,319 --> 00:30:14,480 semi trailer drivers taught us how to pull the governor, 585 00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:17,160 like the speed control on the engines, if you would 586 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,799 just stick a tee. 587 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,559 Speaker 3: In there and open it up. 588 00:30:20,559 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 4: And now the golf carts is going you know thirty, 589 00:30:24,559 --> 00:30:26,519 you know, twenty five, thirty miles per hour. 590 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,359 Speaker 3: They have the ability to go that fast. 591 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,279 Speaker 4: So he taught us that, and so we're finished our job. 592 00:30:32,359 --> 00:30:34,440 We pulled a governor and the golf cart I had. 593 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,400 Let's see, I think there was six of us on 594 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,759 one golf cart, and it was it was an old 595 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:45,839 school one without a roof on it, an old Yamaha one. 596 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,839 So we're flying going twenty five miles an hour down 597 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,119 a par five fairway and it was it was wet grass. 598 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:55,680 So one of my buddies said, slam on the brake 599 00:30:55,759 --> 00:30:59,200 and let's do a three sixty. And so I did it, 600 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,039 and we rolled that cart twice. 601 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 3: We rolled it twice. It was amazing. 602 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,279 Speaker 4: There's I had friends flying all over the place and 603 00:31:09,039 --> 00:31:09,519 a good thing. 604 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:11,119 Speaker 3: Knowing was hurt. We were, I think we were both. 605 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, but I'm a parent and I 606 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,440 hear stories like that, and the first thing is like, 607 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,960 you don't do that, you get hurt. It's like, you know, 608 00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:25,359 but no, we're teenagers. That was awesome, man, Let's do 609 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:25,880 it again. 610 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, especially if. 611 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: One of your buddies gets hurt, then it's really funny. 612 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, then it's really cool. Yeah, yeah for sure. And 613 00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:34,759 you're right. 614 00:31:34,839 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 4: We flipped that cart back on its wheels and did 615 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,599 it over and over again, just laughing and having a 616 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,000 great time. So man, but you get into you get 617 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,200 into fun stories like that when you work at a 618 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,319 golf course and what goes on afterwards. 619 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,559 Speaker 3: I mean there, it's just a riot. 620 00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:52,279 Speaker 4: You know, you in the morning do if you get 621 00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:55,400 there early enough, you can go cartwater skiing. You put 622 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,759 a crazy carpet behind the cart, tie rope to it, 623 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:02,599 and cartwater skiing and you're not on water, you're just 624 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,519 on the grass on the. 625 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: Have I have a friend that part of his uh 626 00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:14,079 when they graduated, I think it was from high school, 627 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,680 and they got a bunch of guys together to just 628 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,400 go out because they had nothing to do that summer. 629 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:20,480 They went out and played golf and they were just 630 00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:25,680 slamming their drinks, doing shots all day long. And the 631 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,960 eighteenth hole, they put the golf cart in the lake 632 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,960 and one of the guys like, no, my phone, my wallet, 633 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,839 and he dove back in the hotter and retrieved his stuff. 634 00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:42,599 And then when the marshall came out, they're like, it 635 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:46,680 just took off on us and they got away with it. 636 00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:47,559 Speaker 3: No. 637 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, we're really sorry you guys. Okay, yeah, man, 638 00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:54,799 but this golf cart, what the hell happened? We were 639 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,440 like playing and you know, it's like you know, and 640 00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:01,839 of course they're really drunk, and they're only eighteen years old, 641 00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:06,720 like they were really we just don't know what happened. 642 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,519 Speaker 4: And they didn't see all the beer cans floating beside 643 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:11,039 the golf cart. 644 00:33:11,279 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: They were doing shots all day. Well, that's okay, kids, 645 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,839 we'll retrieve the golf cart out of the water, and 646 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,640 you guys just go home and you are you okay? Yeah? 647 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:25,839 Speaker 3: Oh man, amazing. 648 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,839 Speaker 4: That's when you're glad you're not the guy that signed 649 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:29,200 the waiver that morning, you know. 650 00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: Right, exactly exactly. Wow, Well, Paul, I'm really glad I 651 00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:40,079 tracked you down and I would love to help you 652 00:33:40,319 --> 00:33:43,359 find different opportunities to play here in the States, because 653 00:33:44,039 --> 00:33:46,680 especially here in the Bay Area. I want to find 654 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,079 a way to bring you out here and play a 655 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,119 couple different courses over a week or so, and we'll 656 00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:54,599 play golf together on regular basis. I just think that 657 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,480 would be so much fun. And you know, I know 658 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:02,759 that private courses is especially you know, they'll have music. 659 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,799 You know, they'll have a live jazz combo. Come out 660 00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,119 for dinner and we're gonna have live music that night. 661 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:13,639 You know, boring, and maybe they have a speaker or 662 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:17,039 even the head pro will answer answer a couple of questions. 663 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,039 You know. But I think having a comedy night at 664 00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:26,599 a golf course is a great, great idea. 665 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:28,760 Speaker 3: I think so too. 666 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, and the members just seem to really love it. 667 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: It's a it's a really me especially because you're doing comedy, 668 00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:36,719 you're doing golf comedy. 669 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah, And it's a it's a great 670 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:42,960 even and you're getting a really good bang for your 671 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,679 buck too, because you're getting four guys that are that, 672 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,159 you know, tour internationally, a lot of us, like a 673 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,199 couple of us, you know in like I've been to 674 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,079 Iraq in Afghanistan doing troop tours. So you're getting a 675 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,320 really good show. And the reason you're getting that is 676 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,199 because we're all golf freaks and so we don't really 677 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,880 care about, you know, if it's going to be financially viable. 678 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,199 If we're playing golf and drinking beer and eating, we're 679 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,119 we're happy. So it's a it's a high quality show. 680 00:35:10,159 --> 00:35:13,559 It's it's it's just a killer. It's it's it's it's 681 00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:14,079 really fun. 682 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,039 Speaker 1: Oh so when you were in Iraq in Afghanistan, are 683 00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:17,880 you doing golf jokes? 684 00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, definitely not more. 685 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: You're doing circumcision jokes. 686 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,199 Speaker 3: Yeah more, And and you know there's a lot. 687 00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:25,880 Speaker 1: Of peepy jokes. 688 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, blue collar stuff for sure, absolutely, But those are 689 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:34,199 fun tours too. And the when I went to Iraq 690 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:39,400 was an American tour and it's it's amazing. And and 691 00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:41,360 again you're not doing too much time. It's only a 692 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,400 twenty minute or thirty minute set. But yeah, those men 693 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,679 and women and those you know, they're young and they 694 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,719 like to hear drinking stories and stuff like that, so 695 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,840 it's more definitely more blue collar, but a riot nonetheless. 696 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're probably incredibly appreciative. 697 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know, you you spend more time just 698 00:35:59,599 --> 00:36:02,239 talking and signing headshots and stuff, even though you know, 699 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,079 I'm not a famous comic at all, but still everybody 700 00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:08,320 wants to autograph. And you know, you're up there for 701 00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:11,360 thirty minutes and after that you're there for three hours 702 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,599 after hearing stories and laughing and chatting. So yeah, they 703 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,760 really really appreciate it, and so do we. I mean, 704 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,280 the people say, oh, how would you ever go to rack? Well, 705 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,840 we're never in danger, and I mean we're more appreciative 706 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,480 of what they're doing for us than what we're doing 707 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:27,800 for them. 708 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:28,039 Speaker 3: You know. 709 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,280 Speaker 1: So wait, an, when you said you're signing headshots, you're 710 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,079 not doing more circumcision bits. 711 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,760 Speaker 3: Right, everybody gets a little piece of forskin. 712 00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:50,760 Speaker 5: So you yell for yeah, man, well, where's your website? 713 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,280 Speaker 1: How do people check out some of your material? 714 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 4: Go to www dot paul. 715 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,159 Speaker 1: Me www anymore? 716 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,800 Speaker 4: You're right, Yeah, people are understanding of that, so you. 717 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,559 Speaker 1: Don't even need to type it in. You just know 718 00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:09,480 why don't keep telling people this? Okay, go ahead, I'm. 719 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,679 Speaker 4: Sorry Paul Meyerhog dot com and I'm gona spelled the 720 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:13,159 last name. 721 00:37:13,199 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 3: It's a weird Norwegian name. So the last name is 722 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:16,880 m y. 723 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:22,159 Speaker 4: R e h a u G. It's meyer Hoog dot com. 724 00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:24,320 And you can also find me Twitter and Facebook on 725 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,840 that as well, and and Google if you, however, you 726 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,800 spell myyer Hoog. There's only one one last name, so it'll, uh, it'll, 727 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,599 it'll eventually point you in the right direction. 728 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,119 Speaker 1: So so like someone types in Paul Meyerhog and Google 729 00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:38,239 and you come up number one. 730 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, number one. 731 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,559 Speaker 1: Wow, that's a great feeling. 732 00:37:41,679 --> 00:37:45,760 Speaker 3: Huh yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. It's a strange last name. 733 00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 1: So unfortunately it doesn't say seventy two million results. It 734 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,119 just says three. Yeah, three Paul my yeah, we got 735 00:37:53,239 --> 00:38:02,679 three Google, Facebook and Twitter. Oh man, well, listen, I 736 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:07,000 am definitely gonna bring you back. This was way too 737 00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:09,920 much fun. I'm gonna want to have you on the 738 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,519 Golf Smarter podcast again and again because I just love 739 00:38:13,599 --> 00:38:16,360 talking comedy and golf, and boy, what better one to 740 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:16,679 do it with. 741 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,119 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it was a pleasure for Thank you so much. 742 00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:23,920 And yeah, I'm glad you saw my face in the bathroom. 743 00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:25,360 Speaker 3: That's really it worked out perfectly. 744 00:38:32,079 --> 00:38:32,920 Speaker 1: That's gonna be a bit