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Speaker 1: Having a comedy night at a golf course is a
Speaker 1: great idea.
Speaker 3: I think so too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the members just seem to really love it.
Speaker 1: It's a really me especially as you're doing golf comedy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, a baked yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's a great even And you're getting a really
Speaker 4: good bang for your buck too, because you're getting four
Speaker 4: guys that you know tour internationally, a lot of us,
Speaker 4: like I've been to Iraq in Afghanistan doing troup tours.
Speaker 4: So you're getting a really good show. And the reason
Speaker 4: you're getting that is because we're all golf freaks and
Speaker 4: so we don't really care about if it's going to
Speaker 4: be financially viable. If we're playing golf and drinking beer
Speaker 4: and eating.
Speaker 3: We're happy. It's a high quality show. It's just a killer.
Speaker 3: It's really fun.
Speaker 1: It's Golf Comedy Night with the Hacks featuring Paul Meyer Hawk.
Speaker 2: This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers
Speaker 2: and golf professionals to help lower your score. It's worked
Speaker 2: for your host, Fred Green.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Golf Smarter for members only.
Speaker 3: Paul, Hey, Fred, how you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm glad to be back doing the
Speaker 1: show again. Hiatus made me kind of crazy, but I'm
Speaker 1: excited to have a comedian on to help break the eyes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of weird on a golf show to
Speaker 4: have a stand up comic, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Well, No, you have to play golf standing.
Speaker 3: Up, that's yeah. And you also have to laugh a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, You have to be able to laugh a
Speaker 1: lot when you're playing golf or go home. And what
Speaker 1: better thing in the world to make fun of other
Speaker 1: than current day politics in the United States, But what
Speaker 1: better thing to make fun of than golf.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is such a frustrating because comedy comes from
Speaker 4: real emotions, and I think every nerve.
Speaker 3: Is exposed out on a golf course, so it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's lots to talk about, lots to laugh about.
Speaker 1: That's interesting you say that comedy comes from real emotions.
Speaker 1: How did Where do you where? Where does your material
Speaker 1: come from? I mean, how do you write?
Speaker 3: Writing?
Speaker 4: Writing for me is the most difficult part of it.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm definitely more of a stronger performer, so I
Speaker 4: try to use real life, ridiculous scenarios for my stand up.
Speaker 4: So some of my most popular bits are well, definitely
Speaker 4: the most popular one is a true story about getting
Speaker 4: an adult circumcision.
Speaker 1: Well, that's really funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4: I mean for a situation that you know, usually people
Speaker 4: would wouldn't even admit to it or talk about it
Speaker 4: in public, but since it's so raw.
Speaker 3: No pun intended, but I mean it was.
Speaker 4: It was one of the one of the most hilarious
Speaker 4: things I've gone through in my life. So that turned
Speaker 4: in when I first started talking about it. The bit
Speaker 4: was about fifteen minutes long, about about this day that
Speaker 4: I got my adult circumcision done. And I think it
Speaker 4: makes for the best stand up because the audience knows
Speaker 4: it's it's real and also not there's no other comics
Speaker 4: that would have the same bit because it's such a
Speaker 4: true story.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you're not going to see Robin Williams ripping
Speaker 1: off your material all too soon?
Speaker 3: No, definitely, not right.
Speaker 1: Robin is notorious for being heard and being heard in
Speaker 1: the back of the club and laughing louder than anybody,
Speaker 1: And whenever a comic, here's Robin laughing. There going oh great,
Speaker 1: he's going to be using that now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there it goes well.
Speaker 4: He tells so many jokes in one breath that I
Speaker 4: think he needs to steal because he's told about sixteen
Speaker 4: jokes in four seconds.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the best thing about Robin's material is there's no
Speaker 1: way that anybody is ever able to repeat it at
Speaker 1: the water cooler the next day at work.
Speaker 3: No chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes by so fast. It's like he was
Speaker 1: really funny. What do you do? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I was laughing all night long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guaranteed.
Speaker 4: And he goes through the most water I've ever seen
Speaker 4: a human being drink in an hour set. It's probably
Speaker 4: seven bottles of water. I guess he's throwing most of
Speaker 4: it around the stage, But yeah, he's amazing.
Speaker 1: I actually, when I got started in radio in San
Speaker 1: Francisco in the seventies. I was working at a radio station,
Speaker 1: the FM Rock station in San Francisco. That kind of
Speaker 1: started the whole FM rock routine, and we were doing
Speaker 1: We had relationship with a lot of comics and clubs,
Speaker 1: and that's when Robin was getting started. And I was
Speaker 1: at like one of the first clubs, the Boarding House
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. He performed, which was outrageous. I was
Speaker 1: at a party one night where he was doing his
Speaker 1: stand up to I swear to god, he was doing
Speaker 1: it to a lampshade. And I was at a benefit
Speaker 1: concert for a friend who passed away that Robin was headlining,
Speaker 1: and we got to sit in the front row and
Speaker 1: I had a cast on my leg and Robin started
Speaker 1: doing a bit about white guys playing basketball, and he
Speaker 1: looked over at me and said, what's wrong with your leg?
Speaker 1: And I said, I spring my ankle playing basketball. And
Speaker 1: then he took my crutches and did five minutes on
Speaker 1: my crutches.
Speaker 3: Amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I think him and Steve Martin are got to be
Speaker 4: the two best guys just to like Riff, and I
Speaker 4: think that's why with their movie Roles and a director
Speaker 4: I'll just say, okay, talk about this elevator door for
Speaker 4: as long as possible. And it's amazing. You know, I
Speaker 4: really like, I do not have that talent on board.
Speaker 3: I just so.
Speaker 4: I can't believe how good those boys are at improv.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he is remarkable, you know, Bobby Slayton the Bulldog.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, So here's another one for you. When
Speaker 1: I was starting out in radio here, I was working
Speaker 1: the morning show. I was the morning show producer at
Speaker 1: this radio station, and it really didn't pay me that well.
Speaker 1: I just graduated college. I started working at the radio
Speaker 1: station as an intern, and then they hired me on.
Speaker 1: I stayed down for two and a half years, and
Speaker 1: the I would get off work, I had to be
Speaker 1: at work at five point thirty in the morning, and
Speaker 1: i'd be done. I'd run around doing things for other people.
Speaker 1: I'd be done by eleven eleven o'clock that morning. So
Speaker 1: I got a second job, and from noon to six
Speaker 1: I was working in a record store.
Speaker 3: Remember records, I do remember records?
Speaker 1: You remember hearing about them?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I remember my dad telling me about them,
Speaker 3: right exactly.
Speaker 1: So I worked at a record store in a big
Speaker 1: office complex. The Embarcadero in San Francisco, and Bobby Slayton
Speaker 1: was starting in comedy and I was starting ready and
Speaker 1: we worked together at this record store.
Speaker 3: Oh no chance, is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, so I and you know, you and I
Speaker 1: all get off air because I have stories about Dana Carvey.
Speaker 1: I went to college with Michael Pritchard. One's stand up
Speaker 1: comedy is a friend. So I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: relationship with different comics and I just love being around
Speaker 1: comics because I get it. And there are so many
Speaker 1: different types of styles for comedy. There are storytellers, there
Speaker 1: are people who just feed off the audience. There are
Speaker 1: joke tellers and right, and you are just one of
Speaker 1: those guys that what just does real life stories. You
Speaker 1: just tell your stories of your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd say so.
Speaker 4: Where where I grew up doing stand up in in
Speaker 4: Western Canada, a lot of us have storytelling style.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm.
Speaker 4: Definitely a storyteller with a little bit of conversational humor.
Speaker 3: I I talk to the.
Speaker 4: Audience quite a bit and then and then and then
Speaker 4: sink stories in between a it.
Speaker 3: So, but yeah, it's very much this style.
Speaker 4: Western Canadian sort of that drawler sort of stoner pacing
Speaker 4: and uh yeah.
Speaker 3: So that that's how I describe it for sure.
Speaker 1: And so you do allow the audience to chime in.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I I talked to the audience quite
Speaker 4: a bit. And for me, you know, I guess the
Speaker 4: trick being is if you can, if you can ask
Speaker 4: them a few questions that you know is going to
Speaker 4: load it into the story or pointed into that direction.
Speaker 4: Is sort of my style, and then it all sort
Speaker 4: of seems conversational, like you're just sort of hanging out
Speaker 4: at a barbecue having a beer with the stand up is.
Speaker 3: Sort of my goal.
Speaker 4: Just completely comfortable and yeah, so that's definitely my style.
Speaker 1: Oh well, why are Canadians so funny? Great comedy comes
Speaker 1: out of Canada. Great comedy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean there it's such a it's such
Speaker 4: a competitive circuit because I would say now that we're
Speaker 4: getting there's probably only twenty seven clubs across the whole country.
Speaker 4: And it's a huge country. So if you want to
Speaker 4: get into it, you've got to beat a lot of
Speaker 4: guys out. So the guys that are ready to the
Speaker 4: professionals we have that are going to the United States.
Speaker 3: I live in England. I live in the UK. A
Speaker 3: lot of us end up moving over there as well.
Speaker 4: But when by the time you go, your road hard
Speaker 4: and you know, I was working ten years before I
Speaker 4: made my move to the UK, and.
Speaker 3: I also have a visa for the States as well.
Speaker 4: But so the comics you're seeing her started when they're eighteen,
Speaker 4: and they've been chewing nails up here. It's kind of
Speaker 4: like Russia, Rocky, you know, Rocky for training in Russia
Speaker 4: because the gigs are rough like there. It's mostly bars
Speaker 4: in Northern Canada, and you got to be pretty sharp,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I guess the goal for Canadian comics is
Speaker 1: to make it to the United States, and the goal
Speaker 1: for United for American or no, I'm sorry, United States
Speaker 1: comics because you're an American United States comics is to
Speaker 1: get a sitcom.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you pulls this jub Seinfeld. You you know, everyone
Speaker 1: wants to be Seinfeld.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody wants that.
Speaker 4: And the new one is Louis Now, Louis c K's
Speaker 4: got the best man and he's the best deal with HBO,
Speaker 4: you know, complete freedom to do whatever you want. So
Speaker 4: I'd say that's sort of the the new thing everybody's after.
Speaker 4: But yeah, for US Canadians, just getting down to the
Speaker 4: US and and not driving on snow roads is basically
Speaker 4: like if we if we have a road trip in California,
Speaker 4: We're just like like.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I've hit the big time, you know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and the UK is also good move for
Speaker 4: US as well. The visas come a little bit easier.
Speaker 4: And and you know, there's three hundred clubs in London alone,
Speaker 4: three hundred comedy clubs, so it's there's a ton of
Speaker 4: work out there.
Speaker 1: I can imagine just applying for a visa in the
Speaker 1: United States is going to be funny. It's like, and
Speaker 1: what is your profession? I'm a canedian. Okay, go ahead
Speaker 1: and make me laugh.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 4: Your border guards are so intense, and they do ask
Speaker 4: you because my visa is for.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's funny.
Speaker 4: So it's a sports stars and and entertainer visa, so
Speaker 4: it says a visa of extraordinary talent.
Speaker 3: Which is hilarious. I just basically tell dick jokes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sorry circumcision never mind circumcision dons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the most border guards and they're intense, like
Speaker 4: you your border guards are, I mean, and they'll look
Speaker 4: at you with those serious eyes and be like, so,
Speaker 4: what makes you extraordinary? And I'll be like, well, stand
Speaker 4: up comic, and they say, tell me a joke every time,
Speaker 4: and it's yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not a joke teller, yeah, more of a storyteller.
Speaker 1: So you really want to hear about my adult circumcision.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd get me weighed through pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I should never mind.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but but yeah, the visas for for the Americans
Speaker 4: are tough. You have to prove that you're the funny
Speaker 4: and the top five percent of your field in in
Speaker 4: uh in your country before they'll give you a visa.
Speaker 1: So how do you quantify top five top five percent?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like your golf scorecard. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I'm a thirteen handicap comedian. It's like, what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got a really funny elevator joke. No,
Speaker 4: they but for me, I'd won a competition. Not a
Speaker 4: lot of Americans enter too. It's a televised for the
Speaker 4: Comedy Network called The Great Canadian Laugh Off, and it starts,
Speaker 4: I think with one hundred and sixty three competitors and
Speaker 4: the winner gets twenty five grand. So I lucked out
Speaker 4: and won it in two thousand and seven, So that
Speaker 4: put me in a position where I could prove I
Speaker 4: was the top five percent at that time.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but.
Speaker 1: You haven't been funny since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3: No, and the money's long gone too.
Speaker 1: How do they judge comedy competition? What do they know?
Speaker 1: I know that they have the San Francisco stand of
Speaker 1: Fest comedy festival, and annually each year. And I said
Speaker 1: Mike Richard, you know, won back in the eighties, and
Speaker 1: he's still writing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. Yeah, that's a big one. The San
Speaker 4: Francisco is a huge competition. That Seattle and Boston are
Speaker 4: your three big ones, but San Francisco is the biggest.
Speaker 3: And well, what they do.
Speaker 4: Is on the preliminary nights, it's judged by radio DJs
Speaker 4: and local stand up bookers and even like right down
Speaker 4: to like bar managers and waitresses, so whoever they can
Speaker 4: dig up to judge, and they'll judge it by audience response,
Speaker 4: original material. And then there's time constraints as well, if
Speaker 4: you have to if you go over your time, you
Speaker 4: get docked.
Speaker 3: If you go under your time, you get docked.
Speaker 4: And that's basically how they do it, just by different criteria.
Speaker 4: And then when the when you're in the finals of
Speaker 4: the competition, when you like the top five, then they
Speaker 4: start bringing in uh, you know, like somebody from the
Speaker 4: Comedy Network, I mean the or a booker for David
Speaker 4: Letterman or yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then that, to me is valid having a
Speaker 1: disc jockey there. You know. It's like, if there's anybody
Speaker 1: more insecure than stand up comics, it's disc jockeys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that right?
Speaker 1: You tell me? Do we not? Do we not? Look
Speaker 1: at Larry David or any stand up comic going what wow,
Speaker 1: you guys are so insecure?
Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, yeah, not true.
Speaker 1: I mean stand up comics are pretty insecure. It's like
Speaker 1: I'm funny. Aren't I that good? I mean how many times?
Speaker 1: How many? I know? When like if I see Bobby
Speaker 1: Slayton after a show? Was that funny? Is that good?
Speaker 1: How was was that funny?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Bobby, you were very funny? Really was I funny? What
Speaker 1: was funny?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What what part did you like the best?
Speaker 1: How was my Did you like this bit? I heard
Speaker 1: you do it? You don't have to do it again?
Speaker 3: Oh? For sure?
Speaker 4: And I'd say well, if you have this, if you
Speaker 4: feel the need to be in front of people and
Speaker 4: talk about the things like talk about you know, your
Speaker 4: life situations and there there's definitely something wrong with you.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, if it's in security,
Speaker 4: but it's one running theme with all this to all
Speaker 4: my friends and stand up. There's there's some sort of
Speaker 4: need that you're trying to fill to to stand up
Speaker 4: and talk about your adult circumcision.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there is audience participation in your show, it's
Speaker 1: real life stories. How many times has somebody in your
Speaker 1: audience raised their hand and said, why in regards to
Speaker 1: your your opening bit, your your adult SUPERSTI superstition superstition,
Speaker 1: your adult briss as the tribe would call it, but
Speaker 1: why did you do an adult circumcision?
Speaker 3: I get that question all the time.
Speaker 4: So we end up talking about about my unit for
Speaker 4: about forty minute. They're very interesting Why I did it?
Speaker 4: A lot of people think it's cosmetic, but it was.
Speaker 4: There's actually if one in about a thousand guys will
Speaker 4: have this. Uh, it's it's it's just it needs to
Speaker 4: be done. Your your foreskin is too tight, so.
Speaker 1: It okay, blab blab. That's good. That's that's really funny, Paul,
Speaker 1: It's really funny. It's I'm glad that we're you know,
Speaker 1: I had the exercise physiologist on last time. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was about a technical I want to get it's a yeah,
Speaker 1: so to talk golf. Let's talk golf now. The way
Speaker 1: I discovered you is when I was up in British
Speaker 1: Columbia on vacation this summer. And this is kind of appropriate. Uh,
Speaker 1: when I was playing at the Colowna Golf Club. I
Speaker 1: was in the bathroom and while I was sitting there
Speaker 1: there there was a flyer on the the you know,
Speaker 1: it's like graffiti, but there was a liar in the
Speaker 1: wall is saying coming next month, the hackers, And at
Speaker 1: dinner show beforehand and then the hackers and I'm like, oh, now,
Speaker 1: this is an interesting idea. Did I get this straight?
Speaker 1: They at this club they're having you know, come to
Speaker 1: the club, have dinner, and then after dinner, we have
Speaker 1: a comedy troupe that's doing golf humor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Well. The thing is is that I guess it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's four stand up comics together.
Speaker 4: And after the show, so we do a UK style
Speaker 4: of show. We each there's an MC that does twenty
Speaker 4: minutes and then we all do twenty minutes of stand
Speaker 4: up afterwards. So the show is about an hour and
Speaker 4: a half to two hours because usually, you know, you
Speaker 4: have fun, you go a little long. And we do
Speaker 4: talk about golf because obviously we're on tour.
Speaker 3: We're golfing every day.
Speaker 4: We're frustrated because we're playing, and so we're talking to
Speaker 4: golf golf.
Speaker 3: But it but it is a stand up show, so
Speaker 3: they're the theme.
Speaker 4: It's not like theme specific to golf, and and so
Speaker 4: we are doing.
Speaker 3: Our acts and stuff as well.
Speaker 4: But it's uh yeah, four comics that love golf and
Speaker 4: and uh and get out there and do.
Speaker 3: The hacks tour.
Speaker 1: What a scam. So you guys get to go and
Speaker 1: you go to these really nice places and during the
Speaker 1: day you play golf. In a night you work. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's again at golf is part of the deal for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, usually it's golf the carts included.
Speaker 3: And then and.
Speaker 4: Of course for the show we demand meal and and
Speaker 4: free beer.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a pretty rough, rough week of work.
Speaker 1: How and how is your bookings? Do you get work?
Speaker 1: How have you been doing this.
Speaker 3: Oh the tour? This is This was the second year
Speaker 3: of the tour.
Speaker 4: The exciting thing is is when the first year we
Speaker 4: did it I did. I would book out theaters and
Speaker 4: get the golf courses as sponsorships for the theater shows,
Speaker 4: and we would run the production ourselves and sell tickets
Speaker 4: because you know up in Canada here, all of the
Speaker 4: guys on the tour are just for laughs, veterans. We've
Speaker 4: all had our stand up specials on the Comedy Network,
Speaker 4: so we can bring a few people in, so four
Speaker 4: of us are enough to sell a theater. So this
Speaker 4: year it moved into more doing the shows in the
Speaker 4: clubhouse of the golf course, which.
Speaker 3: Which started off with.
Speaker 4: Black Mountain up there, and we've found that is a
Speaker 4: lot more successful because it's something different for the members,
Speaker 4: and especially at these more posh golf courses, they it's
Speaker 4: just a completely wild idea to them. So so we
Speaker 4: moved more into that and it's and it's working out great.
Speaker 1: Oh fabulous, congratulations, I'm glad it's working out. Do a
Speaker 1: lot of golfers take two? Do a lot of comedians
Speaker 1: spend their days playing golf? Or are they just drinking
Speaker 1: and smoking pot all day or they are all of.
Speaker 3: It, all of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, actually I'm friends with a ton of
Speaker 4: comics that play golf, and I think, I think.
Speaker 1: Rock and rollers and comedians and baseball, you know, the
Speaker 1: guys who had work mostly at night, that golf is
Speaker 1: a great thing for them to do during.
Speaker 3: The day for sure.
Speaker 4: And like you said, like it keeps you out of trouble.
Speaker 4: You're you know, instead of sitting at home and doing
Speaker 4: nothing or getting high or whatever you're into.
Speaker 3: You you're out there in the sunshine. You're with buddies.
Speaker 3: So a ton.
Speaker 4: I mean, you should see how many comics are asking
Speaker 4: me to be a part of the tour.
Speaker 3: And I got, you know, a lot.
Speaker 4: Of good friends out there, so it's tough to disappoint them.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean there is a lot of guys
Speaker 4: that play, tons of guys, and.
Speaker 1: So the the four guys that you have in this show,
Speaker 1: and the show is called.
Speaker 3: It's called The Hacks.
Speaker 1: Commed the Hacks okay with an X or a cksks X.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because hack is kind of it's a pun
Speaker 4: of of kind of like a hacky comic, you know,
Speaker 4: So the Hacks.
Speaker 1: Right right, oh right, A comic is a hack and
Speaker 1: a golfer as a hacker. Okay, so, and is it
Speaker 1: you're you got four guys, the same four guys that
Speaker 1: travel around to do this.
Speaker 3: Last year.
Speaker 4: We had two new guys on tour this year. One
Speaker 4: of the guys is working in in Asia right now,
Speaker 4: Carrie Younger couldn't make it because he's in Asia. And
Speaker 4: another guy, Kevin Stobo, who that we run a tournament.
Speaker 3: As we're doing this tour. We're keeping track of our scores.
Speaker 4: And doing a tournament between ourselves and doing the updates
Speaker 4: on Facebook and Twitter and stuff so people can follow along.
Speaker 3: But the tournament's named after Kevin.
Speaker 4: It's called the Kevin Stobo Classic and uh and insecure.
Speaker 3: Insecure, Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: So but he couldn't make it this year. So we
Speaker 4: had a buddy, two good buddies, Damon schridd who who
Speaker 4: was the first Canadian to ever win the Seattle International
Speaker 4: Comedy Competition, and another guy, Tim Nutt. And and so
Speaker 4: I think we'll get a couple of new guys in
Speaker 4: every year. So the audiences in in the Okanagan and stuff,
Speaker 4: don't get don't get sick of the same. The same
Speaker 4: four guys always performing. But I guess because I put
Speaker 4: on the tour, it'll I'll probably stay on it every year,
Speaker 4: I imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I hope so. And and you just primarily
Speaker 1: play in Canada.
Speaker 4: No, no, I I live in I live in London,
Speaker 4: in England the Hacks.
Speaker 1: The Hacks primarily tour in Canada, or you also play England,
Speaker 1: London and England and the United States. Where do you play?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, this is this is only the second year, so
Speaker 4: we're it's all Canada dates. It's and more specifically in
Speaker 4: the in the Rockies and in the Okanagan and a
Speaker 4: little bit on the island, Vancouver Island.
Speaker 1: But so you're primarily in British Columbia.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 1: And is that because golf doesn't necessarily happen twelve months
Speaker 1: a year in Canada.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And and the golf courses in the Rockies are I
Speaker 4: mean the Bay Area, you guys have, Like I work
Speaker 4: down in the Bay Area as a comic and I
Speaker 4: take a week off to go golfing it there every
Speaker 4: year as well. And I would put your golf courses,
Speaker 4: you know, pound for pound, but the scenery and the
Speaker 4: views and the quality of the golf courses in the
Speaker 4: Rockies in Canada is top notch.
Speaker 1: Yet I was blown away how beautiful the Okanagan area was.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely blown away. It's like the secret. We're like,
Speaker 1: we discovered this breathtaking and actually there's if people haven't
Speaker 1: checked it out. I threw up on our golf Smarter
Speaker 1: TV YouTube channel a little bit of a tour of
Speaker 1: the golf course that we played, and we even interviewed
Speaker 1: the head teaching pro the GM at that course. When
Speaker 1: are you going to make this a year long tour
Speaker 1: that you can come to the States and play the
Speaker 1: southern part of the US. And how can people get
Speaker 1: in touch with me so I can put them in
Speaker 1: touch with you to book some gigs in their private
Speaker 1: courses or do you play public courses as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: We played both public and private. Absolutely. If they can
Speaker 4: get in touch with you and you can fire them
Speaker 4: off my way, that would be delightful. And the sooner
Speaker 4: I can play golf all year, the better. So let's
Speaker 4: get these phone calls flying in.
Speaker 1: And I will I'm going to become the booking agent
Speaker 1: for the hacks in the in the United States. That
Speaker 1: is that is now my new role.
Speaker 3: That sounds perfect.
Speaker 4: We'll talk percentages when we when we finish up here,
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 1: We should make this a public conversation. Okay, so give
Speaker 1: me some golf comedy. Which what's your favorite story? Your
Speaker 1: favorite golf story. I'm not that people are going to
Speaker 1: be you know, if they hear it a second time ago.
Speaker 1: I know this bit punchline.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to take my favorite golf stories for sure.
Speaker 4: Damon the guy that came on tour with us this year,
Speaker 4: but he was playing down in Mexico. He was at
Speaker 4: a wedding and they went, they went and played a
Speaker 4: course down in Mexico, and and you've probably played down there,
Speaker 4: you you know. They insisted you have a caddy with you, and.
Speaker 3: So he what.
Speaker 1: Part of Mexico? Because I haven't had to worry about that.
Speaker 4: Oh really okay, well yeah, yeah, well anyway, maybe it
Speaker 4: was this specific golf course, but you get.
Speaker 3: A caddy, ye, And so he hit the ball in
Speaker 3: the rough and they go down there.
Speaker 4: It's right beside a lake and there's a eight foot
Speaker 4: alligator laying there and his ball is about what would
Speaker 4: he say, twelve feet in front of this alligator. And
Speaker 4: Damon's obviously like, okay, I'm not going to play this ball.
Speaker 3: Let's go up in the fairway. I'll take a drop.
Speaker 4: And the caddy said, no, no, no, very lazy, this
Speaker 4: type of year, very lazy.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 4: So he walked down there and really nervous about hitting
Speaker 4: the ball. Of course, he catches the leading edge and
Speaker 4: sculls it and hits the alligator right in the ribs.
Speaker 4: And he's not too pleased about it. He cranks his
Speaker 4: head and hisses at him, and Damon freezes and all
Speaker 4: you can hear is the caddy yelling, and he's running
Speaker 4: up the fairway. So that's got to be my favorite
Speaker 4: golf story is Damon crank and an alligator in the ribs.
Speaker 1: And what about your own personal golf stories? Would what
Speaker 1: kind of golfer are you?
Speaker 4: I we were talking before. You know, when I was younger,
Speaker 4: I used to be able to play, all right, I
Speaker 4: played in tournaments and stuff, and I mean nothing from
Speaker 4: likely story.
Speaker 1: When I was younger, I could play well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also, yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: But these days I was just out this morning, I
Speaker 4: shot in eighty seven this morning.
Speaker 3: I'm going out right after this round.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go play there's a Jack Nicholas course up
Speaker 4: here called Northern Bear.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go play right after I hang up
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: And you said you played this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played this morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're going and now we're gonna done? Is
Speaker 1: that why he sent me an email going, can we
Speaker 1: talk immediately instead of waiting because you had a second
Speaker 1: round scheduled?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, yeah I got a second round.
Speaker 1: Okay, So where can we fill out a job application
Speaker 1: to be a comic so that we can play golf
Speaker 1: twice a day and still get work in I know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well I just have to fire three emails.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't get a chance to play much
Speaker 4: in the UK, so when I'm at home. The first
Speaker 4: ten days I was on this, I think I played
Speaker 4: twelve rounds and ten days.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you got to make sure you get out
Speaker 3: there and enjoy it, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, give me I want more bits.
Speaker 1: I want more golf comedy.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, when I was working at the golf course when
Speaker 4: I was younger, we used to you would get for tournaments.
Speaker 4: You would get the fleet carts in so you'd get
Speaker 4: a big semi trailer coming in. They bring it, you know,
Speaker 4: fifty or one hundred extra golf carts for big tournaments.
Speaker 4: And our job was is to meet these guys late
Speaker 4: at night and help them get the golf carts off
Speaker 4: the semi trailer and park them.
Speaker 3: So all the guys wanted want.
Speaker 4: We were young, and we thought it was really cool
Speaker 4: to drive the carts and everything. And one of the
Speaker 4: semi trailer drivers taught us how to pull the governor,
Speaker 4: like the speed control on the engines, if you would
Speaker 4: just stick a tee.
Speaker 3: In there and open it up.
Speaker 4: And now the golf carts is going you know thirty,
Speaker 4: you know, twenty five, thirty miles per hour.
Speaker 3: They have the ability to go that fast.
Speaker 4: So he taught us that, and so we're finished our job.
Speaker 4: We pulled a governor and the golf cart I had.
Speaker 4: Let's see, I think there was six of us on
Speaker 4: one golf cart, and it was it was an old
Speaker 4: school one without a roof on it, an old Yamaha one.
Speaker 4: So we're flying going twenty five miles an hour down
Speaker 4: a par five fairway and it was it was wet grass.
Speaker 4: So one of my buddies said, slam on the brake
Speaker 4: and let's do a three sixty. And so I did it,
Speaker 4: and we rolled that cart twice.
Speaker 3: We rolled it twice. It was amazing.
Speaker 4: There's I had friends flying all over the place and
Speaker 4: a good thing.
Speaker 3: Knowing was hurt. We were, I think we were both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, but I'm a parent and I
Speaker 1: hear stories like that, and the first thing is like,
Speaker 1: you don't do that, you get hurt. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: but no, we're teenagers. That was awesome, man, Let's do
Speaker 1: it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, especially if.
Speaker 1: One of your buddies gets hurt, then it's really funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then it's really cool. Yeah, yeah for sure. And
Speaker 3: you're right.
Speaker 4: We flipped that cart back on its wheels and did
Speaker 4: it over and over again, just laughing and having a
Speaker 4: great time. So man, but you get into you get
Speaker 4: into fun stories like that when you work at a
Speaker 4: golf course and what goes on afterwards.
Speaker 3: I mean there, it's just a riot.
Speaker 4: You know, you in the morning do if you get
Speaker 4: there early enough, you can go cartwater skiing. You put
Speaker 4: a crazy carpet behind the cart, tie rope to it,
Speaker 4: and cartwater skiing and you're not on water, you're just
Speaker 4: on the grass on the.
Speaker 1: Have I have a friend that part of his uh
Speaker 1: when they graduated, I think it was from high school,
Speaker 1: and they got a bunch of guys together to just
Speaker 1: go out because they had nothing to do that summer.
Speaker 1: They went out and played golf and they were just
Speaker 1: slamming their drinks, doing shots all day long. And the
Speaker 1: eighteenth hole, they put the golf cart in the lake
Speaker 1: and one of the guys like, no, my phone, my wallet,
Speaker 1: and he dove back in the hotter and retrieved his stuff.
Speaker 1: And then when the marshall came out, they're like, it
Speaker 1: just took off on us and they got away with it.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, we're really sorry you guys. Okay, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: but this golf cart, what the hell happened? We were
Speaker 1: like playing and you know, it's like you know, and
Speaker 1: of course they're really drunk, and they're only eighteen years old,
Speaker 1: like they were really we just don't know what happened.
Speaker 4: And they didn't see all the beer cans floating beside
Speaker 4: the golf cart.
Speaker 1: They were doing shots all day. Well, that's okay, kids,
Speaker 1: we'll retrieve the golf cart out of the water, and
Speaker 1: you guys just go home and you are you okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh man, amazing.
Speaker 4: That's when you're glad you're not the guy that signed
Speaker 4: the waiver that morning, you know.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly exactly. Wow, Well, Paul, I'm really glad I
Speaker 1: tracked you down and I would love to help you
Speaker 1: find different opportunities to play here in the States, because
Speaker 1: especially here in the Bay Area. I want to find
Speaker 1: a way to bring you out here and play a
Speaker 1: couple different courses over a week or so, and we'll
Speaker 1: play golf together on regular basis. I just think that
Speaker 1: would be so much fun. And you know, I know
Speaker 1: that private courses is especially you know, they'll have music.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll have a live jazz combo. Come out
Speaker 1: for dinner and we're gonna have live music that night.
Speaker 1: You know, boring, and maybe they have a speaker or
Speaker 1: even the head pro will answer answer a couple of questions.
Speaker 1: You know. But I think having a comedy night at
Speaker 1: a golf course is a great, great idea.
Speaker 3: I think so too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the members just seem to really love it.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a really me especially because you're doing comedy,
Speaker 1: you're doing golf comedy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah, And it's a it's a great
Speaker 4: even and you're getting a really good bang for your
Speaker 4: buck too, because you're getting four guys that are that,
Speaker 4: you know, tour internationally, a lot of us, like a
Speaker 4: couple of us, you know in like I've been to
Speaker 4: Iraq in Afghanistan doing troop tours. So you're getting a
Speaker 4: really good show. And the reason you're getting that is
Speaker 4: because we're all golf freaks and so we don't really
Speaker 4: care about, you know, if it's going to be financially viable.
Speaker 4: If we're playing golf and drinking beer and eating, we're
Speaker 4: we're happy. So it's a it's a high quality show.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's just a killer. It's it's it's it's
Speaker 4: really fun.
Speaker 1: Oh so when you were in Iraq in Afghanistan, are
Speaker 1: you doing golf jokes?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, definitely not more.
Speaker 1: You're doing circumcision jokes.
Speaker 3: Yeah more, And and you know there's a lot.
Speaker 1: Of peepy jokes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, blue collar stuff for sure, absolutely, But those are
Speaker 4: fun tours too. And the when I went to Iraq
Speaker 4: was an American tour and it's it's amazing. And and
Speaker 4: again you're not doing too much time. It's only a
Speaker 4: twenty minute or thirty minute set. But yeah, those men
Speaker 4: and women and those you know, they're young and they
Speaker 4: like to hear drinking stories and stuff like that, so
Speaker 4: it's more definitely more blue collar, but a riot nonetheless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're probably incredibly appreciative.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know, you you spend more time just
Speaker 4: talking and signing headshots and stuff, even though you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not a famous comic at all, but still everybody
Speaker 4: wants to autograph. And you know, you're up there for
Speaker 4: thirty minutes and after that you're there for three hours
Speaker 4: after hearing stories and laughing and chatting. So yeah, they
Speaker 4: really really appreciate it, and so do we. I mean,
Speaker 4: the people say, oh, how would you ever go to rack? Well,
Speaker 4: we're never in danger, and I mean we're more appreciative
Speaker 4: of what they're doing for us than what we're doing
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So wait, an, when you said you're signing headshots, you're
Speaker 1: not doing more circumcision bits.
Speaker 3: Right, everybody gets a little piece of forskin.
Speaker 5: So you yell for yeah, man, well, where's your website?
Speaker 1: How do people check out some of your material?
Speaker 4: Go to www dot paul.
Speaker 1: Me www anymore?
Speaker 4: You're right, Yeah, people are understanding of that, so you.
Speaker 1: Don't even need to type it in. You just know
Speaker 1: why don't keep telling people this? Okay, go ahead, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sorry Paul Meyerhog dot com and I'm gona spelled the
Speaker 4: last name.
Speaker 3: It's a weird Norwegian name. So the last name is
Speaker 3: m y.
Speaker 4: R e h a u G. It's meyer Hoog dot com.
Speaker 4: And you can also find me Twitter and Facebook on
Speaker 4: that as well, and and Google if you, however, you
Speaker 4: spell myyer Hoog. There's only one one last name, so it'll, uh, it'll,
Speaker 4: it'll eventually point you in the right direction.
Speaker 1: So so like someone types in Paul Meyerhog and Google
Speaker 1: and you come up number one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, number one.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a great feeling.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. It's a strange last name.
Speaker 1: So unfortunately it doesn't say seventy two million results. It
Speaker 1: just says three. Yeah, three Paul my yeah, we got
Speaker 1: three Google, Facebook and Twitter. Oh man, well, listen, I
Speaker 1: am definitely gonna bring you back. This was way too
Speaker 1: much fun. I'm gonna want to have you on the
Speaker 1: Golf Smarter podcast again and again because I just love
Speaker 1: talking comedy and golf, and boy, what better one to
Speaker 1: do it with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it was a pleasure for Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm glad you saw my face in the bathroom.
Speaker 3: That's really it worked out perfectly.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a bit