358: Brooks Koepka Leaves LIV, Our Wish Lists Grow, And Matt might get a New Knee

Merry Christma-Kwanza-Kah! In this special holiday "spectacular," Matt, Dan, and Jeremy are joined by Joe (briefly!) and a surprise appearance by Greenley to talk through the latest chaos in the world of professional golf and some major personal news. 

The guys dive deep into the massive rumors surrounding Brooks Koepka potentially leaving LIV Golf, the financial hurdles of a $100 million sign-on bonus, and what it could mean for the PGA Tour. They also discuss the recent retirements of Mito Pereira and Henrik Stenson, questioning if the "generational wealth" of LIV is losing its luster compared to playing in front of real crowds. 

On a more personal note, Matt reveals the results of his MRI: it turns out he’s been playing with a "massive" Baker’s cyst and a knee that is officially "bone-to-bone." He shares the plan for a full knee replacement and his goal to be back on the course in under three months—hopefully with a "Japanese forged" bionic knee. 

Also in this episode:

• New Gear Talk: Early impressions of the Callaway Quantum and TaylorMade Qi10 drivers. 
• The Heartland Tournament: What we know (and don't know) about the Landmand qualifying lottery and representing your state. 
• Holiday Wishlists: From new rangefinders to "non-poor people" Vanquish shafts. 
• New York Christmas: Matt’s upcoming trip to the Big Apple and the search for the best bagel (shoutout to Pop-Up Bagel and Russ & Daughters). 

Happy Holidays from the Chasing Daylight crew! We’ll see you in 2026

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Chapters

• 0:00 Holiday Cold Open & Roll Call
• 2:03 Brooks Koepka’s Surprise LIV Exit
• 5:45 Contracts, Buyouts, And PGA Speculation
• 9:20 Family, Loss, And Why Players Reassess
• 13:40 LIV Departures, Rumors, And Relegation
• 19:10 Holiday Deals And Gear Jokes
• 22:45 Wish Lists: Drivers, Trips, And Tools
• 30:10 Putters, Shafts, And Bag Tweaks
• 37:00 Rangefinders, Tech, And Battery Brags
• 44:05 Three Christmases And New York Plans
• 50:00 The Knee Diagnosis And Replacement Path
• 58:20 Rehab Timelines And Golf Comeback
• 1:04:30 Homeland Event At Landmand Questions
• 1:11:20 Fittings, Shafts, And Club Geekery
• 1:20:40 Long Drive Skills Challenge Takeaways
• 1:27:00 VA Composites Deep Dive

Transcript

Matt: 0:24

What is up, everybody? Welcome to our Christmas Eve Eve holiday spectacular. Uh Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Merry Christma Kwanzaica, I believe is the is the phrase. Uh I hope everybody that is here is having a fantastic holiday season to start. Uh we have absolutely nothing planned for this. We're gonna just sit here and talk golf as we do each week. Uh if you're in the chat, thank you so much for being here, Bruce. Appreciate you. Love it. Uh is that who's that you type in Jeremy? That was me.

Speaker 5: 1:08

I'm trying to fill in for Joe.

Matt: 1:09

You just Joe ghosting us right now.

Speaker 5: 1:13

Yeah.

Matt: 1:13

Uh yeah, Joe is absent. He's with the fam hanging out. Uh we I have a uh giveaway going on in the background. So if anybody that's leaving a comment, we have no idea what we're gonna give away this evening. It could be some Garson stuff, it could not be some Garson stuff, it could be some other stuff. So we'll figure it all out. No, we didn't kick Joe off. Uh, we did not kick Joe off. He he has some family obligations, so he cannot be here this evening. As much as uh he loves being here. You know, sometimes family comes first, and we are all for that. So there is a few items that can be discussed this evening. There was some news that came out today that uh everybody is uh talking about. Yep. Uh bringing it up right here. Brooks news on the itinerary, absolutely, because there's nothing really going on, so that's pretty much the only thing we have to talk about. Uh, which it's a pretty big story. I wasn't expecting this. I don't think many people were. Uh what are your what's your guys' thoughts?

Dan: 2:22

I had heard rumors that uh he was uh gonna leave, but nothing concrete. Um I think I think he's kind of maybe tired and over the the team thing. Maybe wasn't what it was cracked up to be. Um but you know Brooks, like he's always said he doesn't really care about golf unless it's the majors, unless it's the big tournaments. And sadly, Liv doesn't have any big tournaments, so not a one. I mean it doesn't surprise me. I just wonder if he's going to come back to the PGA tour.

Jeremy: 3:00

Yeah, I read there' s people are speculating all over. It's like maybe the PGA tour will stick it to Liv and say, you know what, you don't have to wait for a year or whatever it is. You can you're just back out of your contract, you're back in baby. Yeah.

Matt: 3:13

I the they were saying, you know, the getting out of the contract is two to four times your uh bonus, your sign-on bonus. And he got a hundred million dollars. So, you know, that's two to four hundred million he'd have to pay back. So I'm I'm pretty sure there's some other way that he got out of this. We'll have to see. Yeah. Yeah, he just needs to go back to the last stage of Q skill. That would be that would be amazing. Yeah, can you imagine that? But I'm wondering too, we mentioned it last week, and you know, it's kind of a sad story. Uh, we weren't aware that him and and Jenna had a miscarriage. Um, that that's not something that you know is just taken lightly. It's that's that can have a profound effect on your family. Sure. Um, so I'm sure it really I'm sure that had some to do with his decision. Uh, you know, chasing money all around the world, is it really more important than being with my family? Um we'll see. You know, will he ever tell us? Probably not. Yeah. But I know we'll see him in the majors that he can play in.

Speaker 13: 4:28

Yep.

Matt: 4:30

Um, he's got what how many more exemptions does he have? I mean, uh, all those US Open wins that he had is is and the PGA wins are it's gonna get him. I mean, 10 years, right? Each one of those? Something like that, yeah. So he probably has five more years at least, right? Because he's been gone for three. I would think so. Yeah. And then so we'll see Brooks Kep go around. He's not gonna be able to do that.

Speaker 5: 4:57

Yeah, it makes me wonder if I mean if if there is a if there is sort of a thought of him coming back, I wonder if that that would bring other players to maybe do the same. But there's also rumors of players going over to live, so who knows who knows really?

Matt: 5:12

Yeah, the well Sung J M signed, right? I don't know if he did. I think there was a rumor, and then he said this is fake news.

Speaker 4: 5:20

There was rumor that him and C Wukim were going, and it world said that's bullshit.

Matt: 5:25

Oh wow, I see. I thought that was real. I thought Mr. BB Go was gone, so that's good news. Good news. Well, good news for fans of the PGA tour.

Speaker 4: 5:35

Did you guys hear that uh Mito Pereira decided to retire? Retired? That's a nut.

Matt: 5:40

See, Brooks is the first big domino, but there's been little dominoes falling here and there. You know, from guys that aren't playing anymore. Uh Henrik Stenson's not gonna play anymore, he's just gonna play the DP tour. Is Bubba even is Bubba out too?

Speaker 4: 5:56

I don't know.

Matt: 5:57

I think he's been injured or something because he's on the wasn't he on he got regulated, but since he was a captain, he got an exemption or some weird reason.

Speaker 4: 6:09

I'm not even sure anything.

Matt: 6:10

Regulated and quit. Yeah, Mito got regulated and quit 100%. You know, it's it's wild, man. It's it's I think these guys are realizing, hey, the money was awesome, but I'm playing in front of nobody for nothing.

Speaker 4: 6:26

Yeah.

Matt: 6:27

Right? Yeah, because there's gotta be a point to why you play the game, you know, and I think what happened with Tiger bringing so many eyes to the sport and so much money to the sport that it really drove a lot of players to like, hey, I can I can make a lot of money playing professional golf. Yeah, but you still have to earn it, it's not gifted to you, you know. That the easiest gift a professional golfer got was getting an exemption into an event and winning and earning your card, you know, but you're not gonna get an exemption if you suck. You know, they're not gonna bring uh you know a uh plus two handicap out to an exempted event, you know, just just cuz.

Speaker 5: 7:15

Yeah.

Matt: 7:16

Yeah, totally. Totally agrees.

Speaker 5: 7:21

So it's Bricks has always been about the majors, so maybe he just doesn't, he never really cared, it felt like. So yeah.

Matt: 7:29

This is what this is like Joe's internet is down and he can't be on the show, so he has to type in. He's he's gonna have more entries in the giveaway than anybody else.

Speaker 5: 7:42

Give away some of Joe's stuff to Joe.

Speaker 11: 7:44

Yeah, tell him, tell him you'll be back in a half hour, Joe, and come on the show. We're giving away a hitting green's hat tonight.

Matt: 7:50

Yeah. Like five of them. Uh, he said he'll pop on it a bit.

Speaker 7: 7:58

Right on.

Matt: 7:59

Yeah, Mito totally lost his career. Southern that Southern Hills major. Yeah. The that driver happened to Phil. Happened to Phil, and Phil stuck around, but uh you got a payday. And you can't, I mean, I can't say I blame anybody for making a massive paycheck. You know, it's that you dangle that carrot in front of me.

Speaker 11: 8:24

This is the live chasing daylight podcast. That's a lot of money to say no to.

Matt: 8:29

That is a lot of money to say no to. Yeah. You know, the have you seen those uh those memes going around or the videos going around where like the the girlfriend's asking the boyfriend, would you be gay for an hour for a million dollars or a billion dollars? And he's like, a billion, and he comes around the corner all dressed in drag.

Speaker 11: 8:49

In a second, do you know how much a billion dollars is?

Matt: 8:52

That's a lot of money.

Speaker 11: 8:54

Yeah, a lot of money.

Speaker 13: 8:55

Everybody lotteries have to a lot of money.

Speaker 4: 8:59

Yeah, did anybody hit that powerball yet? Last time I heard it was like 1.2 billion. Yeah, what they were talking about.

Matt: 9:04

It's like 1.8 or something, one point, yeah, 1.7.

Speaker 5: 9:07

It was a bit imagine that the golf trips that would be had. Oh man, the country clubs that would be built.

Matt: 9:16

The prem golf courses that would be returned. Oh shit. Yeah. Uh, but it is the holiday season, though. Uh, and I said earlier, I hope everybody's having a great holiday season. Uh, I hope you took some advantage or took advantage of some of the deals that are out there. You know, this uh Cyber Monday and then all through now, crazy deals out there to be had. So hopefully you got some of those taken care of and you got some new gear for yourself for loved ones. Uh, I know there's a lot of guys out there that pull the old Al Bundy and give Peggy the bowling ball. Um, you know, that's that's I you know I I'm all for that. Absolutely. Get yourself a new Callaway quantum driver uh for her birthday.

Speaker 1: 10:01

She'll uh appreciate it.

Matt: 10:04

So make sure it's an X Flex.

Speaker 5: 10:15

I have never stopped at a gas station or sm or the grocery store and gambled, but no?

Matt: 10:20

Oh, that was the best thing. Well, back in the day, cards and and Apple Pay, you know, you had to go in and pay with cash. And nothing nothing beats leaving, walking out with a cold pack, a you know, a cold 12 pack under your arm, and you're standing in a slot machine or a video poker machine, drop some change in and hit four deuces and and walk out of there with four 12 packs instead of two and some money.

Speaker 5: 10:44

You have to start doing that.

Matt: 10:47

We used to uh the there was an arco station out here by on my end of the town where the M Resort is. That was the last thing on the valley. Anytime coming back from California, being California for four or five days, you just miss the sound of slot machines or the lights or everything being 24 hours. You know, growing up in Vegas, I didn't realize that other places closed. You know, I'm I'm used to 24-hour access to everything. I remember the first time I was at a bar in California and they hollered last call, and I was like, the hell is that? I don't know what that means. You know, so it's different, so we'd always stop there and uh always always used to hit at that machine there. Great, great spot.

Speaker 7: 11:25

Yeah.

Matt: 11:25

All gone now. All gone. So uh let's let's go our our Christmas wish list. Uh you guys got some items now. This is this is not like you know, fabricated, this is what I would get, blah blah blah, plug a new tool or new club or anything. Like, seriously, what would you want for Christmas if you know your wife said, I'll buy you whatever you want for I know that happens with Jeremy anyways, but your wife says, What do you want for Christmas? What do you what are you getting? Or Dan, uh who would ask you? Your sister, uh co-workers, your your lady of the week, co-hosts.

Speaker 4: 12:07

Um yeah, right now, right now I got nobody asking me that, but uh, but if somebody were to ask me that, um I really don't know right now. Um, of course, I'd you know, there's a lot of hype coming out with the uh yeah, Joe, yeah, the news Joe to see tape. Um yeah, definitely interested in hitting the quantum and the and the Taylor Maid QI4D. I've been those two are seem to be dominating the headlines right now as far as new drivers that are gonna be coming out. So uh definitely looking forward to them. Um I'm currently happy with the irons, uh maybe some new wedges, but um yeah, I don't think I would tweak too much golf wise. Um I would probably ask more for like you know money for golf trips or something like that. But golf trip. Yeah, golf trip fund if you want to contribute to that. But uh for the most part, I think I'm set in the bag. Jeremy?

Speaker 5: 13:02

I probably I need a new range finder and golf balls. That's it. I think it's a nice spot to be when you finally feel like your bag is dialed. I kind of feel like that right now. So until the quantum comes out, I don't think anything's changing.

Matt: 13:16

Yeah. Yeah. And you know, I got absolutely lambasted by one of our uh good friends of the show uh with a hilarious post. I reshared it. It was the ad for you know a full-time person to update my what's in the bag on the new CDP website. That was hilarious. That was so funny. Yeah, I I was in tears reading it. It was absolutely hilarious. Um I thought you posted it. Oh no, I reshared it because he posted it and tagged me in it. Um that was so good. I have to find I don't know if I took a screenshot of it, but I it was absolutely hilarious um what he did. But I was like, you know, I think about it, I really haven't changed a ton this year. Once I got the AI 200 irons, I I haven't changed my irons. I did update the shafts because you know the LA golf shafts just weren't doing it. Uh, but I've I kept the elite driver in all year. I didn't switch out. I mean, I again shaft, you know, trying to get the right shaft in place. Um, but the wedges, I that Calloway came out with the new SP version of the Opus wedges. I kept my old wedges, and you know, I I'm still rocking the Goodwood putter.

Speaker 5: 14:33

So it's I think it I think it's for you, it's been the year of the putter. Yes, I was just gonna say changes.

Speaker 4: 14:38

That's really putters in your bag this year.

Matt: 14:41

I I do have the the Goodwood Proto, I and I do have the Odyssey Jailbird, but you know, I I got that jailbird slant nick early in the season when it came out. I was really happy with it.

Speaker 4: 14:53

You also played the ProType. Your black prototype. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Odyssey.

Matt: 15:00

Scotty a little bit. A little bit, not much. Uh much on that one. No, the Scotty. I the last time I played the Scotty was when I won. It was probably the the couple rounds after I won at Sky Mountain in 2020. Yep. But I didn't I didn't game that much this year. It was mainly what Scotty do you have? I got uh what is it, a 2.5 Newport, Jeremy? Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5: 15:23

1.5 yeah, 1.5 select the black one, yeah.

Matt: 15:27

That's right. With the deep milling. I love that putter, it's so good. Um great butter. Yeah, I I'm really happy with the Goodwood right now. I did cut the the Goodwood Proto, the mallet, down to 33 and put an ultimate grip on it. Was putting with that today when it started raining, the hell. Uh, but I think, yeah, right now I the the Goodwood, I don't Max Torque really is doing everything for me. I don't foresee that going anywhere anytime soon. Dave did send me a putter to try out, and uh just wasn't my jam. So I did I had a conversation with him today. He's uh he's doing well. He's got a uh I don't know if you saw his post, he's working on a new loft live for a putter. And so I was like, okay, I need to know more about this.

Speaker 4: 16:20

Merry Christmas, William.

Matt: 16:22

Yeah, Merry Christmas. Uh the backdrop is a live feed of uh your golf course right now. So oh, snowy season, man. It's cold out there. Yeah, so I I think for me, I I I'm on the rangefinder too with you, Jeremy. I I do have that Nikon cool pick with a stabilizer, and and I really like it, but I had to self-adhere some magnets to it, and it kind of junked it up a little bit, but it works, but the magnets are starting to break because you know, on and off of car pass all day long. Um so I I don't know. I'm I'm really intrigued to see uh the Bushnell. Uh-oh, Santa Claus is in the house. Santa Claus.

Speaker 4: 17:05

Santa Claus in the house.

Speaker 3: 17:06

Santa Claus in the house. Hey, what's up, Asher Hack? How you living, man?

Speaker 4: 17:10

Oh Joe, you getting a few rounds in with a bag? Oh, he's getting some rep. Look at this guy.

Speaker 3: 17:18

You know.

Speaker 5: 17:19

Christmas party time.

Speaker 3: 17:23

Yeah, so at my dad's we do Christmas Eve Eve every year because divorced parents and then Katie's parents, so it was Christmas Eve Eve, my dad, Christmas Eve, her parents, Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, my mom.

Speaker 4: 17:37

So it's good for the kids.

Speaker 3: 17:39

Always Eve.

Speaker 4: 17:40

Yeah. Three Christmases. Wow.

Matt: 17:42

Exactly. They get three, three. It's like Hanukkah, they get multiple days of gifts giving. That's it.

Speaker 3: 17:49

I just saw this. Look, they used to call my dad JFK because he didn't want his name displayed at the bar when he drank so much. He was on the he was on the leaderboard. So it stands for Joe Fucking Keith.

Speaker 11: 18:02

Uh-oh. We had to bring that, we had to bring that back.

Speaker 4: 18:05

Yeah, I was gonna say the apple didn't fall too far from the tree there.

Speaker 11: 18:10

Oh, we got CDP, DGP, JFK. Yeah, so three levels. All over the place.

Speaker 5: 18:18

Yep.

Speaker 3: 18:18

What's going on? Jeremy I had to go run to the store. I was listening in the car. Katie's getting a migraine, so I had to go grab Excedrin. And uh, I was watching as I came back in the house. She's like, Oh, it's Tuesday, sorry.

Matt: 18:32

Hey, the wife knows. Mm-hmm. It is Tuesday. So, what's on your Christmas wish list, Joe?

Speaker 3: 18:42

Well, I do know what I think I know something that Katie got me because I saw the box. Uh-oh. Oh, gosh. Um, don't be a cheap.

Speaker 4: 18:50

Snooping in the closet.

Speaker 3: 18:52

And then I saw the people delivering it, and then it was just right there. He was the name of it. He's he's digging in the window. No, I no, I want to I fully want to be surprised for Christmas. I don't want to know. You know, I kinda it kind of sucks that I have an idea now. I want to be fully surprised, you know.

Matt: 19:07

You want to speak to me?

Speaker 3: 19:08

And I I never I never I never say what I want because I want, you know, I want you to have some thought behind it, think about it, dive deep because I think it's more special, meaningful that way. But I'm pretty sure it's a neon sign that says like hitting greens or something.

Speaker 4: 19:22

I was gonna say the box hitting these on it.

Speaker 3: 19:26

Oh, that would be sweet. I think she got a neon sign for either background podcast or whatnot. And Matt, you probably know because you probably sent her the logo.

Matt: 19:38

I cannot confirm nor deny that.

Speaker 3: 19:41

I don't know how she would have got it. Yeah, but I did see that. Hey, another round of Beth Page Black, probably. Hell yeah. I've played it.

Matt: 19:50

Joe has played Beth Page. That's right. I've played it. I'm gonna be in New York Friday.

Speaker 4: 19:57

Yeah, no chance, no chance.

Matt: 20:00

Play in a doormat brutal. Oh god, no, it's gonna be 25 degrees.

Speaker 4: 20:05

As long as there's not snow or anything, you should be fine.

Matt: 20:08

It's gonna be cold as hell and windy.

Speaker 4: 20:12

And uh you should take Jeremy's cart cover with you and just cover it up. Carry on.

Speaker 3: 20:18

No, you'd have to you'd have to wear that as a trench coat, no cart.

Speaker 5: 20:21

Yep. Yep, you can bring the heater.

Speaker 4: 20:25

It's a big heater with you, you're good to go.

Matt: 20:28

Yeah, no, not gonna be doing any golfing. So we're doing Christmas in New York, checking it out, seeing you know, all the sites, and it'll be fun to go, you know. I've never been to New York in the winter time, so not looking forward to it. But I did get I did get the heated vest. Oh, nice electronic heated vest. I I put that thing on. Wow, yeah, I bet it generates serious BTUs. So I bet looking forward, yeah. We're going to Bryant Park exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 21:01

There's so many places in New York to play. I mean, obviously, but like even the fucking what's that one ship and putt course? That uh Neil or not Neil, fucking what's his name from uh No Laying Up always goes to play. That place looks fun too. There's so many like little hidden gems out there, you know.

Matt: 21:17

Oh, yeah. Well, you got 26 million people.

Speaker 3: 21:21

Course maps. Course maps is out there. Uh no one I talked about, I talked to him a while ago about coming on the podcast. He said he's down. You know course maps, right?

Speaker 12: 21:30

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: 21:31

Yeah.

Matt: 21:32

Yeah, we got we got some things that we're gonna be doing. You know, we're not gonna be there long. We're just uh we're coming back New Year's Eve night. So hopefully the airport's not crazy crazy because everybody's still going to, you know.

Speaker 3: 21:45

Yeah, you'll be walking the other way.

Matt: 21:47

We're going the other way, so hopefully, hopefully it's not chaotic, but we uh land land in Nevada in 2026. So nice time traveling, yeah. Time traveling.

Speaker 3: 21:59

Christmas in New York would be cool though. Yeah, it's cool.

Matt: 22:02

Yep.

Speaker 3: 22:02

Christmas time, yeah.

Matt: 22:03

Yeah, Rockefeller, like Bruce said, we're gonna go see that, and there's some uh villages that are lit up in Brooklyn, and so hopefully I just that when I saw that 30 degrees feels like 20 with a 30 mile an hour wind gusts. I'm like, man.

Speaker 3: 22:22

Yeah, that's some good food out there, suck.

Matt: 22:25

Uh yeah, it's it's not gonna help the knee.

Speaker 3: 22:29

No, yeah, yeah. So pop-up bagel if you're a bagel person. Yeah, I heard about that, Bruce. Pop-up bagel is supposed to be legit.

Matt: 22:36

Yep, I'll have to find out where is that a specific spot, Bruce, or is it yeah, it's called Pop-Up Bagel.

Speaker 3: 22:41

It's called Pop-Up Bagel. All right, have you ever been to Russ and Daughters? No, you need to go to Russ and Daughters, right? Do you you do you like the the Nova Nova bagel sandwiches? Daughters. I'll eat anything eat. The smoked salmon on a bagel?

Matt: 22:57

Never had that.

Speaker 3: 22:58

Go to Russ and Daughters and get that shit.

Matt: 23:01

Russ and Dodds.

Speaker 3: 23:02

There's a bunch of locations now. The the the original one is like near Chinatown, but Russ and Daughters is a must-hit for us every time.

Speaker 4: 23:10

It's called the Russian daughters?

Speaker 3: 23:12

No, Russ, R-U-S-S-N-D's. So the guy's the guy's last name is like Russ. They've been around since like 1910 or something.

Speaker 4: 23:21

Looks like you can get some other kind of hole there.

Speaker 3: 23:24

Yeah. But I think he's they have a lot of good fish, a lot of fish.

Matt: 23:31

All right, I'll have to check it out. Like I said, I'll try anything once. Try anything once.

Speaker 3: 23:34

Yeah, no, that's solid.

Matt: 23:36

Fresh baked in front of you. Everything. Throw the schmear on it, or the shadow. Onion schmear. Shimmer.

Speaker 3: 23:45

Yeah, dude, there's so many good spots out there. Everything bang.

Speaker 4: 23:48

Shimmer.

Matt: 23:49

And it's like we've we've been doing Eric and I. I finally got her to actually participate in a healthier eating, and we've been doing good, and I'm down six pounds for the last couple weeks. I'm pretty happy about that because they're not been able to exercise. I'm like, fuck, we're going to New York. Yeah. I gotta have pizza in New York. It's like oh yeah, of course.

Speaker 4: 24:11

Start over January 1st, bro, like I did.

Matt: 24:13

Oh man. It's like when if I ever get to Europe or ever get to uh Ireland, I'm gonna have to have a Guinness. And it's like you know, I I'm almost I'm a week away from three years sober. Ding ding ding. Ding ding ding. But I'm like, I'm gonna have to have a Guinness when I go to Ireland. It's just not gonna get hammered. I'm just gonna have a Guinness.

Speaker 3: 24:39

Just you have to have some Jameson too.

Matt: 24:42

Yeah, probably. Right. Yeah. Some Jamison and some Guinness.

unknown: 24:46

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:46

Yeah.

Matt: 24:48

Uh yeah, so on the news update as far as my knee goes, thank you, Bruce, for that. Um, I had a follow-up after my MRI, and I've been communicating with Dr. Mike about this, talking about uh the options about what he thinks is going on. Uh so I have a cyst that has developed on the back of my knee. Uh, it's called a baker cyst. And the uh doctor I saw today was like, that's a pretty, pretty impressive cyst. And I'm like, well, thank you very much. Thank you.

Speaker 3: 25:25

I appreciate that. I agree with myself. Worked hard at it. I really worked hard at that myself.

Matt: 25:29

This is not easy to do. Like, you know, for somebody your age, being as young as you are, and and she said that several times, which made me feel like lion ass. Girl ass girl. Uh she's like, yeah, that's that's a pretty pretty massive uh cis you got going on there. Um I told her what I've been doing as far as icing it now that I know where the problem is, because I've been icing the front of my knee. So over the past 48 hours, I've really been icing the back of my knee, and it has helped. Uh, how big? Uh yeah, it's it's golf ball size, 100%. Uh, it's it's pretty big. And so uh I told her, I said, you know, I'm not telling you how to do your job or anything like that. I said, but I know that the cyst develops because there's a condition going on that my body is overproducing that fluid. And she goes, yeah, uh absolutely. And I said, so what's going on? And she says, it's arthritis. You you have no cartilage in your knee, it's gone, the meniscus tear is exposed, bone-to-bone contact, your arthritis is kicked in, you've got severe bone bruising, and you're basically she said your knee is fucked up. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Speaker 4: 26:44

You know, his back has got bulging discs too from that.

Matt: 26:48

Yes. So there's a few options, a few options that she went over. Uh, I have I can get another steroid injection, and I can get a new gel injection that they put in to help lubricate the knee. Uh, those are band-aids uh eventually will wear off, and I'd have to either go back and get another injection every eight to twelve months, depending on how long it lasts. She said, Someone as young as you, it'll last a little bit longer. And I was just like, You're so happy about that. You know how happy you're making me right now. And uh she said, or you know, full knee replacement.

Speaker 1: 27:23

And I said, Full knee replacement.

Matt: 27:25

Okay, I said, uh, I go, is that bad? And she goes, Yeah. And I said, So is this something that my insurance would go okay? Or is it is it justified a full knee replacement? And she goes, Oh yeah, it's it's bad.

Speaker 3: 27:39

So yeah, that's uh is it what was your first question after that? Was it forged by Mira?

Matt: 27:46

Can I get one of the Japanese forged knees?

Speaker 3: 27:49

Yeah, let me get a Japanese knee, please.

Matt: 27:52

I don't want any of that uh, you know, uh AliExpress cheap uh China skill. I want I want that Japanese forged. No Timu, yeah, no Timu knees. I need the good knees.

Speaker 3: 28:08

Not raw though. We don't need the raw knees.

Matt: 28:10

You gotta buff that the sucker out. Uh so no, my first question was okay, uh, I golf. Uh I work in golf. How soon before I'm back on the golf course? And she said that, you know, if if you have the full knee replacement surgery, you'll be back on your feet in under a week. Do my podcast.

Speaker 3: 28:33

My brother right here. You guys want to see my brother?

Matt: 28:38

Uh she said, you know, you'll be back on your feet within a week, uh, either using a crutch, a cane, or a walker, depending, you know, on she goes, but they played the games yet, or I don't think so.

Speaker 3: 28:47

Okay.

Matt: 28:48

Somebody as young as you, it's it shouldn't it shouldn't take too long. And uh she said that I could be back playing pain-free golf at full speed in less than three months.

Speaker 3: 28:59

Nice.

Speaker 4: 29:00

In less than three months.

Speaker 3: 29:03

Yep. That's pretty good. I mean, I know fucking Faden Fairway's out for a year, which is kind of like that. That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 4: 29:09

Like eight months.

Matt: 29:10

Yeah, my uh my mom has had both of her knees replaced, and she said it's the best thing that she's ever done. Uh bit a lot of older people, especially when we go to Mesquite, and I was limping around last time we were up there, and a lady said, What's going on? You know, total grandma mom mode. And uh I told her what was going on, and she said, You know, I had my knee replaced uh earlier this year, and I'm like, Earlier this year, and I said, and you're out here golfing? She goes, Oh, yeah, she goes, I was golfing in two months. I was like, damn.

Speaker 3: 29:41

So it's shout out science and technology. Let's go.

Matt: 29:44

Yeah, that's yeah, that's right here. The yeah, PT, yeah, critical. Yeah, exactly. And that's how it was with my ankle, and that's why my ankle is resolved.

Speaker 4: 29:52

So are you gonna go with the full are you gonna go with the full knee replacement then?

Matt: 29:57

That's that's what we're looking at. Yeah, I talked with Erica tonight, and uh as long as it's okay with siding that I miss the first couple because I'll be able to work once I'm mobile, yeah. Yeah, you know, because I can I could stand there all day long and fit people. Yeah, I don't need a finger. Oh, dude, it's gonna be bad. Thank god I've got a putting green, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, I when I had my ankle surgery, I had to be off my foot for 12 weeks. That was brutal. Yeah, that I couldn't stand, you know. I I would then I was in a walking boot uh after that, so that then I got to do some chipping and putting. But yeah, it was it was four months before I swung a club. It was yeah, brutal.

Speaker 3: 30:44

It was brutal. Well, um, I gotta go. Uh, you know, Christmas Eve Eve. Eve. Thank you, everybody. Merry Christmas to everybody. Happy holidays. What one thing that's pretty cool. Dad's out of town. We got the keys next week. All right. We'll see you next week. Later.

Matt: 31:07

Oh, we hadn't talked about that. I didn't know we were.

Speaker 3: 31:09

No, no, no. Did I end stream? I didn't end stream. Oh, okay.

Matt: 31:12

Uh don't yeah, don't.

Speaker 3: 31:13

Oh, I almost hit end stream. Careful. We got the keys though. How do I leave? I'll kick you out. I'm on my I'm on my phone, so you know. I'll kick you out. All right, guys. You're good. Later, Merry Christmas. I'm sure I'll talk to you tomorrow and all that. Have a good time. Until next time, brother.

Speaker 5: 31:28

Later. Merry Christmas, Cliff. Thanks for coming by.

Speaker 8: 31:31

Yeah, Cliff, thanks for coming by. Love seeing Cliffy.

Matt: 31:36

Merry Christmas, Cliff. Merry Christmas. Cliff is a big supporter of the show. I can't get Joe out of here. So Joe, you'll have to figure it out on your own. He's in the background. Just swipe out of the app. I could see his head and his eyes. Yeah, I know. Right. It's funny nobody else can see him.

Speaker 3: 31:59

Oh, oh, I'm I'm like off stage. All right. I got you. Now you are. Hey, welcome back, Joe. Welcome back.

Matt: 32:04

Welcome back, Joe.

Speaker 3: 32:05

Yeah, just swipe.

Matt: 32:06

Happy New Year's Joe. Swipe out of the app. Swipe out of the app. You'll be good.

Speaker 3: 32:09

Yeah. There we are. It's my other brother right here. What's up about? Looking for a tea time next Tuesday. That's right. That's right.

Speaker 11: 32:20

Like a drug, you can't leave.

unknown: 32:24

All right.

Speaker 3: 32:25

It's like a whatnot. I'm waiting for the buyer's giveaway, guys.

Matt: 32:28

Swipe out of the app. You should be good.

Speaker 3: 32:30

All right. Yeah, I'm just gonna close it down. All right, later.

Matt: 32:37

I didn't I thought I could boot people, but I guess I can't boot people. I could just remove him from the show. All right, he's gone now. Oh, that was funny. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what Katie got him, but she got it before. Oh, he may be listening. Give it a second. Yeah. Uh because I I suggested that and she said already in the works.

Speaker 1: 32:57

So I was like, okay, cool.

Matt: 32:59

So look at him cheating on finding out what he got for Christmas. What a guy. Seriously. Jeez. It's like a kid. Totally, totally. And the Rebels are down 6-0 at halftime. Bowl game. Bowl game, though. Yeah. No second. Yeah. We'll see what goes on with that. Just so everybody knows, there will not be an after show this week. Uh we are, you know, cutting it short. I didn't know if you guys were going to do a show next week with me being gone. So uh if you do decide to do one, awesome. Awesome. This is my farewell to 2025 episode. It's been a fun year. Any uh uh any any highlights on the season uh January to December because our season is 12 months here.

Speaker 1: 33:50

Oh yeah.

Speaker 5: 33:52

A good year, I think.

Matt: 33:53

What do you got for me, Jeremy?

Speaker 5: 33:55

Landman was incredible. I mean that was Dude.

Matt: 33:59

So how are they gonna do this this homeland thing? How are they gonna decide what two players represent my because I don't know if it's like first end of free fall sign up?

Speaker 5: 34:12

Yeah, two and they're gonna choose two from each state. I don't know if it's like a partner thing or I mean because it said on New Year's Eve is when they do it, right?

Matt: 34:22

Or is it New Year's Day?

Speaker 5: 34:23

New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. It opens the same time the tea time's open for next year.

Matt: 34:27

Yeah, so I I mean, do you pick your state and then sign up? And then if somebody goes in from Nevada to sign up and you guys have already signed up and they're asked out?

Speaker 5: 34:38

I don't know.

Speaker 4: 34:39

I'm so curious about it. There'll probably be some more information. I bet you if if there's probably gonna be some kind of qualifying site. It's a week away. Well to the week away from sign up, but when's the tournament? Yeah. When's the tournament?

Speaker 8: 34:53

Tournament's in uh August. August, yeah.

Speaker 4: 34:55

So that'll give you eight months to figure out two teams. So I bet you they'll have like some kind of qualifying sites. Like the tournament's gonna be in Reno for us. If you want to join up, you gotta go play the tournament in Reno.

Matt: 35:10

So if you signed up, I wonder if there's gonna be like you sign up, we'll hold your money. If you make it, then we'll collect it. If you don't, we'll refund you.

Speaker 5: 35:21

I feel like they would probably just it's like a reservation where I don't see them collecting all that money for a small percent actually getting in. I feel like you just get on the list and then they have a deadline, and then that's when you pay. I don't know. I yeah, who knows, really?

Matt: 35:38

Yeah, I mean there's a lot that's gotta go on. I I it has to right, it has to be more than just the first group from Nevada, the first one.

Speaker 4: 35:46

Yeah, can you imagine first come, first serve?

unknown: 35:48

Right?

Speaker 4: 35:49

Get two 25 handicaps out there.

Speaker 11: 35:53

Montana's represent from Nevada 45 handicappers, yeah.

Matt: 35:58

Getting 48 strokes as a team. Cliff, if you're still here and you know how they're doing it, let us know because I know you're you're in on all that kind of stuff. I mean, it's crazy that it's only gonna be two teams from each state, but I mean, are you not gonna want to watch that?

Speaker 5: 36:15

Oh yeah, dude, that would be so much fun. It's a being that on TV or I would definitely be able to do that.

Matt: 36:22

To determine the best two-player team? Yeah, one team of two players. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I can't wait. We know that, but how do they how are they choosing? How do they determine the teams? Yeah, how are they gonna determine the teams? There hasn't been a ton of information on it.

Speaker 5: 36:42

I'll see if I can find some info. Okay, a qualifying tournament.

Speaker 4: 36:47

Two lowest average scores from the VGN. It's a lottery, supposedly.

Matt: 36:54

That would be crazy.

Speaker 5: 36:56

I don't know if it's like a I mean, no, I know it's like an event, but it's not like a official USGA thing. It's just like a I think it's just like a fun.

Matt: 37:07

Yeah, there's I I I they have the backing of the golf bill.

Speaker 4: 37:11

I was gonna say it's yeah, it's probably gonna be like one of those um uh good good events, you know, like they do that shit in Arizona. Yeah, people advis it on the golf channel.

Matt: 37:19

Yeah, yeah. I I mean apparently what I'm thinking, somebody from the golf channel went out there, saw this place. It's like this is in the middle of the country. We should have a tournament where two players represent each state come here in the heartland and compete for and and somebody said yes.

Speaker 4: 37:40

I mean, it's a it is a good idea. I mean, it's a fantastic idea. It sounds fun as hell, but yeah, logistically and trying to set it up like kind of sounds like a little bit of a nightmare.

Matt: 37:51

Well, think about what would have to go into that being statewide or nationwide qualifier, state quality it's like drive chip putt, you know?

Speaker 5: 38:01

Yeah, yeah.

Matt: 38:02

You know what all that chaos that goes on to put those events on, you know, to get your kid to Augusta. This is like an adult going to Disneyland. I mean, it's it's gonna be wild to have that many people on that property at one time. Yeah, but they're not used to that. Not used to it. So uh, but back to uh we'll go back real quick to uh wish list. Uh I I was before Joe popped in, I was saying that Bushnell now has a way to connect with a quad and get all your information stored in that and me being the stat nerd that I am. That's very intriguing. And Bushnell's just so damn good. I mean, it's hard to argue it's the quality and and the performance of those things. Although I will say, whatever that rangefinder that Joe has that he won, um I can't remember the brand. Joe, what what brand is that uh rangefinder that you have? He still hasn't charged that thing, and he's had it forever. And it's a D USB rechargeable one precision procedure. He still hasn't charged out when did you win that? It was a while ago. So it's nice to know that the tech is is getting better. I have that Canon Range Finder that's really cool, but it just it's not golf enough for me.

Speaker 5: 39:25

You have to bring battery, you have to bring extra batteries for it.

Matt: 39:28

Dude, it goes so fast. April or May, he said April-ish. Yeah, he's had it forever. Plus 75% on the battery.

Speaker 4: 39:36

That's just only played like six rounds of golf since April.

Matt: 39:39

Yeah, it is true. According to his gen, he hasn't played any golf, soul golfers don't need yardages.

Speaker 4: 39:48

Yeah, let's go golfing, Joe. Right?

Matt: 39:53

Uh so if anybody uh is uh wants to check out our Our gin recap, it's it's on the website. If you go to the chasing daylight podcast.com, and now on the about page, I did some drop downs. So the menu's not so crowded. But if you do that, go to the hosts and then click on each page of the hosts. You can see our what's in the bag. And then I also put our gen rewind on there. So you can see that information, not hiding, not hiding from anybody. We ours, we ours who's we says we ours. And uh we'll play in a scramble. We do pretty good in scrambles. Yeah. We do pretty good. I I really thought, let me see if I could find that that photo. I really thought this was going to get a little bit more traction on on Instagram, but it it's such a no people just are so doom scroll, doom scroll, doom scroll. Unless it's you know a chick sh showing her titties or or a hot new golf club or something, it it's really hard to get some traction. But I put this out there uh last couple days, which I thought was hilarious. Uh it's all of us saying Derek Carr sucks at golf because we we beat him in his tournament at So High with the you know the Ferraris on the uh on the golf course right there.

Speaker 4: 41:19

I never even noticed the Ferraris in the back.

Matt: 41:22

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 41:25

That's funny.

Matt: 41:26

Uh yeah, so we beat we beat Derek Carr at his own tournament, and uh right after that he left the Raiders because he was embarrassed.

Speaker 4: 41:32

He got yeah, he got super embarrassed.

Matt: 41:35

We beat him by a stroke. It was hilarious.

Speaker 5: 41:37

But he did give us some big five footballs that were signed.

Speaker 9: 41:43

Mine's right. Oh, there it is over there.

Matt: 41:45

Yeah. Oh, yeah, dance is on his shelf.

Speaker 9: 41:47

Mine's right there.

Matt: 41:50

You know, it's it's it's a it's a bad gift when the big five price tag is still on it. There was there was some really sick golf bags. Yeah. And we got we did get some dormie head covers, so that was nice too.

Speaker 4: 42:04

But yeah, but remember the they had the golf bags, and then they have like Yeti coolers and stuff like that. Yeti cooler. We won.

Speaker 11: 42:11

We're gonna haul out. They're like, here's a football. Here's a football signed by a bum. We didn't even he didn't even hand it to us.

Speaker 5: 42:20

Yeah, yeah, it was some guy because they forgot to give it to us and we were leaving, I think.

Speaker 4: 42:24

Yeah. And this was after this was after the 45-minute church session, too. Oh, dude.

Speaker 1: 42:31

Wow. Yeah, if you're not aware, he's a very religious man. The golf course was spectacular, though.

Speaker 6: 42:40

It's a prize for listening to the sermon.

Speaker 11: 42:43

Yeah. Thanks for sticking around.

Speaker 4: 42:46

Yeah, some sign footballs.

Matt: 42:48

Hey, before we give out the prizes, you guys need to listen to me talk about the lore for 45 minutes.

Speaker 5: 42:55

Yeah.

Matt: 42:56

Made the uh that was a that was a first at a golf course for sure. Yeah. But it was still fun. We had a good time, and it was awesome that we won.

Speaker 4: 43:05

Didn't he sign a jersey for you too, though, Jay?

Speaker 5: 43:08

Yeah, a jersey and a card.

Speaker 4: 43:10

Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 5: 43:12

Yeah. I mean I mean, I I'm a Derek Carr fan, so I was sad to see him go.

Speaker 4: 43:18

I mean, he was he wasn't the greatest, but he, you know, he did, he is the all-time leader. He was a Raider through and through. He wrote a raiders. Oh, absolutely. I didn't think he wanted to leave. And I think McDaniels kind of did him dirty there at the end.

Matt: 43:31

Very much so. Very much so. Hey, how about the football matchup for the Raiders this week? God. Us against the Giants.

Speaker 11: 43:40

Like, who who wants to win this game? Yeah, who wants to suck the most? Not me. I don't want to win.

Speaker 4: 43:47

I hope they lose so bad because then they'll be in the driver's seat. And they'll probably fuck up the draft anyway, but oh yeah, they'll take a quarterback.

Speaker 11: 43:53

Yeah, they'll screw it up. Oh, even the our local newscasters are like, oh, the Raiders are got a great chance to draft their franchise quarterback. I'm like, dude, stop saying that. Don't put that in Mark Davis's thoughts. He doesn't need to think that.

Speaker 4: 44:08

They'll draft a quarterback with a fourth round rating.

Matt: 44:11

Yeah. Guys could have got him at pick 175.

Speaker 7: 44:16

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 44:18

Joe said, all right, catch you later doing some games. Doing some games. Later, Joe, yeah.

Speaker 8: 44:29

So got anything else in going on in news world? Anything exciting?

Speaker 4: 44:37

Um, Coochers won again.

unknown: 44:41

Yeah.

Matt: 44:42

Did we see that? BNC. Dude, I watched the pro-am and I didn't realize it was the pro-am. I just thought it was the tournament. And I turned it off because every every opportunity to talk to somebody, they did. And I was like, can I watch some golf, please?

Speaker 4: 45:00

Yeah.

Matt: 45:01

And it was just interviews after interviews, and I saw it was a pro-am and I went, oh. Oh yeah. Yeah. Uh oh. Is this is this Cancer Noah? Is that who that is? Jeremy has been given 100% authority on the uh the the what's it called? The moderator. Moderating. So watch your tone.

Speaker 4: 45:27

Yeah. Watch what you say.

Matt: 45:29

Watch what you say. You get the boot. Jeremy will knock you out of here quick. You're banned. They shot a 54. Is that what they shot on the last day?

Speaker 6: 45:39

Wow. My son is a great player.

Matt: 45:46

I got treatment. Oh, good for you.

Speaker 5: 45:49

Did you guys watch the PNC? I feel like it was just kind of because Tiger wasn't there, it was like, eh.

Matt: 45:56

What's the normal golf channel games?

Speaker 5: 46:00

Did you guys watch a little bit, mostly highlights? That was actually pretty entertaining. I'm I'm gonna try and go back and watch them.

Matt: 46:09

Seeing them hit, you know what was fun to watch? It was a long drive. Because those guys, it it shows you how accurate they are compared to long drivers, which it's a different sport. You know, accuracy is not like on the forefront of long drive. It's how far you hit the ball. You know, hey, if I get one in, great. But you know, one out of ten at 430 is considered an achievement. And so you had all these pros step up there and they're all hitting it 180 mile an hour ball speed, all hitting at 300, 325 yards. And I mean, I think there's like maybe three shots that weren't in the grid. The ones that weren't were just off. It was impressive seeing them just you know swinging hard and how accurate they are off the T. Yeah.

Speaker 5: 47:01

Oh yeah. It was cool. Totally different than watching the actual long drive stuff, but still so so different.

Matt: 47:08

You know, it shows you how how they're dialed for you know accuracy with with your setups. Yeah. I mean, Scotty was hitting these bombs that were just straight. Rory was hitting these super high draws. Yep. Uh the short game stuff was fun to watch. Uh how they had him, you know, he had a time window to hit so many different shots. Uh, I mean, there was some it was some really cool stuff. It was it was quite entertaining. I would like to see them do that, not under the lights, at a you know, maybe do that on a Wednesday of a tournament instead of a pro am. Greenly! Oh, look at this. Fancy Man is in the house. Greenly. Court-sided NBA games, playing new proto tailor-made irons. Yeah, man.

Speaker 5: 48:00

Dude, the build today, the titleess build, made me want some tideless.

Speaker 4: 48:06

Yeah, all these fancy shafts. What shafts were those, Greenley? The ones you put in those Roars Pro or not, what's it the Roars Protos? Yeah, those are the black and gold, the black and gold X VA 130s. What were those?

Matt: 48:18

VA?

Speaker 4: 48:19

What's VA?

Matt: 48:21

Uh oh, what's it called, Greenley? I'm sorry. I'm terrible.

Speaker 4: 48:27

I don't even know who that is. I've seen those shafts, they're like, what the hell are those?

Matt: 48:32

Please say it, so I I don't feel like a retard anymore. That's terrible. I have I have his phone number in my phone, the owner. One of Greenlee's buddies.

Speaker 7: 48:50

He's probably gone.

Matt: 48:51

Badass VAT VA composites? Okay.

Speaker 4: 48:54

I've never even heard of them.

Matt: 48:55

Yeah, they do a lot of driver shafts. Good stuff. I didn't know they had an iron shaft, so that's interesting.

Speaker 4: 49:01

Is VA short for like Virginia? Do they come out of Virginia or something?

Matt: 49:05

Yeah, it's uh very accurate. I'll let him say it. I'll just run it.

Speaker 4: 49:10

Very accurate. Very Eric.

Matt: 49:18

Nice. Hey, hey Greenley, you want to hop on with us and chat? I'll I'll send you a link. Victor Apha, there it is. Oban shaft. Oh bon.

Speaker 4: 49:33

Oban. Oh bon.

Speaker 5: 49:37

They made some pretty shafts back in like colorful ones. I thought they were pretty sick. I never hit one though. I've never tried one.

Speaker 4: 49:44

I never hit any O-bonds either. Let me get off the popper.

Matt: 49:49

Get off the popper. No popping on the popper. We sent him this link real quick.

Speaker 4: 49:57

Oh look at Greenley on here. Yeah, those VA composites. I think they were what 130 X's though? His? No. The ones he got were 110s. Oh, I thought I saw. Oh yeah, it says right there 110 staff equal to S400. Yeah.

Matt: 50:15

Good stuff. Good stuff. He sent me a uh Vanquish. The the not the poor man vanquish shaft. Pretty happy with that thing so far. Pretty happy. Is that just still in the bag? No, it's it's uh gloss. It's uh it's shiny, it's shiny.

Speaker 5: 50:32

Like blue, is it bluish or gray?

Matt: 50:34

Yeah, it's got a it's it's a matte gray, then then the the vanquish logo is is uh like gloss. It's got a bluish hue to yeah. Uh he said he said uh have you hit the vanquish? I said, Yeah, I've got one in my three in my five wood. And he goes, which one? The the matte or the shiny? And I said it's the matte one. He goes, Oh, that's the poor people vanquish. Oh he said, I'll send you the legit one. I said, Okay, nice. Oh yeah. I have the non-poor people vanquish shaft.

Speaker 5: 51:07

The non-poor people, yeah.

Matt: 51:09

It's it's it's pretty freaking good. I I I mean, I put it uh head to head with uh my there he is.

Speaker 12: 51:17

Hey, turn your phone, turn your phone, yeah. Hold on, turn your phone.

Matt: 51:24

There we go. Look at that grizzly atom. Yeah, for real. Look at that beard. What is it, cold in Dallas or something?

Speaker: 51:32

No, it's like 80 today. That's perfect.

Matt: 51:36

What's up with the with that? That's perfect.

Speaker: 51:38

Well, I'd you're playing Santa Claus.

Matt: 51:41

It grows at the same time.

Speaker: 51:42

I'm inspiring. I shave once every two months because it doesn't grow.

Matt: 51:46

So oh, yeah, that's that's this. This this my Santa post that I that I put out there, that that would take me six lifetimes to grow.

Speaker: 51:59

Uh what are you crazy kids doing? Tell me something good.

Speaker 10: 52:02

Um, nothing. This is our this is our uh holiday Christma Kwanzica uh spectacular.

Speaker: 52:08

Happy Christma Kwanzica. I say that to people all the time. They get mad at me, and I'm like, I know.

Matt: 52:14

We gotta make sure we get everybody covered, but you know, we don't want to leave anybody out.

Speaker: 52:17

I'm like fighting. Can't leave it.

Speaker 4: 52:19

Yeah, it's not happy holidays, it's Merry Christmas.

Speaker: 52:23

You don't like it? Calm down, don't talk to me.

Speaker 11: 52:26

Merry Trump Christmas.

Speaker: 52:28

Um, so that's putting his name on everything. So badass gold, one ten stiff, it's parallel. Um, so if you do it three and a half inches, it's a stiff. If you tip it four inches and go half inches from there, it basically makes it an S400, just a lighter weight. So that's what we're doing.

Speaker 8: 52:48

Gotcha. Nice.

Speaker 10: 52:50

When how how long has Victor been doing iron shafts?

Speaker: 52:55

Oh, long uh ever since he started VA, so he uh I didn't even know that. Um, so he started Oban because he loved the whiskey, so he named it after that, and then he had a person there, and he was like, screw you, I'm out. So he went and started over again and started VA composites. And um, he does really good with uh Club Champion. Like that's his that's baby. Like he does really, really good with Club Champion, but um yeah, there's a Regine Iron Shaft, there is a Sinister, there's the badass, there's a badass gold, so it's just it's just a little bit more quality version that doesn't cost you a hundred bucks a shaft.

Speaker 12: 53:39

So nice, nice.

Matt: 53:42

So how you do may have to get a uh sample sentence way, and maybe we'll get some VA shafts in the CDP lineup.

Speaker: 53:50

I might know a guy.

Matt: 53:51

I think you know a guy. I said I sent him a message. I said, I go, hey, do you think uh VA has a uh uh a high launch hybrid shaft? He goes, Yeah, they sure do.

Speaker 10: 54:02

He goes, You should ask Victor. I go, I thought I just did.

Speaker: 54:09

No, um, how is so now that I get to talk to you, how is the driver shaft and how is the putter shaft?

Matt: 54:17

Uh driver shaft is amazing, so I'm still a good guy. Absolutely amazing. I was playing the uh Ventus TR red. Red. And so I put the new quantum, not the triple diamond, the quantum max head on the TR and hit 10 shots. Then I put the Vanquish that you sent, the non-poor people's vanquish.

Speaker: 54:47

Well, you got the real one. We only do real here, we don't do peasant stuff.

Matt: 54:52

And I hit 10 shots and it was remarkably better. Okay, good. Like, like remarkably better. That that ball does not move off the line you started on. It's so nice. Okay, good. It's so nice. I just I'm I'm broken right now, like my body physically, and so it it it hurts to swing a golf club. I mean you're old, so it happens. Yeah, well, not according to my nurse today. I I was I was a young fella. Good, man.

Speaker: 55:20

Good.

Matt: 55:21

Yeah, good, very spry, very spry young man with a a massive cyst, which she told me that's the biggest cyst she'd ever seen. I I had to make sure I was hearing right because I'm like, I'm a married man, you know.

Speaker: 55:34

Yeah, that's called your next set.

Speaker 11: 55:40

Oh, you said cyst. I'm sorry. Oh, cyst. Oh cyst. I I thought you said something else.

Speaker: 55:48

Did you uh have you tried the have you tried the putter shaft yet or no?

Matt: 55:52

I put the putter shaft in my Goodwood Proto Mallet. Okay, and and I've been putting with it. It feels great. I it's a I like the thinner BGT shaft. Not the not the not the all graphite one, not that's the one I use, yeah. No, not the BGT one, like the the the two-piece, yeah, you know, you know, like the the tour one came out, it was thinner. Yeah, I like that. So I it's taken me a little bit to get used to seeing that fat shaft again.

Speaker: 56:24

Okay. Um doing uh because you get a matter, that's why you never have me on the ship.

Matt: 56:33

It feels really good. And then today, because after my putting lesson with Preston a couple weeks ago, by the way, if you have not gone and listened to the Preston Combs episode, do yourself a favor, go do that. Understand find it, yeah. Uh I took the grip that I had on it off because I was trying a different Garson that had a pistol on it. Uh, I it was okay, it just wasn't for me. Uh, so I took that off and put the ultimate on that I'm really happy with and cut it to the proper length, went out back to start rolling some putts and it started raining. So I got about 10 putts in before I'm like, okay, there's too much water out here.

Speaker: 57:13

So okay, understood. Christmas rain.

Matt: 57:16

It's crazy because that thing was F7 at 34 inches.

Speaker: 57:22

Oh wow.

Matt: 57:23

And I cut it down to uh 32 and three-quarters, and then with the grip, it's right at 33. Okay. And it's still E0. Okay.

Speaker: 57:33

So okay, that's fair. I mean, ultimately, like E0 for a putter is not like super extreme heavy, but so yeah, but I understand what you're saying. It's it all depends on what we're used to.

Matt: 57:45

Yeah, when I put the uh the ultimate grip on my goodwood, my gamer, the max torque putter, and it's at 33 inches now, it went from D8 to C9. Oh wow. And it it feels fantastic at C9, believe it or not.

Speaker: 58:02

Okay, so that's just what you like. Your feels are your feels.

Matt: 58:05

Feels of the feels, yeah. But that mallet sets up so good, it's such a special putter. Okay. And I asked Dave today if he's gonna do more of those, and he says he has a bunch. And I said, Well, biggest complaint that I get from people is they it doesn't say goodwood on it. And he goes, Yeah, he goes, I wasn't really gonna do these, so I kind of just left it at that. And hey, if you happen to have one, do you happen to have one?

Speaker: 58:28

Yeah. Well, if he needs to uh get a putter for a random, unspecial special guest on the show, I only have to play 13 clubs tailor-made.

Matt: 58:39

So oh okay. Oh, so you're a free market on the uh the putter factory, huh?

Speaker: 58:46

Oh well, just one, whatever club it is, whatever the 14 is, yeah.

Matt: 58:50

Oh, so you oh, so you have you decided what your your oddball club is gonna be?

Speaker: 58:56

So right now, the only thing that's not tailor-made is my five wood. I have a GT2 five wood. Everything else is tailor-made.

Speaker 4: 59:06

Are you in the 4D already?

Speaker: 59:09

It's might be in route.

Speaker 4: 59:11

Okay.

Speaker: 59:12

I figured as much.

Speaker 4: 59:13

I figured as much.

Speaker: 59:15

And the part that is crazy to me is seeing them and hitting them, I'm not gonna continue to play the LS. I'm gonna switch to the core model. So, in my opinion, the new core model looks more like the the QI10 dot head as far as like shape and everything. Um, so I'm I'm going core model. And then to my eyeballs, the core version, which I'm sure it's on purpose, but the core version fairway wood looks better than the Tor version fairway wood to me. So the five wood is an easy switch for me.

Matt: 59:53

So is the core version for Taylor Make? I I don't work for Taylor May, so I I'm not familiar with that.

Speaker: 59:58

I don't work for Taylor either. I see what You're doing there.

Matt: 1:00:02

Is the core model the the more forgiving than the LS? Yes. Is it like triple diamond compared to a non-triple diamond? Yeah.

Speaker: 1:00:11

No, no, you're right. And the funny part is, right? So you have you know the max light, you have a max, then you have one in the middle, if you will, then you have an LS. They didn't know what they called to call it, so they just call it the core head. They didn't literally didn't have a name for it, so just call it core head.

Matt: 1:00:27

Now, do they call it the core head or does the public call it the core head?

Speaker: 1:00:30

Both. Both? Yeah. Like straight from like when I was at the kingdom, they were like, no, we just call it the core head because we didn't have a name for it. And I was like, cool. Thanks for the info.

Matt: 1:00:39

It's better than stock.

Speaker: 1:00:40

Correct. Nobody wants to hit stock. Stocks for peasants. We don't do peasants.

Matt: 1:00:44

Well, it's it's last year with Callaway. We had the Elite, then we had the the Elite Max, and then Elite Max Fast and the Elite Triple Diamond. And so people say, Which head are you putting me in? Oh, just the regular elite. And I'm like, I hate saying that. I hate say it's it's the elite. Well, which elite? No, it's it's the elite.

Speaker: 1:01:02

So to your point, you didn't even say the elite X, and you were part of the company. Come on, man. Even I know the product.

Matt: 1:01:08

Because nobody hit that.

Speaker: 1:01:09

Yeah, fair.

Speaker 11: 1:01:13

That's the cleanest driver we had in the in the lineup. No scuff marks on it at all. No, for sure.

Speaker: 1:01:19

That was the uh tell me something good about you guys. Like Dano, how you playing? What are you playing? You change J Mart, you still in new levels? Like, tell me something good. What are you guys doing? So I can just like pick it apart real quick.

Speaker 4: 1:01:31

I am not playing well. Um, my swing is uh off the especially off the T. Um, I got a little bit of a two-way miss going right now. But um irons are okay, putting a little bit better. I made a switch. I made a little switch into a uh 5.2 uh Phantom. And I don't know. For some reason, it's I've been making some pretty good putts.

Matt: 1:01:55

So it was a bad influence on him with the Scotties.

Speaker: 1:02:00

Are you still Ventus Black and the Driver?

Speaker 4: 1:02:02

I'm sorry?

Speaker: 1:02:03

Are you still Ventus Black and the Driver?

Speaker 4: 1:02:06

Still Ventus Black and the Driver. Jeremy was kind enough to give me a blue. Uh Trey gave gave me a red to try, but Trey's driver's shaft is like at 43 inches and tip like two inches.

Speaker: 1:02:15

So it's definitely go ahead and fix it the way I fix Matt, because I mean, like, I'm kind of an okay guesser.

Speaker 4: 1:02:22

Yeah, I'm sure. Well, you were uh you told me though that I I should be into the red TR. You think I would be benefiting a red TR in Arizona? You said that. Oh, you've seen him play, so you know.

Speaker: 1:02:34

Okay, yeah, we played. We actually got to it's the first time I we actually got to play golf with him.

Matt: 1:02:37

So yeah, we have we have Julian and I have uh like when we're fitting people, yeah, and we're like, oh, this is a Jeremy Fit because this person hits up on it seven degrees and swings into out. That's a Jeremy Fit. And then we have a Dan Fit. Oh, this guy swings at 118 and hits down on it four degrees. Yeah, yep.

Speaker: 1:02:57

Um, are you still playing Callaway? Yeah. And do you have a normal adapter?

Speaker 4: 1:03:04

Uh yes, I have a normal adapter.

Speaker: 1:03:07

Okay. I'll put some together tomorrow.

Speaker 4: 1:03:11

Okay, okay.

Matt: 1:03:13

Hey, Eric, have you seen the the blue line adapter? Yeah. I didn't even know it existed.

Speaker: 1:03:23

Did you know that next year the Ventus TR only comes in blue? They're dumping all the other stuff. Really?

Speaker 4: 1:03:30

Really?

Speaker: 1:03:31

Yeah. Allegedly. Because I I had to build one. And then you can't take a picture of it. And I'm like, dude, like, I don't care, man. But like, since you said it, now I'm gonna say something. Like, come, yeah, like come at me. Yeah.

Matt: 1:03:48

We I we hit the I hit the new Denali Frost, uh, the upgrade, the upgrade one, not the the matte one. Uh-huh. Not the not the stock one, but the matte one.

Speaker: 1:03:57

Oh is that I think denalies are really good. I think denalies are super underrated.

Matt: 1:04:02

That's that is our go-to if we have a person that is struggling, hitting it right to left that wants to.

Speaker: 1:04:08

Yeah.

Matt: 1:04:09

And it's like they're it's leaking out to the right, we throw that denali in, and that thing just curves right back in the middle. It's so it's such a good shaft.

Speaker: 1:04:15

Like, if I had a magic wand, like, no offense to the blue one, like I'd throw it in the trash can, but like I would take that red and that black, and I would I think it would help a lot of people.

Matt: 1:04:26

We fit a lot of people to it. But do you know what we got in the matrix this year?

Speaker: 1:04:30

The new link, like the link I play link, yeah.

Matt: 1:04:34

The black and white one. Okay, yeah. And uh, we only had one, and I told Syton I said, two more of those. I I need that in a in a light stiff, and we need that in an extra.

Speaker: 1:04:46

Yeah. Um, I love it.

Matt: 1:04:49

He's like, Yeah, and I'm like, I've heard nothing but really amazing things about that shaft.

Speaker: 1:04:53

It's um I will I will literally hit it till it breaks. And then like, this is gonna shock you because I've said it in the past, but this time I made it like I'm actually gonna start playing golf, so it's gonna happen. All right, well, I'm not talking to you guys.

Speaker 5: 1:05:09

So, anyways, Jeremy, so how about your uh, you know, I've been playing the Elite since springtime and just hammering the ball.

Speaker: 1:05:18

Okay, good.

Speaker 5: 1:05:19

It's that was a good move. Getting fitted, getting some spin.

Speaker: 1:05:22

Yep.

Speaker 5: 1:05:23

Don't ask about my irons.

Speaker: 1:05:25

New levels aren't crushing it no more.

Speaker 5: 1:05:27

No, new levels are good. I just I've been playing Miras the last couple rounds, but I think I'm kind of waiting for the new level Raw's.

Speaker: 1:05:34

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 1:05:34

Oops. That's not good. I didn't say that.

Speaker: 1:05:37

Okay, everybody knows.

Speaker 5: 1:05:38

Oops, everybody knows. Yeah, big fan of those levels. Those are pretty impressive.

Speaker: 1:05:43

Like ultimately, like, you're a mirror guy, so it's not that big a deal if you kind of venture back to home. Yeah, it's not that big a deal.

Speaker 4: 1:05:52

Yeah. He's been hitting them good.

Speaker 5: 1:05:53

Yep. Yeah, hitting them good. Butter's the thing I still need to work on, dude. I I that's in a struggle right now.

Speaker: 1:06:02

If only you knew a person who had access to a person in Dallas who could fix you in 40 minutes. You just got to do it.

Speaker 5: 1:06:13

I know I I know I need to go to Dallas. I definitely do.

Matt: 1:06:16

All you all do.

Speaker 5: 1:06:17

Yeah, that would be a good CDP trick.

Matt: 1:06:19

I would be in Frisco right now if we weren't going to New York on Friday because the rebels are playing there right now. Yeah.

Speaker: 1:06:26

So you guys can uh we'll figure out a way to ship the gear, and you can do the podcast from my shop. That would be fun.

Matt: 1:06:35

I have a I have a travel case that I can just ship to you and see.

Speaker: 1:06:39

We can make it solved. Problem solving. I live four miles from my job.

Matt: 1:06:45

Oh, that's nice.

Speaker: 1:06:47

You guys come whenever you want. We'll shut it down. I got keys, we'll turn the lights on, turn the music up, and we'll leave when we want to leave. It's easy.

Matt: 1:06:55

All right, there we go. We got our first uh remote podcast booked.

Speaker: 1:06:59

Yep. We have amazing Wi-Fi, like amazing Wi-Fi. Because you have to. We have four track bands that aren't hardboard, yeah. We have amazing Wi-Fi.

Matt: 1:07:10

Absolutely, you have to.

Speaker: 1:07:13

Dude, it's good to see you guys, man. It's good to talk to you guys. It's good to see you too.

Matt: 1:07:17

I'm glad you're glad you're able to come on.

Speaker: 1:07:19

Well, next time you come out to Vegas, bring your sticks. I had to get off the pooper.

Matt: 1:07:24

He's coming soon.

Speaker: 1:07:25

I'll be there after Valentine's. I'll be there.

Matt: 1:07:30

Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna be here for our first VGN event.

Speaker: 1:07:33

Yeah, we have to see if Shirley lets me play or not. Otherwise, I'm gonna be living with you guys.

Speaker 11: 1:07:39

So I got room.

Speaker: 1:07:42

Hey, don't tease.

Matt: 1:07:44

Yeah, we we kicked the daughter's room out to the casita and and turned her room into an office for Erica.

Speaker: 1:07:51

So here's the catch. Gotta find a job, though. You don't want that freeloader living out there. You don't want me living your house selling drugs.

Matt: 1:07:59

Bring in more money than I'm bringing in.

Speaker: 1:08:01

So I mean, okay.

Matt: 1:08:03

I'm already a freeloader. My daughter said to me we were talking about, you know, giving her life lessons. We were talking about financial stability and everything with it this evening. And she's like, Well, I don't even know how much dad makes. I said, My paycheck say Rosedon. Yeah.

Speaker: 1:08:21

Oh, I love it. I love it.

Matt: 1:08:24

Yeah, so no, but you gotta bring the sticks in when you come out here. That's that's it's just okay. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 8: 1:08:33

Shipstick them to the house. You said you wanted to I wanted to play that.

Speaker: 1:08:37

I want to play that event because the events we're getting there. Thursday to event Saturday. I want to play that event Saturday. Yeah, is it Rhodes Ranch? I think. Yep. Yeah, I want to play that event.

Matt: 1:08:48

Yep, Rhodes Ranch. Come on, you know, you know you got a spot.

Speaker 8: 1:08:52

You know you got a spot.

Matt: 1:08:53

Yep, yep. Yeah, 60 days till the VGN kicks off. That's coming quick, man. That's exciting, right? All right. We got I have uh let's see, let me just bring this up. I won't show it with the screen, but I'll just bring it up to see how many people we have signed up. It's it's been slow. I haven't been pushing everything because it's it's the holidays, and uh, you know, I don't want to you know bombard people with sign up, sign up, sign up. But uh I think we have nine, twenty-two, twenty-three people signed up so far.

Speaker: 1:09:23

Okay.

Matt: 1:09:23

And you know, I told everybody if you sign up before the end of the year, which is a week away, if you sign up before the end of the year, you get uh uh your name is in the raffle for a free entry to the roads event. So I mean that's saves you 150 bucks right there if you win.

Speaker: 1:09:43

I think my buddy Tracy signs the ranch. What side of town is it on?

Matt: 1:09:46

He did. Uh Rhodes is in the southwest.

Speaker: 1:09:49

Okay. Yeah, down the street. Right down the street in Durango Station. Oh, okay.

Matt: 1:09:56

Yeah. So just book a room there one night and you know?

Speaker: 1:10:00

No, we're just saying at the W. Dude, literally punch all you guys in the NATSAC. Like the freaking W or whatever.

Matt: 1:10:10

If you sat quartz tight at an NBA game in the last two weeks, raise your hand.

Speaker: 1:10:14

No hands are up.

Matt: 1:10:16

Yeah. You better raise your damn hand.

Speaker: 1:10:21

I can't, I'm holding my phone. Well, if you guys, if you three come to Dallas, we can have four seats in the same spot. It's not that big a deal.

Matt: 1:10:33

Alright. Well, Joe will be with us, so there'll be five seats.

Speaker: 1:10:37

I can do I probably could swing five. Okay. Do you know Cooper Flag or something? You just call him up. I do not know him. He's only 19. That's true. I'm I'm 46.

Speaker 4: 1:10:48

That's true. I forget he's a young kid. He don't want to fuck around with young kids.

Matt: 1:10:53

Uh I don't know if you heard earlier. Uh it looks like I'm gonna have uh my entire left knee replaced.

Speaker: 1:10:59

Seriously?

Matt: 1:11:00

Yeah.

Speaker: 1:11:02

When do you do in that?

Matt: 1:11:04

Uh hopefully in like three weeks.

Speaker: 1:11:06

Oh, like ASAP.

Matt: 1:11:08

Uh it's pretty, it's pretty Yeah, it's messed up.

Speaker: 1:11:12

Like painful? Like are you I mean, you're not good at having it redone, but like are you good?

Matt: 1:11:17

I uh I've been limping for a while. It's it's no fun. Okay. He's been limping for four years.

Speaker 4: 1:11:27

It's no fun.

Speaker: 1:11:29

And all this time I thought you were trying to be cooler on me because I'm a minority.

Speaker 4: 1:11:32

Yeah, no, it's not it's not a pimp limp, it's an actual it's not a pimp limp.

Matt: 1:11:40

Oh, so hey, we were in our group chat, we were talking about this. I I tried to put something together that Dan uh vetoed immediately. Um I mean, it wasn't even like it was still sending, and Dan was like, no. Um, so you know you know the phrase FOMO, fear of missing out, right? Right. So I was coming up with golf FOMO, you know, uh the fear of missing out of playing, but it's like beyond that. Like, so us, you know, when when one of us is not playing and the other three are, it's tragic. It's like you want to be there so bad. Yeah, and I I know when we were in Nebraska, Dan was just miserable. And like when he goes to Michigan with Trey, we're like just want to be there so bad. You know, it's so there we need a phrase or a that kind of what is that feeling? You know, we need that summed up in a FOMO that uh golfers would understand.

Speaker: 1:12:43

No, I no, it's fair. Like, I know the feeling, like you guys are like, hey, we played Pi, and like I know the golf course, so I'm like, man, I wish I was there. They went to Michigan. Like, I played four students, and I'm like, hey, did you do this or this? And like, so that feeling I know, but the word for it, I or the word or the phrase or whatever, I don't know. Yeah, we gotta we're gonna like I want to puke. And it's not because I'm mad at you, it's not because I'm jealous of you, it's just I want to be there hanging out.

Speaker 4: 1:13:14

Share that experience with you.

Speaker: 1:13:15

Oh, dang, and I'm totally not freaking Joe. Like, I'm you guys know I'm not a freaking soul golfer, like I'm not I have no desire to go to Ben and Dudes, like I have no desire to do this. I mean, it's not me. Yeah, but there's certain places you guys go and I'm not there, and I'm like, oh man, like it like it it bothered, like it makes me it doesn't make me sad, but it makes me sad. Like I I I don't like how it makes me feel.

Matt: 1:13:43

So a bunch of the guys are planning to go next year to Ireland or Scotland or whatever. 2027. And yeah, and 27 is gonna be a crazy year for me because I've got two kids graduating, one college, one high school. Uh a lot going on.

Speaker 1: 1:14:00

Yeah.

Matt: 1:14:00

And so I I just am not gonna be able to pull that off. And it's like tearing a hole in me.

Speaker 5: 1:14:09

Yep.

Matt: 1:14:10

Because I'm gonna I'm gonna have to go live in a cave for the seven days that they're gone because I don't want to see that shit. I want to be there.

Speaker 11: 1:14:20

So it's that's gonna be awful.

Matt: 1:14:22

Oh, it's gonna be devastating, devastating.

Speaker: 1:14:26

Yeah, but you know, that's life sometimes. We'll we'll find we'll we'll definitely find a phrase for that. There's no way it's in word or an acronym, like we'll find it. There's gotta be an phone to sum that up.

Matt: 1:14:40

Because it it's not the fear of missing out, it's missing out. Yeah, you're you're missing out. You're not afraid of it. It's it's fucking happening.

Speaker: 1:14:48

You're missing out, you are not involved be with the people you want to be there with.

Matt: 1:14:53

Yeah.

Speaker: 1:14:55

Thousand percent.

Matt: 1:14:57

We're gonna we're gonna coin that phrase and lock it in and mass distribute it.

Speaker: 1:15:03

Oh, Dano, I just saw the hoodie. Yeah, so MFD Matt, I don't want to hear anything. Let me finish my sentence. So I wore that hoodie for the Mavs game, and the freaking cop was like, you know who that is on your hoodie? And I'm like, Yeah, dude, I'm wearing it. Like, like, what are you doing, man? Like, yeah. So, like, they even the cops stopped me when I was wearing that thing.

Speaker 5: 1:15:29

Yeah, wow, that's impressive. That's impressive.

Speaker: 1:15:31

Yeah, when you're in the nosebleeds, they don't think you're supposed to be there, so they stop you.

Matt: 1:15:38

Yeah, the the show started and Joe was on. She got profiled.

Speaker 11: 1:15:42

That's my life.

Speaker 4: 1:15:44

Excuse me, sir. Are you supposed to be here? You're like, uh, there's 2,000 people in this section. Why me? Yeah, you just don't turn around.

Speaker: 1:15:53

What are we doing?

Matt: 1:15:55

Uh yeah, Joe, when he popped on, he's like, hey, guy in the black black hat, nice hoodie. And I'm like, yeah. And he's like, no, other guy. Other guy in the black hat.

Speaker: 1:16:07

All right, so I got a chef for Dano. Matt, good. J. Martin, you need anything from me?

Speaker 5: 1:16:16

I did see one of uh his putters in one of the golf shops. One of the golf shops, first time I've seen one in person. It was actually pretty sick. Oh, what putter?

Matt: 1:16:25

The Paradox.

Speaker 5: 1:16:26

The uh the VG or the VGT putter. What's the name of the putter? Paradox. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: 1:16:35

You don't have to send one of those, but I mean, that was a little pretty cool. That was things I can like. We'll sit courtside before you get one of those putters. I know, I know.

Speaker 5: 1:16:45

And I have it, I've got a shaft. You already sent me one of the one shafts, so I have that. It's just in here, it's not a shaft issue.

Matt: 1:16:54

Yeah, Jeremy Jeremy needs to get he's having uh a little uh as erratic as he is mentally.

Speaker 5: 1:17:00

I need a brain replacement, like you need a knee replacement.

Speaker: 1:17:03

Oh, sorry, fresh out of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe we can go. I think I'm set. Go to like Ecuador or something and like go to a garage somewhere and get it done for you.

Matt: 1:17:14

Hey, before we get out of here, uh Eric, uh, what's your thoughts on uh Kepka leave and live?

Speaker: 1:17:21

Um non-fan answer. He got his payday, he got what he wanted. Let's retire early, let's go have kids, spend time with my wife, travel, and enjoy life. That's what it's about. I don't matter, I don't to me, it doesn't matter what job it is. Like, I understand certain people love what they do, but some people work to live or have to live to work, however you want to say it, but like he got his whack of cash, good for you. He can sit around and enjoy life and don't have to wait till he's 65 or 70 to enjoy life, dude. Good for you, go enjoy 100%. That's my two.

Matt: 1:18:04

What's what's the fan answer? Because you said non-fan answer.

Speaker: 1:18:09

I just can't believe he's leaving, and I don't know why he would do that. And he's got so much more that he owes the game of golf. And like, I'm like, dude, stop. Like, it's just like these people here like trying to talk to me about the Mavs, and like they traded Luca. And I'm like, are you a fan or are you a business person? Well, I'm like different. I'm a business person. Cool. We get two sentence in, and I'm like, you're a fan. Like, stop. Like, you don't get it, man. Like, when when you're talking about hundreds of millions and billions of dollars, and then you have people from Vegas who own casinos and hotels showing up who own the team now, that 50 cents is $14 to them. They don't care. They don't care. That's I go, that's the part you don't get. You're a fan, so don't talk to me.

Matt: 1:19:02

Yeah, it's real.

Speaker: 1:19:04

Yeah, it's very, very real.

Matt: 1:19:06

Who is that? Who is that comedian that said uh it's Chris Rock. Uh Shaq is rich. Shaq is a really rich man.

Speaker: 1:19:16

Yeah.

Matt: 1:19:16

The man who signs his checks is wealthy.

Speaker: 1:19:19

Correct. Totally different animal.

Matt: 1:19:21

Totally different animal.

Speaker: 1:19:23

Yeah. Well, you just you don't trade Luca and blah blah blah. I'm like, well, maybe you don't, but it's a business. Like, I don't I don't try me to tell you, dude. Freaking put your diaper on. It's what it is, it's real life.

Speaker 4: 1:19:38

Put your diaper on. Respectfully. Respectfully. Respectfully. Hey, Chris with everybody.

Speaker 11: 1:19:46

Put your fucking diaper on.

Matt: 1:19:50

Uh all right. Well, I think that's gonna wrap it up uh for this week's show. Uh, like I said earlier, no after show this evening. Uh we're gonna We're gonna shut it down. Oh yeah, let me do that.

Speaker: 1:20:03

Oh man, you guys screwed on the show so I don't get part of the giveaway. That sucks. Well, hey, you did leave a couple comments. You're still in it.

Speaker 1: 1:20:12

Oh, are you?

Matt: 1:20:14

There's nine entries in there. Let me uh bring it up.

Speaker: 1:20:17

Figure out if it's rigged or not.

Matt: 1:20:18

Well, the the bad thing is we right now we show one person watching us.

Speaker: 1:20:23

So is that me?

Speaker 11: 1:20:26

The chance of uh the person It's chasing daylight. Ah, it's too funny. Let's see.

Speaker: 1:20:37

Windows stupid videos from work on Instagram.

Matt: 1:20:44

I I love your juggling. I didn't know you were there.

Speaker: 1:20:47

Oh, homie. I got lots of stupid human tricks. That's right.

Speaker 6: 1:20:50

You were juggling. Alright, let's see who this is. Really?

Speaker 5: 1:21:05

I thought he was. We should seriously mail him something. Yeah, I should.

Speaker 4: 1:21:09

Mail him a chasing daylight sticker.

Matt: 1:21:11

I'm gonna send him a hey, hey, I'll I'll I'll do the uh the whatnot version. Hey, I I don't know what I'm gonna send you.

Speaker 11: 1:21:18

Yeah, I'm gonna go. I don't know what I'm gonna send you.

Matt: 1:21:19

It may be a sticker, it may be a putter.

Speaker 11: 1:21:22

It's free.

Speaker: 1:21:23

Hey, not here. That white snow camel hat or no?

Matt: 1:21:33

That was a one of one, sir.

Speaker: 1:21:35

Man, you guys suck.

Speaker 4: 1:21:37

We know where you can get one.

Speaker: 1:21:39

Apparently, if there's only one.

Speaker 4: 1:21:41

Well, it's only one now, but we know the people who made it.

Speaker: 1:21:45

So if you want one, if you want one good, really good at fighting, but I can I can't fight four people. No, you're good.

Speaker 4: 1:21:53

You're good.

Matt: 1:21:54

We got you. Hey, you may see me in a uh a knee boot when I'm wearing that, so it'll be fair game.

Speaker: 1:22:01

Yeah, tricking you're the bionic man.

Matt: 1:22:04

That's what I said uh we were saying earlier, I want to get some of that Mira, that Mira Forge knee.

Speaker: 1:22:10

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 1:22:12

When you come here in February, Eric, if not sooner, you'll have the hat. For sure.

Speaker: 1:22:19

I'm excited.

Matt: 1:22:20

Shave that fucking beard. Good lord. No, it's gonna be good.

Speaker: 1:22:24

My face is so bad. I just I'm excited about it because this took me like it takes people like two days to get this. It's even like three months.

Matt: 1:22:31

Keep it going. Oh, that I couldn't I couldn't couldn't do that in six months.

Speaker: 1:22:36

Dude, it makes me look like I'm 97. I'm not doing that. I got it's gotta go.

Speaker 4: 1:22:41

No, come on, keep that shit.

Matt: 1:22:43

That's why that's why this is short, because if it gets long, as I had it long last year, and you saw how gray that shit looked. It it looked like a uh 70-year-old Fabio with that my my gray locks. Oh, yeah, you know, long locks.

Speaker: 1:22:59

Left it block.

Matt: 1:23:01

It was just the hair and nothing else to do with it.

Speaker: 1:23:04

Oh, I love it.

Matt: 1:23:05

Oh dude, it was so funny. We watched uh Emma and I watched Predator today because she has we had a list of movies that she had to watch before she left home and we never finished it. The original Predator? Yeah, nice, and so we watched that today, and I'm I'm just sitting there, ain't got time to bleed.

Speaker 8: 1:23:23

My hammy's so funny, you know, just quoting the whole entire movie, get to the chopper, you know.

Speaker: 1:23:28

So you guys are gonna be mad at me. I've never seen it. No predator, I've seen no alien, I've seen no Harry Potter, I've seen no Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 4: 1:23:39

You haven't seen Predator? No, I haven't seen any Harry Potters either, so you're good. Yeah, I don't care about the Harry Potters, but you haven't seen Predator?

Speaker: 1:23:47

Negative, dude. I'm sorry, I totally can disappoint you.

Speaker 10: 1:23:54

You know, this could be the reason why you can't get a job.

Speaker: 1:23:57

I have one.

Matt: 1:23:58

Well, I know, but you you can't get one in Vegas.

Speaker 4: 1:24:00

Eric, after you watch Predator, we'll give you your hat. Yeah. We'll dangle that over you. You gotta watch Predator.

Matt: 1:24:08

I got, I got have you seen Terminator?

Speaker: 1:24:10

Yeah, of course. I've seen all of them.

Speaker 4: 1:24:12

Oh, of course. Of course. Just he likes that mech Arnold. He doesn't like the fucking commando Arnold.

Matt: 1:24:22

Come on, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura. There's some great people in that movie.

Speaker: 1:24:26

I mean, I've seen the like the world's loudest, strongest high five when they lock hands in the bicep for that. Oh yeah.

unknown: 1:24:33

Yeah.

Speaker: 1:24:34

Oh yeah.

Speaker 4: 1:24:34

What's another Dylan?

Speaker: 1:24:37

Pushing the pencil too much. So I'm learning, man. I'm still growing. I'm still growing.

Speaker 13: 1:24:44

Well, it's it you you have Hulu, right?

Speaker: 1:24:47

Actually, I don't. Since they switch from Disney, I don't anymore.

Speaker 1: 1:24:51

Wow.

Speaker: 1:24:54

It costs extra. I'm not paying extra. I got an email from Sirius XM for my car. I paid $10 a month. They're like, hey, it renews, it's $33. I'm like, no. Jeez. No.

Speaker 13: 1:25:07

That's what Cox is going to be.

Speaker: 1:25:09

Okay, cancel. Why are you canceling? I'm not going from $10 to $33. Do you want to cancel? Yes. What if it make it $10.99? I'm like, we're in. Just why do we gotta do the back and forth? I don't want to negotiate. Just it's X or Cox is wild. Cox did the same shit to me.

Speaker 4: 1:25:27

I was paying $100 a month for the internet, and then all of a sudden I get a thing, my bill, and it's $139 now for the same shit. Huh? Yeah, it went up $39. I was like, what the fuck?

Speaker: 1:25:38

Dude. No. What are we doing?

Matt: 1:25:43

It's crazy. Stop it. Trump internet. It's coming. Trump internet?

Speaker: 1:25:48

Is that a thing? Trump internet? Trump internet. Trump net.

Speaker 11: 1:25:51

Put his name on everything.

Speaker: 1:25:52

I mean, he hasn't I mean he made his birthday a national holiday, so I don't get Martin Luther King Day off anymore. Juneteenth or nothing.

Matt: 1:26:07

It's crazy. All right. I think that's a good time to wrap it up. Sorry, I can go down the road, but hold my bad. No, it's okay. When we when we wrap it up here, don't disconnect. Please stay, please stay on because we don't leave. Who, me? Yeah, you. Okay, I understood. Eric. Don't leave. So, okay, uh, that'll do it for this week's show. Thank you everybody for being here. If you have not done so, please uh go into the show notes and click on the subscribe for iTunes and hit that little plus sign, that little follow. That helps us grow the show. It lets Apple know that you are engaged and you want to listen more. We really appreciate that. Uh, if you're watching here on YouTube right now and you have not followed the show or you have not given us a thumbs up, please do that as well. Uh the website is getting better each day. I'm working on it more and more. Uh tons of resources, tons of information. All the links to all the episodes are slowly. I'm almost done with 2025. 2024 will be next. Uh, that is going to be a fantastic source. Uh updating that all the time. And all the links to everything on our socials now goes to that page. There's no more solo, no more any of that, all that other nonsense. So uh one stop shop, YouTube, and the website. So uh we appreciate everything you do for us. Uh Garson has had a great holiday season. Uh, if you need to get some grips for yourself, make sure to use our code uh uh daylight15 at checkout. Covers the taxes, covers the shipping.

Speaker: 1:27:34

So what? What I said get a grip. It's I'm four. Leave me alone.

Speaker 10: 1:27:38

Get a Garson, get a Gar, get you a Garson.

Matt: 1:27:41

And apparently, apparently, these guys are gonna be back next week while I'm gone. Uh, I I don't know if I'm gonna give Joe the keys. Uh it could turn into a a whatnot kerfuffle. Um, and we have 40 people on here from whatnot bitching about it stuff. So I got uh and next week, yeah.

Speaker: 1:28:03

I'll be prepared then.

Matt: 1:28:04

Yeah, look. There you go. The world famous is tuning in. Love the Garson, yeah, absolutely. Chris Doris on what up, Chris. Thank you so much. Thank you for the support. Glad you got that off Joe. Uh, more coming to his whatnot show. Uh those shafts we got, they're sick. So we'll have those uh next year on an episode on Joe's show. Uh that we'll be selling more Garson stuff. So again, thank you so much, everybody. Uh, it's been a great year so far. I won't be here next week. Maybe these guys will be here. I haven't decided yet. We've had an amazing year. The show's growing, we're doing some wonderful things, and we can't wait to be back in 2026. So have yourself a Merry Christmas, have yourself a happy new year. Uh, spend some time with your family, kiss your loved ones, give them all hugs, and uh, threads of envy. Have you seen mine? No, yeah, you know mine. You showed me. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas. Have a good night, and uh go out there and taste some daylight.

Speaker: 1:29:03

Hit them green.