Thursday, February 27, 2025
Show Notes
Join us as we welcome Instagram Golf Creator Sonny to Pull Hook Golf, exploring his journey into the sport and Instagram success. We discuss LIV Golf, TGL events, and TV highlights, including Matsuyama's appearance. Enjoy stories of Sonny's ice cream truck adventures and Buttsy's driving antics. We delve into the Cognizant at PGA National, LIV Golf, and betting odds for the Cognizant Classic, complete with hosts' picks. Speculation on Bryson DeChambeau's contract and LIV rumors, a failed unification meeting, and Peter Malnati's comments offer insights into LIV's future. We wrap up with Brooks Koepka's status and the Hero World Challenge, ending on an emotional note.
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Sponsor: Johnnie Walker
(0:55) Welcome back to Pull Hook Golf and episode's agenda
(2:21) Sponsor: Devereux Golf and Johnnie Walker
(4:10) Shout-out and discussion on golf course marshals
(9:20) Sonny's origin story with golf and Instagram success
(19:02) Sonny's thoughts on LIV Golf and TGL event experiences
(25:26) TV shows, TGL recap, and Matsuyama's appearance
(28:26) Ludwig's accent and Jake Knapp's golf swing
(31:08) Buttsy's driving and infomercials on golf products
(38:25) Sonny's ice cream truck adventures
(42:35) The Cognizant at PGA National and LIV Golf discussions
(49:02) Buttsy's paintball and betting odds for the Cognizant Classic
(55:13) Hosts' picks for the Cognizant Classic and podcast in Korean
(1:00:07) Bryson DeChambeau's contract and LIV contracts rumors
(1:05:03) Failed unification meeting and Peter Malnati's comments
(1:08:24) Future of LIV Golf and deal with Fox Sports
(1:10:49) Brooks Koepka's status and Hero World Challenge as a major
(1:13:08) Challenges and emotional stories related to Hero World Challenge
(1:15:08) Sign-off and end-of-episode song
Show Transcript
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Now if anybody's wondering, who is this Sonny
guy?
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Baseball was my whole life back then, you know,
until I turned about 12, and I ended up being a
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late bloomer.
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I'm a full-size man now.
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COVID hit.
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And right before that, I had started a meme
page, GroupChat Golf.
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I actually owned a dry cleaners and a tailor
shop in between there too for three years or
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two.
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And most people don't know that I'm both
either.
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So I'm gonna need some sunblock, my man.
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I knew you'd have it.
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Oh god.
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That's good.
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Please, guys.
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They're like, oh, those are our
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The Marshal and the starter are two different
guys too.
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I think the Marshal has to be the yeller.
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You know?
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He's gotta go confront people out on the
course.
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He's a special person to be able to do that.
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Welcome back everybody to Pull Hook Golf, the
podcast.
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I'm your host, Matt Cook.
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Tonight, we've got the Buttsy.
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Woah.
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The people really got after that one for you,
Buttsy.
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Always the same guy.
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We
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we have and don't your eyes aren't confusing
you.
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This is not Brent Grant.
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This is our special guest tonight who goes by
the Instagram handle of Officially Sunny.
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Thank you, guys.
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Thank you.
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Very nice.
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Happy to be here.
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Honored, really.
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I mean, my god.
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We're happy to have you.
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This is going to be an awesome episode.
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And what a time to jump on to because we've got
some breaking news that happened today.
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But, folks, we're gonna go over with the tee
off report with Buttsy.
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They were gonna set the table here for
everybody.
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So in case we've got some new listeners or
watchers, we're gonna start with the tee off
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report with Buttsy.
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Then we've got our special guest, Sonny, here
who, yeah.
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We'll we'll get into you, Sonny.
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And this is gonna be a lot of fun tonight.
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We've also got a TGL recap because there have
been three matches, and, actually, one's going
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on right now while we're recording this.
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We've also got the upcoming Cognizant Classic.
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So you gotta be cognizant around this classic
because it's gonna be one hell of a golf
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tournament out there.
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See what I did there, Buttsy?
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See what I did?
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It's incredible.
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Daniel's coming back.
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We've also got some big-time Bryson DeChambeau
news and updates that we broke earlier today.
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We're gonna get into the sources and where that
all came from, the credibility behind it and so
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forth at the very end of this episode.
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And as I was just mentioning, we also just got
a text message from the same source around
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somebody else, a little Brooks Koepka action
that we will find out about in addition to
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that.
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Buttsy's got it on.
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Look at this.
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And Johnny Walker, by the way.
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Buttsy's got it rocking.
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I got the little cardigan, and I don't know if
you can see it.
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But
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Take pull it off?
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Oh, yeah.
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I'll take it off.
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You don't wanna see that.
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We do have I thought they were lobsters at one
point, but they're not.
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They're actually scorpions.
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So real excited about that.
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Real quick, Matty.
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It's a desert golf brand.
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Those definitely aren't lobsters.
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Just
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A desert lobster.
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I guess, yeah, you could
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say.
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Kind of
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desert lobster.
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Oh, man.
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And we've got a whole audience right now in the
show that is all chiming in.
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We absolutely love it.
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Kyle over at Car Barn Guys.
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We've got Brian Shane tuning in here.
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We've got Truck Golfer.
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We've got Austin Whittington.
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Where's Austin?
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There he is.
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Giving you guys a little bit of a shout-out
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So thank you for joining, adding in your
comments throughout.
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But let's get into the tee-off report with
Buttsy, how we normally get started with these
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episodes.
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Buttsy finds a way to really ease us into this
whole night.
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So, Buttsy, you know, we were out there on
Sunday playing a little thing called golf,
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which, you know, is a new experience for me.
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I haven't been out there since November, so it
was quite a great time out there.
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But, Buttsy, tell me.
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Well, I'm gonna back up a little.
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I hadn't seen you in a while, and you
definitely haven't been maybe probably going
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outside, period.
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And I'm
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pretty sure legs.
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Yeah.
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Well, maybe set out to go to a tanning booth or
something.
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Like, you look like a fucking cadaver walking
around out there.
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You really did.
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Like the movie Powder.
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Like, that's an old reference, but, like, you
were very albino.
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Like, it was cool.
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It was cool.
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Like a zombie.
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What was the question?
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Let's start off with that first question once
again here.
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So we were out there on Sunday.
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We saw a gentleman driving around quite a bit.
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But what are your thoughts on golf course
marshals?
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Yeah.
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Classic, you know, not really doing shit and,
like, occasionally looking at a fucking
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clipboard with nothing on it.
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And this looks okay.
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Then driving off again.
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Look.
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I found this out.
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So I ran a course for a very brief amount of
time, and we're doing staffing.
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And they hand me everybody that's on the books,
and you're going through payroll, and you're
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looking at all this shit.
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And I was like, well, who are all these guys?
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And I'm like, oh, those are our marshals.
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Yeah.
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They don't, like, really work here, per se.
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They're more like, you know, volunteers.
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I'm like, this has gotta be, like, some sort of
labor law or some bullshit, but I like the
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idea, I would say, of a marshal or somebody
that has the credibility to go out there and
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actually fucking move the pace of play along.
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But I would say in my golfing adult life and as
a kid, 90% of the assholes that you run across
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that are sitting in those carts driving around
are exactly that.
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They're volunteers.
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They're almost dead, and they have no fucking
clue what's going on.
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You know, they get a call from Joey in the
shop, and they get startled, and they come up,
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and they fucking yell at you for a real quick
second.
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And some people are so fucking brain dead that
that pisses them off, and that's a spiraling
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thing.
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Everybody's having a bad time.
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So all in all, I like the concept.
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I think it's just a very broken system
currently.
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I love the description, by the way, like, the
verbal description of the guy in the golf shop
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hopping on the radio going, hey.
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We got a group out of place here.
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Johnny, go get them.
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Jai, get them over there.
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Get on them.
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Speed them up.
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You know, help them look for their golf balls.
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Get over there.
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And all of a sudden, that old guy just woke up
from his slumber.
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His radio just goes wild.
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Shit himself, like
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Oh my god.
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I've seen it.
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I've literally seen the shit stains down the
back.
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Yeah.
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Oh, it's like you Oh,
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that poor old guy got startled.
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Like, he was taking a nice nap.
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Actually, this is a true story.
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Once caught one of our marshals underneath the
tree having a nice little siesta.
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Got completely startled.
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Yes.
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When we actually drove up right alongside him,
we're like, hey.
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How's it going, Barry?
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Barry.
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Just out of nowhere.
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My god, you guys startled me.
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No shit.
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Barry, you were asleep?
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Yeah.
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All names are fake and protected, by the way.
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So Barry's not really
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Well, yeah.
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So that's yeah.
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That's that's my take.
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I don't know.
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I mean, maybe that's a little hurtful or I
don't know.
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But I that's just what I see.
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I mean, Sonny, maybe you can weigh in on that.
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No.
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I think you're right there.
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I think the marshal and the starter are two
different guys too.
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I think you gotta keep in mind the starter's,
the marshal has to be the yeller.
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You know?
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He's gotta go confront people out on the
course.
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And that's a tougher it takes a a special
person to be able to do that, starter.
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Literally.
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But we know that what they're all there for.
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You know?
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I mean, we've all
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thought about it.
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If you
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don't get your free golf and you work one day a
week.
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So it's a good deal.
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It's a good deal for them.
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Yeah.
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I can't blame those guys at all.
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You're right.
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I can't blame them.
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I'm sure for the assholes, it's like they, oh,
I get to be an asshole for free golf.
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Like, yeah.
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I'm in.
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Like, those guys are cool for that.
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It's a good call when you think about it that
way.
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Right?
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You would hope that your golf IQ or the people
that you're playing with would at least be on
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par with, like, alright.
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This guy's driving over here.
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There's only a couple things that he could be
saying and, like, maybe ready to move it along
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anyways.
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But, yeah, some people fight with those old
folks, and it's just rude.
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So there's some battles out there.
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There's some war of words, so to speak.
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Get too many beverages in a couple of these
golfers.
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They quite come back at those marshals.
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Yep.
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And they're mad.
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Not
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an easy gig.
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Not an easy gig at all.
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Yeah.
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I had a thought, but it's gone now.
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So we're gonna move right into our special
guest, Sonny, here, which, Sonny, every time
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that we have a special guest on, I gotta find
out, man.
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Like, what's the origin story with you and
golf?
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Yeah.
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I mean, Little League Baseball was my whole
life back then, you know, until I turned about
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12, and I ended up being a late bloomer.
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I'm a full-size man now, but, you know, well
into high school, I was small, and baseball
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wasn't doing it for me.
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So when I was 13, right when I got to the big
field in baseball, I was like, I can't do this.
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So I started playing golf right away after the
Little League.
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I was 13, and my parents would drop me off at 7
a.m.
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and pick me up at 8 p.m.
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at the par-3 course, and I just did it all day.
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And as soon as I turned 15, I got a job at the
golf course, went to college for professional
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golf management only for two years, came home,
got an assistant pro job, and then I just lost
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my love for it for a little while.
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Took a couple of years off, and then COVID hit.
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And right before that, I had started a meme
page, GroupChat Golf.
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Oh, yes.
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And I did that for, I think I went full-time
with that after, like, two years.
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I actually owned a dry cleaners and a tailor
shop in between there too for three years.
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It was like a family business that I knew very
well.
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And so after the golf thing, I sprinkled that
in for a little while.
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And thank God I made my way back to golf, like,
on my own terms because it's sick now.
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But I've been doing the Sonny videos only for
about a year.
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So before this year, no one knew my face
really.
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Most people just knew, like, GroupChat Golf,
and my memes got posted a lot by Zire Golf and
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PGA Memes and those accounts.
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No one really knew who I was, and then the
Sonny videos started taking off too.
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And most people don't know that I'm both
either.
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When they find out, they're always like, oh, I
had no idea you're GroupChat because I've
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talked to everybody in the DMs at GroupChat
Golf.
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Right?
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But nobody really knew who that was.
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So, I couldn't be happier.
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I love golf.
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It's all I got.
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Not all I got.
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I have plenty.
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But I love it so much, man.
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I wake up, I put my golf clothes on, and I'm
like, what kind of video can I make today?
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So, okay.
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Do you have golf clothes, or do you have
clothes that aren't golf clothes, or is that,
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like, a
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got some.
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I got some.
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For sure.
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Yeah.
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Now I would say I was big into the tees last
year, like T-shirts, but I'm with Original
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Penguin now.
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So I got back into my, you know, I like to go
for, like, the assistant pro look.
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That's my...
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The dream.
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Yeah.
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That's where you...
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Feel at home?
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I don't...
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yeah.
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No head pro.
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So I'm capped at an assistant.
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A little baggy, you know, undershirt kind of
thing.
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I'll save this for...
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A minute.
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The assistant pro's...
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Okay.
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I do.
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The assistant pro is the lifeblood of American
golf.
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Okay?
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They are the ones that run the show.
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Imagine being a lifetime assistant pro.
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That's gotta be one of the toughest lives you
could live.
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That's brutal.
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That's like working for the post office for
20...
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That was...
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No pension after.
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You just...
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Exactly.
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Done.
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No pension whatsoever.
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Just 4 billion people paying to...
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Play golf and sailing off to have a good time
for five hours while you sit in the shop and
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just listen to the next asshole grind your
balls on a 2:08 tee time.
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Now if anybody's wondering, who is this Sonny
guy?
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Folks, go on to Officially Sonny on Instagram,
and that's with an "o," not a "u" for Sonny.
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Go on there and just go into that reel and look
at all the comments.
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It's absolutely priceless, and you'll thank me
later.
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We do have a question here.
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So Trot wants to know what's Sonny's real job?
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Funny dude.
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Hopefully, it's just that.
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Now it is.
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Yeah.
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Luckily, it's still a grind, but I'll take it
for the freedom any day.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Rather than being at the course all the time
and grinding, I mean, my God.
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Now you also, as you mentioned, you have Group
Chat Golf.
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So both of those accounts, by the way, have
over 100,000 followers on Instagram.
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So the question that I ask every Instagram
influencer, I'll say, even Buttsy, I've asked
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this to him numerous times.
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What makes a successful page on Instagram?
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I'm not an influencer, bro.
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Content creator.
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I'm a—There
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you go.
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Creator.
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I like that better.
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Storyteller.
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I think being consistent is the biggest thing.
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When I started Group Chat Golf, I posted five
to 10 memes a day for the first year, and I
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gained 100,000 that first year.
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And then Officially Sonny, I made one of those
videos every single day for the first six
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months probably.
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And I think I probably did about 100,000 that
first six months too.
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And then you kinda take your foot off the
brake, but if you go, go, go, like, if you post
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every day for one year with something you're
passionate about, I'm guaranteeing you, you're
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gonna finish the year with 15,000, 20,000,
like, people will find you.
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00:14:03,129 --> 00:14:07,450
So just being consistent and being yourself
and, honestly, just following whatever it is
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you're passionate about.
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If you get to talk about that every day, it's
never gonna feel like working.
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It hasn't yet.
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So
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That's incredible and falls perfectly in line
with everything that I preach.
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00:14:20,394 --> 00:14:22,414
I mean, I do podcasts.
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00:14:22,634 --> 00:14:25,934
So, literally, I've got a bunch of podcast
clients.
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00:14:26,250 --> 00:14:28,730
I obviously do this show, the Pull Hook Golf
podcast.
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00:14:28,970 --> 00:14:29,610
College for that?
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Because you have a voice for me.
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He does.
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He does.
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He does.
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Just like the cadence and everything, it's
really good.
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00:14:36,330 --> 00:14:41,545
Just over time of doing podcasts and teaching,
like, teaching people how to have, like, a
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cadence and, like, how to emphasize certain
words in order to make it more impactful things
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to grow
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your seed.
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00:14:47,225 --> 00:14:49,305
I mean, just the way you're doing it is crazy.
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It's insanely good, man.
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00:14:50,825 --> 00:14:52,745
Did you listen to Sports Talk Radio or
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anything?
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00:14:53,144 --> 00:14:58,120
So Dan Patrick is my absolute favorite, and
then I gotta say, I love the energy that Pat
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McAfee brings to the table.
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So I like to think of this show as kind of the
merge between the two of those guys where you
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kinda have a serious Dan Patrick, but his
cadence is so good, and his comedy is so dry.
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00:15:11,075 --> 00:15:12,575
And then, obviously, with that and
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better, honestly.
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00:15:13,794 --> 00:15:16,355
Well, I'm trying every day.
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Listen.
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00:15:16,914 --> 00:15:21,690
Trying every day, but consistency is the
absolute key to success.
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00:15:21,750 --> 00:15:27,449
Whether this podcast, we've released an episode
every single week for three years now.
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00:15:27,669 --> 00:15:32,789
And we're coming up to our three-year
anniversary in March, and, man, like, it's a
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grind, but as you mentioned, as soon as you do
it all the time and you're loving it, it's not
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work anymore.
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00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:41,274
It's just it's an absolute blast to be able to
do it.
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00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:46,894
I will say about the video editing thing, it
definitely helps, especially, like, YouTube.
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But the Instagram, like, I use this app called
Splice, and I don't think I'd be able to use
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anything else.
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00:15:52,790 --> 00:15:54,070
I don't even know what I'm doing.
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00:15:54,070 --> 00:15:59,350
Like, I just talk for a couple minutes, and
then I split the video into a minute.
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00:15:59,350 --> 00:16:01,990
And then, like, I just put it out and put some
black and whites in there.
403
00:16:01,990 --> 00:16:07,235
Like, I don't have any video editing skills,
but I think the cinematic aspects that I bring
404
00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:07,795
to it helps.
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00:16:07,795 --> 00:16:10,274
And that's just black and whites and slow-mo's.
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00:16:10,274 --> 00:16:10,915
It's not
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00:16:11,075 --> 00:16:12,035
But it's enough.
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00:16:12,035 --> 00:16:12,754
Like, it's enough.
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It is.
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00:16:13,394 --> 00:16:13,894
Yeah.
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00:16:14,035 --> 00:16:15,095
It's not enough.
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00:16:15,154 --> 00:16:16,274
Acting's not my thing.
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00:16:16,274 --> 00:16:17,735
I'm not like, you know, bullshit.
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Staying on that.
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00:16:19,750 --> 00:16:21,509
It's tougher when there's people around.
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00:16:21,509 --> 00:16:23,589
Like, I do that in a room by myself.
417
00:16:24,389 --> 00:16:25,829
It's easy that way.
418
00:16:25,829 --> 00:16:30,709
It's a little more pressure when you get in a
room with, like, Saint Andre and Beth Boys and
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00:16:30,949 --> 00:16:32,389
those people who can act.
420
00:16:34,065 --> 00:16:36,065
But at the end of the day, it's all writing
anyway.
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00:16:36,065 --> 00:16:38,324
You still just gotta write it and make it.
422
00:16:38,784 --> 00:16:39,345
Oh, yeah.
423
00:16:39,345 --> 00:16:41,264
Well, I will say this about your editing.
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00:16:41,264 --> 00:16:45,024
You found a template that you repeat, and it is
perfect.
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00:16:45,264 --> 00:16:47,730
It is so good because it hits.
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00:16:47,730 --> 00:16:49,490
And the music you used to
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do is just so good.
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00:16:51,250 --> 00:16:51,490
Really.
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00:16:51,490 --> 00:16:53,970
Because I even had started a new, like, the,
hi.
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My name is Sonny.
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I was kind of running out.
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Like, I think I could still go on and on with
it.
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But then I just started doing this.
434
00:17:00,210 --> 00:17:04,545
This is a message for videos, and now I'm just
gonna run through that with every kind of
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00:17:04,545 --> 00:17:07,025
golfer there is, and they're just gonna go
crazy.
436
00:17:07,025 --> 00:17:08,384
So it's just like that.
437
00:17:08,384 --> 00:17:11,984
You keep you do them, you do them out, and then
you just do that little pivot, and it's all the
438
00:17:11,984 --> 00:17:12,625
same ideas.
439
00:17:12,625 --> 00:17:14,880
You just keep running in circles around, you
know?
440
00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,299
I wanna show you one
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on the guy at the golf course that is, like,
and I can't remember if this was exactly what
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00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:23,599
you said on it.
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00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:28,319
But didn't you do one around the guy who never
plays and then all of a sudden just shows up
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and is, like, says he hasn't played in three
months?
445
00:17:31,724 --> 00:17:32,044
Yeah.
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