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here at the hundred and eighteen the US Open Championship,
where a long time ago, back in eight the second
ever US Open was played. After yesterday's show, I got

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a chance to go out and walk around this course
and watch it becoming the star of the eighteenth the
US Open Championship, at least so far. If you listen
to this show. On Wednesday morning, brand Snedeker came on
and he said, guys, I think this course is gonna
be really hard, And he said, and it and it
kind of surprised me a little bit. I think it's
probably surprised a lot of you. He said that he

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thought whoever was the winner might well be in a
plus scorecard, and we haven't seen that in a long time.
It used to be that the US Open was an
incredibly challenging course, but we have seen so many recent
US Opens and so many majors in general where guys
have ended up at mine double digits, where there's been
a lot of people in the red numbers as you

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scroll down through the leaderboard. Right now, as we are
about forty five minutes away from the start of day two.
Up here on Long Island. There are four people who
managed to go under par, only one who was evening
even and everybody else was over. So this is a
wide open leaderboard. Some of the best players in the
world took it on the chin. I walked around this

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course just because I think a lot of times it's
cool to stand nearer the te box and look and
think about some of the shots. Guys. This was absolutely
brutal when you look at some of these holes that
shouldn't even look that hard. You hear apart for instance,
whole eleven, which we talked about yesterday, and and I

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thought to myself, it's a hundred and fifty yard hundred
and sixty yard Part three where they have to hit
from the green is so elevated it's almost impossible to
land it on the green. And there's so many areas
you can land it that are disasters. Well. Walking in
this morning early there was not very much of a breeze,

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at least so far. The flags were not snapping too
much in the breeze. I'm not a weather expert. I
talked to a couple of guys who were on the course,
they said, typically the winds pick up later in the
morning as it progresses, but maybe some of these guys
getting off early can get some numbers up on the
board and start to take advantage of it. Again, we're
about forty five minutes away, UH from the official start

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of day two of the u S Open. The other
thing kind of hanging over this course. In addition to look,
Tiger Woods came out and immediately you could fill the air,
almost deflate out of the media tent when Tiger Woods
and also this crowd all over this course. When Tiger
Woods posted the score he did on hole one, I

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believe he tripled it right out of the gate, and
all of the enthusiasm of Tiger Woods vanished, and the
question became, well can this guy even make the cut?
And obviously there are a lot of people in television
who are rooting for Tiger Woods to make the cut.
And he fought back, and he stayed around a decent
performance for a while, but then things went awry, and

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so it was a It was a day when some
of the most talented major winners in UH the world
looked like weekend Duffers. I mean, it looked like you
or me out there. Guys, I don't know if you
paid attention to this. I don't even know why you
come back if you if you post this score we had,
there were a lot of big numbers. We had a

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plus twenty two on the board. Somebody went out and
shot a ninety two at the US Open. This guy,
this poor bastard, Uh, Gregory, I'm pulling up his bio.
Can you imagine taking a plus twenty two, a ninety two.
That's the kind of scores I put up on the
weekend playing on Saturday. A ninety two at the US Open,

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and eight seven and eight five. A lot of really
really big numbers, not just overpar, overpar, with double digits
over par. So the question, I mean, listen to some
of these names and the performances that they put up yesterday. Uh.
And we're talking about major winners. Jason da plus nine,
Graham McDowell plus nine, Adam Scott plus eight Tiger Woods,

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we already mentioned him, plus eight, John Ram, who had
been very consistent in recent years in the majors plus eight,
Jordan's Speed plus eight. These are just the really big
names that I feel like everybody out there knows. Phil
Mickelson trying to complete complete the Grand Slam plus seven again.
I'm just scrolling through looking at these roster of guys

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who are some of the best in the world, if
not the best in the world, and they went out
and this course dominated them. It was a wild day. Again.
The only thing I can report from the course, and
then my best meteorological impersonation is that there is not
much wind early and the wind yesterday, I would say
by the time we went off the air, the wind

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was significant enough that the tent where we are broadcasting
from right off the first fairway was rippling. You could
see the wind kind of rushing across the roof of this,
uh this tent in here. And I don't think that
at least early, there's hardly any air blowing at all,
hardly any wind, which obviously makes this course so much
more difficult than it otherwise would be. So that's my

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report here live from the US Open, Chiticock Hills under
an eighth U s Open Championship. Here's the other thing.
In addition to how wild the performance was from some
of the best players in the world, there's an awful
lot of drama going on around the scenes here too.
Remember Fox Sports right now is doing the US Open
this weekend, and they also started today was the kickoff

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of the World Cup. Now, I know the US is
not in the World Cup, but this is about as
big of a day in terms of obligations and responsibilities
as any sort of television network can possibly have. On
the one hand, you've got at an eighteen whole US
Open with hundreds of golfers out there that you've got
to be on top of, and you've got a staff
of a hundred hundreds and all of the difficulties that

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can come and are attendant with even attempting to cover
a golf tournament like this. On the other hand, you
are also in Russia covering multiple U World Cup games
with another part of your crew. So Fox Sports has
spread literally all over the globe right now trying to
cover the biggest stories in sports. And on top of that,

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as if that were not enough, there is an uncertainty
of who is going to end up being the owner
of a lot of Fox assets. So the drama is
just kind of freighted and hanging over everything because Comcast
and Disney are right now embroiled in a contest to
see who can take over, uh, the Fox assets that

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are currently for sell now. Rupert Murdoch wasn't here at
least I didn't see him, but some of the top
people at twenty first century Fox were out here at
the US Open and they were gonna be rushing back
into New York or into l A to have meetings
about what exactly is going on with the proposed takeover
of of these Fox assets and the battle that's going

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on between. If you're not paying attention to this between
Comcast and Disney, one of the biggest media stories in decades,
maybe the biggest media story of a generation will be
who is going to win all of these Fox assets,
including twenty some odd regional sports networks, which Fox uh
is is theoretically selling to either Disney or Comcast. So

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as if there wasn't enough drama, as if it wasn't
freighted with enough interest, all of that is rolling right now,
and Uh, we are underway here. I just got texted
by my guy, Joel Clatt. I think he's gonna join
us next segment. I gotta hop off and get him
so he knows where we are. Uh, and we can
get that set up. But we have got a loaded show.
Our two. We're gonna talk to Brad faxson Um and

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get him to break down who he thinks is in
the advantaged advantageous positions as we move into the Friday
edition of the US Open. Uh, it's cut day. Who's
gonna be able to advance? And what does he foresee
in terms of performances today? Will the course be the
number one star or will it be a story of
a few players or maybe more who can make a
run up the leaderboard and actually move into red digits.

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All of that again, there are only four under par,
one guy even, only five even or below. Uh. It
was a massacre on the golf course yesterday. Uh. Unbelievable
to watch the best players in the world. Uh fall
victim to Shannaka Kills, one of the oldest golf courses
in uh, the United States, the place that hosted the
second US Open, even though we right now are in

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the eighteenth US Open Championship. All right, I'm gonna get
Joel Class set up. I think he's gonna join us
in a segment two. Here I am Clay Travis. I
appreciate all of you starting your morning with us, and
look forward to bringing you the early action here from
the U s Open Live from Shinneka Hills on eighteenth
US Open Championship. I am Clay Travis. Lots of drama

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here on the East Coast. Can't wait to see what
the golf course is gonna bring. This is Fox Sports Radio,
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broadcast channel today at four thirty p m. Eastern. We
are lived eighteenth US Open Championship here from Shinnecock Hills.
I want to bring in the crew and UH and
ask you. I'll start with you, Jason Martin, Good or bad?
To watch the best players in the world struggle in
this significant and have a fashion. For me, it's great.
This is why I love the US Open. That's why

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it's my favorite sporting event. I I like watching this. Um.
You know, I guess there can be a happy medium.
Aaron Hills was not the happy medium for me last year.
Like guys just torturing that course as opposed to the
course torturing them. I mean, we see so many tournaments
on a regular basis now where guys are minus fifteen
sometimes minus twenty. I don't It's not that you want

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to see him necessarily mortal. You just want to see
a challenge. You want to see a test of the
greatest golfers in the world, and you want to see
how they respond when they hit a bad shot. When
Tiger tripled one, he was just like, well, is he
gonna go twenty twenty over now? Is he gonna be
able to pull this together or speak after he tripled
at eleven and just couldn't make anything for the rest

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of the day. Like, to me, that is fascinating, compelling drama. Yes,
it can be a little bit negative, like you're not
watching something with a smile on your face too often
while you're watching US Open. But I just enjoy the challenge.
To me, this is exactly what I one out the
US Open. I know we've seen Dustin Johnson not be
able to close before. He's also closed, including at the

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US Open two years ago. He is the favorite right
now according to the oddsmakers. And I just saw this list.
But you talk about wide open, Dustin Johnson's plus two fifty. Again,
if you didn't pay a lot of attention yesterday, there
are four people, only four people who are under par yesterday.
Dustin Johnson is one of them. He's at plus two fifty. Uh.
Justin Rose obviously has been very consistent of late. He's

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at plus five fifty. Everybody else is still at double digits.
So what they're basically saying is, we have no idea
what might happen today. You better stay tuned. Uh and uh.
And I think that's fair to say. Like I said,
the weather not necessarily going to be that bad. I
don't think, at least not early the first tea times
going to happen here in about twenty four minutes or thereabouts,

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and so we will see exactly what transpires, but potentially
setting up for an interesting Saturday or Sunday. One of
the who may not be involved in Saturday or Sunday,
and there's certainly a lot of people who are in
the television business routing for him to be there is
Tiger Woods. Um. When I watched Tiger Woods, I thought
it was interesting that he kind of crumble, I know,

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right out of the gate the triple, and then I
think he bogey the next hole. So he started off
plus four, not necessarily a huge surprise. Jordan's speed, who
obviously is still at the peak of his game, came
out and started that way as well. I thought that
Tiger almost like a boxer who gets in the ring
and takes an early shot to the head um and
as a little bit wobbly for a while, fought his
way back. And then what was disappointing I thought was

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as the day became a little bit calmer now, as
the afternoon kind of gave way to the evening, and
it seemed that the at least to me walking around
the course, that the winds were not as as as
prominent as they had been. Now this is again me
amateur weather guy. Uh, it seemed like that was an
opportunity to kind of get a decent little run going

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to move back. I think he was plus four coming
down the stretch a little bit and then he just
fell apart again. So I would like to see Tiger
make the cut. I'd like to see him advance, but
this so far has not been the tournament that would
make Tiger Woods uh be in the mix even down
the stretch. What else stood out to you? It's got
to l A uh in the l A crew. How

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much time did you guys spend watching this? And? Uh?
How weird? I mean, I will say this, The U
s Open is unique cause I was walking in and
out of the US Open. They have their Eastern, Eastern
time zone and Western time zone reliefs set up. You
know they're going back like next year. I think it's
at Pebble Beach. Then they bounced back to Wingfoot here
in New York. So they go east coast to West

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coast for the next several years. Does it feel a
little bit weird to you guys on the West coast
that when you're waking up, this thing is already well
under way because right now, uh, they are teeing off
at three forty five am on the West Coast. Does
that feel a little bit weird compared to maybe Win's
Pebble Beach, And it's definitely being played in the West

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Coast time zone. It is kind of strange. I guess
it's our version, but reverse of what you guys deal
with when we have a late NBA game out here
and you have to go to bed with our schedules.
It's a reverse because obviously we sleep in the morning
after we get out of the studios, so we missed
a lot of it. By the time I woke up.
I did wake up in time to see Dustin Johnson's

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chip shot right into the hole from the sand. That
I think was the most exciting thing I saw all
afternoon looking around for the golf balls. Honestly, in that
tall grass is maybe the most exciting, and and that
that I should say too from walking around. You know,
it is a really difficult course when you have guys
and girls lined up along the fairway watching where the

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balls go in and they can't find them, you know,
I mean, it's it's remarkable you can't find the ball,
even though they might be within five feet of them.
And then they walk in there and the grass is
just so high and so thick in the rough that
it's almost impossible to find them. I mean, it's it's
a little bit link style, you know, when the British
Open is played, there's the the high rough and sometimes

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you hit it and nobody has any idea where they are,
even if they're standing somewhat nearby. It's fascinating in that respect,
the way this, uh, this will shake out as well. Um,
but yeah, like so, so you're right. I mean the
Dustin Johnson holding it out from the bunker was a
hell of a shot and you could actually hear uh
the roar from that when we were we went to
I got leave and I went into the Fox Hospitality

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tent uh during the day to be able to watch
it because a lot of times you don't have a
real clue as you're walking around the course what's taking
place across every hole. You can watch several players come by,
you can watch, you can even walk along obviously and
follow a guy. But early in the tournament you know
you don't know necessarily what the storylines are. But that
was the biggest roar I heard all day on the

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golf course was when Dustin Johnson put it in from
from the bunker, And actually that was fun because we
were close to it where the Fox Hospitality tent is
heard the huge raw and then there's like a thirty
second delay on television and then uh, we knew it
was coming. When they flipped it over. They were like, Okay,
Dustin Johnson's gonna put this one in. Um. So that
was cool to hear the roar and then see that

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see that reaction. Um. But so you got Yeah, by
the time you wake up, because you finished the show
at six am on the West Coast, you go take
a rest. By the time you wake up, like the
most of the tournament's done. Yeah, exactly, exactly, so that
it'll be a little more fun to watch this weekend
because I could see the you know, the entire day happen. Um.
But yeah, it was a little strange to wake up

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in half of it's over. But you know, Jay, I
understand what Jason is saying about how golf fans might
like it when even the best pros on tour are struggling.
But to me, it's kind of like a defensive battle.
Reminds me of like an old school Ravens game where
they're up seven to six. I just would rather see, uh,
you know, smoother golf course maybe, and I and I

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read some articles after around one saying that maybe the
course will loosen up a little bit and the windy conditions.
I guess we'll we'll chill out today, as you were saying,
they've subsided at least a little bit as we come in.
Uh did you guys watch anyway? And I was talking
earlier in the open about the simultaneous fact that we
have the US Open going on here outside of New

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York and Long outside New York City in Long Island,
and then also the World Cup is going on. Russia
beat Who did Russia beat Saudi Arabia? I believe in
the opener of the World Cup? Did you guys pay
the attention at all that I did. We actually had
the World Cup on in the Fox Hospitality tent at
the same time that they had the US Open on,
so I watched that as well. And I understand there

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was a minor controversy because Robbie Williams, who I haven't
heard of in like fifteen years, decided to flick off
the camera. I guess, did you guys see that controversy?
I saw a photo of that. I watched the start
of that game. I watched a little bit of the
first half and maybe flip back to it once in
the second half. I mean, that obviously is not a
matchup that was gonna entice you, and Saudi Arabia was

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pretty terrible, at least when I saw them playing. So
I mean, I'm gonna watch some of the World Cup,
but I won't lie like I mean, it didn't compete
to me at all against US Open, and it wasn't
something that It's just not something that captured me. Is
such a long tournament. I wanted to see the start
of it. I know Fox is gonna do a fantastic
job covering at the analysts and the people they have

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are really really impressive. I just I wanted to watch
golf yesterday, and that's what I pretty much spent my
time doing. I will tell you this, I knew that
there would be a lot less interest in the World
Cup without the US in it. I think it's actually
even more substantial that there's less interest than I anticipated. Now,
I know that they got that soccer fan out there

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is gonna say, well, you know, the US is not
gonna win it. Anyway, we might not have even advanced
out a group play. So we might have only played
three games in the World Cup. It's not that substantial
when you consider the totality of the tournament. I think
at least eight in the of the interest in this
country is vanished when the US is not in the
World Cup, and we haven't had to actually assess this

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in a long time after I think the US had
made seven in a row or whatever the math was
on how many years the U s had been in
the in the World Cup in a row, it might
be of the interest in this country is gone without
the US there. Now. I think by the time you
get to the what you call the the sweet sixteen,
the eight quarterfinals, semifinals, all of that, I think there'll

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be a lot of interest because people are not used
to watching the US play in those games anyway. But
I think early on in this match, in this kind
of round play, as you try to figure out which
two teams are gonna advance from the pods, that was
almost entirely the discussion was can the US advanced. That's
a successful time if the US advances from thirty two
uh to sixteen, and we would have spent a lot

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of time talking about it, and I'm genuinely curious. It's
also unfortunate for us because I'd like to be able
to talk about the U s s chances and have
some games to actually discuss other than baseball for a month.
I think it's a big hit. I think it's a
massive hit. Now, partly that's gonna be wiped out by, uh,
the impact of getting six. Like I said, the US

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getting the world up but along with Mexico and with
Canada is going to wipe out a lot of that.
But I feel like it would have been a dead
heat for a lot of people opening weekend of the
World Cup versus the US Open. Right now, I don't
even see it as a remotely dead heat. I'm curious
to see what the numbers reflect, but right now it's
not to me remotely competitive in in the space over

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which one you're gonna end up watching. Let me bring
in Eddie Garcia. Find out what shaking the world of
sports from him. Come back on the flip side, I'll
tell you about an incredibly awkward encounter that I had
in the Fox Hospitality tent. But let's go ahead and
first year from Eddie Garcia. Well, Claire, here's your guy
goes scoreboarding golf. It's day two of the one eighth
U s Open. We'll get inn away within the hour. Now.

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Only four of the hundred and fifty six players finished
under par during the opening round. One of them was
the world's number one ranked golf for Dustin Johnson. He
and three others of time in the lead at one under.
Johnson and Tiger Woods, who had an eight over par
round yesterday will boat tiafat eight oh two. Eastern Time
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seven auto. The only hard part figuring out which way
is easier, so I said yesterday, So I get done
with the show at nine eastern. Um, I leave and
I go walk around. I was talking about the traffic situation.
Oddly is unbelievably lucky because he comes on here at
three o'clock eastern and by about ten am all the

(22:07):
traffic has done. So there's a massive rush evidently of
traffic for about six to ten am. There's a couple
of two lane roads here coming out to a peninsula
in uh in this area of the Hampton's you know,
in the in the coast. It's tiny little roads and
so uh, Gottli gets in here, has no issues at all.
I've been walking around for a couple of hours, and

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I tell him, Look, the only way to watch is
we gotta get into Fox Hospitality Tent. Now we're on
air with Fox Sports Radio. But the hospitality tent is
technically supposed to be for like high end executives and
then also uh, big time advertisers, people who are very
successful in what they do when are out here kind
of being wind and dyed a little bit. There's unlimited food,

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it's air conditioned. There's like eight different televisions. It's basically
the best possible place you could set up couches, right
in front of all these flat screen televisions. Uh, open bar,
everything you could possibly want. In addition to being in
there and being able to watch, you can walk outside,
look out over a couple of different fairways. See the
golfers all come by literally right in front of you

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from a little bit of bandstand area. I mean, it's fantastic, right,
like just utterly fantastic. And so uh I we we
walk our way in, We get in there. Uh and
a lot of the Fox execs are there. And I
said earlier this is kind of an interesting time because
of the Comcast and UH and Disney battle to see
who's gonna end up buying all these Fox assets. So
in addition to the World Cup going on, in addition

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to the US Open going on both on Fox Sports,
you've also got this major corporate struggle that's going on
over the future of maybe not even you know these companies,
but also just the future of American media. Everybody's trying
to compete and grab Netflix. And this would be a
fast if you were a media writer, This would be
a fascinating time to just kind of parachute in and

(23:55):
do a couple of days in the life of executives
at Fox Sports, where your deal with putting on the
US Open, which is a massive endeavor, hundreds of people
moving all over Long Island training, doing their best to
put on a good production. Here eighteen different holes, a
hundred and twenty eight golfers or whatever the heck. It
is all over the place right that you were trying
to do your best job covering. And then simultaneously you've

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got another group of your people over in Russia trying
to put on the World Cup for the opening of
the World Cup, and you've got this corporate struggle going on.
So God leave and I are in there. We're getting food,
we're drinking, we're hanging out, uh and uh, and we're
watching the watching the golf tournament. And I go get
lunch and I realized that I need to respond to

(24:37):
a couple of emails. And there's also because everything's in
there that you could possibly need. There is a big
WiFi stand. Uh. I mean sorry, we got WiFi, but
there's a big like cell phone charging area. So there's
I don't know, twenty different charging decks and you're like, oh,
this is amazing. You can charge your phone. So I'm
standing there charging my phone, got leaves eating lunch, and
he's eating lunch with a couple of executives I know
inside there, but a couple of people I don't know.

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So I sending in emails working on the book. I've
got to send a couple of edits in uh. And
then I come over and I sit down with them,
and they're in the middle of a conversation. So I
just started talking too. And the conversation is going well,
and it's about you know, sports rights and sports media
and what kind of audiences. Everything's gonna get it's it's
really interesting conversation. And the guy to my left is

(25:20):
really well plugged in to uh to you know, a
lot of details in terms of knowing a lot of
different moving parts. And I just assume that he is
like a p G. A executive, or that he's another
media executive. Because we're in the hospitality tent. I know
most of the people at Fox Sports. So about ten
minutes into the conversation, now I've left my phone. This

(25:41):
is an important part of this story too. I have
left my phone back at the charging deck. So I'm
sitting there across from Gottlie. But we're talking. We're talking
twenty minutes or so, and I turned to the guy
to my left and I'm like, so, who do you
work for? And he's like, oh, I'm at Fox Sports.
And then about three minutes later I sawly realized, oh,

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this is the president of Fox Sports newly named, who
I haven't met ever. And I just asked him who
he worked for in the Fox Sports hospitality tent. So
he's former president of the Big ten network and like I,
I recognize that. After a little while, and uh and
and then he gets up to go to go talk
to somebody else for a minute, and God leaves, Like, dude,

(26:24):
I was trying to text you who this was, and
then you just walked right in and asked the president
of Fox Sports who he worked for. I thought he
was maybe an executive, you know, like obviously he was
plugged in. So if you have ever been, uh in
any way interacting with the person who basically runs your
entire company, and you have ever turned to him and said, hey,

(26:44):
what do you do? Like, who are you? I pulled
that move off, so uh I am uh, I am
in eternally good shape there, I think with Mark Silverman,
who is now running the uh now running Fox Sports.
Now I give you credit. He didn't respond to me
by saying, yeah, I run Fox Sports. I'm the president
directly beneath Eric Shanks. Now my defense, he's already been

(27:06):
with Fox Sports for about six months and I've never
met him before, and I didn't know what he looked like.
But it's also possible that I'm a complete idiot. What
do you think he actually thought when I asked him
who he worked for? Jason Martin, I don't know. I
don't know if you're supposed to know what the guy
looks like, you know, like I said, I mean, I
know he's a new hired and I know he came
from the Big ten network and all, I don't know
what the dude looks like. I mean, obviously maybe you should,

(27:30):
but I don't think that maybe he has a huge
ego or maybe he doesn't. But if I'm walking around
and have a huge ego, okay, I think he was
totally totally cool with it. And we haven't met before,
it would have been obviously much more so to me,
Like you know, you're not looking at Steph Curry, you're
not looking at Lebron James, you're not looking at Tom
Brady like infinitely recognizable faces. So you would have to

(27:54):
be pretty arrogant to assume they're just gonna know you
by face when you've never met them before. I honestly,
I don't think this is a bad move at all.
Like I mean, yeah, it's a little bit awkward and
you probably kick yourself for about five minutes, but if
you really stop and think, and if he were in
your shoes, and I think that's the part of it is, Oh,
this guy doesn't know who I am. This is this
is obviously Clay Travis. He doesn't know who I am,

(28:15):
But why should he know who I am? Unless you're
Donald Trump in terms of your ego. I don't think
that that should bother you very much. Yeah, and it's possible. Also,
you know how when you meet people like, uh, if
there's I'm bad, I will say this. I'm good at details,
I'm sometimes bad at names, and it's allowed, and you're
like in a hospitality tent. It's possible. When I sat
down like that, he introduced himself, but I couldn't hear

(28:37):
his name, so it's like and I yeah, but it
was definitely Gottlie beloved it. He's like, oh, really good
move there. Uh you managed to not know who the
entire guy who's running the all of Fox Sports is
and asked him what he did for a living um,
which is a which is depression. I thought maybe he
was maybe he was running Geico. We did a lot
of Geico ads. I bet there was somebody from Geico there.
I was gonna be like, hey, I'm in the Geico

(28:58):
ault Kick Studios. I've got Mattie lu Chandler who who
just joined us UM and she works for the p
g A. I believe the tour, the p g A Tour,
that's the official title. I'm gonna ask her what that's like.
Joel Clad has ghosted me. I don't know what happened.
He texted me, where are you about? To ask you?
I tease Joel because I thought, hey, when he asked
me where I am, he's gonna be here. I texted him, yeah, Hey,

(29:20):
I'm here, and then I tried to call him and
he didn't answer. So it's possible that he's on his
way here to come talk to us. It's also possible
that he has just totally ghosted me, and uh, we're
not gonna hear from him at all. So I don't
know what's going on. I texted him fifteen minutes ago
and I said, hey, you good to go? And I
got nothing, So who knows? So instead, Mattie Luke Chandler
is gonna come on. She sounds better than he does anyway.

(29:42):
I am Clay Travis. This is our one OUTCAD the
coverage hour two. We're gonna have Brad Facts and our
three Casey Smith will hop on as she does oftentimes
on Friday's We are Alive from the hundred and eighteenth
U S Open Championship Championship at Shinnecock Hills, where they
played the second ever US Open Championship all the way
back in eighteen nineties. X. This is gonna be an
incredible day. We'll see what the expectation is when it

(30:04):
comes to teeing off here in about eight minutes. Am
I right? Is the Are the winds less significant than
they were yesterday? Couldn't lead to a little bit better
numbers on the board. We will find out. I am
Clay Travis Geiko out Kick Studios today live once more
from the one eighteen the US Open Championship at Shannicock Kills.
This is Fox Sports Radio. Great news. Quick way you

(30:26):
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or more on car insurance. Mattie Luke Chandler joins US now.
But I got an idea. We don't know what happened
to Joel Clad. I don't know if he's gonna be
active on Twitter or not today, But could all of
you out there listening right now, let's see if he

(30:47):
has his notifications on He's at Joel Clad on Twitter
at j O E. L K L A T T.
Text him. He's a huge Saved by the Bell fan.
Text him what's we texted him, Mattie Lue, I'm sure
you are also privy to the Saved by the Bell
universe something related to say that. Now, Like the other day,

(31:07):
I called him and I was like, dude, I'm not
the kind of guy to brag, but Mario Lopez just
started following me on Twitter, and that obviously is a
c slater. A C slater. Uh, so maybe we'll just
do that because that will immediate, that'll give him a
little bit. He was like, you're lying. I was like, no,
check it out. And I screenshot at him that Mario
Lopez was following me and he was really pretty jealous.

(31:30):
And so just maybe at Joel Clatt, just don't say
anything else. Just uh, you know, say this, a C
slater likes Clay Travis more than you. I think it'll
rattle with a little bit. A C slater wouldn't ghost
on people too, he's more reliable, But a C s
are you. And if you just want to shorten that up,

(31:51):
you can just say a C slater. You can also
tag me in it if you would like. He's at
Joel Clat, Let's see how many people we can get
to do this, and he'll just look at his phone
and be like, what's going on, And he'll be angry
because he'll recognize that I've been telling everyone how much
more a C. S. Later a k A. Mario Lopez
likes me than Joel Klatt. We have Mattie lu Chandler
right now. So you wrote an out Kick Bachelor recaps

(32:13):
for a long time. A lot of people have read it.
Who will be listening to us right now? And now
you work for the PGA tour. I do. I work
for the PGA Tour now. I had a great three
years at out Kick from Bachelor to college football. I
was shocked by how many people read the Bachelor recaps
because they hit tweets all the time and it's like,
where are your recaps? Yes? Are you still watching? No,

(32:36):
but I've watched the first couple of episodes of this
season just because everyone was and I needed to know
I have something to talk about in the office, and
it is. This season is painful. I haven't even caught it.
The problem they had was they were like counter programming
against they They've been putting it on against sports too
many times, so I've kind of fallen out of watch.
So for people out there who were curious, like I

(32:58):
asked you off air, how many different golf tournaments did
you go to at least a part of last year?
I did seven events? Thirty seven golf events. So you
work for the pizza? What is that actually like? Because
you hear I mean, I think there are a lot
of people out there listening to us right now who
may go to a golf event, or they've been to
the US Open, or they've been to the Masters or
whatever they like, they gone to one event. What is

(33:20):
it like to be on the road that much and
go through the process of all of these different locations.
You I don't know dates anymore. My life just revolves around. Okay,
this is Shinnekok week. Next week is Travelers Week. Um,
it just kind of goes. It's the same thing. We
joke we call it the traveling circus, but it becomes
a family that just it's city to city every week. Um,

(33:44):
it's great. I checked out. So you will get in
so on an average week, like you would get in
on a Tuesday on the wedn I would get in
on a Monday so my biggest or busiest days up
at the course or Monday through Wednesday to get everything
set up. To get everything set up, talk to players
and agents. Um. Most agents are there Monday to Wednesday.
I don't fly out, so you need to see them

(34:04):
and help line up interviews and schedule things for players
and see what they've got going on if they have
anything offsite that we need help covering. Um, Because there's
so much that goes on Monday through Wednesday at a tournament.
I mean Wednesday, you have a pro am, but then
sponsors come in and do sponsor events or outings or
photo shoots. You're trying to fit things in with guys
schedule because everyone's so spread out. And that's the difference

(34:27):
with the PGA Tour has when a tournament ends all
of our players instead of going to one city with
beat writers or that their job is just to follow
these guys in their local spots and know where all
they go. Our players literally dispersed across the world and
I'll go home. And that's how a lot of golfers
can live a life pretty under the radar, and half

(34:48):
of them take their hats off and you don't recognize them.
So it's pretty wild when you think you used to
like a traveling circus. Everywhere you go, it's a big deal. Yeah,
into town, it's like, oh my god, we the tournament
going on. It's the wildest golf weekend of the year
pretty much in all the communities that you go to.
How do you it's it's like when you are a

(35:10):
musician or something and you're performing, or you're an actor
and you're on the stage. You have to get get
up every time, right, you have to perform and kind
of put on a show. Do you feel that pressure
every time you go into a new city to make
it like every bit as good as the one you
just left. Yeah. Absolutely. But every tournament has their own
tournament team that lives in that city that we work
with and helpe assist, and they're the ones who their

(35:32):
focus is that only that one week a year, and
then we come in and help and it's a lot
of the same in my role every week. I mean,
this week is obviously different just because it's not our event,
and then it's a major, so there's a little bit
more pressure. But that travels around, you know, every year
it's somewhere new, So if it's the same place that

(35:53):
we're in every year. You get in overy them and
we kind of know how it works. But yeah, there's
definitely a lot of pressure, especially with new tournaments. What
about core is for people out there who you know,
for instance, are just curious about going around and seeing
a different course, which what two or three have you
been to and you've been like, oh my god, I
can't believe this place is real. Do you want course
or atmosphere either? I bet the atmosphere is like the phoenix,

(36:16):
like the you have to do waste management. You have
to have to do it once. Um, go out. It's
Nashville is the Bachelor atte Capital. Yes, that is the
Bachelor Party. Like everybody's just getting drunk and like scrap,
they have matching T shirt. It's like they make these
profanity laden t shirts, some of which are hilarious. Um,

(36:39):
and it's yeah, it's nuts. I mean, it's the most
attended golf tournament of the year by a large amount,
and it's a marathon and you've got people they'll start
lining up at like three am before the gates open
to rush to sixteen to get their spots in the grandstand.
So you have to do it once and I mean
we were there during the Super Bowl that one year, yes,

(36:59):
which was insane. UM, but no, that tournament is great.
You need to do that. Pebble Beach is amazing. It
lives up to all the hype. I love Rivera in
l a um Byron and Colonial Weekend and Dallas is
great because Colonial is a historic course. There's a lot
of history there. It's laid back, it's fun town. Um

(37:22):
the Byron is kind of the waste management of Texas
on a smaller scale. UM. Players Championships great in Ponto
Vidra because it's the best. It's the most competitive field
they play all year. So those are some sneaky ones. UM.
I also love the Barracuda Championship up in Tahoe. It's
an opposite field event, so most it didn't get a
lot of attention, but it's the guys are accessible. Everyone's

(37:46):
in a good moon. You're in Tahoe. We're talking to
Maddie lu Chandler. She is with the p GA. She's
on the road road thirty seven different weeks last year
getting ready. Um, when guys have a course like this
and everybody is in plus numbers, is the vibe completely
different than it would be if everybody's posting lower scores,
or because everybody's doing poorly, does it kind of end

(38:08):
up not feeling any different. I'm curious from the perspective
of somebody who sees players all the time, do they
seem rattled by this kind of course, I wouldn't say rattled,
just because I think a lot of them knew what
to expect coming in and US Open is always really hard,
the rough, you know, they grow it all up. But
yesterday we were talking about it is almost surreal. Every

(38:29):
time you looked up at the leaderboard the numbers were
going up and set it down, and I don't remember
when that's ever happened. So I think everyone's kind of
looking around like, you know, how how did you go today?
Instead of how low did you go? But we'll see
how it plays. I would call it carnage out there
right now. I think that's a good description. You said

(38:50):
you walked eleven miles yesterday following players. I did. It's great.
Like my fitbit when I'm in the office, it's like,
have you moved today? What have you done? Versus a
normal week where it's walking around and stuff like that.
But no, this place is It's long. Give people your
Twitter handle as we head out for our one. It
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(39:12):
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At Joel Clad, I am Clay Travis, our one in
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next hour, Casey Smith our three week live hundred eighteenth
US Open Championship in Shinnecock Hills where in eighteen ninety
six the second ever US Open was played. This one
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(39:35):
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You can catch full coverage of the U eighteenth the
US Open Championship today beginning at ten a m. Eastern

(39:56):
on FS one. Coverage switches over to Big Fox, the
Fox broadcast channel today at four thirty pm Eastern UH.
The second round action is officially underway, teed off at
six forty five Eastern and there are now I believe
about what twelve golfers so far that have already teed off,
as the second round action will now be officially underway.

(40:20):
What will happen? Uh For those of you just waking
up across the country, only four golfers yesterday managed to
finish in a negative numbers, and the first of those
golfers will be teeing off at seven h seven am.
Dustin Johnson will be going off at eight oh two. Uh.
We will see whether or not those negative numbers can grow,
whether that audience can increase. Right now, one man at

(40:43):
even par and that is the entirety of the guys
who are not in green numbers. So all of that
will be transpiring over the course of the next hour
of this show. In the next two hours of the show,
we are scheduled to be joined by Brad Factson, who
is involved in five in FS one's coverage of the
wonder in eighteenth the US Open Championship, and he will

(41:04):
be breaking down all of the action as well. We
just talked with Mattie Luke Chandler. I'd encourage you guys
to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast, as millions
of you are doing downloaded, make sure that you don't
miss anything. I hope your Friday is going fantastically well. Uh,
this storylines out there right now. In the world of
sports in general. We've got the US Open going on,
we have got the World Cup officially underway. The World

(41:26):
Cup without the United States about nine it would seem
to me of the interest has been zapped. Tiger Woods
will be text uh teeing off. He's on the putting
green right now, just up the hill from where we are, uh,
and he will be teeing off just after eight o'clock
Eastern time. We will see whether or not he can
make the cut. He did not have a very promising
day plus eight. Again. Of the best golfers in the world,

(41:49):
I would say Dustin Johnson by far acquitted himself the best.
On Thursday he won the two thousand sixteen US Open
at Oakmont. He is the favorite right now if you
look at the offshore odds, as everybody is breaking it down.
In fact, I went through those a little bit. But
let me hit that with you right now, and it is, uh,
it is pretty interesting, um to to break down because

(42:11):
Dustin Johnson at plus two fifty, Justin Rose at plus
five fifty, nobody else, nobody else out there right now
is in single digits. So what that effectively tells you is,
right now the off shore's Vegas. They believe Dustin Johnson
Justin Rose are the prohibitive favorites. And then there's a
big drop off after them. Again, that is the breakdown

(42:33):
from the perspective of the off shores after the Thursday edition. Uh,
the golf world is underway again. This course is really
pretty ridiculous. I mean, there is so much I would say,
topography up and down everywhere else, and I want to
bring in the crew. Uh, Jason Martin, I didn't get
to watch it as much, probably on television as you did.

(42:54):
But I'm curious when you were watching this telecast, did
you get a sense for how much up been down
this course is, because I think that's a lot of times.
What television doesn't do a great job of grabbing is
how blind some of these shots are. How you know,
I mean the legitimate hills uh there are on this course.
Could you get a good feel for that watching it yesterday?
I know you said you watched it pretty much all day. Yeah,

(43:17):
I mean to some extent, some angles are better than others.
Coverage gets better every year. Fox is doing a fantastic job.
I think the one thing that you lose more so
than anything except some of some of the uphill shots
where you just can't tell just how steep the stuff is,
is the steepness of some of the greens and the
undulations of the greens that when you're standing there you

(43:38):
can see just how ridiculous a levin drops off. You
can't tell it quite as much on television. Each green
kind of looks the same until you see like a
three D model or they pull back a camera. They're
doing the best job that they can to show it.
But I don't think that it holds a candle. I'm
sure to being there and just seeing what a nightmare
all of that topography looks like. Yeah, no, it's it's

(44:00):
pretty wild when you walk it. Um to just see
how blind some of these shots are. We had yesterday
a discussion about the eleventh hole and how crazy it was.
It's only a hundred and fifty seven yards. I think, uh,
it seems like a relatively easy Part three when you
just look at it on the card. When you stand
in the tea box and look up, it's as if

(44:23):
you have to land a golf ball on the peak
of a mountain, because anything you hit that is anything
other than a perfect shot, the ball is gonna come
back a long way, and it's a hundred and fifty
seven yards basically straight up into the air. So it's
not very often when you play golf courses that you
even see a hole like that, uh, much less that

(44:44):
you have to do it under the pressure of a
US Open and uh and by the way, it's just
one of many insanely difficult holes. The other thing I
would say is I I know they've caught several different
times because I saw some of this on television when
the ball would go into the rough. I can't impress
upon you enough how many people there are standing along

(45:05):
the fairway who can see where the ball went in,
and they might be ten yards away, they might be
five feet away, and they go into that rough looking
for the ball and they can't find it. This is
not like the equation where your average weekend golfer is
out there and you're like, Okay, I think I hit
it kind of ducktailed around that tree and then you

(45:26):
go and wonder in around and look for it. Think
about how rarely you would ever lose a golf ball
if you had while you were playing on your round,
ten twelve people lined up in the rough area where
the ball might land, and in addition to all the spectators,
which makes it even more substantial in terms of the
overall audience, and all you had to do was wait

(45:49):
for one of those people to walk over to where
your ball landed and stand there. They have people doing
that like that, this is their job on this golf
course and they can't find it. And then wheny other
people come over within five feet of where they think
the golf ball went, and oftentimes they can't find it either.
That's how thick the rough is, to say nothing of
being able to hit out of that rough. Just think

(46:11):
about how crazy it is to not be able to
find your ball with that many people trying to do so,
and the steaks being as substantial as they are. When
it comes to the penalty for a lost ball, that
has to be just absolutely maddening. And the difference, by
the way between a shot that is in the fairway
and has no issue at all and one that you
never find is like three ft. We're not talking about

(46:32):
water on this course or something where when you hit
a bad shot, you see a dunk and you know
that you've created a mess. We're talking about you're not
missing the fairway by hardly any at all, and it
turns into a complete mess. So that in and of
itself is is intriguing. We have got the World Cup
out and underway on this Friday edition. Uh, the what
I I know? I said when I came in early

(46:53):
this morning, I said, you know what, the wind. I
don't think it's gonna be that substantial. I think I
was wrong because I'm looking right now out and this
tent is starting to ripple a little bit, and the
trees are starting to ripple, and all the flags are
starting to blow pret aggressively too. So my thought that
maybe it wouldn't be that bad for people as they
went out onto the course. In fact, uh, there's already

(47:16):
a lot of positive numbers rolling in as if yesterday
was not bad enough. There are a lot of golfers
now who have just gotten out on the course. About
twelve different golfers fifteen or or so are out on
the course right now, and most of them are adding
to the red numbers that are already out there. Uh,
we're gonna be joined by Brad Faxson an hour two here,
We're gonna an hour three to be joined by Casey Smith,

(47:37):
who joins us a lot of times on the Friday
edition of out Kick. I am Clay Travis. We are
live at the h eighteenth US Open Championship here at
Shannecock Hills, and I want to remind you that you
can catch full coverage of the eighteenth US Open Championship
today beginning at ten a m. Eastern on FS one.
Coverage switches over to Big Fox, the Fox broadcast channel
today at four thirty pm Eastern. And I will continue

(47:59):
to say, and I do believe this is also a
US Open as well as the World Cup, that for
people who work at Fox Sports is freighted in a
bit of uncertainty and drama for something that has nothing
to do at all with sports, which is and I
continue to tell you, if you are at all intrigued
by business, if you are intrigued by finance, if you
are interested in the future of media in general, a

(48:21):
legitimate battle has broken out over the future of how
media will be distributed in this country. And two of
the biggest competitors, Comcast and Fox, are both trying to
make plays to boy. Sorry, Comcast and Disney both trying
to make plays to buy a lot of the Fox assets,
including Fox Sports. So as if that were not enough,
that is also hanging over all of the work that's

(48:42):
being done as a result of of what is transpiring
here in both Russia and in the uh in in
New York as these two major athletic events, the US
Open and the World Cup take place. UM, I want
to bring in the crew a little bit question for
you guys as we prepare four day two Tiger Woods.

(49:03):
Does he make the cut or not? I'm going no,
Jason Martin, what do you think I'm going No, it's
top sixty and ties that make the cut. I think
he's one second right now. I don't think he's gonna
go out there and shoot an eighty today. I don't.
I think he will have a yeah, yeah, I don't

(49:24):
think he'll shoot a ninety two. I think you'll shoot
I think you'll have a respectable day, and I think
he will be cutting a promo and doing a press
conference after the round saying you know what I felt
good about my game today and then he'll be climbing
in his car and going home like I just I
don't think that he can get back into this. It's
just too difficult. And the other thing I will say this,
don't watch this and then say Tiger can never win again.

(49:46):
Like I said, Tiger would never win a major again.
But you can't base it on Shinnecock Hills. You simply can't,
because look at what everybody else is doing. I mean,
you saw the number four or five and six players
in the world. That's Rory, John Ram and Jordan's speak
either shoot either tie or shoot their worst round ever
in a major yesterday on the same day. Everybody is

(50:07):
struggling with this course. So don't look at that and
say that all hope is lost for Tiger all what
is lost for all golfers against this course? What do
they do with his yacht? Doesn't that feel like a
big kind of spoiler alert If you bring in your
twenty million dollar yacht and you dock it here and
you're like, hey, other people are gonna be staying in
hotels and I'm staying in my twenty million dollar yacht.

(50:28):
It has to be and I'm not an expert on yachts,
but I believe his normal home is in Florida. So
they brought this thing all the way up the Atlantic Ocean.
That has to be like a what do you think
that takes two weeks? How long do you think it
takes to bring a yacht from Florida all the way
up to Long Island. I'm thinking it has to be
two weeks, Like that's somewhere anybody yacht expert out there,

(50:51):
anybody have any clue? You can tweet me. No, I
know you're not a ya. I know you're not a
yacht expert, but I feel like there's probably a good
chance that somebody out or who's listening to us across
the country is an expert in yachts or at least
would be aware on this. How is two weeks a
ridiculous guess as to how long it would take to
go from South Florida to uh To. I mean that's

(51:12):
not between a week and a week and half. It's
about a twelve day trip. Okay, So I almost nailed
it there. So think about that if you're on the
yacht and Tiger Woods, like, hey, you know we're gonna
be setting up the yacht should be pretty cool, and
you're thinking, oh, this could be incredible. Can you imagine
if you won the US Open at least he's gonna
be there for four days A big deal. I don't know.

(51:35):
I mean, that's gonna be a little bit. It's gotta
be a little bit humiliating to pull the yacht out
and turn around. I mean, does he hang out on
the I he doesn't stay here? Does he is there
somewhere else good to go, like down the coast that
he could go to. I just feel like that's got
First of all, I have no idea what would cost
to have a twelve day yacht trip, but I'm guessing
he probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost
to get the yacht up. And they always say, if

(51:57):
you have to ask what a yacht costs, you don't
enough money to have a yacht. So I'm sure Tiger
Woods has plenty of money. But I'll just be looking
at that like, man, I can't believe I brought my
yacht all the way up to, uh, the Hampton's and
I'm gonna have to turn around and just go back.
After it took you know, two weeks to get here.
I went out, got my ass kicked by this course,
and now I gotta send the yacht back. That just

(52:18):
seems like a bad metaphor in general. And maybe that's
why I wouldn't bring the yacht up. Maybe he doesn't
use the yacht enough so he's like, hey, this is
an opportunity, but I would like to know what happens there.
So you got a twelve day, twelve to fourteen day
round trip, You come up here for three days or
whatever it is, and then you turn around and go
back us open gets to take the yacht for a week,

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like gets to do something with the yacht, or whoever's
got the lead each day on Saturday and Sunday, you
know whatever. Somebody a part of Tiger's gotta be thinking.
I knew I should have given a el in the yacht.
I knew I shouldn't have made myself to keep a yacht. Yeah,
I mean she had the fifty million dollar compound. He
might as well have just gotten some value out of
the twenty million dollar yacht and giving it back to
her also made some sense. If you're Tiger Woods and

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you're coming up there with a yacht, it's almost like
you're tempting fate. It's just like, well, I'm coming up
with the yacht because I'm gonna be there for four days.
It has like a twenty person staff too, So the
twenty person staff goes up the whole length of the
Atlantic coast and then they park for like two days
and then they just if he if he tried to
get a hotel, Let's say he got a hotel on Wednesday,
and he's in like a Super eight right now, he's

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probably too under because he wouldn't want to stay in
a super eight all weekend, So Karma would just have
him stay there all weekend long. You come up there
in a yacht, you're going home early. You're not gonna
enjoy the yacht for four days and when I definitely
feel like it stands out more when you have a
poor performance. If he goes out and shoots eight over
again and he's plus sixteen, that's gotta be the worst
worst use of a yacht of all time. I can't

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think of a worse one. All Right, we're gonna talk
to Brad Faxton. I'll ask him about that. What happens
with the yacht? What does he know about yachts? Uh,
and also what is he thinks gonna happen on the
course today. He's up with us next. He's part of
Fox Sports is coverage. This is the US Open Championship.
I'm Clay Travis. We are live from Shinnecock Hills, not
on a yacht, but if we were on a yacht,
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Brad Faxton joins US now He's a big part of
the Fox Sports coverage of the one or eighteenth US

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Open Championship. As I look at the live leaderboard right
now in front of me, there are three guys out
of twenty who have started so far that are under par.
One of them is Russell Henley, who has moved to
minus two after completing uh the tenth hole. I believe
Brad Faxton, who should be favored. Is there even any

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way to figure out who should be favored after what
you saw on Thursday? Okay, this is another rye and
soon to be windy morning and not as tough as yesterday.
But you know it's easy to go pick number one
in the world. Dustin Johnson played a flawless afternoon round
in one under Russell Henley is a hot player right now,

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good putter, great cutter. As a matter of fact, that
an extraordinary day in his approach hots into the green.
But there's two two guys from the European Ryder Cup team,
Hendrik Stenson and Justin Rose who I'd keep my eye
on the weekend? What made it so tough? And it
did so breakdown? A lot of people out there can say, oh,
I know that there was a lot of tough golf

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rounds out there relative to what we have seen in
the past several years of majors, including the U S Open. What,
in particular, if you had to rank the factors, what
made it so difficult yesterday? Was the win? Number one?
Was it the course itself? What is the number one
overriding factor? Why there were only four under par rounds yesterday? Well,
the single The easiest predictor of scores variability of this

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course is in the strength, and that goes without saying
every single golf course and every single ship around the world.
What what made this so extraordinary, Clay was the direction
it came from. The players have been here for weeks,
seeing three different wins. Two of them were most the
usual prevailing wins. But yesterday's win at the North Northwest

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is something the players hadn't seen, uh, that direction or
that strength. So I think that really surprised a lot
of the players. And if if you hadn't seen the
golf course before in that condition, and not many had,
it could really really put you into a tailsman. We're
talking to Brad Facts and obviously you've been answering this
question for fifteen years now. But the number one overwriting

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question we get every year when it comes to a
major still Tiger Woods. Uh. It came out and immediately
tripled the first hole, got another bogey, was at four,
managed to kind of hang on there for a while
until he fell to plus eight. What did you see
from his game? Is this course so tough that it's
even hard to assess whether he is playing very well
right now? Well? What we said it on air yesterday.

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You know, he used to defy us with the extraordinary
things that he could do in all parts of his game.
And now what's equally impressive in the wrong direction is
how he's actually having one part of his game scene
seemingly fail each time he plays. The days that he's
driven it as best, he hasn't putted his best the

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days that he's his irons close, you know, he's not
driving it well. And I still think he's he's close
to playing some really good golf. He's not as confident
with his driver off the team now. He hits a
lot of three woods and a lot of irons off
off t shirts here and and hitting in this stairway
is very, very important. But he struggled with his putter

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and kind of like Jordan's speed, it's kind of been
out of nowhere. And those two players have been two
of the best putters in the world in history, and
to watch them really uh struggle in the Greenians has
been a remarkable Really we are early. There's only about
golfers or so that are on the course right now.
You said you expect the conditions to be a little

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bit better. Kind of explained for people out there who
are gearing up, they'll be paying attention to it all day,
watching your coverage on Fox Sports on FS one. Why
do you think it will be a little bit better, Well,
I don't think the strength of the wind will be
quite the same as it was yesterday. We had gusts
fifteen to twenty miles. And when I said this earlier
Clay when we started off, dry conditions are always the

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most difficult when there's wind because the players like to
know when the ball bounces, when it lands, what it's
going to do. And even though these fairways are some
of the widest in US Open history, there's a lot
of angles to be played. There's a lot of contour
in these fairways, so if if you're not sharp with
the driver or moving the ball in the right direction,

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you really can't play out of the rough. There's a
huge penalty when you hit the ball in the rough,
you know, maybe a half a stroke per hole. So
if you don't have it in the fairway, it's impossible
to control the ball around the greens, and if you've watched,
you're gonna see something that's different than most US Opens
around these greens instead of having heavy, heavy rough like
you've become accustomed to the US Opens. They're what they

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call these closely moan areas where they they've kept the
ball at fairway, the grass at fairway heights, So a
lot of balls that go over these greens go running
away sideways. If you watch Jordan's speed start yesterday, he
had a bunker shot that just trickled over this little legend,
enrolled thirty or forty ft past the hole and he
made a triple boat. We're talking to Brad facts and

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he won eight times on the PGA Tour. He is
part of Fox Sports and FS one's coverage of the
one U S Open Championship here at Shinnecock Hills. When
you have been on and in these uh these locker
rooms with with golfers a lot over the years when
a course is playing this tough, what is the vibe
in there is that when everybody does poorly? Is it

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is it such that that everybody kind of just strugs
it off or do you feel like a weight almost
like you can feel the golf course's victory inside that
locker room. But it's funny to look at the little
score of the fields over a thousand over par so
hard to fathom. I don't know yet. I'm trying to

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dig up what would have been the worst wreckages really,
uh in the US Open history. But the players that
didn't play their best, that that kind of gets sour
grapes that that lose it mentally, they'll complain about when
they'll complain about whole locations or where they where they
put the cups on the on the greens with so

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much sloper on the sides or edges, they'll complain about
the bumpiness of the greens or you know, where they
you know. One of the other big things they complain
about is when the winds blowing, say off the side
from the left or from the right, and they put
a pin on the side where the winds blowing from,
then it's really difficult to get a ball close to

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those holes. And players get accustomed to on the p
G A tour to easier conditions than they're seeing this week,
so that kind of flips them out too. What's the
worst round you ever had at a PA Tour event?
Do you remember the worst scorecard you ever posted? I've
had a lot of them. Uh, I don't know if
I can specifically say. But I remember early in my career,

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I shot a score well into the eighties in Houston,
and I noticed, I hate to agnift, this is terrible.
I noticed that the guy that kept my card put
down a five on the hole. I made a six,
and I signed the card knowing that I was going
to get dis qualified place day. Um. I don't want

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to say who it was I was playing with, but
it was it was awful. I I saw a great quote.
I gotta give this friend of mine. He's a writer
for Golf League magazine, Aim and Lynch. He saw made
a comment about Tiger Woods scorecard. You know you had
two doubles in a triple. He said, it looked more
like a Wendy's menu. Pretty good. So that's an amazing story.

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So you you were in the upper eight because I
was looking at the scorecard and uh, somebody, uh posted
a ninety two. When you post a ninety two on Thursday,
it's I would imagine if you post a ninety two
on Friday, You're like, screw it, let's go get some drinks.
I'm out anyway. But when you post a ninety two
and you know you have zero chance to make the cut,

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and then you also have to come back and play
on Friday. You know, like O're a upper eighty. You
know there are a bunch of upper eighties as well.
I'm just kind of wondering what the psychology is when
you finally finished the round. Maybe you're also hoping that
your caddie got the scorecard wrong so you don't have
to go back out. But there has to be an
element of you, just like I never want to see
this golf course again, right, Uh? Yeah, And I believe

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that guy's last name was Gregory. You sat scored by
five shots? Uh got that that qualified for first open.
And I'm sure he had a few pints last night
laughed with his mates. But you know, it's intriguing you
have watched, Uh some of the top players in the
world have poor rounds like Rory McElroy or Jordan's speed
and speech, went to the range with his coach as

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caddie hit a bunch of balls and analyze what happened,
and you know, more a happy, go lucky guy like
Roy mckilroy. Um, I didn't see him practice. I'm just
curious to see what, you know, what mentality works today?
You know, do you go out there, you know, grinding away,
or you'd kind of like just let it sail a

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little bit more and see whose strategy works for the
second round. When do you know you're gonna have a
bad round? Like I saw Graham McDowell tweet out uh
and it's pretty funny, Like, I mean, he was laughing
about it, but he was in a bunker and he
he I don't know if you saw this shot, but
he put it off the flagstick and it just turned
around and came back. Uh. Off is a game of

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like many things in life. I mean, you can get
good bounces, you can get bad bounces, and it seems
to me it's just kind of a weekend golfer that
a lot of times those even out. But if you
golf enough, you know also some days you just have
everything go your way. Other days you have nothing go
your way. When you've been out on the course on
the on the PGA tour over the years, was there
ever a point where you're just like, yeah, this round
is just screwed, or do you're in your head keep thinking, oh,

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they have to even out. If you have like a
bunch of big, bad bounces in the first five or
six holes. Do you expect them to even out? Like,
what's the psychology I'm just kind of fascinated by. Like
you said, there are a thousand over par. And then
also you're getting a bad bounce like the Graham McDowell
off the off the flagstaff and it comes back into
the bunker. Uh, well, it should have been a pretty
good shot. What's that psychology like in your experience? Well,

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mcw he's classic and he hit that shot a little
firm maybe, and it hits up at the top of
the flag stick and comes right back at him and
he almost didn't have to move. I'm wondering if that
buying it up at his footprints or raps. Yes, but
you know, he a double bogey. If that ball didn't
hit the flagstick, he most likely makes some pokey so
it really cost him one shot. And when stuff like

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that happens, you know, there's a there's a sports psychologist
that's worked with a bunch of golfers. His name is
Bob Rotella, and he had a great line that I've
used my whole career called you have to create your
own reality. And when things are going well, you know
you've got to ride that way. When things are going poorly,
You've got to find a way to flip that around

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and say things like you said, like yeah, the brakes
will turn my way. I've got to stay patient. I
just got to persevere. It's like a basketball shooter that's
this three or four in a row. He knows he's
gonna make the next one. He's got to keep shooting.
And golf you gotta keep playing. You know, you can't
play defense. It's not like you can have a teammate
come over and cover for you when it's going badly.

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So that's the greatest thing about this game is it's
just you, it's your caddie, and how do you survive
in these awful conditions. We're talking to Brad Facts and
he's covering the one or an eighteenth US Open to
here at Shannicock Hills with Fox Sports and Fox Sports one.
The other thing that I noticed a lot, and it
was the good golfers the bad golfers. A lot of
shots where things don't go well. And it happened to

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Tiger early on one and you have almost the exact
same shot a second time. You just mentioned Graham mcdal
doesn't even have to move, you know, that he's like
still in the rake marks when he puts it off
the stick. In a golf course like this, where the
golf course is the challenge, and even Dustin Johnson, you
know you're looking for your ball. There are a lot
of things that you might have to deal with that
you wouldn't deal with on a typical course. And I

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don't think it happens very often most of the time
that you lose your ball when you're just three feet
off the off the fairway right like that's a that's
a tough break. Or you know, you hit a shot
and the greens are so sloped that at a normal
PGA Tour event that ball would stick on the green.
Instead it rolls all the way back down to you. Mentally,
this has to be one of the most grueling courses

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that you could possibly play, There's no doubt about it.
And and think about the two of the most popular
golfers in the world. Tiger Woods, like you mentioned on
number one, hit his second child, which looked like a
pretty good swing. It was just going just left of
the flag, lands on the top of the green, goes
way down on his hill into the rough, and now
he's faced with a you know, a dilemma, do you
do you do you play this safe, get out of

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there with a bogey on on a hole that's really
want to be easier starting holes in the US Open history,
or do you your chance it to give yourself a
pot for par you know? And he took this big swing,
lob shot lands on top of the slopan comes back
at him, and it comes back at him again, And
it happened to Jordan's feet on the tricky part three
eleven where he had a ball go over the green.

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He chip did and it came right back to his
feet from the same spot. And it's it's a it's
a horrible feeling, especially when the world's watching you like that,
and it just goes to show you that even the
best players in the world, they're having things happen to
him that they don't see for an entire year. Last
question for you for people who may be tuning in
on Friday, they've been working all week, they gonna get home,

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they're gonna watch down the stretch. They're gonna watch on
Saturday or Sunday. What hole or holes do you think
will help to determine this championship? What should people be
paying attention to in terms of the challenges that are
out there on the course. From the whole perspective, Well,
if you like to watch carnage, if you're a little statistic,
you'd go out to the tent. On the eleven poles,
it's a relatively short par four twelve yards. Number ten

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that play the most difficult in US Open history in
two thousand four on the final day, played over over
a stroke over par. Number eleven is maybe the prettiest
part three, very short, shortest hole on the golf course.
And those two holes back to back or the two
of the most four or five most difficult holes on
the golf course. It's a it's a cool area and

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you watch players that that have tough decisions, tough shots,
and if they can make two parts of those two holes,
they'll go sprinting to the twelve hole. Brad Facts phenomenal.
Really appreciate the time. By the way, Furman, good job
with everything that you've done for their golf program down there, Greenville,
South Carolina. Great town. Not a lot of people know it.
We're on in that market. So you can give a

(01:09:09):
shout out to two year old chums down there. If
you'd like. I love that, Clay. Thanks. We have a
new coach there, Matt Davidson played the tour for a
while and I'm looking for some big things to happen
with that man's golf program. And I know you saved.
You saved the program. Well done. A lot of guys
saved the program. But they're they're on the way to
taking a resurgence. Good stuff. That's Fratt Brad Faxton. You

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can check him out Fox Sports and FS one breaking
down everything out here at the eighteenth the US Open Championship.
Let's go ahead and take a break here, Let's come back.
Let's hit you with some animal Thunderdome, get your rolling
into your Friday, get your day off to a great start.
But first let me bring in Eddie Garcia. Find out
what's shaking in the world of sports. Well, Claire, here's
your guy, goes scoreboard and checking. Day two at the
one or eighteenth U s Open. We have a new

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leader at least for now. Russell Henley out on the course.
He's through two holes one other for the day, now
two out of the tournament. That gives him a one
shot leader with Dustin Johnson, Scott Piercy and Ian Poulter.
Coverage of the US Open on FS one begins at
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Coverage for Day two of the World Cup begins at

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ad m Eastern on f S one and highlighted by
Spain against Portugal. That'll be a two pm Eastern on Fox.
Now back to Clay Travis Live at the U s Open.
Do you think any of the golfers after today's round,
yesterday's round that I'm looking at the leaderboard right now
directly in front of me live math on this show
is always a danger zone, But I think we have
thirty golfers out so far already for round two, we

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have three guys that are under par so already the
massacre is beginning a new on day two. Do you
think if you don't make the cut on Friday, any
of you should show up and put on the Lebron
James Risk Cast and just claim that you had to
hurt Risk the whole time. I'd I'd be if I
ever have or have a worst show than normal, I'm

(01:10:57):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm pretty tempted from
now on, like the post show press conference, just show
up with a hurt wrist and be like, hey, I
got a broken wrist. Not the kind of guy to
make excuses, but I'm lucky to be alive here. I
think I might be tempted to do that if I
were a golfer. Just make fun where the cast all
the time, every day. That way you have the excuse
built in for your four out of five poor performances

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each week. I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't
seem to add up. I uh, broken wrist. It's amazing
what I do with the broken wrist every day. I
am Clay Travis. Final segment of our two of next.
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there are a lot of golfers off early here hundred
eighteenth the US Open Championship underway here in Shinniko Hills
than one of the nation's oldest golf courses, and UH,
I am looking and trying to do live math. It
appears there's about forty golfers out who have posted scores
so far. There are so far three golfers under par.

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So now having said that, Russell Henley, who was uh
tied for the lead early, he has gone off. He
went off at a little bit after seven o'clock this morning.
He is through three holes and he is at minus
two right now, so he's opened up a little bit
of a lead, moving out to minus three. He was
one of the four golfers who was tied at minus one.

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Tiger Woods will be teeing off in about fifteen minutes,
so will Dustin Johnson, who was coming in the overall
favorite to win this championship. So we will see what
ends up transpiring again. Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson. Both
team off in the next fifteen minutes here at Shinnecock
to begin their Friday edition. Talked about what Tiger is
gonna do with the yacht Brad facts and really good

(01:13:07):
and that was really pretty outstanding stuff from Brad Facts
and appreciate him hopping on in the midst of his
US Open coverage here for Fox Sports and for FS one,
I saw this story Cue the Animal thunder Old boys.
I thought this was actually really kind of an intriguing story.
It's not about a specific animal, but it's about our
ongoing war, and this is intriguing. Yeah, there we go,

(01:13:35):
ladies and gentlemen. I'm just glad. I was scared, boys,
and good. I thought he thought I was like this
enormous piece of chicken diarm times. I had a volunt
to my space. This is animal thunder Dog. This is
pretty amazing. Uh. In terms of time zones, you guys

(01:13:57):
know that I've made the argument before. I think we
should only have two time zones. I think we should
have the Central time, and I think we should have
the Mountain of time, and we can divide that wherever
we want to in the country. But everybody should be
within an hour of each other on the time zones.
So I was reading early this morning. California is trying
to get rid of the time change. At least, I

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think that's a smart move that's been introduced. It's gonna
be on the ballot this fall for everybody in California.
But this is pretty wild. Humans are starting to influence
the behavior of wild animals. According to a study published
yesterday in the journal Science, it's becoming so crowded on
our planet that wild animals are choosing to leave daylight

(01:14:41):
and seek the cover of darkness for protection. Quote. As
the planet grows increasingly crowded, this represents a way for
animals to adapt living alongside humans. This is from a
Berkeley PhD candidate. UH. It's been well established humans are
causing shifts and where animals live, but this large scale

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status UH comparison said that animals that used to split
their time fifty fifty half in the day half in
the night in the last decades the last few decades
are now spending sixty percent of their time living at
night and during the day. This includes all different sorts

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of animals, such as coyotes, which have increasingly moved into
the night, as well as tigers, which we have had
on the Animal Thunderdome a lot. They used to be
a lot more active during the day. They are almost
exclusively nocturnal in many parts of the country. So are
bears uh in many parts of the country, and we've

(01:15:48):
shifted their behavior here in recent time. That's kind of
a crazy story. Would you have ever believed that we
have managed to create convince animals that used to come
out into the day to instead stay embedded in the night.
Jason Martin cla. I don't know if you know this,
but people are terrible, like human beings in general. I
just don't like being around them very much anymore. So

(01:16:10):
I don't blame the animals in this case. In trying
to get as far away from what a lot of
humans as possible. You go to all these big concerts.
I'm always seeing you tweeting about all these events. You
actually go out in public more than anybody. I have
a little bit of a recluse now, Like I have
my house, I've got three kids, I get up early
in the morning to do the show. I'm completely fine

(01:16:31):
hardly seeing like I see like six people every day.
And that's why you have a Kobe compound. I have
a Kobe company does not have a compound. I discussed
this before. That's your goal in life is to achieve
a compound. Yeah, I mean I think I could have
an There's a lot of like in Nashville area where
I live. There's a lot of like country music singers
who I would say probably do have compounds. You know,

(01:16:52):
you can buy twenty acres kind of build a few
things around it all right now, all I have is
the one building and uh and I would like to
some point have a full compound. But people always ask me,
like what do you do socially, like when do you
go out? Like, I don't do anything. I get up
early in the morning, I do the show. Then I
might go to the gym. And if I go to
the gym, I come back home. I write, I work on,

(01:17:15):
you know, writing whatever I do my afternoon show with
periscope and Facebook, I'm not kidding. I might see six
people every day, and I'm perfectly happy with that. You,
Jason Martin, You're out in the scrum all the time
these concerts. My wife drags me out to go places.
The older I get, the more comfortable I am doing nothing,
I like just being at home. I think until you
get a compound, you should be wearing a hand cast

(01:17:35):
at all times. You should wear a risk cast to
explain why you don't have a compound right now, Like
anything that goes wrong in your life that needs to
become the risk cast, that needs to become the official
excuse maker of this show. How funny would it be
if one of the golfers did that just kind of
as a joke, you know, he was like, uh, you know,
I I don't want to draw attention to this, like

(01:17:56):
kind of making fun of the whole lebron wearing the
cast thing. Um, I don't know, a lot of these
guys on the tour have pretty good senses of humor.
I'm surprised all the time when I hear that an
athlete is a big fan of OutKick. Uh. There are
a ton of guys who are on the golf course
that read or listen to OutKick pretty regularly. Um, even
like a couple of them, Like when I was walking

(01:18:17):
the course yesterday, like a couple of them came up
and just kind of nodded as they're walking around, Like, uh,
so they have there's pretty good senses of humor on there,
but most of the time these guys are very dry
and what they say to the media, I think that's
just kind of, you know, like, when's the last time
you really other than Rory every now and then kind
of got some attention for the statements that he's made.
Almost all these guys don't say anything. I think that

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would be really funny after the carnage that we're seeing
on the golf course today. Again, there's forty guys out
there and only about three of them are under par.
Right now, however, Russell Henley is in the lead. I'll
tell you how much he's in the lead on UH
and also maybe we'll find out some Russell Henley fact
toys because I know nothing about him and right now
he is leading the US Open. I'll break it down
for you. Final hour of the week. Up next, this

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are at the US Open Championship rounds underway in about
one minute from now Tiger Woods. Justin Thomas and Dustin
Johnson will all be teeing off as part of the
featured group on the second round. Uh here at Shinnecock Hills.
Will any of them be able to go low? So far,

(01:19:42):
Justin Johnson is the only one who was under par
of that threesome. And we will see what ends up
happening early in the round as you can watch now
on the first tea, I believe, uh, as these guys
get get loose and prepare to to tee off, and
we will see whether Dustin Johnson, who is currently favored
to win this tournament, can put himself into position to

(01:20:05):
do that. Right now, there are a lot of golfers
that are already several holes in as they began at
six five am, little over and an hour ago, and
everything is going pretty well there and seems to be
transporting fairly well. So let's see here right now, the
leader in the clubhouse, Russell Henley, is at minus let's

(01:20:29):
see minus three. He's not in the clubhouse, he's on
the course, and he's actually already gone to under through
three holes. So far, he was tied at minus one
with three other guys. I know nothing nothing at all
about Russell Henley in any respect. And uh so we
have got Russell Henley trivia. I had Jason Martin grab stuff.

(01:20:50):
Are we gonna do like a true false here? Like?
I know literally nothing about Russell Henley. I imagine most
of our listeners do not either. He is right now
the leader in the US Open minus three. He has
a two stroke lead on everybody else. He is at
minus two so far on the course. What have you
got for me, Jason Martin? I've got a few things,
and I've got a crazy story that I think is

(01:21:10):
gonna make Russell Henley somebody you're gonna pay attention to
this weekend, at least certainly me. It's a story I
did not know, but I can ask you some true
false questions. All right, Well, whatever you got. I know
nothing about Russell, but I was trying to give Danny
a chance to give me. We did eighteen ninety six
trivia yesterday. Some of the questions eight yeah, yeah, trivia.

(01:21:31):
I'd be really good at trivia. I was just Okay,
by the way, Tiger Woods on the tea, Let's see
how he does on the tea here for the start
of his second round action. And uh, let's see, I
can't tell. I can't tell what he did, all right.
He is in the fairway. He's in the fairway. So
a good start for Tiger Woods, as everyone in television

(01:21:52):
hopes that he is going to be able to make
the make the cut and advance into the weekend, all right.
And also, certainly the people who piloted his yacht all
the way up here, they spent twelve days getting the
thing up here. They don't want to just have to
turn around and go somewhere else, all right. So what
have you got for me about Russell Henley? Is Russell
Henley American? Yeah, that's a tough I was afraid that

(01:22:16):
you might start with is Russell Henley American? So I
got a little bit of an advantage here. I actually
after we finished the show yesterday, I did Doug Gottlieb,
I set in for a couple of segments. We went
into the group. So what I'm giving you here is
I believe I have a little bit of an unfair
advantage on this Russell Henley was being interviewed by Holly

(01:22:37):
Saunders and her crew up on that like stage that
they have there, and so I believe the answer is
based on his accent. I believe yes, he is American. Correct.
That's only the only reason I knew that was because
I actually heard him talk and he sounded like he
had an American accent. Where's Russell Henley played college golf

(01:23:00):
in the Pact twelve? True or false? True false? University
of Georgia. Oh that's bad. Does Russell Henley follow me
on Twitter? This is gonna be painful if I find
out that he's actually an OutKick. Mind, I know nothing

(01:23:20):
at all about him. I'm gonna look him up on Twitter.
Uh this would be uh yeah, okay, well that I'll
look him up on Twitter. Somebody want of you guys
look him up and see. I can tell pretty quickly
if I if he follows me, I'll just look him up.
But so you continue to ask questions. Russell Henley is
over thirty years old? True or false? See, I thought

(01:23:43):
he seemed pretty young when I saw him. And again,
I'm basing all of this on the three minute interview
that he did after he posted at minus one yesterday,
I think that Russell Henley is Yeah, I'm gonna go there.
I thought he looks pretty young. I think he's under thirty.
Correct he twenty nine. Well that's a tough one, yeah,

(01:24:03):
but thirty is a good round number. I mean it
was still over or under. So I didn't think that
was me being unfair. Okay. Russell Henley has won over
two PGA Tour events in his career true or false? False? True,
He's won three. I just looked him up to know this.
He has thirty five thousand Twitter followers, So I mean

(01:24:26):
he is not very fair like the idea. It's not
as if very many people are going to know him.
By the way, he is now through four holes starting
on the back nine, and he is the leader of
the US Open at minus three. He won three PGA
Tour events. He won three more on the web dot
Com Tour. He was a fantastic college golfer, one the
award for the most outstanding college golfer. Actually, now, has

(01:24:51):
he been a pro for five years? Two or false?
More than five years? He's twenty nine, so I would
think that the answer has to be yes. It's not
like he was in college till he was twenty five.
That's right. He turned pro in two thousand eleven, so
that is indeed true. Is Russell Henley married true or false?

(01:25:13):
Twenty nine? He went to Georgia. Girls at Georgia get
married early. I'm gonna say, yes, he's married. He is married.
Is Russell Henley a father? True or false? Same answer? Uh,
Southern people tend to have children at a young age. Yes,
he's a father. Okay, that is indeed true, and now
it's time for this story. In April of this year,

(01:25:35):
his wife gave birth to the couple's first child, Robert.
It required surgery in a C section. After a lot
of difficulties, Robert was admitted to neo natal intensive care
due to head swelling. I say that this happened back
in April. They found out on the Wednesday of Masters
Week at five pm that their newborn son was out
of danger. He flew from their home in Charleston, South

(01:25:58):
Carolina to Augusta. Teed off the next day at twelve
thirty two PM for his first round. Found out while
making the turn on Friday in round two that his
wife was free to take their newborn son home base.
Timed them that night from Augusta got to watch his
wife feed his son. Finished the tournament tied for with

(01:26:20):
all of that going on the year before, he was
tied for eleventh at the Masters. He's currently ranked fifty
eight in the World Golf rankings. That eleventh was the
best finish in a major so far. But he's not bad.
And you talk about somebody's playing under pressure, playing under
the pressure of what's going on in his family and
still being able to you know, succeeded Augusta at least

(01:26:40):
with a top twenty finish. Shinnekak came nothing compared to
Neo NATO intensive care for your first son, No kidding. Uh.
And that's a guy that a lot of people don't know.
I would imagine if he maintains the kind of run
that he's on right now. Again, he's two under par
through four holes so far. Uh. Started on the back nine,
has a two stroke lead over everybody else. Dustin Johnson,
Tiger was just teeing off coming into today. Dustin Johnson

(01:27:03):
was the favorite as well as Justin Rose. Uh. Dustin
Justin Rosel not t off until later today. We are
at the one eight US Open Championship. That is your
Russell Henley U trivia. One more factor, one more factor.
As a rookie at the Sony Open in Hawaii and
as a rookie on the actual PGA tour, he broke

(01:27:25):
the Sony Open scoring record by four shots shot a
minus twenty four. That's the second lowest events score in
p g A history. Only Tommy Armor the third, who
was minus twenty six at Mallaro in Texas in two
thousand three, was lower. He did it as a rookie.
This dude might be worth paying attention to. Yeah, I'm
rooting for and wanting to do well. Tiger Woods. By

(01:27:47):
the way, easy birdie coming up in theory, just a
couple of feet away from the whole they started on
ten could uh again? I'd like to see Tiger make
the cut. I'd like to see him play on Saturday
and Sunday, just because I don't want to have to
turn the yacht around after twelve day used to get
it there. It seems like a tough break to have
to bring it back. All right, let me go ahead
and knock this out. We're here live on eighteenth US
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I am Clay Travis. Tiger Woods did make that birdie putt.
He's gone to plus seven. There are right now about
fifty people on the course and only uh, maybe we're

(01:29:36):
gonna see a repeat of what we saw yesterday. Only
five under par right now. One of the guys who's
underpar was tied for the lead coming in Russell Henley.
Uh is now out to minus three through four holes
so far. Tiger Woods birdieing ten. He started off on
the back nine and he has birdie ten to go
to plus seven so far. As we roll into the

(01:29:59):
second round, Ston Johnson even through one um and if
you look out there there is the weather conditions again. Uh,
the wind has has kicked up a little bit. It's
gonna be gray. Yesterday it was incredibly windy, but it
was at least a very sunny day. For most of
of the day. There was not very many clouds out
to be seen. Now it has Uh, it is completely overcast,

(01:30:23):
a little bit cool out here on the course, as
as a lot of the big guns start to find
their way around the course. Um, let's kind of bring
in the crew here, Jason Martin. Uh, we just ran
through the details surrounding was it, Russell Henley and uh
and everything about his performance. Again, he's at minus three

(01:30:43):
right now, he's the leader. We're outlive at eighteenth US
Open Championship Shinnecock Hills Tiger Woods birding one. Any chance
we could get a vintage Tiger run because it's unlikely
anybody's gonna go that low. If Tiger Woods could shoot
two or three under par, he'd be a little bit
relevant going into the weekend. That would be huge for
golf on Saturday and Sunday. Given how many people make

(01:31:05):
their decision I know, and you're one of them, Danny
g about whether or not to pay attention to golf
effectively based on how Tiger Woods is doing. Actually, justin
I think Cooper is the one said he won't watch
a drop on side. But um, as for Tiger, Yeah,
like I said, I don't think he's gonna go out
there and play badly today at all. I don't know
that he goes under par. The problem is top sixty
and he's one oh two. So it depends on how

(01:31:27):
everybody else plays. But I'm not surprised at all to
see him go out there and start out strong. Something
I just noticed and did not know existed until just now.
At g C Tiger Tracker is an actual follow on Twitter.
It's golf channel that does nothing but gives you every
shot Tiger hits via Twitter. That's incredible. You want to

(01:31:47):
talk about how big Tiger Woods is. The Golf channel
has its own Twitter account obviously, and then has a
separate Twitter account just for Tiger Woods when he's playing golf.
That to me is amazing. Yeah, no, oh uh, this
is uh, this is fantastic in general. Again, Tiger Woods
for birdieing the first hole of the exact opposite of
what he did. There were so many people excited. The

(01:32:09):
yachts out there parked in the in the ocean and
everybody is rolled up and excited about what might transpire,
what might happen for Tiger Woods here, and then he
went out and tripled the first hole yesterday. He has
birdie the first hole here, by the way. And also
who's playing? And we need to do some uh some
at some point next week some World Cup trivia from
different countries. We got Egypt going up against is it Uruguay?

(01:32:32):
Is that who's playing this morning? Right now, right now,
while I've got the FIFA the World Cup underway obviously
in Russia after yesterday's game between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Right now, we have got Egypt and Uruguay on and
am I being bumped in for satellite radio? If they
bumped us? Do you think for Egypt Uruguay if you're
not that, if you're not, I don't know the answer

(01:32:54):
because we're on a variety of different stations. But if
you're not able to hear us on satellite radio, I'm
curious if they're bumping us for game aimes like Egypt
against Uruguay, let me know. Tweet me at Clay Travis
Tiger minus one um Dustin Johnson has just teat off
He's even through one hole, uh as as we watch
the golf. I I have long thought and continue to

(01:33:16):
believe that what should happen when you put kind of
in context how difficult some of these shots are, is
they will often put in the rough the ball and
you don't have any clue how how thick it is
walking around this course. I I would just like to
see regular golfers trying to hack out of the rough
because I think you know, when you see a pro

(01:33:37):
golfer punch out into the fairway, you don't really have
a context for what really the difficulty of that shot is.
And sometimes I mean, I'm not kidding you. You drop
a golf ball, You've got people five feet away and
they can't find it. I think the challenges of this course,
in particular with the rough is uh is is is
hard for people who haven't walked around or even attempted

(01:33:59):
shots to do it. Wouldn't you love to see like
average golfers try to hit out of the rough yere? Oh? Yeah, absolutely?
And I remember watching Shinnecock again back in the first
U S Open that that I can really recall, you know,
when I was a teenager and that rough is something
I never forgot. Literally, you look at the rough at
Shinnecock and you wonder if there's animal thunderdome possibilities every

(01:34:19):
single time somebody walks into it because of how high,
how deep all of it seems to be. But yeah,
just the idea trying to hit out of that, watching
somebody at a muni or something, or somebody that you
just pick out of a crowd and say, all right,
see many shots it takes you to get out of
this and just get twenty yards onto the fairway, and
you could probably watch certain guys go for thirty or
forty minutes and not be able to hack it out

(01:34:40):
of there. Yeah, I mean it would be It would
be incredible to see. I just think I think the
one challenge that you have when you have a US Open,
of course, that's playing this difficult and you know that
guys are having to hit difficult shots and it's a
challenge and their associated aspects of it, um. But I
think the one thing you don't really understand is how
incredible these guys are. I mean, I think yesterday but

(01:35:02):
we had a guy who's at the US Open who
shot at ninety two. I mean, can you conceive we're
talking to Brad facts in an hour too, what it
would be like to shoot at ninety two. Like, if
I go out and shoot at ninety two on a Saturday,
that's not actually to be fair a bad round for me.
But this guy has built his entire life around performing

(01:35:23):
in majors and everything that he hopes to do and
he shoots twenty two over par. That kind of puts
into perspective how challenging, uh this thing could be. And
if you've already gone twenty two over par, I mean,
what in the world are you expecting to shoot on
on today? Well, Felix Cosas back at Bethpage Black must
be something about New York State John and two back

(01:35:44):
in two thousand two, that was the highest until yesterday,
where Scott Gregory tied. It wasn't highest of all time,
though Scott Gregory tweeted out, maybe I can have the
best improvement from round to round in the history of
the p g A Tour because obviously he was so
there's not a lot of people who go that late
who go bad. So what's the best but the worst?
But but the worst, He's not going to beat the worst.

(01:36:05):
In eight Clay J. D. Tucker at Myopia Hunt Club
in the US Open, shot a one fifty seven in
the first round and then shot a one hundred the
next day, taking fifty seven off his first round score.
I don't think Scott Gregory's gonna do that. What was
par back then? I have no idea. I can try

(01:36:28):
to look it up. Um, just can you imagine shooting
a one seven? Well, I just know I can't imagine. Yes,
actually I can't imagine shooting a one fifty seven. But
secondly I can't imagine shooting a one fifty seven. If
par is seventy, right, I mean so that the par
must have been like a hundred and twenty back then
they must have played. Uh. I don't know how the

(01:36:49):
course was set up. There must have been like seven
pars or something. I don't know. It's been like, ah
like at the end it must have been like you
had to put it through a clown's nose or something,
clown's mouth or something. I don't know how it was
set up, putt putt style. Um, we're rolling through all
of this. By the way, our guy Russell Henley, who
we just introduced everybody too, he gave back a stroke.
So the lead now is at minus two and there

(01:37:11):
are over fifty golfers on the course right now, and
I'm looking at a live score update directly in front
of me. Again, we're live at the eighteenth US Open Championship.
There are about seventy five guys I think now on
the course. Probably five of them are under par, so
we may be looking at another massacre. And the longer

(01:37:33):
the guys have been out, everybody who has been out
for an hour or more, there are just like one
guy under par. Basically, so if you have played very
many holes. The course is not playing very easy early
this morning either, So we will see how this continues
to uh to break out and transpire as the as

(01:37:53):
the day progresses. Let's go ahead and bring in Eddie Garcia.
Let's find out what's shaken in the world of sports
and beyond my man, what you got for me, Well,
let's give you a guy go scoreboard. As you mentioned,
of course, you're out there at the hunter A t
US Open and Day two is underway, and right now
your leader is Russell Henley. He's through five holes, one
other for the day, two hunder for the tournament. That
gives him a one stroke lead over three other players,

(01:38:15):
and one of those players is out on the course
right now, Dustin Johnson, the number one ranked golf from
the world. He's even par through one hole, still at
one under for the tournament. It's still one shot off
the lead. He's playing with Tiger Woods, who through one
hole is one under and he's now seven over par
Is Tiger Woods. Meanwhile, soccer at the World count going
on right now. It's day two underway over on f

(01:38:36):
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US Open. We are bumped off some stations on satellite,
but also still a lot of you listening letting us
know we have not been bumped everywhere. For Egypt Diverses Uruguay. Uh.
The Egypt Uruguay World Cup game going on simultaneously as is, Yeah, victory,

(01:39:23):
somewhat victory, partial victory, as is the the US Open,
eighteenth US Open Championship. Dustin Johnson lining up for a
birdie on his second hole here. Uh, and if he
makes this shot he will have a share of the
lead with made it so Dustin Johnson is moving to
minus two and he is at minus one for the

(01:39:43):
day so far, joining Russell Henley at minus two as well. Um.
As the early rounds begin and progress the early holes
here on day two of the US Open, I saw it,
by the way, Uh, we're out here in Shinnica Kills.
I saw two interesting gambling offshore lines. Did you guys
hear about Ted Cruise challenging Jimmy Kimmel to a one

(01:40:08):
on one basketball game? Oh, I'm watching that. Have you
heard about that? Knew something? I didn't know the specifics
of it. Ted Cruise, Senator from Texas. I don't know
how it came up, But Jimmy Kimmel now making making
yea Grayson Allen's dad was making fun of Ted Cruz,
and so Ted Cruise took to Twitter and challenged Jimmy

(01:40:28):
Kimmel to a basketball one on one game. I'm told
that Jimmy Kimmel has since reached out to Gus Johnson
to ask him to do the play by play of
their potential one on one basketball game, which I'm gonna
be honest with you, can you I would watch that
and like we might do a whole we might do
a whole show breaking down Ted Cruz. It's the summer,

(01:40:49):
we might. Yeah, we might need to cover it remote
Like that's actually that's actually a good point, uh for
anybody out there who's listening in Texas. Many people who
have a contact with Ted Cruz will cover your Ted
Cruise versus Jimmy Kimmel one on one basketball game. We
will do a live broadcast courtside uh from that if
you do it in the morning. If you do it
in the morning, We'll be there. What I think would

(01:41:10):
be hilarious is if they actually did bring in Grayson
Allen and they shot it and Ted Cruz destroyed Jimmy
Kimmel and Grayson Allen played into it along with Ted Cruise.
I think that would be hilarious. I think that'd be
really good TV. Also think it'd be good optics for
Grayson Allen going into the NBA draft the way he's seen, like,
just to do that and have fun with it. I
think that'd be a lot of fun too. Yeah. Well,

(01:41:30):
I love the idea that Jimmy Kimmel has reached out
to Grayson. I mean, sorry to Gus Johnson to call
the game. That would be unbelievable. But the reason why
I bring it up is there you can gamble offshore
on who is who is favored, So you guys haven't
seen the lines, I don't think, right. I don't think
you guys have seen what the actual numbers are. Who

(01:41:51):
would you favor in Jimmy Kimmel versus Uh versus Ted
Cruz head to head um Man don't know. I mean,
Jimmy Kimmel was back on The Man Show and stuff,
Ted Crews gotta hy base a little bit less Tristan
Thompson in him, so he might be able to post up.
But it's one on one, so I don't know how
effective that would be this would be I don't know.

(01:42:12):
I want to break this down and spend like an
entire show really breaking down all the nuance of this.
I want to lean Cruise, but my head tells me
Kimmel would do what it took to winning. I think, well,
first of all, I think that height and weight matters here,
so and I know, because it's a politician, it's always difficult.
So we may have to break this down next week.
But this is actually really cool. Bavada has Cruise a

(01:42:33):
minus two twenty favorite over Kimmel, who is plus one sixty,
so there's actually a pretty substantial difference here. Ted. I
don't know how Jimmy Kimmel recovers from Ted Cruise just
running him on the basketball court. That's a that's a
tough bounce back performance. It's not like Cruise looks like
a great athlete. Jimmy Kimmel getting no respect in the
off shores. We're gonna talk with Casey Smith next. She

(01:42:54):
will be on with us at Casey Smith that she
has many Fridays. We are live from the hundred eighteenth
US Open Champion and ship here at Schennica Kills. Thanks
for hanging with us Thursday and Friday. Will obviously be
breaking this down on Monday. Who one and maybe we
need to break down Jimmy Kimmel versus Tad Cruz as well.
This is Outkicked the coverage live from the eighteenth US
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I'm gonna bring in Casey Smith. Now. Casey lives in
New York now, and evidently, as part of living in

(01:43:39):
New York, she is unable to talk on a regular basis.
Do you attribute moving to the city to making you
get sick all the time? Now? Yeah, I think that
that's the best excuse I can come up with, because
there's trash on every single street corner, and I feel
like I'm always using my voice, but I don't feel bad,
So I feel like it's inhaling the garbage juice that's
making me lose my voice all the time. So that's

(01:43:59):
your scuts from coming up with and I'm sticking with it,
all right. So we got a big, big question for you,
and obviously we're up here doing the US Open. But
I was in Manhattan on Tuesday and Wednesday, and yesterday
I went to go watch Hamilton's by myself. Have you
ever been to a Broadway play by yourself? And or
have you been to any Broadway play since you got
to New York City. Both answers are no, but I

(01:44:20):
will tell you I've got I have tickets to Hamilton's
in July, and I'm super excited about it. So I
would understand why you would want to go by yourself,
because it's that big of a deal. But now, I've
never gone to anything like a movie or a Broadway
show by myself at all, and I've not been the
one since that been in New York, which is kind
of a Trappis date. Have you seen people in the
theater by yourself and by themselves and judged them as

(01:44:42):
you were there with a friend or date or co
worker or whatever the case may be. Do you judge
people who go to movies by themselves. No, not at all,
because I don't like to be around people a lot,
and I feel like if you want to get away
from people and can be completely by yourself or movie theaters,
getten it to do. One of my best friends, who
also lived in New York, goes to movies by yourself
all the time because she just doesn't want to talk
to people and wants to be alone. And I feel

(01:45:03):
like that's a really, really good tactic to do. So
I feel like it's okay, I've just never done it.
Maybe I should. We had the World Cup news come
down and the US gets to host, along with Canada
and Mexico the World Cup. How big of a deal
do you think that's gonna end up being. I think
it's gonna be huge. I'm pissed that that that US

(01:45:23):
is not in the World Cup fist year because a
few like I think in Johns and ten is when
I really started watching the World Cup because of teen
U s A. And I was working in a bar
at the time and it was in Mathouse for a
third making me really watch soccer, and I feel like
every four years it's teen US as in there. It's
gaming new fans for soccer. So this year the fact
that it's not they're not there is horrible for the
four and in the States at least. So the fact

(01:45:45):
that next time it will be in the States, I
think it's huge because there's a whole group of people
out there that want to love soccer, they just don't
really know how to get into it like I did.
And people then look down, You'll well, you haven't loft
soccer your whole life. You're a bandwagging fan. It's like, well,
I can't be a bandwag and fan of the country's team,
so I want to learn about it. In the World
Cup is the best way to do it. So having

(01:46:05):
it here I will be massive for the sport. I
would think, how much interest in general do you have
when it comes to where Lebron James is going to play?
Like I every time I checked Twitter, there's a new
rumor out there, rumor is he doesn't like Houston. Well,
you're from the state of Texas, I'm sure you, although
you don't really like Houston either because you're from Dallas
and they have the whole rivalry going on there in

(01:46:26):
the state of Texas. But I'm sure, like you know,
the latest seems to be that he's going to go
to the Lakers, but it's vacillated. It was the uh,
it was the the seventy sixers were the favorite, then
the Rockets. Now it's the Lakers. Doesn't seem like he's
gonna stay in Cleveland. If he came to you and
he said, Casey Smith, just give me straight up advice,
where would you tell him to go? I would tell
him there's two different things. As somebody who wants to

(01:46:49):
see the Celtics really succeed, I would tell him to
go to the West, just because she'll be out of
the Eastern Conference. I mean, that way, the Celtics would
have a better shot at making it to the finals.
But if I was just looking on paper, why was
the bron game where I would want to go? Right now?
I would take Philadelphia. You've got the seventy Fires team
that looks like it does. It's so young, a lot
of talent, and they're just kind of missing that one
big peach and obviously he's the best player on the planet.

(01:47:11):
That makes the most sense to me. But I also
think i'd rather see him play in the West. And
you see what he can do against Golden State and
if they can create their own little super team with
maybe the Lakers, um or even the Clippers. I guess
in l a into what he can do. But um,
I do know that Celtics fans don't want him anywhere
near Boston, which I think is crazy, Like, oh, if
he comes to Boston, they're not going to have been

(01:47:32):
to the Celtice anymore. I think that's a crazy take
and probably the only team in the country that feels
that way. Um. How much interest do you have in
the US Open? It's obviously taking place out in Long Island, Um,
And I know you're a big Jordan's speed fan. Will
you be paying a lot of attention to it or
how much in general do you care? Oh? I'll be
watching every day of it that I can. I love golf,

(01:47:52):
especially hearing the summer here's not a lot going on,
just because I actually like the sport, and I like
when it gets close. It's even blowout golf turn They're
not as much fun to watch, but it's entertaining to me,
especially when there's nothing wrong. But I love the majors
and I went to the US Open a few years
ago that was the first one I'd ever been to
a major in person, and I realized how much I

(01:48:13):
liked being there. But I've much other watching at home
because the coverage is so much better on TV, and
you have you can watch every single hole and every
single golfer, so I'll be walcked in every day and
you have huge shortan seats and I don't know if
you're gonna win this one, but if you, guys, I'll
be super stoked about it. You know, it's interesting you
mentioned that because we were fortunate in I guess it
was in outside of Pittsburgh. We went was at Oakmont.

(01:48:34):
I can't even remember exactly the name of the course. Yeah, yeah,
that was two years ago. And obviously we're at the
US Open right now broadcasting from Shinnecock Hills, and I
think you definitely get the sense when you walk around
a golf course. It's cool to be able to go
out and walk around and feel kind of the topography
of the course, but they do such a better job

(01:48:56):
of putting it on television because you know the significance
of every shot, whereas if you're out on the golf course,
you're watching a particular hole or a couple of holes,
maybe only a couple of players. It's hard to keep
tabs on who's putting up a great round unless you
happen to be following the guy who's putting up the
great round. Yeah, it's difficult. And I mean and when
we were at you know, we had that really sweet

(01:49:17):
set up um in a like a Fox Sports suite
or wherever we were on a fair way, Like why
would we ever leave that? Like you're gonna sit there
and you're gonna enjoy the drinks and the air condition
of the food, but then you're just watching what's happening
on that one hole. And it was cool whenever Dustin Johnson,
what's finishing outage round? To watch that happened there and
watch all the people, but you're not really getting a
sense of what's going on for the entire tournament, and

(01:49:39):
you really can't experience that outside of a TV broadcast.
So it's cool to be there a couple of times. Obviously,
I want to go to a dust end experience the
Master's once in person, but I'd so much try to
watch it on TV because you can just be lazy
for an entire weekend and use golf as an excuse.
Do you judge me for having warned my golf shoes
to the golf course today? So I think this interesting question,

(01:50:00):
like what do you decide to wear? Right? So you
know me, I am always a comfort over fashioned person.
So I am right now sitting here doing the show
at at Shinnecock in the media tent. I am wearing
shorts because it's gonna be like eighty five degrees and
I think if you can wear shorts, you should wear shorts.
I am wearing a button down, so I want to

(01:50:22):
have a little bit of class to class it up.
But then I am wearing my my Jordan's beat under
armored golf shoes. Now they aren't like the kind of
golf shoes that you you know, like screw in the
cleat and everything else, Like they're they're kind of normal
looking shoes, but they are golf shoes, fair or foul. Well,
I was gonna say foul at first until you mentioned

(01:50:44):
that their Jordan's set shoes, so that but I didn't.
I absolutely envisioned you having to like screw the metal
gluts from the bottom, and I would like that would
be a wild neut because I can't figure out why
you would need that. But I also wore wedges the
first day at the US shows. But when we went
and that was a horribleman's stake because I was trying
to be cute and we had to walk like all
the miles to get there. So I can't give anybody

(01:51:06):
shoe advice because I get the wrong. Thing is as
the traffic situation, Like when we were at Oakmont, we
stayed in the shadiest like possible hotel rooms. But the
hotels were really close and there are like I am
forty miles away from the course right now. This is
a media hotel. It's not like I just randomly ended

(01:51:27):
up there. Fox Sports has the Gulf, has the US
open on and they have put me at a hotel
that is forty miles away. So the travel situation here
is a mess. And like in general, we stayed at
shady motel. Here's the question. I am legitimately concerned that
about the process of getting back and forth that I

(01:51:48):
am willing to almost sleep anywhere. You have to go
for shady and the same way that I'd go comfort
over over fashion. You gotta go shady motel over nice motel.
If you have to go a big distance, right, Like
there you stayed in a place where I'm confident there
have been a lot of murders at Oakmont, but we
were pretty close. We could be back and forth to
Oakman in fifteen or twenty minutes as opposed to hours

(01:52:11):
which people are spending to get to Shinnikoq. Yeah. That
fact that you're forty miles away, especially in New York,
which like two miles to take like an hour to
go to is crazy. And I mean, I know I
told this story on this show before, like the hotel
or the motor I stayed at in Oakland, I was
solicited as a hooker, So that'll tell you how shady
it was. But I think I'd rather do that than

(01:52:33):
have to go hours every single day in the state
of New York. That sounds miserable, Yeah, no, it is.
It is utterly uh, it is utterly awful. Um, what
do you got planned for the summer? Like are are
you uh you're single, but you know you've got a boyfriend,
and so like do you plan out months in advance,
like big vacation trips? Are you doing something in July

(01:52:55):
or August that is like a major vacation or and
I mean, honestly, for what we do once foot ball
season starts. It's hard to be very flexible schedule wise
because football is so all encompassing. But I'm curious, have
you got, like, do you sit down and look at
the calendar and plan out in a significant way a
getaway in any kind of any kind of fashion. Have

(01:53:15):
you ever heard of yacht Week? No? No, nothing about it. Okay,
whenever we're done with this interview, during the next commercial break,
you need to go google yacht Week. I am going
to Yachtweek this week this year. It's in Croatia. It's
the end of July, and it's basically a week of
a ton of yachts that travel together and it's a
bunch of people in their twenties, thirties, forties, whatever, and

(01:53:36):
you live on this yacht and it just travels around
Croatia for the entire week, and it's basically just a
moving party. Like a couple of my girlfriends did it
a few years ago, and they went to the Virgin
Islands and they said it was much amazing experience of
all time. And that's a lot of single people, a
lot of people they just want to go and you
get away, and so I decided why not. I don't
have anything else to do. I'm in my late twenties,

(01:53:57):
might as well do it now. And I'm a little
bit concerned that I may never come back. You've got
to google it. It's mining So a yacht week. I'm
fascinated by this. So how like do you rent a
yacht a room on a yacht? Like? What is your
You're a good looking girl, so your standard of of Like,
it's like if you step on a yacht, guys who
are probably going to be piloting the yacht are gonna
be like excited to have you get there. If I

(01:54:19):
step on their yacht, they're gonna be like, who is
this dude? Unless I'm rolling in with a bunch of girls,
they probably don't want me on their yachts. So I'm
so you're going to Croatia. First of all, you fly
to Croatia. I don't like, where do you go through?
Do you go to London and then direct to Croatia?
I don't even how do you get there from New York?
I can go direct from here to split Croatia, So
I can direct area. There's a direct flight from New

(01:54:42):
York City to Croatia. I think so unless I want
it incorrectly, which I mean obviously I probably did look
at it incorrectly when I was booking it, but I
mean I may have. I think if you do something Germany,
I don't know. I I really don't look at stuff
way that looks right and it's not your expensive it
gets I agree. You know, when you travel all the
time for work, you're just like whatever, just get me there, um,

(01:55:04):
but you go there and then you So the way
that the yachts work is they have somebody who's in
charge of it, and then the equal amount of guys
and girls on each yacht, so it's not like a
yacht full of dudes or a yacht full of girls.
It's yeah, it's equal number. And then they have different
kinds of yachts that we're on because a lot of
us that are on the boat are in our late
twenties and early thirties and we have jobs that are

(01:55:25):
paying as well. So we have like the upgraded yacht
where we have somebody who makes us food every day.
We have like a skipper who like planned all of
our activities whenever we're like on land. So we're gonna
have like meals made for us as well. Then like
my girlfriends who went, they were younger and they went.
They said they were on a yacht where people were like, whatever,
we'll just eat Cheetos and ramen. We don't care. We're
on a yacht in the Virgin Island. So it's kind

(01:55:45):
of an array of different things. But they had equal
amount of girls and guys, and it's I don't know
exactly how many yachts it is, but I mean it's like,
I want to say, like twenty to thirty yachts and
they just all traveled together for that whole week. So
how many people are on your yacht? I think there's
eight of us and it's four guys and four girls.
How do you know everybody on your yacht? Or would

(01:56:06):
there be some strangers on the yacht? Some strangers I
know have, Um, you know my friend Warre and Clary
of the Little Hot Mess is the best friend that
I have. Yeah, she's on the boat with me, and
then we know a couple of the guys um because
we grew up with them, and then they don't know
the other group. I think she even have Facebook group.
I don't have Facebook, but she's in a group, like
meeting all of those people right now. Um, but apparently
like you just go and you can really close friends

(01:56:28):
with whoever you're on the yacht lip and other yachts.
But you can go hop around the yachts whenever. They
all like kind of dot together in the middle of
the room, like you can just hop around and go
in other places. I'm sorry, I'm in what it's like
in the middle of it because it's watching the videos alone.
It's like this just might be the best thing that's
ever been invented. So do you get I I I'm
incredibly jealous as a dad of three, It's unlikely that

(01:56:48):
I'm going to be on Yacht Week anytime soon. So
do you get your own bedroom on the yacht? Do
you have bunk beds? Like? I? Like, I haven't ever
spent any time and on a yacht, So I think
that from what I unders can, is that that you
have your own bed that you might bunk. I think
some rooms are solo beds in some rooms are bunks.
So for people who are in relationships and they're they're

(01:57:09):
like like significant other, aren't there? I think you could
like bunk with somebody else, like Okay, and I think
that as someone I understand there's like the sliss room
like on Germany shore, and yes, single beds, that's what
kind of what it feels like. But I've never been
on the like visit the catamaran. You can like sleep
in the netting to like almost in the water, so
I don't know exactly what it looks like. So what
I've been told is I will absolutely have my own

(01:57:30):
bed and I won't have to share with anybody, and
that's all that matters to me. Uh So, yeah, this
is unbelievable. I'm so incredibly jelled. Like, now, where are
all these people from. Is this an American thing? Or
are people from all over the world who are doing
this this thing all over the world and they have
like a bunch of different trips throughout the year, like
they do winter trips are like New Year's Eat trips,

(01:57:51):
and in the summer trips, but I think there's one
going on right now. I think they're increased, and so
it's just from all over the world. People sign up
on their certain weeks they want to go on, and
then if you know somebody who's in charge of the boat,
you get placed in their bound or if you're just
like a random person and frying up through the Yacht
Week company itself. And so when Lauren went last time,
she would be people from Iceland to the people from

(01:58:13):
Italy and then people from America and they were all
on the same boat. And so she's now gone and
visited those people and they've come to America as well.
Something is so awesome. So when are you actually doing
this in July? The last week of July? So I like,
I've been planning that since last year. So I usually
don't plan it out big vacations like this. I usually
just say I've got to get out to l A

(01:58:33):
once for the summer and I've got to go to
a beach. But this one, I was like, no, mark
my calendar down. I'm here Yacht Week and nobody can
stop me. This is phenomenal. Well, I can't wait to
hear about I had no idea. I'm glad I asked.
Thank you for getting up with us, by the way
and fighting through the the the voice there and we
will talk to you hopefully again next week. Thanks for
very much to have fun awesome time out here. Thursday Friday,

(01:58:57):
Shinnica Hills, the hundred eighteenth US Open Championship. Looks like
it's gonna be a wild finish. Also, another brutal day
out on the course. Lots of big numbers going up,
hardly anyone under par. Will give you all the breakdown
Monday edition. Out get the coverage. Thanks for spending your
entire week with us. We'll be back on Monday. This
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