May 15, 2023 • 44 mins
Jessica and Bryan recap their recent Palm Springs Quarterly golf trip with Jessica's dad. Bry and Jess start to question whether golfers are to be trusted as they talk through multiple incidents involving theft. Jess and Bry also highlight their favorite brands and their incredible customer service. Lastly, a special VIP invite for a day of wine and food at the Santa Clarita Taste of the Town, hosted by their club - Sand Canyon Country Club.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You are listening to Balls and Holes with Jessica Bauser
and Brian Pascarelli.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, babe, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
How are you good. We've taken a little time off
from our podcast. Yeah, did a little traveling, did some golfing.
You're drinking your beer. I'd like to mention we're having
afternoon cocktails. It is before five o'clock. We were breaking
our own rule, will be a sleep by eight h So.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Took a little trip, a couple of trips, did a
little golf in. One of those trips was Palm Springs
for the what is that bi annual quarterly the quarterly? Yeah,
the quarterly golfing trip with my father. News flash, I
did not beat him again again. I have yet to
beat him.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I thought I had it this time. I thought i'd
like really prepared my mental game. That was not the case.
Physically fell apart. I did, however, have of the biggest
drive of my life. Yep, that I have ever had.
No wind, no hills, no slope, two hundred and ninety
seven yards.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I was there, I witnessed it. I can vouch for her.
It was to ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It was insane. You have it, I do have it. Yeah,
it can be done.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It can be done. It's attainable.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Got a badass.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, without a roll, straight flat.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Stuck it. It's a big hit. It was a big hit,
you bet, dad, I did.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I've done it before and this time we played again.
Indian Canyons in Palm Springs one of the oldest golf
courses in Palm Springs. Right across the street from the condo,
there's a North and South course. I think we played
the North course.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I think it's north, but I played from the
tips are all different, but it's like the one right
in front of the championship tips and I shot a
seventy five.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah you did great. Yeah that was the first day.
Second day, second day, I shot in eighty five. Yeah,
it's same course. Weird out there.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's hot. Yeah, it was hot first day. Like this
is what I've realized, and we made a change to
this trip. Typically we go out and we plan to
golf three days and it's typically day one. Everybody's excited
to be there and you end up like exhausting yourself.
At least I do you play. I usually play like shit,
but I'm exhausted by the end of day one. Day two,
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you've got a feeling for it. You're like, all right,
I got this. You go out, you think you're gonna
fucking nail it. Usually we fall apart. Then we usually
do a day three and we have learned this is
the first time that we only did two days. We
have learned that by day three, everybody's sick of each other,
there's no energy left, everybody's irritated on edge, and then
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we have to drive home after day three of golf,
So we did not play day three. We instead slept in,
which was glorious. Drove up to Joshua Tree, went to
go see our good friend Dion at his restaurant, and
is Snake Bite Cafe?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's a bar. It's a bar.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Is it a cafe?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I mean, is it bar? It's going to be amazing, right,
that was really fun. Spent the day in Joshua Tree
and Yucca Valley and Yuka Valley just leisurely like, walked around,
ate some amazing food, and then drove back way better
way to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, when we were at Palm Springs it was so hot.
We were at the pool. Do you want to tell
everyone about that person who's stole your vabe.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
No, I mean, look, what do you say you're at
like a public slash. I guess it's not public. It's
a condo, right, But it's like you know people who
are coming to condos and so you're in you know,
pool soup with GP general public. It's a weird mix
of people people who stay at condos, it really is.
So there were some some characters and some odd people.
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It was also, mind you, that weekend was Stage Coach, right,
so we were there the week during the week leading
into Stage Coach. So like there were weird bands that
were showing up that we're staying at our condo. Oh,
there were some like meth heads that were at the condo.
There were a lot of families, a lot of fat.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
People, so many fat tattoos.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I felt like a fucking supermodel there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So did I. I mean, I'm living with tattoos.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
But everyone had the same body structure, just really out
of shape and tattooed.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was strange.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, somebody stole my vape.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well whatever, I just I want to tell everyone that,
you know, I bought the vape before we went.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Now, you're just sounding like a cheap.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Now, I bought you a vap, me a vape and
some coils, and then as soon as yours got stolen
and it was brand new, I gave you mine that
I just bought.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I want I want everyone to know that.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, you're a nice guy, you do nice things.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And I did walk around the pool like five times
waiting to.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Be so did I I went on a mission. I
was so mad, isn't it ridiculous? Like when we can't
find our vape or like I'd never had one stolen.
I felt crazy. I was walking around the pool through
the waterfall, like, all around the corners like intently death,
staring anybody that I thought looked like a perpetrator and
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somebody who would have stolen.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And we know who took it.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It was some meth girl who the paramedics were called
on and the security came and she was a crazy person.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
She walked up to me and she's like, your husband's
a fucking asshole, and I was like, what excuse me?
I didn't even know what to say, and she's like, well,
I wanted his help and he wouldn't help me. Like
she was so off her rocket.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And She's like, oh my god, the paramedics are here,
pretend you know me. I'm like, what do you know
where my vape is? And I was like eyeball. Anyways,
she was there all day stealing shit.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I bet yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
She was like the little shoemakers, her shoemakers, shoemakers and
dirty dancing, and that's what I compared her to. She
probably like hangs out at that condo and just like
steal shit from people. I don't think anyone knows that, right,
everybody knows that reference. The two little old people that
are in the Berkshires or the Cat's Skills or wherever
they are at the resort and they're stealing stuff from
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all the wealthy folks.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean we were at the wrong resort and I
don't know where all the wealthy folks were.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Good news as my bag has stayed this Yeah, I'm
still using the link one putter from Lab Golf.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Thank you Lab, my Exacxio ex.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Driver, my King Cobra three hybrid, four hybrid, one length,
and then my scott Irons.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah you've really made friends with your scott Irons. Yeah,
you've got a good bag together. So you've what like
secured your bag? Is this what you're telling me?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's it's pretty close.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I did put in a sixty four degree in wedge,
which I get out of the sand really great.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So that's new.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, but you you've settled on a bag. Yeah, I
don't know, man, like I've always had my bag settled.
I mean, I know in the beginning, it took me
a couple different rounds and a couple different tries, but
I stick with what I love and what I know works.
And I had a moment on our way back. We
came back into town. We played at Hanson Dam, which is,
you know, a municipal public course here. We just wanted
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to go shake off the dust of what had transpired
in Palm Springs, and uh, you know, since having the pod,
we've started to get recognized, which is it's funny because
we don't put any of this out on video, right Like,
we don't put it out on video, So it's always
funny when we get recognized from either our Instagram or
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art work from the pod or whatever. But needless to say,
it's something that's been happening and we've started to kind
of get used to it, and it's kind of funny.
So cut to we're at Hansoon. Damn, we've just played around.
I of course always come back from Palm Springs after
I've played terribly and always end up having one of
the best rounds of my life. And so I'm in
a good mood. Like we get done, we take our
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clubs off the cart, you set your stuff down. I
took mine to a different area. You went to go
to the bathroom or going to the pro shop or something.
I don't know, you're probably taking a shit or something.
Who knows. But I was cleaning my clubs and all
of a sudden, this girl comes up to me, and
she's like acting really excited. She's like, oh my god,
how are you. I'm so and so like I listen
to your pod. It's so cool to get to run
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into you. You know, my boyfriend and I we love it.
We always laugh so hard when we were listening to it.
Blah blah blah. She's like, you know, doing this whole
song and dance. She's like, You've got to come meet
my girlfriend that I'm here with. She listens too, and
so like I'm having this moment where I'm like, oh,
how fun cool people? We have fans, they want to
meet us, whatever. So I leave my bag where it's
at over by, like the bag drop is where I
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was cleaning, and I go over and she introduces me
to her girlfriend and we're all there having a conversation,
and like, in my mind, I'm thinking, like, oh cool.
Like I'm first to admit I don't really like girl
golfers a lot of the time, I've yet to meet
girl golfers that I want to hang out with. I
should put it that way. So I was like having
this whole other thing happen in my mind where I
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was like, oh my god, cool, Maybe these are like
cool girls I could hang out with. Little did I
know that while I was enjoying the fandom, girl number
one's boyfriend was apparently over going through my bag and
plucking my clubs. I had no idea this was happening.
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I get done talking to these girls, I start walking
back towards my bag. I lay eyes on you, and
You're like, you've got this look on your face and
you've got like my headcover in your hand, my sloth headcover,
and I'm like, I'm all happy, You're clearly not, And
I'm like, what the fuck is happening, What's going on?
What transpired while I was gone. I'm getting ready to
tell you about these two cool girls that I met,
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and you are having none of it.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So Jess has a sloth headcover on her ping g driver,
which she loves and she's had in the back forever.
It's a sloth headcover.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I bought it for her. It is a funny furry animal.
It's on the ground. And I said, where the fuck's
herd driver? And I see you talking to the girls,
and I start looking around, getting my spidy senses like crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You've got good spidy sense.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right, So I look around and I see a dude
by his car and I can just feel it. I
walk over with the sloth in my hand. I said, hey,
did you see a driver? You lost our driver, Kula.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
This is a driver, not a club you leave behind.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And this guy is not the smallest guy. But I
was pissed, and he can see it. He goes, oh,
I'm just putting away my girlfriend's driver, and I said,
let me see it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It was your ping driver and it was in his car.
It was in his trunk, motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And I said, that's my girlfriends my wife's fucking driver.
This is the sloth headcover. You know you took this
thing because it had a sloth headcover. You didn't take
it with you. Does your girlfriend have a sloth headcover?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Mine does?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And he's like, oh my god, it was a mistake.
I said, yeah, just the driver. What are you just
taking the driver? Why don't you take the whole bag
into your car? Right?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Like? My bag is worth some serious like yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You have P four hundreds in there, you have a
ping G four to twenty five everything.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, I got some money in there.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So he apologizes. I'm not sure what to do. I
want to chalk it up as a mistake.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
This is not a fuck, which is not you wanted
to chock it up as a mistake. That is not
typically the path you take in your brain.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So we get the driver back. What happens when we
come back when the girls are that? What do you
mean we came back? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh, so you've got your So I got your driver back,
I've got the girls over there. I look at them.
I walk over there and I go, what the fuck?
I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Like you do this?
Like so this is a thing, This is like a
thing that you guys do. This is like a setup, right, right,
Like you go up to people that you're like, you know,
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scoping out, and you're watching, and like there's this whole
thing that takes place and we have this whole moment
like I thought I wanted to be like I thought
we were friends, which I did not say. I was
just so fucking pissed off, Like and that driver like,
that's my baby, I know that driver is. I just
hit two hundred and ninety seven yards with that bitch.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You know, when we find stuff on the golf course,
like a wedge or a phone, we always in the
car and the group in front of you comes back
and says, have you found the ways the sport is
supposed to be genuinely like or womanly like and we're
supposed to have like, you know, manners.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, it's funny, and it's funny that you say that
because it brings up a really good point that I
don't think. I think it's this like whole overlooked thing
amongst golfers, right Like everybody, like you're saying, has this
idea of like, oh yeah, we all look out for
each other and we have each other's backs, and it's
like just a group of like minded people who want
to take care of each other. But at the end
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of the day, like opposite of that is that we're
all a bunch of fucking degenerates.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
We are.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I have a great story my buddy Peter Kim.
He is a great golfer. He has really good clubs,
and he we all know how we all feel about
iron covers. He has iron covers on his clubs and
I said, what the fuck are you doing? Why do
you have iron covers? And he legit told me I
don't want anyone to know what clubs I have because
they'll steal him.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Right, he literally was.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He had, you know, uh, the waterproof cover on top
of your chair bag where if it rains, you put
it up in the zipit. He golfs with that on
a sunny day so no one will take a shit.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah. I thought we had fucking honor among gold I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Think that there's much of an honor code on the
golf course. I think we like to think. I think
we trick ourselves into thinking that that is the environment
that we're in. Like you're at a club, you've got
a membership, you've got. You know, everybody has nice shit clearly,
Like you know, it's a certain type of person who's
got the time and the talent to go out and
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spend their time golfing. But at the end of the day,
if you really look at the types of people or
the characters that are on the golf course, I think
we're all degenerates. I don't know how honest everybody is.
I mean, at this point, like you, being in my life,
I think I trusted people far more than I do now, right,
like you don't trust anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I always ask the question do you not you know?
Do you do you trust someone in the beginning and
then have them break it? Or do you not trust
them and then have them earn it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Right the ladder? Yeah, I trust anyone well.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And I'm the ladder now too, thanks to you. But
I definitely used to be the former.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
In Sino about bo which is a municipal course, is
not a country club or anything that it has a
big sign and says please watch your goods because other
people are watching.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I want to point something out here though, because both
of what you know, both the things that we're bringing
up right now are things and I don't know about
Peter Kim, but like, these are things that happened on
public municipal courses, right, Like, we've never had a run
in at our club like this, but you have had,
haven't you had something?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I had something. It's a crazy story.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
But before I get into that story, even at our
country club and even at Hillcrest and El Cab all
these fancy places, I always have an eye on my back.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I do. I know that the.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Caddies take him and the club guys take your bags,
but when I have him, it's pretty close to me.
And before I get into that story, I can't forget
my cousin David.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
My story.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
David was at Shol Canyon, which is also like an
executive eighteen, small little course. He went to Calloway. This
is years ago. He went to Callaway with his buddy
who had a discout. He bought like everything Calloway, from
putter to driver to wedges, and he left it at
Sholl Canyon. And well, he went inside and someone took
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his full bag, just through the entire bag.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
And so well and Darby I think has had his
whole bag stolen during COVID out of his car.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, we have a lot. I had my club stolen
out of my trunk of my car. My friends, Oh
my god, it's a thing. But you know, I felt
so bad about from David, so when when we got
some new clubs, I hooked them up because he didn't
want to buy clubs for like ten years because he
was so sad it was going to happen again. So
it happens. It happens more often than we think. I
mean as even as small as picking up someone else's
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golf ball.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Sure, I mean that happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It happens all the time. Yeah, you know. But my
story is a crazy one. I'm not going to name
the club.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Okay, for it wasn't our club. It wasn't our current
It was not.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Our current club, was said k.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It was another club Before we were even members, there
was somewhere else. The country club that I'm talking about
had you know, facilities like a locker room, a gym, pool, sauna.
You know, you had your own robe. It was a
pretty fair fasting place. I was new there and I
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met some people, and I got befriended by someone, and.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, you know the whole reason I want you to
back up a little, because the whole reason you've enjoined
said club was to start to like make contacts and like,
you know, do that whole club life, right, So it's
no surprise, like you're there to meet people and make
relationships and do your thing and take, you know, advantage
of the amenities and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
This guy, and I'm not going to name his real name,
just call him Jake be shaven.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Jake shaven, Jake shaving shaven.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Jake Shaven, befriends me right off the bat, right when
I got in, and he was a very built dude.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
He used the gym and the facilities and all that.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And an older gentleman.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
The older guy maybe like mid fifties okay, And when
I was there, I was like in my early.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Thirties, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And he would always be nice to me, ask me,
you know, what I'm working out on, when I'm going
to go swimming all these things, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh cool. You know.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, this was around the time where you were like
rehabbing your back from surgery, so swimming for you was
like a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It was a big deal. Yeah, So part of my
rehab was to go swimming. I had two spinal cord surgery.
So this was the place to go.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And so I.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Started working out and going to the pool and Jake
be Shaven would always ask me, you know, hey, are you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Going swimming today? And I was like, oh my god, yeah.
You know. I was like like I got a new
goggle and.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Like new things. And I would always show him the
new things. I thought he was super interested. So I
was like cool, yeah, man, I swim and here, you know.
So as time went by, it was a couple of
weeks we all had lockers, and the lockers in the
locker room, you gave them your car keys and then they.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Gave you a key, so you didn't have the same locker. No,
I didn't have the same locker every day.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So you give him your car keys because it's like
a valet parking and stuff like that, and they'll give
you a locker key and then when you're done, you
give the locker key back and then you get your
car keys. So every everyone kind of has their own locker,
but it changes, you know. But I'm always like there's
three or four rows, and I picked like the first row.
The locks weren't the best, Like if you got like
like the staff, if you locked something in there and
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it got locked. They will use a screwdriver to open
it up. So it was like kind of whatever. But
as the as the weeks went by, you know, I
always carry a lot of cash on me. I like cash,
so I always carry like six seven hundred dollars in
cash all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And great, now we're going to get recognized and jacked.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So I started seeing like I thought I was going crazy.
I started seeing that some money was missing in my wallet.
But it wasn't all of my money. It was like
a hundred bucks or like twenty bucks. But if I
had like six hundred would be like one hundred, so
I wouldn't really notice. But I was like, that was
going crazy, which which.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Makes that like that's hard to believe because you are
very adamant about your belongings and your things. But okay,
all right, so you don't you think something's going on,
but you're not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So you know, I thought, maybe did I go to
a bar, did I give like a hundred instead of
a ten?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You know, I was thinking, I was like, did my
maid take it?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Like I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't figure
it out and I was like, okay, whatever. As time
goes by, you know, working, you know, swimming, working out
and all that other stuff, and again it happens again.
It happens a couple more times, and I have my
rolex in the locker I have like big item, big
ticket items, and it's just a little bit of money,
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or I mean relative to the amount that I had.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I was like, okay, this is weird.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So I started thinking, is this the staff right of
the club? Like they know where I'm at, they know
when I come in. Are they taking from me? And
I was like starting to get paranoid. And I was like,
oh man, well it happened one more time, and now
this is like four hundred dollars. And I said, okay,
this is it. So I got creative and I said
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I got to catch this person or whoever it is
happened because I know it's happening like in the locker room, right.
So I get my shoes. I had a pair of
Royal Elastic shoes. They're like tennis shoes. And I take
out the insoles of the shoes and I drill a
little hole on the letter oh of the Royal Elastics
logo and behind it. And this is like when iPhones,
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like when you can jail break an iPhone and you
can record it twenty four hours. Right. So I get
my show shoes and I have a hole in the insul,
and I put the camera in the hole under my insul,
so it just looks like shoes are there, but if
you look closely, there's a little hole and it's recording.
And it was an app that you could record twenty
four to seven. So I set up every day the
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exact same weight my shoes would be facing so it
would get like, you know, someone's face. I then got
my one hundred dollars bills and I took pictures of
all the serial numbers on them so I would know.
I also place the money in a certain way that
if it got moved, I will know that I got moved.
A couple of days go by, I'm recording, I'm recording,
I'm working out, I'm going swimming and all that other stuff,
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and nothing happened. On one day I went swimming, I
came back, I look in my wallet and there's one
hundred dollars out of my wallet. Someone took it. I
was so nervous, I was like, please, God, let them
recording be recording, please, please please. I get my shoe
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that has a camera in it. I go to the bathroom,
I open it up. I have to fast forward to
the thing, and I see none other than Jake be shaven.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Jake fucking be shaven.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
He has his shirt off with a screwdriver in his mouth,
and he is rummaging through my wallet and is taking
one hundred dollars at a time. There the video shows
him like one point, like someone walks into the locker
room door. He shuts the thing real quick, then opens
it up again, and you get this perfect shot. It
recorded right on his face, perfect fucking shot and the
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screwdriver in the mouth, no shirt. I couldn't believe it.
This guy had befriended me for so long, asking me
where I'm at in the gym when I'm gonna go swimming.
I'm showing him my goggles. He didn't give a shit.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He was casing so this entire time, you think that
this guy's like taking an interest in you, wanting to know, so,
how are you doing befriending you? Really he's getting in
you know, he's you're you know, oh you're going swimming today? Yeah,
I'm gonna go simming. Great, he knows you're gonna be
in the pool. Oh, you're gonna work out. What are
you gonna work out on? Great? He knows it's gonna
take X amount of time. So you're totally being cased this. Yes,
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this guy would hang out in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Some people thought that he was like trying to pick
up on guys because he was always in the locker room,
not even working out.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
When isn't this somebody who had been like a member
for like ever, like twenty five years? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And he was like the captain of the tennis squad
there at the club.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He would hang out in the right in the lobby,
right when you walk in with some chardonnage. You always
drink like white wine. And he would listen to what
locker I would ask for when I gave my.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Key, So you come in, you'd give your key. You
would ask for a certain number.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Because yeah, you can get any locker, but I was
one of that first ro so I would get like
twelve or four.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
What is the first thing?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You'd walk up hand the guy's the keys, be like,
I'll take number twelve.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Right, And he would be sitting there.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Jake Bashaven is sitting there sipping his Chardinay, right, here
is what locker everybody's in.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Absolutely this is genius. So what happens next is I, yeah,
what did you do? So?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Because you thought it was somebody in the staff, I thought.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It was the club. I thought it was a staff.
So I never told the owners. I never told the manager,
and I know the owners of the club.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You went deep style.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I went deep because I didn't want to, you know,
you know, give him my tell that I know what
they're doing. But it wasn't them. So I make a
CD of it. I go to the police department and
I go to talk to the detectives. I said, oh,
I got this great case for you guys. Check this out.
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So wait, you just walk the case in directly to
the police department.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, actually I called and made a police report. Okay,
they came out. I told them that I have the video.
They come to the club or to your house. Came
to the club. Oh and in the parking lot. I
show them the video. They're like, you got to be kidding.
And this is a perfect case of open and shut
case because we got the guy literally red handed. So
he goes, you know, the detective says, make it copy.
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Come by the the police department.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I come by.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I walk into the Texas but they all know me
as the shoe.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Camera guy, and they really loving me because, you know,
they didn't have to do any work.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They didn't have to do any work.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And I caught him right head and I told him
what the club was, and they said, tell us when
he's there again.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So they like, put you on assignment, right, And I
told him this guy is pretty big. He's a big dude.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Right. He goes, no problem, we'll take care of you, Brian.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Four days later, Jake Bishaven is there now. I'm walking
down the hallway. He would always ask me if I'm
going swimming, because you want to know, good time. This day,
I walked up to him in the hallway and I go, hey, Jake,
are you going swimming today? And he looked at me like,
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oh no, no, I'm too big. I'll sink. I go, Okay,
have a nice day, all right. What did he didn't
know is that my cop friends that I told them
the detectives got seven police officers and two detectives. Nine
cops because I told them this guy's big. They're waiting
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for me in the parking lot to get them to
show them who this guy is. Jake Bisheven walks past
me after I said that and goes into the locker
room to take a shower. I talked to these nine cops.
I walk in like a champ into this club because
the owners, the staff, no nobody knows I've done this all.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Why we're rolling through the doors with nine police officers.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
No one knows.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We walk into the locker room the showers. They can't
when you're in the shower, you can't see who's in
the locker room. The cops kick everyone out, and I
wanted Jake to see that it was me. We go
in there. The cops see that Jake is now in
the shower naked. They put a gun to his face,
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absolutely butt naked, and orders him out of the shower.
As he's walking around the corner. I have now eight
cops behind me. I'm in a wife beater tank top
and my arms crossed, and I the first person he
sees is my face with this army of cops behind me.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh my god, don't fuck with me.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Don't fuck with Brien.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So He looks at me and he already knows. He
puts his head down. We go. They bring him to
his locker. Luckily for me, I was smart enough. I
guess to take pictures of all the one hundred dollar
bills serial numbers, because they're all individual serial numbers, and
this was four days ago that the incident occurred. They
go through his locker. He's naked and now in handcuffs.
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They put a towel around him. They go through his
wallet and they find two of the marked one hundred
dollar bills in his wallet. Open and shutcase. Not only
do I have video of him red handed, but the
actual hundred dollar bills with a serial nun that I
already took pictures of and showed the cops beforehand. He
gets led out, and I'm talking about a member who
has been there for twenty five years. They know him right,
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they know him by name. They're walking him out with
nine cops. Everyone is flipping out. What is happening to
Jake butshaven. They finally figure out. I tell them what happened,
and this you know, and I show some people of
the video. I was a fucking hero. It comes to
find out that so many people over twenty years had
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having their stuff taken from them.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Right, little by little. But it was so like nominal right,
but you're not sure.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
No, it's genius, right, So you make everybody think they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Right, So he did it like again, didn't take men.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
And again you're in an environment where you think that
everybody is trustworthy and honest and has your best intentions.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So they I talked to the owners, They're like, what
the hell just happened? I go, this has been happening.
I didn't want to tell you guys, so I wasn't
sure what was going on. They immediately kick out Jake
Bshaven everyone. It's freaking out. They can't believe this happens.
Is very high end place.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You're like the king of the club at this time,
the king.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Of the club.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And I start negotiating with the owners, said, hey, this
is kind of your fault because when there's a when
they're the key is not going into the locker, you
guys come out with not a master key but a
screwdriver to open it up. That's what he had to
open up. He saw this from you guys. Kind of
negligent on your part, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I was in lawsuit with a lawyer mode.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Lawyer mode, right, So I negotiated with them, and they
gave me, you know, a couple of years for free.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean, that was the least I can do. Inspect.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
What they did is they ended up changing their entire
locking system to like the coded locking where you push
the button.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They actually put in like a a metal vault with
your own code for your valuable It's like kind of
like a hotel.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So now they had that, but it was a whole thing.
I cost them a lot of money to redo everything.
But like, this was happening for a long time. So
we go to court. He's he's kicked out of the gym.
He is shamed. This in our city. I won't mention it,
but he's kind of a known guy in the city.
He would see me at bars and he would walk
out and he was publicly shamed. We go to trial
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and he actually got a lawyer that was a member
of that club, and so we started talking. I was
talking to the city attorney's office, and he took about
eight hundred dollars in total over the span of time.
But I can only prove so many because of the
one video. So I plead arguing with them, and I
got like five hundred dollars back, and then he got arrested.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
They arrested him, They arrested him. One day in jail.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
He got seventy two hours of community service. He and
this is a grown man, you know. And he got
obviously kicked out of the club and publicly shamed and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
He like ruined this guy's life, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It gets better.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So after all this, this was in twenty thirteen, I
had just purchased my house. I moved into my house,
and I was excited and all this stuff. And one
day I come out of my house and guess who's
my next door neighbor.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Jake Shaving?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Jake Bshaven is your next door neighbor.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
He lives across the street from me.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So you walk out of your house that you've just bought.
You're like doing stuff what in the driveway? Yeah, And
he walks out of his house, of his house. What
happens he sees me. He can't believe it. I can't
believe it. And for a couple of months I had
to see him come to his house because it was
across the street. He ended up selling the house and
moving you like legit, ran this guy out of town.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
This guy what we found out, he had a gambling problem.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He liked horse racing.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
And when I showed everyone of the club the video,
it came to like light that this guy is probably
doing this to fund his own membership fees there because
it's kind of expensive, and his gambling habit because a
lot of like his close friends have never been to
his house, which I thought it was a red flag, right,
like he's very secretive and stuff like that. He was
stealing from everybody to support his horse racing habit. Now,
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after all this is said and done, he moves out.
I don't see Jake Basheavin anymore. I found out this
is the icing on the cake that this guy who
has a horse racing gambling addiction, after he stole from
me and got arrested and all that, hits a pig
six at Santa Anita and wins forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I mean that's the thing. Like then, like what does
that do and how does that prove karma? You know,
we're always sell karmel will get that person, like you
ruin the guy's life, run him out of town, get
him arrested out him on his twenty five year you know,
spree of theft, and then he hits forty five thousand
dollars at the racetrack.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It was just such a crazy story. The coinc's were
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I just I don't like getting stuff stolen from me,
and I was it's not going to happen to me.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
He fucked with the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So when he came around from the shower with all
the costs behind meat, that was the best moment of
one of the best moments of our life.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
He knew it was me. He's like he thought he
had me right, I fucked him up. Yeah, I'm so
happy about it.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But anyways, coming back to why we've been talking about this, people,
even at high end shit steal.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, I think everybody does. Nobody's honest, especially now right,
Like we would just find ourselves in such a weird
time where there's so many things that like before people
knew the difference, you know, between right and wrong or
I don't know, do unto others as you would like
done to you, And now it just seems like a
fucking free for all out there.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
It's kind of well, and talking back about golf, it's
like we do it in our own way too. People
shave off strokes. They'll say I got a parlor. They
know they got a bogie. Is that stealing?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean not if you're playing for if you're playing
for money, you are sure. But just on your own thing.
It's like we think it's a gentleman sport and we're
supposed to have manags, which we do most of the time.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But again, it's like the biggest group of degenerates on
so many different lives. You mean, you have to be
kind of off your rocker to love golf the way
that we love golf, right, Like to go spend you know,
anywhere from three to seven hours doing one thing that's
never the same. That's incredibly frustrating. That constantly fucks with
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your head, right, like we're fulfilling some other thing, clearly,
some unresolved issue that we all have within us. If
that is what our passion and our love is for.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, it's just like internal competitiveness with ourselves to better ourselves,
and we better ourselves not only just for the skill
of the game, but like we want to buy clubs
that people would recognize, right, because that looks like you
are establishing a new level in your golf game because
you're getting these certain clubs, so you're looked upon differently.
So when you roll up to the country club, you know,
(34:54):
you got whatever X you know brand in your club
and your bag and they judge you.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Now, it's funny because as you're telling this, like my
initial reaction is to be like, that's such a man thing.
And before I even opened my mouth, I realized what
it was like when I had my HB three's and
what I felt like when I would roll up to
the club with my fucking giant Cavity backed horrible clubs.
And now I've got like this really ridiculously expensive set
and this beautiful bag. And you're right, it's a status thing.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It is a status thing.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So that's probably why people steal, because they probably can't
afford but they want to achieve that status or look.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, I mean that's the question we're not asking here,
Like what's the you know, psychology behind what it is
we're talking about, Like why are people doing the things
that they're doing. Is it because they can't afford it
and they want to they want it? Is it because
they don't feel like they should have to work for
it or pay for it, Like what is this site? Like,
(35:51):
you know, every time we talked about this this morning,
you know, we were talking about violent crimes and it's
like nobody ever asks, but why did they do it?
We can talk all day about what it is they did,
but like, why why are people behaving like this? Why
did those girls pull me over and go through that
whole entire charade, Like that's a lot of energy, that's
(36:13):
a lot of planning to then have the boyfriend go
jack my driver and you know, like and that all
could have gone so differently. We're decent people. We try
and behave ourselves. We try and mind our manners. Like
I we're adults now, right. So it's like, you didn't
beat this guy's face in. I didn't beat their face in.
I mean I wanted to beat this girl with my club.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I think we shame them.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
But you know that sixty four degree Calloway PM grind
a wedge that I have, it's short and stocky.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
That would have been a great one to hit.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I just feel like I'm mad that I didn't turn
around and yell at them. I'm going to talk about
this on the podcast. You fucking assholes. Wow, So I
hope they're listening.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Ye. Really, we don't even know their fucking name.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
No garbage people, garbage golfers.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You guys got caught.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah, you guys suck.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Well, fuck with us, fuck with us and holes.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Balls and ols forever. Oh man, Well all right, do
we have some mulligans?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, we have some mulligans.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I've got a mulligan. I'll go first. So our home club,
sand Canyon invites us. We get an email from the
gm Stefan asking if we would like to attend the
Santa Clarita Taste of the Town fundraising event, that they
had some VIP tickets for us and if we would
like to come as their guest, they would love to
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have us. To our surprise, we were like, yeah, sure,
that sounds awesome. We went last Sunday. Saturday was my birthday.
Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me. So Sunday
it slept in and went to the Santa Clarita Taste
of the Town event, which was amazing. It was sponsored
(37:51):
by the Child and Family Center, which if you don't
know who they are, you should check them out. Their
nonprofit organization, Child and Family center, changing lives, healing relationships,
helping people thrive. They do a lot of work with
domestic violence. Really cool, really cool group of people. They
hosted and sponsored the event or tasted the town, hosted
and sponsored I don't know whatever, fifty tenths of restaurants
(38:15):
with food and booze. We got to get there early
before general population general public showed up. We got to
try anything we wanted to eat. We got to drink
anything we wanted to drink. There was an amazing band.
Ktla was one of the sponsors. The band was incredible.
It was you know, you know, like the bassist was
from Celine Dion's band and the drummer was from Phil
(38:35):
Collins band. I mean it was just this like awesome band.
So it was, you know, everybody's kind of dancing, drinking, eating,
having fun. We had a really nice time. It was
a really nice event. Thank you San Canyon, thank you Stefan,
thank you Danielle for having us out. Very appreciative. Had
a really good time. Baby, what's your mulligan?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So I've been waiting to say this mulligan. I have
a shout out to two brands that really took care
of us. Yeah, Perfect Practice putting mats our favorite putting
matt our favorite putty mat. Fourteen foot putting matt by
the way, fourteen foot. It's the x L extra large
big bay from two holes. Two holes, so it has
(39:14):
a big hole and a small hole. Has a little
you know lines that show a track that goes all
the way down. It's fourteen feet long. It has you know,
it's all wood. It's really pretty. It's expensed. It's like
two iner bucks. Dustin Johnson sponsors it. Yeah, Perfect Practice
you get at any golf stores. Are the back of it.
The little wood panel was if you hit it too hard,
(39:35):
it hits this wood panel and then it goes in.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's not a soft thing.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
So I think it started to come undone and we
try to glue it and it was getting bad and
then the seams were coming off. So I called Perfect Practice.
I talked to just on email, Mars, Lexi and Joy.
I want to give them a shout out at perfect Practice.
They helped us. I sent in pictures of what was happening.
(40:00):
I told them more. I bought it Roger don no
questions asked. They sent me a brand new one. Ah,
so we got a brand new one, and I'm super
stoked on that they'd even have me send back the
old one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I remember when you were going through that, you were
so impressed with their customer service. Yeah, I mean their
product in itself is an amazing product.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, it's really really good. It really helped with my
putting because it keeps you in line.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
You know, it completely changed my putting. My putting stroke
is now completely different after having our putting mat for
as long as we did. Yeah, I really like solidified
some things in my in my putting stroke. And I
I mean, I'm a good putter and thanks to lab
you know, sink and sinking balls all the time. But
it's a great product.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
It is a great product, and it's a perfect practice
putting mat. And what it's taught me is that for
the first three inches of my putt, I want to
keep it as straight as possible after my club hits
the ball, and that has really no.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
It's too it's like you continue to follow the line out.
It's changed mine too. It's like there's my entire like
what am I trying to say?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Rotation?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
It is different because of that simple fact right of
like pulling back and following that line and it's your
ball goes where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
And with our link putter from Lab Golf and your mes,
you don't have to even worry about torque. So you
just go straight back, straight forward, keep three inches straight
and it goes.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
It goes, it takes the line.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
The only issue now is with our new Belgian mellinwall Mault.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
We haven't been able to put the new mat out
because she eats the balls, and she eats the golf balls.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
If you try to put she will chase it down
and stop it before it goes.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, thanks Malley.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, thanks Mallie. But again perfect practice, awesome product.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Another product which we love so very much.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
G four.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I got a parent new G four, Yes you did.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
You got the gallivanter with the spikes which are white
and bows leather, and they're incredible.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
They're amazing. They're the most comfortable golf shoes I've ever
had in my life. First of all.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
There, and I have the boots and we have I
have so many different shoes and shirts and have boots
on G four hat right now.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Boots on order for Salmini, yes in August.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, yeah, I want to thank Erica and Coleman. They
are the two customer service reps that helped me at
G four. And what happened is that so Massimo owned
G four and I think he still owns part of it,
and then he sold it to Peter Malar and so
it's a Peter Malar company which has a lot of money,
(42:24):
and Massimo, I.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Think is still the creative director.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
I'm not sure exactly, but he has a huge influence
in the beginning of G four and I think currently
they told me that Massimo, you know his you know,
standard of practice is to send you just new shoes.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Well what happened.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah, so I have a pair of G four's with
BoA's Boa tightening system on it, which are laceless. You
just turn this little knob and it's a metal lace
system that tightens it up. It's really awesome for golf.
I think they're called the G drive Actually, oh yeah,
they're called the G Drive golf shoes. There's really cool.
The little logo on one of the Boa things, the
little G four, it's a little cap. There's four of them,
(43:02):
there's two on the left and two on the right.
It just came off one day when I was golfing
and I came home. I was, oh, jeeze, this came off.
It didn't look good. I mean it still functioned.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Properly, just I just right, but aesthetically.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Aesthetically, I just needed the cap. That's all I needed.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
So when I called you for I showed him where
I bought it. I bought it at Roger Dunn.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
But they're saying like, let me just send your shoes,
and no, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah I remember this. They were like, oh, just send
a new pair, and you were like, oh, like treat me. Yeah,
I did the way that you would treat any of
your customers. And they're like, we are, we are.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
And because I told them about the podcast, you know,
of course, that always influences them to just a little better.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I said, no, no, just treat me like a reilar customer.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
They actually had to go to the manufacturing team because
they don't just send the little thing out. They went
out to the manufacturing team, got me the cap. They
actually got me four caps, a little stickies, and they
gave me a little G four ball marker. Oh yeah
that was turquoise and looked really cool.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
So I want to thank G four for sending me
that and going out of their way to go the
manufacturing plant or whatever they did to just send me
the caps.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I put them back on. They fit right on and
I still wear my shoes. I love them.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, G four forever.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
So I really wanted to.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
I was looking forward to thanking perfect practice in G
four and again thanks for the customer service. As golfers,
we appreciate we spend a lot of money in this
sport and we love when you guys take care of us.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
So it makes such a difference. I wish all customer
service was like golf customer service. I think the world
would be a lot different. Well, this is a good one. Yes,
it's good to be back.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Where can they find his little one?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
They can find us at balls the letter in holes,
golf Balls and Holes golf it still makes you laugh.
I'm like nailing it every time now, lovely good. I
love you to Thanks for golfing with me.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, babe, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
How are you good. We've taken a little time off
from our podcast. Yeah, did a little traveling, did some golfing.
You're drinking your beer. I'd like to mention we're having
afternoon cocktails. It is before five o'clock. We were breaking
our own rule, will be a sleep by eight h So.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Took a little trip, a couple of trips, did a
little golf in. One of those trips was Palm Springs
for the what is that bi annual quarterly the quarterly? Yeah,
the quarterly golfing trip with my father. News flash, I
did not beat him again again. I have yet to
beat him.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I thought I had it this time. I thought i'd
like really prepared my mental game. That was not the case.
Physically fell apart. I did, however, have of the biggest
drive of my life. Yep, that I have ever had.
No wind, no hills, no slope, two hundred and ninety
seven yards.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I was there, I witnessed it. I can vouch for her.
It was to ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It was insane. You have it, I do have it. Yeah,
it can be done.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It can be done. It's attainable.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Got a badass.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, without a roll, straight flat.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Stuck it. It's a big hit. It was a big hit,
you bet, dad, I did.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I've done it before and this time we played again.
Indian Canyons in Palm Springs one of the oldest golf
courses in Palm Springs. Right across the street from the condo,
there's a North and South course. I think we played
the North course.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I think it's north, but I played from the
tips are all different, but it's like the one right
in front of the championship tips and I shot a
seventy five.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah you did great. Yeah that was the first day.
Second day, second day, I shot in eighty five. Yeah,
it's same course. Weird out there.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's hot. Yeah, it was hot first day. Like this
is what I've realized, and we made a change to
this trip. Typically we go out and we plan to
golf three days and it's typically day one. Everybody's excited
to be there and you end up like exhausting yourself.
At least I do you play. I usually play like shit,
but I'm exhausted by the end of day one. Day two,
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you've got a feeling for it. You're like, all right,
I got this. You go out, you think you're gonna
fucking nail it. Usually we fall apart. Then we usually
do a day three and we have learned this is
the first time that we only did two days. We
have learned that by day three, everybody's sick of each other,
there's no energy left, everybody's irritated on edge, and then
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we have to drive home after day three of golf,
So we did not play day three. We instead slept in,
which was glorious. Drove up to Joshua Tree, went to
go see our good friend Dion at his restaurant, and
is Snake Bite Cafe?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's a bar. It's a bar.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Is it a cafe?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I mean, is it bar? It's going to be amazing, right,
that was really fun. Spent the day in Joshua Tree
and Yucca Valley and Yuka Valley just leisurely like, walked around,
ate some amazing food, and then drove back way better
way to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, when we were at Palm Springs it was so hot.
We were at the pool. Do you want to tell
everyone about that person who's stole your vabe.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
No, I mean, look, what do you say you're at
like a public slash. I guess it's not public. It's
a condo, right, But it's like you know people who
are coming to condos and so you're in you know,
pool soup with GP general public. It's a weird mix
of people people who stay at condos, it really is.
So there were some some characters and some odd people.
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It was also, mind you, that weekend was Stage Coach, right,
so we were there the week during the week leading
into Stage Coach. So like there were weird bands that
were showing up that we're staying at our condo. Oh,
there were some like meth heads that were at the condo.
There were a lot of families, a lot of fat.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
People, so many fat tattoos.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I felt like a fucking supermodel there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So did I. I mean, I'm living with tattoos.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
But everyone had the same body structure, just really out
of shape and tattooed.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was strange.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, somebody stole my vape.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well whatever, I just I want to tell everyone that,
you know, I bought the vape before we went.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Now, you're just sounding like a cheap.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Now, I bought you a vap, me a vape and
some coils, and then as soon as yours got stolen
and it was brand new, I gave you mine that
I just bought.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I want I want everyone to know that.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, you're a nice guy, you do nice things.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And I did walk around the pool like five times
waiting to.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Be so did I I went on a mission. I
was so mad, isn't it ridiculous? Like when we can't
find our vape or like I'd never had one stolen.
I felt crazy. I was walking around the pool through
the waterfall, like, all around the corners like intently death,
staring anybody that I thought looked like a perpetrator and
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somebody who would have stolen.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And we know who took it.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It was some meth girl who the paramedics were called
on and the security came and she was a crazy person.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
She walked up to me and she's like, your husband's
a fucking asshole, and I was like, what excuse me?
I didn't even know what to say, and she's like, well,
I wanted his help and he wouldn't help me. Like
she was so off her rocket.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And She's like, oh my god, the paramedics are here,
pretend you know me. I'm like, what do you know
where my vape is? And I was like eyeball. Anyways,
she was there all day stealing shit.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I bet yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
She was like the little shoemakers, her shoemakers, shoemakers and
dirty dancing, and that's what I compared her to. She
probably like hangs out at that condo and just like
steal shit from people. I don't think anyone knows that, right,
everybody knows that reference. The two little old people that
are in the Berkshires or the Cat's Skills or wherever
they are at the resort and they're stealing stuff from
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all the wealthy folks.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean we were at the wrong resort and I
don't know where all the wealthy folks were.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Good news as my bag has stayed this Yeah, I'm
still using the link one putter from Lab Golf.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Thank you Lab, my Exacxio ex.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Driver, my King Cobra three hybrid, four hybrid, one length,
and then my scott Irons.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah you've really made friends with your scott Irons. Yeah,
you've got a good bag together. So you've what like
secured your bag? Is this what you're telling me?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's it's pretty close.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I did put in a sixty four degree in wedge,
which I get out of the sand really great.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So that's new.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, but you you've settled on a bag. Yeah, I
don't know, man, like I've always had my bag settled.
I mean, I know in the beginning, it took me
a couple different rounds and a couple different tries, but
I stick with what I love and what I know works.
And I had a moment on our way back. We
came back into town. We played at Hanson Dam, which is,
you know, a municipal public course here. We just wanted
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to go shake off the dust of what had transpired
in Palm Springs, and uh, you know, since having the pod,
we've started to get recognized, which is it's funny because
we don't put any of this out on video, right Like,
we don't put it out on video, So it's always
funny when we get recognized from either our Instagram or
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art work from the pod or whatever. But needless to say,
it's something that's been happening and we've started to kind
of get used to it, and it's kind of funny.
So cut to we're at Hansoon. Damn, we've just played around.
I of course always come back from Palm Springs after
I've played terribly and always end up having one of
the best rounds of my life. And so I'm in
a good mood. Like we get done, we take our
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clubs off the cart, you set your stuff down. I
took mine to a different area. You went to go
to the bathroom or going to the pro shop or something.
I don't know, you're probably taking a shit or something.
Who knows. But I was cleaning my clubs and all
of a sudden, this girl comes up to me, and
she's like acting really excited. She's like, oh my god,
how are you. I'm so and so like I listen
to your pod. It's so cool to get to run
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into you. You know, my boyfriend and I we love it.
We always laugh so hard when we were listening to it.
Blah blah blah. She's like, you know, doing this whole
song and dance. She's like, You've got to come meet
my girlfriend that I'm here with. She listens too, and
so like I'm having this moment where I'm like, oh,
how fun cool people? We have fans, they want to
meet us, whatever. So I leave my bag where it's
at over by, like the bag drop is where I
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was cleaning, and I go over and she introduces me
to her girlfriend and we're all there having a conversation,
and like, in my mind, I'm thinking, like, oh cool.
Like I'm first to admit I don't really like girl
golfers a lot of the time, I've yet to meet
girl golfers that I want to hang out with. I
should put it that way. So I was like having
this whole other thing happen in my mind where I
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was like, oh my god, cool, Maybe these are like
cool girls I could hang out with. Little did I
know that while I was enjoying the fandom, girl number
one's boyfriend was apparently over going through my bag and
plucking my clubs. I had no idea this was happening.
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I get done talking to these girls, I start walking
back towards my bag. I lay eyes on you, and
You're like, you've got this look on your face and
you've got like my headcover in your hand, my sloth headcover,
and I'm like, I'm all happy, You're clearly not, And
I'm like, what the fuck is happening, What's going on?
What transpired while I was gone. I'm getting ready to
tell you about these two cool girls that I met,
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and you are having none of it.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So Jess has a sloth headcover on her ping g driver,
which she loves and she's had in the back forever.
It's a sloth headcover.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I bought it for her. It is a funny furry animal.
It's on the ground. And I said, where the fuck's
herd driver? And I see you talking to the girls,
and I start looking around, getting my spidy senses like crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You've got good spidy sense.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right, So I look around and I see a dude
by his car and I can just feel it. I
walk over with the sloth in my hand. I said, hey,
did you see a driver? You lost our driver, Kula.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
This is a driver, not a club you leave behind.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And this guy is not the smallest guy. But I
was pissed, and he can see it. He goes, oh,
I'm just putting away my girlfriend's driver, and I said,
let me see it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It was your ping driver and it was in his car.
It was in his trunk, motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And I said, that's my girlfriends my wife's fucking driver.
This is the sloth headcover. You know you took this
thing because it had a sloth headcover. You didn't take
it with you. Does your girlfriend have a sloth headcover?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Mine does?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And he's like, oh my god, it was a mistake.
I said, yeah, just the driver. What are you just
taking the driver? Why don't you take the whole bag
into your car? Right?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Like? My bag is worth some serious like yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You have P four hundreds in there, you have a
ping G four to twenty five everything.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, I got some money in there.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So he apologizes. I'm not sure what to do. I
want to chalk it up as a mistake.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
This is not a fuck, which is not you wanted
to chock it up as a mistake. That is not
typically the path you take in your brain.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So we get the driver back. What happens when we
come back when the girls are that? What do you
mean we came back? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh, so you've got your So I got your driver back,
I've got the girls over there. I look at them.
I walk over there and I go, what the fuck?
I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Like you do this?
Like so this is a thing, This is like a
thing that you guys do. This is like a setup, right, right,
Like you go up to people that you're like, you know,
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scoping out, and you're watching, and like there's this whole
thing that takes place and we have this whole moment
like I thought I wanted to be like I thought
we were friends, which I did not say. I was
just so fucking pissed off, Like and that driver like,
that's my baby, I know that driver is. I just
hit two hundred and ninety seven yards with that bitch.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You know, when we find stuff on the golf course,
like a wedge or a phone, we always in the
car and the group in front of you comes back
and says, have you found the ways the sport is
supposed to be genuinely like or womanly like and we're
supposed to have like, you know, manners.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, it's funny, and it's funny that you say that
because it brings up a really good point that I
don't think. I think it's this like whole overlooked thing
amongst golfers, right Like everybody, like you're saying, has this
idea of like, oh yeah, we all look out for
each other and we have each other's backs, and it's
like just a group of like minded people who want
to take care of each other. But at the end
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of the day, like opposite of that is that we're
all a bunch of fucking degenerates.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
We are.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I have a great story my buddy Peter Kim.
He is a great golfer. He has really good clubs,
and he we all know how we all feel about
iron covers. He has iron covers on his clubs and
I said, what the fuck are you doing? Why do
you have iron covers? And he legit told me I
don't want anyone to know what clubs I have because
they'll steal him.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Right, he literally was.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He had, you know, uh, the waterproof cover on top
of your chair bag where if it rains, you put
it up in the zipit. He golfs with that on
a sunny day so no one will take a shit.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah. I thought we had fucking honor among gold I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Think that there's much of an honor code on the
golf course. I think we like to think. I think
we trick ourselves into thinking that that is the environment
that we're in. Like you're at a club, you've got
a membership, you've got. You know, everybody has nice shit clearly,
Like you know, it's a certain type of person who's
got the time and the talent to go out and
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spend their time golfing. But at the end of the day,
if you really look at the types of people or
the characters that are on the golf course, I think
we're all degenerates. I don't know how honest everybody is.
I mean, at this point, like you, being in my life,
I think I trusted people far more than I do now, right,
like you don't trust anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I always ask the question do you not you know?
Do you do you trust someone in the beginning and
then have them break it? Or do you not trust
them and then have them earn it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Right the ladder? Yeah, I trust anyone well.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And I'm the ladder now too, thanks to you. But
I definitely used to be the former.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
In Sino about bo which is a municipal course, is
not a country club or anything that it has a
big sign and says please watch your goods because other
people are watching.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I want to point something out here though, because both
of what you know, both the things that we're bringing
up right now are things and I don't know about
Peter Kim, but like, these are things that happened on
public municipal courses, right, Like, we've never had a run
in at our club like this, but you have had,
haven't you had something?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I had something. It's a crazy story.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
But before I get into that story, even at our
country club and even at Hillcrest and El Cab all
these fancy places, I always have an eye on my back.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I do. I know that the.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Caddies take him and the club guys take your bags,
but when I have him, it's pretty close to me.
And before I get into that story, I can't forget
my cousin David.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
My story.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
David was at Shol Canyon, which is also like an
executive eighteen, small little course. He went to Calloway. This
is years ago. He went to Callaway with his buddy
who had a discout. He bought like everything Calloway, from
putter to driver to wedges, and he left it at
Sholl Canyon. And well, he went inside and someone took
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his full bag, just through the entire bag.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
And so well and Darby I think has had his
whole bag stolen during COVID out of his car.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, we have a lot. I had my club stolen
out of my trunk of my car. My friends, Oh
my god, it's a thing. But you know, I felt
so bad about from David, so when when we got
some new clubs, I hooked them up because he didn't
want to buy clubs for like ten years because he
was so sad it was going to happen again. So
it happens. It happens more often than we think. I
mean as even as small as picking up someone else's
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golf ball.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Sure, I mean that happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It happens all the time. Yeah, you know. But my
story is a crazy one. I'm not going to name
the club.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Okay, for it wasn't our club. It wasn't our current
It was not.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Our current club, was said k.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It was another club Before we were even members, there
was somewhere else. The country club that I'm talking about
had you know, facilities like a locker room, a gym, pool, sauna.
You know, you had your own robe. It was a
pretty fair fasting place. I was new there and I
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met some people, and I got befriended by someone, and.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, you know the whole reason I want you to
back up a little, because the whole reason you've enjoined
said club was to start to like make contacts and like,
you know, do that whole club life, right, So it's
no surprise, like you're there to meet people and make
relationships and do your thing and take, you know, advantage
of the amenities and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
This guy, and I'm not going to name his real name,
just call him Jake be shaven.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Jake shaven, Jake shaving shaven.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Jake Shaven, befriends me right off the bat, right when
I got in, and he was a very built dude.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
He used the gym and the facilities and all that.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And an older gentleman.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
The older guy maybe like mid fifties okay, And when
I was there, I was like in my early.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Thirties, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And he would always be nice to me, ask me,
you know, what I'm working out on, when I'm going
to go swimming all these things, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh cool. You know.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, this was around the time where you were like
rehabbing your back from surgery, so swimming for you was
like a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It was a big deal. Yeah, So part of my
rehab was to go swimming. I had two spinal cord surgery.
So this was the place to go.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And so I.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Started working out and going to the pool and Jake
be Shaven would always ask me, you know, hey, are you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Going swimming today? And I was like, oh my god, yeah.
You know. I was like like I got a new
goggle and.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Like new things. And I would always show him the
new things. I thought he was super interested. So I
was like cool, yeah, man, I swim and here, you know.
So as time went by, it was a couple of
weeks we all had lockers, and the lockers in the
locker room, you gave them your car keys and then they.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Gave you a key, so you didn't have the same locker. No,
I didn't have the same locker every day.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So you give him your car keys because it's like
a valet parking and stuff like that, and they'll give
you a locker key and then when you're done, you
give the locker key back and then you get your
car keys. So every everyone kind of has their own locker,
but it changes, you know. But I'm always like there's
three or four rows, and I picked like the first row.
The locks weren't the best, Like if you got like
like the staff, if you locked something in there and
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it got locked. They will use a screwdriver to open
it up. So it was like kind of whatever. But
as the as the weeks went by, you know, I
always carry a lot of cash on me. I like cash,
so I always carry like six seven hundred dollars in
cash all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And great, now we're going to get recognized and jacked.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So I started seeing like I thought I was going crazy.
I started seeing that some money was missing in my wallet.
But it wasn't all of my money. It was like
a hundred bucks or like twenty bucks. But if I
had like six hundred would be like one hundred, so
I wouldn't really notice. But I was like, that was
going crazy, which which.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Makes that like that's hard to believe because you are
very adamant about your belongings and your things. But okay,
all right, so you don't you think something's going on,
but you're not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So you know, I thought, maybe did I go to
a bar, did I give like a hundred instead of
a ten?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You know, I was thinking, I was like, did my
maid take it?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Like I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't figure
it out and I was like, okay, whatever. As time
goes by, you know, working, you know, swimming, working out
and all that other stuff, and again it happens again.
It happens a couple more times, and I have my
rolex in the locker I have like big item, big
ticket items, and it's just a little bit of money,
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or I mean relative to the amount that I had.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I was like, okay, this is weird.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So I started thinking, is this the staff right of
the club? Like they know where I'm at, they know
when I come in. Are they taking from me? And
I was like starting to get paranoid. And I was like,
oh man, well it happened one more time, and now
this is like four hundred dollars. And I said, okay,
this is it. So I got creative and I said
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I got to catch this person or whoever it is
happened because I know it's happening like in the locker room, right.
So I get my shoes. I had a pair of
Royal Elastic shoes. They're like tennis shoes. And I take
out the insoles of the shoes and I drill a
little hole on the letter oh of the Royal Elastics
logo and behind it. And this is like when iPhones,
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like when you can jail break an iPhone and you
can record it twenty four hours. Right. So I get
my show shoes and I have a hole in the insul,
and I put the camera in the hole under my insul,
so it just looks like shoes are there, but if
you look closely, there's a little hole and it's recording.
And it was an app that you could record twenty
four to seven. So I set up every day the
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exact same weight my shoes would be facing so it
would get like, you know, someone's face. I then got
my one hundred dollars bills and I took pictures of
all the serial numbers on them so I would know.
I also place the money in a certain way that
if it got moved, I will know that I got moved.
A couple of days go by, I'm recording, I'm recording,
I'm working out, I'm going swimming and all that other stuff,
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and nothing happened. On one day I went swimming, I
came back, I look in my wallet and there's one
hundred dollars out of my wallet. Someone took it. I
was so nervous, I was like, please, God, let them
recording be recording, please, please please. I get my shoe
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that has a camera in it. I go to the bathroom,
I open it up. I have to fast forward to
the thing, and I see none other than Jake be shaven.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Jake fucking be shaven.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
He has his shirt off with a screwdriver in his mouth,
and he is rummaging through my wallet and is taking
one hundred dollars at a time. There the video shows
him like one point, like someone walks into the locker
room door. He shuts the thing real quick, then opens
it up again, and you get this perfect shot. It
recorded right on his face, perfect fucking shot and the
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screwdriver in the mouth, no shirt. I couldn't believe it.
This guy had befriended me for so long, asking me
where I'm at in the gym when I'm gonna go swimming.
I'm showing him my goggles. He didn't give a shit.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He was casing so this entire time, you think that
this guy's like taking an interest in you, wanting to know, so,
how are you doing befriending you? Really he's getting in
you know, he's you're you know, oh you're going swimming today? Yeah,
I'm gonna go simming. Great, he knows you're gonna be
in the pool. Oh, you're gonna work out. What are
you gonna work out on? Great? He knows it's gonna
take X amount of time. So you're totally being cased this. Yes,
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this guy would hang out in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Some people thought that he was like trying to pick
up on guys because he was always in the locker room,
not even working out.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
When isn't this somebody who had been like a member
for like ever, like twenty five years? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And he was like the captain of the tennis squad
there at the club.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He would hang out in the right in the lobby,
right when you walk in with some chardonnage. You always
drink like white wine. And he would listen to what
locker I would ask for when I gave my.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Key, So you come in, you'd give your key. You
would ask for a certain number.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Because yeah, you can get any locker, but I was
one of that first ro so I would get like
twelve or four.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
What is the first thing?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You'd walk up hand the guy's the keys, be like,
I'll take number twelve.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Right, And he would be sitting there.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Jake Bashaven is sitting there sipping his Chardinay, right, here
is what locker everybody's in.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Absolutely this is genius. So what happens next is I, yeah,
what did you do? So?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Because you thought it was somebody in the staff, I thought.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It was the club. I thought it was a staff.
So I never told the owners. I never told the manager,
and I know the owners of the club.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You went deep style.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I went deep because I didn't want to, you know,
you know, give him my tell that I know what
they're doing. But it wasn't them. So I make a
CD of it. I go to the police department and
I go to talk to the detectives. I said, oh,
I got this great case for you guys. Check this out.
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So wait, you just walk the case in directly to
the police department.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, actually I called and made a police report. Okay,
they came out. I told them that I have the video.
They come to the club or to your house. Came
to the club. Oh and in the parking lot. I
show them the video. They're like, you got to be kidding.
And this is a perfect case of open and shut
case because we got the guy literally red handed. So
he goes, you know, the detective says, make it copy.
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Come by the the police department.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I come by.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I walk into the Texas but they all know me
as the shoe.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Camera guy, and they really loving me because, you know,
they didn't have to do any work.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They didn't have to do any work.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And I caught him right head and I told him
what the club was, and they said, tell us when
he's there again.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So they like, put you on assignment, right, And I
told him this guy is pretty big. He's a big dude.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Right. He goes, no problem, we'll take care of you, Brian.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Four days later, Jake Bishaven is there now. I'm walking
down the hallway. He would always ask me if I'm
going swimming, because you want to know, good time. This day,
I walked up to him in the hallway and I go, hey, Jake,
are you going swimming today? And he looked at me like,
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oh no, no, I'm too big. I'll sink. I go, Okay,
have a nice day, all right. What did he didn't
know is that my cop friends that I told them
the detectives got seven police officers and two detectives. Nine
cops because I told them this guy's big. They're waiting
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for me in the parking lot to get them to
show them who this guy is. Jake Bisheven walks past
me after I said that and goes into the locker
room to take a shower. I talked to these nine cops.
I walk in like a champ into this club because
the owners, the staff, no nobody knows I've done this all.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Why we're rolling through the doors with nine police officers.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
No one knows.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We walk into the locker room the showers. They can't
when you're in the shower, you can't see who's in
the locker room. The cops kick everyone out, and I
wanted Jake to see that it was me. We go
in there. The cops see that Jake is now in
the shower naked. They put a gun to his face,
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absolutely butt naked, and orders him out of the shower.
As he's walking around the corner. I have now eight
cops behind me. I'm in a wife beater tank top
and my arms crossed, and I the first person he
sees is my face with this army of cops behind me.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh my god, don't fuck with me.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Don't fuck with Brien.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So He looks at me and he already knows. He
puts his head down. We go. They bring him to
his locker. Luckily for me, I was smart enough. I
guess to take pictures of all the one hundred dollar
bills serial numbers, because they're all individual serial numbers, and
this was four days ago that the incident occurred. They
go through his locker. He's naked and now in handcuffs.
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They put a towel around him. They go through his
wallet and they find two of the marked one hundred
dollar bills in his wallet. Open and shutcase. Not only
do I have video of him red handed, but the
actual hundred dollar bills with a serial nun that I
already took pictures of and showed the cops beforehand. He
gets led out, and I'm talking about a member who
has been there for twenty five years. They know him right,
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they know him by name. They're walking him out with
nine cops. Everyone is flipping out. What is happening to
Jake butshaven. They finally figure out. I tell them what happened,
and this you know, and I show some people of
the video. I was a fucking hero. It comes to
find out that so many people over twenty years had
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having their stuff taken from them.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Right, little by little. But it was so like nominal right,
but you're not sure.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
No, it's genius, right, So you make everybody think they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Right, So he did it like again, didn't take men.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
And again you're in an environment where you think that
everybody is trustworthy and honest and has your best intentions.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So they I talked to the owners, They're like, what
the hell just happened? I go, this has been happening.
I didn't want to tell you guys, so I wasn't
sure what was going on. They immediately kick out Jake
Bshaven everyone. It's freaking out. They can't believe this happens.
Is very high end place.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You're like the king of the club at this time,
the king.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Of the club.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And I start negotiating with the owners, said, hey, this
is kind of your fault because when there's a when
they're the key is not going into the locker, you
guys come out with not a master key but a
screwdriver to open it up. That's what he had to
open up. He saw this from you guys. Kind of
negligent on your part, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I was in lawsuit with a lawyer mode.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Lawyer mode, right, So I negotiated with them, and they
gave me, you know, a couple of years for free.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean, that was the least I can do. Inspect.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
What they did is they ended up changing their entire
locking system to like the coded locking where you push
the button.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They actually put in like a a metal vault with
your own code for your valuable It's like kind of
like a hotel.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So now they had that, but it was a whole thing.
I cost them a lot of money to redo everything.
But like, this was happening for a long time. So
we go to court. He's he's kicked out of the gym.
He is shamed. This in our city. I won't mention it,
but he's kind of a known guy in the city.
He would see me at bars and he would walk
out and he was publicly shamed. We go to trial
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and he actually got a lawyer that was a member
of that club, and so we started talking. I was
talking to the city attorney's office, and he took about
eight hundred dollars in total over the span of time.
But I can only prove so many because of the
one video. So I plead arguing with them, and I
got like five hundred dollars back, and then he got arrested.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
They arrested him, They arrested him. One day in jail.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
He got seventy two hours of community service. He and
this is a grown man, you know. And he got
obviously kicked out of the club and publicly shamed and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
He like ruined this guy's life, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It gets better.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So after all this, this was in twenty thirteen, I
had just purchased my house. I moved into my house,
and I was excited and all this stuff. And one
day I come out of my house and guess who's
my next door neighbor.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Jake Shaving?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Jake Bshaven is your next door neighbor.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
He lives across the street from me.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So you walk out of your house that you've just bought.
You're like doing stuff what in the driveway? Yeah, And
he walks out of his house, of his house. What
happens he sees me. He can't believe it. I can't
believe it. And for a couple of months I had
to see him come to his house because it was
across the street. He ended up selling the house and
moving you like legit, ran this guy out of town.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
This guy what we found out, he had a gambling problem.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He liked horse racing.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
And when I showed everyone of the club the video,
it came to like light that this guy is probably
doing this to fund his own membership fees there because
it's kind of expensive, and his gambling habit because a
lot of like his close friends have never been to
his house, which I thought it was a red flag, right,
like he's very secretive and stuff like that. He was
stealing from everybody to support his horse racing habit. Now,
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after all this is said and done, he moves out.
I don't see Jake Basheavin anymore. I found out this
is the icing on the cake that this guy who
has a horse racing gambling addiction, after he stole from
me and got arrested and all that, hits a pig
six at Santa Anita and wins forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I mean that's the thing. Like then, like what does
that do and how does that prove karma? You know,
we're always sell karmel will get that person, like you
ruin the guy's life, run him out of town, get
him arrested out him on his twenty five year you know,
spree of theft, and then he hits forty five thousand
dollars at the racetrack.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It was just such a crazy story. The coinc's were
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I just I don't like getting stuff stolen from me,
and I was it's not going to happen to me.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
He fucked with the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So when he came around from the shower with all
the costs behind meat, that was the best moment of
one of the best moments of our life.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
He knew it was me. He's like he thought he
had me right, I fucked him up. Yeah, I'm so
happy about it.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But anyways, coming back to why we've been talking about this, people,
even at high end shit steal.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, I think everybody does. Nobody's honest, especially now right,
Like we would just find ourselves in such a weird
time where there's so many things that like before people
knew the difference, you know, between right and wrong or
I don't know, do unto others as you would like
done to you, And now it just seems like a
fucking free for all out there.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
It's kind of well, and talking back about golf, it's
like we do it in our own way too. People
shave off strokes. They'll say I got a parlor. They
know they got a bogie. Is that stealing?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean not if you're playing for if you're playing
for money, you are sure. But just on your own thing.
It's like we think it's a gentleman sport and we're
supposed to have manags, which we do most of the time.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But again, it's like the biggest group of degenerates on
so many different lives. You mean, you have to be
kind of off your rocker to love golf the way
that we love golf, right, Like to go spend you know,
anywhere from three to seven hours doing one thing that's
never the same. That's incredibly frustrating. That constantly fucks with
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your head, right, like we're fulfilling some other thing, clearly,
some unresolved issue that we all have within us. If
that is what our passion and our love is for.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, it's just like internal competitiveness with ourselves to better ourselves,
and we better ourselves not only just for the skill
of the game, but like we want to buy clubs
that people would recognize, right, because that looks like you
are establishing a new level in your golf game because
you're getting these certain clubs, so you're looked upon differently.
So when you roll up to the country club, you know,
(34:54):
you got whatever X you know brand in your club
and your bag and they judge you.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Now, it's funny because as you're telling this, like my
initial reaction is to be like, that's such a man thing.
And before I even opened my mouth, I realized what
it was like when I had my HB three's and
what I felt like when I would roll up to
the club with my fucking giant Cavity backed horrible clubs.
And now I've got like this really ridiculously expensive set
and this beautiful bag. And you're right, it's a status thing.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It is a status thing.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So that's probably why people steal, because they probably can't
afford but they want to achieve that status or look.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, I mean that's the question we're not asking here,
Like what's the you know, psychology behind what it is
we're talking about, Like why are people doing the things
that they're doing. Is it because they can't afford it
and they want to they want it? Is it because
they don't feel like they should have to work for
it or pay for it, Like what is this site? Like,
(35:51):
you know, every time we talked about this this morning,
you know, we were talking about violent crimes and it's
like nobody ever asks, but why did they do it?
We can talk all day about what it is they did,
but like, why why are people behaving like this? Why
did those girls pull me over and go through that
whole entire charade, Like that's a lot of energy, that's
(36:13):
a lot of planning to then have the boyfriend go
jack my driver and you know, like and that all
could have gone so differently. We're decent people. We try
and behave ourselves. We try and mind our manners. Like
I we're adults now, right. So it's like, you didn't
beat this guy's face in. I didn't beat their face in.
I mean I wanted to beat this girl with my club.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I think we shame them.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
But you know that sixty four degree Calloway PM grind
a wedge that I have, it's short and stocky.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
That would have been a great one to hit.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I just feel like I'm mad that I didn't turn
around and yell at them. I'm going to talk about
this on the podcast. You fucking assholes. Wow, So I
hope they're listening.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Ye. Really, we don't even know their fucking name.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
No garbage people, garbage golfers.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You guys got caught.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah, you guys suck.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Well, fuck with us, fuck with us and holes.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Balls and ols forever. Oh man, Well all right, do
we have some mulligans?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, we have some mulligans.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I've got a mulligan. I'll go first. So our home club,
sand Canyon invites us. We get an email from the
gm Stefan asking if we would like to attend the
Santa Clarita Taste of the Town fundraising event, that they
had some VIP tickets for us and if we would
like to come as their guest, they would love to
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have us. To our surprise, we were like, yeah, sure,
that sounds awesome. We went last Sunday. Saturday was my birthday.
Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me. So Sunday
it slept in and went to the Santa Clarita Taste
of the Town event, which was amazing. It was sponsored
(37:51):
by the Child and Family Center, which if you don't
know who they are, you should check them out. Their
nonprofit organization, Child and Family center, changing lives, healing relationships,
helping people thrive. They do a lot of work with
domestic violence. Really cool, really cool group of people. They
hosted and sponsored the event or tasted the town, hosted
and sponsored I don't know whatever, fifty tenths of restaurants
(38:15):
with food and booze. We got to get there early
before general population general public showed up. We got to
try anything we wanted to eat. We got to drink
anything we wanted to drink. There was an amazing band.
Ktla was one of the sponsors. The band was incredible.
It was you know, you know, like the bassist was
from Celine Dion's band and the drummer was from Phil
(38:35):
Collins band. I mean it was just this like awesome band.
So it was, you know, everybody's kind of dancing, drinking, eating,
having fun. We had a really nice time. It was
a really nice event. Thank you San Canyon, thank you Stefan,
thank you Danielle for having us out. Very appreciative. Had
a really good time. Baby, what's your mulligan?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So I've been waiting to say this mulligan. I have
a shout out to two brands that really took care
of us. Yeah, Perfect Practice putting mats our favorite putting
matt our favorite putty mat. Fourteen foot putting matt by
the way, fourteen foot. It's the x L extra large
big bay from two holes. Two holes, so it has
(39:14):
a big hole and a small hole. Has a little
you know lines that show a track that goes all
the way down. It's fourteen feet long. It has you know,
it's all wood. It's really pretty. It's expensed. It's like
two iner bucks. Dustin Johnson sponsors it. Yeah, Perfect Practice
you get at any golf stores. Are the back of it.
The little wood panel was if you hit it too hard,
(39:35):
it hits this wood panel and then it goes in.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's not a soft thing.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
So I think it started to come undone and we
try to glue it and it was getting bad and
then the seams were coming off. So I called Perfect Practice.
I talked to just on email, Mars, Lexi and Joy.
I want to give them a shout out at perfect Practice.
They helped us. I sent in pictures of what was happening.
(40:00):
I told them more. I bought it Roger don no
questions asked. They sent me a brand new one. Ah,
so we got a brand new one, and I'm super
stoked on that they'd even have me send back the
old one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I remember when you were going through that, you were
so impressed with their customer service. Yeah, I mean their
product in itself is an amazing product.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, it's really really good. It really helped with my
putting because it keeps you in line.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
You know, it completely changed my putting. My putting stroke
is now completely different after having our putting mat for
as long as we did. Yeah, I really like solidified
some things in my in my putting stroke. And I
I mean, I'm a good putter and thanks to lab
you know, sink and sinking balls all the time. But
it's a great product.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
It is a great product, and it's a perfect practice
putting mat. And what it's taught me is that for
the first three inches of my putt, I want to
keep it as straight as possible after my club hits
the ball, and that has really no.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
It's too it's like you continue to follow the line out.
It's changed mine too. It's like there's my entire like
what am I trying to say?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Rotation?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
It is different because of that simple fact right of
like pulling back and following that line and it's your
ball goes where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
And with our link putter from Lab Golf and your mes,
you don't have to even worry about torque. So you
just go straight back, straight forward, keep three inches straight
and it goes.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
It goes, it takes the line.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
The only issue now is with our new Belgian mellinwall Mault.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
We haven't been able to put the new mat out
because she eats the balls, and she eats the golf balls.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
If you try to put she will chase it down
and stop it before it goes.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, thanks Malley.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, thanks Mallie. But again perfect practice, awesome product.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Another product which we love so very much.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
G four.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I got a parent new G four, Yes you did.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
You got the gallivanter with the spikes which are white
and bows leather, and they're incredible.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
They're amazing. They're the most comfortable golf shoes I've ever
had in my life. First of all.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
There, and I have the boots and we have I
have so many different shoes and shirts and have boots
on G four hat right now.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Boots on order for Salmini, yes in August.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, yeah, I want to thank Erica and Coleman. They
are the two customer service reps that helped me at
G four. And what happened is that so Massimo owned
G four and I think he still owns part of it,
and then he sold it to Peter Malar and so
it's a Peter Malar company which has a lot of money,
(42:24):
and Massimo, I.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Think is still the creative director.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
I'm not sure exactly, but he has a huge influence
in the beginning of G four and I think currently
they told me that Massimo, you know his you know,
standard of practice is to send you just new shoes.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Well what happened.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah, so I have a pair of G four's with
BoA's Boa tightening system on it, which are laceless. You
just turn this little knob and it's a metal lace
system that tightens it up. It's really awesome for golf.
I think they're called the G drive Actually, oh yeah,
they're called the G Drive golf shoes. There's really cool.
The little logo on one of the Boa things, the
little G four, it's a little cap. There's four of them,
(43:02):
there's two on the left and two on the right.
It just came off one day when I was golfing
and I came home. I was, oh, jeeze, this came off.
It didn't look good. I mean it still functioned.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Properly, just I just right, but aesthetically.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Aesthetically, I just needed the cap. That's all I needed.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
So when I called you for I showed him where
I bought it. I bought it at Roger Dunn.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
But they're saying like, let me just send your shoes,
and no, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah I remember this. They were like, oh, just send
a new pair, and you were like, oh, like treat me. Yeah,
I did the way that you would treat any of
your customers. And they're like, we are, we are.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
And because I told them about the podcast, you know,
of course, that always influences them to just a little better.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I said, no, no, just treat me like a reilar customer.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
They actually had to go to the manufacturing team because
they don't just send the little thing out. They went
out to the manufacturing team, got me the cap. They
actually got me four caps, a little stickies, and they
gave me a little G four ball marker. Oh yeah
that was turquoise and looked really cool.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
So I want to thank G four for sending me
that and going out of their way to go the
manufacturing plant or whatever they did to just send me
the caps.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I put them back on. They fit right on and
I still wear my shoes. I love them.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, G four forever.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
So I really wanted to.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
I was looking forward to thanking perfect practice in G
four and again thanks for the customer service. As golfers,
we appreciate we spend a lot of money in this
sport and we love when you guys take care of us.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
So it makes such a difference. I wish all customer
service was like golf customer service. I think the world
would be a lot different. Well, this is a good one. Yes,
it's good to be back.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Where can they find his little one?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
They can find us at balls the letter in holes,
golf Balls and Holes golf it still makes you laugh.
I'm like nailing it every time now, lovely good. I
love you to Thanks for golfing with me.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Balls and Holes is produced and distributed by the eight
Side Network.
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