February 12, 2025 • 41 mins
In this inaugural episode of Quiet Please! Mel and Kira introduce themselves, share the story behind starting their podcast, and discuss all things golf and not so golf related. The two interview each other and we learn all about Mel’s Irish exit on a seventeen year professional golf career, Kira’s hidden talent for cup stacking and how Mel may not be as skilled in Geography as she thought she was.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please with Mel Red and Curre Dixon is an
iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports
and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, I'm Curre.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Dixon and I'm Mel Read and.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This is Quiet Please.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And this is officially your first episode.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And this is officially our first episode, Mel we have
a podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Who the hell let us have a podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
First of all, iHeartRadio did I know?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So, thank you to iHeartRadio. Hopefully we won't be a
disappointment over on. But we've we've been talking about this
for a while. We're very excited about it, and we
hope that the audience is very excited about listening to
us talk about a lot of things over the next
few weeks and years hopefully, and hope this will start
something really.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Cool years years of listening.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah to come for everyone out there. We've been working
really hard on this. Our producers have all been working
really hard on this. Shout out Grace, Zoey, Jesse and
the whole iHeart team. But we thought we would start
with just explaining what Quiet Please is and what listeners
can expect from our show when you obviously tune in
(01:21):
every single week on Wednesdays because that's when the show
will air. You can spend your Wednesday with us, drink
your coffee, and get caught up.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
On life and the HAPs and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So obviously Mel and I know each other through golf,
and the through line of this show will probably be
golf ish, but that's not everything that we're going to
be talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean, I think golf is going to be the
main bloodline. I would say that connects our stories, but
it's going to be different from a normal golf podcast.
I feel like, obviously, not only being a golfer, but
being a fan of golf, I listened to a lot
of golf podcasts and I wanted.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
This one to be a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So yeah, I think we're going to get some really
cool guests on.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But yeah, I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And well, I should say that I'm very thankful that
they asked both of us to do it, because you're
the intelligent one. You're the one that actually knows what
you're doing. You're a fantastic host, and I'm just the
one that talks absolutely shy. Hopefully we're going to be
a fantasticnique curious, the one that kind of brings me
back in the lines and tells me to behave myself occasionally. So, yeah,
this is going to be a really fun podcast, and
we're trying to make it a little bit spicy, a
little bit fun. I'm going to be very honest on
(02:24):
here and very real.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, and I'll just.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Say I'm not the intelligent one. I'm just the one
that is a trained host. So I will just keep
us on time and things like of that nature, but
keep the show on the road, keep us on the rails.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But in terms of like some of.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The specific things that we're gonna be touching on you
mentioned Mel, the guests that we're going to have on,
we do know some cool people because of golf. That's
one of the best things about golf. So we're going
to have them on and mention their golf life, but
also just who they are, their stories.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We're just going to.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Spend some time reacting to maybe some golf aps, maybe
some current events, maybe some pop culture. Anything that we
think is relevant to us. We'll want to talk about
that because if you're listening to us, then that means
it's probably relevant to you as well. And then we've
got some great ideas for including your listener questions and
reacting to stuff and making sure this is a super
interactive show. That's what we've got for now. It could
(03:15):
possibly change.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Depending on how things go, but no, we're very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Without further ado, we wanted to have folks get to
know us that are listening that maybe they don't know
too much about Mel, or they don't know too much
about me. So we thought the best way to do
that would be if I asked.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Some questions to Mel, and if Mel asked some questions
to me.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'm a bit nervous about what you're gonna ask me.
To be honest, I.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Kept up PG.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I ask you pretty well, Well, I know, I know,
but I feel like there's a lot of stuff that
it couldn't be PG with me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So I'm just a bit nervous about do you.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Want to You can definitely you can do wave past
PG if you want. I'm very I'm an open butt girl,
you know me.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, Well, let's start with something easy. Why did you
want to start a podcast?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I've actually been a fan of podcast for a very
long time. I love listening to podcasts. Obviously, we both
travel a lot, and as a professional golfer, we traveled
most weeks when we're in the car on a plane,
and so podcast is kind of my go to. I
just love learning about things. I love people's opinions. I
love kind of educating myself on things that I'm probably
not educated on, and so it's always been something that
I've been interested in. My friends say that I'm really
(04:21):
good at just talking. That's probably why I wanted to
start a podcast as well. So it's just something that
has always kind of be in the back of my mind.
And then when the opportunity came about, and obviously when
it came about with approach to me and you together,
I felt a bit more comfortable than so if I
was going to do it on my own or something,
and that kind of just kind of gave me the
confidence to take that leap. Really having you as my host,
(04:43):
look at me, giving you confidents already care it is
the first episode, given a few episodes.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's the last car, that's the last confident.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That you get. But yeah, it's just something that I've
always wanted to do, and I think the way that
we are. I think our dynamic is pretty interesting. Me.
I've got some really cool stories about toll life. You've
obviously a broadcast, and you've got an amazing story of
your own, and so I think that we can bring
in some really cool insights from both sides and connect
to a lot of people. And that's something that I've
always wanted to do, is kind of connect with people,
change people's opinions of things a little bit. And that's
(05:13):
why I've always wanted to start podcasts.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I agree with everything you said, especially the getting to
do it with you. That was a huge part of
why I wanted to do this, because carrying a show
by yourself is really hard.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So we've been able to really collaborate and share ideas,
and I feel like we get going, we start talking
about stuff, we get super excited, and then great stuff
comes out of that. It's just, you know, when you
get to actually work with somebody, it kind of brings
out the best in you, especially when you're working with
someone as great as mel.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And then that's the last nice thing I say about
you too.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I had to buy a MacBook to do this podcast.
By the way, I just want to clear this up.
Poor Kira and the team have had about fifty five
Google docs during the whole week because I've just my
wife has taught me out to do a Google doc
and now it's literally my favorite thing in the whole world.
I apologize for that, but it's not going to change.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Can you tell before I move on?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Can you tell the story of you going to the
Apple Store to get your very first mac as a
How old are you?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I have thirty seven ish.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
As a thirty seven year old grown a dot.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So I was obviously told by the team like, heyho,
probably get a MacBook because you can't just travel with
a desktop computer, which we have at home. So anyway,
so I go in and I've no idea what I'm doing.
I'm just like, oh, that one looks pretty, I'll just
get that one. The guy was like, oh, have you
ever used a MacBook before? And I was like, I've
never had a lot laptop, I don't think in my life.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And he was like oh, and he was did you
not have one few job?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I was like, no, I've never had a job, and.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So you must think I.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Didn't even then think like, oh, I should probably time
on a professional athlete. But I just was like, no,
I've never really had a job, like not since I
was like fourteen fifteen. And the poor guy was like,
who is this a fucking weirdo?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Is this trust fund baby coming?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Who exactly who's this trust fund baby? From Ponivigels, I
think like coming in and just tearing up the most
expensive MacBooks you can find.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
So yeah, that was my experience. But it is pretty swag.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I sent you and our agent because there a
really cool video me buying well in the car. Wasn't
it how excited I was with my new sexy laptop.
But yes, I don't know how to use it. Carli,
Poor Carly, I have to ask it for I kind
of basically how to run a mac book every day.
So yeah, I'm kind of starting to piss her off
a bit, but it's all good. Hey, I'm starting to
get it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Breaking Home with the Bacon exactly family.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's for the family, babe, Yeah, all good, all good.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Okay, you thought of the name Quiet please for the show,
so tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Okay, So, actually finding a name for a podcast, it's
really difficult.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And just to be clear, none of the ones I
suggested were a picture.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yes you're great, but so basically I was, it's not
like me at all, but I think we've gone out
on a Friday night. I had a couple of beers,
have a couple of cocktails, happy hair cocktails, and it
just came to me, like my best ideas do after
a couple of cocktails and a few beers. So I
just thought, quite please, because I feel like as women
were kind of told to be quite a lot, and
(07:59):
I've been told that a little bit in my life
as well, for different kinds of things. And I just thought,
you know, quite pleased with the paddle at golf. I
just thought it was a great concept. And yeah, I
just thought it was a cool name. And you know,
fortunately everyone else liked it as well. But yours were
great here, Yours were great.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, they were saying, okay, I didn't take it personally.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
In fact, when I saw quiet Place, I was like,
that's a minor, as you would say, shite, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okays were good, thank you. Let's dive into who you
are as a human being.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Tell us about how you grew up so people have
context for who you are and how you became a
professional golfer.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh okay, obviously a long story, very short.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I grew up in place called Derby in the very
middle of England and the countryside where everyone has black
labs and goes to the pub most days of the week.
Was a footballer, so a soccer player growing up, just
loved it. Wanted to be a professional footballer was definitely
my first love. And then I couldn't play football with
the boys anymore and I just didn't enjoy it as
much with the women. At the time, I just wasn't
really what it is now, so I decided, well, actually
(09:02):
my parents made me go to play golf in the
six weeks holiday kind of to get rid of me,
and I just made unbelievable mates there, literally straight off
the bat well. A lot like ten or eleven, like
a lot of the guys I'd played football with were
at the golf club, and so yeah, I just absolutely
fell in love with it and we would play forty
five holes a day. My parents would drop me off
at seven thirty in the morning up at eight o'clock
(09:22):
at night, give me five pounds for my lunch, but
I'd either have lunch or not because we'd always gamble
over the boys even at that age, and just fell
in love with it and then just got pretty good
pretty quick, to be honest, just with the amount I
was playing, and it was just down the road for
my school, so I'd go every single day after school.
Got to scratch at like fifteen sixteen, and was in
the England squads at like thirteen fourteen, and then just
that was it. I knew from the age of fourteen
(09:43):
I want a professional golfer, and got a job at
the golf club from fourteen to fifteen, and then wanted
to quit school at seventeen, wanted to move to America.
My mum was like, absolutely not. I don't trust you
on your own in America. I got another job just yeah,
very smart kind of and a lot of things as
an amateur, and felt I was ready for the next
step and the rest is history. I just turned pro
(10:05):
very young at nineteen twenty and didn't look back. So, yeah,
been on tour for what seventeen eighteen years now. Yeah,
it's been very up and down, but yeah, it's been
a ride. Actually, I mean it's crazy. I've been on
tour seventeen years. It makes me shiver.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Well, that's kind of changing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Now too.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Can we talk about that?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You can talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's tell us about story.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To just talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I'm just in an irishcause I'm a professional golf career.
Because I just don't want a whole sing and dance
about it. I just I played grand thought and I
had a feeling last year that it was going to
be my last year. I just didn't want to tell anyone.
Told my closest friends. But I've basically just walked away
from professional golf and not told anyone. So this is
my retirement announcement or I don't even like word retirement,
but stepping away.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
From professional goal, stepping away, that's just stepping away.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's so formal.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Do you say when you say stepping away, it still
gives you the option if you want to play an
event here and there.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I probably won't, but no, she's retired. I don't know. Yeah,
I've basically retired grad smell.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Thank you, Kira.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's been on my mind for a while, many many years,
and so I just felt the timing was right. And yeah,
my kind of relationship with tall life has changed tremendously,
and I'm just ready for the next step in my life.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
In my career.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That's actually very exciting to me, and so that's why
it's made my decision a lot easier. So, yeah, I've
done an Irish exit.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's pretty standard for me. I do it on nights
out on a regular basis, and I've just did it
on a seventeen year professional golf career, which is very
on brand for me. So I apologize if I've not
mentioned it to people, but I'm pretty sure I've mentioned
it to everyone in my team, thank god, so at least.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
If not, they're hearing it now exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
If I've missed you out, I do apologize, but yes,
I've done an Irish exit. So yeah, there we go.
Next step in my life is coming up, so let's
see where it goes.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I want to before we talk about the next stage
of your life, I want to focus on what your
professional golf career was like for one more question and
then we can move on.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Can you kind of explain the.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Life of mel Reed maybe like ten twelve years ago
on tour, like what that looked like and also just
the grind that people might not understand.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, I mean I've gone up and down a little bit,
like I've been extremely dedicated and then like extremely like
golf and being the best player in the world was
an obsession, and then there's been times where it's that
relationship has definitely changed, and then it's gone back. Now
I'm my backs against the wall here, I have to
grind my ass off. But to all, life is very
(12:26):
different to what it was, if I'm honest, Like ten
fifteen years ago, when I first came out it was now.
Bear in mind I started out in Europe as well.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
It was very much like a family.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You kind of traveled with a bunch of mates, You
stayed with a bunch of friends out on tour.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
As cutthroat, I would say, as it is now, and
it was fun. There wasn't as much technology back then,
Like we had no trackmans or like GC quads or
anything like that. So it's a little bit more old school,
I would say, a little bit more free.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Like I remember like.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The eye test, yeah, and I remember like having to
get like a rental car and like I had to
like draw out my directions like on a map because
like I didn't have a GPS and stuff, Like it's wild,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I Mean, that wasn't that long ago. I'm actually like
I'm at hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I know, I'm acting like I was born in the
twenties and then I kind of an up and down
career and then the LPGA. The last eight years have
been I've been amazing. Like the opportunities on the LPGA
are just a joke. And the way that it's changing now,
I mean, the girls are better and the prize money
is going up that we've been fined for so long.
But it's definitely more business out there. I'm very fortunate
because I've had some great friends on the LPGA where
(13:30):
it's made it a lot easier because we will stay
in Airbnb's and stuff. But a lot of my friends
that I started whether either retired or quit. So yeah,
it's very different now.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's definitely more business, a bit more cutthroat. People don't
really like hang out of the bars if you miss
the cut or anything like that. The grinding the next day,
and that's something that I enjoy doing if I miss
the cut is going to the pub.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
And talking about it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You can get the beyond the pg sectional exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, I enjoyed sitting there with my caddie talking about
how shit. I was like, I think it's I think
it's good reflection and it's a good little reset to
have a day off and then get back to it,
because yeah, as golfers are completely psychotic and we're just
absolute grinders. But yeah, it's been Listen, it's been a
I've learned so much being a professional golfer and it,
like we said earlier about starting the podcast, right, like,
it has brought me everything amazing in my life. It's
(14:18):
been pretty much from golf. Met Carli through golf. Like
all my best friends mainly through golf somewhere or another, you know,
even my friends in England. I moved to a certain
place from my hometown just forty minutes away because of
like the facility that they had, and then I met
my friends there.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Everything has been through golf.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So yeah, I'm forever indebted to it will always be
a huge part of my life. Just don't want to
be a tour pro anymore. How did you get into golf?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, we're not talking about me.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh sorry, let's yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's still my turn to interview you. Gosh, wait your turn, Okay,
next question. I want to talk Carly. Carly your wife
and your son Pi and how cute he is.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
He is pretty cute. Actually, it was just shocking because
he from me unfortunately. But yeah, no, me and kind
of been together like six and a half years, which
in lesbian years, that's forty two years. So that's pretty
it's a pretty good going for.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Us, so good dog years.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But yes, we met in twenty eighteen and the Ryder
Cup in Paris. I was moving some yeah again, yeah golf.
One of my best friends, Molly Gallaton, introduced us. I
was moving to America randomly, like the Wednesday after that,
and we didn't look back. So yeah, we've been together
six and a half years and kind now is fourteen months.
So we both were very passionate about having a family.
I've not been that keen on carrying a baby, just.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Because is anyone that keen.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Carlie was very keen.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
She's I had to carry a child one day. But
I don't know that I'm like excited about the physical
just I'm with you, destruction of your body. The one
thing I've got going for me is my body. And
if I ruin that, you know, that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm screwed. I'm done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So basically we did recipt live. Yeah, and we're very
fortunate that everything kind of went extremely smooth in the
first go. And nine months later we had a little baby, Kai,
who's absolute rocket. By the way, he's a proper lad. Honestly,
he just doesn't start.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wonder where he gets that from.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, exactly, I know. He's a fantastic little lad and
amazing hand and eye coordination. I'm pretty glad about that,
because if my son wasn't into sport, I would be
a bit I shouldn't probably say that, but I would
be a.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Bit good though, Yeah, how do you feel about your
kid having an American accent?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's not going to have America actually, okay, okay, okay,
I'm going.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
To prove that he's not.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay ready, no, he's not, so my listen to this.
So he's just starting to stay words now. And my
mother in law, Lorraine, amazing woman. Carly's mum, facetimed us
literally two days ago and was talking to Kai and
she went, oh, are you going to say I kind
of doing an American accent soy banana like that, and
he was just looking at like, what the fuck? And
then I said, Kai, say banana and he went anna.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So he's British.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Okay, I'm going to refute your theory and crush your
soul here ready. So my parents are Russian immigrants.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
My first language is Russian, and I only spoke Russian
until I went to kindergarten and now I speak perfect
English with a perfect American accent because of the people
that I was in school with. So unfortunately, the little
child at school is going to be like, Kai, do
you have bananas in your lunch?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Great job, great job. I just wanted the little lads
of a British accent.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I mean, I want him to have a British accent too.
A British accents are so much better than American accents.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I mean, how do you.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Think I got this gig? It wasn't from anything else,
part from my accent.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
So I get my lovely sense of humor. Great fir us,
Now I'll stop it, now, stop it.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
It's all bollocks.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And speaking of what are the weirdest things that you've
observed about living in America?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Listen, America amazing place right in my opinion, opportunities fantastic.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You guys are lovely people.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Thank you, We're as British people, we're pretty cynical, and
we're pretty like mony, and we're pretty negative. Like when
I get asked all the time, how's your day, I'm
like the British and me wants to say like, it's
not in your fucking business. But because I've been here,
I'm polite. I'm like, oh, it's amazing, thank you so much,
so lovely. But when my dad comes of it, he's like,
why the fuck is she asking me? It's not about business, Like,
it's just very British right, the way that you literally
(18:12):
say things. So like in England, we just know that
you just it's horse riding, right, but you guys have
to be very specific and say horse back riding. We
just know to ride the back of the horse, but
it has to be on the side. It's not like the.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Neck or the leg. Where else would you ride a horse?
Where else? On the horse?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Who invented the term horseback?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
But you guys did pavement.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
We know that you probably shouldn't walk in the road,
so you just walk on the pavement, whereas you guys
are side walk sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, gas it's a liquid.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh don't say petrol, it's petrol.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Gas is gas.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
It's a liquid.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So yeah, it's things like that really that I've been
aware of since being here. But hey, I'm married an American,
you're committee. I love America. I'm pretty committed. Yeah, at
this point, you're here for the dry I think, So,
what were.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Your first impressions of me?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Now? What was my first impression of you?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'm going to get into this in a minute, but
I knew obviously my agents mentioned that you were miss America. Like,
my first impression of you was like, I mean, look,
I am obviously a lesbian, right, but just see now
I don't fancy okay, I just want you to know
that it's okay. But I was like, but you're just
very like what's the word welcoming, like in like you
smile and like you just very I don't know. I
(19:37):
just thought you were lovely. We were for dinner, didn't
we at the Hilton event, the Champions event, and I
just thought you were lovely. It's what your dedity to
talk to. You were like a little bit funny, which
I quite liked. But yeah, just just just I just
think you're really nice. And then we've done some hosting
together at NBC, and I just yeah, I love working
with you. I just think you're a fantastic host, and
you just make me feel very easy when I don't
know what I'm doing, kind of like this podcast. Really
(19:57):
most of the time, I don't really know what I'm doing,
but you just made me feel very easy. So just
a lovely person.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Care Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Mel.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I also had that same impression of you. We share
the same agent, and when I found out that Cassette
represented you, I was like, oh my god, Mal's so cool,
funny and great a golf, all all the things. And
then we went on our first friend date, and sometimes
you just don't gel with people, but it was like,
you know, it was easy, my bud that I had
known forever, so when this came up, this was just
(20:25):
such a no brainer thing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Can I ask you some questions please, it's your turn now.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
So I mentioned it earlier, but you were former Miss America,
pretty fucking cool, pretty fucking care back in the day,
back in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
The day, years ago.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
So yeah, I don't want to know how that happened.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I just want to know what the actually experience is like,
like the process.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, so it's changed over the years, but I'll just
say what My experience was like, this is still the case.
You have to win a local competition and then you
win your state, and then once you're in the state,
you go to the national just Miss America. So I
was Miss New York City was my local, and then
Miss New York and then I went to Miss America
and became This America. But the pageant itself is about
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a two week process. We had a Washington, DC tour.
We went to the White House, we went to Capitol Building,
we did all the photo op and then we went
to Atlantic City, where the competition was at the time.
Atlantic City is the original home of Miss America back
in nineteen twenty one, the original bathing beauty contest that
meant to keep tourists in Atlantic City past Labor Day,
(21:27):
which is why Miss America was invented. No, and yeah,
and it's two weeks of the most grind crazy thing
you have ever experienced. You're up at four in the
morning every day, you're in rehearsals, you're filming, you're inherent makeup,
you're in competition to do it all again the next day.
(21:48):
So many girls get sick. It's a true test of endurance.
And on the final night, they pick a top fifteen,
then they eliminate to the top ten, the top five,
and you do different stages of competitions throughout the night,
and they crown a winner, which was you, which was me?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And you get to walk down the long runway.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And just smile at the people and wave and cry,
and then you start a year of travel. Every two
days you're in a different city, do about twenty thousand
miles a month.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And it's pretty insane.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a good fun fact.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It's more than a fun fact. It's a sick fact.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's a sick fact.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So how did you go from that then getting into golf?
Were you already into golf when you were like applying
for Miss America.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I had already grown up playing golf.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
My parents are Russian immigrants, and they thought that it
was a very important American business skill for their kid
to learn how to play golf.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
They had never played any golf. They don't know anything
about golf.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But I think my dad just saw business people having
that skill cover And we were on a family vacation
to Destin, Florida, when I was three or four years old,
and we went to a local muni and rented a
set of clubs and we played and I loved it
and I ended up playing like very serious junior golf.
We moved around a lot when I was little because
(23:05):
my dad is a doctor and he had to redo
all of his certifications and residency if we moved to.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Texas, and we moved to California.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And at this point, I'm in high school and golf
isn't really cool and it couldn't go on social media
and be like, wow, look at the cool stuff that
Melured and Michelle we are doing because of golf.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I thought golf was dumb, but I still could always
play because I started so young. And when I was
Miss America. The security director at Miss America is the
security director for the BMW Pro Am on the now.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Corn Ferry Tour.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And literally, I'm coming off the stage I've just won
Miss America. I'm shaking adrenaline the whole thing. He grabs
my arm with the most serious look on his face, like, Kira,
do you play golf? And I was like, yes, yes, Rodney,
I can't play golf. And he was like, okay, great,
I'll follow up with you later.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And I was like okay, and.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Then a few months later, the BMW prom was on
my schedule and they had invited me to play as
a female celebrity because they're always trying to get more
women to play and these events. And I was like, okay,
like I haven't played in ten years. I started going
to some driving rangers on my days off wherever I was,
and I played in this golf tournament and the Golf
Channel interviewed me, and I was like, oh my.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God, wait, I forgot how great this is.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So I started playing again and then that got me
into golf media and now I have a podcast with Malreedy.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's pretty cool. Okay, so some really random questions here,
but like, what's in your golf bag that you absolutely
have to have and don't say golf clubs.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Don't say golf clubs please, Okay, this is embarrassing. Influence
a light.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's related. It's one of those g pod things that
sticks in the ground with.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The masaging for your phone so that I can take
videos of my swing while and practicing, but.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Also make content, but also make fantastic content. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I also have a sick tied I San Francisco Lake
Merseaid Golf tel which I just got.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, it's awesome. So I think that's my new favorite
accessory on my bag.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I'm I'm old school with Taoso. I like, just why, Well,
that's why you're a professional golfer for fun, retired professional golfer.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You will always be a professional golfer.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I don't know. I played the other day.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
We went on a boys trip, and oh god, I'm
not a very natural golfer.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I can tell you that much. I definitely need to do.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
You're a natural athlete.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I think I think well sports to anything i'm good at,
I'm not good at anything else.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I'm not really not.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
A natural athlete.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's literally, okay, fine, I'm not very good to take compliments,
but yeah, okay fine, I.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Can do things. I'm coordinated, But there's a.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Lot of pressure with people here. Oh you're a professional athlete,
but you're a professional golfer. Then all of a sudden,
people have this thing in their head, so that that
can create pressure for you when you're just trying to
like also live your life and have fun on a
golf course.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, that's why I don't like prams. If I'm honest
I usually get really good prams. I'm very fortunate. I
usually get really good groups who aren't like that. But
the occasional group that is like expects me to burdy
every single hole, every single thirfer. It's one of my
biggest golfers actually.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And they give you, they give you a hard time
about it, and.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Its yeah, they're just like, oh, why we ain't why
do we not made that thirty far?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
And I'm like, because no one does.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
There's like a five percent chance on the PJ Tour
and LPGA making that, and you're a thirty five handicapper,
so yes, we didn't make that part. It's one of
my biggest x honestly, is like when prom teams are
a little bit like that. But that can be a
whole other episode as well. Yeah, oh we can do
a whole prim episode. Oh yeah, we've got stories god proms. Yeah,
primes too much? All right, I've got one more for you. Okay,
(26:31):
So you travel obviously, in fact, you're probably going to
travel way more than me now this year because I'm
not traveling.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Because of the girlfriend stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Is a hotel room.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
This is not my house, it is Yeah, it is
a hotel room.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
It's a good future.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I lucked out with this in the future. Our audience,
if they're watching on YouTube, they'll see the background that
I put some effort into.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You've done well there though on the background, so you
have to Kim.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Thanks. Put the shelves up theself proper lesbian me. I
put my tool belt on. It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I've got two of them actually as a wedding gift,
so I just alternate between the.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Two of them.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
The tool belt, you got to, I got to What
do I get for?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
It's called a nuthugger. It is. Look it up.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It's amazing. It's really cool. It's brown leather, very high quality,
and I got two of them.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Maybe I'll get one.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It's amazing, honestly great.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We'll put it on the Christmas episode.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
We'll do a canda one day and I'll wear it. Yeah, Karli.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Absolute just reports as I like to wear it, Okay,
like a travel accessory as well, like what are you
taking with you every single week?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
That is like an absolute have to have it. It
makes youre like easier on the road.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
For the past five or six years, I've done thirty
weeks a year on the road, which is insane.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Isn't it. Yeah, when you say it like that, that's
what I mean. That's what we do as professionals as well.
But it's just when you think about it's insane, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I mean it's more time on the than at home.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't know that I have, like, uh, well, so
I have something called a mini skillet.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I didn't know where you're gonna go with this, So okay,
carry on, Okay, carry on.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And I am big on.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Everywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Shot.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No, I'm gro shut grocery shopping beginning every week.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And I like a piece of toast.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, it's a whole process to go down to the
hotel restaurant just order side of toast and it's like
five dollars smell this stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So usually get some bread so that I can toast
it in my room.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I toast it on this little mini skillet thing so
I can toast a piece of bread, and it like
makes my quality of life so much higher. And I
put cottage cheese and bitch and sauce on it, and
that's what I have every morning for breakfast in my room.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I'm the type of person that eats the same thing
for every meal. Yeah, I'm not you routine, I don't
want to think about it.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, but in general, like, I know if it's a
Golf Channel week, like, I know that I have four
days of Golf Channel apparel that I have to wear,
So I just plan my outfits and advance for that.
I'll maybe go out to dinner once I have one
dinner outfit. I have workout clothes, I have pajamas, toilet trees, makeup.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
That's everything I bring.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I've gotten really good at just being as efficient with
my packing as possible, because when you're like lugging this
crap everywhere and putting it in the rental car blah
blah blah, you just want to be as.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Light as possible. And now my podcast gear.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's right, Sorry, just going back to the toast thing.
So I'm obsessed at the minute with toast, cottch cheese, everything,
eagle seasonings and honey.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It's unbelievable, a bit honey on it. Yeah, I give it's.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
CAUs I can travel with honey.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Great, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I love that bitch and sauce because it's like stage
and spicy. Oh it's my favorite. I put that on everything,
but I would report back.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'll try.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, we have it all now.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay, I feel like our audience has sufficiently gotten to
know us. They will continue to get to know us
for the duration.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Of our spell, which I apologize for. I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think we're great.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Okay, you are great. I'm nervous about what things.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, and that will be the best part.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Our last thing for this episode is a little game,
all right.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
So we have some questions that our producer has kindly
put together, which, by the way, when she sent me
the questions for you, was like, oh my god, curias
are so easy because she's lived like a thousand lives.
She's like, yours are really hord so excellent because.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You're just a professional. No, yes, you've been literally doing
the same thing for seven eighteen years.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Basically, I've lived a very boring life.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
So that's awesome, Jo, only joking, all right, So I
didn't know this about you, so I'm actually learning about
you as well. So question number one you're on who
Wants to be a Millionaire in twenty sixteen? Did you
learn your lesson? Because what was the answer to the
final question that you didn't answer, do you want me
(30:58):
to read out? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Because I don't remember what the question?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You don't remember?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
In twenty sixteen, I remember being on who wants to
be a Millionaire?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Think we want twenty thousand dollars, which is not a millionaire,
But I don't remember the last question.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
That wasn't Yeah? Okay you ready?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Taking his real last name and spelling it backwards, Dr
Zeus wrote a number of books used in What's surname?
A klop b von Itsue, c Lise okay, d do
etras someone who can't read very well, that was really
(31:31):
difficult challenge for me to read that out.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
So because I can't see it, and I'm a visual learner,
that's the excuse I'm going to give here. I don't
remember what the answer was, but I'm just going to
say D whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
No see les say, oh do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
No, that was a crazy experience. That's so funny. You
guys found that.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I actually used to love that show as a kid.
It's twenty thousand, not great, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I went to Children's Miracle Network has nice Okay. Well,
in a two thousand and seven interview, you said you
want to be a female version of what golfer?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
God, I don't know, uh, a female version.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Of what golfer?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So it has to be a man.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Okay, I got that, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I got that. Thank you very much, Kira. I don't know.
I probably said Tiger Woods dig Nam Ding, did I?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
That is correct?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Wow? Well do you know what if you put our
careers together, they're very comparable.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Very long, very prosperous.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Literally the most opposite careers of all time. So yeah, God,
I used to love well, I still do. I am
a huge Tiger was fan. He's the gop.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I mean you were also growing up when he was.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Like I wanted to play golf because of him. Yeah,
when he went I remember watching him when the mass
is ninety seven. That's I was in Portugal. I just
would like put around. Well, my parents played, but it
was because Tiger. I saw Tiger win and I was like,
that's sick and just wanted to play.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
He made golf call for me.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I think he made it cool for a lot of people,
So totally he's the Okay, what was the name of
the runner up when you won Miss America in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Miss Virginia Courtney Paige Garrett. Are you I didn't even
have the middle name there, girl, and you did well
because that's how she introduced herself. Oh did she blah
blah blah blah blah, Miss Virginia Courtney Paige Garrett. That's
how everybody, you know, I was like, I missed New.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
York said, oh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
So remember you remember that those you know how like
random like songs.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, yeah, like tones. I know what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
So I just so remember the intro. Well done, Kira,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, you've got something in the USGA Museum mel from
the US Open.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It is my hat because the week of the US Open. Okay,
don't quote me on this, but it was something like
I was the first player to wear the Pride logo
as the main sponsor of my hat. I was with
Peger at the time, and we did a cool collaboration
for Pride Month and I wore it during the whole
of June and I've actually done it with my sponsors
(34:05):
ever since. So yeah, it's been a cool collaboration that
I've always wanted to do during Pride Month, and that's.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Why it's in the USA Museum.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I was very honored that they asked me to do that,
So yeah, it was cool, cool moment for me.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Very cool.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
What was your time? I've seen this video?
Speaker 3 (34:21):
What was your talent in the twenty fifteen Miss America pageant?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I knew you guys were gonna pull something about this,
so I do remember what my talent was.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
There's the backstory here.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
At the time, the movie Pitch Perfect had just come
out and the song Happy by Pharrell was.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Blasting the airwaves.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I sing saying I don't really sing in public anymore
because of trauma. But the two women that won Miss
America before me were Miss New York. So because I
was the third, it was clear that I was not
going to win just by statistics, and I decided I
was going to just do something really fun and off
the wall and my personality, because who cares.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I'm not gonna win anyway. I'm just gonna do whatever
I want.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
So I did a mashup of the song you Know
You're Gonna miss Me when I'm Gone from Pitch Perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Have you ever heard that song?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Mm hmm, yeah, God, I miss me. I don't see
I didn't want to sing. I wanted you to sing it.
And it worked.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
See she's good people, she's there for a long time.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Still got it, still got it, but I sang happy
like it was like a mashup of.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
If you should watch the video, it's very good.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I don't know, I've never heard you sing, but actually,
do you know who mentioned to me that you were
a good singer was Carlie, So she must have heard
you somewhere and she was like, here's a six singer.
And I was like, well, and not only did you
actually do that very well and you sang it amazingly,
but you were sat down as well, which I found
even more impressive.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Cup with the cup on the stage.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, it was very controversial at the time, the blog
Oh my god, people were ripping me apart for that.
Someone wrote an article that said, what to do for
pageant talent when you don't have a talent.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
And it was my face, why though, that's pretty time.
What you're supposed to do, what you're you supposed to do?
Just people, I found it entertaining.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Whatever, do you know what I thought your talent was
going to be making toast on a skillet?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
So I'm a bit uh disappointed that was time talent.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Still I could do a senior page.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Please. I've joined you with my nut hugger on.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Perfect we could be the judges.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, okay, I'll still.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Have my nut hugger on tool bell for everyone who's
just tuned in. It is a tool bell just for
every still a natural nut hugger.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay, mouth, Between now and two thousand and six, when
is the highest and lowest.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
You've been ranked in the Rolex ranking?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Oh? Shit, I think I told people like thirty three
to thirty six. Yeah, no, I was think it was
thirty nine. And then my highest rank must be I mean,
I've been riddled with injuries at times, so it must be.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Is it in the thousand?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
No, no, okay, I'm going to say four hundred and
five lower?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right? This is a brit Is this a British
American thing? Because I would say lower.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Like the numbers lower or lower rank more higher? Okay,
six hundred lower ranked?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Lower rank?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yah, okay, it's in the six hundreds.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Is it really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Just tell me? Is it right now?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Two six?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
I'd played like one event.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I think you've come a long way.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
That's fair enough.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
I like that. Yes, all right, last question for you. You
played your first PRIM on May fourteenth, twenty fifteen the
BMW charity prom We were just talking about it.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Who is your partner?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Kevin Toway?
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Really?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah? It was actually so funny.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
I bet it was. I think it was fun.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, he's a fun guy. So I hadn't played in
a long time.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Aka, I was really bad, and the poor guy he
just didn't know what to do. At one point I
had this horrible lie like up against a cliff type
of thing to try and get onto a green and
I was like, can I hit it against the cliff thing?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
And he was like, yeah, just hit.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
It, just giving up all hope and.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Completely giving up on me. He was like, it doesn't matter,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, I got the fucking ball girl.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
But he was very nice and made it a lot
of kids. Okay, you're a last one. This is kind
of funny. On your Wikipedia page, it says not to
confuse you with a certain Scottish.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Woman also named Melissa Reid. What was she arrested.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
For drug smuggling in Peru?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
She did drug smuggling exactly the same name, Melissa Reid,
exact same smelling everything. She was smuggling some cocaine or something,
some drug out of Peru, like just I don't know,
in one of those Asian it's Persian. It was an
Asian country.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Okay, fucking fuck.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Anyway, think you got it, you were there, you know
what I meant.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
She just went buying gold for seventeen years. Really a
consumed me.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Just now I'll just read a book.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So anyway, just anything other than watching golf and looking
at picture magazines.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
God, God is going to kill me for that. She's
gonna She's really going to kill.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Me for that. And the thing is, geography is one
of my highlights. So that's that's really yeah. So that's
really sure. I'm usually pretty good at it, so I
don't know why I messed it up so bad. Anyway,
the Peru that's in South America. So when that happened,
I should you not. Every time I traveled to America,
I got pulled in the back like four times. They
were like, have you been to Peru? I was like, no,
I've never been to Asia.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Because Asia, that's that's put her at the back exactly.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I'm like no, I've been to Asia like two years,
so yeah, no, I got pulled in a four times.
I was like, just you know, I'm not that person.
I guarantee I'm not that person. Yeah, And I was
in there for like five minutes before they're like, wow,
that's really weird. Like, but I would get flagged every
time I would travel to America.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
When did you become mel and not listened.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Literally the day I was born? But my real name
is Melissa.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Does anyone call you Melissa? Would anyone call you Melissa ever?
Speaker 3 (40:07):
In your family or my dad's maybe like my dad
like yeah, just like he just calls me, but he
also calls me like the family dog and like things
like that. So yeah, it's like Bailey, like it's not me.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
And he calls Kai Kia like the car Kai is
your son?
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That he is Kai is my son, and he gets
confused with the age. I mean, he say he's seven
years old, bless him. He's fit as a fiddle, but
he's eighty seven. And then he's like, how's that Kia doing.
I'm like, he's not a car. He's not an electric car. Dad,
But yeah, he calls me Melissa occasionally, but no, everyone
calls me Mal, I've been mail my whole life.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Fun fact, very fun, very fun fact. Not a drug dealer, great.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Nope, not a drug data, not by any stretch of imagination.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, that is our very first episode. It's crazy to
say that we just did that.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
It's kind of weird, isn't it, because none of us
has ever really done a podcast. So I promise you
if you thought it was shiit, we will get better
at it.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
But I think we did pretty good.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah. So, as we said, we'll be out on Wednesdays
every week so you can make us part.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Of your weekly routine.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
And we promise to never be quiet on Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I think that's something we can guarantee.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
I will always guarantee you that.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Kira, all right, Mel, this is great. We will talk
next week.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Thanks for listening to Quiet Please. We'll be back next
week with more golf HAPs and we.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Want to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Leave us a review in Apple Podcasts and tell us
what you.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
It just might be the topic of our next show.
Quiet Please is hosted by Mel Reed and Kira Dixon.
Our executive producer is Jesse katz Our Supervising producer Is
Grace views our producer is Zoe Danklas.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, I'm Curre.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Dixon and I'm Mel Read and.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This is Quiet Please.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And this is officially your first episode.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And this is officially our first episode, Mel we have
a podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Who the hell let us have a podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
First of all, iHeartRadio did I know?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So, thank you to iHeartRadio. Hopefully we won't be a
disappointment over on. But we've we've been talking about this
for a while. We're very excited about it, and we
hope that the audience is very excited about listening to
us talk about a lot of things over the next
few weeks and years hopefully, and hope this will start
something really.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Cool years years of listening.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah to come for everyone out there. We've been working
really hard on this. Our producers have all been working
really hard on this. Shout out Grace, Zoey, Jesse and
the whole iHeart team. But we thought we would start
with just explaining what Quiet Please is and what listeners
can expect from our show when you obviously tune in
(01:21):
every single week on Wednesdays because that's when the show
will air. You can spend your Wednesday with us, drink
your coffee, and get caught up.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
On life and the HAPs and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So obviously Mel and I know each other through golf,
and the through line of this show will probably be
golf ish, but that's not everything that we're going to
be talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean, I think golf is going to be the
main bloodline. I would say that connects our stories, but
it's going to be different from a normal golf podcast.
I feel like, obviously, not only being a golfer, but
being a fan of golf, I listened to a lot
of golf podcasts and I wanted.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
This one to be a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So yeah, I think we're going to get some really
cool guests on.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But yeah, I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And well, I should say that I'm very thankful that
they asked both of us to do it, because you're
the intelligent one. You're the one that actually knows what
you're doing. You're a fantastic host, and I'm just the
one that talks absolutely shy. Hopefully we're going to be
a fantasticnique curious, the one that kind of brings me
back in the lines and tells me to behave myself occasionally. So, yeah,
this is going to be a really fun podcast, and
we're trying to make it a little bit spicy, a
little bit fun. I'm going to be very honest on
(02:24):
here and very real.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, and I'll just.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Say I'm not the intelligent one. I'm just the one
that is a trained host. So I will just keep
us on time and things like of that nature, but
keep the show on the road, keep us on the rails.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But in terms of like some of.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The specific things that we're gonna be touching on you
mentioned Mel, the guests that we're going to have on,
we do know some cool people because of golf. That's
one of the best things about golf. So we're going
to have them on and mention their golf life, but
also just who they are, their stories.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We're just going to.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Spend some time reacting to maybe some golf aps, maybe
some current events, maybe some pop culture. Anything that we
think is relevant to us. We'll want to talk about
that because if you're listening to us, then that means
it's probably relevant to you as well. And then we've
got some great ideas for including your listener questions and
reacting to stuff and making sure this is a super
interactive show. That's what we've got for now. It could
(03:15):
possibly change.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Depending on how things go, but no, we're very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Without further ado, we wanted to have folks get to
know us that are listening that maybe they don't know
too much about Mel, or they don't know too much
about me. So we thought the best way to do
that would be if I asked.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Some questions to Mel, and if Mel asked some questions
to me.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'm a bit nervous about what you're gonna ask me.
To be honest, I.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Kept up PG.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I ask you pretty well, Well, I know, I know,
but I feel like there's a lot of stuff that
it couldn't be PG with me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So I'm just a bit nervous about do you.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Want to You can definitely you can do wave past
PG if you want. I'm very I'm an open butt girl,
you know me.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, Well, let's start with something easy. Why did you
want to start a podcast?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I've actually been a fan of podcast for a very
long time. I love listening to podcasts. Obviously, we both
travel a lot, and as a professional golfer, we traveled
most weeks when we're in the car on a plane,
and so podcast is kind of my go to. I
just love learning about things. I love people's opinions. I
love kind of educating myself on things that I'm probably
not educated on, and so it's always been something that
I've been interested in. My friends say that I'm really
(04:21):
good at just talking. That's probably why I wanted to
start a podcast as well. So it's just something that
has always kind of be in the back of my mind.
And then when the opportunity came about, and obviously when
it came about with approach to me and you together,
I felt a bit more comfortable than so if I
was going to do it on my own or something,
and that kind of just kind of gave me the
confidence to take that leap. Really having you as my host,
(04:43):
look at me, giving you confidents already care it is
the first episode, given a few episodes.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's the last car, that's the last confident.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That you get. But yeah, it's just something that I've
always wanted to do, and I think the way that
we are. I think our dynamic is pretty interesting. Me.
I've got some really cool stories about toll life. You've
obviously a broadcast, and you've got an amazing story of
your own, and so I think that we can bring
in some really cool insights from both sides and connect
to a lot of people. And that's something that I've
always wanted to do, is kind of connect with people,
change people's opinions of things a little bit. And that's
(05:13):
why I've always wanted to start podcasts.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I agree with everything you said, especially the getting to
do it with you. That was a huge part of
why I wanted to do this, because carrying a show
by yourself is really hard.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So we've been able to really collaborate and share ideas,
and I feel like we get going, we start talking
about stuff, we get super excited, and then great stuff
comes out of that. It's just, you know, when you
get to actually work with somebody, it kind of brings
out the best in you, especially when you're working with
someone as great as mel.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And then that's the last nice thing I say about
you too.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I had to buy a MacBook to do this podcast.
By the way, I just want to clear this up.
Poor Kira and the team have had about fifty five
Google docs during the whole week because I've just my
wife has taught me out to do a Google doc
and now it's literally my favorite thing in the whole world.
I apologize for that, but it's not going to change.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Can you tell before I move on?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Can you tell the story of you going to the
Apple Store to get your very first mac as a
How old are you?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I have thirty seven ish.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
As a thirty seven year old grown a dot.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So I was obviously told by the team like, heyho,
probably get a MacBook because you can't just travel with
a desktop computer, which we have at home. So anyway,
so I go in and I've no idea what I'm doing.
I'm just like, oh, that one looks pretty, I'll just
get that one. The guy was like, oh, have you
ever used a MacBook before? And I was like, I've
never had a lot laptop, I don't think in my life.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And he was like oh, and he was did you
not have one few job?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I was like, no, I've never had a job, and.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So you must think I.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Didn't even then think like, oh, I should probably time
on a professional athlete. But I just was like, no,
I've never really had a job, like not since I
was like fourteen fifteen. And the poor guy was like,
who is this a fucking weirdo?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Is this trust fund baby coming?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Who exactly who's this trust fund baby? From Ponivigels, I
think like coming in and just tearing up the most
expensive MacBooks you can find.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
So yeah, that was my experience. But it is pretty swag.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I sent you and our agent because there a
really cool video me buying well in the car. Wasn't
it how excited I was with my new sexy laptop.
But yes, I don't know how to use it. Carli,
Poor Carly, I have to ask it for I kind
of basically how to run a mac book every day.
So yeah, I'm kind of starting to piss her off
a bit, but it's all good. Hey, I'm starting to
get it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Breaking Home with the Bacon exactly family.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's for the family, babe, Yeah, all good, all good.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Okay, you thought of the name Quiet please for the show,
so tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Okay, So, actually finding a name for a podcast, it's
really difficult.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And just to be clear, none of the ones I
suggested were a picture.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yes you're great, but so basically I was, it's not
like me at all, but I think we've gone out
on a Friday night. I had a couple of beers,
have a couple of cocktails, happy hair cocktails, and it
just came to me, like my best ideas do after
a couple of cocktails and a few beers. So I
just thought, quite please, because I feel like as women
were kind of told to be quite a lot, and
(07:59):
I've been told that a little bit in my life
as well, for different kinds of things. And I just thought,
you know, quite pleased with the paddle at golf. I
just thought it was a great concept. And yeah, I
just thought it was a cool name. And you know,
fortunately everyone else liked it as well. But yours were
great here, Yours were great.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, they were saying, okay, I didn't take it personally.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
In fact, when I saw quiet Place, I was like,
that's a minor, as you would say, shite, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okays were good, thank you. Let's dive into who you
are as a human being.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Tell us about how you grew up so people have
context for who you are and how you became a
professional golfer.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh okay, obviously a long story, very short.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I grew up in place called Derby in the very
middle of England and the countryside where everyone has black
labs and goes to the pub most days of the week.
Was a footballer, so a soccer player growing up, just
loved it. Wanted to be a professional footballer was definitely
my first love. And then I couldn't play football with
the boys anymore and I just didn't enjoy it as
much with the women. At the time, I just wasn't
really what it is now, so I decided, well, actually
(09:02):
my parents made me go to play golf in the
six weeks holiday kind of to get rid of me,
and I just made unbelievable mates there, literally straight off
the bat well. A lot like ten or eleven, like
a lot of the guys I'd played football with were
at the golf club, and so yeah, I just absolutely
fell in love with it and we would play forty
five holes a day. My parents would drop me off
at seven thirty in the morning up at eight o'clock
(09:22):
at night, give me five pounds for my lunch, but
I'd either have lunch or not because we'd always gamble
over the boys even at that age, and just fell
in love with it and then just got pretty good
pretty quick, to be honest, just with the amount I
was playing, and it was just down the road for
my school, so I'd go every single day after school.
Got to scratch at like fifteen sixteen, and was in
the England squads at like thirteen fourteen, and then just
that was it. I knew from the age of fourteen
(09:43):
I want a professional golfer, and got a job at
the golf club from fourteen to fifteen, and then wanted
to quit school at seventeen, wanted to move to America.
My mum was like, absolutely not. I don't trust you
on your own in America. I got another job just yeah,
very smart kind of and a lot of things as
an amateur, and felt I was ready for the next
step and the rest is history. I just turned pro
(10:05):
very young at nineteen twenty and didn't look back. So, yeah,
been on tour for what seventeen eighteen years now. Yeah,
it's been very up and down, but yeah, it's been
a ride. Actually, I mean it's crazy. I've been on
tour seventeen years. It makes me shiver.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Well, that's kind of changing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Now too.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Can we talk about that?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You can talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's tell us about story.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To just talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I'm just in an irishcause I'm a professional golf career.
Because I just don't want a whole sing and dance
about it. I just I played grand thought and I
had a feeling last year that it was going to
be my last year. I just didn't want to tell anyone.
Told my closest friends. But I've basically just walked away
from professional golf and not told anyone. So this is
my retirement announcement or I don't even like word retirement,
but stepping away.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
From professional goal, stepping away, that's just stepping away.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's so formal.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Do you say when you say stepping away, it still
gives you the option if you want to play an
event here and there.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I probably won't, but no, she's retired. I don't know. Yeah,
I've basically retired grad smell.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Thank you, Kira.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's been on my mind for a while, many many years,
and so I just felt the timing was right. And yeah,
my kind of relationship with tall life has changed tremendously,
and I'm just ready for the next step in my life.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
In my career.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That's actually very exciting to me, and so that's why
it's made my decision a lot easier. So, yeah, I've
done an Irish exit.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's pretty standard for me. I do it on nights
out on a regular basis, and I've just did it
on a seventeen year professional golf career, which is very
on brand for me. So I apologize if I've not
mentioned it to people, but I'm pretty sure I've mentioned
it to everyone in my team, thank god, so at least.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
If not, they're hearing it now exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
If I've missed you out, I do apologize, but yes,
I've done an Irish exit. So yeah, there we go.
Next step in my life is coming up, so let's
see where it goes.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I want to before we talk about the next stage
of your life, I want to focus on what your
professional golf career was like for one more question and
then we can move on.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Can you kind of explain the.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Life of mel Reed maybe like ten twelve years ago
on tour, like what that looked like and also just
the grind that people might not understand.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, I mean I've gone up and down a little bit,
like I've been extremely dedicated and then like extremely like
golf and being the best player in the world was
an obsession, and then there's been times where it's that
relationship has definitely changed, and then it's gone back. Now
I'm my backs against the wall here, I have to
grind my ass off. But to all, life is very
(12:26):
different to what it was, if I'm honest, Like ten
fifteen years ago, when I first came out it was now.
Bear in mind I started out in Europe as well.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
It was very much like a family.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You kind of traveled with a bunch of mates, You
stayed with a bunch of friends out on tour.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
As cutthroat, I would say, as it is now, and
it was fun. There wasn't as much technology back then,
Like we had no trackmans or like GC quads or
anything like that. So it's a little bit more old school,
I would say, a little bit more free.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Like I remember like.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The eye test, yeah, and I remember like having to
get like a rental car and like I had to
like draw out my directions like on a map because
like I didn't have a GPS and stuff, Like it's wild,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I Mean, that wasn't that long ago. I'm actually like
I'm at hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I know, I'm acting like I was born in the
twenties and then I kind of an up and down
career and then the LPGA. The last eight years have
been I've been amazing. Like the opportunities on the LPGA
are just a joke. And the way that it's changing now,
I mean, the girls are better and the prize money
is going up that we've been fined for so long.
But it's definitely more business out there. I'm very fortunate
because I've had some great friends on the LPGA where
(13:30):
it's made it a lot easier because we will stay
in Airbnb's and stuff. But a lot of my friends
that I started whether either retired or quit. So yeah,
it's very different now.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's definitely more business, a bit more cutthroat. People don't
really like hang out of the bars if you miss
the cut or anything like that. The grinding the next day,
and that's something that I enjoy doing if I miss
the cut is going to the pub.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
And talking about it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You can get the beyond the pg sectional exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, I enjoyed sitting there with my caddie talking about
how shit. I was like, I think it's I think
it's good reflection and it's a good little reset to
have a day off and then get back to it,
because yeah, as golfers are completely psychotic and we're just
absolute grinders. But yeah, it's been Listen, it's been a
I've learned so much being a professional golfer and it,
like we said earlier about starting the podcast, right, like,
it has brought me everything amazing in my life. It's
(14:18):
been pretty much from golf. Met Carli through golf. Like
all my best friends mainly through golf somewhere or another, you know,
even my friends in England. I moved to a certain
place from my hometown just forty minutes away because of
like the facility that they had, and then I met
my friends there.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Everything has been through golf.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So yeah, I'm forever indebted to it will always be
a huge part of my life. Just don't want to
be a tour pro anymore. How did you get into golf?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, we're not talking about me.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh sorry, let's yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's still my turn to interview you. Gosh, wait your turn, Okay,
next question. I want to talk Carly. Carly your wife
and your son Pi and how cute he is.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
He is pretty cute. Actually, it was just shocking because
he from me unfortunately. But yeah, no, me and kind
of been together like six and a half years, which
in lesbian years, that's forty two years. So that's pretty
it's a pretty good going for.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Us, so good dog years.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But yes, we met in twenty eighteen and the Ryder
Cup in Paris. I was moving some yeah again, yeah golf.
One of my best friends, Molly Gallaton, introduced us. I
was moving to America randomly, like the Wednesday after that,
and we didn't look back. So yeah, we've been together
six and a half years and kind now is fourteen months.
So we both were very passionate about having a family.
I've not been that keen on carrying a baby, just.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Because is anyone that keen.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Carlie was very keen.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
She's I had to carry a child one day. But
I don't know that I'm like excited about the physical
just I'm with you, destruction of your body. The one
thing I've got going for me is my body. And
if I ruin that, you know, that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm screwed. I'm done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So basically we did recipt live. Yeah, and we're very
fortunate that everything kind of went extremely smooth in the
first go. And nine months later we had a little baby, Kai,
who's absolute rocket. By the way, he's a proper lad. Honestly,
he just doesn't start.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wonder where he gets that from.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, exactly, I know. He's a fantastic little lad and
amazing hand and eye coordination. I'm pretty glad about that,
because if my son wasn't into sport, I would be
a bit I shouldn't probably say that, but I would
be a.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Bit good though, Yeah, how do you feel about your
kid having an American accent?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's not going to have America actually, okay, okay, okay,
I'm going.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
To prove that he's not.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay ready, no, he's not, so my listen to this.
So he's just starting to stay words now. And my
mother in law, Lorraine, amazing woman. Carly's mum, facetimed us
literally two days ago and was talking to Kai and
she went, oh, are you going to say I kind
of doing an American accent soy banana like that, and
he was just looking at like, what the fuck? And
then I said, Kai, say banana and he went anna.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So he's British.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Okay, I'm going to refute your theory and crush your
soul here ready. So my parents are Russian immigrants.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
My first language is Russian, and I only spoke Russian
until I went to kindergarten and now I speak perfect
English with a perfect American accent because of the people
that I was in school with. So unfortunately, the little
child at school is going to be like, Kai, do
you have bananas in your lunch?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Great job, great job. I just wanted the little lads
of a British accent.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I mean, I want him to have a British accent too.
A British accents are so much better than American accents.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I mean, how do you.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Think I got this gig? It wasn't from anything else,
part from my accent.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
So I get my lovely sense of humor. Great fir us,
Now I'll stop it, now, stop it.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
It's all bollocks.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And speaking of what are the weirdest things that you've
observed about living in America?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Listen, America amazing place right in my opinion, opportunities fantastic.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You guys are lovely people.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Thank you, We're as British people, we're pretty cynical, and
we're pretty like mony, and we're pretty negative. Like when
I get asked all the time, how's your day, I'm
like the British and me wants to say like, it's
not in your fucking business. But because I've been here,
I'm polite. I'm like, oh, it's amazing, thank you so much,
so lovely. But when my dad comes of it, he's like,
why the fuck is she asking me? It's not about business, Like,
it's just very British right, the way that you literally
(18:12):
say things. So like in England, we just know that
you just it's horse riding, right, but you guys have
to be very specific and say horse back riding. We
just know to ride the back of the horse, but
it has to be on the side. It's not like the.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Neck or the leg. Where else would you ride a horse?
Where else? On the horse?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Who invented the term horseback?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
But you guys did pavement.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
We know that you probably shouldn't walk in the road,
so you just walk on the pavement, whereas you guys
are side walk sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, gas it's a liquid.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh don't say petrol, it's petrol.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Gas is gas.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
It's a liquid.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So yeah, it's things like that really that I've been
aware of since being here. But hey, I'm married an American,
you're committee. I love America. I'm pretty committed. Yeah, at
this point, you're here for the dry I think, So,
what were.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Your first impressions of me?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Now? What was my first impression of you?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'm going to get into this in a minute, but
I knew obviously my agents mentioned that you were miss America. Like,
my first impression of you was like, I mean, look,
I am obviously a lesbian, right, but just see now
I don't fancy okay, I just want you to know
that it's okay. But I was like, but you're just
very like what's the word welcoming, like in like you
smile and like you just very I don't know. I
(19:37):
just thought you were lovely. We were for dinner, didn't
we at the Hilton event, the Champions event, and I
just thought you were lovely. It's what your dedity to
talk to. You were like a little bit funny, which
I quite liked. But yeah, just just just I just
think you're really nice. And then we've done some hosting
together at NBC, and I just yeah, I love working
with you. I just think you're a fantastic host, and
you just make me feel very easy when I don't
know what I'm doing, kind of like this podcast. Really
(19:57):
most of the time, I don't really know what I'm doing,
but you just made me feel very easy. So just
a lovely person.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Care Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Mel.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I also had that same impression of you. We share
the same agent, and when I found out that Cassette
represented you, I was like, oh my god, Mal's so cool,
funny and great a golf, all all the things. And
then we went on our first friend date, and sometimes
you just don't gel with people, but it was like,
you know, it was easy, my bud that I had
known forever, so when this came up, this was just
(20:25):
such a no brainer thing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Can I ask you some questions please, it's your turn now.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
So I mentioned it earlier, but you were former Miss America,
pretty fucking cool, pretty fucking care back in the day,
back in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
The day, years ago.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
So yeah, I don't want to know how that happened.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I just want to know what the actually experience is like,
like the process.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, so it's changed over the years, but I'll just
say what My experience was like, this is still the case.
You have to win a local competition and then you
win your state, and then once you're in the state,
you go to the national just Miss America. So I
was Miss New York City was my local, and then
Miss New York and then I went to Miss America
and became This America. But the pageant itself is about
(21:06):
a two week process. We had a Washington, DC tour.
We went to the White House, we went to Capitol Building,
we did all the photo op and then we went
to Atlantic City, where the competition was at the time.
Atlantic City is the original home of Miss America back
in nineteen twenty one, the original bathing beauty contest that
meant to keep tourists in Atlantic City past Labor Day,
(21:27):
which is why Miss America was invented. No, and yeah,
and it's two weeks of the most grind crazy thing
you have ever experienced. You're up at four in the
morning every day, you're in rehearsals, you're filming, you're inherent makeup,
you're in competition to do it all again the next day.
(21:48):
So many girls get sick. It's a true test of endurance.
And on the final night, they pick a top fifteen,
then they eliminate to the top ten, the top five,
and you do different stages of competitions throughout the night,
and they crown a winner, which was you, which was me?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And you get to walk down the long runway.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And just smile at the people and wave and cry,
and then you start a year of travel. Every two
days you're in a different city, do about twenty thousand
miles a month.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And it's pretty insane.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a good fun fact.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It's more than a fun fact. It's a sick fact.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's a sick fact.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So how did you go from that then getting into golf?
Were you already into golf when you were like applying
for Miss America.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I had already grown up playing golf.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
My parents are Russian immigrants, and they thought that it
was a very important American business skill for their kid
to learn how to play golf.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
They had never played any golf. They don't know anything
about golf.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But I think my dad just saw business people having
that skill cover And we were on a family vacation
to Destin, Florida, when I was three or four years old,
and we went to a local muni and rented a
set of clubs and we played and I loved it
and I ended up playing like very serious junior golf.
We moved around a lot when I was little because
(23:05):
my dad is a doctor and he had to redo
all of his certifications and residency if we moved to.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Texas, and we moved to California.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And at this point, I'm in high school and golf
isn't really cool and it couldn't go on social media
and be like, wow, look at the cool stuff that
Melured and Michelle we are doing because of golf.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I thought golf was dumb, but I still could always
play because I started so young. And when I was
Miss America. The security director at Miss America is the
security director for the BMW Pro Am on the now.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Corn Ferry Tour.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And literally, I'm coming off the stage I've just won
Miss America. I'm shaking adrenaline the whole thing. He grabs
my arm with the most serious look on his face, like, Kira,
do you play golf? And I was like, yes, yes, Rodney,
I can't play golf. And he was like, okay, great,
I'll follow up with you later.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And I was like okay, and.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Then a few months later, the BMW prom was on
my schedule and they had invited me to play as
a female celebrity because they're always trying to get more
women to play and these events. And I was like, okay,
like I haven't played in ten years. I started going
to some driving rangers on my days off wherever I was,
and I played in this golf tournament and the Golf
Channel interviewed me, and I was like, oh my.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God, wait, I forgot how great this is.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So I started playing again and then that got me
into golf media and now I have a podcast with Malreedy.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's pretty cool. Okay, so some really random questions here,
but like, what's in your golf bag that you absolutely
have to have and don't say golf clubs.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Don't say golf clubs please, Okay, this is embarrassing. Influence
a light.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's related. It's one of those g pod things that
sticks in the ground with.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The masaging for your phone so that I can take
videos of my swing while and practicing, but.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Also make content, but also make fantastic content. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I also have a sick tied I San Francisco Lake
Merseaid Golf tel which I just got.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, it's awesome. So I think that's my new favorite
accessory on my bag.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I'm I'm old school with Taoso. I like, just why, Well,
that's why you're a professional golfer for fun, retired professional golfer.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You will always be a professional golfer.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I don't know. I played the other day.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
We went on a boys trip, and oh god, I'm
not a very natural golfer.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I can tell you that much. I definitely need to do.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
You're a natural athlete.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I think I think well sports to anything i'm good at,
I'm not good at anything else.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I'm not really not.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
A natural athlete.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's literally, okay, fine, I'm not very good to take compliments,
but yeah, okay fine, I.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Can do things. I'm coordinated, But there's a.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Lot of pressure with people here. Oh you're a professional athlete,
but you're a professional golfer. Then all of a sudden,
people have this thing in their head, so that that
can create pressure for you when you're just trying to
like also live your life and have fun on a
golf course.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, that's why I don't like prams. If I'm honest
I usually get really good prams. I'm very fortunate. I
usually get really good groups who aren't like that. But
the occasional group that is like expects me to burdy
every single hole, every single thirfer. It's one of my
biggest golfers actually.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And they give you, they give you a hard time
about it, and.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Its yeah, they're just like, oh, why we ain't why
do we not made that thirty far?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
And I'm like, because no one does.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
There's like a five percent chance on the PJ Tour
and LPGA making that, and you're a thirty five handicapper,
so yes, we didn't make that part. It's one of
my biggest x honestly, is like when prom teams are
a little bit like that. But that can be a
whole other episode as well. Yeah, oh we can do
a whole prim episode. Oh yeah, we've got stories god proms. Yeah,
primes too much? All right, I've got one more for you. Okay,
(26:31):
So you travel obviously, in fact, you're probably going to
travel way more than me now this year because I'm
not traveling.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Because of the girlfriend stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Is a hotel room.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
This is not my house, it is Yeah, it is
a hotel room.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
It's a good future.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I lucked out with this in the future. Our audience,
if they're watching on YouTube, they'll see the background that
I put some effort into.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You've done well there though on the background, so you
have to Kim.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Thanks. Put the shelves up theself proper lesbian me. I
put my tool belt on. It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I've got two of them actually as a wedding gift,
so I just alternate between the.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Two of them.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
The tool belt, you got to, I got to What
do I get for?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
It's called a nuthugger. It is. Look it up.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It's amazing. It's really cool. It's brown leather, very high quality,
and I got two of them.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Maybe I'll get one.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It's amazing, honestly great.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We'll put it on the Christmas episode.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
We'll do a canda one day and I'll wear it. Yeah, Karli.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Absolute just reports as I like to wear it, Okay,
like a travel accessory as well, like what are you
taking with you every single week?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
That is like an absolute have to have it. It
makes youre like easier on the road.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
For the past five or six years, I've done thirty
weeks a year on the road, which is insane.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Isn't it. Yeah, when you say it like that, that's
what I mean. That's what we do as professionals as well.
But it's just when you think about it's insane, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I mean it's more time on the than at home.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't know that I have, like, uh, well, so
I have something called a mini skillet.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I didn't know where you're gonna go with this, So okay,
carry on, Okay, carry on.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And I am big on.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Everywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Shot.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No, I'm gro shut grocery shopping beginning every week.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And I like a piece of toast.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, it's a whole process to go down to the
hotel restaurant just order side of toast and it's like
five dollars smell this stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So usually get some bread so that I can toast
it in my room.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I toast it on this little mini skillet thing so
I can toast a piece of bread, and it like
makes my quality of life so much higher. And I
put cottage cheese and bitch and sauce on it, and
that's what I have every morning for breakfast in my room.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I'm the type of person that eats the same thing
for every meal. Yeah, I'm not you routine, I don't
want to think about it.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, but in general, like, I know if it's a
Golf Channel week, like, I know that I have four
days of Golf Channel apparel that I have to wear,
So I just plan my outfits and advance for that.
I'll maybe go out to dinner once I have one
dinner outfit. I have workout clothes, I have pajamas, toilet trees, makeup.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
That's everything I bring.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I've gotten really good at just being as efficient with
my packing as possible, because when you're like lugging this
crap everywhere and putting it in the rental car blah
blah blah, you just want to be as.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Light as possible. And now my podcast gear.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's right, Sorry, just going back to the toast thing.
So I'm obsessed at the minute with toast, cottch cheese, everything,
eagle seasonings and honey.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It's unbelievable, a bit honey on it. Yeah, I give it's.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
CAUs I can travel with honey.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Great, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I love that bitch and sauce because it's like stage
and spicy. Oh it's my favorite. I put that on everything,
but I would report back.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'll try.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, we have it all now.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay, I feel like our audience has sufficiently gotten to
know us. They will continue to get to know us
for the duration.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Of our spell, which I apologize for. I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think we're great.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Okay, you are great. I'm nervous about what things.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, and that will be the best part.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Our last thing for this episode is a little game,
all right.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
So we have some questions that our producer has kindly
put together, which, by the way, when she sent me
the questions for you, was like, oh my god, curias
are so easy because she's lived like a thousand lives.
She's like, yours are really hord so excellent because.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You're just a professional. No, yes, you've been literally doing
the same thing for seven eighteen years.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Basically, I've lived a very boring life.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
So that's awesome, Jo, only joking, all right, So I
didn't know this about you, so I'm actually learning about
you as well. So question number one you're on who
Wants to be a Millionaire in twenty sixteen? Did you
learn your lesson? Because what was the answer to the
final question that you didn't answer, do you want me
(30:58):
to read out? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Because I don't remember what the question?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You don't remember?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
In twenty sixteen, I remember being on who wants to
be a Millionaire?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Think we want twenty thousand dollars, which is not a millionaire,
But I don't remember the last question.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
That wasn't Yeah? Okay you ready?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Taking his real last name and spelling it backwards, Dr
Zeus wrote a number of books used in What's surname?
A klop b von Itsue, c Lise okay, d do
etras someone who can't read very well, that was really
(31:31):
difficult challenge for me to read that out.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
So because I can't see it, and I'm a visual learner,
that's the excuse I'm going to give here. I don't
remember what the answer was, but I'm just going to
say D whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
No see les say, oh do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
No, that was a crazy experience. That's so funny. You
guys found that.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I actually used to love that show as a kid.
It's twenty thousand, not great, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I went to Children's Miracle Network has nice Okay. Well,
in a two thousand and seven interview, you said you
want to be a female version of what golfer?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
God, I don't know, uh, a female version.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Of what golfer?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So it has to be a man.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Okay, I got that, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I got that. Thank you very much, Kira. I don't know.
I probably said Tiger Woods dig Nam Ding, did I?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
That is correct?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Wow? Well do you know what if you put our
careers together, they're very comparable.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Very long, very prosperous.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Literally the most opposite careers of all time. So yeah, God,
I used to love well, I still do. I am
a huge Tiger was fan. He's the gop.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I mean you were also growing up when he was.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Like I wanted to play golf because of him. Yeah,
when he went I remember watching him when the mass
is ninety seven. That's I was in Portugal. I just
would like put around. Well, my parents played, but it
was because Tiger. I saw Tiger win and I was like,
that's sick and just wanted to play.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
He made golf call for me.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I think he made it cool for a lot of people,
So totally he's the Okay, what was the name of
the runner up when you won Miss America in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Miss Virginia Courtney Paige Garrett. Are you I didn't even
have the middle name there, girl, and you did well
because that's how she introduced herself. Oh did she blah
blah blah blah blah, Miss Virginia Courtney Paige Garrett. That's
how everybody, you know, I was like, I missed New.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
York said, oh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
So remember you remember that those you know how like
random like songs.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, yeah, like tones. I know what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
So I just so remember the intro. Well done, Kira,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, you've got something in the USGA Museum mel from
the US Open.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It is my hat because the week of the US Open. Okay,
don't quote me on this, but it was something like
I was the first player to wear the Pride logo
as the main sponsor of my hat. I was with
Peger at the time, and we did a cool collaboration
for Pride Month and I wore it during the whole
of June and I've actually done it with my sponsors
(34:05):
ever since. So yeah, it's been a cool collaboration that
I've always wanted to do during Pride Month, and that's.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Why it's in the USA Museum.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I was very honored that they asked me to do that,
So yeah, it was cool, cool moment for me.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Very cool.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
What was your time? I've seen this video?
Speaker 3 (34:21):
What was your talent in the twenty fifteen Miss America pageant?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I knew you guys were gonna pull something about this,
so I do remember what my talent was.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
There's the backstory here.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
At the time, the movie Pitch Perfect had just come
out and the song Happy by Pharrell was.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Blasting the airwaves.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I sing saying I don't really sing in public anymore
because of trauma. But the two women that won Miss
America before me were Miss New York. So because I
was the third, it was clear that I was not
going to win just by statistics, and I decided I
was going to just do something really fun and off
the wall and my personality, because who cares.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I'm not gonna win anyway. I'm just gonna do whatever
I want.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
So I did a mashup of the song you Know
You're Gonna miss Me when I'm Gone from Pitch Perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Have you ever heard that song?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Mm hmm, yeah, God, I miss me. I don't see
I didn't want to sing. I wanted you to sing it.
And it worked.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
See she's good people, she's there for a long time.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Still got it, still got it, but I sang happy
like it was like a mashup of.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
If you should watch the video, it's very good.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I don't know, I've never heard you sing, but actually,
do you know who mentioned to me that you were
a good singer was Carlie, So she must have heard
you somewhere and she was like, here's a six singer.
And I was like, well, and not only did you
actually do that very well and you sang it amazingly,
but you were sat down as well, which I found
even more impressive.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Cup with the cup on the stage.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, it was very controversial at the time, the blog
Oh my god, people were ripping me apart for that.
Someone wrote an article that said, what to do for
pageant talent when you don't have a talent.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
And it was my face, why though, that's pretty time.
What you're supposed to do, what you're you supposed to do?
Just people, I found it entertaining.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Whatever, do you know what I thought your talent was
going to be making toast on a skillet?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
So I'm a bit uh disappointed that was time talent.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Still I could do a senior page.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Please. I've joined you with my nut hugger on.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Perfect we could be the judges.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, okay, I'll still.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Have my nut hugger on tool bell for everyone who's
just tuned in. It is a tool bell just for
every still a natural nut hugger.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay, mouth, Between now and two thousand and six, when
is the highest and lowest.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
You've been ranked in the Rolex ranking?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Oh? Shit, I think I told people like thirty three
to thirty six. Yeah, no, I was think it was
thirty nine. And then my highest rank must be I mean,
I've been riddled with injuries at times, so it must be.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Is it in the thousand?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
No, no, okay, I'm going to say four hundred and
five lower?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right? This is a brit Is this a British
American thing? Because I would say lower.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Like the numbers lower or lower rank more higher? Okay,
six hundred lower ranked?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Lower rank?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yah, okay, it's in the six hundreds.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Is it really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Just tell me? Is it right now?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Two six?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
I'd played like one event.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I think you've come a long way.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
That's fair enough.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
I like that. Yes, all right, last question for you. You
played your first PRIM on May fourteenth, twenty fifteen the
BMW charity prom We were just talking about it.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Who is your partner?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Kevin Toway?
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Really?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah? It was actually so funny.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
I bet it was. I think it was fun.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, he's a fun guy. So I hadn't played in
a long time.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Aka, I was really bad, and the poor guy he
just didn't know what to do. At one point I
had this horrible lie like up against a cliff type
of thing to try and get onto a green and
I was like, can I hit it against the cliff thing?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
And he was like, yeah, just hit.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
It, just giving up all hope and.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Completely giving up on me. He was like, it doesn't matter,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, I got the fucking ball girl.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
But he was very nice and made it a lot
of kids. Okay, you're a last one. This is kind
of funny. On your Wikipedia page, it says not to
confuse you with a certain Scottish.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Woman also named Melissa Reid. What was she arrested.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
For drug smuggling in Peru?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
She did drug smuggling exactly the same name, Melissa Reid,
exact same smelling everything. She was smuggling some cocaine or something,
some drug out of Peru, like just I don't know,
in one of those Asian it's Persian. It was an
Asian country.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Okay, fucking fuck.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Anyway, think you got it, you were there, you know
what I meant.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
She just went buying gold for seventeen years. Really a
consumed me.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Just now I'll just read a book.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So anyway, just anything other than watching golf and looking
at picture magazines.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
God, God is going to kill me for that. She's
gonna She's really going to kill.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Me for that. And the thing is, geography is one
of my highlights. So that's that's really yeah. So that's
really sure. I'm usually pretty good at it, so I
don't know why I messed it up so bad. Anyway,
the Peru that's in South America. So when that happened,
I should you not. Every time I traveled to America,
I got pulled in the back like four times. They
were like, have you been to Peru? I was like, no,
I've never been to Asia.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Because Asia, that's that's put her at the back exactly.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I'm like no, I've been to Asia like two years,
so yeah, no, I got pulled in a four times.
I was like, just you know, I'm not that person.
I guarantee I'm not that person. Yeah, And I was
in there for like five minutes before they're like, wow,
that's really weird. Like, but I would get flagged every
time I would travel to America.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
When did you become mel and not listened.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Literally the day I was born? But my real name
is Melissa.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Does anyone call you Melissa? Would anyone call you Melissa ever?
Speaker 3 (40:07):
In your family or my dad's maybe like my dad
like yeah, just like he just calls me, but he
also calls me like the family dog and like things
like that. So yeah, it's like Bailey, like it's not me.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
And he calls Kai Kia like the car Kai is
your son?
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That he is Kai is my son, and he gets
confused with the age. I mean, he say he's seven
years old, bless him. He's fit as a fiddle, but
he's eighty seven. And then he's like, how's that Kia doing.
I'm like, he's not a car. He's not an electric car. Dad,
But yeah, he calls me Melissa occasionally, but no, everyone
calls me Mal, I've been mail my whole life.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Fun fact, very fun, very fun fact. Not a drug dealer, great.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Nope, not a drug data, not by any stretch of imagination.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, that is our very first episode. It's crazy to
say that we just did that.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
It's kind of weird, isn't it, because none of us
has ever really done a podcast. So I promise you
if you thought it was shiit, we will get better
at it.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
But I think we did pretty good.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah. So, as we said, we'll be out on Wednesdays
every week so you can make us part.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Of your weekly routine.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
And we promise to never be quiet on Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I think that's something we can guarantee.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
I will always guarantee you that.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Kira, all right, Mel, this is great. We will talk
next week.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Thanks for listening to Quiet Please. We'll be back next
week with more golf HAPs and we.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Want to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Leave us a review in Apple Podcasts and tell us
what you.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
It just might be the topic of our next show.
Quiet Please is hosted by Mel Reed and Kira Dixon.
Our executive producer is Jesse katz Our Supervising producer Is
Grace views our producer is Zoe Danklas.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
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