June 18, 2025 • 39 mins
On this episode of Quiet Please!, Mel and Kira recap a wild week at the U.S. Open, where JJ Spaun pulled off the underdog win of a lifetime. They break down the highs, lows, and all the chaotic moments from the championship. Over on the LPGA side, Carlota Ciganda grabs a huge win after a nine-year lull—plus some hilarious stories from life on tour with Carlotta and her longtime friend (and fellow golfer) Giulia Molinaro. Basically, if Mel calls you for an alibi, just hang up the phone.
Mel gets real about what Pride Month means to her, opening up about the challenges she has faced in golf as an openly gay woman. And finally, the moment you didn’t know you were waiting for… Mel’s unfiltered thoughts on the Royal Family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, with Mel Reed and Kira 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. Hi Mel Hikra,
(00:25):
Welcome back to another episode of Quiet Please. Jjspond is
the winner of the US Open.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's been a crazy week.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Wasn't that unbelievable? Oh my gosh?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I was watching or I wasn't watching.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I was frantically updating my phone on the plane because
I had gotten I did the early shift that day
and then I was able to get out of town.
But I just was constantly updating, updating, updating, And to
see what he did coming down the stretch was psycho,
all right.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It was Zack Sam. I was at the airport literally
on my fly and as we've took off, he hit
the put and I was like, don't you don't out
and it literally as it went in and he like
threw his putter. My phone cut out, so I did
get to see it. But it was just perfect. I mean,
so we said earlier on in the pod, like last week,
about how I thought that it wasn't going to be
as brutal it was. I was I was wrong. It
(01:16):
was brutal.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, I feel like I was actually thinking about that
because early in the week I was thinking that you
were onto something, because the rough was not as crazy
as it was on that Monday when a couple of
the guys went up to play on golf's longest day
and the greens the greens that day were running on
at like a sixteen, and for the championship, obviously they
(01:38):
slowed them down just a little bit. So compared to
what I was initially hearing versus what it actually ended
up being, it was not as horrible. But yeah, I mean,
in general, it was the craziest US Open set up
I'd ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And for him to win, I think just his story,
like how he almost missed his cardinal last year I
think it was or two years. I think it was
last year last year June. Yeah, like he was like,
what else am I going to do? Like I've had
a good run eight years out here, and then for
him to get his card and then he almost won
of the players against Rory and then what he sold
(02:11):
with five over through six, he said that is one
of his daughters has being sick at like three am
he had to go to like like.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
CBS the Ultimate Dad.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, I don't know. I just I don't know how
you can't like root for him, you know what I mean, Like,
how can you not root for the underdog? I mean,
it's literally changed his life. So I was just fired
up for him. I just thought it was awesome with
his coach and his caddy and his team, his family
all there. Do you know what I found actually quite funny.
And we don't I don't like, we don't need to
get into it. But the way that like Rory was
that week with the media and then him, I just thought,
(02:40):
what complete I know, the opposite anyway, But I don't know.
I just like Rory could not be less interested. I
feel like, and then you have someone like JJ Sporn
who fighting for every single thing and gets it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, I mean I think, Yeah, it's complicated. Rory's going
through some things. I think there's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Which is probably not about business, to be honest, do
you know what I mean? No, I think that he
needs a new purpose. We were saying that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, And to his credit, he did end up speaking
on Saturday evening and it wasn't the best press conference.
I think that part of that is that he just
says what he feels, which is why the media love
him in the first place, and he just has peeved.
And on Sunday morning, so I had the lovely job
(03:24):
of doing pre round interviews on the range, which is
very It's kind of an uncomfortable position because on Saturday,
the guys are like still in it, still think that
they have a chance. It's moving day, they can move
up the leader board. And on Sunday, if you're doing
the pre range interview, it means that you're you have
no chance to win, because that's the window of time
in which I'm there, the people that are warming up
at that time. But you know there are ten shots back.
(03:46):
You're not making up ten shots at Oakmont. So the
reason that I'm there to talk to you is because
you're you're a loser.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, But he did a pre round interview with me
on the range, which was very nice of him. I
asked him what would constitute a good day on the
golf course and he said, I just want to shoot
under par, and he went out and shot three under. Yep,
So maybe more people should be doing range interviews. Is
my takeaway. There you go, especially with g yes exactly.
(04:14):
So JJ goes out, starts, he goes out in forty
on his front nine, doesn't do great, and then around
the time they're making the turn, the rain happens. They
get pulled off the golf course for like two hours
or something like that, crazy godlike rain. And then he
goes back out and ends up coming down the stretch
going birdie birdie. On seventeen eighteen seventeen, he hits the
(04:37):
best t shot of his life, makes the best teach. Yeah,
I mean that was insane. He would have won just
with that because all he needed was par on the last,
and then of course on the last he sinks the
sixty four foot putt for birdie, the longest putt made
in the entire week of the US Open.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, and of course chaos ensues.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I mean you love to see it happen to an underdog.
Its wild. It was exactly what you want in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, it was. It was just yeah, it was nuts.
And I think a lot of people also pulling for
Adam Scott weren't there. I felt like I felt bad
for him, like he didn't play great on Sunday, But
I mean there was footage of him in the locker
room like being just unreal with JJ Sporn, like hugging
him and saying like, do a great job, and just
like talking about the put and stuff. So yeah, look,
it was an awesome I think. I love the US open.
(05:24):
I love seeing not seeing the guy's struggle, but I
like to see like them see some adversity. I guess
I think that these guys are so good and it
really does test their mental game more than anything. I
know that's so obvious to say, but it really does.
It is honestly, who is the last man standing? Because
everyone is getting beat up that entire week, and I
was just nobody would have picked j jsborn And the
(05:46):
fact that he did it, I think is just I
just think it's a fairy tale story completely.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You're so right.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You have to do something remarkable to stand there at
the end. You have to be absolutely remarkable. And I
love that. So he just started working with his new
putting coach, Josh Gregory, who's one of my favorite people
on tour. So he always like once Chad always is
like giving me shit about not playing well out of
the bunker and you know that sort of stuff. And
(06:12):
so I was talking to Josh and he was like,
JJ is not afraid. He is not afraid of this moment.
Maybe he was a little bit more afraid of it
even at the Players, and he's definitely been afraid of
it throughout his career. This was only the first This
was the first time that he got into the US
Open without having to go through qualifying. And then the
one time that he got through qualifying was for Tory
Pines and he missed the cut. He's only his second
(06:34):
US Open, and he's got because of him playing so
well this year. He got in on his own number
and his world ranking. He's ranked twenty fifth in the world.
I'm sure that ranking has gone way up now and
he's probably going to be on the Ryder Cup team.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So, I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The fact that he has accomplished all this in the
context of what he's been through.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He's thirty four years old. Oh yeah. Also, he is
a type one diabetic.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh yes, I heard your little thing on this.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, So in twenty eighteen he was missdiagnoed ghost as
a type two diabetic, and they messed up all of
his medications and he was really ill and it took
him out of the game for two years to get
back to to be able to monitor all of that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I mean that that probably took like two or three
years away from his professional career.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Wow, even better story then. I just think it was
a fair tie went. I mean it was. It was awesome.
It was great to watch, and I really I enjoyed
it as a spectator. I think that whenever you like,
you know, some tour and she's like, oh, that was
a bit blah, like this one just wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It had moments of blah earlier in the in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's funny you say that, because now we're going to
get into our weeks. I was doing feature groups up
in Stanford and I did Shane Larry's group, so Shane
Larry and the Friday from McElroy and Justin Rose, and
for a group of players of that caliber, I cannot
tell how flat it was. Like it was.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It was so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They played so bad. They couldn't have guessed less. I
guess they didn't. Justin Rose was the only one that
I felt like didn't really give up, Like I felt
like Shane, I say, give up I just they just
were beaten down so badly by the golf course that
it just seemed like, did you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Do them but both days? You had them both days?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
No, I had Colin Markkwrot's group the first day and
then I did Rory's groop kind of the next three.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So that was the day that Shane Shane picked up.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That was actually quite funny. But yeah, I feel like
it was wild, like how such an awesome group like that,
Like even the crowd and stuff, it was just so flat.
It was. It was crazy, like you never hear that
with a big group like that. I don't know, but
that's just how much the golf course beat these guys up,
like it was just like they couldn't. They weren't even
talking to each other like it was. It was like
they just had no energy, just as I know, and
(08:44):
like I'm trying to say things on air and nobody
like I'm saying a bunch of British slang as well,
and so my co worker was just like, what the
fuck you say?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Who are you working with? So I worked with Steve
Burko Do you know who that is?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah? Justin cut Yeah, and yeah, so it was good.
I kind of had to make sure of them too,
So it was good fun. But yeah, good guys actually
to work with enjoyed it. And Wags was on the
course during that as well her, so yeah, it was good.
We enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How was your weekend? What did you do Saturday?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Sunday? I did two groups on Saturday and then I
did yesterday. I did Roy's group, but we finished with
him on fifteen and then I just went to the airport. Well,
I didn't go to the airport. Actually, I went to
a pub tab lunch, and then I went to the
airport because my flight wasn'ttil late. But I was. We
did that. We went on holiday for three days, didn't
we And the weather was shit.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It never got better.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It was shit. The one day it got better was
no Monday. Tuesday was absolute dogshit and then Wednesday was
a nice day and we went to the Phillies game.
We took car to the Phillies game.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We went to a placetures were so cute.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I know, I swear Colie and he goes, I've not
been to a Phillies game. And it was Kaile's first
Phillies game, so that was fun. And that was only
nice day and then I drove to Stamford on Thursday morning.
Never stopped.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Kira, I know you're telling me, Yeah, I had a
crazy week. I was working the first few days doing
live from so those shows start fairly early, so you
kind of you get there, you do a hit, and
then you're running around reporting. You're running around trying to
get people to talk to you, trying to get sound
with players.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You create all your own content.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
People always think that, you know, there's a producer that's
out there with you or helping you, and it is collaborative,
so to give lots of credit to our staff, but
you are in charge of that and you're figuring out
what you want to say, you're pitching stories. So I
spent the first Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday doing that, and then
(10:36):
Thursday and Friday I got to do early interviews. I
got to do an interview with JJ on Thursday, which
was which was really cool, and then Saturday Sunday I
was doing those range interviews and then I was out
on Sunday. That was my shift was only till one o'clock,
but we were there at like four point thirty in
the morning every day the early live from shows, So
that was.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, time was live from shows then seven.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
On the first day was it eight, So we were
there at five thirty, and then the second day was
at seven, so we were there four thirty.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, because you have to have production. We can't that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't say I looked particularly cute.
That is one of my cutest TV days.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Is it true that the hotel was like an hour
away with traffic. Yeah, the traffic outside the course was insane.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I mean at four thirty in the morning, it took
me twenty seven minutes to get to the course. Right
at five o'clock in the afternoon to get back to
the hotel because it was downtown Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Pittsburgh is a lovely city, by the way, I have
never been, never been.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It has all these rivers that intersect throughout the city
and all these really cool bridges that are painted bright
yellow or just really beautiful landscape in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I did not know that. I was not familiar with
its name, so that was cool.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I had lots of people come up to me and
say they listen to the pod yay, which was really fun.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That is fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, it's weird. Well, we have no date with Day Yeah,
can we just have a chat? I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh, I had so much fun with Pashanna.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm with Anna this week, Anna and KPMG. I'm leaving
today so I get spent time with Anna Jackson. She's
posh and hit. She speaks very differently to me, but yeah,
she is. She speaks way differently to me.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I think that Kara is much more.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh god, no Car is different. No Car is way
different level.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, this is Kara Banks, So if you have the
Banks also works for the Golf Channel.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
She's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
She is one of my favorite people.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
She is one of those people that just she knows
what she wants. She's got three kids. She makes anything happen.
She is a force of nature. She's so good at
her job. She has this ability to remember stats and
fun facts about players and she weaves them in perfectly
into all of her questions.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
She's like goals.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
She's always so helpful and willing to give advice, and
I kind of do a similar DoPT like she could
see me as oh, I don't want to help her,
and she She's so confident in herself that she knows
that if any help that she gives me. It's it's
never ever going to take away from her because she's
so confident in what she does.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And that's like I wish that everybody was like that.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, it's actually funny. I was. I spent a bit
of time with her in the US Women's Open because
We've just had dinner a few nights and I've known
Cara a for years and I actually, me and Carly
we're talking about it in shot right actually, and I
was talking about Kara. I was just saying, like how
much I'd love the people that I work with, And
I said, Carra is one of them people who just
make you feel very ease and very comfortable around her
(13:39):
because she's so confident and she's so lovely and she is,
like you said, so I can talk to her about anything.
Like the conversations we were having. It was actually very
like in depth like girly conversations and it was just
me her and Anna and I think it was Steps
was there as well, and it was just so you know,
sometimes you can have them conversations and you walk away
and go, oh, didn't I share too much? Like I
don't feel that with them, yea, but especially with Kara,
(14:00):
Like car is just so she just makes me feel
very easy and very comfortable, and I think that that's
one of the biggest compliments you can ever give someone,
Like she's just an Yeah, she's just there's no bullshit,
like she's just but a not in an aggressive way,
like in a just a confident way. And I just
I just love. I actually feel like I learn a
lot just being talking to her about even just normal things.
(14:23):
So she's just one of them. I think she's one
of the coolest people ever met, I really do. I
think she's.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Awesome and so posh and so very posh.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, talking a posh you're going to a posh place?
Oh yeah, when are you leaving for London on Thursday?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So if you're listening to today is Wednesday, I'm leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Ah. I always get home sick this time of yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know, because the weather gets really nice and lovely.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, and everyone's in the beer gardens and I'm looking
at the countryside and I'm like, edgy, I need to
go home now, like I need to be back in
England this time of year.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So I'll tell I'll tell England. You said, hello, what
are what should I be doing?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Pretty much wherever you go, like, just go and find
like the cool little Like there's a bar in it's
like a pub and it's this I think it's the skinniest.
It's the skinniest pub in London and it's really cool actually,
and then there's just those are cool bars like wherever
you go. Just just go to a pub though, don't
go to a bar is very different.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I want to go to a pub and order
like a chicken pot pie or.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, steak and guinness pie. Yeah, chicken and leak, chicken
and leak pie, chicken and leak, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So you cannot go see the chicken pot pile out
myself as an American because they definitely couldn't tell otherwise.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, there you go. It's a shame you're not staying longer.
I would have told you to go and stay with
my dad's ah, and you would have had some amazing
walks in the p district. I could have showed you
some unreal walks hikes and stuff. Next time.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So next time, next trip, next trip.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well we should plan it together and I'll just host
you with my dad's and you get upstairs. Well yeah, no, honestly,
my dad would he would lose his mind. He would
just lose his mind. His fake teeth will fall out a.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Great I can't wait next summer.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Mm hmm, let's do it good for you. I'm so jealous.
I'm so jealous. Fuck, just go to a bier garden.
Care you just have to experience a bier garden. Just
go to any pub with an outdoor.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'm gonna write it down right now, beer garden. Yeah,
I can't wait. Like, go around Sunningdale and stuff Sunningdale.
Andrew keeps suggesting this trip to London. I don't know
what has gotten in his bonnet about London.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh, I'll tell you another good one day trip st Albans. Yeah,
that's a cool day trip. That. Yeah, that's like a
thirty minute train is beautiful. It's like the most like
where people want to live in the UK. It's like
the happiest people or something. It's like an Orbans and
it's got great past there.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, speaking of Andrew, I had a long travel day yesterday,
six hour flight after having worked all day. And my
favorite pizza place in our neighborhood is a place called
Hill Pizza and it's a sour doak crust and I'll
live for this stuff. And he had a large goat
Hill Italian sausage pizza waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh my god, what a man, you know, and you've
been away and you just like you just want you
want to sit on your sofa. Don't you just have
your favorite food? And that's awesome, that's very cute. That's
what we did.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And we watched a couple episodes of there's a show
on Netflix. I think it's called Four Seasons or Seasons
or something like Face Correll. It's so cute, okay, just
light funny.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't like very dramatic television unless it's Love Island.
So it just exactly we're speaking of.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, the dms, the dms on the Instagram account, people
were loving your your glossary.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh yeah, you're very welcome. So I was actually saying
a lot of things on it. Don't know what got
into me. I was saying a lot of things on
it a very British and I don't know why. I
dne if it's because I was following the British like
the European lads or what. But my honesty, justin was
just like like what is what is that?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Like you're what's that you had too much to drink
and you were getting a little blah blah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And your friend Larry Larry.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh that that Shane is getting a little Larry Shane Larry,
not Shane Lowry.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, Larry, what did I say? I said, like when
the weather was coming, I said, oh, it's a bit
black over Bill's mother, and like that's what we say
when it's like really dark. It's looking a bit black.
I don't know, no, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I said, Oh, he's got a bit of a niggle.
I said niggle. Yeah, I heard that a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, I said it's raining cats and dogs. I think
you gotta say that anyway. So yeah, I don't know
why I'm feeling extra British at the minute.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, you're just missing home.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I'm just missing home. Yeah, but we get to go
in a couple months. I'm very excited for that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Your friend and Carlato won on the LPGA last week.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yes, she did nine years. It took her. What's incredible. Yeah,
since I last win nine fucking years. Oh my gosh,
she's pissing around for nine years.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You imagine grinding that, Oh my god, she can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
She's Yeah, she's she's so fucking good and actually Chiggy
one of my best friends. So yeah, she nine years.
It took her, but she finally got it done. I
thought she was coming to form. I actually thought she
was gonna have a really good US SIMS Open because
she was playing really solid going into that event. She
didn't play great at the U s WIMS Open, but yeah,
(19:37):
as soon as I saw her name at the top
of leader board, I was like, she just gets through Saturday,
and she just gets through nine holes on Sunday. She
she's got it because she at times can play a
little defensive, like she's almost scared to lose the lead.
But yeah, she killed It could not have been happier
for her. Amazing. She deserves her and her good friends
who used to purn tour. Julia Molnaro. I'm going to
(19:58):
tell you a.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Great story about Julie, actually really funny story.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
She grew up in Kenya. She's Italian. Wow, she grew
up in Kenya. Her dad was a kite surfer. But
now he has like these three or four villas that
like are like incredible, like Beyonce has stayed there and shit,
and like they then take you on safaris, like everything's included.
It's like massage, including a butler's Yeah, it's one of them.
Kind of so she.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Grew up with a butler. Yeah, she grew up with
like a butler.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And like you can fucking tell because whenever we stay together,
she's about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Like she's push.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
She's privileged, I would say, which it's so funny because
she's just she was a nightmare to stay with. We
love her and we love that she's a nightmare, but
my god, like getting her to do anything because obviously,
you know, interview, you kind of got to tate rolls
and stuff to make things the clockwork, to keep things
moving at the right pace, and like being colost would
be off late and Julia had been sat and she'd
(20:54):
finished in the morning, just been sat in her ass,
just I don't know, picking her nose or something, and
like we get in and be like, what is dinner?
It's eight o'clock. She's like, oh, I didn't think of that.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I was hoping you guys would figure that out.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I was hoping you guys would grab something. So she's
you know, she's the nicest and most loveliest. I would
not say boo to a goose. I actually played a
prank on her once because I thought it would be hilarious.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, there you go with your British journal.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
There we go. So I just was bored one day
and I thought, all right, who can I fuck with today?
And I thought, I'm going to Julia. So I called
her and I did that whole judio judio? Can I talk?
I've literally got five seconds. She's like, well, well, what's that?
What's up? I said, Okay, the police are going to
call you. I think they're gonna call you the next
(21:39):
thirty minutes. Whatever you say, I was with you last night.
And she's like what. And I just don't ask me.
I don't have parment now because they're literally I'm in
the police station. I said, but whatever they ask you,
I was with you all night last night. She's like
what and she said what. No, No, I was like,
please do I've never asked you for anything in my life,
but please, just I'm I was with you. So I
put the phone down. She then starts calling Carly like crying.
(22:02):
She's like what the fuck, what the fuck is And
she's like, Julia, just life for it, just say it.
I can't. I'm gonna fucking like this. I'll tell you
this story. Actually this is even funnier. Okay, So you
know when Tiger had that horrific car accident.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The Ways span Onethern California.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, yeah, So I was reading about it and I
was talking. I was like, oh my god, like Tiger's
had accident, blah blah blah, and he was talking about
his leg and stuff, and I went, oh, I said
he lost his ears as well. I don't know what
I said. She's like, what, oh, yeah, he lost both
his ears. She's like, how did he do that? So,
I don't know, must have just scraped off, like she went, God,
(22:39):
he's gonna look so weird without ears. And I'm like, Judia,
obviously he's not lost his fucking ears like a.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Sojulia seems to be gollble oh she's so she's with her.
What happened when the when she found out that the
police were not calling for an albi?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh, I had to ring because like she's legit crying
like she's like carrying it. She's having a panicy.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, if she grew up privileged, then she knows that
She's like I need to get my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
On the phone exactly which one. Oh, but I just
loved messing with Julia.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So sorry I missed the connection between Julia and Carlada.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
They went to college together. From sorry, they went to
issue together. Carlotta used to because Colottin's speak very good
English when she went to college, like when I knew
her as like seventeen eighteen. She we used to be
really close, but we actually didn't know what each other
was saying. It was kind of relationship. Yeah, and so
when they first went to college, Julia really helped Colotta,
(23:37):
like with the translation, because Julia has Judah can speak
like fucking three languages, like she's very intelligent.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Anyway, but Colotta used to copy copy her exams. So
when they used to have a test, she used to
copy Judah like look over a shol And copier and
this one week she got a better result than Julia,
and she copied Julia and Julia has like.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Never lift it down asu excellent, yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But yeah, so Julia was there, which was awesome for
Colter because Julia now lives in Argentina.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
She was at the wind.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
She was at the wind because she's here for her KPMG,
so she must have just come in a week early.
So yeah, the crew is going to get back together
this week hopefully if I have some time.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh yeah, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, in between all of your being on TV and
being a podcaster and trying to sleep.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Dude, I have a busy week. Next week we're doing
Life one for five hours.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Wow, that's great. That so many hours. Yeah, and Jackson,
who's the crew? Is it you?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Me and Anna Paige and Amanda bloom Hurst. Oh great, yeah,
big all girls crew. And then I think like Beth
and Nichols, wire coming in out and people like that.
So yeah, yeah, it'll be fun. So we have five
hours the first two days Tuesday Wednesday, and then it
kind of tapes off a bit. We do a couple hours.
You know. It's like Life farms are quite quite draining,
really because it's a lot longer than you think because
you have to all the prep.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But sometimes they also just fly by.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah they did. Like when she've done like a couple
of three four hour shows and you do an our show,
You're like, whoa, I didn't even get anything in. It's crazy. Yeah,
it's going to be balls hot as well in Dallas
in Frisco.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, what else do I want to ask you? Oh, June,
it's Pride month. Happy Pride Month, Mal. Yeah, I love
all of the Puma stuff, Puma stuff that you've been
posting all the.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh do you know what now? You say that I
have two pairs of them shoes and I actually wanted
to give them away. Should I give them away to
the listeners?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Okay? Yeah, explain what they are and how they can
get it.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So Puma obviously are sick, and they did like a
collaboration for Pride Month, and they sent me a bunch
of hats because I said I wanted to give some
hats away, So they sent me a bunch of cool hats.
And then they sent me some two really cool pairs
of shoes. And they've actually sent me two pairs, so
I'm just thinking, I don't know if it was for Carli,
(25:50):
but I said, do you mind if I give these away?
Because I think i'd be a cool thing to give away.
And she was like yeah, so because she wears every
fucking thing of mine anyway, she doesn't need her own
things because she's just we just we have exact same
size and everything, just not the bra obviously mine's slightly small,
tiny bit peanuts on an iron. Just my training bar
(26:11):
still has gaps in it. So yeah, I mean there
they are UK sized six. I think that's like an
eight and a half us. So if anybody would like them, we.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Can Well, we can post it on Instagram. You can
send me a picture of the shoes and it can
be a comment on the post and maybe reshare it
or something on your Instagram story. So if you comment
on the post reshare it on your Instagram story, that
will get.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You and maybe why do you want them?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah? Or why you love us so much?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh yeah, that's better, Yeah, yeah, why do you love
us so much?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Look, let's make this about us? Yeah, why do you
love us so much? In a comment and share it
on your share the post on your Instagram story. That
will enter you into the giveaway and then I will
put all of those names into a randomizer and we'll
announce the winner on the week after Nice back from London.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I just had that so, yeah, I was going to
give it away, so I thought, why not a better
place to do it than the Shushes.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, the Sushers have I just made that up. It
was shitt talkers or qps the fan base. I like sushers,
maybe sushres.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, So, speaking of it being Pride Month, I saw
that you were on good game with Sarah Spain, who
is one of our fellow iHeart Women's Podcast Network podcasters,
and she asked you a store. She asked you a
question about a time when you felt you had to
be quiet, and it really related back to Pride Month
(27:37):
and who you are. So can we share that story
in case folks didn't get to hear it there?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Okay, So I used to have this sponsor in a
country where probably isn't very accepted to be gay. But
we had a great relationship. I was playing well with them,
I was doing a bunch of cool things with them,
And it was at a time in my career where
and I feel like a lot of athletes can probably
(28:03):
resonate with this, like it's kind of just like a
business exchange, Like there was no kind of personal relationship.
There was just a complete business and hey, this company
wants this. Once I was like, yeah, this money perfect, right,
and we were out at dinner. I was at the
end of the season. I just finished. I think I
just finished third and my last event of the season,
and they invited us out to dinner to then sign
the contract for the next year, and I think we
(28:24):
just wanted to just meet a few clients. Surprisingly enough,
drinks were flowing, and I bought my girlfriend of the
time along with me, and they kept kind of whenever
I was going to the bathroom, they kept asking her, like,
does male of boyfriend? She doesn't talk about private life,
like we just actually seeing anyone. And my ex was like, uh, yeah,
she's pretty private about it, like blah blah blah blah blah.
(28:46):
I'd had a few serbers and they just kept kind
of asking me, and I just went, I just kind
of lost my fuse and I went, I do Yeah.
My boyfriend's right there and her name is so and so,
and we've been together for like two years. And they
literally you could just tell the mood changed.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Were they asking it to pry because they had it
seemed like they had their suspicions about.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The two of you. No, I actually don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
They just were genuinely yeah, just like hey.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Boyfriend, like yeah, like you know, the drinks were just flowing,
so I don't mind the masking. I don't know, maybe
they did e anything thing. But so I then wake
up the next morning and my was like, what the
fuck did you do last night? And I'm like, what
do you mean? It was a good night and she
was like, well, they've just taken away the contract. Basically,
they basically pretty much just like didn't let me sign
it that night, which I thought was odd. They said,
(29:34):
I we'll talk tomorrow. So yeah, they pretty much just
like ripped up in front of me.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And this was an important sum of money for me.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah at the time. At the time, that's yeah, yeah, yeah.
At the time, like I was playing mainly in Europe
and a lot of my income was actually off course
because it's difficult to make money on course in Europe.
And so my agent was like, why'd you do that?
And I'm like, well, first of all, like fuck fuck that,
like and it was.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
That point where I don't want to be working with
them anyway.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, so I was like but it was actually real
bad for like a year because I then financially struggled
really bad, like I had to, like I wasn't playing well.
Move on a couple of years. I then moved to America,
blah blah blah blah blah. And then I don't know
why I've gone on a bit of a tenant there,
but like I wore a blank hat for like two years.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, I think the point.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
The point is that it was at a time when
you probably really could have used that financial support, and
then it only created more strife for you. But in
the end you have the last laugh because look at
you now, and you don't have to work with a
company or an organization or people that aren't going to
(30:38):
love you for who you are.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And then quickly after that, exactly one of my best friends,
Molly Gallatin, was like, Hey, there's a company called athlete
Ally and they really want to do a story on
you about being gay and coming out, Like would you
do it? And it was kind of it. That was
like twenty eighteen. It was kind of still a bit
even then. I wasn't even that long ago, but even
then it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Was like twenty eighty.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, And so I was like, she says, honest email,
like I wouldn't I wouldn't like throwing the fire, like
I think it's going to be awesome, Like I really do.
I think that now moving forward, at least you can
align yourself with like companies or brands that align with you.
And so I did my coming out story, which I
wasn't really sure if I should have done it or not,
(31:21):
but I was kind of comfortable with my own skin
at that point, and what else did I have to lose.
I didn't have any sponsors anyway, so I was like, yeah, fuck,
I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And so I think if my hat's blank anyway, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I'm wearing a blank hat anyway. And it had a
really positive feedback and just going on Pride Month, like
people are still I still even get asked, you know,
like why did you feel the need to you know,
why can't you just live your life? And I'm like,
because for me, it's about representation. And I'm sorry, but
(31:50):
like in our community, we still have to be very
loud to be heard and protect ourselves and respect the
people that have gone before us and what they've had
to sacrifice, Like we still have to keep that battle going.
I still think it's fucked up that we have to
fight for love at this point. But yeah, so that's
that's really kind of the story of it. And I
(32:10):
just I never had representation growing up, so I just
didn't you ever really see anybody that I could kind
of look up to and go, oh, she's very you know,
she's confident in herself.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
She's she's successful, she's got a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Family, normal life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, like everybody deserves that level of happiness and love
and acceptance, and like who cares?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Who cares? It doesn't affect you. It literally doesn't affect you, like,
but it will affect me if things got turned to
different ways. So it's actually funny when I did that
coming out story as we're talking about Pride, I was
so fucking nervous about going to the golf club. The
next I just moved to Jupiter, and you know it,
it's southern Florida. Like I didn't know not you know,
I loved it down there, but I just didn't know.
(32:50):
And it was and this fucking old boy comes up
to me and I'm like, oh my god, oh my god,
oh my god. And he says, hey, I read your
article and he was like seventeen. I was like, oh okay,
And he says that's not where is this going to go?
And he says I have a gay granddaughter and he says,
I'm reading your article made me realize like one asshole
(33:10):
I've been and he's like, I really appreciate you saying that,
and like I literally called her this morning and I
was like, oh, that's awesome, So that's why I did it.
That's amazing. Yeah you changing, No, not really, but.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, no, actually really.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
We say it in jest and we joke around a lot,
but that it actually is so major.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
It's huge. It's it's like a life's purpose fulfilled.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
It's important to me. And I've had a lot of
friends that have like their families have turned their back
on them and stuff, and I had a lot of
stuff being thrown at them, and it's I just I
just think the one battle we should not be fine
in this world is love. And that's just something that
I've always believe in.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So, oh, don't on a T shirt. I might have
started crying. Oh my god, Oh really emotion, let's pride my.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Oh So yeah, so that's that's the story. So yeah,
and we still get comments now, obviously, but it's just
we don't we don't care, not part of our lives,
so it doesn't matter now.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You know what, I love when people make comments because
then you're like you can immediately write that person off, like.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
All right, well you suck bye bye.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, I thank your first alf identifying as a hater
that we never need in our lives.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I know it was actually funny, was I was talking
to Ashion Harris about it when I did that business
summer speaking and she's like, they obviously get comments all
the time, like inappropriate comments like you can imagine in
here and Sofia Bush right, Like I'm like fucking hell,
Like why can't people leave people alone?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But on that level too, when you've got paparazzi and
media following you and and not and not the good
kind of media, the exploitative just cruel, crazy stuff. And
the British press in particular is savage.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, like the Sun, the Daily Mail. Yeah, savage, absolutely savage.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Sorry, this is completely off topic. That's a royal family.
I've always wanted to ask you.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I keep forgetting what do you want to know about it?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well, I just want to know what you, as a
regular person in the UK think about the royal family.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Sorry? Is this too much of a departure for the
emotional conversation?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Listen, I'm very patriotic. I love the Royal family, like
I grew up like my mum was obsessed with Princess Darin,
like the obsessed listen, And I know there's a lot
of cracks in it, but I think having a royal
family is what makes Britain so special, and Harry was
probably my favorite. Yeah, I totally get everything at the start,
(35:47):
I really do. And I don't blame him at all,
Like I don't blame that you wanted to step away,
But then I feel like it's a big contra like
there's a big contradiction in making money off that I
was a massive fan of again as well, like I
thought she was gonna be unreal for the raw family.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
She would have been.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
She would have been, but I think the way that
they've gone about it now is just really dark. And
I just even if it was just a normal family,
I don't feel like you should share in your family
like that. Like there's people in my family I don't like,
but I would not publicly shit on them.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
From the US open to the British family. Do you
have a shush of the week before we get off
the year here?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Oh? Do you know what really irritates me?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
And I don't know if this is a British thing,
if I were a Guinness, I want it in a
Guinness glass. If I had an Estella, I want it
an a Stellar glass. I don't want it in different glasses.
And it really irritates me because someone poured me a
Guinness the other night and it was not an a Guinness.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Glass and really what kind of glass was it?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Just like a plain pine glass and it is. It
doesn't taste right. It doesn't taste right over here anyway,
but it irritates me when it's not in the correct
glass like that is one thing that British people are
very very passionate about if you have a Maretta Sayson
Maretti glass. So that's my shush of the week.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I think that's a great shush.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
My shish of the week is I had an interview
with Jason Day and the last question I asked him
if he was repping Pittsburgh because his golf bag is
yellow and black and he was wearing this steel colored outfit.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Kind of laughed and ha ha. You know it was
a football related answer.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
So NBC Sports Sunday Night Football clipped it and put
it up on Instagram and those those accounts are much
wider and whatever. So those guy comments and he must
be British, he said, seriously, what is with all the
stupid questions that have fuck all to do with golf
from reporters.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Who know fuck all about golf? Bloody hell?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And I clicked on his profile and it says girl dad.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Oh fantastic the classic.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So so good. So shout out you little troll. Actually
shush to you.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I'm sure your daughters would be thrilled with how you're
treating women on the internet.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Very good, shush, well done. Care you stick yourself girl.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
You.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Change well, I don't want to do it on Instagram
because then I give him obviously.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
So now we're doing online.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well, yeah, but I doubt that he listens.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
He does some great love that for our stats, perfect
great every downloadcast.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
But yeah, all right, have fun week in London, have
a great week in Texas. Thank you. You're in London
and I'm in fucking Texas, so that would be fun.
It'll be fun. I'm joy. I'm gonna get his good crew,
isn't it so? Me and Ana Jackson back to.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, that part would be great. Congratulations again to JJ
Spahn for winning the US Open.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
And Carlotta Secanda getting it done after nine fucking years,
blood on chiba, well on sugar. All right, bye.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Bye, thanks for listening to Quiet Please. We'll be back
next week with more golf paps and we want to
hear from you.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
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Speaker 2 (38:58):
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Speaker 2 (39:04):
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(00:25):
Welcome back to another episode of Quiet Please. Jjspond is
the winner of the US Open.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's been a crazy week.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Wasn't that unbelievable? Oh my gosh?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I was watching or I wasn't watching.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I was frantically updating my phone on the plane because
I had gotten I did the early shift that day
and then I was able to get out of town.
But I just was constantly updating, updating, updating, And to
see what he did coming down the stretch was psycho,
all right.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It was Zack Sam. I was at the airport literally
on my fly and as we've took off, he hit
the put and I was like, don't you don't out
and it literally as it went in and he like
threw his putter. My phone cut out, so I did
get to see it. But it was just perfect. I mean,
so we said earlier on in the pod, like last week,
about how I thought that it wasn't going to be
as brutal it was. I was I was wrong. It
(01:16):
was brutal.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, I feel like I was actually thinking about that
because early in the week I was thinking that you
were onto something, because the rough was not as crazy
as it was on that Monday when a couple of
the guys went up to play on golf's longest day
and the greens the greens that day were running on
at like a sixteen, and for the championship, obviously they
(01:38):
slowed them down just a little bit. So compared to
what I was initially hearing versus what it actually ended
up being, it was not as horrible. But yeah, I mean,
in general, it was the craziest US Open set up
I'd ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And for him to win, I think just his story,
like how he almost missed his cardinal last year I
think it was or two years. I think it was
last year last year June. Yeah, like he was like,
what else am I going to do? Like I've had
a good run eight years out here, and then for
him to get his card and then he almost won
of the players against Rory and then what he sold
(02:11):
with five over through six, he said that is one
of his daughters has being sick at like three am
he had to go to like like.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
CBS the Ultimate Dad.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, I don't know. I just I don't know how
you can't like root for him, you know what I mean, Like,
how can you not root for the underdog? I mean,
it's literally changed his life. So I was just fired
up for him. I just thought it was awesome with
his coach and his caddy and his team, his family
all there. Do you know what I found actually quite funny.
And we don't I don't like, we don't need to
get into it. But the way that like Rory was
that week with the media and then him, I just thought,
(02:40):
what complete I know, the opposite anyway, But I don't know.
I just like Rory could not be less interested. I
feel like, and then you have someone like JJ Sporn
who fighting for every single thing and gets it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, I mean I think, Yeah, it's complicated. Rory's going
through some things. I think there's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Which is probably not about business, to be honest, do
you know what I mean? No, I think that he
needs a new purpose. We were saying that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, And to his credit, he did end up speaking
on Saturday evening and it wasn't the best press conference.
I think that part of that is that he just
says what he feels, which is why the media love
him in the first place, and he just has peeved.
And on Sunday morning, so I had the lovely job
(03:24):
of doing pre round interviews on the range, which is
very It's kind of an uncomfortable position because on Saturday,
the guys are like still in it, still think that
they have a chance. It's moving day, they can move
up the leader board. And on Sunday, if you're doing
the pre range interview, it means that you're you have
no chance to win, because that's the window of time
in which I'm there, the people that are warming up
at that time. But you know there are ten shots back.
(03:46):
You're not making up ten shots at Oakmont. So the
reason that I'm there to talk to you is because
you're you're a loser.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, But he did a pre round interview with me
on the range, which was very nice of him. I
asked him what would constitute a good day on the
golf course and he said, I just want to shoot
under par, and he went out and shot three under. Yep,
So maybe more people should be doing range interviews. Is
my takeaway. There you go, especially with g yes exactly.
(04:14):
So JJ goes out, starts, he goes out in forty
on his front nine, doesn't do great, and then around
the time they're making the turn, the rain happens. They
get pulled off the golf course for like two hours
or something like that, crazy godlike rain. And then he
goes back out and ends up coming down the stretch
going birdie birdie. On seventeen eighteen seventeen, he hits the
(04:37):
best t shot of his life, makes the best teach. Yeah,
I mean that was insane. He would have won just
with that because all he needed was par on the last,
and then of course on the last he sinks the
sixty four foot putt for birdie, the longest putt made
in the entire week of the US Open.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, and of course chaos ensues.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I mean you love to see it happen to an underdog.
Its wild. It was exactly what you want in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, it was. It was just yeah, it was nuts.
And I think a lot of people also pulling for
Adam Scott weren't there. I felt like I felt bad
for him, like he didn't play great on Sunday, But
I mean there was footage of him in the locker
room like being just unreal with JJ Sporn, like hugging
him and saying like, do a great job, and just
like talking about the put and stuff. So yeah, look,
it was an awesome I think. I love the US open.
(05:24):
I love seeing not seeing the guy's struggle, but I
like to see like them see some adversity. I guess
I think that these guys are so good and it
really does test their mental game more than anything. I
know that's so obvious to say, but it really does.
It is honestly, who is the last man standing? Because
everyone is getting beat up that entire week, and I
was just nobody would have picked j jsborn And the
(05:46):
fact that he did it, I think is just I
just think it's a fairy tale story completely.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You're so right.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You have to do something remarkable to stand there at
the end. You have to be absolutely remarkable. And I
love that. So he just started working with his new
putting coach, Josh Gregory, who's one of my favorite people
on tour. So he always like once Chad always is
like giving me shit about not playing well out of
the bunker and you know that sort of stuff. And
(06:12):
so I was talking to Josh and he was like,
JJ is not afraid. He is not afraid of this moment.
Maybe he was a little bit more afraid of it
even at the Players, and he's definitely been afraid of
it throughout his career. This was only the first This
was the first time that he got into the US
Open without having to go through qualifying. And then the
one time that he got through qualifying was for Tory
Pines and he missed the cut. He's only his second
(06:34):
US Open, and he's got because of him playing so
well this year. He got in on his own number
and his world ranking. He's ranked twenty fifth in the world.
I'm sure that ranking has gone way up now and
he's probably going to be on the Ryder Cup team.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So, I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The fact that he has accomplished all this in the
context of what he's been through.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He's thirty four years old. Oh yeah. Also, he is
a type one diabetic.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh yes, I heard your little thing on this.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, So in twenty eighteen he was missdiagnoed ghost as
a type two diabetic, and they messed up all of
his medications and he was really ill and it took
him out of the game for two years to get
back to to be able to monitor all of that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I mean that that probably took like two or three
years away from his professional career.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Wow, even better story then. I just think it was
a fair tie went. I mean it was. It was awesome.
It was great to watch, and I really I enjoyed
it as a spectator. I think that whenever you like,
you know, some tour and she's like, oh, that was
a bit blah, like this one just wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It had moments of blah earlier in the in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's funny you say that, because now we're going to
get into our weeks. I was doing feature groups up
in Stanford and I did Shane Larry's group, so Shane
Larry and the Friday from McElroy and Justin Rose, and
for a group of players of that caliber, I cannot
tell how flat it was. Like it was.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It was so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They played so bad. They couldn't have guessed less. I
guess they didn't. Justin Rose was the only one that
I felt like didn't really give up, Like I felt
like Shane, I say, give up I just they just
were beaten down so badly by the golf course that
it just seemed like, did you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Do them but both days? You had them both days?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
No, I had Colin Markkwrot's group the first day and
then I did Rory's groop kind of the next three.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So that was the day that Shane Shane picked up.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That was actually quite funny. But yeah, I feel like
it was wild, like how such an awesome group like that,
Like even the crowd and stuff, it was just so flat.
It was. It was crazy, like you never hear that
with a big group like that. I don't know, but
that's just how much the golf course beat these guys up,
like it was just like they couldn't. They weren't even
talking to each other like it was. It was like
they just had no energy, just as I know, and
(08:44):
like I'm trying to say things on air and nobody
like I'm saying a bunch of British slang as well,
and so my co worker was just like, what the
fuck you say?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Who are you working with? So I worked with Steve
Burko Do you know who that is?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah? Justin cut Yeah, and yeah, so it was good.
I kind of had to make sure of them too,
So it was good fun. But yeah, good guys actually
to work with enjoyed it. And Wags was on the
course during that as well her, so yeah, it was good.
We enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How was your weekend? What did you do Saturday?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Sunday? I did two groups on Saturday and then I
did yesterday. I did Roy's group, but we finished with
him on fifteen and then I just went to the airport. Well,
I didn't go to the airport. Actually, I went to
a pub tab lunch, and then I went to the
airport because my flight wasn'ttil late. But I was. We
did that. We went on holiday for three days, didn't
we And the weather was shit.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It never got better.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It was shit. The one day it got better was
no Monday. Tuesday was absolute dogshit and then Wednesday was
a nice day and we went to the Phillies game.
We took car to the Phillies game.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We went to a placetures were so cute.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I know, I swear Colie and he goes, I've not
been to a Phillies game. And it was Kaile's first
Phillies game, so that was fun. And that was only
nice day and then I drove to Stamford on Thursday morning.
Never stopped.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Kira, I know you're telling me, Yeah, I had a
crazy week. I was working the first few days doing
live from so those shows start fairly early, so you
kind of you get there, you do a hit, and
then you're running around reporting. You're running around trying to
get people to talk to you, trying to get sound
with players.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You create all your own content.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
People always think that, you know, there's a producer that's
out there with you or helping you, and it is collaborative,
so to give lots of credit to our staff, but
you are in charge of that and you're figuring out
what you want to say, you're pitching stories. So I
spent the first Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday doing that, and then
(10:36):
Thursday and Friday I got to do early interviews. I
got to do an interview with JJ on Thursday, which
was which was really cool, and then Saturday Sunday I
was doing those range interviews and then I was out
on Sunday. That was my shift was only till one o'clock,
but we were there at like four point thirty in
the morning every day the early live from shows, So
that was.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, time was live from shows then seven.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
On the first day was it eight, So we were
there at five thirty, and then the second day was
at seven, so we were there four thirty.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, because you have to have production. We can't that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't say I looked particularly cute.
That is one of my cutest TV days.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Is it true that the hotel was like an hour
away with traffic. Yeah, the traffic outside the course was insane.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I mean at four thirty in the morning, it took
me twenty seven minutes to get to the course. Right
at five o'clock in the afternoon to get back to
the hotel because it was downtown Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Pittsburgh is a lovely city, by the way, I have
never been, never been.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It has all these rivers that intersect throughout the city
and all these really cool bridges that are painted bright
yellow or just really beautiful landscape in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I did not know that. I was not familiar with
its name, so that was cool.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I had lots of people come up to me and
say they listen to the pod yay, which was really fun.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That is fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, it's weird. Well, we have no date with Day Yeah,
can we just have a chat? I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh, I had so much fun with Pashanna.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm with Anna this week, Anna and KPMG. I'm leaving
today so I get spent time with Anna Jackson. She's
posh and hit. She speaks very differently to me, but yeah,
she is. She speaks way differently to me.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I think that Kara is much more.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh god, no Car is different. No Car is way
different level.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, this is Kara Banks, So if you have the
Banks also works for the Golf Channel.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
She's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
She is one of my favorite people.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
She is one of those people that just she knows
what she wants. She's got three kids. She makes anything happen.
She is a force of nature. She's so good at
her job. She has this ability to remember stats and
fun facts about players and she weaves them in perfectly
into all of her questions.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
She's like goals.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
She's always so helpful and willing to give advice, and
I kind of do a similar DoPT like she could
see me as oh, I don't want to help her,
and she She's so confident in herself that she knows
that if any help that she gives me. It's it's
never ever going to take away from her because she's
so confident in what she does.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And that's like I wish that everybody was like that.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, it's actually funny. I was. I spent a bit
of time with her in the US Women's Open because
We've just had dinner a few nights and I've known
Cara a for years and I actually, me and Carly
we're talking about it in shot right actually, and I
was talking about Kara. I was just saying, like how
much I'd love the people that I work with, And
I said, Carra is one of them people who just
make you feel very ease and very comfortable around her
(13:39):
because she's so confident and she's so lovely and she is,
like you said, so I can talk to her about anything.
Like the conversations we were having. It was actually very
like in depth like girly conversations and it was just
me her and Anna and I think it was Steps
was there as well, and it was just so you know,
sometimes you can have them conversations and you walk away
and go, oh, didn't I share too much? Like I
don't feel that with them, yea, but especially with Kara,
(14:00):
Like car is just so she just makes me feel
very easy and very comfortable, and I think that that's
one of the biggest compliments you can ever give someone,
Like she's just an Yeah, she's just there's no bullshit,
like she's just but a not in an aggressive way,
like in a just a confident way. And I just
I just love. I actually feel like I learn a
lot just being talking to her about even just normal things.
(14:23):
So she's just one of them. I think she's one
of the coolest people ever met, I really do. I
think she's.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Awesome and so posh and so very posh.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, talking a posh you're going to a posh place?
Oh yeah, when are you leaving for London on Thursday?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So if you're listening to today is Wednesday, I'm leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Ah. I always get home sick this time of yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know, because the weather gets really nice and lovely.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, and everyone's in the beer gardens and I'm looking
at the countryside and I'm like, edgy, I need to
go home now, like I need to be back in
England this time of year.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So I'll tell I'll tell England. You said, hello, what
are what should I be doing?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Pretty much wherever you go, like, just go and find
like the cool little Like there's a bar in it's
like a pub and it's this I think it's the skinniest.
It's the skinniest pub in London and it's really cool actually,
and then there's just those are cool bars like wherever
you go. Just just go to a pub though, don't
go to a bar is very different.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I want to go to a pub and order
like a chicken pot pie or.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, steak and guinness pie. Yeah, chicken and leak, chicken
and leak pie, chicken and leak, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So you cannot go see the chicken pot pile out
myself as an American because they definitely couldn't tell otherwise.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, there you go. It's a shame you're not staying longer.
I would have told you to go and stay with
my dad's ah, and you would have had some amazing
walks in the p district. I could have showed you
some unreal walks hikes and stuff. Next time.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So next time, next trip, next trip.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well we should plan it together and I'll just host
you with my dad's and you get upstairs. Well yeah, no, honestly,
my dad would he would lose his mind. He would
just lose his mind. His fake teeth will fall out a.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Great I can't wait next summer.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Mm hmm, let's do it good for you. I'm so jealous.
I'm so jealous. Fuck, just go to a bier garden.
Care you just have to experience a bier garden. Just
go to any pub with an outdoor.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'm gonna write it down right now, beer garden. Yeah,
I can't wait. Like, go around Sunningdale and stuff Sunningdale.
Andrew keeps suggesting this trip to London. I don't know
what has gotten in his bonnet about London.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh, I'll tell you another good one day trip st Albans. Yeah,
that's a cool day trip. That. Yeah, that's like a
thirty minute train is beautiful. It's like the most like
where people want to live in the UK. It's like
the happiest people or something. It's like an Orbans and
it's got great past there.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, speaking of Andrew, I had a long travel day yesterday,
six hour flight after having worked all day. And my
favorite pizza place in our neighborhood is a place called
Hill Pizza and it's a sour doak crust and I'll
live for this stuff. And he had a large goat
Hill Italian sausage pizza waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh my god, what a man, you know, and you've
been away and you just like you just want you
want to sit on your sofa. Don't you just have
your favorite food? And that's awesome, that's very cute. That's
what we did.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And we watched a couple episodes of there's a show
on Netflix. I think it's called Four Seasons or Seasons
or something like Face Correll. It's so cute, okay, just
light funny.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't like very dramatic television unless it's Love Island.
So it just exactly we're speaking of.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, the dms, the dms on the Instagram account, people
were loving your your glossary.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh yeah, you're very welcome. So I was actually saying
a lot of things on it. Don't know what got
into me. I was saying a lot of things on
it a very British and I don't know why. I
dne if it's because I was following the British like
the European lads or what. But my honesty, justin was
just like like what is what is that?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Like you're what's that you had too much to drink
and you were getting a little blah blah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And your friend Larry Larry.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh that that Shane is getting a little Larry Shane Larry,
not Shane Lowry.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, Larry, what did I say? I said, like when
the weather was coming, I said, oh, it's a bit
black over Bill's mother, and like that's what we say
when it's like really dark. It's looking a bit black.
I don't know, no, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I said, Oh, he's got a bit of a niggle.
I said niggle. Yeah, I heard that a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, I said it's raining cats and dogs. I think
you gotta say that anyway. So yeah, I don't know
why I'm feeling extra British at the minute.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, you're just missing home.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I'm just missing home. Yeah, but we get to go
in a couple months. I'm very excited for that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Your friend and Carlato won on the LPGA last week.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yes, she did nine years. It took her. What's incredible. Yeah,
since I last win nine fucking years. Oh my gosh,
she's pissing around for nine years.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You imagine grinding that, Oh my god, she can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
She's Yeah, she's she's so fucking good and actually Chiggy
one of my best friends. So yeah, she nine years.
It took her, but she finally got it done. I
thought she was coming to form. I actually thought she
was gonna have a really good US SIMS Open because
she was playing really solid going into that event. She
didn't play great at the U s WIMS Open, but yeah,
(19:37):
as soon as I saw her name at the top
of leader board, I was like, she just gets through Saturday,
and she just gets through nine holes on Sunday. She
she's got it because she at times can play a
little defensive, like she's almost scared to lose the lead.
But yeah, she killed It could not have been happier
for her. Amazing. She deserves her and her good friends
who used to purn tour. Julia Molnaro. I'm going to
(19:58):
tell you a.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Great story about Julie, actually really funny story.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
She grew up in Kenya. She's Italian. Wow, she grew
up in Kenya. Her dad was a kite surfer. But
now he has like these three or four villas that
like are like incredible, like Beyonce has stayed there and shit,
and like they then take you on safaris, like everything's included.
It's like massage, including a butler's Yeah, it's one of them.
Kind of so she.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Grew up with a butler. Yeah, she grew up with
like a butler.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And like you can fucking tell because whenever we stay together,
she's about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Like she's push.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
She's privileged, I would say, which it's so funny because
she's just she was a nightmare to stay with. We
love her and we love that she's a nightmare, but
my god, like getting her to do anything because obviously,
you know, interview, you kind of got to tate rolls
and stuff to make things the clockwork, to keep things
moving at the right pace, and like being colost would
be off late and Julia had been sat and she'd
(20:54):
finished in the morning, just been sat in her ass,
just I don't know, picking her nose or something, and
like we get in and be like, what is dinner?
It's eight o'clock. She's like, oh, I didn't think of that.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I was hoping you guys would figure that out.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I was hoping you guys would grab something. So she's
you know, she's the nicest and most loveliest. I would
not say boo to a goose. I actually played a
prank on her once because I thought it would be hilarious.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, there you go with your British journal.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
There we go. So I just was bored one day
and I thought, all right, who can I fuck with today?
And I thought, I'm going to Julia. So I called
her and I did that whole judio judio? Can I talk?
I've literally got five seconds. She's like, well, well, what's that?
What's up? I said, Okay, the police are going to
call you. I think they're gonna call you the next
(21:39):
thirty minutes. Whatever you say, I was with you last night.
And she's like what. And I just don't ask me.
I don't have parment now because they're literally I'm in
the police station. I said, but whatever they ask you,
I was with you all night last night. She's like
what and she said what. No, No, I was like,
please do I've never asked you for anything in my life,
but please, just I'm I was with you. So I
put the phone down. She then starts calling Carly like crying.
(22:02):
She's like what the fuck, what the fuck is And
she's like, Julia, just life for it, just say it.
I can't. I'm gonna fucking like this. I'll tell you
this story. Actually this is even funnier. Okay, So you
know when Tiger had that horrific car accident.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The Ways span Onethern California.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, yeah, So I was reading about it and I
was talking. I was like, oh my god, like Tiger's
had accident, blah blah blah, and he was talking about
his leg and stuff, and I went, oh, I said
he lost his ears as well. I don't know what
I said. She's like, what, oh, yeah, he lost both
his ears. She's like, how did he do that? So,
I don't know, must have just scraped off, like she went, God,
(22:39):
he's gonna look so weird without ears. And I'm like, Judia,
obviously he's not lost his fucking ears like a.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Sojulia seems to be gollble oh she's so she's with her.
What happened when the when she found out that the
police were not calling for an albi?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh, I had to ring because like she's legit crying
like she's like carrying it. She's having a panicy.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, if she grew up privileged, then she knows that
She's like I need to get my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
On the phone exactly which one. Oh, but I just
loved messing with Julia.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So sorry I missed the connection between Julia and Carlada.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
They went to college together. From sorry, they went to
issue together. Carlotta used to because Colottin's speak very good
English when she went to college, like when I knew
her as like seventeen eighteen. She we used to be
really close, but we actually didn't know what each other
was saying. It was kind of relationship. Yeah, and so
when they first went to college, Julia really helped Colotta,
(23:37):
like with the translation, because Julia has Judah can speak
like fucking three languages, like she's very intelligent.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Anyway, but Colotta used to copy copy her exams. So
when they used to have a test, she used to
copy Judah like look over a shol And copier and
this one week she got a better result than Julia,
and she copied Julia and Julia has like.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Never lift it down asu excellent, yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But yeah, so Julia was there, which was awesome for
Colter because Julia now lives in Argentina.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
She was at the wind.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
She was at the wind because she's here for her KPMG,
so she must have just come in a week early.
So yeah, the crew is going to get back together
this week hopefully if I have some time.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh yeah, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, in between all of your being on TV and
being a podcaster and trying to sleep.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Dude, I have a busy week. Next week we're doing
Life one for five hours.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Wow, that's great. That so many hours. Yeah, and Jackson,
who's the crew? Is it you?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Me and Anna Paige and Amanda bloom Hurst. Oh great, yeah,
big all girls crew. And then I think like Beth
and Nichols, wire coming in out and people like that.
So yeah, yeah, it'll be fun. So we have five
hours the first two days Tuesday Wednesday, and then it
kind of tapes off a bit. We do a couple hours.
You know. It's like Life farms are quite quite draining,
really because it's a lot longer than you think because
you have to all the prep.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But sometimes they also just fly by.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah they did. Like when she've done like a couple
of three four hour shows and you do an our show,
You're like, whoa, I didn't even get anything in. It's crazy. Yeah,
it's going to be balls hot as well in Dallas
in Frisco.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, what else do I want to ask you? Oh, June,
it's Pride month. Happy Pride Month, Mal. Yeah, I love
all of the Puma stuff, Puma stuff that you've been
posting all the.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh do you know what now? You say that I
have two pairs of them shoes and I actually wanted
to give them away. Should I give them away to
the listeners?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Okay? Yeah, explain what they are and how they can
get it.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So Puma obviously are sick, and they did like a
collaboration for Pride Month, and they sent me a bunch
of hats because I said I wanted to give some
hats away, So they sent me a bunch of cool hats.
And then they sent me some two really cool pairs
of shoes. And they've actually sent me two pairs, so
I'm just thinking, I don't know if it was for Carli,
(25:50):
but I said, do you mind if I give these away?
Because I think i'd be a cool thing to give away.
And she was like yeah, so because she wears every
fucking thing of mine anyway, she doesn't need her own
things because she's just we just we have exact same
size and everything, just not the bra obviously mine's slightly small,
tiny bit peanuts on an iron. Just my training bar
(26:11):
still has gaps in it. So yeah, I mean there
they are UK sized six. I think that's like an
eight and a half us. So if anybody would like them, we.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Can Well, we can post it on Instagram. You can
send me a picture of the shoes and it can
be a comment on the post and maybe reshare it
or something on your Instagram story. So if you comment
on the post reshare it on your Instagram story, that
will get.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You and maybe why do you want them?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah? Or why you love us so much?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh yeah, that's better, Yeah, yeah, why do you love
us so much?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Look, let's make this about us? Yeah, why do you
love us so much? In a comment and share it
on your share the post on your Instagram story. That
will enter you into the giveaway and then I will
put all of those names into a randomizer and we'll
announce the winner on the week after Nice back from London.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I just had that so, yeah, I was going to
give it away, so I thought, why not a better
place to do it than the Shushes.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, the Sushers have I just made that up. It
was shitt talkers or qps the fan base. I like sushers,
maybe sushres.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, So, speaking of it being Pride Month, I saw
that you were on good game with Sarah Spain, who
is one of our fellow iHeart Women's Podcast Network podcasters,
and she asked you a store. She asked you a
question about a time when you felt you had to
be quiet, and it really related back to Pride Month
(27:37):
and who you are. So can we share that story
in case folks didn't get to hear it there?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Okay, So I used to have this sponsor in a
country where probably isn't very accepted to be gay. But
we had a great relationship. I was playing well with them,
I was doing a bunch of cool things with them,
And it was at a time in my career where
and I feel like a lot of athletes can probably
(28:03):
resonate with this, like it's kind of just like a
business exchange, Like there was no kind of personal relationship.
There was just a complete business and hey, this company
wants this. Once I was like, yeah, this money perfect, right,
and we were out at dinner. I was at the
end of the season. I just finished. I think I
just finished third and my last event of the season,
and they invited us out to dinner to then sign
the contract for the next year, and I think we
(28:24):
just wanted to just meet a few clients. Surprisingly enough,
drinks were flowing, and I bought my girlfriend of the
time along with me, and they kept kind of whenever
I was going to the bathroom, they kept asking her, like,
does male of boyfriend? She doesn't talk about private life,
like we just actually seeing anyone. And my ex was like, uh, yeah,
she's pretty private about it, like blah blah blah blah blah.
(28:46):
I'd had a few serbers and they just kept kind
of asking me, and I just went, I just kind
of lost my fuse and I went, I do Yeah.
My boyfriend's right there and her name is so and so,
and we've been together for like two years. And they
literally you could just tell the mood changed.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Were they asking it to pry because they had it
seemed like they had their suspicions about.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The two of you. No, I actually don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
They just were genuinely yeah, just like hey.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Boyfriend, like yeah, like you know, the drinks were just flowing,
so I don't mind the masking. I don't know, maybe
they did e anything thing. But so I then wake
up the next morning and my was like, what the
fuck did you do last night? And I'm like, what
do you mean? It was a good night and she
was like, well, they've just taken away the contract. Basically,
they basically pretty much just like didn't let me sign
it that night, which I thought was odd. They said,
(29:34):
I we'll talk tomorrow. So yeah, they pretty much just
like ripped up in front of me.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And this was an important sum of money for me.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah at the time. At the time, that's yeah, yeah, yeah.
At the time, like I was playing mainly in Europe
and a lot of my income was actually off course
because it's difficult to make money on course in Europe.
And so my agent was like, why'd you do that?
And I'm like, well, first of all, like fuck fuck that,
like and it was.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
That point where I don't want to be working with
them anyway.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, so I was like but it was actually real
bad for like a year because I then financially struggled
really bad, like I had to, like I wasn't playing well.
Move on a couple of years. I then moved to America,
blah blah blah blah blah. And then I don't know
why I've gone on a bit of a tenant there,
but like I wore a blank hat for like two years.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, I think the point.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
The point is that it was at a time when
you probably really could have used that financial support, and
then it only created more strife for you. But in
the end you have the last laugh because look at
you now, and you don't have to work with a
company or an organization or people that aren't going to
(30:38):
love you for who you are.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And then quickly after that, exactly one of my best friends,
Molly Gallatin, was like, Hey, there's a company called athlete
Ally and they really want to do a story on
you about being gay and coming out, Like would you
do it? And it was kind of it. That was
like twenty eighteen. It was kind of still a bit
even then. I wasn't even that long ago, but even
then it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Was like twenty eighty.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, And so I was like, she says, honest email,
like I wouldn't I wouldn't like throwing the fire, like
I think it's going to be awesome, Like I really do.
I think that now moving forward, at least you can
align yourself with like companies or brands that align with you.
And so I did my coming out story, which I
wasn't really sure if I should have done it or not,
(31:21):
but I was kind of comfortable with my own skin
at that point, and what else did I have to lose.
I didn't have any sponsors anyway, so I was like, yeah, fuck,
I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And so I think if my hat's blank anyway, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I'm wearing a blank hat anyway. And it had a
really positive feedback and just going on Pride Month, like
people are still I still even get asked, you know,
like why did you feel the need to you know,
why can't you just live your life? And I'm like,
because for me, it's about representation. And I'm sorry, but
(31:50):
like in our community, we still have to be very
loud to be heard and protect ourselves and respect the
people that have gone before us and what they've had
to sacrifice, Like we still have to keep that battle going.
I still think it's fucked up that we have to
fight for love at this point. But yeah, so that's
that's really kind of the story of it. And I
(32:10):
just I never had representation growing up, so I just
didn't you ever really see anybody that I could kind
of look up to and go, oh, she's very you know,
she's confident in herself.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
She's she's successful, she's got a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Family, normal life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, like everybody deserves that level of happiness and love
and acceptance, and like who cares?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Who cares? It doesn't affect you. It literally doesn't affect you, like,
but it will affect me if things got turned to
different ways. So it's actually funny when I did that
coming out story as we're talking about Pride, I was
so fucking nervous about going to the golf club. The
next I just moved to Jupiter, and you know it,
it's southern Florida. Like I didn't know not you know,
I loved it down there, but I just didn't know.
(32:50):
And it was and this fucking old boy comes up
to me and I'm like, oh my god, oh my god,
oh my god. And he says, hey, I read your
article and he was like seventeen. I was like, oh okay,
And he says that's not where is this going to go?
And he says I have a gay granddaughter and he says,
I'm reading your article made me realize like one asshole
(33:10):
I've been and he's like, I really appreciate you saying that,
and like I literally called her this morning and I
was like, oh, that's awesome, So that's why I did it.
That's amazing. Yeah you changing, No, not really, but.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, no, actually really.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
We say it in jest and we joke around a lot,
but that it actually is so major.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
It's huge. It's it's like a life's purpose fulfilled.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
It's important to me. And I've had a lot of
friends that have like their families have turned their back
on them and stuff, and I had a lot of
stuff being thrown at them, and it's I just I
just think the one battle we should not be fine
in this world is love. And that's just something that
I've always believe in.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So, oh, don't on a T shirt. I might have
started crying. Oh my god, Oh really emotion, let's pride my.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Oh So yeah, so that's that's the story. So yeah,
and we still get comments now, obviously, but it's just
we don't we don't care, not part of our lives,
so it doesn't matter now.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You know what, I love when people make comments because
then you're like you can immediately write that person off, like.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
All right, well you suck bye bye.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, I thank your first alf identifying as a hater
that we never need in our lives.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I know it was actually funny, was I was talking
to Ashion Harris about it when I did that business
summer speaking and she's like, they obviously get comments all
the time, like inappropriate comments like you can imagine in
here and Sofia Bush right, Like I'm like fucking hell,
Like why can't people leave people alone?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But on that level too, when you've got paparazzi and
media following you and and not and not the good
kind of media, the exploitative just cruel, crazy stuff. And
the British press in particular is savage.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, like the Sun, the Daily Mail. Yeah, savage, absolutely savage.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Sorry, this is completely off topic. That's a royal family.
I've always wanted to ask you.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I keep forgetting what do you want to know about it?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well, I just want to know what you, as a
regular person in the UK think about the royal family.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Sorry? Is this too much of a departure for the
emotional conversation?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Listen, I'm very patriotic. I love the Royal family, like
I grew up like my mum was obsessed with Princess Darin,
like the obsessed listen, And I know there's a lot
of cracks in it, but I think having a royal
family is what makes Britain so special, and Harry was
probably my favorite. Yeah, I totally get everything at the start,
(35:47):
I really do. And I don't blame him at all,
Like I don't blame that you wanted to step away,
But then I feel like it's a big contra like
there's a big contradiction in making money off that I
was a massive fan of again as well, like I
thought she was gonna be unreal for the raw family.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
She would have been.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
She would have been, but I think the way that
they've gone about it now is just really dark. And
I just even if it was just a normal family,
I don't feel like you should share in your family
like that. Like there's people in my family I don't like,
but I would not publicly shit on them.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
From the US open to the British family. Do you
have a shush of the week before we get off
the year here?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Oh? Do you know what really irritates me?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
And I don't know if this is a British thing,
if I were a Guinness, I want it in a
Guinness glass. If I had an Estella, I want it
an a Stellar glass. I don't want it in different glasses.
And it really irritates me because someone poured me a
Guinness the other night and it was not an a Guinness.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Glass and really what kind of glass was it?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Just like a plain pine glass and it is. It
doesn't taste right. It doesn't taste right over here anyway,
but it irritates me when it's not in the correct
glass like that is one thing that British people are
very very passionate about if you have a Maretta Sayson
Maretti glass. So that's my shush of the week.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I think that's a great shush.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
My shish of the week is I had an interview
with Jason Day and the last question I asked him
if he was repping Pittsburgh because his golf bag is
yellow and black and he was wearing this steel colored outfit.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Kind of laughed and ha ha. You know it was
a football related answer.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
So NBC Sports Sunday Night Football clipped it and put
it up on Instagram and those those accounts are much
wider and whatever. So those guy comments and he must
be British, he said, seriously, what is with all the
stupid questions that have fuck all to do with golf
from reporters.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Who know fuck all about golf? Bloody hell?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And I clicked on his profile and it says girl dad.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Oh fantastic the classic.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So so good. So shout out you little troll. Actually
shush to you.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I'm sure your daughters would be thrilled with how you're
treating women on the internet.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Very good, shush, well done. Care you stick yourself girl.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
You.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Change well, I don't want to do it on Instagram
because then I give him obviously.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
So now we're doing online.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well, yeah, but I doubt that he listens.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
He does some great love that for our stats, perfect
great every downloadcast.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
But yeah, all right, have fun week in London, have
a great week in Texas. Thank you. You're in London
and I'm in fucking Texas, so that would be fun.
It'll be fun. I'm joy. I'm gonna get his good crew,
isn't it so? Me and Ana Jackson back to.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, that part would be great. Congratulations again to JJ
Spahn for winning the US Open.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
And Carlotta Secanda getting it done after nine fucking years,
blood on chiba, well on sugar. All right, bye.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Bye, thanks for listening to Quiet Please. We'll be back
next week with more golf paps and we want to
hear from you.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
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Speaker 2 (38:58):
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Speaker 1 (39:01):
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Speaker 2 (39:04):
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