May 7, 2025 • 39 mins
"The Voice of New York" Angie Martinez is getting the Par-Tee started! The radio legend chats about being in her golf girl era, from recruiting hip-hop greats to join her on the course to participating in celebrity golf events. She also shares stories from her illustrious career in radio and podcasting and reveals her approach to handling impactful conversations. Plus, Tisha surprises Angie with a special gift from her recent trip to the Masters!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's really nothing to be intimidated by. Yeah, because I'll
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tell you there's people who have been golfing for twenty
years who are terrible golfers.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That's what I always say too.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm like, yes, so if you're brand new and awful,
you're better than they are because they've been golfing twenty
years and are awful.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That is fact.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So come on in. Why not exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You guys?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
My next guest is an absolute icon. She's someone that
I truly look up to, a powerhouse, a trailbazer, and
quite literally the voice of New York.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yet I can't tell you how much it means to
me that she took time out of her busy life
to sit down with me. She's interviewed just about every
major figure in hip hop. If their name is in
your playlist, she's probably had a real, unfiltered comba with them.
She's a best selling author, a Grammy nominee, and she
even opened for President Obama back when he.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Was still in office. Casual all Right.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
She has an honorary doctorate, hosts her own incredible podcast,
and continues to be one of the most respected voices
in media today. I mean, what hasn't she done. She's
not just a guest. She's a cultural force. And believe
it or not, when she's not behind the micro making
media magic, you can catch her out on the golf course. Yep,
that's right. She's an avid golfer. Two and honestly, I
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wouldn't be surprised if golf commentator shows up next on
her resume, because listen, golf can use a little shakeup.
So get ready, because this woman brings a realness, the
wisdom and a whole lot of inspiration. If you don't
know her name, they're probably too young for you, bro,
So please welcome the legend herself, Angie Martinez, to the party.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm so excited to have you, Hie. I'm so good
to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'm so happy for you. Number one, Oh, thank you
and happy to be here. Number two.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Appreciate that when you texted me saying that you were
gonna be in LA and that you had some time,
I could can't even tell you like how quick I
jumped up because I just didn't know if we were
ever gonna be able to make this happened.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Let alone in personally, because everybody always says like, yeah,
we should do where, we should do that, and then
that would never happen.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We're always like this, like you're in New York and
so this means the world to me.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So I begin every pot with a little bit of
four play and we got a little game for you.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Your game is called One's Gotta Go.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I love a game.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You love a game.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So I'm gonna give you four different names, places, scenarios,
and you're gonna tell me which.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Ones got go go? All right, here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Power one oh five, Hot ninety seven, the studio or
the golf course. One's gotta go.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The studio? Really that one's gonna go? You mean like
a recording studio? Yeah, yeah, yes, because I don't spend
a lot of time at a recording studio. So it's okay.
I have too much respect for seven because they raised
me and I was absolutely there. Power is where is
my family. My family is where I work now, and
so we don't want that to go. And the golf
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course could never go because it's my happy place.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And then that makes okay, you're going out, Mary J. Blige,
Jah Rule Jay z Alicia.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Keys one has to go. I know, good lord, this
is tricky, is.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That we're not hurting any j J.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Because I don't think Jay wants to be there anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Jamie doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I think he's not he doesn't want to get in
an uber. Okay, you know what I'm saying. He's gonna
want his own car. He's gonna want He's not gonna
be like you know, Jos is a fun guy, so
he's gonna be fun. Mary's my sister. I can't ever
kick her out of any car. Fact and I love Alicia.
I mean I love j too, but if somebody has
to go, he's probably the most comfortable sitting the uber out. Okay,
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that's fair.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Okay, Dream Foursome, you gotta take one out. Tiger Woods,
Serena Williams, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, someone's gotta go.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This really pains me to say I can't kick the
only girl out, no the crew. I can't get no,
even though I would kick Serena out because I don't
think she's like a golfer like that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
She golf just very lightly, like on the ring.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I love you, Serena. If we were playing tennis, you
would be the last one I would kick out. But
for golf, I hear Barack Obama's a lot of fun
to play with, and Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are
like on the dream for some I can't kick them out.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Sorry, girl, Okay, last one being known as a voice
in New York, your rap album, your Obama moment, or
your memoir.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
One's gotta go.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I know I didn't make this easy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's probably as much as I loved my Obama moment
and it meant so much to me, I think the
other moments kind of define me. They define my relationship
with the people that I support, people that support me,
and I don't know, it's just the connection with my
audience and the connection with people who've been following my
career for a long time. So to lose one of
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those three would be like losing a piece of that
right Whereas the Obama the thing is, it was great
and it was really cool, but it doesn't really define
my career, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, Okay, that is the game. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I made. That was really hard. Ship.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I made that hard.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So Angie, you and I actually officially met. I think
at dj Khalit's event.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We did, we did.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I was already a fan, but then I learned how
much of a real one you were. I don't even
know if you remember this, but we were on the range,
all right, That's when I officially met you. We took
a photo. We had a great time. Remember that it
was a packed range, right. We have d Wade, we
have all these celebrities, we had Kala It himself and
there's no place for us to hit. And you pushed
d Wade aside, and you push these guys aside, and
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you said, my girl has to hit, and you had
just met me. You cleared up a bay for me
to hit, and then you and I started switching spots
and hitting, and I was like, Andre's a real one.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's WoT.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I wouldn't love the show golf. Well, the thing is,
I know a lot of those guys, so but also like, yes,
sometimes you know it's a lot of guys and sometimes
they don't always make way for sure, and so you know,
I have no problem. I had some money on the shoulder.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, it's very clear that Angie is in her
golf girl era right now.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So much.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, so much so, you're watching the Masters, you went
to the TGL event, you go into a ton of
celebrity golf events, to golf adjacent events.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How did you even get into golf?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wow, it's about close to three years ago. My girlfriend
shield not that long. No, No, it was quick. It's
one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't find
it earlier. You know, like I and I, especially during COVID,
I really wish I would have been golfing during COVID.
I lived three minutes from a course. I would have
spent so much time during COVID doing that and getting better,
because it takes so long to get better. That would
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have been a really just great opportunity to spend a
lot of time golfing. But whatever, So I found it
when I found it, which was about three years ago.
My girlfriend Sheila was a member at the club and
invited me. I was like, I don't golf. Who golfs?
I don't know. I don't know nothing about golf. That's
the thing that pisses me off. I don't feel like
and it's one of the reasons I love taking people
out for the first time. Like I'm I'm not clearly
I'm not a professional golfer. I'm still my handicap is
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still in the you know, terrible, But I love it
so much and that I just want other people to
have that experience, like and to see what the game
is about. So I often take first timers out, which
can be frustrating because you want when you want a
golf it's not the fun thing. But I do enjoy,
like every now and then, just taking people out for
the first time and just kind of like showing them
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the lay of the land, letting them know the etiquette
of of how to play and just the basics to
see if it sparks something in people. Because for me,
if somebody didn't do that for me, I still wouldn't
have found it. And so I went. I told my
girlfriend I don't golf. She said, nobody's good, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We go.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We have drinks on the card, we play good music.
I got a great playlist. It'll be fun, and so
I said, okay. I went. Of course, I was terrible,
as you always are at the beginning, but we had fun.
And then I took a lesson and then I made
some decent contact lesson and yeah, I don't know, I
just just wait a minute, you know, once you hit
one good shot, you're like, wait a minute, exactly, wait
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a minute. I could figure this out. And what I
love about golf it's so there's always something to learn. Yes,
at whatever level you are on, there is always something
to learn and to tweak. And so once I started
understanding that, that's where it started becoming I don't know,
it's super interesting to me.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Also, I had a really bad accident like five years
ago and broke my back.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I did see that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I literally have like a cage in my spine
holding my l because where my l one used to be.
The thought about being able to walk again was really great.
But something about golfing, the fact that I was golfing,
it just made me feel like I defeated. So like
I really I came out on the other side of
something and was able to do something really cool like golf, right,
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And so then once I don't you know, once I
just started understanding the game and understanding that I was
going to be bad for a long time and that
was going to be okay. I don't know, I just
have so much fun.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I love it that you love it, and you know,
golf is actually one of the best sports when it
comes to like rehab anyways, Like, look at all the
retired athletes that now get into golf. They're so obsessed
because one, you can never perfect it, just like you said.
And two, it's just a great sport that's not so
hard on your body. But it's just challenging enough and
gets you out there and gets you moving for like
all the right reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I get ten thousand steps every time I play eighteen holes,
even in a cart. No, even when I know, even
when I take my card, I get ten thousand steps
from walking back to the ball, to the ball, back
to the cart, but to the ball again. I don't
know how, but I every time I do, I get
ten thousand steps out there. So I do do a
lot of walking. Sometimes I walk pending the weather. I'm
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very like the weather has to be perfect for me
to walk.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I get I'm a fair weather golfer. Two, See, you
get your steps in even if.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're even if you're in the car party, Yes, even
still get your steps. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And so I saw that you were following the Masters
just on TV, though, Was that the first time you
actually like followed golf on TV.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've seen it here and there, especially you know in
the Tiger era. You know. I yeah, I watched Tiger
like everybody else did, but I didn't have an understanding
of the game, and I didn't really understand. I understood
culturally that it was important that he was representing this
game that we didn't really see, you know, much diversity,
and it was you know, so we were all like,
go Tiger, Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't understand, you know,
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I didn't understand the game to be able to this one,
to be able to appreciate how brilliant he was. Now,
I when I understand the game and I'm watching it
through different eyes, I'm like, this is amazing. God, Like
I couldn't peel myself on the TV. It's funny because
the day I think it was day two I was playing,
I was in Miami and I was out playing golf
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and I had it on my phone with the magnet
on the cart and I'm watching the Masters while I'm
out on these like a crazy lady.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So you're into it, You're hooked now, And I'm so hooked.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I love it so much. And I really people always
ask me all the time, like what is it about
golf that you love so much? This is a couple
of things. Number one, I think it's one of the
only things I do that I'm not multitasking. Right, We're
always like on the phone doing this. You can't do
that when you're there's no zooms, there's no phone calls.
You know, you can't multitask. And people who do drive
me crazy. Like if I bring somebody out and they're
like trying to do different things, it drives me like,
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get out of here. Sure, So that's number one. Also,
just aesthetically, like being outside on the green and the
grass and it's just, I don't know, just feels good
to be out there. And I think there's like a
fine line between how meticulous you have to be very much,
but also you have to be free and calm and
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your body has to be relaxed. So there's like a
it's a weird kind of glend thing that you're always
trying to chase, Like you're in your head, but you
don't want to be too much in your head if
you want to remember what to do with but you
don't want to think about it too much. Like there's
just always something mentally to figure out. And to me,
that's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's the art of it. It's so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
It's like you actually only have like three seconds to
execute a shot. You only three seconds to hit a shot,
and it's so funny that like I'm like, okay, what's
your swing thought? And people are like, oh, I got
like ten different swing thoughts. I'm like, you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You can only think of one?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
For me, it's just I tell.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Myself to stay connected because it's very easy to let
your arms do one thing and then your body's doing
something else, and then your lower body's doing something else.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I like to feel like everything is just like one piece.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I like my hands are always in front of my
chest and then I just stay connected. And when I
do that, I feel like, Okay, I'm stringing together solid shots.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Like that's what matters to me. What are you thinking of?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, I don't think I'm there yet because I don't
know because I don't have all the pieces, right. Sure,
sure you have all the pieces are so ingrained in
you that you have to you could just stay together. Yeah, me,
staying together is like what you know, It's like there's nothing,
there's no art to that. Yeah, for me, I have
too many voices in my head. Sure, I'm still trying
to take.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Those down down.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to be less handsy and less arms
a point like less so always, especially with my woods,
for some reason, I tend to want to control because
there gets a bigger club. Sure, I tend to want
to like put my arms in them and so and
I'm I always try to keep my arms loose. I'm
always like, don't be armsy that.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
When you're actively working on your game, I will say,
like your swing that will probably change day by day.
But when you find a swing that that sticks, like,
keep that one for a good moment.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay, you want to ingrain.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This doesn't it different for every club and every situation.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It shouldn't be for every club.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Every club it's the same swing, but it will be
different let's say with chipping, putting and then full swinging.
But generally when you're hitting the ball from your sandwich
full swing to a driver full swing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Should be the same.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You don't want to don't make it too complicated. Like
at the end of the day, the goal is just
get the ball in the hole least amount of shot.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I have a different thought for every club.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Okay, that's maybe the problem that we're going to address
at some point.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'll help you with that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
With that, but that's when I'm putting. I'm thinking because
I tend to go too fast on my pace, and
so I'm always telling myself to pull it back slow
and then I come through and it's better. So that's
the thing I tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
For punning, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
For chipping, I'm always reminding myself to be a pelican
and to be on my front leg.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Okay, that's I have never heard that before, but I
like it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I remember when you're leaning my weight, I like my.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Weight to the front. See my pelican thoughts. Uh, what
of the irons? I'm always trying to remember like a clock.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes, the clock is going to be something that you
want to just remember throughout your entire game.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's a very important part.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
My driver's pretty consistent.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Drivers always everyone most natural to me.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I don't have to think too much about it. So
I don't know what I tell myself there. It's just
kind of like, stay calm and remember to use my core.
I have to remember that, for sure. That's really it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
What's been your favorite golf event or golf adjacent event
that you've attended. Now that you're like invited to all
the golf happening.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Girl, there's been so many great ones.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You're flying for golf. Now you're now on a golf swears.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was inducted into the golf Illuminati. He's like, you're
in the golf Alma, because I've been. I had some
really cool experiences, like I went with Kith. Kith did
a collab with Tailor Made and they did a big
event in Kebble Beach which was amazing. Also, Malbourne took
me to Whistling Straight. They did the Arsham collab with
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Cohler and Melbourne and and they're good. Love. I'm obsessed
with them. Yeah, the whole Malbourne family. Yeah, Stephen, Erica,
the kids. I golfed with their son Remy in Wisconsin.
He's really good and he's fun to play with. He's
not good where he's like, I don't know, uptight, he's
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like fun, He's still a kid. He's fun. We were
like playing for Resu's peanut butter cups. Were like, if
you get this, you get to resas peanut butter Cup.
Like he's a great kid and he's super like talented,
he's going to be a great golfer, clearly, it's already.
And then some of the other events, like the celebrity
events Kalides and Derek Jeters and Cci Sabathia's.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Tons of events that you're go into.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Basically, it was pretty fun, right, it's a lot of
mean I imagine, I can only imagine something that you've
been yes.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So, so because of all the events and everything you're
doing and you're in your golf colayer, I do have
a few gifts for you.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And I.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So I don't know if you know this, but you
can only get Masters merch on site. Anything that you
see online is not real. You can only buy it there.
So I got a couple things for you. So, because
you're watching the Masters, and I know you haven't.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Attended yet, we got you your very own.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Hat.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This is so cute.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yes, and that's not just it so fun. Fact, I
am actually launching a woman's golf.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wear line, very Girl. It's called all all In, like
all In, and I wanted to give you one of my.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Very first pieces because my girl Angie is now in
her golf girl.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh my god, that's so cute.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So now you get to rock this whenever you're just chilling,
you're hanging out.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh my god, this is so great. I would have
if I didn't know you when I saw this online,
I would have ball. That's how cute it.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That means a lot to me. But don't worry, You'll
be getting all the drops.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Thank you baby. Congrats by the way, I love that
for you. You so much you need a line for sure.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's about time.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Golf Girl era is amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You are in it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You're aslutly oubsessed. Do you think it's too much? Like
am I a little crazy person?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
No, because anyone I know that catches a golf bug,
like you just get it and and like look at
the people that you meet along the way, like so
look at like the business that you make too, Like
I think it's so advantageous for women to get into
the game because it's still like not as common, and
like you just stand out so much more, like you're
probably getting triple the invice.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Because because it's a lot of girls, not a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Of girls, and you're in it, so it's exciting.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And all the women that I have met along the
way have been pretty great and super have you, like,
have you had that experience?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, I mean I'm in it right, like I'm sure
like you have.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You have your people that you grew in it with,
like radio and hosting and stuff. There's people that you
get along more with, there's some that you just know
to just be acquaintance with.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Then there's your best sies.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Like I grew up in it, like since I was three. Wow,
you know, so like it's been a long time. But
for the most old oh yeah, like there was no
such thing at the time. But like my dad cut
a club and the sawed it and put tape for
a grip, and that's how I began. But now anyone
that begins, you actually can find three year old clubs.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So so I.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Want to transition from golf and now into just like
you and your career. You know, like you said, we
can't assume everyone knows who Angie Martinez is.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But if you don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Who she is, you should.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You should and probably they're too young for you, bro,
if you don't know who Angie is, because literally the
voice of New York I've been I've been told that
you're also like the Oprah of hip hop, and I
think that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Cute. Yeah, it's so cute.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I mean you've accomplished so much Emmy nomination, like we said,
you open up for President Obama, best selling author, Hall
of Famer, and radio.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Like, at what point did.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
You realize, like, No, I love radio, like I love talking,
I love using my voice.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You know, for me, it wasn't never that I loved
the radio at the beginning. It was more like I
loved the music and I love the culture, and then
radio happened to be the outlet for that and we
created this kind of station and this moment and time,
and so I kind of grew into it. But to me,
it's just the outlet. It's the connector. It's really about
connecting with people and having conversations. I have a podcast also.
(19:36):
I don't feel that there's a difference really much between
radio and podcasts, except in your podcast, you may like,
my podcast is more of on radio, we talk about
what's current and trending and music. My podcast is called
in Real Life, and we do more of a deep
dive into the things that kind of move us in
real life, the things that change us and shift us
and you know, our biggest lessons in life. Sometimes said
(19:59):
sometimes I'm happy sometimes, you know, it just it gets
a little deeper, Yeah, and the conversations are a little
more evolved. And so it's really just about connecting with people.
And that's really what my career has been rooted in.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Like you talk about connecting, right, but like in watching
a lot of your interviews and everything, I don't think
there's really many people that do it like you, because
a lot of people become a lot more vulnerable. They
just open up to you, and I feel like there's
like a level of trust. When did you realize that
you had that skill? I don't believe it's taught.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Or self taught. After a long time being in a
long time, I think it's really not that complicated. It's
just like training people with respect. And I think, you know,
I started my career before social media, before clicksmattered or
it was no clickbait or anything like that. So my
entry point, the intention was different. You know, now people
start upot or whatever. Numbers are really important and I
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get that, and so you wind up operating from a
place of chasing that versus chasing an amazing conversation or
chasing to really get to know somebody. Yeah, where what
is your entry point, Like what are you trying to get?
And I think conversation gets jaded and gets messy because
because of what people's intentions are. And I understand it's
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just that the world we live in now, so but
I came in at a different time, so I have
a different kind of viewpoint on it, and I really
enjoy getting to know people and also getting giving them
a chance to kind of tell their story in a
safe way. I'm competing also, though, so I'm not saying
I want to not do well. I still like to
do well, and I like to do numbers, and I
like to offer things that are valuable to people, right,
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and so I just try to I try to do
it that way. I try to offer something of value
and be successful that way versus let me find something
that's shocking, or let me get this thing out of them,
let me trick them into answering this question so I
can get you know what I mean, because that's like
the fast will you get that you get the quick hit,
then what and then you know where's your then what?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
No relationship has made either that.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, So I played a long game. And it's also
you know, it's more fun that way, it's easier to
sleep at night. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So, like you know, I mentioned before, like how you've
been able to garner so much trust within the hip
hop community and your people, like you're one of the
most trusted voices in hip hop and in my opinion,
I'm sure other people could agree. Like do you feel
like there was a moment in your career that allowed
that to happen or do you feel like it was
more just like a slow growth of like, oh I
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trust Angie, I can tell her more, or I feel
good with her.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I think it was a slow growth for sure. You know, anything,
any relationship is a slow growth, right. You have to
earn people's trust, you have to people have to get
to know you. So I think that happened. And I
think there's definitely people that grew up with me and
I grew up with them, And I think people know
my character and trust me. I'm not always perfect. I've
done things that I'm like, oh, why did I do that?
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Or why did I say that? Or I should have
never asked them that or something. You know, things have
happened in my career that aren't perfect. But I think
people know my character and they know my intentions, and
I think that has worked well for me.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So I feel like a big moment, in my opinion
for you was the Tupac interview.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I feel like the way you.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Handled that really allowed artists to trust you that you
you would not just like sell out like you were
just going to protect, you know, protect the artists and
make sure that you're protecting the community. Really, I don't
want to, you know, stay too long on this topic,
but I would like to hear from your part.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I can't ever talk about this topic because people are
very sensitive about it, and they's people that don't understand
and think I'm hiding something that's some you know, which
is not the true. Was not the case. It is.
It is what it is. It was a moment in
time and I made a decision that I thought was
the right one and I still stand today that I
believe it was the right one. And luckily, for those
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that don't know, there was an interview a long time
ago and I in the middle of the heated time
and hip hop, and I chose to not air it
in its entirety, to do the right thing. Luckily for me,
I had words with with Tupac after and he was
okay with it. He gave me a big hug it.
He was like, I get it. And so I that's
really kind of all I ever needed, sure to know
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that I was good and it was fine. And yeah,
it definitely helped define who I was going to be
within the culture and on the radio. And so that's
definitely definite pivotal moment for me for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I love that. All right, now we're going to bring
it back into.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Golf, please all day.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Can talk about golf all day, So doesn't like surprise
people how into golf you are?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, all the time, until I start every time. The
past two interviews, who do I just interview? I just
interviewed Whiskally for golf came up. He said he just
tried it. He really liked it, but he's going on tours.
Like when I get up back, I want to try again. Yes,
so I said, I'll take you if you want. Neo.
I just interviewed Neo. It came up again because he
just started golfing about nine months. There's a thing happening.
It's good. And then just now when I was at
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the hotel, I had just went to the range because
I had to practice because I'm playing in my first
match next week, and I'll about that. Oh okay, I
need some tips. By the way, I got you the
reason I'm doing it Number one, I don't feel like
I'm good enough yet to be in a match. I
could play well, but I don't know that I'm ready
for a match. But I think there's something about putting
yourself in a position to train yourself to be okay
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being uncomfortable in a match situation. And it's funny. When
I was coming here, I was thinking about this thought
because I play at the Derek Jeter tournaments every year
and everybody's all the people, all the athletes are all there,
the celebrities, you know, all the people. Derek's there, They're
all there. So I go up my little turn. Natalie
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gouldbas is the you know, professional the professional golfers are there.
She goes and everybody's going so I go. I slice
it. It goes so off to the the tree, and I
was so mad because I just knew that I was
going to kill it because all day I've been hitting
that shot really well. Yeah, And I turned around to Derek.
I said, I can make that shot, and he goes
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here Angie we can all make that shot. We can
all make the shot, it's just can you make it
right now in the pressure in front of all these people.
That's a good point, and I just I don't know.
Something about that made me made me understand golf more like, Oh,
we can all do it. We can all make an
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amazing putt, we can all hit a perfect drive, but
can you do it all the time consistently? And can
you do it in those moments under pressure? Right? And
so that's when I kind of something clicked to me,
is like I want to put myself in pressure situations
so I could almost get past that hurdle.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, I know, I completely understand that.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I mean, I've been playing golf all my life and
it doesn't matter you know, how big the crowd is
or what the event is.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I will always be nervous. I'm the first tee and
like when I.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Was, yeah, always, but mine is like more of an
excited kind of nervous. It's not like a fearful There
was a point in my career when I was playing
professionally it was scary, but now I'm like, Okay, I'm
gonna show everyone here that I'm going to hit it
down the fairway, because if I don't have that mindset
already to begin with, you're probably already off to a
bad start. If you're out here looking at the water,
you're looking.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You know you can't do that. By the way, you
can't look at the negatives.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Like, no matter what I mean life, but golf, you
cannot look at the negatives. So I mean, to be
able to like step into something scary, I get it.
I think it's because of golf that for me, no
matter what stage I walk on, no matter what thing
I'm hosting, nothing will be ever as scary as when
I'm competing for money in front of a crowd. And
so now you get to feel that little bit of
pressure on the course.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
My little nerves. So what do you tell yourself? So
what keeps you calm?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I don't think anything will keep me calm.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I mean, but there's always breathing exercises you could do,
you know, deep belly breasts to just help try and
physically lower your heart, right, that's the best you can do.
But literally, I hit before the nerves can hit. Like literally,
that's all I could do. And I just trust that
all that practice I did is enough. I can't stress
about what's gonna happen. I've done as much preparation as
I could, and then I just go for it.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And then I'm very accepting of.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Whatever the situation is, because the moment that I add
more tension to me, that's when I'm gonna fail. Like,
I got to just be as relax and chill as
possible in my brain and physically.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So when you go to your.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Match, you just gotta like you really, you really got
to embody like the idea of like, this is exciting
and this is fun, and this is my chance to
like compete in something so different. Like you've accomplished so
much in your career, now you can do something different
in a different world. Like that's the way you got
to approach it. If you don't hit a straight, guess
what you got? How many more tries, seventy more tries whatever?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, I think that's that's the way I think of it,
and that's what kind of keeps me, keeps me going, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
With you. Yeah, it's going to be an exercise for Yeah.
I think that's a fun part of this too.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You know, as someone who has picked up golf a
lot later in your life and like, now you're so
like in love with it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What advice would you give other.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Women to get into it or if they've dabbled in it,
to stick with it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You know, it has to be a fit for you, right,
but if you do have some interest, I would say,
don't be afraid of it, because it can be intimidating, right,
especially at the beginning when you're not even making contact
with the ball and you're like, I'll never be good
at this sport. You might not be great, you might
not go pro, you might not Yeah, but you take
a couple of lessons and you'll be surprised at how
much you can kind of come. You can play a
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full round with people who golf all the time. And
I will tell you this, The best advice that I
got early on when I first started golfing was was
from Natalie Golbis who I played with her at the
Jeter Tournament. And it was like my first year playing,
I had just started learning. I was barely I was
fifty to fifty on even connecting with the ball. You know,
I got a fresh out that like trying to remember
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to keep my head down. Her teaching you too, and well,
what happened was we got on the same and she
said to me, she said, you're too new for me
to coach you at all. She goes, the only thing
I'll tell you is keep a good pace. She said,
if you can keep a good pace, you can play
with anybody and people will not be bothered that you're here.
So you just hit the ball and go. Don't complain,
don't whine, don't like, just do your best and whatever.
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And so you know, she didn't give me any tips,
but that tip was amazing because as I was growing
and learning, I was not afraid to play with people
who are better than me and more experienced. Or I
play with guys all the time. I don't care if
they're better than me. I still I know. I play.
I hit the ball, I go hit the ball. I golf.
I have a bad shot, I just go. If I
have to pick up because everybody's moving, I pick up.
It's fine. So I think pace is really important. And
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so once you learn that that, it takes some of
the pressure off. Yeah, and it's a great game, and
I think you know, take a lesson, give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So now that you've been in the game, and now
that you're being, you know, invited to all these events
and whatnot, and you're kind of seeing golf for what
it is.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
What is it that you think golf needs more of
to like keep on growing.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I love the etiquette of golf, and I don't I
think it is to be respected, but I do. I
do sometimes like the stuffiness of some of the rules
of like the apparels. Some places are stuffier than others.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I prefer a more laxed environment. That's just me, by
nature anyway, who I am as a person. So I
prefer a course or a place that's okay, are you
measuring my shorts where they are? Really?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Like some courses do that. I know, this is not
my fill from your knee. Yeah, it's not my favorite,
very triggering, it's not my growing up.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's not that's not my favorite. So like that, that
type of stuff I don't love, but I do respect.
I respect the culture and the and the etiquette and
all the all that stuff about the game. So I
don't want to I don't want to judge that too much,
but I would like to see just more effort for
this to be an inclusive game, and like effort, not
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just like sure come on, but like an effort to
bring people to the tape. Yeah, to show young kids
of whatever race or gender that this could be a
cool game for you, and here's some ways that you
can go about learning and giving it a shot. And
I think I'd like to see some of that for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, no, I agree. I mean I think there's like
a lot of programs that are now coming up.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I see something happening.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
If you got with east Side Golf of course, yeah,
Like what they're doing is great.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, they're really like of course they're a brand, but
they're very community focused for sure. And there's like now
a lot of these like young programs that are coming up,
which is good. But it's just wild because like when
I was younger, I didn't have that right like as
a as a little Filipino girl and a very posh
sports I had to very much grow up very fast
because I just you know, it was a very different environment.
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But it's it's I can it is changing. It is
very much changing. Sure, Like to see people like you
even get into the game, like even seeing people in
hip hop and the hip hop culture get into golf
like that is so exciting for me. Do you know
how many events I had to go to and listen
to country and only country. I love country people. It's just,
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you know, it's not like it's my thing. Like I
love that school boy Q was golfing.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Not only is he golfing, he's actually an incredible golfer.
Do you know that? He's like a real golfer. He's
not one of these like he's not of the new
class like we're just learning how to golf. He's actually
a really great golfer.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, And so like diyning of golf with him, I haven't.
We've only been on a practice range together.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Oh really, So you hit balls with him?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I hit balls with him and he and he was
and he said my swing looked good. And I was
watching him and we wrote a card back to the start.
But I haven't played with him yet. But he's definitely
on my list of people I want to golf with
for sure.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
All Right, So, like these next batch of questions I
think are probably more for me as like a as
a host that is trying to get into it.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You're not great, by the way, I appreciate you. No,
you're amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's not easy, but I mean you do it so
naturally now, but like, what is your prep like before
you have a big interview.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, I do a lot of research. I make sure
that I know what they're doing, what they've done, whoever
i'm talking to, what's important to them, and I kind
of do a deep dive and then I throw it,
kind of throw it away because you have to be
present with people because sometimes you have an agenda. You
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be like, oh God, I'll talk to this girl about
this album because and then she could come in and
say I'm having the most challenging day and here's why.
And if you're not in present with your guests and
go on the ride that they want to go on,
sometimes you miss the opportunity to really get to know
someone or really get your audience, let your audience get
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to know someone. So I think it's important to be
informed so that you can lead the conversation if you
need to, But you also have to be present enough
that you can ride the train with them where they are.
Just being mindful of that is definitely a thing. But
you did great today. I feel like you were. You
had like an opening segment that was fun, and then
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you had your point. You had your point that you
went with me. You didn't like, stop me short to
get to your point. Sometimes people do, so that's good.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, I mean there's like an art to this, and
I don't really think people really just see how much
goes into it. Like, do you do you get nervous
at all anymore for the things you do?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It's not really nervous. It's sometimes I don't want to
I don't like to feel unprepared. If I'm not prepared
for something that takes me to a bad place, I
feel like that would make me feel jittery and uncomfortable.
If I'm like thrown into something and I'm unprepared, that
I don't like. I don't think it's so much nervous.
I just I don't want to miss the opportunity to
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make something great with someone for something that I forgot
or missed. So that's why I like overtry to overprepare
so that way, right, because I don't want to miss
that opportunity because then they walk out when it's over,
and I'm like, you know, what I should have talked
to them about would have been amazing, and then it's over.
I hate that feeling. Yeah, So it's more of that.
It's more of like I want to make sure or
that we're getting what we're supposed to get out of
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this moment. I think people should not just for me,
but I think in general, like should appreciate when someone
can hold the great conversation, which you are doing today.
I appreciate how many episodes have you done already.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I think that you're my eighth. But I've had some
pretty good guests. Yes, yeah, I had.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I had Cheyenne Woods, and she did such an incredible job,
and she shared some incredible moments with me.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Can I tell you a story about her? Yes? So
I was. I told you I was friends with the
Sabathias with Amber. So I was at their house for
I think it was CEC's birthday or something. And I
told you, I'm the golf recruiter number one, like anybody
I meet that even remotely wants to look. So she
had she was there, she had just had a baby.
I didn't know who she was. So the conversation of
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golf comes up by the bar, and now I'm putting
on a show like I'm a golfer here, like I'm
acting like I'm putting everybody onto like oh my god,
you gotta come. You got a golf and then she
was like, oh you golf, that's great. Whatever. So she's
talking to me like oh yeah, we're talking and I
was like, so do you golf, and Jesus, she was like,
yeah I do. I was like, oh good. You just
got to stay at her and you got if you
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ever want to come golf with me. You know, I've
only been golfing for like a year and a half,
but you know, you can come. And I was like
giving her tips on how to golf, the motivation to
stay in it. And then my girlfriend came home. She
was like please stop. I was like what what? What
did too? She was like this is Chyanne Woods. Yes,
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And I was like, oh, so you have golfed then.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Just a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
You have golf a couple couple of times and so
sorry about that. But she was so lovely and she
let me go on and on about my golfing and
how I could she could come and be a guest
of mine and she should try again, she should give
it another shot. And yeah, that was not that was
not my finest moment. But it just goes to Sean,
I'm really about this life. I'm really about this recruitment life.
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You're so committed. I'm so committed. I'm so committed. And
she was lovely and I'm sure she was a great guest.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
She was a great guest, Sanna. If you remember this moment.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
She I'm sure she does. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Angie.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Sorry, she's great too, so and I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
really sorry.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I appreciate you so much, I mean, thank you. Where
can everybody find you?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You can find me on the golf course, that's right,
and Angie Martinez on socials and I'm on the Afternoon
Drives in New York I one five to one and
my podcast, Edgie Martinez, I r L in real life
and I have some new some projects coming up which
are really exciting, which I will tell you on TikTok
and Instagram and all the socials. I'll keep everybody informed.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
So amazing, Please do Angie, thank you so much for
joining the party.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Thank you. Congratulations. By the way, it's a party, it
is a party. I got a master set.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Thank you, baby.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Welcome to the party.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
With To is an Iheartwoman's sports production in partnership with
Deep Blue Sports Entertainment I'm your host, Tisha Allen. Christina
Everett is our executive producer, and Jennifer Bassett is our producer.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Sound mixing and mastering by Mary Doo.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Special thanks to Jesse Katz at iHeart and to Jess
McCallister and the teams at GERSH and Catalyst nine. Listen
to Welcome to the Party with Tasha Allen on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
It's really nothing to be intimidated by. Yeah, because I'll
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tell you there's people who have been golfing for twenty
years who are terrible golfers.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That's what I always say too.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm like, yes, so if you're brand new and awful,
you're better than they are because they've been golfing twenty
years and are awful.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That is fact.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So come on in. Why not exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You guys?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
My next guest is an absolute icon. She's someone that
I truly look up to, a powerhouse, a trailbazer, and
quite literally the voice of New York.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yet I can't tell you how much it means to
me that she took time out of her busy life
to sit down with me. She's interviewed just about every
major figure in hip hop. If their name is in
your playlist, she's probably had a real, unfiltered comba with them.
She's a best selling author, a Grammy nominee, and she
even opened for President Obama back when he.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Was still in office. Casual all Right.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
She has an honorary doctorate, hosts her own incredible podcast,
and continues to be one of the most respected voices
in media today. I mean, what hasn't she done. She's
not just a guest. She's a cultural force. And believe
it or not, when she's not behind the micro making
media magic, you can catch her out on the golf course. Yep,
that's right. She's an avid golfer. Two and honestly, I
(01:21):
wouldn't be surprised if golf commentator shows up next on
her resume, because listen, golf can use a little shakeup.
So get ready, because this woman brings a realness, the
wisdom and a whole lot of inspiration. If you don't
know her name, they're probably too young for you, bro,
So please welcome the legend herself, Angie Martinez, to the party.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm so excited to have you, Hie. I'm so good
to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'm so happy for you. Number one, Oh, thank you
and happy to be here. Number two.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Appreciate that when you texted me saying that you were
gonna be in LA and that you had some time,
I could can't even tell you like how quick I
jumped up because I just didn't know if we were
ever gonna be able to make this happened.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Let alone in personally, because everybody always says like, yeah,
we should do where, we should do that, and then
that would never happen.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We're always like this, like you're in New York and
so this means the world to me.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So I begin every pot with a little bit of
four play and we got a little game for you.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Your game is called One's Gotta Go.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I love a game.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You love a game.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So I'm gonna give you four different names, places, scenarios,
and you're gonna tell me which.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Ones got go go? All right, here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Power one oh five, Hot ninety seven, the studio or
the golf course. One's gotta go.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The studio? Really that one's gonna go? You mean like
a recording studio? Yeah, yeah, yes, because I don't spend
a lot of time at a recording studio. So it's okay.
I have too much respect for seven because they raised
me and I was absolutely there. Power is where is
my family. My family is where I work now, and
so we don't want that to go. And the golf
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course could never go because it's my happy place.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And then that makes okay, you're going out, Mary J. Blige,
Jah Rule Jay z Alicia.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Keys one has to go. I know, good lord, this
is tricky, is.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That we're not hurting any j J.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Because I don't think Jay wants to be there anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Jamie doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I think he's not he doesn't want to get in
an uber. Okay, you know what I'm saying. He's gonna
want his own car. He's gonna want He's not gonna
be like you know, Jos is a fun guy, so
he's gonna be fun. Mary's my sister. I can't ever
kick her out of any car. Fact and I love Alicia.
I mean I love j too, but if somebody has
to go, he's probably the most comfortable sitting the uber out. Okay,
(03:40):
that's fair.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Okay, Dream Foursome, you gotta take one out. Tiger Woods,
Serena Williams, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, someone's gotta go.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This really pains me to say I can't kick the
only girl out, no the crew. I can't get no,
even though I would kick Serena out because I don't
think she's like a golfer like that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
She golf just very lightly, like on the ring.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I love you, Serena. If we were playing tennis, you
would be the last one I would kick out. But
for golf, I hear Barack Obama's a lot of fun
to play with, and Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are
like on the dream for some I can't kick them out.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Sorry, girl, Okay, last one being known as a voice
in New York, your rap album, your Obama moment, or
your memoir.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
One's gotta go.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I know I didn't make this easy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's probably as much as I loved my Obama moment
and it meant so much to me, I think the
other moments kind of define me. They define my relationship
with the people that I support, people that support me,
and I don't know, it's just the connection with my
audience and the connection with people who've been following my
career for a long time. So to lose one of
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those three would be like losing a piece of that
right Whereas the Obama the thing is, it was great
and it was really cool, but it doesn't really define
my career, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, Okay, that is the game. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I made. That was really hard. Ship.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I made that hard.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So Angie, you and I actually officially met. I think
at dj Khalit's event.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We did, we did.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I was already a fan, but then I learned how
much of a real one you were. I don't even
know if you remember this, but we were on the range,
all right, That's when I officially met you. We took
a photo. We had a great time. Remember that it
was a packed range, right. We have d Wade, we
have all these celebrities, we had Kala It himself and
there's no place for us to hit. And you pushed
d Wade aside, and you push these guys aside, and
(05:37):
you said, my girl has to hit, and you had
just met me. You cleared up a bay for me
to hit, and then you and I started switching spots
and hitting, and I was like, Andre's a real one.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's WoT.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I wouldn't love the show golf. Well, the thing is,
I know a lot of those guys, so but also like, yes,
sometimes you know it's a lot of guys and sometimes
they don't always make way for sure, and so you know,
I have no problem. I had some money on the shoulder.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, it's very clear that Angie is in her
golf girl era right now.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So much.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, so much so, you're watching the Masters, you went
to the TGL event, you go into a ton of
celebrity golf events, to golf adjacent events.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How did you even get into golf?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wow, it's about close to three years ago. My girlfriend
shield not that long. No, No, it was quick. It's
one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't find
it earlier. You know, like I and I, especially during COVID,
I really wish I would have been golfing during COVID.
I lived three minutes from a course. I would have
spent so much time during COVID doing that and getting better,
because it takes so long to get better. That would
(06:45):
have been a really just great opportunity to spend a
lot of time golfing. But whatever, So I found it
when I found it, which was about three years ago.
My girlfriend Sheila was a member at the club and
invited me. I was like, I don't golf. Who golfs?
I don't know. I don't know nothing about golf. That's
the thing that pisses me off. I don't feel like
and it's one of the reasons I love taking people
out for the first time. Like I'm I'm not clearly
I'm not a professional golfer. I'm still my handicap is
(07:07):
still in the you know, terrible, But I love it
so much and that I just want other people to
have that experience, like and to see what the game
is about. So I often take first timers out, which
can be frustrating because you want when you want a
golf it's not the fun thing. But I do enjoy,
like every now and then, just taking people out for
the first time and just kind of like showing them
(07:29):
the lay of the land, letting them know the etiquette
of of how to play and just the basics to
see if it sparks something in people. Because for me,
if somebody didn't do that for me, I still wouldn't
have found it. And so I went. I told my
girlfriend I don't golf. She said, nobody's good, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We go.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We have drinks on the card, we play good music.
I got a great playlist. It'll be fun, and so
I said, okay. I went. Of course, I was terrible,
as you always are at the beginning, but we had fun.
And then I took a lesson and then I made
some decent contact lesson and yeah, I don't know, I
just just wait a minute, you know, once you hit
one good shot, you're like, wait a minute, exactly, wait
(08:06):
a minute. I could figure this out. And what I
love about golf it's so there's always something to learn. Yes,
at whatever level you are on, there is always something
to learn and to tweak. And so once I started
understanding that, that's where it started becoming I don't know,
it's super interesting to me.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Also, I had a really bad accident like five years
ago and broke my back.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I did see that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I literally have like a cage in my spine
holding my l because where my l one used to be.
The thought about being able to walk again was really great.
But something about golfing, the fact that I was golfing,
it just made me feel like I defeated. So like
I really I came out on the other side of
something and was able to do something really cool like golf, right,
(08:50):
And so then once I don't you know, once I
just started understanding the game and understanding that I was
going to be bad for a long time and that
was going to be okay. I don't know, I just
have so much fun.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I love it that you love it, and you know,
golf is actually one of the best sports when it
comes to like rehab anyways, Like, look at all the
retired athletes that now get into golf. They're so obsessed
because one, you can never perfect it, just like you said.
And two, it's just a great sport that's not so
hard on your body. But it's just challenging enough and
gets you out there and gets you moving for like
all the right reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I get ten thousand steps every time I play eighteen holes,
even in a cart. No, even when I know, even
when I take my card, I get ten thousand steps
from walking back to the ball, to the ball, back
to the cart, but to the ball again. I don't
know how, but I every time I do, I get
ten thousand steps out there. So I do do a
lot of walking. Sometimes I walk pending the weather. I'm
(09:39):
very like the weather has to be perfect for me
to walk.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I get I'm a fair weather golfer. Two, See, you
get your steps in even if.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're even if you're in the car party, Yes, even
still get your steps. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And so I saw that you were following the Masters
just on TV, though, Was that the first time you
actually like followed golf on TV.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've seen it here and there, especially you know in
the Tiger era. You know. I yeah, I watched Tiger
like everybody else did, but I didn't have an understanding
of the game, and I didn't really understand. I understood
culturally that it was important that he was representing this
game that we didn't really see, you know, much diversity,
and it was you know, so we were all like,
go Tiger, Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't understand, you know,
(10:19):
I didn't understand the game to be able to this one,
to be able to appreciate how brilliant he was. Now,
I when I understand the game and I'm watching it
through different eyes, I'm like, this is amazing. God, Like
I couldn't peel myself on the TV. It's funny because
the day I think it was day two I was playing,
I was in Miami and I was out playing golf
(10:40):
and I had it on my phone with the magnet
on the cart and I'm watching the Masters while I'm
out on these like a crazy lady.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So you're into it, You're hooked now, And I'm so hooked.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I love it so much. And I really people always
ask me all the time, like what is it about
golf that you love so much? This is a couple
of things. Number one, I think it's one of the
only things I do that I'm not multitasking. Right, We're
always like on the phone doing this. You can't do
that when you're there's no zooms, there's no phone calls.
You know, you can't multitask. And people who do drive
me crazy. Like if I bring somebody out and they're
like trying to do different things, it drives me like,
(11:12):
get out of here. Sure, So that's number one. Also,
just aesthetically, like being outside on the green and the
grass and it's just, I don't know, just feels good
to be out there. And I think there's like a
fine line between how meticulous you have to be very much,
but also you have to be free and calm and
(11:33):
your body has to be relaxed. So there's like a
it's a weird kind of glend thing that you're always
trying to chase, Like you're in your head, but you
don't want to be too much in your head if
you want to remember what to do with but you
don't want to think about it too much. Like there's
just always something mentally to figure out. And to me,
that's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's the art of it. It's so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
It's like you actually only have like three seconds to
execute a shot. You only three seconds to hit a shot,
and it's so funny that like I'm like, okay, what's
your swing thought? And people are like, oh, I got
like ten different swing thoughts. I'm like, you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You can only think of one?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
For me, it's just I tell.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Myself to stay connected because it's very easy to let
your arms do one thing and then your body's doing
something else, and then your lower body's doing something else.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I like to feel like everything is just like one piece.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I like my hands are always in front of my
chest and then I just stay connected. And when I
do that, I feel like, Okay, I'm stringing together solid shots.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Like that's what matters to me. What are you thinking of?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, I don't think I'm there yet because I don't
know because I don't have all the pieces, right. Sure,
sure you have all the pieces are so ingrained in
you that you have to you could just stay together. Yeah, me,
staying together is like what you know, It's like there's nothing,
there's no art to that. Yeah, for me, I have
too many voices in my head. Sure, I'm still trying
to take.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Those down down.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to be less handsy and less arms
a point like less so always, especially with my woods,
for some reason, I tend to want to control because
there gets a bigger club. Sure, I tend to want
to like put my arms in them and so and
I'm I always try to keep my arms loose. I'm
always like, don't be armsy that.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
When you're actively working on your game, I will say,
like your swing that will probably change day by day.
But when you find a swing that that sticks, like,
keep that one for a good moment.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay, you want to ingrain.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This doesn't it different for every club and every situation.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It shouldn't be for every club.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Every club it's the same swing, but it will be
different let's say with chipping, putting and then full swinging.
But generally when you're hitting the ball from your sandwich
full swing to a driver full swing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Should be the same.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You don't want to don't make it too complicated. Like
at the end of the day, the goal is just
get the ball in the hole least amount of shot.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I have a different thought for every club.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Okay, that's maybe the problem that we're going to address
at some point.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'll help you with that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
With that, but that's when I'm putting. I'm thinking because
I tend to go too fast on my pace, and
so I'm always telling myself to pull it back slow
and then I come through and it's better. So that's
the thing I tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
For punning, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
For chipping, I'm always reminding myself to be a pelican
and to be on my front leg.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Okay, that's I have never heard that before, but I
like it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I remember when you're leaning my weight, I like my.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Weight to the front. See my pelican thoughts. Uh, what
of the irons? I'm always trying to remember like a clock.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes, the clock is going to be something that you
want to just remember throughout your entire game.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's a very important part.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
My driver's pretty consistent.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Drivers always everyone most natural to me.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I don't have to think too much about it. So
I don't know what I tell myself there. It's just
kind of like, stay calm and remember to use my core.
I have to remember that, for sure. That's really it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
What's been your favorite golf event or golf adjacent event
that you've attended. Now that you're like invited to all
the golf happening.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Girl, there's been so many great ones.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You're flying for golf. Now you're now on a golf swears.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was inducted into the golf Illuminati. He's like, you're
in the golf Alma, because I've been. I had some
really cool experiences, like I went with Kith. Kith did
a collab with Tailor Made and they did a big
event in Kebble Beach which was amazing. Also, Malbourne took
me to Whistling Straight. They did the Arsham collab with
(15:15):
Cohler and Melbourne and and they're good. Love. I'm obsessed
with them. Yeah, the whole Malbourne family. Yeah, Stephen, Erica,
the kids. I golfed with their son Remy in Wisconsin.
He's really good and he's fun to play with. He's
not good where he's like, I don't know, uptight, he's
(15:36):
like fun, He's still a kid. He's fun. We were
like playing for Resu's peanut butter cups. Were like, if
you get this, you get to resas peanut butter Cup.
Like he's a great kid and he's super like talented,
he's going to be a great golfer, clearly, it's already.
And then some of the other events, like the celebrity
events Kalides and Derek Jeters and Cci Sabathia's.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Tons of events that you're go into.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Basically, it was pretty fun, right, it's a lot of
mean I imagine, I can only imagine something that you've
been yes.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So, so because of all the events and everything you're
doing and you're in your golf colayer, I do have
a few gifts for you.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And I.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So I don't know if you know this, but you
can only get Masters merch on site. Anything that you
see online is not real. You can only buy it there.
So I got a couple things for you. So, because
you're watching the Masters, and I know you haven't.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Attended yet, we got you your very own.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Hat.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This is so cute.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yes, and that's not just it so fun. Fact, I
am actually launching a woman's golf.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wear line, very Girl. It's called all all In, like
all In, and I wanted to give you one of my.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Very first pieces because my girl Angie is now in
her golf girl.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh my god, that's so cute.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So now you get to rock this whenever you're just chilling,
you're hanging out.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh my god, this is so great. I would have
if I didn't know you when I saw this online,
I would have ball. That's how cute it.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That means a lot to me. But don't worry, You'll
be getting all the drops.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Thank you baby. Congrats by the way, I love that
for you. You so much you need a line for sure.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's about time.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Golf Girl era is amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You are in it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You're aslutly oubsessed. Do you think it's too much? Like
am I a little crazy person?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
No, because anyone I know that catches a golf bug,
like you just get it and and like look at
the people that you meet along the way, like so
look at like the business that you make too, Like
I think it's so advantageous for women to get into
the game because it's still like not as common, and
like you just stand out so much more, like you're
probably getting triple the invice.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Because because it's a lot of girls, not a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Of girls, and you're in it, so it's exciting.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And all the women that I have met along the
way have been pretty great and super have you, like,
have you had that experience?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, I mean I'm in it right, like I'm sure
like you have.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You have your people that you grew in it with,
like radio and hosting and stuff. There's people that you
get along more with, there's some that you just know
to just be acquaintance with.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Then there's your best sies.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Like I grew up in it, like since I was three. Wow,
you know, so like it's been a long time. But
for the most old oh yeah, like there was no
such thing at the time. But like my dad cut
a club and the sawed it and put tape for
a grip, and that's how I began. But now anyone
that begins, you actually can find three year old clubs.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So so I.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Want to transition from golf and now into just like
you and your career. You know, like you said, we
can't assume everyone knows who Angie Martinez is.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But if you don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Who she is, you should.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You should and probably they're too young for you, bro,
if you don't know who Angie is, because literally the
voice of New York I've been I've been told that
you're also like the Oprah of hip hop, and I
think that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Cute. Yeah, it's so cute.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I mean you've accomplished so much Emmy nomination, like we said,
you open up for President Obama, best selling author, Hall
of Famer, and radio.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Like, at what point did.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
You realize, like, No, I love radio, like I love talking,
I love using my voice.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You know, for me, it wasn't never that I loved
the radio at the beginning. It was more like I
loved the music and I love the culture, and then
radio happened to be the outlet for that and we
created this kind of station and this moment and time,
and so I kind of grew into it. But to me,
it's just the outlet. It's the connector. It's really about
connecting with people and having conversations. I have a podcast also.
(19:36):
I don't feel that there's a difference really much between
radio and podcasts, except in your podcast, you may like,
my podcast is more of on radio, we talk about
what's current and trending and music. My podcast is called
in Real Life, and we do more of a deep
dive into the things that kind of move us in
real life, the things that change us and shift us
and you know, our biggest lessons in life. Sometimes said
(19:59):
sometimes I'm happy sometimes, you know, it just it gets
a little deeper, Yeah, and the conversations are a little
more evolved. And so it's really just about connecting with people.
And that's really what my career has been rooted in.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Like you talk about connecting, right, but like in watching
a lot of your interviews and everything, I don't think
there's really many people that do it like you, because
a lot of people become a lot more vulnerable. They
just open up to you, and I feel like there's
like a level of trust. When did you realize that
you had that skill? I don't believe it's taught.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Or self taught. After a long time being in a
long time, I think it's really not that complicated. It's
just like training people with respect. And I think, you know,
I started my career before social media, before clicksmattered or
it was no clickbait or anything like that. So my
entry point, the intention was different. You know, now people
start upot or whatever. Numbers are really important and I
(20:50):
get that, and so you wind up operating from a
place of chasing that versus chasing an amazing conversation or
chasing to really get to know somebody. Yeah, where what
is your entry point, Like what are you trying to get?
And I think conversation gets jaded and gets messy because
because of what people's intentions are. And I understand it's
(21:10):
just that the world we live in now, so but
I came in at a different time, so I have
a different kind of viewpoint on it, and I really
enjoy getting to know people and also getting giving them
a chance to kind of tell their story in a
safe way. I'm competing also, though, so I'm not saying
I want to not do well. I still like to
do well, and I like to do numbers, and I
like to offer things that are valuable to people, right,
(21:30):
and so I just try to I try to do
it that way. I try to offer something of value
and be successful that way versus let me find something
that's shocking, or let me get this thing out of them,
let me trick them into answering this question so I
can get you know what I mean, because that's like
the fast will you get that you get the quick hit,
then what and then you know where's your then what?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
No relationship has made either that.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, So I played a long game. And it's also
you know, it's more fun that way, it's easier to
sleep at night. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So, like you know, I mentioned before, like how you've
been able to garner so much trust within the hip
hop community and your people, like you're one of the
most trusted voices in hip hop and in my opinion,
I'm sure other people could agree. Like do you feel
like there was a moment in your career that allowed
that to happen or do you feel like it was
more just like a slow growth of like, oh I
(22:20):
trust Angie, I can tell her more, or I feel
good with her.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I think it was a slow growth for sure. You know, anything,
any relationship is a slow growth, right. You have to
earn people's trust, you have to people have to get
to know you. So I think that happened. And I
think there's definitely people that grew up with me and
I grew up with them, And I think people know
my character and trust me. I'm not always perfect. I've
done things that I'm like, oh, why did I do that?
(22:46):
Or why did I say that? Or I should have
never asked them that or something. You know, things have
happened in my career that aren't perfect. But I think
people know my character and they know my intentions, and
I think that has worked well for me.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So I feel like a big moment, in my opinion
for you was the Tupac interview.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I feel like the way you.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Handled that really allowed artists to trust you that you
you would not just like sell out like you were
just going to protect, you know, protect the artists and
make sure that you're protecting the community. Really, I don't
want to, you know, stay too long on this topic,
but I would like to hear from your part.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I can't ever talk about this topic because people are
very sensitive about it, and they's people that don't understand
and think I'm hiding something that's some you know, which
is not the true. Was not the case. It is.
It is what it is. It was a moment in
time and I made a decision that I thought was
the right one and I still stand today that I
believe it was the right one. And luckily, for those
(23:45):
that don't know, there was an interview a long time
ago and I in the middle of the heated time
and hip hop, and I chose to not air it
in its entirety, to do the right thing. Luckily for me,
I had words with with Tupac after and he was
okay with it. He gave me a big hug it.
He was like, I get it. And so I that's
really kind of all I ever needed, sure to know
(24:06):
that I was good and it was fine. And yeah,
it definitely helped define who I was going to be
within the culture and on the radio. And so that's
definitely definite pivotal moment for me for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I love that. All right, now we're going to bring
it back into.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Golf, please all day.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Can talk about golf all day, So doesn't like surprise
people how into golf you are?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, all the time, until I start every time. The
past two interviews, who do I just interview? I just
interviewed Whiskally for golf came up. He said he just
tried it. He really liked it, but he's going on tours.
Like when I get up back, I want to try again. Yes,
so I said, I'll take you if you want. Neo.
I just interviewed Neo. It came up again because he
just started golfing about nine months. There's a thing happening.
It's good. And then just now when I was at
(25:04):
the hotel, I had just went to the range because
I had to practice because I'm playing in my first
match next week, and I'll about that. Oh okay, I
need some tips. By the way, I got you the
reason I'm doing it Number one, I don't feel like
I'm good enough yet to be in a match. I
could play well, but I don't know that I'm ready
for a match. But I think there's something about putting
yourself in a position to train yourself to be okay
(25:27):
being uncomfortable in a match situation. And it's funny. When
I was coming here, I was thinking about this thought
because I play at the Derek Jeter tournaments every year
and everybody's all the people, all the athletes are all there,
the celebrities, you know, all the people. Derek's there, They're
all there. So I go up my little turn. Natalie
(25:49):
gouldbas is the you know, professional the professional golfers are there.
She goes and everybody's going so I go. I slice
it. It goes so off to the the tree, and I
was so mad because I just knew that I was
going to kill it because all day I've been hitting
that shot really well. Yeah, And I turned around to Derek.
I said, I can make that shot, and he goes
(26:10):
here Angie we can all make that shot. We can
all make the shot, it's just can you make it
right now in the pressure in front of all these people.
That's a good point, and I just I don't know.
Something about that made me made me understand golf more like, Oh,
we can all do it. We can all make an
(26:30):
amazing putt, we can all hit a perfect drive, but
can you do it all the time consistently? And can
you do it in those moments under pressure? Right? And
so that's when I kind of something clicked to me,
is like I want to put myself in pressure situations
so I could almost get past that hurdle.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, I know, I completely understand that.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I mean, I've been playing golf all my life and
it doesn't matter you know, how big the crowd is
or what the event is.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I will always be nervous. I'm the first tee and
like when I.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Was, yeah, always, but mine is like more of an
excited kind of nervous. It's not like a fearful There
was a point in my career when I was playing
professionally it was scary, but now I'm like, Okay, I'm
gonna show everyone here that I'm going to hit it
down the fairway, because if I don't have that mindset
already to begin with, you're probably already off to a
bad start. If you're out here looking at the water,
you're looking.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You know you can't do that. By the way, you
can't look at the negatives.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Like, no matter what I mean life, but golf, you
cannot look at the negatives. So I mean, to be
able to like step into something scary, I get it.
I think it's because of golf that for me, no
matter what stage I walk on, no matter what thing
I'm hosting, nothing will be ever as scary as when
I'm competing for money in front of a crowd. And
so now you get to feel that little bit of
pressure on the course.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
My little nerves. So what do you tell yourself? So
what keeps you calm?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I don't think anything will keep me calm.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I mean, but there's always breathing exercises you could do,
you know, deep belly breasts to just help try and
physically lower your heart, right, that's the best you can do.
But literally, I hit before the nerves can hit. Like literally,
that's all I could do. And I just trust that
all that practice I did is enough. I can't stress
about what's gonna happen. I've done as much preparation as
I could, and then I just go for it.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And then I'm very accepting of.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Whatever the situation is, because the moment that I add
more tension to me, that's when I'm gonna fail. Like,
I got to just be as relax and chill as
possible in my brain and physically.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So when you go to your.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Match, you just gotta like you really, you really got
to embody like the idea of like, this is exciting
and this is fun, and this is my chance to
like compete in something so different. Like you've accomplished so
much in your career, now you can do something different
in a different world. Like that's the way you got
to approach it. If you don't hit a straight, guess
what you got? How many more tries, seventy more tries whatever?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, I think that's that's the way I think of it,
and that's what kind of keeps me, keeps me going, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
With you. Yeah, it's going to be an exercise for Yeah.
I think that's a fun part of this too.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You know, as someone who has picked up golf a
lot later in your life and like, now you're so
like in love with it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What advice would you give other.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Women to get into it or if they've dabbled in it,
to stick with it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You know, it has to be a fit for you, right,
but if you do have some interest, I would say,
don't be afraid of it, because it can be intimidating, right,
especially at the beginning when you're not even making contact
with the ball and you're like, I'll never be good
at this sport. You might not be great, you might
not go pro, you might not Yeah, but you take
a couple of lessons and you'll be surprised at how
much you can kind of come. You can play a
(29:33):
full round with people who golf all the time. And
I will tell you this, The best advice that I
got early on when I first started golfing was was
from Natalie Golbis who I played with her at the
Jeter Tournament. And it was like my first year playing,
I had just started learning. I was barely I was
fifty to fifty on even connecting with the ball. You know,
I got a fresh out that like trying to remember
(29:54):
to keep my head down. Her teaching you too, and well,
what happened was we got on the same and she
said to me, she said, you're too new for me
to coach you at all. She goes, the only thing
I'll tell you is keep a good pace. She said,
if you can keep a good pace, you can play
with anybody and people will not be bothered that you're here.
So you just hit the ball and go. Don't complain,
don't whine, don't like, just do your best and whatever.
(30:15):
And so you know, she didn't give me any tips,
but that tip was amazing because as I was growing
and learning, I was not afraid to play with people
who are better than me and more experienced. Or I
play with guys all the time. I don't care if
they're better than me. I still I know. I play.
I hit the ball, I go hit the ball. I golf.
I have a bad shot, I just go. If I
have to pick up because everybody's moving, I pick up.
It's fine. So I think pace is really important. And
(30:37):
so once you learn that that, it takes some of
the pressure off. Yeah, and it's a great game, and
I think you know, take a lesson, give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So now that you've been in the game, and now
that you're being, you know, invited to all these events
and whatnot, and you're kind of seeing golf for what
it is.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
What is it that you think golf needs more of
to like keep on growing.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I love the etiquette of golf, and I don't I
think it is to be respected, but I do. I
do sometimes like the stuffiness of some of the rules
of like the apparels. Some places are stuffier than others.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I prefer a more laxed environment. That's just me, by
nature anyway, who I am as a person. So I
prefer a course or a place that's okay, are you
measuring my shorts where they are? Really?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Like some courses do that. I know, this is not
my fill from your knee. Yeah, it's not my favorite,
very triggering, it's not my growing up.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's not that's not my favorite. So like that, that
type of stuff I don't love, but I do respect.
I respect the culture and the and the etiquette and
all the all that stuff about the game. So I
don't want to I don't want to judge that too much,
but I would like to see just more effort for
this to be an inclusive game, and like effort, not
(31:55):
just like sure come on, but like an effort to
bring people to the tape. Yeah, to show young kids
of whatever race or gender that this could be a
cool game for you, and here's some ways that you
can go about learning and giving it a shot. And
I think I'd like to see some of that for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, no, I agree. I mean I think there's like
a lot of programs that are now coming up.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I see something happening.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
If you got with east Side Golf of course, yeah,
Like what they're doing is great.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, they're really like of course they're a brand, but
they're very community focused for sure. And there's like now
a lot of these like young programs that are coming up,
which is good. But it's just wild because like when
I was younger, I didn't have that right like as
a as a little Filipino girl and a very posh
sports I had to very much grow up very fast
because I just you know, it was a very different environment.
(32:43):
But it's it's I can it is changing. It is
very much changing. Sure, Like to see people like you
even get into the game, like even seeing people in
hip hop and the hip hop culture get into golf
like that is so exciting for me. Do you know
how many events I had to go to and listen
to country and only country. I love country people. It's just,
(33:04):
you know, it's not like it's my thing. Like I
love that school boy Q was golfing.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Not only is he golfing, he's actually an incredible golfer.
Do you know that? He's like a real golfer. He's
not one of these like he's not of the new
class like we're just learning how to golf. He's actually
a really great golfer.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, And so like diyning of golf with him, I haven't.
We've only been on a practice range together.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Oh really, So you hit balls with him?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I hit balls with him and he and he was
and he said my swing looked good. And I was
watching him and we wrote a card back to the start.
But I haven't played with him yet. But he's definitely
on my list of people I want to golf with
for sure.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
All Right, So, like these next batch of questions I
think are probably more for me as like a as
a host that is trying to get into it.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You're not great, by the way, I appreciate you. No,
you're amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's not easy, but I mean you do it so
naturally now, but like, what is your prep like before
you have a big interview.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, I do a lot of research. I make sure
that I know what they're doing, what they've done, whoever
i'm talking to, what's important to them, and I kind
of do a deep dive and then I throw it,
kind of throw it away because you have to be
present with people because sometimes you have an agenda. You
(34:14):
be like, oh God, I'll talk to this girl about
this album because and then she could come in and
say I'm having the most challenging day and here's why.
And if you're not in present with your guests and
go on the ride that they want to go on,
sometimes you miss the opportunity to really get to know
someone or really get your audience, let your audience get
(34:37):
to know someone. So I think it's important to be
informed so that you can lead the conversation if you
need to, But you also have to be present enough
that you can ride the train with them where they are.
Just being mindful of that is definitely a thing. But
you did great today. I feel like you were. You
had like an opening segment that was fun, and then
(34:57):
you had your point. You had your point that you
went with me. You didn't like, stop me short to
get to your point. Sometimes people do, so that's good.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, I mean there's like an art to this, and
I don't really think people really just see how much
goes into it. Like, do you do you get nervous
at all anymore for the things you do?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It's not really nervous. It's sometimes I don't want to
I don't like to feel unprepared. If I'm not prepared
for something that takes me to a bad place, I
feel like that would make me feel jittery and uncomfortable.
If I'm like thrown into something and I'm unprepared, that
I don't like. I don't think it's so much nervous.
I just I don't want to miss the opportunity to
(35:41):
make something great with someone for something that I forgot
or missed. So that's why I like overtry to overprepare
so that way, right, because I don't want to miss
that opportunity because then they walk out when it's over,
and I'm like, you know, what I should have talked
to them about would have been amazing, and then it's over.
I hate that feeling. Yeah, So it's more of that.
It's more of like I want to make sure or
that we're getting what we're supposed to get out of
(36:02):
this moment. I think people should not just for me,
but I think in general, like should appreciate when someone
can hold the great conversation, which you are doing today.
I appreciate how many episodes have you done already.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I think that you're my eighth. But I've had some
pretty good guests. Yes, yeah, I had.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I had Cheyenne Woods, and she did such an incredible job,
and she shared some incredible moments with me.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Can I tell you a story about her? Yes? So
I was. I told you I was friends with the
Sabathias with Amber. So I was at their house for
I think it was CEC's birthday or something. And I
told you, I'm the golf recruiter number one, like anybody
I meet that even remotely wants to look. So she
had she was there, she had just had a baby.
I didn't know who she was. So the conversation of
(36:50):
golf comes up by the bar, and now I'm putting
on a show like I'm a golfer here, like I'm
acting like I'm putting everybody onto like oh my god,
you gotta come. You got a golf and then she
was like, oh you golf, that's great. Whatever. So she's
talking to me like oh yeah, we're talking and I
was like, so do you golf, and Jesus, she was like,
yeah I do. I was like, oh good. You just
got to stay at her and you got if you
(37:12):
ever want to come golf with me. You know, I've
only been golfing for like a year and a half,
but you know, you can come. And I was like
giving her tips on how to golf, the motivation to
stay in it. And then my girlfriend came home. She
was like please stop. I was like what what? What
did too? She was like this is Chyanne Woods. Yes,
(37:33):
And I was like, oh, so you have golfed then.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Just a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
You have golf a couple couple of times and so
sorry about that. But she was so lovely and she
let me go on and on about my golfing and
how I could she could come and be a guest
of mine and she should try again, she should give
it another shot. And yeah, that was not that was
not my finest moment. But it just goes to Sean,
I'm really about this life. I'm really about this recruitment life.
(37:58):
You're so committed. I'm so committed. I'm so committed. And
she was lovely and I'm sure she was a great guest.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
She was a great guest, Sanna. If you remember this moment.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
She I'm sure she does. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Angie.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Sorry, she's great too, so and I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
really sorry.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I appreciate you so much, I mean, thank you. Where
can everybody find you?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You can find me on the golf course, that's right,
and Angie Martinez on socials and I'm on the Afternoon
Drives in New York I one five to one and
my podcast, Edgie Martinez, I r L in real life
and I have some new some projects coming up which
are really exciting, which I will tell you on TikTok
and Instagram and all the socials. I'll keep everybody informed.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
So amazing, Please do Angie, thank you so much for
joining the party.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Thank you. Congratulations. By the way, it's a party, it
is a party. I got a master set.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Thank you, baby.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Welcome to the party.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
With To is an Iheartwoman's sports production in partnership with
Deep Blue Sports Entertainment I'm your host, Tisha Allen. Christina
Everett is our executive producer, and Jennifer Bassett is our producer.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Sound mixing and mastering by Mary Doo.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Special thanks to Jesse Katz at iHeart and to Jess
McCallister and the teams at GERSH and Catalyst nine. Listen
to Welcome to the Party with Tasha Allen on the
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