Fathers Day weekend review and JJ Spaun wins The US Open

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, there's a lot of times that for the
most part, and you've heard the saying it's like, uh, man,
I gotta get back to work so I can relax
again because you had so much going over the weekend.
This was opposite. For me. This weekend, I was like,
I gotta go back. I got to actually, I gotta
go and do this again. And I you know, dude, listen,

(00:23):
you know, starting my thirty eighth year doing this radio thing,
you and I basically were where the symmetry is there.
It's like perfect, you know, as far as you and
I both got. And most of the time, don't get
me wrong, I'm still like I even still kind of
get nervous when I've had a weekend off or if
I've been on vacation. Sometimes I'll still be like, man,

(00:43):
I know how to do this. Still, believe it or not.
That still happens to us, even when you've done it
a million and fifteen times, you know, like what we
do now. I don't know that you get that way.
I'm not gonna speak for you, but for me this weekend,
after doing and I was just like, man, it was
so good to just do what I did over the weekend.

(01:04):
It wasn't There wasn't any anything our us. There wasn't
anything that, you know. I was like, man, I gotta
do all that. I gotta get back to work so
I can relax again. It was so fun, so good
of a weekend. I was like, I don't want to
go back tomorrow. I told you yesterday, man, everybody was over.
We had so much fun. Just we literally set out

(01:26):
back all day and just hung out there. We had
music going, we had some drinks. My dad was there,
and you know, a bunch of family. I fired up
the Blackstone. We had smash burgers that I made. And
some people were like, you cooked on Butler's Day. But
I like that. It doesn't it's not. That's not hard
for me to do. It's a labor of love, if

(01:48):
you will. I love to feed people, so I just
I take joy in that. And so I did that,
and everybody else brought over everything else. But I did
the meat, the buns and the cheese, and then everything
else was brought and added and desserts and sides and
all that, and man, it was just so much fun.
For several hours. We set out there yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And the currecty weather held off.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Not one drop of rain in my area, none in yours, not.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Until late in the day.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I took what the grandson to camp yesterday, so I
was going for about five hours doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And were you outside there with him?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
And they changed the way you check in this year,
so quite a lot of hiking to do as opposed
to last year where you drove up and there was
a big tent, but a lot of walking to do.
And the Queen was like, I'm proud of you. You're
I said, hey, it's Father's Day, this is what dads.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Do, and and you're a few LB's lighter. Yeah, So
definitely it helps. The old knees and the hips and
everything else holds up easier when you don't have as
much hanging off of them.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And we get back to Columbus and far west side
of Columbus two seventy and seven, everything's wet, soaked, and
by the time you got toward downtown into Franklin, everything
was dry.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So was a very segmented rain that happened yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I got to I teed it up yesterday morning. That
was a late kind of game time decision Saturday, later
Saturday because Stony had a game early and then we
just kind of did some stuff during the day, just
you know, hung out, had fun, blah blah blah. And
literally his game was like a ten am game and
we were done by twelve twelve thirty, and so you know,

(03:34):
I'm kind of like hinting at him, like, yeah, I
don't know if it's going to rain tomorrow in the morning.
You know, pretty early I had a six point fifty
four tea time so to finish before everybody was coming over,
and and I, you know it was they put me with.
I like doing it. Some people are like, man, I
only want to play golf with people I know. I'm

(03:56):
so comfortable. I've met some of the most interesting people
through the game of golf because I just make a
tea time for myself and that late on a Sunday
on Father's Day, you know that there's really going to
be nothing left, nothing available except if it's a single.
So I would see that there was one available at

(04:17):
like six fifty four, which I took. There was another
one available at like seven eighteen, and then there's this
huge gap and the next one was like ten fifteen
or something, which I knew was going to be too late.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So you consider six fifty four that late, well now early,
oh okay, point being late late in the game to
try to grab a tea time, typically.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
There's nothing available. I didn't mean late as in the
block late.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, yeah, Because I mean if breathing was a sport,
I don't know if I'd get up at six fifty
four on a Sunday morning for breathing, Yeah, I might
just have to pass on that.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I mean, that's the thing. Some people look at me like, man,
you really must love and I'm like, I do. I
absolutely love it, and it's that's not hard for me
to do, even if I get up and I'm tired,
because that's something my they love to do. I love
to tee it up. But then they put you with
people I didn't know, these guys that I played with,
Because clearly, when there's one spot available in a tea time,

(05:09):
typically the other three are taken, and you're able to
see that on the website anyway. If there's only one
spot available, that means the other three are taken. If
it says four are available, that means that clearly it's
a foursome still available. The whole, the whole tea time
is still wide open. So I knew with one remaining
that I would end up being added to a threesome.

(05:29):
And that's what happened. And I golf with guys. They're
pretty good golfers, and they were, you know, younger, younger
than me, and we just had a good time. And I,
like I said, I've met some of the most interesting
people over the years by just doing stuff like that.
I've made some tea times. And there's a guy that
works there where I went. His name is Don Johnson.

(05:51):
It's easy, well, it's obviously easy to remember his name.
He's a listener, he loves the show, and so I
was checking in. He goes, well, how was Vega, mister Blazer,
you know? And I had forgotten. I go, well, Dad, Gonet,
you know, and then I started talking to him about
So it's just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
If he ever calls in, he must identify himself to
Zach as Crockett. Okay, I mean seriously, we got to
have him on his crocket.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Don Johnson is his name.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
When you play with strangers like that, do you just
do you keep it light? We don't need to know
too much about each other. Do you feel about like, hey,
would you guys go to the protest yesterday? Did you
start like that or do you.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Never bring up anything heavy? I followed their lead, okod,
and they never did say what do you do for
a living? Because usually that conversation will kind of surface
about fifty percent at the time. The other fifty percent
the guys are just they just want to play golf,
and we just talk about guy stuff and there might
be a mention of something or other, but nothing anything

(06:47):
real personal. And so if people ask me, you know,
what do you do for a living, I'll just say
outwork for iHeartRadio, and I don't go right into TV
in and what I do because this can be this
can be a little bit of a if I'm I'm
with a whole I'm with a threesome of libs, well,
that could get uncomfortable clubs in their hands, so do I.

(07:08):
But I try to avoid that. I try to avoid
that because for obvious reasons. And some of them go, oh,
that's interesting, you know what do you do? And then
I'll tell them And then when the conversation stops there
I know their libs and then I let it go
too and I we just I go back to and
I'm good at steering conversations because of what we do
for a living. So I I'll just talk about something

(07:30):
else that we're you got kids, and then we're dads,
and then that's it. There's plenty to talk about that
and you know that kind of stuff. But you think
about what we do. We talk to people, we interview people,
we've done this for and so it's like breathing for
me with regard to that kind of thing, it's you
know whatever. So Zach attack, I know you said you
had a great Father's Day weekend. I wanted to obviously

(07:52):
include you in this too to ask you. I know
you went and saw your dad and you said, Charlie's
still there, right.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, Charlie's still down there with my dad. But no,
we had a good it was an easy going, nice day,
which was it was perfect?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Did you? So was the focus yesterday with regard to
is everybody as as like nonchalant about food as you are,
or is what are they?

Speaker 3 (08:18):
My mom is like I'm gonna cook, she's gonna cook anyway,
he's gonna find something.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Right. Is your dad like nonchalant about food like you are?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Pretty much?

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay? So you come by it honest, all right, yeah,
because you know, to bring the audience in. Zach doesn't
eat hardly. I don't think. I think I've seen you chuck.
How many times have you seen him eat? Like maybe
ten times the whole time.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
He's been chew the ale eight occasionally, just just to
make it look like he's eating. And that's about it.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
And look, it's not an indictment, it's an observation that
I do want to make sure people understand that too,
because I'm not taking shots at you. I just and
I'm just curious if you know your dad's that way.
But I'm sure your mom's an amazing cook. It just
seems like moms always are the most part.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
My favorite food is my mom's food, which I think
is pretty normal.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Did she make something yesterday that you were like, all right,
it's time for me to.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Eat chicken and stuff like her chicken is my favorite thing.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Like fried chicken or yeah, breadead and all that. It's buttermilk.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't know exactly what she does to it. It's
fried chicken. But maybe it's just because it's my mom,
but yeah, it's it's it's really good.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
She had that yesterday yeah, yeah, okay, good. Good to
hear you had a great Father's Day too.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, it was a good one, Manea, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah. I got some really cool stuff from my kids.
And they're to the age now where they they it's
you know, the stuff that kids draw for you is
it has this place in your heart. You have the
stuff over the years. Now when it becomes maybe something
along with that and then in tandem with something else

(09:49):
that there was some thought put into, it's really cool.
So I got some really really cool stuff from the kids,
and uh and so yeah, I got a well, you know,
Josephine got me some really like this cool, you know
Father's Day type mug. And then this little penguin which
is in our office. I'll show you this little knitted

(10:11):
like penguin that has like a little thing on it.
It's like holding up a sign, and I'll show you
when we go in there. Stone gets me his stuff
is all America related. So he got me this shirt
with like this kind of abstract flag kind of painted
on it. Nice and it's you know, it's printed, not painted,
but it looks almost like a painting on the shirt
or whatever. And then some cool sunglasses. So I mean

(10:34):
it was just like it's the contrast with female and
male which.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Out fitted for the fireworks this year too.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Boom, that's it, man, that's it. So it's fun. So
that's good. Good to hear that everybody had a good
Father's Day. And you spent yours exercising. But at least
you were at a you were at a fun How
far away was that?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's about an hour away. Okay, not too bad, it
wasn't it wasn't. I mean it was a nice weather
ride for the most part. So yeah, windows down and
uh it just I enjoyed it and I broke the
dieting rules yesterday, I admit that openly, and it was
well worth it. It was Father's Day, yeah, so h relaxed.
I woke up to bacon and eggs in the morning,

(11:19):
and uh, dinner last night was this amazing Ribbi. Oh
my gosh, she's what she does in the kitchen just
kills me. Just big rabbi and the smothered and the
diced onions, and the giant pile of basically like stir
fry vegetables, all kinds of different vegetables, A little German

(11:39):
potato salad, so I feasted like a king last night.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Which probably still wasn't very much. I'm guessing no, not really.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I didn't put on any weight as of the what
I read in this morning, So I guess I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, I mean that's low car. But you just described
any Yeah, so I know the guy who won the
US Open. HEYJ Spawn, ain't gonna forget this Father's Day
for a while. And I don't know if you saw
anything surrounding this, but it's a unbelievable feel good story.
And he is American. He's from Los Angeles, this JJ Spawn,

(12:13):
and you know, relatively unknown in the golf circles. He is.
I admitted it the other day when we were watching.
He's a dad and he had his little girls there
with him. And this dude makes this bomb putt, sixty
five foot putt on eighteen. And they are just outside
of Pittsburgh on Oakmont. It's the golf club there, a

(12:33):
really tough golf club. As a matter of fact, the winner,
JJ Spawn is the only golfer who finished under ParvE.
That tells you anything. And he was even standing over
that putt on eighteen. All he had to do was
two putt and he was gonna win, but he ended
up making that putt as luck would have it. And
then he started talking about later when he was being interviewed,

(12:54):
how is one little girl named Violet? He said, well,
it was a bit of a crazy night Saturday into Sunday,
like us. He's a dad, just like us. He's like,
she's battling stomach issues, She's vomiting all night long. And
he was giving the whole account and he's like, I
had to run to CBS in the middle of the
night to this is the guy who's in contention for

(13:14):
the US Open. Four and a half million dollars on
the line in a major and he's running to CBS.
The dudes in the like in the upper the upper
area of the lead and you got a guy overnight
who's sacrificing and doing what dads do. It really warmed
my heart, man, listening to this guy and he won

(13:35):
me over. He won me over because I was like, man,
I don't want a no name when in this you know,
Adam Scott was right there. Of course he's Australian, but
there was some guys I was rooting for and it
wasn't him. And now it feel bad because you.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Would have fown in a dirty diaper. He would have
been perfect.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, especially the blowout up the back of the shirt.
I don't think anybody's gonna top Bennett and he's talking
about Scotty Scheffler's kid. But man, that was it was
cool to watch that.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
The more people like that that win and achieve and
get recognized for it, the better off this country is.
We need to see the common person element is alive
and well out there and victories can be had.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
It was cool. It was really cool to see him
win that, and I was really happy. You could just
see how appreciative he is and was during this and
now his life has changed, and I hope it's a springboard.
This is true story, Chuck. One year ago, this guy
was literally on the edge of just He's like, I

(14:37):
don't I don't think I'm going to do this anymore
for a living. And it's so difficult to win a
tournament on the PGA Tour, let alone a major. So
congrats to you, JJ spawn and also switching sports, the
Reds winning the series in Detroit. Taken two of three
in Detroit against the team the best team in baseball.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
I can't even expl are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (15:02):
What is going on there? I was like what. I
could not believe that the Reds win Saturday and then
again Sunday after they took a little bit of a
wallopin on Friday, and so it's come Saturday. They win
and in convincing fashion they score. They hung eleven runs
on Detroit and Saturday. On Saturday, I was like what.

(15:23):
And so they ended up winning again on Sunday and.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's a good sports weekend. The crew managed to finally
pull a win out.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Finally they've I know, it'd been a while.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, so yeah, and that they were going up against
one of the top ranked teams. So I mean, it's
it's like you're playing up to the level when you
have to, but when you're expected to win, you're not winning.
I'm not not familiar with that.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
That head scratcher man. Yeah, you can't. You can't really
put it together. It's like what, Yeah,