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Oh my gosh. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. I'm not talking to you. I talk to anybody out there. The haters. Rich Eisen. I talk to the haters right now. Earlier on the show, NFL Network reporter Mike Garafolo, senior NBA writer for the athletic, Joe Vardis.

Still to come. Best-selling author and golf writer, Alan Shipnot. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's Andrew Siciliano. With Rich coming back tomorrow, hope everyone had a fantastic weekend, a belated happy Father's Day to you and yours and to mine as well. Glad we were able to talk yesterday.

Thanks for being here, friends. A day after Bryson DeChambeau wins his second U.S. Open and does so with an amazing save on 18. Does so without being able to hit a fairway most of the day. Does so with a 55-yard shot out of a bunker that you're going to be telling your team about.

About one day. And when your kids are celebrating Father's Day, years from now, they'll be telling their kids about the shot that Bryson DeChambeau hit. And also, a major championship that Rory McIlroy let slip away again. And did so in a fashion that probably the same thing applies.

You will be telling your kids about one day and they will be telling their kids about one day. Because he missed two putts on the back nine, within four feet basically, putts that he never misses. You see the face he's making there? That's the face of a man who let another major slip away.

The face of a man who left afterwards when DeChambeau did win and didn't talk to the media. I know you should be better than that, but I get it. It's the one time where I'm like, you know what, as a member of the media, I wish you did speak.

And it is the proper thing to do. You could have gone up there and did the Rasheed Wallace, I'm just here so I don't get fined. I don't think that would have been cool either, but I get it. Because it was that painful. It was that painful to watch, for Pete's sake.

You know how you felt watching it. Brockman, you know how you felt waking up this morning, still in anguish, over it. Just gutted for him.

Gutted. Imagine what he must feel like then, knowing that you lost to Bryson DeChambeau. The way that you lost. And whether it was Bryson or anybody on the leaderboard yesterday. Anybody on the leaderboard.

Anybody. The fact that you lost by missing those two putts. The fact that even with everything that had gone wrong, if you make that putt on 18, you're getting a playoff.

The look on his face, waiting there, waiting to see if Bryson could make his putt on 18, it was excruciating. Regardless, Alan Shipnuck will join us coming up shortly. Also coming up tonight, Game 5 of the NBA Finals, where I firmly do think the Boston Celtics will close this thing out. They're not going to blow a 3-0 lead.

I think Friday was an aberration, and I think they're going to win it tonight. Joe Vardon from The Athletic was on earlier. He said that, and I never heard this before, we had never heard this before, that bars in Boston have been told by the local authorities they can't let anyone in after halftime. If you are in before halftime, that's great. But after halftime, to try to prevent people from flowing either A, from the arena into the bars and keeping the party going far too long and making it far too rowdy, or B, people flowing out of their homes, out of their apartments, and into bars when it looks as if maybe the Celtics can close it out down the stretch. You can't let people in after halftime? That sounds bonkers to me, but I do think, I do think it's a celebration tonight.

Tonight does hold significance in the NBA and really Americana and American history. Where were you? Think about it, friends. Today's date is? June 17.

June 17, 2024. Where were you 30 years ago tonight? Let me think about it for a second.

Okay. 30 years ago tonight. Can you remember? I'll tell you where I was. I was in my apartment at the corner of Comstock and Ostrom in Syracuse, New York.

Fantastic. And I was watching Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the Knicks and the Rockets, Pat Riley, and Rudy Tomjanovich coaching those teams. I was watching it on NBC. Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Big deal, you say. Do you know what else happened during Game 5 of the NBA Finals that evening?

Man, just unbelievable. A certain former Pro Bowl Hall of Fame running back, who coincidentally played most of his NFL games about two hours away from the apartment in which I was sitting, three hours away, two and a half, in Buffalo, New York. Orenthal James Simpson was in an American-made white Ford SUV, a Bronco, and he was in a low-speed police chase on the 405 freeway and others in Los Angeles. The 405, which is quite literally walking distance from where we sit right now. I guarantee you, he drove by this studio. Matter of fact, I bet he did. Actually, he probably was on Imperial Highway with the 105 at one point. I don't remember the exact route. I had never been to California at that point in my life.

Nope. Had never stepped foot in the state of California. Certainly didn't live here, didn't know it. Didn't know that five, six years later, I would be living in an apartment on Saltaire Avenue, three blocks from the scene of the crime, one block from Bundy.

Didn't know that six years later, I would be living right there, but I would be. And to paint the picture for you, this is before social media, kids. Before cell phones, really. Email was just a thing only a year or two earlier, three, four years earlier.

I remember I got to Syracuse in 1992. You had email then? And we got our first email addresses. They were SYR.edu email addresses, but you could only send email internally, like on campus.

You couldn't send email outside of campus. So email was just a thing. Cell phones were not a thing yet. Beepers were still a thing, but only drug dealers had them.

So digital communication was not a thing. Also not a thing, the New York Knicks winning championships. They hadn't won one since 73, still haven't. So the Knicks, and again, I am in the state of New York, the Knicks being in the finals is the only story. Nobody cares about O.J.

And I know that it would be a story that would dominate American headlines, not only for weeks and months and subsequent years through two trials, but still to this day, with his recent passing, dominates American headlines. But in that moment, the only thing that mattered, where I was, my roommate, diehard Knicks fan, where I was in the state of New York, was the Knicks. Was the Knicks potentially winning a championship for the first time in 21 years? Every major television network in America cut to a low-speed chase on the 405 freeway, including NBC, during Game 5 of the NBA Finals. NBC 4 New York cut away in New York from Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Also, earlier that day was the Rangers parade for winning the Cup.

Yes. So imagine if you will, now I was not in the city. What a New York sports day. I was not in the city. I was in central New York. But imagine if you will, that you're in a bar in midtown Manhattan, or you're on Long Island, or you're in Queens, or you're uptown.

Wherever you are, you're in Jersey. You're watching Patrick Ewing and the Knicks try to bring a championship to New York. And they cut away from Game 5 of the NBA Finals. There's no streaming. You can't get the score on Twitter. There's like 20 channels back then.

Okay? There's no other. They're not going to throw the game on Peacock, or flip it over to CNBC. USA.

Or USA. Telemundo. There's no other place to watch the game. It's the Knicks. And you're in New York.

And they're not on. Because a guy that used to play for the Bills. And work at NBC. And work at NBC. True.

Is in a low-speed chase on the 405 in L.A. The Knicks are in the Finals. And you can't watch them. Now, they would eventually get to an offset, right?

O.J. and the White Bronco are in the corner. The game is on the other side of the screen. They then flipped it, and the game was in the small box.

And then they flipped it. Unbelievable. Kids today cannot fathom. I'm being an old man here.

I still have a 4 in front of my age. But you cannot fathom, younger audience, what that was like 30 years ago tonight. Now, at the same time, all of America, including Knicks fans, they will admit, did grasp the significance of what this was and what this would become. I don't know if any of us actually in the moment knew what it would become, right? No, no, no. I don't know if anyone truly knew what it would become. But we realized O.J.

is the star of stars. Oh, my, this is something. Like, I mean, I remember sitting at my college radio station, W-A-E-R, and somebody walked in and was like, I bet O.J.

did it, man. You see this? Like, yeah. Like, I remember that conversation. And this is the only story in America. But in this moment, like, no one knew what was happening with this.

And it's game five of the NBA Finals with the Knicks and the Rockets. Like, and they turned it off and there was no other place to watch it. Like, it was absurd.

If you haven't seen it, I encourage everyone to watch it. The 30 for 30, just simply titled June 17th, 1994. The things that were going on in sports that day is unbelievable. There's no narrator. They let the news coverage kind of be the narrator.

I mean, they take you, like Bob Costas talking to his producers about how they're going to cover this and what they're going to do. The U.S. Open was that day. Arnold Palmer played in his final U.S. Open that day. The Women's World Cup was in the United States. That was happening at the time. I mentioned the Ranger parade happening in the Canyon to Heroes, the NBA Finals, Griffy home run chase. It was tied 2-2, by the way. All of it was going down. It was unbelievable sport day.

Knicks will go on to win that game, lose the series. Regardless, it was one of the, where were you? I was at home in Maine.

I just finished the eighth grade. A friend of mine who was a Knicks fan was having a sleepover. And we were so excited to watch the finals and then just boom. Like, what is happening right now? TJ? I was in downtown Pittsburgh.

I want to say I was on, walked into a bar on Stanwick Street in downtown Pittsburgh. Me and my roommate, John Krasinski, you know, big New York fan. So he's hyped. The guy from the office? No, that's Sean.

I guess they do have the same. Not him? No, no. John Krasinski out of Long Island, New York. Strong Island where they got him while in? We walk in, look at the TV, like, yo, where's the game at? Because I had just gotten off of work and they're like, yo. Somebody was like, yo, O.J.

's running from the cops. I'll never forget. I'm like, what?

What do you mean? So we watched it there for like an hour, got on the bus. I was living in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, get back to my apartment, turn on the TV, and it's still going on. And we were like, this is unbelievable. And like you said, looking back, right, didn't really have cell phones like we do today for all the kids out there. Didn't have social media. And yet the entire route of this chase, people had found out about it just through the local news.

From TV. They got there, somehow knew the routes he was going. They went like I have a map right here that gives you exactly where he went from the 405 to the 110 to the 5 to the 91. And they got up on bridges. They got on the side of the road with signs. So we had time to like go to like a Home Depot or go home and grab material to make a sign and then rush to the freeway to hold it up. And, you know, nowadays kids have these meetups that they organize to like Instagram and TikTok.

You know what I mean? There was no such thing back then. It's crazy.

How did people know where to go? Also the gravity of the situation where if you're watching the news coverage, I think at one point I legitimately thought he was going to commit suicide. Right. Live on television and we were going to witness this and be bystanders to it. It was insane. And O.J., I don't even know who we could compare to today. He was so famous.

That's a good question, Chris. So incredibly famous. You have no idea how ridiculously insanely popular and well-liked this guy was.

I think, you know, the comp had just hit me. Charles Barkley. Whew.

Wow. Former great player who enjoyed a great career outside of the sport is a pitchman for certain. I mean, I don't think Barkley has as many commercials as O.J. The difference is O.J. was the actor. Right.

O.J. was not only the Hertz pitchman, he not only was the charming, lovable, attractive, handsome, like NBC sportscaster. Right. That did everything. Didn't just do football.

He did the wide, wide, like everything. Right. Everywhere. And he was Nordberg. Yeah. In Naked Gun. He was in all the Naked Gun movies.

He was a comedy actor with Leslie Nielsen. And those, back in the day when people went to the movies. Huge. Those were huge movies.

They weren't just throwaway, like, straight to streaming comedies because there was no streaming. Like, those were a big summer. That was a massive franchise. That's when you could have two, three, four, five movies. Now, they obviously all got worse consecutively. But, like, that was a big deal then.

Let's not forget First and Ten. Remember that show? Exactly. So, I got the route.

Started Robert Kardashian's house, like, up on the 405 or near, like, near Mulholland. No, this is at noon, so people know. Right.

It starts at noon. So, then... But no one knew he was gone. He was supposed to turn himself in that day. Right.

And then didn't show. Then eventually gets all the way down to the 405 into, like, Lagoon and the Gell. Yeah.

Ascension Cemetery. Then turns back around and goes up the 5. Then cuts west on the 91. No, this is between 7 and 730 at this point.

Okay. Then ends up back up the 405 and then back down the 405 and then across on the 10 to down, like, all over Southern California. And yes, it's during Game 5 of the NBA Finals. On a Friday. In Los Angeles. On a Friday. Driving around. On a Friday. There will never... Insane. Before social media.

Like, it's hard to put into words. Now, if this happens today, AC's driving the Bronco, OJ's in the back. He's going on Instagram Live. It is... That's a great point. It's live.

But I also said this earlier. It's on Instagram Live. It's on TikTok. So it is being live streamed. But if this happened now, would this be the biggest moment in, like, live Twitter history?

Yes. You brought that up earlier and you hit the nail on the head. This would be... Because, also, at that point, I don't think people really... You didn't think he was guilty. And I don't think you really... One of you guys mentioned the gravity of the situation, right?

I don't think you're really looking at it like that. I think people would have been having fun on Twitter with this, and then it hits you. And it quickly would have spun the other way.

Yeah. Two people really passed. But you're right. This would have been the biggest thing of all time on Twitter. And it would have been pretty amazing to read someone. And just imagine all the footage that you would have had just from the freeway. Just people on their... Yeah. Yeah. People on their cell phones taping everything.

Which is the world we live in now. Crazy. Yeah.

Scott Hansen is a social media star now. You didn't see that? What? He was at some accent.

He popped up on the scene. That's real? Yeah, it's real. No, I missed that. And someone was stealing a watermelon or something. What? You didn't see this? Is this a Madlib? No, you didn't see this? No, this is a real thing.

That's a Madlib you just did. No. There was a car wreck. There was a car wreck. The car was upside down.

Yeah. And then Scott Hansen showed up because he was filming it. He thought somebody was maybe stealing it, and then the people weren't there. And then there was a watermelon involved, and then the video got out, and then everyone on Twitter was like, was that Scott Hansen?

True story. Syracuse alum, former co-worker Scott Hansen. No, I don't. You didn't see any of this?

I did not see this. I'll fill you in on the break because we need to get to Alan Shipna. Okay. 30 years ago, anyway. Crazy.

Alan Shipna coming up next. Maybe we get some phone calls at the end of the hour, if you remember what you were doing. Yeah, what were you doing?

Okay, what were you doing? One of those people. 1994. No, no. Let's do that.

That's a great one. The phone number is? 844- 844-204-RICH. Let's do it. 844-204-RICH.

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Just go to LinkedIn.com slash direct and get started. You standing with a photograph next to Sly, and we all know, what is the height difference between you and Sylvester Stallone if we were doing a tale of the tape here, Dolph? I don't know, but they put me on an apple box to make me look even taller.

No, they didn't know such things. He wanted that big difference. He wanted all the way up there. Yeah.

Actually, the kid who plays my son now, he's a bit taller than me, so he's going to be a lot taller than Michael B., so it's going to be like a rematch. Okay. Yeah. So what would you say? Just a few inches? You got a few inches on it right now? I don't know.

Maybe four inches. Okay. Mike, why don't you come over here? Would you mind seeing him?

Because we've got our audio executive. Come on over here. Let's just see what would the height discrepancy be here for Mike Del Tufo and Dolph Lundgren. Let's see. Yeah.

What would you tell him? Just like this. I must break you. I'm scared. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. Just scared. I'm out. Well, hold on a minute. Let's just show- You want to measure? No.

No. Show the tail of the tape. Show Mike.

Let's show Mike's training regimen for the rumble in the gundo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Excuse me. Tuesday. $20. Yeah.

All seats are $20. We're splitting this. But he's been training. See, he's walking around. He's focused. You got the beef coming up to hit the beef?

Well, he's got the rocky fingerless gloves, too. Oh, yeah. No, this was a great video. Okay. We got it all. Oh, wow. You gave him a shot.

What do you think, Dolph? Not bad. It's a good beginning.

In a couple of years, you'll be good. There's no end to it. That's good, man.

Rubble in the gundo. For those watching on the TV side, we just showed video of Del Tufo and Brockman sparring back in the day. I had never seen that video before.

Like, I don't even know why we do. I mean, that is fantastic video. All of Del Tufo's fake Instagram followers liked that video.

That was fantastic. You got 450 likes? I'm sorry. Huh? I'm sorry. I'm not mad. I'm impressed.

They're not fake Instagram followers. Sure. Wink, wink.

Maybe not. We really did a deep dive onto this, Andrew. But I told Rich, you were the first person to really bring it up on air one of the times.

I didn't know it was taboo. Oh, well, we broke it down since. You were like the first one who was like, wait a second.

What's going on here? By the way, I'm Andrew Siciliano on Instagram. No spaces. No dots. I'm Andrew.Siciliano on Twitter, by the way.

I'm sorry. Not on Twitter. On the TikTok. Andrew.Siciliano on the TikTok. Well, we can see Andrew walking and talking.

Up 2,000 followers in the last week. Anyway, this is The Rich Eisen Show. I am Andrew. Alan Shipnuck from MyGolfSpy.com right around the corner. This is The Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger. With supplies and solutions for every industry, Grainger is the right product for you.

Call or click Grainger.com or just stop by. Bryson DeChambeau's victory yesterday. Was it as big as Team Crusher's victory on the live tour last year? Was it? Did they win the overall title? I missed it. I believe they did. The Crushers.

The Crushers. Joking aside, Alan Shipnuck has another amazing piece post-US Open on MyGolfSpy.com, and he joins us now on The Rich Eisen Show. How are you, sir? I'm happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

Oh, that is a great car shot, Alan. Where are you? Fill us in. I'm somewhere between Pinehurst and the Charlotte Airport. There's not as much Wi-Fi out here as I expected, so that was my car. Wow.

I'm sorry, we'll get you to the airport in those comfortable rocking chairs as fast as humanly possible. I'm reading your column here. If those haven't read it again, it's MyGolfSpy.com. And this one line, Brockman and I were just talking here, stands out that you say he might be the most dominant force. Now Bryson DeChambeau, its biggest name and its most dominant force in golf. That's a lot.

That's a lot. I don't think there's any doubt he's the biggest star. I mean, Scottie Scheffler has been on a tremendous run, and winning the Masters is a huge deal.

But he's just kind of a nice, sweet guy. The only interesting thing that's ever happened to Scottie Scheffler is he got into a kerfuffle with the law, now exonerated, but he doesn't really give you much on the golf course other than spectacular golf. I mean, Bryson, he's box office, he's pure entertainment, he has that star quality. He's a ham, he's a social media influencer, he plays a game in a completely unique way.

Chicks dig the long ball, all that stuff. Scottie Scheffler right now might be slightly better than Bryson, but I don't think there's any doubt that Bryson is the biggest star in the game. And because the live players and the tour players only come together at the majors, that's all we have to go on, and Bryson has beat Scottie two times out of three this year.

Small sample size. We'll see what happens at the Open. But Bryson can overwhelm a golf course in a way that Scottie cannot. And if you put Bryson on the average PGA Tour setup, he would be winning a lot of tournaments with the golf he's playing right now.

So we need a little more time horizon before we can render a verdict on which one of those guys is the most dominant force in golf, but who's the biggest star? That's done and dusted. That was settled at Pinehurst, and it's definitely Bryson. And it completes, as you wrote as well. And by the way, I love how I said I love the line, and then I couldn't find it on my screen. The line was, so now the golf world must reckon with the fact that DeChambeau is its biggest star and potentially most dominant force.

And then you write later about the redemptive arc. Your words again here of DeChambeau's career the last couple of years. Did you think, Alan, that we would see this arc? Did you think that this was where it was going, where he's gone YouTube and influencer and ultimate bro to just lovable, I mean, lovable, huggable, likable, sensitive, talking about his dad, guy that we saw yesterday there with Mike Tirico on Father's Day?

I'm not sure anybody saw this coming. I mean, it was predictable because in that Bryson had no friends on the PGA Tour. And when he went to live golf, he all of a sudden had this, you know, all those guys had that siege mentality in the beginning and they became intensely bonded. And then he had his own team where the guys on the team had to hang out with him.

They had to be his friend whether they wanted to or not. And it's really the first time in his golfing life that Bryson has had a support system. And, you know, before his father died, I wrote a big story on Bryson going way back to 2015. And one thing that his father told me is like, Bryson could never play team sports. Like, he was just too intense for other kids and he just couldn't understand why they didn't give maximum effort at all times. And that's what attracted him to golf in the first place. And so finally, this lone wolf has kind of found his pack, if you will. And it's been part of this shift and he's like kind of these wise older veterans who have taught him a lot about the game, but more importantly, a lot about life. I asked one of his teammates who wish to remain anonymous, I said, what have you taught Bryson?

And he said, don't try and find a girlfriend on Instagram, but, you know, words to live by. Oh yeah, 100 percent. I just don't know if it's good advice.

I don't doubt they gave it. I'm just debating whether or not it's good advice. That's all. Forget it. I cut you off.

It depends what kind of girl you're looking for, I think. So yeah, it's so in this support system, he's really blossomed and he's coming to his own as a golfer. And then the embrace of YouTube, as cheesy as it sounds like, it's turned him into a player. Like he is. He has realized that, you know, in a way that like a Patrick Catlett never will. The guy looks like he's constipated at all times. Like nobody wants Patrick Catlett to ever win because it's such a downer, whereas Bryson gives so much to the fans and he understands that professional sports does not exist without the fans.

They're the reason for the whole thing. And so he's he's found a way to I mean, he shamelessly plays to them, but then he takes all the energy and he kind of refines it into this fuel that that is that has helped propel him onto these great performances. So you take the style of play, in fact, he's a great looking guy.

He's got this exuberant personality and he's really embraced this role and he's just he's turned into must watch TV. Talking to Alan Shipnick here from MyGolfSpy.com on his way to the Charlotte Airport to fly home from Pinehurst after Bryson DeChambeau won. And I hate to phrase it this way, Rory McIlroy lost. He didn't just come in second. He lost with blowing those two putts there down the stretch after catching fire. And after birdies on three out of four holes, Alan, the look on his face when he exited, when it when he saw DeChambeau drop the putt on 18, the way he left, it was painful.

And and it leaves me waking up this morning asking if he will ever win one of these things again. That's why tournament golf is such compelling theater, because you are all alone out there on that stage. You can't hide behind your teammates. And when it starts going bad, it happens in slow motion. You know, it's a lot of time in between shots and you can feel this energy building. And you know, Rory played beautiful golf for 14 holes. I mean, he was the hottest player on the golf course. He was two shots clear the field. He just he had total command of his game.

He's driving it beautifully. The big question with Rory, these majors, his putters let him down so many times on Sunday. And he was walking in 20 footers like it was a practice round.

I mean, it was it just felt like this was the moment it was finally happening. Bryson couldn't hit a fairway and was just scuffling with a golf course the whole time. And then to see to see Rory just get the yips like that, it was so jarring. And also, you know, the rest of his game let him down, too. I mean, he's got a seven iron there on 16. That's a par three balls on a tee and he can't hit the green.

That wasn't an easy flag to get it close to, but you have to hit the green. You know, 18 and when he snipes it into, you know, this is the generational best driver of the golf ball we've ever seen snipes it off of 18 fairway and leaves himself in full scramble mode. Like he just his entire game as soon as he got the lead, everything everything flipped. He just started playing tight. And again, you always felt like Bryson was playing to win and all of a sudden looked like Roy was playing not to lose.

And he just he just got defensive and tentative. And obviously that was manifested in his putting stroke. You know, the putt on the last hole, the downhill left to right slider on a super fast green.

Nobody wants that, but he kind of tried to baby it in if he was worried about the comeback or the comeback. Or does it matter as Bryson showed when you made that part, you have got to make the first putt Rory should have jammed it in the hole and just that. And of course, the one that he missed on 60, you know, that was that was an easy straight putt. He just dead pulled it. It was just a nervous fast stroke. So it was hard to watch.

It really was. And it's definitely fair to question how Rory is going to recover from this. The only glimmer of hope if you're a McElroy fan is that prior to this, the worst loss he'd ever suffered was 2011 Masters and we had a four shot lead on Sunday and he completely came undone and, you know, was in the cabin. That famous shot on the tenth hole shot 80 and the very next major the US Open, he came back and he won by eight strokes and he found something inside of himself to bounce back. It's going to take that it's going to take that kind of soul searching and that kind of tenacity and mental toughness. But it's a lot easier when you're a young phenom without so much scar tissue. I mean, everything we've always been through on off the golf course since then, it just seems like his nerve endings are a little fried and it's unfathomable that he's never going to win another major championship again through this this prime when he's winning everything else.

But that's where we are. It's it's it was a brutal loss and how he recovers is going to be fascinating. Alan, you were there. How was it viewed when he left?

A little churlish, a little immature. I mean, and but also to me it was a lost opportunity for Rory because there have been plenty of gutting losses on the golf course. You think about Greg Norman at Augusta in 96. You think about Phil at Wingfoot. You know, Tom Watson.

You can go down the list. These guys stood up and they faced the music and in their conversations after the tournament with reporters, the humanity poured out and they became much more sympathetic characters and the pain they were feeling and you know, the golf world kind of grieved along with them for Rory just to peel out and jilt essentially the fans because you know, reporters, we don't matter other than we're the voice of the fans. We get to ask the questions that the fans want the answer to.

You know, we're just their Confederates and you know, fans were kind of denied some closure. They wanted to hear about Rory, what happened, what he was feeling and so it was it just was a mistake on a lot of levels. I mean, Rory has banked a lot of goodwill through the years. This is not going to curdle his relationship necessarily with the press or with golf fans, but I think it is just it's going to follow him more and he could have gotten up there and not said a word and just burst into tears and the whole world would have wanted to hug him, you know, and now he's just going to prolong this agony. He's still gonna have to face the music eventually. So I think it was a tactical mistake, but clearly it's reflective of how much pain he was feeling and you know, I'm sure golf fans have know he's been through this thing with his wife where he filed for divorce and they got back together and the emotional weight of that. I certainly understand him not wanting to talk and not answer questions like that's a human reaction, but you know, he's paid 80 million dollars a year to be a spokesman for golf and to be it's one of its biggest stars and that it's not just when you win. It's also when you lose it.

People want to hear from you. Yeah. Do you think he plays this week? I would be amazed if he did. I mean, I don't know how he gets he gets out of bed and looking forward to the grind of tournament preparation and you know, he shut it down at various times of the past citing mental health breaks that he needed. How does he motivate himself for Hartford? Other than maybe he does want to put this behind him and he wants to make some birdies and he wants to make some three-footers and he just wants to try and put this in the rear-view mirror and not let it linger longer. But I mean, I'm personally exhausted just from watching the last round yesterday.

Same. I don't know how Rory gets out of bed and does it again so soon, but it'll be we'll see there is and I said this this morning at look at obviously card-carrying member of the media. I would want the guy to speak and as you said, we're doing the job with a conduit here. We're here to ask the questions that the fans would love to hear answered.

There was a part of me yesterday watching him with NBC's great camera work and obviously he's watching Bryson on 18 part of me that gets it part of me is like Matt. I like this is the one time where I feel for you. I get it if you want to leave but it is I agree with you part of the job Alan Shipmunk everyone read him my golf spy.com and enjoy the rocking chair when you get through security. We thank you Alan as always sir. All right.

Thanks for having me. Who finishes their career with more major victories Bryson or Rory? Bryson has two car he's got to worry is for okay.

That's a great question. I'm going to say Rory. He's still young enough. And I do think he's going to win again. I think he's going to win multiples.

I do. I think he still has of course. He still has it. Oh, he has it.

I mean, he's as good as anyone best case scenario. He has seven right now. He wins at the British Open two years ago. He wins the last two U.S. Opens in the game last year here in LA, you know, the if you look at a guy 10 years ago Rory's last victory. He's the only player from 10 years ago still in the top 10.

He's still playing phenomenal golf as we just saw. It's just funny. It's, you know, interesting to think about sports talk radio question. Sure.

I'll go with Rory. I still have faith. I do. I do too. But watching yesterday man, that's the like you said earlier, that's the mental part of the game.

Missing three footers. That's mental. It's it's like watching somebody clank free throws down the stretch.

It's it's like watching. It's hard to draw this comparison, but like Chuck Knoblauch being unable to throw to first base. And I realize an average four three put out in a July baseball game can't be compared to a putt on 18 at the U.S. Open. I understand that.

One is far easier than the other. But when somebody is so good and a machine. I mean, there are times where you think Rory is a Rory rather went to speech therapy as a kid. True story.

Couldn't pronounce my R's. You think he's a cyborg. There are times where like you think you're watching the Terminator and then he misses the putts with with his best golf. Five minutes previous.

It's painful to watch and it makes you wonder how you get over it. Yeah. Like you said, it's much different than last year. So much different.

They talk about superpowers. Rory's superpower is driving the ball. We've never seen anyone drive the ball like him. Three fifty striped it and eighteen. He pulls it left and gives himself a horrible shot behind that wire grass heading in. And like Alan said, he's got to scramble and leaves himself a four footer on the side.

Big bender left to right. You know, you got to get a stripe that man, it's 18 on U.S. Open Sunday. You can win this thing. It's tough coming up to take some of your phone calls, eight four four two oh four rich eight four four two oh four rich.

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destination wedding we should not give a present because my presence is my present what do you say Larry first of all where is the wedding how far is it another country okay you don't even go you don't go you don't go but it's a close up family friend I don't care I am not flying fourteen hours on a plane yes to somebody's wedding I'm not going to do that what the distance from your house that you an hour and a half by car that's it here's social situation number two for you Larry sure so you're going into somebody's house for let's say the fight the Mayweather McGregor fight this happened to one of our producers okay they brought desserts fight ends nobody's touched the desserts they like these desserts is it okay to take the desserts home it still is a perishable you're bringing it to the host right that's true the host saw it it's different the host and see then you can sneak out so if the host never saw it on the table and there's no note yeah that's when you could take it if you think if you think you're not going to get caught yeah and you could take it last one for you Larry LD shoes off on a plane do you have a problem with somebody on a plane I have a big problem with it yeah yeah keep them on okay you know don't make yourself it's not your house all right you're outside you're in public I don't want to say I don't want to see your socks and God forbid you have a little odor down there who needs that right and I don't even want to know if you do have it exactly it's close quarters come on take a couple of minutes keep your shoes on it is a rich eisen show riches back tomorrow hi my name is Andrew hi can I tell you about Weber sear wood pellet grill man cuz we all made some good food okay I'm hungry right now fill the grill fire fire up the party kids get the Weber sear wood pellet grill smoke roast and sear on the same grill go from low and slow on smoke boost mode at 180 degrees all the way to high heat sear at 600 degrees it's got a full great sear zone 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and imagine the reaction in New York when the Knicks are trying to win a championship for the first time in 20 years still by the way have not since and they took the Knicks off TV in the finals and you can't find it elsewhere there is no streaming there is no other fallback option they simply took the NBA finals off the air I'll be a briefly eventually put it in the offset but they took it off the air Dorsey is in Park City Dorsey you're on the 405 I worked briefly for a record company in Southern California it was my last two weeks of work there and I was sent down to Orange County this is the weird part of the story too to pick up a possible CD from a band that they had self produced that we were going to check out so I got down there I bought the CD and I was driving north and I was listening to the CD and I had absolutely no idea what was going on people are stopped everywhere the traffic keeps stopping there's people on the highway with signs but I was driving the other way so I didn't know what they were looking at and you know those big walls so I couldn't tell what the hell was going on and but I'm listening to the CD and I'm thinking well this is crazy I've never seen anything like this but it's LA and I've lived here for a year and it's always crazy and it's always stupid driving on the highway so I didn't think anything of it and I get home and I find out what's going on and I can't believe what's going on but here's the you want to hear the the the kicker to the story please the band that I was listening to which the record guy that I worked for didn't sign was sublime what oh yeah I do we didn't we as a group didn't want them very much but that was who I was picking up from Orange County on the day that I was driving and the story is when you watch some of the footage from the helicopters you can see my tan 77 Volvo because it's the only car on the highway with ski racks on it whoa hold on was it uh Dorsey was it was it stick was a four on the floor oh my god yes 77 Volvo dude I drove that I went to Florida State I drove that thing across country three times so in high school I had an 80 Volvo four on the floor white one fantastic learned to drive stick on it miss it miss it to this day miss it to this day Dorsey we appreciate your call man that was wild sublime I just wonder like I was going to ask Dorsey like when did he realize they made a mistake not signing sublime like like which which massive hit they had was it like yeah 16 bars into what I got and they're like right like oh gosh this is gonna be bad for us wow I don't practice okay we can't do that we're gonna get Sean Mitchell's at home curse wow all right quick tell your celeb story because oh yeah this morning before the show let's get this out of the way real quick so I was at last Sunday here in LA in Santa Monica there is a big food fest every year called eats con Santa Monica Airport the Barker hangar anyone who's been there it's a big weekend food fest fun times so I'm there with my buddy Greg and beautiful Sunday afternoon having a beer eating some tacos and Pad Thai a whole bunch of different food and he goes I am 95% sure that is Mike D of the Beastie Boys over there oh Mike D that's me come on it gets I'm Mike D at the deuces Wow exactly what's the girlies numbers are they definitely someone who would blend into a crowd you really have to be a fan to notice is there with I believe his wife right and and maybe there's one other person that was walking around with them like maybe maybe like a guide from the I'm not sure but nobody recognized him he's a dude eating a taco and I'm like do I go say something like I look I grew up in the 80s and early 90s like the Beastie Boys yeah like that it like it's uh-huh yeah you get it right totally like it it's like Willie Mays just walked in okay Willie Mays just walked in the room and I'm Mike D and I get respect so your jewelry is what I do I go say something and Craig's I don't know I'm on you but you 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