Ryan Fox Wins The Open, Baby Vino Stuns in the Haskell & World Cup 2026 Wrap-Up

Nick (02:34.436)
Let's do it.

We back. It's the height differential. That's the six six nil. I'm the four ten. Nick, we both got hat backwards. I don't think it's I don't think we've both had hat backwards in a in a long time. But we got

Neil (02:48.106)
It's been a while. Yeah. I mean the hair the hair's getting a little too long up top. Gotta go see our girl Tammy this week. Try to get that chopped off.

Nick (02:53.52)
So I saw Tammy today and she said, Where where's your boy Neil? I haven't seen him in a while.

Neil (03:00.792)
So I'm gonna text her tomorrow.

Nick (03:02.132)
Is it been a bit? I'm leaving tomorrow to go to Chicago for work. Texted her today. I was Hey, can I get a cut? She's like, I'm not working. But come over to the spot. I was like, I'm not coming over to the spot. I'll just wait. I'm good. And then she pretty much made me come over to the spot. did not get eaten by the dogs over. But we got we got

Neil (03:22.254)
That's good. I mean it's good. I mean, yeah, when you when you go into a new city, you know, you go on a little trip, it's good to get a fresh cut, you know, in case you r run into some some ladies. Some ladies that you don't know. Yeah, look fresh.

Nick (03:30.705)
Well I and I will read you her text to me as I tried to tell her no. she says, No, sir, you have to find me a sister in law on this trip. So she wanted me to look fresh. And she had to go back to the damn store to get her clippers. And I was like, No, you are not doing that. Absolutely not. And I said, Don't make a trip. Friday is fine. She says too late.

Neil (03:48.142)
Mm-hmm.

Nick (04:00.017)
I'm running and and getting my stuff. You gotta look good on this trip. So I got a lot of pressure. I got a lot of pressure.

Neil (04:03.736)
Do got like it this trip.

Neil (04:08.406)
You gonna be joining like the the the Chicago Bumbles or Tenders, like the local the local dating apps on there, see if you match up somebody?

Nick (04:15.558)
Well, I think I have to and like just just because. Like she made that extra twenty five minute drive.

Neil (04:23.256)
Bro, how you gonna get a fresh cut and then cover it up with a hat though?

Nick (04:26.586)
I just I had it on. I had it on. But yeah. But yeah, I'm kind of excited to go to Chicago. Hoping to go to a Cubs game while there. But we got we got plenty to talk about. The Haskell Stakes on Saturday. Ryan Fox comes out of nowhere on the weekend, wins the open, and it was a loaded, loaded leaderboard on Saturday and he comes out on top. The World Cup is over.

Neil (04:31.927)
Okay.

Nick (04:55.492)
I think we're all sad about that. But I I think we'll start by just kind of talking about this TBT game that we both watched. Kentucky took the first game. It was on Saturday. Was up big. Louisville rallied back. Kind of made a game of it late, but couldn't couldn't pull out the win. And then tonight, Louisville just Montrez and this dude, Alex Matthews from E Town, just absolutely put on him. But they ended up winning by twenty, but it wasn't even that close.

Neil (04:57.315)
Yeah.

Neil (05:07.522)
Yeah.

Neil (05:12.12)
Yeah, they they tied it. Yeah.

Neil (05:25.77)
No, no. I mean it's it's it's always fun when T B T rolls around the summertime, you know, it's kind of a lull in the sports calendar. usually we don't have the World Cup to fall back on, but right as the World Cup's ending, you know, it's just basically all baseball and when you can get some some basketball, summertime basketball college hoops and some of your, you know, legends of some of these programs coming back, like the Montrez Harrels and the Russ Smiths for Louisville and you know, like the Willie Collie Steins Kentucky. It's always fun to see those guys back. I like the best of three format, you know.

Especially in a rivalry like this, and and you know, after Saturday when the what do they call themselves? La Familia got the victory and forty-nine of their teams or forty-two of their team's points were scored by non-Kentucky guys. It was kind of like, this is really a Kentucky team. But then we see Alex Matthews, a non-Louable player, sounds like a boy meets world character, come out of nowhere today. Comes out of nowhere, went to where where where did he go to school, Nick?

Nick (06:16.314)
Yeah, a hundred percent, hundred percent.

Nick (06:21.36)
He went to John Harden in Etown. And af after that, he went to Evansville out out of high school, played there for one year, saw action in six games, then transferred to Gulf Coast State. Was there just one year, played 27 games, started 25, averaged 16 points, and then for his junior and senior season, he transferred to UT UTPB.

Neil (06:24.174)
Yeah up in high school, okay.

Neil (06:47.456)
U T P B.

Nick (06:48.39)
Do you do you remember what it is? Because I told you what it was before we went on air. I kind of figured you did. It is University of Texas Permian Basin. And they compete at the D2 level in the Lone Star Conference. but that he was he was second team all Lone Star co conference, his his senior year and third team his his junior year. It's playing overseas somewhere,

Neil (06:51.98)
I've already forgotten. Yep.

Neil (07:15.299)
But yeah.

Nick (07:18.822)
But young dude added to the team and never heard of him. I'm texting Josh, our guy that's from Etown, didn't even know didn't know who he was. So no, but he's making a name of himself on national T V right now.

Neil (07:28.886)
No, but he he shows up out of nowhere and j yeah, he just showed up out of nowhere tonight and absolutely balled out. With a posterizing dunk, a posterizing block, throwing alley oops, hitting threes, like this dude looked like he played a Duke or Carolina compared to U T PB, but so no. He's an honorary Louisville Cardinal, I guess, for the for the for the tournament. So we're we're glad to have him.

Nick (07:49.325)
He is now.

Nick (07:53.424)
I mean look, this dude has never played on the national stage and is getting an opportunity to play games on on Fox or Fox Sports One and showing out. Showing out. And dude, that one breakaway dunk where then Trez just goes crazy and jumps on the table. The whole crowd's going nuts. You said they took out the radio feed.

Neil (08:03.906)
Yeah.

Neil (08:12.6)
Took out the radio feed. How about Trez? So you play in game one on was that Saturday?

Then you fly out to do your your big three, the you know, the three on three professional league with Ice Cube. You set a big three record in points, scoring forty-two points in a game, which surpassed was it what's that Briscoe? Isaiah Briscoe from Kentucky, who used to have that record. So you set a big three scoring record yesterday, fly back to the ville, and you put up over thirty points today in TBT. So Trez Trez is on a heater right now.

Nick (08:44.444)
I mean, let's also remember this dude had a pretty good NBA career.

Neil (08:47.426)
No, he did. He did. He's also old now.

Nick (08:50.096)
Yeah, but I mean, he he had a really good NBA career. And what's it been five years since he's played in league? Probably around there?

Neil (08:56.28)
Yeah, I mean he was he he was the sixth man of the year. He won the sixth man of the year in the NBA. You know, he he was around with with the Clippers and got a cup of coffee, I think, with the Lakers. He was wasn't he a Hornet or something maybe for a little while. I don't know. Hawk, I think he was a hawk for a while. I don't know. He was around.

Nick (09:08.772)
I don't know where it was w at the end of his career.

Nick (09:14.608)
But the dude deserves a rest after the last couple of days of hooping. And and now they play Wednesday night at six o'clock at Memorial. They were talking about how there weren't a ton of Louisville fans at Memorial on Saturday. I would I would say there's probably gonna be a little bit more there on on Wednesday night.

Neil (09:22.782)
Wednesday night.

Neil (09:34.135)
Yeah, I would think so.

Nick (09:35.984)
But like like it's fun to just like you said, it's fun to just have a little bit of basketball during the season. I think the new format is it's smart because in the past couple of years they've been in the same bracket but they had to win to play each other. And I mean, obviously you want those games for both T V and for attendance. So just it's really just a common sense decision by the by the TBT to do that.

Neil (09:49.206)
Yeah.

Neil (09:55.822)
Yeah.

Neil (10:02.018)
Yeah, no doubt.

Nick (10:03.695)
But big game on Wednesday night. Fun to watch a little hoops in July. I guess we'll start with with the the British.

Neil (10:13.676)
Okay.

Nick (10:15.557)
Unless you wanna start with the horse racing. But you you can call it.

Neil (10:18.454)
No, we we we go the British. We go the what they call the open. The open championship.

Nick (10:22.885)
They c they they do call it the open. it's it's just I don't know. It's hard to get out of the habit of calling it the British Open. I've always called it the British Open until like the last however many so years. But Brian Fox puts up a sixty two. There were three sixty twos this week at at Royal Burkdow. Hi his his odds at the beginning of the tournament I think were like plus one fifty. He did not have a good Thursday, and by that point I think he was

Like plus five hundred. Like it was his number was wild. But then he puts up a sixty-two to get in it. And then Sunday you've got a loaded leaderboard with with Siwoo's up there. Sam Burns is up there. Scotty's up there. Fox Burger. Like Gerard, not Burger. Gerard's up there. and then Byrne gets those three bogeys in a row early. Siwoo struggles a little bit. And

Neil (11:05.314)
Scotty. Cave on.

Came young.

Nick (11:19.119)
Really the stage is set for somebody else to make a move. Burns made those three bogeys, but really kinda hung in there. And even Fox didn't have a great front nine. But then he birdies three holes in a three out of four holes. What, thirteen, fourteen, and sixteen? To really to make a move. And look, the my thing with with Fox was on fifteen, he gets that bad break where it just doesn't clear the bunker. Misses it by maybe a foot.

Neil (11:34.74)
Sixteen. Yep.

Neil (11:47.17)
Mm-hmm.

Nick (11:49.088)
And and he gets wedged where he's gotta go backwards. But he figures out a way to get a bogey and didn't complain about it, just took care of his business, got that bogey on the card, and that really set him up for what happened on seventeen and eighteen.

Neil (12:04.044)
Yeah. No, and i in like you mentioned, like going into s to that back nine, you know, birdie in three of the four, they escape on fifteen with the bogey, and then even on seventeen, the par five, when he's tie, so he ties it up on sixteen at nine under, goes into seventeen, hits and dart into seventeen, misses a pretty short putt, and that's when you're kinda like, if he's gonna miss those, then you know, maybe it's not his day.

On 18, one of the hardest par fours on the course, I think it was only three birdies in the total round on Sunday or something like that. five. Okay, five, five birdies on Sunday, pipes the drive, and then from 176 yards out, what's a dart within what, about 10 feet? Yeah, and then doesn't waste any time, just goes up and just calmly drills it, left edge of the cup, rolls in.

Nick (12:43.323)
It was eleven. Yeah, right there, yeah. It

Neil (12:53.194)
I mean, when the pressure was was was at its at its greatest, I mean he was hitting darts.

Nick (12:58.031)
Well, it you know, I talked about the bad break on fifteen. He also got a bad break on seventeen, where he took iron off the tee, that thing rolled eighty yards into a bunker. And which kind of like seventeen was that's a birdieable hull. So and you when you need a birdie to tie the lead, and then you get a ten footer for birdie, and then you miss it. So now you need a birdie on eighteen, which you said at that point had had on only had four birdies.

Neil (13:06.03)
Right into the bunker, yeah.

Neil (13:11.638)
It is a burable hole.

Nick (13:26.811)
on the day for the week it had like there were twenty-seven birdies the whole week on that hole. It was played as the hardest hole in the course. And he talked about how his mindset after missing that putt on 17 was was different, obviously, because now you gotta go attack the hull. And dude, he stripes at 330 right down the middle, sky skirts by the the bunker.

Neil (13:37.592)
Yeah.

Neil (13:47.31)
Mm-hmm.

Nick (13:54.836)
And he felt so good about that next shot because it was a perfect nine iron. And he puts it to 11 feet. Two perfect shots. Two absolutely perfect shots. But then you had just missed that 10-footer on the hole before. And Burns finishes, misses his. And 22 seconds later, dude's up here swinging. And figures out a way to find it. Said he couldn't feel his hands. Doesn't know how he did it.

Neil (14:05.678)
Mm-hmm.

Neil (14:15.97)
Yeah, what's not?

Neil (14:21.271)
Ha ha ha.

Nick (14:21.615)
But figured out a way to go it in. It just slid in that left side.

Neil (14:25.014)
I mean, it was right I mean off the club I didn't think it was gonna get there or was gonna was gonna catch that edge, but it it did. It was right there. Perfect spot.

Nick (14:32.549)
Well and here's the thing too, like you talk about the twenty two seconds before he he hits his putt eighteen. Like they're waiting on eighteen because they had to wait to tee off. His ball was teed up the whole entire time. Just te it's just sitting there on a tee. Like you don't see that very often. It's just he's ready to go. I mean, he's a grip it and rip it golfer, which I love.

Neil (14:46.499)
Yeah.

I did I did notice that. I did notice that. Yeah.

Neil (14:56.098)
Well you you heard him did you hear his comments afterward about w what Scotty had told him when they played with each other at the waste management? And they had to play threes when they were playing threes and Scotty was like, It feels like we're playing twos, like you're not even a part of the group 'cause the man is just s gripping and ripping, like you said, like just not wasting any time. That's my kind of player. That's the kind of guy you want to play with.

Nick (15:02.607)
Yeah, but you

Nick (15:07.035)
All right.

Nick (15:13.893)
Yeah, but thirty nine years old. Thir a hundred percent. Hundred percent. And thirty-nine years old, first time major winner, third ever player from New Zealand to to win a major major tournament. his dad was a was a rug was a rugby player for the all blacks. His his grandpa was a cricket so a cricket player. So a lot of athletes in the family. Like he kind of looks like a rugby player, doesn't he?

Like just kinda how stocky he is.

Neil (15:42.508)
He's he's built. Yeah, he's a he's a yeah. He's a brick.

Nick (15:46.458)
But he had just moved like they had just moved their family to Jupiter a couple I think within the last year or two. And I think that's helped with his, you know, just kinda adjusting and playing more and being around PGA players more often. But dude, just a really cool story. Like it would have been fun to see a playoff. W after Cam Young had been waiting for f what was almost two or three hours.

Neil (15:56.483)
Yeah.

Neil (16:05.644)
Yeah.

Two and a half. It was over two and a half hours since he had finished. Yeah. You wait around and then to have that happen.

Nick (16:12.165)
put up a sixty four and just you don't think that ten's gonna hold or that nine's gonna hold. And I mean heck it looked like it was gonna happen until that last hole.

Neil (16:20.802)
I mean w if you're yeah, I'm saying like you're Cam Young and you see Fox miss that putt on seventeen, like in your mind it's go time. Like you're thinking w this is this is happening. Like it's go time. We're going to extra holes. It

Nick (16:26.359)
yeah.

Nick (16:32.165)
Well, at that point you think it maybe you can win this in regulation. Because that hole was it was scoring over par the whole tournament. And like I mean, there was only four birdies before that the whole day. I know Tommy had Tommy had one a couple of groups ahead of him. I I don't know who else birdied it that day, but it just w was a really tough hole. And like I

Neil (16:35.49)
That's true, this bogey ball, yeah.

Neil (16:40.632)
Yeah.

Nick (16:56.813)
I got up and watched Ricky who teed off at four o'clock. I watched his backdine starting at seven o'clock in the morning. And he played really well. And got to where he was four under at twelfth. And then, dude, just made a absolute mess of eighteen. Found that found the greenside bunker. Barely like the way that he had to stand to get it out of there, like your foot's halfway in, it's halfway out. He barely gets it out and then he makes a thirty footer save bogey. But it was just

Neil (17:24.61)
I mean, what was the cut? Was the the cut was what, one over? So Fox made the cut. He was even par after two rounds. He made the cut by one shot. And then just fires that sixty two, sixty eight, goes ten under on the like last two days. That's incredible.

Nick (17:27.77)
Yeah.

Nick (17:38.0)
Yeah, it's it's one of the best two day finishes to ever win. if Cam Young would've won, he would've came farther back like as far back as anybody with with his sixty four. but and dude Scotty, once again, a a top five finish. I mean, he just he he just don't win it.

Neil (17:50.392)
Yeah.

Neil (17:57.944)
He's not winning though. He I mean he's consistent. I mean he's just not he's not getting over the hump like he used to.

Nick (18:04.185)
But dude still leads in FedEx Cup points. He has four seconds in 16 events, two thirds, ten, ten top fives out of sixteen events, and fifteen top twenty-fives. The only one that wasn't a top twenty-five was his miscut last week at at the Scottish. I mean, yeah, he's not winning, but he just didn't putt. He just didn't putt. He couldn't make putts.

Neil (18:27.106)
He's he now. Yeah.

Nick (18:32.031)
I think we need to talk about Bryson a little bit on on Friday at at the fifth hole. Just I guess my first question if it's not Bryson,

Neil (18:36.673)
you have to. Yeah, you have to. Yeah.

Nick (18:45.317)
Do they do the same thing? Do they still do the two stroke penalty? Because I think there's a lot of people that think maybe they don't.

Neil (18:48.812)
Yeah, they do. I they do. I at first glance when when you saw it, it was like it didn't look that egregious. It doesn't look like anything that like anybody else wouldn't do. You know, you you you walk back behind your ball, line your shot up, and you know, you you you did knock some grass down, but it didn't look like it was like it didn't improve the lie of the ball, but I guess it did give him a little extra room on his backswing, which allowed him I guess to

To hit the ball kinda like he wanted to. So in the end, it's a two-stroke penalty. Correct. I guess it's borderline, but I'm fine with it. But then, of course, as you mentioned, it's Bryson. So of course it's gonna get extra attention because it is Bryson, a live golfer that abandoned the PGA tour that nobody really liked to begin with. Then he, you know, he won that US Open. He's won a couple, you know, majors, and I think fans have come around on him a little bit.

but then he you know, he throws the antics of I'm basically gonna I'm threatening to take my ball and clubs and go home and I'm not gonna play the rest of the tournament. So then he just comes off looking like a giant baby. So it's it's Bryson being Bryson. You know, Rory had his comments afterward and made it known that he's not a fan of Bryson and and there's some other golfers out there that I feel are the same way. You know, they feel the same way about Bryson. But because it was Bryson, it was a bigger story. But I do think that any other golfer was gonna get the penalty there.

Nick (20:12.685)
And with the Vori comments, like we've said we've talked about sometimes the Vori's been kind of annoying sometimes this year with the sayings that he said. I love that he said that about Bryson. And I I'm not saying that I agree one way or the other, but I just love that he just said how he feels. He didn't hide behind it. He's just like, dude, I'm not a fan of him. I'm not gonna defend him. He made us wait around, wait to see when our tea times were gonna be. I just to like even if you didn't do it on purpose.

Neil (20:25.005)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nick (20:43.097)
Which maybe he didn't. Maybe it was inadvertent.

Neil (20:45.454)
yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

Nick (20:48.005)
But z you st it's there's still a rule in golf that you can't improve your backswing. And that's what that's what he was doing. Like what what he did by trampling he was able to get his backswing, you know, to get through. Smiley Kaufman did a a full segment on the golf channel where he went through what the shot would have looked like if he didn't trample it down behind him and what it looked like with it. And it just it changed the direct trajectory of the shot completely. So quit crying, dude. Just it

And you've brought this all on yourself too, if you think they're singling you out. You've brought this all on yourself. but then we get on the other side with Scotty on the 17th on Sunday, where his second shot, it's a hundred yards left over the grandstand. Where it would have been, it's off like off the course. Like the commentators talk, this is as far left as I've ever seen a shot.

Neil (21:20.118)
Right. Correct.

Neil (21:44.514)
Well he hit a didn't he hit a provisional?

Nick (21:46.65)
He did, but then he gets free relief because they don't find the ball. And that is a temporary immovable object where you get a free drop because it is a grandstand. And like there's people in the in those in the grandstand looking for the ball. And Scotty's basically like, no, don't find it. I don't want to know where it is. Because I I want to envision where it went in on my eyesight so I don't have to worry about where the ball is. And then he can drop.

And he ends up dropping, puts it to 11 feet, and gets a birdie. So, I mean, that is taking advantage of the rules. And he he admitted that you know he hates doing it, but it is the rules. There are those grandstands. And I will say this being at the ISCO last week on the 18th hole, the pin was in the back of the green the entire day. There's app there was absolutely zero reason to leave that ball short. Because

You can fly it 100 yards over that grandstand and you're gonna get a free drop right in front of a pin. So, so that's what this kind of reminded me of. Like I was thinking this all week. And there were a couple balls that did go in there. thinking that the whole time. And then this comes into play. And I mean, one's a two-stroke penalty, one's a no-stroke, and you end up getting a bird dog.

Neil (22:50.498)
You're gonna try yeah, let me say you're gonna drop it right in front of the yeah. Yeah.

Neil (23:10.85)
Yeah, that's like you said, the rules are there. Take advantage of where you can.

Nick (23:17.829)
But I I was talking about Scotty before his last twelve majors

10 top 10s, seven top fives, two wins. And Scotty and Sam Burns this year were a combined 20 under in the four majors to lead all players. Do you want to guess what the second best player cumulative was? And what what so Scotty and Sam Burns were 20 under combined in the four majors, which was the best.

Neil (23:47.064)
So say that stat again.

Nick (23:54.48)
Four major score. What do you think the second place score was? And you can try to guess who who it was if you want to.

Neil (23:54.946)
Yes. Yeah.

Neil (24:03.566)
Probably like eight under.

Nick (24:06.683)
It was thirteen.

Neil (24:08.023)
Okay.

Nick (24:09.856)
And it was Xander. Like it's gonna be hard to get.

Neil (24:12.256)
Xander. I have guessed Xander. I say Wyndham Clark or somebody.

Nick (24:15.759)
Yeah, Xander was at thirteen, Rory and Cam Young were at eleven, and Aubert was at at was at ten.

Neil (24:23.97)
How about Sam Burns? Can we talk about Sam Burns? in last two majors, what does he have? The f the fifty four hole lead in both of them? Didn't he have the fifty four hole lead in the in the US and in now in in the in the British and just couldn't get the job done on on Sunday?

Nick (24:40.451)
Yeah, and I mean had a chance last year in the open too.

Neil (24:44.344)
Like he's he's knocking on the door. He just g you can't shoot two over on Sunday and expect to win. Like you gotta go out there and and still play good. And he's it's twice now this year that he's choked.

Nick (24:55.129)
Yeah, I mean the you're gonna start getting asked that question. You know, when are you gonna win the big one? And you know, like some other guys are gonna start getting asked that question too. Like Obert is up there all the time. He hasn't won a major. Tommy still hasn't won a major. Cam Young won the came through and won the players, but when when's he gonna win one? So there's a lot of guys that are in contention over and over again that

that aren't figuring out a way to win, but it's hard to win. These are the best players in the world and it's just

Neil (25:30.87)
Is it is is it time for us to start asking if Scotty Scheffler will ever win another tournament?

Nick (25:36.357)
Another tournament? I think there's a very good chance that he wins a tournament this year.

Neil (25:38.412)
messing with you. I I am messing with you. I say he won his first one of the year. He hadn't he hadn't won since. Like you said, a lot of seconds, top fives, thirds. But the dudes dudes not be like in the past you would expect Scotty to to kind of close the door on some of these. Come back and and and and put the hammer down and he's there, but he's just not putting it over the top.

Nick (25:50.105)
I

Nick (26:02.167)
And I would say I would almost guarantee he's gonna win one of the three. Either the FedEx the Saint Jude, the BMW, or the FedEx championship. He's gonna win one of those three. I just And then like in the last one it's gonna be a thirty person field, like I he's just he's just there every time. Like he can't just keep not running.

Neil (26:10.136)
Yeah.

Neil (26:23.426)
He's there he he's there. He's there but he's not at the top.

Nick (26:29.069)
And I will say yesterday was one of the first days because I've bet him a lot on Sundays and haven't won. Because the number has been tempting. And I did not do it on Sunday and was glad that I didn't.

I mean just still the numbers are crazy and he's still leading the FedEx. Dude. And and here like we're both picking Matt Fitzpatrick, doesn't even make the cut. I say

Neil (26:45.9)
No. I I'm I mean I'm kidding. He's obviously gonna win he's gonna win another tournament in his career, obviously. But

Neil (26:56.566)
His brother might be the better Fitzpatrick. Alex Fitzpatrick's been playing some good golf lately. He might be the better brother.

Nick (27:02.735)
I mean he struggled a little bit on what, either Saturday or Sunday, 'cause his finish wasn't great. But I mean, that's the thing. We can pick Matt Fitzpatrick and he might miss the cut. If you pick Scotty, he's gonna be there. He's just gonna give you a chance. Well, it's one time and what we talked about what that record was. It was seventy something events. Like it's it's gonna happen eventually, but I don't know, like just

Neil (27:06.904)
Saturday it was Saturday.

Neil (27:19.662)
Unless it was the Scottish Open.

Neil (27:25.475)
I know.

Nick (27:32.515)
I love I love the open like it's I love just waking up in the middle of the night and watching golf for and then going back to sleep and going to work. Like I just there's something about it that I I think is really cool.

Neil (27:44.856)
We get we get to go back to St Andrews next year. So I'm looking forward to that. Always always great course.

Nick (27:49.935)
Yeah, and I th Right, and that's gonna be true links. There was a lot of people that were talking about how Bertha wasn't really true links.

Neil (27:57.71)
Yeah.

Nick (27:59.214)
It was warm, like it wasn't wet and cold. It was it was warm and dry. I mean that's why balls were rolling eighty, a hundred yards down the fairway. Like

Neil (28:01.328)
yeah. I gotcha.

Neil (28:08.35)
Yeah, there was no I mean, y usually in this tournament y you you see dudes, like you said, wet. Like you're getting rain. You're out there in your your your rain gear and all that, umbrellas and I think they had perfect weather all four days. It was just sunshine and clear skies.

Nick (28:20.559)
Yeah, everybody's I mean, I think maybe in the morning sometimes you'd see in quarter zips, but for the most part everybody's rocking polos. It was it was warm and dry. It was warm and dry. And it was an another cool thing was I mean, I Tommy probably wanted to play a little better than he did, but he's still another one that's always up there and to him to Birdie eighteen in front of I mean he I think they said he grew up five miles away from that horse, which is which was pretty cool.

You you like you talked about my game like would would do well there because my ball would just roll.

Neil (28:53.806)
You get the roll. Yeah, like the dry like yeah.

Nick (28:56.717)
And I'm thinking about that. And then I'm also like, dude, some of these pot bunkers, I don't know if I can get in and out of them.

Neil (29:03.106)
Hit the ball straight like you normally do.

Nick (29:04.475)
But you don't know where it's gonna roll!

Neil (29:06.722)
Yeah, if you get in one of those bunkers we're gonna need like a like a a crane or like a lifting device to get you down in there and get you out. Put you a ladder. We you need a ladder. We'll get you a ladder to get in and out of those things.

Nick (29:11.045)
Like 'cause you can hit it straight. You can hit it straight, but you don't know. Like, it still can take a turn and go into one of those things. Yeah, so I maybe I would just have to have like a three time too long sand wedge just to just so I didn't have to get down to the bunker. So I just but I I mean I know there's like seeing the way those guys some of those guys were positioned and some of those shots out I I can't do that.

Neil (29:20.13)
That's true.

Neil (29:33.474)
Hit it backwards.

Nick (29:41.113)
I don't it's not my repertoire.

Neil (29:41.292)
Yeah. Yeah.

Nick (29:47.013)
But sad the majors are over. We've we've now got like two hundred and fifty something days to to the masters in our

Neil (29:55.272)
We still got some I mean the the FedEx FedEx Cup's gone around are on the horizon and I think it's a President's Cup year, so we'll get the US versus the US versus everybody but Europe coming up in what, October, September.

Nick (30:02.235)
It's a press.

Nick (30:12.143)
The on Saturday we also had the Haskell.

You you would you went into the race selecting Napoleon Solo. I was on further ado. I would say it was in the slot. Didn't know how that was gonna affect the outcome. But the race started just like we thought it was going to.

Nick (30:39.835)
Solo gets the lead.

Further ado's on his tail. I'm thinking further ado's too good of a horse. He's gonna track him down. And I do think that Paco was worried about further ado. And further ado was on his outside. And I think that's maybe why instead of protecting the rail, he veers out a little bit to maybe make further ado go a little wider. And who is it that sneaks through the rail? But baby Vino.

Neil (30:45.366)
He's right up. Yep, he's up there.

Neil (30:59.127)
Mm-hmm.

Nick (31:16.631)
And they battle it down the stretch. You gotta give Napoleon Solo some credit because he really did really did fight down the stretch. But in the end it was just too much as Baby Vino, who goes up at twenty eight to one, wins the Haskell.

Neil (31:34.498)
Yeah, I mean we we talked about it going in and he was as we said, he was the the unknown horse of the field. Like he started out what was he like for his first five four or five in his career, won his last two, so he came in on a little bit of a heater winning those two races. I believe one was at Monmouth. I wasn't it was it am I wrong, or was that his stakes debut?

Nick (32:00.614)
That was his stakes debut. A great stakes debut.

Neil (32:04.684)
Yeah, so like it's his it's his stakes debut. Like he's stepping up in competition against these horses that have run, you know, in in the Derby and all those derby prep races and a couple preakness couple preakness runners and you know, y y he was unknown. We thought maybe he would sneak into third, you know, like 'cause he had a decent speed figure compared to the others going into it. It's like you don't know much about him.

Maybe throw in your exotics and then I did not expect to to win.

Nick (32:38.501)
Well, that's that's what I did. he was in my tribat.

Neil (32:41.1)
I did too. No, I had him in my try. I had him in a try.

Nick (32:44.143)
But and here's the thing too. Like it's sometimes betting and we talked about this last week. Why did I put Vino in my try? Because you needed to find somebody at a price.

I mean, a doo went off at even money. Like, and I that's my win bet. And I'm just looking at like, it's it's not a smart bet. Like you you have to adjust. When he's at even money, like even if he wins, you're making 10 bucks on a $10 bet. Like, is that even worth it? I don't I I don't think it's worth it.

Neil (33:15.468)
Right. No.

Nick (33:23.085)
Yeah, y but you talk about Vino. Yeah, he had just won his last two races. He won his last race at Monmouth by ten links. So he was obviously trending, and that's why we said we mentioned him. But neither one of us thought this horse could win. We probably should have looked at him harder because his speed figures were pretty good the last two races in those two wins. I just I just think the fact that he had the rail wide open, played perfect into his hands, allowed Vargas to Dude, this jockey gets his first ever greatest takes wins.

Neil (33:48.717)
Yeah.

Nick (33:53.059)
His first ever greatest stake win in a Haskell. Tyler G was supposed to ride him, jumped off of him to ride O'Celly. And you also get Lindsay Schultz, who becomes the first female trainer to win the Haskell when we we've just done this. In the Derby and in the Belmont. Well, not the Belmont, but in the Derby.

Neil (34:08.46)
Yeah. And a Belma. Yeah.

Nick (34:14.223)
But like do you think that maybe Paco was too worried about further ado and that's why he allowed the rail to be wide open for maybe Vino to slide through there?

Neil (34:23.598)
I mean, he had like he like you said, he gave it up. And then like coming down the stretch, they're, you know, they're dueling. And baby Vino just bullied Napoleon Solo. I mean, he he forced Napoleon Solo to keep pushing him out a little wide, a little wide. You know, got him off his off his stride a little bit down the stretch, and he was able to win, you know, win by that that that length or half length or whatever it was. But I mean, that that's why there was an inquiry. We had the inquiry from from Napoleon Solo that

you know, when you look at the replay, there wasn't really much there. I mean, there was Baby Vino, like I said, kinda pushing Napoleon Solo out a little bit. But nothing that warrants, you know, throwing him out. But yeah, I d I there's no excuse. There's no excuse for for Napoleon Solo. There's no excuse for further ado. You know, like they they had it right in front of and they were just beaten.

Nick (35:13.947)
Well and and that's the thing too, like and nobody else in this race ran. It was just solo and Vino. Nobody else ran in this race.

Neil (35:21.9)
No, the Puma, I like the we talked about the Puma coming off that three and a half month layoff. I I wanna say that that's what factored into him just being a non factor in this race. Because he was nowhere. He was in the back most of the race. He got up for f what fourth. Like he just He was never a factor. Like they were just yeah, like they were never threatening. So I it sucks for the Puma because I think the Puma's a is sh is a good horse. The three and a half month layoff I think really played into it.

Nick (35:35.833)
Yeah, but e even Iron Iron Honor came in third, but he was over three lengths behind everybody. They weren't a factor.

Nick (35:50.203)
Well it could have been the track conditions too. Like you may you just

Neil (35:52.022)
In the track, the slop, yeah. I don't know. I'd like to see him run again, but

Nick (35:54.555)
But you th like with with a do's pedigree you would think he would like to slot. And I don't know. It's just you you can say it was that or maybe he just didn't have a good day or

Neil (36:03.022)
It's it's two b two big races in a row that further due has not shown up.

Nick (36:07.556)
Well not two in a row, two out of three.

Neil (36:09.634)
Well, the Derby I'm talking about big races in like the Derby and the Haskell. I mean, the one that he won at Churchill, not a big race. I mean I expect him to win. It's sure, but when you look at the horses that you know, the Iron Honors, the N polling solos and the Pumas of the world, those are better horses than what he won against the Churchill his last time out.

Nick (36:11.79)
Yeah. Yeah.

Nick (36:16.417)
It's a greatest X race. It's a greatest X race, but

Nick (36:29.784)
Yeah, and he l he was he just no show. had a perfect trip. Perfect trip. Vino Bucks a couple of trends at the Haskell. Prior to Saturday, thirty of the past thirty five winners ha had ra contested at least one or more legs of the triple crown. And and prior to Saturday, forty six of the past forty seven had previously won a stakes race. So the only other time

Neil (36:32.856)
Two. Yeah.

Neil (36:54.19)
I mean that's why I mean yeah, like when you look at those stats, like that's why you don't bet this horse. Yeah.

Nick (36:57.39)
Yeah. That's why it's twenty eight to one. And it's easy to be like, I should have bet it but there's also numbers out there to say you shouldn't have bet it.

Neil (37:06.566)
I'm sure everybody in the comments will say, these guys don't know anything. Of course baby Buno is gonna win. It's like those idiots on the comments that were saying O'Celly was gonna win. That horse was dead last. He even lost a star sweeper. Horse is a bomb. He lost the star sweeper.

Nick (37:17.834)
He did. He did. And look, O'Celly has been known to at least finish third or fourth and did not do that on Saturday. But I mean, I think we had the setup of the race right. It just it didn't end the way we thought. And I mean, Solo was right there. I think both of us thought that he would be fighting at the end. You thought he would finish it. I thought he wouldn't. And I just thought it would be a do that would get him and not baby Vino.

Neil (37:46.402)
A B V nine.

Nick (37:46.98)
So I mean we were close.

Neil (37:49.432)
But again, like this baby Vino in his in his stakes debut comes in as a long shot, wins. What does this say about the three year old crop? We've talked about it as being weak. And I think this furthers the point that this three year old crop is a weak crop.

Nick (38:08.014)
Yeah. So I've got some numbers.

Neil (38:10.636)
What's here?

Nick (38:12.23)
I went through and pulled the Equibase figures for the last ten years. For every pre every Derby, every Preakness, every Belmont, and every Haskell winner. This year's four those four races, there was an average of ninety-nine point five for those four winners. The closest to that is the closest to that in the last ten years i is one one.

Point three in two thousand and twenty-two. And that was when Rich Strike, Early Voting, Mo Donegal, and Cyberknife.

Neil (38:51.192)
Fitch strike.

Nick (38:53.332)
there are only so how many that's what, forty races, right?

Neil (38:59.606)
Yeah. Yeah.

Nick (39:01.188)
There are only one, two, there are only seven times in those 40 races where a figure has been lower than 101 or lower.

And all four this year are 101 and lower. The other the other three were Dornok in the Preakness. No, it was Seas seize the gray i in the Preakness in twenty twenty four. Rich strike in the Derby. And then he had a ninety seven in twenty two.

Neil (39:17.486)
Four. Yeah. Four out of the seven.

Nick (39:42.114)
And then cloud computing in the preakness had a one on one in two thousand and seventeen.

Neil (39:50.178)
Yeah, exactly. It's it's bad. And if these three year olds think like if they try to go up against, you know, these older horses in the in the in the the Breeders' Cup classic, the magnitudes of the world, they're gonna get dusted. It's not even gonna be a race. They're going to get smoked. And I don't know how many three year olds are gonna run, if any. But they're gonna get smoked.

Nick (40:10.058)
well, I mean dude baby Vino just got a free ticket to the classic. But I they have not said if he will run. I mean it's it's a ways away. But like dude the justifies year, the average was one eleven. It's a full twelve points higher. A authentic's year when he won the Derby and the and the Haskell. It was one ten s one one ten point seven five.

Neil (40:15.17)
He did get a free ticket. That's true. He did get a free ticket.

Neil (40:27.502)
Yeah.

Nick (40:38.286)
When Mandaloon won, it was 1095. So I think those numbers show what we've pretty much been saying all ye all season. Is that yeah. This three-year-old class is not very good. And yeah, we put down Golden Tempo and didn't think that he would win the Belmont. He proved us wrong. And he's by far the best horse of this crop.

Neil (41:00.974)
He's the he's probably he's the best three year old. I'll give him his credit. He's the best three year old of a bad group of horses. So congratulations to him, but he's I still don't think he's that good.

Nick (41:16.324)
We w I mean, I it will be I can't wait to see him get back out there. Hopefully it will be the Travers. He will not be in the Dandy. The Dandy is the next big race for three year olds. That'll be on August first at Saratoga. They'll go mile an eighth. And it it does look like we will see Renegade, Commandment, and Chiponcho in that field. I don't know. The rest of the field hasn't been decided. But we should be able to I mean, to see Renegade against Commandment.

Be fun to see who comes out on top of that. Because I do think those are two good horses. It's just are they good horses in this subpar crop of three roads?

Neil (41:46.178)
Yeah. Yes.

Neil (41:53.806)
Exactly. Yes.

Nick (41:58.139)
I don't know. We did not win any money.

Neil (41:59.416)
Can't wait to see the comments. Can't wait to see all the comments on this one.

Nick (42:02.638)
We did not win any money. And I think it's it's a it's a learn like you have to learn to bet just as much as you need to learn to pick the right horses.

Neil (42:05.582)
I mean

Nick (42:15.278)
You know? And bet ways to make money.

Neil (42:16.366)
I mean, like y you said we both had Vino we had Vino in the in the try, but when further ado finishes fifth, that doesn't help.

Nick (42:21.668)
I know but

But you also yeah, you're right. But like if you've got him in the try but you only got him finished third, is that really taking advantage of his val like if he slips up and gets second or first, you're screwed. And I know it's a bigger ticket, but is it worth it just putting it at his

Neil (42:35.33)
Yeah, but but sure, but e even if I would have boxed it, I still would have had further ado in there and I still would have lost. So

Nick (42:41.464)
Right. I know. It's just when you got a horse that's twenty eight to one in your try somewhere, it's just like I could have figured that out. Cause it paid. 'Cause it paid. And and in some of those races where they're tough and there's a favorite that's one to one, maybe it's just the smart play to go against him and hope he gets beat and doesn't finish the board. Because if you do that in that race, even though you maybe think a dude

Neil (42:49.868)
Yeah. Yeah. No, it paid. It it paid.

Nick (43:09.442)
If you even if you think a dude's the best horse, but you don't think he's by far the best horse, maybe it's just like, let's leave him out. And if it if he wins, then whatever. But if he doesn't, maybe I'll hit big.

We're learning. We're trying to get better at this stuff.

Nick (43:27.244)
All you the the people hating, we're gonna send you t shirts. We're gonna get made, we're gonna send you T shirts.

Nick (43:36.535)
World Cup's over.

Neil (43:41.186)
Yeah, that was lot of fun.

Nick (43:43.493)
Let me just say the job that this country did this last month was pretty amazing. Just venues all across the country, having people all over the world visit our country, experience our culture, go to our restaurants. It was just

Neil (44:03.042)
And a lot of s seem like positive reviews from from the from the foreign travelers.

Nick (44:07.77)
Well, I mean, there's a yeah, and and it should be. And it should be. They're like we we are gonna welcome everybody with what with with open arms. We want them to enjoy our our chips and salsa. Our unlimited chips and salsa. Our our buckies. Our like just enjoy like they're all gonna go up, go back home with their cholesterol being a hundred or two point hundred points higher. But that's the price you pay. But just

Neil (44:21.75)
False.

Costco's, Walmarts.

Neil (44:34.275)
Yeah.

Nick (44:38.66)
Like the fact that these games were played and not just USA, like Canada and Mexico too, like just all the work that had to go into that to put that together is unbelievable. These crowds were amazing. And I still don't know how people came over here from other countries and just lived here for a month and were able to afford it and not lose their jobs.

Neil (44:51.233)
Right.

Neil (44:57.08)
Stayed for a month.

Neil (45:01.804)
Yeah, pay to pay the ticket prices, to stay here for a month, to go to multiple different cities, it's that's insane. Yeah, I don't like do like if you were here in the early round like group stage, did you go home and if you were an Argentina fan, did you skip the group stages and just come for the knockout rounds, like just betting on your team that it was gonna make it, you know, to the the sixteens, the both rounds of eights in the semis and finals, like

I don't know. Like I don't know how you do it, but if you were a fan that was here for every single game of your like all seven what they like, seven games, eight games, if you were here for that entire time. I need your job. I need to know how you got your money.

Nick (45:36.698)
That's it.

No kidding. Like, but just incredible. And what did it I mean it had to be an amazing experience for them. They're all gonna be sad going back to their regular lives after doing nothing but watching soccer and eating fatty foods for the last and drinking alcohol for the last month. Sounds sounds pretty amazing, but I mean, dude, we talk about College World Series. What is that, ten days?

Neil (46:04.322)
More than that yeah. So about two weeks, yeah. A little more than ten days maybe.

Nick (46:05.284)
Like like you go over there for that? It's like, how do I even stay for the whole thing? I either gotta be here for pool play or the tournament.

Neil (46:13.164)
That's tough. It's tough.

Nick (46:14.095)
Like are pool player the best of three. Like I can't do both. Like like if if I try to take a month off work, I think they're gonna tell me to just you can just stay over there.

Neil (46:17.162)
It is tough.

Neil (46:25.794)
Get your vacation days built up there, my guy.

Nick (46:28.248)
I got plenty, but

Still a whole month?

Neil (46:34.072)
But what'd you think of the final? I know you were at your nephew's all star little league game watching him strike out ten batters, but did you get to to watch the the final at all? Okay.

Nick (46:43.876)
I had it all on phone and dude, the like it Argentina just couldn't get into anything at all.

Neil (46:52.526)
I mean, they were got dominated. I'd like to know like no shots on goal. They didn't have a shot period until I think extra time. But no shots on goal at all in the game. I mean, just absolutely got their butts whooped by Spain.

Nick (46:55.193)
Nothing.

Nick (47:07.898)
Like, did Messi even get touches?

Neil (47:12.002)
Not a lot.

Nick (47:12.356)
Like and I like here's they allowed one goal the whole t the whole tournament, one goal to Belgium, and in that game they came back late and won, figured out a way to win, right?

Neil (47:18.678)
All tournament.

Neil (47:28.899)
Yeah.

Nick (47:30.566)
And this shot this stat might be even more unbelievable than the one goal.

10 total shots on goal in eight games. Including shutting out Arj Argentina in the final. They also shut out Austria in the round of 32, did not have a shot on goal. So two games in the tournament. They didn't even allow a shot on goal. And

Neil (47:58.006)
And you think about like the way they started, like coming into the tournament, Spain was obviously one of the favorites up there, you know, with the Frances and Argentinas and Englands of the world. You start the tournament in group play with a tie to Cape Verde. And everybody's like, What's wrong with Spain? It was zero zero. But like, what's wrong with Spain? Like, And then they just kicked ass the rest of the tournament after that. But

Nick (48:22.094)
Well, I mean, dude, as much as they dominated that game, they were what thirteen minutes away from going to P Case? And I don't care how much Spain dominated Argentina in regulation, you get to PCs. And and I think I I mean Spain's their numbers in PKs are nowhere near as good as what Argentinas are. So I think the fa it kind of shifts

Neil (48:29.934)
Yeah, yeah.

Neil (48:37.954)
No, you gotta you gotta PK, it's a new game.

Nick (48:51.212)
in Argentina's favor. So they were twelve, thirteen minutes away from dominating a game but then have to figure out PK's. But

They got one in.

Neil (49:02.67)
They did get one in.

Nick (49:05.738)
And Mbappe wins the golden boot. Dude finishes with with ten goals after got two what in the in the third place game?

Neil (49:15.764)
What are your thoughts on that? You think he deserves the golden boot by getting two goals in a game that doesn't matter?

Nick (49:21.294)
I mean w if if they have the game out there and he can play in it, yeah, it should count.

Do you not think it should?

Neil (49:30.51)
I mean, I th I th it's part of the tournament. I mean there are people I mean there are people out there that say it shouldn't because it wasn't actually a game that mattered in the tournament. Like they were already eliminated. So I mean you see you look on Twitter. There's

Nick (49:32.675)
If you're gonna play it.

Nick (49:41.114)
Well who are these people that said it shouldn't? Because it's a game that's being played where they have officials, they're both teams are playing, like there's a scoreboard.

Neil (49:48.194)
I mean it's it's mostly it's mostly the the messy lovers of the world out there that are crying about it, but there are people.

Nick (49:55.589)
Well Messi's the goat. Okay. But Mbappe

Neil (49:59.358)
Is he? Mbappe might be the goat.

Nick (50:03.832)
I mean, he's I mean, already the all time leading goal scorer in World Cup history.

Neil (50:10.776)
Played ten fewer games, I think.

Nick (50:12.974)
He's played three World Cups. He has twenty two career World Cup goals. He has done it in twenty two matches. Messi ranks second with twenty one goals and he has done it in thirty four matches. So look, you

Neil (50:18.67)
Only two games. Use it.

Neil (50:23.222)
Yeah. Mbappe's averaging he's averaging a goal a match. Messi averages as that like point six nine or something, or point six five. So he's done it in way fewer games. He's done it at a age he's what is he, thirteen years younger than Messi? Isn't Mbappe like high twenty, twenty six, twenty seven?

Nick (50:38.51)
Messi's 39.

Nick (50:43.332)
Why do you ask me a soccer player's a age every show?

Nick (50:50.668)
He is twenty seven. Dude's already played in in three World Cups. He's twenty seven.

Neil (50:54.402)
He's twelve years younger than Messi and has more World Cup goals than Messi in half as many World Cups appearances. So we can talk about Messi being the goat, and sure, like you you want to call him the goat now, but Mbappe deserves more credit than what he's I think people are talking about. It's always the Ronaldo or Messi, Ronaldo Messi, because that's the way it's been, but Mbappe's just come onto the world stage in the last, you know, eight years and he's dominating.

Nick (51:19.45)
He he has entered the chat and in those three World Cups he has become the all-time goal scorer.

Neil (51:24.91)
It's insane.

Nick (51:26.878)
yeah, it is. And now you've got a nineteen year old on Spain who has also entered the chat in in Lamine Yamal and we'll see what he does the rest of his career. But like you know Mbappes and you know the messies and you know you the big names, but I mean I didn't know who Yamal was before this tournament. Did you? Yeah, like

Neil (51:49.89)
No. I mean I don't like I'm not a big I I'm I'm sure normal soccer fans are are are familiar. Those that you know watch the English Premier League and the Spanish League and the Italian leagues and they get up on early on their weekends and go to Molly Malone's and tune in for these things, but we know we're not. The casual fan knows the Messies and and the Ronaldos and the Mbappes. They don't like you said, they don't know the Yamals and and some of these other guys. Like did you know who Holland was? No.

No. I'm a big fan of him now. I think he's awesome. Dude is awesome. Meg went back to his country with the stuffed raccoon.

Nick (52:22.554)
Yeah. Yeah. Well

Nick (52:28.059)
The the trick is figuring out a a team to cheer for. You know, that's that's not a a country and and cheering them on and following them. But it's just hard to force yourself to do it.

Neil (52:40.078)
I mean, we're semi Wrexham fans.

Nick (52:42.852)
Semi, but semi. We keep up with it. But you're not making sure you watch games. Like if it just

Neil (52:49.666)
I miss Paul Mullen. I miss Super Paul Mullen.

Nick (52:53.806)
I don't think Super Paul Mullen was gonna be getting them to the Premier League, but he did he did a lot for for them.

Neil (52:56.544)
He was not. He he did a lot for Wrexham, put him on the map. But yeah, his he ran scorching.

Nick (53:02.382)
I don't even think I watched this season of Welcome to Rexham. It just all seemed like the same thing over and over to me.

Neil (53:07.348)
It w it was. I mean I kept up with Wrexham throughout the year just, you know, scores and and standings wise. I I believe so. I didn't either. I watched the first like four, but no.

Nick (53:11.972)
But they've already had the doc the season already came out, right? Yeah, and I didn't even watch it. It just la Yeah, last season just felt like it was just a repeat. It was just the same kind of stuff.

Neil (53:25.302)
Then they started I mean then it was they they gave equal time to like the women's team over there, which I don't think the women's team's very good and I kinda

Nick (53:33.75)
They should be included, but it shouldn't be it shouldn't be equal time.

Before we wrap World Cup, could we how is Shakira almost fifty years ago?

Neil (53:43.79)
She looked good. How about Madonna? At the age of what is she, 69? 68? I thought Madonna looked good for her age too.

Nick (53:52.453)
But Shakira is almost fifty, dude. And you look up pictures of her twenty f twenty four years ago, looks exactly the same. And in a world where we see all these people getting plastic surgery and like changing the way they look. I I don't know what she's doing, but everybody needs to do that. Because she looks identical. Identical. And I mean dude, I remember her being on David Letterman.

Neil (53:56.11)
Yeah.

Neil (54:16.589)
Yeah.

Neil (54:22.238)
It was one of the greatest moments in T V history.

Nick (54:23.84)
One of the greatest like musical guests ever. She does her performance and then David Letterman says tells the crowd to open the page on their hymnals.

Neil (54:31.98)
He's sweating over there.

Neil (54:36.418)
He he was sweating.

Nick (54:38.338)
Yes, but God, how is she almost fifty years old?

Neil (54:42.506)
I don't know. She's incredible. Great talent.

Nick (54:45.658)
Fantastic talent. What what'd you think about Beaver coming out there and slowing everything down?

Neil (54:50.76)
Yeah, it kinda threw yeah, it kinda ruined the vibe, didn't it? He's got the acoustic Yeah. And beard. Lasso and beard. And then yeah, he brings out the acoustic guitar and just kinda slows it down and it's like, What is this? Yeah, I wasn't a big fan. Yeah. Was not a big fan of that. And then what BTS, I don't really know much about BTS, the boy band.

Nick (54:54.542)
And then Ted Lasso, did did Ted Lasso introduce him?

Nick (55:06.968)
You've got the energy up and then

Nick (55:16.782)
Yeah, I don't either. But they went all out with that. That was a that was a Super Bowl level halftime show.

Neil (55:22.36)
It sure was. Sure was.

Nick (55:27.556)
What else? What was your other favorite stuff that happened this weekend? Anything else?

Neil (55:31.254)
Let's see this weekend.

No. Not much. No. In the world of sports, no, just the World Cup and the open and Yeah.

Nick (55:42.17)
Great great radio. Not nothing. Nothing good. Nothing. The All-Star games suck. The All-Star games suck.

Neil (55:47.374)
What else happened? All Star game was awful.

Nick (55:51.946)
after we had talked it up as the best all star game of the of the group, it was brutal.

Neil (55:55.576)
can't get shut out. Yeah, you can't get shut out. That was that was boring. That was boring.

Nick (56:00.807)
well I will you mentioned it. My my nephew, Wes, playing in the ten and under state tournament in Grayson County, Kentucky. I made the two and a half hour drive yesterday.

Comes on in the second inning. They were down two to one at that point. And Dude goes four strong. Strikes out ten. Allows one kid to reach on a hit batter. Also has a double down the left field line.

I will it's it's clicking for him a little bit. It's clicking. He

Neil (56:34.464)
It's good. So w so did we win the state tournament? When's the next game? Like what w how how we looking?

Nick (56:39.706)
So they are they've won today again. they are three and in pool play, so they'll be the one seed in in a four team tournament starting tomorrow. Championships on Wednesday.

Neil (56:49.154)
And this is for like and this is for the state championship? So then where do they go to na is there a national championship?

Nick (56:52.506)
It's the first day championship. And

Yeah, they'd well be original.

Neil (56:59.37)
Our regional. That's right. We go regional. That's right. Where's the regional?

Nick (57:00.43)
Yeah. But I mean I don't know.

But I mean dude, they're two years ago away from being in the big one.

So, I mean they've lost one game in in so far in this whole all-star season. And I don't know, they keep pitching like they're pitching. They're gonna be tough to beat. But it was it was it was fun to watch him ball out. And I know you you gave me a hard time because I didn't go to Baranos and watch the World Cup in the open, but I made the right decision and was honestly kind of sad I had to come back home after because people gotta work.

Neil (57:13.9)
Run it back with Valley Valley Sports gonna run it back.

Neil (57:26.05)
Okay.

Nick (57:41.612)
And I'm flying to Chicago on Tuesday, so but good on him.

Neil (57:46.604)
Yeah, awesome. Awesome.

Nick (57:47.918)
You know so our cartoon pictures that I've got on some of our like our Facebook page, like our our header header photo. Have you ever even noticed it?

Neil (57:57.192)
Mm-hmm. No. yes, yes. I know what you're talking about. Yes. Yes.

Nick (58:00.667)
Okay. So Harper and Bennett, your your two little girls were over the house. I said, Do you think this looks like your your dad and me? They thought yours looked like you, but but not me. My my eyes my eyes were too blue.

Neil (58:13.452)
Yeah.

Blue. Okay.

Nick (58:21.178)
That was their that was their criticism.

Neil (58:23.756)
Maybe you need to tone yeah, tone down the blue a little bit.

Nick (58:26.202)
Go down the Plutus.

Neil (58:33.518)
what's going on? We would talk about we can talk a little baseball if you want. And the Red Sox have won thirteen straight games. They are hot. The Reds are not. The Braves just doing the Braves thing. Are they just coasting?

Nick (58:39.364)
They're hot, but

Nick (58:46.446)
they're up three games, but just Drake Baldwin started to hit again. I don't I don't nobody wants us to talk baseball.

Neil (58:54.73)
Okay.

Nick (58:57.466)
They they'd they'd rather us talk about how the hell we're gonna get me on Love Island or Beauty and the Geek I think.

Neil (59:04.822)
Well, it starts with a fresh haircut. So you got that. So we've got we got check mark number one down. So now we gotta get in on the the dating scene in Chicago. So you got the apps downloaded. I would already start swiping 'cause you what you lay in tomorrow. How long are you there? How ya how long how long are we in Chicago for?

Nick (59:16.474)
Okay. just go ahead and start looking at Chicago.

Nick (59:23.332)
We leave tomorrow, we come back Friday.

Neil (59:25.4)
Come back Friday. So you got a Tuesday night. Well, you got three nights in Chicago to to make some moves here. So I would start tonight as you're laying in bed, you know, just trying to think think about the trip. You get on the apps, you start scrolling, you start swiping. Let's we'll start planting the seeds, planting the seeds. So then in the morning, you know, maybe we got a couple hits. We set up a couple dates, maybe a little Tuesday date, Wednesday date.

Nick (59:48.059)
Okay. So you're very limited on the free services on these dating apps? Do you buy like a week's worth of service? So you can just go just just throw out just throw out a net? No, that's what they want you to do.

Neil (59:53.566)
Mm, okay.

Yeah, can you do that? Yeah, can you do can you buy yeah, can you buy a week's worth? Was it like tokens? You buy a hundred tokens or something?

Nick (01:00:06.66)
Well, like on Hinge you can only swipe like say y or do like a hard or swipe whatever way you were supposed to swipe if you're interested. You can only do like five a day.

Neil (01:00:17.784)
Well, you better get your five in before midnight.

Nick (01:00:20.782)
And I don't know, but the Tammy's gonna be pissed too if I don't.

Neil (01:00:25.144)
Get your f get your five in before midnight, plant the seeds, and then in the morning we'll see if those seeds have grown.

Nick (01:00:34.938)
Hopefully they will.

And hop I hope I get to go to a damn Cubs game. Why why you don't go to Chicago without going to a Cubs game?

Neil (01:00:43.406)
Are the codes at home?

Nick (01:00:44.804)
Yeah, Tuesday and Wednesday, play the tires.

Neil (01:00:49.09)
I enjoy Wrigley. I don't like Cubs fans. I hate Cubs fans, but I like Wrigley. Wrigley's great. Hey, go take see if you can get s see if you find yourself on on Bumble or Hinge a nice little like cute baseball fan, you know, like a there's something very attractive about a girl in a baseball jersey and a in a in a in a hat. So, you know, get you get you a baseball girl, get you go have a little a little date in the bleachers, get you a hot dog, you a nice cold Budweiser beer. See where it goes.

Nick (01:00:51.192)
I Wrigley.

Lovera.

Nick (01:01:18.042)
Dude, there's there's something cute about a girl in any kind of jersey and a hat.

Neil (01:01:23.746)
Take her to the slur what was the play? The slurping turtle?

Nick (01:01:26.426)
And then you throw in a little oblack.

Hot. Hot.

Neil (01:01:31.111)
the eyeblack. Okay. You went a step further. Yeah, so you know so you take you have a good time with the baseball game, you're what's for dinner? You take her to the the slurping turtle. Isn't that where we went? That was a good spot. Slurping turtle.

Nick (01:01:40.026)
Okay. Okay. Yeah, Sliver Turtle. And we we we can go to Harry Carries.

Neil (01:01:47.916)
Yeah. Yeah. Start start hammering away tonight. You got five before midnight. I want five swipes before midnight.

Nick (01:01:49.73)
Well yeah. Yeah. We got we got we got Well, we gotta get done golf here because I gotta edit it and I gotta pack. So I I got a lot to do.

Neil (01:02:00.44)
Well swiping's more important than than the packing. Let's let's do the swiping first. Yeah, you can pack in the morning. I always pack the morning of

Nick (01:02:03.374)
You think so? Do you think?

Morning. Do I've my Uber's gonna be here at like seven o'clock.

Neil (01:02:11.81)
Yeah. I I'd give up at like six and pack.

Nick (01:02:14.234)
Yeah, I'm not doing that. That's that's that's insane behavior. And I I mean I wait until like eleven or midnight the night before. I think that behavior is insane.

Neil (01:02:16.097)
I would.

Neil (01:02:25.836)
No, 'cause there's some shit that you're gonna use in the morning that you're gonna wanna pack. Like, you know, you're gonna wanna pack your toothbrush. Like you're gonna wanna pack your your deodorant stuff. Like you I mean there's things that like you're like, man. There's things that you might think of at at the last minute, you'd be like, I'm glad I waited to pack 'cause I wasn't gonna forget.

Nick (01:02:30.81)
Well you leave the you leave the d you don't zip it up and put it in the car.

It lays on the bed or wherever you lay it.

Nick (01:02:44.512)
One more thing of insanity before we get off here. I still don't have the real idea.

I've still got the old school driver's license.

Neil (01:02:52.926)
What? You're kidding me.

Nick (01:02:56.814)
But I just travel with my passport, so I don't really need it. But I go to my top drawer where my passport is. It ain't there.

Neil (01:02:59.106)
Passport.

Neil (01:03:03.235)
Bruh.

Nick (01:03:10.771)
And you get that little pit in your stomach. You're this is a work trip. This ain't a personal trip. Like you need that passport to travel.

Neil (01:03:15.299)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Nick (01:03:19.916)
And I'm like, dude, did I leave it in my backpack? And it's been in my backpack since the last time that I flew, which I don't even know when it was.

Neil (01:03:28.942)
Do you have a flying backpack? Like you have like like is it So it's okay, so it's the one that you use for work too. It's not like some backpack you use to travel and you just throw it in the closet when you're done traveling until the next time. It's an everyday backpack. Okay.

Nick (01:03:31.566)
I mean it's the same backpack I use it's my bac my work backpack with my laptop in it.

Nick (01:03:42.745)
No, it's it's my backpack. Everyday backpack. I go to where I put it when I travel. And it's still I have carried my passport with me everywhere I have went since I flew back from the Caymans in November.

Neil (01:04:02.284)
You're stupid. First of all, go get a real ID. You're the only human being left on the planet that doesn't have a real ID. Like that's just absolutely ridiculous. That's lazy and ridiculous. what?

Nick (01:04:12.6)
Why do I need it if I have a passport? Why do I need it if I have a passport?

Neil (01:04:18.242)
Because if you forget your passport, your passport should be a backup option. Because if you lose your passport like you almost did, then you are screwed. You're screwed. It's just a normal driver's license. Just go get a real ID driver's license. It'll last you eight, ten years or however long it is. And then you just pull out your wallet, you show it to the guy, you put it back in your wallet, and you get on the plane. It ain't hard.

Nick (01:04:24.066)
Like almost.

Nick (01:04:38.586)
Well, it d really never crossed my mind until I almost lost it.

Neil (01:04:41.644)
Are you are you trying to prove a point? Like you're just trying to like anti government? I don't want them to have my real ID face on my ID or some nonsense like that? You protesting? Is this some f some form of protest?

Nick (01:04:48.602)
Well I just was with the passport, I was like, why do I need it?

Well, I'm but now I'm like s since I almost lost it, I'm like, Yeah, but maybe I should get the real idea.

Neil (01:05:01.614)
That's just stupid dude. Go get the real ID.

Nick (01:05:08.538)
Alright, I'm gonna get out of here.

Neil (01:05:09.71)
Hey, I heard your came by the I heard your came in tournament. It might not be happening.

Nick (01:05:13.53)
I'm getting nervous. We d we has not been confirmed yet. So we are normally confirmed in May and we are now somehow almost into August. So

I wanted that to happen for the rest of my life.

Neil (01:05:26.882)
Well Yeah, well at least now maybe you'll get to go to a couple of Bengals games.

Nick (01:05:32.356)
Well, I usually I'll miss one game. Like it you can miss one game to go to the Caymans for free.

Neil (01:05:35.714)
That was a big game. It was the Steelers game. You missed the Steelers game last year.

Nick (01:05:39.982)
I I missed the Patriots game last year.

Neil (01:05:44.332)
I the Pat I I didn't Patriots game either. I thought you missed the Steelers game last year, didn't you? No. No. Okay.

Nick (01:05:47.682)
No. Mm.

Nick (01:05:51.79)
No have you watched the quarterback with Joe Flacco?

Neil (01:05:54.86)
I've seen the I've seen the clips. Seen the clips.

Nick (01:05:57.199)
I watched the whole thing. You can fast forward through the first three episodes, watch four, five, and six, and then fast forward to the last episode. I love him. I love him. I love him.

Neil (01:06:06.156)
He's more hilarious than I gave him credit for. I didn't think he was funny. He's he's hilarious, man. Joe Flacco's got some personality.

Nick (01:06:13.102)
I love him. It's what it's done. Like it's just Yeah.

Neil (01:06:17.43)
I saw the clip when he was a brown and his s son said that told his mom that he'd put him on the bench in this fantasy league.

Nick (01:06:24.697)
Yeah.

Neil (01:06:27.682)
He goes, I hope dad doesn't go he's like dad goes off today. He's like, hope he doesn't go off 'cause I've benched him in my fantasy league. His mom just cracks up.

Nick (01:06:35.588)
Well yeah. But I I if if you haven't watched it, watch the full episodes where he's actually playing.

Neil (01:06:41.646)
Okay.

Nick (01:06:44.962)
And then he talks about how he loves sitting at the bar by himself and which got which went viral last year. They go more into detail on that, but it it's if you're looking for something to watch, it's a good little watch. But All right, I'm I'm ending with

Neil (01:06:56.92)
I mean training camp training camp starting next week, right?

Nick (01:07:00.442)
We're getting close. I don't know the exact date, but the Bengals are favored in fifteen of seventeen games, Neil.

Neil (01:07:05.006)
We'll have some cool fun.

Neil (01:07:09.346)
I'll take that.

Nick (01:07:11.278)
Gotta take advantage of it. We can get into that maybe at the beginning of training camp.

Neil (01:07:16.504)
July twenty eighth, so we are eight days away from training camp. Next Tuesday. Next Tuesday. Gotta stay healthy.

Nick (01:07:21.978)
I'm ready for some football.

Nick (01:07:27.618)
That's the plan. And we'll we will get into more Bengals as we get closer. But as for right now, we're getting out of here. That's the 6'6 Neil. I'm the 410 Nick. You've been listening to High Differential. We will talk to you again next week.