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Don't mind us where playing Through.

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Here's Froggy and Whacker. It's

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another edition of the Playing Through podcast.

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Thank you so much for tuning in. It's

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finally here our second major of

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the year. It is US Open week. Whacker

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is live at the

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US Open. So are you just getting on site

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now? Brian Love

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of Sinnicock got here this morning. Uh,

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came in from Manhattan and

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yeah, I ready to rock and roll. Your second

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major, of course, is looking amazing.

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Conditions should be good. Yeah,

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let's get this thing going, man. So you know, we can't

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talk about US Open and it's

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gonna be on Fox. You're gonna have all four days of

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it. We can't talk to US Open without having

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our favorite guest of all time on with us.

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Who's gonna be live at the US Open all week, and

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that is miss Holly Sanders. Good morning.

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How are you It

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is still morning? Technically it's still morning.

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Yeah, we gotta have another twenty five minutes. And

1:01

thank you for that introduction. So

1:03

you you know you're one of our favorite guests. Well

1:06

you know what it's not, it's just you being

1:08

here is enough. So tell us are you excited

1:10

about another US Open? Are your second major real,

1:13

this is our fourth time, and

1:16

of course we know we've tried and too, so

1:18

it's gonna be great. We're really really excited. I'm

1:20

if I seem a little driving, I'm sorry. I'm

1:22

actually with Joe Klatt and our

1:25

pry Deck and Pennington driving

1:27

from Manhattan right now. He asked us if we

1:29

wanted a car to pick us up. Looking

1:31

at this is awful. Yeah,

1:34

yeah, you want to listen, you

1:36

want someone else doing that drive right

1:38

now because the traffic is absurd

1:41

getting here, so good luck with that. Well,

1:43

you know that there's sty're making a temporary

1:45

stop on the train right just so people

1:48

for some people from New York and get there the

1:50

city. No, it's look,

1:52

look, if you're talking about efficiency in

1:55

terms of any long island, us

1:57

open the train. All your

1:59

right is apply the way to go in terms of

2:01

efficiency. But even once you once

2:04

you get around the golf course, once you get within

2:06

uh you know, ten miles of golf course,

2:08

it is a parking lot, is it. We're

2:11

heading there right now? That sounds

2:13

like that's really encouraging. You

2:15

know. The good news is the

2:17

tournament starts Thursday, so just got a few

2:19

days to get here. Tonight

2:24

today we're actually perfect. We're opening,

2:28

we went box business

2:31

and on top of the mPire

2:33

State Building. Wow. So now, Holly,

2:36

I do want to talk about something, and you

2:38

know we we have to talk about it. I

2:41

want to get your take on last week's

2:44

vocal mishaps. But wait, hold

2:46

on? Sexual? Is it sexual qualifying? Is

2:48

that what we're talking about? You know? What? Was it?

2:50

Sexual? Actually? Holding up? I'm gonna

2:53

let Holly answer that. Hold on, here we go to

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www dot us open dot

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com. Everything will be there the

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entire day a sexual qualifying.

3:02

No, it's not sexual qualifying. It was sexual

3:04

qualifying. Okay, I

3:10

should be entire days? Am I talking about

3:13

it? Just? Also? Stop badly? What are you going

3:15

to? It's that doing that

3:17

show is difficult because the scores were picking

3:19

in. As they're doing it, they're talking to me. I'm

3:22

looking at for different monitors. You can see me looking to the

3:24

right. I know that I said it, and

3:26

they're in my ear. They're like, you have sixty seconds to get

3:28

off the air, so I don't have time to react. Shane

3:31

of Brad Thank god,

3:33

well they handled if they had

3:36

no I I really think they just didn't hear

3:38

it. The first time, they said they didn't hear it because

3:40

the producer, again, I was talking to us so

3:42

much. They said they didn't hear it. And then we got out the air

3:44

and I said, I know, I said sexual qualifying,

3:47

and then we went in in Washington. It

3:49

was very blatant, very late. So

3:51

in my head I was like, maybe it sounded like ext No,

3:54

it was totally sexual qualifying. And

3:56

it was funny like if you would have told me, though like ten

3:59

years of doing TV that that was going through my moment,

4:01

I would absolutely

4:04

absolutely like it wasn't offensive because

4:07

it really could have been so much worse than what it

4:09

was. Now, my question, you know the way that we talk normally,

4:12

Oh my god. And that's the thing is about I know

4:14

that awesome we're off the air. On the show, we

4:16

say things that I would never want to

4:18

go on the air. So is this something where

4:20

you guys joking about sexual qualifying

4:22

before or it just came out that way. Usually

4:25

I would do something like that, but I wasn't

4:27

this time. Like it was just me that the women's

4:29

open at show Creek in Alabama.

4:32

It was raining the entire week and

4:35

it was a new studio. We just got into

4:37

qualifying show usually do it in a I

4:41

was just tired that

4:44

the sexual qualifiers on like on the Western

4:47

to like kind of we're sitting there and

4:50

that's it. That just came out and

4:53

I ran with it. I wish I had a little more time because

4:55

on the au, like you know what, that sexual

4:58

sexual qualifying my be on a different

5:00

network at a different times exactly.

5:05

That might be a thing. But yeah, Brand and Shane,

5:07

if they had even cracked a smile, I wouldn't

5:09

have to sign off the air. I would have been

5:13

And look, in her defense, it was the longest

5:15

day of god. I mean it's they're literally

5:17

playing those qualifiers for twelve hours.

5:20

It's a long, long day at the end of

5:22

a long day. She as she mentioned in the

5:25

US Women's Open was a total disaster

5:27

in terms of weather. Um, so yeah,

5:29

good good luck with Shinnecock this

5:32

week. I know everybody,

5:34

everybody said that everything putting it

5:36

down to my head that was in my head. I

5:38

might just I might just go with the United States

5:40

Open and just talk about the right

5:44

exactly. You know, there's there's always

5:47

a way around it. But it really turned out to be funny.

5:49

It's something that wasn't that bad, Like you said, It's not like

5:51

it was really offensive. So it actually turned out to be. And

5:53

I couldn't do that if I was trying. I couldn't do it if

5:55

I tried. Whatever it happens,

5:58

um, because the more I'm really glad

6:00

it wasn't right, Holly,

6:02

I know you, and it could have been a lot worse, and not

6:05

not worse in a bad way, but works in a really funny

6:07

good way.

6:10

Yes, just the expletive that

6:14

we just a normal conversation. Absolutely,

6:17

I don't know how any of that has slipped out. And

6:19

you know, doing morning shows, how

6:22

how long I did you know? You're tired? And just it's

6:24

how you talk right in the real you just like slips

6:27

out. You just forget you're on the air sometimes and you just

6:29

get so comfortable in front of the camera behind the microphone

6:31

that things come out that you're like, oh God,

6:33

I really shouldn't have said that. But so yesterday's

6:36

tournament we get a big Dustin Johnson

6:38

victory, a crazy walk off finish yesterday,

6:41

eagle beautiful finish. Um

6:43

does that bode well for Justin coming

6:46

into the UF for Dustin coming into the open? Uh?

6:48

Where maybe nobody's ever won back to back

6:51

or is he able to put this behind him in and

6:53

get the first back to back US

6:55

Open victory? Sorry, the people in my car

6:57

are talking really loud right now. That's

7:00

okay, He's got more producers in that car. Yes,

7:02

this is um.

7:07

I'm just trying to not direct the car. How

7:10

are you doing on

7:12

the way here this morning?

7:15

What's up? Hey? What's going on? Man? So the

7:17

big Dustin Johnson victory yesterday, nobody's

7:20

ever won the week before US Open and then pulled

7:22

off a victory during the US Open. Is Dustin

7:24

going to be the first? I mean, does

7:27

anyone give two rips

7:29

less about history than Dustin

7:31

Johnson? Like, I don't get cares right,

7:33

So it's like, if someone's gonna that's

7:36

going to be him. He he made

7:38

it for eagle on eighteen, and then they

7:40

cut away to the shot of Dustin Johnson

7:43

and it was like, I loved

7:45

it. He doesn't care, he

7:47

doesn't care. I love it. Yeah. I think it's

7:49

great for Dustin. I think it's good for golf, and he really

7:52

his his whole attitude

7:54

after making that eagle was really something that I

7:56

hadn't seen before. Is that how he normally

7:58

acts, whacker coming out of a big shot like that, or would

8:00

you think he was just surprised at the rest of us.

8:06

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize there was

8:08

multiple people on the

8:13

United States were

8:20

hobably just passing the phone around. Yeah,

8:24

this people

8:26

in her ear so about how I was

8:28

going to answer, I was like, I don't. I don't think

8:30

he knows that that that probably

8:32

happened in history, So no

8:34

idea. Yeah, he Look, I'll

8:37

encapsulated this way. I'll give you one of my a

8:40

story you can use on there with Dustin

8:42

Johnson. Um, I did an

8:44

interview with him, long sitdown interview for about minutes

8:47

a couple of years ago in Hawaii, and

8:50

um, about a month

8:53

later, I go to transcribe to interview

8:55

as a feature story for a magazine, and

8:58

unfortunately my iPhone had crashed and I

9:00

lost the entire recording of the you

9:03

do. So I had to go which is a complete

9:05

nightmare, and had to go back to Dustin

9:07

Johnson and say, um, you

9:10

know, I gave it some more time and went

9:12

back to him, said, look, remember that interview

9:14

we were supposed to do and sit down for and talk

9:17

about um, you know, winning

9:19

the US Open and breaking through and all

9:21

that good stuff. I said, you know, do you

9:24

have some time this week that we could actually do that

9:26

interview? And he said

9:28

sure, absolutely. He had completely

9:30

In other words, he had completely no idea. We

9:33

had done this ibue like a month

9:35

earlier, and the same question,

9:38

no idea, completely oblivious,

9:40

sits down and does the interview. It's probably better

9:42

the second time around. I mean, this

9:45

guy just forgets. He forgets

9:48

what day of the week it is. Last year, at the t

9:50

g A Championship, first hole

9:52

on Thursday, he turned to his also

9:55

his brother age and says, as

9:57

they're walking down the fairway

9:59

to get to bowl, it

10:02

was the first hole Thursday,

10:06

first round. That's

10:09

why he's so good. That's why he's so good.

10:13

Yeah, I mean, nothing bothers him. He just brushes

10:16

it off his shoulder. If you remember, they had

10:18

told him on like what the twelfth of the thirteenth

10:20

hole, that he could possibly be getting a penalty

10:22

later on. He brushed it off in the US

10:24

oper up two years

10:26

ago. That

10:31

didn't bother him. The average person. That bothers. They

10:34

sat down in the fairway and refused to play, right,

10:37

He didn't. He just brushed it off, kept going. One

10:39

said take a shot, asshole. Just

10:43

yes, Yes, I think I think he's

10:45

He's an amazing, amazing girlfriend for

10:48

whatever reason, He's got whatever

10:50

you want about Eventually he's

10:53

got the skill. Yeah, you're right, he totally does. And speaking

10:55

of Dustin Johnson and Taylor Made at

10:58

the end of the podcast, I've got some enter think

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Day ship because we need to get Dad something for Father's

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11:12

first, Holly Brand and I have been discussing

11:14

on the podcast whether Tiger Woods will

11:16

contend at this week's US Open. Brian

11:18

says he does not think Tiger Woods will

11:20

be a factor, uh this

11:23

week with everything that we've seen and and

11:25

how hard the golf course is going to play. Do you believe

11:27

Tiger will be a factor this week? I

11:30

hope, like I I want

11:32

Tiger to win. I think that would be awesome.

11:35

I hope Tiger feels how

11:37

about that awesome? Right?

11:40

Still finally breaks through? Maybe

11:42

I still want Tiger. I don't there

11:45

yet. I agree with you guys. I'm just hopeful

11:47

that somehow we at least one

11:49

of there for the weekend. Now, Brian, are you still of the

11:51

belief that he doesn't contend on Sunday?

11:54

Well, look, reason for

11:56

hope and and reason for

11:58

even beliefs to an extent, But

12:01

you know, will you win? You know, I just

12:03

think when you look at the golf course, the difficulty

12:06

of it, the number of top players he's

12:08

going to have to go through to get there, I

12:10

think it's just, um, it's just a lot to act

12:13

and we haven't really seen him put it together for

12:15

four days, uh, you

12:18

know all year. I mean he's he's can had a

12:20

couple of times where he's contended, but that's it's really

12:22

been about it, which you know, I

12:24

think this year is more about getting back into the flow,

12:27

um, working his way into contention. And

12:30

let's remember he hasn't worn in five years,

12:32

is Jack Nicholas said last week the

12:35

memorials, You know, you it is something

12:37

you have to sort of learn to do, or in

12:39

this case, relearn to do. I don't like

12:41

four team majors, seventy two PG four

12:43

wins. Yeah, I think he's got

12:45

to kind of relearn that part

12:48

of his game and and it will get there. I think. I

12:50

think certainly he's showing the kind of golf where he will

12:52

win at some point. I just don't think it will be

12:54

this week, a year a champion. He never forget that

12:56

to win matters when how do you need to learn how

12:58

to do it? And he's done so many times anything.

13:01

It's hard to believe where ten years removed from

13:04

his last major victory, and that was the U S opening

13:06

ats Roco Media on the broken leg and I

13:09

know the broken leg and that's you know,

13:11

that makes us really old. That

13:14

was ten years ago. If you would have told me then that he will

13:16

not win another major for ten years, I would have bet

13:18

my house on it. And it's unbelievable it's

13:21

changed since then. New World Golf rankings

13:23

out this morning, DJ back to number one, Justin

13:26

Thomas at two, Rose at

13:28

three, Jordan's Speed at four, Ram

13:30

at five, Rory at six, Fouler at

13:32

seven, Day at eight, Cop at

13:35

nine, Head Decide at ten, phill

13:37

It number twenty, and Tiger at number

13:39

eighty. Do we get a winner

13:41

out of the out of the top ten whacker or do

13:43

you think we get kind of an obscure winner

13:46

this week. I don't think oscure

13:48

winner out of the place like Shinnecock and the

13:51

and I mean this is a maybe the

13:53

best golf course in the country. Um,

13:56

and it will be set up to really reward

13:59

the gamest player. I think he's looking

14:01

at somebody in the top ten, top twenty,

14:03

really like a guy like Henrick Stenson who

14:06

drives an incredibly straight with that three words,

14:08

can hit as far. And the course looks like it will play

14:10

pretty firm and fast. Show father guy

14:13

like him, A guy like Bason Dave has

14:15

already won a couple of times. Uh. Certainly

14:18

you would wouldn't shock anybody

14:20

to be in the mix, even though no one's ever won. Uh,

14:23

you know two consecutive weeks, uh, or

14:26

the week before the US Open and then gone on the win the

14:28

US Open, justin tom um

14:32

even the got your phone's dropping

14:35

out, wagger? Are you in a whole

14:37

at the course? Know your phone's

14:39

dropping out really bad? Brian? Wherever you moved

14:42

to its band? Hey,

14:44

you know the

14:46

media center pretty much is a hole, but

14:49

it's at some point it I'll get out on the

14:52

course at least, but it's a little breeze out there.

14:54

Look, yes, do you answer your question? Whoever

14:57

wins this tournament, it's going to come from the top

14:59

tense on the thirty in the world. It will

15:01

be a big time player because

15:03

this is a big time golf course. Now,

15:05

Holly, are you at all concerned this week

15:08

about the name of the golf course considering

15:10

what we've already been through last week? Terrified?

15:15

I still see that. I'm talking around it. Everybody's

15:18

waiting for it. Now. Are you're just gonna call it

15:20

Shinny? Are you just gonna call it Shinny every

15:22

day? Or no? I'm since they welcome back

15:25

to the open,

15:29

beautiful outside, it's beautiful here

15:31

as you can see behind me. Avoiding

15:33

it, I

15:37

will find every other way to say it. Come on,

15:39

Holly, just say it with us one time, Shannon Cock.

15:43

There you go exactly. Well, Holly, thank

15:45

you for your time, appreciate it, good good luck actually

15:47

getting to the golf course this

15:50

time? Where

15:52

does Lebron end up? And I know that you're I know that you're

15:54

attached there at Fox Sports you're hearing about all this. Where

15:57

do you think Lebron ends up this offseason? I

16:00

kept hearing maybe the Rockets. I've heard the Rockets,

16:02

and I've heard of l A. Have you heard anything different Whacker?

16:05

I think we just lost Whacker. Actually, he just dropped

16:07

off. I think he hung up.

16:09

He was like, forget he hung up. He don't

16:11

want to talk basketball. I think that Lebron

16:14

ends up in l A. I think that maybe the Paul

16:16

George possibility. I

16:18

just don't understand that. I don't understand that.

16:21

Yeah, I don't love it. But then I've

16:23

also heard you maybe coming back here to South Florida.

16:25

I don't think the South Florida connection is

16:28

something that a return. No.

16:31

I think the pat Rod I miss South Florida,

16:33

like Southflorida is ever. Well, why

16:35

don't you ever come here and visit? Joe?

16:38

Stop trying to get into my podcast. Yet

16:40

he's shaking his head. He's saying, what South

16:43

Florida is awesome? I always

16:45

wanted to buy a place with the W and Fort lauderdown.

16:48

That would be awesome. Right cool?

16:50

Well, Holly, real quick before you go, I don't know if you can

16:52

do this or not. Can you give us a pick on who you

16:55

like this week at the US

16:58

Open? Wow?

17:01

I like that he has a good attitude

17:03

going in. You saw what he said about the courts

17:05

the best in years, you see, and

17:07

he's positive and this is the

17:10

time. Well, we just got a text from Brian

17:12

Whacker. He said, call dropped, Welcome to the US

17:14

Open. My picks this week Jason

17:17

Day or Justin Thomas. Okay,

17:20

it's very likely as well. Very good

17:22

picks for this very good. You

17:24

know what, I'm gonna go with the sentimental

17:27

pick. I'm gonna go with the best story of all Tiger

17:29

Woods. That's low hanging true. It's

17:32

not. It's not he's number fifty in the world.

17:36

I mean, I could pick Adecky Matt so y'allman, that would

17:38

be a better pick than Tiger at never fifty in the world.

17:40

I just I know it's difficult. I know he

17:42

has to learn to win again, but there's just something about

17:45

him showing up at the right moment. He

17:47

prepares for these four times a year, and

17:50

he's been hitting it really well. He played well at the weekend

17:52

on the players, he played well the last time we saw

17:54

him. And I really do believe

17:56

that he's about to make the jump

17:58

and turn the corner and start winning again. And what better

18:01

place to do it than right here to the US Open.

18:03

There's nobody that will be with you more

18:05

than the Fox broadcast crew on that

18:09

Tiger Woods. No, that would be for

18:12

golf in general. I yes, I hope

18:14

Tiger wins all the time. I

18:17

want to see you standing there talking to Tiger Woods

18:19

on Sunday afternoon after he wins his

18:22

nineteenth major and no, excuse me, his fifteenth

18:24

major. And I will not the

18:27

golf course. No you will not. Holly,

18:29

thank you so much. Have a great trip out to out

18:31

to the US Open and enjoy your week.

18:34

Find Brian Wagger. Yes, we'll

18:36

be watching you on TV live from Shinnecock

18:39

in New York at US

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