December 26, 2022 • 46 mins
Today is a deep dive episode about GOLF! We’ll be talking golf slang, golf etiquette, and more! And, we're joined by a wonderful guest - comedian and filmmaker and co-host of the lovely podcast, “Now Worries If Not”, Aaron Chewning! Aaron is also the mastermind behind the delightful and hilarious St. André Golf channels that are taking social media by storm! Follow St André Golf on IG and TikTok @standregolf and follow Aaron @aaronchewning
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Everywhere we told about ridiculous news over here. Hey, everyone,
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I'm Bill Whorley and Atlanta based filmmaker. I'm a comedian
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and I spent part of my youth living on Skitaway
Island and Savannah in the Landings, which is one of
the largest gated communities and private golf courses in the world.
And Mark I never drove a single ball. Um. I
also moved when I was eight, So how did that.
I'm just curious how that happened, because if you were there,
and I imagine they would have let you hit a
golf ball if you wanted to. Were you actively not
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trying to hit a golf ball. I think we were
the poorest people in the landings. My dad was the
preacher at the Presbyterian church, was just like the only
church on the island, and so I think as part
of his conversation, they had a house there, and so
I just like I didn't have it as as a
habit And I remember riding my bike. I remember there
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being a lot of alligators in the sand pits and
things like that. That's what I remember. But yeah, I
just never never got into this day. Mark, I don't
think I've ever driven a golf ball. I've putted, but
I've never driven a golf ball. I'm I'm in a
similar boat bill and hey everyone, my name is Mark.
I'm Atlanta based comedian as well. And you know, I
enjoyed golf video games. Has been a while since I
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play one, but I enjoyed. Uh. I think it was
like all hot shots. Golf was excellent. Um uh, you know,
put putt I'm a fan of and I have been
to a driving range a couple of times. However, I've
never played an actual hole of golf. Like I've never
been like on a course and like played a hole
of golf before, but you've driven up all this, Yes,
yes I have. So I think that's enough to be
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an expert for today's episode. And in today's episode is
a deep dive about golf. So we're gonna be talking
about like, you know, golf slang terms, a little bit
of golf etiquette. Uh sometimes where the ball sliced when
it wasn't supposed to. And that's the best I can
get it using some golf terminology. I'm not even sure
if that really even worked just now, but anyway, we're
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joined by a wonderful guest. This is a comedian and
filmmaker and co host of the truly Lovely podcast No
Worries If Not Aaron Tuning. Aaron is also the mastermind
behind the delightful and hilarious sat andre golf channels that
are taking social media by storm. Really give them a follow, y'all.
Welcome Aaron. He thanks guys to be here. Yeah, great
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to have you. And as we were saying earlier, Aaron,
you know you're so hilarious and all the forerent things
that you make, um, and we just wanted to say
right off the top, like what's the best way for
people to follow you or get engaged with the stuff
that you're putting out there? For sure? Yeah, it's um
at St Andre Golf, that's St Andre Golf, UM all
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over Instagram and TikTok primarily uh you ever having a blast.
And then my personal is just at Aaron Tuning. Um.
That's not nearly as active as St. Andre because that's
where most of my time energy is going right now.
But that's more of the personal stuff. And yeah, I
just like to have fun online. Come hang out if
you want, absolutely absolutely, Well, thanks so much for coming
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on man. And and you know, we have a little
bit we do at the beginning of the show called
giving guests their flowers. And this is where market I
will quickly compliment you. The only rule is you're not
allowed to compliment us. Back Them's the rules, and I'll
go first. Aaron. I've known you for a good bit, man.
You are so funny, You're so talented. I remember the
first time I met you, but I think I was
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doing a shoot like helping film and shoot it a
point or something with Joe Jones a long long time ago,
and you were so funny on camera and just cracking
me up in the break room has been between shots
and then you're you're you know your vines. All the
work you do is just so incredible. I'm always bragging
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on Atlanta talent, and when I'm bragging on Atlanta talent,
You're one of the first people that always jumps into
my mind. So thank you so much for coming on
the show. Yeah, absolutely, I agree with everything Bill said,
and Aaron, I'll just add, like, you know, you're so funny,
both like on camera as well as on camera. I
was cracking me up, Like I'm not a huge baseball fan,
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but all the content that you make with the Braves
are just like, man, I wish I was, I wish,
I wish I love baseball so much more because then
I you know, like but you make. But I think
that's the cool thing about like a lot of the
content that you make is that you are able to
bring someone into something even if they don't have like
an immediate connection to that already. And we're going to
talk about st Andre golf more later, but it's like,
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I think I've just seen you do that with several
things where there's the Braves, where there's golf, whatever it
is that you are into, and I think that that's
a great talent. So yeah, I'm so happy that you're here.
So love that can I quickly I just yeah, this
is just a separate thought, real quick. They're not compliments.
I just want to say a couple of quick things.
I don't know, Hey, God, I'm just I just wanna
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we're just going down memory lane here, and I just
want to say, uh, there's this time at Starbar, great
bar here in Atlanta where this comedian did a shark song.
I can't remember who the comedian was, but I cry laughed.
I very rarely laugh out loud other than just like
especially when it's a comedian and you know, doing a
lot of stand in my past, so it's more of
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like a ha, I respect that that's good type laugh.
But I cry laughed, and that is so rare. Me
and our friend David Purdue, we cry laughed. And there's
a special memory. And then just another random memory that's
in my head. Yeah, there's you know, video director production
guys that I love. I can't really remember names, but
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I think they're brilliant. And anytime you know it's not
a right fit for me or I can't do it.
I always recommend this person because I trust them with
my life when it comes to their comedic timing and
production ability. That is just that was just a random
couple of thoughts. But that is some under the radar
ship that really up so well and much appreciate it.
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And it's just because we can't end it on you
compliment and us. But that's what that was. If that's
what this was, I would say one of the things
that Mark said that and for folks that please go
check out Aaron's amazing stuff. It is so good. It's like,
it's so true that like even though I'm not a
huge golf person and I'm not like I love the
Braves because I'm from Atlanta, but like your content, like
the amazing music videos you made and all that stuff.
Definitely I feel more connected, I think, to the Braves
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because of your stuff than because of anything else, which
is such a cool thing for folks that I think
are trying to get into that kind of stuff, which
is why we're gonna talk about golf. Let's talk more
about some golf. And because you know, obviously if our
listeners heard from the our intro, Mark and I are
not experts. We've been around it a little bit, but um,
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you know, we wanted to play a game with you
and Mark I'll let you introduced this segment absolutely so, Aaron.
In addition to this being the podcast Ridiculous News, Uh,
for this segment, we have a fun game show that
we want to bring you on, and that is the
game show Swing Baby Swing. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna
throw some golf terms at you. Uh, and we're gonna
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see if you know uh, these golf definitions. So this
came from golf drives dot com and the article is
learning the lingo golf slang in terms, and so Bill
and I we're just gonna go back and forth give
you some golf terms. And the stakes are pretty high, uh, Aaron,
because if you lose, we get your Ferrari, but if
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you win, you win another Ferrari. Alright, so y'all let's
get into the first round of Swing Baby Swing. Alright.
So here's term number one that we're gonna throw at you.
Golf term. What is a yank? I repeat? What is
a yank? You have advent seconds yank? Uh? It's General
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Sherman who burned down Atlanta, Aaron Judge, I don't know, No,
I know what a yank is in in golf terms,
that is a right handed golfer who would like pull it.
It would pull it like so it'd go to the
left if you're right handed, or if you're left to
the right. Oh my gosh, that is correct. That is correct. Wow,
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ding ding ding under fantasy. He's keeping the ferrari so far. Okay,
the second term we got in the leather? What does
the term in the leather main? That sounds Yeah, that
sounds kind of kinky. I know it's not. I know
what that means. That is. Usually it's like a gimme
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for a put. So you have, you know, a club,
there's the leather grip up top. Then you have the
metal part of it. So if it's the put is
within the metal part from the ball, is that far
from the whole, that means it's good. It's in the leather, right, Yes,
that's round two, goes Aaron. Alright, So Aaron, here's another one. Uh,
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what is a juicy lie? Now in golf terms, not
in everyday life terms. In golf terms, what is a
juicy lie? You have seven hundred seven seconds? Yeah, I
think part of this too is I think regionally people
say different things. You know, there's so many different ways,
Like in the leather I yanked it like that. That
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feels pretty universal. But there's some stuff like shopping cart,
shopping buggy, Like it's different wherever you are in the world.
Uh so juicy lie, that one could be a few
different things. I feel like that's a positive thing, which
means it's like sitting up nice for you. You can
get a good swing on it. Wow, that's very that's
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pretty that's very close. What this definition says is offers
a nice clean hit. A juicy lie indicates that the
ball is sitting on top of grass, as if it
is mounted on a short tee. So you were writing
that it was a positive thing. That was very close. Um, yeah,
so we'll give that. That's a dub. I get that
one that I was gonna say, We'll give that round
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to Arran. That was that was excellent, well done. Alright.
Uh quack quack, it's a duck hook? What is that
the full term to be able to say the whole thing,
It's just that the term is just duck hook. Yeah,
duck cook. That's that's a classic one that's just for
right handoffer. That's just hard left so you can either
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like pull it or yanket and that just goes kinna
straight to the left, coming over the top and pulling
it into the woods or lake or whatever. But a
duck cook is where it like you do an inside
out wing. It starts going straight and then just yeats
left far left, usually out of bounce. Wow, nailed it.
Ran like this this is this is something else like
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we should yeah, we should have gone, we should have
chose more difficult ones, but I feel like these don't
seem difficult to you at all. But this so this
next one, uh, Aaron, what is a banana ball? Banana ball?
A banana ball? Um banana ball? That is uh the
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Chiquita banana girl playing basketball? Yep, uh no it is.
I'm assuming it's the opposite of duck cook because a
slice is like a that kind of shot shape. So
a shot going right potentially a slice. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Well you think I would, because this is why it
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says the ball travels in a banana shaped curve, a
very sharp bade shot known as a slice. So that's correct,
that's it's goodness, goodness, Alright, we're down to the final two.
Last last one. You're killing it. Okay. This one I
just thought was a funny phrase. I'm not sure how
common this is, but a chicken stick? What is it
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if on the golf course, if someone is has a
chicken stick? Has a chicken stick? Okay? Uh uh? Can
I get the country of origin? Okay? I don't know. Okay,
that is the first one where I don't immediately feel like,
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you know what, chicken stick? It sounds like chicken ship,
which makes me want to think of someone that lays
up and doesn't go for it, you know what I mean,
because you can either lay up and play it safe
or like go hard. Maybe he got it. The definition
says a golfer will choose to quote play it safe,
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your words exactly, chicken right? Get it? Okay? Right right, right,
all right? Because this last one point alright, So we
got the last one for you, Aaron, And you know,
I'll say it top Hey, you've been a hundred percent
so far and it's just like it's not about perfection,
it's just about doing your best. So just do your
best with this one. Um. What is an Armando in
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Armando in Armando that sounds like a sexy m F
you just get paired with. That's just a guy that
did a little soap proper work. Now he likes to
play golf in a spare time. Armando, there's an albatross,
which is like a two on a or a three
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out of part five or two of part five. Armando?
Is that a type of grass? I don't know. I
really I have no guest on Alan. These these guesses
are fantastic, and to be fair to you, Aaron, it
was a trick question. Armando is a type of improp
performance where a monologists tells true stories inspire a series
of improvised scenes by an improv team. So your first
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guests was in a lot of ways correct because Armando's
a person, a real person, So you know what, we
gotta give it to him, you know, all the way through. Yeah,
I tried hard. The other guest was gonna be a
Lady Gaga song, but I think that's a different different,
It's very close. Well, there goes the rest of our
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budget for this year, because we gotta get Aaron a
brand new Ferrari to go with his other So that's
gonna be coming in the mail. Keep keep an eye
on on your on your mailbox, and next up we
have our news nipples. So we do these ridiculous news
nipples for every episode. These ones are specifically related to golf.
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So this first story is about a influencer who has
charges pending because they hit a golf ball and lost
their driver into the Grand Canyon, forcing the National Parks
Service to ask a pretty silly question. Goes on to
say that after knocking your golf onto the Grand Canyon
and appearing to lose her driver, an influencer who posted
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a video of this on TikTok has charges and accordant appearance.
This led to the National Park Service posting what appears
to be silly but apparently necessary question on social media,
which is quote, do we really need to say don't
hit golf balls into the Grand Canyon? Is that necessary?
Apparently it is? Uh. The Park Service went on to
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explain why this is unacceptable by saying, Hey, you know what,
when you throw objects over the rim of the canyon,
it's not only illegal, but you can also endanger hikers
and wildlife and even other golfers who may be below
dumb as hell. That's so dumb bad, and also there's
video of it. Yeah, yeah, there's there's a TikTok. I
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love what people incriminate themselves for social media. Cloud So
what are you doing case clothes? You just showed yourself
doing that. Uh. Yeah, it's very dangerous and on golf courses,
I mean, projectile like balls come in hot a lot.
You know, you obviously want to yell for. Here's someone
yell for. You can cover your head. But like, I've
hit so many houses. I think I've hit a guy.
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I watched my dad get hit the chest and they
just hold my labor like he was shot. You can
get dangerous, and especially with whatever full free fall from
the Grand Canyon, that could legit kill a person. Yeah, yeah,
bad idea. I want to ask, how is your dad
like after that? Like how what? I like, how was he?
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How bad was it? I'm just curious how is that?
Because he's he's bad and like and racist, but he
was he just like fell fell over and I'm just
looking over and he's like holding his chest and he's like,
I just got hit. Uh he was fine. There's no
just a decent bruise. I assume I guess it was. Yeah,
it was like in a in a peck, so it
could have been a lot worse. But there's all this
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off meme accounts and stuff. They'll post videos where it's
a guy just like bleeding from the head because it
got drilled. So I did not know that was a
thing in golf, but it makes sense that that would
be the case. I mean, I guess I'm mostly familiar
with putt put where it's like it's for the most parace,
it's sticking to the ground, you know what I mean,
Like right, you're not really playing like above the rim
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or whatever the Gulf equivalent is, you know, on a
pup puff course. But that makes a lot of suff Yeah, yeah,
but that makes a lot of sense that that would
be a threat. Well, a question for you, Aaron. You know,
you put out so much awesome content, as we've mentioned already, Like, uh,
have you had any like kind of like close calls
trying to get like good shots, like just good camera
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angles and camera shots and things like that where you've
been trying to create content. We're just like, oh man,
that was wild, you know, uh, not really, because what
we're doing is kind of making fun of the golf
influencers that do that, because yeah, the golf content that's
out there and crushes. It's like you've got the bro
mean pages like bar stool stuff, which is not really
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our vibe. Um. Then you have a lot of great
golfers that do like hole vlogs or they play with
fun people and just kind of document it. And just
like there's an audience for watching anybody do anything on YouTube. Um.
And then there's yeah, these like trick shot artists are
people who like really pretty shots of certain kinds of
shots that are satisfying to watch, like stingers, like low,
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slow rising balls. So we've never you know, we're okay golfers.
We just love it and have fun. So like we
will make fun of people hitting the good shots, and
so for those videos, I will legit try to hit
the good shot knowing that I'm gonna miss it a lot,
and we're gonna just improv and have fun with it. Um.
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But yeah, no, we haven't actually tried to get like
those those real good high you know, like low percentage
tough shots that a lot of the golf influencers do.
Did that answer your question? Yeah? And I was also
just kind of yeah, yeah, it does. And I was
also just kind of curious just like I know you
would never go golfing on the Grand Canyon, but if
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you ever been, like, well, I did try to uh
dunk a basketball on Shaquille O'Neil and it didn't go
like I wanted to. I guess what I was trying
to say. I could have planned. The answer you gave
made it seem like I asked a better question that
I had. Yeah, okay, yes, just playing around of friends,
we've tried to hit like a dumb hero shot is
that if that's kind of what you're getting at where
it's like you play it, then you're like, I wonder
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if I could get over this tree or like skip
it across this lake. Um, I'm I'm a rule follower
big time. Don't want anyone who mad. If someone's mad
at me, I want to die. So like hitting a
house will ruin my day. You know, if I actually
hit into the group in front of us because I
like didn't see him or something to ruin my day.
If I made a park ranger man and they tweeted
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some ship at me, I would stop playing golf and
get off the internet. So anything like that high stakes
I have never done and will never do. There's no chance. Yeah,
we're gonna take a quick break to hear a word
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(20:19):
ridiculous news. All right, y'all, we're back with Aaron Tuning,
amazing guest and creator of the Saint Andre Golf channels
on social media, and he has done amazing sketches with
amazing talented folks here in Atlanta, and one of them
is a ball hog sketch that was actually featured in
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Golf Digest and they said this ball Hogs sketch is
one of the funniest, more devious things we've ever seen.
It's hilarious. It's Aaron dressed up in like a full
on like what is that like a marine sniperill okay, gillies.
So it's just like he looks like grass and um
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is talking about how he is the person that takes
the balls when they go out of bounce and absorbers
the balls. Can you can probably explain it better than
I can hear? Yeah, So it's actually when the balls
are inbound. So, you know, with all this stuff, like,
there's been so many takes on relatable golf stuff, so
we try to take one relatable idea blow it up,
make it absurd. You all know how that works. Um.
So for this one, it's when you hit a great drive,
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which is kind of rare for amateur golfers, Like you
nail it down the middle, and then for whatever reason,
you pull up and you can't find it. It is
a terrible, terrible feeling. So you know it's like hidden
in the rough. You know it somewhere, but you just
can't find it, or there's leaves, it gets lost whatever. Um.
So the ball hog idea was big golf Ball hires
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a guy to take the golf balls. Um, you know,
like get full camo under the radar, Navy seal style,
like army crawl take the balls so that golfers have
to buy more golf balls. Um sash. Just how we
made the relatable idea insane. Um. It was the hottest
I've ever been in my life. We shot that in July.
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I had that full suit on. I was dying the
course we're supposed to, but they accidentally led a few
golfers off on the nine holes that we rented, so
people were encroaching on us. I didn't have much time
to like play with the lines. And we try to
like you know, improv is the first take is never
really the best for what we're doing. So it was
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the most stressed I've been in a long time. It
was so but yeah, it turned out well, and that
Golf Digest thing came out of nowhere. We didn't know.
They didn't reach out to us, they just posted that
and it was awesome, especially because I was only a
couple of weeks after we launched. It was huge. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's great and it was such a cool, uh
piece of press that h'all got. And you know, uh,
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we've mentioned Saint Andre Golf several several times, but just
for the viewers that maybe haven't seen it yet, I
could just kind of describe to us what Saint Andrew
Golf is and what your involvement is with it. Yeah.
So my backgrounds in like comedic content, done that for forever,
went to the film school back in the day, kind
of started a traditional film and then like vine TikTok,
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I just love the short form social content for brands.
So me and a few friends love playing golf and
had the idea to you know, potentially do golf sketch comedy.
I don't know if that was like a series on
my page whatever, went do a copee shop, started writing, um,
potential ideas and wrote like ten pages of stuff, so
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like there's something here. Um. And also, you know, making
content for brands handing it off then they run with
the campaign and I it feels like a break up
every time. It's kind of sad, you know. So I
was like, what can I really build that is my
own because I've never gone all in on my channels.
It just I don't know, I like being more behind
the camera, Like I just I didn't want it to
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beat my face on everything. Um. So, yeah, we started
st Andrea if we knew we could make some waves people.
There's a lot of funny people in the golf world,
but not a ton of like quality production and scripted sketches. Um.
So yeah, that's that's what we're doing. We're nine weeks
old at this point, still pretty new, but posting three
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or four sketches a week. We're pumping stuff out. Um
and yeah, we're just trying to be a new voice
in the golf space. Uh. And yet you know, doing
stuff in Atlanta for so long, have my pretty solid
network of funny people, including you guys. Um So Yeah,
bringing in some of my favorite actor friends and just
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trying to like make funny stuff in the golf world
with people I love. That's what we're doing. Yeah. Another
question we got free Aaron is just like, you know,
as you're making this stuff, as you're making this content
for golf fans as well as people that may not
be in super into golf, like, what are some common
misconceptions about golf? Know, Like, like, for example, for me,
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like golf is one of those things were slight, man,
it looks fun, it looks great, you know, like Happy
Gilmore I think was maybe the first DVD I bought,
and I thought that that movie was super funny. Like
you know, like so like golf is this thing that
I've wanted to really enjoy. But also at the same time,
like when I think about golf, I also think about
like exclusion and things like that too, you know, So
it's like it feels like those things also go hand
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in hand. And so for you as you're like making
Saint Andre golf, when I watch your stuff, it feels
like you're aware of all those things, you know, like
all aware of people's preconceptions about golf when they engage
with it. So for you, I I just love to know, like,
what are some misconceptions about golf that maybe you keep
in mind as you are making the content. Yeah, I
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mean there's definitely some misconceptions, but there's also some very
accurate ideas about golf and golf culture that we just
don't rock with. Um. So we we've said from the beginning,
like we love the sport and but don't really love
the golf culture, especially kind of the older country club vibe. Um,
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very old, very traditional, very white, very rich. I've definitely
been in some country clubs with friends who are members
and like overheard some just heinous ship um that old
dudes feel comfortable saying, and it's yeah, it's it's bad.
And we're not trying to cater to those people. Ideally
would like to piss those people off and be a
little disruptive. Um. Yeah. So there there's this kind of
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new wave of creators, new voices that uh have really
been making some waves in the space, which has been great. Um.
People that you know are different backgrounds, different different type
of jokes, different types of content. It's really been shaking
things up. Um. Yeah. And misconception is like, honestly, there's
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not a ton of misconception that there's just some real
problems like the you know, getting into golf is expensive
and tough, and um people know those things, and you know,
top golf all this stuff has been great for the game. Uh,
just getting people to to pick up a club and
and usually if you get to a driving range or
a play around to golf, you'll you'll see why it's
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so fun. You might hit one good shot and realize like,
I could do this. Um, it's it's addictive like that
you can be that as hell. But then you'll hit
a ball pure one time, know that you have the
skills and the coordination to actually do it, and then
you get hooked. Um it blew up over COVID because
it was a safe outdoor activity to be with your friends. Um,
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you're kind of removed. It's not basketball. We're posting up
on each other like everyone had their own card type
of thing. Um. So yeah, No, I think it's just
golf as problems. I think there's a good, solid wave
of great people working to kind of disrupt it. But
the misconceptions you might have are accurate, and that part
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of well, I'm curious to so you know, you said
you played golf with your dad, You've you've it's been
sounds like it's been part of your life for a while.
Was there a moment when you realized that you liked
golf or that you realized was there specific thing that
happened that made you fall in love with the game. Oh,
that's interesting. Um. I was a big baseball guy growing up.
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That was bread and butter. Um started playing golf because
there's transferable skills there and it comes to you know,
swinging like like tennis, golf, baseball, Like it's just kind
of you play one of them, you can kind of
play the other ones. Um loved it growing up for sure.
It was on the golf team for a couple of years, UM,
and then kind of got out of it and then
(28:38):
fell back in love with it the last few years. Also,
I'm just like a very indoorsy person. Um, so finding
those like things I love to do outdoors. It's quality
time with friends, Like you're sitting you're hanging out with
your good friends for four hours, you know, like playing
a game like it's boiled down to those bare bones aspects.
It's it's just right quality time with friends doing something
(29:01):
outdoor and like moving around. So it's healthy in that aspect.
I love that part about it. Um And yeah, getting
better too. Like the last few years the first time
I really played consistently and so that really helped me
fall in love with it. Sort of like if you
have a good round or have a bad round, if
something's messed up, I'm I'm you know, uh duck hooking
(29:23):
it or banana ball or whatever, like I actually know
what I'm doing now I can work on it, you know.
So it's yeah, just like any hobby. I mean, once
you kind of start to fall in love with it
and can refine skills and get better, it's it gets addicting.
But yeah, I've always loved it a little bit, um
and then the last few years I really like fell
hard in love with it. You know. You mentioned how
golf can be addicting, right, So like what kind of
(29:45):
thrilled from golf are you chasing currently? You know? So,
and maybe there's not one, but it's just like you're
current where you are currently as a player. Is there
like a particular thing that you're chasing or like whether
it's a score or type of shot that you're trying
to hit? Um, you know, I think it's more experiences,
like you know, I say, basketball are soccer like the pitch,
(30:12):
the court, like they're all kind of the same. But
golf courses can take you all around the world. You
can like it like pristine conditions that just kind of
take your breath away. There's all these kind of marquee
experiences that I think every golfer would want to have.
There's the St. Andrew's, you know over in Europe, home
of golf, like it's iconic. There's Pebble Beach, There's I
(30:34):
guess the National There's all these that are like the
bucket list type things, and I think that's kind of
different when it comes to a lot of other sports.
I guess if you love football, play football growing up.
You can play football with your friends, but it's not
like you want to go play at Mercedes been Stadium
and that checks off a bucket list thing that's not
really possible or happens, you know what I mean. Um
(30:56):
So yeah, I mean, I've definitely have like the mini
goals when it comes to my game, aim and want
to get more consistent and whatnot. But the things that
kind of excite me about the future and where I'm going,
or maybe I could take st Andre be like shooting
content on these wild courses with cool people I wouldn't
normally have access access to when it comes to content.
So yeah, it's more on the experiential side for me.
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That's great, that's awesome. Yeah, I mean that's honestly the
way you're describing it again and what you're one of
your talents errand is like making things successiful at all?
It does, Like to me, it's it sounds like hanging
out with your friends in this beautiful outdoor space for
four hours. That seems like such a great part of golf,
and that's the part that I've always think been the
most jealous of. It's like just it gives you a
(31:41):
reason to be outside and to hang out, um and
you know, get to know folks for sure. Yeah, I
mean it's definitely an more expensive hobby than I would like,
but it's much healthier. Like, you know, I love to
go to dive bars and drink tin PBRs with my
friends and that's great, and I still do that, but
and I'll spend a hundred dollars out of bar just
(32:02):
being an idiot where I'm like, all right, well I
just spent forty dollars to like walk four miles with
my friends and like be active. Like yeah, that's a
great part of it for sure. Yea. We will be
right back with more ridiculous news after this short break.
Yeah yeah, yeah, don't get confused ridiculous news. Okay, y'all,
(32:28):
we're back with Aaron shooting the best golfer on the
planet ship Tiger. Yeah, happens to be an amazing content
producer as well. So you know, Aaron, back when there
was a thing called Vine which was owned by Twitter,
you were making amazing content and getting all these views.
(32:49):
It almost feels like it was TikTok. And I'm sure
you've heard this many times, TikTok before TikTok because it
was the short six second videos that were so funny,
and you were so consistently funny with these things. Um
and now you know, Elon Musk has talked about bringing
Vine back. So I saw that. Curious what your thoughts
(33:11):
were and when you heard that, or if you were
excited about it, or how you felt conflicting emotions. Probably
probably thirty people sent me, you know, the news articles
about that Elon's a damn troll. You don't know. I
don't take anything seriously. Um. I guess he did follow
(33:32):
through a Twitter which he tried to back out of it.
You know, I just I just don't know what's real there. Um,
and I don't know. There's been several people that have
tried to reboot vine. Um, it's it kind of goes
back like why you know, I don't I don't know
that they could do anything. Knew that TikTok isn't doing. Um.
(33:52):
It was kind of at the forefront of video online,
like when it comes to making every person a creator
if they want to be. Um, you know, YouTube longer
form stuff like Barrier to Injury was kind of high there. Um,
you know the other than like I am Aci movie
type stuff. Uh yeah, it put it on your phone.
(34:14):
It was run poorly from the beginning. Um. The owners
sold the Twitter. No one wanted it to be a
comedy app, which it became. Um. They thought it was
gonna be like a daily vlog Here's six seconds of
my day type stuff, and didn't reach out to creators,
didn't build community, and by you know, the time Instagram
added video, it was just kind of too late. So
(34:34):
it was run poorly. TikTok hopped on that. Um really
accepted the kind of creator economy. Um, that was just
from coming later. I think you see the mistakes other
people make, and then you make a better product. That's
what they did, So I don't really know what they
could do now. It would not be the same. No
one wants six second videos anymore. Um, you can do
(34:57):
that anywhere. But you know, like obviously short attention span,
that's us as a human race nowadays. Um, but still
people want to watch a couple of minutes potentially, Like
I don't know, the whole short video niche I think
is is gone. Um, I don't really know why we
need it. You know, that's kind of where I'm at.
(35:19):
Just just the branding. Doesn't of course that like it's
like a weird nostalgic thing and triggers my PTSD. But
I just don't know. Yeah, TikTok has has been fantastic.
I think the one thing I'm just so boxing now rambling, Um,
go for it. It's great. TikTok very well could get
banned at any time. Um. You know there's that's pretty
(35:43):
like bipartisan too. Uh. TikTok in China is educational it's
like making people over there smarter and it's making us dumber.
Like it's just kind of long term cultural warfare and
it's working. You know, we just watch cats fall into
toilets and love it. Uh So, yeah, I don't know,
like I get that like kind of positioning yourself as
(36:05):
like a backup, so TikTok goes under, everyone will hop
to whatever's here and next and safe for Americans to use.
So yeah, that could make sense. But yeah, I don't
know what you talk. You know, great, and and that's
you know, coming from an expert in someone who knows
these platforms very well. It's always great to hear your
thoughts and and and and opinions on it. And you know,
(36:27):
I think with the FCC talking about to what you
said banning TikTok and that being oddly bipartisan, I mean
I'm playing like you want kids to vote, that's the
way get kids to show ups to the ballot. But
to your point, it's seemingly a bipartisan thing, like you know,
and it's a it's a national security issue according to
the FEC, which of course, you know, we we don't
want China to take over our elections. You know Russia
(36:48):
is doing a good enough job with that, so I
think with with TikTok, well, one of the things you
mentioned that I connected with a lot too is just
the A d h D of our society, man, because
I feel like, you know, with TikTok, with reels, with
all these things, the attention spans are so short, um
And I enjoyed the content. I do enjoy a lot
(37:10):
of the TikTok content, and I feel like, from my
limited experience being supposed to it a lot of it,
it seems more positive to me. Um And and maybe
I'm being naive or it's the beginning of it, uh
than on other channels. Um. But I'm curious what you've done, Aaron,
to kind of combat some of that A d h
D in your own life, because you know, so much
(37:31):
of what you do is this really sticky, catchy fun
stuff to watch. Have you how do you you know?
How have you felt like that's making that short of
content has affected your attention span overall in life? Yeah,
short form content, as I don't know if my brain
is kind of geared towards that always, but it just
(37:51):
kind of molded that way, you know, with with social media,
I remember I think it was a daily show writer.
That was the tweet of God on Twitter, like it's
so funny parody account of God. Um but and it
was crushing it like a couple of million followers. I
think everything was so funny, and then had to stop
and did the first like behind the curtain tweet. Was like, Hey,
(38:13):
this is ruining my profession because I'm thinking in short
form like tweets like one liners, and I can't do
my job, so I had to stop. Um. I've definitely
felt that to a degree, like especially with vines six seconds,
Like I was thinking way too much in puns, you know,
because that's kind of all you have time for something,
just a goofy moment and then you're out. Um, So
(38:33):
writing a longer form script or something was super tough. Um. Yeah,
I don't know, it's it's you know, I'm envious of
like filmmakers who will spent a couple of years on
one project. Um. But now I've kind of trained myself
for the instant gratification of it all. Um, Like we
posted a sketch Mondays and Tuesday, it's Wednesday right now, um,
(38:58):
and I'm ready to post again, Like it just gonna
need it. It's like a slot machine. I just keep refreshing,
you know, looking for the next hit. UM, so I
haven't combated it well, is the It's tough and even
like even getting myself to slow down and watch a movie,
which I love more than anything. You know, it's tough
(39:18):
for me to get those like a couple hours in
my day where I'm just fully locked into something. It's
just not how my brain works anymore. I am broken
in that way. I think we all are, man And
it's just you know, just talking about it because we
talked a lot of show about on the podcast about
a d H D and intention spans and it is
something you know, Mark and I. You've seen our content.
(39:39):
We focus on making stuff short and sweet as well,
and I think it's just something I'm curious how our
our society continues to progress with gen z and these
younger folks you know, growing up on YouTube and iPads
and all these things. It's just one of those interesting
facts of life. But you know, I wanted to to
move on um and to another story before we go
(40:02):
too much in the rabbit hole of a H D
UH and talk about UM this really cool UH story
that Mark, you actually found this about the Nazis. Yeah, yeah,
so there was back in you know they are World
War two. There's this article from Business Insider talking about
(40:24):
an incredible list of golf rules from World War two England,
and it tells you what to do if you get
attacked by the Nazis while playing. And so it's a
pretty wild list, y'all. I mean, like, Aaron, if you
did you hear about this list when it was passed
round or released? No, I've never heard of this wild Okay, great,
(40:46):
that's good because this segment we're gonna play it's called
did Aaron do that? So these are sort of like
some crazy situations that this etiquette list lays out, and
we're just going to ask if you can relate to
any of it because it's just like just such a
unique point in time in our world history. Um. So
(41:08):
here's the list. Okay, So and Bill, we can go
back and forth too. So this is an instance number one,
So players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters
to save these, causing damaged to the mowing machines. I've
never done that. That's that's what I haven't done. Rights
(41:30):
as crazy, it's crazy, did Aaron do that? In competitions,
during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players are allowed
to take cover without penalty for ceasing play. Has Aaron
done that? I have taken cover before, it wasn't because
of air strikes. Um. This is semi related, but I
(41:53):
think you all enjoy the story. Uh. I was at
a friends bachelor party semi recently. Our friend Andrew stand
be very funny comedian. Twelve of us went and played
golf with a super nice course. It was rainy, um,
it was about to start raining and drizzling, so we
took cover for a little bit. Started to clear up.
So we go out there, me and Andrew and two
of his friends are in the second group. We hear
(42:14):
a lightning strike. Oh my gosh, we thought like we
hit the deck. We thought it like almost hit us. Um.
We scurry back to the carts, drive up to the trees.
That was the best cover. Obviously lightning loves trees. Um.
But then you know, it kind of subsides after a
few minutes and we go up there and we see
(42:35):
Andrew's brother and a couple of his friends walk up
like zombies, like full shell shocked, being like I think
we just got hit by lightning, like what. It hit
a giant tree about fifty yards from them and exploded
the tree. Two of the guys got hit with like
trapnel with wood trap um. It smelled like the inside
(42:56):
of a home depot, like all around there, like it
really exploded this tree. I will send you guys a
picture later. This is not good for any of the listeners,
but it was fascinating and like they were, they were
different people after that. It was. It was insane. So
yeah that when it comes to shrapnel and taking cover
(43:16):
like I have, I can relate to that tiny bit
different circumstances. Zero nazis around as far as I know,
But yeah, that's pretty crazy. That is. That is a
wild story, man, And I'm glad everyone seemed to be
all right, but man, that's got to be super scary.
And and something else that I thought was interesting about
(43:37):
this list, y'all, is is this thing has it feels
so tongue in cheek, right because in this list that says, hey,
you know, if bombs are falling, you can take cover
and we won't even pedalize you. Like yeah, one person, yeah,
one person before that list is gonna be like I
can't take the struke penalty as you can't do it
(44:00):
stiff upper lip of the British. Yeah, that's quite well, Mark,
I feel like you know that story was an awesome
uh ending I think to this particular segment and having
our good friend Errand on the show, Aaron, I know
we talked a little bit at the top about St.
Andre Golf. But again, for our folks that are listening,
can you tell us um where to follow you and
(44:21):
how to check out this awesome content? Yeah? Um, St
Andre Golf is the handle everywhere. And yeah, we have
been releasing sketches, multiple sketches a week. We have some
very exciting things coming up, um potentially adding some new
comedic people to the full that we're excited about, and
also maybe working with some big brands with some very
(44:42):
cool secret opportunities that can't really say yet, but keep it,
keep an eye on the pages and we'll be posting
some some really fun exciting stuff in the next couple
of months. That's at St Andre s t A in
d R E Golf, on I G and TikTok right
or the I guess the main channels. Yep, that's it.
(45:04):
And then yeah, we got some We got some cool
fun merch too. I might be wearing one right now.
That's all I wear. That's good. I know you can't see,
but it looks good. It's pretty good. Yeah. Well, y'all,
we're gonna move on to our final and uh one
of our favorite segments called the Spring of Inspiring Inspirations.
So this is where we read a quote, y'all to
end things on a positive note. And so this quote
(45:26):
is from golfer Amy Alcott, and the quote is keep
your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest
of your life not to let bad shots. We win
a game you're supposed to enjoy. Amen, Yeah, man, And
thank you all so much for tuning in. Thank you
Aaron so much for being here. We know you have
a lot of choices, so it means the world when
you all spend your time with us. Thank you, Yes,
(45:48):
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(46:17):
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(00:20):
off beat journalism, the strange and the usual stories, and
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Everywhere we told about ridiculous news over here. Hey, everyone,
welcome to Ridiculous News, not your average news show. We
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I'm Bill Whorley and Atlanta based filmmaker. I'm a comedian
(00:41):
and I spent part of my youth living on Skitaway
Island and Savannah in the Landings, which is one of
the largest gated communities and private golf courses in the world.
And Mark I never drove a single ball. Um. I
also moved when I was eight, So how did that.
I'm just curious how that happened, because if you were there,
and I imagine they would have let you hit a
golf ball if you wanted to. Were you actively not
(01:04):
trying to hit a golf ball. I think we were
the poorest people in the landings. My dad was the
preacher at the Presbyterian church, was just like the only
church on the island, and so I think as part
of his conversation, they had a house there, and so
I just like I didn't have it as as a
habit And I remember riding my bike. I remember there
(01:28):
being a lot of alligators in the sand pits and
things like that. That's what I remember. But yeah, I
just never never got into this day. Mark, I don't
think I've ever driven a golf ball. I've putted, but
I've never driven a golf ball. I'm I'm in a
similar boat bill and hey everyone, my name is Mark.
I'm Atlanta based comedian as well. And you know, I
enjoyed golf video games. Has been a while since I
(01:48):
play one, but I enjoyed. Uh. I think it was
like all hot shots. Golf was excellent. Um uh, you know,
put putt I'm a fan of and I have been
to a driving range a couple of times. However, I've
never played an actual hole of golf. Like I've never
been like on a course and like played a hole
of golf before, but you've driven up all this, Yes,
yes I have. So I think that's enough to be
(02:09):
an expert for today's episode. And in today's episode is
a deep dive about golf. So we're gonna be talking
about like, you know, golf slang terms, a little bit
of golf etiquette. Uh sometimes where the ball sliced when
it wasn't supposed to. And that's the best I can
get it using some golf terminology. I'm not even sure
if that really even worked just now, but anyway, we're
(02:31):
joined by a wonderful guest. This is a comedian and
filmmaker and co host of the truly Lovely podcast No
Worries If Not Aaron Tuning. Aaron is also the mastermind
behind the delightful and hilarious sat andre golf channels that
are taking social media by storm. Really give them a follow, y'all.
Welcome Aaron. He thanks guys to be here. Yeah, great
(02:55):
to have you. And as we were saying earlier, Aaron,
you know you're so hilarious and all the forerent things
that you make, um, and we just wanted to say
right off the top, like what's the best way for
people to follow you or get engaged with the stuff
that you're putting out there? For sure? Yeah, it's um
at St Andre Golf, that's St Andre Golf, UM all
(03:15):
over Instagram and TikTok primarily uh you ever having a blast.
And then my personal is just at Aaron Tuning. Um.
That's not nearly as active as St. Andre because that's
where most of my time energy is going right now.
But that's more of the personal stuff. And yeah, I
just like to have fun online. Come hang out if
you want, absolutely absolutely, Well, thanks so much for coming
(03:37):
on man. And and you know, we have a little
bit we do at the beginning of the show called
giving guests their flowers. And this is where market I
will quickly compliment you. The only rule is you're not
allowed to compliment us. Back Them's the rules, and I'll
go first. Aaron. I've known you for a good bit, man.
You are so funny, You're so talented. I remember the
first time I met you, but I think I was
(03:58):
doing a shoot like helping film and shoot it a
point or something with Joe Jones a long long time ago,
and you were so funny on camera and just cracking
me up in the break room has been between shots
and then you're you're you know your vines. All the
work you do is just so incredible. I'm always bragging
(04:19):
on Atlanta talent, and when I'm bragging on Atlanta talent,
You're one of the first people that always jumps into
my mind. So thank you so much for coming on
the show. Yeah, absolutely, I agree with everything Bill said,
and Aaron, I'll just add, like, you know, you're so funny,
both like on camera as well as on camera. I
was cracking me up, Like I'm not a huge baseball fan,
(04:39):
but all the content that you make with the Braves
are just like, man, I wish I was, I wish,
I wish I love baseball so much more because then
I you know, like but you make. But I think
that's the cool thing about like a lot of the
content that you make is that you are able to
bring someone into something even if they don't have like
an immediate connection to that already. And we're going to
talk about st Andre golf more later, but it's like,
(05:01):
I think I've just seen you do that with several
things where there's the Braves, where there's golf, whatever it
is that you are into, and I think that that's
a great talent. So yeah, I'm so happy that you're here.
So love that can I quickly I just yeah, this
is just a separate thought, real quick. They're not compliments.
I just want to say a couple of quick things.
I don't know, Hey, God, I'm just I just wanna
(05:26):
we're just going down memory lane here, and I just
want to say, uh, there's this time at Starbar, great
bar here in Atlanta where this comedian did a shark song.
I can't remember who the comedian was, but I cry laughed.
I very rarely laugh out loud other than just like
especially when it's a comedian and you know, doing a
lot of stand in my past, so it's more of
(05:46):
like a ha, I respect that that's good type laugh.
But I cry laughed, and that is so rare. Me
and our friend David Purdue, we cry laughed. And there's
a special memory. And then just another random memory that's
in my head. Yeah, there's you know, video director production
guys that I love. I can't really remember names, but
(06:07):
I think they're brilliant. And anytime you know it's not
a right fit for me or I can't do it.
I always recommend this person because I trust them with
my life when it comes to their comedic timing and
production ability. That is just that was just a random
couple of thoughts. But that is some under the radar
ship that really up so well and much appreciate it.
(06:30):
And it's just because we can't end it on you
compliment and us. But that's what that was. If that's
what this was, I would say one of the things
that Mark said that and for folks that please go
check out Aaron's amazing stuff. It is so good. It's like,
it's so true that like even though I'm not a
huge golf person and I'm not like I love the
Braves because I'm from Atlanta, but like your content, like
the amazing music videos you made and all that stuff.
Definitely I feel more connected, I think, to the Braves
(06:53):
because of your stuff than because of anything else, which
is such a cool thing for folks that I think
are trying to get into that kind of stuff, which
is why we're gonna talk about golf. Let's talk more
about some golf. And because you know, obviously if our
listeners heard from the our intro, Mark and I are
not experts. We've been around it a little bit, but um,
(07:13):
you know, we wanted to play a game with you
and Mark I'll let you introduced this segment absolutely so, Aaron.
In addition to this being the podcast Ridiculous News, Uh,
for this segment, we have a fun game show that
we want to bring you on, and that is the
game show Swing Baby Swing. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna
throw some golf terms at you. Uh, and we're gonna
(07:34):
see if you know uh, these golf definitions. So this
came from golf drives dot com and the article is
learning the lingo golf slang in terms, and so Bill
and I we're just gonna go back and forth give
you some golf terms. And the stakes are pretty high, uh, Aaron,
because if you lose, we get your Ferrari, but if
(07:55):
you win, you win another Ferrari. Alright, so y'all let's
get into the first round of Swing Baby Swing. Alright.
So here's term number one that we're gonna throw at you.
Golf term. What is a yank? I repeat? What is
a yank? You have advent seconds yank? Uh? It's General
(08:19):
Sherman who burned down Atlanta, Aaron Judge, I don't know, No,
I know what a yank is in in golf terms,
that is a right handed golfer who would like pull it.
It would pull it like so it'd go to the
left if you're right handed, or if you're left to
the right. Oh my gosh, that is correct. That is correct. Wow,
(08:42):
ding ding ding under fantasy. He's keeping the ferrari so far. Okay,
the second term we got in the leather? What does
the term in the leather main? That sounds Yeah, that
sounds kind of kinky. I know it's not. I know
what that means. That is. Usually it's like a gimme
(09:03):
for a put. So you have, you know, a club,
there's the leather grip up top. Then you have the
metal part of it. So if it's the put is
within the metal part from the ball, is that far
from the whole, that means it's good. It's in the leather, right, Yes,
that's round two, goes Aaron. Alright, So Aaron, here's another one. Uh,
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what is a juicy lie? Now in golf terms, not
in everyday life terms. In golf terms, what is a
juicy lie? You have seven hundred seven seconds? Yeah, I
think part of this too is I think regionally people
say different things. You know, there's so many different ways,
Like in the leather I yanked it like that. That
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feels pretty universal. But there's some stuff like shopping cart,
shopping buggy, Like it's different wherever you are in the world.
Uh so juicy lie, that one could be a few
different things. I feel like that's a positive thing, which
means it's like sitting up nice for you. You can
get a good swing on it. Wow, that's very that's
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pretty that's very close. What this definition says is offers
a nice clean hit. A juicy lie indicates that the
ball is sitting on top of grass, as if it
is mounted on a short tee. So you were writing
that it was a positive thing. That was very close. Um, yeah,
so we'll give that. That's a dub. I get that
one that I was gonna say, We'll give that round
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to Arran. That was that was excellent, well done. Alright.
Uh quack quack, it's a duck hook? What is that
the full term to be able to say the whole thing,
It's just that the term is just duck hook. Yeah,
duck cook. That's that's a classic one that's just for
right handoffer. That's just hard left so you can either
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like pull it or yanket and that just goes kinna
straight to the left, coming over the top and pulling
it into the woods or lake or whatever. But a
duck cook is where it like you do an inside
out wing. It starts going straight and then just yeats
left far left, usually out of bounce. Wow, nailed it.
Ran like this this is this is something else like
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we should yeah, we should have gone, we should have
chose more difficult ones, but I feel like these don't
seem difficult to you at all. But this so this
next one, uh, Aaron, what is a banana ball? Banana ball?
A banana ball? Um banana ball? That is uh the
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Chiquita banana girl playing basketball? Yep, uh no it is.
I'm assuming it's the opposite of duck cook because a
slice is like a that kind of shot shape. So
a shot going right potentially a slice. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Well you think I would, because this is why it
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says the ball travels in a banana shaped curve, a
very sharp bade shot known as a slice. So that's correct,
that's it's goodness, goodness, Alright, we're down to the final two.
Last last one. You're killing it. Okay. This one I
just thought was a funny phrase. I'm not sure how
common this is, but a chicken stick? What is it
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if on the golf course, if someone is has a
chicken stick? Has a chicken stick? Okay? Uh uh? Can
I get the country of origin? Okay? I don't know. Okay,
that is the first one where I don't immediately feel like,
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you know what, chicken stick? It sounds like chicken ship,
which makes me want to think of someone that lays
up and doesn't go for it, you know what I mean,
because you can either lay up and play it safe
or like go hard. Maybe he got it. The definition
says a golfer will choose to quote play it safe,
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your words exactly, chicken right? Get it? Okay? Right right, right,
all right? Because this last one point alright, So we
got the last one for you, Aaron, And you know,
I'll say it top Hey, you've been a hundred percent
so far and it's just like it's not about perfection,
it's just about doing your best. So just do your
best with this one. Um. What is an Armando in
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Armando in Armando that sounds like a sexy m F
you just get paired with. That's just a guy that
did a little soap proper work. Now he likes to
play golf in a spare time. Armando, there's an albatross,
which is like a two on a or a three
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out of part five or two of part five. Armando?
Is that a type of grass? I don't know. I
really I have no guest on Alan. These these guesses
are fantastic, and to be fair to you, Aaron, it
was a trick question. Armando is a type of improp
performance where a monologists tells true stories inspire a series
of improvised scenes by an improv team. So your first
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guests was in a lot of ways correct because Armando's
a person, a real person, So you know what, we
gotta give it to him, you know, all the way through. Yeah,
I tried hard. The other guest was gonna be a
Lady Gaga song, but I think that's a different different,
It's very close. Well, there goes the rest of our
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budget for this year, because we gotta get Aaron a
brand new Ferrari to go with his other So that's
gonna be coming in the mail. Keep keep an eye
on on your on your mailbox, and next up we
have our news nipples. So we do these ridiculous news
nipples for every episode. These ones are specifically related to golf.
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So this first story is about a influencer who has
charges pending because they hit a golf ball and lost
their driver into the Grand Canyon, forcing the National Parks
Service to ask a pretty silly question. Goes on to
say that after knocking your golf onto the Grand Canyon
and appearing to lose her driver, an influencer who posted
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a video of this on TikTok has charges and accordant appearance.
This led to the National Park Service posting what appears
to be silly but apparently necessary question on social media,
which is quote, do we really need to say don't
hit golf balls into the Grand Canyon? Is that necessary?
Apparently it is? Uh. The Park Service went on to
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explain why this is unacceptable by saying, Hey, you know what,
when you throw objects over the rim of the canyon,
it's not only illegal, but you can also endanger hikers
and wildlife and even other golfers who may be below
dumb as hell. That's so dumb bad, and also there's
video of it. Yeah, yeah, there's there's a TikTok. I
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love what people incriminate themselves for social media. Cloud So
what are you doing case clothes? You just showed yourself
doing that. Uh. Yeah, it's very dangerous and on golf courses,
I mean, projectile like balls come in hot a lot.
You know, you obviously want to yell for. Here's someone
yell for. You can cover your head. But like, I've
hit so many houses. I think I've hit a guy.
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I watched my dad get hit the chest and they
just hold my labor like he was shot. You can
get dangerous, and especially with whatever full free fall from
the Grand Canyon, that could legit kill a person. Yeah, yeah,
bad idea. I want to ask, how is your dad
like after that? Like how what? I like, how was he?
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How bad was it? I'm just curious how is that?
Because he's he's bad and like and racist, but he
was he just like fell fell over and I'm just
looking over and he's like holding his chest and he's like,
I just got hit. Uh he was fine. There's no
just a decent bruise. I assume I guess it was. Yeah,
it was like in a in a peck, so it
could have been a lot worse. But there's all this
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off meme accounts and stuff. They'll post videos where it's
a guy just like bleeding from the head because it
got drilled. So I did not know that was a
thing in golf, but it makes sense that that would
be the case. I mean, I guess I'm mostly familiar
with putt put where it's like it's for the most parace,
it's sticking to the ground, you know what I mean,
Like right, you're not really playing like above the rim
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or whatever the Gulf equivalent is, you know, on a
pup puff course. But that makes a lot of suff Yeah, yeah,
but that makes a lot of sense that that would
be a threat. Well, a question for you, Aaron. You know,
you put out so much awesome content, as we've mentioned already, Like, uh,
have you had any like kind of like close calls
trying to get like good shots, like just good camera
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angles and camera shots and things like that where you've
been trying to create content. We're just like, oh man,
that was wild, you know, uh, not really, because what
we're doing is kind of making fun of the golf
influencers that do that, because yeah, the golf content that's
out there and crushes. It's like you've got the bro
mean pages like bar stool stuff, which is not really
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our vibe. Um. Then you have a lot of great
golfers that do like hole vlogs or they play with
fun people and just kind of document it. And just
like there's an audience for watching anybody do anything on YouTube. Um.
And then there's yeah, these like trick shot artists are
people who like really pretty shots of certain kinds of
shots that are satisfying to watch, like stingers, like low,
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slow rising balls. So we've never you know, we're okay golfers.
We just love it and have fun. So like we
will make fun of people hitting the good shots, and
so for those videos, I will legit try to hit
the good shot knowing that I'm gonna miss it a lot,
and we're gonna just improv and have fun with it. Um.
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But yeah, no, we haven't actually tried to get like
those those real good high you know, like low percentage
tough shots that a lot of the golf influencers do.
Did that answer your question? Yeah? And I was also
just kind of yeah, yeah, it does. And I was
also just kind of curious just like I know you
would never go golfing on the Grand Canyon, but if
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you ever been, like, well, I did try to uh
dunk a basketball on Shaquille O'Neil and it didn't go
like I wanted to. I guess what I was trying
to say. I could have planned. The answer you gave
made it seem like I asked a better question that
I had. Yeah, okay, yes, just playing around of friends,
we've tried to hit like a dumb hero shot is
that if that's kind of what you're getting at where
it's like you play it, then you're like, I wonder
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if I could get over this tree or like skip
it across this lake. Um, I'm I'm a rule follower
big time. Don't want anyone who mad. If someone's mad
at me, I want to die. So like hitting a
house will ruin my day. You know, if I actually
hit into the group in front of us because I
like didn't see him or something to ruin my day.
If I made a park ranger man and they tweeted
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some ship at me, I would stop playing golf and
get off the internet. So anything like that high stakes
I have never done and will never do. There's no chance. Yeah,
we're gonna take a quick break to hear a word
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(20:19):
ridiculous news. All right, y'all, we're back with Aaron Tuning,
amazing guest and creator of the Saint Andre Golf channels
on social media, and he has done amazing sketches with
amazing talented folks here in Atlanta, and one of them
is a ball hog sketch that was actually featured in
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Golf Digest and they said this ball Hogs sketch is
one of the funniest, more devious things we've ever seen.
It's hilarious. It's Aaron dressed up in like a full
on like what is that like a marine sniperill okay, gillies.
So it's just like he looks like grass and um
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is talking about how he is the person that takes
the balls when they go out of bounce and absorbers
the balls. Can you can probably explain it better than
I can hear? Yeah, So it's actually when the balls
are inbound. So, you know, with all this stuff, like,
there's been so many takes on relatable golf stuff, so
we try to take one relatable idea blow it up,
make it absurd. You all know how that works. Um.
So for this one, it's when you hit a great drive,
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which is kind of rare for amateur golfers, Like you
nail it down the middle, and then for whatever reason,
you pull up and you can't find it. It is
a terrible, terrible feeling. So you know it's like hidden
in the rough. You know it somewhere, but you just
can't find it, or there's leaves, it gets lost whatever. Um.
So the ball hog idea was big golf Ball hires
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a guy to take the golf balls. Um, you know,
like get full camo under the radar, Navy seal style,
like army crawl take the balls so that golfers have
to buy more golf balls. Um sash. Just how we
made the relatable idea insane. Um. It was the hottest
I've ever been in my life. We shot that in July.
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I had that full suit on. I was dying the
course we're supposed to, but they accidentally led a few
golfers off on the nine holes that we rented, so
people were encroaching on us. I didn't have much time
to like play with the lines. And we try to
like you know, improv is the first take is never
really the best for what we're doing. So it was
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the most stressed I've been in a long time. It
was so but yeah, it turned out well, and that
Golf Digest thing came out of nowhere. We didn't know.
They didn't reach out to us, they just posted that
and it was awesome, especially because I was only a
couple of weeks after we launched. It was huge. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's great and it was such a cool, uh
piece of press that h'all got. And you know, uh,
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we've mentioned Saint Andre Golf several several times, but just
for the viewers that maybe haven't seen it yet, I
could just kind of describe to us what Saint Andrew
Golf is and what your involvement is with it. Yeah.
So my backgrounds in like comedic content, done that for forever,
went to the film school back in the day, kind
of started a traditional film and then like vine TikTok,
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I just love the short form social content for brands.
So me and a few friends love playing golf and
had the idea to you know, potentially do golf sketch comedy.
I don't know if that was like a series on
my page whatever, went do a copee shop, started writing, um,
potential ideas and wrote like ten pages of stuff, so
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like there's something here. Um. And also, you know, making
content for brands handing it off then they run with
the campaign and I it feels like a break up
every time. It's kind of sad, you know. So I
was like, what can I really build that is my
own because I've never gone all in on my channels.
It just I don't know, I like being more behind
the camera, Like I just I didn't want it to
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beat my face on everything. Um. So, yeah, we started
st Andrea if we knew we could make some waves people.
There's a lot of funny people in the golf world,
but not a ton of like quality production and scripted sketches. Um.
So yeah, that's that's what we're doing. We're nine weeks
old at this point, still pretty new, but posting three
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or four sketches a week. We're pumping stuff out. Um
and yeah, we're just trying to be a new voice
in the golf space. Uh. And yet you know, doing
stuff in Atlanta for so long, have my pretty solid
network of funny people, including you guys. Um So Yeah,
bringing in some of my favorite actor friends and just
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trying to like make funny stuff in the golf world
with people I love. That's what we're doing. Yeah. Another
question we got free Aaron is just like, you know,
as you're making this stuff, as you're making this content
for golf fans as well as people that may not
be in super into golf, like, what are some common
misconceptions about golf? Know, Like, like, for example, for me,
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like golf is one of those things were slight, man,
it looks fun, it looks great, you know, like Happy
Gilmore I think was maybe the first DVD I bought,
and I thought that that movie was super funny. Like
you know, like so like golf is this thing that
I've wanted to really enjoy. But also at the same time,
like when I think about golf, I also think about
like exclusion and things like that too, you know, So
it's like it feels like those things also go hand
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in hand. And so for you as you're like making
Saint Andre golf, when I watch your stuff, it feels
like you're aware of all those things, you know, like
all aware of people's preconceptions about golf when they engage
with it. So for you, I I just love to know, like,
what are some misconceptions about golf that maybe you keep
in mind as you are making the content. Yeah, I
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mean there's definitely some misconceptions, but there's also some very
accurate ideas about golf and golf culture that we just
don't rock with. Um. So we we've said from the beginning,
like we love the sport and but don't really love
the golf culture, especially kind of the older country club vibe. Um,
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very old, very traditional, very white, very rich. I've definitely
been in some country clubs with friends who are members
and like overheard some just heinous ship um that old
dudes feel comfortable saying, and it's yeah, it's it's bad.
And we're not trying to cater to those people. Ideally
would like to piss those people off and be a
little disruptive. Um. Yeah. So there there's this kind of
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new wave of creators, new voices that uh have really
been making some waves in the space, which has been great. Um.
People that you know are different backgrounds, different different type
of jokes, different types of content. It's really been shaking
things up. Um. Yeah. And misconception is like, honestly, there's
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not a ton of misconception that there's just some real
problems like the you know, getting into golf is expensive
and tough, and um people know those things, and you know,
top golf all this stuff has been great for the game. Uh,
just getting people to to pick up a club and
and usually if you get to a driving range or
a play around to golf, you'll you'll see why it's
(27:14):
so fun. You might hit one good shot and realize like,
I could do this. Um, it's it's addictive like that
you can be that as hell. But then you'll hit
a ball pure one time, know that you have the
skills and the coordination to actually do it, and then
you get hooked. Um it blew up over COVID because
it was a safe outdoor activity to be with your friends. Um,
(27:34):
you're kind of removed. It's not basketball. We're posting up
on each other like everyone had their own card type
of thing. Um. So yeah, No, I think it's just
golf as problems. I think there's a good, solid wave
of great people working to kind of disrupt it. But
the misconceptions you might have are accurate, and that part
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of well, I'm curious to so you know, you said
you played golf with your dad, You've you've it's been
sounds like it's been part of your life for a while.
Was there a moment when you realized that you liked
golf or that you realized was there specific thing that
happened that made you fall in love with the game. Oh,
that's interesting. Um. I was a big baseball guy growing up.
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That was bread and butter. Um started playing golf because
there's transferable skills there and it comes to you know,
swinging like like tennis, golf, baseball, Like it's just kind
of you play one of them, you can kind of
play the other ones. Um loved it growing up for sure.
It was on the golf team for a couple of years, UM,
and then kind of got out of it and then
(28:38):
fell back in love with it the last few years. Also,
I'm just like a very indoorsy person. Um, so finding
those like things I love to do outdoors. It's quality
time with friends, Like you're sitting you're hanging out with
your good friends for four hours, you know, like playing
a game like it's boiled down to those bare bones aspects.
It's it's just right quality time with friends doing something
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outdoor and like moving around. So it's healthy in that aspect.
I love that part about it. Um And yeah, getting
better too. Like the last few years the first time
I really played consistently and so that really helped me
fall in love with it. Sort of like if you
have a good round or have a bad round, if
something's messed up, I'm I'm you know, uh duck hooking
(29:23):
it or banana ball or whatever, like I actually know
what I'm doing now I can work on it, you know.
So it's yeah, just like any hobby. I mean, once
you kind of start to fall in love with it
and can refine skills and get better, it's it gets addicting.
But yeah, I've always loved it a little bit, um
and then the last few years I really like fell
hard in love with it. You know. You mentioned how
golf can be addicting, right, So like what kind of
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thrilled from golf are you chasing currently? You know? So,
and maybe there's not one, but it's just like you're
current where you are currently as a player. Is there
like a particular thing that you're chasing or like whether
it's a score or type of shot that you're trying
to hit? Um, you know, I think it's more experiences,
like you know, I say, basketball are soccer like the pitch,
(30:12):
the court, like they're all kind of the same. But
golf courses can take you all around the world. You
can like it like pristine conditions that just kind of
take your breath away. There's all these kind of marquee
experiences that I think every golfer would want to have.
There's the St. Andrew's, you know over in Europe, home
of golf, like it's iconic. There's Pebble Beach, There's I
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guess the National There's all these that are like the
bucket list type things, and I think that's kind of
different when it comes to a lot of other sports.
I guess if you love football, play football growing up.
You can play football with your friends, but it's not
like you want to go play at Mercedes been Stadium
and that checks off a bucket list thing that's not
really possible or happens, you know what I mean. Um
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So yeah, I mean, I've definitely have like the mini
goals when it comes to my game, aim and want
to get more consistent and whatnot. But the things that
kind of excite me about the future and where I'm going,
or maybe I could take st Andre be like shooting
content on these wild courses with cool people I wouldn't
normally have access access to when it comes to content.
So yeah, it's more on the experiential side for me.
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That's great, that's awesome. Yeah, I mean that's honestly the
way you're describing it again and what you're one of
your talents errand is like making things successiful at all?
It does, Like to me, it's it sounds like hanging
out with your friends in this beautiful outdoor space for
four hours. That seems like such a great part of golf,
and that's the part that I've always think been the
most jealous of. It's like just it gives you a
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reason to be outside and to hang out, um and
you know, get to know folks for sure. Yeah, I
mean it's definitely an more expensive hobby than I would like,
but it's much healthier. Like, you know, I love to
go to dive bars and drink tin PBRs with my
friends and that's great, and I still do that, but
and I'll spend a hundred dollars out of bar just
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being an idiot where I'm like, all right, well I
just spent forty dollars to like walk four miles with
my friends and like be active. Like yeah, that's a
great part of it for sure. Yea. We will be
right back with more ridiculous news after this short break.
Yeah yeah, yeah, don't get confused ridiculous news. Okay, y'all,
(32:28):
we're back with Aaron shooting the best golfer on the
planet ship Tiger. Yeah, happens to be an amazing content
producer as well. So you know, Aaron, back when there
was a thing called Vine which was owned by Twitter,
you were making amazing content and getting all these views.
(32:49):
It almost feels like it was TikTok. And I'm sure
you've heard this many times, TikTok before TikTok because it
was the short six second videos that were so funny,
and you were so consistently funny with these things. Um
and now you know, Elon Musk has talked about bringing
Vine back. So I saw that. Curious what your thoughts
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were and when you heard that, or if you were
excited about it, or how you felt conflicting emotions. Probably
probably thirty people sent me, you know, the news articles
about that Elon's a damn troll. You don't know. I
don't take anything seriously. Um. I guess he did follow
(33:32):
through a Twitter which he tried to back out of it.
You know, I just I just don't know what's real there. Um,
and I don't know. There's been several people that have
tried to reboot vine. Um, it's it kind of goes
back like why you know, I don't I don't know
that they could do anything. Knew that TikTok isn't doing. Um.
(33:52):
It was kind of at the forefront of video online,
like when it comes to making every person a creator
if they want to be. Um, you know, YouTube longer
form stuff like Barrier to Injury was kind of high there. Um,
you know the other than like I am Aci movie
type stuff. Uh yeah, it put it on your phone.
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It was run poorly from the beginning. Um. The owners
sold the Twitter. No one wanted it to be a
comedy app, which it became. Um. They thought it was
gonna be like a daily vlog Here's six seconds of
my day type stuff, and didn't reach out to creators,
didn't build community, and by you know, the time Instagram
added video, it was just kind of too late. So
(34:34):
it was run poorly. TikTok hopped on that. Um really
accepted the kind of creator economy. Um, that was just
from coming later. I think you see the mistakes other
people make, and then you make a better product. That's
what they did, So I don't really know what they
could do now. It would not be the same. No
one wants six second videos anymore. Um, you can do
(34:57):
that anywhere. But you know, like obviously short attention span,
that's us as a human race nowadays. Um, but still
people want to watch a couple of minutes potentially, Like
I don't know, the whole short video niche I think
is is gone. Um, I don't really know why we
need it. You know, that's kind of where I'm at.
(35:19):
Just just the branding. Doesn't of course that like it's
like a weird nostalgic thing and triggers my PTSD. But
I just don't know. Yeah, TikTok has has been fantastic.
I think the one thing I'm just so boxing now rambling, Um,
go for it. It's great. TikTok very well could get
banned at any time. Um. You know there's that's pretty
(35:43):
like bipartisan too. Uh. TikTok in China is educational it's
like making people over there smarter and it's making us dumber.
Like it's just kind of long term cultural warfare and
it's working. You know, we just watch cats fall into
toilets and love it. Uh So, yeah, I don't know,
like I get that like kind of positioning yourself as
(36:05):
like a backup, so TikTok goes under, everyone will hop
to whatever's here and next and safe for Americans to use.
So yeah, that could make sense. But yeah, I don't
know what you talk. You know, great, and and that's
you know, coming from an expert in someone who knows
these platforms very well. It's always great to hear your
thoughts and and and and opinions on it. And you know,
(36:27):
I think with the FCC talking about to what you
said banning TikTok and that being oddly bipartisan, I mean
I'm playing like you want kids to vote, that's the
way get kids to show ups to the ballot. But
to your point, it's seemingly a bipartisan thing, like you know,
and it's a it's a national security issue according to
the FEC, which of course, you know, we we don't
want China to take over our elections. You know Russia
(36:48):
is doing a good enough job with that, so I
think with with TikTok, well, one of the things you
mentioned that I connected with a lot too is just
the A d h D of our society, man, because
I feel like, you know, with TikTok, with reels, with
all these things, the attention spans are so short, um
And I enjoyed the content. I do enjoy a lot
(37:10):
of the TikTok content, and I feel like, from my
limited experience being supposed to it a lot of it,
it seems more positive to me. Um And and maybe
I'm being naive or it's the beginning of it, uh
than on other channels. Um. But I'm curious what you've done, Aaron,
to kind of combat some of that A d h
D in your own life, because you know, so much
(37:31):
of what you do is this really sticky, catchy fun
stuff to watch. Have you how do you you know?
How have you felt like that's making that short of
content has affected your attention span overall in life? Yeah,
short form content, as I don't know if my brain
is kind of geared towards that always, but it just
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kind of molded that way, you know, with with social media,
I remember I think it was a daily show writer.
That was the tweet of God on Twitter, like it's
so funny parody account of God. Um but and it
was crushing it like a couple of million followers. I
think everything was so funny, and then had to stop
and did the first like behind the curtain tweet. Was like, Hey,
(38:13):
this is ruining my profession because I'm thinking in short
form like tweets like one liners, and I can't do
my job, so I had to stop. Um. I've definitely
felt that to a degree, like especially with vines six seconds,
Like I was thinking way too much in puns, you know,
because that's kind of all you have time for something,
just a goofy moment and then you're out. Um, So
(38:33):
writing a longer form script or something was super tough. Um. Yeah,
I don't know, it's it's you know, I'm envious of
like filmmakers who will spent a couple of years on
one project. Um. But now I've kind of trained myself
for the instant gratification of it all. Um, Like we
posted a sketch Mondays and Tuesday, it's Wednesday right now, um,
(38:58):
and I'm ready to post again, Like it just gonna
need it. It's like a slot machine. I just keep refreshing,
you know, looking for the next hit. UM, so I
haven't combated it well, is the It's tough and even
like even getting myself to slow down and watch a movie,
which I love more than anything. You know, it's tough
(39:18):
for me to get those like a couple hours in
my day where I'm just fully locked into something. It's
just not how my brain works anymore. I am broken
in that way. I think we all are, man And
it's just you know, just talking about it because we
talked a lot of show about on the podcast about
a d H D and intention spans and it is
something you know, Mark and I. You've seen our content.
(39:39):
We focus on making stuff short and sweet as well,
and I think it's just something I'm curious how our
our society continues to progress with gen z and these
younger folks you know, growing up on YouTube and iPads
and all these things. It's just one of those interesting
facts of life. But you know, I wanted to to
move on um and to another story before we go
(40:02):
too much in the rabbit hole of a H D
UH and talk about UM this really cool UH story
that Mark, you actually found this about the Nazis. Yeah, yeah,
so there was back in you know they are World
War two. There's this article from Business Insider talking about
(40:24):
an incredible list of golf rules from World War two England,
and it tells you what to do if you get
attacked by the Nazis while playing. And so it's a
pretty wild list, y'all. I mean, like, Aaron, if you
did you hear about this list when it was passed
round or released? No, I've never heard of this wild Okay, great,
(40:46):
that's good because this segment we're gonna play it's called
did Aaron do that? So these are sort of like
some crazy situations that this etiquette list lays out, and
we're just going to ask if you can relate to
any of it because it's just like just such a
unique point in time in our world history. Um. So
(41:08):
here's the list. Okay, So and Bill, we can go
back and forth too. So this is an instance number one,
So players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters
to save these, causing damaged to the mowing machines. I've
never done that. That's that's what I haven't done. Rights
(41:30):
as crazy, it's crazy, did Aaron do that? In competitions,
during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players are allowed
to take cover without penalty for ceasing play. Has Aaron
done that? I have taken cover before, it wasn't because
of air strikes. Um. This is semi related, but I
(41:53):
think you all enjoy the story. Uh. I was at
a friends bachelor party semi recently. Our friend Andrew stand
be very funny comedian. Twelve of us went and played
golf with a super nice course. It was rainy, um,
it was about to start raining and drizzling, so we
took cover for a little bit. Started to clear up.
So we go out there, me and Andrew and two
of his friends are in the second group. We hear
(42:14):
a lightning strike. Oh my gosh, we thought like we
hit the deck. We thought it like almost hit us. Um.
We scurry back to the carts, drive up to the trees.
That was the best cover. Obviously lightning loves trees. Um.
But then you know, it kind of subsides after a
few minutes and we go up there and we see
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Andrew's brother and a couple of his friends walk up
like zombies, like full shell shocked, being like I think
we just got hit by lightning, like what. It hit
a giant tree about fifty yards from them and exploded
the tree. Two of the guys got hit with like
trapnel with wood trap um. It smelled like the inside
(42:56):
of a home depot, like all around there, like it
really exploded this tree. I will send you guys a
picture later. This is not good for any of the listeners,
but it was fascinating and like they were, they were
different people after that. It was. It was insane. So
yeah that when it comes to shrapnel and taking cover
(43:16):
like I have, I can relate to that tiny bit
different circumstances. Zero nazis around as far as I know,
But yeah, that's pretty crazy. That is. That is a
wild story, man, And I'm glad everyone seemed to be
all right, but man, that's got to be super scary.
And and something else that I thought was interesting about
(43:37):
this list, y'all, is is this thing has it feels
so tongue in cheek, right because in this list that says, hey,
you know, if bombs are falling, you can take cover
and we won't even pedalize you. Like yeah, one person, yeah,
one person before that list is gonna be like I
can't take the struke penalty as you can't do it
(44:00):
stiff upper lip of the British. Yeah, that's quite well, Mark,
I feel like you know that story was an awesome
uh ending I think to this particular segment and having
our good friend Errand on the show, Aaron, I know
we talked a little bit at the top about St.
Andre Golf. But again, for our folks that are listening,
can you tell us um where to follow you and
(44:21):
how to check out this awesome content? Yeah? Um, St
Andre Golf is the handle everywhere. And yeah, we have
been releasing sketches, multiple sketches a week. We have some
very exciting things coming up, um potentially adding some new
comedic people to the full that we're excited about, and
also maybe working with some big brands with some very
(44:42):
cool secret opportunities that can't really say yet, but keep it,
keep an eye on the pages and we'll be posting
some some really fun exciting stuff in the next couple
of months. That's at St Andre s t A in
d R E Golf, on I G and TikTok right
or the I guess the main channels. Yep, that's it.
(45:04):
And then yeah, we got some We got some cool
fun merch too. I might be wearing one right now.
That's all I wear. That's good. I know you can't see,
but it looks good. It's pretty good. Yeah. Well, y'all,
we're gonna move on to our final and uh one
of our favorite segments called the Spring of Inspiring Inspirations.
So this is where we read a quote, y'all to
end things on a positive note. And so this quote
(45:26):
is from golfer Amy Alcott, and the quote is keep
your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest
of your life not to let bad shots. We win
a game you're supposed to enjoy. Amen, Yeah, man, And
thank you all so much for tuning in. Thank you
Aaron so much for being here. We know you have
a lot of choices, so it means the world when
you all spend your time with us. Thank you, Yes,
(45:48):
thank you so much. And you can email us at
Ridiculous News at I heart media dot com and on
Facebook and I G follow Ridiculous News and you can
check out our comedy videos at Mark Kendall Comedy by y'all.
H Ridiculous News is hosted by Mark Kendall and Bill Warley.
(46:17):
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