Bert's Appreciation for John Daly

There was a thing about golfers that was like these guys, you know, obviously are very good at what they do, but they don't look like regular athletes. Like what if a regular athlete started playing golf? I think that was what Tiger did. Yeah. Tiger changed the game on so many levels. He made golf an event. I would watch golf with my dad on the phone and we'd watch Tiger play. I got to say this too though is that Tiger was so powerful. He had so much torque that that's why he's having back problems now. And so you wonder with a guy like Bryson, by the way Bryson just lost a bunch of weight. He looks fucking amazing. This is a video of one Tiger. Is this Australia when they were attacking the police? This is what Tiger looked like. It looks the same almost, but when he was walking up 18 the people were going so nuts that... What kind of security is this? This is bullshit. They tried. What's that guy behind him with his arms out? Put your arms down. There's fucking 40,000 people and one guy that's famous. And they're all drunk. And they're all hammered. And you got to remember he was... Luckily they're golf people. Golf people can be savages. That doesn't mean much. Yeah, golf people can be savages. Imagine this was Domino's fans? Because they're mostly just drunk guys. Rugby fans? John Daly came in first. John Daly came in first. He came in his amateur in the US Open, correct? And came in and started hitting these monster drives like 350, 375. And everyone rallied and he had a mullet. He was like Theo Vonn but fat and blonde. Right. God, man, he is a... With a cigarette in his mouth. A real gangster in golf. I mean, when you say... Is he from Florida? Because if he's not, I'll be depressed. Oklahoma. Close enough. If you say... Yeah, if you say hero, that's one of my heroes right there, right? So John Daly comes in, starts hitting monster drives and everyone's on the tee box going, grip it, grip it, John, grip it, grip it. And now I know why you're into Patty. Patty Pembleton, go to that picture. Yeah, you gave me a fucking good haircut. Right, that one in the lower right. That one down there, down there to the right hand side, to the right hand side, all the way over, all the way over. Not on here. No, right there, right above that one. Oh, my bad. Sorry, back, yeah, with the Goofy. That one. That is Patty Pembleton. That is Patty Pembleton. Look at that smile in his Florida face. God damn. He was denied his true birthright of Florida. Dude, someone fucked up. He should have been born in Florida. Someone came, a sponsor came to him and said, $3 million, we want to send you to rehab though. And he looked at him and said, I'm good. And took a sip. Dude, can I tell you, Joe, when I say, so TPC 1997, he's in St. Augustine, right? I think he went into rehab right after this, if I'm not mistaken. All right, should have taken the money. Fucked up. It's timing. TPC 1997, I'm about to come out in Rolling Stone as the number one party animal in the country. And we were in St. Augustine partying our balls off and John Daly's at a bar and we just see him. You're there? You saw him at a bar? We were there. And we were like, hey, man. I'm going to be partying on night before he withdrew. We were out. You were there. I almost jumped in that fucking, on hole 17, naked. I almost jumped in. Thank God I didn't. Wait a minute. So you're there drinking with John Daly the night before he withdraws the night event. The night he's at a bar in St. Augustine in Jacksonville. I remember we were pretty drunk also. Jack's speech. Jack's speech. But the tournament's in St. Augustine, if I'm not mistaken. And so we all went out to see that and John Daly's there. I remember everybody's hitting me like, that's John Daly. And all I remember out of that whole fucking night was he was, and I know that he withdrew the next day, but he was so accessible. He was so nice. He was not being an asshole. He was having fun. He was having a good time. And he's a professional athlete. And I remember thinking everyone, and I was like, that's the guy I want to be. Like that's the guy. It says right here, he kept the crowd going. O'Neill said. It was obvious. He was there to have a good time. By the time he left, he definitely was feeling very little pain. This guy, man, this guy is, he was like, I would go to golf tournaments with my dad to watch this guy play. Because he would come in, and he was a little touch and go. Sometimes he'd be a little shaky, you know? Because he hammered. Hammered the night before. And sometimes he'd just fucking destroy. And it was nothing more fun to watch him just. Do you think that influenced your future choices? 100%. I mean, 100. This is funny. Do you know the story about you and Tom when you were playing tennis against each other? No. Wait, why? Tom hired a coach. And Tom worked with his coach, and he was practicing with his coach. And the coach said, listen, you got your fundamentals down. You're doing great. He goes, this guy's drinking all night. He's like, unless he's some sort of fucking John Daly type dude. And Tom goes, no, no, no. He's exactly a John Daly type dude. He goes, then the coach goes, oh, shit. And then he just shut up with a fucking somewhere out of nowhere. See, we get video of this. The tennis match. It's got to be online. Out of nowhere. You got a legit Division 1 serve. Like, who the fuck saw this coming? Burke Kreischer has a legit Division 1 tennis serve. And you just fucking smoked those balls past Tommy Bunz. Oh, my God. He was in such agony. He was so bummed out. He was so sad. I remember his son showed up, and they made him leave early because he didn't want his son to see it. Did you at any point in time think of yelling out to him? You should have stuck to the dance off. No. I remember watching him not be able to return. It was like awkward. It wasn't even hitting the strings on his racket. It would hit the handle and shoot up in the air. You have a sick serve. It's crazy. It's crazy. Like, if you develop that thing, like, some dudes are just really good at shooting fucking three-pointers. You know, there's like guys who just have this touch, and you watch them doing like, what the fuck? How are you doing that? Watch the entire episode for free only on Spotify.