MGA MedioCast Episode 34

Welcome everybody to the MGA Mediocast. This is MGA Mediocast episode 34. It's been a long ass time since we did an episode. We're excited to be back. My name is Straight Willie Dills. And, of course, I am the co-founder of the MGA, and I'm joined by the other co-founder, El Presidente, John Luckykick Morley. What's up, dude?

Yeah, man. 3.4 episodes per year. That's how we do it. That's right, man. That's a, it's very easy to do the math now because we're in 10 years. So everything's like, you know, just carry the one and you're good to go. And we also have with us a very special guest, and that is world number one ranked mediocre golfer Dan Gowdy, a.k.a. Rowdy. What's up, dude? What's up, man? Glad to be here. We're glad to have you, man. So you currently are topping the money list.

Having a fantastic season. You're a member of the Reno MGA, which is a big deal in the MGA. You guys were the chapter to dethrone San Francisco as title holders. When was that? 2013? 2013. 2013. That's right. That was your first year, and you brought a huge group out. You guys were all in matching shirts. It was awesome. So what's going on this season? What's happened to...

What's happened to Smitty over there? Why are you number one these days? You know what? That's what happens when you DQ every tournament. So he's just gotten too good, huh? Yeah, yeah. He's in a whole other realm. You know, I think he's just kind of giving us other guys a chance. Okay. He decided, he was like, you know what, I'm just going to start shooting sub-80s now. I just feel like it. I'm a world champ. I can do that, right? That's right.

I think any of us could do that if we wanted to. Oh, it's just that we just don't want to. I prefer to have a chance at the jugs. You know, I'm really upset that I have not won those yet, but I really want that trophy. Well, you, okay, so this season you've won two tournaments, correct? Yeah, two majors. Okay, so you won, okay, good, majors. That's important. So you won the Bastards and the FU and then finished seventh at the Browish. Oh, my God. Yeah.

That was your worst finish on the year, so what do you have against the British? It's the pressure of the jugs, isn't it? Yeah, the jugs. It was the pressure of the jugs, yeah. You just won them so bad. They cause lower back problems, just going to warn you. I will say this, though. The jugs are a much more coveted prize since we went to an actual trophy that looks like the Claret jug. When it was just two big titties that you put on your wall.

Let's see how up on his history. Okay, yeah, MJ history. I don't remember the year Reno came in here and what the trophy situation was, but do you know what came before the current jugs? You know what? My first year in 2013, it was the Claret Jugs. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. Yeah, see, there's all sorts of MGA history that a lot of people don't know about anymore. So we'll have to, okay, that's what we're here for.

Left to school, everybody. We used to have singing tits. Yeah, you know Billy the Bass, right? Yes. From the late night infomercials. Yeah. Imagine that in tit form. Yes. Just two big titties that you just put on your wall. And they would shake. Right. You know what? I did see a picture of that. So I had won that twice, and I didn't win a lot of tournaments, so I had to display my trophies, right? And so I had them on my wall.

And I'll just say this. It was a good thing that I had a girlfriend because I would not have been able to meet chicks and bring them home. And be like, explain why there's just... I don't know why you would need to, man. You have animatronic tits. That's true. The best way to do it would be to not say a word. Just be like, shh, and just push the button.

Have it start singing. All right, so let's find out a little bit more about Mr. Dan Gowdy here. So where did the nickname Rowdy come from, first of all? Softball, actually. Oh, ooh. You better quit that. King Mears Baseball, and then, of course, you know, jobs that... I've had, you know, they have softball teams that go along with them, and we all needed nicknames on our jerseys, and Rowdy just came up.

I kind of stuck after a manager started calling me Rowdy. I think it's important in the MGA to have a good nickname, right? Yeah. Like, my nickname is Straight. I can't even remember how this, how did that start? How did, how did Lucky Kick start? Well, Lucky Kick, so John, John, you tell him how Lucky Kick. Yeah, no, I, I earned that. That was, uh...

That was based on 12 consecutive months of slicing 70% of my golf balls into the woods and having, I'd say about 80% of those come back to the middle of the fairway. They wouldn't just kick out of the trees to, like, a favorable spot. They would kick directly into the middle of the fairway. Yeah, and forward. Never back, either. Forward. Yeah. Like, it was adding distance to your drives. Yeah.

So yeah, so John was the luckiest golfer I'd ever seen. So everybody thinks that my nickname came from me hitting the ball straight, which is definitely not the case. Right, no, nothing to do with that. It was from the pickup artist. Oh, that's right. There was the dude who looked like me but acted kind of effeminate. Yeah. Yes, that guy. And so when...

It was hard to, you know, telling stories, we had to be able to keep you two apart. Because with so many stories, we're being told about this guy. Overlapping stories. Sure. So, yeah, we had to straighten things out. You were straight, Willie Dills. No pun intended. I think you were married at the time. I was, yeah, yeah. Clearly very straight. No gay person's ever been married, by the way. No. Yeah. That's one thing we can tell. We will see to that. I will not let that happen.

Never. You were like, you'd tell Tommy, so I was at the bar with Willie Dills, and he's like, wait, which Willie Dills? And he'd be like, oh, straight Willie Dills. I'm like, okay, got it, got it. All right, so, oh, we got another guest on the MGA. That's right. I got the little monster knocking at the door. Do you need to answer? My successor, by the way. Okay, future MGA.

So, Dan, how did you discover the MGA? You were an original Reno member, correct? Yes. It's kind of funny. Me and my wife went to a Cajun restaurant. Of course. Hi. Hi. Sounds terrible. How are you doing at your house? What's that? I'm doing wonderful at my house. Yeah, doing good at my house. Yeah. All right. Hey, let me explain this a little quick, okay? Just real quick. All right. So we were at a Cajun restaurant, and let's see, it was J-Rob and this guy, Neil.

He happens to be my wife's friend's cousin's cousin. You can call that. I think I know him. Are you all right? Yeah, my wife's friend's cousin's husband. Yes, there you go. He happened to be there and he just happened to talk about it in that very next weekend. was the tournament. And went home that night, signed up, and joined up, and haven't missed a tournament since. So you didn't know...

Like the guys who originally started it? Because a lot of times it's kind of like a group of guys who are already friends will start it up together. So you didn't know these guys before. You just kind of found out, okay, wow. Yeah, just found out, signed up, and just showed up, man. I haven't missed a tournament since and just turned out to be a bunch of great guys.

I can't help but not show up. Well, this is, I think, a common story in the MGA. Friends, cousins, wait, what was his name? Husbands. Husbands, yeah, sure. Cousins, husbands. Cured Al's father-in-law. Sure. This is how everybody finds out about the MGA. So, all right. So now you find out through, you know, weird channels. Got it. Now, in what ways would you say the MGA has improved your life?

Because we all know it has. 100% of the time, it improves people's lives. It has given my life complete meaning. Yeah. I mean, before, all you had was a kid, right? Yeah. Kids ears before saying that. And, you know, it gives me something to look forward to every month, you know. And, you know, I kind of keep myself busy doing whatever, you know, until the tournament comes around.

There you go. Yeah, that's the thing. In every man's life, in every media's life, there's basically two things. There's tournaments and then there's non-tournament days. So pretty much all the other days it's like, ah, I guess I'll go to this work thing. All right. So what is, we've had actually, we've had Smitty on before for world champion, Jason Smith.

And I think he's talked about the Reno chapter. You guys are all really, really fun guys, it seems like. Really kind of like a prototypical MGA chapter, I would say. But why don't you describe what the Reno MGA chapter is like? NGA Chapter. Wow. Well, it's a brotherhood. It is a true brotherhood that we get together, we drink together, we golf together while we try.

And then, you know, of course, after the golf, there's more brotherhood and more drinking. And it's just a tight brotherhoodly thing. I think that should be the new slogan for the MGA, John. The MGA, a tight brotherhoodly thing. I already put it on site. I was typing it as he said it. It's going up on t-shirts, too, pretty soon.

John, you want to ask the next one? Yeah. I just really want to know, are you worried about T-Money? Am I worried about T-Money? T-Money, yeah. T-Money. You know, T-Money. Dude, your closest competitor, T-Money, Matt Tellis from South OC, number two on the money list. Okay, yeah. Everybody knows him by T-Money. Has he played his sixth tournament yet? He's only played four tournaments. He's only played four.

And his record is second, first, second, first. So I think he's pretty much guaranteed second place in the next tournament. Okay. But actually... You may not have to worry about him too much. It looks like he's missed a few. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That's why you weren't worried? And not to mention, they've already played their MGA Championship. Yeah.

No, that's true. That was just a good question. I'm sorry. Yeah. There's nothing to worry about. T-Money, whatever. So they only have two tournaments left, right? Yeah. Three. Well, they have the douchebag and the last gasp, right? Those are the only two left. We have three left. You guys have two. So you guys already played your MGA Championship as well, right, Dan? That's true. Okay. I do have one other question. Are you concerned at all about your MGA WC scoring average?

Yes, I am. 99.5. The big belt, you know, is always a question on everyone's mind, you know. Going into the championship with... I haven't even checked, but last tournament I had five penalty strokes against me, so that's going to be one to go to the drawing board with and try to figure out something. I got some bad news. Yeah, I think we have to break some bad news. This just in. One more penalty strokes. This just in. You have six now. Oh, God.

All right. All right. I can deal with six. I can win with an 86. Sure. Well, see, that's when you get to like five or six penalty strokes. I currently am carrying five. And John, you have nine? Nine. Nine. Wow. Yeah. But the problem is at the World Championships, that happens twice. How many people have won the belt that have had this many penalty strokes? Um...

This many? I don't think anyone's won with this many. Yeah, so they're winning basically with going in with zero penalties, right? No, people have had a few. Usually a couple. But, you know... the system changed a little this year and it's, it's definitely shaken things up in our, in our chapter. I mean, we have about 13 guys still with a shot at the money title and it's just tighten things up. And, yeah, I mean...

Our tournaments, a lot of low 80s were winning, and now it's high 80s. Yeah, which is where it's supposed to be, really. I don't know if you guys have noticed that shakeup as well, where everyone's a little more competitive than they were before. Oh, yeah. We're getting some great guys, a lot more competition, and it's great. I play actually a lot better playing with guys with some experience, so it keeps me sharp.

Well, okay, you've kind of rocketed up the global money list, if we want to talk about that, too. In 2013, you finished 60th. Right. In 2014, 56th. So what has changed in your game to make you number one this year? Have you tweaked your swing? What's going on? You know, I was expecting this question. What are you taking and where can I get some? Prescription glasses. Ah, really?

So we've got ourselves a Major League kind of situation here, right? Charlie Sheen in Major League, you were playing, you're squinting, and then finally they put some glasses on you. And I can read the lines like no other, man, I tell you. My LASIK vision went out, and, you know, I went and got my eyes checked, got some glasses, and next thing you know, my game just came right back around.

Who knew? Wow. All right. Everybody go to your eye doctor. Yeah. And if Dan Gowdy's leading after round one. Knock his glasses off, step on him. There you go. Sorry. I don't know what happened. I've been drinking. Shouldn't have said, shouldn't talk about your glasses. I subscribe to this idea as well. I've been, I've been wearing the, the HD.

glasses as seen on tv and i actually won my bradish a few years ago wearing those and i finally found another pair because they're they're really not made very well so they break really easily uh the good news is they're only 9.99 so you know you replace them quickly But I've noticed a huge swing in my game just from the vision. So everybody out there, don't take vision for granted. That's right. That's right. Being able to see stuff makes you better at golf.

Yeah, I'm used to playing with sunglasses and then, you know, I don't have like transitional lenses, but I just had to kind of relearn the game of golf, just wearing straight lens glasses. No shade or anything, and it's just crisping up my game. I can see that the scores directly reflect this, because you did come in, your very first tournament ever, you did shoot in 84.

which is a fantastic score in the NBA. But just looking at this year's scores, you've shot an 84 twice, an 85 and an 87, and you're only... like you have 190, and the only over 90 score was at the first event of the year, 94. So it definitely seems to have done something. Your scoring average is way down. Yeah, LASIK was still good then, yeah. I think I'm going to actually, on John's recommendation, skip this last question here. I think it's a good idea.

So do you want to give any shout-outs to anybody else in the Reno MGA or anybody looking forward to seeing at the World Championships this year? Of course, yeah. I'd like to give a shout-out to Mr. Norty, Josh Norquist. Being a great chapter leader, you know, without him, I wouldn't know, you know, where to go and how much money it costs to play. The important things for chapter leaders to impart to their players. That's right.

Plus, who would hand you your trophies? Yeah, exactly. He's really good at handing you trophies. The rest of the NGA chapter, you know, I enjoyed playing with you guys. It gives me something, like I said, something to look forward to every month and get together with the boys, hang out. One more question. Is your kid hitting you on the head with a squeaky hammer right now? That's actually...

My dog chewing on his little chew pit. Okay. This is a real family event, the MGA Meteocast. I've never seen about that. I should have just said yes, because that would have been funny. I don't know. I'm still picturing that happening, actually. That's what I see in my mind's eye right now. All right. Let's move on and talk about some MGA news that's going on. So John and myself have been...

They've been busy trying to recruit a bunch of new MGA chapters here for the half season, and I think we're up to, what, like seven or so new chapters? Yeah. We have a nice little... A little rush of chapters here for the half season. Yeah, the golf.com little blurb was very helpful for sure. But a lot of these guys seem to be finding it just through Facebook and all the old ways. Really cool that there's a lot of...

A lot of kind of excitement around the MGA during the midseason here. So we want to announce that the Philly MGA, which is a brand new chapter, they got themselves a sponsor. So all you chapter leaders out there, go get yourself a sponsor. I think, Reno, you guys have one. Yeah. Nordy's Woodshop. You bet your ash we will. That's their slogan.

But yeah, Philadelphia's gotten themselves Kavanaugh's Rittenhouse, which I don't know what that actually is. It's a dynamic sports bar in the center of Philadelphia. So there you go. John, what's the best way have you found that people have gotten sponsors for their chapters? Owning a bar. Sure, that's a good way. Knowing someone who owns a bar. So bars seem to be... Going...

Going to a bar. Going to a bar and asking someone in the bar. Presenting them with the sponsorship template that I have made up for the chapter leaders. And just, yeah, passing out at a bar, refusing to leave, saving on rent, and basically writing that off as the chapter sponsorship. Sure. There you go. Yeah.

There is some expense to getting going, and oftentimes if you get a little bit of a sponsorship, you can take care of all that stuff, and then it's basically free for you. So I encourage anybody out there who hasn't done so already to go get yourself a sponsor. If a chapter that just started can do it, you can definitely do it. And I don't know much about the Philadelphia chapter, John. Have they already had an event? Do you know?

I don't know either. All right. I'm going to look this up. I think so. Let's look it up. I'm going to look this up. Oh, look at that. Yep, they already had their bradish up at the old course. Looks like they had a nice turnout, and they're off and running. Great stuff. And they were referred by, what was that guy? Merman. Yeah, that's right. Rick Merman. Rick Merman. He started his chapter just this mid-season as well and then immediately got us another chapter.

Great job, yeah. Shout out to Rick Merman. Yeah, Scranton. Scranton, PA. And then another news. This was actually being asked about on Facebook recently.

was where is the MGA Championship merch? And some of you guys have already played your MGA Championship. Yep. But guess what? It's here. And it's awesome. So everybody go hit up the MGATour.com site. And I think it's the top news story right now. But this is some really, really cool stuff. And for anybody who doesn't know about this tournament-specific merch...

John, tell us a little bit about what we have going this season. Yeah, well, the idea was that it was going to be out the month before each tournament for pre-order, right? Yeah. So... It was a great idea. It was a really great idea. And it hasn't really happened. It's been sort of the end of the prior month and then spilled into the month of the event.

I just want people to stop expecting that it's going to be a month before because I'm getting some shit for that. And that's just not how it works. All right. Yeah. It's going to be around the time of the event. It's going to be cool stuff. You get it when you get it. Hope you like it. And we're figuring it all out. And next year, it's going to be awesome. It's going to be on schedule. It's going to be ahead of schedule. And, yeah, America.

Hope you dig the merch. I think Todd's doing a great job designing it. Todd from Long Beach is the one doing it. He is doing a fantastic. I'm actually currently purchasing... The full package right now because this thing is amazing. Full package. I'm getting the full package, man. Really, I want the hat that says, face it, you suck. But, you know, I figure if I'm going to do that, if I really want that hat, I might as well just get all the stuff.

right you know exactly it's all just it's a discounted rate so uh yeah here we go boom checked out gotta put in my shipping address so we're good to go so it's that easy yeah so so mga merch is up until this sunday And you get the discount, the pre-order discount if you put in, hopefully you just put this in, MGAChamp. That's the discount code. Oh, MGAChamp is a discount code? Yeah. Okay, good. Good to know.

Put that in right now. Oh, look at that. Look at all that savings. Okay. I was about to pay full price. All right. So that's going to do it for AJ News. Everybody stop giving John shit. Sorry, excuse me. Stop giving John grief and get your stuff. Go out there and get your stuff. Alright, so it is really good. I've been really impressed with the...

Just the quality of the design work is amazing. Does anybody in Reno purchase? I've heard that it's kind of popular with a few guys every single time. Have you noticed anybody coming out to the tournaments with the stuff? Dan? Yeah, yeah, Josh for sure. And I believe Norty, I mean, Smitty, he comes out sometimes. Oh, nice. And Mr. Hoffman, he's a... He's probably supporting you guys over there. Yeah. He comes out having too much myself, but I'll get on the bandwagon here soon. Sweet.

South OC, he was particularly the one giving me shit because he was trying to pre-order everything and he was giving away a bundle at every tournament, which is awesome, but I don't know. I don't know how you do that unless everyone in his chapter is the exact same size, which maybe everyone in South OC is the exact same size. Yeah. But otherwise, I think people are walking away with a lot of shirts that don't fit.

Well, I'm sure they can find something to do with them, right? But it's a cool idea. Yeah. You know what we got to do? We got to get Flozy to get some of these designs on their stuff, man. I wonder how Flozy's doing. I wonder how they are doing. You know, they had a great business model, I think, which was give us a bunch of stuff. Yeah, but they had to change the name. Oh, did they? They changed it to Fluid in Motion, which sounds like some sort of... engineering firm, right? Yeah.

Let me see if they still have that. I don't think that's nearly as good of a name. I'm just going to say that right now. I mean, I know they're a sponsor, and I shouldn't talk bad about them, but Flozy.com. I mean, that just flowed right off the tongue. Fluid in motion is an engineering program. Okay. Instrumentation, safety, and security. Yeah. So Flozy may be defunct. That's too bad. Well, they were good people.

It was a great product. Yeah, it was a great product. Dan, if you don't know what the Flozy was. No, it's still out there. Oh, is it? Okay. It's called the Flozer now, and it is fluid motion, not... Not I-N. Fluid and motion. So it's fluid and motion, I guess. So essentially what this was was like a beer cozy.

what it is what it is i'm speaking like it's deceased it still exists uh it was it's beer cozy and it has a button on the back and when you push that button it pierces the bottom of your beer can allowing you to just chug the rest of your beer I still got mine from 2000. Oh, see, you know, okay, so you know. All right, so that's going to do it for MGA News, unless, John, you have any, is there any other news that I... Yeah, there's new...

New products from Flozy. Oh, new products from Flozy. Yeah, the Canoodle, which is a pool noodle that your koozie can fit in the end of, it looks like. So wait, what's their website now? Flozer? No, no, it's fluid motion. Okay. N, the letter N. Uh-huh. All right, all one word? Yeah. .com? Yeah. Here they are. Awesome. Did that kid just say they love golf? Yes. He's, like I said, my successor. He's been playing since 10 months. Oh, wow. That's awesome.

I've been playing 10 months as well. You've got to be careful because he'll grow up and be actually good at it. That'll be of no use to us. That's right. Just make sure you never get him glasses. He never needs them. In fact, gouge his eyes out.

Let's just take care of this. I'm sorry, that's too much, too much. All right, let's talk about the MGA World Championships because that is coming, my friends. November, what are the exact dates, John? November 13th and 14th. November 13th and 14th. This is a big one. We're 10 years of MGA here. It's not 10 years of MGA WCs, but 10 years of MGA.

We're looking to have the biggest field ever. So if you've never been, this is the year to go for sure. And registration opens when? Kind of soon? As soon as people hear this. Okay. So if you're listening to this.

Go to MGATour.com and you can read it. Slash MGATour.com slash MGAWC15. Okay. I noticed that every year we're getting bigger and bigger. Is it like... possibility that we'll have to move golf courses because it is a possibility yeah I mean we're now using you know 27 holes or whatever it is as opposed to You know, the first year there was, what, 30 guys? Something like that, yeah. It was tiny, so tiny. So tiny. And, yeah, it barely even mattered. Like, I don't even remember who won. Some guy.

I got this cold chill, this evil flowing over me when you talked about it. I don't remember who it was. I feel like I probably hate him, whoever it was. I feel like I probably hate him. But, yeah, so we only had like 30 guys. And then last year we were, what, 170? Something like that? No, 140-something. Oh, that's right. That's right. 40-something. Yeah.

And, of course, there's the videos every year now that are coming out. So, you know, it's a big deal, and everyone should really come. This year, how many are we expecting, John? How many are you hoping for? I'm thinking 190. 190, huh? 190. That's about... That's about the max for the layout we've got. We're going to do a similar thing to last year, correct? We're going to use the 27 holes? Yeah.

So, yeah, if anybody doesn't remember, it basically, you know, people get assigned a set of 18 holes out of a possible, there's 27, there's three, nine holes on the course. And, you know, by the second day, you'll be playing with other people who are contending or not based on where you finished on the first day. So it's a very fair way to do it, and it worked out really well last year. For some people.

For one guy in particular. Rudy. The champion, Rudy Gonzalez. Where is that guy? Nobody knows. I think he's in Arkansas. Oh, yeah, because he's in the military, right? Yeah. Yeah. John, I think you might need to unplug and plug back in your mic or something like that. Oh, yeah. What if I actually point my voice at it? No, you're getting a little robot-y. Okay. Yeah, usually if you just unplug and plug it back in, it usually fixes it. Try that.

What about now? Oh, yeah, perfect. Crystal clear. Crystal clear. All right, so everybody make sure you go sign up. Is there anything that we need to announce about this year's MGAWC, John? Why, yes, there is, Willie. Okay, I'm glad I asked. That's a great question. Yeah. So the chorus that we've been so good to set records the last two years. Yeah. No one's ever taken a crap on it or left their pants in something. All right. All right. All right. I get what you're saying. Bye. Bye.

We set the single-day alcohol sales records two years in a row. Yeah, so it's really their fault that someone took a crap out of it. Fat Mike. Yeah, that's right. By the way, that's your most mediocre moment, isn't it? Yeah, actually, yeah. Can't be proven. Nobody took a DNA swab of it except the person who took the tea out of it as a souvenir, whoever that was.

But anyway, yeah, so they have that very nice tent where they serve us rice with glass in it. It's a great place for chest fighting, too. I don't know if you know this, John. It's a perfect venue to bump chests with other guys who you're trying to win. I don't even remember what they were trying to win. Well, don't do it with a classically trained matador. That's a very good point.

That's the only mistake that guy made. Yeah, he would have won if the other guy wasn't a classically trained matador. But anyway, so, yeah, they gave the tent away. Oh, my God. So we'll be there the first night. I mean, I appreciate the charity, but... Oh, you mean they're letting someone else use it. Yeah. Okay. We'll be there Friday night and then Saturday after the main event.

We're getting on a bus. We're driving back towards our hotel. We're going to peel off. Yeah. Go to Sam's Town. Okay. And we will be having a good old party in Sam's Town for a couple hours. before the party of the year starts Saturday night. So that is where the award ceremony will happen this year, is at Sam's Town. So, I mean, you know, it's like bad news that gets softened by...

Great news, because I think we'll have a really good time at Sandstown. Oh, I know we will. If anybody's never been there, it's awesome. That's where punk rock bowling occurs every year, too, right? Or I don't even know. Are they still doing it there? Yeah, they use... They use a couple different alleys. That's one of them. Yeah, they got a bowling alley downstairs. So, you know, any engineers who like to bowl, there you go. But first, you're going to have to come up and watch us award.

Probably me. I think I'm going to win this year. I'm feeling it. We have signs of gay showing up. Signs of what? Signs of game. Signs of game? Yes. Oh. Yeah. But I'll be fighting with Doug here, I think. I think you got a good chance, man. Doug, who's Doug? Sorry, Dan. Hold on, has Doug been on this call the whole time? Doug Griswold has been on this call. We've been ignoring Doug.

Why have we been ignoring Doug? I mixed Dan and Gowdy together and just made you Doug. I think I'll be competing with Dan, though, for sure. Are you training hard? What's your regiment? Moving towards the WCs. You up in the prescription? Yeah. Yeah, just keeping the lenses clean, you know? And that's it, you know?

Don't have time to hit the range or anything just before the tournaments. No, you don't need to. No, you don't need to. If anything, the MJ has proven you don't need to. I don't think, like, does Todd, has he ever, sorry, I mean, that guy I forgot. Has he ever gone to the range in his life? I doubt it. Doug, once this comes out, I think you should take this podcast to LensCrafters.

Are there other eyesight stores? I don't even know. Take it there. Get a sponsorship. Get it embroidered on your collar, PGA style. It's crafters. Nice. Yeah, there you go. Or you could go the Phil Mickelson and just have the hat. Lilin's grabbed his hat, you know. Yeah. It'd be pretty sweet. I think that'd be cool. I think number one in the world, you take that stat in. Number one out of...

whatever it is, $1,250. I think that's something. That's got to be something. Just go to your local mall and ask for the manager. They'll know what to do. Can I speak to the manager of the mall? No.

We've gained a couple over the last few days, huh? Yeah, so this is out of 1,234 people. You are number one. How does that feel, by the way? It's nostalgic, man. Yeah? I mean, I will say this. In 2010, I finished number one on the global money list. John, this again? Yeah, here we go. John, it was the highlight of my life. You must understand.

Nothing's ever felt the same ever again. And Dan's feeling it right now. Sorry, Doug is feeling it right now. As we speak. And I remember this feeling. Feels good. Feels good, man. Enjoy it. Try to hold on to it. All the paparazzi. That part does kind of suck. You can't go to your local coffee shop or eatery without... having to hide your face, you know, it sucks, but that's the price you pay, man. Being the greatest at being mediocre at golf. The greatest mediocre golfer of all time.

Daddy, why they hide you? All right, well, that's going to do it for this episode of the MJ Media Cast. Thanks again to Dan Rowdy Gowdy for joining us. Again, the world number one right now, so everyone's looking up at him. You've got the target on your back, buddy. I hope you know that. That's a sizable lead, too. It is. Territory, right? Yeah, exactly. You're ahead by...

Almost a full 50 cents, right? Oh, more than 50 cents. You're up 52 cents. How is that possible with a seventh place finish? I mean, that's terrible. You know, that's something that only the... Just the craft he has to do at the drawing boards, you know. It wasn't easy. It wasn't easy. But, you know, it was a well-crafted out plan. And if you notice, too, John, he didn't even win the four.

Which is usually the recipe, right? Yeah. But you do, you have two firsts, a third, a fourth, a second, and a seventh. So that's all top ten finishes this season. That's amazing. Hold on, let me add these up. I think we've got a glitch in the site here. Wait a minute. We're bad at math. What's going on? Oh, never mind. Okay, can we get the other guy on the phone? Yeah, and you actually have 12 penalty strokes. Can we get money on the phone? Yeah.

He's the real MVP. But thanks again for joining us. Congratulations. Congratulations. I don't want to take anything away from you here. This is a special time in your life. You earned it. Yep. I've never. I don't think I've ever won the money title, that's for sure. It's all downhill from here. Willie has in 2010. I did in 2010. I don't know if you guys know about this. I could show you the trophy. It's pretty cool.

I was actually... Something to shoot for then. It's going to be hard for the belt, but at least I got something else to shoot for, right? Yeah. Yeah, if you don't win the belt, you still got to, I mean, you are the guy that's chasing this money list over everybody else. I'm rooting for you. We'll see you at the World Championships. We'll be there, yes. You have to be there because if you don't, that counts.

I don't know if you know this, but that counts. I'm there. Awesome. John, you got any final words before we sign off? No, it was good talking to you, Dan. And I guess final question. Did we hang out in Vegas? I don't remember. You know what? Not so much, but let's do it this year, man. At Metalachi? Did we hang out at Metalachi? I showed up the next day.

Oh. Oh, you weren't there that night. Oh, yeah. Mr. Kaufman had a little accident. Hey, I was trying not to bring that up, but in a roundabout way, I was hoping it got brought up. Well, this year we'll fix that. Is he coming back? I believe so. Yes, he's all healed. He's good to go. That's amazing. I heard that he regretted leaving when he found out there was nothing crushed.

Well, I guess. That's what I heard, anyways, that nothing was fractured, that he wished he'd stuck around. Well, you've got to be careful on Metalachi shows. It's dangerous. All right, well, that's going to do it for episode 34 of the MJ Media Cast. Once again, my name is Straight Willie Dills. We also, of course, with us, co-founder and El Presidente, John Lucky Cake Morley. Dan, Doug, Rowdy, Towdy. Thanks a lot for joining us, and we'll see you guys next time.