00:00Well, it's interesting about the Internet Invitational is that, you know, there's been a lot of different things that have been tried at the YouTube golf space, whether it be, you know, PGA Tour or Live, trying to grab this YouTube golf audience and create something compelling.
00:15But this seems to have absolutely kicked the doors down of what I imagine to be one of the best events on YouTube.
00:23And for those of you listening to this episode, we're not going to talk entirely about the Internet Invitational.
00:28I really want to speak mostly about Brad's career up until this point, but it'd be silly to not talk about the gratitude of what this event really was, which was just insanity.
00:40When did you guys get the call about the event and how did they decide who was going to be playing?
00:46Pretty much, I guess, picking the lineups for who got in.
00:49But I imagine when you got the text, you had to be pretty excited about it.
00:52Yeah, I so obviously it kind of started off, I think it was a little over a year ago, Fortnoy came out, I think it was on a podcast or something with the foreplay guys.
01:04And Fortnoy was like, hey, if I put up a million dollars, you know, for a tournament, like how would that do on YouTube?
01:10And everyone's like, oh, be fantastic.
01:13And he kind of got the ball rolling on that.
01:15Then all of a sudden, a few months later, it's announced like, hey, it's actually happening.
01:19This is it's going to happen.
01:21Barstool's hosting it with Bob DeSports.
01:25And I was pumped.
01:26I didn't know if I was for sure going to get the invite.
01:27Obviously, being a part of Good Good and one of the better golfers on YouTube, I was hopeful I'd get the invite.
01:34But I didn't know which direction they were going to go.
01:37I didn't know if they were going to go more, you know, kind of have a mixture of everybody or maybe more comedic, higher handicaps or maybe more the, you know, higher caliber of YouTube players.
01:47I just had no idea.
01:48I was not expecting an invite.
01:49But Bob texted me, I guess, you know, right before I got the invite.
01:55And he said, hey, dude, your invites in the mail, you're going to be you're going to be at the Internet Invitational.
01:59And obviously, I was very thankful for that and love Bob to death.
02:02Bob is the funniest human on the series.
02:05Unbelievable.
02:05He's the funniest person I've ever met.
02:08He's the type of guy you can just you can just watch him live life for like 30 minutes and you could just laugh at everything he's doing.
02:15It's awesome.
02:15But I get to laugh at Bob like once a day, like just something pops up where whether it's Bob making a hole in one at PGA National or him, you know, at the place where he's getting the yogurt bowl or whatever he gets.
02:27It's just or a bad haircut.
02:29The guy is just a highlight reel.
02:31It's a tough one.
02:32But no, Bob's the best.
02:33And he he said he sent me that text that I was invited.
02:36And obviously, I was stoked for that.
02:38And then going into the event, I no one knew what the format was going to be.
02:42I mean, they they kind of mentioned it in the first episode of the video is, you know, there's they're saying how, you know, we've kept it a secret for a reason.
02:49Nobody had any idea.
02:51I thought it'd be a little more like a squid gamey type thing where 48 people.
02:58Here's an 80 yard shot.
02:59If you hit the green, you advance to miss you're out.
03:01I thought it'd be a little more like that in a way.
03:04But I think they killed the format.
03:06It made it made it perfectly to where at the end in the finale, you can see how, you know, a higher caliber player like me and how a 12 handicap handles a million dollar pressure.
03:20Like it really gives the gave a great just a view of how different handicaps, how different golfers handle that much pressure.
03:28And, you know, the fact that someone like Frankie or B for Francis had putts and shots that really mattered in a million dollar match.
03:37It was it was crazy.
03:38So I think they killed the format.
03:40And I'm really glad they didn't do like the handicap route.
03:43I think very dicey, obviously, there was enough controversy that we didn't need a handicap like that would have been ridiculous for a million dollars online.
03:52So I'm glad they stayed away from that.
03:54But I think they did great with the format, great with the editing.
03:57And and it was just an unbelievable event to the New York Jets need to either call Bob or Riggs for their their excellent drafting.
04:05Or do you think they both did an OK job?
04:08Who would you give the lean there for best best draft?
04:12I think I think Riggs definitely did a great job drafting, even though even the second.
04:19So I was on his team the first match and we won.
04:21I think we did.
04:22He did a great job drafting even on the second match.
04:25I think he did a great job until the second until the afternoon matches.
04:30They I think he had a couple of falters on the pairings and it kind of gets away to make a big comeback in that second round.
04:37Oh, really?
04:37To get through.
04:38Yeah, we were down.
04:40What was it?
04:41It was six.
04:41We were down four to two, I think, out of the six matches.
04:46And is obviously if you got to six and a half, you clenched going into the finals.
04:49And so they didn't have to do a whole lot in that afternoon.
04:52And we made a huge comeback and he made a couple a couple of key mistakes, I think.
04:56And the pairings that helped us really allowed us to have a chance and alternate shots.
05:00So I think that was really his only hiccup.
05:01But he did.
05:02I mean, he was a great captain.
05:04I think I don't watch it, but the Riders Cup, like the Barstool team event that was in the company.
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