00:00Any good George W. Bush stories from that week?
00:03Oh, for sure.
00:04We had a great, great lunch with him, like one of the practice rounds,
00:08and then I think it's ten guys on the team, so we would have lunch,
00:12and then he played two holes with five of the guys,
00:14and then two more holes with the other five.
00:16And the lunch was so great, and it was all assigned seating.
00:21It happened to be right across from W., and P. Raj was also sitting right next to him,
00:26and he asked, you know, it was kind of a free-for-all, probably like a Q&A,
00:30it felt like for him.
00:31It probably wasn't as fun for him as it was for us,
00:34and P. Raj asked him about his day on 9-11, and all of us were kind of like,
00:38I can't believe you just asked that.
00:40And he went through his day from when he woke up in the morning
00:44to when he went to bed at night.
00:46I imagine you could have heard a pin drop.
00:47It was insane.
00:49It was like 30 minutes from the, you know, when he was told,
00:54when he was in the school, you know, the picture that everybody's seen
00:56when he's kind of sitting there, and he's got the Secret Service in his ear.
00:59And, I mean, I remember him saying of just the number one thing you can't do
01:02in that situation is panic, because then the people that are around you
01:07are going to then get worked up, and they are going to panic.
01:10And it's like staying calm and coming up with a plan
01:12is kind of the first thing he had to do.
01:15But to then, you know, late, and I think he's told this story a million times too,
01:19but to the end of the night when he's, you know, in some bunker bedroom,
01:25probably in God knows where, that they thought that there was a plane
01:30that was flying, you know, to where they were,
01:33only to find out that it was their own plane that was like security and watching.
01:37And he was just like so exhausted.
01:39He essentially was like, I don't care.
01:41I just want to go to sleep.
01:42And then they were like, never mind, Mr. President.
01:45It's just our plane.
01:45And so that was wild, but selfishly for me, the coolest story was
01:50I was in the first group that played with him.
01:54And on the first hole, you know, we got a bazillion people
01:58on the green, around the green.
01:59And he hits his putt and just kind of happens to be, I'm wherever I am.
02:05And he's walking around me to go up to his ball to get to the hole.
02:08And as he's walking around, he just kind of casually says,
02:11he's like, you wouldn't be on the front page tomorrow.
02:14And I was like, what?
02:15You guys, you want to be on the front page tomorrow?
02:19Sure.
02:19He's like, come on.
02:20He's like, act like we're reading this putt.
02:22And he just kind of puts his arm around me and like kind of, you know,
02:25looks at it and I'm playing the part and I look at it too.
02:29And then we're kind of laughing and keeps going.
02:31Sure enough, the next day, there's that picture on the front page of the paper.
02:34And I was like, damn, this guy knows.
02:36It's not the first time he's done that.
02:38And then coincidentally, however many days later, closing ceremonies.
02:41So he comes back.
02:42He comes back for closing, which none of us knew.
02:45Wow.
02:46Closing ceremony.
02:46We're all in line in our, you know, butt downs, ties.
02:49And I kind of get this tap on the shoulder as he's walking by and just goes,
02:54told you.
02:55And it was W.
02:56So that's a picture that was, it was cool.
02:59But, you know, that's, he's the best.
03:01And he didn't need to do that to, I just was very lucky that I happened to be the one
03:05that
03:05was standing there, but it was obviously a moment I didn't forget.
03:08I don't know.
03:08it.
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