00:00and look who's back in studio it's eric carlton bickle hey morning how are you guys back from
00:05shy town that's right do you actually go in the city in chicago or is it suburban no no no
00:12just
00:12go oak brook uh illinois it's kind of like the potomac of uh that area yeah did you play three
00:18rounds no i played uh 27 holes on wednesday 36 holes on thursday and 18 holes on friday so four
00:27and a half rounds i do the math right whatever it is yeah i think it's like 81 holes jeez
00:3281 holes
00:33when we were there for fewer hours than we were holes and the weather was good weather was good
00:37until the final day rained a little bit on uh friday but we still got it in um i absolutely
00:43played horrible of course just just is relentless and if you don't if you don't have your a game
00:48it's just it's tough chewed you up and spit you out how many guys went out
00:53well it was a total of four of us because my buddy tom oh yeah lives half the year out
00:57there
00:57but we had a great time and uh dewey yeah we had a great time we uh mostly hung out
01:02at the club
01:03there's not a lot of time for much when you're playing that much golf you're just kind of hanging
01:06out all right and then you go to sleep then we went out we did go out to dinner to
01:10dick cuz
01:11on uh friday night that was a really nice dinner is that in the city no again it's all in
01:16the suburbs
01:16okay i i have let's i've been to the city a million times i stayed in the city you're done
01:20with
01:21i know it's fine but i i don't need to go there i was just there i still know the
01:24geography you
01:25don't need to get upset i'm not upset it's just that i'm in the suburbs yeah i think illinois is
01:30a state illinois i have not been to really we went through because bob carpenter crossed all 50
01:37states off and i think i've been to about half but illinois never been it's a cool city i'd go
01:42if i
01:42was gonna go to like wrigley or something yeah you know i don't know gonna see the bean again i've
01:47seen
01:47the bean i mean i mean i don't even know what that is yeah exactly just some touristy been to
01:53chicago a couple times when we uh went to notre dame football games did sears tower i did not do
01:59the sears tower the cool thing is it was chicago highlands tom's course uh when you're on the ninth
02:03green it's a beautiful view of the city in the sears tower um it's a really really cool oh really
02:09yeah
02:09yeah it's it's an awesome spot this course is always immaculate clubhouse is amazing it's fun to just
02:15kind of hang out even when you're getting your teeth kicked in um so yeah good time came back
02:20friday spent a weekend time with the fam so it was all good you guys i actually played golf on
02:25saturday
02:26for the first time and it's so funny so i play with my cousin my buddy giovanni and we're not
02:33members
02:34of a club so you gotta pay right but if it's about to rain you you could play in golf
02:4017 holes and you
02:42get a rain out and get all your money back well it depends of course i think oh really over
02:47latensville
02:47they'll give you your money back you get a rain check that's why and we just started joking we
02:52were playing so bad we started joking that if we got because rain was on the forecast i had paid
02:57no
02:58attention my buddy goes if you look at the radar he's like we're not gonna finish 18 yeah and my
03:02cousin started saying i think giovanni's gonna slow play the last couple of holes to wait for the
03:07rain to get a rain check we were on 15 and just the downpour i would probably say this weekend
03:13it
03:13probably rained an hour yeah and it was just while we were on like the 15th and just got saturday
03:19yes yeah saturday evening we were at my brother's and we were all hanging out had cookout and
03:23everything and all of a sudden yeah saturday came through yeah yeah i saw a picture of a crew of
03:28like did you see the 45 in morgantown west virginia with the uh super regionals tents blowing all over
03:33the place that was nuts crazy i didn't that's the same story that came through here yeah yeah
03:38started out there if i'm running a golf course you've played nine holes and then the skies open
03:43up i'm sorry you're not getting a rain check probably not gonna get a rain check i don't know
03:47the exact 17 and then you get a rain check that's the world i think it's happened worst business people
03:52i've ever heard of well that was run by the county so they don't care yeah yeah uh well so
04:00you're back
04:00from uh chicago it's good to be back although i'm going back in two weeks because we're going to
04:06spend some time with uh coops fam uh going out to dinner we're going to play some golf i'm actually
04:11going to take them out to the highlands are they based in is he from chicago yeah yeah yeah yeah
04:16they
04:16live like 30 minutes suburb yeah chicago i don't know exact suburb but very close i'll tell you what
04:21navy yard was crazy this morning i saw a woman walking down the street in a bikini when i was
04:27parking
04:28was she baldy wasn't bad but there were some cops behind her with their lights on so something
04:35was going on yeah it was a it was a bikini not like brawn panties look like a bikini but
04:42could
04:42have been i mean i wasn't that close but i mean who knows she's headed to the bullpen super i
04:48don't
04:48know i don't know what she was doing i mean where she was going pull season is back i mean
04:53it has
04:53been really hot it has been humid that's true summer's in full swing even though my kid still
04:58has three days of school really two and a half i think a half day on wednesday the swim meet
05:04season
05:04has started up back to doing the announcing bit oh yep it's a bad beat terrible i lived through that
05:11it's a terrible dark time but i think saturday the other side was 7 a.m till 11 a.m
05:16yeah just a big
05:18time suck and that was just time trials there was no other team and because of the line of work
05:22we're in
05:22everybody just that that's becomes your job because you talk on the radio i avoided it yeah
05:28i mean i got stuck with it a few times i've always go up to me and go good job
05:32good job i'm like i'm
05:33just reading names yeah that's all i'm literally doing all right 25 meter breaststroke just reading
05:3912 and under and then i read six boys names or six girls names you're doing it you're you're standing
05:45there for four hours i thank god mike wise was a member of the same pool as me and he
05:50loves attention
05:50it's his thing and so he was doing it for years yeah i don't even know who's doing it now
05:54no there's
05:55another guy i'm still i'm actually jv i'm the b meet guy but because we're gonna be out of banks
06:01next
06:02week i swapped with the other guy who does the a meets right let's only have two more but we're
06:08in
06:08swim meet season yeah finished off the soccer season this weekend it's just hot well yeah yeah it's
06:15gonna be really hot thursday thursday and friday was it just today it'd be in the 90s kind of like
06:20yeah and the heat index will be way up and it's not gonna be as bad today and tomorrow but
06:24then
06:24it'll start coming in on wednesday oh i owe you six dollars and fifty cents yes you can ship that
06:28right for knicks the knicks were laying six and a half no no they're getting success i said that's
06:36too many points i'll take it all day long yeah we're a big winner i'll take it this is why
06:40i don't bet
06:40in real life yeah because i would have bet a lot that the spurs would win the series yeah
06:44well i mean it's not over yet but it doesn't look good they look good not looking good for if
06:50you're
06:50a wembi fan that's for sure well you know my my daughter she she uh she lives in new york
06:55city
06:56and she walks by madison square garden yeah every day okay and she's already a little bit anxious
07:01about how she's gonna get home today after work because it's just a legitimate circus yeah legitimate
07:09circus in the city preparing for all this um so i'll have to take a little detour especially
07:15the president coming in well yeah as the president it's gonna be a nightmare the knicks up to nothing
07:20uh you know oh silly new york people are fired up yeah it's gonna be nuts i don't have to
07:26be crazy
07:26that was kind of destructive wasn't a game last night i was kind of pumped and ready for the game
07:30last night i mean i realized in the morning that it wasn't on but i was i was hoping it
07:36would be
07:36on saturday well you got tonight to watch game three yeah but i was well rested but it's gonna
07:41be nuts yeah well there's no chance you watched the belmont stakes right i actually did you did
07:49wow i mean i just watched the one race is that a double crown winner cakes the double crowner
07:53sure yeah but i did not place any wagers on it i didn't have any you staying away even though
07:59i
07:59texted neil greenberg i said give me some fatties did he give you a couple well he didn't give me
08:04the
08:05winner he didn't give me golden tempo is that is that the horse's name yes uh he gave me renegade
08:10and he gave me a couple other ones but um yeah i mean they did it again i watched it
08:16for about
08:16three minutes i would have watched it but i was i had the golf on i was watching the memorial
08:21and
08:21then i watched the women's over watching nelly uh kind of close it out yeah which is pretty cool
08:26yeah now watching the golf this weekend was cool just because you know it's it's a big tournament
08:31it's the second to the last signature event travelers is the last one but jt poston and
08:36um ryan gerard a couple north carolina boys um in a playoff and in a playoff and then jt poston
08:43you know these guys have so much money and he wins four million dollars for for winning it but the
08:49money doesn't mean anything it's nothing you saw the emotion i mean you guys almost crying on
08:54on the 18th green when he's being interviewed after the win just talking about how you know
09:00it's been a struggle his game hadn't been great and people doubted him and he's got his wife and
09:04his kids out there i mean it's just means so much to these guys he's chasing a dream yeah the
09:08realization especially that particular event because it's a big one with jack there should
09:13mention on the show today darren revell is going to join us for the expert founder of collect media
09:19hit full listen on what's going on in new york with the ticket prices madison square garden the
09:23craziness of the knicks taking a 2-0 lead so he'll jump on at 825 you want to get in
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