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YouTube golf has completely skyrocketed in popularity over the last few years. One specific YouTube golf brand is catching some serious backlash after their recent ad with Callaway. Do you think this company should be catching this much heat?
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00:00Should the Commanders play Jaden Daniels in the first-team offense
00:05in the final preseason game?
00:07I was monitoring the preseason games last night,
00:11and Kirk Cousins, who's going to start for the Vegas Raiders,
00:14he got some action.
00:16Justin Herbert, who, of course, will be starting for the Los Angeles Chargers,
00:21he got action.
00:22Outside of that, not many starters got action.
00:24So, we'll see what the Commanders decide to do in their final preseason game.
00:30So, we'll be talking about that throughout the show.
00:32Also, Cordell Woodland's going to join us.
00:34He works for 105.7 The Fan.
00:36We can talk some Ravens and Orioles with him.
00:38He was at the joint practice on Wednesday between the Commanders and the Ravens.
00:446 o'clock game tonight, not 7.
00:476 p.m. game.
00:48That's an early one.
00:50I'll be honest with you.
00:51I've kind of spaced it since that debacle of a joint practice.
00:55I've just kind of just shut down.
00:57And I assume, I guess I'll be wrong,
01:00but I just have assumed that none of the relevant players will be playing.
01:03And that may be the case.
01:05And so, it's not even on my radar, honestly.
01:08But again, there were some starters who played last night.
01:11There was.
01:12Yeah, I know, but we just have a different agenda here, it seems like.
01:14And I just think we have just maybe the most fragile quarterback in the game.
01:17But maybe the agenda changes after the poor performance on Wednesday.
01:20I don't think so.
01:21I'd be shocked to see Jaden Daniels take the field tonight.
01:23If he was really, really hell-bent on it,
01:25he would have brought him up for another series, maybe,
01:27to try to resolve it.
01:28We'll see.
01:29You can vote at Junk's Radio.
01:31Maybe they're just so pissed at how they looked against the Ravens in the joint.
01:35Maybe.
01:35They want to get out there.
01:36But it's probably not worth it if you're not going to have your starting center.
01:42Probably not worth the risk.
01:43It's probably not worth it.
01:44Logan Paulson had a good point,
01:46and I'm sure we'll talk about it throughout the show,
01:48but that, in his opinion, it's not as big a deal to freak out about
01:52because if it was a real game, a name we haven't heard about at all,
01:57who's not elite by any stretch, but he's a longtime veteran,
02:00Andrew Wiley would have been in there.
02:01Right?
02:02If it was a real game situation, Andrew Wiley would have been in there at guard.
02:06If he also thinks that Trent Scott would have been in there.
02:09So, in other words, guys that have experience,
02:11they wanted to see what they had in those kind of unknown guys,
02:16and they kind of knew, probably, what was going to happen,
02:19but they wanted to see it against different competition.
02:22But if the game was on the line,
02:23it's funny because no one's talking about Andrew Wiley,
02:26and listen, at times he's been a turnstile here,
02:28but he's also been a guy that's filled in a lot.
02:32And he's generally fine as an interior lineman.
02:34You don't want him as a tackle, but at this point,
02:37he's a serviceable interior lineman.
02:38Yeah, but Logan's probably right about that.
02:39Yeah, he's probably right about that.
02:41So, it's not as catastrophic as it felt.
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03:01So, before EB started filling us in on the good-good controversy,
03:06I'll be honest, I had never heard of good-good.
03:08I think Cakes was in the same boat as me.
03:10Pretty much had never heard of that.
03:12I might have seen their gear here, but I didn't know that they had a big YouTube presence.
03:17Yeah, if you don't watch YouTube golf, there would be no reason.
03:20But there was backlash because of the ad featuring a man shoving a woman to the ground.
03:26The golf club may or may not have been cursed in the commercial.
03:32We learned that.
03:33That was the idea, that it was cursed.
03:35That was the idea, that it was a cursed golf club.
03:37So, the man is saving the woman by pushing her.
03:40Yeah.
03:40It was a spoof on the movie Obsession.
03:43Yeah.
03:43Okay.
03:44Which not a lot of people saw.
03:45Although, it was very popular.
03:47I just know in this room, only Cakes saw it.
03:49I saw it.
03:51Not a lot of people saw it in general.
03:52That couldn't be more wrong.
03:54Like, a lot of people saw that movie.
03:56Yeah, yeah.
03:56But in terms of, like, overall percentage, the percentage of people that probably saw Obsession
04:02is...
04:02Very small?
04:032% of the nation, if you have 330 million people.
04:06You're downplaying, like, maybe the biggest independent horror film.
04:09No, it did well, but I'm just saying...
04:10Success story of all time.
04:11Right.
04:11Okay.
04:12But if you lined up 100 people, how many people saw Obsession?
04:15I don't know.
04:16I don't know that number.
04:16It's not 75.
04:19Anyway, we're getting stuck in the minutia.
04:21But Cakes saw it.
04:22And Matt saw it.
04:23Definitely saw it.
04:23And they loved it.
04:24It's really good.
04:25It's very good.
04:26I have not seen it yet.
04:27So, now Good Good is done?
04:29Is that the deal?
04:30Or Callaway's...
04:31No, let's just look.
04:33Everyone's just canceling them right now, and they're going to have to start it from scratch,
04:36and they've decided to just destroy a company over a PR, you know, flub.
04:41That they were all complicit in.
04:43Callaway was complicit in it.
04:46And nobody meant any ill harm.
04:48It was just sort of not particularly well thought out.
04:51Not greatly executed.
04:54And Callaway's just going to just throw Good Good under the bus.
04:58Now, there's some theory that they're doing it because, you know, YouTube Golf had its
05:03real heyday during COVID.
05:05That's when it really exploded, right?
05:07So, there's not a lot on.
05:08People are watching YouTube.
05:09And there's guys playing golf on YouTube.
05:10And it really, really, really exploded.
05:12And then the Good Good guys in particular, I know you guys aren't familiar with it, and
05:16that's okay.
05:17But they got these great deals, and they have merch selling all over the place, as you found.
05:22PGA Tour, Superstore, Dick's, Golf Galaxy, etc.
05:26And there's some thought, and I don't know, but it's probably true.
05:29Because I don't really, I don't buy, like, good, good hats.
05:32I don't know that I would necessarily be averse to it.
05:35But I've never really seen one that I said, oh, I've got to have that.
05:37Even though you see their merch everywhere.
05:39That it just doesn't sell that well.
05:41And this was a good opportunity for Callaway to just get out.
05:45Yeah.
05:45Get out for the deal.
05:46Good exit strategy for them.
05:47It wasn't the plan.
05:48But, hey, you know what?
05:49Maybe it's a good time to bow out.
05:51What about Golf Channel?
05:52So, Golf Channel postponed the debut of Big Break.
05:56Time's good.
05:57Yeah.
05:57I think Golf Channel's going to still host the show, but a sponsor won it out.
06:01So, it gave them time.
06:02Golf Galaxy won it out.
06:03Yeah.
06:04These sponsors are so cowardly.
06:06I am so upset with them.
06:07And then I believe they are pulling out Good Good from the PGA event.
06:13In November, yeah.
06:14Yeah, I mean, it's been a catastrophic bloat for Good Good over such a silly thing.
06:20If you're going to ban Dick's and you're not going to go to Dick's anymore.
06:24Honestly, I'll be honest.
06:25Every time I go to Dick's, I'm underwhelmed.
06:27You can't watch the PGA Tour.
06:29Well, I'll watch the PGA Tour.
06:30But every time I go to Dick's, I'm underwhelmed.
06:35I'm like, this massive store, there's two people in it, there's zero sales for me.
06:40I wouldn't buy anything.
06:41I wouldn't buy anything.
06:42The Dixon Rio is refurbished.
06:44They've got two simulators.
06:46They've got a batting cage.
06:47Well, people can have fun over there.
06:49I think it's called Dick House of Sports.
06:52It's called now.
06:53They've kind of rebranded it.
06:54That's what they're doing over in Annapolis, too.
06:56I did see someone come up with the logic that, well, if you are against companies kowtowing
07:02to cancel culture, that you shouldn't be a Commanders fan.
07:05Because they kowtowed to...
07:07Yeah, you're probably right.
07:09But what are you going to do?
07:10It's ingrained.
07:10All the anti-redskins.
07:12I agree.
07:12You're probably right.
07:12This team you grew up for before.
07:14It's hard to break up.
07:15What do you do?
07:16I'm not a perfect person.
07:17So Callaway posted...
07:18I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of wizards.
07:20They switch from bullets, but I still root for the wizards.
07:22Callaway posted on its social media accounts admitting that their internal review process
07:29wasn't comprehensive enough, which is why the company reposted the good, good video
07:34and has made, quote, appropriate internal corrective actions.
07:38They've also donated a million dollars to support organizations that work to prevent
07:43domestic violence against women and support survivors.
07:46Of course, everyone's against domestic violence against women.
07:48Literally everyone to a person.
07:51100%.
07:51That's just the world we live in.
07:53That wasn't the intent.
07:54It was just a bad joke.
07:55If you know the good, good guys, like, you know, like...
07:59There's no way that they...
08:01Intended that.
08:02Yeah.
08:03That perception.
08:03Like, they're just so, like...
08:04It was a brain fart.
08:05Saltine cracker.
08:07Yeah.
08:07They don't curse.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Like, it's just...
08:10It's just a PG.
08:11They're goody goodies.
08:12They're goody goodies.
08:13Yeah, I mean...
08:14They got...
08:14They got so boned on this.
08:17They did.
08:17They're teacher pets.
08:18Yeah, it's such faux outrage.
08:20There's that old ESPN commercial going around where, you know, like, Betty White is tackled
08:25and other things, and nobody was upset.
08:27It's just, for whatever reason, wrong time, people just decided to make an example of
08:31these, honestly, pretty innocent kids.
08:33And then Callaway wants to make themselves look better.
08:35And Callaway's throwing them under the bus.
08:37And they were right and smack dab in the middle of it.
08:39They probably created the whole friggin' ass themselves.
08:40I mean, Callaway's culpable, too.
08:42Of course.
08:42Of course they are.
08:43They're the worst.
08:44I swear to God.
08:45Don't ever buy my AI...
08:46Don't ever buy the Callaway gear.
08:47I don't need it.
08:48Anybody want my AI smoke, three wood?
08:50I'll sell it to you.
08:51Callaway golf balls, any of those in your bag?
08:52Hey, yeah, yeah, you should get it out of your car and snap it over your knee on air.
08:55I'll take money for it.
08:56I think our free Surfside balls are Callaway's.
08:59They are.
09:00They definitely are.
09:00They're nubs.
09:02They're actually nubs.
09:03I bet you play with them, though.
09:04I bet you use them.
09:05I don't.
09:06You don't?
09:06No, but they're beneath me.
09:08To be honest with you.
09:09Mike Marr will take them.
09:10Yeah.
09:11Oh, hell yeah.
09:11I give it to my daughter.
09:12She's like, the Warbird?
09:14They're beneath me.
09:15They're very low caliber ball.
09:18I don't know what to tell you.
09:20I'm not good enough to notice a difference.
09:22They make nice balls, but, well, if you had a launch monitor and you could see the difference.
09:26The Callaway, oh, my gosh.
09:28They're just annoying.
09:29They're just so annoying.
09:31I've never been a Callaway guy, anyway.
09:33I've never.
09:33I don't think I've ever even played with one Callaway club, but now I know.
09:38I have, but it's fine.
09:39Whatever.
09:40I would actually, I would go as far as to say that Callaway is probably more to blame than
09:45the good, good guys.
09:46Of course.
09:46I'm sure.
09:46Callaway has layers upon layers of marketing.
09:50They're a massive company.
09:52Massive company.
09:53It's not like good, good went out there and filmed this guerrilla style on their own and
09:59then put it out there.
10:00Yeah.
10:00No, they're literally just, they just decided to throw a company under the bus because they
10:06got a little backlash.
10:07Nobody has any backbone.
10:09You know, one thing I'll say about this company, and I don't even know if it would happen today,
10:13but I assume it would because CK's still here, people would complain about us and other radio
10:19stations would probably be able to have fired us.
10:21And you know what the radio station would just do?
10:22Ignore it.
10:23Yeah.
10:24Ignore it.
10:25They would get emails.
10:26They would get letters.
10:27They would get calls.
10:28They probably still do.
10:29I'm certain they still do.
10:33Yeah.
10:34They understand the fringe minority and faux outrage and, you know, whatever.
10:38You're not going to please everyone.
10:39They just ignore.
10:40It's good to get emailed.
10:41The boys are talking about duty again.
10:44Yeah.
10:44They get emails.
10:45Too much duty talk.
10:47Maybe people try to cancel us.
10:48Is Phil Mickelson still a Callaway guy?
10:50I don't know.
10:51I don't know.
10:51Or is he timeless?
10:52He's another one very much up in the air.
10:55If I were Callaway, I would have cut time.
10:56Well, that's what I was going to ask.
10:57That was a little more justified, although I don't really, again.
11:00No, but that's what I'm asking.
11:01If they're still on board with Phil Mickelson, that would look hypocritical if they didn't
11:06cut ties with Phil Mickelson and they're cutting ties with Good Good.
11:09Yeah.
11:10With all the stuff that he's done.
11:11They may not be because Phil's on ice like you wouldn't believe right now.
11:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:14Well, he's had it.
11:14Phil hasn't committed domestic violence.
11:16No.
11:16He just was a creep.
11:18Yeah, he just slinged it everywhere.
11:19No, but it still looks bad.
11:20It still looks horrible.
11:22Oh, he did get charged for sexual assault?
11:24That's right.
11:25Because he allegedly grabbed the car girl.
11:28Yeah.
11:29With all the stuff he's done?
11:30Yeah, he cornered the car girl, allegedly, in some back room.
11:34Right.
11:35But I'm not sure if...
11:36And then, allegedly, he showed his hog.
11:39Yeah, he's sending hog pics all over the place.
11:43I mean, yeah.
11:43Super horny.
11:44Yeah.
11:45We know that about Phil.
11:46I think that Callaway has distanced themselves to some level.
11:48He may have actually lost his deal.
11:50It actually looks like Mickelson walked away from Callaway after a 20-year partnership in 2024.
11:56Yeah.
11:56Okay.
11:57All right.
11:57So he's not a Callaway guy anymore.
11:58So he split with Callaway a couple years ago.
12:00Anyway, good guys.
12:02Good, good, good, good guys got a horn.
12:04I'll be honest with you.
12:06I could care less about the good, good guys.
12:08I've watched them because I like YouTube golf, but it's not like I'm a...
12:11They just didn't deserve this.
12:12They still deserve this, and now I'm going to be a huge fan.
12:15Right.
12:15Now I'm going to be a bigger fan than everyone.
12:17You know what I should do?
12:18I'm going to promote every video they put out.
12:21Get them on the show.
12:22It's still bad for them.
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