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Anyways, whatever I tried, I'm so tired of this I got to get this fixed.
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I don't know what's going on.
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Welcome to the Chasing Daylight podcast everybody.
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Normally we have our little intro music going but yeah, riverside's like screw you, you don't need that.
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So apologize for that.
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But welcome to the show.
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Labor Day Hope everybody had a great holiday weekend.
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I know we had some crazy as weather in Vegas, flooding like Dan did you, did you your house stay afloat?
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It did.
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We're still here.
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You know it was up there on Blue Diamond.
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Rainbow is pretty bad, yeah it was, it was flowing.
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There was a couple cars that got stuck, but you know, luckily my truck just goes right through that.
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Dude, you want to talk about idiots.
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We have some of the dumbest people in the world in this town, I mean.
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How many?
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Turn around, don't drown.
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Your car is not a boat.
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It won't float Adds.
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Do we have to run before people are going to stop trying to go through 10 feet of water in their Hyundai?
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Dude, when we were driving down to Cater the other day, when I was, luckily we took the truck but there was people like their cars were stopped in the middle of the road in the in the water.
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I'm sure they're all hydrolocked like just toast.
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I couldn't believe it.
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And then there's some people that just drive like the speed limit and there's three feet of water, it's.
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I've never seen that.
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That was such a weird experience for me because I've never seen that before.
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But I've been wondering is that?
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Has that happened before?
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Like is that every few?
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years occurrence oh yeah, all the time, all the time.
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It the worst used to be the Charles Nunderpass when the the freeway you know went under.
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Or was it the main street that went over?
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Yeah the railroad tracks.
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Yeah, that was always.
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Yeah, oh my God.
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Yeah, and it would.
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The drainage thing would, just as soon as it rained, it would fill up and you've got, you know, 15 feet of water and people would just drive right into it.
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It was like that's that's where the news went as soon as it, soon as it rained.
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The news was that Charles didn't mean watching the people drive into a pool, basically.
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Totally yeah.
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My favorite is like all the sewer, the sewer things that pop off and water sprays out like old faithful out of the ground.
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And the videos on TikTok and Instagram and everything were hilarious.
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The you know the lazy river behind the link.
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It was it wasn't lazy.
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It was a class five, that's about to be.
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Yeah, that, that is a wild stuff.
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Wild, all the people living under the city.
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Man Like I, just I can't believe, like it's, you know living on edge all day, it just yeah.
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It beneath the neon.
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Didn't they do a documentary on that?
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Yeah, and they did a book called beneath the neon.
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I have anything on.
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Yeah, insane, how that.
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I mean those tunnels are crazy.
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Yeah, how wild stuff.
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All right, so what we're going to talk about today, I tease it into a little thumbnail for for YouTube the Tony Fiena lawsuit, shadow Creek has jacked up their prices.
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Joe sent out a thing today about Hill Point Golf Club and Tom Doak, and then we just found out it's private.
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So fuck you, tom don't know, I'm just kidding We'll.
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We'll chat about that.
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The USA won the Walker Cup out at St Andrews.
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That was pretty awesome to watch.
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We got Patrick Lindsey coming up soon.
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We're a month away from Shriners and as we're going to have him on the show talking about all the new stuff with that.
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And then shocking news.
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This was like, oh my God, oh my God, a review got posted on the breakfast ball today.
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Wow, wow, right, yeah.
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So I have like Not intentionally, taken a sabbatical from from writing reviews, and mainly because the VGN has taken up and this has taken up so much of my time that I find it hard to sit down in front of the computer and knock out words when there's so much other shit in my brain going on.
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But you know there's some people that I sent us some stuff to that needed to be reviewed, and so I'm like shit, I need to get on this.
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So that review just went out, so I'll mention that and then.
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So, let's, let's kick off a little.
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Oh, maybe I don't know if we're going to be able to do the weather.
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Let's see if this will give it another.
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We'll give it one more try, and it didn't even come over.
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Oh my Lord.
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Ok, I did see.
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I did see Gontaric on the news today and it was a perfect day for golf out here.
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I mean, it was I woke waking up this morning.
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It was incredible, and I wish I could play this morning.
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How was it at Paiute, dan?
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Was it windy?
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It was windy.
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It was windy pretty much all day.
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Yeah probably 15, 25 miles and 15 to 20 miles an hour probably.
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Yeah, when I, when I came out, I was like, wow, what a morning for golf.
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I mean, I noticed some wind in the air but and I assume that Paiute was probably four times what we had out here by my house but man, what a day for golf.
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And I saw Matt on Fox five.
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I saw him talking about who's going to take his kid out to the range after work.
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So I'm sure he had a great time out there.
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But it's it's fantastic weather currently, and this weekend is it's going to warm up, you know today was insane.
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Yeah, it was so nice out.
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All right, let's see this work.
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It's been humid though.
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Maybe, maybe, maybe.
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I'm so tired of stuff not working.
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No, Right, just stop trying.
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No, I'll talk to you.
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So today in, and we, it's seventy four today in Henderson.
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Las.
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Vegas down at a Harry Reid International Airport, we got point zero eight percents of rain.
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One, one tenth of one sixteenths of our annual rainfall.
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I just got a rug of a suit with a tie.
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A little side note on the weather that I never.
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I don't understand how they totally underestimate the amount of rain we get.
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Like when they report the rain, like it's so disappointing that they're like we got half an inch of rain and there's like feet of puddles, like yeah well, it's because it just takes place at the airport.
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That's, that's the.
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That's where they measure.
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That, yeah, I measure.
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And then all the rain it just collects, and the flooding is what they can never you can never judge how much flooding is going to take place, because you just never know.
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It's a valley.
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So it all, and what it used to be, a lot worse they've.
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They've gotten really good, you know, with all the flood control channels and yeah, it used to be worse, for sure, yeah, I mean I know like paint a desert that area over there when they were building all the houses up on the hills and Centennial out there like the bottom.
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But right before the ninety five that was a lake, before they figured out the flood channels and everything.
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So I mean you take it, that's one of the I don't know if it's what Fabalore does, but you did a great job.
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Matt the fabs, you're doing a good job.
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Thanks, Babs I mean he's claiming it right, he's reclaiming it, yeah.
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Well, you know, you take all the ground surface and you turn it from desert into concrete and and asphalt, and that water doesn't go into the ground, it just runs along the top of the surface.
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You know off topic.
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Did you see Burning man?
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Oh, yeah, there's like people are like stranded there.
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You did.
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Yeah, that looks like a mess, holy mess.
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Real mess, like people just trekking through the mud and they're like, they're like giving all their effort just to walk like one playa block.
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You know like they're exhausted, I'm sure.
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And all the bike tires are just covered in mud.
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Nothing good comes at Burning man.
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It's either hot as hell Wendy's fuck or now torrential downpours.
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I saw one girl.
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She was riding a bike in just the back of her shirt Just was like a mud, it was like one line of mud down her spine on her shirt.
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Burning man.
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Oh, that has turned into a show, what a shit show.
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All right.
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So oh, other other good news and this is kind of selfish, but I'm I'm excited about it I hit the under 200 pounds today on the scale.
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Very excited about that, very happy.
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I am no longer a 200 pound fat fuck, I'm a 199 pound fat.
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So but progress.
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Very much progress I'm looking forward to.
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This has taken me eight months, so January through August.
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Oh, slow clap.
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Thank you, sir, oh, congratulations.
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And so I'm down 26 pounds.
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I figure.
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If I can get another 26 pounds the next eight months, by May I'll be at 175 and 174 gain point.
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four miles an hour swing speed hey you're going to be ready for a band or lose or lose or lose it.
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Yeah, that's, I'm worried about band and especially with my knee.
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I got a doctor's appointment tomorrow.
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I'm going to find out if I was going all right?
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Well, no, no, no, this is just my annual checkup.
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But I'm going to get a referral for my doctor to have a go looked at professionally and then I'm going to decide what I'm going to do.
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We got about 346 days or something.
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Yep, yep, but all right.
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So I'm happy about that, all right.
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So, tony Finau, I'm dying to hear your guys' thoughts on this, because this is I did not read the article, so you want to give a quick synopsis.
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Well, jeremy, you know a lot about it, since you were talking about it.
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Once you get the rundown.
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Yeah, so I read an article like two years ago when it first came out.
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So that's what I thought so didn't this has been going.
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All right, it's been going on forever.
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And now there's you, within the last year, there's another guy.
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So basically, when Tony and Gipper, his brother, were starting out, when they were really young, I think they you know, they came from a super poor family in a really bad area of Salt Lake.
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Didn't have the money to really really bad area of Salt Lake, Like, like like the worst area that exists.
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The worst area in Salt Lake is where they're from, okay, so it's called Rose Park, but anyway, they didn't have any money and I think I'm sort of thinking maybe their dad got him getting to a deal just to get him some funding, because they were starting to play you know amateur events and travel and stuff and getting turned.
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I think they turned pro and they're like 16 or something like that.
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So they were playing in you know smaller tour events and things, and I think what happened is they probably got into a bad deal where they fronted them all this money for expenses and then also maybe a percentage of lifetime earnings once they're professional.
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And that seems to be what's what they're, what this is about.
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So I think it was like $16 million or something that they're trying to recover.
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I think there was like part of it is like the expenses, which is like half a million each, and then the other part is lifetime earnings.
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So, yeah, this I think it came out in 2020.
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And then another guy jumped on 2021.
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And so I don't know, I've heard of one of the guys.
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He's he's also of Polynesian descent, so probably like a family friend sort of thing, but the other guy is a big businessman in Salt Lake, so it's going to be a hot mess.
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I thought I had heard about it a while ago and, yeah, I mean it.
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What sucks is if it was not Tony himself and it was his dad like taking advantage when he was younger.
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Yeah, kind of a shitty situation Cause.
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I mean deep down.
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I feel like Tony seems like a really good guy.
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I don't think he would slip out.
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I don't know I wouldn't think he would do that.
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But who knows?
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We don't.
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We don't know these wizards behind the curtain, you know so yeah.
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I think I mean it actually went to court before and they kind of threw it out and so the guy appealed it and that's why it's in the news again, gotcha.
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So we'll see.
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They're kind of arguing that it's like statute of limitations.
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So we'll see it's.
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It's a shady situation, but I was reading some comments.
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I mean, most of the guys on tour they have backers.
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I mean, not all of them come from super rich families, but yeah, so it's not a it's not an uncommon thing, it's just it seems like the deal that they got into is sort of an extreme.
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I watched some sort of like mini documentary one time about like there's, there's people out there that like search for like talent to back them and invest in them, and it's like a, it's like a thing and I wish, I wish I knew where.
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I watched it, because it was pretty interesting.
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Like you know, oil tight goods because Like venture capitalist for sports athletes.
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Totally, and I mean those people that are higher up in companies, those corporate, like you know, ceos and things like that.
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They enjoy playing golf so they can get into the door with some of these players that are very good and it's it's kind of like a thing for them.
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It's, like you know, it's like hunting.
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And I watched the documentary man.
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I wish, wish I knew where it was.
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If anybody's ever seen it, let us know, because I want to watch that again because it's it was very interesting.
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Like I know, I don't know it was Keegan Bradley or someone else, like or no Joel Damon.
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Joel Damon had the backer.
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I think it might have been.
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Was it in the Netflix documentary?
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I was just going to say it was not in full send.
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I think you talked about it.
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Yeah, that might have been.
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Joel Damon.
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But it might have been like a YouTube video on Joel Damon, like how he came up and how people backed him, but it but it was super interesting and it's because it costs a lot of money.
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Oh, it's not cheap.
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No, it's not cheap at all.
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And and especially if you the Fino families, it's not a small family.
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They got a lot of people in their families and Wonder what his tax form looks like.
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How many dependencies on that one.
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But I mean just to travel alone, travel in hotel rooms, going for let alone entry fees for the tournaments, and then you know lessons and equipment and balls, that that shit adds up really, really quick and yeah I just, if you don't make it to the like the big stage, I mean it's.
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Now he's, you know, on the biggest stage.
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Yeah, I mean he's fine now, but it for people that are investing in players that don't make it to the big stage.
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I mean it's it's a gamble, it's a tough sport to crack into man.
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Yeah, I just wonder how how legit it was.
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You know, one court threw it out, the guy appealed.
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Right.
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Is there a document signed?
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You know yeah.
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Is there a?
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Is it signed by Tony?
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I mean who?
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knows, I think it was his dad, but his brother and Tony didn't sign the document, so I read, like several articles about this, because I forgot about it and got reminded.
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There are documents though.
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It's a bit of a mess.
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Yeah, there's verbal contracts and things, but it's sort of like twisted the way that the facts about the case are.
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So we'll see.
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But we need to find out when that's on court court TV.
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So yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I would love to see that so probably settle out of court.
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Tony will probably have to pay him some kind of money, you know which?
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Kind of sucks for Tony.
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But you know if these guys had contract agreements and you know if they didn't pay.
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Would he be worried?
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Yeah, exactly you know if they didn't front these monies and get them in those junior events and get recognition, and it's true.
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Yeah.
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It's a big if but you never know, you never know, all right.
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So next up.
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This was a shocker to me.