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No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

712 - Sen. Ron Johnson

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Sports, Golf

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the PGA Tour's hearing in DC on Tuesday, Soly is joined by Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin who serves as the ranking member of the Senate's permanent sub-committee on investigations. Senator Johnson gives us his perspective on the proposed agreement between the Tour and the Saudi PIF, the purpose and goals of a public congressional hearing, the trends of sovereign wealth funds investing in pro sports - both domestically and internationally, how professional sports leagues are treated compared to other potential monopoly cases, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Be the right club today.

0:07.0

Right club today.

0:10.0

Yeah, that's better than most.

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That is better than most.

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Better than most.

0:20.0

Better than most. Most.

0:24.0

Expect anything different.

0:28.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to a special edition of the No Lang

0:32.0

a podcast short episode short interview here

0:34.3

it's only got a shelf life of about a day as I did an interview last week with

0:38.4

Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin we wanted to talk about the Senate hearing that's coming up this Tuesday, July 11th,

0:46.1

with Jimmy Dunn and Ron Price from the PGA Tour going to be questioned by the Senate.

0:51.1

I wanted to get a primer with someone involved in this. I

0:54.8

reached out as well. We tried to track down Senator Wyden and Senator Blumenthal

0:59.7

for a differing perspective on this hearing and on what's going on.

1:05.0

We were only able to track down Mr. Johnson.

1:07.6

Did not hear back from anyone else that we reached out to.

1:10.0

Really, obviously trying not to have politics be a big part of this show. I just wanted golf fans to have a

1:16.8

glimpse into how the government might approach this or might think about this and of course

1:20.6

this is only Senator Johnson's viewpoint represented in this.

1:23.7

Again, we tried to get differing viewpoints and we're unsuccessful in doing so.

1:27.8

But I think the listeners will learn a thing or two about what to expect tomorrow and and Senator Johnson's perspective on as well.

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