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It's a pleasure to have our guy back here today. Three-time PJ Tour winner, recently reinstated member of the PJ Tour, eligible to fire once again January 1 of 2027. The great Pat Perez joins us. Patty, we have you, brother. Good a beer, good a beer, good a beer. Thank you, thank you, thank you. There you go. All right, who you gonna piss off this time? Everybody like usual. Well, before we get down to this, please, why don't you start us off with this? Yeah, a huge thank you to our guys over here at Zone. reason that we're all here today. We got an exciting announcement. First warning, this product does contain nicotine. And nicotine is an addictive chemical underage sale is prohibited. We're in Phoenix, which is known to bring the heat, and it is the perfect spot to announce that a brand new flavor of Zone nicotine pouches has just arrived. Halapino lime. Clap it up for that. lime clap it up for that I'm gonna try that tonight a person citrus meets a subtle fiery kick now available

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Shout out to our guys at Zone. I'll be there. Buy one, get four. I like that deal. I'll be there. Damn. I like that. That's fantastic. All right, Pat, well, let's just get up to date with your situation right now because... It's quite the situation. You know, you left the PJ tour, I believe, at age 45.

Six.

46.

The old bag.

I know. um by the way you were the one of the guys like I was like hey I don't blame you one bit right like you're 46 years old yeah tail into your career it's getting harder and harder out there on the PJ tour it's hard you got a sweet deal from live I did you went over played several years on DJ's team, the four aces before going to broadcasting.

But tell us a little about your time over there, Liv, and what it was like traveling around the world. It's a lot of travel. I tell you that much. You know, some trips are, I mean, 30 hours. I mean, they take care of incredible. I had a blast. I really did. I played the PJ

2 over 21 years

I had never talked to anybody

from Liv

and all of a sudden I'm at dinner

at Memorial incredible. I had a blast. I really did. You know, I played the PJ 2 over 21 years. I had never talked

to anybody from Liv. And all of a sudden, I'm at dinner at Memorial, and I got a call from DJ. It says, hey, bro, I just signed. I'm in London. I need somebody. So, well, you know, what's the deal? I'd never talk to anybody from that group. And he said, they're going to send you a deal. I said I don't know what you're talking about here so I fly up to I play that group and he said they're going to send you a deal I said I don't

know what you're talking about here so I fly up to I play that week fly up to Toronto I'm

doing David Faradie's pro-am and all of a sudden paper comes in and Dee's like did you

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