Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, so I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.

And here we go.

All right, all right, all right.

Get to men.

Start your engine.

Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is May 28th Spencer. How you doing?

You know, I'm a little hot, gotta be honest, AC in this place, struggling on, you know, day two of the heat room.

So it is, it is in golf parlance, you know, it's just a nice, it's a nice day. I was thinking about what absolute pigs you people are for just walking around in this all day long.

I don't think golfers get enough credit for that. The heat tolerance is insane. I know it's not just the beer talking either. Some of you just like to be out there.

Like what's the ultimate state for golf? It's like either Texas or Florida at this point and you hang out there willingly, often wearing pants.

Well, yeah, that's what I was going to say. It's a pants sport. I don't know that buttoned up and, you know, calves covered.

They've started to relax that a little bit in some of these practice rounds and, you know, even at major championships, you can wear shorts, but then come time to wear for the actual championship, you gotta wear pants.

There was always some kerfuffle on Twitter about this time of year, you know, some, you know, haughty individual writing article about, you know, shorts are for kind of low class, unprofessional people.

It would become this big debate. You are firmly team shorts, I would imagine, right? Absolutely. I'm high. I'm a very warm blooded person and I'm stupid enough to have spent most of my life in extremely hot places.

In fact, the only time I lived out of the country, I went to someplace hotter, which is really stupid. Where was that again? Taiwan. Yeah, I lived in Taiwan for a year.

Which was like, you go, oh, I would like a really different experience and one would think, ah, I should go live above, you know, the Arctic Circle. I should go someplace cold. And what I did was go someplace hotter because I'm stupid. That's, that's why I did it. I'm a very dumb individual. So I'm firmly on team shorts. I don't understand, by the way, there's a correlation between sports and a rigid backbone of uptight usually Caucasian rigidity that coincides with the inability to wear shorts.

Every other sport has basically said you can play nude football. They're just playing nude. You just have to be in like within a certain, you know, level of skin tightedness. You have to have feel like the right. The NFL's funny because they're like, yeah, you can play naked, but it's got to be a very specific kind of naked. The NBA, they're like, just wear shorts. Right. The only like the discussion in the NBA was actually for a while. It was it was seemingly countercultural to wear longer shorts. That's how that's how I feel.

That's how that's how opposite the NBA is. They're like, yeah, we made more shorts. Wow. You know, then, but then like golf and baseball are the two last holdouts for no, we wear pants and like the white socks did wear shorts one time. But when the white socks wore shorts, everyone made fun of it, whereas I was looking at it and thinking, this makes perfect sense. It's hot as hell out there.

One of the great amazements is like the the baseball manager. I'm not like fully. Yeah. Like he's a little boy. Right. Right. I never understood that. I know I don't I don't need him to be in the suit. Like there's got to be some middle ground there between being in stirrups and like even when it's 100 degrees and wherever Kansas City. Like I've never I don't know all the kind of ins and outs and antiquities of baseball tradition.

But like I don't understand that one at all. So I think everyone should have to wear what they're wearing on the sidelines. Water polo coaches, speedos. I don't care if you're some ancient Albanians, you know, 73 year old man and former water polo player who 75 pounds past is playing weight.

You need to wear the little thing that keeps your ears from being ripped off your head. And you need to wear a speedo football football. You should wear a full football uniform. Just an old man in a football uniform. Imagine Bill Bella check looking completely miserable inside a full face cage, full cage helmet.

No, I think that needs to be happy. Happen. Some of those body types are from those coaches. Maybe a little jarring to see in pads. You know, I'm ready. I'm ready. No, that's fine. No, that's fine. Let's let's let's let's let's hang it all out there. Like golf. I I fashion wise in especially retro fashion wise golf at least gives you at least have the dignity of wearing somewhat normal clothing. Sure.

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