INTRODUCING: We Need A Fourth with Brian Baumgartner, Cooper Manning and Kenny Mayne

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0:08Well, guys, I am so honored. I am joined today by the absolute royalty of golf podcasting. Honestly, royalty of personalities, too, if I'm being fully honest. The co-hosts of We Need a Fourth, Kenny May, Brian Baumgartner, and my boy, Cooper Manning. Boys, welcome. I'm so excited for you guys. I'm so excited for the podcast. Thank you so much. This is great. We've been having a blast. This is the threesome that we didn't know we needed in America. And then when I tell people that you guys are doing this podcast, everybody's very excited. You all love golf to varying degrees. Explain a little bit about your relationship to golf.

0:55Well, first off, well, I would say that Kenny loves golf the most, for sure. I think Kenny loves golf more than Cooper and I love golf combined. He just needs to learn how to play it. Got it. He doesn't love me back. Now, I'm a disabled senior, and I play way back with those guys from the tip, so keep that in mind. That's not fair. I'm trying to learn. I'm trying to learn. I got a lot more to learn, but I do love the game. You know, I was going to ask you about your hockey team up there in Canada and whether you get distraught, I get incredibly competitive. When it's over, I'm done. Like, it's not like I don't carry the joy or the pain for longer than, like, 25 seconds.

1:45Right, and Coop, you don't get, you're not very competitive in that way. Like, golf for you is a lot of fun. You like to have fun. I mean, you like to bet or whatever, but. I've gotten to the point where I do not like playing golf. As much as I love playing golf, I do not like playing golf with people I do not like. And I won't. Someone can invite me on the greatest trip. We're going here, and I'm like, who's going? And if it's a bunch of bozos, Coopy is out. I'd rather go play an absolute muni with two guys wearing football jerseys and smoking weed and get a story out of it than some stiff at some fancy schmancy spot.

2:24Well, that makes sense. And this podcast, obviously, is, you know, we need a fourth, so it's golf-centric. But you guys kind of delve into it. It's safe to say that you guys go on tangents that aren't necessarily golf-related. I know there's an upcoming. Yeah. And we also get very deep. As you, you know, interviewed with us, I mean, we talked High Lie. We talked Canadian football. We talked about your love of hockey and your love. We want the whole person. We're peeling back. there's nothing left of the fucking onion by the time it's minced and and we break the person down i guess i like the social aspect of it i love that for that time you're out there there's nothing to do you're not on your phone you don't have a million things coming at you you're just there and you get to kind of shoot the shit and uh and have a good time and that's that's what i like and that's kind of the vibe that you guys have here on that's what we're trying to do i mean we're trying we're looking for a fourth to play golf with but really we're just looking for a forth to hang out with um and like you uh will for me golf i i i don't do yoga i know that's surprising to a lot of people this is by the way this is breaking news but i was going to be the name of this show i don't do yoga he's more tight i don't do yoga but i use golf as meditation a hundred percent like you get four hours and you're thinking about nothing you know not Not work, not family, not whatever distracts you on your phone, but you're just focusing on putting this little stupid ball into this little stupid hole, and that totally resets me.

4:02But don't you think as a man in the world you live in today, there's rarely a scenario where you're going to spend four hours with three other guys doing something everybody's enjoying, and you can't hide from getting a read on someone. If you spend four hours playing someone, you're going to find out a lot. Is this a good fellow? Do I want to hang around him again? You find out because you can ask him anything. And it's always fun. I usually learn a lot. Sometimes people don't ask me anything in return. I go, well, I got that guy figured out, but he doesn't know shit about me. That's fine, too.

4:37I like that. Well, it's also sort of like, I forget which comic does it. We have the joke here where I'll come home and my wife will ask, so how is so-and-so doing? Is he dating anyone? I don't know. He had an 82. He had a good day. Yeah. Kenny, that is so funny you say. My buddy, I don't play golf with anybody more than I do with our pal Jason Bateman. JB. JB. Jakey Bates. And his wife, she'll double back on me. We'll play and then we'll have dinner that night. And she goes, Jason didn't tell me any of the stuff that you were telling me. I asked him and she goes, what do you guys talk about? I go, I don't know.

5:20We're just shooting the breeze. Yeah, next shot. Ribbing each other. Having a laugh about something. But you don't get too deep. It's not like we don't tee off and go and start walking and go, hey, man, I'm really depressed. It doesn't make for a great day. Things are not good at home. Should I get eight or seven? Exactly. Mark, our producer, should be noted, is a stick. He's a very good golfer. I've played with him many times over the years. And he reminded me of a story one time we were playing years ago in New Jersey, which, Coop, I know you like. 30 years ago in New Jersey. I can almost just stop there, right?

6:03This is like 10, 15 years ago in New Jersey. Mark and me and Chris Pratt, TV and Films Chris Pratt, who we adore. Hilarious guy, great guy. Funniest dude in the room. and Pratt, about the second or third hole, I forget what it was, hits a shot and he's like, oof, threw my back out. And he says, I'm going to go in. We're like, do you want to see? No, no, no, you guys keep going. I'm just going to go in and let me just go and deal in. I'll see you guys later. So Mark and I continue to play. We play a full 18. We're coming in. It's kind of like twilight. We're coming into 18 and just behind the 18th green, we see this thing, this being lying on the ground with his knees up, and it's Pratt, and he's been waiting there for hours for us to come in, lying on the grass just beyond 18.

6:52By the way, we drove him back to the, because we were his ride to the city, we drove him back here to New York City, and he gets out of the car bent over, and he walked in, and he's like, see you, man, that was a great day. Fully bent over. I love when people get hurt. I don't know why. Pain in a grown man. I saw a guy kill a goose once. I saw a guy off a tee at Dyker out in Brooklyn off the tee. This guy was a terrible golfer, and he hit a goose and he killed it. I had two clients one time I was playing with, and one guy was up ahead in the bunker kind of trying to figure out something, and someone just absolutely hit this shin-high two-iron right in the lower back, and the guy went, oh, you know, goes down.

7:31And those two started getting in a fight, and I just laughed. I just laughed my face off. By the way, you just said, I love when someone gets hurt. That's the headline. Doing something they're supposed to be doing. Well, that's why you guys both ridicule me for the leg brace. I got to ruin. Will doesn't know this. I got a wrecked ankle from football way back when. So I wear this leg device that lets me do stuff with no pain. These guys and JB, the Jasoner, they killed me for it. It's like, okay, let's go make fun of wheelchair people next, guys. You carry it around like you're carrying an urn of your dead uncle.

8:09Like walking around like that ankle. Yeah. So, guys, listen, we're really excited about we need it for it. This is going to be this can be a lot of fun. When does it drop? September 15th. September 15th is a drop date. Thank you, Bomber. This is our only promotion. Every Monday. Every Monday. Dropping two on the 15th. So there'll be two there if you're listening to this on the 16th. Deuce on the 15th. Deuce on the 15th. JB. I mean, let's reword that. I don't think it's going to give us the best. Deuce on the 15th. Fantastic. We need a fourth. Brian Baumgartner, Kenny Main, Cooper Manning. Guys, couldn't be more excited.

8:47Psych for you guys and can't wait to listen. Thanks so much, man. Thank you, boys. Thank you, Willie. Thank you. Thank you.

9:04Thank you.