Pardon My Take

It's a Christmas tale that I wrote a couple of years ago throughout the month of December. I it's an idea that I'd had for 10 or 15 years and I just started writing it right after Thanksgiving, had it done before New Year's. We posted it a chapter at a time on the website last year like an advent calendar like every day we put up a new chapter. People really liked it. So I thought this year, let's print it up. Let's make it available.

Every penny I make goes to our local animal shelter the Humane Society of Harrison County I'm not making a dime off of it in fact for the first 10 grand I make, I'm just gonna put it in pre-tax. I'll pay the tax on it. I don't care.

Also just so you know when we do these like pitches on the show, little, little industry trick, we cut it after. So we don't actually put this in the podcast. ... Also also just so you know when we do these like pitches on the show, little, little industry trick, we cut it after. So we don't actually put this in the podcast. ... So Max, make sure you cut that. And also Mike, I did read one of your books. I read Quarterback in the future. Yeah, that was a great book.

On the highest rock of a tiny island at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.

The new keeper arrives to replace the old to carry on tending the light.

During the day, he gives the round rooms a fresh coat of sea green paint.

Hello, hello, hello.

It is built to last forever, sending its light out to sea.

And he goes, what do you think, does this bother you? And then I revisited that with him and I said, what do you think about just putting all this stuff down on paper and see if there's something there?

I was overridden on this.

It's basically not, it's not a, you know, a children's book, but it's for dumb idiots like us who don't really read that often.

You had Adam Sandler write the forward for it.

Good luck with my anals.

So it's from Gambler, secrets from a life of risk. It's from Billy Walters, yeah.

Billy Walters, professional Gambler. They list him as being like the best Gambler of all time. Is that true?

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He's got a new book out that is called, So Help Me Golf, All True Stories.

It's called commander and cheat because I'm in Italy and he's running for president and he goes he goes I'm the best. I'm a champion. I beat up 118 club championships. And that's against the best guys, the young guys, no strokes. I'm like, you liar.

He has a book out called Talk of Champions stories of the people who made me.

This is 15 people that I observed that influenced me. So it's 15 point of view as a self help.

And I read a book called The Renaissance Soul, Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One.

He's also got a book out the golfer zoo. So go buy it right now

He has what he's calling a legacy book. It's called Little Damon learns to earn. It's out now go buy it.

All the books are princes and princesses. And now I have a new little girl. She's was six, seven years old. And I'm tired of reading her stories about a princess going to one day come and check out her, I don't know, gold slipper or or something like that.

So if you guys made $3,000, $3,000, $3 million, here's exactly how it's supposed to happen. The first dollar is supposed to go for what you have to pay for, right? Food with bills, whatever the case is.

I was like wait I thought this book was about an Italian soldier not a German soldier and then I got halfway through and I was like yeah I'm thinking of the wrong book was Farewell at arms was that George Bernard Shaw it's a German I

Yeah, no, I think I think it's World War one. I thought it was a span the Bell tolls

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I read a book. In the 90s called The Right Horse, and it was a it was a wagering book and had a wager in horse racing. And it's called The Right Horse.

And basically the book. I mean, I'll sum it all up for you, says don't do it. Bet one bet like that's how they get you.

So I read your book, The Quarterback Whisper. I actually think that was the last book that I read.

Like 20, 17, I'm a voracious reader. Everybody knows that about me.

So Infamous is out, buy it when you look at somewhere my water. No, I got it. Yeah, man. Go buy it, man. That'd be great

We, so after the, that's, our money's gross, but it's influential, right? That's the shitty thing about money is that you don't want to tell people how much money you made, but at the same time, like, that's how they're gonna judge your success. Right. So like, yeah, we made like so far over 3 million.

There's a few a few jokes. They want to cut there's a what with a joke. Yeah, it's a funny joke where I'm basically saying that the women deserved it. I'm being fucking hyperbolic a little bit of course

He's got a book out. He wrote a book. I did it is called I like to play alone alone please I told him right before this I bought the book thank you purchased it on Kindle which means that I have I'll probably read about 15 to 20 pages.

And then I think the story like I, the story I wrote called West, which is about like, it starts off trying to be, I guess, a chapter about spending a lot of time in Vero Beach, which has like this very, the largest income gap disparity in the nation.

And then he ended up, I didn't want to turn around because it's one way streets. You know, I was like, now she's like, I swear it. We go around, go around and we see a motorcycle in this field.

And when I touch him, I'm like, sir, sir. He goes, like groans. And I'm like, holy shit.

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It is Sports Illustrated writer Bob Herrig and he has a book out that will be perfect for Father's Day. It's called Tiger and Phil, Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry.

I need to, they need to. If there's a paperback, I could add probably, God, three or four more chapters.

And he wrote a book called The Demon Haunted World, which is a brilliant book, which is back in the 80s, he wrote it, early 90s, before a lot of this sort of tension. But he pointed out that we live in societies, whether we like it or not, that are based on science. It's one of the pillars of our society.

Richard Feynman, he's a really, if you never encountered him, he's got a series of books in there. There's one called Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman.

And in it, he said science is a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance.