Ep. 125 - Rick Reilly
The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon
The 8 Side
4.8 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
New York Times best selling author, Rick Reilly, finally steps into the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon to discuss his new book Commander and Cheat, a book about Donald Trump's life in golf - full of funny and interesting stories about the current US president (4:26). Rick and Shane switch gears to talk about Rick's relationship with the game of golf featuring covering golf, the 1986 Masters, his favorite event and much more! (30:06)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the clubhouse with Shane Bacon. |
| 0:06.9 | I am your host, Shane Bacon, and got a great one this week. |
| 0:10.4 | I think you're really going to enjoy it. |
| 0:11.6 | Rick Riley is on the podcast for the first time. |
| 0:14.7 | You guys all know Rick from Sports Illustrated Days and his jobs at ESPN |
| 0:18.2 | and basically his contributions to the games of golf with all of his |
| 0:21.8 | books. He's got a new one that comes out on Tuesday, on April 2nd, a commander and cheat |
| 0:26.6 | how golf explains Trump. And when you hear that, I think politics creep in your mind, of course. |
| 0:32.6 | It's really more of a fun read about all of these wacky stories about Donald Trump and golf. |
| 0:38.9 | And sure, there's some stuff in there that maybe doesn't make Donald Trump look great. |
| 0:42.9 | There's also some stuff there that makes you laugh at it. |
| 0:45.0 | So no matter where you sit on the football field, if you're way to the left or way to the right, |
| 0:49.6 | I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 0:50.6 | I read the book in probably four days. |
| 0:53.0 | Couldn't put it down. |
| 0:54.1 | And I recommend it to people, and you'll hear it. I read the book in probably four days. Couldn't put it down. And I recommend it to |
| 0:56.5 | people. And you'll hear us mention a few of the stories throughout the podcast. Rick was great. |
| 1:01.3 | But if you don't want to listen to political talk, and again, it's not political talk, but sure, |
| 1:06.6 | there are some undertones there. Just skip past the part about the book and just get into Rick. |
| 1:13.7 | We talked about his covering the 1986 Masters as his first gig for Sports Illustrated. |
| 1:18.3 | We talked about the current landscape of golf. |
| 1:20.6 | We talked about his up and down relationship with the internet and how it's always been a little tumultuous there. |
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