This week we're chatting about Tin Cup, a movie about a Cool Golfer, but more importantly, a movie about my two dads being best friends. Also, we examine the film's soundtrack for evidence of the existence of Golf Rock in songs like "Double Bogey Blues." Our thirst for knowledge unsatisfied, we explore professional Cool Golfer John Daly's musical output with tracks like "Hit it Hard" and "Working Class Golfer" Finally, we listen to a conspiracy theorist's "I Told You So" song celebrating the supposed validation of his personal theories like "9/11" and "Michelle Obama is a man" --------------------------- Sign up for bonus content at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult Support the show for $5/month and get a weekly bonus episode of Minion Death Cult as well as our brand new weekly live show: DEATH CHAT 500 (also available in podcast form). That's TWO bonus episodes a week delivered straight to your podcast app or browser Also get access to our entire back catalogue including BUTT FEST 2000 with Bryan Quinby; live-reads of My Antifa Lover, Rodham, and Ladies First: A MAGA Hat Romance; movie episodes like Believe, To Die For, and Loqueesha; and hundreds more.
So this was the most dirtbag part of the movie was where he's like instructing Rene Russo at the driving range.
Like eight of his buddies are peering through the windows at him while he like you know does get a little too close to her to be fair.
He's teaching her how to putt right?
Like he's gonna do that whole thing.
He also teaches her how to putt, and yeah, he tells her to... Well, no, that's just for every swing.
He tells her to waggle, and she wiggles her ass back and forth.
And he says, no, I mean the club.
And then all peering through the blinds?
Yeah.
Hooting and hollering?
Yeah, here we go.
It's early Sunday morning, the sun is coming up.
I'm on the tee at seven, I'm here to try my luck.
They say this game's a tough one, but I'll give it my best shot.
Though the bunkers look like beaches and the greens like parking lots.
Oh Lord!
What am I gonna do?
Help me keep my head down.
Save me from those double bogey blues.
Save me from those double bogey blues.
It's so literal.
I love this.
Just telling you about his day.
It's Sunday morning.
I get up early because my tea is early and I'm just hoping I don't do bad.
But I am going to do bad.
Is golf a Canadian thing?
Because this artist is clearly Canadian.
Because they, like, spliced... Is hockey in the movie too?
Yeah, there was like a random... No, no, that's like a random thing.
It's like a home movie.
Somebody shot on a cell phone camera of a...
A hockey player smashing his, what do you call it, stick into the side.
He's just mad.
A goalie throwing a tantrum.
Breaking the stick on the boards.
And then Cheech Marin breaking a club over his knee.
That's pretty badass.
There's like a three to five minute scene in the movie dedicated to them breaking golf clubs like that during a match or whatever you call it where he was trying to qualify for the and then he shoots or whatever he hits the rest of the course with a seven iron.
Just a seven iron.
Because that's all he has left?
That should be fun.
Yeah, but he like did it on purpose because he never misses with the 7-iron.
He's all now the 7-iron.
He's like the 3, well sometimes I can hook the 3 a little bit and he breaks it and throws it and he's all but the 7.
And then when he gets to the 7, he's all but the 7.
I always shoot straight with the 7.
I don't know if I think I think we did miss this.
I think there was a time in the 90s where golf was purported to be like a working class sport.
I remember like golf.
I remember going to the driving range with my uncle who was like an electrician, you know?
And that's kind of he's like seems to be living in a mobile home, not doing too well with money.
It's like a working class game.
And that's a really interesting perspective.
He's like a philosopher, too.
He's like Dalton from Roadhouse.
He doesn't covet material possessions.
He never comes out and says that, but that's his attitude.
He's like Dionysus or Diogenes.
I love that.
Yeah, I love that.
That's great.
Maybe if we bring back working-class golf, is it going to be the answer to the culture wars?
Okay so I don't know anything about golf so there's probably like at least a handful of people screaming at me right now but there is a cool golfer and I only know that there's like a cool edgy golfer at least one of them and I only know that because of the meme that was going around.
Where it was him on the green like I think he's like holding a beer and he's wearing like crazy reflective sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt and like pink pants and he's got like Guy Fieri hair or some shit like that but he's also got a beard smoking a cigar I think at the same time.
Uh, John Daly.
There you go.
That's his name.
He's like an old dude.
He has like perpetual sunglass sunburn.
Which is like sick as fuck.
Yeah, and he wears like... Oh, there's a young one too.
There's a young one with a mullet.
But I don't like this kid.
I think young people that do the... They look stupid.
But this guy's an old head.
And he has a gut and everything.
Yeah, yeah.
That's who... I think that's who you're thinking of.
Yeah, that's exactly who I'm thinking.
So that's the only reason I know that is because, yeah, there was a meme going around of like him standing next to a modern like or like, I don't know, just a nicely nice looking golfer, you know, a properly dressed golfer.
And the meme was like, you know, this is this is me versus all your friends over here, you know.
And the best one of those I saw was local police department Facebook pages that had over him It said, uh, L.E.O.s, or it said, like, Police, P.D., or Sheriff's Department.
And then over, like, the prim and proper looking guy, it was F.B.I.
I love that.
I love- that's so good.
We're the cool- we're the- we're the cool boots.
We're the- we're the cool police, alright?
That's so funny.
Just a little quick correction.
The deal is it's not Hawaiian shirts.
It's like all over print pants is his thing.
It looks like.
Oh yeah, I couldn't remember.
So it's even more over the top.
It's even more fun and flamboyant.
He's putting with like a cigarette in his mouth.
So that's who I was thinking of when you brought this movie up in the first place.
But yeah, Costner.
I like that.
I'm gonna watch this now.
Costner's not that flamboyant.
He's more cool in the sense that he doesn't give a fuck and he'll throw everything away.
He lives in a trailer because he was in some match where he just did the same drive over and over and over and over and over again to try and do it from the T. Try to get to the green on the T.
So he like threw away the whole game because he wouldn't give up his convictions of knowing that he could land on the green from there.
And he did, but like after the seventh hit.
So he lost.
Wow.
Yeah.
But it didn't matter.
It didn't matter.
He was beyond that.
He wins the open at the end anyway while staying true to his convictions.
I'm guessing the love interest comes from a different economic bracket, even.
Probably looks down on him and thinks that maybe he needs to clean up his act a little bit, but is then wooed and charmed by his rugged ways.
She kind of never is mad at him.
She's in love with him from the moment, and she's very supportive of his self-destructive behavior.
