Ian Baker-Finch - "On-Air Faux Pas" SHORT TRACK

Mike Gonzalez 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to And tell us a little bit about the preparation that you go through personally to get ready for an event.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Um my whole life really is is preparation. Um I'm a golf nut. I I play uh play a lot of golf, always talking golf to the guys at the club. I run a Tuesday game up at the club that I'll be heading to uh shortly to to go play with a group of guys. We play a goal T Day. Um so I'm I'm doing that each morning. I get all of the emails that come through on golf from all the golf outlets. So I'm always reading up. And then once you get to the tournament, it's more about the 10 or 20 guys you're gonna see on the show the next day. Reading all of the notes. A lot of people uh produce information for us, various outlets coming in. We have to read it, digest it, copy and paste, have it ready at our side. I have my phone, a computer, an iPad, the shot link computer, a monitor, and the main leaderboard in front of me on my desk. So it's it's full. All my notes, everything I want to plan on saying, but you you never know. And then every once in a while someone out of the blue will get thrown at you. So you've got to have something ready for everybody. Um so it's it's hard to remember it all because over 20 years of doing it, a lot of it's just jumbled up in there, and you've you've got to check notes to make sure that you got that wife name correct.

Mike Gonzalez 1:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Or I made a I made a big I made a big mistake at the masters this year. Oh John and Kelly Rahmer just had this beautiful little baby Kepa, little baby boy. And I didn't know whether it was Kappa or Keppa. So I asked Amanda, I'm on, I'm on the phone, I'm I'm about to come on and I want to mention it. And I'm I asked Amanda said, How do you spell the name? How do you say it? Like phonetically. She texts back and spellcheck said kepka. Damn spellcheck, it's a killer. So here's John Roth. Kelly just said a little baby Kepka. And as soon as I said it, I'm like, oh no, you didn't say that, did you? And then I said, beautiful little baby girl, oh no, you didn't say that, did you? It's a little boy. So now I'm now I'm so I'm frazzled. I'm like, oh my god, this is the masters, and I've just made a complete idiot of myself, and I've embarrassed them. So as soon as we got a chance, I'm waving to uh get a chance with Nick to jump in and say, hey, I just want to correct what I said before. It it's Kappa and uh it's a little baby boy.

Mike Gonzalez 3:00

Not a girl.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

I was so frazzled with getting his name wrong that I I misspoke. But that sort of stuff happens, you know.

Mike Gonzalez 3:06

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Um it's and it's on the fly. You think golf is slow and boring, but when you've got the headsets on, uh it's it's you're flying around. It's uh it's frantic.

Mike Gonzalez 3:19

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