 Right, okay. Thank you for joining the average golfer in another episode two of I've called it this thing because I still don't know What a heck it is, but I've got we went to Australia for first episode with Alex Etches We're over in Indiana America pretty cold Indiana I believe and I'm really pleased to say we've got Randy from fried eggs golf hopefully on the end of the line and Randy welcome to the channel in the Well the first time we've ever spoken person. Yeah, this is true How it first of all tell everybody just again. How cold is Indiana right now? It's not comfortable I mean, I don't I don't even know the temperature outside right now because I don't look anymore because it just You haven't played golf for what two months At least yeah, the last time I played golf was on camera. So they would know just check the videotape Yeah, and how long is it before you're likely to get a golf club out again? it's gonna be I Would say another month. I would say wow that is hard work hard work. So any but I suppose you're ready for the masters That's the thing, isn't it? Yeah Right now then I'm sorry. You didn't see me there I just realized you can't see me But I held up my coffee cup and it says the masters on it that that is that that is the difficulty of So just so people understand I'll just maybe talk to the camera a little while this records the audio I'm effectively just having a phone conversation is is how this thing works. So I said before we went live if you like that It's a little bit odd. It's difficult. It's not like a Skype conversation where you see the reaction of people So that is a little bit difficult. But yeah So first of all for people who may have maybe most of the people who who watch my channel I think of what's yours, but how would you describe your channel who've never watched it before? What would you say Randy? It's it's really hard to categorize it I don't really know how to explain it to people because I get asked that question by People that find out that I have a YouTube channel They ask me what the content is and it's hard to explain because as soon as you say golf Their eyes glaze over and they don't care anymore, but you know, so I don't I don't know I just my whole thing has always been to let people Define it themselves let them come up with what it means because me telling them I just feel like it doesn't do it any justice because if I tell them it's funny They might not find it funny if I tell them it's informational. They might find it not Yeah, so okay, so if I describe it as a viewer I think it's fair to say that you It's very much looking at the golfing world in a humorous way Is that fair enough evaluation of it? It's simplistic But I think that's the you bring humor to a sport that's relatively boring So I think The thing is I suppose go and check out the channel after you haven't watched it go and have a look for yourselves I think that if If you're looking for something It's content in my this was my goal at least I'll say this was the goal When I started the channel when I decided what kind of content I wanted to make the goal was to combine both sides of the spectrum as far as the serious everyday golfer with the person who's maybe never touched a golf club in their life But has some interest in it and the idea was is that both of those people can sit down and watch my content and both Enjoy it for different reasons. I if I do that with a video then to me that video Served its purpose and it belongs on my channel because that's really the whole idea is it's more of an Invitation for everyone to kind of gather in a common area find a common thread and yeah and laugh or you know Just enjoy the content. Yeah, yeah that they whatever they get from it. Yeah, that's fair comment That's fair comment. So I'm gonna a bit of therapy for you I'm gonna go back to the beginning of your channel. I think it's 2015 if I've got a bit of research, right? Your first video was how to adjust your tailor-made R15 driver. Is that right? Sound right riveting. Yes. It was very it was so there's a deep dive into the driver So that was video one video to and I think it's two days later This was posted was the Cobra fly driver and Already in two videos within sort of 48 hours of being released a bit more personality was coming out in the Cobra fly Driver, yeah, maybe in a TMR 15. Yeah, I was I was embarrassed to the first video. Yeah Well, I posted it and I did it in a format that I was like I Seen other people do this. I can do this. So I did it and then I was like that's not me So the very next video like you just said I made sure that I put some more personality into it Yeah, without doubt and that was like I said that was not in the research I've seen that sort of straight away, but then one month later And the first I think it's the first like I said, I hope my facts are right the first our rabbit and q-tip Collaboration was the Ping G 30 Turbulates. Is that right? That's spot on Okay So what so we're four weeks from going from roughly four or five weeks from going from the TMR 15 driver Which and he should I hope you don't mind me asking people to should go back and check this out because watch Randy in that first video and then watch him in the video four weeks later in the ping Turbulator video one that a video that if anybody asks me about your channel I think the Turbulator video is the first thing that I think is very synonymous with your channel, but how did you get so? I don't brave is the word so quick to go from the r15 video to the Turbulator video. What went on a lot behind the scenes and a lot of what people don't know about Me in general is that I started making videos When I started golfing when I was 12 years old I mean and not just like videos like I made comedy like satirical videos When I was in middle school like it was my that was my thing like golf golf They very much switched roles like I was very passionate about golf when I was younger and very I Video was my hobby and now that I've gotten older those two have completely switched roles where Video is my passion and golf is my hobby, but I've been making videos like that Since forever. I mean I made music videos when I was in Seventh eighth grade when I was you know 12 13 years old. I made music videos now I never showed them to anyone but my friends, but I this is not something new to me This is like everyone's always just like oh wow you're so you're you're a natural at this It's like no, I've been doing this for a long time And yeah, it's it's it was a process but the but the interesting thing so that's that's really long I know youtuber was in its found infancy as opposed But that's long before the kind of YouTube thing came along for anybody, isn't it? Oh, yeah, I know I made videos before YouTube was even a thing I actually had a channel when I when YouTube the first year YouTube came out I had a thousand subscribers on it. I used to post I used to post a video a week on there It was about it was like it was like a skit comedy show kind of like I do now But it was like a series like they all kind of all together and wow I Got out of it because back then you didn't make money off of YouTube like I had videos with Tens of thousands of views on it, but you didn't make money back then and I'm sitting here I'm like why am I putting content on here? This is silly and I shut the channel off just because I got tired, but no I've I've been doing this Literally since day one since YouTube became a thing. I've been posting videos on it So what what what did and what was the main core of the content for your early videos then? We're just any kind of skit comedy that you could make It was a friend of mine He was big into video gaming and we put a wig on him. You've seen the wig on the channel I wear I've worn it on Friday eggs golf before that real long just nasty looking wig Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did in the one-wheel video. Yeah, he used to wear that and He was a he was an agoraphobic He was someone who never left his house He always played video games and he played my brother And I was his younger brother who had like a day job and I was like you need to get out of the basement And then we just played off of that relationship And I think we did two seasons of it probably like 20 episodes. Wow. Yeah So you see did you not miss that would you not go back to that or is it? I miss it so much But yeah, we we got married we had kids and I mean you know as well as anybody that makes content It takes so much time and you only have so much time to devote to things and yeah golf I was working in a golf shop when I started this channel, and this was the only like I had access to everything I had you know the shop I had people and so I could make the content there now if I had my choice would I be making golf? Content on YouTube. No, I'd probably just be making comedy videos in general But yeah, I like doing the golf stuff and it seems like there's an audience for it And they appreciate what I do and I just it's a way for me to tie like I said my passion with my hobby And it's just it's fun for me if I if I did anything else I think it would eventually start feeling like work, but this is yeah, it feels like I'm having a good time Well, it's fantastic because we've just answered that Questions whatever they are three and four have just been answered together really because it was going to be is the passion Is it comedy golf or cinematography? I've called it all videography. Whatever you call it So it's the it's the creating this the videography really isn't it? Would you say yeah comedy or you? It's it's both. I mean, yeah, I don't I don't put I Mean in the early videos I didn't put a lot of Investing at any time into the cinematography of it because I was shooting on my cell phone like yeah The year before I started that channel. This is not a joke. I sold my $2,000 Sony handy cam that shot on to tape and I had yeah, yeah I had to sell it because everything went digital and it was just impossible. I mean That's how long I've been doing video I used to have to log in capture off a tape and then you had to edit it took forever and it was misery So so so so golf is literally the subject matter for you to write comedy and film it I suppose that's that that's that's that's where we're at isn't it Say that again. I said so golf really is just the subject matter I like you said the situation you were sort of thrown into yeah It allows you to write the comedy around it and therefore film it. Yeah I think so I it kind of was birthed from being in the golf shop and I when I was in the golf shop it was right at that transition from like okay golf equipment needs to be more exciting and When these manufacturers started to market equipment, I mean it was right in the rocket balls. Hey day where I got Yeah, I got fed up with like everything's just like this is 15 yards longer. This is 10 yards longer And I was like listen, I could tell a better story than what you guys are telling I can make I can give people information and do it in a way that doesn't feel like you're you know throwing propaganda at them So that's why I made the that Ricky Fowler video the way I made that Ricky Fowler video with the Cobra driver And then also the reason I made the the Turbulators driver video the reason I did it that way was because like listen I put every single talking point in this video and I did it through a rap song and people Are hearing what message you're trying to give to them, but they're actually listening instead of like in one ear out the other Yeah, I think to be fair It's one of the most intelligent things that in part what you do is that ability to get in all those videos the whole Marketing aspect that the benefits that they at least try to promote are always gotten in there really really Concisely so it's it's it's humor. It's it's fun It might be in a song, but you do always get all that information across and that's the bit I'm gonna ask a question a bit later on so don't want to go into it too much now But that's the bit where I've never understood why still to this day at least I think that those bigger companies have not gotten Involved with you in a in a deeper way that allows you to create that type of content for them That's the bit that does surprise me because like I said you don't miss out the important bit Which is what the manufacturer wants people to hear so but like I said, that's a statement not a question at this day You know what I think I can form the question for you and it's why haven't any of the big Manufacturers asked you to make content for them. Yeah, and the answer I think to that question is very simple it's I Am a liability. I am I'm a wild card. I'm I'm not ever gonna play by the rules I'm not ever gonna say things that are politically correct just because I feel like you know People want me to say that I'll say whatever's on my mind and I'll do it in a way that I think is funny Which is not always it's not always consistent with everyone's viewpoint on humor So it's a risk, but I think said that I don't want to I don't want to alienate these Manufacturers and say that they haven't reached out to me because they absolutely have and I've done content with them One is I'll tell you right now that I will forever be grateful To Callaway and ping for what they've done for me Personally because it's not like they they had any interest the content was already made. They didn't yet They didn't have to do anything. It was already out there, but yeah, the very first person who ever reached out to me ever Was Harry Arnett from Callaway Golf? He was the first he responded to my ping g30 video before pinged it Like he was like this is fantastic and I was like, yeah, I don't even know who you are like But I still have a stand a good standing relationship with him and all the guys at Callaway I appreciate everything they do but then also a ping they just they've been one of those manufacturers that Consistently asked me if they can do anything for me and this is just to this day I just like last week. They just sent me an email like hey, what what can we do for you? Wow, and they just constantly check in and I do appreciate that, but they've they've all kind of in a Roundabout way offered me a job, but okay, it's all about I mean, they're they're a thousand miles away from where I live And I just I'm too much. I love my family too much and yeah Yeah, yeah, well, I'm almost pleased to hear that to be honest with you the fact that they've offered you something Like they have something to make a video out of but I've just feel better that That that the contact the content has been acknowledged then so maybe not the way as I'd seen it then really no I and I do such and this is this is my mo I'm just such a poor communicator with what's going on like behind the scenes and Just people they're so generous with their time and things that they they want to do that I just I say no and then that's where it ends and I don't yeah bring it up to people because I don't want to I don't want to be like oh guess who asked me to do a video with them. It's just like no I don't have the time now. I understand the same goes, you know with you You know, you've asked me to collaborate actually you are the only golf youtuber I have ever collaborated with as far as like well I should say it another way. You're the very first golf youtuber that I ever collaborated with and I just You asked and you seemed Passionate and you seem interested and that's all I look for like when people come out to me and they they asked me if I If I want to collaborate with them. It's almost always It almost always has a monetary angle to it. They always they want to make money off of me They want to they want they want they want the publicity. They want the they want my my viewers They want yes, they want something from me But yeah, you you just genuinely wanted to make something funny and I was like hey, I'm all about that. So yeah Well, I think I mean, you know, it's I mean even the same today even this chat now. It's just something I'm very I've always been personally intro. I'm a bit. I'm a big admirer in what you do in terms of the content that you make But I'm also very interested in and the questions. I'll ask you shortly again. I'm very interested in The whole process which is the next question really I suppose and so How do you begin the process in terms of I? Was gonna mention Taylor May then so a brand bring out a new product Okay, and you see it and how how where do you see the humor in it straight away? Is it a case of looking at what how do you how where do you start? It's it's it's a lightning bolt, you know, it's not like I I take a club and Or a product and I sit down in a room with it for 30 minutes And I'm like we're not leaving here until I come up with an idea. It's never like that. It's always my brain is In a way broken and I don't mean that in a way. It's like I Mean, I'll just yeah, it's broken. I'm not gonna try to sugarcoat it My brain is broken. My brain doesn't work like a normal person's brain things differently yet No, no, and this is not that's what I'm saying. It's not from a prodigy standpoint It's very much broken in a way of a functional standpoint like if I went to a doctor right now He would be like Randy you have ADD and you need to take medicine for it So you can function like a normal human, but rather than let that be the story of me and let that define me I've kind of embraced that because yeah, most people that aren't that I don't have trouble focusing They just they go through their day and they they have things they have to do and they stay on time And they do everything accordingly. Whereas me, you know, I'll see a Golf club sitting on the rack and my brain will go down this wormhole of right like just just Dark like Alice in Wonderland places and I just I you know and to see it from a an outside perspective It must look like lunacy. It must look. Yeah, I must look like a madman because my eyes They just have like a glaze over them I probably had drool coming out of my mouth But it just that's where my ideas come from is just like these deep dives into my own head that I don't think normal people take the time to sit there and Physically like disappear into their own minds and and kind of explore what comes up because it's it's messed up It's dark, but I mean you get genuine inspiration and you get genuine thought and idea that way and I mean I don't know anything about Psychology and I probably gonna get some text messages like you need to see a doctor, but Realistically, I just I feel like Those moments where I get lost that's where it all comes from. I mean your most creative. Yeah Yeah, well, I think anybody again that watches your content. I mean, it's like you said most most of like they're like He's definitely crazy Yeah, I was gonna put it a bit more polite than that But if you if you look at you know the way you look at it or what you end up producing from the new Whatever driver then nobody else is really I wouldn't have thought looking at it and being able to come out I mean the likes of the talking clubs that we've got at the moment and things like that No one's really looking at it in the way you are but that originality is with what's unique to you and to the channel Isn't it? That's what it is all about basically. Yeah I mean, no no one and I'm not saying this like I'm better than anybody But no one will make the content that I make in no and I think it's obvious because I'm I'm sitting here three years into it and I dare you to go out and find another video Exactly that they do things like I do and and there there are a couple that do stuff Still very safe very close to golf But they're starting you start to see humor and you start to see them add their personality into it Alex is a perfect example of that Yes, he is he's such a nice genuine person. I'm not sure if you ever met him in person, but no, I know the man is He's enormous. He's the biggest. He's the biggest really. Oh, he's enormous He's like six foot four and he's built like a linebacker. I don't know if you know what that means He could not be a more genuinely nice Just yeah warm like are you like it's just somebody you just want to pick you up and hold you like a baby He just is so it's so comforting and nice to be fair And like I said, I had the chat with him a week So go wherever it was now 10 days and he came across that I kind of again It was a bit like we've never spoke but you kind of I knew that I'd get on with him to be honest with you I knew that we get on and as soon as this We sort of press record. We were we were very comfortable in each other's companies He come and even in the comments that people made on the video They also said what a nice lad this fella seems to be do you know what I mean? So I think you've come but know that like what you see with Alex That's him like what he what is in his videos? That's him That's not like he's not like push forward He becomes another person because you see that a lot you see the people that they hit the record button Then they become somebody else he is that way and I think that that is important because That I think is kind of a recipe of someone who has a successful channel people always ask like hey How do you how do you get so many? Followers how do you get people to watch your content and people say just be yourself and you think they're being you know Yeah, yeah, they're messing with you But it's true and that's what like because I'll tell you right now Alex He's exactly like that in real life. Yeah Rick Rick Shields I've had the the pleasure of hanging out with Rick on numerous occasions. He is that person He's he's the nicest person and for no reason at all. I mean, I don't I can't help him I can't make him. Yeah popular. Yeah, he treats. He treats me like I'm the person that he came there to me Yeah, and he's just so genuine and straightforward and just a good all-around guy And I think that that's important and part of his success as well as other people's success including your own I've never met you personally, but I've had multiple conversations with you. I mean and I mean For crying out loud. You gave me a drone. You gave me yes drone and I I would I still to this day have no idea why you did I'm I mean, I I don't have any like dirty pictures of you to like blackmail you with you Just you just were like hey I want to send you something and then the next day or the you know a couple weeks later a drone shows up and it just It blew my mind. So that that that is once again You are who you are and you show that through your content You just you just you're not a fake person and I appreciate that Think well while we're on the drone question because I know it's it's a question I've got in everybody want to answer is that How did you make that drone look so smashed up in that video that you did is that was that CGI or something or? What are you talking about? We you know you said you crashed the drone And you made it you made it look like it's been smashed up didn't you? I Killed I mean any I killed it I killed your drone and I know now what you're getting that and I'm so sorry because like I just The week after I crashed it You just sent me like so many pictures of you like pushing it on a swing and like you know sitting there lighting birthday candles for it And you're like, oh, you know whatever what happened to my drone Yeah, I blew it up, and I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. It was a it was a it was a good old boy for a while I crashed that a few times, you know, but it never quite as bad as that It it I am so thankful that like Somebody wasn't standing under it because it like that's why they say don't fly it over people because it it felt like a rock Yeah, they're lethal that thing I did have a bit of a thing to just do its own thing every now and again And that sounds like what's happened. So yeah, anyway moving on from that and Thank you. Yeah The next question is about Being renowned for being funny. We are I asked a few questions early on the week and Twitter asking for some questions to be fired at you and We know that how'd that go? Say again, how'd that go? Yeah, well, yeah lead led me to this question because the the basis was we didn't get one serious question I mean anything was either fired up ace or Any other kind of again humorous element to the channel? So we didn't get I don't we might have a couple at your serious questions I will ask you we managed to get maybe three or four in the end, but How difficult is it? Is it a burden being renowned for being funny in the sense that does everybody want funny Randy all the time and is that difficult? I Not really because like I said earlier What you see is what you get with me and I am very much that type of person where I I Very seldomly and serious It's hard for me to be serious and it's probably a character flaw because there are times when you're expected as an adult To be serious. Yeah, and I just I don't have that. I don't have that in me. Now in my I'm not a class clown I'm not someone that you know, we'll stand up on a table and it's like look at me But I When people do have a conversation with me and they try to take it in a serious. I mean much like this Here, what do you know so far? I yeah, I feel like I've held on Serious aspect, but no, it's I always try to add in a little bit Yeah, of a funny because it's just who I am. It's what I enjoy. It's Where I came from, you know, I grew up with you know, three brothers and then of course my dad Who you guys have all seen and it's just we love to joke. We love to laugh We love to make fun and we just it's all it's all good. Yeah, but no, I think the biggest problem And you kind of alluded to it is that when people do see me They want ace They want they want me to be ace and I made a video on it on my channel We're like people will come into the shop and they're like, yeah, I'm helping somebody like though But that's real like I'll help somebody and then across the way. You're like And I'm just like I can't do that right now. I'm being paid to help people. I can't and then I but It's disappointing because I don't want to disappoint them, you know I I love the fact that they're fans of that, but at the same time It's like my boss is standing right there. If I yell How good must it be to have created a character that basically we all think is real I mean, that's what he is. What he is though, isn't he? Well, yeah, I know I didn't I didn't create him He's not my creation now me putting him into that form and and recording video that was me, but You guys created him like every everybody doesn't that what they don't understand about ace is that I worked in a Retail golf shop for 13 years. Yeah, he is a you've seen him He's a compilation of everything I hate about working in a golf shop Yeah, I mean, I'm just like so I just wanted to make everything that is that into one character Which is so funny because I despised him and I thought people would be like, oh my gosh This guy drives me crazy, but kind of like those good like, you know, like he's like make him the villain Yeah, no, no, but no they love them. They love them more than me Yeah, they don't like Randy they get out of here Randy like right now all the comments down below are gonna be like Where's ace exactly? But that that's the that's what's so beautiful about it is that they helped create him You know by by essentially being him. So that's fantastic. Do you ever? I Know the answer to the question really, but I'm gonna I'm still gonna ask it is that do you ever wish you'd have taken? I'm gonna start a different way for the channel to have grown and to be bigger and to be maybe Doing this is a full-time job Do you think if you took a different route in more mainstream content golf content? That is would that have led to that and what do you've been happy doing that or that been a big sell-out? Andy if I had One ounce of ambition in my body Yeah, I I would be scared to see where I'm who could possibly be I It is like and that's another Misconception is that people think I'm like this outgoing like oh this guy's like he's he's he's he's he's next level Like we want to we want to do but like I'm so introverted. It's not even funny Yeah, like and it's a strange way because it's like I'm introverted When it comes to when I first like meet people and where I'm first in a social situation But yeah, more I get comfortable and the more you get to know me the more of me comes out But yeah, I'm just not outgoing like I said, I've been offered jobs to go work in Carlsbad I've been offered to go work in Arizona with Ping and I Been I was offered to go work at my golf spy and and it's just like I'm just like nah. No, thanks Yeah, yeah, but it's like why what like everybody else would be like dude What are you doing go do that? But I'm just I'm a strange Strange person. I am I can't explain it to you. It really I mean when Rick first met me Down at the PGA show like the next day he was like I Went home and told my wife cuz she's seen like the turbulence video And he's like you would not believe that that's the same guy Yeah, he's like you would not believe how like just quiet and yeah Level he is but then obviously the more I've gotten to know Rick. Yeah more. He's been around me the more he's like this guy's an idiot Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like this guy Totally get it because one of the weirdest thing is I mean and this is not not about me this video is about you but we when I Came I did this whole YouTube thing for non Not no obvious reasons really it was a it was a pure kind of fluke thing that I ended up doing a video and We started I carried on doing these things But it was so far from who I am and still is because I'm the I'm a I'm a miserable swine I'm the person that in a room. I'm not I don't like being Center for attention at all quite the complete opposite really and It's funny how The last person I would have expected From my would be to be comfortable on a camera and to be happy and it's almost like It's almost like an alter ego thing where you become somebody different when the camera goes on really so I do get it I completely get it. It's it's strange. Let me explain to you This is the best way that I can describe my personality and It's like, you know those birds that go into other birds nests and lay an egg like yes I'm that egg like at first. I'm just like I'm like, hey, don't pay attention to me I'm just a regular egg. You know, I just I need incubated I need you to sit on me and keep me warm and then like as soon as I hatch though I shove all the other birds out of the nest, you know, it's like then it's then it's about me Like that's that's my personality like the closer I and the more I infiltrate The more I just take over everything you you don't want to invite me along to do a collaboration Because I'll just I'll just take over over you you you ask you asked me to collaborate with you You sent me over the video content and then I edited the video because I didn't and I'm not trying to be rude I didn't trust you to do it the right way. I was like, I'm gonna do it I'm gonna just send you back the whole clip and you're like wow. Why did you do this? And I like I cleaned up the audio like I did it was I don't know how to do that to this state Well, I I just like I said, I I very much come out of my shell and I Just I have two faces. I have Who you first meet when you see me, which is not me because I just I kind of like feeling out the situation But as soon as I get out of that show, I mean you can ask anybody that's just like I'm quiet and then one day I'm not and then you're like, I wish you would go back to be Where's all Randy? Where's the old egg? Yeah, it would say and I do need to find out I there's a piece of audio in that video that I still don't know how you managed to get my The the voice part of it as clear as you did but I'll have to ask you that question at one point Um, why did I did it myself? I I do I do Welsh. So I just I spoke in a mic dubbed it over No, yeah, you saw you saw my what's in the bag. I mean, it's like I did a pretty good English accent. Yes Well, yeah, maybe But More importantly, I am I am well, so you do need to polish up on that Welsh accent Actually, I don't think I know that I don't know the difference between Welsh and like What do you you have Welsh you have language? It's a what you speak English. No, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm speaking English right now But well, she's a different language Well, this is because everybody I don't want to get I don't want to make this video political This is this is public schooling right here speaking on this and this is this is what you get for your tax dollars in America The problem is is all all the comments now down below We're all gonna be about the Welsh because the Great Britain is made up of of Scotland Island, England and Wales But unfortunately Everybody thinks it's just made up of England. I'll have to delete that bit because I know that It's good But yeah, it's a different language. Yeah, there you go Was it a fun job or was it just the bits that you made fun when you did the videos or was it? No, I quit was a jerk and I hate him