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RUSH: Tonight is the big finale of The Haney Project on the Golf Channel, the big finale. They hit me with a bunch of surprises, meaning they dangled some carrots in front of me. If I was able to achieve various challenges then I would be rewarded with certain prizes, certain gifts. And it\u2019s a <\/a>great show. We did this at El Dorado, which is a golf course development in San Jose del Cabo right up the road from Cabo San Lucas. Folks, I gotta tell you about it. We used a number of places filming The Haney Project, or taping it all over the country: Kukio, out on the Big Island of Hawaii, Baker\u2019s Bay, which recently opened over in the Bahamas, El Dorado in Cabo San Lucas. These three are part of a whole nationwide development called Discovery Land Company. Mike Meldman owns it, and I tell you, these are some of the finest places you could live, some of the finest places you could visit. With the exception of El Dorado — the golf course was there before Meldman bought the place, it\u2019s a Nicklaus course — they\u2019re all Tom Fazio courses.<\/p>\n

A couple of summers ago Fazio and I and a couple friends took a guy\u2019s golf trip to a number of Fazio-designed courses. Madison Club in Palm Springs is another one of Meldmans, but I tell you, you golfers, you would not believe the comfort stations. I mean every four holes there\u2019s a barbecue. It\u2019s indescribable. Barbecue grill, oysters, champagne, it\u2019s indescribable. You want to finish the course because you want to get to the next comfort station. The quality of the homes in these places is just stunning. One of the great things about golf is that wherever you go to play it\u2019s a beautiful place, and Meldman made available all these different places so that we could actually do a great travelogue show. We started in Hawaii at Kukio, which has some of the greatest views of the Pacific Ocean from high up the mountain, and then El Dorado down in Cabo, which is where we finished about the middle of February, two or three weeks ago. <\/p>\n

If you ever get a chance to play at one of these places from Discovery, do it. If you know somebody who lives there, if you have a chance to visit one of these places, by all means avail yourself of the opportunity. These are the kind of places that make it worth your while to take up the game, just to be able to visit these places. They\u2019re the epitome of quality and refinement and class and everyone I\u2019ve met at one of these places is the best at what they do. We have the big finale tonight. George Brett was on the opener, was on the season premiere, and brought him back for the finale. They were talking about this on the Golf Channel today trying to make it a big surprise. I\u2019m gonna blow the surprise. Fred Couples shows up on the finale tonight in a fun little episode. It\u2019s nine o\u2019clock tonight on the Golf Channel, which is DirecTV channel 218. Let\u2019s grab sound bites three, four, and five and do this, we\u2019ll get into the Wisconsin stuff and the government shutdown stuff and all that as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears. They had Hank Haney on the Golf Channel today during their morning show to talk about the finale tonight and one of the guys talking to him was Gary Williams, co-host of the morning show. And they had this little exchange. This the first of three sound bites.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Of the three guys you worked with, and let\u2019s go in — in kind of reverse order starting with Rush, who was the best listener?<\/p>\n

HANEY: Actually the best listener was Rush. He\u2019s an incredible talker, and I was really shocked that he was even a better listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you might be wondering, ‘Why this question?\u2019 Like Snerdley is looking at me sort of frowning. Snerdley\u2019s offended. Is it fair to say that you\u2019re offended? Because Snerdley knows me, and when this program started — and I okayed it, Snerdley, because it wasn\u2019t worth the time it would take to go to the mat with these guys to change their campaign. I knew it wasn\u2019t gonna matter, but their whole campaign was: ‘Can this motormouth, loudmouth listen?\u2019 That was their whole theme. And I looked at it and I laughed, I said, ‘Do they not have the slightest idea that to know the things I know you have to listen?\u2019 Does it not make common sense that to learn things you have to listen? Okay, so they\u2019ve got it in their heads that I don\u2019t listen, okay, fine. So even after it\u2019s over, that\u2019s why they\u2019re asking the question, ‘So were you surprised?\u2019 because they have to carry through with their theme, with their formula.<\/p>\n

Now, the other two guys they\u2019re talking about, the previous two are Ray Romano of Everybody Loves Raymond and Charles Barkley. So Haney says that I was the best listener. Now, those of you who are regular listeners understand that that\u2019s not a surprise, but it is to people who have this preconceived notion. So the second bite is Gary Williams talking to Haney, he says, ‘When you look at Rush specifically, obviously the finale tonight, what\u2019s great is you had these various people who popped in, George Brett\u2019s been on, Pat Perez. There\u2019s a big-time star that I know is on the finale tonight, sometimes there can be distractions. I know George and Rush are very, very close. Do you get wary of these big stars being around these guys when you\u2019re trying to teach \u2019em?\u2019<\/p>\n

HANEY: Not really. I mean it added to the show. I mean tonight\u2019s show is just great. There\u2019s a whole bunch of surprises in there, it has a great ending, and it just made it a lot more fun. I mean Rush handled everything great with the people being around, and he\u2019s very, very good on TV. He was a great student. He was an incredible student. He\u2019s one of the best students I\u2019ve ever had. I mean it didn\u2019t necessarily start out that way. But he really was a great student, and a pleasure to help. I mean I haven\u2019t had a student, you know, very often in my career that listened as well as he did and tried as hard as he did, and it was a great, you know, opportunity for me and a pleasure to help him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s Hank Haney on the Golf Channel today. So after that was over Gary Williams and Erik Kuselias have this exchange. They are still perplexed that I\u2019m a good listener.<\/p>\n

KUSELIAS: The best listener, Rush. <\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Shocked by that.<\/p>\n

KUSELIAS: Really?<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Yeah. I mean I suppose, look, you know we interview people for a living. The people who are good interviewers actually listen —<\/p>\n

KUSELIAS: You have to listen.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: — to what the people are saying. You don\u2019t have your questions where you run down and you\u2019re waiting for them to stop talking so you can ask the next question, you have to listen to what they say and Rush is a very compelling interviewer so I understand that he probably does have some good listening skills. I just didn\u2019t think that would be the one thing he would say.<\/p>\n

KUSELIAS: Me either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you asked! Why wouldn\u2019t he say it? You asked was he a good listener or not. Anyway, I don\u2019t interview people, Erik. It\u2019s a rarity when that happens. Nevertheless, the show tonight, I have a rough cut and we watched it last night with Kathryn, and it\u2019s good. It really came together. I mean this was the big test, and, by the way, they must have brought everybody at the Golf Channel. There must have been 15 or 20 golf carts running around, cameras, microphones, hidden microphones, hidden cameras all over the place. I think it was their bonus to be able to go down to Cabo so there was even more performance pressure on me, the rank amateur here. I mean this is it, this is it. You know, and it\u2019s live to tape. There\u2019s no shooting it three or four times to get it right. So the deal is I gotta break 85 and I got a surprise coming, some other challenges they threw my way, it\u2019s a lot of fun, it has been fun, and if three or four more people now know that I\u2019m a good listener that\u2019s an added bonus. (interruption) Don\u2019t get so ticked off about this, Bo. I appreciate your loyalty in there, but you gotta go with the flow on this kind of stuff. It just is. Oh, by the way, Koko, do me a favor. Put a link to the Discovery Land Company<\/a> up there. You gotta see some of the pictures of the places we went to shoot this series. It\u2019ll just blow your mind. It really will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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