INTRODUCING: We Need A Fourth with Brian Baumgartner, Cooper Manning and Kenny Mayne
Episode
9 min
Read time
2 min
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Golf as meditation practice: Use four-hour golf rounds as phone-free mental reset time, focusing solely on the game rather than work or family distractions to achieve meditative state without traditional yoga.
- ✓Selective social golfing: Prioritize playing with compatible people over prestigious courses—decline invitations to elite clubs with incompatible players in favor of municipal courses with enjoyable companions for better overall experience.
- ✓Extended conversation format: Four-hour golf rounds create unique environment for authentic male bonding and character assessment that reveals personality traits impossible to hide, unlike shorter social interactions in modern life.
What It Covers
Will Arnett introduces the new golf podcast We Need A Fourth, hosted by Kenny Mayne, Brian Baumgartner, and Cooper Manning, launching September 15.
Key Questions Answered
- •Golf as meditation practice: Use four-hour golf rounds as phone-free mental reset time, focusing solely on the game rather than work or family distractions to achieve meditative state without traditional yoga.
- •Selective social golfing: Prioritize playing with compatible people over prestigious courses—decline invitations to elite clubs with incompatible players in favor of municipal courses with enjoyable companions for better overall experience.
- •Extended conversation format: Four-hour golf rounds create unique environment for authentic male bonding and character assessment that reveals personality traits impossible to hide, unlike shorter social interactions in modern life.
Notable Moment
Chris Pratt threw out his back on the third hole, then waited hours lying on the grass by the eighteenth green for his ride home.
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