Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Summer is Coming, the Markets Are Crashing & I Better Win Some Money on the Golf Course 4-3-25
03 Apr 2025
In this lighthearted episode, Scott Becker discusses the latest market downturn and shares his excitement for summer golf.
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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is summer is coming, the markets are crashing, and I better win some money on the golf course. So one of the things I'm looking forward to this summer is I play golf with a very sort of embarrassing group of different people. And I'll just note a few of them here in this discussion.
But one of the things I get very excited about, particularly when I see the market so down today, down 3% or 4%, is the chance to take money from this motley group of golfers. It is a group of untalented, untalented people. One of them plays all winter at some place called the Polo Club. You'd think this was the fanciest place in America, but it's really not. It's fine. It's beautiful.
But it's not like, you know, what you think of as a Polo Club, unless you think of a Polo Club as surrounded by a certain type of people. But it is no Polo Club in terms of the real world. This golfer hits the ball a mile away. You know, can be can be on when he's on, but could be wild when he's wild and just generally an easy mark for winning money.
He's also one of the few guys that's about the same height as I am. I actually feel like Bill Walton or, you know, Walt Chamberlain next to him. So I love, love, love to play with him.
The second guy that I often get a chance to play with come winter, and again, one of the deals come summer is, and one of the deals on this is if you could name the four people we name, then we'll send you a $200 Amazon gift certificate, but you can't be one of these four people, and you've got to be the first one to name them and text me at 773-766-5322.
The second one is a tall, gangly guy who's got sort of the – Mental IQ on the golf course of something close to a cousin of mine who wasn't bright enough to get into college. He plays with a mental IQ that's really low. He plays with the same mental IQ in paddle tennis. Really good guy. Really good father. A little awkward. He is truly an acquired taste.
The inside game is a little bit like Brad Sellers used to be and hits it right there. The third guy who I'm so sick of taking money from is one who always complains, you know, you're supposed to give me strokes, you're supposed to get strokes, you're supposed to get strokes. It is what it is.
He's a Buckeye, one of the finest people in the world, politically leans a little bit center-right, but very rational person, I think is an apoplectic, somewhat... constant watcher of the markets, which makes it a tough time as the markets are up and down and tariffs are hitting and so forth.
But also one of these guys that's a gifted, gifted, good, good guy and hasn't taken money from me in years. So I can't wait to play with him. The fourth guy is a guy that I get a chance to play with almost every week who is sort of like, you know, ridiculous in his own way. Comes out loaded for beer. Hits the ball all over the place.
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