Episode Details

Welcome back to RDTFM, where Dalton, Chad, and Chris dodge a looming tax deadline long enough to crack open a few more IPAs. This week brings a first-ever golf lesson, a counterintuitive bunker tip, and the debut of a brand-new segment where the guys tackle a real-world client puzzle.

Pop That Top & The Scorecard

• Chad's Swing Rebuild: After three decades of self-taught golf, Chad takes his first-ever lesson, gets a stronger grip and an out-to-in path fix, then plays the very next day and learns the hard way that progress is a long road.
• Chris's Birdie Jams: A group chat invite (and a wife who says "don't threaten him with a good time") leads to a round at Chechessee, a dice-rolling net birdie game, 11 strokes from a stranger, and a 79 from the tips, plus a mind-bending Joseph Mayo bunker tip that flips everything he thought he knew.
• Dalton's Comeback Round: His first round back from hip and quad surgery is a walking nine at a par-3 course, where he stays healthy, swings at 90%, and shoots 8 over with a birdie despite not hitting a single green.

The Approach

• Where's My Money?: In the debut of this new segment, Chad pitches a real scenario from his firm. A second-generation construction contractor with a new controller is showing big profits on paper but draining its line of credit. Dalton digs into debt service, owner draws, and commingled personal expenses; Chris explains why project-based businesses with slow-paying corporate AP departments get squeezed, and why the cash flow statement, balance sheet, and AR/AP agings should tell the real story before anyone jumps to fraud.
• The Reveal & The Follow-Up: Chad shares what they actually found (over and underbillings way out of line from compounding WIP entry errors), and the guys discuss how to handle business owners who don't want to understand their own financials, from spoon-feeding and red-alert flags to meeting clients where they are and knowing when to move on.
• Coming Soon: Dalton teases a future episode on the growing mess of clients who set up their businesses based on TikTok advice.

The Final Pour

• The leaderboard gets a shakeup. Chad's Nightmare Confetti from Cigar City Brewing crowns a new leader with a 9.1, Chris's Focal Banger from The Alchemist outshines last week's Heady Topper with an 8.2, and Dalton's kid-selected Brewery X Novelty Marshmallow Hazy IPA (bunny label and all) limps in at a 3.2, with three more cans still waiting in his fridge.