Golfers Golf & Travel - Cadillac Championship Miami

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SPEAKER_02 0:54

Might even have some weather here in the Midwest where we can go out and at least uh think about hitting golf balls, getting our car washed. The grass is growing and the grass is being mowed, and uh it is uh filling in, but it's still been too cold on a day-to-day basis. And joining me today, as usual, coming from Pontcatani, it is Phil. No, it is not, it is James Algeo. How are you doing, James?

SPEAKER_06 1:20

I'm good, Randy. How you doing today?

SPEAKER_02 1:21

I'm doing good, boys. I'll tell you what, there's a lot going on in Miami this weekend. I think we got an F1 race in the PGA Tour is playing an elevated event at uh Durell uh Country Club, and uh they got the world's best players playing there. And uh Live Golf seems to have uh had the ability to unscrew the light bulb in the refrigerator and it will be going dark soon.

SPEAKER_04 1:48

So Yes, it seems to be going the way of the dinosaur.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Well, and a five-year-old dinosaur. That is not a that was not a long uh long-lived uh oh wait a minute, non-lived. So we call it the non-lived tour, not going to live tour. We're done living tour. Um the uh there was some great uh things that also came out this week. This week also had uh ongoing qualifying going on for the U.S. Open, and uh looked up some of those scores. And uh when I was back playing in back in the 80s and 90s, I knew a lot of the lot of the guys from even around the country that were playing, either from playing in tournaments or in my own, obviously, state, and now looking in my own state, there are sons or grandsons of the guys I played with playing qualifying. That's sort of fun to follow the kids. Um trying to get in. Do you know how qualifying goes for U.S. Open?

SPEAKER_04 2:47

Um no, actually, I'm not uh not 100% on that.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

So well, the USGA, United States Golf Association, is the one that controls this tournament that'll be played in June, traditionally on Father's Day. And uh it is open, it is a true open if you have a handicap of uh it's generally in the one area between used to be two and I don't know. If you get a very low handicap, let's just say that, um, you can uh fill out an application uh early in the year, uh send it into the USGA, they will assign you to a local qualifying, which now it's only 18 holes. And uh like in Illinois, the qualifier, I don't know, they probably had a hundred and maybe a hundred, I don't know, hundred and fifty people sign up to play in it for four spots. And if you are in those four spots, you then qualify for the next round of qualifying, which will be in a couple weeks. And uh that will be all those qualifiers. Again, there'll be some usually they'll have one in Illinois. It'll be a 36-hole day, and they call it the longest day in golf, starts very early and ends up late in the afternoon, and the golf channel does a great job of covering it around the world, and basically around the United States, where all these qualifiers are ongoing, and those will be uh in it's determined at that point in time uh the quality of the field that is being played. Uh for instance, in the past, the memorial, which is a PGA tournament, is in Ohio, they would have qualifying for the PJ players that were not yet qualified to get into the U.S. Open, to play in this 36-hole event. And uh so they might, because of the quality of field, obviously they're PGA players. Um maybe they have 150 tee off, but they'll have 17 to 20 spots available to get into the U.S. Open from that one qualifier. Now in uh Chicago, there might be a hundred guys tee off for only two spots that get in. So they fill the rest of the of the the the real field, and once you get through that and you punch your ticket to the U.S. Open, you get there.

unknown 5:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

And is uh anybody anybody can do it? Any and even in fact, women uh if they have a handicap can send their application in, as did Mill Michelle Wee a couple times in her early career.

unknown 5:19

That's cool.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

And uh I'm not sure that there wasn't another woman that had uh not tried the same thing, but it it would really be cool if some woman came along that really did have the ability to do that, go in and if nothing else, get through qualifying, get to the U.S. Open, get to finish in the top four, and that would land her a spot in all the majors, including the masters. So there would be a female in the masters field the next year.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

That'd be cool.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

That would really be cool. I think that would be so cool. Um and the problem is that women just don't have the strength that men it's needed in those uh how far you have to hit the ball is so incredible anymore. Right that uh yeah, Nellie Corda won uh the major Chevron last week uh down in Texas. Uh Nellie, of course, uh won five times on tour uh a couple years ago and is just a great athlete, comes from a big athletic family, or dad, uh professional tennis player, and uh but just the whole family's just full of genetic makeup of being great athletes. But Nellie has probably, if not the best golf swing in the world, probably one of the best. Everybody acknowledges that, but she just walked away with it and uh basically has her head on really square when it comes to uh participating in the world of golf uh and being an athlete. And um she takes time off to really work out uh away from the course, and when she gets to the course and it's game day, game week, she just goes warms up and goes play golf. Yeah, she can just destroy fields. Just in the same way you do, James, when you go play golf.

SPEAKER_04 7:11

Absolutely. Oh, I destroy things, but uh certainly not the field.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

I thought that's what you said to me the other day. You go out and you destroy golf courses.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

You didn't mean it. Well, yeah, I destroyed golf courses in the room, yes.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

You didn't mean that.

SPEAKER_04 7:26

Well, a little bit of a different way.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Yeah. Well, the big news, of course, this week is is that live golf is um going to be known as the not gonna live golf. Uh time is coming to a close. They withdrew or postponed their tournament down in New Orleans. Um and the differences in live golf compared to PJ Tour, uh, they really didn't have any following when they came into being. I was certainly hypercritical of Live Golf. Um and if you're not aware, the PJ Tour is run by the players. There there's no big, you know, corporation wrapped around it. It's the yeah, it's the players. PJ Tour is PJ players on tour.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

Yeah. Back in 1968 or 69, the PGA was part of PJ Tour was part of the PGA, and uh little known players by the name of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicholas said, I think we should form our own tour. Oh, wait a minute, maybe you have heard of them.

SPEAKER_04 8:37

I I think I think I know who those guys are, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Yeah, the height of their career, they thought that it would be best for the tour to break away and form their own. And when you have the magnitude of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicholas standing up and saying that's what we should do, that's what happened. But the tour is for tour players. Okay, there's nobody there that was when Liv came about, they put out all this hogwash that Liv Tour or the PJ Tour players were being being treated terribly by the PJ Tour and so forth and so on. It was themselves. So it it didn't make any sense at the time. And and uh uh it was you know, Greg Norman and Phil Mickelson, and and a lot of this goes toward Phil who said some things that the tour wasn't being fair to them and everybody should pull away and go to LiveTour. Well now with uh LiveTour uh lights being turned out, they're trying to find pathways back to playing on the PJ Tour. And um that is gonna be really, really interesting for the next year. And being a non-golfer, have you what what do you what have you heard? And maybe you haven't heard anything. Maybe you have to be a golfer to really follow it to understand what was going on. What just tell me what the non-golfer feels about the Live Tour? What have you heard or what is your feeling about it?

SPEAKER_04 10:05

Well, from uh in a way I understand it a little bit. I've heard you know, I do follow. I mean, you know, I don't have to get the ball, but I guess a regular league, you know, make it like a better faster, you know, I guess you can make it with the prize money, but it's like really good pros to make that jump and leave the PGA, so they must have been they must have at least talked a good game about um income potential for all these guys that went over there and and made the move.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Yeah, you're you're you're you're pretty much spot on. What happened was uh the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia headed, you know, there's one leader in Saudi Arabia, so you don't have to look too far to see who it was, um decided they wanted to invest in in golf. You know, it's a clean sport, it's a fun sport, and a lot of people claimed it was sport washing. They were trying to wipe away the ilk of, you know, the negatives of dealing with Saudi Arabia potentially. But basically, they were throwing huge money at people, anywhere from 35 million and then reported up into the hundreds of millions of dollars to get guys to sign these contracts. You know, so that's earth-changing money. That's what they call generational money, money that um was uh you know, life-changing. You didn't, you know, in and in golf, you're one wrist injury away from uh being a non-golfer or a back injury or a neck injury or a torn labrum in your hip or a rib. It's it's a very fragile, violent sport, all wrapped into getting, you know, metal clubheads to uh fly at the speed of about 120 miles an hour. It's a it's a crazy dynamic, physically demanding sport. And uh so if somebody came along to you and said, Well, I'm gonna give you a check for more than you could ever possibly imagine winning, you know, over the next life of your golf career, why wouldn't you take that? Well thing is is that you the guys that took it grew their careers through the PGA tour. And back at the time, Mr. Mickelson was trying to say how poorly the PJ players were being treated. Now these there was in uh I think last year there was over 200 millionaires, guys that won over a million dollars on the PJ Tour. Uh you could look at it today, and again they have expenses, but what a great life. And and most of the people that get to the PJ Tour their parents have driven them around as juniors and they go to college or they don't, but most of them go to college, they play in hundreds of tournaments, they have thousands and thousands of dollars invested in them and travel and uh teachers and sp uh just I mean, to get to the PJ tour takes a tremendous amount of effort. And then when you get there, it is a great life. I mean, you get courtesy cars and babysitting and a lot of luxury and the opportunity to make unlimited money if you're good. If you're not making the cut, you're not gonna make any money, you're gonna be investing a lot of money. Right. But uh, you know, i it's it's a meritocracy. Those that do well, do well, do better, and make a lot of money. And those that don't, don't. And they should become a loan officer.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Um you know.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

And there's been guys that sold insurance. You know what Jack Nicholas did before he stopped playing, uh stopped working? Sold life insurance. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. First check $33.33. How's that? You know, but shortly thereafter he's contending a major, I think it turned out okay for Jack. Yeah. I mean, you know, of course, the goat, the second goat, uh tiger is worth over one point five billion dollars today. Um, guys that are on tour like Scotty Scheffler and Rory, what they win on tour isn't even enough to pay the taxes on the other income they earn outside the tour. So you know, think about that. You make $14, $15 million, and that doesn't even come close to paying half your taxes. So because they're making, you know, $100, $200 million a year and in other income, um sponsor income. So it's great to be there. So it's it's the guys that that play golf do it because they love the ethic of golf, and and live tour was anything but that. Um they came in and just wanted to buy everybody and just show them their money. Like I often said uh early on, and I wrote a column and I and I put it in front of guys that were on tour, noted guys, and I said, Do you think this is too sharp? And basically, when Liv came about, I said, Live golf, I went to one of their first events that was held about 30 miles from my home. There was nobody there. It was a joke. It seemed to me exhibition golf. It was like the Harlem Globetraders playing golf. These guys are under contract. Yeah, the guys are under contract, you're gonna have the same amount of guys, same guys show up every week. They seemed like they were bought and paid for, which they were. They were not engaging with the crowd at any level. Um, they had shotgun starts, you could wear shorts, they had this goofy music playing all the time, they had clowns walking around on stilts. And it was underdone and underwhelming and you know, trying to generate a new buzz because they had just gone and signed these guys to an exhibition contract that was not open to qualifying, as PGA tour is every week. There are always spots that people can go qualify for. It might be two spots a week, but anybody if you qualify on that Monday, you can plan a PGA tour that day, that that Thursday. And um, so live back then. I looked at it and I sat and watched it for about two, three hours, and I said, Well, this is just unwatchable. There's nothing here. And I came and I wrote this article that basically said LiveTour is like a in L in Chicago suburb, there's a suburb that does basically old, you know, think of a big oak trees, homes that have been there for a hundred years. Frank Lloyd Wright actually designed these homes. Very, very second, third generation homes at this point, just beautiful homes. And Liv would be like a person that would come in and buy a lot in that neighborhood, knock down all the trees, knock down the house that was on the property, put up a three-story, you know, new architecture that didn't fit the neighborhood, have shiny shingles on the outside, lights in the backyard, pool and party going, and then walking around the neighborhood, just throwing money around the neighborhood because they could and say, see me, see me, see me. I got a lot of money, got a lot of money, got a lot of money. And uh, you know, just totally putting the thumb in everybody's eye in that neighborhood with loud music and loud parties and not fitting. And uh and because Greg Norman was the head of it at the time, I personalized it and I said, Well, you know, what would happen if that really happened in a neighborhood? And then at Christmas time, you know, he was living in that house and had to borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbor. You know, walked over to the house, knocked on the door, and said, Hey, can I have a b have a cup of sugar? And the person would be nice enough to give him a cup of sugar and then he would sit and say, You know, I hear there's a lot of Christmas parties here in the neighborhood, and how come we're not invited?

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Yeah. How come we're not invited? Because we got money and we got money and a ruthless leader and exhibition tour, and we don't mean anything.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

And we went and jacked over the world of golf, other than that, and you don't like us just because we upset your whole neighborhood? No, we don't really.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

Go away. That would be correct.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

Why don't you just uh take all your money and go buy uh you know if you've got all that money, go buy a grocery store and then you can buy all the sugar in the world. But right now, here's your cup of sugar. And no, you're not invited. And that went on for the past five years. They couldn't figure it out. So what are you gonna do? You're gonna go and nobody figured out. They had no ratings, nobody really watched them on TV. The only way they got on TV is if they paid for their own spots, as opposed to if you're the PGA tour, you actually get paid to be a product to watch. And um now those players have to figure away how they're gonna come back. Can we come back home, please? I missed it. Sure. You're gonna have to put in some effort. So that's gonna be a whole new story.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

What do you think the what do you think the process is gonna be for those guys to come back?

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Uh it's gonna be varied. Uh there's a lot of different levels of it. I don't think Phil Mickelson there's any path for him to come back at all. Um, he is he's the one that really was one of the leaders. Um the John Rahm uh has his own set of circumstances and uh uh you know they qualify to play in majors to a certain extent. But coming back, uh Brooks Kepka came back here uh this year, and Brooks is a great guy. I admired him a lot. He never wore a Live logo. He's he decided that there were some things that uh didn't work on the contract that Liv had broken. He just wanted to come back, and he came back. And I the the story is that he paid a five million dollar uh to charity to come back. Um and uh he's not uh he he's limited in what he can do, but the guy's doing it the right way. He has been in tournaments, he's playing his way back, and tournaments like this weekend, where it's a limited field, but it is a elevated event, he can be a person that can be on the waiting list. So if let's say right before, and this happens a lot, happens every week, um a guy has a bad back and he can't play, and Brooks just happens to be there and warmed up, he can go fill that spot and go play the whole week. Okay. And in addition to that, what they did is because they didn't want to eliminate spots for guys already on tour, is that what they will do is create two spots or three spots to make sure that guys that are hadn't been on live and they brought Brooks back. They just did some good things. They did uh they made an exception for them that uh John Rahm and Deschambeau and uh Cam Smith could have used when Brooks Kepka came back, and basically it was for anybody that had won a major uh after I think it was July of twenty twenty. Could be wrong in that, or twenty twenty one. It was when it was the day after Phil Mickelson won his. His last major that that date going forward, anybody that won a major, they'd allow to come back on the PJ tour, basically pay a fine in your back.

unknown 22:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Now, strangely, if they would have done it the day before Phil Mickelson won that major, could have included Phil on that. But it it just happened to be the day after he won. So intentionally, of course.

SPEAKER_04 22:22

I'm sure.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

So anyway, he's got that, and then John Rahm. They'll find a way eventually to get him back. It's gonna be varied. You know, there's also guys that played college golf. Never went to the PJ Tour. Just went straight to Live, you know. They're waving around big checks. Hey, come over and play here. What are they gonna do with them? You know? Uh guys like Peter Uline actually won on the P on both PJ Tour and Live, and just a good guy, sort of middle of the road, or Harold Varner, guy the you know, middle of the road. He took it and he said, I'm gonna take the money at Live and I'm gonna put it into uh my charity and foundation at home, which he did, and put money into his family, which he did, and that secured his family for life. But he's a great guy, he's a guy that you want to play, you know, and have it come back because he's a good guy. Um Joaquin Neiman, guy that has a lot of talent. Um another Terrell Hatton, who's a great, great player, could probably go back and play on the DP tour over in Europe, which is what Pat Reed is doing right now, Patrick Reed. You know, if they finish in the top ten at the end of the year on the DP World Tour, they get their card back on the PGA tour. Um, some of these guys might have to come back and go play on the Corn Ferry tour. There's just gonna be a hodgepodge. I don't think there's gonna be any, you know, roadmap um coming back. So not a problem I have to worry about. They're not asking me to come back.

SPEAKER_04 23:54

True. That is true.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

I'll come back. You know, I can hit the ball 180 yards, 190 yards with my driver. Which they can do with their wedge. I want to give a little inside. Uh the guys that play on tour, by the way, what you know, the the angle of the club face of the club determines uh how far the ball goes. A lot of those guys on tour, and this has been going on for decades, when they build those clubs and guys are hitting an eight-iron 185 yards, those clubs might have a degree uh loft of like a six-iron. So if you wonder why they hit it so much further, uh huh. Uh it has an eight on it, but it's disguised, you know, it's a it's a disguise. Six-iron loft. So or you could drink distillery channel coffee, that'll get you going. And uh coming to our website soon, uh to a website near you will be our distillery channel coffee. We're making a trip next week down to our friends down in Nashville going down to see Magic Interactive Media and our friend London Grace, who is a great spokesperson. Uh, we're gonna get her on drinking coffee, talking coffee again. We're gonna have our show coming back called Coffee and Tidbits, where we're gonna talk about coffee from around the world. We're gonna get our website going with the world's greatest coffee. And by the way, we'll probably have the third most expensive coffee on our website. A third. A third. The third. I can well, do you know what the world's most expensive coffee where it's being served right now?

SPEAKER_04 25:32

Where's that?

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Dubai.

SPEAKER_04 25:35

Of course.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

Okay. Is it $18 a cup? $80 a cup? $68 a cup? Wow. $420 a cup or $680 a cup? Tell me which one you think it is.

SPEAKER_04 25:53

I can't imagine it's in the hundreds, so I'm gonna go with $80, but I'll probably way low.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Eh, try again.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

$420.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Eh, try again.

SPEAKER_04 26:04

Oh, come on. $640.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

There you go. You got it.

SPEAKER_04 26:08

That's insane.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

Uh James, they vend gold in vending machines at the airport in Dubai. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_04 26:19

I didn't know.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

You can buy a brick of gold right in the airport. You know, like two inches by three inches. I don't know what it costs. Whatever that would cost varies probably day by day. But yeah, if you got enough quarters, you can buy a brick of gold. What's a six hundred dollar cup of coffee? You know. Uh a national coffee chain tried and successfully launched the eighteen dollar cup of coffee to the point they ran out every day. Ours probably uh now again, what it's gonna be is that you'll be able to buy the ro finely roasted small roast beans, which I'm going to source from about four locations around the world that are always noted to be the best beans in the world. And we're gonna micro roast them by hand to make sure they're perfect, and then with instructions of how to roast them once you get them to your home. So we're gonna come, they're gonna come to me as green beans and unroasted, and then I've got to figure out how to roast them delicately in a quarter ounce roaster, which I can carry over to a big roaster to roast, but they're we're not gonna have a lot, we're just gonna have small, you know, you can buy them a pound, two pounds at a time, and it might cost you for a pound, uh could be 95 bucks to $110 for a pound of coffee. Okay. But you're gonna be a passionate coffee drinker, you're gonna have knowledge of why you're drinking it. You probably have already drunk coffee from this location, and I will guarantee you, and one of them is gonna be the big island in Hawaii. Um, that's no surprise. Yeah, big did you know are you are you a coffee drinker, James?

SPEAKER_04 27:52

I I am.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

When did you have your first cup of coffee?

SPEAKER_04 27:56

Oh, jeez. I don't know. Young teenager, probably.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Yeah. Well, as we always salute to my grandfather, he started me drinking coffee when I was five, but you know, is that too young? Nope.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

Maybe it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

Nah, it keeps you up at night, but it was cold in the cottage, and he said, Well, we'll warm you up. So I haven't slept a day since at the age of five. But we had uh coffee uh put in an aluminum uh coffee pot. You can still buy these coffee pots through Amazon, and everybody my age remembers them. Uh you just it's an aluminum coffee pot, they're small, you put them on the flame on the stove, and you you make the world's greatest perked coffee. And that's how we did at the at the cottage. Cottage we didn't have a uh a furnace. We had a kerosene heater at best in the middle of the living room, and these cottages tend to burn down frequently due to those kerosene furnaces.

SPEAKER_04 28:55

I can see why.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

Yeah, and they're just two by fours, and you know, they're not they're made pretty uh pretty flimsily, but uh they were a place of love, and you know, my grandfather every weekend and I were up there, but we started drinking coffee. We had Norwegian pastries from the Norwegian uh place in town where the oh my god, it was so good. Bread was good and the pastries are great and nothing nothing better than being with your grandfather, having a cup of coffee, eating these great pastries and watching the ice melt in the lake and uh the year ahead gonna be there and you know what a great place of love. Um Yeah. You know, so every time I have a cup of coffee, uh and so I guess I'll tell you a story about how I've how I grew into uh have you ever been to Hawaii yet?

SPEAKER_04 29:45

I have.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

Okay. Which islands have you gone to?

SPEAKER_04 29:48

Just Kona.

SPEAKER_02 29:49

Kona? Okay, that's where it's grown, right there. Um I was sitting went into uh we rented a place, a condo, and they had uh complimentary coffee you could roast in the coffee maker, and I was watching the whales jump and I went in and popped open this coffee and roasted it up before anybody was up and sat and killed a pot of coffee and did it again. Anyway, at the end of the morning I'd killed three pots of coffee and I was like, that's the best coffee I've ever had. This is you know, 2001 or two, 20 some odd years ago. But Kona Coffee uh, because of the climate, because of the uh altitude and the way they do it, it's best coffee in the world. Very expensive. And some of the best over there are even more expensive. But by the time it gets here and we do some different things to it and roast it right, no additives to it, just making sure we roast it right and make sure it tastes good, will be the best coffee that there is. It it is not inexpensive for us to buy it in uh as green beans, so are you off in the coffee? Have you ever smelt beans before they've been roasted?

SPEAKER_04 30:58

No.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Smells like a hayfield. Not it really doesn't smell anything like coffee. Uh magic happens when you roast them. So I bet. It's all good. Hey, down in Miami this week, even with the golf being played down there, there's an F1 something going on. You know anything that's going on, Mr. Racing Specialist down there? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

Yeah, there's yeah, the F1 Miami Grand Prix going on this weekend. I'm I'm guessing uh hotel rooms are probably at a premium in the Miami area this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

No kidding. Wow. Inexpensive adventure with both of them. How fast do they actually get those cars going? If they're now that that race going in and around and through town, or how does that work?

SPEAKER_04 31:42

Um, it's not uh it's not a street circuit, it's a regular racing venue. Um you know, on the straightaways they can get close to 200 miles an hour in a pretty short period of time. So you know the power to weight ratio is is amazing. You know, a lot of a lot of horsepower. Very light race cars, so they get uh get one real fast, real fast.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

So what is uh safer to drive, NASCAR or F1?

SPEAKER_04 32:14

Much bigger cars heavier um drivers gotta uh level protection around than uh F1 vehicle. I mean F1 is come a long way, but nothing's gonna protect you like better than a full body stuff.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

Well, it's uh are you familiar with the the world of F1 who the big racer is? I mean are there any crossover drivers from F1 to Nashgar in Nasgar?

SPEAKER_04 32:42

No, there's there's there's not. Um at the top of his game, Lewis Hamilton has been around forever. Um yeah. Um taking a chance to something else because it's actually a lot of a lot of moving cards and a lot of have to be solved in order for some of these guys to do crossover. It used to be that way, you know, back in the day. Mario Andre and AJ Floyd, you know, guys. I mean they would just jump in anything and go race and they win, you know, in all those different different series. But um you know, it it would be if I there's some of that one guy, I'd love to see them jumping out of the stock cards, you know.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

I was just thinking it would be a you know, I I think they should, you know, people that are in um acting and singing, you can get the Grammy, you can get the Oscar, you can get uh whatever it is for uh being on stage, and I forget what they call all of that, but there should be an award for uh the marathon of a drag racing F1 NASCAR, and then you have to pick a short track somewhere, you gotta go in a race, you know.

SPEAKER_04 34:16

So right. Yeah, that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

That'd be that'd be a fun, fun series to watch. So what's the most romantic or is it is it France? Uh that F1 series over there, is that centered around the Cannes Film Festival, or is that my imagination just running loose?

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Uh that might I mean maybe at one time it was, but I don't believe it is it is any longer.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

And what race is that?

SPEAKER_04 34:41

The 24 hours at um Well the 24 hour of Le Mont, that's not a that's a sports car race, that's not an F1 race. Oh, okay. That's a different that's a different series. Um but they they still run that one.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

No, they don't run F1s for 24 hours, do they?

SPEAKER_04 34:58

No, no, no. They would they would never stay together.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

Yeah. Well that movie F1, you know, I I'm gonna get um I'm gonna get up on this racing. The movies have been great that I've watched. And yeah, it's not that every kid I you know again, I drove a Corvette. Does that count for wanting to, you know, and fast and avoided tickets and all those good things.

SPEAKER_04 35:20

But uh you weren't if you avoided tickets, you weren't driving fast.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

Oh, there was a time. Uh we we were uh the bunch of golfers, we had a tournament in Michigan, we left around one of the Chicago suburbs, and there was three or four of us that had Corvettes and other cars, and and there was a dinner on the line to who could get to um the restaurant uh, you know, anything that other than last. And uh we were running uh on the interstate rather fast. Um I think it was eighty. Any way from around Chicago up and then then into Michigan around right around the lake. And um uh there was about eight of us running at about 110, 15 miles an hour all in the line.

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SPEAKER_02 36:11

And uh a cop coming, and I don't recommend this. This is not good. This is youthful stupidity. Um the road was rather empty and it was only for a short period of time, but uh maybe I exaggerate, I don't really know. It was fast, it was way above the speed limit. And the cop was coming toward us, and the lights were going on, coming toward us, and he tried to go through the media and got stuck in the mud, and we pulled just having to be an exit there, happened to be a Walmart there, and we all dispersed, parked our cars, and decided it was time to go shopping at Walmart. So for a while. And uh there was more than one squad car there, but they couldn't identify the plates or anything. There was, you know, we were lucky. Um that was stupid. I'm so curved and conservative driving now, and I have never had a ticket, thank God, knock on wood, uh my life. So impressive, yeah, you just do things right. And I wanted to, you know, for me it's been a good way of life, so stay within the speed limit and do it right. Driving a big heavy piece of equipment, you know, nobody's that good that they you know, the slower you go, the more time you have to re-delact, leave a lot of distance in front of you, and just you know, drive sensible, use your use your blinkers and make sure your car is in shape. Don't drive on ice with all the warnings. Um, we've created something pretty cool that I wanted to go into right at the end. Of course, we're gonna be going and selecting our sponsors that we want to work with coming on the show because we have created something that is very, very unique and we're doing research. I'm not gonna say we're the only one doing it, but we certainly are in a place, James, due to your brilliance and due to um uh uh what we want to do taking our shows forward, and not just this show, Golfers Golf and Travel, but all the good things in life represents what we are talking about on all our shows, and that could be with Robert Mills. And if you haven't tuned in for his uh podcast about hidden treasures, which talks about his travel experiences from around the world, people love that, and uh he's so well-knowledged and has been everywhere. His wife is the one that leads him around the world, finds these unique places to go. Uh times where he has literally had lions 18 inches away from the face of his daughter on a safari, uh, of course, in Africa. That was by accident, not by choice. Uh he's a mountain climber, has climbed 56 of the tallest 57 mountains in the United States. We've had a podcast about eight weeks ago when he was down on a trip going back, uh going home to where he grew up, down in the southeast United States. We've also had podcasts from him, Top of the Mountains out west, that he climbs, and uh just fascinating. And then we're gonna be uh the golfers, golf and travel, of course, is about golfers that do golf, but it also has a lot to do with travel. And um very, very interesting. If you do golf, a lot of people do go on buddy trips and a lot of people do travel, and around the world, it's now universal. Another show we have coming back is I mentioned before, Coffee and Tidbits, which is just a generalized conversation with a leading actress and movie producer, London Grace, who's been with us for eight to ten years, but she loves coffee, and it's very cool to have a podcast. She says, she'll call me up and say, Hey, oh, Uncle Randy. I'm sitting in a coffee shop in New York. Coffee's great here. She's very, very astute in coffee, and then we get to talk about her life and the movie she's making, and just in general, she looks around the room and it's a great conversation about a lot of different things, what she would have over a cup of coffee. And uh another show we're gonna be doing is just simply our title show, All the Good Things in Life, which opens up just tremendous opportunities to do things from around the world that are interesting that we bop into. But what happened was I sent you out a brochure early this week. Did you take a look at that, James?

SPEAKER_04 40:21

I did.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

Well, we created, yeah, we created a new shopping platform called ShopMy. And there we are only putting up things that we really believe are great products in companies that we'd like to work with in the future, and basically to make it great for everybody, our listeners, our uh advocates who will be sponsoring us to want to have their story told on our shows or through our magazines. Our magazines coming out this year, we're gonna have coming out in the next week or two, probably next week. Uh, golfers, golf and travel, beautiful magazine, about 140 pages long, of stories from around the world. They're all interactive online and gorgeous pictures. And um one of the top photographers in the world has his work in there, Daniel Sullivan, who you actually can, if you go to Maui, you can actually go and have lessons with Daniel, great guy. Uh, takes beautiful pictures. Uh photography is uh incredible. Uh Art Strickland, who is a Pulitzer nominated author, who submits stories from destinations from around the world in terms of golf and travel, that magazine is just loaded, loaded with history, inside information on the world of golf and travel. But what is happening is our shows, we talk about going from experience to purchase, is uh how golfers, golf, and travel turn storytelling into an experience of great opportunities to buy great products. And if you go to our shop my link, which we'll be putting up on our websites uh next Monday or Tuesday, you'll be able to look at the products that are going to be, it's gonna be actually Tuesday of next week. I'm gonna be down in Nashville talking with Jeff Pace, who's the CEO of Magic, about how we combine this. We've worked on it for years, and we are launching it next week. So Arnold Palmer Iced tea is one of the features that we have on that site in the story of Arnold Palmer. I think we told earlier this week in a podcast. And uh so the inside information you'll you'll with us, you're gonna be able to um, we're gonna be looking at the brands, the concepts, how we're gonna work with them. We're gonna take them into our real-world experiences, we're gonna look at content creation to make sure they f everything fits together and it's all right and beautiful and it's interesting. We'll then sit and consolidate all that information and bring it to our shows where we like to talk about our products and things we're using. So, anywhere from golf towels to golf clubs to travel bags to some of the cool cars that we've seen, golf carts, and even jet planes. So and then Magic has millions of people that follow on an app, and we have our own app, which we'll be launching and announcing that gives you patent-pended, patented, patent pending uh technology that takes our media, whether it's a movie or podcast, right to your iPhone or Android phone and it or to your TV at home or to your laptop or desktop, and it will sense what kind of the monitor you are using and provide the best monitor technology so that if we have movies we want you to watch, which we're gonna have a platform which will announce next week called Matrix, which will show you how to get to all this and see all of what we're doing. But the cool part is is that then you'll have the opportunity if you like what we're doing and you like the products that we and you think they're interesting you can go to our shop my account and you can link in and get all the special discounts that we have from around the world on the world what we feel are the greatest products and I look at every product that goes up there and give it a yay or nay on whether it should be on our website or not. So what do you think James? A lot of cool stuff Yeah it's gonna be pretty exciting. And um it's gonna tie into other things we do with the Affinity program uh bringing new members into the Affinity program whether it's racing which then you're gonna be busy in this whole podcast I'm gonna be turning over to you and I'll be at the end of it just talking golf. But as we get into the racing season it's gonna be James L. Gio keeping us up to speed. Um the weather gets warmer and racing gets you know uh a little bit um warmer for us here in the Midwest and the north and around the country for people to go to their own family tracks um or NASCAR or F1 or whatever's in your vicinity James is the guy that's gonna be telling us about that. But right now James we're about done out of time forty seven minutes we're gonna be here in a in a second or two. Hard to believe I know well you have a great weekend you do as well I know be healthy I am it's Friday I am uh when we get done with this I'm as they say I'm gonna be uh going to my favorite chair getting an iced tea uh maybe Joanne will bring me a sandwich I'm gonna put my feet up I'm gonna watch Scotty Shuffler and and the boys play some golf down in Miami and have some fun but as my grandfather always said and as we always tell you every week always leave a better footprint. Just be kind to those around you leave a smile have a great day and my grandfather is the one that said always leave a better footprint because you just don't know who's watching us that's where it starts.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

And we'll be back next week uh golf continues travel continues and uh go to our website the distillery channel dot com because that's who produces us open up live ecostyle LLC and Distillery Channel stayed by the sea I've seen a smile turn straight