Golfers Golf & Travel - Masters Special. Se. 2 Ep. 24

With a beginning focus on the upcoming Masters, and recap of other "All the Good Things in Life" Special 

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Transcript

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As golfers golf and travel takes the air, it's Master's Week, and we welcome you.

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Good morning. As sure as the sun rises in the east, the dogwoods bloom and Magnolia Lane awaits. We welcome you to Augusta National for the 2026 Masters. We walk, not run to our chosen spots, entering early and leaving late, enjoying a pimento sandwich, then shopping for many at home. Professionals are gathering on the practice range as we all collectively greet the first major of the year. The world takes a breath for a moment, listening to the echoes of the past, and all senses tuned with anticipation of history, ready to unfold. The beauty of Bobby Jones' creation calls this moment in time to serve us all. With the premier event unfolding before our sensibilities, and world of golf stands still. This is more than a tournament. It's tradition, history, and moments that live forever. From the echoes of Arnold Palmer and the greatness of Jack Nicholas, to the unforgettable rise and return of Tiger Woods. And last year's tearful joy of Rory, completing the Grand Slam. We join each other in faith this year. We'll be better than the history that has been written for the many decades before. We come as sportmen, fans, and the golfing family to embrace these few days in April once again. Augusta calls us back each year as the sun warms tall pines, lush fairways and azaleas come to life, and the golf world awakens with the first drive on Thursday's morning of Master's Week. Today we take you inside the game, the stories, and all the good things in life that surrounded this is your masters. And it starts today.

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Clubs in the bag. I've got a dream. From one small town to the next T-Box, a life on the road, chasing drive jobs.

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Well there you go, everybody. It is one of the music bringing it on into Masters Week 2026. We're getting ready for it. It actually begins Friday, and really people don't know that uh it does. It's uh everybody is gathering down, I guess, uh, and getting ready for the big event next week. The first major of the year, it's where golf begins. Spring comes to the south, spreads warmth and sunshine through the rest of the world, and the golf world comes alive with everybody sitting in front of their TV the entirety of next week. Watching the Masters. So today I have with me, as usual, um my compatriot from Pennsylvania, James L. How are you doing, James?

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I'm doing really well.

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I'm glad you're doing well. That's a good thing. Uh no, I'm doing great. I couldn't be happier. I got out yesterday here in Northern Illinois. We had a 76 degree day and uh dusted off the golf clubs after six months. They had no idea who was grabbing them by the throat and uh strangling them really hard yesterday afternoon, but after about six of them slipped out of my hands because the grip's got to be changed. Uh you know, you never want to lose your grip in golf James. I mean, that's just the way it is.

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No, definitely not.

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Never lose your grip. But uh Yeah, that uh master's entry uh we put together over the weekend and um hope you all enjoyed that. Uh Art Strickland, by the way, our our sidekick down in Texas called me this morning. He's headed to the Valera Open. He's playing actually in the Pro Am today, one of the Pro Ams, um at the behest of I think it's the uh San Antonio Um Visitor and Convention Bureau. So he's got a tough day in Texas. Uh last week in Texas. It'll be the biggest story of the year, uh, no matter what happens the rest of the year. Not even if Scotty wins the um Grand Slam at the US Open, completes his four majors, not even if he wins the major next week, and whoever wins next week, uh makes no difference. Uh Gary Woodland, one of the most loved cherished uh golfers uh three years ago, as we all know, went through having a brain lesion removed. And uh if you've uh ever experienced anybody in your family having head trauma of any kind, you will know that uh it's a very serious situation to the point where, and this story is a public story, he uh he sat down and wrote letters before he went into surgery and wrote uh goodbye and I love you letters uh to his family and his kids because he didn't know if he was gonna survive the surgery. Yeah, yeah. And uh so anyway, uh coming back from that, uh he started his comeback uh last year. And of course, um, as many of you might know, I have experienced head trauma in my family. I wrote the book about my son Adam, who in uh 2005 uh suffered viral encephalitis, infection of the brain, and uh miracle recovery. And we certainly understand and uh we give all the sympathy in the world to Gary uh and his comeback because uh no matter what your head trauma is from, um certainly our veterans we've had many veterans that are uh suffering from head trauma even in today's uh war that's going on in the in the Middle East, there are some that are already now in concussion protocols because of the biomes that hit in Saudi Arabia. So uh we wish everybody well. Yeah, it's uh it's a it's a scary endeavor because no matter how many neurologists you talk to, uh, you just don't know. Um they can give you some idea what's going on in there, but um they don't know. I mean they just don't know, and I'm not um terrible. And of course you're in the world of auto racing James and those guys, I I don't understand how those guys with their head you know turning to the left all the time, don't they have a brace in the car now and tries to hold their head up at least a little bit?

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They do, yeah. I mean years ago they used to have a bunch of different braces, but now that the technology is so good and has progressed so far.

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I mean they're really you know that is uh that's that's just an incredible. It's uh it is a tough one. I I just can't imagine it, you know. It's um five hundred miles of left turns going what, two hundred and twenty, thirty miles an hour occasionally?

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Depending upon the track, that you can get a ball or two.

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That is nuts. But anyway, Gary Woodland, big story, comes back in last last weekend and he wins by five shots. I mean, how how do you go from having brain surgery and two years later you're winning? And and the other side note to this is about ten days ago he came out with uh another compelling story about his recovery is that he was suffering from PTSD to the point where he just absolutely was just breaking down during tournaments, didn't know if he could finish, uh crying uncontrollably, scared of people getting close to him, even people within the ropes like the standard bearers carrying the um the signs. And uh and then two weeks later after he makes that announcement, how terrible it was even coming back and playing golf because of the PTSD, he goes out and wins, but then he relates after the round that on the tenth hole some of the people in the crowd got within 10, 12 feet and he had to ask um uh the people that are protecting him to go over and stand, you know, give him some clearance because he he can't stand close to people. And then he wins the tournament. Yeah. It's it's it's absolutely nuts. And uh and the thing is he's such a loved guy on tour. Everybody loves Gary Woodland. He won the US Open with an amazing shot a number of years ago, and he's just a great winner, a great guy. He does I mean, he's just so approachable. And uh goes out and wins, and then on the last hole, his competitors, and you rarely see competitors in the world of golf, um helping their fellow competitors. But the two guys he was playing with as he was walking up the 18th screen, obviously gonna win by five shots, both set to the side and encouraging all the fans along with themselves to applaud and give Gary all the credit in the world. And uh tears were flowing faster than the beers in uh on the eighteenth hole this past Sunday. Again, gonna be the biggest story in golf the rest of the year. Nothing else can happen.

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So yeah.

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Well, getting back to the masters, um, we want everybody to know that we have our golfers, golf, and travel magazine coming out at the end of April. We need uh only to go to the masters next week. The end week after that is the RBC down at the Heritage, which I have always wanted to be on the road to go to. And then the week after that, around uh oh about the 20th of April, somewhere in that thereabouts, we're gonna be releasing golfers, golf and travel. And again, big announcement today. We now have the golfersgolf and travel.com pointing to our big website that is now the Super Bowl of websites when it comes to all the good things in life. And if you go to all the things all the goodthings in life.com, live ecostyle.com, or golfersgolfandravel.com, you will find all of our media exploding right in front of you. And toward the end of April, we will have a new big website that's gonna be very media driven, focusing on all the good things in life, and that is golf, dining, sipping, recreation, fashion, travel, sports, family, fun, and spies just because we want to keep everybody happy. So everybody offers golf and travel, be sure to go to our magazine. It's an online digital version. And uh we're looking forward to that, James. Yeah, what we're gonna do, yeah, I was having fun. I and I'll be the first to admit I love using AI and I love creating music, and over the weekend I was, I guess, thinking to the Masters, and um, you know, uh about uh the year after Arnie died, Jack, they have this ceremony at the Masters where the senior golfers will say, Well, hit the first shot to start the Masters, and that year it was Gary Player, Tom Watson, and Jack Nicholas and the the spring following Arnie's uh death. And on that T uh shot that day, Jackett uh when they introduced Jack and Gary and Tom. Uh Jack took his cap off, looked to the heavens and and gave a nod to Arnie. So I was thinking, you know, no matter what your faithfulness is, you know, you wonder I just wondered because I lost a lot of my golf friends. Uh we're in that age where they come and go, well boy, last year I lost. I they I have a full complete force I'm now playing in heaven. And I'm sure they're and maybe maybe they want me there, maybe they don't. I really don't know. But I know they're having fun and I was like, okay, so let's just assume golfers go to heaven, what are they gonna want to do? They're gonna play golf, but I wonder if they take a moment to look down upon the masters. So what I did was I got into my AI system of music and I created a little song called Arnie and Bobby Jones made for the master show. So here you go, enjoy. What would happen if Arnie and Bobby were looking down on a reflection going back to all the masters from day one?

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Michael Palmer and Bobby Jones When April finds that Georgia sky and the zero start to rise, there's a place beyond the clouds above where the game is played in a lot.

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Where the greatest stories ever told. Still echo through it. We're the green steps. Delete the grip, still heaven's calls, two three, like time for God for this story again.

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And Fuzzy's laughing like he always did. Cracking jokes like a playful kid. Now he's joined that heavenly team with those who shape this history.

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They pause their rounds when Tuesday comes for the champions. The quiet hunt. They lean in close, they smile and say we remember that Jack and Day. When the first tea breaks the door, they call everyone. Jack and Gabby start to play. They tip their caps from far away, and in that breeze, if you listen close, you might just hear what happened.

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And what we've become And when the sun sets on that final round, they don't leave. They just go back to play another nine.

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Until Augusta calls them again.

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Well, if that doesn't teer you up, I mean, you know, can you imagine Bobby Jones and Ben Hogan, Sam Sneed, and Arnie looking down from heaven, the week of the Masters? I mean, it is heaven on earth, and if you've never been to Augusta National, um you don't know you have no concept of what it's like in the world of golf. And again, how many times now have you been to the Masters, James?

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Have you walked the uh All of Zero?

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All of Zero? Well, that's like uh 99% of it. You know, just pull out a credit card. I'll go to Stubho. And I just looked this up this morning. Um Yeah. Uh eighty one hundred dollars for Wednesday's round. One day.

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Wednesday.

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Wednesday, the practice round. Uh now let me take it back to Sunday. And I'll get I'll get into the Wednesday. We'll I'll come back to that. But Masters Week begins this Friday because the Augusta Women's Amateur begins this Friday. They do play at a different course, but they do end up playing a two day tournament and uh the second day is played on the big course, Augusta National. And it's hard hard to believe and understand how good these women really are because they are excellent and uh they do play well. Um Augusta National. It's a great thing. It introduces women to the game. It really lets younger women know that, you know, this is this is really an uh you know available uh situation and um you know you can be part of the world of golf. And uh but it's uh down there at this time of year if you know it just depends on the azaleas. Azaleas sort of running a track of when they it's a freeze thaw thing with them when they're out but boy when they're out it is beautiful and uh so it's just have you ever been in the south when the azaleas and the flowers come out James yes man yep man oh man oh man uh just gorgeous it just smells good the tall the the pines the thick um oh how Augusta does it I mean it's just there's nothing out of place and then a couple rules when you wait at the gate there is uh no running rule James please is there really no running you run you just run back to your car you're done uh huh um I did not know that fans down there are not called fans they're called patrons okay um they uh have chairs that they can go and if they have a favorite spot if they have a nice little aluminum chair they want to drop on let's say you know behind tee on number 12 which is a par three they can take their chair put it down walk around the course nobody will be sitting in it when they come back nobody will have taken it um the fans down there are completely different there will be no guys in the background yelling mashed potatoes when somebody tees off trying to get their craziness on TV however you can buy a pimento sandwich for a buck and a half okay uh you can buy I think a Coke for like a buck they the the there are not$18 beers and thirty dollar hamburgers the pricing is still uh as it was years ago pimmetto and egg solid sandwiches and this is a game played on a par 72 course on a course that was designed by Bobby Jones after he retired and um it is just and it's incredible. And this is really when golf really begins. Next week the lineup is yes the women's amateur on Friday and Saturday of this week Sunday is one of my favorite days because they have a youth uh drive chip and putt um finals held right there in the morning it's around 8 a.m central time and if you want to see something really cool all these kids have participated all over the country uh come to Augusta if they made the finals and they are on camera and um they uh they they just get to experience competition at Augusta National with the uh players Bubba Watson usually joins in and helps make them have some fun some of the pros will show up I mean it is just such a great elegant day and somehow they control the weather because it's always cloudless in 78 and no humidity. Wow yeah guaranteed guaranteed except for last year it's not good I had a lot of rain last year this year the weather looks really good it does look good in middle 70s all week and uh just hardly any chance of rain. Nice but I used to take my a golf group because you can't go to Augusta on the west southwestern side of Georgia there's a place called Callaway Gardens and from 1975 to 2003 I took uh a group of golfers from Illinois where the size ranged anywhere from four to thirty-two uh generally sixteen a year and we go down there and work on our games getting ready to play in U.S. Open competition here in Illinois in May but of course there is just not um warm weather before May enough for us to get really our games in shape to try to think we can play in U.S. Open competition so we had to go south and very intense week of golf but very similar in scoping concept to uh the big course at Augusta National the Zaleas are deep and wide the grass is green the food is fantastic uh and it was just every year um we played on the first day we got there we played 18 holes scramble got it on Saturday uh we always told everybody please work out and get your games in shape because it's gonna be in March and you know you haven't hit balls for five six months go do something indoors and most of the guys did it some didn't and uh then you play 36 holes a day from Sunday through the next Saturday and uh yeah starting at 530 in the morning we had a wake up call we had a 42 page uh alignment of what the rules are for the week because people get tired okay and we had two big rules number one the things you can't talk about is what you do for a living and problems you're having with any female in your life it is it is nobody we're here to play the message was we're here to play golf working our games we had distinct good teachers that showed up uh it went anywhere from low handicappers that were really trying to get in through qualifying at uh in the state of Illinois we probably had four of the top ten uh that were there on this trip. Even Carlton Fisk came on the trip for two, three years and after he retired from baseball and uh getting his game in shape to play on the senior amateur golf circuit. Uh boy I'll tell you he could hit the ball that woof that was yeah yeah it was uh great having him on the trip but the food down there is fantastic great southern cooking Callaway Gardens uh down at Columbus near Columbus Georgia and uh at the time back then they had three courses and uh we started our day at eight o'clock every morning and we'd have eighteen in play lunch uh go out hit some balls play eighteen in the afternoon and it honestly it felt like playing nine and nine it was just so gorgeous and uh one year we actually had to go in April and the weather was so fantastic the azaleas were everywhere the cloudless sky the grass was so green we were leaving footprints in the fairway and and I'm not exaggerating and uh one of the um um Baptist ministries very famous I'll leave the name off was doing a TV show down in one of the lakes near the golf it's right on the golf course in fact uh one of our guys get a golf ball into the production as they were singing choir but you could hear them singing and performing through the whole golf course the first day we got there we didn't know what that was but it was just an ideal day and the grass was great and we were playing playing and having fun in golf and it was warm like 82 degrees perfect day and I looked to my best friend next to me and I said did you see the bus he goes no I said I didn't see it either but obviously we're in heaven so we made it I guess you know it's just I don't know I think it was a bus. I'll just go with that but I said have you ever experienced anything I said you can hear the music in the background right I mean how many times we've we've played thousands of rounds of golf how many times you ever heard spiritual music in the background you know oh god we're dead we're dead but this is okay I'm good with this you know that's I mean no better way to go right no I could tell Callaway stories all day I'm sorry gonna divert but uh and we felt terrible about this so the geese I've always said why do geese stay in you know around Chicago the geese have become so tame now is that they just fly around you know in the suburbs and they stay here a lot of them just stay through the winter and I'm you know I like to go over and take them into therapy and say you know you got these wings if you go south it really gets warm you know it's right but the you know geese fly in families you know mom dad and the kids and uh and you and they're just great I mean there are some geese on our course that come every year and they they lay their eggs and they raise their babies and you literally can go sit on the on the side of the pond on the golf course and and they'll come up to you and just talk to you because they've been there every year. I mean they've been there for I mean just every year. I don't it's just the craziest thing. So anyway we're down at um Callaway and a few of their brethren do fly down there and live along the lakes in southwest Georgia and unfortunately one year we teed off on this hole that's right next to the restaurant next to where the that group was playing and one of the guys hit a goose right in the head killed it dead I mean we felt awful just awful and the family was squawking around it and poking at it and just you know they could they they know I mean they know it was awful and we're we're we're trying to apologize to the gods and you know we're like you can't let a dead goose there and what the commotion was so I go to the restaurant just to try to phone superintendent or the pro in the restaurant the chef says yeah I have to phone them I know what to do don't worry about it picks up picks up the goose comes back in I guess we got goose in the calendar tomorrow night okay that's just cold just cold yeah so well I guess yeah so our show is brought to you by Distillery Channel Coffee some of the world's moderately priced to higher priced coffee um I'm gonna be roasting this afternoon and we do have a family of certified roasters and we do source our beans all over the world and uh we like to get the best quite honestly everybody if you've never had distillery channel coffee uh it is coming back to life I know we're announcing a little prematurely but the beans are being roasted they have to be uh we want to make sure that the roasts that we have are absolutely a plus because we are not going to be serving inexpensive coffee the way that all came about was is that back in 2018 and again everybody knows that we are corporate name is the the distillery channel LLC but we do do when we talk about we do enhance the world of civic now you don't drink alcohol right James uh do I have that wrong do I have that wrong yes I I I do okay what's what's your favorite drink um yeah you know I'm a I'm a red wine guy red wine I am yeah yeah I'll tell you a story about that in a minute so the the the bourbon the the world of distilleries I don't drink very much quite honestly I am but I was asked to because the people I knew in the world of distilling said hey would you handle our PR for us so we grew the distillery channel and it's where we grew our media and it you know golfers golf then they sip and you know you got the 19th whole so you know golf golfers drinking is not is not an unusual connection you never drink in the golf course though right James uh yes I occasionally do have a a beer or two while I'm uh losing some golf balls. Dang you are the eminent golfer anyway we decided to have the bourbon producers of the world uh mail us a bottle and we were gonna try to find a way to infuse the world's best coffee beans with some of the world's best bourbon and just to see what uh what might come up well I've got a call coming in from out uh out west uh we're gonna have to put that on hold permanently so uh don't want to break up this wonderful show anyway we took uh a couple years just to try to figure out how to really best infuse coffee beans because coffee beans are like little sponges so we're diverting way away from the world of golf do you mind if we go down the coffee path here for a minute okay I'm I'm up to any path you want to go down. Are you a coffee drinker, James?

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I definitely am a coffee drinker absolutely okay so what what brand of coffee do you uh um I mean there's uh one I don't know if it's regional or local I think it's eight o'clock coffee comes in a red bag we pick up from the grocery store so that's I mean that's a pretty good that's a great great they have a French roast and they have a medium roast yeah I think that's pretty decent.

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That is actually one of that's out of off the shelf that's that's my most favorite it really is okay yeah all right cool track no question about it that is robust um I'm not too sure the history of that uh was could have been from the old A and P uh you know what I think you're right I think it was from the old A and P brand Yeah but they know they make a nice rich it's not inexpensive either it's a good good cup of coffee and now that we got done selling uh eight o'clock coffee uh all checks from eight o'clock can be mailed to post office box 191 Walt Worth Wisconsin thank you and that is our true mail post office box so uh no our our coffee is actually um to get all the facts out I do micro roasting on the weekends to really test the beans that we get in and the beans I get in are from Costa Rica Vietnam Vietnam actually is the second producer of coffee beans in the world uh now really yeah yeah there they found out there was a bunch of craters over there really cool left over from Vietnam War no actually it is they grow uh some of the largest crops of coffee coffee is generally grown at altitude around the equator just because of the moderate uh but the the the need for cool and wet and whatever in very very small if you want to call them farms uh pretty much not bigger than uh I don't know maybe a neighborhood that you live in you know they're very very small but uh we get coffee beans in Costa Rica some of the best beans um Brazil um Papua New Guinea uh of course they have a lot of call for Papua New Guinea and then the island a big island of Hawaii produces some of the best coffee beans in the world and uh have you ever had Kona coffee? Oh yeah absolutely man tell you what sat there one day went to Maui a number of years ago I can tell you exactly when it was it was 19 yeah I can tell you exactly when it was 1986 and uh took the family over and uh rented a condo and they left coffee to make in the kitchen that we rented and uh got up everybody was sleeping I was watching the whales jump made a pot of coffee sat out on the Lanai which is the port in uh on Maui and killed that pot of coffee and it's like man that was good I do that again went in and made another pot of coffee I have not slept since three pots later say how many days uh in a while were you up for the entirety of the trip it was like a two for one I broke the rest of the week into three hour three eight hour segments and uh as the rest of the family slept I was wondering God I'm just not tired. So killed three pots before anybody got up. Three yes just because it was so good. I had no idea what I was drinking why it was so good. It was cone real true cone of coffee. Now when people go to the store how's this for a golf show man I'll tell you what we're all over the board I love it.

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I know right that's awesome.

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So you go to the store and they'll you'll see in your local grocery store cone coffee here. Look at the bag before you buy it and see what percentage of it is cone coffee. Oh okay might be five percent you know they didn't say all of it was gonna be Kona coffee uh so uh yeah tricky but cone coffee is very expensive I mean for me to even buy it green coffee buy it by the pound can be anywhere from forty five to eighty five dollars a pound I have to get done roasting it okay and if that's a pound what do I have to sell it for just to think I've got a hobby that's not killing my college fund you know right so and of course that college fund I gotta get to college some one of these days so one of these days yeah it'll help I've been told but anyway our coffee distillery channel coffee not only on that when we open it up um we do have rum and it's called Jamaica Me Crazy rum and it's a great infused coffee bean with uh rum again from the islands we do have for you sir uh red wine uh infused coffee if anybody yeah I like that and one from a white wine can you imagine if you're pregnant you can't drink wine but I have heard that sometimes women drink white wine in the afternoon just because their days have been so pleasant they have to detox I mean relax and uh so if you're pregnant you can't drink alcohol or generally I mean you can shouldn't but our coffee uh we do have a uh a decaffeinated infused with white wine which obviously all the alcohol of our coffees are no longer in the beans because they get roasted and the alcohol's gone sure unless it roasts off the parts yeah we're just leaving the essence of taste and uh so anyway it um that's a whole nother thing that that's the longest commercial that we could possibly have that was actually what do they call that that's like a Jerry Lewis telethon so that's awesome that's really good I wonder what we were supposed to be wasn't this a golf show earlier well somewhere now maybe somebody took us off air and they forgot to tell us I don't know wait a minute I own the show I can't do that well I think what we're gonna do I want to share because we got master's week next week we're gonna be having shows coming from the Masters frequently with our um Art Strickland who is the president of Texas Golf Riders Association who is covering the Valera Open today he'll be down at the masters getting there this weekend and art is part of and owns um the art of golf travel where art takes groups of golfers all over the world every year been doing it for years and during the masters we actually rent a house and have people that can come and stay go to the masters tickets housing uh food and then golf after uh the masters is available so go to theartofgolftravel dot com and take a look at uh what we have to offer in world class travel because that's what we do because I think up in the top when they talk about all the good things in life it is about golf and travel and sipping and dining and all those good things. Um let's talk a little bit about what's going on in the world of travel. Uh James I do you uh do you do very much travel? Do you enjoy travel? Where where do you sit in that?

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Well um I enjoy it yes um don't do a whole lot of it um but yeah have I have taken some trips here and there certainly not as many as I would like to where's your favorite place to go uh to date would be Hawaii uh loved it yeah have you been to Hawaii?

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I have stayed on the Big Island Yeah near Kona uh yeah Big Island's got it entity onto itself it's it's uh if people haven't looked at it uh they should go to um uh to see the uh volcanoes that are erupting continuously on the Big Island did you go to see the volcanoes when you were there?

SPEAKER_05 42:37

Yes yeah we did it was pretty cool took uh took a helicopter ride over the volcanoes to to watch and it was it was really interesting it was cool.

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And your wife didn't pay the extra 10 bucks to have you thrown out the side and no no luckily yeah well that is lucky that is really lucky um no that's it that's the and the islands are all different Maui in the last three weeks has been killed once again by a natural disaster Oahu and and Maui hit by 70 to 90 mile an hour winds along with four feet of rain in a half a day. Yeah yeah I didn't hear all the stats on that that's yeah crazy yeah you should take a look just pull up the rains of Maui and take a look at what it did and down at Qihay which is a town on the southwest side where all the beautiful sunsets are where majority of I wouldn't say majority but a high percentage of travelers uh stay because you got uh the Grand Wildley is down there you got um all kinds of of different um major hotels but you also have all kinds of different uh condos you can rent and you can still rent it for about two hundred and seventy five bucks a night right there on Keyhay you know walking distance of the beach and all the beaches are open. I mean no matter what hotel sitting there Uh you can go I mean we went there for year after year after year, took my kids. Um and uh we'd be on the same beach and um movie stars and you know professional athletes, generally it was basketball players that were losing in uh you know the playoffs and the next day you'd see him right where we're at, right in the beach. And uh David David Robinson, not hard to pick him out of a crowd, but he was teeing off right in front of our condo one day, and of course I play golf and I said, Hey, you playing alone? Yeah, do you mind if I play in with it? He goes, Heck no, you know, so I ended up playing with David Robinson for a couple days. Greatest guy in the world. Yeah. But full of famous people. If you want to go see where people magazine, you know, pictures are made of uh, you know, somebody kissing somebody on a beach, that's gonna be the beach where it's gonna happen. And um but the food on Maui, I got and then they had that fire in Lahaina, you know, a few years ago destroyed that town and uh it's still not it's still not coming back. I mean it's still sitting there waiting, I mean it's just incredible, just so sad. Um but we are uh we actually have been working on for years a documentary about Hawaii now that you brought it up and uh it's gonna be very, very cool. I got a lot of the footage already shot and uh we're gonna begin taking a look at putting that together. So it's all good. But uh we want everybody to enjoy our concept because what we want to do is celebrate life. Uh this is Easter week and for those that have Easter and Passover coming up, but it's a very faithful time of year, certainly the most significant time for Christian followers of their uh religion, and uh uh it is um a meaningful time in my family, and uh because the good Lord has given me uh and m so many blessings through life, including my son. If you haven't gone to Mer Adam's Miracle, it's a book I wrote about uh strangely, three years ago already, about an episode in life where he had viral encephalitis in 2005 when he was playing basketball and we didn't know he had it, and uh it went from him playing two uh games on the Saturday till Thanksgiving weekend, and having a grand ball seizure and my arms that night unexpectedly, and last right on the Monday following, and then from there it go it gets worse. Um it's not a shocker. It's called Adam's miracle. I just talked to him this morning, the young man just got engaged and he's living a full life, so you know, yes, a miracle did happen. The book is easy, easy read, and I suggest if you've ever had anybody that has head trauma in your world, uh write to me. Uh and again, uh it's Randy Weckerly and it's a distillery channel, and it is Box 191 in Walworth, Wisconsin. And um I will make sure you get one of these books. Um because head trauma is um it's just witchcraft. And uh hope you never have to go through it, but we uh we find ways to to give hope that uh it can be resolved. So it's all good. So James, let's go back and talk about your golf game. What's your problem, my friend? He started uh, by the way, everybody, he starts this off and he says, you know, you gotta come take a look at my swing. I go to these simulators and blah blah blah blah blah and I do this and I do that, and not nothing's ever the same, and I'm about ready to, you know, take up um pickleball. So you're an 80s shooter, James, and that's really good. You know only five percent of the people in the world shoot break a hundred. Go ahead.

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I've done that a few times.

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If you I'd just give up. I thought I was gonna be able to give some tips tips to help, but that just sounds pathetic. Maybe you should I got the best plan for you. Take your clubs. Okay. And uh you go down to Goodwill and trade him in for uh some some fishing irons. Things that have string and a reel on it. And uh no, it's it's golf is a hard game. Uh you're just describing, you know, a guy in his eighties and nineties and not his age, but where he shoots and the ball goes left and right, and and you know, I I told James to send me some some video. And uh um we uh we'll have very soon a our new email. It's gonna be info at golfersgolf and travel dot com. So we get our website up and we'll uh have people send in videos of their golf swing. I'm gonna sit down and uh do some analysis. I just lined up with uh a few of the pros in our area here, but we have our own pros on staff. I've given thousands of lessons in my life and uh I mean tens of thousands of lessons over forty years, some anywhere from the PGA tour to people that have won majors and down to people that were truly handicapped. They had to sit back at the cart because they were paraplegics. Um and I don't care what level you're at, I always uh will help anybody in any way that I can. Um on a PGA show every year, I always end up giving a golf lesson or two to some pretty famous people that I've been giving them to for the past twenty years at the show on the artificial greens. And uh we don't make anything out of it, and I won't tell you who it is, but it's uh you would know who it is uh if you saw it. But uh anyway, uh this hour has gone very, very fast, James. I don't know what the heck this is all about. Yeah. I'm gonna end the show with two two songs. One is gonna be about my experience in music growing up and uh and that's just gonna end the show. It's gonna be for me. When it comes to the masters, yes, I was sitting in my in the den in the home I was growing up with my dad. My dad said, Hey, come in here and look at this. This is golf. I wanna show you this. I was about uh well, I was exactly ten or eleven. And uh is when the masters came on TV and he said this is gonna be important. So I've seen every master since 1960. And uh so this is uh uh a lot of masters. Anyway, James, thanks for being with us and uh you know it's great and uh everybody just know uh always leave a better footprint because as my grandfather said, you just don't know who's watching. Anyway, be good out there. Tune in next week. We're gonna come back, it'll be Masters Week. And uh we might do a few more podcasts this week if we have time, because I know I've got a lot of information that's gonna be hitting me. So anyway, James, you have a great day, be safe, and uh here's a little song that uh sort of tells a little Randy story. Talk to you soon, James. Bye bye.

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Black and white on a Sunday screen, sitting beside my dad at seventeen, or maybe younger, but I still recall. The quiet hush when the shadows fall, voices soft but the moment loud. Game of kings before a crowd. Didn't know then what it would mean. But walk on the green, green grass of August to see. I've been dreaming of that green green grass of the gust. Religion drives, and the game still trusts you. From whispers past to the Sunday road, it calls you back like it did before. To ever swing every tip, every dust. The softest sacred about a guster. All the dear, still feel that pull to that green, green grass. With dreams of four Arnie charge like a summer storm, crowd behind a heart stall, Jack with that focus deal in his eyes. Gary's steady as the Georgia sky. They built a story, the world still sees They call on the game's first victory. Every spring there goes last across that green green dog. A master of nerve, a master of will, and I watched it all year by yeah, from youthful cheers to a quiet is the final of that golden day. When time itself just steps to it, and every girl. That's on the roll, that's the all time. Come back with no one to land. A victory deep for them. Wednesday left on the party stage, kids beside the ledges, age to age, drive to dreams just getting born. On that stage, Sunday morning the women's amateur writes it's song Where the future's been all along And Bobby Jones still walks those lines in every hill and every time for a dollar fifty just me and you know running here, just walk and sleep. Respect for the game for his story. Every custom holy about a custom all my days. I've carried that call to the green green grass that holds it all from a black and white screen to a lifetime of dreams Augusta. I've been with you along.

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Well, everybody, I hope you enjoyed our golfers, golf, and travel uh Masters edition leading up to the Masters next week. Want to thank James El Gio for joining us, and uh upcoming in our next adventure, we've got uh young Joanne's gonna be joining us, coming into the crowd, featuring all her travels and outlooks on life, which we're really looking forward to in a way that uh is really, really meaningful for us, and uh happy to have her join us on the trails. So, anyway, this old Uncle Randy for the Distillery Channel LLC production of Golf and Golf and Traveling James Algido, Uncle Randy, talk to you next time by you trend. Always remember leave a better footprint. That's just what my grandfather said.