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Speaker 1: fire everybody hears give it time. Welcome to the fire

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Speaker 1: pit with Matt Janella. It was January twenty six, twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: I was reporting on the PGA merchandise show for Golf

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Speaker 1: At the end of that segment, we talked about technology,

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Speaker 1: who at eighteen months old, was diagnosed with nonverbal autism.

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Speaker 1: He told me that when she was fourteen years old,

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Speaker 1: they heard about facilitated communications, a therapy developed in Australia

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Speaker 1: by technology and specifically iPads. According to Raising Children dot

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Speaker 1: dot au, facilitated communications involves a facilitator physically supporting the hand,

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Speaker 1: the video, Jailed my entire life was another one of

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Speaker 1: that's connected to the brain is somehow damaged. A lot

427
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: of these kids also have autoimmune disorders, and that's the

428
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: immune system got nailed at the same time. So, yeah,

429
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 1: invulnerable leaves in vulnerable in a lot of ways obviously,

430
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: and then and then being nonverbal, being able to now

431
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: get access into what they're what they're feeling from inside

432
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 1: that that unlocks the box right being able to now

433
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: then yeah, and then she telling us the first time

434
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: she realized that she she wasn't speaking because you know

435
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: how you talk in your head. And she was about

436
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: three or four, and she said, I always thought that

437
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: thoughts were transferred through the brain. I thought I was

438
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: talking to you. And I said, oh my gosh, did

439
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: you think we're ignoring you? And she said no, I

440
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: just I felt like you just immediately forgot what I

441
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: said and then putting her putting the pieces together that

442
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I can't speak. And that's when she

443
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: became inconsolable and um, you know, upset all the time

444
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: and coming after people because she said, I was trying

445
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: to get great words out, trying to get great words out,

446
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: and now she can get her words out. She's she

447
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: says that she wants to change the world. How is

448
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: how is how is her mission going? I mean day

449
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: to day and in what you're doing through heal, I

450
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,719
Speaker 1: mean you are changing the world in this, in this story,

451
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: in this these conversations and within your community in a

452
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: way you would Does she feel like she's making progress

453
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: in her mission to change the world? Oh, definitely, Um,

454
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: And you know I've read her excerpts from Helen Keller,

455
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 1: who you know couldn't see and couldn't you know, speak,

456
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: and you know, learn how to do this in her hands,

457
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: and people didn't believe that. You know. Um so I

458
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: I gain a lot of my own inner strength because

459
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: I've just read every single thing I could get my

460
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: hands on that Helen Keller wrote and her mother and

461
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: and um Annie Sullivan and I feel like we are that.

462
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: And so because of the typing, another mother has opened

463
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: up a school where we're on the same curriculum at

464
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: Saint John's County High Schools and we have teachers facilitating

465
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: these kids and near did all she was doing algebra

466
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: and stuff, and so that is huge. The fact that

467
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: we have over thirty kids in the Jacksonville area that

468
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: have been trained, and we brought in trainers to train teachers,

469
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: and now we have teachers that are training other teachers.

470
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: So we really have kind of like a mecca here.

471
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: Atlanta has a few people and you know, all these

472
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: big cities, but they are not connected like we are.

473
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: And that is because of Planeer, And you know, that's

474
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 1: her mission. She brings awareness on a onl this daily

475
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: weekly basis. She's really proud of what we're doing with

476
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: Heal And it's incredibly gratifying to us with the foundation

477
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: to be able to go out and assist other families,

478
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: knowing how we struggled with some resources and so many

479
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: don't have, uh, don't have some of those resources. So

480
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: it's very gratifying for us to um to establish the

481
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: pillars of our foundation, mainly bringing about awareness and education

482
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: along with these summer camps just giving the family some

483
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: hope and some relief, respite and uh so you know

484
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: that's just a big part of our our family taking

485
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: all this on being you know, being givers and and

486
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: and not takers and uh and and trying to help

487
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: other families. I mean, that's that's the gratification that that

488
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: we're that we've received out of it. And uh and

489
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: we'll continue that mission. And Lanier understands and knows that

490
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: she wants to go to college and um, um she

491
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: she has, she has a lot of things that she

492
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: wants to achieve and um she's just a beautiful young

493
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: young lady inside and out. And you know, I have

494
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: to say that Leslie single handedly brought her out of

495
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: that deep, dark, autistic world to where she is today,

496
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: and you know, we'll all be forever grateful for that

497
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: because so many children get left behind and aren't aren't

498
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: cared for properly, and it just breaks our heart. And

499
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: so you know, we're trying to do something right here

500
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: in North Florida that makes the difference. And you know,

501
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: we have we have a lot of folks that have

502
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: been generous donators to UM, to our calls. UM along

503
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: with the PGA tour early on, been a they've been

504
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: a big supporter. So we live in a wonderful community

505
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: and people are moving here in part because of what

506
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: Leslie and her team of mothers. I mean, between Leslie

507
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: and these other mothers of autistic children, I'm telling you, Matt,

508
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: they they can truly move mountains. I've seen it, and uh,

509
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just so proud of all of them.

510
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: And uh um, you know, without Leslie, uh, most of

511
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: our dreams would never been you know, have never been

512
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: able to come true. So that's a big part of it.

513
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I yeah, No, I've known you, Bobby for

514
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: a long time. We've you know, and I've learned a

515
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: lot about your career and your architecture. But when I

516
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: met Leslie. I was like, okay, well this is this

517
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: is the heart and soul of this family. I love you, Bobby,

518
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: You're an amazing guy. But I was like, okay, Leslie,

519
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: is that this is like a rocket ship. I mean

520
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: this is like, yeah, how do how do how do

521
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: people help? How do people help? How how can people

522
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: get involved if they're so so inspired? Well, our website

523
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: is Heal Autism Now dot org and there's a little

524
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: donate button you can hit it. I think Bobby has

525
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: our web, our website on his Bobby bobbyweed dot com. Um.

526
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean money, money, money is where it's at.

527
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: And you know, we we enable so many teachers, so

528
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: many educators at school, and uh you know, I'll say, hey,

529
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: once you write a grant, don't you need twenty five

530
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: hundred dollars? And they're like what, Yeah, we buy smart boards,

531
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, they get all the dregs,

532
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: they get all the hand me downs, and these teachers

533
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: are just it's like they've won the lottery. We always

534
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: go in surprise them with iPads and call them all

535
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: to the office and they think they're in trouble and

536
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: they're just jumping around and kissing us and you know,

537
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: the kids are excited. So well, it's a wonderful tool.

538
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful tool for all of these public schools

539
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: and all of these teachers and therapists as well. So

540
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: U it's proven, it's proven to really open up new

541
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: channels and avenues that these that these children and young

542
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: adults have never have never had because a lot of

543
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: them can't hold a pencil, but they can tap and

544
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 1: they can swipe. And that's why the iPad is just revolutionary. Well,

545
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: it's incredible, and I can't thank you enough for sharing

546
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: all of this with me and us and and uh

547
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: and and and we look forward to then sharing this

548
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: story with with with everybody you know who who who

549
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: would be so inclined. It's it's just a it's a gift.

550
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: You know what you guys are doing, and your story

551
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: is a gift that keeps giving obviously day to day,

552
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,239
Speaker 1: you know, week to week, month to month. I mean

553
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: this kid to kid, family to family, it just keeps

554
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: keeps going. Um, and so so thank you for all

555
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: of that. It was it's been a very special Of

556
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: all the stories I've told or you know, been I

557
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: just this one is just one that just means so

558
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: much more than most so well appreciate we appreciate that map.

559
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: And you know, most people know Pete, Dye, Bobby we

560
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: Tom Fazzio by their name and what they've done in

561
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: the golf business. But let me tell you, Tom Fazzio

562
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: has a wonderful foundation and a very very giving individual.

563
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: Pete and Alice had a heart of gold, and they

564
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: were just such a dynamic duo and they did more

565
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: than just golf course design. Uh No, different than Arnold

566
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: with his charitable giving and Jack and Barbara as well.

567
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: I mean, the story just goes on and on and on.

568
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: Ernie has a great school down in Jupiter. So I mean,

569
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: there's a lot of folks out there that are that

570
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: are helping to push the mountains to give these children

571
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: and young adults a better a better future. The Winnie

572
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: Palmer Hospital in Orlando saved saved our son's life with

573
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: if we weren't in that hospital under that care with

574
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: a pro prolapsed umbilical cord, with our son, he had

575
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: five minutes, you know, and and the doctor came in

576
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: and said, if you weren't here and at this hospital,

577
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: and that nurse hadn't identified that situation, you know, and

578
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: that's the that's the Winnie Palmer Hospital, you know, I

579
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: mean that was you know that, So you know what

580
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean, And I know Jack is very involved in

581
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: to your point, it's not just about, you know, leaving

582
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: a legacy of old people running around and making birdies

583
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: and pars and bogie. It's it goes beyond that. So

584
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: it is it is a pretty special community. Um this

585
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: week obviously, and all the effort you put into saw Grass, Bobby,

586
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 1: and this golf course and now what it's become as

587
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: a players Championship, and going back to those days where

588
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: you had to walk around with that notebook and you

589
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: had to you had to take notes on what the

590
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: players thought about that original design to where it is now.

591
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: Does this week always mean just so much more to

592
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: you than than a lot of other weeks that come

593
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: up on the on the PGA Tour calendar. No question,

594
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: it harkened back to when I came here and and

595
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: all the folks Um starting with Dean Uh and the

596
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,479
Speaker 1: vision he had and all the staff Vernham, Kelly Uh

597
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: and then Tim finching behind him and now Jay Um

598
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: leading the helm at the PGA Tour you know, all

599
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: the charitable moneies that have been have been generated, not

600
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: only here at the Player of Championship, but throughout the

601
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: PGA Tour. I mean, we're all about charity and giving

602
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 1: and uh, it's a it's a family and for me

603
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: here this week, um, you know, to host one of

604
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: the biggest events um uh if not the biggest event

605
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: on the AJ Tour being the Players um Championship course

606
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: here and the Players Championship for the players. Uh, it's

607
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,439
Speaker 1: very special. It's grown in every way from from where

608
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: we were back in the early days and uh M

609
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: to a point where all the other tournaments send their

610
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: chairman here uh every year to see what we're doing

611
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: here at Sawgrass and because it's it's showing the way

612
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: for all these other events and tournaments to improve. And

613
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: so it just you know, it takes the village. I mean,

614
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: we have a massive amount of volunteers that that work tireless, tirelessly,

615
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: and all of the PGA Tour event saying we have

616
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: great sponsors. So I mean it's just a it just

617
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: feels good, it feels right, and the players, the players

618
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: are just as good as they've ever been. It's the

619
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: best tour on the planet and h the venue that

620
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: we have here this week and coming up this weekend,

621
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: you know, we'll be showcased all over the world. And

622
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: for me to play a very small minute role in

623
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: that process early on in the foundation and building of

624
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: this property, it's a little bigger than minute. Bobby, I

625
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: think you get Pete. I think was like, hey man,

626
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: you take this. I'm busy. I'm moving on to other things. Bobby,

627
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: you go back to Saga Grass and fix that place.

628
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: Well it turned out it's turned out to be a

629
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: great golf course and a great venue and uh, I'm

630
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: just proud to be here and I'm gonna enjoy some

631
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: of it this week. But uh, it does. It does

632
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: bring back some very fond memories of some you know,

633
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: a lot of hours and a lot of changes and

634
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: transformations that have taken place on this property. But to

635
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: be where it is today, it's one of the preeminent

636
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: events in the world. Yeah. The the you know, your guys,

637
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: is life. I mean, you guys, it's a movie, it's

638
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: a book. It's books. I mean, you have you know simultaneously,

639
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, as a family. But Leslie, what you're doing

640
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: with heal and obviously Bobby's involved there. But but what

641
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: Bobby's been done doing in his career, you know, going

642
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: on to build Michael Jordan's private golf court, Saga, all

643
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: the all the different projects you've been a part of,

644
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: your relationship with the Dies and then beyond and all

645
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: the people that you've met. I mean, it's been the life.

646
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: The life you guys lead and could very easily have

647
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: been one where you get you know, tunnel focused on yourselves,

648
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: but you but here comes Lanear and all that you got.

649
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just a very it just

650
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: seems like a very enriched, uh you know path that

651
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: you guys are on in a way with the people

652
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: that are involved and the giving that's going on, as

653
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: you said, you know, not being takers, but being givers.

654
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: That's something for all of us to learn from. For me,

655
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: the perspective, you just to provided we get caught up

656
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: in this live verse tour and this is this is

657
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: then and that is then and you know, but you

658
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: can see that this has actually brought the PGA tour closer.

659
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: It's getting them to kind of refocus on what their

660
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,959
Speaker 1: product is so to speak. I mean, I just think

661
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: it's important to keep looking at things from a big picture,

662
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: the philanthropic aspects of what the tour has done. I

663
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: think we we get we forget that, and I think, uh,

664
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: thank you for you know, helping us remember that this

665
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: isn't always just you know, checks for the winner and

666
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,959
Speaker 1: uh and and it's and it goes, it goes much

667
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: further than that. And I think you guys are an

668
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: example of that. Is that would that be accurate? Do

669
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: you think? I mean, is that kind of no question?

670
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: No question. I mean, nobody's bigger than the game of

671
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: golf itself. Uh, golf is going to live on. It's

672
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: very healthy today and we're in a good spot, will

673
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: continue to grow the game. A lot of folks, all

674
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: the allied associations involved in growing the game. So uh um.

675
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: You know, the game of golf is worldwide and um um,

676
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: and it has far reaching impacts on on on lives,

677
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: um through the charitable benefit of all the events across

678
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: the country. I mean, it's a it's a nationwide it's

679
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 1: a nationwide and global game today and um and we're all, uh,

680
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: we're all part of the game. We love the game

681
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: and it gives us so much more than just the

682
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: golf itself. Um so I think we're all blessed to

683
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: be where we are. I know, I'm very blessed, and uh,

684
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: I don't, uh you know, I'm I'm I've never really

685
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: had a chance to take a mulligan. So I'm playing.

686
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm playing it down every day and uh, you know,

687
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: you just take you just take what it gives you

688
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,959
Speaker 1: and deal with it. And that's you know, it's part

689
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: of life. I mean, it's very similar to life. That

690
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: goes back to your guys's first date where you told

691
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: me you had to see how she plays it out

692
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: of these she played out. I remember that story, right,

693
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: didn't that go back to the first day of date. Yeah,

694
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. You watch how people play through

695
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: the through the tough parts of a round of golfer.

696
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: You knew right then you had something a lot of hilaritas. Yeah.

697
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: Uh well, um, uh just just give me one last

698
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: reflection and and and obviously I would imagine it's a

699
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: week like this that you you probably think about Pete

700
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: and Alice every day, but uh, this week in particular,

701
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: I miss Pete and Alice. I got the pleasure of

702
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: getting to know them quite well as my you know,

703
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 1: my career went on and followed them and had conversations

704
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: and went to their house and got to feel the

705
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: warmth you know, of them as people and not necessarily

706
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: as this architectural tandem. Um is this is this a

707
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: week in which you think about them more than most,

708
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: no question. I mean, Pete's been gone, um a little

709
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: over three years now, and it just seemed like it

710
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: flies by. There's probably not a day that goes by

711
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: that um. Um something that that he said, or something

712
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: that he taught me, or I asked myself, you know,

713
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: what would Pete do or would Pete approve of this?

714
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: So uh? Um Yeah, it's um, you know, the duo

715
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: of Pete and Alice, who for for the longest time,

716
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: I think we're probably the most powerful two people in

717
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: the game of golf and um and you just you

718
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: just never could tell it because um, they were just

719
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: so immersed and uh. And then to parallel that with

720
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: deemed Demon and his vision and what he had done

721
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: with the tour um uh when when he came to

722
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: pon Avidra and grew and grew the tour to what

723
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: it is today. I mean, we have a lot to

724
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: be thankful for for Dean. I wrote him a note

725
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: last night and sent it to him. I wrote Vernon

726
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: Kelly a note last night as well, early early, early on. Um.

727
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 1: You know, they they really, they really um um together

728
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: had the vision and brought this tournament Players Club to

729
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: where it is today and UM, we're all better for it.

730
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: And you know Tim Fincham you know, took over and

731
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: did a great job. So I'm I'm very very thankful

732
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: for the mentors I have, Uh, I've had access to,

733
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: but these guys are so dedicated. They're so so so

734
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: dedicated not only to the game but to the PGA

735
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: Tour and doing the right thing. Um just conducted themselves

736
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: in the right way. And with the hundreds and hundreds

737
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: of millions billions now I think in charitable giving across

738
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: the country, I mean it's impacted so many lives and

739
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: you know, to volunteer for this event to give back

740
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: and then to see how much money is being distributed

741
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: to all the local charities, Yeah, we received money from

742
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: them too, So it's just it's just it's just a wonderful,

743
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: warm feeling. There's so much gratification that goes with it.

744
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a it's a special. It's a special

745
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: week for us, and uh, it's one for me to

746
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: reflect back on. You know, where would I be without

747
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: being being and where would I be without Pete die

748
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: in our forty five year friendship and relationship. Um, you know,

749
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. I have no idea. I'm

750
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: just fortunate and blessed to be where we are today

751
00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: and back then, like forty employees when they started one

752
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: little building and now you know, now look now, look

753
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: at what's going to transpire this week and how many

754
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: people are going to be around that golf course, that

755
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: seventeenth green that you know that that that do you?

756
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: What do you remember about that, Bobby when when they're

757
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: making the island green, that was there any part of

758
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: you that was like, I don't know what the hell

759
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: we're doing? Well you, I may guess you were already

760
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: familiar with island like at that concept? Was that just

761
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: mind boggling at that time? It was I think kind

762
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: of evolved. Alice obviously had a lot to do with that,

763
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,439
Speaker 1: but it evolved. I mean, we have an island green

764
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: from yeah, a little eader fob and and then I

765
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: know there's another one up in Connecticut. Um, I think

766
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: at Weeburn so um um. But nonetheless it evolved and

767
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: um turned out to be an iconic golf hole, you know,

768
00:46:55,200 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: one that people loved, one that people hate, but you know, regardless, Uh,

769
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 1: it has a tremendous amount of drama and uh, you know,

770
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,439
Speaker 1: people just flocked to it and uh it's just been

771
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: it's just been a real staple to the to the

772
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: golf course, to the event and uh and I'm sure,

773
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be it'll be a big factor this weekend.

774
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: Uh here once again to get sand. That's why they

775
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: were doing they were trying to want to get some sand. Yeah, yeah,

776
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: we needed we needed sand and uh in that particular

777
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: area had quite a bit of sand. So we kept

778
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: they kept mining the sand out of there, and and

779
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: the next thing, you know, we had a peninsula, and

780
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: then the next thing, we had an island. And because

781
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: we needed all the sand that we could possibly find

782
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: on site, and a lot of that sand came between

783
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: the ninth and the eighteenth golf holes. It's probably the

784
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: probably the biggest lake on the golf course and and

785
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: the source of most of our sand for capping capping

786
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: the golf course. So you know, stadium. Golf evolved a

787
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: little bit during that process. Obviously, the golf course evolved,

788
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: and you know, it goes back to what Pete always said,

789
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, she'll be a golf course built by a

790
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: set of plans, and I'll show you a bad golf

791
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: course because it truly happens in the field. And nobody

792
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: was in the field more than Peepe And so you know,

793
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: a lot of that he handed down to myself and

794
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: many others that are out in the business today. So

795
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: we're all we're all better for it. We're all very

796
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: grateful and hum every one of us have Pete and

797
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 1: Alice to thank for for much of our career, but

798
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: also leaving a legacy of golf courses, much like much

799
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: like some of the great musicians or you know, leaving

800
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: their music music behind for us to enjoy. Um. You know,

801
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: all these great artisans are leaving golf courses here for

802
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: future generations to enjoy and um. And that's a great

803
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: thing about golf. Well, I know all about your your

804
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: music collection, your record collection, the actual vinyls which which

805
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,919
Speaker 1: which which I were thoroughly enjoyed that night going through

806
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: that was that was incredible. Uh. Lastly, what you know

807
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: you talked about. There isn't a day go by that

808
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 1: you think something that Pete might have said or would

809
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: Pete approve? What? Give me a couple Give me a

810
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: couple of nuggets that that you'll always think about when

811
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: you get going on a project or when you're assessing

812
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: your own work. What what What are some of the

813
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: things that he taught you that always go through your head? Well,

814
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: he always uh, at the start of a project, even

815
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: talking to an owner about a new project, you know,

816
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: one of the first questions he always asked was who

817
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: was he building the golf course for? Who? Who are

818
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: we building this golf course for? Because that's that's very,

819
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: very very important and um so uh first and foremost, UM,

820
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: I think you have to understand that on the front end,

821
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: and the fact that he was never completely satisfied. He

822
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: always thought that whatever he was working on shaping and

823
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: molding a golf hole, um, you know, there was always

824
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: something that he would go back and say, you know,

825
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: I think he could be better. Let's change this or

826
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 1: or or or let's just keep rubbing on it until

827
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: he gets better. And uh. It was always somewhat funny

828
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: because the saddest day for Pete always was a day

829
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: we grasped the golf hole because he couldn't do anything

830
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,959
Speaker 1: else after that. But that didn't stop him. That didn't

831
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: stop him. If he wanted to make a change, he

832
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: could make a change. And uh, you know, he was

833
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: a great salesman. Um. He was so passionate and um,

834
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: I mean he could you know, he could say he

835
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: could sell Rachearl's prescription sunglasses that he needed there, I

836
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: mean he was he was just he had that great

837
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: Midwestern wit about him and uh, um he just um,

838
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: he treated everybody equally. He treated everybody the same, and

839
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: that's that was That was an important takeaway from me.

840
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: It didn't matter if you were um in the trenches,

841
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: putting in irrigation, putting in drainage, running a piece of equipment, um,

842
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: if or the superintendent or the owner. I think he

843
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: seemed to be able to treat everybody the same. And

844
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: you know, the bottom line is if you were a

845
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: lover of the game, you were a friend of Pete

846
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: Dies And so a lot of a lot of that

847
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: mum has been handed down to many of the folks

848
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: that worked under Pete and worked for Pete. I've often

849
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: said many many times that as uh for in regards

850
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: to his legacy of all the great golf courses he designed,

851
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: um another aspect of his legacy was all the people

852
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: that he impacted and brought into this business and into

853
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: this game. I think that's an equal component of his legacy,

854
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: that family tree that he has of all the people

855
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: who've worked for him and all the tentacles of his legacy.

856
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: He analyzes legacy, you know, and obviously you're a key

857
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: component to that. Always considered you know, a third son,

858
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: a third die son. Basically you were you were on that.

859
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: But I mean that that to me is is tremendous.

860
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 1: I tried to do that story and create that that

861
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: family tree, and even then I was missing missing names,

862
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: and it keeps going on and on now to this day,

863
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 1: it just keeps going. So modern architecture whatever is referred

864
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: to as modern architecture, obviously Robert Trent Jones Senior, but

865
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: also Pete Die that that Pete Dye is the man.

866
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: I mean that there's arguably arguably the greatest modern day

867
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 1: architect of all time. And right now it's only you know,

868
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: Pebe's the last representative of that of that family immediate family,

869
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: I should say he felt lots of cousins and relatives

870
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: that are actually in the business as well. But Phoebe

871
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: and I are talking about teaming up and doing some

872
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: work together. Yet once again, so um. While we started

873
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 1: a company back in the eighties, UM called die Weed

874
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: Die for Pete, Phoebe and myself called a die Weed Die.

875
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: But now we're just like to die weed. So I thought,

876
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: I told Peven like, we might as well keep Pete's

877
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: name in there so we can just maintain the die

878
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: Weed Die a name. I say that every year every

879
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:35,959
Speaker 1: day in my yard, Die Weed Die, Die Die. How

880
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: is how is? How is your? How many projects do

881
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: you have going right now? What's your what's the status

882
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: of weed design? How how's it going? We're small by choice.

883
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: We don't take on a lot of projects just because

884
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: we kind of operate similar to how Pete did. And

885
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: more often than not, I'm moving to the site and

886
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: um and working and being hands on. I've got a

887
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: great partner and associate, Joey Graziani working with me that

888
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm bringing him along and he's he's the future of

889
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: the business in the industry, just like so many others.

890
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 1: And again I think that's inherent upon me, which also

891
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 1: gives me a great gratification just like it did with

892
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 1: Pete to bring home in terms and students and uh

893
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: and give them a platform an avenue to ultimately go

894
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: out on their own eventually one day. And so that's

895
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: open one in Jacksonville. That's a big part. Yeah, we

896
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 1: just opened another golf course here in Jacksonville call still

897
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,879
Speaker 1: Water first course here in almost twenty years. We've got

898
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: some good projects going on. We're always chasing a few projects.

899
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: So Waynesville, we're blast, we're blasting, fortunate. We're we're finishing

900
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: up a project in western North Carolina right now in Waynesville,

901
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Waynesville and Golf Club, and so we're excited

902
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: about that. So last week I was back out in

903
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: Austin and up in North Carolina, back in South Florida.

904
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: So um, we're constantly, we're constantly on the run. And uh,

905
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: it's great, it's been it's been great. And we're just

906
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: like I said, very fortunate and blessed and uh um

907
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: to have a few projects that we can we can

908
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: work on and keeps us playing in the dirt. You know.

909
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: The one thing that big takeaway is you guys are

910
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: each other's biggest fans. And that to me is is

911
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: what I talk about to my wife is when I

912
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: you know, anytime I'm talk to you guys, or I'm

913
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: around you guys, or I see you guys, or I

914
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: get little bits and pieces, it's very obvious. And I

915
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,919
Speaker 1: think that that is probably why all of this has

916
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: worked with so much. Uh, you know, so that's why

917
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: you guys are so effective. That's why you guys are

918
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: able to do what you do and have had the

919
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: impact you've had and uh and that also extends now

920
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 1: to your daughters and certainly obviously Lanier. So all of

921
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: this is just so inspiring. Thank you again for letting

922
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: us in and uh and sharing your story and uh

923
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: it keeps going on and on and uh and uh

924
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: and thank you. I just I guess that's probably just

925
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: the best thing to say at this point. It's just

926
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: thank you for being you and for doing what you're doing. Yeah,

927
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: you're kind and generous. You're kind and generous, and thanks

928
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: for taking the lead and running with us, and uh

929
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: it just helps get the word out even more so

930
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: you're doing a big part and helping us as well.

931
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: So thank you, well that talk about a minute part

932
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: that would be that would be that would be an

933
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: appropriate use of that term at this point. But uh yes,

934
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: Bobby Leslie, thank you and uh and uh and nothing

935
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: but hugs and loves to Lanier as she continues to

936
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: change the world. Thank you, Thanks so let us know

937
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: and thanks us know any time you're heading back to

938
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: North Florida. Yep, that you're always my first, my first text,

939
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: my first call ever. Will spend some vitals in, put

940
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: another log on the fire, nobody hears. Get the time