1 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: The land as you're going to see as the sun 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: bowls today, you'll see that this property dictated what the 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: golf course is gonna be, and it needed to be big, 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: almosts and two holes back to back. That's large, of course. 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: Fred Funk eats up two holes in twelve yards. Put 6 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: another log on the fire and nobody hears. Get the 7 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: time Welcome to the fire pit. With Matt Chanella, ed 8 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: C was a golf course architect responsible for almost three 9 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: hundred designs and renovations, most of which were in partnership 10 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: with Arnold Palmer, who see started working with in v two. 11 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: Courses like Tralee and the K Club in Ireland, Avillara 12 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: and Carl's bat The Tradition in Laquinta, Sawgrass Country Club 13 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: in Pontevedra Beach and Bay Hill in Orlando are a 14 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: few of his most notable projects. Ed C, a past 15 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,279 Speaker 1: president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, died 16 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: in two thousand seven at the age of sixty nine. 17 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,639 Speaker 1: I've worked with his son, Mason C on several stories 18 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: during my eight years at the Golf Channel, where Mason 19 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: often freelanced as a producer on projects such as the 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: story on Gil Hants building the Olympic Course in Rio. 21 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: Mason and I share a love and passion for golf 22 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: course architects and architecture and the stories behind the designs. 23 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: Mason will be a regular contributor to the fire Pit Collective, 24 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: and he starts with the story on rain Dance National 25 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: in Windsor, Colorado, a Fred Funk and Harrison Minshew design. 26 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: Funk is the winner of eight PGA Tour events, including 27 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: the two thousand five Players Championship, and has won nine 28 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: times on the champions Tour. This is his first opportunity 29 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: design and build his own course. Minshew worked with Ed 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: c and Arnold Palmer until he broke out on his 31 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: own in two thousand eight. The course they're building is 32 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: for Martin Lynde, a successful developer in northern Colorado. I 33 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,399 Speaker 1: met up with all of the above earlier this year 34 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: to tour the land, walk the course as it was 35 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: being finished, and to record this podcast on how it 36 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: all came together. But before we get to that story, 37 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: I just want to thank our friends at Link Soul 38 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: for their support of the fire Pit. John Ashworth and 39 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: Jeff Cunningham have created so much more than just a 40 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: lifestyle brand that I live in both on and off 41 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: the golf course. Links Soul is a lifestyle that permeates 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: out of goad Hill Park where they've helped cultivate a course, 43 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: a culture, and a community vibe that's become a blueprint 44 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: for what's possible at a municipality. For discount on your 45 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: next purchase at links soul dot com, use promo code 46 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: fire pit And now sitting around a fire pit with 47 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: Funk Minshew in Lynde overlooking what they've created. This is 48 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: a story of rain Dance National. At some point in 49 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: your life, you acquired this property and there was thought 50 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: that there would be golf here, right, So as a kid, 51 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: we would come up here and trespass and slat up 52 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,519 Speaker 1: and down on the hills. And then my dad, who's 53 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: ninety years old and God blessing me still alive, tell 54 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: stories of how he had to walk these arroyas from 55 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: Windsor back to his house. So it's been part of 56 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: property we've known, but we never owned it until the 57 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: uh maybe two thousand two. But we really really didn't 58 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: have a purpose because it's not really a place where 59 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: you could graze cattle. It's pretty steep, and it has 60 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: this kind of a mystique about it where it's arid 61 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: and dry and crisp in the dry ears, and then 62 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: it's like this in the white ears and it's just 63 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: magnificent and trying to fare out what to do with it. 64 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: So when we got it acquired, I always felt that 65 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: we should preserve it because anytimes you see homes on 66 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: a hill, because we're land developers and we put homes 67 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: on property, but we try to be unique. But when 68 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: you see homes on the hill kind of scars the hill. 69 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't look good. So we want to preserve it 70 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: and thought about putting a golf course on it. And 71 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: we're really just in the conceptual stages of it when 72 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: I met Fred, and how did that happened? So luckily 73 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,799 Speaker 1: I was going broke fast. If you're gonna go broke, 74 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: go broke fast, don't. It's a painful, cancrous thing. You 75 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: just want to go fast, right, But I was. It 76 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: was oh eight o nine and I was going broke 77 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: so fast and you couldn't borrow it, right, right, yeah? 78 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: And I was. I had one of my best friends 79 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: from high school was a chief pilot. We had a 80 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: flight department. We had to sell the jazz because you 81 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: can't get four barons agreements from banks when you have 82 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: jets and boats. So were we were throwing everything off 83 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: the Queen Mary, trying to keep it floating, and and 84 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: uh so Craig, my my pilot, said, hey, I asked 85 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: him to try to find somebody that would trade a 86 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: jet for land, because I couldn't borrow anything on land, 87 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: but at the time you could borrow on a jet. 88 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: So I was just trying to survive. And he said, 89 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: I've got this guy has a black lear and the 90 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: end numbers are Foxtrot Foxtrot, so he goes he might 91 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: want to trade. One ends up being Fred Fonk. And 92 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: the only thing worse than having the land development going 93 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: broke in the late two thousand eight nine would be 94 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: trying to go hang onto a jet and go from 95 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: the regular tour to the Champion tour. So yes, exactly. 96 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: So now we call it the two dead dogs for 97 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: a dead cat trade. So we're just trying to get 98 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: rid of stuff that didn't work for us. And about 99 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: two hours into this tour, Fred flew up to be 100 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: with me. In about two hours into it, he really 101 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: didn't see anything I had that was very attractive to him, 102 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: and it just wasn't gonna workcake Ud Perkins out. Yeah, 103 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: but then you would have had all you would have 104 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: had all the good PGA tour players over there, waitresses, 105 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: Tiger would have been there. Hey, you're Mike up Fred. 106 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: So so we're just having kind of a hoot, kind 107 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: of like this. And I'd only known Fred an hour 108 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: and we're driving around and I said, Fred, have you 109 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: ever designed a course? And he goes, oh god, it 110 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: talking my bucket list. I would love to do that, 111 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: but that's a pedigree that I'm never going to be 112 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: there and that that's kind of gone. And at this 113 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: time golf courses were starting to not be developed anymore. 114 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: So we drove up here, about half a mile over there, 115 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: and it's a friend, look at this. This would be 116 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: a great golf course, and he goes, oh, man, this 117 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: would be fun. So it wasn't. It wasn't six months 118 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: and he had gone back and called me and said, 119 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: my next door neighbor, Harrison has been with Palmer and 120 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: they're not building anymore, so I want to bring him out. 121 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: And it was just a hoot and they just woom 122 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: boom boom, and then of course the recession. Okay, hold on, hold, 123 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: let me stop you right there, let me stop you 124 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: here there, because I'm gonna go back out and get so. So, Fred, 125 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: how do you remember this story where you're coming in, 126 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: You're you're trading a plane what like? What? Yeah, we 127 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: had a letter thirty one that we were trying to 128 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: get rid of, and uh, I just wasn't making the money. 129 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: I couldn't justify the cost of that thing, the annual 130 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: cost of that thing. So came out here to see 131 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: what he had to offer. And we're driving around everything 132 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: we're I could have had a residential land, I could 133 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: add industrial land. I could add a Perkin's pancake house. Uh. 134 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: Like you know, I really don't want to and I 135 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: really need money. I need cash and uh. And then 136 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: he drives up on the hill. It was actually right 137 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: off the top here, and you could see down this 138 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: and not really see the the roy is the way 139 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: you see him from the bottom, but I could see 140 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: there was something and out of nowhere he says, Hey, Fred, 141 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: I want you to design your first signature of Fred 142 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: punk golf course. I go what I said. We just 143 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: met like two and a half hours ago. He said, yeah, 144 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,679 Speaker 1: but you know whatever, and I'm thinking he's blown smoke 145 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: and two and a half hours that was only like 146 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: a twelve pack into the deal. Yeah, that's right, that's right. 147 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: So then we go and where, I mean, where are 148 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: you serious? I mean, were you just messing around? No? 149 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: Because because within two hours of being with Fred is 150 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: about all you know you need to know about him. 151 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: You just you just got this magnetic fun about him. 152 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: And I said, and that's kind of what I like 153 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: to have as a lot of fun in life. And 154 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: so Fred, do this golf course? Just do it? Yeah. 155 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: We we went down to his office and he broke 156 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: out the topo map and it said rain Dance on 157 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: the top and I said, what does that? He said, 158 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: that's the land that we're just on. I go, no kidding, 159 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: I said, well, that's the name of the golf course. 160 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: We ever do this? And sure enough it is? And 161 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: uh and I'm not that familiar at that time in 162 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: my life of reading topos, but I could see there 163 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: were some big elevation changes in these erosion ditches. And 164 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: I said, we got to go back and look at 165 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: it from the bottom, and we did, and that's when 166 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: you can see it all that from looking up into it, 167 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: and that's unbelievable. And at the time I didn't think, 168 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: can you really build a golf course on it? But 169 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: I went and walked the land. I went home. I 170 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: came back soon after and I walked the land and 171 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. And then I went back home again 172 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: to Ponto Adrian. I showed Harrison the topo map and 173 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: he just studied it for about ten minutes, dead silent, 174 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: and he's never quiet either, and uh, and he just 175 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: looks up and he goes, this is really magnificent. What 176 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: did he really say? Hey said, this is fucking awesome. 177 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: And so he said, So we we flew out and 178 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: and uh, he saw it, and we started working on 179 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: a routing and it kind of really the front nine 180 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: I routed itself once we decided where we were going 181 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: to start. Hold on one second, now, so what what 182 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: what what's your recollection of? Like seriously, like, what's your 183 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: relationship with Fred Funk? And then and then he shows 184 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 1: you this topo map? So Fred wins what two or 185 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: f tpc? Yeah, And so you know we're our office 186 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: is like a mile and a half from the golf 187 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: course from Sagress TPC and Players Club, and he he 188 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,719 Speaker 1: interested in golf architecture. So he called the office up 189 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: and he wanted to have, you know, come and see 190 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: what we did that year that he won the Players. 191 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: That year that he won the Players, he won the 192 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: players went in March, and you came there like in 193 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: May or something. And actually I just had a coldon 194 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: Osbie the morning speaking because you can't have fun without it, 195 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: because the doctor, the doctor said you need to go 196 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: home and lay down. Of course I didn't do it. 197 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,719 Speaker 1: Fred's coming to the office. I wanted to hear what 198 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: he had to say and show him around and all that. 199 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: So so I did that, and then we met again 200 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: through a mutual friend and I said, Fred, I'm going 201 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: out on my own. I love to work with you. 202 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: And then about a year and a half later he 203 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: had this deal. He said, Harrison, he called me up. 204 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: He called Gary verbal or mutual friends said what was 205 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: Harrison's phone number? Again, I think I got something. So 206 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: he called me up and told me about the property 207 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: and said we'll get a topo and so I can 208 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: see what what the owner has. And Martin sent him 209 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: a topo and he came by and he showed me. 210 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: I go, you gotta be kidding me, because it was obvious. 211 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I do. I do topo maps. 212 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: I've been doing it for you know, thirty years. And 213 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: and then when I got I said, we gotta go 214 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: look at this. I said, let me do a routing 215 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: and getting mistake it, and let's go take a look 216 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: at it. And we came out here and I just go, Fred, 217 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. And then so we're chomping at the 218 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: bit for my freaking decade. And I mean Martin kept saying, 219 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: we'll do I'll do it when it's the right time. 220 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: I got it's got it. It's the timing thing. And 221 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: this is all based on sort of where the property, 222 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: the real estate stuff is was economy, some of it 223 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: was lending ability, some of it was my own portfolio. 224 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: Had to get way to get a lot of stuff 225 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: finished up that was just a mess. So I had 226 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: to get that done. And and yeah, you know, Fred 227 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: and now are chopping at the bit and we said, 228 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: is he really going to do this? I think there 229 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: was three years where they thought it was just not 230 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: a freaking prayer. And then you've been here a bunch, 231 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: you had done a routing, you'd walked to the land. Yeah, 232 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: you're waiting. Yeah, and then and then he then he um, 233 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 1: Martin gets the old companies who come and and locate 234 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: some drill sites. And it was a drill side on 235 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: number one, and that obviously went away, but they moved 236 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: it over where they original driving range was. And then 237 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: he had another company and whatever, and obviously they helped 238 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: fund the golf course. And so Martin said, well, they're 239 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: gonna put this big pipeline through the golf course. You 240 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: might want to do the grading plan for the back nine. 241 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: And I said, sure, of course, I mean I wanted 242 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: to do something. And we did that and they built it, 243 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: and then we waited some more, and you know, and 244 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: then I knew they were doing the development because you know, 245 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: I saw the land plans and all the all the 246 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, the marketing and their concepts and that sort 247 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: of thing. I said, that's cool, and so we kept 248 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: going and then Fred and I said it is he 249 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: really gonna do it? Fred? Because we were just so anxious, 250 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: and you know, the whole market was just nothing there. 251 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: And so we kind of came out here last August 252 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: and we you know, he had to do he was 253 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: grading these first Moore holes and they had to do 254 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: put some grass on the ground and whatever. And and 255 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: then I got round up with con here and we 256 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: had to you know, we wanted to do part of 257 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: it then, so I kind of talked him into doing 258 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: and I said, you know, we could probably deal without irrigation, 259 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: and Jeff or the superintendent, that better irrigated. And then 260 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: and then I said, well, well, well we can put 261 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: some permanent irrogation in. And then the HTP pipe was 262 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, all time, right down that drawer right there 263 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: right now. See him, Yeah, wow, look at him. He's 264 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: got about a seven foot wingspan. Uh huh. So anyway, 265 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: finally it was Martin pulled the trigger. And it's been 266 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: frigging balls to the wall ever since. And I wait, wait, wait, 267 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: let's go. What happened? It was like wait, wait, wait, hurry, hurry, hurry. 268 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: You know, Martin, Harry said, when he starts, we're gonna 269 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: have it to finish. We're not going to just starting, 270 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: not finish this thing. So when he pulled the trigger, 271 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: the bullet was out and it kept on going and 272 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: we'd never stopped. So and that last fall. When Randall 273 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: and Harrison got together and gave me the preliminary budget, 274 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: I said, okay, let's go, let's do it. And then 275 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: I got their first change order and I haven't needed 276 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: colonoscopy since I didn't ever say that, Garrett. So so 277 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: obviously you guys bring I mean, you guys bring three 278 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: different perspectives here. So you've got the grizzle, grizzled veteran 279 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: who has done and seen it all and it's been 280 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: waiting for this kind of opportunity for for your whole life, right, 281 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: I mean, this is absolutely this is you know, at 282 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: one point in your career you were working with a 283 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: firm that had seventy courses on the books in a year, 284 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: and now you're down to sort of the idea of quality, 285 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: you know, one course at a time, spending your living 286 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: here and running this whole project. I mean it's I mean, 287 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: that's what I always wanted to do. I mean, you know, 288 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm from August of Golf is in my DNA, and 289 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: obviously there's a good golf course there, or a couple 290 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: of them anyway, or maybe more, but there's one that's 291 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: on TV a lot, and you know, I thought all 292 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: golf tournaments were like that until I went out someplace 293 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: else to see another golf course and I got another 294 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: golf tournament. But I was just it was I was 295 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: just kind of force fit, and that was just the 296 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: industry back then. And I always wanted to do this, 297 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: and Martin said yes, and I go wow, and I 298 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: said and so for me to be here every day 299 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: made it possible for Rand to have a sign off 300 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: so he can go to the next step, next step, 301 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: next step. And from a creative standpoint, working with somebody 302 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: that really knows how to build a golf course and 303 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: really really great shapers to go through the process like 304 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: that and to be on site is just the most 305 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: exhilarating creative thing that a golf architect can do. Dream 306 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: come true for you. And meanwhile, for you, this was 307 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: this was a bucket list scenario. You know, you've been 308 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: watching and looking and playing all these golf courses. There's 309 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: been a lot of players that have gone on to 310 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 1: do golf course architecture. This obviously was of interest to you. 311 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: This is this is a dream come true for you too. Absolutely, 312 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: I never thought I'd have this opportunity, but to actually 313 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: have input on a piece of land like this is 314 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: incredible to have my first project, hopefully not my last, 315 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 1: and I don't think it will be after we it 316 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: on the map on this golf course. But this is 317 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: so much fun. I had no idea how much fun 318 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: it is. And I gotta say that a lot of 319 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 1: that is the team and the attitude and the personalities 320 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: that are all involved with this project, starting with Martin. 321 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: Martin has created this whole area, all the people that 322 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: work for Martin, all the people that live in his communities. 323 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: It seems to be a super high energy, a lot 324 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: of love of the land, the love of family, love 325 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 1: of things to do, and Martin has created this. And 326 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: when you go down to Pelican Lakes, which will be 327 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: the sister golf course of this um that's been here 328 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: since n and the the attitudes and the energy down 329 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: at that golf course is incredible. It's already there and 330 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: everybody is super excited about what this is going to 331 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: be and and have this in their backyard as well. 332 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: But the team that we brought in, UM, Harris and 333 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: I are working together awesome. Uh. This whole project of 334 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: going from the initial stages, the three of us have 335 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: walked this property. I don't know how many times together, 336 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 1: and we've all had all the different inputs, no egos. 337 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: It's all about this wouldn't be this would be great, 338 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: this doesn't work, it doesn't really matter. We just have 339 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: done things, changed things. Everybody has had a lot of 340 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:24,719 Speaker 1: input and that's been great. And then we have Randall 341 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: and Rocky are in here, the Shapers are I've never 342 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: seen shapers do what they do with super heavy equipment 343 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: and be that meticulous and that exacting with the dirt 344 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: that they moved with these awesome machines, and uh, what 345 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 1: this thing has turned into. So it's it's been not 346 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: only a dream come true, but something that's way beyond 347 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: I ever thought how much fun it would be to do. 348 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: And every time I come out here, I can't wait 349 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: to get out here, and I love being out here. 350 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: It's changed dramatically every single time I've come out here, 351 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: and uh, it's a amazing. It's going to be very 352 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: very special. What is it about your vision and your 353 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: energy and your passion that is about not just building homes. 354 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: You're obviously building communities, You're building this culture, You're building 355 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, play ground, you know what what is at 356 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: at the base of your vision. So I didn't grow 357 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: up golfer. I never held a club until I was thirties, 358 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: so in my game pretty much reflects that. Now. All right, 359 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: I'm a terrible golfer. So you want of the mansaying 360 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: the other. You can't afford to lose second places, first loser, Harrison, 361 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: And I'm quite a competitor too. But you know, family lifestyle, 362 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: having a place where people can live, work and play 363 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: all without getting back in the car, that's super important. 364 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: So that's what we did at Water Valley. We manifested 365 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: it up here in the rain Dance. We've got about 366 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: four thousand acres now that, by the grace of God, 367 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: we just kept acquiring. When we're doing good. Back in 368 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: the early two thousands, I didn't go by Ferraris. I 369 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 1: put a deposit on the next farm and we just 370 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: kept We have this thing going, and we have families 371 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: that are immersed about golf, and if you go down 372 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: to Pelican Lkes right now, there's thousands of kids on 373 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: that golf course, and so we wanted to have something 374 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 1: up here that would make sure the families are really 375 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: respected and that the golf was fun and fair. And 376 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: you can't get anybody more fun or fairer than Fred right, 377 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,479 Speaker 1: and I thought the same Harrison and Randalls. I got 378 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: that first change order, and then I'm just kidding so that. 379 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: But but the kind of the thing you'll find about 380 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: our golf courses that's very unique is and it helps 381 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: us with what we're doing. When Fred said this is 382 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: fun is there's no civil engineering down there. We don't 383 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,479 Speaker 1: have to We don't have to every time we make 384 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: a change. We can just let the land dictate the change. 385 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,239 Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about a street next to it, 386 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: a sewer line that's in the way. Because there's not 387 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: a single home on this golf course, there's kind of 388 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: a moat around it up on Holds one, two and 389 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: three where there are homes. Um, there's only sixty lots 390 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: on the entire golf course, but yet there's hundred lots 391 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: in rainows. So it gives us the latitude to when 392 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: the land says, hey do this, I mean we've we've 393 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: had a green down there that we lowered fifteen feet. 394 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: There's a lot of dirt. I think we've lowered about 395 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 1: fifteen ft. We've we've flipped Part three's left or right 396 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: right to left and we don't have to ask anybody 397 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 1: but ourselves to on in the land. And it's been 398 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: a really fun experience and it really has been the carbon. 399 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: Moving the dirts the fun stage. For me, that's the 400 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: fun part because that's when you really make the permanence 401 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: in the deal. You can change grass, you can change sprinklers, 402 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: but once you move the dirt, it's there, and that's 403 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: it's just been a riot build with missing. Four hundred 404 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 1: yards is a number that I that I heard at 405 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: one point. What's what is the what's the goal? What's 406 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: your what's your ambition to? Uh, yes, have people that 407 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: obviously live, work and play here be out here, but 408 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: what is the what's your ultimate dream? So obviously Fred's 409 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 1: been on the tour long enough to where he knows, 410 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: of course, all of the things that it takes to 411 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: make a course tour quality. But the new pedigree of 412 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 1: golfers like his son Taylor are hitting at a hundred 413 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: yards further, and so it isn't just as easy as 414 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: stretching the tea box back somewhere into the woods. That's 415 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: that's not how it works. You. It has to have 416 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: fairway length, that has to have all of these other things, 417 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: and we were up about yards, I think, and I 418 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: don't know what happened, but I was on the internet 419 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: looking at the top ten longest golf courses in the world, 420 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: and I go, well, there's free marketing. Let's hit at 421 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: least number nine, right, So what we gotta add? And 422 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,239 Speaker 1: we had to add about eighty yards I think at 423 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: the time. I said, surly, you can find eight yards 424 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: and then it just starts playing out. It was fun 425 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,959 Speaker 1: because Fred was insecure about that. You were like, hey, listen, 426 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: that's we're not That's not what I'm about. I'm about 427 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: having the greatest golf course at you hired Fred, right, 428 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: but you know Fred could play for three days and 429 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: Harrison said, I'm a little bitter about these long hid Okay, 430 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: you're a better little man. I'm gonna pay them back, 431 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: and they're gonna run hard and fast, right right. Actually 432 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: it was gonna play honestly too short at um the 433 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: way we're gonna have it, with the fescue fast British 434 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: style fairways, with the downhill with elevation and an example, 435 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: I always looked at our fourth and fifth holes are 436 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: now on the card at the longest length or nine 437 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 1: part four's and I was thinking that these guys at 438 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: that length Rory McElroy would hit an eight or nine 439 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: iron into those holes under normal conditions, under calm condition, 440 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: And that's just the length we eat it. If we 441 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: didn't have that length and back the teas up on 442 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: those two holes, they would probably not have to hit 443 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 1: a driver to hit a wedge in because they're gonna 444 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: get four plus drives on some of these downhill holes. 445 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: So we were trying to protect that and at the 446 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 1: same time not ruin the holes by going that length. 447 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: And also it's only for the best of the best. 448 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: If we ever have a tournament here, we have the 449 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,640 Speaker 1: length to test those guys. Now that we have four 450 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: four other sets of teas and the women's teas are 451 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: all the way up to what Harrison. Uh, they're probably 452 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: five thousand yards at the elevation, which is you know, 453 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: it might even be a little bit shorter, to tell 454 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: the truth. I mean, somebody say it's gonna be long 455 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: for somebody, I mean it really would be. I mean 456 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: for a kid, or for a woman, or or or 457 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: a senior or whatever. I mean, you want to have 458 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 1: an event here, I do. Yeah, Yeah, that's part of 459 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: the that's part of the vision. I I don't think 460 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: there's any reason in the world that would stop us 461 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: from having an event here. I can't think of one. 462 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: This in the Denver metro market. I mean, they traditionally 463 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: have had huge events here, like the US Open. This 464 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: is crazy, but we're sitting on a fire pad and 465 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: you literally cannot see a house from overset. You can 466 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: see one a couple of miles down in the valley 467 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: down there, but you might as well be in the 468 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 1: middle of a prairie in the middle of Nebraska. Right 469 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: It's but there's one million people live within thirty five 470 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: minutes of right here. So even though we're in the 471 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 1: donut hole of calmness and serenity right here, there's a 472 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: million people that live within a thirty minute draft. There's 473 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: no question that we can't get the sponsorship to bring 474 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: a major here. There's no question, And if we have to, 475 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: we'll just have red funded. We're talking about getting a 476 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: Champions Store event here as early as twenty three, maybe 477 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: twenty four if we have to go that late. But 478 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: do you know against spell fund without fund, Yeah, it's true, 479 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: you can, but I would I would personally like to 480 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: see the Colorado Golf Association if you're out there listening, 481 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: this would be a great venue for the Colorado Open 482 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 1: for having an annual event. And I think it would 483 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: be fantastic. You set the course up properly and allow 484 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: allow him to have a good tournament. But still the 485 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: number one goal, and I said this earlier with you 486 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: during the day that I want. I want the guys 487 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: that the men and women that come and play this 488 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: golf course and the families that come out when they 489 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: walk off eighteen, they can't wait to do it again. 490 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: So they just said that was a blast, unbelievable experience. 491 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: I gotta do it again. And if we can create 492 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: that when they walk off this golf course, we want, 493 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: we want a job. We've done the job we want. 494 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to beat him up. The golf course 495 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: is going to be difficult, but I think fair, um 496 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: so and beautiful. It'll be a good test for the 497 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: best and fun for the average is what my goal 498 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: and and dream would be. Everybody can enjoy this golf course, 499 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: good tests for the best and fun for the rest. 500 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: That's very good, very good. It'll be an experience and 501 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: it will be a fun experience. And that you know, 502 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: you could play a golf course will be fun and 503 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: want to come back, but to experience the whole place 504 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 1: is is is really really going to be special? Well, 505 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 1: I think the consumer now is is spoiled in the 506 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: sense that you know, you know, we have a lot 507 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: of options in the world of golf now. There's they're 508 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: that's they're they're happening all over the place. So if 509 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: you can have unique and quality experience, then you know, 510 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: then that's going to get people wanting to come back. So, 511 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: but this is not only going to be a golf course, 512 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: it's it's growing into a much bigger entity than just golf. 513 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: And uh you can we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna 514 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: lean our companies out of land development into resort development, 515 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a lot of corporate retreating and 516 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: overnights day we're doing a lot of hospitality and rain 517 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: dance and down in Water Valley right now. But it's 518 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: also a kid's hill over where the driving range was 519 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: going to be. We're always going to combine it with 520 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: snowmaking in the winter and we've tested it and we 521 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: it works, and so we're gonna have Bunny hills and 522 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: you know, learned to ski, learned to snowboard, all that stuff. 523 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: Over there, We're gonna have an alpine slide in the summer. 524 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: We've got about two d and fifty ft of vertical 525 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: fall um amphitheaters, so it's gonna be an activity. We 526 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: feel that that eight acres over on the other side 527 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: of the clubhouse where the driving range was going to be, 528 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: is going to be an antill summer winner. It's gonna 529 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: be always busy, so it's going to be quite a place. 530 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: I think obviously that the trend has become even at 531 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: places like pineers or bandoned dunes, is to uh, you know, 532 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: diversify the portfolio of what's being offered. So it's not 533 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: just like, oh, here's eighteen hole championship golf. You're obviously 534 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: doing a lot of different things here. This truly is 535 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: the development of something more than golf. This is a 536 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: community and something for everyone, including the idea of a 537 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: horse course. Right. We ended up with this just amazing 538 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: triangle between one, two and nine, and we were trying 539 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: to think what to do with it, and some of 540 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: us have gone up to Nebraska and played the horse course. Um, 541 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: what's the name of that place, Prairie Cloud. That's right, yep. 542 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: And it's just a hoot. You know, you finished eighteen, 543 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: You grab a few bears, you go out there with 544 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: your wedge and your putter and you just play a 545 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: little over there over there, and and it's just a hoot. 546 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: But for having the ability to not be pushed into 547 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: nine holes or eightean holes, but to just come enjoy 548 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: the property and just go pitch and put and drink 549 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: a pop, drink a beer, drink water, and just have 550 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: that time to learn to have our pros teaching a 551 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: lot of kids. They could they could teach a hundred 552 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: kids out there at the same time. That's how big 553 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: it is. And so bringing that kind of stuff. When 554 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: you have a resort event and you go out there 555 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: and you make a contest out of it, they'll have 556 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: more fun doing that contest and they will play in 557 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: the eighteen tournament they played that day. So we're just 558 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: really excited about that. We need to come up with 559 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: a name on it yet. And then uh with we 560 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: were talking about the vistas earlier. We actually had the 561 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: architects for the clubhouse and all the resort we're doing 562 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: on the hill and I'm never in my life done this, 563 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: but you always raise the land to get a better view. 564 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: So where's the finished floor of that building or where's 565 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: the second floor of that house to get that better view. 566 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: And we're actually lowering the land and lowering the footprint 567 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: on the convention center because by lowering it about three 568 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: ft where the the topography of the horse course and 569 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: whole number two is, you won't see a house. All 570 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: you see is the mountains. So by by changing the angle, 571 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: and it was kind of it was kind of odd 572 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: because you never, you know, in Colorado, you always lift 573 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: up so you can see over, and this one we're 574 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: actually gonna set it down so that the artificial horizon 575 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: that our golf course is created blocks any artificial structure 576 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: and all you see is mother nature. Can you block 577 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: the planes from flying over during an interviewer that might 578 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: have been friends? Yet? That's about what it would sound like. 579 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: Now that's what happens. But players champion there he goes, 580 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: what are some of the vistas that you're looking at here? 581 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: So always since day one, even even before uh Fred 582 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: and Harrison got involved, we always thought that long speak 583 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: should be a signature hole looking at long speak it's 584 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: the big fourteener that everybody on the front range looks 585 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,479 Speaker 1: at and we have a majestic view of it. So 586 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: when we got out and Fred Harrison lined it up, 587 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: we literally put a survey steak right to the top 588 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: of the peak to the tea box and that's where 589 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: Fred Harrison designed hole number one. So I think those 590 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: foursome selfies and all that stuff with long speak in 591 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: the backdrops, it's gonna be a credible sales point force. 592 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna want to go have their force. I'm taking 593 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: with that picture's magniicient, magnificent. The you're obviously understand marketing 594 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: and you're you've mentioned a couple of times, but this 595 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: is going to kind of market itself. Is that's sort 596 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: of what your point, right, I mean, if you if you, 597 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: if you build it, they will come and they'll do 598 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: the marketing for you. You know, that's a big part 599 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: of it. Um. You know, you have to have something 600 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: special in today's world. You can't be average, you can't 601 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: be normal. You have to have something extraordinary. And this 602 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: is extraordinary. And when people start sending, you know, posting 603 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: all the social other stuff, even this fire pit, they're 604 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: gonna go what is that. People are gonna want to 605 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: have weddings here, and they're gonna want to have parties here, 606 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: and it's just it's it's kind of magnificent. And this 607 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: scene that you have right here tonight will never change. 608 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: There will never be any homes, there will never be 609 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: a building that will be in the obstruct what we 610 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: see here tonight. So it's it's it's gonna self, it's 611 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: gonna self promote itself. And and that's another thing about that. 612 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: We're we're gonna be Google or when you google longest 613 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: course from the world, we're probably gonna be number two 614 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: if it's measures where you thought it was. But it'll 615 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: be appropriate if if he wants to have an event. 616 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,359 Speaker 1: Otherwise it's just going to be part of the mode 617 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: graphs out there. It'll be part of what's in play. 618 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: But when they want to have them, well they could 619 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:26,959 Speaker 1: have I think seventy seven obviously, so it measured eighty 620 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:34,280 Speaker 1: would measure and we're at eighty four. Um, what about 621 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 1: some of the other stuff? You know? I heard glamping? 622 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 1: What in the hell is glamping? So glamping is a 623 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: new trient. It's not real new, but it's in the 624 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: last decade, and it's glamour camping, So it's the kind 625 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 1: of camp you're gonna be in charge of. Glamour won't 626 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 1: be me, It won't be me, I can promise that, 627 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: But I mean, you live a nice fire. I'd be 628 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: willing to bet that these guys wives don't want to 629 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: go sleep in a tent with an air mattress anymore. 630 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: It is kind of cool to go out and like, 631 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: imagine if you're here and you have an actual built 632 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: in master bath like cab at home in a temper 633 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: pedic mattress would be a cool place to spend the night. 634 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,840 Speaker 1: That's what glamping is. It's a super comfortable bed built 635 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: in uh um, super nice amenities. But you're in a 636 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: tent or you're in a covered wagon or a royal 637 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: and know yep, yep, and you and you have you 638 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: have the silence that we have out here tonight. You 639 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: have that silence and maybe you have a guy with 640 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: a guitar comes in and there's families and you know, 641 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: do the schmores and you do that stuff, and that's 642 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: glamping and it's gonna be a lot of that. And 643 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 1: again you're gonna be glamping and you might as well 644 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: be a million miles from anywhere, but you're right in 645 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: the middle of a million people. You'll never know it. 646 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 1: The hope is to open July July. Is that realistic? 647 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: Harrison Fred? Absolutely? I mean, you know, we'll we'll get 648 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,359 Speaker 1: we'll get it seated out by the first September at 649 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,479 Speaker 1: the at the lightest. And it could be a little 650 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: rough in the in the beginning, but who cares. You're 651 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,839 Speaker 1: gonna go out there and play golf. The grains are 652 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,359 Speaker 1: going to be good, the taste will be good. You're 653 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: gonna bump it in the fairways anyway, So who cares. Man. 654 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,399 Speaker 1: I've got a super peacefulness about that because we've opened 655 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: two other courses on a very similar schedule, and they 656 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 1: were blue grass, and I know what fescue grass does 657 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: in this and it's gonna just it's gonna grow like 658 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,800 Speaker 1: a jungle. And so Jeff, our superintendent, is going to 659 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: be out here with mowers in two months and where 660 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 1: I have absolutely no anxiety about Jul twenty two. It's 661 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: gonna be great and it'll be ready. Sounds good. I 662 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: want to reserve a glamping spot so I could be 663 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: close to the Court Center, Air mattress and that manure 664 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: spreader right there. That's all I've earned here today. I've 665 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,879 Speaker 1: only do you think of the interview. I've only known 666 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: you for about six hours, but you're as full of 667 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: ship as any of these guys are. For more on 668 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: rain Dance National. To see and read about their work 669 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,760 Speaker 1: in progress, go to Firepit Collective dot com. But before 670 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,759 Speaker 1: we go, I'd also like to thank our friends at 671 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: Part Points, the revolutionary app that gives you and your 672 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,800 Speaker 1: crew an alternate way of scoring the game. Tee it 673 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,439 Speaker 1: up from wherever you want, but the further you go back, 674 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: the more points you get for making par. It's especially 675 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: good for beginners, family golf or buddy strips looking for 676 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: an alternate format. Download the Part Points app now and 677 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: go make par. Put another fire, nobody hears getting time 678 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: on down and settle in the story. Here's about to begin, 679 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 1: the circles starting to take its shape, seats of field 680 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:26,879 Speaker 1: and the tired sun lands his skin. And everybody's got 681 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: some glory just wait unto unfold. Everybody's got some story, 682 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: Just wait unto be to the place for that is here, 683 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 1: all those smiles and all those tears, Let them go. 684 00:38:53,560 --> 00:39:02,280 Speaker 1: Put another log on the figh. Nobody hears getting tired, 685 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:14,080 Speaker 1: Settle down, and settle in the story hears about to begin. 686 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: Tales were told of war and gold, Love is lost 687 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 1: in a lifetime's dreams ours soul, Maybe you should stop 688 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:38,480 Speaker 1: and listen at the wisdom in the air. Maybe you 689 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: should pour your heart out. We angle and the way 690 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:52,359 Speaker 1: i'd your mercy in the sound. As the smoke gets 691 00:39:52,520 --> 00:40:33,800 Speaker 1: pushed around and your soul put another log on the fire. 692 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 1: Nobody hears getting tired. Settle down, and settle in the story. 693 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:58,160 Speaker 1: Here's about to begin the story. Here's about to begin 694 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,280 Speaker 1: the story hears about to begin.