May 23, 2023

267: Epic Poolside Shenanigans-Unleashing the Fun at Champions Run!

We hang out with Ben Lorenzen, the Creative Director at Champions Run, in our latest episode. This episode was an absolute blast to record, becuase we recorded live at Champions Run. We soaked up all the energy and good vibes from Ben and the amazing team at the club. Get ready to hear the real deal on how to transform your club into a destination that people can't resist. We've got valuable insights, tons of laughs, and stories that'll have you CRACKIN Up. make ...

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We hang out with Ben Lorenzen, 
the Creative Director at Champions Run,
 in our latest episode.

This episode was an absolute blast to record, becuase
we recorded live at Champions Run. 
We soaked up all the energy and good vibes from 
Ben and the amazing team at the club.

Get ready to hear the real deal on how to transform your club
into a destination that people can't resist.
We've got valuable insights, tons of laughs, and
stories that'll have you CRACKIN Up.

make sure to check out Ben on Linkedin, 
he's always cooking up some entertaining content.

Don't forget to visit Champions Run online to 
discover the mind-blowing programs and initiatives 
they're rocking in the industry. 
These guys are setting the bar high, and 
you won't want to miss out on all the excitement.

So grab your floaties, tune in to this episode, and
 let's make waves together! 
It's time for some epic poolside shenanigans with 
Ben Lorenzen and Champions Run!

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to Private Club Radio.

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I'm your host, Denny Corby.

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Let's get it started.

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Welcome back to Private Club Radio.

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Thank you so much for joining everyone.

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I'm your host, Denny Corby Comedy Magician, the Club entertainer.

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If you're looking for fun entertainment for your club, a really fun experience.

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You call me, go to denny corby.com.

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You could check me out.

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Anyway, shameless plug, I am very excited about this episode because I got to go to Omaha, Nebraska.

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I was there going out for a corporate gig and Sean Lyle said, Hey, you have to talk to Ben Lorenzen over at Champions Run.

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And I reached out and the experience was absolutely amazing.

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So what you're gonna be hearing, and if you're watching on YouTube, you can, uh, watch it there if you'd like.

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But, uh, he, they set up their studio for me and we just had a great talk.

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So many good laughs and the experience there that I just had with Ben and Rachel.

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Just shows you and you'll hear how amazing their club is.

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They have something truly unbelievable going on at their club, the engagements and the families.

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It is such a cool ti I I I am borderline speechless because they are just absolutely killing it in my point of view.

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So, without further ado, I'm gonna get straight to the episode.

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This is me and Ben Lorenzen from Champions Run.

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I don't even know this.

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I was, I think I was just so surprised at how nice it was in the welcoming.

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Coming in, I was like, oh,

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there were zero people here.

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Well,

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that, and then B, I've never had someone just be like, wear what you want.

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Yeah.

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I was like, oh, we are very, very casual.

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I would say at Champions, it wasn't even

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so much, it was just, you turn the corner in yellow shorts.

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Just,

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and that's, I mean, that's kind of the vibe we've always gone for is, I mean, we used to be that club that was like, oh, you have to wear like your, your golf tire.

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No hats in the restaurant.

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And like, we were like that.

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And then it was.

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I don't know.

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We had this like, I don't wanna call it a come to Jesus moment, but it was like, like, do, do we really want to be that?

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Like where you're having to go up to people and be like, Hey, uh, take your hat off in the restaurant.

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Even though like people wear hats, right?

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And so we just kind of like, I would say it was probably five years ago, we just changed that whole thing.

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We're just like, our dress codes become gonna become a more lax like people are coming from soccer games, they wanna be able to just like, come here.

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And the other like piece of it too is like you have these people who are like running these huge tech companies who like, they dress so casual at work and they're running these billion dollar companies.

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They expect their club to be the same way.

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We're like, what do you mean I have to wear a suit and jacket when I come for lunch?

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Like, no.

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And so we just kind of like, I don't know, we just changed the whole vibe of it now.

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Is this a member owned?

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Is this a, what

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type of club is this?

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No, so it is a, it was a member owned, it's a developer owned club now.

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So I don't know, some people like, I guess don't give us as much like, you know, um, what I'm looking for.

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They don't take us as seriously cuz like, oh, well you're not a member owned club.

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So, you know, we're different in that sense that, you know, we have more rules and regulations and Yeah, that's true.

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But we also have, you know, we have a board of directors who, at the end of the day, you know, the developers.

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The, the owners are gonna have that final say, but our board of directors is very involved and, and they still have a say.

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And it's not like we don't have committees and things like that.

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So like we still are taking in our members' opinions and stuff, but ultimately, yeah, we're developer owned.

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No,

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that's still interesting.

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What was the member response like?

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Cuz you've been here for quite a while.

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Yeah.

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So what was the member response?

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Did you lose me?

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Like, what was, what was that time like?

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I, I think like, so I forgot, we're on camera now.

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I'm like, hey.

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I think, I mean, like for us, like, it was kinda like, this is the direction we're gonna go.

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Do you want to be on the bus or do you not want to be on the bus?

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And like, there were people we lost, like, they were like, we need to be a traditional country club.

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And it's like, well, that's not what we're gonna be.

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Um, that's just not what we, who we are.

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And, and, uh, and so we did lose people, but now it's like you guys ain't got the people on the bus who want to be on the bus and.

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The other people just are gone.

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I think, I think it's a little hard to like fight the battles, like we're a traditional, but it's like Burlington co-factor is like right there in like eye view.

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Yeah,

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exactly.

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Come on Martha.

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We need all those trees to grow in.

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So you can't see all the, the street traffic.

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But no, it's, I mean, that's just who we are and um, that's kind of a always been our vibe of like, this is who we are, this is who we want to be and we want to be more fun, more casual.

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Now there's still gonna be like rooms that are like, you're gonna get that more formal experience.

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But for the most part, I would say like, 80% of our club is pretty like cash.

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Hmm.

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Sometimes we get a little in trouble for it, but you know, other times it's, we just, you know, flirt the line a little bit.

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Has that

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helped?

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So I'm just, I'm trying to wrap my head around everything now.

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Did you have a, a wait list?

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Like how has things progressed in your favor since doing this whole change?

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This is like a big thing.

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Yeah.

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Like shorts and a clothes like this is, Here are some members spinning in their urns right now?

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Oh yeah.

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Like they are, cannot believe it.

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I think like when, when we started like, or this is just my perception too, like country clubs are always had this like mantra like they were for old people and like, you know, it's, I always describe it as like, I always thought like, and I personally thought, thought this, and I know it offends some people, but like I thought like country clubs like were replaced, like my grandparents went and that's where like, People went to live out their final days before they passed away.

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It's like, well, you know, I'm retired now.

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I'm gonna join the club so I can just live out my last 15, 20 years of my life.

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And then when I got into this industry, I was like, oh boy, okay.

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It's way more than that.

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So, um, I thought then it just became like, you see it as more family centric and more fun and everything, but um, as far as like the wait list and stuff, like go that goes.

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I think our style of just how we are as a club that's made people want to be here.

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Obviously Covid made golf in general, just super at a high demand.

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And so everyone was benefiting off, you know, COVID, unfortunately, like, I mean like the industry of golf was just huge, right?

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And we all grew, every club.

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If you weren't growing as a golf course or a country club in Covid, like you were probably doing something wrong, unfortunately.

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And so, um, but now it's kind of leveling off, I think.

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And you're seeing people, those wait lists start to go away.

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I think people are starting to fight for those members cuz things are coming back.

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And so, um, I think now is more important than ever as far as like creative and, and figuring out like your identity and your culture and making sure your members stay right because we all benefit, we all thought we were doing some great thing, like, oh we're, we're kicking butt, right?

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And it's like, no, actually there was just a pandemic and golf was the only thing deemed safe and.

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Um, I do, I do some stuff and talk, and I work with, uh, Steve Graves some creative golf marketing all the time.

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He's like, and he's always like, yep, we, our business is coming back, right?

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Clubs are needing members again.

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Um, because we were in this like time where it was just so weird where everyone was on wait list and stuff.

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Now it's not that, that way anymore, and he's got a great indication of like where it is and how like the industry is right now.

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So long-winded answer.

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No.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, your favorite color was what?

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Orange all day.

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You can always know that.

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I'm always rocking orange, right, Rachel?

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Or is it?

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Yeah.

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Oh, they're orange shorts.

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They're not yellow.

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You know, it's, it's kind of one of those things like, are the sneakers blue or are they, what was that like little meme that was out?

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yeah.

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Uh, dress.

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Was it gray or blue?

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Yeah, gray or blue.

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And like it started a war amongst people.

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Like, no, it's blue.

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And that was pre pandemic too.

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That was, that would've happened during, there would've been a whole Netflix series on there.

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Oh my gosh.

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It would've been.

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So how long have you been at this club for?

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10 years.

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Oh, now?

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Yeah, a long time.

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Wow.

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Yeah, actually that's, that's, it's almost like five pre pandemic, five during ish.

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Yeah.

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It really is.

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It's so crazy.

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I mean, you think like, we're almost three years past like March, 2020, and it's wild to think about and where we've come and last three years and how things have changed.

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And for us, like going back to Covid, like Covid, Was an interesting time for us.

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It like really allowed us to be super creat.

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I don't think you get that any, like, you know, you'll never get an opportunity to be that creative ever again.

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Yeah.

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Uh, so I don't know if you know my background is in standup magic.

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Yeah.

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Comedy, all that stuff.

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So our thing is always limitations force creativity.

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Yeah.

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So everyone had to really.

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Step it up.

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Mm-hmm.

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Cause there were so many limitations.

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Now it's like, okay.

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Oh yeah.

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Exactly.

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Everything's back open.

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You know, I heard So first time in Omaha.

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First

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time Omaha.

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I'm doing a show tomorrow for the University of Tennessee.

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Whoa.

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That was loud.

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Listen, we

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know you like T Swizzle, but

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University of Tennessee, but it's for

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a, uh oh.

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It's the University of Tennessee Healthy Schools' Initiative Program.

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That was a program put on, it was a five year program through the C D.

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C funded it.

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It was 16th states.

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Wow.

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It was this whole thing, and this is like their wrap up.

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And that brings you to Nebraska.

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So they were like, Hey, listen, we are going to be throwing an event.

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And they told me all about it.

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So I was like, okay, so you're gonna bring me in for this government evening where because it's government related, there's gonna be no alcohol supplied served or nearby.

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It's gonna be a buffet and a top it off.

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It's gonna be black tie, and you're gonna add magic to the end of all these people.

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At least you don't have to do comedy.

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I feel like the comedy would be harder to do with people not let and loose as much.

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Oh no, I I, to me like that, like the humor in just the event alone.

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Yeah.

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Is like who at the end was like, how can we make this a little bit more difficult?

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Let's do black tie.

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You know what?

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It's hard enough for people to put on a suit.

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Let's do black tie sober.

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Oh my gosh.

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No, it's gonna be a good time though.

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That's awesome.

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It's.

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No, it's a great town.

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Just flew in.

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Yeah, nice airport.

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It reminds me of my airport and nice and small.

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You're in, you're out, you're, yeah.

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You don't have to worry about TSA lines or anything like that.

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You just fly right through, which is pretty epic.

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How many members do you guys have?

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So we have 550 golf member families and then four, or I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Start over.

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450 golf families and then 500.

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So all in like a couple thousand, 4,000 maybe

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bull.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, it's pretty wild.

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And are most of them local?

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Yeah, I'd say like 90, 95% are.

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Um, we have some non-resident i'd I'd say, but yeah, most of'em are local.

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So

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what's been some of the bigger accomplishments that you've been proud of here?

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Um, ooh, that's a tough question.

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Um, I think how we handled Covid was just our team in general.

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How like we responded.

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It was, I mean, I don't wanna say we were the first, but I feel like we were the first to really go with like the to-go food, the ordering, all that stuff like March.

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Like it was like March, like 21st.

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Like we already had a to-go menu with online ordering.

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Like we didn't rely on like our North Star application to do it for us.

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We're like, we have to build something, right?

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So like, We started really, really early, um, into Covid with a lot of our takeout and our virtual stuff.

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And the way our team responded to that was just amazing.

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Um, like hearing, like kegs moving, my headset saying, um, that I would say very like proud.

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And then, um, just like our, our aquatics operation, our team, our team here at Champions, we just have a good butt.

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Um, and then the idea Fair.

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So, have you been to the cma?

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I love the idea.

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Fair.

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I just like, it was like when I started in this industry like nine, 10 years ago, like, and I was first exposed to cma.

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I was like, I wanna win every category.

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And the CMA idea fair.

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Like, even though it's like, not like, I mean, it's cool, but like, I'm like, I just wanna win every category.

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And so we've knocked out a good chunk of the categories and I hope that, um, kind of wrap it full circle and get everything.

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It's a weird, weird goal of mine.

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But yeah, I really

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hope there's like one club listening or one like club professional.

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Yeah.

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Who's gonna go figure out which ones you have, which ones you don't have, and then fight you on the ones that you don't have.

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I know.

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Oh, you need two more?

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We need buckle up.

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We need to look at the list and see like which ones we're still missing.

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Um, but yeah, and so it's, it's always a fun thing.

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It's always fun cuz you're like, I should have won that one.

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How do we win this one but not this one?

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And it's like, ah.

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But.

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No, it's, it's kind of like a fun thing that, you know, we look forward to every year.

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And I think that's one of my favorite things about like World Conference in general is just the idea fair.

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Because it's not just what we submit, but it's like all the clubs, like you're seeing the best club ideas, like in the industry and it's, it's fun to like see what people are doing and like, Hey, how can I steal that and make it better, or like, make it our way or

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our going back a little bit.

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Cause I like the model a little, you know, the, the casualness.

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Mm-hmm.

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What.

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Have been some of the No questions.

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A bad question.

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There's not dumb questions.

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It's only dumb people.

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It's,

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I like that one.

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A teacher told

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me that once and I went home, but I was so happy.

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Yeah.

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Because in my head I was like, I have a dumb question.

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Like there's no dumb questions.

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It's just dumb people.

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And I was like, oh, thank goodness.

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And I went home and like told my mom.

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I was like, I'm, I'm off to a good start.

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I love that.

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But I was so oblivious, like I didn't even realize it was like a backhanded come, um, No, but like, you know, you, you've, sounds like there's a pattern of taking some changes here.

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Mm-hmm.

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Does that, how, how is your leadership like, because normally it boils down from there.

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Like it has to like trickle, like goes from the top.

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Yeah.

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Because even if the top, even if the top is, you know, amazing, but if their next level down isn't fully Yeah.

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In the, so.

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It must, you must have

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great leadership here.

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Yeah, so Andy reets, our general manager and ceo, he, uh, I mean he started here probably six, seven years ago, so a little bit after I started.

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And I mean, his, our philosophy has always been like, if you want to hit the ball, like you have to swing the bat.

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So like a good baseball analogy.

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And so like, there's gonna be times where we grew up and we miss swinging a miss, you know, but there's other times where it's like, we're will, we're willing to risk failure, like for something good to happen.

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And so, There's been like plenty of screwups like we've had, and I've had personally where he is like, well, you know, you swung the bet and you, you missed, right?

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And so that's always kind been the philosophy that we've had.

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And it's paid off for

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how many times have you been hit by a pitch?

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As in like, I screwed up bad

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actually, no.

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It, it can't be.

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If you walked into it, maybe that's,

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no, I'm kidding.

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Yeah, no, I, I mean we've, I've, I've screwed up like multiple times, right?

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Like people see like the fun stuff that we promote, like, look at this good stuff.

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Like, and it's like, cool, cool, cool.

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But what they don't see is like all the failures that go with it too.

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No one ever like showcases their failures that much, like.

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We've had plenty of'em.

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And so, you know, I'll show you the splash park later on, but like, people ask like, what was like your biggest mistake?

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And um, for whatever reason, I had to pick the colors of our splash park and sign off on it.

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Like, it's like paint.

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Like I do not want to pick the pink.

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When my wife wants to paint something, I'm like, great, go choose it.

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Like we had to pick DExT stain last night.

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I'm like, I don't want to decide.

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Like, you just pick and I'll be happy with it.

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So I had to sign off on the splash park colors and basically everything that you see on our splash park, that's blue.

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Showed up gray, like, like basically like the, those chairs over there.

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Like gray as I'm like, or actually, no, that, that one's better.

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That one, like the little hutch thing right there.

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That's a better gray.

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And I was like, that is not the color I signed off.

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I like picked blue and they're like, no, you signed off on pigeon blue, which is really gray.

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And it was a$30,000 mistake.

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Oh boy.

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That's a lot of paint.

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It is a lot of paint.

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They had to send every water slide back to remake the water slide.

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Like water slides in plural, like three of

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em.

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I, I wish, I wish you could have had video of the kids' faces as it was just

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leaving.

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Yeah, I was.

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I mean, when they showed up, I'm like, that's not what I picked.

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And they're like, yes, you did.

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And we got in this big argument.

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I was like, And I'll have to show you the color swatch because it is a screwed up like color swatch.

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I'm like, that is not, no.

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And we agreed to disagree, but they gave us a little discount.

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Cause I think they admitted to some fault too.

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I was like, who in their right mind would pick that color?

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Like no one would pick that color.

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Who's mixing this?

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Who's mixing this color?

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Like, no.

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And like you'll see all of our pool chairs are blue as blue and I'm like, Wouldn't you think that the splash park would just matched the blue and, no,

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not first world country problems.

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Do you believe this?

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The

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blues.

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The blues, yeah.

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But so, but that is an example of a swing and amiss really bad.

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Oh, no, I was just trying to see how, how, how you would responded to that question.

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Cause if you're a batter getting hit, no.

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Yeah.

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Uh, how, uh,

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how many people work here?

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Uh, in season?

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I'd say we have about 250.

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Yeah.

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Um, starting orientations today actually, and then summertimes are busy, busy month for, you know, like all the clubs, I'd say above like the United States equator line, like we're all, it's our season.

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And then, you know, all, I think all the south, like the Florida and the Arizona clubs all kind of go on there like, you know, slow, slow.

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So we're about to get in season, so about 250 employees.

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And then I'd say like outta season we're at like 50 to 60.

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Yeah.

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So a good chunk.

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Still solid.

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Yeah, it's a good group of people.

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And I think the biggest thing with our team and our staff is like the, the years they've been here, they're tenure.

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Like, you know, a lot of people have been here 20 plus years and it shows, so

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they've also like watched the families grow up and it really creates a nice,

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uh, that's literally probably, I would say like the best part about the club industry too, is that that exact concept is like being able to watch people, kids from.

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Born almost until like you're doing their graduation parties or doing their weddings.

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And so, and then unfortunately, no, like celebrations of life too, but um, you get to experience like the highs and the lows

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with Cool.

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Yeah.

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Must be fun watching someone grow up.

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Like, you turned out a lot better than I thought.

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You're

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nothing like that.

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You do.

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Oh, I know.

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You do see some people you're like, ugh.

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And then they get better as they get older and you're like, all right, we're cool now.

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We're cool now.

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But I mean, you also kind of, I like to use it as like an opportunity to like, Sometimes teach life lessons to like the kids too.

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Like when they screw up, I mean, we make sure they know like, Hey, you know, it's good that you're screwing up at your country club because like if you screwed up like in the public, like you would be getting into a lot more trouble.

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Right.

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So, you know, being able to kind of teach lessons there too.

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What do you guys have for activities in the summer

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for.

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Going on here, we pretty much do like any kind of camp you can imagine.

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So photography camp, like movie Camp Mermaid, camp, Navy Seals camp, like there is literally a camp for everything.

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Um, and we have our staff run'em.

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Um, it's really cool.

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And so like we don't focus just on golf, swim, and tennis.

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It's like, hey, what's all the auxiliary stuff that we do as well?

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And so, cause people are interested in things beyond those three, like what we would call country club sports.

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And so, Those are kind of the fun, the fun activities we do.

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Um, and then when you see our pool, like you'll see like it's, it's the place everyone wants

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to because the

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colors are so much better than now.

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The colors are so much better now that they're not pigeon blue.

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I'm gonna paint something in my house now.

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Pigeon blue.

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Dude.

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It is literally

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that gray right there, or, yeah.

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It's so bad.

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Oh no.

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You, at

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some point you will get a message from me in a picture, and it's gonna be something in my house.

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It's bad.

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Tainted pigeon blue.

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It's bad.

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They shouldn't even have that as a color.

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I've never seen a pigeon that color before.

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For, for, for those of you listening, it is quite the color of

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gray.

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It is bad.

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So I, I, I'll have to send you the picture of like the water slides showing up and being like, ah, good.

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So what's next for the club here?

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What's, uh, what's got you guys,

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what's uh, so we just did our pro shop downstairs.

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Um, uh, we did our whole main level in 2020.

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So, When Covid happened, we're like, well, let's just renovate the entire main level.

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Um, which was also scary cuz no one knew like what the outcome of Covid was gonna be.

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But it was like, all right, let's use it as an opportunity to do a renovation if no one's coming here anyways.

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So did that in 2020.

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Um, uh, just finished the pro shop actually.

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I'd say it's like 90% done.

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It's not all the way done.

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And then hopefully, hopefully don't hold me to this, but hopefully it'll be something with our like tennis complex.

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Hopefully there's so much

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leftover pigeon gray.

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Yes, there's pigeon blue that they need to, we we're doing a, we're doing a little golf course, a little renovation too right now, so that's taking priority.

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And so hopefully after that, um, the tennis, a tennis courts are just old.

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They were built on asphalt, which if anyone's listening, like tennis courts that were built on asphalt like 20 years ago was done to save money.

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And after 20 years it all starts.

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Moving and making like a lava field.

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And they should have been built on con but they were saving, they were trying to save money from the day.

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Any like cool, like long-term projects.

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You guys are ex, I dunno why I pointed that one.

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If we're gonna go expand and buy Burlington Coat Factory Home Goods?

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No.

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Uh, I don't know.

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Um, I would personally like, I don't know, but like, I would love, like an ICE program.

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I love like the Chevy Chase Club and.

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Some of the, the clubs up north that have like ice interlock and like big ice programs.

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Like I'm a, I play hockey and so like, that's a passion of mine and I would, uh, maybe have that available.

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Now we, we have a little ice rink that we fill up with water and just hope for the best.

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But, uh, like getting actual refrigerated ice would be sweet.

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What is the program like, like that run?

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Probably a lot of money.

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I mean, There's clubs like Carriage Club in Kansas City have like Zambonis, like two, I feel like two Zambonis or something.

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Yeah, same with like some of the clubs up north.

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And so I mean the cost of a Zambonis gotta be like 30, 40 grand I would imagine maybe more.

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And then like the refrigeration piece of it.

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And so, I don't know, probably a lot of money.

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I want a Zamboni now just, it would be I, that would be a dream of mine would be just to be the Zamboni guy at Champions run just doing laps.

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Hey, it's Ben.

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We The Zamboni guy.

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The Zamboni guy.

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I don't know why, but I like this kind of elevated area right here.

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Cause I feel like if you get like a t-shirt gun, you can just

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pick people off.

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Oh yeah.

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You'll, when you see the pool, like that's where, that's where we like the t-shirt cannon is.

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We have one, like it's epic.

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Oh, did you not know we had a T-shirt?

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No.

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Oh man.

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Well if you wanna fire it, we can shoot it later too.

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It's pretty fun.

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We'll go up on the roof and shoot some shorts.

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Do not even tent me.

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Do not even tempt me.

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Rachel,

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it's in the lifeguard room, right?

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Why?

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Why is it out there?

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Okay.

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Someone We've never actually done it at the main, so we get on the roof of our fitness center, we get on the roof of our fitness center.

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We'll take our mascots up there.

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Sometimes we'll take some kids up there and like everyone, so we've, sounds bad.

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But yeah, it's super, she's super shady.

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Mascot kids, mascot kids.

00:24:03.842 --> 00:24:08.071
But, um, We've kind of trained, I would say we trained our members.

00:24:08.071 --> 00:24:09.811
So like it's all based on music.

00:24:09.811 --> 00:24:13.592
So when you hear a song, you know something's happening at Champion's Run.

00:24:13.592 --> 00:24:18.092
And so like there's key songs that we play for certain, what we call like rad promos.

00:24:18.092 --> 00:24:19.682
So radical, amped, and dangerous.

00:24:19.682 --> 00:24:21.632
We call the, that's our promo schedule.

00:24:21.636 --> 00:24:26.642
And so like, we'll play a song and so like the one that we do, our t-shirt, cannon Floor is Mr.

00:24:26.642 --> 00:24:27.781
Bright Side by the Killer.

00:24:27.781 --> 00:24:33.632
So when you hear that song, everyone starts like their eyes will shift up to the roof cuz they know that's where we're at.

00:24:33.951 --> 00:24:41.356
And then we just start firing off shirts and um, we attach like money to'em and like So people are like hotdog?

00:24:41.807 --> 00:24:42.767
Yeah, hotdog.

00:24:42.826 --> 00:24:45.977
We'll like load like three hotdog in the cannon and just blast.

00:24:47.686 --> 00:24:53.297
And it's funny cuz like the hotdogs will fly out the wrappers and people will still grab'em and like start smashing'em and stuff.

00:24:54.757 --> 00:24:57.737
Those are the best, we call it the kraken cannon.

00:24:58.007 --> 00:24:58.666
It's pretty good.

00:24:58.666 --> 00:25:00.287
So everyone loves it.

00:25:00.376 --> 00:25:03.916
Um, and it's got some like, It's got some fire power too.

00:25:04.186 --> 00:25:04.817
It's wild.

00:25:05.237 --> 00:25:06.287
So we'll let you shoot it when we get out

00:25:06.557 --> 00:25:06.676
there.

00:25:08.777 --> 00:25:09.856
I'm speechless right now.

00:25:10.037 --> 00:25:11.656
I am so excited.

00:25:11.807 --> 00:25:12.287
Oh yeah.

00:25:13.007 --> 00:25:17.176
We probably need to do it out like in the courtyard for like a golf event or something.

00:25:17.176 --> 00:25:17.446
I guess.

00:25:17.446 --> 00:25:21.076
We've never really like, it's just that like small proximity.

00:25:21.076 --> 00:25:27.317
It always has the most people, so it's just like you're like aiming it this way and everyone cheers over there and then you aim it that way and everyone's, ah.

00:25:29.311 --> 00:25:30.781
You have like adults jumping over.

00:25:30.781 --> 00:25:35.311
Little kids like to get their shirt and it won't even be their size and they're like, darn it.

00:25:36.612 --> 00:25:40.951
I was just talking to a friend of mine about how excited people get for a free t-shirt.

00:25:41.132 --> 00:25:41.642
Oh yeah.

00:25:42.182 --> 00:25:42.602
Oh yeah.

00:25:42.781 --> 00:25:43.892
Do you, do you watch Parks and Rec?

00:25:43.922 --> 00:25:44.251
Oh yeah.

00:25:44.582 --> 00:25:45.031
I forget.

00:25:45.037 --> 00:25:48.112
I think it was Leslie's campaign or something.

00:25:48.112 --> 00:25:48.571
Uhhuh again.

00:25:49.307 --> 00:25:53.987
Ben and um, Aziz were talking about something and they're like, who wants a blue shirt?

00:25:53.987 --> 00:25:55.906
And everyone went like, berserk.

00:25:56.686 --> 00:25:57.376
But it's so true.

00:25:57.376 --> 00:25:59.386
You give away a shirt, people go absolutely

00:25:59.392 --> 00:25:59.626
blank.

00:25:59.926 --> 00:26:02.356
We do this, uh, we call it the half court shot.

00:26:02.356 --> 00:26:08.356
And so like, kinda like you'd see at a basketball game where someone can like win free tuition, like, or something like that, or a car or whatever.

00:26:08.362 --> 00:26:09.557
We do it at the pool.

00:26:09.557 --> 00:26:11.896
And so we play, people know we do this when we play.

00:26:11.896 --> 00:26:14.477
Um, what is it, Rachel, pit Bull, fireball.

00:26:14.852 --> 00:26:16.291
Uh, fireball.

00:26:17.761 --> 00:26:22.801
And so when we play that song, we have one person shoot a half court shot, and they get the duration of a song.

00:26:22.807 --> 00:26:25.922
So they have like four minutes to basically make a basket.

00:26:26.041 --> 00:26:30.211
And if they make it, they win free like popsicles for every kid at the pool.

00:26:30.301 --> 00:26:33.662
And then they win free margaritas for all the adults at the pool.

00:26:33.662 --> 00:26:37.997
And so sometimes there's like, Two, 300 adults out there and they're all, you're taking

00:26:37.997 --> 00:26:38.987
bets on the kids.

00:26:39.317 --> 00:26:40.426
You're doing the first minute.

00:26:40.426 --> 00:26:40.817
Yeah.

00:26:41.176 --> 00:26:42.916
And so like, it's like everyone wins, right?

00:26:42.916 --> 00:26:51.136
And so like, it's crazy, the pandemonium it causes, so when someone makes the half court shot, I've seen people who, like, these people make like 2 million a year.

00:26:51.136 --> 00:26:53.247
Like they are CEOs of like high level companies.

00:26:53.317 --> 00:26:58.336
They jump out of the pool and like run to the bar to get their free, like margarita, their nine ounce margarita.

00:26:58.336 --> 00:26:59.896
And it's so funny to watch.

00:26:59.896 --> 00:27:09.287
But people, it goes back to what you said, like people love free stuff and so, We always try to do promos like that, just like that, where everyone's engaged, everyone wins, and like everyone has their phones.

00:27:09.317 --> 00:27:09.737
Like, let's,

00:27:09.946 --> 00:27:10.307
let's go.

00:27:11.207 --> 00:27:14.567
It's gotta be so good for the club here.

00:27:14.571 --> 00:27:16.186
For promotion.

00:27:16.217 --> 00:27:16.366
Yeah.

00:27:16.366 --> 00:27:19.487
Just, that's what's such a good idea.

00:27:19.846 --> 00:27:20.807
The, the songs.

00:27:20.807 --> 00:27:21.196
That's great.

00:27:21.227 --> 00:27:22.096
That's so good.

00:27:22.596 --> 00:27:22.817
Wow.

00:27:23.116 --> 00:27:23.336
It,

00:27:23.656 --> 00:27:37.892
it's, it's like we've always had the belief, like Rachel and I were, it's like people come to your pool to be entertained opposed to like, They don't just come to like, go like lounge in the water or they just like, you know, get great food and beverage service.

00:27:37.892 --> 00:27:39.751
Like yeah, those are just givens, right?

00:27:39.751 --> 00:27:46.741
Like we're all supposed to have like just standard amenities, but it's like the people and the staff that make it what it is.

00:27:46.741 --> 00:27:48.211
And for us, like it's our promos.

00:27:48.217 --> 00:27:51.221
It's like the stuff we do like to keep people entertained.

00:27:51.481 --> 00:27:56.372
It keeps'em there longer, it keeps'em spending money and it keeps'em coming back more, like more, more and more.

00:27:56.372 --> 00:27:59.521
And so anything like we do, it's like, Hey, is this gonna.

00:27:59.777 --> 00:28:01.277
Keep people at our club longer.

00:28:01.336 --> 00:28:04.876
So we have a whole laundry list of like promos that we do.

00:28:04.876 --> 00:28:11.386
And some have flopped, some have, some have been bad, but some are just like, I can't believe how awesome this is right now.

00:28:12.497 --> 00:28:13.606
At least you tried.

00:28:13.696 --> 00:28:14.057
Yeah.

00:28:14.356 --> 00:28:14.717
Yeah.

00:28:14.987 --> 00:28:17.596
Fear of failure is ridiculous sometimes.

00:28:17.602 --> 00:28:18.676
Stronger than the fear of, uh,

00:28:18.676 --> 00:28:19.247
success.

00:28:19.251 --> 00:28:19.317
Yeah.

00:28:19.317 --> 00:28:22.727
We try to do this one where like we played the Lion King song.

00:28:22.727 --> 00:28:26.207
Was that, that one was a flop like, Want people, you were dropping babies.

00:28:26.207 --> 00:28:31.487
Well, yeah, we thought more people would hold their babies up and we're like free beers for anyone who holds their baby up.

00:28:31.487 --> 00:28:33.106
And like one person did it.

00:28:33.106 --> 00:28:34.696
I'm like, uh, that was a bust,

00:28:34.696 --> 00:28:35.596
but not really.

00:28:35.626 --> 00:28:37.547
Cuz that one person had a fantastic time.

00:28:37.547 --> 00:28:37.967
Yeah, they got

00:28:37.971 --> 00:28:38.717
and they're like, ah, sweet.

00:28:38.721 --> 00:28:40.126
My kid got me a drink, you know?

00:28:40.126 --> 00:28:42.336
But it's one that we baby what?

00:28:43.967 --> 00:28:44.386
Oh yeah.

00:28:44.477 --> 00:28:46.067
So somebody else like, gimme that baby.

00:28:47.386 --> 00:28:48.767
I have to see how big the pool is.

00:28:48.767 --> 00:28:52.696
Cause I wonder if you can get like a remote controlled boat and like boat drinks out to people.

00:28:53.971 --> 00:28:55.501
That is a good idea.

00:28:55.501 --> 00:28:56.132
What did I see?

00:28:56.192 --> 00:28:57.061
Uh, that is

00:28:57.061 --> 00:28:58.261
really good.

00:28:58.442 --> 00:28:59.701
What did, uh, you know what I'm talking about?

00:28:59.701 --> 00:29:00.811
That's a good idea right there.

00:29:00.811 --> 00:29:01.801
We Okay, go ahead.

00:29:01.902 --> 00:29:06.882
Genius and it's, it's cool because like that's, that goes back to that entertainment value, right?

00:29:06.882 --> 00:29:13.271
Whether they do it consistently, it's more of, Hey, look how fun, how much fun our club's having.

00:29:13.332 --> 00:29:16.152
And I think that's such a huge like, understated thing in this industry.

00:29:16.152 --> 00:29:21.372
It's like, you know, whether you do the drone drops once or twice or three times, or maybe you do'em every week.

00:29:21.372 --> 00:29:24.192
Like it just shows that entertainment value to your members.

00:29:24.192 --> 00:29:26.922
Like, look at the cool stuff my club's doing, so.

00:29:27.237 --> 00:29:30.866
You know, we have members who've never experienced a single thing we've done out at the pool.

00:29:30.866 --> 00:29:34.676
Like they've never even been to the pool and they don't even know the stuff we're doing exists.

00:29:34.946 --> 00:29:38.156
And when they do come out there, they're like, like, what is going on out here?

00:29:38.162 --> 00:29:39.747
This is, this is a circus.

00:29:39.751 --> 00:29:46.656
And it's, uh, it's kind of one of those things like entertain always, you know, it's a line from the Savannah bananas, like always entertain.

00:29:46.656 --> 00:29:46.817
Right?

00:29:47.156 --> 00:29:49.826
And that's kind of like what we're trying to do with our members too.

00:29:50.487 --> 00:29:50.787
Keep'em

00:29:50.787 --> 00:29:51.176
happy.

00:29:52.031 --> 00:29:57.701
I think a really funny, funny commercial you have like the family show up and they have like the, the suntan lotion on the nose.

00:29:57.701 --> 00:30:02.152
They're like floaties and they walk up and you guys are just like having a blast out there and they're like, what is going

00:30:02.152 --> 00:30:02.271
on?

00:30:02.352 --> 00:30:03.192
What is happening?

00:30:03.432 --> 00:30:17.652
We want to do one, um, with our general manager where he's a secret shopper, so we're gonna like dress him up and then mic him up and like put a wig on him and he is just gonna go like, walk around and like, just make obnoxious requests from our food and beverage team early on in the season.

00:30:17.652 --> 00:30:19.692
This is when we gotta do go pretty soon because.

00:30:20.156 --> 00:30:23.051
They might not even know who he is, some of the new food and beverage servers.

00:30:23.051 --> 00:30:34.422
So we're gonna doctor him up, you know, with the, the no, the, the sunscreen nose, and have him just like, make some funny requests and get like a big, uh, telescope lens and just, uh, record the whole thing.

00:30:34.481 --> 00:30:35.412
It's gonna be awesome.

00:30:37.362 --> 00:30:38.833
If you want some help, let me know.

00:30:39.071 --> 00:30:39.362
Yeah.

00:30:39.582 --> 00:30:40.541
You gotta move up to Omaha.

00:30:42.192 --> 00:30:44.771
So, so I do like the, the Magic and Comedy show.

00:30:44.832 --> 00:30:44.922
Mm-hmm.

00:30:45.162 --> 00:30:46.781
It's my pretty much like private clubs.

00:30:46.781 --> 00:30:47.412
The other half.

00:30:47.652 --> 00:30:49.182
Of like the bite business is like corporate events.

00:30:49.182 --> 00:30:50.231
That's what I'm down here doing.

00:30:50.321 --> 00:30:50.561
Yep.

00:30:50.981 --> 00:30:55.692
With some of my corporate events, like clients, they don't hire me to be Denny Corby magician.

00:30:55.696 --> 00:30:59.352
Sometimes I'm just Phil from marketing or whatever.

00:30:59.622 --> 00:31:07.451
So I've also just gone in like covert and did like undercover videos, like one that was for a, a furniture store at a couple locations.

00:31:07.451 --> 00:31:09.971
I had to be like a really bad customer.

00:31:10.061 --> 00:31:11.031
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:31:11.142 --> 00:31:14.981
So I was just the most annoying and I was trying to be like very uncomfortable.

00:31:15.356 --> 00:31:18.116
Um, and then, and then were they recording the whole thing too?

00:31:18.122 --> 00:31:18.247
Oh yeah.

00:31:18.247 --> 00:31:18.596
Oh yeah.

00:31:18.596 --> 00:31:18.957
I had

00:31:18.957 --> 00:31:19.527
glasses on.

00:31:19.547 --> 00:31:19.967
Oh, that's awesome.

00:31:20.126 --> 00:31:21.747
Nice guys friends in the store.

00:31:21.836 --> 00:31:24.446
And then went to another place where I was a, a fake hire.

00:31:24.747 --> 00:31:25.797
Oh, nice.

00:31:25.886 --> 00:31:28.317
So it was, yeah, it was, we

00:31:28.321 --> 00:31:29.696
should do that one too, Rachel.

00:31:29.696 --> 00:31:30.166
A fake hire.

00:31:30.656 --> 00:31:31.767
It was so much fun.

00:31:31.771 --> 00:31:33.366
Like, cuz I, I showed up like, like an hour late.

00:31:34.211 --> 00:31:40.932
Like, I had this whole thing I the most Mitch mismatched disgusting, like suit with like pant thing.

00:31:41.261 --> 00:31:43.001
And then I kept like going to the bathroom.

00:31:43.031 --> 00:31:44.051
I was like, oh, I gotta go.

00:31:44.051 --> 00:31:45.251
I just go to the bathroom for like 20

00:31:45.251 --> 00:31:45.432
minutes.

00:31:46.221 --> 00:31:46.721
Go to the bath.

00:31:47.261 --> 00:31:50.051
We should, we should literally do that with, uh, with somebody.

00:31:50.051 --> 00:31:54.132
I don't know if it should be food and beverage or lifeguard or fitness, but man, that could be really

00:31:54.132 --> 00:31:54.551
funny.

00:31:54.791 --> 00:31:55.152
Oh, it is.

00:31:55.152 --> 00:31:55.811
So much fun.

00:31:55.811 --> 00:31:57.701
And then I complained about like my stomach hurting.

00:31:57.701 --> 00:32:01.662
I ordered like a giant like Pizza Hut pizza and like wings.

00:32:02.201 --> 00:32:04.301
And they're like, who's like, it showed up.

00:32:04.307 --> 00:32:04.991
They're like, who's this, this?

00:32:04.991 --> 00:32:05.922
I came outta the bathroom.

00:32:05.922 --> 00:32:06.642
My god, it's mine.

00:32:09.221 --> 00:32:11.261
Yeah, we should definitely do something like that.

00:32:11.267 --> 00:32:20.622
But, and that's, that's the one of those things I love about the, like I said, is just like you see someone who do so does something, it's like, Hey, how can I put that in and implement it at my club and make it.

00:32:20.817 --> 00:32:21.207
Sweet.

00:32:21.386 --> 00:32:21.656
Right.

00:32:21.686 --> 00:32:22.557
So, well, I think to

00:32:22.557 --> 00:32:25.767
me it's even like, I think it all goes down to like your culture and stuff too, but to me mm-hmm.

00:32:26.307 --> 00:32:28.797
You know, my brain always goes like really crazy ideas.

00:32:28.797 --> 00:32:30.807
Like why not do it to like the members?

00:32:30.836 --> 00:32:31.017
Yeah.

00:32:31.017 --> 00:32:35.186
Meaning like put like a camera or two like, and members, you know, who can like kind of take it a little bit.

00:32:35.186 --> 00:32:41.096
That's the biggest thing, but just have like, just hire someone to be like a really clumsy waiter once or just like, I don't know, it just out.

00:32:41.096 --> 00:32:41.336
Yeah.

00:32:41.336 --> 00:32:43.227
Or have like funny stuff happen that.

00:32:44.116 --> 00:32:45.987
Like, just to like capture that, like, yeah.

00:32:45.987 --> 00:32:47.307
Impractical Jokery.

00:32:47.366 --> 00:32:52.317
We did a, we did a funny one once, um, like it was a promo to like show our pool was opening.

00:32:52.321 --> 00:32:57.626
We brought one of our lifeguard towers, like in the restaurant and like Spike, who he's around here somewhere.

00:32:57.632 --> 00:33:00.297
Like, he was in a full like lifeguard outfit.

00:33:00.297 --> 00:33:04.346
He was just like blowing his like whistle at the members, like no drinking.

00:33:04.936 --> 00:33:06.807
It was, it was pretty, it was pretty good.

00:33:06.807 --> 00:33:09.027
That was, was that last year Rachel, or was that two years ago?

00:33:09.386 --> 00:33:09.807
Last year.

00:33:09.926 --> 00:33:10.136
Yeah.

00:33:10.136 --> 00:33:10.856
That was a funny one.

00:33:11.487 --> 00:33:12.987
But yeah.

00:33:13.017 --> 00:33:20.007
What's one thing you guys did that you thought was gonna be the bees knees?

00:33:20.037 --> 00:33:24.057
It was gonna be the best, but it was just the biggest, like no one showed.

00:33:24.057 --> 00:33:24.207
Yeah.

00:33:24.207 --> 00:33:29.027
It was just one of those, it just did not go over well because I'm sure we, we all have those we're mm-hmm.

00:33:29.106 --> 00:33:29.876
You know, we're pumped.

00:33:29.876 --> 00:33:31.977
You get everyone hyped and it's just like, why didn't

00:33:32.027 --> 00:33:34.906
Um, I don't know.

00:33:34.906 --> 00:33:43.186
Honestly, I'm trying to think of like, I can remember, remember one from a few years ago, this was before Covid, it was called Bulls, brews and Barbecue.

00:33:43.192 --> 00:33:47.297
And it was like supposed to be like this western theme, like we had a really sweet country band.

00:33:47.297 --> 00:34:00.017
We got the mechanical bowl and like great food and like, just like literally like I think we had 20 people sign up and it was a great experience for those 20 people, but like, It was, I don't think it was like, our members weren't excited about it.

00:34:00.017 --> 00:34:03.346
There was a lot of like school like activities that night.

00:34:03.346 --> 00:34:08.536
We have a big school that's like right down the street and so like we put a lot of money into it and it just flopped.

00:34:08.657 --> 00:34:12.556
Um, what Glow in the dark pickleball.

00:34:12.561 --> 00:34:14.896
That was a cool event, but I feel like that's dangerous

00:34:14.927 --> 00:34:15.297
in general.

00:34:15.737 --> 00:34:16.277
Let's just make it

00:34:16.282 --> 00:34:16.536
darker.

00:34:17.507 --> 00:34:20.146
And then so that, yeah, that was, that was okay.

00:34:20.237 --> 00:34:21.856
Um, we want more people to come to that one.

00:34:21.856 --> 00:34:25.817
And then the third one was our kids Easter last year.

00:34:26.237 --> 00:34:28.967
We're like, we're doing it rain or shine, like we've been fortunate.

00:34:28.967 --> 00:34:35.896
We're like the last like five years, it's been beautiful outside, and then like kids Easter rolls around, it's like 25 degrees.

00:34:35.896 --> 00:34:36.827
It's snowing.

00:34:37.097 --> 00:34:45.737
We have the entire clubhouse set for Easter brunch the following day, and we're like, we're still gonna do it outside, and we're trying to make pancakes when it's 25 degrees out.

00:34:45.797 --> 00:34:50.987
And it was miserable, just like absolutely miserable.

00:34:53.987 --> 00:34:54.947
So, you know, it's one of those.

00:34:55.847 --> 00:34:59.327
There's a so much business out there.

00:34:59.447 --> 00:34:59.536
Mm-hmm.

00:34:59.777 --> 00:35:05.356
And b clubs are so specific that I feel like people shouldn't see that as competition.

00:35:05.356 --> 00:35:08.927
Cause it's like, you, you, it's like, it's, it's a, it's a vibe.

00:35:08.927 --> 00:35:10.067
You're attracting almost.

00:35:10.277 --> 00:35:10.427
Correct.

00:35:10.431 --> 00:35:12.047
So you don't want everybody Exactly.

00:35:12.047 --> 00:35:13.157
And if someone doesn't want to be here, it's like,

00:35:13.336 --> 00:35:13.637
all right.

00:35:13.637 --> 00:35:19.367
Like we, we, people know, like we are a fun club and we're very like, transparent when someone's joining.

00:35:19.367 --> 00:35:23.146
Like if they don't have kids, like, and they're looking for like a pool where they can go and just.

00:35:23.447 --> 00:35:25.306
There's not music, it's just quiet.

00:35:25.306 --> 00:35:28.967
And you know, there's 50 open chairs like that's not here.

00:35:28.967 --> 00:35:31.637
Like this is a zoo and it's crazy.

00:35:31.666 --> 00:35:36.206
And you know, we are very transparent when we're doing membership tours like this.

00:35:36.556 --> 00:35:43.487
This might not be the place for you, like come out here on a a June and like a June 5th day and just see like how insane this place is.

00:35:43.487 --> 00:35:44.117
It's crazy.

00:35:44.447 --> 00:35:44.567
I

00:35:44.567 --> 00:35:45.166
can't imagine.

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Yeah.

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And then, so I would assume it's crazy because you have the camps going on, so maybe like, uh, the parents might hang out here too.

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And

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there's just a lot of, it's, it's close, you know, most people live within a three mile radius of the club.

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We have a big school pretty close to us, and ultimately it's just like a place you can spend like your entire day at.

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And so, you know, kids can get dropped off and have stuff going on all day.

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Parents, and now we, we really structure it where they can do like swim, then tennis, then golf, and like they can do all the sports where it's like they don't really like, Conflict with each other.

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It's just That's good.

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Yeah.

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So good vibe.

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Yeah.

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No, this has been good.

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I think we should probably like, like an hour

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get the tour.

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Yeah.

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How long do you usually make these things go?

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I just

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talk until it goes and, cause you can just edit, you can do whatever.

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Yeah.

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Like it's, it's one of those like, it's my show, like,

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it's like you can do whatever you want.

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Do whatever I want.

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I appreciate

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your time and come down.

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No, this is awesome.

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Yeah.

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Thanks for allowing me.

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I would've been sitting in my hotel room.

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Oh, is this?

00:36:41.072 --> 00:36:43.981
Now you've probably seen champions through like pictures and videos and stuff.

00:36:43.981 --> 00:36:51.842
So actually getting to kind of look at it and, you know, I wish you could come on like a summer day, like in June or July when it's just pandemonium, but you'll have to come back.

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Probably not.

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I think

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I got that thing.

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Yeah, I got that thing.

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I can't, uh, I can't make it.

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Yeah, you, we, we put you on the roof in a costume and you fire off the cannon.

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I've done a lot more for a lot less.

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Yeah.

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So, and people look at you like when that happens, like people look at you like you're the hero, like you are like Batman.

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When you're firing that t-shirt again, you're like,

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I think it's one of those, when you hold it, it, it has to be hard not to go like, ha, you have to like shoot up.

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You do.

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Because like, I mean, it's got some force, like it could probably knock someone unconscious.

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There.

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There was, there was a magic trick I was trying to work on that used like t-shirt guns, but it never, never went anywhere.

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But I have a folder of like, you

00:37:35.581 --> 00:37:36.942
could shoot out vegetables of,

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of T-shirt gun, like research.

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They sell T-shirt, gun turrets.

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No.

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So imagine I actually have seen it's, yeah.

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Yeah.

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They just go like, it's like a Tommy

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guy.

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That's the dream right there.

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Unfortunately, you'd be going through so much product and shirts, like we go through so many shirts like.

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We start packing up like shirts we just find in the, like, goodwill, like, or in the Lost and found, uh, rubber band them up and let's shoot'em out.

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It's like

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shirt or

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like a 1994 like Super Bowl.

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Like, where'd this come from,

00:38:12.842 --> 00:38:14.461
Phil, that looks like yours.

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We could have find it.

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I, I grabbed a pullover the other day from our Lost and found, and I got like five comments that day.

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They're like, that's a really nice pullover.

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I was like, Man, I just found this cardigan.

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Thanks for asking.

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Yeah, thank you.

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But I was like, thinking to myself, I'm like, I hope, like I didn't take this from somebody who would like recognize me.

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Like that's a very specific golf club.

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Uh, how'd you find that poll over.

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And I was like, oh boy, I don't even know where this is.

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Do you

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watch Bob's Burgers?

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Uhuh.

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Oh, okay.

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Do you watch Bob's Burgers?

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Remember the one where Bob took the suit from the dead guy from Morton next door?

00:38:50.251 --> 00:38:53.972
So a guy, a guy got cre Bob's Burgers is, is a, uh, adult cartoon.

00:38:54.061 --> 00:38:54.572
Oh, okay.

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And next door to the burger place is a, is a crematory or whatever, a funeral.

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A mor Yeah.

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Morgue.

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Yeah.

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And the guy got cremated, but his suit was there, so he gave it to Bob.

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And Bob was like wearing it all day.

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And he's like, he gets out of like a ticket, like everything's going well for him.

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And just as like the episode's ending, he's like, next to this cop.

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He's like, that's a nice suit.

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It looks just like my, my dad's.

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He's like, oh no, it's mine.

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He is like, no, I think it's my dad's.

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Oh no.

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When he opens it up, he's like, look, it's his name.

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We just buried him like it was just So it cuts to him just on like the pier.

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Just an underwear.

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That's pretty good.

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That's good.

00:39:34.981 --> 00:39:36.481
But speaking of t-shirt, guns.

00:39:36.481 --> 00:39:43.052
Yeah, they make attachments where you can shoot like, uh uh, like uh uh uh, ball pit balls.

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Oh, should get like custom ball pit balls.

00:39:45.692 --> 00:39:45.992
Yeah.

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So for sporting and stuff, events, they use those.

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They're not always

00:39:48.362 --> 00:39:49.891
t-shirts, they're, that would be fun.

00:39:49.891 --> 00:39:53.041
I wonder if we could do like tennis balls and like write, probably not.

00:39:53.192 --> 00:39:55.461
No, that's, they could kill balls, tennis balls.

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Oh my.

00:39:55.952 --> 00:39:56.791
Yo Champ.

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Yeah.

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Champions running outta here.

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That's what you gotta be to.

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I used not get hit when I first started champions.

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Like there were signs posted everywhere that said No tennis balls at the pool.

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And I'm just like, geez, Louise.

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Like, and then like sure enough, like week one, like kids were just hooking them in the pool just.

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Hitting old ladies in the face.

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I'm like, all right, no tennis balls allowed.

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Every, every sign, I guess, has a purpose.

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So that was one.

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Pretty good, pretty good.

00:40:28.442 --> 00:40:30.831
Well, this is probably my most fun podcast I've done yet, Rachel.

00:40:31.786 --> 00:40:34.021
We've had some good ones too, but this has been pretty fun.

00:40:34.172 --> 00:40:34.351
No,

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this is, this is, I think I might come back next week.

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We'll, we'll do another repeating on.

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Hope you all enjoyed that.

00:40:40.824 --> 00:40:46.673
Loved, loved, loved chatting and hanging out with Ben and everybody at Champions Run.

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I got to shoot t-shirt cannon.

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That's absolutely amazing.

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Uh, I'll put a picture online as well.

00:40:52.523 --> 00:40:56.634
You can see how much fun we had he put on the, the, the mascot costume.

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We were out in front of the, uh, newly painted repainted, um, waterpark, but.

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It, uh, it is so, so amazing and love seeing clubs doing things like this and, uh, killing it in their, in their communities and making their, um, making the experiences for their families.

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Absolutely wonderful.

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So that was it.

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I'll put all the links to Champions Run as well as Ben's LinkedIn and things below.

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Until next time, catch you on the flippity Flip.