Cal Dorohoy - The Fairway Co. Long Drive Tour Across Canada

Cal Dorohoy, founder of Fairway Co and director of Innovation for VaynerSports, joins Dave to discuss the ambitious Fairway Long Drive Tour across Canada and the intersection of athletics and entrepreneurship.

• Cal created Fairway Lager after identifying the untapped opportunity to own the "social side of golf"
• The beer contains a protease enzyme cutting 90% of gluten, making it less filling for extended days on the course
• The Long Drive Tour spans from Tofino, BC to Cabot Nova Scotia over 18 days
• Playing 18 rounds with over 50 athletes, creators, and entrepreneurs showcases Canadian talent
• Cal transitioned from soccer to business after an injury, finding that his competitive athletic mindset transferred directly
• Athletes make excellent entrepreneurs because they understand teamwork, competition, and resilience
• Both professional athletics and entrepreneurship require sacrifice and dedication behind the glamorized social media presence
• The vision includes building communities in each city for future tours, connecting people through golf
• Law of attraction and clear goal-setting have been crucial to Cal's success in business
• Sports that allow multi-generational play and moderate drinking (golf, pickleball, curling) create unique social connections

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, what's up?
Welcome back to the 268thepisode of the Athletes Podcast,
today featuring Cal Dorahoy,founder of Fairway Co.
As well as director of CanadianInnovation for VaynerSports.
We're here in Edmonton a thirdof the way through the Fairway
Tour, the Long Drive Tour to bemore specific, and holy dinah,
has it been a long one.
Cal, take us through the firstseven days.

(00:20):
Where are we at right now?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
How are you feeling?
How's the vibe?
We got a long flight tonight.
I mean, yo, I think I'm alittle more used to this than
you in terms of boozing thedegeneracy, yeah, yeah, yeah,
look.
I mean you know the sports andathlete space depending on kind
of where you fit in, is man alot of.
You know networking, schmoozingand boozing, and so you know, I

(00:41):
think it's one of those thingswhere few pops on the golf
course never killed anybody andwe keep it rolling until after.
And speaking of that.
Speaking of those Cheers.
Yeah, this is our first fairwayof the trip for sure, right
yeah Through like eight days nowI got to tell you, the enzyme
that you removed is the onlyreason I'm still on this tour

(01:02):
alive.
Yeah, so what he's talking aboutis I'll just, I'll just give
the backstory and then we'llfuck it.
So what?
What is fairway co?
And I'll talk a little bitabout venus sports.
So this is probably and I yo, Iremember actually I don't think
you know this it was so Ididn't get into the us, like

(01:23):
like September of last year, ayear ago, whatever, and you know
I was going to be there forthree months.
I had a bunch of work stuffhappening there and they thought
it was movie day or whatever,miscommunication, but whatever.
And I remember.
So we went overseas and I'm fromThailand and we were in
Thailand for a month and, bro,I'm like I'm sitting like it's
like 4 am Because I'm like I'msitting like it's like 4 am
because I'm staying up all nightworking like Eastern hours.

(01:45):
I'm just sitting there and I'mlike you know, and you and I are
, we talk about entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial, whatever, and
it's one of those things whereI'm like I'm happy with the
swings that I've taken so far,but I'm like I need to take a
swing at something that Iactually you know, me and
friends really enjoy and I was.

(02:06):
What do we do more?
As you know, guys, gals,whatever is then golf and drink,
and so, as and as I'm thinkingabout this, I'm like, no, why is
no one owned like the golf beerand then own like the social
side of golf?
Obviously you know you'rehaving different types of beer
on the golf course, differenttypes of coolers, whatever it is
, but like you have that on oroff the golf course, why is
there something not niche whereyou see that're like okay, that
takes me to that space that I'min when I'm smoothing people on

(02:29):
the golf course, having a goodtime with friends, meeting new
people, whatever it is.
And so, yeah, man was just likeyo, like there needs to be a
fairway beer, there needs to bea fairway seltzer than you know,
and all these things.
And, yeah, recipe tested forlike six months and ended up
launching fairway lager, whichis a four and a half percent
with an enzyme, the proteaseenzyme, which cuts 90% of the

(02:50):
gluten, so it's not filling andyo, you can attest to that right
, like I mean, yo, I can't drinkand again, I'm the so take this
with a grain of salt, but Iactually can't drink like more
than six of like any other beerand feel, okay, we've definitely
had some days, like through thefirst eight of this tour, where
it's like 15 and, like yo, likestill feeling light, you know

(03:10):
if the tofino 2.0 footage evergets released people roster's on
it yeah, I think roster's on it.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
For sure, shout out to roster for capturing all this
content.
But straight up, the.
The quality of what you'vebuilt in the beer itself is
second to the marketing.
What I believe in on that sideFor sure, I actually enjoy the
beer.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
No, I don't.
I don't normally drink beer.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Everyone knows I don't necessarily drink a lot,
but that is the only reason I'mstill here, because I would be
bloated after two beers.
Yeah, right, but yeah.
You said we mentioned we mighthave had 14 or 15 at some point
throughout the tour.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, right, but yeah you said we mentioned
we might've had 14 or 15 at somepoint throughout the tour.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah yeah, we're not counting.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, no, no, Fortunately, but but yeah, like.
So, just just to get a littlebit into what we're doing here.
So again, I said, own thesocial side of golf and just,
you know, be the go-to beveragemedia company that people look
to when they think, hey, fungolf and sociability on the golf
course.
And so, you know, it's one ofthose things where, through my

(04:08):
background, as they've said inVaynerSports and it's sort of
leading up innovation and newbusiness, and it was one of
those things where a bunch ofexperience in athlete marketing
and why not, you know, showcaseand highlight Canadian sport and
athletics through a massivecampaign that we're doing right
now in Canada.
And that is what Dave alludedto the long drive tour.

(04:28):
So September 14th we started inTofino, bc, the farthest West
point in Canada, and on October3rd we will be ending in we're
going to St John's, newfoundland.
So we're going all the way eastwhere they're going to come
back and end in Cabot, capeBreton, and so, yeah, we're
doing like man.
I mean, I think it works out tothree straight weeks driving

(04:52):
across the country, except we'retaking a flight tonight to
Toronto to skip the middle partstrategically, but we're
probably going to end up playinglike 22 rounds of golf with.
You know what is it Two peoplejoining us every round.
So you know 50 plus athletes,creators, influencers,
entrepreneurs, founders.
You know people who areimpacting the Canadian

(05:14):
marketplace and whatever they'redoing.
And yeah, you know, throughoutthose 21 days we're going to get
to know and interview andcreate content with a bunch of
different people through allwalks of life.
And you know what better placeto do it, as we talked about,
than the golf course, likethrough the first seven days?
I mean just the different catsand characters that we've both
got the pleasure to ride thecarts with and chat and talk to

(05:37):
for four straight hours andenjoy again like a few beers and
get everyone loose.
And man, it's been unreal LikeI.
You know, where else can we dothat?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
yeah, you alluded to the fact that, like you can't
really connect with peoplesomewhere like this other than a
golf course.
I mean, I play hockey once aweek with greg muller and bob
rouse, but you know, I sit nextto them, maybe in the dressing
room, for a couple minutesbefore and after the game, and
it's like you spend four hoursin a cart with someone.
You really get to know who theyare, how they operate, what

(06:06):
they're into, and that's where,like the overlap in the athletic
world I think that's been thecoolest part for me is, like you
know, we have our two networks.
We're calling people lastminute, making reservations,
booking hotel rooms two times,but we're making it happen and
everyone involved is like, yeah,this is what athletes do.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
You guys just get shit done, right yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, and I think it's oneof those things too right,
where, with all of the golfwe're doing, you know golf has
become a sport that is superculturally relevant.
You look at, you know socialright.
You see photos and videos oflebron james golfing.
You're seeing, you know allsorts of different athletes and

(06:45):
people in all walks of lifeplaying the game and obviously
you know various levels.
And I think again, like the onething that is consistent across
the sport of golf is thatconnections that are built on
the golf course and so you knowbeing able to champion that
through the fairway, beer andeverything else we got going on

(07:06):
birdie juice and all sorts ofall those different things.
Like again, I I just think it's.
It's such a.
You know you're, you're ahockey guy, I'm a soccer guy.
Golf was never my number onesport, favorite sport.
Growing up I didn't play thatmuch.
Actually I know you did alittle bit of junior golf, but
as well, probably didn't playthat much and getting into you

(07:26):
know I'd love to be able to sayI didn't play that much.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I played a lot, dude, despite how I've been playing
on the long drive tour.
I played a lot of golf growingup.
Not well right now, but youknow what?
The game's improving, we'regetting, we're trending in the
right direction shout out pxgfor the clubs.
They've been unreal dude, wewe've been very fortunate with
the outreach that you've done,the what people have seen with

(07:48):
the vision that we've beenputting together over the past
few weeks, and it's like, dude,we have pxg putting us in brand
new sets of clubs.
I'm waiting for that gear toshow up and I'm going to be
decked out, dialed in sheldon's,shipping this across the
country right now, but I meanhighlighting some of the
country's best golf courses,with some of the best equipment

(08:09):
on the market, with some of thebiggest brands involved and some
of the up and coming brands,like a bender extender right,
and making sure that you'realigning with okay, you know, if
we are going to have 14 or 15beers, maybe let's make sure
we're taking care of the backendso we can wake up and do it
again the next day, right Forsure.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
For sure, and and and you know, I think too right
it's.
It's one of those where youmentioned vendor extended, but
also championing and showcasingthe entrepreneurs and like the
backbone of this country and the.
You know, it's one of thosethings, right, where I heard a
quote recently on one of thepodcasts I was listening to.
I heard a quote recently on oneof the podcasts I was listening

(08:45):
to Maybe it was this one and itwas and you show me that and
I'm rambling a little bit here,but you show me that video of
the AI of James Winston andJackson Dart.
Yeah, and in the new age thatwe're in of social and AI, what
can be created now is verydifferent than what it looked
like five, 10 years ago, and soit's one of those things where,

(09:09):
really, that creative andstrategic thinking and just how
you approach social and theinternet in this attention
economy is massive, and that'swhy I think you know we've
aligned on so many things islike I'm not going to sit here
and act like I'm a great contentcreator.
I'm not going to sit here andact like I have all the answers.
I don't know, you know, butthat's what it is right.

(09:32):
It's just putting yourself outthere constantly iterating and
just becoming a better humanbeing number one.
And then you know, storyteller,I think that's the most
important thing, right, and Ihave, you know, and this was
super last-minute planning interms of long drive tour, but
literally like fairway longdrive tour, it was the header,
as I'm like going through mynotes and trying to figure out

(09:53):
okay, let's play here this day,let's do this this day, but
every like third line, I'll belike storytelling key,
storytelling key.
And we're still not there, likeI don't feel, like I'm good
enough.
Yet you know, it's constantlyfucking getting better and
that's what sport is as well.
Yeah, but you know, I think thatif that can be at the forefront
of what you're doing and I saidthis to derek, I said this a

(10:15):
couple people in the few, firstfew rounds we played is like you
know, every brand and businessneeds nowadays needs to be a
media company first and abusiness second.
And so I think what we're doinghere you know over the three
weeks that we're going to be onthe road right is you've built
this, the athletes podcast, andestablish yourself.
Obviously, we're on episode 268, which is unreal.

(10:37):
I mean to get past 20, 50, 100to whatever like that's.
You know we'll shout out uh,jordan ferroni, when, uh, when
you get to a thousand, you gotto hit him same amount of ice
baths as podcast.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, you should do one with.
That's a good take.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Actually, we'll do the whole one in the ice bath,
yeah yeah, you know, and yeah,you'll see if you can get more
than three minutes, butaccording to you, yeah, which is
crazy.
But yeah, man, I just think youknow it's one of those things
where, if you are approachingmedia rights, as you know, you
know you can extend whateveryour mission impact is.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
And so you know, obviously, educate, entertain
and inspire, but it's also likecreating evergreen content.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
That looking back my word yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I mean, look at, we're going to do this over
three weeks.
We're going to try our best tocapture all of it possible.
Ross is with us for, you know,18 of the 21 days and there's no
way physically possible for usto capture all of this.
Play the golf and enjoy ourrounds with the people that
we're playing with.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
So you know this is going to be the next two, three,
four months.
You'll be seeing more stuffthat comes from it.
But you know, in the new yearit's like, okay, are we going
down to the UK or the US?
And it's like, where's the nextstep?
Because, you're right, it'siterating.
It's okay, what did we doduring this trip that worked
well?
Where do we need to improve?
What admin assistant are wehiring so that you and I don't

(11:59):
have 64 different tasks to takecare of on Saturday before we
play our round on Sunday morning?
Like?
Those are the little thingsthat you know.
Like you alluded to, I've beendoing this for six years.
I've done a couple of minortours.
This is a major tour, you know.
We got multiple people involved, moving pieces and over time,
you know we're going to freakingbe able to dial this in and
it's going to be incredible andmaybe it's not taking on an

(12:20):
entire country, maybe it's theWest Coast.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Maybe you adjust accordingly, right?
Look, I think this is the firststep to building community and
building something bigger.
And for me, the vision, withsomething like this, that we're
doing with the 18 days, 18cities, 18 courses, is hey, next
time we do it, let's get a crewout in each city we go to.

(12:44):
Maybe that's just 10 people,maybe it's 20, whatever it is,
and by the time you know we'rewhere we want to be.
We have hundreds of people ineach city coming out to a golf
course of our choice and joiningus at each of those spots and,
just again, championing thesocial, the connections made
through sport, specifically,obviously, here with golf, but

(13:07):
through sport just in general.
Everyone plays golf, exactly Ifyou're athletic or not, you can
play golf.
Proof, and golf is also probablymaybe baseball, but one of the
only sports where you can ripbeers and or drinks and arguably
be better Agreed, I would agreewith that.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Maybe curling, toss in curling.
I've done a little bit ofcurling.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I can't say I've drank when I've curled, but it's
got to be one of the only likeanything you're like you know.
So, which is nice and whichhelps you know the cause here,
but that's the vision for me isjust like, hey, how can we do
this and get people out in eachof our stops and, honestly, man
through the first eight daysjust with some of the social
proof from people messaging uson Instagram and saying, hey,

(13:53):
we'd love to grab a beer here.
Or hey, come play my golfcourse here.
I mean just that alone, I feellike I'm super grateful and I
feel like we've won already.
And how can we 10 and 100x thatand get everyone in their
respective cities being like,hey, this is super cool, we love
what you guys are doing, let'sdo it here, let's do this, let's
do that.

(14:16):
So, yeah, I'm excited becausewe've got, we've done a little
bit on the West Coast andobviously, like you know what a
whirlwind of seven, eight daysbetween the driving and the on
course and the off course, andbut yeah, like you know,
tomorrow we get to Toronto andtomorrow night we've got a party
, a fairway launch party at agolf sim spot with, you know, 50
to 100 people coming.
And so you know again, likejust mixing these things in
along our tour is awesomebecause we get to connect with

(14:39):
100 people tomorrow who we'venever met, yeah.
And enjoy a beverage.
And then you know, I'm like, I'mlike, oh yeah, I remember the
conversation I had with davewhile I was sipping this, yeah,
and so when I look at this, likeyou know, you said the the
what's in the can is good, whichis awesome.
Obviously, you want what's inthe can to be good, but in my
opinion it's.

(15:00):
It's not about what's in thecan, it's not about the can,
what it's about the feeling thatthis gives you.
And so you know again, like youand I will never forget these
18 to 21 days and whenever Ilook at this can and this logo
and this brand, I'm going to betaken to a place.
It's going to be differentplaces every time, just because
the amount of memories we'vealready made with this.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
It's true.
I think that's one thing thatlike for me at least I want to
make sure for those watching,listening, consuming.
This is like if we did see youover these past seven, eight
days.
Thank you for being a part ofthis.
Like that was incredible.
And for those who have beenwith us for six years here on
the podcast, you've seen thegrowth, the pitfalls, the ups,

(15:42):
the downs, like it's not allsunshine and rainbows.
I've talked about this foryears and, like you experienced
this right now, having been inthis for what?
Seven, eight, nine months withfairway co.
And like you're adding newbrands now to the portfolio.
And for you it's like okay, now, how do I continue to grow?
And I heard when we weretalking a few days ago it's like
yo, I'm taking big swings rightnow.

(16:04):
Like we're at the age where youcan do that.
We don't have a crazy amount ofresponsibilities.
And yo, let's, let's, swing forthe home run instead of hitting
a single.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
For sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look, I think it's acombination of consistency,
right?
You know, take getting your atbats, waking up every day doing
what you need to do, and thenyou know, being strategic around
, okay, now's the time to take abig.
You know, people always saywhen's the best time to start,

(16:34):
when's it's fucking right now.
Like you know, there's nevergoing to be a good time.
There's no.
You know, financial situation,personal situation, families,
what the the world is a crazyplace, as we've seen.
You know, especially over thelast five years, just with all
the kind of BS that's happened,and you know everything that's
just gone down.
And I think, at the end of theday, you are your own thoughts,

(16:55):
you control what you can controland you know, just do your
thing, keep that consistency andreally, like, I truly believe
that if you want something,you'll make it happen.
I think the issue with you knowand I speaking like to our
generation, probably more sothan the older generation it's
one of those things where mostof us kind of go through life

(17:21):
and think we want things and arekind of like, oh, oh, yeah, you
know, that'd be nice, I kind ofwant that, but we never
actually defined what it is thatwe actually really want and go
after it.
And so, you know, I believe inlaw of attraction, I believe in
the power of manifestation and Ithink you know, again, the
problem with most people is likethey don't know exactly what
they want and therefore can't goafter what they don't know that

(17:44):
they want.
Versus, you know, coming intosomething like this, it's like I
want everyone who's on the golfcourse or and or enjoys the
game of golf to have tried thisand know what we are over the
next five years, and if I knowthat that's exactly what I want,
then I work to achieve that.
Versus you know, again, even afew years ago, it's like, oh

(18:06):
yeah, I want to do this, I wantto do this, I want to do this,
but, like you know, I'm notfully committing to anything.
And how am I going to get towhere when I'm, you know,
half-assing things and all that?
So, yeah, man, you know I can'tpreach enough.
The law of attraction is a realthing really.
You know, when you're young,try as much shit as possible.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Obviously, throw as much shit at the wall and see
what sticks I use.
A alfredo, yeah, instead ofspaghetti.
It's a little bit nicer, youknow?
Yeah, it sticks nice.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
We'll have to literally, you should literally
hug some, yeah, yeah but yeah,you know, I I just think that
it's such a a real thing, right,it's like dude, that is why
we're sitting here having thisconversation right now.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Right, like for what?
Four years ago, I hit you up onlinkedin because you were a
young canadian kid that wasgrinding in the sports space.
Yeah, and that was what I wasdoing for a couple years and I'm
like yo how, when you hit me upfour years ago, how?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
and you said young canadian kid, how young did you
think I was?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I thought we were the same age.
Yeah, I figured we were aroundthe same age I was.
I would have been 24 at thetime, so I I assumed you were
older than 20.
I'll be honest there.
Yeah, I mean, but then, like,once you start doing the math,

(19:26):
you realizing you're at U of Aand like, but you were hustling
during school after like, andnow the same as me, right, like
I started working with RobChevers, who were here, gm
Windermere, and it's like Istarted working with him at
during second year of sportmanagement at Brock University.
It was like I was basicallyholding down a full-time job
during the summer while doingschool, and it's like you're
involved with Vayner doing thesame shit and it's like yo,
that's there's not a lot of.

(19:46):
I've told you this.
There's not a lot of people ourage that are working as hard as
we are or that are externallyshowcasing that and like
hustling and trying to go afterit.
Like, yeah, and I shouldn't saywhere there's a lot of people
working hard, let me individualswho are working hard to share
that and like I don't think it'sout there right now.

(20:08):
There's founders clubs outthere.
Aaron Spivak's built that andit's like for me, it's the next
generation trying to educate,entertain and inspire.
It's like yo, I went throughthis as a young athlete.
I don't want other youngathletes to go through the same
pitfalls and difficulties, solet's build something that's
going to help them, whether it'sa community right, same thing

(20:28):
here.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
And look you, you you speak about a young athlete,
right.
Athletes nature is to becompetitive, right.
And I think it's one of thosethings where, you know, for me
as well, leaving high levelsports, you know, just due to
injury and obviously growing up,et cetera, you know, I would

(20:49):
say the one thing that felt likeit was missing for a few years
after that was, you know, thatcompetition, right, it's like
we're out here playing big gamesand you know, you know, oh shit
, I got it, you know, and it's,it's that high and that feeling
is why we, us athletes, do whatwe do.
But I think, if you, you know,not everyone's going to make it

(21:12):
to the top of their sports, noteveryone is going to, you know,
have successful careers, justbecause there's other factors
involved, right, and you know, Ithink athletes, in just their
mindsets and how they operate,are entrepreneurial in their
nature from a competitivestandpoint.
And I think, you know, I'm luckyenough to have found business,

(21:34):
just in general, at a youngenough age where it's like yo,
like this is now my sport, yeah,like I don't want to lose, you
know, like I don't give a shitwho else is doing what.
Like you know, I again I want toprop people up, you know, but
at the end of the day we'recompeting against each other.
I want to win and so you know,I think I mean and men like you

(21:54):
know most businesses that I'vebeen in again through my short
career because I'm not aseasoned vet yet but you know,
most people hire in athletes.
Man, or you know college youth,whatever it is man, or you know
college youth, whatever it islike.
If you know how to play in ateam, you know how to compete,
all these things.
Most of those skills translateover into the professional world
and so you know, I thinkthrough this as well, just the

(22:17):
ability to be able to say thingsout loud that you know impact
people and help people who aremaybe a little lost or trying to
find their place after theirathletic careers.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, so, you know, I I just think it's super
powerful to be havingconversations that do that yeah,
and that's, I think, honestly,something that I've maybe missed
or not hit home enough is likethat transition from like sport
to the real world and, like youknow, now it's building a brand
and building a business andhaving the skills that you

(22:51):
applied as an athlete, and howyou can transition that to the
works, to the workforce or toyour own business.
Like that's why jr butler and Iconnected and he started an
agency that strictly hires salesreps who are former athletes
and they absolutely smash.
And I just see them crushing onLinkedIn week over week and I'm

(23:14):
like, dude, there's a reason.
You hire high performers whoare competitive, who love to get
after it, who are probablyfinancially motivated, and it's
like, yeah, why not?
Right?
And it's like, okay.
So I'm curious to know from you, like when did that switch flip
?
Because I know soccer was yoursport.
Obviously you probably hadaspirations to play for Chelsea.
You're sitting here watchingevery game.

(23:35):
The guy's going absolutelyberserk.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I've seen that.
But when does that moment hitfor you where you're like, okay,
maybe I'm not going to be thestarting man for Chelsea FC?
For me it happened in highschool, probably around grade 10
, 11, 12.
I was like you know what?
I'm going to play house thisyear, I'm just going to enjoy it
with the boys.
You hit that shift.

(23:59):
When was that for you?
How did you handle it?
How did you do it?
Since we're talking about it,yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Look, I grew up in warm climates so I was playing
outdoor year round, right I?
I genuinely and again this willbe funny to clip for my friends
and shit but genuinely I and mygrandpa played in the nhl.
My family's a hockey family.
If I grew up in canada and washere and you know, we just
played with tyson and we've beenaround you know, younger, you
know younger hockey guys.

(24:31):
Right, I think that there's noworld where if I'm living in
canada, then grow up in canadaI'm not in like at least some
sort of professional hockeyplayer for real, like on, no
bullshit again.
And you can see the confidenceHockey.
My point being is that I grewup in a warm climate so I was
playing soccer every day outside, right yeah.

(24:53):
And when I was 12 years old wemoved to Edmonton and at that
point playing indoor whateveralways made the provincial team,
always did this, that whatever.
And you know, I think for methe moment was probably my first
year universe.
So I signed for FC Edmonton andI was thinking at 16, like shit

(25:14):
, if I'm going to sign for a proteam in Canada and I work hard,
why can't I do my thing?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
overseas.
There's a limit.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
But at that point, kind of six months later, there
was a lot of other opportunitiescoming up.
From a business standpoint, Iwas super passionate about
building network, doingdifferent things, whereas I felt
like I wasn't 100% dedicated todiet everything that's needed

(25:44):
to be at the highest level.
I enjoyed other things too much, maybe the beer as well, and
not at the.
You know, I honestly I neverhad a sip alcohol in high school
.
This would have been, you know,probably yeah, like 19.
So second, second year uni, Iended up fucking up my hip and
the doctor said you're nevergoing to play again.

(26:04):
And at that point I was likeokay, well, I'm already not at
the highest level and so there'sno way I'm going to work back.
And you know, make.
And so he, he told you that,though, that I was never going
to play again, and so and thisis, this is, but this is how I
got to vayner, like, so it allworked out is as soon as I was
told that and this was the, thiswas the oiler's doctor like, so

(26:26):
it was like two, he was at thetime and this was for a couple
weeks span.
It was during COVID.
He was seeing two people.
This was when Connor McDavidhad his knee injury.
So Connor McDavid would go inand then he'd come out high five
me I'd go in and this was likemaybe like two weeks straight we
never really talked you andDave, were just high five
buddies.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Like how you feeling today, whatever, oh yeah, okay
yeah whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
and we were working through it.
We were trying to-five like howare you feeling today?
Whatever, oh yeah, okay,whatever.
And we were working through it,we were trying to figure out
what was wrong.
And then I ended up going tothe sports performance place
shout-out.
Derek Lamptshire called Ethicsand he was like yo, what the
doctor is trying to do is he'strying to find the problem, do
some sort of surgery and he'llmake you better for a few years.
But, like you know, this is aproblem with Western is.

(27:10):
Like you know, let's find theproblem and then give it an
acute solution, but bandaid it.
Yeah, but not actually fix theroot of why you have a problem.
And so he was like look, yougotta be doing like your, your
super imbalance, your right coreis stronger than your left,
your glutes are stronger thanyour hamstrings, blah, blah,

(27:31):
whatever, a bunch of differentshit.
And he's like yo, you got tostart doing like corrective
exercise and stuff.
And it was one of those thingswhere, with that, he was just
like you know, every day I'd goin and I'd be doing all sorts of
different like workout regimesand stuff and finally, on my
hipster guess what, I'm likeshit, I can run again and
through that, just spending timewith him every day.

(27:51):
We ended up building aconnection.
I ended up doing some businessstuff with him and that's what
brought me into the sport worldand got me to, you know,
interested in all sorts ofdifferent like business and,
yeah, you know, at the end ofthe day I could have probably
made a go at soccer.
But it was one of those thingswhere you speak about financial
motivation.

(28:12):
When I think about what I wantto get out of life, it's like
you know, I want to raise anawesome family, I want to be
able to be financially free andyou know, have a house wherever.
I want to have a house and dothis with the people I love and,
you know, enjoy time withfriends and stuff.
And if you want to reach thetop of your sport, you're making

(28:33):
like you're not spending timewith family, you're not spending
time with friends.
You got to diet, you got to doall these things, and so I
didn't want to do something andbe second best.
I felt like I could have takenit farther than I did, but I'm
either going to be the guy ornot the guy.
And what it would have taken tobe the guy, especially when I
was already behind the eightball, you know, I just didn't
want to make those sacrificesand I think you know, at the end

(28:56):
of the day, that seems sayingit out loud seems like, hey, you
know I gave up, I'm soft,whatever, but I genuinely
believe that your greatest assetas an athlete and as a human
being is to be true to yourselfand listen to what your body is

(29:20):
telling you, what your mind andyou know.
Go from there and so at least,like for me, I can sleep at
night knowing, like I've alwaysdone what I've wanted to do.
I live life on my own accord,whether that is in athletics
business, whatever it is.
And so sure Are there dayswhere I'm like, fuck, I'd love
to be, you know, training allday and playing a day, whatever.

(29:42):
But at the end of the day, youknow you make choices and you
run with them and maybe they'renot always going to be the right
decisions, but again, youconstantly need to adapt and do
what's best for you and thepeople you love.
And you know I I felt like Idid that, even though you know,
would I love to be sitting hereon episode 268 and you're like
yo, we've got the best canadiansoccer player here and whatever.

(30:06):
Yeah, fucking rights.
And could that have been athing?
Yeah, I believe so, like Iplayed with Alphonso.
He's the best Canadian soccerplayer Like him and left back,
right back, like way moreathletic than I am.
That's the problem.
He's not drinking a fairway ona Monday for sure.
We've got to put fairways inhis hands.
Maybe we'll find him on afriday night.

(30:29):
Hey yeah, on a fridaydefinitely he riffs it, for sure
he's got the hcl right now.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
But uh yo, all that being said, dude, I want to make
sure you recognize you're notsoft no, for sure like though I
know you're saying that you'rebeing humble like I went through
the exact same experience,right like I played not even to
the same high level as you didat soccer even though I heard
you're a stud, right?

Speaker 2 (30:50):
yeah, mules, mules was pumping my tires.
Yeah, they hype him up as agoalie.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah like, and, honestly, looking back, I look
at it.
I'm like, okay, maybe if I hadcontinued to train the way you
and I know that it is requiredto get to that level, maybe I
could have done something.
I ended up being six, two, six,three in a suit, like a good
lean build for a hockey goalie.
Like, for sure, for sure therecould have been something there.
But I'm also like the statswere one in 10,000.

(31:17):
When I was a 16, 17 year old kid, I was playing a two, a three
hockey.
I'm like you, a smart kid.
Let me apply these same skillsin life and, hey, maybe I'll end
up playing golf with them 10years later, you know.
And it's like, here we aredoing this stuff, yeah, and
having trained with world'sstrongest man and, you know,
talked with the best pickleballand racquetball players in the

(31:39):
world, it's like, yeah, sure,that would have been sick to be
a good hockey goalie and makethe nhl, but I can also do a
heck of a lot outside of the NHLand still be involved in the
NHL potentially.
Yeah, yeah, interviewing peoplelike Jessica Campbell, who's
spearheading women's hockey.
Yeah, yeah, there's levels tothe game and if you don't just

(32:00):
put yourself into one game.
Maybe there's a bunch ofdifferent games you can play
along the way, and for me that'sjust like yo.
I six years ago probably wasn'tthinking, oh, let's start a beer
company, or?
Become involved in a beercompany.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but thecrossover is there, why not?
Why not include people when youcan have conversations that

(32:25):
lead?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
to so many more things outside of a hockey game,
playing a game, shooting a ballin a hoop, yeah, and look, I
think you nailed on the headright and I think you can
probably appreciate this.
With sport and with thededication that it takes to make
it at a certain level, inwhatever sport that is, you have
to be all in, and for me, itwas one of those things where I
always, you know, I lovedinvesting, I loved financial

(32:49):
markets, I loved crypto, I lovedsports card, collect all these
different things and it's likeyo, oh, that's sick.
Cheers, cheers, oh thespillover, oh Arlo, oh no, no,
don't get dog, no beer, staythere.
Stay there.
It's just like yo, like I don'twant to just do one thing, I
want to have several things andbe able to do them all

(33:11):
proficiently and do that.
And so, yeah, I think athletesare, for sure, underappreciated
still in terms of what they haveto do to just bring it on a
day-to-day in whatever sport itis.
And so and I I think peopledon't realize that, right, it's

(33:31):
like you know, a lot of peoplesay to me hey, you know, oh, I
wish I was a pro sport orathlete, whatever.
It is like they live such agood life, you know, whatever,
sure they have to play 82 gamesa season or whatever it is if
you play baseball, which isinsane, yeah, in in a summer not
even yeah, but you know it'slike you don't again.

(33:52):
You don't see the sacrifice, youdon't.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
It's glamorized dude and everyone on sees it on
social, and now more than everit's it's amplified because
these athletes are being askedto also become content creators
and capture everything that theydo throughout their day.
So now, not only are you tryingto be the best athlete in the
world, be the best at your sport, you're also being asked hey,
film all this, be interactive,have a personality.

(34:17):
And it's like yo we'veestablished sometimes if you're
really good at a sport or reallydialed in in business, whatever
.
You might not be the mostinteresting person to talk to or
like be able to look at acamera, speak clearly, concisely
, communicate effectively.
Like it just doesn't happen allthe time.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
You know what else is is glamorized right now, like
as of the last couple years.
Friggin and gary's definitely areason, but entrepreneurship man
for sure you see, you know, yousee guys calling the shots,
making their own decisions,doing what they want.
Every day it's like, oh my God,I want.
You know, if I'm not an athlete, I want to be an entrepreneur.
But you don't see the fucking,the calls at 5am because shit's

(34:59):
fucking hit the fan, or thegrinding till 4am because
literally everything is on you.
It's not.
You know, when you work forsomeone else, you know at the
end of the day, I clock in, Iclock out, it's not my problem,
whereas you know when you'redoing your own thing, you live
and die by what you're doing.
And so you know you deal withall the ups and downs and the

(35:22):
stress, and I think you knowit's become so glamorized, but
you really don't see the.
You know there's so much shitthat comes up.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Dude, we look at this past week alone Like what.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
And this is like, and this past week alone is like
you know, this is a week on acampaign that we're doing and
like, at the end of the day,obviously we want everything to
go well.
I think at the end, you know,you got to assume that it's not
and adapt and plan for the worstand hope for the best, whatever
.
But what's happened is justscratched.

(35:56):
I mean, the amount of yeah inbusiness is ridiculous and it's
just like you can't not have aand I think what, at least for
me and I'm still earning earlyin my journey I am, you know,
again 24 like dude we're babies.
No, we're babies.
You know new to run like.

(36:18):
You know having to take care ofall the financial stuff, from
having to build the brand, fromhaving to do everything, from
you know having to generaterevenue, et cetera, and it's one
of those things where-.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Answer to investors.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, but I can sleep at night and I hope this helps.
Honestly, I just hope thishelps one person.
It will.
The only reason I can sleep atnight when I'm being blown up at
12 AM because we missed ourpackaging date and now we're on
the hook for 20 grand and wecan't get anything done, and so

(36:52):
I've just lost 20 grand.
Whatever is that which I don'thave, you know, is that my
family and friends and thepeople are not impacted and
won't change based on whathappens in my business and
entrepreneurial journey.
Sure, they'll celebrate thewins with me and console me on

(37:12):
the losses, but at the end ofthe day, there are more
important things in life.
And so then sport, then beer,then business, whatever, you
know, we're living it, we're'rebreathing it.
It feels like the mostimportant thing to me right now.
But, like you know, if, if Idon't, I can't come home to my
family.

(37:32):
I can't come home like at theend of the day, you know yeah
what are we doing?
yeah, like, so you know, and wedo it for them, right.
Like you know, I do it for thepeople that I fuck with and that
I love and that you know, andand that's why I I really think
that business, just in general,is a people's game, right, if
you can.
I'm glad we connected fouryears ago and I'm glad we're
doing what we're doing right now.

(37:53):
And this is just scratching thesurface in terms of what we can
do together.
And I think, at the end of theday, when you've got like-minded
people who you can bounce ideasoff of, who you can be creative
with, who you can work with,who you know are going to grind
for you and grind with you,whatever it is like the sky's
the limit, for sure.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, and I think, just to double down on that,
it's like one plus one inbusiness does not equal two and
we've proved that for sure,right?
Yeah, like straight up, it'snot everyone is created equal.
Some work harder in pre-season.
That's an emin smith quote.
That's my shit.
And not everyone is createdequal.

(38:30):
The quote goes not all men arecreated equal yeah some work
harder in preseason.
I like to adjust it becauseeveryone's equal, but like you
know, and it's that's that'slegitimately the way I look at
things and like maybe ourpreseason could have been a bit
more dialed in prior to thelaunch of this long drive tour.
But we're athletes, we adapt,we're agile and you make it

(38:51):
happen and you know we may notlook the most agile on the
course after a couple fairways,but, holy dinah, can we make
stuff happen on the back end too?
Right, and like that's atestament to all.
Right, maybe I'm gonna shoothigh 80s on the golf course
today, but you know what?
I'm still going to show up thenext day and put down my best

(39:11):
round I possibly can, and maybethat's a 90 the next day.
But that's alsoentrepreneurship, right?

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Like you got to be cool with the fact that not
every day is going to be an Aplus bro.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Dude, like sometimes you just got to whack it around
out there and try and put theball in the hole.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
And it's not going to be pretty, but there's no
pictures on the scorecard.
Yeah, and the only person thatdoesn't get to the finish line
is the one that gives up forsure.
Yeah, yeah, and and yo, yeah.
Like you know, through these,for what we're, we're eight are
we in day eight?
yeah, yeah, we're eight days inof probably what's going to turn
into 21, which is crazy thatwe're less than half with the
amount of stuff we've gonethrough, and I think you know
the ability for us to just be onthe fly and do what we're doing

(39:56):
and you know, shout outeveryone who's made this happen
from derrick or yeah, even, justlike you know yeah derrick's
plugged a bunch of stuff, likeyou know.
You know we've had great guestsout.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Every single day it's been phenomenal, dude.
The weather's been insane.
Honestly like shout out toMother Nature for holding it
down for us.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, we heard we got some rain coming into our house
yeah.
Rosser, shout out to Bridgetand Kendra and Kurt and Tofino
who are going to.
You know, make sure thatFairway Beer the athlete.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
It's on the West Coast.
Across the island, it's goingto be coast to coast, thanks to
those three for sure.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Exactly, you know, and I'm excited to get out east
and see what the East Coast isall about.
So I mean, yo like just to takea step back and to go through
what we've done.
So we this is showcasing thecountry athletics, golf, fairway

(40:52):
, beer and the sociability ofjust Canada and golf in general.
We started in Tofino onSeptember 14th.
We then drove 13 hours fromEdmonton to Dave Scoop me, 4 am
ferry, bang, we're in Nanaimo.
From Vancouver, 6 am ferry 4 amwake up.
4 am.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Wake up.
6 am Ferry Bang.
We're in Nanaimo from Vancouver6 am Ferry.
4 am.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Wake up 4 am.
Wake up 6 am.
Ferry Shout out Chartsy forhaving eight years For
detonating yeah and detonatingOn site On the ferry.
We then get to Nanaimo we Threehours to Tofino to play Long
Beach Golf Course.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
We show up with like five minutes to spare.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Long Beach Golf Course unreal, but might have
been the worst that we've.
This might have been the worstI've played in Like hard.
We got the new clubs.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Never hit the clubs.
Once PXG put them, they werestill hot off the press dude Hot
off the press.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
So tough round whatever.
But honestly, the beers wereflowing, the vibes were high and
turned around meeting somepeople on the golf course good
tofino locals you know whoenjoyed again what the mission
and what we're trying to do, andyeah, again, this is on and off
course, right, and so end uphaving a good time.
You get on the boat, dinner,hot tub, whatever, and then, and

(42:08):
then, you know, scratching thatinto fino.
Then the morning drove fourhours to victoria.
Yeah, bear mountain had a greatround with kevin woodley from
in goal magazine and derrick oryeah, pxg rep, pga professional,
and so, yeah, that that wasawesome.
Played with dom and then dinnerwith derrick, who we convinced

(42:28):
to come to Cabot because they'regreat people really had to
twist his arm on that oh, yeah,he was, yeah, he was.
He did not want to do it, he didnot want to.
And the crazy thing about thatis and you want to talk about,
like you know, good energy, goodomen, love, attraction, power,
whatever I was telling you thisbefore the first time we ever
had the beers on the course, oneof my my best buddies, ryan,

(42:49):
got a hole-in-one.
None of us ever had any, so wewere like, okay, we're in the
right spot here.
And then I was telling youbefore we went on this tour, in
terms of Canadian golf contentcreators and golfers, I was
telling you before we went onthis.
It's like yo, my ideal person tohave on and feature in our

(43:11):
cross-Canada docuseries.
The Long Drive by Fairway isprobably Mac Boucher, right?
Yes, sir, yeah.
And the slingshot, trickshotBMW commercial, lefty slinger,
great guy.
And who do we run into afterour round at Bear Mountain?
Mac himself, standing there aswe get to our massive sprinter

(43:33):
van.
Whatever Ended up giving him aneight-pack of beer.
He was with Luca, who I thinkis the head pro there, and a
couple other guys.
Another guy was actually fromEdmonton and yeah, man, and he's
going to be a Cabot at the sametime.
We're going to be a Cabot.
So if Mack is listening to this, stars align.
Yeah, we time we're going to bea Cabot.
So if Mac is listening to this,stars align, yeah we'll see you
October 3rd, hopefully a littlenight golf, night golf round
with my, my clubs.

(43:53):
That might not be able to seebecause PXG got the all blacks,
but Sheldon did warn me not toget the all blacks just just for
that.
Just for that, I like the NewZealand rugby team, too much to
not get the all black who justlost to Canada to advance to the
gold medal match of the rugbychampionships.
Really, yeah, dude.
And the women's, or men'sWomen's?

(44:14):
Oh really, canadian women'steam just took down New Zealand
Rugby championship or World Cup.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yeah, world Cup.
I don't know.
I should know.
We'll edit that part in.
It's either World Cup or Idon't know.
I don't know, I've not beenfollowing.
Is it the World Cup?
Okay, thanks, mama Dora.
Hawaii just came in here andclutched up Women's World Cup,
canadian team.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
They're in the final.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
They're in the final dude, oh shit.
It's not being talked aboutenough right now.
We're going to drop thisepisode so fast so that this can
get out, but seriously, they,we've got to watch the final.
Yeah, dude, it's happening.
This, the uk, they're in the uk.
Quick fairway long drive detourto the uk to the uk no, we can
make it happen, but honestlythere's like they are making

(44:53):
history just by beating newzealand alone.
But now they got a chance inthe gold medal match to to take
it down and hopefully again.
That's like that's part of thisright.
It's canadian sport beinghighlighted in a non-traditional
fashion because, frankly, mediahasn't been doing what they
could be doing with it and Ithink there's opportunities to

(45:13):
do more in the space.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah yeah we're trying right now yeah, yeah,
yeah, and so yeah, just to kindof take it back left victoria,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah I likevictoria.
Yeah, I had a conversation withchloe from theways Hotel.
We bought it and whatever.
Get to Vancouver and MorganCreek with Greg Mueller, poker
player.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Three World Series of Poker Championship rings no big
deal.
Bracelets, rings, bracelets.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Bracelets and Bob Rouse.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Bob Rouse, two cups 97, 98.
Those are rings for sure, ohyeah.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that was a fun round inmorgan creek.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
We clutched up and didn't lose a thousand because
they missed a two-foot putt toend it, which was crazy honestly
shout out to rouser for for notburying that putt, because we
know he had to make mules andfinish us off and he wasn't
successful.
But you know what we moved onday four was sagebrush day four
with sagebrush sick track.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Yeah, I think might have been the yeah, the most fun
course I played in canada Ithink it had to do with the fact
that you were also playing wellthere.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Hey, I shot better at jpl.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Jpl was a fun round I was jpl was probably 79 and jpl
.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
But yeah, I was playing you've been playing good
golf this first.
We haven't even brought thatpart up yet.
The fact that you're careering,or what Well, yo, I was
probably going.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
You were coming in hot.
Well, going into the year, likegoing into the season, I was a
13 handicap, yeah, and yeah, man, now like my index is like an
8.5.
Like I honestly haven't playedthat much.
I think what helps is I playedover in Ireland like six rounds.
Just with how hard it was overthere I was like, holy shit,

(46:56):
it's got to get easier when Iget back to Canada.
It has, because it's notpissing rain and sideways wind.
How'd you get introduced?

Speaker 1 (47:04):
to golf.
Was it your dad?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
That's a good question that we'll have to
circle back.
I I think, yeah, I think it wasyeah in dubai.
In dubai, 10, 11 years old,took a few lessons, didn't play
again till like 17 and then wasjust like, okay, yeah, I enjoy
this, but always soccer seasonwe're in the summer in canada,

(47:29):
we don't have much of a golfseason right, so couldn't really
play.
I honestly I would say like Iactually the only I started
playing more than like 10 roundsa year in like 2021 covid, yeah
, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Uh, that's one thing I'm fascinated you talked about
like sports that you can playafter a couple pints.
I think sports that you canplay with your parents or
grandparents is like a reallyunique thing too.
Like, yeah, you know pickleballgolf curling.
Like you know, there's not manyand I think I love that about
sport.

(48:02):
Like bob rouse could probablykick both our ass in a
pickleball match.
You know you haven't seen meplay pickleball.
I know you haven't seen meeither, but he's a 3.5 and he's
pretty.
That's pretty good 3.
In a pickleball match, you know.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
You haven't seen me play pickleball.
I know you haven't seen meeither, but he's a 3.5, and
that's pretty good, 3.5 inpickleball.
Yeah, dude, I'm a 4.
Oh yeah, are you no for real?
No shit, eh, we should play.
We'll have to play, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
I've actually never tracked.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
I have no 3,000.
To get it all back to even Ithought you were saying he's a
3.5 handicap in golf which healso is.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
He's a 3.9.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
And he didn't tell us , man talk about sandbagging us
earlier.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
No wonder he didn't want to play us for that amount
of cash.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Yeah, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Hey Mules only started playing a couple of
years ago.
Which?

Speaker 2 (48:47):
is also crazy he was good for only playing for a
couple years ago, which is alsocrazy.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
He was good for only playing for a couple years.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
So day four Sagebrush .
Oh yeah, she likes.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Sagebrush yeah, fired her up.
Number one public course in BC.
No big deal Predator with Blakeand Tice.
That was fun man.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
That was a good round , blake, and I took down you and
Tice.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Well, I almost took down a human being at the same
time.
Yeah which started the videoyeah hole 10.
Not my finest moment.
Sorry again to that individualthat I almost took off the
temple.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Unreal weather, though, in both Merritt and
Kelowna there.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I think the Predators greens were pretty damn quick
Quick yeah.
Too bad we didn't get to playthe ridge course.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Yeah, which is what we were originally supposed to
play but again, when you dostuff like this, you mix the
dates up a little bit.
So shout out, predator forbeing able to move us.
Accommodating yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Oh, predator, everyone's been accommodating.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Yeah, all of the courses.
For sure I won't call out thecouple that haven't.
But yeah, shout-out Long BeachGolf Course.
Shout-out Bear Mountain.
Shout-out Sagebrush.
Shout-out Predator JPL.
Massive shout-out to the JPLthey hooked us up with customer
bag tags, divver repairs, ballmarkers, a couple magazines.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
We'll get Ryan to do a little overlay of those,
because that was legitimate.
That's legitimate hospitalityComing from the club space,
knowing what that takes to turnaround In 48-72 hours after
Derek makes one phone call, thatwas phenomenal, so shout out
JPL.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I honestly think we went to Predator.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Matt and Ryan, both beauties.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
I think that was my favorite round.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
You know everyone's been great and it's all been
fucking awesome.
I also think it had to do.
I mean, you shot an 83, I shota 79 there.
We drained two Eagle, like Idrained an Eagle, Matt drained
an Eagle in the same hole.
Yeah, I was like 300 throughfive.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
you then started playing really good yeah
fairmont phenomenal, as always,giving us a little extra, like,
yeah, it was, that was a, thatwe were treated that day for
sure.
Yeah, uh, and I, I, this wholetrip.
I feel like I've been treatedhonestly, man, like straight up
from day one quite a coupleyears ago.
When we have conversation withat jules's in restaurant we're

(51:11):
having a what was that?
A scotch that you ordered, whatwas that?
At 10 am at the restaurant itwas lunchtime.
You got one on the rocks InMcAllen.
Oh, I see hey no stranger doingearly bevy.
Either way, it was like, fromthat moment you align with

(51:31):
people, like you said, you gotthe same mentality and there's
like yo, I feel treated justbeing a part of this whole
process and being able to meetall these people that we've
formed relationships over yearsbut never necessarily activated
on.
Or, like you know, you meetpeople online, social media and
it's like, yeah, this would begreat to do sometime.
We've talked about doing thisfrom an olympic standpoint,
touring around and like, yeah,that's still probably in the

(51:53):
works.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
But again, like you know, why can't we get the if
it's summer?
Why can't we get thoseolympians on the golf course?
Exactly again, because we canhave a 30 minute to an hour
conversation with an olympic,like you know even an amber
setting like but yeah, you know,play nine holes two hours.
Yeah, golf course, if theydrink, they we have a few drinks
, if not, we just chill and weend up running some bogey miles

(52:15):
thanks to blake jakes, you know,whatever the case may be, or
ice bath.
Thank the jordan for honey.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, that'll be in the atlantic.
It might be a little cold bythen.
We might actually be shivering,hey, I mean if jordan's out
there.
He'll show us that again yeah,yeah'll go through the mental.
He'll just speak some quote andwe'll be good to go from there,
hey.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a thousand of those.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
So dialed Harlow.
What do you think?
Is that the?
Is that the end of this pod?
Do you want to bark and end it?
Fairway, co.
Long drive tour day.
We'll probably do another oneof these day 16.
Yeah, we'll, we'll rip a cabot.
Oh, oh man.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
In the four bedroom residence.
I actually got to email the guy.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
You guys are in for a treat.
Hey, thank you folks for tuningin.
This is 268th episode of theathletes podcast featuring
Callum Dorahoy, the founder offairway co and also good friend
of mine man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
It's been a lot of fun.
I appreciate you, dude.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Yo, here's to many more fairways, cheers.
Both on and off the courseAppreciate you guys.
Thanks for tuning in.