Joshua Sears' transformation to a prominent advocate for veterans is nothing short of inspiring. This episode takes us through his remarkable journey, highlighting his military career as an 11 Bravo in the Army and his experiences with the 187th Infantry Regiment in Iraq. Joshua's transition from active service to founding the non-profit 100Fore22 showcases his dedication to supporting fellow veterans, rooted in personal growth and a commitment to give back. His story is a testament to resilience and the power of purpose-driven change.
Listeners will be captivated by Joshua's innovative approach to fundraising, particularly the "100 Holes for the 22" golf marathon. This unique event pushes participants to their physical limits in an effort to raise funds for veterans and first responders. Joshua shares the challenges of orchestrating such events, from securing sponsorships to managing logistics, and underscores the heartfelt impact these efforts have on treatment facilities. The camaraderie and determination of the golfers involved reveal a shared mission that transcends the sport, fostering community and awareness across the country.
As we explore the expansion of these endurance golf events, the conversation highlights the potential of recruiting young golfers to sustain this mission. Joshua's vision extends beyond individual events, aiming to engage communities nationwide and amplify support for veterans and first responders. This episode serves as a call to action for listeners to get involved, offering insights into the grassroots nature of the foundation and the meaningful connections forged through these charitable endeavors. Joshua's journey and the collective spirit of those involved in 100Fore22 inspire us to support and uplift the heroes among us.
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Scott McLean (00:00):
Welcome to the podcast.
I'm Scott McLean.
My guest today is Joshua Sears.
Josh is the founder andpresident of 10422.
Now that's the number 100, theword for F-O-R-E and the number
22.
So if you're a golf fan, Ithink you know where this is
going, how you doing Josh.
(00:21):
I'm good how you doing.
I'm doing good, I'm good.
Thanks for coming on thepodcast.
Josh Sears (00:26):
I appreciate you having me.
Scott McLean (00:27):
Yeah, man.
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(00:47):
That's my live read.
They're really good to myfoundation and my podcast.
Josh Sears (00:53):
Nice.
Scott McLean (00:55):
I'll give them a plug anytime they want.
They're very good.
They're very active in theveteran space.
Awesome, just great people,just great people.
So they're the only sponsor Ihave on this podcast.
Josh Sears (01:08):
I've had other people want to come in, like nah
, nah, I'm not sharing thatspace with anybody right, yeah,
no, I don't blame you so allright, let's get down to it.
Scott McLean (01:17):
Where are you located right now?
Josh Sears (01:19):
uh, currently in edmond oklahoma.
Scott McLean (01:22):
There you go people see we're reaching
oklahoma.
I should get one of those, oneof those maps, and just stop
putting pins right now, becauseI've illinois, la chicago, now
oklahoma.
So yeah, that was my bostonaccent, I just caught that one.
So oklahoma yeah it's.
I say, I don't pronounce myodds when I say car, but I'll
(01:45):
put it at the end of oklahoma,right what does that make sense?
Josh Sears (01:49):
I'd say like that, people like where are you from?
Scott McLean (01:53):
I'm not here.
All right, I gotta ask you.
So what's today's date?
Today's the 6th february 6th,what's?
What's the weather out there inOklahoma on February 6th?
Josh Sears (02:04):
Right now it's 38, like a little drizzle.
They're calling for rainovernight and then Monday
through Wednesday we're supposedto have scattered snowstorms or
snow showers.
Scott McLean (02:17):
Okay, all right, I can deal with 36.
I can deal with it.
I don't mind the rain.
Josh Sears (02:25):
It's just when that wind chill starts kicking in.
When that wind kicks in, ohit's miserable.
But they say, if you can golfin oklahoma, you can golf
anywhere, because a typical dayin oklahoma is like 15 mile an
hour winds year round.
Scott McLean (02:36):
So really so.
It's like when I was stationedin the philippines I didn't
realize.
I got there in december and youknow I get out finally.
I get out on on post.
I got through all my inprocessing and my training with
my dog and in canine handlersand the Philippines only go out
at night and you'd get droppedoff on this in the middle of
(02:56):
nowhere, like you had postlimitations, your kilo 47 and
this is your post limitations,and in the morning you better be
on the hard service because wewould patrol the bush right all
around that whole area and yougot to be on the hard surface,
get picked up.
You better be there that thatpickup truck just keeps going
right and I get on the.
I get on the the the firstnight, the next morning and I
(03:20):
get on and all these dudes areall.
I got there in december andthey're all like they're bundled
up and they got knit caps on.
I'm like, are you crazy?
Like what is that all about?
Right?
And they're like it's freezingout.
I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa,you'll see, you'll see, oh yeah,
and what it is is it's anisland and it's a steady breeze.
(03:42):
There's just a constant steadybreeze that will chip away at
you throughout the night, andthe longer you're there, the
thinner your blood gets, and bythat time I have my jacket on
about six months later.
That's my story about thesteady breeze.
All right, so tell us whereyou're from originally and when
(04:07):
you went in what branch you wentin there.
Josh Sears (04:10):
So, originally born and raised in Rhode Island,
joined the army right after highschool.
I went to basic in November of01.
I was a little bit of a bad kidso I was on probation through
the state until November.
Then I went in the army as 11Bravo, which you know.
I went from being a bad kid toobviously a better person in
(04:34):
society than what I was as adelinquent high schooler.
So after, after basic and stuff, I went stationed at Fort
Campbell, had three combatdeployments from there, all all
with the 187th Infantry Regiment, all to Iraq.
The invasion in 03, 04, 05, 06,07, 09.
Then went to Fort Bliss,deployed again there for another
(04:55):
year from 09, 10.
So I stayed safe for like sevenmonths.
The wife hated it.
Came back from that, went toFort Jackson as a rappel
instructor, was medicallyreclassed because of my heron
from the infantry to aquartermaster branch.
I went to Hawaii, fort Drum,new York, south Korea, and then
(05:17):
served my last three and a halfyears before I retired at Fort
Dix, and that's where theplanning and the fruition of 100
for 22 started.
And then, post-retirement, itbecame what it is now a 501c3
recognized by both state andfederal governments as a
(05:39):
registered 501c3 non-profit.
Scott McLean (05:43):
So you said of all fort dix, I was part of the
first security police, air forcesecurity police canine class
that went to air base grounddefense training and this is
back in 88, right, no 87, so itwas like november 87 and we had
to do it with securityspecialists.
Now it's all different securityspecialists, now it's all
(06:04):
different Security forces is all.
it's all been rearranged and andbut back in the day.
So we go to Fort Dix and wehave army instructors that have
to train air force people.
That that was a.
It was an interestingcombination, right, yeah, right,
because they couldn't really doto us what they did because
we'd already graduated basictraining.
(06:25):
We've already graduated techschool, so they can't really
beat us up, right, but they hadtheir ways, right.
These instructors and I don'tknow, they took us out in those
cattle cars right on four ticks.
And you're laughing, so for thelisteners josh is cracking
because he knows exactly whatI'm talking about.
We go out in these cattle carsand we drive for like 40 minutes
(06:46):
and we get out.
Like you can't really see out,though, if you get a window
stand, because no one sits.
Josh Sears (06:54):
Yeah.
Scott McLean (06:55):
It's literally like a cattle car.
So, we get out and we're likein the middle of the forest and
there's I'm just going, justgonna say it this fucking sand
out there, like, like, likeyou're at a beach and the water
just went home, like it wentaway, and I was like, where did
(07:16):
this sand come from?
This is a forest and I knew,from that point on, this was
going to be a very interestingexperience, and it was.
but I loved it though in the endI loved it.
You know it was a great, greattraining, and so that's now my
fourth dick story.
It was and it was freezingthere it was cold.
Josh Sears (07:38):
I stole the whole, thing, yeah, yeah yeah, so, so
four ticks.
Scott McLean (07:42):
And so when you were, when you were over, was
there anything like anysituations you got into that?
You want to talk aboutinteresting situations man.
Josh Sears (07:55):
It was just like any anybody that's deployed, and
especially in a combat mrs, orone that's always outside of the
wire.
Your head's always on a swivel.
You never know where it's goingto come from.
You never know where what'sgoing to blow up.
Is it going to be like one ofthem, donkeys just laying on the
side of the road, or a dog or apile of trash and then they
(08:21):
started using those RKG3 handgrenades.
So you throw it up in the airand it comes down.
It's like a parachute with acone charge that just hits the
top of your Humvee and likeblows the metal down and then
sends a charge like all these,like ball bearings and different
types of debris, likethroughout the inside.
And that's how we lost a couplebuddies that way in Mosul, in
(08:46):
Beji.
Now, mosul was the nextdeployment, but in Beji they
just they hide in the crowds ofwomen and children and then just
throw it and it was bad.
You know then different gunbattles and just all kinds of,
but on the flip side, you kindof find ways to cope and then
(09:09):
you come up with ways to beatthe hot sun.
And remember those stand uplike a D free coolers that you
know, probably about four feettall, you can really sit down
inside of there.
We fill that with water and icea lot and just cutting those
after 120 degree days and yeah,see who can take the longest
(09:30):
yeah, those they're now.
They have a name now they callthem cold dips, like yes yours
wasn't for exercising yourswasn't after a good workout,
yours was just to stay cool,yeah yeah it was, it was to stay
warm or stay cool, and yeah,like, and then you start getting
mad at your buddies becauselike, hey, bro, get out, I'm hot
(09:50):
.
Scott McLean (09:51):
Yeah and so you did your time over there and any
, uh, well, I just put any aftereffects if.
Josh Sears (10:01):
if you know what I mean, oh yeah, good, that knows
PTSD and TBI.
I've went through dark places,suicide ideation, several times,
just alcoholism, and just wentthrough the dark times after all
(10:24):
that.
And you know the stigma thatyou know asking for help or
seeking help, you know, takesyou out of the fight and you let
your buddies down, you let yourteammates down and you know
which is a bullshit stigma, Likeit shouldn't even be, like that
, you know, but you're made tofeel that way inadvertently and
(10:46):
you don't want to like, younever want to let your friends
down, you never want to let yourbuddies down, your battle
buddies, so you just no, I'mgood, I'm good.
And then the self-medicatedwith alcohol, and you know, then
it started getting in your headbut I finally broke and went,
seen the counselors and stuffand got on a good path.
(11:09):
And then here we are now, orhere I am now, with my team
advocating and doing what we can, our part, to help vets and
first responders get out of thatand get to the treatment and
help they need.
Scott McLean (11:26):
So you mentioned that the basically the seed it's
from what I gathered, the seedof 100 for 22 was planted while
you were at Fort Dix.
I think you mentioned likethat's where it's where they
like the idea, so so walk usthrough that mentioned like
(11:47):
that's where, it's where, likethe idea, so, so walk us through
that.
Josh Sears (11:49):
So we started under another name that it was like
four of us, all friends and ourfamilies.
Scott McLean (11:52):
What year was this ?
I'm sorry, just what year wasthis we?
Josh Sears (11:55):
started.
20 2019 is when you startedthinking about it.
That's when we started thinkingabout it and we threw a, you
know event together in 20 2019.
It was my buddy did the firstone and we were under we used a
different name at the time 100holes for the 22, and he did it
(12:15):
out here in oklahoma.
And then you know, like youknow what that's, you know he
raised some good money for agood, a little bit of money at a
very short time.
Scott McLean (12:24):
You know, for some first responders, what was the
concept of it Like when he firstdid it?
Because everything goes through, you know, like evolution,
right, it starts, it changes.
What was the original plan?
What was the originalfundraiser or the original event
that really like that?
Josh Sears (12:43):
he did, that started this in the direction just walk
and play a hundred holes ofgolf in one day a hundred holes
ago.
Scott McLean (12:52):
So what is the?
How does the fundraising aspectof it play into that?
Josh Sears (12:59):
so fundraising aspect is you know we take
donations for any amount ofmoney somebody wants to do
dollar two, dollars, five, fornumber of holes completed.
How many birdies we can make,you know, over the cost of the
event, how many eagles then wehave.
You know sponsorship packagesthat you know vary in different
(13:19):
amounts and you can buy, youknow, like a whole sign, for you
know yourself, if you're aveteran first responder,
somebody that you know that saysprobably serving or probably
served, or that person is nolonger with us, you know in
memory of.
You know it puts their rank,their name, whether it's
(13:40):
military branch, you know thatbranch.
Or if it's a first responder,you know please fire EMS and
then, if they can provide, youknow their logo, we put the logo
or the patch for said unit onthe sign as well.
And then you know we sell those.
And then the good thing withthose signs is those people that
(14:02):
purchase them.
They post completion of theevent.
If they want them, we'll sendit back to them.
We'll send it to them so theycan have it.
Like I said, we have sponsorshippackages ranging in different,
various amounts, juststraight-out donations.
You know you don't have to makea pledge like, hey, I'll give
you this much money for this orthat.
(14:22):
Like, if you just want to makea flat donation, you know that's
accepted as well, and every allproceeds go to our veterans and
first responders to get theminto different treatment
facilities or whether it'sinpatient or outpatient care,
and we link up with otherorganizations that handle that
(14:44):
care to help fund those.
Or if it's just like, hey,there's really no organization
around me that can do it, but Ihave this therapist and we'll
have that conversation with thetherapist, see if we can work
something out.
But all the proceeds go tohelping them and getting them
back to you know, the personthat they know they can be,
(15:08):
their families know they can beand make sure they stay with us
okay, so back to the originalevent.
Scott McLean (15:15):
So a hundred holes of golf got your sponsors and
your donation did all that legwork, which isn't easy.
I don't know if you knowthere's a lot of people.
I didn't really get thenon-profit world till I became
part of it.
That it's, that's, that's thework.
Yeah, that is the work isgetting the donation, getting
(15:36):
the sponsors.
So you guys hustle, you getyour sponsors.
You don't really know what toexpect right going into it.
Josh Sears (15:45):
And so this one was at a golf course in oklahoma yep
, the first one was done at ahidden trails country club in
oklahoma city.
Okay, he did it and did, walked100 holes in about 11 hours,
took about 11 hours to walk andplay 100 holes.
And we, you know, we, we playand we hole out.
(16:07):
So you're going to either scorea three on a hole or you can
score a 12.
Either way, like, every strokecounts.
So we don't just pick up afterpar, like no, we keep going
until we hole out.
So you lose a ball, drop andcount your stroke and keep going
.
We try not to, because that's alot of golf balls.
Scott McLean (16:25):
But so let me ask you this at any point so there's
any golf sponsors, any golfball sponsors?
Josh Sears (16:31):
oh, I'm gonna let you talk all about that, so he
did that at any point when youguys are doing this.
Scott McLean (16:37):
at the beginning, did you ever wish damn, we
should have named it 50 holesfor 22.
Like what were we thinking?
A hundred holes?
Like couldn't it have been 50?
Josh Sears (16:49):
Why did you have to say a hundred?
Scott McLean (16:51):
Right.
Josh Sears (16:55):
It crossed our mind a couple of times, like who was
the genius that came up with ahundred holes.
But you know we're glad we didit.
You know we joke around aboutit.
But you know we do 100 plus.
So it's, that's great.
It's especially getting towardsthe end.
After like I'm on hold 90,you're kind of like I'm tired
(17:15):
but then you think like you knowyeah, yeah, you know.
So you get tight like damn I'mtired, but then you think well.
Scott McLean (17:23):
So let me ask you this is it the four of you that
do it, or is it one one of you?
Okay, it's your turn to go dothis.
Or do the four of you do it, ortwo at a time?
Like, how does that work?
Josh Sears (17:35):
it.
We all, four of us do it.
We just had our third eventthis past november in north
carolina.
There was actually five of us.
One of them was a 73 year oldarmy vet and he was out there
every, every step of the waywith us that's an endurance
challenge in in reality itreally is.
Scott McLean (17:56):
I mean, it's just golf, that's an endurance event.
Yeah, there's a lot more thatgoes to walking, there's the
swinging, and that's got to takeits toll after a while oh yeah,
you, you get.
Josh Sears (18:08):
Uh, you're like for me.
I have a lot of back issuesfrom you know, the postcard that
the recruiters didn't give youso yeah a lot of back issues.
So as you're swinging andmaking all those you know twists
and turns, you're kind of likeput more pressure on the back
and they're just like, oh, andthen when he's trying to like
(18:28):
not do it so much, it doesn't,the ball doesn't go where he
wanted to go and you just as itgets out of shape it makes it
longer, yeah, but it's so well,you know, we have our mission,
we know what we want to do andwe we're going to complete it,
we're going to accomplish it.
Scott McLean (18:43):
We're going to accomplish it, right?
Okay, you do the first eventand successful Anything that
you've done.
You did a hundred holes.
That's that's successful.
Yes, everything else after thatwas like this is gravy.
We did it, right.
So there's a, there's a coupleof accomplishments going on at
(19:04):
the same time, right?
So, okay, you're done and youknow, yeah, this was great.
Wow, wow, wow.
At what point did you say we?
We're gonna like, let's, let'sgo a full boat with this thing,
like, let's start, let's startreally gearing up on this yeah.
Josh Sears (19:21):
So that kind of happened after the first one we
did as a team, because the firstone that was done was just the
one guy, yeah, here in oklahoma.
And that's when we, you know,we're talking like, well, how
about we make this a team thingand we all do it range, okay.
So then we did our first eventas a team at fort dix, new
(19:43):
jersey, at fountain green golfcourse.
God forsaken place for secondplace.
We did that one in 2019 at fortdix.
You know it's that course, isnot.
There's not a lot of elevation,it's a generally flat course.
So you know, the four of us didit.
At first we started out, firstperson goes and then, once he
(20:05):
gets down to you know, once hegets out of the range of you
know, the next guy to tee offand the next guys.
But then we ended up finishingtogether and actually, like the
second half of the round hole 60, all four of us just kind of
teamed up, gathered up andplayed all together.
You know, each one hittingtheir own ball, playing their
own ball.
(20:25):
So we all finished 100 holestogether.
We did that one in like justright at 10 hours and we felt
good.
You know, we started.
It was pouring rain for likethe first 45 minutes and, like
you know what, we're just goingto go.
It's either going to rain allday or it's not, you know, and
it only rained for about 45minutes.
But you know, we did that,finished that one, and then that
(20:49):
night we were talking likelet's do another one, we can
make this, let's make this ours.
So then, a year later, we didanother one in 2020 at TPC Yasna
Palana in Princeton, new Jersey.
That one was brutal becausethat's 2,700 feet elevation
change for every 18 holes.
(21:11):
So 100 holes is five completerounds plus 10 additional holes
and with that much elevationchange it was I know I was
hurting.
You know a couple other guyslike they were like oh I'm done,
like legs are just tired goingup and down all the hills and up
in you know Princeton.
But once you get to the last,the last hole, the 18th hole,
(21:34):
and you make that final putt, itwas just like a huge sigh of
relief.
Like we did it, we're done.
That one took us about 13 hoursand it was just like we're done
and you know we've.
We raised good, good amount ofmoney again in a short period of
time because you know I wasstill active duty.
The other guys that did it withus, one was active duty Air
(21:59):
Force, the other one is aretired Marine but works for the
sheriff's time job and theother guy had his full-time job
out here in Oklahoma.
So trying to do everythingafter duty, after what would be
considered duty hours, is reallyhard.
And then you start sendingemails and trying to make calls
during work but also do your jobwithout foregoing and so, like
(22:23):
you know, it's like you said,it's hard.
Nonprofit world it's a lot goesinto everything.
So in a very short time that youknow we did those two events.
We raised some good monies.
For the one at Fort Dix, wedonated just about $3,000 to a
nonprofit called Veterans forLife USA Awesome foundation that
really takes care of and getsthose vets and first responders
(22:48):
to intake treatment facilities.
If they're, you know, they'redown and out and that's like the
last choice is really not thegreatest outcome.
And veterans for life does agreat job getting those, those
folks into treatment facilitiesand they the stories that come
out of them and just listen.
I'm like man.
(23:08):
Thank you so much for helpingthem.
And you know like you see themfrom day one when they go in and
then the first day they getdone it's just like a complete
different person.
They look different, they lookmuch better, full of life and
just super motivated.
And then the one in Princeton wedonated I think it was like
(23:30):
right around $2,600, went toTunnels, to Towers, to provide
some vets with smart homes,especially those that have
medical devices such aswheelchairs or other devices
that make it difficult tonavigate a traditional home.
So they did.
You know one of their reps camedown and watched us, for you
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know, one of their reps camedown and watched us for, you
know two hours and was justblown away.
Like how do you guys do this?
Like I can't believe it.
And then this past November wasour third event as a team in
Shelby, north Carolina, atCleveland Country Club.
Amazing folks out there, amazingcommunity, and it wasn't part
because we know that hurricanejust went up in North Carolina
(24:13):
and pretty much destroyed it.
Thankfully it didn't affect thearea that we went to, it was a
little more West, so we werestill able to continue on and
that community was verysupportive and welcoming to us
and we raised like $1,500 wasdonated to a place called Big
Red Bond Retreat in Blythewood,south Carolina, and they deal
(24:35):
with veterans and firstresponders, giving them therapy
through non-traditional meansbut still have staff to help
them through their thing,whatever situations that they're
going through and whatevertraumatic injuries, like brain
injuries and trauma that theyhave.
And with that money we wereable to keep a program funded
(25:00):
for the next three to fourmonths, an equine therapy
program that has half half dozento a dozen different veterans,
first veterans and all firstresponders and their families to
use that therapy program forthe next three months beautiful
(25:21):
so very familiar with the equinetherapy yeah, it's foundation
and here in delray.
Scott McLean (25:28):
Okay is my.
They're my herd, they're theones that created this, this
nonprofit monster that I am, andthey're still my herd.
I still go every Friday.
I've been going for two years,so I have a lot of respect for
that and I know that.
Now you said something about acouple minutes ago that I have
to clarify.
See, we're from the same region, we're from the same place.
(25:48):
I always say Rhode Island isjust, it's just the biggest
suburb of Massachusetts.
Josh Sears (25:53):
It's really to me it really is.
Scott McLean (25:56):
But you said something that I understood it,
but I'm guaranteeing thatprobably 98% of the listeners
the listening had no idea whatyou said when you said the big
red barn right, see, the big redbond, right, see, now I, I
(26:17):
learned this, we.
He said barn, barn, peopleb-a-r-n.
Barn, yes, see, I say bond, yousay bond.
They don't know what the hell abarn is.
So I, I caught that.
That's why I'm a good podcaster, john, yes, yeah.
Josh Sears (26:30):
I got that.
Scott McLean (26:31):
My hours are not good.
They didn't understand.
Nah, don't worry.
Yeah, this is us.
We were here, first buddy,that's what I, and then
everybody moved west.
Everything started inMassachusetts in Rhode Island.
I'll give you that.
So I have a couple of things Iwant to ask you.
(26:56):
So this is again, it's anendurance game for you guys.
You're not going anywhere.
You guys are just going to keepgoing forward and keep doing
what you're doing.
Did you ever think that maybesomeday like we're going to have
to get some younger golfers tokind of do those rounds for us
and like I can sit back now,like you did your time, buddy,
you know, now bring in a newrecruit and say come on, champ,
you can do it.
Oh yeah, that's.
(27:17):
Is that in the plans, you think, is it?
Josh Sears (27:20):
it is.
That's actually the things wetalked about during our last
event.
Yeah, it's just because youknow three of us all in our
early 40s and then four of uswere all in our early 40s and
then we had that 73 year old uhveteran that was with us and
we're like we're all old andbroken and disabled broken is
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basically from the military, butand have like yeah you know,
some form of disability?
yeah, we might need, like, youngfolks to do this.
And you know we talked about itand it's just like everybody
could be like, yeah, I want togive it a try.
Okay, well, we can't just tryit?
There's it's like you have tofinish.
(28:02):
Yeah, well, you will finish.
Good point, the 100 plus holes.
Like there's no ifs, ands orbuts about it.
Like it's either you're in itto win it or like don't waste
our time.
Scott McLean (28:13):
Yeah, because nobody's.
Yeah, you can just stop withdonors money number one yeah
that and that is important, thatlike people don't think about
that, but see so non-profits, ifsomebody, in any case a veteran
, shows up and they starthalfway through, they're like,
well, it's what we don't talkabout, but it is the thing like
(28:37):
they just wasted some donorsmoney by doing that and it okay,
shit happens.
But in your case, this is veryspecific yes you know it's very
specific.
This money's been put out, it'sready to go and you can't have
somebody just die off at hole 55yeah, because nobody's gonna
(28:59):
pay for services they didn't getexactly.
Josh Sears (29:02):
So, like you're not gonna pay, I'm nobody's gonna
give me a hundred dollars to doto do 50 holes.
They'll give me a hundreddollars to do 100.
I can't stop.
Like you can't stop becauseyou're tired.
You just don't want to do it.
No more.
Yeah, after about whole 75,like we're all just kind of like
I can imagine, I can't I can'timagine no, but we keep going
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because we know what our missionis like.
We're here for, you know, toadvocate, to show these people
that you know these veterans andfirst responders, that there's
a whole community and nationbehind you that you just don't
see, like these folks are thesilent majority.
If you want to say it that like, look, I, I support our vets, I
(29:47):
support our first responders,but no, don't know how.
So here's us as this catalystcatalyst, you know, foundation
here.
Give us the money and we'llgive it to the people that take
care of them and we'll get themto the help they need.
So, and then you know, we justkeep doing what we do and we're
going to keep doing it.
But, yes, we want youngerpeople that can actually not
(30:11):
feel like, you know, death byhole 75, because because they
will oh, they will, but they'llfeel like a younger death, not
an older death like us youngerdeath.
Scott McLean (30:22):
I like that, I like that, so all right.
So say, right now there'sthere's a you know young guy or
young, or a young lady, youngwoman right that says, hey, I
can do a hundred holes for youguys, I'd like to do that.
Right now.
You're in oklahoma, you're notall four in the same place, I'm
taking it.
Nope.
(30:42):
So you guys have to meet upsomewhere, yeah, like, and you
pay for that to get there to dothis, it's your time.
And you say, okay, we're goingto meet in, in the last case,
north carolina.
Yep, so everybody makes theirway there.
So there's a young golfer outthere, a young man, young woman
that says, I want, I think I can, I know I could do this.
(31:04):
We don't want to hear I think,right, no, I know I could do
this.
How do I help you guys?
So what do you say to them?
Josh Sears (31:12):
Well, contact us, shoot us an email message on
Facebook and let us know youwant to do it and we'll talk and
you're going to do it.
If you say you can do it,you're in.
You're pretty much in, like now.
If you're shooting like, ifyou're a beginner golfer and
(31:38):
you're shooting like in thehundreds probably not the best
thing for you to get intobecause it'll just drive you
more frustrated because you feellike more pressures on you.
Okay, I am not a good golfer byany means I'm.
I'm decent, like around the 80sto 90s.
Okay, I can pretty much keepthe ball on the on the hole or
the course and I can find it.
(32:00):
But you know we're just tryingto go straight as possible, as
fast as possible, walking.
You're spending a coupleminutes per hole, like you.
It's not like a usual round ofgolf where you know you stand
behind your drive on the tee boxlooking where you want to go.
You get it, you see it, you hitit, you go as soon as you get.
We have our four caddies thatwill get to the ball and give
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you the yardage and we'll haveyour club ready for you by the
time you get there, because whatyou're going to do is just grab
the club, swing the club, keepgoing.
You're not lining up anything,except when you're on the green.
You kind of line up the part alittle bit, but get back on
track.
If you want to do it, shoot usan email at
(32:45):
100fore22foundationcom atgmailcom.
Go on Facebook 10422 Foundation.
Same thing with Instagram Justshoot us a message, shoot us an
email and put your contact inthere.
We'll get with you and we'lllook forward to having more
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people join us, because ourultimate goal in philosophy and
dream is the more the merrier Ifwe can have an event in every
state simultaneously with 50different teams just think of
what the possibilities can be toget the help we need for those
(33:30):
individuals that need it.
Scott McLean (33:33):
Yeah, that's viable man you know, that's
definitely something to buildtoward it, because I was
thinking that same thing as soonas you were saying that I'm
like you could have four in inoklahoma, you could have four in
florida, you could have four infour in massachusetts.
So, yeah, hey, listen that that, that would be amazing.
That would be amazing.
I'm assuming that you startthese 100-hole marathons
(33:59):
endurance test early in themorning.
Josh Sears (34:03):
As soon as we're able to see a ball fly.
What's that?
As soon as we're able to see aball fly through the air, we're
going.
Scott McLean (34:10):
There's no glow-in-the-dark balls in this
game, buddy.
That's straight up.
Josh Sears (34:13):
They make them Plus, plus you're racing the sun now
right so now you're racing thesun right, so that's the third
element to this whole thing ohyeah, so and it all like, and it
depends on the course terrain,like, if it's fairly flat, yeah,
it's pretty easy, okay, but ifthere's a lot of difference
between the green to the nexttee box, that's another issue,
(34:34):
you know, or the elevation, youknow, and the topography.
There's a lot that goes into it, and so we're prepared for
anything, and so you check outeach course prior.
Scott McLean (34:47):
You either go online and you look at it, you
map it, you get all theinformation on it, you do your
homework on that course, becausethese are courses you've never
played'm assuming, most of thetime yep, so, like one in north
carolina.
Josh Sears (34:59):
Yeah, never seen that course until, um, the day
before, where we did a practiceround just to kind of orientate
ourselves.
Yeah, of course, and yeah, butyeah, and then trying to, you
know, select in a course, it's,you know I can, I can send an
email and approach every coursein the country, but it's up to
(35:21):
that course.
You know the head pro and youknow their board and if they
allow us, if they want us tocome in, and you know we've been
more than just us, you knowwe'll bring in a community event
for the night before, a glowgolf event where you know hit
those going to.
Yeah, so you know we're bringingyou know, not just us but we do
(35:44):
it like a community engagement,you know, the day before.
So that way, you know, meet thelocal community, you know if
it's a private course or even apublic course.
The membership that you knowpatronizes that course like, hey
, thanks for rocking up intoyour home, you know, it's just
so.
We try to engage the communityas well and also let them know
(36:04):
about us and let them know whatwe're fighting for or what we're
, you know, raising money for tohelp.
You know, keep our vets andfirst responders upright and
moving forward.
It shows them there are peoplethat are actually out there
trying to do it.
If you don't have a big bankrollaccount, we don't have money to
(36:28):
make commercials for peopleconcierge or have famous
athletes or actors speaking onbehalf.
So we do all the groundworkourselves.
Would we love to get there?
Yeah, we would love to be a bigfoundation, but we know we have
to start small and we reallyrely on word of mouth from a lot
(36:50):
of people and a lot of the headpros at the courses we've been
to to spread the word.
Or, you know, anybody listening.
If you're a golfer, go to yourcourse, but hey, I think this
would be awesome for our courseto do, you know, if it's a
private course likeunderstanding that most of these
events will happen on a daythat is closed so we don't
disturb the membership Publiccourses it's, I mean, mean we
(37:17):
can do it with or without, youknow, golfers, you know, and
we'll send out some informationabout what we do, like how it's
broken down and all that so anyplans on trying to get to south
florida?
Scott McLean (37:27):
working on it, you got a course in mind I'm not a
golfer, but so but this is whatI'll do for you guys.
Okay, if you ever do come toSouth Florida and I'm throwing
this out in the podcast universe, josh okay, if you ever come to
South Florida, palm BeachCounty, broward County right, I
will host you guys at my house.
I'll pay for the steaks, I'llpay for everything.
(37:49):
I have, like a six-hole puttinggreen in my backyard.
Oh there, it's not huge, right,it's a dog leg around the pool
and I will host you guys.
Everything's on me.
Man, you guys can come overbefore you do your thing.
That would be my pleasure.
(38:09):
I am not a golfer.
Why I have a putting green inmy backyard?
I don't like real grass wasuseless to me, like you can't do
anything with it.
Josh Sears (38:20):
So I do use it, I do use it.
Scott McLean (38:21):
I got it south florida, palm beach, county
right yeah, I'm in palm beachcounty but broward county is
right next door.
I'm like right on the border ofbroward county, palm beach
county hey, don't give me areason to come to south florida
this the the rib eyes are on me,buddy rib eyes on me and all
the drinks.
Everything's free, man, youcome to my house, I'll take care
of you guys.
(38:41):
Yeah, so jonathan sessaintroduced us.
Yes, warrior golf academy oh,what an amazing guy that guy is
dude, I'll tell you what it's heputs that out to, like when he
put out that he was on mypodcast.
You guys like there's a.
There's a bunch that said, hey,like when he put out that he
was on my podcast, you guys likethere's there's a bunch that
said, hey, like you were one ofthem, hey, I'll, I'll go on your
podcast and I I got this vibethat the, the, the non-profit
(39:04):
golf world is kind of a.
They're kind of close-knit in asense, like they're kind of
they're friendly with each other.
There's a connection.
There's like, hey, we'regolfers right, the nonprofit
world is not always like that,but golfing- for the most part
is yeah, you all have the samelove for the sport.
Josh Sears (39:26):
Whether you're good or bad, you all have the same
love for it.
It's just nice to get out there, especially looking at how the
course layout is.
Man, this is what a layout.
It's just nice to get out there, you know, especially looking
at, like, how the course layoutis.
Like, man, this is what alayout.
Like.
You know you're with the, youkind of forget your where you
are because you're on a golfcourse, you know.
So it's nice.
And at my fact, jonathan Sessaand Boyd Golf Foundation they
(39:47):
actually are going to be ourfour caddies at our events.
Oh, nice.
So we've partnered up andjohn's ancestor came up to north
carolina to kind of, you know,check out how we do it and stuff
, and yeah, we talked about howwe can move forward together and
so you know he gets to.
You know, take veterans, yeah,teach them about golf and caddy,
(40:09):
and you know outside the boxstuff, which is what I liked
about that yes, outside the box,I'm not just teaching you how
to.
Scott McLean (40:17):
It's outside the box oh, yeah, you know caddying
and how to work the course andhow to maybe do that.
That's why I found his thingvery interesting oh yeah, so I
mean I can't.
Josh Sears (40:31):
John says is amazing , amazing person and like the
conversations we had in NorthCarolina.
Then I mean, we talk on aregular as well and yeah, it's
just yeah.
Scott McLean (40:41):
Oh man.
So if you guys like I said so,I put it out there the house,
they got the pool, got theputting green, got the outdoor
kitchen.
Josh Sears (40:50):
I'm calling right now.
Hey, you're going to get us tosouth florida.
Call a man, get him get youguys down here.
Scott McLean (40:56):
I, I swear I will do that.
I will hook you guys up, man,I'll have a party for you guys,
because I think what you'redoing is really that's outside
the box.
Yeah, you know, people hearthis go they're golfing and
they're gonna, like.
I started thinking about itbecause I, I'm not a golfer, so
I thought the same thing, butthen I was like fucking hundred
(41:18):
holes, jesus, like that's, thatcan't be easy, like, and then I
started really processing it.
Yeah, I have a lot of respectfor what you guys are doing, but
if you're a young golfer, ifyou're a young golfer and you
have stamina and you and you,you know you shoot under a
hundred.
I don't know whatever you justsaid, right the golf.
(41:39):
If you're a better than averagegolfer, so they get in touch
with you again.
Josh Sears (41:46):
The website is 10422foundationorg All right
Email.
10422foundationorg All rightEmail.
100-422-foundation at Gmail.
Scott McLean (41:58):
And that's the number 100, the word F-O-R-E and
the number 22.
So do you guys take donations?
You have a donation site onyour website.
Josh Sears (42:09):
Right there, there's a way to donate now.
And speaking of donations, wealso have what we call a wall of
heroes, where we like to getpatches from different military
and first responder units aroundthe country and so we can put
them up on, you know, make awall of heroes and take it to
different, you know, events thatwe can, so we can show Wow
(42:31):
Because the military patches arecool, don't get me wrong.
But first responder patchesthere's some good ones out there
.
You haven't.
Yeah, I have a couple.
My buddy, he's a Pittsburghfire guy.
He sent me a bunch.
He sent me one from Chicago,from Wrigley Fire Department.
That was pretty cool.
I was like man, yeah, you know,from Wrigley Fire Department.
That was pretty cool.
I was like man yeah.
Scott McLean (42:53):
You know so just, I don't know if you have any US
Customs and Border Protectionpatches, but I retired from
there and I get some uniformsthat I don't wear anymore, so
I'll be more than glad to sendyou guys a patch, yeah, awesome,
appreciate it, yeah.
Josh Sears (43:09):
And to do that the address to send them to is on
there on.
And to do that the address tosend them to is on there on the
website as well.
Okay, so, where to donate?
Now?
Send right there on the website, so it's.
And then all our events thatare coming up.
As we book events, you know, wethrow it on the website too,
and we don't just do 100 holeswe hold every year well, last
(43:30):
year was our first annual golfclassic out here in Oklahoma
Regular 18-hole scramble forfolks that want to come out and
just play a nice 18 rounds withtheir best golfing buddies, or
guys or girls, just have a goodtime.
Support on good causes.
I have my guy, my New Englanddirector, setting one up,
(43:50):
hopefully later this fall,probably early to mid-fallfall,
up in probably Rhode Island Mass, connecticut area.
So once that gets locked in,we'll put it up there, so we'll
hold scrambles as well.
So that way, people are likeman, I can't do it 100 holes,
but I just want to golf.
Well, don't worry, we're goingto book some regular golf
(44:13):
outings throughout the countryas well, cause I don't I don't
expect, you know, a hundredpeople right now, but like no,
I'll come and do it.
Like that'd be great.
Scott McLean (44:21):
I would love for it to happen, but to the bad not
a lot, say, if you haveendurance, you're young and
healthy and you in this, you'dbe motivated to do this.
Reach out to them and, josh, asI always say, if you're
listening to this podcasting andyou and you're loving what 100
(44:42):
for 22 is doing, give them money.
Go to their website and givethem money.
These guys travel from theirhome states to different states
to do this and I'm sure theywould appreciate donations to
help make that happen.
And that's an expensiveendeavor to go to and you, you
(45:05):
get your wall of of heroes andyou get like there's things that
go with this.
So on the surface, this mightsound just okay 100 holes but
there's a lot that goes intoputting these things together
and these guys are working hard.
Just gee, I got tired justtalking about it, so I'm going
to go out and putt on my puttinggreen after this.
(45:27):
I'm going to do 100 putts in mybackyard just for you, Josh.
Josh Sears (45:32):
I like it, you guys, you'll be a putting master.
Scott McLean (45:37):
Is there anything else, any events coming up in
the near future, other thantrying to get to South Florida
for free steaks?
Josh Sears (45:44):
Just this June 9th out here in Oklahoma we'll have
our second annual 100 for 22Classic.
It's in Edmond but it's northside of Oklahoma City, so you
got Will Rogers World Airportthat you can fly into.
We'll be going out to some ofthe hotels see if we can get
some discounted rates, becausethat way folks who need some
lodging will be right there, allpretty close.
(46:06):
Everything by the course isclose.
I mean the airport's 20 minutesfrom the course.
And then we got the PGASuperstore, golf Galaxy, all
within a couple of minutes ofthe course and where the hotels
are, and some good eating so Ineed to do out here.
Scott McLean (46:22):
Let me ask you this is it?
Is it?
Is it seasonal for you guys?
You can only do x amount a year?
Is it seasonal like, okay,winter time, now you're limited
to the southern states, or doyou just like focus?
Try to get them in around thefall and the summer?
Josh Sears (46:37):
we'll do whenever, okay, I heard there's a good one
up in.
Scott McLean (46:43):
Up in Alaska, up toward the north pole, I heard
they have a good golf course aslong as it's the deadest summer
for them it's only available inJanuary.
Josh Sears (46:51):
It's only available in January that might be an endo
, I I don't know about that.
Scott McLean (46:54):
That's when you need the glow of the dark Right
Even in the snow.
Well, hey, josh, this is greattalking to you.
Man, me and Josh, like I said,got introduced through Jonathan
Sessa from the Warrior GolfAcademy, who was a guest on this
podcast a month or two ago and,yeah, I talked to Josh.
First time I talked to him Iwas fighting traffic in Miami
(47:16):
that I hate, but Josh was a goodtalker man and so he kind of
got me through a little bit ofthat traffic jam getting out of
Miami.
Josh Sears (47:25):
Glad to help.
Scott McLean (47:26):
Yeah, man, so I do owe you that much too when you
come down.
All right, well, listeneverybody Again.
10422foundationorg 104, f-o-r-e22, at gmailcom, right, yep,
okay, reach out to them If youfeel like you want to donate.
(47:49):
Donate If you feel like youwant to help them out in any way
.
I'm sure they will take help inany way they can get it.
Reach out, talk to josh orwhoever you know handles that,
and I'm sure they would be morethan appreciative, as would the
people that donate to for their,for their endurance.
Golf, it should be like anolympic sport, sounds like all
(48:11):
right, everybody?
Uh, josh, stick around for asecond.
I'm'm going to do my outro.
Uh, we built another bridgetoday.
This one was a hundred holebridge and it was great having
100 for 22.
Foundation on this podcast.
Josh, again, thank you.
If you like this podcast, shareit.
If you didn't like it, well,thanks for listening for 51, 52
(48:31):
minutes.
Yeah, if you're wanting tocheck out my foundation, here's
my cheap plug josh one man, onemic, foundation, dot.
Oig.
We're doing good stuff withveterans teaching them, uh,
giving them a voice through,teaching them how to podcast and
storytelling, and it's it'sgoing very well.
So check out my foundationfoundation.
(48:53):
I can do that, right, josh.
Yeah, I have the right to plugmy own thing right.
Josh Sears (48:57):
Oh, absolutely.
Scott McLean (48:58):
All right, I don't want to step on your toes.
That's why I do it all the way.
Josh Sears (49:01):
at the end, if we get down to South Florida, one
man, one mic has to come out.
We'll do a live podcast.
Scott McLean (49:06):
Absolutely, buddy, absolutely All right, everybody
listen all the way to the end.
There's a good public serviceannouncement for 988 and 211.
It's good for veterans, familymembers of veterans and just
civilians in general.
There's good information.
It's 30 seconds long, so giveit a listen.
Thank you again, will O'Pom,for your sponsorship, and I
(49:28):
guess that's it.
I will see you guys next weekwith a new episode.
Welcome to the podcast.
I'm Scott McLean.
My guest today is Joshua Sears.
Josh is the founder andpresident of 10422.
Now that's the number 100, theword for F-O-R-E and the number
22.
So if you're a golf fan, Ithink you know where this is
going, how you doing Josh.
(00:21):
I'm good how you doing.
I'm doing good, I'm good.
Thanks for coming on thepodcast.
Josh Sears (00:26):
I appreciate you having me.
Scott McLean (00:27):
Yeah, man.
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That's my live read.
They're really good to myfoundation and my podcast.
Josh Sears (00:53):
Nice.
Scott McLean (00:55):
I'll give them a plug anytime they want.
They're very good.
They're very active in theveteran space.
Awesome, just great people,just great people.
So they're the only sponsor Ihave on this podcast.
Josh Sears (01:08):
I've had other people want to come in, like nah
, nah, I'm not sharing thatspace with anybody right, yeah,
no, I don't blame you so allright, let's get down to it.
Scott McLean (01:17):
Where are you located right now?
Josh Sears (01:19):
uh, currently in edmond oklahoma.
Scott McLean (01:22):
There you go people see we're reaching
oklahoma.
I should get one of those, oneof those maps, and just stop
putting pins right now, becauseI've illinois, la chicago, now
oklahoma.
So yeah, that was my bostonaccent, I just caught that one.
So oklahoma yeah it's.
I say, I don't pronounce myodds when I say car, but I'll
(01:45):
put it at the end of oklahoma,right what does that make sense?
Josh Sears (01:49):
I'd say like that, people like where are you from?
Scott McLean (01:53):
I'm not here.
All right, I gotta ask you.
So what's today's date?
Today's the 6th february 6th,what's?
What's the weather out there inOklahoma on February 6th?
Josh Sears (02:04):
Right now it's 38, like a little drizzle.
They're calling for rainovernight and then Monday
through Wednesday we're supposedto have scattered snowstorms or
snow showers.
Scott McLean (02:17):
Okay, all right, I can deal with 36.
I can deal with it.
I don't mind the rain.
Josh Sears (02:25):
It's just when that wind chill starts kicking in.
When that wind kicks in, ohit's miserable.
But they say, if you can golfin oklahoma, you can golf
anywhere, because a typical dayin oklahoma is like 15 mile an
hour winds year round.
Scott McLean (02:36):
So really so.
It's like when I was stationedin the philippines I didn't
realize.
I got there in december and youknow I get out finally.
I get out on on post.
I got through all my inprocessing and my training with
my dog and in canine handlersand the Philippines only go out
at night and you'd get droppedoff on this in the middle of
(02:56):
nowhere, like you had postlimitations, your kilo 47 and
this is your post limitations,and in the morning you better be
on the hard service because wewould patrol the bush right all
around that whole area and yougot to be on the hard surface,
get picked up.
You better be there that thatpickup truck just keeps going
right and I get on the.
I get on the the the firstnight, the next morning and I
(03:20):
get on and all these dudes areall.
I got there in december andthey're all like they're bundled
up and they got knit caps on.
I'm like, are you crazy?
Like what is that all about?
Right?
And they're like it's freezingout.
I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa,you'll see, you'll see, oh yeah,
and what it is is it's anisland and it's a steady breeze.
(03:42):
There's just a constant steadybreeze that will chip away at
you throughout the night, andthe longer you're there, the
thinner your blood gets, and bythat time I have my jacket on
about six months later.
That's my story about thesteady breeze.
All right, so tell us whereyou're from originally and when
(04:07):
you went in what branch you wentin there.
Josh Sears (04:10):
So, originally born and raised in Rhode Island,
joined the army right after highschool.
I went to basic in November of01.
I was a little bit of a bad kidso I was on probation through
the state until November.
Then I went in the army as 11Bravo, which you know.
I went from being a bad kid toobviously a better person in
(04:34):
society than what I was as adelinquent high schooler.
So after, after basic and stuff, I went stationed at Fort
Campbell, had three combatdeployments from there, all all
with the 187th Infantry Regiment, all to Iraq.
The invasion in 03, 04, 05, 06,07, 09.
Then went to Fort Bliss,deployed again there for another
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year from 09, 10.
So I stayed safe for like sevenmonths.
The wife hated it.
Came back from that, went toFort Jackson as a rappel
instructor, was medicallyreclassed because of my heron
from the infantry to aquartermaster branch.
I went to Hawaii, fort Drum,new York, south Korea, and then
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served my last three and a halfyears before I retired at Fort
Dix, and that's where theplanning and the fruition of 100
for 22 started.
And then, post-retirement, itbecame what it is now a 501c3
recognized by both state andfederal governments as a
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registered 501c3 non-profit.
Scott McLean (05:43):
So you said of all fort dix, I was part of the
first security police, air forcesecurity police canine class
that went to air base grounddefense training and this is
back in 88, right, no 87, so itwas like november 87 and we had
to do it with securityspecialists.
Now it's all different securityspecialists, now it's all
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different Security forces is all.
it's all been rearranged and andbut back in the day.
So we go to Fort Dix and wehave army instructors that have
to train air force people.
That that was a.
It was an interestingcombination, right, yeah, right,
because they couldn't really doto us what they did because
we'd already graduated basictraining.
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We've already graduated techschool, so they can't really
beat us up, right, but they hadtheir ways, right.
These instructors and I don'tknow, they took us out in those
cattle cars right on four ticks.
And you're laughing, so for thelisteners josh is cracking
because he knows exactly whatI'm talking about.
We go out in these cattle carsand we drive for like 40 minutes
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and we get out.
Like you can't really see out,though, if you get a window
stand, because no one sits.
Josh Sears (06:54):
Yeah.
Scott McLean (06:55):
It's literally like a cattle car.
So, we get out and we're likein the middle of the forest and
there's I'm just going, justgonna say it this fucking sand
out there, like, like, likeyou're at a beach and the water
just went home, like it wentaway, and I was like, where did
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this sand come from?
This is a forest and I knew,from that point on, this was
going to be a very interestingexperience, and it was.
but I loved it though in the endI loved it.
You know it was a great, greattraining, and so that's now my
fourth dick story.
It was and it was freezingthere it was cold.
Josh Sears (07:38):
I stole the whole, thing, yeah, yeah yeah, so, so
four ticks.
Scott McLean (07:42):
And so when you were, when you were over, was
there anything like anysituations you got into that?
You want to talk aboutinteresting situations man.
Josh Sears (07:55):
It was just like any anybody that's deployed, and
especially in a combat mrs, orone that's always outside of the
wire.
Your head's always on a swivel.
You never know where it's goingto come from.
You never know where what'sgoing to blow up.
Is it going to be like one ofthem, donkeys just laying on the
side of the road, or a dog or apile of trash and then they
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started using those RKG3 handgrenades.
So you throw it up in the airand it comes down.
It's like a parachute with acone charge that just hits the
top of your Humvee and likeblows the metal down and then
sends a charge like all these,like ball bearings and different
types of debris, likethroughout the inside.
And that's how we lost a couplebuddies that way in Mosul, in
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Beji.
Now, mosul was the nextdeployment, but in Beji they
just they hide in the crowds ofwomen and children and then just
throw it and it was bad.
You know then different gunbattles and just all kinds of,
but on the flip side, you kindof find ways to cope and then
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you come up with ways to beatthe hot sun.
And remember those stand uplike a D free coolers that you
know, probably about four feettall, you can really sit down
inside of there.
We fill that with water and icea lot and just cutting those
after 120 degree days and yeah,see who can take the longest
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yeah, those they're now.
They have a name now they callthem cold dips, like yes yours
wasn't for exercising yourswasn't after a good workout,
yours was just to stay cool,yeah yeah it was, it was to stay
warm or stay cool, and yeah,like, and then you start getting
mad at your buddies becauselike, hey, bro, get out, I'm hot
(09:50):
.
Scott McLean (09:51):
Yeah and so you did your time over there and any
, uh, well, I just put any aftereffects if.
Josh Sears (10:01):
if you know what I mean, oh yeah, good, that knows
PTSD and TBI.
I've went through dark places,suicide ideation, several times,
just alcoholism, and just wentthrough the dark times after all
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that.
And you know the stigma thatyou know asking for help or
seeking help, you know, takesyou out of the fight and you let
your buddies down, you let yourteammates down and you know
which is a bullshit stigma, Likeit shouldn't even be, like that
, you know, but you're made tofeel that way inadvertently and
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you don't want to like, younever want to let your friends
down, you never want to let yourbuddies down, your battle
buddies, so you just no, I'mgood, I'm good.
And then the self-medicatedwith alcohol, and you know, then
it started getting in your headbut I finally broke and went,
seen the counselors and stuffand got on a good path.
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And then here we are now, orhere I am now, with my team
advocating and doing what we can, our part, to help vets and
first responders get out of thatand get to the treatment and
help they need.
Scott McLean (11:26):
So you mentioned that the basically the seed it's
from what I gathered, the seedof 100 for 22 was planted while
you were at Fort Dix.
I think you mentioned likethat's where it's where they
like the idea, so so walk usthrough that mentioned like
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that's where, it's where, likethe idea, so, so walk us through
that.
Josh Sears (11:49):
So we started under another name that it was like
four of us, all friends and ourfamilies.
Scott McLean (11:52):
What year was this ?
I'm sorry, just what year wasthis we?
Josh Sears (11:55):
started.
20 2019 is when you startedthinking about it.
That's when we started thinkingabout it and we threw a, you
know event together in 20 2019.
It was my buddy did the firstone and we were under we used a
different name at the time 100holes for the 22, and he did it
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out here in oklahoma.
And then you know, like youknow what that's, you know he
raised some good money for agood, a little bit of money at a
very short time.
Scott McLean (12:24):
You know, for some first responders, what was the
concept of it Like when he firstdid it?
Because everything goes through, you know, like evolution,
right, it starts, it changes.
What was the original plan?
What was the originalfundraiser or the original event
that really like that?
Josh Sears (12:43):
he did, that started this in the direction just walk
and play a hundred holes ofgolf in one day a hundred holes
ago.
Scott McLean (12:52):
So what is the?
How does the fundraising aspectof it play into that?
Josh Sears (12:59):
so fundraising aspect is you know we take
donations for any amount ofmoney somebody wants to do
dollar two, dollars, five, fornumber of holes completed.
How many birdies we can make,you know, over the cost of the
event, how many eagles then wehave.
You know sponsorship packagesthat you know vary in different
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amounts and you can buy, youknow, like a whole sign, for you
know yourself, if you're aveteran first responder,
somebody that you know that saysprobably serving or probably
served, or that person is nolonger with us, you know in
memory of.
You know it puts their rank,their name, whether it's
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military branch, you know thatbranch.
Or if it's a first responder,you know please fire EMS and
then, if they can provide, youknow their logo, we put the logo
or the patch for said unit onthe sign as well.
And then you know we sell those.
And then the good thing withthose signs is those people that
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purchase them.
They post completion of theevent.
If they want them, we'll sendit back to them.
We'll send it to them so theycan have it.
Like I said, we have sponsorshippackages ranging in different,
various amounts, juststraight-out donations.
You know you don't have to makea pledge like, hey, I'll give
you this much money for this orthat.
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Like, if you just want to makea flat donation, you know that's
accepted as well, and every allproceeds go to our veterans and
first responders to get theminto different treatment
facilities or whether it'sinpatient or outpatient care,
and we link up with otherorganizations that handle that
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care to help fund those.
Or if it's just like, hey,there's really no organization
around me that can do it, but Ihave this therapist and we'll
have that conversation with thetherapist, see if we can work
something out.
But all the proceeds go tohelping them and getting them
back to you know, the personthat they know they can be,
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their families know they can beand make sure they stay with us
okay, so back to the originalevent.
Scott McLean (15:15):
So a hundred holes of golf got your sponsors and
your donation did all that legwork, which isn't easy.
I don't know if you knowthere's a lot of people.
I didn't really get thenon-profit world till I became
part of it.
That it's, that's, that's thework.
Yeah, that is the work isgetting the donation, getting
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the sponsors.
So you guys hustle, you getyour sponsors.
You don't really know what toexpect right going into it.
Josh Sears (15:45):
And so this one was at a golf course in oklahoma yep
, the first one was done at ahidden trails country club in
oklahoma city.
Okay, he did it and did, walked100 holes in about 11 hours,
took about 11 hours to walk andplay 100 holes.
And we, you know, we, we playand we hole out.
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So you're going to either scorea three on a hole or you can
score a 12.
Either way, like, every strokecounts.
So we don't just pick up afterpar, like no, we keep going
until we hole out.
So you lose a ball, drop andcount your stroke and keep going
.
We try not to, because that's alot of golf balls.
Scott McLean (16:25):
But so let me ask you this at any point so there's
any golf sponsors, any golfball sponsors?
Josh Sears (16:31):
oh, I'm gonna let you talk all about that, so he
did that at any point when youguys are doing this.
Scott McLean (16:37):
at the beginning, did you ever wish damn, we
should have named it 50 holesfor 22.
Like what were we thinking?
A hundred holes?
Like couldn't it have been 50?
Josh Sears (16:49):
Why did you have to say a hundred?
Scott McLean (16:51):
Right.
Josh Sears (16:55):
It crossed our mind a couple of times, like who was
the genius that came up with ahundred holes.
But you know we're glad we didit.
You know we joke around aboutit.
But you know we do 100 plus.
So it's, that's great.
It's especially getting towardsthe end.
After like I'm on hold 90,you're kind of like I'm tired
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but then you think like you knowyeah, yeah, you know.
So you get tight like damn I'mtired, but then you think well.
Scott McLean (17:23):
So let me ask you this is it the four of you that
do it, or is it one one of you?
Okay, it's your turn to go dothis.
Or do the four of you do it, ortwo at a time?
Like, how does that work?
Josh Sears (17:35):
it.
We all, four of us do it.
We just had our third eventthis past november in north
carolina.
There was actually five of us.
One of them was a 73 year oldarmy vet and he was out there
every, every step of the waywith us that's an endurance
challenge in in reality itreally is.
Scott McLean (17:56):
I mean, it's just golf, that's an endurance event.
Yeah, there's a lot more thatgoes to walking, there's the
swinging, and that's got to takeits toll after a while oh yeah,
you, you get.
Josh Sears (18:08):
Uh, you're like for me.
I have a lot of back issuesfrom you know, the postcard that
the recruiters didn't give youso yeah a lot of back issues.
So as you're swinging andmaking all those you know twists
and turns, you're kind of likeput more pressure on the back
and they're just like, oh, andthen when he's trying to like
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not do it so much, it doesn't,the ball doesn't go where he
wanted to go and you just as itgets out of shape it makes it
longer, yeah, but it's so well,you know, we have our mission,
we know what we want to do andwe we're going to complete it,
we're going to accomplish it.
Scott McLean (18:43):
We're going to accomplish it, right?
Okay, you do the first eventand successful Anything that
you've done.
You did a hundred holes.
That's that's successful.
Yes, everything else after thatwas like this is gravy.
We did it, right.
So there's a, there's a coupleof accomplishments going on at
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the same time, right?
So, okay, you're done and youknow, yeah, this was great.
Wow, wow, wow.
At what point did you say we?
We're gonna like, let's, let'sgo a full boat with this thing,
like, let's start, let's startreally gearing up on this yeah.
Josh Sears (19:21):
So that kind of happened after the first one we
did as a team, because the firstone that was done was just the
one guy, yeah, here in oklahoma.
And that's when we, you know,we're talking like, well, how
about we make this a team thingand we all do it range, okay.
So then we did our first eventas a team at fort dix, new
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jersey, at fountain green golfcourse.
God forsaken place for secondplace.
We did that one in 2019 at fortdix.
You know it's that course, isnot.
There's not a lot of elevation,it's a generally flat course.
So you know, the four of us didit.
At first we started out, firstperson goes and then, once he
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gets down to you know, once hegets out of the range of you
know, the next guy to tee offand the next guys.
But then we ended up finishingtogether and actually, like the
second half of the round hole 60, all four of us just kind of
teamed up, gathered up andplayed all together.
You know, each one hittingtheir own ball, playing their
own ball.
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So we all finished 100 holestogether.
We did that one in like justright at 10 hours and we felt
good.
You know, we started.
It was pouring rain for likethe first 45 minutes and, like
you know what, we're just goingto go.
It's either going to rain allday or it's not, you know, and
it only rained for about 45minutes.
But you know, we did that,finished that one, and then that
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night we were talking likelet's do another one, we can
make this, let's make this ours.
So then, a year later, we didanother one in 2020 at TPC Yasna
Palana in Princeton, new Jersey.
That one was brutal becausethat's 2,700 feet elevation
change for every 18 holes.
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So 100 holes is five completerounds plus 10 additional holes
and with that much elevationchange it was I know I was
hurting.
You know a couple other guyslike they were like oh I'm done,
like legs are just tired goingup and down all the hills and up
in you know Princeton.
But once you get to the last,the last hole, the 18th hole,
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and you make that final putt, itwas just like a huge sigh of
relief.
Like we did it, we're done.
That one took us about 13 hoursand it was just like we're done
and you know we've.
We raised good, good amount ofmoney again in a short period of
time because you know I wasstill active duty.
The other guys that did it withus, one was active duty Air
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Force, the other one is aretired Marine but works for the
sheriff's time job and theother guy had his full-time job
out here in Oklahoma.
So trying to do everythingafter duty, after what would be
considered duty hours, is reallyhard.
And then you start sendingemails and trying to make calls
during work but also do your jobwithout foregoing and so, like
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you know, it's like you said,it's hard.
Nonprofit world it's a lot goesinto everything.
So in a very short time that youknow we did those two events.
We raised some good monies.
For the one at Fort Dix, wedonated just about $3,000 to a
nonprofit called Veterans forLife USA Awesome foundation that
really takes care of and getsthose vets and first responders
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to intake treatment facilities.
If they're, you know, they'redown and out and that's like the
last choice is really not thegreatest outcome.
And veterans for life does agreat job getting those, those
folks into treatment facilitiesand they the stories that come
out of them and just listen.
I'm like man.
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Thank you so much for helpingthem.
And you know like you see themfrom day one when they go in and
then the first day they getdone it's just like a complete
different person.
They look different, they lookmuch better, full of life and
just super motivated.
And then the one in Princeton wedonated I think it was like
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right around $2,600, went toTunnels, to Towers, to provide
some vets with smart homes,especially those that have
medical devices such aswheelchairs or other devices
that make it difficult tonavigate a traditional home.
So they did.
You know one of their reps camedown and watched us, for you
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know, one of their reps camedown and watched us for, you
know two hours and was justblown away.
Like how do you guys do this?
Like I can't believe it.
And then this past November wasour third event as a team in
Shelby, north Carolina, atCleveland Country Club.
Amazing folks out there, amazingcommunity, and it wasn't part
because we know that hurricanejust went up in North Carolina
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and pretty much destroyed it.
Thankfully it didn't affect thearea that we went to, it was a
little more West, so we werestill able to continue on and
that community was verysupportive and welcoming to us
and we raised like $1,500 wasdonated to a place called Big
Red Bond Retreat in Blythewood,south Carolina, and they deal
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with veterans and firstresponders, giving them therapy
through non-traditional meansbut still have staff to help
them through their thing,whatever situations that they're
going through and whatevertraumatic injuries, like brain
injuries and trauma that theyhave.
And with that money we wereable to keep a program funded
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for the next three to fourmonths, an equine therapy
program that has half half dozento a dozen different veterans,
first veterans and all firstresponders and their families to
use that therapy program forthe next three months beautiful
(25:21):
so very familiar with the equinetherapy yeah, it's foundation
and here in delray.
Scott McLean (25:28):
Okay is my.
They're my herd, they're theones that created this, this
nonprofit monster that I am, andthey're still my herd.
I still go every Friday.
I've been going for two years,so I have a lot of respect for
that and I know that.
Now you said something about acouple minutes ago that I have
to clarify.
See, we're from the same region, we're from the same place.
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I always say Rhode Island isjust, it's just the biggest
suburb of Massachusetts.
Josh Sears (25:53):
It's really to me it really is.
Scott McLean (25:56):
But you said something that I understood it,
but I'm guaranteeing thatprobably 98% of the listeners
the listening had no idea whatyou said when you said the big
red barn right, see, the big redbond, right, see, now I, I
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learned this, we.
He said barn, barn, peopleb-a-r-n.
Barn, yes, see, I say bond, yousay bond.
They don't know what the hell abarn is.
So I, I caught that.
That's why I'm a good podcaster, john, yes, yeah.
Josh Sears (26:30):
I got that.
Scott McLean (26:31):
My hours are not good.
They didn't understand.
Nah, don't worry.
Yeah, this is us.
We were here, first buddy,that's what I, and then
everybody moved west.
Everything started inMassachusetts in Rhode Island.
I'll give you that.
So I have a couple of things Iwant to ask you.
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So this is again, it's anendurance game for you guys.
You're not going anywhere.
You guys are just going to keepgoing forward and keep doing
what you're doing.
Did you ever think that maybesomeday like we're going to have
to get some younger golfers tokind of do those rounds for us
and like I can sit back now,like you did your time, buddy,
you know, now bring in a newrecruit and say come on, champ,
you can do it.
Oh yeah, that's.
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Is that in the plans, you think, is it?
Josh Sears (27:20):
it is.
That's actually the things wetalked about during our last
event.
Yeah, it's just because youknow three of us all in our
early 40s and then four of uswere all in our early 40s and
then we had that 73 year old uhveteran that was with us and
we're like we're all old andbroken and disabled broken is
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basically from the military, butand have like yeah you know,
some form of disability?
yeah, we might need, like, youngfolks to do this.
And you know we talked about itand it's just like everybody
could be like, yeah, I want togive it a try.
Okay, well, we can't just tryit?
There's it's like you have tofinish.
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Yeah, well, you will finish.
Good point, the 100 plus holes.
Like there's no ifs, ands orbuts about it.
Like it's either you're in itto win it or like don't waste
our time.
Scott McLean (28:13):
Yeah, because nobody's.
Yeah, you can just stop withdonors money number one yeah
that and that is important, thatlike people don't think about
that, but see so non-profits, ifsomebody, in any case a veteran
, shows up and they starthalfway through, they're like,
well, it's what we don't talkabout, but it is the thing like
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they just wasted some donorsmoney by doing that and it okay,
shit happens.
But in your case, this is veryspecific yes you know it's very
specific.
This money's been put out, it'sready to go and you can't have
somebody just die off at hole 55yeah, because nobody's gonna
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pay for services they didn't getexactly.
Josh Sears (29:02):
So, like you're not gonna pay, I'm nobody's gonna
give me a hundred dollars to doto do 50 holes.
They'll give me a hundreddollars to do 100.
I can't stop.
Like you can't stop becauseyou're tired.
You just don't want to do it.
No more.
Yeah, after about whole 75,like we're all just kind of like
I can imagine, I can't I can'timagine no, but we keep going
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because we know what our missionis like.
We're here for, you know, toadvocate, to show these people
that you know these veterans andfirst responders, that there's
a whole community and nationbehind you that you just don't
see, like these folks are thesilent majority.
If you want to say it that like, look, I, I support our vets, I
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support our first responders,but no, don't know how.
So here's us as this catalystcatalyst, you know, foundation
here.
Give us the money and we'llgive it to the people that take
care of them and we'll get themto the help they need.
So, and then you know, we justkeep doing what we do and we're
going to keep doing it.
But, yes, we want youngerpeople that can actually not
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feel like, you know, death byhole 75, because because they
will oh, they will, but they'llfeel like a younger death, not
an older death like us youngerdeath.
Scott McLean (30:22):
I like that, I like that, so all right.
So say, right now there'sthere's a you know young guy or
young, or a young lady, youngwoman right that says, hey, I
can do a hundred holes for youguys, I'd like to do that.
Right now.
You're in oklahoma, you're notall four in the same place, I'm
taking it.
Nope.
(30:42):
So you guys have to meet upsomewhere, yeah, like, and you
pay for that to get there to dothis, it's your time.
And you say, okay, we're goingto meet in, in the last case,
north carolina.
Yep, so everybody makes theirway there.
So there's a young golfer outthere, a young man, young woman
that says, I want, I think I can, I know I could do this.
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We don't want to hear I think,right, no, I know I could do
this.
How do I help you guys?
So what do you say to them?
Josh Sears (31:12):
Well, contact us, shoot us an email message on
Facebook and let us know youwant to do it and we'll talk and
you're going to do it.
If you say you can do it,you're in.
You're pretty much in, like now.
If you're shooting like, ifyou're a beginner golfer and
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you're shooting like in thehundreds probably not the best
thing for you to get intobecause it'll just drive you
more frustrated because you feellike more pressures on you.
Okay, I am not a good golfer byany means I'm.
I'm decent, like around the 80sto 90s.
Okay, I can pretty much keepthe ball on the on the hole or
the course and I can find it.
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But you know we're just tryingto go straight as possible, as
fast as possible, walking.
You're spending a coupleminutes per hole, like you.
It's not like a usual round ofgolf where you know you stand
behind your drive on the tee boxlooking where you want to go.
You get it, you see it, you hitit, you go as soon as you get.
We have our four caddies thatwill get to the ball and give
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you the yardage and we'll haveyour club ready for you by the
time you get there, because whatyou're going to do is just grab
the club, swing the club, keepgoing.
You're not lining up anything,except when you're on the green.
You kind of line up the part alittle bit, but get back on
track.
If you want to do it, shoot usan email at
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100fore22foundationcom atgmailcom.
Go on Facebook 10422 Foundation.
Same thing with Instagram Justshoot us a message, shoot us an
email and put your contact inthere.
We'll get with you and we'lllook forward to having more
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people join us, because ourultimate goal in philosophy and
dream is the more the merrier Ifwe can have an event in every
state simultaneously with 50different teams just think of
what the possibilities can be toget the help we need for those
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individuals that need it.
Scott McLean (33:33):
Yeah, that's viable man you know, that's
definitely something to buildtoward it, because I was
thinking that same thing as soonas you were saying that I'm
like you could have four in inoklahoma, you could have four in
florida, you could have four infour in massachusetts.
So, yeah, hey, listen that that, that would be amazing.
That would be amazing.
I'm assuming that you startthese 100-hole marathons
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endurance test early in themorning.
Josh Sears (34:03):
As soon as we're able to see a ball fly.
What's that?
As soon as we're able to see aball fly through the air, we're
going.
Scott McLean (34:10):
There's no glow-in-the-dark balls in this
game, buddy.
That's straight up.
Josh Sears (34:13):
They make them Plus, plus you're racing the sun now
right so now you're racing thesun right, so that's the third
element to this whole thing ohyeah, so and it all like, and it
depends on the course terrain,like, if it's fairly flat, yeah,
it's pretty easy, okay, but ifthere's a lot of difference
between the green to the nexttee box, that's another issue,
(34:34):
you know, or the elevation, youknow, and the topography.
There's a lot that goes into it, and so we're prepared for
anything, and so you check outeach course prior.
Scott McLean (34:47):
You either go online and you look at it, you
map it, you get all theinformation on it, you do your
homework on that course, becausethese are courses you've never
played'm assuming, most of thetime yep, so, like one in north
carolina.
Josh Sears (34:59):
Yeah, never seen that course until, um, the day
before, where we did a practiceround just to kind of orientate
ourselves.
Yeah, of course, and yeah, butyeah, and then trying to, you
know, select in a course, it's,you know I can, I can send an
email and approach every coursein the country, but it's up to
(35:21):
that course.
You know the head pro and youknow their board and if they
allow us, if they want us tocome in, and you know we've been
more than just us, you knowwe'll bring in a community event
for the night before, a glowgolf event where you know hit
those going to.
Yeah, so you know we're bringingyou know, not just us but we do
(35:44):
it like a community engagement,you know, the day before.
So that way, you know, meet thelocal community, you know if
it's a private course or even apublic course.
The membership that you knowpatronizes that course like, hey
, thanks for rocking up intoyour home, you know, it's just
so.
We try to engage the communityas well and also let them know
(36:04):
about us and let them know whatwe're fighting for or what we're
, you know, raising money for tohelp.
You know, keep our vets andfirst responders upright and
moving forward.
It shows them there are peoplethat are actually out there
trying to do it.
If you don't have a big bankrollaccount, we don't have money to
(36:28):
make commercials for peopleconcierge or have famous
athletes or actors speaking onbehalf.
So we do all the groundworkourselves.
Would we love to get there?
Yeah, we would love to be a bigfoundation, but we know we have
to start small and we reallyrely on word of mouth from a lot
(36:50):
of people and a lot of the headpros at the courses we've been
to to spread the word.
Or, you know, anybody listening.
If you're a golfer, go to yourcourse, but hey, I think this
would be awesome for our courseto do, you know, if it's a
private course likeunderstanding that most of these
events will happen on a daythat is closed so we don't
disturb the membership Publiccourses it's, I mean, mean we
(37:17):
can do it with or without, youknow, golfers, you know, and
we'll send out some informationabout what we do, like how it's
broken down and all that so anyplans on trying to get to south
florida?
Scott McLean (37:27):
working on it, you got a course in mind I'm not a
golfer, but so but this is whatI'll do for you guys.
Okay, if you ever do come toSouth Florida and I'm throwing
this out in the podcast universe, josh okay, if you ever come to
South Florida, palm BeachCounty, broward County right, I
will host you guys at my house.
I'll pay for the steaks, I'llpay for everything.
(37:49):
I have, like a six-hole puttinggreen in my backyard.
Oh there, it's not huge, right,it's a dog leg around the pool
and I will host you guys.
Everything's on me.
Man, you guys can come overbefore you do your thing.
That would be my pleasure.
(38:09):
I am not a golfer.
Why I have a putting green inmy backyard?
I don't like real grass wasuseless to me, like you can't do
anything with it.
Josh Sears (38:20):
So I do use it, I do use it.
Scott McLean (38:21):
I got it south florida, palm beach, county
right yeah, I'm in palm beachcounty but broward county is
right next door.
I'm like right on the border ofbroward county, palm beach
county hey, don't give me areason to come to south florida
this the the rib eyes are on me,buddy rib eyes on me and all
the drinks.
Everything's free, man, youcome to my house, I'll take care
of you guys.
(38:41):
Yeah, so jonathan sessaintroduced us.
Yes, warrior golf academy oh,what an amazing guy that guy is
dude, I'll tell you what it's heputs that out to, like when he
put out that he was on mypodcast.
You guys like there's a.
There's a bunch that said, hey,like when he put out that he
was on my podcast, you guys likethere's there's a bunch that
said, hey, like you were one ofthem, hey, I'll, I'll go on your
podcast and I I got this vibethat the, the, the non-profit
(39:04):
golf world is kind of a.
They're kind of close-knit in asense, like they're kind of
they're friendly with each other.
There's a connection.
There's like, hey, we'regolfers right, the nonprofit
world is not always like that,but golfing- for the most part
is yeah, you all have the samelove for the sport.
Josh Sears (39:26):
Whether you're good or bad, you all have the same
love for it.
It's just nice to get out there, especially looking at how the
course layout is.
Man, this is what a layout.
It's just nice to get out there, you know, especially looking
at, like, how the course layoutis.
Like, man, this is what alayout.
Like.
You know you're with the, youkind of forget your where you
are because you're on a golfcourse, you know.
So it's nice.
And at my fact, jonathan Sessaand Boyd Golf Foundation they
(39:47):
actually are going to be ourfour caddies at our events.
Oh, nice.
So we've partnered up andjohn's ancestor came up to north
carolina to kind of, you know,check out how we do it and stuff
, and yeah, we talked about howwe can move forward together and
so you know he gets to.
You know, take veterans, yeah,teach them about golf and caddy,
(40:09):
and you know outside the boxstuff, which is what I liked
about that yes, outside the box,I'm not just teaching you how
to.
Scott McLean (40:17):
It's outside the box oh, yeah, you know caddying
and how to work the course andhow to maybe do that.
That's why I found his thingvery interesting oh yeah, so I
mean I can't.
Josh Sears (40:31):
John says is amazing , amazing person and like the
conversations we had in NorthCarolina.
Then I mean, we talk on aregular as well and yeah, it's
just yeah.
Scott McLean (40:41):
Oh man.
So if you guys like I said so,I put it out there the house,
they got the pool, got theputting green, got the outdoor
kitchen.
Josh Sears (40:50):
I'm calling right now.
Hey, you're going to get us tosouth florida.
Call a man, get him get youguys down here.
Scott McLean (40:56):
I, I swear I will do that.
I will hook you guys up, man,I'll have a party for you guys,
because I think what you'redoing is really that's outside
the box.
Yeah, you know, people hearthis go they're golfing and
they're gonna, like.
I started thinking about itbecause I, I'm not a golfer, so
I thought the same thing, butthen I was like fucking hundred
(41:18):
holes, jesus, like that's, thatcan't be easy, like, and then I
started really processing it.
Yeah, I have a lot of respectfor what you guys are doing, but
if you're a young golfer, ifyou're a young golfer and you
have stamina and you and you,you know you shoot under a
hundred.
I don't know whatever you justsaid, right the golf.
(41:39):
If you're a better than averagegolfer, so they get in touch
with you again.
Josh Sears (41:46):
The website is 10422foundationorg All right
Email.
10422foundationorg All rightEmail.
100-422-foundation at Gmail.
Scott McLean (41:58):
And that's the number 100, the word F-O-R-E and
the number 22.
So do you guys take donations?
You have a donation site onyour website.
Josh Sears (42:09):
Right there, there's a way to donate now.
And speaking of donations, wealso have what we call a wall of
heroes, where we like to getpatches from different military
and first responder units aroundthe country and so we can put
them up on, you know, make awall of heroes and take it to
different, you know, events thatwe can, so we can show Wow
(42:31):
Because the military patches arecool, don't get me wrong.
But first responder patchesthere's some good ones out there
.
You haven't.
Yeah, I have a couple.
My buddy, he's a Pittsburghfire guy.
He sent me a bunch.
He sent me one from Chicago,from Wrigley Fire Department.
That was pretty cool.
I was like man, yeah, you know,from Wrigley Fire Department.
That was pretty cool.
I was like man yeah.
Scott McLean (42:53):
You know so just, I don't know if you have any US
Customs and Border Protectionpatches, but I retired from
there and I get some uniformsthat I don't wear anymore, so
I'll be more than glad to sendyou guys a patch, yeah, awesome,
appreciate it, yeah.
Josh Sears (43:09):
And to do that the address to send them to is on
there on.
And to do that the address tosend them to is on there on the
website as well.
Okay, so, where to donate?
Now?
Send right there on the website, so it's.
And then all our events thatare coming up.
As we book events, you know, wethrow it on the website too,
and we don't just do 100 holeswe hold every year well, last
(43:30):
year was our first annual golfclassic out here in Oklahoma
Regular 18-hole scramble forfolks that want to come out and
just play a nice 18 rounds withtheir best golfing buddies, or
guys or girls, just have a goodtime.
Support on good causes.
I have my guy, my New Englanddirector, setting one up,
(43:50):
hopefully later this fall,probably early to mid-fallfall,
up in probably Rhode Island Mass, connecticut area.
So once that gets locked in,we'll put it up there, so we'll
hold scrambles as well.
So that way, people are likeman, I can't do it 100 holes,
but I just want to golf.
Well, don't worry, we're goingto book some regular golf
(44:13):
outings throughout the countryas well, cause I don't I don't
expect, you know, a hundredpeople right now, but like no,
I'll come and do it.
Like that'd be great.
Scott McLean (44:21):
I would love for it to happen, but to the bad not
a lot, say, if you haveendurance, you're young and
healthy and you in this, you'dbe motivated to do this.
Reach out to them and, josh, asI always say, if you're
listening to this podcasting andyou and you're loving what 100
(44:42):
for 22 is doing, give them money.
Go to their website and givethem money.
These guys travel from theirhome states to different states
to do this and I'm sure theywould appreciate donations to
help make that happen.
And that's an expensiveendeavor to go to and you, you
(45:05):
get your wall of of heroes andyou get like there's things that
go with this.
So on the surface, this mightsound just okay 100 holes but
there's a lot that goes intoputting these things together
and these guys are working hard.
Just gee, I got tired justtalking about it, so I'm going
to go out and putt on my puttinggreen after this.
(45:27):
I'm going to do 100 putts in mybackyard just for you, Josh.
Josh Sears (45:32):
I like it, you guys, you'll be a putting master.
Scott McLean (45:37):
Is there anything else, any events coming up in
the near future, other thantrying to get to South Florida
for free steaks?
Josh Sears (45:44):
Just this June 9th out here in Oklahoma we'll have
our second annual 100 for 22Classic.
It's in Edmond but it's northside of Oklahoma City, so you
got Will Rogers World Airportthat you can fly into.
We'll be going out to some ofthe hotels see if we can get
some discounted rates, becausethat way folks who need some
lodging will be right there, allpretty close.
(46:06):
Everything by the course isclose.
I mean the airport's 20 minutesfrom the course.
And then we got the PGASuperstore, golf Galaxy, all
within a couple of minutes ofthe course and where the hotels
are, and some good eating so Ineed to do out here.
Scott McLean (46:22):
Let me ask you this is it?
Is it?
Is it seasonal for you guys?
You can only do x amount a year?
Is it seasonal like, okay,winter time, now you're limited
to the southern states, or doyou just like focus?
Try to get them in around thefall and the summer?
Josh Sears (46:37):
we'll do whenever, okay, I heard there's a good one
up in.
Scott McLean (46:43):
Up in Alaska, up toward the north pole, I heard
they have a good golf course aslong as it's the deadest summer
for them it's only available inJanuary.
Josh Sears (46:51):
It's only available in January that might be an endo
, I I don't know about that.
Scott McLean (46:54):
That's when you need the glow of the dark Right
Even in the snow.
Well, hey, josh, this is greattalking to you.
Man, me and Josh, like I said,got introduced through Jonathan
Sessa from the Warrior GolfAcademy, who was a guest on this
podcast a month or two ago and,yeah, I talked to Josh.
First time I talked to him Iwas fighting traffic in Miami
(47:16):
that I hate, but Josh was a goodtalker man and so he kind of
got me through a little bit ofthat traffic jam getting out of
Miami.
Josh Sears (47:25):
Glad to help.
Scott McLean (47:26):
Yeah, man, so I do owe you that much too when you
come down.
All right, well, listeneverybody Again.
10422foundationorg 104, f-o-r-e22, at gmailcom, right, yep,
okay, reach out to them If youfeel like you want to donate.
(47:49):
Donate If you feel like youwant to help them out in any way
.
I'm sure they will take help inany way they can get it.
Reach out, talk to josh orwhoever you know handles that,
and I'm sure they would be morethan appreciative, as would the
people that donate to for their,for their endurance.
Golf, it should be like anolympic sport, sounds like all
(48:11):
right, everybody?
Uh, josh, stick around for asecond.
I'm'm going to do my outro.
Uh, we built another bridgetoday.
This one was a hundred holebridge and it was great having
100 for 22.
Foundation on this podcast.
Josh, again, thank you.
If you like this podcast, shareit.
If you didn't like it, well,thanks for listening for 51, 52
(48:31):
minutes.
Yeah, if you're wanting tocheck out my foundation, here's
my cheap plug josh one man, onemic, foundation, dot.
Oig.
We're doing good stuff withveterans teaching them, uh,
giving them a voice through,teaching them how to podcast and
storytelling, and it's it'sgoing very well.
So check out my foundationfoundation.
(48:53):
I can do that, right, josh.
Yeah, I have the right to plugmy own thing right.
Josh Sears (48:57):
Oh, absolutely.
Scott McLean (48:58):
All right, I don't want to step on your toes.
That's why I do it all the way.
Josh Sears (49:01):
at the end, if we get down to South Florida, one
man, one mic has to come out.
We'll do a live podcast.
Scott McLean (49:06):
Absolutely, buddy, absolutely All right, everybody
listen all the way to the end.
There's a good public serviceannouncement for 988 and 211.
It's good for veterans, familymembers of veterans and just
civilians in general.
There's good information.
It's 30 seconds long, so giveit a listen.
Thank you again, will O'Pom,for your sponsorship, and I
(49:28):
guess that's it.
I will see you guys next weekwith a new episode.
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