Quimby's major announcement about his future at Green Legion -- 6/29/24

Quimby makes an announcement about his future with Green Legion.

Episode Transcript

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Brought to you by friends at CheerleadersGentlemen's Club. All right, I could
build this up, build it upnow, I'm not going to. But
after I'm just gonna, you know, I'm gonna talk a little bit about
it. Uh yeah, well,I actually thought this would be a little

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easier. I am officially announcing myretirement from the Green Legion as of the
end of this season. Uh.Doesn't mean that I'm gonna leave the operation
entirely. Uh, just I don'twant to be in charge anymore. I

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really don't. I have. I'vemade so many friends, made a lot
of enemies too. I'm one ofthem. Yeah, I never liked you
checks in them. There's about asix week period since the schedule was released,

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and uh, and I don't wantanybody getting concerned or worried about this
statement because it's embellished a little bit. But I tell you safely, for
about five of those weeks, ifI didn't wake up in the morning,
and I probably didn't care. Imy brain, my level of patience,

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my love for this is not changed. And that's why you know, I'm
gonna We're gonna talk about this fora little bit. You know, this
is my this is my baby.Uh, this is my my child.
This is that which I have spenttwenty two years creating, and it has

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been the love of my life.It's been the most painful part of my
life. It has opened up somany doors and it's closed a few.
But and I don't want to saymy heart's not in it. I think
my problem might be that my heartis always too much in it. And

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you know, I just I justkinda kind of feel like the legacy of
the Green League and the name keepingit moving forward might be better served in
somebody else's hands. And like Isaid, I thought this would be a

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little easier. And no, foranybody that's asking, I don't have any
plans. I'm gonna have to dosomething, maybe not for a little while,
but I uh, I have Ihave no future plans right well,
and let me let me explain this. When I say, uh, uh

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stepping down, it's from road trips. Uh. If it's okay with you
guys, I'd like to continue torun the tailgates at home. Uh.
I'd like to continue to do thiswith Fox Sports. Uh, God willing,
uh chance and you and and SeanBrace and and Jeff Moore continue to
allow me to do this. Uh. We got Mike Powell helping us out
now, which I can't thank youenough. Mike, and you you you

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were killing it for me. Ourrelationship is uh spectacular with Exfinity and I
I I do. I still wanna. I still want to run home Tailgates.
I want to host this show andand I'd like to continue to do
that, but I don't. Idon't want my name on any more of
these contracts. It's uh and andI and I don't want the workload.

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You know. You guys, youguys see me and I'm traveling and I'm
having fun. And at the endof the day, I am still pulling
out my computer for three hours.And and that's that's on a day off.
When I'm in work mode, it'sa ten It's a twelve hour day
every single time. And it's it'sjust time. You know. If I

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when I started this back in twothousand and three, having, by the
way, absolutely zero clue what Iwas doing, I don't know if I've
ever told you guys this story.Tim Mullen from Apple Vacations, Tim and
Craig were extremely pivotal. I wasthe membership director at Bluebelt Country Club for

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a lot of years. Eight actually, and I had purchased from Wayne Johnston
Yo Wayne my Man, not DwayneJohnson. Wayne Wayne Johnson who started the
underground website for Avalon, New Jerseyin nineteen ninety six Avalon DASHNJ dot com

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ed Wakeley, what you talk aboutwillis I bought the sites from him in
nineteen ninety nine when after he methis wife who said no way. His
marketing program was running around the islandtaking digital photos and handing out cards for

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the website and posting those photos everyweek, and he went from six thousand
unique visitors his first year to overa quarter of a million the third year,
and his wife said, you're notdoing this anymore because it was a
It was an open invitation for himto meet any and everybody that he wanted

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to meet, male or female.And excuse me, sorry, I welled
up a little bit there. Hesold me the sites. I made a
little bit of money and over thesummer selling sponsorships down in Avalon and Sea
Isle and Stone Harbor, and thenI started the manioc website. But I
still didn't know how to make anymoney with this whatsoever. And somebody suggested

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that I run a trip to theBahamas. Hey, everybody, let's let's
let's go into dead of February,like one hundred days to go before we
get into our shorehouses. And Ididn't have a reservation system. I didn't
have any of it. Yeah,flotilla thron Henderson. What a party we
had, man, what a partythat was dead in two thousand and five,

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Kenny Weller, You know, Kennydidn't know he was going to do
this, and he gets a badrap for it. I have no bad
blood for Kenny. He just didn'twant to go. Well. I probably
shouldn't talk about his personal life here, Kenny. Kenny jumped off the bridge
having fun, the twenty first Streetbridge, and some seventy eight year old

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woman cried. He never came up, and all of a sudden they're dragging
the coast guards, dragging the canal. But Kenny, no bad blood,
man, You're good people. Missy. I love you, and look,
I don't think I'm I'm gonna beremoved from it. Yeah, to be

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honest with you, all right,First of all, all right, let
me get back that I'm gonna jump, but remind me to tell you guys
after I'm done avalon that about stayingwith the company. So I started trying
to run these trips. And Ihad reached out to Tim because we were

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in the country club circuit and wehad a mutual friend and he, you
know, we were trying to Theywould a commission of twenty five dollars per
person for a group, and ifyou got twenty five people to go,
you'd get a free spot. Andthe Bahamas packages for three nights were like
five hundred bucks all inclusive. SoI'm like, oh my god, I'm

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gonna go to the Bahamas with fivehundred bucks cash in my pocket and a
free trip. Yeah, I canlive with that, right. I could
never get twenty five people to go, and everything just faded because I also,
you know, hey do you wantto go? Yeah? Okay,
cool, I'm marking down. Ididn't say send a check, you know.
So when it came down to tryingto get everybody on board, it's

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it just never happened. And thenit was June sixth of two thousand and
three and I'm at my office atBluebelt Country Club and I'm looking at the
Eagle schedule and I see that weplay the Dolphins on Monday night in December
early I think it was December ninth, And I'm like, man, I

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can get twenty five of my friendsto go on that trip, right,
ladies? You? I love youguys seriously. Now you're gonna make me
cry, Missy jay E. SoI called Tim back up, and I'm
like, dude, uh, youknow, do you run Eagles road trips?

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Because I know I can get thisone rocking. He goes hell no,
I'm like wait, and and wehad started to become pretty good friends
and I'm gonna and I go okay. He goes, hell no, but
wait, I think you would bereally good at it. Okay, first

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of all, are you feeding meto the wolves? You know what is
actually taking place here? And uh, you know, why would I be
good at it? He goes,well, you know, if you if
you approach this properly and you couldfind some vendors who will be flexible,
then you can give it a whirland see whether or not it takes off

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for you. And you have thenetwork to do so, because at that
time I was probably at twenty thousandemail addresses maybe even more on my database.
You know, there wasn't social medialike we have it now. I
think MySpace was you know, likea like a Tom's loved child that he

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hadn't created yet, So all marketingwas done via mass email. And he
goes, dude, you should giveit a whirl, and he was kind
of of, you know, guyowns a multimillion dollar tour operator company.
It's kind enough to walk me through, and it was. It was more
than it was more than a fewminutes, and it was more in a

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couple of days. And walked methrough everything that I needed or he thought
that I should do or needed todo in order to create these packages and
and make them great for everybody.And I'll never forget what he said.
He goes, once they get tothe airport in Philadelphia, make sure they
don't have to think. And thatwas what I was always always striving for

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AOL chat room. Russ nice,you know, trying to make it as
easy as possible. He goes,take care of everything. Get their flights
when you can get their their theirtransportation to them from the airport. When
you get there, make sure they'repre keyed, and you know, they
come back and they can put theircard down for incidentals later. Make sure
they have stuff to do while they'redown there. You know, it's a

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football game. Make sure you gota nice tailgate, you get their tickets,
make sure their transportation to and fromthe game is there and ready,
and just remember, just remember tobe as the best you can at that
which you can control. And I'mlike, wait, what is yeah?
Thanks jay? Uh? The commentsare all in, comments are all in

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dancing good. So you know,make sure you can do the best you
can to control that which you can, which is everything except the outcome of
the game. And what you wantto make sure is that if they lose,
and I think this is one ofthe one of the reasons why they
never jumped in it, if theylose, you have to make sure people

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still had a good time. Youhave to make sure people come back and
say, hey, you know,god, it sucks that we lost that
game, but we had blast.And you know, thankfully that is has
has been the case for a verylong time. What was I asking you
remind me about when I was donethe avalance story, something about your role

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in Kareen Legion and what you're gonnado, how you're gonna be still greenly?
I think something, Yeah, Ithink so okay, well, let
me finish this, I think soLindsay Lindsay Beckett. There was a chain
of boutique hotels in South Beach,the Whitelaw to be specific, and that's

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the hotel where we had our firsttrip. They had just opened up fifty
eight rooms, fifty four rooms somethinglike that. I'm like, hey,
you know, talking to her.They also had a one hour open bar
complimentary every day. And there thisis two thousand and three. There they're

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catchphrase, their motto, their theirmarketing line, stiff drinks, hot water,
white sheets like okay, yeah,you had me. It's stiff but
giggoty, Yeah, you knew thatwas coming Chanson. So also my Mike

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Gabriel, my web developer at thetime, his mom was a travel agent.
I called the Dolphins. Sure ashell. I got a sales rep
from the Dolphins who's from the Philadelphiastroke of luck. So everything started to
fall into place and I put thispackage together. But I didn't want to
sign any contracts because I didn't know. And that was one of the things

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that Tim said, Hey, youknow, try to be flexible, or
try to find a place that's flexiblethat you know, isn't going to make
you sign that, like, let'ssee performance before we before you sign anything.
I'm all right. So I askedLindsay to hold fifteen to twenty rooms.

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We had fifty flights, and Iput this thing out. I called
it Beach, Booze and Birds andready. This is hysterical, all right.
If you had four people in yourroom, your flight, your airport
transfers, your three nights at thehotel, your game day transfers, your

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pregame tailgate, and your game ticketwas only three hundred and ninety five dollars
a person. You know, keepingin mind, this is two years removed
from you know, it's post nineto eleven. You know, people were
still very wary or weary about traveling. And I think I still made seventy

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bucks a person on that thing.So my cost was literally like three hundred
and twenty five bucks a person forall of that, which is nuts.
You know, our room rate wasninety nine bucks a person. You know,
the open bar was included. Itwas awesome. And I put this
thing out to my email list atnine in the morning. It was a
Wednesday, and my email sound whenyou know, I got a new Emil

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was screw you guys by Cartman,and I send this thing out, keeping
in mind in that day and age, there's still there's still a lot of
question marks when it comes to tech, and you know, the mailor demons
would pop up all the time ifyou did something wrong. So I put

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that out. I go upstairs tomake breakfast and I listen and I can
hear my computer go, screw youguys, screw you guys, screw you
guys, screen, screw you guys. Screech, screech, screwed, screw
scoot, screwed, screw you guys. Screw screech just lighting up. I'm

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like, God, damn it,I freaking screwed it up. These are
all mailor demons. I gotta dothis again. And I go down and
I look and it is everyone thatwants to sign up for this trip.
I am scrambling. I sold fiftyspots in twenty minutes. I'm like,

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wait, let's go, let's go. I call Mike Gabriel's mom. I'm
like, hey, can you getme more? You know, She goes,
what do you need? I'm likeanother one hundred and fifty flights.
She's like, not a problem.I asked, I call Lindsay. I'm
like, Lindsay, we're good.She's like yeah, I'm like, yeah,
we're good. She goes, allright, so what do you want
to sign a contract for. I'mlike the entire hotel? She goes,

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wait what, I'm like, yeah, this is where this is going.
She goes, well we can't.We already have three reservations for that weekend.
I'm like, and they are gonnalook really really good across the street
at the Chesterfield, your other hotel. She goes, yeah, they will.

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Because she also realized, man,that was a great postcard, a
great billboard for her, not onlyselling out a weekend, you know,
and they had just opened up threeweeks prior, so you know, everybody
was down with this whole thing,and it was it was awesome. I

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opened it back up and sold thoseother one hundred and fifty spots in less
than two hours. So two hundredspots in roughly about well just over two
hours, two hours, fifteen minutesmaybe. And I'm like, well,
maybe I'm onto something. The followingyear, major League vacations. Yeah,
they've been They've been pissed at mefor years. I don't give a single

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crap about them. They got creditin Dallas for having the most people down
there. I had more than theycould have ever asked for. I had
six hundred and seventy five the followingyear, and that was not embellishing numbers.
So it's again anyway, it was. It was that which stemmed two

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years later me removing myself from thatfrom my full time job at bluebellt Country
Club. And the rest is.The rest is is what you all know,
and well what I wanted to sayas well, because I know we
got to get up on a breakhere, but Jansen, We're okay,

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We're going a little bit longer andfiltering this breakout through. What does this
mean means there's a plan in placeif I still need to stay with the
organization in some capacity right now,I couldn't be any any more honest and
sincere with saying that if Stephanie's runningthis whole thing, I couldn't be any

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happier. That girl is a championin every capacity. She's also had some
you know, some personal issues overthe last year and still flying colors man.
People love her. She is whatI used to be as far as

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being nice and talking to people andengaging, and you guys know, like,
the only people I really want totalk to anymore are you know,
people that I really know, youknow, the ones that are in the
in the in the circle. AndI guess what this all means is,
I'm prepared to stay with the organizationas as part of it a spokesperson somebody.

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I want to go on one ofmy trips. For God's sake,
I want to go on one ofmy freaking trips. I don't want to
work it. I want to bethere having fun out with you guys.
And I generally am, but I'malways always on a constant radar. What's
going on next? What can happen? Where can this go wrong? What

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haven't we finished yet? What whatmistakes have we made that we can cover
up? So you guys don't knowwhat. And it's constant and it's never
ending, and it's no break andit's no sleep, and it's just not
for me anymore. But I'm happywith staying with the organization. I guess
basically what this means is now she'sofficially up for sale. She's up for

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sale and serious offers only do notcome to me and say, hey,
I'll work it. For you forthe next four years, so you don't
have to and give you all thatmoney. Nah, now you're writing a
check, all right, and itis no no lighter than seven figures,

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So keep that in mind. Butuh, yeah, I don't. I
don't mind staying on. I reallydon't. I it's my baby, it's
my legacy, it's my life's work. I dare I say it's my best
achievement, you know. I Ithat may sound a little shallow. I

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kind of think I would have beenkind of like to think I had better
achievements. But twenty two years,twenty two years, all right, twenty
two years I have been doing thisand I couldn't, man, I couldn't.

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I could never ask for anything morethan this. And at this point,
you know, I want to.I want to go out on my
terms. I want to I wantto go out before I piss everybody off
to it and well, you don'tcount. You're a richer, h And
I want to go out on top. And me making this announcement allows all

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that to take place. And uh, you guys, I can't. I
could never imagine the friendship and supportthat I've received from so many of you.

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Kind of feel kind of feel likeI don't deserve it a lot of
times, but you guys are alwaysthere and I will, I will be

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forever grateful for that to all ofyou. Wow, chance, and let's
take a break. Yeah, let'sdo that, all right. We'll catch
you guys back in a few minutes.