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This podcast episode features an engaging discussion with Nick Carney and Andy Loors from Long Walk Golf Company, where they delve into their innovative journey within the golfing industry. The central theme revolves around their experiences as veterans transitioning to entrepreneurship and the unique insights they bring from their military background to the realm of golf. Throughout the conversation, they share personal anecdotes, including their favorite golf destinations and the influences that shaped their lives and careers. The dialogue further encompasses a variety of light-hearted inquiries, allowing listeners to glean more about their personalities and perspectives on both golf and life. Their commitment to creating exceptional golfing experiences is evident, and they invite the audience to explore their offerings online.
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Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Long Walk Golf Company
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Transcripts
Welcome to Grilling at the Green After Hours.
Speaker A:The conversation that took place after the show ended.
Speaker B:Hey, everybody.
Speaker C:Welcome to After Hours here on Grilling at the Green.
Speaker C:I'm jt.
Speaker C:Today we've got Nick Carney and Andy Lors from Long Walk Golf Company.
Speaker C:Check them out online.
Speaker C:I think you'll be.
Speaker C:You'll be pleasantly surprised that these two army guys came up with a brilliant idea and great designs here.
Speaker C:I'm not sure if the army prepared you for After Hours here, but like we said in the first segment, you have to do it on the fly.
Speaker C:Okay?
Speaker C:And each one of you can answer this, these questions.
Speaker C:You take a shot at it.
Speaker C:What's the one song you want to hear on the radio when you start your car in the morning?
Speaker B:Go ahead, Nate.
Speaker A:Oh, man, I don't know.
Speaker A:Well, I got kids right now.
Speaker A:They're in the.
Speaker A:They want to be the DJs, so I'm trying.
Speaker A:I'm not listening to every morning.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:That's a good one.
Speaker A:Probably an old George Strait song.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker B:I gotta go with.
Speaker B:I gotta go with something that's gonna give me a little bit of motivation to.
Speaker B:To, you know, go attack the day.
Speaker B:So let's go with Shoot to Thrill by acdc.
Speaker C:My man.
Speaker C:My man.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker A:Um.
Speaker C:You guys are on the road a lot, especially starting this, and you were with your service careers, too, but you were, you know, you're out there drumming up business and stuff.
Speaker C:Name one place that you kind of always look forward to going to.
Speaker C:Maybe it's a town that's got a favorite restaurant, because it's kind of a broad, vague question, but is there some place you always go?
Speaker C:Yeah, I'll go back there.
Speaker A:Mine would be Palm Springs, California.
Speaker A:Obviously, like most Northwesterners, you escape down there during spring break and any other time you can to get away from the rain.
Speaker A:But now we do a yearly fundraising golf tournament out there for a nonprofit that we're a part of with some of our Navy buddies.
Speaker A:And so it's a.
Speaker A:It's a great time.
Speaker A:We go out there in, like, February, March time frame and get everybody together.
Speaker A:We've been getting together for over a decade now, and it's.
Speaker A:It's great to see all our friends and play some golf.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Palm Springs, hard to beat.
Speaker B:I would.
Speaker B:I would say Nashville is up there for me.
Speaker B:Also.
Speaker B:I'm big time music lover, and it's so cool that any bar you go into, you're gonna have live music.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's One of my favorite big little towns or low cities.
Speaker C:I spent some time in Nashville.
Speaker C:Memories are a little foggy, but I spent some time there, I can tell you that.
Speaker C:Okay, you both have kids, so this is one I think you can appreciate.
Speaker C:What's your favorite color?
Speaker C:Lifesaver?
Speaker A:Green?
Speaker A:Cherry green?
Speaker B:Power of red.
Speaker C:Sorry, you're both.
Speaker C:You're both correct.
Speaker C:That's.
Speaker C:Those are both good answers.
Speaker C:I have yet to see somebody come up and say, well, those kind of opaque white ones that taste horrible.
Speaker C:I don't even know why they put them in there.
Speaker C:Maybe they're just using them for spacers in the roll or something.
Speaker C:Who the hell knows?
Speaker C:There.
Speaker C:If you could play around of golf with one of your golfing heroes.
Speaker C:Now, Nick, this can't be your mom.
Speaker C:If you can play around of golf with one of your golfing heroes, who would it be?
Speaker B:That's a.
Speaker B:That's a tough question.
Speaker A:Tough one.
Speaker B:I mean, I immediately go to John Daly.
Speaker B:I don't know why I think, but we actually did get a chance to meet John Daly at one of these charities.
Speaker B:The one.
Speaker B:The one we did outside of Nashville.
Speaker B:And it was.
Speaker B:It was kind of.
Speaker B:He was a cool guy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Very, very awesome.
Speaker C:Yeah, I agree, Nick.
Speaker A:I'd probably go with.
Speaker A:I don't know, I might go with an old school like Arnold Palmer.
Speaker A:He'd be a great one.
Speaker A:And I can't play with them anymore, but you know that generation that really kind of changed the game and paved the way for Tiger to step into and then really explode it as a game.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So if you could dine with a historical figure, they can be alive or they can be gone.
Speaker C:But if you could dine with a historical figure, who would it be and what would be on the menu?
Speaker B:I'm still thinking, Nick, if you gotta go.
Speaker C:Come on.
Speaker C:You guys are supposed to be quick analytics, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's something.
Speaker B:But there's so many to choose from.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:All the history.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it always goes to, like, kind of military style.
Speaker B:You know, I'm thinking all the way back to Alexander the Great, all the way to George Washington.
Speaker B:Yeah, probably George Washington.
Speaker C:That would be cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And what would be on the menu?
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It had to be steak.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You have to make something soft for him because he had bad teeth, so.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker C:Something easy to chew, Nick.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Keep it in line with the military side of it.
Speaker A:I think Patton would be a good one.
Speaker A:General Patton.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:About, you know, how he was Hiring and firing officers because he was very quick to hire and fire guys.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker A:How that process worked out and what he actually thought about it.
Speaker A:You know, it'd be interesting to see afterwards of what he thought who was actually as good as he thought they were, were they not.
Speaker A:And I, I love a steak.
Speaker A:I'd probably go with the big steak.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker C:I, I, I, I think Patton had, I think he respected his enemies in a way, you know, some of his contemporaries and the generals like Rommel, of course, that's a very famous situation there.
Speaker C:But that's just my take.
Speaker C:I could be way wrong there.
Speaker C:Okay, so if we declared Nick on Tuesday and Andy on Thursday the supreme leader of golf for one day, what would you, as supreme leader decree?
Speaker A:I would not, I'd get, I would get rid of the ball rollback.
Speaker A:So everybody's playing the same golf ball.
Speaker A:And I would say, you know, if the tour is, quote, unquote, too easy, like some of the people claim, I would narrow the fairways, I'd grow the rough, I'd shrink the greens, and I'd make them hard and fast.
Speaker C:Good answer.
Speaker A:I think it would solve a lot of the problems they're having.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's been big discussions on this show about ball rollback and I, I'm not a fan.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Because being an amateur golfer, I need all the help I can get out.
Speaker A:There and it's, it takes away the ability to compare yourself to them because then you're not playing the same balls, you know?
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:Andy Nix the rules and regulation knows more, way more about golf than I do.
Speaker C:But I would.
Speaker B:Why can't they wear shorts on tour?
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:On some of those places, like, why not?
Speaker B:Yeah, I think that's, that's what I go with.
Speaker C:Let me tell you, if you're in Oklahoma in August playing, you know, US Open or whatever, and it's 119 outside, walking.
Speaker C:And they're walking.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:That's like this.
Speaker C:Okay, who is the biggest.
Speaker C:We've only got a couple more here because I know Andy's got to go here in a minute.
Speaker C:Who is the biggest influence on, in your life, on you personally?
Speaker A:I would say probably my dad or my, my brother's been a big one too.
Speaker A:But, you know, my dad owns a business.
Speaker A:We both grew up working there and watching him, you know, manage all the different, I mean, it was day to day problems and having a problem solve and make things happen, I think that just made the army that much easier for me.
Speaker A:And now probably this job, you know, because it's.
Speaker A:You're just constantly racking and stacking the new priority, and priorities change rapidly, and you got to make decisions and live with it.
Speaker C:Andy?
Speaker B:Yeah, I would say probably equally my mom and my dad, like, for my dad's part, you know, he had a similar business to Dave, Nick's dad, he had an auto mechanic shop.
Speaker B:So I learned, you know, how to turn wrenches at an early age.
Speaker B:Kind of learned a little bit of responsibility.
Speaker B:There's.
Speaker B:And then for my mom's part, like, just kind of like that work ethic and doing.
Speaker B:Doing a job correctly so you wouldn't have to do it again and again and again.
Speaker B:Yeah, I would say definitely, like, probably more of my mom, but definitely those two.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker C:I'll leave out this one question because it's silly, but here's one for you.
Speaker C:This is the last one.
Speaker C:If I gave you a box, with everything you had lost in your life, what would be the first thing you would reach for?
Speaker B:Huh?
Speaker B:That's a good one.
Speaker B:I don't know if I've ever lost anything that I was thinking about that much.
Speaker B:Nothing comes to mind.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker A:That's a hard one.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I'm a big believer in things happen to help you later in life, and they.
Speaker A:Learning lessons and, you know, like, if I went and pulled one string, how would that have affected me and changed.
Speaker C:Me.
Speaker A:You know, Would I still be here today if I pulled one of these things back, you know?
Speaker A:Sure, depending on what it was.
Speaker A:Obviously we're talking about something more significant than a golf ball, so.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker C:Well, somebody.
Speaker B:I'll.
Speaker C:I'll help you out here real quick.
Speaker C:Some people say I would.
Speaker C:My mom, who had passed, you know, five years ago or whatever, and other people say, you know, I lost a.
Speaker C:A piece of jewelry or something.
Speaker C:They dropped it in the lake when they were a kid, or their dad's Rolex, which they could never find, you know, which they caught hell for.
Speaker C:That's, you know, the answers vary on that one.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, I guess the.
Speaker A:The immediate one that really, like, popped in my mind was one of my high school best friends, Matt, who died in a.
Speaker A:From an IED in Afghanistan right after I was getting out of college.
Speaker A:And, you know, but that was also a huge factor in me wanting to join and, you know, old and do that.
Speaker A:So I definitely wouldn't be here or most likely would not be here had that not happened to him.
Speaker A:Now, what I.
Speaker A:Whatever life I would have had was probably would have been great and I'd rather have him here, but I don't know.
Speaker A:It's a tough one.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's the case.
Speaker B:And definitely my mom, yeah, she, she passed a, you know, in 21.
Speaker B:So, yeah, she left a big, big hole in everybody's life.
Speaker B:She was like the matriarch of her family.
Speaker B:So almost like the Godfather.
Speaker C:I know that deal.
Speaker C:I know that deal from my mom.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:He said what she said goes.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:My mom was not very big, but she was mighty, I'll put it that way.
Speaker C:You know, little five foot six fireball there.
Speaker C:Nick Carney and Andy Lewis from Long Walk Golf Company.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:Andy, tell them again where the website.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's long walk golfco.com.
Speaker C:Okay, cool.
Speaker C:And we're gonna be, we're going to be monitoring this and we can have you back on someday and you can give us an update.
Speaker C:How's that?
Speaker B:Yeah, great.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Well, that's going to wrap it for after hours this week, folks.
Speaker C:We want to thank Nick and Andy for taking the time to be with us and as always, go out and play some golf, have some fun.
Speaker C:But most of all, be kind.
Speaker C:Have a good weekend, everybody.
Speaker C:Take care.
