Trey Kerr - Golf With Jay Delsing

Jay Delsing spent 25 years on the PGA Tour and is a lifetime member of the PGA Tour and PGA of America. Now he provides his unique perspective as a golfer and network broadcaster. It's time to go On The Range with Jay Delsing.

On The Range is brought to you by the Gateway section of the PGA. Hey, good morning. This is Golf with Jay Delsing. I'm your host, Jay, and that's right, there's no Pearly this week. Oh, yeah.

This is going to be fun. Pearly is driving around, flying around. He's in a boat somewhere.

Living a good life on a jet somewhere. Absolutely. Absolutely. He's like, oh, I don't think I get cell service where I am.

I'm like, I don't care. Listen to David Bode. All right, so we're on the On The Range segment. It's brought to you by the Gateway PGA. I just want to thank the Gateway PGA for being involved in the show. There's so many people in the city and the outskirts, this whole region that are part of the PGA and the Gateway PGA.

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Give these people a call. They're like family and they do a great job. All right, so the show today. I have got an interview with the CEO of a place called Gateway Studios Production Services. This guy's name is Trey Kerr. He is a great guy.

I've known he and his family for a long time. Wait till you see what they're building in Chesterfield. I mean, they're building, they're spending over $110 million. They just had groundbreaking ceremonies on Thursday.

The governor was here. They are basically bringing this massive music playground to Chesterfield. There's going to be a hotel. Yeah, it's going to be just across from the Spirits Airport. It's a destination point.

Oh, my God, there's no question. And what they're doing is they're creating this, there's this one stage in this one area where bands can come and rehearse for their tours, for touring. Because the way music has kind of changed in the sense where you don't make your money through recording anymore. You make it through touring. And so think about these massive shows that you just saw Luke Holmes. You said it was badass. It was amazing, yeah. Yeah, but you don't just slap that together and it all comes, you have the lighting and all of that.

The timing of everything, yeah. Yeah, so they've got one area out there that's going to be as big as a football field for bands to come out and rehearse and practice. And it's, I think it's on 33, anyway, it's a really cool interview and I can't wait for this to come to the St. Louis area. Chesterfield is blowing up so much in that area already.

You've got Top Golf, I know they just opened a concert venue, The Factory out there, and you've got the mall, all the shops and everything. But I wonder at this point, you get something like this, if this is a starting point for a lot of tours. If this is the thing where you kind of come in, get primed to do the finishing touches or whatever, and then bam, St. Louis first show.

Absolutely, why wouldn't you? I mean, that's one of the things, we're giving away a little bit of the interview, but who cares? That's one of the things that we're talking about, where these guys are going to, like I've gotten to become friends with one of the band members of Dierks' group. And they come in and they're seven or eight trucks. When you two came and did their worldwide tour in the U.S., they had over 118 wheelers in the stages.

And so when you think about the size, the money, the number of people, you're talking about hundreds and hundreds of people. It's just fantastic. And Trey loves a game of golf, and he told a funny story about how he kind of broke into this. Anyway, so it's, yeah, it is what it is.

It's really funny. We've got this thing, I got to ask you, so, and the listeners, we've got the match number five coming up, and I'm kind of thinking I'm going to have a huge dead ass on this one. Brooks versus Bryson. I'm thinking the only thing that I'm kind of interested in is Phil Mickelson's going to be in the booth. He's going to be in with Charles.

He's going to be in with Brian Anderson, who was on the show not long ago. And I don't know what to think, and you never know what Lefty's going to say, but Bryson and Brooks just doesn't, it never interested me. And from your chair, what do you see there? Yeah, from a player's perspective, like, I mean, you know what they've both accomplished, and you know, the rivalry is what stands out the most. But I don't know in that setting if you're going to get what you want from the rivalry. I don't know how much of the smack talk you're going to get and the hatred because I think that they're going to put a face on at some point because of the cameras.

I don't think we're going to get what we want on that end. I think, and you know, the Q rating and all this stuff, which the tour created this thing, $40 million in this pot. Well, we know who's going to be number one in there. I mean, Tiger has to poke his head out his window, and he's going to have more attention than anybody else.

Anybody, yeah. Multiple guys combined. Yeah, so Tiger's going to get the lion's share of this thing, but I did some research, and you cruise on down the list. Last, the 10th place payout, $500,000.

And then the ninth, I mean, what? And so what it really turns out to be is this thing was volleyed around early in the year, and people were interested. It was all for this. I mean, Bryson is kind of a one-man walking media show anyway just because of the way he's chosen to go about it, and I still think from a golf geek standpoint that's interesting. But these guys, you know, worked it out at the Ryder Cup, and this thing's over. I haven't heard one kind of barb fly back and forth, and TNT's kind of on the hook here.

I don't know. We'll see what they can do to kind of spruce this thing up. Do you think the TV angle with Charles and Phil, you said you weren't sure really how Phil would approach that, but do you think that they kind of tried to stoke the fire a little bit? Well, I think they're going to have to, but the one thing that's cool, this thing isn't going to be that four, five, six hour long drama like we saw up in Montana and some of the others. They're only going to play 12 holes. They're playing in Vegas, so it's not like this is going to be this wild, beautiful, scenic, like we're going to see bears running off in the distance and stuff. Anyway, I mean, it is golf on TV. I think it's going to air right around Thanksgiving, but I'm not real. I think it's on Black Friday, so it might be a Black Friday for golf too.

I'm not sure. You know, that's going to wrap up the Beyond the Range segment. I want to do the tip of the cap, and the tip of the cap is brought to you by my buddy Colin Berndt, his team over at the Dean team of Kirkwood, 314-966-0303. My tip of the cap goes to the sports fans of St. Louis. You know, when I look back and I think about the support that the PGA Championship got in 2018, the way that they support the Cardinals and listening to this most recent 2030 announcement about the President's Cup and knowing how the city is going to support that event. And then we're dragging a lot of old stuff up about the Rams because this lawsuit is coming to a head and the NFL is going to get its ass handed to it justifiably. And I heard those numbers.

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I was just over there the other day. I bought a used VW Passat for my daughter, Jo, who just totaled it in an accident. She texted me, by the way, and said, Dad, I tapped a car in front of me. She tapped it so well that the cars totaled. Anyway, I talked to Colin, and he is working out a new vehicle for us.

But we went over and looked. There is a huge selection of cars over there. My buddy, Pearly, that does his show with me had bought a used Toyota truck from Colin and just loved the service and loved the vehicle.

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$800,000. We say it all the time in our inaugural year. Just rocking us right up the charts and the Champions PGA Tour standings on charitable money raised. And just wait to see what we do in year two. I can't wait. All right, so I've got this interview with the CEO of Gateway Studios Production Services, Trey Kerr.

It's just broke ground in Chesterfield Valley this past Thursday. Let's just jump right into that interview. Maybe. Yes, sir. One of the greatest displays of courageous golf that anybody has ever seen, any place. Trey Kerr is brought to you by Golden Tee. Trey, thanks for joining me this morning.

Absolutely. Thanks for having me, Jay. Pleasure to be here.

Oh, my gosh. We ran into one another this summer. We were talking about this great new project you guys have going on out in the Chesterfield area. And I can't wait for you guys to get going.

It's going to be a boom for the region. First of all, let's just let the listeners know a little bit about what you guys have going at Gateway. And then there's some great stories with some of your management, I know.

Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, Gateway Studios Production Services is based here in St. Louis. And what we do is we are a full service audio lighting video rigging provider for major touring acts, musical acts that go out on tour and play the large stadiums and arenas that are so often shared with a lot of sports franchises out there. You know, St. Louis, we got the blues and the former home of the Rams that a lot of a lot of concerts go on in those types of places. So when you go to those shows and see all of the big moving lights and big led walls and other things of that nature and the sound system that you're listening to and whatnot. So we provide all of that to major touring acts, as well as the guys that go out on the road and do that.

Also known as roadies. So a big, a big part of that. That's something we already do and a big part of the thing that we're adding here is the studios and we're building a 32 acre 330,000 square foot campus out in the Chesterfield Valley area that we will be erecting large rehearsal studio spaces, as well as a couple other little things in that area. You know, the largest one is 300 by 175. It's the size of an NFL football field.

And it has a ceiling height of, we call it the grid that's where we hang all of the show from but 80 feet tall. We, we just broke ground. Thursday, and in the valley and we're really looking forward to that project. And it'll be a state of the art facility.

There's a few of these out there in the world but none of this size or nature. And once we have that up and running which we hope to be up and running and in the first half of 2023. We will be a world class to a rehearsal facility for large touring acts that they can utilize before going out on the road. You guys, I mean, I can't imagine how many employees I know you guys already have a big presence in St. Louis but this is taking it to the next level, and you're going to be so close to the spirit of St. Louis Airport, I know you're building a hotel on this campus. This is going to be nothing like this region's ever seen is it.

No, it's, it's something that exists. It's something that that St. Louis has seen before or for this area region has seen before and, you know, there's a lot that goes to that but for for for us the idea of doing this in Chesterfield was in the valley out there was was, you know, we thought it, the location was second to none. You know, we are. You could, you could drive a, you could, you could drive maybe not you Jay but some of the big guys out on tour like caps go those guys but you could drive a ball from our, our, our land to the airport hit the runway. And they, you know, that's how close we are to the private airfield which is a huge, a huge piece for us, it's, you know, you know location location and that for us is a big part of it. Well we have the private airfield there. And then the valley itself with all the amenities and all the other places around in the valley that artists and come in and they're not 10 miles from the nearest store, you know there's restaurants, there's, you know, shopping, there's, you know, when you go out with these tours before you go on, on to where you have a lot of a lot of a lot of needs that you that you need and you know you're in these facilities for six eight weeks prepping building teching rehearsing the shows before they go out on the road. And there's a lot of stuff you need for that you know so you know we in our industry we have runners and I'm sure they have that in the sports world too but you know the runners, you can send the runners out and they can get just about anything that you would possibly need in the valley there and be back doing something else for you instead of spending all day looking for, you know, the batteries that are 30 miles away or whatnot.

So, you know that the valley has a lot to offer and it's a prime real estate in terms of what we're doing here and having the hotel there is huge and, you know, having many hotels in the valley is a big thing because you know with with all the studios that we do have on this on this campus. Oh, no question about it you know Trey when we traveled on tour. We didn't exactly travel together but we kind of did, you know, because everybody might have been on one or two flights from this city to the next and we all it was just kind of almost like a disconnected band of gypsies, so to speak, you know where we would be hanging out and things like that and talk a little bit about your experience with some of the great musical bands and some of the great people that you've been out on the road with and what's it like on the road.

Well, before I before I jump into that I gotta tell you guys in the PGA are doing it wrong. You guys all need previous tour buses, just like we use in rock and roll. And, you know, you get like for your best guy friends in there and you can, you know, whatever you go from one city to the next while you're out on the tour doing doing your thing and then that's the way to roll. But now you know I've been in the music industry for. I've been in the music industry for about 20 years now and I that's, you know, I started was very fortunate on how I got in and I started in the industry when I was 18 working for a band fish, which is still, you know, it's the band you never heard of you've heard of. They're one of the biggest acts in our industry, but anyway I've been fortunate enough to work for them I still work for them. They're the only people that I will still go out and tour with but I've had the. I've been very fortunate enough to work with a lot of lot of great acts and, you know, other than fish I've done grateful dead maroon five, you know, Florida Georgia line Drake, Thomas red vampire weekend green sky bluegrass.

My morning jacket. You know a lot of different festivals Bonnaroo Music Festival outside lands, a lot of the, you know, Governor's Ball in New York, you know I've worked. I've had a very, very fortunate career and for me it's been. I learned how to do everything in this industry that's how I was, I guess how I became somewhat well rounded but so I've gone out as, you know, tour manager stage manager backline tech.

Really what I fell into was video and, you know, I, that's, that's where I fell in and and really went from being a professional roadie to a professional in the business so you know, it's, it's been, it's been a great 20 years and hopefully there's 20 more and 20 more after that but yeah been very fortunate works for a lot of great artists work for some bad ones too. But, but, you know, it's, it's a different world that we live in and everybody kind of thinks that they show up to a concert and. And it's, it's, it's just there and the artists, you know all the stuffs already there and the artist shows up plays a show and goes on to the next thing but, you know, it's, it takes a lot, there's a lot of people that that that contribute to putting those shows on from truck drivers the bus drivers to video guys audio guys, lighting guys elect, you know, electrical guys carpenters I mean, the list goes on and on production people, you know, so, you know when you when you go to your show out at Riverport.

Can we still call it that. Hey, yeah, we're close it's I think it's called Hollywood amphitheater I think Hollywood casino theater or something but we're good I know exactly what you're talking about but will forever be known as Riverport so I'm going to change that. So, anyway, the, you know, you go to the show out at Riverport you go see your favorite favorite artists out there and everyone guy on stage when artists on stage you know there's probably 100 people behind them that help put that show on and you know that's the business that we're in so you know we we excel and and and doing 360 production for those artists so you know and that leads into one thing I want to say Jay which is, you know, we talked about the people that it takes to put these shows on well, you know, that's the need for these, these facilities out in Chesterfield that were this campus that we're building where a major touring act, you know, they go out on the road, and they want their first show of the tour to be just as good as the last show of the tour.

And, you know, they're doing 100 shows on the tour. So you know that's what these facilities really represent so we already provide the production and the roadies now we are able to offer. You know, a facility that these artists can come in and stay in St. Louis for, you know, four six eight weeks and prep and build and rehearse and then hit the ground running and, you know, we hope it brings more artists to St. Louis, or artists the state of Missouri, playing more shows here. You know, I grew up in St. Louis and I, I moved back here about 10 years ago with my wife and, you know, St. Louis is, you know, I left and I came back and, and I love St. Louis and it was important that we did it here but you know the music industry kind of pulled away from St. Louis and you know we're, we're wanting to do our part to bring the music industry back this way, pull a little bit, little bit of it back into the region and, you know, I feel like a lot's gone to Nashville it's gone to Denver. So, do whatever we can to our part and bringing St. Louis back to pack to glory, and I really feel like this is going to be a big, big part of that. All right, so that's gonna wrap up the first half of that interview and the front nine, but don't go anywhere anymore that interview on the back nine golf with Jay Delson.

Hi, this is Peter Jacobson and you're listening to golf with Jay Delson. I am sitting down this morning with my buddy Tim Davis with the Powers Insurance Agency Tim thanks for joining me today on the leading edge. Yeah, so tell us just a little bit about the Powers Insurance Agency I know it's a family owned business here in town.

Yeah, we are so I'm the director of operations here for Powers Insurance and we're a family owned independent insurance agency in St. Louis. We really specialize in writing robust insurance policies for people with effluent lifestyle. So, I'm sure you're going to ask kind of what does that mean, Jay, and we try and think of going outside of the box for our insurance policies when you see commercial average on the on TV and radio. The focus seems to be a lot more on just by the cheapest price and get the best policy you can get off the shelf.

Our focus is quite the opposite. We want to make sure that our clients are fully covered and have, you know, the right claims experience so that when there is a time for a loss with the coverage is there. Kind of my worst nightmare my, my biggest fear is to have a client that calls me up with a claim or loss and we have to tell them that's not covered because they didn't have the right policy in place. That's quick overview of what our focus is here at Powers Insurance on both the commercial and personal side. Yeah, and you guys are located right here in town but you have the ability to write policies and cover people's needs in almost every state don't you?

Correct. We're in 46 states. I think we just got our Hawaii license actually today. So I think we're in 47 states and able to write and help our clients, no matter where they might have a home or secondary home or where they live or work. Yeah, it's really cool you know you and I became friends because of golf where you have a strong golf background and I know you have a little bit of journalism background as well but talk to us a little bit about how you guys can differentiate your products from most other insurance agencies. Yeah, I'll bring my sports journalism career up here as part of it Jay so as you and I know I started as a sports writer sports journalist was also in the golf industry a little bit before I got into insurance. But really from that journalism background is where I learned and we learned as a group how to focus on asking the right questions. So when I got into the insurance industry I really learned how bus policies captured my attention and writing policy is where I'm really helping get the exact type of coverage in place for somebody, the thing that has always gathered my interest.

Just because the process and asking those right questions is something I've become really good at and I think that something is really good at. You know, we talked about claims and horror stories that we hear. I hear a lot of those stories from people that tell me a story about some sort of awful claim and they always finish it by saying of course our insurance thing. I hope if anybody takes anything away, they can understand that standard the insurance policies may not be designed to handle those types of claims, but there is insurance coverage out there that can provide coverage for most of those situations. A really good example in the golf industry that we've had, I had a client that left their wedding ring in the golf cart, so $20,000 wedding ring, left in the golf cart, lost on the golf course. Their insurance policy only paid $2,500 for that ring because they didn't have a separate policy for their jewelry. That's one of those examples where just a separate policy for your jewelry insurance, keep it away from your homeowner's coverage, makes a really big difference in making sure that you have the right kind of claim and the right chaos in there as a client. We also had a client that had a, I'm sorry, Jake, go ahead.

No, I was just going to say from a personal level, you know, my partner and I opened Wild Crush and we had become friends before that. But you know, you came to me and said, I think I can save you money on your insurance. And we had a wide gamut of coverage and you saved us almost 50%. Yeah, it was a perfect storm for Wild Crush, Jay. It was a great setup.

We've got a perfect carrier that's going to provide fantastic coverage for you and they were aggressive with their pricing until we were able to save you money and get great coverage. That's a win-win in my book. Yeah, well, we've so appreciated it. I mean, in finding those little niche areas in people's lives, that's kind of what you guys specialize in, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, I know, I know me, I know you, we all work hard for what we've accomplished in life. And the main thing with insurance is to make sure you're properly protecting what you've accomplished and what you've built in life.

And our goal is to try and help explore and make sure that we understand what those risks are and make sure that you're properly covered. Well, this is Tim Davis for the Powers Insurance Agency. And this has been our Leading Edge segment on golf with Jay Delsing. Tim, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for having me on, Jay. I appreciate it.

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Ask about the Delsing discount and they will hook you up. Alright, let's go right back to the second half of our Trey Kerr interview. Ardo Palmer is the Masters Champion of 1960. There it is. A win for the ages. Oh, Jack. That was a great putt. Jack finishing off and what a day it's been for him.

A round of 65. Trey Kerr is brought to you by Golden Teeth. You know Trey, to bring something like this to this area had to be, gosh so much, you had to put so much time and energy into the works.

You know, St. Louis has been, we had the PGA Championship, the 100th anniversary of the PGA Championship in 2018. And you know, we just announced that. That was pretty awesome, right?

Oh my gosh, it was just fantastic. I know how much you love the game. I know how you love to play the game.

I know our history goes all the way back to Norwood days and our dads and some really cool family stuff. But when you look at what you guys are doing, I mean you're spending $111 million, at least it's projected. And you know how those bids are, they usually go up and up. But projected to bring something like this to the community, it's just an amazing thing. I don't really think about the need to do all the practicing and the rehearsals and the light shows and how big a piece those are to the music shows. It's, you know, it goes back to people don't even realize the amount of work that it takes just to put that show on that you go and actually see. This is just an extension of that. This is the amount of time and energy and money and resources that these artists put into their shows before they go out on the road.

It's just staggering. And you know, they do that though because they want, you know, that is an extension of themselves. They want you to go to their show, if that's your artist, you go to that show.

They want you to remember that forever. They want, you know, like I said, these artists, they make their money from touring now and they want the bang for your buck. And they want to make their shows as big and as memorable as possible. And, you know, any artist can just show up on an empty stage with four lights and a PA and play a thing and take your money and go home.

And there's some that do that, but for the most part, you know, these artists want to, they want to put on a show that you're never going to forget. And, you know, that takes time and energy and, you know, these facilities are, it's very much, it's the biggest thing to happen to St. Louis that you're not even going to know exists. Other than if you're driving down Interstate 64, Highway 40 as we like to call it here in St. Louis. And, you know, look out the side of your car window and see these massive studios. But, you know, ultimately, it's, you know, I think, though, you know, the reason, you know, is where everyone will see the benefit of this is it's going to be extremely beneficial for the economy here in St. Louis. It's going to help out in great ways there from hotels to restaurants to shopping to other things that go on, you know, this is hundreds of people that you have coming into town, you know, for weeks upon weeks upon weeks at a time. And then the big thing too is, is that this is going to bring a lot of cool concerts, a lot of cool shows to the St. Louis area.

And, you know, if you're an artist, and, you know, pick your favorite artist. But, you know, if you're, you know, if you, if you, Dirks Bentley, right, if you're going to start your summer tour, you know, if you're doing your rehearsals and everything else in St. Louis, why not start your tour in St. Louis. So, you know, that's a cool feather in the cap and people here and in town are going to benefit from having a lot of cool shows come through, you know, I think, you know, in our, in our industry, we look at it as an A market a B market a C market.

And, you know, we've kind of fallen down that list as far as St. Louis goes and I really think that this is going to put us back up into that B plus market a, a market, you know, so that's going to be great for for the town. So, no question about it and Trey I got to play golf with Tico Torres who's the drummer for nice Bon Jovi I think, and, yeah, and we had this thing called fairway to heaven out on tour where we got to play. I got to play golf with Stephen stills, and we were playing Vegas, and on a part three on the front and a part three on the back. They had a bunch of instruments on the T and Stephen stills got up on the 15 t it's actually a short part for it at the TPC someone and he played. Love the one you're with when I'm standing there with my driver on, you know, waiting for the, for the green to clear so we can go ahead hit, and I'm like, what's just happened. You know, it was so cool to mix this thing up it was called fairway to heaven and VH one was the sponsor.

And then we went around on the front nine. He played Southern Cross, and I'm like, I cannot believe I was just, you know, able to witness that and I've had been skill on the show and we just love music and I, I just wish you all the best Is there any sort of really cool fun stories that are shareable for our audience that we can kind of close up with. Well, there's always the fun cool stories it's just one or not they're radio friendly Yeah, yeah, that's right.

We're not cable are we. I'll tell you one I do want to say something because we were talking about this the other day Jay, which is, you know, it's incredible how many cool, cool artists and people you meet, you know, with the game of golf, and, and, you know, just going out and playing some really cool courses and even just getting paired up, and just on a whim, you know, things like that where you get to play golf some cool people but what we were talking about the other day was, you know, athletes want to be musicians and musicians want to be athletes and I've got a lot of dear friends that are that are athletes that I've met just on that alone because they are all about the music and they want to trade places all the time and I'm sure that, you know, you have had the privilege and honor of playing golf with a lot of lot of cool cool people so I appreciate you sharing that story that's that's very cool. But anyway, yeah, I mean, in terms of a fun, fun story that I think, you know, I've got one for you, that people tend to tend to like with me and how I got started in this industry. So when I was 18 and graduated high school here in town from from CBC, but anyway, you know, after, after I graduated I jumped in the car and ran out on tour and went on went on fish tour and was selling T shirts in the parking lot, and the fishes had a security and I'm censoring the story by the way, I know but I know thank you. But fishes had a security copy and he was a big guy.

You know, five, five, he was short, but huge I mean like price five eight and 400 pounds big guy love to death. But now, he essentially finally got me in, in, outside the amphitheater in Indianapolis Deer Creek amphitheater time is what it was called. And he, he put me in handcuffs and on on the side of the parking lot and the, and said he, he was so happy finally got me and because he's been trying to catch me selling the shirts for show after show after show and he said, you know, you're done. I'm taking you to jail. I'm taking all your shirts.

I never, you know, that's it. And I said no no no no, you know, you, you can't you can't, I've been given my profits to the band's nonprofit group which is the waterwheel foundation which was true. And he goes, Oh, you're full of it and I said no no no no so he got on the radio and called the guy that ran the foundation for the band and Maddie and Maddie ran outside and and talk pull john aside and talk to him john comes over and stands me up and takes the cuffs off and he goes it's your lucky day. You're going to give me all your shirts, and I'm never going to see you again.

You know, and I looked at them and I said well what do I get, and it was the longest pause of my entire life. And he said some explicit. He said some expletive expletive beep beep, you know, the things I can't say on the radio to me and told me I had cojones to paraphrase. And he said, What do you want kid, and I said, front row dead center. I want to see soundcheck, and I want backstage passes, and he said fine I'll throw in tickets for the rest of tours so that is how I got started in the industry, which is a very unusual way but so I met him at the next show gave him my shirts. I met him backstage gave my shirt or the backstage gate gave him the rest of my shirts and he brought me in and I, he goes, here's waterwheel, you're going to volunteer for him at tonight's show, and I'll come back and he came back and grabbed me I. He brought me I watched soundcheck I watched the show from front row dead center and I went back at separate and after the show to volunteer at the band's nonprofit table and then he, he came back after the show and gave me two backstage passes and I met the lead singer and blah blah blah and all this stuff so that you know the nonprofit group was just like, you know, this is great and whatnot you anytime you want to do this again you let us know so I eventually ended up running the nonprofit group for the band with the guy that, you know, save me that day Matty years later, and essentially, that's how I got into the industry, and, you know, I just when I was 18 I was you know was. I want to be a roadie when I grew up my brother's a doctor now that's what he wanted to be.

He hates me now because I've been very successful and he went to school for 20,000 years. Yeah. Wait, how did you you know anyway. Yeah, but you know, it's, it's, it's one of those stories of just, it's a cool story just like how you can get into this industry and so many different ways and facets and, you know, I once I had my foot in the door so to speak I watched what everyone else did and learned every single craft, and so I would always have work. And, you know, I've been very fortunate in my career and where it's led and but that's where it all started right there so that's, that's a that's a good one for you that I, you know, I pulled out. Oh my gosh, Trey Thank you so much for this time thanks for bringing this cool really cool new business to the area, the, the economic impact in the, what is going to interject into our economy, what it's going to the opportunities it's going to be for the community the citizens to go watch some of these shows and to see some of these bands, some that we've never even heard of yet man I can't wait it's, it's really great I really appreciate you coming on. Yeah, I appreciate you having me, Jay, it's been an absolute pleasure and longtime listener, first time guests.

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Man, I am so excited. I'm a music lover. I'm so horribly ungifted. I shouldn't even be allowed to listen. It's brutal.

I suck at singing, although I like to sing like in the car and things like that and drive everybody crazy. But I'm so excited for what this is going to do to the region. And what's interesting when you start thinking about golf and you're like, dude, why did you have this on your golf show? First of all, this is about community. Golf is all about community. Golf is about raising money.

Golf is about that is what golf does. This is going to raise the water level in the community. It's bringing in. It's going to bring I don't know how many hundreds of jobs it's going to be. It's going to bring opportunities for musicians. Some young kid is going to see a show and go, I want to do that.

I can do that. I'm going to do that and go home and pick up a harmonica or pick up a guitar. And that's the way it works for golf. And that's the way it works in other sports. And that's what's happening in the community. And I'm just excited as hell.

The other thing you got to remember. So let's pick a group, pick a big group that would what that may come to town and do a show. Someone like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Yeah, pick. I love the peppers. So those guys are going to be here and they're going to bring their their group, their road show. That is a show. It is nutty.

You never know what what might pop out of it. Yeah, there's all sorts of craziness happening on the stage. But those guys don't travel, you know, by themselves. There's entourages they bring. And I guarantee you folks are going to be breaking off and going to the golf course.

I guarantee you can only do your design gig for so long. It's like when when the back when the All-Star game came to St. Louis for the Cardinals, I talked to Bill DeWitt and he said, yeah, we got to get some. We need golf for people. And of course we do. When the first now it's the worldwide raceway, worldwide technologies raceway. But when it was Gateway before and they were bringing in these races, we had all of these uber wealthy, uber, you know, cool athletic people coming into town.

And you can't spend all of your time doing your design thing. And golf is the perfect medicine for that man. And it just always is.

Even MJ would play two rounds of golf before a game back in the day. Like everybody's playing it. That's it's your it's your escape at that point.

It absolutely is. And it's so good for your mental health. But also when you start thinking about MJ. What what sort of energy source to this dude have? I mean, he never took a play off.

He never took a night off. He played both ends of the court. He played 36 holes in the morning, smoked five cigars before and then went out and lit it up.

I mean, who does that? It was hustling the locker room guy the whole time. Exactly.

And then he was like pitching quarters. The guy's the most competitive dude I've ever seen. And his energy just I mean, nonstop. It's insanity. No, it's just crazy. So that's the reason I I brought this interview to the show.

I really am excited about what this is going to do for the show. But kind of the golf season's kind of winding down. Our weather's kind of dodgy. We still get a few few good days here and there, but it still doesn't mean that the stuff that we do and the monies that we've raised and the all the work and time that we put in while the sun was shining doesn't still, you know, pay off. So that's what that looks like. Man, that's another show in the books. We didn't miss Pearly up, but maybe we need to kind of.