Wayne and Rob host guest Bill Price and discuss the new, innovative Bona Sport products that will be launching in the near future. Follow Bona US Professional online: Website: https://www1.bona.com/en-us/professional/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BonaProfessional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonauspro/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonapro.us/
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Hello.
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Welcome to
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another episode of On the Floor
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with Wayne and Rob.
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I'm Wayne Highlander, National Sales
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Manager for Bona Adhesives.
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I'm Rob Johnson from Bona Training.
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Rob, we have a special guest today.
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We sure do, don't we?
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Yeah, we do.
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And you know what?
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I want to I'd like
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for you to introduce this guy.
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I know he's been a big part of your life.
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Really?
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Not meant a whole lot to me,
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but for you, I know he's a big deal.
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He's the biggest deal.
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Yep.
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And we got to call him by.
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I did talk to him a little bit today, and
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he definitely wants to be referred
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to by his new title.
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Okay.
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That's
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how we're going to talk to him from
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now on. It's not just
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plain old Bill.
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It is Bill Price, director of Sport.
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Thank you, Director.
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I had him under another title.
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Director, director of Sports.
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Okay. Okay.
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As you probably read, it's in my contract
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that you do have to refer to me
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as that when addressing me.
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So I appreciate it.
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I'm I'm fine with that.
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But the don't make eye
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contact was a little bit off putting.
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I mean,
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there's a lot of things in there
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that I had nothing to do with.
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Just Wayne's is jealous
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because he's he's waiting on that, too.
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He can't wait to
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tell me that I can't do it
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and I can't look him in
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straight in the eye anymore.
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Oh, man.
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How are you guys doing?
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Great, Bill. Doing great.
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So let's let us give it
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a proper introduction.
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Well, actually, Bill,
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why don't you go and introduce yourself?
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Sure. I'm Bill Price.
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I handle the sport
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flooring side of the business at Bona.
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I've been at Bona now for 26 years.
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I just celebrated my 26th anniversary
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a few weeks ago and I'm still going.
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Still going.
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I get no one else.
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We get to. Do one year.
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That's a long. Time.
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26. 26 years.
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I started 26.
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Yeah, started Bowler.
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Before I was married,
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before I had my kids.
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I spent more time with Bowler
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than just about anybody else in my life.
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So it's been
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it's been a pretty good ride.
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I'm very happy with how things have gone.
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I've met some amazing people
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in this industry and
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wouldn't change anything.
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Looking back on it.
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Are you Italian?
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No, I am. Yeah.
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You guys are lucky
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you don't need any vitamin D.
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You're hours or so tan.
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You got that good melanoma.
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Have my natural coloring.
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Yes, it's.
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It's a gift, really, just to be.
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Are we allowed to say things like that?
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But melanoma?
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No. Ask him.
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You know, you're Italian.
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Hey, so I. Don't know if we.
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Can get by that.
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I'm not offended by that.
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Oh, okay.
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Good. No, this shouldn't be.
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There's been a
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there's a lot of famous
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Italians, I mean, especially athletes
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and what have you.
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Rocky Marciano.
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Aren't most of them in jail?
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I think millions are in jail, though.
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I think it has to say that.
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Oh, that's there we go.
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Well, if we're going to go down that
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hole, might as well be me.
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Pretty sad that the only Italian athlete
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you could think of has been dead for
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50 years.
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Joe DiMaggio.
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Yeah. I'm 25 years.
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Maybe 30 years. Yeah, yeah.
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It's my little it's really just been
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the two of them.
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Well, there's Julius.
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Julius Caesar.
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Do me a favor and tell Wayne the story.
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Speaking of you, being an athlete,
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that Italian restaurant in the North End.
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Well,
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I think the guy thinks you're a boxer
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or something.
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Didn't he see you or said he saw you?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, I had two of those.
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I got to.
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You got to tell that story.
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Mostly was
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I wasn't with you
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that I wasn't with you for that.
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There's a restaurant in Boston
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and the the host,
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he is he's wears a tux.
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He's all dressed up.
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He takes it.
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He takes the job very seriously.
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And I came in one night
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and he looks at me and he says, Hey,
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do you have a reservation?
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And I said, No.
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And he said, Geez, what?
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He says, It's like an hour wait because
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let me see
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if I can get you something quick.
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I said, okay, thank you.
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He comes back,
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he says, I got you something.
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Come with me.
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I was walking.
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He says, he says,
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What are you doing in town?
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And I said, I I'll just go out
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for dinner. He goes,
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Are you
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fighting tonight?
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I said, No, not tonight.
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I don't think so.
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And I realized as he starts talking,
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he thinks I'm a boxer.
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And now it's gotten to the point
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now where I'm at the table.
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He already sat us
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down, and I wasn't in a position to say
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right then,
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you know,
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I'm not I'm not who you think I was.
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No, no.
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So I went along with it. Yeah.
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I just said I,
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you know, things are good, you know,
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and slow down a little bit and
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I don't know who he thought I was.
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Maybe. That's beautiful.
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That was Rocky Marciano's brand.
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Wayne.
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He brought the sports team
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to this restaurant.
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And when we walked in, the guy runs over.
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Hey, he's hugging them, right?
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That sits us all down.
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He goes.
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No menus.
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No menus up. I'll just cook for you guys.
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Oh, you're kidding.
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He just keeps bringing stuff over
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and just saying how great Billy was,
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and he saw him
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that night or whatever, and. Oh, man.
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So I don't know what's going on.
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I have no idea what's going on.
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No, Billy, really? What's going on?
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He goes, I don't know who he thinks I am.
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I, I.
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Go, This is awesome.
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Yeah, it's,
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it's at a point now where I, I can't
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let him know that I'm really, you know,
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not anybody who he thinks I know.
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Know.
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Who is the actress.
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Remember, he sat us down
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next to an actress.
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Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Michelle Pfeiffer?
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Oh, yeah.
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We're yeah, we're big time.
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Wow.
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Michelle Pfeiffer,
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who just got made famous again
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with the Bruno Mars song,
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it's been pretty cool for her.
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Wayne All right.
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BOSTON If you come to Boston,
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I know you wouldn't call me
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when you're in town.
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No, I'm happy.
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I would love to take you out
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to one of these restaurants
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that we're talking about in town.
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you go in there before
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where you sit at a bar and I'll come
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up and ask for an autograph.
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I'll get you started.
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Look, we're as you can probably tell,
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we're going to talk sport today.
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And we've been trying
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to get Bill on for a long time.
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And he's he's he's hard to get a hold of
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because he's busy.
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So he's doing a lot of fighting.
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You know, he's training, he's fighting.
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He's doing the road work and everything.
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He just keeps. Saying about this.
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This podcast is
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this is right down your lane.
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Rob So I'm actually going
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to learn some stuff and enjoy this myself
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as I look forward to
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you guys kind to talk.
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In some sport.
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Oh, I thought if it was down my lane
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that we'd be talking barbecue
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or something like that.
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Okay, now finally I get one that I can.
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I don't have to do as much talk
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and I can just enjoy this. I doubt it.
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I doubt that very highly.
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Oh, no. You'll find something to say.
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You think so? I know so.
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Mine. Okay.
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What's this like the 400th episode?
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Yeah, I know that you'll find something.
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To talk about.
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And I can't believe
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how many episodes you guys have done
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over the last couple of years
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with this thing.
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Well, I really you know,
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I was wondering how you were going
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to find
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anything to talk about
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after like the third or fourth one
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and it's pretty clear that you still have
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nothing to talk about.
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I listen I listen to most of the podcast.
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I have no idea what the subject is
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because
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the subject title
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that it shows me on the podcast.
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Yeah, I've never heard
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you ever talk about anything
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that is on that subject line.
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No, no, no.
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Like this.
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This this title of.
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This is going to be called This and that.
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Yeah. You know.
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Those titles are merely suggestions
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of what you might hear
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because we have to do some
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kind of a title.
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Yeah, well, we just.
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Can't say number seven, you know?
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Oh, no, no.
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They want us to make up something.
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I think we should just go to Roman
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numerals.
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Well, all right, kick it off, Rob.
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I can't wait to hear this.
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Wayne's in a rush today.
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We got to get going.
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I want to make sure we get it all in.
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Well, we. Got.
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We got to get going, Billy.
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Bill, let's talk about we got a big
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I'm excited about this sports season.
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Sport is always been big with training.
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And now that we have these
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big new training centers
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on the East Coast
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and we have all these new sport
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products, I am I am pumped.
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But take it away, Bill.
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Let's talk about
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some of the new sport products
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coming out this year.
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And Wayne has a snack,
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ladies and gentlemen.
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Finally, for the 200th show,
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we've got snacks now.
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I just can't wait for this.
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Kick it off. Bill, are you.
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Are you eating marshmallows
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just right out of the bag?
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Mm hmm.
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Okay.
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I don't know where to go with that, but.
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He's a healthy guy. He's.
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It's all about the health. Yes.
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A perfect podcast.
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Food doesn't make noise.
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I've never seen an adult actually
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eat marshmallows
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like multiple marshmallows.
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I was just thinking the same thing.
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I don't think I've ever seen a grown man
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eat marshmallows like that. I.
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I stole a whole Boy Scout camp
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full of marshmallow when I was a kid.
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The entire.
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And I stole every single one of them.
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And he's still eaten it.
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He still has me still.
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Like my last bag.
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I can't believe they're not stale.
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When the Boy Scout master
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realized that someone stole them, he did.
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The speech about a Boy Scout is reverent.
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The boy's bad.
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Boy Scout is,
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you know, all these different attributes
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that a Boy Scout is.
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And I've never felt more guilty
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in my life.
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And also,
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I knew I cannot give up the corn.
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These boys, these
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these these marshmallows
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are going to be mine.
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If you were a Boy Scout.
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I was a Cub Scout.
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Boy Scout?
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No, as a Cub Scout,
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we blow and Boy Scout.
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Wow.
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I like the uniform.
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Now. That's it.
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That's it.
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I rose through.
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The ranks of second class to, I think,
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not very high.
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It's the whole knot thing.
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I didn't get down
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until I was in my late forties.
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I remember
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Billy is going to be quiet there
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in this podcast. He wasn't.
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He didn't have a lot to say.
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Oh, I'm really enjoyed it actually.
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I can't wait to see what he eats next.
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To Marshmallow in scouts.
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Next he's going to go with the Fritos.
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Next he's going to wait till you start,
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you know,
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really getting into something heavy.
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And then how come the Fritos?
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Well,
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I really appreciate you guys
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having me on here.
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The timing couldn't be better.
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We're we're very excited
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on the sports team
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to finally be introducing
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a couple of new products.
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And, you know,
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we haven't
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had anything new and exciting
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to promote or talk about in
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quite some time.
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So within the next couple of weeks here,
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I don't know when this podcast
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is actually airing,
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but we're shooting for April 1st
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launch of two new products, Supersport,
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MVP and Supersport elite.
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And the Super Supersport MVP
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is is basically a direct replacement
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for our Supersport HD that we
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we discontinued earlier in 2022.
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We we are pretty much going to replace it
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because it's a similar product in the
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sense that it's it's got a
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A0 adding
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cross linker, you mix it to part product.
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It's going to be something
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that everyone's very used to doing.
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It's, it's
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a, it's a comfortable type product
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because it's, it's really
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not that much different
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than our Supersport HD was,
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but it is definitely a new formulation,
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a new product entirely.
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And the other product
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is something
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that really is is new for the industry,
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not just Bona, but for for everyone.
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The elite product
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is a two part assassinate
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society product.
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It is very similar to bone of traffic.
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So the the base of this
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new sport product is, is traffic.
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And as in society,
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it has an actual hardware to it.
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And we we know already from from what
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we've seen with Elite
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that it's
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going to really have
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just unsurpassed durability.
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It's going to wear extremely well.
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And that the really exciting part
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about elite
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is that we are offering it
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in a satin jean.
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So we, we right now we're the only sport
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satin jean product that's
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listed on the MFA's
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list of
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sealers and finishes
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and we're the first ones
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out of the gate with it.
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And hopefully we're going to
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we're going
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to make a lot of noise with it
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and hopefully it's going to get
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a good reaction, good ratings
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from the sport, contractors that use it.
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So we're very, very excited to
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to get these products out there
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and in the field and in use.
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And we're going to be spending,
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you know, with my, my, my guys
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on the sports side of our business,
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Phil Sanchez and Kyle Scholl,
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George Chagnon, Brennan, Geary.
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We're going to be spending
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most of our time
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traveling around, meeting up
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with sports contractors
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that some of them
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we haven't
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seen or spent some
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any time with since,
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you know, before COVID.
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And we're going to be
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we're going to be out there on the road
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and we're going to be
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showing these new products
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and really trying
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to create some interest in it.
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So very exciting time for us on the sport
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side of the business to
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to have these products in our bag.
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Now to work with.
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Bill, why don't you tell everybody why
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it's so important
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to have a satin sport finish?
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I mean,
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man wonder,
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when I started with you in sport,
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was that old or whatever?
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Oh, waiter,
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everybody has been in search of that
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white whale.
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And, man, you finally got it.
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So why is that such a big deal?
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You know,
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it's satin has been has been something
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that we've been asked for,
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I mean, since the beginning.
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And traditionally, you know, gym floor
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is that high gloss mirror like finish
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and as
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it's been more related
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to the high profile floors in courts
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in arenas because of the new lighting
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or the LED
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lighting that
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all the arenas
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have pretty much switched over to,
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they it creates different
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glare on the courts now.
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So the NBA has been
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has been asking for lotion products.
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And, you know,
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we tried about ten years ago
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and we formulated a product
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and we submitted it
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for the NBA to look at.
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And it took them about 12 seconds to say,
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no, it's not going to work.
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It was too slick.
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The floor felt.
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It just felt slippery.
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And the technology back then,
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we couldn't figure out how to do produce
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a product
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that had the right
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coefficient of friction
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that these players are,
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you know, what they're used to
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and what what they demand.
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So, you know, or modifieds
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there's silica
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in the flattening agents
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that are used in oil modified.
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So
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a satin oil
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was not going to be the answer.
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So with with this product,
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the elite product, it's it's a product
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that our
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Swedish counterparts
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have been selling in Europe
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for the last couple of years.
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And in Europe,
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the the basketball courts are primarily
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lotion. They're satin.
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So this satin has been in use
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for a couple of years around Europe.
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And we know that
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the coefficient of friction
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is is where it needs to be.
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And we know that the gloss level
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is just right.
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It's it's
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going to be something
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that once we think once the NBA goes
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with a couple of courts in satin,
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it won't take long for that
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to trickle down
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and then
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become a trend at some point where,
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you know,
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high schools and middle schools will
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will want to have a floor
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like that as well.
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So we know there's demand for it
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out there.
567
00:17:09,962 --> 00:17:11,163
I don't know how much demand.
568
00:17:11,163 --> 00:17:13,132
But Robby, as you were just saying,
569
00:17:13,132 --> 00:17:16,235
why it's so exciting to have a satin
570
00:17:16,268 --> 00:17:18,570
is that it's going to eliminate
571
00:17:18,570 --> 00:17:21,006
a lot of the complaints
572
00:17:21,407 --> 00:17:24,309
that we currently hear about sports
573
00:17:24,309 --> 00:17:27,813
floor finishes and primarily it's scuffs
574
00:17:28,113 --> 00:17:29,815
scuffing is is,
575
00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:31,216
you know, with a gloss coating
576
00:17:31,216 --> 00:17:33,318
you see every single imperfection
577
00:17:33,685 --> 00:17:34,820
on that floor
578
00:17:34,820 --> 00:17:36,522
and scuffs just
579
00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:37,956
they they're natural
580
00:17:37,956 --> 00:17:39,224
to a basketball floor.
581
00:17:39,224 --> 00:17:39,992
But you know,
582
00:17:39,992 --> 00:17:42,061
with as you pointed out earlier, Rob,
583
00:17:42,161 --> 00:17:43,629
we were talking about
584
00:17:43,629 --> 00:17:44,997
how black paint
585
00:17:44,997 --> 00:17:47,499
or dark blue paint on basketball floors,
586
00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:49,935
just the scuffing just looks awful.
587
00:17:50,602 --> 00:17:51,970
So we're we're really
588
00:17:53,172 --> 00:17:53,705
thinking that
589
00:17:53,705 --> 00:17:55,274
the satin sheen
590
00:17:55,274 --> 00:17:56,275
is going to help
591
00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:58,210
to to hide a lot of those scuffs.
592
00:17:58,210 --> 00:17:59,812
The scuffs may still be there,
593
00:17:59,812 --> 00:18:01,613
but they're not going to be as visible.
594
00:18:01,613 --> 00:18:03,715
The other thing that is a benefit
595
00:18:03,715 --> 00:18:05,651
is that one of the complaints
596
00:18:05,651 --> 00:18:07,519
that we often get is that, hey, the
597
00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:09,521
you know, the finish in the lane
598
00:18:09,621 --> 00:18:11,290
is is looking a little dull
599
00:18:11,290 --> 00:18:13,092
compared to the rest of the court.
600
00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:14,993
You're going to be starting with a satin
601
00:18:14,993 --> 00:18:15,961
and there's
602
00:18:15,961 --> 00:18:17,396
going to be nowhere for that satin
603
00:18:17,396 --> 00:18:18,797
to dull down, too.
604
00:18:18,797 --> 00:18:21,900
So it's going to leave a longer lasting,
605
00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:24,169
more uniform look on the floor.
606
00:18:24,169 --> 00:18:24,870
And, you know,
607
00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:27,806
in the cases of the arenas, the lighting,
608
00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:29,608
it's definitely going to react
609
00:18:29,608 --> 00:18:31,710
much better to the lighting,
610
00:18:31,710 --> 00:18:34,313
not only the LED overhead lighting,
611
00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:36,315
but also a lot of the scoreboards
612
00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:37,182
and things they have
613
00:18:37,182 --> 00:18:39,751
that are at court level
614
00:18:40,385 --> 00:18:43,188
that reflect and glare off the floor,
615
00:18:43,188 --> 00:18:45,591
that will be that will be minimized with
616
00:18:45,891 --> 00:18:46,992
with the lower sheen product.
617
00:18:48,060 --> 00:18:49,328
So what a it's an
618
00:18:49,328 --> 00:18:51,063
unbelievable combination.
619
00:18:51,063 --> 00:18:52,564
Not only have a new product,
620
00:18:52,564 --> 00:18:56,168
that's a traffic light product.
621
00:18:57,102 --> 00:18:57,703
So you're going to get
622
00:18:57,703 --> 00:18:58,837
the strength and durability.
623
00:18:58,837 --> 00:19:00,606
But now in a sport product,
624
00:19:00,606 --> 00:19:05,244
that's also a satin a low sheen product.
625
00:19:05,244 --> 00:19:07,646
Oh, my gosh. That's
626
00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:09,481
I'm so excited about it.
627
00:19:09,481 --> 00:19:11,116
Is there any openings?
628
00:19:11,116 --> 00:19:12,918
Yeah, I was going to ask you.
629
00:19:12,918 --> 00:19:14,486
I mean. You got something for me.
630
00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:15,854
I love to have you back.
631
00:19:15,854 --> 00:19:17,322
It just hasn't been the same,
632
00:19:17,322 --> 00:19:19,191
you know, since you left us.
633
00:19:19,191 --> 00:19:20,192
All right.
634
00:19:20,459 --> 00:19:21,393
I think that, Rob,
635
00:19:21,393 --> 00:19:22,561
I think you are torn
636
00:19:22,561 --> 00:19:23,162
right down the middle.
637
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:24,396
Rob, I know your
638
00:19:24,396 --> 00:19:25,230
your your heart
639
00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:26,899
and soul is in tech and training,
640
00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:29,501
and I think gear is still
641
00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:31,170
part of your ear, your
642
00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:32,471
heart and soul is in sport.
643
00:19:33,539 --> 00:19:35,140
Always has been.
644
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:36,742
Always has been.
645
00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:37,476
I love talking
646
00:19:37,476 --> 00:19:38,777
about sport there in training.
647
00:19:38,777 --> 00:19:39,811
I love just born
648
00:19:39,811 --> 00:19:41,246
the hell out of everybody.
649
00:19:41,246 --> 00:19:42,181
Now, Robbie,
650
00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:43,849
while he was the best out there, he's
651
00:19:43,849 --> 00:19:45,918
he is. He's my Tom Brady.
652
00:19:45,918 --> 00:19:46,652
But actually,
653
00:19:46,652 --> 00:19:48,453
I shouldn't say that any more. Tom Brady.
654
00:19:48,453 --> 00:19:50,956
I can't I can't call you Tom Brady.
655
00:19:50,956 --> 00:19:51,290
Yeah.
656
00:19:51,290 --> 00:19:54,092
All the guys used to call me a retired
657
00:19:54,092 --> 00:19:57,296
Chara Brady all retired now.
658
00:19:57,729 --> 00:19:58,830
They were all the. Best all over.
659
00:19:58,830 --> 00:20:00,732
They were all the best way.
660
00:20:00,732 --> 00:20:02,634
You know what I love when Billy says,
661
00:20:02,634 --> 00:20:05,003
Oh, when Robbie left us,
662
00:20:05,003 --> 00:20:06,605
he put me on waivers.
663
00:20:06,605 --> 00:20:07,739
I was put on waivers.
664
00:20:07,739 --> 00:20:08,073
And
665
00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:11,877
Dee Dee took a chance and, you know,
666
00:20:12,177 --> 00:20:13,979
pick me up off the waiver line.
667
00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:14,613
Yeah, yeah.
668
00:20:14,613 --> 00:20:15,347
But I mean that's
669
00:20:15,347 --> 00:20:15,781
that's you're
670
00:20:15,781 --> 00:20:17,082
also your background
671
00:20:17,082 --> 00:20:18,250
come from tech and training
672
00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:20,319
before you mean you've. You've.
673
00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:21,086
You've been in down
674
00:20:21,086 --> 00:20:23,522
I think about in all aspects of it
675
00:20:23,522 --> 00:20:26,291
I mean all parts of of this job
676
00:20:26,291 --> 00:20:27,492
you've been in now
677
00:20:27,492 --> 00:20:29,995
with sport and with territory manager
678
00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:31,763
and in tech and training.
679
00:20:31,763 --> 00:20:33,665
I mean, I just can't hold a job.
680
00:20:33,665 --> 00:20:34,533
I get it.
681
00:20:35,867 --> 00:20:37,703
I just can't latch on.
682
00:20:37,703 --> 00:20:38,136
Yeah.
683
00:20:38,136 --> 00:20:38,870
You know,
684
00:20:38,870 --> 00:20:41,306
Robbie knows more about the sports
685
00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:44,543
law world, and then I will.
686
00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:48,313
I mean, I'll text you a couple times
687
00:20:48,313 --> 00:20:50,282
a month with with questions about things
688
00:20:50,282 --> 00:20:51,717
or getting your opinion on things.
689
00:20:51,717 --> 00:20:53,552
You just you
690
00:20:53,552 --> 00:20:54,453
you really killed it
691
00:20:54,453 --> 00:20:55,887
when you were out there
692
00:20:55,887 --> 00:20:57,256
in front of,
693
00:20:57,256 --> 00:20:59,658
you know, in front of sport contractors.
694
00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:00,993
Robbie just he
695
00:21:00,993 --> 00:21:03,428
he just blended very well with that.
696
00:21:03,428 --> 00:21:05,631
And we were lucky to have Rob
697
00:21:05,631 --> 00:21:06,898
when we didn't,
698
00:21:06,898 --> 00:21:09,635
you know, he he wore many hats.
699
00:21:09,635 --> 00:21:12,504
He, he did his own marketing
700
00:21:12,504 --> 00:21:16,074
it his own i.t.
701
00:21:16,074 --> 00:21:16,708
Really?
702
00:21:16,708 --> 00:21:17,542
Yeah, I know.
703
00:21:17,542 --> 00:21:19,878
He at one point he and Pauline,
704
00:21:19,878 --> 00:21:20,912
he had her working
705
00:21:20,912 --> 00:21:21,947
also and
706
00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:23,715
they had their dining room table,
707
00:21:23,715 --> 00:21:25,617
you know, mixing station.
708
00:21:25,617 --> 00:21:26,585
They blended paints
709
00:21:26,585 --> 00:21:28,320
and I think probably made
710
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,521
some finished too.
711
00:21:29,521 --> 00:21:31,223
I'm going to send that picture in.
712
00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:32,491
Pauline's going to get pissed,
713
00:21:32,491 --> 00:21:34,926
but it was when we had the water
714
00:21:34,926 --> 00:21:37,062
based paint first came out.
715
00:21:37,062 --> 00:21:38,630
There was only so much of it.
716
00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:40,232
So Pauline
717
00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:41,667
was mixing up the gowns
718
00:21:41,667 --> 00:21:43,635
and pawned it in the courts
719
00:21:43,635 --> 00:21:46,004
so I could give courts to different
720
00:21:46,204 --> 00:21:47,239
so they could do this.
721
00:21:47,239 --> 00:21:49,041
And got a beautiful picture
722
00:21:49,041 --> 00:21:50,609
of my lovely wife just
723
00:21:51,910 --> 00:21:53,679
just getting it done for the team.
724
00:21:53,679 --> 00:21:54,479
Well.
725
00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:55,681
What does is it
726
00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:57,182
you know, we talk about role models
727
00:21:57,182 --> 00:21:58,216
and you being a maverick
728
00:21:58,216 --> 00:21:59,251
that shows the other sports
729
00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:01,386
guys that you screw around like that
730
00:22:01,386 --> 00:22:04,756
you you go to take and training.
731
00:22:08,026 --> 00:22:09,061
It was
732
00:22:09,061 --> 00:22:09,428
it was
733
00:22:09,428 --> 00:22:10,495
when I was doing my own
734
00:22:10,495 --> 00:22:12,631
marketing under the Boehner banner
735
00:22:12,631 --> 00:22:14,966
that and writing text
736
00:22:15,467 --> 00:22:17,903
on how to do certain things
737
00:22:17,903 --> 00:22:19,538
and then slap the bone on it.
738
00:22:19,538 --> 00:22:20,305
And yeah,
739
00:22:20,305 --> 00:22:22,107
I think Billy got a call from the lawyers
740
00:22:22,107 --> 00:22:23,408
like is
741
00:22:23,408 --> 00:22:24,676
is there a new division
742
00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:25,444
in the Northeast
743
00:22:25,444 --> 00:22:27,612
that we don't know about?
744
00:22:27,679 --> 00:22:29,881
The Albany the Albany Division.
745
00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:31,283
The Albany Marketing Division.
746
00:22:31,283 --> 00:22:34,686
Marketing.
747
00:22:34,686 --> 00:22:37,322
So, boy, here's your sports season,
748
00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:38,523
but can you
749
00:22:38,523 --> 00:22:39,991
maybe you can tell us how
750
00:22:39,991 --> 00:22:41,593
how long that sports
751
00:22:41,593 --> 00:22:43,261
I mean, it's getting longer and longer.
752
00:22:43,261 --> 00:22:44,963
And where are the guys
753
00:22:44,963 --> 00:22:46,131
out in that process now?
754
00:22:47,165 --> 00:22:47,699
Yeah, I
755
00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:50,435
mean, the sports season traditionally,
756
00:22:50,769 --> 00:22:52,971
it always went from from June
757
00:22:53,305 --> 00:22:55,140
to the beginning of September
758
00:22:55,140 --> 00:22:56,375
and that was it.
759
00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:58,977
And and over the last few years,
760
00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:02,114
that's really, really changed.
761
00:23:02,114 --> 00:23:03,515
And, you know, most of the sport
762
00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:05,117
contractors out there,
763
00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:06,418
they unfortunately,
764
00:23:06,418 --> 00:23:08,086
they don't get a break anymore.
765
00:23:08,086 --> 00:23:09,788
They they used to get a break
766
00:23:09,788 --> 00:23:10,922
and some of them
767
00:23:10,922 --> 00:23:12,324
didn't love having that break.
768
00:23:12,324 --> 00:23:14,159
They they would have to lay off guys.
769
00:23:14,159 --> 00:23:14,626
They would
770
00:23:14,626 --> 00:23:15,694
they wouldn't have a lot of work
771
00:23:15,694 --> 00:23:16,495
going on.
772
00:23:16,495 --> 00:23:18,864
Now, it seems as as every month,
773
00:23:19,097 --> 00:23:21,700
every month there is work being done.
774
00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,903
Everyone's busy throughout the year.
775
00:23:24,903 --> 00:23:26,605
The summer is still,
776
00:23:26,605 --> 00:23:27,873
you know, their busiest time
777
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:29,941
that that June through September
778
00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:32,344
timeframe is still very, very busy.
779
00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:33,178
But man,
780
00:23:33,178 --> 00:23:35,247
these guys are are working
781
00:23:35,247 --> 00:23:36,882
constantly now.
782
00:23:36,882 --> 00:23:38,517
And, you know, the hardest
783
00:23:38,517 --> 00:23:40,085
the hardest thing you hear
784
00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:41,119
and the biggest challenge
785
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,088
for all of them is, is manpower.
786
00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:44,823
They just don't have
787
00:23:44,823 --> 00:23:45,991
the amount of guys
788
00:23:45,991 --> 00:23:47,359
that they would like to have.
789
00:23:48,326 --> 00:23:50,929
But yeah, these guys, they they do
790
00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:51,897
they work.
791
00:23:51,897 --> 00:23:52,898
They work hard.
792
00:23:52,898 --> 00:23:55,734
And I know all four guys work hard, but
793
00:23:56,935 --> 00:23:59,037
when you see these guys installing
794
00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:00,505
a gym floor
795
00:24:00,505 --> 00:24:02,507
and they're just running and they're
796
00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:03,708
I mean, they're just
797
00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:06,511
they just produce, produce, produce.
798
00:24:06,511 --> 00:24:09,181
And I don't know how they do it, but
799
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,950
a lot of these guys, they they just do it
800
00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:15,587
all year long.
801
00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:16,588
Traveling with Rob
802
00:24:16,588 --> 00:24:17,823
and going to schools with Rob
803
00:24:17,823 --> 00:24:19,357
and having dinners with Rob.
804
00:24:19,357 --> 00:24:21,693
And over the years and talk to
805
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,762
you guys have a great reverence
806
00:24:23,762 --> 00:24:24,563
for the guys that do
807
00:24:24,563 --> 00:24:25,464
the work
808
00:24:25,497 --> 00:24:26,031
in Rob
809
00:24:26,031 --> 00:24:26,932
have told me stories
810
00:24:26,932 --> 00:24:27,532
after story
811
00:24:27,532 --> 00:24:29,701
about the life of the gym contractor
812
00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:31,236
and how hard the work is.
813
00:24:31,236 --> 00:24:32,604
And and it's
814
00:24:32,604 --> 00:24:33,572
completely different than what
815
00:24:33,572 --> 00:24:34,172
I thought it was.
816
00:24:34,172 --> 00:24:34,873
I was so naive
817
00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:36,508
to that part of the business
818
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:38,944
and come away with a whole nother respect
819
00:24:38,944 --> 00:24:40,612
for for the amount of work
820
00:24:40,612 --> 00:24:41,713
that goes into these jobs.
821
00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:43,548
And there is no Thanksgiving
822
00:24:43,548 --> 00:24:44,950
or Christmas holidays
823
00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:46,017
for the sport, guys.
824
00:24:47,552 --> 00:24:48,487
When we're taking our
825
00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:49,588
breaks and, you know,
826
00:24:49,588 --> 00:24:50,322
settling down
827
00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:52,724
and spending time with the family,
828
00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:54,526
that's when a sport contractor
829
00:24:54,526 --> 00:24:56,428
has to kick it in high gear
830
00:24:56,428 --> 00:24:57,629
because schools are closed
831
00:24:57,629 --> 00:24:59,164
and they get a little bit of time
832
00:24:59,164 --> 00:24:59,764
to get in there
833
00:24:59,764 --> 00:25:00,765
and do what they have to do.
834
00:25:00,765 --> 00:25:03,902
So while we're all, you know,
835
00:25:03,902 --> 00:25:04,703
living it up,
836
00:25:04,703 --> 00:25:07,105
these guys are still cranking it out.
837
00:25:07,105 --> 00:25:08,373
It's amazing.
838
00:25:08,373 --> 00:25:10,709
Yeah, like Thanksgiving weekend
839
00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:13,044
and that week between
840
00:25:13,044 --> 00:25:15,280
Christmas and New Year is
841
00:25:15,714 --> 00:25:19,084
probably as busy as those guys get.
842
00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:20,685
And, you know,
843
00:25:20,685 --> 00:25:21,987
the rest of us are
844
00:25:21,987 --> 00:25:23,221
are taking a few days off.
845
00:25:23,221 --> 00:25:25,457
And those guys, they are they are running
846
00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:28,260
during those during those time
847
00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:28,894
periods, too.
848
00:25:28,894 --> 00:25:32,464
So yeah, I mean, I, I'm so lucky that
849
00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:36,301
I've been I, I've been doing sport for
850
00:25:39,004 --> 00:25:40,939
jeez, it's been
851
00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:44,376
on 23 years now, 24 years doing sport
852
00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:45,043
I guess.
853
00:25:45,176 --> 00:25:48,914
And it's just, it's just, it's not,
854
00:25:49,681 --> 00:25:52,017
you know, the, the, the floor contractors
855
00:25:52,350 --> 00:25:55,387
that I've met in my entire life,
856
00:25:55,654 --> 00:25:58,356
it seems like a small family.
857
00:25:58,356 --> 00:25:59,257
I mean,
858
00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:02,027
there's not that many floor contractors
859
00:26:02,027 --> 00:26:04,429
that, you know, that you didn't
860
00:26:04,429 --> 00:26:05,697
you didn't,
861
00:26:06,164 --> 00:26:06,464
you know,
862
00:26:06,464 --> 00:26:07,198
you would go
863
00:26:07,198 --> 00:26:08,967
to these conventions and WFAA
864
00:26:08,967 --> 00:26:12,070
and you'd see all these these guys.
865
00:26:12,070 --> 00:26:15,173
And it was like a family.
866
00:26:15,206 --> 00:26:17,309
I mean, you look forward to every year
867
00:26:17,642 --> 00:26:19,110
going to those do
868
00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:19,811
those shows
869
00:26:19,811 --> 00:26:21,079
because you're going to see
870
00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:21,713
all these guys.
871
00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:23,848
And there's so many great people,
872
00:26:23,882 --> 00:26:25,884
you know, in the in the flooring business
873
00:26:25,884 --> 00:26:28,587
and the gym floor contractors,
874
00:26:28,820 --> 00:26:31,289
they're an even smaller, smaller group.
875
00:26:31,456 --> 00:26:37,195
And, you know, there's maybe 150 to 200,
876
00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:39,030
just legit
877
00:26:39,030 --> 00:26:40,832
sports little contractors out there.
878
00:26:40,832 --> 00:26:42,000
And, you know, we
879
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,301
we know most of them
880
00:26:43,301 --> 00:26:44,369
and most of them know us.
881
00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:46,738
And they're just a fantastic group
882
00:26:47,405 --> 00:26:48,239
of people.
883
00:26:48,239 --> 00:26:50,442
And it makes it makes it so easy
884
00:26:50,775 --> 00:26:52,210
to to work with them
885
00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:54,312
and, you know, to be able to go and visit
886
00:26:54,312 --> 00:26:55,413
some of these people.
887
00:26:55,413 --> 00:26:57,616
A lot of the a lot of us for contractors,
888
00:26:57,616 --> 00:26:59,084
they're customers of ours.
889
00:26:59,084 --> 00:27:01,186
But they're I mean, their friends,
890
00:27:01,519 --> 00:27:02,087
their friends.
891
00:27:02,087 --> 00:27:04,623
And, you know, when COVID hit,
892
00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:07,292
that was one of the biggest downsides
893
00:27:07,659 --> 00:27:08,860
of not traveling,
894
00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:10,795
is that a lot of the friends
895
00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:11,963
that I have are,
896
00:27:11,963 --> 00:27:14,265
you know, not living in Boston
897
00:27:14,265 --> 00:27:14,866
where I live.
898
00:27:14,866 --> 00:27:15,166
They were
899
00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:17,135
they're out on the all around the country
900
00:27:17,135 --> 00:27:18,303
and didn't
901
00:27:18,303 --> 00:27:18,903
get to see
902
00:27:18,903 --> 00:27:20,205
a lot of those people or connect
903
00:27:20,205 --> 00:27:21,873
with them for for a year.
904
00:27:21,873 --> 00:27:23,408
So that that was tough.
905
00:27:23,408 --> 00:27:24,075
But,
906
00:27:24,576 --> 00:27:25,143
you know, now
907
00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:26,311
with with the new product
908
00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:27,946
launches that we have, we're
909
00:27:27,946 --> 00:27:29,180
we're definitely going to be out
910
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:30,181
visiting people again.
911
00:27:30,181 --> 00:27:31,783
And and I'm looking forward
912
00:27:31,783 --> 00:27:33,852
to that personal
913
00:27:33,852 --> 00:27:35,520
that personal part of it,
914
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:36,121
because that's the part
915
00:27:36,121 --> 00:27:37,489
that I enjoy the most.
916
00:27:38,256 --> 00:27:39,157
Billy does a cool
917
00:27:39,157 --> 00:27:40,425
thing at these conventions.
918
00:27:40,425 --> 00:27:43,261
He hijacks the entire convention.
919
00:27:44,129 --> 00:27:46,498
One night, Mona gets almost
920
00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:50,101
every single person out to dinner.
921
00:27:50,101 --> 00:27:52,504
We had busses, went to a mexican place,
922
00:27:53,071 --> 00:27:54,572
and it was a it was a blast.
923
00:27:54,572 --> 00:27:55,473
Soon as you get off the bus,
924
00:27:55,473 --> 00:27:57,609
everybody was getting margaritas.
925
00:27:57,609 --> 00:28:02,213
And but anyways, a spot contractor,
926
00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:04,482
just like Billy said
927
00:28:04,482 --> 00:28:06,718
this, they're so great.
928
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,455
All of them were just such nice
929
00:28:10,455 --> 00:28:12,624
family type atmosphere.
930
00:28:12,624 --> 00:28:14,392
But he asked Billy
931
00:28:14,392 --> 00:28:16,428
if he could make a speech to everybody.
932
00:28:16,928 --> 00:28:18,396
So there we all are at dinner.
933
00:28:18,396 --> 00:28:20,398
Remember Jose Diaz speech
934
00:28:21,166 --> 00:28:22,467
was ideas from trading
935
00:28:22,467 --> 00:28:26,271
flooring down in Miami and he gets up.
936
00:28:27,672 --> 00:28:29,007
Now, this is just a contractor.
937
00:28:29,007 --> 00:28:31,976
He he gets up he's got big company
938
00:28:32,777 --> 00:28:34,412
and he says,
939
00:28:34,412 --> 00:28:35,880
you know, we go at each other
940
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,449
all year long.
941
00:28:37,449 --> 00:28:38,850
We go at each other, he said.
942
00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,319
But tonight, we are family.
943
00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:42,387
I'm telling you,
944
00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:44,355
there wasn't a dry eye in the place.
945
00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:46,224
His speech was much better than that.
946
00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:48,626
Okay, but that's what his speech was.
947
00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:49,160
Yeah.
948
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,528
And I was just thinking,
949
00:28:50,528 --> 00:28:52,931
my God, to be a part of this.
950
00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,866
I mean, this is
951
00:28:54,866 --> 00:28:56,201
this is almost every sport
952
00:28:56,201 --> 00:28:58,470
contractor in the country
953
00:28:58,470 --> 00:29:00,238
was at this dinner.
954
00:29:00,238 --> 00:29:01,740
And he gets up there
955
00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:04,142
and does this speech about yeah, yeah.
956
00:29:04,142 --> 00:29:06,244
We're all fierce competitors
957
00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:07,946
during the week but tonight,
958
00:29:07,946 --> 00:29:08,413
you know
959
00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:10,615
we gather together, we're breaking bread
960
00:29:11,116 --> 00:29:12,751
and tonight we're all family.
961
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,719
And I was like, wow, this is
962
00:29:14,719 --> 00:29:16,287
it's really cool
963
00:29:16,287 --> 00:29:18,089
to be part of something like that.
964
00:29:18,089 --> 00:29:20,125
That's just respect.
965
00:29:20,125 --> 00:29:21,259
Because if you're in the game,
966
00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:22,827
you know how hard anybody else is
967
00:29:22,827 --> 00:29:23,261
in the game.
968
00:29:23,261 --> 00:29:24,095
You know that
969
00:29:24,195 --> 00:29:25,597
they how hard they have to work
970
00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:26,698
to be there, too.
971
00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:28,666
So you love to see that man and that
972
00:29:28,666 --> 00:29:30,068
and that's a great thing about, like you
973
00:29:30,068 --> 00:29:30,869
said, Billy,
974
00:29:30,869 --> 00:29:32,904
getting together with all the guys.
975
00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:33,538
I mean, that's
976
00:29:33,538 --> 00:29:34,739
what you love about this industry.
977
00:29:34,739 --> 00:29:35,907
They're just good, hardworking
978
00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:36,508
people, man.
979
00:29:36,508 --> 00:29:39,778
And, you know, it's it's it's you're
980
00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:41,846
you're a tough human being that can
981
00:29:41,846 --> 00:29:43,448
that can be in this industry
982
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:44,349
and do this job,
983
00:29:44,349 --> 00:29:46,084
especially for the longevity
984
00:29:46,084 --> 00:29:47,452
of some of these guys have.
985
00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:48,686
You have to be a tough human being.
986
00:29:48,686 --> 00:29:50,388
Do you have to do it mentally?
987
00:29:50,388 --> 00:29:51,456
Physically. Yeah.
988
00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:52,457
You know, the other
989
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:54,559
the other thing that night on my bus,
990
00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:56,461
driving back to their hotel
991
00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:57,629
and here's all these guys
992
00:29:57,629 --> 00:29:58,997
and their wives and
993
00:29:58,997 --> 00:30:01,533
and we're all belting out Highway to Hell
994
00:30:02,233 --> 00:30:03,067
saying it.
995
00:30:03,201 --> 00:30:04,235
The whole bus was singing
996
00:30:04,235 --> 00:30:05,336
AC DC Highway
997
00:30:05,336 --> 00:30:08,273
to Hell game on the I told the guy turn
998
00:30:08,773 --> 00:30:10,575
tell the bus driver turn it up.
999
00:30:10,575 --> 00:30:11,409
He turned it up
1000
00:30:11,409 --> 00:30:12,644
and every person in
1001
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:13,978
that place was singing like,
1002
00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:16,114
like they were.
1003
00:30:16,114 --> 00:30:16,948
Brian Johnson
1004
00:30:16,948 --> 00:30:18,750
It was, it was a great night.
1005
00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:20,518
I'll never forget that night.
1006
00:30:20,518 --> 00:30:21,553
Yeah, we enjoy it.
1007
00:30:21,553 --> 00:30:22,987
We, we've done that every year
1008
00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:23,688
since then.
1009
00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:25,123
That, that was the first year
1010
00:30:25,123 --> 00:30:26,457
that was San Antonio.
1011
00:30:26,457 --> 00:30:27,859
I think we did that one. Yeah.
1012
00:30:27,859 --> 00:30:28,827
San Antonio.
1013
00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:30,495
And every, you know, every other year
1014
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:32,697
they have the mafia conference
1015
00:30:32,697 --> 00:30:33,898
somewhere and we,
1016
00:30:33,898 --> 00:30:35,466
we hold a dinner on one of the nights
1017
00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,168
and it's just turned into
1018
00:30:37,168 --> 00:30:39,070
kind of a tradition that,
1019
00:30:39,070 --> 00:30:40,839
that we try to invite everybody and,
1020
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:41,506
you know,
1021
00:30:41,539 --> 00:30:43,107
we wish everybody could make it
1022
00:30:43,107 --> 00:30:44,008
that we know
1023
00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:45,076
people have other commitments
1024
00:30:45,076 --> 00:30:46,277
that they they've got to do.
1025
00:30:46,277 --> 00:30:49,047
But we we love I mean, we appreciate
1026
00:30:49,714 --> 00:30:51,749
we appreciate the contractors so much.
1027
00:30:52,817 --> 00:30:54,853
They even have this job.
1028
00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:56,254
So, you know, everything
1029
00:30:56,254 --> 00:31:00,058
they do, they stuck with us over
1030
00:31:00,058 --> 00:31:00,458
the last
1031
00:31:00,458 --> 00:31:01,025
couple of years
1032
00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:03,094
have been tough for a lot of these
1033
00:31:03,094 --> 00:31:04,229
sport contractors.
1034
00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:04,495
You know,
1035
00:31:04,495 --> 00:31:05,763
in terms of supply,
1036
00:31:05,763 --> 00:31:06,598
we haven't
1037
00:31:06,598 --> 00:31:07,932
we even out of paints,
1038
00:31:07,932 --> 00:31:09,234
we've been out of finish.
1039
00:31:09,234 --> 00:31:11,436
We've run into some challenges,
1040
00:31:11,436 --> 00:31:12,503
you know, and
1041
00:31:12,503 --> 00:31:15,907
and the sport guys who they're
1042
00:31:16,307 --> 00:31:17,909
their livelihood revolves
1043
00:31:17,909 --> 00:31:19,377
around the material
1044
00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,879
that they get from us.
1045
00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:22,680
And and we made it difficult
1046
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,183
for a lot of these guys to do their jobs
1047
00:31:25,183 --> 00:31:25,817
because we
1048
00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:28,119
we just did not have product to send them
1049
00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:30,321
a lot of 20, 22.
1050
00:31:30,321 --> 00:31:32,457
And for the most part,
1051
00:31:32,857 --> 00:31:34,125
everyone is stuck with us.
1052
00:31:34,125 --> 00:31:37,228
And we we appreciate that so much.
1053
00:31:37,428 --> 00:31:39,931
And and and, you know,
1054
00:31:40,098 --> 00:31:41,065
the last thing we want
1055
00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:42,901
is there to be issues or problems.
1056
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:43,768
We just we
1057
00:31:43,768 --> 00:31:45,937
we want the contractors
1058
00:31:46,271 --> 00:31:48,239
to have perfect jobs.
1059
00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:48,873
We want them
1060
00:31:48,873 --> 00:31:50,608
to have everything they need.
1061
00:31:50,608 --> 00:31:52,844
And we just want to make their lives
1062
00:31:52,844 --> 00:31:54,479
easier, not harder.
1063
00:31:54,479 --> 00:31:57,181
And I think last year and through Kobe,
1064
00:31:57,181 --> 00:31:59,083
we made their lives a little harder.
1065
00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:00,752
And now with these new products
1066
00:32:00,752 --> 00:32:01,319
coming out
1067
00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:03,388
and and what we're going to do with them,
1068
00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:05,723
I think we're going to be able to make
1069
00:32:05,723 --> 00:32:07,759
make their lives a little bit easier
1070
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,193
and help them
1071
00:32:09,193 --> 00:32:09,594
help them
1072
00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:10,995
feel a little more comfortable
1073
00:32:10,995 --> 00:32:13,498
and confident on jobs.
1074
00:32:13,498 --> 00:32:15,566
Once we get these new products out there.
1075
00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:18,236
So we, you know,
1076
00:32:18,469 --> 00:32:19,637
if this busy season
1077
00:32:19,637 --> 00:32:20,538
is getting ready to start
1078
00:32:20,538 --> 00:32:21,673
and he said he goes all year long.
1079
00:32:21,673 --> 00:32:23,041
But I mean, as far as material
1080
00:32:23,041 --> 00:32:23,975
we loaded up now
1081
00:32:23,975 --> 00:32:25,543
we're we're good to go with
1082
00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:26,377
product and all that.
1083
00:32:27,378 --> 00:32:28,146
Yeah, we saw some
1084
00:32:28,146 --> 00:32:30,181
challenges on the oil based side,
1085
00:32:30,181 --> 00:32:32,283
but we think that by the time
1086
00:32:32,283 --> 00:32:34,152
the sports season kicks into
1087
00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:37,088
the full gear, you know, early May, June,
1088
00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:38,756
that we should be
1089
00:32:38,756 --> 00:32:40,224
we should be in very good shape
1090
00:32:40,224 --> 00:32:42,593
and able to take care of everybody.
1091
00:32:42,593 --> 00:32:44,796
And to your point, that the
1092
00:32:45,163 --> 00:32:46,197
you know, we're fast.
1093
00:32:46,197 --> 00:32:46,597
I mean,
1094
00:32:46,597 --> 00:32:47,799
let's face it, the last two years,
1095
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:50,134
the raw materials use and shipping across
1096
00:32:50,335 --> 00:32:52,337
the globe has been rough on everybody.
1097
00:32:52,337 --> 00:32:54,172
But we thank God
1098
00:32:54,172 --> 00:32:55,406
coming out on the other side of that.
1099
00:32:55,406 --> 00:32:57,375
So it's good.
1100
00:32:57,442 --> 00:32:59,210
Hey, before we wrap it up,
1101
00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:01,646
I know you're looking to wrap it up.
1102
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:04,315
I talked to an old friend of mine support
1103
00:33:04,349 --> 00:33:05,817
contractor today.
1104
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:08,586
Mike Foster from Foster's floor
1105
00:33:09,220 --> 00:33:11,489
is family has been in business for
1106
00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:13,558
100 years and
1107
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,928
whenever I have questions about something
1108
00:33:16,928 --> 00:33:18,463
and I can't, you know,
1109
00:33:18,463 --> 00:33:20,164
can't make something up, I'll go to Mike
1110
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:21,232
because he can make up stuff.
1111
00:33:21,232 --> 00:33:21,833
Good.
1112
00:33:22,066 --> 00:33:23,368
And, you know,
1113
00:33:23,368 --> 00:33:25,336
we'll always talk to things.
1114
00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:27,905
But I haven't talked to him for a while.
1115
00:33:27,905 --> 00:33:29,807
And today
1116
00:33:29,807 --> 00:33:32,710
when I was talking to him, he said, hey,
1117
00:33:32,710 --> 00:33:33,778
just so you know,
1118
00:33:33,778 --> 00:33:36,514
I'm one year cancer free today.
1119
00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:39,884
So he had some he had some rough
1120
00:33:40,451 --> 00:33:41,886
he had some rough going.
1121
00:33:41,886 --> 00:33:42,620
And I'm talking
1122
00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:43,621
I'll tell you,
1123
00:33:43,621 --> 00:33:44,389
when he was telling me
1124
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:45,923
what he went through,
1125
00:33:45,923 --> 00:33:46,557
you know,
1126
00:33:46,557 --> 00:33:47,558
I always talk about
1127
00:33:47,558 --> 00:33:49,827
I'm a glass half full guy.
1128
00:33:50,595 --> 00:33:52,597
This guy has a glass is full
1129
00:33:52,597 --> 00:33:54,098
all the time.
1130
00:33:54,098 --> 00:33:55,333
All right, up.
1131
00:33:55,333 --> 00:33:57,668
So just want to congratulate Mike
1132
00:33:57,668 --> 00:33:59,437
and his whole family.
1133
00:33:59,437 --> 00:34:00,738
Sons are involved in the business
1134
00:34:00,738 --> 00:34:02,573
and everything.
1135
00:34:02,573 --> 00:34:04,475
I just want to congratulate him on being
1136
00:34:04,475 --> 00:34:06,177
one year cancer free and
1137
00:34:07,245 --> 00:34:10,181
just wanted to give him a shout out.
1138
00:34:10,281 --> 00:34:13,017
Hey, Bill, it's been a pleasure
1139
00:34:13,184 --> 00:34:13,918
catching you, man.
1140
00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:15,853
And I know you're busy as can be.
1141
00:34:15,853 --> 00:34:16,888
And you guys.
1142
00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:18,156
You guys are traveling the country.
1143
00:34:18,156 --> 00:34:19,757
You guys do a lot of a lot of road
1144
00:34:19,757 --> 00:34:20,358
time, man.
1145
00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:22,693
And I really appreciate you being able
1146
00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:23,361
to come on here.
1147
00:34:23,361 --> 00:34:24,395
And I'm excited for you
1148
00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:25,496
because we've been talking about this
1149
00:34:25,496 --> 00:34:26,664
for a long time
1150
00:34:26,664 --> 00:34:27,498
and know how
1151
00:34:27,498 --> 00:34:28,966
what this means to you and the team,
1152
00:34:28,966 --> 00:34:30,168
these new products and everything.
1153
00:34:30,168 --> 00:34:31,369
So congrats.
1154
00:34:31,369 --> 00:34:33,237
Congrats on the year coming out man
1155
00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:35,173
and thanks for spend some time with us.
1156
00:34:35,173 --> 00:34:36,207
And thank you guys.
1157
00:34:36,207 --> 00:34:37,909
I really
1158
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:39,811
I mean I'm honored that
1159
00:34:39,811 --> 00:34:41,879
that you got me on here a second time.
1160
00:34:41,879 --> 00:34:43,214
It's it's a lot of fun
1161
00:34:43,214 --> 00:34:44,082
talking with you guys.
1162
00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:46,951
Congratulations on your 200 shows.
1163
00:34:47,285 --> 00:34:49,420
I, I got to imagine that
1164
00:34:49,587 --> 00:34:50,421
the three people
1165
00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:52,557
that that actually listen to the podcast,
1166
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,259
I'm sure that at least two of them
1167
00:34:55,259 --> 00:34:56,160
have already
1168
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,529
just hit it pause and turn it off.
1169
00:34:58,930 --> 00:34:59,330
But,
1170
00:34:59,964 --> 00:35:00,264
you know,
1171
00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:01,399
today I might say thank you
1172
00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:03,101
for listening as well.
1173
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:05,236
Well, you can thank scissors
1174
00:35:05,403 --> 00:35:07,205
for leaving on here actually,
1175
00:35:07,205 --> 00:35:10,775
because I was paper and Rob grab one
1176
00:35:11,209 --> 00:35:11,876
and I said, well,
1177
00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:15,480
I will put them back on then.
1178
00:35:15,546 --> 00:35:17,048
Thank you, Rob.
1179
00:35:17,482 --> 00:35:18,816
All right, guys.
1180
00:35:18,816 --> 00:35:19,984
You know what, buddy?
1181
00:35:19,984 --> 00:35:21,052
There's been another episode
1182
00:35:21,052 --> 00:35:21,586
of On the Floor
1183
00:35:21,586 --> 00:35:24,222
with Wayne and Rob and Bill Price
1184
00:35:24,222 --> 00:35:25,256
with the sports.
1185
00:35:25,256 --> 00:35:26,457
And please stay tuned
1186
00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:34,999
for another episode.