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Hello.
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Welcome to another
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episode of On the Floor
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with Wayne and Rob.
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I'm Wayne Highlander with Bona Adhesives.
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And I'm Rob Johnson
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with THE Bona Training.
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What are you giggling about now?
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Nothing much, Rob.
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Right.
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You had something on your mind?
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I want one.
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We're going to do a show today.
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I'm transitioning.
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But before we do.
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And it's a whole new meaning now,
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doesn't it?
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Yes, sir. But.
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So you mean transitioning from
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working to leading?
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Managing.
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I know from from
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having a small business
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and trying to turn it grow the business.
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You know, I'll tell you something.
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One of them and I.
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I didn't even realize this.
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I never put this in the words
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until the last maybe few days.
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I was thinking about this.
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One of the things that
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held me back from
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from growing my business
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quicker than I did was guilt.
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And I didn't realize how
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how much that really affected
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a lot of the decisions I made.
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And by that, what I mean by that is,
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you know, I worked with my two brothers
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and they every day we get up work side
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by side, swinging a hammer by side
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by side. We'd be sanding the floors.
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You're doing the stairs.
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I'm doing the living room,
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he said, in the closets, whatever,
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side by side,
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every day as a team
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getting these things done.
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And then as started to like,
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we've got so much work now
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and I need to grow the business.
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I need to be in the office
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organizing things.
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I need to be making phone calls,
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I need to be those type of things.
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The amount of guilt I had
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for not being out in the field
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with the guys
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and maybe them thinking, hey, Wednesday,
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you know,
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doing the easy work, you know,
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not that they were thinking that,
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I don't know,
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maybe they were I don't know
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the amount of guilt ahead for that.
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Really.
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I think
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and, you know, I also have a
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I have a great work ethic. I just do.
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So you can laugh at whatever you want.
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I don't care about.
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But I would say that of most four guys,
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you're not in this business if you're a
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if you're not a worker.
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I think that was so ingrained in me,
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so instilled in me for such a young age
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and onward
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that it really kept me from growing
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the business.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I can relate to that.
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No, I mean,
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when you started talking about this show,
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you know, I of course,
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I was cracking jokes in my my.
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Yeah.
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Wayne feels guilty
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that he's not gonna be able to
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pass his wisdom on to the guys on.
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The job site.
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That's your guilt feeling.
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But when I start
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thinking about it seriously,
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that was probably the downfall of Pete.
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Nice Business was not doing that.
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It was just him and I on the job.
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So that's all we did there was.
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There was no time for prospecting,
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no time for marketing, no time for
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future forward thinking.
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And you know where
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we're going to take it.
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And you know what I mean?
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It was just work, work, work and not
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and not look at that
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as being an important
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part of the business.
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When I look back now thinking
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that they go hand in hand,
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you can't have one without the other,
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or you just going to keep
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pounding around forever
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and really not move forward.
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I think I think it's the downfall
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of a lot of blue collar,
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blue, blue
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collar, working class kids that grew up
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that way.
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And I remember like
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like like my father in law
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and then people I knew growing up
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whatever we would
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look down on guys
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that were like
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wearing fancy Dockers or whatever.
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And I, that guy doesn't work
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and a guy doesn't work for a living,
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you know what I mean? And It was
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the amount of
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pride you had was how hard you worked
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and how much you know, how much you can
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and what square feet
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you can lay in a day and,
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how much you can say in in a day,
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and that you're
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it's all wrapped up into that.
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And then when you when you leave that
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and go on to that other
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and try to shift gears a little bit
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to grow the business,
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I think there's a long big part of
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that is guilt that that holds you back.
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didn't realize this
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until just kind of thinking about this
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last few days.
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I think that was a big part
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of what held me back for a long time
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growing the business
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because I felt like if I'm doing this,
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I'm not out there with my guys.
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I'm not I'm not doing my part
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to get the job done or what have you.
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So I think maybe that would
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maybe we would talk about that. Yeah.
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So really
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what you should have done was
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sat down with your brothers.
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And, and said, Hey,
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let's take this to the next level and.
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By what I mean by that is
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making life easier for everybody
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as far as work is concerned and money,
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we to make this change.
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Yeah.
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And empowering them making them
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part of the decision I mean because
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if you sit down with your guys
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and you have that conversation,
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they might give you some really good
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people, some great ideas.
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They might tell you what
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the direction that
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you weren't thinking
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rather than just
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what you're thinking in your head.
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You know, you're
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just even that even what
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you just said right there,
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if I would have been able
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to verbalize that right there
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and sat down with them and say,
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Hey, guys,
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here's a reason why I need to do this,
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I think the
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the that side
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me was so strong, that urge to,
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you know, to work hard
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and be a hard worker
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and this, that and the other
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kind of overrode
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a lot of the other needs that I had.
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You know what I mean?
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So you would have been a great captain
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on a hockey team.
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Well, I'll tell you why.
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Great Captain and I always use hockey.
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Okay.
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But a great captain is one
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that leads by example.
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You don't want to be like
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some of the greatest captains
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that you see
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were the first guys at practice,
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the last guys to leave,
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the first guy in the gym.
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You know, those were the guys
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and everybody had to follow suit.
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So if you're that guy on your crew
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and then you completely walk away
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from that. Yeah.
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Without, you know, maybe
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nominating another captain or something
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where,
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you know,
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maybe passing the torch type of thing.
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And that could be, you know, of course,
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that's going to be tricky, too.
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But I, I think
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I mean, really, I look back now
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and I'm like,
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that had to be done
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and it never got done.
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Yep.
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I, I totally agree with that.
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I think that, you know,
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one thing you can do
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is kind of reflect
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on your goals, reminds
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of why you started the business
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and how managing it
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effectively allows you for growth. Right.
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And reflect on your long term
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vision of
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what the company is,
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what you want the company to be.
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That can alleviate the feelings of guilt.
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You know,
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why did you get in the business
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and what your what
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what are the goals
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and and maybe you know, that would have
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helped align my what
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I had to do from day to day
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if I just kept that is my
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this is the goal to grow to so much
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and maybe that would have helped.
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Wow I just said a bunch of things before
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and now I'm reading what you sent me.
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Like, man, I was.
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I could have wrote this.
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Listening to their feedback.
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Yeah. Sit down with your guys.
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Tell them about the commitment,
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your commitment and what has to change
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and get their feedback and concerns.
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But I think the other thing
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too, is
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you got to
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it's got to be measurable them too.
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If you're time, you're going to have
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time away, you know, to focus on
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jobs, marketing, all stuff.
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You know, I'm not saying right away,
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but in six months you get to,
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you know, say, hey,
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here's what we've done in six
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since I've dropped out
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and taken over this new role.
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And it's something that
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everybody can measure,
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you know, by course, measurement
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So I can, you know, everybody's
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pocketbook a little bit.
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Then you'd probably get
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you'd strengthen the team even more.
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Yeah, I remember a couple of things here.
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One is
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I remember when I
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when I you know,
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I left China under floors
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and gave the business to my brothers
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and what have you. And then they had it.
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And I was worried to death because,
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you know, I was doing
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I did all these different things
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and now they're going to do it.
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They're not going to have me there
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they go.
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I was sick to my stomach thinking, man,
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how are they going to survive?
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And what are they going to do?
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Because I made these decisions
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and blah, blah, blah.
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And as it turned out,
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they did just fine.
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So sometimes.
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When.
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You sound, you sound so surprised.
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Yeah, they did.
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They were making more money.
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But
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that's
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when you get the.
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Thing that ever happened.
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Yeah, it gives other people
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an opportunity
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to step up and change too,
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which it can be a good thing.
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You know, I always look at like a
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like a high school basketball team.
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Okay, so you have a great year.
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They're 25 and six. This year.
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They had a great year.
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But they have four seniors,
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but three seniors on the team
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and they're going to graduate.
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Man, they were the bulk of the score.
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So they're going to be gone next year.
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And gosh,
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what are they going to do next year
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and next year?
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The junior step up.
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And you know what I mean?
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And they're they become the leaders
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and because they have the opportunity.
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And so I think that that
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I think maybe keeping that
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in mind to help
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and I remember I work for
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a contractor, I work for a contractor,
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and they did a ton of insurance work
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and they had the new guy
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come into the business.
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One of their relatives
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came in the business and he didn't
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he wasn't there.
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The other guys were really good
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carpenters, let's say, right?
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Really good. Super good carpenters.
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Well,
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the guy that came in the business
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wasn't a carpenter.
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He's more a business guy.
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And he brought in so much business
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that they thought he was
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doing something illegal.
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They're like, you know,
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how is he getting all this work?
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The blah, blah, blah?
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And he goes, Just great.
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Networking is great.
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He was a great business guy
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and what have you.
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And that was his skill set.
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So, you know, there's interesting
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sometimes what you think.
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Yeah, I mean, if you looked at my dad
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and my uncle
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when they were running
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the family business, it was definitely
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my dad was more of the sales guy.
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Yeah,
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my uncle was more of the crew leader.
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And I, you know, I've told I think
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I told the story a thousand times
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in sales.
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My uncle could piss people off.
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Pretty good guy.
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But as far as running a crew,
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he was a magician.
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I mean, you know,
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he could make stuff sink.
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Yeah.
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Make crews work together.
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And just where my dad,
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he was all like, Let's play Liar's Poker
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for another hour during lunch.
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You know what I mean?
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If if the roles were reversed,
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then out of business.
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Okay.
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Yeah, but,
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you know, I think they those two saw
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each other's strengths and,
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you know, let it go. Yeah.
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I just wonder is just.
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I just
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how many other people
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have that same feeling
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and that's why it holds.
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It maybe holds other businesses back.
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I just thought that was a,
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you know, something we could talk about.
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I We talked about it before
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of getting a mentor.
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I think probably if I could look back,
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one thing that I would
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I would recommend more than anything
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is to find a mentor,
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you know, a friend or a retailer
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that maybe he's going out of business.
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He's been doing floors for ever.
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Now he's going out of business
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or he slowing down or whatever
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or another craftsman is successful
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now more than ever
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in any time
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in the history of our industry,
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guys are willing to to help other people.
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First of all, the communication is there
417
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wasn't there before.
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You would never in your little world
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and in Boston,
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where my little world, wherever
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I was in Northern California,
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I would never know a spring
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and I would never know.
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Christmas is
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I would never know Steve Brand.
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I would never know these guys. Right.
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Because how would we know
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we were on our own?
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We didn't have social media.
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The communication wasn't there.
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And I think
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now there's so much communication
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and open lines available to us.
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I think for young fella to
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or gal to
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to have a mentor in this business and
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I think is huge and well.
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You know you look back 3040 years ago
439
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I mean
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our competition they weren't competition.
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They were the enemy.
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Yeah they were.
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We didn't want to talk to them.
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They do anything right.
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You know, it was
446
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it was a completely different mindset now
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with guys.
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And as far as like you said, you know,
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if you ask somebody to be a mentor,
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Mad Men, that's a feather in your cap.
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That's that's a pride thing.
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Like, wow,
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he respects
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enough to ask me
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for guidance and everything.
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And we you and I both know
457
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hundreds of people
458
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that would step up to the plate and,
459
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you know, be
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a fantastic mentor to anybody where,
461
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you know, back
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when I first
463
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got into the business, back in,
464
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you know, the seventies,
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it just was a completely
466
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different mindset about
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who your competition was
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and what they were. Do you?
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And like I said, they were they
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we were enemies.
471
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Yeah, nobody was.
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You would share nothing.
473
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Not the thing right now.
474
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You let people look inside your van
475
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to see what the
476
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what tools you were using
477
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and stuff like that or you.
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Would steer them in the wrong direction.
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Shape of the thing. Yes, yes,
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yes.
481
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That's absolutely right.
482
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That's the way
483
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that was a cutthroat world.
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So. Yeah.
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Hey,
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do you know how long
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I've been doing this?
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I know you can do my
489
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you know, my opening
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speech at schools and everything, but
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I started with my dad's crew in 75.
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Wow. I know.
493
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That's crazy.
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Some 75.
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So as of 20.
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I did the years.
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50 years. 50 years?
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That's insane.
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That is craziness.
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You know, in Your honor,
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I did a poem about you.
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Would you like to hear it?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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We got to kill some time here. Yeah.
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All right.
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Is it going to hurt my feelings?
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you're a pretty tough guy.
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By the way.
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Why would I do that?
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Yeah,
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in a little workshop.
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Where does most dance works?
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Rob Johnson given a chance
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with tools in hand,
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a heart full of cheer.
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He tackled each job
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though the end wasn't near,
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with hammer in one hand
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and nails in the other.
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Rob faced every project
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as though it were his brother.
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It's kind of weird,
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but how the wood splintered
524
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and screws took flight.
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He'd fumble and stumble from morning
526
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till night.
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All right.
528
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I kind of like this poem.
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A letter was.
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His Everest tilting in the breeze with.
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Every step
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he took, dust and splinters would least
533
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he'd measure once, measure
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twice, then cut one more.
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And what started as wood
536
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turned the kindling on the floor.
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Yet despite every mishap,
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every wobbly shelf,
539
00:16:51,310 --> 00:16:53,345
Rob smiled at the chaos,
540
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embraced his true self.
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Perfect.
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Perfection perfections,
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a myth he'd proudly proclaim.
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All I need is a bit of patience
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and a hard, full flame
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through crooked through crooked doorways
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and flaws that would sway.
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Rob built up a spirit come what may
549
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for clumsy.
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He might be with a flair for the wrong,
551
00:17:16,535 --> 00:17:18,737
but he'd strum out his laughter
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00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:21,740
like a well-placed song played song.
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So raise up a toast
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to our tradesmen friend.
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With every small failure
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he began to transcend.
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For in every mishap
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there's a lesson in light.
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And Rob's Johnson
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spirit taught us all to take flight.
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I want you to read that at my wake.
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I will ask
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when the
564
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when the guy says,
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Does anybody have anything
566
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they'd like to say?
567
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There you go.
568
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Yeah, I want you to read that poem
569
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because my son will be. Yep.
570
00:17:51,336 --> 00:17:53,205
yeah, that's him. Yeah, that's.
571
00:17:53,205 --> 00:17:53,939
It.
572
00:17:53,939 --> 00:17:56,008
That's definitely him.
573
00:17:56,008 --> 00:17:57,509
Yeah. Yeah.
574
00:17:57,509 --> 00:17:57,843
All right.
575
00:17:57,843 --> 00:18:00,212
So I've been doing it 50 years, right?
576
00:18:00,212 --> 00:18:01,080
Yeah.
577
00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,314
And now my son, he's
578
00:18:02,314 --> 00:18:04,850
been doing it for a while. Yeah.
579
00:18:04,850 --> 00:18:07,453
And my grandson, he's starting,
580
00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:10,456
so that's six generations.
581
00:18:10,789 --> 00:18:14,026
So bomb's been going back and looking at
582
00:18:15,227 --> 00:18:17,596
my great grandfather and everything.
583
00:18:17,596 --> 00:18:18,664
Yeah.
584
00:18:18,664 --> 00:18:21,667
So he's figuring that
585
00:18:22,301 --> 00:18:24,470
Johnson started doing floors around
586
00:18:24,470 --> 00:18:27,473
1915 or 16.
587
00:18:27,573 --> 00:18:29,308
Wow.
588
00:18:29,308 --> 00:18:31,310
How nuts is that?
589
00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:32,578
That's crazy.
590
00:18:32,578 --> 00:18:35,114
Is that insane or what?
591
00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:37,883
Your grandson to have on his van.
592
00:18:37,883 --> 00:18:40,886
Six generations since 1915.
593
00:18:41,186 --> 00:18:43,489
That's pretty tough to beat then.
594
00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:46,191
Yeah, this is all coming to light
595
00:18:46,191 --> 00:18:47,759
because yesterday,
596
00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:50,195
you know, it was Memorial Day.
597
00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:50,796
We had to
598
00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:51,096
you know,
599
00:18:51,096 --> 00:18:52,831
we have to have a big cookout
600
00:18:52,831 --> 00:18:53,599
or whatever.
601
00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:56,802
And Bump said, Hey, can you know that
602
00:18:57,169 --> 00:18:58,570
that box you have,
603
00:18:58,570 --> 00:19:00,172
this is the craziest box.
604
00:19:00,172 --> 00:19:02,674
Hopefully I can show it to you someday.
605
00:19:02,674 --> 00:19:06,478
It's like a metal box covered in leather
606
00:19:07,179 --> 00:19:07,946
and it's,
607
00:19:07,946 --> 00:19:08,313
you know,
608
00:19:08,313 --> 00:19:10,682
probably three feet by two feet.
609
00:19:10,682 --> 00:19:11,717
Well, that was my great
610
00:19:11,717 --> 00:19:14,186
grandfather's tool box.
611
00:19:14,186 --> 00:19:16,655
There was no handles or anything.
612
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,423
And it's pretty cool because he had, you
613
00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:19,892
know, he's got his
614
00:19:19,892 --> 00:19:21,059
tool belt in there,
615
00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:23,061
but he has a lot of old planes
616
00:19:23,061 --> 00:19:23,795
and, you know,
617
00:19:23,795 --> 00:19:26,798
hand, you know, floor tools by hand.
618
00:19:27,065 --> 00:19:29,334
And he goes, hey,
619
00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:30,903
can I go through some of that stuff?
620
00:19:30,903 --> 00:19:32,671
And, you know, look, I go, Yeah,
621
00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:34,573
any took a couple of pieces
622
00:19:34,573 --> 00:19:36,141
because you mind if I clean this up
623
00:19:36,141 --> 00:19:37,009
and put them on display?
624
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:38,810
I go, no, you know,
625
00:19:39,778 --> 00:19:41,046
the honor, you know,
626
00:19:41,046 --> 00:19:44,883
like I said so knee you know and
627
00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:47,920
but it hit me watching
628
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,923
his two boys taking the tools out
629
00:19:51,757 --> 00:19:53,892
and you know they buckle.
630
00:19:53,892 --> 00:19:54,826
What does this do?
631
00:19:54,826 --> 00:19:56,028
And I'm like, that's a plane.
632
00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:57,196
I got some wood now,
633
00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:59,364
you know, plane and everything.
634
00:19:59,364 --> 00:20:00,766
And I mean, some of this stuff
635
00:20:00,766 --> 00:20:02,034
looks like,
636
00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:03,936
you know, Jesus Christ used it.
637
00:20:03,936 --> 00:20:05,037
It's it looks
638
00:20:05,037 --> 00:20:07,206
some of that stuff is so old, Right?
639
00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:09,575
I think that I looked at my son
640
00:20:09,575 --> 00:20:11,243
and I'm like,
641
00:20:11,243 --> 00:20:13,645
this is they're great great, great
642
00:20:13,645 --> 00:20:15,480
grandfather's tools.
643
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:15,881
Yeah.
644
00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:16,682
And they're,
645
00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:17,082
you know,
646
00:20:17,082 --> 00:20:17,683
putting the tool
647
00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:19,384
belt on and
648
00:20:19,384 --> 00:20:20,986
working the plane and everything.
649
00:20:20,986 --> 00:20:23,989
And I'm like, this is crazy,
650
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:24,856
you know,
651
00:20:24,856 --> 00:20:26,358
you hear about things like this,
652
00:20:26,358 --> 00:20:29,361
but I'm like, I can't believe that
653
00:20:29,461 --> 00:20:30,963
that we're sitting here doing this.
654
00:20:30,963 --> 00:20:33,332
You know, this is just crazy.
655
00:20:33,332 --> 00:20:34,666
That's so damn cool.
656
00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:36,001
I love that, man.
657
00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:37,469
I mean, I love the history of that.
658
00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:38,737
I mean, you think about that man
659
00:20:38,737 --> 00:20:39,171
touching that,
660
00:20:39,171 --> 00:20:40,172
you know, all those years ago.
661
00:20:40,172 --> 00:20:40,639
And then here
662
00:20:40,639 --> 00:20:41,340
it is,
663
00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:42,674
generations down the road
664
00:20:42,674 --> 00:20:44,376
and they got the tool belt on.
665
00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:46,812
And I think that is the best.
666
00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:48,046
Yeah, it was pretty.
667
00:20:48,046 --> 00:20:49,214
It was it was pretty cool.
668
00:20:49,214 --> 00:20:50,549
It was a fun Memorial Day.
669
00:20:50,549 --> 00:20:52,451
But watching the boys,
670
00:20:52,451 --> 00:20:53,385
you know,
671
00:20:53,385 --> 00:20:55,587
with their three great grandfather,
672
00:20:55,587 --> 00:20:57,489
great, great, great three greats,
673
00:20:57,489 --> 00:20:59,625
and I was like, wow, that is just
674
00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:00,492
that's crazy.
675
00:21:00,492 --> 00:21:02,060
Yes, that is crazy.
676
00:21:02,060 --> 00:21:03,829
And you mention, as you said,
677
00:21:03,829 --> 00:21:05,430
this is the day after Memorial Day.
678
00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:06,932
And you think all those
679
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:08,433
those people
680
00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:09,067
that gave
681
00:21:09,067 --> 00:21:10,869
the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
682
00:21:10,869 --> 00:21:12,204
So we have the ability to
683
00:21:12,204 --> 00:21:13,772
do this and live our lives.
684
00:21:15,374 --> 00:21:17,342
Thank you is not enough,
685
00:21:17,342 --> 00:21:18,644
but want to honor those people.
686
00:21:18,644 --> 00:21:20,045
We had a boy
687
00:21:20,045 --> 00:21:23,048
we had just like the classic
688
00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:27,352
Who was that
689
00:21:27,352 --> 00:21:30,355
tattoo artist?
690
00:21:30,389 --> 00:21:33,392
Norman Rockwell, Memorial Day.
691
00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:36,895
My grandson was in his scout uniform
692
00:21:36,895 --> 00:21:38,163
marching in the parade.
693
00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,232
He, you know, he looked great.
694
00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:43,235
And then we had the, you know,
695
00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:44,236
the whole
696
00:21:44,236 --> 00:21:45,170
parade with the fire
697
00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:46,071
trucks and all, you know,
698
00:21:46,071 --> 00:21:47,973
small town parade. Yeah.
699
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:50,842
And then the Memorial Day cookout
700
00:21:50,842 --> 00:21:51,310
and everything.
701
00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:53,845
I was like, wow, This is like,
702
00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:55,881
this is Norman Rockwell stuff, you.
703
00:21:55,881 --> 00:21:57,482
Know, America. Pretty cool.
704
00:21:57,482 --> 00:21:57,883
Yeah.
705
00:21:57,883 --> 00:22:00,385
All small towns around the country.
706
00:22:00,385 --> 00:22:03,388
It's pretty slick.
707
00:22:03,522 --> 00:22:03,922
All right.
708
00:22:03,922 --> 00:22:05,891
So this is going to be a long show.
709
00:22:05,891 --> 00:22:07,059
I think the main thing,
710
00:22:07,059 --> 00:22:10,062
the main point of this show is be aware
711
00:22:10,228 --> 00:22:13,799
if that is holding you back, that
712
00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:15,267
if if it isn't guilt
713
00:22:15,267 --> 00:22:18,236
that that may be holding you back from
714
00:22:18,236 --> 00:22:20,405
from working on the business
715
00:22:20,405 --> 00:22:22,240
instead of working in the business
716
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,243
and and taking the next step forward
717
00:22:25,310 --> 00:22:27,779
in a business where it took me
718
00:22:27,779 --> 00:22:28,914
all these years and years
719
00:22:28,914 --> 00:22:30,115
before I even
720
00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:32,784
it was subconsciously always there.
721
00:22:32,784 --> 00:22:34,920
But I wasn't didn't even verbalize it
722
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,222
until til today. Just thought about it.
723
00:22:37,222 --> 00:22:38,190
So, okay.
724
00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:40,492
You know, it's another thing
725
00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:43,862
that you were talking about, you know,
726
00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:46,231
that whole guilt feeling,
727
00:22:46,231 --> 00:22:46,631
you know,
728
00:22:46,631 --> 00:22:47,132
I don't think
729
00:22:47,132 --> 00:22:48,533
would be a bad thing either.
730
00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:50,902
Every once in a while,
731
00:22:50,902 --> 00:22:53,438
you know, you boot it up,
732
00:22:53,438 --> 00:22:54,005
put on the work
733
00:22:54,005 --> 00:22:54,873
clothes again,
734
00:22:54,873 --> 00:22:56,074
came out to the job
735
00:22:56,074 --> 00:22:57,242
know especially
736
00:22:57,242 --> 00:22:59,044
let's say it was a real tough
737
00:22:59,044 --> 00:23:00,579
you know what I mean?
738
00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:03,348
So stay engaged, too.
739
00:23:03,348 --> 00:23:05,317
I think with,
740
00:23:05,317 --> 00:23:06,685
you know, the physical aspect.
741
00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:09,321
I think it's going to do you well
742
00:23:09,321 --> 00:23:11,323
and your guys are going to say, hey,
743
00:23:11,323 --> 00:23:14,226
you know, when we really needed him,
744
00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:15,961
you know, on certain you know, those
745
00:23:15,961 --> 00:23:17,396
there are those jobs you're like,
746
00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,464
man, if we just another set of hands,
747
00:23:19,464 --> 00:23:21,166
you know,
748
00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:22,601
tough cotton jobs are,
749
00:23:22,601 --> 00:23:23,969
you know, a tough start on an
750
00:23:23,969 --> 00:23:25,771
in layers, things like that.
751
00:23:25,771 --> 00:23:26,905
Well,
752
00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:27,873
now that you mention that,
753
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:29,641
I mean my always my
754
00:23:29,641 --> 00:23:30,675
my thing was
755
00:23:30,675 --> 00:23:32,043
if I'm going to be there
756
00:23:32,043 --> 00:23:33,578
and and maybe it's
757
00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:34,780
also all part of it,
758
00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:36,114
like if I'm not on a job,
759
00:23:36,114 --> 00:23:37,582
my brothers run a job
760
00:23:37,582 --> 00:23:38,383
and I'm not going to be there
761
00:23:38,383 --> 00:23:39,151
for very long
762
00:23:39,151 --> 00:23:40,118
and then I'll be running out.
763
00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:40,786
And whatever
764
00:23:40,786 --> 00:23:43,755
I would do, like I would do the closet,
765
00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:44,456
you know what I mean?
766
00:23:44,456 --> 00:23:45,624
I got all the closets,
767
00:23:45,624 --> 00:23:46,792
all the hard stuff,
768
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:48,326
just because they've been on the job
769
00:23:48,326 --> 00:23:50,829
humping and the same same principles
770
00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:51,596
we always talk about
771
00:23:51,596 --> 00:23:52,631
when you shop the job,
772
00:23:52,631 --> 00:23:54,866
you know, make sure you have a free
773
00:23:54,866 --> 00:23:56,301
rice is full of cold Cokes
774
00:23:56,301 --> 00:23:58,637
and some snicker bars or whatever,
775
00:23:58,637 --> 00:24:00,105
and just make their life
776
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:01,072
as easy as you can
777
00:24:01,072 --> 00:24:02,207
if you're not going to be there all day.
778
00:24:02,207 --> 00:24:03,308
And they're humping their butts in there,
779
00:24:03,308 --> 00:24:05,210
but they pick something
780
00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:06,678
that they wouldn't want to do, finish
781
00:24:06,678 --> 00:24:06,945
the end
782
00:24:06,945 --> 00:24:08,680
rows on a on a on a
783
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,749
on a long hallway or something like that,
784
00:24:10,749 --> 00:24:11,716
because you're just going to be there
785
00:24:11,716 --> 00:24:13,185
for a few hours of the day
786
00:24:13,185 --> 00:24:14,553
and make their life easier.
787
00:24:14,553 --> 00:24:16,855
So it's still the other thing to live
788
00:24:16,855 --> 00:24:17,722
seem more
789
00:24:17,722 --> 00:24:19,424
like a dream where you
790
00:24:19,424 --> 00:24:21,059
you get the right guys
791
00:24:22,227 --> 00:24:23,462
and you give
792
00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:26,465
them some of the, you know, empowerment.
793
00:24:26,598 --> 00:24:29,134
They they might surprise a lot of you.
794
00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:30,001
Yeah.
795
00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:30,635
You know what I mean?
796
00:24:30,635 --> 00:24:32,571
They might come up with, hey,
797
00:24:32,571 --> 00:24:32,904
you know,
798
00:24:32,904 --> 00:24:34,539
I know we've always done it this way,
799
00:24:34,539 --> 00:24:37,442
but I've always wanted to try this.
800
00:24:37,442 --> 00:24:38,410
Yeah.
801
00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:38,777
You know,
802
00:24:38,777 --> 00:24:39,511
because I know
803
00:24:39,511 --> 00:24:41,446
we can get stuck in our ways sometimes.
804
00:24:41,446 --> 00:24:43,215
And, you know, I got.
805
00:24:43,215 --> 00:24:45,317
I remember
806
00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:47,419
when took my dad's crew over, you know,
807
00:24:47,419 --> 00:24:48,720
there were a couple of things.
808
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:49,721
I was like,
809
00:24:49,721 --> 00:24:51,556
I know they're doing this wrong.
810
00:24:51,556 --> 00:24:52,824
I know if I do this.
811
00:24:52,824 --> 00:24:53,258
And then,
812
00:24:53,258 --> 00:24:54,192
you know, a couple of times
813
00:24:54,192 --> 00:24:55,594
it worked and a couple times didn't.
814
00:24:55,594 --> 00:24:55,961
I was like,
815
00:24:55,961 --> 00:24:56,595
okay, that's
816
00:24:56,595 --> 00:24:58,330
why you got to do it that way.
817
00:24:58,330 --> 00:25:01,233
But, you know, it gives them
818
00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:03,201
the opportunity to
819
00:25:03,201 --> 00:25:05,203
expand their own selves.
820
00:25:05,203 --> 00:25:06,171
Yeah.
821
00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:06,838
You know what I mean?
822
00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:08,073
Like, the babysitter's gone.
823
00:25:08,073 --> 00:25:11,243
It's, you know, this is my baby now.
824
00:25:11,610 --> 00:25:11,776
Yeah.
825
00:25:11,776 --> 00:25:13,144
You know, they might surprise
826
00:25:13,144 --> 00:25:14,079
the hell out of you
827
00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:17,082
with taking control over jobs,
828
00:25:17,315 --> 00:25:18,850
and that could be a,
829
00:25:18,850 --> 00:25:20,719
you know, even a real good quality
830
00:25:20,719 --> 00:25:22,687
type thing to. Yeah.
831
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:23,788
Well,
832
00:25:23,788 --> 00:25:24,656
now I'm going to go down this
833
00:25:24,656 --> 00:25:25,423
rabbit hole then.
834
00:25:25,423 --> 00:25:25,824
Then
835
00:25:25,824 --> 00:25:27,559
there's two other things about this.
836
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:30,328
I always say that
837
00:25:30,328 --> 00:25:31,263
both of your young kids
838
00:25:31,263 --> 00:25:32,497
may you never, never,
839
00:25:32,497 --> 00:25:34,165
never know who's watching you.
840
00:25:34,165 --> 00:25:35,433
If you ever think that you're doing
841
00:25:35,433 --> 00:25:37,302
something that doesn't get noticed.
842
00:25:37,302 --> 00:25:39,804
I don't even like that thought process.
843
00:25:39,804 --> 00:25:41,806
I mean, you're you first of all, you
844
00:25:41,806 --> 00:25:43,174
you do it for yourself.
845
00:25:43,174 --> 00:25:44,910
But I think there's always someone
846
00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:45,410
watching you.
847
00:25:45,410 --> 00:25:46,611
You never know when your opportunities
848
00:25:46,611 --> 00:25:48,413
are going to come. You don't.
849
00:25:48,413 --> 00:25:50,315
I mean, you know,
850
00:25:50,315 --> 00:25:53,418
I there's so many times when you
851
00:25:53,785 --> 00:25:55,053
you've see a guy that's quiet,
852
00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:56,688
he's working his butt off or whatever
853
00:25:56,688 --> 00:25:58,557
and and it's always noticeable.
854
00:25:58,557 --> 00:25:59,090
That's the guy
855
00:25:59,090 --> 00:26:00,625
who's going to get the nod.
856
00:26:00,625 --> 00:26:01,893
And the other thing too
857
00:26:01,893 --> 00:26:04,229
is from the other perspective,
858
00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:05,463
when you're the boss all the time,
859
00:26:05,463 --> 00:26:06,932
I don't think people sometimes,
860
00:26:06,932 --> 00:26:08,433
if they're not the boss,
861
00:26:08,433 --> 00:26:11,269
realize how much energy it is
862
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:13,104
to always be up and get the crew up
863
00:26:13,104 --> 00:26:13,772
and be the whip
864
00:26:13,772 --> 00:26:16,775
and making the decisions and telling, you
865
00:26:16,775 --> 00:26:17,943
know, this is what we've got to do
866
00:26:17,943 --> 00:26:19,911
and do it this way and blah, blah, blah.
867
00:26:19,911 --> 00:26:22,147
It takes a lot of energy to be that guy,
868
00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:23,848
more so than
869
00:26:23,848 --> 00:26:24,282
I think
870
00:26:24,282 --> 00:26:26,851
people realize until they are that guy.
871
00:26:26,851 --> 00:26:30,589
How nice is it for once in a while
872
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:31,623
for one of the guys
873
00:26:31,623 --> 00:26:33,124
to take the initiative
874
00:26:33,124 --> 00:26:35,660
to do it first without being asked
875
00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:37,195
to maybe to clean the van out?
876
00:26:37,195 --> 00:26:38,263
You know what I mean?
877
00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:39,297
And do something
878
00:26:39,297 --> 00:26:40,498
extra for the for the boss.
879
00:26:40,498 --> 00:26:41,633
Make the boss easier.
880
00:26:41,633 --> 00:26:43,401
Job a little bit easier one day.
881
00:26:43,401 --> 00:26:46,404
Just a small, small, you know,
882
00:26:46,571 --> 00:26:47,405
or get together you know,
883
00:26:47,405 --> 00:26:49,307
the boss is having a bad day.
884
00:26:49,307 --> 00:26:51,176
Things have gone south of the job
885
00:26:51,176 --> 00:26:52,110
counter or whatever.
886
00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:53,845
There's a couple things going wrong.
887
00:26:53,845 --> 00:26:54,813
Get together and go, Hey, man,
888
00:26:54,813 --> 00:26:56,014
let's make this guy's job
889
00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:57,082
a little bit easier.
890
00:26:57,082 --> 00:26:58,583
Yeah, Just don't even. Thank you.
891
00:26:58,583 --> 00:26:58,984
Thank you.
892
00:26:58,984 --> 00:26:59,584
I know you're taking
893
00:26:59,584 --> 00:27:00,952
all the balls right now
894
00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:01,853
and just want to say
895
00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:03,321
thank you, man, for that.
896
00:27:03,321 --> 00:27:04,422
There's whole, you know,
897
00:27:04,422 --> 00:27:05,490
there's a community
898
00:27:05,490 --> 00:27:06,958
that we're here 8 hours a day,
899
00:27:06,958 --> 00:27:07,826
10 hours a day, working
900
00:27:07,826 --> 00:27:10,261
together, whatever. And it's teamwork.
901
00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:12,597
And everybody is important in that team
902
00:27:12,597 --> 00:27:14,566
from The Apprentice that you just hired
903
00:27:14,566 --> 00:27:15,734
who hasn't learned everything yet,
904
00:27:15,734 --> 00:27:17,569
But he's bringing in a thrash out
905
00:27:17,569 --> 00:27:18,136
and whatever.
906
00:27:18,136 --> 00:27:19,170
And he's he's
907
00:27:19,170 --> 00:27:20,972
holding the cord and all those things
908
00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:22,907
to the to the top of the ladder.
909
00:27:22,907 --> 00:27:25,910
And when everybody's doing their part,
910
00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:27,812
it gets better and better,
911
00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:29,381
and it just makes life easier
912
00:27:29,381 --> 00:27:32,017
for everybody. You know, we've had
913
00:27:33,018 --> 00:27:35,053
I know we both have had
914
00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:36,888
so many people
915
00:27:36,888 --> 00:27:38,623
reach out to us about the show.
916
00:27:38,623 --> 00:27:41,559
And I mean, we hear it all the time.
917
00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:45,063
Like you re-invigorated my passion
918
00:27:45,997 --> 00:27:47,132
just because
919
00:27:47,132 --> 00:27:47,932
now I know
920
00:27:47,932 --> 00:27:49,000
that there's other guys
921
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,503
that are going through the same thing
922
00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:53,405
I'm going through
923
00:27:53,405 --> 00:27:54,406
or we went through,
924
00:27:54,406 --> 00:27:56,141
you know, with all our goofy stories
925
00:27:56,141 --> 00:27:56,975
and all that stuff.
926
00:27:56,975 --> 00:27:59,377
And it's so funny how people like,
927
00:27:59,377 --> 00:28:00,745
well, tell me their story.
928
00:28:00,745 --> 00:28:02,614
That's, you know, right parallel
929
00:28:02,614 --> 00:28:03,448
with ours.
930
00:28:03,448 --> 00:28:06,651
Yeah, but this is another, I think, to
931
00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:09,154
reinvigorate and get the passion
932
00:28:09,154 --> 00:28:10,822
flowing in your,
933
00:28:10,822 --> 00:28:11,222
you know,
934
00:28:11,222 --> 00:28:11,823
number two
935
00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:13,024
guy or number two
936
00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:15,160
and three guys is like, hey,
937
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,428
this is our chance.
938
00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:18,530
You know, this is my chance to
939
00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:19,964
to step up,
940
00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:22,033
take the bull by the horns, horse
941
00:28:22,033 --> 00:28:23,368
by the reins, whatever.
942
00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:25,670
You know, you know those things.
943
00:28:25,670 --> 00:28:26,204
But this could
944
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,206
reinvigorate their passion.
945
00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:28,606
Yeah.
946
00:28:28,606 --> 00:28:30,008
And, you know, just
947
00:28:30,008 --> 00:28:31,009
just think about Ryan.
948
00:28:31,009 --> 00:28:31,643
If you get three
949
00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:33,144
or four people in one company
950
00:28:33,144 --> 00:28:35,213
with a huge passion,
951
00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:35,847
the business
952
00:28:35,847 --> 00:28:38,249
and the work and everything, man,
953
00:28:38,249 --> 00:28:40,518
you're off to the races.
954
00:28:40,518 --> 00:28:42,854
In a special shout out
955
00:28:42,854 --> 00:28:44,289
for the guys who are out there doing this
956
00:28:44,289 --> 00:28:45,957
by themselves.
957
00:28:45,957 --> 00:28:47,525
There are guys who get up every day
958
00:28:47,525 --> 00:28:47,959
and there's
959
00:28:47,959 --> 00:28:49,694
there's, there's solo guys
960
00:28:49,694 --> 00:28:53,164
that work by themselves every day and
961
00:28:53,164 --> 00:28:54,766
every step of the job
962
00:28:54,766 --> 00:28:56,768
is done by their with their hands.
963
00:28:56,768 --> 00:28:58,570
I have a lot of respect
964
00:28:58,570 --> 00:28:59,471
for those guys, man.
965
00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:01,840
And there are different,
966
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:02,974
there are different breed
967
00:29:04,576 --> 00:29:06,411
then
968
00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:08,246
there are different breed amp
969
00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:10,115
and my son are both,
970
00:29:10,115 --> 00:29:10,482
you know,
971
00:29:10,482 --> 00:29:12,517
most of the time working by themselves.
972
00:29:12,517 --> 00:29:15,386
I just, I just don't know how they do it.
973
00:29:15,386 --> 00:29:16,588
I mean, it's.
974
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:19,591
You want to know how to streamline a job,
975
00:29:20,325 --> 00:29:22,627
Ask a guy that works by himself,
976
00:29:22,627 --> 00:29:24,229
a guy that works by himself
977
00:29:24,229 --> 00:29:26,164
will cut out all the unnecessary steps
978
00:29:26,164 --> 00:29:27,766
like nobody else.
979
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:30,468
And Lord three step he does.
980
00:29:30,468 --> 00:29:32,237
He knows he's going to have to do all
981
00:29:32,237 --> 00:29:33,071
surrounding steps.
982
00:29:33,071 --> 00:29:35,373
So he will streamline that job
983
00:29:35,373 --> 00:29:36,474
in that way, In that job
984
00:29:36,474 --> 00:29:38,710
like nobody else you'll ever meet.
985
00:29:38,710 --> 00:29:40,645
So, you know, the guy like.
986
00:29:40,645 --> 00:29:41,012
You know,
987
00:29:41,012 --> 00:29:44,015
is so many people come to the schools,
988
00:29:45,283 --> 00:29:46,951
so many people that come to the schools.
989
00:29:46,951 --> 00:29:49,420
I'm I'm really blown away by how many
990
00:29:50,388 --> 00:29:52,323
one man bands are out there.
991
00:29:52,323 --> 00:29:53,691
Yeah but they've all told me
992
00:29:53,691 --> 00:29:54,392
the same thing.
993
00:29:54,392 --> 00:29:56,694
I mean almost every single one of them,
994
00:29:56,694 --> 00:29:58,763
including Pete and my son,
995
00:29:58,763 --> 00:30:01,766
they never leave everything for one day
996
00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:03,468
like they said.
997
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:05,136
No, no, we don't do all that.
998
00:30:05,136 --> 00:30:05,537
You know,
999
00:30:05,537 --> 00:30:07,438
we don't edge for an entire day.
1000
00:30:07,438 --> 00:30:08,640
Yeah, we drum,
1001
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,743
we edge, we scrape a little and then, and
1002
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:16,481
because I was like, if it was me
1003
00:30:17,215 --> 00:30:19,317
the first day, would first two days
1004
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:20,852
be nothing but drumming?
1005
00:30:20,852 --> 00:30:22,020
Okay, It's.
1006
00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:23,822
I'm screwed now. What do I do?
1007
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:24,055
I know
1008
00:30:24,055 --> 00:30:27,058
I got an edge for two days and scrape
1009
00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:28,126
since.
1010
00:30:28,126 --> 00:30:29,627
Since you said that
1011
00:30:29,627 --> 00:30:30,528
I had a guy one time
1012
00:30:30,528 --> 00:30:31,696
this late in my career.
1013
00:30:31,696 --> 00:30:31,930
Like,
1014
00:30:31,930 --> 00:30:33,464
this is like the last two years of me
1015
00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:35,300
doing floors and I.
1016
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,068
And he work by himself,
1017
00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:38,770
and he goes, Hey, man,
1018
00:30:38,770 --> 00:30:40,004
is there any way you can help me
1019
00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:41,406
come out Friday,
1020
00:30:41,406 --> 00:30:42,473
Friday, Saturday, whatever?
1021
00:30:42,473 --> 00:30:43,541
I came here, what it was?
1022
00:30:43,541 --> 00:30:44,642
Is there any way you can come out?
1023
00:30:44,642 --> 00:30:45,510
Give me one day.
1024
00:30:45,510 --> 00:30:47,078
You just give me one day is good.
1025
00:30:47,078 --> 00:30:47,679
Solid work.
1026
00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:49,147
Then I'll stay on schedule.
1027
00:30:49,147 --> 00:30:50,615
I'm so backed up, man.
1028
00:30:50,615 --> 00:30:52,483
My back have been killing me.
1029
00:30:52,483 --> 00:30:53,718
Is there any way to come out of this
1030
00:30:53,718 --> 00:30:54,185
one day?
1031
00:30:54,185 --> 00:30:56,087
And I didn't want to do it, but.
1032
00:30:56,087 --> 00:30:57,322
All right, what do you got going on?
1033
00:30:57,322 --> 00:30:58,156
Because I'm saying this.
1034
00:30:58,156 --> 00:30:59,224
Blah, blah, blah, blah. I go,
1035
00:31:00,625 --> 00:31:00,992
All right,
1036
00:31:00,992 --> 00:31:02,060
then I'll come out and I,
1037
00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:02,360
you know,
1038
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:03,061
and I didn't want to
1039
00:31:03,061 --> 00:31:04,062
even about the money either.
1040
00:31:04,062 --> 00:31:05,163
I'll help the guy out. Right.
1041
00:31:05,163 --> 00:31:05,797
I got there.
1042
00:31:05,797 --> 00:31:07,031
You know, this son of a gun
1043
00:31:07,031 --> 00:31:08,666
ripped off the entire job, done
1044
00:31:08,666 --> 00:31:11,669
everything he left nothing but edging,
1045
00:31:13,137 --> 00:31:14,305
edging all day long.
1046
00:31:14,305 --> 00:31:15,540
The entire, like.
1047
00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:17,709
Like a 3000 square foot job.
1048
00:31:17,709 --> 00:31:18,476
yeah.
1049
00:31:18,476 --> 00:31:19,544
I get. I'm not.
1050
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:20,445
It's not beneath me.
1051
00:31:20,445 --> 00:31:21,045
I've done it.
1052
00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:22,413
But, you know, come on, you're going to.
1053
00:31:22,413 --> 00:31:23,815
You're young, dude.
1054
00:31:23,815 --> 00:31:24,749
And you're going to go.
1055
00:31:24,749 --> 00:31:25,917
Before me knowing I'm
1056
00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:26,985
going to come in next day.
1057
00:31:26,985 --> 00:31:29,354
And you you. Did all the.
1058
00:31:29,354 --> 00:31:29,787
All the
1059
00:31:29,787 --> 00:31:31,389
big machine work and I got the edge,
1060
00:31:31,389 --> 00:31:33,892
the entire job.
1061
00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:35,159
I mean.
1062
00:31:35,159 --> 00:31:35,894
I had to get.
1063
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:37,729
I can't believe you said that,
1064
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:38,963
because I had a guy call
1065
00:31:38,963 --> 00:31:40,565
me years and years ago,
1066
00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:43,268
a sport guy,
1067
00:31:43,268 --> 00:31:45,770
a local sport guy, and he's like, Man,
1068
00:31:45,770 --> 00:31:48,773
I am so behind.
1069
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:52,277
I he goes, I just wiped out.
1070
00:31:52,310 --> 00:31:55,013
He goes, Is there any way
1071
00:31:55,013 --> 00:31:57,282
that you could work this weekend for him
1072
00:31:57,282 --> 00:31:59,150
with me?
1073
00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:01,486
And and just hear that.
1074
00:32:01,486 --> 00:32:01,953
Yeah.
1075
00:32:01,953 --> 00:32:03,388
Desperation in his voice
1076
00:32:03,388 --> 00:32:05,957
And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, no problem.
1077
00:32:05,957 --> 00:32:07,892
And he's like, All right, it's
1078
00:32:07,892 --> 00:32:09,027
called Saint Rose.
1079
00:32:09,027 --> 00:32:10,361
It's a local school
1080
00:32:10,361 --> 00:32:12,263
not too far from here.
1081
00:32:12,263 --> 00:32:13,031
And he said,
1082
00:32:13,031 --> 00:32:16,034
You know, everything's on the job
1083
00:32:16,167 --> 00:32:17,669
and it's all hooked up.
1084
00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:18,736
You know,
1085
00:32:18,736 --> 00:32:20,605
I needed a,
1086
00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:22,173
you know, just give me a couple of days
1087
00:32:22,173 --> 00:32:22,840
worth of sand it.
1088
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,676
And I, you know, I might be able to
1089
00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:26,344
to catch up as I go.
1090
00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:28,379
Yeah, no problem.
1091
00:32:28,379 --> 00:32:31,182
It's a medium sized gym about
1092
00:32:31,182 --> 00:32:32,150
10,000 feet.
1093
00:32:33,318 --> 00:32:36,154
I walk on there and
1094
00:32:36,154 --> 00:32:38,656
I just started laughing
1095
00:32:38,656 --> 00:32:39,324
because when he said
1096
00:32:39,324 --> 00:32:40,825
all the equipment was on there.
1097
00:32:40,825 --> 00:32:42,860
I was assuming that.
1098
00:32:42,860 --> 00:32:44,796
Hooked up and ready to go.
1099
00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:47,198
it was all hooked up and ready to go.
1100
00:32:47,198 --> 00:32:50,201
And he even got the paper back.
1101
00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:53,338
But as I walked into the gym, I'm
1102
00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:56,874
looking around and all I saw was one
1103
00:32:57,542 --> 00:33:00,778
eight inch Essex Silver line
1104
00:33:01,112 --> 00:33:04,115
drum sander, no
1105
00:33:04,716 --> 00:33:06,117
eight inch.
1106
00:33:06,117 --> 00:33:09,120
When he said everything's ready was,
1107
00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:11,756
you know, kind of assuming
1108
00:33:11,756 --> 00:33:13,191
it was going to be 212
1109
00:33:13,191 --> 00:33:14,892
inch Sanders on a writer.
1110
00:33:14,892 --> 00:33:16,728
Course Jim Porter.
1111
00:33:16,728 --> 00:33:18,629
And you know I could
1112
00:33:18,629 --> 00:33:20,732
I could probably whack.
1113
00:33:20,732 --> 00:33:21,699
You know.
1114
00:33:21,699 --> 00:33:23,701
Get everything cut in one day.
1115
00:33:23,701 --> 00:33:24,769
Yeah of course cut.
1116
00:33:24,769 --> 00:33:28,206
And then medium cut next day and no.
1117
00:33:28,906 --> 00:33:30,074
No one.
1118
00:33:30,074 --> 00:33:31,843
Eight inch sander.
1119
00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:32,643
And I swear
1120
00:33:32,643 --> 00:33:33,578
he situated it,
1121
00:33:33,578 --> 00:33:36,581
like right in the center of the gym,
1122
00:33:36,614 --> 00:33:38,549
like, so I wouldn't miss it Right.
1123
00:33:38,549 --> 00:33:39,450
Yeah. Yeah.
1124
00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,420
That's brutal.
1125
00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:42,920
Yeah.
1126
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,923
So, you know I gave him the two days but
1127
00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:46,958
yeah I,
1128
00:33:46,958 --> 00:33:49,260
you know, I remember talking to him like,
1129
00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:49,827
Yeah, yeah.
1130
00:33:49,827 --> 00:33:51,362
I thought there's going to be a writer
1131
00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:52,930
there, you know, I'll,
1132
00:33:52,930 --> 00:33:53,998
I'll give you two days,
1133
00:33:53,998 --> 00:33:55,400
but I don't know how much
1134
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,036
I'm going to get. Yeah.
1135
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:01,039
You know.
1136
00:34:01,472 --> 00:34:03,174
All right, Rob.
1137
00:34:03,174 --> 00:34:05,610
What We're good people will help out.
1138
00:34:05,610 --> 00:34:07,812
Anybody? Yeah. There you go.
1139
00:34:07,812 --> 00:34:08,112
Yeah.
1140
00:34:08,112 --> 00:34:08,546
Okay.
1141
00:34:08,546 --> 00:34:09,914
Well, thank you, everybody for listening
1142
00:34:09,914 --> 00:34:11,249
and appreciate your listenership
1143
00:34:11,249 --> 00:34:11,883
and everything.
1144
00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:13,851
And this has been another episode
1145
00:34:13,851 --> 00:34:15,553
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
1146
00:34:15,553 --> 00:34:16,988
Please stay tuned for another episode.