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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,
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director of sales for Bona Adhesives.
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Well, you say Rob, How are you, bud?
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then your business.
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I thought.
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there we go.
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Right Well, then, That's it.
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Don't.
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Won't take any time now.
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All right.
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Okay.
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Do you remember
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your your first day on the job
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doing floors? Rob?
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It's funny you say that, because
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I played Buddy. I play.
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I played buddy.
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I played golf with a buddy of mine
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this weekend who worked on
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my dad's crew.
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You know, he's a buddy of mine.
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He worked on the summer crew, and
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he was just reminiscing
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about his first day
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on the job,
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which I thought was pretty funny
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and that I can't believe that
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we talked
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about maybe doing a show about this,
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especially after I talked to him
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last week. So.
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Yeah, I do remember,
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especially when I was talking to him,
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definitely brought back some scary Well,
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okay, First of all, how old were you?
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Okay.
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The first day
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when I was really getting paid that, you
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Good begin.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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14 years old.
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Well, wait a minute.
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14 years old.
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I mean,
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but it was still a summer job, right?
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Okay, so.
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And you were working
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right under your dad?
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it was a full time summer job.
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It wasn't.
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I mean, it was
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you know, we were traveling.
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I was traveling with the crew.
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Hey. Hey.
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I'm not judging you.
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It sounds like you are.
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How old were you?
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well, first of all,
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what were you working like
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directly for your dad,
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or what was the arrangement?
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As the family business.
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We were doing the bowling alley Okay,
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well, you nervous?
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Probably not.
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Because it was your family, right?
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No, I was
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the.
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I was petrified.
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Well, you really,
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Why?
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because I was 14, and
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I think
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the youngest guy in the crew was in
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You were still figuring out
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life at 14 years old, weren't you, Rob?
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No, I didn't even begin to start
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thinking about figuring out life in 14.
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No kidding.
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no, no, no.
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But why were you.
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Why were you nervous?
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I mean, you would think it.
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Your family, business,
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everything in your.
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Nobody.
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Nervous has absolutely no, I was
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petrified.
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I think there's nerve difference
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between nervous and petrified.
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Why were you so scared
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or petrified?
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because I thought I was going to
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mess something up.
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I'll be da. No kidding.
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I thought that.
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Yeah, I was going to definitely
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screw something up.
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you know, the other,
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like I
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said, making
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cameo appearances and stuff
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with the family
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or, you know,
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working at my grandfather's
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bowling alley, that
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that was just,
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you know, clean up and stuff like that.
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This was Yeah.
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the show
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Yeah,
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yeah, yeah.
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Now you is one.
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Yeah.
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And how'd you do?
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it really wasn't what
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I thought it was going to be.
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Really?
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was on hand
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sanding and.
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So that was all set up and going,
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you know, I never thought about how we
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how they get it out of truck,
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put it all Yeah.
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Wow.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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really.
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So the whole thing was
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the whole thing was crazy.
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So it's something about when, like,
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I had a lot of a lot of jobs
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growing up, all kinds of different jobs.
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But I was going to school, and
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and I knew that there were
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there's temporary part time jobs.
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There's something about
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when you get your first full time
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job that, like this is it.
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Now, this is your life now.
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This is what you do every day.
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Now, that is shocking.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, all right, well,
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I go where I worked for 8 hours.
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It was dark
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when I got up
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and I got home and it's dark
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and then I'm going to eat
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and then we're going to go do this,
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you know, next thing.
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And then this is life now,
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I guess, is what you do.
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And there's something very jarring
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about that and shocking
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when you're young kid
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and you get your first real job.
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So. Yeah.
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I mean, and you know, because.
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Because it was so seasonal back
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when I you know, when I first started,
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you literally were up at 630
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and you were done with breakfast
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by 730 because,
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you know, we'd go to a diner or whatever.
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And I mean, you you were on the job
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at 730
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Wow.
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It's like.
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Start shaking your starving so much.
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Well, they say we're going to only work
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half a day to day.
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Well, that's, that's 12 hours.
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it was. It was.
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It was just it was a culture shock.
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That's what it was.
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For me, like,
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I was working with my uncle,
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and I didn't really know him.
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I didn't grow up with him, and I didn't.
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I was never around him.
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I only knew him for, like,
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maybe a month or two
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before I went to work for him.
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So while he was an uncle,
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I still was like, I didn't know him.
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You know what I mean?
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And again, I was
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I didn't want to let him down.
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I was
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I was nervous about
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not being good enough to,
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you know what I mean?
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And it was all and,
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you know,
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you know, when everything's new,
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everything's new to you and,
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you know, you're wracking out the floor
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and everything
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and you're and he's so fast
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and you're so slow and you're like,
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you know,
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you're putting the bundle in your own way
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and you may get ten different movements
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to his to
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a like a chicken with a cut out cut off.
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So that was stressing to me like,
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this is an old, old guy
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and here I am, way younger than him.
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And especially when he had me
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do something on my own,
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like we're working together for a while.
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But then he said, Go do that room.
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And how little I did
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compared to what he did are like, my God,
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how am I ever going to get
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how am I going to get this fast?
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And he must think I'm a loser, man.
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He was only got this much done
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so that I put that pressure on
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myself, you know what I mean?
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But yeah, so, you know,
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you start
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also thinking about
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what you didn't know back then.
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You know,
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when you
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when you're very greedy, you had
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you just don't know
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nothing about the floor business
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and there's so much to learn.
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And you look back
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and all these things that you learn,
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all these things
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are steps along the way.
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Then you start to become more comfortable
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and more comfortable
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as you go, as you go along.
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And you know,
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one thing about
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there's no there's no age
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limit on learning.
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You know, you're always learning
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new learning, new stuff,
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new techniques and new new stuff.
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And I always wonder when you know,
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when do you stop learning,
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you know, the trade,
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When when do you say,
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I've learned enough or whatever?
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I think it is always continuous, always,
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always something new to learn.
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And I think we learned a lot back then.
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When you're a kid,
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you learn it pretty fast
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because you're,
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you know,
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you have to learn it
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and you're young and you know,
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you realize
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I got to do something for a living.
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I got I got to learn something,
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you know what I mean?
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So and there's pressure on you
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and you learn.
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And so it comes naturally.
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I wonder as you get older,
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is it harder to learn or what?
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Why? You know what I mean.
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I mean,
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do you slow down in learning
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or whatever you because I think you
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I think it's a
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I think they say as you get older,
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your capacity to learn
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I think is a little bit less.
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But I really think that's offset
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by your desire to learn new things.
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You know what I mean?
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So so I don't know.
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That's the kind of way I look.
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I think that the researchers
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say that there's a
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there's a time when you plateau
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and then you start to trail off.
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I've know
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I've noticed in your last few years.
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Yeah.
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No, I don't.
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Don't you think.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I am.
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I just wonder.
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It's so much easier to
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to learn when you
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when you don't know anything.
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It gets tougher.
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I think it
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we've been doing for a long time
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like, like social media
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and stuff like that.
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Like is it
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doing is harder to learn as you're older
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because you know what I mean?
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It's just like
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it's another thing to learn
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and what have you and I.
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And I think you put roadblocks in for any
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like along with a certain age now.
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And do I really even need to learn this?
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And what's the point
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instead of embracing it?
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You know what I mean? Yes, I do.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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That's good.
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Have you?
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Yeah,
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because I'm not confident
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if you are going to say anything.
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I was going to ask you
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if you've learned anything new lately.
339
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Yes. I have something very exciting.
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I've learned that
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you're not going to believe this.
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You're sitting down right?
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I am
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Loops
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are the same flavor.
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even a They're just different colors.
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really.
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Well, congratulations on that.
349
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So, yeah, I never gave up on you.
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tell you, you know, there's a.
351
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I didn't
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know what I was going to talk about.
353
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This birthday party in Boston, and now
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there we go.
355
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Okay, You know.
356
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There you go.
357
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There you go.
358
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Yeah, I would lead with it.
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You know, the people, a lot of them.
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Okay, the the better.
361
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If you didn't know me,
362
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you just led with that.
363
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yeah.
364
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We had
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we had this week
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one of the
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I don't know how to put this
368
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because it wasn't bad
369
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and all the guys in this class were
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really,
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you, you know how you've done classes,
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you've been in classes
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and stuff like that.
374
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You know, there's always that one guy,
375
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you know?
376
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I mean, there's always that
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one guy who's going to really, you know,
378
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Yeah.
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was that guy.
380
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Yeah,
381
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yeah, yeah.
382
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I'll be darn.
383
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He goes, I thought it was crazy.
384
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Had five sealers.
385
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Now I see why we. Okay.
386
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All right now.
387
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So.
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Yeah, I don't think you
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got one of these glasses and everything.
390
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No, I don't think you're ever,
391
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ever too young.
392
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Stop worrying,
393
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Yeah,
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I agree with that.
395
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You all right?
396
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I had nothing
397
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at all,
398
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What about your first day of the job
399
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you got?
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I mean, do you I said down.
401
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Did you just hear what they said?
402
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I said I was with my uncle.
403
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I didn't write.
404
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I know what we're doing.
405
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It was.
406
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They I, I know everybody is.
407
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you're on the edge.
408
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You're on the first day
409
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I didn't get to touch an edge for
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Yeah.
411
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You know, the,
412
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the big
413
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bowling alley machine that we have
414
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the took the 48 inch belt.
415
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You had to crawl inside of the belt and
416
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and wax it and all sorts of stuff.
417
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So
418
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and it was like everything I did it
419
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I remember I cut
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12 inch drum paper for
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you know and I was cutting it for
422
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the entire crew.
423
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Wow.
424
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Yeah.
425
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whatever they call it.
426
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Come on, help me out here.
427
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The medal.
428
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Temple.
429
00:17:30,816 --> 00:17:32,885
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
430
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yeah, yeah.
431
00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:35,954
And, you know, you had to.
432
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The angel.
433
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Yeah.
434
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shoot, man.
435
00:17:43,562 --> 00:17:44,663
Yeah.
436
00:17:44,663 --> 00:17:46,198
man.
437
00:17:46,198 --> 00:17:51,136
It's brutal.
438
00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:53,472
it's okay.
439
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Yeah, yeah,
440
00:17:55,374 --> 00:18:00,879
yeah.
441
00:18:00,979 --> 00:18:02,848
man, that's that's.
442
00:18:02,848 --> 00:18:03,982
That's rough.
443
00:18:03,982 --> 00:18:06,585
And I'm like, how can you, you know
444
00:18:06,585 --> 00:18:08,120
I know there's some people listening out
445
00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,088
there have no idea.
446
00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:10,422
We're talking about cutting paper,
447
00:18:10,422 --> 00:18:12,257
but if you cut a bunch of paper
448
00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:15,761
the wrong way, it looks right, Yeah,
449
00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:19,298
yeah, I
450
00:18:19,398 --> 00:18:20,666
yeah, that's exactly right.
451
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Yeah.
452
00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:21,400
To short
453
00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,235
now when you get it the right way
454
00:18:23,235 --> 00:18:25,137
to work. Yeah. Yep.
455
00:18:25,137 --> 00:18:25,704
many times
456
00:18:25,704 --> 00:18:27,372
I bang my fingers or something
457
00:18:27,372 --> 00:18:30,042
pounding out at your desk because
458
00:18:30,042 --> 00:19:04,510
I wasn't doing it fast Yeah.
459
00:19:04,610 --> 00:19:05,978
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
460
00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:11,917
The cover plate, No, no, no, no.
461
00:19:12,017 --> 00:19:13,719
What do they call that
462
00:19:13,719 --> 00:19:17,689
the, the, the
463
00:19:17,756 --> 00:19:19,391
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
464
00:19:19,391 --> 00:19:21,527
That's about that comes up.
465
00:19:21,527 --> 00:19:26,165
Yeah, yeah.
466
00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:29,201
that off and put on a tank,
467
00:19:29,201 --> 00:19:39,912
a metal No kidding.
468
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:46,151
Really.
469
00:19:46,251 --> 00:19:55,861
And no idea.
470
00:19:55,928 --> 00:20:05,437
Wow.
471
00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:06,772
Wow, wow.
472
00:20:06,772 --> 00:20:08,373
No kidding.
473
00:20:08,373 --> 00:20:09,508
I had no idea
474
00:20:09,508 --> 00:20:11,643
that was a thing in bowling alleys.
475
00:20:11,643 --> 00:20:14,613
What did you do with all the balls?
476
00:20:14,613 --> 00:20:17,416
Well, and we never touched them that
477
00:20:17,416 --> 00:20:23,088
that we didn't have to do that.
478
00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:24,656
I would think that they would get dust
479
00:20:24,656 --> 00:20:25,357
all over them.
480
00:20:25,357 --> 00:20:25,791
Then they don't
481
00:20:25,791 --> 00:20:27,092
put them out of the room altogether,
482
00:20:27,092 --> 00:20:28,360
or they just leave them there.
483
00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,162
Doesn't
484
00:20:30,162 --> 00:20:31,863
mean
485
00:20:31,863 --> 00:20:32,831
okay.
486
00:20:32,831 --> 00:20:34,166
Now I see what you're saying. Yeah.
487
00:20:34,166 --> 00:20:37,269
People used to the on the bowling alley
488
00:20:37,269 --> 00:20:39,137
themselves would
489
00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:41,306
do all the covering Okay.
490
00:20:41,306 --> 00:20:43,075
Okay, the recovery.
491
00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:43,942
Yeah. Yeah.
492
00:20:43,942 --> 00:20:45,677
Especially back then with the dust
493
00:20:45,677 --> 00:20:49,481
collection or lack thereof.
494
00:20:49,548 --> 00:20:49,982
Yeah.
495
00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:50,816
It does containment.
496
00:20:50,816 --> 00:20:54,987
It was just a big red bag Yeah.
497
00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:57,356
but those, those tanks,
498
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like I said,
499
00:20:58,557 --> 00:21:02,694
that was the thing that blew me away like
500
00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:04,997
for the first month was how
501
00:21:04,997 --> 00:21:08,166
absolutely heavy everything went.
502
00:21:08,367 --> 00:21:10,469
It was like everything
503
00:21:10,469 --> 00:21:16,174
Wow.
504
00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:17,976
Yeah,
505
00:21:17,976 --> 00:21:20,145
yeah, yeah.
506
00:21:20,145 --> 00:21:21,179
Wow.
507
00:21:21,179 --> 00:21:22,114
I had no idea that
508
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:23,548
that was a thing in the bowling alleys.
509
00:21:23,548 --> 00:21:26,251
Would you use water like that?
510
00:21:26,251 --> 00:21:28,987
you had to because it was funny
511
00:21:28,987 --> 00:21:32,190
how many times you would still get
512
00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:34,760
a fire in the water tank,
513
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,696
Really?
514
00:21:37,696 --> 00:21:44,169
Yeah.
515
00:21:44,269 --> 00:21:44,870
crazy
516
00:21:44,870 --> 00:21:47,105
smoke every once in a while
517
00:21:47,105 --> 00:21:49,274
and the covered with water.
518
00:21:49,274 --> 00:21:50,575
Okay. Wow.
519
00:21:50,575 --> 00:21:52,144
That's interesting.
520
00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,178
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
521
00:21:53,178 --> 00:21:55,514
I slipped out.
522
00:21:55,514 --> 00:21:56,315
Yeah.
523
00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:57,883
Yep.
524
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No, I just remembered we were.
525
00:22:00,185 --> 00:22:00,786
We're installing
526
00:22:00,786 --> 00:22:02,087
three, five, seven plank,
527
00:22:02,087 --> 00:22:04,656
which back then was unusual.
528
00:22:04,656 --> 00:22:05,357
You know what I mean?
529
00:22:05,357 --> 00:22:05,724
Back then
530
00:22:05,724 --> 00:22:06,525
it was mostly two
531
00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:08,794
and a quarter or 516 spec then dress.
532
00:22:08,794 --> 00:22:10,195
But my very first job was three,
533
00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:11,463
five and seven
534
00:22:11,463 --> 00:22:12,864
equal initials and we had to,
535
00:22:12,864 --> 00:22:14,499
you know, separate them out
536
00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:16,268
and, and I remember him
537
00:22:16,268 --> 00:22:18,170
putting washer Rose in
538
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:19,905
and explaining that to me
539
00:22:19,905 --> 00:22:21,540
and I didn't quite get that like
540
00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:22,708
why would we do that?
541
00:22:22,708 --> 00:22:25,410
You know what I mean? I
542
00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:28,013
yeah yeah.
543
00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:29,815
And I remember my legs being so sore
544
00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:31,516
the next day is bending down
545
00:22:31,516 --> 00:22:32,884
all the time.
546
00:22:32,884 --> 00:22:35,887
And I didn't have knee pads for
547
00:22:35,987 --> 00:22:38,390
probably four or five months.
548
00:22:38,390 --> 00:22:40,726
I had I or your protection.
549
00:22:40,726 --> 00:22:42,728
I just worked on my knees.
550
00:22:42,728 --> 00:22:45,731
And I remember one day telling
551
00:22:45,831 --> 00:22:48,333
Stan or asking, Is it Stan?
552
00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:49,167
And these are killing me.
553
00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:49,701
Like, I don't want to
554
00:22:49,701 --> 00:22:50,535
I don't want to see anything.
555
00:22:50,535 --> 00:22:52,571
I want to be, you know, Sissy,
556
00:22:52,571 --> 00:22:54,039
as you called me before,
557
00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:54,973
I didn't want to say
558
00:22:54,973 --> 00:22:55,941
I didn't want to see anything,
559
00:22:55,941 --> 00:22:58,310
you know, that make a big deal about it.
560
00:22:58,310 --> 00:22:59,544
My knees were killing me, man.
561
00:22:59,544 --> 00:23:00,412
So I said, Man,
562
00:23:00,412 --> 00:23:01,646
is there any way you would like
563
00:23:01,646 --> 00:23:03,382
to get some kneepads or something?
564
00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:03,548
Yeah.
565
00:23:03,548 --> 00:23:06,251
So, yeah, go get in Van and get some.
566
00:23:06,251 --> 00:23:08,387
So we were there the whole time.
567
00:23:08,387 --> 00:23:11,790
You know, we
568
00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:13,625
and my ears are already shot from
569
00:23:13,625 --> 00:23:15,060
from working in construction
570
00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:16,128
and running a jackhammer,
571
00:23:16,128 --> 00:23:17,162
so my ears are already
572
00:23:17,162 --> 00:23:18,597
ringing all the time.
573
00:23:18,597 --> 00:23:19,664
And so
574
00:23:19,664 --> 00:23:20,866
but running the edge and everything.
575
00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:22,401
I never wore headphones.
576
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:24,069
That was not even a thing.
577
00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:26,338
Never even now.
578
00:23:26,338 --> 00:23:27,105
So later on,
579
00:23:27,105 --> 00:23:28,006
it was until much later
580
00:23:28,006 --> 00:23:28,940
that I got headphones
581
00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:31,042
and we got a good pair of knee
582
00:23:31,042 --> 00:23:33,512
and and we're working with them.
583
00:23:33,512 --> 00:23:34,613
But at 4 hours
584
00:23:34,613 --> 00:23:36,982
I was a little intimidated by the trade
585
00:23:36,982 --> 00:23:41,119
because it was, you know,
586
00:23:41,186 --> 00:23:42,220
and then I would see the flaws
587
00:23:42,220 --> 00:23:43,054
that the done
588
00:23:43,054 --> 00:23:44,055
the guy looks beautiful
589
00:23:44,055 --> 00:23:45,624
but I'll never forget
590
00:23:45,624 --> 00:23:48,627
the first floor we sang and refinished
591
00:23:48,627 --> 00:23:51,997
because it was a it was a you know
592
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,466
third man it was like it was
593
00:23:54,533 --> 00:23:55,967
features all wore off and it
594
00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:56,735
was some stains here
595
00:23:56,735 --> 00:23:57,836
and there and whatever.
596
00:23:57,836 --> 00:23:59,070
And then at the end of the day,
597
00:23:59,070 --> 00:23:59,671
we I remember
598
00:23:59,671 --> 00:24:01,940
we put me in brown stain on it
599
00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:03,241
and we're standing the floor
600
00:24:03,241 --> 00:24:04,142
and he's wiping
601
00:24:04,142 --> 00:24:05,811
on, I'm wiping off and I'm like,
602
00:24:05,811 --> 00:24:07,078
this is stunning.
603
00:24:07,078 --> 00:24:08,480
I mean, like, this is beautiful.
604
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,916
I still remember the smell of the stain.
605
00:24:10,916 --> 00:24:12,150
I remember how gorgeous
606
00:24:12,150 --> 00:24:13,518
that floor looked.
607
00:24:13,518 --> 00:24:16,288
And I was like, Holy smokes, man.
608
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:17,489
I was like, blown away when we left.
609
00:24:17,489 --> 00:24:20,392
Then I was like, okay, this is cool.
610
00:24:20,392 --> 00:24:22,027
And then I remember
611
00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:24,896
we let the stain dry for about an hour
612
00:24:24,896 --> 00:24:26,798
and then we we slept in the van
613
00:24:26,798 --> 00:24:29,801
and he listened to it as a 1940s music.
614
00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:33,004
And after an hour he woke up
615
00:24:33,038 --> 00:24:34,739
we went got the, the not lacquer
616
00:24:34,739 --> 00:24:36,308
but the shellac bucket.
617
00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:37,509
And with a six inch brush
618
00:24:37,509 --> 00:24:39,711
we cut to before we shellac.
619
00:24:39,711 --> 00:24:42,047
And then we wait about another
620
00:24:42,047 --> 00:24:42,581
half hour,
621
00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:44,382
we put another quarter shellac,
622
00:24:44,382 --> 00:24:46,518
we hit it with number two, still put
623
00:24:46,518 --> 00:24:48,520
a coat of polyurethane on it.
624
00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:50,989
You have to check you went home.
625
00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:53,992
And how, how wrong was that to put?
626
00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:55,760
You know what I mean?
627
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,195
I mean, it looks stunning.
628
00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:00,098
It looks stunning, but no.
629
00:25:00,098 --> 00:25:03,134
And it was exactly.
630
00:25:03,134 --> 00:25:05,337
Yeah. Yeah.
631
00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:06,671
But then I was hooked.
632
00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:09,274
I was hooked.
633
00:25:09,274 --> 00:25:10,709
well, the other thing
634
00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:15,046
that hit me was
635
00:25:15,113 --> 00:25:16,748
when I
636
00:25:16,748 --> 00:25:18,917
remember thinking, okay, I'm joint, I,
637
00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:20,852
I get to join the crew.
638
00:25:20,852 --> 00:25:23,221
You know, I wonder what machine I'm
639
00:25:23,221 --> 00:25:26,691
Yeah.
640
00:25:26,758 --> 00:25:28,894
Yeah,
641
00:25:28,894 --> 00:25:31,296
yeah,
642
00:25:31,296 --> 00:25:44,042
yeah.
643
00:25:44,109 --> 00:25:45,410
every single day.
644
00:25:45,410 --> 00:25:46,545
And I remember
645
00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:50,549
sometimes it's looking like, man,
646
00:25:50,615 --> 00:25:56,621
some day, Yeah,
647
00:25:56,688 --> 00:25:57,088
yeah.
648
00:25:57,088 --> 00:26:00,759
Are you one of those guys running?
649
00:26:00,859 --> 00:26:01,626
Yeah.
650
00:26:01,626 --> 00:26:03,428
Wow.
651
00:26:03,428 --> 00:26:05,263
When when I went was
652
00:26:05,263 --> 00:26:06,665
when I was working in construction.
653
00:26:06,665 --> 00:26:07,732
I said my father in law
654
00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:09,501
was a construction superintendent,
655
00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:12,170
and I was a huge company,
656
00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:13,905
and the owner of the company,
657
00:26:13,905 --> 00:26:17,075
his son came to the job one day
658
00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:17,976
and he came down
659
00:26:17,976 --> 00:26:19,678
from the union and said, okay,
660
00:26:19,678 --> 00:26:22,247
he's he's going to be your new operator.
661
00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:24,616
So the operator back then would drive
662
00:26:24,616 --> 00:26:26,284
nothing but like big petty bones
663
00:26:26,284 --> 00:26:27,852
and big, big, massive,
664
00:26:27,852 --> 00:26:30,221
you know, machinery, big, big stuff.
665
00:26:30,221 --> 00:26:31,856
And I remember we're standing
666
00:26:31,856 --> 00:26:32,724
standing there in the morning
667
00:26:32,724 --> 00:26:34,192
and he goes, Yeah, I'm your new operator.
668
00:26:34,192 --> 00:26:38,163
And he says, You are.
669
00:26:38,229 --> 00:26:41,399
So it was like 20, 21 years old.
670
00:26:41,466 --> 00:26:43,001
He goes, Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm
671
00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:44,035
the new operator.
672
00:26:44,035 --> 00:26:45,670
So Tony picked up a shovel
673
00:26:45,670 --> 00:26:46,571
and threw Adam said, You're
674
00:26:46,571 --> 00:26:51,176
going to be operating this
675
00:26:51,242 --> 00:26:51,876
and had him on a
676
00:26:51,876 --> 00:26:53,612
shovel for like six months
677
00:26:53,612 --> 00:26:55,013
before he let him get on a machine.
678
00:26:55,013 --> 00:27:00,452
So it's all it's all all,
679
00:27:00,518 --> 00:27:02,320
you know, just.
680
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:13,198
No, no, You got to earn your way up.
681
00:27:13,264 --> 00:27:13,932
Yeah, I know.
682
00:27:13,932 --> 00:27:16,234
I'm not. Hey,
683
00:27:16,234 --> 00:27:17,669
nobody's ever going to accuse me
684
00:27:17,669 --> 00:27:37,889
of being that that real quick Yeah, We,
685
00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:39,290
but he'd just, like,
686
00:27:39,290 --> 00:27:41,192
pour the broom out of my hand.
687
00:27:41,192 --> 00:27:42,527
And this is how you sweep it.
688
00:27:42,527 --> 00:27:44,195
Going the wrong way.
689
00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:45,230
You're going too slow.
690
00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:47,065
You'd be here all day type stuff.
691
00:27:47,065 --> 00:27:50,268
And it it was like everything I did.
692
00:27:50,335 --> 00:27:52,671
And then when I tried to speed things up
693
00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:53,571
and you just start
694
00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:56,241
fumbling and stumbling. my God.
695
00:27:56,241 --> 00:27:57,342
Yeah. Yeah.
696
00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:58,143
So it was like,
697
00:27:58,143 --> 00:28:00,779
my worst nightmares did come true,
698
00:28:00,779 --> 00:28:01,980
you know?
699
00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:04,449
Wow, this is crazy, man.
700
00:28:04,449 --> 00:28:05,216
When you look back
701
00:28:05,216 --> 00:28:07,185
and and like you said,
702
00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:07,552
you know,
703
00:28:07,552 --> 00:28:08,420
when you look back to it,
704
00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:08,987
the way they did
705
00:28:08,987 --> 00:28:11,022
things back then versus now,
706
00:28:11,022 --> 00:28:11,589
like I said,
707
00:28:11,589 --> 00:28:13,425
my uncle was as good as I thought
708
00:28:13,425 --> 00:28:13,792
he was.
709
00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:15,126
And don't get me wrong, he was good.
710
00:28:15,126 --> 00:28:18,129
I mean he was he was a good foreman and
711
00:28:18,229 --> 00:28:20,498
did beautiful work. But,
712
00:28:20,598 --> 00:28:20,965
you know, that
713
00:28:20,965 --> 00:28:22,067
was my eyes
714
00:28:22,067 --> 00:28:24,035
as a young guy looking at that.
715
00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:24,636
You know what I mean?
716
00:28:24,636 --> 00:28:26,171
But,
717
00:28:26,171 --> 00:28:27,539
you know,
718
00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:28,840
putting to go to poorly on
719
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,141
within an hour of the stage.
720
00:28:30,141 --> 00:28:30,575
Right. Right.
721
00:28:30,575 --> 00:28:31,042
I mean, understand,
722
00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:33,044
we had to stay dry an hour.
723
00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:34,913
No, I mean, like, that was crazy.
724
00:28:34,913 --> 00:28:37,415
And then putting the poorly on it
725
00:28:37,415 --> 00:28:38,750
or the shellac on it,
726
00:28:38,750 --> 00:28:39,417
you know what I mean?
727
00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:40,518
That was crazy
728
00:28:40,518 --> 00:28:41,720
if you're going to put polyurethane
729
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:42,954
on top of it.
730
00:28:42,954 --> 00:28:44,189
But that, you know, that's
731
00:28:44,189 --> 00:28:45,924
that was the time we got paid.
732
00:28:45,924 --> 00:28:47,392
So.
733
00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:49,527
I think the other thing, too,
734
00:28:49,527 --> 00:28:50,528
back when we started,
735
00:28:50,528 --> 00:28:53,531
I don't know if how your uncle was,
736
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:57,969
but there was not a lot of explanation
737
00:28:58,069 --> 00:29:00,872
no,
738
00:29:00,872 --> 00:29:07,245
no,
739
00:29:07,312 --> 00:29:08,513
no.
740
00:29:08,513 --> 00:29:10,949
Do this, do it this way,
741
00:29:10,949 --> 00:29:14,185
Try to stay out of our way
742
00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:16,921
Well, for me, Stan would tell me,
743
00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:19,057
but he would tell me on the way home
744
00:29:19,057 --> 00:29:21,226
because you know where he was busy.
745
00:29:21,226 --> 00:29:21,893
So at home was
746
00:29:21,893 --> 00:29:23,561
when I would ask the questions
747
00:29:23,561 --> 00:29:24,129
and he would
748
00:29:24,129 --> 00:29:24,496
he would
749
00:29:24,496 --> 00:29:25,997
he would tell me he would,
750
00:29:25,997 --> 00:29:27,565
you know, volunteer the information.
751
00:29:27,565 --> 00:29:29,701
But not unless I asked.
752
00:29:29,701 --> 00:29:30,702
Like if I didn't ask something,
753
00:29:30,702 --> 00:29:32,103
he wouldn't tell me anything.
754
00:29:32,103 --> 00:29:36,007
So I would ask, you know, whatever.
755
00:29:36,007 --> 00:29:36,741
And and he would tell me
756
00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:37,809
explain things on the way home
757
00:29:37,809 --> 00:29:39,110
because I was generally,
758
00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:40,478
generally interested in learning.
759
00:29:40,478 --> 00:29:43,481
But when I was in construction, zero
760
00:29:43,581 --> 00:29:47,051
zero, I mean, you're less than zero year.
761
00:29:47,051 --> 00:29:47,652
You are
762
00:29:47,652 --> 00:29:48,787
you cannot be
763
00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:50,188
any lower on the totem pole.
764
00:29:50,188 --> 00:29:53,591
You don't ask nothing.
765
00:29:53,691 --> 00:29:55,460
Nobody cares.
766
00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:56,661
You're an apprentice. Just do it.
767
00:29:56,661 --> 00:30:00,799
Get in the corner. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
768
00:30:00,865 --> 00:30:02,934
I think that's one of the big
769
00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:03,535
I think that's
770
00:30:03,535 --> 00:30:04,569
one of the big differences
771
00:30:04,569 --> 00:30:07,472
now too, when new guys
772
00:30:07,472 --> 00:30:09,407
are starting out.
773
00:30:09,407 --> 00:30:10,842
I mean,
774
00:30:10,842 --> 00:30:11,242
you know,
775
00:30:11,242 --> 00:30:13,211
we always talk about the power drive,
776
00:30:13,211 --> 00:30:16,214
but can you imagine
777
00:30:16,214 --> 00:30:18,216
your first day on the job?
778
00:30:18,216 --> 00:30:25,557
yeah.
779
00:30:25,623 --> 00:30:29,194
yeah.
780
00:30:29,294 --> 00:30:34,699
yeah.
781
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:39,237
Yeah,
782
00:30:39,304 --> 00:30:40,338
yeah.
783
00:30:40,338 --> 00:30:40,939
right now.
784
00:30:40,939 --> 00:30:41,873
All I'm doing is lugging
785
00:30:41,873 --> 00:30:44,309
water and emptying bags.
786
00:30:44,309 --> 00:30:46,845
When can I be of those guys?
787
00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:48,112
Well, right away
788
00:30:48,112 --> 00:30:49,380
you feel like you're doing something.
789
00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:51,015
You're standing up for,
790
00:30:51,015 --> 00:30:51,382
you know,
791
00:30:51,382 --> 00:30:51,983
I mean, like
792
00:30:51,983 --> 00:30:53,484
I'm, I'm in the game
793
00:30:53,484 --> 00:30:55,820
and I'm standing on floor right now.
794
00:30:55,820 --> 00:30:56,721
I'm a craftsman.
795
00:30:56,721 --> 00:30:57,522
Look at me.
796
00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:58,823
Yeah.
797
00:30:58,823 --> 00:31:02,227
Yeah.
798
00:31:02,327 --> 00:31:04,529
That, and also
799
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:06,464
you can never talk to a guy
800
00:31:06,464 --> 00:31:08,933
like we were spoken to back then today.
801
00:31:08,933 --> 00:31:10,435
It just wouldn't that not happen.
802
00:31:10,435 --> 00:31:13,238
You never, it would never be the case
803
00:31:13,338 --> 00:31:13,771
at all.
804
00:31:13,771 --> 00:31:15,340
You lose a guy on the first day.
805
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:18,009
On day one, you lose a guy.
806
00:31:18,009 --> 00:31:18,743
How old were you
807
00:31:18,743 --> 00:31:22,113
when you started working with Stan?
808
00:31:22,213 --> 00:31:23,748
probably 19.
809
00:31:23,748 --> 00:31:26,985
Yeah. 19 the more and.
810
00:31:27,051 --> 00:31:29,320
absolutely. Yeah.
811
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,689
Yeah,
812
00:31:31,689 --> 00:31:33,258
yeah, yeah.
813
00:31:33,258 --> 00:31:35,894
I was still a child.
814
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,096
Wow. Yeah,
815
00:31:38,096 --> 00:31:41,532
yeah.
816
00:31:41,633 --> 00:31:42,734
right.
817
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:45,270
why I was petrified.
818
00:31:45,270 --> 00:31:46,304
Yeah, I can see that.
819
00:31:46,304 --> 00:31:46,871
I can see that.
820
00:31:46,871 --> 00:31:47,939
But it seems like the easier
821
00:31:47,939 --> 00:31:51,242
because it was your family.
822
00:31:51,342 --> 00:31:52,844
Wow.
823
00:31:52,844 --> 00:31:54,045
Well, you really don't know
824
00:31:54,045 --> 00:32:00,752
because you didn't work with a
825
00:32:00,818 --> 00:32:02,654
Yeah, okay.
826
00:32:02,654 --> 00:32:03,688
Yeah.
827
00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:07,592
Not to live up to
828
00:32:07,659 --> 00:32:07,926
it.
829
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:08,860
I get it.
830
00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:09,861
Or, or,
831
00:32:09,861 --> 00:32:11,329
you know, some of the other guy out here
832
00:32:11,329 --> 00:32:12,263
spoiled brat kid.
833
00:32:12,263 --> 00:32:14,198
And I'm like, spoiled brat kid.
834
00:32:14,198 --> 00:32:14,699
Yeah.
835
00:32:14,699 --> 00:32:17,435
Yeah.
836
00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:19,203
That's what I envision.
837
00:32:19,203 --> 00:32:20,838
You like, I, I
838
00:32:20,838 --> 00:32:21,739
if I close my eyes,
839
00:32:21,739 --> 00:32:24,742
I thought about Rabi Raab on a on a
840
00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:27,011
on a floor job. When your kid.
841
00:32:27,011 --> 00:32:31,282
I see like you writing on top of the
842
00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:32,483
the drum sander.
843
00:32:32,483 --> 00:32:33,451
When your dad's pushing
844
00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:34,419
the drum chair you're writing.
845
00:32:34,419 --> 00:32:37,488
I like eating a bag of Cheetos,
846
00:32:37,588 --> 00:32:40,291
like throwing it at the other guys.
847
00:32:40,291 --> 00:32:41,626
And then when you're dead,
848
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:43,394
when you're dead,
849
00:32:43,394 --> 00:32:46,397
I know I still.
850
00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:49,267
I still think that.
851
00:32:49,267 --> 00:32:51,602
Yeah.
852
00:32:51,602 --> 00:32:52,470
And your dad.
853
00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:53,905
Your dad leaves to go get some
854
00:32:53,905 --> 00:32:56,841
some sandpaper.
855
00:32:56,841 --> 00:32:57,275
Yeah.
856
00:32:57,275 --> 00:33:01,412
And your dad?
857
00:33:01,479 --> 00:33:01,946
Yeah.
858
00:33:01,946 --> 00:33:03,982
Yes.
859
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,116
And your dad leaving
860
00:33:05,116 --> 00:33:06,484
the job, said to pick up sandpaper.
861
00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:06,918
And when he comes
862
00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:07,885
back, you're reading out
863
00:33:07,885 --> 00:33:09,153
the guys who were, like,
864
00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:10,688
smoking cigarets while he was gone.
865
00:33:10,688 --> 00:33:12,757
And everything is good.
866
00:33:12,757 --> 00:33:14,759
Robby, What does one do?
867
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,728
He was easy. Dad. Papa?
868
00:33:16,728 --> 00:33:18,329
you know, that was the other thing.
869
00:33:18,329 --> 00:33:22,033
Every single guy on that crew
870
00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:24,502
Yeah.
871
00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:25,970
Yeah. Yep.
872
00:33:25,970 --> 00:33:27,505
while they're out on the lanes,
873
00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:28,239
while they're.
874
00:33:28,239 --> 00:33:29,941
And unless,
875
00:33:29,941 --> 00:33:30,375
you know, once
876
00:33:30,375 --> 00:33:35,113
they started pulling liquor.
877
00:33:35,213 --> 00:33:38,116
Yeah.
878
00:33:38,116 --> 00:33:39,951
all day, every day.
879
00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:43,688
Crazy. Different different time. And.
880
00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:45,656
Okay, let's stop right here for a minute.
881
00:33:45,656 --> 00:33:46,624
Rob
882
00:33:46,624 --> 00:33:49,527
Where the are we going with this show?
883
00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:53,431
We're just Is there
884
00:33:53,531 --> 00:33:58,803
then.
885
00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:01,239
made easier.
886
00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:02,040
We've done that.
887
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,474
I think we've done that.
888
00:34:03,474 --> 00:34:04,442
Well, do it again.
889
00:34:04,442 --> 00:34:06,377
What the are we
890
00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:07,712
years of doing this?
891
00:34:07,712 --> 00:34:09,847
Just do it.
892
00:34:09,847 --> 00:34:11,883
Jesus.
893
00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:12,250
Who are you?
894
00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:14,485
That 1900 episodes.
895
00:34:14,485 --> 00:34:15,353
And you want to try to
896
00:34:15,353 --> 00:34:18,356
figure out something new?
897
00:34:18,489 --> 00:34:35,907
Look, I'm sorry,
898
00:34:36,007 --> 00:34:38,843
but I'm just trying not to repeat stuff.
899
00:34:38,843 --> 00:34:41,746
I'm trying not to repeat stuff is all I.
900
00:34:41,746 --> 00:34:44,949
Yeah, Okay.
901
00:34:45,049 --> 00:34:49,787
All right.
902
00:34:49,854 --> 00:34:50,721
Well, those are nice.
903
00:34:50,721 --> 00:34:55,393
These are nice ads.
904
00:34:55,493 --> 00:34:57,061
You talk about it.
905
00:34:57,061 --> 00:34:58,262
I'm comfortable. I'm. I'm.
906
00:34:58,262 --> 00:34:59,330
I'm doing my thing here.
907
00:34:59,330 --> 00:35:00,832
I just want to see what.
908
00:35:00,832 --> 00:35:03,167
Okay.
909
00:35:03,167 --> 00:35:03,935
I asked you this.
910
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:04,535
If I asked you.
911
00:35:04,535 --> 00:35:05,636
I asked you earlier today.
912
00:35:05,636 --> 00:35:07,371
I said, What do you want to do a show on?
913
00:35:07,371 --> 00:35:08,906
I'm going to let me
914
00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:10,274
read you a text message.
915
00:35:10,274 --> 00:35:11,309
You said, Let's do a show.
916
00:35:11,309 --> 00:35:13,544
You said, okay, topics.
917
00:35:13,544 --> 00:35:16,214
about selling green, our goal system?
918
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:16,781
And then
919
00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:17,181
you know
920
00:35:17,181 --> 00:35:18,950
how topic was holidays are coming up
921
00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:20,485
clean in Recode
922
00:35:20,485 --> 00:35:21,819
And then third one was crazy
923
00:35:21,819 --> 00:35:23,654
weather swings on fall
924
00:35:23,654 --> 00:35:24,655
between night and day.
925
00:35:24,655 --> 00:35:27,158
Be careful and monitor
926
00:35:27,158 --> 00:35:28,493
and then remember your first job.
927
00:35:28,493 --> 00:35:30,895
I said, I don't know, Rob.
928
00:35:30,895 --> 00:35:31,329
She was like,
929
00:35:31,329 --> 00:35:33,598
We just did one on the green, our gold
930
00:35:33,598 --> 00:35:35,066
in the holiday deep cleaning.
931
00:35:35,066 --> 00:35:35,766
I don't know, man.
932
00:35:35,766 --> 00:35:36,934
It feels like we just did that one do.
933
00:35:36,934 --> 00:35:37,935
And then you.
934
00:35:37,935 --> 00:35:39,370
I can't even repeat
935
00:35:39,370 --> 00:35:41,272
what you yelled at me.
936
00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:41,739
Yeah, I mean,
937
00:35:41,739 --> 00:35:42,974
you screamed at me, called me
938
00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:43,474
every name
939
00:35:43,474 --> 00:35:44,775
that I haven't yet me call
940
00:35:44,775 --> 00:35:47,044
since I was attempting to play football.
941
00:35:47,044 --> 00:35:49,046
you ever watch a sitcom?
942
00:35:49,046 --> 00:35:50,681
Yeah, You watch.
943
00:35:50,681 --> 00:35:52,617
Did cause we all have.
944
00:35:52,617 --> 00:36:02,727
Yeah.
945
00:36:02,793 --> 00:36:05,530
Yeah.
946
00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:05,963
Okay.
947
00:36:05,963 --> 00:36:06,931
I see where you're going.
948
00:36:06,931 --> 00:36:10,101
Every year. It wasn't a repeat.
949
00:36:10,201 --> 00:36:11,769
How many more new things
950
00:36:11,769 --> 00:36:16,541
do you think we can come up with?
951
00:36:16,607 --> 00:36:19,410
Thank you.
952
00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:22,813
God.
953
00:36:22,914 --> 00:36:25,883
Yeah.
954
00:36:25,883 --> 00:36:29,453
Okay.
955
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:34,992
Okay.
956
00:36:35,059 --> 00:36:38,362
pick it up with
957
00:36:38,462 --> 00:36:40,364
something that you think is easier
958
00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:44,402
now than it was when you had started.
959
00:36:44,468 --> 00:36:45,870
Okay.
960
00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:47,305
try to make sure
961
00:36:47,305 --> 00:36:50,274
that whatever makes your life easier now
962
00:36:50,274 --> 00:36:56,414
has something to do with Pomona.
963
00:36:56,514 --> 00:36:57,448
Okay.
964
00:36:57,448 --> 00:36:59,350
Okay.
965
00:36:59,350 --> 00:37:01,786
All right, We're going to start.
966
00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:03,688
Take a deep breath. Exhale.
967
00:37:03,688 --> 00:37:06,691
I'm gonna.
968
00:37:06,691 --> 00:37:07,425
You know, I was thinking,
969
00:37:07,425 --> 00:37:15,032
when I look back,
970
00:37:15,099 --> 00:37:16,467
how hard
971
00:37:16,467 --> 00:37:20,204
how hard things were
972
00:37:20,271 --> 00:37:23,574
compared to now when it comes to
973
00:37:23,674 --> 00:37:26,210
when it comes to flooring,
974
00:37:26,210 --> 00:37:27,211
because some of the stuff
975
00:37:27,211 --> 00:37:27,878
that you talked about,
976
00:37:27,878 --> 00:37:29,280
everybody smoking cigarets.
977
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,216
All right.
978
00:37:32,216 --> 00:37:32,850
We went that
979
00:37:32,850 --> 00:37:34,151
because you didn't deserve to live back
980
00:37:34,151 --> 00:37:38,356
then, right?
981
00:37:38,456 --> 00:37:40,458
Everything was toxic.
982
00:37:40,458 --> 00:37:41,692
Everything you did,
983
00:37:41,692 --> 00:37:44,028
you slept in LED paint beds.
984
00:37:44,028 --> 00:37:46,297
You had, you know,
985
00:37:46,364 --> 00:37:47,531
all kinds of led
986
00:37:47,531 --> 00:37:49,967
toxic things in the finishes
987
00:37:49,967 --> 00:37:51,335
and everything, the vases.
988
00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:52,403
But now you now, now
989
00:37:52,403 --> 00:37:53,971
with the zero Velshi
990
00:37:53,971 --> 00:37:55,573
finishes and stuff like that
991
00:37:55,573 --> 00:37:56,540
how easy there
992
00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:57,575
I in research
993
00:37:57,575 --> 00:37:58,609
I got corporate tunnel system
994
00:37:58,609 --> 00:37:59,644
in both wrists
995
00:37:59,644 --> 00:38:00,645
you can't tell by looking at
996
00:38:00,645 --> 00:38:03,214
you know why I pointed them up
997
00:38:03,214 --> 00:38:05,616
but but that's all from drum
998
00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:08,286
yeah you got to do
999
00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:11,656
Yeah, of course you're going to punch me.
1000
00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:14,292
But things are much easier now
1001
00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:15,359
than compared to back then.
1002
00:38:15,359 --> 00:38:17,028
That's one thing when I look at back,
1003
00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:18,062
like I said,
1004
00:38:18,062 --> 00:38:19,530
not only that, like the education
1005
00:38:19,530 --> 00:38:20,398
for four months,
1006
00:38:20,398 --> 00:38:22,300
not even wearing kneepads.
1007
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:23,701
I mean, who would even think
1008
00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:24,335
who would even think
1009
00:38:24,335 --> 00:38:24,935
that would be a thing?
1010
00:38:24,935 --> 00:38:25,936
Nowadays, you would never
1011
00:38:25,936 --> 00:38:27,872
get a guy in the job without kneepads,
1012
00:38:27,872 --> 00:38:29,273
without ear protection.
1013
00:38:29,273 --> 00:38:29,707
You know what I mean?
1014
00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:32,276
Those type of things. So.
1015
00:38:32,276 --> 00:38:33,978
So there you go.
1016
00:38:34,078 --> 00:38:34,812
So I'm going
1017
00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:41,118
to give you a rub
1018
00:38:41,218 --> 00:38:41,719
it.
1019
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,520
All right.
1020
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,654
Hey, there's been
1021
00:38:43,654 --> 00:38:44,789
another episode of On the Floor
1022
00:38:44,789 --> 00:38:47,758
with Wayne Robb.
1023
00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:49,226
Please stay tuned for another episode.