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Hello and welcome to
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another episode of On the Floor
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with Lanre.
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I'm Wayne
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Highlander, National Sales
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Manager for Monet Adhesives.
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I'm Rob Johnson from Owner Training.
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Rob. Pretty good.
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How are you doing? I'm doing well.
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201. Here we go.
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201 episodes.
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Right out of the gate.
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We are off and running, buddy.
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Yep. And you know what?
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It's ironic that we're going to
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you know,
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you and I have done this for a long time
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together as a team.
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And when you're
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some guys that are doing floors,
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you have a partner and you
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or you have a crew working for you
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or what have you.
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And this episode I got from Mike
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Ritchie was called in and mentioned
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that this episode is a contractor in in
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Little Rock,
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LA, a little
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bit north of Little Rock, Arkansas,
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I believe.
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North Little Rock,
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but in Arkansas nonetheless,
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very good contractor. Very good.
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Very super good guy.
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Great, great listener of the show.
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So we thank him for that.
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And the episode is about going solo,
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you know,
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and it's happens
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to a lot of guys
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in their career for various reasons.
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Some guys want to go solo.
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There's a decision that they want to do.
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This is something
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that they look forward to.
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And some guys were forced into it
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for whatever reason.
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They lost a partner in one case.
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I remember a guy.
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I don't know the guy,
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but I remember
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through Facebook or whatever.
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He lost his part.
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His partner passed away.
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And I think that would be a tough one.
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And they got along really well.
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And then you got to
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all of a sudden,
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you find yourself in a situation
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of going it
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alone, of handling the load by yourself
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after having a partner
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share the load with and share the,
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you know, the job stories with
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and everything and share the
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the stress and the good times
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and the bad times and
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and now you don't have that anymore.
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And I think that would be tough.
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I feel very sorry for the guy.
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And I actually
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there's a point in my career that I did
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I went solo so we can talk about that,
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but I think it's a good topic.
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I think Mike had a great idea
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when he suggested this
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because I think a lot of guys face this.
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Some guys want this.
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There's certainly advantages
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and disadvantages.
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Maybe we can talk about some of the
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advantages about of doing this.
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So let me ask you a question.
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When you went solo.
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Mm hmm.
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Were you working alone?
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You were doing this by yourself? Yes.
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I can tell you the circumstances.
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The last part of my career,
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I knew my career was kind of winding up.
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God knows I've accomplished everything
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that could be accomplished
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and I felt what else was left.
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So.
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So.
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So.
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I know
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you're just
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going to prove to the world
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that it was all you.
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Yes. No.
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So I wanted the last part of my career.
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I wanted to get back to
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being a craftsman.
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I was running the business
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all the time,
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and I got further
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and further away from doing flaws,
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running the business.
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And there was a couple of reasons.
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I worked with my two brothers
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and there was enough work,
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especially at that time.
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I knew
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none of us would ever stretch for work.
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We we had more work than we could
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handle always. We were never, never slow.
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I knew I would have plenty of work,
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so I left and I did my own thing
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and gave my business to my two brothers
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who today
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still have a business
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and do phenomenally well.
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And I'm super proud of both of them.
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Like, I can't begin to tell you
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that their studs are really,
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really good at what they do.
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But when I went alone by myself
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to do it, to do this,
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I mean, one thing is, gosh, I don't have
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all the headache of the paperwork anymore
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and scheduling all the jobs.
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And I was fortunate.
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But my brothers didn't call in sick.
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They didn't
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you know, they were
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there is such a watch by a man.
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So I did have issues of
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any excuses
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or not being there whenever
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I didn't have any of those problems.
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But I still
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I wanted to get back to doing custom job
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and where I could spend
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time on the floor doing things myself
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and what have you.
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And right away, the headache of
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of worrying about other people went away.
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I only had to worry about me.
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That's a that's a plus.
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The downside of it was and also,
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you keep all the money.
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You know, I mean, it can be
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it can be you know, it can be nice.
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But the downside is
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you're it's all on you now.
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Every every single aspect of this job
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is carrying the word.
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Every little small step
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is all you all the time.
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Every time, all the time.
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And that can get to some people.
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For me, I was so re-energized
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when I
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went back and
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I love the craft so much
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and I just loved what I was doing.
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So I didn't really feel that burden.
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I didn't care about the.
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I wasn't bothered by the hard work
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because I've done the hard work
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and I did it my whole life.
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And, you know,
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I edged
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we didn't have your dollies or what
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have you.
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I edge like,
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you know,
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I changed my entire career and and
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ran a big machine.
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And so nothing that was new to me.
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What it allowed me to do
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is I just amazing
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how much you can streamline
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everything you do.
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There is no wasted steps. All right.
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It brought back
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memories that
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when I worked with my Uncle Stan,
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the very first few jobs
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when the most memorable
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one is installing with him.
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When we had
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it was like a three, five,
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seven plank floor, which back
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then was like a really wide floor.
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I was in his way every step.
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I was younger than him, stronger
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in him, faster than him.
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And he blew me away
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just because every step was perfect.
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You know what I mean?
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He wasted no steps.
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I'm going taking ten different steps,
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looking for my tools.
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I don't know where the tools are.
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Where do they set this down?
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And he just boom, boom,
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boom, boom, just clockwork.
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And so by this time in my career,
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I really enjoyed
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just streamlining everything.
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So, you know so well that the jobs go
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went so smooth and everything,
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you know, working by yourself
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and I enjoy it. I really enjoyed it
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most of the time.
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There are
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times when the camaraderie
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of working with other guys
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and and what have you and yes,
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it would be nice
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if I had a guy to, to, to,
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to help me with this part of the job
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or do whatever that was gone.
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But one worry that I always had
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that hung over me is what if I
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what if I get injured?
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I've never not
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if I've never not complete a job
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I ever started my entire career.
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If I've never
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had I've never walked off a job.
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I've never, never not completed a job.
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So I was always afraid that
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what if I injured my knee
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or something, hurt my back or whatever?
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and I can't work
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and I can't finish the job on time.
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That worried me a lot
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because that's
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my reputation
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and that's just your pride
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in being a craftsman
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and doing the right thing
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and what have you.
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That was probably what, what,
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what hung over me the most.
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And that was in good shape.
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I mean, you know, relatively speaking.
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But thank you.
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But but but I enjoyed
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I enjoyed that part of it going solo.
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I really did.
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I like that part of the job now.
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I couldn't.
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Another downside to it is
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I would see
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I would get
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asked a bit of, say, a 3500 square
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foot job.
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And I knew I couldn't get that job done
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in the timeframe that they wanted it.
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So I had to pass on some jobs
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that hurt a little bit
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because I know like,
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wow, this is a big job.
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Is this a moneymaker?
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And I'm by myself.
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I can do it by myself,
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but I can't get it done
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at the timeframe that they would want me
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to get it done in. So
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you like being alone, don't you?
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I don't. I you. Do.
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I like fishing alone.
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You like working alone?
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Yeah.
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You like doing the podcast alone?
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No, I don't like doing the podcast alone.
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That's not true.
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You like being alone?
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No, I can.
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I'm hearing it.
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I I'll tell you what.
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Later in life.
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Yes, I, I, I do.
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For poor Judy or for Judy?
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No.
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I love the older
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I get, the more
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I want to be alone, though
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that doesn't with my own thoughts.
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The no way to it. I got to clarify that.
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That's that I'm talking about work
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and my hobbies, whatever I love.
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My time with Judy is the first
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and foremost most, most of that's.
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A good safe there, right?
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Oh, but I don't need.
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To say I did that for you. Yeah,
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that was all for you.
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Well, but Judy knows that.
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I hated working alone.
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Hmm. No way would I.
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My hat's off to you, and
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there's a lot of guys
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that I meet at trainings and stuff.
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My own son, man.
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How do you guys do it by yourself?
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It's insane.
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That's a lot.
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That's a lot of steps to do by yourself.
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I don't know.
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Plus, I just.
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It would drive me crazy
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not having somebody that active.
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Well,
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I'll say this about that.
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Thank God for the headphones and the and
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and the iTunes back then when I was,
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you know, and iTunes had come out.
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So the music
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now you could listen music
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whatever you wanted to whatever
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now part podcasts are out.
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I could occupy my time on podcasts
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as I'm working.
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I've talked to many guys,
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listen to us while they're working alone.
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MM A lot of guys
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listen to us while they're working alone.
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So maybe struck a chord with them.
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Yeah, yeah,
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they have.
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Yeah.
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But you get to keep
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the only thing I agree with you,
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you get to keep all the money.
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That was a good one.
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That's nice.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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That is nice. Yeah.
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I know. There were signs out there.
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Repeaters, like,
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should we really be
350
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splitting this in half?
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Yeah, I think I felt like
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I did a little bit more.
353
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That was Peter.
355
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That was never me.
356
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Right?
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Oh, I'm.
358
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Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.
359
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You know, I.
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I really feel sorry for guys,
361
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and I want them to take heart.
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If you didn't have a partner
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and you lost a partner for four reasons,
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or you find yourself
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working solo
366
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for reasons that you didn't want, that
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you know what I mean?
368
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That you were kind of forced into this
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or just the way life happened.
370
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You found yourself in a situation.
371
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I would say don't judge it by the first
372
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few months, six months, a year, whatever.
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I'd say give him more time than that.
374
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And you might find that,
375
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yes, the adjustment is, is like off
376
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putting to you at the beginning.
377
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But you may I'd be I'd wondering
378
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in a couple of years,
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would you ever go back
380
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to have to work with other people?
381
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I would say a lot of guys probably won't,
382
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and they find that
383
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they might enjoy that more
384
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because there is
385
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there is a freedom that comes with
386
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you don't realize sometimes
387
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the amount of baggage,
388
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good or bad, but it is a baggage.
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It's a lot in carrying a company,
390
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you know what I mean?
391
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And all the responsibility
392
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goes along with it.
393
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So I think that if you find yourself
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in that situation,
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not of your own making, but don't don't
396
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give it
397
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a chance and don't get down on yourself
398
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or depressed about it or whatever.
399
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And it may and I could be wrong.
400
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Maybe it's not for you.
401
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You might say, You know what?
402
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No, it's not for me.
403
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Like you
404
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said, you just didn't care for it at all.
405
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I wouldn't care for it at all.
406
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But I think if you gave it a shot,
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I think a lot of people
408
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might be surprised
409
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that they
410
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do actually find it that they enjoy it.
411
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You do it again.
412
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If you were going to start up, you know,
413
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you would know.
414
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Know, see,
415
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here's the other thing.
416
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You're there's different points of view
417
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in your life, your career
418
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that are that are different.
419
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It's just like marriages.
420
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You know,
421
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I've I've been married 41 years.
422
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Get it right?
423
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41 years, I think for for the 41 years.
424
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Get that number right now. Yep.
425
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So you go
426
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through stages
427
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and, and I think like and it's
428
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this is a kind of another examples
429
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like when you're a young kid
430
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that live in a small town
431
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and you can not wait to get out of that
432
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small town,
433
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move to a big city where it's exciting.
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A lot of times in life
435
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you find
436
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those same people want to
437
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want to go back to a small town,
438
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you know what I mean?
439
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It happened to me
440
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and so I think you go through stages
441
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in life
442
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now, if you're asking me today
443
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if I was to start a flower company
444
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as a young guy or right now.
445
00:13:03,282 --> 00:13:05,818
Right now, I don't have right now.
446
00:13:05,818 --> 00:13:06,352
Well, right now
447
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I'm I can't do flowers anymore.
448
00:13:09,088 --> 00:13:10,589
I'm not the man I used to be.
449
00:13:10,589 --> 00:13:12,725
You know that you can be.
450
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That's sad.
451
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You see the youth? That's sad.
452
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Yeah.
453
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I'll tell you what.
454
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There are
455
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the tools out there that are better today
456
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than they were in the past.
457
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It could have
458
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had a longevity to the career and made
459
00:13:26,605 --> 00:13:27,506
for sure.
460
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But at my age, I'm 62,
461
00:13:29,875 --> 00:13:31,043
so I would have no desire
462
00:13:31,043 --> 00:13:32,378
to start a floor company right now
463
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I'm as fast me now,
464
00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:35,281
but if I
465
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was a younger
466
00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:37,116
guy, if I was a younger
467
00:13:37,116 --> 00:13:39,718
guy, let's let's say if I was
468
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30 years old to start foreign company
469
00:13:42,321 --> 00:13:43,322
now, I'd want to do it.
470
00:13:43,322 --> 00:13:44,456
I'd want to do it.
471
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I wouldn't want to work
472
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solo at that point.
473
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I don't think so. I'd want to grow.
474
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I want to see how big I could get.
475
00:13:50,296 --> 00:13:53,766
You know, you just reminded me of I did a
476
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I did a school last week up in Montreal.
477
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Awesome, awesome guys.
478
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And you were
479
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talking about the new equipment and
480
00:14:02,942 --> 00:14:04,877
how you couldn't get back to doing it
481
00:14:04,877 --> 00:14:07,279
because you're old and
482
00:14:07,479 --> 00:14:08,380
and wiped out.
483
00:14:08,380 --> 00:14:10,816
You're gone. It's over. Yeah, right.
484
00:14:11,217 --> 00:14:12,518
I mean, the best years are
485
00:14:12,518 --> 00:14:15,221
so far behind you right now. Wiped out.
486
00:14:15,221 --> 00:14:17,523
Yeah, yeah. Hey. Yeah.
487
00:14:17,523 --> 00:14:18,190
What's that song?
488
00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:19,592
Living on Borrowed Time?
489
00:14:19,592 --> 00:14:20,626
Yes. Yeah.
490
00:14:20,626 --> 00:14:22,561
It's kind of like that. Yeah.
491
00:14:22,561 --> 00:14:25,831
Anyways, I met a guy, George Novartis,
492
00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:29,068
from Plush Zillow,
493
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the name of his company.
494
00:14:30,603 --> 00:14:31,871
The could you speak in French?
495
00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,506
Oh, didn't take long, right?
496
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We. We, baby.
497
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Absolutely. So
498
00:14:40,646 --> 00:14:41,247
this guy
499
00:14:41,247 --> 00:14:43,582
was first one to the school every day,
500
00:14:44,450 --> 00:14:44,917
last one,
501
00:14:44,917 --> 00:14:47,486
the first and last out every day
502
00:14:48,153 --> 00:14:50,556
and just loved hanging out, talking.
503
00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:53,826
You know, you just see
504
00:14:53,826 --> 00:14:56,528
he was really into the floors,
505
00:14:56,662 --> 00:14:57,396
you know what I mean?
506
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He just loved it.
507
00:14:58,898 --> 00:15:00,299
One of those guys.
508
00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:03,002
And listen, most
509
00:15:03,002 --> 00:15:05,137
99% of the people come to the training.
510
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Everybody's got the passion.
511
00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:09,041
If you're coming to a training,
512
00:15:09,041 --> 00:15:10,643
you probably get the passion for it.
513
00:15:10,643 --> 00:15:11,277
Well, you know,
514
00:15:11,277 --> 00:15:13,345
this guy had the passion and
515
00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:15,447
he said to me,
516
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he goes, Power Drive saved my life.
517
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It's a really
518
00:15:19,685 --> 00:15:20,586
you go, that's a
519
00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:22,454
that's a hell of a thing to say.
520
00:15:22,454 --> 00:15:23,956
How the hell did a power driver
521
00:15:23,956 --> 00:15:25,391
save your life?
522
00:15:25,758 --> 00:15:26,725
And he showed me
523
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some pictures
524
00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:30,062
of one of the most gruesome table
525
00:15:30,062 --> 00:15:32,331
saw accidents I ever had.
526
00:15:32,331 --> 00:15:34,333
I ever saw. Wow. Right.
527
00:15:34,333 --> 00:15:35,267
And his hands
528
00:15:35,267 --> 00:15:37,670
still the one hand, still,
529
00:15:38,070 --> 00:15:39,438
you know, didn't work. Right.
530
00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:40,973
I even asked my go, hey,
531
00:15:40,973 --> 00:15:41,874
do you have a chair?
532
00:15:41,874 --> 00:15:44,109
The story goes, No, no, no, not at all.
533
00:15:45,978 --> 00:15:49,048
And he thought his career was over.
534
00:15:49,715 --> 00:15:51,650
He really thought, well, I can't
535
00:15:51,650 --> 00:15:52,952
I can't do this anymore,
536
00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:53,319
you know,
537
00:15:53,319 --> 00:15:54,420
not with
538
00:15:54,653 --> 00:15:56,722
not with the way that his hand is.
539
00:15:57,289 --> 00:15:59,425
And then he found a power drive.
540
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Oh, medium. Yeah.
541
00:16:01,727 --> 00:16:02,127
Yeah.
542
00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:02,728
And he,
543
00:16:02,728 --> 00:16:05,831
he told the whole story to the class,
544
00:16:05,831 --> 00:16:06,165
you know,
545
00:16:06,165 --> 00:16:06,632
because there were
546
00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:07,232
some guys
547
00:16:07,232 --> 00:16:08,367
who had never seen the power drive
548
00:16:08,367 --> 00:16:10,235
before and, you know,
549
00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:12,137
he was going on and on, but
550
00:16:12,137 --> 00:16:13,572
everybody's going on and on about it.
551
00:16:13,572 --> 00:16:17,576
But when George told his story about what
552
00:16:17,576 --> 00:16:18,911
the power drive can do
553
00:16:18,911 --> 00:16:21,347
and what it did for him, it
554
00:16:21,347 --> 00:16:23,148
I think that's
555
00:16:23,248 --> 00:16:25,351
that gave him even more passion
556
00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:26,719
for the job
557
00:16:26,719 --> 00:16:30,155
than it has for thinking that I'm out.
558
00:16:30,723 --> 00:16:31,123
You know,
559
00:16:31,123 --> 00:16:34,193
I love doing this and this accident is,
560
00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,528
you know, taking me out of it.
561
00:16:36,528 --> 00:16:37,863
And he said
562
00:16:37,863 --> 00:16:40,499
once I saw the power drive and tried it
563
00:16:40,499 --> 00:16:42,001
and, you know,
564
00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,235
try to win a few jobs, you go,
565
00:16:43,235 --> 00:16:43,769
This is it.
566
00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:45,304
It goes, I'm back, baby.
567
00:16:45,304 --> 00:16:47,706
Well, good for him. Yeah, yeah, it was
568
00:16:49,074 --> 00:16:51,410
it was a pretty great story, you know.
569
00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:52,678
Then
570
00:16:54,980 --> 00:16:55,381
that's
571
00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:56,582
one of the great parts
572
00:16:56,582 --> 00:16:58,283
of being training is when you hear things
573
00:16:58,283 --> 00:16:59,218
like that, you know?
574
00:16:59,218 --> 00:17:00,719
And I'm like, how the power drive
575
00:17:00,719 --> 00:17:02,221
save your life, come on.
576
00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:04,723
And there you go.
577
00:17:05,124 --> 00:17:06,725
That's very cool.
578
00:17:06,725 --> 00:17:08,594
Well, good for him, man.
579
00:17:08,594 --> 00:17:10,929
I can you put yourself in your shoes
580
00:17:10,929 --> 00:17:12,031
when you love doing something
581
00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:12,998
or you need to do something.
582
00:17:12,998 --> 00:17:14,800
Is your livelihood more than you think?
583
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:15,934
You're out
584
00:17:15,934 --> 00:17:18,203
to give you another breath of life, man.
585
00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:19,605
Holy smokes, man. That's. That's.
586
00:17:19,605 --> 00:17:21,273
Yeah, that's a cool story.
587
00:17:21,273 --> 00:17:22,541
Yeah. Yeah.
588
00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:25,044
Good for him. You ever been to Montreal?
589
00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:26,612
Yes, I have. Yeah.
590
00:17:26,612 --> 00:17:28,113
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
591
00:17:28,113 --> 00:17:29,882
So it's been really nice
592
00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:31,750
weather around here lately.
593
00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:33,652
Before you got into the weather,
594
00:17:33,652 --> 00:17:34,853
did you have to go through
595
00:17:34,853 --> 00:17:35,788
Customs to get there
596
00:17:35,788 --> 00:17:36,522
or did you go right
597
00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:37,623
through or how did that work?
598
00:17:38,757 --> 00:17:39,825
Customs.
599
00:17:39,958 --> 00:17:42,628
Okay.
600
00:17:42,628 --> 00:17:43,262
Why?
601
00:17:43,695 --> 00:17:45,864
Just curious if they ask you for papers.
602
00:17:46,832 --> 00:17:48,534
He was going to get into a long story
603
00:17:48,534 --> 00:17:50,702
about getting into Canada, but.
604
00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:53,405
But continue. You know.
605
00:17:53,405 --> 00:17:54,440
I have no idea
606
00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:55,941
where you're going with this.
607
00:17:55,941 --> 00:17:57,342
Your memory.
608
00:17:57,342 --> 00:17:58,677
How can you.
609
00:17:58,677 --> 00:17:59,545
I just had you.
610
00:17:59,545 --> 00:18:01,647
You a softball right there. Okay.
611
00:18:01,947 --> 00:18:03,148
Do you remember that crappy story
612
00:18:03,148 --> 00:18:04,016
you told us about
613
00:18:04,016 --> 00:18:04,950
getting into Canada
614
00:18:04,950 --> 00:18:06,452
that that
615
00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,087
took about 10 minutes to tell you
616
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:09,688
until I asked you where you were.
617
00:18:09,688 --> 00:18:11,523
He said, I was a kind of funny story.
618
00:18:11,523 --> 00:18:12,758
I would talk to an old lady.
619
00:18:12,758 --> 00:18:15,060
She she that I should have told her that.
620
00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:16,228
So I had to fill out this paperwork.
621
00:18:16,228 --> 00:18:17,896
Do you remember that? Yeah.
622
00:18:17,896 --> 00:18:19,598
Okay. You see where I'm going now?
623
00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,967
No, no, I still don't.
624
00:18:23,402 --> 00:18:23,802
You can't.
625
00:18:23,802 --> 00:18:25,737
It's not possible that you don't.
626
00:18:25,737 --> 00:18:27,973
I swear to God.
627
00:18:27,973 --> 00:18:29,108
Oh, man.
628
00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:30,843
Okay, so I'm going to.
629
00:18:30,843 --> 00:18:31,410
We may have to.
630
00:18:31,410 --> 00:18:33,212
I have to cut this out.
631
00:18:33,712 --> 00:18:34,413
We started this.
632
00:18:34,413 --> 00:18:35,848
You're not cutting anything out.
633
00:18:35,848 --> 00:18:37,916
I remember the story going, okay, know.
634
00:18:38,016 --> 00:18:39,418
Okay, met the lady.
635
00:18:39,418 --> 00:18:40,953
Yes. Okay.
636
00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:43,589
It was a long story.
637
00:18:43,589 --> 00:18:45,691
A seemingly had no end. Okay. Okay.
638
00:18:46,158 --> 00:18:46,525
All right.
639
00:18:46,525 --> 00:18:50,229
So when you get done, I said, hey,
640
00:18:50,262 --> 00:18:53,098
I got to make a note to myself.
641
00:18:53,398 --> 00:18:55,634
Never ask Rob
642
00:18:56,168 --> 00:18:59,705
how he got into here.
643
00:18:59,705 --> 00:19:01,473
So you see where I'm going now?
644
00:19:01,473 --> 00:19:03,208
I try to tie these together.
645
00:19:03,208 --> 00:19:04,810
So you see how, you know,
646
00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:06,512
still unbelievable.
647
00:19:06,512 --> 00:19:08,547
Unbelievable. Yeah.
648
00:19:08,547 --> 00:19:09,982
Okay. I'm sorry.
649
00:19:09,982 --> 00:19:11,750
Please continue the story then.
650
00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:14,052
I have no idea where I was that
651
00:19:14,052 --> 00:19:14,953
I don't either.
652
00:19:14,953 --> 00:19:17,089
I was already in Canada.
653
00:19:17,089 --> 00:19:18,357
Now, you brought me back
654
00:19:18,357 --> 00:19:19,892
to go through customs again.
655
00:19:20,926 --> 00:19:22,661
And
656
00:19:23,095 --> 00:19:24,329
I know Wayne wants me to
657
00:19:24,329 --> 00:19:25,497
tell a customs story.
658
00:19:25,497 --> 00:19:27,099
I really don't have one for this.
659
00:19:27,099 --> 00:19:28,400
The guy was kind of
660
00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,035
mad that I was going in.
661
00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:31,470
He separated from it.
662
00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:33,205
I'll just keep going.
663
00:19:33,205 --> 00:19:35,374
Okay. I really hate to interrupt you.
664
00:19:35,374 --> 00:19:39,411
I think you have to be there.
665
00:19:39,411 --> 00:19:41,813
Yeah, I'd like a third party.
666
00:19:41,813 --> 00:19:43,248
What? I'm missing here.
667
00:19:43,248 --> 00:19:45,551
Eileen? Yes?
668
00:19:45,551 --> 00:19:47,853
My husband in the middle of this crap.
669
00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:48,887
And I hate doing this to you,
670
00:19:48,887 --> 00:19:51,523
but you see why I have to write.
671
00:19:51,557 --> 00:19:51,990
I mean,
672
00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:53,525
if you don't come down on my side,
673
00:19:53,525 --> 00:19:55,961
I'm taking Pauline's phone away.
674
00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:57,329
Eileen, do you see?
675
00:19:57,329 --> 00:20:01,400
Do you see where I was going?
676
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:01,900
Oh, my gosh.
677
00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:02,834
She's going to feel sorry for you
678
00:20:02,834 --> 00:20:03,168
this time.
679
00:20:03,168 --> 00:20:05,904
I can feel it.
680
00:20:05,904 --> 00:20:06,471
She's not sick.
681
00:20:06,471 --> 00:20:08,840
And as Chris, she's like anybody does.
682
00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:09,841
She's on mute.
683
00:20:09,841 --> 00:20:12,477
I realize you're on mute, I think.
684
00:20:12,477 --> 00:20:13,679
Oh, no, sorry.
685
00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:15,314
I thought I was off from you.
686
00:20:15,314 --> 00:20:15,847
That's okay.
687
00:20:17,316 --> 00:20:19,184
Do you understand where I was going?
688
00:20:19,184 --> 00:20:21,820
I do, but I'm like Chris's opinion.
689
00:20:22,521 --> 00:20:24,156
I. You know what?
690
00:20:24,156 --> 00:20:25,257
I think you're right.
691
00:20:25,257 --> 00:20:25,991
I think on this one,
692
00:20:25,991 --> 00:20:28,227
we need to default to Chris.
693
00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:30,262
Chris, recap the question.
694
00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:30,562
Again.
695
00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:31,563
What do you
696
00:20:31,563 --> 00:20:33,498
you have you have a sense of comedy
697
00:20:33,498 --> 00:20:35,267
and timing. Sure.
698
00:20:35,267 --> 00:20:35,934
You understand
699
00:20:35,934 --> 00:20:37,569
where I was going with this?
700
00:20:37,569 --> 00:20:38,770
I think so.
701
00:20:38,804 --> 00:20:39,137
Yeah.
702
00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:41,473
He told a horrible story last time
703
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,343
about getting to Canada, went nowhere,
704
00:20:44,343 --> 00:20:45,177
and it was boring.
705
00:20:45,177 --> 00:20:47,112
It was frankly a boring story.
706
00:20:47,112 --> 00:20:48,847
I said,
707
00:20:49,681 --> 00:20:51,083
hang on a minute, Rob.
708
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,884
Let me just make a note to myself.
709
00:20:52,884 --> 00:20:54,753
Remind me never to ask Rob how
710
00:20:54,753 --> 00:20:55,921
blah, blah, blah.
711
00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:57,189
Now you're telling another story
712
00:20:57,189 --> 00:20:58,757
about getting into Canada.
713
00:20:58,757 --> 00:20:59,691
So I try to tie
714
00:20:59,691 --> 00:21:01,526
those two stories together.
715
00:21:01,526 --> 00:21:01,960
Do you
716
00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:02,761
do you want to tell us
717
00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:04,296
how you got into Canada
718
00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:07,165
and you had nothing?
719
00:21:07,165 --> 00:21:09,334
So you wanted me to remember
720
00:21:09,334 --> 00:21:10,269
the last story
721
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:12,271
I told about getting in to Canada?
722
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:13,472
Oh, my God. But
723
00:21:14,673 --> 00:21:15,474
I don't.
724
00:21:16,008 --> 00:21:18,043
I'm really not getting it.
725
00:21:18,043 --> 00:21:19,411
I guess I got it.
726
00:21:19,411 --> 00:21:21,480
Yeah, because you got into it.
727
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:22,981
You had to tell that old lady
728
00:21:22,981 --> 00:21:24,249
the whole story about the hardwood
729
00:21:24,249 --> 00:21:25,484
floors and stuff.
730
00:21:25,484 --> 00:21:27,919
Yes. Yes.
731
00:21:27,919 --> 00:21:29,087
So you wanted me to
732
00:21:29,087 --> 00:21:31,657
tell that story again?
733
00:21:32,024 --> 00:21:32,858
Look at him struggle.
734
00:21:32,858 --> 00:21:33,659
I mean.
735
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:34,926
He just.
736
00:21:34,926 --> 00:21:36,628
Just wanted you to relate the two.
737
00:21:36,628 --> 00:21:37,362
But I'm going.
738
00:21:37,362 --> 00:21:38,830
I'm. You buy.
739
00:21:39,931 --> 00:21:40,866
From.
740
00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:42,834
He's in his zone right now
741
00:21:42,834 --> 00:21:44,770
trying to think of what
742
00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:46,938
his little mind is searching.
743
00:21:46,938 --> 00:21:49,441
Just let me make this putt. Okay.
744
00:21:49,441 --> 00:21:50,809
Another. Okay, go ahead.
745
00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:52,611
Just nothing on that as you.
746
00:21:52,611 --> 00:21:53,779
Finish your story.
747
00:21:53,779 --> 00:21:56,948
Okay.
748
00:21:56,948 --> 00:21:59,885
So went to Canada.
749
00:22:01,953 --> 00:22:03,221
Yet.
750
00:22:03,822 --> 00:22:05,490
You asked me if I've been to Montreal.
751
00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:06,291
Yes.
752
00:22:06,291 --> 00:22:08,360
I'm going to try this all over again.
753
00:22:09,194 --> 00:22:09,661
Okay.
754
00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:11,963
You can tease me about
755
00:22:11,963 --> 00:22:13,598
not relating the stories
756
00:22:13,598 --> 00:22:15,267
because I still don't get it.
757
00:22:15,267 --> 00:22:15,701
Okay.
758
00:22:15,701 --> 00:22:18,003
Anyways, when you've been in Montreal.
759
00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:24,176
No, you should probably never go.
760
00:22:24,242 --> 00:22:25,711
It's not your kind of place.
761
00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:27,079
Okay? Yes, I have.
762
00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:28,980
And I love Montreal.
763
00:22:28,980 --> 00:22:31,249
Yeah, well, I have to.
764
00:22:31,717 --> 00:22:34,119
And I thought, you know what?
765
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,488
The weather's been great around here.
766
00:22:36,488 --> 00:22:37,889
It's been like spring.
767
00:22:37,889 --> 00:22:39,091
So I thought, you know what?
768
00:22:39,091 --> 00:22:40,492
I'll see. Pauline.
769
00:22:40,492 --> 00:22:42,561
Pauline hasn't traveled since COVID,
770
00:22:43,261 --> 00:22:44,596
so I'll see if she wants to go to
771
00:22:45,597 --> 00:22:46,531
Montreal with me.
772
00:22:46,531 --> 00:22:47,999
Right. We'll go up
773
00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:50,969
on for the weekend.
774
00:22:51,002 --> 00:22:52,170
We'll walk around,
775
00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:55,440
you know, like we're in Paris.
776
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:56,408
You know what I'm saying?
777
00:22:56,408 --> 00:22:58,510
Yeah. Very nice.
778
00:22:58,510 --> 00:23:01,079
Wow. We're spraying the whole deal.
779
00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:01,980
Yeah, well,
780
00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:02,914
I really should have looked
781
00:23:02,914 --> 00:23:05,384
at the weather. Well.
782
00:23:05,384 --> 00:23:06,318
Oh, yeah.
783
00:23:06,318 --> 00:23:09,321
Yeah, it was freezing.
784
00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:11,256
It was freezing.
785
00:23:11,256 --> 00:23:13,458
It was crazy windy.
786
00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:15,026
There was no walking around
787
00:23:15,026 --> 00:23:16,695
looking at flowers, right?
788
00:23:16,695 --> 00:23:18,864
It was crazy.
789
00:23:19,064 --> 00:23:20,432
So you brought her with you?
790
00:23:20,432 --> 00:23:21,666
I brought her with me.
791
00:23:21,666 --> 00:23:23,602
Crazy weather.
792
00:23:23,602 --> 00:23:25,670
And the whole time I'm expecting.
793
00:23:25,670 --> 00:23:26,938
Yeah, we'll
794
00:23:26,938 --> 00:23:27,839
like Paris,
795
00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:29,274
you know, walking around,
796
00:23:29,274 --> 00:23:30,609
stop at a cafe,
797
00:23:30,609 --> 00:23:34,112
have some coffee, a croissant.
798
00:23:34,112 --> 00:23:36,014
I ended up going to
799
00:23:36,014 --> 00:23:37,015
Tim Hortons
800
00:23:37,015 --> 00:23:38,183
and getting her coffee
801
00:23:38,183 --> 00:23:40,218
and some timbits, etc.
802
00:23:40,652 --> 00:23:41,353
and I said, You know
803
00:23:41,353 --> 00:23:43,054
what, that's going to be better,
804
00:23:43,054 --> 00:23:44,990
you know, like this better. Right?
805
00:23:45,991 --> 00:23:48,627
But I also said I go, you know what?
806
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,963
There's a really great restaurant that
807
00:23:51,963 --> 00:23:54,332
distributor brought me to one time.
808
00:23:54,332 --> 00:23:56,234
Well, that place had been closed down.
809
00:23:56,234 --> 00:23:58,170
Oh, my God. Yeah.
810
00:23:58,170 --> 00:24:00,872
So Jordan told me about another place
811
00:24:00,872 --> 00:24:01,239
you go to.
812
00:24:01,239 --> 00:24:03,308
Really, really nice, you know?
813
00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:05,710
So I even said to Pauline, I go,
814
00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:07,279
I going to bring the sport jacket.
815
00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:08,380
Why don't you bring something
816
00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:11,149
nice to and we'll, you know, look at you.
817
00:24:11,383 --> 00:24:14,486
Yeah, we don't do fancy her and I, right?
818
00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:15,487
Yep.
819
00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:16,922
So we go to this nice place,
820
00:24:16,922 --> 00:24:21,393
give his name a place called gives.
821
00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:23,128
Of course. I forgot shoes.
822
00:24:23,128 --> 00:24:24,596
So now I'm wearing a sport coat
823
00:24:24,596 --> 00:24:25,864
and work boots.
824
00:24:25,864 --> 00:24:27,999
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So I'm wondering.
825
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,167
Oh, damn.
826
00:24:29,167 --> 00:24:29,734
You know,
827
00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:32,237
Pauline goes, oh, there's a dress code
828
00:24:32,237 --> 00:24:34,005
and it's business casual.
829
00:24:34,005 --> 00:24:35,073
I'm like, Wow, hopefully
830
00:24:35,073 --> 00:24:35,874
the place is dark,
831
00:24:35,874 --> 00:24:37,776
my boots are dark, you know?
832
00:24:37,776 --> 00:24:39,578
Anyways, we get into the place,
833
00:24:39,578 --> 00:24:41,980
no problem.
834
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:42,781
Business casual
835
00:24:42,781 --> 00:24:43,915
has got to be different up there
836
00:24:43,915 --> 00:24:44,850
than it is around here.
837
00:24:44,850 --> 00:24:47,118
People walking in t shirts,
838
00:24:47,786 --> 00:24:49,421
jeans, sneakers.
839
00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:51,857
Yeah, but it didn't lower the prices any,
840
00:24:51,890 --> 00:24:53,191
but it was great.
841
00:24:53,191 --> 00:24:54,693
Okay. Okay.
842
00:24:54,693 --> 00:24:56,495
Are you one guy? No,
843
00:24:58,363 --> 00:24:59,431
not at all.
844
00:24:59,431 --> 00:25:01,566
No, no, that's not why.
845
00:25:01,566 --> 00:25:02,300
I got nothing.
846
00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:03,735
Unwind. Yeah, nothing there.
847
00:25:03,735 --> 00:25:05,737
Zero. Yeah. Okay.
848
00:25:05,737 --> 00:25:07,772
So that I'm not a wine guy either.
849
00:25:07,772 --> 00:25:09,007
I'm going to have a glass of wine,
850
00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:10,575
though, right?
851
00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:11,743
I guess. Sport jacket.
852
00:25:11,743 --> 00:25:12,177
Now
853
00:25:13,879 --> 00:25:15,647
I'm going to have a glass of wine.
854
00:25:15,647 --> 00:25:17,215
Yeah, I'm having beef,
855
00:25:17,215 --> 00:25:18,984
so I know what red wine goes
856
00:25:18,984 --> 00:25:19,885
with beef, right?
857
00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:21,720
I'm looking like I said.
858
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:22,687
Yeah, this one right here.
859
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:23,488
It looks pretty good.
860
00:25:23,488 --> 00:25:25,323
And the guy brings the bottle over
861
00:25:25,323 --> 00:25:26,491
like this.
862
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:30,762
Like I pointed to the glass of wine.
863
00:25:31,162 --> 00:25:31,496
Yeah.
864
00:25:31,496 --> 00:25:32,664
When he brings the bottle over
865
00:25:32,664 --> 00:25:34,232
and he show me the bottle. Right.
866
00:25:34,232 --> 00:25:35,000
The name I go
867
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,868
yeah that was a name on the glass.
868
00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:40,739
And he starts opening up the bottle.
869
00:25:40,739 --> 00:25:42,707
So I'm thinking, oh, this is great.
870
00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:44,342
I'm getting, you know.
871
00:25:44,342 --> 00:25:46,411
Wine from a fresh bottle.
872
00:25:46,945 --> 00:25:48,580
Yeah, right.
873
00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:52,684
Yeah.
874
00:25:52,684 --> 00:25:55,320
So it gets the cork out, pours
875
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,721
with a little bit in my glass,
876
00:25:56,721 --> 00:25:58,890
just a little splash, right. Yeah.
877
00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:01,293
And now he's looking at me and I'm like,
878
00:26:01,326 --> 00:26:03,728
Oh, damn it, I know I'm supposed to,
879
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:07,132
you know, what am I supposed to do here?
880
00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:08,667
Roll it around
881
00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:10,435
you sniff it, something like that.
882
00:26:10,435 --> 00:26:11,636
And then. Yeah,
883
00:26:12,671 --> 00:26:14,072
so he's staring at me, I'm
884
00:26:14,072 --> 00:26:17,375
staring at him and I'm like, oh, this is
885
00:26:17,375 --> 00:26:18,043
typical. Mm.
886
00:26:18,043 --> 00:26:19,678
I should have just gone with Diet Coke
887
00:26:19,678 --> 00:26:21,713
or coffee. Can't go wrong there.
888
00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:23,148
Yeah. So, you know.
889
00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:24,416
All right, take,
890
00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:25,550
take where you the wine I go.
891
00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:26,451
Yeah, that's great.
892
00:26:26,451 --> 00:26:28,486
Thank you. You know,
893
00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:30,622
and then he pours Paulina glass and I go,
894
00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:31,189
Oh, crap.
895
00:26:31,189 --> 00:26:33,525
I just bought a bottle of wine.
896
00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:34,559
You're going to drink it?
897
00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:36,361
You don't drink wine. She hates it.
898
00:26:36,361 --> 00:26:38,163
Oh, no. Yeah.
899
00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:41,499
So now I got this whole bottle of wine.
900
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:42,901
It was okay.
901
00:26:42,901 --> 00:26:44,102
It was pretty good.
902
00:26:44,102 --> 00:26:46,004
I only wanted a glass. Yeah.
903
00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:48,239
I was hoping
904
00:26:48,239 --> 00:26:50,141
my ended up talking to my brother in law
905
00:26:50,141 --> 00:26:52,344
and he said, look, that's the say, do it.
906
00:26:53,178 --> 00:26:54,179
You're just saying.
907
00:26:54,179 --> 00:26:55,213
I go, what if you don't like it?
908
00:26:55,213 --> 00:26:56,681
Do you send it back?
909
00:26:56,681 --> 00:26:58,950
It's like, now this is crappy.
910
00:26:58,950 --> 00:27:01,453
And he goes, No, that's called uncorked.
911
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:03,888
All you do is
912
00:27:03,888 --> 00:27:06,257
give it a little sniff, taste it
913
00:27:06,725 --> 00:27:07,859
to make sure that it didn't
914
00:27:07,859 --> 00:27:09,527
go punky in the bottle.
915
00:27:09,527 --> 00:27:11,162
Sometimes a cork ain't right
916
00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:12,263
or something like that.
917
00:27:12,263 --> 00:27:12,664
And
918
00:27:14,232 --> 00:27:16,735
so if you're going to order wine,
919
00:27:17,202 --> 00:27:18,003
I think you got to know
920
00:27:18,003 --> 00:27:18,803
what you're doing.
921
00:27:18,803 --> 00:27:20,905
I don't probably never happen again.
922
00:27:21,506 --> 00:27:22,674
I should have had a pina colada
923
00:27:22,674 --> 00:27:25,343
or something like that at least.
924
00:27:25,343 --> 00:27:27,345
Yeah, I'd know how to do it.
925
00:27:27,345 --> 00:27:29,347
It's just another boring Canadian story
926
00:27:29,581 --> 00:27:31,016
to tie in with your.
927
00:27:31,016 --> 00:27:32,117
I didn't want to. Say it.
928
00:27:32,117 --> 00:27:33,318
Your boring
929
00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:35,720
idea last time I cross the border.
930
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,089
There's something about something about.
931
00:27:38,089 --> 00:27:39,958
The tie and that all together for you.
932
00:27:39,958 --> 00:27:41,593
It's something about you when you go
933
00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:43,928
into Canada, the stories.
934
00:27:45,063 --> 00:27:46,097
Okay, but you do
935
00:27:46,097 --> 00:27:48,033
remind me of something
936
00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:49,701
when.
937
00:27:49,701 --> 00:27:51,102
When your lovely wife
938
00:27:51,102 --> 00:27:53,972
followed you into this miserable weather,
939
00:27:53,972 --> 00:27:55,707
into these places that were closed
940
00:27:55,707 --> 00:27:57,442
and all these things that went on.
941
00:27:57,442 --> 00:27:58,710
Do you know the life
942
00:27:58,710 --> 00:27:59,411
cycle of this
943
00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:00,745
bonding cycle of a
944
00:28:00,745 --> 00:28:02,047
of a large amount that,
945
00:28:02,047 --> 00:28:04,215
you know, it works? No.
946
00:28:04,215 --> 00:28:04,916
Okay.
947
00:28:04,916 --> 00:28:07,519
The mail goes and finds in this first.
948
00:28:07,752 --> 00:28:08,586
Okay.
949
00:28:09,154 --> 00:28:10,488
Then he goes out
950
00:28:10,488 --> 00:28:13,024
and he finds a female bass
951
00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:15,193
and he prods, ah, over to this nest.
952
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,529
Okay, we're then she'll lay the eggs.
953
00:28:18,196 --> 00:28:18,897
Right.
954
00:28:19,330 --> 00:28:22,133
She leaves and then he guards the eggs
955
00:28:22,767 --> 00:28:24,369
until they turn into frying and whatever.
956
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:25,203
That's his job.
957
00:28:25,203 --> 00:28:27,439
But I always wondered to myself,
958
00:28:28,173 --> 00:28:29,774
like sometimes women marry stupid men.
959
00:28:29,774 --> 00:28:32,177
And I'm not saying you, but I was
960
00:28:33,878 --> 00:28:34,612
oh,
961
00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,049
I'm not saying to you at all.
962
00:28:38,049 --> 00:28:40,118
But it remind me
963
00:28:40,118 --> 00:28:41,586
when you were telling that story.
964
00:28:41,586 --> 00:28:43,855
My God. Oh, no.
965
00:28:43,855 --> 00:28:44,889
Because, you know, sometimes
966
00:28:44,889 --> 00:28:46,057
women do marry stupid men.
967
00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:46,891
We've always seen that.
968
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:48,059
I'm not believe me, I'm
969
00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:50,161
not saying you, Rob.
970
00:28:50,495 --> 00:28:52,630
But this story reminded you.
971
00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:52,931
Yes.
972
00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,566
A guy of a woman
973
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,601
who marries a stupid guy. Okay.
974
00:28:56,868 --> 00:28:58,002
I always wondered
975
00:28:58,002 --> 00:28:58,770
when embarrassed best
976
00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:00,004
when the male Basque goes in
977
00:29:00,004 --> 00:29:01,973
and makes his nest,
978
00:29:01,973 --> 00:29:04,242
then goes and finds a female bass
979
00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:05,910
and brings it to the nest.
980
00:29:05,910 --> 00:29:07,879
Do the female ever go?
981
00:29:07,879 --> 00:29:08,313
What the hell
982
00:29:08,313 --> 00:29:10,281
kind of place of her nest is this?
983
00:29:10,281 --> 00:29:11,316
You mean especially.
984
00:29:11,316 --> 00:29:12,684
It's like the lake drops or something
985
00:29:12,684 --> 00:29:14,052
like that, or it's in the wrong,
986
00:29:14,052 --> 00:29:15,153
you know what I mean?
987
00:29:15,186 --> 00:29:17,722
Like do do the female bass ever
988
00:29:17,722 --> 00:29:19,791
go whatever hook up with this loser.
989
00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:20,759
This nest is a
990
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:23,128
is a crap nest, you know what I mean?
991
00:29:23,128 --> 00:29:24,829
I could've went with somebody else.
992
00:29:24,829 --> 00:29:26,264
Just because I don't know how to order.
993
00:29:26,264 --> 00:29:27,132
Why or why.
994
00:29:27,132 --> 00:29:28,099
That's with it.
995
00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:29,801
That's what that story reminded me of
996
00:29:29,801 --> 00:29:31,536
when you said that.
997
00:29:31,536 --> 00:29:33,004
So. Okay. Okay.
998
00:29:34,339 --> 00:29:35,874
Let me ask you a question.
999
00:29:35,874 --> 00:29:36,775
Yes.
1000
00:29:37,709 --> 00:29:40,378
Once they do that, the bass.
1001
00:29:40,478 --> 00:29:42,180
Right. Mm.
1002
00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:43,214
Because I was snorkeling
1003
00:29:43,214 --> 00:29:46,351
one day at a lake up in the Adirondacks.
1004
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:47,318
Yep.
1005
00:29:47,318 --> 00:29:51,322
And I came across these big circles.
1006
00:29:51,322 --> 00:29:52,323
Yes.
1007
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:55,293
Like this huge perfect circle.
1008
00:29:55,593 --> 00:29:57,695
Maybe ten foot in diameter?
1009
00:29:57,962 --> 00:30:00,064
No, like perfectly clean.
1010
00:30:00,331 --> 00:30:02,934
Yeah, maybe it was smaller, maybe it was
1011
00:30:03,935 --> 00:30:04,502
okay.
1012
00:30:04,502 --> 00:30:06,638
But these circles were, like, perfect,
1013
00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:09,007
where you could see nothing but sand.
1014
00:30:09,007 --> 00:30:10,108
And then all that leads
1015
00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:10,542
and everything
1016
00:30:10,542 --> 00:30:12,610
were all kicked around the side of it.
1017
00:30:13,711 --> 00:30:14,579
And I saw I go,
1018
00:30:14,579 --> 00:30:15,947
Holy crap, there's a fish in there.
1019
00:30:15,947 --> 00:30:16,781
Look at that.
1020
00:30:17,081 --> 00:30:19,350
Now, is that a male or a female?
1021
00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:21,619
Well, it depends on what time.
1022
00:30:21,619 --> 00:30:22,587
It could have been both of them
1023
00:30:22,587 --> 00:30:23,521
too, sometimes.
1024
00:30:23,521 --> 00:30:24,622
So when the male goes in there,
1025
00:30:24,622 --> 00:30:26,024
usually the nest, in my experience,
1026
00:30:26,024 --> 00:30:26,457
has been,
1027
00:30:26,457 --> 00:30:28,393
I don't know, about ten or 12 inches
1028
00:30:28,393 --> 00:30:29,494
wide or so.
1029
00:30:29,494 --> 00:30:30,195
And they clean,
1030
00:30:30,195 --> 00:30:31,095
they fanned the nest
1031
00:30:31,095 --> 00:30:32,730
to get all the silt away.
1032
00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:33,598
So if you ever, ever.
1033
00:30:33,598 --> 00:30:35,133
Yes, that that is it.
1034
00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:35,867
Yeah. Okay.
1035
00:30:35,867 --> 00:30:36,968
If you ever catch a bear
1036
00:30:36,968 --> 00:30:37,836
at that time of year,
1037
00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:39,337
look at the underside of the bass
1038
00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:40,205
and the fins.
1039
00:30:40,205 --> 00:30:41,372
If he's been fanning in there,
1040
00:30:41,372 --> 00:30:42,373
sometimes it is
1041
00:30:42,373 --> 00:30:44,342
fins will be bloody underneath.
1042
00:30:44,342 --> 00:30:45,143
Okay.
1043
00:30:45,176 --> 00:30:46,978
That's what he's doing. Okay.
1044
00:30:46,978 --> 00:30:49,848
And then when she comes in now, she's now
1045
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,149
suspended in deeper water.
1046
00:30:51,149 --> 00:30:52,851
He brings her in.
1047
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:53,918
When the weather gets weird,
1048
00:30:53,918 --> 00:30:54,719
gets warm,
1049
00:30:54,719 --> 00:30:56,588
it's got to be an up there on 60
1050
00:30:56,588 --> 00:30:58,056
degrees or more.
1051
00:30:58,056 --> 00:31:00,058
She'll lay the eggs, she'll leave.
1052
00:31:00,058 --> 00:31:01,292
And then now all the
1053
00:31:01,292 --> 00:31:02,160
all the bluegill
1054
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,027
and everything else is
1055
00:31:03,027 --> 00:31:05,330
is trying to get to the fry
1056
00:31:05,330 --> 00:31:07,332
and that that male is guarding
1057
00:31:07,332 --> 00:31:08,299
the nest the whole time.
1058
00:31:08,299 --> 00:31:09,934
She's gone. Now she's out.
1059
00:31:09,934 --> 00:31:11,636
Okay. Okay.
1060
00:31:11,636 --> 00:31:12,337
All right.
1061
00:31:12,337 --> 00:31:14,873
I was attacked by a male.
1062
00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:17,208
Absolutely. Yes.
1063
00:31:17,208 --> 00:31:19,410
I couldn't believe it.
1064
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:20,612
Yes.
1065
00:31:20,612 --> 00:31:24,182
I mean, this thing came at me like Jaws.
1066
00:31:24,415 --> 00:31:26,918
Yep. It was still only a bass, right?
1067
00:31:26,918 --> 00:31:28,653
It was still only
1068
00:31:28,653 --> 00:31:31,222
16, 18 inches long, Pops.
1069
00:31:31,589 --> 00:31:32,156
Yeah, that's.
1070
00:31:32,156 --> 00:31:34,893
You came at me with his mouth open like
1071
00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:37,295
he could have swallowed the whole mask.
1072
00:31:37,528 --> 00:31:40,031
Yeah, it was hysterical.
1073
00:31:40,265 --> 00:31:40,932
Yep.
1074
00:31:40,932 --> 00:31:44,469
I could not believe the balls
1075
00:31:44,469 --> 00:31:45,937
on this fish.
1076
00:31:45,937 --> 00:31:47,405
Mm. The way he.
1077
00:31:47,405 --> 00:31:49,007
No, you
1078
00:31:49,007 --> 00:31:51,175
look at the size of me compared to him.
1079
00:31:51,509 --> 00:31:52,210
Yeah.
1080
00:31:52,543 --> 00:31:53,678
No jokes.
1081
00:31:53,678 --> 00:31:55,713
Somewhere. I'm working. On it.
1082
00:31:56,014 --> 00:31:57,081
We're working on that.
1083
00:31:57,081 --> 00:31:57,682
I'm there is.
1084
00:31:57,682 --> 00:31:59,851
Nobody came at me like.
1085
00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:00,919
Yeah.
1086
00:32:01,152 --> 00:32:03,988
Like I never saw anything in my life.
1087
00:32:03,988 --> 00:32:04,722
Oh my God.
1088
00:32:04,722 --> 00:32:06,391
I couldn't believe it was
1089
00:32:06,391 --> 00:32:08,126
the craziest thing I'd ever seen.
1090
00:32:08,126 --> 00:32:09,727
All the years snorkeling,
1091
00:32:09,727 --> 00:32:11,696
that was the absolute craziest.
1092
00:32:11,696 --> 00:32:14,699
I saw nothing but mouth when he was.
1093
00:32:14,999 --> 00:32:16,200
He was right there.
1094
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,101
He never touched me,
1095
00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:18,269
didn't hit me or anything
1096
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:19,771
and bite me or anything.
1097
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:20,672
But he came
1098
00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:23,942
right up to that man's mouth wide open.
1099
00:32:24,809 --> 00:32:25,910
That was pretty cool.
1100
00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:27,312
It was start, you know,
1101
00:32:27,312 --> 00:32:29,113
I jumped a little bit,
1102
00:32:29,113 --> 00:32:30,782
but my God, that thing,
1103
00:32:31,983 --> 00:32:34,118
he was protecting something, man.
1104
00:32:34,118 --> 00:32:36,020
Something in that bass
1105
00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:37,855
spot is some kind of insecurity.
1106
00:32:37,855 --> 00:32:38,823
And you.
1107
00:32:40,825 --> 00:32:41,659
Is.
1108
00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,294
Is that how it just.
1109
00:32:43,294 --> 00:32:44,963
You see how I give them to you?
1110
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:46,831
Yeah. It's too easy, is it?
1111
00:32:46,831 --> 00:32:47,832
Yeah, I just know.
1112
00:32:47,832 --> 00:32:50,335
Just give them to so.
1113
00:32:50,401 --> 00:32:52,670
So when you're fishing that time of year
1114
00:32:53,204 --> 00:32:55,340
and your bait goes across that nest,
1115
00:32:56,074 --> 00:32:56,708
you'll see.
1116
00:32:56,708 --> 00:32:57,775
I've seen them
1117
00:32:57,775 --> 00:33:00,044
pick up the bait and swim with it
1118
00:33:00,044 --> 00:33:01,012
and just drop it out.
1119
00:33:01,012 --> 00:33:01,779
He's not eating.
1120
00:33:01,779 --> 00:33:03,982
He's not picking up that bait to eat it.
1121
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:04,716
He's trying to either
1122
00:33:04,716 --> 00:33:06,751
kill it or get it away from the nest.
1123
00:33:06,751 --> 00:33:08,119
Why? He's not at that time.
1124
00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:10,355
He's not hungry. He's not trying to eat.
1125
00:33:10,355 --> 00:33:11,923
So anyhow,
1126
00:33:11,923 --> 00:33:12,890
I don't know where in the world
1127
00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:14,025
we went with this podcast.
1128
00:33:14,025 --> 00:33:14,892
I don't know how we expect
1129
00:33:14,892 --> 00:33:17,962
to get to another 200.
1130
00:33:17,962 --> 00:33:18,963
At this rate.
1131
00:33:18,963 --> 00:33:20,999
I'll just stop going to Canada.
1132
00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:21,699
That would help.
1133
00:33:21,699 --> 00:33:23,701
I think. That that would. Have.
1134
00:33:23,701 --> 00:33:24,302
Yeah.
1135
00:33:24,569 --> 00:33:25,169
Yep.
1136
00:33:25,269 --> 00:33:27,171
We say yeah, no more
1137
00:33:28,873 --> 00:33:31,209
no more Canadian stories and
1138
00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:33,378
we'll make sure that you do know
1139
00:33:33,378 --> 00:33:35,079
the 30 or 40 cat stories
1140
00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:36,214
because yes,
1141
00:33:36,214 --> 00:33:37,515
people are just living
1142
00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:39,017
for those cat stories.
1143
00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:40,151
They love them.
1144
00:33:41,452 --> 00:33:42,186
Thank you.
1145
00:33:42,186 --> 00:33:42,420
You know,
1146
00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:44,322
I thought that Canada's story
1147
00:33:44,322 --> 00:33:45,623
started out pretty good, though.
1148
00:33:45,623 --> 00:33:46,858
I mean, the guy
1149
00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:49,127
injury and, you know, power drive.
1150
00:33:49,727 --> 00:33:50,695
So I think that I should have
1151
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:52,030
just should have just ended it
1152
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:52,997
right there.
1153
00:33:52,997 --> 00:33:53,664
I would have killed it
1154
00:33:53,664 --> 00:33:55,500
at the end of that. Yeah. Okay.
1155
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:56,401
That was a good story.
1156
00:33:56,401 --> 00:33:57,301
In all seriousness.
1157
00:33:57,301 --> 00:33:58,503
That was a really good story.
1158
00:33:58,503 --> 00:34:00,538
Yeah. So, okay.
1159
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:03,574
We're, um, so when we said that
1160
00:34:03,574 --> 00:34:04,842
this show is going to be about
1161
00:34:04,842 --> 00:34:06,577
going solo,
1162
00:34:06,577 --> 00:34:09,680
I thought it would be about,
1163
00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:12,050
yeah, I'm trying to get back on track.
1164
00:34:12,183 --> 00:34:12,683
You've got,
1165
00:34:12,683 --> 00:34:13,317
it's about as low
1166
00:34:13,317 --> 00:34:14,252
as it can get right there.
1167
00:34:14,252 --> 00:34:15,720
We said solo.
1168
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:18,156
That was, that was the low right there.
1169
00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:20,058
So that
1170
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:23,728
that Canadian story.
1171
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,396
Oh I bet I could go low.
1172
00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:26,497
I got locked out of the house
1173
00:34:26,497 --> 00:34:28,099
the other night. I could tell that story.
1174
00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:29,534
Mm hmm.
1175
00:34:29,734 --> 00:34:31,069
Save that for another time.
1176
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:32,837
After your cat story, I'll.
1177
00:34:32,837 --> 00:34:33,871
Okay.
1178
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:35,440
After a cat story.
1179
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,410
I'll do that story.
1180
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:40,411
But when you said
1181
00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,313
let's do a show about going solo,
1182
00:34:42,313 --> 00:34:45,149
I thought you meant like me
1183
00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:46,417
leaving the family business
1184
00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:48,586
and starting my own business.
1185
00:34:50,188 --> 00:34:52,190
Well, you're talking about
1186
00:34:53,891 --> 00:34:54,792
leaving somebody
1187
00:34:54,792 --> 00:34:56,861
and doing this by yourself, so.
1188
00:34:56,861 --> 00:34:58,629
Well, it could be that, too.
1189
00:34:58,629 --> 00:34:59,230
It could be. That's.
1190
00:34:59,230 --> 00:35:00,565
That's another side of it, too,
1191
00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:02,200
is that you make
1192
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,334
that's making that decision
1193
00:35:03,334 --> 00:35:04,702
to go on your own.
1194
00:35:04,702 --> 00:35:05,136
Okay.
1195
00:35:05,136 --> 00:35:06,938
So I've talked about some reason
1196
00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:08,072
maybe you didn't want to go,
1197
00:35:08,072 --> 00:35:09,540
you know, you didn't want to do it,
1198
00:35:09,540 --> 00:35:10,741
but there is you're right.
1199
00:35:10,741 --> 00:35:11,075
There's a
1200
00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:12,944
the other side of that is, you know what?
1201
00:35:12,944 --> 00:35:15,680
I think I'm ready to go on my own.
1202
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,681
I think that's another
1203
00:35:16,681 --> 00:35:17,815
that's another part of this.
1204
00:35:17,815 --> 00:35:18,983
And that's a
1205
00:35:18,983 --> 00:35:19,484
that's a
1206
00:35:19,484 --> 00:35:21,986
that that's a pretty scary animal, too.
1207
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:23,221
Yeah.
1208
00:35:23,221 --> 00:35:24,655
That actually
1209
00:35:24,655 --> 00:35:26,457
could be a whole other show. Yeah.
1210
00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:28,292
I think probably should make it a.
1211
00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:29,160
Why don't we just do
1212
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,828
that on another show. Because
1213
00:35:32,163 --> 00:35:33,331
the notes I sent over to
1214
00:35:33,331 --> 00:35:35,533
today was more about that than
1215
00:35:36,367 --> 00:35:37,635
the solo thing.
1216
00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:38,669
Yeah.
1217
00:35:38,669 --> 00:35:40,771
And I got to be honest with you, I.
1218
00:35:40,771 --> 00:35:42,306
You don't really read the notes
1219
00:35:42,306 --> 00:35:42,807
that I send.
1220
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:43,741
Yeah, I know that.
1221
00:35:43,741 --> 00:35:44,509
I just.
1222
00:35:44,509 --> 00:35:47,378
Today I didn't have time, so.
1223
00:35:47,378 --> 00:35:47,979
Yeah.
1224
00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:49,780
Even when you do have time.
1225
00:35:49,780 --> 00:35:50,615
I do.
1226
00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:51,649
I do.
1227
00:35:51,649 --> 00:35:53,251
Oh, I wanted to say something
1228
00:35:53,251 --> 00:35:55,853
to remember that the show we did with
1229
00:35:58,089 --> 00:35:58,923
the two.
1230
00:35:58,923 --> 00:36:01,425
The two guys walk into a bar.
1231
00:36:01,425 --> 00:36:03,895
Yes, yeah.
1232
00:36:04,195 --> 00:36:06,164
I listen to it back.
1233
00:36:06,931 --> 00:36:07,532
And.
1234
00:36:08,332 --> 00:36:10,434
He's my toughest critic.
1235
00:36:10,434 --> 00:36:13,538
Okay.
1236
00:36:13,538 --> 00:36:15,306
Not your best work.
1237
00:36:15,306 --> 00:36:16,741
Not my best work.
1238
00:36:16,741 --> 00:36:18,075
Yeah.
1239
00:36:18,609 --> 00:36:19,710
How about you?
1240
00:36:20,711 --> 00:36:22,280
I got to say.
1241
00:36:22,713 --> 00:36:23,414
You killed.
1242
00:36:23,414 --> 00:36:24,715
I was pretty pleased.
1243
00:36:24,715 --> 00:36:25,349
You killed it.
1244
00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:27,752
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But.
1245
00:36:27,952 --> 00:36:29,887
You know, just listen to it.
1246
00:36:29,887 --> 00:36:31,856
Back it just said.
1247
00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:32,690
Okay.
1248
00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:35,159
And I do not want to be hard on you
1249
00:36:35,426 --> 00:36:36,861
at all. I want to make.
1250
00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:38,462
No. Well, of course not.
1251
00:36:38,462 --> 00:36:39,630
I don't want you to get.
1252
00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:40,965
No, I always.
1253
00:36:40,965 --> 00:36:43,000
Know you look like you were born.
1254
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,603
You're a born director, so you were just
1255
00:36:46,604 --> 00:36:47,872
born to direct.
1256
00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:49,173
I get it. Yeah.
1257
00:36:49,173 --> 00:36:52,076
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, well.
1258
00:36:52,076 --> 00:36:53,277
I think we've done all the damage
1259
00:36:53,277 --> 00:36:57,782
we could on this one.
1260
00:36:57,782 --> 00:36:59,250
My hat's off to you guys
1261
00:36:59,250 --> 00:37:01,352
who were up there doing that solo. Yes.
1262
00:37:01,452 --> 00:37:03,821
All alone solo every day.
1263
00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:05,990
This job is tough enough,
1264
00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:07,658
but to do it by yourself
1265
00:37:07,658 --> 00:37:10,962
every single day is even it would
1266
00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:14,198
would be even tougher for me so well.
1267
00:37:14,332 --> 00:37:16,334
And I see I. See.
1268
00:37:16,334 --> 00:37:17,702
I see it the other way.
1269
00:37:17,702 --> 00:37:20,071
I think it can be a
1270
00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:23,040
just a really good part of your career
1271
00:37:23,507 --> 00:37:25,776
that you might really enjoy the freedom.
1272
00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:26,877
Find out
1273
00:37:26,877 --> 00:37:27,812
you have more time, you're
1274
00:37:27,812 --> 00:37:29,780
keeping the money to yourself
1275
00:37:29,780 --> 00:37:31,983
and you might really think, you know
1276
00:37:31,983 --> 00:37:34,151
what, gosh, I actually really enjoy this.
1277
00:37:34,151 --> 00:37:34,418
And I
1278
00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:36,487
maybe I could have done this sooner and
1279
00:37:36,487 --> 00:37:38,155
and look at that. This is
1280
00:37:39,123 --> 00:37:40,992
a lot less headaches,
1281
00:37:41,192 --> 00:37:42,093
especially if you're a
1282
00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:43,160
seasoned craftsman.
1283
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,562
You really you're really dialed in
1284
00:37:44,562 --> 00:37:45,196
on what you're doing.
1285
00:37:45,196 --> 00:37:46,497
You don't need anybody else's
1286
00:37:46,497 --> 00:37:48,332
help on how to do anything.
1287
00:37:48,332 --> 00:37:49,634
Then this might be
1288
00:37:49,634 --> 00:37:50,134
one of the
1289
00:37:50,134 --> 00:37:53,571
most gratifying parts of your career.
1290
00:37:53,571 --> 00:37:55,039
So we'll leave it at that.
1291
00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:56,040
All right.
1292
00:37:56,641 --> 00:37:58,142
We agree
1293
00:37:58,976 --> 00:38:00,478
to disagree.
1294
00:38:00,711 --> 00:38:02,013
Once again.
1295
00:38:02,013 --> 00:38:04,582
201. Yep.
1296
00:38:04,982 --> 00:38:05,449
All right.
1297
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:06,617
There's been another episode
1298
00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:08,719
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
1299
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,355
Please stay tuned for another episode
1300
00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:19,330
of the.