On The Floor with Wayne and Rob

Happy Holidays!

Episode Summary

Wayne and Rob wish you all Happy Holidays from the entire Bona family! Follow Bona US Professional online: Website: https://www1.bona.com/en-us/professional/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BonaProfessional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonauspro/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonapro.us/

Episode Transcription

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Hello, and welcome to another episode

 

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of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.

 

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I'm Wayne Highlander with Bona adhesives.

 

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I'm Rob Johnson with the Mary

 

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Bone, a training.

 

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Hey, Rob, how are we doing?

 

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Yeah.

 

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I'm doing fantastic.

 

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We we, you know,

 

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it didn't work out during Thanksgiving.

 

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We were both on the road.

 

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We didn't get to talk much

 

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about Thanksgiving.

 

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We we often do.

 

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And, now Christmas is coming up.

 

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Or the holiday seasons,

 

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however, you,

 

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however you, celebrate them.

 

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And, you know, Robin,

 

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I wanted to say, you know, Merry

 

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Christmas, everybody, and happy holidays

 

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and what have you.

 

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But Rob and I are always the

 

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ones on on here.

 

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And the ones that you maybe see or hear.

 

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And there are so many people

 

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that make this thing work.

 

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So many people behind the scenes that,

 

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I wish my wish that, you know,

 

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if I had a wish, I almost wish

 

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everybody could see

 

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the people that are in

 

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all the departments at Mona

 

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and go to a sales meeting

 

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and see how much

 

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they really care about what they do.

 

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I mean,

 

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I talk about the marketing department.

 

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Chris is on here

 

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that that that works with us.

 

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And he does so many things at Mona,

 

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with the videos

 

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and what have you and Eileen.

 

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And there's just so many people.

 

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And, so when we say Merry Christmas

 

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or Happy Holidays,

 

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is from the entire Bonia family

 

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and their families

 

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that put so much into this

 

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that do this every day. So.

 

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You know, it's funny

 

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you said that because, you know,

 

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we're just started doing our

 

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holiday schools,

 

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and this week I was in Charlotte

 

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and Charlotte

 

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was the kickoff for the first holiday

 

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school of the year.

 

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And,

 

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so here are the departments

 

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that were represented

 

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at that holiday class.

 

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So you had me from tech and training.

 

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You had Larry, who's territory manager.

 

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You had Mark Raymond,

 

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who's an adhesives manager.

 

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You had Robbie, Robbie Smith

 

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from Product Management.

 

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Oh, my God,

 

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I cannot believe

 

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I can't remember this woman's name.

 

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So, you know, we could

 

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did the kickoff for the,

 

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holiday schools in.

 

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The first one was in Charlotte,

 

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and, you know, you're talking

 

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about all the people behind the scenes,

 

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at the school.

 

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So we had territory managers,

 

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Well.

 

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we had adhesive managers,

 

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we had tech and training there.

 

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That's three departments.

 

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We had product management

 

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people there, and

 

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we had a lab person there.

 

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Was there any ladies?

 

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Ladies from the band department there?

 

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Any ladies from the PR?

 

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For from the from the lab

 

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department or anything.

 

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Okay, okay.

 

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and we had a person from the lab, I,

 

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Okay.

 

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Okay. Okay.

 

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With you.

 

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Okay.

 

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Well.

 

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for the students to see of the, you know,

 

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how many moving parts

 

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there is to to what's going on at Vona,

 

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you know,

 

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because a lot of times, you know,

 

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a contractor just walked

 

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into a distributor

 

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and he grabs a jug off of the shelf

 

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and let's say that's bona, you know,

 

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you really don't know

 

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what went into that jug.

 

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And, you know,

 

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Yeah.

 

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once we started talking about actually,

 

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when we got into the chroma discussion

 

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and we were,

 

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you know, teaching the chrome.

 

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But first, you know, we start off

 

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with a little theory behind the chroma,

 

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and then we go do the hands on.

 

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But there was a lot of people involved

 

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and you know,

 

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just getting that stuff in the jug,

 

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you know,

 

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and it was great

 

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that, you know, because not

 

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I don't really get that

 

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at a lot of the trainings.

 

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You know,

 

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you don't get that many people

 

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from different departments.

 

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And

 

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the product management guy, probably

 

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he was out talking about,

 

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you know, what they did and everything.

 

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And then the person from the lab,

 

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she was talking about

 

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everything that they did.

 

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And, you know,

 

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I was like,

 

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Holy crap,

 

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I didn't know all this was going on.

 

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You know,

 

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and how they have to work together,

 

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you know, by the time

 

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they get it out

 

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to guys like you and I is like,

 

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okay, here you go.

 

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And now,

 

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Yeah.

 

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looking like rockstars,

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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as soon as you said about the people

 

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behind the scenes with this,

 

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you know, I mean,

 

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you know, look, look at the show,

 

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even just even just with our show,

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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you and I couldn't do this,

 

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No.

 

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You're kidding me.

 

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wouldn't even be able

 

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to find the microphone.

 

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No.

 

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And we even look them up and everything.

 

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We were lost.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah. Right.

 

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You imagine that if we didn't have

 

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So.

 

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the people behind it in the show, right?

 

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Now the impossible.

 

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We're very, very fortunate.

 

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Things not even close.

 

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Yeah.

 

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And,

 

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you know,

 

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I extend this to our distributor partners

 

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as well, that,

 

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the guys behind the counter

 

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and everything that, that

 

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that, sell the products

 

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when we're not there, and, and,

 

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you know,

 

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even if you, if you look at our,

 

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our plant where the guys are lonely,

 

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the adhesive pills on the,

 

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on the on, on the pallets

 

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and all that kind of stuff. And.

 

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The.

 

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There's a lot there's so many people

 

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that are involved in this and,

 

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and, again, I,

 

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I know how much they care

 

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and how much they get excited about it

 

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because we get a chance

 

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to come back and see him

 

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in meetings every year.

 

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But, it means it means a lot to them.

 

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And, we just wanted from.

 

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So from the whole Bono family,

 

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we just want to say

 

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happy holidays, everybody.

 

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And,

 

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you know,

 

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there's it's

 

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one of the hardest jobs in the world,

 

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doing floors, man.

 

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It's a it's a hard job.

 

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And,

 

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we've been doing this

 

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for seven years now.

 

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Rob.

 

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Yeah, yeah.

 

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Seven years we've been doing this.

 

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So if you listen,

 

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if you listen.

 

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maybe we can do ten episodes.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah, especially in the first.

 

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Yeah. Don't listen to those first ten.

 

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Yeah, yeah,

 

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Yeah. Don't listen to those first ten.

 

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yeah.

 

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So.

 

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So, if you've been

 

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listening to us for those seven years,

 

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we're even off and on here and there.

 

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I mean, that's seven more years

 

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that you've been in this industry.

 

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And again, it's a what do you see?

 

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The average age is 56 years old or so.

 

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That's, that's that's doing

 

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the work right now

 

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is a very difficult job. It's a hard job.

 

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It's a labor intensive job.

 

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It's a stressful job.

 

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And, so the holidays are important.

 

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And I hope everybody, you know, I,

 

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I worked a lot of holidays.

 

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I'm, you know,

 

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I'm, I'm almost embarrassed

 

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to say

 

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how many, holidays and

 

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and weekends I've worked in my life

 

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and, Thanksgivings.

 

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I've worked Thanksgivings.

 

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I've worked, on Christmas coding,

 

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which we didn't

 

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we didn't

 

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consider that a work day

 

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because we're just coding, you know?

 

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But but, and you know how it goes.

 

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So,

 

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No, I, I I know exactly how it goes.

 

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Especially when I was in sport.

 

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You know, there was one year,

 

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you know, all of our sport

 

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guys out there, all the guys

 

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listening in on sport,

 

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holidays or not really.

 

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Holidays for us,

 

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holidays are when

 

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the schools are closing. Oh, okay. Good.

 

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I got to get in there.

 

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You know,

 

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we've got so many schools,

 

268

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they're all closed for a week or two,

 

269

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and, man, you gotta

 

270

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you gotta turn and burn in those,

 

271

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so, you know, for our sport

 

272

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guys out there,

 

273

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I know what you're going through.

 

274

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And these holidays can be

 

275

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because you're also trying

 

276

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to celebrate the holidays.

 

277

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You want to be with your family.

 

278

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You want to do everything.

 

279

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Yeah, but

 

280

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it is that time of year

 

281

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where we're getting in

 

282

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all those sport coats

 

283

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around the Thanksgiving

 

284

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and the Christmas holiday.

 

285

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So there were out there, I was training

 

286

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a crew up in, Minneapolis

 

287

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a few years ago, and, and the guy's like,

 

288

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you know,

 

289

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is it possible that you could get here,

 

290

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on the day on the 26th,

 

291

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you know, the day after Christmas?

 

292

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And I'm like, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

 

293

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You know,

 

294

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that's a depressing day

 

295

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for me anyways, right?

 

296

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Yeah.

 

297

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So I thought, you know what?

 

298

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I bet nobody flies on Christmas.

 

299

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I'm going to fly out Christmas night.

 

300

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You know, everybody's

 

301

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kids are all worn out.

 

302

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And, you know what I mean?

 

303

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It's like,

 

304

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Yeah.

 

305

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you just.

 

306

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You're just punking out on the couch and

 

307

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taking a deep breath, right, exhaling.

 

308

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Yeah.

 

309

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So I thought, oh, hell, I'll,

 

310

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I'll fly out Christmas night.

 

311

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It'll be easy.

 

312

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There'll be nobody on the plane,

 

313

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Oh my gosh.

 

314

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That was one of the biggest mistakes.

 

315

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One of the biggest

 

316

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traveling mistakes I ever made.

 

317

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Wow.

 

318

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and, like, 4

 

319

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million people

 

320

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thought the same exact thing.

 

321

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I'm going to outsmart everybody and fly

 

322

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on Christmas night and.

 

323

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That,

 

324

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Wow.

 

325

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Wow.

 

326

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you know,

 

327

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Well.

 

328

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But then my sport guys out there,

 

329

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our sport guys,

 

330

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I know how tough this holiday is

 

331

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because you're trying

 

332

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to juggle the holidays.

 

333

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And that packed up schedule to.

 

334

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Well,

 

335

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sometimes, even though you work,

 

336

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it almost feels like a holiday.

 

337

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Because nobody else is working,

 

338

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you know,

 

339

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on your on the job sites, there's

 

340

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nobody else there a lot of times.

 

341

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And so you don't have to deal

 

342

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with all the

 

343

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everybody else that you're,

 

344

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you know, have the, you know,

 

345

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run around and work around.

 

346

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So there's that.

 

347

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And also if you're coding,

 

348

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if it's just a coding day,

 

349

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you know,

 

350

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when I started in the business, my, my

 

351

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I worked with my Uncle Stan, obviously.

 

352

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And we would start the morning

 

353

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by going to a cafe and having breakfast.

 

354

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Now think about that.

 

355

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I mean,

 

356

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nowadays people don't have time for that.

 

357

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Like, I can't imagine, like,

 

358

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all right, guys, let's go down here.

 

359

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And and I'm talking about not McDonald's.

 

360

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I'm talking about a regular restaurant

 

361

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that you sat down.

 

362

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You'd have a cup of coffee,

 

363

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you know what I mean?

 

364

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And, you know, it was relaxing.

 

365

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No. No. Yeah.

 

366

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Absolutely.

 

367

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And, so

 

368

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obviously when we're doing flooring,

 

369

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we know no one has time for that.

 

370

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You're learning.

 

371

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You're, you know, you're learning.

 

372

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You know,

 

373

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I mean, you're burning money, man.

 

374

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These guys got to be humping

 

375

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you can't do that.

 

376

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But around the holidays even to do

 

377

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even to go out

 

378

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on that day for breakfast or something,

 

379

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or around that time with the guys

 

380

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and just go have a piece of pumpkin pie.

 

381

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Good.

 

382

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Got a little pumpkin

 

383

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pie with whipped cream on it.

 

384

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Hey, I used to hate pumpkin pie.

 

385

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I don't know what happened to me.

 

386

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Now I love it.

 

387

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You never know.

 

388

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Look at at me.

 

389

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Yeah.

 

390

00:11:01,060 --> 00:11:01,527

I think it once you hit 60,

 

391

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Yeah, it's.

 

392

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and then we hit 75. It's mincemeat.

 

393

00:11:05,531 --> 00:11:06,365

You'll. Yeah. You can't.

 

394

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Oh, gosh.

 

395

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Oh, man. Don't tell me that.

 

396

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Okay.

 

397

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So, anyhow,

 

398

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we hope

 

399

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everybody has a great holiday

 

400

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for themselves.

 

401

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Gets to take a little time off

 

402

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with your family.

 

403

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So, from our family

 

404

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and our extended family

 

405

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to your families, happy holiday.

 

406

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We hope 2026 is a great year for you.

 

407

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We'll talk about that later.

 

408

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And, happy holidays, everybody.

 

409

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Yeah.

 

410

00:11:32,391 --> 00:11:34,260

Stay with the Christmas theme here.

 

411

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You know, like I mentioned,

 

412

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the big top of the show.

 

413

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You know,

 

414

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we've got our holiday schools going,

 

415

00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,535

and it is just amazing

 

416

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what these holiday schools

 

417

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have turned into.

 

418

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You know, it started it.

 

419

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We did one in new Jersey,

 

420

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about 5 or 6 years ago.

 

421

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I'm not sure.

 

422

00:11:51,711 --> 00:11:54,580

And now we're up to four.

 

423

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We're doing one in Charlotte.

 

424

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We're doing one in Nashville.

 

425

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Or we're doing one in, Colorado.

 

426

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And we're doing one.

 

427

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And the last one will be in new Jersey.

 

428

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And, Wayne,

 

429

00:12:09,261 --> 00:12:09,762

I just

 

430

00:12:09,762 --> 00:12:12,164

hope you can make one of these,

 

431

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the Nashville one.

 

432

00:12:13,733 --> 00:12:14,333

Next week,

 

433

00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:17,303

I, I will.

 

434

00:12:17,303 --> 00:12:18,871

because I gotta tell you,

 

435

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it's a whole new type of training.

 

436

00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:24,210

Well, there's music,

 

437

00:12:24,210 --> 00:12:25,578

there's good food, there's,

 

438

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you know, Christmas music

 

439

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and just a lot of great, camaraderie.

 

440

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And just to watch,

 

441

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you know,

 

442

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I think in Colorado, they,

 

443

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they do stuff for the food bank

 

444

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and the other three schools.

 

445

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We do the toys for tots thing, and, like,

 

446

00:12:41,727 --> 00:12:42,995

like I said before, it's

 

447

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just one of my favorite times of the year

 

448

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to see these guys walking

 

449

00:12:48,434 --> 00:12:51,437

through the door with armloads of toys

 

450

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with just a giant smile on their face.

 

451

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You know, everybody just it's,

 

452

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I'm not saying that people aren't happy

 

453

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when they come to the trainings,

 

454

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but this is just a

 

455

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a different kind of happy, you know?

 

456

00:13:04,183 --> 00:13:04,717

I mean,

 

457

00:13:06,018 --> 00:13:06,752

I just think

 

458

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everybody has a great feeling especially,

 

459

00:13:10,089 --> 00:13:11,590

you know, for such great things,

 

460

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you know, toys for tots and food banks

 

461

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and things like that.

 

462

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It really sets the tone for that.

 

463

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You know,

 

464

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I don't want to sound corny, but the,

 

465

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you know, the giving time of year

 

466

00:13:22,034 --> 00:13:23,502

and it just puts everybody

 

467

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in a super mood.

 

468

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Boy, if you can

 

469

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come to one of the schools,

 

470

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like I said, next week,

 

471

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this week with Charlotte,

 

472

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next week is going to be Nashville.

 

473

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And,

 

474

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I think Denver next week.

 

475

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Let you know.

 

476

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Or is it the week after.

 

477

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But check the website, show up

 

478

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even if you just can't,

 

479

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even if you can't make it for the school,

 

480

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come on and bring up toy.

 

481

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Bring something

 

482

00:13:48,394 --> 00:13:49,862

for the food bank, say hi,

 

483

00:13:49,862 --> 00:13:52,164

have a bite with us. Have a cookie.

 

484

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Listen to some music.

 

485

00:13:53,732 --> 00:13:55,668

Have some stories with people.

 

486

00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:57,369

Catch up with old friends, things

 

487

00:13:57,369 --> 00:13:59,905

like that. I mean, these are just.

 

488

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This is just a great time of year,

 

489

00:14:01,841 --> 00:14:02,541

you know, just,

 

490

00:14:02,541 --> 00:14:04,109

just an awesome time of year.

 

491

00:14:04,109 --> 00:14:06,011

I look so forward to this.

 

492

00:14:06,011 --> 00:14:07,546

But I gotta tell you, I hate

 

493

00:14:07,546 --> 00:14:08,414

when it's over.

 

494

00:14:08,414 --> 00:14:10,382

I'm bushed.

 

495

00:14:10,382 --> 00:14:11,116

I'm pretty tired, but it's a good tired.

 

496

00:14:11,116 --> 00:14:14,119

Well,

 

497

00:14:14,119 --> 00:14:15,387

That's very sweet.

 

498

00:14:15,387 --> 00:14:17,289

When I got there on a Saturday

 

499

00:14:17,289 --> 00:14:18,257

after the class was over

 

500

00:14:18,257 --> 00:14:18,924

and they had the big,

 

501

00:14:18,924 --> 00:14:21,927

huge box full of toys and,

 

502

00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:25,130

business handmade toys were in that box.

 

503

00:14:25,130 --> 00:14:26,031

But my brother and

 

504

00:14:26,031 --> 00:14:27,466

I took him to the flea market,

 

505

00:14:27,466 --> 00:14:30,469

sold them, got 180 bucks.

 

506

00:14:33,772 --> 00:14:34,173

Like I

 

507

00:14:34,173 --> 00:14:34,740

said, man,

 

508

00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:37,743

it's all about the spirit of giving.

 

509

00:14:37,977 --> 00:14:40,813

That's fantastic.

 

510

00:14:40,813 --> 00:14:42,248

You probably went out and bought a couple

 

511

00:14:42,248 --> 00:14:44,216

cases of ripple with it.

 

512

00:14:44,216 --> 00:14:46,652

No, but some fishing lures, of course.

 

513

00:14:46,652 --> 00:14:47,820

Yeah.

 

514

00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:49,521

Okay. I'm kidding.

 

515

00:14:49,521 --> 00:14:51,523

All right. Rob.

 

516

00:14:51,523 --> 00:14:52,658

There's been another episode

 

517

00:14:52,658 --> 00:14:54,159

of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob,

 

518

00:14:54,159 --> 00:14:55,728

so please stay tuned for another episode.