Wayne and Rob host Brett Miller, Vice President Technical Standards, Education, and Certification, NWFA, to discuss the upcoming and highly anticipated 2024 National Wood Flooring Expo held April 16 - 18, New Orleans, LA. Follow Bona US Professional online: Website: https://www1.bona.com/en-us/professional/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BonaProfessional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonauspro/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonapro.us/
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Hello 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,
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director of Sales, Bona
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Adhesives.
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Well, Rob,
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we have a special guest with us today.
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I guess
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you and I know very well
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and I'm happy to have him on.
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We have Brett Miller on today.
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Brett, what?
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He's one of my favorite valentines, too.
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I just love
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Yeah. Isn't he?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, You're welcome.
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and I apologize for being
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for being a few minutes late, Brett.
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It's strictly a power move.
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Why don't you introduce yourself, Brett?
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Sure.
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Well, thank you guys for inviting me on.
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Brant Miller.
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I work
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for the National Wood
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Flooring Association.
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My title, VP of Technical
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Standards and Training.
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And
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whatever they throw at me, I kind of run
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a lot of our technical stuff,
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a lot of our schools
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programs, all of that stuff.
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So as you said, I've known both of you
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for a long time and thoroughly
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enjoy listening to your podcast,
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and I'm honored to be on it.
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So thank you.
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Of course.
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Glad to have you on.
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Yeah.
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I think you really need
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to introduce yourself.
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Everybody seems to know Brett
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and one of the most respected
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guys in the business, so.
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Yeah.
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Thanks for taking the time to be on, man.
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So this is a podcast, what we do.
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So it goes on the air.
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Now just be yourself.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So.
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Yeah.
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Now
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I know we might as well.
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We know you have a podcast also.
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We kidding.
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So.
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Well, what podcasts
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do you have a couple of them, don't you?
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Well, I do our Wood Talk podcast
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Okay.
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Nice.
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Who does?
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Yeah.
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Well, Rob and I are so confident
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that we invite our guest
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if they have other podcasts to go
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and mention them.
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So
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now we're
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we're super thrilled to
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have you on, Brett.
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I think the world of you, me and I,
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you know that
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we all started in the industry
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at the same time in the sales part of it,
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and it's really exciting to see
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the direction that you've gone man in.
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And I've done such a good job
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in your role with the NWA
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and it's
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cool to always get a chance to see you
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probably once or twice a year
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and it's usually never for 10 minutes.
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We're always going
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to different direction,
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90 miles an hour or so.
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Glad to pin you down for a few minutes.
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So and the reason you're on is because,
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you know,
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this is one of the most exciting.
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Well, to me,
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probably the most
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exciting event of the year
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is the NWA Expo,
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and I look forward to it every year.
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I mean,
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we get to see
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our friends and counterparts and and
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partners across the industry
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and and it's thanks to the end of year
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for putting this together.
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So why don't you tell us
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where the end of the event
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is going to be
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this year, The expo
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in a little bit about it.
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Definitely.
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And thank you for
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letting me talk about it.
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I think it's for the first time
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ever for me,
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I just went down there
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this last fall for our board meeting,
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which typically we do
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will visit the space
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where we're going the year prior
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and get a good feel for the city.
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We're going to be in New Orleans
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this year.
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I had never been before,
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and it didn't disappoint
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for the night that I was there.
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It's exciting, I think in
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BFA has tried to get Expo
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in New Orleans for several years,
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and I think
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Penske,
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who runs our trade shows,
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finally was able to nail it down.
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And what she's pulling together,
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what we're pulling together for,
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for this show is it's
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going to really complement that city.
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One thing I didn't realize, again,
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not not really ever having
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been down there was that
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expo is April 14th through
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the 16th this year,
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I'm sorry, 16th
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through the 18th this year.
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And this is peak season for crawfish.
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So I'm really excited to know
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that we're going to be able to really get
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Beautiful.
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I am really excited,
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but I love New Orleans, man.
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the thing about the NWA
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Expo is
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the flooring industry is unique industry.
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It's a very tough industry, you know,
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and really we're a small industry,
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you know, the scheme of things,
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we're really not that big.
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we say that it's a brotherhood,
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this industry, and it really is.
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But I mean, man,
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just to get together with everybody
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from flooring contractors
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across the country,
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to have a beer together
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and have a drink together and
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and have a laugh
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and share our shared experiences
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and stuff like that.
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Man, that's as good as it gets, you know?
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we know it's
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hard to take time to get away, whatever.
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But I almost a year to yourself,
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this is one thing that you owe
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as a foreign contract to yourself
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that you bust your butt.
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on an island, like, you know,
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a lot of us are made up
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of small companies across the country
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and we're on their own
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little world or whatever.
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So to be able to at one time of the year
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to go out and spend time
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with other foreign contractors
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and see what's new in the industry
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and you guys have some great
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educational stuff there.
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I just think it's just fantastic, man.
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Holy smokes.
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I just think it's a
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it just should be a phenomenal
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turnout this year. Man.
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I'm really excited for you guys
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and I'm excited to be going in
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and it's a pretty cool event.
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you have any
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extra time?
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We had a sales boner.
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Had a sales meeting there.
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What was that?
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Three years yeah,
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and feeding alligators.
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make sure you get a couple
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extra days in there
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just to get some of the flavor
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of that city,
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that that airboat excursion was a blast.
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We had a ball on that.
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that would be fun.
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I mean, I've heard
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I've heard some of the stories
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about getting down there into the bayou
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and the swampy areas and,
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you know, the alligators
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and everything,
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all the life that's down
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there, the snakes and everything else.
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that we were airborne airboat in
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was was all that the snakes,
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the alligators
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really back in the bayou is really cool
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I'll bet
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Well, it's almost a
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yeah, it's almost a Las
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Vegas type of destination.
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There's so much to do there.
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and at our advanced age, Rob, you and I,
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it may be Bourbon
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Street isn't the,
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you know, the thing anymore.
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I think you have to do it once.
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because it's Bourbon Street.
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But I've taken my wife there and and the
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the the
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the neighborhoods outside of the area
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are phenomenal for walking Just walk
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look at the the
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the iron wrought work
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and everything up in the old
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old buildings and the
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the just
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the just walk in any bar that unique food
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and there's music everywhere
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I mean everywhere you can Google
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and I'm just a tip for everybody
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if you're worried about
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walking around down there
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or whatever in the area
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just or you can do Uber somewhere
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that's very inexpensive
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to Uber somewhere,
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everything is pretty close by.
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any, any,
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you know, expo
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that you would take your spouse to,
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I think this would be it.
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just take a couple of days
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and on the front side
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or the back side of this thing
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and just really go explore the town
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and have a great time
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and enjoy New Orleans,
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enjoy the music, enjoy the atmosphere.
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My wife, when I
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when I first
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was going to take her down there,
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she said, no, I don't want to go.
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I don't know.
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I don't know if it's for me.
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Yeah, you know, you know,
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you hear things
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in New Orleans
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that you don't know about it.
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We went down there and she
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she fell in love.
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I mean, she wanted she want to come home.
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I mean, the dancing
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and the music and the food and just the
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the beautiful,
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the atmosphere, they're just phenomenal.
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So I think it should be widely attended
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in certainly
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probably attendance at double
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now because of the podcast here.
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Rob
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But but again, for me it's, it's
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the getting together
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with the flooring contractors
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and bonding,
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having a beer with your buddies
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or guys that you only know
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on social media.
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I like it
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when everybody says, Hey, look, let's,
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let's all get together
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to a certain place or whatever.
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So I mean it's, it's great
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for the trade is great for the guys.
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And what
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what are you doing
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any educational classes this year?
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Yeah. Thanks for.
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So at symposium,
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symposium is always the very first day.
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It's going to be on the 16th
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on symposium this year we have
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and that's a full day event.
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We've started last year.
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We started with symposium.
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We bring in our
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our certified professionals
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board of directors who come in
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and we'll talk about the state
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of the certified professional
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side of our industry.
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And we're going to have a lot of Q&A.
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We got a lot of good feedback last year,
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people being able to ask questions
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so it doesn't feel like it's a behind
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the scenes kind of program.
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But this year, the we have a program
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we put together.
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It's titled Atypical Flooring.
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It's going to be moderated
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by Brian Biegler, who used to be
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I don't know if Yeah.
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is Brian going to be leading that.
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Yeah.
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where was Wayne's name.
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When did that come up when
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to be moderator for this.
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Like, I'm looking for what?
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What place?
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Wayne came into
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to moderate this symposium there
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with top five.
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A five.
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Brian is Well
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Brian is Brian is very well-respected.
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As am I. Are you going to have.
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yeah.
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Competitive.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It's not put bread on a spot
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like that.
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You've
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in the past have done like a taste of the
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and the buffet glasses.
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Are you doing any of that,
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any of those type of classes
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you've done before,
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even like bending wood
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and different stuff you ate in there.
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at the first at the beginning of Expo.
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Through the rest of Expo
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we've got education
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that is
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what you're talking about as well.
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Our regional instructors go out
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and they just do
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whatever it is
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that comes to mind and a lot of times
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it'll be just some some master craftsman
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type stuff,
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bending wood
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and creating medallions or whatever.
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This year it's going to be
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it's not going to disappoint.
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They're going to be doing
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a fold demonstration on Thursday
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on the show floor.
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So we welcome anybody to come by.
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One thing
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that's different this year
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with what they're doing
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is it's going to be nonstop.
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They're just going to keep going.
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They're going to be plowing through
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and really creating something
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and hopefully be able to to
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to to show something
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that hasn't been shown in the past.
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One of the objectives we had
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and we're we're tossing this around,
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was to get one of the wood floor
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of the year winners
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and take a look
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at what they did on their floor
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and try to replicate it
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or at least replicate components of it.
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And I can tell you
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with the wood floor of the year stuff
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that's coming up this year,
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some of the floors that came through,
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we've got a
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pretty amazing year.
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And I think I said that every year,
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especially that one year
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that you won win.
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But this year is
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Did you hear the music Thanks.
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Yes.
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And yeah, I do hear it's still there.
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It's amazing.
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Yeah.
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Thanks for bringing that up ahead
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So I didn't have to work it.
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And you know, there's
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a selfless, you know.
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We'll send you that check real quick.
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Yeah,
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we'll Venmo
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this year
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We're, we're going with Venmo now so
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yeah, yeah, yeah.
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the wood floor of the year
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this year, that's on the very first day.
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It's after symposium.
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We have the big ceremony
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where we announce the winners
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of all of the categories
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that are out there.
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I really I, I feel for the judges
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this year because there are some
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some truly
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Yeah,
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yeah.
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It's really I
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mean, it's amazing the grass.
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And, you know,
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it's funny
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because you start to see some guys, some
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some guys come along
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now that you can spot their flaws.
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Now you see their style.
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And it reminds me to
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me, it's almost like,
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you know, back in the sixties, in music,
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like you had the Beach Boys
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here in England,
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you had the English invasion,
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all different types of music, you know,
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now you start to see like,
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I can I can name a name.
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And I can
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I can see the kind of flaws he does,
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you know what I mean?
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And so it's interesting to me
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that you saw
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and I love the newer guys coming in that,
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you know,
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the newer names,
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you know, it's great to see
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the older guys have been around,
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but I love to see the newer guys come in
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with what they're doing
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and they're carrying on this tradition
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of really cool stuff, man.
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And I get inspired.
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I get inspired by it.
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I mean, and I'm glad you're doing this on
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the front end.
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They want to
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give the guys a recognition that way.
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Hey, when the guys working right did it
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the last convention,
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I seen a guy walk around,
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I said, Hey, man,
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let me ask what you did with here.
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What were you thinking
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when you did this part of it?
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And you know what?
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You can just kind of pick their brain
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a little bit.
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Yeah, definitely.
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I can tell you
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and you guys can be able
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to relate to this,
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but what an honor
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it is to be on that stage.
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my God.
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Just you look at it, the masses,
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it's just it's endless.
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Great. It's indescribable.
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I'd like to say that they're all winners,
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but honestly,
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get on that stage.
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I do, Yes.
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Yeah,
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Yeah.
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I think you guys what?
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Yeah, It's a really,
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you know, I
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think Judy's.
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Yeah,
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yeah.
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buckle, you know,
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where's your belt buckle?
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I treasure that double.
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And Judy
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sold into the garage sale for it.
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We got 11 bucks for it,
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so now it's right.
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I had one made for Wayne.
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And then I found out we got two more
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guys have Boner that one for the year,
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Mike DETMER and Larry Nicholson.
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So I was like,
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All right,
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I'm going to have them belt buckles, too.
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And I said, you know,
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So I got them all their belt buckles.
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And then last year there at convention,
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I said, Hey,
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you know, make sure
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you wear those belt buckles, you know,
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because I didn't get reimbursed
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from Bowen or anything.
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This was just out of my pure
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golden heart Wow. Thank you.
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It's beautiful.
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No, I.
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Maybe I will.
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I mean, that might.
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That'll make a statement.
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I think it's something
548
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it might incentivize Thank you.
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Yeah, I'm
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not sure what statement, though.
551
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It would be.
552
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You know, it.
553
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It's pretty cool.
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Hey, do you have the regional instructors
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end up being very regional structures?
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Are they all attending the conference?
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Yes I think
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I think all of them will be there.
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Yes. Okay.
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I saw recently
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Jason Alquist
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did a video on sharpening the scraper.
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It's occurred to me
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that where would I find all those videos?
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Because you're you're in regionals.
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You got a
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you got a powerhouse team right there
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now, Brett.
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I mean, you,
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you look at
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the regional directors,
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every single one of them
573
00:20:51,683 --> 00:20:53,252
across the country, man,
574
00:20:53,252 --> 00:20:54,753
there's no fall off.
575
00:20:54,753 --> 00:20:56,488
They're all fantastic.
576
00:20:56,488 --> 00:20:57,022
They are.
577
00:20:57,022 --> 00:20:58,423
They all have different strengths.
578
00:20:58,423 --> 00:20:59,825
They're all I mean, they're rock stars.
579
00:20:59,825 --> 00:21:00,959
They're great at what
580
00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:02,461
bring to the industry.
581
00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:03,562
We're fortunate that they
582
00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:06,265
they give back to to do a lot of this.
583
00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:07,466
We've developed
584
00:21:07,466 --> 00:21:08,100
I mean, we've got
585
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,102
this whole library of these videos
586
00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:11,236
and we haven't even launched them
587
00:21:11,236 --> 00:21:12,571
all yet.
588
00:21:12,571 --> 00:21:13,805
We're hoping to replicate
589
00:21:13,805 --> 00:21:16,141
and do some more of these down the road.
590
00:21:16,141 --> 00:21:17,876
But we do have a YouTube channel
591
00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:18,410
where a lot of them
592
00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:20,512
live on the YouTube channel.
593
00:21:20,512 --> 00:21:21,747
You might check there.
594
00:21:21,747 --> 00:21:22,981
We have a lot of them
595
00:21:22,981 --> 00:21:25,117
on our online university
596
00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:26,551
and we're trying to pull those out.
597
00:21:26,551 --> 00:21:28,186
Matter of fact,
598
00:21:28,253 --> 00:21:29,955
you start going back
599
00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:31,723
like through the COVID times
600
00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:32,958
when we did our online
601
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:34,559
expo and all of that stuff,
602
00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:35,994
there was some phenomenal videos
603
00:21:35,994 --> 00:21:36,628
that were shot
604
00:21:36,628 --> 00:21:37,863
from our original instructors
605
00:21:37,863 --> 00:21:38,697
during that time.
606
00:21:38,697 --> 00:21:40,499
And I'm starting to get,
607
00:21:40,499 --> 00:21:40,732
you know,
608
00:21:40,732 --> 00:21:41,767
internally get our team
609
00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:43,735
to pull those out, extract them
610
00:21:43,735 --> 00:21:45,504
and just showcase those.
611
00:21:45,504 --> 00:21:46,338
Now, for example,
612
00:21:46,338 --> 00:21:48,974
Tell did one in up in Canada
613
00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:50,876
during that time on different ways
614
00:21:50,876 --> 00:21:51,910
to create a white floor.
615
00:21:51,910 --> 00:21:52,911
And we always tease him
616
00:21:52,911 --> 00:21:58,116
because he kept talking about how
617
00:21:58,216 --> 00:22:06,391
Yeah.
618
00:22:06,491 --> 00:22:14,399
Yep.
619
00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:16,368
good, because they're great videos.
620
00:22:16,368 --> 00:22:17,969
They're great videos. And I'm sorry.
621
00:22:17,969 --> 00:22:19,604
When I see
622
00:22:19,604 --> 00:22:22,040
a Jason, they'll do a video and hey,
623
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,575
the I'm going to stop and watch it.
624
00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:24,309
I mean you
625
00:22:24,309 --> 00:22:25,277
that kind of knowledge,
626
00:22:25,277 --> 00:22:26,511
especially if you're in a career,
627
00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:29,381
early stage, your career, especially,
628
00:22:29,481 --> 00:22:31,316
man, it just takes a learning
629
00:22:31,316 --> 00:22:32,718
curve so much,
630
00:22:32,718 --> 00:22:35,120
you know what, so much time of it.
631
00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:38,056
And we had a guy in a class, we had a
632
00:22:38,056 --> 00:22:40,025
we had a class last week in Nashville,
633
00:22:40,025 --> 00:22:40,692
and one of the guys
634
00:22:40,692 --> 00:22:42,527
was there a 29 years in the trade.
635
00:22:42,527 --> 00:22:43,328
And he was talking about
636
00:22:43,328 --> 00:22:44,096
how much he learned
637
00:22:44,096 --> 00:22:45,530
and whatever it will last two
638
00:22:45,530 --> 00:22:46,998
or three years of his career.
639
00:22:46,998 --> 00:22:47,899
And I really admire
640
00:22:47,899 --> 00:22:48,800
guys that will do that.
641
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:49,634
There have been,
642
00:22:49,634 --> 00:22:51,837
you know, this far into their career
643
00:22:51,837 --> 00:22:52,671
and still be open
644
00:22:52,671 --> 00:22:54,272
minded enough to
645
00:22:54,272 --> 00:22:55,073
to learn for
646
00:22:55,073 --> 00:22:56,541
of from somebody else and what have you.
647
00:22:56,541 --> 00:23:01,313
So pretty pretty cool Wayne.
648
00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:04,216
Wayne, if you ever made a video
649
00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:06,752
I mean all kinds of videos getting
650
00:23:06,752 --> 00:23:09,388
would you get a couple of hits on?
651
00:23:09,454 --> 00:23:10,355
a minute now
652
00:23:10,355 --> 00:23:13,358
which one you talking about.
653
00:23:13,425 --> 00:23:15,193
Well I got a few videos out there.
654
00:23:15,193 --> 00:23:16,695
you're pretty proud of one of them.
655
00:23:16,695 --> 00:23:22,467
The one with the thing on my head.
656
00:23:22,534 --> 00:23:22,868
All right.
657
00:23:22,868 --> 00:23:26,171
Thank you. Yeah.
658
00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:27,172
Yes.
659
00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:29,007
Hey, I was
660
00:23:29,007 --> 00:23:31,777
I was a social media pioneer, man.
661
00:23:31,777 --> 00:23:33,412
We didn't have all the technology
662
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:34,746
you have now.
663
00:23:34,746 --> 00:23:36,648
So all my early videos of
664
00:23:36,648 --> 00:23:37,749
when I did a video in
665
00:23:37,749 --> 00:23:39,184
the background here,
666
00:23:39,184 --> 00:23:41,186
that man for the guy to stop
667
00:23:41,186 --> 00:23:42,087
and then I would
668
00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:43,221
I would pick it up later.
669
00:23:43,221 --> 00:23:45,824
So,
670
00:23:45,824 --> 00:23:47,859
yeah, it's pretty funny.
671
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:49,728
Highlander snapped videos.
672
00:23:49,728 --> 00:23:50,996
Yeah.
673
00:23:50,996 --> 00:23:54,900
That was a for a Snapchat,
674
00:23:54,966 --> 00:23:57,269
I'm telling you so.
675
00:23:57,269 --> 00:24:01,239
All right so end if a
676
00:24:01,339 --> 00:24:02,107
what else you want.
677
00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:02,607
Anything else
678
00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:04,943
you wanted to discuss about it. Brett.
679
00:24:04,943 --> 00:24:06,878
You know, I think
680
00:24:06,978 --> 00:24:07,946
the diversity in our
681
00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:09,047
industry,
682
00:24:09,047 --> 00:24:10,081
we've really tried to capture
683
00:24:10,081 --> 00:24:11,149
the last few years.
684
00:24:11,149 --> 00:24:13,018
We've got a few different events.
685
00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:16,121
You know, the emerging leaders reception
686
00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:16,922
for everybody
687
00:24:16,922 --> 00:24:19,825
who's under 40 years old to go to that.
688
00:24:19,825 --> 00:24:20,659
Anybody who's under there,
689
00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:22,194
I encourage anybody
690
00:24:22,194 --> 00:24:24,529
to go to that emerging leaders reception,
691
00:24:24,529 --> 00:24:26,131
even people that are over 40
692
00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:27,666
just to meet some of the up
693
00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:28,433
and coming people in
694
00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:29,768
our industry is pretty exciting
695
00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:31,470
to see some of these people
696
00:24:31,470 --> 00:24:32,037
coming through
697
00:24:32,037 --> 00:24:33,472
and how much energy
698
00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:35,407
they bring to our trade.
699
00:24:35,407 --> 00:24:37,676
We've got the Women in the industry
700
00:24:37,676 --> 00:24:39,444
conference again, which brings
701
00:24:39,444 --> 00:24:42,447
I mean, and it grows every year.
702
00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:45,116
We've got,
703
00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:46,117
what a couple of the others
704
00:24:46,117 --> 00:24:47,352
that we're doing the new member
705
00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:49,187
or I'm sorry, the new
706
00:24:49,187 --> 00:24:50,889
I think it's a new member reception
707
00:24:50,889 --> 00:24:51,923
where all new members
708
00:24:51,923 --> 00:25:14,579
and first time attendees come Good.
709
00:25:14,679 --> 00:25:19,351
Yeah.
710
00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:30,829
Yeah,
711
00:25:30,896 --> 00:25:35,934
yeah, yeah,
712
00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:39,004
yeah.
713
00:25:39,137 --> 00:25:44,009
Is there.
714
00:25:44,075 --> 00:25:45,944
Well, well, we're
715
00:25:45,944 --> 00:25:46,878
all believe me,
716
00:25:46,878 --> 00:25:49,881
we're going to get into that.
717
00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:51,950
Yeah, yeah.
718
00:25:51,950 --> 00:25:53,251
Yes.
719
00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:55,220
know how much
720
00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:56,288
you think about that.
721
00:25:56,288 --> 00:26:01,960
40 under Okay, well, all right.
722
00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:04,229
Okay.
723
00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:05,897
Well, okay,
724
00:26:05,897 --> 00:26:16,441
so let's get into that right?
725
00:26:16,541 --> 00:26:18,443
Well, okay,
726
00:26:18,443 --> 00:26:20,045
I think we should get into that
727
00:26:20,045 --> 00:26:21,479
and I don't like to complain.
728
00:26:21,479 --> 00:26:23,548
Brett.
729
00:26:23,548 --> 00:26:25,550
I love the 40 under 40.
730
00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:27,719
I mean, they're fantastic,
731
00:26:27,719 --> 00:26:30,121
but when are we going to shine a light on
732
00:26:30,121 --> 00:26:33,425
of people like over 61, my 63 three?
733
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:34,893
Now,
734
00:26:34,893 --> 00:26:36,895
when are we going to give them old guys
735
00:26:36,895 --> 00:26:38,196
and gals some of their due?
736
00:26:38,196 --> 00:26:40,732
I mean, you know, we need a
737
00:26:40,732 --> 00:26:42,500
You know, kind of narrow it down,
738
00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:46,304
you know, 63 born in March, Yeah.
739
00:26:46,371 --> 00:26:50,008
Yeah. July after July 15th.
740
00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:53,011
Yeah,
741
00:26:53,011 --> 00:27:01,753
yeah.
742
00:27:01,820 --> 00:27:04,322
Agreed.
743
00:27:04,322 --> 00:27:06,124
But there are so many people
744
00:27:06,124 --> 00:27:06,891
that have paved the way
745
00:27:06,891 --> 00:27:12,364
and set the foundation for where we are
746
00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:17,602
Yeah,
747
00:27:17,669 --> 00:27:23,074
yeah.
748
00:27:23,174 --> 00:27:32,751
Yep,
749
00:27:32,817 --> 00:27:38,123
yep.
750
00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:38,890
Yeah.
751
00:27:38,890 --> 00:27:41,660
There you go.
752
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,529
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
753
00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:46,531
So, you know.
754
00:27:46,531 --> 00:27:47,732
Yeah,
755
00:27:47,732 --> 00:27:48,833
that thing of you guys
756
00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:50,435
doing anything for Mickey Moore.
757
00:27:50,435 --> 00:27:51,970
I mean, he is
758
00:27:51,970 --> 00:27:53,805
he is the O.G., a training man.
759
00:27:53,805 --> 00:27:55,440
He was the first
760
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,841
he was the first trainer in.
761
00:27:56,841 --> 00:27:58,910
Our our business, I think, you know,
762
00:27:58,910 --> 00:28:02,614
first first official trainer
763
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:05,083
all goes back to him, man.
764
00:28:05,083 --> 00:28:08,453
exactly I mean, people I don't know that
765
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,054
a lot of people
766
00:28:09,054 --> 00:28:09,587
in our industry
767
00:28:09,587 --> 00:28:10,321
really realize
768
00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:12,857
what he paved for our industry.
769
00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:14,492
I mean, he set the standards
770
00:28:14,492 --> 00:28:15,160
through enough money.
771
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,228
He had their standard programs,
772
00:28:17,228 --> 00:28:17,696
the training
773
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:20,265
that they partnered with, and then
774
00:28:20,265 --> 00:28:22,801
ended up taking on
775
00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:29,007
yeah,
776
00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:32,610
yeah.
777
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,112
Well deserved.
778
00:28:34,112 --> 00:28:35,180
for the WFAA
779
00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:36,581
back in my other lifetime,
780
00:28:36,581 --> 00:28:39,150
and I had never
781
00:28:39,150 --> 00:28:41,086
I never got to go to one of Mickey's
782
00:28:41,086 --> 00:28:42,721
normal schools
783
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,123
and then I was talking to Steve,
784
00:28:45,123 --> 00:28:46,391
see Bob before the class.
785
00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:47,692
And he goes, yeah,
786
00:28:47,692 --> 00:28:49,194
Mickey Moore is going to join us
787
00:28:49,194 --> 00:28:49,961
on the school.
788
00:28:49,961 --> 00:28:52,797
And I'm like, man, I've been
789
00:28:52,797 --> 00:28:54,599
waiting for this for about 20 years.
790
00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:55,600
This is awesome.
791
00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:09,481
So
792
00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:12,584
Yeah,
793
00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:15,820
yeah.
794
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,623
Yep.
795
00:29:18,623 --> 00:29:19,591
Are there
796
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:20,625
is there going to be a guest speaker
797
00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:23,061
this year?
798
00:29:23,061 --> 00:29:24,028
That's a good question.
799
00:29:24,028 --> 00:29:38,409
I'm Okay.
800
00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:40,245
I got,
801
00:29:40,245 --> 00:29:41,179
I got time.
802
00:29:41,179 --> 00:29:46,551
I mean I could fly in early.
803
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,486
I just did a presentation
804
00:29:48,486 --> 00:29:51,222
that I equated fishing to sales
805
00:29:51,222 --> 00:29:52,590
so I think I get
806
00:29:52,590 --> 00:29:54,959
I can work something in there.
807
00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:55,693
Yeah.
808
00:29:55,693 --> 00:29:56,494
you know,
809
00:29:56,494 --> 00:29:57,662
you know, Brett, what do you get?
810
00:29:57,662 --> 00:29:59,130
You got to remember about Wayne
811
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:00,331
and I let's say
812
00:30:00,331 --> 00:30:02,967
we're at a sales meeting and
813
00:30:02,967 --> 00:30:04,335
they're saying, all right.
814
00:30:04,335 --> 00:30:11,676
And this year's
815
00:30:11,776 --> 00:30:23,888
yeah,
816
00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:25,557
yeah,
817
00:30:25,557 --> 00:30:26,558
yeah.
818
00:30:26,558 --> 00:30:27,392
And, and
819
00:30:27,392 --> 00:30:28,393
one of the years I was here
820
00:30:28,393 --> 00:30:31,029
and somebody else won.
821
00:30:31,029 --> 00:30:33,531
We're at a fancy
822
00:30:33,531 --> 00:30:34,232
game, the trophy,
823
00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:35,600
and we're at a fancy hotel.
824
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,302
And there was a statue there
825
00:30:37,302 --> 00:30:38,303
and I picked up the statue
826
00:30:38,303 --> 00:30:38,837
and I gave to him.
827
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:39,204
I say, Here,
828
00:30:39,204 --> 00:30:40,538
why don't you take this one with you too?
829
00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:41,172
Is that involved?
830
00:30:41,172 --> 00:30:47,745
You either.
831
00:30:47,812 --> 00:30:48,079
not that
832
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:52,483
I'm competitive.
833
00:30:52,550 --> 00:30:56,054
Yeah.
834
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,592
No, no, no.
835
00:31:00,658 --> 00:31:01,259
What else?
836
00:31:01,259 --> 00:31:02,093
We hit the training.
837
00:31:02,093 --> 00:31:03,161
We hit the
838
00:31:03,161 --> 00:31:06,164
the symposiums and the for the year.
839
00:31:06,264 --> 00:31:07,298
So for that, that you're doing it
840
00:31:07,298 --> 00:31:09,334
on the French side,
841
00:31:09,334 --> 00:31:10,602
I would just implore everybody.
842
00:31:10,602 --> 00:31:12,470
So
843
00:31:12,470 --> 00:31:13,905
how do they if they have registered yet,
844
00:31:13,905 --> 00:31:15,573
how do they how would they register.
845
00:31:15,573 --> 00:31:17,876
You can go go on to our Expo website,
846
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:20,478
just Google
847
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:24,182
Expo 2024, it'll come up and there's
848
00:31:24,249 --> 00:31:25,250
but and it's super easy
849
00:31:25,250 --> 00:31:27,852
to get on there and register
850
00:31:27,852 --> 00:31:30,722
and like I said on that last day is free
851
00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:31,689
for contract
852
00:31:31,689 --> 00:31:33,758
local contractors to come through.
853
00:31:33,758 --> 00:31:36,761
So anybody, even anybody who's attending
854
00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:38,196
and maybe knows some people
855
00:31:38,196 --> 00:31:40,331
or anything like that, I mean, it's
856
00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:42,000
it's always good to fill that class
857
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:42,901
on that last day.
858
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:44,836
Also, we're doing another student event
859
00:31:44,836 --> 00:31:45,770
where we've reached out
860
00:31:45,770 --> 00:31:47,605
to local high schools
861
00:31:47,605 --> 00:31:48,740
and we get high school students,
862
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:49,407
they come through
863
00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:50,074
and it's
864
00:31:50,074 --> 00:31:51,542
kind of fun to see them
865
00:31:51,542 --> 00:31:53,444
get excited about our industry.
866
00:31:53,444 --> 00:31:55,880
Last year was pretty impressive
867
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,081
to see how many came through
868
00:31:57,081 --> 00:31:59,918
and how many hats they could fit on their
869
00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:02,587
Yeah I remember that.
870
00:32:02,587 --> 00:32:05,790
Yeah.
871
00:32:05,890 --> 00:32:06,758
How many vendors
872
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:22,440
booths do you have this year?
873
00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:25,743
Wow,
874
00:32:25,843 --> 00:32:29,480
So that yeah, it is impressive.
875
00:32:29,547 --> 00:32:31,716
And you know how the podcast work Brett
876
00:32:31,716 --> 00:32:32,483
when this is over
877
00:32:32,483 --> 00:32:37,422
we have a Chris that does our he does our
878
00:32:37,522 --> 00:32:39,390
editing and putting it all together
879
00:32:39,390 --> 00:32:40,692
and if you make a mistake
880
00:32:40,692 --> 00:32:42,193
he'll take that out or whatever
881
00:32:42,193 --> 00:32:43,528
and this will come out
882
00:32:43,528 --> 00:32:45,630
as the end of a podcast.
883
00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:48,132
But what you'll hear it it out everything
884
00:32:48,132 --> 00:32:48,700
except for where
885
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:51,336
our booth is on the floor.
886
00:32:51,336 --> 00:32:53,271
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
887
00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:54,672
He understands an editing thing.
888
00:32:54,672 --> 00:32:58,376
Yeah.
889
00:32:58,443 --> 00:32:59,210
Brett
890
00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:02,180
How long you been with the WFA now?
891
00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:03,047
11 years.
892
00:33:03,047 --> 00:33:05,750
And what from where you were
893
00:33:05,750 --> 00:33:07,418
you first started
894
00:33:07,418 --> 00:33:07,785
in the
895
00:33:07,785 --> 00:33:09,053
and how much you've learned
896
00:33:09,053 --> 00:33:10,221
about the industry right now
897
00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:11,522
and how much you've, you've grown.
898
00:33:11,522 --> 00:33:11,956
And I'd say,
899
00:33:11,956 --> 00:33:12,590
what would you say
900
00:33:12,590 --> 00:33:14,359
is the biggest surprise
901
00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:14,959
11 years
902
00:33:14,959 --> 00:33:16,260
or the most gratifying
903
00:33:16,260 --> 00:33:17,695
that that that from your
904
00:33:17,695 --> 00:33:20,665
role that you have right now.
905
00:33:20,732 --> 00:33:22,166
That's a good question.
906
00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:23,134
Tell, tell the truth.
907
00:33:23,134 --> 00:33:25,003
You're shocked that Wayne and I
908
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,571
have had five years of podcasts.
909
00:33:26,571 --> 00:33:31,676
That's the most surprising thing.
910
00:33:31,743 --> 00:33:32,310
and on track.
911
00:33:32,310 --> 00:33:34,312
And I'm trying to get close to you guys.
912
00:33:34,312 --> 00:33:36,381
This video thing is up next for us.
913
00:33:36,381 --> 00:33:40,818
We're
914
00:33:40,918 --> 00:33:41,552
Now, in all
915
00:33:41,552 --> 00:33:43,287
seriousness, I think I mean, just seeing
916
00:33:43,287 --> 00:33:44,822
where this industry's come
917
00:33:44,822 --> 00:33:47,158
and and being a part of it,
918
00:33:47,158 --> 00:33:49,160
I mean, I feel so honored
919
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,597
looking back to my days as a contractor.
920
00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:54,732
I would have never even dreamed
921
00:33:54,732 --> 00:33:56,768
of being a part of the organization
922
00:33:56,768 --> 00:33:57,902
that that
923
00:33:57,902 --> 00:33:59,137
kind of unites the industry
924
00:33:59,137 --> 00:34:01,539
and keeps us all as a big family.
925
00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:03,041
So it's fun to see.
926
00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:04,075
And like you said earlier,
927
00:34:04,075 --> 00:34:04,976
and I think this is the
928
00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:06,511
the best part to me is
929
00:34:06,511 --> 00:34:07,645
the people that are coming up
930
00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:08,913
and into our industry,
931
00:34:08,913 --> 00:34:09,414
the future,
932
00:34:09,414 --> 00:34:11,416
where it's going to pave,
933
00:34:11,416 --> 00:34:13,551
where it's going to go.
934
00:34:13,551 --> 00:34:14,018
That, to me
935
00:34:14,018 --> 00:34:16,054
is one of the most exciting things.
936
00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:17,255
We've got some really good people
937
00:34:17,255 --> 00:34:19,323
coming into this trade.
938
00:34:19,390 --> 00:34:19,757
You know,
939
00:34:19,757 --> 00:34:21,192
Brett, you're no spring chicken.
940
00:34:21,192 --> 00:34:24,896
What would you be, 50 under 50 or 60?
941
00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:30,968
Under 60.
942
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:31,702
yeah.
943
00:34:31,702 --> 00:34:32,437
Yeah.
944
00:34:32,437 --> 00:34:33,171
I thought the
945
00:34:33,171 --> 00:34:34,338
I thought the beer was looking
946
00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:34,972
a little gray.
947
00:34:34,972 --> 00:34:36,541
You're going to need some Grecian formula
948
00:34:36,541 --> 00:34:42,246
due to a ten that 40 under 40.
949
00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:43,247
Well, I remember
950
00:34:43,247 --> 00:34:45,083
the day you got hired at the WFA,
951
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,284
and I said at the same
952
00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:46,951
at that time,
953
00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:47,752
I mean, they could have hired
954
00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:48,753
a better guy for the job.
955
00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:50,521
I mean, you really are the.
956
00:34:50,521 --> 00:34:50,788
Jess.
957
00:34:50,788 --> 00:34:51,322
You've done a lot
958
00:34:51,322 --> 00:34:52,557
for the organization, Brett.
959
00:34:52,557 --> 00:34:53,958
And I think they couldn't
960
00:34:53,958 --> 00:34:57,395
have picked a better guy and
961
00:34:57,495 --> 00:34:59,130
so
962
00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:00,064
trying to favor points
963
00:35:00,064 --> 00:35:04,869
I want to get in there with they had
964
00:35:04,969 --> 00:35:06,504
we had nobody else.
965
00:35:06,504 --> 00:35:08,673
That.
966
00:35:08,673 --> 00:35:11,476
So Brett,
967
00:35:11,476 --> 00:35:12,844
I look forward to seeing you down there.
968
00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:14,178
It's only a short time away.
969
00:35:14,178 --> 00:35:15,346
So if you haven't registered for,
970
00:35:15,346 --> 00:35:17,148
for the event register man,
971
00:35:17,148 --> 00:35:18,382
all this smoke come down there.
972
00:35:18,382 --> 00:35:19,784
It's only a few days.
973
00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:21,085
You work your butt off every,
974
00:35:21,085 --> 00:35:22,386
every, you know, every year
975
00:35:22,386 --> 00:35:24,322
and take a date, take a few time,
976
00:35:24,322 --> 00:35:25,823
you know, a few days to yourself
977
00:35:25,823 --> 00:35:26,991
or your family.
978
00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:29,093
Come down there and enjoy it.
979
00:35:29,093 --> 00:35:30,261
You'll. You'll never regret it.
980
00:35:30,261 --> 00:35:31,729
I always come away so pumped up
981
00:35:31,729 --> 00:35:33,231
after I go the buffet.
982
00:35:33,231 --> 00:35:33,498
I mean,
983
00:35:33,498 --> 00:35:36,134
I come back with a whole new re-energize
984
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:37,168
about doing flowers
985
00:35:37,168 --> 00:35:38,569
when I was a contractor
986
00:35:38,569 --> 00:35:41,005
and meeting like like minded people.
987
00:35:41,005 --> 00:35:42,573
And it's just
988
00:35:42,573 --> 00:35:43,641
you meet so many friends
989
00:35:43,641 --> 00:35:44,442
that you carry with you
990
00:35:44,442 --> 00:35:45,877
for the rest of your career,
991
00:35:45,877 --> 00:35:47,478
it's absolutely worth it.
992
00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:49,614
And thanks for being on, Brett, man.
993
00:35:49,614 --> 00:35:51,749
I mean, really do appreciate.
994
00:35:51,849 --> 00:35:52,450
One more time.
995
00:35:52,450 --> 00:35:53,885
The dates.
996
00:35:53,885 --> 00:35:54,552
April 16th
997
00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:57,755
through the 18th in New Orleans.
998
00:35:57,855 --> 00:35:59,557
Officially, it's at the New Orleans
999
00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:01,759
Ernest and Morial Convention Center
1000
00:36:01,759 --> 00:36:03,928
right downtown.
1001
00:36:03,928 --> 00:36:05,229
Well, that's awesome.
1002
00:36:05,229 --> 00:36:06,531
I did a beautiful wrap up
1003
00:36:06,531 --> 00:36:09,500
that was almost emotional
1004
00:36:09,734 --> 00:36:10,201
and.
1005
00:36:10,201 --> 00:36:12,036
Right, right.
1006
00:36:12,036 --> 00:36:12,904
Yeah, right, right.
1007
00:36:12,904 --> 00:36:14,338
At at the peak
1008
00:36:14,338 --> 00:36:18,075
climax of my beautiful speech, you
1009
00:36:18,142 --> 00:36:23,381
it was the
1010
00:36:23,481 --> 00:36:23,981
right, you know,
1011
00:36:23,981 --> 00:36:24,849
anybody would make a good
1012
00:36:24,849 --> 00:36:26,284
second guy on a podcast.
1013
00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:35,059
You see a lot of people
1014
00:36:35,126 --> 00:36:36,027
watch.
1015
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:39,030
I'm sorry.
1016
00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:40,898
I don't miss anything.
1017
00:36:40,898 --> 00:36:42,333
the. Yeah, that was good. That was.
1018
00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:42,900
Yeah. Yeah.
1019
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:43,701
You know,
1020
00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:47,271
you're more sensitive than you let on.
1021
00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:50,608
yeah.
1022
00:36:50,675 --> 00:36:51,976
Okay.
1023
00:36:51,976 --> 00:36:53,711
Brett, is there anything we left off?
1024
00:36:53,711 --> 00:36:54,512
Is there anything else
1025
00:36:54,512 --> 00:37:26,744
you want to say while we got you here?
1026
00:37:26,811 --> 00:37:28,646
The biggest mistake I made my life.
1027
00:37:28,646 --> 00:37:30,114
And that was both of you guys.
1028
00:37:30,114 --> 00:37:31,882
Absolutely.
1029
00:37:31,882 --> 00:37:32,817
Did you believe that he was
1030
00:37:32,817 --> 00:37:38,122
our boss at one time? Brett
1031
00:37:38,189 --> 00:37:41,559
All right.
1032
00:37:41,659 --> 00:37:42,026
No.
1033
00:37:42,026 --> 00:37:44,295
Yeah.
1034
00:37:44,295 --> 00:37:49,000
Yeah.
1035
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:50,401
You're.
1036
00:37:50,401 --> 00:37:55,172
You're like.
1037
00:37:55,239 --> 00:38:02,213
You're like,
1038
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,948
you're like the guy in the seventh grade.
1039
00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:05,249
It was already starting to grow a beard,
1040
00:38:05,249 --> 00:38:07,418
and he was a tough guy, but then he.
1041
00:38:07,418 --> 00:38:09,020
He plateaued,
1042
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:11,355
and everybody else grew and took off.
1043
00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:11,889
grade. Yeah.
1044
00:38:11,889 --> 00:38:14,892
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1045
00:38:15,092 --> 00:38:16,927
now, truly, I do appreciate you guys
1046
00:38:16,927 --> 00:38:18,562
and thank you so much for having me on.
1047
00:38:18,562 --> 00:38:20,298
And we appreciate this
1048
00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:21,832
this promotion
1049
00:38:21,832 --> 00:38:23,367
for our for our Expo coming up.
1050
00:38:23,367 --> 00:38:23,868
And I look forward
1051
00:38:23,868 --> 00:38:25,503
to seeing you all there, too.
1052
00:38:25,503 --> 00:38:25,903
Certainly.
1053
00:38:25,903 --> 00:38:27,204
Brett, Thank you, sir, for being on
1054
00:38:27,204 --> 00:38:28,139
and look forward
1055
00:38:28,139 --> 00:38:29,206
to seeing what we get down there.
1056
00:38:29,206 --> 00:38:31,342
And thanks so much.
1057
00:38:31,342 --> 00:38:33,010
Yep, Yep.
1058
00:38:33,010 --> 00:38:35,212
go. okay.
1059
00:38:35,212 --> 00:38:36,247
This has been another
1060
00:38:36,247 --> 00:38:37,281
episode of On the Floor
1061
00:38:37,281 --> 00:38:39,917
with Wayne and Rob and Brett Miller.
1062
00:38:39,917 --> 00:38:41,319
Please stay tuned for another episode.