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Hello, and welcome to another
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episode of On the Floor with Wayne Rob.
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I'm Wayne Highlander
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with Bowen adhesives.
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Hey, this week
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we're going to
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do a little recap
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and talk about the expo, and,
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Rob and I are pretty excited about that.
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You can it.
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But.
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Yeah,
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a surprise for me.
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How do we have a guest today?
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I don't even know
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if he told me anything about it.
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Who's a guest?
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Who? Well.
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All right. Well, cool.
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Well, who's the guest?
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We want to introduce him.
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But Mister X, okay.
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By seat.
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My seatmate on the ride
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home on the plane.
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Nobody in the industry.
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Nobody that I can think of.
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All right, well.
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Well, that's exciting, I guess.
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Well, let's go in and, bring them on.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Hey.
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Well, that's kind of odd.
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If I can interrupt.
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Chris, can we have some music now?
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And show floor?
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That your trophy?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well,
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it's very funny,
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cause I do remember this clown now.
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He,
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He fell asleep,
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and I told the airline hostess
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that we were together,
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and I said he wants a Diet
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Coke and extra snacks,
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and I kept it for myself.
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What a loser.
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Yeah.
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Hit the bricks.
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I'm sorry you had to hear that, Rob.
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It was a random dude.
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You know, I don't move for kids.
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I told you that before.
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It's just.
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Yeah.
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Sorry.
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Yeah.
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Me or Dick?
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You know, I got excited there.
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There were so many pictures
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from the end of it.
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Hey, I thought I'd share
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it with everybody.
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Well, I mean, safe in the flight home.
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Rob.
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The expo, I tell you, man.
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Well, first of all,
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congratulations to the National
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Flooring Association.
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From the director on down,
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everybody did an amazing job.
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I mean, every year they do a fantastic.
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There's so many moving parts.
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So many seminars,
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so many educational things,
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so many demos and demo theaters.
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And they have to coordinate
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so many different.
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I don't know how they just.
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How does it run without a hiccup
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every year?
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Hats off to them.
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So the emerging leaders,
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of course, you and I are in
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no part of that.
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The, the young uns coming up.
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I just was so impressed.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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We would definitely fit that one.
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Yep.
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Hit the bricks.
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No kidding.
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That's hard to believe.
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Still looked like the man.
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Did anybody age
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faster than my bobble head?
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Because,
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Thank you.
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Eileen.
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Yes.
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It's pretty cool.
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I think you still got it on.
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I,
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I gotta say, it looks fantastic on him.
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It's like born to wear that hat.
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There's two
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through that.
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I gotta say two things real quick.
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One is, First of all, man,
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just to see all of our our
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our clients and customers
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and friends and colleagues
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and everybody is just phenomenal.
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Everybody.
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So many people came by the booth.
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We thank every one of them
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and means a lot to us
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and to the bone and family.
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And so thank you.
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But and the other thing is,
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you know,
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it was really cool for me
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at the expo this year, is to watch
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how many walking around with you,
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watch how many people knew you, and,
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and how much love that you got from
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everybody that you came across.
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That's kind of cool, man.
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I was really happy for you.
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It was.
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It's we
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we know who the celebrity here is.
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Yep.
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There's
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there's a lot of bosses in the world,
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but there are precious few leaders.
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And Tom was leader, and,
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I'd say the same thing.
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I would not be sitting
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right here right now
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if it's not been for Tom.
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So, what was cool was later
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in the evening,
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you know,
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it was with Tom, and, we ran across,
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Sprague Glen.
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And it just hit me that,
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both those guys there
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together were both Hall of Famers
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and they,
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had a great conversation together.
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And it was
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funny fun for me listening to them.
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Two Hall of Fame guys
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talk about their career
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in the flooring business.
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So yeah, I.
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You and me both.
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I've, I think I've, I think
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I've told this before, but,
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but I.
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I,
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I ran out of gas on the Bay bridge
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in San Francisco Bay area
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with with Tom in the car with me.
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I think I was at Bonner
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for, like,
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a month,
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and, he came out to travel with me,
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and we were in the middle lane.
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I think there's eight lanes
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going across the Bay bridge
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in the middle lane.
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In the middle of conversation,
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the car hesitated and he looked at me.
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He goes, well, he got a gas.
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I looked at the gas gauge, very down.
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Empty.
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I couldn't even form the words
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that I was.
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I was so mortified
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that we were out of gas. In my defense.
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I, my wife had just bought a new car.
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And, you know, usually
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when I have my work van,
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I fill it up on Monday.
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I don't think about it till
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the end of the week,
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but this was like on Wednesday, and,
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the small gas tanks
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and, you know, whatever.
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And, yeah, it was all bad.
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So,
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I was taking him to the airport, and I,
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I maintain that if
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if he had not made his flight on time,
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I may not be here today.
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So.
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I'm.
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Yes, sir.
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I've had better days.
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I, I blame Nissan, I blame my wife.
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I blame someone that possibly,
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siphoned
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all the gas out of their last meeting.
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Yeah, everything I could.
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Hey, congratulations on the floor
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of the year winners.
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Amazing.
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For the year winner.
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Winners. As other.
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Some of the flaws were out of this world.
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A great tribute to the Hickman family.
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And, Hall of Famers as well.
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Well deserved.
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And, Jessica did an amazing job.
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And her speech, about her family and,
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her dad and granddad and,
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that that was very,
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I don't think there's a dry eye in the,
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in the room.
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And then, Jaco.
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So we had Jaco on our, on our podcast,
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and,
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he did,
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man, his floor was amazing.
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Like, when you walked on his it
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when you walk on the floor
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and you look at the floor,
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you think you got.
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It's out of this world, right?
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And he said to me,
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kind of in passing,
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you need to go up
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and look at it from up above.
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And I just kind of blew it off,
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to be honest.
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I said, yeah, I'm right here.
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I see it look great.
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I'm sure it looks
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cool up there,
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but yeah, I can I'm here and it looks
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looks cool.
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And I think on the third day
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I eventually went up
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and looked at it from up above,
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and it was a jaw dropping,
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how extraordinary that floor was.
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And every little detail
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you could see from a distance.
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I don't know where that piece of art
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is going to end up in this world.
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And,
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but it needs to be somewhere
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you can be viewed from a distance
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because it's, there's no words to it's
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the most
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it's the most amazing
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masterpiece of a floor I've seen.
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And I include my work in that as well.
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But, you know,
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let me tell you, before you say this,
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I realized the mistake
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I made with my floor
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that was meeting him.
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I didn't name my floor.
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I his floor is the nightwatchman, right?
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What is it?
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The nightwatch. Okay.
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The nightwatch.
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Okay.
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Where did they get night watchman?
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That's probably where I got it.
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Okay,
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I'm going to name my floor.
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I think about the day.
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Watch.
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I don't know.
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I don't know, but.
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Yeah.
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No.
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What did he.
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Know.
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Yeah.
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He.
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That's right.
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That's biology.
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Yes.
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You know what he said?
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The one thing to me
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that that stuck with me
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when I went to his presentation.
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Is that you talking about?
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Okay, there's a
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the hard, lonely part of doing the floor
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like this, right?
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And, you know, the stick to itiveness and
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and powering through and everything, and,
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and then you have
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the demands on your time
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and stuff like that.
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And how do you power
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through all those type of things?
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And he said the why has to be stronger
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than the concerns.
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The other concerns like time.
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So the why you're doing the floor
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has to be stronger than anything else
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that's taking you away
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from doing the job. You know what I mean?
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So you really think
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about that is the why you're doing it.
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And,
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I think that's pretty
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that's pretty insightful and powerful.
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So that was a
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kind of a neat takeaway for me
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when you're doing a floor
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like that is the
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why you're doing that
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floor
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has got to be more powerful and stronger
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than anything else,
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like time and constraints
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and other things that are going on and,
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and, things in your life
344
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or whatever, or when it gets hard and,
345
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you know, when you have the like.
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He said, the
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lonely road of doing the floor
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by yourself,
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you know, I mean,
350
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when no one's there to see it,
351
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no one's there to see the
352
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when you're, you know, building the sled,
353
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you know, and
354
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and you haven't even done the floor.
355
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You you're simply building a sled
356
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and you haven't.
357
00:17:53,138 --> 00:17:54,073
You started on anything
358
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and or you're ripping the boards down
359
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to thickness and length
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and width and everything
361
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when it's just sad
362
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and no one else is seeing it.
363
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And no one else is there to to witness
364
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how great the floor looks and everything,
365
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or they don't see the vision
366
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that you have in your
367
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your head,
368
00:18:09,154 --> 00:18:10,289
even if you don't know what it is
369
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at the time when you start. Sometimes,
370
00:18:13,992 --> 00:18:14,760
but all that
371
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lonely part of doing the job
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when no one else is around
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and you got to lay the money out
374
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for for it and everything,
375
00:18:20,466 --> 00:18:21,900
and he has carved time away.
376
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Or you could be fishing
377
00:18:23,235 --> 00:18:24,403
and doing other stuff,
378
00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:25,370
but you're in the garage,
379
00:18:25,370 --> 00:18:26,238
or you're in the shop
380
00:18:26,238 --> 00:18:29,241
and you're doing those type of things.
381
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That's pretty that that says it
382
00:18:32,077 --> 00:18:34,313
all to me is the way
383
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has to be stronger than all that.
384
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What are you doing for
385
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that kind of carries you through?
386
00:18:41,186 --> 00:18:43,255
Yeah, I'll tell you why.
387
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I know why.
388
00:18:45,624 --> 00:18:48,026
Okay.
389
00:18:48,026 --> 00:18:50,362
I'll tell you what I did that for.
390
00:18:50,362 --> 00:18:50,863
Honestly.
391
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You want to know the damn truth?
392
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You want, I'll tell you.
393
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I'll tell you why.
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Why is 100%,
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I have one last shot
396
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to do to win a floor of the year.
397
00:19:04,510 --> 00:19:06,979
I have one room left that I could do.
398
00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:09,515
I had one time left, which is Covid.
399
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When we weren't traveling,
400
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I had
401
00:19:11,783 --> 00:19:12,718
my knees were getting
402
00:19:12,718 --> 00:19:14,520
to the end of their life.
403
00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:15,487
You know what I mean?
404
00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:17,289
The pain is real.
405
00:19:17,289 --> 00:19:19,258
And it was my one last shot.
406
00:19:19,258 --> 00:19:19,758
And I see
407
00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:21,059
all these kids,
408
00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:21,527
the younger
409
00:19:21,527 --> 00:19:23,996
guys that I that inspire me,
410
00:19:23,996 --> 00:19:26,031
that that are winning for the years,
411
00:19:26,031 --> 00:19:28,133
that are doing these amazing floors and,
412
00:19:28,133 --> 00:19:30,502
and all this cool stuff they're doing.
413
00:19:30,502 --> 00:19:31,503
And I always feel
414
00:19:31,503 --> 00:19:33,238
I was pretty damn good too.
415
00:19:33,238 --> 00:19:36,208
And this is my one shot at that rodeo
416
00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:39,344
to see if I, if I, if I had what it took
417
00:19:39,778 --> 00:19:41,013
and that was my way.
418
00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:43,048
And that's why during that
419
00:19:43,048 --> 00:19:44,583
100%, this is it.
420
00:19:45,651 --> 00:19:48,554
So.
421
00:19:48,554 --> 00:19:51,190
Yeah.
422
00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:51,757
Yeah.
423
00:19:51,757 --> 00:19:52,991
I could not have done it
424
00:19:52,991 --> 00:19:54,526
at any other time in my career
425
00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:56,595
because we couldn't travel.
426
00:19:56,595 --> 00:19:57,296
I didn't watch.
427
00:19:57,296 --> 00:19:59,131
I watch no football that year.
428
00:19:59,131 --> 00:20:01,466
I didn't go any fishing on the weekends.
429
00:20:01,466 --> 00:20:04,136
I didn't do anything else.
430
00:20:04,136 --> 00:20:05,504
I worked in the evening on it
431
00:20:05,504 --> 00:20:06,104
and whatever.
432
00:20:06,104 --> 00:20:08,440
So it was my one time that I could.
433
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,443
I could do it so that.
434
00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:12,377
And I'm still married.
435
00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:14,046
Hey.
436
00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:14,580
Yeah.
437
00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:17,583
Yeah.
438
00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:23,322
There you go.
439
00:21:26,084 --> 00:21:26,518
Well.
440
00:21:26,518 --> 00:21:29,488
Yeah.
441
00:21:36,428 --> 00:21:37,229
Yeah.
442
00:21:37,229 --> 00:21:37,929
Well yeah.
443
00:21:37,929 --> 00:21:38,230
He was,
444
00:21:38,230 --> 00:21:40,866
he came across an Instagram video
445
00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:42,968
you did on the power scrubber.
446
00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:44,903
So,
447
00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:45,937
you remember that.
448
00:21:45,937 --> 00:21:46,605
Yeah.
449
00:21:46,605 --> 00:21:48,407
So you and Michael
450
00:21:48,407 --> 00:21:50,042
Dittmer did a fantastic job on that.
451
00:21:50,042 --> 00:21:51,777
To fill or not to fill?
452
00:21:51,777 --> 00:21:53,945
Was standing room only in that class.
453
00:21:53,945 --> 00:21:55,280
And a lot of that is not.
454
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,748
It's not to come up with the answers
455
00:21:56,748 --> 00:21:57,015
to me
456
00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:58,317
as so much as to
457
00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:00,085
throw conversation out there.
458
00:22:00,085 --> 00:22:02,187
And so much is regional.
459
00:22:03,388 --> 00:22:04,189
Because what
460
00:22:04,189 --> 00:22:05,190
works in Michigan
461
00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:07,426
may not work in, in Florida. Right?
462
00:22:07,426 --> 00:22:09,027
So I thought it invoked
463
00:22:09,027 --> 00:22:10,562
a lot of conversation.
464
00:22:10,562 --> 00:22:13,565
And,
465
00:23:16,495 --> 00:23:19,498
Yeah.
466
00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:45,424
Yeah.
467
00:23:54,065 --> 00:23:55,767
Drive the current.
468
00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:57,068
Just drive the conversation.
469
00:23:57,068 --> 00:24:00,071
Yeah.
470
00:24:14,786 --> 00:24:15,187
Yeah.
471
00:24:15,187 --> 00:24:18,190
Or an introduction?
472
00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:20,992
Yeah.
473
00:24:20,992 --> 00:24:22,594
Yeah.
474
00:24:22,594 --> 00:24:23,962
It's it's funny
475
00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:25,464
because when I came back from that,
476
00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:28,467
I saw an on, an Instagram video.
477
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,701
Somebody doing it
478
00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:30,302
like what they call
479
00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:33,305
a Dutchman, where you, you put a, sliver,
480
00:24:34,072 --> 00:24:36,508
in the floor had pretty wide gaps.
481
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:37,642
And so they're doing that and, you know,
482
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:38,877
you cut them at an angle, right.
483
00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:40,145
Slight angle.
484
00:24:40,145 --> 00:24:41,513
They he did all that. Right.
485
00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:42,347
But then he
486
00:24:42,347 --> 00:24:44,216
put epoxy on both sides of that
487
00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:45,550
and then drove, you know,
488
00:24:45,550 --> 00:24:47,285
hit it down with a hammer.
489
00:24:47,285 --> 00:24:47,619
Really.
490
00:24:47,619 --> 00:24:48,787
You only want to glue one side
491
00:24:48,787 --> 00:24:50,055
of those things, right.
492
00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:50,755
You don't want to glue
493
00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:52,123
both sides of the boards.
494
00:24:52,123 --> 00:24:53,825
So I thought to myself, that guy
495
00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:54,860
probably looked for problems
496
00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:55,360
down the road
497
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,762
by by gluing both sides of that, slivers.
498
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:25,690
Yeah.
499
00:25:46,077 --> 00:25:49,047
Yeah.
500
00:26:08,967 --> 00:26:10,368
Yep.
501
00:26:10,368 --> 00:26:13,371
Yep.
502
00:26:16,775 --> 00:26:19,778
Yeah.
503
00:26:22,347 --> 00:26:25,016
But just to solve the
504
00:26:25,016 --> 00:26:28,019
she told him under those cracks.
505
00:26:34,192 --> 00:26:36,628
But.
506
00:26:36,628 --> 00:26:39,598
Yeah.
507
00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:09,361
Yeah.
508
00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:16,167
funny
509
00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:16,668
you should say that,
510
00:27:16,668 --> 00:27:17,902
because I was talking to,
511
00:27:17,902 --> 00:27:19,504
Laurie Davidson about a flaw.
512
00:27:19,504 --> 00:27:22,607
He did, and, and he, I think
513
00:27:22,607 --> 00:27:25,610
triple bleached,
514
00:27:25,744 --> 00:27:26,845
Brazilian cherry for.
515
00:27:26,845 --> 00:27:28,146
It's amazing job.
516
00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:29,681
He was talking about filler,
517
00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:30,181
and they
518
00:27:30,181 --> 00:27:30,682
they didn't
519
00:27:30,682 --> 00:27:32,117
they waited to fill it
520
00:27:32,117 --> 00:27:34,252
to see what the end result
521
00:27:34,252 --> 00:27:36,554
color was going to look like. Right.
522
00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:37,422
Makes a lot of sense.
523
00:27:37,422 --> 00:27:37,956
And, you know,
524
00:27:37,956 --> 00:27:39,724
when it comes to exotics and
525
00:27:39,724 --> 00:27:42,727
and flaws like that is like, all right.
526
00:27:42,727 --> 00:27:44,329
How do you choose the wood filler
527
00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:46,131
the way it looks now
528
00:27:46,131 --> 00:27:47,065
or what it's going to end up
529
00:27:47,065 --> 00:27:48,633
looking in the year from now.
530
00:27:48,633 --> 00:27:49,801
You know, I mean, when some of these,
531
00:27:51,102 --> 00:27:51,603
flaws that
532
00:27:51,603 --> 00:27:54,673
really change radically in color, so,
533
00:27:55,473 --> 00:27:57,709
a lot of things, it's
534
00:27:57,709 --> 00:27:59,177
you could get 100 guys in a room
535
00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:00,145
and talk about wood filler.
536
00:28:00,145 --> 00:28:01,846
You get 100 different, feelings
537
00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:03,648
about how things should be done,
538
00:28:03,648 --> 00:28:06,618
and then.
539
00:28:59,771 --> 00:29:00,271
Yeah.
540
00:29:00,271 --> 00:29:00,772
Yeah.
541
00:29:00,772 --> 00:29:01,206
Right.
542
00:29:01,206 --> 00:29:04,209
Yeah.
543
00:29:06,511 --> 00:29:09,047
Yeah.
544
00:29:09,047 --> 00:29:12,016
Yeah.
545
00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:21,526
Yeah.
546
00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:23,595
I think that's fair.
547
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:25,697
Years are going to be lasting.
548
00:29:25,697 --> 00:29:26,564
The talk about
549
00:29:26,564 --> 00:29:28,399
filling years ago for a while
550
00:29:28,399 --> 00:29:30,835
I tried grain filling okay.
551
00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:32,370
Not, not trowel filling
552
00:29:32,370 --> 00:29:34,739
but grain filling the floor.
553
00:29:34,739 --> 00:29:35,607
Because of that man,
554
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:38,343
if you could fill all that soft grain
555
00:29:38,343 --> 00:29:40,678
and make that nice and close up
556
00:29:40,678 --> 00:29:41,446
and everything,
557
00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:43,047
it really hasn't really
558
00:29:43,047 --> 00:29:45,416
just beautifully smooth floors.
559
00:29:45,416 --> 00:29:47,218
And I did it for a short period of time,
560
00:29:47,218 --> 00:29:48,887
and I didn't like it.
561
00:29:48,887 --> 00:29:50,688
I didn't like the way it looked either.
562
00:29:50,688 --> 00:29:52,190
So I got away from it altogether.
563
00:29:52,190 --> 00:29:52,991
But that's
564
00:29:52,991 --> 00:29:54,726
there was a company that had years ago
565
00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:56,661
that advertised grain filling.
566
00:29:56,661 --> 00:29:58,997
Was it really thin, thin filler.
567
00:29:58,997 --> 00:30:00,799
It supposed to hold really well,
568
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:02,367
and I just didn't care for it.
569
00:30:02,367 --> 00:30:03,568
So I got away from doing so.
570
00:30:03,568 --> 00:30:05,170
If people ever come up
571
00:30:05,170 --> 00:30:06,237
and talk about grain filling,
572
00:30:06,237 --> 00:30:07,572
it is a different thing than the
573
00:30:07,572 --> 00:30:09,340
the traveling wood filling a floor.
574
00:30:10,975 --> 00:30:11,776
Last thing I want,
575
00:30:11,776 --> 00:30:14,379
I want to mention is that, bunny hat.
576
00:30:14,379 --> 00:30:17,115
Bunny, Bunny had one hell of a part.
577
00:30:17,115 --> 00:30:20,118
Yeah, we had one hell of a party.
578
00:30:20,852 --> 00:30:23,655
We had just a fantastic party.
579
00:30:23,655 --> 00:30:24,856
I think we had 250,
580
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300 people come through and, and stay
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and hang out with us and,
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and eat and drink with us
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and it was amazing.
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00:30:33,998 --> 00:30:35,500
And, one of the best times I've ever
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had at the cafe
586
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because so many friends in the room,
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so many great customers
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and so many people
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00:30:41,539 --> 00:30:43,508
they respect and admire and
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00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:46,277
and so it was a lot of fun
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00:30:46,277 --> 00:30:48,580
seeing old friends and, and,
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00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:50,248
we really appreciate everybody.
593
00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:52,283
They came by so
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00:30:52,283 --> 00:30:55,286
again, that.
595
00:31:26,317 --> 00:31:29,320
Really?
596
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:47,538
Well.
597
00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:53,311
How is it?
598
00:32:25,877 --> 00:32:28,846
Yeah.
599
00:32:29,514 --> 00:32:29,781
Yeah.
600
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,249
Pretty cool, by the way.
601
00:32:31,249 --> 00:32:32,250
That's,
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00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:33,651
our craft oil boom of craft
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00:32:33,651 --> 00:32:35,086
oil on top of that floor and bone
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00:32:35,086 --> 00:32:36,554
adhesive underneath it.
605
00:32:36,554 --> 00:32:37,755
So that was kind of cool.
606
00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:39,390
I wasn't aware of that
607
00:32:39,390 --> 00:32:40,391
when we first started talking
608
00:32:40,391 --> 00:32:43,127
about this, so, Pretty cool.
609
00:32:45,496 --> 00:32:46,764
Yes, sir.
610
00:32:46,764 --> 00:32:47,198
We might
611
00:32:47,198 --> 00:32:48,599
have him back on as a guest again
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00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:52,070
because, he did a seminar for, at the
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00:32:52,337 --> 00:32:54,272
FAA, and,
614
00:32:54,272 --> 00:32:55,073
I think we might day
615
00:32:55,073 --> 00:32:56,274
maybe we can dive into that
616
00:32:56,274 --> 00:32:56,841
a little bit more.
617
00:32:56,841 --> 00:32:59,644
So there you go.
618
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:01,079
Wonderful success.
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00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:02,447
I know it's hard for everybody.
620
00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:03,648
They didn't get a chance to go.
621
00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:05,216
I know it's hard to get away sometimes.
622
00:33:05,216 --> 00:33:08,219
And sometimes it's impossible, but,
623
00:33:09,921 --> 00:33:11,089
I think the next one is in Fort
624
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:12,924
Worth, Texas. It is.
625
00:33:12,924 --> 00:33:14,192
So that should be a lot of fun
626
00:33:14,192 --> 00:33:16,928
for everybody as well. So. Okay.
627
00:33:16,928 --> 00:33:17,929
All right.
628
00:33:17,929 --> 00:33:19,397
Well, this has been another episode
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00:33:19,397 --> 00:33:21,332
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
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Please stay tuned for another episode.