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Hello.
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Welcome to another episode of On the Floor
with Wayne and Rob.
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I'm Wayne Highlander
National Sales Manager for Bona Adhesives.
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And I'm Rob Johnson, owner
of this weakest chair in podcast history.
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Yeah, try to get that worked out.
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Rob, I have been really meaning
to take care of that, buddy.
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You know, you know something?
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I try not to move.
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Well, my boss told me one time he listen
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back to the podcast
maybe is first and only episode.
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He knows what's going on with that chair
and I knew that a squeaker,
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but I didn't know how bad they came
across.
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So I got riveted on this.
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But I've asked you about that chair
and it's been like nine months.
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So that's.
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Yeah, that's your excellent.
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Yeah. All right.
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Hey. Yes, sir. Happy birthday.
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Happy birthday, buddy.
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Oh, thank you, Rob.
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If you had one. We are.
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I didn't realize
our birthdays are pretty close together.
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Yes, sir.
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Nice. May Andrew lie.
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Let me know when I can stop going out,
looking in the mailbox for
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for any kind of president, right?
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I mean, is there
one coming? I didn't want to ask.
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Like he
might straighten that all out with Judy.
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You should talk to her. OK?
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All right, so there's something coming.
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I want it to be a surprise.
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Wow. Well, so far it's been a surprise.
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Yeah, been surprise that I got nothing.
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All I've done for you, the lord knows
I hook you up this week, man.
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I mean, I hook you up this week big time.
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We don't have to talk about it, but,
you know, I took care of you, brother.
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Oh, all right.
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You know.
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Yeah, you're right.
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I don't know how
I'm ever going to that now.
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That's a tough one to.
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I'll tell you what.
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I'll tell you what I'll do.
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Just sit up just a little bit, just so
we can see what's on your chest there.
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Oh. Oh, there you are.
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Yeah. You know what?
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I gonna let you wear that shirt.
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The whole show.
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Bone in training.
I forgot I had the shirt on.
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You are definitely part of bone
and training now. Wow.
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Thank you very much.
I think you'll have more fun.
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You'll have more fun with us
and the glue guys.
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Well, I don't know.
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I don't know, but, yeah,
it was my birthday.
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Rob, I.
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What did you do?
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I spent
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I spent a couple of days with a
with a bunch of four guys, Rob,
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and I can't tell you, man.
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It's such a pleasure.
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Me when I get to spend time around
a really, really hard working floor, man.
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And we always talk about
how how hard people work in this industry.
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I had the
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privilege to spend time with the Lawson
Brothers,
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Lawson Brothers, Custom Hardwood Floors,
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Jeremy and David Junior
down there in Southern California.
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Rob gonna a some
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if I if I commissioned an artist
and I said
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I want you to paint me
a picture of toughness of an integrity
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paint me a picture that includes
passion of hard work,
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unflinching dedication to the craft.
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When that artist completed it
and he unveiled it and turned around
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and showed me what that picture would be,
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it would be a picture of Jeremy
and David Lawson.
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They they are as legit
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hardcore floor guys as it gets
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talking to them.
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I mean, their standards are so high now.
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They've been doing a long time
that their bodies
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would reject taking a shortcut,
even if their minds would let them do it.
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I mean, freaking studs, man.
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Yeah. So it was really cool.
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And it started me thinking
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maybe that you seen those pictures
of like in Hollywood where they have
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a room full of actors and actresses
that won Academy Awards over the years.
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You know,
there's a famous picture, OK? Yep.
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If they had that
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picture of legendary floor guys,
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Lawson Brothers would be in that picture.
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And they were.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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Go ahead.
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How long you known these guys?
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I just met him.
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Well, actually, take it back.
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One of them was in the school with me
ten years ago.
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He said
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I got to be honest, I don't remember him,
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but he reminded me
that we were in a school together
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about ten years ago, and
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so I don't know. Yeah.
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So like, man, if,
if they had that picture,
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these guys that would represent
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Southern California real
well the West Coast can be proud of them.
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And I'll tell you something else, Rob.
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You're when you're people,
I don't know how many people realize this,
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but when you're working doing floors
in California, man, you're
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running with the big dogs.
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I mean,
there is a lot of competition in there,
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some phenomenal floor guys
north and south and
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you know, a lot of first start
in California,
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a lot of trend start in California.
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A very tough place to work.
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And these guys
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well, I'll say they you know,
I'll tell you something else, too.
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And I was think about this
on the flight home.
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You know, they these guys to me represent
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what so many floor guys
stand for across this country.
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I've seen
I've seen these same guys in Louisiana,
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William Short
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and others.
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I've seen these guys in Michigan.
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I've seen these guys in Texas and Florida
and so many other places, man.
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And I'm proud to say I seen it
my own brothers.
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I'm going to say that
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without hesitation.
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And if our listeners
are listening to this, you know what?
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They're they're probably seeing
the same damn club.
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Right.
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And I
probably just described them as well.
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So yeah, man, it was a
it was a really treat.
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Really a treat for me.
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And, you know, when you several floor guys
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get to hang out together and
and they never met each other before.
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There's some other guys there.
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And we'll talk about that a minute.
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There's an instant connection. Right.
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And it's a level of respect.
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You probably see it in your schools
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I would imagine it's the same like if 22
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former NFL players meet somewhere at a bar
or a restaurant somewhere.
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You know what I mean?
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That that level of respect is there.
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It's kind of cool to see it,
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you know, and
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they exchange pictures of different jobs
that they've done, you know what I mean?
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And so in the schools.
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In the in the schools, those guys
seem to gravitate toward each other.
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And I love it when they really start
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looking out for the new guys
and the young guys and during the school
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and, you know, kind of taking them
under the wing a little bit.
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There's just a level of respect
there, man, you know what I mean?
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And it's kind of cool them showing you
pictures of their work with other guys
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and kind of exchanging different jobs
that they were on and what have you. So,
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you know, there's a
there's a great sense of pride
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that you only get the privilege
of having through experiencing
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hard work
and those guys those guys earned it.
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And I'll tell you, another guy
that I met spent some time with
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Jorge Rivera with J's Hardwood
Flooring Company
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That's Jackie,
and it's actually pretty cool.
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He named it after his daughter's
the initials.
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It's him. Hooray!
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It's Angel, Celeste and Elaine.
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Says where where that name came from.
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But Jorge Rivera, legit, uncompromising,
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unwavering dedication to the craft,
his unshakable dedication to excellence.
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Man These guys, Rob, I was I actually
I would put him in that picture, too.
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And when I was sitting there,
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when I was sitting there with these
guys, Rob, you know, as you get older,
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it becomes more apparent
how I mean, you're withering away
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these look, I'm
looking at these guys, man.
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These guys are bruisers, man.
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I mean, you know what I mean?
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So we were they're a brother to me.
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I mean, you we were there, Rob,
and it's not our turn anymore.
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We don't belong in that club anymore.
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I'm sad to say
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and when people talk.
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We're now in the we're
now in the 60 over 60 club.
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Yeah. You're saying.
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It must be another club for those guys.
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But you know what?
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When people say that,
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you know, guys don't work hard anymore
and this generation
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doesn't know how to work that,
I tell you what, they're not,
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they ain't talking about these guys
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because these guys can hold their own
in any generation.
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So, yeah.
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You know something, and I'm
glad you mentioned that because we have
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got to stop.
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I don't mean we, you and I.
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I mean
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our generation, the 60 over 60.
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We got to stop lumping
all these kids together or kids.
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The younger guys are like,
oh, they're all lazy.
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They're all that.
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I've met way too many guys.
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Young guys in the business
get men starting
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then in for a while,
you know, kicking. But
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they are hard working people.
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I mean, anybody in our business
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and any type of success
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is going to be you're a hard worker and.
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but you see, you know,
they just this whole gender,
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this new generation de Castro
trashed that.
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They're lazy
and they don't want to do anything.
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And I always laugh when I hear
because I'm like, really?
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I don't see it.
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You know, I even look at my own kids.
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I mean, they're all very hard workers.
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But kids who come to the school, kids
I work with in
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training department, everything,
and they bust their butts.
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So I don't know.
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Maybe I don't know. Maybe
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maybe our dads and grandfathers
to say that about us.
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I don't remember hearing that. But.
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Well, I remember
I mean, every generation, let's face it,
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it says it about the generation.
That's that's after them.
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But here's here's one thing
I think about, too, Rob, is
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we didn't have the distractions
that these kids got.
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You know, I mean, we we
we didn't have fast food restaurants
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we didn't have video games.
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We didn't have none of that.
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Wait. Wait, wait.
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We're not. No, wait.
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Come on.
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I remember the first McDonald's
I ever went into.
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It was like heaven, man.
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It was like
I remember the first fast food hamburger.
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Every every was in South Carolina
on the side of a road, and it was biggest
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damn hamburger ever seen.
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And I was I was I was in love.
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I mean, that was a great experience.
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Because I realized that.
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I had to be like 1967, 68.
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So you said you can look up when fast
food restaurants.
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Really.
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No, I'll tell you when I remember
going to my first McDonald's.
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Yeah. Yeah. Night 1972
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was in 1972.
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I was 300 hamburgers in, in 1972.
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I then pretty sure it was like 1972.
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Could have been.
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Andover, Mass. Yeah.
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We got to McDonald's in Andover Mass.
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So OK.
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Yeah but so
you know what it occurred to me
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Rob is
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you and I have a platform, right.
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We're lucky to have this platform, right.
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I mean we could,
we get it out to floor people and I'm
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so lucky to be able to speak about
guys like this,
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about the guys I just mentioned
and the honor them
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and you know what, because Rob, if not for
you and I, then who would do it?
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You know what I mean?
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I would feel like it's a responsibility
and they deserve to be honored.
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And I say it unashamedly for these guys.
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I mean, we we have I think we should do
this more and talk about these guys more.
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There was a few other guys on the trip.
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I can't mention everybody, but
I will mention later on the other episodes
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for sure
but I just came away so impressed, man.
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I just I was a little bit jealous, Rob,
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to be honest with you, because we don't
we don't you know, that's not us anymore.
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You know what I mean? We're in it.
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I feel that, don't you?
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Yeah. I told you.
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I've said it many times.
I miss being strong.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, you know, I'm not at the point
where I had to ask these guys to open up
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my ketchup bottle for me, but,
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you know, there's a difference, man.
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But what a what a pleasure it was.
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And one of the
these guys are hard working dudes, man.
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And you know what?
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The craft is alive, man.
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These guys
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talk about doing things right.
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I mean, like I said,
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somebody mentioned something
about doing something some easy way.
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It came in what context it was now, but
they're like, they dismissed it outright.
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Like they rejected it,
you know what I mean?
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Like, it's not the right thing to do.
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And, you know,
so George and these guys, I mean,
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it was a pleasure.
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It was you know what?
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I had a great time on my birthday.
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I got some fishing in,
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but probably the best time
was hanging around these guys
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and just seeing these guys and
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and it made me feel so happy
about the guys in this industry. So.
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Yes, sir.
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Was this just a trip for your birthday?
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Is this.
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No, it just.
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Celebrating yourself
and bringing people with you?
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No, I just happened to land
on my birthday.
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I got a chance to go out and hang out
with some guys, the fishing trip,
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and somebody else couldn't go,
so I got to go and
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I'm looking at the dates
and I'm thinking of my wife.
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I'm on the road all the time as it is,
and my birthday's coming up.
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I sure like to do this,
so I had to run it by Judy.
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And of course,
she's the best human being on earth.
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She said, Yep, go.
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Don't even think twice, but I just go.
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So I just please leave and forget it.
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For God's
sakes. Please. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And thank you.
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Take your time on the way back,
you know, in a couple more days in
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so where did you go? Where was this trip?
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Where is in Mexico and which includes
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going to the beach,
which means nothing to anybody else.
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You know, everybody else
has it so much easier than me.
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They just go to the beach.
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I got to look at days in advance.
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All right, what am I going to do
about this situation?
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I had to go to a tanning booth again.
323
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I well, what was I supposed to do?
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You know, you can't go out there.
Look in this white.
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Come on.
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You ever seen an albino deer
in the forest?
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Hey, how you not look at that?
328
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Actually, I have.
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Have you really?
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Yes. Yeah, it wasn't in the forest.
331
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It was right in the middle of the road.
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I almost did it
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I thought I was seeing things, so I.
334
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So you're the albino deer walking around?
335
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No, no. You went to a tent.
You went to the tanning.
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Booth, got tanning booth, man.
It didn't work.
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It worked, OK?
338
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I mean, it wasn't great, you know what
I mean?
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Like, I still got a double dark tan,
and I was still Snow White.
340
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Well, what I think it's.
341
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I think it's a tanning. Booth
at this point.
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I don't think it's me.
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Yeah, definitely not you.
344
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I mean.
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Double
Dark should be at least normal, right?
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So you were just expecting
to walk out of there?
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Tanned, buff.
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Just something.
349
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Well, buff is a bit much, but the tan,
I would have, you know, somewhat
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of a semblance of a freaking tan
I'm going to start
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suing some of these places.
352
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I didn't know people would tan
before they go to the beach.
353
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I know. Nobody does.
354
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Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.
355
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In Southern California where I did this,
you actually get a great rate in
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the summertime.
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And it's here.
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Everybody already. Taken?
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Yeah, it's like, you know.
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You know who needs it, right?
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There's only a handful of us,
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but there you go.
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Are you looking pretty white today?
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I know. I'm back to my normal.
365
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Yeah. Oh, I actually.
I didn't tan my face.
366
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I never do when I go to a tanning booth.
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Mm hmm. Just the guns.
368
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Just.
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No, I mean everything except my my face.
370
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OK. That was go to where they are.
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You see, George? What was that?
George Hamilton, that actor?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want that.
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OK? And I had a little
374
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I had a little dispute
with an airline stewardess.
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I don't it never happens.
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I always get along great with him.
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I sat down the second to last row in the
in the airplane.
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I sit next to the window right.
379
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And I'm looking out the window
and the plane is filling up.
380
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I'm looking out the window
and something smells got awful.
381
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Right?
382
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What now?
383
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I'm thinking I'm looking around, you know,
what could it be?
384
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And whatever it I don't want to think
that somebody threw up.
385
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I just try and thinking
that's not what happened.
386
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I'm turning it on
the air. It's not working.
387
00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:20,079
Well, look, on the floor, you can see
like some way, try to clean it up
388
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and something obviously
someone threw up where I was sitting.
389
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Right.
390
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And I have a weak stomach
that makes me want to throw up.
391
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So I moved because I thought
the plane was pretty much full.
392
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I mean, and like 99% of people were there,
so I moved a few seats overnight.
393
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All right, well,
this is a little bit better.
394
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So she, she says,
395
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Is that your seat?
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I said, no.
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And I try to tell her discreetly,
you know what? I mean?
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I didn't want to call it out.
399
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So I said, just let you know somebody.
400
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I think I said,
I think somebody threw up in that.
401
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And it's really kind of smells pretty bad.
402
00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:51,243
And she looks I don't see she goes,
I don't see anything.
403
00:16:51,477 --> 00:16:52,678
I don't see anything visible.
404
00:16:52,678 --> 00:16:55,314
You're going
to have to move back in your seat.
405
00:16:56,115 --> 00:16:58,150
Now. Now, Houston, we got a problem.
406
00:16:58,817 --> 00:17:01,620
So I went until the other airline
stewardess
407
00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:04,023
and she goes pretty much the same thing.
408
00:17:04,023 --> 00:17:06,358
I said, well, let's just put it like this.
I'm not sitting there.
409
00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:08,660
So we got to make other arrangements.
410
00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:10,763
So it turned into a little bit of a thing.
411
00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:13,232
So but they didn't kick me off the plane.
412
00:17:13,732 --> 00:17:16,468
No cops, no handcuffs. No, not this time.
413
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You weren't being taped.
414
00:17:17,603 --> 00:17:20,172
Nobody taped you
so we could see you. Nobody.
415
00:17:20,339 --> 00:17:21,640
I don't think I don't news.
416
00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,375
I don't think I'll be on YouTube
or anything like that.
417
00:17:24,376 --> 00:17:26,612
You know, you got to quit
right before they bring out the Tasers.
418
00:17:27,212 --> 00:17:28,947
That's when, you know, you got
you get that's when.
419
00:17:28,947 --> 00:17:31,517
You're in trouble. Yeah.
420
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How many guys are on the trip?
421
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All four guys.
422
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All four guys.
423
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Yep, all four guys. And,
424
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you know, it's just,
like I said, it was just a good time.
425
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Now, what do you think?
426
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You've done trips like this before.
427
00:17:44,263 --> 00:17:47,866
I've done a couple of trips like this
where we, you know,
428
00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:51,303
we take contractors out fishing and,
you know, things like that.
429
00:17:51,937 --> 00:17:55,874
To me, it's I've always had
so much fun on these trips,
430
00:17:56,742 --> 00:18:00,012
but I go back to how hard these guys work.
431
00:18:00,946 --> 00:18:04,116
And it just seems
when you do something like this,
432
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and especially
when you're with other four guys who also,
433
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you know, know the struggle,
434
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they just seem to really appreciate a day,
a fish.
435
00:18:15,127 --> 00:18:17,429
And more than,
436
00:18:17,429 --> 00:18:20,165
you know, they just go fishing
with your neighbor or something like that.
437
00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:21,567
Yeah.
438
00:18:21,567 --> 00:18:24,369
And I think it's directly related
to how hard these guys work.
439
00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,939
I mean, you know,
I was thinking about this
440
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when you get in the floor
business, right, Rob?
441
00:18:29,341 --> 00:18:32,544
Like you don't start a floor company
because your family's
442
00:18:32,544 --> 00:18:34,279
got it going on usually.
443
00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:35,280
You know what I mean?
444
00:18:36,748 --> 00:18:38,817
I mean, there are some
some some of the excess,
445
00:18:38,817 --> 00:18:41,587
but usually you're not starting a floor
company because you guys got it going on
446
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is hard work.
447
00:18:42,921 --> 00:18:43,555
This is a
448
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this is a swing at the American dream
is what it is what it amounts to to me.
449
00:18:47,726 --> 00:18:50,662
Like this is what everybody gets a shot.
450
00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:52,798
No, you can take your shot and
451
00:18:55,267 --> 00:18:56,668
these guys
452
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I don't know. I can't.
453
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I'm just going to surmise
with the Lawson brothers and George,
454
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they're successful because they got a
they got a big strong back
455
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and they ain't afraid of work.
You know what I mean?
456
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And a lot of floor guys.
457
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All right.
458
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Well, I'll do something
no one else can do.
459
00:19:12,784 --> 00:19:16,121
And then and then he fall in love
with the craft and the passion
460
00:19:16,121 --> 00:19:18,290
for doing it and everything.
461
00:19:18,290 --> 00:19:20,826
So to me, there's something
462
00:19:21,927 --> 00:19:22,594
I don't know, man.
463
00:19:22,594 --> 00:19:24,663
Maybe kind of romantic to me about it,
464
00:19:24,663 --> 00:19:26,765
about the four industry,
whether, you know what?
465
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You got a shot here.
466
00:19:27,866 --> 00:19:29,701
You can you can make it here.
467
00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:33,038
You can, you know,
you can take your your shot
468
00:19:33,238 --> 00:19:37,409
at this American dream, but
and make something for your family.
469
00:19:37,409 --> 00:19:40,746
And like George named after his daughters
and everything, man, that's your
470
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that's your that's your name.
471
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Your blood, sweat and tears.
That's on that.
472
00:19:44,583 --> 00:19:47,553
And it just
it cuts deeper then and hits a little bit
473
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harder than someone is drawing a check
every week, you know what I mean?
474
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There's this lot wrapped up into that
a lot wrapped up into that. So.
475
00:19:56,762 --> 00:19:57,763
So, yeah.
476
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And they probably don't get
a lot of time off like other people do.
477
00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:01,900
I remember when I was doing Floor Man,
478
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well, part of it was my brother
my fault, but I'd have friends.
479
00:20:05,003 --> 00:20:08,473
We don't have friends that, you know,
they get a mandatory four weeks a year
480
00:20:08,974 --> 00:20:12,110
and and when they take that four weeks,
everything drops dead around them.
481
00:20:12,110 --> 00:20:13,545
You don't have to check in.
482
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They don't have to worry
what happened when they're done.
483
00:20:15,714 --> 00:20:17,616
They they're on vacation.
They're on vacation.
484
00:20:17,616 --> 00:20:20,419
But they don't work like that for
for someone that owns their own business
485
00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:24,223
at all, you're still working so
486
00:20:26,425 --> 00:20:28,460
yeah, it was a
it was a great experience for me, Rob.
487
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I was fishing.
488
00:20:30,996 --> 00:20:32,130
It was great.
489
00:20:32,130 --> 00:20:34,233
Was great. Yeah. What were you going for?
490
00:20:36,134 --> 00:20:37,202
Dorado.
491
00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:41,139
And we got Dorado and Tuna
and I caught a marlin.
492
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,742
Somebody kind of sailfish. Wow.
493
00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:44,643
Yeah.
494
00:20:44,643 --> 00:20:47,246
I'm not a deep sea fishing guy.
495
00:20:47,779 --> 00:20:48,480
I'll tell you another.
496
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,282
That's another hardworking profession.
I'll tell you what.
497
00:20:50,282 --> 00:20:54,886
The deckhands work their tails off
and tip the deckhands.
498
00:20:54,886 --> 00:20:56,822
Pleased tip the deckhands.
499
00:20:56,822 --> 00:20:59,591
Yeah, they work their tails off.
500
00:20:59,591 --> 00:21:02,227
And the reason I'm not big into the deep
501
00:21:02,227 --> 00:21:05,030
sea fishing is because 85% of it
502
00:21:05,597 --> 00:21:07,833
you know, 95% of the catch goes
503
00:21:08,133 --> 00:21:11,270
is is is the captain's success.
504
00:21:11,703 --> 00:21:14,539
He's putting you on fish,
you know what I mean? So.
505
00:21:14,539 --> 00:21:15,741
Oh, gosh, yeah.
506
00:21:15,741 --> 00:21:16,074
Yeah.
507
00:21:16,074 --> 00:21:18,310
So I like that now.
508
00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:20,579
Big Marlin,
did they raise the marlin flag?
509
00:21:20,579 --> 00:21:23,181
Was it that kind of boat or was it.
510
00:21:23,181 --> 00:21:25,050
Were they raised more than flag? Yeah.
511
00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:27,019
That's I. Yeah.
512
00:21:27,019 --> 00:21:28,654
We took some a few years
513
00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:31,957
back, Billy and I took some gym
contractors out in Florida,
514
00:21:32,524 --> 00:21:36,795
and it was just a, you know, just a
I think it was only like a half day.
515
00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:39,031
I don't even think we were going to go
for the full day or,
516
00:21:39,931 --> 00:21:42,901
you know, maybe a little
bit more than a half day. And
517
00:21:44,936 --> 00:21:46,371
they loved it, though.
518
00:21:46,371 --> 00:21:46,838
It was hot.
519
00:21:46,838 --> 00:21:47,673
It was a hot day.
520
00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:50,876
So nobody was too upset that it was over
that quick.
521
00:21:50,876 --> 00:21:55,380
And we got back to the pool,
but we we caught a sailfish man.
522
00:21:55,380 --> 00:22:00,752
The captain
definitely wasn't expecting that the flag,
523
00:22:00,752 --> 00:22:04,256
the sailfish flag goes up on the boat
because he was you know, down
524
00:22:04,289 --> 00:22:06,458
the first may get that flag up there.
525
00:22:06,458 --> 00:22:08,794
I mean, it was huge. I was happy.
526
00:22:08,794 --> 00:22:09,661
I mean, the go
527
00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:12,931
I was happy for the guy who caught it,
but I was more happy for the captain.
528
00:22:12,931 --> 00:22:16,034
And the first mate because they were again
high five
529
00:22:16,034 --> 00:22:18,904
and I didn't realize how big it was.
530
00:22:19,538 --> 00:22:22,374
Then we were pulling in the marina.
531
00:22:22,374 --> 00:22:25,410
People were cheering
I saw the flag and they were
532
00:22:25,410 --> 00:22:30,282
clapping and cheering and I was like,
Wow, this is especially cool day.
533
00:22:30,282 --> 00:22:32,117
Yeah. Yeah. Pretty cool.
534
00:22:32,117 --> 00:22:36,288
You know, talking about this and listening
to you talk about these guys and
535
00:22:38,423 --> 00:22:39,424
kind of reminds me some of
536
00:22:39,424 --> 00:22:42,694
the things I miss about doing the job day
in and day out.
537
00:22:43,462 --> 00:22:46,164
And for me,
I think really one of the things I miss is
538
00:22:47,332 --> 00:22:49,968
the camaraderie of the crew.
539
00:22:49,968 --> 00:22:52,037
I love being on teams.
540
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,239
I always have always well.
541
00:22:54,239 --> 00:22:57,109
And, you know, we ran some larger crews
542
00:22:57,943 --> 00:23:00,412
when we were doing the bowling
alleys and stuff.
543
00:23:00,412 --> 00:23:03,115
And I kind of miss that.
544
00:23:03,448 --> 00:23:05,851
You know, I'm
545
00:23:05,851 --> 00:23:08,520
traveling with guys
working with guys, part of the team,
546
00:23:09,788 --> 00:23:11,957
you know, everybody
keeping everybody else going.
547
00:23:11,990 --> 00:23:15,060
I kind of sank.
Definitely missed that part.
548
00:23:15,627 --> 00:23:18,930
Everybody listening to the podcast
right now is one day going to
549
00:23:19,698 --> 00:23:22,267
one day is going to be the last day
they do floors
550
00:23:22,267 --> 00:23:25,337
and it might surprise them
how much they will miss it.
551
00:23:25,470 --> 00:23:30,142
Even the grind, even as hard as it is
and all what have you, there's something,
552
00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:35,046
no matter what any of you, even if you
if you hit the lottery and get out of this
553
00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:37,582
there's aspects of this job
that you will miss.
554
00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:40,118
I agree with that hundred percent.
555
00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:42,454
It's the struggle that makes it great.
556
00:23:42,454 --> 00:23:47,225
I think, you know, it's the struggle and
I'm not taking anything away from anybody.
557
00:23:47,225 --> 00:23:51,229
But when you're struggling
to turn out a floor
558
00:23:51,229 --> 00:23:54,332
and especially one that was a tough one,
you know, it's one thing.
559
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:54,733
All right.
560
00:23:54,733 --> 00:23:58,036
Guys build houses and the house is done
and they take a look back.
561
00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:02,374
But I think we have more of a struggle.
562
00:24:03,175 --> 00:24:04,443
And I think once you've
563
00:24:06,211 --> 00:24:10,015
you achieve perfection or you get the job,
you nail that job
564
00:24:10,015 --> 00:24:13,885
where it was so tough for so many days
and then you pull it out
565
00:24:14,252 --> 00:24:17,222
there's quite a sense of accomplishment
to that.
566
00:24:18,156 --> 00:24:22,794
Here's the strange thing about it, Rob, is
and for a craftsman, is that
567
00:24:23,829 --> 00:24:24,663
and I remember my
568
00:24:24,663 --> 00:24:28,333
my my father in law talking to my
my aunt one time on the kitchen table.
569
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,769
You know, she said,
God, you've been doing this for so long.
570
00:24:30,769 --> 00:24:32,604
How can it still be hard?
571
00:24:32,604 --> 00:24:34,806
Well, the reason why it's still hard
is because
572
00:24:34,806 --> 00:24:37,876
you're always, as you said,
chasing perfection.
573
00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:40,312
Right? You're
always trying to get a perfect floor.
574
00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:40,712
If it
575
00:24:40,712 --> 00:24:41,446
if you didn't care
576
00:24:41,446 --> 00:24:43,548
if it what was the key,
then it would just be another job
577
00:24:43,548 --> 00:24:45,884
and it wouldn't
be anywhere near the challenge.
578
00:24:46,284 --> 00:24:50,989
But because you get so good,
you get chiseled so fine
579
00:24:51,256 --> 00:24:55,560
and you get sharpened so well,
and you that you get so tuned
580
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:56,862
in to what you're doing.
581
00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:57,562
And there's also
582
00:24:57,562 --> 00:25:00,298
you're always that part of you
that there that you can be criticized.
583
00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:01,466
There's that that
584
00:25:01,466 --> 00:25:05,437
you're going to be judged right by
someone who's got the check in their hand.
585
00:25:05,904 --> 00:25:07,506
So all those things make you better
586
00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:10,242
and better and better
and better and better and better.
587
00:25:10,609 --> 00:25:12,611
And then pretty soon
you get to be what you're
588
00:25:12,611 --> 00:25:15,647
I mean, your standard is no longer
what the customer thinks.
589
00:25:15,647 --> 00:25:16,848
That's long gone.
590
00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:18,917
Your standard is your standard
against yourself.
591
00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:23,321
And that that's kind of what keeps
you guys going and what have you and
592
00:25:23,321 --> 00:25:24,689
makes it tough at the same time.
593
00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:27,492
And it makes you just phenomenal
at your craft.
594
00:25:27,993 --> 00:25:31,196
And these are where these guys are at,
you know what I'm saying? Mm.
595
00:25:33,598 --> 00:25:34,232
Absolutely.
596
00:25:34,232 --> 00:25:36,902
You must miss working with your brothers.
597
00:25:38,670 --> 00:25:39,871
Yes or no.
598
00:25:40,005 --> 00:25:41,606
Right? Right. Now,
if they're there. Oh, wait a minute.
599
00:25:41,606 --> 00:25:42,440
Wait a minute.
600
00:25:42,807 --> 00:25:44,910
What is it?
601
00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:47,612
You miss them and they don't miss you or.
602
00:25:48,613 --> 00:25:50,482
Pretty funny way.
603
00:25:50,482 --> 00:25:52,784
Well, it's
probably a little of each right now.
604
00:25:52,784 --> 00:25:56,221
If they're listening, they're like,
I don't miss that. Some
605
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,591
but I, I, I do, though.
606
00:25:59,691 --> 00:26:00,525
I do. I do.
607
00:26:00,525 --> 00:26:02,894
When I, when I'm around them and now
and they're on a job site,
608
00:26:03,128 --> 00:26:06,765
I feel like I can step right in right now
and go and at the same time,
609
00:26:06,765 --> 00:26:09,901
I know that they flat out
do not need me and don't want me.
610
00:26:10,902 --> 00:26:11,469
Don't want me.
611
00:26:11,469 --> 00:26:14,806
I'm sure but yeah.
612
00:26:14,806 --> 00:26:17,676
So I for sure I miss working my brothers
because they're my brothers.
613
00:26:17,676 --> 00:26:18,176
Yeah.
614
00:26:18,777 --> 00:26:21,980
I mean, at one point I had on my crew was
615
00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:26,217
two of my cousins I grew up with
and my two brothers.
616
00:26:26,217 --> 00:26:28,253
So there were, you know, five Johnsons
617
00:26:28,954 --> 00:26:31,556
plus all other guys
and everything were on the crew.
618
00:26:31,923 --> 00:26:34,626
And that you know,
I know if they were listening right
619
00:26:34,626 --> 00:26:37,562
now, they,
they might be talking something different.
620
00:26:38,096 --> 00:26:40,465
But, you know, you look back at that,
621
00:26:40,465 --> 00:26:44,235
you know, the old days, the old stories
and everything and everything,
622
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:47,505
it seemed so like we had so much fun
and great times and
623
00:26:49,374 --> 00:26:52,110
just the struggle always gets.
624
00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:53,878
You never remember the struggle.
625
00:26:53,878 --> 00:26:55,780
You only remember
626
00:26:56,147 --> 00:26:58,783
now. I know if my brother was here
sitting next to me, he'd be
627
00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,853
probably slap me in the back of the head
or something right now.
628
00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:04,789
No, I remember every minute
of the struggle.
629
00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:07,292
Well, I actually do, too.
630
00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:08,393
I remember the struggle
631
00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:10,295
I do.
632
00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:14,265
I remember the a lot of the hard parts
of the job, man, and that doesn't go away.
633
00:27:14,265 --> 00:27:15,433
I still remember that.
634
00:27:15,433 --> 00:27:20,639
But I think that's what link
I think that's what links all of us.
635
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,009
Yeah, everybody's in the wood floors.
636
00:27:24,009 --> 00:27:28,313
I think that is our one common denominator
that I see everybody
637
00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:32,150
to come into the schools and everybody
that you're working with and everything
638
00:27:32,917 --> 00:27:35,220
is we always all have that in common.
639
00:27:35,220 --> 00:27:37,822
There is no easy way of doing this ever.
640
00:27:38,523 --> 00:27:41,593
When when these guys got together for this
fishing trip,
641
00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:44,829
I mean, in a in a matter of hours,
they were brothers.
642
00:27:45,363 --> 00:27:46,364
There's no competition.
643
00:27:46,364 --> 00:27:48,600
There's no, you know, what I mean. Yes.
644
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,702
Because you know that you know
645
00:27:50,702 --> 00:27:53,371
you know that these guys have been through
that struggle, too.
646
00:27:53,838 --> 00:27:54,773
You know what I mean?
647
00:27:54,773 --> 00:27:57,575
I don't care where you come from,
what your background is.
648
00:27:57,575 --> 00:27:59,444
If you're if you're in this job,
649
00:27:59,444 --> 00:28:02,614
you've been in a long time, you get it
and you know that the other guy gets it.
650
00:28:02,614 --> 00:28:05,417
And you know that most people
you don't don't don't understand.
651
00:28:05,417 --> 00:28:08,119
It never will.
Your best friends won't understand it.
652
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,655
So there's there's something there
that bonds us together.
653
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:11,356
Oh, I.
654
00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:13,091
I remember talking about that story.
655
00:28:13,091 --> 00:28:13,525
Yeah.
656
00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:17,295
Friends and family have no idea
how hard you work your friends
657
00:28:17,295 --> 00:28:19,831
and family have no idea how hard you work.
658
00:28:20,298 --> 00:28:22,567
So I guess at the beginning
of this podcast,
659
00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:25,904
Chris asked,
what are we going to name this and that?
660
00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:26,705
Well, hell, I don't know.
661
00:28:26,705 --> 00:28:30,108
I just want to talk about the guys
I met on my fishing trip and whatever.
662
00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:34,245
So I guess maybe this is like an
just an ode to hard working people.
663
00:28:34,646 --> 00:28:37,248
The struggle, the struggle of wood floors.
664
00:28:37,248 --> 00:28:37,749
Yeah.
665
00:28:37,749 --> 00:28:38,316
Yeah.
666
00:28:38,316 --> 00:28:41,553
So, all right,
well, Rob, that's all I got.
667
00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:42,821
That's all I have to talk about.
668
00:28:42,821 --> 00:28:45,857
We don't have to go much further than that
unless you got something else
669
00:28:46,257 --> 00:28:48,660
I'm done, OK? All right.
670
00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:51,429
OK. You don't
671
00:28:51,429 --> 00:28:54,399
say much, folks,
but when he does, it's a gem. Yes.
672
00:28:55,333 --> 00:28:57,402
All right, Rob thanks very much.
673
00:28:57,402 --> 00:29:00,305
And hey, listen to our listeners.
674
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:02,841
We never take it for granted.
We really do appreciate it.
675
00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:06,978
I would love to hear some voice
for some floor floor guys out there
676
00:29:06,978 --> 00:29:10,448
if you want to get in touch,
if maybe you want to share your story or.
677
00:29:10,682 --> 00:29:10,949
Yeah.
678
00:29:10,949 --> 00:29:13,518
And also from people that are outside
the United States.
679
00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:16,154
We have several people that that email us.
680
00:29:16,154 --> 00:29:18,423
And and then Texas from time to time.
681
00:29:18,757 --> 00:29:20,024
We always appreciate that.
682
00:29:20,024 --> 00:29:22,393
And don't be a stranger.
683
00:29:22,393 --> 00:29:25,530
If you feel like you have something
you want to share with us, then please do.
684
00:29:25,530 --> 00:29:27,632
And maybe we can work it
into one of the episodes.
685
00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:30,368
Other than that, thank you very much.
686
00:29:30,668 --> 00:29:33,538
Certainly
appreciate your listenership. And
687
00:29:34,639 --> 00:29:37,308
there's been another episode
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
688
00:29:37,575 --> 00:29:40,145
Please stay tuned for another episode.
689
00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,247
Let's carry that up again.
690
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,083
I mean, so
this has been another episode of
691
00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:49,721
The Hell Do I Do that on the floor
with Waiting Room, right?
692
00:29:50,388 --> 00:29:53,224
This has been another episode
of On the Floor with weight loss.
693
00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:54,559
Right?
694
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:56,027
When I was going to get it right,
695
00:29:56,027 --> 00:29:58,663
this has been another episode
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rhyme.
696
00:29:59,364 --> 00:30:03,201
Rob. That's so all right.
697
00:30:03,201 --> 00:30:05,036
Well, last time was easy Rod.
698
00:30:05,036 --> 00:30:07,071
Easy, easy. Rod.
699
00:30:07,071 --> 00:30:09,741
There's been another episode
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
700
00:30:10,008 --> 00:30:11,943
Please stay tuned for another episode of.