Wayne and Rob highlight some of the winners of the Wood Floor Business Truck and Van Contest in addition to ways to organize your truck or van. Follow Bona US Professional online: Website: https://www1.bona.com/en-us/professional/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BonaProfessional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonauspro/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonapro.us/
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Hello and welcome to another episode
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 from Bona Training.
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Rob, I am so impressed.
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What's that?
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I have to tell you.
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Finally, you got some notoriety here.
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I mean, looking at a magazine.
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Uh huh.
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I'm looking at word for Business magazine.
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July, June, July
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issue.
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You got some recognition.
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Big time pages.
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What?
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Well, 34 and 48, Wayne.
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All right,
so let me look at them again going.
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I'm going to read this off No,
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20, 22 truck in van contest.
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Now. Now, keep in mind,
this magazine was open
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to everybody in the industry nationwide.
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All right.
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Big time to get your name in.
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Here is a winner of the 2022
truck and van contest.
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Is pretty fantastic so I looked it up.
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Hold on, hold on. Okay. All right.
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There's somebody
I mean, best exterior graphics
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best interior, most organized,
all these different things.
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Most unusual, but just coolest truck all.
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Then I get to yours.
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They gave you a whole page, by the way.
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So page. Full page.
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Biggest lovable disaster. Rob Johnson
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that is the most hideous
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van I think I've ever seen in my life.
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Are those bullet holes?
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Just read the story about or.
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Yeah.
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Are they bullet holes
is what I asked in the side of the van.
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I'm not sure.
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They're not sure.
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They get
we get a lot of hunters up where I live.
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Somebody shoot.
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Somebody might have just been,
you know, taken some shots at it.
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The rust that's on their vehicle
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is saying is insane.
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Crazy, isn't it?
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Nora, I love about the picture, though,
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one of the pictures,
there's like four pictures of your van
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is the one to Pauline and the kids and you
and you got your hands.
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She stand there very elegant,
very ladylike.
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Very nice and classy looking.
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The kids,
you could tell raised by a nice mom.
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And you're standing there
with your hands. You parks like what
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I don't care how it looks.
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It's my van.
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What are you going to say about it?
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So that picture below there,
that picture below of Peter and I.
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Yeah, that was our
that was like our Blues Brothers picture.
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It looks like you both got out of prison
and you're on some kind of vinyl
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siding scheme at homes.
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So you're looking at the top picture.
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That was the end of it. And he's like.
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That was it. Yeah.
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But if you go to page 44
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page 44,
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you got a picture of the day
we bought her.
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Look at her.
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I see her full year.
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Not much more beautiful
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it just didn't have the rust.
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No, it was it was pretty clean.
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It was pretty clean when we bought her.
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I can't believe how much you look like
your son.
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Looks like you read
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That's crazy.
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They see the you see that
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other picture on page 44
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of I think I'm wearing the same shirt.
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I think the same picture you got on now.
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I bet it's the same shirt.
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Shoes
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and look at the smile on his face.
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Well, I'm looking at the smile on your
face of accomplishment like I've got here.
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I've arrived I'm as far as I'm going to go
and I'm confident.
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Are you looking at page 44?
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Well, pick a page
every every post years of the same
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yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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I never realize I have a post.
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I didn't know I had a post.
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But your van was in a movie. Yes,
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my van was in a movie called Disoriented.
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That's a good name.
Was that they look inside the van
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Yep. I would love to see that.
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We were working downtown and I had to
go out this truck and get something
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and as you know,
I see there's a crowd of people
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and I even see a camera
like an elevator type camera or something,
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and they're all around my van,
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I mean, literally around my van. So,
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you know,
I started to walk towards it and then,
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you know, it was like a line
you couldn't get past something.
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And my van was inside of that line,
you know?
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So I said, look, I need to get in.
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And he goes,
you know, right in the middle of a scene.
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Can you give us,
you know, another few minutes?
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And I'm like,
the hell are you talking about?
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You're in the middle of a scene.
He goes, Right.
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So this associate producer
or associate director
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or whatever,
he starts telling me about the movie.
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And I actually we I went and got beat and
we actually watched him shoot the scene.
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Of this.
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It was about a kid who came from Asia,
and he comes to school
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and he's going to school in
New York, and he's trying to
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get his
family over here and all sorts of stuff.
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But there's Benny, man.
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He was the backdrop to a scene
where he was delivering
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Chinese food and his bike was parked
there and whatever.
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But it was a very
it was a very low cost, low budget movie.
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Was he kidnaped in a van or something or.
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You know, no, no, no, no.
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Well,
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I give you a hard time, but I had a
I had a beat or two at one time.
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Yeah.
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Organizing vans.
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So we're referencing
where again, we're referencing
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what Floor
Business magazine did a great job.
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And as they always do every.
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Month, this really was a cool issue.
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And I you know, of course,
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me and the kids are in it and Pauline.
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So I thought it
was a really cool issue. But
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I love
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what people are doing with trucks now.
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Well, there's some really great stuff.
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Yeah.
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With the graphics talk about being able
to brand yourself with the grit,
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with the graphics that are on
some of these vans and what have you.
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So really cool stuff and also
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the organization of some of these vans.
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I mean, I know Aaron, she's one
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that category more organized van
and he tied it with another gentleman
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and I got a butcher
his name and I apologize in advance
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he's from Victoria Flooring and
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his name is Tiago Dante,
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who I probably have he's listening
track on what the hell
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I'm going to spell it because it's it's
an honor to get this time ago
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last name is G.O.A.T IJo
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tide for more most organized villain
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and an air and she's down there
and she's for is in Virginia
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I actually seen his van several times in
fact I told him he should be in a magazine
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he is just so organized.
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Well you just can't
you can't swing a dead cat
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without hitting air and cheese article
someplace.
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Isn't that the truth.
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I mean he was just in the end
WFAA magazine
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I think he got an honorable mention.
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And what floor of the year he's in this
I mean yeah it is kids everywhere,
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you know.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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He he's like one of the Kardashian people.
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Yeah, he's everywhere.
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He's everywhere. Hmm.
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How was your truck?
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Do you have a good organized truck?
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I was in the middle of the road.
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You know, he asked me on Monday.
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Yeah, it was organized.
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And he asked me on Thursday.
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Probably not so much.
Sometimes it looked like a jail break.
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I'll tell you one story.
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My van,
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where I was by myself coming
home from a job is about 8:00 at night.
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And, you know, his jobs,
I just got to get stained tonight.
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It has to be staying no matter what
tonight because that keeps me on schedule.
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And when I got it staying, I was dead.
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You know, we talked about the last episode
about burnout.
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I was dead.
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I, I just threw the tools in the van
like it was a jailbreak.
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You know,
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they were like the buffer was between
the two front seats,
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and it never belongs there. I just.
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I just threw it.
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It was on top of cords,
and I never do that.
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I just had to get him,
you know, stain all over my hands.
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And it was only like about a 12 mile trip
to get home.
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And I was pretty much a straight shot,
but there was an s turn in the freeway.
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So when I
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went into the S turn, the buffer rock back
and hit me on the side of the head,
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like, like someone took a just a hammer,
just smacked me in the side of the head.
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So I had to continue driving
through the other part of the astern.
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Well, I did that.
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The buffer had time to go all the way back
and then come back again if I had time.
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This time
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I turn to look and see what, what
just hit me and it was coming back again.
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For the second hit
dead center in the face. Oh.
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It's like it's hard enough
without the tools
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beating the hell out of you
on the way home from the job.
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But I was miserable.
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We were pretty good about being organized
because one thing
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about not being organized
is I don't like looking for stuff.
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You know, there was not a wasted time
and wasted space of not being able
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to find things drove me out of my mind. So
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and but through the hustle
bustle of the day of the week,
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we may especially be doing multiple jobs,
get disorganized,
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but we'd always try to stop
and get oriented.
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I wasn't wasn't bad. I wasn't great.
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About you.
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I think we were the middle of the road.
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I think we were in middle of the road.
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We we always tried to organize.
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The one day I said to Peter
I'm going to build some shelves.
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I'm going to put shelves
in this. We need shelves.
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So I'm building shelves.
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And Rebecca comes out and she's probably
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three years old and she says, What?
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What are you doing?
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I said, I'm building bunk beds
so we can go camping
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and oh, my God, that was just
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he never saw a happier kid.
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And she's running around telling everybody
what I was doing,
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but everybody in the family
knew I was building shelves, you know,
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so the first night we use it,
I said, the bomb.
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The next day I'll say, Hey,
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I just sleep.
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And he goes, I, I didn't sleep a wink.
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Like, all right, really.
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I said, how come?
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He goes, there was these huge screws just
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pointing right at me.
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And I thought if I moved around,
I was like, dude, I wish she had told me.
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You know, I.
Oh, that's brutal. It was just
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I felt bad for the kid.
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Classic though. That's funny.
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Um, what are they going to say?
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Oh, 11 thing about organizing the tools
and and that drove me out of my mind.
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I mean, absolutely made just stop one time
and just completely regroup
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is when you have multiple crews
at the time, we, I think we had three
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or four bands, I can't remember,
but not having exactly the same court.
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And if someone goes from vans or whatever
where they take
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this guy who scored with that buffer
in the court ends don't match
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would drive me absolutely out of my mind.
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So that was a lesson learned
as you grow as a company
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to start making it buy everything exactly
the same.
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I, I remember
you and I talking about this and
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mine wasn't the cords, mine was our hoses.
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Compressor hoses.
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Compressor hoses to the point where I was
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I've just flipped one day as I.
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All right, that's it. We're done.
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Or we're going to fix this right now,
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right here, right now.
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The rest of the afternoon, we're going
to go buy new ends and fix everything.
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It's going to be
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every hose works on every gun
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because I was like, no,
I can't use the black holes on the fence.
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You can't use the orange hose on that.
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And this one goes
with the prime attack in the boss, say.
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And I was like, this is in sanity.
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Or, you know, when you're finishing up
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and you're
using a finished nail or an enabler,
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and if you I'd have
to change hoses rather than.
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Drive you out of your mind.
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Oh, my God. And I just felt so dumb.
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I mean, it was my fault for not,
you know, not paying attention to it.
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I got a question for you. Yeah.
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And I got a question
for every floor guy out there.
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I think my biggest question about trucks,
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a pickup or a van.
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Depends where you live.
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Really?
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Yeah. 100%.
273
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Because if you live in the Bay Area,
you're not going to pull trailer.
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No, no, no, no, no. No.
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Not pulling a trailer.
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Okay.
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A pickup truck or a van.
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For me, it's 100% of van.
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I don't know how you can
work out of a pickup truck.
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I completely I we agree.
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Absolutely.
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And bomb always worked out of a pickup
truck.
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Could never understand why
I worked out a van and I was like, you,
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you can't be serious.
285
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I'm, I'm sure guys do,
but I don't I don't know how you could
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see why we carried everything
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for all the jobs, every tool imaginable.
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And that would work out of a pickup truck.
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Yeah. And we had to to.
291
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I mean, me and raised the what I did
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with the family
working the way we did with the family.
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I mean, we'd pack up on Sunday night
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and not come home
till Friday night or Saturday. So
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staying in hotels,
really traveling around,
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we had no chance
to get back to the warehouse.
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When you left Monday,
you better have everything.
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Paper, finished, material, everything.
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Well, and that's what
a very well organized van will help you
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do, too, is that you're making less trips
to the store, right?
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You actually have everything you need
in a van.
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You can fit stuff in there and amazing
how much you can fit in there
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when it's organized versus
when it's disorganized. And
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what it also did
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is it taught me that, you know what,
I worked with old timers is a carpenter.
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Like you don't share tools.
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You know,
you have your own tool and that's it.
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I mean, you don't ever see our tools.
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And it's a great lesson and I believe
in that because same thing with a van.
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If this guy's got my hammer,
this guy's got my
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this guy's got this and the other, it's
just a chaos in the making.
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So if everybody has their own tools,
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organizes their own stuff,
and it makes life so much easier,
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I have a great friend,
a really good friend
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we're both carpenters together.
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We are both apprentices
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and live in a carpenter's union,
and we're on a job one time.
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The first way I met him was I think it was
like his first couple of days.
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He came over to me
and asked me if I had a champ for sore.
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Well, if you pour concrete,
if you if you're a carpenter,
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you do a lot of concrete forms,
you use Champ Resource
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and you just got to have him.
323
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And he came up to me and he asked me
if he borrow my champion are
324
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able same age as me.
325
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We're both 20 year old kids.
326
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And I said to him, where's yours now?
327
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Yeah, I knew that was a dick move.
328
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I knew it was like
something like a 30 year
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five year old carpenter
would have told him the same thing.
330
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But I said, Where's yours?
331
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And he gave me that look like,
332
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Just let me buy you two.
333
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You're going to help me or what?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
334
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All right.
335
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Now I got a
What's a chance for sore? Okay.
336
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I thought I knew every tool.
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Pitcher back song, but it's like
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really small.
339
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And when you do pouring concrete
340
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a champ chamfer is something
you put around the edge of the forms.
341
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So when you released a concrete
342
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it gives it like a 45 profile,
like a smaller angle profile,
343
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and also helps to finish your finish
to a certain point on, on the form.
344
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So the form might come up,
you know, say, three feet high,
345
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but you only want to pour concrete issues
a level grade on less than that.
346
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And you put the chamfer on there
and that's where he pours
347
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the concrete to the finish.
348
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You will finish it on that.
349
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So I can't we all just all came back to me
here real quick.
350
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Wow. Crazy, huh?
351
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So the guy asked me to borrow my shoe
emphasizing and and I
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you know, like I said,
I said, you know, where's yours? So
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that's
our first introduction to our friendship.
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Our second one was later that day.
355
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He was telling me that his brother brother
boxing the Golden Gloves
356
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and he wanted to go
with was boxing champion.
357
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And I said, what weight class
358
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your brother boxing
359
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because I don't remember him
360
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as but I said.
361
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Man, you were just a hard ass back
then, huh?
362
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Yeah.
363
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Now I'm blessed with the guy
because I don't I you know, you see,
364
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I mean, maybe beyond the next job
you want, whatever and he goes he was
365
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if he fight in the one 78 or whatever
the class, I said
366
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I fight the same weight class mean
I do not remember your brother
367
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and yours really. I go yeah.
368
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Next day after work he brings his brother.
369
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Oh that's what I said.
370
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So John,
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John, John Butch Ilaro is,
his name is brother who's a bull.
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Gold gloves
boxing champion is brother Paul.
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I work with still great friends with him
all today
374
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so he brings his brother back
after work and his brother sizing me up
375
00:18:29,541 --> 00:18:33,378
like I don't know if I don't remember
this guy and I'm look at this guy
376
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and I'm thinking better chance
at how I'm going to fight this guy. I
377
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so and after
378
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I got to know him more, I was like,
thank God in heaven.
379
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I didn't fight this guy.
380
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I was SanFrancisco Golden Gloves.
381
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You must have an Oakland golf.
382
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Oh, what chapter were you in? Yes.
383
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Yeah. There you go.
384
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Yeah. Start dancing.
385
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Ours wasn't actually physical.
386
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I was in.
387
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I was in Oklahoma. Yes.
388
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You thought I said boxing only
389
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banking bank is what I said.
390
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So anyhow, great friends of mine
today to this day.
391
00:19:13,685 --> 00:19:15,988
And then he went on to be
a phenomenal carpenter.
392
00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:18,023
I mean, holy smokes, a great carpenter.
393
00:19:19,324 --> 00:19:22,728
But anyhow, not sharing tools,
I think, is a lesson
394
00:19:22,728 --> 00:19:27,032
I learned out of having disorganized bands
and having multiple crews and, you know,
395
00:19:27,132 --> 00:19:30,836
sometimes you don't find
these growing pains until your business
396
00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:34,673
is growing and you have to stop
and do a reset and go.
397
00:19:34,706 --> 00:19:34,973
Right.
398
00:19:34,973 --> 00:19:40,312
Well, what challenges that we facing and
and this isn't included in this topic,
399
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I guess, but that's why I think
400
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it's good to have a meeting every, every,
every two weeks or whatever, every month.
401
00:19:45,551 --> 00:19:49,354
And everybody sit down at a pizza place
and write down how can we get better?
402
00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:51,723
What do we need to do to get better?
403
00:19:51,723 --> 00:19:55,194
And one thing we all you know,
I worked with my brothers.
404
00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:57,362
We all realize we're doing something wrong
here.
405
00:19:57,362 --> 00:19:59,965
We how do we figure this out?
So we're on the same page
406
00:20:03,335 --> 00:20:04,503
you know, those conveyor
407
00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:07,472
belts like you go through the airport
and they have rollers on them.
408
00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,041
Yeah.
409
00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:13,212
Well, like, okay, so I was at a
I wanted to organize my van
410
00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:15,547
one time and I bought two, two of those.
411
00:20:16,381 --> 00:20:16,682
Right.
412
00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:20,586
And then and then I put a shelf on them
and then I built a box over top of them.
413
00:20:20,986 --> 00:20:23,789
And one of them,
I could put my table sewing in my chops.
414
00:20:24,189 --> 00:20:26,425
And the nice thing about it, they slid.
415
00:20:26,425 --> 00:20:28,026
I can, you know, they slid inside.
416
00:20:28,026 --> 00:20:30,229
I could, I could store them.
417
00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,998
Yeah. Well, that's, that's what I thought.
418
00:20:32,998 --> 00:20:35,400
And on top of
that was like another layer of shelves.
419
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,871
They put other stuff, so it freed up
a lot of room in the van as we got older
420
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,742
and I went to I bought another van.
421
00:20:43,742 --> 00:20:46,645
I told my brother Doug, I said, right now
and you're going to have this van.
422
00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:48,780
He I don't want that in.
423
00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:50,582
I'm not driving that van.
424
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:51,450
I go away.
425
00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:53,485
He goes,
I don't like the stupid boxes in the back.
426
00:20:53,485 --> 00:20:55,654
So that rollers that you have.
427
00:20:55,654 --> 00:21:00,425
And I showed him, I said, look, I mean,
how you can't get any nicer than this.
428
00:21:00,425 --> 00:21:02,494
Oh, awesome. Is that. Yeah, yeah.
429
00:21:02,861 --> 00:21:04,563
The problem is that
430
00:21:04,563 --> 00:21:07,199
if you work it in the city or whatever,
you have to pull those out.
431
00:21:07,566 --> 00:21:09,601
They require
another eight feet behind you.
432
00:21:10,369 --> 00:21:12,738
So there's a Oh, yeah, yeah.
433
00:21:12,738 --> 00:21:14,940
So there's a car back there, you know,
you can't open them.
434
00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:16,708
And they can't get in.
435
00:21:16,708 --> 00:21:18,343
And can't get in them.
436
00:21:18,343 --> 00:21:18,810
I didn't
437
00:21:18,810 --> 00:21:22,614
I didn't anticipate that being a problem
when I built it on and off on him.
438
00:21:23,482 --> 00:21:27,886
So anyhow, learning,
learning, learning growing pains, right?
439
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:28,620
Yeah.
440
00:21:29,554 --> 00:21:30,122
You know what?
441
00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:33,592
I'm looking I'm
looking at my full page story here.
442
00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:36,628
And that bottom picture of Peter
443
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and I, you see that dent in the fender?
444
00:21:39,698 --> 00:21:41,400
I know it's
hard to see with all the recipe.
445
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,137
You see the dent right near the license
plate heading towards the driver's side.
446
00:21:46,605 --> 00:21:48,240
You can get to it
447
00:21:48,473 --> 00:21:51,243
I mean, get past all the nice vans
and the and the article.
448
00:21:51,643 --> 00:21:54,079
Yes. Right in the middle of the van. Yes.
449
00:21:54,713 --> 00:21:54,913
Yeah.
450
00:21:54,913 --> 00:21:55,947
See that dent?
451
00:21:55,947 --> 00:21:56,581
Yeah.
452
00:21:58,850 --> 00:22:02,220
That happened during a snowstorm.
453
00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:03,221
That was a night van.
454
00:22:03,221 --> 00:22:04,956
He saved my life.
455
00:22:06,024 --> 00:22:07,326
I'm in it's a
456
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I'm in a snowstorm
and I'm going down a main
457
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:13,999
a main road wasn't a highway,
but it was a big main road.
458
00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:19,471
I probably going around 50 miles an hour,
maybe in a snowstorm.
459
00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:22,240
Might have been a little fast, but
460
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I had all the equipment in there,
so I was bogged down pretty good.
461
00:22:26,044 --> 00:22:26,778
You know.
462
00:22:26,845 --> 00:22:29,815
First surprises
that Van would do 50 miles an hour.
463
00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:31,817
But let me tell
you something. Brother knew.
464
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That Van.
465
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He had a three 50 inner OC.
466
00:22:36,455 --> 00:22:39,424
She was nothing but power and speed. Wow.
467
00:22:39,858 --> 00:22:41,727
Oh, yeah.
468
00:22:41,727 --> 00:22:44,162
Well, anyways, a car
469
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starts to go up a hill
that was like at an intersection
470
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and in the middle of the snowstorm.
471
00:22:51,169 --> 00:22:53,538
Can't make it up the hill
472
00:22:53,538 --> 00:22:55,707
comes down the hill in reverse.
473
00:22:56,942 --> 00:22:58,844
I got nowhere to go.
474
00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:00,579
I mean, I hit there was.
475
00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:02,481
I'll never forget it was a Monte Carlo.
476
00:23:02,481 --> 00:23:04,983
Probably like a 98 Monte Carlo.
477
00:23:04,983 --> 00:23:07,119
Remember there? The smaller Monte Carlo.
478
00:23:08,286 --> 00:23:11,723
I hit that car and I thought
479
00:23:12,724 --> 00:23:14,860
then his motor was going to be in my lap.
480
00:23:14,860 --> 00:23:16,895
I thought it was just everything, right?
481
00:23:18,530 --> 00:23:20,298
She starts bouncing around.
482
00:23:20,298 --> 00:23:23,535
Her car is bouncing around
completely totaled
483
00:23:24,169 --> 00:23:27,706
bouncing around off of guardrails
like a bum, bum, bum, bum, bum like that.
484
00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:31,343
I think Van is totaled.
485
00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:34,980
The crazy part was everything in the truck
came forward.
486
00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:36,848
I'm here.
487
00:23:36,848 --> 00:23:40,285
Everything we had to buckets of
poly there.
488
00:23:40,385 --> 00:23:43,388
I mean, it was it was
you can imagine right?
489
00:23:43,989 --> 00:23:49,194
Everything, everywhere I get out
of the car, expect in vanity be totaled.
490
00:23:49,795 --> 00:23:52,597
And that's all that happened.
Is that right?
491
00:23:52,831 --> 00:23:54,099
That was it?
492
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,169
It was a beast.
493
00:23:57,169 --> 00:23:59,504
That's the only thing that happened in her
494
00:23:59,504 --> 00:24:02,507
Monte Carlo was it?
495
00:24:02,507 --> 00:24:06,445
It looked like she was hit by four people
because it kept bouncing around
496
00:24:07,078 --> 00:24:09,748
every side of the car was wrecked.
497
00:24:09,748 --> 00:24:12,751
You know that horrible story
might actually have a very positive
498
00:24:13,151 --> 00:24:14,486
aspect to it.
499
00:24:14,486 --> 00:24:16,588
I lived it's a great story.
500
00:24:17,189 --> 00:24:18,790
Maybe saved my life.
501
00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:20,725
Aside from that
502
00:24:22,661 --> 00:24:24,396
a lot of vans have the
503
00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:28,033
the protection between the the drivers
and what's behind them.
504
00:24:28,967 --> 00:24:31,536
And you get in a pretty serious accident.
505
00:24:32,003 --> 00:24:34,873
Yes. You got to look for
what's coming at you,
506
00:24:35,073 --> 00:24:37,843
but then you got to worry about
what's coming behind you. Yes.
507
00:24:37,843 --> 00:24:38,643
You know what I mean?
508
00:24:38,643 --> 00:24:41,146
And nothing like a compressor coming.
509
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:42,380
50 miles an hour at your head.
510
00:24:43,882 --> 00:24:45,817
So I'm glad you told that story.
511
00:24:45,817 --> 00:24:48,920
I was just joking is pretty funny,
but I'm glad you told that story
512
00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:53,525
because that is a pretty good safety thing
to have an event,
513
00:24:54,759 --> 00:24:57,295
you know,
I mean, to have some new equipment
514
00:24:57,295 --> 00:24:59,364
come flying at you in an accident,
515
00:25:00,365 --> 00:25:01,666
a champion. The.
516
00:25:01,666 --> 00:25:03,468
The driver of passenger cage.
517
00:25:03,468 --> 00:25:05,470
Yes, yes, yes.
518
00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:07,272
Well, I didn't have one in there.
519
00:25:07,272 --> 00:25:09,741
No, I clearly I can see that.
520
00:25:10,141 --> 00:25:11,843
We didn't have one in there.
521
00:25:11,843 --> 00:25:15,013
But what we did have in there was
522
00:25:15,580 --> 00:25:17,616
since we were using it for camping
and everything,
523
00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:20,018
it was only a two seater.
524
00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:23,088
So I put a bench seat in there
525
00:25:23,655 --> 00:25:26,424
drilling holes right through securing it.
526
00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:30,262
That A-frame,
I mean, we we put a bench seat in Wow.
527
00:25:30,262 --> 00:25:33,131
And everything hit the bench seat.
528
00:25:33,131 --> 00:25:36,234
Now, with that bench, see,
it had three seat belts.
529
00:25:36,234 --> 00:25:38,770
And I was like,
oh, my God, this is perfect.
530
00:25:38,770 --> 00:25:42,841
Three seat belts, three kids,
everybody's safe when we go on our trips.
531
00:25:43,909 --> 00:25:46,912
Bum seat belt didn't work.
532
00:25:46,912 --> 00:25:48,179
So I used to
533
00:25:51,116 --> 00:25:52,817
this is I know I'm father of the year.
534
00:25:52,817 --> 00:25:55,387
I used to tie it in a knot,
535
00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:57,622
and every time I look at Pauline go,
I'm sorry,
536
00:25:57,622 --> 00:26:00,759
I forgot to get this fixed a seat belt,
but I'll take care of it.
537
00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,728
But I would tie it in or not. Wow.
538
00:26:05,030 --> 00:26:06,665
Wow. Your way.
539
00:26:06,665 --> 00:26:08,867
Advances in automobiles happened.
540
00:26:09,467 --> 00:26:11,570
Yes. You may know.
541
00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:12,771
You can thank me.
542
00:26:12,771 --> 00:26:16,107
You might have a police officer
saw that today.
543
00:26:16,107 --> 00:26:16,975
Yeah. Yeah.
544
00:26:16,975 --> 00:26:19,110
They take away the kids
545
00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:20,178
all right.
546
00:26:22,314 --> 00:26:23,548
Most unusual.
547
00:26:23,548 --> 00:26:25,317
I always loved that. I.
548
00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:25,951
I loved that.
549
00:26:25,951 --> 00:26:26,851
I wish I had done that.
550
00:26:26,851 --> 00:26:28,954
I wanted to do something like that.
551
00:26:28,954 --> 00:26:31,423
I think it's a great idea, and i think we
should mention some of these
552
00:26:32,857 --> 00:26:34,259
names here.
553
00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:35,293
Most unusual.
554
00:26:35,293 --> 00:26:38,029
Looks like it looks like an ambulance.
555
00:26:38,029 --> 00:26:40,732
The Ford doctors in Des Moines, Iowa,
Des Moines, Iowa.
556
00:26:41,399 --> 00:26:43,735
It's a that's a awesome looking vehicle.
557
00:26:43,835 --> 00:26:46,137
The dude even dresses like a doctor. Yeah.
558
00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:48,840
And what a truck.
What a nice truck to work out.
559
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:49,841
A lot of headroom.
560
00:26:49,841 --> 00:26:51,910
Yeah. Yeah. Perfect, man.
561
00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:54,813
Most reflective vehicle.
562
00:26:54,813 --> 00:26:56,615
Did he mean that?
563
00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:59,351
I mean, I,
I I'm sorry about that, daniel, man.
564
00:26:59,351 --> 00:27:00,185
I am.
565
00:27:00,185 --> 00:27:03,989
I in Iowa, he's with me, and I hardwood
floors out and out of white.
566
00:27:04,155 --> 00:27:06,324
That is a stunning looking vehicle.
567
00:27:06,324 --> 00:27:07,325
Best journeyman vehicle,
568
00:27:07,325 --> 00:27:10,495
dave, david friedland, friedland
hardwood floors and Winter Park, Florida.
569
00:27:11,229 --> 00:27:13,531
I love the best vintage ride, larry.
570
00:27:13,531 --> 00:27:17,435
Blood jet black jets
for covering in Lafayette, California.
571
00:27:18,403 --> 00:27:20,105
I love that. That's awesome.
572
00:27:22,173 --> 00:27:22,941
That's Viking
573
00:27:22,941 --> 00:27:25,043
inspired land ship Clint Vernet,
574
00:27:26,411 --> 00:27:28,813
Nordic Flooring in Littleton, Colorado.
575
00:27:29,614 --> 00:27:33,585
Here's a no this guy well, he's
a great craftsman best mountain graphics.
576
00:27:33,585 --> 00:27:38,056
George Perez in Epic for hardwood
floors in Tacoma, Washington.
577
00:27:38,523 --> 00:27:39,658
You know him.
578
00:27:39,691 --> 00:27:40,392
Yeah. Yeah.
579
00:27:40,392 --> 00:27:42,827
He's a he's a real good for me.
580
00:27:42,827 --> 00:27:45,330
You know what it does to me to mention,
581
00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:47,599
there's just there's
a lot to mention in the show here.
582
00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:48,333
But you know.
583
00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:51,369
That one
right under Best Mountain Graphics.
584
00:27:51,369 --> 00:27:53,538
I don't know why more cars aren't
that color.
585
00:27:53,538 --> 00:27:54,873
I love
586
00:27:55,273 --> 00:27:57,475
that matte, that black matte.
587
00:27:57,475 --> 00:28:00,011
I think that's that's pretty cool.
588
00:28:00,445 --> 00:28:01,012
Yeah.
589
00:28:01,012 --> 00:28:04,249
Now, there's some guys on the next pages
that that I know.
590
00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:07,018
You trained a lot of these guys.
591
00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:09,354
Yeah. Yep. Yeah.
592
00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:10,922
Very cool.
593
00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:13,425
Very cool. That's
first impression. Can you read that.
594
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,462
As first impression flooring?
595
00:28:17,462 --> 00:28:18,530
Durango, Colorado.
596
00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:20,765
Yep. No, I don't know him.
597
00:28:20,765 --> 00:28:22,500
Okay, well,
let's not go through all of them.
598
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:24,736
Well, wait a minute.
We got to go through a couple.
599
00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:26,671
This one here.
600
00:28:26,671 --> 00:28:28,339
Most bad ass truck.
601
00:28:28,339 --> 00:28:29,040
Yeah.
602
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:32,043
I train him and his crew
603
00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:35,814
up in Massachusetts last year,
I think it was last year or two years ago,
604
00:28:36,815 --> 00:28:38,283
and we went outside.
605
00:28:38,283 --> 00:28:38,750
I go Hey,
606
00:28:38,750 --> 00:28:42,187
let's take a picture of you guys with your
around your truck and everything.
607
00:28:43,088 --> 00:28:48,126
And I can't believe that he won most bad
ass truck because when I saw his truck
608
00:28:48,126 --> 00:28:51,429
I go, that's one of the most badass
looking trucks I've ever seen in my life.
609
00:28:51,463 --> 00:28:52,230
No kidding.
610
00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:54,666
And now he wins for better trucks.
611
00:28:54,699 --> 00:28:56,434
Wow. Very cool.
612
00:28:56,434 --> 00:28:59,504
Jonathan GQ, hardwood floors.
613
00:28:59,971 --> 00:29:00,271
Yeah.
614
00:29:01,339 --> 00:29:02,407
I went down.
615
00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:04,809
Biggest wave. Adam.
616
00:29:04,809 --> 00:29:05,443
Oh, yeah.
617
00:29:05,443 --> 00:29:08,446
See, he came to a training of ours
in Jersey.
618
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,582
Well, that's very well.
619
00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:12,851
Very great company, great guy.
620
00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:16,454
I mean, super good company. Now,
621
00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:17,188
I'll just.
622
00:29:17,188 --> 00:29:18,123
I'm going to hit on a couple of them.
623
00:29:18,123 --> 00:29:21,126
Then I'm just going to have to touch
on this, because these are great people.
624
00:29:21,159 --> 00:29:24,162
Angus hardwood
flooring in Angus, Alberta, Canada,
625
00:29:25,697 --> 00:29:26,431
super good people.
626
00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:31,035
And then I have to touch on one more
best interior on the exterior of
627
00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:35,707
Cesar Cardona, Cardona
flooring in Stamford, Connecticut.
628
00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:37,509
So there you go. I'm sorry.
629
00:29:37,509 --> 00:29:40,845
Cesar Cardona,
we trained him and his whole crew
630
00:29:41,913 --> 00:29:43,214
came. Okay.
631
00:29:43,214 --> 00:29:45,450
We can't mention them all.
Sorry about that.
632
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:49,254
So I wanted to say what
when you first started talking about Vans,
633
00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:52,957
I was going to say something about,
you know, how important it is for them
634
00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:56,227
to be presentable and this type of thing
and how, you know, everything
635
00:29:57,195 --> 00:29:58,163
matters to the clients.
636
00:29:58,163 --> 00:30:01,166
And then I saw your van on there
637
00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:04,569
and how unreasonable it was
and how successful you are.
638
00:30:05,603 --> 00:30:07,305
So thank you.
639
00:30:07,305 --> 00:30:11,342
It makes me want to say
we all start somewhere, right?
640
00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:13,578
You know what I mean? Yes.
641
00:30:13,578 --> 00:30:18,883
So we may not have we may not have the
sexiest looking vehicle or what have you.
642
00:30:18,883 --> 00:30:21,586
We may not have all these fancy
things yet.
643
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:22,954
Right.
644
00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:27,325
So for anybody that doesn't have
that doesn't fit those categories.
645
00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:30,728
I think you're a great example
of where you can where you start
646
00:30:31,429 --> 00:30:32,764
and where you finish.
647
00:30:32,764 --> 00:30:36,401
I'm glad you said that
because I thought our van
648
00:30:36,901 --> 00:30:39,971
added to the charge of our company
649
00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:44,342
got new just getting out there on our own.
650
00:30:44,809 --> 00:30:48,947
Look, these guys, you know, scraping
and putting it together right
651
00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:53,785
that's what I thought
gave us a little bit of charm. Huh?
652
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:56,287
Oh, that's what I thought.
653
00:30:56,287 --> 00:30:57,355
We got it right.
654
00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,490
Well, you got to tell yourself
that, too, at the beginning.
655
00:30:59,657 --> 00:31:01,626
It's okay. Yeah.
656
00:31:01,626 --> 00:31:02,627
Yeah. There's nothing.
657
00:31:02,627 --> 00:31:05,096
Worse. We're ten years into it. We should.
658
00:31:05,096 --> 00:31:06,831
Yeah, yeah. Change stuff.
659
00:31:06,831 --> 00:31:09,100
Yeah, maybe we got to. And
660
00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:11,803
you know what else about these vans, too,
661
00:31:11,803 --> 00:31:14,873
is what a great source of advertising.
662
00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:18,943
I mean, the raps and the graphics
and everything that people are using now.
663
00:31:19,477 --> 00:31:21,546
I mean, it's just outstanding.
664
00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:25,383
We had a guy come to one of our schools.
665
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:27,752
They'll get three floors.
666
00:31:28,052 --> 00:31:30,989
I think he won best rap last year
667
00:31:32,056 --> 00:31:33,358
in his truck.
668
00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:35,994
Just awesome, awesome looking truck.
669
00:31:37,161 --> 00:31:39,497
One of the things I'd like say about
670
00:31:39,497 --> 00:31:40,865
the got is
671
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:44,302
they recently had their power drive
stolen.
672
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,639
Now. From a job site.
673
00:31:47,639 --> 00:31:48,706
You're kidding me.
674
00:31:48,706 --> 00:31:52,010
Now. And he's you know, huge power drive
and I think
675
00:31:52,644 --> 00:31:56,281
Jeff Alfredo is you know
given him one to hold him over TIL
676
00:31:57,248 --> 00:31:59,751
but I just wanted to mention on the show
677
00:31:59,751 --> 00:32:02,353
if anybody hears of you know
678
00:32:02,353 --> 00:32:05,556
a power drive for sale someplace
679
00:32:05,556 --> 00:32:07,825
and maybe they don't know what they have
I'm thinking
680
00:32:07,825 --> 00:32:11,262
that they took the power drive thinking
they were just grabbing a buffer
681
00:32:11,663 --> 00:32:14,766
and not realizing that
that it was power drive.
682
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:16,834
So keep your eyes out.
683
00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:18,937
He's from Jersey.
684
00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:22,707
Just all the listeners keep your eyes out
for you know, somebody who's might be
685
00:32:22,707 --> 00:32:27,345
selling a power drive on the black market
who doesn't know what they have.
686
00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,981
Yeah. Yeah, good point.
687
00:32:29,981 --> 00:32:31,249
I hate to hear that.
688
00:32:31,249 --> 00:32:33,284
Yeah, I'd love to.
689
00:32:33,484 --> 00:32:35,820
I'd love to find that
and get that back to him.
690
00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:36,421
Yeah,
691
00:32:40,525 --> 00:32:44,395
what was I going to say
692
00:32:44,462 --> 00:32:46,798
oh, so like advertising.
693
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,167
So you said advertising.
694
00:32:49,167 --> 00:32:52,270
Yes. That that's a good cause
of driving billboard down the road, right?
695
00:32:52,537 --> 00:32:54,005
Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
696
00:32:55,473 --> 00:32:55,740
Yeah.
697
00:32:55,740 --> 00:32:58,843
And if that driving billboard
can put a smile on somebody's face,
698
00:33:00,178 --> 00:33:02,280
they'll remember it even better.
699
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:02,680
Yeah.
700
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,950
If you're going to do that, with, like,
a lot of marketing, there's good.
701
00:33:05,950 --> 00:33:07,752
There's ways to do that and not do that.
702
00:33:07,752 --> 00:33:10,121
You're seeing a van is so busy,
you don't know what the hell they do
703
00:33:10,121 --> 00:33:11,622
or where to get. Yes.
704
00:33:11,622 --> 00:33:13,024
And yes.
705
00:33:13,024 --> 00:33:17,128
I like I don't know what you do
or how they get in touch with you because.
706
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:18,930
Where's your phone number? Right.
707
00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:21,632
You're on or when you can't read it.
708
00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:22,934
Yeah.
709
00:33:24,135 --> 00:33:27,171
You know, they put beige on white
or something and you're like, what?
710
00:33:27,572 --> 00:33:28,473
You know?
711
00:33:28,473 --> 00:33:30,508
Yeah, I'd love to give you a call, but.
712
00:33:31,642 --> 00:33:32,176
Yeah.
713
00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:34,946
I try and cut you off
and blow my horn at you.
714
00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,181
I can't read a damn thing on your truck.
715
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:39,584
Yes. Yeah, it's very true.
716
00:33:39,584 --> 00:33:41,519
So there's there's ways to go about that.
717
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,455
There's companies and that design,
those things are doing a good job.
718
00:33:44,455 --> 00:33:47,158
So they're more user
friendly and what have you.
719
00:33:48,259 --> 00:33:51,396
But but a great way to brand yourself.
720
00:33:51,963 --> 00:33:52,363
Yeah.
721
00:33:52,363 --> 00:33:56,034
And I think money
well spent, so not a bad way to go.
722
00:33:56,934 --> 00:33:59,504
Also, if you're, if you're,
723
00:33:59,637 --> 00:34:01,272
if your van is not that
724
00:34:01,272 --> 00:34:04,409
fancy or the paint job whatever,
you can just buy a wrap, right?
725
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:06,611
Cover all that up again.
726
00:34:06,778 --> 00:34:08,679
If they had had reps
727
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,449
when I was driving Vanni
728
00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:14,252
things could be different.
729
00:34:14,252 --> 00:34:15,386
I don't think so.
730
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:19,123
I probably would have had a floor
in the year early.
731
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:20,291
Yeah.
732
00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:21,793
Or yeah.
733
00:34:21,793 --> 00:34:24,962
I if it goes over
rust and dents and dings and whatever.
734
00:34:24,962 --> 00:34:27,432
I mean you know,
they say you can't put lipstick on a pig
735
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:30,234
they're pretty rough.
736
00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:33,571
You know, my kids bowling
and the kids are a little pissed
737
00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:35,873
at the name of that article too.
738
00:34:35,873 --> 00:34:37,141
Yeah. Yeah.
739
00:34:37,141 --> 00:34:39,744
Big as loveable. Disaster.
740
00:34:41,379 --> 00:34:43,981
They were talking about a disaster,
741
00:34:43,981 --> 00:34:46,851
but did you know
they were talking about the van?
742
00:34:47,385 --> 00:34:48,586
Well, that's funny.
743
00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:53,191
You say it like that
because Jeff Alfredo sent me a he saw the,
744
00:34:53,391 --> 00:34:59,097
you know, Alfredo from our team
up in Jersey and he saw the article
745
00:34:59,363 --> 00:35:02,433
and sent me a text, and he goes, Hey,
talking about you or the van.
746
00:35:03,568 --> 00:35:06,637
And I was like, Oh, that's pretty funny.
747
00:35:06,637 --> 00:35:08,206
I know that's exactly where you were.
748
00:35:08,206 --> 00:35:08,906
Going to.
749
00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:09,574
All right. Rob.
750
00:35:09,574 --> 00:35:10,041
Well, yeah.
751
00:35:10,041 --> 00:35:12,243
Hey, look, congratulations. Right.
752
00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:14,812
Thank you very. Much.
753
00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:18,416
Our publicity is good publicity.
754
00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:20,985
For loveable disaster.
755
00:35:20,985 --> 00:35:22,987
Begets lovable disaster.
756
00:35:22,987 --> 00:35:24,989
20. 22.
757
00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:26,057
Well.
758
00:35:26,157 --> 00:35:30,161
You know, I saw that it said,
send in your photos for Van of the Year
759
00:35:30,161 --> 00:35:35,233
contest, and I completely set it in
as an absolute joke.
760
00:35:35,833 --> 00:35:36,734
No kidding?
761
00:35:36,734 --> 00:35:37,201
Yeah.
762
00:35:37,201 --> 00:35:40,671
A 100% joke.
763
00:35:40,671 --> 00:35:42,106
I just thought
764
00:35:42,106 --> 00:35:45,443
that people that would flower business
would see that picture and have a chuckle
765
00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:47,245
and then the
766
00:35:47,245 --> 00:35:51,182
guy calls me and he says,
Do you have more pictures of that van?
767
00:35:51,182 --> 00:35:54,585
And is there a story behind that van?
768
00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:57,488
And I said, Is there a story yeah.
769
00:35:57,488 --> 00:36:00,491
I go, there's a
there's a damn movie behind that truck.
770
00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:03,794
Just quickly.
771
00:36:03,794 --> 00:36:06,097
And when you got rid of that,
what did you go to after that?
772
00:36:07,932 --> 00:36:11,602
A blue van.
773
00:36:11,602 --> 00:36:13,804
So, okay.
774
00:36:15,072 --> 00:36:17,141
Well, and it was strange
775
00:36:17,141 --> 00:36:19,977
because the next van we had, it was blue.
776
00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:24,782
I swear, it was blue with a white stripe
and not green, but it had window.
777
00:36:24,815 --> 00:36:27,585
There was a Chevy,
I think almost the same year
778
00:36:27,952 --> 00:36:30,521
but it had windows,
you know, it was all windows all around.
779
00:36:30,521 --> 00:36:32,523
So, oh, it's a little bit brighter.
780
00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:35,726
You know. Okay.
781
00:36:35,726 --> 00:36:37,361
So it wasn't meant to be a work van.
782
00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:38,763
If it had windows all the way around then.
783
00:36:38,763 --> 00:36:40,531
Right now.
784
00:36:40,531 --> 00:36:43,067
Yeah, because you can, you can see
what's in there and still stuff.
785
00:36:43,067 --> 00:36:44,368
So you wouldn't normally do. That,
786
00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:47,939
you know, where we live, but you just
don't run into that kind of thing.
787
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:50,508
Okay? Like this, and I'm not judging.
788
00:36:51,242 --> 00:36:53,911
Okay. Rob, thank you very much.
789
00:36:53,911 --> 00:36:55,313
Again, congratulations.
790
00:36:55,313 --> 00:37:00,184
And to our listeners thank you as well
and appreciate your listenership.
791
00:37:00,651 --> 00:37:03,621
And there's been another episode
of On the Floor with Wainthropp.
792
00:37:04,021 --> 00:37:05,356
We stay tuned for another episode.