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Hello and
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welcome to
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another episode of On the Floor
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with Wayne and Rob.
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I’m Wayne
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Highlander Director of Sales
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for Bona Adhesives.
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I'm Rob Johnson from Bona Training.
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In a rob what's going on.
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I don't like it doesn't get me
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pumped up ready to go.
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Well
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I want to talk about something
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that will get
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you pumped up and ready to go.
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You know,
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we're going to talk a little bit
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about something down your lane today.
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And I
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something that I
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wholeheartedly believe in is one sentence
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that you see all the time that starts
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every week of every week that you work.
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That sentence is
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it's your cue.
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I, I don't know what my
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I don't know what that sentence is.
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Have you been doing for
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us for 20 years or
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you want it?
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Oh, okay.
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Now I see what you're saying.
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Yeah, man. Wow.
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Okay, well,
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you threw me off with that one.
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All right, Wayne, listen up.
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Part of the PowerPoint
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that we do it
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all our training is
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there's a slide
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that says
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you have blank years of experience
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or one year of experience repeated
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blank, many times riveting.
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What I thought we could talk
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about was our
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when you and I started
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and what's some
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of the things
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that you're doing differently
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now compared to,
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you know, your first five
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or six years of floors
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where we were just really
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doing what we were told
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not to get in any trouble.
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That's funny.
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Doing what
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you're told, not to get in any trouble.
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There's people that
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go through life like that,
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you know what I mean?
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Absolutely.
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Go through go through life like that.
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Just staying out of trouble.
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It's just now the light of sight,
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you know what I mean?
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There's no getting in any trouble.
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But yeah, I mean, things have changed
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dramatically since
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from when
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we first started to where we are now
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in the in the industry.
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So I think that would be
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kind of a neat one to talk about.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Now, when you start saying have flaws,
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it was with your Uncle Stan, right?
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Is that who Stan is?
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Who brought you into the business? Yeah.
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And you did a lot.
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I know you've mentioned it before.
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The Stan says stuff, right?
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He gets a little book.
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Stan says,
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but like I said,
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this show is about things that we changed
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that we thought when we started
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that was it.
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It was from the Holy Grail.
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You know, that book at the time
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when I wrote that,
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that was like the Bible
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for doing floors for me.
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That was from the
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the most experienced man
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I knew
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had been in the trade for 50 years.
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And this was his knowledge
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direct from him to me
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and so important
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that I wrote it all down.
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And today,
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absolutely none of it is valid.
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Isn't that amazing?
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That's wild.
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Yeah, that was the building ground
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for building blocks,
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for building my business
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and being a floor man.
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And none of it is is relative
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or germane today.
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The only thing is the passion behind it
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that it remains the same
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in that something it's crazy.
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So you're turning point was what.
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Education you know.
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Yes. Yeah, education.
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Staying knowing that I did knowing
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I was smart enough
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to know what I didn't know
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and things were changing.
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And I wanted to make sure that we are,
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you know, on the cusp of everything,
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you know, learning the new.
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And and don't get me wrong,
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I would not say I'm an early adapter.
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I am skeptical.
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Well, it well, I told you about my
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I was the last man in America
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to have a cassette player.
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I was one of the
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last three men in America
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that had a VCR with a wire wire
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connected to it.
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I didn't believe in new technology
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of this wireless crap kit.
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You know, that fad.
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I didn't think cassette tapes
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were going to be any better than
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eight track.
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So when I tell you that I'm not one
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to change willy nilly
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once I know something works, I mean, I'm.
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That's absolutely true.
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I remember standing in the
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Kmart auto department.
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Kmart used to have an amazing
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audio
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stereo for
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cars in the automotive department.
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They had everything speakers.
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And I remember standing in a Kmart
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auto department
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with a very good friend of mine,
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Scott Lapp. He's
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trying to talk him out of buying
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a cassette, a cassette player.
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He was going to make the jump
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from eight tracks to cassette.
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And I said, Scott, you're insane.
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First of all, you have to rebuy
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all of your music.
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And second off, this is a gimmick.
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It's a fad.
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This will never allow.
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And the only thing that will ever build,
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you know, withstand
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the test of time is eight track
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cassettes.
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Yeah. Cassettes will never make it.
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It will always be eight track.
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Literally.
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I stood there
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in that thing trying to talk him out of.
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Yeah, I was right with you, man.
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There's, there's no replacing the,
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the eight track set.
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And I know there's people listening
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to this show
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who have no idea
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what we're talking about.
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There's some people who
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probably might even
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have them someplace stored.
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But I know there's some people out there
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who are
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now never heard of an eight track set.
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Yeah, well,
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I mean, I think there's a
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certain rites of passage
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when you're a young adolescent
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growing up.
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One is your first dirt bike.
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I mean, when you're
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and that's why
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I'm against kids getting a getting a
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a dirt bike
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when they're like seven years old or
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four year old quads
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when they're like six or seven years old.
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I'm sorry.
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There's something
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about pedaling and pedaling and pedaling,
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pedaling uphill,
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you know, pedaling all day,
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trying to get somewhere
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on the other side of town
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and riding that bike forever.
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You'll never appreciate
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the wind in your hair.
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The the
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sound of a motor, the
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smell of gasoline
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when you hit that first dirt bike
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as much as a kid who's had a pedal
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and a bicycle for four years.
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And another one is
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is a great stereo system in your car.
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You know what I mean?
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I mean,
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I remember
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the old Jbl's
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and some of the other good stereo
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pioneer.
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There's another one where you're a kid.
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You couldn't
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wait to get a good stereo system.
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you could crank as loud as you wanted.
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So yeah, but you know, things change.
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And like I say, technology changes.
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And, and so I was always
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willing to change if,
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if I saw a good reason behind it.
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I do credit Daniel Boone for because he's
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another one that I respected,
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like I respected my Uncle Stan
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and
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that's probably the genesis
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for a lot of the changes
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and things that I did.
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I, I agree, though.
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My turning point was
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my first and WFA school.
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That's when I was just blown away.
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And like I said, the first
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and I've said it a million
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times on the show,
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you know, the first
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two days of that class, I was just,
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you know,
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everybody's stupid
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and everybody's doing everything wrong.
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Yeah.
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Until, you know,
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I saw a guy boffin stain on.
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And then ever since then, every training
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that I've ever been a part of,
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I know I'm going to walk away
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with with something.
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So definitely education
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is right up there.
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But here are some of mine
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that I do completely different now
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than I did.
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Maybe, let's say the first
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ten or 12 years of my floor
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sanding career
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and the first one
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right off the bat, first,
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when I started to write this down
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first when it hit me, was
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how I dispose of stain rags.
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Now, compared to how we
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dispose of stain rags.
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Mm hmm.
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What did you do initially?
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I used to ball em up and shove them
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deep down into a bag of dust.
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No kidding.
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You get lucky.
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Oh, well,
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we had a couple of dust bag fires,
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but we.
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It never dawned on me that it was stain
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rags. Mm hmm. Ever.
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I mean, until I really started to teach
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and really started.
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And it was one of those things
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that I heard a million times.
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Oh, Stain Rag started
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the fire stain rags.
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And then,
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you know,
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I really jumped online
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and started reading about it and what,
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you know,
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the whole thing that happens with
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the oxidation because the air's
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taken away in the oxidation
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leaves, spontaneous combustion.
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And I was like,
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Oh my God,
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this is just unbelievable stuff.
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So I would say, That's right up
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there on the top of my list.
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Well, I'll start with finishing for me.
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I think I count rolling
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as the best thing I've ever learned
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is for finishing.
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And I we've brushed everything
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with a six inch brush for years.
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I mean, years and years,
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because that was, to me,
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the most quality technique
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you could
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you could get
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that was as clean as it got to coat
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a floor, six inch pretty brush.
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Keep it in the jacket.
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When you were done and take care of it.
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Get out.
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Get a comb coming out when you're done.
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Actually, there's nothing
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dirtier than a brand new brush.
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You have a brand new brush off the shelf
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and take a brush combing, comb
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through it and see how filthy
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they're filthy.
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But
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when I learned how to roll,
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I mean, believe me,
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we went through the sequence
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of rolling in, in t bar
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and in the lamb's wool
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before t bar and all the whole nine yards
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hit by a landslide.
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Rolling was the best thing
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I ever learned about finishing,
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and it's not for every job.
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I'm the first to say it's
345
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not for every job,
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but it is an amazing technique.
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And it's
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I think the quality of of a road floor
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is better than the brush floor.
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So you you brushed all your floors
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when you first start you and stand
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probably for everything single brush.
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15 years I brushed.
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That's it.
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Six inch brushed, nothing else.
356
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Yep.
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Get a wide stance.
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Get your bucket. Get low to the ground.
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Sometimes you'd rest your your
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your forearm and your on your left leg
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with a bucket was held when you got tired
362
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and brushed everything.
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Oh, wow.
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No landfill applicators for you.
365
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Now, we went from the
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brushing to lamb's wool
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and lambs.
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All could do a good job.
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I mean, sometimes a fantastic job,
370
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but you can never really trust them 100%,
371
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you know what I mean?
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From from shedding.
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So, you know, when you got one broken
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in, I said
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before we throw them in the washer dryer
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to get as much the fuzz off it,
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we put it on a
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on the, on the block,
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take a cigaret lighter to to hit
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all the the ends
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for the fussiness stuff on the ends,
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clean them up again.
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Once you got one broken in,
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it goes through the sequence
385
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of being on seal coats, first
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the first coat,
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and then you could trust it on
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on the finish coats
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and then you'd balled up and put it in
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the can afterwards.
391
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You don't have to have poly in it
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to keep it good.
393
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Just keep the lid close on the can.
394
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And I think it will last forever.
395
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And and,
396
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you know,
397
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you would never want
398
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to break in a new one.
399
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So now we used to keep them right
400
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in the bucket of polyurethane.
401
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Mm hmm.
402
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We never. We.
403
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Yeah.
404
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The last thing you want to do
405
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is put a new one on there.
406
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Another one of mine
407
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was how we stored dust,
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especially in backpack vacuums.
409
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We had two backpack fires,
410
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all from storing dust inside
411
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of the not empty in the backpack
412
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and keeping that in the shop
413
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and still never figuring out why.
414
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You know, we had backpack fires until,
415
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you know,
416
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one day
417
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it dawned on us that
418
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the motors get hot as a machine gets used
419
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and that dust gets hot
420
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and melts
421
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the oil
422
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on the side of the plastic of the
423
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backpack. And
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once that hole gets melted, dust starts
425
00:13:00,479 --> 00:13:02,948
falling out, air starts going in.
426
00:13:02,948 --> 00:13:06,185
So but we never really figure it out,
427
00:13:06,252 --> 00:13:10,356
even when it was happening to us.
428
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Yeah. Regular pyromania, were you?
429
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Yeah. Yes.
430
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With. Absolutely.
431
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Yeah. Just.
432
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You said you should have
433
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you should have walked around
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in a flame retardant suit
435
00:13:23,769 --> 00:13:29,942
with all the stuff you were doing.
436
00:13:29,942 --> 00:13:33,345
You know what?
437
00:13:33,345 --> 00:13:34,446
It took me later
438
00:13:34,446 --> 00:13:36,482
in life to learn on the small jobs
439
00:13:36,482 --> 00:13:37,583
and insulation jobs.
440
00:13:37,583 --> 00:13:39,785
Like I say, 300 square feet and under
441
00:13:39,785 --> 00:13:43,422
is just been them for refinish floors.
442
00:13:43,422 --> 00:13:44,523
Just just do a three
443
00:13:44,523 --> 00:13:45,658
finished floor with them.
444
00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:46,625
You know,
445
00:13:46,625 --> 00:13:48,360
if you have to go back as many times
446
00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,563
you have to, to to install and sand
447
00:13:50,563 --> 00:13:52,031
and finish, you know,
448
00:13:52,031 --> 00:13:53,232
you drop it off to acclimate it,
449
00:13:53,232 --> 00:13:54,900
you come back to install it
450
00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:56,368
and then you got to come back and sand
451
00:13:56,368 --> 00:13:56,902
and stain it
452
00:13:56,902 --> 00:13:58,204
and maybe get the first coat on it.
453
00:13:58,204 --> 00:13:59,004
Did you got to come back,
454
00:13:59,004 --> 00:14:01,440
you know, put the subsequent coats on it
455
00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:03,742
on some jobs.
456
00:14:03,742 --> 00:14:04,176
It just make
457
00:14:04,176 --> 00:14:05,444
sense to put a pre finished floor in.
458
00:14:05,444 --> 00:14:07,413
And that's coming from a guy who
459
00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:08,280
my whole
460
00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:09,748
background passion
461
00:14:09,748 --> 00:14:11,851
is with unfinished flooring.
462
00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:13,986
When you start doing the math for me,
463
00:14:13,986 --> 00:14:16,088
you start doing the math.
464
00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:17,756
It just makes more sense.
465
00:14:17,756 --> 00:14:19,592
Unless
466
00:14:19,792 --> 00:14:20,759
you can schedule
467
00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:22,294
sometimes you can schedule jobs
468
00:14:22,294 --> 00:14:23,762
around the same area,
469
00:14:23,762 --> 00:14:24,964
you know what I mean?
470
00:14:24,964 --> 00:14:25,531
Yeah, same.
471
00:14:25,531 --> 00:14:26,632
Same part of the woods,
472
00:14:26,632 --> 00:14:27,633
same part of town.
473
00:14:27,633 --> 00:14:29,535
So in that case,
474
00:14:29,535 --> 00:14:30,870
it makes sense in the morning.
475
00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,671
Boom, it just won't put a coat on
476
00:14:32,671 --> 00:14:33,239
because you're working
477
00:14:33,239 --> 00:14:35,207
right down the road, you know?
478
00:14:35,207 --> 00:14:36,842
And then that case, it does make sense.
479
00:14:36,842 --> 00:14:40,112
But I learned smarter ways of
480
00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:43,082
of looking at the jobs
481
00:14:43,182 --> 00:14:44,583
financially.
482
00:14:44,583 --> 00:14:45,384
That's a good one.
483
00:14:45,384 --> 00:14:48,087
I like that one.
484
00:14:48,087 --> 00:14:50,289
Smaller jobs go with pre finished.
485
00:14:51,223 --> 00:14:53,025
So what were you like under 200 feet?
486
00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:56,562
I'd say like under 200, 300 square feet,
487
00:14:57,129 --> 00:14:58,464
especially if it was out there
488
00:14:58,464 --> 00:15:00,633
any if I was any travel involved at all.
489
00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:02,034
But here's another thing
490
00:15:02,034 --> 00:15:04,003
and I'll put this down is another one.
491
00:15:04,003 --> 00:15:07,239
And it's charge more money
492
00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:09,541
but it's
493
00:15:09,541 --> 00:15:11,577
you know, these people today
494
00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:13,946
when I see the
495
00:15:13,946 --> 00:15:15,114
the amount of money
496
00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:16,415
that these guys are charging today,
497
00:15:16,415 --> 00:15:18,918
sometimes it's it's unreal to me
498
00:15:19,385 --> 00:15:20,853
what they're able to get.
499
00:15:20,853 --> 00:15:21,720
So we do,
500
00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:22,655
you know, we complain about,
501
00:15:22,655 --> 00:15:23,689
oh, it's hard to get help
502
00:15:23,689 --> 00:15:24,924
and what have you and,
503
00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:27,593
you know, we just those type of things.
504
00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:28,427
But let's face it,
505
00:15:28,427 --> 00:15:29,895
if we're being honest guys too,
506
00:15:29,895 --> 00:15:31,530
they are charging.
507
00:15:31,530 --> 00:15:32,398
I mean, what we would see
508
00:15:32,398 --> 00:15:34,199
is crazy amounts of money
509
00:15:34,199 --> 00:15:36,902
to do this, which I think is phenomenal.
510
00:15:36,902 --> 00:15:37,803
Fantastic.
511
00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:38,704
I mean, I couldn't
512
00:15:38,704 --> 00:15:40,806
that is that is always a goal.
513
00:15:41,573 --> 00:15:41,840
But
514
00:15:45,544 --> 00:15:46,278
so yeah,
515
00:15:46,278 --> 00:15:48,180
with that in mind, I mean, you know,
516
00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:49,515
there are times with the guys today,
517
00:15:49,515 --> 00:15:50,783
I hear a guy say you're traveling,
518
00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:52,051
they'll do that three square foot job
519
00:15:52,051 --> 00:15:52,885
because they'll charge
520
00:15:52,885 --> 00:15:54,553
an astronomical amount of money for it
521
00:15:54,553 --> 00:15:55,921
and it's worth it for them.
522
00:15:55,921 --> 00:15:57,823
So you get you got to pick your poison.
523
00:15:57,823 --> 00:15:59,091
One of the other
524
00:15:59,091 --> 00:16:01,460
you has a charge appropriately
525
00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:05,331
and the guys that are just not afraid to
526
00:16:05,331 --> 00:16:06,131
to charge
527
00:16:06,131 --> 00:16:07,599
and don't feel guilty about charging
528
00:16:07,599 --> 00:16:10,602
whatever are making an absolute killing.
529
00:16:10,602 --> 00:16:12,271
And I think it's fantastic
530
00:16:12,271 --> 00:16:13,939
because it's hard work and you need to.
531
00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:17,409
Your have been on jury duty.
532
00:16:17,409 --> 00:16:20,679
No I've always got out of it.
533
00:16:20,679 --> 00:16:22,948
I have finally
534
00:16:22,948 --> 00:16:24,717
I've done everything to get out of it
535
00:16:24,717 --> 00:16:27,987
and now I have to go tomorrow.
536
00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:29,455
I have to go to jury duty tomorrow
537
00:16:29,455 --> 00:16:30,289
on a grand jury.
538
00:16:30,289 --> 00:16:32,858
I have no idea what I'm going to do.
539
00:16:32,858 --> 00:16:33,592
Yeah.
540
00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:35,561
But I've been ducking it for a while.
541
00:16:35,561 --> 00:16:38,330
And now, finally,
542
00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:39,231
I thought for sure
543
00:16:39,231 --> 00:16:40,599
you were going to have a good jury
544
00:16:40,599 --> 00:16:42,167
duty story.
545
00:16:42,167 --> 00:16:42,968
No, but I have.
546
00:16:42,968 --> 00:16:44,903
I have a courtroom story.
547
00:16:44,903 --> 00:16:47,306
Was there one of our one of
548
00:16:47,306 --> 00:16:49,608
my relatives was assaulted by somebody
549
00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:53,212
badly. Okay. So my
550
00:16:54,279 --> 00:16:54,913
that person's
551
00:16:54,913 --> 00:16:55,481
father wanted
552
00:16:55,481 --> 00:16:56,915
me to go to court with them
553
00:16:56,915 --> 00:16:58,951
in support of this person.
554
00:16:58,951 --> 00:17:00,686
That was you know what I mean?
555
00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:01,220
You know,
556
00:17:01,220 --> 00:17:03,255
and this guy was going to come up for
557
00:17:03,255 --> 00:17:04,189
for the first
558
00:17:04,189 --> 00:17:05,491
the first appearance in court.
559
00:17:05,491 --> 00:17:06,091
Okay.
560
00:17:06,091 --> 00:17:06,959
Got the overalls
561
00:17:06,959 --> 00:17:07,526
on, you know,
562
00:17:07,526 --> 00:17:08,360
the orange jumpsuit,
563
00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,696
the overalls that he gave you, whatever.
564
00:17:11,463 --> 00:17:13,766
And, you know, it was like
565
00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:15,467
ten or 12 guys here. Right.
566
00:17:15,467 --> 00:17:16,735
And when we come out and they
567
00:17:16,735 --> 00:17:18,604
they get what his offense was.
568
00:17:18,604 --> 00:17:21,173
And so he you know, this guy comes out
569
00:17:21,173 --> 00:17:22,608
and my like
570
00:17:22,608 --> 00:17:24,176
my cousin taps me like,
571
00:17:24,176 --> 00:17:26,712
yeah, that's the guy who did it, right?
572
00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:31,016
So I'm sitting up right up front.
573
00:17:31,016 --> 00:17:32,918
So, you know, you versus saying
574
00:17:32,918 --> 00:17:34,186
where you go.
575
00:17:34,186 --> 00:17:34,453
I mean,
576
00:17:34,453 --> 00:17:37,089
I'm staring at this guy like hard, right?
577
00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:38,490
Because, you know,
578
00:17:38,490 --> 00:17:40,059
because he got assaulted
579
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:41,527
and and,
580
00:17:41,527 --> 00:17:43,095
you know, the taking the finger
581
00:17:43,095 --> 00:17:44,263
under the neck sign.
582
00:17:44,263 --> 00:17:45,664
You know what I mean? It come like this.
583
00:17:45,664 --> 00:17:46,932
Universal. Yeah.
584
00:17:46,932 --> 00:17:48,133
I'm going to kill you. Sorry.
585
00:17:48,133 --> 00:17:49,101
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
586
00:17:49,101 --> 00:17:49,968
You're dead, man.
587
00:17:49,968 --> 00:17:50,636
So, yeah,
588
00:17:50,636 --> 00:17:53,272
it's discreetly as I could to the to the
589
00:17:53,639 --> 00:17:54,740
to to the
590
00:17:55,741 --> 00:17:57,242
sheriffs that were there.
591
00:17:57,242 --> 00:17:58,410
I do that same to.
592
00:17:58,410 --> 00:18:00,045
All right, so then he does a double take.
593
00:18:00,045 --> 00:18:02,648
It looks at me so so I do it again
594
00:18:03,782 --> 00:18:06,018
and I'm not smiling, let's say.
595
00:18:06,018 --> 00:18:06,618
Right.
596
00:18:08,287 --> 00:18:09,855
So he looks around the courtroom again
597
00:18:09,855 --> 00:18:10,923
and he kind of looks back at me again.
598
00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,691
I do it again for like a third time.
599
00:18:12,691 --> 00:18:13,292
Right.
600
00:18:14,026 --> 00:18:16,161
So then the the judge freezes
601
00:18:16,161 --> 00:18:17,229
offense
602
00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:20,365
did was ever DUI
603
00:18:20,365 --> 00:18:29,908
it was the wrong guy.
604
00:18:29,908 --> 00:18:30,843
Yeah love.
605
00:18:30,843 --> 00:18:32,678
It. So oops.
606
00:18:32,678 --> 00:18:35,214
Oh well, you shouldn't drink. You drive.
607
00:18:35,214 --> 00:18:36,014
All right.
608
00:18:36,014 --> 00:18:37,416
So, yeah, he'll never
609
00:18:37,416 --> 00:18:38,784
you'll never drink and drive again.
610
00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:39,852
There's some crazy guy out.
611
00:18:39,852 --> 00:18:41,820
They want to kill me over it.
612
00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:42,588
Especially around me.
613
00:18:42,588 --> 00:18:44,623
You know something I just saw in the
614
00:18:45,257 --> 00:18:46,325
in the news today
615
00:18:47,926 --> 00:18:48,827
with sperm
616
00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:51,163
banks are no longer taking,
617
00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:57,936
say, donations from redheaded people.
618
00:18:57,936 --> 00:18:59,238
That's not true.
619
00:18:59,238 --> 00:19:00,472
I God strike me dead.
620
00:19:00,472 --> 00:19:02,107
That cannot be true.
621
00:19:02,107 --> 00:19:04,510
I'm going to send it to you.
622
00:19:04,510 --> 00:19:07,146
Yeah.
623
00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,580
So what are you going to do?
624
00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:10,215
Well, I never did.
625
00:19:10,215 --> 00:19:11,550
Shave your head
626
00:19:11,550 --> 00:19:13,886
in your head and your mustache,
627
00:19:13,886 --> 00:19:14,653
shave it all.
628
00:19:14,653 --> 00:19:16,388
They'll never know what.
629
00:19:16,388 --> 00:19:16,655
Going to do.
630
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,123
Like I was donating.
631
00:19:18,123 --> 00:19:18,590
Go.
632
00:19:18,590 --> 00:19:21,360
Go in with long sleeves.
633
00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:22,494
No. Yeah.
634
00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:23,629
We've got to have another Wayne
635
00:19:23,629 --> 00:19:25,831
Highlander in the in the cooker.
636
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:26,131
All right.
637
00:19:26,131 --> 00:19:30,736
I'm going to send you this information.
638
00:19:30,736 --> 00:19:32,104
Okay. Go ahead.
639
00:19:32,104 --> 00:19:34,239
Isn't that some serious discrimination
640
00:19:34,239 --> 00:19:35,174
doing that?
641
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:41,413
They said, yeah.
642
00:19:41,413 --> 00:19:44,283
Okay.
643
00:19:44,283 --> 00:19:48,954
Another thing that I that I changed down
644
00:19:48,954 --> 00:19:51,456
the road is we I said it before, but
645
00:19:52,291 --> 00:19:54,560
we used to hand stand everything.
646
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,229
And when even if you broached the topic
647
00:19:57,229 --> 00:19:59,698
of bringing in orbital sander,
648
00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:01,767
it was a big time. No, no.
649
00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:02,201
For us.
650
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,168
Like you were lazy,
651
00:20:03,168 --> 00:20:05,537
even even asking about it,
652
00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:07,706
we would just not even hear about it.
653
00:20:08,307 --> 00:20:09,474
You had to hands in
654
00:20:09,474 --> 00:20:10,676
to get it, to blend the bass
655
00:20:10,676 --> 00:20:11,109
and everything.
656
00:20:11,109 --> 00:20:12,277
And we thought
657
00:20:12,277 --> 00:20:13,579
that's the way it had to be done.
658
00:20:13,579 --> 00:20:14,580
That's the way I was taught.
659
00:20:15,781 --> 00:20:16,081
That's the
660
00:20:16,081 --> 00:20:18,784
way we we just would not.
661
00:20:19,351 --> 00:20:20,385
And we held on to that
662
00:20:20,385 --> 00:20:23,455
for years and years and years and years.
663
00:20:23,455 --> 00:20:24,856
Yeah. You know something?
664
00:20:24,856 --> 00:20:26,024
Some of the best risers,
665
00:20:26,024 --> 00:20:26,892
if you ever get a stair
666
00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,560
treads and risers,
667
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,295
do a set of stairs, treads and risers
668
00:20:30,295 --> 00:20:31,196
doing the risers down
669
00:20:31,196 --> 00:20:33,832
and you're going back similar color.
670
00:20:33,832 --> 00:20:34,900
You know, the way that we used to do
671
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,202
the risers oftentimes
672
00:20:37,202 --> 00:20:39,271
hands in it with 30 screwed sandpaper,
673
00:20:40,505 --> 00:20:41,640
believe it or not,
674
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:42,841
break it up and stand it
675
00:20:42,841 --> 00:20:44,776
real good with 36 sandpaper
676
00:20:44,776 --> 00:20:46,411
and then and then restate it
677
00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:49,548
and they will look sensational.
678
00:20:49,548 --> 00:20:51,083
Yep. That's it. 36.
679
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,251
Nothing. 36.
680
00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:54,019
Grit, sandpaper, break it all up.
681
00:20:54,019 --> 00:20:54,519
We're going back
682
00:20:54,519 --> 00:20:56,255
pretty close to same color.
683
00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:57,356
And my brother John
684
00:20:57,356 --> 00:20:59,024
showed me that on the job one time
685
00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:00,292
and I went,
686
00:21:00,292 --> 00:21:01,693
Oh, man, I can't even believe this.
687
00:21:01,693 --> 00:21:03,595
It looks it looks fantastic.
688
00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:05,731
And you can always do that.
689
00:21:05,731 --> 00:21:07,833
But if you going close to the same color
690
00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:08,834
and a lot of risers,
691
00:21:08,834 --> 00:21:09,835
they don't put a lot of finish
692
00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:11,103
on to begin with because it's
693
00:21:11,103 --> 00:21:12,738
going to it's going to run
694
00:21:12,738 --> 00:21:14,573
so they get thin coats.
695
00:21:14,573 --> 00:21:15,641
So. Yeah.
696
00:21:15,741 --> 00:21:16,742
So anyhow.
697
00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:18,744
There you go.
698
00:21:18,744 --> 00:21:21,446
One of my big ones change was no more.
699
00:21:21,446 --> 00:21:23,382
36, 80 or 40. 80.
700
00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:25,183
Yes.
701
00:21:25,183 --> 00:21:26,318
Giving grits.
702
00:21:26,852 --> 00:21:28,754
Yeah. Skip and grits.
703
00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:30,856
It just meant nothing to us back then.
704
00:21:31,990 --> 00:21:34,192
I look back now at things that we did
705
00:21:34,192 --> 00:21:35,794
and that was one of the
706
00:21:35,794 --> 00:21:36,495
that I think
707
00:21:36,495 --> 00:21:38,897
was one of our bigger mistakes.
708
00:21:38,897 --> 00:21:41,066
Yeah, but. I always make the joke.
709
00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:42,167
We got away with a lot
710
00:21:42,167 --> 00:21:45,937
because everything was, you know, 40, 87,
711
00:21:45,937 --> 00:21:47,105
probably in bad lighting,
712
00:21:47,105 --> 00:21:49,574
not anything that anybody gets anymore
713
00:21:49,574 --> 00:21:52,344
to work with. Mm hmm.
714
00:21:52,344 --> 00:21:54,146
So I.
715
00:21:54,713 --> 00:21:55,681
I think it was basically
716
00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:56,982
a really good instructor
717
00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:58,417
is that you've gone through all that
718
00:21:58,417 --> 00:21:59,785
for all those years
719
00:21:59,785 --> 00:22:01,687
because you do such a good job
720
00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:02,888
in the classes
721
00:22:02,888 --> 00:22:04,823
in illustrating why that doesn't work
722
00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:06,591
or why you shouldn't do that.
723
00:22:06,591 --> 00:22:07,359
And
724
00:22:08,126 --> 00:22:08,960
I actually
725
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,562
was never really guilty of that.
726
00:22:10,562 --> 00:22:12,431
I always said someone could
727
00:22:12,431 --> 00:22:14,599
go a whole career of of sanding floors
728
00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:15,600
and never by sandpaper of
729
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,935
they were my friends
730
00:22:16,935 --> 00:22:18,570
because on the belts.
731
00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:19,471
Well when I changed
732
00:22:19,471 --> 00:22:20,372
when I got to the belts
733
00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:22,107
but when I
734
00:22:22,107 --> 00:22:23,442
ran my drum sander
735
00:22:23,442 --> 00:22:25,711
I probably changed my my paper way
736
00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:28,680
more often than I needed to on the belts.
737
00:22:29,781 --> 00:22:31,383
Whenever I took a belt off,
738
00:22:31,383 --> 00:22:33,552
I would take a red sharpie
739
00:22:33,552 --> 00:22:34,386
and the inside of the
740
00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:35,354
that I would write
741
00:22:35,354 --> 00:22:37,622
how many square feet I sanded with it.
742
00:22:37,622 --> 00:22:38,357
You know what I mean?
743
00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:39,691
If I if I say I did
744
00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:40,058
three or four
745
00:22:40,058 --> 00:22:40,726
square feet with it
746
00:22:40,726 --> 00:22:41,159
or whatever,
747
00:22:41,159 --> 00:22:41,593
I take a red
748
00:22:41,593 --> 00:22:42,828
carpet, I'd write 300 square
749
00:22:42,828 --> 00:22:43,929
feet on the inside.
750
00:22:43,929 --> 00:22:44,262
So I know.
751
00:22:44,262 --> 00:22:46,131
Okay, I've got pretty good life left
752
00:22:46,131 --> 00:22:48,600
this and I did take care of my belt.
753
00:22:49,267 --> 00:22:52,471
I really did take care of my belts
754
00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:53,939
and I put them back properly
755
00:22:53,939 --> 00:22:55,240
and I didn't store them on concrete
756
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,041
and those type of things.
757
00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:58,810
So to get the most life out of my belt,
758
00:22:58,810 --> 00:23:00,912
and that's one thing that I would do
759
00:23:00,912 --> 00:23:01,680
towards the end of my career,
760
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,082
I did not start as aggressively as when I
761
00:23:04,182 --> 00:23:06,485
when I first started doing floors,
762
00:23:06,485 --> 00:23:07,919
you know, going with 36th grade
763
00:23:07,919 --> 00:23:08,453
or whatever.
764
00:23:08,453 --> 00:23:08,787
I mean,
765
00:23:08,787 --> 00:23:12,157
I think the the advances in sandpaper,
766
00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:13,725
certainly bone green.
767
00:23:13,725 --> 00:23:15,594
I hear a lot of good feedback about bone
768
00:23:15,594 --> 00:23:18,597
green on the on the chatter on the
769
00:23:19,297 --> 00:23:21,733
on the Facebook flooring groups.
770
00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:24,669
That is a piece of sandpaper in and where
771
00:23:24,669 --> 00:23:25,904
I normally would maybe start
772
00:23:25,904 --> 00:23:27,873
with the 36 grit,
773
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:30,275
I go down to 50 Grit all day long
774
00:23:30,876 --> 00:23:31,843
with that sandpaper.
775
00:23:31,843 --> 00:23:33,044
So yeah.
776
00:23:33,178 --> 00:23:34,346
Yeah, I agree with you there.
777
00:23:34,346 --> 00:23:35,046
That was definitely
778
00:23:35,046 --> 00:23:37,382
one of the changes I made to
779
00:23:37,449 --> 00:23:38,784
I start everything now
780
00:23:38,784 --> 00:23:40,218
at 50 no matter what.
781
00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:43,755
50 was always my 50.
782
00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:45,857
Yeah, but in the old days it was every
783
00:23:45,891 --> 00:23:47,993
almost everything we started with 24.
784
00:23:49,127 --> 00:23:51,363
Wow. I know she's.
785
00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:52,998
I think about things.
786
00:23:52,998 --> 00:23:54,566
It's crazy.
787
00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:55,033
Yeah.
788
00:23:55,033 --> 00:23:56,234
The milling is better than it
789
00:23:56,234 --> 00:23:57,736
ever has been.
790
00:23:57,769 --> 00:23:59,171
I think we can think pretty good for that
791
00:23:59,171 --> 00:24:00,105
and we'll send out
792
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:00,972
the milling
793
00:24:00,972 --> 00:24:02,641
of those products were phenomenal.
794
00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:04,843
And so I think a lot of American mills
795
00:24:04,843 --> 00:24:05,444
changed their
796
00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:06,478
their their knives
797
00:24:06,478 --> 00:24:07,779
and everything and started
798
00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:09,514
milling the floors better.
799
00:24:09,514 --> 00:24:10,949
And the milling is way
800
00:24:10,949 --> 00:24:12,818
better than it ever has been.
801
00:24:12,818 --> 00:24:13,618
And
802
00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:16,521
so I think that's changed as well.
803
00:24:16,521 --> 00:24:18,056
That's why the old days of machines
804
00:24:18,056 --> 00:24:19,791
were set up the way they were set up
805
00:24:19,791 --> 00:24:21,393
to go heavy to one side.
806
00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:22,794
Yeah, every cut, further cut.
807
00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:24,029
And we're going to talk about that
808
00:24:24,029 --> 00:24:26,231
in another podcast. Absolutely.
809
00:24:28,099 --> 00:24:28,767
Oh, another
810
00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:32,370
one of mine. This one.
811
00:24:32,370 --> 00:24:34,673
This one makes me sick.
812
00:24:34,673 --> 00:24:35,907
How many places I use?
813
00:24:35,907 --> 00:24:38,343
Liquid nails and Elmer's glue
814
00:24:39,511 --> 00:24:41,480
or starter Rose Tread
815
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,282
close out, rose molding.
816
00:24:44,783 --> 00:24:47,285
Oh, man, I just can't believe it.
817
00:24:47,285 --> 00:24:48,153
Yeah,
818
00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:49,955
I.
819
00:24:49,955 --> 00:24:50,522
Well, Liquid
820
00:24:50,522 --> 00:24:52,524
Nails has no place in this industry.
821
00:24:52,524 --> 00:24:53,425
It just doesn't.
822
00:24:53,425 --> 00:24:55,627
I mean, we, you know, well,
823
00:24:56,228 --> 00:24:57,562
we want to call out
824
00:24:57,562 --> 00:24:59,598
manufacturers by my name, but
825
00:25:00,432 --> 00:25:02,534
I'll always say something.
826
00:25:02,701 --> 00:25:05,237
We make a product called Vertical now,
827
00:25:05,237 --> 00:25:07,472
and I will give you your money back
828
00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:08,406
if you try it
829
00:25:08,406 --> 00:25:09,641
and don't like it on this one.
830
00:25:09,641 --> 00:25:11,743
On this one, one scenario
831
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,411
for the first board
832
00:25:13,411 --> 00:25:14,045
you put down,
833
00:25:14,045 --> 00:25:15,313
you install the first board,
834
00:25:15,313 --> 00:25:17,115
it is phenomenal
835
00:25:17,115 --> 00:25:19,484
when you use bone a vertical
836
00:25:20,151 --> 00:25:21,853
and then put it down on that first road
837
00:25:21,853 --> 00:25:23,889
and you try to clean the first board
838
00:25:23,889 --> 00:25:25,624
and then wait about ten, 15 minutes
839
00:25:25,624 --> 00:25:25,957
or whatever
840
00:25:25,957 --> 00:25:27,125
and see how rock hard that is
841
00:25:27,125 --> 00:25:28,493
that you can start kicking off of.
842
00:25:28,493 --> 00:25:30,662
And this is fantastic.
843
00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:31,296
Fantastic.
844
00:25:31,296 --> 00:25:31,963
I would not
845
00:25:31,963 --> 00:25:34,032
I mean, I told my brother John this,
846
00:25:34,032 --> 00:25:34,900
I would not leave
847
00:25:35,934 --> 00:25:37,035
the the
848
00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:37,769
warehouse again
849
00:25:37,769 --> 00:25:39,571
without having some with me
850
00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:40,205
because it works.
851
00:25:40,205 --> 00:25:42,474
Just I've never seen one work better.
852
00:25:42,474 --> 00:25:43,441
I'll say that
853
00:25:43,441 --> 00:25:44,976
cost a little bit more sometimes.
854
00:25:44,976 --> 00:25:46,811
But man the what,
855
00:25:46,811 --> 00:25:48,113
what you'll get in return
856
00:25:48,113 --> 00:25:52,284
is yes, it's a fantastic product.
857
00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:53,818
We did a school where we did
858
00:25:53,818 --> 00:25:55,520
the flow launch a couple of weeks ago
859
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,155
and then last in New Jersey.
860
00:25:57,155 --> 00:25:58,590
And then last week
861
00:25:58,590 --> 00:26:01,092
I had another class there and
862
00:26:02,494 --> 00:26:05,163
Jeff Alfredo built that
863
00:26:05,163 --> 00:26:07,699
that wall, that little wall
864
00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:10,802
that I think with a three by four wall.
865
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:11,870
Yeah.
866
00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:14,372
And we threw a couple of
867
00:26:14,372 --> 00:26:15,540
competitors.
868
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:17,475
It is, is up there
869
00:26:17,475 --> 00:26:19,678
for a vertical you know for doing a wall.
870
00:26:20,211 --> 00:26:22,480
And then we threw ours up.
871
00:26:22,847 --> 00:26:23,982
It was unbelievable.
872
00:26:23,982 --> 00:26:26,051
I mean, there really is no
873
00:26:26,051 --> 00:26:27,786
I was pretty shocked how it was.
874
00:26:27,786 --> 00:26:28,620
Just the other two
875
00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:30,655
were just running and falling off. And
876
00:26:31,623 --> 00:26:32,090
I was just
877
00:26:32,090 --> 00:26:34,659
about to say in your adhesive, just
878
00:26:34,659 --> 00:26:36,094
it never moved.
879
00:26:36,094 --> 00:26:38,663
But I guess not your director.
880
00:26:38,663 --> 00:26:40,332
I can call it your adhesive.
881
00:26:40,332 --> 00:26:45,570
Your vertical never moved.
882
00:26:45,570 --> 00:26:47,305
We put one up
883
00:26:47,305 --> 00:26:48,673
and I thought, well, it,
884
00:26:48,673 --> 00:26:50,208
it tilted really good too.
885
00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:51,109
So maybe this
886
00:26:51,109 --> 00:26:52,410
not going to be so impressive.
887
00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:54,846
But then I try to, I bumped a little bit.
888
00:26:54,913 --> 00:26:57,148
It just immediately fell right off.
889
00:26:57,916 --> 00:27:00,085
So yeah, it, it is a winner.
890
00:27:00,085 --> 00:27:00,986
It doesn't sag.
891
00:27:00,986 --> 00:27:01,753
I mean, it's
892
00:27:01,753 --> 00:27:03,355
yeah, I agree with you that
893
00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:05,223
the technology there is
894
00:27:05,223 --> 00:27:06,791
light years ahead of what it was.
895
00:27:06,791 --> 00:27:08,793
But that little demo right there,
896
00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:10,929
that's the way to demo that stuff.
897
00:27:10,929 --> 00:27:11,730
Mm.
898
00:27:11,896 --> 00:27:13,498
That is definitely the way to demo
899
00:27:13,498 --> 00:27:16,067
that stuff. Yep.
900
00:27:16,067 --> 00:27:17,135
So yeah there's are some things
901
00:27:17,135 --> 00:27:18,103
that, that,
902
00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:21,006
that, that I changed over the years.
903
00:27:21,006 --> 00:27:23,508
But I got a question for you, Rob.
904
00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:25,343
Say you're on the job
905
00:27:25,343 --> 00:27:27,812
and see it's 2500 square feet.
906
00:27:28,213 --> 00:27:29,414
Okay, you're doing it by yourself.
907
00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:32,117
And do you
908
00:27:32,117 --> 00:27:32,717
would you go
909
00:27:32,717 --> 00:27:33,451
through and sand
910
00:27:33,451 --> 00:27:35,153
the entire floor first with a big machine
911
00:27:35,153 --> 00:27:37,022
and get all that done first
912
00:27:37,022 --> 00:27:39,257
and then move on to do all the edging
913
00:27:39,257 --> 00:27:40,692
and then move on to do all the hand.
914
00:27:40,692 --> 00:27:40,925
Great.
915
00:27:40,925 --> 00:27:43,261
How would you break that up?
916
00:27:43,261 --> 00:27:45,997
I would do all of one
917
00:27:45,997 --> 00:27:47,432
and then all of the edging.
918
00:27:47,432 --> 00:27:49,434
Yeah, I wouldn't go.
919
00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:50,402
I know.
920
00:27:50,402 --> 00:27:51,836
That's exact opposite of what
921
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,338
my son does.
922
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:55,140
My son will drum a couple of rooms,
923
00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:56,875
jump back edge,
924
00:27:56,875 --> 00:27:57,542
then he'll go
925
00:27:57,542 --> 00:27:58,943
and he'll drum some more rooms.
926
00:27:58,943 --> 00:28:01,046
TRUMP Jump back and edge.
927
00:28:01,046 --> 00:28:01,813
The few jobs
928
00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:03,648
that I did where I had to be alone.
929
00:28:03,648 --> 00:28:05,316
Oh God, I hated that.
930
00:28:05,316 --> 00:28:07,585
But I would do all the drumming
931
00:28:07,585 --> 00:28:09,988
and then jump back and do the edging.
932
00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:12,257
Mm hmm. Wow.
933
00:28:12,290 --> 00:28:14,092
You know, no way.
934
00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:15,660
I would not do that.
935
00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,495
Complete opposite, complete opposite.
936
00:28:18,663 --> 00:28:19,531
And, you know,
937
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:20,065
I don't know
938
00:28:20,065 --> 00:28:21,833
what would make them, you know,
939
00:28:21,833 --> 00:28:22,867
productivity wise,
940
00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:24,903
what's what makes the most sense.
941
00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:26,638
But I wouldn't leave a day
942
00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:27,572
for me of all
943
00:28:27,572 --> 00:28:28,373
edging or a day
944
00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:29,340
of all the scraping
945
00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:30,942
in, in the oscillating,
946
00:28:30,942 --> 00:28:32,143
the edges or anything like that.
947
00:28:32,143 --> 00:28:35,013
I would prefer to just
948
00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:35,880
get one room
949
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:36,614
pretty much done
950
00:28:36,614 --> 00:28:38,817
and move on to the next one
951
00:28:38,817 --> 00:28:39,417
to a point,
952
00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:39,718
you know,
953
00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:40,218
depending on the
954
00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:43,421
square footage of the job,
955
00:28:43,421 --> 00:28:44,022
what would you say
956
00:28:44,022 --> 00:28:44,456
if you had
957
00:28:44,456 --> 00:28:46,057
if you were partners with a guy?
958
00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:48,393
And he says, Wait, I'll go there on
959
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:49,761
I can't work Saturday,
960
00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:51,396
but I'll get I'll get there on Friday
961
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:52,497
and then I'm going to I'll,
962
00:28:52,497 --> 00:28:54,566
I'll work all day Friday
963
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,101
and then when you get there,
964
00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:58,236
he did all the big machine work, all
965
00:28:58,236 --> 00:29:00,572
of it and he left you with
966
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,308
the stairs, the hand
967
00:29:03,308 --> 00:29:05,210
sanding in the
968
00:29:05,210 --> 00:29:05,643
not hands
969
00:29:05,643 --> 00:29:06,745
anyway, with the icing sanding
970
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:07,812
and the hooking.
971
00:29:08,179 --> 00:29:08,513
Well,
972
00:29:08,513 --> 00:29:10,081
I don't know if you should ask me that,
973
00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:11,349
but maybe we can ask
974
00:29:11,349 --> 00:29:12,817
my old partner, Pete.
975
00:29:12,817 --> 00:29:14,219
That'd be a great.
976
00:29:14,652 --> 00:29:15,754
That'd be a great question.
977
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:18,423
Ask Peter. Yeah.
978
00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:20,492
So you'd be okay with a guy
979
00:29:20,492 --> 00:29:21,059
like, you know,
980
00:29:21,059 --> 00:29:22,327
you guys got to get this job
981
00:29:22,327 --> 00:29:23,094
done together.
982
00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:24,395
And the first day he goes in there
983
00:29:24,395 --> 00:29:25,730
and he spends the entire day
984
00:29:25,730 --> 00:29:27,432
just running the big machine.
985
00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:28,700
You'd be okay with that?
986
00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:29,701
Yeah. Yeah.
987
00:29:29,701 --> 00:29:30,235
Matter of fact,
988
00:29:30,235 --> 00:29:32,370
I remember distinctly one day
989
00:29:32,837 --> 00:29:34,272
I think I had made I was
990
00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:35,673
I might have been even
991
00:29:35,673 --> 00:29:37,475
starting a third cup
992
00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:39,210
with the big machine.
993
00:29:39,210 --> 00:29:40,745
And he came in
994
00:29:40,745 --> 00:29:42,213
because he was doing something else
995
00:29:42,213 --> 00:29:42,981
or wherever he was.
996
00:29:42,981 --> 00:29:43,815
And he was like,
997
00:29:43,815 --> 00:29:46,451
So were you ever going to run the edger
998
00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:47,452
or are you just going to keep a
999
00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:48,720
big machine and right,
1000
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:49,888
right to the very end?
1001
00:29:49,888 --> 00:29:52,157
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1002
00:29:52,157 --> 00:29:53,525
We should have Pete on the show
1003
00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:56,261
or bump just to ask them.
1004
00:29:57,529 --> 00:29:58,663
What do you think when Rob
1005
00:29:58,663 --> 00:30:00,064
did that or your dad did that?
1006
00:30:00,064 --> 00:30:01,599
Yeah.
1007
00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:04,369
I mean, you don't think that's a problem?
1008
00:30:04,969 --> 00:30:06,237
Not for me.
1009
00:30:06,237 --> 00:30:07,105
Yeah, but I say
1010
00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:08,773
if you were the other guy.
1011
00:30:08,773 --> 00:30:11,209
I mean, I admit I came clean.
1012
00:30:12,043 --> 00:30:13,378
Yeah, so, you know, it's not right.
1013
00:30:13,378 --> 00:30:14,112
You say you admitted it.
1014
00:30:14,112 --> 00:30:17,081
That's not the right thing to do.
1015
00:30:17,081 --> 00:30:17,816
All right.
1016
00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:20,685
But I did it.
1017
00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:23,688
It don't make it right.
1018
00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:25,256
I'm not saying I was right.
1019
00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:26,624
I'm just saying.
1020
00:30:26,624 --> 00:30:29,027
What would you think of a guy?
1021
00:30:29,093 --> 00:30:31,329
Okay, I think he's was pretty smart.
1022
00:30:31,396 --> 00:30:33,198
Yeah. Oh, that's a bad word.
1023
00:30:33,198 --> 00:30:35,066
Don't use that word, scumbag.
1024
00:30:35,066 --> 00:30:36,801
Yeah, that's a bad you get.
1025
00:30:36,801 --> 00:30:39,537
So that's a that's offensive.
1026
00:30:39,537 --> 00:30:40,605
But but you.
1027
00:30:40,605 --> 00:30:41,673
Going in there doing that.
1028
00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:43,474
Whole thing that's not offensive.
1029
00:30:43,474 --> 00:30:44,943
Try to go dirtbag
1030
00:30:44,943 --> 00:30:46,911
or a terrible thing to do whatever
1031
00:30:46,911 --> 00:30:48,346
stay away from the.
1032
00:30:49,547 --> 00:30:51,850
Yeah my father in law heard me
1033
00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:55,220
say that one day and he pulled me aside
1034
00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:58,723
and told me what that really meant.
1035
00:30:58,723 --> 00:31:00,325
And ever since that day,
1036
00:31:00,325 --> 00:31:01,960
I was like, okay,
1037
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,962
if it was enough to piss him off,
1038
00:31:03,962 --> 00:31:05,964
I am never going to use that word again.
1039
00:31:06,397 --> 00:31:07,298
You know what?
1040
00:31:07,298 --> 00:31:08,233
Don't say piss me off.
1041
00:31:08,233 --> 00:31:09,434
Piss him off
1042
00:31:09,434 --> 00:31:13,171
because that's offensive to me.
1043
00:31:13,171 --> 00:31:14,639
I don't know what scumbag means
1044
00:31:14,639 --> 00:31:16,407
other than dirtbag.
1045
00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:18,543
I'll explain it to you later.
1046
00:31:19,010 --> 00:31:21,212
You just made it 2 to 2. Weird.
1047
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:22,747
Now. No, I can't.
1048
00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:23,648
Wait to see you later.
1049
00:31:23,648 --> 00:31:25,683
We can't talk about it on the show
1050
00:31:25,683 --> 00:31:26,684
like it.
1051
00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:27,752
I know there's a lot of people
1052
00:31:27,752 --> 00:31:29,654
that throw that word around.
1053
00:31:29,654 --> 00:31:29,954
I'll.
1054
00:31:29,954 --> 00:31:32,023
I'll explain it to you later.
1055
00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:32,657
I mean, what?
1056
00:31:32,657 --> 00:31:34,192
I mean, I want to know what
1057
00:31:34,192 --> 00:31:34,859
what it means.
1058
00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:36,661
You know what it means.
1059
00:31:36,661 --> 00:31:38,630
I mean I mean, look, it happened,
1060
00:31:38,630 --> 00:31:39,097
you know.
1061
00:31:39,097 --> 00:31:40,899
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
1062
00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:43,134
Not in the shower. Oh, no, I got it.
1063
00:31:43,134 --> 00:31:45,270
It means a guy that will go in
1064
00:31:45,270 --> 00:31:46,170
with a sander
1065
00:31:46,170 --> 00:31:46,838
in sand
1066
00:31:46,838 --> 00:31:47,972
the entire job
1067
00:31:47,972 --> 00:31:48,973
without getting off
1068
00:31:48,973 --> 00:31:50,475
is on his knees
1069
00:31:50,475 --> 00:31:52,844
and edging when it's appropriate to edge.
1070
00:31:53,611 --> 00:31:57,515
Okay, that's me.
1071
00:31:57,515 --> 00:32:00,385
Okay. That's it.
1072
00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:01,653
Okay.
1073
00:32:02,253 --> 00:32:04,622
Uh, you know, another one,
1074
00:32:04,622 --> 00:32:06,357
another big one
1075
00:32:06,357 --> 00:32:09,360
that I've completely changed on respect
1076
00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:11,963
dry times and cure times.
1077
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,532
Mm.
1078
00:32:14,532 --> 00:32:18,336
It's amazing how many tacky floors that
1079
00:32:18,336 --> 00:32:21,439
I screened or floors that I knew
1080
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:23,875
just weren't ready. Just because.
1081
00:32:24,409 --> 00:32:25,009
And it goes
1082
00:32:25,009 --> 00:32:28,046
with another one of Slow down,
1083
00:32:28,079 --> 00:32:28,713
my God,
1084
00:32:28,713 --> 00:32:29,614
it was everything
1085
00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:31,849
we did back in the old days.
1086
00:32:31,849 --> 00:32:34,018
We were just constantly rushing.
1087
00:32:34,018 --> 00:32:35,453
It was just
1088
00:32:35,653 --> 00:32:38,323
everything was about the speed.
1089
00:32:38,323 --> 00:32:40,558
And part of that was not respecting
1090
00:32:40,558 --> 00:32:43,895
dry and cure times on products.
1091
00:32:43,895 --> 00:32:46,197
You know, I was pretty good about that.
1092
00:32:46,197 --> 00:32:47,298
But there are times, too
1093
00:32:47,298 --> 00:32:48,700
that I rolled the dice
1094
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,702
and I wasn't at the time saying,
1095
00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:52,070
Well, yeah,
1096
00:32:52,070 --> 00:32:52,637
I had to know
1097
00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:53,972
I was rolling the dice a little bit.
1098
00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:55,206
You know, you weighed the odds
1099
00:32:55,206 --> 00:32:56,674
and you think to yourself
1100
00:32:56,674 --> 00:32:59,077
and you try to talk yourself into that,
1101
00:32:59,077 --> 00:32:59,711
Oh, it's dry.
1102
00:32:59,711 --> 00:33:00,445
I should be dry.
1103
00:33:00,445 --> 00:33:00,678
You know,
1104
00:33:00,678 --> 00:33:01,813
we did everything by the book
1105
00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:03,681
and should be dry, blah, blah, blah.
1106
00:33:03,681 --> 00:33:05,683
But in your heart of hearts, you know,
1107
00:33:05,683 --> 00:33:07,618
it smells a little bit too strong
1108
00:33:08,619 --> 00:33:09,354
under your foot.
1109
00:33:09,354 --> 00:33:10,621
It feels a little bit
1110
00:33:10,621 --> 00:33:12,123
the little bit tacky
1111
00:33:12,123 --> 00:33:13,791
if you you know what I mean?
1112
00:33:13,791 --> 00:33:15,126
You know, you put the write down.
1113
00:33:15,126 --> 00:33:16,694
If you can't
1114
00:33:16,694 --> 00:33:18,463
if you can't wear your shoes
1115
00:33:18,463 --> 00:33:19,597
and you're walking around
1116
00:33:19,597 --> 00:33:20,898
the edge of the floor,
1117
00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:22,233
not to make footprints
1118
00:33:22,233 --> 00:33:24,068
that people can see,
1119
00:33:24,068 --> 00:33:26,170
then maybe you shouldn't be on the floor.
1120
00:33:26,571 --> 00:33:28,439
Well, no,
1121
00:33:28,439 --> 00:33:30,842
except for the the one last thing.
1122
00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:33,344
It kind of thinking about where we do
1123
00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:35,013
our podcast today.
1124
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,114
You know,
1125
00:33:37,081 --> 00:33:38,883
it seems like every time in my career
1126
00:33:38,883 --> 00:33:39,617
that I,
1127
00:33:39,617 --> 00:33:41,519
I threw something out,
1128
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:41,786
you know,
1129
00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:42,653
like I've been sitting
1130
00:33:42,653 --> 00:33:43,588
on this feature strip
1131
00:33:43,588 --> 00:33:45,189
for, for a long time now.
1132
00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:47,025
It's been a year and a half, two years.
1133
00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:48,393
We've never used it.
1134
00:33:48,393 --> 00:33:50,194
I've been sitting on this special
1135
00:33:50,194 --> 00:33:52,163
cut of wood that, you know what?
1136
00:33:52,163 --> 00:33:53,731
It was a special custom job.
1137
00:33:53,731 --> 00:33:54,766
And it's been years now.
1138
00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:56,567
It's taking up space.
1139
00:33:56,567 --> 00:33:59,270
You'll never, never need it again
1140
00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:00,705
until you throw it out.
1141
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:02,040
Until you throw it away.
1142
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,174
And then when you throw it away,
1143
00:34:03,174 --> 00:34:04,275
a certain job will come up
1144
00:34:04,275 --> 00:34:05,943
where you could use it and what have you.
1145
00:34:05,943 --> 00:34:08,046
So yeah, I'm fine.
1146
00:34:08,146 --> 00:34:09,447
Well, you know, the old saying
1147
00:34:09,447 --> 00:34:10,148
being a floor
1148
00:34:10,148 --> 00:34:10,815
man means
1149
00:34:10,815 --> 00:34:13,584
never having to throw anything away.
1150
00:34:13,584 --> 00:34:14,085
Yeah.
1151
00:34:14,085 --> 00:34:15,787
You mean you're almost like a hoarder
1152
00:34:15,787 --> 00:34:16,521
in some ways,
1153
00:34:18,423 --> 00:34:19,023
but.
1154
00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:22,460
Yeah, I going into some guy's old shops,
1155
00:34:23,094 --> 00:34:24,062
you know, guys who were,
1156
00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:26,631
you know, generational type guys.
1157
00:34:26,631 --> 00:34:27,632
And there's.
1158
00:34:27,632 --> 00:34:30,301
I'll always ask, where's your museum?
1159
00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:32,236
Where's your museum?
1160
00:34:32,236 --> 00:34:32,937
Where do they keep
1161
00:34:32,937 --> 00:34:34,205
all the old equipment stuff?
1162
00:34:34,205 --> 00:34:35,640
It's just so funny.
1163
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,975
Some of the pieces of equipment
1164
00:34:37,975 --> 00:34:39,644
that you'll see in some of these old
1165
00:34:39,644 --> 00:34:40,845
and they
1166
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:42,380
they're never going to use it again,
1167
00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:43,781
but they never throw it away.
1168
00:34:43,781 --> 00:34:46,117
It's always there.
1169
00:34:46,117 --> 00:34:48,152
Eight inch drums with wooden handles.
1170
00:34:48,152 --> 00:34:50,121
I mean, just, you know,
1171
00:34:50,121 --> 00:34:52,156
chain driven machines.
1172
00:34:52,156 --> 00:34:53,624
Crazy stuff.
1173
00:34:53,624 --> 00:34:54,292
Yep.
1174
00:34:55,493 --> 00:34:55,860
I guess
1175
00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:57,361
another one for me, Rob, is as
1176
00:34:57,361 --> 00:34:59,197
I would have jumped on a power station
1177
00:34:59,197 --> 00:35:01,566
lot earlier in my career
1178
00:35:01,566 --> 00:35:03,000
just to make life easier.
1179
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,802
Once we did, it was like this.
1180
00:35:04,802 --> 00:35:05,436
One of those things
1181
00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:06,471
where when you finally do
1182
00:35:06,471 --> 00:35:07,004
it, you think, Guys,
1183
00:35:07,004 --> 00:35:08,005
why didn't I just do this
1184
00:35:08,005 --> 00:35:09,240
a long time ago?
1185
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,042
It would have made life so much easier.
1186
00:35:12,243 --> 00:35:13,077
I sold a power
1187
00:35:13,077 --> 00:35:14,879
station one time to somebody
1188
00:35:14,879 --> 00:35:17,248
who was a gym contractor.
1189
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,150
This wasn't one of ours. The product.
1190
00:35:19,150 --> 00:35:19,684
This is one
1191
00:35:19,684 --> 00:35:21,285
that was made by a local company.
1192
00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:22,420
It was a really, really,
1193
00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:24,188
really nice machine.
1194
00:35:24,188 --> 00:35:25,323
I got into sales.
1195
00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:26,858
I didn't need it anymore.
1196
00:35:26,858 --> 00:35:27,959
I did not want to sell it.
1197
00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:28,893
I would have it today.
1198
00:35:28,893 --> 00:35:30,928
But this guy was in a jam
1199
00:35:30,928 --> 00:35:32,763
and I sold to him for a steal.
1200
00:35:32,763 --> 00:35:33,498
And he didn't.
1201
00:35:33,498 --> 00:35:33,931
He didn't
1202
00:35:33,931 --> 00:35:35,266
I don't think he still appreciated
1203
00:35:35,266 --> 00:35:36,901
what I was giving him.
1204
00:35:36,901 --> 00:35:38,269
And I my only rules.
1205
00:35:38,269 --> 00:35:40,204
Look, if you don't anymore,
1206
00:35:40,204 --> 00:35:41,439
if you ever go to sell it,
1207
00:35:41,439 --> 00:35:42,640
just let me buy it back to you
1208
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,108
for the same price.
1209
00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:45,376
And he said, Yeah, okay.
1210
00:35:45,376 --> 00:35:46,677
So he has
1211
00:35:46,677 --> 00:35:47,044
and I hope he's
1212
00:35:47,044 --> 00:35:47,945
getting good use out of it,
1213
00:35:47,945 --> 00:35:49,380
but I would never party with that
1214
00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:49,814
damn thing.
1215
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:52,083
That was a lifesaver at times.
1216
00:35:52,450 --> 00:35:53,584
And so.
1217
00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:55,419
Hey, you
1218
00:35:55,419 --> 00:35:56,220
know, a little heads
1219
00:35:56,220 --> 00:35:57,855
up on running machines
1220
00:35:57,855 --> 00:35:59,323
with a power station,
1221
00:35:59,323 --> 00:36:02,059
especially when you're going over 100,
1222
00:36:02,059 --> 00:36:03,261
150 feet.
1223
00:36:03,261 --> 00:36:04,295
You know, sometimes you run
1224
00:36:04,295 --> 00:36:07,231
a lot of code, always run
1225
00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:09,267
the power station
1226
00:36:09,267 --> 00:36:11,135
50 feet away from your machine.
1227
00:36:11,135 --> 00:36:14,038
So let's say you got to go 100, 150 feet.
1228
00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:17,742
So you'd plug into your box, run
1229
00:36:17,742 --> 00:36:19,677
100 feet of cable
1230
00:36:19,677 --> 00:36:22,947
into your power station, then boost up
1231
00:36:22,947 --> 00:36:24,782
your power or regulate the power
1232
00:36:24,782 --> 00:36:26,817
or whatever you need to be up or down.
1233
00:36:26,817 --> 00:36:28,986
And then that last 50
1234
00:36:28,986 --> 00:36:30,221
goes to the machine.
1235
00:36:30,221 --> 00:36:31,822
Too many people
1236
00:36:31,822 --> 00:36:33,090
put the power station,
1237
00:36:33,090 --> 00:36:33,491
you know,
1238
00:36:33,491 --> 00:36:34,759
right under the box, too
1239
00:36:34,759 --> 00:36:36,727
close to the power source,
1240
00:36:36,727 --> 00:36:39,096
and then there's a lot of draw
1241
00:36:39,096 --> 00:36:40,398
heading out to your machine.
1242
00:36:40,398 --> 00:36:41,532
So just a heads up.
1243
00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:45,036
Always run that machine 50 feet away.
1244
00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:45,303
You know,
1245
00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:46,904
that last 50 feet
1246
00:36:46,904 --> 00:36:48,973
is from power station to the machine.
1247
00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:49,907
Yeah.
1248
00:36:50,174 --> 00:36:50,808
Good call.
1249
00:36:50,808 --> 00:36:52,677
And you just remind me
1250
00:36:52,677 --> 00:36:53,811
as you're saying, that just
1251
00:36:54,946 --> 00:36:56,814
another thing that I
1252
00:36:56,814 --> 00:36:58,049
was always a pain for me
1253
00:36:58,049 --> 00:37:00,518
is, is the cable connections
1254
00:37:00,518 --> 00:37:02,954
making sure they're all universal, that,
1255
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:03,621
you know,
1256
00:37:03,621 --> 00:37:05,356
every van has got the exact same
1257
00:37:05,356 --> 00:37:07,225
cable connections on there.
1258
00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:09,193
So if you show up to a job
1259
00:37:09,193 --> 00:37:10,561
and you got to get on the guy's edge
1260
00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:11,229
or whatever, it
1261
00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:13,264
somehow you need a cord or whatever
1262
00:37:13,264 --> 00:37:15,066
that they all match up.
1263
00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:16,200
I can't tell you one day
1264
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,169
that the meltdown that I had,
1265
00:37:18,169 --> 00:37:21,305
that I brought everybody in and said this
1266
00:37:21,305 --> 00:37:23,374
I don't give I don't care what it costs.
1267
00:37:23,541 --> 00:37:24,709
I want all these connections
1268
00:37:24,709 --> 00:37:25,776
to be exactly the same.
1269
00:37:25,776 --> 00:37:28,179
Everywhere, everywhere you go, bar none.
1270
00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:33,417
Because, yeah, it makes life easier now.
1271
00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:35,152
Peter and I had that game
1272
00:37:35,152 --> 00:37:37,054
with all of our air tools.
1273
00:37:38,055 --> 00:37:38,956
Same.
1274
00:37:39,056 --> 00:37:40,291
Yeah, different.
1275
00:37:40,291 --> 00:37:42,093
Different fittings on different.
1276
00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:43,427
No, that hose orange
1277
00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:45,229
hose goes with this gun.
1278
00:37:45,229 --> 00:37:46,530
Flacco goes with this
1279
00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:47,465
and no he can't plug
1280
00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:48,733
that in there and that.
1281
00:37:48,733 --> 00:37:50,334
And then finally one day
1282
00:37:50,334 --> 00:37:55,373
I said, this is insane what we're doing.
1283
00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:56,641
I mean, it's insane.
1284
00:37:56,641 --> 00:37:58,276
And I literally took
1285
00:37:58,276 --> 00:38:00,344
3 hours out of the day
1286
00:38:00,344 --> 00:38:02,680
and everything was because,
1287
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:03,714
you know, you're trying to finish
1288
00:38:03,714 --> 00:38:03,914
and you're
1289
00:38:03,914 --> 00:38:05,349
switching guns like that
1290
00:38:05,349 --> 00:38:05,950
and you're like, oh,
1291
00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:08,252
no, I can't use this. I got to. Yeah.
1292
00:38:08,252 --> 00:38:10,788
And just felt a little yeah.
1293
00:38:11,022 --> 00:38:13,991
Yeah that we can do, we can do better.
1294
00:38:13,991 --> 00:38:14,392
I thought.
1295
00:38:14,392 --> 00:38:15,526
Yeah, yeah.
1296
00:38:15,526 --> 00:38:17,161
The craziness.
1297
00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:18,229
All right.
1298
00:38:18,229 --> 00:38:19,430
I became more.
1299
00:38:19,430 --> 00:38:21,032
Now let's wrap it up. Good stuff.
1300
00:38:21,032 --> 00:38:22,466
All right. I appreciate it, Rob.
1301
00:38:22,466 --> 00:38:23,234
Thank you very much.
1302
00:38:23,234 --> 00:38:24,001
There's some great tips
1303
00:38:24,001 --> 00:38:24,969
and there's a good tip
1304
00:38:24,969 --> 00:38:26,337
on the power power station.
1305
00:38:26,337 --> 00:38:27,405
I forgot about that one.
1306
00:38:27,405 --> 00:38:28,973
So that's a good one.
1307
00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:30,708
So there you go.
1308
00:38:30,708 --> 00:38:31,742
There's been another episode
1309
00:38:31,742 --> 00:38:33,911
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
1310
00:38:33,911 --> 00:38:36,580
I'm Wayne.
1311
00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:38,582
Please stay tuned for another episode.
1312
00:38:38,582 --> 00:38:40,651
Let's try that one again.
1313
00:38:40,951 --> 00:38:41,319
All right,
1314
00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:45,256
Rob, thank you for your limited input.
1315
00:38:45,256 --> 00:38:46,657
This has been another episode
1316
00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:48,292
of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.
1317
00:38:48,292 --> 00:38:50,695
Please stay tuned for another episode.
1318
00:38:50,695 --> 00:38:51,696
See how much better you do
1319
00:38:51,696 --> 00:38:53,331
when you throw a little insult in there.
1320
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:54,632
Yeah, yeah.
1321
00:38:54,632 --> 00:39:01,939
That's what you make of that.