Brian Boland

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Welcome to at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick pick Isaac
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from Roby Commercial Services on Trent Hayston from the Roby
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Family of Companies. We are your host, Trent. If you
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just heard inflection in my voice, I believe I might
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have just broken my pinky on this chair. But I
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think I'm gonna be all right. I think it gonna
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be don't don't swing real hard.
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That's how Steve Scallia was here earlier. It's gonna take
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you back. He set me up. I want to give
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a plug for that show. We had a lot of fun.
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I hope this one's just as fun. What a wonderful fella. Yeah, great,
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great stories.
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Never give up he is unless he got a pivot.
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Fold him and then if you got a pivot, you
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gotta he gets my problem.
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I don't ever fold that him.
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You get a two and the three. You put that
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thing to bed.
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Buddy. I love when they closed the casino and make
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me leave win loser draw. I gotta go, dude.
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I had a pretty good run the casino. A couple
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of weeks ago, bro I was was.
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It was in the same uh, the same conference I
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was at our as Brian Bowling, but uh, dressed like
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Woody from Toy Story. Yeah you were? Yeah? What were
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you dressed as? Brian Man?
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I was dressed like Woody from I might I might
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dress like Woody from toy I thought I had the
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country a saccent around until I met this fire.
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Stay tuned. If you want to hear worse, I mean
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my catfish. I mean my acent only tints of catfish.
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Your accent has a smell, It definitely does, Okay, especially
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on a day like.
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To day, the rivers down a little bit of up,
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a little bit, little rain came.
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Through the lord that river water. Man. I tell people,
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I'm like, man, they talked about how dirty the Tava
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River is. I'm like, all rivers are dirty. I mean yeah,
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for eons they dump wasting the rivers and that's just
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what they do. Uh. I'm like, but man, I'm drinking
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more of that river water, a lot of it. Man
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carrying on the tradition. And I used to get on
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my dad. I was like, why don't you why don't
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you ever swim? He's like, I ain't got time to
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swim in that thing. And now my kids are like,
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why don't you get into the water. I'm like a
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been there done that.
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You see that guy's arm that just floated by. That's why,
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that's why I'm not getting in.
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Well, you know, when I was a kid, we'll talk
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about this. Speaking of catfish. Uh, you know, my neighbor
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used to have tires set about three feet in the water,
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and you cut a hole in the in the wall
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of them. I don't know if this is a great
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thing to say on the radio, but I'm saying it.
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And you would tie the inner part of the tire
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together so so it'd be closed and uh, and you
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set them out there and catfish would would get inside
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of them and couldn't get out. And you would every
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every week or so you pulled the tire out and something.
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These big old catfish out. Eat them right now, heck yeah,
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eat them up and fry them.
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Heck yeah.
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And everybody's like, I don't letn't eat anything out of
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that river. I'm like, man, I've eaten more catfish out
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of that river. I might go get me a tire.
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I think that's illegal. Now. I shouldn't even say that.
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Good staring or something like that. Yeah, I know what
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you're talking. The name for it, I mean, I don't
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know you're the one talking about it. You know I'm
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talking about it.
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I just littalized. We got at home and throw me
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on all these TV screens. Man, we've only been in
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here for like seven months. Hey, who do you wave
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it at the teak the camera? Oh for the people
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that watch, thinking people watch? I think so really no, no,
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I mean I think you watch it.
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I won't want you watch yourself on on on a podcast.
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Yeah, like over and over and over. I'm driving. You
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know what's funny, Kelvin, I think he's being serious. You
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know what's funny I think is uh is. I have
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two daughters seventeen and sixteen that have their license in driving.
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And the Piper Piper, my feisty ones the goodest scene
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and she just took driver's ed.
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Yeah, girl's got that weekend.
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She takes it on the on the Peter Peter, you know,
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and man, she's getting pretty critical of her old man.
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Oh goodness, I didn't think about that. If Scarlett has
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hers on Saturday and so you know this is that
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the the backup alarm when you're about to hit something.
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My advice to everyone listening has never turned that thing off.
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Uh So I backed into a pole about five years
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ago at South Park Mall, and anytime any kind of
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driving comes up, Scarlett's like, oh, you hit a pole.
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You can't talk.
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That.
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That's what she tells you. She says she's doing drivers that.
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So if Piper's already giving you grieve for drivers said,
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I'm gonna get it, like probably double.
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I'm gonna get it.
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You do.
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I will agree on your you know, when you're backing up,
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I'll turn that off. But I drive up and turn
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around at Mike Campbell's house and when I back up,
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if you're going real fast, it doesn't matter how much
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it beats. You hit the tree anyway.
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Where's the backup thing?
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And it's broke, there's the back and then you have
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a din in your bumper. You gotta go spending two
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thousand dollars in own censored up. It was like fifty
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two hundred dollars to fix a dent. I'm like, what, like,
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what's going on? Like, oh, sir, electronics in the back
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of this thing. Gotta fix all that. It's a bunch
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of hogwatch. Everything's so expensive, big day. So things called inflation.
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Is that you mean you're an eCOM majors. I mean
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you would know what I mean. Scalia, the guy that
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was on here last episode. He's a bio pharmaceutical man.
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Scale.
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Uh, not Scalia, but I do know about inflation.
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He is, like, definitely, his ears are burning wherever he's
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at right now.
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He's probably sitting down on the bench. He can tackle
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me when I come out there.
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That's that's such a nice man. You'd call him Scalia.
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It's Scalia, Scalia. Remember we did the whole Italian thing
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like flat red pizzas well.
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You know, we've had we had a really really tremendous
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run on inflation the last couple of years. I think
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is subsided, which is great. Hopefully, uh, things will will
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will stay at a two three percent and people can
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afford to live. Uh. But we didn't have inflation for
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for twenty years, so I think that we've got it
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all at once, and I'm not happy for it. But uh,
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it's like even even even even even even even even
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even even two that's how it felt.
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Well, our guests, Brian, Brian might want to chime in
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on something like that here a little bit. Don't know,
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I think you might know a thing or two about
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a thing or two.
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Really, Yeah, Well, did you know that I'm an economics major. Yeah,
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I did. I think you might have an NBA from
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Emery right right? Wow, Oh man, he's wicked smat. I
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don't need I don't need his country buck coming in
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here telling me about my craft. This is my craft,
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I know.
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I think he's from Alabama.
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Goodness gracious. I like Alabama. I like my brother at
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Alabama folk. So yeah, I'm with you all. I mean, hey,
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we said last show, we were talking about how good
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Canadian folks are. Alabama folk pretty good too. Virginia folks
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pretty good there, young man. I got my kimlocked shirt on.
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He thought this was Irish. It might have some Irish roots.
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But the piece of land is in rolling Oat, Virginia,
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right outside of rowing.
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Not is that?
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What's that the dormy course up there? It's like right
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next to that, right does it have the.
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Sheep or the.
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Rolling o? What's the other place in Richmond? Richmond? I
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messed up. It's not near rowing. I'm thinking of bally Hack.
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Ballly Hack is in rowing outside of rowing, that is.
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I have been there. That's a pretty cool place. I
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haven't been. Yeahs it is pretty cool. It's got a
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lot of hills. And a lot of weeds. Uh. But yeah,
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sir Patrick, have you have you accomplished anything at work
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this week?
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We got Brian Bowling coming up. Uh, he'll be with
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us from h till.
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Yeah.
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I've been a pretty good week.
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How about you? How about you? I have not done
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any any work this week.
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Well, if you're always always hustling.
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I will tell you this. Tell me My good buddy
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Jared Cheney had had the phase down at their house
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and Sunday night, preparing for my non work week. Sunday night,
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at about eleven twenty, I was sitting at my vanity
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with my computer working preparing for my week, and they
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got this wild hair to FaceTime at eleven twenty on
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Sunday night, and you know, I was in the middle
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of working, but I was like, Hey, I got to
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capitalize on this. I'm working. I'm gonna be able to
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show my computer and then showing my pretty wife and
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two of my kids laying laying in my bed. And
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I answered, and they were shocked. Reagan was like with raying,
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start laughing. She's like he works, like they just think
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of some mythical thing that this work gets done.
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But uh, I like it that you that you're working at.
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Jay Rod Jay Rod. I capitalize on that opportunity. I
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face time to show them my computer and he's like,
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you're on the computer. I was like yeah, I mean
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you just think this stuff just falls out of the sky.
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What is that at Gateway?
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Like?
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Who works on a vanity?
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Man?
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Can you just say a desk? That sounds a lot cooler.
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I was sitting at my vanity. I mean it was great.
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My heated flour was on. It felt good. I mean
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it was perfect. All right. I have my family right there.
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I was watching the end of the tie football game,
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NFL game. How do you tie a football game? Don't know? Yeah? Cowboys? Yeah,
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well the Cowboys did good. They did better than people
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gave him credit for. Let's go Jerry Jones. My wife
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kept rewinding by how old Jerry Jones looked. I was like,
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he's always looked that old.
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He's like it is mid eighties.
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That guy's stud People like to hate him. Okay, we
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got Brian Let's bulling bowling when we return, he's a
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fellow EO goaling on the at Home with Ruby show
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hanging there.
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for a little while now, Trent, if you've got a
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chance to go back, check out some of our episodes.
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If you can't have fun hanging out with us, I mean,
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something's wrong.
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We should have raving fans in my opinion, but I
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don't know if all five are happy.
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We got my parents, we got Kelvin. I'm not gonna yet.
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We'll keep We'll move on.
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From that life, Brian, Brian, the only reason why you're
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on here is we want your network.
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Okay, we can work on that.
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That is not fact.
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Nice to meet you, Thanks for having me.
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Yeah, we were saying before we came into this segment.
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Patrick had told me, Brian that you were up a
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spark plug spitfire, and uh, I'm feisty, so I think
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two we're gonna be real mellow you are too.
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Positively, No, we're not going to do that. Nobody wants
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hearing about. And I said you were very excitable, which
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I which I appreciate when people are talking about things
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that they're passionate in, because I think when the way
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you describe what you have going on in your business world,
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like especially were at nerve and things like that, it
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gets other people excited. I mean, people want to work
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with people that have passion and energy, and you always
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portray that.
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Yeah, I appreciate that. Patrick.
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I think you've got to have a really good reason
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to get out of bed in the morning, right And yeah,
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and apart from the beautiful family that I'm blessed to have, like,
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I've also got a business that's super exciting and great
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people in that business. So you know, I get out
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of bed at six o'clock every morning with a ton
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of energy ready to go every day. So I'm super
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blessed to be an entrepreneur here in the beautiful United
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States of America. And yeah, so thanks for having me so.
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Help me out here. What part of South Carolina are
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you from?
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So the southern tip of South Carolina.
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Well, then you got to go about three and a
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half thousand miles east across the ocean. You'll find an
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island there, pretty green well too. Right in the middle
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of that island, that's where I'm from.
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I got two things for you. One, graciously, congratulations on
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the Ryder Cup victory. That was That was a pretty
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cool fun It's always a great thing to watch, man.
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I'll tell you a bucket list to be able to
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go when it's in Ireland would be would be I know,
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probably for you to be awesome.
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I'd love to do that.
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And yeah, and two and the second thing is the
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NFL played their first football game in Dublin this past weekend,
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which was really cool and that had never happened. And
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I didn't realize that. The Rooney family, the Pittsburgh Steelers
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rooting family, this is something they've been working on for
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years and years and years. Uh played the Minnesota Vikings
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in Dublin.
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Originally Irish heritage, big Irish heritage in the Pittsburghers and
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the foundation there. Yes, okay, it was a great history
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behind that if you if you read into it. So
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the NFL coming to Dublin, people are super excited and
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arned about that, Like it's sold out months and months
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in advance. Wow, it's a super big weekend. They did
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college football there. The last couple of years, Notre.
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Dame has been to play Georgia Tech. I saw that
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in being an American. We went to Germany when the
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Panthers played the Giants last year and it, Man, it
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was like being at a super Bowl. Like it was
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so cool. The Germans they hadn't had a game of
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Munich yet and they were so pomped about American football.
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Being being there.
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It was. It was amazing.
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The only the only kind of interesting part is like
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everybody's got their own team and so like it was
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like a Smorgasborg of jerseys in the stadium.
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But I told this to trend.
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I sat next to a guy that was from Munich
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and he spoke enough English to where I could understand
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what he was saying. And I could understand just enough
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German that I could understand him. And may we had
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the best time. I had a couple couple, you know,
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big big old beers, and I was explaining to him
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about football.
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He was telling me about the culture. I mean, it
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was just something that I'll never forget. And so having that.
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Experience in Dublin would be would be amazing.
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Awesome man, and I Folt is so popular in Europe,
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like it's primetime Sunday night. Primetime is when the one
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o'clock ams are on, so there's not a lot of
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competition because the soccer is generally over. So it's actually
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very very popular. Got it, people, folks got a team.
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And when I first lined it here in twenty twelve,
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I've lined a filecun season ticket before I arrived.
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Probably the salesman's stream right like there was a ton available,
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but he didn't tell me that at the time.
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So look at it now.
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Yeah, yeah, my season ticket bought before I even landed.
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The old dirty birds.
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You gotta watch out from them Georgia. People may ill
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swindle you. We gotta be careful.
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So when you came here, you lived in Atlanta.
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I was in Atlanta for about nine years.
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Okay, well brought you here.
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So I worked for a big building materials company. I
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had come to the US when I was nineteen on
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a summer Visapen while with New Jersey worked in a
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musement park and I remember saying to my friends after
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that summer, I'm coming back, and I just loved the energy.
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I love the energy and the environment here in America.
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So I am after playing some some golf and college
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major in a accountant of finance. I worked for a
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big building materials company. Well, I first worked for consulting
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construction consulting at KPMG. So my grandfather the construction business
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and uncles in the construction so I knew that pretty well.
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So I did some work at KPMG, and then I
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worked for big building materials company that was one of
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the biggest clients. They had a US ARM. So after
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about six months there, I was like, any chance I
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can go to America And then were like maybe. And
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then a year later and you know, ho was that
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a marketing And it eventually evolved and they created a
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role for me in the in the Atlanta office. So
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I came out there in September of twelve on a
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on an eighty month project. And here I am thirteen
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years later. Welcome in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Were you married when you moved to Atlanta?
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No, I met my wife after two years.
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So we met and I played soccer on a cold
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winter's night in Atlanta silver Backs. Yeah, and the rest
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is history. So we We were Atlanta for nine years
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and here in Charlotte the last two years.
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So did you go to school college and play golf
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in Europe? Yeah?
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So I went to college in Dublin City University, majoring
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in accounting and finance. There, played some golf and some
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billards in college, and then and then did an NBA
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at Emory when I came here with my my c
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H Big bill Material. Did NB at Emory. That's where
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I met my business partner and we got into the
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logistics from there.
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Got it. Did you say billiards in college?
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Yeah?
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Are you? Yeah?
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I was going to try to stop you on that one.
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So I actually played for Ireland in university billiards. Yes,
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I played for those couple of years. So yeah, the
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local Longview Pillars tournament last year, and I.
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Think it could be good for a number of reasons.
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For golf, our accents, for clash, and I like to
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play pool with the caddies.
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When I first came to when I was in Jersey
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for the summer, I used to put like the daughter
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of fifty to fifty cent down at the table and
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I'd play eight or ten games until I until I
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got knocked off the table. And then the boys in
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college used always double up against me and handicapped me
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and used to have a my brother at home, but
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like a eight and l head start up to ten
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and stuff.
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It was fun.
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He could make a run at Sorrentos.
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I think, man, I'm telling you we read to buy
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you last night. I'm missing missing layups.
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In Ireland, writing in the pubs, like there's generally pool tables,
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dart boards, you know. So my dad had had a
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bar until we were about thirteen. I was too young
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to work in at the time. But you picked up
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darts and pool pretty early, and you play with your
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uncles and you want to get better, right, so you
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you'd be playing against them, And so got a pool
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table in the room. My brother and we just rack
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up frames.
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And that's college.
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When you're twelve hours a week or thirteen hours a week.
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We just play pool with the guys and yeah, good
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hand eye coordination. But I think pool and golf are
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really good, like like all sorts of dynamics, most of
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it's mental, Like it's where I learned most of my
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life lessons. Like most people give up on themselves, like
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hit a bad shot, give up on themselves. Same as
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golf I learned very quickly, like if you just hang
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in there and belief in yourself, like my dad was
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an internal optimist and I carried that. And you know,
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the thing is, if you don't have self belief, you
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certainly won't do it right. And if you have self belief,
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well you might right. So that's a that's the starting point.
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If you don't have that, what's the what's the.
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What's the old quote? If if you think you can,
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you can.
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If you think you can't, you can't.
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Yeah, there you go, and you can just fake it
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till you make it. You believe in yourself and all
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of a sudden you end up sitting on a spot.
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So I found that's carried me a long way, and
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it really it's a you know, really a lot to
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my dad for that and give me that that that
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mentality it said, like I said, it's carried me a
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long way. Like bad weather in golf, like you think
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about Ireland, like so many matches you played in bad
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weather and you just watch people mentally tap out right,
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and it just it's amazing. It's amazing if you just
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hang off and then life that holds great in business too.
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I'm sure, you guys know is business people like you
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get through tough times and difficult times like COVID and
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the likes, and you just hang tough and you just
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hang in there and do your best, take it day
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by day, hour by hour. And you know they said,
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there's an old saying that hard times make make make
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strong strong people, and uh, weak times, easy times make
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make make weaker people.
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One I always love is, uh, tough times don't last,
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but tough people do.
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There you go.
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Wow on your note real quick, on your note of
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not giving up. There's been plenty of times where I've
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been playing golf with Trent in an eight one the
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whole okay, so he hit two in the woods, don't
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quit Because.
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I was gonna say. My buddy David Stoufell, who's been
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on the At Home a Ruby Show multiple times, we
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play a lot of golf together and it makes me
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feel good when he tells people I'm not that good
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of a golfer. But he's like, he's never out of
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a hole. He'd be over there in the woods and
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do this and do that.
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You'd be surprised the amount of competitive matches at high levels. Right,
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it's one a hole like it happens.
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Everyone falls apart.
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Yeah, it happens.
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Well, well that I mean, I mean, I'll just let
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you keep talking. But I pulled this up my buddy
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Brent Beeson in my in my YPO forum sent this
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out the life words you speak matter in The words
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you speak matter in life in business Jesse. It'sler motivational speech,
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just an eight minute and I sent it to my
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wife because he said he ran a fifty mile race
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or one hundred mile race and he ate even two miles,
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was wanting to give up, and the guy that was
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pushing him was like, no, you you say I'm outstanding.
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I'm outstanding. I'm outstanding, and you will yourself to do it. It
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was awesome. I sent it to my wife and she's like,
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oh yeah. The girls follow him like crazy.
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It was like he's got this thing called the Big
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Ass Calendar that's one of the one of the products
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he sells. But he has claim to fame. And he's
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married to Sarah Blakey that started spanks. Yeah yeah, that's
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h she's a person. Okay, yeah, yeah, I would be
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surprised if he's not in YPO or something coming together.
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He he also was as part owner of the Hawks.
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He not net jets, but he owned a similar wow,
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like a similar business to net jets. Yeah, he's legit.
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I can see why.
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It's good that your daughters are following him.
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Yeah, there's another saying like what you say to yourself
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when you talk to yourself, Like that's just super super important,
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like like like like and again, it's just the more
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positive things you say in life and carry that true life.
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It's amazing.
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I'm a big believer in Carara too, Like you bring
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that positive energy.
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You bring that.
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Yeah, we were talking about it.
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You're you're automatically attracted to other people like that. Like
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Patrick's an example, right, you asked me to be on
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the podcast. Yeah, we don't know or that long, but
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like but we talked your energy, man, Like.
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We talked about that at nervous like negative people is like,
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I mean, I just can't do it.
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I can't be around No, I just want to get
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as far away from that as Yes, but like you're a.
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Nerve, Like you're just coming in a bundle of energy,
491
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smiles dressed up. It's like full of beads.
492
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I was like this guy, this guy is looking like wood.
493
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That is I need you to send me those pictures again.
494
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I gotta save it as your screen savers because you
495
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did look corny. I'll be honest with you. You were so cool.
496
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Del MONTI couldn't cant Oh but a bunch del Monti
497
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makes canned vegetables. If you were wondering, it's a it's
498
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a really, it's a United States staple. You take my
499
00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:15.920
Maia's not that right. I don't tell you that he knows,
500
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And I'm just I'm just saying he was picking earlier
501
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when he said you were smarty.
502
00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.920
This smart's relative, right, you know, you got to know
503
00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.279
the right things. But again, like coming from Ireland, right,
504
00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.680
Like it's all how you carry yourself socially. Right, So
505
00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:29.839
like you come into the you come into a situation.
506
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You just got to be able to carry yourself socially
507
00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:32.799
in that group. It doesn't matter if there's a doctor
508
00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.400
in a group, if there's a janitor in a group,
509
00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:36.279
it don't matter. You're able to crack jokes, You able
510
00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:38.279
to carry yourself. Are you able to like crack jokes
511
00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:40.599
about yourself like like like in a fun way. So
512
00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:43.880
growing up in that social environment, it's it's just it's
513
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a great I think lesson in life as carries well
514
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across the world. Like there's Irish people everywhere, right, there's
515
00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:50.880
always one somewhere, and you're taught that those great skills
516
00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.720
from a social perspective, and yeah, just feel very beast
517
00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:57.079
come from very humble backgrounds and then had the opportunity
518
00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.720
to to work at KPMG and you get exposed to
519
00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.920
more people that are successful. So I like to feel
520
00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.720
that you're able to live in those worlds. But I'm
521
00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.960
definitely most comfortable where I can just be relaxed, be myself,
522
00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:12.440
have just genuine conversation and genuine people. And the country
523
00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.119
clubs are a good example of that, right, Like I've
524
00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:16.519
been in stuff your country clubs and more relaxed country clubs,
525
00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:18.720
and they just much prefer when I can just be myself.
526
00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:20.960
You can just have a genuine Yeah, you don't have
527
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to pretend that you're someone you're Now.
528
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Do you think I hang out at the stuffy country
529
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I doubt it.
530
00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.960
I don't try to hang out the ones I like
531
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to hang out. I think we could have have a
532
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game and have a beer. I think we have great time,
533
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whether they like me or not.
534
00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.680
Yeah, because I've been a plenty of those we get
535
00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:39.480
asked to talk in your shirt, right, and that's fine, Like,
536
00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:41.599
it's it's your country club, it's your rules. And I've
537
00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.759
been there and great people there too. It's just I've realized,
538
00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:46.839
you know, I'm forty one now and I've kind of like, hey,
539
00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:48.160
I just want to be comfortable, and you want to
540
00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:50.480
be around people that you like and enjoy and yeah,
541
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so yeah, it's good.
542
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Well, you do have to tuck in your shirt at
543
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my two clubs. But my favorite thing about playing and
544
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then these Captain Choice can ruction tournaments or cherry tournaments.
545
00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.359
As I've on topped my shirt. It feels so good.
546
00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:08.559
She feels so free, you know. So is your wife Irish?
547
00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.200
She's American. She grew up in Atlanta, so we met
548
00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:17.000
there in twenty fourteen. Yeah, so she's parents Jamaican heritage.
549
00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.960
So did Jamake and was on Irish actually got on
550
00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:20.839
quite quite well. We had a wedding in Ireland back
551
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in back at the end of COVID, so it was
552
00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.039
actually the Jamaicans of Europe. Hey, that's cool, the Irish
553
00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.039
and Jamaicans. They're late for everything, right, So I was glad,
554
00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:34.359
gladly glad. The actual it happened, but yeah, it's it's
555
00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:37.240
a good cultural cultural mix. So it's actually good. It's
556
00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.519
pretty good chill chill environment. She's got the in laws
557
00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:41.480
moved here recently with a baby girl. She's two and
558
00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:44.039
a half now, so she's she's grown into a into
559
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into a into a young young girl. But in laws
560
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are here now, so they just moved recently. Charlott's it's
561
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great to have that family. It's one of Mednaly. Yeah,
562
00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:54.559
my daughter's named after my grandmother, so her great grandmother.
563
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So I given her that blesson, Like because I was
564
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around my grandparents were younger when I was young, when
565
00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.839
I was when I was younger, they were bout in
566
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the fifties, I got a chance to spend a lot
567
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of time with them. So nice to give that blessing
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to her and.
569
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Nora.
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So it's it's you know, I think over time she'll
571
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feel connected back to the family back home, and they'll
572
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feel connected to her.
573
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So it was a nice blessing for her.
574
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Named after my my dad's mom, my grand grandmother, so
575
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like those values carry well, like, like I always feel
576
00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.680
connected back to the heritage. You had great grandparents, you know,
577
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brought me up with great value showed me, you know,
578
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.319
great values in life. They always say, you know, the
579
00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:31.839
legacy is two generations down. So I think about that
580
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a lot now is how can I continue their legacy
581
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and their values and align align with what they'd want
582
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me to do. So that's that's It's a nice way
583
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to feel connected. You're here, you're here in the US,
584
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and you're doing your building, your family, building your business,
585
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but still feel connected to that heritage and those values
586
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that are passed down.
587
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Wow, we think about that. I mean, my man's got it.
588
00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.200
Uh So how did you start your business or how'd
589
00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:54.079
you get in the business.
590
00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.960
Yeah, So I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. My
591
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dad was an entrepreneur. I had family members and entrepreneur grandparents,
592
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so it's always something I wanted. But the parents were
593
00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.559
always told me to get as much education as you can.
594
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So so went went to university, worked in consulting, worked
595
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with CRH, and I sat in a I sat and
596
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I did my MBA. I went back to school, did
597
00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.440
my mb and I sat in this class called Entrepreneurship
598
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True Acquisition. And I never knew you could buy a
599
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cash flow and business like I told you to start
600
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from scratch, build your customer base. And there's this class
601
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called Entrepreneurship to Acquisition at Emory in college. Yeah, and
602
00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:28.200
literally twenty minutes into the class, I was like, this
603
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is what I'm going to do, Like I cannot believe
604
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that you can.
605
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You can.
606
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Again that I'm a big math guy and I can
607
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do numbers in my mind a lot, And basically that
608
00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.960
the switch for me was startups have a ninety percent
609
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failure rate, and if you buy a stable cash flow business,
610
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there's a ninety percent chance it'll stay cash flow if
611
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you don't mess it up right, So you basically flip
612
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:53.000
in the odds. So I met my business partner who
613
00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.759
it's sitting in that class. We had four things in common.
614
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We both wanted to be entrepreneurs. We bought new logistics
615
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reason well, I had worked on the building material side
616
00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:03.599
of the logistics. He had his own carrier company before.
617
00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:06.519
We both played some collegic sports. He played college ball
618
00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:09.279
at Georgia Tech. And with very similar values, very very
619
00:26:09.319 --> 00:26:14.319
similar similar values in life, very competitive, very ambitious, but
620
00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:17.680
like humble at growth mindsets right, just want to get.
621
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Better every day.
622
00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:21.799
So we spent about eighteen months looking for the right
623
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:24.599
business to buy and found a small freight brokerage here
624
00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:27.880
in Charlotte and spent the first eighteen months or so
625
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driving up seventy five on Sunday night and back on
626
00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.200
Friday afternoon, and had an apartment here in Plaza Midwood
627
00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:37.519
and eventually moved our families here. We did another acquisition
628
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in Wilmington, North Carolina, about nine months after the first one,
629
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and then did a third one in Illinois, did a
630
00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:46.319
fourth deal in New Hampshire and the start of last year,
631
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and then six weeks about sorry three months ago, we
632
00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:50.880
did a deal on the West coast. So we've done
633
00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:52.799
five acquisitions for last four and a half years in
634
00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.559
the a supplied freight logistics supply chain space. So we
635
00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.359
have a freight brokerage and managed services business based here
636
00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:01.440
in in a south Park in the office here. We've
637
00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:04.519
officed in south Park office in New Hampshire. We have
638
00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:06.799
a number of people down to Meda in Columbia, down
639
00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:09.000
in the Columbia Mountains, and we've folks look at it
640
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:11.680
all across the US. So it's been a blast the
641
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:13.640
last four and a half years. I've never worked as hard,
642
00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:16.759
I've never used all those skills that I got talk
643
00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:19.079
grown up right' you know, go to bed tired every day.
644
00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.319
It's just got time for work and family, you know,
645
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:24.680
for you know, you know, given my wife and daughter
646
00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.960
the time that they deserve at the end of every day,
647
00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:29.599
and trying to keep fit. And I've never as healthy
648
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:31.559
and worked out and not as much time for golf
649
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:33.119
as I'd like, but you know, every now and then
650
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:35.200
I can, I can have a good round out there.
651
00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:40.559
So wow, yeah, that is awesome. So five years five plus.
652
00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:43.160
Yeah, four and a half years into the first business
653
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:46.359
and five acquisitions in so but we're between the search period.
654
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.640
We're six years in. Yeah, so it's it's it's been
655
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:50.200
a blast. I don't think I could ever go back.
656
00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:51.759
I think I would be at a bad employee. At
657
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:55.839
this point, you kind of get used to the entrepreneurial lifestyle.
658
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:58.920
It's definitely for me, not for the faint of heart. Right,
659
00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:01.039
when you're doing the like we we did, we start
660
00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:03.160
with an SBA loan and a personal guarantee, right, so
661
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:05.759
like you got all this sitting with all that downside risk, right,
662
00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:07.759
you definitely have no problem getting out of bed every morning,
663
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:12.000
but wouldn't change it, Like we didn't do everything perfect.
664
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.480
We made plenty of plenty of errors along the way,
665
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.119
but like like a bad shot and goth right, you
666
00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:18.519
just focus on what you can control. Is at control
667
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.079
the next shot and the next move. And COVID was interesting, right,
668
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:24.559
Like it was crazy ups and downs. Tariffs have been
669
00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:27.039
crazy ups and downs, but you just got to control
670
00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:29.240
what you can control. And I've been blessed have a
671
00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:31.480
great business partner and great people.
672
00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:32.240
In the business.
673
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:33.720
Now we've got a lot more people in it, Like
674
00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:37.039
we started with six people in feb twenty twenty one
675
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:39.359
and we're worth to sixty five now for years later.
676
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:43.480
So dang, pretty cool. Wow. What sport did your business
677
00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:44.039
partner play?
678
00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:46.720
He played football? Football is a wide receiver for Georgia Tech.
679
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:48.200
Really, that's no joke.
680
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:49.799
Yeah, what's his name only? Okay?
681
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:51.640
Yeah, he played with the Marius Thomas back and the
682
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:54.960
yeah wow Thomas was yeah really he said he was
683
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:56.559
doing a lot of blocking for the Marius to get
684
00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:58.920
the ball. He'll tell you good stories there. But the
685
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:02.799
sports mindset is really plays really about the business really,
686
00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:07.720
it just applies so well. And the team mindset as well. Yeah,
687
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:09.200
yeah cool.
688
00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:11.359
I have one question, but U unless you got something
689
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:13.000
before I gotta clear something up.
690
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.079
This is gonna be.
691
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:15.880
Pretty lighthearted here, and then we're gonna we had to
692
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.519
do or we do make a wish story until a
693
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:21.200
wish story for our core whole tournament coming up on
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November first. So my my cousin married somebody from Ireland. Okay, okay,
695
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:29.640
and my dad and my late uncle their twins went
696
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:30.920
to Ireland for the wedding.
697
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:31.519
I did not go.
698
00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:34.799
I was like thirteen, And he tells me that still
699
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:38.319
to this day, that it is appropriate and okay, and
700
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.160
I might have twenty this before to say the F word,
701
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:44.759
and this is his story. I want we're gonna get
702
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:46.960
some verification because he might be full of full of that.
703
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:49.920
In the right context. Swear words can be said quite
704
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:52.799
playfully in Ireland. But again, in the right context you
705
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.400
can you can use them playfully and you generally know
706
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.920
what the tone. Yeah, it's not a thing in the US.
707
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:02.119
I realized that very quickly when I moved here. But
708
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:04.720
they can be used quite playfully. So if you're in
709
00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:06.480
if you're in an Irish pired, you're having to drink
710
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:07.960
with somebody and there and they're you know, using a
711
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:10.000
swear word you kind of have to interpret the tone, right.
712
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.799
So his story is this, It goes like this. He
713
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.119
and my uncle were having a beer on the church
714
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:19.400
property walking into the wedding, and a priest came up
715
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:21.519
to him and said, there'll be no f and beer
716
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.720
drinking in my f in church. And they were like
717
00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:27.799
like stone like didn't know what to say or anything.
718
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:29.680
And then they figured out it was okay to say
719
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:31.440
the F word. And he said pretty much every third
720
00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:33.400
word from that time on, from the trip until he
721
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:34.599
came home, was the F word.
722
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:36.920
It can be quite common, yeah, and it's quite common
723
00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:39.240
in society, and it's kind of just again in certain
724
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.960
parts it is. I mean, certainly coming over here to
725
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:42.960
the south again, I had to make some adjustments very
726
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:45.039
quickly to know that that was not appropriate here, right,
727
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:49.680
and again you know, for appreciate, but even you know,
728
00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:51.559
good people around me in the office next door and
729
00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:52.960
to bring me in and said, Brian, hey, you know
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you need to just you know, be aware it is
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and be aware of that. So it's great to have
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those things. You know that that person a good friend
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of mine, you know, Sam, Sam Cushman. He won't me,
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he won't mind me. Uh, saying his name. But he
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told me he couldn't understand what I was telling him.
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For the first four or five months, he just kept
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laughing at my jokes, and I was like, God, Sam,
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I kept coming back in telling those jokes. I thought
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you talket were funny, right, He just couldn't understand what
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I was saying.
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But that's the same issue.
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I hope it's got better over time.
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I mean, my wife says it's fine now, but when
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I go home or I'm talking to my dad with me,
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she says, I don't understand what you're saying. When you
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get into Lingo and you get back home, he said,
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you just talk. You talk a different language, but you
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just get comfortable.
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With my po buddies. When I get going late at night,
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they say, somebody'll lean over to that know me that
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Like what did he just say? Everybody's laughing and he's like,
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I don't have a clue, just laugh. So thanks. That
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was It's nice to meks having Thanks for having me.
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Guys, it's pleasure, pleasure to be here.
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Look to see what you're doing here and ut Patrick,
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the EO community has been amazing Charlotte for the year
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and with it it's it's an amazing group of folks
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and uh, I'm just great, great, great community here in Charley.
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So Brian and I were in Forum training together. That's
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we initially met. And so yeah, it's been good. I agree,
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I agree, couldn't be better, couldn't say.
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November to first, we have our eighteenth flip gears a
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little bit, we skipped one because we had to do
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walt for Wishes during COVID we couldn't gather for a
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corn hale tournament. This is our eighteenth year raising money.
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The last sixteen have been for the Make a Wish
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Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina. So the ten
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shows leading up to November to first at Freedom Park,
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we like to tell a wish story because it reiterates
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while we do this and polish our asset, our diamond,
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our blessings to help grant wishes for kids with life
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threatening illness. So Patrick, I'll let you take it from here.
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Yeah, yeah, let's recognize our sponsors here. Platinum sponsors are
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Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company plus Renewa Buyer Anderson
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Home Technology Solutions, United Healthcare, New Gold sponsors or, Vanswelding
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and envisioned millwork, and we were going to talk about Greasie. Okay,
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Greasy A vibrant seven year old with a love for
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theater and all things Sparkley, has faced more challenges than
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most children her age, living with heart failure and awaiting
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a heart transplant. Gracie's days are often filled with dotor's
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appointments and medical concerns, but through the power of a wish,
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Gracie's world transformed into a dazzling celebration of her dreams.
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For one unforgettable weekend, Gracie didn't have to think about
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hospitals or treatment. She was simply a star shining in
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her spotlight with the help of the Belk help of Belk,
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I'm sorry. The weekend began with a VIP shopping spree
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where Gracie was treated at glamorous hair makeup, making her
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feel like the stars. She is surrounded by family and friends.
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Gracie's love for theater took center stage when her ultimate
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wish came through her very own theater stage built right
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in her home. The moment was nothing short of magical.
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As the curtains were drawn back and the stage was revealed,
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Gracie's face lit up with pure joy. Her family and
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friends were there to celebrate, cheering her on as she
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stepped into the spotlight. This was more than just a
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dream fulfilled It was a moment of hope and empowerment
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for Gracie and her family. For one weekend, Gracie wasn't
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defined by her medical condition. She was a performer, a dreamer,
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a shining star. Her new theater stage will not only
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allow her to immerse herself and the art she loves,
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will also serve as a daily reminder of the community
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that came together to make her dream reality. Gracie's story
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is a testament to the power of a wish to
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provide joy, hope, strength when it is needed most.
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Wow, Amen, powerful man.
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That's awesome.
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Man, can only imagine that's amazing.
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Wow and go belt well, you know, and like there's
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just so much tremm we talk about make a wish,
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like all the things that you can do to be
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a part of it and to participate in these wish grantings.
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I know you've done one.
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This one reminded me of the time they I was
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you know, they had two kids that wanted to be superheroes,
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and they just every little detail is thought out. I
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was the on red carpet reporter, so the kids got
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out of the vehicle.
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I was like, tell me what your besst scene was, Brian.
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I was on the board and they didn't ask me
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to skip me.
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It was just but you can do this stuff. You
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can volunteer to do these types.
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It's wonderful. Yeah, it'll touch your heart. You'll never forget it.
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All is your diamond so great? And make a wish
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to do es so much for these families and these
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kids and uh give gives them such vitality and freshness
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in the in the midst of mist of struggles and
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find what we were talking about on the show. Brian,
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It's so nice to meet you. Look forward to hanging
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out with you.
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I think like after the show, I think I think
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that's that's a statistic uncertainty.
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As I said, I talked to my wife and see
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what time I have to be somewhere. Go do the
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Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to be
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treated always, even when it's tough. That's when you got
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to do it and carry a smile around on your face.
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Thanks for joining us at home with Ruby.
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Amen. Thanks Case