Full Transcript for Josiah Boling

thirty three with my redneck But I cannot believe. I 76 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.919 know those guys and ladies were behind the scenes going, 77 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.080 we let this guy in here, and what are we doing? 78 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:14.599 This is crazy? So uh, I have love for for 79 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.639 the young newbies and the silent geez. I didn't say that. No, 80 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.639 I have a lot of friends. All the guys that 81 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.160 were leader leaders in the organization when I joined are 82 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:31.839 now gold gold. I want to be platinum. Maybe I 83 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.040 ain't getting a show and they can't make a joke 84 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:34.600 about that. 85 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.639 If the Whizzy the P's silent juice latinum, that doesn't 86 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:38.319 there's nothing. 87 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.279 Okay, Osiah's coming up on the show. I think he's 88 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.600 gonna do some We're gonna do uh, we'll get the 89 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.000 camera out and then we're gonna do some curls. H 90 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:51.759 this is that what we're doing today. Twelve ounce curls. 91 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.800 Twelve ounce can't do that, that's the okay, that's more 92 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:56.720 like a thirty ounce. 93 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.120 I remember, I remember one time I was one. I 94 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.040 was in college. I went to the gym with a 95 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.680 couple of guys one time and we went to like 96 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.560 Golds gym. I typically didn't go there. I didn't have 97 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.240 a membership. And there was this big old dude and 98 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.600 we're in the locker room. We just did like eight 99 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.040 push ups and we're looking at our muscles and he said, 100 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:21.519 you boys drink beer. Heck, yeah, we drink beer. Are 101 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:26.120 you crazy? He said, that's killing your muscles. He said, 102 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.639 you can work out all you won't, but you'll never 103 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.079 get any good muscle tone if you keep drinking those beers. 104 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.839 I think I've been trying my whole life to defy that. Man. 105 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.000 I don't know how I'm doing. I think I'm real 106 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.480 bulky at all until you see a picture of myself. 107 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.480 You can do like nine nine push ups. Now I'm 108 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:46.720 in I'm in the double. 109 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.600 Come on, cool, we don't have to do a push 110 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:51.360 up contest here. 111 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:55.000 I went to the boat show last weekend. Oh my gosh, 112 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.240 childhood memory of mine, my dad Mouse and Timmy robbing 113

00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.560 that my godfather, Jeff Robinette Mouth. I mean every year 114 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.399 they go to the boat show. That was her thing. 115 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:09.000 And uh they go out and have a couple couple 116 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.040 of brewis and dinner and it was kind of cool, 117 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.480 just go walk around. Never never we're gonna buy anything. 118 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.720 And I told my wife, so we've made it a 119 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.399 tradition for our kids and we go walk around. I said. 120 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.199 It was a heck of a lot funner when dad 121 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.759 was the one getting hassled to by boat and that's me. 122 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.279 I mean I literally like to dodge people, like, talk 123 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:31.160 to her, she manages everything. Leave me alone. I said, Piper, 124 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.959 go see how much that golf cart is? Like a 125 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.040 six seater golf cart. And she comes back, she said, Dad, 126 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:38.839 he wants to talk to you. He does, was like, 127 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.439 what are you doing? You have no hustle? Where are 128 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.480 your streets? Smart? So I thought you were the one. 129 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.439 So uh anyway, but it was fun. It's a great memory. 130 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:51.920 We had a good time, kids climbing on all over 131 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:56.000 these couple hundred thousand dollars boats with their the convention center. Yeah, yeah, 132 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.360 it's good. You gotta go with you to here. It's 133 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.439 a lot of fun. It sounds like you might buy something. 134 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.160 Maybe no, no, all right, well the boat show's over 135 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:07.920 mid Atlantic until next season, next season. But uh, Joe 136 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:12.079 Saiah Bowling when we come back, a dear friend of mine, entrepreneur, 137 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.560 we've done multiple things together. We'll talk a little bit 138 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.160 about that and crack up a little bit. You're listening 139 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:18.399 to at Home with Ruby. 140 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.319 The following is a sponsored program on WBT. 141 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:26.279 Welcome Back, Get Home and Through. 142 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.560 I'm Patrick mccasack from Ruby Commercial Services on Trent Hasten from. 143 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:30.720 The Ruby Family of Companies. 144 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.839 We are your hosts. I saw you checking out my 145 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:34.959 three dollars bottle of water. 146 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.639 I'm embarrassed for you. Yes, said Daddy would be upset 147 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.079 if you paid two. We used to get it for 148 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:44.519 free out of the hose

back in the day. 149 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.600 Now you've got it tastes like the grubber. 150 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.879 It tastes like something. I'm sure it's good. I can't 151 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.519 imagine all the river water I've drank, I mean, and 152 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.600 all the chemicals and that stuff. Yeah, we get ate 153 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.920 a lot of water. I'm not letting this road time. 154 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.920 I had a couple with the boat show theme had 155 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:08.839 a couple of concussions on the river, on the skip 156 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.079 trying to ski a buoy course or something. You know, 157 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.560 it can happen, so uh, But I like skinning another thing. 158 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:17.759 When I was a kid and I s wanted to 159 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.480 ski every day, every day, every day. Yeah, my dad 160 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.959 would ski once a year and he get out on 161 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.079 the slomn ski and tear it up and then be done. 162 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:27.639 Like the wood banana ski. Nah, he would cut it 163 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:29.079 up a little poster there. 164 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.360 For a good minute, I could see his his. 165 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:35.600 His his his, his twenty four inch calm over looks 166 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.440 like Bill Murray. We always talk about that King Blue. Yeah, 167 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:40.919 Kingpin will fly out. That's it. But now I'm on 168 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:43.960 once a year skier. That's all I need. Just once 169 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.120 a year. That's all I got. Let the kids know 170 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.279 I still got it. That is pretty sad. 171 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.000 Well I've got We have two week boards in our 172 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.080 in our garage that have not moved in three years. 173 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:55.679 And Jody was like, do you think it's time for 174 00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:01.000 us to get rid of these things? Absolutely not not happening. 175 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.399 What's up? What's Ohsiah, Siah or oh si? 176 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.759 I tell anybody call me anything but stupid. So answer 177 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:11.559 to jay Osiah. 178 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:12.360 How long we known each other? 179 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.519 God, probably been fifteen years. I moved here in five 180 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:20.399 and we were probably uh in the HbA or it 181 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.679 was in uh probably seven some people cast business and 182 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.240 nine right, and so definitely at that point I was 183 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.080 out on my own, ye do my thing, trying to network. 184 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:31.200 Have you ever been on our show? 185 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:32.639 Yeah, I've been on here once before. 186 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:37.039 Oh God,

bless toast. I don't real I wouldn't. You're 187 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.039 not in a two time category? Dog slip y'all slipped 188 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.320 one past the goalie. Goodness, gracious, it just got awkward. 189 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:52.240 But no, you are, because now you're you got this prosperous, wonderful, 190 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.679 the least successful business, and you got some other things. 191 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.559 You're helping us, leading our Roby concierge app. What's the 192 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.120 name of that main Pro Main Pro. You're gonna be 193 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.519 the main Pro boss. He's the main man. And we 194 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.840 have Sarah in the room, who I just now met, 195 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.679 who is the newest. Now we got a couple of 196 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.679 new employees, uh, a new employee at the Roby family 197 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:16.480 of companies. And what's your title? 198 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:18.480 Social media manager? 199 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.679 The social media manager? So what she's gonna do. If 200 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.600 you're listening to show, she's about to blow this. 201 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.519 She's been listening to all the shows. 202 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:29.519 I can't imagine how painful that is. 203 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.480 We're gonna have to, like go to high fitness, get 204 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:34.559 ourselves in shape. They're gonna start blowing us up on 205 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.440 social media. We're gonna start looking better. 206 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.679 I'm gonna keep my radio persona. But she said she 207 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.480 told me. She told me that she knows about the 208 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.720 cold slap that hurts Piper's feelings. Uh, Pops used to 209 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.000 tell me some cold slaps and me silly. And Uh. 210 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.360 She liked riding in her desk pickup truck. I think 211 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:58.679 she was raised, Uh, but she was introduced from you, Josiah. 212 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.559 You are you are a good person. She came over 213 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:04.639 and did some handyman work for you, right yeah, carpentry. 214 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.720 Yeah. We opened back in the receptor in the COVID 215 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.720 shutdown in twenty twenty and then a couple of years 216 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:12.759 later last year twenty twenty two, we wanted to kind 217 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.679 of refresh them things, and so I put out a 218 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.679 post on our social media page saying, hey, we're looking 219 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:20.840 for some things to be done, and lo and behold 220 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:23.759 Sarah was the one that responded and I met with her, 221 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:25.879 and you know, you can always tell pretty quickly whether 222

00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.480 people have it or they don't have it, right, there's 223 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.639 those people with that it factor. And so she initially 224 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.120 impressed me with just what she was saying. And then 225 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:34.919 I think it was like the next day, we're messages 226 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.320 back and forth about what could happen, and she goes, 227 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:38.960 you know, I can just get my chop saw out 228 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.440 and I get my nail gun over here, and I'm going, 229 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.480 what twenty five year old girl, I don't know how old. 230 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.120 Twenty five year old girl has got a chop saw 231 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:47.799 in the back of the car, and lo and behold, 232 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:49.720 she rolls up to the gym like the next day 233 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:51.639 and she's got a chop saw, she's got, you know, 234 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:54.919 everything ready to go. So that's how I first initially 235 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.000 met her. She was a member of probably at least 236 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.200 five or six months prior to that, but I didn't 237 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:00.200 really get too involved. 238 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:03.960 You're you're a member of High Okay, cool? You know 239 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.000 I mean, yeah, no, I mean that's how the world 240 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.399 goes around. I mean talking about you wearing our hat, 241 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.759 I'm wearing your hat. But yeah, that's actually your hat too, 242 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:14.559 because you do work with us. I don't have employment 243 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.879 at High Fitness FY, but uh. 244 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:18.600 Just a spokesperson. 245 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:23.159 But you're such, you're such with my physique. You're such 246 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.799 a champion, uh for for your friends and and your 247 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:30.080 network that that you said, hey, guys, you need to 248 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.039 talk to this young lady. She'll be able to help 249 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:36.240 you out. She's very special. She fits Shall's personna your 250 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:38.759 family where the Roby family of companies, you know, saw 251 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:42.480 grit and grind and hard work and yeah and real. Yeah, 252 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.519 that's what I think of our business. Uh. It ain't 253 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:46.360 nothing easy. 254 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:51.159 No, no, there's nothing easy and and uh and in meetings, 255 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:55.759 Sarah just reminds me of I describe running the company right. 256 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:57.360 A lot of times it's kind of lonely at the top. 257 00:12:57.399 --> 00:12:58.879 If you read about that. A lot of CEOs and 258 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.759 executives talk about that, how all that pressure up there 259 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.200 on themselves and everybody's looking at them. And so what 260 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.399 I realized through business success and failures, right, is that 261 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.120 when you find somebody else around you that maybe has 262 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.200 the same type of passion or the same desires or 263 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:15.000 the same interests, right, you want to bring them kind 264 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.000 of into your close circle because you do need those friendships, 265 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.279 you need those connections and those relationships to help you 266 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.840 in your business and then when you can help them 267 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.120 as well. So that's an exciting part about you know, 268 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:29.039 being an entrepreneur, kind of being in that position to 269 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.080 see the good, the bad, and the ugly, and when 270 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.600 you find again those top people, you want to try to, 271 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.480 you know, connect the dots. And I'm happy, really happy 272 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.360 that I connect the dots with Sarah to you guys, 273 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.840 and I think it'll be great for our app as well. 274 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.759 I mean, I think we got the we got the obviously, 275 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.360 the reputation, the legacy, the brand, the people, our people makes, 276 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.720 our company and our family. So we're ready for this platform. 277 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.720 And we're so old school it's never been really a priority, 278 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.159 which I think is ignorant on our part. Uh, But 279 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:02.039 you got to get there. 280 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.559 Yeah, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta develop that. And 281 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:06.720 I think that, like you're saying, there's so many people 282 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.559 in the in the city that know your guys is branding. 283 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:11.759 They see your vehicles, right, they see your signs on 284 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.759 the job sites and so forth. And so I think 285 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:16.080 the thing with the social media that raises that level 286 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:19.519 It creates that omnipresence around a person, so they not 287 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.000 only see you in person or they see your signs 288 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.559 driving down the road, they start seeing you social media 289 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.879 as well, and it raises your level of your brand 290 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:29.000 in their minds. Yeah. 291 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:30.480 Well, I want to go back to something you say, 292 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.240 cause I think it's sort of the the reason for 293 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.639

your brand of high fitness. You're talking about your inner 294 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:38.559 circle and people you really trust and what to We're 295 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.480 talking with Sarah a little bit about her experiences with Hive. 296 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.559 Is there's almost like hives within the hive. Yes, but 297 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:46.720 that's that can go with the business as well. Right, 298 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:48.799 I think you were talking about being lonely at the top, 299 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:50.960 but there are those people that get to the. 300 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.200 Point where you can become vulnerable. 301 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:55.600 Not to go all eos, but I think that's one 302 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:57.600 of the beautiful things about the system that we use. 303 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:01.559 It does allow vulnerability to encourage his vulnerability, and really, 304 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.840 any good leader has to show some vulnerability. 305 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.519 But talk about why Hive. What with the name and 306 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:07.039 the brand? 307 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.799 Uh, Well, the name really was a testament back to 308 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.519 the city, as you guys know, where to Charlotte Hornets. 309 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:15.240 We got the hive right. 310 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.120 And so I didn't get that. So Tommy's got on 311 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:23.840 a old schools member club. I liked that. I recognize that, Tommy. 312 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.480 So that's the kind of connection to the city. But 313 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.240 when we were talking about the concept, what we really 314 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.440 wanted to do was bring people together, right, And when 315 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.120 you put people together in the room, especially when they're 316 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:36.320 like minded, Right, if you take a bunch of beer 317 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:38.080 drinkers and you put them room with fitness people, you're 318 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:39.679 gonna have two different groups going. 319 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:42.720 Obviously, Segment one, well, you were before your time to 320 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:44.960 you were trying to bring people together during COVID. 321 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:49.200 Yeah. Amen, Yeah, Well we started in twenty nineteen. COVID 322 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:49.879 was a hiccup. 323 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.320 I was worried, honestly, tell you this. I don't know 324 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.159 if I've ever told you. I was concerned about the 325 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:01.639 survival of your brand new gym when COVID was coming down. 326 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:03.960 I'm sure you were there. I was worried about the 327 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.720 survival of our business when COVID came down. 328 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:08.919 To me, Yeah, yeah, it was. It was really uh 329 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:10.600 you know, I put a lot of money into it, 330 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.159 and uh, you know, unfortunately, the way that COVID policies 331 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.919 worked out and everything you couldn't get any funding if 332 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.039 you were a business that basically had just started, if 333 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.720 you didn't have prior year revenues, they couldn't say, well, 334 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:23.559 you know, you need eight hundred thousand or four hundred 335 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:25.399 thousand expense. 336 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:25.679 Yeah. 337 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:28.039 No, So we were we were totally on our own, 338 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.159 and we said we got to buckle down and make 339 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.000 the best of it and and fight a way through this. Fortunately, 340 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.480 we hear debt free. We we self financed everything, We 341 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.120 put our cash into it. So being debt free really 342 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:39.799 helped us. Right, if we had that bank on our 343 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:40.919 on our back, that would. 344 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:45.240 Never uh and and and they shut gyms down. 345 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.279 Yeah right, yeah, they shut us down. 346 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.320 And you said, I'm gonna go on TV and do 347 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:50.360 an interview. 348 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:52.759 Right, yeah. We I was reached out to by uh 349 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:54.960 a lot of local news stations. The biggest one was 350 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:56.879 Fox News. I was on Tucker Carlson to night, So 351 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:58.279 that was kind of interesting. 352 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:03.080 Tucker Carlson, Yeah, did he look like Patrick Now? 353 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:04.640 That night they had Brian Killmead? 354 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:08.599 Was I was off that night? The Redneck trim? 355 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.400 Yeah, So that was a good experience. But uh yeah, 356 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.000 we end up defying the order from the governor and 357 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.839 reopen our business. We felt, you know, strong about the 358 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.359 right to do so, and so when we did so, 359 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.480 it forced and forced. It was an opportunity for the 360 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:26.880 Charlotte fitness community to come to us because their existing 361 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.279 facilities and whatnot were shut down. 362 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:30.720 All right, you stick around for a few minutes. Oh yeah, 363 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.039 I got some other things talk about with you, and 364 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.039 I'm gonna do it publicly. Hey, we got Joe Siah 365 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:40.440 Bowling here. It goes Fitness and Roby Maine when we return. 366 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:41.119 You're listening to. 367

00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.799 The following is a sponsored program on WBT. 368 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:50.920 Welcome Back, Get Home with Roby. 369 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:53.519 I'm Patrick mcaac from Ruby Commercial Services on the trid 370 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:55.519 Hayston from the Roby Family of Companies. 371 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:57.880 I mean, I don't like talking behind people's back, but 372 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.200 Tommy plays way better music than teaching. You make TJ cry. 373 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.839 You know that's what you get when you know show up? 374 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:12.200 Are you availables? Typically on Tuesdays at twelve o'clock. I 375 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.519 heard wow, I heard that. I know one thing, that 376 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:16.319 parking lot is a lot more food than it used 377 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.079 to be. I think I have there having some meetings 378 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:19.880 today about the third week in a row. I had 379 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.839 a part across the street. I can't believe you're gonna 380 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.440 do TJ like that? Do you believe that, Tommy? Yeah 381 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.920 he does, Oh he does. Yeah, I got the both grade. 382 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:33.200 I got this. So we we started talking about hive 383 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.599 and and and your antics on Tucker cross On, which 384 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.440 is pretty cool. I mean that took a lot of courage, right, 385 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:42.440 and it could have went the wrong way, let's be 386 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:43.119 honest about it. 387 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:43.720 Yeah, totally. 388 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:46.400 But it was scary times and you have to fight, 389 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.039 and you gotta go out there and grind and you 390 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.160 gotta say, hey, I'm gonna make this decision. But you 391 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:53.720 moved to Charlotte and five you moved to Charlotte with 392 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:59.319 with an electrical contractor from Indianapolis, and all right, and 393 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:02.319 then you're paying And then you started your business, you 394 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:07.119 and your brother, right yep. And that was nine and 395 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:10.279 you grew this thing you were wiring. You did a 396 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:14.680 lot of electrical apartment complaces all over the country, right, yep, developments, yep, 397 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.400 student housing, student housing. But you were doing remodeling work. 398 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.200 I mean you were kind of in the same sandbox 399 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:21.200 as us initially. 400 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.720 Yeah, when I first started, you know, I was the 401 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:27.839 managing uh person for Trent Electric to company up in Annapolis. 402 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:28.640 And man, that's a good name. 403

00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.480 There you go. We're we're petitioning behind your back to 404 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:34.720 get the whole company changed to Trent. 405 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:38.039 Trent Has Enterprises, very wonderful. 406 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:40.599 But yeah, when I was up there, or when I 407 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.599 was down here, was a managing partner. And so when 408 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:44.000 they announced that they were going to pull out of 409 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.960 this market, whenever the single family market completely collapsed, a 410 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.480 new construction market collapsed, you know, I was still getting 411 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.960 phone calls. So literally, my boss, Bill Trent, hangs up 412 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.079 the phone from just telling me, hey, I'm gonna shut down, 413 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:58.960 and I'm like, okay, well I don't know I'm gonna do. 414 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.240 And my phone rings in this out of Michigan calls 415 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:03.880 and says, hey, I've got this job. 416 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:04.079 You know. 417 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.880 I got good news. We're going to ward you the contract. 418 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:07.400 And I said, well, I got good news for you too, 419 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:09.359 and I got some bad news for you. The bad 420 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:11.119 news is the company I worked for to decide they're 421 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.240 going to close. The good news, I'd rather i'd do 422 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.119 the job for you, you know, if you give me a chance. 423 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:15.880 I just opened. 424 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:17.880 And so that was Parker Heights, which is right around 425 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:20.079 the corner from your office. And that even leads back 426 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.799 into how I end up discovering the West side of Charlotte. 427 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.000 You know, I didn't spend a whole lot of time 428 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:26.720 over here. So yeah, those first six months, I was 429 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:28.559 over here in West Charlotte all the time at Parker 430 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:32.240 Heights renovating an apartment complex and was in that industry. 431 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:34.880 And then through that process, a lot of my friends 432 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:37.160 and people that I worked with, you know, they were 433 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:39.640 getting let go from their jobs. A lot of obviously 434 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:42.279 executives that were making six figures in construction, they're getting 435 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:43.759 let go. So now all of a sudden, my young 436 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:48.519 friends are coming in these executive positions making eighty thousand 437 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:50.839 versus one hundred and fifty thousand or whatever, and they're 438 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:51.920 calling me and

say, hey, do you want to do 439 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:53.359 this job in Oregon? Do you want to do this 440 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:55.000 job in Texas? Do you want to do this job 441 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.359 in Iowa? And I didn't know the word no at 442 00:20:57.359 --> 00:20:59.680 the time, so it was yes, yes, yes, And I just, 443 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.880 you know, really grew my business from my network of friends. 444 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.359 That's that is a great story. And we met you 445 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:10.920 were coming to Narry young Gun. Grew this business like 446 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:17.640 way hairish, Who is this guy? I'm the tortoise over here, 447 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:21.599 like fifty sixty sixty year old business. Yeah, and just 448 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.000 trying to keep it in the road. But it's very 449 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:28.480 impressive how dynamic you are and how how well you 450 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:31.000 did it grow in that business. And then you moved 451 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:35.680 your office on the Wilkeson Boulevard yep, which later on 452 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:40.359 in time past me and a group of investors acquired 453 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:43.359 that office to part of our assemblage on Wilkeson Boulevard. 454 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.079 And you you kick me in the shen three times 455 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:50.880 before I walked out the door with a couple of pennies. 456 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:54.119 Gone, yeah, let's count those pennies. When it's all said, 457 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.799 who's got pennies and who's got dollars? 458 00:21:56.839 --> 00:21:59.440 I feel like I've got a little deja vu right now. Yeah, 459 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:01.400 I feel like I'm I heard this last night the 460 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:01.920 day before. 461 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.440 It's good. And then and then actually we were going 462 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.680 to do a real estate deal together post that. So 463 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:15.079 so through all this turmoil of the recession and growing 464 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:19.680 and this and that, we we became friends, really good friends. 465 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.000 And you said, hey, we talked about doing doing the 466 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:24.640 deal together, and it drug on. It had all kind 467 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:27.079 of hair on it and got all crazy and you 468 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.960 were trying to do your gym deal at the same time, 469 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:32.559 and it drug on so much. You're like, hey man, 470 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:33.960 I need to get out of this because I really 471 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:36.759 need to focus on my gym. Which is wonderful decision. 472 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:38.039 You were talking about that. 473 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.720 Yeah, in hindsight, yeah it was. 474 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.519 And you're talking about the piece of real estate that 475 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:46.240 we purchased from from you years ago on Wilkinson and 476 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:50.839 it has appreciated God bless. But you were talking about 477 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.359 being able to take that money, that capital. It would 478 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:56.599 have appreciated and been a good thing, but you've been 479 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.920 able to put it to work in this operational business 480 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.680 that have a future. Now you're looking to open your 481 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:02.440 second location. 482 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:05.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was some short term pain, you know, 483 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:07.440 to walk away if you know, we don't need to 484 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:08.960 get in the numbers, but there's a lot of money 485 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.160 on the table there, and so it was an important 486 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:14.519 decision to make. But I just realized that that place 487 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:16.440 wasn't for me. It had served as purpose for me. 488 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:18.920 It done what I needed to do, and it was 489 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.720 time for me to move on into other things. And so, 490 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:23.640 you know, I think a lot of people they feel 491 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:25.160 like they got to keep fighting and keep fighting and 492 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:27.480 keep fighting. And I felt like if I would have 493 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:29.640 fought that battle right, I may not have came out 494 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:31.759 the right side. So I decided to go different direction. 495 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:34.559 Well, no, I love you, I love your freship approach. 496 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:36.640 With that, I mean, I come from a third generation 497 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:39.440 family business. My brother and I are third generation. We 498 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:43.480 had some turmoil with some cousins and that were also 499 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.200 came in the generation that we got through over the 500 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:50.480 last several decades, which is never good and and nobody, 501 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:54.079 nobody wins on that deal. But I've always been anti 502 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:58.039 nepotism in your sense, and that's how I've approached the 503 00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:01.160 real estate industry as well. I want to be known 504 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:03.559 as a mover and a shaker and a deal maker 505 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.200 and provide opportunities for people. So I move in deals 506 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.799 and move out of deals and do what the goal 507 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:16.160 is versus getting nostalgic and stuck in something. And and 508 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:18.359 there's two sides of twin. I will say, as I've 509 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:20.480 gotten older and my kids have gotten more mature, and 510 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:23.200 they're very

intelligent and very hard working, and I like 511 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:27.319 what they resemble. I do kind of want them to 512 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:30.240 stay in some sort of family business. But the way 513 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:32.559 I look at it is I think of them as 514 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:34.519 Patrick and as you. It's like, hey, how can we 515 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:38.519 partner up? You go do something different or plays off 516 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.559 of this. Yeah, not really have to go dig a 517 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:46.440 ditch at ange Ruby, which is what I did. So 518 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:48.400 that that's really cool and I thought that was that 519 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.279 was a fresh, fresh approach. Tell us about how have 520 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:54.200 you talked about a little bit at dinner last night 521 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:56.079 about how your niche is? 522 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.119 Yeah, basically a high level our niche was. If you 523 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:02.160 back up twenty twenty five years ago, the yoga business 524 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:06.200 became very popular, and the yoga boutique studios became very popular, 525 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:08.599 and then fast forward a little bit of time right. 526 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:12.039 Boot camps became very popular, and then you fast forward 527 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.200 to a little bit more time right and cycling and 528 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:18.200 bar and pilates and all these other types of boutique fitness. 529 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.759 And what people enjoy about that is there smaller crowds. 530 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:23.400 You know the trainers. The trainer knows you you may 531 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:25.160 go have a beer after a class or a glass 532 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.519 of wine or whatever it is. They know your elements, 533 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:29.200 they know your goals, they know all those sayings, and 534 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:32.799 so people really adapted to that really well, compared to 535 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:36.039 the traditional you show up right and you're that young 536 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.640 kid at a gym and the big bulky because what 537 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.799 are you doing over there? Right? That's not very inviting, 538 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:43.279 and so on the other side of that, right is 539 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:45.720 a big box gym, a big YMCA, a big Gold 540 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.279 Fitness or something like that. And so what we kind 541 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:50.160 of did was we kind of combined those two things. 542 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:54.640 A traditional freewight open gym with all the boutique studios 543 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:56.720 so that you can get yoga, you can get at 544 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:58.599 the time we had cycling, we've we've moved on from 545 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:03.319 that program, but we have yoga, boot camp, bar and 546

00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.079 some other kind of classes along that line. And then 547 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:09.240 we have our traditional freeway open gym, so you have 548 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:12.799 a really good mix of the Charlotte Fitness family kind 549 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.880 of has come into our facility because we have a 550 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.039 little bit for everybody. Again, at the yoga studios and 551 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:22.839 boot camp studios places like that, they run classes five, seven, 552 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:25.799 eight times a day. You can only go during that time. 553 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:27.799 You can't go any other time. So benefit of us 554 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:29.920 is you can come in and do a yoga at 555 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:31.559 six am if you want, you can come back at 556 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:33.400 lunchtime and lift weights if you want. You can come 557 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:35.319 back in the evening, you do boot camp if you want. 558 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:37.400 It gives a lot of people a lot of options. 559 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:42.200 Yeah, and you sell some food products, yeah, some shakes 560 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:42.960 and stuff. 561 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.200 Right, Yeah, I think that's a big thing. Right, You 562 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:47.279 go get a good workout right in the lack of 563 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.240 food industry. You know, there's obviously McDonald's and Wendy's and 564 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:53.039 everything like that on every corner. And so you go 565 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:55.279 have a good workout, and as you said earlier about 566 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:57.880 drinking beer, you leave that workout and you go eat 567 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:01.319 some garbage right at a fast foods. You basically have 568 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:05.200 completely counteracted the entire workout that you just did. So 569 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.279 we kind of were designing it for for the thought 570 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:08.920 that people are gonna be on the go, whether they're 571 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.519 families or business people or whatever their thing is that 572 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:13.559 they're doing, they're gonna be on the go. So we 573 00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:16.319 need to provide an opportunity for them to pick a 574 00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:18.799 healthier option. Right, So they can get a shake before 575 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:20.519 they work out if they if they're feeling a little 576 00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:23.519 like they need a little bit new nutrition before the workout, 577 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:25.240 you can pick up a shake after the workout, so 578 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:27.599 we have a good culture or a good combination of both. 579 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:31.319 Yeah, no, that makes sense, and you're on to you're 580 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.799 on the second location. Tell us a little bit about 581 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:35.359 that or what you're what you're able to share about that. 582 00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:38.039 Yeah, yeah, so we're so we're looking to go into 583 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:41.559 the note to market. If you know Charlotte, Charlotte's, the 584 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.519 two sides of the downtown are are growing, right. The 585 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.880 south side has always been the predominant side of Charlotte. 586 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:51.160 The north side has really taken off, and so we're 587 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.440 going to move into that note to market. We're under 588 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:57.200 contract for a piece of land that we're looking to 589 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.200 to build a new facility on and kind of evolve 590 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:03.599 our business into that next evolution of our fitness business. 591 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:04.880 What are you telling me? 592 00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:06.839 Patri think we should keep him on for the last segma. 593 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:09.319 We can keep him on, and I think next we'll 594 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:11.839 have to have Sarah on the next show. Little teaser 595 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:14.079 here because I thought we were gonna do a combo 596 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.400 with Josiah apparently likes to talk too much about Uh, 597 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:22.359 you'll stick around for the last am I'm here. All 598 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:24.119 you're listening to at homework threat. 599 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.880 The following is a sponsored program on WBT. 600 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.480 Welcome Back That Home with Ruby. 601 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.559 I'm Patrick mcaac from Ruby Commercial Services on the Trent Hason. 602 00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:42.279 From the Ruby Family of Companies. We are your hosts. 603 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:45.160 Give me a funny little man. What's up. I'm gonna 604 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.039 try to we We went about two two minutes in 605 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.519 take two, Tommy messed up. No, he says, man, I 606 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.319 like that guy. Now he owned it. You listen, you 607 00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:56.440 get the good and the bad. 608 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:56.759 Dog. 609 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.799 Uh, I'm wearing black sauce today. Let's see if TJ 610 00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:07.039 listens to the show. Tommy lip sealed dog. Okay, mmm, 611 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:09.279 now where we're going with this thing? 612 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:12.279 We got your sigh still and he was talking about 613 00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:14.200 we talked a little bit about note but before we 614 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.559 left the third segment and you were back on for 615 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:21.039 the coveted four segment, which is a rare thing for us. 616 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.640 I mean you talked about the north side of the Uptown, 617 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.920 on the south side of Uptown,

the south end, nod. 618 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:29.160 I'm gonna go ahead and talk about the west side. 619 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:29.960 We're gonna make it a t. 620 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:31.279 Yeah, there we go. 621 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:36.680 But from the east side. No, Trenda's not from the 622 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:39.559 east side at all. The east side of the River. Yeah, 623 00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:44.359 that's what Johnny. Johnny gotcha. Yeah, the commercial construction. Never 624 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.680 seen your head whipped? He said, Oh man, you from 625 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:52.240 the east side, Johnny talking from Stanley, which is really so. 626 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:54.279 You ever heard of a thing called the cold slap? 627 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:58.720 Your beard might protect you like one one hundredth of 628 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:03.279 the power, But I'm gonna do it with my ring hand. 629 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:05.079 It actually makes that a smack. 630 00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:07.759 It spells it out after you slap him across his face. 631 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:14.319 Slap. Josiah tell us a little bit about Ruby Bain. 632 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:19.319 Uh, Maine Pro is the app that we just changed it. Yeah, 633 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:21.680 we decided to go with Maine Pro to be a 634 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:24.720 little bit more Uh, I guess inconspicuous or maybe yeah, 635 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:29.079 But the app is basically as a way for homeowners 636 00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:32.079 to manage their property or property owners to manage property, 637 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:35.160 whether it's residential commercial. And so I could just give 638 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:37.519 a little quick story about myself. I had a guy 639 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.759 a couple of years ago. He was in the neighborhood. 640 00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:41.720 He was air eighting grass and I needed my yard 641 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:43.519 air raid and I run him down like a lot 642 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:44.920 of us do, and say, hey, can you come down 643 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.720 to my house? And aired did a great, fantastic job, 644 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:48.920 and he said, do you want me to call you 645 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:50.839 next year? And I said yeah, And I'm assuming these 646 00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:53.519 guys never gonna call me lo and behold. The next June, 647 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:55.400 he reaches out to me and says, hey, I'm planning 648 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.960 my schedule for the fall. Do you want me to 649 00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.519 do your yard again? And I said, yeah, I do 650 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:01.200 want you to it again. He came out and did 651 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:03.720 it well. Then the next year he I'm expecting I'm 652 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.720 gonna get another text in June. Never heard from him. Right. 653 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:09.519 Then all of a sudden, I'm going man yard air 654 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:11.799 rated right. Let me see if I can find this cat. 655 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:13.480 I can't find him, right. I have to go through 656 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:16.000 all my messages, go through all my emails, go through everything, 657 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.200 and I can't find him as I lost touch with him. 658 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:20.559 So way a homeowner right could use the app is 659 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.720 stay in touch with your contractors, keep all your information 660 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.720 about your contractors, and one app. That way, when you 661 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:29.160 need somebody right, you can send out what your needs are. 662 00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:29.720 Right. 663 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:31.480 You go and say hey, I need a service request, 664 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:34.759 I need a HVAC repair, or I need my yard 665 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:36.799 aer rated. Right then gets to the professional that you're 666 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:38.960 used to working with. So it's a way of centralizing 667 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:41.119 everything about your home maintenance. 668 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:46.960 And then there's higher levels. And that arose because we 669 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:50.279 had Joe Alala and Arthur Samon, some real good friends 670 00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.960 of mine that that are in big business world, and 671 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.799 they go, man, I just need a concierg person. Can 672 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:58.400 you just give me one person and they be my 673 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:01.880 person and they handle all my stuff. Yeah, as a 674 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:06.079 as more of a owner's rep yes, versus we've always 675 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:08.440 been how high can you jump? We'll he bust our 676 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.400 head on the ceiling for a customer, yep, but then 677 00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:13.720 they have to meet the plumber or they have to 678 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.519 do this. Well, arrange it so then the concierge will 679 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:19.799 do that on their in their stead. 680 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:21.359 Yeah, and on their behalf ye. 681 00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:24.920 And then and then we built record all the and 682 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.599 at all levels of the main pro Yeah. We can 683 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:31.880 document and kind of build a home fact right. 684 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.319 Yeah. Yeah, that's a really neat feature as well, because 685 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:36.119 again we make so many changes at our house and 686 00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:38.119 we don't know information. Like I was talking to your 687 00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:40.359 wife about when you guys did the renovation of your house. 688 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:42.759 She goes like, yeah, I've got these pink colors. I 689 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:44.839 was walking through your house and then I really like 690 00:32:44.880 -->

00:32:46.359 that paint, and I was like, what color paint is that. 691 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:48.079 She's like, oh, I got that right, And she's got 692 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:51.079 a file but like all of us, right, that file 693 00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:52.799 is stick and deep and a lot of you know, 694 00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:54.640 information in there, so she's trying to go through and 695 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:56.200 find it. So with the home facts a nice thing 696 00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:59.480 about you're just pushing a button, right and you're finding out, Hey, 697 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:02.640 the master that dream is light French gray, and this 698 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:04.160 room is is that it's. 699 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.640 One less thing. 700 00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.000 I mean, I think we are all busy people for 701 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.480 the main part, especially if you anything to simplify this 702 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:12.000 process correct is beneficial well. 703 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.559 And also the home of the home is generally someone's 704 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:18.799 biggest asset, you know, in their life, So the the 705 00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:23.720 more value you can build with with documentation, keeping it all, 706 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:26.400 keeping it real thin and doing it. I can't believe 707 00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:29.279 that Reagan represented that she built that file on our home. 708 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:32.559 I mean I did all that. 709 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.319 Did you look at that handwriting and something pretty bad 710 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:36.880 in here? 711 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:42.400 Yeah, I don't see. I'm gonna give I'm gonna give 712 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:44.640 Raygan kudos. I did nothing with the house. Yeah. 713 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.559 I just say every time I've ever text Trent and 714 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:48.119 I said, hey, Trent. You want to get together seek, 715 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:49.480 he said, I don't know. Text my wife and see 716 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:50.200 if I'm available. 717 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.319 So no, he says to me, he says, he's working 718 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:54.519 on his binder for the house. 719 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:55.440 Which one is it? 720 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.599 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's working on his house binder. 721 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.599 No, she did a great job, Reagan. We have a 722 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.000 we have a no spouse rule in our business. Is 723 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:08.159 something that I inherited from my father's generation, my granddad's generation. 724 00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:09.800 I think it's a wonderful rule. 725 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:10.360 Yeah. 726 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.400 I think whether whether female or male or whatever, you are, 727 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.800 having a spouse that you take home and go home 728 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.519 and talk about can breed discontent. Yeah, uh and college problems. 729 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:24.840 We have a no spouse rule. So Reagan would be 730 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:27.360 the perfect project manager, something like she would be you're 731 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:28.320 doing my house. 732 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.519 She might she might be coming for you if she 733 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:31.639 was on the payroll. 734 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.800 I would love her to replace me. I could definitely 735 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:34.880 take care of five kids. 736 00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:38.639 Yeah, there'd be some er visits there. 737 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:43.480 We know about that, Will Josiah. I don't know if 738 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:46.079 you ever talked about where your original high fitness is. 739 00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:47.840 Give yourself a plug please? Uh. 740 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:50.800 Yeah. We're a one twenty nine Southside drive over by 741 00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:54.280 Old Mecknberg Brewery. That's where we're currently located. We've got 742 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:57.039 a fourteen thousand square foot facility, so think about like 743 00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.599 a really large CVS or Walgreen something like that as 744 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.000 far as parable in size. But we got all the 745 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.559 equipment that you need. Whether you're new to fitness, right 746 00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.239 you're thinking about getting back into fitness, you gain a 747 00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:09.119 little weight, you need to lose that weight. We're kind 748 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:10.320 of a one stop shop for all those. 749 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:13.440 Well, God bless you man, good luck. I enjoy being 750 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:16.719 your friend, Appreciate you, Appreciate the friendship. Uh listen, go 751 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:18.719 do the Golden rule today. Treat others the way you 752 00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:20.639 want to be treated to carry a smile on your face. 753 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.199 Pass it on you. Listen to the At Home with 754 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:23.599 Ruby