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Hey, folks, welcome to Good News York. As always,

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I am your host, Matt Major from Growth Mode Tech,

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and joined by my goofy friend here. I'm not even

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going to make fun of you today, because we got

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something. Yeah, that's why I'm excited. Special.

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That's why I'm dancing. You see the balloons.

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I am not 50, by the way. You're not? No, I feel

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like that's, as I was leading those in, I'm like,

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I thought this was supposed to be. People are

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going to think I'm older than I am. No, it's

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our 50th episode. That's awesome. We don't, maybe

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at the 100th episode we'll get actual sound effects

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for that. I can't believe this. Yeah. And also

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that's a funny premise. I didn't realize you

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walk through the store with a 50 blow and they're

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gonna be like, oh, that guy just turned 50. I

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mean, my wife did pick him up for us. They're

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gonna be like, oh, here's her husband turned

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50. That's exciting, man. We made it 50 episode

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you have and you know as we talked about yesterday.

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We got half a million views Yeah, not long ago

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impressions on all of our content that came straight

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from here, so and our strategy is working Yeah,

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our strategy is working, and we have a special

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guest here today We do who probably didn't know

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he was coming on the 50th episode mr.. Rick Austin

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from Butler fence Thanks for having me guys.

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How are you coming man? He's like, you remember

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the old commercial at the drug store? You're

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the 100th customer. Yeah, yeah. We should have

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planned that. Yeah, we're not rich enough for

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that yet. We are very happy to have you. Yeah,

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we're very happy to have you and that you get

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to share the 50th episode with us. I feel honestly

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blessed. And I was hoping it was my 50th birthday.

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Because I wouldn't go in the time warp and go

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back 13 years. I get you. I've been 28 for like

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10 years, man. It's great. You could actually

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pass for it. Oh, stop it. Oil of Olay. Rick is

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from Butler Fence, and he's going to tell us

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a little bit about what they do. But I'm going

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to tell you what, you've seen what they do because

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they have been in business for so long that I

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think everything in Syracuse has been surrounded

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by Rick. Over 50 years. That's incredible. See?

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50 years. That's actually what the balloons were

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for. There you go. We knew is what it was. That's

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what it was. Rick, tell us your story. How did

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Butler Fence come to be and how are we get here

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today? So back in the day, my father had a nice

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job over at Bristol at the time and had some

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side businesses, side hustles. He owned some

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property. So a lot of his buddies would come

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to him for certain loans. One of his buddies

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could put up fence. And my father kind of found

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out if I loaned this guy the money for the material,

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he would do these jobs on his off time. and I

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was making a profit off him working and doing

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this for me. So he kind of got into it kind of

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as a side hustle. Burnett Park Zoo was being

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built in like 71 and he went out to the bid and

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thought, hey, this would be a pretty big job

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for me at the time. He met a man at the time

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named Larry Butler who had just started his own

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little business. They realized that the job's

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a little big for both of us. They bit it together.

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And honestly, voila, they got the job. My father

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retired within a year or two from Bristol. And

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honestly, basically was the chief person. He

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kind of bought Larry out fairly quickly. Wow.

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But he kept the name. Sure. He kept the name

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because kind of had a good little slogan. Why

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not say the butler did it? I love that. That's

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my kind of my kind of tagline there. That's great.

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And my dad was very much into being one of these

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incognito. Oh, I mean, he used to drive. I mean,

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he had a Cadillac in the garage. He drove like

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a beat up Chevy Impala because he didn't want

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he he was the king of Burnett Ave, as I used

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to call a lot of little pubs in Burnett Ave.

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And he was the king. Sure. And didn't want really

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his buddies to know he'd really hit the big time.

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whatever, big time. Yeah, yeah. Big time for

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sure. But so that's kind of how it started. So

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I've been doing this since I was old enough to

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go in the warehouse, probably too young to be

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in the warehouse, like 10, 11 years old, picking

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parts, sweeping floors, cutting boards. And that's

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kind of all I've done. I did go away to college.

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And honestly, inspired to do what you guys do.

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I mean, I really I went to school out in New

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Mexico and majored in broadcasting. We used to

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have a live broadcast with we were like a PBS

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station. Nice. If you've seen what the movie

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was a landman, the old series out there in West

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Texas. Yeah, we're about an hour from that in

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a while in the eastern New Mexico Plains really

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down there, down there Clovis. And so it was

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farm country. So our little college had like

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a 90 -mile radius of PBS. It was where those

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people got their news back in the, I'm going

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to date myself, late 70s. I was in college a

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long, long, long time ago. Unfortunately, I mean,

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I had a face made for whatever. I really didn't

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go as far as I thought I would do in that, you

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know? And honestly, I always knew my family had

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the business. And so I came right back from college

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and just kind of took over the business. Well,

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the good news is, though, now you can, you know,

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you can start your own. podcast there or your

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own production of any sort you know the the the

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technologies in all of our hands now so and you've

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made a great living doing butler we could not

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do what you do i can tell you that um and you

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know i mentioned you've probably seen their stuff

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around you've probably also even seen Kind of

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their headquarters as well without maybe realizing

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it They are on the end of State Fair Boulevard

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right before you get on the highway You're like

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what's what's over there if I were to keep going?

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That's where Rick is but also right along 690

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right by the water They have a beautiful display

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of a bunch of their different fences and a huge

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side We do the billboard guys would kill you

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for that that's seen that yeah, okay, okay? Incredible

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spot there that I can't imagine doesn't drive

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some business for you from time to time I literally

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have not spent a dollar on I've been back in

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the day was yellow pages or whatever phone books

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all that stuff Radio I don't spend a dollar.

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I mean, I've got a whatever you guys helped me

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with got a little place to get a We kind of do

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very well out in the Fairmount Camillus if you're

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coming in from Fulton a suigo Yeah, a lot of

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people come by one of my daughters majored in

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marketing and she was showing me this video and

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she was like do you realize the subliminal people

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might not know they need a fence but they pass

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you a hundred times a month yeah and eventually

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when when it comes up and so we do we do very

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well and I'm not gonna lie well and you also

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got those and I mean we got one right on the

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the property right next here that I look at every

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day when we come in you got those nice little

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signs on a lot of the fences that say Butler

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right there and that that branding is all over

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town which is I if my if my Nick my middle name

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wasn't put a sign on it I don't know what it

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is because every job that goes out I tell the

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guys I don't care if it's repair I don't care

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if it's a gate I don't care if it's a corner

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post sure once we do that fence that's our fence

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I don't care who did it before get our name I

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mean, you guys owe me. I don't have to spend

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the money so I can pay you guys the money. Sure.

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I mean, I think the biggest thing for me are

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and my brother's involved, too. I don't want

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to despair. My brother, my brother and I are

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our partners in this. But I think our guys kind

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of like I mean, it's a tough job. Sure. I mean,

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not everyone wants to dig holes for a living,

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right? But we have a really good relationship

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with the guys. I mean, we are not of the you

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know, whip you got to get this done. We are of

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the compassion like do your best. you know, make

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some progress. Yeah. And if it takes an extra

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day, I want it done the right way. Sure. Do it

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like it's at your house. You know, don't you

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don't have to ask me how to do it. I'm right

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on the site. Make it look like you would want

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to at your house. That's right. Do the best you

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can. And then and honestly, we, we do a lot.

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I mean, we do 600 fences a year. So for so over

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50 years, we got, you know, quite a few things

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out there. And You know, whatever I don't get

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a lot of callbacks. Yeah, I've got a good rating

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with the BBB and That's one of those things that

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I love to just as a business guy to look at,

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you know, you talk about a niche Yeah, everybody's

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got buildings, you know, you're putting up a

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house You're putting up whatever and these are

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all different pieces and in the fact that they

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can take just one piece of that massive puzzle

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and build a great business for for half a century

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is Incredible yeah, and I'll tell you what I

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you have an incredible reputation around town

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so Thank you. I think we passed this on to Victoria

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in your office at one time, but I'm in a Group

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for business professionals locally and we got

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sign of a forum on Facebook where they ask questions

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and things and somebody one day says Hey, I bought

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this new commercial property. I got to put some

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stuff around my parking lot. Who do you recommend?

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And I was going to jump into the comments and

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say Butler. And before I got there, every comment,

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Butler, Butler, Butler, Butler. And it was incredibly

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impressive because you can just tell just the

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reputation around town. And there are other companies

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that do it. And usually in those interactions,

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you see somebody dominates, but there's a couple

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call outs to the rant. 100 % that's huge and

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love to hear and it was like you know what these

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guys definitely have the reputation that Is great,

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and we're happy to work with you as we have for

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a while I give you a lot of credit for that because

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we live in an age now where it's hard to maintain

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a perfect reputation because there's social media

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and people embellish and people can say what

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they want and he's right when I was looking you

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up because I knew you were coming on the show

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me everything was aces man and I wanted to tell

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you, you are a real man because let me tell you,

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I had a neighbor who decided he was going to

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put in his own fence, okay? We, collectively,

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there's like five or six of us that are friends

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on the block, guys, and we have our own text

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group. We all individually got invited throughout

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the days. He was like, I need help. This was

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no joke. We're talking digging and then putting,

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Rocky, when he was training for Ivan Drago, just

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putting in these wooden posts and pillars into

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the ground. That is real deal grunt work. Did

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he do it the old school way or do you guys still

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do it that way? Are there now machines? I mean

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I'll touch from so from the 70s to I mean look

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I mean We still do it that way on occasion. There's

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there's certainly job sites that you cannot get

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machinery into I mean nowadays we do have small

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hydraulic equipment and we've got bigger hydraulic

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equipment Yeah, and we can get to more jobs and

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then you just end up going back and seeding out

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yards and stuff, but But if there's an existing

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fence, and I only have to replace two posts,

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I'm not bringing equipment in. You're doing it

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the old fashioned way. You're bringing a hard

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bar. And the funny thing is I look at you guys,

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and I shook both your hands. And you could certainly

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do the work. But believe it or not, I've got

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guys half your size, like little toothpick guys,

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that they weigh 150 pounds. One of my guys, he's

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like 6 '1", 135 pounds. I mean, I don't know

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what he'd. But he can put up a stinking fence.

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Yeah. I mean, and he will work his butt off,

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you know, whatever he's got to do to get it in.

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And it's it's to listen. I'm amazed. It's I'm

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amazed. My neighbor said and he's an immigrant

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from China. OK. And I as a professor at Ithaca

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College, I think he said it was the hardest work

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he's ever done in his life. He's like I had no

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idea why you hire professionals right all the

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more reason to call Butler fence a hundred percent

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You said you had five five kids five Is this,

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are you passing it down? Are they in the business

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yet or are they going to be? So my middle son,

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my oldest son was for a few years. His girlfriends

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got a great job and they've moved a few times.

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And so he did it for a while. He did it for like

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10 years. And I thought, you know, he was the

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lead horse to do it. But, you know, his new Girlfriend

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who we love it'll happen. Yeah, so they're relocating

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down near Poughkeepsie as we speak and But she's

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got a great job and he's he found something different

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and a different field and you know But my middle

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son is my really my number one salesman now Wow,

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and he's been doing it for about five years He's

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he'll be 30 this year He's just a natural. I

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mean he's honestly I feel like he's my mini me

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he just But he's twice as good as I I mean it's

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like dude you are kept. I don't think he knows

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how good he's killing it That's great as far

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as sales go But I don't pay him enough to make

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them. I believe that doing like my father did

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the carrot, you know, in front of the horse type

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thing. Sure. He does. You do that. And then my

00:14:15.029 --> 00:14:18.110
youngest son is still in the trenches. So he's

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working and he's he's out in the field. He has

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his own truck and he runs his own crew. Wow.

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But we kind of teach all the boys, you know,

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this is before you get in the office, you're

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doing this for X number of years. Yeah. And I

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have plans in one or two years he'll be ready

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to move on in. That's great. And then both my

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daughters were smart. Honestly, I really wanted

00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.919
my youngest daughter to really run the business.

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Gotcha. The other one got her doc. She was going

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to be in the medical field and then she's incredible.

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But the other one who was into marketing, I'm

00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:54.980
like, Brent, you should you you run these boys,

00:14:55.340 --> 00:14:58.519
let them just do the sales. You I mean, sure.

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But She moved to Brooklyn as well to be near

00:15:01.309 --> 00:15:04.830
her sister and they you know, you know if she's

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into marketing though I'll tell you what there's

00:15:06.769 --> 00:15:09.850
she's huge value gonna have no shortage opportunities

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there She was home a couple days ago and she

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showed me her computer what she manages like

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some Wow. I'm like I can't even Yeah, you know

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you said your son is like world's better at it

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than you are. And I just was talking about how,

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you know, I have a daughter, an older daughter,

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and then our second kid is my son, we have a

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boy. And he just turned, he's about to turn six,

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and I'm going through this thing that, you know,

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you prepare for different things when you're

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a dad, you know, like, you're like, I know this

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is coming. What I didn't. Expect to come was

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he is so much fucking cooler than I was already

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at six years old Yeah, and he's already more

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athletic, and it's like this this mix of pride

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and joy and then just sadness and jealousy and

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So I know what you're going through when you're

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like look at my boy. He's better at this than

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I am I don't know how to handle it, but you'll

00:16:05.059 --> 00:16:08.080
you'll be happy, but make sure it does make you

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proud for sure that's for sure Rick, let's talk

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a little bit about fences. So, obviously there's

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a bunch of different types. What's kind of common?

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What's in trend? Are we still doing the wooden

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with the curve? Are we doing all vinyl? You know,

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what's people doing? Vinyl is about 50 -50 now

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with wood. You know, some people love vinyl some

00:16:32.980 --> 00:16:36.200
people, you know don't but it is definitely it's

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it's more mainstream the Listen, I mean not to

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talk politics or anything, but with the tariffs

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and my cedar comes out of Canada I mean valid

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it my cedar just went up 17 % Wow And that's

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a real number. I hate to, you know, you know,

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even be. But that's what's going on. I'm a small

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business. And, you know, so so now. And it's

00:17:00.299 --> 00:17:03.179
funny because vinyl really so so far has withheld,

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you know, all those. you know, price increases.

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Aluminum's up quite honestly 14%, steel's up

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22%. And so those are all, but vinyl has held

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steady. So now all of a sudden my cedar and my

00:17:18.730 --> 00:17:22.049
vinyl are, if it wasn't for gates, they would

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be dollar for dollar at this point. At least

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for the basic, like a dog ear cedar fence. With

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the vinyl, you still put sort of a wooden...

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No wood. There is no wood. It's a hollow vinyl

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5x5 post and it's actually made to go a little

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bit with a high wind, but ours is very heavy

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duty. Listen, I'm not going to get into what

00:17:43.859 --> 00:17:46.160
I sell to the competition, but mine's better

00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:50.700
people. Clearly. I want something good. I don't

00:17:50.700 --> 00:17:54.160
want callbacks. I'll pay a little more for it,

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but it's a good wall thickness. On the gates,

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they do get an aluminum insert. So that whole

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five inch is actually an aluminum post, which

00:18:03.589 --> 00:18:06.170
gets sleeved with vinyl, but no wood. So now

00:18:06.170 --> 00:18:08.230
you don't have to worry about your wood warping.

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You don't have to worry about it deteriorating.

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That fence, if done right, should last 50 plus

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years. For the installer side, is it any quicker

00:18:18.789 --> 00:18:22.299
or longer to install that versus wood? The post

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installation, because these are big holes and

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there's no cheating on the vinyl. So the installation

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typically of the post takes definitely longer

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than it does on wood. I see. But now the vice

00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.759
versa, the finish, the vinyl pops in kind of

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like a Lego. you know, game at the end. So that

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if you set it correctly and take that a little

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extra time, the finish is much easier. The wood,

00:18:48.089 --> 00:18:50.069
you're carrying out the wood and we do it all

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stick built. Yeah, very little panels. So that

00:18:53.109 --> 00:18:55.970
way we can follow nothing in Syracuse or central

00:18:55.970 --> 00:18:58.690
New York's flat. So this way you can follow grades

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better, you know, make a nicer looking fence.

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I wasn't even thinking about that. That's got

00:19:03.250 --> 00:19:05.650
to be an interesting challenge, right? They keep

00:19:05.650 --> 00:19:08.190
the top at the same point. But you're trying

00:19:08.190 --> 00:19:11.460
to write at least flow with the. and if a yard

00:19:11.460 --> 00:19:14.279
dips, you kind of have to dip with it a little

00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:18.380
bit, but you try to take that out and it's, listen,

00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:23.920
it's kind of artwork. And I've got like, again,

00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:25.960
we've been doing this a long time, but my average,

00:19:26.180 --> 00:19:29.279
I run 10 trucks right now, except for my one

00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.640
son who's 25. My other nine guys that are running

00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.480
my crews have been doing this 20 plus, I mean,

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I've got a couple of guys that are over 30 years

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with me. You know, you know, I mean that says

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so they they really do some beautiful work and

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they know the terrain They know how to lay it

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out ahead of time. They've seen every you know

00:19:50.130 --> 00:19:53.049
challenge Not that there's not always you know,

00:19:53.190 --> 00:19:56.809
there's challenges again. I always do a job I

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defer to them and just always say yeah however,

00:20:00.529 --> 00:20:03.509
whatever is the the best way, and best way's

00:20:03.509 --> 00:20:06.670
not always the quickest way, you know? But it's...

00:20:06.670 --> 00:20:09.089
Well, that goes back to your neighbor's story

00:20:09.089 --> 00:20:11.049
of why you use professionals. He was on a hill,

00:20:11.529 --> 00:20:14.809
too. Yeah, and he was on a hill. And I've got

00:20:14.809 --> 00:20:17.730
one of my foremen, Mark, who just loves to come

00:20:17.730 --> 00:20:20.329
in, and I love him. I mean, he's just very in

00:20:20.329 --> 00:20:24.480
tune with, you know, I mean, he's a piece. but

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he'll come in and he'll just start giving me

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these waving and arm motions. I had to do this.

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Yes, he's into it. And so, yeah, people under

00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:37.980
appreciate what they do. Not us. You know, and

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and then we do a lot of chain link to commercially.

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So the way my brother and I split up our business,

00:20:45.339 --> 00:20:49.240
he's more blue. However, it turned out, you know,

00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.019
he's kind of more blue collar. He's more into

00:20:52.019 --> 00:20:55.180
the. putting the fence together. I was always

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more into the bookworm part and sure, taking

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care of the numbers for the company. So we split

00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.460
the business up. Similarly, I run the residential

00:21:04.460 --> 00:21:07.920
and he runs the commercial. Gotcha. So commercially,

00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:10.259
which is, you know, roughly 50 per, you know,

00:21:10.299 --> 00:21:13.279
at least 50 percent. Ninety percent of that or

00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:16.720
80 percent is chain link. Gotcha. Eight foot

00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:19.240
chain link, six foot chain link barbed wires,

00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:24.450
big slide gates. prison work, highway work, all

00:21:24.450 --> 00:21:28.490
sorts of stuff. So he and my, and we're really

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truly a family business. Our cousin is our other

00:21:30.809 --> 00:21:36.460
main estimator. I mean, our moms, I mean. Him

00:21:36.460 --> 00:21:39.220
and his sister are like my brother, you know

00:21:39.220 --> 00:21:41.579
pseudo brother and sister, you know, because

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the four of us all Grew up really close together.

00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.140
So so he's worked for us for 20 -plus years So

00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:50.619
it's it's my brother and him run our commercial

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me and my son Nick run the residential Is there

00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.359
is there a So let's say you're talking to a client

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I gotta ask this is there is there a type of

00:22:03.059 --> 00:22:05.519
fence where you go They say I want this type

00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:07.619
of fence and you're like, yes, that's the easiest

00:22:07.619 --> 00:22:09.579
or they're like I want this type of fence You're

00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:12.480
like, oh boy. What what? Yeah, so what's what's

00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.759
the hardest and what's the well chain link is

00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:17.539
the easiest? Okay, so I had my money. You could

00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:20.720
only do chain link And just run the business

00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:22.940
on a hundred percent chain link I would because

00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:27.140
there's really It goes up really quick and generally

00:22:27.140 --> 00:22:29.839
speaking the margins on it or you know, you know

00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:35.579
are pretty good But all that said I mean Certain

00:22:35.579 --> 00:22:38.059
it's not so much the type of fence because I

00:22:38.059 --> 00:22:40.200
can do a fence on a hill or whatever, right?

00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:42.759
But it's it's the hill. It's like you want me

00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:44.920
to put the fence there, right? It's not even

00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.099
the type of fence. It's more where you want the

00:22:48.099 --> 00:22:52.099
site itself. Yeah. I mean, we, we just did. I

00:22:52.099 --> 00:22:54.660
mean, I love these street names. Old quarry road.

00:22:54.819 --> 00:22:56.420
It's like, what do you think you're gonna hit

00:22:56.420 --> 00:23:01.019
when you get told? Right? And this is that it's

00:23:01.019 --> 00:23:03.720
a real street up there in the DeWitt Fayetteville

00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.000
area. But a lot of big shots live. I mean, it's

00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.839
very nice, very prestigious. But they literally

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:12.400
have, I mean, because I've done some fences,

00:23:13.019 --> 00:23:16.380
a sheer wall. I mean, where There's a cliff there.

00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:19.480
Yeah. And certain people are buying homes, realizing,

00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.119
holy crap, for 40 years, Mr. and Mrs. Smith never

00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:26.420
put a fence there. And I'm putting a fence there.

00:23:26.619 --> 00:23:28.880
So I just did something like that, just like

00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:32.819
last week. I sent an extra crew on it. I'm going,

00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:35.119
guys, you're going to have to. And first of all,

00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:37.720
it's way back in this property. Yeah, it's way,

00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:39.660
way in the back. So you got to do a lot of walking.

00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:44.900
Could not bring literally any equipment. So we

00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:48.859
we do have handheld jackhammers like battery

00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:51.740
-driven So so we brought, you know, let's get

00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:54.019
brought a few of those out And I heard we had

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:56.259
a jackhammer roughly half the holes. Otherwise

00:23:56.259 --> 00:24:00.200
these guys I'm telling you I've really got Stay

00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:02.819
with me guy. I've got the greatest guys. That's

00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:05.240
I mean, I mean they didn't quit on me on that

00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:07.900
job In fact, they were there at day because I

00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:10.119
gave them a cut even an extra day. They're like

00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:14.210
one day Do you guys do strictly just installation

00:24:14.210 --> 00:24:16.890
or do you do any sort of repair at all? We do

00:24:16.890 --> 00:24:19.289
tons of repairs. Do you? Okay, good to know.

00:24:19.849 --> 00:24:22.789
And a lot of what we do in wood in particular,

00:24:22.890 --> 00:24:27.309
listen, I love wood because wood as a light,

00:24:27.349 --> 00:24:30.009
you know, chain link will last, if you really

00:24:30.009 --> 00:24:32.690
want it, it's gonna last 50 plus years. Wow.

00:24:32.769 --> 00:24:35.690
I mean, you know, same with the vinyl, same with

00:24:35.690 --> 00:24:39.589
the ornamental aluminum. Wood as a shelf life.

00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:44.579
I love wood. It means business. That's like keep

00:24:44.579 --> 00:24:48.019
on buying wood because So I I mean again, we've

00:24:48.019 --> 00:24:51.700
been doing this 50 odd years I myself been doing

00:24:51.700 --> 00:24:55.819
almost 40 I've seen certain customers six seven

00:24:55.819 --> 00:24:59.400
times or I mean it's like I my phone Yeah, my

00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.140
wife's like why don't you delete those people?

00:25:01.339 --> 00:25:03.759
I'm like I said you never know when they call

00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:06.400
right and I get calls to this day You know hey

00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:08.319
Rick you still doing fence and it's like yeah,

00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:10.859
you kidding me like I'm doing it till I drop

00:25:10.859 --> 00:25:13.640
we had it we had a wooden the old classic wooden

00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:16.279
picket fence at our last house that we lived

00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:18.690
in and we were right off of a kind of a highway.

00:25:20.109 --> 00:25:22.930
And every two seats, it was a great fence, but

00:25:22.930 --> 00:25:25.990
every two seasons, you know, after winter, I'd

00:25:25.990 --> 00:25:28.269
have to paint it, you know, but it was a beautiful

00:25:28.269 --> 00:25:31.130
fence. So I guess that's the only problem with

00:25:31.130 --> 00:25:32.750
wood. You do the vinyl now and you never have

00:25:32.750 --> 00:25:35.390
to do it. Exactly. Exactly. But certain people,

00:25:35.569 --> 00:25:38.329
I mean, honestly, when my wife and I moved to

00:25:38.329 --> 00:25:40.890
our new place, the place that we're in now, my

00:25:40.890 --> 00:25:43.430
immediate reaction was, I mean, we got a couple

00:25:43.430 --> 00:25:45.309
acres. I just had one day, but I just wanted

00:25:45.309 --> 00:25:47.210
to do a straight line of fans and I threw up

00:25:47.210 --> 00:25:50.829
some vinyl. and then since then we we bought

00:25:50.829 --> 00:25:54.670
we got a Frenchie who is literally like our kids

00:25:54.670 --> 00:25:56.890
are all older pretty much out of the house it's

00:25:56.890 --> 00:25:58.950
like well we needed something to empty nest you

00:25:58.950 --> 00:26:01.630
know so we got him and all of a sudden I was

00:26:01.630 --> 00:26:03.430
like all right crap I got to put a fence up for

00:26:03.430 --> 00:26:06.410
this guy is nuts yeah he's just right so and

00:26:06.410 --> 00:26:09.009
I did wood on most of my other part of my property

00:26:09.009 --> 00:26:11.369
and it's like all right and she's it's driving

00:26:11.369 --> 00:26:14.109
her crazy she goes I cannot have two different

00:26:14.109 --> 00:26:17.279
places in my yard make sense so And I live out

00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:21.039
in the woods and the woods. So there are a lot

00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.420
of situations, I think, that wood looks more

00:26:24.420 --> 00:26:27.759
natural. Absolutely. Yeah. What's the key? Just

00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.880
using the right kind of stain to keep the propeller

00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.119
along the life? Personally, so I'd like just

00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:37.000
let it go natural. Really? That's the way I like

00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:40.099
to do it. Like unstained? Just let it go. OK.

00:26:40.099 --> 00:26:43.299
It's going to turn gray. I think that's part

00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:46.789
of the charm. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah gives it like

00:26:46.789 --> 00:26:49.170
a rustic real because once you do like you mentioned

00:26:49.170 --> 00:26:52.670
once you start that process You're and you got

00:26:52.670 --> 00:26:54.990
to stick with it. You've got to stick with that

00:26:54.990 --> 00:26:58.190
and I love honestly when people do it too. I

00:26:58.190 --> 00:27:01.710
mean, sorry people But if you do it too soon,

00:27:02.009 --> 00:27:04.250
you actually seal the moisture into these. Yeah,

00:27:04.250 --> 00:27:06.289
you got it and it rots quicker, right? You're

00:27:06.289 --> 00:27:08.809
supposed to live it like let it go for a year

00:27:08.809 --> 00:27:12.009
on Season. Yeah when we had a new deck same thing.

00:27:12.009 --> 00:27:15.400
It was like let the wood Go for a year and warp

00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:17.599
and do what it's got to do. So many people don't

00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.599
even after we tell them that they're so anxious.

00:27:19.900 --> 00:27:22.079
It's like, it looks like we just did it in June

00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.900
or July. You can't be putting something on this

00:27:24.900 --> 00:27:28.059
September. No, you got to wait a year. And people

00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:30.799
then are like, oh, it didn't last for 25 votes

00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:34.099
because yeah, you sealed all the destroyed it.

00:27:34.099 --> 00:27:36.980
Yeah. So those, you know, I don't like those

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:40.180
conversations, but it does. You know, it happens.

00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:44.160
Only lead a horse to water. That's it. Can't

00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:46.180
make me drink it. Yeah, primarily It's chain

00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:48.980
link wood vinyl aluminum, but on the commercial

00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:52.980
side we do guard rail We do flag poles we do

00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:56.759
you do electric fences We don't really do farm

00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.700
type that's right for that there's actually one

00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:02.400
or two guys that that's kind of all they do Wow,

00:28:02.460 --> 00:28:04.920
there's a niche within it within the niche you

00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:08.380
could be a Electric fence business. There's IT

00:28:08.380 --> 00:28:10.759
guys specialize in farms. They do nothing but

00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:13.460
Make Wi -Fi work all over the outdoor space.

00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.160
That's kind of fun. That's a whole conversation.

00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:19.319
We need to have that's wild Rick we're almost

00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:21.140
out of time, but I want to ask you one quick

00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:24.259
question, especially Since you talked about the

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:27.730
residential side and your dog Is there anything

00:28:27.730 --> 00:28:30.410
special you need to do if folks say I really

00:28:30.410 --> 00:28:32.390
want to protect from an animal that might be

00:28:32.390 --> 00:28:34.250
trying to dig under fences and things like that?

00:28:34.390 --> 00:28:37.210
Do you go above and beyond to kind of seal things

00:28:37.210 --> 00:28:39.690
off or what do you do? Certain people do request

00:28:39.690 --> 00:28:42.190
that. I mean not as much as they did in the past.

00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:47.359
I mean, listen, certain animals. So we don't

00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:49.680
really do that very often. Gotcha. I mean, we

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.519
just don't I mean, but our fences are tied to

00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:54.000
the ground. And it's going to keep and like I

00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:56.660
tell everybody, nine out of 10 people that are

00:28:56.660 --> 00:28:58.519
doing a fence at some point are going to have

00:28:58.519 --> 00:29:00.960
an animal either they want to keep their animal

00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.200
in. And that could even be a child. But you know,

00:29:04.299 --> 00:29:06.119
they were going to keep something in Danny and

00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:10.950
keep you know, other people. So privacy is, I

00:29:10.950 --> 00:29:17.359
mean, back in the 70s, 80s, Every but you know,

00:29:17.460 --> 00:29:19.480
listen they think I called these people farms,

00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:22.299
you know, they wipe out every tree sure they

00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:25.279
build these developments and Everyone's you know

00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:28.420
fairly on top of each other. Yeah, and I mean

00:29:28.420 --> 00:29:30.519
I just see to change change Remember when they

00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:34.839
used to do the slats in the chain link. Yes That

00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:38.079
yes, I used to put and very commercial, you know

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:40.039
where they put the privacy slats. They used to

00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:45.660
be diagonal. Oh Like the green yeah. Yeah be

00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:47.720
the first thing the kids walking by would break

00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:50.559
and yes often that means not very you know and

00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:53.059
I see it all the time still as far as most you

00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:55.259
know more people are getting rid of those sure

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:58.099
sure still up but around the pool like if you

00:29:58.099 --> 00:29:59.980
had a pool a lot of the people that had pools

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:02.839
would have those chain link was primary I mean

00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:05.359
that was it and there was no vinyl at that point

00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:09.539
yeah and wood was basket we there wasn't much

00:30:09.539 --> 00:30:12.759
choice on wood I mean yeah I feel like we brought

00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:15.299
this stick built thing here to Syracuse. That's

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:17.619
all where I'd went to a few trade shows instead

00:30:17.619 --> 00:30:20.039
of people using panels. They're all selling one

00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:21.720
by six. And I'm like, well, that's going to work

00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:25.119
for us because instead of teachers, there's composite

00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:26.539
decking. But I never really thought is there

00:30:26.539 --> 00:30:29.559
composite fencing? It's very expensive. It's

00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:31.519
not. Well, during the pandemic, we did our our

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:33.319
deck and we were going to do a wood deck just

00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.039
re you know, that was when wood was we did composite

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.099
because composite was cheaper than the lumber

00:30:39.099 --> 00:30:41.630
during the pandemic. So which ended up In the

00:30:41.630 --> 00:30:43.250
long run now we have a deck that's gonna you

00:30:43.250 --> 00:30:44.829
know last long days are probably gone But yeah,

00:30:44.869 --> 00:30:46.769
but they do have composite fence and they do

00:30:46.769 --> 00:30:49.509
it's very you know And people are going more

00:30:49.509 --> 00:30:52.329
with the colors the art Brown's they want you

00:30:52.329 --> 00:30:55.450
know and that stuff You know I mean if my fences

00:30:55.450 --> 00:30:58.349
say 50 bucks a running foot that stuff's like

00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:02.250
50 % higher that color but more and more people

00:31:02.809 --> 00:31:06.150
I kind of always said Syracuse is kind of a Chevy

00:31:06.150 --> 00:31:08.890
market. I mean, it's just, you know, it's not

00:31:08.890 --> 00:31:11.390
about, you know, we're not, it's very simple,

00:31:11.390 --> 00:31:15.289
you know, very fairly, but there's even, even

00:31:15.289 --> 00:31:17.450
though you don't see, there's people are holding

00:31:17.450 --> 00:31:20.309
on to their homes now. So their value just all

00:31:20.309 --> 00:31:22.609
went up 50 to a hundred and they're not going

00:31:22.609 --> 00:31:24.930
to move and they've got a little maybe extra

00:31:24.930 --> 00:31:26.809
money and they're putting it. Time to make it

00:31:26.809 --> 00:31:29.029
look even prettier. Yeah. Yep. For sure. And

00:31:29.029 --> 00:31:30.910
now with all these home improvement shows, you

00:31:30.910 --> 00:31:33.230
see all the beauty that you can do. And there

00:31:33.230 --> 00:31:35.470
are certainly fences that can beautify your home.

00:31:36.049 --> 00:31:38.390
And the one thing that drives me more nuts than

00:31:38.390 --> 00:31:40.549
anything is going into these areas where you're

00:31:40.549 --> 00:31:43.650
talking four or $500 ,000 homes, all gorgeous.

00:31:43.849 --> 00:31:49.309
And I see a POS Home Depot vinyl. Oh, yeah, they

00:31:49.309 --> 00:31:52.069
tried to do themselves. And it's just must drive

00:31:52.069 --> 00:31:54.589
you nuts. That's like, I could have made this

00:31:54.589 --> 00:31:58.970
a showcase instead. I'm like, So you see them

00:31:58.970 --> 00:32:01.730
strap the panels to the roof of their SUV? Yeah,

00:32:01.730 --> 00:32:04.910
yeah Like you mentioned they have no idea what

00:32:04.910 --> 00:32:06.890
they're getting into the most are probably only

00:32:06.890 --> 00:32:09.400
half the depth They're supposed to be Yeah, it

00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:13.180
seems simple, right? You build it around and

00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:15.759
here we go. Before we go, we want you to hit

00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:17.480
the plugs, anything you want to plug. But I got

00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:21.259
to ask, do most fencing companies or yourself,

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:24.180
do you charge by square foot? Is that how the

00:32:24.180 --> 00:32:26.779
pricing works? It's not really that way. I mean,

00:32:26.859 --> 00:32:30.440
there are, right. It's material because really,

00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:34.140
I mean, I have a panel price and a post price

00:32:34.140 --> 00:32:37.259
and a gate price. OK. And then a labor price.

00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:40.799
Now, obviously, a guy that's doing 50 feet versus

00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:45.400
250 feet, I can discount that accordingly. 50

00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:47.480
feet, I don't really have a lot of room on that.

00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:51.019
So if you did a per foot thing, you know, so.

00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:54.259
So it is kind of a sliding scale. Yeah. Makes

00:32:54.259 --> 00:32:55.599
sense. You're talking about, you know, you go

00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:57.500
50 feet straight up a hill like you're talking

00:32:57.500 --> 00:32:59.539
about. That's a different, different ball game.

00:32:59.539 --> 00:33:01.460
Three day job versus a one or something, you

00:33:01.460 --> 00:33:03.859
know. So the salesman, you know, and I get, you

00:33:03.859 --> 00:33:06.720
know, I've got one or two of my competitors love

00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.640
to do that online thing. And I'm thinking. I

00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:11.180
can't imagine what their guys are going through

00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:13.779
without anyone getting their eyes on that. Yeah,

00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:17.220
not every job is a flat piece of paper. Sure,

00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:20.660
it'd be most often not. So that's incredible.

00:33:20.859 --> 00:33:24.400
Well, old fashioned. What? So Rick Austin, Butler

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.480
Fence. What's what's the best way for folks to

00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:33.119
get? Yeah. Well, our website is well, if you

00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:39.190
have an inquirer, I guess it's sales. It's easy

00:33:39.190 --> 00:33:42.829
enough. Send your pictures, send a request, or

00:33:42.829 --> 00:33:45.630
just call our number. Debbie has been with me

00:33:45.630 --> 00:33:49.579
for... That Debbie won't go Debbie's I'm not

00:33:49.579 --> 00:33:53.359
supposed to say her age, but she's Well, yes,

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.039
she's been 50 for almost 20 years now Well, and

00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.059
she can't do man just loves to come in and she's

00:34:00.059 --> 00:34:02.700
been the face of my place for that's all 40 odd

00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:05.420
years I love that. So give her a call at three

00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:12.489
one five four two two eight four 10. And she'll

00:34:12.489 --> 00:34:14.530
get you one of the guys scheduled to come out

00:34:14.530 --> 00:34:18.550
either. I still do two or three estimates a day

00:34:18.550 --> 00:34:22.059
just to get out of the office. So once in a while,

00:34:22.099 --> 00:34:23.800
you even get the owner out there, and people

00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:26.659
are always amazed. They really are. They do.

00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.059
It's the same way. You go to a restaurant, and

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:32.239
you like to see the owner come out and talk to

00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:34.840
the tables. It's kind of cool. You're the best,

00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.619
Rick. Thank you so much for coming. Guys, thanks

00:34:36.619 --> 00:34:38.099
for having me. I really appreciate it. This has

00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:40.019
been great, Rick. We really appreciate it. For

00:34:40.019 --> 00:34:43.539
sure. We will definitely have you back. And anytime

00:34:43.539 --> 00:34:45.590
you got something interesting to... Going on

00:34:45.590 --> 00:34:47.710
or or a promotion anything like that. We're more

00:34:47.710 --> 00:34:49.670
than happy to absolutely help spread the word

00:34:49.670 --> 00:34:53.309
so Rick Austin Butler fence We will be back because

00:34:53.309 --> 00:34:56.050
we are gonna celebrate our 50th episode And I

00:34:56.050 --> 00:34:57.989
think Danny's gonna come on talk about the new

00:34:57.989 --> 00:35:00.429
Nintendo switch that yeah, we got some surprises.

00:35:00.429 --> 00:35:04.489
We got some nerd Yeah, it's it's good news York

00:35:04.489 --> 00:35:07.250
brought to you by ads on the go get ads on the

00:35:07.250 --> 00:35:10.250
go calm It'll actually be worth sticking around

00:35:11.750 --> 00:35:15.670
Org yeah, no ads on the go. I do get ads on the

00:35:15.670 --> 00:35:33.590
go. That's it calm. We'll be back Now we're back.

00:35:34.110 --> 00:35:36.650
Oh, we're on oh, yeah, he never stopped what

00:35:36.650 --> 00:35:39.750
is this? Oh, hey, buddy. Oh, hey, look. Oh, this

00:35:39.750 --> 00:35:42.269
is weird. Yeah, I'm freaking out. Yeah, wrong

00:35:42.269 --> 00:35:48.650
transport side Our man Danny It's fitting that

00:35:48.650 --> 00:35:52.570
is Barely awake because he spent all his night

00:35:52.570 --> 00:35:56.469
all his time last night in multiple nerd lines

00:35:56.469 --> 00:35:58.469
to get a new game system We're gonna talk about

00:35:58.469 --> 00:36:02.070
that in a minute. Mm -hmm, but first We got to

00:36:02.070 --> 00:36:05.289
celebrate the big five. Oh, the 50th episode.

00:36:05.690 --> 00:36:08.989
No one here is 50 years old. I just want to still

00:36:08.989 --> 00:36:12.010
make that very clear. But with the 50th episode,

00:36:12.010 --> 00:36:14.710
this is exciting. And, you know, we've been at

00:36:14.710 --> 00:36:16.730
this technically like for what, four months?

00:36:16.969 --> 00:36:20.099
Yeah. That's a lot of episodes. It is. I'm really

00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:23.340
happy. I have to say I want to thank both of

00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:25.599
you because none of this would happen without

00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.300
you. And Danny, you don't get enough credit.

00:36:28.380 --> 00:36:29.960
You're always behind the scenes. I'm glad you're

00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:31.679
sitting here to talk about the switch. But more

00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:33.199
importantly, so people can see your beautiful

00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:35.320
face. Yeah. Because you do produce the show for

00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.639
us. And you do an amazing job. And at Growth

00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.380
Mode Content, you do an amazing job as well.

00:36:39.460 --> 00:36:41.300
We still don't know what your job title is, whatever

00:36:41.300 --> 00:36:44.389
you do. But it's awesome, and we love you. So

00:36:44.389 --> 00:36:46.389
this is great, guys. He's the head ginger in

00:36:46.389 --> 00:36:48.409
charge. Yeah, Todd, what's going on with this?

00:36:48.550 --> 00:36:51.349
Because now I'm getting excited. I was at the

00:36:51.349 --> 00:36:54.030
local comic book store, Larger Than Life. Shout

00:36:54.030 --> 00:36:57.449
out to them. They got a great retro game con

00:36:57.449 --> 00:36:59.730
event, I think, coming up sometime soon. They're

00:36:59.730 --> 00:37:01.710
not paying me to say that, so I should shut up.

00:37:01.949 --> 00:37:03.730
But anyway, as I was shopping around, looking

00:37:03.730 --> 00:37:05.590
for a couple of things, and I'll tell you specifically

00:37:05.590 --> 00:37:08.829
why later, I ran into these grab bags. They got

00:37:08.829 --> 00:37:10.829
these grab bags, and I'm going to tell you they're

00:37:10.829 --> 00:37:14.739
themed. Do we grab them? And they are Funko Pops,

00:37:14.860 --> 00:37:17.659
right? But these are gifts for you two fellas

00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:20.380
to celebrate our 50th. Hold on. But it'll also

00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:23.039
be fun to see what's in the bag. Funko Pops?

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:25.500
That's a form of bobblehead, and you know what?

00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:29.599
I love bobbleheads. I was trying to decide who

00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.460
gets what. And you know what? I've decided I'm

00:37:32.460 --> 00:37:36.219
going to leave it up to you fellas. So I got

00:37:36.219 --> 00:37:41.780
80s classics and television. I love all of that.

00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:46.400
Who wants which one? Oh, fuck. Well, I mean...

00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:47.800
You have to fight each other to the death. I

00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:50.760
feel like the easy answer... Danny's 10 years

00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:52.300
younger than us, so I feel like I should take

00:37:52.300 --> 00:37:55.019
the 80s classics, but I do love television. That's

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:57.800
solid logic. Danny, what do you think? I'm guessing...

00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.679
Do you have a strong...? I guess my assumption

00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:03.260
was 80s classics could potentially be 80s classics

00:38:03.260 --> 00:38:05.820
TV, but it doesn't actually say that, so it's

00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:07.039
a mystery. All right, you know what? I'll take

00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:11.010
80s classics. Danny, how do you feel about television,

00:38:11.210 --> 00:38:13.429
buddy? That's fine. We could do like a deal or

00:38:13.429 --> 00:38:16.550
no deal. Do you want to switch briefcases? I'll

00:38:16.550 --> 00:38:18.250
give you one last chance to switch briefcase.

00:38:18.429 --> 00:38:20.650
OK. All right. And let's do this. There's a few

00:38:20.650 --> 00:38:22.429
of these things in each bag. So let's open them

00:38:22.429 --> 00:38:24.750
and we'll take them one by one. And since you

00:38:24.750 --> 00:38:28.809
got to pick, Danny, you you reveal the first

00:38:28.809 --> 00:38:32.110
prize in this magical grab bag. So exciting.

00:38:32.570 --> 00:38:36.050
Larger than shout out to Funko and ads on the

00:38:36.050 --> 00:38:39.510
go. GNY sponsored by ads on the go all right

00:38:39.510 --> 00:38:41.849
here. We go the first one in the television grab

00:38:41.849 --> 00:38:48.210
bag You got Elaine from sign holy shit. That's

00:38:48.210 --> 00:38:51.460
awesome fucking all right. That's awesome You're

00:38:51.460 --> 00:38:52.940
acting like you're surprised. You bought them.

00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:55.039
Bro, I bought them like this. I don't know what

00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:57.059
the fuck's in it. Oh, you didn't pick them out?

00:38:57.219 --> 00:38:59.280
No, they're just like this on the shelf. Oh,

00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.400
holy shit. Oh, this has just got way cooler.

00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:05.519
All I know about it is that theme that they wrote

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.760
on the bag. I was like, may I have time to do

00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:10.300
this? Yeah. I literally grabbed it as an impulse

00:39:10.300 --> 00:39:13.340
item next to the register. That's because I was

00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:15.099
like, that's a really good acting. You were like,

00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:17.269
no way. and I was like, dude, you bought them.

00:39:17.329 --> 00:39:18.730
It's funny that you thought that I knew what

00:39:18.730 --> 00:39:20.590
was in there. I did. Well, I don't know. Let's

00:39:20.590 --> 00:39:22.590
see. You pop one out. Let's see what you got.

00:39:22.889 --> 00:39:25.389
Yep. Oh my god, this is so fun. Pop one out.

00:39:25.469 --> 00:39:27.670
I'll pop one out. Never mind. What do we got

00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:32.400
from the 80s classics? I got Webster. I don't

00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.400
know who that is. I thought it was Masters of

00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:36.760
the Universe. He -Man? Oh, I did used to watch

00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:39.760
He -Man. I did watch it. Why don't I remember?

00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:41.579
I fucking love He -Man. I don't remember Web

00:39:41.579 --> 00:39:43.679
Store either. That's what I mean. At first I

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.739
got excited. I thought it was Webster from the

00:39:45.739 --> 00:39:47.920
TV show. The little kid. What you talking about,

00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.179
Willis? Yeah. No, that's... See, Webster always

00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:54.179
gets looped in with different strokes. Webster

00:39:54.179 --> 00:39:56.639
had the clock that he could go in and the...

00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:59.780
Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But it's not him.

00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:02.780
It's Web Store. Okay, listen. I'm not complaining

00:40:02.780 --> 00:40:04.900
all right all right, and I loved I loved he Danny

00:40:04.900 --> 00:40:08.099
What's number two in the bag Webster web store

00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:11.619
Skeletor right? This is a bit of a deep cut.

00:40:11.619 --> 00:40:16.380
Oh what? I don't know if you're familiar with

00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:22.599
black mirror. Yes, but we have Robert Daly oh

00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:28.159
Which episode yeah? Oh my god. What? I don't

00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:30.940
want to spoil it for anybody. It's okay. It's

00:40:30.940 --> 00:40:33.300
okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You find out at the end

00:40:33.300 --> 00:40:36.500
like the weird twist is he's like programmed

00:40:36.500 --> 00:40:39.159
this Star Trek episode with his co -workers and

00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:41.460
he's in a simulation and stuff like that. I feel

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:43.780
like I need to watch this. I've never seen this.

00:40:43.980 --> 00:40:46.360
Black Mirror is good. Very niche but great great

00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:49.920
episode. Awesome. I knew who he was. Solid Funko

00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:53.849
Pop. Alright here we go. What do you got number

00:40:53.849 --> 00:40:57.730
two for Mike subway? Get the fuck out of kidding.

00:40:57.730 --> 00:41:00.670
I'm fucking kidding Jesus that was 90s was that

00:41:00.670 --> 00:41:06.130
super collector got this is no Yeah, the chick

00:41:06.130 --> 00:41:10.570
from GI Joe the Baroness. I loved GI Joe what

00:41:10.570 --> 00:41:14.150
and Listen on Saturday mornings in the 80s little

00:41:14.150 --> 00:41:16.780
Mikey got made fun of because he stopped watching

00:41:16.780 --> 00:41:19.019
G .I. Joe because Jem and the Hologram started

00:41:19.019 --> 00:41:21.260
at the same time and I liked watching that better.

00:41:21.420 --> 00:41:26.440
Of course you did. But this is great. G .I. Joe,

00:41:26.619 --> 00:41:31.139
come on. Go Joe. Yeah. Go Joe. All right, this

00:41:31.139 --> 00:41:33.420
last one. Knowing is half the battle. This one

00:41:33.420 --> 00:41:35.179
is probably, well, I don't know. You're damn

00:41:35.179 --> 00:41:40.130
right. This one is Fun Run Dwight. Get the fuck

00:41:40.130 --> 00:41:42.230
out of here. I'm gonna slit your throat for that.

00:41:42.309 --> 00:41:44.530
You got a Dwight? I will slit your throat for

00:41:44.530 --> 00:41:46.469
that. Oh, the other options are kind of crazy.

00:41:46.530 --> 00:41:49.090
You got fun run Andy and Michael with a check.

00:41:49.489 --> 00:41:55.750
Oh my god. That's awesome. Fun run Dwight. That's

00:41:55.750 --> 00:41:57.630
incredible. I don't know what my third one is,

00:41:57.690 --> 00:42:00.090
but I am wildly jealous of that. That's incredible.

00:42:00.369 --> 00:42:04.090
See? I know. You picked. Just because I thought

00:42:04.090 --> 00:42:07.039
you wouldn't know any of them. Young lad ironically.

00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.360
I think that was the cheaper bag right one is

00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:13.059
cheaper than the other one Never mind. Holy shit.

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:16.659
Holy shit. What is it? What fucking Michelangelo?

00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:21.199
Ninja Turtles, dude. I I loved the Ninja Turtles

00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:24.420
Ghostbusters Ninja Turtles GI Joe Masters of

00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:27.019
the universe, dude. I could kiss you right now.

00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:29.739
Please don't I won't that's outstanding. That

00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:33.480
is this is a good This was a good batch. Matt,

00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.320
thank you. Happy 50th episode, fellas. We didn't

00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.500
get you anything. It's okay. Here, have sep -tor.

00:42:40.739 --> 00:42:42.500
Danny's gonna give me the switch, right? No.

00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:46.440
Uh, wow, I don't know what to say other than

00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.750
thank you, dude. This is great. Happy 50th. GI

00:42:49.750 --> 00:42:53.070
Joe Ninja Turtles, so let's uh with that being

00:42:53.070 --> 00:42:55.849
said let's take two minutes and talk about Danny's

00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:58.210
video game adventure. Yeah, dude What you were

00:42:58.210 --> 00:43:00.630
you were fucking in it started you were getting

00:43:00.630 --> 00:43:03.070
you look really early for this yesterday I left

00:43:03.070 --> 00:43:06.349
work early so I managed to get over to the GameStop

00:43:06.349 --> 00:43:10.230
at 3 and I was like oh, this isn't bad. There's

00:43:10.230 --> 00:43:12.349
no yeah you messaged us You're like whoa. I thought

00:43:12.349 --> 00:43:14.530
it was gonna be way more than this when I got

00:43:14.530 --> 00:43:17.460
inside. It was all the way they'd like went all

00:43:17.460 --> 00:43:19.920
the way deep back and they they had I was like

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:23.820
47th out of 50 people were there to like get

00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:27.280
a switch and uh yeah waited in that line for

00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.619
probably an hour and a half paid for it in full

00:43:30.619 --> 00:43:35.500
at like three or four o 'clock 4 30 and uh went

00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:39.199
home did some work and then came back I ended

00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:42.059
up falling asleep and luckily I sent an alarm

00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:44.360
because I know myself but I woke up and was like

00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:47.059
I'm just going to go back to bed. I can just

00:43:47.059 --> 00:43:48.780
go and get it tomorrow. But I was like, you know

00:43:48.780 --> 00:43:54.460
what? I'm up now. So I went 1201. They opened

00:43:54.460 --> 00:43:56.239
up their doors, but they're only letting in five

00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:59.320
people at a time. So that took forever. I think

00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:04.119
I got over or got through it by like 130 in the

00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:08.619
morning. Gotcha. And then from there. One of

00:44:08.619 --> 00:44:11.039
our pre -orders fell through for retro game con

00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:14.300
so we needed a switch for the convention. Oh

00:44:14.300 --> 00:44:17.300
I decided I'm in that Marshall's Plaza over in

00:44:17.300 --> 00:44:19.360
DeWitt. Shout out to them. I went over to the

00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:21.780
Best Buy There's like 150 people standing outside.

00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:23.420
They're just surrounding the front of the building.

00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:28.019
It was like a zombie apocalypse, but with nerds

00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:30.280
Indistinguishable same one side is for people

00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:32.659
who pre -ordered the other side goes out to the

00:44:32.659 --> 00:44:36.099
the weeds it was like what's the a League of

00:44:36.099 --> 00:44:37.940
their not a League of their own League of their

00:44:37.940 --> 00:44:40.440
own. There's no crying in baseball. Feel the

00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:42.679
dreams. Feel the dreams. I felt like I was going

00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:44.199
to go to the cornfield. They have to wait in

00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:47.440
line for the switch. But yeah, so I waited there.

00:44:47.579 --> 00:44:50.239
You paid some kid to cut the line. No, it was

00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:53.559
crazy. So I showed up and there was this older

00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:55.980
woman with her son and she was like, oh yeah,

00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:58.699
you missed out. They're sold out. And I was like.

00:44:59.699 --> 00:45:02.000
Son of a and she was like, oh, I'm just kidding

00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.599
with you. So every everybody to the whole area

00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:06.500
had a little piece of paper and knocked some

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:12.139
kids mom out Yeah, great joke lady Yeah, so I

00:45:12.139 --> 00:45:16.579
waited in line there and Probably at 2 30. I

00:45:16.579 --> 00:45:18.360
got handed a sheet of paper. That was like this

00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:20.199
will guarantee that you have a switch console

00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:23.539
and It was crazy was I was the end of the line

00:45:23.539 --> 00:45:26.360
for the longest time and then probably like 3

00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:28.800
30 in the morning more people were showing up

00:45:28.670 --> 00:45:31.030
People must have been calling other people to

00:45:31.030 --> 00:45:34.309
tell them. This is wild. Wake your ass up. Nuts.

00:45:34.849 --> 00:45:38.829
So I got home around 4 .30 and then went to bed

00:45:38.829 --> 00:45:41.610
and woke up. My god, and you haven't even played

00:45:41.610 --> 00:45:44.710
the thing yet. No, I turned it on, plugged everything

00:45:44.710 --> 00:45:47.030
in. Made sure it worked. Yeah, made sure the

00:45:47.030 --> 00:45:49.150
screen wasn't busted. That was the thing this

00:45:49.150 --> 00:45:52.329
morning. Game stops, certain game stops, I think

00:45:52.329 --> 00:45:55.909
in Long Island, they stapled the bridge to the

00:45:55.909 --> 00:45:58.190
box and it went through and pierced the screen.

00:45:58.289 --> 00:46:00.889
So there's like two or three cases of... Can

00:46:00.889 --> 00:46:03.349
you imagine after all that coming home? And it's

00:46:03.349 --> 00:46:05.949
an expensive device. So you spend like a guy

00:46:05.949 --> 00:46:08.030
from Nintendo is going to show up to that store

00:46:08.030 --> 00:46:10.809
and just start. Do people do people go all out

00:46:10.809 --> 00:46:14.630
for these and like like dress up cosplay or is

00:46:14.630 --> 00:46:17.630
it just you're waiting in line? I mean, maybe

00:46:17.630 --> 00:46:20.190
in bigger cities. So here I'll show I'll share

00:46:20.190 --> 00:46:22.889
our buddy Phil Farta in the stage time trivia

00:46:22.889 --> 00:46:26.349
crew actually hosted a party at a GameStop location

00:46:26.349 --> 00:46:28.309
out in the Utica area. It's brilliant. I love

00:46:28.309 --> 00:46:31.480
that. I absolutely love that. So my retro game

00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:33.440
con friends were making fun of me last night

00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:36.019
because I'll kick their ass somebody in there

00:46:36.019 --> 00:46:39.539
somebody in the discord shared this wide shot

00:46:39.539 --> 00:46:41.679
that they were there in line and I happened to

00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:47.239
be in there and We'll share this with you. It

00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:50.320
looks like footage of like we're looking for

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:53.800
this man. I was miserable. There was a person

00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:57.599
behind me. This was only at twelve oh five in

00:46:57.599 --> 00:46:59.940
the morning. I just like had woken up. Were you

00:46:59.940 --> 00:47:02.119
drinking or anything? No, I was just probably

00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:04.019
would have been happier. There was a guy behind

00:47:04.019 --> 00:47:07.380
me with a speaker. blasting video game music,

00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:10.420
like, super loud. So that person caught it just

00:47:10.420 --> 00:47:12.059
at the moment where I turned around and was like,

00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:13.579
you gotta be kidding me, right? Yeah, I mean,

00:47:13.659 --> 00:47:16.000
it says it all on your face. You literally look

00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:19.579
like a, just like a fugitive on the run in that

00:47:19.579 --> 00:47:22.619
picture. I was gonna be. Wanted for questioning.

00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:25.280
Right, right. You're playing music, don't be

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.619
that guy. So, I'm not gonna... Make you demonstrate

00:47:29.619 --> 00:47:31.000
the thing since you haven't played it, but I'd

00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.000
love to You know next week after you've you've

00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.099
gone, so we need a review of a full review of

00:47:36.099 --> 00:47:40.559
the device What you love what you don't do? Real

00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:43.199
quick question What will be your first game?

00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:44.840
What are you gonna try to play first great question?

00:47:45.820 --> 00:47:48.380
Probably Mario Kart that okay came bundled with

00:47:48.380 --> 00:47:51.019
it probably gotcha I love that and it's a brand

00:47:51.019 --> 00:47:53.900
new for this platform Mario Kart. I don't know

00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:56.219
if you're familiar with it, but the The Switch

00:47:56.219 --> 00:47:59.519
didn't have its own Mario Kart. Gotcha. It was

00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.280
a rebrand of the Mario Kart that was released

00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:04.619
on the Wii U. So it was Mario Kart 8. Then on

00:48:04.619 --> 00:48:07.139
the Switch, it was Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. All right.

00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:10.500
Yeah, they added... I was... Yoshi was my guy

00:48:10.500 --> 00:48:14.480
in Mario Kart. Who was your character? Princess?

00:48:15.019 --> 00:48:17.880
Yeah. You strike me as a... I'm a big Luigi fan.

00:48:18.219 --> 00:48:19.760
Luigi was good. He was probably my second choice.

00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:22.760
I usually go Mario. You just go straight up Mario?

00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.119
Classic, yeah. Can't go wrong. Don't it's a me

00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:29.079
money. Oh, it's a me. I'm audio Of course should

00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:31.880
be the winner, right? So like the iPhone a lot

00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:33.579
of times people that are like in line to get

00:48:33.579 --> 00:48:35.860
the new iPhones Yeah, they know kind of some

00:48:35.860 --> 00:48:37.840
of the feature Do you know any of the features

00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:39.539
that are a little different than the last switch

00:48:39.539 --> 00:48:42.059
offhand? Yeah, so there's there's a big performance

00:48:42.059 --> 00:48:46.090
jump the switch originally released in 2017,

00:48:46.349 --> 00:48:50.010
so we've gone, what, seven years without a new

00:48:50.010 --> 00:48:51.769
console. It's a long way in technology development.

00:48:52.050 --> 00:48:55.889
Yeah, and it's honestly not the most up -to -date

00:48:55.889 --> 00:48:59.570
thing. Like, it doesn't compare to an Xbox Series

00:48:59.570 --> 00:49:02.809
X or a PlayStation 5. It's more comparable to,

00:49:02.809 --> 00:49:05.650
like, a PlayStation 4. But at the same time,

00:49:05.750 --> 00:49:07.789
yeah, you're comparing something that I can take

00:49:07.789 --> 00:49:12.389
with me. Yeah. You got us beat. Is the screen,

00:49:12.449 --> 00:49:16.409
is it? Is the console or the piece itself, is

00:49:16.409 --> 00:49:19.289
it heavier, bigger, smaller? Yeah, so the screen

00:49:19.289 --> 00:49:21.170
is a little bit bigger. I believe it's like seven

00:49:21.170 --> 00:49:22.510
inches or something. But it's light. Yeah, it's

00:49:22.510 --> 00:49:24.590
very light. Why don't we bring it out? The materials

00:49:24.590 --> 00:49:26.550
that they're made out of, yeah, I should have

00:49:26.550 --> 00:49:28.329
brought it with me. You dumbass. No, I'm kidding.

00:49:28.530 --> 00:49:30.130
You didn't get any sleep. It's not your fault.

00:49:30.889 --> 00:49:33.429
The materials are very well -made. It's a very

00:49:33.429 --> 00:49:36.269
well -made device. It's crazy. It is. You let

00:49:36.269 --> 00:49:38.289
me hold it, and I was like, I don't care. Is

00:49:38.289 --> 00:49:40.690
this still something that you're going to do

00:49:40.690 --> 00:49:43.349
a lot of? Docking it and playing it on the big

00:49:43.349 --> 00:49:45.610
screen or is it gonna be more handheld? I think

00:49:45.610 --> 00:49:48.110
so, you know when I first got the switch in 2017

00:49:48.110 --> 00:49:51.449
I remember I was leaving my job to go work at

00:49:51.449 --> 00:49:55.130
the Mets and It was that week that I was leaving

00:49:55.130 --> 00:49:57.289
there So I just brought it in and would play

00:49:57.289 --> 00:49:59.969
it at my desk while I was taking phone calls

00:49:59.969 --> 00:50:03.949
for people I was in a call center and Hey, you

00:50:03.949 --> 00:50:05.610
know might as well take advantage of it But other

00:50:05.610 --> 00:50:07.010
than that, I feel like that was the only time

00:50:07.010 --> 00:50:09.449
that I really used it. That's probably mostly

00:50:09.449 --> 00:50:12.659
docked. That's awesome Listen, I'm gonna make

00:50:12.659 --> 00:50:14.880
you one offer before we go. And I don't want

00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:16.699
you to feel obligated. You know we got tape running,

00:50:16.860 --> 00:50:20.659
right? I will trade you. Oh, jeez. I will trade

00:50:20.659 --> 00:50:27.380
you these two for the Dwight. The G .I. Joe is

00:50:27.380 --> 00:50:31.280
pretty appealing. It's also a number 7 -5, I

00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.500
feel like. I'm not a big Funko Pop guy, so you

00:50:35.500 --> 00:50:37.860
gotta tell me. The numbers on these, is this

00:50:37.860 --> 00:50:40.099
sequential for all Funko Pops? Here's the thing.

00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:42.400
I claim to be a bobblehead guy, as you know.

00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.500
I have, like, a series. Yeah. I have 50 bobbleheads

00:50:45.500 --> 00:50:48.559
at home at this point. I don't usually do Funko.

00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:50.599
I'm more of a traditional bobblehead guy. Doesn't

00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:52.940
mean I don't like the Funko. So I don't know

00:50:52.940 --> 00:50:55.880
much about the numbers, but I'm assuming it's

00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:57.000
part of a series. I'm just wondering, because

00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:59.119
they're all widely different. I didn't know if,

00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.000
literally, they just started at one with every

00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:03.389
one they make, and they increment. Yeah, I'll

00:51:03.389 --> 00:51:05.610
make that trade. Oh, will you really? Yeah. Oh,

00:51:05.650 --> 00:51:07.309
I thought you were gonna tell me to go f myself.

00:51:07.369 --> 00:51:08.869
No, it's all right I'll take what I mean you

00:51:08.869 --> 00:51:10.329
are you sure green, but he's trying to look like

00:51:10.329 --> 00:51:12.730
a good guy at a store Yeah, as soon as we cut

00:51:12.730 --> 00:51:15.130
he's gonna give me that back fuckhead. This is

00:51:15.130 --> 00:51:18.170
awesome. Oh, I'm so happy dude. That's awesome

00:51:18.170 --> 00:51:20.969
Nice, gny. That's what we're doing here. Good

00:51:20.969 --> 00:51:24.829
news happiness positivity Michelangelo Dwight

00:51:24.829 --> 00:51:28.590
Michelangelo web store store. Yeah, we get a

00:51:28.590 --> 00:51:33.639
V Danny tripod In the new Switch? What an episode,

00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:36.079
man. Rick from Butler Fence. Rick from Butler

00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.760
Fence. What a cool guy he was. He was cool. Yeah,

00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:41.840
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00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:46.380
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00:51:46.380 --> 00:51:50.000
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00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.400
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00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.179
driving in the truck. Yeah, he was driving around.

00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:56.019
Yeah, I was like, oh man, I was trying to see

00:51:56.019 --> 00:51:58.400
if that's our guy already had an ad yet. But

00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:00.619
yeah, luckily we didn't go with our faces because

00:52:00.619 --> 00:52:02.650
that could be jarring. Right. You know, no offense

00:52:02.650 --> 00:52:05.769
to any of us, but... There was a memo from the

00:52:05.769 --> 00:52:08.929
highway department that sort of banned that for

00:52:08.929 --> 00:52:11.630
hazard safety. Faces? Ours, specifically. Oh,

00:52:11.630 --> 00:52:13.250
oh, our... Well, then that makes more sense,

00:52:13.309 --> 00:52:15.329
yeah. They got wind that we might be on a billboard.

00:52:15.510 --> 00:52:16.750
Yeah, they were like, we can't have this. That's

00:52:16.750 --> 00:52:18.329
actually why we don't have any on 690 right now.

00:52:18.469 --> 00:52:21.190
That's correct. In any case, folks, it's been

00:52:21.190 --> 00:52:25.190
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00:52:25.190 --> 00:52:27.250
of you, except for that one guy, you're a fuck.

00:52:27.269 --> 00:52:30.050
You know it. You are a fuck, man. But I really...

00:52:30.050 --> 00:52:32.130
Hey, that guy. Hey, that guy. Thank you for,

00:52:32.130 --> 00:52:35.409
like, sharing, subscribing. Don't stop, because

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we sure as hell aren't. This is a... We're enjoying

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celebrating 50, but, man, we are so honestly

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in our infancy of where we're going and what's

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happening here. Listen, man, I... Thank you for

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everybody who's been along the ride. This has

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been a dream. so far. So I got to thank you and

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you, Amanda, everybody that works here, even

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on the IT side, growth mode tech to growth mode

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content. This has been a dream gig so far. And

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more importantly, we have to thank the people

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listening and watching because without you this

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this what are we doing here? We're talking to

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ourselves, which we do enough of. We sound like

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the PBS telethon now. Yes. We could do it. Can

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we do a 24 hour telethon like the old Jerry Lewis?

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I don't know why I did this. All right, peace

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out. Bye