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Speaker 1: A podcast from.

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Chrysler Dots Jupe Rahm it's Billified, the Bill Moran Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Well, hello and welcome. Thank you for getting your pot on,

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Thanks for telling a friend. That's how we spread the

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word about the Pirate Ship, and I appreciate all of you.

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Today is gonna be a little bit different of a podcast.

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I wasn't sure what was going on. I had some

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family things happening, and this is Thanksgiving week. We're coming

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up on two complete years of doing the podcast, and

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I couldn't do it without guys like Kevin and Dan.

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They have been there from the very beginning. I just

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it wouldn't happen. Kevin was instrumental in naming the podcast

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and encouraging me to go forward and try this venture,

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because you know, it's it's I mean, as much as

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podcasts have been around, it's still relatively new and not

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proven to be lucrative, and you know, all these different things.

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But I really am very, very very grateful to Kevin

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and Dan, along with you know, our friends the Soldier

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and Matt Reese will be on the next episode, and

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of course Laura who's been in and Stephanie id who's

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brought so much, and Katie who's been in here periodically,

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and just everybody. And I can't tell you how much

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it it just I don't even know if I have

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the right words for it. I was gonna say, blows

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my mind. That seems like a little bit of hyperbole,

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but but how sometimes in awe I am of how

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these things all just come together, and the people that

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I've gotten to know because of the podcast, and you know,

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you see who's you know I people always go, you

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know who your friends are. These guys are brothers, you know,

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especially Kevin and Dan, and so I thank them greatly.

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But there's other people, right, We've got a Race and Randy,

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and I thought tonight be kind of fun to talk

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to Race and Randy and get to know him a

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little bit. You've heard him on podcasts, maybe you've heard

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him on the radio, but he there's a life, how

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did it start, what's going on? What's in Randy's world?

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And then Greg Connors is a regular contributor, has been

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a dear, dear friend of mine for a long time

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and has been a huge supporter of the podcast, And

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so I thought it would also be fun to talk

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to Greg about how did he get involved with the

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Buffalo Bills and what was that that rolled that way,

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and then also beyond that, just running the business and

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work life balance. And like we hear the fun things

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that Greg does. Right, he wants to have Bruno Mars

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for his sixtieth birthday, and he you know, he's off

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to and then up to see the Buffalo Bills play

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in Seattle, and he'll go to every Super Bowl and

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all that. But there's a lot more that goes into that,

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and the work hours and the work ethic, and the

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and the push and the ability to overcome obstacles and

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keep on a path and see the bigger picture. And

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so we'll talk to Greg about all that. And again

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it just sort of a Thanksgiving and early Thanksgiving episode.

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I want to thank you for being there and listening

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to Billified. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that.

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It warms the cold cockles of my heart. We will

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have our friend Race and Randy right after this. Cobblestone

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on Maine at one on nine West Main Street in

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the village of Webster. I happened to be in Webster yesterday.

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I thought, you know what, let me go to Gobblestone

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on Maine. I had a Guinness and the Putats sitting

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at the bar, and it was kind of early in

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the day on a Saturday. It's like four thirty five o'clock.

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The place was comfortably filled up. I get the pow Toats, Housemaid,

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tater Tots, Krispy bacon Yantes, cheese, Kurds, housemaid gravy, and

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a couple sitting next to me said that looks so good.

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We're ordering putts. I'm just saying, the shareables are amazing.

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Everything there is amazing. It's Cobblestone on Maine one on

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nine West Main Street in the village of Webster. I

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haven't really paid much attention to Kiss, but Race and

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Randy it's one of his absolute favorite bands, and I

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thought this would be a little bit of a different

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episode to one say thank you to people who have

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been contributing for the almost two years that we've been

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doing the podcast, and then also maybe to find out

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a little bit of the stuff that we don't really

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get to with Race and Randy. There he is, How

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are your right?

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Speaker 3: Let me turn on today?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well? Is this uh? That that song one

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of your favorites or no, it's.

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Speaker 4: One of them. I like all Kiss songs. One of

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my favorites is Detroit Rock City. Okay, it's probably one

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of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: So Randy, I think you know we were. I met

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Randy through radio a number of years ago when there

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was a collector's thing going on and somebody was picking

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on people who did collections and Randy called up to

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defend and there was just something about Randy and we

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went out made a video about all his what do

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you have, die.

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Speaker 4: Cast die cass and you know, I got some little

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hoods and most of you, you know, by the time

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what you saw was probably around, you know, about four

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or five hundred pieces.

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Speaker 3: So and I go way more than that.

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Speaker 1: Here's my question, Race, And Randy has been around cars

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and worked on cars since he popped out of the womb.

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But your dad worked at Kodaks. Well, where did this

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love of cars come from for you?

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Speaker 4: Well, my dad was My dad worked on cars first,

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he worked on cars, fors, and he worked on tractors

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and stuff. He built his own stuff. I mean he

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worked on cars when he was he lived on a farm,

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all farmers and they fixed all their own stuff, right,

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so he had to do that. He actually had a

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fifty five Chevy that he got from my aunt. It

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was automatic, and he actually turned it into a four speed,

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made his own clutch system up and everything. In fact,

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the car had to rusted floorboards. He put those SNAH

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green stamp signs and to fix the floors back then,

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you know. And he said that wud last forever. But

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in fact he traded that car in bought another one.

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The guy broke the towuch, the guy the garage. He

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had to call my dad to come over and he

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could fix and throw them how to fix it. They

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can drive it again.

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Speaker 1: So your dad knew all that stuff just on his own.

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Speaker 3: Yes he did. He grew up a farm boy, had

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Speaker 1: Stuff, right, a farm boy? Did you ever you said

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the green something signs? What what what do you mean?

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Speaker 4: SNH green stamp signs? You remember those SNH green stamps.

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He used to get those who used to buy stuff.

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You save all these stamps ups. And he used to

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have a store in Geneva. You could take all those

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staff you went over to Geneva, traded men. You could

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get all you could get all you name it you

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could get. He could I got a basketball must My

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mom used to get silver aware, you know, mixing machines,

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all kinds of stuff you could get in the catalog.

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That was pretty cool. That was I'm talking back in

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the sixty fuddy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, because I was thinking like when the floorboards went out,

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I remember people taking road signs and either welding that

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or bolting it into parts of the of the floor

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that was still there in the car.

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Speaker 3: Same thing.

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Speaker 1: That's what I thought. That's what I thought. Okay, I

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just did. I just wasn't familiar. But I mean, when

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did you start doing a little wrenching? Did you pop?

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Speaker 4: Like I rent through my dad at home, you know,

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when we had snowmobiles because he had garden tractors. He

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did car He worked on cars at the house. He

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hit a Dodge pick up. He put a Chevrolet motor

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and transmission, and I swapped that over from a different thing.

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all that to make it work, made the shiffling.

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Speaker 3: It's worked to the Dodge. You know. He did all

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that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: So I learned that all from him, and my and

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my uncles and my dad were written the cars and

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my dad's buddies were in the cars. So it didn't

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take much for me get me to get interested in

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My uncle Larry, who lives in Georgia. He must have

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had every single hot rad magazine that I could think of,

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and hot riding and hot rode and I used to

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read every single one he had, you know, all drag

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race and all that stuff. So you know, an they

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al race when they were younger. So that's where I

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Speaker 1: Well it's funny because you know, sometimes you get it

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by osmosis. But how many times do we seem where

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a father may be into something and the kid goes

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a completely different path. But that's kind of cool. Were

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you working on cars, let's say it like I don't know, well,

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i'll give you a reasonable age, like eight or nine.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, we're going on working on snowobills and everything.

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But my dad built his doom buggy. My dad built

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that's a handbuilt doom buggie. He's got okay, you know,

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with all steel bodied and you know, and all that

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stuff out of Volkswagen Chansis that was shortened and all

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that stuff. So I learned a lot from him, and

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he was a little different because a lot of them

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guys have built doom buggies back that didn't put fenders

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on his his four full vendors running boards, and the

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host smash all made out of metal.

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Speaker 1: So, Mike, I guess my question then to you, pardon me,

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I always tell people to turn off your phone, and

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I didn't follow my own instructions. My question to you then,

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is is that a lost art being able to work

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on your own car?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely a lost art. And let me tell

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you something right now, the automotive industry is in trouble.

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They are losing technicians left and right, and nobody wants

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to do this. I mean, you start to pay sucks

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to start. I started working on cars at three sixty

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five an hour, That's what I was getting paid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I had to buy tools.

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Speaker 4: And you're spending twenty percent of your paycheck every week

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minimum on tools. And you're gonna spend that money. You're

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gonna up with sixty two hundred thousand dollars the tools

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if you stay in it. I mean, I can't tell

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how many screwdrivers I've lost in the last forty five years,

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and how many sockets and wrenches and lights I've broke,

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and you know, I just it's a never, never winning

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battle on it. But I mean my grandson is doing it.

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He wants to go to post you become a Tian.

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I kind of trying to tell them, Okay, no products

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going to do it, but do me a fair or

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get into a maintenance place like Wegman's or a factory,

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do some maintenance stuff because it'll be a whole lot easier.

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Speaker 3: And working on cars, well, cars, I.

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Speaker 1: Love cars myself. I don't certainly love them to the

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extent that you do, but they're not easy for people

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to work on themselves. You know, you talked about your

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dad always working on cars. I knew farmers. I had,

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you know, worked on sporadically on farms, mostly on Heyday

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or something. I was up in the hot hayloft trying

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to get him off the conveyor belt and stack him

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before the next one came. But those guys could all

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fix tractors and things. And now it seems like the

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cars are designed and then the engineers told, you've got

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this much space whatever that is to put a motor

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in it or an engine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, was my dad.

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Speaker 4: He opens a hood in his car now that he

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just shuts the hood and closes so he don't even

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look at it. Anymore, you know, And he drive my

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firelights GM via go. Nothing against that. My kids drive forwards,

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you know what. I drive Fords because I work on

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Fords for a living. That's why they drive forwards, because

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I can fix.

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Speaker 1: Them, you know.

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Speaker 4: But like I say, my dad's got a problem with

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you even I got friends of mine that have problems

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if I can't fix it, if I know somebody works

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than GMS, like call a buddy man, Hey, can you

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help me out with this for you know, so I

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know people working other you know, other car companies. So

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I've been lucky to get some help from that way.

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And it's not easy. I don't care anybody says. You

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can watch videos on YouTube about technicians leaving the business.

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People come in, they might work two three years. Say hell,

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what I know guys that lasted less than a year,

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you know. I mean I got a guy that I

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worked with. He was in, he graduated, went to all

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the technical schools, all that stuff. Worked with me at

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friendly Ford. He worked there for about a year and

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a half, two years maybe, and he got a job

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with the Dot and Auburn.

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Speaker 3: I don't blame him goodbye.

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Speaker 4: I have a good time, you know, because you just

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didn't want to work on cars all the time anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I I But is it harder today because of

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the technology.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all the electronics and the vehicles with the modules

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and wiring.

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Speaker 3: I mean you could have one wire break and it

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could affect four or five six modules in a car

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where one wire breaks and all these all of a sudden,

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these modules don't can't talk to each other and stuff

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doesn't work, and then you got to trace that down.

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Speaker 4: And believe me, modules are a great thing because if

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you didn't have modules, you'd have way more wiring in

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a car than if you didn't. That's why they put

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modules together to send this stuff. And I'll take it up.

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But I mean, I mean I've had one. Bill, I

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had one with a van of the people these lights

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wouldn't work an inside their car. You get in the

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car and with a dome light was shut off. Well,

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we chased and chased, couldn't find it, couldn't figure it out.

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And then I happened to be working on it and

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a buddy might come over and leaned over in the

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passenger seat and all a sudden, lights went out. And what

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it was is the wire was right on the end

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of the seat track where it was pulled to the

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floor and when you sat on it would pinch the

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wire and cut the wire and it wouldn't work. So

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they got off the seat the lights came back on.

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So it took me a day to finance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but some of that stuff is really just trial

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and error.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you just got to chase it down. That's the problem.

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You might find it.

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Speaker 4: You might get like some wearing primes, you get real

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lucky you see a corroded wire. You know, you might

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find a ground warrior loose something simple. But a lot

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of times you got to know you might start winning

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the car. It might be in the back half of

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the car where you find your problem.

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Speaker 1: How much training do you get throughout the year? Do

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you have to do? A lot of puts out?

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Speaker 4: Ford puts out things. We have to train on the computer.

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You still go to school and Buffalo I haven't gone

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to school in Buffalo in quite a few years, but

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back in my early in my career, for like in

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the eighties, I was going to school at least once

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a month for a long time. And there's a lot

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of schools, but they don't do a lot. They don't

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do as much hands on as they used to.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Ford is doing a little bit more, but for a

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few years they didn't do a lot of hands on.

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Like every transmission they came out when you went to Buffalo,

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learned how to take it apart, put a bit together,

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how to measure stuff. Uh some of that stuff. They

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do some of it, but they don't do You just

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try to figure it out. You got to look at

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a video, and you watch a video and then you

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don't go from there. I'm smart guy. I try to

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take a manual with me, so if I got stuck

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on something, I can just look at the manual real quick.

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But then you have to look at it, take it apart.

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And when you look at it and see how it

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was before you take it apart, and then you can

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put it back the same way. Yeah, it's not easy.

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I mean there's so many different things now it.

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Speaker 1: Looks it looks crazy to me, Like you open that

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hoot up and I don't even know where you would begin.

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Back in the day, could you work on a GM car,

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a Ford car.

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Speaker 3: Well, you work on everything.

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Speaker 4: It's over easy and man, back in the days, I

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mean back in the seventies, eighties and nineties and up

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to like the early twenty two thousands. It was no

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big deal. It wasn't that bad. I mean, but you're

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not like no, I mean, I christ, I remember doing

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tuneups all the time. Yeah, tune ups, tune ups. Heck,

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I haven't done a complete tune up, I bet you

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in fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Years on a car. Yeah, And why because they just

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don't do them anymore.

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Speaker 1: Right, and the engines, the engines run.

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Speaker 3: Better, well they say they do.

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Speaker 4: And then they tell you, you know, we got these hundred

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thousand miles spark plugs and you go take a plug

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out one hundred and two thousand miles and it breaks

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off in the cylinder head. And if you don't have

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a warranty and that that eighty dollars tune up job

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just became four thousand dollars. Oh, it's just, you know,

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it all depends on what the problem is. I mean,

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it's there's pros and cons to everything.

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Speaker 1: Buddy, Wow, yeah I did that. I didn't realize it

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at all. Take me back, because you have a love

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of racing, and I know that we talked to you

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about NASCAR, but I feel like, and maybe I'm incorrect,

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your first love is drag racing.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm actually they're both hand in hand. I like

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both of them, and I followed them both since the sixties.

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And say, the first NASCAR race I remember watching was

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sitting on my dad's lap in nineteen sixty four when

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Wide World of Sports had black and white and showed

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pops of that race. Richard Petty won the race, and

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I heard that name and he was become NASCAR. And

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then back in the sixties, I followed you know, Grumpy Jenkins,

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Socks and Martin, you know, Don Perdome, Connie Kalida, all

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those guys back in the sixties, and just found all

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those drag racing careers. And I read all those magazines,

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every sock car, popular, hot rouding, hot rode, you name it.

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Speaker 3: I read them all.

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Speaker 4: I even read Kimmer was in one of the Popular Science.

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I used to read that when Popular Mechanics. I used

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to read that one all the time. You had all

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that stuff in it.

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Speaker 1: But you were a great athlete in school.

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Speaker 4: I was a good athlete. I played baseball, I ran track,

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I played soccer. Yeah, you know, I did all that,

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and I broke my leg. Broke my leg my freshman

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year playing soccer. Okay, and I wanted a car. Of course,

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course I'm a gearhead and I wanted a car, and

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parents told me, you want a car, you're gonna have

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to work for it. So I gave up sports right

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down and there and went to work so I could

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buy a car.

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Speaker 1: And did was there And I bring up the sports thing,

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because how many kids like Even watching the World Series

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this year was sort of exciting because we have a

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tie game late in the game, right, and then the

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guy hits a Grand Slam for the Dodgers and it's

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one of these where every kid, I mean, it was

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almost that backyard play, right, every kid, you know, here

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it is the bottom of the ninth, you know, blast up,

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bases loaded, two strikes, three balls, here we go, boom right,

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full count and uh it wasn't a full count for

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this guy, but he blasted out, and I go. Every

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kid always wanted to be the baseball hero, the basketball

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hero or whatever. Did you want to be a race

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car driver or a.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I wanted to be a risk card driver

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all the time.

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Speaker 4: But like my father tried, my god, say, my dad

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tried to just not let me do it.

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Speaker 3: He really didn't want me to do it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why, just because of whatever, but but

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I had some pretty fast cars in my life. Believe me,

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I picked the fastest I ever had. Fastest I ever

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had my own car was one hundred and sixty two,

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and the faster that ever went to Dray car was

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one hundred and eighty six.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Wait, so where did you do one hundred and

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sixty two? Just on a regular street.

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Speaker 3: Down route down Route eighty eight, headed towards Sodas on

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a big, long flat stretch and you got it? Actually

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went by. I went by a trooper car doing.

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Speaker 4: That fast, and and he followed me to soda, said lucky.

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It was the guy that I knew because I used

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to work at a grid for Bernie Pratt and we

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used to work on the trooper car, so they all

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knew me. They told me just to slow down, will

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you please a little bit? Other need I probably still

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be in jail.

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Speaker 1: Did you ask him? Did you ask him if he

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actually got it on radar so you could have an

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official tie.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they told me how fast I was going.

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Speaker 1: They did.

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Speaker 4: My speedometer buried at a hundred and forty. I had

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an O State Trooper car. It was one of the

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chase cars from the throughway it would go. It was

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a three hundred and four hundred horsepower with the lowest

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gearing you could get like two seventy three. So I

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mean take off was terrible, but wide opening a mile

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the road. Get out of my way, and I'm coming

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by and take your doors with me. I actually reached.

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I rached a guy with a chevelle back from Sodas

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one time. We stood Sodas the tea in the eighty

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Eco was already to the Sodas and we raceedly. He started,

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I started a to tee. I gave him a mile

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head started on me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I passed.

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Speaker 4: Him in Farreville. It took took his doors off when

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I went by him. Wow did on the way back

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to NewYork?

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Speaker 1: Was there any money? Bet?

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Speaker 3: Oh? No?

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Speaker 4: I just thought he could beat me. I said, okay,

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if you're ready, let's go. As I told him, you

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want drag race kordermile. You got me all over the place.

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I said, you want to race back to town, let's go.

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And my buddy, how he was with me when we

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went by him, is there?

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Speaker 1: Like? Here's the thing is like I always loved that

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I grew up in a rural area. I love speeding

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those back things. They're practically car paths where I grew up. Sometimes,

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but I go, oh, way, how dangerous that is because

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if another cars coming. And that's why as an older

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guy now, I always go keep the race into the

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race track or to a closed road or somewhere where

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you're not going to injure innocent people. But that had

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to be Randy. The biggest thrill to beat that guy

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after you gave him a mile ahead start post.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean

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I eighteen nineteen years old. I don't give a shit.

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I mean now, not not that way. Absolutely. Now.

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Speaker 4: I did do a couple of few years ago when

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we we had a thing, a charity thing out to

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the racetrack. I actually got a Dodge hell Cat from

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the dealership. The first one I drove and I said, oh,

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the fastest thing over. I got up to one hundred

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and forty seven and I was running out of road,

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so I forgot I'd better slow down. Yeah, old, but

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that's that's the last time I've gone that fast. But

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that I mean, as I've gotten older, I don't drive

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like that. I want to, boy do I want to him,

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00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,759
I get behind one of them cars, you know, but

478
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,079
I also have to remember it's.

479
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,720
Speaker 3: Not my car. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, oh, I

480
00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:57,960
got to be careful, have you But it's fun.

481
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,759
Speaker 1: You never even wanted to get into like the you're

482
00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:02,759
a big supporter of even the dirt track racing. You

483
00:21:02,799 --> 00:21:04,039
never did you ever do that?

484
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:05,759
Speaker 3: Ye know, we thought.

485
00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:07,839
Speaker 4: About doing it, being Andy and my buddy Billy thought

486
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,599
about doing it a few years ago. But it's just

487
00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:12,680
at the time. But what even no matter what, racing

488
00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:14,759
is expensive, even if you're doing it. I mean, those

489
00:21:14,799 --> 00:21:16,759
guys that are living off leaving it all there eating

490
00:21:16,759 --> 00:21:18,640
it's blowney sad, which has even got any blown He

491
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,319
put it in the bread, you know, and the race sometimes,

492
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,920
And to me, it wasn't worth me going broke and

493
00:21:24,039 --> 00:21:26,480
not being able to do other things just to do that.

494
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong.

495
00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 4: If I really wanted to, I would have, but also

496
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,359
didn't have my didn't have my dad behind me at

497
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,160
the time. Now he's all behind me and all, but

498
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,079
at the time he didn't, and I think he was

499
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,519
just trying to keep me sane and keep me safe

500
00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:40,200
because yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love

501
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,920
to drive fast, and I had no problem with it.

502
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 1: So right, how about your kids they gear heads as well.

503
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 4: No, no, I neither one of them. No, they're Robert

504
00:21:50,319 --> 00:21:53,160
works for ups. Uh, he works for you. Brett is

505
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,319
a manager for five guys Burgers and Friser and both

506
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:58,200
doing very well.

507
00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 3: They're not really the car guys.

508
00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 4: So they did both get stopped on the same time

509
00:22:04,279 --> 00:22:06,279
at the same place at the same time, but the

510
00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:08,519
state troopers because they were racing home from somewhere in

511
00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:10,599
their cars and they were both speeding and they both

512
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:11,240
got stopped.

513
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 3: So they both got speed tickets.

514
00:22:13,759 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 4: So they go to the court, right, the first one

515
00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:18,359
goes up, then he calls up the other one. He

516
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,720
looks at me, he says that you twoe brothers, and

517
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,440
they both said, yeah, we are. He says the figures

518
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,039
he said they were doing like they were doing like

519
00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:26,839
eighty five, eighty seven and fifty five or something like that.

520
00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:28,279
Speaker 1: That's that's an expensive ticket.

521
00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:30,319
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, so they of course you know.

522
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:31,000
I did.

523
00:22:31,079 --> 00:22:32,799
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, I did drive below faster with

524
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,680
them sometimes. I mean I had plenty of cars that

525
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,440
went fast enough.

526
00:22:35,599 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was your favorite car that you've owned? Over

527
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:38,559
the years.

528
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,279
Speaker 4: My favorite card own was my seventy three Duster. I

529
00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:43,000
had seventy three to three fourth Duster I had. That

530
00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:43,799
was my favorite car.

531
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 1: Did you were you were you ever able to sell

532
00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:49,640
one of your cars for more than you bought it

533
00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:50,519
after all the war? Oh?

534
00:22:50,559 --> 00:22:51,079
Speaker 3: Hell no?

535
00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 4: No, no, okay no no, I just in factually the

536
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,279
Duster was pretty war out when I got rid of it.

537
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,759
I actually I had blown the motor up in it,

538
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,720
and the rebuild that motor was going to be eight

539
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,440
nine grand for the parts that I hit in it.

540
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,279
And I said, you know what, I had a family,

541
00:23:05,519 --> 00:23:08,519
two boys, I said, I think I sold the car

542
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,920
for four hundred dollars just to get rid of it. Wow,

543
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,880
you know I wasn't going to have time to do

544
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,480
anything with it. I just didn't have the time or

545
00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:17,599
the money. Right, there's a young family and that with

546
00:23:17,759 --> 00:23:19,759
that was more important than having that.

547
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:20,519
Speaker 3: Now, if I'd have.

548
00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:22,279
Speaker 4: Had the money, well yeah, why do I get out

549
00:23:22,279 --> 00:23:24,200
of my way? We'd be wrenching the old man's garage,

550
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,160
taking that maybe a barn. He'd have been right there

551
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:26,480
with me.

552
00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you have a garage, don't you, with a

553
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,680
lift and everything. Ye a guy.

554
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,279
Speaker 4: You know my dad, Well, his dad's got the barn.

555
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,400
We had to barn, but the lift went bad and

556
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,960
he's never replaced it. So like, I can still work

557
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,519
on cars then put it up on a jack stands

558
00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:42,319
that jack doesn't bother me. You know, I'm I'm older now.

559
00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:44,640
It doug takes me no longer up off the ground now,

560
00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:48,160
but I can still do it. You know, it's not

561
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,880
always fun, but and I don't do a lot of

562
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,799
side work. And really, now, if I want to work

563
00:23:51,839 --> 00:23:53,039
on my own cars, I take him to the shop,

564
00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:53,519
put him.

565
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,279
Speaker 3: On the lift. Yeah, you know, I've got to be

566
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:56,720
that way.

567
00:23:56,759 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 4: So it's it's you know, it's half one doesn't if

568
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:00,960
I hit my own shop left, I probably would never

569
00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:03,039
go to work. So I probably do enough work in

570
00:24:03,079 --> 00:24:03,319
my house.

571
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have to.

572
00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:06,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think that he probably could absolutely.

573
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,559
Speaker 3: Yeah. What about I used to make a ton of

574
00:24:08,559 --> 00:24:09,240
money on the side.

575
00:24:09,559 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the like NASCAR dreams? In a way,

576
00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:17,400
I mean, I thought there was an opportunity somewhere along.

577
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was an opportunity that I lost out on

578
00:24:20,279 --> 00:24:22,000
a few years ago. I had a chance to go

579
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,279
and the first time I had a.

580
00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 3: Chance to go.

581
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,279
Speaker 4: I was going to go and had all set to

582
00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:29,440
go down and my ex wife didn't want to move

583
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,880
at the time, gotcha. So I wasn't gonna go down

584
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:32,680
there by myself, so.

585
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 3: I didn't go.

586
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 4: And two years later they got a chance to get

587
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,160
a job offer and she said, okay, let's go, and

588
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,880
then the job offer was gone. So it got it

589
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,599
got pulled out from underneath me, which is hey, and

590
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,200
it happened. It is what it is, you know, right.

591
00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:49,400
So my my biggest deal I a should have did.

592
00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:52,319
When I was down seeing my uncle and my uncle

593
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,920
Larry and his wife down in Georgia back in nineteen eighty,

594
00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:56,960
he told me I could move down there with him.

595
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,599
If I wanted to, I would have gone from there

596
00:24:58,599 --> 00:25:01,079
and have gone somehow got I would have gone to

597
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,359
Petty's Richard Petty's garage and tried to get a job,

598
00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:06,119
because back then you could get a job in NASCAR

599
00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:06,839
no problem.

600
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 3: Now you got to know somebody. You've got to be specialized.

601
00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 4: You've almost got to be an engineer, and you've got

602
00:25:12,039 --> 00:25:14,079
to be a good engineer, you know, and you got

603
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,880
to be really smart, and it helps you work down

604
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:16,440
race cars.

605
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 3: Your whole life. You know, if you started racing and

606
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,359
work stuff up, you could learn some of that stuff.

607
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,000
You know, it helps.

608
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,319
Speaker 4: I'm remember back in the nineties they were looking for

609
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,039
guys you could just chance he's a big time in NASCAR.

610
00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:29,079
If you could, you could figure out suspended the chance

611
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,720
you work you hit an in you know. But it's

612
00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:33,759
just I just I was never there at the right time.

613
00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:38,039
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know, as you look towards maybe uh

614
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,519
putting the rents down as as a job, would you

615
00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:47,160
ever consider what what's next for Randy? Like, you're not

616
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,359
a guy to sit still.

617
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:50,079
Speaker 3: No, I'm not gonna.

618
00:25:50,319 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say I'm going to retire, but I'm

619
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,920
not going to be a sit down retire I can

620
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,839
tell you that I'm going to be. I'll be too busy.

621
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,160
I'll be finding this same if I got a part

622
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,920
time do something, I don't care. I mean, it doesn't

623
00:25:58,920 --> 00:25:59,279
make it diffs.

624
00:25:59,319 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: You know.

625
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,799
Speaker 4: I help run Butler drag away. Ye, so that keep

626
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,759
that keeps him busy a long times, you know. And

627
00:26:04,799 --> 00:26:06,960
you know, and I got grin, I got grandkids. But

628
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,160
are not gonna I'm not gonna have a time to

629
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,640
sit out When I got eleven grand kids. I'm gonna

630
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:10,880
get know what time to sit on you kidding me?

631
00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 6: The eleven of them, eleven of them, you know, So

632
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,640
I'm gonna be busy and it just and you know,

633
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,680
and my father last where he's eighty was still working

634
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,559
full time, buddy, Yeah, eighty one is still working full time.

635
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,079
Speaker 1: Yeah what is he? Know? So because he wants to

636
00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:25,519
yeah what what what does he do?

637
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 3: He worked at Haligan Furniture. He's been there for sixty

638
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:28,880
three years.

639
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, don't there you go.

640
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,279
Speaker 3: He's a big card nut. But he's a card nutt too.

641
00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 4: He's so oh he's owing to some fast hot for

642
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,119
dot routes back in the sixties. Well he's throwing them

643
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,880
aw Mustang's to Renos you named. He's owing a whole

644
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:41,680
bunch of them cars.

645
00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:42,039
Speaker 1: Wow.

646
00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 3: And Tracy picked her favorite.

647
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 4: One was the Terino with the four twenty nine and

648
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,440
it was Tracy's favorite and she cried when he sold it.

649
00:26:47,599 --> 00:26:50,319
Speaker 3: Really, Oh yeah, we used to you know back then.

650
00:26:50,599 --> 00:26:52,519
Truthfully he usedaid. He used to trade every year and

651
00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:54,960
a year and a halfye trade cars.

652
00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, sure that's what you do, Randy. Thanksgivings coming

653
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,680
up that We're very grateful that you join us on

654
00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:05,920
the podcast when you can and when we uh, whenever

655
00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:07,279
we call, you always answer.

656
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:07,839
Speaker 3: Uh.

657
00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: What are the Thanksgiving plans for the Seleerno crew.

658
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,519
Speaker 3: I have no idea.

659
00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:15,319
Speaker 4: I got figure out. I got more invitations to go

660
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,960
some places. I don't know what we're gonna do for

661
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,279
sure yet, but okay, but don't worry. I will get

662
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,839
very well fed. Don't worry about that.

663
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,079
Speaker 1: Yes, is there a favorite Thanksgiving dish that you hope

664
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,400
is on the table when you hit to wherever you're going.

665
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 4: My mom makes this phenomenal thing with cheese, broccoli and

666
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:31,559
color flower.

667
00:27:31,599 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 3: That's phenomenal. I love it.

668
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: Okay, now stamp back my favorite cheese broccoli and colieflower.

669
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,319
That is a Yeah, that's a combustion engine. When you're done.

670
00:27:41,599 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, you might might be near me for a

671
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,079
few hours. About three hours later, I want to be

672
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:45,480
around me.

673
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: I would say, stand back, stand back, leave.

674
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 3: If I put that in my guest thank you know

675
00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:52,160
in mind, I would get a hold.

676
00:27:54,759 --> 00:27:57,319
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Randy, I just wanted to say thank you.

677
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,960
It's been almost two years that we've been doing the podcast,

678
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,000
and it's you know, thanks to people like you that

679
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:05,119
have kept us going and I appreciate it.

680
00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 4: Oh, just let you know I am headed to me

681
00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:12,759
and Dave and Brody there. Yeah, we're headed to Rockingham

682
00:28:12,759 --> 00:28:15,279
Speedway the weekend of the.

683
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 3: Fifth, sixth, seventh. We're headed down there for Digger Die.

684
00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:18,119
It's the.

685
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,039
Speaker 4: No Prep Race, Small Tire, Big Tire Race. We're headed

686
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:25,640
down there, first term, first weekend there in December. We're

687
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,200
going to go check that OUTU. I'm probably gonna shoot

688
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,440
a little bit of film for the show.

689
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,079
Speaker 1: Awesome. That's great. Well, I'm excited to hear that and

690
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,079
keep us posting and all that stuff. And we'll be

691
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,279
talking to you real soon.

692
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 4: All right, Buddy, Daytona's only about eighty some days away.

693
00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:43,039
Speaker 1: But give the advent calendar. Isn't just for Christmas, it's

694
00:28:43,039 --> 00:28:47,359
for Daytona. Randy, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

695
00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 3: All right, buddy, save it to you.

696
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,359
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, buddy, you got it, man.

697
00:28:51,279 --> 00:28:51,559
Speaker 3: See you.

698
00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:55,640
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can't remember if it's the fifty nine on the sixtieth birthday,

741
00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:34,519
but Greg Connors is saying that he's gonna have Bruno

742
00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:36,599
Wallers for a party, and I just want to make sure.

743
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:38,880
I don't even care if I have to be part

744
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,680
of the road crew. I just want to see this,

745
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,960
this absolute party. Let me bring on Greg. You know, Greg,

746
00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:47,799
I thought in this episode would be kind of fun.

747
00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:52,519
By the way, this song is perfect. Whoever he wrote

748
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:56,200
it about must have melted like when you see it, right.

749
00:31:57,079 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's he's so much fun. And

750
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,440
it's the sixty.

751
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,359
Speaker 1: Yet, oh it is gonna be the sixth day.

752
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,279
Speaker 5: Okay, if I make it to my sixtieth birthday, I'm

753
00:32:08,359 --> 00:32:10,960
just gonna blow all of my all my money, my

754
00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:12,119
kids love, no inheritance.

755
00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 3: We're just gonna do a Bruno Mars benefit. Councer.

756
00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:17,279
Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to have people on because we're coming

757
00:32:17,359 --> 00:32:21,240
up on the second anniversary of the podcast, and certainly

758
00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:23,559
there's lots of people to thank along the way. But

759
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,400
I thought you were somebody that we have on frequently.

760
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,160
We know about things about you, We've done one on

761
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,319
ones with you and things. But I thought this would

762
00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:34,359
be a fun way to just ask you a couple

763
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,079
of things that maybe we don't really know. One being

764
00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:41,039
your love of the Buffalo Bills that has turned into

765
00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:45,440
a partnership with the Buffalo Bills and training camp and

766
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,759
how that kind of came about. Yeah.

767
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 5: Actually, I mean it's an interesting story is that when

768
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,160
I was on the board of directors for the Hunters Hope,

769
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,400
which is Jim and Jim Jim Kelly and Jill Kelly's

770
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,920
foundation for the son.

771
00:33:01,119 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: And when I was going back and forth to a.

772
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 5: Bunch of meetings and Jim said to me at one

773
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,599
of the meetings, he said, look, why don't you just

774
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:08,759
open up an office out here?

775
00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:12,119
Speaker 3: You're here so much. And I thought to myself, you know,

776
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,200
I should maybe look into that.

777
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 5: And Jim was like, there's nobody out here that does

778
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,480
what you do, and he goes, I think, I think

779
00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:22,000
it'd be great. So I wrote a business plan and

780
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,400
it worked out, and he goes, but there's one thing.

781
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,200
You open the office. You got to partner with the

782
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,519
Bills I'll make a connection. I'll introduce you to the

783
00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:32,599
guys who needed to be introduced to and and he did.

784
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,880
And it started off small, started off really just with

785
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,079
some minimal assets. It was some training camp participation. It

786
00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:42,319
was just us actually getting access to training camp. We

787
00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:44,720
weren't a partner or a sponsor of training camp, but

788
00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:49,880
all the time, and then we had some in stadium signage.

789
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,119
Speaker 3: That would be there, and from there it just kind

790
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:52,440
of grew.

791
00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: Uh.

792
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: They were they've been great partners.

793
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,799
Speaker 5: They've adapted to the different strategies that we tried to

794
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,359
utilize in our partnership. And uh and then and that

795
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,559
was under the Wilson family got to meet Ralph and

796
00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:09,440
his wife Mary Uh and her niece Mary Owen, who

797
00:34:09,559 --> 00:34:12,039
kind of was part of the day to day management

798
00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:15,760
side of things for Ralph. And there they were just wonderful,

799
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,679
gracious people. And then after Ralph passed away, the Pagulas

800
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,440
came over. We were the training camp parties. Betime, the

801
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:28,280
Pagulas bought the team. And funny story about that is

802
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,000
I was at training camp and Kim made reference. After

803
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,719
I met Kim, she made reference. I said, I was

804
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,639
from porn now and she said oh geez. My parents

805
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,320
lived in Artport for a while and I was like,

806
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,360
no kid, and I'm like, you know, I'm from you know,

807
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,880
I grew up down there. My mom sold real estate.

808
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,960
My dad's in the hospital. And she's like, oh my gosh,

809
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,679
what's your mom's name? And I like Tony Connor. She's like,

810
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,440
I think my mom sold my parents their house.

811
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:53,159
Speaker 3: In Artport.

812
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 1: And she did connection and then.

813
00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:00,559
Speaker 5: From there, you know, her parents were like camp I

814
00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:03,159
met then, and then you know, Kim and I had

815
00:35:03,159 --> 00:35:06,639
that connection, and Kim's just she's a lovely, wonderful person

816
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,599
and and so it's really going to blossom from there.

817
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: It's a yeah, it's a great partnership that I always

818
00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:17,199
joke that Greg is gonna be the future owner of

819
00:35:17,199 --> 00:35:20,880
the Buffalo Bills. But I wouldn't put it past you.

820
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,880
That's the thing. I don't mean that in any insulting way,

821
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,920
like you think you're the older I really believe that

822
00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:30,000
you're the kind of guy with the drive, and I

823
00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:32,880
think that's the other side of you that people don't

824
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,320
really see. Right. We love having you on the podcast,

825
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,480
and we hear about you went to the Buffalo Bills games.

826
00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:40,280
You've taken us to Buffalo Bills games, you flew out

827
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,760
west to see them in Seattle, You've gone to the

828
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,119
Super Bowls. You know, all that stuff sounds really exciting now.

829
00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:48,599
I mean, there isn't anybody who listens to that goes, God, man,

830
00:35:48,639 --> 00:35:51,280
what a life. But the other side of that is

831
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,559
you're working. You've got multiple offices in multiple cities that

832
00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:57,800
you're trying, you know, I mean the amount of work

833
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,719
that goes to get there, to me is uh, I

834
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:02,960
think sometimes overlooked.

835
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it depends on how you talk to

836
00:36:06,559 --> 00:36:11,159
They'll tell you twenty four to seven. You know, it's

837
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,000
in anything that you do in.

838
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,199
Speaker 5: Life, it's really what you put into is what you

839
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,199
get out of it. And for me, you know, I

840
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,280
try to incorporate my family. It's everything that I do,

841
00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:26,039
so it makes it a little more tolerable, but you know,

842
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,360
it's it's you know, a Friday night to me is

843
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,800
no different than a Tuesday night. There's still things that

844
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,440
have to get done, there's still responsibilities. But it's the

845
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,039
little things in any business that make the biggest differences.

846
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,000
And so those are the things I obviously try to

847
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,840
focus on and those things take time. But for me

848
00:36:47,039 --> 00:36:48,920
to get to the point I want to get to

849
00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:52,480
Bill so I can I can make that dream of

850
00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:53,679
mind become a reality.

851
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:56,639
Speaker 3: It's really looking and.

852
00:36:56,679 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 5: Investing in other opportunities, right, and different things that can

853
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,480
help grow a business.

854
00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 3: And then my interests.

855
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:10,159
Speaker 5: And you know, you never know it's anybody that's out there,

856
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,960
you know, opportunities. You create your own opportunity, and it's

857
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:19,559
the network and it's the network and the connections.

858
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 3: That you get that helps you grow. I don't want

859
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,320
to say influence, but opportunities, you know.

860
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,639
Speaker 5: And just the story about from meeting Jim because I

861
00:37:29,679 --> 00:37:32,000
went to a fundraising benefit where I didn't know Jim.

862
00:37:32,159 --> 00:37:34,079
I went with a friend and then I got to

863
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:38,039
meet Jim and then that relationship and friendship grew to

864
00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:40,599
the point where I partner with the Bills to get

865
00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:43,760
to meet mister and Missus Wilson and then Kim. I mean,

866
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:49,519
it's all about creating those connections and then people seeing

867
00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:53,679
the passion, seeing your interest and then trusting you that

868
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,440
you're going to do the right thing for them, and

869
00:37:55,519 --> 00:37:56,880
you do the right thing for them and they do

870
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,440
the right thing for you, and then it becomes great partnerships.

871
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: Fear is such a thing that holds people back from

872
00:38:03,119 --> 00:38:06,639
opportunities and things. Some people, the moment's almost too big.

873
00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:10,159
Here's Jim Kelly, h you know, pro football Hall of

874
00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:12,239
Famer standing in front of me, taking the team I

875
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,719
love to four super Bowls in a row. Nobody has

876
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,079
ever done that, right, nobody's right, four in a row. Yeah,

877
00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:23,440
and it's amazing that sometimes that may be overwhelming. How

878
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,199
how is it that you take it and become buddies

879
00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:29,320
with the guy? You see what I'm saying that that,

880
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:30,559
to me is the difference.

881
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 5: Well, one of the things is, and I tell the

882
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,920
story to anybody to listen.

883
00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 3: I was not a big Jim Kelly fan.

884
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 5: I've told Jim this, and I've told I've told this

885
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,880
through before in public even and Jim just shakes his head.

886
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:49,239
My favorite Buffalo Bill is Steve Tasker. Right, My father's favorite.

887
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,039
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bill was Jim Kelly.

888
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 5: You know, Irish quarterback, small town kid, you know everything.

889
00:38:56,599 --> 00:38:59,599
You know, his mom was the matriarch, and you know

890
00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:02,000
every thing that my dad was used to as a kid.

891
00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:05,239
Jim reflect and represented and then he took his favorite

892
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,920
team from you know, the bottom of the barrel up

893
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,000
to FOURTHT rate Super Bowl. So Jim was my dad's

894
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,119
favorite Bill. But one of the things that I learned,

895
00:39:15,199 --> 00:39:18,679
one of things that that with Jim is is that

896
00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:22,280
I respected Jim and I liked Jim, but I wasn't

897
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,239
necessarily in awe over him where I would get tongue tied.

898
00:39:26,599 --> 00:39:28,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

899
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,519
Speaker 5: And then he started I told the story about, you know,

900
00:39:31,519 --> 00:39:34,440
Steve Tasker is my favorite Bill and Jim's a ballbuster, right,

901
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:37,320
I mean, Jim's a smart ass, and he was like, yeah,

902
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,400
any any Bills fan under six foot Tasker.

903
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:41,039
Speaker 3: Is their favorite player?

904
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: Why what game was on? Why was Tasker your favorite player?

905
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,320
For the grit and the grind and.

906
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,679
Speaker 3: The because he was under six plus?

907
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I always wanted to go to the NFL.

908
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,519
My dream was to play in the NFL, and uh,

909
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:58,719
and Tasker was the guy. You know, he was five ten,

910
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,880
five eleven, he ran.

911
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 3: Four four forty.

912
00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:05,599
Speaker 5: He got passed over in terms of being at Northwestern,

913
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:06,519
but made the.

914
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 3: Team, you know, and just kind of founded niche and

915
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:09,920
found his.

916
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 5: Way to be there and and so kind of was

917
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,280
that grit in that that that path to the NFL

918
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,719
was an unorthodox one that I was like look, if

919
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,320
I'm gonna make it, this is the.

920
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 3: Guy I got to model myself after. You know, I

921
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,079
was not a six.

922
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:29,199
Speaker 5: Foot two stud, big time powerful middle linebacker slash quarterback,

923
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,840
and that was who Jim was. So I could I

924
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,960
could relate to Steve more than I could the gym

925
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,199
at that point in my life.

926
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,519
Speaker 1: Sure that makes a lot of sense. What is a

927
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:41,199
typical day like for you? Greg? And when you're talking

928
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,559
about you know you do have your hands and other

929
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:47,599
businesses outside of Connors and Farris and things. How do

930
00:40:47,639 --> 00:40:51,760
you find time in? I think the buzzword is, uh,

931
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,760
time management. I don't know if that's the buzzword or balance. Right,

932
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,519
everybody's looking for the work life balance, and I think

933
00:41:00,519 --> 00:41:03,400
it just doesn't exist. You're either all in or you know,

934
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:05,280
I don't have.

935
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 5: I don't have work life balance. I'm not very good

936
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,840
at it. And the work life balance for me kind

937
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,559
of went out of whack as soon as I became

938
00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:18,920
a lawyer, started working. I had I had one hundred

939
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,280
and fifty thousand dollars in law in school debt between

940
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,960
Elford and Ohio Northern. My my monthly loan payment was

941
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,639
more than I was making a month and so you

942
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,840
had to be hungry and you had to get out

943
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:36,280
there and work and prove yourself and from that point forward,

944
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,360
and would that extra work with the with that grip

945
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,559
for me and that preparation which I learned a lot

946
00:41:41,559 --> 00:41:44,360
of that through playing football, you know g Mass and

947
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,440
down in Hornell and then playing it at Alford. Is

948
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,880
that what it takes to be successful. And it's about

949
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,639
doing every little the little thing. It's about doing everything

950
00:41:52,679 --> 00:41:55,840
everybody else does and then a little bit more than

951
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,119
the person who you think you're competing against.

952
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,519
Speaker 3: That's how you get ahead. And so for me work

953
00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:02,199
life balance.

954
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 5: I mean, you could ask you Jenny from twenty years

955
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,599
ago and she'd say, yeah, Greg's biggest challenge is work

956
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:10,599
life balance. You know, you could ask you Jennifer right

957
00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:13,920
now and she'd say, yeah, Greg's biggest challenges is work

958
00:42:14,039 --> 00:42:14,559
like balance.

959
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 3: Now you're laughing because of the names, but.

960
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,079
Speaker 1: No, I'm not laughing because of the names. I know

961
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:21,000
the people, but I'm just saying that it's you know,

962
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:25,119
it's a tough thing because when you hear that, most

963
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:27,440
of that's coming from a Hey, I want to spend

964
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,079
time with you, I want to have life with you.

965
00:42:31,599 --> 00:42:34,880
And you know, all this stuff's going on. But I

966
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,920
always feel like if I don't know that there is

967
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,440
a work life balance. But you certainly have seemed to

968
00:42:41,599 --> 00:42:45,239
incorporate the love of what you love to do, the

969
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,559
things you're passionate about, and your family and friends, and

970
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:51,599
you kind of brought that all together. And you're very

971
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:56,000
you know, you're gregarious and fun and energetic, and everything's

972
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,000
I would say, very positive.

973
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you.

974
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 5: You know from my parents is you know, rather learned

975
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,840
from my parents it was always about family, right. We

976
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,159
would do things and it was always my aunts, my uncles,

977
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:12,199
my cousins, it was, you know, my family. We were

978
00:43:12,199 --> 00:43:16,880
always together, and so you know, from from starting a family,

979
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,559
I just brought the boys with me. I mean we

980
00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:22,199
would go to Hunter's Hope fundraising events and Will and

981
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:23,000
Luke would be with me.

982
00:43:24,039 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 3: You know, I mean I'm jokingly, not jokingly, this is

983
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:26,800
the truth.

984
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:27,679
Speaker 5: But you know.

985
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,199
Speaker 3: Will was born like six seven weeks early. He's in

986
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,639
the nick unit. He comes out.

987
00:43:33,639 --> 00:43:36,199
Speaker 5: He was two pounds thirteen ounces at birth. He gets

988
00:43:36,199 --> 00:43:38,960
out of the hospital, he's four pounds. Two weeks later.

989
00:43:39,159 --> 00:43:41,320
I took him to a Buffalo Bills game. It was

990
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,000
his first Bills game. He was eight weeks old, and

991
00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:45,559
he's been every home opener since.

992
00:43:45,599 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 4: Now.

993
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:46,599
Speaker 3: I did get clearance.

994
00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 5: For all the moms out there saying Greg did not

995
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:51,800
why would he ever think of taking his premi eight

996
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,400
week old baby to a football game. We went to

997
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,960
the doctor, we got the first checked up by asked

998
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:57,800
me would be okay?

999
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 3: He did clear it. But for me is that I

1000
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,199
didn't want to stop living my life and pursuing my goals.

1001
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:06,760
So I've always tried to.

1002
00:44:06,679 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 5: Include my family and my friends in everything that I

1003
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,840
do because who better to share those experiences with than them,

1004
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,320
And they're my biggest cheerleaders. They give me the energy

1005
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,599
to keep doing what I'm doing, and they have the

1006
00:44:18,679 --> 00:44:19,679
vision to kind of do.

1007
00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 3: More and to grow.

1008
00:44:21,119 --> 00:44:25,119
Speaker 5: And so for me, that's the best way that I

1009
00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:29,880
can keep myself going and capture that energy.

1010
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 3: And there's nothing better than being around good people.

1011
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 5: And I'm blessed and fortunate to have great friends, great family,

1012
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:39,320
and my business partners and the office family.

1013
00:44:40,159 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 3: They're a lot of fun to be around.

1014
00:44:41,519 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say that certainly the people around you

1015
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,159
are really really fantastic and it makes it easier to

1016
00:44:49,199 --> 00:44:52,079
do your job and pursue the things you want. You

1017
00:44:52,119 --> 00:44:55,119
have people you trust, and people you like being around.

1018
00:44:55,119 --> 00:44:57,639
But man, what is a I mean, we're coming up

1019
00:44:57,679 --> 00:45:00,559
on a holiday. But I know, like Monday, Tuesday, these

1020
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:03,679
are workdays, right, these are workdays, maybe even Wednesday for

1021
00:45:04,159 --> 00:45:05,719
I think for a lot of people it's travel. I

1022
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,679
don't know. And I'm going, what does your calendar look

1023
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,559
like for a Monday before Thanksgiving? Just in terms of

1024
00:45:12,559 --> 00:45:15,800
like start and end time. I mean there's sometimes dinners

1025
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,559
for you that go to ten eleven o'clock.

1026
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:23,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, actually I'm working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Yeah,

1027
00:45:24,039 --> 00:45:28,480
I'm we arguing. We do a cousin's dinner, So Jennifer

1028
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,079
and her cousins and then Jason and Christopher, my cousins.

1029
00:45:32,119 --> 00:45:34,480
You know, we're doing a dinner and then we'll go

1030
00:45:34,519 --> 00:45:36,079
to Iron Smoke or we'll go out and have a

1031
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:40,000
drink afterward. But dinner's at dinner's at seven because I'll

1032
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,559
probably be at the office till six, six thirty on Wednesday,

1033
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,719
and then you know, Snay Thursday will be a great celebration,

1034
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,199
great football three games, and then Friday, I'm back in

1035
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:50,679
the office.

1036
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,559
Speaker 1: Wall You're not going black Friday shopping.

1037
00:45:53,639 --> 00:45:55,679
Speaker 3: I am not I am not giving.

1038
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:56,559
Speaker 1: I am not right back.

1039
00:45:56,599 --> 00:45:59,119
Speaker 5: I think I'll get my work out in the morning,

1040
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:03,639
say burn off the calgories from Thursday, go do some work,

1041
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,239
and then I'm definitely gonna have to go watch the

1042
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,000
Kansas City Raiders game.

1043
00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:12,039
Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, I was very hard,

1044
00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:14,039
very hard for the Panthers today.

1045
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:16,559
Speaker 3: Oh they were so close, they.

1046
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,599
Speaker 1: Were so close. I was so impressed. That may be

1047
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,599
the best game they played this season.

1048
00:46:22,599 --> 00:46:24,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and and and the thing with the

1049
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,159
with the Chiefs is that they find a way to win,

1050
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,800
right and and there's something about preparation and it and

1051
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,679
it's all it's all those different things. And you know,

1052
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,679
when you think about the Chiefs win against the Broncos,

1053
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,960
you know, that's all game preparation.

1054
00:46:40,079 --> 00:46:41,079
Speaker 3: That's all preparation.

1055
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 5: And the people who have that ultimate success with people

1056
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:44,840
that do the little things.

1057
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 3: You know, they did the.

1058
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 5: Film study to see that the left guard on on

1059
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,800
the Broncos kit team was soft, and so what they do.

1060
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,320
They freaking loaded up that gap. They had one guy

1061
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,519
pushing because he was soft. The other guy jumped the

1062
00:46:56,559 --> 00:46:57,199
gap and then he.

1063
00:46:57,199 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 3: Got the block.

1064
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,679
Speaker 5: You know, all those things like he got lucky, Sure,

1065
00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:02,679
you got lucky. Well, what means that you put yourself

1066
00:47:02,679 --> 00:47:04,519
in the opportunity to take advantage.

1067
00:47:04,119 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 3: Of it, right, And that's what they did.

1068
00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then that you know what happened again didn't

1069
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:10,400
happen against our Buffalo Bills.

1070
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,679
Speaker 3: But you know, you just got to keep your head down.

1071
00:47:13,599 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 5: And do the right things and keep plugging away, and

1072
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:17,920
good things will happen to you.

1073
00:47:18,079 --> 00:47:19,679
Speaker 3: Will. I believe in this team.

1074
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: Will be there Sunday night.

1075
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,039
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, one hundred.

1076
00:47:23,679 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: And this is uh, this is a big one again,

1077
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,800
I think, I mean, granted, you're going NFC versus AFC,

1078
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,719
but the forty nine ers have been there, and I

1079
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,559
know that they're a little banged up and injured and stuff,

1080
00:47:36,599 --> 00:47:39,599
but this couldn't I don't think they're a pushover.

1081
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,159
Speaker 5: No, no, not at all. I mean, they're playing Green

1082
00:47:44,199 --> 00:47:47,239
Bay right now. It's the third quarter and they're down

1083
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:52,519
by ten. San Francisco seven Packers seventeen. Your Packers are

1084
00:47:52,519 --> 00:47:54,840
playing well. But I mean the thing about the forty

1085
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,559
nine ers is that they are so talented. The talent

1086
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:00,440
they have on offense. You know, brock perties out this week,

1087
00:48:01,199 --> 00:48:03,760
who again, everybody says is he really that good? Well,

1088
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,079
the kid runs the system and he's got talent around him.

1089
00:48:07,199 --> 00:48:09,559
But that's part of running the system exactly. And the

1090
00:48:09,599 --> 00:48:11,519
other thing about the forty nine ers is after forty

1091
00:48:11,599 --> 00:48:15,800
nine ers defense has got significant talent on that defensive line.

1092
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,599
If you get all those guys healthy and the offense

1093
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,440
is healthy. You know, the forty niners have not been

1094
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,800
healthy all year long. All year, they haven't been healthy.

1095
00:48:25,639 --> 00:48:28,159
If they get a healthy team shown up in Buffalo,

1096
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,320
that'll be a great test for the Bills to come

1097
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,599
off as buy and then.

1098
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 3: See how they can perform on a really big stage.

1099
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: Not to I know, you wouldn't want to jinx or anything,

1100
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,880
but what are your expectations? Have they changed for the

1101
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,880
Buffalo Buffalo Bills since the beginning of the season, Yes

1102
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:46,320
they have.

1103
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:47,119
Speaker 3: They have.

1104
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,039
Speaker 5: This offensive line is really gelled and they're playing the

1105
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:54,800
best and offensive line has played since Jim Kelly days.

1106
00:48:56,039 --> 00:48:59,079
And so, you know, I looked at the Bills and

1107
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,480
you know, I I thought they'd have many words from

1108
00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:04,400
four to five losses and that they would win the

1109
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:05,280
AFC East.

1110
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 3: But to be you know, it wouldn't be as strong

1111
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,920
year as they've had the last couple of years. But

1112
00:49:10,039 --> 00:49:11,360
the way that they're playing right now.

1113
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 5: The thing that being McDermott had done with his team

1114
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,599
is that the guys that they plug and play, the

1115
00:49:16,639 --> 00:49:21,639
guys that are getting in are really, Oh, we lost you.

1116
00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:23,639
Speaker 3: Did you hear that alarm?

1117
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of a sudden, we just lost you for

1118
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,960
just a second. Cut out, Yes, I can hear you.

1119
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 5: So that alarm is alarmed for me. That goes off

1120
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,800
every day at six fifteen to remind me to go home.

1121
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 1: Do you know how many people are usually racing out

1122
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,239
the door. They're like kids in high school, you know,

1123
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,880
they know the bells coming, They're lining up five minutes earlier.

1124
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,719
They want to get out of there. Greg needs a

1125
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:53,559
reminder to actually leave.

1126
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 5: It says go home, and then I usually hit snooze

1127
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:58,800
like five times.

1128
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 3: Wow, then go home. Okay, But no, my my expectator

1129
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,320
of the Bills have changed this year.

1130
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,639
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, they have evolved and the way that

1131
00:50:08,679 --> 00:50:11,320
these guys are playing and the guys who are stepping

1132
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,800
up that that they've brought onto this team is really

1133
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,960
making this a special run. And you know, every year

1134
00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:21,320
is different because of the chemistry and what makes what

1135
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,159
makes the team great is how do they fit together? Right,

1136
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,320
It's it's being in the trenches and knowing that the

1137
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,199
guy next to you is doing your is doing the

1138
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,000
job they need to do, so you can just focus

1139
00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:33,079
on your job and that everybody puts in that little

1140
00:50:33,159 --> 00:50:37,159
extra effort. Everybody does that extra thing on every play,

1141
00:50:37,519 --> 00:50:40,639
not knowing that that little extra thing can make the

1142
00:50:40,639 --> 00:50:42,880
biggest difference thing the outcome of the game, and that's

1143
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:44,440
what will make it. That's what will allow this team

1144
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,840
to win. The Chiefs do it, and they do it well, Uh,

1145
00:50:47,079 --> 00:50:48,360
now it's time for the Bills.

1146
00:50:48,079 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: To do it. It is time for the Bills to

1147
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,480
do it. When you're when you know you're talking this stuff,

1148
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,440
it really applies to the business side of your life

1149
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:55,960
as well.

1150
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 3: I mean I learned those things is through playing football.

1151
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,199
Speaker 5: You know, Gene Maston taught us in hornew We weren't

1152
00:51:04,199 --> 00:51:05,960
that good of a football program.

1153
00:51:05,599 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 3: Before Gene came around.

1154
00:51:07,639 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 5: Gene came around and taught us the little things that

1155
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,239
you have to do in order to be successful. And

1156
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,239
one of the things was, you know, this is what

1157
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,039
everybody else does. You know, this is the everybody does

1158
00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:18,960
this program in football? Right, we all go to the

1159
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:23,159
same coaching clinics, everybody's doing these things, so you got

1160
00:51:23,199 --> 00:51:24,719
if you want to be better than everybody else, you

1161
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,519
got to put in more work. And then if the

1162
00:51:27,559 --> 00:51:29,840
benchmark of the team was East Roster when I was

1163
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,119
a kid, and east Roster does all these things, we

1164
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,199
got to do everything east Roster did plus some because

1165
00:51:35,199 --> 00:51:37,000
that's the only way we're going to beat them. And

1166
00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:39,000
that's the way that That's the way I think about

1167
00:51:39,039 --> 00:51:42,880
our business and for our clients, is that if things

1168
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,960
are going you know, and I'm up against an attorney,

1169
00:51:46,679 --> 00:51:49,159
and I know this fact and circumstances and the laws,

1170
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:51,239
and I want to put in everything I need to

1171
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,159
do to know how to be prepared for that case.

1172
00:51:53,639 --> 00:51:55,199
And if the best attorney is going to be on

1173
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,400
the other side, I always think the best attorney's going

1174
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,159
to show up. I want to put in that extra

1175
00:51:59,159 --> 00:52:01,119
effort so I can whoever it is on the other.

1176
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: Side, Well, I don't want to keep you because the

1177
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,519
alarm to go home has gone off, But I'll ask you,

1178
00:52:09,559 --> 00:52:12,639
what are the what what are the plans for Thanksgiving?

1179
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 5: So plans for Thanksgiving is to wake up and get

1180
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:21,599
a workout in yeah, okay, and then hopefully it'll be

1181
00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:24,639
a nice RELAXI morning, which would then maybe you know,

1182
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,079
jump in the spot, have a little champagne, start the

1183
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morning off like breakfast.

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Speaker 3: Okay uh, and then begin to.

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Speaker 5: Cook all the accouterments of the turkey meal, which I'll

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have to confess Bill, I actually ordered from the club,

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and then professional chefs make everything and it's actually perfect,

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and then all I have to do is put it

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in the warmer, and they have all the instructions written

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out and that's just perfect, and then turn the game on.

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I think the first game comes on at noon, and

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then just enjoy the day.

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Speaker 1: Well that's great. Well, thank you for all you've done

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for the podcast. We're coming up on two years and

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without people like you, it wouldn't be possible, So I

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thank you tremendously.

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Speaker 3: Oh this has been a great ride.

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Speaker 5: Seeing you create your new path and doing everything you're

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doing with your talent and incorporating so many great things

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within our community has been fun to watch, and it's

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been even more fun to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we're gonna have bigger things in

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twenty twenty five, So I'm excited. I really am excited.

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Speaker 5: And there's a couple of things with some of these

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other business ventures I'm interested. I'm working on that includes

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you and some of the guys out in Buffalo. So

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we still have to follow up on that, and there

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might be some exciting things to come in the future.

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Speaker 1: Which Bilified that would be great, and the Bilified properties, yes,

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and the Billified properties that's great. Well. Thank you, Greg,

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Say hi to your mom and your sons and Jen

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and enjoy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: It's Sunday night, pasta dinner with football on. Man, it

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doesn't get much better than this.

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Speaker 1: It does not. Thank you, Greg, Thanks Bill, go Bills

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for Race and Randy for Greg Connors. I'm Bill Moran,

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and I gotta tell you I'm thankful for those guys.

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But really, i mean, let me say it again, Kevin

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and Dan from the very beginning, couldn't have done it

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without these guys. I'm so thankful that they're there. We'll

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be able to see Kevin tomorrow. I'm not sure when

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we'll see Dan, but they know, they know what a

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big part of this they are. And as we head

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into our third year of Billified and some new podcasts

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that'll be coming out, I thank you as well for

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putting in all the stuff you do. And of course

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to Matt Reese and the soldier and Laura and Stephanie

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Ied and oh you could just keep going on, even Jamison.

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I mean, it's changed my life for the better. So

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have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We'll see you tomorrow with Matt Reese,

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the Soldier, Kevin and a great story about how the

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soldier may eight have screwed up his relationship right free

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Speaker 5: Banks having theater, Bodcus have wit because from Mississippi and

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Austin Fiers