Home Improvement Show 11-30-24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, my friends, and welcome in time again for
the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands, and thank you
for joining us this morning here on one of three
point five FM at five sixty AMWVOC whi's big day,
our best game cut coverage now in less than one hour, Yeah,
getting ready for the big and it's Carolina and Clemson
at Clemson. Wow. Been waiting on this one now. Wasn't always,

(00:35):
but over the last three four weeks or so it
became very interesting. Hey, coming up, we'll talk to James Carwell.
He is the owner of Freedom Plumbing. We'll chat with Johnny,
Kathy Figner, Rocket Toper Servicing, and Jack Jessica. That is sorry, Jessica,
Jessica Smith. It's going to drop by from Lexington Kim
Dry in the studio to start things office morning though,

(00:56):
the guys from Lifetime, Cabus and Countertops. Hey, it's Todd Hudson.
Good morning, Todd, Good morning. Oh your brother?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
And Marcus Greenwell who's showing it's radio you can't see,
but he's he's rocking the game cockcatday right, that's right. Oh,
are you my friend got to.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Go for the g men? Oh no, that's that's pro.
I'm amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I've actually never heard of guy like that though. The GiMA.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, we'll go with the gm Yeah, that's actually a
thing for the Giants, is what they used to call them.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, with the Giants stink this.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I'll go with the game Cox.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, Game Cox is real. But I mean we pulled
for both teams here in the state and uh game Cox.
Yeah yeah. And during this game though, you know, everybody
gets their own team. Yes, yeah, we got split families.
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
My father in law played quarterback at Clemson in the
late fifties. Cool, and my wife, who grew up a
Clemson fan, we had married. She was a Clemson fan.
I didn't try to influence her at all, right, okay,
but she actually got her undergraduate degree first time from Carolina,
that's all, okay, and then got her went back to
nursing school year a couple of years later and got

(02:03):
another degree, and at which point she said, you know,
I guess I should become a game Cock fan.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Mm hmm. Ever, since I ain't going that's it, because
I guess because she got the alma mater.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, because we paid out the nose to college educations
forever to the and both kids too, So I.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Mean that's all right, forever.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
To the I think we're still paying on that. Yeah,
all right.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Speaking speaking of granted and Marble tops, Lifetime Caft countertops,
I had a lady called me last week and she said,
you know what, she said.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Don't talk about football today, talk about football.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Let's talk about football. She told me though specifically, if
you're listening now, I'm listening to you, heed your warning.
She said, you should mention your name more during the
show because I had to wait till the end. I said, well,
at least you had, you know, got to hear the
whole show.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, Well that's that's that's that's what we do
in broadcasting. We want to keep you around to the
very end.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Events, it's Lifetime Cabins and countertops. Yes, can I do
all the E three seven? Yeah? You call that number?
Who answers the phone?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
You get me Marcus Greenwell.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you're the owner owner? Yeah, see all the owner?
How about that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You you you got to bet you won't do that
anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I bet not. You wouldn't cut to a live person.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I think you could probably talk to any other owners.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
More than likely you have two locations. Two.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, we cut, we got to taste.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It was a surprise, he remembers.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Fernandina Road. Dear Costco.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeap kind of grove right there, Yeah, by Greens and
Costco and Northern Tool all right there.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You can go get some ste over there.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, star Bos you can get it all right there, harvest,
right close to harvest.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
But if you want a hot dog, go out to.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Chapin the hot dog Man. Steve's out there road just
past West Ingle Road on the left.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, beautiful.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
The name of the company is Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Okay, now that we've dispensed with the formalities. Yes, yes,
so we got we got that clear. Yes, we're gonna
That was a great suggestion. I appreciate making that.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, she's so sweet, and she came to did business
with us, too, beautiful. Not only did she call, she
came and did business.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Man. We thank you so much for listening.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, and hey, another shameless plug. Okay, yeah, we're putting missus.
Nancy over there is gonna come do business with Todd.
She called me, uh called me this week too. From
the day. Yeah, she didn't make it, but she called
me back while you were gone. She told me that, Hey,
let Todd know that I am still coming. So here's

(04:41):
your No, this is me telling you on the show.
I'm better get moving. Okay, sorry about that. Counter countertops, yes, yes,
countertops absolutely. Kitchen, wasn't it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
What what we We often do this, you know, when
we get towards the end of the year with you
and talk about where we've been and where things might
be heading. Yeah, because like everything else, it's like clothes, right,
you know, the styles, the preferences tend to change. And
I know that twenty twenty four and you you said
this a year ago, to your credit, for twenty four

(05:17):
is going to be the year of courts.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yep. And it sure has been, hasn't it. The prices
of our cost has come down, so the prices of
the material and the install has come down.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wait wait wait wait right, prices came down.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah because competition did not. Because anything else other than
big competition has come in and started manufacturing this stuff.
And you know, because this is not the natural stone
I'm talking about. This is the man made material cords courts. Yeah,
and I've noticed a big trend this year. You know,

(05:50):
not that there isn't a place for house flippers to
use the level one granites and stuff like that, but
I've noticed that they're even starting to use chords for
house flipping because it looks better on the pictures. So
bless you.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
That was mic and go to the other room.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's hilarious. So sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
We don't have a nothing around here. Boy, whatever happens.
It's so yes, you were saying.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
So yeah, so even level one, well flippers are using
level one quartz, which we've got a tremendous sell.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Because they're show better.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah yeah they do. They shows better in the pictures.
So they're like, oh, well I want to use this instead.
Matter of fact, one flipper was teasing another flipper last week. Hey,
what are you doing using that?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm seeing flipper right now. Yeah. Yeah, the flipper was
a dolphin.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, I love that. I'm too young for that, Gary,
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I guess flipper was a dolphin. Todd we we we have.
There's change bucket over there. Every time you tell a lie.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah all right, it might be older. Okay, maybe.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Both of them.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Now, this year has been and going into this coming
up twenty twenty five, has been using more expensive material.
I mean literally we had one yesterday last week, what
two eighty five dollars or something. It was like, I mean,
very expensive material. And I'm just like, oh man, y'all

(07:31):
are gonna y'all are gonna want to pick something else
out and this is this is two hundred and eighty
five dollars and they're like, nope, that's what we want.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
A square foot yeah, square foot. Yeah, I mean it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
This is granted, it was something that was clear that
you could back light and everything else.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, I mean it was a beautiful material. But I
was shocked. You know, hey I can do it though.
That's you know, we're we're geared to do it.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And I had another guy coming down from New York
set it's trending these tables, uh, where you do the
waterfall edge all the way around and make an island
into a table and it's got like a three three
inch drop down in front miter edge. It looks really nice.
But I mean stuff like that, I mean they're not

(08:19):
hesitating to pull the trigger on doing that expensive nice
work right now for some.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Reason making granted. Great again, man, I know.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Right, yeah, that was a marble piece on that one.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm talking yeah, but I okay, but we were with
that then.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Uh ayeah. That may be a sign that people have
have you know, some some faith in the economy turned around.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's what I was thinking earlier. Yeah, that's a good point.
So I hope so.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
But and we've talked about this before, because Todd, you
guys do more than just sell counterdops. You have h
I mean the real geniuses. And I hate to break
this to you guys here on the on the radio.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's not us but.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
A right, I mean in Rique and the guys in
the shop back there. Yeah, the phenomenal things to the
artists and crazy. Yeah, he's the best. We wouldn't trade
and bring anybody else, that's for sure. I mean you
you're getting a lot of money. You trusted in Rique
is the guy with a private jet, right, Yeah, you
trusted Rique. Little side joke before the show got started,

(09:30):
we were talking about never mind, you trusted Rique with
two hundred and eighty five dollars a square foot mark
exactly right to cut it, to fit it, to match it,
and all that.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
It look beautiful.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
So consider this. You're looking for a Level one granted
that's you know, forty something bucks a square foot or whatever. Yeah,
I'm just making an upper round. Same guy that did
the two hundred and eighty five dollars square foot is
going to do yours.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Too, exactly exactly, and I'm not trying to down to that.
We still well, we still sell a lot of level
one grantits, yeah, you know, so it's not uncommon for
us to sell that. But you know, the exotics and
stuff like that are getting more and more popular. I'm
thinking it's trend again this year. Okay, I think it

(10:16):
seems gonna get more so this year.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
But do you foresee, like for the Courts product, for example,
the man made that, because you've got increased supply now
more more you know, manufacturers are getting into doing that,
that the prices may come down even further in twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I think they're pretty close to where they're going
to be for a while. But uh, but it's still
very affordable for for me, you know. So uh, I
mean it's affordable for anybody.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
So okay, well it's it's uh, it's November thirtieth. Mm hmm,
is there still a chance maybe are you telling me
there's a chance maybe for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
For Christmas, maybe we got we're pretty tight, but we
should run ahead of schedule. But right now we're promising
into the first week of January something like that. So
if if what we do is we we don't want
to over promise it under delivery. So what we do
is we say we can do this, and here's your

(11:16):
guaranteed date. And then for somebody that doesn't have their
kitchen and you know that like for example, I had
a friend of mine from high school. I don't want
to tell you what year, but from Hermo high school
came in last week and he says, oh, I got
everything you know fixed up from the storm. Oh yeah,

(11:38):
so they just got all the work done, the roof
put back together, to the walls fixed up, and the
ceilings fixed and the cabinet's in now. And I went
and measured, and he said, can you get me by Christmas?
That would be my Christmas dream? And of course I'm
gonna do.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
It, Santa Marcus, Well, Enrique's gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm not, but I've already measured. Matter of fact, we
got to decide whether he's going to do full back
splash or night.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
So, by the way, if you'd like to meet this
guy over here, Marcus, and we'll tell you meet you anytime.
Because you're meet Todd first. Meet Todd first, and then
the measurement. You'll get a visit from Marcus over here.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, after we get the order, and whether you.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Want to or not, you get it from Marcus. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
And most people enjoy seeing me.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Most most people. He can be in a choir case.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I do like to talk. I like the pet dogs.
That's one of my favorite things to do. You got
a cat, Yeah, cats, cats like me. Cat's love even
even cat. My cat don't like other people.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
And my cat was very shy and yeah, and my
cat liked you.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, exactly. See there's a prime example. I got Proof
shaking his head. I'm telling you, I have.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
To live with this Todd like for fifteen minutes every
two weeks. You got to live with it like all
the time.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Guy's always wonderful to see you. That's great, hope, I
hope you all had a great Thanks forgeting.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
By the way, goat tigers who every team is.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Okay, there you go, and we'll see you in a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
All right, thank you, thank you, gery yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops is your locally owned source for countertops.
Great selection, great prices, and they pride themselves on superior
installation and customer service.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
The owner, Marcus will even personally come out to do
all your measurements.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
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located showrooms on Fernandina Road in Columbia or Chapin Road
in Chapin and check out the hundreds of slabs in stock, granite, marble,
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Speaker 1 (13:43):
They've got it all. And if you can't find exactly
what you are looking for when you're.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
There, and that's rare, they will find it. And it's
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outdoor patios, vanities, bars, man caves, you name it. Lifetime
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we welcome you back to the Home Improvement Show with
the Midlands on one O three point five FM and
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(15:27):
back and find them right there. And this guy has
probably done thousands of these with us. It seems like
James Carwell, the owner of Freedom Plumbing. Hey, buddy, how
you doing man?

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Good morning, Geary. How are you?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Maybe not thousands, but it has been hundreds. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
That it's been quite a few.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
You've been with us something from the get go out. Yeah,
you were on the very the very first one improvement. Yeah,
well we appreciate that, brother, Well enjoy doing it. Well, well,
we enjoy having you. Hope you had a terrific Thanksgiving.
How many left were you? How many left overs do
you have? Left?

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Plenty?

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Right, too many?

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, Well, what's one of the things we want to
talk about today. Some things you don't want to do
with those leftovers. If once you get to the point
where okay, that's enough of that, I'm moving on things
you don't want to do with them.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
As far as plumbing is concerned. Yeah, I can tell
you that your garbage disposal is not a trash compactor.
So well using it, we.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
All thought it was Yeah, we all thought if I'm
not mistaken, and you're probably I think a lot of
plumbers would probably agree. You're not a big fan of
the garbage disposal, are you.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Well, me personally, I've lived at two houses in the
past ten years that have septic tanks, and there's a
natural process that occurs in a septic tank where it
kind of maintains itself, where the bacteria used to biodegradables.
But it's a lot harder to do with food, especially
a lot of it. Not only that, you know that

(17:03):
that food can potentially start build up in your pipes.
So whether it be do the grease that's in the
food or the food itself, especially if you have older
plumbing systems that cast iron, galvanized things of that nature,
and they're a lot more likely to get caught in
those lines and great problems for you. So me personally

(17:25):
big fan of just scraping food off in the trash.
I mean, they're great if something gets in the sink,
but the strainers do. Just to just get a job
keeping that out of your drain as a garbage disposal
would so interesting.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, And you mentioned something there about grease. I think
we've all, you know, grown up knowing you don't put
you don't put grease down drains.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
That's correct. Yeah, So what happens to solidifies on the
line and creates, uh, it kind of closes that line down.
I've done some which were very difficult to open up
with our equipment because you know, the equipment will go
through the grease and then you pull that cable back
out and the grease just closes it back in on itself.
Oh yeah, like a hard self healing, a hard artery.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
So what what what about? Though?

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Now?

Speaker 1 (18:12):
If I if I run hot water first into that
sink before I pour the grease down there, that was
you know, is that an old wives tale that that
makes any difference?

Speaker 5 (18:21):
I still wouldn't do it. It's how hot is that
water going to stay throughout the process of that running
down your drain line and then the grease gets to
your septic tank if you're on one, and then solidifies there.
So just wouldn't wouldn't recommend it.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
So if you're on the municipal water, okay, maybe you
can get away with that garbage disposal a little better.
But if you're on a septic tank. You are like
a hard no on that.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
It sounds like personally, that's just my personal opinion. Now,
I would say it doesn't matter depending on the age
of your pipes. If you have pipes that are over
thirty years old, I wouldn't recommend much down that disposal anyway,
because you probably have you know, i'd say thirty fifty
years old houses in the sixties, seventies, and some in

(19:08):
the eighties. Depending on what material they used. You could
have corroded pipes, which just have a rougher surface, they're
going to catch things easier. So you definitely want to
avoid anything major going down those other than sink water dishwater,
and you got.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Thirty forty fifty years of stuff that's been going down
those pipes anyway, maybe be direct.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
So I central build up there depending on the slope
of the pipe, and you know, if there's any bellies
or anything improper about the installation of that line. So
I mean even in a slab, if we've come across
the lines that have bellies in them, which just mean
they hold water in a certain area, And anytime you're
holding water in a pipe, it's almost like going down

(19:52):
that water slide at the park. You know, you go
nice and fast down the slide. Once you get the water,
you come to a stop pretty quick. And that basically
would have happens with anything that you flush down a
line that has a belly in it, Solids kind of
get left behind and eventually build up into a stoppage.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
So it sounds like you've probably you've probably come across
situations over the years where it's like, okay, this is
this can't be this camp. I mean, as you talked about,
you you remove some of that that that build up
in there, but didn't did it just closes right back
up again?

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Is it so not even at some point that the
material just can't handle running a machine down? You know,
there's been cases where cast iron is just too old
and and that machine that you run down at that
cable can actually cause damage to the pipe. Because it's
such a brutal condition that we don't even recommend running

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it at that point. We just recommend replacement of the
line because you can cause further damage that's not necessarily
seen right away, such as the galvanized parts of the
drain line in the wall. If you're on a machine
down that it happens to crack you know, or or
you know, something in the wall. Then you're dealing with

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the league that you might not see right away and
could cause damage down the road till somebody comes along
she sees it like a pest control guy or another
plumber or you know, you just never know.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Wow, Okay, Uh, anything else we should not be doing
with the leftovers? Aside from that, I guess that that'd
be about it, right. Don't flush it down a toilet.
Did nobody ever.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
Rush down the toilet? Uh? Saving for you dogs if
they're you know, that'd be my recommendation. Not too much,
but yeah, just make sure you're you know, you're gonna
have a lot of more people here, you know, at
your home during this time of year, even Christmas, Your

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system is going to get used a lot more than normal.
So it might be a good idea. If you're on
a septic go ahead and have somebody come out and
maintenance if it's been a while. You know, they recommend
their every five years. That can help you out. And
just make sure you got the right toilet paper. A
good test for toilet paper is stick it in a
bowl of water, twirl your finger around. If it doesn't break,

(22:12):
down fairly easily. Then I wouldn't recommend using it because
it's just not you know, it's almost like using paper
toile at that point.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I've never heard that before, So the old toilet paper test.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Huh, something to think about, especially if you're on an
older system. PBC pipes not that big of an issue.
But again, you might have bellies, you could have other
issues going on. It's just best to kind of be
as cautious as possible with your system so you don't
wind up with a stoppage. And if you do have

(22:45):
a stoppage, I would recommend getting a what they call
a pop off valve for the outside sewer system where
your clean up would be located. You screw that in
and if there's a stoppage past that point, say in
the yard somewhere, that sewage would come out in the
yard rather than up in your house. Still not a
great scenario, but better than flooding your house would.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Soon so that that keeps it from backing back up
into your house. I guess right.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
In the yard somewhere. You know, if the blockage is
under the house, it's not going to help you in
that case, but you'll start to notice signs of gurgling
when you flush toilets. Maybe a toilet is swirling and
not going down all the way. That's a sign of
a blockage. Could be just a toilet. Good way to
test it is run the faucet. If it makes any
kind of change to the toilet water, then you know

(23:32):
that you're dealing with something a little bit further down
the line because your sink is now affecting your toilet.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
In what ways you run the sink and then what
are you looking for for the toilet to be done?

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Some bubbling the rising water level inside the toilet, that
that would indicate that there's an issue because that water
that you're running down the sink is at a higher
elevation water levels itself out is going to go to
the lowest point. That lowest point is typically going to
be a shower or a toilet, just depends on where
the blockage is and what pixtures it's affecting.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, these guys are working all through the holidays over
freedom plumbing. I mean, you got emergency things. It happens, James.
If somebody needs to get a hold of you guys,
what's that number, what's that website?

Speaker 5 (24:14):
And give us call it eight oh three four four
seven zero four seven to one. Easiest way to find
us just google Freedom Plumbing.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
We'll pop right up all right, Thanks Boddy, talk to you.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
So absolutely, Gary, you have a good one.

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Speaker 1 (26:20):
Hey, welcome back to the Home Improvement Show of the
Midlands on one O three point five FM and five
sixty am WBOC. Now time to learn more about resurfacing,
saving time and lots of money. Rock the Top Resurfacing Hey,
it's John and Cathy. Figure. How y'all doing. We're great,
We're doing great, terrific. You know John today my friend, sir,

(26:41):
I want to focus on the brains of the organization.
But then you want to talk to kat Sow. Yeah,
we want to talk to Katah.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Now, you know, John, you're the guy out there, you know,
get your hands dirty and stuff. Yep, I'm trying to
pick some of this paint off right now. MC kathy,
the one that's you're the power behind the organization here,
you're you're driving this train.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
I'm behind the scenes, and I hope with I have
lots of hats.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Seventeen seventeen Do we care to name that?

Speaker 6 (27:13):
I have many hats, but trying to pass some of
those hats off.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
But we tried to give you the title one time,
but the title became so long that we couldn't even
like writing a book.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
Yeah, but I mean, John's the mastermind, really, but I
just help.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
I just help.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
I helped keep him organized, let's put it that way.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, I do the same. My wife
did the same thing for me. I know exactly what
that's all about. Well, but you know, I wanted to
ask you today again, because you know John's out there
every day doing this stuff and you truth be done.
Johnny probably doing your sleep. You know. Sometimes you've done
it so so many times and for so long. Actually
I've done that before. But you know, Kenvy, you've learned

(27:59):
a lot about this business obviously, oh yeah, about what
it's all about. But sometimes you know, it might well
be because you're not, you know, out there. It's like
a you know, if a brain surgeon try to describe
an operation to you or me, you go, oh, okay,
it makes perfect sense to them, right yeah, But to
us it's like, you know, you can't talk right down

(28:20):
to my level here. Now, you have a lot of
knowledge of this business, but you probably can come to
it a little differently than John can. From time to
time when when talking with folks on the phone, what
they call and they try to get some sense of Okay,
what exactly is going on here? Yeah, what exactly is
it you're offering me? And how is it I can
save so much time and so much money by doing this. Well.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
My basic response to what we do is we specialize
in resurfacing tubs, tiles, and countertops. Instead of replacing them,
We leave them right there, can repair, make repairs holes, cracks,
missing tiles, five countertops that might have swelling of the formica.

(29:05):
Fix all that. We resurface it make it look beautiful
again at a fraction of the costs. That's in a nutshell,
what we do.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
And we've talked about that that fraction would cost before.
I think last time you were with us a couple
of weeks ago, we were talking about a project you
had just wrapped up, I believe, John, yep. And it
would have been I don't remember what those numbers were now,
but we were talking about a job that would have
been I think the north of ten thousand dollars. Yeah,
I think it was the one thirteen thirteen thirteen thousand. Yeah,
that rings a bell. Yeah, thirteen thousand dollars, and y'all

(29:37):
were in and out in a matter of just a
couple of days. I mean it was all days. I
recall it was a big, old, huge shower thing that
had to be redone. Yep. Well, it would have had
to have been redone, but it was just resurfaced. Yeah.
The thing was leaking on the back wall. There was
a huge crack between the wall where the wall meets
the floor right there at the perimeter. It was a
big crack in there, and there was no rubber membrane

(29:57):
underneath it like they're supposed to be. Waters hitting the
back wall running right down that crack and right down
the floor choice underneath. Fortunately there was a you know,
a crawl space below there. But have that been on
the second floor. We're talking huge problems. So they got
an estimate for thirteen thousand dollars to tear the whole
entire shower out and re install it correctly. And I

(30:19):
came in and discovered, you know, it's just that crack
right there. I can fill that void, no problem at all.
You don't even need a membrane when I'm done with it.
So we filled that void with a resin and it
cured it with light, cured it instantly, went down there,
water tested it four one hundred percent waterproof now. So
for two thousand dollars, we didn't just do the shower stall.
We did the entire bat that the tiles went all

(30:40):
the way around the bathroom walls. So we did it
all for two thousand bucks. So we saved you know,
eleven thousand dollars, And they didn't get just the shower done.
They got the shower and the entire bathroom walls done.
Talk about more bang for your buck. Yeahh and two
days all right, so two days you got more than
what you actually bargain for eventure and originally yep, and

(31:03):
you just have a load on thousand dollars in the process. Yeah,
and now the whole entire bathroom's waterproof, and it's a
it was pink or yellow, pink or yellow, so now
it's beautiful too, not pink. No longer that ugly it
is terrible color there. So yeah, well it doesn't take
a brain surgeon now to figure that one out.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
And then sometimes we also have clients that have rusted
drains or over flow bowls yesterday's Joe. Yeah, actually go
ahead and tell them about that.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
So I got there and uh again, you mean the
logical you know, solution to that is going to be
you got to tear it out, and then you got
to uh you know, when you do tear out a tub,
you got to take out three rows of tiles also,
so they probably don't make those tiles anymore because they're
you know, it was done long ago and the problem
with this tub was, uh, number one the drain was

(31:52):
rusted all the way around, so I ripped it out.
I tore it out completely. You could stick my whole
hand through it. And then also sorry about that over
its business man. Their overflow valve was completely rust that
he could stick your whole hand through that too, just
rusted completely. And they sold the house there and inspector
caught it, of course, and they're like, you got to
you know, you got to get this replaced. Found out

(32:14):
about us. And I went in there yesterday with my
resin and fiberglass repairing, and you know, I was done
by I think two thirty in the afternoon, started at
uh nine o'clock in the morning, and I think that
was eight hundred bucks rather than four thousand, so and
four thousand and several days work. See this is interesting

(32:34):
because you know, we typically talk about you're doing the resurfacing,
but it's you. You can do more than just the resurface. Yeah,
you go in there and fix other stuff that needs
to be figed. Both examples you've given today, you've gone
in and done things that are go beyond the resurfacing thing.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
John's super knowledgeable about home improvements in general because we.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Which is why we had them all the home improvement
showed them untains every other week.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
Yeah, so he can go in and you know, kind
of detect problems as well and come up, well, yeah,
that kind of you can and then come up with
some solutions for him. And if it's not us that
can help, we refer to people to who can sure.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah yeah, sometimes you know I'm not the absolute.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Best solution, right Ye.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, and that's that's that's the beauty of you know, again,
as long as you've been doing this and you know,
being able to you know, forge's relationships love folks, because
you know me, what do I know? Right? Yeah? So
this is this is again you throw these numbers out.
It's just really it boggles the mind. So folks listening

(33:42):
this morning are hearing this and they're thinking, Okay, what's
the catch? Right? This has got to be too good
to be true. How can I pay you know, three
thousand dollars instead of eleven thousand dollars? How can I
be using that you know, shower stall or whatever again
in a matter of a day or two as opposed

(34:02):
to a couple of weeks? So what's the catch? The
there isn't There isn't a catch. In fact, honestly, there's
almost never a surprise because no matter what we're resurfacing,
we're not really touching hardly any plumbing. So there's no oh,
I'm sorry, man, but we got to replumb this whole thing.
That never happens. I mean, it's just there is no catch.

(34:23):
If there's ever a surprise, that might be you know,
your shut off belves leaking really bad needs to be replaced.
I mean, that's not a very bad catch.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's not really old.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
That does happen.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I usually when I do my estimates, if I'm doing
a vanity or something, I'll check the shut off belves
or you know, whatever we're doing, make sure those are
all functional, and if they're not, I'll give them time.
You know, I'm not going to do the job today,
and you know, give them some time to have it fixed.
And you know, if you need a plumber, we work
with lots of great plumbers and you know, but usually
there's no surprises, and that's a great thing too. Yeah. Absolutely,

(34:57):
most of the stuff. It sounds like, well, I don't know,
but bathrooms, kitchens, we spend a lot of time in
the bathroom.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
Sounds like yeah, John likes.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
The guy. We said, guys are in the bathroom for
different reasons than you gals are. Don't tell me you
don't spend a lot of time in the bathroom too, Kathy.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Well, yeah, you got to fix the space somehow.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
But there are I mean they're there. It's really unlimited.
I mean, for example, at my parents' house, you guys
came in and and and did uh some tile flooring
in the foyer in the interest to the house. We
do a lot of foyers and you're not removing anything, right,
But at the same time, as you told us before

(35:46):
you're you said you're you're making it better. How is
that waterproof in the with the floor, it's when we're done,
it's number one. The grout lines are sealed so that
they're waterproof. You don't have to worry about them getting
moldy anymore dirty or cleaning them and clean. And it's
anti skid. We put an anti skid coating on it.
At the same time, I mean, we don't have to,
but it's easy to just put an anti skid coating

(36:09):
on it. So that's nice, and I mean it's fast
and super inexpensive. Nothing goes in a landfill anywhere, because
we're not tearing anything out, We're leaving it right there.
The only downside really to it. It doesn't smell good.
I could make it smell good, but gasoline smells bad.
They could put perfume in that and make it smell good.
They don't want people to breathe it, so right, that's

(36:31):
the only really, the only downside in my opinion is,
you know, it doesn't smell good, but we ventilate really well.
I don't want to smell it either, so.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
And it dissipates, It disipates.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, it goes way quickly. Yeah, it's really quick. Some
people are more sensitive than others. But uh, I don't
really get many complaints. I don't smell it anymore at all.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
I can.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
I'm immune to it, I think, but I have to
ask the people. Can you smell it in ninety percent
of the time? No, I don't faintly, but that's because
we're ventilating. But yeah, it doesn't last long. Can smell
me when I come home. Well, that dissipates too eventually,
But I dissipate that this time of the year, you know,

(37:10):
I know for folks who do you know construction type
projects and all when when it requires that remodeling and
all that, this gets to be kind of a busy
time of the year, right now. It's the same for you,
same for you all.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, yeah, same thing, especially after text season for some reason.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, people want to figure out how they can fix
up their homes with us. You can get two bathrooms done,
and he got a bunch of money left over, so
you can go buy yourself a new Harley Davison. That
was a nice return. Somebody just got I know, there's
a lot of hubbies out there that want that hardy,
but a lot of the wives they want to get
the bathrooms redone so we can knock out two birds

(37:45):
with one stone. I'm trying to remember the last time
I actually got money back from Uncle Sam. Never mind,
some people do. He doesn't like to give it up,
no huh. All right, So but again this time of year,
I mean, somebody who's you know, wanted to get one

(38:07):
number one. You can get more information just by making
a call, absolutely, you know. I mean you can get
out there and get the estimate done and all that.
But the timeline of actually again, because it's kind of
that time of the year, the timeline you're working on
right now? How backed up are you a couple of
weeks out? Oh it's not bad, not bad. No, it's
about to change. I'm sure the sun coming out getting warm,
and everybody's grabbing a pencil on paper and writing down

(38:28):
all the you know, honeydew lists that they want to do,
and then they call all those contractors and we all
get slammed. Oh that's gonna happen real soon. Really, go ahead.
A good A good place for people to start if
they're even curious about what it is that we do
with this resurfacing stuff is go to our Facebook wall.
It's very active. You can go back for hours and
hours and hours and look at before and after videos

(38:49):
and pictures and there's a lot of information right there.
You can Google us and you can see that we
have a five star Google rating, and you know, look
us up.

Speaker 6 (38:58):
You beat on our website, owls surfcing dot com.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
I've been doing this for decades and it's it's incredible.
It really is incredible. I love it. I can't say
enough positive things about it. Yeah, it's one thing for
us here and talk about it, but I mean, go
look at where it started, where it ended, you know,
on all these projects, and the pictures don't actually even
do it justice. It looks good in the pictures, but
it's way better looking in person. It's rock the top reservicing.

(39:23):
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Speaker 1 (41:38):
And we welcome you back to the Home Improven Show
of the Midlands. On one of three point five FM
and five sixty AM WVOC. And we are just minutes away,
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(42:02):
Here we go. But before we do that, we have
unfinished business here on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands.
And now Jessica Smith is now joining us from Lexington.
Kim Dry, good to see you, good morning, and you
brought you brought guests today?

Speaker 9 (42:16):
I brought some visitors. Yes, would you like to say hello?

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Okay, your son and your daughter.

Speaker 9 (42:23):
My two youngest okay are visiting today.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, good to see the both of you. Well, I'm
dragging you out on a Saturday morning.

Speaker 12 (42:29):
They just nod their heads, might get a giggle here
or there.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, how was Thanksgiving? I hope it was good.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
It was good. Spent time with the family.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Very nice.

Speaker 9 (42:38):
About fifty of us or so?

Speaker 12 (42:40):
What large families get together. I'm all to asking how
much that costs? Everyone brings a.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Dish, okay, so it works out, spreading it all out.

Speaker 9 (42:50):
There a little bit, okay, but that's what it's for.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
But how many turkeys does it take to feed fifty people?

Speaker 9 (42:54):
Usually?

Speaker 12 (42:55):
Two?

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Oh yeah, yea or yah yeah? Okay, you ain't been
to my house for Thanksgiving because there's like ten of
us and we could probably do two turkeys if we
really tried it hard.

Speaker 12 (43:05):
We try to get the really big ones, the biggest
ones they've got, you know, twenty five pounders.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Okay, yeah, we got our seventeen pounder for like sixteen bucks.
That's that's Fatough, I beat you.

Speaker 12 (43:15):
I got mine for nine You got a how big
of a turkey? Seventeen pounds for nine bucks?

Speaker 9 (43:22):
Coupon?

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh yeah, then there's a Well you're that person in
front of me in light of the grocery store, right,
I got a coupon for that somewhere.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
Digital doesn't take long.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
You don't count exact change, do you?

Speaker 9 (43:33):
Sometimes you are that person?

Speaker 1 (43:36):
I know. Well, I'm glad to hear y'all had a
great Thanksgiving. Now and this is now we're in that
season because we are we're time compressed this year. Yes,
it's already November thirtieth and we're sitting here.

Speaker 9 (43:50):
Now roughly four weeks, about.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Four weeks less than four weeks between Thanksgiving Day and
Christmas Day this year, and I know this is a
time of year when a lot a lot of people
are rigging you up on the phone and saying, hey,
can you help us get ready for Christmas? How can
you help?

Speaker 12 (44:06):
We can help before the tree comes out, so of
course cleaning the carpets, the upholstery, trying to get everything
cleaned up.

Speaker 9 (44:13):
Before you start decorating.

Speaker 12 (44:15):
We have where we come in after the tree gets
put up, clean and deep cleaning before family comes. We
are a week or so out, so we're fully booked
for the first week of December, filling up the next week.
So if you need service prior to Christmas, please call
now to get on our schedule, because it gets to

(44:37):
be busy when family comes in.

Speaker 9 (44:39):
We always try to help.

Speaker 12 (44:40):
If it's hey, I need something, you know, I spurred
the moment I need my families coming in? Can you
come clean? Or accidents happens, you know, the puppy you know,
has an accident, can you clean because it smells and
I need the house done.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
So I was going to ask you about that for
those last minute emergencies. You know that somebody. They don't
necessarily need all their carpet cleaned or all their upholstery
cleaned or whatever, but they've had that act.

Speaker 12 (45:05):
We try our best to accommodate as much as we can.
Just like Thanksgiving, we tried our best to fit everyone,
and we still get some cancelations. So for example, this
week today, actually we had a customer on the book
for the past two weeks, but she called the day
before that her puppy's sick and had tain the vets,
and won't we be able to make that appointment time?
And so I'm able to call from the cancelation list

(45:26):
and get that slot filled. So we try our very
best to get everyone's serviced when they need it right.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
And it's again most people think when we talk about
you know what you do, most of you think of
carpets and then upholstery. But that doesn't stop there.

Speaker 9 (45:41):
Nope.

Speaker 12 (45:42):
We can clean the hardwoods and your LVP to get
that good and deep cleaned. A lot of times where
people are constantly mopping or not recommended, but steam mopping
can lead that residue, so we can come in and
clean to get those nice and shiny again not shiny,
but get it back to the original surface. So if
the floor was shiny, and we will go back to

(46:02):
the shine area. Rugs a lot of pickup and deliveries
to get them in before the holidays, so give us
call for that. We've done patio cushions and throw pillows,
a lot of upholstery has been going on, and then
we've done a few houses of tile and grout us a.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Couple months ago to get that phenomenal. By the way,
just phenomenal.

Speaker 12 (46:24):
We had a customer that was moving into a home
and just the grout along the edges was gray that
the whole center of the floor was black. So you
had to had to get in there and use that
high pressure rents and the right solutions to get it
all looking the same color gray.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
What are the big mistakes we make as homeowners or
business owners for that matter, and trying to do the
things on our own.

Speaker 9 (46:47):
A lot of the times you can make it worse.

Speaker 12 (46:50):
Is so example for pet urine, if you're using a
home machine, or you decide, well, I'm just going to
rent something, it oversaturates and it doesn't extract, well, you
just end up spreading the urine.

Speaker 9 (47:01):
So now you have a bigger problem. Than when it
started with.

Speaker 12 (47:05):
Another thing would be not to blot up and clean
up spots and spills right away, because then, for example,
somebody hears spilled.

Speaker 9 (47:12):
Soda somebody in this room right now as.

Speaker 12 (47:15):
He's saying no, no, no, and I walked in and
he's like, oh, that was water. I'm like, no, that wasn't.
And there it is, the little dark spots that you
know have to be there.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Well, you're lucky your mom. Moms can't dry.

Speaker 9 (47:29):
Oh but now dad knows about it because he'll be listening.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Oh no, we outa just sorry about that, didn't there's
a giggle. You said something there. And we've talked about
this before, and then maybe one of the biggest mistakes
we make you blot.

Speaker 9 (47:47):
You're supposed to blot. You you should blot, don't rub.

Speaker 12 (47:51):
Don't rub right rubbing help can loosen up the carpet
fibers and so leave a They'll pull the fibers to
make them fuzzy, and you don't want that continue you
to blot and to get pushed down to get deep
into the fibers to extract that spill.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Is there any sort of material less best to do
that with? I mean bounty paper towels.

Speaker 12 (48:11):
Or we just recommend like a white towel. The reason
why being white because you can see the transfer and
so you keep blotting until you don't have that transfer anymore.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Okay, so a paper white paper towel would do the trick,
or do you do you suggest?

Speaker 12 (48:26):
I would suggest an actual towel towel because paper towel get.

Speaker 9 (48:29):
Too wet too quickly.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Oh okay, but.

Speaker 12 (48:33):
It being a white towel, being absorbent, would be able
to blot up and you can fold it over and
keep blotting until you don't have that transfer.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Now that you mentioned that, I don't think I have
a white towel in the house.

Speaker 9 (48:45):
It'd be like, these are my white rag towels.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
So yeah, we have to pick up a view of
those at some point in time, just just just on
the saye.

Speaker 12 (48:52):
To be on the stade, because if you use a
darker one, you won't see the transfer. Yeah, so you
don't know if it's the towel be wet and you
think you got it all, then you wouldn't see that transfer.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
M And I guess donning rubbing rubby is gonna drive
it further out. Whether it's a postery or carpet or
whatever it's it's going to drive it further down to
the fabric and spread it.

Speaker 12 (49:11):
Out too, and spread it out. And like I said,
if you have fibers that are already loosened, if you
look at like I almost think of like split ends,
you can kind of like pull the fibers loose, or
if it's a smooth surface, you can break those up.
And then now you'll have a pulled fibers where you
look like you have to use one of those shaving machines,

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you know, to pull those little balls up, and you
don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Okay. Now for folks who might be thinking, well, okay,
we're talking about emergent situations here. But you know, part
of what you do is you have folks who are
with you on on a regular basis that you make
regular stops to do that. How does that work? What
what sorts of packages can you choose from?

Speaker 12 (49:55):
Yeah, so you can set up as as often as
you'd like. So we have usually six months for high
trafficked areas. We have some customers that do quarterly cleanings
because of kids and pets or some just pets. They
have like three or four dogs that come in and
out tracking in the red clay, so they want to
make sure that that's done. And then of course we

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want to offer that carpet protectant to prolong the longevity
of the carpet fibers and help to clean up spots
and spills before it comes set in and permanent. It
gives you that opportunity to clean that all up so
that they don't set in and we can come in
and clean and then you're back to you know, clean.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Home, and I guess, like everything else, the more often
it's done, the easieres to maintain it, and the less
the next time you've got.

Speaker 12 (50:40):
To and worry free scheduling, so we can schedule six
months out from your last appointment, or hey I want
to get on the quarterly. We can schedule quarterly. So
it's just a phone call saying, hey, you have this
appointment reminder. So we try to confirm appointments the day
before just to make sure everyone's still good and maintain that.
And we can do packages to wear. Okay, well this

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time I want these these few rooms, but I'm going
to add the sofa, or this time I'm only going
to do the bedrooms. And then you know, we'll add
the tile and grout and the master while we're there.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
So so what's in a name here, Kim dry mm hmm.
That's that's significant.

Speaker 12 (51:19):
We we like to refer to it's not chemicals but chemistry.
We have some great chemists that formulate our solutions, that
make them, you know, great for homes, children and pets.
And then you know, you have certain formulas like for
our tile and grout that depending on the type of tile,
depending on how stubborn the stains are. We have different

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things solutions for carpet, for grease and oil. We have
different things for water soluble stains. So it's all of
formulations that we can come in and take care of
all the surfaces like that and get you nice and cleaned.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
That's another metakee we make too right as we use
the wrong solution for the stak.

Speaker 12 (51:57):
For the wrong stain and then now all of a
sudden you're like, why is it spreading? So like ink,
you want to be very specific when treating ink. So
we have a specialized in cream mover.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
So that's the game part. What about the dry part, Oh.

Speaker 9 (52:09):
The dry part.

Speaker 12 (52:10):
So we use eighty percent less water than traditional steam cleanings,
so your carpets and upholstery are dry in just a
few hours, not days. It doesn't allow that over wet
moisture to allow mold and mildey to begin growing. So
that is the dry part of it all.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Okay, so you say you've got a couple of hole
mainly you're booked up at least for the.

Speaker 9 (52:30):
Next week, the next week yet more books.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
So we're a little bit of time before Christmas, you've.

Speaker 9 (52:35):
Got those those what three weeks after that?

Speaker 12 (52:39):
Yeah, if I'm doing math right to get us in
before the holidays, and then of course we can even
right now start scheduling for January for when you go
to take your trees down. So if you know, hey,
company's done first week of January. I want to get
on your schedule so I know that when it comes
down we can come in and clean. We'll be happy
to get to scheduled for the the new year.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
All right. I'm going to guess here that these twelve
minutes you've never heard your kids this quiet?

Speaker 9 (53:05):
Not this quiet?

Speaker 1 (53:06):
All?

Speaker 12 (53:06):
I think it has to bring them more often. Usually
when it's quite, you have to wonder what's.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Going exactly, something's going on? Yeah, all right, So, Jessica,
how can folks get a hold of you? Get on
that schedule in time for Christmas and really impressed family
when they come over the beautifully clean carpets and upholstery
and everything else.

Speaker 12 (53:27):
You reached me at eight oh three five hundred four
seven zero seven or visit us at Lexington Chemdriy dot com.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
All right, terrific, Thank you, goodness, see you.

Speaker 9 (53:36):
Nice seeing you. Bye, kids, say bye.

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