February 27, 2025 • 33 mins
Brick McDermott joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. Brick’s son, Bryant, tragically passed away in February 2022. To keep Bryant’s memory alive, Brick and his family established the Live Like Bryant Foundation that helps our community’s youth achieve their highest potential through athletics and education. The foundation has supported organizations like KinderMourn, West Blvd Ministry and SouthPark Youth Association, and has provided scholarships to deserving students for summer camps and local schools. On Saturday, March 1st, Live Like Bryant will host its 3rd annual concert event featuring The Blue Dogs and Old Habits at The Visulite Theatre to raise funds for the foundation. Visit livelikebryant.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the at Home with Roby Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm Patrick mcaac from Roby Commercial and Services along with
Trent Hayson from the Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
We're your hosts.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're not a show anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We're not I don't know what we are.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Every episode, I'm gonna give you a hard time about
some some nuance of your intro.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Great.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean, I'm gonna keep you bobbing it. We always
say it Roby and in life, and I tell my
kids it's a game of hills and toes. It is
you want to keep others on their hills and you
on your toes. Uh, in a good way. It's called proactivity. Agreed.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now, I liked that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I was trying to come up with, like a funny
way to make fun of Chapel Hill because of being
on your heels. But I'm stumped. I got nothing. I
got nothing. Maybe I throw a Tiger Paul at you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I saw I saw a sweatshirt last night at Ford's
basketball and came at the rect Center in Bellmont and said, uh,
tar Bill for Bill Belichick. I that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Bill, But y'all mean Bill to Belichick. It was a hoodie.
It was a hoodie.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I guess his girlfriend wanted to go to graduate school.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
What's going on with my man? Has got a going
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm not talking smack, just I'm a little scared. Honestly.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You can say what you want to say, but you
can't hate a man. He's got a a nice uh partner.
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, I'm hearing you. I'm here.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You're not hearing me come out of you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But hey, I want to say something.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You're wearing a hat and I'm wearing a hat, and
I we're gonna tee up our guess Brick mcdermot's gonna
tell us about our hat.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Hope a little bit, because.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
He's got some some really neat, neat stuff coming up
that we want we want to promote.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We're gonna promote Brick.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Brick is the best, the best guy, a super dude.
He is a mortgage guy in town. If you want
to know about real estate, any of the things, you
just caught this guy right, which.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Is great because it's a it's a hot story these days.
Where's it going with Brick? When in the rates coming down? Brick,
He's why how come I hit that baseball at you
and it bounced off your arm brick.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We played Little League baseball during the same night. Was
in nineteen sixties, he was, he was he was the Orioles.
It was the nineties, late eighties, early nineties. He was
the Orioles. We were the Roby's at Andrew Roby. They
(02:38):
Bobby Bob Holkom was your coach, right, Okay, I do
remember that. That's how vividly I remember our nemesis. We
were rivals. Actually, they were really good and we were
pretty good. So back in the day we had a
lot of fun. I used to ride around and Uh
and my uncle's pickup truck all all down Park Road
and Godfather's Pizza. I think we used to go to
(03:01):
and and be about fifteen kids in the back of
a pickup truck bed going that's fifty five miles an
hour going Roby Roby, not holding on anything. I mean,
how illegal is that? Hold on? Hold on?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I got I have to I have to ask a
question because you brought it up. Was it the blue
f one fifty? It was the two tone blue, two
tone blue? Okay, Well, he had a lot of racks.
We had something to hold on to us.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He totally filled there. He's big time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So one of our you know, we're celebrating seventy five
years in business this year. We are companies. Our marketing team,
which is so cool, are putting out fun history facts
every week and we review them in our EOS meetings. Okay,
so every US media has a you know, the fun
factor or history I'm sure I'm getting the name of
it wrong, but historical fact. And one of them was
Angie Lower created uh changed the logo to red. The
(03:51):
color No, Dad changed the color to red. She changed
the logo. So I cleared that up a couple of times.
I want you to tell the story again about why
it went to red and it had something to do.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I just started. I'm just hushing up because all the
stories are not exactly accurate. But you know, you know
it isn't all rosy, but the rose is beautiful, right.
You just gotta sometimes shut up, all right and sit
on your hands. It wasn't fifty four years ago, it
was fifty two years ago. It wasn't nineteen ninety three.
(04:23):
It was nineteen ninety one. I mean, and I got
I have factual age dates grades I was in when
I remember this stuff. That's how I remember stuff. But uh,
my dad always was the Ford guy. My brother the
other day at our town hall said we mostly had Fords.
That's incorrect because my granddad and my uncle don I mean,
(04:44):
we only had like three or four trucks at the time.
They were Chevy guys forever, so there was not I
mean two thirds of the fleet was Chevy back then.
When I was a kid, I think we had a
dump truck and Ken Laney had a truck. Well, but
uh dad was a Ford guy and he was the boss.
(05:05):
And in nineteen ninety six it was really nineteen ninety five,
but the nineteen ninety six model of the F one truck,
they changed the body styles when they first time they
ever went a little less square on the front, hood
the nose, and uh I remember this because I was
a rising senior in high school. My dad went to
(05:28):
get get a new pickup and he said, I want
the blue pickup that I have and they said, we, sir,
we stopped making that color, that two tone blue. And
he said, huh. He said, dang, I need this pickup
truck on the one I want to dude, And he said, well,
do you have red and they said, yeah, we have red.
(05:48):
He said, good, they'll never stop making red. No way,
that's why our colors are red brick. And then uh,
no it is red. Actually that that was too had
gray at the bottom in that old f one fifty style.
But uh and then she she designed a white square
(06:09):
with Andrew Roby. So it's really our first logo because
before that it was just writing Andrew Ruby General Contracting
Services and our phone number and all that. I tell
you a design thing. When we redesigned our logo in
about two thousand and five, because we were doing a
website and we redesigned it. Gary Hickson came in and
(06:31):
gave us some options for our logo. We hated them
all and go and my dad and my uncle and
my I think my granddad had was passed. They said
we got to have the phone number on there. And
he said, do they have the phone number on the
swoosh sign for Nike? And they're like huh. And he said,
(06:52):
if people know your brand, they'll look you up. And
we're like how He's like the internet idiots to see
called DSL. It just came out.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's amazing. Oh no, we weren't even we weren't even
dialing up. Then I went to college in four and
we had the the DSL is a high speed internet.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We thought we'd hit gold.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Reagan said the other day when we were in the car,
she was talking about her third grade teacher was trying
to explain the cloud the Internet and said, it's like
a cloud around the earth. It. She was in the
third grade. So, uh that was like nineteen ninety one. Yeah, okay,
(07:32):
and how I was like, man, I was, I was
living on her third grade teacher was on top of it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We got our first school teacher, brick.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We got our first computer in nineteen ninety five, ninety
five or ninety six. Family, Yeah, I remember it was
it was there was so many boxes. They covered it
with the king size comforter and like I was like,
what's Saturday there?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Like, don't don't look. We got it for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Was it an acer?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't even remember which brand it was. But I
actually broke it. I crashed it and I had had
to work my parents.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Maybe you know what does that? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I think there was a virus fact that I'm not
sure too many words, but uh yeah, I mean I
had to work. I had to work to all Christmas
break at chick fil A to buy a new computer.
That's all the money I made went to buy it.
I probably wasn't even covering the whole thing. But yeah,
that was no good.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You really did.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it was fifteen.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Back in here out forty hour weeks at fifteen. We're
not as hard on our kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think my mom was the one that made me
do that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now my dad, now that I don't make them pay
for stuff they break and buy stuff for them, We're
going in the opposite direction, with the opposite craziness. Gracious
singing waffle fries, baby waffle fries. Did you eat something
you got half price?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was a pretty good deal. Pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Did you like the fried chicken sandwich Chick fil a? Sound?
It was?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's where he learned a marinade and pickle juice.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's why Reagan's never liked that picker sandwich. I mean
that chickensz.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I could eat that every day. Uh, well, Trent, we
got prittick. We talked a little about him before. I'm
excited to hear what he's got to say. Uh, we're
obviously wearing to Live.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Did you bring your championship door of Little League trophy?
Sh I know you have it on your on your
in your master bedroom.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
If you want to come walking in, if you want
to come walking in with that thing. Oh my gosh,
would have been next level.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm so excited, Uh Brick, such a good person. I'm
excited to promote uh Live. Like Bryant, I got my
hat on, got a fundraiser coming up that we're supporting.
I think got a going on man. So plus he's
in the mortgage business. We're gonna beat on his head
because we've got high rates coming down. They coming down.
(09:51):
Here we go. You're listening to at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And don't forget.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
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Roby family of companies.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Trent is killing me on my intros.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Here's a little it's a little different that we're that
we're podcasting versus Uh, you.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Must have some head trash because I haven't said a
word since we came back. We're back. We're back.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, and we got brick. We're back with Break.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We're back with Brick. That sounds that sounds pretty good.
I hear you. I got one question for you, Break.
When you played Dealworth a Little league? Where did you
grow up? What road?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Doorth Road?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Was? Dilworth Road? West? Got it? Okay, now I got you.
I know where you're at. I grew up on quote
Rutledge Avenue because that's where my granddad lives, and I
put that address into play door little so you could
you could be. I got it and that worked. Not
a shame because I wanted to play for the rugby team.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, clearly he had to play for the Roman.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Uh. I wouldn't think that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I wouldn't think that. For rec league baseball, you have
to live in a certain territory. It's not like school.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I definitely was that way.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
UH when I grew up as well, I would being
at the old East Side uh a little league and
then into East Kyle.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
You know what I thought of think think about it?
East side people.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Kid, you didn't you didn't know this? I might you
might want to reconsider my employment. Uh uh that I
that I grew up playing east Side, Yeah, east Side,
little lea man.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It was last last show's guest Chris Hobart, who's really
cool guy was from California. We just hired a fella
a couple of weeks ago, and yeah, to run our
Ashville division. He was born in California. So we come
on with bringing them along. They coming to the East
coast east Side?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Do you think they knew each other there because they're
booth from California? Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That's not what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'll just care a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Six degrees of separation, right, Brick, that's right. How you been, buddy.
I'm doing good, good, doing good. It's nice to see you. Man.
Got me a new brin.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And this is this is Brick's third time being with us,
two times on the on the former radio show and
the obviously first time on the podcast. And Brick hit
me up and was, what's they're doing. They're doing a
fundraiser for his uh his nonprofit live like Brian.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Right, We've got I mean, it's our biggest fundraiser of
the year, and it's gonna be at the Visual aite.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
We have a concert.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
My favorite band from I mean geez from college days,
the Blue Dogs.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh really, oh yeah, the Blue Doll I hear you,
the Dolls.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And then Old Habits is opening and Old Habits ben
At Thompson and Craig Thompson are natives Charlotte, so they're
just the best musicians and it's gonna be so much fun.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
When is this March first week from Saturday, March first.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So so coming on up. Yeah yeah, and so you said,
now say the opening.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Band again, Old Habits and that's ben At Thompson and
Craig Thompson, their brothers, their brothers and their other brothers Botoms.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That was from w b T. Yeah, there you go
exactly that small world.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And then I didn't know Bennett was was a musician.
I've met him a couple of times, but that's that's awesome.
I can't wait to hear him.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He is him, and I mean they're just so talented.
I mean just uh just they're blue, grassy, old school,
just just fantastic.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So it's we've had this there.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I think there's our third year doing this and they've
opened each year, so they're just they're unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Wow, old habits.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I well, well, Brick, I don't know. I mean that
we didn't talk about this before the show. But tell
us tell us about what what lived like. Brian is, uh,
what the mission is. Tell us a little bit about
what you which is about your nonprofit.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, so we our son Bryant passed away tragically, uh
February twenty twenty two, so over three years ago. And
the thing about Bryant is he was he was a
friend to everyone. He had friends from all different schools.
He went to Catholic or the Holy trendy at the time,
(14:34):
but he went to Sellwyn earlier than that and had friends,
friends from all.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Over the place. He played a lot of sports, very athletic.
Didn't get that from me.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I was about to say, he got that. He got
the brains from me, He got.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The friend friends with everybody had.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But yeah, he's uh, he's friends to everybody, and he
was a connector and just he lived every day to
the absolute fullest. I mean it was just but but
he was an amazing, amazing young man and he hated the music.
I liked. I mean, he likes all that rap stuff.
(15:16):
It's just makes my head hurt to this day. But uh,
but I mean the thing about it is, uh yeah,
he would never I mean my wife at first like
why are you to have a concert and why are
they all the nineties bands from your college days.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I'm like, well, first of all, those are most fun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Days of my life.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
And it's second of all, it's it's not really about
what type of music he liked. It was like it
was about bringing people together, which is what he did.
And you know, music to me makes the girl world
go around.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Well yeah, the first the first one was Jupiter Coyote.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Oh my gosh, thanks to your help.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
That was amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
That was so much fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Uh, maybe a little too much fun. If you ask something,
no one's gonna be publicly shamed. But I know who
you are, and you know who you are. But I
won't we won't go there.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I might be looking in the mirror, Trent.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Uh So I will say, though, brick you anytime your
name gets turned around in the community of Greater Charlotte. Uh,
you're a connector and you're you live you live life
to the fullest center. You always got a smile on
your face. So, uh you've got to I think Brian
(16:36):
got that from you. Man.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Man, We'll thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I mean, you're it's.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Just you got to yep.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, well let's be clear. He got the athletic ability
from your wife. Let's just make that do I'm just
joking me, But I second with Trent. With Trent said,
every bis your time I hear your name, it's always
in positive, positive light.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
So uh so, so what is the mission of live
like Brian?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
So what we want to do is and what we've
been doing is getting helping young children just enhance their
life through athletics and education. So we've done many things
for like we provide a scholarship for Charlotte Catholic student
(17:23):
each year.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
We South Park rec club football team.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
They needed uniforms after COVID, so we provide the uniforms
for all their teams. West Charlotte needed new uniforms after COVID.
We provide uniforms for them.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
We're just what we try to do.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's more of a grassroots organization, but ultimately just wanting
to help as much as we can for others. One
fun thing we do is we used to and we
still do is work with West Bovard Ministry bar Noon
and we thing about Bryant is he loved sports. He
(18:11):
always had a jersey and on. I mean he had
all these jerseys and didn't matter which team he was like,
whoever's winning. You'd have drove me crazy because I'm a
big tar Hill and I'm loyal. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
He was a vibrant young man. And I got kids.
They you know, they had on their my home's jersey
for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
They push buttons.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
But every year we we do over Christmas, we do
a jersey drive and we have people donate their new
jersey of whatever sport, doesn't matter and who and we
provide those two uh two kids so they can open
them up at Christmas. And that's just you know, that's
(19:00):
just live like Bryant. He just wants to help and
that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I knew y'all did that. We support Bart. He's been
on our show a couple of times. He's full of life,
a man on a mission to put smiles and absolutely
and get it going as Bart Noon. But uh, I
think that is so cool. I have I have seen
y'all's donation of the jerseys and helping out. That's so fun.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, it's great, you know, just just seeing people light
up and he I mean, it's just just happiness. And
that's what we want, is just to make others feel happy.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Well, God bless you and your wife and and your
family and and I know it takes a team. You know,
it's not just you or y'all, it's just everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And uh and y'all, I mean, y'all are y'all been
a sponsor from day one, which is is just.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Amazing and we're just so so thankful.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, you know, we've had Little League sponsorships for over
fifty sixty years with Munch Championships. We've hung banners where
we love, we love, we love to make the Wish Foundation,
I love West Bulevard Ministries. Really the principle of us
polishing our brand and our network and our diamond is
(20:22):
to help kids and give back the kids. So uh,
it fits the bill perfectly. And frankly, if you don't
bring them up right, the world is going to go
to craft. So we got to keep bringing happiness and
positivity and opportunities. It is so wonderful to see uh
bringing a smile to these kids' face and hopefully they
(20:43):
can go smile share their smile with somebody else or joy.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And you had mentioned bart Noon and how special of
a person he is. This memory just came to mind, Trent,
and I always did. I'm gonna make him feel good first, Trent,
I always do the south and shuffle that Ron scuffa
and and a bunch of fas in the South end
do and it's to benefit West Bull Ofvard Ministries. And
Trent tell them who normally wins you, I.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Do not win.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It's so arrogant.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Trent can come in with like you know, being up
playing cards until two in the morning and beat me
by six minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But anyways, when we train, but yeah, you're in good shape.
I'm not I'm not knocking that.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But but what was so cool about you talking about
kids is bart Is is such a out just a loud, boisterous,
fun guy. We're just kind of sitting there hanging out,
and they do a one mile run before the five k,
which is what I should probably do, to be honest
with you, and this young young probably I say, freshman
in high school, comes above the hill and Bart sees
him and He sprints out to the finish line and
(21:43):
starts screaming at this kid. Come on, Ashton, come on,
you got this, You got this faster, faster, and this
kid just I mean, you could just see the amount
of respect you have for bart uh.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And this is what he does every day, every.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Day, every day.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You guys see it, probably more firsthand than I do.
But that just is a great example of what you're
supporting and what what anybody who's listening can come help
support live like Brian and the money is going to
a great spot.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And you also support a bunch of other charities that
are that are also amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I know Kendermoren is one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yes, and uh and he said South South Park Athletics
and some of the Christian schools or Catholic schools as well.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Scholarship right scholar.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Scholar sorry no, Yeah, and it's holy trendy And we
uh for selling p t A and just uh, just
wherever we we can and whatever we will make a difference.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And I know Kindermoorn's mourns amazing, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
We we we we have obviously Corey and uh Corey
Shanks and you know their their son Max has a
similar similar story live life to the Max is there
is there charity.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And I know Kendramoren.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You you might not know this, but I uh, you
invited me to play in a Kindermoorren golf tournament, which
which we won, by the way, not yes, we did
not trying to say thing one like one golf tournament.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That was it. You know, you know it comes to
my pistol whipping.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Uh, that's a good, good way to put it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Hold on you have your We did not cheat, uh never,
but I didn't say cheat. That's a pistol whipping.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
One of the gifts was that kendermoorn yetti uh Tumblr,
and I put it in my drawer and I forgot
I had it up there, and we were kind of
cleaning out the drawer a couple of weeks ago before
you reached out and I found that kindermore. I was like,
holy smooks, I can't believe I never used this and
gave it to Corey.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And so it reminded me of you.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And then you reached out very shortly thereafter to talk
about this Blue Dog's concert.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's just funny how the world works.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
It does and Corey and I mean and jazz or
just golly.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I mean, it's Kendermorn.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Really is where it's the they help grieving families, uh
and kids and just come together and it's we're part
of a club that no one wants to be a
part of and it's but it's just they bring us together.
(24:19):
They have Kayla and Tanya and our counselors. Kayla is
the director, and.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They are just.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I don't know where we'd be without them. Just every
Wednesday night, man, I'm I mean, I've been going to
a little over two years now, and we've got our
folks and our our tight neck groups and just all
love each other and just just there.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
It's just it's it's great.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well you uh and on their website, I think you
you you are are part of the video that sort
of promotes uh Kindermoor and which which I thought you
did a really nice job and that I know that's
not easy to do our can I don't know that,
but I can imagine that was tough.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah it was, it is, but it isn't. I mean,
I love I love talking about Bryant.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Just because it makes it just makes things easier to.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Talk about them, and and any chance and to talk
about kennermore, any chance to to do that, can't shut
me up.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And furthermore, yeah, I don't don't wanna be pompousing that
like I know something that I don't know. But but
we're all about polishing our brand diamond and you're you're
doing the best with what you have, and you trying
to make life better in this world better and through Bryant,
and at the same time you can uplift Brian is
(25:45):
so wonderful to see. It really is. And you know,
I think I think we were talking about it. Don't
don't beg for rain and and complain about the mud.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Right, It's it's so true.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's just and it's our our son. Simmons is just
they he's two years younger to the day they're both.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
July twenty ninth, that's my wife's birthday.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Ye crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, it's just so it's a bittersweet day.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
But just to see Simmons, and I mean he looked
up to Bryant, I mean that was his his his buddy,
and just to just to see the how how Simmons
has grown.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
He's wrestling now, which of you.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I'm like going to my first wrestling match to see him,
and I'm like ready to see Rick Flair start screaming
or rock and roll Express And it's not.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's nothing like that, Like where's the figure for It's
just I still know how to get points.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I have no clue.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
But he ended up vision second, it is in the
conference that's great championships or whatever. So I mean it's
just really really neat and it's just but it's it's
a great everything Live like Bryant has been amazing just
to help people and just to keep keep keep his
(27:12):
legacy going.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well, how can people uh you know they're gonna listen
to this podcast for years, how can they make donations
or or where can they look up live like Bryant too.
I mean, I know we're talking about this concert that's
coming up, but you always got stuff and you're gonna
keep the legacy going.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah, just uh just go to the website live like
Bryant dot com. Hillary over at Rathbone built a fantastic
Website's wonderful. She's just a great and just go there
and there's a support us and there's a donate but
also gives you information about Bryant and live pictures, just
(27:53):
seeing how he's got a lot of buddies that still still.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Talk to him.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean, it's it's that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
So it's neat.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The whole story is on there and just but you
can donate there or buy tickets Blue Dogs, Bobby Helk
and Hank Fudge and it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I'm pumped. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
So we're recording this show in early twenty twenty five.
Uh you you you you do home mortgages for a living, right,
mortgages are high relative to the last life. No, so
tell us a little bit about the status of that world.
(28:39):
You let's show the part of your life, right it.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Is, and it's uh, you know, it's it's hard to
know exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I wasn't asking for that, you know, most people are.
It's where the rate's gonna.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Be next week or in six months.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
It's the weather man, right exactly, But I have to
be right. Yeah, but it's they don't forget it for
thirty years.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Exactly, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Everybody's asking what the thirty year fixed rate is. But
I'm still haven't met anybody that's still on their original
mortgage that's in like year twenty. I mean, everybody refinances,
whether it's to.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Get cash out or whether it's to to.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Decrease their payment or whatever. But it's it's I don't
know if anybody's gonna be refinancing after three years ago
when their rates were in.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
The twos crazy, But it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
But I don't think we'll ever be.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I mean, there's a big problem with the country if
we get down to the twoes again. But I do
think just it's gonna be. It's gonna be some time.
But do you think they're gonna get lower? Might might
have a five handle in front of it, but the
this year, but it's it's hard to know.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, you know, I graduated Chaphool about the same age
in two thousand and bought my first house there right
after that a little bit, and I think my first
mortgage was seven and a quarter and I thought that
was wonderful. I thought I had robbed a bank. To
be franklin with you, and historically, growing up with a
(30:25):
father who started his business career in the seventies and
through the eighties, he had always beat in my head
where mortgages were going to be commercial mortgages and residential,
and uh, that was historically about moderate lower moderate from
what I knew knew in my period of life. And
it's all relative to what you know. So somebody that's
(30:47):
just grown up in the last few years, they're low.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, where what's And it's really I always tell them,
I mean with mortgages, it's we qualify and all mortgage
companies this qualify as if you don't have taxes taken
out of your paycheck moth like, we qualify on grace
gross income. So I always try to say, let's let's
not start with the rate. Let's start with what you're
used to paying and where you and then because you're
(31:13):
probably gonna be able to afford a lot more than
than you should be or you really want to be.
So that's just uh, but just I've recently joined Huntington Bank,
which is a national bank, which is coming into Charlotte
like Gangbusters, and it's just it's been amazing and just
kind of.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Learning.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
You know, mortgage it's never the same, it's every day
is different, but ultimately you're helping people get into their house.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Well, give yourself a plug on your business side and
then once again, uh give give live like live like
Brian and plug as well.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, tell us where to donate, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, absolutely, Just go to the website live like Bryant
dot com and there's a tie up top support here,
support us and there's a place to donate there where
you can write.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Jack and there's an address.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
But but yeah, it's all there, and it's I would
love to and just if you have questions, please call me.
I'm always happy to talk and talk three things and
go from there.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Great. Well, thank you, Brick, it's so nice to see you.
I have a couple of trophies in my truck that
you need to say. The bat might be broken off,
the little plastic bat and the and the and the
gold coating might not have been really gold on the plastic.
But uh, it's been so fun to choke and catch
up with you and tell Bob I said hello, oh
(32:47):
my god, And uh, go do the Golden rule today.
If this show doesn't talk about the Golden Rule, treat
others the way you want to be treated when it
in the sudden and it's not always that easy to do,
do it and carry a smile around on your face,
because you don't know how much a smile on your
(33:08):
face affects others. To do that, have a wonderful day,
and thanks for listening at home with Ruby
Welcome to the at Home with Roby Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm Patrick mcaac from Roby Commercial and Services along with
Trent Hayson from the Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
We're your hosts.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're not a show anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We're not I don't know what we are.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Every episode, I'm gonna give you a hard time about
some some nuance of your intro.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Great.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean, I'm gonna keep you bobbing it. We always
say it Roby and in life, and I tell my
kids it's a game of hills and toes. It is
you want to keep others on their hills and you
on your toes. Uh, in a good way. It's called proactivity. Agreed.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now, I liked that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I was trying to come up with, like a funny
way to make fun of Chapel Hill because of being
on your heels. But I'm stumped. I got nothing. I
got nothing. Maybe I throw a Tiger Paul at you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I saw I saw a sweatshirt last night at Ford's
basketball and came at the rect Center in Bellmont and said, uh,
tar Bill for Bill Belichick. I that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Bill, But y'all mean Bill to Belichick. It was a hoodie.
It was a hoodie.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I guess his girlfriend wanted to go to graduate school.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
What's going on with my man? Has got a going
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm not talking smack, just I'm a little scared. Honestly.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You can say what you want to say, but you
can't hate a man. He's got a a nice uh partner.
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, I'm hearing you. I'm here.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You're not hearing me come out of you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But hey, I want to say something.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You're wearing a hat and I'm wearing a hat, and
I we're gonna tee up our guess Brick mcdermot's gonna
tell us about our hat.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Hope a little bit, because.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
He's got some some really neat, neat stuff coming up
that we want we want to promote.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We're gonna promote Brick.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Brick is the best, the best guy, a super dude.
He is a mortgage guy in town. If you want
to know about real estate, any of the things, you
just caught this guy right, which.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Is great because it's a it's a hot story these days.
Where's it going with Brick? When in the rates coming down? Brick,
He's why how come I hit that baseball at you
and it bounced off your arm brick.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We played Little League baseball during the same night. Was
in nineteen sixties, he was, he was he was the Orioles.
It was the nineties, late eighties, early nineties. He was
the Orioles. We were the Roby's at Andrew Roby. They
(02:38):
Bobby Bob Holkom was your coach, right, Okay, I do
remember that. That's how vividly I remember our nemesis. We
were rivals. Actually, they were really good and we were
pretty good. So back in the day we had a
lot of fun. I used to ride around and Uh
and my uncle's pickup truck all all down Park Road
and Godfather's Pizza. I think we used to go to
(03:01):
and and be about fifteen kids in the back of
a pickup truck bed going that's fifty five miles an
hour going Roby Roby, not holding on anything. I mean,
how illegal is that? Hold on? Hold on?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I got I have to I have to ask a
question because you brought it up. Was it the blue
f one fifty? It was the two tone blue, two
tone blue? Okay, Well, he had a lot of racks.
We had something to hold on to us.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He totally filled there. He's big time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So one of our you know, we're celebrating seventy five
years in business this year. We are companies. Our marketing team,
which is so cool, are putting out fun history facts
every week and we review them in our EOS meetings. Okay,
so every US media has a you know, the fun
factor or history I'm sure I'm getting the name of
it wrong, but historical fact. And one of them was
Angie Lower created uh changed the logo to red. The
(03:51):
color No, Dad changed the color to red. She changed
the logo. So I cleared that up a couple of times.
I want you to tell the story again about why
it went to red and it had something to do.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I just started. I'm just hushing up because all the
stories are not exactly accurate. But you know, you know
it isn't all rosy, but the rose is beautiful, right.
You just gotta sometimes shut up, all right and sit
on your hands. It wasn't fifty four years ago, it
was fifty two years ago. It wasn't nineteen ninety three.
(04:23):
It was nineteen ninety one. I mean, and I got
I have factual age dates grades I was in when
I remember this stuff. That's how I remember stuff. But uh,
my dad always was the Ford guy. My brother the
other day at our town hall said we mostly had Fords.
That's incorrect because my granddad and my uncle don I mean,
(04:44):
we only had like three or four trucks at the time.
They were Chevy guys forever, so there was not I
mean two thirds of the fleet was Chevy back then.
When I was a kid, I think we had a
dump truck and Ken Laney had a truck. Well, but
uh dad was a Ford guy and he was the boss.
(05:05):
And in nineteen ninety six it was really nineteen ninety five,
but the nineteen ninety six model of the F one truck,
they changed the body styles when they first time they
ever went a little less square on the front, hood
the nose, and uh I remember this because I was
a rising senior in high school. My dad went to
(05:28):
get get a new pickup and he said, I want
the blue pickup that I have and they said, we, sir,
we stopped making that color, that two tone blue. And
he said, huh. He said, dang, I need this pickup
truck on the one I want to dude, And he said, well,
do you have red and they said, yeah, we have red.
(05:48):
He said, good, they'll never stop making red. No way,
that's why our colors are red brick. And then uh,
no it is red. Actually that that was too had
gray at the bottom in that old f one fifty style.
But uh and then she she designed a white square
(06:09):
with Andrew Roby. So it's really our first logo because
before that it was just writing Andrew Ruby General Contracting
Services and our phone number and all that. I tell
you a design thing. When we redesigned our logo in
about two thousand and five, because we were doing a
website and we redesigned it. Gary Hickson came in and
(06:31):
gave us some options for our logo. We hated them
all and go and my dad and my uncle and
my I think my granddad had was passed. They said
we got to have the phone number on there. And
he said, do they have the phone number on the
swoosh sign for Nike? And they're like huh. And he said,
(06:52):
if people know your brand, they'll look you up. And
we're like how He's like the internet idiots to see
called DSL. It just came out.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's amazing. Oh no, we weren't even we weren't even
dialing up. Then I went to college in four and
we had the the DSL is a high speed internet.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We thought we'd hit gold.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Reagan said the other day when we were in the car,
she was talking about her third grade teacher was trying
to explain the cloud the Internet and said, it's like
a cloud around the earth. It. She was in the
third grade. So, uh that was like nineteen ninety one. Yeah, okay,
(07:32):
and how I was like, man, I was, I was
living on her third grade teacher was on top of it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We got our first school teacher, brick.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We got our first computer in nineteen ninety five, ninety
five or ninety six. Family, Yeah, I remember it was
it was there was so many boxes. They covered it
with the king size comforter and like I was like,
what's Saturday there?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Like, don't don't look. We got it for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Was it an acer?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't even remember which brand it was. But I
actually broke it. I crashed it and I had had
to work my parents.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Maybe you know what does that? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I think there was a virus fact that I'm not
sure too many words, but uh yeah, I mean I
had to work. I had to work to all Christmas
break at chick fil A to buy a new computer.
That's all the money I made went to buy it.
I probably wasn't even covering the whole thing. But yeah,
that was no good.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You really did.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it was fifteen.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Back in here out forty hour weeks at fifteen. We're
not as hard on our kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think my mom was the one that made me
do that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now my dad, now that I don't make them pay
for stuff they break and buy stuff for them, We're
going in the opposite direction, with the opposite craziness. Gracious
singing waffle fries, baby waffle fries. Did you eat something
you got half price?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was a pretty good deal. Pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Did you like the fried chicken sandwich Chick fil a? Sound?
It was?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's where he learned a marinade and pickle juice.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's why Reagan's never liked that picker sandwich. I mean
that chickensz.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I could eat that every day. Uh, well, Trent, we
got prittick. We talked a little about him before. I'm
excited to hear what he's got to say. Uh, we're
obviously wearing to Live.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Did you bring your championship door of Little League trophy?
Sh I know you have it on your on your
in your master bedroom.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
If you want to come walking in, if you want
to come walking in with that thing. Oh my gosh,
would have been next level.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm so excited, Uh Brick, such a good person. I'm
excited to promote uh Live. Like Bryant, I got my
hat on, got a fundraiser coming up that we're supporting.
I think got a going on man. So plus he's
in the mortgage business. We're gonna beat on his head
because we've got high rates coming down. They coming down.
(09:51):
Here we go. You're listening to at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And don't forget.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Rugby Services is your one stop source for all your
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and get it all done by one. Roby servicesnow dot com.
That's Roby Services now dot com. We're back. Welcome back
to the at Home with Roby Show. I'm Patrick MCCASAC
for Roby Commercial and Services, a lumtory and from the
Roby family of companies.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Trent is killing me on my intros.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Here's a little it's a little different that we're that
we're podcasting versus Uh, you.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Must have some head trash because I haven't said a
word since we came back. We're back. We're back.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, and we got brick. We're back with Break.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We're back with Brick. That sounds that sounds pretty good.
I hear you. I got one question for you, Break.
When you played Dealworth a Little league? Where did you
grow up? What road?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Doorth Road?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Was? Dilworth Road? West? Got it? Okay, now I got you.
I know where you're at. I grew up on quote
Rutledge Avenue because that's where my granddad lives, and I
put that address into play door little so you could
you could be. I got it and that worked. Not
a shame because I wanted to play for the rugby team.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, clearly he had to play for the Roman.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Uh. I wouldn't think that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I wouldn't think that. For rec league baseball, you have
to live in a certain territory. It's not like school.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I definitely was that way.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
UH when I grew up as well, I would being
at the old East Side uh a little league and
then into East Kyle.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
You know what I thought of think think about it?
East side people.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Kid, you didn't you didn't know this? I might you
might want to reconsider my employment. Uh uh that I
that I grew up playing east Side, Yeah, east Side,
little lea man.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It was last last show's guest Chris Hobart, who's really
cool guy was from California. We just hired a fella
a couple of weeks ago, and yeah, to run our
Ashville division. He was born in California. So we come
on with bringing them along. They coming to the East
coast east Side?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Do you think they knew each other there because they're
booth from California? Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That's not what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'll just care a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Six degrees of separation, right, Brick, that's right. How you been, buddy.
I'm doing good, good, doing good. It's nice to see you. Man.
Got me a new brin.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And this is this is Brick's third time being with us,
two times on the on the former radio show and
the obviously first time on the podcast. And Brick hit
me up and was, what's they're doing. They're doing a
fundraiser for his uh his nonprofit live like Brian.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Right, We've got I mean, it's our biggest fundraiser of
the year, and it's gonna be at the Visual aite.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
We have a concert.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
My favorite band from I mean geez from college days,
the Blue Dogs.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh really, oh yeah, the Blue Doll I hear you,
the Dolls.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And then Old Habits is opening and Old Habits ben
At Thompson and Craig Thompson are natives Charlotte, so they're
just the best musicians and it's gonna be so much fun.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
When is this March first week from Saturday, March first.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So so coming on up. Yeah yeah, and so you said,
now say the opening.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Band again, Old Habits and that's ben At Thompson and
Craig Thompson, their brothers, their brothers and their other brothers Botoms.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That was from w b T. Yeah, there you go
exactly that small world.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And then I didn't know Bennett was was a musician.
I've met him a couple of times, but that's that's awesome.
I can't wait to hear him.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He is him, and I mean they're just so talented.
I mean just uh just they're blue, grassy, old school,
just just fantastic.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So it's we've had this there.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I think there's our third year doing this and they've
opened each year, so they're just they're unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Wow, old habits.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I well, well, Brick, I don't know. I mean that
we didn't talk about this before the show. But tell
us tell us about what what lived like. Brian is, uh,
what the mission is. Tell us a little bit about
what you which is about your nonprofit.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, so we our son Bryant passed away tragically, uh
February twenty twenty two, so over three years ago. And
the thing about Bryant is he was he was a
friend to everyone. He had friends from all different schools.
He went to Catholic or the Holy trendy at the time,
(14:34):
but he went to Sellwyn earlier than that and had friends,
friends from all.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Over the place. He played a lot of sports, very athletic.
Didn't get that from me.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I was about to say, he got that. He got
the brains from me, He got.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The friend friends with everybody had.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But yeah, he's uh, he's friends to everybody, and he
was a connector and just he lived every day to
the absolute fullest. I mean it was just but but
he was an amazing, amazing young man and he hated the music.
I liked. I mean, he likes all that rap stuff.
(15:16):
It's just makes my head hurt to this day. But uh,
but I mean the thing about it is, uh yeah,
he would never I mean my wife at first like
why are you to have a concert and why are
they all the nineties bands from your college days.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I'm like, well, first of all, those are most fun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Days of my life.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
And it's second of all, it's it's not really about
what type of music he liked. It was like it
was about bringing people together, which is what he did.
And you know, music to me makes the girl world
go around.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Well yeah, the first the first one was Jupiter Coyote.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Oh my gosh, thanks to your help.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
That was amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
That was so much fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Uh, maybe a little too much fun. If you ask something,
no one's gonna be publicly shamed. But I know who
you are, and you know who you are. But I
won't we won't go there.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I might be looking in the mirror, Trent.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Uh So I will say, though, brick you anytime your
name gets turned around in the community of Greater Charlotte. Uh,
you're a connector and you're you live you live life
to the fullest center. You always got a smile on
your face. So, uh you've got to I think Brian
(16:36):
got that from you. Man.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Man, We'll thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I mean, you're it's.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Just you got to yep.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, well let's be clear. He got the athletic ability
from your wife. Let's just make that do I'm just
joking me, But I second with Trent. With Trent said,
every bis your time I hear your name, it's always
in positive, positive light.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
So uh so, so what is the mission of live
like Brian?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
So what we want to do is and what we've
been doing is getting helping young children just enhance their
life through athletics and education. So we've done many things
for like we provide a scholarship for Charlotte Catholic student
(17:23):
each year.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
We South Park rec club football team.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
They needed uniforms after COVID, so we provide the uniforms
for all their teams. West Charlotte needed new uniforms after COVID.
We provide uniforms for them.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
We're just what we try to do.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's more of a grassroots organization, but ultimately just wanting
to help as much as we can for others. One
fun thing we do is we used to and we
still do is work with West Bovard Ministry bar Noon
and we thing about Bryant is he loved sports. He
(18:11):
always had a jersey and on. I mean he had
all these jerseys and didn't matter which team he was like,
whoever's winning. You'd have drove me crazy because I'm a
big tar Hill and I'm loyal. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
He was a vibrant young man. And I got kids.
They you know, they had on their my home's jersey
for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
They push buttons.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
But every year we we do over Christmas, we do
a jersey drive and we have people donate their new
jersey of whatever sport, doesn't matter and who and we
provide those two uh two kids so they can open
them up at Christmas. And that's just you know, that's
(19:00):
just live like Bryant. He just wants to help and
that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I knew y'all did that. We support Bart. He's been
on our show a couple of times. He's full of life,
a man on a mission to put smiles and absolutely
and get it going as Bart Noon. But uh, I
think that is so cool. I have I have seen
y'all's donation of the jerseys and helping out. That's so fun.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, it's great, you know, just just seeing people light
up and he I mean, it's just just happiness. And
that's what we want, is just to make others feel happy.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Well, God bless you and your wife and and your
family and and I know it takes a team. You know,
it's not just you or y'all, it's just everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And uh and y'all, I mean, y'all are y'all been
a sponsor from day one, which is is just.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Amazing and we're just so so thankful.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, you know, we've had Little League sponsorships for over
fifty sixty years with Munch Championships. We've hung banners where
we love, we love, we love to make the Wish Foundation,
I love West Bulevard Ministries. Really the principle of us
polishing our brand and our network and our diamond is
(20:22):
to help kids and give back the kids. So uh,
it fits the bill perfectly. And frankly, if you don't
bring them up right, the world is going to go
to craft. So we got to keep bringing happiness and
positivity and opportunities. It is so wonderful to see uh
bringing a smile to these kids' face and hopefully they
(20:43):
can go smile share their smile with somebody else or joy.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And you had mentioned bart Noon and how special of
a person he is. This memory just came to mind, Trent,
and I always did. I'm gonna make him feel good first, Trent,
I always do the south and shuffle that Ron scuffa
and and a bunch of fas in the South end
do and it's to benefit West Bull Ofvard Ministries. And
Trent tell them who normally wins you, I.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Do not win.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It's so arrogant.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Trent can come in with like you know, being up
playing cards until two in the morning and beat me
by six minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But anyways, when we train, but yeah, you're in good shape.
I'm not I'm not knocking that.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But but what was so cool about you talking about
kids is bart Is is such a out just a loud, boisterous,
fun guy. We're just kind of sitting there hanging out,
and they do a one mile run before the five k,
which is what I should probably do, to be honest
with you, and this young young probably I say, freshman
in high school, comes above the hill and Bart sees
him and He sprints out to the finish line and
(21:43):
starts screaming at this kid. Come on, Ashton, come on,
you got this, You got this faster, faster, and this
kid just I mean, you could just see the amount
of respect you have for bart uh.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And this is what he does every day, every.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Day, every day.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You guys see it, probably more firsthand than I do.
But that just is a great example of what you're
supporting and what what anybody who's listening can come help
support live like Brian and the money is going to
a great spot.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And you also support a bunch of other charities that
are that are also amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I know Kendermoren is one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yes, and uh and he said South South Park Athletics
and some of the Christian schools or Catholic schools as well.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Scholarship right scholar.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Scholar sorry no, Yeah, and it's holy trendy And we
uh for selling p t A and just uh, just
wherever we we can and whatever we will make a difference.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And I know Kindermoorn's mourns amazing, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
We we we we have obviously Corey and uh Corey
Shanks and you know their their son Max has a
similar similar story live life to the Max is there
is there charity.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And I know Kendramoren.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You you might not know this, but I uh, you
invited me to play in a Kindermoorren golf tournament, which
which we won, by the way, not yes, we did
not trying to say thing one like one golf tournament.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That was it. You know, you know it comes to
my pistol whipping.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Uh, that's a good, good way to put it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Hold on you have your We did not cheat, uh never,
but I didn't say cheat. That's a pistol whipping.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
One of the gifts was that kendermoorn yetti uh Tumblr,
and I put it in my drawer and I forgot
I had it up there, and we were kind of
cleaning out the drawer a couple of weeks ago before
you reached out and I found that kindermore. I was like,
holy smooks, I can't believe I never used this and
gave it to Corey.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And so it reminded me of you.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And then you reached out very shortly thereafter to talk
about this Blue Dog's concert.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's just funny how the world works.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
It does and Corey and I mean and jazz or
just golly.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I mean, it's Kendermorn.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Really is where it's the they help grieving families, uh
and kids and just come together and it's we're part
of a club that no one wants to be a
part of and it's but it's just they bring us together.
(24:19):
They have Kayla and Tanya and our counselors. Kayla is
the director, and.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They are just.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I don't know where we'd be without them. Just every
Wednesday night, man, I'm I mean, I've been going to
a little over two years now, and we've got our
folks and our our tight neck groups and just all
love each other and just just there.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
It's just it's it's great.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well you uh and on their website, I think you
you you are are part of the video that sort
of promotes uh Kindermoor and which which I thought you
did a really nice job and that I know that's
not easy to do our can I don't know that,
but I can imagine that was tough.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah it was, it is, but it isn't. I mean,
I love I love talking about Bryant.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Just because it makes it just makes things easier to.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Talk about them, and and any chance and to talk
about kennermore, any chance to to do that, can't shut
me up.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And furthermore, yeah, I don't don't wanna be pompousing that
like I know something that I don't know. But but
we're all about polishing our brand diamond and you're you're
doing the best with what you have, and you trying
to make life better in this world better and through Bryant,
and at the same time you can uplift Brian is
(25:45):
so wonderful to see. It really is. And you know,
I think I think we were talking about it. Don't
don't beg for rain and and complain about the mud.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Right, It's it's so true.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's just and it's our our son. Simmons is just
they he's two years younger to the day they're both.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
July twenty ninth, that's my wife's birthday.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Ye crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, it's just so it's a bittersweet day.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
But just to see Simmons, and I mean he looked
up to Bryant, I mean that was his his his buddy,
and just to just to see the how how Simmons
has grown.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
He's wrestling now, which of you.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I'm like going to my first wrestling match to see him,
and I'm like ready to see Rick Flair start screaming
or rock and roll Express And it's not.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's nothing like that, Like where's the figure for It's
just I still know how to get points.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I have no clue.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
But he ended up vision second, it is in the
conference that's great championships or whatever. So I mean it's
just really really neat and it's just but it's it's
a great everything Live like Bryant has been amazing just
to help people and just to keep keep keep his
(27:12):
legacy going.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well, how can people uh you know they're gonna listen
to this podcast for years, how can they make donations
or or where can they look up live like Bryant too.
I mean, I know we're talking about this concert that's
coming up, but you always got stuff and you're gonna
keep the legacy going.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah, just uh just go to the website live like
Bryant dot com. Hillary over at Rathbone built a fantastic
Website's wonderful. She's just a great and just go there
and there's a support us and there's a donate but
also gives you information about Bryant and live pictures, just
(27:53):
seeing how he's got a lot of buddies that still still.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Talk to him.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean, it's it's that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
So it's neat.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The whole story is on there and just but you
can donate there or buy tickets Blue Dogs, Bobby Helk
and Hank Fudge and it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I'm pumped. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
So we're recording this show in early twenty twenty five.
Uh you you you you do home mortgages for a living, right,
mortgages are high relative to the last life. No, so
tell us a little bit about the status of that world.
(28:39):
You let's show the part of your life, right it.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Is, and it's uh, you know, it's it's hard to
know exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I wasn't asking for that, you know, most people are.
It's where the rate's gonna.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Be next week or in six months.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
It's the weather man, right exactly, But I have to
be right. Yeah, but it's they don't forget it for
thirty years.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Exactly, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Everybody's asking what the thirty year fixed rate is. But
I'm still haven't met anybody that's still on their original
mortgage that's in like year twenty. I mean, everybody refinances,
whether it's to.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Get cash out or whether it's to to.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Decrease their payment or whatever. But it's it's I don't
know if anybody's gonna be refinancing after three years ago
when their rates were in.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
The twos crazy, But it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
But I don't think we'll ever be.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I mean, there's a big problem with the country if
we get down to the twoes again. But I do
think just it's gonna be. It's gonna be some time.
But do you think they're gonna get lower? Might might
have a five handle in front of it, but the
this year, but it's it's hard to know.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, you know, I graduated Chaphool about the same age
in two thousand and bought my first house there right
after that a little bit, and I think my first
mortgage was seven and a quarter and I thought that
was wonderful. I thought I had robbed a bank. To
be franklin with you, and historically, growing up with a
(30:25):
father who started his business career in the seventies and
through the eighties, he had always beat in my head
where mortgages were going to be commercial mortgages and residential,
and uh, that was historically about moderate lower moderate from
what I knew knew in my period of life. And
it's all relative to what you know. So somebody that's
(30:47):
just grown up in the last few years, they're low.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, where what's And it's really I always tell them,
I mean with mortgages, it's we qualify and all mortgage
companies this qualify as if you don't have taxes taken
out of your paycheck moth like, we qualify on grace
gross income. So I always try to say, let's let's
not start with the rate. Let's start with what you're
used to paying and where you and then because you're
(31:13):
probably gonna be able to afford a lot more than
than you should be or you really want to be.
So that's just uh, but just I've recently joined Huntington Bank,
which is a national bank, which is coming into Charlotte
like Gangbusters, and it's just it's been amazing and just
kind of.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Learning.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
You know, mortgage it's never the same, it's every day
is different, but ultimately you're helping people get into their house.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Well, give yourself a plug on your business side and
then once again, uh give give live like live like
Brian and plug as well.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, tell us where to donate, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, absolutely, Just go to the website live like Bryant
dot com and there's a tie up top support here,
support us and there's a place to donate there where
you can write.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Jack and there's an address.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
But but yeah, it's all there, and it's I would
love to and just if you have questions, please call me.
I'm always happy to talk and talk three things and
go from there.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Great. Well, thank you, Brick, it's so nice to see you.
I have a couple of trophies in my truck that
you need to say. The bat might be broken off,
the little plastic bat and the and the and the
gold coating might not have been really gold on the plastic.
But uh, it's been so fun to choke and catch
up with you and tell Bob I said hello, oh
(32:47):
my god, And uh, go do the Golden rule today.
If this show doesn't talk about the Golden Rule, treat
others the way you want to be treated when it
in the sudden and it's not always that easy to do,
do it and carry a smile around on your face,
because you don't know how much a smile on your
(33:08):
face affects others. To do that, have a wonderful day,
and thanks for listening at home with Ruby
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