December 29, 2024 • 34 mins
Orthopedic surgeon, Grant Zarzour, joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. As a self-proclaimed “glorified carpenter”, Grant specializes in total knee and hip replacements. Grant shares details about growing up in Mobile, AL, his work as Chairman of the Board of Gulf Orthopedics, and his company, Sperity Health. Sperity Health is a preventative and longevity-focused health company that empowers individuals with the data and tools necessary to lead longer and healthier lives. With an emphasis on diet, exercise, and nutrition, Sperity Health aims to actively engage people in improving their overall health.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to that Home with Roby, Patrick McK
isaac Kimrobe. Commercial in Services on Trent hasen from the
Roby family of Companies. Ho ho ho. Christmas is over
now we're looking at New Year's I hope you all
had a merry Christmas and are looking forward to the
start to twenty twenty five, Trent, can you believe it?
Twenty twenty five. I think this might have been the
(00:27):
year where they admitted the hoverboard on Back to the
Future too. Now that was a while ago, twenty fifteen.
I know that was a long time ago. Yeah, that
was when we were stays.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I never really made it, No, not really if it
was on the Simpsons.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now, yeah, probably we need to find out what happens
in twenty twenty five on the Simpsons. I'm sure something
goes down.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
They said they said the Simpsons predicted Donald Trump, me
and the President.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I've never really done my research. They do a lot
of arbitrary. Yeah, they're like, here's a picture of Donald
Trump on the Simpsons and it's like, see he's president.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, they all say they had the iPhone was invented
on the Simpsons. Have you seen that?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I have?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, that would they do predict a lie? But they've
been around for thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You may you make nine million bad calls a couple
of them pan asa, Right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, there's a whole there's a whole like YouTube channel
that it's addicted it uti.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
That's you know, I'm an optimist and I know you're
rolling into the new year after Chris post Christmas, post
through the holidays.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Uh not everybody celebrates Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
We do in my family. But I'm an optimist. Uh so,
I'm always looking.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
At the glass half full.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But you got these negative naysayers talking about the what's
gonna happen in twenty twenty five and this and that,
and they're always negative. Will eventually they get some things right?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Y two K.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You never get in trouble for being negative and getting
it wrong right because something good happen. But if it,
if it hits, then you're like nostrodamus or something.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And no, we know you're not.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You just walk around negative. Come on, man, everybody should
happy and optimistic. I agree with you, but yeah, we're
in between. I mean, this is a sort of an
interesting time of the year. I think people get the
chance to reflect on the year before and talk about
what they're gonna do in the next year, how many
pounds are gonna lose, all the different things are gonna start,
and most people don't make it past the first month.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I gained a little couple of pounds there for Thanksgiving.
I hadn't really weighed myself during the Christmas season yet.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, but I.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Did, And then I went back.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I recorded every I mean sometimes a couple of days
in a row, and sometimes I skip.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
A couple of weeks. But I got a scale that
ties into an out.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Renfo rent it's called weddings or something like Reagan Hood
gave me to you know whoa anyway, it will feel bushy.
Our buddy to know is a legion. Bruin showed me
on one day we were golfing, all like goodness, gracious,
tracks all your stuck your all your measures and numbers,
and he says, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You got it, just get it. Tell you why.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So anyway, it's just a simple scale, but I get
to kind of track my weight. But if I don't
do it at the same time every day and at
the same routine, my weight.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Will flush wate a couple pount three or four normal
to sized body.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think it's normal to do that. We talked about
those rings a couple of times on here don ring.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I gotta get the scales enough. The scale tells everything.
Just can't sleep on it. I don't know if it
measures your your you lay it under your bottom and
you just look.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I got aura one hundred and seventy two pounds.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I mean, I ask some buddies that if they stay
up kind of late, they'll send out look, look, or
tells me to take it easy today, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's how those are that we call those people lazy.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
God, there might be a reason that you take it easy.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Speaking of the happy New Year coming up, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Not buying into that. You got to bone up. You
and I were talking about uh A couple of weeks ago.
We had Iran and we started during COVID our drive
through yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So far Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And we get there at six forty five and they
start coming through at seven.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They drive through our shop building.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
We give them some biscuits, tell them we'd love them,
tell them thank you, tell them happy holidays. And you said, man,
I gotta, I gotta. I got a business party the
night before and I said me too.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You were like, whoa.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm like, we'll standing in the corner together.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You need you need to bone up?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, I think you Uh but there that I love
you were.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
There before me. You don't know what I was doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That is one of my favorite things we do every year.
The camaraderie. I think it's it's it's cool to see
our teams and their element driving through their I mean,
you get to have a chance to say hello.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
In an instance, you get to see who has a
clean truck, who's got.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
To get everybody's getting smart to that you're getting good
way to go. I didn't see any although you your
brother will point out the crack win and what's up?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We have your.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
They have to be tools to where we can earn
a living for our business and for our staff and
hopefully squeeze out eke out some profit.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But uh, they are.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We have a nice looking fleet and there's something to
be proud of. The brand looks good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You get to see the services trucks which are white
with the circle. Ye. You get to see the commercial
construction trucks which are black with the square, and you
get to see the Andrew Roby residential trucks which are
red with the triangle.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah a lot. I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And talking about clean trucks. I was talking to our
buddy Kobe Smith right after the drive through, and he said,
clean trucks I means ain't working.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, I don't. Come on.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He's like, if my carpet was cleaning my office, I'd
have a problem. I was like, I hear your Yeah,
you're in the land business more so there's a lot
more dirt and mud. I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Take your shoes off at the door, mister subcontractor. I
don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now, nothing belove for Kooby.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You can't kind of come hard on the man. Okay,
we got h give give him a man a setup.
Grant Tsarzer yeah uh Hailing from Alabama on my last
YPO Big three trip, we spent some time together and
sitting around at the lunch table with Jose Costs, a
dinner table with George George, some of our yeah, some
(06:24):
of our at home with Ruby guys talking about the
show and he's like, I'll come on the show. I'll
teach you something.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I was like, Okay, good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No, I'm kidding, but he's in the orthopedic business, he's
a business bouquet, and he's in the good health business.
He might it was a setup the order rings the
Renfo scale. We'll see what Grant has to say about
this when he comes on, uh when we return. Grant
(06:54):
Zarzar Helen from Alabama on the at Home with Roape.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Welcome back that Home with Ruby. Patrick mc isaac from
Ruby Commercial and Services, along with Trent Haston from the
Ruby family of Companies. If you missed the last tame
but go back check us out. You can find us
anywhere podcasts are found. You can also check us out
on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. Uh, Trent, I'm gonna let
you you t up our guests now as a friend
of yours. The familiar last name to those in Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, Grant Zarzer, Yeah hails from Alabama and actually three
or four years ago, uh three, two or three years
ago he was in Alabama leadership and I was in
uh North Carolina leadership.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, we interacted on some calls together.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Really didn't really didn't put two and two together, uh
until we until we fellowship in person on our last
Big three trip. Hey, Grant, how you doing buddy.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I'm doing great. Thank y'all for Patrick Trump for having me.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, we're glad to have you. Uh. He's a ball
of energy, passion.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh, I love it. And your brother is is familiar
to to those who he's famous here Charlotte local radio
Taylor who when I first met your brother was probably
twelve years ago at w F and Z, which is
I don't know if you know this or not, Granted,
is in the same building we're recording now. WBT and
and w F and Z are in the same building.
(08:22):
That's kind of a cool I've.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Been in there.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
He used to have me on his show. I would
be his medical experts for all sorts of sports injuries
and I'd come on and talk about Tiger Woods or
insert any other big injury and had to give everybody
an update. And uh so I've been in that building.
It's a great spot.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How fun is that? That's so cool?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, that's we're not This is not a sports show.
This is a how to.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
In westh Carolina and or Clemson.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
This is how out a jail show?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
How we do it?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Got plenty of times?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, well, uh well, Grant, why don't you tell us
so about you up bringing and where you come from.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Man, we'll start there and kind of walk tell your story.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Well, I tell you born and raised in Mobile, down
here in South Alabama on the water. You know, our
family six generations down in Mobile. So the joke down
here is u we were born under the azalea bush
and I uh have four brothers and one sister, and
so growing up in our house was always crazy, never
(09:28):
a dull moment. We played every sport in the front
yard every day after school, and somebody had to win,
somebody to lose. And but it was a whole lot
of fun and kind of enjoyed getting my education down
here and growing up. I spent a lot of time
working with my dad. My dad, I'm an orthopedic surgeon,
is my day job. I tell people, I'm a glorified carpenter.
(09:51):
And my first getting to use to orthopedics was my dad,
who was orthopedic surgeon as well. So I get to
spend a lot of time with him growing up. That
was fun.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
So so one question, why do you say you grew
up under the bush?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well Mobile as the home of the azalea trail where
all these azaleas bloom, see all these beautiful plants that
have these beautiful flowers on them. They bloom once or
twice a year, and so it used to be a
big deal still is where people will come down and
drive through. They're a plant unique to Mobile.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I did not know which we got azis in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well, I mean we are are just better.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I guess that's what he's trying to say.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We we tell people that we have two seasons of
the year down in Mobile. We have summer in January,
so our our warm climate is conducive to those those
azalea bushes.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh yeah. I grew up in Georgia outside of Atlanta,
and azaleas are prevalent there as well. And my mom
always reminds me that I could never say the word azaleas.
I call them azaleas. Anytime there's azalea, she has to
bring that story up.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Can I start pointing out all things you do wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, you're good at that. There's there's a long long list.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Reagan is like, leave the guy alone not doing it.
So what number in the in the five kids?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Were you? What order?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I'm two of six, So there's five boys and then
the girls.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Dang, six kids.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Wow, We tell people that my mom had an unfortunate
result with five strade boys and finally got what she
was looking for. And her baby girl.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is her and her baby girl is the sixth child.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wow, man, what do you think about that? Patrick?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's wild? That's it.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And you have four children? Am I right about that?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That's what tells me my wife is great? Uh. We
have four, nine, seven, five and three. So I tell you,
Santa Claus has been at the house to ask people
what they want for Christmas. And all the cousins were
over the other night, and it is an exciting time
in our house.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
How many how many total cousins are there? I mean,
if you've got that many siblings times that many kids,
that's that's a big crew. Huh.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
This past Saturday night, we had sixteen cousins in the house.
Oh my gosh, pajamas at six o'clock at night, you know,
getting ready to get on Santa's knee. And he came
by and brought the root off and everybody he got
on his place. So we had a lot of fun.
Those kids were hopped up on sugar though.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I tell you, well, you know I was a sugarhead,
and I'll then I kind of cut sugar out, and
then I had kids. I go to my buddy's house
and I'd see him take a Pixy six at a
head and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I said, not me.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And then yeah, right, I mean my son, my four
year old just had eight cavities. Oh yeah, that that
hurts the purse is what it hurts.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It does, but it does for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So yeah, so we we have had a lot of
sugar around our house. Actually, he's actually kind of.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Got got weaned off a little bit, my little not
its poor fella. But hopefully he'll get some big teeth
one day and they'll be all healed again.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
That's right. That's get another chance for those big teas.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So uh so you say you're a glorified carpenter.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well, you know, I go to work every day and
I use a saw, a hammer, I use a drill,
a screwdriver. I mean, I wish they'd let me wear
a tool belt to go to surgery, but I get
rid of arthritis. I do total needs and total hips.
I do about six hundred surgeries a year, wow, and
see six thousand patients in clinic a year. Lucky to
(13:44):
be busy in that regard, and so a lot of
my patients can relate when I tell them I'm glorified carpenter,
and uh, it makes it easy for understand what I do.
And I tell people that I'm like a radiator mechanic.
You bring me a hip or knee, I'm your guy.
But don't bring me a shoulder or an elbow. Then
it's like a fuel pump. I don't do those.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I was a setup.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I was telling Patrick before we told you, uh that
that you focus on what you know. You're hip and
your knee, and you're not You're not trying to be
a jack of all trades. I think that's a great
life lesson and business lesson.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I agree the world is becoming sub specialized, and the
more you can focus on your niche and be great
at it, then you kind of carve out your spot.
And I think that that gets more business. Uh your
I tell people our marketing plan is a happy patient
and to supply us to any business you take care
of the customer, They're gonna make sure they spread the
(14:43):
good news and get you busier than you can ever
hope to be.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So do you use a saws all.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You should see. Sometimes I'll joke and say, listen, it's
gonna be a tough one. I got to run the
home depot real quick and pick up a few extra
drill bits. And they look at me like, oh, he's
not really going to home depot, is he? But Uh,
we don't use the saws. All we have to use
you know, medical grade sterile equipment that's got to go
through the you know, all sorts of uh got to
be heated up and sterilized. So but it's not far
(15:14):
off from the saws. Off.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, we were talking before the show. Patrick said his
dad just had a knee replacement. My my mother in
law within the last six months had a knee replaced.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Seventy eight years old. It was it's hard to have
a dear friend.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Jeff LeMond, his wife, he's a good friend of mine.
His wife, Kate, works for us to go to our church.
He I told you about this when we were hanging
out Grant that he had a debacle and actually just
last week, uh got his new knee put in.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
So hopefully he's on the up and up.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That's street news.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well fingers crossed that he's on the right spot now.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, so uh you are the chairman of the board
of golf, golf or Orthopedics.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I say that correctly on the third try, is it
go forth?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Pedis? We have a group down here and then we
actually have a state wide group called the Southern Orthopedic
Alliance that I get to run as well, with forty
doctors across the state. So it's all about getting to
the right size to be able to have some strength.
When you talk to these insurance companies, that got to
be able to negotiate with them, and they respond to numbers.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I heard that.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wow, yeah, I never thought I never thought of that
leverage portion. And in orthopedics, are you only hips and knees.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I only do hips and knees, but I have partners
that do everything else or sports, and some people will
come in with their ACL or rotator cuff or all
sorts of different things, and so we get everybody to
the subspecialist and then then they do great.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right, Well, we're gonna go pay some bills.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Will you stick around? Grant got some more stuff to
talk about, all right? Listen to Grant Zarza on the
At Home with Therby show.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Welcome Back at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick Macaac and
Broby Commercial and Services on the Trent Hayson from the
Roby family of Companies. We are your hosts. If you
meant the last couple of segments, go back, check us out.
You can fit us anywhere. Podcasts are found Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn.
We are there, Trent, we got grants. Ours are having
some fun and.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
He TJ having me standing up flavling a good guitar guitar.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Arm twist guitar.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm not your typical air guitar connoisseur, but I just
got it, got it in my groove.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
A little bit hero at home. Grant got me going, man,
he's a guitar hero fan.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I mean, I'm disappointing.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
We you know, having Frank Lot on the show hailing
from Mobile and never talked about no dag on isaias.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I don't remember anybody referring themselves as a mobilion too.
That sounds cool, mobilliby. We've never had a mobi outcast
at Aliens. I love it all right, let's sell all right,
the kidning a rounds pretty much.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Let's grant. I want to sit here and take this stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It come out.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So what else you got down there? Mobile. That's you
proud of their grant?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Well, I tell you any native mobilion. I mean, it's
a miracle that I've gone this long without bringing up
that we're the home of Marti Gras. Everybody needs to
know that. Everybody thinks New Orleans is where it started,
it actually started a year earlier in Mobile, and nobody
cares about that.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
By the way, everybody knows where New.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Orleans has got it bigger than we do. But we
have the more family friendly size Marti Grass And I
tell you a little interesting tibbet down here. Each year,
our mayor writes a letter to the mayor of New
Orleans and says, we're going to allow y'all to have
Marti Graus this year. Since we're the founder, we decided
y'all to have it. And there's no evidence that New
(18:49):
Orleans even opens the letter. Okay, I'll just throw it away,
but it makes Mobile feel real good. From since seventeen
oh three, we've been having a big old party in
February or March of every year and it's almost year
round endeavor for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well do you think about that past?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's interesting, that's pretty good. Say they put it like,
I guess in the local paper that this letter has
been sent and maybe a copy. Is that kind of
how this works?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yes, I mean all of us Obile are quite proud
of that. We pick out our chests a little bit like, yeah,
we're gonna allow them. I guess we'll let them have it.
And uh yeah, no word back from New Orleans. Yes,
I even acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, so Charlotte has a similar a similar thing with
the Decoration of Independence. We claimed that that was written
here the mech deck initially and then play dry, so
we got something similar. I don't think we send a
letter though, you know about any letters?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But it's interesting. It's a cool story. But yeah, that's
that's our our historical claim. I guess here.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
But that's great anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He said, that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He's there an idiot, the mech deck.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The neck deck. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Hey, so you we were you were speaking to Charlotte.
You were talking about your brother, uh working here, and
you were a a call in guest at times for
radio show.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, I tell you, Taylor doesn't need my help anymore.
He's on serious XM and all these things. But there
was a time years ago when he was in Charlotte,
and he would go up to Chapel Hill and he
would do the pregame, a halftime in the postgame show
for North Carolina men's basketball. And I'm in the science
(20:23):
library in Mobile at the University of South Albmunta Medical School,
and I am you know, you had to study that
thirteen hours a day. I had to plan when to
go get gassed days in advance because I had to
outwork everybody. I didn't have this photographic memory, so I
had to just really get after. So he would he
would text me every now and again after when Coach
(20:44):
Starred he was there. They didn't win every game. So
sometimes at North Carolina lost, there'd be a call in
show with no callers, and so he would text me
the phone number and say call in now. And I
would say, Taylor, I didn't watch the game. I don't
know what I'm in the library. He said, now was
his response.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Now, So I.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Would walk out, press the button and call in. And
I had to be Joe from Raleigh. I can't be
Grant from Taylor's home town, you know, and so brother yeah,
and he'd be like, oh, look, we have a caller.
Joe from Raleigh. What do you think about the game
tonight and Tarhill struggles? And so I disguise my voice, Taylor,
(21:26):
I just got to tell you, I'm a long time
Tarhill fan. In my blood bleeds Tarhill blue. But I've
never seen anything so pathetic as a display on the
court tonight. And I don't think we're going to be
second in the triangle anymore, let alone, I think we're
going to be third behind Duke and NC State. I'll
hang up and listen, and he would send me a picture.
(21:47):
He would send me a picture of the phone lines
blowing up from people who disagreed with Joe from Raleigh,
North Carolina would be back again. And that whole time,
it took me about three minutes to get from the library,
go downstairs, make my call, and back up in the library,
back in the books.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You know, dang it, bro, I'm trying to learn how
to use the saws all in here.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Come on, I'm joking.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I wish you got to get through all the stuff
with biochemistry and all that stuff to get to the
saws all. So luckily I made it to the saws
all part. That's right, So it's not the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I was completely kidding.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But that's so funny because I was a senior at
Chapel Hill and Reagan was a freshman and she has
photographic memory. This My wife and uh and I would
go to the library, Davis's Library right by the student
union and just all night.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And she's like, why do you waste all that time
in the library? You know what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
She's like, you don't pull the page up and read
it in your head when you're on the test. I
don't understand what you're talking You can do that. Yeah, Wow,
isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I cannot do that either, so uh.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So yeah, so tell us about Brie and how you
met Bray.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Well, uh, Brin I both went to Georgia. So go
dogs for us.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We live in a oh he he probably picked that up.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
We love it, We love it. We need them barking.
We got a game uh January first, we gotta get
ready for that. We live in a state that's not
real conducive to being a Georgia fan. Obviously a lot
of bammers down here at My brothers were all big Alabamas.
My sister and my parents, my grandparents were best friends
of Bear Bryant. I'm an outcast, but uh you know,
(23:32):
we said, uh we a little text after last week
that there was breaking news Alabama's college football playoff spot
has been secured. It's called the couch and they didn't
I didn't like that down here, but uh Bri and
I both met at Georgia and we get to agree
on that. We met at a philanthropy event that that
I was putting on in Athens, and uh we wanted
(23:53):
all the presidents of the organizations of the to come
so that they would all, you know, be in on
our non of and support it. And uh Cappa Delta's
president couldn't come, so we said, we'll send an alternate
en up and comer, and so they sent this freshman,
uh Brie, and somebody sat her next to me, and
somebody said, oh, I'm sitting next to this great girl.
(24:14):
You're gonna love her. And you know, usually when people
set you up with somebody, not always work, doesn't always
work out, but Brie and I kind of hit it off,
and so I thought, well, I'm gonna ask her out
on a date and she said no, and uh, well,
what's very nice. And she turned me down the first
three times I asked her out. I was persistent, but
she had another boy's friend and so we had to
(24:36):
get rid of him, and we made some phone calls
sell a fame, and so finally, against her better judgment,
she said yes to a date. And uh so our
first date we went to the Masters h Wednesday practice
round and we had a fun first few dates. I
(24:57):
had to set the hook, as they say. And second
date we went to Jerry Seinfeld at the Fox Theater Atlanta. Yeah,
I had my license, so I flew us up to
the Kentucky Derby. So we did that. And our fourth
date was Vincent Barbara Dooley and me and Brie cooking
dinner for them at their house. I made shrimp and grass,
which is our little specialty. So that was a fun
(25:21):
first four dates. And she's been stuck with me for
the last twelve thirteen years now, I should know how
many years? Can We added that part out so she
didn't hear that.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Sure, we're not in that part of the trouble.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
But anyway, she's the best things ever happened to me.
That's that's for sure. And she practices law full time,
corporate defense. She runs a litigation department at their firm,
three hundred person firm. And she's much smarter than me,
and I'm certainly pretty lucky that she lets me stay
with her.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So when did you graduate from Georgia six six? And
what you said? She was a KD? What fraternity were
you in?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Beta Theta Pieta.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Beta Theata like a fish fish Let's go, man, what
a great story. So I was joking before we got
on the show that I told Reagan you were coming
on the show.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And she said, oh, that's cool. I thought you should
have Brea on the show. Uh, now you get that joke,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That's true, totally get it.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
You know, y'all get a bigger budget, maybe you can
handle her. I mean, I'll tell you she's next level.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I mean, I'm just ready to go on a date
with you. Yeah, Grant, I mean, we're we're gonna go, baby,
I mean after.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
It's gonna be tough to top. That was a great trip.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It was a great trip and our dinner was great
and I had a blast.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So, uh, we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Uh, We're gonna cut the commercial where you stick around.
I want to hear about your your health endeavor that
you're working on I'm here all right, Grant Tsarza. When
we return, you're listening to At Home with Roby.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Welcome back at Home with Roby. I'm patrickmc isaac from
Roby Commercial in Services on Trent Hason from the Roby
Family of Companies. We are your host. We're having a
ball in here. Come check us out on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram.
You can find us anywhere podcasts are found. Man, what
a what a fun time. I mean, you looked at
me and the break, You're like, good gracious. This guy
can tell some stories. Yeah, unbelievable. He seems like it's
(27:29):
a little more concise than I am when he's telling
the stories. I don't know, maybe me too. We can
maybe get some some tips after the show from mister Grant.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I love it. Yeah, get him up here. I want
to see where he's gonna take us.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, you talked about it before the break. You talked
about maybe a new business venture that that Grant was
of news.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The right termin that Grant talked about it. But you
were talking about some aura ring and I was talking
about the rim Fo.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Scale that I get all my my my numbers on.
I think I think we're good in the health department
ground about that.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, he said, yeah, he got us.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
You got I'll figure it out. I mean it takes
the notes from you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You do. I am a bastion of health. So what
so what you got cooking?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Because you said, hey, I might you know within in
twenty five, I'm gonna have I'm gonna be up into.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Carolina's man be up in the Charlotte region. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Tell you? This has been on my mind for years.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I started a longevity company called Sparity Health, and our
goal is to get people access to the best doctor
faster and get you access to labs and screenings and
imaging that tips the scales in your favor toward living
a longer, healthier life. And I have had some family
(28:53):
members who had trouble getting to the right doctor, and
I was in charge of trying to navigate that sess Specifically,
I mentioned my dad earlier, unfortunately, had he got a
brain tumor years ago, and we had just a really
tough time finding the right place to go and where
to get a diagnosis, and people said, oh, you can't
(29:15):
come for six months, and I had to end up
taking him through the emergency room to try to figure
things out. And I just thought to myself, Man, I'm
a doctor, and this is how the system really works.
As somebody's trying to be a consumer in healthcare, this
is awful. And so that was a big input, and
you know, I've had several others, and it turns out
(29:38):
that you know, forty one percent of us are going
to have cancer, cardiovascular disease is rampant, and all sorts
of other medical conditions. A lot of these things you
can prevent or mitigate. And we're in this world and
feede or Attia has kind of started this longevity talk.
He wrote a great book called Outlive that was number
one New York Times bestseller in a highly recommend it.
(30:01):
But he classifies today's medicine this medicine two point zero
or it's this reactive. We wait for the four alarm fire,
and we're trying to get to medicine three point oh,
which is preventative. And we want to we want to
diagnose stage one cancer instead of wait for stage four.
Stage one is a bad weekend. Stage four is a
(30:23):
much bigger problem. And so we take our members and
clients and we've got corporations that use it as a
wellness benefit for all our employees. We have individual members
that get all sorts of great amount of tests throughout
the year for them and their spouse and their kids.
And we're building, we're building the software that's real fun
to help kind of everybody keep an eye on all
(30:45):
their records and their test results. And so we put
people on a treadmill and tell them you get your
VO two max, which is I tell you it's a
twelve minute test. You get on this treadmill and you
walk for the first little bit and you know, Trent,
you could do that, and you're like seven minutes in
and you're like, I'm crushing this death. This ain't that hard.
(31:05):
People can play it. And then the inclient keeps going
up and the speed keeps going up, and by twelve
minutes you're pressing the emergency stop. But it tells you
how healthy your lungs are and the oxygen carrying capacity,
and that number is the single number that's most predictive
of how much longer you're going to live. Really wow,
(31:29):
v O two max. And so you know, we want
to equip people with that number, and then your goal
is to keep that number as high as you can
by Zone two exercise. This is kind of brisk walking.
And our goal just overall is gives people data on
themselves so that you know what's going on. I tell
people they know their wealth very well. They can tell
you they're four to one k their stocks, they're checking
(31:51):
account balance, they're saving the account balance. When you say
your what's your cholesterol, Tell me about your health, tell
me about your labs, they just throw their hands in
the air. So we gotta we gotta treat your health
just as important as your wealth, because, uh, the quality
of life is directly correlated with how much, how long
(32:12):
of a walk you can go on. Can you go
hiking with your kids? Can you pick up a grand
kid in the future and put a you know, a
bag in the overhead bend to fly somewhere. So, diet, exercise,
nutrition are the three pillars, and we help people keep
an eye on those pillars.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
So how can people look up the business well.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Sparityhealth dot com is the website. Sparity is s P
E R I t WI sparityhealth dot com and it's
got some good information on there. But I tell you
whether or not they look at us or anything else
that the goal is to get people engaged in their
own health and understand that there's a whole lot you
(32:54):
can do to really tip the scales in your favorite
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
No, it sounds great. Yeah, I mean it sounds.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Helt is a important or more important than your wealth.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What can you do?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well you think about it, do you?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I mean, who wants to trade spots with Warren Buffett?
He's got all the money in the world, but he
ain't got much time left. Ninety three. He could live
another ten years, you never know. His diet is Coca
cola and Hamburgers. He's the exception. Okay, that's not the
right diet.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
He is the exception and he's positive. But uh but right, Yeah,
he didn't. He didn't getting to go out and walk
around the city with his kids on the shoulders and
all that stuff like we did too.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So well, thank you for being here, Grant.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
It was so fun and I'm so excited to go
on our first date here.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
In a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Can I be the third wheel?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, Grant Zarza talking about orthopedics, talking about help Well,
what a show man telling stories.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Thanks for listening. Go do the Golden Rule. To day
treat others the way you want to be treated. Carrie Aus.
Smile around on your face,
Good morning, Welcome to that Home with Roby, Patrick McK
isaac Kimrobe. Commercial in Services on Trent hasen from the
Roby family of Companies. Ho ho ho. Christmas is over
now we're looking at New Year's I hope you all
had a merry Christmas and are looking forward to the
start to twenty twenty five, Trent, can you believe it?
Twenty twenty five. I think this might have been the
(00:27):
year where they admitted the hoverboard on Back to the
Future too. Now that was a while ago, twenty fifteen.
I know that was a long time ago. Yeah, that
was when we were stays.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I never really made it, No, not really if it
was on the Simpsons.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now, yeah, probably we need to find out what happens
in twenty twenty five on the Simpsons. I'm sure something
goes down.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
They said they said the Simpsons predicted Donald Trump, me
and the President.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I've never really done my research. They do a lot
of arbitrary. Yeah, they're like, here's a picture of Donald
Trump on the Simpsons and it's like, see he's president.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, they all say they had the iPhone was invented
on the Simpsons. Have you seen that?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I have?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, that would they do predict a lie? But they've
been around for thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You may you make nine million bad calls a couple
of them pan asa, Right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, there's a whole there's a whole like YouTube channel
that it's addicted it uti.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
That's you know, I'm an optimist and I know you're
rolling into the new year after Chris post Christmas, post
through the holidays.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Uh not everybody celebrates Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
We do in my family. But I'm an optimist. Uh so,
I'm always looking.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
At the glass half full.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But you got these negative naysayers talking about the what's
gonna happen in twenty twenty five and this and that,
and they're always negative. Will eventually they get some things right?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Y two K.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You never get in trouble for being negative and getting
it wrong right because something good happen. But if it,
if it hits, then you're like nostrodamus or something.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And no, we know you're not.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You just walk around negative. Come on, man, everybody should
happy and optimistic. I agree with you, but yeah, we're
in between. I mean, this is a sort of an
interesting time of the year. I think people get the
chance to reflect on the year before and talk about
what they're gonna do in the next year, how many
pounds are gonna lose, all the different things are gonna start,
and most people don't make it past the first month.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I gained a little couple of pounds there for Thanksgiving.
I hadn't really weighed myself during the Christmas season yet.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, but I.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Did, And then I went back.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I recorded every I mean sometimes a couple of days
in a row, and sometimes I skip.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
A couple of weeks. But I got a scale that
ties into an out.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Renfo rent it's called weddings or something like Reagan Hood
gave me to you know whoa anyway, it will feel bushy.
Our buddy to know is a legion. Bruin showed me
on one day we were golfing, all like goodness, gracious,
tracks all your stuck your all your measures and numbers,
and he says, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You got it, just get it. Tell you why.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So anyway, it's just a simple scale, but I get
to kind of track my weight. But if I don't
do it at the same time every day and at
the same routine, my weight.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Will flush wate a couple pount three or four normal
to sized body.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think it's normal to do that. We talked about
those rings a couple of times on here don ring.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I gotta get the scales enough. The scale tells everything.
Just can't sleep on it. I don't know if it
measures your your you lay it under your bottom and
you just look.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I got aura one hundred and seventy two pounds.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I mean, I ask some buddies that if they stay
up kind of late, they'll send out look, look, or
tells me to take it easy today, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's how those are that we call those people lazy.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
God, there might be a reason that you take it easy.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Speaking of the happy New Year coming up, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Not buying into that. You got to bone up. You
and I were talking about uh A couple of weeks ago.
We had Iran and we started during COVID our drive
through yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So far Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And we get there at six forty five and they
start coming through at seven.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They drive through our shop building.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
We give them some biscuits, tell them we'd love them,
tell them thank you, tell them happy holidays. And you said, man,
I gotta, I gotta. I got a business party the
night before and I said me too.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You were like, whoa.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm like, we'll standing in the corner together.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You need you need to bone up?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, I think you Uh but there that I love
you were.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
There before me. You don't know what I was doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That is one of my favorite things we do every year.
The camaraderie. I think it's it's it's cool to see
our teams and their element driving through their I mean,
you get to have a chance to say hello.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
In an instance, you get to see who has a
clean truck, who's got.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
To get everybody's getting smart to that you're getting good
way to go. I didn't see any although you your
brother will point out the crack win and what's up?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We have your.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
They have to be tools to where we can earn
a living for our business and for our staff and
hopefully squeeze out eke out some profit.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But uh, they are.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We have a nice looking fleet and there's something to
be proud of. The brand looks good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You get to see the services trucks which are white
with the circle. Ye. You get to see the commercial
construction trucks which are black with the square, and you
get to see the Andrew Roby residential trucks which are
red with the triangle.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah a lot. I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And talking about clean trucks. I was talking to our
buddy Kobe Smith right after the drive through, and he said,
clean trucks I means ain't working.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, I don't. Come on.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He's like, if my carpet was cleaning my office, I'd
have a problem. I was like, I hear your Yeah,
you're in the land business more so there's a lot
more dirt and mud. I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Take your shoes off at the door, mister subcontractor. I
don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now, nothing belove for Kooby.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You can't kind of come hard on the man. Okay,
we got h give give him a man a setup.
Grant Tsarzer yeah uh Hailing from Alabama on my last
YPO Big three trip, we spent some time together and
sitting around at the lunch table with Jose Costs, a
dinner table with George George, some of our yeah, some
(06:24):
of our at home with Ruby guys talking about the
show and he's like, I'll come on the show. I'll
teach you something.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I was like, Okay, good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No, I'm kidding, but he's in the orthopedic business, he's
a business bouquet, and he's in the good health business.
He might it was a setup the order rings the
Renfo scale. We'll see what Grant has to say about
this when he comes on, uh when we return. Grant
(06:54):
Zarzar Helen from Alabama on the at Home with Roape.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Welcome back that Home with Ruby. Patrick mc isaac from
Ruby Commercial and Services, along with Trent Haston from the
Ruby family of Companies. If you missed the last tame
but go back check us out. You can find us
anywhere podcasts are found. You can also check us out
on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. Uh, Trent, I'm gonna let
you you t up our guests now as a friend
of yours. The familiar last name to those in Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, Grant Zarzer, Yeah hails from Alabama and actually three
or four years ago, uh three, two or three years
ago he was in Alabama leadership and I was in
uh North Carolina leadership.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, we interacted on some calls together.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Really didn't really didn't put two and two together, uh
until we until we fellowship in person on our last
Big three trip. Hey, Grant, how you doing buddy.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I'm doing great. Thank y'all for Patrick Trump for having me.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, we're glad to have you. Uh. He's a ball
of energy, passion.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh, I love it. And your brother is is familiar
to to those who he's famous here Charlotte local radio
Taylor who when I first met your brother was probably
twelve years ago at w F and Z, which is
I don't know if you know this or not, Granted,
is in the same building we're recording now. WBT and
and w F and Z are in the same building.
(08:22):
That's kind of a cool I've.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Been in there.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
He used to have me on his show. I would
be his medical experts for all sorts of sports injuries
and I'd come on and talk about Tiger Woods or
insert any other big injury and had to give everybody
an update. And uh so I've been in that building.
It's a great spot.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How fun is that? That's so cool?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, that's we're not This is not a sports show.
This is a how to.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
In westh Carolina and or Clemson.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
This is how out a jail show?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
How we do it?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Got plenty of times?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, well, uh well, Grant, why don't you tell us
so about you up bringing and where you come from.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Man, we'll start there and kind of walk tell your story.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Well, I tell you born and raised in Mobile, down
here in South Alabama on the water. You know, our
family six generations down in Mobile. So the joke down
here is u we were born under the azalea bush
and I uh have four brothers and one sister, and
so growing up in our house was always crazy, never
(09:28):
a dull moment. We played every sport in the front
yard every day after school, and somebody had to win,
somebody to lose. And but it was a whole lot
of fun and kind of enjoyed getting my education down
here and growing up. I spent a lot of time
working with my dad. My dad, I'm an orthopedic surgeon,
is my day job. I tell people, I'm a glorified carpenter.
(09:51):
And my first getting to use to orthopedics was my dad,
who was orthopedic surgeon as well. So I get to
spend a lot of time with him growing up. That
was fun.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
So so one question, why do you say you grew
up under the bush?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well Mobile as the home of the azalea trail where
all these azaleas bloom, see all these beautiful plants that
have these beautiful flowers on them. They bloom once or
twice a year, and so it used to be a
big deal still is where people will come down and
drive through. They're a plant unique to Mobile.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I did not know which we got azis in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well, I mean we are are just better.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I guess that's what he's trying to say.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We we tell people that we have two seasons of
the year down in Mobile. We have summer in January,
so our our warm climate is conducive to those those
azalea bushes.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh yeah. I grew up in Georgia outside of Atlanta,
and azaleas are prevalent there as well. And my mom
always reminds me that I could never say the word azaleas.
I call them azaleas. Anytime there's azalea, she has to
bring that story up.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Can I start pointing out all things you do wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, you're good at that. There's there's a long long list.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Reagan is like, leave the guy alone not doing it.
So what number in the in the five kids?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Were you? What order?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I'm two of six, So there's five boys and then
the girls.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Dang, six kids.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Wow, We tell people that my mom had an unfortunate
result with five strade boys and finally got what she
was looking for. And her baby girl.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is her and her baby girl is the sixth child.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wow, man, what do you think about that? Patrick?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's wild? That's it.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And you have four children? Am I right about that?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That's what tells me my wife is great? Uh. We
have four, nine, seven, five and three. So I tell you,
Santa Claus has been at the house to ask people
what they want for Christmas. And all the cousins were
over the other night, and it is an exciting time
in our house.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
How many how many total cousins are there? I mean,
if you've got that many siblings times that many kids,
that's that's a big crew. Huh.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
This past Saturday night, we had sixteen cousins in the house.
Oh my gosh, pajamas at six o'clock at night, you know,
getting ready to get on Santa's knee. And he came
by and brought the root off and everybody he got
on his place. So we had a lot of fun.
Those kids were hopped up on sugar though.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I tell you, well, you know I was a sugarhead,
and I'll then I kind of cut sugar out, and
then I had kids. I go to my buddy's house
and I'd see him take a Pixy six at a
head and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I said, not me.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And then yeah, right, I mean my son, my four
year old just had eight cavities. Oh yeah, that that
hurts the purse is what it hurts.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It does, but it does for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So yeah, so we we have had a lot of
sugar around our house. Actually, he's actually kind of.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Got got weaned off a little bit, my little not
its poor fella. But hopefully he'll get some big teeth
one day and they'll be all healed again.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
That's right. That's get another chance for those big teas.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So uh so you say you're a glorified carpenter.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well, you know, I go to work every day and
I use a saw, a hammer, I use a drill,
a screwdriver. I mean, I wish they'd let me wear
a tool belt to go to surgery, but I get
rid of arthritis. I do total needs and total hips.
I do about six hundred surgeries a year, wow, and
see six thousand patients in clinic a year. Lucky to
(13:44):
be busy in that regard, and so a lot of
my patients can relate when I tell them I'm glorified carpenter,
and uh, it makes it easy for understand what I do.
And I tell people that I'm like a radiator mechanic.
You bring me a hip or knee, I'm your guy.
But don't bring me a shoulder or an elbow. Then
it's like a fuel pump. I don't do those.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I was a setup.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I was telling Patrick before we told you, uh that
that you focus on what you know. You're hip and
your knee, and you're not You're not trying to be
a jack of all trades. I think that's a great
life lesson and business lesson.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I agree the world is becoming sub specialized, and the
more you can focus on your niche and be great
at it, then you kind of carve out your spot.
And I think that that gets more business. Uh your
I tell people our marketing plan is a happy patient
and to supply us to any business you take care
of the customer, They're gonna make sure they spread the
(14:43):
good news and get you busier than you can ever
hope to be.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So do you use a saws all.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You should see. Sometimes I'll joke and say, listen, it's
gonna be a tough one. I got to run the
home depot real quick and pick up a few extra
drill bits. And they look at me like, oh, he's
not really going to home depot, is he? But Uh,
we don't use the saws. All we have to use
you know, medical grade sterile equipment that's got to go
through the you know, all sorts of uh got to
be heated up and sterilized. So but it's not far
(15:14):
off from the saws. Off.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, we were talking before the show. Patrick said his
dad just had a knee replacement. My my mother in
law within the last six months had a knee replaced.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Seventy eight years old. It was it's hard to have
a dear friend.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Jeff LeMond, his wife, he's a good friend of mine.
His wife, Kate, works for us to go to our church.
He I told you about this when we were hanging
out Grant that he had a debacle and actually just
last week, uh got his new knee put in.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
So hopefully he's on the up and up.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That's street news.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well fingers crossed that he's on the right spot now.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, so uh you are the chairman of the board
of golf, golf or Orthopedics.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I say that correctly on the third try, is it
go forth?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Pedis? We have a group down here and then we
actually have a state wide group called the Southern Orthopedic
Alliance that I get to run as well, with forty
doctors across the state. So it's all about getting to
the right size to be able to have some strength.
When you talk to these insurance companies, that got to
be able to negotiate with them, and they respond to numbers.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I heard that.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wow, yeah, I never thought I never thought of that
leverage portion. And in orthopedics, are you only hips and knees.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I only do hips and knees, but I have partners
that do everything else or sports, and some people will
come in with their ACL or rotator cuff or all
sorts of different things, and so we get everybody to
the subspecialist and then then they do great.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right, Well, we're gonna go pay some bills.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Will you stick around? Grant got some more stuff to
talk about, all right? Listen to Grant Zarza on the
At Home with Therby show.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Welcome Back at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick Macaac and
Broby Commercial and Services on the Trent Hayson from the
Roby family of Companies. We are your hosts. If you
meant the last couple of segments, go back, check us out.
You can fit us anywhere. Podcasts are found Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn.
We are there, Trent, we got grants. Ours are having
some fun and.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
He TJ having me standing up flavling a good guitar guitar.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Arm twist guitar.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm not your typical air guitar connoisseur, but I just
got it, got it in my groove.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
A little bit hero at home. Grant got me going, man,
he's a guitar hero fan.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I mean, I'm disappointing.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
We you know, having Frank Lot on the show hailing
from Mobile and never talked about no dag on isaias.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I don't remember anybody referring themselves as a mobilion too.
That sounds cool, mobilliby. We've never had a mobi outcast
at Aliens. I love it all right, let's sell all right,
the kidning a rounds pretty much.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Let's grant. I want to sit here and take this stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It come out.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So what else you got down there? Mobile. That's you
proud of their grant?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Well, I tell you any native mobilion. I mean, it's
a miracle that I've gone this long without bringing up
that we're the home of Marti Gras. Everybody needs to
know that. Everybody thinks New Orleans is where it started,
it actually started a year earlier in Mobile, and nobody
cares about that.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
By the way, everybody knows where New.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Orleans has got it bigger than we do. But we
have the more family friendly size Marti Grass And I
tell you a little interesting tibbet down here. Each year,
our mayor writes a letter to the mayor of New
Orleans and says, we're going to allow y'all to have
Marti Graus this year. Since we're the founder, we decided
y'all to have it. And there's no evidence that New
(18:49):
Orleans even opens the letter. Okay, I'll just throw it away,
but it makes Mobile feel real good. From since seventeen
oh three, we've been having a big old party in
February or March of every year and it's almost year
round endeavor for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well do you think about that past?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's interesting, that's pretty good. Say they put it like,
I guess in the local paper that this letter has
been sent and maybe a copy. Is that kind of
how this works?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yes, I mean all of us Obile are quite proud
of that. We pick out our chests a little bit like, yeah,
we're gonna allow them. I guess we'll let them have it.
And uh yeah, no word back from New Orleans. Yes,
I even acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, so Charlotte has a similar a similar thing with
the Decoration of Independence. We claimed that that was written
here the mech deck initially and then play dry, so
we got something similar. I don't think we send a
letter though, you know about any letters?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But it's interesting. It's a cool story. But yeah, that's
that's our our historical claim. I guess here.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
But that's great anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He said, that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He's there an idiot, the mech deck.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The neck deck. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Hey, so you we were you were speaking to Charlotte.
You were talking about your brother, uh working here, and
you were a a call in guest at times for
radio show.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, I tell you, Taylor doesn't need my help anymore.
He's on serious XM and all these things. But there
was a time years ago when he was in Charlotte,
and he would go up to Chapel Hill and he
would do the pregame, a halftime in the postgame show
for North Carolina men's basketball. And I'm in the science
(20:23):
library in Mobile at the University of South Albmunta Medical School,
and I am you know, you had to study that
thirteen hours a day. I had to plan when to
go get gassed days in advance because I had to
outwork everybody. I didn't have this photographic memory, so I
had to just really get after. So he would he
would text me every now and again after when Coach
(20:44):
Starred he was there. They didn't win every game. So
sometimes at North Carolina lost, there'd be a call in
show with no callers, and so he would text me
the phone number and say call in now. And I
would say, Taylor, I didn't watch the game. I don't
know what I'm in the library. He said, now was
his response.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Now, So I.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Would walk out, press the button and call in. And
I had to be Joe from Raleigh. I can't be
Grant from Taylor's home town, you know, and so brother yeah,
and he'd be like, oh, look, we have a caller.
Joe from Raleigh. What do you think about the game
tonight and Tarhill struggles? And so I disguise my voice, Taylor,
(21:26):
I just got to tell you, I'm a long time
Tarhill fan. In my blood bleeds Tarhill blue. But I've
never seen anything so pathetic as a display on the
court tonight. And I don't think we're going to be
second in the triangle anymore, let alone, I think we're
going to be third behind Duke and NC State. I'll
hang up and listen, and he would send me a picture.
(21:47):
He would send me a picture of the phone lines
blowing up from people who disagreed with Joe from Raleigh,
North Carolina would be back again. And that whole time,
it took me about three minutes to get from the library,
go downstairs, make my call, and back up in the library,
back in the books.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You know, dang it, bro, I'm trying to learn how
to use the saws all in here.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Come on, I'm joking.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I wish you got to get through all the stuff
with biochemistry and all that stuff to get to the
saws all. So luckily I made it to the saws
all part. That's right, So it's not the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I was completely kidding.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But that's so funny because I was a senior at
Chapel Hill and Reagan was a freshman and she has
photographic memory. This My wife and uh and I would
go to the library, Davis's Library right by the student
union and just all night.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And she's like, why do you waste all that time
in the library? You know what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
She's like, you don't pull the page up and read
it in your head when you're on the test. I
don't understand what you're talking You can do that. Yeah, Wow,
isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I cannot do that either, so uh.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So yeah, so tell us about Brie and how you
met Bray.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Well, uh, Brin I both went to Georgia. So go
dogs for us.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We live in a oh he he probably picked that up.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
We love it, We love it. We need them barking.
We got a game uh January first, we gotta get
ready for that. We live in a state that's not
real conducive to being a Georgia fan. Obviously a lot
of bammers down here at My brothers were all big Alabamas.
My sister and my parents, my grandparents were best friends
of Bear Bryant. I'm an outcast, but uh you know,
(23:32):
we said, uh we a little text after last week
that there was breaking news Alabama's college football playoff spot
has been secured. It's called the couch and they didn't
I didn't like that down here, but uh Bri and
I both met at Georgia and we get to agree
on that. We met at a philanthropy event that that
I was putting on in Athens, and uh we wanted
(23:53):
all the presidents of the organizations of the to come
so that they would all, you know, be in on
our non of and support it. And uh Cappa Delta's
president couldn't come, so we said, we'll send an alternate
en up and comer, and so they sent this freshman,
uh Brie, and somebody sat her next to me, and
somebody said, oh, I'm sitting next to this great girl.
(24:14):
You're gonna love her. And you know, usually when people
set you up with somebody, not always work, doesn't always
work out, but Brie and I kind of hit it off,
and so I thought, well, I'm gonna ask her out
on a date and she said no, and uh, well,
what's very nice. And she turned me down the first
three times I asked her out. I was persistent, but
she had another boy's friend and so we had to
(24:36):
get rid of him, and we made some phone calls
sell a fame, and so finally, against her better judgment,
she said yes to a date. And uh so our
first date we went to the Masters h Wednesday practice
round and we had a fun first few dates. I
(24:57):
had to set the hook, as they say. And second
date we went to Jerry Seinfeld at the Fox Theater Atlanta. Yeah,
I had my license, so I flew us up to
the Kentucky Derby. So we did that. And our fourth
date was Vincent Barbara Dooley and me and Brie cooking
dinner for them at their house. I made shrimp and grass,
which is our little specialty. So that was a fun
(25:21):
first four dates. And she's been stuck with me for
the last twelve thirteen years now, I should know how
many years? Can We added that part out so she
didn't hear that.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Sure, we're not in that part of the trouble.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
But anyway, she's the best things ever happened to me.
That's that's for sure. And she practices law full time,
corporate defense. She runs a litigation department at their firm,
three hundred person firm. And she's much smarter than me,
and I'm certainly pretty lucky that she lets me stay
with her.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So when did you graduate from Georgia six six? And
what you said? She was a KD? What fraternity were
you in?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Beta Theta Pieta.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Beta Theata like a fish fish Let's go, man, what
a great story. So I was joking before we got
on the show that I told Reagan you were coming
on the show.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And she said, oh, that's cool. I thought you should
have Brea on the show. Uh, now you get that joke,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That's true, totally get it.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
You know, y'all get a bigger budget, maybe you can
handle her. I mean, I'll tell you she's next level.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I mean, I'm just ready to go on a date
with you. Yeah, Grant, I mean, we're we're gonna go, baby,
I mean after.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
It's gonna be tough to top. That was a great trip.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It was a great trip and our dinner was great
and I had a blast.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So, uh, we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Uh, We're gonna cut the commercial where you stick around.
I want to hear about your your health endeavor that
you're working on I'm here all right, Grant Tsarza. When
we return, you're listening to At Home with Roby.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Welcome back at Home with Roby. I'm patrickmc isaac from
Roby Commercial in Services on Trent Hason from the Roby
Family of Companies. We are your host. We're having a
ball in here. Come check us out on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram.
You can find us anywhere podcasts are found. Man, what
a what a fun time. I mean, you looked at
me and the break, You're like, good gracious. This guy
can tell some stories. Yeah, unbelievable. He seems like it's
(27:29):
a little more concise than I am when he's telling
the stories. I don't know, maybe me too. We can
maybe get some some tips after the show from mister Grant.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I love it. Yeah, get him up here. I want
to see where he's gonna take us.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, you talked about it before the break. You talked
about maybe a new business venture that that Grant was
of news.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The right termin that Grant talked about it. But you
were talking about some aura ring and I was talking
about the rim Fo.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Scale that I get all my my my numbers on.
I think I think we're good in the health department
ground about that.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, he said, yeah, he got us.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
You got I'll figure it out. I mean it takes
the notes from you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You do. I am a bastion of health. So what
so what you got cooking?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Because you said, hey, I might you know within in
twenty five, I'm gonna have I'm gonna be up into.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Carolina's man be up in the Charlotte region. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Tell you? This has been on my mind for years.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I started a longevity company called Sparity Health, and our
goal is to get people access to the best doctor
faster and get you access to labs and screenings and
imaging that tips the scales in your favor toward living
a longer, healthier life. And I have had some family
(28:53):
members who had trouble getting to the right doctor, and
I was in charge of trying to navigate that sess Specifically,
I mentioned my dad earlier, unfortunately, had he got a
brain tumor years ago, and we had just a really
tough time finding the right place to go and where
to get a diagnosis, and people said, oh, you can't
(29:15):
come for six months, and I had to end up
taking him through the emergency room to try to figure
things out. And I just thought to myself, Man, I'm
a doctor, and this is how the system really works.
As somebody's trying to be a consumer in healthcare, this
is awful. And so that was a big input, and
you know, I've had several others, and it turns out
(29:38):
that you know, forty one percent of us are going
to have cancer, cardiovascular disease is rampant, and all sorts
of other medical conditions. A lot of these things you
can prevent or mitigate. And we're in this world and
feede or Attia has kind of started this longevity talk.
He wrote a great book called Outlive that was number
one New York Times bestseller in a highly recommend it.
(30:01):
But he classifies today's medicine this medicine two point zero
or it's this reactive. We wait for the four alarm fire,
and we're trying to get to medicine three point oh,
which is preventative. And we want to we want to
diagnose stage one cancer instead of wait for stage four.
Stage one is a bad weekend. Stage four is a
(30:23):
much bigger problem. And so we take our members and
clients and we've got corporations that use it as a
wellness benefit for all our employees. We have individual members
that get all sorts of great amount of tests throughout
the year for them and their spouse and their kids.
And we're building, we're building the software that's real fun
to help kind of everybody keep an eye on all
(30:45):
their records and their test results. And so we put
people on a treadmill and tell them you get your
VO two max, which is I tell you it's a
twelve minute test. You get on this treadmill and you
walk for the first little bit and you know, Trent,
you could do that, and you're like seven minutes in
and you're like, I'm crushing this death. This ain't that hard.
(31:05):
People can play it. And then the inclient keeps going
up and the speed keeps going up, and by twelve
minutes you're pressing the emergency stop. But it tells you
how healthy your lungs are and the oxygen carrying capacity,
and that number is the single number that's most predictive
of how much longer you're going to live. Really wow,
(31:29):
v O two max. And so you know, we want
to equip people with that number, and then your goal
is to keep that number as high as you can
by Zone two exercise. This is kind of brisk walking.
And our goal just overall is gives people data on
themselves so that you know what's going on. I tell
people they know their wealth very well. They can tell
you they're four to one k their stocks, they're checking
(31:51):
account balance, they're saving the account balance. When you say
your what's your cholesterol, Tell me about your health, tell
me about your labs, they just throw their hands in
the air. So we gotta we gotta treat your health
just as important as your wealth, because, uh, the quality
of life is directly correlated with how much, how long
(32:12):
of a walk you can go on. Can you go
hiking with your kids? Can you pick up a grand
kid in the future and put a you know, a
bag in the overhead bend to fly somewhere. So, diet, exercise,
nutrition are the three pillars, and we help people keep
an eye on those pillars.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
So how can people look up the business well.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Sparityhealth dot com is the website. Sparity is s P
E R I t WI sparityhealth dot com and it's
got some good information on there. But I tell you
whether or not they look at us or anything else
that the goal is to get people engaged in their
own health and understand that there's a whole lot you
(32:54):
can do to really tip the scales in your favorite
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
No, it sounds great. Yeah, I mean it sounds.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Helt is a important or more important than your wealth.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What can you do?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well you think about it, do you?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I mean, who wants to trade spots with Warren Buffett?
He's got all the money in the world, but he
ain't got much time left. Ninety three. He could live
another ten years, you never know. His diet is Coca
cola and Hamburgers. He's the exception. Okay, that's not the
right diet.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
He is the exception and he's positive. But uh but right, Yeah,
he didn't. He didn't getting to go out and walk
around the city with his kids on the shoulders and
all that stuff like we did too.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So well, thank you for being here, Grant.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
It was so fun and I'm so excited to go
on our first date here.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
In a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Can I be the third wheel?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, Grant Zarza talking about orthopedics, talking about help Well,
what a show man telling stories.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Thanks for listening. Go do the Golden Rule. To day
treat others the way you want to be treated. Carrie Aus.
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