January 12, 2025 • 33 mins
Josh Miller with Threadline Products joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. Josh shares details about his childhood in Wyoming, his wrestling career at UNC that brought him east and his career path to Threadline Products.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to that home with Ruby.
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I'm Ruby's Mercling Services along with Trent Hayson from the
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We hear every Sunday.
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Patrick, I'm with you. I mean, I was kind of
trying to figure out what's going on with your hair.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I didn't know if you were trying to sneak in
another inch or or what it's gotten kind of like
little front things sticking up there.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's cause I really don't care. That's clear enough. I
didn't know. I hang out with a bunch of a
bunch of fellows that are at the stage of their
life where they're spending spending a lot of money on
a lot of hair things. We talk about that I
will not go there.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I probably shouldn't go there either.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I vowed and never say never, because when I say that,
they it always happens. Uh, So I'm not gonna say that,
but uh I have no plan ever.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, I do see a couple of healthy follicles on
the front side there that could be useful, and.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I spend money on a lot of crazy stuff. My hair,
what God gave me, unless it unless it's uh, it's
a health risk thing. I'm planning on not ever going there.
Personal opinion understood, no judgment zones. What part of our
I mean, your boatox is fine, it's looking good today.
(01:26):
You got what you did your what's today Wednesday? So
you do your midweek? Well, you do every Wednesday morning, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you're doing that much bowtox, I think you might
think what.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I what I saw on my Yahoo headlines, it's healthy.
It's like helps you with with heart and blood pressure
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Everything that comes on Yahoo headlines and who uses Yahoo anymore?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean, I guess me.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I was telling these guys last night we had a
uh a narrow social event. Excuse me not. I'm over
here talking to our guests about one years ago we
had a YPO social event. I sy and all our
former radio show guests, and I was like, yeah, I
uh I first couple of shows, I said, I was like,
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find us at www dot Angeweroby dot com. And I said,
TJ was like, got it? Cut it. When nobody says
that anymore, I'm like, well you gotta type it in.
Don't just like no, you don't really have to do that.
But Alan Jackson has a song and made millions and
millions of dollars with WWWS. I'm going with it. My
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wife loves that on Jackson.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We didn't go https colon backslash, backslash. It could have
been worse.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I remember when that thing went where I wasn't doing
it then, I don't. I just saw the commercials.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Would you ever have Netzy? Really? You remember that came
out like give you Internet?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I tried to have it. It didn't work, and I
tried to burn some illegal music. Didn't work.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Uh, speaking of that, So okay, So we went to
Scarlett likes to go to up a thrift store sometimes,
and so we went and she wanted to find some
some CD.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
She's like, I want kind of a bunch of old CDs.
I'm gonna make something out of it and hang at
my room. I was like cool.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So we found a hundred pack of memorycs CD R
W disc in the case at a thrift store for
like two dollars and ninety five cents. I was like,
man back in like the or midnight or mid late nineties,
that thing was probably worth a thousand bucks.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, it was at least a dollar twenty five. I mean,
really this we pay two ninety five? Well, you want
my vibe? I got like thirty under my visor. They
got the colors on like Nirvana, Milli Vanilli, Counting Crows.
We got some good stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Good stuff. Nineties nineties music.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was pretty small. George Strait, Oh, country is again. Duran
duran On.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now we're getting a little bit off topic here. Duran Durant.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, I go, I mixed it up, leads up on.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Little outcasts Tupac.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I got some outcasts.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, I had outpass Pandora radio station playing as we speak.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't have any modern Tupac stuff though, I don't know.
I haven't seen it. Lad he should have gone there, Wow,
it's twenty twenty five. You gotta be careful. But Nikki
Glazier did do the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
HM with Peyton Manning. Now which one he knows this
Country Music Awards.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
The Golden Globes with Peyton Manning did not do the
gold Watch. I didn't watch it. Gold I have no
clue about the Golden Globes. But my kids, my my daughters,
which she did the roast for Tom Brady and that
was that was x rated. That was it was Hey listen, yeah, sorry,
Pastor Jeff. It was good, but it was it was.
It was x rated. But I was like, who is
(04:38):
this crazy lady? And apparently she's she's well known on
a comedy roast circuit. Uh, but I no way, my
sweet innocent daughters in high school saw the Tom Brady
roast or have seen any of her other roast, but
their other night rowing the sweetest of all of them.
It's like, hey, we got to watch the rerun of
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the Golden Globe because Nicki Glazier hosts them. How you
know who Nicki Glazier is? But then I on the
way to work the next day, I was listening to
the radio and they said that during primetime NFL games,
they had ten point one million viewers for the Golden Globes.
So she did attract a lot of people. So it's
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pretty impressive. Hey, you know, you start thinking these Hollywood
people are idiots and don't have any sense, and then
they pull in Nicki Glazier and make ten point one
million views live. I started thinking NFL would have been
how many since a couple of years ago. That was dumb.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Once again, if I say never I go to Panther's game.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Was the NFL coverage had more coverage than the college
football Playoff? I'm like, I'm never going to a pan
when they played the same time and here you are,
excuse me.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They said the NFL.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Game that I can't remember which game was that when
Clemson got destroyed. Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That was that was after? That was after?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh? TJ. It ain't good in here, is it. Oh,
it's just painful the Bulldogs or or or at least
at least the Tar Hills got a fellow alumni in here.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
At least you're feeling all good about it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
At least we got the coach of the century, Bill
Jackie Wild. Bill's coming in with his college girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think she's twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
She's gonna fit in master's degree, master's degree.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, yeah, man, we got we got Josh Josh Miller
from Threadline. Here in the studio an EO forum made
of mine. He's got his EO Charlotte shirts representing in
the house.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh, I'm excited. You're late. You were late.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was really late.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And I was sizing you up.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Man, Josh, you like the fact that I was late
for a change.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You like that. But Josh and I go, I clarify
this now. I'm like, hey, we never met. He's like yes,
I'm like, dang, memory fail, all right, Josh Miller. When
we return, you're listening to at Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well back at Home with Ruby. I'm Patrick mcaac from
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has this show, Trent and I cutting up having fun.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's January.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It is colder than you know what in Charlotte, but
we got Josh Miller to warrant things up in the house.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I'm not having fun.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I mean, you're upsett.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Maybe you're having fun because I'm here and you're punking
on me. But uh yeah, hey, Josh, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
How y'all doing?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We are good? I am fun. I'm messing with That's good.
I like this guy. Well, I told you we signed.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You and c tar Heel. I wouldn't size him up.
He might put you in some sort of wrestling move
that would hit You're not going to get.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Out of it. He did tell me that he wrestled
at Chapel Hill.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I lived in Morrison Dorm. I think a couple of
wrestlers during my time freshman year lived around there.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
That's right. I think I lived there. Did you was
the training court?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Was the athletic training No, they got.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Rid of it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
By your time you're there, you're younger than me.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I'm not much younger four years.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
But a lawsuit ended the athletic training table because it
was biased against gin Pop.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Really, I knew this. I knew this. Any any Division
I college athlete is. It is something to give give
props to, no question. But them wrestlers in Chapel Hill
were serious. It's a different breed. Yeah, it is a
different breed.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Work that hard to not eat well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I tell y'all, feisty, that's what that's how you are
after one thousand calories a day.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
These wrestling coaches are my position. Coach in football was
also they had wrestling coach and like there he's there
was something there was He was like the mint did
you do something wrong and the stuff that they would
make you do. From a physical standpoint, I'm like, how
did you even think this up? And meanwhile you're about
to puke? But it's well, you know, you only know
what you know.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I grew up baseball, football, basketball, playing football because I
was so small, but that's kind of was my compass
of sports. So never really understood, respected or thought about
wrestling in high school. And then I got to college,
I was like, this is serious. And now that I've
gotten grown my twenty five years out of school, all
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all the folks I meet that are wrestlers, I'm like,
you kuys are crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
There's something wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, truly was I mean, a little bit of
me says I. Wish I had been introduced to that, and.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It would have been perfect for a small body. I
was a small friend kid growing up, but that's what
I did year round from sixth grade on. But I
also know now that it was a brutal sport. So
my kids don't wrestle because going through college and losing
twenty five to thirty pounds not fun.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Where did you tell us where you grew up? Tell
us little bit about your upbringing. How you got to
Chapel Hill and give us to give us the story
all things.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Josh, Sure, I grew up in Wyoming, of all places.
Now you know twenty five percent of us that grew
up there.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I watched a Wyoming basketball game last night.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I wonder why right? Keep going?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We have uh we have the Bills quarterback from uh,
the University of Wyoming. Now you got Yellowstone. Everybody wants
to be in the West. Now, Yeah, back then, my
parents are in the warm gas business, so they were
drilling wells. And I say Wyoming because if I told
you the town I grew up in a town of
five thousand, it would mean nothing. That's a spot on
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the map.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So comeing to come into U and c A is
what brought you east?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah so wrestling scholarship?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Wow? Wrestled Yeah pretty much my whole Why did you
pick Chapel Hill?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
They picked me and my parents said, you got a
scholarship goodbye.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, I didn't even know Chapel Hill existed, to be
honest with you, other than Jordan a little bit. But
wrestlers don't really fall basketball, so yeah it was something.
But I just showed up without actually without visiting campus
really really and they got my acceptance letter a month
or two months into the first semester a little late.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Wow. So uh man, I got so many questions.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So you were in class and you just assumed you
were good or what?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, I was in class that professors were like, we
don't have you on our list, and I'm like, well,
coach just said to keep showing up for class. And
so they were like, all right, showed up for class
and my coach was like, you're good. I promise you're good.
That was pre cell phones, emails, et cetera. And wait
a minute, my parents finally called me, like, your letter
finally got here. Wait a minute, accepted.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I think I heard about this major n C didn't.
They didn't give a little trouble for this.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
A few years said.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Definitely for non major. African American Studies is a real thing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
A couple of those classes. It was good that old
mirror test. You lay on the ground, he breathing, the
ball comes up of the mirror. You get an A.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It wasn't it wasn't quite that bad, but close. Come on,
now we're doing the nil. So did you fall in
love with Chapel.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Hill guy, am I I am definitely to our Hill fan.
And as you guys were mentioning earlier fan of U
and C Bill in the football program.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
What I mean it brings excitement to the whole acc
we need a little bit. I mean, Clemson's been dominating
for so long. It's good to get some other storyline
in the football that seeing it to the a SEC.
So we're glad you guys got this. I think it's
good for everybody.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
And Dados finally in the in the transport Wait, I
learned in Wait, I gotta keep my Jobord Just so,
did your parents uh come east? We know they still
live out there?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, and I have an older brother that lives in
Colorado Springs, so got it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's just me. Yeah, I just watched Uh I just
binge watched the last season of.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Your That's right, caught up on that. Now you'll be
moving to landman.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
She wanted to start watching it two nights ago on
the on his work night, school night, and I was like,
I can't. I can't watch one. I'll be four o'clock
in the morning going, yeah, get pulled. Then that guy
Taylor Sheridan is something else, isn't.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
He He's a massussive.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's impressive. And then he's been acting. He's a he's
a playboy on the on the show, he rides horses
and they do the two step. And yeah, he plays cards,
he jumped, does cannonballs and swimming pools.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And his real business is four six is ranch.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
That's his real business. It is. That's where it started from.
I did read that, and he was born in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I didn't know that everything good comes out of.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Chapel Wikipedia hook you up. I mean it's cool. You
know you're watching the show him. Where's this guy from?
Learn about him? I did learn about the ranch and
all that. He went to Yahoo.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
He found him on Yahoo.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, Dabo is still using that w w W. That
might have been his problem.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Uh, but you represent Wyoming too on the front of
your truck of a Wyoming license plate, which I think
is really cool. So tell us about you went Chapel
Hill you wrestled. How was that good experience? I mean,
were you a national champion acc Chaney kind of accolades there?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Or I was not. I was ranked top ten in
the country, I think eight or the seventh was the
highest I was ranked. Wow, I did what plenty of
kids do and train their butts off get to D one.
I tell my kids the only way you become a
D one athlete is outwork everybody in the room, or
outwork everybody on the field or whatever sports you choose.
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And I did that and felt like I hit my goal.
And to be honest with you, it kind of backed
off of training and working hard for that. And you
can live a very strong social life in college, academic
life or athletic life, but you can't do all three. Well.
I was ranked, I was ranked high, I got second
then ACC's placed in some big national tournaments, but was
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not an All American, so fell short of that goal.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
But you got a great degree. What did you study?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
African American studies?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Of what you did?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
No industry relations, which is just about the same econ, And.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So Dave Macwire did industri your relations f y, I
got you. He's my good buddy.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
When they forget to tell you that you should apply
for business school as a sophomore, then you go into
financing econ.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Why did econ? So I couldn't apply to business school
because my GPA? Right, I mean you get you go in.
I was shocking all. I wasn't prepared for college. I
had to figure out the business of college, that's right.
So I was getting my feet under me. Uh. And
then they're like, if you want to go to business school,
you gotta apply now, and you got to have a
three too. I'm like, uh, what else? That's a wasted time?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
What else do we what about a two?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Three? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
City, will you take me?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Then? I will say I'm gonna say this before the break,
and then we'll come back talk about how you got
to Charlotte. But uh. I called my dad one night.
God rest is soul Ron Hasting ten year anniversary just
a couple of weeks ago, and I was so sad.
I was struggling. I'll studying all. I was trying to
figure this cause thing out. And I said, Dad, I'm
not I was crying. I said I'm not gonna make it.
It's terrible. And he says, son, let me ask you
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one thing. I said, what's that?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
He said, are you a passing? Because he didn't know
I was doing all this Shenanigan crying and theatric let's shaw, Yeah,
I'm passing, he said, Hell yeah, boy. He said, you're
gonna make it. He said, you hang in there. I'm
gonna keep paying the bill. Let's keep doing this and perspective.
I've always thought that because that was a vote of
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confidence in me. Sure, but really he just was trying
to figure out if I was passing. He's like, is
he doing all this because he's got a zero? Or
is he doing all this because he's just not making a's?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
So your dad had a way to work things, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We got Josh Miller when we return Threadline Threadline Products.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
On with Roby, Welcome back that with Roby, patrickmcaac from
Roby Commercial and Services on the Trent Hasten from the
Roby Family of Companies. We are your hosts. We have
Josh Miller and here from Threadline Products. This last couple
of segments go back, check us out on Facebook, Instagram
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and LinkedIn, and Trent I'm probably gonna get I can
feel our marketing team. I can feel their disappointment that
we have not once mentioned that we were in our
seventy fifth year of business. Oh wow, And I should
have mentioned that in the last couple of segments. I
did not please forgive me. I will take myself out
back and have a stern conversation. It won't happen again.
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But yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You know, it's cool. We've never been able to celebrate
seventy five years. This is our first time until now. Yeah,
it's really special.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And so that it is really specially, really really cool.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And uh, you know, Christian, Sarah, Vanessa and Kylie have
done a great job putting everything together for this.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
We've got a wonderful marketing team that's going to be
really cool. I love seeing it happen. Uh, there's there's
a song. Everybody knows. I love Eric Church. I can
say so many of his songs are my favorite songs.
Fellow Tar Hill fan and North Carolinian, but those I
loved along the way. Yeah, is a wonderful song. And
kind of that's who we got to pay respect to
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because we wouldn't be here seventy five years if it
wasn't for those that came along before us. And we're
with us and we loved and interacted with This is
so cool. So Josh Industrial Relations top ten National Wrestler Division,
one Chapel Hill hailing from Wyoming, and you graduate I'm
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assuming I did graduate.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, don't put it, don't assume anything, but I did graduate.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We understand and U.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And and what happens to you to take us from there?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Oh, like everybody, I have a long career that is
uncharted and unplanned. I went to Blackendecker to walk right
after college. They were hiring a bunch of athletes and
putting them in the yellow trucks and going to the
Olympics and handing out tools. Ninety six Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh I was there.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, I grew up in Atlanta, so that was
that was a really big deal. It was a lot
of that was very fun, fond memories and fun times.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
But go ahead, So did that with work my way,
kind of corporate world. My parents always said you could
come back to the business, but go learn on somebody
else's dime. So go to the corporate world and figure
it out. By the time I was ready to go back,
the business was done with so I had to keep
finding out on my own.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But growing up, you thought that was a high probability
of going oil.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
And gas potentially, Yeah, okay, yeah, I thought maybe we'd
go back. But like building business and oil and gas
businesses up and down and they were exited the business
by the time I really got into my career. So
went to corporate world, kind of learned business quote unquote,
I'm learned sales and worked my way up through the
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corporate ladder there. I always joked with our friends like
that was in business with me at Dwalt. If you
stay long enough, you'll be vice president and president. And
some of them are vice president presidents now, But it
wasn't for me. I find myself now that I'm fifty
in my fifties that I know now that I'm a
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better employer than an employee. So from there went and
started a building business here in Charlotte. Ran that for
five six years.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So you were living in Charlotte for Black and Decker.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I'd moved from Baltimore. Actually were headquarters of Black and
Decker at the Wall Towson, Yeah, and then moved down
here to start up.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
They have a big presence for at Westinghouse Still Creek area. Correct.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They actually they close up facility. It's a distribution center.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
They were young, young man. I used to notice that, yeah,
because I noticed real tools, Yeah, construction stuff. I'm looking.
I got to see how the corns.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Grow and you know what we're saying, what's making money?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So you got in the building industry? Were you Black
and Decker?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, so I was kind of in the building industry. Anyways.
I knew I like to work with my hands. A
buddy was building in Charlotte, so we decided to join
forces and he would run the field, I would run
the office. And we ran that for five years, six years.
Pretty we were successful, and then seven recessions started hitting
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started getting a little creaky. I had twins on the way.
In every infield development or every project we did, we
were pushing all of our chips back in and it
was getting ugly. I remember coming home one day from
my wife and just said, look, we got to get
out of this, and I'm gonna sell all of our
dirt and our homes and we need to get out
(21:55):
as a family and keep our house and move on.
And we did that.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Wow, that's that's very perceptive.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So when did you meet your wife, Jenny? When did
y'all meet?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Almost immediately when I moved here in two No, yeah,
around that, so around O two, so this April will
be twenty years for us.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, we met pretty pretty soon after and pulled her
into the life of entrepreneurship every spouse doesn't enjoy.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well it definitely all three of us have outkicked our
coverage and have better. Halse, I can bet your wife
recently and obviously knew Reagan super well. And I'm not
afraid to admit that that my wife is much better
than I am, so probably helped us along the way.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Agreed, Agreed, well, in hindsight your timing, I said that
getting out of the building business and seven in hindsight
it was twenty twenty vision.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Yeah, I feel that way totally. You know, it was
a blessing for sure. So I was able to exit
that without getting kind of, you know, talked my way
out of the things I needed to talk my way
out of. People were still buying stuff, so we were
able to get out of that. And then I went
into construction supply distribution, So went to work for a
(23:13):
white Cap or HD supply and ran back into the
corporate world there. Ran into that for seven or eight years,
started doing like regional sales projects across the country, so
every major metropolitan area would kind of rebuild their business
plan and their sales plan in that market.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Ran that for a.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Little while and knew that I was a better employeer
than employee. And actually we bought threadline products seven years ago.
Like you guys said, it's the business has been in
Charlotte for forty years, so this is our fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
But I set in the woman's office who started it
and asked her what her exit plan was. She said,
I don't have one, and so for ten years I
had a reminder on my phone and I called her
at least once once a year for ten years until
she was ready to sell the business. And then she said, okay,
(24:14):
I'm ready to retire, and we were able to come
to agreement and purchase that business.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
So when you were working for h Day Supply white
Cap was we were buying.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
We were buying, Yeah, we were buying our ankle bolts. Yeah,
so all custom anchor bolts, custom structural threat of products
of miscellaneous steel. So we were buying pipe bollards from
her and smooth dials and anchor bolts. And I just
liked I think I always tell people I like the
smell of oil, probably from my childhood. So I gotten
her shop and I was like, I love this. There's
(24:44):
I don't know why I love the smell of cutting oil.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Are you still in the same location we've moved?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
We were in South End, where every good fabrication shop
should be. So now we've moved five minutes down the
road on Donald Ross Road. So still only seven minute
commute from my house, which is ok.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I got it now? Patrick said that, uh one of
his new form mates or is one of those businesses you.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Have across the across the railroad are you?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Is there a metal recycler over there too?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
So it's a metal recycler us in the VFW.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Trends probably hit your facility a few times with an
errant t shot here and there.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
We collect walls off of Carolina.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You've got any Ruby Family company balls over there? I
have to look.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
My warehouse manager collects them.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That's how we market we hit.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You need to find out if you got a rugby ball,
because I don't hit those. I give them away, uh Patrick,
the marketing. I give them to some bad slicing golfers
on purpose. There's there's definitely a hole. I think it's
whole number fourteen that if you slice it right, you're
probably on your roof. Yep, for sure. Or or hitting
an almosmobile or so.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Every every day we're collecting balls out of the parking lotew.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That is man, that is cool. It's so cool to
put these dots together. And then you said, uh, that
we had met when you were in the building industry. Uh.
And and we think it was through the Homebowners Association
because because the office building, the brown building on third Street. Right,
that's right street, Yeah, right, were dagoningly across from NVANT.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I spent a lot of time, signed a lot of
checks in that building when I was when I was
president and on the board at the HbA in the
mid two thousands. Uh. Will you stick around? Yeah, we'd
love to such an interesting story. You got to get
that thread size right. That's right, it's got to be right.
(26:41):
The bolt won't work.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
You want to be right. The engineers take care of them.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Put your washers on there, boy, All right, Josh Miller threadline.
When we return on at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Welcome back at Home with Throby.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm Patrick mcasi and Roby Commercial and Services on the
Trent Hason from.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The Ruby family of Companies.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We are your hoads. We missed last few segments. Go
check us out. You can see us on Instagram, Facebook,
LinkedIn anywhere podcasts are found. We got to get used
to talking about this, Trince, seventy five years, we're celebrating
at the Roby Family Companies this year.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Amen got very, very blessed to be able to say that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Trent said, it's our first time celebrating seventy five years,
so we're trying to figure out how we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
But wonderful stuff, Trent. We've got Josh Miller in.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
The studio from Threadline Products, a fellow tar heel.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, just having some fun.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I mean, I graduated college on our fiftieth year. That
was my first year in the office side of the business,
and I don't think we had the PR marketing department
we have now, so really wasn't there was no special gift,
really wasn't a big deal. It was like, hey, we
gotta make sure we make payroll after fifty years. It's
sheer fifty that's right, my check ant and clearing well.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And as you mentioned, we gave him proples before. But
thanks good and we have this such wonderful marketing folks
that you know, are detailed and take the time to
do the right thing and make sure that we're handling
this properly, which.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Christian McCall are my work wife. Thank you Jonathan for
her to put up with me and uh and Sarah
straw House if you hadn't heard her show, she she
came home I think last spring, and then we have
Vanessa and Vanessa and Kylie carrying its pretty good. Yeah.
(28:33):
So man, it's so nice to meet you. Likewise, I
can build a wall here between me and Patrick's.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
See you guys later.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Nice to meet you again.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
How's your cleanse going? Nice to meet you again.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Draguary?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You know everybody starts out with Draguary. It usually ends
around one am January first, but well, you know that
I did do it. I'm doing a juice cleanse from
our friends of Green Brothers.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Josh.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, but you know that the ninety percent, the biggest
ending to dry January is the second Friday of every January.
They say everybody can, everybody makes it one week and
make the second Fridays. Really, when when the most actually
most needs resolutions fall fall off the wagon's second Friday?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Quitters?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Quitters?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I've never uh never studied that. I just heard myself.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I saw it on my Yahoo feed.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Uh yeah, headlines. So uh so what is the juice
cleans and tail.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
This is a five days but it's juice tail dinner.
So you still get to eat not so bad, ye
not full fasting, okay, four juices up till dinner and
then eat a clean, clean dinner obviously no sugars, no booze,
no alcohol or you know other per take.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
What do you feel good? I do.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm sleeping better. I'm not. I feel much less woolen.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
It's been good.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I think it's a good rec I think just like business,
we got a reset on occasion and kind of you know,
plan a flag where we are and so that's what
we're doing five days.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I think I could do that. What kind of juice
you're drinking? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It's the special juice from Green Brothers. I don't know
what it is. It's perfect because they put it in
a little kit for you. They number it one, two, three, four.
You drink it sometime during the day every two hours.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
They had that stuff. I go get Green Juices and
all that, like on the fly.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Giving him a shout out. He's got there's a location
actually in South Boulevard. I did not realize it was
their right in the Harris Teach shopping center right before
you get the Goldies going out of town.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
On the left.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Really Yeah, yeah, one obviously on Park Road, and then yeah,
some others.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, he was on the show.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He was Anyways, it's it's a it's a good reset physically.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Because of you and our rakindling of our great friendship
from twenty years ago. I'm gonna I'm gonna do off
in the next couple years. Prove it, prove it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Eight is gonna be.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I gotta be really ready to do something big. I
don'm not there yet. I might go ahead and buy
the pack.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Just kid put in the freezer.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
It's it's fresh juice.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So don't let it. I'll let it. Well, I'm gonna
give you I'm gonna get he did. He never has
came through with my gift, my juice. He said he
was gonna give me a lot of tall No Walt,
and I sure didn't get any threadbolts. We could definitely
use some microbolts in our next project.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You can absolutely, I'll give you a phone number and
we'll get you praised.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So is your business distribute through UH building companies or Yeah,
so we we sell on kind of three channels.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
We sell to structural fabricators like folks like steel fab
here in Charlotte. We sell to construction distribution. Hence I
can from white Cap, so you know, no four hundred,
five hundred sales guys out in the country that can
sell my stuff. And then we sell in the dot space.
So we do some bridge diaphragms and anchor bolts for bridges.
(31:58):
My wife phone is fifty one percent of us, so
we're a dbe business, so it helps us from a
dot perserctive and we and so we do sell to
some contractors, but mostly through construction distribution.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Got it. Yeah, My Jared Cheney down in Georgia works
in the bridge industry in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Now, yeah, we only do bridges or dot space projects
in North Carolina, South.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Carolina, and he's kind of that way in Georgia. Yeah,
so I think it's segmented that way, and typically you
have to be approved, right. Well, that is so interesting,
such a great story. You have two kids.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I have three kids already, eighteen year old who's a
senior in high school and twins that are sixteen, all boys.
I describe it as property damage Wow, three boys eighteen,
sixteen and sixteen replaced windows quarterly, not as they happen.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
So where's your son graduating from.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
He's graduating from IMG Academy in Florida.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
He placed.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
He's a football player, running back. He actually graduating December.
So he's home training for a semester before he figures out.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
What school to do like college football.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
We don't know where yet.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
But congratulations Dad.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Congratulations to him.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Way to keep, way to keep, the way to keep.
Congratulations Mom, that's right, mom, way to keep the tradition going.
Good luck. Thank you. I can't wait to hear more.
How can people look up your business?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
That www. Threadline Products dot com and we're on two
thousand dollars ross. You can find us any structural anchor
bulks you need or a structural threat of product or
miss Lanis Steel.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Great videase on your website you can explain the business.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Thanks you guys have done a good job.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Thank you for joining us today. Go do the Golden rule,
carry us, smile around on your face, treat others the
way you want to be treated at home with Roby
Good morning, Welcome to that home with Ruby.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Ruby's Mercling Services along with Trent Hayson from the
Ruby family of Companies. We are your Hood Sunday morning,
nine to ten WBT ninety nine point three f M
eleven ten a M.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We hear every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Are you with us?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Patrick, I'm with you. I mean, I was kind of
trying to figure out what's going on with your hair.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I didn't know if you were trying to sneak in
another inch or or what it's gotten kind of like
little front things sticking up there.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's cause I really don't care. That's clear enough. I
didn't know. I hang out with a bunch of a
bunch of fellows that are at the stage of their
life where they're spending spending a lot of money on
a lot of hair things. We talk about that I
will not go there.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I probably shouldn't go there either.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I vowed and never say never, because when I say that,
they it always happens. Uh, So I'm not gonna say that,
but uh I have no plan ever.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, I do see a couple of healthy follicles on
the front side there that could be useful, and.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I spend money on a lot of crazy stuff. My hair,
what God gave me, unless it unless it's uh, it's
a health risk thing. I'm planning on not ever going there.
Personal opinion understood, no judgment zones. What part of our
I mean, your boatox is fine, it's looking good today.
(01:26):
You got what you did your what's today Wednesday? So
you do your midweek? Well, you do every Wednesday morning, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you're doing that much bowtox, I think you might
think what.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I what I saw on my Yahoo headlines, it's healthy.
It's like helps you with with heart and blood pressure
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Everything that comes on Yahoo headlines and who uses Yahoo anymore?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean, I guess me.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I was telling these guys last night we had a
uh a narrow social event. Excuse me not. I'm over
here talking to our guests about one years ago we
had a YPO social event. I sy and all our
former radio show guests, and I was like, yeah, I
uh I first couple of shows, I said, I was like,
(02:11):
find us at www dot Angeweroby dot com. And I said,
TJ was like, got it? Cut it. When nobody says
that anymore, I'm like, well you gotta type it in.
Don't just like no, you don't really have to do that.
But Alan Jackson has a song and made millions and
millions of dollars with WWWS. I'm going with it. My
(02:32):
wife loves that on Jackson.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We didn't go https colon backslash, backslash. It could have
been worse.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I remember when that thing went where I wasn't doing
it then, I don't. I just saw the commercials.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Would you ever have Netzy? Really? You remember that came
out like give you Internet?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I tried to have it. It didn't work, and I
tried to burn some illegal music. Didn't work.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Uh, speaking of that, So okay, So we went to
Scarlett likes to go to up a thrift store sometimes,
and so we went and she wanted to find some
some CD.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
She's like, I want kind of a bunch of old CDs.
I'm gonna make something out of it and hang at
my room. I was like cool.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So we found a hundred pack of memorycs CD R
W disc in the case at a thrift store for
like two dollars and ninety five cents. I was like,
man back in like the or midnight or mid late nineties,
that thing was probably worth a thousand bucks.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, it was at least a dollar twenty five. I mean,
really this we pay two ninety five? Well, you want
my vibe? I got like thirty under my visor. They
got the colors on like Nirvana, Milli Vanilli, Counting Crows.
We got some good stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Good stuff. Nineties nineties music.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was pretty small. George Strait, Oh, country is again. Duran
duran On.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now we're getting a little bit off topic here. Duran Durant.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, I go, I mixed it up, leads up on.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Little outcasts Tupac.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I got some outcasts.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, I had outpass Pandora radio station playing as we speak.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't have any modern Tupac stuff though, I don't know.
I haven't seen it. Lad he should have gone there, Wow,
it's twenty twenty five. You gotta be careful. But Nikki
Glazier did do the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
HM with Peyton Manning. Now which one he knows this
Country Music Awards.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
The Golden Globes with Peyton Manning did not do the
gold Watch. I didn't watch it. Gold I have no
clue about the Golden Globes. But my kids, my my daughters,
which she did the roast for Tom Brady and that
was that was x rated. That was it was Hey listen, yeah, sorry,
Pastor Jeff. It was good, but it was it was.
It was x rated. But I was like, who is
(04:38):
this crazy lady? And apparently she's she's well known on
a comedy roast circuit. Uh, but I no way, my
sweet innocent daughters in high school saw the Tom Brady
roast or have seen any of her other roast, but
their other night rowing the sweetest of all of them.
It's like, hey, we got to watch the rerun of
(04:59):
the Golden Globe because Nicki Glazier hosts them. How you
know who Nicki Glazier is? But then I on the
way to work the next day, I was listening to
the radio and they said that during primetime NFL games,
they had ten point one million viewers for the Golden Globes.
So she did attract a lot of people. So it's
(05:19):
pretty impressive. Hey, you know, you start thinking these Hollywood
people are idiots and don't have any sense, and then
they pull in Nicki Glazier and make ten point one
million views live. I started thinking NFL would have been
how many since a couple of years ago. That was dumb.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Once again, if I say never I go to Panther's game.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Was the NFL coverage had more coverage than the college
football Playoff? I'm like, I'm never going to a pan
when they played the same time and here you are,
excuse me.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They said the NFL.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Game that I can't remember which game was that when
Clemson got destroyed. Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That was that was after? That was after?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh? TJ. It ain't good in here, is it. Oh,
it's just painful the Bulldogs or or or at least
at least the Tar Hills got a fellow alumni in here.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
At least you're feeling all good about it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
At least we got the coach of the century, Bill
Jackie Wild. Bill's coming in with his college girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think she's twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
She's gonna fit in master's degree, master's degree.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, yeah, man, we got we got Josh Josh Miller
from Threadline. Here in the studio an EO forum made
of mine. He's got his EO Charlotte shirts representing in
the house.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh, I'm excited. You're late. You were late.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was really late.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And I was sizing you up.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Man, Josh, you like the fact that I was late
for a change.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You like that. But Josh and I go, I clarify
this now. I'm like, hey, we never met. He's like yes,
I'm like, dang, memory fail, all right, Josh Miller. When
we return, you're listening to at Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well back at Home with Ruby. I'm Patrick mcaac from
Roby Commercial and Services. On the Trent Hasen from the
Ruby family of companies. We are your host, be Mitch
last seven. Go back, check us out, find us anywhere
podcasts are found, Facebook, LinkedIn, and our Instagram page also
has this show, Trent and I cutting up having fun.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's January.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It is colder than you know what in Charlotte, but
we got Josh Miller to warrant things up in the house.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I'm not having fun.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I mean, you're upsett.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Maybe you're having fun because I'm here and you're punking
on me. But uh yeah, hey, Josh, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
How y'all doing?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We are good? I am fun. I'm messing with That's good.
I like this guy. Well, I told you we signed.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You and c tar Heel. I wouldn't size him up.
He might put you in some sort of wrestling move
that would hit You're not going to get.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Out of it. He did tell me that he wrestled
at Chapel Hill.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I lived in Morrison Dorm. I think a couple of
wrestlers during my time freshman year lived around there.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
That's right. I think I lived there. Did you was
the training court?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Was the athletic training No, they got.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Rid of it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
By your time you're there, you're younger than me.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I'm not much younger four years.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
But a lawsuit ended the athletic training table because it
was biased against gin Pop.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Really, I knew this. I knew this. Any any Division
I college athlete is. It is something to give give
props to, no question. But them wrestlers in Chapel Hill
were serious. It's a different breed. Yeah, it is a
different breed.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Work that hard to not eat well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I tell y'all, feisty, that's what that's how you are
after one thousand calories a day.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
These wrestling coaches are my position. Coach in football was
also they had wrestling coach and like there he's there
was something there was He was like the mint did
you do something wrong and the stuff that they would
make you do. From a physical standpoint, I'm like, how
did you even think this up? And meanwhile you're about
to puke? But it's well, you know, you only know
what you know.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I grew up baseball, football, basketball, playing football because I
was so small, but that's kind of was my compass
of sports. So never really understood, respected or thought about
wrestling in high school. And then I got to college,
I was like, this is serious. And now that I've
gotten grown my twenty five years out of school, all
(09:30):
all the folks I meet that are wrestlers, I'm like,
you kuys are crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
There's something wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, truly was I mean, a little bit of
me says I. Wish I had been introduced to that, and.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It would have been perfect for a small body. I
was a small friend kid growing up, but that's what
I did year round from sixth grade on. But I
also know now that it was a brutal sport. So
my kids don't wrestle because going through college and losing
twenty five to thirty pounds not fun.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Where did you tell us where you grew up? Tell
us little bit about your upbringing. How you got to
Chapel Hill and give us to give us the story
all things.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Josh, Sure, I grew up in Wyoming, of all places.
Now you know twenty five percent of us that grew
up there.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I watched a Wyoming basketball game last night.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I wonder why right? Keep going?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We have uh we have the Bills quarterback from uh,
the University of Wyoming. Now you got Yellowstone. Everybody wants
to be in the West. Now, Yeah, back then, my
parents are in the warm gas business, so they were
drilling wells. And I say Wyoming because if I told
you the town I grew up in a town of
five thousand, it would mean nothing. That's a spot on
(10:41):
the map.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So comeing to come into U and c A is
what brought you east?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah so wrestling scholarship?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Wow? Wrestled Yeah pretty much my whole Why did you
pick Chapel Hill?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
They picked me and my parents said, you got a
scholarship goodbye.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, I didn't even know Chapel Hill existed, to be
honest with you, other than Jordan a little bit. But
wrestlers don't really fall basketball, so yeah it was something.
But I just showed up without actually without visiting campus
really really and they got my acceptance letter a month
or two months into the first semester a little late.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Wow. So uh man, I got so many questions.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So you were in class and you just assumed you
were good or what?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, I was in class that professors were like, we
don't have you on our list, and I'm like, well,
coach just said to keep showing up for class. And
so they were like, all right, showed up for class
and my coach was like, you're good. I promise you're good.
That was pre cell phones, emails, et cetera. And wait
a minute, my parents finally called me, like, your letter
finally got here. Wait a minute, accepted.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I think I heard about this major n C didn't.
They didn't give a little trouble for this.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
A few years said.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Definitely for non major. African American Studies is a real thing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
A couple of those classes. It was good that old
mirror test. You lay on the ground, he breathing, the
ball comes up of the mirror. You get an A.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It wasn't it wasn't quite that bad, but close. Come on,
now we're doing the nil. So did you fall in
love with Chapel.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Hill guy, am I I am definitely to our Hill fan.
And as you guys were mentioning earlier fan of U
and C Bill in the football program.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
What I mean it brings excitement to the whole acc
we need a little bit. I mean, Clemson's been dominating
for so long. It's good to get some other storyline
in the football that seeing it to the a SEC.
So we're glad you guys got this. I think it's
good for everybody.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
And Dados finally in the in the transport Wait, I
learned in Wait, I gotta keep my Jobord Just so,
did your parents uh come east? We know they still
live out there?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, and I have an older brother that lives in
Colorado Springs, so got it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's just me. Yeah, I just watched Uh I just
binge watched the last season of.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Your That's right, caught up on that. Now you'll be
moving to landman.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
She wanted to start watching it two nights ago on
the on his work night, school night, and I was like,
I can't. I can't watch one. I'll be four o'clock
in the morning going, yeah, get pulled. Then that guy
Taylor Sheridan is something else, isn't.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
He He's a massussive.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's impressive. And then he's been acting. He's a he's
a playboy on the on the show, he rides horses
and they do the two step. And yeah, he plays cards,
he jumped, does cannonballs and swimming pools.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And his real business is four six is ranch.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
That's his real business. It is. That's where it started from.
I did read that, and he was born in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I didn't know that everything good comes out of.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Chapel Wikipedia hook you up. I mean it's cool. You
know you're watching the show him. Where's this guy from?
Learn about him? I did learn about the ranch and
all that. He went to Yahoo.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
He found him on Yahoo.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, Dabo is still using that w w W. That
might have been his problem.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Uh, but you represent Wyoming too on the front of
your truck of a Wyoming license plate, which I think
is really cool. So tell us about you went Chapel
Hill you wrestled. How was that good experience? I mean,
were you a national champion acc Chaney kind of accolades there?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Or I was not. I was ranked top ten in
the country, I think eight or the seventh was the
highest I was ranked. Wow, I did what plenty of
kids do and train their butts off get to D one.
I tell my kids the only way you become a
D one athlete is outwork everybody in the room, or
outwork everybody on the field or whatever sports you choose.
(14:34):
And I did that and felt like I hit my goal.
And to be honest with you, it kind of backed
off of training and working hard for that. And you
can live a very strong social life in college, academic
life or athletic life, but you can't do all three. Well.
I was ranked, I was ranked high, I got second
then ACC's placed in some big national tournaments, but was
(14:56):
not an All American, so fell short of that goal.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
But you got a great degree. What did you study?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
African American studies?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Of what you did?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
No industry relations, which is just about the same econ, And.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So Dave Macwire did industri your relations f y, I
got you. He's my good buddy.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
When they forget to tell you that you should apply
for business school as a sophomore, then you go into
financing econ.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Why did econ? So I couldn't apply to business school
because my GPA? Right, I mean you get you go in.
I was shocking all. I wasn't prepared for college. I
had to figure out the business of college, that's right.
So I was getting my feet under me. Uh. And
then they're like, if you want to go to business school,
you gotta apply now, and you got to have a
three too. I'm like, uh, what else? That's a wasted time?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
What else do we what about a two?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Three? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
City, will you take me?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Then? I will say I'm gonna say this before the break,
and then we'll come back talk about how you got
to Charlotte. But uh. I called my dad one night.
God rest is soul Ron Hasting ten year anniversary just
a couple of weeks ago, and I was so sad.
I was struggling. I'll studying all. I was trying to
figure this cause thing out. And I said, Dad, I'm
not I was crying. I said I'm not gonna make it.
It's terrible. And he says, son, let me ask you
(16:06):
one thing. I said, what's that?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
He said, are you a passing? Because he didn't know
I was doing all this Shenanigan crying and theatric let's shaw, Yeah,
I'm passing, he said, Hell yeah, boy. He said, you're
gonna make it. He said, you hang in there. I'm
gonna keep paying the bill. Let's keep doing this and perspective.
I've always thought that because that was a vote of
(16:30):
confidence in me. Sure, but really he just was trying
to figure out if I was passing. He's like, is
he doing all this because he's got a zero? Or
is he doing all this because he's just not making a's?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
So your dad had a way to work things, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We got Josh Miller when we return Threadline Threadline Products.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
On with Roby, Welcome back that with Roby, patrickmcaac from
Roby Commercial and Services on the Trent Hasten from the
Roby Family of Companies. We are your hosts. We have
Josh Miller and here from Threadline Products. This last couple
of segments go back, check us out on Facebook, Instagram
(17:13):
and LinkedIn, and Trent I'm probably gonna get I can
feel our marketing team. I can feel their disappointment that
we have not once mentioned that we were in our
seventy fifth year of business. Oh wow, And I should
have mentioned that in the last couple of segments. I
did not please forgive me. I will take myself out
back and have a stern conversation. It won't happen again.
(17:36):
But yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You know, it's cool. We've never been able to celebrate
seventy five years. This is our first time until now. Yeah,
it's really special.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And so that it is really specially, really really cool.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And uh, you know, Christian, Sarah, Vanessa and Kylie have
done a great job putting everything together for this.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
We've got a wonderful marketing team that's going to be
really cool. I love seeing it happen. Uh, there's there's
a song. Everybody knows. I love Eric Church. I can
say so many of his songs are my favorite songs.
Fellow Tar Hill fan and North Carolinian, but those I
loved along the way. Yeah, is a wonderful song. And
kind of that's who we got to pay respect to
(18:17):
because we wouldn't be here seventy five years if it
wasn't for those that came along before us. And we're
with us and we loved and interacted with This is
so cool. So Josh Industrial Relations top ten National Wrestler Division,
one Chapel Hill hailing from Wyoming, and you graduate I'm
(18:40):
assuming I did graduate.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, don't put it, don't assume anything, but I did graduate.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We understand and U.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And and what happens to you to take us from there?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Oh, like everybody, I have a long career that is
uncharted and unplanned. I went to Blackendecker to walk right
after college. They were hiring a bunch of athletes and
putting them in the yellow trucks and going to the
Olympics and handing out tools. Ninety six Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh I was there.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, I grew up in Atlanta, so that was
that was a really big deal. It was a lot
of that was very fun, fond memories and fun times.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
But go ahead, So did that with work my way,
kind of corporate world. My parents always said you could
come back to the business, but go learn on somebody
else's dime. So go to the corporate world and figure
it out. By the time I was ready to go back,
the business was done with so I had to keep
finding out on my own.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But growing up, you thought that was a high probability
of going oil.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
And gas potentially, Yeah, okay, yeah, I thought maybe we'd
go back. But like building business and oil and gas
businesses up and down and they were exited the business
by the time I really got into my career. So
went to corporate world, kind of learned business quote unquote,
I'm learned sales and worked my way up through the
(20:04):
corporate ladder there. I always joked with our friends like
that was in business with me at Dwalt. If you
stay long enough, you'll be vice president and president. And
some of them are vice president presidents now, But it
wasn't for me. I find myself now that I'm fifty
in my fifties that I know now that I'm a
(20:24):
better employer than an employee. So from there went and
started a building business here in Charlotte. Ran that for
five six years.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So you were living in Charlotte for Black and Decker.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I'd moved from Baltimore. Actually were headquarters of Black and
Decker at the Wall Towson, Yeah, and then moved down
here to start up.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
They have a big presence for at Westinghouse Still Creek area. Correct.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They actually they close up facility. It's a distribution center.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
They were young, young man. I used to notice that, yeah,
because I noticed real tools, Yeah, construction stuff. I'm looking.
I got to see how the corns.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Grow and you know what we're saying, what's making money?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So you got in the building industry? Were you Black
and Decker?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, so I was kind of in the building industry. Anyways.
I knew I like to work with my hands. A
buddy was building in Charlotte, so we decided to join
forces and he would run the field, I would run
the office. And we ran that for five years, six years.
Pretty we were successful, and then seven recessions started hitting
(21:34):
started getting a little creaky. I had twins on the way.
In every infield development or every project we did, we
were pushing all of our chips back in and it
was getting ugly. I remember coming home one day from
my wife and just said, look, we got to get
out of this, and I'm gonna sell all of our
dirt and our homes and we need to get out
(21:55):
as a family and keep our house and move on.
And we did that.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Wow, that's that's very perceptive.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So when did you meet your wife, Jenny? When did
y'all meet?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Almost immediately when I moved here in two No, yeah,
around that, so around O two, so this April will
be twenty years for us.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, we met pretty pretty soon after and pulled her
into the life of entrepreneurship every spouse doesn't enjoy.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well it definitely all three of us have outkicked our
coverage and have better. Halse, I can bet your wife
recently and obviously knew Reagan super well. And I'm not
afraid to admit that that my wife is much better
than I am, so probably helped us along the way.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Agreed, Agreed, well, in hindsight your timing, I said that
getting out of the building business and seven in hindsight
it was twenty twenty vision.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Yeah, I feel that way totally. You know, it was
a blessing for sure. So I was able to exit
that without getting kind of, you know, talked my way
out of the things I needed to talk my way
out of. People were still buying stuff, so we were
able to get out of that. And then I went
into construction supply distribution, So went to work for a
(23:13):
white Cap or HD supply and ran back into the
corporate world there. Ran into that for seven or eight years,
started doing like regional sales projects across the country, so
every major metropolitan area would kind of rebuild their business
plan and their sales plan in that market.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Ran that for a.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Little while and knew that I was a better employeer
than employee. And actually we bought threadline products seven years ago.
Like you guys said, it's the business has been in
Charlotte for forty years, so this is our fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
But I set in the woman's office who started it
and asked her what her exit plan was. She said,
I don't have one, and so for ten years I
had a reminder on my phone and I called her
at least once once a year for ten years until
she was ready to sell the business. And then she said, okay,
(24:14):
I'm ready to retire, and we were able to come
to agreement and purchase that business.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
So when you were working for h Day Supply white
Cap was we were buying.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
We were buying, Yeah, we were buying our ankle bolts. Yeah,
so all custom anchor bolts, custom structural threat of products
of miscellaneous steel. So we were buying pipe bollards from
her and smooth dials and anchor bolts. And I just
liked I think I always tell people I like the
smell of oil, probably from my childhood. So I gotten
her shop and I was like, I love this. There's
(24:44):
I don't know why I love the smell of cutting oil.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Are you still in the same location we've moved?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
We were in South End, where every good fabrication shop
should be. So now we've moved five minutes down the
road on Donald Ross Road. So still only seven minute
commute from my house, which is ok.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I got it now? Patrick said that, uh one of
his new form mates or is one of those businesses you.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Have across the across the railroad are you?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Is there a metal recycler over there too?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
So it's a metal recycler us in the VFW.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Trends probably hit your facility a few times with an
errant t shot here and there.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
We collect walls off of Carolina.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You've got any Ruby Family company balls over there? I
have to look.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
My warehouse manager collects them.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That's how we market we hit.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You need to find out if you got a rugby ball,
because I don't hit those. I give them away, uh Patrick,
the marketing. I give them to some bad slicing golfers
on purpose. There's there's definitely a hole. I think it's
whole number fourteen that if you slice it right, you're
probably on your roof. Yep, for sure. Or or hitting
an almosmobile or so.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Every every day we're collecting balls out of the parking lotew.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That is man, that is cool. It's so cool to
put these dots together. And then you said, uh, that
we had met when you were in the building industry. Uh.
And and we think it was through the Homebowners Association
because because the office building, the brown building on third Street. Right,
that's right street, Yeah, right, were dagoningly across from NVANT.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I spent a lot of time, signed a lot of
checks in that building when I was when I was
president and on the board at the HbA in the
mid two thousands. Uh. Will you stick around? Yeah, we'd
love to such an interesting story. You got to get
that thread size right. That's right, it's got to be right.
(26:41):
The bolt won't work.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
You want to be right. The engineers take care of them.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Put your washers on there, boy, All right, Josh Miller threadline.
When we return on at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Welcome back at Home with Throby.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm Patrick mcasi and Roby Commercial and Services on the
Trent Hason from.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The Ruby family of Companies.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We are your hoads. We missed last few segments. Go
check us out. You can see us on Instagram, Facebook,
LinkedIn anywhere podcasts are found. We got to get used
to talking about this, Trince, seventy five years, we're celebrating
at the Roby Family Companies this year.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Amen got very, very blessed to be able to say that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Trent said, it's our first time celebrating seventy five years,
so we're trying to figure out how we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
But wonderful stuff, Trent. We've got Josh Miller in.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
The studio from Threadline Products, a fellow tar heel.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, just having some fun.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I mean, I graduated college on our fiftieth year. That
was my first year in the office side of the business,
and I don't think we had the PR marketing department
we have now, so really wasn't there was no special gift,
really wasn't a big deal. It was like, hey, we
gotta make sure we make payroll after fifty years. It's
sheer fifty that's right, my check ant and clearing well.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And as you mentioned, we gave him proples before. But
thanks good and we have this such wonderful marketing folks
that you know, are detailed and take the time to
do the right thing and make sure that we're handling
this properly, which.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Christian McCall are my work wife. Thank you Jonathan for
her to put up with me and uh and Sarah
straw House if you hadn't heard her show, she she
came home I think last spring, and then we have
Vanessa and Vanessa and Kylie carrying its pretty good. Yeah.
(28:33):
So man, it's so nice to meet you. Likewise, I
can build a wall here between me and Patrick's.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
See you guys later.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Nice to meet you again.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
How's your cleanse going? Nice to meet you again.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Draguary?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You know everybody starts out with Draguary. It usually ends
around one am January first, but well, you know that
I did do it. I'm doing a juice cleanse from
our friends of Green Brothers.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Josh.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, but you know that the ninety percent, the biggest
ending to dry January is the second Friday of every January.
They say everybody can, everybody makes it one week and
make the second Fridays. Really, when when the most actually
most needs resolutions fall fall off the wagon's second Friday?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Quitters?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Quitters?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I've never uh never studied that. I just heard myself.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I saw it on my Yahoo feed.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Uh yeah, headlines. So uh so what is the juice
cleans and tail.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
This is a five days but it's juice tail dinner.
So you still get to eat not so bad, ye
not full fasting, okay, four juices up till dinner and
then eat a clean, clean dinner obviously no sugars, no booze,
no alcohol or you know other per take.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
What do you feel good? I do.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm sleeping better. I'm not. I feel much less woolen.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
It's been good.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I think it's a good rec I think just like business,
we got a reset on occasion and kind of you know,
plan a flag where we are and so that's what
we're doing five days.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I think I could do that. What kind of juice
you're drinking? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It's the special juice from Green Brothers. I don't know
what it is. It's perfect because they put it in
a little kit for you. They number it one, two, three, four.
You drink it sometime during the day every two hours.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
They had that stuff. I go get Green Juices and
all that, like on the fly.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Giving him a shout out. He's got there's a location
actually in South Boulevard. I did not realize it was
their right in the Harris Teach shopping center right before
you get the Goldies going out of town.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
On the left.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Really Yeah, yeah, one obviously on Park Road, and then yeah,
some others.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, he was on the show.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He was Anyways, it's it's a it's a good reset physically.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Because of you and our rakindling of our great friendship
from twenty years ago. I'm gonna I'm gonna do off
in the next couple years. Prove it, prove it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Eight is gonna be.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I gotta be really ready to do something big. I
don'm not there yet. I might go ahead and buy
the pack.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Just kid put in the freezer.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
It's it's fresh juice.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So don't let it. I'll let it. Well, I'm gonna
give you I'm gonna get he did. He never has
came through with my gift, my juice. He said he
was gonna give me a lot of tall No Walt,
and I sure didn't get any threadbolts. We could definitely
use some microbolts in our next project.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You can absolutely, I'll give you a phone number and
we'll get you praised.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So is your business distribute through UH building companies or Yeah,
so we we sell on kind of three channels.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
We sell to structural fabricators like folks like steel fab
here in Charlotte. We sell to construction distribution. Hence I
can from white Cap, so you know, no four hundred,
five hundred sales guys out in the country that can
sell my stuff. And then we sell in the dot space.
So we do some bridge diaphragms and anchor bolts for bridges.
(31:58):
My wife phone is fifty one percent of us, so
we're a dbe business, so it helps us from a
dot perserctive and we and so we do sell to
some contractors, but mostly through construction distribution.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Got it. Yeah, My Jared Cheney down in Georgia works
in the bridge industry in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Now, yeah, we only do bridges or dot space projects
in North Carolina, South.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Carolina, and he's kind of that way in Georgia. Yeah,
so I think it's segmented that way, and typically you
have to be approved, right. Well, that is so interesting,
such a great story. You have two kids.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I have three kids already, eighteen year old who's a
senior in high school and twins that are sixteen, all boys.
I describe it as property damage Wow, three boys eighteen,
sixteen and sixteen replaced windows quarterly, not as they happen.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
So where's your son graduating from.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
He's graduating from IMG Academy in Florida.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
He placed.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
He's a football player, running back. He actually graduating December.
So he's home training for a semester before he figures out.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
What school to do like college football.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
We don't know where yet.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
But congratulations Dad.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Congratulations to him.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Way to keep, way to keep, the way to keep.
Congratulations Mom, that's right, mom, way to keep the tradition going.
Good luck. Thank you. I can't wait to hear more.
How can people look up your business?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
That www. Threadline Products dot com and we're on two
thousand dollars ross. You can find us any structural anchor
bulks you need or a structural threat of product or
miss Lanis Steel.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Great videase on your website you can explain the business.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Thanks you guys have done a good job.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Thank you for joining us today. Go do the Golden rule,
carry us, smile around on your face, treat others the
way you want to be treated at home with Roby
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