October 20, 2024 • 33 mins
Matt Magan, Co-Founder of Ten Oaks Group, joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. Tune in to hear about Matt’s education and career path to Charlotte, the start of Ten Oaks Group, and how the business is giving back to the community through the Ten Oaks Philanthropic Fund. Ten Oaks Group prides itself on funding CLTRising, a program founded by Matt and his wife, Elizabeth, in 2016. The mission of the program is to bolster college access for under-resourced students, and supports students and families at Vance, West Charlotte, Harding and West Mecklenburg. Learn more at https://cltrising.com/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning, Welcome to home with Roby Patrick. Because it
from Ruby Commercial in Services along the Trinity's from the
Ruby family of companies, we are your hosts Sunday morning,
nine to ten WBT nine nine point three eleven ten am.
We are here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I wonder if I am blowing our guest ear drums
out because I can't hear, so I don't know if
he's over there wincing or just just smiling, because it
looks like a smile WinCE.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We'll leave it as a cliffhanger until the hopefully everybody
else stay on until the end of the first savement,
and then we'll tell them who our guest is today.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You want to tell him now? Nope, No, nope, We're
gonna leave him and suspend.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Trying a bit better at hold my line, all.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Right, okay, understood, understood? How you doing? I'm good. I
don't want to start out on the somber moment. But
their industry unexpectedly lost a member of the plumbing community.
I want to make sure we send out some comcastes
to uh to Chad six and his family. Godink, I
mentioned that to you earlier. You did suddenly pass away
(01:12):
this week, which is, you know, weighing on a lot
of people's hearts. Hearts heavy. Well, Uh, take a moment
of silence for Chad. Yeah, God bless him. Yeah, man,
never know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Man, Hey, you gotta live every breath like it's the
last homie. They write songs about that stuff, and uh,
I think we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Hear a little bit about that today. I got a
little something to pick our guests about on doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, But you know, when we were young, and guys
in their forties and fifties were old.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now we think now we think we're young. We do.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But I'll tell you this, the fall nights have arrived.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And the in the cool mornings. I mean we're both
in here. You've got a big sweatshirt and I've got
a police jacket.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And ad and tell you I'm wearing long Johns.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You must be about to spend some time outside.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's gonna be sixty degrees high today.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's like the peak.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, that's like if it hits it for a minute.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
They team sixty. I used to think. I used to be, oh,
it's gonna be sixty five.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of grades, you wear shorts today when you're in high school.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It was really like forty eight all day.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's like sixty five for five minutes between two and
three pm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But uh, last night, you know, I got these kids
playing evening sports and uh I Ford had a baseball game,
then Piper had an eight o'clock soccer.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Game down in uh this part. I can't think of
the name of the part. Mary. Uh, I can't think
of name of a park.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But it's got like eight soccer fields and this so
the wind just gets down that holler and through it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I was doing laps around the soccer field eight pm. Yeah,
it probably was pretty cold. It was cold.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Scarlett had a softball game the other night, and like you,
I went in shorts and a T shirt like an idiot,
and then son started going down. Thank goodness, the school
is real close to our house. I'd to run back
and get a sweat shirt. I'm glad you claim being
an idiot. Well, I mean it's if you can get
on it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Martha Rivers Park in Gastonia, all right, I just looked
it up.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's a wonderful part. Man. It gets crowded.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They got like eight baseball fields, eight eight or ten
soccer fields. A big playground area that Knox will punch
you for again.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Let me go play cuz I'm like, no, I'm freezing.
We're leaving.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Heard.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, but Knox is ready.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Man, he's kind of getting into he's four and a half,
kind of getting into wanting to play some basketball. I
want to play a little pickleball, want to throw the football.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I mean, he can't do any of it, but he's
kind of getting into. Won't that's good man. Ford needs
to teach him up, get him out there. I think
Ford bullies him a little bit. Well, we had big brothers,
you know what that's like.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I think they get along great, but he's still bullies That's.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What I think. That's part of that. That's part of
the right of passage of being the younger brothers. You're
gonna get bullied, and then your brother's friends are gonna
bully you too. You know how that goes?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And say, well, the problem is Ford's always been like
fifty sixtieth percentile on his weight and height and not
it's always been in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Sonox might take it to him.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He got a little beef on him. I mean he's
wearing like, I don't know, the shoe sizes. But what
Ford wore when he was seven, Knox wears now.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I have a very close friend who has two boys,
and the youngest one definitely takes the oldest one down. Really,
he's a wrecking ball. That's what I deal with. Travis.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh yeah, my big six ' five brothers. Sure get
those paws around you going down. I mean, it's bad
when your brother's about.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
A foot taller. I understand.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I had the same thing coming.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Up, and he's really had those long legs that get
out chase me down.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
See that's where I could. I could get away. Okay,
I could run, but you're your brother would take it.
He's faster than you too.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, you know, I learned about deception and high school
because everybody thought I was real quick basketball and baseball
real fast.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I wasn't fast.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I was quick, get going real quick if I didn't
have to go far.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They never knew.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But when I would round first and run the second,
they called me piano man said, I had a piano on.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
My bath time. You with a calendar.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's pretty bad when you're five nine and a half
and they put a pinch runner in for you on
second base. Come on, man, did you even told us
that before? I didn't know if I'd ever said that.
I've always kind of been a little a little heavy
inferiority about it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, I'm glad you're come and clean on.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Trying to divulge all my demons gotch uh, let them
out so I can live.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The next next day, well, we had some pretty good
I want to talk about something to that we both
were part of this past weekend. Then your church on
a wonderful golf tournament. Oh yeah, that was fun. That
was a great time. That was good and I hadn't
played out there, I know as Renaissance. Yeah, what's the
theme of it now? Oh it's named after the old
city manager. That's gonna drive me nuts. But but this
(06:05):
is we had a good time, Harry Jones. Harry Jones. Yeah,
and what what a great I mean it is in
such good shape. I mean I was. It's gonna be
in better shape probably the next six months to a
year with all the work they've done.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The real cool thing was my my daughter Tatum, who
who's taken up GoF got to play, and my father
in law got to play.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Tom Settlemer has been on the show. Uh, we had
a great time.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You hit old Jason Zimmerman, got to hang out with one.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Of our staff, so got to get to know him
a little better, just like we're gonna get to know
Matt mcganb a little better today. Ken Oaks, amongst other things, endeavors.
I think he's a man of many skill sets, so
I can't wait to learn about him, his upbringing in
his family. I know enough to ask a question a question,
(06:52):
So I got the rest you're listening to at Home
with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Welcome back that Home with troby Patrick mccasac from Ruby
Commercial and Services on trying to hear some from the
Ruby family of companies. You've missed the last segment, go
back knocks beating up for it. You can learn all
about it. Hear all about it. I'm just joking, Trent,
but if you miss us, go back. Check us out
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you can find out.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I have to say, Patrick, you had a little pep
in your voice when you came on there.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Didn't you like that?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Hey, Oh sounds like you're having a good a good week.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It is a good wee. It's a man. I love
this weather. You know you get cold easily, but uh,
there's something about something about walking out the front door
in the morning with that nice crisp just feels good.
I like it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
What's up, Matt?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, thanks for coming on. You still want to do
this after the first segment, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So I have to tell this real quick story.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was going out of town Sunday down to Lake
kiaw Wee for a forum retreat Sunday afternoon. I use
my phone for directions. I put the address in. I
don't know where I'm going. Uh, take me through all
these back roads. I got my phones dying. I'm like,
how I get gas and plug my phone in at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I plugged my phone.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
In at four percent and it quickly goes down and
it's not charging to one percent. And I wrote down
like the first three of the nine turns told me
about in a two hour trip. Got a little scary
and took me about six.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Hours and you were back in Those are the backwoods
of the Clemson Greater Clemson area were you were out there?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
My charging portal on my on my iPhone. This iPhone
I've had longer than most is a.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Little tired, which I'm all about it, but uh, you
have that. I would say life expectancy for Trent's phone
is very small.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Always you said before six months, but I think I've
had this one.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
For about two three years. I'm impressed.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
But I got me.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I got me a new one on order that will
have a charging portal. I think my exact words is,
I never want to be reincarnated into your phone as
my phone, as your phone. That's a yeah, as your phone.
You want to jump in my phone? I don't know
about that.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I don't know if you want.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's two different things that seems like a lot. One
one's physical abuse, other one's mental abuse.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We're familiar with both.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
How you doing, Matt, great? Good, Thanks for coming on
the show man.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Thanks for having me. Guys. Yeah, long time listener, first
time calling.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Oh wow, I have to call you here.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Matt is a fellow y p O.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Cool right and uh he is in form with many
of our show multi guests, David Stoffel, John Tamarrow, Lee Cornwell,
David shefferd just his name a few exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Very cool. I didn't know that I talked to mister
Tomorrow this morning. In fact, I did. Yeah, that's that's good.
That's good. Yeah. So you you you have obviously listened
to the show.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, absolutely, that's great.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So tell us, you know the you'll tell us a
little bit about yourself. Where'd you grow up? Let's maybe
we start there.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Sure, grew up in Maryland on ten Oaks Road. Uh
and uh again Clarksville.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I've learned something already.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Let's go ten Oaks group.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Matt mcgah exactly.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So grew up in Maryland.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
First couple of years of college, went to Dickinson College,
play a small time D three football before I realized
I was not very good at the sport.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sweet musician, Did you play left out?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Just kidding that left left?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's pretty good?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, but the defensive back, the little popper turn and
kick return but nothing uh dB the brag.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
About man, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Uh And then after two years decided to Transferreierency Maryland,
graduated from there and then came down here after graduating
in o seven. Uh at Wacoba it's now wells and it
actually went back to Baltimore six months later for a
to help my dad with a food business that we
had started together while I.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Was in college.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And then came back to Charlotte eight kind of late
O eight for a small privacuity firm in town.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Wow, interesting timing there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Time out you started a food business, yes, your dad
kind of food.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
So I was in this program at you see Maryland
called Henman CEOs where you uh getting his entrepreneurship program.
Brian Henman's founder of Polycom, got to a conference call
hardware business and uh he started this program that encouraged
you to start a business in your junior and senior
year is an undergrad and so uh once my dad
we put together this business plan. My dass kind of
a farmer, greenhouse guy, an old small landscaping business, and
(11:31):
we raised a couple hundred grand couple together and started
a small food processing business in glen Burny, Maryland. So
we were making soup, sauce and white label prepared meals
for some whole foods vendors.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
And so started in college, took this job uh in
here in Charlotte, and then the you know eight came,
seven O eight came. The company wasn't doing that well
and COVID fact that that business. It did, okay, did so,
moved back to Baltimore for like six seven eight months
kind of help right size the business a little bit
or kind of help a small struggling, fledgling family family business.
(12:06):
And yeah, and then move back here Charlotte. Did y'all
get us later? Did y'all get it back going?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So we did.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
It lasted another like two three years, but it never
it didn't end up working out.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Your dad said he was going back to landscaping exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Did you grow up doing landscaping?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I did?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, so it started.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
What was your favorite role in that business?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah? So when I was like nine or ten years
olds are going down the cruise and picking up trash
and using the blower.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
It finally got graduated to the laser mowers right where
you can move those around kind of the three sticky
turn guys. And so that was easily the favorite one
because you're right right walking around picking up the trash
in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Wow, And uh, did you wear a plugs?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No? I didn't, which may just explain something. Yeah, that's
my problem.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I guess tell you. You're right, none of us probably
ever wore your place cutting grabbed my brother. I had
a lawn service growing up, very small. But yeah, we
never got four your plugs either.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Never quick question, Are you sad that the University of
Maryland is not in acc anymore?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Very sad?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, it doesn't feel right, not not playing you.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We have Stanford in California and Esson's going on here.
I really talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
It's a little disheartening, all.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right, So you you got to did you always have
think about Charlotte or did just wat COVID? Well, it's
Fargo pulling you here and make you realize what Charlotte was.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Yeah, well, so Charlotte's the target. I didn't get any
jobs in Charlotte, and so I actually took a job
at sun Trust in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
This is a wild story.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
So I'm driving down eighty five to move into an
apartment in Atlanta. I get a call from the WACOVIE
recruiter saying, we just had somebody drop out of the
analyst classes.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Are you interested? Yeah? And so I do it.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
You turn on eighty five, really rent something on Craigslist
for a couple of weeks, And that's my Charlotte story.
So if I hadn't got that call, I probably wouldn't
be in Charlotte right now.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
See, Wow, the way the world worked, man, that is
so cool. That is cool.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So, uh, you helped your dad and then you came
back to Charlotte started working, you said, for a local
private equity firm.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah, a part great firm here in town. Worked with
them a couple of years, then moved into York do
a couple of years at a firm up there, and
then went to business school in Philadelphia and they came
back down here.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well what school did you attend in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Wharton? Wharton? Wow, pretty pretty decent.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I dug into that one.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He was being mids He's sudden bodies goodness gracious And then, uh,
what's the when after after business school you came back
to Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Yeah, it came back to where I got, same firm
for five years and then left about five years ago
to start Tennis Group.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Cool? So is ten Oats Group?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Tell us who's part of it and how it came about?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
So CO found it with my uh really good friend, uh,
Mike Han. So we started about five years ago and
I knew Mike through my brother who they played football
together at Carnegie Mellen. It's another D three story. So
we have more D three football players that are a
firm than most people.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think, another pretty halfway decent school, gracious than I am.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Goodness gracious. So y'all know each other through your brother. Yeah,
you said, hey, let's go do this.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So all we do is we buy corporate divestres, which
means we try to buy small divisions that larger companies
are trying to sell. They may not be a fit
for their company anymore or fit for their go forward strategy.
So we're trying to buy from Fortune five hundred companies
the small divisions they don't want anymore. I had some
exposure to corpor devestres before starting Toenno's group, as did
my partner Mike on the consulting side, and so good
(15:29):
friends and also having the same experience.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Try to go out and try and hang a shingle.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So is there I like hanging a shingle? Yeah, that's
good reference. Is there any particular industry that you go
after or you don't go after?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, good question.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
So we don't do anything in the firearms space, really
haven't done anything in the alcohol space or tobacco space.
Other than that, we'll kind of do a broad range
of industries. So we've probably done about half of our
businesses have been software tech enabled services. Have them been
manufacturing in about? Half been here in the US, half
been outside the US.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wow, man, how do they find you or how do
you find them?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Question? That's a great question to ask my partner, Mike
So he is, He's like, answer that question. Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
So Mike helps lead a lot of sourcing advert in
adition to running the firm obviously with me and and
he has built a great team of investment leads that
go out and build great relationships and try to get
in front of the internal m and A or the
corporate development teams of these corporates that you know, evolvingly
have visibility into what they may or may not be
a good fit going forward.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I got a couple more questions eight and a half
nine years. First first one of this this industry, right, the.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
First one of this?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, yeah, there's more too, more to this football player.
I got it all.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, we'll be back.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You're listening to Matt McGahn on the at Home with
Roby show.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Come back to that home with Roby. Patrick mc isaac
from Roby Commercial and Services on the Trent Hayston from
the Roby Family of Companies. We are your hostess with
Matt McGahn ten Oaks Group. If you miss the last
couple of segments, check us out on Facebook, LinkedIn Instagram,
anywhere podcasts are found. You can find that at Home
with Ruby show. And you can see Trent smile and
mug from probably about six years ago. Seven years ago
(17:20):
our pictures on the website from the show I.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Had My forehead was bigger then you gotta kind of combed.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Over to today though you're looking like it's it's like
a six finger forehead.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Make you wonder if there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We know some of those folks, don't we mad You
said you would never use it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well, then to take me from my work.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Because if I remember it correctly, like what man, if
I come on hard times, I can't afford a road gain,
it all goes instantly.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Be thin, not the thin most gentleman, won't.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Man? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Uh, okay, well cool, So how'd you meet your wife?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So we met in New York.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Really yeah, it turned out we went to the same gym,
lived on the Lower East Side together.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Rest is history.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Very cool.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We've been married eleven years.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Eleven years.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Congratulations, Well were you were you sparring.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
At the gym?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Now not at the time. I was fart at the time.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Actually, I heard a little bit about this in the
in the waiting room. You are a boxer too, or.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Not a good one? Uh so I try to be.
I love the sport, but I'm not very good at it.
But I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, well bet you still do? You still get around
doing that ever? Now?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah? Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So you're are you? You're forty years old, almost forty
thirty nine. Okay, So but when you grew up, you
boxed a little bit, right, Okay, And man, that's something
I didn't get introduced to. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We just had like the old boxing gloves that were
like my grandfathers, and we just beat the you know
what out of each other in the basement. That was
my boxing experience. I have a boxing story I cannot
tell it on.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But man, I heard that you. I heard you've been
training for about a year. Yeah, and you just had
had a big fight here recently.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You heard about that, Yeah, a big fight.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, let me just tell you your your buddies, who
are my buddies.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We were proud of you, are proud of you.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That's nice here and I said, you did really good
and they're very impressed with your how you trained and
focused and put forth this, put forth this effort. I
think you've been on a on a no alcohol for
a good while.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm learning at all. Man. You know, so who did you?
Who did you? Who'd you fight? Here? I mean, tell
can you tell us a little bit about that? It's
really interesting?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yes, I did a us A boxing tournament up in
Atlantic City last month.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh cool?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
And so so you don't know you're gonna fight beforehand, right,
and you show up, you weigh in, and depending on
who winds, they bracket you up.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And uh so it is by way they don't you
know how like a Vander Holyfielder on the other side
of you or anything, hopefully not would be terrible.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But it's dude, I mean, this is unbelievable US amateur, right,
I mean, you thought a true amateur it was more.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Seriously, I thought it was gonna be So I'm glad
my wife Lizzie. Uh is awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Obviously in a lot of ways, but she, uh, she
helped me calibrate for the fight. I was kind of
thinking I would be a lot of the other guys
my age who you know, picking up the gloves again,
and it was people don't drive from Florida to Atlantic
City to uh because they're bad at boxing, Let's put.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It that way.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And they're a little generally the age range is a
little younger sometimes that right sometimes.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Although so what I did is I did a master's division,
so it's thirty five, thirty five and older to mean
a thirty five to forty five year olds typically. So
it was my age group, which is good, but uh,
there were people that are way more athletic than I
was there.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It is pretty cool on the internet on a video
of some sort of course.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't know. So there is a USA Boxing site.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I actually don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If they videotaped it.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Uh, that's cool. That's something I can say. I've never done.
You tread, No, That's why I wanted to talk about it.
That's you're so impressive.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It's not too late.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Shows about shows.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
About your will and determination. So you've been married for
eleven years to Lizzie. Yeah, and how y'all have children.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
We do.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
We have three.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
We got a five year old to start a kindergarten,
got an almost three year old, and got a just
turn one year old.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Man. What uh sex? What boy? Girl? Uh? Girl? Boy
boy girl boy boy I got.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I got two young boys, and you have three girls.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The girls are a lot more uh. I mean, I'm
not talking academic, but in my experience, are a lot
more smarter and put it together in a lot of ways.
You just don't scratch your head as much looking at
them grow up exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
So we're gonna try to number four. We'll hope it's
a girl. Do realtor to Man's.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right, you might, you might, you might double down trying
to catch up to you. Man, that's good. Are you
is four or five?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Five? Maybe not five? Depending Well, we'll see how four
goes if we get there.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Look, man, God bless you.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That is so great.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Man.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I love people to want to grow their families, you know,
and especially when you're in the throes of it, because
because you hear a lot of people like, oh, we
thought we would have three or four, but man, it's
been so hard with this one.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I'm like that that's an angel.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Have you met four?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We had Ford in here one day and he was
laying on the floor and I think he tooted on
you passion.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, that was that was. That was nuclear. That was TJ.
TJ remembers that, TJ. You remember that it was a
trench just kept going like nothing happened. TJ over here
vomiting in the trash can forge is laughing. That was.
That was.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That was. I've always been very vocal.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I've been very vocal, but I can't hear well from
all the equipment and the and the stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I don't think I can smell that well. COVID did
that to.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Me too, I can't can't. I really have not smelled.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Good since I think I had COVID.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Uh. And my eyesight I've always had twenty twenty vision
and these gorgeous blue eyes and going it's going down.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Did you really just say that? I did?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But you know, I don't know if it's AI doing this,
but I see these articles pop up and they talk
about there's there's two inflection points in aging, Like you
don't gradually age, just like you age at forty six
and at fifty five or something or sixty.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I did see that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Actually, I've been seeing this and I'm forty six.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I can feel it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's happening to me now.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And the thing is, when I say that out loud,
I think my phone is like, Nope.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Taking let's give him some ads arthritis ad rogaine AD.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's a lot of hearing ages, maybe hearing eight here
and there. I got you, I gotcha.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I think my wife's talking to my phone, but please
get him a hear in eight.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Oh lord.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So when when we talked about you coming on the show,
you said you had some charitable endeavor that you look
that you're interested in and what you like to support.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You will talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So as we have grown ten ogs a little bit
the last five years, uh, me and my wife made
a commitment that for every business we have that's successful,
but some of that donated some of that stock into
a of tent oax pilanthropic fund and then that goes
to fund really Charlotte based charities that we've either started
or helped us start, primarily among other things. And then
(24:43):
so the main thing that we fund is the thing
on Sealty Rising that me and my wife started about
eight nine years ago before ten o's and it started
just as college access and so it was really going
We started at harding You're you're all the matter started
there and really finding to one high schools that have
IB programs, so you know, kids maybe have kind of
(25:04):
high opportunity, low resource who are volunteering for more work
and basically started them as sophomores and give them kind
of two two and a half years of intensive weekly
sat ACT test tutoring as well as as college applications
come up, help them do essays, help them do fasta,
help them everything up to matriculation. Really, so we're doing that.
(25:25):
We now we're up to thirty kids in that program
per year. We started about a year ago. We call
Student Family Partnerships. Think of it as a kind of
a new spin on social work where we have ten
families primarily that have younger children where we're finding you know,
high opportunity families also with low resources. That's kind of
a refrain theme and really kind of giving them a
(25:47):
family concier, family planner effectively, a social worker that can
help them kind of really run family board meetings in
terms of goals that they want for themselves and help
them plan, not plan for them. And then also we
help them introduce them to resources that are available in Charlotte,
because we have great resources here in the city for
people who are having a little speed bumps in life.
(26:09):
And then also we come in and financially kind of
uh fill in the gaps for resources that aren't readily
availab by outside organizations, just to make sure those families
kind of have the same installation that we have right now.
It as it relates to day to day life.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Lizzy is the bomb.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
She is the bomb.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Let's go ahead and clear this up.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
How many are you at a certain number of schools?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Now?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Yes, so we do a wide variety of schools. We're
really focused on four four Yeah, what are they? Yeah,
so we got Advance West Charlotte, West, mech and Harding
are where most of the students are from. We also
get referrals and we have one person Huntersville, right and
so what we'll go wherever the need is.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So how can people look look that up and give referrals?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
So c lt rising dot com uh is there and
Chapman Archer and Marianne Hogan are the two executive directors,
but those two programs and they are legal man.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Celt Rising dot com it man helping out my alma mater.
I heard the other day our buddy Dan Bailey has
been on the show as assistant basketball coach.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Now it's kind of a new hobby of his.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So uh bart Noonan, you know, West Boulevard Ministries is
real big about Harty, he's been on the show. Anything
we can do to support our hometown and help help
this community is great.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
That is an awesome story. Will you stick around on
the last segment with us, all.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, Matt McGahn when we returned ten Oaks Group on
the at Home with Ruby show.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Welcome back to that Home with Ruby and Patrick mccaisik
from Ruby Commercial in Services on a Trent Hason from
the Ruby family of Companies. We are your hosts. And
this last few segments go check us out with Matt
McCann ten Oaks Group and then CLT Rising. We just learned.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I mean, we were having fun, fun, fun, and now
my heart's more and more and more. I told mad
I knew a little bit about this and that and
this and that. I didn't know anything if he had
not mentioned about his charity.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
So uh c L T rising while so powerful?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Man give give Lizzie a hug, Taylor Taylor, Trent's really impressed.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I want to hang out.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And if back in the day t J used to
could play all kinds of music on the intro.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't know if I'm breaking rules saying this, but.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean L L cool J. I'm gonna knock you.
I think they do. They do a disclaimer before our
show to say, hey, it's not the views of w
I think we can say whatever the heck we want
at this point. We can say it, but we can't
not his head and agree to it. I don't think
we can play it. Not that we can talk about him.
We can talk about him.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Then I'm gonna get a letter. Stop talking about me.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Uh he uh.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I didn't want you misconstrued what I was. I feel you.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
But him and these other folks are doing this concert.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's in a week right, yeah, And my daughters were
torn because this concert came about to support the folks
in the Carolina's tragedy of Helene. So sad, so sad,
and these these folks are coming together and doing polishing
(29:23):
their diamond, you know, and it's gonna be a.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's a powerful, powerful list.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But my daughter had a Halloween party on Bright Road
plan for her school friends, so she was torn.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
She loves ere at church and.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Some of those other folks. But wow, Keith Urban's even coming.
I mean I thought he was Australian Cheryl Crow.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I mean, there's all kinds of different folks coming in
shell Crow.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Man, she was popular when we were in high school.
I like me some Cheryl Crow back in the day day.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So we got our sweet sixteen yeah man.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Wishes. Uh, it's our sixteenth year.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
We've done it for seventeen COVID we had to do
a Walt for Wishes, raising money for at least the
last fifteen fourteen years, uh, solely for Make a Wish
of Central and Western North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Harris Teeter, co sponsor WBT radio hosts all cons actually.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I mean, and the really cool thing is we have
this legacy of continued support and we're able to add
more people and we're all about granting wishes for kids
with life threatening and the illness.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You can check it out Pitching for Wishes, Pitching without
the g pitching for wishes dot Com. You can go
see you learn all about it. You still come out,
come out and.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Play November to Second Freedom Part Email Christian if you
want to play. We might even have a couple a
couple slots where sponsors have some allow people to come in.
If you want to play, email Christian McCall or.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Or you can. I think you can probably hit it
up only I think you can. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I'm gonna cross the line here, start throwing out cell
phone numbers seven four to do so. We like to
tell a wish story ten shows leading up to leading
up to the November to second. So we're getting close. Patrick,
you gotta go wish story for us today.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I do. I got four year old wish kids. Ruth.
Her dream was to have a safe space we shared
where she and her family can enjoy being together. Ruth
lives with a nervous system disorder that makes sensory considerations
a significant factor in her everyday life. Thanks to make
a Wish Central in western North Carolina and the general
support of Akiya, Ruth's dream has become a reality. Her
(31:39):
room has been transformed into a sanctuary of pink princesses,
kind of like your room, Trent okay Uh and a
place where she can thrive. Her new room includes a
beautiful bookshelf filled with her favorite books, a play kitchen
where she can unleash her culinary creativity, and a collection
of plush animals to keep her company. One of the
highlights of her room is a cozy nook, perfect for
Ruth and her family to read and spend quality time together.
(32:02):
Ruth's mom expressed her joy saying, I've never seen her
so excited to be in a room. She loves it.
This transformation has not only provided Ruth with a safe
and enjoyable space, but has also brought happiness to her family.
Project was made possible by the dedicated efforts of Make
a Wish Central and Western North Carolina and wonderful volunteers Mikia.
Their hard work and commitment have made a significant impact
(32:22):
on Ruth's life, creating a space where she can feel
comfortable and joyful.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Go Ruth, Go Ruth, and go Ikea and go make
a wish, Go make a wish.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
That they're gonna have to look out of it when
Ruth gets a little bit older, and you know, they
got to send her to a room. This room. Sounds
pretty sweet.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
It sounds great.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It sounds like Oasis. So that was a good group
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
But you know, Man, I always talk about this and
and that story resonated. It helps the child that's been
battling this life threatening and illness and gives them uplift
and medical in the family.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think that's when it really.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Helps a family and it gives them hope and happiness distraction.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yes, really good.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Heck yeah, well, Matt, thanks for being here, Thanks for
having man, what a fun show.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And we're gonna go do a little hanging out after
the show. I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Now we have a little a little to talk about.
How can people look up ten Oaks Group?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Sure, so it's a ten T E n oaksgroup dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Cool okay? And c L T Rising dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That's cool. Yeah, TJ.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thanks for being here, Man, Thank you, mister Bob, Thank
you for joining us today. What a fun show. Is
good to be here in the cool weather. Go carry
a smile around on you face today and do the
Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Thanks for listening to that. Home with Ruby
Good morning, Welcome to home with Roby Patrick. Because it
from Ruby Commercial in Services along the Trinity's from the
Ruby family of companies, we are your hosts Sunday morning,
nine to ten WBT nine nine point three eleven ten am.
We are here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I wonder if I am blowing our guest ear drums
out because I can't hear, so I don't know if
he's over there wincing or just just smiling, because it
looks like a smile WinCE.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We'll leave it as a cliffhanger until the hopefully everybody
else stay on until the end of the first savement,
and then we'll tell them who our guest is today.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You want to tell him now? Nope, No, nope, We're
gonna leave him and suspend.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Trying a bit better at hold my line, all.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Right, okay, understood, understood? How you doing? I'm good. I
don't want to start out on the somber moment. But
their industry unexpectedly lost a member of the plumbing community.
I want to make sure we send out some comcastes
to uh to Chad six and his family. Godink, I
mentioned that to you earlier. You did suddenly pass away
(01:12):
this week, which is, you know, weighing on a lot
of people's hearts. Hearts heavy. Well, Uh, take a moment
of silence for Chad. Yeah, God bless him. Yeah, man,
never know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Man, Hey, you gotta live every breath like it's the
last homie. They write songs about that stuff, and uh,
I think we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Hear a little bit about that today. I got a
little something to pick our guests about on doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, But you know, when we were young, and guys
in their forties and fifties were old.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now we think now we think we're young. We do.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But I'll tell you this, the fall nights have arrived.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And the in the cool mornings. I mean we're both
in here. You've got a big sweatshirt and I've got
a police jacket.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And ad and tell you I'm wearing long Johns.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You must be about to spend some time outside.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's gonna be sixty degrees high today.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's like the peak.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, that's like if it hits it for a minute.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
They team sixty. I used to think. I used to be, oh,
it's gonna be sixty five.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of grades, you wear shorts today when you're in high school.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It was really like forty eight all day.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's like sixty five for five minutes between two and
three pm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But uh, last night, you know, I got these kids
playing evening sports and uh I Ford had a baseball game,
then Piper had an eight o'clock soccer.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Game down in uh this part. I can't think of
the name of the part. Mary. Uh, I can't think
of name of a park.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But it's got like eight soccer fields and this so
the wind just gets down that holler and through it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I was doing laps around the soccer field eight pm. Yeah,
it probably was pretty cold. It was cold.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Scarlett had a softball game the other night, and like you,
I went in shorts and a T shirt like an idiot,
and then son started going down. Thank goodness, the school
is real close to our house. I'd to run back
and get a sweat shirt. I'm glad you claim being
an idiot. Well, I mean it's if you can get
on it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Martha Rivers Park in Gastonia, all right, I just looked
it up.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's a wonderful part. Man. It gets crowded.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They got like eight baseball fields, eight eight or ten
soccer fields. A big playground area that Knox will punch
you for again.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Let me go play cuz I'm like, no, I'm freezing.
We're leaving.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Heard.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, but Knox is ready.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Man, he's kind of getting into he's four and a half,
kind of getting into wanting to play some basketball. I
want to play a little pickleball, want to throw the football.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I mean, he can't do any of it, but he's
kind of getting into. Won't that's good man. Ford needs
to teach him up, get him out there. I think
Ford bullies him a little bit. Well, we had big brothers,
you know what that's like.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I think they get along great, but he's still bullies That's.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What I think. That's part of that. That's part of
the right of passage of being the younger brothers. You're
gonna get bullied, and then your brother's friends are gonna
bully you too. You know how that goes?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And say, well, the problem is Ford's always been like
fifty sixtieth percentile on his weight and height and not
it's always been in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Sonox might take it to him.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He got a little beef on him. I mean he's
wearing like, I don't know, the shoe sizes. But what
Ford wore when he was seven, Knox wears now.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I have a very close friend who has two boys,
and the youngest one definitely takes the oldest one down. Really,
he's a wrecking ball. That's what I deal with. Travis.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh yeah, my big six ' five brothers. Sure get
those paws around you going down. I mean, it's bad
when your brother's about.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
A foot taller. I understand.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I had the same thing coming.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Up, and he's really had those long legs that get
out chase me down.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
See that's where I could. I could get away. Okay,
I could run, but you're your brother would take it.
He's faster than you too.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, you know, I learned about deception and high school
because everybody thought I was real quick basketball and baseball
real fast.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I wasn't fast.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I was quick, get going real quick if I didn't
have to go far.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They never knew.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But when I would round first and run the second,
they called me piano man said, I had a piano on.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
My bath time. You with a calendar.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's pretty bad when you're five nine and a half
and they put a pinch runner in for you on
second base. Come on, man, did you even told us
that before? I didn't know if I'd ever said that.
I've always kind of been a little a little heavy
inferiority about it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, I'm glad you're come and clean on.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Trying to divulge all my demons gotch uh, let them
out so I can live.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The next next day, well, we had some pretty good
I want to talk about something to that we both
were part of this past weekend. Then your church on
a wonderful golf tournament. Oh yeah, that was fun. That
was a great time. That was good and I hadn't
played out there, I know as Renaissance. Yeah, what's the
theme of it now? Oh it's named after the old
city manager. That's gonna drive me nuts. But but this
(06:05):
is we had a good time, Harry Jones. Harry Jones. Yeah,
and what what a great I mean it is in
such good shape. I mean I was. It's gonna be
in better shape probably the next six months to a
year with all the work they've done.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The real cool thing was my my daughter Tatum, who
who's taken up GoF got to play, and my father
in law got to play.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Tom Settlemer has been on the show. Uh, we had
a great time.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You hit old Jason Zimmerman, got to hang out with one.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Of our staff, so got to get to know him
a little better, just like we're gonna get to know
Matt mcganb a little better today. Ken Oaks, amongst other things, endeavors.
I think he's a man of many skill sets, so
I can't wait to learn about him, his upbringing in
his family. I know enough to ask a question a question,
(06:52):
So I got the rest you're listening to at Home
with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Welcome back that Home with troby Patrick mccasac from Ruby
Commercial and Services on trying to hear some from the
Ruby family of companies. You've missed the last segment, go
back knocks beating up for it. You can learn all
about it. Hear all about it. I'm just joking, Trent,
but if you miss us, go back. Check us out
on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere you can find a podcast
you can find out.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I have to say, Patrick, you had a little pep
in your voice when you came on there.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Didn't you like that?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Hey, Oh sounds like you're having a good a good week.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It is a good wee. It's a man. I love
this weather. You know you get cold easily, but uh,
there's something about something about walking out the front door
in the morning with that nice crisp just feels good.
I like it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
What's up, Matt?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, thanks for coming on. You still want to do
this after the first segment, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So I have to tell this real quick story.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was going out of town Sunday down to Lake
kiaw Wee for a forum retreat Sunday afternoon. I use
my phone for directions. I put the address in. I
don't know where I'm going. Uh, take me through all
these back roads. I got my phones dying. I'm like,
how I get gas and plug my phone in at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I plugged my phone.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
In at four percent and it quickly goes down and
it's not charging to one percent. And I wrote down
like the first three of the nine turns told me
about in a two hour trip. Got a little scary
and took me about six.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Hours and you were back in Those are the backwoods
of the Clemson Greater Clemson area were you were out there?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
My charging portal on my on my iPhone. This iPhone
I've had longer than most is a.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Little tired, which I'm all about it, but uh, you
have that. I would say life expectancy for Trent's phone
is very small.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Always you said before six months, but I think I've
had this one.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
For about two three years. I'm impressed.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
But I got me.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I got me a new one on order that will
have a charging portal. I think my exact words is,
I never want to be reincarnated into your phone as
my phone, as your phone. That's a yeah, as your phone.
You want to jump in my phone? I don't know
about that.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I don't know if you want.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's two different things that seems like a lot. One
one's physical abuse, other one's mental abuse.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We're familiar with both.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
How you doing, Matt, great? Good, Thanks for coming on
the show man.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Thanks for having me. Guys. Yeah, long time listener, first
time calling.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Oh wow, I have to call you here.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Matt is a fellow y p O.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Cool right and uh he is in form with many
of our show multi guests, David Stoffel, John Tamarrow, Lee Cornwell,
David shefferd just his name a few exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Very cool. I didn't know that I talked to mister
Tomorrow this morning. In fact, I did. Yeah, that's that's good.
That's good. Yeah. So you you you have obviously listened
to the show.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, absolutely, that's great.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So tell us, you know the you'll tell us a
little bit about yourself. Where'd you grow up? Let's maybe
we start there.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Sure, grew up in Maryland on ten Oaks Road. Uh
and uh again Clarksville.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I've learned something already.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Let's go ten Oaks group.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Matt mcgah exactly.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So grew up in Maryland.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
First couple of years of college, went to Dickinson College,
play a small time D three football before I realized
I was not very good at the sport.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sweet musician, Did you play left out?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Just kidding that left left?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's pretty good?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, but the defensive back, the little popper turn and
kick return but nothing uh dB the brag.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
About man, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Uh And then after two years decided to Transferreierency Maryland,
graduated from there and then came down here after graduating
in o seven. Uh at Wacoba it's now wells and it
actually went back to Baltimore six months later for a
to help my dad with a food business that we
had started together while I.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Was in college.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And then came back to Charlotte eight kind of late
O eight for a small privacuity firm in town.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Wow, interesting timing there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Time out you started a food business, yes, your dad
kind of food.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
So I was in this program at you see Maryland
called Henman CEOs where you uh getting his entrepreneurship program.
Brian Henman's founder of Polycom, got to a conference call
hardware business and uh he started this program that encouraged
you to start a business in your junior and senior
year is an undergrad and so uh once my dad
we put together this business plan. My dass kind of
a farmer, greenhouse guy, an old small landscaping business, and
(11:31):
we raised a couple hundred grand couple together and started
a small food processing business in glen Burny, Maryland. So
we were making soup, sauce and white label prepared meals
for some whole foods vendors.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
And so started in college, took this job uh in
here in Charlotte, and then the you know eight came,
seven O eight came. The company wasn't doing that well
and COVID fact that that business. It did, okay, did so,
moved back to Baltimore for like six seven eight months
kind of help right size the business a little bit
or kind of help a small struggling, fledgling family family business.
(12:06):
And yeah, and then move back here Charlotte. Did y'all
get us later? Did y'all get it back going?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So we did.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
It lasted another like two three years, but it never
it didn't end up working out.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Your dad said he was going back to landscaping exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Did you grow up doing landscaping?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I did?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, so it started.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
What was your favorite role in that business?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah? So when I was like nine or ten years
olds are going down the cruise and picking up trash
and using the blower.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
It finally got graduated to the laser mowers right where
you can move those around kind of the three sticky
turn guys. And so that was easily the favorite one
because you're right right walking around picking up the trash
in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Wow, And uh, did you wear a plugs?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No? I didn't, which may just explain something. Yeah, that's
my problem.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I guess tell you. You're right, none of us probably
ever wore your place cutting grabbed my brother. I had
a lawn service growing up, very small. But yeah, we
never got four your plugs either.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Never quick question, Are you sad that the University of
Maryland is not in acc anymore?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Very sad?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, it doesn't feel right, not not playing you.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We have Stanford in California and Esson's going on here.
I really talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
It's a little disheartening, all.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right, So you you got to did you always have
think about Charlotte or did just wat COVID? Well, it's
Fargo pulling you here and make you realize what Charlotte was.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Yeah, well, so Charlotte's the target. I didn't get any
jobs in Charlotte, and so I actually took a job
at sun Trust in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
This is a wild story.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
So I'm driving down eighty five to move into an
apartment in Atlanta. I get a call from the WACOVIE
recruiter saying, we just had somebody drop out of the
analyst classes.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Are you interested? Yeah? And so I do it.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
You turn on eighty five, really rent something on Craigslist
for a couple of weeks, And that's my Charlotte story.
So if I hadn't got that call, I probably wouldn't
be in Charlotte right now.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
See, Wow, the way the world worked, man, that is
so cool. That is cool.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So, uh, you helped your dad and then you came
back to Charlotte started working, you said, for a local
private equity firm.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah, a part great firm here in town. Worked with
them a couple of years, then moved into York do
a couple of years at a firm up there, and
then went to business school in Philadelphia and they came
back down here.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well what school did you attend in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Wharton? Wharton? Wow, pretty pretty decent.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I dug into that one.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He was being mids He's sudden bodies goodness gracious And then, uh,
what's the when after after business school you came back
to Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Yeah, it came back to where I got, same firm
for five years and then left about five years ago
to start Tennis Group.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Cool? So is ten Oats Group?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Tell us who's part of it and how it came about?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
So CO found it with my uh really good friend, uh,
Mike Han. So we started about five years ago and
I knew Mike through my brother who they played football
together at Carnegie Mellen. It's another D three story. So
we have more D three football players that are a
firm than most people.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think, another pretty halfway decent school, gracious than I am.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Goodness gracious. So y'all know each other through your brother. Yeah,
you said, hey, let's go do this.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So all we do is we buy corporate divestres, which
means we try to buy small divisions that larger companies
are trying to sell. They may not be a fit
for their company anymore or fit for their go forward strategy.
So we're trying to buy from Fortune five hundred companies
the small divisions they don't want anymore. I had some
exposure to corpor devestres before starting Toenno's group, as did
my partner Mike on the consulting side, and so good
(15:29):
friends and also having the same experience.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Try to go out and try and hang a shingle.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So is there I like hanging a shingle? Yeah, that's
good reference. Is there any particular industry that you go
after or you don't go after?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, good question.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
So we don't do anything in the firearms space, really
haven't done anything in the alcohol space or tobacco space.
Other than that, we'll kind of do a broad range
of industries. So we've probably done about half of our
businesses have been software tech enabled services. Have them been
manufacturing in about? Half been here in the US, half
been outside the US.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wow, man, how do they find you or how do
you find them?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Question? That's a great question to ask my partner, Mike
So he is, He's like, answer that question. Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
So Mike helps lead a lot of sourcing advert in
adition to running the firm obviously with me and and
he has built a great team of investment leads that
go out and build great relationships and try to get
in front of the internal m and A or the
corporate development teams of these corporates that you know, evolvingly
have visibility into what they may or may not be
a good fit going forward.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I got a couple more questions eight and a half
nine years. First first one of this this industry, right, the.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
First one of this?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, yeah, there's more too, more to this football player.
I got it all.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, we'll be back.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You're listening to Matt McGahn on the at Home with
Roby show.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Come back to that home with Roby. Patrick mc isaac
from Roby Commercial and Services on the Trent Hayston from
the Roby Family of Companies. We are your hostess with
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(17:20):
our pictures on the website from the show I.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Had My forehead was bigger then you gotta kind of combed.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Over to today though you're looking like it's it's like
a six finger forehead.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Make you wonder if there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We know some of those folks, don't we mad You
said you would never use it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well, then to take me from my work.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Because if I remember it correctly, like what man, if
I come on hard times, I can't afford a road gain,
it all goes instantly.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Be thin, not the thin most gentleman, won't.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Man? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Uh, okay, well cool, So how'd you meet your wife?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So we met in New York.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Really yeah, it turned out we went to the same gym,
lived on the Lower East Side together.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Rest is history.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Very cool.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We've been married eleven years.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Eleven years.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Congratulations, Well were you were you sparring.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
At the gym?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Now not at the time. I was fart at the time.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Actually, I heard a little bit about this in the
in the waiting room. You are a boxer too, or.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Not a good one? Uh so I try to be.
I love the sport, but I'm not very good at it.
But I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, well bet you still do? You still get around
doing that ever? Now?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah? Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So you're are you? You're forty years old, almost forty
thirty nine. Okay, So but when you grew up, you
boxed a little bit, right, Okay, And man, that's something
I didn't get introduced to. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We just had like the old boxing gloves that were
like my grandfathers, and we just beat the you know
what out of each other in the basement. That was
my boxing experience. I have a boxing story I cannot
tell it on.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But man, I heard that you. I heard you've been
training for about a year. Yeah, and you just had
had a big fight here recently.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You heard about that, Yeah, a big fight.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, let me just tell you your your buddies, who
are my buddies.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We were proud of you, are proud of you.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That's nice here and I said, you did really good
and they're very impressed with your how you trained and
focused and put forth this, put forth this effort. I
think you've been on a on a no alcohol for
a good while.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm learning at all. Man. You know, so who did you?
Who did you? Who'd you fight? Here? I mean, tell
can you tell us a little bit about that? It's
really interesting?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yes, I did a us A boxing tournament up in
Atlantic City last month.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh cool?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
And so so you don't know you're gonna fight beforehand, right,
and you show up, you weigh in, and depending on
who winds, they bracket you up.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And uh so it is by way they don't you
know how like a Vander Holyfielder on the other side
of you or anything, hopefully not would be terrible.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But it's dude, I mean, this is unbelievable US amateur, right,
I mean, you thought a true amateur it was more.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Seriously, I thought it was gonna be So I'm glad
my wife Lizzie. Uh is awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Obviously in a lot of ways, but she, uh, she
helped me calibrate for the fight. I was kind of
thinking I would be a lot of the other guys
my age who you know, picking up the gloves again,
and it was people don't drive from Florida to Atlantic
City to uh because they're bad at boxing, Let's put.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It that way.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And they're a little generally the age range is a
little younger sometimes that right sometimes.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Although so what I did is I did a master's division,
so it's thirty five, thirty five and older to mean
a thirty five to forty five year olds typically. So
it was my age group, which is good, but uh,
there were people that are way more athletic than I
was there.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It is pretty cool on the internet on a video
of some sort of course.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't know. So there is a USA Boxing site.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I actually don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If they videotaped it.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Uh, that's cool. That's something I can say. I've never done.
You tread, No, That's why I wanted to talk about it.
That's you're so impressive.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It's not too late.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Shows about shows.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
About your will and determination. So you've been married for
eleven years to Lizzie. Yeah, and how y'all have children.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
We do.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
We have three.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
We got a five year old to start a kindergarten,
got an almost three year old, and got a just
turn one year old.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Man. What uh sex? What boy? Girl? Uh? Girl? Boy
boy girl boy boy I got.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I got two young boys, and you have three girls.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The girls are a lot more uh. I mean, I'm
not talking academic, but in my experience, are a lot
more smarter and put it together in a lot of ways.
You just don't scratch your head as much looking at
them grow up exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
So we're gonna try to number four. We'll hope it's
a girl. Do realtor to Man's.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right, you might, you might, you might double down trying
to catch up to you. Man, that's good. Are you
is four or five?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Five? Maybe not five? Depending Well, we'll see how four
goes if we get there.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Look, man, God bless you.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That is so great.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Man.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I love people to want to grow their families, you know,
and especially when you're in the throes of it, because
because you hear a lot of people like, oh, we
thought we would have three or four, but man, it's
been so hard with this one.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I'm like that that's an angel.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Have you met four?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We had Ford in here one day and he was
laying on the floor and I think he tooted on
you passion.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, that was that was. That was nuclear. That was TJ.
TJ remembers that, TJ. You remember that it was a
trench just kept going like nothing happened. TJ over here
vomiting in the trash can forge is laughing. That was.
That was.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That was. I've always been very vocal.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I've been very vocal, but I can't hear well from
all the equipment and the and the stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I don't think I can smell that well. COVID did
that to.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Me too, I can't can't. I really have not smelled.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Good since I think I had COVID.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Uh. And my eyesight I've always had twenty twenty vision
and these gorgeous blue eyes and going it's going down.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Did you really just say that? I did?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But you know, I don't know if it's AI doing this,
but I see these articles pop up and they talk
about there's there's two inflection points in aging, Like you
don't gradually age, just like you age at forty six
and at fifty five or something or sixty.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I did see that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Actually, I've been seeing this and I'm forty six.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I can feel it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's happening to me now.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And the thing is, when I say that out loud,
I think my phone is like, Nope.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Taking let's give him some ads arthritis ad rogaine AD.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's a lot of hearing ages, maybe hearing eight here
and there. I got you, I gotcha.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I think my wife's talking to my phone, but please
get him a hear in eight.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Oh lord.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So when when we talked about you coming on the show,
you said you had some charitable endeavor that you look
that you're interested in and what you like to support.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You will talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So as we have grown ten ogs a little bit
the last five years, uh, me and my wife made
a commitment that for every business we have that's successful,
but some of that donated some of that stock into
a of tent oax pilanthropic fund and then that goes
to fund really Charlotte based charities that we've either started
or helped us start, primarily among other things. And then
(24:43):
so the main thing that we fund is the thing
on Sealty Rising that me and my wife started about
eight nine years ago before ten o's and it started
just as college access and so it was really going
We started at harding You're you're all the matter started
there and really finding to one high schools that have
IB programs, so you know, kids maybe have kind of
(25:04):
high opportunity, low resource who are volunteering for more work
and basically started them as sophomores and give them kind
of two two and a half years of intensive weekly
sat ACT test tutoring as well as as college applications
come up, help them do essays, help them do fasta,
help them everything up to matriculation. Really, so we're doing that.
(25:25):
We now we're up to thirty kids in that program
per year. We started about a year ago. We call
Student Family Partnerships. Think of it as a kind of
a new spin on social work where we have ten
families primarily that have younger children where we're finding you know,
high opportunity families also with low resources. That's kind of
a refrain theme and really kind of giving them a
(25:47):
family concier, family planner effectively, a social worker that can
help them kind of really run family board meetings in
terms of goals that they want for themselves and help
them plan, not plan for them. And then also we
help them introduce them to resources that are available in Charlotte,
because we have great resources here in the city for
people who are having a little speed bumps in life.
(26:09):
And then also we come in and financially kind of
uh fill in the gaps for resources that aren't readily
availab by outside organizations, just to make sure those families
kind of have the same installation that we have right now.
It as it relates to day to day life.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Lizzy is the bomb.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
She is the bomb.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Let's go ahead and clear this up.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
How many are you at a certain number of schools?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Now?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Yes, so we do a wide variety of schools. We're
really focused on four four Yeah, what are they? Yeah,
so we got Advance West Charlotte, West, mech and Harding
are where most of the students are from. We also
get referrals and we have one person Huntersville, right and
so what we'll go wherever the need is.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So how can people look look that up and give referrals?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
So c lt rising dot com uh is there and
Chapman Archer and Marianne Hogan are the two executive directors,
but those two programs and they are legal man.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Celt Rising dot com it man helping out my alma mater.
I heard the other day our buddy Dan Bailey has
been on the show as assistant basketball coach.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Now it's kind of a new hobby of his.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So uh bart Noonan, you know, West Boulevard Ministries is
real big about Harty, he's been on the show. Anything
we can do to support our hometown and help help
this community is great.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
That is an awesome story. Will you stick around on
the last segment with us, all.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, Matt McGahn when we returned ten Oaks Group on
the at Home with Ruby show.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Welcome back to that Home with Ruby and Patrick mccaisik
from Ruby Commercial in Services on a Trent Hason from
the Ruby family of Companies. We are your hosts. And
this last few segments go check us out with Matt
McCann ten Oaks Group and then CLT Rising. We just learned.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I mean, we were having fun, fun, fun, and now
my heart's more and more and more. I told mad
I knew a little bit about this and that and
this and that. I didn't know anything if he had
not mentioned about his charity.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
So uh c L T rising while so powerful?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Man give give Lizzie a hug, Taylor Taylor, Trent's really impressed.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I want to hang out.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And if back in the day t J used to
could play all kinds of music on the intro.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't know if I'm breaking rules saying this, but.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean L L cool J. I'm gonna knock you.
I think they do. They do a disclaimer before our
show to say, hey, it's not the views of w
I think we can say whatever the heck we want
at this point. We can say it, but we can't
not his head and agree to it. I don't think
we can play it. Not that we can talk about him.
We can talk about him.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Then I'm gonna get a letter. Stop talking about me.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Uh he uh.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I didn't want you misconstrued what I was. I feel you.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
But him and these other folks are doing this concert.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's in a week right, yeah, And my daughters were
torn because this concert came about to support the folks
in the Carolina's tragedy of Helene. So sad, so sad,
and these these folks are coming together and doing polishing
(29:23):
their diamond, you know, and it's gonna be a.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's a powerful, powerful list.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But my daughter had a Halloween party on Bright Road
plan for her school friends, so she was torn.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
She loves ere at church and.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Some of those other folks. But wow, Keith Urban's even coming.
I mean I thought he was Australian Cheryl Crow.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I mean, there's all kinds of different folks coming in
shell Crow.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Man, she was popular when we were in high school.
I like me some Cheryl Crow back in the day day.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So we got our sweet sixteen yeah man.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Wishes. Uh, it's our sixteenth year.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
We've done it for seventeen COVID we had to do
a Walt for Wishes, raising money for at least the
last fifteen fourteen years, uh, solely for Make a Wish
of Central and Western North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Harris Teeter, co sponsor WBT radio hosts all cons actually.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I mean, and the really cool thing is we have
this legacy of continued support and we're able to add
more people and we're all about granting wishes for kids
with life threatening and the illness.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You can check it out Pitching for Wishes, Pitching without
the g pitching for wishes dot Com. You can go
see you learn all about it. You still come out,
come out and.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Play November to Second Freedom Part Email Christian if you
want to play. We might even have a couple a
couple slots where sponsors have some allow people to come in.
If you want to play, email Christian McCall or.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Or you can. I think you can probably hit it
up only I think you can. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I'm gonna cross the line here, start throwing out cell
phone numbers seven four to do so. We like to
tell a wish story ten shows leading up to leading
up to the November to second. So we're getting close. Patrick,
you gotta go wish story for us today.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I do. I got four year old wish kids. Ruth.
Her dream was to have a safe space we shared
where she and her family can enjoy being together. Ruth
lives with a nervous system disorder that makes sensory considerations
a significant factor in her everyday life. Thanks to make
a Wish Central in western North Carolina and the general
support of Akiya, Ruth's dream has become a reality. Her
(31:39):
room has been transformed into a sanctuary of pink princesses,
kind of like your room, Trent okay Uh and a
place where she can thrive. Her new room includes a
beautiful bookshelf filled with her favorite books, a play kitchen
where she can unleash her culinary creativity, and a collection
of plush animals to keep her company. One of the
highlights of her room is a cozy nook, perfect for
Ruth and her family to read and spend quality time together.
(32:02):
Ruth's mom expressed her joy saying, I've never seen her
so excited to be in a room. She loves it.
This transformation has not only provided Ruth with a safe
and enjoyable space, but has also brought happiness to her family.
Project was made possible by the dedicated efforts of Make
a Wish Central and Western North Carolina and wonderful volunteers Mikia.
Their hard work and commitment have made a significant impact
(32:22):
on Ruth's life, creating a space where she can feel
comfortable and joyful.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Go Ruth, Go Ruth, and go Ikea and go make
a wish, Go make a wish.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
That they're gonna have to look out of it when
Ruth gets a little bit older, and you know, they
got to send her to a room. This room. Sounds
pretty sweet.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
It sounds great.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It sounds like Oasis. So that was a good group
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
But you know, Man, I always talk about this and
and that story resonated. It helps the child that's been
battling this life threatening and illness and gives them uplift
and medical in the family.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think that's when it really.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Helps a family and it gives them hope and happiness distraction.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yes, really good.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Heck yeah, well, Matt, thanks for being here, Thanks for
having man, what a fun show.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And we're gonna go do a little hanging out after
the show. I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Now we have a little a little to talk about.
How can people look up ten Oaks Group?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Sure, so it's a ten T E n oaksgroup dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Cool okay? And c L T Rising dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That's cool. Yeah, TJ.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thanks for being here, Man, Thank you, mister Bob, Thank
you for joining us today. What a fun show. Is
good to be here in the cool weather. Go carry
a smile around on you face today and do the
Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Thanks for listening to that. Home with Ruby
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