April 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Longtime Roby client and friend, Peter Hollett, joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. In 2024, Peter sold his business, celebrated his 40th wedding anniversary and welcomed his first grandchild into the world. Tune in to hear how Peter and his wife celebrated their anniversary by embarking on 40 impactful experiences throughout the year and about his new role spearheading a capital campaign for local non-profit, Furnish for Good.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to ad Home with Roby. I'm Patrick mc isaac
from Ruby Commercial in Services. On the Trent Hoason from
the Ruby family of companies. We are your hosts hosts
were podcasting. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Made me think of host sway host sway worse that
to come.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Give Hostway a shout out. Yeah, Pauma Hama.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah a great guy. Solid.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Let's see if he actually projeah check it out, let
us down. I sure was talking about you earlier. I was.
I was doing a project with our last guest, Dan Bailey. Yes, Patrick,
I got to ask you now that we're on film.
Oh yeah, during this podcast? What is your hat?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What is my?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It is a random Patagonia hat, uh that I thought
was cool. I am awaiting our fine marketing ladies put
a Roby store together where we got some really cool
hats there to come and we'll have to wear those
as soon as we get them. But my Ruby hat
like this has got the same as yours, got an
all sweat marked up.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, those those richards and hats get a little sweaty.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I like the hat.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I didn't know if feel represented America, but then now
that I look at it in more details, the hulk
if it is as a fish in it, right, Yeah,
we'll call that hault Piper.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Why is that because she fishes a lot? Okay, I
mean literally fishes a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So I bought this hat. Yet it's it's actually for piper,
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We'll call that hat the piper. All right, we've got
giving two good shout outs.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Already and we're only two minutes in.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So so the project that we've been talking about for
a little while, I'm gonna hold accountability, Reagan, you listen
to the show that is My Wonderful Wife, is to
make a worm farm, uh so that when we want
to go fishing in the river we have adequate worms,
because if it hasn't been raining much lately, you don't
(01:52):
have worms. And the worms little known fact or unknown fact,
the worms you buy at the local river gas station
called the Wilkmart are raised on a farm. They're not
raised around the land where the river is. And I
am a I'm forty almost forty seven years old now,
been fishing this same spot for let's call it forty years.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They don't catch the fit. The fish don't like them
like they like.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The worms from the yard or the woods at the river.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, let's unpack that a little bit. So you're gonna
build a worm farm.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, we're thinking thirty acres. No, that was that was
a joke.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Do you remember that the BV. Dub and Dumber when
he was like, yeah, I'm trying to be my buddy, Harry,
you're trying to save up to open her own pet store.
She's like, just don't talk to me please. He goes,
I got worms, and she goes, what that's what we're
gonna call it specialized. Well, that's what I just thought about.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So so about five or six years ago, across the
street from my house, Reagan had this idea. I wanted
a fire pit. I have this big on fire every year.
And we put a really nice brick brick from a
historic church that was torn down in Charlotte. We made
this really nice, humongous fire pit, and then this outdoor
area a little basketball court batch a ball excuse me,
(03:13):
pickle ball court. And then we did another square. It's
probably fifteen by fifteen raised brick, really nice sandbox. Collector
of crap. But uh, so Reagan decided this year to
turn it into a garden. Oh nice, So maybe we
(03:34):
can squalor off a couple of feet in the corner
and raise some worms.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well, I'll tell you what. We do a guarden every
year around spring break. Jody and Scarlet have done it
for four or five years and it's it's it's fun, man.
We all get involved. Me did you water the tomatoes?
Did you do the squash? Might throw a cucumber two
in there, but that's cool. Let me ask you a question.
What is better for property value the the That's where
(04:00):
I'll govid this. The fire pit in the basketball court
or to warm farm. What has a better ROI I
say that business, I'm thanking the fire pit. I've only
caught the woods on fire officially where the fire department
had to come one time. I've seen that before.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Maybe the fire department has has arrived several times, but
they've only had to arrive once.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What are you just laughing at?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Huge difference. They only had to go, They only had
to act once. They had to talk to you a
couple of times.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, the story goes, Uh, I had a bonfire in
my fire pit, and about three days later I wanted
to keep it clean and not get metal debris and stuff,
so I emptied it out into the woods.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We went on vacation. We were in the mountains.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
About seven hours later, my neighbors send me a picture
and the woods are on fire, and they're like, we
think we know how this started.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like what are y'all talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I've been there in seven hours, applausible.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And it got it burned down into the ground. So
it burnt for a couple of days, but it fortunately
nothing was damaged. And I made a joke. I lived
next to my mom where I grew up, and when
I came home after our vacation, so let's call it
a week later, I said, I cannot believe you burnt
the woods tried to burn down my building because I
have my stordar. She took it literally and thought I
(05:31):
was being a mean son. Mom. Uh. I was like,
I'm just joking, but I never owned up to uh
put putting the coals hot coals.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
In the leaves until now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But uh. Anyway, So Piper likes to fish. Did I
say that it's fun to see your fourteen year old
daughter catch big catfish on her own on the boat.
Dot she goes down there, hangs out, listen to some
music casts a couple of rods, and then she calls
me and says, I got a fish on the line.
(06:10):
You got to handle this yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Off the hood.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah she has, I mean her first couple of big ones.
She she she wanted the comfort of help, but she's gotten.
She's gotten pretty good. Actually, I said, she's.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
My number one angler.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, so Ford likes to fish. We got a couple
other neighborhood kids that like to fish.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm digging it. But I've never found anything that catches
fish in the Catabo River as good as local worms
out of the river dirt. But another thing that catches
good fish is uh no, it's clams that are floating
down the river because they're technically dead at that point,
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and they're opened up and they smell really good and
catfish love them.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We used to catch them with hot dogs two back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
We they use hot dogs when we don't have anything
or being lazy, but I don't think they work as well.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So I was with a I got a good fishing
story for you. I was a buddy with a buddy
on Sunday and he was telling a story about his
six year old son. They were fishing in a pond
in Florida and just using a bobber, and an alligator
came up and thought the barber was something they wanted
and hit the bobber and they said get the rod
in and said the kid ripped the rod and accidentally
hooked the alligator in the tail and read him in
(07:28):
an alligator no way, like three ft long.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's a fish tail.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Or technically an alligator tail, well, but literally an alligators
in the tail.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Catch that.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But anyway, we have our guests today and he plays
golf out at Quelhollow. And last year we went fishing
in the pond out at Quelhollow, which I did not know.
This is known to have some big bass and uh
and my good friend Doug Lebda had.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
His buddy and.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Professional angler I guess you could say grew up at
the coach seth helped us, me and my two sons
and we caught some big old bass. It was a
great memory. I'll show you some pictures, Peter. But I
would love to go f yi, Peter, I would love.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
To go fishing with you. At that point we can trade.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You can come to the river. Might not smell the same,
But Peter Hollot is our guest on the show. He's
a he's a wonderfully loyal Andrew Roby, Roby Family customer,
has patronized us for many years, a fellow YPO or
young President's organization. That's how him and I originally met,
(08:54):
and then a dear friend and goff and buddy, and
we just got We've grown to together so much.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
He's gonna tell us what he's doing in retirement when
we return on the at Home with Roby show.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
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that A Home with Roby. I'm patrickmcasac from Roby Commercial
and Services, along with Trent Hayson from the Roby Family
of Companies. We have our guests now in the studio,
(09:28):
Peter haul It from the newly formed Quail Hollow Worm
Farm franchise. Peter, welcome to the show. Thank you, hey, buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How you doing so far?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So good?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I've never talked about worms so much of my life.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, you know, you always gotta think of something. Yeah,
that's real and true, but we hadn't talked about lately.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Night fodder and not too dirty.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's right, you were saving that one. We could probably
take this off that real, but Kelvin, we could probably
fire us, so do well.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
When I was when I was introducing petering and hopefully
flattering Peter, I didn't say that my dear friend is
his spouse. Uh, Mary Beth and she started with some
other ladies. Uh found that a charity, Collins for Good,
and they've been they have been been on the show
(10:28):
several times. And uh my, my two oldest daughters are
doing a high school program with.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Furnish for Good.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Awesome, and uh that's great.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And and weekend before last I got wrangled into going
over there Saturday morning, eight o'clock and helping him do
some stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So you know, the the Mary Beth and her team
are really good wranglers. And they I'll get into the
wrangling that they've done on me too.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Oh got it, okay, I'll bet you get ranked is Yeah,
and her friends are wranglers too.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Absolutely, you calling them a team. They are a team.
They are a team.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So Peter is an entrepreneur, a business person, Young President's
Organization fellow member.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But but but you you were tired. Yeah. So last year,
early in the year, woke up and told my wife
Mary Beth, I said, I think it's time to sell
the company. With that, she was fine with selling, and
(11:37):
I knew how I was going to approach the subject.
And the target was acquired, and I spoke to the
target in February and we worked a deal out, came
to Fruition in October. Took a little while, but came
to Fruition in October. And so yeah, I'm currently unemployed
(11:58):
sort of here.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Until we get this worm farm going.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, I'm just well, you know, dad, I grew up
in in our family business and and I was wanting
to be a successful business person as a young Whooper
snapper in. My father say, son, you think you think
you're gonna do this and retire and not and do
just play all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And he said, you're not.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You're gonna always always be working. So, uh, my DNA
is a little different than your dad's. So I was,
you know, kind of looking at my I had a
you know, my.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Company, Thermokin Central Carolina's was not a large company. We
had a great, great team, and I was a little
worried about my team leaving me before I was, you
know whatever. So I had because I hadn't been really
involved for a while, so I really didn't know what
was going on. So I just made that decision and
(12:57):
it worked out well.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You talked about the emotional roller coaster of that, and
and you're kind of a sitting duck. It goes that way, right,
And then if you can.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Continue the legacy that gives them a vehicle to continue
making a living and supporting their family, that's the right
thing to do, right and right. And I think that
that was that is the case, And yeah, I feel
blessed to have had the controls of this organization for
a long time and blessed to be able to let
somebody else run it for a while.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think that is a great school set and it
is different from my father. I think that that other
generation carries more identity I think at times and purpose
through through that. I have more purpose with being with
five kids and then having friends like you guys, and
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and liking to get out and do other stuff. We
some golf and do other things like fish a little.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah. So I had a fairly big year in twenty
four with just stuff, you know, sold the business. Mary
Beth and I celebrated our fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh wow, congratulations Mary Beth. You get married young.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
She needs a medal or something. But so instead of so,
I came up with this brilliant idea for to celebrate
our fortieth anniversary. And I got a lot of mileage
out of not only my wife, but other people's wives too.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So, yeah, what are you what are you going with this?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I told Mary Beth. I said, you know, hey, instead
of doing a big dinner or going on a trip,
we travel quite a bit already. So I was like,
why don't we focus on having forty experiences that are
impactful this year? And she's like, oh, so that's that's
(15:00):
what we did. Throughout the course of the year we had,
we tried to come up with forty you know, different
this is in twenty and twenty four, right, Okay, twenty
twenty four tried just different experiences, either together or separately,
that were impactful in our lives, and it was really fun.
It was harder than you think to come up with
(15:20):
forty experience.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Say, so, what kind of things did you do?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well? We took our grown kids and their spouses to
Portugal for a big trip. That was obviously an experience.
That's one of the forty. Yeah, good gracious, keep going.
Mary Beth went to a huh, a nutrition camp in Austria,
which counted for her. You know, it's like up in
(15:45):
the Alps. Yah, yeah, just stunningly beautiful. The menu was
not to our liking.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
They didn't have any chicken wings and beer not so much.
All right, not so much.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Let's see what else did we do?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
We?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know, we did the going out to dinner things.
We saw some plays. Oh, I think we went to
we we went up to Chicago and York. Did you
did you sculpt the forty items together? Create them together?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Independently, but some together. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So you would kind of see something cool and be like, hey,
let's do this's what count towards the forty.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah exactly, that's awesome. Yeah, so it worked out. It
was kind of fun. And then I tell you what,
So going back to twenty four and got these forty
experiences going on, and one of the experiences was we
bought a house together up in the mountains, so we
moved from a condo to a house and and that's
all good. My friends Andrew Roby's like a side endorsement.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Work. Very appreciate we are.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, so anyway, so looking forward to getting up there
this this season. And then another experience we had was
Hurricane Helen came along right about the time we were
settling in up there, which disrupted everything in the mountains
(17:08):
and beyond. But you know, our place is fine, but
the mountain regions impacted for a long time. Yeah. And
then in October, the day I closed on the business sale,
our granddaughter Sloan was born.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Same day, same day. Oh my gosh, that's the heck
of it.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Didn't realize that it was kind of a busy week.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Sold one baby and a new one came in.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, and the new one is a lot more fun,
how uh more expensive to really what was that relative
to Helene hitting two three weeks after after? Oh man,
god bless. Yeah, it's crazy. So but yeah, she uh
Sloan is like six months now and just the cutest button.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, that is awesome, and this is your first grandchild yep.
And how are your How is is your daughter? Our
daughter and her it's your daughter and her husband, your
son in law. How are they doing?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
They are surprisingly good parents.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, I guess, like you know, Trent and I have
kids that aren't to that age yet. But it's hard
to I can only imagine how difficult it is to
think of your kids having kids. Oh absolutely, I mean
look at it. My daughter who Yeah, I'm not gonna go. Yeah,
I can only imagine how let me think about that.
We'll be there one day, God willing. But that's pretty cool.
What a scarlet fourteen fourteen, same as Piper. He's got
a couple of years. We had a few more, so
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you know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They they as new parents, they really take that baby
with them everywhere, and you know she's exposed to people
and sounds and experiences. She's been to an FC game already.
Wow does she? Does? She have a jersey? Probably her
dad is French. Oh really, yeah, she's got a jersey. Wow.
(19:09):
Those games get rowdy, f y. That's why I don't go.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I only go when I could be in the in
the prim and Pasha.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Saying the non rowdy section, I mean, you get.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I would definitely sit in the routy sections. But apparently
they toss a beer every time they score or something.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I've only been to one one game. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It's a certain section of the stage. I've only been
to two, but yeah, I've seen it and it's it's
it's open knowledge that if you sit there, you're gonna
get beer on you if they score.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Take an uber, Take an uber home if you sit
in that section, Yeah, because you drink it, you can
get incriminated with with the aura he roam with dogs.
With dogs, you get fleas. That's a cool thing here.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You Well, has Roby started working on your house in
the mountains? Yeah, they're doing They've done. I don't know
if I should have said that. Well, I'm not sure, Trent.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, they they the team up there has done a
great job of getting the interior stuff done while the
weather's been less than conduc to getting stuff done. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, we get probably Logan who runs that office is
in Christian. Those guys up there are fantastic, great representatives
of our brand for sure.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, we had Gym Roads on the on the podcast
a couple of months ago and he was champion, uh,
you know, helping rebuild the mountains. He was he was
speaking more of where he was born and raised in
the Ashville area, But but the Boone Banner Elk area
got hit hard as well.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Very similar, for sure. Yeah, both at the bottom where
the rivers are up at the top where the apparently hurricane,
I mean not only the hurricane went through, but tornadoes
came through.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We're gonna be digging, digging out of this thing for years.
I mean, just of the the people that are just
not able to be found, it's just terrible.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And all the all the wood that's on laying on
the ground right now, not helping with the wildfire situation.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh good point, we get a bad thunderstorm up there.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You're right, goodness gracious. So how has Mary Beth wrangled you? Oh? Well, so, yeah,
So I retired and then I recently interviewed for a
job that, as I told Mary Beth and Maggie, it
furnished for Good. I'm not sure I'm doing an interview
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for a job I'm not sure I want or I need.
And yet I'm now helping with the capital campaign that
furnished for Good is going to be doing to find
a permanent home. All right. So wow, we've got our
work cut out ahead of us. We've identified a couple
(21:56):
of spots that would make some sense. But for for Good,
like all or most or all charities in the Charlotte
area are finding themselves being pushed further and further out
because of the growth that we're experiencing. And that's all
good and fine, except especially in Furnish for Goods case
(22:18):
they're volunteers are not as likely to go further out,
and their donors are not as likely to go further out.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's right, Yeah, I mean the donors and even even
where they help people is.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
More urban, I would think, yes, for sure? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So Furnish for Good was founded by Mary Beth and
her cronies. Correct, and the mission I might get this
a little bit wrong, but the mission is to help
folks that have been homeless, that are getting their first home.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Correct, go shopping for a dignified process, Yah, wonderful, pick
out their furniture and have it delivered and set up
for them. And that's not only furniture, but I sold
on plates, yeah, Napkins, games, books for any I think
each kid in a family gets like seven books or
(23:14):
something from the little library that they have so it's
really a neat process. They work with thirty five or
forty partnering agencies in the Charlotte area to identify the
people that need the help. And you know, fortunately or
unfortunately depending on which they which way you look at it,
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their business is booming.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I remember when they when they first came on the show.
I think we were initially connected and it was ironic
that that mary Beth's on the board through Leslie Faulkner
initially and then had Leslie's Priscilla and mary Beth on
the show, and then they really were just getting off
the ground and then went over to the storage unit
where I think that was the first like really landing zone.
(23:58):
And now you have the place down Clay off Clinton Road,
I think correct, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So and that business park is being redeveloped. Yeah, it's
forty four acres one story office space that for the picking. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Surface park's yeah, in a prime prime real right along
seventy seven and Plant.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's now trying, but uh, but it is awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You go in there and even even in the original
facility and and it's like going into a furniture store
like Ashley Furniture or have its what what have you?
And when they were on the show last I told
them that I had never really shot for furniture, and
Reagan finished out my man cave and took me shopping
and it was actually in such an empowering experience. I
(24:43):
think it's such a wonderful uh mission and charity. So
congratulations on your nu joke, Thank you, wish me luck?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
See is this does this being your turning down the
franchise opportunity for the warm Farm formerly?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Unfortunately my time is going to be limited, understand and
worms worms, you know, they're slow.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
We might be beaten that one to death, especially if
you're the bird. Right, Oh man, really Paly gets a worm?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So are you Have you been swimming lately? Yeah? Yeah,
So actually getting ready to compete at h at the
United States Masters National champions No way, where's that two
weeks from now. It's in San Antonio. So there'll be
roughly two thousand swimmers in San Antonio, what from eighteen
(25:36):
to one hundred and eight And yeah, so I'm swimming
the thousand yard freestyle, the live hundred yard freestyle, and
the two hundred yard freestyle. Wow, I didn't even know
I was opening that can of worms.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
That's really cool. Oh well you were swimming at in
c State, right, is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
This?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Remember you're saying that when you came on last time.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, I've just been stuck swimming, you know, for the
last thirty forty years.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
How how many laps down in backs? Is a thousand
thousand meters?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, I mean it is what it is. But yeah,
but pace for me is super important, and so you
know you don't want to bonk in the pool? Gotcha?
What's that mean? Die?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I thought that's what it meant.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But how long does it take average roughly to swim
a thousand About eleven eleven and a half minutes?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay? Which is that's fast? Well, I mean it's fast,
but it's a long time to be yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So but yeah, it's going going good and I'm hoping
you know, I don't want to jinx myself, but I'm
hoping for a high finis a high place finish?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Have you always done this competition or is this a
new one of your forty things? Now?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I've been doing competition with three masters for a while
really sporadically, you know, sometimes I they have two national
events every year, so spring and then late summer. So
the spring one is in a twenty five yard pool,
and the summer one is in a fifty meter pool
like they swim in at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Wow, I've been around you enough to realize how humble
you are. Have you won one of these things before?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I've won nationals twice. Once in the pool.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I know you wouldn't say that way, I'll be asking.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
But once in the pool in Tempe, Arizona, and once
in the open water in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh. Wow, Lake Wiley have some of the river, Mountain Island.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Mountain Island there, you go right right up the river
my house. Some catfish in that river. Probably it's right
up the river. One damn separates my house from Mountain.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Iky they swim down to you. All that stuff comes
to you because it starts up in mountain.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He was swimming. If he urinated river, probably came by
my Probably doesn't happen. I'm very conscientious.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You gotta keep that water clean.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's the place you can.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I think it's that's still okay, man, that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm impressed. What else you got in your notebook? Well,
there's some I wrote golf down, but there's not much
to talk about, you know. I mean, you and I
are pretty level in golf. We have a wonderful time
playing together. I did have a recent lesson with Louise.
Oh we met Louise. Yeah, he's the man, so but
(28:31):
he does change what he told you the last time
every time.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's to keep you coming back.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I gotta let I got a question in golf.
When you take a lesson, do you how how for
how long do you remember the pointers?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think you know. In my case, we're talking about
like the ABC's, so I try to remember him really
well because they're so fundamental.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Well, during COVID, I can't play. I play in the
mountains and Peter plays with me a good bit and
we have a tournament that's traditionally a member pro tournament,
and during COVID they allowed it to be a member
of guest and I took Peter and we didn't fare
too well.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
We had a blast.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
We had fun, but not not a lot of quality golf.
But I was so excited about the next year.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I hit the pro up and said, hey, Peter and
I are in it again, and he said, hey, I
don't think Peter was a pro.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We're going back to member pro. I didn't mean to
change that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Pro pro swimmer, pro swimmer.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He is a pro swimmer.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
And I will say you're always positive and fun and
I really cherish our friendship. But when I see you
late morning or in the morning, I always say, did
you get did you get your swim in this morning?
That's kind of my thing, kind of gauge old how
positive you're gonna be well?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And that's that's funny you say it like that because
I think working for me, working out in the morning,
getting that done helps my mental clarity a lot, and
it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Like to you can tell big time around eleven. If
you don't, I'm the same way. It's just not as
I'm not as effective. Yeah, not effective anyways, but not
as effective.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
So do you have any more grand babies in the pipeline?
We're not allowed to ask those questions, but you and
Mary Beth are asking it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
We don't ask those questions.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Goodness, gracious, well, is it is it? Everybody talks about
how grandchildren are so wonderful?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
No, seriously, it is. It's unbelieved as a non grandparent.
We hear, Oh yeah, it's cooler than they all say.
I mean, I mean the grandchild is so special and beautiful.
In our case, I mean, our granddaughter, Sloan is the
most beautiful baby ever. Amen. I mean, she's so beautiful
(31:03):
and she's so happy, and you know, playing with her
for a couple hours and then giving her back to
her mom it was really nice.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Well, coming in here, you said you spent three hours
with Saloon last night.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, how was that fantastic? She slept for an hour
out of that three. Oh nice, that's awesome. Well, well,
I have said this on the radio before.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We have five children, Reagan and I and they're getting
a little older, seventeen down to five.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
But I used to think that it was all phony
when people, when women would see babies and go, oh
my gosh, you're so cute, and I'm like, that baby
is not cute. That's like the nastiest thing ever. I
don't want to touch it. I don't want to see it.
I don't want to smell it. And then you have
your own baby and you're like, oh my gosh, she's
the best thing ever. And then you do it times
(31:58):
five and so I can't imagine, and and uh, i'll let,
I'll let, I'll let. Uh there's no worm analogy, but
I'll let it do its course before I have, before
I start worrying about it, yearning for grand baby.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
H you're too young, it's like patience, how about that?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But maybe I can hang out with you and Marybeth
sometime and visit with Sloan as that'd be great. Well cool, well, pasture,
you got any words of wisdom for it?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't. I'm just so glad you came on the show.
We appreciate everything you do for us as a business
and and obviously it's a friendship. So yeah, this is great.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Thank you guys, Yes, sir, one question or are the other?
Are your buddies mad? When you talk about your forty
things in your fortieth anniversary year? Did you get them
in trouble?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I kind of, yeah. I mean it's not it's not
something I what I do is not for other people.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm gonna balance that off of Reagan. Uh, we might
do twenty four years and oh there you go, twenty five.
So first of all, you got to get the number right.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, it's gonna be important.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, three twenty twenty two, not twenty four. Get ahead,
twenty five sounds good. We're doing it, We're clicking. I
gotta ways to go before forty. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well, Peter, thank you for being here. Thank you'll.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, you're always so fun to visit with and hear
your stories and joke around. Thanks for listening to at
Home with Roby. Go do the Golden rule today, treat
others the way you want to be treated, and carry
a smile around on your face.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Thanks for listening.
Welcome to ad Home with Roby. I'm Patrick mc isaac
from Ruby Commercial in Services. On the Trent Hoason from
the Ruby family of companies. We are your hosts hosts
were podcasting. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Made me think of host sway host sway worse that
to come.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Give Hostway a shout out. Yeah, Pauma Hama.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah a great guy. Solid.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Let's see if he actually projeah check it out, let
us down. I sure was talking about you earlier. I was.
I was doing a project with our last guest, Dan Bailey. Yes, Patrick,
I got to ask you now that we're on film.
Oh yeah, during this podcast? What is your hat?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What is my?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It is a random Patagonia hat, uh that I thought
was cool. I am awaiting our fine marketing ladies put
a Roby store together where we got some really cool
hats there to come and we'll have to wear those
as soon as we get them. But my Ruby hat
like this has got the same as yours, got an
all sweat marked up.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, those those richards and hats get a little sweaty.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I like the hat.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I didn't know if feel represented America, but then now
that I look at it in more details, the hulk
if it is as a fish in it, right, Yeah,
we'll call that hault Piper.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Why is that because she fishes a lot? Okay, I
mean literally fishes a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So I bought this hat. Yet it's it's actually for piper,
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We'll call that hat the piper. All right, we've got
giving two good shout outs.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Already and we're only two minutes in.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So so the project that we've been talking about for
a little while, I'm gonna hold accountability, Reagan, you listen
to the show that is My Wonderful Wife, is to
make a worm farm, uh so that when we want
to go fishing in the river we have adequate worms,
because if it hasn't been raining much lately, you don't
(01:52):
have worms. And the worms little known fact or unknown fact,
the worms you buy at the local river gas station
called the Wilkmart are raised on a farm. They're not
raised around the land where the river is. And I
am a I'm forty almost forty seven years old now,
been fishing this same spot for let's call it forty years.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They don't catch the fit. The fish don't like them
like they like.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The worms from the yard or the woods at the river.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, let's unpack that a little bit. So you're gonna
build a worm farm.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, we're thinking thirty acres. No, that was that was
a joke.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Do you remember that the BV. Dub and Dumber when
he was like, yeah, I'm trying to be my buddy, Harry,
you're trying to save up to open her own pet store.
She's like, just don't talk to me please. He goes,
I got worms, and she goes, what that's what we're
gonna call it specialized. Well, that's what I just thought about.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So so about five or six years ago, across the
street from my house, Reagan had this idea. I wanted
a fire pit. I have this big on fire every year.
And we put a really nice brick brick from a
historic church that was torn down in Charlotte. We made
this really nice, humongous fire pit, and then this outdoor
area a little basketball court batch a ball excuse me,
(03:13):
pickle ball court. And then we did another square. It's
probably fifteen by fifteen raised brick, really nice sandbox. Collector
of crap. But uh, so Reagan decided this year to
turn it into a garden. Oh nice, So maybe we
(03:34):
can squalor off a couple of feet in the corner
and raise some worms.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well, I'll tell you what. We do a guarden every
year around spring break. Jody and Scarlet have done it
for four or five years and it's it's it's fun, man.
We all get involved. Me did you water the tomatoes?
Did you do the squash? Might throw a cucumber two
in there, but that's cool. Let me ask you a question.
What is better for property value the the That's where
(04:00):
I'll govid this. The fire pit in the basketball court
or to warm farm. What has a better ROI I
say that business, I'm thanking the fire pit. I've only
caught the woods on fire officially where the fire department
had to come one time. I've seen that before.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Maybe the fire department has has arrived several times, but
they've only had to arrive once.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What are you just laughing at?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Huge difference. They only had to go, They only had
to act once. They had to talk to you a
couple of times.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, the story goes, Uh, I had a bonfire in
my fire pit, and about three days later I wanted
to keep it clean and not get metal debris and stuff,
so I emptied it out into the woods.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We went on vacation. We were in the mountains.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
About seven hours later, my neighbors send me a picture
and the woods are on fire, and they're like, we
think we know how this started.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like what are y'all talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I've been there in seven hours, applausible.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And it got it burned down into the ground. So
it burnt for a couple of days, but it fortunately
nothing was damaged. And I made a joke. I lived
next to my mom where I grew up, and when
I came home after our vacation, so let's call it
a week later, I said, I cannot believe you burnt
the woods tried to burn down my building because I
have my stordar. She took it literally and thought I
(05:31):
was being a mean son. Mom. Uh. I was like,
I'm just joking, but I never owned up to uh
put putting the coals hot coals.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
In the leaves until now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But uh. Anyway, So Piper likes to fish. Did I
say that it's fun to see your fourteen year old
daughter catch big catfish on her own on the boat.
Dot she goes down there, hangs out, listen to some
music casts a couple of rods, and then she calls
me and says, I got a fish on the line.
(06:10):
You got to handle this yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Off the hood.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah she has, I mean her first couple of big ones.
She she she wanted the comfort of help, but she's gotten.
She's gotten pretty good. Actually, I said, she's.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
My number one angler.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, so Ford likes to fish. We got a couple
other neighborhood kids that like to fish.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm digging it. But I've never found anything that catches
fish in the Catabo River as good as local worms
out of the river dirt. But another thing that catches
good fish is uh no, it's clams that are floating
down the river because they're technically dead at that point,
(06:55):
and they're opened up and they smell really good and
catfish love them.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We used to catch them with hot dogs two back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
We they use hot dogs when we don't have anything
or being lazy, but I don't think they work as well.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So I was with a I got a good fishing
story for you. I was a buddy with a buddy
on Sunday and he was telling a story about his
six year old son. They were fishing in a pond
in Florida and just using a bobber, and an alligator
came up and thought the barber was something they wanted
and hit the bobber and they said get the rod
in and said the kid ripped the rod and accidentally
hooked the alligator in the tail and read him in
(07:28):
an alligator no way, like three ft long.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's a fish tail.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Or technically an alligator tail, well, but literally an alligators
in the tail.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Catch that.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But anyway, we have our guests today and he plays
golf out at Quelhollow. And last year we went fishing
in the pond out at Quelhollow, which I did not know.
This is known to have some big bass and uh
and my good friend Doug Lebda had.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
His buddy and.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Professional angler I guess you could say grew up at
the coach seth helped us, me and my two sons
and we caught some big old bass. It was a
great memory. I'll show you some pictures, Peter. But I
would love to go f yi, Peter, I would love.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
To go fishing with you. At that point we can trade.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You can come to the river. Might not smell the same,
But Peter Hollot is our guest on the show. He's
a he's a wonderfully loyal Andrew Roby, Roby Family customer,
has patronized us for many years, a fellow YPO or
young President's organization. That's how him and I originally met,
(08:54):
and then a dear friend and goff and buddy, and
we just got We've grown to together so much.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
He's gonna tell us what he's doing in retirement when
we return on the at Home with Roby show.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
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Roby servicesnow dot com. That's robyservicesnow dot com. Welcome back
that A Home with Roby. I'm patrickmcasac from Roby Commercial
and Services, along with Trent Hayson from the Roby Family
of Companies. We have our guests now in the studio,
(09:28):
Peter haul It from the newly formed Quail Hollow Worm
Farm franchise. Peter, welcome to the show. Thank you, hey, buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How you doing so far?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So good?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I've never talked about worms so much of my life.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, you know, you always gotta think of something. Yeah,
that's real and true, but we hadn't talked about lately.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Night fodder and not too dirty.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's right, you were saving that one. We could probably
take this off that real, but Kelvin, we could probably
fire us, so do well.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
When I was when I was introducing petering and hopefully
flattering Peter, I didn't say that my dear friend is
his spouse. Uh, Mary Beth and she started with some
other ladies. Uh found that a charity, Collins for Good,
and they've been they have been been on the show
(10:28):
several times. And uh my, my two oldest daughters are
doing a high school program with.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Furnish for Good.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Awesome, and uh that's great.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And and weekend before last I got wrangled into going
over there Saturday morning, eight o'clock and helping him do
some stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So you know, the the Mary Beth and her team
are really good wranglers. And they I'll get into the
wrangling that they've done on me too.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Oh got it, okay, I'll bet you get ranked is Yeah,
and her friends are wranglers too.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Absolutely, you calling them a team. They are a team.
They are a team.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So Peter is an entrepreneur, a business person, Young President's
Organization fellow member.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But but but you you were tired. Yeah. So last year,
early in the year, woke up and told my wife
Mary Beth, I said, I think it's time to sell
the company. With that, she was fine with selling, and
(11:37):
I knew how I was going to approach the subject.
And the target was acquired, and I spoke to the
target in February and we worked a deal out, came
to Fruition in October. Took a little while, but came
to Fruition in October. And so yeah, I'm currently unemployed
(11:58):
sort of here.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Until we get this worm farm going.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, I'm just well, you know, dad, I grew up
in in our family business and and I was wanting
to be a successful business person as a young Whooper
snapper in. My father say, son, you think you think
you're gonna do this and retire and not and do
just play all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And he said, you're not.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You're gonna always always be working. So, uh, my DNA
is a little different than your dad's. So I was,
you know, kind of looking at my I had a
you know, my.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Company, Thermokin Central Carolina's was not a large company. We
had a great, great team, and I was a little
worried about my team leaving me before I was, you
know whatever. So I had because I hadn't been really
involved for a while, so I really didn't know what
was going on. So I just made that decision and
(12:57):
it worked out well.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You talked about the emotional roller coaster of that, and
and you're kind of a sitting duck. It goes that way, right,
And then if you can.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Continue the legacy that gives them a vehicle to continue
making a living and supporting their family, that's the right
thing to do, right and right. And I think that
that was that is the case, And yeah, I feel
blessed to have had the controls of this organization for
a long time and blessed to be able to let
somebody else run it for a while.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think that is a great school set and it
is different from my father. I think that that other
generation carries more identity I think at times and purpose
through through that. I have more purpose with being with
five kids and then having friends like you guys, and
(13:55):
and liking to get out and do other stuff. We
some golf and do other things like fish a little.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah. So I had a fairly big year in twenty
four with just stuff, you know, sold the business. Mary
Beth and I celebrated our fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh wow, congratulations Mary Beth. You get married young.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
She needs a medal or something. But so instead of so,
I came up with this brilliant idea for to celebrate
our fortieth anniversary. And I got a lot of mileage
out of not only my wife, but other people's wives too.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So, yeah, what are you what are you going with this?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I told Mary Beth. I said, you know, hey, instead
of doing a big dinner or going on a trip,
we travel quite a bit already. So I was like,
why don't we focus on having forty experiences that are
impactful this year? And she's like, oh, so that's that's
(15:00):
what we did. Throughout the course of the year we had,
we tried to come up with forty you know, different
this is in twenty and twenty four, right, Okay, twenty
twenty four tried just different experiences, either together or separately,
that were impactful in our lives, and it was really fun.
It was harder than you think to come up with
(15:20):
forty experience.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Say, so, what kind of things did you do?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well? We took our grown kids and their spouses to
Portugal for a big trip. That was obviously an experience.
That's one of the forty. Yeah, good gracious, keep going.
Mary Beth went to a huh, a nutrition camp in Austria,
which counted for her. You know, it's like up in
(15:45):
the Alps. Yah, yeah, just stunningly beautiful. The menu was
not to our liking.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
They didn't have any chicken wings and beer not so much.
All right, not so much.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Let's see what else did we do?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
We?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know, we did the going out to dinner things.
We saw some plays. Oh, I think we went to
we we went up to Chicago and York. Did you
did you sculpt the forty items together? Create them together?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Independently, but some together. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So you would kind of see something cool and be like, hey,
let's do this's what count towards the forty.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah exactly, that's awesome. Yeah, so it worked out. It
was kind of fun. And then I tell you what,
So going back to twenty four and got these forty
experiences going on, and one of the experiences was we
bought a house together up in the mountains, so we
moved from a condo to a house and and that's
all good. My friends Andrew Roby's like a side endorsement.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Work. Very appreciate we are.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, so anyway, so looking forward to getting up there
this this season. And then another experience we had was
Hurricane Helen came along right about the time we were
settling in up there, which disrupted everything in the mountains
(17:08):
and beyond. But you know, our place is fine, but
the mountain regions impacted for a long time. Yeah. And
then in October, the day I closed on the business sale,
our granddaughter Sloan was born.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Same day, same day. Oh my gosh, that's the heck
of it.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Didn't realize that it was kind of a busy week.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Sold one baby and a new one came in.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, and the new one is a lot more fun,
how uh more expensive to really what was that relative
to Helene hitting two three weeks after after? Oh man,
god bless. Yeah, it's crazy. So but yeah, she uh
Sloan is like six months now and just the cutest button.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, that is awesome, and this is your first grandchild yep.
And how are your How is is your daughter? Our
daughter and her it's your daughter and her husband, your
son in law. How are they doing?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
They are surprisingly good parents.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, I guess, like you know, Trent and I have
kids that aren't to that age yet. But it's hard
to I can only imagine how difficult it is to
think of your kids having kids. Oh absolutely, I mean
look at it. My daughter who Yeah, I'm not gonna go. Yeah,
I can only imagine how let me think about that.
We'll be there one day, God willing. But that's pretty cool.
What a scarlet fourteen fourteen, same as Piper. He's got
a couple of years. We had a few more, so
(18:43):
you know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They they as new parents, they really take that baby
with them everywhere, and you know she's exposed to people
and sounds and experiences. She's been to an FC game already.
Wow does she? Does? She have a jersey? Probably her
dad is French. Oh really, yeah, she's got a jersey. Wow.
(19:09):
Those games get rowdy, f y. That's why I don't go.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I only go when I could be in the in
the prim and Pasha.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Saying the non rowdy section, I mean, you get.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I would definitely sit in the routy sections. But apparently
they toss a beer every time they score or something.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I've only been to one one game. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It's a certain section of the stage. I've only been
to two, but yeah, I've seen it and it's it's
it's open knowledge that if you sit there, you're gonna
get beer on you if they score.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Take an uber, Take an uber home if you sit
in that section, Yeah, because you drink it, you can
get incriminated with with the aura he roam with dogs.
With dogs, you get fleas. That's a cool thing here.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You Well, has Roby started working on your house in
the mountains? Yeah, they're doing They've done. I don't know
if I should have said that. Well, I'm not sure, Trent.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, they they the team up there has done a
great job of getting the interior stuff done while the
weather's been less than conduc to getting stuff done. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, we get probably Logan who runs that office is
in Christian. Those guys up there are fantastic, great representatives
of our brand for sure.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, we had Gym Roads on the on the podcast
a couple of months ago and he was champion, uh,
you know, helping rebuild the mountains. He was he was
speaking more of where he was born and raised in
the Ashville area, But but the Boone Banner Elk area
got hit hard as well.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Very similar, for sure. Yeah, both at the bottom where
the rivers are up at the top where the apparently hurricane,
I mean not only the hurricane went through, but tornadoes
came through.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We're gonna be digging, digging out of this thing for years.
I mean, just of the the people that are just
not able to be found, it's just terrible.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And all the all the wood that's on laying on
the ground right now, not helping with the wildfire situation.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh good point, we get a bad thunderstorm up there.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You're right, goodness gracious. So how has Mary Beth wrangled you? Oh? Well, so, yeah,
So I retired and then I recently interviewed for a
job that, as I told Mary Beth and Maggie, it
furnished for Good. I'm not sure I'm doing an interview
(21:33):
for a job I'm not sure I want or I need.
And yet I'm now helping with the capital campaign that
furnished for Good is going to be doing to find
a permanent home. All right. So wow, we've got our
work cut out ahead of us. We've identified a couple
(21:56):
of spots that would make some sense. But for for Good,
like all or most or all charities in the Charlotte
area are finding themselves being pushed further and further out
because of the growth that we're experiencing. And that's all
good and fine, except especially in Furnish for Goods case
(22:18):
they're volunteers are not as likely to go further out,
and their donors are not as likely to go further out.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's right, Yeah, I mean the donors and even even
where they help people is.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
More urban, I would think, yes, for sure? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So Furnish for Good was founded by Mary Beth and
her cronies. Correct, and the mission I might get this
a little bit wrong, but the mission is to help
folks that have been homeless, that are getting their first home.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Correct, go shopping for a dignified process, Yah, wonderful, pick
out their furniture and have it delivered and set up
for them. And that's not only furniture, but I sold
on plates, yeah, Napkins, games, books for any I think
each kid in a family gets like seven books or
(23:14):
something from the little library that they have so it's
really a neat process. They work with thirty five or
forty partnering agencies in the Charlotte area to identify the
people that need the help. And you know, fortunately or
unfortunately depending on which they which way you look at it,
(23:35):
their business is booming.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I remember when they when they first came on the show.
I think we were initially connected and it was ironic
that that mary Beth's on the board through Leslie Faulkner
initially and then had Leslie's Priscilla and mary Beth on
the show, and then they really were just getting off
the ground and then went over to the storage unit
where I think that was the first like really landing zone.
(23:58):
And now you have the place down Clay off Clinton Road,
I think correct, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So and that business park is being redeveloped. Yeah, it's
forty four acres one story office space that for the picking. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Surface park's yeah, in a prime prime real right along
seventy seven and Plant.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's now trying, but uh, but it is awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You go in there and even even in the original
facility and and it's like going into a furniture store
like Ashley Furniture or have its what what have you?
And when they were on the show last I told
them that I had never really shot for furniture, and
Reagan finished out my man cave and took me shopping
and it was actually in such an empowering experience. I
(24:43):
think it's such a wonderful uh mission and charity. So
congratulations on your nu joke, Thank you, wish me luck?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
See is this does this being your turning down the
franchise opportunity for the warm Farm formerly?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Unfortunately my time is going to be limited, understand and
worms worms, you know, they're slow.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
We might be beaten that one to death, especially if
you're the bird. Right, Oh man, really Paly gets a worm?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So are you Have you been swimming lately? Yeah? Yeah,
So actually getting ready to compete at h at the
United States Masters National champions No way, where's that two
weeks from now. It's in San Antonio. So there'll be
roughly two thousand swimmers in San Antonio, what from eighteen
(25:36):
to one hundred and eight And yeah, so I'm swimming
the thousand yard freestyle, the live hundred yard freestyle, and
the two hundred yard freestyle. Wow, I didn't even know
I was opening that can of worms.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
That's really cool. Oh well you were swimming at in
c State, right, is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
This?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Remember you're saying that when you came on last time.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, I've just been stuck swimming, you know, for the
last thirty forty years.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
How how many laps down in backs? Is a thousand
thousand meters?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, I mean it is what it is. But yeah,
but pace for me is super important, and so you
know you don't want to bonk in the pool? Gotcha?
What's that mean? Die?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I thought that's what it meant.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But how long does it take average roughly to swim
a thousand About eleven eleven and a half minutes?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay? Which is that's fast? Well, I mean it's fast,
but it's a long time to be yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So but yeah, it's going going good and I'm hoping
you know, I don't want to jinx myself, but I'm
hoping for a high finis a high place finish?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Have you always done this competition or is this a
new one of your forty things? Now?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I've been doing competition with three masters for a while
really sporadically, you know, sometimes I they have two national
events every year, so spring and then late summer. So
the spring one is in a twenty five yard pool,
and the summer one is in a fifty meter pool
like they swim in at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Wow, I've been around you enough to realize how humble
you are. Have you won one of these things before?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I've won nationals twice. Once in the pool.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I know you wouldn't say that way, I'll be asking.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
But once in the pool in Tempe, Arizona, and once
in the open water in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh. Wow, Lake Wiley have some of the river, Mountain Island.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Mountain Island there, you go right right up the river
my house. Some catfish in that river. Probably it's right
up the river. One damn separates my house from Mountain.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Iky they swim down to you. All that stuff comes
to you because it starts up in mountain.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He was swimming. If he urinated river, probably came by
my Probably doesn't happen. I'm very conscientious.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You gotta keep that water clean.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's the place you can.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I think it's that's still okay, man, that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm impressed. What else you got in your notebook? Well,
there's some I wrote golf down, but there's not much
to talk about, you know. I mean, you and I
are pretty level in golf. We have a wonderful time
playing together. I did have a recent lesson with Louise.
Oh we met Louise. Yeah, he's the man, so but
(28:31):
he does change what he told you the last time
every time.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's to keep you coming back.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I gotta let I got a question in golf.
When you take a lesson, do you how how for
how long do you remember the pointers?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think you know. In my case, we're talking about
like the ABC's, so I try to remember him really
well because they're so fundamental.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Well, during COVID, I can't play. I play in the
mountains and Peter plays with me a good bit and
we have a tournament that's traditionally a member pro tournament,
and during COVID they allowed it to be a member
of guest and I took Peter and we didn't fare
too well.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
We had a blast.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
We had fun, but not not a lot of quality golf.
But I was so excited about the next year.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I hit the pro up and said, hey, Peter and
I are in it again, and he said, hey, I
don't think Peter was a pro.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We're going back to member pro. I didn't mean to
change that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Pro pro swimmer, pro swimmer.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He is a pro swimmer.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
And I will say you're always positive and fun and
I really cherish our friendship. But when I see you
late morning or in the morning, I always say, did
you get did you get your swim in this morning?
That's kind of my thing, kind of gauge old how
positive you're gonna be well?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And that's that's funny you say it like that because
I think working for me, working out in the morning,
getting that done helps my mental clarity a lot, and
it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Like to you can tell big time around eleven. If
you don't, I'm the same way. It's just not as
I'm not as effective. Yeah, not effective anyways, but not
as effective.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
So do you have any more grand babies in the pipeline?
We're not allowed to ask those questions, but you and
Mary Beth are asking it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
We don't ask those questions.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Goodness, gracious, well, is it is it? Everybody talks about
how grandchildren are so wonderful?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
No, seriously, it is. It's unbelieved as a non grandparent.
We hear, Oh yeah, it's cooler than they all say.
I mean, I mean the grandchild is so special and beautiful.
In our case, I mean, our granddaughter, Sloan is the
most beautiful baby ever. Amen. I mean, she's so beautiful
(31:03):
and she's so happy, and you know, playing with her
for a couple hours and then giving her back to
her mom it was really nice.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Well, coming in here, you said you spent three hours
with Saloon last night.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, how was that fantastic? She slept for an hour
out of that three. Oh nice, that's awesome. Well, well,
I have said this on the radio before.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We have five children, Reagan and I and they're getting
a little older, seventeen down to five.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
But I used to think that it was all phony
when people, when women would see babies and go, oh
my gosh, you're so cute, and I'm like, that baby
is not cute. That's like the nastiest thing ever. I
don't want to touch it. I don't want to see it.
I don't want to smell it. And then you have
your own baby and you're like, oh my gosh, she's
the best thing ever. And then you do it times
(31:58):
five and so I can't imagine, and and uh, i'll let,
I'll let, I'll let. Uh there's no worm analogy, but
I'll let it do its course before I have, before
I start worrying about it, yearning for grand baby.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
H you're too young, it's like patience, how about that?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But maybe I can hang out with you and Marybeth
sometime and visit with Sloan as that'd be great. Well cool, well, pasture,
you got any words of wisdom for it?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't. I'm just so glad you came on the show.
We appreciate everything you do for us as a business
and and obviously it's a friendship. So yeah, this is great.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Thank you guys, Yes, sir, one question or are the other?
Are your buddies mad? When you talk about your forty
things in your fortieth anniversary year? Did you get them
in trouble?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I kind of, yeah. I mean it's not it's not
something I what I do is not for other people.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm gonna balance that off of Reagan. Uh, we might
do twenty four years and oh there you go, twenty five.
So first of all, you got to get the number right.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, it's gonna be important.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, three twenty twenty two, not twenty four. Get ahead,
twenty five sounds good. We're doing it, We're clicking. I
gotta ways to go before forty. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well, Peter, thank you for being here. Thank you'll.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, you're always so fun to visit with and hear
your stories and joke around. Thanks for listening to at
Home with Roby. Go do the Golden rule today, treat
others the way you want to be treated, and carry
a smile around on your face.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Thanks for listening.
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