October 16, 2025 • 36 mins
This week, Trent and Patrick chat with Riley Shaw from Crete Solutions — a young professional who runs 14 concrete plants and still finds time for other business ventures. Riley talks about how he got started, the logistics of the concrete business, and how he loves getting his hands dirty.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to that home with Roby. I'm patrickck Isaac from
Roby Commercial and Services Loan Trent Hasen from the Roby
Family of Companies. Trent, I'm gonna say something that we
have not been able to say for a really dagon
long time.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's fall.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's fall. But no, no, we said that last year
around this time. How about them Panthers?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh, I mean thirty zero?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, right, man, I'm telling you what bad people I'm
listening to like F and Z again people are that
are signs up in the city. It says it feels
like twenty fifteen again, like we there one and two.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We needed that win bad. I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
If we do have a rival is at the Atlanta Falcons.
I will say that the dirty birds where you're from stink.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Look, dude, when I moved here in four I made
a conscious decision that I was I was disengaging with
the Atlanta Falcons and engaging with my hometown team of
the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm on board.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I want to see I want to see these guys
be good. I want you see canalist make it?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The coach. I want to see the quarterback succeed.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
To have Bryce.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He's a stud, carries himself real well. They got a
lot of, you know, a lot of talent. I don't
know how you get blown out two games and then
you blow out I don't know. Maybe they needed a
home field advantage.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Tell you a little secrets. I watched the second half
of the second game and they played lights out, and
I'm like, they are gonna, They're gonna beat the Falcons.
So we took a straight up wager with no points
against the Panthers versus Falcons. That I mean, it just
felt that either were gonna. They had the momentium felt right.
So I think a lot of people felt it after
(01:38):
the second game.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think second half of last year they had some
pretty good momentum and we're in a lot of games
that people discounted. Uh so, yeah, So I told somebody
to Ode, I said, I believe in the Panthers. I
believe in Bryce, I believe in the coach. And they
laughed me, they mocked me. I don't know, but I'm
I'm on board. I'm definitely a fairweather fans. Now that
(02:00):
they've won a game, I'm in. I don't know what's
going on on my Tar Hills, Tar Hill Bill, but
or the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Tigers are one and three.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You haven't probably seen this yet, but we're terrible. Y'all
are terrible, and said we play each other not this weekend,
but the next week, October fourth, and it's live on
the Cartoon Network at ten am. Or someone said Nickelodeon
might pick it up.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's a meme on on on the social media. I'm
now I'm back on the Instagram kick, trying to help
my daughter got Instagram, so I'm trying to I'm back
on kind of you know, check on things, make things
or make sure on Instagram. Yeah, Mama caved. I didn't.
I I mean she won't listen to the show, so
I can say I was not the one that caved in,
but she she did. I was surprised. She's pretty anti
(02:46):
social media. But you know, we got swipt Or Snapper
on the radio today. His phone rings like Instagram. But
we'll talk about that in a little while. He's trend
is that what's up on.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
One of my one I knew younger whipper Snapper mentee
mentor meant something. I don't know. We'll save him. We'll
save him for later. But uh, but Reagan and I
went down Saturday to Birmingham, Uh for Audrey Shrim. Chip
(03:21):
Shrim has been on, been on the Show's a y
p O brother mine, he's the chatter chair right now.
Went down for her fiftieth birthday party. We won the
award for the furthest traveled.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What did you get?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Look at that compliment words.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So that was good and uh, I got the well
number one.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
On the last show.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You talked about when Mario was here, you talked about
with the least touch Elite touch cleaning services. You talked
about flying into Charlotte and when you fly into Charlotte
you see the skyline and it feels like home. Well,
I've always thought Birmingham was was rivaling Charlotte. I like Birmingham.
I really like the people. But man, it's a dnky,
(04:04):
little dank dank relative to Charlotte. This's got like four
buildings and they're old.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So I've been there. One time, we were flying into Montgomery,
the Montgomery, Alabama with my daughter j just Scarlett and
I and we were landing coming down and they didn't
say anything. They took back up. They went back up
and I was like, oh, this cannot be good. And
Scarlet's like.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. They didn't
really say anything for about fifteen minutes. We flew back up.
It's pretty wild Trent. And then it turned out there
was a crazy storm over Montgomery and they landed us
in Birmingham. That was the only time's the only time
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
We went land in.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Birmingham, sat there for about a half an hour, waited,
and then they flew us back to Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It was a nice, nice city, but it really is
a little city.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And what it made me hearken on was, you know,
my dad, the three rules of Ron Hasten when I
was a kid was Number one, human call built this city.
If we didn't have human call, we wouldn't have a
job or livelihood. Number two, Hugh McCall wouldn't have been
able to build this city of show Arlotte without Jerry
or building the airport and being able to attract big business.
(05:04):
And then number three of the close family in the
springs industry and all that all they mean to our
city as well. So I think back all the buildings
in that city and some other smaller cities that were similar.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Size to Charlotte at some time in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Uh, they're all they're all dated and and they're all medium.
And then we have all this vibrancy. I mean we
have We're sitting in the south end. Uh, I guess
they call this low so south. Tryon, am I'm on this, Kelvin,
I'm hip man, I got it. But I mean, we
got thirty forty story buildings going up now and they're
(05:44):
leasing them.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's a really good point. I mean that's a good
perspective too. If you think about seventies, those buildings were
probably from seventies and eighties, and they really it's all
Charlotte had were those few I didn't see.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I did not see one building. But the place is great,
the people are great. The hotel we stayed in nice.
I got to go jogging around through a neighborhood. The
houses were nice. So all that was good. And then
I got to come back home and I was with
my wife. That's really good. Folding my clothes this morning
for me, you know what I figured out. It takes
(06:17):
a little more ironing, but if you leave them in
the dryer for a couple of days they get folded.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
See all right, so let's hope do either regged door
this ship. I just act like I don't know how
to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know the Kelvin Kelvin.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I haven't wrote it on my grited notepad fully yet
and ready to do my calculations. But I don't know
if the if the ironing time that you need when
you do that reply outweighs the folding time.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, you ironed her rigging ironed.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I do all my laundry, buddy, except sweetheart did fold
my clothes to dad. I think she needed to get
them out of her way.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I definitely don't need to hear in this show. I'm
in trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I do all my laundry. My dad did all.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
My dad, you know, he was in He was a
cook in the Marines on the front line, and he's
kind of domesticated, so he growing up, he did all
our laundry. It just so happened that our laundry room
was downstairs in the basement, and there was a nice
door where he could throw his vantage ultra light butts out,
and he had a little a little TV with a
(07:22):
with aluminum you know, hooked to the antenna.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He could watch some kind of TV.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
My mom, I mean little did he know smoke rises
up the stairwell.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, she was on to him.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's all. That's all. That's how I got busted smoking
cigarettes in the college.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Saw all my laundry smell like cigarettes, clean clothes.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
What you doing down there? They still make advantage ultra lights.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I don't know about it. I can't speak for that.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But anyway, but my dad always did our laundry. So
it's kind that is it. So it's kind of something
that that I that I inherited. But but my family,
this is Reagan's idea. We renovated our house about six
or seven years ago. As you know, Patrick and she
my three daughters who were all in high school and
Piper ninth, Rowing eleven, Tatum twelfth. They also live in
(08:13):
the same bedroom. They have their own bunk stations, and
they have their own washer and dryer. So I have
not seen their dirty clothes except maybe one garment land
somewhere in five or six seven years. And they do
their own laundry and do a good job. And now
Ford just turned ten, so for his tenth birthday, he
does his home laundry.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You got a washing machine for his birthday?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, he does it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We didn't want to run plumbing into his bedroom, but
he does it in our washing machine, and his clothes
do not come down the laundry sue anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
He has a laundry basket and he does his own launch.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Would you get for your tenth birth they? I got
a baseball bat, I got I don't know. I got
a ge washing machine.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm sorry, and then I don't know if you've ever
heard me talk about mailman Mike on the on the
show Our Neighbor since I was three or four years old.
He does not have a washroom driverer, so he comes
down and uses our basement washroom driverer as well.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Do that, Yeah, he asked me the other day.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's so he's so sweet and him and Reagan have
such a good relationship that he picks us up and
takes us to the airport anytime we want. And he
likes to use our car because he doesn't like to
drive his car. So he'll go buy good Will and
he'll go buy a Carolina Family restaurant and eat and
he shorts him on the tip.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
He's so cheap. He'sa liked my breakfast was eight fifty.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Okay, yeah, and then uh, but he asked me the
other day when he was taking me to the airport,
he said, when are y'all going out of town again?
I'm like, I'm going out of town right now? What
are you talking about? And he said, no, when are
you and Reagan going out of town?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I was like why? He said, I got to do laundry.
I said, go do it anytime. He said, Ah, I
don't like y'all bother me when you're around. I like
to come in there when Yeah, I'm gonna check this podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Make sure there's an ace or a jack in one
of those things.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
We'll see how it works out. Okay, So our guest
on the show today is uh, a fella.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I think we met about.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Eight six eight months six months ago, Riley, and we've
become really fast friends.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
There's a sparkle in his eye of hustle that that
hearkens me back to another day. His name is Riley Shaw.
He hails, I might get this wrong from Wilmington, North Carolina.
And he's got a crazy story. And his phone rings
more than my phone used to ring. And I'm proud
of that when we return on the at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
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Ruby servicesnow dot com, that's robyservicesnow dot com. Welcome back
that Home with Ruby. I'm Patrick mccaac from Ruby Commercial
and Services along with Trent Hayson from the Ruby family
of companies. How Little Fun yucking it up? Yea, the
(11:01):
first segment, a lot of fanthers looking good tar heels
and Clemson swirling down to toided.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You know what, you know what I noticed pastorate. My
kids talk about it all the time. I have some
gray hair in my head and you got gray hair
on your head. I know, man, it's a I think
you look sophisticated.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's about a year it started happening. The lady cuts
my hair. I'm like, you should put some stuff in
there and make a Dolly grisy A hell no, agreed.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And we told we told little Shaw Riley Shaw that
we don't cuss, and you just dropped a HG double
hockey stick.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But anyway, that's kind.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Of cod about the gray area, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean, so I met this young man at a
Dickens Mintioner event and uh Forrandy Presley and old Jason and.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A great event. And we met and.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We started chewing the cud and we decided to play
golf at Carolina Golf Club the following day. As busy
he as he always acts like he is in in
his feisty youth, he was able to make it out
and play golf, though I don't understand. But we played
golf and I said, hey, you got a lifetime friend now,
(12:13):
and this is how we're going to roll, and uh,
it's it's been great. He has not brought his girlfriend
to the house to meet Reagan yet and my kids,
but I think that's next on the agenda. He acted
like he was working too hard Friday night to come, Hey,
Riley Shaw, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Man?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Doing well? I appreciate you'll having me.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, nice, is nice to have you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Riley's primary business that that he's active in is in
the concrete business. It's ready you to have ready mixed plant.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yes, so we're ready mix the player, got it?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yes? So so what let's go back.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
About say, let's start, Let's start.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, So I'm born and raised in Wilmington, and I
left there, went to high school in Asheville, went to
a boarding school. So I went to Christ School, did
that for four years, graduated there, and then went to
n C State, got my degree there four years, and
then moved up here to Charlotte, where we used to
have a concrete pumping company. So, uh, for the most
(13:22):
of my career, i'd say it's all concrete base. But
here recently we've we've ventured into some other avenues.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So what I mean, Hold up real quick, y'all, Drew,
y'all laid an egg on Saturday too.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I mean the costs mailed a couple of dollars came back.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I was hoping you weren't going to bring that up.
But our record is three and one and three.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'm aware. Oh wow, I'm aware.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I just wanted to make I just wanted to make
that clear.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We're on the same page.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
But yes, it was. It was a tough l to lose,
to lose to Duke.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I was like, why is Duke favored in this game?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
There's a try.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I figured it out.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It was a trap.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It was a trap. I agree they have.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Our defense might be the worst in college.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
But if you've seen Clemsons, I mean we did do
just put up forty four points you see in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Boy, All right, let's get back on that real stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So he grew up in Wilmington, went to Christ Church
Chrihigh School in Asheville. But what's your what's your dad did?
I mean, how do you just get into the concrete business?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah? So both my parents were entrepreneurs.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
My dad started already mixed business back in nineteen eighty
six called S and W. It was based out of Clinton,
North Carolina, little little town. And anyways, he uh, he
grew that into a successful business and they him and
his partners sold that in two thousand and seven. Good
time to sell and they sold that and they had
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other businesses you know, throughout the process as well. And
so he, uh, he did that, and my mom had
her sheet. My mom owns a women's retail store or
a franchise actually that she started and called Monkeys. And
so they grew up with two entrepreneurs in the house.
And once I graduated in Sea State, you know, just
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kind of my brother and I grew up. We were
always running around on the rock piles, hanging out like
to be outside. We hunted a lot with our dad.
You know, we just enjoyed getting dirty and being outside.
And as as time went on, and obviously he had
sold the ready mixed business. We were all my brother
and I, we were all young at the age, so
it didn't make sense for them to kind of hang
(15:33):
on to it. And then he had a concrete pumping business,
which is, you know, more or less where you know,
you pump and you place concrete into it, you know,
into a where you can't reach it with a truck.
And when I graduated in Sea State, I moved up
here to Charlotte to learn that business and run that
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and then did that for a couple of years, and
actually August twenty second, three years ago, we sold that
business and we opened up our first concrete plant here
in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
So did you grow up doing concrete when you're in
high school? We didn't.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
So, you know, we had we didn't finish, We didn't
finish the concrete. You know, we don't do the labor.
We only supply the material. So I understand, you know,
So I didn't grow up finishing concrete.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Finished any concrete I've.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Finished concrete, I didn't, but I don't prefer I've.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Poured a lot of concrete in my life.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'd like you.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I'd like to see you have a come along in
your hand.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And then pull a little concrete.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I think that'd be quite comical.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I have poured a wield a lot of concrete in
a wheelbarrow, and had a lot of concrete in the
bucket of a bobcat. And I've broom finished a lot
of concrete and even have not ran a polisher, but
but been there, witnessed that, been around it. That was
not my job, but I do know how to broom
finish a good night's sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'll stick up for you here. He doesn't know a different.
I mean people, it might have been a while since
he's been on. You know, we're working as a superintendent
on the job site. But there was one time when
we were done finishing the radio show. Remember you did
that spec house on Ross's Fery, like, come on, come
with me, and you framed out that fireplace pretty quick.
I was impressed.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, well that wasn't concrete. That was too by.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You got dirty and you around there and put it together.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I did tell you to go to the truck.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I did tell you to go to my truck and
get that skill saw out of the toolbox.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Did it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I was like, I'll be your helper, huckle, let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, I can. I can definitely pour some concrete. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I got a buddy in y Po down in Alabama
and Jason McNeil Canton Concrete. I think he's a ready
mix uh manufacturer supplier, but down and down in that vicinity.
And I always say to him every time I see him,
I'm like, man, you love the way that concrete smells.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I love it getting that steam off of it in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You know, get a little stuff to beat that.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It really is. This smells great, but it will go
hard on you and get real heavy. Concrete is heavy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So uh.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
But when I was coming up, that was when when
I was a teenager and in high school and college,
that was when concrete pumping really really found it, found
their legs.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And it was it was a lucrative business.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
My dad used to always kind of say, oh, them
guys in the pumping business, but they got all that equipment.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Well, you know, the the concrete pumping business is a
good business to be in, but it's you know, it's
extremely you have an extremely high cap AX and it
you know it. And you know, one thing about the
pumping business that you know, if you can get away
with not doing it, people will, you know, people try
to avoid using a pump at all costs. And so
the equipment is just extremely expensive. But it's you know,
(18:47):
a very unique business and.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We enjoyed it.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
My dad had the business for you know, for quite
some time and uh, over twenty five years, and it
just got to the point where, you know, a couple
year back that it was it was time for us
to exit the business and focus on you know, focus
more solely on the ready mix and if you and
just different.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So is how you pour buildings towers, Yeah, get the
concrete us right floor.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
High rise con pumps, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And then also hard to get two places around corners
and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
That's right. Yeah, and just stuff you can't get a truck.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Too, that's right.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So, uh and high cap X means's a lot of
sunk costs in the equipment.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The equipment is very expensive.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
What how many so what how many concrete plants do
y'all have now?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
So currently we have fourteen ready mixed plants, and we've
got a portable division with two with two portable plants
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Oh really you do yep.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
So we actually are here fixing a start up a
job in Virginia that we're doing. And so we've got
that part of it. And then we've got plants in
eastern North Carolina in the Greater Willington up through Rocky Mountain, Tarboro.
And then we also have our our plant our five
plants here in the western part of the state and
uh in the Greater Charlotte metro market.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well, tell us like when you say like a plant,
I mean for somebody that's not listened and they're not,
I mean they're thinking of like a massive facility, like
a like a manufacturing facility like wood entails a plant,
tell us kind of what goes into that? How big
they are all the stuff?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Yeah, So, I mean, you know we've so we have
you know, concrete batch plants is what we have. And
you know, so there's there's you know, key ingredients that
go into making a yard of concrete, right, rock, sand, cement,
water are your are your four main ones. There's some
you know, some substitutes now fly ash, and then you've
got you know, ad mixtures which can help with the
(20:43):
set time of concrete, you know, slump control things like that.
Get a little more technical, but you know, for the
most part, you've got a few main ingredients and so
we've got, you know, we we stock in inventory all
those all those ingredients, and then we've got you know,
the concrete plants, which you know, which typically you know,
you know, we like to have you know, a certain
(21:04):
service area that we kind of yeah, because at the
end of the day, you're holl a perishable product. It's
what it is. It's like you know, putting fish in
the back of a truck and hauling you know, haul
in it somewhere. It's the same you know, it's the
same thing, and so you know it will go bad
the longer it sits on the truck and you know,
gets hot and you can set up in the drum,
so you can run into a lot of you know
(21:24):
a lot of problems that way.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
But yeah, so we've got five.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Plants here in this you know, in this market, and
typically anywhere from twenty to twenty five miles apart.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
From each other.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
How many okay, so with geographically, how how far you
want your trucks, the service around it.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's right, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
And typically in a big metro market like Charlotte, you know,
you run into traffic issues which can be problematic, but
for the most part, you know, I'd say anywhere twenty
twenty miles is a good is a good.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So how big is a plant? Yeah, I mean, how
like is it on five acres of land?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I mean, you know, five acres is ide, you know,
is about as small as you really want to get.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You can go smaller, you know, but the more land.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
You have, the easier it is to navigate, you know,
bring return concrete back, things like that.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So a portable plant is something you'll move. Like you say,
you got to have this big project in Virginia, you're
gonna supply.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I guess it's like project based.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
We mobilize, we mobilize it in and we hook it up.
We bring our trucks up there and we batching. We're
batching in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I've seen that before. And get bigger industrial you know,
large warehouse facilities that have them.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, So what kind of what who are your clients?
Are the commercial clients you do home builder clients?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, So we've got a. We have a mixture of both.
I'd say, you know, specifically in this market, we're probably
a sixty forty split, uh primarily residential forty percent commercial.
That's what we see. You know, obviously that comes in
in waves, right I'd say, you know, right now, you're
you've seen a a big pool back on the infrastructure working,
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you know, the slow you know slow down and the
you know, the warehouses like you just mentioned, it's not
you know what once was COVID and you know kind
of right there after COVID that that slowed down. But
you know, the National Homebuilders are keeping the residential side
pretty beefed up. There's a lot of people moving into
Charlotte still and houses need to be built. But we've
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even seen a pool back in that in the last
you know, six months as well.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
The National home Builders. Now, will you sell directly to them?
Will you sell through a subcontractor?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'd say a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Of both, but primarily for the most part, we sell
to the subcontractor. You know, and this is no shot
at the general contractor by any means, but you know,
they push liability onto the next onto the next individual,
and so they really don't want.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
To have to got to hear this crap again and.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
So uh and so you know, for the most part,
you know, they bring these subcontractors in and and you know,
and we and we buy or we sell it directly
to them. We do sell to some general contractors and
some of the national homebuilders will buy it direct because
they feel as though they can control their cost a.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Little bit, but they take a little more risk with it,
they do. Yeah, so what is your role in the business.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I do a little bit of everything, contractor slides, the
chief bottle washer.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, you know, that's I'd say, you know, primarily on
a you know, day to day, I focus on your
sales and operations, you know, more heavily on the sales.
We've got some good key guys that work with us
on the on the operation side, that have been with
us for a long time and know what they're doing.
But I'd say my background is more sales related, just
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because I enjoyed it, get out with the customers and
beyond the job sites. But to answer your question directly,
I'd say I'd do a little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I will say Riley, I I've been with you multiple
times during the week, and uh, when you when you're your.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Phone's ringing off the hook.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Sometimes you're talking to a concrete installer, sometimes you're talking
to a GC, sometimes you're talking to your guys. And
I mean, you got your hand in a lot of areas.
It's pretty impressive. Uh, how you're how you're hustling it.
So kudos to that, I think. I think, Uh, I
tell all these I tell all these young folks that
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want to be successful business people.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm like, you got to put in the ten.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Years of blood, sweat and hours and tiers. I mean,
I don't know if it's exactly ten, but you got
to put in the time and you got to get
gritty with these folks, concrete gritty.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, you know, there's I mean, there's a lot of
opportunity for people like myself and you know young you know,
young guys and women you know growing up in the
in the industry or you know, trying to get in
the not just the ready mix industry, but the construction
industry as a whole. You know, there's not a lot
of people want to get their hands dirty anymore, and
they definitely get down to work, and the statistics show right,
you know, a lot of people are getting out of
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the retiring and getting out of the construction industry. So
you know, there's I mean, it's a great business to
be in. You know, we we enjoy what we do.
I've got two brothers that work in the business with me.
Died still pops in and pops out when he feels
like it. But for the most part he's you know,
he's doing you know, doing other things good. But yeah,
I mean I would, I would strongly recommend getting in
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the construction industry. You know, if you're a young guy
looking in looking for a career that I mean, there's
just there's endless opportunity.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You I bet they'd have a place on the Homebuilders Association,
the Greater Charlotte Board for you there, Riley, Dave McGuire,
what is Dave McGuire.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Think he's president elect?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
He's president elect, so next year he will be the president.
He is our c O. Yeah, maybe we need to
make this connection.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But get get out there and get get in with
all these homebuilders and stuff and and be a leader
in the industry. What else you you made have mentioned earlier,
I'll know a little bit. Yeah, you dabble in some
other stuff being being a perennial entrepreneur. Uh as you
were born and raised. What else do y'all do?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Y'all do?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah? So we've got my brother and I.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
We've got a site works business that we've got with
two other partners as well that's based out of Wilmington,
North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, what kind of site work do you do?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, so we do.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I mean we're a licensed utility contractor general contractor you know, grading, land.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Clearing or not.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
You know, you know, all different scopes of it. So,
you know, we've been had that business now for a
year and a half and it's really starting to turn
the corner and there's a lot of opportunity there the
site works businesses.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, we do a little under underground conduit work through
a site business.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And so I think I've told you that, Yeah, I
believe you did. And so it's been it's been a
good u good business to be in. Our partner, one
of our partners has got an extensive background and moving
dirt and you know, really it all came about just
by you know, I mean, the lost for for you know,
for dirt work just got so astronomical and we have.
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You know, we we do some family development as well,
and one of our partners is a large apartment builder.
They build you know, thousands of apartments, and he you know,
and just between his stuff and our stuff, there was
an opportunity there for us to just do our own,
our own site work.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
That's kind of how it started. And then it transitioned
into doing work for other individuals and other companies and
that's been a year and a half now and it's
really started to take off. So we're excited with you
know how that how that's been trending and going in
the right direction. And there's, like I said, there's four
of us involved in that business, and so we're really
ambitious and excited about the direction that's going.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, vertically integrate in that.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
That's right, you know, and and that's I mean, that's
the that's the goal. You know, we think whether you're
doing development, concrete, home building, you know, I mean that
to I mean, you know, to to in order to
maximize efficiencies and to really try to you know, to
get you know, get to the next level, you've got
to you've got to look at other ways.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And and you know, broaden your horizons.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You can't just focus on one, you know, one individual thing.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So how do you like, Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
It's been good, it's been you know, it's definitely a
change from from Wilmington, you know, a little bit further
from the beach. But there's a lot of opportunity here,
a lot to do. So I've I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Been here for seven coming up on seven years now,
so it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And your are you one of three?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I am, I'm the I'm the middle one.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh wow, okay, me too.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You've got an older I had an older sister as well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Okay, I got its.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Also, she chose to go more of the the women's
retail side than the construction set.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Monkeys Monkeys, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, is Monkey's a chain.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah so that's a yeah, it's a franchise that my
mom and her partner started about.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Uh, she's a franchise or what she is? A franchise
or your mother and her partner.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
So she yeah, so they own the franchise.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
They've got seventy five stores all the way front you know,
that started in Wilmington and Winston Selling or where the
first stores were.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
And she's got stores all the way out to Utah.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Wow, that's so cool. Many So she's the real hustlers.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
There's one on sewing.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's why. Last I have seen that store.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
That's my sister's store.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So you know, I don't I don't patronize. I don't
go into that store, but but i've seen it.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well, you should shop local, and you should tell your
wife to go.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well when she might go in there, I don't really.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Hey, we we changed that might we talk about that too,
certain our home services business. Hey, you but we're local.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, shop local.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
A lot of those folks aren't local.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And that's cool.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
So your sister's in Charlotte, you're in Charlotte. Your two
brothers are stealing Wilmingtons still.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
In Wilmington, and my parents live in Wilmington as well.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Okay, Well man, that's awesome. We'll give give your business
a plug. And then also I'm gonna put you on
the spot. Uh give me give me one thing that
that you live by in you in your world, that
that ties both life and and business together.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, you know I think that.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
You know, I've been very fortunate growing up, and I've
had great role models. Both my parents are entrepreneurs and
they've you know, they've really paid the a path for
me and my brothers and my sister to to be successful.
And so I'm I'm eternally grateful for that. But uh,
you know, i'd say that if you're gonna, you know,
start in a business, you know, I mean, really it
just comes down to, you know, to work ethic. I mean,
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that's that's what my dad is instilled and us for,
you know, since the beginning of time. And you can
accomplish a lot. You don't have to be the smartest
man in the room. You don't have to be the
strongest man in the room. But if you're if you've
got the work ethic, you can really you can, really,
you know, I mean, all you have to do is
just outwork these guys and thew and and it'll come.
But so, I mean i'd say that, you know, that's
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the main thing that you know, that we that we
live by is just you know, is is is having
a hard work ethic.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And people just find a local ready mixed dealer.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
If I cost a dealer that sounds a little crude,
let's you go, okay, business supply solutions.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
There you go I got your business card in my phone.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
C R E T E c R T. I mean
I had a product that roll roll around.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I love orange man.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah you can see it.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I asked asked him eight times to give a plug,
and he didn't. So I had a man. I will
tell you, uh Riley, I love your spirit and and
one of our core values. One of our four core
values is grip can do. Attitude can do Attitude is
another one. So so we agree with your work ethic there,
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young man.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Well you know, it's all about how you can do something,
not how you can't do it. We don't want to
hear excuses. We want to figure out how we can
get it done.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Thank you told that guy that the other day on
the phone about thirty eight Octans. Okay, So we're leading
up to our our pitchings, which is with is November
the first Saturday, November the first of Freedom part and
everybody knows we raise money have This is our eighteenth seventeenth.
I think Crew eight twenty five Creed might be a
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good sponsor. Boy, Yeah, I think so. I think they
need to hit him up. Friday's toad down. But we
like to read a wish story. Patrick I'm sure you
have one teed up. You can thank some of our
big sponsors this year.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah man So Platinum sponsors, Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company,
Renewal by Anderson Home Technology Solutions, United Healthcare Gold sponsorship,
Sign Connection, the Art of Stone. Those are the new
ones and then. Wish Kid is Zachary. Zachary's seven year
old boy from Boone. He likes t ball, riding his
go cart, and conquering the playground. When he's not off
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fighting cancer, Zachary loves to read. The Fire Cat and
Dragons Love Tacos are his current favorite books. Zachary is
homeschooled and went on break. He fuels up with Pirates,
Booty Snap and spends time with the family chickens and fish.
Sounds pretty cool, yeah. Zachary also likes helicopters. His treatment
was done in Winston Salem and his room overlooked the
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helicopter pad. He really liked watching the helicopters. Zachtory got
to go up to the hospital helipad and watch a
helicopter take off, grinning as a pilot waved at him.
Zachary's wish is to be a helicopter pilot. For the
day During his wish, Zachary was shy with the Highlands
Emergency Air Rescue and Transport Team at first, but once
he warmed up, he was all about it. The helicopter
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team gave him a tour of the aircraft, then set
up a simulation and walked him through everything helicopter pilots too.
They also gave him his own helicopter pilot manual on
how to be a pilot. They went up and flew
over Bristol Motor Speedway and Zachary got to steer with
a little help from pilot Gym. Zachary really liked being
in the air and flying the helicopter was his favorite part.
The staff were just fantastic, said wish mom Janet. He's
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always said he wanted to be a helicopter pilot, but
after his wish, he definitely wants to be a helicopter pilot.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Wow, go Zachary, that's cool man. I love Boone, I
love helicopters. You like Bristol Motor Speed with I do
like Bristol Murder Speed. They've been in a couple of
races there with my dad, my father in law, Tom
settle Meyer's Great place it's it's near, it's near my
favorite part of the mountains, which is you know, north
north west North Carolina Boone and East Tennessee, Benna, Relt
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that area of Johnson City, so Bristol.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
UH love it all, but man, you know what I
really love. I really love the Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
How when a child is granted a wish, how how
it has medical success and help on them. Yeah and
their family. We love make a wish. Go Zachary Riley,
thanks for being here.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Thank you all for having me.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Uh don't get lazy and uh go do the Golden
rule today. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Carry that smile around on your face and give that grace.
Thanks for listening to At Home with Ruby.
Welcome to that home with Roby. I'm patrickck Isaac from
Roby Commercial and Services Loan Trent Hasen from the Roby
Family of Companies. Trent, I'm gonna say something that we
have not been able to say for a really dagon
long time.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's fall.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's fall. But no, no, we said that last year
around this time. How about them Panthers?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh, I mean thirty zero?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, right, man, I'm telling you what bad people I'm
listening to like F and Z again people are that
are signs up in the city. It says it feels
like twenty fifteen again, like we there one and two.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We needed that win bad. I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
If we do have a rival is at the Atlanta Falcons.
I will say that the dirty birds where you're from stink.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Look, dude, when I moved here in four I made
a conscious decision that I was I was disengaging with
the Atlanta Falcons and engaging with my hometown team of
the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm on board.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I want to see I want to see these guys
be good. I want you see canalist make it?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The coach. I want to see the quarterback succeed.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
To have Bryce.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He's a stud, carries himself real well. They got a
lot of, you know, a lot of talent. I don't
know how you get blown out two games and then
you blow out I don't know. Maybe they needed a
home field advantage.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Tell you a little secrets. I watched the second half
of the second game and they played lights out, and
I'm like, they are gonna, They're gonna beat the Falcons.
So we took a straight up wager with no points
against the Panthers versus Falcons. That I mean, it just
felt that either were gonna. They had the momentium felt right.
So I think a lot of people felt it after
(01:38):
the second game.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think second half of last year they had some
pretty good momentum and we're in a lot of games
that people discounted. Uh so, yeah, So I told somebody
to Ode, I said, I believe in the Panthers. I
believe in Bryce, I believe in the coach. And they
laughed me, they mocked me. I don't know, but I'm
I'm on board. I'm definitely a fairweather fans. Now that
(02:00):
they've won a game, I'm in. I don't know what's
going on on my Tar Hills, Tar Hill Bill, but
or the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Tigers are one and three.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You haven't probably seen this yet, but we're terrible. Y'all
are terrible, and said we play each other not this weekend,
but the next week, October fourth, and it's live on
the Cartoon Network at ten am. Or someone said Nickelodeon
might pick it up.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's a meme on on on the social media. I'm
now I'm back on the Instagram kick, trying to help
my daughter got Instagram, so I'm trying to I'm back
on kind of you know, check on things, make things
or make sure on Instagram. Yeah, Mama caved. I didn't.
I I mean she won't listen to the show, so
I can say I was not the one that caved in,
but she she did. I was surprised. She's pretty anti
(02:46):
social media. But you know, we got swipt Or Snapper
on the radio today. His phone rings like Instagram. But
we'll talk about that in a little while. He's trend
is that what's up on.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
One of my one I knew younger whipper Snapper mentee
mentor meant something. I don't know. We'll save him. We'll
save him for later. But uh, but Reagan and I
went down Saturday to Birmingham, Uh for Audrey Shrim. Chip
(03:21):
Shrim has been on, been on the Show's a y
p O brother mine, he's the chatter chair right now.
Went down for her fiftieth birthday party. We won the
award for the furthest traveled.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What did you get?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Look at that compliment words.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So that was good and uh, I got the well
number one.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
On the last show.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You talked about when Mario was here, you talked about
with the least touch Elite touch cleaning services. You talked
about flying into Charlotte and when you fly into Charlotte
you see the skyline and it feels like home. Well,
I've always thought Birmingham was was rivaling Charlotte. I like Birmingham.
I really like the people. But man, it's a dnky,
(04:04):
little dank dank relative to Charlotte. This's got like four
buildings and they're old.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So I've been there. One time, we were flying into Montgomery,
the Montgomery, Alabama with my daughter j just Scarlett and
I and we were landing coming down and they didn't
say anything. They took back up. They went back up
and I was like, oh, this cannot be good. And
Scarlet's like.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. They didn't
really say anything for about fifteen minutes. We flew back up.
It's pretty wild Trent. And then it turned out there
was a crazy storm over Montgomery and they landed us
in Birmingham. That was the only time's the only time
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
We went land in.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Birmingham, sat there for about a half an hour, waited,
and then they flew us back to Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It was a nice, nice city, but it really is
a little city.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And what it made me hearken on was, you know,
my dad, the three rules of Ron Hasten when I
was a kid was Number one, human call built this city.
If we didn't have human call, we wouldn't have a
job or livelihood. Number two, Hugh McCall wouldn't have been
able to build this city of show Arlotte without Jerry
or building the airport and being able to attract big business.
(05:04):
And then number three of the close family in the
springs industry and all that all they mean to our
city as well. So I think back all the buildings
in that city and some other smaller cities that were similar.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Size to Charlotte at some time in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Uh, they're all they're all dated and and they're all medium.
And then we have all this vibrancy. I mean we
have We're sitting in the south end. Uh, I guess
they call this low so south. Tryon, am I'm on this, Kelvin,
I'm hip man, I got it. But I mean, we
got thirty forty story buildings going up now and they're
(05:44):
leasing them.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's a really good point. I mean that's a good
perspective too. If you think about seventies, those buildings were
probably from seventies and eighties, and they really it's all
Charlotte had were those few I didn't see.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I did not see one building. But the place is great,
the people are great. The hotel we stayed in nice.
I got to go jogging around through a neighborhood. The
houses were nice. So all that was good. And then
I got to come back home and I was with
my wife. That's really good. Folding my clothes this morning
for me, you know what I figured out. It takes
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a little more ironing, but if you leave them in
the dryer for a couple of days they get folded.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
See all right, so let's hope do either regged door
this ship. I just act like I don't know how
to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know the Kelvin Kelvin.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I haven't wrote it on my grited notepad fully yet
and ready to do my calculations. But I don't know
if the if the ironing time that you need when
you do that reply outweighs the folding time.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, you ironed her rigging ironed.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I do all my laundry, buddy, except sweetheart did fold
my clothes to dad. I think she needed to get
them out of her way.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I definitely don't need to hear in this show. I'm
in trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I do all my laundry. My dad did all.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
My dad, you know, he was in He was a
cook in the Marines on the front line, and he's
kind of domesticated, so he growing up, he did all
our laundry. It just so happened that our laundry room
was downstairs in the basement, and there was a nice
door where he could throw his vantage ultra light butts out,
and he had a little a little TV with a
(07:22):
with aluminum you know, hooked to the antenna.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He could watch some kind of TV.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
My mom, I mean little did he know smoke rises
up the stairwell.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, she was on to him.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's all. That's all. That's how I got busted smoking
cigarettes in the college.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Saw all my laundry smell like cigarettes, clean clothes.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
What you doing down there? They still make advantage ultra lights.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I don't know about it. I can't speak for that.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But anyway, but my dad always did our laundry. So
it's kind that is it. So it's kind of something
that that I that I inherited. But but my family,
this is Reagan's idea. We renovated our house about six
or seven years ago. As you know, Patrick and she
my three daughters who were all in high school and
Piper ninth, Rowing eleven, Tatum twelfth. They also live in
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the same bedroom. They have their own bunk stations, and
they have their own washer and dryer. So I have
not seen their dirty clothes except maybe one garment land
somewhere in five or six seven years. And they do
their own laundry and do a good job. And now
Ford just turned ten, so for his tenth birthday, he
does his home laundry.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You got a washing machine for his birthday?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, he does it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We didn't want to run plumbing into his bedroom, but
he does it in our washing machine, and his clothes
do not come down the laundry sue anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
He has a laundry basket and he does his own launch.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Would you get for your tenth birth they? I got
a baseball bat, I got I don't know. I got
a ge washing machine.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm sorry, and then I don't know if you've ever
heard me talk about mailman Mike on the on the
show Our Neighbor since I was three or four years old.
He does not have a washroom driverer, so he comes
down and uses our basement washroom driverer as well.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Do that, Yeah, he asked me the other day.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's so he's so sweet and him and Reagan have
such a good relationship that he picks us up and
takes us to the airport anytime we want. And he
likes to use our car because he doesn't like to
drive his car. So he'll go buy good Will and
he'll go buy a Carolina Family restaurant and eat and
he shorts him on the tip.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
He's so cheap. He'sa liked my breakfast was eight fifty.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Okay, yeah, and then uh, but he asked me the
other day when he was taking me to the airport,
he said, when are y'all going out of town again?
I'm like, I'm going out of town right now? What
are you talking about? And he said, no, when are
you and Reagan going out of town?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I was like why? He said, I got to do laundry.
I said, go do it anytime. He said, Ah, I
don't like y'all bother me when you're around. I like
to come in there when Yeah, I'm gonna check this podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Make sure there's an ace or a jack in one
of those things.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
We'll see how it works out. Okay, So our guest
on the show today is uh, a fella.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I think we met about.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Eight six eight months six months ago, Riley, and we've
become really fast friends.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
There's a sparkle in his eye of hustle that that
hearkens me back to another day. His name is Riley Shaw.
He hails, I might get this wrong from Wilmington, North Carolina.
And he's got a crazy story. And his phone rings
more than my phone used to ring. And I'm proud
of that when we return on the at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
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that Home with Ruby. I'm Patrick mccaac from Ruby Commercial
and Services along with Trent Hayson from the Ruby family
of companies. How Little Fun yucking it up? Yea, the
(11:01):
first segment, a lot of fanthers looking good tar heels
and Clemson swirling down to toided.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You know what, you know what I noticed pastorate. My
kids talk about it all the time. I have some
gray hair in my head and you got gray hair
on your head. I know, man, it's a I think
you look sophisticated.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's about a year it started happening. The lady cuts
my hair. I'm like, you should put some stuff in
there and make a Dolly grisy A hell no, agreed.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And we told we told little Shaw Riley Shaw that
we don't cuss, and you just dropped a HG double
hockey stick.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But anyway, that's kind.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Of cod about the gray area, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean, so I met this young man at a
Dickens Mintioner event and uh Forrandy Presley and old Jason and.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A great event. And we met and.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We started chewing the cud and we decided to play
golf at Carolina Golf Club the following day. As busy
he as he always acts like he is in in
his feisty youth, he was able to make it out
and play golf, though I don't understand. But we played
golf and I said, hey, you got a lifetime friend now,
(12:13):
and this is how we're going to roll, and uh,
it's it's been great. He has not brought his girlfriend
to the house to meet Reagan yet and my kids,
but I think that's next on the agenda. He acted
like he was working too hard Friday night to come, Hey,
Riley Shaw, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Man?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Doing well? I appreciate you'll having me.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, nice, is nice to have you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Riley's primary business that that he's active in is in
the concrete business. It's ready you to have ready mixed plant.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yes, so we're ready mix the player, got it?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yes? So so what let's go back.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
About say, let's start, Let's start.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, So I'm born and raised in Wilmington, and I
left there, went to high school in Asheville, went to
a boarding school. So I went to Christ School, did
that for four years, graduated there, and then went to
n C State, got my degree there four years, and
then moved up here to Charlotte, where we used to
have a concrete pumping company. So, uh, for the most
(13:22):
of my career, i'd say it's all concrete base. But
here recently we've we've ventured into some other avenues.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So what I mean, Hold up real quick, y'all, Drew,
y'all laid an egg on Saturday too.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I mean the costs mailed a couple of dollars came back.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I was hoping you weren't going to bring that up.
But our record is three and one and three.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'm aware. Oh wow, I'm aware.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I just wanted to make I just wanted to make
that clear.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We're on the same page.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
But yes, it was. It was a tough l to lose,
to lose to Duke.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I was like, why is Duke favored in this game?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
There's a try.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I figured it out.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It was a trap.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It was a trap. I agree they have.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Our defense might be the worst in college.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
But if you've seen Clemsons, I mean we did do
just put up forty four points you see in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Boy, All right, let's get back on that real stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So he grew up in Wilmington, went to Christ Church
Chrihigh School in Asheville. But what's your what's your dad did?
I mean, how do you just get into the concrete business?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah? So both my parents were entrepreneurs.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
My dad started already mixed business back in nineteen eighty
six called S and W. It was based out of Clinton,
North Carolina, little little town. And anyways, he uh, he
grew that into a successful business and they him and
his partners sold that in two thousand and seven. Good
time to sell and they sold that and they had
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other businesses you know, throughout the process as well. And
so he, uh, he did that, and my mom had
her sheet. My mom owns a women's retail store or
a franchise actually that she started and called Monkeys. And
so they grew up with two entrepreneurs in the house.
And once I graduated in Sea State, you know, just
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kind of my brother and I grew up. We were
always running around on the rock piles, hanging out like
to be outside. We hunted a lot with our dad.
You know, we just enjoyed getting dirty and being outside.
And as as time went on, and obviously he had
sold the ready mixed business. We were all my brother
and I, we were all young at the age, so
it didn't make sense for them to kind of hang
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on to it. And then he had a concrete pumping business,
which is, you know, more or less where you know,
you pump and you place concrete into it, you know,
into a where you can't reach it with a truck.
And when I graduated in Sea State, I moved up
here to Charlotte to learn that business and run that
(15:55):
and then did that for a couple of years, and
actually August twenty second, three years ago, we sold that
business and we opened up our first concrete plant here
in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
So did you grow up doing concrete when you're in
high school? We didn't.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
So, you know, we had we didn't finish, We didn't
finish the concrete. You know, we don't do the labor.
We only supply the material. So I understand, you know,
So I didn't grow up finishing concrete.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Finished any concrete I've.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Finished concrete, I didn't, but I don't prefer I've.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Poured a lot of concrete in my life.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'd like you.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I'd like to see you have a come along in
your hand.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And then pull a little concrete.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I think that'd be quite comical.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I have poured a wield a lot of concrete in
a wheelbarrow, and had a lot of concrete in the
bucket of a bobcat. And I've broom finished a lot
of concrete and even have not ran a polisher, but
but been there, witnessed that, been around it. That was
not my job, but I do know how to broom
finish a good night's sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'll stick up for you here. He doesn't know a different.
I mean people, it might have been a while since
he's been on. You know, we're working as a superintendent
on the job site. But there was one time when
we were done finishing the radio show. Remember you did
that spec house on Ross's Fery, like, come on, come
with me, and you framed out that fireplace pretty quick.
I was impressed.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, well that wasn't concrete. That was too by.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You got dirty and you around there and put it together.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I did tell you to go to the truck.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I did tell you to go to my truck and
get that skill saw out of the toolbox.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Did it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I was like, I'll be your helper, huckle, let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, I can. I can definitely pour some concrete. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I got a buddy in y Po down in Alabama
and Jason McNeil Canton Concrete. I think he's a ready
mix uh manufacturer supplier, but down and down in that vicinity.
And I always say to him every time I see him,
I'm like, man, you love the way that concrete smells.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I love it getting that steam off of it in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You know, get a little stuff to beat that.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It really is. This smells great, but it will go
hard on you and get real heavy. Concrete is heavy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So uh.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
But when I was coming up, that was when when
I was a teenager and in high school and college,
that was when concrete pumping really really found it, found
their legs.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And it was it was a lucrative business.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
My dad used to always kind of say, oh, them
guys in the pumping business, but they got all that equipment.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Well, you know, the the concrete pumping business is a
good business to be in, but it's you know, it's
extremely you have an extremely high cap AX and it
you know it. And you know, one thing about the
pumping business that you know, if you can get away
with not doing it, people will, you know, people try
to avoid using a pump at all costs. And so
the equipment is just extremely expensive. But it's you know,
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a very unique business and.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We enjoyed it.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
My dad had the business for you know, for quite
some time and uh, over twenty five years, and it
just got to the point where, you know, a couple
year back that it was it was time for us
to exit the business and focus on you know, focus
more solely on the ready mix and if you and
just different.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So is how you pour buildings towers, Yeah, get the
concrete us right floor.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
High rise con pumps, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And then also hard to get two places around corners
and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
That's right. Yeah, and just stuff you can't get a truck.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Too, that's right.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So, uh and high cap X means's a lot of
sunk costs in the equipment.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The equipment is very expensive.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
What how many so what how many concrete plants do
y'all have now?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
So currently we have fourteen ready mixed plants, and we've
got a portable division with two with two portable plants
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Oh really you do yep.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
So we actually are here fixing a start up a
job in Virginia that we're doing. And so we've got
that part of it. And then we've got plants in
eastern North Carolina in the Greater Willington up through Rocky Mountain, Tarboro.
And then we also have our our plant our five
plants here in the western part of the state and
uh in the Greater Charlotte metro market.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well, tell us like when you say like a plant,
I mean for somebody that's not listened and they're not,
I mean they're thinking of like a massive facility, like
a like a manufacturing facility like wood entails a plant,
tell us kind of what goes into that? How big
they are all the stuff?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Yeah, So, I mean, you know we've so we have
you know, concrete batch plants is what we have. And
you know, so there's there's you know, key ingredients that
go into making a yard of concrete, right, rock, sand, cement,
water are your are your four main ones. There's some
you know, some substitutes now fly ash, and then you've
got you know, ad mixtures which can help with the
(20:43):
set time of concrete, you know, slump control things like that.
Get a little more technical, but you know, for the
most part, you've got a few main ingredients and so
we've got, you know, we we stock in inventory all
those all those ingredients, and then we've got you know,
the concrete plants, which you know, which typically you know,
you know, we like to have you know, a certain
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service area that we kind of yeah, because at the
end of the day, you're holl a perishable product. It's
what it is. It's like you know, putting fish in
the back of a truck and hauling you know, haul
in it somewhere. It's the same you know, it's the
same thing, and so you know it will go bad
the longer it sits on the truck and you know,
gets hot and you can set up in the drum,
so you can run into a lot of you know
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a lot of problems that way.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
But yeah, so we've got five.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Plants here in this you know, in this market, and
typically anywhere from twenty to twenty five miles apart.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
From each other.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
How many okay, so with geographically, how how far you
want your trucks, the service around it.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's right, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
And typically in a big metro market like Charlotte, you know,
you run into traffic issues which can be problematic, but
for the most part, you know, I'd say anywhere twenty
twenty miles is a good is a good.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So how big is a plant? Yeah, I mean, how
like is it on five acres of land?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I mean, you know, five acres is ide, you know,
is about as small as you really want to get.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You can go smaller, you know, but the more land.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
You have, the easier it is to navigate, you know,
bring return concrete back, things like that.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So a portable plant is something you'll move. Like you say,
you got to have this big project in Virginia, you're
gonna supply.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I guess it's like project based.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
We mobilize, we mobilize it in and we hook it up.
We bring our trucks up there and we batching. We're
batching in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I've seen that before. And get bigger industrial you know,
large warehouse facilities that have them.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, So what kind of what who are your clients?
Are the commercial clients you do home builder clients?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, So we've got a. We have a mixture of both.
I'd say, you know, specifically in this market, we're probably
a sixty forty split, uh primarily residential forty percent commercial.
That's what we see. You know, obviously that comes in
in waves, right I'd say, you know, right now, you're
you've seen a a big pool back on the infrastructure working,
(23:02):
you know, the slow you know slow down and the
you know, the warehouses like you just mentioned, it's not
you know what once was COVID and you know kind
of right there after COVID that that slowed down. But
you know, the National Homebuilders are keeping the residential side
pretty beefed up. There's a lot of people moving into
Charlotte still and houses need to be built. But we've
(23:23):
even seen a pool back in that in the last
you know, six months as well.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
The National home Builders. Now, will you sell directly to them?
Will you sell through a subcontractor?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'd say a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Of both, but primarily for the most part, we sell
to the subcontractor. You know, and this is no shot
at the general contractor by any means, but you know,
they push liability onto the next onto the next individual,
and so they really don't want.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
To have to got to hear this crap again and.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
So uh and so you know, for the most part,
you know, they bring these subcontractors in and and you know,
and we and we buy or we sell it directly
to them. We do sell to some general contractors and
some of the national homebuilders will buy it direct because
they feel as though they can control their cost a.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Little bit, but they take a little more risk with it,
they do. Yeah, so what is your role in the business.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I do a little bit of everything, contractor slides, the
chief bottle washer.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, you know, that's I'd say, you know, primarily on
a you know, day to day, I focus on your
sales and operations, you know, more heavily on the sales.
We've got some good key guys that work with us
on the on the operation side, that have been with
us for a long time and know what they're doing.
But I'd say my background is more sales related, just
(24:46):
because I enjoyed it, get out with the customers and
beyond the job sites. But to answer your question directly,
I'd say I'd do a little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I will say Riley, I I've been with you multiple
times during the week, and uh, when you when you're your.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Phone's ringing off the hook.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Sometimes you're talking to a concrete installer, sometimes you're talking
to a GC, sometimes you're talking to your guys. And
I mean, you got your hand in a lot of areas.
It's pretty impressive. Uh, how you're how you're hustling it.
So kudos to that, I think. I think, Uh, I
tell all these I tell all these young folks that
(25:24):
want to be successful business people.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm like, you got to put in the ten.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Years of blood, sweat and hours and tiers. I mean,
I don't know if it's exactly ten, but you got
to put in the time and you got to get
gritty with these folks, concrete gritty.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, you know, there's I mean, there's a lot of
opportunity for people like myself and you know young you know,
young guys and women you know growing up in the
in the industry or you know, trying to get in
the not just the ready mix industry, but the construction
industry as a whole. You know, there's not a lot
of people want to get their hands dirty anymore, and
they definitely get down to work, and the statistics show right,
you know, a lot of people are getting out of
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the retiring and getting out of the construction industry. So
you know, there's I mean, it's a great business to
be in. You know, we we enjoy what we do.
I've got two brothers that work in the business with me.
Died still pops in and pops out when he feels
like it. But for the most part he's you know,
he's doing you know, doing other things good. But yeah,
I mean I would, I would strongly recommend getting in
(26:25):
the construction industry. You know, if you're a young guy
looking in looking for a career that I mean, there's
just there's endless opportunity.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You I bet they'd have a place on the Homebuilders Association,
the Greater Charlotte Board for you there, Riley, Dave McGuire,
what is Dave McGuire.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Think he's president elect?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
He's president elect, so next year he will be the president.
He is our c O. Yeah, maybe we need to
make this connection.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But get get out there and get get in with
all these homebuilders and stuff and and be a leader
in the industry. What else you you made have mentioned earlier,
I'll know a little bit. Yeah, you dabble in some
other stuff being being a perennial entrepreneur. Uh as you
were born and raised. What else do y'all do?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Y'all do?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah? So we've got my brother and I.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
We've got a site works business that we've got with
two other partners as well that's based out of Wilmington,
North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, what kind of site work do you do?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, so we do.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I mean we're a licensed utility contractor general contractor you know, grading, land.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Clearing or not.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
You know, you know, all different scopes of it. So,
you know, we've been had that business now for a
year and a half and it's really starting to turn
the corner and there's a lot of opportunity there the
site works businesses.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, we do a little under underground conduit work through
a site business.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And so I think I've told you that, Yeah, I
believe you did. And so it's been it's been a
good u good business to be in. Our partner, one
of our partners has got an extensive background and moving
dirt and you know, really it all came about just
by you know, I mean, the lost for for you know,
for dirt work just got so astronomical and we have.
(28:06):
You know, we we do some family development as well,
and one of our partners is a large apartment builder.
They build you know, thousands of apartments, and he you know,
and just between his stuff and our stuff, there was
an opportunity there for us to just do our own,
our own site work.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
That's kind of how it started. And then it transitioned
into doing work for other individuals and other companies and
that's been a year and a half now and it's
really started to take off. So we're excited with you
know how that how that's been trending and going in
the right direction. And there's, like I said, there's four
of us involved in that business, and so we're really
ambitious and excited about the direction that's going.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, vertically integrate in that.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
That's right, you know, and and that's I mean, that's
the that's the goal. You know, we think whether you're
doing development, concrete, home building, you know, I mean that
to I mean, you know, to to in order to
maximize efficiencies and to really try to you know, to
get you know, get to the next level, you've got
to you've got to look at other ways.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And and you know, broaden your horizons.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You can't just focus on one, you know, one individual thing.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So how do you like, Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
It's been good, it's been you know, it's definitely a
change from from Wilmington, you know, a little bit further
from the beach. But there's a lot of opportunity here,
a lot to do. So I've I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Been here for seven coming up on seven years now,
so it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And your are you one of three?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I am, I'm the I'm the middle one.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh wow, okay, me too.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You've got an older I had an older sister as well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Okay, I got its.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Also, she chose to go more of the the women's
retail side than the construction set.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Monkeys Monkeys, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, is Monkey's a chain.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah so that's a yeah, it's a franchise that my
mom and her partner started about.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Uh, she's a franchise or what she is? A franchise
or your mother and her partner.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
So she yeah, so they own the franchise.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
They've got seventy five stores all the way front you know,
that started in Wilmington and Winston Selling or where the
first stores were.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
And she's got stores all the way out to Utah.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Wow, that's so cool. Many So she's the real hustlers.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
There's one on sewing.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's why. Last I have seen that store.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
That's my sister's store.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So you know, I don't I don't patronize. I don't
go into that store, but but i've seen it.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well, you should shop local, and you should tell your
wife to go.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well when she might go in there, I don't really.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Hey, we we changed that might we talk about that too,
certain our home services business. Hey, you but we're local.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, shop local.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
A lot of those folks aren't local.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And that's cool.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
So your sister's in Charlotte, you're in Charlotte. Your two
brothers are stealing Wilmingtons still.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
In Wilmington, and my parents live in Wilmington as well.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Okay, Well man, that's awesome. We'll give give your business
a plug. And then also I'm gonna put you on
the spot. Uh give me give me one thing that
that you live by in you in your world, that
that ties both life and and business together.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, you know I think that.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
You know, I've been very fortunate growing up, and I've
had great role models. Both my parents are entrepreneurs and
they've you know, they've really paid the a path for
me and my brothers and my sister to to be successful.
And so I'm I'm eternally grateful for that. But uh,
you know, i'd say that if you're gonna, you know,
start in a business, you know, I mean, really it
just comes down to, you know, to work ethic. I mean,
(31:26):
that's that's what my dad is instilled and us for,
you know, since the beginning of time. And you can
accomplish a lot. You don't have to be the smartest
man in the room. You don't have to be the
strongest man in the room. But if you're if you've
got the work ethic, you can really you can, really,
you know, I mean, all you have to do is
just outwork these guys and thew and and it'll come.
But so, I mean i'd say that, you know, that's
(31:48):
the main thing that you know, that we that we
live by is just you know, is is is having
a hard work ethic.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And people just find a local ready mixed dealer.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
If I cost a dealer that sounds a little crude,
let's you go, okay, business supply solutions.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
There you go I got your business card in my phone.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
C R E T E c R T. I mean
I had a product that roll roll around.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I love orange man.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah you can see it.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I asked asked him eight times to give a plug,
and he didn't. So I had a man. I will
tell you, uh Riley, I love your spirit and and
one of our core values. One of our four core
values is grip can do. Attitude can do Attitude is
another one. So so we agree with your work ethic there,
(32:42):
young man.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Well you know, it's all about how you can do something,
not how you can't do it. We don't want to
hear excuses. We want to figure out how we can
get it done.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Thank you told that guy that the other day on
the phone about thirty eight Octans. Okay, So we're leading
up to our our pitchings, which is with is November
the first Saturday, November the first of Freedom part and
everybody knows we raise money have This is our eighteenth seventeenth.
I think Crew eight twenty five Creed might be a
(33:11):
good sponsor. Boy, Yeah, I think so. I think they
need to hit him up. Friday's toad down. But we
like to read a wish story. Patrick I'm sure you
have one teed up. You can thank some of our
big sponsors this year.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah man So Platinum sponsors, Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company,
Renewal by Anderson Home Technology Solutions, United Healthcare Gold sponsorship,
Sign Connection, the Art of Stone. Those are the new
ones and then. Wish Kid is Zachary. Zachary's seven year
old boy from Boone. He likes t ball, riding his
go cart, and conquering the playground. When he's not off
(33:48):
fighting cancer, Zachary loves to read. The Fire Cat and
Dragons Love Tacos are his current favorite books. Zachary is
homeschooled and went on break. He fuels up with Pirates,
Booty Snap and spends time with the family chickens and fish.
Sounds pretty cool, yeah. Zachary also likes helicopters. His treatment
was done in Winston Salem and his room overlooked the
(34:09):
helicopter pad. He really liked watching the helicopters. Zachtory got
to go up to the hospital helipad and watch a
helicopter take off, grinning as a pilot waved at him.
Zachary's wish is to be a helicopter pilot. For the
day During his wish, Zachary was shy with the Highlands
Emergency Air Rescue and Transport Team at first, but once
he warmed up, he was all about it. The helicopter
(34:29):
team gave him a tour of the aircraft, then set
up a simulation and walked him through everything helicopter pilots too.
They also gave him his own helicopter pilot manual on
how to be a pilot. They went up and flew
over Bristol Motor Speedway and Zachary got to steer with
a little help from pilot Gym. Zachary really liked being
in the air and flying the helicopter was his favorite part.
The staff were just fantastic, said wish mom Janet. He's
(34:52):
always said he wanted to be a helicopter pilot, but
after his wish, he definitely wants to be a helicopter pilot.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Wow, go Zachary, that's cool man. I love Boone, I
love helicopters. You like Bristol Motor Speed with I do
like Bristol Murder Speed. They've been in a couple of
races there with my dad, my father in law, Tom
settle Meyer's Great place it's it's near, it's near my
favorite part of the mountains, which is you know, north
north west North Carolina Boone and East Tennessee, Benna, Relt
(35:21):
that area of Johnson City, so Bristol.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
UH love it all, but man, you know what I
really love. I really love the Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
How when a child is granted a wish, how how
it has medical success and help on them. Yeah and
their family. We love make a wish. Go Zachary Riley,
thanks for being here.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Thank you all for having me.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Uh don't get lazy and uh go do the Golden
rule today. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Carry that smile around on your face and give that grace.
Thanks for listening to At Home with Ruby.
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