September 11, 2025 • 32 mins
In Part 3 of Trent’s story, he shares how the recession nearly took Roby under—and how grit, vertical integration, and a focus on people pulled them through. From launching new divisions to adopting EOS for accountability, Trent and Patrick reflect on hard choices, lasting partnerships, and living by the golden rule.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome Back Dead Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Patrick mc isaac from Roby Commercial and Services. On
Trent hates him from the Roby family of companies. Uh,
if you listen to the last episode, I did not
punch Trent in the eye, and that is not why
he's wearing glasses.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Uh negative ghost rider. I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't punch things anymore. I don't think I try
not to.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm gonna wear my glasses for the whole episode. You're
gonna do it? Yeah, it's going on. It's a little awkward.
It's wearing a room but uh, you know, the older
I get, uh, and the more tread I have on
my tires, I like. I like when I can make
people watching uh on YouTube or podcast. I like. I
(00:43):
like to make him feel awkward. It's a gold mine.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's just to make him feel I don't think anybody
sees you with sunglasses and they can feel awkward.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I want to make you feel awkward. Well, he's pretty
good at that. Or Kelvin. I don't think he can
make Kelvin feel off. He's got it now, He's got
it now. Helming's up to me. He's like, man, I
got you, I got you figured out. I know the tricks.
I know you do, I know you You're in the game.
I'm very much in the beginning. You know what I'm saying. So,
(01:11):
uh yeah, man, the last show we had Colin Sullivan
on here, what a great story, really cool in one
of our corn hole pitching for Wishes Platinum sponsors renewl
By Anderson. That was fun. It was good and we
got to talk about our family and our kids and uh,
my kids are full. Manti maybe said this a couple
(01:32):
of weeks ago. I don't think so. Maybe they had
been in a day or two, but are full. Monty
in school, I got five and I'm a bragger hot
hot minute they go to they go to Gaston Christian
School and my kindergartener, I don't know how long he
has to do this, but we say the Lord's Prayer
(01:53):
every day. I take him and forward to school when
I'm in town. And one of one of our traditions
I've done it with all the kid is to say
the Lord's Prayer. And uh, one of his first big assignment.
My kindergartens to say the Lord's Prayer and he listens
and then sometimes he'll repeat, but he's real kind of shy.
He didn't shy. He's let's call it koy on knocks.
(02:18):
But but last night he said pretty much the old
Lord's prayer. I didn't know that until I was like
forty maybe thirty five, right, which I was talking to
my father in law about. It is something something that
I thought I would have liked to been able to
recite at times in my life. And also another I
(02:44):
guess chance you say in church is the apostles creed.
So I started when I started taking my kids to school,
I wanted to learn them. So we learned them together.
So kind of now it's a little tradition, and I
think that's pretty cool. Traditions are cool. That is cool, man.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And on the same church theme, I'm going to give
the former boss lady of the radio show, Christian McCall,
sent me a nice text this morning said, Hey, I'm
just leaving church and I saw a bunch.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Of ruby trucks.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I hope you and your family are well and the
project's going great. And that is at your church.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow. So you know she's the one that approves payments.
Oh so you needed did you come back and say, hey,
accounts receivables pay up. I did that, but I was
a joke. She does not approved payments. I think my
wife does. Oh gosh, I'm aware of that too. There's
(03:39):
several uh and not for profits. You got to have
a few institutions. It's got to go to a couple
of chambers. Welcome to the seventy eight whatever you Wu
Tang used to say. I listened to Wu Tang a lot.
They had some bunch of chambers Wu Tang clan. There
you go, Wu Tang Clan Atlanta Alat. I don't know.
(04:00):
I don't think so. I think that's outcast. You're thinking
Andre too. We come on, man, let's go to dre
two thousand.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Had they had that big W that people put on
the back of their cars.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I had it, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bet you it was on the hood, wasn't it on
the back of my Montero?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah? The big W that kind of squoohed off to
the left air had a yellow ring, yeah, black bat
w and I mean kind of had some cool font huh,
and maybe a little yellow in it in in the
I don't know. All I know is there ain't nothing
to mess with. That's all I'm saying. You remember that
(04:38):
song like the music wasn't mess. Yeah. Man, so we've
had some cool weather. I'm excited about fall. I read
an article the other day. We're early September. I read
an article the other day that they're expecting to leave
to start turning into the mountains in late October and
(05:00):
in Charlotte in early November. Okay, I never I'm forty seven,
never have picked up on that data point. I knew
it was to fall time, and that the amount of rain,
or the amount of freezing evenings or the amount of
ninety degree plus days at various.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Data points sounds like a farmer's almanac stat there.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm pretty sure it was passionate. Okay, way to go.
Thank I read it on the axios, which is where
I get some of my new local news. Yeah, good stuff.
You know, man, I'm a current events person. Are you
are you?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm gonna give a shout out. Do you do you
subscribe to Tiny Money?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah? Well, yeah, I get it. Huh. I guess I
am a subscriber. Actually is? I get a lot off
of that too.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's that's a pretty good little Let's see if we
can have him on the radio show.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
At a certain point. You just get bogged down and
you start hyperventilating because you have and read all your
news updates, and then you feel bad. You feel guilty
because you start to leave. That sounds like somebody's got
some email head trash. Then you throw your phone down
on my asall see that before.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, that is not I have not thrown a phone.
That's a new crack in decades. That's a new crack.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'll tell you this. Two thousand and seven. Yeah, I
used to go. I was renovating my basement and my
dad was running the project with Reagan and uh man,
don't ever hate it until you walk them out on
somebody else's shoes. But uh being on the other side
of it, I had some frustrations and I got mad
(06:41):
one afternoon. I'm not proud to say this, but two
thousand and seven, I would have been twenty nine, and
I think I threw my phone down my backyard, up
against all the rock rap. Come on, and you've done
that several times? Why I haven't. My dad looked at me,
I mean, in all his ron hasten calmness, and he said, mmm,
(07:06):
you got you were hurt up on the boy. Dude.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I used to tell you that The one thing you
don't want to have happened is to be reincarnated into
your phone.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh that's because sometimes it goes swimming. Sometimes it just
gets dropped loose hands this thing. Man, I have not
thrown that phone ever. Let me clear this up. Did
you shoot it with a BB gun? Man? This protection?
I gotta gotta It's really only the little protect all
(07:38):
this cracked. That's what you're going to go with. Is
your name? Ford? Are you ten?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You know I had a call we had we we
collaborated before the show, and yeah, well, hey.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You brought up Reagan.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
This is part three of of of this of the
Saga of Roby in the Eyes of Trent. Yes, and
I think we left off when you were cussing around
about buying one hundred dollars with a paint Maybe not so,
so we're lying.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I did not cuss Reagan. I know that is. I
can't say I've never cursed towards Reagan at all. You
probably do that one. I've never done a full cuss out.
But but at this time I was not doing that.
And I really try to repent on that and not
do it in the in the forward, sweetheart, But but yeah,
(08:26):
so we're we're lining up. I have a huge list
of of my YPO business leaders I want to get
to be guests of the show. If you're listening, guys,
I'm coming after you. Dave Maguire's now in vistage. Colin
Sullivan talked about that last week. That's another peer group
of business education group. He's got some guys, and then
(08:49):
you want to get some more EO guys. And then
I just other folks that in the community that we've
gotten to know that we want to have on here
that have great stories. But Kylie Fish our new ball lady.
I figured this out. Did you realize she's our new
boss lady. Oh? Yeah, I'm aware. She uh she said. Nope.
(09:09):
Before we get anybody else, you got to finish the
Roby story as told by Trent modern day, I guess
during the Trent years. And you said that, so this
is it. So it's gonna be guests steady for the
rest of the year. So get it now or don't.
(09:30):
You're not getting it for a long time. But this
will be version three, that's right. And you said that.
We ended in two thousand and nine going to a
Roby softball game. My wife was pregnant with Rowan, my
second child, who is now sixteen, driving, and she wanted
to paint the room. Us be the painter. She just
(09:52):
wanted to buy some paint and I wigged out over
the speed hunk. I stopped straddling like the straddle the
speed hunt and uh and said, do you understand what
purgatory I'm living through? We're living through what's going on?
And she did not God bless for all all the
(10:12):
right reasons. But uh, that's that's where we left off.
I guess that's what you're telling. That's what I'm That's
where my recollection recollects. We lost that softball game. I
can't believe you remember that I threw my bat in
a bust of my windshield. No, Travis was ejected. No, No,
(10:33):
I'm kidding. Chris Maynor. Chris Maynard had a go bell
Travis out of jail. He not only got ejected, he
went to jail. Uh, that might hunt. So what we're
playing the day is, UH, is the story true or not?
Texting your to Kylie three seven two four three sixty
(10:56):
five to set, I didn't give you the area code.
It was a trick podcast radio trick. But no, I
do have no clue what happened in that softball game.
We lost a lot of games, so I would say
the probability is we lost.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I could I could have under what you could probably
signed up for the wrong tack on. The league had
that one basketball team that's around the same time when
I was a fill in. I'm like, when Travis was
signing us up for, this guy just dunked over me.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
That was insane. I man, I'm gonna be honest with you.
I thought, it seems like all of our peers at
the rugby family over over the years and even the
last couple of years, we appear to be like kind
of steadily the athletes, the guys, the women, and man,
we don't perform worth in these are mature leagues. We're
(11:56):
playing in the in the fourth league, the daily, and
we get beat and we get this every game. Man,
I think people were cheating. We're just working. And then
one time, miraculously, how this happened, I don't know. At
a narrow golf tournament in like two thousand and eight,
we won because it's handicapped, and we put in we
(12:18):
were thirty or twenty five. But still I don't I
don't care what we put in. We were not pencil whipping,
and we won and we got booed off out of
the room. Yeah, out of Burkdale. You know what they
call the last place person in one of those tournaments, right,
the most honest you go, there you go. And I
(12:39):
felt bad. The other day. I was telling somebody that
I really don't like Captain Choice tournaments anymore. I've played
up played one hundred of them for all of our organizations,
and I really don't kind of mess my swing up
because you get up there and you got the best
ball out of four every shot, so you so you're
whacking hard and uh And I said that. And my
(13:00):
daughter was with me, Tatum, who now plays golf, and
she said, Dad, what about when you play with me
last year in the in the Steell Creek tournament that
we sponsor for our church. And I said, well, no,
that was that was fun. That's different. Yeah. So yeah,
her and me and Jason Zimmerman, I think my father
(13:20):
in law, so who still wants to play this year?
So two thousand and nine, what a wonderful year in
my business life. Definitely probably the worst year out of
the twenty five years. In business life was two thousand
and nine, so that's when it really the recession of
(13:44):
eight that lasted, I mean really heavy to thirteen, in
my opinion, affected most all businesses in the United States.
I'm sure there were some some recession resistant businesses that
do well in a recession, but it was the worst
recession of our generation, kind of like the seventies my
(14:04):
dad talked about for his generation and uh and I
would sit at the top of the steps in the
fall of nine. I mean, O nine was bad. We
were like a tale. Our pipeline was already going through eight.
We didn't really realize that we were more just custom residential,
(14:25):
mostly remodeling in the heart of Charlotte, So we didn't
really have our we had our blinders on with what
was going on. I would say relative to today, our
businesses are more spread out, more macro, and I mean,
I don't want to say we weren't reading the newspaper
and watching the news and learn the macro. We knew
(14:46):
it was bad, but it felt bad. And we had
a workload meeting and every every Monday evening, and we
worked out of a house and it was in our
conference room and all our all our guys, my brother,
my dad, my UNC Chris Maynard, and a couple other
project managers and superintendent would sit around a table and
talk about what we had our guys to do, and nothing,
(15:10):
I mean really nothing. And I was like, man, if
this keeps going, we're going down. So I didn't say
this on the last show, did I. It's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I think it's fine if you did any kids.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Anyway, we pulled Blue the Whistle and we sat in
the back of Greystone Restaurant on Sadle Boulevard for two
days and we had a layoff, like thirty people make
all these hard decisions, do a ten percent pay cut
in the company. We had just started the year prior
a four to oh one k for the first time
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ever in fifty eight years of the company. We wanted
to have a retirement for our folks, including us, because
we didn't have retirement, and we did a company match,
which was great, and uh so we stopped the four
oh one k match, and uh it was a debate.
Some people wanted to stop the whole four o one
(16:07):
k because it's an expense, and I knew if we
stopped it, we had never started back. And fortunately we
only pause the match, and a year or so later
we started the match back. God bless that our company
does that we the rugby family. After you work a
little bit of time, per the ramifications of the system,
(16:29):
I think it's six months you get if you if
you're putting in the four oh one K, I think
it's a dollar per dollar your first three percent match
and then half a percent, fifty one hundred percent for
your first three and then fifty percent for four and five.
So if you if you put five percent of your
paycheck into four oh one K program, you get four
(16:50):
percent matched by the company. Uh pre tax is that right?
Say this correctly? Similar to an IRA, but it's a
for one k prom So we got back on that
and uh and man, we were in survival mode. It
was rough and it was in hindsight it was somewhat primitive,
(17:15):
which in hindsight when you when you have survived it
and you're looking back, it was was rewarding in some
level because you were just fighting and grinding and which
which grit. It is one of our tendons of our business.
And uh and we hung in there. I literally I
(17:36):
like to take bass. I literally just get up in
the middle of night and I couldn't sleep, and uh,
I would moan and groan and pray and cry in
the tub. And after my wife realized what was going
on from the softball incident, she said, oh, you okay,
And I was like, I want to make it. I
want to make it and uh, at some level, man,
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And and you never judge. That's why judgment is such
a bad thing. But there was times where I thought,
and I know my dad and my uncle and my
brother thought. I know, we didn't talk about this because
it's a vulnerable thing. But I thought that fifty nine
years of this business of Roby was going to go
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out of business and there was nothing we could do
about it. And that's a vulnerable that's a sad, it's
a tough feeling. But what we got up every day,
and I remember riding into town at four and five
o'clock in the morning and kind of just cruising around
the dead streets of Queens Road West and East Boulevard
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and South Boulevard and just pondering where we were gonna
drum up some business because it wasn't there. And it's
so eerily similar to when my dad would talk about
the seventies and they didn't have any work because interest
rates for eighteen percent. So it's crazy, man, you know,
I mean Colin Sullivan, our guests, last week, last show,
(19:07):
last episode is thirty three. Yeah, so two thousand and eight,
seventeen years ago. He doesn't know, I mean that generation
because he was sixteen years old in O eight. They
got to learn from us and his dad and all
the people. It's the same thing is as me being
in the set here and about to say the same
exact thing. So yeah, but we came out and we
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didn't have any money at all for several years, and
we were determined. Kind of my my mantra, I mean,
it was survival with all of us, and thank you
for my brother and my dad and my uncle. At
the time. My grandfather passed in five and we were
(19:50):
determined to survive. But I was determined and more to
figure out how to how to vertically integrate our customer.
The buyer of the custom anger Roby residential construction at
their primary residence. And in twenty ten, we had some opportunities.
We needed business, so we had some opportunities to build
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some houses outside of Charlotte. We tried to open offices,
we did in Boon, which we still have today fifteen
years running, and Raleigh and Atlantic Beach. We had to
shut those offices down. They did not make it. That
was other pain point. But we also started Roby Electric
at the time, which was the foundation eventually of doing
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multiple service businesses, both residentially and commercial, which is electric
commercial excuse me, electric mechanical and plumbing me ep, mechanical
electrical plumbing, the kind of they call in our industry
and handyman. And you were hired in twenty ten from
Ferguson and to run Roby Electric.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I think, yeah, that's right. And when you it's funny
you talk about the recession. Everybody's got a story or
a memory. One of the things that I remember, Trent
is it wasn't nearly what Roby went through, but we
had the same experience at Ferguson where I was. I
just wasn't high enough up to really experience it until
my boss called me and said, you got to get
rid of one of these two people you pick.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And I was like, but they're both really good people.
I don't understand they're both great.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He's like, it, that's what it is. You got to
make it. That call we'll talk about it tomorrow. And
I'm like, dang, I mean, just just these little things.
I mean, it's just terrible. There affected so many people.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
But yay, you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Hired me in twenty ten and I didn't know what
romex wire was, That's true story. So we took night
classes at CPCC. I remember that from six thirty to
nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And I was trying to prove my dad wrong that
you didn't have to grow up at fourteen in the
ditch under a cross space, pulling wire to no construction.
And you were one of my you were one of
my my exact experience studies. Yeah. Uh. And he liked
he like loved you. Didn't just like you, he loved you,
(22:07):
and he gave you full full benefit of the doubt.
And you proved me right. Thank you for that. Many
others have uh didn't know what romax wire was. You
running Roby Lesser. We didn't know how to run a
services business because we had always ran a construction renovation
custom business. It was it was not be efficient, it
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was will you jump and how high I'm gonna bust
my head on the ceiling. Because we're all we are
as hard working, honest servants is what Roby uh lived
by for for all the years before me and when
I came into the business, and my brother and my dad.
But we it's taken us about fifteen years. I think,
(22:50):
I think we pretty pretty understandable by how to run
a services business through through fire and brimstone losses and
an education and bringing talent. And then in twenty ten,
also to complete the vertical integration of our custom residential customer,
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we started Ruby Commercial because most movers and shakers that
are successful and do high end residential work also have
their hand and some commercial work, some commercial investments with properties.
So we started that in twenty ten and today you
are our partner, Dave Maguire, our COO is our partner
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in both the services side and the commercial side, which
are offshoot brands legal entities of Angel. Roby said, it's
worked out through commitment and persistence.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I want to say something about that too, you know, Dave,
I think what came over in eight if that is
that right, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It started July one, eight and so I mean of
all times.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
He and I worked at Ferguson together and when he
left to come to Roby, it opened up an opportunity
for me to get promoted into a branch manager, and
I backfield Dave. And I always tell people this, what
kind of person Dave is is? I had you know,
you're on herting place. We were over off Tremont well
really south south south Men at that time. And I
(24:19):
would call him like, hey, man, I don't know how
to do this report, like I remember you just showing me.
But he'd be like, it's cool, man, I won't have
lunch plans, say want to come over and I'll show
you how to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And he was moonlight.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He would roll over and pick a red Roby pickup truck.
Show me real quick, we might go have lunch. We
bite not and you go back.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'm gonna ding his uh his payroll next week. That's ridiculous. Well,
he's the reason I'm here, so you know, for no uh.
And he told me when he was hired he was
my high school best buddy and my college best buddy
and roommate my our freshman year, and then he was
my roommate after college in my house. And he told
me when he came on and O eight, he said, hey,
(24:57):
and and you and I knew each other like a
lot of the the other Ferguson folks, and he said, hey,
I got one if I ever get He didn't know
what he was saying. He's pretty scared to say it
because he because he just got his job. But he said,
if I ever get one, one hat to throw in
the ring as Patrick mcaaac uh when you know, when
when we're ever ready. Then the recession happened immediately, I
(25:19):
think right when he said it, lightning struck and uh
and Wells Fargo was I mean whole Kobe was bought
by Wills Fargo and Layman Brothers went out of business
all right when Dave said that. So uh anyway, So
now I think I think, amongst other things, we do
have the palette of vertically integrating our client with second
(25:41):
home markets and our commercials growing. And I think last
week we're doing entrepreneur operating systems as an operating system
that our company has embraced, uh from the top down
and the bottom up. And it was really cool. I
spoke about our town hall that started because of that
every quarter and we you know, had it, talked about
(26:04):
it on the last show briefly, but my brother Travis
described the entrepreneur operating system to our company, which was
really cool. Tall about coming of age. He did a
great job. Thank you to Ron Weatherly for showing us
Ross Wetherly Dry Pro Basement System still a platinum sponsor
(26:25):
post Ron Weatherly in our cornhole tournament. Great legacy he
started that. But anyway, so it's been fifteen years since
twenty ten, we celebrated your fifteenth year anniversary at the
town hall and I really think we got some good momentum,
wonderful momentum. We got wonderful families, people that support the
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Roby family staff wise, and then trade partners and then
subcontractors and really our customers. And are you know, I
believe in the fact you read a lot of books
and hear a lot of stuff and I'm in YPO,
You're in EO, and Dave's in vistage. I mean, we're
really working. We've always worked on the education side. We
did sailor sales training for ten or fifteen years. We're
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not scared to spend money and energy trying to get better.
That not always stick. But you know, you hear cliche
stuff and this and that, But the Ruby family is
is that it is our staff, their their family. Their children,
their parents, their significant other, their spouse, whoever it is,
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their friend group, honestly, their community they live in. And
then our subcontractors are vendors that we trade with, potential
subcontractors and vendors. Then and then our customers at the
heart of it. And you hear some say you take
care the customers, everything else worse. You take care of
your you know, other people say you take care of
your your staff, everything else worse. I just, man, I
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just think it's like EOS, it's peer accountability. It's a
flat or chart across the board and basically just due
to damn golden rule and treat others the way you
want to be treated. And as Colin Sullivan said on
the last show, you know, work with some urgency and
do the right thing. Spike Lee that joker so and
(28:21):
speaking of do the right thing, why don't you talk
about a wish story. I think that's what we got
to do. In the meantime, I'll throw out a couple
of our good gold and Platinum. Platinum and Gold sponsors
Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company, renewal By Anderson, Home
(28:41):
Technology Solutions, and United Healthcare. There are Platinum sponsors this
year for Pitching for Wishes. Everything goes to the Make
a Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina and
our gold sponsors. Let's name a few, Harky tailand stone
Mint Hill Cabinets, Queen City Lumber. All of those have
(29:02):
been tremendous sponsors since year one, Year one eight. Let
me say that again. Harky Talon, stone Men Hill Cabinets,
Queen City Lumber all original sponsors in eight when we
were scared and vulnerable to ask for people to give
money to a charity on our behalf. And now I
(29:23):
think we've gotten pretty dagone good at being a conduit.
So Patrick, why don't you read the wish story this week? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
This week we've got a wish filled with pure magic
for Ofie. Meeting our favorite Disney characters wasn't just a dream.
It was the highlight of an unforgettable week. We got
Disney back to back. I like it, Yeah, From Tigger
to Pooh to Mickey and the Disney Princesses. Every hug,
every smile, and every moment was filled with joy. The
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character breakfast were extra special. Man, these things are popular.
She got to spend some time with all her favorites,
lightening up with excitement every meet and greet, a break
from medical one point appointments. Since her diagnosis, life had
been full of doctors' visits, therapies, and medical routines. But
for one beautiful week that all disappeared. Ophie and her
sister Georgia got to simply be kids, laughing, playing and
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soaking in every magical moment Disney had to offer. Their
family treasured every second, calling it quote so good for
our souls.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
A star that lasts forever.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
One of the most emotional moments of Ophie's wish was
making her star a Give Kids the World village, placed
on a wall among the stars of other wish kids.
It's a lasting symbol of her journey and the strength
that continues to carry her family forward. Grateful for every moment,
from the joy of meeting Mickey to the deep emotions
of seeing her star, Ofie's wish was more than just
a trip. It was a gift of time, togetherness, and healing.
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Her family is forever grateful to make a wish Introl
in western North Carolina give Kids the World, and the
friends and family who made this journey possible.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
That's it. Man, ma'am. That's while we're here and Disney
how much they have always done give the world. Is
a castle, Princess Castle built just just for Make a
Wish kids to live their one wish of going to Disney,
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having that enjoyment and meeting these characters. Yeah. So every week,
every recording for the ten recordings leading up to our
corn Hole Pitching for Wishes, our eighteenth annual. We've been
saying seventeen because one year we couldn't gather, so we
did Walk for Wishes, but we still raise the money.
(31:35):
So I'm going eighteen annual two thousand and eight to
two thousand and twenty five, and hopefully we get to November,
the first Saturday, November, the first at Friend Park. Patrick,
thank you, thank you for everyone that supports. Yeah, thank you, Kylie.
If you didn't catch it, we're done on the rugby story.
(31:57):
We came to present day. I can't wait to book
book book with all these superstars we're gonna have on
our show. Yeah man, and uh go do the go
on and rule, treat others the way you want to
be treated, carry a smile around on your face and
treat others the right way. Thanks for listening that home
with Ruby
Welcome Back Dead Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Patrick mc isaac from Roby Commercial and Services. On
Trent hates him from the Roby family of companies. Uh,
if you listen to the last episode, I did not
punch Trent in the eye, and that is not why
he's wearing glasses.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Uh negative ghost rider. I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't punch things anymore. I don't think I try
not to.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm gonna wear my glasses for the whole episode. You're
gonna do it? Yeah, it's going on. It's a little awkward.
It's wearing a room but uh, you know, the older
I get, uh, and the more tread I have on
my tires, I like. I like when I can make
people watching uh on YouTube or podcast. I like. I
(00:43):
like to make him feel awkward. It's a gold mine.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's just to make him feel I don't think anybody
sees you with sunglasses and they can feel awkward.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I want to make you feel awkward. Well, he's pretty
good at that. Or Kelvin. I don't think he can
make Kelvin feel off. He's got it now, He's got
it now. Helming's up to me. He's like, man, I
got you, I got you figured out. I know the tricks.
I know you do, I know you You're in the game.
I'm very much in the beginning. You know what I'm saying. So,
(01:11):
uh yeah, man, the last show we had Colin Sullivan
on here, what a great story, really cool in one
of our corn hole pitching for Wishes Platinum sponsors renewl
By Anderson. That was fun. It was good and we
got to talk about our family and our kids and uh,
my kids are full. Manti maybe said this a couple
(01:32):
of weeks ago. I don't think so. Maybe they had
been in a day or two, but are full. Monty
in school, I got five and I'm a bragger hot
hot minute they go to they go to Gaston Christian
School and my kindergartener, I don't know how long he
has to do this, but we say the Lord's Prayer
(01:53):
every day. I take him and forward to school when
I'm in town. And one of one of our traditions
I've done it with all the kid is to say
the Lord's Prayer. And uh, one of his first big assignment.
My kindergartens to say the Lord's Prayer and he listens
and then sometimes he'll repeat, but he's real kind of shy.
He didn't shy. He's let's call it koy on knocks.
(02:18):
But but last night he said pretty much the old
Lord's prayer. I didn't know that until I was like
forty maybe thirty five, right, which I was talking to
my father in law about. It is something something that
I thought I would have liked to been able to
recite at times in my life. And also another I
(02:44):
guess chance you say in church is the apostles creed.
So I started when I started taking my kids to school,
I wanted to learn them. So we learned them together.
So kind of now it's a little tradition, and I
think that's pretty cool. Traditions are cool. That is cool, man.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And on the same church theme, I'm going to give
the former boss lady of the radio show, Christian McCall,
sent me a nice text this morning said, Hey, I'm
just leaving church and I saw a bunch.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Of ruby trucks.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I hope you and your family are well and the
project's going great. And that is at your church.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow. So you know she's the one that approves payments.
Oh so you needed did you come back and say, hey,
accounts receivables pay up. I did that, but I was
a joke. She does not approved payments. I think my
wife does. Oh gosh, I'm aware of that too. There's
(03:39):
several uh and not for profits. You got to have
a few institutions. It's got to go to a couple
of chambers. Welcome to the seventy eight whatever you Wu
Tang used to say. I listened to Wu Tang a lot.
They had some bunch of chambers Wu Tang clan. There
you go, Wu Tang Clan Atlanta Alat. I don't know.
(04:00):
I don't think so. I think that's outcast. You're thinking
Andre too. We come on, man, let's go to dre
two thousand.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Had they had that big W that people put on
the back of their cars.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I had it, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bet you it was on the hood, wasn't it on
the back of my Montero?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah? The big W that kind of squoohed off to
the left air had a yellow ring, yeah, black bat
w and I mean kind of had some cool font huh,
and maybe a little yellow in it in in the
I don't know. All I know is there ain't nothing
to mess with. That's all I'm saying. You remember that
(04:38):
song like the music wasn't mess. Yeah. Man, so we've
had some cool weather. I'm excited about fall. I read
an article the other day. We're early September. I read
an article the other day that they're expecting to leave
to start turning into the mountains in late October and
(05:00):
in Charlotte in early November. Okay, I never I'm forty seven,
never have picked up on that data point. I knew
it was to fall time, and that the amount of rain,
or the amount of freezing evenings or the amount of
ninety degree plus days at various.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Data points sounds like a farmer's almanac stat there.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm pretty sure it was passionate. Okay, way to go.
Thank I read it on the axios, which is where
I get some of my new local news. Yeah, good stuff.
You know, man, I'm a current events person. Are you
are you?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm gonna give a shout out. Do you do you
subscribe to Tiny Money?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah? Well, yeah, I get it. Huh. I guess I
am a subscriber. Actually is? I get a lot off
of that too.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's that's a pretty good little Let's see if we
can have him on the radio show.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
At a certain point. You just get bogged down and
you start hyperventilating because you have and read all your
news updates, and then you feel bad. You feel guilty
because you start to leave. That sounds like somebody's got
some email head trash. Then you throw your phone down
on my asall see that before.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, that is not I have not thrown a phone.
That's a new crack in decades. That's a new crack.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'll tell you this. Two thousand and seven. Yeah, I
used to go. I was renovating my basement and my
dad was running the project with Reagan and uh man,
don't ever hate it until you walk them out on
somebody else's shoes. But uh being on the other side
of it, I had some frustrations and I got mad
(06:41):
one afternoon. I'm not proud to say this, but two
thousand and seven, I would have been twenty nine, and
I think I threw my phone down my backyard, up
against all the rock rap. Come on, and you've done
that several times? Why I haven't. My dad looked at me,
I mean, in all his ron hasten calmness, and he said, mmm,
(07:06):
you got you were hurt up on the boy. Dude.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I used to tell you that The one thing you
don't want to have happened is to be reincarnated into
your phone.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh that's because sometimes it goes swimming. Sometimes it just
gets dropped loose hands this thing. Man, I have not
thrown that phone ever. Let me clear this up. Did
you shoot it with a BB gun? Man? This protection?
I gotta gotta It's really only the little protect all
(07:38):
this cracked. That's what you're going to go with. Is
your name? Ford? Are you ten?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You know I had a call we had we we
collaborated before the show, and yeah, well, hey.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You brought up Reagan.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
This is part three of of of this of the
Saga of Roby in the Eyes of Trent. Yes, and
I think we left off when you were cussing around
about buying one hundred dollars with a paint Maybe not so,
so we're lying.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I did not cuss Reagan. I know that is. I
can't say I've never cursed towards Reagan at all. You
probably do that one. I've never done a full cuss out.
But but at this time I was not doing that.
And I really try to repent on that and not
do it in the in the forward, sweetheart, But but yeah,
(08:26):
so we're we're lining up. I have a huge list
of of my YPO business leaders I want to get
to be guests of the show. If you're listening, guys,
I'm coming after you. Dave Maguire's now in vistage. Colin
Sullivan talked about that last week. That's another peer group
of business education group. He's got some guys, and then
(08:49):
you want to get some more EO guys. And then
I just other folks that in the community that we've
gotten to know that we want to have on here
that have great stories. But Kylie Fish our new ball lady.
I figured this out. Did you realize she's our new
boss lady. Oh? Yeah, I'm aware. She uh she said. Nope.
(09:09):
Before we get anybody else, you got to finish the
Roby story as told by Trent modern day, I guess
during the Trent years. And you said that, so this
is it. So it's gonna be guests steady for the
rest of the year. So get it now or don't.
(09:30):
You're not getting it for a long time. But this
will be version three, that's right. And you said that.
We ended in two thousand and nine going to a
Roby softball game. My wife was pregnant with Rowan, my
second child, who is now sixteen, driving, and she wanted
to paint the room. Us be the painter. She just
(09:52):
wanted to buy some paint and I wigged out over
the speed hunk. I stopped straddling like the straddle the
speed hunt and uh and said, do you understand what
purgatory I'm living through? We're living through what's going on?
And she did not God bless for all all the
(10:12):
right reasons. But uh, that's that's where we left off.
I guess that's what you're telling. That's what I'm That's
where my recollection recollects. We lost that softball game. I
can't believe you remember that I threw my bat in
a bust of my windshield. No, Travis was ejected. No, No,
(10:33):
I'm kidding. Chris Maynor. Chris Maynard had a go bell
Travis out of jail. He not only got ejected, he
went to jail. Uh, that might hunt. So what we're
playing the day is, UH, is the story true or not?
Texting your to Kylie three seven two four three sixty
(10:56):
five to set, I didn't give you the area code.
It was a trick podcast radio trick. But no, I
do have no clue what happened in that softball game.
We lost a lot of games, so I would say
the probability is we lost.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I could I could have under what you could probably
signed up for the wrong tack on. The league had
that one basketball team that's around the same time when
I was a fill in. I'm like, when Travis was
signing us up for, this guy just dunked over me.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
That was insane. I man, I'm gonna be honest with you.
I thought, it seems like all of our peers at
the rugby family over over the years and even the
last couple of years, we appear to be like kind
of steadily the athletes, the guys, the women, and man,
we don't perform worth in these are mature leagues. We're
(11:56):
playing in the in the fourth league, the daily, and
we get beat and we get this every game. Man,
I think people were cheating. We're just working. And then
one time, miraculously, how this happened, I don't know. At
a narrow golf tournament in like two thousand and eight,
we won because it's handicapped, and we put in we
(12:18):
were thirty or twenty five. But still I don't I
don't care what we put in. We were not pencil whipping,
and we won and we got booed off out of
the room. Yeah, out of Burkdale. You know what they
call the last place person in one of those tournaments, right,
the most honest you go, there you go. And I
(12:39):
felt bad. The other day. I was telling somebody that
I really don't like Captain Choice tournaments anymore. I've played
up played one hundred of them for all of our organizations,
and I really don't kind of mess my swing up
because you get up there and you got the best
ball out of four every shot, so you so you're
whacking hard and uh And I said that. And my
(13:00):
daughter was with me, Tatum, who now plays golf, and
she said, Dad, what about when you play with me
last year in the in the Steell Creek tournament that
we sponsor for our church. And I said, well, no,
that was that was fun. That's different. Yeah. So yeah,
her and me and Jason Zimmerman, I think my father
(13:20):
in law, so who still wants to play this year?
So two thousand and nine, what a wonderful year in
my business life. Definitely probably the worst year out of
the twenty five years. In business life was two thousand
and nine, so that's when it really the recession of
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eight that lasted, I mean really heavy to thirteen, in
my opinion, affected most all businesses in the United States.
I'm sure there were some some recession resistant businesses that
do well in a recession, but it was the worst
recession of our generation, kind of like the seventies my
(14:04):
dad talked about for his generation and uh and I
would sit at the top of the steps in the
fall of nine. I mean, O nine was bad. We
were like a tale. Our pipeline was already going through eight.
We didn't really realize that we were more just custom residential,
(14:25):
mostly remodeling in the heart of Charlotte, So we didn't
really have our we had our blinders on with what
was going on. I would say relative to today, our
businesses are more spread out, more macro, and I mean,
I don't want to say we weren't reading the newspaper
and watching the news and learn the macro. We knew
(14:46):
it was bad, but it felt bad. And we had
a workload meeting and every every Monday evening, and we
worked out of a house and it was in our
conference room and all our all our guys, my brother,
my dad, my UNC Chris Maynard, and a couple other
project managers and superintendent would sit around a table and
talk about what we had our guys to do, and nothing,
(15:10):
I mean really nothing. And I was like, man, if
this keeps going, we're going down. So I didn't say
this on the last show, did I. It's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I think it's fine if you did any kids.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Anyway, we pulled Blue the Whistle and we sat in
the back of Greystone Restaurant on Sadle Boulevard for two
days and we had a layoff, like thirty people make
all these hard decisions, do a ten percent pay cut
in the company. We had just started the year prior
a four to oh one k for the first time
(15:44):
ever in fifty eight years of the company. We wanted
to have a retirement for our folks, including us, because
we didn't have retirement, and we did a company match,
which was great, and uh so we stopped the four
oh one k match, and uh it was a debate.
Some people wanted to stop the whole four o one
(16:07):
k because it's an expense, and I knew if we
stopped it, we had never started back. And fortunately we
only pause the match, and a year or so later
we started the match back. God bless that our company
does that we the rugby family. After you work a
little bit of time, per the ramifications of the system,
(16:29):
I think it's six months you get if you if
you're putting in the four oh one K, I think
it's a dollar per dollar your first three percent match
and then half a percent, fifty one hundred percent for
your first three and then fifty percent for four and five.
So if you if you put five percent of your
paycheck into four oh one K program, you get four
(16:50):
percent matched by the company. Uh pre tax is that right?
Say this correctly? Similar to an IRA, but it's a
for one k prom So we got back on that
and uh and man, we were in survival mode. It
was rough and it was in hindsight it was somewhat primitive,
(17:15):
which in hindsight when you when you have survived it
and you're looking back, it was was rewarding in some
level because you were just fighting and grinding and which
which grit. It is one of our tendons of our business.
And uh and we hung in there. I literally I
(17:36):
like to take bass. I literally just get up in
the middle of night and I couldn't sleep, and uh,
I would moan and groan and pray and cry in
the tub. And after my wife realized what was going
on from the softball incident, she said, oh, you okay,
And I was like, I want to make it. I
want to make it and uh, at some level, man,
(17:59):
And and you never judge. That's why judgment is such
a bad thing. But there was times where I thought,
and I know my dad and my uncle and my
brother thought. I know, we didn't talk about this because
it's a vulnerable thing. But I thought that fifty nine
years of this business of Roby was going to go
(18:22):
out of business and there was nothing we could do
about it. And that's a vulnerable that's a sad, it's
a tough feeling. But what we got up every day,
and I remember riding into town at four and five
o'clock in the morning and kind of just cruising around
the dead streets of Queens Road West and East Boulevard
(18:43):
and South Boulevard and just pondering where we were gonna
drum up some business because it wasn't there. And it's
so eerily similar to when my dad would talk about
the seventies and they didn't have any work because interest
rates for eighteen percent. So it's crazy, man, you know,
I mean Colin Sullivan, our guests, last week, last show,
(19:07):
last episode is thirty three. Yeah, so two thousand and eight,
seventeen years ago. He doesn't know, I mean that generation
because he was sixteen years old in O eight. They
got to learn from us and his dad and all
the people. It's the same thing is as me being
in the set here and about to say the same
exact thing. So yeah, but we came out and we
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didn't have any money at all for several years, and
we were determined. Kind of my my mantra, I mean,
it was survival with all of us, and thank you
for my brother and my dad and my uncle. At
the time. My grandfather passed in five and we were
(19:50):
determined to survive. But I was determined and more to
figure out how to how to vertically integrate our customer.
The buyer of the custom anger Roby residential construction at
their primary residence. And in twenty ten, we had some opportunities.
We needed business, so we had some opportunities to build
(20:12):
some houses outside of Charlotte. We tried to open offices,
we did in Boon, which we still have today fifteen
years running, and Raleigh and Atlantic Beach. We had to
shut those offices down. They did not make it. That
was other pain point. But we also started Roby Electric
at the time, which was the foundation eventually of doing
(20:36):
multiple service businesses, both residentially and commercial, which is electric
commercial excuse me, electric mechanical and plumbing me ep, mechanical
electrical plumbing, the kind of they call in our industry
and handyman. And you were hired in twenty ten from
Ferguson and to run Roby Electric.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I think, yeah, that's right. And when you it's funny
you talk about the recession. Everybody's got a story or
a memory. One of the things that I remember, Trent
is it wasn't nearly what Roby went through, but we
had the same experience at Ferguson where I was. I
just wasn't high enough up to really experience it until
my boss called me and said, you got to get
rid of one of these two people you pick.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And I was like, but they're both really good people.
I don't understand they're both great.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He's like, it, that's what it is. You got to
make it. That call we'll talk about it tomorrow. And
I'm like, dang, I mean, just just these little things.
I mean, it's just terrible. There affected so many people.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
But yay, you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Hired me in twenty ten and I didn't know what
romex wire was, That's true story. So we took night
classes at CPCC. I remember that from six thirty to
nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And I was trying to prove my dad wrong that
you didn't have to grow up at fourteen in the
ditch under a cross space, pulling wire to no construction.
And you were one of my you were one of
my my exact experience studies. Yeah. Uh. And he liked
he like loved you. Didn't just like you, he loved you,
(22:07):
and he gave you full full benefit of the doubt.
And you proved me right. Thank you for that. Many
others have uh didn't know what romax wire was. You
running Roby Lesser. We didn't know how to run a
services business because we had always ran a construction renovation
custom business. It was it was not be efficient, it
(22:28):
was will you jump and how high I'm gonna bust
my head on the ceiling. Because we're all we are
as hard working, honest servants is what Roby uh lived
by for for all the years before me and when
I came into the business, and my brother and my dad.
But we it's taken us about fifteen years. I think,
(22:50):
I think we pretty pretty understandable by how to run
a services business through through fire and brimstone losses and
an education and bringing talent. And then in twenty ten,
also to complete the vertical integration of our custom residential customer,
(23:11):
we started Ruby Commercial because most movers and shakers that
are successful and do high end residential work also have
their hand and some commercial work, some commercial investments with properties.
So we started that in twenty ten and today you
are our partner, Dave Maguire, our COO is our partner
(23:34):
in both the services side and the commercial side, which
are offshoot brands legal entities of Angel. Roby said, it's
worked out through commitment and persistence.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I want to say something about that too, you know, Dave,
I think what came over in eight if that is
that right, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It started July one, eight and so I mean of
all times.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
He and I worked at Ferguson together and when he
left to come to Roby, it opened up an opportunity
for me to get promoted into a branch manager, and
I backfield Dave. And I always tell people this, what
kind of person Dave is is? I had you know,
you're on herting place. We were over off Tremont well
really south south south Men at that time. And I
(24:19):
would call him like, hey, man, I don't know how
to do this report, like I remember you just showing me.
But he'd be like, it's cool, man, I won't have
lunch plans, say want to come over and I'll show
you how to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And he was moonlight.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He would roll over and pick a red Roby pickup truck.
Show me real quick, we might go have lunch. We
bite not and you go back.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'm gonna ding his uh his payroll next week. That's ridiculous. Well,
he's the reason I'm here, so you know, for no uh.
And he told me when he was hired he was
my high school best buddy and my college best buddy
and roommate my our freshman year, and then he was
my roommate after college in my house. And he told
me when he came on and O eight, he said, hey,
(24:57):
and and you and I knew each other like a
lot of the the other Ferguson folks, and he said, hey,
I got one if I ever get He didn't know
what he was saying. He's pretty scared to say it
because he because he just got his job. But he said,
if I ever get one, one hat to throw in
the ring as Patrick mcaaac uh when you know, when
when we're ever ready. Then the recession happened immediately, I
(25:19):
think right when he said it, lightning struck and uh
and Wells Fargo was I mean whole Kobe was bought
by Wills Fargo and Layman Brothers went out of business
all right when Dave said that. So uh anyway, So
now I think I think, amongst other things, we do
have the palette of vertically integrating our client with second
(25:41):
home markets and our commercials growing. And I think last
week we're doing entrepreneur operating systems as an operating system
that our company has embraced, uh from the top down
and the bottom up. And it was really cool. I
spoke about our town hall that started because of that
every quarter and we you know, had it, talked about
(26:04):
it on the last show briefly, but my brother Travis
described the entrepreneur operating system to our company, which was
really cool. Tall about coming of age. He did a
great job. Thank you to Ron Weatherly for showing us
Ross Wetherly Dry Pro Basement System still a platinum sponsor
(26:25):
post Ron Weatherly in our cornhole tournament. Great legacy he
started that. But anyway, so it's been fifteen years since
twenty ten, we celebrated your fifteenth year anniversary at the
town hall and I really think we got some good momentum,
wonderful momentum. We got wonderful families, people that support the
(26:50):
Roby family staff wise, and then trade partners and then
subcontractors and really our customers. And are you know, I
believe in the fact you read a lot of books
and hear a lot of stuff and I'm in YPO,
You're in EO, and Dave's in vistage. I mean, we're
really working. We've always worked on the education side. We
did sailor sales training for ten or fifteen years. We're
(27:14):
not scared to spend money and energy trying to get better.
That not always stick. But you know, you hear cliche
stuff and this and that, But the Ruby family is
is that it is our staff, their their family. Their children,
their parents, their significant other, their spouse, whoever it is,
(27:37):
their friend group, honestly, their community they live in. And
then our subcontractors are vendors that we trade with, potential
subcontractors and vendors. Then and then our customers at the
heart of it. And you hear some say you take
care the customers, everything else worse. You take care of
your you know, other people say you take care of
your your staff, everything else worse. I just, man, I
(28:00):
just think it's like EOS, it's peer accountability. It's a
flat or chart across the board and basically just due
to damn golden rule and treat others the way you
want to be treated. And as Colin Sullivan said on
the last show, you know, work with some urgency and
do the right thing. Spike Lee that joker so and
(28:21):
speaking of do the right thing, why don't you talk
about a wish story. I think that's what we got
to do. In the meantime, I'll throw out a couple
of our good gold and Platinum. Platinum and Gold sponsors
Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company, renewal By Anderson, Home
(28:41):
Technology Solutions, and United Healthcare. There are Platinum sponsors this
year for Pitching for Wishes. Everything goes to the Make
a Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina and
our gold sponsors. Let's name a few, Harky tailand stone
Mint Hill Cabinets, Queen City Lumber. All of those have
(29:02):
been tremendous sponsors since year one, Year one eight. Let
me say that again. Harky Talon, stone Men Hill Cabinets,
Queen City Lumber all original sponsors in eight when we
were scared and vulnerable to ask for people to give
money to a charity on our behalf. And now I
(29:23):
think we've gotten pretty dagone good at being a conduit.
So Patrick, why don't you read the wish story this week? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
This week we've got a wish filled with pure magic
for Ofie. Meeting our favorite Disney characters wasn't just a dream.
It was the highlight of an unforgettable week. We got
Disney back to back. I like it, Yeah, From Tigger
to Pooh to Mickey and the Disney Princesses. Every hug,
every smile, and every moment was filled with joy. The
(29:50):
character breakfast were extra special. Man, these things are popular.
She got to spend some time with all her favorites,
lightening up with excitement every meet and greet, a break
from medical one point appointments. Since her diagnosis, life had
been full of doctors' visits, therapies, and medical routines. But
for one beautiful week that all disappeared. Ophie and her
sister Georgia got to simply be kids, laughing, playing and
(30:12):
soaking in every magical moment Disney had to offer. Their
family treasured every second, calling it quote so good for
our souls.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
A star that lasts forever.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
One of the most emotional moments of Ophie's wish was
making her star a Give Kids the World village, placed
on a wall among the stars of other wish kids.
It's a lasting symbol of her journey and the strength
that continues to carry her family forward. Grateful for every moment,
from the joy of meeting Mickey to the deep emotions
of seeing her star, Ofie's wish was more than just
a trip. It was a gift of time, togetherness, and healing.
(30:44):
Her family is forever grateful to make a wish Introl
in western North Carolina give Kids the World, and the
friends and family who made this journey possible.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
That's it. Man, ma'am. That's while we're here and Disney
how much they have always done give the world. Is
a castle, Princess Castle built just just for Make a
Wish kids to live their one wish of going to Disney,
(31:13):
having that enjoyment and meeting these characters. Yeah. So every week,
every recording for the ten recordings leading up to our
corn Hole Pitching for Wishes, our eighteenth annual. We've been
saying seventeen because one year we couldn't gather, so we
did Walk for Wishes, but we still raise the money.
(31:35):
So I'm going eighteen annual two thousand and eight to
two thousand and twenty five, and hopefully we get to November,
the first Saturday, November, the first at Friend Park. Patrick,
thank you, thank you for everyone that supports. Yeah, thank you, Kylie.
If you didn't catch it, we're done on the rugby story.
(31:57):
We came to present day. I can't wait to book
book book with all these superstars we're gonna have on
our show. Yeah man, and uh go do the go
on and rule, treat others the way you want to
be treated, carry a smile around on your face and
treat others the right way. Thanks for listening that home
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