Inventor Spotlight #15: David Chaney’s BetterGrip Paint Roller — Painting with Comfort and Control - Inventor Smart Community App Spotlight

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hi, how are you.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm doing great local.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well we're going to get into that in just a second,
but I am kind of chuckling to all your Southerners
that are a little chili the last forty eight hours.
But welcome to the Inventor Smart Community and Inventor Spotlight.
You are our guest David Cheney, episode fifteen. So we've
been just pumping these podcasts out talking to inventors. This

(00:52):
show is all about kind of learning what your product is,
how you got started, where you're at now, and we're
going to get into all at and we're having a
great time doing these brought to you by the invendor
Smart Community.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you're not sure what that is.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
We're a downloadable app wherever you do your streaming apps.
We're just a collection of inventors that are all going
through different stages of our development. So our founder and
our coach, Brian Freed, set this app up and it's
just been It went from twenty two members to over

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fifteen hundred in just an X amount of time. So
you are a member of our community and you're an
amazing inventor. Because I do love this product, I'm going
to do it by do it yourselfer. I have a
lot of friends that are in this industry. I think
you've tapped into something. So David, welcome, glad to have

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you Episode fifteen, and you're our spotlight. So go ahead
and introduce yourself, tell us where you're from, and give
us the lowdown of your product.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Sure, David Cheney from Lafayette, Louisiana. I was a teacher,
physical education teacher for twenty five years and never never
thought about inventing. I am a problem solver, so you know,
I did have some figure out problems and think that
I could do things better than what's already out there,

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but I never really saw myself as actually going.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Out and inventing a product.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
And in twenty twenty, COVID hit and we basically everything
got shut down.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
So as a school teacher, your school was obviously, you know,
no class attending, so you had some extra time around
the house.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's exactly what happened.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
And my lovely wife, Debbie, when it was kind of
enough to give me a list of Debbie doos, and
one of those included painting the pool deck in the backyard,
so you know, ran over to the hardware store, picked
up the paint a paint roller and an extension poll,
and I got busy, and it wasn't long.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Before I'm just getting frustrated.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
The frame kept bending, the cover kept sliding off. You know,
I'm thinking to myself, there has to be a better way,
And so I ran back to the hardware. I ended
up actually taking it off of the extension poll and
literally Samantha pain and the rest of the deck by hand.
I'm done. My hand is sore, my wrist is sword.
I'm thinking, man, there's got to be a better way.

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So I run back to the hardware store. I pick
up two three inch rollers. I've been the frame, take
an old closet rod, drill some holes in it, glew
it together.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Next day I wake up, I'm like a kid on
Christmas morning.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, stop right too. We do this. We'll get into our.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Stories, and I don't want to to the end before
we can jump in, because this is what we love
about inventing.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
So you know you're you're a pe educator, teacher PA
education right, yes.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
So you have this time off, Debbie says, hey, man,
can you to do some jobs around here? You got
all this time you're painting the pull and I get
it with painting. I mean, you think in the industry,
we'd have so many options. So when you first were
kind of constructing this, did you think of yourself, there's
got to be something already out there. Did you do
any searching looking or at the time were you just

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trying to fix your problem and what you were having.
Did you have a broader mindset at that time?

Speaker 4 (04:22):
So it started out by creating a prototype, again, just
a really rough prototype, and when I first held it,
I'm thinking, man, this is definitely better than what I
used yesterday. And so at that point, you know, I
did start looking around and I couldn't find anything that.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Was like hours. There's there's when I say like hours.
You know, ours our.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Product basically allows people to hold the frame with a
on a handle that runs parallel with your cover. So
it eliminates a lot of that stress of flexing your
wrist constantly trying to apply pressure. And for us average
people do it Yourselfers who don't know how to paint,
We're just trying.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
To get a room painted. You know, it's a it's
a huge benefit.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's something that resonates with all the people that we
talk to who use it.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
But before we even explain to them.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
When we say it attaches on both sides, they immediately
know what it does and they're going, oh, I know, oh,
I love this, this is awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
So but I did, I did look around, and I
didn't find anything.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
There's some that attach on both sides for commercial painters
that are large frames twelve inch to eighteen inch, but
you have to screw in, screwed into an extension poll.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, so that's the hook.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
That's the hook that it attaches on both sides. So
it gives you a little more flexibility control and you know,
less handache, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
And I don't want to say painting is a young
man's game because I don't think it is.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's painting as everybody's right. It opens to everybody, even
if you have a small painting project. You know, I've
stood in a paint aisle or accessory aisle and go,
you know, next thing, you know, you're buying everything because
you think you need everything. So yeah, so now I
know you have. I'm just dying to see it again.
I've seen your presentations before, so.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Look at it.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let me let me show you real quick. So so basically,
once again, this is what a kit would look like.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
So it basically comes with a cover, a half inch
nap cover which pretty much accommodates any type texture on
the wall, whether it's a little bit thin texture or
heavy texture. It it'll cover any kind of diverse. It
comes with a main handle, two arms, and an extension handle.
The extension handle actually can be taken out, and this

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is what I was referring to earlier. You can literally
hold it like this, and when you do, you can
see that there's no stress being placed on your wrist,
on your hands. We have a lot of people who
who literally suffer from authoritis or a corporal tunnel. You know,
they can't are handled. It's an ergonomic handle. It has

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the groove finger groove, so you can hold it and
literally paint and it's not putting that stress on your wrist. Now,
if you prefer a more traditional feel, you take the
extension handle that comes with each kit, or an extension poll.
You screwed it into the base and that gives you
that regular, traditional we're accustomed to feel. But even that

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is unique because it's center balance and again it attaches
on both sides. So as I'm a plane pressure, I'm
able to control the pressure on both sides. You know,
with a normal wireframe, Samantha, you get that flex and
so on one end you're gonna get a heavy paint trail,
the other end you're gonna get a light paint trail

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with this, and then you're constantly having to again just
apply put pressure. That's why so many people get strained
on their hand and their wrist is because they're constantly
fighting that roller.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Roller allows them to do something a lot different.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Now again, I think I on the previous episodes I
had mentioned about we had somebody who actually rents properties
and he purchased one of our rollers, and he contacted
me a couple of weeks later.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
He said, David, look, I love your roller. I want
to share something with you.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, we have actually these two squares, a square here
and a square here, that inner lock and that prevents
the roller from twisting as you're painting. He intentionally took
the roller, rotated it ninety degrees.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'm gonna do this real quick for you.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
And basically what it does is it brought the handle,
the extension handle where it makes like an L shape. Now,
at first I thought he was joking, but he says, David, Look,
I want to show something to you. I intentionally rotated
that when I hold this like this, Smith, I don't
even have to squeeze it, put that death grip constantly flexing.
I can literally just let it rest in my hand

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and I can go and I can paint no stress
at all on your hand, your wrist, anything.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So again, the one of the.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Huge benefits that our roller offers compared to the thousands
of rollers out there is that not only is it
is it durable, but it's also extremely versatile.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
It allows you to customize it.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
If again, if my hand's getting sore like this, I'm
doing small area.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I can literally hold it like this.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
If I want to try if I'm doing it again
a smaller area, I can hold it like this.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I can use an extension poll in place of the
extent excuse.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Me, the extension handle, so that I can reach the ceilings,
the upper walls, or even a debt.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
So let me tell you something. You know, it's brilliant.
It's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
It looks really well made, very sturdy. And I'm assuming
that the roller part is universal, like I can the
universal wolfit. We already knew that. I mean it's really
well made. It looks incredible. I think it's brilliant. You know,
I love this part about inventors that were just average people,

(10:13):
right whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
You have a job, you know, on the unexpected things
that happen.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
And then all of a sudden, just that one you know,
Debbie do list of getting the and then you know
your mind going to wait a minute, this is all
so frustrating. Is hurting my hand, these little mini solutions.
You know, you build a quick prototype just to serve
getting your project done, and then that wider consciousness opens up.
And I love this with humans, right, that wider consciousness

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opens up and we're like.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well what if I do this or what if I
do that? And here you are. And I love this
story too.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
How you give it to a contractor of some sort
right at the apartment and he's like, look, I just
modified this because these are the professionals as well, and
they use these on a daily basis. You know, I mean,
such a great story. I'm so intrigued to see where
we go.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, but well.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Look we we actually h we actually you know, received
a handwritten letter and I wish we were at our shop.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
The snoopers were snowed in right now, right right.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
But we actually received a handwritten letter from a gentleman.
He was a contractor. And although our product is designed
primarily for DIY do it yourself.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
For the weekend Warrior.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Again, we have had quite a few contractors who've used
it and they love it. But this particular contractor sit
us a handwritten It's a full page and Samantha says,
I've been in a painter for forty I think it
was forty two years. He used our nine inch roller
for six months. He basically turned around and bought our
four inch and our eighteen inch rollers. Okay, he credits

(11:53):
our roller with allowing him to continue painting. He said
he actually threw out his other frames because he had
two shoulders surgeries the previous year, and so he's been
battling painting.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
In his old school. So he does about rolling.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, Yeah, credit's.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Our roller with allowing him to painting because he doesn't
have to have that stress that another roller constantly trying
to place it, you know, get the right right, you know,
the paint. So so, like I said, it's it's really
when you hear stories like that, you know, and again
we hear them all the time. Uh, it's it just

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really inspires us to contempt pushing forward.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I mean it inventing is a grind.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh. You know, I've learned a lot over the course
of you know, these years, things that.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I've done wrong, a lot of things that I've done wrong.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
But again, as you mentioned.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
In the in the beginning, you know, one of the
beauty is about belonging to you know, like the smart community,
or or going to going to places and meeting other inventors.
Is like you said, you you run across people who
are in the same position as you, who can basically
you know, you're they're a shoulder for you to cry on,

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or or you're a shoulder for them to cry on,
or you can provide a lot of insight things that
you haven't experienced or things.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
That I have.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
I mean, I you know, I recently went uh to
Las Vegas and we we did a little competition there,
fortunate enough to win. But you know, while we were there,
you know, there were a lot of people that I
connected with that you know, in the same boat as us.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
And and and again it's just you.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Know, being an inventor, like I said, I never envisioned
going to down this path getting to this point where
I have product that I'm trying to get into retailers,
you know. But again, us as a as a community,
you know, we can.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
We can get through this.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
And again, I mean you hear from people all the time,
and even the success stories, you know, the scrub.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Daddy's in the you know, ring ring doorbell.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
And stuff like that, you you read up on them
and you see the struggles that had to fight through.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
So, like I said, those are early days with everybody's
got that early.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Day story, right, and this is part of it.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
How can you have a great, you know, better grip
paint roller story if you don't have any struggles and
some triumphs along the way and some setbacks and some
you know, really bad decisions. Man, I wish if we
could do that over again. A lot of invendors that
I meet, I have won myself, and it was costly, right,
So right, I think circling back around to the community,

(14:30):
at least in the community. I know in our app
somebody said, hey, what do you think about such and
such company? And then some of you go, well, you know,
blah blah blah. And so we've we've definitely helped each other,
especially early stage prototypes or draftings and drawings. You know,
these things are important for steps and if you can't
get those first steps done, you know, you kind of

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don't know where to go.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
So I want to circle back around really quick.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
You talked about something about the home show and you're like, oh,
we won, and then you just kind of moved on
and we met all these other people, so curious, what
did we win at that home show?

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well, so we were invited to go to Vegas for
it was an Ali Baba.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Co create and we were there, yes.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
And so we were Actually the way it worked it
was they selected thirteen businesses that automatically made it to
the finals, and then they had twenty other businesses inventions
that had to do a semi final pitch off, and
so we had to do that. I think it was
on a Wednesday, where we go into this convention room

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and you know, there's a lot of the other inventors
are there, some of the people who were in the finals.
You've got the judges and other people, and so we
went in and you know, basically gave our story and
again going back to the inspirational side, Samantha, it's so
funny because I go in and you have a minute
and a half to give your pitch, and so I
give my pitch, and it was it was, like I said,

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inspiring because all of a sudden and one of the
wives of one of the people who were actually pitching
against us stood up and went, I'll take one.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I was like, sweet, you know. So it was just
the cutest things.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
But we ended up being selected one of two businesses
from the semifinal. So on the Thursday, we turned around
and we got to go onto this stage in front
of two thousand people. You had judges like well, Damon
John was a host from Shark Tank. You had Everett
Taylor who was he's the CEO of Kickstarter. You had

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Jason Feiffer, editor of Entrepreneur magazine, and so you had
a lot of influential people there who were judges. And
so we got to do the pitch competition and we
were fortunate that we were one of five selected out
of the fifteen. We received the cash prize and then
a few other little things here and there. But it

(16:58):
was just like I said, it was nice because we
did have that opportunity. We got some feedback from them
on a product, and you know, these these are people,
as you know, that are in the inventor space, and
you know, they were like, man, this is such an
intuitive product. Jason Fiffer says, Man, I feel like you've
been demoing this out there.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm ready. I'm ready to run out and buy one
right now.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
And so, you know, to hear these people who probably see,
you know, like you guys, thousands of products come and go,
it was just nice.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
To hear, you know, them see this as a beneficial product.
You know that that serves a purpose. You know. I mean,
I'm Rudy Maer, who's an influencer.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
You know, he said, Look, he said, I actually used
to be in real estate and I did a ton
of painting, and I completely understand the frustrations that you
were referring to. So when you have people like that
who are like, man, David, I think this is a
great product. I mean, we were walking around Samantha after
and and you know, we felt like rock stars, my

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wife and I, Debbie. You know, we're standing there walking
around and people see the old Neon green shirt. So
they're walking up saying, man, I love your product, great,
get an awesome job whatever. And then you know, as
we're talking to now, if somebody else just comes and
stands next to me and it's with this person, you know,
they give me the same. Man, I love the product
I just painted last week. I would love to have

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had this. So again, each sudden we get that little spark,
it gives us that fuel to continue pushing forward and
knowing that it's not a gimmick, it's not a you know,
wanting to you know, this is a product that can
really help people.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
This is a serious product. And you know, when we're
talking about.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
That customer feedback or you know, you and Debbie walking
around and people are approaching you, Hey, man, you earn that.
I mean, you earned it, right, you put the hard
work in. So it's nice to hear the general public,
people that aren't connected to you or see your you
know story going actually living it with you, your friends and family, right,
these are just total strangers on you. Hey, you've really

(19:04):
got a great product here. So I think that you've really,
you know, earned that. And then when you're you're talking
about you know, some of these men and women they're
you know, they're lifetime painters, right like the gentlemen that
you mentioned, they don't want to give up what they're
passionate about or what they do for a living. So
if you've created something that eases some of that arthritis
or that the handstrain, you know, I'm one of those two,

(19:28):
you know, with what I've done for the industry in
my life, my hands get really sore very quickly. So
I love this that we're so thinking of so many
entities about this product, and I think it's fresh man.
It's really I can't believe it hasn't already been done.
So you know, that's that other element to inventing, when

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you kind of tap into something like, how come somebody
hasn't thought of this?

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, well we were forced to well, let's say, yesterday
received notification that we Japan we found patents globally smart
and and and we we actually accept that it's expensive,
as you know, so that's the only downside is but
we did receive notification that Japan actually approved our pattern.

(20:13):
So we're hoping that that will help to uh because
it's been a slow process. I've been really dragging in
particularly US. So we're we're hoping that now that we've
gotten gott Nick granted in Japan, we're hoping that that
may feed into some of the other countries so we
can start getting the patents issued and everywhere else.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
But but no.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
It's it's it's you know, like like you said, you know,
we hear this all the time. We hear things like
so smart, that's a game changer. Why didn't someone think
of this sooner? Are you sure there's nothing else out
there like this and there and there isn't?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
You know?

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Of course, you know what you have at this point,
you know, And we always like to remind our listeners
who ever jumping in, whether you're inventing or you're thinking
about it, or your seasoned inventor. I think the general
consensus is it takes time, and it's expensive. It's not
so expensive where you can't handle it right because you

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do it little steps, little steps, especially if you're that
committed and you know that you're onto something. And again
when you get all that positive feedback in each step,
each journey that you guys have taken, I mean, you
have to be so proud of yourselves. You've done really
well even though it took oh my god to get here, right, Yeah,
I mean, look what you're achieving.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's huge, It really is it's an inspiration.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
And I think that's one of those learning experiences for
me as an inventor. Is you know, I think you
come into this and of course we're biased. We believe
we've got the next greatest invention and that it's just
going to take off and fly. And that's I think
then the most difficult thing to navigate is the slow process.
It does and it's not just ours, as you said,

(21:54):
it's you know, it's everyone. It takes a wall for
you know, you've got to get in front of the
right people, you've got to get that door open, you've
got to you got to grind it out.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
And that's what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
But you know, I think I think you know, we
came in and and unfortunately we we actually had gotten
some advice from somebody at we had gone to the
National Hardware Show and we've met somebody and uh, you know,
and and and we ended up probably investing in a
little bit too much inventory.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
So we're inventory heavy. Uh.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
In hindsight, of course, now we know it's it's it's
the slow process. But again, these are things that we
learned and we're not gonna you know, we're gonna pick
ourselves up. You know, we're not gonna sit there and
dwell in the past. All we're gonna do is work
towards the future. And like I said, every time we
get one person who says, David, I love it or
or they use it. I mean, we had an influencer,

(22:45):
uh the other day who had posted a video where
she was she was actually using our our roller to
paint her barn and uh and and I guess she
had a lot of people commenting or or emailing or asking, hey,
what's that green roller you using? So she actually she
actually did a video saying, hey, I know a lot
of you have been asking about the better grid paint rollers.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
So I want to show you.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
I'm changing out the roller cover right now. I want
to show you what it is. Blah blah blahah.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
So she goes through and she basically does.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Like a minute and a half just kind of explaining,
like what I did earlier, all the different ways you
can hold it and things like that. And so again
here here you've had one of these DIY influencers who've
used it, who loves it.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
She actually puts, won't you use this?

Speaker 4 (23:29):
You won't use anything else, which is another thing we
hear from a lot of our customers, but it's that
Samitha that's at you know mindset.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
That well, I've always used this, why do I need that?

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Well, look, it's not for everyone, okay, but I can
assure you that.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm not a I'm not a painter. Okay, I'm going
to go back to I was.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
I was a teacher, I was a coach, I was
a you know everything else.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Painting is not one of those things that I woke
up saying, hey, I want to go paint this.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Okay, So for me, I can see it from the
standpoint of people like myself who don't necessarily want to
be painting.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
But when you use that wireframe roller, you get frustrated.
And so what I've tried to.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Do with our product is create products that address all
the issues that average people like myself experience when using
that whimsy wireflame wireframe roller. And so everything that our
rollers addressed, again are things that that average person understands,
they know because they've dealt with it.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
And so, like I said, there's a place for it, but.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
It is That's the one thing again that I've learned
and I do if I have anybody that comes up
to me or ask me, oh, so, how's things going,
and you know.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Tell me a little bit about you know, I'm looking
at inventing. You know.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
The one thing that I try to share with them
is that, look, just you know, understand, it is a journey.
You know, it's gonna it's not going to just be
overnight success. It's not.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
You're gonna have to work hard and it's gonna you know.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
But again, at the end of the day, I really
feel like, you know, it's something that particularly if we
can really get this the snowball take off, it's something
that I mean, look my son, my son the other
day when I think we I forget what it was,
but he comes up to me, be goes, Dad, I'm
proud of you.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
You know you've inspired me. You know.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
So, you know, like I said, for me, I want
to continue pushing forward, hoping that one day we can
be you know, in the same conversation as a as
a company like scrub Daddy or like you know, some
of these other big names, because again there we're the
only one like this and.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
You know, know what's out there, but we're the only
one that allows this and this and you know whatnot
so hopefully we can get there.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
I think the story that you're telling too is one
of organic growth, right, that we talk a lot about,
you know, serendipities on this podcast, and you know organic
growth is so important as well. Right, you have to
are there. It takes a long time. You're learning so
much along the way. And I mean we've got our
kids saying I'm proud of you. I mean that alone

(26:09):
is amazing, right, because they can see, you know, things
that they may not. I don't know how old your
son is, but they're clearly not an adult, right. And
this is a lot of grind and a lot of
work and a lot of doors that close. And then
you start to think, well, God, if all these people
are telling me this product is great, why aren't they
telling me you know, let's put this in lows, let's

(26:30):
get this in home depot.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
It gets a little fuggy water there. But again back
to that organic growth. You also didn't see that influencer
coming either, Like she came out of somewhere, right. So
I think for me and for a lot of inventors,
it's really trust the process. Like if you believe in
your product and you believe in how far you've come
and all the.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Steps it took to get here. You don't fold now, right,
don't you don't just stop now.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
You may be inventory heavy, That's okay, Spring's coming, right.
There's always a little bit of that light as well.
So I'm feeling really great things for you and your family.
I love it that you were a teacher. And I
don't know if you caught this, and maybe you do
all the time.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Now.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
You definitely identified yourself as an inventor. Yeah, it took
me a minute to kind of identify myself as an inventor.
But once I held a patent in my hand and
I have this, I'm like, yeah, I think I'm an inventor. Man,
I think that I like brilliant inventor. This is fun,
you know, and frustrating and.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Crazy and and all those other things. But man, I
love it, don't you.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
And again nothing, I think you hit the nail on
the head.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
The frustrating, probably the fresh most frustrating.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
Thing for us is is knowing, you know, what our
product does for average people. But you know, unfortunately, like
like I said, you know the big box stores, the
you know, the ones that can.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Really be a catalyst to bring this to a whole
new level.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
You know, you're relying on, you know, being in front
of that right person and having them.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Be in the right mindset, because again, what we see
is a lot.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Of your traditional people who've been around painting for years.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know, it's it's hit or miss.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
You know, majority of them think that we've simply reinvented
the wheel and and like I tell them all the time, you.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Know, we've created a better mouse trap.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's it's you know, it's not going to be for everybody,
but for the majority of people who get stuck painting,
it addresses so many issues that provides so many benefits
that you just can't get with that little wireframe roller
and so but but it's that mindset. It's that old school,
hard nosed mindset where you know, they think, well, you know,

(28:39):
why do I need that. I've got this and I've
been using this for so many years and so you know,
like I said, we're we're going to continue pushing forward and.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Uh, you know, but those are those barriers to entry,
right with that old school mindset. You know, this works,
We've always done it this way. You're like, well, you know,
and that's fine. Sometimes you know, it's almost like you
can can't fight that. But I always walk away from
that going, well, there's new energies, there's new generations, there's
new ways to do things.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
So it may not be a.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Fit for you, but you know I keep that kind
of energy going, you know, me personally on my products,
you know, pitches. You know, also, because I said pitch,
I wanted to circle back around to that really quickly
because I always tell people to look at pitch competitions.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
A lot of inventors don't realize.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
There's pitch competitions out there, and they can be very valuable.
Like you said, you got to put yourself in front
of multiples of people because you never know. I did
a pitch competition in Florida for my first product, a
little beach table, and I came this close to winning
the competition and I had no idea. I was up

(29:48):
with some technology stuff and I'm stand.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
There going, oh what I'm doing here? But I was
making them laugh and my little simple product made sense.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
The guy comes up to me and says, hey, man,
I fought for you to win this competition. It's one
of the judges. He goes, but by the way. My
name is SO and So, shake my hand, here's my card.
Call me later.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
He ended up being my first round investor on what
we needed to get us to the next level. So,
like you said, you've got to put yourself in front
of so many people that you.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Don't know, like you being on this podcast today, right, you're.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Our inventor Spotlight You You have an amazing product. Man,
it makes sense. It looks really good. It looks to
me like I should already be looking at it at Low's.
It looks like it should already be in Walmart, Lowe's
home depot, Ace Hardware, you know, Rule King, wherever you.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Find these types of products. So I think it's going
to get there. Do you feel it too, I mean,
do you feel like you're going to get there? I do.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
I do, just because again, you know, there's moments I'm
not gonna lie. There's moments where I'm scratching my hand
going over what did I put my family through? What
did I you know, what did I Why did I
jump off of this board? But again I'm still I
still every time I get that feedback, every time I
get you know, somebody.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Use it and love it. It's just I know there's
a place for it.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Again, it's not going to I'm not expecting it to
completely replace everything out there.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
But again, you know, even the color of it's very lightweight. Again,
it's durable.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
For that for that young couple that's converting that spare
bedroom into a nursery, for that housewife who wants to
redo the bathroom, you know, and do it herself. It's
a Again, it addresses I'll give you another story about
my children. So, Samantha, when I first did this, I

(31:53):
paid paid for a prototype to be done.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Okay, three D printed, so they printed it for me,
and I had it, and I was.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Planning on using it for take pictures and stuff because
we were going to try and do a Kickstarter campaign
and some other things, and so I wanted to I
wanted to have it, you know, I was gonna use
it kind of frame it, kind of deal so that
if I need it. Well, my daughter decides she wants
to paint her bathroom. So she goes in and she's
painting her bathroom for a little while.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
She comes back out and she goes, Dad, can I
use your roller? So I'm at a point where I'm going, okay, well, wait,
I really want to keep this clean and you know,
clean so I can take pictures. And then I started thinking,
you know what, let me see what she thinks. I said, sure,
go ahead, take it. So she takes it.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
She goes into the bathroom and she continues doing her project,
painting the bathroom. Well a couple about an hour and
a half two hours later, she comes back out and
she's got this grin on her face that honestly, I'm
sitting there going, oh, oh, is this good or bad?
Because it almost looked like she was ready to tell me, Dad,
you need to bring that behind the barn and and

(33:01):
and shoot it.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Toss this, get rid of the idea. It's not gonna work.
Whatever I said, what's wrong?

Speaker 4 (33:06):
She goes, Oh, my gosh, your roller was so much
better than that other roller.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
And so that again that validated you know the roller.
I mean, i'd use my prototype.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
I actually have all these still but I but I
used it to paint the top of a roof of
on a on an RV a camper and uh, and
again it's basically the same same application that I used
when I came up with the idea. I was painting
a deck and to see the difference. And this was

(33:38):
just the one Samantha that was a wireframe too. To
experience rollers with a closet rod, I actually drilled a
little hole to screw in an extension pole and so
it's literally the same format, the same application I had
come up with the idea for. It was like night
and day. And so again I knew what the product
would do. I knew what it did for me. Then

(34:00):
I have my daughter basically using it and saying what
it did for her, and then I have all these
other people that come up and they say they love it.
And you know, I had a gentleman who was on
a shark tank and when we were at the National
Hardware Show, we were actually selected as one of the
most outstanding Innovative products. But we got to do this
little pitch to I think it was HSN and QBC.

(34:22):
But I'm standing there and I've got the product and
it's on an extension poon and I got everything else,
and a guy behind me tasked me on the shoulder
and I looked back and he says, hey, is that
a paint roller. I said yeah. He said, have you
guys applied for Shark Tank? And I said yeah, I
did a long time. He goes, you need to do
that again. He said that right there is a game changer.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Man.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
He said, well, it turns out they had actually been
on Shark Tank. They had just got off and got
a deal. But anyhow, him and I talk again that
inventor helping an inventor.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Kind of thing, and I reached out to him.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
It turns out that he was actually a commercial painter
for seven years.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
And so he's telling me.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
He's saying, David, look, I'm telling you right now, that's
a game changer.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
He said, you know, don't give up. This is you know.
So again, it's it's it's it.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
Really it's inspiring to hear the stories from people when
they use it or what they think about it. But
it is frustrating to know that if these big box stores,
we just basically put it on there as a test,
give it a try, but they refuse to or haven't
done for whatever reason. And again, I know we're gonna

(35:28):
keep grinding, and I know one day that door is
going to open. So right now, again, we're we're we're
in a lot of mom and pop's shops, We're selling
on our website. We also just recently got into Amazon
where we kind of we've been hovering around top ten
for residential paint roller frames, so we're excited about that.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
We just actually started offering.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
So this is our nine inch kid, and you know,
again we've learned things as we go, Samantha.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
One of the things that I learned was, you know.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
The way we originally had it set up was you
had to purchase a nine inch kit, which included the arms,
the extension handle, everything, and then if you wanted a
four inch you would buy an adapter that would take
the place. It's a little small adapter in the cover
that would take the place of the main handling cover.
So you had to buy the nine inch to get
a four inch roller, or buy the nine inch kint

(36:22):
a eighteen. Well, I started thinking just literally a few
months ago that look, we're probably missing opportunities by you know,
making it to where you have to buy this, or
that there might be people looking for an eighteen inch
roller or a four inch roller that don't want to
buy the nine and the adapter. So now we actually
have all three sizes that come as a complete kit,

(36:46):
and we sell the handles separately. So if I start
with a four inch roller and I love it, and
I say, you know what, I want to get a
nine inch now. Well, now I don't have to buy
the arms in the handle. I could just buy the
main hand in the commerce. So we're we're learning, we're evolving,
we're slowly again trying to peck at the process so

(37:09):
that we can again get it in more people's hands.
I mean, we shipped twelve hundred rollers to New Zealand
about two months ago to two or three months ago,
so we're excited to see what kind of response we
get there. You know, we've got some interest in the UK.
So you know, like I said, we're gonna keep.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Doing what we do. And you know, at the end
of the day.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Hopefully we can look back at this and just it'll
just be a story.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
You know, it's going to be a story of the process,
you know, yes, part of the process.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
And here's what I'm loving so much today is you know,
you're you're just you're just being truthful and honest. It
takes a long time, but you really have quite a
lot of accomplishments on this product. You've really, as I'm
hearing you say it all, I know you've been living it.
So it's you know, they're all sporadic and it's growth

(38:03):
and it's taken here. But as I'm hearing your story,
you know, this up close and personal, I'm like, wow,
there's a lot of accomplishment here. I mean, dude, you
are this close. You guys are so close. You don't
come this far only to go this far. So and
you're a great pitch guy. I don't know why you're
not on HSN and all these are Shark Tank. I mean,

(38:25):
you've got the look, the pitch, the story down, you
know your product.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, I mean, this is just a matter of time.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, well we're hoping.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
We actually did meet with QBC before Christmas and supposedly,
you know, the conversation ended with I'm sold, we're gonna
get you on in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
So we're keeping our fingers crossed.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
And maybe you know because once again Samantha, you know,
and that one of the things that we did, you
know is our packaging used to be in a clamshell package.
And and another thing that I thought of, unfortunately and late,
was you know, having it exposed.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Where now we have basically a little card that we
put over.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Yeah, people can actually pick it up, go wow, because
that's one of the first things when somebody picks it up,
they go, wow, that's light.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
And then the second thing is is, wow, that's more
durable than what I thought, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Because if you just look at pictures, you think, well,
that's plastic, that's jock, that's this, that's that whatever. But
we really I took a lot of time when we
got back from the National Hardware Show in twenty twenty two,
you know, I spent probably five five six months going
back and forth with my manufacturer trying to find because
once again I understood that this is an outside the

(39:42):
box idea, and what do we do as human nature
is we want to beat it up. We want to
find that what's wrong with it? Why is it that
as good as the other stuff? So I didn't want
to give these people that you know, a chance to
go and knock it, which unfortunately some people do without
even trying it, and then when I they go, oh,
well yeah that makes sense, that's good. But but like

(40:03):
I said, I spent four or five months until we
can finally, you know, find the combination of materials that
that was durable that would allow this to last. And
you know, again eliminate all the issues that people have.
So so we got to that point. But again it's
just a it's it's a situation where again I think

(40:23):
we're just waiting for that one opportunity.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
QBC is a great platform.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Just like here, because you know, people can see, they
can listen, they can they they see it.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
And again when you we go to So I drove
a little funny story.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
So we we got to trade trade show. We went
to some trade shows at the National Harbor Show. We
were invited by like some of the smaller independent ace
True Value to go to their stores to their shows.
So we go to their shows and they were nice,
but we just didn't really see the volume of business

(41:00):
as they come by and then you know the things.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
So after doing this a few times, I said, you.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Know what, I'm going to go drive around and show
this to people. So I took one couple of days
and I drove through Mississippi. I basically drove up fifty
nine and drove back down fifty five.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I stopped off at twenty one stores.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Of the twenty one stores, I actually got our product
in sixteen of them.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
The other five stores just didn't have the manager or
the owner there.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
To make the decision to buy it and so. But again,
it wasn't me necessarily selling the product. It was just
me being able to show it to them and explain
why our product is better than all the other thousands
of products that are out there.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Again, it sells itself.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Again, if I tell people it attaches on both sides.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
They automatically know.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
I don't get that frustrating flex that cover doesn't look
go to clean this. This is another selling point. But
when I go to clean it, unlike a regular roller
where I have to actually take a tower or bag
and pull.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
It off, I inadvertently get in paint everything for hours.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
I can basically unscrew one arm, work it off, and
then just basically tilt the frame sideways. The cover falls
off without me even having to touch it. A little soap,
water light scrub, and I can get it as clean
as I want to, you know.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
So again for that for.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
That housewife who doesn't want to get you know, hands all,
you know on the paint, you know, have pain everywhere.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
I mean, those are those are things that we can provide.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Our roller provides benefits that other rollers can't, you know.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
So, like I said, it's it's it's only a matter
of time.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
And get the kind words because you know, like I said,
we really, you know, I'm just very adamant, passionate about this.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
I mean I can.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Tell and I love it and it shows.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
And I think that's I mean, I really, honestly, I
think that's ninety percent of it is that personal drive,
that personal belief. Like you said, you know, you probably
looked at wo you know, and I'm putting some of
these in the car.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Man, I'm gonna hit the road.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
And you know, if you come back of sixteen stores
out of twenty one, I mean that that's a really
strong odd Those are really great numbers. And that's boots
on the ground and believe it in yourself and in
your product and going, you know, somebody's got to see it.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
I got to get it out here. Let's do it
this route.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
And I think those are success stories and that's how
great products and great companies are made and built. And uh,
you know, I love this for you. I love this
for your family. It's a great product. You know, I
just bought a house or in the process right now
buying a house, so I'm like, and everything's freshly painted,
but as you're talking and you're showing me all this.
I'm like, what room in the house can I just

(43:51):
paint just because I want to?

Speaker 4 (43:54):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I want to paint something with use one of these rollers.
For sure, you've been such as great inventor spotlight for us.
I mean your product and your your your transition and
your development.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
It's it's what I call very mature.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
You have a lot of mature conversations about your product
and this industry and your path that you've taken to
get here. And we really appreciate you sharing all that
with us because you know, again, it's a very mature
in this industry. I'm not saying mature by age or whatever.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Right, You've been around, You've been to the trade shows,
You've spoken to the people you're shaking hands with, you know,
the likes of Damon John and and you've got you
know hscent over here, you know pending, You've got Shark
Tank where. Yeah, we should apply again. I envision we're
probably going to see you on the show, and I
think you would do very well, very well. You're a
great pitch man. I mean, you really know your product.

(44:49):
I'm so glad that you found this community because once
we put this together in this airs and I know
you've been on you've done some stuff with Brian, and
we've had you on the National invent I think you
have a great story to tell and it's really inspirational
because you've done so much already that you're right at
that finish line.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
And then once you cross over and we have you.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Back on, we'll be like the days in the past,
like we were struggling.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I don't remember, right, It's all a blur.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Now we've moved on to our two point zero or
more accessories. There's no way your brain has stopped around
this product. I don't want you to talk about it,
but I know you're working on other stuff centered around
this product. Okay, there it is. I wouldn't have known,
but now I see it. It takes one inventor to
know another. Do you want to talk about that or

(45:40):
do you want to introduce it?

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Or do you want to I tell you what.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
The only thing I will say is is we're actually
trying to introduce a couple of new products in the
in the spring summer. As you know, you know, just
the cost of production, the molds it's really a strain.
And like say, we're we're already in position where we
have a lot of our money tied up and I
was a school.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Teacher, so I don't know at a private school.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Nonetheless, I don't really have a whole lot, and it's
all pretty much invested in our company. But what we're
gonna be trying to do is actually come out with
a corner roller. This would basically take the place of
your cover here works on our four inch.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
But the only thing that I would.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Like to say is is you know any anybody out
there that you know if we've hit a chord, if
we you know you want to support us any way.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
We are going to try to do.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
A Kickstarter campaign to help raise some money to help
generate some some sales in advance so that we can
fund what it's going to cost us to get production
on this done.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
But more or less, what's.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
Going to happen is is this right here would actually
go with our four inch, So sour, this is our
four inch right here. And basically what would happen is
is you would take the cover off of this.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
You know, I'm sorry, Samantha, but no, no, this is.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
This you put this on and then now you would
actually be able to roll it up your corners. I
designed I designed a tray specifically for it so it
would fit in there, you would put it, and then
again using an extension poll, you would literally just be
able to paint your four corners without getting on a ladder.

(47:29):
But what's unique about it is this material is actually
the same material that you find on a traditional rollers.
So we're one of the issues with people when they're
cutting in, whether it be along trim or in corners.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
You know, they generally use a brush and it's going
to leave trokes.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
I mean, some of the higher ends, you can work
it where you don't see it as bad, but you're
always going to see a different sheet with hours. This
type material is actually going to leave the same type
finish that you have throughout the rest of the room.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yep, it'll match up when you go back in with
your roller. When you have that corner piece, that's right,
I got it. And as soon as you put that
on there, I'm like, oh my god, that's genius. And
then you built a prey to go with it. Look,
come over here like this trying to speak.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Well, so here's something that that again, so what makes
us unique is that what makes us unique is that
when you're done painting.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
You're actually gonna be able to peel off the pads,
toss them.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
And I actually I don't have it because again we're
snowed in, but we actually have a cradle that you
would drop. You'd basically drop one of these pads in
the cradle. It's almost like a DVD maker. And what
you would do is you just line this up with
a tube on the cradle, push it down and it
basically create a whole new roller. So you're gonna want

(48:52):
you buy the kid. You would then buy the replacement pads,
and when you're done, you dispose of them, you put
two new ones on and then you have the corner.
So we're gonna be looking at at introducing this hopefully
in the spring, maybe the summer of next year. We're
also working on an edge arm that would take the
place of one of our other arms, and it would

(49:14):
be a little bit thin profile so you'd be able
to actually run it right along door trim. But anybody
who again, if you think this is something that's cool,
if you like would like to support a hard working entrepreneur,
you know, keep an eye out for our Kickstarter campaign,
or you can go to our website better grippaint roller
dot com.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
You can sign up for our newsletter. We also have quite.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
A bit of a social media out there, you know,
We're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, other other platforms. Just follow
us because we are Once we get onto, you know,
our campaign together, you know, we're gonna try and let
people know and then again hopefully people will support us,
you know, so we can make these things become a reality.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Let me jump in really quick, because back to that Kickstarter,
I know, at the National Inventor Club, we've had some
of these platform campaign people come on and talk about
their platforms and how it's beneficial, and I think some
early on inventors, you know, get too focused on the
money and inventory right out the gate, right Like you said,

(50:22):
you made some mistakes yourself, right, I certainly did as well.
So I think for a Kickstarter, any one of those platforms,
you're at a stage now where it's going to be
so strong for you guys, because you have inventory, you
have product. You know, people can see it, they can
support you, and there has to be the right time
for these type of financial campaigns.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
If you do it too.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Early, it's a wash and then you're just going to
get so disappointed. I've talked to other inventors that did
it way too early. They think they need it first thing,
Kickstarter platform raise the money.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
It's not always the case, man.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
So I like it that you're doing this in twenty
twenty five, this Kickstarter. You guys are ready and this
is a really smart time because you're you have so
much product already offer and all this new prototype action.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. I'm so excited for you.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Well, we're gonna see and we'll keep you guys posted definitely.
And yeah, like I said, it's hopefully one day everybody
can look back and go I remember when David was
on with Samantha, and I remember hearing about his trials
and tribulations, and it's great to see him, you know,
be where he is today.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
So exactly, man, this is the part of building our stories.
And this is why we do this podcast with Inventor Spotlight,
because just put a spotlight on your journey, your personal
journey of who you are. You know how it came
to be, and it's not easy and if it was easy.
Of course, it's just silly. Same but if it was easy,
everybody would be doing it. But there's a lot of
truth to that. This takes really grit, determination, fortitude, patience,

(52:00):
kindness to yourself.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Along the way.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
And you know, I tell other invenors soon and I
tell myself, I'll know when it's time to stop.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
You know, I'm not a crazy inventor. I know my limits.
I'll know.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
And I always appreciate those little synchronicities that happen along
the way. Right, just when we think, oh, we don't know,
your daughter comes in the room and says, Dad, I'm
telling you, Oh my god, this versus this, that little
bit of light kind of leads to the next step. Right,
you hit the streets and you sell or you drop
off sixteen out of twenty one stores. I mean you

(52:36):
had to go home and tell Debbie, you know what,
they really like it. Let's keep going, right, So, I mean,
it's all part of the journey in the story. And
thank you so much for being here with us today
and letting us kind of tap into some of that
and capture this for future people to watch our episode
and maybe look back and go wow. David was right.

(52:57):
I just saw that dude on Shark Tank. He just
partnered and now he's in Low's and home Depot and
all of it.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I really hope this for you, man, think you worked
really hard. I get it, and and.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Thank you for all you guys do. Again, like I
said it, it can be a lonely journey at times.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
You know, you feel like you're you're you're struggling by
your struggles of your own and uh, you know, again,
to have people like yourself like Brian, like Sean Andy,
you know, got people.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Who are who are there.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
You know, genuinely trying to help people like myself, whether
it be through education resources again spotlighting.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
You know, it's just it's great what you guys do.
So thank you, thank you very much, and y'all keep
doing it, okay, because again it really goes a long way.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
But it makes us feel really good too. Thanks for
saying that, you know, because again we're a community.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
You know, Brian the genius.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
You know, he's an adventure at heart himself, right, so
I think that they it's very authentic from him. It's
a very genuine We're not service providers, we're not trying
to sell you twenty five thirty thousand dollars worth of services.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
You know, if you want.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
To be a premium member in our group, it's ten
dollars a month really, and that's just paying for the platform, right,
ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Bucks a year.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
That's just keeping the platforms functioning. I mean, because we're
inventors as well, and we know the struggles that it takes,
and we want to come together as a community and
support one another. And I'm really glad that you joined
us today so we can.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Wrap this up, I know.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
But time we get this out, we'll have some edits
in here, we'll have your your website streaming through here.
If the Kickstarter is up and running at that time,
we'll absolutely add all these links to that. Andy does
such a great job with all of that, and we'll
make sure it's perfect, perfect for you, and we're streaming

(54:55):
all over the place. Man Apple, iHeartRadio Amazon.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
I think there's a couple of more. It's been really incredible.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Thanks for being a part of it, your Inventor Smart community.
You can download our app if you'd like to be inventor.
You want to meet David hear more about his story.
You can find us anywhere you download your apps, Google Play,
app stores and things like that. Inventor smart community. All right, man,
that's a wrap for today. Thanks David.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
I'm sorry you're.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Snowed in, But did you guys make a snowman? If
you've done snowball fight?

Speaker 2 (55:30):
We did.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Actually, my wife came up with she she's actually down
with she may have the flu or something for blessed HERR.
But she actually came up with a great idea where
we're actually going to be for our social media page.
We're gonna be adding this to our snowman later on
and posting that.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
So always thinking, she's always thinking.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
So you have to create content all the time for
your product, you know. And that's what a great opportunity
to create some content while you guys are getting snowed
in there since that hasn't happened since I don't know,
the eighteen hundreds or something in Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, but I appreciate you
having me on. That was wonderful. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
All right, good, all right, We'll see you next time.
Bye everyone, Bye,

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