May 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Keaton Turner kicks off this episode by explaining a recent hiatus and introducing an exciting new Death Valley series, alongside production changes. He announces a new listener hotline and "the vault" episodes, while candidly discussing legal challenges and industry adversaries. Business updates include customer satisfaction and new contracts, with personal life and family updates providing a glimpse into Keaton's world. He highlights valuable feedback and partnerships with industry giants. Listener interactions and community growth are celebrated, with teasers for season two and expanded distribution. Keaton previews episode format changes, executive team insights, and personal development, wrapping up with closing thoughts and recommendations.
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Wow.
What what a great time to be alive.
Welcome back to the Purdue and Podcast.
So pumped to have you back.
You found the podcast again.
Man, it's been it's been a wild thirty days.
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Took a month off.
Excited to be back at it.
I'm gonna get into why I took a month off.
I I had no plans, to be honest with you, ofrestarting the podcast when I originally quit.
On my hundredth episode, you know, I didn'thave any I didn't have any plan for this.
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I've told you guys that from the beginning.
I I didn't have any plan to restart in thirtydays.
I've got a bunch of I've got a bunch of reasonswhy.
I've had some people caution me on restarting,but we're gonna get into all that.
There's a lot to unpack.
You guys have missed a lot in thirty days.
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There's a lot that I haven't shared with you inthirty days.
So pumped to pumped to have you back.
Pumped to have you back listen to the podcast.
It was a it was a it turned into a job.
When you when you drop a hundred episodes in arow every single day for a hundred days, it
turned into a job.
My coach asked me, well, why'd you stop the podI mean, of course, there's a lot of people that
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ask me why I stopped the podcast, but we kindagot in into it on my last coaching call.
And I said, to be honest with you, it felt likea job.
Every single day, you know, it had to putsomething out there.
And so I don't want it to feel like a job.
I want it to feel fun.
I don't know how many days in a row I can gowith this one.
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They're gonna continue to drop every morning at4AM eastern time.
I have so much that I wanted to do in the firstseason that I never got done.
The Death Valley discussion series.
You know, I I had a kind of a three partseries, but I wanna expand that.
There's a bunch of guys that I wanna bring onthat are willing and and able to chat about
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their own experiences, you know, kind ofwalking through Death Valley, whether it be in
business or marriage, whatever.
So I can't wait for that.
I have completely changed how I'm doing theback end of this podcast.
I changed the platform in which I use to recordit.
I changed the post production platform I'musing.
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We are I say we, me, myself, and I.
I talk as if there's a whole team of us.
It's just me on this podcast, but I am going toadd video to this podcast.
And some of you guys are thinking, well, hejust said it was a job.
It turned into a job.
Why is he adding all this complexity?
It's a great question.
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I don't know.
I really don't know.
I I feel this need.
I'm not sure why I feel this way.
I feel this need to get a little bit betterevery day at everything I do, business,
marriage, parenting, golf, you name it.
I wanna just get a little bit better.
And so I couldn't leave this podcast alone.
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I'm tinkering with it.
I'm changing things on the back end.
And and adding video is something that a lot ofpeople have asked about.
Patton the other day, we were talking about apodcast that we listened to, the All In
podcast.
And he's like, man, have you watched the videoon YouTube?
And I'm like, that sounds like the dumbestthing in the world, watching a video of people
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recording a podcast.
And he's like, oh, no.
You gotta try it.
It's awesome.
And so I go on YouTube.
I search the Outland podcast.
I watch a few minutes, and I'm like, wow.
This is actually really entertaining.
Watching these guys, I feel like I'm rightthere with them.
I feel like I'm in the conversation, seeingtheir body language, seeing their facial
expressions.
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It definitely adds a whole another layer oflegitimacy, and it was super entertaining.
I I think I might actually start watching somepodcasts when I get time on YouTube because I
felt like I was in the Zoom call with them.
So so we're gonna add video.
I don't have it today.
I'm I'm a little bit unorganized.
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I'm still in the front seat of my pickup trucktoday.
I'm still using the same old microphone.
None of that's changed, but we will add video.
I'm also gonna add the phone number, thehotline.
I kinda teased this towards the end of seasonone.
I'm gonna bring a phone number.
It will just help me stay a little moreconsistent with getting messages back to
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people.
I I one one of the reasons I a lot of reasons Istopped doing the podcast, but one of the
reasons is I was getting messages every day,whether it was an email, a DM on Instagram on
my personal account, a DM on Instagram on thethe PrettyM Podcast account, a LinkedIn DM.
Some people have my cell phone numbers theywould call or text me, and and it was just hard
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to get back to everyone.
I didn't know you know, it was hard for me tokeep it all in one consistent place.
So I've got a phone number now that I'm gonnashare.
I'm not gonna share it today.
I'm gonna tease it and make you guys listenagain tomorrow and the next day.
But there's there's plenty of fun coming, and Iand I can't wait to have more fun with this.
And I'm and I'm super appreciative of all thepeople that actually get enjoyment out of this.
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It's the it still blows me away.
It's the wildest thing ever that I can sit inmy truck, sit in my Bronco, sit at my desk at
the office, or sit in my basement and recordtwenty, thirty, forty minutes of audio, and
people like it.
People get value.
It's the it's the craziest craziest thing inthe world to me.
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But I appreciate you guys listening.
So so what have you missed in the last thirtydays?
It's been it's kinda been a wild thirty days.
I have recorded a bunch of episodes over thelast thirty days.
I didn't stop recording.
Put some several of these episodes that I'verecorded over the last thirty days.
I kinda threw them in a folder that I call thevault.
Some of them will be released.
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Some of them won't.
Some of them are spicy.
Some there's some rants in there.
I, you know, I talk about some people that havetried to screw me over.
We'll we'll get into all that.
There's there's a lot of time to dive into allthat.
But I'll give you a little taste of what'shappened in my life over the last thirty days.
I I was served a cease and desist.
That was that was wild.
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I can't wait to tell you guys about that one.
Some Delbert who doesn't have a freaking cluethinks that they can just throw cease and
desist around and people actually take themseriously, and, you know, they won't go do
their homework.
And so that that one's that one's fun.
Can't wait to tell you guys about that one.
I'm gonna put that guy on blast, by the way.
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His name will come out and all that.
That'll be a fun one.
What else has happened?
I I made enemies, and I I had no plans to makeenemies.
But I made enemies with a I made enemies withan attorney a state attorney general.
That was not in my bingo cards for the year.
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Had no plans to to make an enemy, especially atthat level.
But that'll be a fun one to unpack when when,you know, when you when you or your company has
a target on their back from someone at, youknow, at that level.
It's you just kinda gotta you just kinda gottawonder what in the world is going on.
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It it's it's it's wild how easy it is to be atarget when people don't agree with your line
of work or or the business you're in, andmining is is not everyone's favorite business.
So that one will be we'll unpack that onesomeday.
Spent all day yesterday with with my exec theTurner Turner Mining Group exec team, a couple
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promotions on the exec team, are long overdue.
It'd be fun to talk about those.
But just addressing all the low hanging fruitin our business, and there's still tons.
You know, after eight years of building, it'samazing how much low hanging fruit still exists
in a in an eight year old business, in abusiness that's scaled and that's continuing to
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scale and grow and and reach differentcustomers.
And so it'll be fun to talk through kindawhat's happening in our company, the changes,
the positive changes, the positive momentum.
And then, of course, there's always there'salways the negatives.
Right?
We've got a we've got a specific customer whowe've, you know, kind of at odds with a little
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bit.
Nothing crazy.
But anytime you're in a service business andyou actually have customers, it's rare that
every single one of them is 100% happy everysingle day.
And so there's always the challenges ofbusiness of, you know, customer satisfaction,
keeping customers happy, What happens whenplans change or unforeseen are thrown in the
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mix?
You know, how do we how do we keep apartnership spirit with a customer but still
enforce accountability?
And how do they enforce accountability?
So there's there's a lot of fun to go talkabout there.
I I wouldn't call it like a deep rift, butthere's there's definitely customer customer
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things to talk about, and and that's kindahappened over the last thirty days.
I we announced our our newest contract, and weannounced who it was with.
I kinda teased this in in in season one talkingabout chasing this customer for five years, and
that customer is Bayer.
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The same company that produces aspirin, thechemical company Bayer is our newest customer.
We we won a multiyear mining contract with themand and couldn't be more excited about it.
Multi 9 figure contract, multiyear miningcontract.
The team has put just an absolute ungodlyamount of effort into this one over the years.
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And and I I couldn't be more excited for thisspecific customer because we're values aligned.
We think the same way.
Our team is still spending.
We don't even actually start the work foranother, I don't know, seven, eight, nine
months, whatever it is.
And and our team is is still spending a ton oftime just going through all the due diligence
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that happens when you when you ramp up anoperation like that.
So a lot of juiciness with that one that, thatwe'll get into this season.
But super excited about that.
That that contract win is one that I I've beenso passionate about, and we have pursued so
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intentionally.
And and it's been an uphill battle for a longtime that I can't I can't express how awesome
it is to get it over the line.
We released the press release last week, soit's public knowledge for everyone.
It's been a rumor for six months.
There's been rumors, on the ground, at theground level, at the mine site for, you know,
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going on six months.
And so, you know, just getting it over the linewas awesome.
Now all the real work starts.
The the easy part's the contract.
So now the real work starts.
Hold on, guys.
I'm coming up on looks like an accident here.
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Bunch of cop cars and vehicles.
My goodness.
What's going on?
I've also over the last thirty days, you know,of course, there's the normal things in life,
you know, trying to please the wife every day.
And and there's days where I bring her pleasurein more ways than one.
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You can use your imagination.
There's days where I I bring her displeasure.
And she's frustrated with me, and she's, youknow, she's ready to oh my.
They got these kids handcuffed.
Hold on.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
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I don't wonder what in the world's going on.
There's literally 15 cop cars here.
I'm over here just a couple minutes away fromour office.
I'm wondering if that's like a I I hate to evensay cartel thing, but they've got, like, SWAT
team.
The doors of the van are all pulled open, andthey got people in handcuffs.
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That's wild.
So I've, you know, the last thirty days, beentrying to trying to please the wife, trying to
be a good a good father to my kids as they gothrough different emotional changes and things
at school.
My my 10 year old, you know, he's he's becominga young man.
It's crazy.
He's already 10 years old.
And so navigating, you know, navigating all thechallenges that 10 year old boys go through,
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and then, of course, a couple little girls, youknow, it's it's all life stuff.
And this podcast touch I'm gonna touch on allof it, the good, the bad, the ugly of business,
the trials and tribulations of of family andthe personal stuff, the wins.
We we have several wins.
One of the one of the cool ones that I I'll getto talk about I've said this in the past.
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All of the first season episodes, of thehundred episodes, the top ranked or most
downloaded episodes were ones where Shelby wason the episode as a guest.
So so, obviously, she'll be back on.
We might even give her her own weekly segment.
I can't wait to put especially put her behindthe camera.
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That'll be fun.
So she'll she'll be back on.
But the number one most downloaded episode, Idon't exactly remember which episode number it
was, but the title was Are Cat SalesmanArrogant?
And and Shelby was not on that episode, but allthe other, you know, the 10 most downloaded,
nine of the others, Shelby is is on them.
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The number one most downloaded though istalking about cat salesman.
And and I I got a lot of heat for that episode.
Some caterpillar guys had reached out.
A couple guys from some cat dealerships hadreached out.
A couple guys were not super happy with thewords I had to say.
A couple guys took the words the right way,though.
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And I do think cat is super proud of theirproduct.
I think sometimes that pride is is relayed intheir pricing, which can be disgusting at
times.
But I'm a huge fan of Caterpillar.
I got a lot of friends that work at Caterpillaror for a cat dealer or whatever.
And so, you know, we heard I got to hear fromsome Caterpillar folks, both at the corporate
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level, folks from Caterpillar Finance.
Like, it's been it's been a cool rekindling ofour partnership with Caterpillar.
You guys all know I'm a big fan of Komatsu.
Komatsu took some big swings on us.
We bought some big fleas from Komatsu, and andKomatsu Fi has been has been an awesome
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partner.
Although, we had a little tiff with them.
We got it we got it solved.
Nothing big.
A little bit of a speed bump, but it's it'sbeen it's been awesome dealing with Komatsu.
And I think people automatically jump to theconclusion that, well, if he's dealing with
Komatsu, they have no room for Kat, and that'sjust not the truth.
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We had some misunderstandings with Caterpillarin the past.
And fortunately, I think we put most of thoseor all those behind us, and and we've rekindled
the partnership with Kat.
So I can't wait to talk about that.
Hoping to get a couple guys on a cup I know acouple of them listening to the podcast.
It'd be cool to get them on to talk about howwe have kinda rebuilt those lines of
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communication and and and how Cat you know, theto me, the coolest thing ever is when big
companies listen to small customers.
And and in the grand scheme of customers,Turner Mining Group is a super small customer
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to Caterpillar globally.
But I think the right people, and I don't knowall the right people, but the right people have
listened to some of the things that Ipersonally had to say about Caterpillar.
And they totally I mean, I I can't tell you.
We'll get all we'll get into all the details,all the juicy details on on this this season,
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the the episodes that come out.
But I can't tell you how much of a one eightytheir approach Caterpillar's approach was on
this most recent deal.
And so it's it's gonna be really cool to totalk about that and hopefully get a few cat
guys on that can talk about it as well and howhow and why they changed their approach, the
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result that came from that.
So that'll be a fun one to dive into.
And then I'm gonna have a bunch of guests.
I think the thing that I really wanted toaccomplish and was unable to on season one is
hold on just a second.
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I had a guy walking up to my truck.
I don't know what that was about.
I don't know if he I don't know if he wanted tosmoke or what he was doing, but he just he
kinda looked at me and kept walking.
I don't know what his problem was.
Wild.
Day in the life.
I there's a bunch of guests that I wanna get onhere, and and and I can have a ton of fun with
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a lot of these guests.
There's so many people out there that you guyswill get value from that are in my network and
and in my friend group and guys that I just weeither we've done business with them or they're
do building their own business.
You know, you guys hearing from other peoplewhat they're going through, both good, bad, and
the ugly of business and life, I think it couldbe super fun.
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So this new platform I'm using is gonna help usdo that much easier than kind of the the
platform or the ways I was recording thepodcast before.
I've gotta I've gotta knock the dust off.
I gotta knock the rust off of of my podcasthosting talent because I started to record this
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one and didn't have the microphone plugged in.
I didn't realize it.
So I could have easily talked for an hour withno mic plugged in.
I've done that before.
So I'm gonna knock the cobwebs off.
You guys gotta be patient.
This will continue to evolve over time.
I also wanna wanna give a shout out to someguys that have that have already been patient.
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I owe some I owe some favors to to folks thathave sent me some swag.
You know, they're Cade Cade and Cope Cade andCope at AutoGuard sent me a box of stuff.
I owe you something back.
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Bot's grading.
Send a box.
Michael, I owe you something back.
Man.
Oh, who else?
Oh, I got a I got a box of golf balls.
I can't wait to I'm not I'm not even gonna hitthese golf balls.
I got a box of golf balls with the Per Diemlogo on them.
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Just unbelievable gift, and you know who youare.
I'm gonna send you something.
And I've got something in the works here.
It's been in the works for two months.
I thought about killing it when I ended thehundredth episode because I really didn't have
any plans to bring this podcast back from fromthe grave.
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I I kinda planned on just letting it die.
A hundred episodes felt good.
I was like, cool.
I can I can live with that?
But since I'm bringing it back, I'm I'mrekindling the the item.
I can't I can't tell too much about it.
I don't wanna spoil the surprise, but severalof you guys that have sent me some stuff, sent
me some swag, sent me some hats.
Oh, phaser.
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Luke, I owe you something.
Luke sent some hats to the office.
I've got a gift for you guys coming.
You have to be patient.
It's not done yet.
It's gonna be legit.
There's been a lot of effort put into thisgift, but I got a gift coming.
It's gonna be available for others, but butsome of you guys that have sent some stuff and
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and and have been patient.
I told you I was sending you something.
I haven't sent you anything yet.
It's it's coming.
Hold on.
I'm getting a phone call.
It's it's gonna be a problem.
Hold on just a second, guys.
This is gonna be an ongoing problem with thispodcast is that I I I'm gonna get phone calls
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during it.
Sometimes I'll answer the phone calls.
Sometimes I won't.
But, anyway, back back to what I was saying.
I owe you guys something.
It's coming.
I promise you'll be the first ones to get yourhands on it when it's ready, and and I know
you'll like it.
I wanna give a couple shout outs to some of youguys that have sent me pictures.
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They're let me look it up on my phone.
Hold on one second.
Okay.
I'm back.
Had to get the truck washed.
You guys know how that goes.
Black truck has to stay clean, has to stay sexylooking.
The chrome has to stay shining.
So I'm back.
It was it was loud in there.
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But I have to give a give a shout out to theboys over at Zimmerman Excavating.
I got a picture a couple weeks ago of themholding their own custom made these guys these
guys went out and did this on their own.
They got their own custom made coffee mugs, PerDiem podcast coffee mugs, which were awesome.
One of them said in big letters, don't be aDelbert on it, which Shelby and I got a huge
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laugh out of.
So another another couple guys like, one guyhad a a Pretty In Podcast shirt made.
I know I don't have any swag or any of thatavailable.
So it's it's been really cool to see some ofyou guys do that on your own.
I had a guy walk up to me at church, and and hewalked right up to me and said, hey.
You're dead to me.
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And I was like, woah, dude.
That's, you know, brother in Christ.
What's going on here?
What what are you talking about?
He's like, you're dead to me.
I I love the podcast.
I love everything about it, but you're dead tome.
And I was like, dude, why the hostility?
We're in the Lord's we're in the Lord's househere.
You know?
And he said, I'm I you know, I'm superdisappointed the podcast is over.
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And I've had several of you guys reach out, andand I'll get in on future episodes to why I
really dive into the why I'm restarting it.
I think I'm not gonna bore you with thosedetails now, but I think there's I think
there's something cool happening here.
And it was never it was I never had anyanticipation of something like this happening
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where where people actually people actuallywere, like, hooked into the podcast and
actually listened to it every day.
So so appreciate all the love.
Appreciate all the support.
We're just gonna have fun.
And and I want you guys to know that really themain reason I'm even continuing this is because
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I hear from you guys.
I I get the messages.
I get the DMs.
You know, it it's It is totally wild to get themessages from you guys.
And all I wanna do is keep bringing value.
You know, if if I can bring a laugh, a smile,just a little bit of entertainment on your
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morning commute, if I can, you know, bring somevalue in the way I think about business or
problems or employees, or or even, like, tipsand tricks on how to give the perfect nonsexual
massage, that's what I'm here for.
And and that's where I that's where I'm reallypassionate about, you know, all of us together
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getting 1% better every day.
I have not I have not given a second nonsexualmassage yet.
I haven't.
But I can tell you right now, my neighbor thisis wild.
This is just this is how this is how wild thispod this podcast thing is, and and the fact
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that people listen to a Delbert like me.
My neighbor is parked in the middle of thestreet, and they're talking to a few other
neighbors who are out on a walk.
And they're just all parked right in the middleof the street.
So I'm driving up, getting ready to pull intomy driveway, and they're kind of right at the
end of my driveway.
I've got a little bit of a windy driveway.
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And and so I pull up, roll the window down, andwe give high fives and so on and so forth.
These these folks are mid mid sixties.
Right?
They're my parents' age.
I've known I've known them all forever.
And and he comes up to me or no.
No.
She comes up to me.
It's the husband and wife.
I'm not gonna name their names.
They might not want me to.
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She comes up to me and says, hey.
I heard on your podcast the whole massagething, and I've been trying to get him to get
into this whole massage thing.
I forwarded him the podcast so he'll listen toit.
Now he owes me a non sexual massage, and I'mjust dying laughing.
These you know, they're these people were myneighbor.
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I would never in a million years expect for nonindustry folks, let alone my neighbors, to be
commenting on the very intimate podcast I didwhere I gave Shelby a massage and put her to
sleep in a nonsexual way.
So maybe maybe season two, we talk about asexual massage.
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Maybe we don't, but who knows?
Who knows where the podcast will go?
I I have not been absolutely forbidden fromcertain topics yet by Shelby, but I'm sure it's
coming.
I'm sure she's gonna I'm sure she's gonna haveto, like, make me sign a waiver here any day.
So this is this has just been a, like, a anintro, a teaser to the season two of the
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Purduem podcast.
I hope you guys continue to get some enjoymentout of it, get some value.
I'm not gonna do any big hour long juicypodcast to start it off today.
I just wanted you to know that I'm back.
They're dropping every morning at 4AM easterntime.
We're gonna add some spice and some flavor andsome new names and some new voices, and we're
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gonna add we're we're gonna continue to try toelevate the podcast and and see if we can make
it better.
You can hear this podcast on YouTube right noweven though there's no video.
You know, the platform I'm using is gonnaupload it to YouTube.
You can now hear it on Amazon Prime.
So if you, you know, have an Alexa, an AmazonEcho or Dot or whatever, you can say, hey,
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Alexa, play the Per Diem podcast.
She will play it.
You can still listen to this on Spotify.
You can still listen to it on the Apple podcastapp, which is where 90% of podcasts are
listened.
You can listen to it on Audible.
So we've expanded the distribution for thepodcast.
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But how we continue to make this thing fun andgrowing and and get legs is by you guys sharing
it with people you think will get value.
The reason it took off is because and I'vetalked to several of you guys about this.
The reason it took off is because someone got alaugh, got a nugget of value, whatever, and
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they sent it to one of their friends or theysent it to their family or they sent it to
someone.
That's the best way, in my opinion, for us allto kinda grow this little community that we've
built.
There's there's a thousand of you or maybe1,500.
I don't know how many are I don't know how manyare coming back for season two.
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But, you know, if and and guys, I'm drivingback in the SWAT.
These guys are still here.
I mean, I'm not lying.
There there are 20 police cars.
University police, Bloomington police, statepolice.
Wild.
Almost wanna go turn around and and record someof them on the podcast and get inside scoop of
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that that would be an extra juicy episode tokick us off.
But back to the podcast, I I I you know, if youguys could send it to someone you think will
get value, that's all I asked for.
I'm not gonna read a bunch of reviews anymore.
If I get just a just an amazing review, maybe Iwill you know, maybe I'll maybe I'll read it.
But I I wanna just make these a little moreshort, a little punchier.
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I'm trying to keep them to twenty minutes.
I really don't wanna do the hour long episodesunless I've got something just crazy.
And what I may do is, you know, chop up thehour.
If it's an hour long episode, I may chop it upinto some shorter episodes.
If it's one specific topic, chop it up into twoor three parts.
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So so, yeah, keep tuning in.
We're gonna have fun, and and I want yourfeedback.
If there if there are people I should betalking to, if there are topics you wanna hear
about, if if, you know, you love something, youhate something, let me know.
And I'm not gonna drop the phone number yetbecause I I'm changing it.
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I opened this phone back up.
I've got a burner phone.
So I've got my normal, regular, everyday cellphone, and then I have a burner phone that I
was using you know, back in the day, I woulduse it to call employees and just all kinds of
other things where I wouldn't really care ifthe number got out.
I turned this phone on.
It'd been kinda turned off for a couple months.
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I turned this phone on, and clearly, the numberneeded to be changed because I mean, it was
spammed to death, hundreds and hundreds of textmessages.
And so I'm changing the number today as wespeak.
Funny sidebar, I I picked up we we had ourexecutive all day executive meeting yesterday.
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We do a quarterly in person all day exec teammeeting.
We did that yesterday.
So we all went out to dinner last night.
On the way to dinner, Shelby and I picked upJeff, our CFO.
We picked up him and his wife.
Jeff jumps in the truck.
I have Apple CarPlay up on the screen, and andhe sees he sees my text message icon, and it
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says 557 unread text messages.
He's like, what in the world?
Why do you why do you have so many unread textmessages?
37 voice mails.
The real answer is just because you you get hitwith so many things, so many different random
text messages.
Again, marketers ruin everything.
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Salespeople ruin everything.
I'm I'm guessing half of those text messages,maybe not half, but a big chunk of those text
messages are just stuff that I'm never gonnaspend the time to open.
And and what happens is all the other real textmessages then get stuck.
They get caught.
They don't, you know, they don't make it.
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They don't make it into my they don't make itthey don't make the cut.
I don't spend the time to go open them.
And and so if I if I miss your text, chancesare if I get to the end of the day and I have
not opened it, chances are it's lost in theabyss, and and it's one of the 557 text
messages that were were never gonna get openeduntil you text me again.
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So so my apologies if you're one of those folksor have sent some messages in the past.
I never did respond.
I also oh, quick update.
One more quick update.
There's just man, there's a lot to catch up on.
Let's see where we're at on time here.
Oh, dear.
Thirty four minutes.
One one last quick update.
I have not sent out the personal developmentdashboard yet.
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I have not sent it.
For a lot of reasons, I was making tweaks, andthen I got busy, and then it fell through the
cracks.
And to be honest with you, I forgot about it.
I just got another email this morning from aguy.
I won't call him out, but he he he wanted tomake sure he was back at the top of the funnel,
so he pinged me again asking for the personaldevelopment dashboard.
If you're still interested, send me an email.
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Podcast@prayforperdiem.com.
I'll get you on the list.
I promise you.
I promise you.
I know I've been promising.
It's gonna be sent very soon.
I'm using it.
I'm living in it.
You know, my coach and I go through it everytwo weeks, and and we talk about areas I'm
improving.
And I'll talk a lot more about it later.
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But if you wanna get in, get in now because Idon't know when I'm gonna send it again.
And and I'm I'm not gonna send it onesietwosie.
I've already said this multiple times.
So so if you wanna get in on that, send me anemail.
Just title the email personal developmentdashboard or or Keaton's at Delbert or
something like that.
So that's all I got.
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We're 30 with no big topics, no meaty valueother than just to say thank you for finding
season two of the podcast.
Get ready for some fun.
We're gonna be some laughs.
There are gonna be days where I rant.
I'm gonna have bad days.
I've had several bad days in the last thirtydays.
I had a lot of good days, but when someonecomes in, walks in my office, and says, hey.
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Hope you hope you saw x y z.
I'm not gonna name them, but we have the stateattorney general has has mentioned us by name
and some comments, and, you know, that's justnever fun.
Same thing with opening messages from peoplethat well, I won't go into it, but you'll
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you'll hear more of this coming soon.
Thanks for finding the podcast.
I hope you guys have been killing it.
I hope you've been, you know, I hope you'vebeen finding other podcasts to listen to for
the last thirty days.
There's a million other podcasts.
All In is my favorite.
It's kind of all things news and politics andtech and science.
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It's a great podcast, but thanks for finding usagain.
I pray you're killing it.
And as always, I pray you're getting your perdiem.
See you tomorrow.
Wow.
What what a great time to be alive.
Welcome back to the Purdue and Podcast.
So pumped to have you back.
You found the podcast again.
Man, it's been it's been a wild thirty days.
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Took a month off.
Excited to be back at it.
I'm gonna get into why I took a month off.
I I had no plans, to be honest with you, ofrestarting the podcast when I originally quit.
On my hundredth episode, you know, I didn'thave any I didn't have any plan for this.
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I've told you guys that from the beginning.
I I didn't have any plan to restart in thirtydays.
I've got a bunch of I've got a bunch of reasonswhy.
I've had some people caution me on restarting,but we're gonna get into all that.
There's a lot to unpack.
You guys have missed a lot in thirty days.
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There's a lot that I haven't shared with you inthirty days.
So pumped to pumped to have you back.
Pumped to have you back listen to the podcast.
It was a it was a it turned into a job.
When you when you drop a hundred episodes in arow every single day for a hundred days, it
turned into a job.
My coach asked me, well, why'd you stop the podI mean, of course, there's a lot of people that
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ask me why I stopped the podcast, but we kindagot in into it on my last coaching call.
And I said, to be honest with you, it felt likea job.
Every single day, you know, it had to putsomething out there.
And so I don't want it to feel like a job.
I want it to feel fun.
I don't know how many days in a row I can gowith this one.
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They're gonna continue to drop every morning at4AM eastern time.
I have so much that I wanted to do in the firstseason that I never got done.
The Death Valley discussion series.
You know, I I had a kind of a three partseries, but I wanna expand that.
There's a bunch of guys that I wanna bring onthat are willing and and able to chat about
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their own experiences, you know, kind ofwalking through Death Valley, whether it be in
business or marriage, whatever.
So I can't wait for that.
I have completely changed how I'm doing theback end of this podcast.
I changed the platform in which I use to recordit.
I changed the post production platform I'musing.
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We are I say we, me, myself, and I.
I talk as if there's a whole team of us.
It's just me on this podcast, but I am going toadd video to this podcast.
And some of you guys are thinking, well, hejust said it was a job.
It turned into a job.
Why is he adding all this complexity?
It's a great question.
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I don't know.
I really don't know.
I I feel this need.
I'm not sure why I feel this way.
I feel this need to get a little bit betterevery day at everything I do, business,
marriage, parenting, golf, you name it.
I wanna just get a little bit better.
And so I couldn't leave this podcast alone.
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I'm tinkering with it.
I'm changing things on the back end.
And and adding video is something that a lot ofpeople have asked about.
Patton the other day, we were talking about apodcast that we listened to, the All In
podcast.
And he's like, man, have you watched the videoon YouTube?
And I'm like, that sounds like the dumbestthing in the world, watching a video of people
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recording a podcast.
And he's like, oh, no.
You gotta try it.
It's awesome.
And so I go on YouTube.
I search the Outland podcast.
I watch a few minutes, and I'm like, wow.
This is actually really entertaining.
Watching these guys, I feel like I'm rightthere with them.
I feel like I'm in the conversation, seeingtheir body language, seeing their facial
expressions.
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It definitely adds a whole another layer oflegitimacy, and it was super entertaining.
I I think I might actually start watching somepodcasts when I get time on YouTube because I
felt like I was in the Zoom call with them.
So so we're gonna add video.
I don't have it today.
I'm I'm a little bit unorganized.
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I'm still in the front seat of my pickup trucktoday.
I'm still using the same old microphone.
None of that's changed, but we will add video.
I'm also gonna add the phone number, thehotline.
I kinda teased this towards the end of seasonone.
I'm gonna bring a phone number.
It will just help me stay a little moreconsistent with getting messages back to
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people.
I I one one of the reasons I a lot of reasons Istopped doing the podcast, but one of the
reasons is I was getting messages every day,whether it was an email, a DM on Instagram on
my personal account, a DM on Instagram on thethe PrettyM Podcast account, a LinkedIn DM.
Some people have my cell phone numbers theywould call or text me, and and it was just hard
(05:52):
to get back to everyone.
I didn't know you know, it was hard for me tokeep it all in one consistent place.
So I've got a phone number now that I'm gonnashare.
I'm not gonna share it today.
I'm gonna tease it and make you guys listenagain tomorrow and the next day.
But there's there's plenty of fun coming, and Iand I can't wait to have more fun with this.
And I'm and I'm super appreciative of all thepeople that actually get enjoyment out of this.
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It's the it still blows me away.
It's the wildest thing ever that I can sit inmy truck, sit in my Bronco, sit at my desk at
the office, or sit in my basement and recordtwenty, thirty, forty minutes of audio, and
people like it.
People get value.
It's the it's the craziest craziest thing inthe world to me.
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But I appreciate you guys listening.
So so what have you missed in the last thirtydays?
It's been it's kinda been a wild thirty days.
I have recorded a bunch of episodes over thelast thirty days.
I didn't stop recording.
Put some several of these episodes that I'verecorded over the last thirty days.
I kinda threw them in a folder that I call thevault.
Some of them will be released.
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Some of them won't.
Some of them are spicy.
Some there's some rants in there.
I, you know, I talk about some people that havetried to screw me over.
We'll we'll get into all that.
There's there's a lot of time to dive into allthat.
But I'll give you a little taste of what'shappened in my life over the last thirty days.
I I was served a cease and desist.
That was that was wild.
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I can't wait to tell you guys about that one.
Some Delbert who doesn't have a freaking cluethinks that they can just throw cease and
desist around and people actually take themseriously, and, you know, they won't go do
their homework.
And so that that one's that one's fun.
Can't wait to tell you guys about that one.
I'm gonna put that guy on blast, by the way.
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His name will come out and all that.
That'll be a fun one.
What else has happened?
I I made enemies, and I I had no plans to makeenemies.
But I made enemies with a I made enemies withan attorney a state attorney general.
That was not in my bingo cards for the year.
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Had no plans to to make an enemy, especially atthat level.
But that'll be a fun one to unpack when when,you know, when you when you or your company has
a target on their back from someone at, youknow, at that level.
It's you just kinda gotta you just kinda gottawonder what in the world is going on.
(08:28):
It it's it's it's wild how easy it is to be atarget when people don't agree with your line
of work or or the business you're in, andmining is is not everyone's favorite business.
So that one will be we'll unpack that onesomeday.
Spent all day yesterday with with my exec theTurner Turner Mining Group exec team, a couple
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promotions on the exec team, are long overdue.
It'd be fun to talk about those.
But just addressing all the low hanging fruitin our business, and there's still tons.
You know, after eight years of building, it'samazing how much low hanging fruit still exists
in a in an eight year old business, in abusiness that's scaled and that's continuing to
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scale and grow and and reach differentcustomers.
And so it'll be fun to talk through kindawhat's happening in our company, the changes,
the positive changes, the positive momentum.
And then, of course, there's always there'salways the negatives.
Right?
We've got a we've got a specific customer whowe've, you know, kind of at odds with a little
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bit.
Nothing crazy.
But anytime you're in a service business andyou actually have customers, it's rare that
every single one of them is 100% happy everysingle day.
And so there's always the challenges ofbusiness of, you know, customer satisfaction,
keeping customers happy, What happens whenplans change or unforeseen are thrown in the
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mix?
You know, how do we how do we keep apartnership spirit with a customer but still
enforce accountability?
And how do they enforce accountability?
So there's there's a lot of fun to go talkabout there.
I I wouldn't call it like a deep rift, butthere's there's definitely customer customer
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things to talk about, and and that's kindahappened over the last thirty days.
I we announced our our newest contract, and weannounced who it was with.
I kinda teased this in in in season one talkingabout chasing this customer for five years, and
that customer is Bayer.
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The same company that produces aspirin, thechemical company Bayer is our newest customer.
We we won a multiyear mining contract with themand and couldn't be more excited about it.
Multi 9 figure contract, multiyear miningcontract.
The team has put just an absolute ungodlyamount of effort into this one over the years.
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And and I I couldn't be more excited for thisspecific customer because we're values aligned.
We think the same way.
Our team is still spending.
We don't even actually start the work foranother, I don't know, seven, eight, nine
months, whatever it is.
And and our team is is still spending a ton oftime just going through all the due diligence
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that happens when you when you ramp up anoperation like that.
So a lot of juiciness with that one that, thatwe'll get into this season.
But super excited about that.
That that contract win is one that I I've beenso passionate about, and we have pursued so
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intentionally.
And and it's been an uphill battle for a longtime that I can't I can't express how awesome
it is to get it over the line.
We released the press release last week, soit's public knowledge for everyone.
It's been a rumor for six months.
There's been rumors, on the ground, at theground level, at the mine site for, you know,
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going on six months.
And so, you know, just getting it over the linewas awesome.
Now all the real work starts.
The the easy part's the contract.
So now the real work starts.
Hold on, guys.
I'm coming up on looks like an accident here.
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Bunch of cop cars and vehicles.
My goodness.
What's going on?
I've also over the last thirty days, you know,of course, there's the normal things in life,
you know, trying to please the wife every day.
And and there's days where I bring her pleasurein more ways than one.
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You can use your imagination.
There's days where I I bring her displeasure.
And she's frustrated with me, and she's, youknow, she's ready to oh my.
They got these kids handcuffed.
Hold on.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
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I don't wonder what in the world's going on.
There's literally 15 cop cars here.
I'm over here just a couple minutes away fromour office.
I'm wondering if that's like a I I hate to evensay cartel thing, but they've got, like, SWAT
team.
The doors of the van are all pulled open, andthey got people in handcuffs.
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That's wild.
So I've, you know, the last thirty days, beentrying to trying to please the wife, trying to
be a good a good father to my kids as they gothrough different emotional changes and things
at school.
My my 10 year old, you know, he's he's becominga young man.
It's crazy.
He's already 10 years old.
And so navigating, you know, navigating all thechallenges that 10 year old boys go through,
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and then, of course, a couple little girls, youknow, it's it's all life stuff.
And this podcast touch I'm gonna touch on allof it, the good, the bad, the ugly of business,
the trials and tribulations of of family andthe personal stuff, the wins.
We we have several wins.
One of the one of the cool ones that I I'll getto talk about I've said this in the past.
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All of the first season episodes, of thehundred episodes, the top ranked or most
downloaded episodes were ones where Shelby wason the episode as a guest.
So so, obviously, she'll be back on.
We might even give her her own weekly segment.
I can't wait to put especially put her behindthe camera.
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That'll be fun.
So she'll she'll be back on.
But the number one most downloaded episode, Idon't exactly remember which episode number it
was, but the title was Are Cat SalesmanArrogant?
And and Shelby was not on that episode, but allthe other, you know, the 10 most downloaded,
nine of the others, Shelby is is on them.
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The number one most downloaded though istalking about cat salesman.
And and I I got a lot of heat for that episode.
Some caterpillar guys had reached out.
A couple guys from some cat dealerships hadreached out.
A couple guys were not super happy with thewords I had to say.
A couple guys took the words the right way,though.
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And I do think cat is super proud of theirproduct.
I think sometimes that pride is is relayed intheir pricing, which can be disgusting at
times.
But I'm a huge fan of Caterpillar.
I got a lot of friends that work at Caterpillaror for a cat dealer or whatever.
And so, you know, we heard I got to hear fromsome Caterpillar folks, both at the corporate
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level, folks from Caterpillar Finance.
Like, it's been it's been a cool rekindling ofour partnership with Caterpillar.
You guys all know I'm a big fan of Komatsu.
Komatsu took some big swings on us.
We bought some big fleas from Komatsu, and andKomatsu Fi has been has been an awesome
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partner.
Although, we had a little tiff with them.
We got it we got it solved.
Nothing big.
A little bit of a speed bump, but it's it'sbeen it's been awesome dealing with Komatsu.
And I think people automatically jump to theconclusion that, well, if he's dealing with
Komatsu, they have no room for Kat, and that'sjust not the truth.
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We had some misunderstandings with Caterpillarin the past.
And fortunately, I think we put most of thoseor all those behind us, and and we've rekindled
the partnership with Kat.
So I can't wait to talk about that.
Hoping to get a couple guys on a cup I know acouple of them listening to the podcast.
It'd be cool to get them on to talk about howwe have kinda rebuilt those lines of
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communication and and and how Cat you know, theto me, the coolest thing ever is when big
companies listen to small customers.
And and in the grand scheme of customers,Turner Mining Group is a super small customer
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to Caterpillar globally.
But I think the right people, and I don't knowall the right people, but the right people have
listened to some of the things that Ipersonally had to say about Caterpillar.
And they totally I mean, I I can't tell you.
We'll get all we'll get into all the details,all the juicy details on on this this season,
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the the episodes that come out.
But I can't tell you how much of a one eightytheir approach Caterpillar's approach was on
this most recent deal.
And so it's it's gonna be really cool to totalk about that and hopefully get a few cat
guys on that can talk about it as well and howhow and why they changed their approach, the
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result that came from that.
So that'll be a fun one to dive into.
And then I'm gonna have a bunch of guests.
I think the thing that I really wanted toaccomplish and was unable to on season one is
hold on just a second.
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I had a guy walking up to my truck.
I don't know what that was about.
I don't know if he I don't know if he wanted tosmoke or what he was doing, but he just he
kinda looked at me and kept walking.
I don't know what his problem was.
Wild.
Day in the life.
I there's a bunch of guests that I wanna get onhere, and and and I can have a ton of fun with
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a lot of these guests.
There's so many people out there that you guyswill get value from that are in my network and
and in my friend group and guys that I just weeither we've done business with them or they're
do building their own business.
You know, you guys hearing from other peoplewhat they're going through, both good, bad, and
the ugly of business and life, I think it couldbe super fun.
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So this new platform I'm using is gonna help usdo that much easier than kind of the the
platform or the ways I was recording thepodcast before.
I've gotta I've gotta knock the dust off.
I gotta knock the rust off of of my podcasthosting talent because I started to record this
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one and didn't have the microphone plugged in.
I didn't realize it.
So I could have easily talked for an hour withno mic plugged in.
I've done that before.
So I'm gonna knock the cobwebs off.
You guys gotta be patient.
This will continue to evolve over time.
I also wanna wanna give a shout out to someguys that have that have already been patient.
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I owe some I owe some favors to to folks thathave sent me some swag.
You know, they're Cade Cade and Cope Cade andCope at AutoGuard sent me a box of stuff.
I owe you something back.
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Bot's grading.
Send a box.
Michael, I owe you something back.
Man.
Oh, who else?
Oh, I got a I got a box of golf balls.
I can't wait to I'm not I'm not even gonna hitthese golf balls.
I got a box of golf balls with the Per Diemlogo on them.
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Just unbelievable gift, and you know who youare.
I'm gonna send you something.
And I've got something in the works here.
It's been in the works for two months.
I thought about killing it when I ended thehundredth episode because I really didn't have
any plans to bring this podcast back from fromthe grave.
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I I kinda planned on just letting it die.
A hundred episodes felt good.
I was like, cool.
I can I can live with that?
But since I'm bringing it back, I'm I'mrekindling the the item.
I can't I can't tell too much about it.
I don't wanna spoil the surprise, but severalof you guys that have sent me some stuff, sent
me some swag, sent me some hats.
Oh, phaser.
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Luke, I owe you something.
Luke sent some hats to the office.
I've got a gift for you guys coming.
You have to be patient.
It's not done yet.
It's gonna be legit.
There's been a lot of effort put into thisgift, but I got a gift coming.
It's gonna be available for others, but butsome of you guys that have sent some stuff and
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and and have been patient.
I told you I was sending you something.
I haven't sent you anything yet.
It's it's coming.
Hold on.
I'm getting a phone call.
It's it's gonna be a problem.
Hold on just a second, guys.
This is gonna be an ongoing problem with thispodcast is that I I I'm gonna get phone calls
(22:22):
during it.
Sometimes I'll answer the phone calls.
Sometimes I won't.
But, anyway, back back to what I was saying.
I owe you guys something.
It's coming.
I promise you'll be the first ones to get yourhands on it when it's ready, and and I know
you'll like it.
I wanna give a couple shout outs to some of youguys that have sent me pictures.
(22:44):
They're let me look it up on my phone.
Hold on one second.
Okay.
I'm back.
Had to get the truck washed.
You guys know how that goes.
Black truck has to stay clean, has to stay sexylooking.
The chrome has to stay shining.
So I'm back.
It was it was loud in there.
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But I have to give a give a shout out to theboys over at Zimmerman Excavating.
I got a picture a couple weeks ago of themholding their own custom made these guys these
guys went out and did this on their own.
They got their own custom made coffee mugs, PerDiem podcast coffee mugs, which were awesome.
One of them said in big letters, don't be aDelbert on it, which Shelby and I got a huge
(23:28):
laugh out of.
So another another couple guys like, one guyhad a a Pretty In Podcast shirt made.
I know I don't have any swag or any of thatavailable.
So it's it's been really cool to see some ofyou guys do that on your own.
I had a guy walk up to me at church, and and hewalked right up to me and said, hey.
You're dead to me.
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And I was like, woah, dude.
That's, you know, brother in Christ.
What's going on here?
What what are you talking about?
He's like, you're dead to me.
I I love the podcast.
I love everything about it, but you're dead tome.
And I was like, dude, why the hostility?
We're in the Lord's we're in the Lord's househere.
You know?
And he said, I'm I you know, I'm superdisappointed the podcast is over.
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And I've had several of you guys reach out, andand I'll get in on future episodes to why I
really dive into the why I'm restarting it.
I think I'm not gonna bore you with thosedetails now, but I think there's I think
there's something cool happening here.
And it was never it was I never had anyanticipation of something like this happening
(24:37):
where where people actually people actuallywere, like, hooked into the podcast and
actually listened to it every day.
So so appreciate all the love.
Appreciate all the support.
We're just gonna have fun.
And and I want you guys to know that really themain reason I'm even continuing this is because
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I hear from you guys.
I I get the messages.
I get the DMs.
You know, it it's It is totally wild to get themessages from you guys.
And all I wanna do is keep bringing value.
You know, if if I can bring a laugh, a smile,just a little bit of entertainment on your
(25:24):
morning commute, if I can, you know, bring somevalue in the way I think about business or
problems or employees, or or even, like, tipsand tricks on how to give the perfect nonsexual
massage, that's what I'm here for.
And and that's where I that's where I'm reallypassionate about, you know, all of us together
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getting 1% better every day.
I have not I have not given a second nonsexualmassage yet.
I haven't.
But I can tell you right now, my neighbor thisis wild.
This is just this is how this is how wild thispod this podcast thing is, and and the fact
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that people listen to a Delbert like me.
My neighbor is parked in the middle of thestreet, and they're talking to a few other
neighbors who are out on a walk.
And they're just all parked right in the middleof the street.
So I'm driving up, getting ready to pull intomy driveway, and they're kind of right at the
end of my driveway.
I've got a little bit of a windy driveway.
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And and so I pull up, roll the window down, andwe give high fives and so on and so forth.
These these folks are mid mid sixties.
Right?
They're my parents' age.
I've known I've known them all forever.
And and he comes up to me or no.
No.
She comes up to me.
It's the husband and wife.
I'm not gonna name their names.
They might not want me to.
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She comes up to me and says, hey.
I heard on your podcast the whole massagething, and I've been trying to get him to get
into this whole massage thing.
I forwarded him the podcast so he'll listen toit.
Now he owes me a non sexual massage, and I'mjust dying laughing.
These you know, they're these people were myneighbor.
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I would never in a million years expect for nonindustry folks, let alone my neighbors, to be
commenting on the very intimate podcast I didwhere I gave Shelby a massage and put her to
sleep in a nonsexual way.
So maybe maybe season two, we talk about asexual massage.
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Maybe we don't, but who knows?
Who knows where the podcast will go?
I I have not been absolutely forbidden fromcertain topics yet by Shelby, but I'm sure it's
coming.
I'm sure she's gonna I'm sure she's gonna haveto, like, make me sign a waiver here any day.
So this is this has just been a, like, a anintro, a teaser to the season two of the
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Purduem podcast.
I hope you guys continue to get some enjoymentout of it, get some value.
I'm not gonna do any big hour long juicypodcast to start it off today.
I just wanted you to know that I'm back.
They're dropping every morning at 4AM easterntime.
We're gonna add some spice and some flavor andsome new names and some new voices, and we're
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gonna add we're we're gonna continue to try toelevate the podcast and and see if we can make
it better.
You can hear this podcast on YouTube right noweven though there's no video.
You know, the platform I'm using is gonnaupload it to YouTube.
You can now hear it on Amazon Prime.
So if you, you know, have an Alexa, an AmazonEcho or Dot or whatever, you can say, hey,
(28:46):
Alexa, play the Per Diem podcast.
She will play it.
You can still listen to this on Spotify.
You can still listen to it on the Apple podcastapp, which is where 90% of podcasts are
listened.
You can listen to it on Audible.
So we've expanded the distribution for thepodcast.
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But how we continue to make this thing fun andgrowing and and get legs is by you guys sharing
it with people you think will get value.
The reason it took off is because and I'vetalked to several of you guys about this.
The reason it took off is because someone got alaugh, got a nugget of value, whatever, and
(29:28):
they sent it to one of their friends or theysent it to their family or they sent it to
someone.
That's the best way, in my opinion, for us allto kinda grow this little community that we've
built.
There's there's a thousand of you or maybe1,500.
I don't know how many are I don't know how manyare coming back for season two.
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But, you know, if and and guys, I'm drivingback in the SWAT.
These guys are still here.
I mean, I'm not lying.
There there are 20 police cars.
University police, Bloomington police, statepolice.
Wild.
Almost wanna go turn around and and record someof them on the podcast and get inside scoop of
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that that would be an extra juicy episode tokick us off.
But back to the podcast, I I I you know, if youguys could send it to someone you think will
get value, that's all I asked for.
I'm not gonna read a bunch of reviews anymore.
If I get just a just an amazing review, maybe Iwill you know, maybe I'll maybe I'll read it.
But I I wanna just make these a little moreshort, a little punchier.
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I'm trying to keep them to twenty minutes.
I really don't wanna do the hour long episodesunless I've got something just crazy.
And what I may do is, you know, chop up thehour.
If it's an hour long episode, I may chop it upinto some shorter episodes.
If it's one specific topic, chop it up into twoor three parts.
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So so, yeah, keep tuning in.
We're gonna have fun, and and I want yourfeedback.
If there if there are people I should betalking to, if there are topics you wanna hear
about, if if, you know, you love something, youhate something, let me know.
And I'm not gonna drop the phone number yetbecause I I'm changing it.
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I opened this phone back up.
I've got a burner phone.
So I've got my normal, regular, everyday cellphone, and then I have a burner phone that I
was using you know, back in the day, I woulduse it to call employees and just all kinds of
other things where I wouldn't really care ifthe number got out.
I turned this phone on.
It'd been kinda turned off for a couple months.
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I turned this phone on, and clearly, the numberneeded to be changed because I mean, it was
spammed to death, hundreds and hundreds of textmessages.
And so I'm changing the number today as wespeak.
Funny sidebar, I I picked up we we had ourexecutive all day executive meeting yesterday.
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We do a quarterly in person all day exec teammeeting.
We did that yesterday.
So we all went out to dinner last night.
On the way to dinner, Shelby and I picked upJeff, our CFO.
We picked up him and his wife.
Jeff jumps in the truck.
I have Apple CarPlay up on the screen, and andhe sees he sees my text message icon, and it
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says 557 unread text messages.
He's like, what in the world?
Why do you why do you have so many unread textmessages?
37 voice mails.
The real answer is just because you you get hitwith so many things, so many different random
text messages.
Again, marketers ruin everything.
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Salespeople ruin everything.
I'm I'm guessing half of those text messages,maybe not half, but a big chunk of those text
messages are just stuff that I'm never gonnaspend the time to open.
And and what happens is all the other real textmessages then get stuck.
They get caught.
They don't, you know, they don't make it.
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They don't make it into my they don't make itthey don't make the cut.
I don't spend the time to go open them.
And and so if I if I miss your text, chancesare if I get to the end of the day and I have
not opened it, chances are it's lost in theabyss, and and it's one of the 557 text
messages that were were never gonna get openeduntil you text me again.
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So so my apologies if you're one of those folksor have sent some messages in the past.
I never did respond.
I also oh, quick update.
One more quick update.
There's just man, there's a lot to catch up on.
Let's see where we're at on time here.
Oh, dear.
Thirty four minutes.
One one last quick update.
I have not sent out the personal developmentdashboard yet.
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I have not sent it.
For a lot of reasons, I was making tweaks, andthen I got busy, and then it fell through the
cracks.
And to be honest with you, I forgot about it.
I just got another email this morning from aguy.
I won't call him out, but he he he wanted tomake sure he was back at the top of the funnel,
so he pinged me again asking for the personaldevelopment dashboard.
If you're still interested, send me an email.
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Podcast@prayforperdiem.com.
I'll get you on the list.
I promise you.
I promise you.
I know I've been promising.
It's gonna be sent very soon.
I'm using it.
I'm living in it.
You know, my coach and I go through it everytwo weeks, and and we talk about areas I'm
improving.
And I'll talk a lot more about it later.
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But if you wanna get in, get in now because Idon't know when I'm gonna send it again.
And and I'm I'm not gonna send it onesietwosie.
I've already said this multiple times.
So so if you wanna get in on that, send me anemail.
Just title the email personal developmentdashboard or or Keaton's at Delbert or
something like that.
So that's all I got.
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We're 30 with no big topics, no meaty valueother than just to say thank you for finding
season two of the podcast.
Get ready for some fun.
We're gonna be some laughs.
There are gonna be days where I rant.
I'm gonna have bad days.
I've had several bad days in the last thirtydays.
I had a lot of good days, but when someonecomes in, walks in my office, and says, hey.
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Hope you hope you saw x y z.
I'm not gonna name them, but we have the stateattorney general has has mentioned us by name
and some comments, and, you know, that's justnever fun.
Same thing with opening messages from peoplethat well, I won't go into it, but you'll
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you'll hear more of this coming soon.
Thanks for finding the podcast.
I hope you guys have been killing it.
I hope you've been, you know, I hope you'vebeen finding other podcasts to listen to for
the last thirty days.
There's a million other podcasts.
All In is my favorite.
It's kind of all things news and politics andtech and science.
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It's a great podcast, but thanks for finding usagain.
I pray you're killing it.
And as always, I pray you're getting your perdiem.
See you tomorrow.
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