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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back News RADIOA forty wha. It's just
like Jack Fox says. We were brought to you by
the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. Please buckle up, put
the phone down our number two. We are going to
a local company that you might have heard of in
the last couple of weeks. They kind of had a
golf tournament last weekend that kind of made a lot
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of noise. Jimmy Kirchdorffer is with this. Jimmy, how are
you great, Tony. Let's put a bow on the golf
tournament real quick, and then we're going to talk about
Really I wanted you on the to come on the
air because we've known each other through Catholic Education Foundation
and some other things, and you've employed a lot of
my friends for decades. Thank you for giving Dave Hunley
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a job and keeping his job. I should get some
community service award for There's no doubt there's got to
be a tax benefit there somewhere. But let's put a
bow on it and we'll talk about your business.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh yeah, the golf tournament we were you know, this
is our kind of a inaugural year to have it
in Louisville. And I think we're thrilled with it. I mean,
Forsco as a title sponsor. We brought a lot of
our customers in town to play in the program to
see it. We tied in Valhalla with it, and it
was great for our business. We've never you know, we're
not a consumer product, so we've never done this kind
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of national advertising. We had a commercial on TV and
all that, so it's good to get our name out
there and tell the Isco story. I'm a you know,
I look at Louisville and people will knock us as
you know, hey, you don't have pro football, and look
two hours north, two hours south, and then go up
to seventy one and there's all this pro football. You
don't have NBA basketball. But you know what, we have
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pro golf, and we have pro golf at the PGA
Tour level and we're going to have that every year.
And I think that's something our city needs more of.
And the young people. I have a twenty five year
old and twenty three year old and they love it.
And then those kind of things are you know, things
to do for our community. So Issco was proud to
be the sponsor and to bring it here and Hirshborne
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was a great venue. I mean, the course was the
star of the show, and the membership was great and
we're excited to make it even better next week.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Congratulations.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It seems like outside of just a small weather event.
We were talking off Mike, I told my wife to Connors,
I saw some people golf shirts outside of just a small,
small weather event. We had to evacuate momentarily. It seems
like this thing went off flawlessly because I was out
during that tournament driving the streets and the parking was set.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Up she u of l right across the stree shovel.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, it seems to me like it went flawlessly. Was
it as flawless as it looked?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, I mean people talked about the fans that came out,
so this was easy.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Park at Shelby Campus across the street, get out of
the bus service was great. People raved about that. You know.
Obviously a lot of people went to the PGA Championship
and that was fantastic, But this is a lot more,
a lot more accessible to the players. It's not we're
not getting the crowds that are a major championship gets.
So I think a lot of people came out and
had a great time. We had a fan zone for
a lot of things for kids to do, for people
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to do, and we branded Disco throughout.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh, there's no doubt.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And that's why I wanted you to on because it's
such a great story. And I think more people talked
about Isco in the last couple of weeks than they've
had ever and even to the point to where our
morning show host said Cisco, and I said, I said, Nick,
that's the food delivery people that this is something different.
But Isco, tell tell me what you do and then
you're you're it's a family owned business that started in
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Kentucky and now you're basically all over the world.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Jimmy, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's a great you know, we call it the Isco story.
And you know, my father started it in nineteen sixty two.
It's irrigation supply company.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Ah Dwight's going, okay, let me just tur up this question.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Thanks for that irrigation supply company. And he sold sprinklers
for lawns and golf courses.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's how it started.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's how it started. And we got going and he
got an the golf irrigation business and he was kind
of got into contracting a little bit, and we got
into this HDPE pipe, which is kind of a new
technology on pipe. We use it on the golf courses
to go underneath creeks and it's black, flexible. It's a
superior product. Obviously I'm biased, but then then the ductor
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liron or steel and so forth. So that we my
brother and I bought the company in the nineties and
kind of rebranded it to Isco Isco Industries really because
because irrigation was becoming a smaller and smaller part late nineties,
and and somehow we were able to attract really good
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people maybe through our network, and you know, you just
end up, you know, like you said, you know a
lot of the people that we wanted to and attract
great people and have ideas and created a great place
to work and created opportunities for people. And my brother
and I reinvested so much back into the business. You know,
we were working hard and kind of reinvesting everything back
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and we've continue to grow and now we do business
all over the world for several different markets, not just golf,
but several different markets water sewer, mining, gas distribution, culvert lining.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's immense it's immense.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
D It's amazing how businesses take off. I was Local
eighty nine and worked for UPS. I worked many jobs
trying to break in radio, and part of the education
of hiring getting hired at UPS was learning about UPS
and different things. And in that I learned that it
was started by two delivery bicycles and that was it.
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When you start off with just sprinkler systems and maybe
some golf courses. Did you have a vision to grow
international or is it just something that happened that you
stumbled upon.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, we came in the in the late nineties. My
brother and I got in front of everybody and said, hey,
we have a vision to grow the business to be international.
We were just one location or two locations at the
time in both in Louisville, Kentucky. And we created what
we called a vision and we can be one hundred
million dollar company. And yeah, there was like, well that's.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
A point in your company to where and we do
this in our business. We're entertainers, but what we do
for a living is talk to companies, local companies, and
there's that decision, you know, point to where can we
handle this? Can we and do we want to grow
that big, right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, My brother and I we wanted to grow something.
Didn't want to come into a family business and just
kind of milk it and do the same thing. So
we're fortunate that we were in this one product line.
You know, my dad thought we would love the golf
sprinkler business because we both are golfers. But and it's
a good lesson of you don't do what you they'll
always do what you love, do what you're good at.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But we we saw this product line that hadn't been scaled,
and we're going to invest in that of the piping,
and it's it's difficult because our product is underground. No
one ever sees it, right, and it's like, what do
you do? What do you do? It's underground piping. We
don't sell pipe for homes or you know. It's all
it's it's a great application underground. It's virtually in our
to any chemicals. It's welded together. And I'm sure you
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do not want to hear the technical aspects of HDP.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
No, but I do. I do want to spring off
of that a bit because at this point, so you're growing,
you to find yourself. I want to be an international
company and you start growing, but part of that is
also growing products. And we talked off Mike briefly, and
you said, yes, it's even gas pipes and gas lines, methane,
the whole bit. When you get into that, uh, the
risk goes up exponentially dealing with water as opposed to
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things that can blow up. It's quite the risk. Was
were you iffy on taking that on or did you
just say I had to be in the education process.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
When you're younger, you're less into the risk, you know,
as you get older. And we had nothing to lose, right,
I mean we really did. We were a small company
and we were you know, some of our applications are
risky and we sell yeah, so piped to nuclear power plants, right,
you know, I mean it, it is risky. So you
just got to make sure your quality is fantastic and
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get the team of people that care about it and
not just punching a clock. I use example of you know,
there's there's three different levels. Right, there's employees that are transactional,
you pay them, Oh, you need to do that, and
then the next there's team members. The next level up. Okay,
I'm part of a team. I look out for my
co workers. And then finally, we use the word a
lot in business. It is goes stewards, people that put
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the good of the organization ahead of themselves. There's stewards
of the organization. They would never do anything to hurt
it because they believe in the cause. And all of
you have things you're stewards of, right something. The cause
is so important more than your own personal well being.
So as we gain stewards in our company, it's Mark
and I are just there's just two of us, right,
we couldn't grow the business ourselves. We're able to attract
awesome people, and Louisville has great people that care, that
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love community, that are that have the stewardship mindset, and
we'll be able to do that and keep our headquarters
here and then grow the business, you know, with a
lot of plans.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
With Jimmy, we had that conversation. It's a reoccurring conversation
we have on this show. Is you know they you know,
Humana is doing whatever they're doing, bleeding out and Papa
John's took all their muscle out of town and and
KFCs following the same in the same ilk. So I
wanted to talk about Isco because you've kept it here,
You've kept the the family owned business here in Louisville
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and being an impact in the in the city. One
more question about the business before you move on to
your impact Isco in the city of Louisville, the state
of Kentucky. But once you go international, though, you have
to have I mean there are different you know, we
have OSHA here, you have there's got to be different
international laws and every country you go into. If you're
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going to do construction, I'm sure you're dealing with the
some of the best people in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
You're gonna work in this area.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Hey, here's a briefcase of cash. Can we finish the
job now?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Navigating that's got to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Internationals of the international businesses cash up front say. It
was interesting. I traveled to one of the job sites
in Abu Dhabi whe time we were selling and I
kind of wanted to know, why do these people want
to buy from Misco right we're over there? But our
brand was great, Uh, not only just Isco's brand, but
also American made piping products was fantastic. Like, why are
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you guys buying all the way from us? And I said, oh,
we know American is gonna be engineered. Well, it's gonna
be high quality. Yeah, and you know for piping products.
And that made me feel great.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Let's talk about it. So you've got a great product,
You've you've got great employees, uh, and you've got a
great brand name internationally. You're here in Kentucky. I got
to think that there's other places that have tried to
woo you to their state or their city. Has that
happened and and and is it just a love for
your city that keeps you here because some of these
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offers they can be quite tempting.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, you know there are. I mean, you know, we've
become quietly, like I said, a products underground so nobody
sees it. We become quietly one of the largest I think,
private companies in the area, in the state. And sure
people would like to do that, but this is our roots.
And I think it's you know, it's all about in
our business and probably all businesses, it's about getting the
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right people. Sure we have a great product, but if
we don't have the right people on our team, now
it doesn't matter. And I think Louisville has a fantastic
workforce from people that really care and think long term
and are not transactional. We win a lot because you
talk about these other companies that are more public companies,
they have to think a little more short term than
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we do. You got to make quarterly numbers, you got
to do things in the wall streets all over you.
Oh yeah that It is just my brother and myself.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And we work for both and we know the contrast.
And boy, it's not and day for a corporation working
for mom and pop. It's it's absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And yeah, I think that's a benefit. We have to
be able to think long term.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Take a project like David and trying to tournament.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh my gosh, I mean what you've done with him,
thinking what the effects. So let's talk about giving back.
So you build this company, you and your brother into
this international company that's based here in Louisville, started here
in Louisville and then kept it here in Louisville. But
you give back. I know you. You're on the board
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at the Catholic Education Foundation. That is very close to
my heart. It's one of my big three. But you
guys definitely give back to the community. To the tune
of I don't want to say if it's true or
not bigger than Ford or ups to local companies.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I don't know what they're doing, but I think
and I think that's one of the things our city
needs is corporate headquarters. I look at other cities and
they have a lot of corporate headquarters because you usually
do your giving where your corporate headquarters is. So yeah,
I mean, you know, listen, we're in this community and
and it's it's been great to us. You mentioned Catholic
Education Foundation, and my brother and I went to Saint
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Leonard and the Saint x and and you know, and
my parents were very involved. I saw them be stewards.
My dad was the athletics director. You know, it's just
they were stewards of a community. And regardless of where
the school is or what the nomination it is or whatever,
we learned community. And uh so that's what this is.
And we give our charity dollars back here. And I
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just believe, you know, when you have success, and we
we've had success because of the community and the people
we've we've had, we need we need to give it back.
So I think key to Louisville is more corporate headquarters.
Whatever you can do to get corporate headquarters where things happen,
you have really good jobs, you have dollars going in.
You look at Indianapolis and any Eli Lilly over the
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years and that Eli Lilly Foundation and what that gives away.
That's what I'm proud. We're growing that. But I want
to see more.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And it's a fair question because you're moving people here
that you hire, and I know the we do.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
We say this line. We talk about a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Look you go home and you tell the wife we
have it's Pittsburgh, it's Indianapolis or Louisville. And sometimes the
wife will go, please tell me it's not Louisville. Until
they get here. You know, we get them in here,
boots on the ground for a couple of minutes, they'll
fall in love with Louisville. But right now we've got
that image issue.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, I mean, we have moved a lot of people
to Louisville, and you know, we bring them in, we
show them the hospitality. They're not just looking at it,
you know, a name without before they move. They're gonna
do their diligence right sure, come in and they see
what we have to offer as a city. They really
see the people that we have. We're hospitable people and
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we've had a lot of success bringing people here and
they've you know, adopted this as their new hometown. But
the more we have to offer, like the ISCO Championship,
we had people watching from all over the world, players
coming in, fans coming in, They're gonna go back and
talk about Louisville the PGA Championship last year on a
much bigger scale, watching a major championship, watching you know,
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Zen win the last putt and all these things. I mean,
people come to Louisville and see that. The Derby happens
on a yearly basis. But we show well our city,
our community shows well when people get here. When they're
not here, it doesn't as much. And like we do
that with our business. If I can get our customers
to Louisville to see us, meet us, see our plant
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meet our people, see our culturesco wins. But if they don't,
they just see us as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Did you ever think, going back to the nineteen nineties,
that if you ever played Valhalla, that one day I'll
own it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I remember the first time I played it, late nineties,
and it has been a long time before I even
got on. I got invited first time I played it,
and I remember the first time it was two thousand
and four that I was a member, got it, I
got in the club and I just thought made it.
Now it's so special to me. I worked hard to
hopefully I did the right things in the community to
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be able to be invited to join, and I want
to keep that to where it is special when whether
a member or there's a lot of people that it's
a bucket list sye. I look at the brand Valhalla
has outside of Kentucky. I mean, it's good in Kentucky,
but outside people would take a red off light for
the West coast to be able to play, and it's
really cool. So David, you know, god rest Junior Soul.
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I'm so glad. I had a couple of years to
work on a passion project with him and we got
to be really close and Chest Musselman, We've had a
blast trying to make that reach its full potential and
be a draw where people want to come to Louisville.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Obviously, this business is your baby, and you love it
and you're good at it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
You're great at it.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Do you ever consider selling it or would it once
you sell it, you turn it over, and that product
is now somebody else's. Is that just too terrifying for
you or have you even thought down the road?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I mean right now we're having a blast and we
have great people and don't have an interest in that good.
We're reinvesting back in it. I mean if we did
sell it, where would we invest our money?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think your best investment is in yourself. Nuh and
the people that you know. So and that happens a
lot through the life cycle of companies. They sell and
maybe to an out of town person. But we're doing
more buying.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We just bought a company last year in Oklahoma, not
last year, Yeah, that was uh, that was about three
or four months time flies, Yeah, in Oklahoma. And we
bought companies in Alabama. We bought one in Canada a
few years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So you're getting bigger.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
We're getting bigger. And and you know, people, people that
are in this industry see us especially, there's founders of
companies that are like, you know, I want to sell
my company. I care about my people. Oh yes, I
want to sell it to is because I know they'll
be in a good spot to thrive and that We've
had a lot of people say, no, you're the company
we want to sell to, how can we work a
deal out? So we're more in the acquisition mode. And
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that's fun for me to go in and buy a
company andrate them into us, our our culture, and take
the best of the things they do, because every company
we buy we learn from them sure as much as
they learn from us.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It is I'm not it's I'm not just saying this.
This is a great American story. It is a family
owned operation that has grown to one of the biggest,
if not the biggest, in the world. I commend you
for it. I'm fascinated by it. And and the fact
that it is a local grown company like that really is.
It tells us in America we can still do it.
You can still get it done. And I again commend
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you and all your employees and everybody for the golf
tournament and everything else you're doing. And let's in the
you know, in a couple of years when you're even
doing something else and bigger, come back in and we'll
talk about it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Jimmy kerstor.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Who's who's that story?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
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Back after this on news radio eight forty w Chance
seventy two, why would have helped you again?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Comment? Damn it, Jack Bower, dammit, dammit.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
We were just one year off.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Horseshoes and hand grenades. That's the only time close counts. Yes,
all right, there was something I was going to bring up,
but since it was three seconds ago, I can't remember
what it was.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Alzheimer's tough Colley. What in the world?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, well, all right, so these are reasons. And again
thank you Jimmy kirch Schorff for coming in from Misco
to explain how they built that company from selling sprinklers.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
The similarity to worldwide similarities between him that Seu and me.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, Johnny was uncanny. I don't know if you caught
that or not.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Either one of them ever experienced a torn Achilles though. No, no,
see that you may have a leg up on them
all pun intended and a dollar out for you. Oh,
by the way, and then we're gonna get to Tony's story.
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Speaker 4 (20:35):
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Speaker 3 (20:45):
Alright. Uh, these are the top ten reasons American couples.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Argue I got finances has to be number one. This
first one is so hilarious.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I did this with Nick yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, American couples arguing understand Nick, This first one.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Cracks me up.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, you argue about how they argue, the tone of voice.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
No, this is.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Jackie and I have had this conversation, conversation many many times.
How you argue is important in a relationship.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I am a horrible, mean arguer.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yes, I would see that to be true.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
And here's the worst thing, the worst thing that Susan
has ever said to me, because it cut me to
the bone, cut my heart out. We were in bed,
we were arguing, and I had some kind of smartass
response really to what she said. It was one of
those nights where I was sarcastic, right and mean, and
she didn't respond back with sarcaska mean. She hit me
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with a nuclear bomb, you know what was what a sigh?
And then her just look at me, going, you're so mean,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, she has won the war.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yes, how you are argue is one of the things
that couples argue about a lot. And because people look
having conversations the art of the conversations and arguing, especially
if you're married to like a lawyer. Right, they argue
certain ways. Right, they've try to figure out why you're
a bad witness or your credibility, their character assassination.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I never thought about how difficult that would be to
be arguing with a spouse that's an.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Attorney absolutely argues for a living.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yes, yes, because their job is to find blame on
everyone else.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Except for your client and the client. Perfect.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He's the client, so he'll find blame anywhere else but himself.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Obviously, there's the the the the big one, which is
sex and money. Those kind of you know, there's two
different issues, but those are two biggies.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
We've never had an argument on sex nor money to
the best of my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, yeah, we don't really argue about that much. And
money is just when you when you have two kids,
you could get into some conversations of you know, wait
a minute, what wha wha, wha, wha woah, we needed
that money for this. But besides that, I'm with you.
You look, she's very conservative and I'm more like, it's
like the needles money, we'll make more.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, so that's that's our makeup as well. She's the saver.
I'm the spender, right.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
If I if I had not listened to Jackie fifteen
years ago to start putting money away for the kids' education,
I never would have done that. So I never would
have done that. I you know, I never would have
done that, and we started to do that and it
saved our butt when when when high school and college
came around.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
So we'll we married fourteen years in December, but way
before we even married, I've known Susan like twenty five
years whatever. At this point, she's just a friend of mine.
She finds out, hey, something about my four one cam. Yeah,
I got one hundred percent in this company. And she said,
what so even as a friend, she took over my
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four to one K. Yeah, I'll try because I don't
know what I'm doing. I my money in Blockbuster Video.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Amount of time spent together, that depends on the wife. Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Because I have some friends that are out of town
three or four days a week and they play golf
on Saturday. I was I always look at them and
go my wife would never in a million years put
up with that. But they have a happy they're still married.
My friends that do that are married. Matter of fact,
they're the happiest couples that I know.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
See, my wife's the opposite. She's so supportive. She looks
for things for me to do to get me out
of the house. Right, that's how supportive.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You is, right, And she does that for lemme.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
She's mentioned golf a lot of times, but she said,
you know golf. Sure it's a little expensive, but it
could take up to six to eight hours. I'm like, really,
I have you should try it.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
John, you don't really have this issue now because well
you do, but you don't because you're now in the
rearing of child mode, which is teamwork, and you're just
going to be at the house. Yes, you're not gonna
be going out a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Okay, the times we do go out, it seems like
it's just to either one of our family's houses, right
most of the time, right, correct?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Told this is this is this is where I say,
you can't you can't find fault for what I said.
But what you go to is you know, the tone, the.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Tone, Yes, that's me too, of your voice. The tone
of what you said was really is what upset me.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
That's me the tone and the smarter assery. Here's my problem.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
I always I always try to start off being like
very you know, just a normal conversation. If we're trying
to we're having a disagreement, But like uvan Edia, maybe
you two Dwight, once it reaches a certain point, it's
like the I'm not even like building up. It just
immediately goes from zero to one hundred for whatever reason.
The anger just it's like, come on, listen to me.
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Yll I'll take your word for that.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Because I'm very even kilned and uh keeled killed or
I'm healed. I'm very even tempered. It's hard to upset me.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
So yeah, relationships with family.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I love my family both sides. Yeah, I'm fortunate on that.
I make jokes. Well, let me say I love my
family a lot. My sister in law, Kathy Tyler Young, she.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Can be a bit much just you know, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Walking in at midnight and eating our doritos.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yes, that's a bit bunch friendly mentioning.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe an in law or did, or a brother in
law or a sister in law did something you didn't like.
You just got to avoid it. And here's the biggie
for anybody. It's just newly married. Don't say something that
you can never back out of.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh here's one thing I will say. And then Susan
and I do quite well with this. We keep our
problems internal because we both know.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, look, if.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
You pitch something that's going on to your family member,
they're gonna Most of the time, I think my mom
would take Susan's side. I honestly do because she knows me.
There's been times. There's been times where I've broken up
with girlfriends and she's called the girlfriend and said, look,
I'm so sorry. I wanted to tell you from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But you know, and here's one that John you should
know and I never did. This is your friends and
or relatives that have children. Just let them talk to
you about their struggles with the kid. Never give advice
or say hey.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Why are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Or what school they go to or any of that stuff.
Stay away from it. Just be supportive. Let them raise
their kids the way they want to be raised, the
kids to be raised, and you raise your kids the
way you want them to be raised.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Well, until they step in my backyard and now your
kids are my kids?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Really absolutely, we know that was the rule.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That is what's the rule. It's posted on the back
of the yard fence.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, all right, towers, folks trade Noak Towers is uptown.
It is not downtown. It is a block from Saint
James Court, so you know, it's a nice area. And
let me tell you something. This place is unbelievable. It's huge,
by the way. It's got four ballrooms, a movie theater,
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a rooftop top bar. It's got a bar, another bar
in it. It's got four restaurants. It's got medical staff
twenty four hours a day. Laundry is included. It is
privately owned, so it's independent and nonprofits, so they just
need to break even. That's why it's not corporate owned.
That's why people that work there have worked there for
fourteen years on average, physical therapy on site. They got
(28:43):
a wood shop. They'll tell you at Trade Noak Towers
if you're sixty five or older and ready to move into.
It's not a facility. It's like it's a resort. It's
a huge resort on Third and Oak. Hence Trade Noak Towers.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Get it. I want to go there now.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Five or now five eight nine thirty two twelve or
eleven five eight nine thirty two, eleven five eight nine
thirty two eleven.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Call that number now. If you take the tour, you'll
move in.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I imagine you're all your meals, a movie theater, a bar.
Do you have to leave the house ever? I want
to go there. Listen Tony's breaking live with Baby, How
is that air conditioning? When I get into my Craign
Lander jeep, I feel like a piece of ice burred lettuce.
I'm so crisp and clean and cold. Thank you cheap? Yeah,
(29:32):
I am cheap. That's why I go to Tony's Breaking Alignment.
They're not going to sell you a bunch of stuff
that you need that you don't need. They do much
more than just breaks in alignment. Like I said, they
did my air conditioning a couple of weeks ago, they'll
do yours. Plus every job is backed up with a
three year, thirty six thousand mile warrant. You every single job,
put your mind to rest. Go in Louisville's best. That's
(29:54):
Tony's break and Alignment.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Baby back after this news radio eight forty whas
All right, welcome back News RADIOA forty wha. It's just
like Jack Fox says. We were brought to you by
the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. Please buckle up, put
the phone down our number two. We are going to
a local company that you might have heard of in
the last couple of weeks. They kind of had a
golf tournament last weekend that kind of made a lot
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of noise. Jimmy Kirchdorffer is with this. Jimmy, how are
you great, Tony. Let's put a bow on the golf
tournament real quick, and then we're going to talk about
Really I wanted you on the to come on the
air because we've known each other through Catholic Education Foundation
and some other things, and you've employed a lot of
my friends for decades. Thank you for giving Dave Hunley
(00:42):
a job and keeping his job. I should get some
community service award for There's no doubt there's got to
be a tax benefit there somewhere. But let's put a
bow on it and we'll talk about your business.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh yeah, the golf tournament we were you know, this
is our kind of a inaugural year to have it
in Louisville. And I think we're thrilled with it. I mean,
Forsco as a title sponsor. We brought a lot of
our customers in town to play in the program to
see it. We tied in Valhalla with it, and it
was great for our business. We've never you know, we're
not a consumer product, so we've never done this kind
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of national advertising. We had a commercial on TV and
all that, so it's good to get our name out
there and tell the Isco story. I'm a you know,
I look at Louisville and people will knock us as
you know, hey, you don't have pro football, and look
two hours north, two hours south, and then go up
to seventy one and there's all this pro football. You
don't have NBA basketball. But you know what, we have
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pro golf, and we have pro golf at the PGA
Tour level and we're going to have that every year.
And I think that's something our city needs more of.
And the young people. I have a twenty five year
old and twenty three year old and they love it.
And then those kind of things are you know, things
to do for our community. So Issco was proud to
be the sponsor and to bring it here and Hirshborne
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was a great venue. I mean, the course was the
star of the show, and the membership was great and
we're excited to make it even better next week.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Congratulations.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It seems like outside of just a small weather event.
We were talking off Mike, I told my wife to Connors,
I saw some people golf shirts outside of just a small,
small weather event. We had to evacuate momentarily. It seems
like this thing went off flawlessly because I was out
during that tournament driving the streets and the parking was set.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Up she u of l right across the stree shovel.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, it seems to me like it went flawlessly. Was
it as flawless as it looked?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, I mean people talked about the fans that came out,
so this was easy.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Park at Shelby Campus across the street, get out of
the bus service was great. People raved about that. You know.
Obviously a lot of people went to the PGA Championship
and that was fantastic, But this is a lot more,
a lot more accessible to the players. It's not we're
not getting the crowds that are a major championship gets.
So I think a lot of people came out and
had a great time. We had a fan zone for
a lot of things for kids to do, for people
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to do, and we branded Disco throughout.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh, there's no doubt.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And that's why I wanted you to on because it's
such a great story. And I think more people talked
about Isco in the last couple of weeks than they've
had ever and even to the point to where our
morning show host said Cisco, and I said, I said, Nick,
that's the food delivery people that this is something different.
But Isco, tell tell me what you do and then
you're you're it's a family owned business that started in
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Kentucky and now you're basically all over the world.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Jimmy, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's a great you know, we call it the Isco story.
And you know, my father started it in nineteen sixty two.
It's irrigation supply company.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Ah Dwight's going, okay, let me just tur up this question.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Thanks for that irrigation supply company. And he sold sprinklers
for lawns and golf courses.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's how it started.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's how it started. And we got going and he
got an the golf irrigation business and he was kind
of got into contracting a little bit, and we got
into this HDPE pipe, which is kind of a new
technology on pipe. We use it on the golf courses
to go underneath creeks and it's black, flexible. It's a
superior product. Obviously I'm biased, but then then the ductor
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liron or steel and so forth. So that we my
brother and I bought the company in the nineties and
kind of rebranded it to Isco Isco Industries really because
because irrigation was becoming a smaller and smaller part late nineties,
and and somehow we were able to attract really good
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people maybe through our network, and you know, you just
end up, you know, like you said, you know a
lot of the people that we wanted to and attract
great people and have ideas and created a great place
to work and created opportunities for people. And my brother
and I reinvested so much back into the business. You know,
we were working hard and kind of reinvesting everything back
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and we've continue to grow and now we do business
all over the world for several different markets, not just golf,
but several different markets water sewer, mining, gas distribution, culvert lining.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's immense it's immense.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
D It's amazing how businesses take off. I was Local
eighty nine and worked for UPS. I worked many jobs
trying to break in radio, and part of the education
of hiring getting hired at UPS was learning about UPS
and different things. And in that I learned that it
was started by two delivery bicycles and that was it.
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When you start off with just sprinkler systems and maybe
some golf courses. Did you have a vision to grow
international or is it just something that happened that you
stumbled upon.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, we came in the in the late nineties. My
brother and I got in front of everybody and said, hey,
we have a vision to grow the business to be international.
We were just one location or two locations at the
time in both in Louisville, Kentucky. And we created what
we called a vision and we can be one hundred
million dollar company. And yeah, there was like, well that's.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
A point in your company to where and we do
this in our business. We're entertainers, but what we do
for a living is talk to companies, local companies, and
there's that decision, you know, point to where can we
handle this? Can we and do we want to grow
that big, right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, My brother and I we wanted to grow something.
Didn't want to come into a family business and just
kind of milk it and do the same thing. So
we're fortunate that we were in this one product line.
You know, my dad thought we would love the golf
sprinkler business because we both are golfers. But and it's
a good lesson of you don't do what you they'll
always do what you love, do what you're good at.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But we we saw this product line that hadn't been scaled,
and we're going to invest in that of the piping,
and it's it's difficult because our product is underground. No
one ever sees it, right, and it's like, what do
you do? What do you do? It's underground piping. We
don't sell pipe for homes or you know. It's all
it's it's a great application underground. It's virtually in our
to any chemicals. It's welded together. And I'm sure you
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do not want to hear the technical aspects of HDP.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
No, but I do. I do want to spring off
of that a bit because at this point, so you're growing,
you to find yourself. I want to be an international
company and you start growing, but part of that is
also growing products. And we talked off Mike briefly, and
you said, yes, it's even gas pipes and gas lines, methane,
the whole bit. When you get into that, uh, the
risk goes up exponentially dealing with water as opposed to
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things that can blow up. It's quite the risk. Was
were you iffy on taking that on or did you
just say I had to be in the education process.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
When you're younger, you're less into the risk, you know,
as you get older. And we had nothing to lose, right,
I mean we really did. We were a small company
and we were you know, some of our applications are
risky and we sell yeah, so piped to nuclear power plants, right,
you know, I mean it, it is risky. So you
just got to make sure your quality is fantastic and
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get the team of people that care about it and
not just punching a clock. I use example of you know,
there's there's three different levels. Right, there's employees that are transactional,
you pay them, Oh, you need to do that, and
then the next there's team members. The next level up. Okay,
I'm part of a team. I look out for my
co workers. And then finally, we use the word a
lot in business. It is goes stewards, people that put
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the good of the organization ahead of themselves. There's stewards
of the organization. They would never do anything to hurt
it because they believe in the cause. And all of
you have things you're stewards of, right something. The cause
is so important more than your own personal well being.
So as we gain stewards in our company, it's Mark
and I are just there's just two of us, right,
we couldn't grow the business ourselves. We're able to attract
awesome people, and Louisville has great people that care, that
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love community, that are that have the stewardship mindset, and
we'll be able to do that and keep our headquarters
here and then grow the business, you know, with a
lot of plans.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
With Jimmy, we had that conversation. It's a reoccurring conversation
we have on this show. Is you know they you know,
Humana is doing whatever they're doing, bleeding out and Papa
John's took all their muscle out of town and and
KFCs following the same in the same ilk. So I
wanted to talk about Isco because you've kept it here,
You've kept the the family owned business here in Louisville
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and being an impact in the in the city. One
more question about the business before you move on to
your impact Isco in the city of Louisville, the state
of Kentucky. But once you go international, though, you have
to have I mean there are different you know, we
have OSHA here, you have there's got to be different
international laws and every country you go into. If you're
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going to do construction, I'm sure you're dealing with the
some of the best people in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
You're gonna work in this area.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Hey, here's a briefcase of cash. Can we finish the
job now?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Navigating that's got to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Internationals of the international businesses cash up front say. It
was interesting. I traveled to one of the job sites
in Abu Dhabi whe time we were selling and I
kind of wanted to know, why do these people want
to buy from Misco right we're over there? But our
brand was great, Uh, not only just Isco's brand, but
also American made piping products was fantastic. Like, why are
(10:20):
you guys buying all the way from us? And I said, oh,
we know American is gonna be engineered. Well, it's gonna
be high quality. Yeah, and you know for piping products.
And that made me feel great.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Let's talk about it. So you've got a great product,
You've you've got great employees, uh, and you've got a
great brand name internationally. You're here in Kentucky. I got
to think that there's other places that have tried to
woo you to their state or their city. Has that
happened and and and is it just a love for
your city that keeps you here because some of these
(10:53):
offers they can be quite tempting.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, you know there are. I mean, you know, we've
become quietly, like I said, a products underground so nobody
sees it. We become quietly one of the largest I think,
private companies in the area, in the state. And sure
people would like to do that, but this is our roots.
And I think it's you know, it's all about in
our business and probably all businesses, it's about getting the
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right people. Sure we have a great product, but if
we don't have the right people on our team, now
it doesn't matter. And I think Louisville has a fantastic
workforce from people that really care and think long term
and are not transactional. We win a lot because you
talk about these other companies that are more public companies,
they have to think a little more short term than
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we do. You got to make quarterly numbers, you got
to do things in the wall streets all over you.
Oh yeah that It is just my brother and myself.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And we work for both and we know the contrast.
And boy, it's not and day for a corporation working
for mom and pop. It's it's absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And yeah, I think that's a benefit. We have to
be able to think long term.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Take a project like David and trying to tournament.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh my gosh, I mean what you've done with him,
thinking what the effects. So let's talk about giving back.
So you build this company, you and your brother into
this international company that's based here in Louisville, started here
in Louisville and then kept it here in Louisville. But
you give back. I know you. You're on the board
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at the Catholic Education Foundation. That is very close to
my heart. It's one of my big three. But you
guys definitely give back to the community. To the tune
of I don't want to say if it's true or
not bigger than Ford or ups to local companies.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I don't know what they're doing, but I think
and I think that's one of the things our city
needs is corporate headquarters. I look at other cities and
they have a lot of corporate headquarters because you usually
do your giving where your corporate headquarters is. So yeah,
I mean, you know, listen, we're in this community and
and it's it's been great to us. You mentioned Catholic
Education Foundation, and my brother and I went to Saint
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Leonard and the Saint x and and you know, and
my parents were very involved. I saw them be stewards.
My dad was the athletics director. You know, it's just
they were stewards of a community. And regardless of where
the school is or what the nomination it is or whatever,
we learned community. And uh so that's what this is.
And we give our charity dollars back here. And I
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just believe, you know, when you have success, and we
we've had success because of the community and the people
we've we've had, we need we need to give it back.
So I think key to Louisville is more corporate headquarters.
Whatever you can do to get corporate headquarters where things happen,
you have really good jobs, you have dollars going in.
You look at Indianapolis and any Eli Lilly over the
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years and that Eli Lilly Foundation and what that gives away.
That's what I'm proud. We're growing that. But I want
to see more.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And it's a fair question because you're moving people here
that you hire, and I know the we do.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
We say this line. We talk about a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Look you go home and you tell the wife we
have it's Pittsburgh, it's Indianapolis or Louisville. And sometimes the
wife will go, please tell me it's not Louisville. Until
they get here. You know, we get them in here,
boots on the ground for a couple of minutes, they'll
fall in love with Louisville. But right now we've got
that image issue.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, I mean, we have moved a lot of people
to Louisville, and you know, we bring them in, we
show them the hospitality. They're not just looking at it,
you know, a name without before they move. They're gonna
do their diligence right sure, come in and they see
what we have to offer as a city. They really
see the people that we have. We're hospitable people and
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we've had a lot of success bringing people here and
they've you know, adopted this as their new hometown. But
the more we have to offer, like the ISCO Championship,
we had people watching from all over the world, players
coming in, fans coming in, They're gonna go back and
talk about Louisville the PGA Championship last year on a
much bigger scale, watching a major championship, watching you know,
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Zen win the last putt and all these things. I mean,
people come to Louisville and see that. The Derby happens
on a yearly basis. But we show well our city,
our community shows well when people get here. When they're
not here, it doesn't as much. And like we do
that with our business. If I can get our customers
to Louisville to see us, meet us, see our plant
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meet our people, see our culturesco wins. But if they don't,
they just see us as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Did you ever think, going back to the nineteen nineties,
that if you ever played Valhalla, that one day I'll
own it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I remember the first time I played it, late nineties,
and it has been a long time before I even
got on. I got invited first time I played it,
and I remember the first time it was two thousand
and four that I was a member, got it, I
got in the club and I just thought made it.
Now it's so special to me. I worked hard to
hopefully I did the right things in the community to
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be able to be invited to join, and I want
to keep that to where it is special when whether
a member or there's a lot of people that it's
a bucket list sye. I look at the brand Valhalla
has outside of Kentucky. I mean, it's good in Kentucky,
but outside people would take a red off light for
the West coast to be able to play, and it's
really cool. So David, you know, god rest Junior Soul.
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I'm so glad. I had a couple of years to
work on a passion project with him and we got
to be really close and Chest Musselman, We've had a
blast trying to make that reach its full potential and
be a draw where people want to come to Louisville.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Obviously, this business is your baby, and you love it
and you're good at it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
You're great at it.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Do you ever consider selling it or would it once
you sell it, you turn it over, and that product
is now somebody else's. Is that just too terrifying for
you or have you even thought down the road?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I mean right now we're having a blast and we
have great people and don't have an interest in that good.
We're reinvesting back in it. I mean if we did
sell it, where would we invest our money?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think your best investment is in yourself. Nuh and
the people that you know. So and that happens a
lot through the life cycle of companies. They sell and
maybe to an out of town person. But we're doing
more buying.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We just bought a company last year in Oklahoma, not
last year, Yeah, that was uh, that was about three
or four months time flies, Yeah, in Oklahoma. And we
bought companies in Alabama. We bought one in Canada a
few years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So you're getting bigger.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
We're getting bigger. And and you know, people, people that
are in this industry see us especially, there's founders of
companies that are like, you know, I want to sell
my company. I care about my people. Oh yes, I
want to sell it to is because I know they'll
be in a good spot to thrive and that We've
had a lot of people say, no, you're the company
we want to sell to, how can we work a
deal out? So we're more in the acquisition mode. And
(17:48):
that's fun for me to go in and buy a
company andrate them into us, our our culture, and take
the best of the things they do, because every company
we buy we learn from them sure as much as
they learn from us.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It is I'm not it's I'm not just saying this.
This is a great American story. It is a family
owned operation that has grown to one of the biggest,
if not the biggest, in the world. I commend you
for it. I'm fascinated by it. And and the fact
that it is a local grown company like that really is.
It tells us in America we can still do it.
You can still get it done. And I again commend
(18:23):
you and all your employees and everybody for the golf
tournament and everything else you're doing. And let's in the
you know, in a couple of years when you're even
doing something else and bigger, come back in and we'll
talk about it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Jimmy kerstor.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Who's who's that story?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Remind you not you? No, It's like looking at a mirror. No,
it's like looking in the mirrors.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
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They are the best. Not just made in the USA, no,
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beautiful Pella windows and doors patio doors on that house
(19:06):
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Speaker 3 (19:24):
Back after this on news radio eight forty w Chance
seventy two, why would have helped you again?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Comment? Damn it, Jack Bower, dammit, dammit.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
We were just one year off.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Horseshoes and hand grenades. That's the only time close counts. Yes,
all right, there was something I was going to bring up,
but since it was three seconds ago, I can't remember
what it was.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Alzheimer's tough Colley. What in the world?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, well, all right, so these are reasons. And again
thank you Jimmy kirch Schorff for coming in from Misco
to explain how they built that company from selling sprinklers.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
The similarity to worldwide similarities between him that Seu and me.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, Johnny was uncanny. I don't know if you caught
that or not.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Either one of them ever experienced a torn Achilles though. No, no,
see that you may have a leg up on them
all pun intended and a dollar out for you. Oh,
by the way, and then we're gonna get to Tony's story.
Lock this number in six three, six, twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Thirty five or just google Value Tools, Sales and Repair,
because we're gonna be giving a leaf blow or whenever
you hear sweet leaf and we don't know what is coming.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Alright. Uh, these are the top ten reasons American couples.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Argue I got finances has to be number one. This
first one is so hilarious.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I did this with Nick yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, American couples arguing understand Nick, This first one.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Cracks me up.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, you argue about how they argue, the tone of voice.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
No, this is.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Jackie and I have had this conversation, conversation many many times.
How you argue is important in a relationship.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I am a horrible, mean arguer.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yes, I would see that to be true.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
And here's the worst thing, the worst thing that Susan
has ever said to me, because it cut me to
the bone, cut my heart out. We were in bed,
we were arguing, and I had some kind of smartass
response really to what she said. It was one of
those nights where I was sarcastic, right and mean, and
she didn't respond back with sarcaska mean. She hit me
(21:47):
with a nuclear bomb, you know what was what a sigh?
And then her just look at me, going, you're so mean,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, she has won the war.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yes, how you are argue is one of the things
that couples argue about a lot. And because people look
having conversations the art of the conversations and arguing, especially
if you're married to like a lawyer. Right, they argue
certain ways. Right, they've try to figure out why you're
a bad witness or your credibility, their character assassination.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I never thought about how difficult that would be to
be arguing with a spouse that's an.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Attorney absolutely argues for a living.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yes, yes, because their job is to find blame on
everyone else.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Except for your client and the client. Perfect.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He's the client, so he'll find blame anywhere else but himself.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Obviously, there's the the the the big one, which is
sex and money. Those kind of you know, there's two
different issues, but those are two biggies.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
We've never had an argument on sex nor money to
the best of my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, yeah, we don't really argue about that much. And
money is just when you when you have two kids,
you could get into some conversations of you know, wait
a minute, what wha wha, wha, wha woah, we needed
that money for this. But besides that, I'm with you.
You look, she's very conservative and I'm more like, it's
like the needles money, we'll make more.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, so that's that's our makeup as well. She's the saver.
I'm the spender, right.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
If I if I had not listened to Jackie fifteen
years ago to start putting money away for the kids' education,
I never would have done that. So I never would
have done that. I you know, I never would have
done that, and we started to do that and it
saved our butt when when when high school and college
came around.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
So we'll we married fourteen years in December, but way
before we even married, I've known Susan like twenty five
years whatever. At this point, she's just a friend of mine.
She finds out, hey, something about my four one cam. Yeah,
I got one hundred percent in this company. And she said,
what so even as a friend, she took over my
(24:00):
four to one K. Yeah, I'll try because I don't
know what I'm doing. I my money in Blockbuster Video.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Amount of time spent together, that depends on the wife. Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Because I have some friends that are out of town
three or four days a week and they play golf
on Saturday. I was I always look at them and
go my wife would never in a million years put
up with that. But they have a happy they're still married.
My friends that do that are married. Matter of fact,
they're the happiest couples that I know.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
See, my wife's the opposite. She's so supportive. She looks
for things for me to do to get me out
of the house. Right, that's how supportive.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You is, right, And she does that for lemme.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
She's mentioned golf a lot of times, but she said,
you know golf. Sure it's a little expensive, but it
could take up to six to eight hours. I'm like, really,
I have you should try it.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
John, you don't really have this issue now because well
you do, but you don't because you're now in the
rearing of child mode, which is teamwork, and you're just
going to be at the house. Yes, you're not gonna
be going out a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Okay, the times we do go out, it seems like
it's just to either one of our family's houses, right
most of the time, right, correct?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Told this is this is this is where I say,
you can't you can't find fault for what I said.
But what you go to is you know, the tone, the.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Tone, Yes, that's me too, of your voice. The tone
of what you said was really is what upset me.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
That's me the tone and the smarter assery. Here's my problem.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
I always I always try to start off being like
very you know, just a normal conversation. If we're trying
to we're having a disagreement, But like uvan Edia, maybe
you two Dwight, once it reaches a certain point, it's
like the I'm not even like building up. It just
immediately goes from zero to one hundred for whatever reason.
The anger just it's like, come on, listen to me.
(25:53):
Yll I'll take your word for that.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Because I'm very even kilned and uh keeled killed or
I'm healed. I'm very even tempered. It's hard to upset me.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
So yeah, relationships with family.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I love my family both sides. Yeah, I'm fortunate on that.
I make jokes. Well, let me say I love my
family a lot. My sister in law, Kathy Tyler Young, she.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Can be a bit much just you know, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Walking in at midnight and eating our doritos.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yes, that's a bit bunch friendly mentioning.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe an in law or did, or a brother in
law or a sister in law did something you didn't like.
You just got to avoid it. And here's the biggie
for anybody. It's just newly married. Don't say something that
you can never back out of.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh here's one thing I will say. And then Susan
and I do quite well with this. We keep our
problems internal because we both know.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, look, if.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
You pitch something that's going on to your family member,
they're gonna Most of the time, I think my mom
would take Susan's side. I honestly do because she knows me.
There's been times. There's been times where I've broken up
with girlfriends and she's called the girlfriend and said, look,
I'm so sorry. I wanted to tell you from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But you know, and here's one that John you should
know and I never did. This is your friends and
or relatives that have children. Just let them talk to
you about their struggles with the kid. Never give advice
or say hey.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Why are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Or what school they go to or any of that stuff.
Stay away from it. Just be supportive. Let them raise
their kids the way they want to be raised, the
kids to be raised, and you raise your kids the
way you want them to be raised.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Well, until they step in my backyard and now your
kids are my kids?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Really absolutely, we know that was the rule.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That is what's the rule. It's posted on the back
of the yard fence.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, all right, towers, folks trade Noak Towers is uptown.
It is not downtown. It is a block from Saint
James Court, so you know, it's a nice area. And
let me tell you something. This place is unbelievable. It's huge,
by the way. It's got four ballrooms, a movie theater,
(28:20):
a rooftop top bar. It's got a bar, another bar
in it. It's got four restaurants. It's got medical staff
twenty four hours a day. Laundry is included. It is
privately owned, so it's independent and nonprofits, so they just
need to break even. That's why it's not corporate owned.
That's why people that work there have worked there for
fourteen years on average, physical therapy on site. They got
(28:43):
a wood shop. They'll tell you at Trade Noak Towers
if you're sixty five or older and ready to move into.
It's not a facility. It's like it's a resort. It's
a huge resort on Third and Oak. Hence Trade Noak Towers.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Get it. I want to go there now.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Five or now five eight nine thirty two twelve or
eleven five eight nine thirty two, eleven five eight nine
thirty two eleven.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Call that number now. If you take the tour, you'll
move in.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I imagine you're all your meals, a movie theater, a bar.
Do you have to leave the house ever? I want
to go there. Listen Tony's breaking live with Baby, How
is that air conditioning? When I get into my Craign
Lander jeep, I feel like a piece of ice burred lettuce.
I'm so crisp and clean and cold. Thank you cheap? Yeah,
(29:32):
I am cheap. That's why I go to Tony's Breaking Alignment.
They're not going to sell you a bunch of stuff
that you need that you don't need. They do much
more than just breaks in alignment. Like I said, they
did my air conditioning a couple of weeks ago, they'll
do yours. Plus every job is backed up with a
three year, thirty six thousand mile warrant. You every single job,
put your mind to rest. Go in Louisville's best. That's
(29:54):
Tony's break and Alignment.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Baby back after this news radio eight forty whas
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