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Navigating the Dynamic World of Towing with Wes Wilburn · Towing News Now

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: This is your podcast to promote safety, education, positive public relations and networking within the professional and business-minded towing and recovery industry.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: This is your co-host, dj Harrington, better known as the Toe Doctor, and I'm honored to have a dear friend of mine who's the real co-host of this episode, a 40-year towing industry veteran and the founder of American Towing Recovery Institute, a gentleman who has done now more than 912 classes, hands-on classes, the one and only Wes Wilburn Wes, how are you today?
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: DJ, i'm doing wonderful.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: I hope you are, we're just.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: As people listen to this, they're just getting past the Fourth of July holiday.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Hope everybody enjoyed a nice, productive Fourth of July, had a little rest and relaxation, hopefully some enjoyment time with the family and got to celebrate this great country and the anniversary birthday.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: I guess you call it for freedom.
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: Well, some 200 and almost 50 years ago now, yep, so we're just getting past that And kind of a slow time of year for us, which is good.
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: We're getting geared up.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: We have a big fall season planned out.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: We've got a bunch of different dates.
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: We're working on Some of them.
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: We got locked in today.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: A bunch of them we're working on over the next week or two Big upward swing and private class.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: A whole lot of folks And that's just coming to training with their company, which is, I think, a positive thing for the industry and whole and for the individual companies.
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: It's a huge step forward when they take the time to do that and try to get everybody on the stage as much as you can in a company like that, telling companies it's still active and going.
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: So things are good here, DJ.
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: Things are real good.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: That is excellent And I know the summer months.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: you've got one of your own family members that comes in and chips in and helps you out.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely Yeah.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: We're very fortunate to have my son come and help us during the summer month.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: That's always very helpful.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: We'll go ahead.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: And, Wesley, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself?
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: We actually, as we're recording this, we just passed Friday's Day And if we'd had our stuff together, we should have done this a couple weeks ago.
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: So it aired on Friday's Day, but Wesley's a big part of this company and has helped us part time for a long time.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: Wesley, introduce yourself to the listeners.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: Some know you, some don't.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, my name is Wesley Thomas Wilburn's my whole name, but you guys can just call me Wesley.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: Been working here for quite a while, over all the school breaks and now going in college.
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I help during classes.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: I've been working I think I've been working around here since middle school and now I'm an uprising senior.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: So some of you guys may know me now as a guy on Facebook that's giving me a lot of good deals as I clean up the warehouse.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: You're definitely very helpful with that And you're rising senior.
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: At what university?
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Wesley, campbell University and Beweese Creek, north Carolina And what are you studying?
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: What are you planning on doing with your degree or about to earn that year.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: So what my major's called, it's called a feeder, with teacher licensing, basically going in learning to be a feeder teacher, being one of the first ma, being the first male to complete that major, complete that program.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, i didn't realize that.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: That's good, dj, what questions would you like to ask?
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Well, i want to tell our listeners.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: I've known Wesley since he was in grade school and every time that I came to speak at one of the American Toe Re-Recovery Institute weekends where we had a big event going on in Myrtle Beach or wherever Wesley was always the one who said DJ, i'll be more than happy to help you.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: He would help me with my suitcases, and as I got older I had boxes I had to put away on the tables and so forth, and Wesley was always there to help me.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: So he's a very gifted guy.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: I knew him as a little IT guy because he was always the guy who said to me hey, listen, here's how you do your computer.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: Just do this, just do that.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: And so he does all that kind of thing.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: I knew he was gonna be a future teacher of some kind, but I knew he was involved in the theater because in during high school, wesley, you were in a lot of place in high school, so theater, being a teacher of theater, would be right up your alley, yeah thank you, DJ.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I just-.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah he always said I am an international festivian.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he always made those jokes, yeah.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Well, i told everybody Wesley is a thespian, they go are you allowed to say that on a podcast?
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: I want all our listeners know a thespian is a theatrical person And I did not know that in Atlanta somebody had called Ronald Reagan a thespian And how could we have a thespian as a president?
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: And I was like what?
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Then I found out a thespian is actually a person who's in the theater And Wesley do.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: You have done that through high school and all.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: But I think it's nice because here you come back and help the family during your summer months and weekends.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: When you were in high school, of course you were always there, but in college you have been really kind And our listeners now because our listeners have boomed and your specials as you were cleaning out the warehouse, more and more listeners evidently took advantage of your discount programs that you had.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: You found a little extra chain here and some of this here.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: So maybe West one of those things is we should name if there's anything left over in the warehouse this year this week that Wesley's been working on.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: That might be something we could put on the podcast.
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, we absolutely can.
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: We're doing all kinds of different specials on different things.
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: Wesley talks about where you post that stuff and how people can find it and whatnot.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: I posted on the American Tolerance Covering Institute Facebook.
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: You'd have to look on our actual business page.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: Wes Wilbur might share the posts And so if you haven't followed American Tolerance Covering Institute, you may just have to find one of the posts that my dad shares.
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: Or you can look up a whole name American Tolerance Covering Institute on our Facebook page where I post about all these deals.
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: And what kind of stuff is it, wesley?
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: It could be anything.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: A lot is more a heavy-duty chain.
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: It's stuff I find around the warehouse from like past demos or stuff we had for years that we kind of forgot about.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: Or sometimes I work with dad and come up with new chain assemblies for us to put for a deal.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: We can also do like light duty and also have straps and any other thing we find around.
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna dig deep over the next couple of weeks.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: So definitely, people need to be looking out for that kind of stuff.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: We've also got a whole bunch of old homes items that I'm gonna be putting up and blowing out and getting right up.
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: So, folks, i have to keep their eyes on that as well.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you got the right guy helping you, wes.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: I just want our listeners to know before we take our break.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: I want our listeners to know this is a very he's a very nice gentleman And Wes, his mom's a wonderful lady.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: He's just a good guy.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: So it's just and I met his grandma and I just the whole thing is he's just a good guy.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of him.
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much, DJ.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right.
• 9:02
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• 9:04
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• 9:13
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• 9:15
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• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Welcome back listeners.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: You are listening to the American Toeing and Recovery Institute podcast with Wes Wilburn, dj Harrington and this special edition with Wes's son, wesley Thomas Wilburn.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Every week, we bring you informative episodes like this one.
• 10:29
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• 10:31
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• 10:43
  Speaker 1: So right before the break, wes and I were talking, so I'm going to pass it right on over to Wes.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks, dj.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: I certainly appreciate that.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: As I started to talk about, i got myself sidetracked in the first segment.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: We are very blessed.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of dates We're putting on the calendar for this year for the fall season of training, the summer and fall.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: Right now it looks like, with the exception of a couple of private classes, we really won't be back in public classes till the end of August.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: The weekend before Labor Day we're kicking off back in Elkhart, indiana, just like we did last year And had we do the Toeing and Recovery course with some rotator uses.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: It's our number one, most popular course.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: This year We'll be at Tom's 24-hour towing there in Elkhart.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: They've done a wonderful job hosting classes since the 1990s with me.
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: Michael Lard is the principal there and he does a great job hosting the classes.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: So that's Elkhart, indiana, october 26 and 27.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: And then in early September should be the first weekend after Labor Day.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: After Labor Day we're gonna be back in Elmiron, new York.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: It looks like We're putting the final details together for that right now.
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: We'll definitely be back there.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: Looks like it's gonna be that first weekend.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: And then we're going out to see our friends at Santa Fe Toe out there just outside of Kansas City, lexania, kansas, september 15th, which is a Friday for a right duty, advanced level right duty course.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: On the 16th to 17th Saturday, sunday, two day heavy duty course with some rotator.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: We'll also be at the Midwest Toe Show new location, ohio.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: This year September 21 to the 24th, midwesttoeshowcom.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: You can find all kinds of information about them.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: We'll also be in Texas in October for a firetower cross training.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: We're working on a date in October probably gonna be that third weekend, danville, virginia for heavy duty.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: November will be Washington, north Carolina, for firetower cross training.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: We have several other dates.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: We're working on the details now So folks can check our website wwwamtowriorg wwwmtowriorg.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Short cut right to our website with our complete schedule classes.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: So, dj, we're very excited how the fall is lining up.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: For us Looks like it's gonna be a busy fall.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: We're very blessed to have people want our training classes like that.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: We're very blessed that people wanna listen to the podcast.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: I hear there's been a great increase over the last couple weeks.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: I part of that I contribute to.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: We're at the New York Towed Show Empire State Towing and Recovery Association show by Lake George.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Learning from you, we worked hard on handing out postcards to everybody that came by trying to let them know the podcast is out.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: There Was surprised how many people already listening to the podcast.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: John Bowman was one.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: John, is the sound any better now?
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Just a little joke.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Wow, wow, but anyway, kinda rambling on DJ.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're a character.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Well, we could do one thing.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: We could have Wesley ask Chuck Camp, the producer, share the numbers.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: So Wesley do that.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Chuck, what are the new numbers?
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Hey, glad you asked.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Wesley 10,237, but listen to where you're reaching In Europe 126.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Asia 36, over 10,000 in the US.
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  Speaker 3: South America has four, oceania eight.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: So that is an outstanding worldwide reach, my friend.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Chuck.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: More comfortable to be at 10,000.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: And I'd love to have someone in Europe.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: just call the podcast line and say hey, my name is and I'm one of those listeners from Europe, and you can do that by calling 706-409-5603-706-409-5603.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, chuck, that's right.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: That'd be great to have someone anybody from off the continent call the podcast line and leave us a message.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: We'd really appreciate that.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: And we'll really appreciate all the listeners as well.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: We can't thank them for taking time out of their busy day to listen to us.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: We hope for many folks it's worth wild, something you enjoy.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: If it is, we ask that you hit that like button.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: What do we need them to do?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: They need to raid us, don't they?
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Wesley?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna somewhere to get your podcast Right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: We're real about all the different locations.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Like us, sharers, radus give us those five-star ratings and all that really helps And we're just happy to be a part of the industry and staying putting out good information And that's what we hope that tribute this growth to is the good information with the podcast with Brian Moore, the electric vehicle information, et cetera.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: And your last, just for an example, your last five episodes 53% was on iTunes, 21% iHeart Radio, 9% Spotify, 3% Google and 3% unknown Apple apps.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: But the top category was top device was an Apple iPhone.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: The top category was mobile, so most people are listening on a mobile phone.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: That's good to know Probably says a lot about our demographic.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I think we have a very young demographic listening to this.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, what I like to do is ask Wesley.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Wesley, i always say on the podcast remember to like, review and share everywhere And and we give the podcast hotline, like Chuck just did, the 7064095603 number.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Is there anything else I should be saying, wesley, that would make people go and rate us and you know, and kind of share with everybody?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Am I saying the right words?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I think maybe saying the right words.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I can't really think anything on the top of the head.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Dj.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: You guys are more professional at this than I am.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I just listen to podcasts.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: There's something I'm missing here.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I'm getting my leg pulled here.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: The reason is, you know, because of your background in technology.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You know I've been saying just like review and share everywhere and give us a rating and let us know.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But more and more people in my whole life, wesley, most people know me because of my doctor outfit.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: This is the first year I'm at a toe show.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Your mom and dad are there.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and all of a sudden this guy goes.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I know that voice And I turn around and I look and I said, excuse me, here I am dressed as my doctor outfit And this guy goes you're the voice on the American Toe and Recovery Institute podcast.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: You're the toe doctor.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And I went holy moly, the first time I ever had anyone notice my voice versus me being the toe doctor because of my outfit.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It's now because of podcasts and because of your dad that so many people know the voice of the guy that introduces Wes Wilburn.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Well, they know that voice for a whole lot more than that in jail, and you're very kind as you say it that way.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Well, you are a legend in the industry, wes, and your son Wesley has seen you.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I've seen you as a dad, i've seen you grow, this young guy, and I actually told my wife the other day.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I said you know, here's Wesley is going to graduate next year and become a teacher And he is just a gifted young person that he's going to help a lot of people.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I really believe he's going to help a lot of young high school people or whatever he goes into, because he's a gifted young person, begin with, because he's had you as a you know, as a dad.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, DJ.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: That's very, very kind of appreciate those kind words.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I hate to cut you off, but this time take another commercial break.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: When we come back from the break, I want to talk a little bit about Wesley's mother and how she's been a big part of raising him and also a big part of the success of the podcast as well.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So let's just hang around.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: We got one more segment.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
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• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You are listening to a special edition of the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast with Wes Wilburn, dj Harrington and Wes's son, wesley Thomas Wilburn.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Remember to like, review and share everywhere.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And if you want to hear another industry expert like the one we have on today that's grown up in the industry, by all means dial.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: As Chuck Camp, the producer, said earlier, dial 706-409-5603.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: And one of your listeners from outside the states, by all means 706-409-5603.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And we love to hear you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: All right, wes, i'm sending it back to you, bud.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you, dj.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I certainly appreciate it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Part of the success of any organization like this is the teamwork that occurs.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Also part of the success of raising a well-balanced child like Wesley is the team effort there as well, and I've only been a very small part of that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Wesley's mother deserves a lot of recognition.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: She's also very involved here.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Part of the success of the podcast is how she's constantly promoted it, weekend, week out, on social media.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I've done a whole lot to help grow that.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So we'd be negligent in our duties if we didn't recognize that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Her staff Jake there helped her about with getting things done.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Of course April, margaret Hanlon, things on this end, with Tori and Wesley helping as well.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: So everybody plays a key part here.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That helps keep the machine rolling smoothly And that's one of the things that I appreciate about all our team members and I'm bragging my son for a minute He does a good job of playing whichever team position I need him to on a given day And that's been part of this success that we've seen around here, so we're very thankful for that.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I just want to recognize everybody Kim especially she's a huge part of the podcast, getting to 10,000 with her work on social media.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: April and everybody Zerwin Walshke, nick Muzzi, everybody that helped with the toe show this past weekend helped to help raise that awareness as well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: So we just want to recognize all them.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Also, wesley, what's one of the biggest things that you've seen change with the family business we're running?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Well, some of the things I've seen change is that we are growing more storage.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: We now cut chain and do our own assemblies.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: That's a big thing, right?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Some people yeah, most people know that we do grade 100 chain and all that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: We assume they do.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But you're right, we probably need to talk about that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: So we stock grade 100 chain from 930 seconds up to three quarter inch.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: We stock a little bit of grade at 80.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: We're also stocking half inch grade 120 chain And, you're right, it is a big deal.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: We custom make chain assemblies almost every day around here, don't we, wesley?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, being assembled by either one of the wheel burns or something in the family, that's right.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: We take pride in checking and double checking the work.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: A family member touches every piece of it one way or another, sometimes handling the whole transaction, sometimes handling a piece of it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: If you're right, we pride ourselves on that, don't we, wesley?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how important is it for everything to be exactly, perfectly right?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: It's very important, going out to all of our great customers knowing that it's being made in America.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we take it seriously is what I'm trying to say.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I appreciate your big, big help with the the pen attention of those details and I do appreciate it.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I want everybody to know publicly how much I appreciate your help.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: So what else would you like to share with our listeners about what we, what you learned around here from being around here, what you learned about what we do trying to be as organized and precise as we can be?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very interesting learning how to organize all these different type of things, really heavy things.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I guess the weirdest thing I ever learned is how to operate a forklift.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Well, that keeps saying it's very important for one teaching.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that one day I do have to work a forklift on teaching.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But who knows?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: At least now, yeah, i'm doing forklifts in here.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: What I wanted to ask Wesley is when he was in, you know, grade school, he had one project to do.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I know in high school he had a lot of projects to do because you had a lot of your, your retreats, where you had, you know, tow shows that you put on in Myrtle Beach, and he was always involved in that part of it Him and Kim and April, everybody was involved, his grandma was involved, and so as he's got into college, then you look back and you see him, you know, driving a forklift and doing this and doing that.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I think it just makes him a better individual.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: It's almost like when they asked the question who did your parachute?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Did you do it yourself?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Well, when he talks about cutting chain and doing chain assemblies, i know that a will burn has it approved and that you, when you ship out an assembly, it's done right And that's the most important.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Neverland, neverland, triple checked, we say around here.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Well, wesley's a gifted guy and I know whatever project you gave him, i know in high school he had one project to do And then, as he got older, in college and so forth, he's just a gifted kid And you all of you have done a good job, because he is a product of the Institute.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: He's a product of watching you guys develop a business, a family-owned business, that has helped a lot of towers in this country and in other countries.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Well, you're right, and there are a lot of family-owned businesses.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: We're proud to be a part of that and help serve those businesses that serve their community.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Speaking of family-owned or family-operated businesses, I mean Walshky's made an official in 2009.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I don't remember if we said anything or not, but congratulations, Happy wedding.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I plan on having them on very shortly for a podcast interview to talk about what some of the future plans that we have together, so look forward to all of our listeners.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: We ask you to look forward to that episode coming up.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: We want to thank everybody for listening.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Been great.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: It's been a great ride.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I think we're a hundred and I don't know a hundred and seven, a hundred and eight episodes and we hit the 10,000 mark.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Shout out to DJ Just part of what goes to what a great job you guys have done.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: It's been great working with you.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: folks Continue looking forward to long term working with you all as well as we continue to grow this podcast.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Wesley, thanks for everything you do for us and appreciate you when you're here, how serious you are about things, and can't thank you enough for what you do.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Of course, all of the listeners.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I want to thank them for listening.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Keep liking Sharon and giving us those clicks.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: We really appreciate it.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Be safe out there.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: It's the beginning of summer.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: People are maybe in a little bit more relaxed state of mind, so just be careful out there when you're traveling around, moving around.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Wesley, you got any parting words you'd like to share with us before we go?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Just want to bring up that.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: you know if you're getting a good deal from me, if you see any weird facts or if dad's on the road.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you know I'm going to be giving out some good deals, so please keep in check.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: My man appreciate everything.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Wesley DJ.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: take it home, buddy.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: All right, folks.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We have been listening to a great episode of the American Tone Recovery Institute podcast.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: We thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart And we'll see you on the next podcast.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: God bless you and God bless America.