Latest / Aired Out / Mark Tatro- Tatro's Appliance

Transcript

Mark Tatro- Tatro's Appliance · Aired Out

• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Musing incidents to put donating in the pan to the depot.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Music of the family.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: All right, that's what we're looking at this beautiful Wednesday morning.
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: The sun is shining. Definitely pack the sunglasses before you
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: head out today. We're looking at sixty two degrees and
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: partly to mostly sunny.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: I just love this time of year. Yes, the blackflies
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: are going to be coming soon. Yes, there are skunks,
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: and I say that because I'm pretty sure that there's
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: more than one skunk says in plural living under my house. Yes,
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: it is mud season. All of these things considered, I
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: still love this time of year. The sugar makers are
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: loving this weather. Tomorrow we're looking at fifty nine and
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: then we get a little little cool snap that is
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: coming into play for Friday. But don't panic, it's not
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: going to be around too long at daytime highs Friday.
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: Do you really want to know? Thirty seven A little
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: hard to believe, but that's what they're saying. Back to
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: the fifties on Saturday, backside of the weekend. On Sunday,
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: we're back into the thirties. And don't worry, though, we're
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: gonna be okay. Top of the morning to you. Mark
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: Tetrow is sitting right next to me. Good morning, buddy.
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: How are you? I I'm awesome, how are you doing?
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad to see you. I love your shirt
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: and love you. You are so well known and so
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: well appreciated and loved and everything. I saw you. What
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: Monday over at the Elks Lodge for the for the
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: Saint Patti's Breakfast with a Chamber of Commerce honoring Kim Bulldock.
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: What an event that was.
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she's awesome. It's always great to go to
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: that event honor of the people that have done so
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: much for the Yeah community.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, I did not realize what an
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: awesome lady she was. I mean, I knew that there
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: was a level of awesomeness, but I didn't know how
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: high it was. I didn't realize how many things that
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: she has done and has done and is doing now
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: still in our community.
• 4:18
  Speaker 4: She certainly doesn't boast about it. She just does right,
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: you know, So she's power. Even if you wouldn't really
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: know all the things that she does. I know, I
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: know we've got a lot of people like that around
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: so many.
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and kudos to the to the chamber for
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: putting on that breakfast. They do it every year. Uh
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: G is saying good morning to you. Hasn't seen you
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: since his garage sale last fall. A lot of people
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: hoping on this morning, Mark Tatrow, bring it in the
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: bring it in the crowd this morning, buddy. I I
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: was trying to remember yesterday when I stopped by. Did
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: you tell me nineteen eighty five? Was was the year
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: that you, like officially unofficially took the wheel.
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: No. So I started in the industry in nineteen eighty six, okay,
• 5:11
  Speaker 4: And I was running a store in Randolf.
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: In Randolph kind.
• 5:14
  Speaker 4: Of evolved through the years and I went to work
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: for Ormsby's eventually, and nineteen ninety seven I bought the
• 5:22
  Speaker 4: company from them. Okay.
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: And what what has it been like what you you have?
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: And we chatted about this last time I was with you,
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: when we sat in your office. But you've got some
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: uh some really profound, humble beginnings.
• 5:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, like a lot of her monitors.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: I grew up very very poor, yeah, and which with
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: a large family and gave me an appreciation for things
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: and and uh, you know what it's like to not
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: have so It's kind of part of the reason I
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: give back. Although my parents taught me that even though
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: you don't have much, you might have more than someone else.
• 6:07
  Speaker 4: So even when we had nothing, that was the attitude
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: we were raised with to help others with whatever way
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: you can. And so I was raised that way. Even
• 6:16
  Speaker 4: even like I said, we grew up. You know, it's
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: not great situation, sure, you know, and but you know
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: it was I learned life's lessons through that, so you know,
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: and it's you know, you never know somebody's backstories. So
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: many of Vermonors like that, sure, and with a large family,
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: learned a sense of community. And so exactly came to Barry.
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: I grew up in Walcott. When I came to Barry,
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, this has got the conveniences of
• 6:46
  Speaker 4: city with the with the small town attitude. Sure we
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: all know each other, we all love each other.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you That's part of the reason I wore
• 6:55
  Speaker 4: the shirt to Yeah, I gotta go get another one,
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: so you and I have to go over there because
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna wear the sucker out. Yeah, I wear it
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: a lot. And the thing is, you know, I see
• 7:09
  Speaker 4: like on Facebook, I belong to some of the community pages,
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: and it amazes me and warns my heart when somebody
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: asks for help, whether it's with advice or a meal,
• 7:22
  Speaker 4: or finding in a room or getting transportation. So many
• 7:26
  Speaker 4: people who don't have much themselves respond respond with such
• 7:33
  Speaker 4: love and with such help. You know, they want to
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: help each other. We hear a lot of bad stuff
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: said about Barry, and you get some people that get
• 7:43
  Speaker 4: on there and they make their little nasty comments and stuff.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: Don't do that. They're asking for help. You know. If
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: you got a nasty comic, keep it to yourself. That's
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: not helping anybody. So this community, if you want to
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: talk about this community, it's beautiful. I don't know. And
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: I am involved in all the communities. I mean, I
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: serve us Vermont, and there was no community around that
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: comes together like Barry does. When we have the floods,
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: when we have situations need, when we have hunger, nobody
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: comes together like Barry does. People come out of the
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: woodwork to help people that they don't know because it's
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: a great place. And then if you want to talk
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: about what Barry looks like, that's my favorite thing to
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: do in Barry. Drive around and look up, Look up,
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: what do you see? See? Beautiful architecture, beautiful, Yeah, you
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: see great craftsmanship. I mean the dental work and craftsmanship
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: and the top of these buildings is phenomenal. And we
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: just drive around looking straight forward and we don't see that.
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: And I started looking at that back when when I
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: first came here work Oramsby's. We did the big satellite
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: dishes and stuff that we're on the roofs around here,
• 9:05
  Speaker 4: and you get up on top of the roof and
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: you get a different view of Barry and I love that. Yeah,
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: so we got to We've got a beautiful city. And
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: if you're knocking it down, you're not helping anybody. You're
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: not doing anybody in favors. Don't do that. This is
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: your home. Help make it a better home. Well, there
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: are things.
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: Wrong with there's keyboarding, pirates everywhere.
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: Every community has, you know, their pitfalls. Every community has,
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: you know, things that you can say bad stuff about.
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: There's drugs everywhere. You know, do things to help mitigate that. Yeah,
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: you know, I mean there's so many people that want
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: to do that and do do that. Give them kudos, Yeah,
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: celebrate all the kimballdocks of this community.
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there are many.
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: There's so many. There's so many good people. I love
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: reading those chats and stuff on on the community pages
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: where these people come out. We don't we don't know them.
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: They don't know the people that they're offering to help.
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's I gotta tell you, this is a
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: fantastic message and one that should be relayed every day.
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: With that said, come on, buddy, you gotta admit and
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: I'm just having fun here with you. The potholes are
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: Are they the worst that you've ever remembered in your
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: in your life? And I'm not just talking about Barrier,
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just talking about it. I'm just having fun this morning,
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: just being like, holy crap. And the Frosty's.
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: The frost did a number this year because they had
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: those warm ups and the frost underneath and it did
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: a number. And then not to mention the fact that
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: remember looked down Main Street, right, sure, so when the
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: floods came, they undermine the roads. So yes, we're behind
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: on fantom coverts and stuff. It was a lot of
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: coulverts that were replaced. Yeah, we we just it's a
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: lot of infrastructure. It's gonna take time. Yeah, sure, and
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: get a full weell drive.
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: I do, And I was just going to say that,
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: you know, With that said, it's like you should be
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: paying attention anyways while you're driving, but you've got to
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: you've got to navigate around some of these holes. And
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know when they're going to be filled.
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: Maybe when it gets a little warmer, and they've done
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: some patchwork up up on Upper Washington Street here. But man,
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: it's like you really need to pay attention, like you
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: need to be looking at the road and steering around
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: some of these things are huge.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: You know, I like my speed just as much as anybody.
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: I buy powerful vehicles. I buy powerful snowmobiles and stuff.
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: But you're on a road going sure, fifteen miles an
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: hour over the speed limit. Yeah, isn't going to get
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: you there that much quicker? Yeah, right, not doing your
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: vehicle on your favors, sure, and it's not doing you know,
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: the people around you in your favors. Yeah, take it easy,
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: you know, I know. And while I'm talking about looking
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: up at the top of the buildings, do that from
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: the passenger seat, please, because when the sun comes out,
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: people can't drive. It's worse than an icy road. It's crazy.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: So back to the days of of orm Spece. How
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: old were you when you started doing that?
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: Over and Randolph, I don't know how old I am now,
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: so I was nineteen eighty nine, okay, all right, so
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: it was in my twenties.
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: You you learned a very strong work ethic. Was it
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: from the ormspiece or was it from your parents?
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: I learned it at a necessity when I was young,
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: you know. It was just something you did to get by.
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: I mean when I was a kid, three brothers, and
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: we didn't live on a farm, and so I think
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: I might have told you this, that the farmers would
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: pull up in front of our house early in the
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: morning to be the first one to get there to
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: pick us up to go help them. And we made
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: more money doing other things than hanging and stuff like that.
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: But they needed to help. They needed it, so we
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: would go help them. And then the other things we
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: did were around that. So and it wasn't just awesome.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's how the community worked, you know. I
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: mean I think back then you learned a strong work
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: ethic because you didn't get money unless you work for it,
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: you know. And I learned at a young age that
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: you know, I like the things that money could buy
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: for me that my parents couldn't, you know. So I
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: did a lot of a lot of work things I
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: learned from everybody though, all the way along and Orangeby's
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: you know, John Ormsby's work ethic was you know, right
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: on top of that. He was diligent. He worked hard
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: to get where he was and he could so and
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: you think that anybody.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Did he build that template for you? Is that is
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: that carried on to how you run business over at
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: Tatrus Appliance.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: I still use some of his old his old sayings
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: that he used to throw out to us all the time, like, uh,
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: if you don't have time to do it right the
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: first time, when do you have time to do it?
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: So think about that, take a little extra time, do
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: it right this time. You don't have to go back
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: and redo it because if you're busy, which we're crazy busy. Yeah,
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: I throw that out to my staff all the time.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: I got a great staff. All they all care about
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: the customers, they care about the job. I mean, you
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: saw when you came in the studio the other day,
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: you saw some baby toys on the floor there in
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: your camera. So when the girls need to bring their
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: kids to work and they don't have they bring their
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: kids to work. It's fine, you know, and love that.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: We got a big place. We got two little boys
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: that are the same age, and they have become best
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: buddies because their mom bring them during vacation, they bring
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: them when you know, school's out for a day or whatever.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: And those boys play together, you know, and they're good kids.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: They're quiet, they're not tearing a place up, you know, sure,
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: and they and all those kids come in, give me
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: a hug when they come in, you know. So they've
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: become part of my world too, you know. Yeah, And
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: so they all bring their their kids.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: I had one time one of the a couple of
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: the kids that one of the girls daughters and one
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: of the boys came up to me and said, can
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: you play hide and seek with us? Because the building
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: is huge and they want to play hide and seek.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I wish I had time to do that at that time,
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: but I didn't. So, but yeah, they become part of
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: the company.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: When you walk through those those stores like I did yesterday,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: you're going to see real life right away instantly, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: it's it's just a. It's it's a welcome environment and
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I like that. I like that when you walk through
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: those stores.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, my employees make comments all the time
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: about everyone coming in saying, I'm a friend of Marks.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, and we have over one hundred thousands what's
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: that gay?
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: So we have over one hundred thousand customers, And so
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: their joke is that I have over one hundred thousand
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: best friends, and I do. You know, we try and
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: we try to make them all feel like they're part
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: of the business. Sure, and in some way they've all
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: put some sort of input in and none of them
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: mind telling me, you know, when something needs to be
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: you know, addressed, Sure, and you know. So so it's fun. Yeah,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I love talking to people. I wish I had time
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: to talk to every one of my customers all the
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: time because they're just you know, they become part of
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: my license. Sure. Nineteen eight nine, I've known somebody. Actually,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: some of my customers followed me from Randolph Appliants nineteen
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: eighty six. I still am dealing with the same people,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: their kids and their grandkids. And I'm getting old, so
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: next generation. Wow. So yeah, it's it's fun. But yeah,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: there's another let's talk about that negativity. So I have
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: a lot of we have a lot of wonderful businesses,
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: and Barrie right, great businesses. You don't get into business
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: to take money from people. You get into business to
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: fuel your passion. So someone opened up small business around here,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: it is their passion. They're putting their heart and soul
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: into it. Now, they might not do it just the
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: way you think they should do it. They're gonna make mistakes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: I do it even though I do it, so they're
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: gonna make mistakes. Talk to the owner. If you got
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: a real beef, don't go on to social media and
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: put a bad review and harm somebody's business that's putting
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: their heart and soul into it. Because I figured there's
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: three things you're doing on there for if you're doing
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: those things, One is you're saying, look at me, look
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: at me. You know you're a narcissist. Two ways are
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: trying to get something for nothing. You know that that
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: works sometimes in social media. Doesn't work with me. You'll
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: notice I never answered one of those bad reviews, got
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: over one hundred thousand customers and the phone rings off
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: the hook. I know I'm doing stuff right. I know
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I'm doing stuff wrong too, but I work on those.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: We have meetings all the time, so go talk to
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: the owner. And the other thing is you just being
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: a bully. That's your format to be a bully. So
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I have friends who have businesses and they take that
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to heart when they get one of those bad reviews,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: and it sucks. It does because you know, it's like
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: somebody just stab you a little bit. But think about this.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: You know, if you just won two hundred thousand dollars
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: and you lost one hundred dollar bill, and you spent
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: hours looking for that one hundred dollars bill, how much
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: of your time did that take up? Gener think maybe
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I think the positive way. Maybe that one hundred dollars
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: bill blue into somebody's hands that really needed it, and
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: you help somebody else inadvertently. Think about the positive side
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: of it. So you can't let that half a percent
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: take up all your space in your head. And that's
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: what happens when people give a negative review. It takes
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: up you can't help. It's human nature. It takes up
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: too much space in your head.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: You you just seem like one of these guys that
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: is you're so far beyond just Tatrus appliance. You're you're
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: you're one of these local business owners that as a person,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: you are crafting your legacy every single day.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: So Tatro's appliance is it's I love what we do.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I love it's fun when we're being somebody's hero, when
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: we fix our appliants that's broken down, when we remodel
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: our home and it's beautiful, they're you know, their kitchen
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: and it's beautiful. It's it's very gratifying. But it's a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: vehicle that lets me do the things I really want
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: to do in the community. This community is a vehicle
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: that lets me do I don't do these things on myself,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: on my own, excuse me. And I do them with
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: the help of all of you guys. You know, you
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: guys help us do all the things that are done
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: in the community. It's it everybody doing it together. Sometimes
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: you see a face that's out in front of that
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: and you think they're doing all that. It's it takes
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: a huge group of effort to do everything and make
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: it nice, you know, it's and there's so much of
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: that going on, and I'm just happy to be a
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: part of that.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: How many civic organizations uh service organizations are you connected with?
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Are you a member of or involved with? Which is
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I can't even imagine, and I want to I want
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: to hear about the inception of of how how how
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: you got involved with the Lions Club.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: So I'm I'm a Mason and I'm in the Allions,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: and you know, I belong to a lot of the
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: other clubs around. Most people know that the Lions is
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: a huge part of my life because it's it's been
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: so much fun to be involved and do things with
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: the community. I mean, we always say if it ain't fun,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: we don't do it, you know. And uh so we're
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: helping a lot of people. We're having fun doing it,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: you know. And uh so we have we're doing a
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: couple of barbecues coming up at albashon hardware. We're doing
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: one April fourth, I believe, and then we're doing one
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: on Mother's Day, right and so and we're supporting as
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: at albashon uh there, April fourth ones they're grand reopening,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: all right, and so they've invited us to cook hamburgers
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: and hot dogs. We did that last year. I have
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: a big grill that we use. Tim Cota gets on
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: there and a few of the guys and do some
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: awesome cooking.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I'm so surprised that you have a huge grill.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: So so we do that. I bought that just for
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: the Lions Club actually, but yeah, so it's you know,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: we have fun doing that. We've got the disc golf
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: tournament coming up June tenth. Yeah. Yeah. And speaking of
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: people being out in front, so uh, Mary on real coping.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: A lot of people know her. We talked to her
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: last night about coming on your show and promoting the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: disc golf tournament, and she was a little shy about
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: doing that, and I said, I said, you know what,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: JD makes it easy to talk to people. I said,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: but I'll come with you, court and you can feed
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: off of me, you know. And it's not everybody can
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: speak in public. But she's the one doing the work.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Her and Nicole and Linda and a few others are
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: doing the work, you know, so she should be here,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: you know, showing up. But she's a little shy. So
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: we'll get her. We'll get in here and get her
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: doing that. And I told her, I said, I'll say
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: something wrong, so you have to correct me and talk
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: her up within seconds. All right.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: So, so where is that that golf, that disc golf.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: It's at the town Forest at the disc golf up there.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: We do We've been doing that for a number of years.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Stacey Cataract started that. Stacey just moved to North Carolina
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: on us. So Mary Owen's taken over. Yeah, and yeah,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: we love hers did a great job with us. We have, Uh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: we have eighteen teams I believe that play and we
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: have prizes for it and stuff, and if you want
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to be a sponsor, we have sponsorship opportunities on that.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: You know, it's well appreciated. These these clubs that come,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: these these groups I should say that come to play.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: They've got some really crazy names and and uh, they
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: just have so much fun and they all come over
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: and they support the businesses and they talk about, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: the businesses that have supported this that allow them to
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: have this tournament.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Look at look at these these these trendy do sports
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: that have just exploded. Pickleball, corn hole, disc golf. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: mean these are all like over the last decade plus, Uh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: they have really become super popular. Yeah, I mean there
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: it's almost like there's a cult following on some of these.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: We all work hard we want a reason to play hard.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So do you have all the fancy stuff
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and the the disc golf sunglasses and attire and special
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: discs and the special footwear?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And I don't. I have I have a number of discs,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: but I don't have the thing that looks like a
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: jukebox carrying around with me and stuff. My wife plays
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: with two discs and she's pretty good at we play.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You know, when we travel, we take a few discs
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: with us and play. It's fun.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And let's talk about your wife for a second.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: She is a huge supporter and huge fan. And you
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: have you guys have been married for how many years now?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Thirty nine years? In May.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Wow, you just took off.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I think something wrong with that girl.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: You guys just took off in and uh, I love
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: following you on social media because I see that you're
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: up in some cabin in the middle of god knows
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: where with a million feet of snow and you're you're
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: jumping in the sauna, I think, or the hot springs
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: or what springs? What the hell was that where.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: We're We went to Yellowstone snowmobiling, and so we went
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: to Bozeman, Montana and We went to the hot springs
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: there and then you know, we went to the the
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: western ghost towns. There's a Virginia City, Nevada City. We
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: went to those, but we snowmobiled and Yellowstone and just
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: just an awesome experience. It's just a whole different world. Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: And so we're there and we and Bozeman, big city, right,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: and it's snowing and there's three inches of snow in
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: the city on the roads. We saw plot tracks going around.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: But they don't drop those plows until it gets over that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: They don't call school out for anything but black ice. Yes,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: that's it. Those people are like and they don't plow
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: some of the roads, like in Yellowstone and West Yellowstone.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: O're stand they don't plow those roads. They roll them. Yeah,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: so you can snowmobile on the main roads. You can
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: snow the bill anywhere there pretty much. Wow. And so
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: were we were in the park for a couple of days.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: We were out of the park for a couple of days.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: We stopped at one intersection and you could drive a
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: tractor trailer on this trail. It's packed right, and there's
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: a stake in the middle of the intersection. Four and
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: a half feet of snow we're on top of them,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: and yeah, yeah, that's something else.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Mode of transportation and mode of recreation. Both.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: The funny power was so I have a bunch of
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: these long sleeved tees, right or one of the funny
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: things things. So I'm in this pub and it's called,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: uh that's a huge Buyer restaurant, and they had this
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: thing called not Your Grandma's Bingo, and they just had
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: this sassy woman up there calling out bingo and stuff.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: But I had a Parker Pie shirt on and this
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: girl comes over to me and she says, how do
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: you have a Parker Pie shirt on? And I was like, Oh,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: we snowmobile Parker Pie quite often when we can. And
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I said, and my friend owned the company that made
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: these shirts. And I said, and she says, I'm from
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Burke and my uncle used to work at Parker.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Pye and we're postman.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Wearing West Yellowstone.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Wow man, small world.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's funny. Shee's fan.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Back to Lions Club. How long you've been a member
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: of the Lions Club and are you guys looking for
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: new members?
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Always? Yeah, so I've been a member for twenty one
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: years and we we've recently been getting a lot of
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: new members and it's it's it's great because unfortunately we
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: were losing some key members through you know, them passing
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: away that you know, because we had a lot of
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: members even though they're older, still participating because it's fun,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: you know, we have a good time doing it. Sure,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: and so yeah, we're looking for and the misconception is
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: because it did used to be this way back one
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: hundred years ago, that it's a men's club. It is not.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: We have plenty of women, and that it's a business
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: person's club. It is not. And we meet now on
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: the first and third Tuesday night at the Canadian Club.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: In the first Tuesday of the month. We generally have
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: a speaker to inform us about something that's going on locally,
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: like I have lined up in May, I have our
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: April I have from a youth building coming to talk
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: because I work with them some and and so you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: we have something like that every time we have a meal.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: And then the third Tuesday, we is a business meeting
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: and we meet about who we're gonna give money to
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: and and you know what things we're gonna activities we're
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: gonna do and things like that, and and so you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: we're definitely looking for all genres of people. Everybody. If
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: you want to help out in your community, you are
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: somebody we want.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: You got a lady, uh, it's a member. I think
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: she's from the Philippines.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, Bernette.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: She kicks ass.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Oh dynamo, namo, she does that. Lady has done so
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: much stuff. She's like, spends so many hours volunteer work,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: doing so many things. I mean, just I don't know
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: how she has time for it all.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Can we get her in here sometime? I would love
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: to go. She's gonna be retired.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: She works at from Paramary and Motor Vehicles and she's
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: retiring in April. A thing really and so uh we
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: can you know she'll have some time to come.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: In with regard to public service, she's an animal.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So she she came here, she started and I
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: was king Lyon at the time. That's what we call
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: our president. And she came here to start a Filipino
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: American branch. Yeah, and so now it's a Asian. They've
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: gone beyond just Filipino. And because there's so many in
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: our community. Sure, I didn't realize it how many there
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: were until she came along, and so she's started that
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: branch within our club. Yes, and she just I mean,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: you tell you about getting new members. I've gotten a
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: lot of new members over the years. She's gotten as
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: many new members and the blink of an eye and
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I have in my whole lion's career.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: God, that's something else. Yeah, just so friendly, it's so welcoming.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Her main focus is the unhoused. Yeah, you know, she
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: she does a lot for meals, for helping out with
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: their their needs, you know, their toiletries and socks and
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. And then you know, setting
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: up the meals and clean they clean all the chairs
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: and stuff. In these churches that do the meals and stuff.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, they just do so much a group, and
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: they are unbelievable just making it happen. Yeah. Yeah, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: she's quite married us too, so she makes she makes
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: everybody's elaborate uh, birthday cards and anniversary cards, and she's
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: just so thoughtful to everybody. And you're lucky to have her, Yeah, absolutely,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: And we have we have a ton of people like
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: that where so you know, fortunate to be blessed with them.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: And again they're all she's a blast. You know, spitfire. Yeah, last, guys,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: have your your meetings Canadian Club.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, and it's the first we now.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: First Tuesday five thirty in the evening and the third
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Tuesday five thirty in the evening.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, wow, all at the Canadian Club.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Good centralized location.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it worked, It's worked well for us. So there
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: was a little break in that or kind of moving around,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: and they've got some new management there and stuff. So
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: we've we've gone back and last few meals we've had
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: there have been awesome. Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: The guy that's doing the meals is great, fantastic, Yeah,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: and they take care of us. It's a great club.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: I belong to that club, you know.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: It's it's how many other clubs are you?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Are you part of Moutois? If I think of all
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: the ones today, why do you want to get to
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: the tenement?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Why do you look so so good after being a
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: member of the Moutois. I mean if I was a
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: member over there, I would be six hundred pounds maybe more.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, great food over them.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: You're trying to lose the extra to put on this
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: ye got to got to keep active, that's uh. Yeah. Oh,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: they have great food.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Great food there when I came up and chatted with
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: you up at your at your shop, uh, Morrison Road.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I the one of the biggest takeaways for me was
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: not only the quality and the product that Tetris Appliance sells,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: which really kind of deceiving when you drive down you're like, oh,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: this is a little storefront. Wrong. That building goes way
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: back and it's huge and branches off the product that
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: you have in there, whether it's a washing machine, a dryer,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: a stove, convection stove, whatever it may be, dishwasher, top
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: quality stuff, and you're very picky about what you bring
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: in and what you sell. But one of the biggest
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: takeaways for me was not only quality, but service after
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: the sale, which is massive and I'm sure John Ormsby
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: has injected into your DNA just having the the the
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: mindset of making sure your customers are happy after the sale,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: servicing what you sell.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so sales is kind of a service
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: that we offer. It's not our main game. Service is
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: our main game. Yeah, so you said that, when that's right.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I worked for Johnny and people used to say I
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: go to their homes to fix their product, and that
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: piece of junk. You boss on me? Well, John Oormesley
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: was a hell of a salesman, so if you bought
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: the lowest end thing that he had there, it wasn't
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: his fault. You chose that, and that those don't hold love.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, I just talked to her friend yesterday. She
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: is on her third washing machine in five years from
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: the box stores, and she's like, can I come up
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: and get something to get a speed queen from you?
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: I said absolutely, so we am so I keep the
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: things that you know, everything can have a problem, that's
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: just the way it is today. I keep the things
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: that we know have better success.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I won't sell anybody's low end. I won't sell certain brands.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: You know. It's just I tell people all the time.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: It's one of my favorite comments when I'm talking to
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: customers is when I see you out at Hanneford's, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: want you to say I love my new appliance. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: don't want you throwing fruit at me across the aisle.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: So I got to see.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: All and how many times have you seen your customers
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: when you pin in line at Hanford's.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: And I suck at names. I'm terrible at right, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I can tell you, oh yeah, you have the action
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: range and the French door refrigerator. Yeah yeah, I mean yeah,
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I can tell you what you've got in your in
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: your house. I can remember it that way, and they
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: don't always remember all one hundred thousand names, you know. Yeah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: But and you have a parts department that is absolutely insane.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: You can come up there, you'll get the right part. Uh.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: And if you want to, you know, d I y
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: kudos to you. But if you get into a snack,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: you guys are are able.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: To help out. We tell people out time. We sell
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: a lot of parts, and so we we have a
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: relationship with the largest distributor in the world. And for
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the most part, it changed a little bit after COVID.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: You know, we used to get we'd order at four
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: thirty and even though we get it next day, yeah,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: and so now it's something we can't always promise that
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: because it's sometimes we'll look at the track and it's
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: still on a FedEx's truck running around, or ups is
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: struck running around interest, So we can't always promise next
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: day anymore. But if we don't have it, there have
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: a half million dollars worth of parts there. If we
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: don't have it there, We'll get it for you right off. Wow,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: you can't always have everything. It's so many different things
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: out there. But we tell people, you know, I don't
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: know what your talents are. I don't and so man, woman,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: young or old, I don't know what your talents are.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: You may be more talented than me. Sure, So if
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: you want to buy the part, you do it yourself.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Go ahead. Yeah, if you get yourself over your head,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: we'll come bail you out. Yep, we'll come fix me.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: I gotta judge you, or I try to fix my own.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I just did it with my snowmobil the other day.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I was sticking to the door for two weeks trying
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: to fix my own snowmobile. I finally got to the
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: point where I was like, the winner's gonna be over,
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: and so I took it into the shop and said,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: you guys fix it for me, please, Yes, and I
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: took it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: You are quite a mcgivory, though, I've heard that's.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: How I learned the business. That's how I started. Yeah,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: you know, if I got asked to do things like
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: show me how you tell me what it did before?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: When he doesn't do all figure out how to fix it.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: You also train your staff, your technicians very very well.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Are you looking for additional technicians?
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Delivery always delivery, Yeah, we need we need another delivery guy.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: We need technicians always. The girl you saw at the
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: front desk with h with the baby, she's cross training
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: to be a technician. Okay, she wants to be a
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: technician for her Yeah. So, and she she works on
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: her own car. Yeah, she loves that. Very mechanically inclined.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: And she said, can I train to do that? Absolutely? Yeah,
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: you know, because it's a lot easier to get an
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: office person than it is a technician.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Sure, so cross training and uh so I'm going to
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: tell you, brother, you would not be able to cross
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: train me. I am mechanically declined.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Well, we need customers, so not everybody needs literally daity.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: We have people that don't change their own light bulbs, appliances.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Interesting and oh my god, it's not working.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: They just they got a number and they pick it
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: up and call it. I got this, I got that.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Some people they just you know, we have a lot
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: of second homes and Vermont on the second homes, sure,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: and they're only up here for a short period of
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: time and they want to be checking out the voids.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: They want to be skiing, they want to be out
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: at the lake. They don't want to be tearing the
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: practice of appliance and fixing and stuff. But they want
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: you there while you're there, there or before. So you know,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: we get those calls and we take care of those
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: people all the time as much as we can.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: You also not only train your staff well, but you
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: also keep them very up on the latest technology. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: this this industry of appliances is changing rapidly, very rapidly.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: And man, it's like it's it's it's a lot more
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: than just a little song that the washing machine plays
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: when when it's done with its cycle. I mean, there's
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: some serious technology the computers.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, we're right off here. We're
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: heading out to Texas for training.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: See that you have to keep the edge sharp in
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: the business.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: We deal with one hundred different manufacturers. Really, Yeah, there's
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: so many of them out there. I mean a lot
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: of people around here haven't heard of La Conch and Lackcornew.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: We do those We're the only for those companies. We're
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the only non company employed company that does service for
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: them because we just don't have it in New England
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: and we travel all over the place for these companies.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Now their ranges start out from sixteen thousand dollars a
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: piece to one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars a piece.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: You need to know what you're doing, you know. So,
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: and we deal with so many aga, you know, we
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: do it. Of course, we deal with all the brands
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: that we can afford, you know, as normal people can afford,
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: you know, So we deal with that is there are
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: bread and butter most of what we do. But we
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: specialize in those subserve wolf decor all those fancy professional
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: series they call them brands.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it's called. Maybe it's convection, I
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: don't know. But when I was with you up at
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: the at the shop one day, you were showing me
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: a glass uh stove top that was beyond what we
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: what we know of as the glass stovetop that just
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: heats up and gets red and gets hot. So it
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: is beyond that, and I was fascinated, what's the deal
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: with that?
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: So that's induction. So induction has been around for a
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: long long time. What did I say? Convection convections? And
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: that's all right, convections in the oven, so convections the
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: ultimate cooking in the oven, inductions the ultimate cooking on
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: the stove top. It's it's very responsive, there's no heat
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: down below. It cooks by being a magnetic field. And
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: and it's you know, it's just uh, everything that you
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: like about gas where it's responsive, but better, it's better
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: than that. It's it's faster heat, and it's more controllable.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Heat, more controllable heat. So if you're a you're a
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: hot shot chef, this is this is your thing.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: Some of the some of the big restaurants now have
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: gone to induction hobbs in the restaurant and gotten rid
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: of the gas because you think about if you've got
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: several ranges going in your restaurant, think about the heat
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: in that restaurant, and they're you know, taking that away
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: by going to induction. And it's safer. You don't have
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: the burns, your kids, respond, your kids, your pets, whatever.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: So and I think I remember you, you were like, Jad,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: put your hand right here.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: So so back in I used to work for a
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: distributor and we sold jen Air and jen Air was
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: one of the first ones I had it cartridges. They
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: were ungodly expensive. So that's why I didn't catch on
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: as much back then as it is now because the
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: technology is better and the prices come down. But the
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: demo that they would have me do was to put
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: one hundred dollars bill in between the pages. For a fact,
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: they could put it one dollar bill in there, but
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: did the one hundred dollars bill. You put it in
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: between the pan and the burner and you turn it on,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: boil the water, cook your bake and whatever. A hundred
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: dollar bill didn't scorched. Put my hand next to the
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: burner and boil water. There's no heat coming out around it.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: The only heat is at the food and the pan,
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: so you know, it's very safe. We saw a lot
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: of them too. And then you know, you have to
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: have the right size surface there. You have to have
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: the right pan to make it work or it won't work.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: You picked the pan up and it shuts off, you
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: know it won't there's no heat there. So we saw
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: a lot to people who have children, who have people
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: with autism, people with the Alzheimer dementia, because if they
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: turn on that, you know, especially a lot of the
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: kids would I want to push buttons yeah, and push
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: the buttons is not coming on. No paint on there.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: So it's safe and it's and it's super good. I mean.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: And because it doesn't cook things down, it makes you
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: into a better cook. Oh you know, it makes it
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: seem like. I've got a lady down the street here
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: that she bought one, and she had gotten a divorce
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: from her husband. They've got little kids, and and she
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: was telling me that. The kids said, Mommy, how come
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: daddy's eggs don't taste like yours?
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: That is so fascinating, man. I want to if you
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: guys ever run a demo on that, let me know
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: ahead of time.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: We'll do that.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: And I would love to come up there and stream
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: live and show people this thing.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: I'd like to. One of my goals is to get
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: a live kitchen going in the store again. I used
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: to have one downtown and show it off like that.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: Just so busy, we haven't had time to sure do that.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: We do little remodels at a time up there, and
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: you know, in in her spare time. But yeah, so
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I'll get that going. When I do, we'll okay.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: I know that, well, I know we we're going to
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: give away this this mini beverage cooler here in just
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: a minute we've come. Oh my god, we got so
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: many people sign up for that to win that. But
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: I want to make sure because I know that I'm
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: going to be asked I was last time. Where exactly
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: can I find Tatros Appliances?
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, So we're on two seventy two Morrison Road, which
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: is at the tee of Morrison Road and Prospect Street.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: So if you're coming up the hill from by Boo
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: with Brothers, yeah, off a Bridge Street turns into Morrison Road.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: We're at the end on the left. If you turn
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: off a Prospect Street like you're going up past Barry Gardens. Yeah,
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: you turn left on the Morrison Road where the big
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: historic barn on the right. And for anybody's listen that
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: doesn't know what that place is, that is the location
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: where Barry got its name.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Please tell so and I know you've had this conversation
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: with Rex Thompson.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So this this it used to be the Bondato
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: offices in their in their original distribution hub and and
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: so their offices were there. There's a granite plaque by
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: the front door that tells about this. So there were
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: two gentlemen. There were sixty nine people living in wilders
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Burn at the time, which is what this place was called,
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: and they thought that was a little too wild sounding
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: to invite people to move to it, so they wanted
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: to change the name. So one gentleman was from Barry, Massachusetts,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: and the other one was from Holding, Massachusetts. This Barron
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: was just built back in seventeen hundreds at that time,
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: and it had a brand new mahogany floor, and so
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: they decided that they were going to use that and
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: have a boxing match. The winner got to name it
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: what they wanted to name it. So obviously Sherman won
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: and it was named Barry. And this boxing mattress was
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: not a typical boxing I keep boxing gloves around and
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: stuff just to be qute t with it and stuff.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: There was no boxing gloves. It was bare knuckle. I
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: had a rope between them. And there's a story about
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: the doctor that was on hand picking splinters out of
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: the loser's head from the floors. So it wasn't just exhibition.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: These guys were going at it, I guess.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: So Sherman got it. Yep, thus the name Barry, and
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: that took place right there in there your building. Yes, yeah,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: right where your showroom is right now?
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: Correct?
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Correct, It's amazing. Where's that mahogany floor?
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: It might be buried underneath. I don't know, NASA. Geez.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: See the polls from the stanchion still exist. Bonds didn't
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: take those out. Wow, and so and the overhead storage
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: where they kept all their parts where I keep my
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: parts is still like a Haloff barn. And it's still
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: got the crane in there for the.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Hey, holy crap, it's pretty cool.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: It's it's a it's a cool building. It's very cool.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: And yeah, and Bonds did a nice job all the
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: remodel it took place in there. I've only done minor
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: stuff to it. Yeah, they did that, and Kevin beautiful
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: and there were like seventeen offices in there. Originally.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: There was a comment that I read last night. I
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: can't remember remember exactly who said it. It may have
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: been Dave Horner, I'm not sure, but somebody commented that
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: or that that Tetrose has serviced a very old appliance
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: that was at a stove.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, it's a it's a Viking range. It's
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: gotten old. When we started helping them out, well, it
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: wasn't that old, but he's kept it, kept it going
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: for him for a long time. It's a professional series
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: Viking range, and Viking was the first company to make
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: professional series ranges for the home. And I've actually been
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: to their plant and they flew me out there. And
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: these guys own like the whole town, they own, to
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: speak easy, they own a hotel, and I mean they
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: roll out the red carpet for me and brought me
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: out here to meet with their engineers. And so I've
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: actually been out there. So and a lot of the
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: manufacturers will you know, bring me out to their places
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: and stuff and you know, show us the new product
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: and give us training. And most of them come here
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: twice a year to uh give us training. And so
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: but it changed a little bit with there's a lot
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: of webinars now because of COVID brought that about, and
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: so now we have you know, weekly webinars where we
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: used to just have spring and fall sessions. So now
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: it's gotten to be both. We have the spring and
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: fall sessions and the webinars. So because things are changing
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: so rapid, like you know, we get bulletins every day,
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: I bet you still needs to be addressed that needs
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: to be addressed. There's a recall here rework there, just
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: uh how to program your appliants so that you can
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: even use it to start with?
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Sure, Now what's that uh that antique one that you
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: that you've got that you were like, JD come over here.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: You got to see this. It was wood fired. Uh yeah,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: I've got absolutely gorgeous apply it wood stove.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: I love, I love my that's that's a glen wood
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: that was a show piece in a customer's home. Knew
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: her husband. He actually was the one who brought what's
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: called Auga ranges to Vermont, one of the one of
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: the two guys that brought it to Vermont. And they
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: had this big, beautiful Auga range that I had to
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: take out of her house when she sold it. And
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: these ranges have to be built in place, and yeah,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: you don't you don't move them, and they have to
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: be built in place. And there's only three guys in
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: New England that can build these, and I'm fortunate to
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: be one of them. And so she had me come
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: take this apart and get it out of the house
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: where the new people didn't want to deal with that.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: It was coal fired, damn. So a friend of mine
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: actually has it now at his camp. And but so
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: while we're working there and I'm redoing her kitchen and
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: putting the new range in cabinets and stuff, she has
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: this glen Wood ranged beautiful husband had re chromed and
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: it sat there for fifty years unused. And she gave
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: that to me to go on display at the fire.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: And she gave me an old Singer sole machine, trail
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: sole machine in perfect condition.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Showed me that too, Yeah, because she.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: She wanted that to be on display somewhere, still wanted
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: me to have that. So and all, I've got a
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: number of antiques that just combined. Look at them just
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: even if you're not buying planets, check them out. Yeah,
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: I love my antiques. They all come from original owners.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Jeez, how did you get that? I mean obviously it
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: taken apart, and but I mean even in pieces, that thing,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: what's the weight on that I can't even imagine.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so all together, that thing weighs pretty close to
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: two thousand pounds. So you're taking their private and sections
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: and many many pieces. I mean there's a lot of
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: every single piece comes down a lot of cast iron
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: in it. And so I had two of my guys
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: with me to take that apart.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean back in those days, I took.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: Out by myself.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: That's crazy, man.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: She was like, it took her and her her husband
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: and three of his friends. Took them all day long
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: to get that in the house. And I was there
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: for forty seven minutes because I knew how it came apart. Yeah, right, Yeah,
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: I grew up having to deal with stuff like that.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: So, man, the the mistakes that could happen and result
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: in you losing a toe are It's just it's just basically,
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, back back in those days, I mean, people
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: used these stoves to not only heat their homes but
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: also do their their cooking. O baked bread and and
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: everything with those.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: I have my wife's grandmother's home comfort with stove. She
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: used that till the day she couldn't they in our
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: home by yourself all year around and really summertime, and
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: you know, so they're cooking bread on it, right, raising
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: bread on it. I had still going on it. They
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: always had something going on. That thing had it going on.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: It wasn't just for heat. Yeah, And that's how they lived,
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: and they knew more about cooking then we'll ever.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Know yeah, and oh sure, there's a real art to that.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, we're going to give this this
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: frigid air Mini beverage cooler away here in just a second.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: But I gotta tell you, man. Last I checked, it
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: was like one hundred and forty three people that that
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: signed up to win this and all they had to
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: do was click like, post a comment thank you Tatrose,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: and share it and it exploded. Amazing. I love stuff
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: like that, and I love I love not only the
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: fact that you're continued supporting spot of aired out, but
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: that when you say, hey, I'm coming in, I'm gonna
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: come on the air. I want to give something away.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: You always do that. You always got something that you
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: want to give and not and.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: Makes it fun, you know. It's uh. I use these.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: I don't sell these. I use these for different silent auctions.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: We did one for the libraries fundraiser at Christmas time.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: They decorated up and put a little bear bear on it,
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: lying on it for the Lions Club and we put
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: lights on it and stuff and some people bid on
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: it and it was a hit.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: There.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: I will I will make sure that it gets into
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: the hands of the winner. Should we give this thing
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: away right now?
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: Let's do that, all right?
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: I made this, this fun little wheel, put all of
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: the names in there last night, just like I said
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: I would. I had a couple of cups of coffee
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: and I punched them all in there. So here it is.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give it a spin, and this is
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: going to be our winner. You can see right on
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: your screen. And the winner of the Frigidaire Minni beverage
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: cooler from Tatris Appliance is going to Francine Belleville. Oh,
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: nice fran scene, you got it, nice job.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: Nice congratulations. Enjoy that.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: I will make sure that that she gets this.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: This this cool little cooler for the summer holds us
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: six cans.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: You can come up and grab one from from Tatress
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: Appliants anytime. And the the fridge that this was on
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: top of, UH is pretty slick too. What's the story
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: with that?
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: Oh? So that's that's UH from the fifties. It was
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: in perfect condition. And this gentleman from Brookfield bought a
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: new refrigerator and energy efficient refrigerator, and so we went
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: there to take you are making me get a new
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: energy or efficient refrigerator. I don't want to do it.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: I'm like, so we can put this one in your
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: garage and you can use it for a beer fridge.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: He goes, not, better take it away. They'll give me
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: a hard time about it. And so I said, well,
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: the good part is you'll save electricity with a new one.
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: So my electric bills fifty dollars a month. I said,
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: you're not gott to save anybody, right, So he gave
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: me the refrigerator, and then he goes and gets the
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: warranty card for this thing. He still had the warranty
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: pamphlet and it said phone number Brookfield HR nine on it. Yeah.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: So Jeff Perkins east Bury Otto, he does a He
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: has some antique refrigerators he collects too, and he had
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: one he painted just it was awesome victory and he
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: painted it like Victory motorcycle callers and nice. So he
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: wanted a couple of my antique refrigerators, which I never
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: sell my antiques. And so finally one day when I
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: was moving, he was in there getting apart and I said,
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: all right, I'll let you pick out two of my
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: anti refrigerators if you'll paint that international Harvester for me,
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: I said, you do whatever you want because you're the artist,
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: and make it look as good as that victory refrigerator.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: So he did the the International Harvester colors which is
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: the maroon and black, and so he did. And all
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: the auto manufacturers and stuff used to make appliances. It
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: wasn't you know, like you know, it was Fort fil Co,
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: General Motors, International Harvester, they made the refrigerators originally. Yeah,
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: and so and this one, this one is pretty much
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: what I had when we were growing up. Exteft Byrus
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: was like this ugly.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Teal green yeah right right, min mint green.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so so that's we had the same exact
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: refrigerator with with five kids, Mom and dad. Yeah, think
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: about how my refrigers three times a capacity of that
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: one just for the wife and I.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Now, yeah right, that's so cool. I love that. I
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: love that story.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's beautiful refrigerator.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing that we can say that a refrigerator
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: is beautiful, but we can't. And you can come into
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: teachers anytime and have a have a gainer at this
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: beautiful Yeah, thank you for coming in here. Speaking of
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: speaking of antiques, what are you driving. You got an
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: antique car.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: I got a nineteen seventy four gens and Heally and
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: it's been around Berry all its life. So there's been
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: a couple of other Berry owners that have had that,
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: and so I restored it, had it for a number
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: of years, drove it in the parayed once.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: And overheat it has before in the parade heritage.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: No, no, I don't think it's overheated then, but it's
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: uh yeah, it doesn't like I mean, I drove it
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: to Maine in construction one time. I headed to a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: gun Quit and we got construction on the highway and
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: it got a little warm. Oh yeah, they didn't cool
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: as well as they do today. But no, it's it's
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: been a it's been a good car. And I put
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: as much of original stuff into it as I can
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: and what's available. Seventy four seventy four. Yeah, all right,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: you're gonna sell it. I'm going to sell it. It's
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: too I'm too big for it. It's it's built like
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: most people are familiar with the MG or Triumph, so
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: it's kind of the shape of a convertible. Yeah, and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: it's low to the ground. Yeah, And I'm a big guy.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: It's a fun car, yeah, but just too big and
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: in the summertime when it's you know, decent weather out, yeah,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: could be inconvertible. I'd rather be on the boat.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Congratulations to Francine. She won the frigid Air Mini
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: beverage cooler from Tatro Suppliance. Thank you so much for
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: supporting this podcast, supporting what I love to do every morning.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: Right here, Buddy, I appreciate you so much.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: It's good to be here. Thank you. Good to see
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: you again.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good to see you too. Thanks Mark, Mark Tetrow,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: great guy. And next time we do this, I'd love
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: to come up there and maybe do a demo on
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: that induction.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: We'll sell something up. Even if I don't get my
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: demo kitchen done, We'll sell something up so we can
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: do that.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: Sounds good man, all right, thanks buddy, all.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: Right, yes, at.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Using at any