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Always In the Gutter with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Eight O seven thirteen ten wib A and ask the experts a man whose mind
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  is always in the gutter and we can say that comfortably and confidently in a
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  good way. Mister Andrew Larson from Larsenome Services the website larstom Services dot com
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  tell number six So eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five
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  three five forty three forty three. You are always thinking gutters, aren't you,
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  Andrew? NonStop? Sleep it, live it, dream it, drive
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  around. I'm constantly in the gutter man. Yes, yes, it's constantly
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  in the gutter. You know. I feel like there we maybe we should
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  do like a commercial based on that, on that premise, because it's it's
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  to me, it's I think it's very funny, and it's it's very true.
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  And this is something that that you are passionate about. And we talk
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  about larst Home Services, we talk about gutter shutter, we talk about what
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  an amazing role gutters play on the overall and I'll use the phrase, the
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  overall health of your home. The gutters are not something to be taken lightly,
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  and unfortunately, far too often, even on brand new homes, they're
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  kind of like an afterthought. They're kind of like they're there, but they're
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  not a priority. And that is so often a big mistake, isn't it
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  It is? You know, when it comes to new home builds. I
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  mean a lot of new homes are you know, they're they're built in neighborhoods
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  where there's not a lot of trees, and you know, so having a
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  covered gutter is maybe not the most important thing. But when I mean,
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  I just built a new home and the gutters were never even discussed. It
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  was like, you're going to get a roof and gutters don't know what kind,
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  don't know how thick, don't know what the brackets are like, don't
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  know how big the down spots are. Of course, when the topic finally
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  did get brought up, I said, no, I'm doing that myself,
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  and he's like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. But people people
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  usually just curse gutters because they leak, they overflow, they're clogged, they
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  build ice up on the roof. But the problem is is that they're extremely
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  important. You know, where we live, we have basements, and a
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  lot of people have just grown up here, lived here. Don't understand why,
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  you know why we have a basement. You just have a basement because
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  you got to put the house on top of it, and then you might
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  as well finish it off. It's extra space. But we have a basement
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  for for a real reason, to get below the frost line, right,
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  so our water pipes don't freeze. I mean, we saw what happened a
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  couple of years ago down in Texas. They had a deep freeze. Well,
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  they don't have basements. Their homes are built on slabs. All of
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  their plumbing runs through the attic well. Those homes weren't built to take freezing
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  temperatures. People's water pipes froze in their attics, wrecked their homes. I
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  mean, it was a big deal. So we have basements so we can
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  house the things that can't freeze or below the frost line. But the problem
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  is is with having a basement, we have a giant hole underneath our house.
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  And without proper grade, with landscaping, without proper gutters, eventually you're
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  going to get water in that basement. I mean, we put things called
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  some pumps in our basement. That's how much water can be dropped around our
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  home, so much so that it can actually saturate the ground and come underneath
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  the foundation of our home. That's where those drain tubes are supposed to kick
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  in. I mean, I have drain tubes running underneath my concrete that go
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  into a pit in my basement that then will pump it out if necessary.
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  You also have to have properly working gutters. So this all has to work
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  together. So why do we need gutters? We need to get the water
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  away from the house A so we don't float our basement. We get water
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  in our basement, we can get mold. It recks, It wrecks things.
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  Water is very destructive. I mean, there's only a couple things that
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  can really wreck a house once fire, and the other thing that's even more
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  destructive than fire is water. You think about that. Water actually puts out
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  fire, but it will wreck and mold and eat your house away. So
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  we got to get the water away from the foundation. Also having gutters that
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  properly function it protects our landscaping. I mean there's a lot of people we
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  pay a lot of money for landscaping for rocks. I mean, how many
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  people every single spring are getting trailer loads full of mulch, dropping it off
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  of the house, spending a whole weekend wheel borrowing mults around the house so
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  it looks beautiful. If your gutter's overflow and they don't work properly, it's
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  just going to fall onto that mulch, it's going to wash it all over
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  the yard. There's so many benefits to gutters, Sean, I can't I
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  don't know what it's got out of breath. I feel like there needs to
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  be like almost sainthood for somebody when it comes to developing perfect gutters. We
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  talked about gutters shutter and what it does, and you're right. I mean,
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  you look at the Grand Canyon. What caused the Grand Canyon water that
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  is cutting through thick, thick rock for generations. It's it is not roads,
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  you're landscaping. Look at the Grand Cake exactly exactly, you know.
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  And one of the things that I find amazing about as we talk Withdrew Larson
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  from lars Stome Services about gutter shutter and the products that you guys put on
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  at Larstome Services, you've shown me in the past like a cross section of
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  what exactly is on the inside like the outside of gutter shutter. They're the
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  beautiful, beautiful product, absolutely amazing how they perform. But what you don't
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  see and this and it also holds true with the roofs too, is what
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  you don't see often makes all the difference. And I've seen from you like
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  a cross section of what's inside of the gutter is like these brackets that are
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  like they're like real, like engineered, and they're they're all throughout there.
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  And then we talk about like the down spouts and having kind of that larger
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  mouth on the top. And I think, if I remember right, you're
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  talking about how it just creates suction. It's like because of the whatever,
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  the negative force you've got terms for all this stuff, I'll just call it
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  that, like it's literally pulling the water. And I'm like, this is
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  this is an absolutely amazing way to do things. And again going back to
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  underappreciated if the best gutter, and I think you've talked about this in the
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  past, is the one that you've never had to think about. It's the
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  one you've never had to worry about. It's the one that you install a
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  Lars and Home Services. That's the best gutter out there. It is.
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  You know what's awesome is when we our sales reps, when they're out in
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  neighborhoods, when they're helping people fix their homes, they always have a customer
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  map with them on their computer, and we always tell them, hey,
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  check your customer map. If you're in the neighborhood and we've got customers,
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  stop by, stop by. Talk to the homeowners. See see how their
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  gutter system or their roofs doing. See how everything's working, See if they
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  have any issues, because we have a lifetime workmanship guarantee with our product.
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  Look, we know gutters are super important, but gutters can also be a
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  giant pain in the butt if you have treats. And we live in Wisconsin,
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  so we get one hundred degrees in the summer, we get negative twenty
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  in the winter, we get snow, we get ice, We have all
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  of the different things that come with seasons. And gutters tend to catch the
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  They catch the water, but they also catch the leaves, they catch the
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  sticks, they catch the seeds, they catch the ice, they catch the
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  snow. So the great thing about gutter shutter is that, first of all,
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  it's big, it's strong. I mean, if you ever go on
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  Facebook, and maybe it's just me, but my ads follow me around.
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  I can't get away from an ad with me hanging from the gutter and dropping
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  off. It's annoying, but at the same time, like I'm not a
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  small person. I can hang from the gutter. I can do pull ups
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  from the gutter. It is as strong as it gets because of our bracketing
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  system. It's never gonna say pull off because of the weight of ice or
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  snow, which really gives us a lot of peace of mind. It's never
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  gonna clog, and if it does, we'll clean it for free. If
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  it's leaking, if it's overflowing, if anything's wrong with it, we're gonna
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  fix it or replace it. So that takes the whole pain in the butt
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  part of gutters out of the equation. All you have to know is that
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  we're gonna put them up. They're gonna look awesome, and if you want
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  to know what they look like, you can go on our website, you
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  can go on Facebook, you can see before and after photos. It looks
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  fantastic and you're literally gonna forget that you have gutters because you never have to
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  clean them. You never have to worry about the ice or snow. You
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  don't have to do anything. So the fun part is we've got some new
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  sales reps and their training, and they've been out talking to current customers and
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  it's house after house after house. Homeowner loves their gutter shutter. Homeowner forgot
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  they had gutters. Homeowner hasn't had the ladder out since they got gutter shutter.
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  Like, that's the point. Are they expensive? Sure, they're not
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  cheap, but you get what you pay for. And to have the peace
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  of mind knowing the company's there to back them up and back them up forever.
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  I mean, that makes me feel good, and it should make a
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  homeowner feel good. So we keep the water out of the basement, keep
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  it from going out, keep it from going underneath the foundation, keep it
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  from beating up the siding, keep it from beating up the roof, keep
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  your landscaping, your flowers looking good, and you never ever ever have to
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  worry about getting up there and cleaning them out or readjusting them because the weight
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  of ice or snow in the winter made them sag, so they're overflowing.
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  If that happens, which I mean, if I can hang from it,
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  the ice isn't going to hurt it. You just call us, Just pick
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  up the phone and call us. That's all you got to do. It's
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  absolutely amazing, And you mentioned some of the new guys starting at Larsenome Services.
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  One of the cool things too, I mentioned Facebook and social media.
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  Make sure you're following larsen Home Services on social media. One of the things
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  you start to realize real quick is folks with Largenome Services that work there have
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  been there a long time. You see nine five thirteen years anniversary with Larsnome
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  Services. Not only are the products phenomenal, the folks at Larsenome Services they
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  are knowledgeable. They are there to work with you. They want to work
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  for you. They want to get to know you. They want to show
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  you what can be done to improve your house, if anything. In some
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  cases they come to your house say everything's perfect. Nice, nice work.
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  Keep us in mind if you ever have any questions or concerns. That's a
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  cool thing too about working with Andrew and the team at Larsnome Services. Great
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  products, great people. You can learn more on the website Largesonhomes Services dot
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  com. That's l A R. S o N Home Services dot com.
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  Even more important this morning, if you haven't had your roof, haven't had
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  your gutters inspected recently, have them come out, take a look, see
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  what's going on with your house. Six oh eight five three five forty three
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  forty three. Make those phones ring this morning at Larsen Homes Services six oh
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  eight five three five forty three forty three. Andrew, it's always great chatting
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  with you, my friend. You enjoy this beautiful day, Have a good
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  one. Talk next week. Kevin ham Haams Barbercare joins us next here on
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