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Speaker 1: on your Saturday. I hope you're having a great weekend

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Speaker 1: and sun's out springs here. Life is good. And now

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Speaker 1: we're oh my gosh, we're joined with Rudy from Slats,

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Speaker 1: and I know you're gonna first tell me that I

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Speaker 1: said the name of the shade is wrong because it's Loft.

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Speaker 2: Yah, well always and it's great. Yeah, Lofty at a

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Speaker 1: Well, I know they look great. I just forgot the name.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: Lofty had a lower transitional shades is quite a bit

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Speaker 2: I'm great. How you been.

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Speaker 1: I've been fine. I've been fine, hanging in there. Hanging

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Speaker 2: Went down the opening day and it was beautiful, but

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Speaker 2: unfortunately the Reds came up a little short.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, well there's today. They got a few more

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Speaker 2: I think they're very promising.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about Yeah, yeah, me too, me too. So

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Speaker 1: let's get into talking about shade. Your company right on

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Speaker 2: Well, we're just south a union cemetery up there in

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Speaker 2: Harper's a little showroom there with some samples and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: You can go in and browse and come and see Jasmine.

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Speaker 2: She works at the showroom there. That's my business partner's daughter.

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Speaker 2: And you come in, or you can call and set

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Speaker 1: Now, folks, the slats that we're talking about a family

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Speaker 1: business and service is fantastic. Tell me a little bit

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Speaker 2: Business partner and I met at mcgallpins that I guess

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Speaker 2: now Dillard's. But he and I installed drey Brees and

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Speaker 2: Tom's a great guy. We started to get it from nothing,

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Speaker 2: proud of the RedHawks this year too. Yeah, but he

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Speaker 2: worked for Endheuser Busch out of college. Did great one

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Speaker 2: We kind of taught him to install so we could

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Speaker 1: And that's what I mean by service. And you folks, Rudy,

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Speaker 1: have done a great, great job. I know you're aligned

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Speaker 2: And it's nice to be teamed up with good people

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Speaker 2: So I'll be long gone before the motors go. But

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Speaker 2: I will not mention names or anything, but the cool

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Speaker 2: thing is we could instead of giving everybody a remote

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Speaker 1: That is cool. That is cool. Well, we got to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've known each I've been meeting with you for

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Speaker 1: But which was, as I explained to you, that never happens.

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Speaker 2: If so sweet, you guys were so easy, I mean,

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Speaker 2: my business partner has them in his house. So they

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Speaker 2: they work great. You don't have to dust them right,

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Speaker 2: So it's two sheets of material. They kind of slide

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Speaker 2: Weigh about one hundred pounds and they were very they

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well they're beautiful. And those coming colors too,

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Speaker 2: I mean they're kind of well, I know, because you

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Speaker 2: because of you, and I need to thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: I probably owe you a beer too.

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Speaker 1: Always I appreciate that. No, and they come with a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, we warrantee them as long as you live

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Speaker 1: Still not like we're still your family business, right, So.

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Speaker 2: they work for us. They drive our slats trucks. They

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Speaker 2: eight hundred number to call. We don't tell you this

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Speaker 2: If we can't fix it, we take the shade down.

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Speaker 2: We'll put up the temporary shade, send it to the factory,

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Speaker 2: up for you. And we never charge you for that.

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Speaker 2: It's one of one of the only companies that does that.

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Speaker 2: And the doing that it makes us extremely busy.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say that makes you extremely successful too, Rudy.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a great job. Where is make.

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Speaker 2: Friends with our customers, you know, you know, like you,

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Speaker 2: you know, I consider you a friend. We meet people

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Speaker 2: and you know, if you come out, we don't go

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Speaker 2: Kind of make the people happy, sell them something they

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Speaker 2: you have a salesman for life.

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Speaker 1: I don't I know I've heard it, but I can't

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Speaker 1: remember it. Wor's home rama this year? And will people

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Speaker 2: Well home Arma was just recently you know, down the

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Speaker 2: And it was a little late this year, but we

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Speaker 1: Right who houses, right.

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Speaker 2: But the rooftop bars and it was really cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And I think I think this year, I think it's

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Speaker 2: going to be more out that Goshen area. Okay, okay, Loveland, Goshen,

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Speaker 2: All right, We'll be doing a couple of homes out there.

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Speaker 2: We always do, you know, one or two homes. It's uh,

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Speaker 2: it's nice to be seen out there, and uh, you

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Speaker 2: know because a lot of people don't get to see

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Speaker 1: Well, that's true, and quite honestly, that's one of the

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Speaker 2: This beautiful stuff, and yeah, it's it's Unfortunately with what

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Speaker 2: I do, I see that every day and I'm always

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's cool to see. It's my job is

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Speaker 1: That's great, that's great. Then it's not a job.

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Speaker 2: I love, you know, I absolutely love what I do.

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Speaker 2: Drive around all day and meet people and the house

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Speaker 1: Now, last time I talked to you you were talking

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Speaker 2: Know, we do quite a bit in Florida, Arizona. My

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Speaker 2: son actually is going he's doing a house in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: we can still save people money. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: You do them down there?

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Speaker 2: And you know, we'll give a quote and they'll say yeah,

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Speaker 2: of cool. In fact, in fact, mister Zika, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you know. Mike the builder here, he built

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Speaker 2: there and you know, it's like a huge, huge, beautiful

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Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Well, Rudy. The showroom is of course located

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like the like Harpers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and uh, people can go to the showroom.

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Speaker 1: certainly my favorite, and at that point, I guess you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Slats blind Slats, blinds dot com, the slatsblinds dot

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Speaker 2: com and Gary, do you mind if I give a

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Speaker 2: shameless plug here?

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Speaker 1: Please do so.

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Speaker 2: My wife, who has been a retired teacher for eleven years,

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Speaker 2: I was like why, and she wanted to. They call

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Speaker 2: well that my daughter just opened the little store in

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Speaker 2: my lookout Canine Crunch Company. Bring your dog in? Do

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Speaker 2: you have a dog?

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Speaker 1: No? I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's right there in the square, right by Ed

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Speaker 2: and Hangary easy and all that, and you bring your

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Speaker 1: Gotta cover it, gotta cover it. Hey, Rudy, thanks a

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Speaker 1: buch for joining us to day. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Gary, You're awesome and I do owe you those beers

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Speaker 2: one of these days.

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Speaker 1: All right, buddy, take care, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Take care of yourself.

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Speaker 1: You bet you? All right. Rudy Forte and he is

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Speaker 1: the one of the owners of slats. We've had him

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Speaker 1: on many times and lost seriousness. If you're in the market,

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Speaker 1: we were going to do just the back of the house.

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Speaker 1: And because my boss, Sue said that's what we're going

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Speaker 1: five minutes. And she does not like high pressure at all,

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Speaker 1: and like Rooty and her best friends, and she's going

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Speaker 1: through the book and she goes, just do the whole house. Now,

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Speaker 1: do that. So good people to deal with. All right, Well,

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