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Big Announcement
16 Plays27 days ago
The time is coming to and end
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Transcript
Introduction and Daily Routine
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Baker Plbg
Okay, big day in the barns. Fabulous Saturday. Hope all is well. i Just finished the workout. Just trying to cool off here a bit.
Retirement Announcement and Preparations
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Baker Plbg
Figured I'd take the um a moment to um
00:00:12
Baker Plbg
let everybody know I'm going to i'm retiring. That is it. Before everybody gets excited and thinks that they won't have to deal with the wrath of Baker anymore, that's going to be in 2030. Got all the...
00:00:24
Baker Plbg
um got all the all the stocks and accounting and the all that c stuff set up. So that's going to
Reflecting on Business Journey
00:00:32
Baker Plbg
be awesome. And then the boys are chomping at the bit to take over the helm. I've been at this thing for 43 years now, run my own business for 30.
00:00:42
Baker Plbg
And so when I'm done, that'll be 47 and 30. It's been just the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. that's That's the only way to describe what it's like to run your own show.
00:00:55
Baker Plbg
um
Post-Retirement Plans and Advocacy
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Baker Plbg
Yeah. ah And so if there's, I guess I'll put that out there now. If, you know, there's a group or company or whatever that would benefit from my ah advocacy.
00:01:12
Baker Plbg
I'm going to become a trade show advocate. Maybe I'll teach lessons on how to to wean yourself off of the trade shows. I mean, like you go to World of Concrete.
00:01:25
Baker Plbg
I don't know what plumbers are doing at World of Concrete. And, of course, we're coming up on –
00:01:32
Baker Plbg
HR this week, wet show, of course, the world's greatest prom, ah HVAC Tactical Awards. And I say that, I know, Matt, listened to your track today, nice job, brother, um with some jest and with some seriousness. Everything
Future Challenges and Warnings
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Baker Plbg
I say is is is joking and serious, the exact same moment.
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Baker Plbg
um But it has been a marvelous, marvelous journey. And ah i i'm I guess you could say I'm sort of ready for the next, whatever's next.
00:02:09
Baker Plbg
I so think I've done i've done a lot of things in the plumbing trade and and looking for some other challenges within the industry. So we'll see how that goes. That is obviously going to be...
00:02:20
Baker Plbg
ah ah A work in progress. We'll see what comes, see what goes. ah
00:02:26
Baker Plbg
So don't celebrate too quickly because you're to have to put up with my opinionated, arrogant ass for another four years. That's it. That's how that's going to go.
00:02:37
Baker Plbg
Anyway, and to those that ah hate me, you.
00:02:44
Baker Plbg
Those are those. And for the next four years, those are my thoughts, not yours. And um that may have to change because I will become beholden to some grandmaster till then suck it.