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Introduction and Sponsorship Disclosure
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Baker Plbg
Listen, I'm to speak right into the microphone loud and clear so there's no getting it wrong. um Everything you see here, this entire podcast is brought to you by Bob Baker and Baker Plumbing. That's the only funding that happens here. I am funded by no one else.
Questioning Motivations at Industry Events
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Baker Plbg
I do find it... um
00:00:21
Baker Plbg
Interesting, that the world that we live in, I'll pick on Gary for a minute, even though he's blocked me. You know, the thing about blocking people is I still get to talk smack, whether you block me or not.
00:00:34
Baker Plbg
All you're doing is protecting your own soft sensibilities. i want I want to know if Gary's getting paid to show up at CMPX, because last year he was not paid or they did not meet his terms, and so he didn't show up.
Critique of Trade Advocacy and Compensation
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Baker Plbg
What does that say? Like you are part of you claim to be part ah like an advocate um for the trade and represent the trade, but you don't show up unless there's dollar bills involved amongst your own kind.
00:01:07
Baker Plbg
You want to call it that?
00:01:09
Baker Plbg
It seems completely disingenuous to me. And i I don't understand how you can claim on one hand to be, ah you know, we're making we're making bank, we're making buckets of cash because we're so good at what we do, and yet you still have to get paid by whomever in order to make it
Brand Loyalty Amid Past Dismissals
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Baker Plbg
work. Yeah.
00:01:33
Baker Plbg
You know, I use all the products. I am an avid advocate of Viega. Use these tons of it. Tons of it, even though they have dismissed me.
00:01:47
Baker Plbg
because I don't like the way I do things. i'm ah Same with rigid. like I literally have bought in the last four or five years, $60,000, $70,000 worth of rigid products.
00:01:59
Baker Plbg
ah Nothing but Milwaukee. i don't have I have one DeWalt, which is the 3-8
00:02:06
Baker Plbg
three eights thread rod cutter, which works great.
Skepticism of Endorsement Impartiality
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Baker Plbg
Anyway, you when you see someone, that their entire van is has been paid for by Rigid or Milwaukee or whatever the case may be, and you think that their opinion is not swayed in any way, i don't know how dumb you i don't know how dumb you are if you don't think that they're that they are tainted um by the free product that they get, that their that their opinion is paid bought and paid for.
00:02:44
Baker Plbg
It's like the politicians, man. um do you believe any of the politicians that are pro-Israel when they get hundreds of thousands up to millions of dollars of AIPAC money? You're like, oh, ah I'm sure your opinion is not suaded at all.
Call for Transparency in Endorsements
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Baker Plbg
And just because it's not hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and frankly, some of it is hundreds of thousands dollars worth of product, um you don't think that their opinion is going to be suaded and jaded and weighted in terms favor of that product.
00:03:19
Baker Plbg
Come on, man. And we scream for transparency on every platform. And yet when we come here. oh no, I Bob, you're just being mean.
00:03:32
Baker Plbg
Well, I guess. I'm certainly not. I'm you know what I am. I'm a kind person. I'm not a nice person. And you guys can look up the difference on that. Anyway, ah have fun at CMPX.
00:03:45
Baker Plbg
um I won't be there. Although I've i've had a half dozen invitations to come out and show show up and whatever. But i have I am self-funded, which means I need to go out and you know make the money in order to pay my taxes.
Politicians and Tax Avoidance Allegations
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Baker Plbg
you know If I didn't have to pay taxes, I would have retired a decade ago.
00:04:08
Baker Plbg
That's the fact. Which is why politicians, when they get in there and you know, find out how they don't have to pay those taxes anymore are instantly go from $100,000 worth of net worth to $35 million.
00:04:22
Baker Plbg
i Anyway, I would do the same thing if if I didn't have to pay taxes. Anyway, as usual, those are my thoughts,
Personal Sign-Off and CMPX Well Wishes
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Baker Plbg
not yours. Everybody have a great time at CMPX.
00:04:33
Baker Plbg
Say hi to Gary for me. Say hi to the bot who... Say hi to... I wonder if the bot and the page are going to hook up again.
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Baker Plbg
Let me know.
00:04:46
Baker Plbg
That's it. My thoughts, not yours. Have a blessed and fabulous Monday.