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AHR Update
12 Plays29 days ago
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Decision Against Las Vegas
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Baker Plbg
And I am getting a bunch of messages, so I'm just going to respond to everybody here. i'm not I won't be in Las Vegas. One of these days, I'm going to show up at AHR. I don't know when. There's a lot there's a lot on the plate. Winter is incredibly busy for us here.
00:00:17
Baker Plbg
um We are not some gigantic shop with lots of guys to cover whatever needs to get covered. So um I've said it for six or seven years now. i it's It's obviously an event that is geared towards the salesman of the war of the trade world um because this is sort of their their slow season.
00:00:43
Baker Plbg
It is not the slow season for us. i do
00:00:47
Baker Plbg
And I'm not gonna go through the math again, but you know for me to go to Vegas or to any of these things, You know, really, it's it's going to cost me $10,000 to $15,000. Is it worth it to go for $10,000 to $15,000?
00:01:04
Baker Plbg
It's not. I will say this. We did have a lovely chat this Monday, and we've actually put the framework together for my expulsion from Baker Plumbing.
00:01:15
Baker Plbg
That is on the horizon. We are going to go with the year 2030.
00:01:20
Baker Plbg
because that's when the world's gonna end, so I might as well get out of this trade by that time. But that is the plan. We'll see how it goes. As you know, a million things change and who knows, but ah the boys are poised and excited and ready, and and I am excited to try some new things.
Future in Trade Post-Baker Plumbing
00:01:41
Baker Plbg
Use some of the network that I've built up over the last 30 years of doing this, and um'm I'm not going to retire. um But I will be involved in the trade in some form or fashion. Just don't know what that's going to be yet. And if that happens, and you know, maybe I'll go work for Viga.
00:01:59
Baker Plbg
ah According to some people, I have to learn how to say that right. Viga. ah But who knows? That's the best thing about this thing is there's a there's literally not a million, but I have dozens and dozens and dozens of opportunities to do something with myself and keep myself busy and all the rest of that stuff. So...
00:02:21
Baker Plbg
It's exciting times. I wish everybody luck and have a good time in Vegas. Remember, remember people, ah no cell phones in the ah suites, in the rooms.
00:02:36
Baker Plbg
If you're going to do debauchers, I don't want my inbox full of people's naked asses.
00:02:46
Baker Plbg
from people that hopes that I'll expose them. They'll expose themselves and their lives will turn into the tire fires that they are, but that's just how that goes. Anyway, I wish everybody have a great time down there. i do there are There is a little bit of ah FOMO about that.
00:03:03
Baker Plbg
um
00:03:05
Baker Plbg
I would love to go, I truly would, but there are ah you know other factors at play other than just showing up and having a good time. and that's how that That's how that shakes out. so um Have a great time. Say hello to all my favorite influencers out there that are going to be all posting the same damn videos over and over and over again. i get the the Okay, this is the challenge. This is the challenge.
Critique of Trade Shows
00:03:32
Baker Plbg
I didn't want this to go so long, but there's here's the challenge. When I first said, when I first was critical of the trade shows, I basically said, listen, man, it's nothing more than an excuse to ah get drunk and cheat on your wife.
00:03:47
Baker Plbg
That's, and I realized that that is very general and all the rest of that stuff. um And my the retorts I got were like, you don't understand, Baker. We're in an open, route my my wife and I are in an open relationship.
00:04:03
Baker Plbg
And my question or my question to that is, does she know that you're in an open relationship or just is it just you that knows that?
00:04:12
Baker Plbg
Anyway, so I said at the beginning, way back when, ah seven or eight years ago now, that it's literally just a ah drunken buffoonery. And I got a ton of people that were really upset with my take on that. Said, no, I go there for the products to see new products and to learn things. And I'm like, okay, then show me the products and tell me what you learned.
00:04:35
Baker Plbg
And absolute crickets. And now... most Not all of them, but most of those people have sort of just said, yeah, it's just it's just a it's just a drunk fest and for buffoonery and debauchery. Full stop.
00:04:51
Baker Plbg
That's why we're here, to let loose and have a good time, which I do not have a problem with. Like, if that's what you want to do, if that's when how you want to live your life, then... Knock yourself out. I'm not here to judge anybody. my My contention, my problems, my issues show up when people who purport to be this and act like this.
00:05:13
Baker Plbg
Right? Like the hypocrisy is what gets me. And so if you're literally just going to be a listen man, we are just going to go on a ripper. Okay. Have fun. Lock yourself out.
00:05:24
Baker Plbg
Have a good time. I got no problem with that. It's the guys that try and hide it and say, oh, no, it's all it's all professionalism and whatever. Anyway, far too long on Vegas. Hope everybody has a great time.
00:05:38
Baker Plbg
I will not see you there, but I will. I can promise you this. i will I will be at an AHR. I don't know when, but in the next couple of years for sure.
00:05:54
Baker Plbg
that is I can promise you that. i think the next one's in Chicago. It's freaking freezing in Chicago. I should look it up. i don't Why don't I pause this and I'll find out where the one after Chicago is.
00:06:07
Baker Plbg
Okay, so it's in Orlando in 2028. We'll see. We'll see. Uh, I, I would love every year. i say, you know what? I would, I should go. I should make plans to go. And then, you know, it's fricking minus 20 out there and, uh, pipes are breaking. In fact, it's been a busy, we've got a couple grandkids that have shown up. Pete's moving. And anyway, it's just, it's a busy life that I love and enjoy. and
00:06:39
Baker Plbg
You know, um there really isn't any super benefit to me showing up in Vegas for three days or two days or a week. Or I'll throw i'll throw a little crack at all traveling Paige.
00:06:55
Baker Plbg
She's already there. She's waiting. I think we know who she's waiting for.
00:07:05
Baker Plbg
Like I say, just be authentic and then I then i have no ammunition. That's all I can say. That's it. Everybody have a fantastic... Like, what is it? Like, it's the... Hang on. Hang on. I'm just going to do this in real time because whatever.
00:07:22
Baker Plbg
Like, it's... ah
00:07:25
Baker Plbg
Oh, whoops. I put 2025. I
00:07:28
Baker Plbg
can see what's going on here.
00:07:30
Baker Plbg
Losing my eyesight freaking fast, man. Oh, yeah. It's the fourth, second and fourth. So and's she's like a week early.
00:07:42
Baker Plbg
But she's busy changing the trade. Anyway, i realize I'm being shitty, and I don't really care. if you want if you want to If you want to be involved in this space, in the trade space, then I'm sorry that you got to have broad shoulders and thick skin. And if you don't have that, then you should not be in your feelings so much. Anyway, that's it.
00:08:02
Baker Plbg
My thoughts, not yours. At the blessed, was it Tuesday today? And the freaking emails never stop. Later.