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As expected Darren didn't show up....might be time for us to fire him as one of our correspondents
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Introduction and Early Leadership
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Well, I got up early, got a crew to lead, sitting up pulls and ropes, that's a lie for me. From a wedding to a fair, from the field to the town, the one you call you need a ten up or down.
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Good afternoon.
Tailgate Talk with Kevin from Made in the Shade
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got a nice little episode of some tailgate talk with the boys today. We got Kevin back from Made in the Shade. Kevin, how you doing? Yo, what's going on, man? Life is good out here. We're getting a music festival built, and so on site for the next two to four weeks, getting this thing done.
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Love it. And then we, of course, got my lovely host, Kyle. Kyle, how you doing, buddy? I'm good, Nate. How are you? Oh, you know, just living. L-I-V-N living.
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I missed you. I came out to see you. I know you did. i know you did. And I really wish that I could have met up with you, but unfortunately, some bad timing with some family stuff that we'll go into later.
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But yeah, so we're here today, though.
Logistics for Napa Music Festival
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And we're also supposed to have Darren Randall on here from Houston Tents and Events. He's got a meeting that ran over a little bit, so he might be popping in here a little while. So that'll be great. But we'll just get on with some some things that are going on right now in your guys' is world.
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Just ah some hot topics or just some you know, trending things that are going on as we start to knock out busy season here and go full force. So Kevin, give me a little bit about what you got going on, buddy. Yeah. So definitely out here. and This is my fourth day of build at this music festival we do every year in Napa, California.
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We started doing it in 2013. we've been there One of their couple of vendors that have been with them since the beginning of the inception of the festival. So kind of an interesting build.
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It's a lot of puzzle pieces. yeah You got to put one tent in and then do one con X box in. And it's just not a point and shoot. Hey, set this thing up and go. It's, you know, we got to wait for things and get things in the right place.
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They never tell you that, Kevin, when they send it out to bid. Oh, never. Yeah. There's never any changes, nothing like that. Yeah. All these big festivals just think it's easy. Like, oh, we just need a 20 by 20, Kyle. We need 50 of them.
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Well, yeah, they don't tell you that you can put it up and then they're going to make you move 10 times. With that, Kevin, tell us a little bit about your game plan, how you guys warm up for the day, your game plan on that kind of stuff and the install, especially this being a large one, multi-day install.
00:02:21
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How do you guys kind of work into this event? But then how do you handle it every day of the event? Because it's so long.
Preparation for Large Festivals
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Yeah, so definitely, you know, we start talking about this thing, this event towards the end of the year before, you know, so ah this is 2025. you know, end of 2024, we are starting to discuss things, you know, any kind of changes coming up, what's coming, what's happening.
00:02:46
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And then we start having some meetings between us and their operations. you throughout the beginning of the year. And then it gets as it gets closer, we do a huge meeting where, you know, we go over pretty much all the specifics.
00:02:59
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Most the time, tents stay in the same place at this festival, but there is like 40% area of, ah area change of new areas or we're redoing this or rethinking that so it's uh for the most part some of it's the same so we know to start preparing for this you know even a month or so out as far as getting our vinyl ready pulling pipes pulling inventory and all that we work together with the festival operations and keeping a good communication on what's going on so i think that's some of the things that people don't
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yeah Like you said, Kyle, when they're placing this bid on this, they'll look at the bottom line and go, oh, this is a great job. It's it's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. Well, you do have time when you're not even building at this thing that you have to dedicate to this and and working and discussing it with your contacts or, like I said, the operations of the festival group.
00:03:55
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it's countless hours that you spend doing that at your office, at your warehouse, wherever it may be that I think people tend to forget it. Don't really put into perspective when they're bidding a job like this.
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And then when you're currently on site right now, you guys, you do your toolbox meetings in the morning and everything to kind of talk about the day to day and really what each, individual group is doing and how how they're split up?
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Yeah, so pretty much what kind of what I do is actually the day before i start talking about the next day with my site person and some of the leads out here and you know, we'll start towards the and last couple hours of the day, we'll, we'll talk about what the next day is going to entail what the game plan kind of is so they can get it in their head. And then when they show up here in the morning, first thing we do is we start stretching a little bit, you know, spend a couple minutes stretching out our legs, arms, you know, neck, all that together.
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And while we're we're doing that, we'll go over like kind of a what the game plan is for the day and what safety things we need to look out for, whether it's we're driving machinery, driving 10 oxes, running forklifts, you name it.
Crew Motivation and Welfare
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We'll talk about all the different safety issues that could come into play. And that's our JSA that we do every morning, it's like five, 10 minutes at most while we're stretching. So are you doing those twice a day, Kevin, like a midday one after lunch?
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Yeah, so sometimes we do like a midday kind of like, hey, this is, you do like a refresh. Like, okay, hey, you know, things have changed. the You know, we went from having overcast and cold. Now it's hot and sunny.
00:05:27
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Hey, drink some more water and and watch out for what you're doing. And yeah, so we'll just kind of like, it's a refocus basically is what you would call it. And so you refocus after lunch and kind of spitball a game plan because it could have changed from what you started that day with.
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Passing out energy drinks about noon, one o'clock to make sure everybody comes back lively and ready to go. ah Yeah, there you go. Don't let them leave the job site so that way they they're wrangled in.
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Right before we hopped on here, Nate, we got a big one this weekend. I made a shopping list for one of the office ladies cause i don't want the guys to leave for lunch. I was like, go buy all this. We'll take a grill. just You save so much time that way. Yeah.
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That was kind of my next question is, are you guys doing that? Because know like we have a big have some big ones coming up. And even in the... you know, the the production meetings that we're having for this one that we got coming, the event planners already prepping to bring lunch and dinner in every night so that we don't leave just because there's not a whole lot around and it would take so much time. So what do you guys do in that aspect?
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I can kind of talk about what kind of happened with us. So we we've been doing, like I said, this festival since 2013. And we kind of in the late 2010s, you know, the 18, 19, our guys got accustomed to us buying second lunch for them.
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almost every day because we work so much out here. So it became an expectation from them. and we had to reset and say, like, no, this isn't a guarantee every time that we are going to provide you lunch. Like it's, you know, it's just part of the the thing, especially if you're, you know, wanting to leave, you know, leave at a decent time. So You know, it was one of those interesting things where as soon as the 10th hour roll around, they'd be asking, where's our lunch? Where's our lunch? Where's our lunch? So think you got to work on these expectations, right? And kind of do that where every once in a while, I don't mind doing it. I don't mind going, hey, guys, I'm i'm buying, you know, let's go eat down here on our way out or whatever it may be.
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Yeah, I try to do it every every once in a while, but try and keep it to a minimum for me so that it's a more of a specialty thing when we do it. So they they really embrace it more instead of expect it.
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Are you in hotels? I'm not in hotels. I'm about, we're about an hour or so away. So it's not horrible. You know, it really didn't pencil out to stay at a hotel here. Plus we're in Napa. So that's an hour without traffic in, in, in California. What's that like two and a half, four hours.
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ah Yes. So yeah. listening Realistically. So yeah. So while, while thinking about hotel rooms again, we, you know, we're in, we're in Napa. So yeah. Hotel rooms are usually quite expensive here, especially when it gets towards the weekend. So doesn't matter almost what time of year it is. So it's just our guys, they, our crew really are in a better mood when they get to sleep in their own bed at home. So it just works out. My point going to be about lunch. Like if you're in a hotel room, you kind of they force your hand. You got to do something because there's only so much they can do.
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But if you're going home every night, they have the ability to bring food with them. Yeah. Exactly. So yeah, and and like I said, did in the past, it was expected and almost guaranteed and we had to rework that to where, like said, it's got to be a little bit more special. It's got to be something that, you know, hey, I'm grabbing i'm grabb you dinner because I appreciate you do everything you do more than doing it every single day because then, like said, it then it loses its lust.
00:08:46
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You have lie. You're buying them In-N-Out when you want In-N-Out. I was going to There is an In-N-Out here on the way out. And yes, we will hit that thing hard.
00:08:57
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So that was kind of my next thing. What's your go-to meal that y'all are buying for the cruise when you're on site? Ours is typically, ah you always go with like a sandwich place. So it's something that's a little bit colder, not super hot, especially in the hot months.
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What's like your guys' go-to or do you have a go-to? I'm a Wings. We buy Wings. The guys love them That's what they want. They want chicken and rice usually, but I usually just get couple hundred wings, let them house that.
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That's a good idea. Yeah, we usually do like an In-N-Out something like that. Even they like Panda Express and all that. A pizza has become kind of just a tough one to do because it's just so much bread and you feel so horrible after that. It's like, i don't know.
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It's one of those things that it's nice to change it up. Yeah. Yeah. No, I get it. I get it. That's awesome. So you guys, how long will you be out there for? I'm here roughly about four to five weeks just in between.
00:09:52
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Yeah, because they've added a second weekend. So it's about two and a half of build, a week in between, and then about a week after to take it all down. So yeah, so that's what I live out here. I kind of just do some stuff on my computer while I'm getting the the crew's going and all that.
00:10:09
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But have yeah, and we've even gotten business from being a vendor here. You know, people have worked with us other places and refer us constantly. That's awesome. Yeah, we kind of we got a big job coming up here in the next week.
00:10:21
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We have that same thing. They have a contract with us. They do a lot of corporate stuff out there, so they refer us, and we a't end up getting a lot of business for that, such as I know we were talking right before this call, so much so that this corporate client that money is no option to them, and when you tell them no, they just come back more aggressively.
Handling Last-Minute Requests and Client Expectations
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Came back to me yesterday, and they want this platform built over four Prevo buses so that they can watch the race from the top all the way across the buses. And so I went ahead and pitched the double-decker, of course. Not that I have the time to do it or anything, but you know we figure it out because that's what we do.
00:10:53
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But I think that's going to be a go as well. So that's that's fun, but not love those jobs, but not the double decker stuff at the last minute. I got a question when it comes to something like that, when you're so when you're doing a big change like that, switching from maybe some flat tents, tents on like a flat floor, you know, now you got a double decker.
00:11:12
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What does that change? Does that mean like an engineer has to figure some stuff out? got do some kind of different drawings? Like what does that all entail switching over to that, you know, kind of at that last minute?
00:11:23
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The first thing is you go get the nicest bottle of bourbon or steak dinner and you go sit down with the fire marshal and you beg him to let you permit it outside 10 days or inside 10 days, because that's where it starts.
00:11:35
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And as long as that gets all done, then we kind of figure it out. I mean, it's, it's, it's not ideal, but let's be honest. If we got the inventory sitting around, we always find the labor. And I mean, I know labor is so tough in this industry right now, but with,
00:11:47
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all of the labor that's out there to be outsourced from ah labor agencies, specialized labor agencies, yeah we're able to figure it out, but we're just adding, you know you got to add that premium dollar then for the labor. So it really throws a wrench in things and it's already, we're scrambling at that time because like I said, that the timeline went from about three weeks out to about a week and a half now because they're hosting other events at the Speedway that I didn't necessarily know about the week before.
00:12:15
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So we can't really bring in loads or anything. So it's just, it's really just putting more labor on it. And then, uh, you know, we might have to work some longer days, but I go in and calculate my man hours, calculate the time that I think it'll take to get done, throw that all in the contract and, you know, add a little extra just in case it runs over. And then, you know, we, uh, we'll put a, but one specialized crew just on that.
00:12:35
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So it's great, but it's also, you know, it's a, I always say I hate it, but it's just part of the business. I mean, and we've been doing this long enough that we know that this kind of stuff is going to happen.
00:12:46
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um I had another one roll in last night. That's a 15 by 20 meter corporate one. And so that's, that's also like the benefit and the downfall of being the primary vendor at that location. When you're the primary vendor, you feel obligated that you have to take everything on because if you say no, then they going They're going to go find somebody that'll bring it in. And you know, somebody that doesn't have that contract is like, Oh,
00:13:08
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if I can get one in there, then I can get two in there. And if I can get two in there, how many can I get? And can I get the contract? So customer service comes first. The quality, you know, is there too.
00:13:18
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And we don't give ourselves a bad name and keep the quality, but really that just, means, hey, do you want to pay the premium for labor for you waiting until the last minute? And are you flat out just saying that, hey, if you had booked this seven, eight months ago, we'd be talking about a different price?
00:13:31
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So let me tell you, that when they sent me over the renderings and the guy from China drew it up and sent it over, and he they were like, oh, this is great. This is amazing. It's like the guy from China has no idea what goes into this. Yes, it is great. Yes, the rendering looks fantastic.
00:13:44
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But what you just sent me is going to take like literally three weeks to kind of get the ball rolling on, if not longer than that. Like that's material and everything. And it wouldn't be so bad.
00:13:56
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i don't mind the changes in making it happen. But when you're in the month of May, as you guys know, May and June are two of the busiest months of the year. So trying to just accommodate not even the labor, it's just the inventory.
00:14:07
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So i I love specialized projects. I love a challenge. Like that's the name of the game. That's fun. That's what I love to do. But I can't do it and be good at it. and in in that short amount of time with that limited amount of inventory.
00:14:20
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Well, I feel like some customers think that they're your only customer. I have some of those. they think a lot work for anyone else yeah There's a lot of entitled customers out there that think, hey, this is how it needs to be done and you you need to get it done. And I don't have a problem with doing it.
00:14:35
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I tell them, hey, if you would have booked this ah ahead of time, this is what the price would have been. But now because you're booking it this late, this is what the labor is in hopes that, you know, since we've already got this job coming next year, and we know it's going to be there next year.
00:14:47
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in hopes that this if this person comes back, they're like, you know what, i got booked this ahead of time. And that's what I've done with a lot of these clients with with this specific event is I've kind of told them that up front so they know and they are now booking their stuff ahead of time.
00:15:00
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And actually, as we're talking right now, it just rolled in. We are now looking to just do a 20 by 40 frame tent. So no double decker. And that is the name of the game there too.
00:15:13
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Yep, exactly. So that just proves my point on, hey, you give them the prices and you say if you would have booked it, this would have happened, but It is what it is. I'm all for putting a West Coast frame tent on the ground on asphalt and putting some blocks on it. so Yeah, right. Calling it a day. That saves on labor.
00:15:27
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Nate, when it comes to like, you're talking about sometimes in May, of course, you know, our inventory is always going to be the death of us sometimes. It's just, do we have it? Can we do it? do we have enough pieces to make it work?
00:15:38
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You do so quite a bit, you know, work from home or work from the road. do you think it's a challenge sometimes to having that and not being able to run into the warehouse and like look and see what you have? Yeah, so I get a little bit of anxiety sometimes where, you know, in Nashville, especially because we're so limited on, you know, who we have there at all times, you know, it's usually just one person in there and he's not there all the time.
00:16:02
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So trying to get this is just now anybody looking for a job, project managing or warehouse, please let me know. We need
Remote Logistics Management
00:16:11
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some people in Nashville. But trying to get that accomplished is kind of hard and tough sometimes.
00:16:16
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Chattanooga, it's not so bad because we have such a great team between our warehouse and just all around staff that I can make a call to Logan or I can make a call to Michael and we can usually come up with it pretty quickly.
00:16:30
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So being on the road from that aspect doesn't really bother me. The only time I get a lot of anxiety is when I can't sit front of my computer with three screens and I have to look at one and I have to jump back and forth between everything on one screen when I'm on the road.
00:16:41
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Cause I multitask way too much. So I got to have it all in front of me. Yeah. So no, I'm not so bad on that inventory part. Cause I rely on a lot of good people to, to handle the inventory sections for me so that we can, we can make the ball roll.
00:16:54
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about you, Kyle? Like what's, What's that look like for you, man? I mean, I know I've been in your warehouse. I've seen all kinds of different, even side pulls, you know, trying to figure out what goes to what.
00:17:06
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As most of you know, we run lean and mean in here. So like, I have no true warehouse manager. I'm the warehouse manager, ops manager. i do some sales. I run all our big projects. So like,
00:17:18
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I've been to site twice already today, two different projects, came back. Now I'm working with the warehouse guys. I gave them list before we jumped on this. said, hey, is what we got to pull. is what I need. We're just outdated in technology, which I'm trying to work on. It's just sometimes hard.
00:17:33
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I don't have the bandwidth to get us RFID'd. I just cannot get myself to sit down and do it. I need to just hire someone and say, this is your project. But I'm looking at integrating 4C, I hope, in the next year, year and a half, which I hope will help with a lot of stuff.
00:17:49
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Shout out Ramsey. Future sponsor of the podcast, maybe. Yeah, I didn't... I knew you were looking at it, but didn't know that ah you guys were diving in. That's fun that's wonderful. My plan is to be in by next summer. That's great. I told Ramsey that.
00:18:02
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It's just, it's going to make life so much easier. And by then, I think he'll have all of the kinks worked out. i think he's got 90% them worked out by now. So I'm excited to hear what the first users have to say. Like, I think Darren, ah wish he was here.
00:18:14
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think he's going to be one first. Yeah, i think that that I think that what is most appetizing to us on that is that just dragging clicking and dragging and dropping and everything now as you guys know in this in the in the older stuff it's like you can't just do that you have to do 100 different things to be able to do that and so it's so nice just to be able to drop and drag well i feel like it's going to be much easier to teach someone how to understand like so a new person in your office like how hey this is going to tell you we don't have the labor of the trucks to do this job on this day instead of me having to go in after they already booked the job and go hey well
Integrating New Technology
00:18:46
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we can't do this that day you find out if we can move it yeah
00:18:49
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I know you're running lean and thin over there, whatever you like to call it, but you need to hire some people too. Yeah. Brian's a avid listener of this podcast. So maybe Nate, he'll listen to you. Shout out Brian. Give me a call, Brian.
00:19:02
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We can have a conversation, but I'm also trying to work that angle too. So shout out Mike Holland, both of you guys get in the room together and we can all talk.
00:19:11
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Maybe we just bring them on here. Yeah. yeah yeah We do need to do that, but. All right, Kyle, let's hit you here, buddy. which ah What do you got going on? There's some challenges and what kind of setups you got going on.
00:19:23
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So I'm working on a big one for, we got to put it up on Saturday, big 25 meter and an 18 meter. And it's going to be about eight and a half semi loads. And I can only park two trucks on site at each time. So I'm trying to go through loads and make sure like You got to make the trucks show up at the right time.
00:19:41
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Cause if truck four shows up, but you need the stuff on truck one first. And like we were saying about, this is all stuff that customers don't realize, like all the work that goes in before you even show up. They have no clue that you spend seven hours making sure that each semi is loaded properly.
00:19:56
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that's the biggest thing on the last minute stuff. And the, even the rain plan stuff is what gets me the most. I hate rain plan. They always want to cancel at the last minute. Don't want to pay for it. You know, this and that, but what they don't see is, know, I talk about how great of a team we have, but you talk about how many people that takes to go into prepping all that stuff and setting that stuff to the side.
00:20:16
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and putting it on a truck and just did not get paid for it. And we, we just can't do that anymore. You know, people, I would love to get people to understand that, Hey, this is no different than a construction company that's coming to build a house. It's, it's no different than somebody we accommodate with time windows and everything else, but that's just something that is so tough to accommodate.
00:20:36
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If you're renting a hotel room or an Airbnb, if you canceled the day before you're paying it. Correct. So yeah I think it, what it's hurting is the, And any planners listening to this, feel free to chime in and and at me here. But I think it's killing their bottom line, too.
00:20:50
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I think that they're trying to make a little extra off that, too, as well. And, you know, they're trying to get out of it as much as they can. And, you know, that's it's it's a win, lose, lose, lose situation for everybody. I get. But that's the playing the head stuff.
00:21:05
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I'm with you, Nate. I hate rain plans. There's nothing. I don't mean to chime in on your conversation here, Kyle, but I had speaking of rain plans. Somebody called me yesterday. wanting a tent so 40 by 60 for 170 people for a ceremony an hour and 40 minutes away and they said they didn't care what the price was they'll pay it they'll pay for our hotel rooms and everything else and i didn't have the heart to tell the lady well you're already going to be paying for the hotel rooms and freight and everything so that doesn't matter but there's just no way in hell that we can make that happen in that a short amount of time with in the busy season and i just don't understand why people don't
00:21:39
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Prepare for that type of stuff. Well, that's my favorite is when they call on a Friday or a Thursday, like it's going to rain this week and I want a tent. And I'm like, well, I can't get it done. I'm like, what do you mean? You're not just waiting for it.
00:21:50
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I was like, no, like people actually book this stuff in advance. People don't take us seriously, which we, it is what it is, but. Well, I think that they don't, we can rant on this all day. They just don't understand our industry and nobody does. And that's kind of why we're doing what we're doing to try and bring, bring notice to this industry of exactly what it does and what it is.
00:22:08
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You know, Jesus, do we understand the industry? You know, sometimes I have to ask myself that. Some of these Facebook warriors seem to know a lot more than us. You know what I have seen though lately?
00:22:18
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And I don't know if this has been contributed to this podcast or not. Ever since we talked about those people making shitty comments to people and, and berating them for their work they're doing. I just seen yesterday a post where, can't remember what the guy's name was, that put on there, and good for him for being brave enough to put it all on there, put it on there, his setup. And it was like, he did a 40 by 100, a couple 30 by 60s, a 30 by 40 and everything. And I've kind of been watching that guy from afar too.
00:22:46
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Jared Nigro. yeah Yes, yes. I've been watching him from afar on just kind of some of the stuff he's doing. And it's cool to watch the progression of his company. It was also cool to see in the comments, everybody cheering him on.
00:22:57
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That was really awesome. Yeah. so Hey, shout out Tom Hazen for the, I've been doing this 41 years. I just don't get excited anymore. i feel that, Tom. Yeah. Yeah. and hit When he went down, I felt it in my soul. But he also said, you know, good for you for having the drive or something along those lines. And I was like, man, he is so right. He's being so real. But, you know.
00:23:18
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That's hopefully the older way that we can kind of change a little bit and try and make this more enjoyable. I don't know if we're going to get there anytime soon, but we're working on it slowly but surely. Yeah, I like that support. yeah It's not the work that beats me up. It's the customers.
00:23:31
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It is. It is. But let's be honest. Without the customers, we're not here today. so That's true. Without the employees, you can't do the work. and exactly yeah i like like to say i'm another face in the crowd when i'm when i'm out there ah yeah i'm sure but uh you guys what what's the what's the one big big project you're doing right now i got two going on right now i got a two you universities reunions so we've been on that for three and a half weeks now so that's next weekend and then another school graduation we're starting this weekend a big one perfect
00:24:07
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And then he kind of, i've I've been seeing, you've been working some crazy weekend hours, especially driving truck apparently too.
Personal Reflections and Industry Support
00:24:13
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Yeah. You know, getting behind the big rig. but i honestly enjoy that so much more. i wish I could do that every day. It's so fun.
00:24:22
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We won't make this too much longer. It looks like Darren's not to able to join us today. Business comes first. I understand. Probably working for Wells Fargo today. Yeah, exactly. Or maybe National Bank or somebody. Yeah.
00:24:33
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But, You know, I just want to touch on how grateful I am for everybody in this industry that have become more of a, sorry, getting a little emotional family to me more than just friends.
00:24:45
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Been dealing a lot with my wife and everything she has going on. If many of you don't know, she has currently, we found out that gee she has kidney cancer. um So we're currently dealing with that.
00:24:57
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And um we've got a lot of great people out there that have reached out and that have helped. ARA donated some money to us too. And that was just ah amazing to see. I really appreciate that. Shout out Tony for that, but just all the love and support that we've been shown from this industry as a whole.
00:25:13
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And that's what's kept me here. But also just everybody at my office between Nashville and Chattanooga, the Holland family for everything that they've done for me and let me have some time to be able to, to be able to take the family part in, you know,
00:25:27
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We've talked a lot of, I feel like God works really weird ways, but you know we talked a lot about work-life balance in a lot of these episodes early on. And it was like he was preparing me for something bigger to show me the work-life balance that I need and that im um I was ready that wasn't ready for going into busy time.
00:25:45
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But ah my crew has stepped up more than I can ever imagine. And I know they're running themselves ragged and they're all over the place, but I truly appreciate them and everybody else in this industry for everything they've done. So...
00:25:57
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yeah so with that just everybody give me some more good prayers keep it going love y'all and um hope everybody is uh staying safe out there during busy season it trying yeah yeah hey i think you know from coast to coast man we're all thinking about you and emily and your family and all that so yeah appreciate it really do all right guys will you be safe out there and i'll talk with y'all later see ya see ya