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Making it rain
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In more ways than one!!
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Handling Criticism and Future Trade Show Plans
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Baker Plbg
Zippity-doo-dah, it's fabulous day. Listen, I am getting a little bit of flack because I am not going to the trade shows. Somehow I am being
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Baker Plbg
portrayed as someone that won't back up what I'm saying. And I don't know what that means exactly. Back up what I'm saying. What am i saying?
00:00:22
Baker Plbg
Doesn't really matter. ah You can, we had a lovely game of ball this morning, invited some of the Renai reps and um you can ask Maurice and Ben if the Bakers can back up their ah there claims of ball.
00:00:39
Baker Plbg
Been playing that game for a long time. Love that game. um Not nearly as fast or as agile as I used to be, but I can still shoot her.
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Baker Plbg
Um, I'm gonna, ah I mean, it is trade show season. And as you know, I certainly have said many disparaging things about the trade shows and some of the people that attend them.
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Baker Plbg
I fully ah intend to ah go to a couple of these trade shows in the in the next couple of years.
Securing Contracts and Planning Exit Strategy
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Baker Plbg
I have secured the last, not the last, the next six, um,
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Baker Plbg
commercial boiler rooms that we we're going to upgrade. Those all basically came through in an email this week. We've been approved to do all of those and they range between 100 and 300 K each. And so that the whole purpose of what I'm doing is to lay the foundation for my two fabulous young men.
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Baker Plbg
um so that I can exit sort of odd to what ah in my own career, I guess, at the peak, and then let them take it from there. And hopefully it continues in a crescendo incrementally better every time.
Economic Challenges and Market Opportunities
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Baker Plbg
every year that's tough to do you will absolutely experience some ups and downs and i think there's some downs going on certainly in eastern canada and other places in the world fortunately for us for me we're in a pretty we're in a very particular zeitgeist and we continue to be quite busy ah very busy actually So that said, I had a conversation with Bob Murray there, Boiler Crew, and we are going to go to Gatorland. I'm not sure when the next one's in Orlando. I suspect it goes because it was just in Vegas.
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Baker Plbg
Then it'll probably go back to, i should look it up, ah Chicago and then Orlando. So anyway, ah you will see me at a trade show sooner or later. That I can promise.
00:02:48
Baker Plbg
Now that some of these things are sort of... congealed to the point that they don't need to be babied quite so much anymore. Anyway, my thoughts, not yours. i hope everybody has a fabulous fricking day. What else do you want me to say?
Overcoming Challenges and Enjoying the Trade
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Baker Plbg
Oh, it's, I will say it is an ah despite what's going on in the world, and the world has always been a troubled place. it's ah There's always been turmoil. There's always been challenges. There always will be turmoil and challenges. There'll always be always be struggle and strife. That's the name of the game. And if you want my philosophical and sort of religious view of that, then I think that's what we're here for, is to learn how to deal with the problems as they present themselves and prove ourselves to ourselves.
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Baker Plbg
of what we're capable of doing and and what we need to work on and and what we can and ought to be focused on. It's been just the joy of my entire life to be part of this ah trade, to be part of the kinship that it is. Just like every group of people, there's some wonderful people and there's some meatballs in there. It doesn't change. It doesn't matter what type of group
Reflecting on Human Interactions and Self-Improvement
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Baker Plbg
to get. If you get 20 people in a room,
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Baker Plbg
There's 12 of them that I will you know have a reasonable conversation with, three of them that I will absolutely probably be you know best buds with, and then A couple more that are i just are acidic to me.
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Baker Plbg
And then, you know, the rest are blah. So it's just how the nature of of ah hum of humanity. um I don't think you should take it with too much seriousness. I certainly don't.
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Baker Plbg
But I do think that we all ought to be and need to be better at our craft. how we present ourselves both in this space and in um the world in general. general As usual, those are my thoughts, not yours.
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Baker Plbg
Have a blessed and fabulous Tuesday.