Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to yet another episode with an upside down camera of real estate makes us drink. Brian Quinlan here from Daniels Real Estate.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Brad Nickup from Nest Mortgage Group is your cup. I was seeing if I had anything in there, but I do.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: It's good. Well, that's good. We have yet another guest. Young lady, who are you and what do you do?
[00:00:23] Speaker C: I am Rachel Campbell with Right Rug Flooring.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: Rachel from Right Rug, yes. One of my favorite people. You're always in a good mood, Rachel, and I love that about you.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: So, cheers. Thanks for. Thanks for coming.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Her family owns the Campbell soup business.
[00:00:40] Speaker C: You know, my husband always says it's spelled by Campbell but without the money.
Like, spelled like the soup, but no money.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: True story. So what Rachel didn't know when she was invited to be on the podcast is how much drinking happens here at the show. She's. She's got a beer, she's got a Batanga that she's never had in her life. Actually, the beer is brand new to her as well. And then a small shot glass of just Mexican coke, which was really just real sugar.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: You're loving such good coke.
[00:01:13] Speaker C: It is real sugar.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: And soon to come tequila tasting.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: You can actually buy that at BJ's.
[00:01:21] Speaker C: The Brew House or.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: No, the. The like Costco. But BJ's, those are.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: Those are coming around in Apple.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: There's one on the north side of Indy.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: I didn't know it gets everything.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: A good friend of mine said, you know, we've been buying them a little four packs at. @ Meijer for I think an arm and a leg for four.
[00:01:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: And he said, those are really cheap at BJ's. And I thought everything has to be great at BJ.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: So one would think.
[00:01:48] Speaker B: He dropped a case off on the porch the other day and I just venmoed him the cash. So that's where that came from. Thanks, Mike Gibson.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: I didn't even know there was a place called BJ's on the north side. I didn't know.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: Yeah, some ladies don't know about BJ's.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: So some people, some ladies do and they just ignore them.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:02:04] Speaker C: Most ladies ignore them.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: We got a Batanga. We got Lost Coast Tangerine beer.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: He just keeps going.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: What are you drinking, mister?
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Tequila Cantorito.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: Is this one of those you brought back from tequila?
[00:02:17] Speaker B: No, a cantorito is actually a Mexican drink. Oh, so similar to a paloma. It's actually a paloma with orange juice. There's a little added flavor There, but they drink it out of this little clay cup called a cantorito.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: If one were making recipes at home, what would they put into this drink? Matt Braun, seriously, we are working.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he's wanting to talk.
I'm gonna say.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: Okay, I'll let you do that. I today am drinking from Centerpoint Brewing company based here in Indianap A. Let's see. Shake up shandy blonde ale with lemonade. And let me tell you, this is lemonade. Y.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Well, when you poured it, it looked like you shook it up, you know, man.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: That did not appear on screen. It didn't happen.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Oh, darn recipe. You said it's.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: Like a couple ounces of tequila, a couple ounces of squirt, ounce of lime and a little bit of orange juice.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: I'm sure our boy Fred is making that right now.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: No, he's not.
[00:03:14] Speaker C: Fred should make this. I don't know.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Fred's drinking a rum and coke.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Fred is a good friend of Brad's. He has been on our show. He is the most regular watcher of the show. So we often have a shout out to Fred.
[00:03:29] Speaker C: Hi, Fred.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: There you go. That's how it works.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: Do you need flooring?
[00:03:33] Speaker B: He might. He's had that house for a few years. It's beautiful. But it might be time.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: Deal.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Well, okay. Now Rachel and I are south siders and Right rug is not just a Southside based company. Question number one. Are they an Indiana only based company? Because I don't know if they're nationwide.
[00:03:51] Speaker C: No. So Right rug flooring is based out of Columbus, Ohio. We are coming up on our hundredth anniversary and we are third generation family owned and operated. And our owner now has grown from Columbus, Ohio into 17 states and 85 markets. And I relocated here from Cincy to bring right Rug here and it's kind of my baby.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Excellent. Okay, so what is your like travel radius?
[00:04:23] Speaker C: I guess if you're a realtor and you will go there, so will I.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: Okay. So I. I mean I'm licensed in the state, so. Fort Wayne. Gary.
[00:04:33] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: Evansville. We're going.
[00:04:35] Speaker C: We're going there.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: There was no carpet in Tequila, Mexico.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: So tile was there? Tile.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Lots of tile.
[00:04:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I can do that too.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: I say you're. It's called Right rug, but certainly not just carpet.
[00:04:45] Speaker C: All the flooring, if it goes on the ground or on a shower wall.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: I've got your back, cuz some places rugs aren't right. Like a bathroom.
[00:04:54] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Oh my gosh, dude.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: In the 80s it was okay, though.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Somehow people in the 80s thought rugs in bathrooms were a good idea.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Some houses still have it, and I cannot tell you how hard I try to get it out.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: We call that vintage. Oh, yeah, we do.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: We also call that gross.
[00:05:09] Speaker C: Do you have a kid around the toilet? So bad. Around the toilet.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: So bad.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Just. Just bad things.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: So.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: All right.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: Just bad things.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Just bad.
Photoing behind us, scrolling through, are some lovely pictures I've taken off of those.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: Are all. Those are all from Tequila Mexico right there.
[00:05:28] Speaker A: Eventually, there's going to be pictures of Rachel up there. I see two boys.
[00:05:31] Speaker C: I have two boys.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: And then a house picture, which is actually what I want to talk to you about. So the boys. Tell us a little about boys.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: My boys. I have. I have three boys because my hubby is my biggest boy.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: All right, that counts.
[00:05:45] Speaker C: My Greg and I tried for a really long time to start our family, and it was just kind of a haltered process for us. So we were a little bit older. I was in my 30s, and Greg was almost 40 when we had our boys.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: You're going to be the oldest people at graduation.
[00:06:00] Speaker C: We are the oldest people on field trips already, for sure.
[00:06:03] Speaker B: You did good, honey. You did good.
[00:06:06] Speaker C: Right? Tomorrow's my first venture to the state fair for a field trip, so I'm keyed up about it. But they are 10 and 11.
It took us a long time to start, and then bam, bam. We had them back to back. And just trying to do everything I can do to give them the very best life I can give them.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Awesome. That's like happy little guys on the first day of school photos.
[00:06:27] Speaker C: I know, right?
[00:06:28] Speaker B: Like, they just went through there.
[00:06:29] Speaker C: Just, oh, I missed it. They're. They're pretty joyful. They. They get that from me. We have this effervescence most of the time. And I'm thrilled that of all my qualities, that is what they both got.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: That is all right.
[00:06:42] Speaker A: And you are preparing for their future because the house that appears back here is your first investment property.
[00:06:48] Speaker C: It is.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Tell us about that.
[00:06:51] Speaker C: So obviously, being in this industry is super important to me. I think I'm one of the few industry partners other than title and mortgage that really only focuses on the real estate industry.
And so I hear classes and I hear major speakers. Talk about investing in yourself and investing in real estate. How long 401ks have been around? How long Roth IRAs have been around? But Courtney Kraft said it really well this year. We've been investing in real estate since the Beginning of time.
So I wanted to get on that too. So we have been praying and trying to get our foot in the door for about 15 years and we thought we would start with some small flip houses. And just right now with how the market is and rates and over saturation, it didn't quite pan out.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: So now it's a bit of a challenge for a flip house.
[00:07:46] Speaker C: I think it's a bit of a challenge, but we're not getting younger, so. So I've heard time to be aggressive.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: So.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: So we purchased our first home in South Carolina for an Airbnb H. Awesome.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: And if pictures kind of tell a bit of a story, it's not far from the beach.
[00:08:02] Speaker C: It is a two minute golf cart ride and there is a brand new golf cart driveway.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: You say golf cart comes with it?
[00:08:10] Speaker C: Yes. Oh, there's my babies. My mini twins.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Look at them, guys.
[00:08:15] Speaker C: Just couldn't look.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: You know, I actually had to pause when I copied one picture and then I saw another one. I was like, wait, is this the same kid?
Different shirts, thankfully.
[00:08:23] Speaker C: Yep. Their whole lives. Oh, I like that picture too.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: Well, that's me and my mom. I know she hates that. My mom hates the big hat.
[00:08:31] Speaker C: Oh, I don't know why.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: I, I don't either. But funny story about that. They, they live in Florida. They were at my house this week and so when I woke up, we were having breakfast.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: There's the house right there. There's the house.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: There you go. Uh, I, I, my mom did not know I came up behind her. I had the big hat on. I said, mom, I know you love the hat. So we took that picture. Uh, when my mom told me she did not like the hat, I said, well, it's good thing is you're not my demographic mom.
She is not my target audience.
[00:08:59] Speaker C: I love the hat.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: Well, fix.
[00:09:01] Speaker C: I love it. I love all the videos with the hat. I think my favorite is when you jump from piece of furniture to piece of furniture. Oh, you know what I'm talking about.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: I do, Yeah.
[00:09:10] Speaker C: I watched that one over.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Did you really do those jumps or did you have like a stunt double?
[00:09:14] Speaker A: No, I, I do all my own stunts.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: You do?
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Like Tom Cruise.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: Very much so. Though not repelling in from the top of the stadium at the Olympics.
[00:09:22] Speaker C: But although now challenge accepted.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: I'm not sure that it is.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: I want to drive the car and see if you can jump into a ditch.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Oh, that's.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: Keep the hat on.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: And keep the hat on. Well, we may talk about stunt doubles for that one.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: And what you're saying is that since I've been in the mortgage business for 20 plus years, I should invest in real estate. Is that what I heard?
[00:09:44] Speaker C: This tends to be the trend.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: This is the only house I've ever.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Bought and it's amazing. So I don't know why you would. We're not going to want to be here.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: My kids are going to clean this thing out when I'm dead.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: Heck yeah.
[00:09:57] Speaker C: They're going to need to get in line.
Just kidding.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: They're going to get drunk.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Little Rachel growing up in the world, dreaming of working in the flooring industry, Right?
[00:10:08] Speaker C: No.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Okay, so how does one get into the flooring industry and wind up here?
[00:10:13] Speaker C: So my story's different. I was a bartender at Red Robin.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Red Robin, yum. My wife thought it went.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: As long as it's nice, respond to whatever.
I did a lot of their training. I worked in Cincinnati, Ohio, But I had the opportunity to go to corporate in Colorado and help write the training manual. So I was like, really in it. I thought I was going to stay with Red Robin forever.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:10:42] Speaker C: And then I served my boss. And Jerry, if you're watching this, you know I owe you.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: Hi, Jerry.
[00:10:48] Speaker C: So much.
I served my boss and he said, I watch you with people. I can teach you anything you need to know about flooring, but I cannot teach someone how to make people feel in their own home. And I think you could really help people. And I love helping people. So I was like, let me pray about it. I don't know. I thought I was going to stay with Red Robin forever.
So I called him a week later and I was like, I'm in. I'm sold. You've got me. Let's. Let's go. So then I met with some higher up executives, but I had no resume. And I came in in a red Robin shirt because my shift was about to start.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:11:29] Speaker C: And I don't think they were as, like, sold as Jerry was. They told me, like, this will change your life or ruin it. Are you really willing to take that risk? Oh, right.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: That sounds familiar.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah. For real.
[00:11:42] Speaker C: And I left like, I'm not going to get that job. And I was so sad. I didn't realize how much I wanted it until I thought I couldn't have it. And Jerry called me a week later and he was like, you're in. I'm ready. I'm going to teach you. Let's go.
And he taught me everything that he could teach me. And I owe him everything because it changed my world. So how Long ago was this nine years next month.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:12:12] Speaker C: Jackson had just turned one and Caleb was two and a half.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Okay. And so when did you move from Cincy to Indy?
[00:12:22] Speaker C: So after about a year and a half, my husband got the opportunity for a promotion and the company was located in Columbus, Ohio, or had an office in Indy.
[00:12:33] Speaker A: Good choice.
[00:12:34] Speaker C: Good choice.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: No one wants to live in Columbus, Ohio.
[00:12:37] Speaker C: Well, we're already saturated there. So I was like, I'll go try something new. And they gave me the freedom to come and I get to. I get to serve. I like to serve. Well, I feel like if I'm asking an industry to provide for my family, then I should give back to that industry and. Right. Rug gives me the freedom to serve on the board of directors for the foundation and as a my board chair. And all of these non profit things that make the world better, I get to do that too.
So.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:13:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: So we're not allowed to give realtors anything of value?
[00:13:11] Speaker C: Just your soul.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Just our lives.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: That's right.
So Rachel has been the chair of my board.
Sorry.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: So she's chair Rachel.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: Chair Rachel. Exactly.
[00:13:25] Speaker C: Rachel sitting in the chair seat.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: There it is. Are you continuing that in for another year? Is there a term limit? How does this work?
[00:13:33] Speaker C: There's a term. So for my.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: We got my boy's term limits in Congress, doesn't it? I know, right?
[00:13:41] Speaker C: So when you come in as a chair position for myborn on a division, the first year you serve as the chair elect, so you kind of learn. And on the south side we do a lot of fundraisers.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: I know.
[00:13:54] Speaker C: We are all about growing this community. So the first year you oversee the committees and learn the people in the field. Second year you serve as the chair. So I organize the speakers, the meeting, content.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: This year.
[00:14:08] Speaker C: This year I'm the chair. And then next year I'll be the immediate past chair. So I will offer all of my support to my incoming chair, Sarah Lux.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: Sarah Lux.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: That's what. That's what President Biden is right now.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: Yes. Correct. Just holding a seat.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: More cake.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: And I have to say, you're doing a really good job as chairperson.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: There is granted you and I probably tricked each other's algorithms on social media where we show up in each other's feeds all the time. Exactly. And you know, that does kind of feed into it. However, you know the. I feel like this being my fourth year in real estate, I have seen more stuff from Southside mybore in the last year, year and a half, than Prior to that. So you've done a really good job of increasing the. The vision of it, the movement, the fundraising, all of that. So great job.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: I feel like if every realtor could be at the closing table with someone from their own brokerage, well, that'd be nice, wouldn't it?
[00:15:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: So why can't we come together collectively to figure out what makes things move the most smoothly so that we're. When we're at the table with other people, we already know what to expect. And that is. My goal, is unity and education.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Great job.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: Do you guys still have meetings at the Nest?
[00:15:32] Speaker C: The Nest is no more. So currently we are meeting at the vfw. We have a really great partnership with them. We do flag drives, and they're just. They're just so lovely to work with.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: So the Nest people didn't keep that going in the conference center? She couldn't make it through Covid, probably.
[00:15:50] Speaker C: I. I don't.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: My office is in the Nest, But I didn't know she wasn't there anymore.
[00:15:54] Speaker C: They're not there, so we had to reevaluate, and the VFW is a great home for us.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Plus, you can smoke in there.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: Can you?
[00:16:04] Speaker C: That I didn't know. But during our next meeting, I think.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: I might just have a private club, you know?
[00:16:10] Speaker A: That's fantastic. That's a really good venue. You know, it's kind of out of the way, to be honest, but, I mean, holds a lot of people.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: And how about some of those older realtors? Come here, honey. Let me tell you how we do it.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: They're looking for the bar.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: We do.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: You should see my headshot from 1984.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: I think you would like my business card. I just had them made.
[00:16:33] Speaker C: I think you would like that we serve mimosas now.
[00:16:36] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:16:36] Speaker C: Because it's a morning meeting.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: Use tequila in the mimosa. It's even better.
[00:16:40] Speaker C: You know what? I'm not above trying that. I'm not opposed to that little grenadine.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: You just got yourself a tequila sunrise.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: Oh, There we go.
[00:16:47] Speaker C: 9Am Wake up call.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: Next meeting.
[00:16:51] Speaker C: Listen, don't. Don't threaten me with.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: No, here's the thing. If you do enough of that, you can have two meetings there.
[00:16:57] Speaker C: I don't have time for that. I pretty much leave that meeting to go to another meeting.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: No, none of the meetings for quitters anyway.
[00:17:05] Speaker C: Cheers to that.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: Cheers to that.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Oh, I got a little left. Oh, cheers.
[00:17:10] Speaker C: No.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: Do you want to do our tequila beverage?
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Let's go. Tequila tasting time.
[00:17:17] Speaker C: Can that go in a to go cup. Don't listen, Jerry.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: Okay, so hello, Jerry.
[00:17:21] Speaker B: As you see, today I have on a shirt from Cascaween which is a great distillery in the town of Avronheld.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: And this tequila is about as authentic as it comes. Eight year old Agaves Estate grown nom 1123 in Arnall. It is a tahuna crushed agave cooked in a stone oven.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: There will be. There will be tasting instructions.
[00:17:49] Speaker C: I'm ready.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: Just. This is roll.
[00:17:51] Speaker C: Can I ask you a tequila question?
[00:17:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, please do.
[00:17:56] Speaker C: Why do you keep tequila room temperature when it tastes so much better chilled?
[00:18:01] Speaker B: So when you chill tequila, you actually lose the aromas and the flavors.
[00:18:05] Speaker C: Ah, so that's probably why it tastes better chilled.
[00:18:08] Speaker A: Well, you know, you're probably buying the sugarfied tequila. He's all about additive free.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: I can't wait if you're drinking like Don Julio or Jose Cuervo Class Azul, whatever you can do to get that taste out of your mouth. I mean, I know how dogs do it.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: They eat the grass.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: So this, this is going traditional. This is the. This is the way tequila is supposed to be made.
[00:18:36] Speaker C: Can I smell it?
[00:18:37] Speaker B: Absolutely. In fact. Well, that's first thing you want to do.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: Instructions.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: Give it a swirl. So it's like you would a wine, right?
[00:18:42] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: And then if you look at the crown of the highest point, then you can see the legs of it like you would a wine. That means it's got a lot of oil in it.
[00:18:50] Speaker C: It's so much thicker than I thought.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:52] Speaker C: So I've clearly only been drinking garbage.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Garbage tequila.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: Have you ever swirled tequila like you do wine?
[00:18:57] Speaker C: No, but I do have a really embarrassing but great tequila story for you when we get to that point.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: All right, so when you tip the glass here, take a sniff from the bottom of the glass like that.
Got a little alcohol smell.
[00:19:13] Speaker C: Feet. It's perfect.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Okay, so then do it again from the same place.
See how the smell changed a little bit?
[00:19:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: The alcohol kind of burned off.
[00:19:24] Speaker C: It's really hard for me to not just drink it.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: They do it a third time.
A little more agave flavor smell.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: I don't know that I'm good enough to pick out the agave, but it does smell really good.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: So this time, turn your glass more and sniff from the top of the glass.
Taste it. Smell even less, Bernie. Less alcohol. So the first sip you want to do is you want it to just kind of COVID your palate. So just take a little sip and cover your palate.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: I'm going to watch you first so I know the appropriate size.
Okay.
Okay. That is not like the nasty tequila I've had in my life.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Pretty sweet. A little bit of better.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: Oh, I just got a shiver and I really barely let it touch my tongue.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: She just peed.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: She has had two kids, actually.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: You get a little.
[00:20:15] Speaker C: I didn't sneeze, so we're good.
[00:20:17] Speaker B: A little flavor of wet cement.
[00:20:19] Speaker C: I wouldn't. I don't know that I've ever tasted wet cement.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: It's like the smell when they pour cement. That's what this taste smelled like when it smells like. So then what you want to do is take a breath before you swallow and then after you swallow the tea, let the breath out your mouth.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: Peppery.
[00:20:46] Speaker C: It's quite delicious. But I have to say, I'm just so in love with this.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: It's hard to beat up a. I.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: Just don't know how to feel about it.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: So this tequila is one of my favorite tequilas.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: The Costco on the previous episode we had 101 proof.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: 101 proof.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: What's this?
[00:21:04] Speaker B: I think this one is 40.
This is 42%. So 84 proof.
So still a high proof tequila. Most your tequilas you drink are 80 proof. In Mexico they're 75. But then a lot of the distilleries have started to create high proofs or more of a still strength.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: There's so many options here. I don't. I just want to reach for a.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Glass and I'm like, drink like I do. So in Mexico, the reason the tequila is only 75 proof because Mexico taxes based on how much alcohol is in the glass.
[00:21:39] Speaker C: Aren't they genius?
[00:21:40] Speaker B: So are they.
So anyway, I like them better than here sometimes, honestly. But so in America there's a lot more high proof tequilas because it's taxed differently. You know, we just tax it as regular alcohol.
[00:21:55] Speaker C: Right.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: It's like, you know, if you think about it, you get to pay taxes on the money that you earn and pay taxes for the house you live in and then pay taxes for the alcohol that you buy.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Perfect.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: We would have dumped some tea in the harbor a while ago if we were smarter for real. But not the tequila.
[00:22:12] Speaker C: Now I feel like after this five minutes, I. I feel like I'm going to be a tequila snob. And I don't know that I can just drink a regular margarita ever again.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: You can, but what you want to do is you want to look for good tequila to be put in that.
[00:22:25] Speaker C: So do they have that at, like, El Fiesta.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: I don't know, you know what we were at.
I wish I knew the name of it. In they had a. They had siet on the bar. So what I do is when I go to a Mexican restaurant, I walk in and I look at the tequilas they have on the bar, and then I tell them what tequila to make. If I'm gonna need a drink, I want you to make it with this tequila.
[00:22:44] Speaker A: So just get the picture before you leave.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Look at the tequila before you leave.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Ask for a list of good tequilas that you need to ask about when you get to Fiesta.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: Even better. Go to your phone, download the app called Tequila matchmaker, and then you look at the additive free alliance, and then I'll tell you the tequilas that are additive free, and that's where you can find out if it's stone oven tahuna. Like all of those little things are all they teach you all of that right in that app called Tequila Master.
[00:23:12] Speaker C: I'm so excited. I never thought I would be this excited about tequila.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: It's fantastic.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: You didn't know what you were getting into here on real estate makes us drink.
[00:23:19] Speaker C: No.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: Fantastic spirit.
[00:23:20] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Outstanding.
[00:23:22] Speaker C: Delicious.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: All right, back to business.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Oh, we left business.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: We did. So I know the answer to this, but some people are not familiar with right rug. How are you different than me going to Reardon's Carpet?
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Or what was the name of that place?
[00:23:41] Speaker A: That's a place on the south side.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Rears Carpet.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: Reardon.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Oh, I just heard rear.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: No, I. I have utilize Reardon's carpet on more than one occasion.
And they're obviously. I can go to Lowe's. I can go to Home Depot. How are you different than those joints?
[00:23:58] Speaker C: How are you different from open Door?
[00:24:02] Speaker B: Well, he's not. They're exactly the same.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: They're realtors. And so am I. Rachel.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: No, they're giant investors.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:24:11] Speaker C: So I. I feel like when you get to the point where you're going to floor your home floor, it's not cheap. It is.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: It generally is not.
[00:24:19] Speaker C: Right. It's kind of an endeavor. And you don't know what you don't know. So if you are picking something solely off of look, how are you supposed to know how it's going to perform for your family?
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:24:32] Speaker C: Right. And floor coverings, there's so many different kinds you can get. There's so many different core structures and widths and looks, but it's not one size fits all. Some products don't do really well in a lot of sunlight. Some products don't do well with water, some products don't do well with large breed dogs.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: Oh, I have a Newfoundland. No, none of them do good with a large breed dog.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: But if you go shopping in a department store, there's nobody to walk you through that, right? You pick out what you want, you tell them you like it, they give you a price, they send somebody to your house to measure, that person has no idea what you've picked out, they measure your house, they give the dimensions back to the store and that's it. When I go in, while I'm measuring, I try to ask about kids, pets, extracurricular activities, sunlight. I look for curtains, I look for furniture placement. So when somebody says I want it to look like this, I can find the right look but I can make sure that it's going to be something that they need and want and that it will serve a long term purpose. And who really knows about flooring? Like unless you're a dork and you love it like me.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Nerd.
[00:25:44] Speaker C: You just don't know. You don't know the difference between a stone polymer core and a wood polymer and a PVC versus a press board. Like why would you. Those are carpets, those are LVPs and laminates.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: What do you call orange?
[00:25:57] Speaker C: Shaggy, outdated.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: That's what I want. An upstairs bathroom.
[00:26:05] Speaker C: So I just try to really find out what people's needs are and help meet that need so they have long term success and not a six month out failure.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: Okay, so can I ask my normal question? I please do. What's the most expensive extravagant carpet somebody can get?
[00:26:20] Speaker C: Wool. Wool carpet.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Is that like the. I know of a house on the north side of Indy that a friend of mine did construction there and they said that he spent over a hundred thousand dollars on the carpet just in the bedroom.
[00:26:34] Speaker C: I don't know what that carpet is. I've never sold a carpet like that. Yeah, but I'd like to meet him and see it. But real most wool is made of a bank. I bet he is.
Most wool carpets are made from merino wool and it's only grown in one.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Those like Dan Marino, NFL hall of fame quarterback. Marino.
[00:26:52] Speaker C: Maybe. I don't know.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Probably not.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: It's kind of like that suit I was talking about. The only get it from the animal that they can only brush to get.
[00:26:58] Speaker C: The fur shave this sheet.
[00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:01] Speaker C: You're only worth your house.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: The suit costs $60,000 for a jacket.
[00:27:06] Speaker C: Oh my gosh.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: Made from a wool. They can only brush off of an animal at the top of a mountain in Peru or something crazy.
[00:27:13] Speaker C: I just, I'm not that lucky yet.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: Rich people and their cool stuff.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: Yet one day you're taking right rug to that level.
[00:27:20] Speaker C: I don't know. I feel like there's a whole lot of good I could do in the world with the money for that jacket. I don't know that I real.
[00:27:26] Speaker B: No doubt.
[00:27:27] Speaker C: I like.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: But, you know, if you can afford that jacket, you probably already did a lot of good.
[00:27:32] Speaker C: That's true. I hope so. I hope that that's the mentality of that person.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: I mean, I, you know, I. This whole different subject, but, you know, people dog on billionaires, right? Because they're billionaires. But think of how many lives Jeff Bezos has affected from his time of owning his business. Not, not just in the creation of other millionaires, but in the creation of so many jobs and then the convenience of the things we order and the small businesses that now get to deliver to your house. Yep, he should be a billionaire.
[00:28:04] Speaker C: I wish I was smart enough to be a billionaire.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Like, oh gosh, don't we always?
[00:28:07] Speaker C: I just wish that I could have one idea that I'm like, this is life changing. I wish I'd have thought of doordash. I would like, I wish I was.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Smart enough not to trip up the stairs.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be nice.
[00:28:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: So if I go out onto the driveway out here, am I going to see the right rug van?
[00:28:27] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: What's in the right rug van?
[00:28:31] Speaker C: Everything.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: I need a Fortaleza anejo.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: So one of the things that I believe sets your business apart from others that I've either experienced or heard about, is you bring all the samples to someone's house.
[00:28:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: Why is that important?
So I know the answer, but I know tell the people.
[00:28:53] Speaker C: I. I feel like when you go into a department store and you pick something out under fluorescent lighting, Right. And you fall in love with it and then you get it home and.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: You just feel this 4 by 4 inch sample so good.
[00:29:06] Speaker C: And then you put it next to your kitchen cabinets and you're so excited about it. And then you're like, oh, that looks like crap. Or you put it next to your wall that you've just painted. Like you've already worked with your painter and you've picked out perfect.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: Because you paint it before you get the new carpeting. I know that.
[00:29:21] Speaker C: Yep. And so then you put it down and you're. It's underwhelming. So now you have the ability to shop for whatever you like. In your house? In my van. We modify them. So it's not like there's five samples in my truck. We take all the seats out and we build these racks that hold deck boards. So. So there's about 1700 samples in my van.
[00:29:40] Speaker A: It's a. That's a showroom in and of itself.
[00:29:42] Speaker C: It is a mobile showroom.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:29:44] Speaker C: Right? And that kind of became popular. People started shopping at home during COVID Yeah. My owner rolled this out in the 80s, so he is. When everybody else was struggling to figure out how to keep up, they already.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: Knew how to do it.
[00:29:56] Speaker C: We were already rocking and rolling.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Like one of the things I. I remember from the COVID times, you coming to talk to meetings or on zoom calls, playing bingo.
[00:30:07] Speaker C: I did play bingo.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: That's right. What more important, maybe during COVID times, but your warehouse of supply was massive. And that was an issue back in 2020 and 21.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: When, you know, trying to get floor. Well, trying to get carpet at someone's house, they were out of the supply. And then, of course, shipping took forever. Whatever. You guys have a really good warehouse of stuff.
[00:30:34] Speaker C: We do. We are in an old Kroger distribution center. It's two square miles.
You can't even walk from one end to the other in 15 minutes. It is. We have little legs.
And I wear these shoes.
[00:30:48] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:49] Speaker C: You can't see them. They're fabulous.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: They are.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: I could not walk from here to there and there.
[00:30:55] Speaker C: But my owner, Mr. Goldberg, he is so smart. And what I love about him when he talks is he talks about what his dad and grandpa taught him. Right. So like good old fashioned values. You buy in bulk and you pass that along. And so he bought this huge warehouse and then expanded it and expanded it. And so we have more inventory than Lowe's and Home Depot combined nationwide in one building.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:31:25] Speaker C: But then you remember, we're in 85 markets. There's a warehouse in every market. And he recently purchased a warehouse in Dalton, Georgia, which is the carpet capital.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: I was going to say, do you get stuff from Dalton, Georgia?
[00:31:36] Speaker C: Y so now our warehouse is right down the street. So the mills put it in our warehouse and then we disperse it across the country.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: One of the companies is Shaw. Correct.
[00:31:45] Speaker C: We love Shaw.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: I love Shaw.
[00:31:47] Speaker C: Bob Dylan, if you're watching this, I really appreciate everything you do. Bob Dylan is my Shaw rep and he is a. Hey, good old boy.
[00:31:54] Speaker B: Would you like to get some carpet?
It's my best Bob Dylan.
[00:31:58] Speaker C: Sorry, he didn't quite sound like that.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: But does he Sing.
[00:32:03] Speaker C: You know, there's about to be a request next time, I think.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: All right.
[00:32:07] Speaker C: I'm gonna ask him if he saw the podcast and ask him for a little shout out.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Tell him to sing the song Wagon Wheel. He wrote that one.
[00:32:12] Speaker C: I will.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: The singer Bob Dylan sing?
[00:32:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he does, sort of.
She probably don't like Bob Dylan.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Singer.
[00:32:21] Speaker B: He's actually a songwriter.
[00:32:24] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: So many songs.
Thousands and thousands of songs like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.
[00:32:32] Speaker C: Good stuff. Good artists. Good stuff, but good stuff. Jelly roll, I saw your picture of Dolly.
[00:32:39] Speaker B: My son worked at Dollywood.
[00:32:41] Speaker C: Cool.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: Assuming he's met Dolly.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Yes. That Dolly is an American treasure.
[00:32:48] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't think anybody could disagree with that.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: No. But, you know, we've met people that don't know who Dolly Parton is.
[00:32:54] Speaker C: How.
[00:32:55] Speaker B: What? They're always gen zers.
So I like to ask people, like at the cash register, when you're checking out someplace, you know, Bed, Bath and Beyond, which now is beyond.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: You say, do you know Willie Nelson? And they're like, huh?
You ever heard of Dolly Parton? They're like, who?
[00:33:14] Speaker C: I feel bad for a lot of gen zers. We, you know, want to alienate any that are watching, so it's fine.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: You know the. The Hawk Tui girl?
[00:33:23] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: Okay. So she was recently on one of the shows that Bill Maher, and she said. He said, do you listen to rap music? She said, a little bit. And he said, I listen to old rap like Jay Z and. And the Tupac.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: She didn't say it.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: And she's like, okay. She's like, do you like Jay Z? And she's. I like that one song where they.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: Say.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: Wet Dream Tomato about New York.
So now if you go play that song, Alicia Keys, all you can hear is America and something. Wet dream Tomato.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: Listen, that.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: On the way home, I can't even tell you how many times I'm humming along to something, and my husband. Husband's like, you know, those aren't the words. And I'm like, what?
[00:34:11] Speaker B: Oh, that's a. That's a whole podcast we could do. Yeah. Just like Tom Griswold thought it was Dirty Deeds and the Dunder Chief.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. There's all kinds of words that are wrong.
[00:34:25] Speaker C: So wrong.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
We should do a whole show on that. We should do some of the songs.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[00:34:30] Speaker C: You should make people sing them the way they think it is and then play the real clip.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. It's As a. As a person who plays and sings. There's a lot of times when I'll get the music to learn a song and go, huh? That's what they say. That's what lots of the. John. Johnny. Johnny Hoosier, Melon Balls or John Cougar, I think they call him. Right. Lots of his songs. There's the words that I think sometimes they just put, like, words in there. They don't know what he said either.
[00:34:59] Speaker C: You know, when my husband tells me that I, like, I can't just believe him. I have to go Google it. Yeah, I don't think, you know, and.
[00:35:05] Speaker B: Then I'm like, oh, crap, they didn't say Niagara Falls.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: My wife is much more of a music person than I. So I tend to get the lyrics right. Like, that's not right.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: I'm going to ask this question on the podcast today. So you're. You're not a fireworks guy? Oh, you don't. You can't taste things.
You don't like music?
What? What, what's your thing?
[00:35:27] Speaker A: Give me your thing, you gener. Sports.
[00:35:29] Speaker B: Sports.
[00:35:30] Speaker A: I forgot things like I just did with the word sports. I'm not saying I don't like music, but I am nobody's music trivia person.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: So you like it? You. Yes.
[00:35:41] Speaker A: I. I don't know who sings and performs the songs.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: How do you feel about the Australian breakdancing team?
[00:35:47] Speaker A: Hilarious, I feel. Did you see the Australian break dancer at the Olympics? If not you, I don't know that.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: We can call her. I think she was a broke dancer.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: We're going to find that before you.
[00:36:00] Speaker C: Leave and watch it.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: It is hysterical. I. I jokingly say that it was a random contest winner in Australia who put their name in for a drawing and was pulled out. Well, congratulations. You get to go break dance at the Olympics.
[00:36:15] Speaker B: Actually, there's a whole, like, controversy about it. She, like, scammed it and cheated to get in there, but, yeah, so, so bad.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: It would literally be like one of the three of us just starting to break dance right now.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: No, actually, classic dance move.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: I think all three of us could have done it better. None of us would have pulled out the sprinkler or the kangaroo.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: The kangaroo was great.
[00:36:34] Speaker C: I like the lawnmower. That's it.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: Lawnmower is a good one.
[00:36:37] Speaker C: That's what I got.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: I don't believe she pulled that out.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: She didn't know it yet.
[00:36:41] Speaker C: Dances.
That's it.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: This lady looked more like a epileptic seizure.
[00:36:50] Speaker C: That is at times.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Or just someone spinning around on the floor.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: Actually, she looks like a Lot of people that are trying to get out of Texas Roadhouse after they ate a whole bunch of food.
[00:37:04] Speaker A: Yeah, we're. We're going to find that before you leave.
[00:37:06] Speaker C: Yes, please.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: It's well worth it. Did you watch much of the Olympics?
[00:37:11] Speaker C: No.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: No. Okay.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: I work a lot.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: I understand.
[00:37:14] Speaker C: And then I go to bed. Yeah, that's it.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Well, you also have two youngsters at home, so, you know, when you're not working, you're working.
[00:37:21] Speaker C: When I'm not working, I'm trying to give them all the attention I can.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:26] Speaker C: Around my naps.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: Let's see, you said 10 and 11, so you're doing fifth and sixth grade.
[00:37:31] Speaker C: We held one back.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: Oh, red shirted.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: Well, Jackson's birthday is at the very end of July, and since boys don't tend to mature very quickly. No offense.
[00:37:42] Speaker B: I know. I'm still 12.
[00:37:43] Speaker C: We thought throwing him in where he would be the youngest would detriment him forever.
[00:37:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: So now he can be the first to drive.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:37:52] Speaker C: And we're screwed, basically.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: Fourth and sixth grade.
[00:37:54] Speaker C: Fourth and sixth.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Sixth grade is my jam.
[00:37:57] Speaker C: You know what?
[00:37:58] Speaker B: Because he's still in it.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: Give me a call.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: At 50 years old, the farts are still the funniest thing we hear. True.
[00:38:03] Speaker C: So my Caleb, which. He'll be here in a second. He.
He's still tiny. Like, he hasn't hit that spurt yet.
[00:38:12] Speaker B: How old is he?
[00:38:13] Speaker C: He's 11.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: Let's get him into motocross. And so that's the sport for a little guy.
[00:38:17] Speaker C: I took the picture on the first day of school with him and all of his buddies, and it looks like he's not even standing with the right group of people. Like, he's so tiny.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: I had one of those.
[00:38:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:27] Speaker B: And he became a motocross racer.
[00:38:29] Speaker C: He'll get hit.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: Hence all the.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he was a pro motocross.
[00:38:32] Speaker C: He has real big feet, so he's gonna. All right, shoot up to here.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: Make somebody happy.
[00:38:39] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: She doesn't love me because I'm five nine. She loves me because I wear a size 14E boot.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: That's fantastic. All right.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: Wow. That's a turn.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: So it was.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: That's okay.
[00:38:54] Speaker B: And by the way, hate the Olympics.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: I know.
[00:38:57] Speaker C: I.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: That's why I didn't turn to you.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: It ruins good television.
[00:39:00] Speaker C: You know what makes me sad is that I watch on Facebook clips of, like, Olympians from years past, and the whole vibe from the audience is different.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: Like, Caitlyn Jenner doesn't even look like Bruce.
[00:39:18] Speaker C: They're not even the same people.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: I mean, how would you like to go back in time and go, bruce is a girl and OJ's a murderer?
They'd be like, what?
[00:39:30] Speaker C: Just facts.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: Like, they wouldn't. They'd be shocked by both of those answers, huh? Yeah.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: Yes, they would.
[00:39:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:38] Speaker B: I don't know which one's more shocking, actually.
[00:39:40] Speaker C: It's a 5050 mix, I think.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: I don't know that he could get over the pole vault now, though.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: Well.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: And there was a pole boater that had a trouble. Yeah.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Yeah. That was a famous Olympic moment this year. A gentleman knocked the too big of a horizontal bar over with his junk.
[00:39:59] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: And it kept him out of a metal. Oh, yeah.
[00:40:02] Speaker C: That's heartbreaking. Like to keep that heartbreaking.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: Except he's got a bronze and a hell of a baby maker.
[00:40:08] Speaker C: You know when in elementary school when you have track and field day.
[00:40:12] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: So in kindergarten, this, like, this is lifelong trauma for me.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:40:17] Speaker C: Share this with you.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: If you see you knock the pole off, we're gonna have a problem.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: No, it's a different show.
[00:40:22] Speaker C: Thought they said who wanted to jump the turtles.
[00:40:27] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:40:28] Speaker C: Right. And so I was like, I can jump over a turtle.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: Jump over a what?
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Turtles be turtles. Oh, turtles.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: You were going to jump turtles.
[00:40:36] Speaker C: I thought we were jumping.
[00:40:38] Speaker B: They don't even run very fast. Nope.
[00:40:40] Speaker C: So I was like, I'm in there.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: Then I saw what they really were and I knocked over everyone and cried and I never participated in another track and field day again.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: As a 6th grade teacher previously. That's a shot.
[00:40:56] Speaker B: That is a shot. You have to drink a shot. When you say teacher at.
[00:40:59] Speaker C: Oh, I have the best shot.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: You got a good stuff.
[00:41:02] Speaker A: Middle school central track team is 6th, 7th, and nice.
[00:41:06] Speaker B: You don't have to do that every time.
[00:41:09] Speaker A: So track team in middle school central is 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. So many of the kids in 6th grade have no experience with track previously. So I would be the person who every year would just kind of talk to the kids about what's involved with being on the track team, kind of introduce them to that and encourage them to try out for the team because again, no one gets cut either, which is always nice.
[00:41:27] Speaker C: That is nice.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: It always cracked me up when kids would come back and tell me that they were going to be a hurdler and they're like, the smallest kid in sixth grade. I'm thinking, how are you going to get over the hurdle?
[00:41:38] Speaker B: But they do it, don't they?
[00:41:39] Speaker A: No, I couldn't they find a way. It's impressive. Like, the coach literally would not let them do it if they couldn't, but it did always crack me up. Oh, we're. Whoa. We got a second drink.
[00:41:50] Speaker C: No, I mean, when I say I knocked over every hurdle, I mean, I, like, tripped and fell and rolled.
[00:41:55] Speaker A: What? You said you were a kindergartner. Didn't you? Not. Yeah.
[00:41:58] Speaker C: Look at all that baggage, though. 35 years later, I'm like, I can't jump a turtle or a hurdle.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: I bet you could jump a turtle. I.
[00:42:04] Speaker C: You know, I wouldn't.
[00:42:05] Speaker A: I believe in you. Maybe not in those shoes, but I guess it.
[00:42:08] Speaker B: It depends on if it's one of those giant ones at the zoo.
I could jump a turtle. Hang on.
[00:42:17] Speaker C: Challenge.
[00:42:18] Speaker B: It'll take him a few minutes to get here, but jump over this guy? It's the size of a lazy boy.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: Not gonna happen. Are your boys into athletics?
[00:42:26] Speaker C: So my boys are polar opposites.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:42:29] Speaker C: Caleb, my oldest boy, he's an indoor cat. He's super techie. He likes computers. He likes to video game. My. So we punish him by making him go outside.
[00:42:40] Speaker A: Ah, jerk.
[00:42:41] Speaker C: Like, he loses electronics when he's in trouble. Jackson, who is my Dennis the Menace, likes to play all the sports, but he doesn't like to be coached. He just wants to play. He doesn't want to, like, learn. He just wants to be the badass.
So to punish him, he has to go inside. But this is his go play video games, right? Like, go in the house and just sit.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: Does he listen to rules?
Okay, so he's. He's gonna do pretty good.
[00:43:07] Speaker C: He is. He is this, like, Caleb was the trick baby. And then there's Jackson.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: Yeah, he's gonna. He's gonna do really well.
[00:43:15] Speaker C: You got one of those, right? Caleb is the reason there's number two. Jackson is the reason there's only two.
[00:43:20] Speaker A: Yep. So same.
[00:43:22] Speaker B: How old is he?
[00:43:23] Speaker C: He's 10.
Yeah.
[00:43:26] Speaker B: Wait till high school. You're gonna get a lot of calls.
[00:43:29] Speaker C: I. Listen, we already are on a first name basis with the bus driver, the principal, the vice.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: The principal's your neighbor.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: No, wait a second.
[00:43:37] Speaker C: Principal is my neighbor.
[00:43:38] Speaker B: Did you just say feelings, counselor?
[00:43:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: Wow. There's something wrong.
[00:43:44] Speaker C: Safe space now where kids can just go sit if they don't feel good about what's happening in the classroom.
[00:43:49] Speaker B: There's not a litter box in there, is there?
[00:43:51] Speaker C: I've. I don't. I wouldn't be surprised.
[00:43:54] Speaker B: But you know what? You know what? Ours. You know, our feelings counselor was called.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: I kick you in the ass, counselor.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: No, A guy with a big board that smacked your ass.
[00:44:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:04] Speaker B: And I had a great experience as an eighth grader.
[00:44:07] Speaker A: It's a great school.
[00:44:08] Speaker C: With a paddle. Did they have a paddle?
[00:44:09] Speaker B: Oh, it was a paddle. All right. So me and a guy named Mike Reed were causing some trouble in this math class.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: Hi, Mike.
[00:44:15] Speaker B: I would love it if Mike Reed's watching. I've seen Mike in 25 years. And we were in Mr. Norman's class.
[00:44:21] Speaker C: Hi, Ms. Norman.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: He did.
[00:44:22] Speaker A: He's dead.
[00:44:23] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:44:23] Speaker B: So Mr. Norman yanked me out of my chair. Now, he yanked me this way so the chairs went like this. I came out of it this way into the hallway, and he said, grab your ankles. And he paddled me. And I looked at him and said, is that all you got, old man?
And the next three I think my mom could feel.
[00:44:47] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:44:48] Speaker B: So I walked back into the room, and he made Mike Reed come out next. And Mike came back in with a look on his face. What the hell did you say to Mr. Norman?
[00:44:58] Speaker C: Because I just took it.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: He became my step grandpa.
[00:45:03] Speaker C: Oh, for real?
[00:45:04] Speaker A: For real.
[00:45:05] Speaker B: Yeah. My mom married his son, and Mr. Norman was my step grandpa.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: Did you still call him Mr. Norman?
[00:45:12] Speaker B: I called him whenever he wanted.
[00:45:13] Speaker C: That's right. Because he had the paddle.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: He hit hard. Yeah.
[00:45:17] Speaker C: I laughed at my mom one time when she spanked me.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:45:21] Speaker C: It ended exactly like you think when my dad got home.
[00:45:25] Speaker B: Yeah. I got paddled every grade till the ninth grade. And then they just started suspending me, which I thought was amazing because you do something bad and then you got three days out of school.
So I would skip one and then get three days out of school. So it's like I only had to go to school on Monday.
[00:45:42] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: It was genius.
[00:45:44] Speaker C: If I could go back in time.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: Yeah, and you can still sell carpet. It took me four years to pass eighth grade math.
And Mr. Leech used to say to me, Mr. Nickum, you think you're going to walk around the calculator in your pocket and think of the iPhones we have today? Yeah, I have.
[00:46:03] Speaker A: And then some.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: I just ask AI to do the math.
[00:46:06] Speaker A: Well, there's that.
[00:46:06] Speaker C: Now, listen, I have to get theory for this new math. Like, when Jackson brings home homework, I'm.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: Like, so there's new math, too?
[00:46:13] Speaker C: There's.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: People call it new math. I will say Rosa Parks has an interesting math curriculum. Yes, yes, but.
[00:46:19] Speaker B: Okay. I thought she wrote a bus.
[00:46:21] Speaker C: She did. I played Rosa Parks in the fifth grade play.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: Are you telling Me. She's doing math now somewhere. I think you should have these two.
[00:46:28] Speaker A: And why. How it could be new math with as old as she would be.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: Right.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: You were still alive. Is amazing.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Based on old math. She's 200. I just.
[00:46:35] Speaker C: I just want to make columns.
That's it. I just need my columns. That's what I know. And my kids like drawing circles and, like, round it, and I'm like, I don't.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: I don't understand today's math. The kid. Math should go like this in school. Hey, guys, Here's a calculator.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: Sadly but true. That's.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: Welcome to spelling. Here's spell check.
[00:46:57] Speaker C: It's true grammar. Everything they do is on a computer. Like, my kids. Like, I don't even know. I'm also. I'm not tech savvy. Like.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: I know.
[00:47:07] Speaker C: I know.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: Really?
[00:47:08] Speaker C: Really? I. I want to be. I'm a. I'm a papal and paper and pen kind of girl. I. I like handwritten notes. I like to scratch things off. I like to.
[00:47:16] Speaker B: Yeah, you can't read my handwriting.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: No, no.
[00:47:20] Speaker B: I. I now just make, like a paragraph that you and I couldn't read, and I jump it into Chat GTP and say, fix grammar. Fix spelling. Make smarter. And then I copy.
[00:47:29] Speaker C: Make me look like a rock star.
[00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah, you could say, make this smarter. And then sometimes I'm like, not that smart. You don't know who's sitting there.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: Let's go ninth grade smart.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: Yeah, like ninth grade smart.
[00:47:40] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: That was like college smart.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: I. I find my recent Chat GPT entries. I'm almost talking to a more human like. Like, that wasn't.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: That wasn't what I was looking for.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: Do it again.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I do that too.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Where's the opening?
[00:47:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I said make it smarter in chat GPD's like, yeah, right, you jackass.
[00:48:01] Speaker A: Unless you talk back. Like, you're right, there isn't a cook. Here, try this one. Thanks, buddy.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:06] Speaker C: Thank you, Chat.
[00:48:08] Speaker B: That thing's amazing. I can't wait till AI can do everything.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: Well, it's almost. We're almost there.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: Except for we're a long ways. I still have to drive my own car.
I still have to get dressed.
[00:48:20] Speaker C: Hands free, parallel.
[00:48:21] Speaker A: He's not buying one of those cars.
[00:48:22] Speaker B: Oh, I would.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:23] Speaker B: If Range Rover would make one, I'd buy one.
[00:48:28] Speaker C: That's true.
[00:48:28] Speaker B: Ding. When the Rolls are done.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: Rolls are done.
[00:48:32] Speaker C: I'm like, I swear I silenced my phone. I keep thinking I forgot it's the camera.
[00:48:38] Speaker A: Okay. 1. I'm just going to say final Question. I'm ready bringing it back business wise. So as a realtor, one of the things that I'll look at when I go in to talk to a person about listing a house is your flooring is bad. And oftentimes they know that.
[00:48:53] Speaker C: They know.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: So I might recommend, as I always do, I'm going to give you my friend Rachel's number and she can come out and talk to you about flooring. If they choose to change flooring before closing or before getting under contract, is there a payment option where potentially that could come out at closing or. I'm sorry if I'm saying that's way, way wrong, but it's okay.
[00:49:19] Speaker C: We used to, but then people just don't want to pay. Yeah, right. So we have interest free funding called a mechanics lien.
But there's really no like retribution if someone chooses not to pay for their floor. You know, you miss the car payment, they come and take it. You miss the house payment, they're giving you the boot.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: You're not sending Lauren in to rip it out of their house. Hi Lauren.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: You can file a mechanics lien, right.
[00:49:45] Speaker C: But that takes time and money.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: So we're paid off at closing.
[00:49:49] Speaker B: They'd be forced to be paid at close.
[00:49:50] Speaker C: So we offer interest free financing options with no prepayment penalty so they can sign up for that, get their flooring put in, get to the closing table, pay it off. Also just for peace of mind for all of you out there, if they are already in the process of purchasing another home, I will tell them to check with their loan officer and realtor before opening a new line of credit.
[00:50:12] Speaker B: Oh, thank you.
[00:50:13] Speaker C: You're welcome. I will not lose the deal of the house that I'm trying to help with because I let someone put the cart before the house.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: People do the financing and then ruin it.
[00:50:21] Speaker C: They ruin it.
[00:50:22] Speaker A: It's like you work with realtors on a regular bas.
[00:50:24] Speaker C: I know, like, don't do that.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: Yeah, every, every loan officer is going, you don't offer financing.
[00:50:31] Speaker C: Don't. I will tell them like, you know, if you need financing you, we're going to do it after you close from the closing table. And I'll send you the link for buyers. That's what I tell them. For sellers, it depends on like maybe they're moving into it, like maybe they already have it, maybe they don't. So I try to dig. But we do try to work with people and provide great options.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: So carpet, tile, anything foreign.
[00:50:53] Speaker C: If it goes on the floor, I've got it. Linoleum I try to avoid it, but I have it.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: Is it still a thing?
[00:50:59] Speaker C: It is.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: I didn't know he comes up on this show often.
[00:51:02] Speaker B: It is linoleum.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: You will often say, like linoleum.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: I think I like the word. You do? Linoleum and spatula. Those are good words.
[00:51:10] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:51:11] Speaker C: Spatula is a good word.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: So let's pretend you come out to my house today. I.
[00:51:17] Speaker C: Is that an invite?
[00:51:18] Speaker A: No.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: Like he needs.
[00:51:19] Speaker A: I've told you it's. It's going to happen.
[00:51:21] Speaker B: He needs carpet.
[00:51:23] Speaker A: We talk about getting flooring. We make a deal. Yes. This is what I want. What's installation timing look like?
[00:51:30] Speaker C: It looks like what you need it to look like.
[00:51:33] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:51:34] Speaker C: So if you pick something in stock. So if you're getting a house market ready. I stock options here in Indy just to get houses market ready.
[00:51:41] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:51:42] Speaker C: Like eight carpet options, two or three LVP's, two or three laminates, a couple wood.
[00:51:48] Speaker A: It's just the shitty kind like the pink and the blue carpeting that no one wants orange. Okay, good. So orange tag that where the orange shag is.
[00:51:55] Speaker C: So Whitney Brandenburg with nested spaces. Hi, Whitney. Whitney is a phenomenal stager.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: All right.
[00:52:01] Speaker C: And I know the color palettes that Whitney likes to work with. And a lot of stagers and realtors tend to follow that trend.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:52:08] Speaker C: So I stock my carpet options based around the paint choices.
And also I have a few carpet options that I pick around trim choices. Because there are multiple areas throughout our city that have that old beautiful chestnut baseboard and stained doors. So you. You can't put in there. Which put in a new construction house with a blank slate.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: You're supposed to paint those white now.
[00:52:31] Speaker C: Supposed to.
But any of those options I can turn around in about 48 hours.
[00:52:36] Speaker A: Wow, that's great.
[00:52:37] Speaker C: Anything that comes from my corporate. So if someone wants something a little bit nicer or more high end for the buyer side or.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: Or just my house or just your selling.
[00:52:46] Speaker C: I get a transfer truck from corporate once a week and my installation turnaround is immediate. Realtor jobs go to the front of the schedule.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: Do.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: Wow, she really is a realtor. Kiss.
[00:52:56] Speaker A: But I really am a real contractors that install. Or do you subcontract that stuff out?
[00:53:02] Speaker C: So most flooring companies use subcontractors just because of the insurance policies and the way that they're written. Like carrying the policy to cover that many installers is.
But most of my guys have been with us for multiple years. So I have a hard surface guy and I've worked for right Rug in three states. I would put him up against any hard stall, hard surface installer I've ever met.
He's become a treasured friend, but he's.
[00:53:30] Speaker A: Going to be my guy because he is going to be carpeting at the Quinlan house. It'll be hard surface.
[00:53:34] Speaker C: He'll be your guy. He's wonderful. But I've worked with him and a few of my carpet guys the whole time I've been here, so my guys are vetted. And I'm not saying mistakes don't happen, but of course, we're humans. We're humans.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: It's not the mistakes. I'm. It's how you deal with the mistake.
[00:53:48] Speaker C: And all you got to do is call or text me and I'll take care of it.
[00:53:51] Speaker B: So what if I was going to build a new custom home? Do you work with custom home builders?
[00:53:56] Speaker C: Yeah. So, right. Rug is we. We want all the flooring, right? We have a commercial division, we have a builder division. We have multifamily housing, we have retail stores, and then we have the vans for the realtors so we can meet all the needs. And that's actually how we grow into new states. When our large builder partners say that they're moving, we go to. And then once we're established with a warehouse with builders, then we bring in property and retail. So.
[00:54:25] Speaker B: So if my friend Dave Sego from Sego Custom Homes is watching, he should call.
[00:54:29] Speaker A: Hi, Dave.
[00:54:30] Speaker C: Yes, hi. Please call Dave. I've been happy to serve all your clients, Kyle.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Carl McIntyre, owner of Carrington Homes.
[00:54:36] Speaker C: Yes, please.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: Hi, Carl.
[00:54:38] Speaker C: Hi, Carl. Yeah, hi. Nobody feel left out, right?
[00:54:43] Speaker B: Carl's got some big ones being built right now.
[00:54:46] Speaker C: Well, come on, I got lots of floors, right?
[00:54:48] Speaker B: There's a lot of commas in his prices.
[00:54:50] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:54:51] Speaker C: Not in mine.
[00:54:53] Speaker B: Hey. Oh, that's a good answer.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: Well played.
[00:54:57] Speaker B: That was awesome.
[00:54:58] Speaker A: All right, well, on that note, we're going to end the show. Thank you so much for watching. If you have any flooring needs, Rachel Campbell at right rug. Her name and contact information is down here at the bottom. Thanks, buddy. Cheers. Thanks so much for being here. You were great.
[00:55:12] Speaker B: If you need to buy a house, call Brian.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: That's right. If you're buying houses, I'm your guy. If you're refinancing or need a loan to buy a new house, Brad's your guy. Give us a call. See you next time.
[00:55:23] Speaker B: Cheers.
[00:55:25] Speaker C: It.
