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Speaker on here.

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Alright.

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You good? Yeah. Alright. So have I talked to you

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about Chad? I can't remember who I've talked to about what.

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Yeah. I mean, we've talked some that, you know, they're not real isn't real happy about Chad so far.

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Yeah. So it looks like we're gonna make a change there.

00:00:30 - [STEVE_WADE]
Wow. That quick?

00:00:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, I pushed us to do it inside the ninety days if we're gonna do it just because legally, it's much easier to do it that way. Yeah. And they're pretty frustrated with him in general. So

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They're just with his lack of effort?

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Effort investment, like, personal and not per not it just doesn't seem real interest in in making anything better. He just kinda Okay. Does, like, whatever and then wants to go home at five or four or whatever time. You don't have to do video if you don't want to. It's I mean, whichever. I

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don't know. I just was trying to figure it out, actually. Anyway I

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don't don't care if it's on. I just don't feel like you have to. I'm just I used to it. So

00:01:27 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. Well, it sucks that yeah. We we all kinda feel that way. My team's frustrated with him, But he is getting orders out.

00:01:45 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I mean, I think that's the challenge. Right? Is it's not so much that he's not capable. He's just not doing what they want. So I'm kinda leaning to them to decide, but, yeah, it's kinda Pete

00:02:02 - [STEVE_WADE]
okay. So you get this job and it's a it's a brand. It's basically a start up. You you know, this the logistics part is a start up. And you're taking over for a three p l and your CEO and, basically, everybody but your sales team, small but still, are in town and you basically wanna work eight to four and you that's about it. And then they come in on the weekend, and you come in Monday and say, I just couldn't find time. You know? And it's

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It's that kind of stuff that's got them fucked. So

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find time. And I also heard that, you know, they at the end of the day, they would still be working, and they'd like, where's Chad? And they'd he'd just be gone. They wouldn't say bye or nothing. Just gone.

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Yeah. That's kind of the ultimate point is basically that he's just not part of the team, doesn't feel like part of the team, etcetera, etcetera. So

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Some of that appears to be his personality.

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Yeah. Well and that's kinda what I said is, like, I noticed it right away, and I kind of explained. So Chris and I were the ones who had the conversation, and then we engaged Lisa as well. And she's on board. So so here's

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I mean, ultimately, it's Chris's decision. I would probably give the guy more time, but, you know, in in the end but I typically do lean that way. Those kinda habits aren't gonna change. So That's I mean, some of

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the situation is, is it gonna get better? Probably not. So

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He was the best candidate we interviewed. I and I still stand by that. I don't think the other guys were any better.

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So there is a new candidate already, and it's someone we all know and like. Sweet. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. But give me a day before I tell you who it is.

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Oh, fuck you.

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I'll tell you, but you gotta swear not to tell another soul.

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Who am I gonna tell? I ain't gonna tell nobody.

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I don't know. I I didn't know

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you're Evie's listening, my dog.

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Well, I meant more like Nathan or Chris or anybody like that.

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I ain't gonna tell him. So it's I kept police a secret the whole damn time, and Nathan bugging the hell. I mean, are they gonna fire me? To do HR. But, anyway, go ahead.

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So it's Brent.

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See. I I knew Chris was like, I should've hired him from the get go.

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I tried. It didn't

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work. So

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Brent and I've been talking, and he's I think we've we've got it I think we've got it done, so it's gonna work. But I just wanted you to kinda know that Brent has a lot of animosity still towards TTS and Festool. Rightfully so, probably. So

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Yeah. But he was fine when he was in the warehouse a couple weeks ago. Mean, we, yeah, we we openly discussed a few things, but he

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Yeah. Well and Brent's one of the one of the guys I call a friend. Right? So I I'm not worried about it. It's more that, you know, he'll be I I'm still pushing for him to be on our team, but he wants he doesn't want it to be like, you know, he's Festool's whipping boy whenever they decide they need help or something. And I I said, we'll figure that out. I'm not worried about it. So

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No. He should not be expected to cross boundaries.

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Yeah.

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And he has his own yeah. I I think Caleb's gonna be fine as long as this doesn't I can't imagine he would be bonded with his boss that quick.

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Yeah, what I've been hearing from the team is that he just kinda wants Caleb to do everything.

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He

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does. So, yeah, so it's like it's not it's not like Caleb's gonna be all that heartbroken, I don't think. So

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No. And then and that was obvious from the get go because you had Chris and Alex busting their ass, both of them. Matt Alex is a worker.

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Yeah. She's good.

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And and, of course, Chris has always been a hard worker. And Tim too, as far as that goes. And you just look over there and you never and everybody notices that that's back there. They're just like, you don't see Chad.

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Right.

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And so I agree with what he's doing, and I think that's a good option. Yeah. That Brent won't have any issues working the hours same as us because he was an early person anyway.

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Yeah. I think we're gonna go ahead and make him a manager instead of a supervisor just because of where he was before he left us. I I just think that that's the right thing to do. And I I Absolutely. I wouldn't fight that at all. So

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Absolutely. Kinda makes us look a little stupid, but you know?

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Well, I mean, I I

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But we do that we do that easily.

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Well, like I said, I tried to hire him right away, but I didn't wanna take his severance away from him. So, you know, to me, we we wanted it like, there's those of us who saw incredible value and wanted to keep him on the team. It just so happens that this is the right opportunity for him. So I think that's good. So

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So this will allow him to retain the severance?

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I'm working through it. I probably not, but I'm working on it. So

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Okay. At least to a point where he's satisfied, maybe.

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Right. Yeah. It's like, how do we make it practical on both sides? So

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Yeah. Or palatable.

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Yeah. So, anyway, I just wanted to get Well, I that, but without

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It's also a risk risk for him, though. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

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Oh, I just said I wanted to not blindside you, so that's why we're chatting. So

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My guys don't dislike Chad, but he's a pain in the ass to work with.

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Yeah. We need someone who's a little bit more entrepreneurial jump in and get shit done kinda guy, and that's not Chad. So

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He's, yeah, more of the old school Festool kinda guy, not yeah.

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Exactly. So what else was I gonna say? I don't remember. Anyway, I just didn't want you to be blindsided, so I just thought we should talk. Oh, yeah. I just said, well, no one else was around. I just I I don't yet really know who all I can trust, so still learning. But because it impacts you, I trust you. So

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Yeah. I gotta you know, that's something I'm working with Nathan and Chris on. It's something I had to get better at myself. So

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Well, I'm still bad at certain situations. Like, I'll come out and tell you all kinds of shit, but, you know, you you've got your friends that you have to be able to tell something to. So

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Everybody needs a sounding board. You know?

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Exactly. So

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So, you know, when I'd after I interviewed the interviewed Shyla and all that, and I knew all that was going on and and Nathan kept bugging me about this. Of course, Diana, we didn't know was leaving at the time, and she was a big part of it. But, you know, I'm like, dude, there's a plan in place. Give me time. There's a plan in place. Give me time. And Nathan, if he don't know what's going on, drives him fucking nuts.

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Well, yeah, I kinda got that impression of him a little bit.

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And he came off and shut the door. He's like, what's going on? He said, am I getting fired? I'm like, dude.

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You need to chill out.

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You're the furthest thing from fired. Okay? I said, just do the math. Because at this point, he knew everybody knew Vanessa was gone. So this was last week or whatever, and I'm well into it. And I said, okay. So you know Vanessa's gone. Right? Right. And you know they're gonna replace her because it's already been said. Right? Right. I said, okay. That's all you need to know.

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Yeah.

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Put the rest together.

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I said, I'm not gonna crawl in. So you know?

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But yeah. No. I think Charlotte should be able to help us out a lot. When I saw her in the lobby, think he might have been walking through at the same time around it. Anyway, I told her, said, I'm gonna give you a week

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Yeah.

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To get settled in. But, you know, like I said, Diana was part of that. So

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Gotcha. So I think I think Charlotte's gonna be great, actually. I'm excited for her. I mean, like you said, I mean, she kinda needs some time, but I think she'll get there pretty quick. So

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Yeah. She's certainly one of the more outgoing people Yeah. That we've had in HR. I mean, Katie Flynn was pretty outgoing, or is it they're right. Not Flynn.

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You're under

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Boyard or whatever. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So speaking of Boyard, Ashley called me today, not about work, but I says, oh, I said, how'd your conversation with Scott go? Well, he texted me, but I haven't heard from him. I said, well, he's he's kinda busy. We're dealing with a lot of stuff right now.

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Yeah. She's not off my radar. It's just I need time to get it figured out. So

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And I told her that you've I said, no. I said, do you you know, you've you've mentioned you know, I I know you're you've talked about her. So

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Yeah.

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But she was calling me just she wanna know if I thought it was okay for her to she's got a seventh grader that's wants to go on a field trip in September, so he'll be in the eighth grade. And then they but they have to start paying installments now. It's a trip to Washington DC where they fly and stay in hotels and all that, but they're not allowing any parents to chaperone.

00:12:35 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I did that trip. Yeah.

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Oh, did you?

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Yeah.

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And you thought it was awesome? I thought it was the best thing I've ever done, but my kids did

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not do it. So you never know.

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So they had no desire to do it?

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No. They never even asked. Kinda weird.

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Yeah. He wants to do it, and then she's just, you know, worried about him. He's a little awkward. I get that. But it it was

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a great time. Honestly, I mean, looking back and and all that. So I I mean, every parent's gonna make their own decision, but I thought it was pretty sweet. So

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Yeah. But she says, you know, her at his age, she would have been fine. You know? But she just not so sure. But she just being overprotective, I'm sure. But

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Aren't we all?

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And you would be.

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So

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And you would be. Yeah. I mean, you could imagine, know, you know, that you're that this far away and and if something happens, you can't there's nothing you can do. You know? You can't.

00:13:47 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. The times are just so different back when I was growing up or you were growing up than they are today. So you know what I mean? Like, politics and terrorist shit, like, none of that was something that we worried about.

00:14:00 - [STEVE_WADE]
No. And that's what I told her. I said, yeah. I said, I don't know that I would fly anywhere right now unless I had to. I don't think there's an an, you know, imminent threat or anything, but DC is not a place I'd wanna be around right now. No. I mean, if there's it, you know, it I mean, we are we are engaged in war. So

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And it's the kind of scary shit war. You know, it's not Yes. It's not the old school stuff.

00:14:34 - [STEVE_WADE]
Nope. And it's we have no allies war. Our only ally is the one that forced us into it for some reason. But, anyway, I think that'll all come out maybe eventually or maybe never will. I don't know. For sure. But did they ever tell you what she's

00:14:53 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Oh, she she said it was just about loft leadership, meaning they wanna do one later in the day, and they were trying to decide when the ladies in the warehouse have to leave.

00:15:02 - [STEVE_WADE]
Oh, okay. Well

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So nothing

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I'm all for the loft. I think it's great. I I'm glad that Vera is leading it and Lori is no longer leading it because I think Vera will lead it with the right perspective.

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Yeah. I agree.

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Laurie led it with a more of a we're women in a men's place kind of

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Yeah. It was the power rather than how do women connect kinda thing. Yeah.

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And I just I honestly don't see especially the if you look around logistics, we I'd I I need to do the shit. I need to do the I I would say if you count the tips right now, I mean, we're we probably have more ladies or is at least it's probably fifty fifty or damn close. What we lack is leadership right now. We have Vanessa.

00:16:02 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. She started The thing I struggle with women leaders is you have to find some that want to lead. You know?

00:16:08 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. And there's not a lot of them to do.

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There really isn't, especially in that environment out there, I think. Mhmm. So anyway.

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Yeah. Vanessa's pretty awesome. I mean, she's gotta work on she's public speaking. She doesn't she hates that, which I can appreciate. And but she makes good decisions, and she's gets along with everybody. So

00:16:36 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I don't know her really well. I'd like to that's the thing I probably need to do next is try to focus on how to meet, like, a more wide variety of the team. So

00:16:45 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. And starting with her and reengaging with Joe.

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Yeah.

00:16:50 - [STEVE_WADE]
That's a good start. Yeah. She you know, I like she worked for me for, you know, while. I don't really know remember how long. And she took a vacation, came back, and, you know, I found out she was married. Well, this is when same sex unions were just legalized by the supreme court. I had no clue. She never brought her relationship status into the discussion. And but, yeah, I was really proud of her. I mean, she this first opportunity she had, she her and Lauren got married. So

00:17:45 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That's cool. Regardless of politics, I'm glad that some people can find ways to still be people. So

00:17:54 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. Yeah. Politics kinda take things to the extreme, both sides. So but yeah. Cool. So where you

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where you at? Are you spending any more

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time with John? Are you not

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I haven't

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I haven't really had time to even think about him lately. And I told Amity that I'm behind because of the whole AdaptDx project is really just my lunch. So

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Are you does he reach out to you?

00:18:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I don't hear from John ever. Unless he happens to be in your office when you and I talk, like, the other day, or if I ping him I ended up pinging him earlier to get a feel for the warehouse just because, you know, I could tell well, I I figured you may have been off today or something I didn't know about. So

00:18:46 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. I wasn't answering it. What happened with that is when we were out, Nathan was freaking out and just blowing up mine and Chris's phones because we were out of a certain size box. And we got Mavpack. You know, it's a it's a new deal, new supplier. And I got to the point where I wasn't looking at the phone. So Yeah. Then when I got back to my office, I saw you had reached out. I'm like, oh, shit. Then I looked at my phone and saw you reached out. I'm like, dang. So normally, I wouldn't do that, but I had just kinda

00:19:22 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. Nope. It wasn't a problem for me. I just wanted to try and help her, and I I didn't know what she was going for. So I was because I could've just guessed at it, and I was like, I don't wanna guess and be wrong.

00:19:33 - [STEVE_WADE]
No. No. No.

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Anyhoo.

00:19:39 - [STEVE_WADE]
And he walked in my office today when I was talking off Ashley, which I mean, he probably everybody should probably knock before they come in, but or at least, you know, make some I said, hey. I'm talking to Ashley. He said, Ashley Boyer? Yeah. Tell her I said hi. I said, well, she can hear you. But

00:20:02 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It'd be nice if people would knock before they walked in generally. But

00:20:06 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. I mean, I have I'm pretty laid back about it because typically, I'm if I'm on a meeting, I just go, like, you know, I just hold the old

00:20:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I do the same thing.

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But, anyway but John's a good dude. I just wish he would figure some stuff out.

00:20:30 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. He I don't know. He he's not helping me at all with the he's strategic or can think outside of anything else. He just seems to kinda just do his thing, and that's it.

00:20:45 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah.

00:20:46 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I get I struggle a little bit there.

00:20:49 - [STEVE_WADE]
I can see that. Yeah. I don't know. If you ask me, the biggest issue is not John in our logistics supply chain world. It's casual. But, you know, when your team dreads hearing the sound of your voice, that's probably not a good thing. So

00:21:19 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I think he's definitely an issue, but Amity knows that a little bit. But I think the thing that I struggle with is she doesn't really seem to wanna, like, deal with it quickly. But I don't know. I try to give her some slack until I get time to figure my shit out too. So

00:21:38 - [STEVE_WADE]
And it's kinda weird because this is he's not a bad guy. He's just annoying as fuck. Was trying to be

00:21:47 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I was kinda hoping he'd figure out how not to need to be important all the time because that's what it is to me.

00:21:52 - [STEVE_WADE]
It is. Like, when we have our Monday meetings, it's everybody that talks. You know, we go around the table and he's last just because of where he sits. And he has to interject, especially on his team big time, but as it goes around the room and then when it gets to him, he has nothing. So I get yeah. It well, I've already probably said everything I need to say or something, you know, or whatever. And it's like, okay.

00:22:25 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, thank God, man. Kept talking.

00:22:29 - [STEVE_WADE]
But yeah. I don't know. Everything's there's no sense of normalcy yet to the Festool environment. Maybe we'll get there eventually, I guess. But there's these players, you know, and it's weird because it's pre COVID. Everybody was there, and you talk to people, and you interact with people. And if you had a question, you just went right up to the person. And, you know, now you got people that, you know, you never see or you rarely see or, you know, it's just different. It's a new world. It

00:23:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
is different. And, I mean, I've tried to be there a lot more, and that's really opened my eyes to kinda what you guys have been telling me for a while. So

00:23:26 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. As you can see, it's pretty much Monday, Wednesday, and ghost town.

00:23:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Right. I tried to I wasn't there today because I had meetings that were all pretty much it would've been Up to back to back? Meeting. Yeah. So who knows?

00:23:51 - [STEVE_WADE]
John has some good ideas, and I think he can be strategic if with a little guidance. I mean, I think he has capability. I think he's pretty good at with, you know, statistics and spreadsheets and things like that. ROI, Laurie kinda tainted him on a little bit, I think, because, you know, she was all about selling her story that she had already decided on before she looked at facts. But that stuff that can be taught Yeah. Real care real curious to see what he presents to you guys, you know, on this UPS upgrade.

00:24:40 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Do you know when is he going to do that?

00:24:42 - [STEVE_WADE]
He's still waiting on because he had he fell behind because he had to bring associated in because the what's your name dropped out. The premier dropped out, so he needed an additional player, which I have found. I don't know that that's even the rule anymore. Because I was able to buy a forklift with one quote, 50. And it's cost go ahead.

00:25:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I said it just kinda depends. Like, if it's a vendor you've done a lot of business with, we can overlook it from time to time. But you're supposed to still have three, and HQ purchasing will get very cranky if we ignore it too often. So

00:25:29 - [STEVE_WADE]
Okay. Well and this with this project, I think it's justifiable that you should have to get at least two, if not three.

00:25:38 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
But I always say two, and then the third one's kind of a nice to have. But

00:25:44 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. And with the forklift, Carlson, you know, I I gave him my justification for why we, you know, felt confident going with the current vendor. And then and, basically, it's because you don't wanna bring a you got all these young Heinrich forklifts sitting around and you bring in a crown or an associated or whatever. Now you for PMs and all that, you have to deal with two vendors, you know, one for one machine and one for the rest. I said, every time we went out to bid, the prices are within 10

00:26:20 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Right.

00:26:22 - [STEVE_WADE]
At the most. Usually pretty damn close. I said, they're all competitive.

00:26:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I said they're all fighting for the same business generally, so it is what it is. Right?

00:26:32 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. And so he said, yeah. I can see that. You don't want two vendors in doing your PMs and service and all that. You just want one phone call. I said, yeah. Carlson's pretty you know, he's a good guy. He's reasonable.

00:26:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I like him. Yeah. We get along great. Sometimes I worry about where he got into but that his problem, not mine. So

00:26:57 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. He's the one that has to answer Amity.

00:27:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Exactly.

00:27:01 - [STEVE_WADE]
Correct. I he it's weird how well, he's backed off now, come to think of it, but how involved he was initially and with the Sustainer Systems thing.

00:27:18 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. Well, he's their he is their CFO, so I don't know. But

00:27:22 - [STEVE_WADE]
Oh, okay. So he's really the only direct besides Chris.

00:27:26 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. He's their direct c level. So now he's still working for Amity. So

00:27:33 - [STEVE_WADE]
So for TTS NA, he is a senior director.

00:27:39 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Right. But for Systainer directly, he's their CFO.

00:27:42 - [STEVE_WADE]
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Okay. That okay. So then he should buy the damn battery.

00:27:52 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, oftentimes, it is him, but my rule is is that we run the warehouse. So

00:27:57 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. But this is a piece of equipment. Either we get rid of it or we

00:28:03 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. True.

00:28:05 - [STEVE_WADE]
Let them buy it. And I and, you know, we are well, just because Chad will only drive the one piece of equipment, this sit down the other sit down is still operational. Oftentimes, he's wanting it when we're loading a truck or something, and Vanessa has no qualms with telling him to fuck off. Not in those words, but you know what I mean.

00:28:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That's kinda hilarious, honestly.

00:28:33 - [STEVE_WADE]
And I would like to get that machine going if we're going to. It's yeah. Be pretty cool. But

00:28:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That works. We'll I'll I need to talk to him. It's kinda one of those things that was on my radar, and then I like I said, I just got busy doing other shit and never really got back to it. So

00:28:53 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. Alright. Well, that's good news about Brent. So I'm glad to hear that. He's a good guy. And I think he brings more to the table than I mean, I know he'll work for Sustainer Systems and we should limit, but, I mean, that's just that's a lot of knowledge that between him and Rick, we we lost. And, you know, Serge for that matter, we lost years, years, and years of really good product knowledge.

00:29:29 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Exactly. It's it's kinda bringing some of it out, not where we can use it well right away. But who knows? If once you're back in the house, we'll find a way to use you know, do a better job. So

00:29:40 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. And they may still need him, sounds like, may still need him for the occasional video. And if he decides to do a side gig with Toth Media, so be it. Right?

00:29:53 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Exactly. I did see Joe yesterday and stopped and talked to him for a while.

00:29:59 - [STEVE_WADE]
Good. I didn't.

00:30:03 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
He's But he's just a guy I always really liked. So when I I I was just walking out, I saw him. So I probably, like, backed up and went in and chatted with him for a little bit. He's just a good dude.

00:30:13 - [STEVE_WADE]
He is. And he knows Festool inside and out, and he he does good quality work. And but I'm biased. Yeah. But I still think it's the truth. I say biased, but, honestly, it's it's kinda one of those

00:30:36 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
it's just more about identifying decent people and, you know, finding I I don't wanna say using them, but utilizing them. So

00:30:44 - [STEVE_WADE]
That's fair. Alright. Well Well, I just wanted to give you

00:30:49 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
a heads up so that way you're in the loop, but keep that to yourself, and I'll I'll be able to bring you in maybe even by the end of this week officially. So

00:30:59 - [STEVE_WADE]
Sounds good.

00:31:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Alright, man.

00:31:01 - [STEVE_WADE]
You have

00:31:01 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
a great night. I'll probably see you tomorrow.

00:31:03 - [STEVE_WADE]
Alright. See you.

00:31:04 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Bye.