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created_time: 2025-11-15T17:06:00.000Z
title: 11-10 Team Meeting: Pool Site Repairs, Inventory Reorganization, and Coaching Accountability
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Well, dear. You okay?
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¿Hay una forma? Corre. ¿Sí? ¿Todas las personas? Sí. Sí hay. No. Ok. ¿Crear una? Sí. ¿Y el otro? Sí. ¿Y el otro? Ok. ¿Con tu cheque?
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¿Está bien? ¿Ya? ¿Directo? Sí. ¿Y el otro? here.
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oh yeah. check out it right. no.
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Yeah, no.
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What do you do? I don't have a limp, I don't have stones.
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and I don't want to. I don't want to. And for the BC Pro? No, I think it's done.
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I think it's, you know, it's not necessary to put the bicep roll, you know, you can wait for it to, oh, to put the bicep roll there, for everything. Yes, yes, when you put the bicep roll there, yes, because then it's more, you know,
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you're going to go there and, uh, I think it's for, you know, maybe, yeah, yeah, okay.
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Well, no I heard.
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Si estamos checando la medida, más grande, porque si este es un acabo, este no puede ser más que un acabo, un acabo de diferencia, cuando es un acabo de diferencia en esta ceja, este, o este,
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Entonces, checa, ¿verdad? Yo creo poner un nivel, ¿verdad? Porque es la high point, ¿verdad? Y es la medida de nivel, ¿ok? Tu Dar eu?
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Am de o vaca aici, Stai, primul, Piatra.
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Oh my gosh! who says you can't be bought not for you oh man bro why do you like those well it's just the fact that he thought about me in that moment and he took it from his life to me and i'm still talking about that when he just handed me because the other stuff is yeah it's your personal i got one.
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at home dude i didn't know you didn't know i didn't know i could make you that have those, yeah i have a black one like that they're nice i'm like ash brought that in she's like i'm like do you even know what that is and she's like no it's mine i'll have to love that but if you don't know how to use it on my phone monitor.
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It's powering the heater, it's powering the heater and the salt cell off of this circuit right here, so we can disconnect the salt transformer, and then we can get power, yeah, so this is, this is just saying here that this is the heater and salt cell, so this is the salt wire that's going on the load side, but we'll leave, so we can come off of this line side, this first one and the second, third one,
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and take a circuit out, so it's a rigid, yeah, this rigid one, so we can come out, I don't know if we can get in there, we don't have very many wires, I mean, Is the greens running in there too? No greens on there's one green on this side All right, so what we could do is take take that green, Disconnected here. It's probably the easiest point right and take our wires two wires plus a green.
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Tie them in here and pull that green out and pull them right? Okay, and then just reland that green here and that's a 14 I would say we should change it to a 12. We could run black a white and a green.
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back there. I moved it and I left it by the back door. I got my bag. I got scraps and this isn't a very long run so I should probably, don't have the colors you want. No, it doesn't really, but I'll use the tape. A neutral and something for hot and a green ring, right? And then I'm going to land them, right? So you're going to land a green. The green's here, but then.
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No, no, but what I would like, I mean, I want to be able to add a glance or what do we have here? Right. And so, right. Like I wasn't sure I didn't want to count and that's kind of the thing. And I'm like, I don't know how much.
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So I kind of f'ed my whole schedule today. The only place that has more than 50,000 is in Orange. Wait till they're open, put myself in a lot of traffic. Right? So what I'd love to see with this is like, you know, can you tell me what the top and the bottom one are? Right? So how do we turn it all? Right? And I'd like to be able to say, so like, you know, if it's open, it should be in here.
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Right? I don't want any, so we should always look, we should always look for the bucket purse. Right? Right. And then there should be some order to it, like what's this? i don't even know right so if the question is i don't know right and that's like you should go do i know what everything is here can i do i have a good idea of everything right and if the answer is.
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no right um so let me uh let me move this around around make sure there's you know and that way we're we know exactly what we have here what we don't have any any open bag should be in a bucket the label so but um what that could do is we should always go to the bucket first and then you.
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know. now keep us from making mistakes.
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아.
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Hmm.
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Mmm.
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I'm coming, one sec.
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We only have one motor bed 2000. That's in there? Yeah. And it was a Hydro-Bend bag that was in the... And we're not even doing Hydro-Bend here. So, would you mind throwing that in the back of my truck?
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And then same kind of thing with these, right? Yeah, the other buckets are full. So, yeah. I don't know if they need it over there with Brandon and Alex. What do you mean? If they need any of these? Not at the moment, but what does that tell you? Do we have a 3701 bucket? No, we don't. Okay. I was going to ask you if you have another top or something. I didn't want to.
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You can need one. I don't. I can buy one. So, and by the way, it doesn't have to be separate. Like, you can get a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and you don't have to, label one. I don't care. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. But, we have the Hydroban. We're not going to use the bridge. The Hydroban has a different memory and teeth. It's a different. So, here we use the memory. I'll test it on you. You can test it right now. Okay.
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Oh! i don't mind i got that other bag so that way what i want is you know what everything is.
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i'm gonna keep this open like that in fact we might i might need you guys a good amount if. you do we're gonna need that aqua block there and then we're gonna need the red sprayers okay.
00:29:39
I'm all ready now. I don't know why. I think you guys took lunch. In the chair? No, just over there. Just like the area? Yeah. And then I found an ex-microwave in the microwave. I saw a micro. Go past the microwave. Got the sauce?
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The sauce is in the very back. Yeah. Thank you.
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No hay mas membranas No, esta bien, pero tu necesitas para ayer Lo quiero primero Si, si, si No, es que mañana o miércoles ellos necesitan, Es posible que tu vayas a Malibu.
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Si, si Yeah, first of all, Good luck.
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So, you're going to take this one, right? No, you're going to take it. So, did you take it? Did you take it? Yeah. I think. Yeah, because I need it. So, first. It's not today, right? Well, right now.
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So, do you need it? I'm going to float it there. With the float. If I can't put it, I'm going to work from there. Water is going to fall. Better. Yeah. And you bring stones, I don't need stones.
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It's just that it's not very... So you need it? The other day I told you. Well, yeah, but... The other day? Yes Right, it's...
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It's... Well, you need to go to Ipa or something like that And it's to respect that you can go, 60, 180 so, paper? 60 paper? no, 60, size or number yeah, 16, right, right, for paper or? oh, no or for your grinder? for grinder and also for this.
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yeah, ok, it's 4 inches, I think it's 4 or 5 inches 4 and a half? no, no, right, 200.
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What's up? What's wrong? Just figuring out what I need. Almost. That's actually kind of cool. As long as we can find shit when we need it, right? That's the point. Like, it's funny. When Lowe, the guys are telling me, he's like, yeah, when you first started this and pushing us about it, you know, and then after a little bit, he's like, hey, man, make sure it's organized.
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over there. Because he sees it. So basically, it's like, whatever you run out of, whatever you can run out of there, we've got one extra in there. Run out of that, let me know. And then, you know, it's like, I don't know. Stay out of the way for as much time as you can. I thought she was looking like, hey, somebody's got to move their car. So I was like, well, she's cool. She's like, hey, my boss wants me to paint the battery. So I'm like, yeah, I'm going to do it.
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hit, and he brings it back to Rudy O'Bernard, and that's like the march of the penguins, like off the river, like, yeah, that's what happened. you guys dig that down or it's just you guys got to the dirt and that was it we got to the dirt you got to the top he said he wanted you to take over that, dude it's freaking like.
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we can use trash can too we don't need to use it right so i can i can change right i can easily like you know cut down one of those pipes okay and use that too so do whatever you need with that you good i mean you did you get my video i did i i need to forward to you. now we're just talking about the pit i'm gonna dig it down a little bit add my gravel put my pipe.
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and then my check valve and try and keep it out of his way he said he could use a trash can if you have to switch to a trash can and you could offset it one direction and still be able to get a pump in there maybe right but whatever you guys can do i can i only cause problems i don't you guys don't bring you beautiful black scales with the cover on them with the cover i'm gonna send you a picture of the one when i get home but it's not it's not as nice as a picture of a black one.
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it has colors. hey just bring it back to the job site no photos i think i got everything i need okay um, getting rid of the salt system injection point same thing i think it's all good. gilchrist is down to 300 gallons a day supposed to be removed eight of the nine that are hollow.
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in the tight zone pretty sure there's something there guys three thousand gallons of water i think it passed that so holding whatever map was telling them oh yeah that's evaporation we said evaporation he was never questioning it and it's just like bro that's a lot of well he kept asking about the calcium i said dude we're adding calcium we're adding it and drop it he's like do you think that was happening with pedro i said no because pedro said he never added calcium he'd go like if he said yeah i'm adding it once a week then maybe that's what.
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happened but he was okay with this math telling him that you were losing that much water well he's evaporation i'm just kind of like two thousand gallons a day, so he's like hey we're close let's track it but yeah he's off by a lot fifty percent no but he's in the thousands now you're at 300. no no exactly well so they aren't heating it right so that's another variable right it's not heated i thought it was like a four or five thousand way no it's been like thirty five hundred there you go now we're from two thousand thirty five hundred no.
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no double anyway no i just i just that's what we've so it was fifty hundred was that much. we're here look at this yeah this is the last two days so right now we're 591-707 this is yesterday five nine one three seven eight so that's just under 400 gallons so there's a i get one of these.
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So here's the back. So back when they were heating it, it was higher, right? And then it would go down. So I mean, that's almost your heating delta right there, like 1,500. So in this 2,000, it probably should be 3,000. They're probably using it, Scott. So maybe it's Asus. Asus? No, what's the other guy? Rob. Rob? I guess Asus works better.
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Oh, oh, oh. He was just down there. He was just like checking it one day when I was there, whatever. He's just... Yeah, somebody goes every morning, takes it, sends it to Scott. Scott sends it to me and Mark every freaking day. Where do you think a lot of this is? Now I'm convinced it's... So here's the other thing. Ken Thomas is... right was working for one of the attorneys he went and again saying hey they built that sculpture.
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feature sitting on the house structure not isolated they're going underwater loose water structures if these really pressure tested all the pipes but they pressure tested the pipes supposedly they've done bucket testing hours and gallons a day makes me think it's got to be.
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right if you're not getting anything when you're testing it statically with the buckets and then die test then it's got to be something and maybe they didn't actually fall though, because you know where the water flows down into the pool and flows down this side, and it flows down this side on the outside into a little gutter. There's a pipe right there that it overflows into. But I'm wondering if they ever pressure tested,
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because that's got stone around it and that pipe is recessed way back there. I'm like, how do you actually plug it? So I'm thinking that they haven't had thorough pressure. I wonder if somebody was like, oh yeah, that's just a drain pipe, right? The landscaper, or somebody said, oh yeah, just hook up to that one, it's a drain pipe, right? So part of the water goes back and a part of the water goes somewhere else. But the fact that you're, I mean, I guess it's not, but they catch this pool water. Sculpture water or just sculpture water? That one's just sculpture water. Or it could be the Valley Crest Chingas, right?
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Caruso, where let's duct tape it. Hey, we fixed it, right? That's where somebody threw our gutter line. So the gutter line, the pool, it builds up, overflows. bunch of drain pipes that pick up that water and take it to a tank pump pull it from the tank put it back one of those overflows got cut they didn't fix it they put red tape on it so if we would have ran that one pipe would be constantly leaking whatever amount of water it was picking up let's.
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say it was picking up eight feet of edge 25 gallons a minute plus yeah and so somebody told us hey i think they've got the pipe saying something they had to dig it out oh it's just a drain but it was this idea like oh it's just a drink no it's a gravity drink the forces from the constantly recirculating water like you imagine how bad that would have like i mean look what happened with the spot the the settlement in the tank.
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The pool's only like 34 feet in this box, 14 inch, goes down to two and a half.
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I told her, yeah, the structure below has to have a rebate, but it will give them. And they're worried about, but the real boss was there today, How do we claim he met the boss?
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No, no, he was. You haven't heard about Malibu yet, have you? OK. Only reason why I'm asking, I think I'm just going to say, like, because I think I'm going to send them, just in case they're not ready.
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That way, I'll keep the other guys at Stradella, and I'll just take the pressure washer with me. This is all our trash right here? Yeah. Yeah, I just. Fill up a little bit. is only going to be this heavy stuff? It's only going to be. I wanted to make sure I had enough and a little bit extra, so that way I'm not. Yeah, I saw the budget for it. OK, I was going to say, I don't know if we ever.
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but yeah i my only issue with stuff like that was like i i felt guilty saying it was coming from my house you know because they they don't want it orange down to the little thing yeah i know we one company that got it quoted me one thing so oh that's right that's right yeah yeah.
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You haven't done payroll or anything yet. You haven't done payroll or anything. Are you done? I'm trying to do it every day the way I used to. Did I try to? It's just, there's too many payables. There's guys doing too many different things. And I'm just like, by the time I get to the weekend, or even Monday, I'm just like, fuck, this is going to take like two hours to figure this shit out. Have you worked on memes yet? I haven't even gotten in my mind. No?
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He told me, he's like, I'm holding off. Like there's Sixth Street, and I'm just like, dude, I need to get rid of a couple guys for like two weeks so I can focus on it, because I was there last week. And every time they call me, it's a distraction. I can't figure it out yet. No, dude, I've been having a hard time with drawings. This is the basement. This much is that. and doesn't have a lot of people and so he's just like yeah i'm going to save you on memes and.
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honestly i don't know if he's just going to pull numbers from somewhere and just give them a budget and see their reaction just because it's rt added they scoff at every price we deal with right and they're always like if you agree to this much which is usually like 25 to 30 percent less than our price it's yours corey's like no way dude i don't know if he's slow playing it because of that at least with me he told me okay we really want you on stage.
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in a blade i hope so but we call it chihuahua you know skinny chihuahua.
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All right, thank you.
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I saw you guys won something. That means you're good.
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what game? oh 8.
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That's right, it's scratching and stuff, yeah. Yeah, we made the call.
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that first, so I basically walked in.
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you pull a rod.
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I'll tell you this. I'll just keep hearing it. In soccer, the best coaches are yellers. I don't yell. Like, I try to, man. I'm trying to, but I also have to. And it's not like, you know, yelling at. It's yelling to, right?
01:02:57
So it's not the same team that was murdering everything. Well, we're... No, I know, but you would... I know you would say, hey, I don't want to do this again with this team. Yeah, I mean, Levi was the kid that I had on. The only thing I'd like to ask you is if you could sell me $1,000 to win the tournament.
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Win the win, yeah. So I'll play the game with you.
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I've never talked to a real guy, but it would be great. So I'm like, I don't want to be, but you know what, I'm like,
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but I think, you know, you got to hold them accountable. And then I've actually gone after.
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some of the younger coaches like hey you're not telling them why you're pulling them off, you know well you just look down i'm like yeah that's fine but no disrespect but you took care of yourself you didn't take care of my kid you know and by the way this is a guy that like he started pursuing vending right so i can talk to him a little bit but it's like dude you took away his starting position which by the way i told you was going to happen right so i don't i don't care.
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that you did that and then you decreased his afterwards right and i don't care that you did that i do have a problem with the fact that you still tell him that he's doing a good job so literally literally i call him up and i'm like, So, remember this game? Yeah.
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Remember how Ben did the thing? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You pulled him off of that, right? Yeah. So, when I bring it up later, he says, Coach didn't pull me off of that. He goes, why would he say that? So, good question. So, I ask him, what did Coach say to you when you came off? And he's like, good job, Ben. So, now I bring it up because you're not bringing it up. And he wants to tell me that Coach thinks I played fine. Coach is saving me on the bench. I kid you not.
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Coach is saving me for when they need extra help. Like, bro. Yeah. No, that's actually eye-opening, too. Because, you know, one of the kids that I rotate on the bench, I mean, last week in our tournament, we were tied 7-7. We're in it. First tournament game we've ever played. And he's in left field. He's got his sunglasses on. He's this kid that wears all the stuff, but doesn't know how to play. okay face it dude barely misses a shortstop he's in left field ball goes right by him i'm yelling.
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finally it's like he woke up oh and runs for the dude grand slam no literally on a ball that they, will pass and it's like right and i was like i didn't even talk to him i should have a conversation with him and be like hey look this is the reason like until you start to have you on the field in these big situations we made two errors at third yesterday dad text me yeah i probably should be.
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You know where to find me. You too.
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So yeah, this is a bar It's a snack bar Yeah It's a TV, So, did anybody tell you about... Just thinking right now, that guy that's so... The fact that the... I guess they tried to glue the water, Stop back on Oh I think this is it I saw pictures, Do you see this guy? Do I need to go get a new fitting?
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So these are like some... I don't even know what they... Because that's like a two inch pipe And I know that Pentair has a style of light It kind of looks like Jandy lights Do you have a replace light for the thing you're seeing? No As far as you're aware. i mean not as a i think not as a whole i think it looks like a makeshift.
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you're locked in over here so these are very different from the ones we install right you've installed the ones we do right like you throw them in there you never never have no i know because cory's always like don't touch the lights the plumbers will do so this is very, different from what we're used to right the ones we install have threads so you rotate and thread the light into your female adapter okay this is like a pentair pin so pentair would tell you hey do a two inch sleeve.
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and then they have like this bushing slash housing that slides inside the two inch pipe that maybe installed three lights on the same job like seven eight years ago and i don't remember because the electrician took over so i just did the two inch sleeve and then they did all these gizmos so that water stop is part of that fitting i just don't know if that fitting just slides right over here this is more like a trim and i honestly don't know there's honestly.
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inside the two-inch pipe because I'm even trying to replace it. You have to pull the light out. I think this spinning becomes unthreaded. Holds it onto the piece that slides. So trying to replace this. Pulling the light out, chipping inside, and it won't slide. They sell two-inch water stops, if that's your biggest concern.
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I'm not, if the light's stuck in there and we can get it looking like, I'm more, I mean obviously it's gonna have, we need some sort of, I thought about it this morning and then forgot about it and then, just remembered to ask you once I saw you right now. It's uh, tear lights, tear-in-edge-less lights.
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So that's essentially, it's probably not the best picture, but that's what you're looking at. So that whole chain is, it's glued into the two-inch pipe, right, and this is part of that, right? This is, I mean, you can see like the laminate, I'm not sure, the glare or whatever, but there's a water stop that's molded to that, and then that's how you slide your pipe, I mean, the light into it, and that's how you, I don't know, there's just got to be a pen tear or.
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see because this is where we use the towel right so the light that whole blushing that's what threads with the light and here it's just he's blocking the o-ring so it could be similar so these could.
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be newer light fixtures but the old style uh housing or the original style is really an issue all you need to do is look for a water stop i'm more looking at it going okay that looks like.
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I don't care as much about the water. I'll look more into them and see if there's anything.
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Okay. That's the money! Well, I don't know.
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Thank you.
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I'll take care of everything. uh, It's a triple block.
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Hey, no membrana, no, porque es menos, un 16, right? Do I put the aqua block here?
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Yeah, actually, I need, when you're done with that, let me know. It's official, so I want to take everything. Oh, do we have plastic? I think we have it. Do you have plastic? Plastic goes here. So, necesitas, um, si, porque aqua block es, um,
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So AquaBlock, the spray, is bad for windows, it'll etch them. So we always wanna, if there's any glass nearby, we wanna tape it off or protect everything, cover it all off, yeah.
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Thank you.
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아.
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okay so you're gonna need alcohol yeah um the vacuum this mesh pick a rambler just in case um, ramblers for me let's get in a habit just so you're we only want one gotcha um what that'll do for us.
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i know i saw two things what that'll do for us is here's what once you're out right what we want is, for you to be able to pull from there and when you pull from there and you go, i'm out here you still have time to use all that and tell me like hey we just ran out of so-and-so gotcha right and so let's but if you run out here right because then you think there's going to be more in here but there's not right so uh when you see like we've got multiples you know put them.
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put them in there take this guy put it in there so we can do what i would do come back later you know and then let's make sure like what it is i don't know that's just all the stuff that brandon uh didn't need anymore or there's anything i'm pretty sure brandon right so then that needs to be dispersed back into it's either our to-go box right which i don't mind having right okay right okay so.
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So, um, but tomorrow you'll probably want some rags. Lenny, you said rolls? Uh, no. No rolls? I said rags. I'm gonna send you a list.
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Some of the stuff is gonna be for me. Mm-hmm. Rags, vacuum. This should always be with the vacuum, by the way. Gotcha. Um, don't lift up the pressure washer by yourself. Tell me, and I'll come out and help you.
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Pressure washer, block, red sprayers, plastic, white sprayers, plastic. Plastic was in like a white box. That's, by the way, the mere fact.
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that you had to go around here to do it all, you see what I mean? Yeah, yeah, because that's. What is, how do we do this where it's just like, boom, here's, I got everything. I'm gonna order it home. Okay. This should be enough, right? Yeah.
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Just one of these red ones? Red one what? Um, yeah. You can use that other, like for the little stuff, if you want to use one of those buckets, right, or that tote that Brandon brought back, you can do that too.
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What's that? I didn't know those were totes, let me check it out. This is what I was saying, the one that Brandon brought back. I'll organize this, and I'll just put whatever I can. Will we be mixing over there? No.
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de esa coquera, la mierda, voy a querer a ti un corte, ¿verdad? si, si.
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No, the silica sand, the 30 pound.
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Thank you.
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on the.
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I know what you mean.
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Dos minutos.
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Boom.
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Thank you.
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Try some acetone. Try some acetone. It's for you to get every little, uh-uh, you know, that thing out spotless. Yeah, and I was doing like, you know, here. Yeah, because it was pretty thick in that side.
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Yeah, 15 minutes.
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All right.
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ありがとうございました.
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Ya salió, no liqueó, ¿verdad?
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All right.
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could you help me with the yeah.
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Okay, I need you to go. Okay, hold on, I'll be right back.
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Yeah, uh, roll it, Kim. Yeah. I told him it's slightly used, even though the box is stapled and everything. I said there's a little flicker on the LED display, like a high-frequency, like, flicker on the light. And he's like, huh, interesting. He's like, I'll give it to Brayden, have him call me regardless. And I think he said there's two other ones in storage, maybe, that he needs to get picked up for, I don't know, something. He said, just call me. Yeah, I know he stole one from stock for Gilchrist.
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When I gave him the Gilchrist stuff, he's like, where's the other pump? And I'm like, dude, you told me to go to SCP and pick up stuff. Okay. You know, so he said, all right, pick up another one. We're going to box it up right now. Okay. He has other instructions that I can't relay, or I don't have the capacity to relay. Yeah, they don't want to tell you that. They don't want to tell you that. Yeah, okay. that's probably for storage you can just go hey you know the rack where the thing is you know yeah it's probably much easier are you here tomorrow or no were you taking the day off.
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or what i don't get days off um it's the only time i work my united states of america undies, on guesswork in july and memorial day i wasn't planning to be here tomorrow but uh only because we were hidden i got the guys at malibu and stradella tomorrow um everywhere man but uh, what no no i just i just so where's your first stop malibu or stradella prime album oh yeah so.
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i can take all that stuff there but you know what i can stop here and talk to him talk to him maybe he's gonna stop by and just say hey leave it or something i don't know talk to him did we do that okay. the bonding or the opening or everything well yeah everything but yeah that was fine but the bonding is what i was referring to yeah no that's that's perfect i wouldn't have done it any different i was thinking i probably should have the home depot didn't have the green uh plastic.
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wire no the only thing you took out was a pump and nothing else nothing else everything all the hardware's in there the tubing and everything i was just talking about it he's like yeah it just happens to be in fact i put one on his desk on friday did he bring this to you yes.
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nice. What's that? Is there a problem with your mic? No, it's just the pressure. It's too high. I mean, I'd have to inject, like... Oh, here we go. We're registering a little pressure.
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What are you doing here? Pressure testing. Making sure there's no other nicks or anything. Oh, okay. I'm just... You just got like a... You got a legit setup now. Oh, no, I've had this. This is how we pressure test. It's just, uh... I don't have all the plugs, like, these inducer plugs. If I had more... Use your... Good pressure test. It's just... There's no money in pressure testing.
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What are you saying? I didn't want to tell you, but I don't... The hole in there? Huh? You good? I got a hole right up at you. Outside. Wait, drop with this.
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I saw it run. Did you see it run? Well, first there shouldn't be a... Maybe it was a plug. Because you got M1 right behind you. Okay. So, it shouldn't be here. Maybe it was my plug. Never mind. It's probably just dribbling through here, just making it look like it's coming from there.
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Tell me there's a hole in here. Well, there was, but a fuckin' pressure testing error. No, I think, I think, never mind. Do you know Good Plumber? I don't. They have these leaks, and I just don't know what to do about it. Well, look, I don't know Good Plumber. I know Plumber, that's a real asshole. Oh no, I know him! There he is. Alright. No, you're good, you're good. My plug probably just doesn't really tighten it.
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Takes a while. See, like right now they don't have isolation valves on this jet pump, so right now I'm pressure testing the jets, the airline, and the suction. It's not until the suction all this stuff gets filled with pressure that I'll start to register on my gauge. Yeah, so, He said if he has some in storage, I think that there's two in storage or something he does either way.
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Screws you up. So I can hear I can intercept you somewhere. Do you take PCH now? A little easier for you? To get to Malibu? I haven't been to Malibu since... Oh, you haven't? ...open stuff up. Like, open-open, you know. Well, they still have stops, I think. They still have some areas where you just kind of stop and go, you know. I was supposed to go to Malibu.
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Well, yeah, I haven't been to Malibu pretty much since we, uh, we sold these, uh... Shoe descents? Yeah. I was supposed to go last Thursday, but then he sent me to Haiti, so I was like, oh. Well, let's see what he says. Maybe he has a whole different plan. Okay. Yeah, I'll hit you up after I talk to him. Sure. We'll go from there. Yeah, dude. I'm sitting here like in a beat, and they filled them all in, you know.
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oh we're gonna tie in the pressure wasn't there though the membrane it's not too much over that ball you know essentially look at that looks neat that happens when we have movies and don't watch them so it should be like this right right so then they went and covered it all it's like okay so now let's do another you know system that's what it looks like that as opposed to that a quick quick.
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thing that corey may or may have not shared with you is uh he wants to keep the water level below this that's what he's saying so but and we took quick measurements i forget exactly an engine change here and spill over, right to build up install your brass and bronze chingas because he wants to keep this truck they're having issues somewhere did you have from here at all i mean i don't know why you wouldn't.
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well because cory wanted it as long as i've got more or less three inches down then i'm good. level there essentially you have this junior this is roughly i mean you can still go your floats a little higher than that yeah so the coping is going to be an eighth inch higher so they're muscle man right and then i'm going to go six and a quarter down so yeah that's perfect.
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so he just wants to keep that in case he forgets to tell you when you guys start floating right. this is how much you have muscle mammals yeah roughly three. so the fourth so you have like one or three quarters that's what i just told corey like hey they could kind of grind this down and gain themselves at eighth or whatever if it's not level he just doesn't want this to be higher than the bottom of this right because he wants to keep this whole button thing dry and out of the water because they're having trouble that.
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foothill i guess that's something that gets maintained by danny or whatever yeah they're having issues with one of the buttons because it's submerged in water and these are not supposed to be they're not designed to be submerged so just when they start doing this and they just start building it up it's like whoa you're too high already you know i'm going to start working on this she goes that's how they're going to get it done today they bring the whole crew after launch okay i'll hit him up i'll hit you up all right.
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you look at that first step in there and there yeah the step of the, pavers like they'll take their lawnmower thing just right over it. all right man um then i'm gonna get see again i looked at memes say it again i look again i.
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looked at memes and i'm like oh the direction i was going with this thing is completely different now that i see this and this that's what corey said to you or what no it's me realizing, what the pole is or yeah because the structure will show one way and the architectural show it the opposite way and it's like i'm but they neither of them give good specifications, you know a certain point like the bare minimum and it's like you figure out the details and you marry the design to the engineering yeah so i thought we were like because it's got these like water.
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walls or whatnot and i thought like we were like still on certain parts of like i don't know are we making them all we're not making them you know one part shows that we go up and the other part shows that we go straight you know and it's just like i don't know that i've ever spent this much time on it i'm supposed to know what i'm doing nowadays i still don't i mean you buddy.
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the the ruler and he's like well but i got one and i almost by the way though the whole time i'm like don't do it break don't do it i'm sitting there it's like you know the difference between me and you i thought about punch you didn't that was like he actually seems like he's like i think he looked at a little bit yeah bugged him when i said what are you thinking about me when he saw the right he was kind of like but i got one he was like i have one at home i don't even use it well you see it and it doesn't remind you of me so that's the.
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only one that uses them anymore and he's like dude you should see him using off his computer screen don't worry no actually that was the point where i was like oh he's not you know he's not bothered sometimes you don't know if he's in the zone or if he's mad like what did i do. i'll hit you up a little bit i gotta tinkle before i go.
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hey uh well i should make sure um which what is the melody one the one that we shot great on saturday yeah well yeah and the first concrete truck was already 30 but i mean okay so we can get there's a guy named his name is a guy there and he gets there by like six okay i mean it's as long as you're not there making a bunch of noise.
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¿Qué tenemos en lista? No lo sé porque no los conozco, ¿Qué tenemos en lista? Está el CVS, te va a mandar el blog, ¿Broadbeat? Cualquiera Si es CVS lo van a tener, ¿Pero cuál es ese? Dice que esto te ayuda para dolor de garganta actúa rápido y dice que te entume la garganta con la machinca, ¿Pero cuál es la tienda? CVS, esto te lo mando.
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¿A las 3 de la mañana? Sí, en Malibú, ¿Tienes la cámara para grabar? Sí. oh i see so that's that essentially that's the address three one zero four two broad beach.
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right but uh i'll send you guys that i'll send you the address broad beach new beach yeah new water features but awesome oh yeah okay yeah oh the address did you need something else you uh when, you were walking back uh i said i need he needs something so i need to get back here oh okay. the hydra band i put it inside the bucket with the top on it uh when i cleaned out that's okay.
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yes okay. Thank you.
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M1? What else? Tomorrow, only aqua-black. Aqua-black and M-OLED pipes. Oh, M-OLED, okay. No, it's on the... Chipping hammer is on the table. Oh, okay. Did you put it there? Yes, the one that was in there. Yes, I have another chipping hammer. It's mine right now. I have one more.
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Huh? One more chipping hammer? Yeah. I have it in my house. Oh, okay. Yeah, for him. For him. I'm asking because he said no packets. Yeah. No, it's just, you know, maybe half a day for aqua-black and less, probably. Yeah.
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yeah, yeah, so, so the aqua block and the Mollet pipes, one day, yes? René, let's make a tape, a tape, just red, absolutely, Vicente? you know, I'm gonna take the, just in case, I'm gonna take the mortar bed 2000.
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are we gonna need buckets over there? could do that, hey Manny, if you want to follow me out yeah, I'm also going to take the chopper.
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Thank you.
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I'll bring a scale 2 for them all, I'll give the scale so nice we can bring it in the morning, Cool, Thanks, sir.
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i'm roofing retrofit now. you all good with that mask i don't know if you're smiling if you're giddy if you're mad. there you go all right all right have a good one.
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well are you calling me because poncho told you yeah okay so that leaves you do you hear me yeah did you did he give you that pump yeah okay and he that was on my desk i just picked it up this morning yeah so obviously i gotta take that back to scp yeah and then he's gonna have a.
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another po there i was gonna tell you for i don't remember if i give it to him for stradella or for rocky point but it's basically two cats two pumps and two solenoids or yeah solenoids, so just make sure he gives us two cats. that same pump and two co2 solenoids like what i dropped off this morning but those are just, inventory and to use it straight on just have them leave it all so i mean it should be just.
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you should just be getting six boxes but just make sure the uh you get just six boxes you said. yeah sorry the uh two cats two pumps two solenoids okay cool um yeah so i was going around the bandit coming out of pv so it's like going in and out um okay do i need that one just tell them hey it's you know the light's flickering on it i think it's used it looks used it was kind of scuffed up in.
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the back can we just get a replacement okay oh is that in addition to everything else yeah okay okay, yeah that one's separate and i'll let him know you're coming i'm assuming you can go today, yeah yeah because he needs this for tomorrow right yeah that was kind of why i had to give it to you but i hadn't asked you if you could actually make it happen so yeah no we we already talked he's like so what are we doing and i was like well let me let me see what his plan is because whether.
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it's in storage or at scp and then once i know that i'll you know we can make plans from there so yeah yeah we do have some in storage like hidden you know in packaging but yeah if you can get to scp then that would be ideal yeah no i that's yeah not a problem i can do that okay cool all right let me know if you have any issues i'll let him know right now too, i'm assuming you'll be there sometime before the end of the day oh yeah probably, i'd say 3 30. okay cool all right man thank you yeah no problem thanks.
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Happy birthday, buddy period are you open any days this week question mark to meet up question mark? Oh.
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Hello, you okay? Yeah, just my throat just my voice under like that. Okay. Um, I was thinking Would there be a good day? to, Dump Maddie off it at. Parents house or something and we go out for dinner So tonight would have been kind of that night to do that because he doesn't have soccer and he could have spent the night.
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but Katie offered to come over tomorrow to hang out with him and lately my mom hasn't been feeling very well She said that a lot of her symptoms are back. I'm sorry moms or what? Yeah, the pain symptoms that she had before previously when eating. Yeah, so, Like, you know, it would have been tonight, you know the only other thing we can do is potentially go out to dinner tomorrow if we wanted to well he's at if he if oh no soccer's canceled tomorrow so you know but yeah so.
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because wednesday i'm gone with him thursday he has medieval times like thursday he does medieval times and then he has um practice from 5 to 6 30 like we could potentially do thursday if my parents want to pick him up from soccer practice and you and i want to go out to dinner that night if that's what you're thinking um i was yeah i mean something but you know i don't.
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want to if your mom's not doing well i don't want to put more on her. Right. No, I know. I tried to kind of like figure out something. But it's like, I was gonna, like I said, I was gonna try to figure out a way to have Maddie spend the night tonight and just be there at my parents house tomorrow. But then Katie was so like, No, I want to help. Your mom's not feeling well. Let me help. And it was like, I felt bad telling her no and putting more on my mom, because I hadn't talked to her yet. And my mom isn't feeling well, you know? Yeah. So yeah, that's where I'm at.
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Um, so do I need to arrange make any arrangements for something? Or are we okay to kind of just? No, it sounds like, you know, we shouldn't, you know, like, we want to do something, we should just do it with with Maddie or something, you know, right? sounds like maddie's going to fleming's with us just kidding i'd i'd be okay with that that would be so funny um all right well let's think about what we want to do then knowing the situation.
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yeah yeah so all right sounds good baby okay thanks honey i love you i'll talk to you later okay.
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I'M GOING TO KISS YOUR DUMB.
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boost her appearances and shows like 60 minutes scrambled to piece together a coherent 20-minute segment for her i still smile.
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this reporter's garbage from the moment holding a press conference from the travel garbage truck and speaking to a sold-out rally wearing a bright orange safety vest it was another opportunity to show americans a stamp with them while humorously ridiculing career politicians and their elitist attitudes the campaign relentlessly broke every rule in the best way possible all the fundraising the world couldn't pay for the current media from those stops mcdonald's would say it was the most viral moment in the company's history but for me the defining moment of october was a return to consul mania where i had the honor standing alongside laura and speaking to the massive fire up crowd 84 days after the event that nearly cost my father his life it was more than a rally it was a homecoming for the love emotion and unmistakable momentum this is in politics this is a movement of absolute love of hundreds of millions of people who want to save the united states we want to keep our country number one at absolutely everything we do and that's why we're.
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gonna relax donald trump as a 47th president of the united states the reaction by words from the crowd was overwhelming my father was eager to return to father that place represented more than a rally location it was a moment in history a message to supporters staff family and even to himself they cannot break us car windows all across the parking lots were adorned with cartoon image of my father to finally raising a middle finger with the words you missed to say i was proud is an understatement the crowd was endless i see people that must approach 100 000. laura and i sat in the front row with the wife and daughters of corey and barely held back her tears as donald j trump walked out on the stage once again once earlier corey's widow helen told us about what he said to her on the morning of july 13th 24. my husband kept saying he's gonna call me up on stage you're gonna hear him he's gonna say corey get on up here, Days later, at the RNC, when my father had his firefighter uniform placed on the stage as a tribute, and as he offered his heartfelt words of support and consolation, she realized, there was his moment. He's up on stage. There are many unforgettable moments that summer.
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Billy said, thanks, Bish. I might be off Thursday if the rain hits. I'll know more on Wednesday. During the convention, but that one was among the most moving and profound. And then, true to form, Donald Trump did what only he could do. In the face of all that had happened, just when no one expected it, he brought levity. It was the same instinct that he had when we were kids. Me, Don, and Ivanka. And the same one that surfaced moments after he was shot, three months earlier. He smiled, looked at the crowd, and opened his speech. As I was saying, the crowd erupted. USA, USA, USA. This was a fighter America needed. The man would not be held down. In my mind, the election had been won.
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look at me with tired eyes and ask the question that stopped us cold mom dad when is the selection over i just want my parents back it felt like a knife to the heart pure innocent truth coming through the whirlwind we've been living in in that single sentence she said what families feel but rarely say she missed us not the version of us always on the road or behind the podium but just mom and dad and in that moment we were reminded why we do any of this at all our children carolina and her brother luke are the reason we fight for the future for the freedom for our country where the other dreams for this time they weren't just watching us fight they were part of it they carried the weight in their own little ways the misdeeds the long goodbyes the whispered prayers when we were gone the election wasn't just ours it belonged to them too and it does it chapter 14 success as revenge i don't care about the revenge thing i know they.
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usually use the word revenge will there be revenge my revenge will be success donald j trump february, i was extremely confident election day but then again i didn't think we'd lose in 2020. everything pointed to another resounding victory yet we were both aware and known to the system to the games the mail-in ballots and the numerical discrepancies witnessed four years earlier my father led four rallies on november 4th into the early morning election day when every other political candidate would have hung it up he was taking the stage yes he was campaigning for votes but in many ways this was a painting towards the americans who had fought with him no political candidate had ever fought harder he was a machine he was unrelenting this is the end of an era i said to laura in the past nine years i had done hundreds and hundreds of rallies thousands of tv and radio appearances in countless fundraisers robocalls visited every victory office relentlessly campaigned in every swing state and appeared on almost every podcast my schedule would allow.
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win or lose we had nothing left to give not only was the pressure on my father it was on for laura too if there's ever a person whose professional reputation would rise or fall based on the outcome of that night it was laura as co-chair of the republican national committee unlike 2016 and 2020 it wasn't just about my father it was about my wife winning as well it was about redemption, karma for all they had done to him and to me his legacy and ours was deeply tied to the fight at hand it was the ultimate referendum my father took the stage in grand rapids at 12 12 a.m walking the red carpet with lee greenwood's famous god bless the usa query as the navy blue curtains opened tens of thousands of supporters in the vandal arena watched them walk on the stage for the last time the crowd went crazy this was it in your hours people show up to the poll by millions all across the nation this would be the last campaign rally for donald trump at 205 am he called us up on.
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stage with him my children don eric tiffany laura this group here they're so committed they didn't. country be so great and so strong he turned to me and asked would you like to say a few words i stepped forward took the mic good morning michigan i began who else could have this many people at 2 a.m only donald trump i've watched the hell they put him through over the past 10 years the big impeachments the dossiers the russian hoax going after his supreme court justices censoring him taking away his first amendment right trying to take him off the ballots and states across the country raiding his home and yet he comes out every day and he fights and he fights and he fights and when other candidates have packed it in for the night you know who's standing on stage at 2 a.m donald trump america it's time for us to pick our fighter and it's that man right there and i can tell you as a son as a family we have never been more proud of a person in our life.
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i have never been more proud to stand on stage with somebody in my life he's the most remarkable man i know and i promise you i'll be on the stage with you until the end of birth because i truly believe in you i believe what you're doing for this country and what you're doing for our children and you are going to save democracy in the united states and you are going to keep peace in the world and i love you we are proud of you let's make america great again at 3 30 a.m we got a conference one for a ride back to florida none of us slept he played ipad dj journey paraply jane o'connor pop roddy and everything between whenever rain by guns and roses start blasting around the cabin i flashed back to ivanka's teen years she had signed an actual rose poster in her room in trump tower her first crush with tattoos the trademark bandana tied around his head ripped jeans and leather jacket we touched down on beach at 5 29 a.m we left everything on the field now we waited as america would take the pulse.
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election night exhausted we gathered more live watch results the scene was a real combination of what i ran a political movement i fought for and the father i adored the campaign team sat in the office of the ballroom where partygoers were sitting in the campaign it was a small group we purposely kept it that way telling very few people not wanting the inevitable distraction and fanfare, susie was a brilliant campaign manager a great operator who unlike everybody else politics never wanted credit no variety or publicity she brought trademark calm to the room by the way it's ironic that president candidate repeatedly accused of sexism and never being seen around strong intelligent women as mark cuban foolishly claimed on abc's the view in october 2024 actually made history by having not one but two female campaign managers susie wiles and her predecessor kelly conway the first women to ever hold their role in a u.s presidential campaign all that slander is complete fabrication susie and kelly ann are icons trailblazers and winners through and.
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through the same is true for the many amazing female general managers running our properties so uncommon in golf and hospitality industries but not in our country the mood was cautious optimism every indicator was promising but we've been burned before as we watched evening's reporting we braced ourselves with early voting counts the tactic that laura had worked so effectively on promoting implementing in the past two elections our opponents had always crushed us in these mail-in ballots but this time is different as we start seeing the early vote alleys in the swing states i turned to laura and gave her a look filled with quiet gratitude you did it she faced relentless pushback on re-voting from republicans claiming stubbornly to out of date strategies from the 1990s but she never wavered not for a second most of the night i went back and forth between the ballroom and the campaign room on the second floor house pennsylvania was my constant question everything changed on a state that i love despite his question, of election reporting. I hated that feeling. An entire book could be written about battles waged in one in the state of Pennsylvania that day. In Allegheny County, a judge finally ordered Democratic poll watchers to remove their deceptive voter protection badges. Investigations into potentially fraudulent voter registration forms emerged in Lancaster, Monroe, and York counties, with Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams confirming her office was actively probing suspicious registrations, and so many other attempts to corrupt the vote. As Lori had pointed out to the media, in Pennsylvania, there were eight counties that tried to prevent Republican poll watchers from entering buildings. A few days after the election, as Bucks County was still counting ballots, the Democratic County Commissioner had this to say about illegal ballots.
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People violate laws anytime they want. So for me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention. If this is what they say and do in broad daylight, imagine what they've done in the shadows. Speaking of darkness, there's a really interesting parallel between states Democrats usually win and states that don't require photo ID to vote. They began calling states for Donald Trump soon after the polls closed. Indiana was the first projected for Trump at approximately 7-7 p.m., followed minutes later by Kentucky. By 8-1 p.m. Eastern Time, Florida was called. A state that we have pled to based on the impression of New York. We won big. The Mar-a-Lago Ballroom erupted in tears, not just because of the victory, not just because of the 16 electoral votes, but because of Laura, who had become synonymous with the state. Laura waved to accept congratulations on this must-win state, all under the Swarovski Chandeliers, in the very ballroom we got married in years earlier. I went back upstairs to check the latest numbers.
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We were looking at the raw vote totals coming in from each of the three states, the same numbers being displayed on the cable news outlets, but being calculated second by second. We could see where we were compared to 2016, 2020, low propensity voters, the shift to the right and to the left, county by county, all indicators were in our favor. For the first time, the Democrats had no commanding lead in early voting. Finally, James Blair looked at the team and said, based on the early vote and what's left to come in across the state, we just won Pennsylvania. I let him know. I walked downstairs and whispered to my father, congratulations, you just won Pennsylvania. He kept his expression neutral, but the question cut through the air, how do you know? They don't have enough outstanding votes to make up the difference. Moments later, Elon looked up from his phone and said, sir, it looks like we won Pennsylvania. We watched and waited for the official call from the networks. Why does it take him so long? First, the legacy media announcing Republican wins is devastating. We've seen all the tears, the frowns, and the meltdowns.
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Second, election night is one of the biggest ratings opportunities of the year. It can be a pure rating game. When you're winning hundreds of thousands of votes, and only have a small fraction of those votes outstanding, call the race. Forty-five minutes later, they called Pennsylvania. They wore our chairs, rubbed it, and shook the ballroom. State by state, we were witnessing landslides. Lord talked to me, eyes wide with disbelief, and said, we won the Miami-Dade County. This county had been solid blue for decades, even in 2016 and 2020. For the first time in 36 years, we're winning. It was an overwhelming victory in our home state of Florida. We had made gains with every demographic in every county. Race, veterans, party affiliation, gender, age group, urban, suburban, rural, religion, and education. It was time to prepare another speech and head to the official watch party at the West Palm Beach County Convention Center. I pinned with him while writing the 2016 election night victory speech, but this one was my favorite.
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College superstition purchased plain wisdom, but as I mentioned, he never wrote me beforehand. While others might be worth submitting victory speeches days in advance, my father was on stage at 2 in the morning trying to win Michigan. He didn't give a shit about the pageantry. He cared about victory. At 2 o'clock a.m., while the former future president read through his draft and prepared to address the crowd, I snapped a photo and posted it on X. The battles of 2024 felt like a fusion of the best parts of our previous two campaigns. Back then, we were learning as we went, outsiders disrupting the system. By 2020, we had the infrastructure, but the soul of the campaign got diluted in a stale, rented office space in Arlington, too close to the DC swamp. This time, we returned to our roots. We ran it from Florida, far from the bureaucrats and political lifers. It had the urgency of a startup, with the experience of a seasoned operation.
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It was, without question, the best of both worlds. november 6th i called my father early morning after the election with two things to tell him first congratulations i'm so proud of you second that i'm officially retiring politics i want to get back to full focus my family employees and our properties most of all i want to get back to carolina we won the super bowl and the greatest honor of my life to stand on that stage for over a decade i said but there's no more place for me to run i'll make our family proud you go make our country proud he does every single day, The phone started ringing. Within minutes of victory, everything changed, both in our world and around the world. The phones lit up, a far cry from the silence after the 2020 election, when some people in the West Wing scattered like mice. A far cry from the months we'd spent in the courthouse, fighting not just for our company, but for our freedom and our lives. Just like in 2016, people we hadn't heard from in years started reaching out.
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People who deserted Donald Trump, the nitty-gallies of the world, called for apologies, and asked for jobs. Some men only remember loyalty when they run out of options. I'll never forget the contractor for the golf, screaming at my staff during one of our tournaments, demanding that all MAGA hats immediately be pulled from our pro shop, barking orders, and trying to sanitize any sign of support for my father. After the 2024 win, that same individual was now reaching out, all smiles and flattery, asking to be considered for Secretary of the Air Force. It was one of those moments that perfectly captures Washington, D.C. It wasn't just political operatives. World leaders were suddenly reaching out, too. The leaders of Mexico and Canada, who had spent the past four years dismissing Trump's tough stance on immigration and terrorists, were now scrambling to open lines of communication and tighten their borders. Virtually every world leader was trying to make contact with them, and their tones had all shifted dramatically. No longer dismissive or defiant, they approached with a new level of respect and urgency. I even saw on his phone the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, that longtime ally of Letitia James, had tried calling him multiple times.
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When the President-elect finally picked up, her tone was worlds apart from previous years, Now faced with a new reality, she was forced to set aside the rhetoric and engage with the man she once saw for silence. Like the others, she realized she'd need something for her state, or be left behind, and the tune changed fast. On a personal level, on election night and the days that followed, Most of the calls and texts came from dear friends and loyal supporters. People had given everything, worked tirelessly for the campaign, and never once backed down. But the other people called too. You know, the ones we hadn't heard from in years, but suddenly wanted to reconnect. They had a certain title, or being charged to a certain department. It wasn't that I had the pleasure of saying no, or steer our team away from certain names. But what I truly value, was the clarity we all shared this time around. Life is a rollercoaster of exhilarating highs and crushing lows. Of loyalty and of betrayal.
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And I'd live both, sometimes in the same hour. The victories are unforgettable. But the lows, the moments where the walls felt like they were closing in, taught me more than any win ever could. They forced me to grow with acres of skin, to harden. I've learned that loyalty, grit, and the ability to stand tall when the storm hits aren't optional. They're everything. The people who can weather both the peaks and the valleys with you, are the ones who belong in the next chapter. The dying echo. The 2024 election rendered the mainstream media obsolete, reshaped the Republican Party, canceled celebrity influencers, and pummeled the bought and paid for pollsters. The meltdown was all around, and honestly, I couldn't have enjoyed it more. Dismiss the outdated media. It's time to stop giving weight to what the lunatics say. Don't celebrate Omar or anyone like him when they accidentally agree with us. Remember, they oppose our values 99% of the time. Ridiculing these people and their networks was necessary. Now it's time to let their influence die by simply tuning them out. No one cares what the editorial pages publish anymore. The worst fate these people can imagine is relevance. Exhibit A. Joe and Mika went from ranting, he won't prison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, before the election, to begging to meet at the roll-stopping rounds of Mar-a-Lago. Joe defended himself by saying, for those asking why we've speak to the president-elect during such broad times.
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I guess I would ask back, why wouldn't we? For eight years, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski had built their brand on sneering contempt for Donald Trump. Only to come knocking after 2024, hoping to reset the very relationship they torched. How do you have the audacity to essentially label somebody Hitler 2.0, call days after they win an election, and then go to Mar-a-Lago to reopen lines of communication? Donald Trump is much better than I am at handling betrayal. He never forgets who someone is or what they've done, but he has an uncanny ability to be graceful, reset relationships, and keep moving forward when it serves a greater purpose. I can't do it. I'm more of a light switch. When it's off, it's off. That instinct isn't always right, especially in a game of politics, where alliances shift constantly. Still, for me, some of these people are just impossible to respect. Watching them flip, spin, and come crawling back, tests every bit of my patience. And as a son, I reserve the strongest reaction when this loyalty is directed at him.
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make america excellent again donald trump's real estate career can be summed up in one mission the building operates the greatest project on earth when our company acquires property we don't just slap on a fresh coat of paint we transform it completely if the building is beyond repair we carry down to steel concrete bones and rebuild from the ground up turning every project into a masterpiece i'm proud to carry that legacy forward and expand it even further that same relentless approach defines my father's presidency his first term was just the beginning despite the lunacy relentless attacks impeachments lawfare and intentional smoke screens he made it all easy guided by uncommon common sense and unwavering determination how do we get rid of inflation we lower energy costs again how do we reduce unemployment and unlock more opportunity by bringing critical manufacturing back home we must produce our own steel automobiles power medicines and computer chips rebuilding the backbone of american industry and independence my father.
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brought america back to the basics back to the steel concrete and core stop with the di transgender bathrooms and get back to the realities of the world get criminals off the street secure the border offer our kids the highest quality learning environments and put america first slash the federal bureaucracy until it's been transformed into something that actually serves and protects americans we must stay the course and never stop fighting, we'll see there's no story of chinese farmer and his son who had a loved workhorse one day the horse ran away and the neighbors brought him the news your horse ran away what terrible luck maybe so maybe not we'll see the farmer replied days later the horse returned leading several wild horses back to the farm as well your horse has returned and brought several horses home with him the neighbor shouted what great luck the farmer replied maybe so maybe not we'll see the next week the farmer's son tried to break one of the new horses and was thrown to the ground breaking.
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his leg the neighbor moaned your son broke his leg what terrible luck maybe so maybe not the farmer replied we'll see a few weeks later soldiers from national army marched through the town recruiting all boys in military they did not take the farmer's son because he had a broken leg the neighbor whispered your boy is spared what tremendous luck the farmer replied maybe so maybe not we'll see, we can't strip our lives and we shouldn't be too quick to judge life by its daily ups and downs but here and now is important we're also playing a long game i suppose it's a lot of real estate if there's one lesson that i've learned from the past 10 years and a chinese proper is that what seems like the worst news possible can turn out to the best this approach is exactly how i complete the compensation making the strongest ever been despite challenges coded relentless lawfare and constant siege it's the same resilience that carried us through a difficult political journey and why the stakes in the 2026 and 2028 elections are higher than ever before.
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record-breaking donations and turned legal persecution into a narrative of political martyrdom, fueling a comeback campaign that shot the establishment and the world. The loss, if you'd call it that, in 2020 could have been the end, but Trump flipped it into a movement, reshaping the GOP into his bold, America First vision, and building momentum that carried him back to the top. Every hit piece, every severe campaign, every late-night joke only amplified his visibility. Trump mastered the art of using media outrage as validation. They're all coming after me, because I'm fighting for you. When the events of January 6th became a political bludgeon, Trump pivoted to frame the aftermath as proof of a two-tiered justice system, an attack on First Amendment rights. He used it to galvanize a movement centered around government overreach and political targeting. Getting banned from Twitter and Facebook was meant to silence him. Instead, it led to the creation of Truth Social, his own platform, and not only gave him an uncensored voice, but also symbolized independence from big tech control. What was meant to break him, investigations, indictments, and court battles, became the bedrock of his 2024 campaign. Trump turned personal, legal adversity into political identity. If they can do this to me, they can do it to you too. It resonated deeply, especially with voters who felt forgotten, or who were targeted themselves. Roll in the rallies in New Jersey and the Bronx, try to shame your trials, and you'll start to see why New York went redder than it has in decades. I call it a success. In the end, the lawfare and irregularities of 2020 actually helped Donald J. Trump become president again. By now you know I'm not necessarily an optimist. I'm certainly not a pessimist, but I absolutely have come to believe in the wonder of unintended consequences. What if a company that was relentlessly attacked, at great cost, personally.
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caused the death of the president, or the death of. what if the former president was wrongly charged in a series of sham trials became chief executive of the united states of america again it happened worth it people often ask me about the past 10 years and the pressure abroad to my family and our business is it worth it and what about the fact that your father's been close to being murdered at least twice looking back it was an endless game of russian roulette that we somehow managed to survive against all odds, winning the 2024 election would be more fulfilling and satisfying than winning 2016 and 2020 back to back could have been it was the sweetest victory in political history a perfect blend of the art of the deal and the art of combat my father has always believed in common sense and practical solutions that bring the country together as he famously said success will be my revenge.
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speaking of revenge january 6th is one of the most important dates in my life for reasons you, and in 2025 my birthday present was seeing kamala harris certify my father as the newly elected president of the united states.
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in honor glory an american soldier knowing what to god i will never forget the silence arlington in 2017 but this was a silence of hard-fought redemption the following day the inauguration was moved to the capital because of the bitter cold as i looked across the room i knew almost everyone there with us i did miss the massive stance of the ceremony eight years earlier but the infancy of this gathering was even more fitting for this moment president trump's speech set a new standard for straight talk courage and positivity after he was sworn in i spent time talking with people who were seated around us mark zuckerberg was right behind me i'd never met him until that day looking back he might have been the only person in the room i did not know weeks earlier he'd become the first to congratulate my father i shook his hand let's go he said i'm not naive but he appeared genuinely happy about the election maybe so maybe not we'll see, CEO of Google, who couldn't have been nicer as I sat next to him at lunch in Statuary Hall.
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But I'll never forget Googling Trump assassination attempt, Hunter Biden's laptop. You'll need to travel and find the only links and long stories about the other campaign. Not to mention the widespread censorship of an entire movement and party across their YouTube platform. But maybe I should be more like my father, and let people back into the fold. Even people who may not deserve it. Some believe that holding onto your anger only crows your soul. They're probably right. Maybe grace is what's needed now. Or maybe it's exactly what those who were part of the siege found. Unfortunately, I've been living in a system where they try to imprison, bankrupt, and kill us. I don't have much of it in me. Thank you. Thanks to our voters, volunteers, true leaders, amazing team, and brave voices. You know what I'd call that? A good start. Epilogue. So much money.
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I'm bringing the swamp, and the swamp is trying to fight back. Don't worry. We will win. President Donald J. Trump. Speaking of unintended consequences, losing, in quotes, in 2020 was the best thing that ever happened to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. It gave the Democrats all the time they needed to show this country and the world their true colors. It gave my father the ability to recalibrate, reassemble a team, and have a clearer view of Washington, D.C. Today, we have a president who returns to Washington not as a newcomer, but as a seasoned leader, battle-tested, clear-eyed, and more prepared than ever to confront the storm. This time, he's surrounded by a cabinet of unmatched strength, and at one point, he's ready to deliver lasting, transformational change across government. The BS tolerance level is set to zero in this administration. We have the House. We have the Senate. We have a six-tree majority on the Supreme Court. We want all seven swing states and the popular vote. The mainstream media is all but dead, distrusted by all, and replaced by independent podcasts.
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and free speech platforms like X and Truth Social. And the rhinos, Republicans in name only, they are virtually extinct. Donald Trump was never afraid to flick the hornet's nest, but now he fires snare missiles. Throwing so much lead into the air, it's almost impossible for the left to keep up. Trump 2.0 isn't just working harder than ever. He's driving the mission with renewed purpose and unmistakable energy. But this time, he's doing it on his terms, and he's having more fun than ever doing it. The Republican Party has been reborn. It's no longer the party of cautious consultants and stale talking points. It's the party of America first, unapologetically committed to Americans first. This is a movement with backbone, grit, and vision. And it's only just begun. no time for whispers a few years ago carrie a wonderful woman runs from winery charlotte shared this insight eric there's something going on out there i go to every wine show in the country.
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every festival and i've had thousands of people come up to me whisper hey we're 100 behind your boss i always laugh and ask them why are you whispering in 2016 donald trump had massive support some of it loud but much of it quiet that silent backing made the polls painfully unreliable but during 2014 a flight attend walked up to me on a plane and said i'm from new york your father's her last hope she wasn't whispering in fact felt like the entire cabin turned around looked at us she probably felt like i just wanted to blend in but continued any louder voice i just don't care what people think anymore the administration is destroying my country tell your father i love him and i hope he wins we're all behind him a few minutes later she gave me three envelopes one for donald trump one from and one for me each contained a handwritten heartfelt note almost apologetic in terms of admitting she'd been too quiet but now she was.
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then you win. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. I thought about this saying a lot over the years. Barack stopped my father at the 2011 White House War Sponsor. Less than six years later, Donald J. Trump was president. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, and long after, Obama, Clinton, James Comey, James Clapper, and John Brennan spun and perpetuated a web of lies about so-called Russian interference. Hillary's team was eventually caught and fined for misrepresenting spending on quote-unquote research. There was zero evidence linking my father to Russia, and they knew it. Yet anyone who questioned the obvious falsehoods was mocked, censored, or worse. In 2025, newly declassified documents seemed to finally reveal what we've long suspected. Hillary Clinton approved a plan, backed by George Soros' network, to fabricate a story linking Donald Trump to Russian hackers, explicitly to distract from her own missing emails. One internal message reportedly read, HRC approved Julia's idea about Trump and.
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Russian hackers hampering US elections. That should distract people from her own missing email. Another Clinton associate wrote, later the FBI will put more oil into the fire. Why were these reports hidden for years? And why were many of these documents hidden in burn bags? In May of 2020, my father said it plainly. This was all Obama. This was all Biden. These people were corrupt. The whole thing was corrupt. And we caught them. We caught them. He added, it was impossible for it to happen without the man that sits right in that chair in the Oval Office. He knew everything. And now, it's clear to me from these documents that President Obama directly intervenes to alter the intelligence findings, shielding his allies, and perpetuating a lie that divided the. Danny Wells failed, both legally and personally. She made going after Donald Trump her singular mission.
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In December 2024, she was disqualified from the case. Alan Bragg and his political allies stitched together a case of 34 non-crimes. Two weeks after the election, he was still begging the courts to pause the case until 2029, when Donald Trump would leave office, transparently desperate. Jack Smith's case evaporated in the light of the day after November 6, 2024. He went from demanding lightning-speed trials, to stalling, and eventually surrendering. His partisan crusade cost taxpayers over $50 million, only to end in failure. Letitia James fully exposed herself as a vengeful operative masquerading as an attorney general. Her mission was never justice. It was pure political retribution. Even after the election, she continued her faceless attacks. Had we not won, she would become the Attorney General of the United States. Thankfully, we also learned about her own mortgage arrangements under her dossiation, eerily similar to the very accusations she threw at Donald Trump.
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Kamala Harris knew that Joe Biden wasn't capable of doing the job, likely from the moment they first campaigned together. Yet she played along, covered for him, and helped him deceive the American people. That deception is now one of the most underreported political scandals in American history. And the wedding continues. Woke as dead, the border is finally secure, for the first time in decades, maybe ever. The Democratic Party is shattered, or more accurately, the corruption and hypocrisy have been fully exposed and publicly rejected. My father, along with our family and millions of other patriots, was silenced on social media. Today, Donald J. Trump has the loudest voice in the world. Was there ever a siege so relentless? First, it was slander and economic warfare. Next, it was relentless lawfare. They invaded his country. Then they tried to kill him, and then we won. Under siege, but never broken. There were moments, many of them, when nights seemed endless, the noise deafening, and the weight of history unbearable. We didn't ask for the battle that was brought for a doorstep. We didn't choose the persecution or the hatred that tried to divide not only our family, but this great country. But we never ran from it either. Over the past ten years, we stood tall, not just as individuals, but as a family. A family that refused to bend, refused to retreat into the background, and refused to let the soul of America be rewritten. For the first time in American political history, it wasn't just one man running for office. It was a family effort. Not because we wanted it that way, but because we had no other choice. Because, at the end of the day, we only had each other. And through it all, through every firestorm and every late-night war room, we held on to three things. Our love of God, our love for this country, and our love for the Constitution.
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These were our compass. These are still our guides. There's a strange symmetry in life. My father wrote the art of the deal when he was on top of the world, rising, building, blazing new trails. He followed it with the art of the comeback, when everything was stacked against him, and he had to fight tooth and nail to survive. I've lit both those swords. I've walked through fire just as he did in the early 1990s, watching empire shake, legacies threatened, friends vanish, and enemies circle. At 33 years old, I stepped into a role I never expected as a younger man. I became a patriarch of sorts, not only to our company, but in some ways to my own family. It wasn't just about business. It was about pride of family, about giving my father the ability to do the unthinkable, to try and save this nation. I hoped that by holding the line, I gave him the space to do what he was born to do, and what God spared his life to do. There's no playbook for this journey, no map for the uncharted territory we crossed. We wrote our own, and by the grace of God,
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and by the will of the american people we won we won because we stood relentlessly for something greater ourselves we won because we love this country more than we loved our comfort we sacrificed it all time privacy money business friendships reputation not for glory but for the future of our children for your children every america we know still exists buried under bureaucracy and corruption truly every single day beside a man i love to those who stood beside us thank you for those who prayed for us we felt everyone and to those still fighting don't stop because what we built together wasn't just a campaign it was a cause a calling a rebirth of something american to its core a movement to make america great again we stood under siege but we never broke and now we rise stronger freer and unafraid god bless you god bless.
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the american family and may god forever bless the united states of america acknowledge, To my incredible wife, Laura, your love has never been passive. It's a force, steady, fierce, and unshakable. For 17 years, you've stood beside me, not behind me. You've carried away a few people ever see, and made it look effortless. You're the anchor of our family, both publicly and privately, and are the heart and soul of our home. Watching you raise our children with integrity, strength, and compassion is one of the greatest joys of my life. You excel in absolutely everything you do. I've faced battles, but I've never faced them alone, not with you by my side. You've balanced a world of compassion and determination, and I'm endlessly inspired by your work ethic, resilience, and warmth. I'm proud of the life we've built together, and I'm forever grateful for your love. to my siblings tiffany and baron i could be proud to walk through life as part of this family and.
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even more honored to walk beside each of you donnie growing up together with his own adventure the memories of child's vacations the family trips the laughter and the victories we shared both personally and professionally are etched into who i am for the early days building company side by side it's been a remarkable journey one marked by drive loyalty and unshakable unity tiffany it's been such a joy watching you grow into the graceful grounded woman you are today you radiate the quiet strength and kindness that the world needs more of and i'm so proud of the beautiful life that you and michael have built together baron you're stepping into a world with poise beyond your ears your humor sharp mind and sensibility and yes our shared love of crypto continue to impress me it's been fun watching you come into your own and find your own place on the global stage they tried to break us all five of us they tried to divide discredit and distract but they.
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failed they underestimated the bond we share and the strength of the women who raised us our mothers stood firm with courage and conviction and we did too together we've been one unit and one unit fighting together is always unstoppable i'm proud of each of you for the lives you built the grace with which you carry yourselves the way you represent our family with strength and elegance, we are trump's and we don't break. with quiet strength endless loyalty and a heartful of purpose you're one of those people more than 10 years you've been by my side through the long days the hard decisions and the moments you ever see you stood with me in the toughest times and you celebrated the best ones people are you don't just work tirelessly for me you show the same care and dedication to my family to our children and to everyone who is part of our world your commitment is beyond a job it's personal it's loyal it's rare.
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you carry so much on your shoulders often without recognition and i want you to know how deeply i see and appreciate everything you do i trust you implicitly and i can't imagine having this journey without you i'm forever grateful for you not just for what you do but for who you are to my incredible team of organization you know exactly who you are the chapters of this book exist because of you every challenge we faced every victory we burned none of it would be possible without your unwavering dedication relentless work ethic and unshakable loyalty you stood tall day after day through good times and bad you never wavered you believe in this company our mission and one another and together we push back against onslaught of corruption noise and distractions, i'll be on the hard work long hours in the wings i want you to understand this you are part of something far bigger than you may even realize this isn't just a company it's a movement a.
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mission to save america and every one of you has played a critical role in that fight there is no substitute for great no replacement for heart you're not just employees you're family from the bottom of my heart thank you i'm honored i'm humbled and i'm forever grateful. before we could walk, for dragging us through airports with trunks heavier than we were, and for teaching us that sitting still was never an option. You are a force of nature, equal parts elegance and grit. You could be any man on the slopes, and outshine any model on the runway. You ruled with an iron fist, and a heart of gold. When we gave you hell, you gave it right back, and usually far worse. You had that old world discipline, that glamorous Eastern European flair,
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and a presence that couldn't be ignored. That accent, that hair, that confidence. You were so many things at once. Fierce, loyal, proud, sharp, strong, beautiful. Uncomfortably direct, hilarious in ways you probably didn't even realize. You showed us a world. You instilled in us a work ethic, that won't quit, and a fire that won't go out. You were the embodiment of the American dream, without ever letting go of your European roots. And you were a fiercely proud mother, who raised us with strength, sarcasm, and relentless love. You battled your demons, and unfortunately, we lost you far too soon. But I am so lucky to be your son. Lucky to be shaped by your fire. We miss you every single day. Until we meet again, Mom, you are truly one of a kind. To Dorothy Curry, for more than four years, you've been a steady Irish rock in our lives. Your accent, your grace, our nighttime prayers, your constant presence, at my mother's side. Every memory, edge to my heart, you've seen it all.
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You've stood by me, through my childhood, through chaos, through moments we treasure, and moments we'd rather forget. You've given more of yourself than anyone could ever ask. You've sacrificed so much of your personal life for mine, and I love you more than words could ever express. You've shaped the man I am. I was honored to name my daughter, Carolina Dorothy Trump. You gave me my warmth, and my kindness. Qualities, I promise, will never, to page. You were one of my longest and dearest friends, and your loyalty and heart, that meant the world to me. Through every chapter, especially the difficult ones, you've never flinched. When the noise fell out, you stayed focused. You were one of the few who raised your hand without hesitation, something I'll never forget. Your unwavering dedication to rush your mission, the fight against childhood cancer, is nothing short of extraordinary. I see the tireless hours, the passion, the personal sacrifices. You don't just run an organization, you breathe life into it.
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You are the visible heart and soul of everything we dreamed this mission would be. The children I see too, and so many others, who will never know your name, are better off because of you. Thank you for fighting for this. Thank you for fighting for me. You were an incredible human being, Paige. I'm honored to call you my friend, and forever proud of all that we've built together. you are both truly remarkable when i first heard simon schuster my reaction was somewhere between disbelief and no freaking way but from our very first conversations at dinner in marlaco i knew i was amazing i've never considered myself a writer i'm the guy who builds places where others write but this process has been unexpectedly cathartic and you made it not only meaningful but genuinely fun what started as a project became something more personal and you've taken a far deeper role in that journey than i ever imagined thank you for your brilliance your tenacity and your belief in the story to clara lindhoff your jealous emails late nights and meticulous ads.
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helped bring this book to life your commitment to position shaped every page and i'm endlessly grateful to mike loomis and com winners thank you both for your wisdom and guidance to this journey like your talent and insight helping you stories of life in a way i could never imagine tom your state council has been invaluable every step away i'm deeply grateful to have you both by my side, and to the American patriots, from the depths of my heart, thank you. You are the reason we fight, the reason we don't back down, the reason this movement is alive and stronger than ever. Through every smear, every attack, every crooked headline, and weaponized agency, you never blinked. You stood tall, you stood proud, and you stood with us. You are the backbone of this nation, the forgotten men and women who never ask for credit, but deserve all of it. You wake up early, work hard, raise your families, honor God, love this country, and never take a single freedom for granted.
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Your patriotism is fierce, your courage is unmatched, and your loyalty to the truth, to our flag, to the ideals that built this nation is what keeps America from falling into darkness. You had every reason to give up, but you never did. Instead, you rose louder, stood firmer, and fought harder. You are not just sports, you are warriors, and made no mistake, we are shoulder to shoulder with you in this battle for the soul of America. Thank you for believing in my father. Thank you for believing in our family. But most of all, thank you for believing in America. We will never stop fighting, Pete. We will never stop fighting with you. And we will never, ever let this country fall. Under siege, my family's fight to save our nation, was written and read by Eric F. Trump,
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with four words by President Donald J. Trump and Laura Trump. It was recorded by Jason Browning, at Coronado Studio in West Palm Beach, Florida. Editing and post-production by Commonwell, Paul Bowley, technical director. Special thanks to Kimberly Benson. The associate producer was Callie Corham. Under Siege was produced by Paul Fowley and directed by Kelly Corom and Paul Fowley. This has been a presentation of Simon & Schuster Audio. Under Siege is available in print from Threshold Editions.
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Recorded books and R.B. Digital present The Motive, Why So Many Leaders Advocate Their Most Important Responsibilities. A leadership fable by Patrick Lynn Schoening, narrated by Jim Francio. Introduction. up and shout no please don't be a leader unless you're doing it for the right reason and you probably aren't let me explain this is the 11th or 12th business book i've written depending on how you come if someone were to dive into a stack of my books for the first time i tell them to start with this one that's because the majority of the other books i've written focus on how to be a leader how to run a healthy organization lead a cohesive team manage a group of employees however over the years i've come to the realization that some people won't embrace the instructions i provide because of why they wanted to be a leader in the first place throughout my childhood people.
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exhorted me and my peers to be leaders i accepted their encouragement at face value and sought opportunities to lead people and organizations from the moment i could captain a team or run for student council but like so many people i never stopped to consider why i should be a leader as it turns out the primary motive for most young and too many older ones is the rewards that leadership brings with it things like notoriety status and power but people are motivated by these things won't embrace the demands of leadership when they see little or no connection between doing their duties and receiving those rewards they'll pick and choose how they spend their time and energy based on what they're going to get rather than what they need to give to the people they're supposed to be leading this is as dangerous as it is common the purpose of the motion is to make it a little less common i hope this book helps you understand and perhaps adjust your leadership motive so that you can fully embrace the difficult and critical nature of leading an organization or perhaps it will help you come to the peaceful conclusion that you might.
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not want to be a leader at all and allow you to find a better use for your talents and interests in a different role okay. the situation jay davis knew it was too soon for him to get fired six months is not enough time for even the most aggressive private equity firm to act what's up so i'm gonna switch it out at scp.
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um and then yeah so if you're open to meeting up in the morning do you think if i hit you at at our spot at like 6 00 am will i have enough time to get them elevated yeah yeah does that work for you i'll make it work worst case i'll have one of the guys meet you at our spot and i, I'm at 6, and they're much earlier. I'm just making an evaluation of what I need to get this done by tomorrow.
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I might have to be with our stretch guards pretty soon, but, I mean, worst case is I have to send one of your guys to meet you at our parking right area. Is that where you were thinking? Yeah, Havenhurst, Divinus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that place. Yeah, and then from there, we should be in Malibu in 30-45 minutes, and there should be light traffic tomorrow. True. So we should, yeah, I'll text you a little bit later, but yeah, that works.
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Okay, and if you've got a better idea, you know, I'm flexible, so I hate saying that to a plumber knowing how it's going to come back on me, but, yeah. My mind is full of frickin' mucus and phlegm, dude, otherwise I would have had a good laugh and a lot of stupid things to say. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know that works, dude. I'll text you and confirm if it's me or if it's one of the guys. Yeah, sounds good. All right, cool, man. Thank you. Yep, thanks. All right, bye.
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Those years of hard work go to waste, so we decided to throw this pride out the window and make a painful phone call. Research. lighthouse partners was a small consulting firm located in half moon bay california that had a reputation for working with interesting and successful clients one of those clients was delmar alarm a san diego based company that was the shining star of the regional security arena in california and small thorn in shay davis's eye whether it was a panel discussion at a trade show or an article in business, delmar and its british-born ceo liam alcott were regularly lauded for their off-the-chart profitability as well as for their ability to fend off national competitors like paul american normally shay would never have considered hiring a competitor's consulting firm he was beginning to feel desperate enough to try something new when he contacted the consultant at lighthouse who worked with delmar she explained that she'd have to check with her client to see if it would be okay for her to work with another company in the same industry shay decided he probably wouldn't hear back from her he was right but he would never have predicted what would happen next.
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nemesis it's hard to hate someone you don't know but shay figured he was getting pretty good at it in regard to liam alcott though he'd never really met alcott aside from a handshake or a perfunctory greeting at an industry event shay had heard him speak a few times and read more prince interviews than he cared to remember he had grown to resent the phony affability of a man who seemed to have such an easy time doing what. ashley and sent a video hadn't yet figured out so when shay says.
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he looks like he's having fun.
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Wow!
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to his office to announce it, someone named Liam was calling for him on line one, Shay figured it was one of his own executives pulling a prank on him, but before he could pick up the phone to play along, he noticed the 619 area, and decided that the caller might just be his nemesis from San Diego, taking a deep breath, he drove in, this is Shay, hello Shay, this is Liam Alcott, Shay realized he'd meet the 619 area, and decided that the caller came into his office to announce it, and read more print interviews than he cared to remember, he drove the car to Liam Alcott, though he had never really met Alcott, nemesis, but she figured he was getting pretty good in regard to lino alcott though he never really met outside of a handshake or a perfunctory greeting at an industry event jay had heard him speak a few times and read more print interviews than he cared to remember he had gone to resent the phony affability.
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of the man who seemed to have such an easy time doing what she hadn't yet figured out so when shay's assistant rita came into his office to announce that someone named lino was calling for him on live phone shay figured it was one of his own executives pulling a prank on him but before he could pick up the phone to play along he noticed the 619 area and decided that the caller might just be his nemesis from san diego taking a deep breath he told him this is shay hello shay this is leon alcott shay realized immediately that it wasn't a prank but he was somehow relieved that he didn't. first i want to apologize for reaching out to you last time to congratulate you on your promotion i feel like a bum jay wasn't at all convinced that the man was genuine but he wasn't about to let on, don't be silly believe me if anyone knows how busy you are it's me i suppose that's true anyway i'm.
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calling because amy over at lighthouse told me that you contacted about working jay felt a rush of shame expecting liam to chastise him for trying to poach his consultants not to mention his intellectual property jay tried to play it cool yeah i just figured that they know our industry and that if they didn't have a problem with liam interrupted of course i get it and i don't have any problem with it at all amy's a great consultant and lighthouse has been very helpful to us down here you would love working there more than a little surprise jay backed off to preserve some fight well we're going to be talking to other firms too so we're not going to. law in fact before you hire any consultants i think there's one big thing that you should do first, jay was bracing himself for some sort of condescending advice what's that you should let me tell you what we've learned from lighthouse and see if that might be enough for you jay didn't know how to respond did i hear that correctly before you could think of something to say.
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liam continued in fact i'm coming up here next thursday for a meeting and i'm staying weekend at my sister-in-law's in walnut creek why don't we get together on friday i'll have to chat with i just asked your assistant rita it's rita right yeah she's a wide open fight he was supposed to do an ops review or something but he got pushed back a few weeks jay suddenly felt betrayed by rita by the consultants at lighthouse by someone not ready to accept his enemy's clearly devious offer he pushed back don't take this wrongly he paused but don't you have some reservations about sharing your secrets with a competitor liam laughed competitor i don't think we're competitors i mean i certainly wouldn't have wanted lighthouse to work with you if you were and it's not like we're trying to steal one of those customers unless you have plans to get into the security business in san diego so i don't see us having any conflict here jay tried desperately to make that excuse, liam continued i said our common enemy is all american and i'd rather not see them get another.
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regional foothold in northern california he paused unless you've already figured out how to deal with them though jay didn't like the idea of admitting any weakness he also didn't want to lose out on any advice that liam might have for it no we've still got work to do there okay liam announced enthusiastically so that's one area where i might be able to help you and i'm sure you'll have some advice from me jay responded with a partially false show of humility well i don't know about that deciding that he could think of no good reason to refuse liam's offer he really. When the call ended, Jay decided he'd have a few days to come up with a good reason to be out of town at the end of next week. Defenseless. By the close of the day, Jay realized he was stuck. It wasn't the last of the sluggers.
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was having to choose between two threats to his pride. On the one hand, cancelling the meeting would allow him to avoid the humiliation of a lecture from a man he disliked. On the other hand, missing out on good advice from a more successful company might cause him to forfeit more market share to All-American Alarm, which would embarrass him in front of his board and possibly lead to his eventual demise. Deciding that losing his job would be worse than admitting his inferiority to Liam, Jay decided to go ahead and meet with his adversary to learn what he could about how to deal with their mutual competitor. By the way, he woke up on Friday. He lay in bed staring at the ceiling, wondering if he had made the right decision. Turning to his wife, Danny, who had just woken up, Jay asked her a strange question. Isn't there some really important chore you need to do right away so I don't have to go to work? Danny laughed. You must have a lot of meetings today. I wish. Jay responded, wondering if he should confess his pettiness to his wife. What's the problem, then? Oh, I'm just being stupid. I have to spend a lot of time with someone I don't particularly enjoy.
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Brandon? She asked. No. Marissa? Jay climbed out of bed. No, it's no one from the company. Danny seemed puzzled. Who is it? Oh, I don't know. He answered as he disappeared into the bathroom. What do you mean you don't know? Who is it? It's a guy named Liam Alcott. You mean that CEO from San Diego who you hate so much? Danny shouted so her husband could hear her from the other room. Jay came back into the bedroom. Have I complained about him that much? Are you kidding? Liam Alcott is a pompous ass. Liam Alcott thinks he's God's gift to business. Liam Alcott's accent is so fake that Jay interrupted his wife. Okay, I get it. I guess I have. Danny got up and started making the bed. So why are you meeting with him? I don't know. It's weird. What? Shea was confused. She pointed to his side of the bed. Oh, sorry. He started to pull up the sheets and blanked. So what's this meeting about? She persisted. Shea didn't want to tell her the whole story. He wants to help figure out how to compete better with all America. That's a good thing, right? If it were anyone else. He didn't finish the sentence. Well, I'd say you need to take a breath, put your big boy pants on, and admit that he might know something you don't. She paused while he took her advice. And if he's a pompous ass, thank him for his time and be the bigger person. You know, Shea stopped making the bed for a moment. I don't remember asking for your opinion. He smiled. Danny threw a pillow at him and responded with a British accent. I'm sorry, was I being a pompous ass? Invasion.
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when she walked into his office he found liam sitting behind his desk with his feet propped up on it smoking a cigar, so big boy let me tell you how to run a business, no that's not true but liam was already sitting in the lobby of the building waiting for him, good morning shay, liam announced as he stood up with more enthusiasm than shay would have liked this early in the morning still he mustered up the energy to respond in kind, it's nice to finally meet you liam thanks so much for doing this hey it's a chance to avoid having to spend too much time with my in-laws shay laughed inauthentically like one of those characters in a bad sitcom, the two continued their small talk as they made their way toward shay's office stopping by the kitchen to get coffee, arriving at the ceo's well-appointed office with a view of alcatraz they sat down at the couch and shay began. shay felt a sudden rush of shame again wondering if this wasn't an accusation.
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liam seemed to read his mind, oh i'm not questioning your intentions not at all he held up his hands in a show of apology i'm just wondering what you were feeling that made you look for help, relieved by the assurance shay wondered if liam might be a little less pompous than he had assumed he decided he could open up a little, well i'm feeling like we're just not firing all cylinders here, that wasn't so bad shay decided, liam jogged a word or two in the notebook that he brought with him and then responded, is it mostly about paul american, without thinking shay admitted well that's certainly part of it but i think there's something else i just don't know what, liam looked up with a big smile on his face and said something that seemed to shay to be either arrogance or goofiness, that moment shay decided he'd made a big mistake, surrender, Liam noticed that the look on Shay's face had changed, and he seemed concerned.
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Oh, I hope I didn't insult you. No, not at all. Shay lied. My wife says when I get excited, I can come across like a dork, and a condescending one at that, especially with my accent. He laughed and explained himself. It's just that I love this management stuff, but I rarely get a chance to hang out with other CEOs. And I wasn't sure if you'd feel comfortable being so candid. Neither did I, Shay announced, a little sarcastically. They laughed. Shay felt like he was losing control of the conversation, even as he was finding it hard to hate Liam. So then, what do your numbers look like? Liam asked. Shay seemed a little shocked by the direct request for actual information. Noticing his new friend's presence, Liam assured him, If you want me to sign a non-disclosure, I'd be glad to. Shay shook his head, waved his hand, and made one of those facial expressions that said, Don't be silly. Good, Liam announced, because if we're going to help each other, we have to be pretty naked here. For the next half hour or so, Liam presented the high-level fundamentals of his financial.
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operations, while Shay countered with mostly general answers and a few real numbers sprinkled in here and there for effect. In some aspects of their businesses, the two companies were quite similar, but in many others, Del Mar was light years ahead. Shay did his best to hide his surprise at the discrepancy between the company's results, which he hoped Liam hadn't noticed. Unfortunately, he did. With a genuinely concerned look on his face, Liam offered, What's going on up here, my friend? Though calm inside, Shay was desperately searching for a believable excuse for his inferiority. Well, the market is a little different in the Bay Area than it is down south. Liam didn't seem convinced, so Shay explained, Salaries are higher. Local taxes are higher. Cost of living. Liam listened and nodded with as much empathy as he could muster. Wincing just slightly, he took a breath and finally responded. The next half hour or so, the two companies were quite similar, but in many others, Del, Please don't take this wrong, Shay, but those things would only account for a small part of the differences between our company's performance. Shay's face indicated neither frustration nor agreement.
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Liam went on, carefully. I mean, unless I'm hearing things wrong, you seem to have more employees generating less revenue. Your turnover among both customers and employees is considerably higher than ours, and you're actually spending more money on marketing than we are. He paused. Am I missing something? Shay shrugged. Well, at least our company isn't run by a pretentious asshole. Of course, he didn't say that, but he wanted to, even if he knew it wasn't really fair. I'm not going to lie to you, Shay confessed. This isn't easy for me to hear. The two CEOs sat in awkward silence for a long five seconds. Finally, Shay summoned enough courage to ask the question. Do you think there is something fundamentally... He paused, searching for an acceptable word. Broken here? If so, I'd like to know what it is. Liam shrugged. I don't know, but I'll be more than happy to help you figure it out. Shay didn't know what to say, so Liam continued. Why don't I start by telling you what I learned from Amy and the other consultants at Lighthouse?
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Shay took a deep breath and thought to himself. Big boy pants. Naked. leon went to the whiteboard in shay's office picked up a black pen and announced everything that any of the other consultants at lighthouse focused on started with me he wrote ceo in big letters on the board he turned towards shay like a college professor but they redefined the acronym changing it from chief executive officer to chief executing officer he wrote the new term next to the three letters liam didn't see shay roll his eyes behind his back but he didn't need to i know what you think liam explained it sounds cheesy big deal they changed the word shay seemed relieved that liam shared his cynicism but i learned that it's actually an important change if you think about it from a grammatical standpoint he turned back to the words on the board executive is a noun executing is a verb technically it's a participle.
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shay explained a little sheepishly i was an english major well lucky god liam teased him i grew up in england and i'll be damned if i'm going to have a bloody american lecture, sincerely this time, Liam continued, the point is, it conveys activity, the leader is involved in executing rather than simply being an executive, the way you used it there, that's a gerund, Jay declared, whatever, Liam laughed, but I really hope there's more to this than just the word, Jay complained, Liam was suddenly surprised, in a good kind of way, that's exactly what I told them, Liam sat back down and continued, here's how they explained it to me, see, if you do a survey of 100 CEOs and ask them what their most important day-to-day activities are, the things they actually do, you get about 35 substantially different answers, Jay shrugged, well, everyone has different skills and interests, so that makes sense, right, Liam responded abruptly, no, it makes.
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no sense at all, Jay frowned just slightly, what felt like a rebuke, well, Liam clarified, I suppose it makes sense that CEOs do it, but it makes no sense in terms of what their companies need, I'm not sure I agree, but keep going, okay, let's start with you, what is the most important part of what you do, Jay didn't answer, thinking that Liam's question was a rhetorical one, I'm actually asking you, oh, sorry, Jay rallied, I don't know, I do so many things, it's hard to say, I could have Rita go through my calendar, I suppose, Liam nodded patiently, I'm not actually asking you for a quantitative breakdown of your time, I'm more curious about what you think you really do to help the business, how do you see your job, in terms of verbs or particles or whatever you want to call them, Jay took a breath, okay, let's see, he thought about it for a moment, I'd say that sales and marketing on go-to-market activities would be my most important activities, Liam went.
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to the whiteboard and recorded those answers while Jay explained, I was the head of marketing for four years before becoming CEO, so that's a pretty important part of my job, it's critical in our

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