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In the first part of 2020, I think we launched it February 27th or something like that in 2020 the year of COVID which was so ironic because we didn't know which way the podcast would go after that. By the way, the big thing back then was making TikToks. I think it still is is making TikToks. But we chose to make a podcast and 500 plus episodes. What is that almost like 150 weeks straight later? Here we are. Something ridiculous like that. So if you guys are just kind of hopping on

board or you guys are maybe new to the show. Just want to say thanks for joining with us. Thanks for joining on a Monday podcast episode like you guys heard at the beginning of the show. We do a Monday Wednesday Friday show and we should be back here Wednesday. We should be back here Friday and hopefully every week here on out for at least a near while to help you guys grow. What I wanted to talk about today specifically was something that gets my energy flowing, my energy going and builds momentum going into the dog days.

Some are into fall kind of going from peak to peak or checkpoint to checkpoint and that is a lot of events and that is specifically equip expo. Now a lot of you guys know equip expo. A lot of you guys have been to equip equip expo. A lot of you guys enjoy going on the road, having an adventure, having a little bit of a vacay, maybe getting away from the company away from the business away from the day today. Sometimes ironically enough, maybe even getting away from the company or some of your P people.

Now, I know we love all of our team members. I know we love our folks. But at the end of the day, sometimes you just need a break. Sometimes you need a break from quote unquote, the business quote unquote from howdy, and you just want to veg, you just want to vacay, you just want to hang out and or also you want to drop it down another gear and go hang out and go network with some like minded friends, some like minded individuals, maybe, maybe go shopping a little bit, maybe take your checkbook with you or leave it in the car. You could do either or and that is the opportunity that you guys have.

At equip expo this October 17th through the 20th down in Louisville, Kentucky, the industry's largest trade show and expo. Now, what I want to do is just kind of tell a couple fun stories, maybe give you guys some of the details. If you have never been, I think we did a teaser episode, maybe about two months ago, at this point, because I think tickets went on sale sometime in April, but had a lot of people, a lot of people asking pretty much daily on Instagram, specifically, hey, Brian, what's the right hotel?

To go to or hey, Brian, what's some great hotels to say? What's the some of the events that you go to? What are some of the training classes you go to? What booth should I go to? What booth should I visit? How should I prioritize my time inside or outside and so much more, including, hey, Brian, how do I register for this thing? And who needs to register? How do I register? How much is it cost to register? So what I'm going to do is try to break down some of that today's podcast episode. As you guys can imagine, all of our podcasts are short and sweet.

I think I said that last time on Friday's show, we're trying to get it into about a 20 or 25 minute show, just to give you the details, folks, just to give you the stats, the numbers, the ladies and greatest, some thought process to help you win, and we smoked it at about an hour and four minutes, I think, on the last show. So anyway, we're going to do a short and sweet podcast episode today, want to talk to you guys about all things equipped and help you guys get some information, get the lay of the lamb, and of course, help get you guys registered. If you're exciting about excited about attending the largest green industry trade show, and

expo that the industry has to offer this fall. So guys, give me a quick second. We're going to get a little sip of water. We're going to take a quick commercial break, and we're going to come right on back.

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Well, guys, I want to hop right back into it here and help you guys grow. Hope you guys get around the heat and get around the ladies and greatest.

And that is the Equip Expo convention that pretty much everybody in the industry goes to in the fall. Now, a lot of you guys maybe have been part of other industries or other organizations or different companies, and you guys might have an annual rally or an annual trade show or convention that you guys go to in the boating industry.

It's like the Fort Lauderdale boat show and hundreds of other shows that you can go to obviously regionally locally, you know, indoor outdoor in water out of the water, so on and so forth.

But the Fort Lauderdale boat show, the Miami boat show, great times, right? Maybe you guys are, you know, big camping people camping in our viewers and maybe there's local RV shows or fifth wheel shows or camper shows and modicote shows that you guys can go to and I'm sure there's the national one.

If I'm not mistaken somewhere down in Tampa or Orlando, there might even be one in the New England States. I know my younger brother every year would go for the week to the like national RV show.

And now I think was somewhere down in flow, right? What else is there? I'm sure there's national real estate conventions. I did a coaching call with somebody just recently and they his family owned a bunch of furniture stores.

He knows who he is, shout out to that gentleman, absolutely a great podcast coaching call I should say. It was definitely a really, really good one. I wish I would have recorded it maybe release it because we talked about franchising for about 30 or 40 minutes, really, really good episode.

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