[00:00:00] Speaker A: On the April edition of the Local Click, we'll have visits from Roger and Kayla Hindman from Hindman's Body Shop in Woodbury, as well as visits from Tyler and Caroline Cantrell from Vitality Fit in Smithville. Of course, Justin is back with some really neat tech tips and tech news, including some stuff that's kind of current as far as things going on in the news right now. So. And lots of other fun information and great things to talk about. So stay tuned. The show starts now.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Learn more about fun local events and interesting people the heart of Middle Tennessee. With a dash of everyday tech talk thrown in for good measure. The Local Click starts now.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: And welcome to the Local Click. The Local Clique is the technology based podcast brought to you by DTC Communications each and every month where we talk all things technology as well as local people. And joining me again for this month, my good friend and co worker, Mr. Justin Malden. How's it going today, Justin?
[00:01:02] Speaker C: I am doing very, very well. Listen, my headspace may not be where it needs to be. As we start this show, I was thinking about listening, getting everything lined up, lined up. But I've been watching, I've been binging a television show that had a cliffhanger at the end. It's a new, it's a new show and it has a cliffhanger and I want to know what's about to happen.
But this next season ain't even been announced yet if there even is going to be a next season. And I need answers. I need answers.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: You know, there may be a website or two with some spoilers out there if you really want to find out. Or you may be one of those where you just prefer to wait.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: No. Well, I'm going to have to wait because it was the end of the season. There's no, you know, so hopefully they renew it. I did get online and check some things for some theories and what people think may be happening. But listen, these show writers know what to do to get you hooked and to bring you in.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: It must be working well and I.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: Hope we can do that to our listeners here. We can hook them and we can get them to stay tuned throughout this entire episode and come back each month.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: Well, that, that's the goal for sure. And, and we, we do appreciate everybody that always listens in and watches each and every month and we have a good following and it's, it's kind of like a little community here. So we really appreciate everyone doing their part to be part of the program. And you know, this is April. And so when we think April, what do we think about? Well, one of the days we're going to talk about a few days in April, I'm going to run some stuff by you, and I'm going to get your opinion on a few things or your thoughts on them. Okay, you ready? Let's start with April Fool's Day, April 1st. Are you one to participate? Shenanigans.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: Do you know me?
[00:02:39] Speaker A: Yes. That's why I say that. That's an easy one. That's an easy one.
[00:02:43] Speaker C: Of course I know I come off as so very serious all the time. And there's. I have. I don't joke.
Everything is 100% taken seriously all the time. Ye time. There are no shenanigans.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: And you never pull someone's leg or. Or stress the truth or anything about that.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would never. I would never do. Do any of those kinds of things.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: So what about April 20th? This year will be Easter.
[00:03:18] Speaker C: So Easter and I mean, that's got multiple meanings to people. I know. You know, again, for my children, they're going to be thinking of the Easter bunny and getting their baskets. And again, that's a time also from the aspect where the community celebrates it as well for its religious significance.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: As well. You know, so you get together as a community and it's a time to. To have fun in a celebration through the Easter bunny and eggs. And, you know, we've already been announcing at church our annual egg hunt that we have locally and getting ready for it. And our kids are going to have way too much candy because too much. When you ask, you rece.
The parents generally are overwhelmed by the amount of candy that their kids get.
But it's also a good time. Kind of like Halloween in these other times, you get the parent tax. You can take some of that.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And this might be a day that will help celebrate by eating some of that candy and that sort of thing. And that's going to be on April 29th this year, and that's International Dance Day. You think maybe the.
There you go. Oh. Oh, wow. You saw it here first. I saw it here first.
[00:04:30] Speaker C: Listen, you know, I don't have. I don't have very, very, very many moves. You know, I can throw the dice. I can do the sprinkler. If you. If you wanted me to. If you wanted me to do the lawnmower.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: I think we're good. We'll move on to the next one. You guys can send me any kind of Congratulatory messages for stopping. This one I did at your convenience, but I got one more for you. Okay. And it's really not related to any of those, so unless there's a dance called the Tree. But this is called Arbor Day, of course. And Arbor Day, Will, is always the last Friday in April, which will be on April 25 this year. So are you. You ever do anything for Arbor Day? Have you ever done it in the past, like, where you. You know, they offer different. You know, you plant a tree, and sometimes they'll even give them to you free and that sort of thing? You ever celebrated that?
[00:05:21] Speaker C: I cannot say that I have ever personally celebrated Arbor Day. I have planted a few trees, but not specifically for Arbor Day.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Okay, well, now. Well, now you've got a goal for the month before the month. We'll. We'll check back next month and see how that went.
[00:05:37] Speaker C: We can do.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: We.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: We can definitely.
We can definitely do it. I. I will say this. On the property that I have, I think my wife would like us to have less trees and not more trees. So I don't know how well this. This will go over.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: Maybe I may have picked the wrong person to suggest that to. Is that what you're saying? Yeah.
[00:05:57] Speaker C: May.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you can work on. It's, you know, it's early in the month. You can still work on her a little bit.
[00:06:02] Speaker C: Well, we will try and see. I will report back next month to tell you how it goes.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Okay. You. You can give me the full report and see how it went. So. But it's gonna be a great show. On this month's episode. We're gonna have a. Have a great one, actually. We'll be speaking with Tyler and Caroline Cantrell with Vitality Fit in Smithville. But first, we're going to speak with Kayla and Roger Hyman with Hyman's Body Shop in Woodbury.
How are you doing today?
[00:06:27] Speaker D: Doing great.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Thanks so much for making that long trip over to the studio. Right.
[00:06:31] Speaker D: Good to be here.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
It's always good to support our local people. And you guys, you're staples of the community, been here a long time. And we'll kind of talk about that here in just a minute. But before we get started into some of the business aspect, let's get to know both of you just a little bit more, like, you know, how you got started, how long you've been in the area. And that sort of thing started out.
[00:06:54] Speaker D: Like I said, when I was about 9 years old at Jerry Pelham's out of Salvage My first cousin, then 10 years old, went to Homer Smithson's 53 Body Shop. Right. The old shop sits right below where our shop is now. So I was there for several years, then went back and worked for Jerry through high school. 72, and then got married in 75, went back to Homer's and worked for him. And then in 76, Homer's Old Shop burned down. And my brother and I. Jerry was gracious enough, Jerry Pelham. Gracious enough to let us work in his building, an old building there for a couple of years. Just swap out, straighten parts and. And pay a little rent. Helped Jerry out, Helped us out a great deal.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:34] Speaker D: And then Jack and I built a building up off Iconium Road 281 there when you cut off 53. And we were there 20 years till 1970 or 1996. I'm sorry. And Jack passed away. Had a massive heart attack. And then after that, a few months, we relocated. Harold and Ms. Hazel Vinson were kind enough to let us have a parcel of land there and sell it to us. And we built a new shop there. And we've been there almost right at 28 years.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: Wow. Does it seem like that long?
[00:08:04] Speaker D: It really doesn't. The 20 years seem to pass slow because I was younger and the older you get, the 28 passed real fast.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, probably you're so busy most of the time you don't even have time to blink, much less I stay busy. Look back on the past.
[00:08:17] Speaker D: Sometimes five days a week, I open the gate at 6:30.
Don't go there on Saturday and then church on Sunday. So Monday morning, two days passes quickly.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Now what. What about your special helper here? She. She looks like she may have little part of this chapter and story too.
[00:08:35] Speaker D: Yeah. Kayla started out. She started standing to Jack and my brother and I at the old shop when she was about 3 years old. She'd take a little blanket and a pillow and she had a sanding box like we said earlier. And she would gather up all the old sandpaper and we'd give her an old hood or something. She'd sit out there and play and stand on that hood. That's how she really learned the trade. And she'd take that little blanket and the pelo and go in the office we had there on the old shop. And she'd sleep and then right back out we'd take her and. And make sure she had breakfast and lunch. Then back home.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: Kayla, it sounds like you didn't have much choice in this whole thing. You were destined to be involved in this somehow. Right?
[00:09:10] Speaker E: Yes, yes. It's just in the blood, you could say. Grew up around it my whole life.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:16] Speaker E: It's truly been a blessing though. You know, not many people get to grow up and work with their parents.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:09:22] Speaker E: Grow up in the family business. And I learned a lot of not only, I guess you can say business values, but family values. How you treat the community, you get to know the community, treat people.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:09:34] Speaker D: And Canyon County's really been good to us too.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:37] Speaker D: And outside counties we, we really been blessed with our business.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a, it's a close knit county. I know a lot of times they say it's a close knit community. They talk about the smaller towns and cities but honestly the whole county is kind of close knit.
[00:09:51] Speaker D: Oh they are.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Talk about the different types of repairs that you normally see in the shop. I know that's kind of an open ended question because I'm sure it varies quite a bit depending on the job. But kind of talk about some of those types of repairs.
[00:10:02] Speaker E: We do mainly paint and body repair. That's our main line of business.
Insurance work is, is pretty much the main line. We still do a lot of customer pay.
Paint jobs have kind of, they've increased in price so much and also you're so busy with insurance work it's hard to squeeze in the paint jobs like it used to be.
But we still from time to time do those.
But mainly like I said, the insurance work is the main thing that's like you would say your bread and butter of the business pretty much. And we're very fortunate, like dad said, to have a lot of Canning county people. We have surrounding counties, word of mouth people just hear about us. And we're very blessed and fortunate to have people that come from all surrounding counties and support our business. You know.
[00:10:51] Speaker D: And you have to look at it too. When we started, I started when in the trade with Harm Homer Schmitzen. He started out with a steel raft, lead bars and they used to lead and what would take a dent that you'd figure three hours now would take him seven hours to fix because he had to do all the metal work on that. And then also settling welders, he had those at that time. He didn't have a MIG welder. He didn't have the aluminum welders or the glue stations like we do now. And it's just, it's entirely changed.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: It's changed almost. It's almost like starting over sometimes isn't it for certain aspects of it.
[00:11:24] Speaker D: When my brother and I started that's what you made your living on. You didn't have the insurance jobs. You had gm, I say and you had Ford Motor credit. And when you'd repair the cars you'd have to drive them to Nashville to get them to inspect them.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: Oh really?
[00:11:35] Speaker D: Yes. And then have the adjusters that came out like was fortunate a few years later to have.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:41] Speaker D: And now everything Kayla does is email even the estimates his own computer. And we used to have to go through a Mitchell manual an estimate. Now she does in probably 10 minutes would take us 45. So everything's in a hurry up process.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Wow. It's all changed so much. It's all digital in some way. Talk us through some of the typical steps or the process of a typical accident repair. Let's say that I had an unfortunate incident and I needed a some repair done. What does a customer typically do to get that process started to get to work with you?
[00:12:15] Speaker E: They typically will go to their insurance company, turn in a claim or vice versa. If they've been hit, the claim's been turned in. From there we kind of can handle the process. Customers hands free from there pretty much. It's not like it used to be. Once the insurance reaches out to us then we get approval on repairing the vehicle and then you go through your parts order and you know, scheduling the vehicle, getting everything there. We actually even handle the rental process. Getting a rental vehicle brought to the shop and real convenient and then when they're done drop it back off. So it's kind of a one stop shop process now. It's. You don't have to run around and get two or three different estimates. There's DRP shops and direct repair programs and things that have really come a long ways in the industry. I feel like as far as the customer goes, we try to make the easiest transition and smooth for them to where they just come in, get their estimate and then we handle it from there.
Pretty smooth transition. You don't have many, many issues. You know I deal with insurance companies and of course there there you have some issues but we know what job you don't have issues at with certain things.
But the customer usually does not have to get involved in all that. So we had See I think that's.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: So important because A, a lot of times as a customer we don't know what we need. Right.
And B, it's like you have somebody, I won't say fighting for you but you have somebody kind of working on your Behalf that's very knowledgeable in the situation and kind of ask the right. And if there's something that's not exactly right, you know, you guys can say, hey, hey, hey, we need to do it this way or this needs to be done or that sort of thing. That's important, I think.
[00:13:53] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:13:53] Speaker D: Insurance companies used to do the legwork. Now the customer in the body shop, the auto repair shop, does they put.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: The leg work on you.
[00:14:00] Speaker D: They do all the calls, the photos. We went from buying paint down at the old standard auto parts here in Woodbury, my brother and I did, to now Caylus has a complete mixing system. You take pictures with a camera that tells you what's in that paint and matching the colors. And you do spray out cards. We never had that luxury when we were first starting.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: That has really changed a lot.
[00:14:23] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: What would you say set you guys apart? Maybe from some others that are in this industry? Not talking anybody down, but what I've.
[00:14:31] Speaker D: Seen many shops and we've been, we've been offered. Corporations have tried to buy our shop and we're not really interested in selling our shop as long as Kayla wants to be there and to operate the business. And then that's what I say. It's not about money, it's about people and it's about customer service. And we try to go out of our way to do whatever is needed for the customer. And you don't see that in a lot of the corporation shops. And a lot of your shops, your small owned shops have sold out to corporations.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Even if they have that same name, they're not necessarily owned by the same.
[00:15:07] Speaker D: It's completely different. And I've always heard and a good friend of mine, my wife's uncle, Arna Spitzen here, owned a business in Woodbury for years here at the grocery store. But he and I talked one day and they said that's the worst thing about a business is when you go in and you change after somebody's been there so many years and it really affects it.
[00:15:27] Speaker E: Dad's always said, you know, you just be a good steward of what God gave you and run it like you should and treat people like they want to be treated or you want to be treated. And he said, you know, as long as you do that, then you'll be successful in your business.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: A lot of it takes care of itself if you'll do those things. Yes, we say this in a lot of our interviews. Doing business in a small town or in a small community, it's about relationships.
[00:15:48] Speaker D: It's about relationships.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: If you don't have that, you really don't have what you need to be as successful as you could be. I'll just put it that way.
[00:15:58] Speaker D: But we used to operate with four men and we decided we've got two real good men that work for us. Brian Walmart, which Brian's here from Woodbury, his family, and Todd Bale from Manchester. And he ran a shop of his own for several years and they've just been a blessing to us.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: I saw a lifetime warranty on the repairs and that sort of thing, and. And, you know, a lot of times you don't think about needing that and hopefully you won't, but it's nice to know that you guys are there to back up your work and that sort of thing. So is that like a confidence builder for customers or.
[00:16:29] Speaker D: Well, it is, and it's. It's like I had a customer that came to the old shop years before, before Jack passed away, and we had painted on one side of his vehicle. Of course, over the years, when you don't keep them inside, you don't wax them, they'll fade out some. And he had had an accident with that same vehicle and brought it to me. He kept it there for years and kept it in good shape. So while he was there, I said, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to go ahead and paint this other side, this quarter panel while I'm painting your damaged area. And he said, well, you don't have to do that. It's been so many years. I said, yeah, but I want to do it for you, you know.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:17:00] Speaker D: So, like I said, you got to give, like I said, more than you say.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Sometimes talk about something that I hear a lot about, even you see it advertised in the yellow peaches and other places, and that's a paintless dent repair. I know pdr, in short, you hear that mentioned a lot, talk about that process and is that a. Is that a good thing in most cases when you can do that?
[00:17:23] Speaker D: It is if you know what you're doing. I have had some cars in for repairs and early years they've had them PDR'd. And if you don't know what you're doing, you'll do more damage. You'll make what they call crow's foot in the paint. You know, it'll crack it from the bottom up. But you sorta. It's just. We've got two men, Todd, that works for me, he does pdr, and also another gentleman out of Murfreesboro that did it professionally for Nissan. They trained him and then he does it on his own now and you got to massage it out. And even with the new vehicles now with aluminum and so many vehicles, that's more metal, they're really harder to do the PDR than the metal.
[00:18:03] Speaker E: When we had more of like the hail storms and you know, that interacted in this area, I feel like the PDR was a big, A big thing for the insurance companies that when they estimated cars, especially doing pdr, you take out the paintwork and so you take out a lot of money, materials and stuff like that. So I feel like it was kind of a money saver for insurance companies in that aspect. Right. In an aspect of like a self pay or if there's a dent door to anger, something like that. And it can be got out. We would much rather it be PDR and you not have to paint that panel and it save the customer a lot of money. Right. So depending on the situation, it can be like dad said, it can be a very, very good thing. It's just you want to make sure you have the right person.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: It's got to be done correctly. I think that's what I'm picking up.
[00:18:49] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: You're talking about paint matching and other things that have changed so much. But what's some other ways that you've seen kind of technology change the business?
[00:18:57] Speaker E: It's all to better the business. Like you said, everything that they come out with in the technology world. Yeah. The Internet has come into play a lot with DTC as far as the fiber. And that's come a long way since we started. I do have the capability of having the mobile estimating on a surface. I have, if I'm able to do that, like dad said, I've got the program on my phone to be able to insert pictures and have information there.
It's just like I said, but without Internet and capability of how far we've come communicating with the insurance companies, everything now is over the computer and it's changed so much.
[00:19:36] Speaker D: My wife, if I don't mention her, I'll be in trouble.
She helped me for several years till Kayla graduated. And majority of the time now they used to call and ask for Roger all the time. Now I answer the phone when I can and they ask for Kayla.
She has Sharon helped for years out there and helped get me my feet on the ground again.
[00:19:56] Speaker A: If someone's been listening or watching us and they're like that's the place I want to help me with my repair or that sort of thing. What's the best way for them to find where you're at and to contact you and that sort of thing?
[00:20:08] Speaker E: We are at 4154 Jim Cummings highway here in Woodbury. Our phone number reaching out to us anytime is 615-563-5699. We've also available by email. A lot of people like to email now. It's Roger htccom.net and we're. We're there Monday through Friday 8 to 5.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: All right, well, thanks again for being.
[00:20:30] Speaker D: Here for having it.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: All right, everyone, stay tuned. We've got more than program coming up in just a minute.
[00:20:35] Speaker C: Do you know what room the router's in? I can't get onto my zoom meeting.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: Try it in our spacious new family room. Okay.
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[00:20:53] Speaker C: Your new home Checked everything off your.
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[00:21:48] Speaker C: We are talking in April. And what does that mean? What season is now upon us? We are in the middle of spring.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:21:56] Speaker C: Now a lot of people think this time of the year they do what at their homes?
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Spring cleaning.
[00:22:00] Speaker C: Spring cleaning.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:02] Speaker C: Spring cleaning. It's cleanup time.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true.
[00:22:05] Speaker C: While cleaning is on our minds, we may be thinking about it for our homes. It ain't just about your claws and it ain't just about cleaning other things out. We can look at it also through the lens that our tech needs cleaning up too.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: We have to clean our tech.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: Yes. We need to spring clean our digital world. There's something that we need to talk about. So let's get started real quick. Three quick things to think about during this time of the year for you to clean up and clean out your digital devices. The first thing is get rid of anything that you don't need. Go ahead and clean out the storage on your devices. You've got something built in. I guarantee you that will help you with this too. But how many unused photos do we have? Because we took 24 photos of the exact same thing to get that one shot and we still have the 23 other in.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: I totally do that. Like, a lot. I really do. Yeah, I really do that.
[00:23:00] Speaker C: So, you know, that's taking up a ton of space on your device. Or, you know, you got 100 apps on your phone. Are you really using all 100 of them?
[00:23:08] Speaker A: I totally do that as well, you know, so it's. You've been looking at my phone.
[00:23:12] Speaker C: Listen, it's. We all do this. It's like, oh, I need this app for this one thing. And then it remains there forever. Never touch it, never open it again. But it stays there. Right, so let's get rid of these things. Or how often do you download something and it stays wherever your download folder is and you go back and check it like, oh, well, that's there from three years ago.
[00:23:32] Speaker A: I might not need that any longer. Yeah, right.
[00:23:35] Speaker C: So. So get rid of, you know, take some of those things. Get rid of those things again, your device, whatever you're using, it doesn't matter if it's iOS or Android or Windows or whatever it may be, it's going to give you some indication of how much storage space you're using and what is using it. So use that. Use Windows Disk Cleanup. It'll help you get rid of some of those things. Next thing that you can do is while you're cleaning up and getting rid of all these things, go ahead and organize your files, Organize your folders as well. Right. So trash those old files. Get rid of it. Make sure you empty your recycle bin or your trash bin and sort what. What is needed. So now we're, we're getting to what we have left sorted appropriately.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Basically organize things.
[00:24:21] Speaker C: Yes, organize it where you want it.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:23] Speaker C: And again, this works with everything most people use on their photos. They use the default albums, whatever, whatever that photo was assigned to, you know, whether it's date or location, most people continue to use it. But smarter things, as AI gets in there, it's going to start identifying people. And some people may have some privacy things with that that you can turn off, but it'll tag things by location or by people who are in it, you know, or maybe you want to, you know, I go on vacation. I'm making a separate album for this family vacation. So when I go to find it, I'm not having to go back. Oh, I went on vacation June of last year. Let me scroll and try to find all these photos.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: Right.
[00:25:02] Speaker C: So there's a better way. Yes, better way. Or organize things, you know. You know, you could do it by year. So this is 2025. And then Nest a folder within that for each month or for whatever Good idea. Occasion, you know, to make things a little bit easier for you. Right. So name folders by category. Is this personal? Is this something that I did for work? Is this something that I did for church? You know, whatever it may be. And one thing that's different, that most people probably don't do. Consider changing your wallpaper on your device. How often do we actually do that?
[00:25:33] Speaker A: Not very often.
[00:25:34] Speaker C: Refresh it, Come up with something a little bit different for it. Maybe it'll help inspire you or to, you know, help you stay calm, you know, whatever it may be. And then the third thing is, and this is one that we, we generally lack in doing as well physically dust and clean whatever device you're using.
If you haven't moved that desktop computer, because this happened to me recently, I moved it, I'm like, what is all that dust? Well, it was where the device was bringing in air for airflow.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:07] Speaker C: And it was, it's pulling the air in. Well, it's pulling the dust with it. Well, guess what? I hadn't cleaned it, I hadn't wiped it. So I'm restricting airflow to the device, which is going to cause heat issues, which is going to cause performance issues down the road. So be careful when you're cleaning devices. Use appropriate wipes, you know, you're dealing with sensitive electronics, use electronic wipes, use compressed air. And again, be careful using compressed air because you don't want to just hold it down for 30 seconds. You want to follow the instructions and make sure that you're doing it in spurts and those kind of things because you want to avoid any potential liquid near those electronic components and damage.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: Right.
[00:26:45] Speaker C: But it's going to make such a difference in the long term use of your device.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: A great time of year to do that too. It's almost like if you just kind of do that every year at that time of the year, you don't have to worry about it.
[00:26:57] Speaker C: Spring clean, start the season fresh. This year we're going into spring and use it. Like you said, this can be your regular time to do it. Maybe you don't need, you're not having to do it every day or every week or every month, but set aside a little bit of time. It's not bad. While things are on our mind, cleaning up other things to go ahead and, and clean up, clean up these devices.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: And we're very lucky for this segment of the local click to have Tyler and Caroline Cantrell with Vitality Fit in Smithville. Hello. How are you guys doing today?
[00:27:29] Speaker F: We're doing well. Thanks for having us.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: Tell me a little bit more about. About yourself, you know, each of you and your. Your history and your ties to DeKalb county and that sort of thing. Tyler, do you want to kick us off?
[00:27:38] Speaker F: Absolutely. So, grew up in the Keltonburg area.
My family ties back to the Judkins and the Cantrells from Belk and stuff like that. So we've been here for quite a while. Long time. Grew up here my entire life, 35 years. And, you know, played all the sports, done all the things, went to all the schools, and I've loved it ever since. Never wanted to leave.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: So what about you, Caroline? What's your story? What's your history here?
[00:28:08] Speaker G: My history, I'm like my husband. I called DeKalb county home, but my story is a little bit different. I consider myself more of a hybrid. And I lived in Warren county from, I mean, my whole childhood, but I went to School in DeKalb county because my mother taught at the elementary school, so she always took me with her to school.
So I went from preschool to. To graduating high school in the DeKalb county school system, but my actual home was Warren County. So I'm a little bit of a hybrid, but I do consider DeKalb county home.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: Let's talk a little about. About the business, kind of introduce everyone that may not know about it. Now the name of it is Vitality Fit and talk about what it is and the type of training and services that you offer.
[00:28:59] Speaker F: We started 10 years ago. We are in October, will be established for 10 years. So that's.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Hey, that's a good thing. Starting off right there.
[00:29:06] Speaker F: Yeah, absolutely.
We did start off as a CrossFit gym and our focus was mainly the high intensity interval training type stuff. But as we have matured more so in the. In the recent years, probably the last four or five years, we've switched our training to be more functional bodybuilding. Our goal is not to breed fire breathers like CrossFit. You know, kind of coins their whole methodology on. We just want people to have longevity, have healthier lives as long as possible. So all of our services are coach led. We are there guiding people each and every day in personal training, group training, skill sessions, and then even nutrition.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: That's great. And, you know, nutrition is such a big part of it, too, because a lot of people don't realize that's almost. That's what ties it all Together. Right.
[00:30:04] Speaker G: So I am our gym's in house nutrition coach.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:30:08] Speaker G: And that's my specialty area. So my approach with my clients as far as nutrition goes, is really through a lens of inclusion because I feel like in today's world, we're constantly fed.
Don't eat this, Stay away from this.
You're digging an early grave if you choose to eat this way.
[00:30:31] Speaker A: And almost like a guilt or rules based mentality.
[00:30:34] Speaker G: And we, we all think that we want rules. And over time, my clients find that it's really not rules that you want, it's really a structure that you want.
So I like to coach my clients with structure, but we're more focused on the inclusive aspect of nutrition. So instead of, you know, stay away from this, don't eat this. It's more of, what am I not getting enough of? And how can I prioritize that?
[00:31:05] Speaker A: You kind of accidentally push out some of the old with the new when you do it.
[00:31:08] Speaker C: Right.
[00:31:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:31:09] Speaker G: Yes, yes. And it's, it's so funny how that happens when, when you tend to focus more on getting enough water, getting enough protein, getting enough fiber, and overall like getting enough calories that are of the right quality.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Right.
[00:31:26] Speaker G: What you're saying is absolutely true. Your inclination to want the Twinkie or the fries or whatever, those things are fine. But our inclination to want them in an excessive amount kind of goes down.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: Right. You accidentally reprogram yourself.
[00:31:42] Speaker C: Right?
[00:31:42] Speaker G: Exactly, yes. And it's all, it's all about habit. And I like to coach habits and sustainability, but I do use technology and use data in my approach with my clients. So that's great. Tracking habits tracking. You've probably been familiarized with tracking macros.
So I take a flexible approach to tracking the things that matter to get my clients closer to their goals.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: That's great that you guys have both parts of that health aspect in the same building.
[00:32:14] Speaker G: Right.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: And you don't have to go to two different teams.
[00:32:17] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Or work that out. It's literally right there in one stop. And I just think that's, that's a great benefit.
[00:32:23] Speaker G: And it's really cool how it works. Sometimes, sometimes someone will sign up for only training, and they end up being one of my most stellar nutrition clients.
[00:32:34] Speaker A: Right.
[00:32:34] Speaker G: And then the opposite can be true. I can gain a nutrition client that is only interested in working with nutrition, and over time, they become one of our most consistent members.
[00:32:45] Speaker F: Small changes yield big results and lasting results. And so that's how she does her approach for nutrition. That's also how we bring people into the gym side, the working out side.
[00:32:56] Speaker G: Of it too, because you kind of have to think of it in this way. How many people have you met that got fit over one workout? No one. Have you ever met anyone who got shredded by eating one piece of chicken? No. Have you ever met anyone who, you know, completely obliterated their health markers by eating one piece of cake? Like no. It's all about consistency and really playing the long game.
[00:33:21] Speaker A: Describe the difference between going the group training route versus personal training and when someone might choose one over the other.
[00:33:30] Speaker F: For all of our new athletes coming in, they have to go through a month of one on one. So one month of personal training. And what that does is that allows us as coaches to see where somebody's coming in at on a fitness level. So whether they're able to squat a certain weight or they have a limitation, they're going to get one month of one on one coaching. So from there then they go to the group. When they get to the group class, they have six to seven people in there with them going through a similar workout. And that kind of knocks the edge off of having to force yourself to go to the gym alone. You know, you have accountability buddies I think is what some people call them. But from there relationships are formed. And from our group classes you have people from one month in to three years in to even some 10 years in. They are all stair stepping together. They might be on different levels, but they're all progressing together and they're lifting each other up going through similar workouts. Just the community aspect of people wanting to work out with other people to, to see each other succeed. And then on the personal training side, it's just that it is a personal regimen geared toward your goals. So like hyper focus just. Yeah. So we have a couple of athletes that when he is wanting to do competitions. So like workout competitions. So we were out workouts specifically for that. We have another one. She's wanting to hit a certain skill level, so her workouts are geared toward that. And then we have some that they just feel more comfortable in that intimate setting. They're able to get their workout in. They're not on someone else's time clock. They're able to schedule the workouts that fit their time each week and it benefits them. And there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, we want people to benefit any way they can.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: I think there's such a great value to having someone that has done this for as long as you have to try to help someone who's new to it on how to decide that, what route to go. Because when you start something fresh or new, you're kind of intimidated sometimes and you kind of get lost and you don't know what to do and that sort of thing.
[00:35:58] Speaker G: I think that in that first month of one on one training that a new member gets, I think that there's a lot of in your word value in that person developing rapport with their coach and developing trust to buy into the process. Because we're never going to recommend something for you or anyone that doesn't ultimately benefit them. And sometimes it involves unlearning some things too along the way. One of my favorite myths to debunk is that we're still the CrossFit gym and we're not, you know, we're keeping in mind the central goal of allowing our members to feel better, get stronger.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: Look better and have fun making that very first step. Right. It's, it's, that's the big, that's the big key. So help, help us out here. If we, if you got someone and they want to make that first step, do you have any advice to kind of get them over that hump just to get started?
[00:36:56] Speaker F: Yes. Before you even start a workout, you come in and we have a conversation. We have, it takes usually 30 minutes, sometimes longer, sometimes, you know, shorter. What are you looking for? And that's what we always start with. And then it goes to why.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: And that's an important one.
[00:37:15] Speaker F: It is an important one.
[00:37:16] Speaker G: It gets deep sometimes.
[00:37:19] Speaker F: You know, that's what's going to keep you coming. And from there we can build the best program that fits your why. Because we all want a certain physique, we all want a certain health marker, we all want to, to get these different metrics. But, but if we don't have a solid why behind it, it's just going to fall off. And so that's what has really been a big impact for us in keeping and retaining members is finding out what the why is having a conversation.
And that's what gets people started.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: That's what separates you trying to do something on your own, maybe at home. And you just don't know where to start, don't know where to focus on and then having the ability to leverage all of that knowledge that you both have.
[00:38:07] Speaker F: Other clients have said, I just come here because I don't have to think. I just do this because this is what you're telling me to do. I trust that you're, you have my best interest in mind and I don't have to think or wonder what I'm going to do today. Like, you already have it mapped out.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: And then they can focus only on their part.
[00:38:25] Speaker F: Exactly. Just showing up.
[00:38:27] Speaker G: I think that pretty. A pretty vast amount of our members, they've done the traditional gym thing before, and there's nothing wrong with that if you can go into that setting, taking it seriously, if you will. But I can say from personal experience here, I have had gym memberships before, and I go In, I spend 20 minutes on the elliptical reading a magazine, and I'm like, I did it. Bye. See you later. Did I really make it count?
Not really.
[00:38:58] Speaker A: Right.
[00:38:58] Speaker G: And that's not everyone, but if that is a certain someone they can know by stepping into our facility, you have a program written for you. You have a coach that cares, that's going to not watch you like a babysitter, but observe you and help you move in the most sound way as possible to again, get you the results that you want.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: You kind of. You have your own team in a way. It's like a team mentality.
[00:39:23] Speaker G: We do have a team.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: Talk more about the nutrition part because it's such a big part of having healthy habits. Right. And how we eat. And I know you help with that, but that's literally on the same premises, right? In the same building, Everything.
[00:39:38] Speaker G: Yes. So I do have an office within our gym.
I meet one on one with my nutrition clients, and I am.
I am the overseer, if you will, but they are in the driver's seat. So it's my job to help my clients make informed, aware, conscious decisions that will, over time, impact their health, their physique.
But like I said a moment ago, I think a lot of people sign up for nutrition coaching expecting to be told what to do. And I'm not going to tell you what to do. I'm going to give you a guide to do that and connect the dots for you. If you choose X, Y and Z over time, it will lead to this result.
And, you know, I'm. I'm there to listen to my clients in that initial consult and hear some pretty deep dives with their backgrounds. Because our backgrounds influence a whole lot about our present behaviors, our future actions. And like I said a minute ago, more often than not, it's less about. Of course, I teach my clients different concepts and different methods, but more often it's about unlearning things.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: And that's sometimes harder. It is.
[00:40:56] Speaker G: It's a lot harder.
Because, you know, the hard truth of it is they wouldn't be there sitting in My office if what they had done before had worked. Because everything's going to work until it doesn't.
[00:41:12] Speaker A: I like that. It all works until it doesn't work.
[00:41:14] Speaker G: It all works until it doesn't. And that goes for, for any, any diet with a name. It's gonna work until it doesn't. Because then, you know, you have the choice to make. Do I follow this diet or do I enjoy life? And my goal is to allow you to enjoy both.
[00:41:31] Speaker A: I like that.
[00:41:32] Speaker G: You know, if I had any one piece of advice for anyone out there, whether you want to lose weight or get stronger, you need to track what you eat for at least two weeks and do it without shame, do it without trying to do it with honesty. And you'd be so surprised. And you can have ice cream every night if you moderate it and measure it and are just honest with yourself. If you're also following good fundamental habits as really the, the priority points, do.
[00:42:05] Speaker A: You guys offer packages that have both sides of the house in it? You know, the work outside and that training side as well as the nutrition?
[00:42:13] Speaker F: Yeah. So what we have done in, in recent years is if you sign up for one package, let's say with Caroline, for three months, you then get a discounted gym membership if you decide to go to that. So you'll go right into our recurring monthly, monthly plan.
And then kind of on the reverse side too. We want to see people succeed, so we're trying to help in any way that we can in that facet.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: Do you have any success stories, maybe client success stories that you could kind of describe to us without mentioning names or anything like that, but something that kind of comes to mind that you're kind of proud of or just where you've really helped someone.
[00:42:52] Speaker F: We have a member, she has been with us, I think, going on four years. And when she started, her goal was to get off of her medication and we do a three month commitment. Within that three months, she was able to come off her meds. And you know, she has said multiple times, she's like, I come here because I don't ever want to be on medication again. And you know, here recently, one of our guys, he actually was in a pretty, pretty gruesome accident at his job and broke his back.
And he has been with us for about eight months now. And he's back to like moving his body better than he had. Like, he's back to weights that he was lifting. He's back to moving more consistently. And like, he is on his journey to get back to, to his job, which was a bullfighter. So, like, he. I know it's kind of crazy. Wow.
But, you know, you hear stories like that, and we have multiple families that come in there, and they do it so that they can live longer lives together to show their kids how.
Mom and dad, we do this so we can be with you guys on the ball field. We can play with you guys here.
And there's so many stories like that. And each person in our gym has a story, and that's something too. That's cool, is they share it with us. I mean, we do own the gym, but the relationships that we have, these people want to share their wins with us.
[00:44:33] Speaker A: You really grow close to people when you go through those parts of their lives, those trials and tribulations, and you come out on the other side, you can't help but get a vested interest in them personally, too.
[00:44:43] Speaker F: Absolutely. And I think that's what has been a big part of the longevity of the business, is we don't focus just on the working outside. We focus on the human side of it, too. So it's. It's really cool to. To see both success and then also get to get to be there when people need just a crying shoulder sometimes. You know, the relationships we build is pretty. Pretty incredible, for sure.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:45:14] Speaker G: And that's. That's a conversation that I think we all have pretty regularly with our members, is that it is so much less about the results. Results are cool. But when you focus more on the process and, yeah, your body evolves over time, but really the mental side of it, the character side of it, like, what kind of identity shift.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: You can become a different person after this for a while.
[00:45:41] Speaker G: Yeah, you can. Yeah. And you. But you. It comes with the belief of that when you, you know, sign up for coaching or a membership or whatever, it's no longer, I can't do that. It's. This is who I am. And I am an athlete. I think that that's something that's like.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: A confidence builder sometimes.
[00:46:02] Speaker G: Yeah. It took me a long time to call myself an athlete because an athlete is a football player, soccer player, basketball player, and it's like, no, if you show up and you train your body in a way, I mean, you're an athlete.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:16] Speaker G: And we're gonna. We're gonna treat you like one.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: And I like that.
[00:46:19] Speaker G: It's really cool.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: You know, you mentioned earlier, too, about technology and how important that plays a role in your. In your business. Kind of talk about some of the different ways, you know, whether it be day to day or just maybe some ways people don't think about it, how you use technology to help your business run smoothly.
[00:46:34] Speaker G: We're managing their workouts by putting them in spreadsheets or a central app that we all use together as coaches and as a gym.
For my nutrition clients, I use a particular platform to help them track their nutrition. Technology is huge for my work with my nutrition clients because if we're not tracking, you know, specific, you know, calories or protein or anything like that, we're tracking habits. And my one on one client, my one on one nutrition clients, they also check in with me on a weekly or bi weekly basis. So we have a very heavy handle on the accountability part.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: And I guess that's data that syncive or the cloud where you guys can kind of track, kind of become accountability partners, so to speak, or if you have questions.
[00:47:21] Speaker G: And yes, we have shared accountability together. So what they measure I also see. And it's just a really neat way to use technology to create change.
[00:47:30] Speaker F: And that's, I think that's been a big difference maker too. We switched to a platform, I guess when we switched over from CrossFit to our functional bodybuilding to where now it tracks our athletes, how many times they show up to class, how many check ins they have if they, if they miss a time and then, you know, goes, it goes all the way from that to posting workouts for, or that's where we post our workouts to payment methods. I mean before that we were taking cash and check and having to do it all by hand. And this made a world of difference being able to not have to worry about that. But like she said, you know, we're on the computer more. I'm on it more than I would actually like to be. But it is, it is a necessity and it helps keep everybody on the same page moving, moving toward the same.
[00:48:28] Speaker G: End goal over time, ensuring that they make progress. Because what you don't measure, you can't manage. So if you're not, that's a good point. If you're not measuring your back squat weight, you're guessing. You're guessing. Yes. So taking the guesswork out of it is huge for making the progress that you're envisioning.
[00:48:46] Speaker F: We've had a lot of our athletes say that that's been a big difference maker. Even the ones that were here before we use this platform. Like, yeah, I take a picture of my workout and I can go back and reference what I did from week to week. And that's why I Do that, you know, to not have to guess. If I did this for 5 reps or 8 reps, I know what I have because I can go back and look.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: So it's makes them more efficient.
[00:49:16] Speaker F: Absolutely, yeah.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: So if someone's ready. Okay, we've pumped them up, right?
[00:49:22] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: They're like, I'm making a change. This starts today. And they want to get in touch with you. They want to get started. What's the best way to learn more about, you know, Vitality Fit or contact you or that sort of thing?
[00:49:33] Speaker F: So we are on Facebook and Instagram.
We receive messages all the time. If you want to reach out to us there, we also have a website, vitalityfittn.com that people can go and fill out a lead questionnaire or an email that they can reach out to. Is Vitality Fit.
We do have a few clients that are remote.
[00:50:02] Speaker G: Remote.
[00:50:02] Speaker F: We do have a few remote clients.
[00:50:05] Speaker G: We've done online programming. I'd say about 25% of my nutrition clients are actually remote. We can do virtual.
[00:50:12] Speaker A: Well, that's convenient, too.
[00:50:14] Speaker F: Absolutely. So we have a few that are in nutrition, and I have a couple that I wrap workouts for that they do at home. But again, we have that metric of the technology that they log in, they put their results and.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: And so basically what you're saying, Tyler, is there's no excuse.
[00:50:30] Speaker F: There's no excuse.
[00:50:32] Speaker A: Just get started.
[00:50:32] Speaker F: Right.
[00:50:33] Speaker G: We can find you anywhere, and you can find us anywhere.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: I love it. Well, you guys are doing. I mean, you made it a decade, so you've got to be doing something right. And we appreciate you guys being there in the community to help people take control of their health and appreciate it having us.
[00:50:47] Speaker F: I really. We do.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:48] Speaker G: This has been really cool.
[00:50:49] Speaker A: It's been fun. We'll come back and see us again sometime and we'll talk more success stories. How does that sound?
[00:50:55] Speaker F: Yeah, that sounds good.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: All right, everybody, stay tuned. We've got more of the program coming up in just a minute.
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[00:52:04] Speaker A: And I'm going to give the mic to Justin again for this part of the program in a segment called Tick News Roundup.
[00:52:12] Speaker C: It is crazy to think that this first piece of news information that I'm bringing forward is a follow up from something that happened nine months ago.
[00:52:21] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: If you would have told me nine months later, something that we talked about on here, we would be doing the follow up on, I would have been like, there's no way it's going to take that long. But I am talking about the rescue of NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Tennesseeans Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station.
[00:52:40] Speaker A: He's from Mount Juliet, right?
[00:52:41] Speaker C: Yes, yes. Yeah. He's a graduate of Mount Juliet High School, went to Tennessee Tech University locally. Wow. So, yeah, so yeah, so he is, he is local and they have been on the International Space Station safe and sound, I should say that. You know, and they were not the only ones there. They're just their trip that should have been a few days turned into months. And I can imagine they missed holiday time, Thanksgiving and Christmas with their families.
[00:53:05] Speaker A: Like the Gilligan's island of space travel.
[00:53:08] Speaker C: Yes, yes. And so SpaceX came to the rescue. They had a scheduled mission already that was going to the International Space Station. They took a couple individuals off of that. It should have been four individuals. They only sent two up that way that on the return trip the stranded astronauts could return. But they were able to do that. And you know, we can all continue to see the role that these private companies play in space travel and space tech and the advances, because this was SpaceX. But they're not the only ones doing this. So it's very interesting to see the shift from the public sector in space technology to the private sector, even more.
[00:53:52] Speaker A: Cooperation between the two entities.
[00:53:54] Speaker C: So there's a public private sector partnership, but then there's also the competition within the private sector. And so that's interesting to see. So big win there in space tech realm. Something that everybody needs to keep their eyes and ears out for. And you're going to be getting emails and you're going to be getting notifications for this for the next six months. But Windows 10, all those notifications that you were getting, these are legitimate notifications. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 now. Now, for businesses and personal alike, this is going to be a big deal because when I say support is ending, it's not going to quit functioning. But it will not get software updates. But more critically, it will not get security updates. So any system vulnerabilities that that are discovered will not be patched going forward. And we talk about security and we talk about privacy a lot. You got to get these things.
[00:54:52] Speaker A: That's kind of sad. I like Windows 10, but that's just me.
[00:54:54] Speaker C: Yeah. And so you, you've got six months to decide am I going to upgrade or not. Problem is if you don't upgrade, you are going to be potentially left with a system that is vulnerable to future security issues. Now the reason this is such a big deal is because in the United States it's estimated that more than half of all Windows users are still on Windows 10. So we're talking about an impact of millions upon millions of people that are going to be be affected by this. And there's already talks, if you pay attention to the news, news space at all, you know of how much this upgrade is going to cost. Because one of the requirements for Windows 10 is a new chip called the TPM and it is required form from a security standpoint to run Windows 11. And a lot of old hardware and old CPUs does not have this chip. And that's the big issue is there's not a hardware compatibility. So it's not just upgrading these softwares. You got to buy hardware to be able to get the new software.
[00:55:54] Speaker A: Could be a lot of computer purchasing going on soon.
[00:55:57] Speaker C: Yes, yes. One last thing and I'm going to be real quick with this because I've noticed it, you know, in the drone space.
And this has to do with AI. This is the combination of AI and drones. Amazon had been piloting prime air drone deliveries for a little bit and now they have actually got in gotten more approval from the FAA for what's called beyond visual line of sight authorization to be able to fly these unmanned drones, to be able to do deliveries. And so they're doing them right now in Arizona. They started doing them in March where they're testing out these drone deliveries. And their aim is it's going to go beyond Arizona. Right. It's going to become larger and it's going to become bigger. And, and the thing that's interesting and what I want to see is this going to be a fad. Is this something that's short term newsworthy or is it really the future?
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Right. But that it's very probably determines on how well it works in Arizona.
[00:56:57] Speaker C: Yes, yes. Which is. Yeah. And they're testing it in, in a small area right now. But it's again this technology, AI all incorporated for it to be able to to fly autonomously and deliver the package where it needs to go is interesting.
[00:57:18] Speaker A: It wouldn't be that many years ago where we would almost laugh at someone if they brought up this as an event that was going on currently, but now it's here.
[00:57:27] Speaker C: Well, can you imagine? You know, we think of delivery timeframes. If you've got something that you want that maybe it's a small package that you need delivered of some sort, or, you know, okay, I need this medicine, but I can't find it locally. Let me order it through Amazon and then you may have it literally dropping out of the sky in your front yard in two to three hours.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: Thanks, Justin. I appreciate it. Now let's go to the part of the program we call what's Up DTC for the month of April. You can find DTC at the Smithville Elementary Careers on Wheels event, which will take place on April 25th. And stay tuned to DTC3TV during the month of April as we take a little flashback look at some of the sporting events that we've aired previously. We've decided to kind of go into the archives a bit and play some of the previous games that we've done through DTC Sports and you can catch all that action on DTC Channel 3 on the DTC TV TV service. And I think that's going to be a wrap for the month of April. Justin, thanks again for joining us and for all you do for the program and we really appreciate you being here with us.
[00:58:43] Speaker C: Listen, I'm glad to be here, excited that you're here for our guest and just being able to to see what DTC is doing and to be able to highlight some some of our wonderful members that we have here at dtc.
[00:58:56] Speaker A: That's right. We are very fortunate to be where we are and have the the customer base that we do. And we're very fortunate also to have you watching and listening each and every month. So we appreciate you and we say so long for the month of April and we'll see you back soon for the May episode.
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