On this episode of the What the Floor Podcast, we took a step back and reflected on what it has been like to start a podcast. We talk about what we have learned, what we are looking forward to and joke A LOT about what has gone into the creation of this podcast.
Also don't miss the exclusive BLOOPER REEL at the end!
What the Floor is a T&A Supply Company Inc original production. You can find out more about us at tasupply.com or tasflooring.com. This show is produced by Jose Morales with help from Toni Collier and Jessica Riser. Tell us what you think of the show at wtfpodcast@tasupply.com or #whatthefloorpodcast on social media to let us know what you think.
On this episode of the What the Floor Podcast, we took a step back and reflected on what it has been like to start a podcast. We talk about what we have learned, what we are looking forward to and joke A LOT about what has gone into the creation of this podcast.
Also don't miss the exclusive BLOOPER REEL at the end!
What the Floor is a T&A Supply Company Inc original production. You can find out more about us at tasupply.com or tasflooring.com. This show is produced by Jose Morales with help from Toni Collier and Jessica Riser. Tell us what you think of the show at wtfpodcast@tasupply.com or #whatthefloorpodcast on social media to let us know what you think.
This is What the Floor from T&A Supply Company Inc, a podcast for the flooring industry. I'm Holiday Van Erem.
Michael Goria:And I'm Michael Goria. We're going to explore the hot topics of the flooring industry with a little humor and the new set of eyes.
Holiday Van Erem:Hello, Michael,
Michael Goria:How are you holiday?
Holiday Van Erem:It's been a hell of a morning.
Michael Goria:Yeah, but it's Friday.
Holiday Van Erem:That's fantastic. It's Friday. It's been a rough week. It's been ups and downs. Mostly downs.
Michael Goria:Yeah. I think we're in a new era. I mean, there's just so much going on in the market. Personally and professionally, people are struggling with a lot of different things.
Holiday Van Erem:So much pressure. Yeah, that's part of it. So much pressure, stress on the market pressure to do better be better change our processes for next year. So there's just a lot a lot going on. And it weighs heavily on a lot of folks.
Michael Goria:Yeah. And a lot of unknowns. You know, how do we pivot? Where where are we going? What do we need to have? There's so many new ideas about where product pricing needs to be, but we still have a lot of product and current pricing. And so how do we change and be effective in the new year?
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah, it's a tough question. What products do we need to be competitive? What pricing do we need? The thing I struggle with is prices keep dropping, but at some point, I mean, you don't want to go to the bottom. You don't want to be the first one to hit the bottom. Right. But we still have to be competitive.
Michael Goria:Yeah. And I don't know that we know what the bottom is. No. So we're chasing an unknown.
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah. So today's episode, we're gonna do a little differently. We don't have a topic for today. But we're gonna do a little recap of what we've learned about having a podcast. I'm working as a team and just share some of our highlights our ups and downs from what the floor and kind of go over what we think what our plans will be for next year.
Michael Goria:Yeah, this has been a for me such a humbling experience, like fun, I really enjoyed it. But it's been a learning process. i It has not been this, you just step into the podcast booth or room. And while ah, however, some of it has been that, you know, Jose has done such a good job cutting and editing these episodes that he makes us sound much better than we really are.
Holiday Van Erem:Yes, for sure. I, I was pleasantly surprised. And I say I say shocked, but not in a negative way, Jose, you have learned how to edit a podcast so quickly and so efficiently. I'm super proud of you. A lot of people that do podcast will hire a company to do the editing, they'll set up their studio at home and they'll do the recording. And then they will send it out to somebody else to do all the editing and put all the post production into it. And we just asked Jose who works in our sales support department, and he wanted an additional set of responsibilities. And he graciously said yes. And isn't an amazing job.
Michael Goria:Yeah, this whole team has really come together with that though. I mean, you know, holiday you having the kind of I mean, really building this thing as your baby and getting all the gear and bringing it you know, to what it is today. You know, Toni and Jessica, I think Toni named it.
Toni Collier:That's my only claim to fame. Like a fly on the wall. I offer my opinion every once in a while, but I just I've enjoyed just kind of being around for the whole the whole ride and.
Michael Goria:Yeah, but it's been a team effort. They you know, we come here once a month or you know, sometimes we have to split it up and do a couple of different recordings. And it's been a team. It's been this cool little team that we've put together and grown to what now seven,
Holiday Van Erem:Almost 700 downloads.
Michael Goria:Oh 700 downloads seven podcast total. Yeah. So here, we've put this thing together out of, hey, we want to see if we can make this work. Can we reach our customers? Can we reach our employees? Can we reach you know, some of our vendor partners in the industry? And we have because we've had feedback from each one of them at some level. But it's it's been very organic, I guess I would call it.
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah, and we definitely could not have done this without this team. I had this idea to do this, but I would not have done it on my own. There's no way that just holiday talking about flooring on her own would have made one any sense. And to just wondering have been engaging. So I'm so happy that you said yes that you would do this with me. Because I think that we work well together but we have very different opinions about things and and very different set knowledge sets. Yeah. So I think it complements each other really well. If I hadn't found you to do this with me with this wouldn't have happened.
Michael Goria:Yeah, and I think that's one of my biggest takeaways was well, I'm not I'm not a person. Additional on anything I'm not the know all about, you know, mainly hard surface. But here we go. And we've came together and just, we've admitted that in every episode, we're here to just start a conversation. And hopefully that resonates with our listeners that they realize, hey, they don't know everything. But while they've learned a lot, or they've taught me a lot, or I've been taking the ball and gone and done my own research and grown, what I'm doing,
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah, if we can just be the conduit to, here's an expert, we're going to ask a really stupid question so that we understand it. Fantastic. And I think that that's the feedback that we've received is, thank you for bringing up this topic and finding somebody who knows more about it than you or me, so that people can learn about it. And nobody knows all of the answers. And it's kind of the opinion of what the best practices is constantly changing. But for our particular industry, we're, we're so old school and how we communicate information, and it's not necessarily passed down very well to people that come into the industry. Hopefully, we're just providing another tool for those folks to be able to continue to learn.
Michael Goria:So do you have something that you thought was harder than you thought it would be with this
Holiday Van Erem:Hum, coming up with topics? It's definitely hard. We had a handful right off the bat that were like, Okay, we definitely want to talk about these things. But it's not always easy to make a topic turn into a show to come up with like, what are we actually going to talk about who we're going to talk to trying to get people to like schedule an interview is difficult. Yeah. So I that's probably been the hardest thing we struggled to with just like the equipment and trying to get everything set up. We finally fixed Tony's headphones today. We like got it. So I haven't that's been difficult to but I had no expectation that I knew how to make all this equipment work. So my expectations were pretty low for you know how we were going to get all set up. So I felt like topics would be a little bit easier. But I feel pretty good about the list of topics that we still have and the things that we even just brainstormed about the last time that we've sat down and talked. So hopefully that continues to find its way each month, we ended up finding something, you know, we asked at the end of the show for listeners to send in their topics of things that we want to talk about in a episode down the road, we would really love to hear more feedback about what you really want to know about.
Michael Goria:Yeah, that's been huge. And even as we met last, you know, I think a lot of the topics that we've kind of started coming up with with for 2023 were stemmed from conversations we've had with customers or our own employees, vendors that that's what's going to make up 2023. So any feedback you can give good or bad will take. We're not professional podcaster Yeah, we are still very new to this. But it's exciting to kind of plan out the next year. So fun to think about. We're going to do this another year. Yeah. And we're gonna keep going with it.
Holiday Van Erem:So yeah, what has been surprisingly, the most difficult thing for you,
Michael Goria:Topics for sure would be up there. For me it was the intro and outro like hell with with that, at first trying to kind of because we scripted that part out and none of it's not our podcast is not scripted, we come up with a topic and then we do some research. And we kind of come up with an idea of how we're going to move through the questions or the topic. But we do script the intro and outro and I Holliday was so natural at it, and I was not. And this is very new to me. And so having my own head in my ears was hard at first. And I still continue to struggle with that a little bit. But just be natural, you know, trying to be true to everybody out there.
Holiday Van Erem:Do you remember us sitting here in Jose, pretending to be me? Having you practice saying your name.
Michael Goria:Yeah, it was weird because I I would continue on with Holiday's kind of inflections. And that wasn't my personality. That was her personality. You know, and so yeah, I had to work on that. That was one of the.
Holiday Van Erem:It's such a strange thing to have to think about. And poor Jose has to listen to us say the same weird things over and over again, Jose, what are the things that Holliday and Michael say over and over again?
Michael Goria:Yeah, I also remember a difficult having a difficult day and having to come record. And you have to be up for this. You know, you can't let that show through. And your inflections, your voice, whatever. And, you know, you think about late night hosts who have to do a show, you know, every day and have to be up for that show every day. That'd be so difficult. You know, we do this once a month and it catches you on a bad day. You just got to soldier through. So it can also be a challenge.
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah. Jose, Toni, is there been anything that you found more difficult than you expected it to be?
Jose Morales:It was really interesting in the beginning because like I'd mess around with like some editing software's in the past, but like I never really did anything with like podcasts and audio and stuff like that. I remember the first episode, I was like, lost, I had no idea what I was going to do, or like how I was going to edit or whatever. And then you gave me like a little template, and you showed me how the intro should kind of go. And it was like, it just like clicked right there. And I was like, Okay, well, that makes a lot more sense now. And then I just kind of rolled with it. But the first couple episodes were really interesting because I like, I didn't know what to look out for. I didn't know, you know, how to really like point out the flaws and things. And I remember one time, or I think in that first episode, you told me to edit out like a bunch of items that like Michael had or something. So then all of a sudden, I became hyper aware. Anybody else that we had on the podcast, I was I was very hyper aware of it all. And then it came time for me to actually speak on the podcast. And I was like, holy, I did not retain any of this. Like trying, I'm not trying really hard to, you know, figure out how to speak even like right now you can hear it. I'm just struggling. I think the other thing too, was like, I guess I felt like some weird sort of imposter syndrome as I was like, going through it. Like I was like, I was like, dude, like, what do I think I am, I think I'm like this professional podcast editor I got myself into but I feel like I have like a more natural flow for it all. Now. It's, it's a lot easier than it was in the beginning. I think that also helps a lot that you guys kind of grew into your own throughout the podcast. First couple episodes, I feel like we were all trying very hard to make it sound like a podcast. But then eventually, it's like, we all just kind of stopped caring. And you just guys guys just talked. And I think that really helped a lot with the editing process as making it easy. Now, I'm trying to get at.
Holiday Van Erem:Well that's good, just as we've figured out how to how to avoid some of the problems that we've had. And that probably helps a lot with the editing.
Jose Morales:For sure. And that annoying ringing or static sound on our port for like the first five episodes. Yeah, so glad that's gone.
Holiday Van Erem:Well, and just equipment wise, we've got four microphones, we've got the board, we've got cables running everywhere, we million different things going on, I would still love to figure out how to add video to this. But that just seems like a very daunting, difficult task that we have not been able to manage thus far. So
Jose Morales:I'm I have to learn how to edit videos.
Michael Goria:Do any of you have a favorite episode?
Toni Collier:I was hoping someone would ask this question I was going to you didn't. My favorite for sure was the flooring horror stories. I generally lean toward, like story podcasts as it is those are like when I'm driving. There are a few favorites that I have, where they just kind of tell stories, hearing different horror stories from people that I work with every day was really cool. So I enjoyed that podcast.
Holiday Van Erem:Well, that's been one of our probably fastest growing episodes just from the day that we loaded it to. Today, it has probably the fastest amount of downloads received out of all of the episodes. So I don't know if it was if it's just the topic or if it's the way that we marketed the episode. I mean, that's always a possibility to that we just reached more people. But I think people really liked hearing other people's stories. And I hope that some of the folks that were interviewed, were also sharing the podcast and encouraging their friends and family to listen to it too.
Jose Morales:And that one really helped boost the numbers on all the other ones too. It was like people enjoyed that one so much they wanted to hear more.
Holiday Van Erem:I have been surprised by that every single month I get a report every week of how many downloads you had from the previous week. And there are always two or three other episodes that have also received more downloads every time that the newest one has received downloads. I think that's great. It's you know, people who listened to one and then came back the next time to listen to other ones new people that are not just listening to one they're listening to numerous pod casts so I think that's great. I'm glad that people are going back and continuing to listen to the older episodes because I feel like it's it's evergreen content it's not specific to certain timeframe it's education based information so it's it's good anytime
Michael Goria:Yeah, no, no that's the whole goal you know is you can go back and listen to you know, the the first one the PVC free, you know, that is such a, you know, I am wondering if we do another podcast on PVC free products in the future because they just continue to grow.
Holiday Van Erem:we'll have to the technology just keeps changing those. That's the fun thing about it to be able to go back. And the same thing with our sound abatement episode. There's definitely an episode two waiting to happen there. So
Michael Goria:Yeah, no, I see that coming for Hmm,
Jose Morales:What's your guys's favorite episode?
Holiday Van Erem:Good question. And I thought about it a little this morning too, but didn't come up with an answer yet.
Michael Goria:I'll go while she thinks, I continue to go back to the PVC free episode. I just love the content from that it's such a rising topic in our industry. We're getting better at interviewing folks. That's also something that's a learning process. Yeah, we've done now two or three. And I definitely know we'll do more in the future. But for all those listening, that that's a that's a process to learn to how to ask good questions How to ask leading questions, engage the interviewee. And I think we'll continue to learn how to do that. As we go.
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah. And it's so you don't know until you actually interview the person. Even if you've talked to them in person, a handful of times you don't know how they're going to act when you're actually doing the interview. Sometimes they clam up and they don't really have a lot to say, and you have to lead them and get pulled that information out. And sometimes you just sit back and listen, because they've got plenty to say, and they're not going to stop. I think the sound of a man episode was probably my favorite too. Because I felt like I learned a lot. And he had so much information to provide and but it was exciting. This, I love people who even if your industry is something maybe that most people wouldn't find really interesting or attractive. People who love what they do and have a passion and can share that when they talk about it. I love that doesn't matter what it I mean, you could be a plumber. But if you love it so much that you just have this passion that you know spreads from you, when you talk about it. It makes everybody want to know why it's so awesome and be engaged with it. And I felt like that is definitely he had that quality. And it definitely it made me feel like oh, this is such good content. I'm so excited about this.
Michael Goria:Yeah I'm excited to get it out there for people to listen to. Yeah,
Jose Morales:I thought it was interesting how the claims episode right before the flooring, horror stories, ones came out that one was like the top performer. Mm hmm. It seemed like a lot of people were really interested in that topic. And I thought that was surprising because like in my head claims always seemed like a negative thing. Like anytime you talk to anybody about it, and then it was like, every like people reps were coming in telling us that like even people that they that aren't involved in the flooring industry that they had listened to a even they were super interested because it was like sounds like an insane process, apparently.
Michael Goria:It's one of those topics that people don't want to talk about because they're negative, right? Something's gone wrong. And now how do we fix it? How do we get there, and there's a lot of emotion involved. And so I think that just talking about having a conversation, one of my coolest experiences from this was getting a an email from a customer saying, Hey, I had all of my employees listen to this. And I was flattering that was so cool that we got that engagement and that he found it that helpful that he would ask his employees to listen. That's, that's a whole goal.
Holiday Van Erem:It's the same experience if you can show up at the store and do a PK, and they got everybody in the store to actually come and listen to you. And is that like absolute best experience ever. Because normally, it's just yeah, there's just a couple folks that have some time to listen, or you got to do it over and over and over again, as one or two people come over and have the time to talk to you. I had one of our internal claims folks that just moved into the claims department listen to the episode on her own and was so thankful because it gave her a lot of really good information about this new job that she's taken on just yesterday, it came up in one of our manager meetings that the claims department has heard feedback, that they maybe aren't addressing things as quickly as they could be, and are already trained to look at how they can make some adjustments to make their their internal process even better. And I think that part of that just goes to, you know, not that we need to pat ourselves on the back. But having somebody outside of your department talk about their experience with your department and what they could do differently or how other people view what they're doing. I can open people's eyes.
Jose Morales:Oh, quick shout out to Jessica with all that marketing collateral to look official as hell.
Holiday Van Erem:Yes, she designed a fantastic logo. It's beautiful. And she does all of our social media, design posts and emails that go out. She does a fantastic job.
Michael Goria:Yeah, I mean, having the quality of that from the get go, I think really helped make us look official when people were looking up our podcast, or you know, on Spotify or iTunes or whatever, however you get your podcasts, it puts some clout behind it looks. It does, which is weird to say because you don't
Holiday Van Erem:oh, it makes a difference. I am a total geek. I'm on all sorts of like podcasts, Facebook groups and all sorts of things. But that's like some of people will post a question why does my podcast not get any listens? And the first things that people say is what is your logo look like? Do you have a website What is like? How professional? Is it looking? How is it named? Is it clear as to what it is that you're talking about? Because all of those things have so much impact as people are just scrolling through options. They do a search for flooring podcast, if yours looks hokey, or doesn't really explain what it is that you're talking about people, we're just gonna skip over that we have less than goldfish brains brands. And if you can just scroll right past that, because it doesn't look appealing. You absolutely will. Yeah, that's it's definitely makes a huge difference. We talked about just the stats on the where our downloads are coming from and what, where they're actually downloading the episode and our website is one of the top ones. And Jessica just made an adjustment so that you could listen to every single episode from the website instead of just the most recent one who's just like little tweaks like that help encourage people to just stay on the website longer and listen to the next one. And then listen to the next one.
Jose Morales:One of the things has been fun, as I've engaged with a few people about this is the walk the plank section, they love walk the plank.
Holiday Van Erem:Now, is it because they love that we argue with each other or the topic?
Michael Goria:Well I think both I think I think they liked the word debating industry, you know, kind of hot buttons, right? You know, AC ratings, you know, we did one on Janka hardness and let me rant about that for a while. But I think it's just those little idiosyncrasies in our industry that don't get talked about. And then we talk about a minute. I think people love engaging in that. Or they then have their opinions.
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah, we scratch the itch of that flooring nerd. Yeah, that's their that's their hot button right there.
Michael Goria:Yeah, so that's a that's a fun way to you know, engage as well. So if you have ideas for little hot button topics, we'd love to holiday and I would love to debate those as well.
Holiday Van Erem:So I don't know if you saw this yesterday and one of the flooring e newsletters that came out but an Alfa, yes, put out a white paper on AC ratings. I wonder why could we have possibly influenced this at all?
Michael Goria:We might be giving ourselves too much credit to think we did. But certainly read through that. And and we'd love to engage in that conversation. So one of our other sections we did was product spotlight. So we have a lot of new products coming in 2023. Yeah, we do. We were just gotten about that before we started this and
Jose Morales:that it was like, wasn't it like
Holiday Van Erem:Fire in the hole?
Michael Goria:Fire in the hole? I'm sorry.
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah. But it was a proud. It's a product spotlight.
Michael Goria:Yeah. And so I see more of those in our future.
Holiday Van Erem:Yes, I do. I again, was thinking, you know, thinking ahead about what we were going to talk about today. And I was thinking about firing the whole, I was doing a transcription of one of our older episodes yesterday, and it was the one that had that in it. So it was fresh on my mind. But I was thinking in addition to products, because we have a ton of new products coming out. We also might have some Fire in the hole branch spotlights that we need to do. We've got maybe some new branches opening up and some adjustments to personnel and some different places. So we could adjust it slightly to be a spotlight of some other things.
Michael Goria:Yeah, I think that'd be great. I think people would love to hear about that.
Holiday Van Erem:Topic wise, what are some of the things we want to tease coming up for 2023?
Michael Goria:Well, I think certainly, you know, we're going to continue to try to find topics that we can educate you on topics in the industry that we all struggle with. I like going back to step one, I think that we all oftentimes have to be caught up very quickly on things and we are unsure. We didn't learn some of the real specifics early on, but we just had to keep pushing forward. So I would you know, I think we're gonna we're definitely going to look at how do we take some things back and really start at the 101 level on a lot of the industry topics, and make sure that everybody's comfortable with what they're talking about.
Holiday Van Erem:industry how does the quote and spec process work? What's required not just flooring wise, but the prep for the flooring? What are things that people can be looking out for to make sure their commercial jobs don't fail? The multifamily section of our business is going to probably continue to boom for the next year. And that's a whole nother process and what kind of products are good for multifamily? What are not and what are some of the other things that people need to understand about just like selling into that and also the builder world and that's probably not going to be the best segment of our business for the next year is housing prices and interest rates are affected but it might be feel like sometimes when you're on a downturn is a great chance to learn more and so that you're prepared when it comes back and you can hit it and you completely understand And what you're getting into this builder side of our business is so different to it's a completely different ballgame. I'm excited for some of those. We've mentioned a couple of times, we have tons of new products coming out. And that in their new technology too, it's not just this, you know, a new version of the same thing. We have some new products that are really, really interesting that have very different technologies that we definitely need to explain. I'm excited about those, I think we've got us another sound abatement episode for sure that needs to be explored. I'd like to talk to some more folks in the flooring industry, that it has been around for a while I would love and I hope that he's listening to this episode, I would love for the owners of our company to explain more about where they came from. Where T&A supply came from what the family history is, it has been a staple of the flooring industry in the Pacific Northwest for a very long time. And I know that I see joy on people's face when the family members explain the story of the company. And we do a horrible job of just like collecting that information and providing it to folks. I'm actually one of the youngest family members, I've tasked her with trying to kind of put together a family Chronicle. She's even herself has had a hard time collecting the information. But yeah, it's third, moving into fourth generation family business. And I think that that's something that should be celebrated. And I would love to provide that information to all of our customers and our employees so that they know who it is and what it is that they're representing. And we can be even more proud of that.
Michael Goria:Yeah, that'd be excellent. I mean, I think
Holiday Van Erem:Yes. Hint, hint. that'd be a well received content.
Michael Goria:Well received podcasts. The most exciting thing for me is podcast ideas that we don't even have yet because you haven't given them to us. I mean, this is, again, I'm gonna repeat myself, but this is stemmed from the listeners. And what do you want? What do you want to hear? That's what we want to talk about. We want to give you the information that you need in the market. So no, no topic is, is a topic we wouldn't consider. We love to talk about food, we always do.
Jose Morales:Say, let's be really, teaser is what the food
Michael Goria:summer of 2023.
Jose Morales:Let's let's be honest here, we probably talked about food more than we do flooring.
Holiday Van Erem:That's our warm up.
Michael Goria:It is. How we vocally and and get our all of our equipment set up. Yeah, but we have, you know, there's going to be topics that you guys let us know about that are just great ideas. That's that's something that I look forward to is those unknown topics.
Holiday Van Erem:So Jose, Toni, do you have any final thoughts about the podcast in general.
Toni Collier:I, like I said earlier, I'm kind of just along for the ride. And even though I'm not like super involved, I think it's something that I'm proud to be part of in the company, your different projects and things come up that you just are proud to be part of and work on. And this is definitely one of them. It helps to that. It's like kind of a shareable thing. Anytime I'm like, Oh, I just made a really cool PowerPoint. Like no one cares.
Holiday Van Erem:I care.
Toni Collier:I made a really cool report yesterday, guys, and I'm really proud of it. I showed Michael.
Holiday Van Erem:She's dope. She's got a lot going on.
Toni Collier:No, I mean, as far as like, you know, sharing on LinkedIn, or social or anything, and this is kind of a fun one to be able to, like show that I'm part of it. So I know that we'll get better at what we're doing and have some interesting people. And I think you're I like the idea though, of having the owners on Oh, man, that would be a good podcast.
Holiday Van Erem:Please be listening. I'm asking nicely.
Jose Morales:Honestly, I'm just grateful for the experience. I'm glad you guys thought of me. When we were thinking about, like, you know, starting this, like a year ago, I didn't, I didn't see myself working on a podcast, definitely not something I had on my list. And I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm involved.
Holiday Van Erem:I was listening to a podcast yesterday. And I'm a big nerd. So marketing business to business marketing podcast. And one of the things that they were talking about was employee retention. And I'm happy to hear that you guys enjoy this particular project that you work on. Because that's one of the things that helps retain employees is giving them projects that they can be proud of and have fun doing. And also giving them an opportunity to learn something new was so don't be like going off and looking for new jobs. Professional podcast, assistants and producers, please stick here with us. But I really appreciate both of you helping out and everything that you provide, because it's not just what you do here in the studio right this moment, but all of the assistance with just idea generation. And again, if we're having a bad day, these two I cheer you up pretty fast. That's definitely helps.
Jose Morales:I'm blushing so much
Toni Collier:Right? Yeah. Come by our office anytime for a smile I guess.
Michael Goria:I said at the beginning it's a team effort. We were all all a part of this it's been a fun little team to build and and there's there's times where it's felt like this exclusive little group and I don't think we mean it to be that way. It's just this is who has the team has become and you know, we continue to grow it so we bounce ideas off each other and and we are we're better with each other than without
Holiday Van Erem:Yeah, uh huh. Well, I think I think that's it for this episode.
Michael Goria:So for more in 2023 Here we go.
Holiday Van Erem:Here we go. What the Floor is a T&A Supply Company original production. You can find out more about us at tasuppy.com or TASflooring.com.
Michael Goria:This show was produced by Jose Morales with help from Toni Collier and Jessica Riser. Hosted by Holiday Van Erem and Michael Goria.
Holiday Van Erem:Please, please please tell us what you think of the show by emailing us at WTF podcast at ta supply.com or on social media hashtag what the floor podcast.
Paul Van Erem:And now the WTF, what do they call them. Bloopers and now the WTF bloopers.
Holiday Van Erem:interview happens it was so awesome. It was fantastic.
Toni Collier:I don't even know if your
Holiday Van Erem:Yes your mic works.
Jose Morales:Jesus Christ.
Holiday Van Erem:She can't hear anything.
Michael Goria:Left her in the dark man. What if we have Toni and Jose do the intro?
Holiday Van Erem:Who's gonna be Holiday?
Toni Collier:Jose has to be Holiday.
Holiday Van Erem:Alright, I like it.
Jose Morales:All right. This is What the Floor from T&A Supply Company Inc, a podcast for the flooring industry. I'm Holiday Van Erem.
Toni Collier:and I'm Michael Goria. We're going to explore the hot topics of the flooring industry with a little humor and a new set of eyes.
Holiday Van Erem:I like it
Michael Goria:We're being taken over.
Jose Morales:Pretty soon it's just me and Toni
Holiday Van Erem:all right. Levels all right. All good. Good.
Michael Goria:It's pretty nice. Banjo. Shut up.
Holiday Van Erem:I think that's it.
Jose Morales:Nice 3, 2, 1
Holiday Van Erem:What the floor