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yeah

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hey I found that water cooler today huh

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gentlemen it's good to see you boys

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again all right

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so I was kind of born and raised in the

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fire sprinkler business my father ran a

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fire sprinkler company for API and in

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1993 he started rapid fire in the

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basement of our house my father's dream

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was to take rapid fire you know to be

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the best company in Western South Dakota

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through that process we met Pai Barker

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we're just really excited to be part of

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the pie Barker family and team you know

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as we can grow and build this together

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to become the best my grandfather was a

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Dairy Farmer it was in 1952 in Pleasant

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View Utah a guy in Salt Lake City had

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invented a wind-up mechanical heat

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detector and so they would go door to

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door selling these he sold all the dairy

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cows converted the dairy barn to our

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first office and that was our office

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until 1996. my grandfather was born on a

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farm about two hours south of here uh he

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was on a battleship in World War II was

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looking for opportunity when the war was

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over Mr pie Mr Barker offered him an

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opportunity to come to work in 1947 came

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to Atlanta actually stayed in the YMCA

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as a third generation employee I'm proud

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of where we started and where we've come

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today and I can tell you it's the way

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people are treated in this this

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organization that's afforded us the

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growth that we've had the biggest thing

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that sold us on Pi Barker was we

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realized that these people care about

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the family and you've built a tight-knit

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company like ours where everybody's

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tight we want to make sure that you know

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all our employees are taking care of

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going forward from a cultural standpoint

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we hit the ground running

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as we're approaching life with the same

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value set when we talk about why we're

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doing this from coming together I think

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it's important to remember that was

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always the intention as we grow we don't

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want to lose a sense of who we were and

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what we've been that's who we are and

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that's who we'll always be so we want to

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keep that we've been in business close

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to 80 years so you can imagine that the

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logos changed a few times over the years

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but uh I'm very excited about what we

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have laid out I think it does do a good

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job of incorporating all the different

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business types that we have under the

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Pod Parker umbrella I think the thing

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that's most exciting about our logo is

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it's still Our Roots which is fire

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safety it encompasses Our Roots but it's

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not something that we aren't I think

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there will come a day where people will

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see our PB logo on a building and know

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that hey this building is well protected

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this new branding idea has nothing to do

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with changing the culture of who this

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business is where the values we live to

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it's all about just bringing names

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together and being able to go to market

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with a fully integrated one-team

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approach