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I've talked a lot about Smash Champs, the badminton and LAN esports gaming

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facility that's been under construction for over a year. And I've given you guys

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some glimpses of the progress. But now that we're about to have our grand

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opening tournament, maybe it's time to finally let you, citizens of the

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internet, see what awaits inside. But

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what is it? When will our first public gaming event be? And why is our sponsor

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Narwhal trying to open the door? Come on, little fella. I'll show you around

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with some help from my very favoriteest person in the entire world. Hi. Hi.

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Ivonne has given so many hours to my dream project that I wouldn't dare to

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give this tour without her. Also, she knows a lot more about it than I do in a

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lot of cases. Welcome to the pro shop. Truthfully, I wasn't expecting this to

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be as big of a deal for the business as it was. Um, most centers just they have

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a few wares for sale. People walk past them. It's usually a little tiny spot,

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too. Whereas, we have this pretty big expansive spot here, but it's uh I feel

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like it's helped the brand overall. It feels like a premium space. Having the

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big space makes it feel really welcoming and easy to shop, which I think has

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helped our sales. >> But the reason it's big is not because

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we intended to do that. It was because we had no idea what else to do with this

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space. >> Originally, when we started Smash, it

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was only supposed to be one unit. So, this whole space here was supposed to be

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check-in, concession, um, >> pro shop. >> Pro shop all together

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>> and bathrooms. >> Yep. And bathrooms. Yeah, I forgot about that, too. >> And now it's just pro shop and check in.

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>> We offer shoe rentals and racket rentals. Or if like most people, you

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prefer to play with your own sweaty racket, we also offer reringing

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services. Um, a lot of people don't actually realize that the strings on

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your racket are meant to be replaced. >> How often are you supposed to replace

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the strings? Well, that really depends. There's two things that wear them out.

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Time and also use. So, if I'm playing a

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few times a week with one racket, I might replace my strings after a month.

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Or if they're just sitting on there over time, I'd say after about 3 to 6 months,

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they've got to go. Or the other big one is if you make mistakes like I do and

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you mish hit, you can break your strings, especially when they're tighter.

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>> How often do you blame your strings for poor games? >> I wouldn't. I would.

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>> You would never. >> No, that is not true.

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What I would of course one thing we haven't really shown much of yet is the

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technology behind our center. Every one of our members gets one of these

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wristbands and every time they come in they simply scan to check in for their

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session

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and after a slight delay

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>> hey they're checked in. Also, of course,

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we're using ubiquity NVRs and security cameras so that we can keep a close eye

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on what all is going on both inside the center and outside the center. We have

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three different colors of wristbands so that our staff can quickly verify that

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you're supposed to be where you are. And we have integration between club

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automation, the software that we use to manage our members and ubiquity. So that

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with door access control on every single door in the facility, we can not only

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say, "Okay, hey, premium members, you're allowed in these areas, you're allowed

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24/7 access, but we can actually change that. So for instance, when we're

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running a land gaming event on the one side, badminton people are temporarily

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not going to have access to it." This is Jaquin

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>> coming back out here for a second. Are is this pricing right? That's $15 and

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that's $72. >> $80. >> There has been massive inflation in the

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price of badminton shuttlecocks over the last five realistically about 10 years.

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And at $80 for a tube with just 12

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shuttles inside. >> 12. >> It's about $6 per shuttle. And at a high

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level, it is pretty typical for a group of doubles players to go through one and

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a half to two and a half of these per 21 point game. A traditional shuttlecock is

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made out of cork with a leather or a synthetic leather cover and then

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precision cut and fitted goose feather.

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>> Real goose feather. >> Tradition is nice, but most modern

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shuttles, especially anything below the absolute top of the line, is going to be

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made with duck feather. >> The advantages of these materials are

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that they fly just like a leather baseball is going to fly a little

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different from a not leather baseball or football. They fly

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as an elite player would expect them to. It >> is there not high-end synthetic

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materials. >> They're coming. >> Ah, >> but in the meantime, the best we have

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for synthetic materials is at the high end. Still a cork cap,

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>> but with a just nylon skirt. I mean, when you look at them, you can really

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appreciate the craftsmanship of it. So, somebody weaves all of these threads in

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here and applies glue >> and fits all the feathers and then puts

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it on a tester to make sure that it runs at the right speed.

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>> This string isn't tied like by hand.

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>> David, do you recognize this claw machine? >> Is that the one we had at LTX?

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>> Yeah. >> Boom.

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>> Let's go. 10% off any one purchase up to $100.

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>> That's pretty good. I'll be holding on to that. All right, let's head out to the courts.

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Of course, we can't get there without passing through what I like to call the

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world's most expensive hallway. I actually forget the details of why this

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was so difficult to do. Do you remember? >> Yes, I do. So, there's an upper floor

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here. And all of that upper floor was supported by beams that went through

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here. And of course, the beam went right through this spot right here. So, in

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order to move that beam, we had to put in supporting beams and like strengthen

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one on that side or something like that. So anyway, it cost a butt ton of money

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to do all of that because they had to core all the concrete as well to do it.

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>> But the alternative was to have this hallway go like out into the court area

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and then back because from a business standpoint, this hallway is probably

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going to pay for itself in the long term because exit through the gift shop. Uh

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oh, this is our Q&A board. Um, there's actually some questions that need

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answering. Mr. Lionus, what does this say? I'll let

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you guys leave a comment with what you think this says. And once we've got that

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sorted out, we'll get a reply for them.

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Our empty concession area. We learned after the fact that if we want to do so

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much as microwave a hot pocket and hand it to you or wrap a Costco muffin in

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plastic wrap and make that available, we need not one but two sinks. But that's a

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project for another time once we have some more money we feel like spending on

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Thanks, buddy. The last thing in here is we've got a nice little counter where

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you can watch your kids lesson, charge your phone, do whatever it is you need

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to do. And that brings us out to the courts. On the surface, there's not

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really much to it. Like any other sports facility, you want a nice open space, a

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flat, unobstructed floor. But the devil's in the details.

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>> You walk past one of the first details. >> Yes, I do.

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>> So, right when you come into the Babon Court, you'll notice that all of these

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benches are perfect height for changing your shoes. And all of the benches

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behind the courts are the perfect height to actually properly sit and observe

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>> and store your bag underneath. >> Yeah. The other nice thing about the observation benches is we've put USB

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charging and regular power outlets next to all of them on both the badminton

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only side and the badminton/gaming side of the facility

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>> on half of them because on this side there isn't. But on this side there is.

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So originally we were actually going to have all the benches only on one side

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because we were thinking in the future we might put bleachers or something like that on this side if we're hosting

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national tournaments or provincial tournaments. >> Well, I don't think I was ever hoping to have enough bleachers for like a

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national level tournament, but yeah, maybe provincial level. One option if we

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did want to host a highle tournament that requires a lot of seating is to

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actually close off some of the courts and then only use the center courts and

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put like stadium style seating here. But I'd be really worried about the impact

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that that would have on uh both the vinyl top as well as the subfloor. So

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this is a multi-layer sport floor that

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starts with um the concrete underneath. Then you have a vapor barrier. Then you

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have these rubber squishy. >> They call them pucks.

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>> Yeah, they call them pucks. They don't really look like pucks. >> Yeah, they have like little teeth and

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then a flat surface on top. And they just sit on top of the floor to give it

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a little bit of extra bounce. >> Then you've got a layer of plywood. Then

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another layer of plywood running the other way so that you've never got

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anywhere where the seams perfectly overlap. Then you've got a cushion layer

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and then finally a wear layer on top that gives you the grip that you need to

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move around confidently on the cord. There was a whole fiasco where our first

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sport floors were manufacturing defect,

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you know, whatever. I want to give credit to Caliber Flooring Systems. They

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stood by their product. They replaced it. They got everything installed for us

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and they did what very few contractors do and even though it did cost them

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quite a bit in replacing everything, they got us sorted out. So, definitely

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shout out them. We switched over to Victor, not necessarily because we

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thought the quality was better than Calibers's, you know, not defective

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product that we initially approved, but rather it was just because they're BWF

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certified and the timeline was the biggest issue.

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>> Yeah, they were able to kind of move heaven and earth in order to get them to

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us really fast, which was important cuz we were already supposed to be open. Um,

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water fountain, tilled filtered water. It actually doesn't cost that much. So,

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if you're ever in a sports facility that doesn't have it, um, you know, write

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them a a polite little note and say you'd love to have something like this

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installed because man, is it ever a differencemaker and it saves so many

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plastic bottles. These were a fun one. The intention behind them was twofold.

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One was safety in the event that anybody comes kind of like running off a cord

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or, you know, trips and face plants into a wall. I wanted a little bit of

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cushioning. Can't hurt. >> I don't think it was going to be likely though. If you look at how much space we

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have behind the courts, >> I mean, you never know. Some of the lessons and stuff, they'll have the kids

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doing laps around the facility and you could easily go flying into a corner.

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But the bigger concern was actually more selfish. I get really sweaty when I

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play. And two of the walls in our facility that are going to have benches

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along them are concrete, meaning that if I were to be all wet and lean against

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them, I'd be so cold and uncomfortable.

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So, I wanted a wall cushion behind the benches. Uh for me what mattered more

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was the acoustic treatments that's inside here. Uh so there was a lot of

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reverb or echo in the place and these helped cut that down a ton in addition

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to the spray that we put in the ceiling. >> The HVAC guys looked at me like I was

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from the moon when I explained that I wanted to be able to heat and cool the

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facility without causing any air currents.

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They were like okay well

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that's not how that works. And I was like, "Okay, but hear me out, okay? What

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if we had some kind of extremely lowflow

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system?" And they came back to me and they were like, "Duck socks."

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>> Duct socks are perforated fabric so that the air that's coming down can be

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diffused out very slowly without causing any current that's going around. And one

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of the big benefits is especially when you're cooling, if you have a a big

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blower that's up at the top of the unit, then it's blowing that cold air out,

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which is heavier than the warm air in the facility, and it will fall. And when

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something goes down, something else must come up, which will create a circular

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air flow. By bringing the cold air all the way down to court level, we can

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prevent that. And well, that was the theory. And in practice, it has actually

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worked out. >> It's worked out great. >> Like really well. You'll see a lot of sweaty bmon players come and just stand

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here because you can feel the air. >> It's pretty nice. And a big part of

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keeping the air flow so low was having a ton of them. So, you can actually see

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that they're positioned in between every court. And then over on the other side,

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they're either between the courts or they're above the doors. That seems like

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a good opportunity to talk about the wall color. >> Uh, wait, wait. You just walked by the

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power. >> You can't go anywhere in this place without there being something

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interesting. In between every court, we've preerrun two Cat 6A network

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connections that are home run to our server room upstairs, as well as a total

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of four 120 volt outlets. We don't know

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exactly what we'll do with these, but what I kind of have in mind in the

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future is that each courtside could have

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like a TV and you know, God willing,

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Jensen willing, we could have some kind of machine vision system that will

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automatically scorekeep or something like that. But that's a tomorrow

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problem. It's just that if we wanted to try to do this after the fact, it was

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going to be impossible. cost a fortune if it was possible at all. Which brings

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us finally then to wall color. Um

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Jaquan, who you guys met earlier, made

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10 trips to the paint store. >> Oh yeah. And then in addition to that, I

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think we made another four or five trips to the paint store. >> We tried every stock color. We had them

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mixing custom colors. We >> we were here literally at midnight with

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all these patches. >> Midnight, please. >> Okay, whatever. even in the morning

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holding birds in front of each color patch trying to figure out is is this

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the best color >> and we were trying to strike a balance

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between, you know, being able to see the birdie really well, but not it being an

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eyesore in here. Oh, this is cool. In

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between all the courts, um, some cases above the doors, some cases not above

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doors, is more power and more networking. And again, uh, praise be to

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Jensen Huang. We are hoping at some point to have cameras back here that

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will allow us to do the aforementioned automated scorekeeping or whatever the

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case may be. In the meantime, we've partnered with Playite. They've got

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these RFID scanners that you can put courtside. We've actually got one that

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we're triing right now, but the idea would be to equip every court with them

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and then players can install their app, scan the RFID, and then they can say,

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"Hey, can I download the video of my session?" So, we're working with ZCAM to

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>> all of this might happen sooner than you'd think, though. This is a little project that's being worked on by just

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one guy and runs off of his laptop that he uses for training. So, who knows what

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the future holds. All the really cool stuff for you guys, though, is probably

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on this side. spaced for tables of

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gamers to go all the way down this

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entire unit are these California standard power connectors that are 250

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volt 50 amp allowing each of these to do about 14,000 watts. So pretty much an

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entire row of computers alongside Cat 6A

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networking which would be at 10 gig and fiber optic networking that we could run

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one of our rows of computers for our Whaleand gaming events which we finally

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got our temporary use permit from the city for. And I am so excited to maybe

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not announce. I guess we'll have announced it by the time this comes out. But the first one's September 28th.

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>> I don't remember the exact date. I just know that I still need the fire department to get in here to approve the

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increased occupancy. So, that's what I'm working on. >> Oh.

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>> But it should be done in time. They just called me today. >> Okay. >> Yeah.

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>> Getting this done was extremely difficult, and I have to take a

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significant amount of the blame for that. See, the city doesn't love it when

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business owners announce what they're going to be using their building for

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without getting a permit for it. Anyway, I think I ruffled some feathers the

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wrong way. We ultimately got it sorted out after a long and painstaking

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process. I want to shout out Chase, Ivonne, Sean, Colton,

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>> uh Jim, and Jaquin helped a lot. Yeah, Ivan of all people, he actually came to

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the the city council reading with us to be like a like a non employee and and

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talk on behalf of the what gaming means to him and and community.

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>> Credit to some people at the city, the people that were a little higher up and

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who were trying to increase the amount of things to do in the city really did

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help us out as well. >> Yeah, the general manager, um the business relationship manager, and the

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mayor were all instrumental in helping us get this over the line. So, I'm so

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excited to see you guys there. And we're very happy to be here just because it's

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so hard to find a building that has both enough parking and a high enough ceiling

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to accommodate a high level of badminton play. Like, let's say for example, I was

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playing an attacking shot towards my opponent over here. And in defense, they

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wanted to Well, okay, I misit it, but one sec. Sorry, little buddy. And in

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defense, they were want to they wanted to hit it up really really high so that

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it was hard for me to retrieve it or I had to move all the way to the back.

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This ceiling height allows us to do that. Another situation where this can

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come up is if your opponent plays a really tight shot to the net. It allows

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you to play it to the back without

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hitting the net itself. If you have a low ceiling, the only way to get it to

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the back is at an angle. But with a high ceiling, you can go up quite a lot

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steeper. At the back is the place we don't really love showing people because

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it's kind of where our messes go to die. There's leftover stuff from the uh

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little test land that we did. There's our sign for taking pictures. Projector

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screen. >> Where's the rest of the suffer lens? >> Ooh, I'm glad you asked. That's where

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this comes in. Here's our cable whips that are pre-cut and pre-bound to be

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exactly the right length to go from our switches at the end of the table to each

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gaming station. Shout out Infinite Cables, by the way. Their cables truly

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are infinite. There's also some pretty fun archaeological items here. Got a

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bunch of heat guns from back when we had like a tube bending station at LTX once

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upon a time. Casual Orca plushies. I

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found our original sample of what the flooring construction is. So, there's

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the rubber pucks. Oh, >> it's not a ton, >> but you'll feel it

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>> if you kind of jump on it. >> Oh, yeah. That's way more give than just

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wood would be. >> Yeah. Or even just putting like a vinyl

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sport floor over concrete. Obviously, we're not just going to have everything

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piled under the mezzanine forever. It was actually moved under there so that

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we could acoustically treat this space because some parts of it are going to be

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set up as like a crafting space. Uh, I

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don't know, like run an Etsy shop. What What is it that you do these days?

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>> Oh, man. Or either that or we're going to stream or do a craft channel or

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something like that. We're figuring it all out right now. But the rest of the

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space here is going to be all storage. So, on this side is going to be all of

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LTX's stuff. So, you can see all of the chairs that they have set up. And

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there's going to be hundreds of seats worth of tables, >> right? Along with all of the gear that

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we have over there that we don't get rid of. And then on this side, we're going

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to have uh pallet racking uh because of all of So, I think Chase told me he

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wanted 10 pallets for LTX stuff. And then Smash Champs needs 30 right now

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because of the container of birds that are coming. >> The supply chain for badminton equipment

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has not been the most amazing from our experience so far. It's very start and

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stop. So, we need to take on a lot more inventory than we originally anticipated

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because we can't just draw in small amounts from a local distributor. Uh,

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one of the things that won't be here in the future, although they're doing such

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a great job that you might actually want to keep them around, is our army of

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narwhals that are showing off their dual camera with 10 tops of NPU processing

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setup that allows them to respond to obstacles that are in front of them much

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more agiley and more quickly than previous solutions. Very cool, right?

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>> That one just went around the cup. That was impressive. >> I know, right? >> Will it clean up all of my sawdust over

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there? >> Yes. Yes, it will. Welcome to the members lounge. In theory, this is for

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our premium members to hang around after their matches. I don't know, maybe watch

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some badminton games on the 98 in TV. In

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practice, what it is is a place for Lionus to put all of the cool toys that

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he doesn't have room for in his house, like an air hockey table.

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>> This is the most musical sounding air hockey table I've ever heard. But I know

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>> when it bounces off it, it's like a freaking windchime or something.

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>> It's so cool. We've also got a pool table. And then because people weren't

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really using it in the LMG staff lounge, I moved the Super Checkex game over

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we had some software configuration issues with the uh DIY arcade cabinet.

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So, we moved the buy one over here. This was another Lionus has always wanted one

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and doesn't have room for it at home thing. >> I think you have room. I think just

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doesn't want it in the house. I I lost already.

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Again, it's not because I'm good at it that I want one. It's because I need

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practice that I want one. >> We even have this ice resurfacer for the

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super checks. >> Uh, okay. I don't think that actually

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works, does it? >> Uh, not it's made out of cardboard,

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>> but not all Flo. >> We'll go look at the gym in a minute. Sorry, David. First, I figure you guys

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might want to check out the server room complete with ubiquity RGB.

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Let's go. Legitimately useful because it

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can tell you the status like what that port is set to. Uh what else do we have

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in here? Well, we got our battery backup uh courtesy of Eaton as well as just a

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kind of run-of-the-mill desktop computer that's running that PlaySite stuff that

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we're still in the testing phases of. We don't know if we're going to settle on that, but that's what we're using for

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now. We've also got our NVRs that are handling all of the security and the

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oodles and oodles of fiber as well as ample cooling for both the courtside

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land events as well as any future machine vision processing that we wanted

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to bring on premises corner office for our general manager. Oh, hey Jimmy. He's

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in here. >> Uh we're doing a tour. >> Okay. >> Yeah, we decided the tour you did was

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actually it was really good. You could see it on flow plane. This is not the

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first tour of Smash Champs we've done. It's just the first to be sponsored by Narwhal. Wait a second, Jim. Do you have

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your own fridge in your office? >> Yeah. No, it was the one downstairs I

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brought and then we didn't eat downstairs, so I brought up here, right? It's just energy drinks, you know. It's

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good. >> What? Why did you Is that alcohol? >> Energy drinks.

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>> Oh, man. Okay, we'll talk about it later. Which brings us to our final

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stop, the gym. It was designed in collaboration with Mr. Luke Lafrenier of

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Floatplane and his goal was to have it,

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you know, to address the cardio people >> of whom he is not one, but also make

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sure that we had at least two options,

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even if one of them is just free weights for pretty much every movement that you

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would want to do for badminton. >> Cool. >> There were a few things that Luke wanted

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that we didn't manage to put in. Like he wanted a grass strip. Um, and I think

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that was the main one. But in general,

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we did pretty much everything he asked. And when Badminton Insight came out

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here, they rated it a 9 out of 10. >> This is pretty sweet. As long as it's

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like doesn't get too busy, it's like, I would love to work out here. >> Well, that's why we don't allow anyone

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who's not a premium member to work out. Although, there is one exception.

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Even though we have enough parking according to the city bylaws and zoning

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for the amount of space that we have for recreational use,

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we don't. >> But we knew that. So, we worked out a

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deal with our neighbors. They don't need most of their parking. They have like

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half a dozen people working in their units and they're these size. So, there's like another 45 parking stalls

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that are not being used, especially in the evening when they're not even an

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office. So, we made a deal. We said, "Hey, I offer free gym membership for

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you and your crew. I receive access to

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your parking stalls without you guys calling a tow truck." >> That's pretty great. I'm grateful to our

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sponsor, >> Narwhal. One of which I think I'm going to have to be taking home for uh

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cleaning up kitty litter. See, we've got our kitty litter robot thing in the

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bathroom that is closest to our pool, and wet feet and kitty litter is a

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pretty bad time. And my kids at best I

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can convince them to vacuum that room like once a week. If I had a little

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robot to do it, that would actually be a perfect application for something like a

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narwhal. Their Narwhal Flow has carpet focus technology that automatically

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lowers the brush cover on carpet, creating a high pressure air flow zone

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with 22,000 pascals of pressure for deeper carpet

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cleaning and has a dualaction edge brush that adapts near corners for deeper

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reach. while the dynamic zero targeting side brushes actively release trapped

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hair and direct it to the air intake for easy cleanup. You can check out the

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Narwhal Flow at the link in the video description. Thanks again to Narwhal for

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sponsoring this video. If you guys like tours like this, why don't you check out

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the first video we did on this space where it was a completely empty concrete

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box. And man,

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I mean, yeah, it's pretty amazing the