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 Hi I'm Jim Redlinger with Redlinger

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 Brothers plumbing and heating I'm the current

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 president and this is our 75th

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 year Redlinger Brothers

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 was actually started by my

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 uncle Howard Redlinger and Clark

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 Redlinger in 1946

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 April 1st Prior to

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 that their dad my

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 grandfather had his own plumbing

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 business here in Watertown South Dakota

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 My grandfather passed away in 1942

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 the same year that my dad Clark Redlinger

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 graduated from high school Clark

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 and Howard had a pact

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 that if they made

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 it back from World War Two they're

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 going to come back and start a new business

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 A plumbing business in Watertown South Dakota

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 Clark and Howard came back

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 after World War Two and started the business

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 here in Watertown and opened

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 the Redlinger Brothers what

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 is known as Redlinger Brothers plumbing and heating

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 Now in 1946

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 we started out almost

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 strictly residential in the forties

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 And then my grandfather

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 and his brother got into

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 commercial by starting with the local churches

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 here and they had great

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 success around here doing that

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 And that got them I think spinning the

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 wheels to go commercial

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 And to this point now we're about 95%

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 commercial in our companies Currently

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 we've got the four locations

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 I know Adam would like to open up

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 1/5 1 in North Sioux City

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 We'll probably let him do that

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 one I don't have enough hair left to

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 go through another opening

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 When we say plumbing and heating

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 people may get that mixed up So we

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 don't do your furnace That's

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 where it goes to an A company We

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 do more of your domestic plumbing and

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 we run the gas piping to it But where

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 we say we're a heating company it's

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 where it gets into hydraulic heating So larger

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 projects like a school that's

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 going to be heated by hot water So

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 it'll have a boiler and then that will send

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 out distribution heat through water

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 to all of your vvs all your different

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 coils whether it's radiant heat

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 or if it's steam it will be

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 through a heat exchanger It's kind of a foreign

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 subject to most people but

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 it just I grew up doing we really have

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 uh gotten some notoriety on some

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 specialty things that we do Our most

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 of the work that we do nowadays is institutional

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 and commercial A lot of specialty

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 gasses a lot of specialty

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 systems I know people

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 that we've hired and they think they're gonna become a plumber

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 and I had no idea this

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 is what you guys actually did You know I

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 tell people that this doesn't

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 really work for me I love

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 what I do Yeah it's

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 an joy every day I get to go to work

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 and I've got the benefit of actually being

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 able to do it with the family I'm not sure

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 if a lot of people don't have

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 that opportunity Some

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 people may look at it as a detriment

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 I think of it as

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 it's a gift Brothers

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 like I said is family owned

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 Always has been And

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 I just I think that's true all the way down

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 to our newest employees I mean

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 we have employees in our yanking shop

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 that have been with us since they were 18 and they're

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 in their 50 Si truly

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 do think this is a family business but also

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 a family felt respected

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 here I feel like our employees treat

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 each other very well And

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 if you're willing to come to work and willing to

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 learn it's a great place We

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 welcome everyone with open arms because

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 of our employees We've been able to not

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 only help our employees

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 sustain a life they choose

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 but we've been able to give back to our communities

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 and their communities Yeah I mean we

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 just believe in supporting your local

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 community not just

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 to get your name out there but it's also for

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 a good cause I mean everybody

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 needs a hand once in a while and it's just a great

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 great thing I think that we're fortunate enough

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 to do the kids that I have in the business

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 Now my son and two stepsons

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 what they've got going for them in the future

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 I can't even imagine I wish I could have lived

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 to be another 75

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 years from now to see what they're going to be able

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 to accomplish Because I don't

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 know if there's anything that can stop them when you

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 create a company like

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 this for as large as it is

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 it's probably harder to sustain

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 that than to create something

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 new And Adam

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 again is going to be a great

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 fit I just try

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 to envision how

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 he's doing versus how

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 I was at that age And

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 he's running circles around

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 me Pray family business has helped

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 us in a lot of ways people that are in

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 the similar situation that I am in

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 with becoming the next generation

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 It's very hard to talk to people if they're

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 not in your shoes as far as relating

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 to your same stresses or you know hey I got

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 these problems What do you think most

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 of my friends would say

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 You know I don't know what to relate to that or this

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 or that which is fine but it's very

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 helpful to be able to talk to someone that can do

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 that We've been fortunate

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 that I think our family

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 has gotten stronger because of

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 our association And again

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 in the future I think it's just going to pay benefits

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 for the boys And

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 I know they enjoy coming to the conferences

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 all of our employees and all of

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 our customers obviously wouldn't

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 be able to hang around for 75 years

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 without you And Perry Family Business

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 again Thank you for this award till

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 next year