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GL Hunt has made several commercials and radio interviews in the Dallas Fort Worth area as well as other areas of Texas.  Here is an interview from some members of the team from the San Antonio area from the Bobby and JJ Radio YouTube channel:

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Included is the YouTube transcript from this radio interview.  This is the unedited version from YouTube, so spelling errors are included:

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hey guys you’re back with bobby and JJ
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radio if you’re just tuning in we just
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finished talking to our new moving
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partners two men and a truck up next
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we’re introducing you to our new
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foundation repair company gl hunt with
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us is Dustin rude and Christy Ashley now
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Austin how rude Dustin is married he has
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two girls he’s not rude as far as I can
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tell however we have a couple of
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segments to go with him so we’ll find
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out he’s been in sales for over two
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years
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Christy has three children she’s from
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Alabama my neck of the woods she’s been
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working in the foundation business for
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over 16 years so guys welcome to the
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show welcome being here being are
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referred partners we’re happy about that
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tell us about GL hunt Gio hunts been in
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business since 1987 it’s a family-owned
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company started by Bill Hunt and Gary
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hunt
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Gary hunt is still active in the company
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his dad mm-hmm so we do all kinds of
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foundation repair we do estimates for
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commercial and residential properties we
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do preventative maintenance we do
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anything that has to do with maintaining
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your foundation I’m is it true that you
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guys did the foundation repair to the
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alamo that a rumor I think I just
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started was about the owners uh Gary is
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semi-retired but still actively involved
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in the business his dad has passed away
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they can’t get out they can’t stop he’s
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just addicted to foundation repair so do
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you guys mostly do San Antonio do you
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guys vent trucks out of sense man San
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Antonio surrounding areas New Braunfels
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you know I’m going out to Medina
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tomorrow so that’s an hour and a half
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away so you know we’ve got everything
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covered pretty much around San Antonio
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and surrounding areas
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absolutely that’s great what this is a
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question just popped in my head what
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made your family decide hey you know
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what let’s do let’s start a foundation
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repair business like how did that come
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up I do know the backstory to that Gary
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was actually a contractor of a different
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kind he was doing windows and doing a
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lot of
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like mortgage type stuff actually
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helping people remodel their whole house
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and get the second one and that kind of
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thing and he had to find a foundation
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repair contractor for something and this
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was 30 years ago and he saw the
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foundation guys come out do the job saw
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how quickly they did it saw what they
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had to do and just became very
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interested in getting involved in Wow
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try to walk me through the process I
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come to you I need my foundation repair
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can you walk me through the process
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basically you’ll call us we’ll set up an
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estimate deston or one of six or seven
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other people will come out to see you
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depending on what type of foundation you
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have if it’s a concrete slab
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he’ll come inside he’ll take elevation
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readings with what we call a comp you
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level you’re not showing up with the
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marble and see if it rolls take readings
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throughout the house draw the house
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determine what’s actually going on with
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it um walk the exterior of the property
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see if you got some trees that are a
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problem if you’ve got a drainage issue
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that type of thing and then sit you down
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and let you know what you have going on
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and most most of the time what do you
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see is the issue why is there a broken
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foundation when it I guess when we’re
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talking about concrete yeah
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the soil but the number one cause of
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foundation failure is gonna be trees
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really and most people don’t ever know
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that they take up they absorb so much
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water you know so and there’s ways
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around that you can put in root barrier
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too you know we go about 15 feet away
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from the tree got the root system if you
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cut it too close to kill the tree cut
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the roots you install a root barrier
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when they grow back they’ll be diverted
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elsewhere it’s better than tearing down
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all the trees
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so what would be a good question for me
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to ask if I needed to get my foundation
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repair what’s a good question as far as
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you being a customer if you may not know
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that you even have a foundation issue
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you know is well there’s a standard in
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the industry basically you don’t want a
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one inch deviation of meaning you don’t
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want to be up or down more than an inch
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in a 20 foot radius so you know if if
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I’m coming out to your house you know
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you can start with the basics it not
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inspects am i within this one inch range
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and obviously customers have lots of
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questions why do I have drywall
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drywall cracks you know why is the slab
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or the pier and beam why is it cracking
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here or there you know there’s just
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multiple multitude of questions so you
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just said parent being so there’s
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different types of foundation there’s
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the old style which is post where a home
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is on a on beam right port and then
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there’s concrete right is there any
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other type of foundation yes you can
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have basically a pier and beam and a
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slab
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combined into one typically happens when
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there’s an older right in addition okay
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if you go to different areas of the city
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you can see how different builders over
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the years changed what they were doing
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as far as Foundation’s work so if we’re
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doing work maybe in the Alamo Heights
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area you’re dealing with something
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totally different than the northeast
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side of town and what is the biggest
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difference between because I I’ve been
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in the houses and they feel like they’re
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all unlevel and then they’ll come back
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and say oh it’s just shifting and then
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sometimes it feels fine and then it
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turns out there’s a brook there’s a
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foundation issue so what’s what’s the
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difference where do you where do you or
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the farmer it’s much on a slab you know
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a slab is gonna move at the same time a
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appearan beam house you’re gonna fill
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all the irregularity in the slab those
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are the houses you can crawl underneath
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but what what’s the danger if you let a
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foundation issue go without rectifying
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it what can happen you know lose the pen
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your resale value okay so it’s not
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within the tolerance but no tension okay
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the other thing is you can have plumbing
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problems if your guys more than 2 inches
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or so your PVC pipes can pull apart
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underneath your slab and you have not
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have sewage Oh gracious day that’s
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exactly what happen – Bobby that’s so
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weird how can somebody get in contact
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with you for more information Kristi our
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local phone numbers to one zero six four
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eight one five three zero they can go to
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our website which is GL Hunt s
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a calm there’s a contact us form there
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as well perfect
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all right cool to hear from ya well
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again that phone numbers two one zero
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six four eight one five three zero we’ll
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be back after this quick break to hear
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from our show partners and this week’s
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edition of ask mr. credit with Robbie
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Allen don’t forget to check out our
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we’ll be back with GL hunt after this
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you