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Speaker: Hey, Lord, what in the hell are you doing in there? Is she gonna ride with you? Mind your own business, John. Yeah, she's going with me. You take care of yourself, man. Wow! What's your name?
Speaker: I heard she was in a burning rubber and naked motors bow. Show what the school asked her, just half that she liked to go.
Speaker: what What's going on, everybody? Welcome to Jeff's garage. Let's go ahead and get the obvious out of the room, the elephant out of the room. I am not Jeff. But I'm feeling in for Jeff. Jeff unfortunately met a unfortunate fate. He's no longer with us. Um, know details yet but, you know, maybe we'll find out more details as, as time goes on. ah Yeah. So when the owner's away, the shop help will play. Yeah. And then they bring in some random Sasquatch to do it every once. And then I got Glick. So yeah Jeff, uh, Jeff had a little bit of a hiccup tonight. I won't go into details about it. It's not my business.
Speaker: i oppose im you years yeah yeah ah I played on being here as a guest tonight. you know A, I know you guys do a tool segment ah and then B, I kind of like the topic for tonight. you know I'm not going to break down. you know, engine sizes, and carburetors, and exhaust systems, and braking, and tires, and all that jazz. But nonetheless, I thought it was a, you know, I could add my two cents to the topic. So I'd already planned to be here. Jeff messaged Benji and said, no show. Benji messaged me and said, hey, man, I really don't want to go two weeks without a show. Do you think you and I could put together an hour? And I was like,
Speaker: I think we can, I think I can manage to be dangerous enough to put together an hour on a car show. Well, you know, this topic kind of is for everybody, right? It's because of buyer balls, right? So, so this spans people who buy and who spend money on things like this. So you don't, you don't necessarily have to know everything at all. I mean, you really don't have to know anything. You, you could be a buyer and not, As who is let's go and do this all ourselves, which is a real cool topic. Unfortunately, Jeff can't be here. We only may have this much of a story that's about this big. Um, but but it's a fun topic. Unfortunately, Jeff can't ah currently can't join us. I'm not sure, but, uh, I know I did not want to go another a week without, um,
Speaker: doing a show because we need to keep up consistency with the network as we should. um So yeah, I reached out to Glick and was like, Hey man, let's just wing it and let's go for it. Yeah. So i but I'm going to, I'm going to do my best to fill in. as I had to, I had to change my name and everything. I let everybody know I'm not Joe. I am apparently, I am the do it all guy at the network apparently. So,
Speaker: He's the pivot person for people who don't know that. Yeah. but Very, very timid, very, very ah humbled and very quiet. You know, I don't, not an egomaniac or anything like that. But welcome to Jeff's garage. It is part of the nonsensical network. If you guys are unfamiliar with the network. Well, I say you guys go ahead and familiarize yourself with the network. We are on all of them social medias. Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. We do have shows seven nights a week, uh, on YouTube and Facebook. We got to have that chat there so everybody can kind of get involved and add their, their two cents and whatnot. And if you can't join us live, but you still want to listen, well, you can listen to us anywhere you want, whenever you want on all the major podcasting platforms.
Speaker: Oh, all at the nonsensical network where you can simply go to bio dot link slash nonsensical network right down at the bottom of your screen. I did mention we have shows, Sunday or Monday through Sunday basically Monday we kick the week off with men caring for men it's a men's. mental health podcasts. Tuesdays is this show right here Jeff's Garage where Jeff and Benji and sometimes Blaison joins them as well and basically Jeff says if it fits in the garage it has a motor and steering wheel wheels they're going to talk about it. Wednesday nights is what the fuck news and if it's in the news and it makes you makes you go what the fuck we're going to talk about. My shit is wobbly as hell tonight.
Speaker: Thursday nights is talking shit. Mark and Brian are doing their thing. They usually have interviews lined up and people that they're going to be chit and chat from the chit chatting with with from the entertainment world, movies and news music and are not music. Sorry. Music is my thing. They're not allowed to do music movies and television. Fridays is Glick's house of music. It's a music show. I'm hanging out interviewing musicians, chit chatting with them, getting to know them a little bit better and introducing you guys to their music. Saturdays is nonsensical nonsense. unhinged unapologetic Comedy based show we're just having fun as a bunch of guys or girls Hanging out having a good time and we say or girls because we do put the link in the chat And we encourage you guys to come up. We call it the open door challenge And then but last last but not least on Sundays is Jarvis now he's taking a little time off Because he will be rebranding his show and coming back with a brand new show And
Speaker: as we know more about what his show is going to be and what it's going to be about and what the new title is going to be. We all know it's going to be a sports show, but we don't know what direction it's going to go. We'll let you guys know. So make sure you guys are checking out, uh, the shows Monday through Sunday on the network. I think I lost binge or I lost myself. I don't know. Maybe we're just sitting here doing a show on a, on a blank screen. I couldn't tell you at this moment in time. Um, But no, like I said, uh, unfortunately Jeff was not able to make it tonight. You got a little spinny dial, but like I said, uh, fortunately Jeff was not, um, uh, yeah, you got a little spinny dial. Like you got no connection. We'll load you up.
Speaker: Um, Jeff Jeff had some issues today, so he won't be here So I'm gonna do my best to fill in and if tonight goes anything like last night I May go guy by a garage Stick a hose in the exhaust pipe of my car and just sitting there and drink a bottle of Jack Daniels Until Sweet sweet
Speaker: Yeah, I lost my train of thought. I have no idea where I was going with that, but nonetheless. There we go. Now we got you clearly unsure why that did that. That was weird. I don't know.
Speaker: yeah Yeah, that are all the odds. Warren's mom on coming home. I don't know. I just went. don know other I told the guys we have a group chat for the network on Snapchat. and And Jarvis was like, Jeff, is everything okay? I said, Jeff is dead. And Carter's like, wait, for real? Like, what? I said, yeah, he's D -E -A -D. What does that stand for? He's dead. Like he's unalive. Yeah, he unalive himself. Or he's unalive. He's no longer breathing. What the hell happened? Chupacabra attack.
Speaker: so the guys but all i guess Yeah, no, we we we honestly do not know what's going on with Jeff but search i've held a chocolate tonight Yeah, yeah Jeff had a topic tonight and like I said, I'm not a car guy by no means But I think I can I think I can sit in this one basically his question for the show tonight was built or bought is it better to buy a car so said like Oh, what's that auction? That's on, what's that big auction where they're actually, Barrett Jackson. Thanks. I don't even know that, you know, would it be better to buy a car off of Barrett Jackson and say, that's completely done. And, and, and, and you don't have to do anything to it. Or is it better to build it yourself? I have opinions. I have multiple opinions.
Speaker: on this, like most like most things in life, I sit in the middle of the fence, but I'll go ahead and start with you, Vince. Just to be clear, I am on the fence but in multiple different directions on this specific topic. a ae I am, too. Yeah, I am, too. you know Part of me, because I'm not a car guy and I don't know anything about cars, is like if I had the money, ye I'm just going to go buy, you know, like I'm a truck guy. For instance, I love big old, big old monster pickup trucks. If I can go buy one, it's already, I already got the sweet ass paint job and everything in it. And I have the money. I'm going to buy it because I don't know how to build it at the end of the day. However, you know, if it was something like, you know, say, you know, a project car that, that
Speaker: Me and the buddy's bot, I'd be like, well I don't know much, but I'll hold the flashlight. I think that would be really cool to build a car. Do you say flashlight?
Speaker: Flashlight, flashlight, whatever. As long as you're holding it, you're good. Yeah, as long as it's being held. And I've done that before. we we Back when I was in high school, we built an old Nova. I think it was a 70 or 71 Nova for the drag strip.
Speaker: and And it was a project card that, you know, a group of us got together and was like, fire from the junkyard and rebuild to some bitch. And I was like, I can do body work. yeah It's not about winning this about just hanging out with your, your friends, right? Yeah. And ultimately that was what it was. We had many, many nights where we were hanging around drinking. And even though none of us talk anymore, or I don't talk to any of them anymore, I still have fond memories of those nights in the shop, you know, hanging out, drinking, uh, shooting the shit. And it's not that we all, it's not, it's not that we, we had a, you know, anything bad happened. Just life happened, man. You know how that goes. You're married, you have kids, you go your separate direction.
Speaker: For sure, for sure. and Hey, Leggy, we're rebranding. And what's that true crime? What up, true crime? Jeff is unfortunately no longer with us. but Oh, that's too funny. We don't know what happened to him. it but jeff Jeff is no longer with us. My exotic dancing skill. We modeled right over him and sanded him and painted him and shift him on. Yeah, yeah, trust me. My dancing skills are exotic because I have a serious lack of skills.
Speaker: No, man, i but I think it's pretty cool that you did that with your friends. That's, as guys, I think things like that is needed, right? That's kind of like, you know, being a younger version of building a fort with your friends out in the woods, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to have that it builds the skills of communication and teamwork. Like men, we we kind of need that, right? We need those little building blocks outside of school. In my opinion, that's what we need. Oh, 100%. Yep. And you know, I grew up in the 80s and 90s and
Speaker: Yeah, that's, I consider myself a leader. Um, so, so learning those early skills, you know, hanging out with friends and communicating and, you know, building confidence at a younger age, playing sports, uh, it builds those, those little skills you don't see getting built and all that turns into what you can become. Right. So I think that's pretty cool that you were able to do that with your friends.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, exactly exactly. I mean, it's kind of like it's it's it's and I don't see i don' I don't think we see it too much anymore with that with the younger generation where you have those those moments of really bonding and hanging out with with your friends, whether whether it be guys and girls or a group of guys or girls or or whatever, you don't really see that, because I mean, shit Lord knows when I was growing up, how we, we built a fort on my parents property, we've had an old chicken coop from the original house. And we just doctored it up a little bit and made it into our little, our little hangout. Yeah. know
Speaker: but are Very similar in age. So there was no participation trophies. um yeah no we still like There was no participation. Right. Jeff is alive. As far as I know of, right now, Jeff is alive. Correct. Last time... No, no, no. We can actually check on him. He checked in with us and say, hey, I'm ditching out on you guys. It's a little confusing. We're confused, so you're okay to be confused. You're confused, so we're confusing you guys even more. Is he dead? Yeah. Or is he alive?
Speaker: a And basically I was just, I told Glick, I was like, Hey, let's do a show. We can't go a couple of weeks without a show. It just doesn't make sense for the network. We're trying to build something here. So let's, let's say building, right? We don't, we don't need the owner to show up on the the job site to say, Hey, screw this bolt in. We know how to screw the bolt in. I mean, the owner is on the job site. I'm not doing anything around here for you sons of bitches.
Speaker: ah Yeah, man. Um, there's you know it's As we were growing up, man, it was it was a lot different than that. We didn't have internet when we were growing up, right? So it was a lot more hands -on everything. So so you know I guess we can tie this back into the builder vault.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, so we didn't have internet doing some funky. So I just want to know where there was a delay at. Yeah. You're like cutting it out. I don't know if I'm cutting it outside, but you're cutting in and out. So and ah yeah, you know, we we didn't have the internet back in the day when we were growing up. So we occupied our time with, with other things. Correct. Yeah. So, you know, Again, you and I are in a similar age. So we were more build, not bought my, I didn't grow up with money. What literally whatsoever. So if we wanted it, we had to make it for the most part. And, and again, I wasn't an inside kid as an adult. And you literally see me hanging out in a garage, just so you guys know, destruction ish. Um,
Speaker: I am outside all day. This is all due to when I was growing up, I got an inside guy whatsoever. I actually do not like inside. Um, if I could live in a freaking 300 foot camper, I would probably be a okay because I don't live my life inside. Um, I am a kind of just go for it kind of guy, right? Not, not on everything. I do have my limitations and my skill sets. But for the most part, man, if growing up in the 80s and 90s, I stayed outside and was my parents had no money, it was like, either you build it or you don't have it. and Literally at all. Yeah.
Speaker: no you know i've always you know I've always been, I don't know what Hanes are. Are Haynes manual a thing over there? I don't know what that is. Not a clue. I've never even heard of it. I'm assuming it's some kind of car, but I've never even heard of it. Jeff would have probably been like, oh, yeah, of course, manual car. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. She said ah manual. So this manuals, of course, the limitation of manuals, I would assume worldwide is being pretty restrictive. And I think that started,
Speaker: 10 plus years ago because they have automatics that are so efficient now that they can change the gears quicker and your gallons per mile has went up with how efficient Yeah, yeah so so manuals are limited are limited I think most of them are you can like special order them and Uh, for the most part, but, uh, most of everything is, uh, like the semi manual to where you just shift gears with the paddles. Uh, she's talking about the books. Yes. Those are a thing over here where you can buy the, they it's, it's, um, you buy it specific for the car.
Speaker: So like, kind of like this, that's the Hanes man. Oh, you talk, man. Yeah, you oh yeah yeah like others was going to get those, but I don't, do they, but you know, that, that was simpler times when those were more readily available, right? When there wasn't 7 ,823 computers on cars. Yeah, exactly. Or YouTube for that matter. When a car was just a car, right? the Yes, we do. And actually, when I was 16, before I bought my Bronco, I wrecked my car and we were taking the engine out of a car we got from the junkyard. The body was perfect.
Speaker: But the engine was blown. But the engine in my car that I wrecked was still in great condition. It still ran and everything. So we were swapping motors. And my old man basically told me, you wreck the car. You take the old engine out. ah You take the bad engine out. I don't know what the fuck I was doing. And he threw one of them books at me that was specific for that car. So me and my buddy just went out there. We're like, this we were trying to pay. Finally, we just was like, fuck it. Let's see if we take these bolts out what happens. and there My dad had a good laugh at it because literally took that engine apart piece by piece and he's like, you know, you could have just been like unbolted these six bolts and taking these cables and wires or whatever off and move these hoses and we could have just lifted the engine right out and I'm like, no, but I could build you a house.
Speaker: but yeah sure Well back then it was way simple right there was more Bolson or was computers and now they that is not the case you can't just swap a motor over to a new car because The computer that came off of that car originally was programmed to these brakes, these airbags, these every this, this and that and the other. And then you have to reset the whole ECU. So and now you need a $10 ,000 computer to operate, you know, a $40 ,000 car. It just doesn't make sense anymore. so So you take everything to a dealership because they have the $10 ,000 car and you just pay your $3 ,000 bill and you move
Speaker: Yeah, no, it's I had that happen with my, with my crews that I had the, uh, the power steering went out on it, you know, and I, and I'm, I popped the hood and I'm like, where's the, uh, payment for the power steering, you know, the fluid and where's, where's the, you know, where's the pump and, you know, like, I know a little bit about a little bit when it comes to cars and I can't find any shit. So I'm like, I call Chevy up. I'm like, yo, I got, The manufacturers weren't, you know, bumper to bumper or whatever. Uh, do you want me to bring it in and you ah and they're like, well, can you drive it? And I'm like, I mean, yeah, it's just a pain in the ass. And I'm just down the road. I ain't no sense in sending a tow truck down here to get it. Oh, get down there. And I go into the shop and and the the girl that's behind the camera, I'm like.
Speaker: I don't know where the power steering fluid goes in that thing. I don't know where the pump is or anything. i guess i She said started laughing. She said, well, there's no fluid. It's the only fluid that's in this car is oil and your windshield washer fluid. She said, it's probably ah a bad relay or a fuse or something. I'm like, what? Sure enough. It was a fuse had blown for the for the computer or whatever. And then the unfortunate thing, well, um I say unfortunate. ah I had to wait like three or four days until that that little fuse came in so they could replace it. But with a warranty, you know, my my warranty, I had a loaner car. The only loaner car they had was a Chevy Camaro SS. I was like, oh, shucks. I got to drive an SS around for a few days.
Speaker: yeah like good Yeah, it's quite unfortunate, right? You know, the older cars you get, the more you're able to work on them. And the newer cars, you're just not able to, it's so expensive. And it's not due to these, of course, the parts are expensive. But it's, it's really just comes down to the computer, right? You got to own a computer to be able to
Speaker: freaking do anything on these cars. They've really taken the ownership of the vehicle.
Speaker: and Right. you're You're allowed to drive it. You're not allowed to fix it. and and yeah It's a little bit of a bummer. Well, you know, and and I think that, you know, with the topic of the show tonight, you know, if you're were into the older cars, obviously maybe you want to build one. But if you're, you know, like, I love the new trucks. You know, i you know obviously I trade my Equinox and I want to get back to the Colorado, but I can't go buy one in the junkyard and rebuild it myself, you know, because yeah like you said, it's all it's all computer. I don't know how to do any of that stuff. You literally got to have a computer to fix it. I mean, I don't care if you fix everything on it. You yeah you have to stick it to a computer to get everything to run.
Speaker: to run right, right? You know, but I guess, you know, growing up in our days, I started driving in like the mid 90s. You had to have a computer to tune a car. After you put a whole bunch of performance parts in, you need kind of needed them to get together. Now you got to you you got to put a computer on it after you rebel it just to turn the damn thing on. Yeah. Because because it won't run. And it's like, oh my gosh. And again, like like a tune was like a few hundred bucks. Like, oh my God, this is expensive. you're You're buying computers, like these, I mean, it's literally an iPad and and they're massively expensive. Like massively. So if you don't have a friend that owns a garage, you're screwed. o Yeah. It's not like I'm hooking my car up to my laptop. It's a specialty computer.
Speaker: 100%. That's the lead. So, so in turn, it makes no sense to own that computer unless you're, you're making money off these vehicles. Yeah. Oh, completely agree. Um, for the most part, I completely agree. Uh, Steven. Yeah. Now that government regulations at the end of the day. Yeah. that the Hanes manuals were awesome. I had a, you know, every time when I bought my Bronco, my dad was like, you need to get one for your Bronco. All right, cool. I don't know what I'm doing, but all right. But it did come in handy. And, you know, I don't even do oil changes anymore. I used to do my own oil changes. I don't even do that no more. I just take it to Valvoline. I really wanted to do the oil change on my Porsche behind me, my Porsche, sorry, behind me.
Speaker: The only thing that stopped me was I didn't have ramps, right? My Porsche was stuck in... but i'm I'm not going to go into detail. It was 150 miles away from where I currently live, so my Porsche was somewhere. Then I lived at the beach, but then I lived... I had a house at the beach where I was living, and then my company moved me to a new place. So my Porsche was stuck since March at another place. And I was like, okay, I really want to do an oil change. And I'm like, dude, I can't do an oil change because I need ramps. This, this bitch is on the ground, right? And i so I ended up having to take it to like an old change place to get us done. So I provide the filter. I provide the O rings. I provide the crushed water. I provide all this shit. Holy cow. I did not know.
Speaker: So Porsche takes 9 .2 quarts of oil. I walk out for $187 or $86 and some change. Because I did high mileage, full synthetic, obviously. It's a piano know that kind of car. But I was like, holy c crap. But there's nothing I could do. I really wanted to to attempt to to do it. um yeah This car is really neat. You don't even have to lift the the hood up. the hood is not right there and the hood is hold on so the hood is not right there and the hood is not right there the hood is right there it's in the middle ah but you don't even have to lift the oil you don't even have to pull the hood up to to do an oil change on the car so everything is done in the trunk and underneath the car because i have two trunks and the engine so where am i so it's like here's my trunks
Speaker: And here's my engine like right here. Uh, so it's, but I was like, dude, I would have probably saved a hundred bucks if I could have just done the damn old change myself, but me not having freaking ramps. And I'm like, yeah I live a ah well my house where I currently stay. I'm only here for a year. There's 150 something miles. We're from where my car's at. And I'm like, I'm like, where the hell do I put a, where the hell do I put a set of ramps that I'm going to buy? And a car that's, I don't know, nine foot long. but yeah I'm screwed. I put my convertible down and I've got, I got my riding partner ramp and ramp two, you know. yeah
Speaker: Yeah. Um, but yeah, these older cars, you can do stuff with like that. These new cars, you have to turn the key a certain way than pump the brakes X amount of times and hit the, or a pump, the gas X amount of times, hit the brake, turn the key on or turn the key off three times. They're like super complicated.
Speaker: it's That's why I, you know, Jeff and I have had the conversation before and I'm like, I'm just driving the goddamn thing as long as it gets me to point A to point B. That's all that matters to me. I'm not trying to do anything extra. you know it's It's too much anymore. you know I would love to, and and even even back when I was ah you know out of high school, I had that mentality. It was like my Bronco, yeah, about my Bronco and it was done.
Speaker: And that's why I bought it. The only thing I did was put a bigger lift on it, bigger tires on it, but that was a fucking piece of cake. That was three hours in the shop and throwing the lift on it and throwing the new tires on it, bada -bing, bada -boom, get out the way. ah yeah you know but It already had the the engine in it. It already had you know the modifications on the engine. And and and the only thing I knew is that when the four barrel kicked in that I could literally watch my gas gauge do this.
Speaker: yeah a shut on ba game Yeah. um yeah ah But it was nice because I did have to replace the brake lines on that truck. And because it was lifted, we literally sat underneath of it and just pulled the lines down. And again, it was a few it took us a few hours, but walked them in, god took the old ones out, put the new ones in, bled the lines, and was ready to go. you know Again, yeah the only thing I do to my car now is put gas in it. outside of that, I mean oil changes everything. yeah I won't even change tires on some bitch. I'll take it in and get it done. Because as I found out, as I found out those sensors that are in your tires on the rims or whatever, apparently those sensors are designated for front left, front right,
Speaker: back rear or right rear left, because when I had my tires done, they apparently crisscrossed my back tires. And I got a warning light saying my driver's side tire was, was low on air, went to go get air. And I'm like, it's fucking full. I don't know what the hell they're talking about. Walk around to the passenger side tire. And it was like, Oh, okay. Now that, also so they didn't allow for rotation anymore. No, because it it it crosses. I'm assuming there's a sensor in the rim or something. I don't know. I, again, I don't know anything about this shit. So it's like, I wouldn't even think about that is if that, if that specific sensor is for that specific, you know,
Speaker: suspension, everything, and it it says this sensor belongs to this specific side of the car, then it doesn't even allow rotation unless, and this is the kicker, unless you own a computer saying rotate tires on this car and then give a direction of which way you're rotating. ah while which there There's nothing simple anymore. And this is and this goes for everything, right? that it takes people to learn a specific skill in each ah what whatever you want to be a professional in right like I'm a professional cross face and you're a professional whatever you do um if if if there's not enough professionals in this industry the price of stuff goes up on everything right so I always tell people you know college is cool if that's what you want if you want to be in debt and get a higher education make sure that's what you're going to do
Speaker: There's openings in that field. if If you're kind of questioning things, get a freaking skill in that involve fixing homes, fixing, fixing the shit because there's, I make a really good freaking living and the prices are only going to go this way. They're not going to go this way. apple um Damn, you need a computer to rotate your freaking tires. Holy shit. Yeah. And you know, I would assume most of the tire places, they're going to have that computer. I don't know. I'm just assuming because like I said, I had new tires put on my car and and that sensor said that my driver's side rear was low and it wasn't, it was my passenger. So I'm assuming that there's a a sensor in there and you know, that's the only thing that would make sense to me.
Speaker: But I encourage people all the time, go to a trade school, man. it's Hey, it's free. And if you go after you graduate high school, it's not very expensive. You'll pay it all fast as hell. You know, market trade, you know, there's always options down the road for higher education. You don't have to go right into college if it's a career that you really enjoy, a career that you really like. A lot of companies within house, I mean, like company I work for, I can go online to our portal and there's all kinds of training and classes that will give me an open doors for more opportunities in the work that I do. And it's all free. It's free to come. Completely agree with me. I think the company I work for will pay for like four certifications. And those four certifications I could probably use at 30, 40 different companies.
Speaker: a and no no um I wouldn't leave my company. I make beyond a good freaking living, but if you and it's literally just so we can bring in more work at the end of the day, right? I don't i don't think there's enough people saying, hey, I make a really good living working with my hands, right? I think that's a huge problem. Like, oh, that's hard work. But it's like, I do pretty well. you know Just because I work with my hands and I'm near bugs and I'm near dirt. I live in a half a million dollar house. I mean. let
Speaker: hey um da ah good Work with your hands, people. There's doctors that live in half a million dollar house, but also have $200 ,000 in debt. I have none of that debt. Yeah, exactly. No. And the nice thing about it, it's like anything you do, the more you do it, the more knowledge you get on it. Yeah, digging ditches is hard, but you do it for a few years. You learn ways to make it easier. You learn. Yeah, then you start to tell the guys how to dig the ditches.
Speaker: That's what I do. I tell the guys how to dig the ditches. And once I get bored, I'm like, you know what? I still like digging a ditch. Like today. you know I said, I want to drink beer before 3 o 'clock. Well, guess what I did? I went in there and told those guys how to dig that ditch. And by 2 .30, something, I was cracking the cold beer and was having a good time. desk yeah Yeah. People get a skill. Skills are skills are great. And people have to be willing to do it. If you're if you're wanting to do something like you want to do Steven, obviously you're going to have to go to to a school. um Yeah, but there's other ways to make a crap ton of money and not ever have to go to.
Speaker: school of the hard knocks. That's that's the school I went to and figured it out and I tell you it built a crazy amount of character ah working in warehouses around you know I was you know freaking 18 to 22 23 year olds and have these 40 50 60 year old guys I was talking shit to me all day just cracking up and it built so much character that that time I spent with those guys was invaluable right it gives you such thick skin it teaches you like how to talk shit how to have a good time in in ah in in ah in a place you don't want to be in and it's like you know it's so much fun man and i think that's really important for young men oh yeah no that's like uh you know today at work
Speaker: We had, we had a light that was giving me that wasn't working down in a garage and I was just going to change the ballast out. And then unfortunately the ballast was especially ballast and towards Taiwan. And yeah you know, I found it on Amazon. It would have been here by, by Thursday. Uh, but by a property manager, she wanted me to just replace the whole fixture. And I'm like, five minute ballast job, wait a day or two to change it or I got out of our fight with this stupid. Well, it did there's like, I'll get one of the guys from the building next door. They're not, they're just but the same property management company manages the building next door. The building's next to my buildings. And I was like, I don't need anybody to be honest with you. I can go down there, swap a light fixture out in about 10 minutes.
Speaker: Oh, I don't want you to get like it. I'm like, look, I've been doing this work for a very long time. Trust me, I no longer work with electricity hot. I'm not that guy anymore. You get hit a couple times, hit a few times, you get knocked off a ladder, you learn, hey, you know what? I'm going to take the extra two minutes, and I'm going to go find the breaker, and I'm going to turn that sumbitch off, and that's what they make flashlights for. And, you know, I'm going to do what I need to do. Damn right. Yeah, she insisted on it and and another, the the other guy came over and he was literally just like my little helper. I mean, it was like, uh, hold this, hold it, grab my screwdriver here, hold that flashlight up there, you know, and, and at the same time, you know, I got, he was asking me questions about it. Um, so kind of got to do a little education course or whatever, but we were chit chatting and he was like, man, let's go.
Speaker: but Sometimes this fucking shit, and he's like, Oh, my language. I'm like, dude, I've been working in construction pretty much my whole entire life. I like you think the F word is going to bother me. I think if you don't say the F word, we got problems. like yeah i say Yeah. If you don't say fuck at least six times in 15 minutes, when you're on a construction site or in the construction field, then you're either a brand new to the field. Or B, you're an alien at the end of the day. Yeah, yeah youre you're you're in the office coming to spoil me. See if I'm doing my job right. Fuck that. Yeah, exactly. exactly We know how this game works.
Speaker: pretty yeah Don't bullshit a bullshitter. I've been in doing this way too long. yeah right't like yeah I'm leaving at three. I'm leaving at three o 'clock.
Speaker: Oh, five, bitch. I know how this works.
Speaker: Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. and yeah jar Um, you know, it's really sad is they've closed a lot of trade schools down in high schools. And, uh, and then actually I went to eighth school while in high school. And I honestly think that was the best part of my high school. I know if fans are butts about it. If I didn't have that trade school, I, I would have lived through high school. had I had the determination to completely graduate. I graduated high school, all that. I had the determination. I had you know great parenting that pushed, at least getting a a high school diploma and all that. But i ah no doubt about it, I would have lived through it. I hated school a whole lot. um I never thought I'd be in construction, but I ended up find myself in construction.
Speaker: And I find myself very fortunate to to do what I do. um But they they really need to get trades back in school. And they push college debt so much now. I think that's really it' really sad. and they They need to bring back trades in schools. and You know, some some kids are just not meant for, I was not meant for college. I wouldn't, I would have never, thank you know, and and that was a cool thing, you know, and we still have them here. We have the vocational schools, which is essentially, you know, a trade school, whether it be a career center or C -TECH or, you know, whatever, but
Speaker: You know, so that, i I mean, that's what Jeff and I did. We took building trades at at at a career center slash vocational school two years in there. And you know, your your first year, you're kind of learning the basics. And as you get towards the end of the school year, you're, you're doing more and more projects and stuff like that. And then your second year, it's, it's a little bit more advanced than most of us were, were working our senior years. That's awesome. That's awesome. because they they they and And the nice thing about the vocational schools is they prepare you for your job. So like your site like your math class is catered to whatever your field is.
Speaker: So, you know, we weren't learning a whole bunch of dumb shit that pertained to our field. We were learning the stuff that we would need to know or, you know, my daughter went to, my oldest one just graduated a bit from the vocational school here in town and she was in the medical program. So like their chemistry was was based around the medical field, their science or whatever, you know, about the only class that was, it was like, you still have quote unquote mandatory credits, like, you know, like a government or social studies, your English, math, science stuff. of sure i She literally did a phys ed credit on the goddamn computer. Like, oh, when I was in school, you had to have that phys ed credit by your junior year before you could even go or have the opportunity to go to the vocational school. You had to have that. You're we had, you know, like our English class.
Speaker: There was a lot of speeches and stuff like that and basically getting us used to being up in front of talking to people and and, or talking to people. There was a lot of group projects where we would play out a scenario like a job site or something like that. So we were, got used to having the proper communication and how to talk to people and how to talk to customers and stuff like that. So, you know, all of our classes were catered to what we were doing. Um, which is, which is great because it prepares you better than going to high school and you're taking your, you're like, what the fuck am I taking three years of French? I'm never going to use French, but I have to graduate. Um,
Speaker: But, you know, even even afterwards, there's still a lot of trade schools around. They're just, you got to leave home. You know, there's a fantastic trade school down in Tennessee, down outside of Chattanooga. um it's And they teach a little bit of everything, but their main focus is linemen and tower guys. Oh, that's neat. I've known a few guys that went through that program and Yeah, you know, you might have to bless your ass and, you know, by the time you're 40, you feel like me. You feel like a 80 year old man. Sometimes when you get out of bed, cause you beat your body up for a few years, but at the end of the day,
Speaker: but you you you ultimately land yourself in a position if you want to be in that position to where you are making really good money and you're doing pretty well for yourself and and like I said after you do things for so long it's second nature it's not that hard you know it's not that hard to go out there and like I'm not digging a fucking ditch with the hand shop I know i'm ah I'm a heavy equipment operator I know how to run equipment I'm jumping on an excavator and digging a ditch yeah No, no, I completely agree. I think, you know, everyone has like this, oh man, it's so hard to make a six digit income, right? And it's it's tough at the end of the day. But man, all you have to do is get really good in your field and be better than everyone that's around you. Effort. People people don't understand how much effort pays off.
Speaker: yeah especially in construction, you go in there and make yourself better than everybody else. You're at the end of the day. After you get that position, you're you're the one not beating your body up any longer. You're making that six foot. Yeah, you're you're making that six figure income. You're you're you're you're not beating your body up. You're you're in charge of that stuff and did I don't know in cross space. I did at least, you know, five, six years before I made that, uh, that, that, um, that leap up to a six figure income. Um, particularly it was a long, hard five years. You know what I mean? Like it's, it's tough, but man, all you have to do is grind. And, and, and, and at the end of the day, you just outlast everyone. So, um, so 60, my daughter's getting ready to be 16. So before my daughter was born,
Speaker: I worked at Coca -Cola, right? And I worked with a guy who, his name is John, no one's going to know him. um he he He worked there like four or five years before I did. And he was like, oh, I want to move up. And I was like, yeah, me too. But if anyone's ever worked for Coca -Cola, it's a son of a bitch to move up in Coca -Cola. um So, so when there was a fill in position that had to be filled, I just told the boss, I was like, sure, man, you know, this stuff John doesn't want to do it. I'll do it just to be a team player. Well,
Speaker: law well then they, they filled that position and then another position came that paid like five, six, $7 more an hour. I can't remember if I'm able so long ago, I really got that position pissed off at me.
Speaker: Like, look, i didn't I didn't take the position we wanted it. I took the position because the team needed it to be taken. And the company saw that i you know I did what had to be done. And you know I can face this. There's there's huge cross faces sometimes. And then there's a little tiny one be the that' day to go in the little little tiny ones, if there's five of them, agree to go in at three times. Be the person who steps up because then you you gain that experience. You know how to do it. and then and And then the people who are in charge sees that you're doing it and be like, you know what, this guy needs to step up because then he can tell the people who know who he knows what to do to go in there and immediately do this, fix this and get somebody out of it. Right. And that's what it is. And people don't want to grind anymore. they They think, you know, higher education and getting all the student debt and I need to sit behind the computer and blah, blah, blah. Well, all those people who sit behind the computer are going to buy property or buy things that need to be worked on.
Speaker: And then or people come in who are like, okay, this is what it's going to cost you. And this is what it's going to take for you to pay for my experience, because I'm not only going to do this correctly, but perfectly. Right. And I'm going to get it done efficiently. We're going to use the best products and all this stuff. I'm not just a fly by the seat of your pants. I've done this for six months. No, I've done this for plus 10 years. And this is what you're going to pay for. And and we don't have. the, just such a small number. I age group, man, there's tons of construction workers, but they're so limited in America now. You know, they're coming from other countries that are coming in. Like I have a group of Spanish workers that work with me. Fantastic.
Speaker: fan freaking fantastic these guys. I don't have any Americans that work for me. And it's not that I hate on the Spanish guys I work for, but it's like, man, where are the Americans that are ah should be learning this? I'm passing my knowledge on to people who are not from here. And I really want to, I really want to turn around, right? You pass it to Americans, pass it to you know the immigrants. just I wish more people from America would schooling, I think at the end of the.
Speaker: Well, pushing trades. Yeah, not not only that, but you know, like like Hans said, you know, if you work the hardest in the position, then your boss is sometimes they'll overlook you. It's not always about working the hardest times. It's about being ah working smarter, not harder at the end of the day. You know. ah You know, I've always. If I don't know something, Uh, show a willingness to learn that that'll go a long way. I'm i'm with that with a lot of people. I've been in the positions before where i've I've trained people or had to train people or people shattered me. And I can tell within five minutes, if somebody really wants to learn and somebody really wants to do it, or if they just want to kind of fluff off and, you know, do whatever. And I'm not going to waste my time on somebody who doesn't want to learn. Uh, I'm not going to waste my time and energy.
Speaker: I'm just gonna go do my thing and let you do your thing. And hopefully the the company will well sort you out. But yes, ah you know I learned that a long time ago. I'm not gonna be i'm not gonna be the, I'm commendable. People can count on me. I'm gonna do the work that needs to be done. But I'm also not gonna go above and beyond and and create a situation where I'm stuck. But, you know, I think as long as you show a willingness to work, a willingness to learn, ah you know, like I'm not an HVAC guy. I did that on purpose. I know a little bit about a little bit, but I did that on purpose. Why? I don't want to do HVAC work. Why? Because it sucks. However, it pays really, really, really, really well. But I'm not ah i'm not an HVAC. I know how to do a little bit of HVAC, and it has paid really, really, really well.
Speaker: I know enough to be dangerous when it comes to HVAC, but I purposely stayed away from it. However, I'm by the purposely stayed away from that, but I learned like fire and life safety, fire panels, sprinkler systems, codes in and and shit like that. i So you not every, you know, we might have a guy who's really good in HVAC, but doesn't know anything about fire systems or sprinkler systems or fire panels. However, I do. um So yeah pick and choose where you want to be strong at, you know, however, you know, I've been fortunate in my life because I've done a little bit of everything. ah You know, at one point in time, I was a heavy equipment operator. I loved it. You know, I wouldn't want to do it now because it does take a number on your body.
Speaker: You get jostled around and beat up and everything. But, you know you know, I'm not back where I was, you know, even like when I was working for Orkin, my knowledge and and whatnot in construction made me a huge asset to the company because a lot of the people there, especially right before I quit and came back home to Ohio, it was a bunch of kids. I swear to God, we we we We were a pest control company slash daycare, because we had a bunch of kids that were in their early 20s there. And, you know, my background in construction benefited me a lot. Because, you know, I could help customers and then instead of them having to go.
Speaker: Uh, I don't know how to do that. Well, first and foremost, if you're going to call a handyman out, get, get you at least three of them out here and get three different quotes. You may not go with the most expensive. You may not go with the cheapest, but you're going to go with the one that makes it makes you feel the most comfortable. Sometimes on the weekends, I would be doing a side job and and customers would be like, well, we'll just pay you to come and do it. Cause you already told us how to fix it and what we need to do. And you already know what it is. And I'm like. I like to drink on the weekend. I can drink. We don't care. How long is it going to take you? I don't know. 20 minutes.
Speaker: so be yeah well We'll buy you a 12 pack and and give you a little money on the side and you can drink while you're doing it. Hell, we'll drink with you. i'm like Whatever. Those are amazing customers. Yeah. Um, uh, Steven. Yeah, man. I'll tell you what, man, when I worked in a factory that that's helped me a lot. Right. Um, I loved BS. And that, that was the, that was my favorite parts of working in a factory is kind of growing as a young man. Right. That, that that was so much fun in a factory growing.
Speaker: but that But what I quickly realized is in a factory, you get really good at your station and then as kind of an individual, if you're just a number that you're scanning in, the clock in, you scan out. Um, it's really hard to stand out when everyone, especially in production basis, it's really hard to stand out against anyone. Um, so I found my niche was in construction and I really focused. So, so kind of what I, what I did is my wife got me on, it's like, Hey, there's an opening with this company. And, um, I got really crappy training.
Speaker: Like really crappy training. So what I started to do was a setback and watch these guys and and I got really good at watching them and I was like, okay, now I understand how they're installing it, blah, blah, blah. And then I left that field completely and went into. another field. I was like, i'm I'm kind of done with cross faces and I want to break from it. And then when I went into this other field, I was right back in cross faces all the time. And I was telling these his homeowners who they should call and blah, blah, blah. And then they were like, Oh, can you come in and just do this for me? So kind of like what Glick was saying, yeah because because I had this knowledge.
Speaker: right And then i then I end up just doing it on my own for like 10 years. um Cross spaces or working at warehouses is great. I honestly think if you're going to work in a warehouse, you need to do it as a young guy um to kind of to kind of just get you to the next part of your life and kind of figure out where you want to be. Do you feel like the walls are closing in on you? Do you want to be out in the world? And then I realized I wanted to be out in the world. I was not a guy who liked a classroom. I was not a guy who wanted to be in a cubicle. I was not a guy who, who didn't want to see the outside. And it took me a little while to get that. But by my mid twenties, I realized, Hey, I need to not be here because I had like ADHD and I would get really hyper focused on my job. And I got beyond stupid good at it. And then once I did that, I got bored.
Speaker: and i And I would just turn through jobs and I was like, clearly there's an issue, not with the work, but with me. So I had to figure out what worked best for me and and where I needed to go. so So I do the same thing almost all the time, but I do it at different addresses, at different locations. Like I travel all of North Carolina. Um, there was a reason why last week's show didn't happen. I wasn't even where I lived last week. I was in a hotel. I've done, I've done the show a few times from a hotel. Um, but this hotel did not have a great wifi, so I couldn't do the show last week. I'm unfortunately home right now, but I think i'm I'm out of town tomorrow. Then I come back in town. So I've got a crap load of driving that I'm backing down for a whole week and or like another
Speaker: Speaking of internet issues, yeah, with all kinds of internet issues, he was getting booted. Now, you see, that that was that was my thing. like I was was never a warehouse guy. I didn't like, i didn't you know, like Benji said, factory workers. Oh, he's kicking me out. I'm not sure why. Might be internet issues. ah Might be like dropping and whatnot. But ah yeah, you know like you said, Benji, I was never, I enjoyed being outside too much. you know It's great. Well, the soul is great. Yeah, exactly. that i think you know Like you said, people in factories, they just become a number. When you have 40 people doing the same exact job, it's it's kind of hard to stand out. It's really hard. but Because at that point, how do you stand out? You just have to be the last one standing, right?
Speaker: You know, I can't can't prove myself in any other way other than saying, oh, I've done 10 years. Or I can go into construction and be like, and it depends on whatever you do. You're, you're a framer, but like, you know, these three guys, it took them all day to build three walls and I built, you know, three walls by myself. you stand out in different ways in construction and you know like or pest control what you were in you'd be like oh man oh most of our guys do eight tickets a day because and i have a background in pest control i don't want eight tickets a day off of tickets i don't want eight tickets i want 12 i'm here to make a hundred dollars i'm here to make 200 a day you know you know you say reduction
Speaker: Yeah, and shit, I don't think I ever did eight tickets a day. Depending upon the job, depending upon what I was doing. Yeah, because you get just put all one wanted to make fun as yeah depending upon what I was doing, I mean, first and foremost, I had the biggest route and and and and the branch at Damnir doubled. Like we had two guys that quit the company. Well, one guy, was kind of sort of ish terminated and another guy quit the company and they started their own company and I, and they were great guys. Uh, you know, one guy trained me, I actually was his replacement and the other guy was ah another great guy that I went to him for advice and and help ah quite a bit. You know, he was always right there. So I, I stayed in touch with him and, uh,
Speaker: I ran into one of the guys one time and I was like, you know, how's business going? I see on Facebook, looks like you guys are staying busy and everything like this. And this is about a year after they started. And they're like, man, we're up to 400 and some customers. I was like, hell yeah, dude. And I kind of struggled. he what we laugh about I said, you know, I said, at that time my route was like 450 customers. And they're like, what the hell, dude? How do you have time to breathe? I said, I really don't. I said, however, I'm doing residential slash commercial and I'm the only one in the company doing it. So there was days like, uh, you know, I, I had, I had downtown Charleston and I had the islands. So like there was a day on, you know, when I would be downtown Charleston, I would do King street. I would knock out 30 customers and be done by two o 'clock. Like an an apartment building. Yeah.
Speaker: No, i like commercial, yeah all that shopping area. And then that was just because most of the shops were only like or or the restaurants were were were, you know, a lot of the shops were like 10 by 20. You know what I mean? yeah they just And some of the restaurants weren't much bigger than that. So I'll pop in there, but do my thing. And it got to a point where most of the time, all I was doing was going in, doing a couple of little preventative things, and then chit -chatting for a couple of minutes because they they didn't have any problems because
Speaker: I was taking care of it and and they you it was more. when you're Yeah, it was more of a peace of mind thing where they're like, we're just happy to see you once a month click, to be honest. We know you don't have to do anything. I could be spraying fucking water if I wanted to at the end of the day because they didn't have any issues because I took care of them. Correct, correct. Yeah, construction, flat labor jobs are, they can be so much fun. they They really can't, the hard work is there. but they can really be a lot of fun at the end of the day. I wish more people would get into it. um they They don't realize, like like you're saying, Steven, you enjoyed the camaraderie between coworkers. Yeah, but man, I tell you what, I have never gotten more satisfaction doing work for a direct customer than I ever did with a coworker.
Speaker: Helping somebody with a problem is it freaking amazing. You do not understand how good that makes you feel to know one that you helped them and their family out in a situation. Like, it's it's an amazing freaking feeling. And that's why I do what I do. Like, yeah um really good money, but i I thoroughly enjoy helping people. Like, it's fun. That's what I enjoyed about, you know, Oregon and even, you know, being in construction. But that's one of the things I really enjoyed about Oregon was the fact that I was there eight, nine, 10 years ago. I don't know how long I was there. It was close to 10 years. And I had the same customers for the entire time.
Speaker: I got to, I got to, yeah I was basically a part of the family. I'm the working guy. I'm there every month or every other month. You know, I got to watch their kids grow up. I got invited to graduations and weddings and, and shit like that. You know, Christmas time, they would get me cards or or whatever. ah You know, it was more of that, you know, that interaction with my customers. and And I enjoyed the guys I worked with. And when we got the opportunity to hang out at the shop or, or whatever, you know, we'd take it, but Yeah, I was more of the customer -based, and and I look forward to seeing my customers and hanging out with my customers. And there was a lot I had a handful of customers that were older customers that, in all honesty, they just wanted company. Absolutely, man. like It's like amazing how how you realize sometimes they don't necessarily choose the company. They're choosing who does the service for them.
Speaker: Yeah, it's it's today. so So I started a job on Monday. We finished it up today. um the The customer had been screwed over by at least two other contractors. Might be a third, she we we got interrupted. yeah um And I looked dead at her and she was like, I don't really trust contractors. I was like, cool, you don't have to trust me at all. I said, you'll trust me at the end because because I'm here to do the job correct. Where everybody failed, and just sold you something. I'm not here to sell you anything. I'm here to install something that you're going to want to buy, that you are glad you purchased from us. And she ended up leaving before we completed the job. And she left an envelope and wrote a note on top of this envelope. And I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. I was like, oh, she threw some tissue in the envelope so it would hold it down so the wind wouldn't blow it away. Opened it up. $300 freaking tip in there.
Speaker: Nice. Yeah. You know what I mean? It was just because she under, she saw that we gave a crap. She was like, he wasn't buying into the company at this point. The company's not there. I'm there. She realized, Hey, you know what? This, this guy is the real deal, right? He's not coming in and saying, Hey, uh, let's do this. Let's do that. And just saying, let's do this. And let's do that. And not explaining why things are getting done. I ended up selling her like an $850 product. yeah And not because I wanted to sell an $850 product because the sales rep missed it. And I was like, look, you guys have been referred by a doctor. Let's do this because, and here's the picture is why people just have to, they have to care at the end of the day. And once people start caring, they don't buy the company, they buy you. And that's why you have those customers for so freaking long. Well, not only that, and one of the other benefits of
Speaker: I'm learning and wanting to be knowledgeable and want to learn what you're doing. You have to remember a lot of these companies that are out there, people just aren't, you know, you've been, you know, scrolling, you know, hitting their scroll button on their last topic, closing their eyes and pointing their fingers. They have salespeople, they have people involved. So you become, you you know you yeah you start out as a technician, you become knowledgeable on the product, know how to do the job. You move up, but yeah you get out of the field and yeah you get to be a salesperson. You get to go and do that my work and you already know everything that's going on. You know what's what's going to happen and how it's going to go. So that makes it even better salesperson they got out there diging bit at the end of the day. So yeah, exactly I guess that's a little bit of a difference with me because I know how to sell the product and I have to install the product. I know.
Speaker: the product description, I know where it's manufactured, because at the beginning of my 10 plus years ago, I gave a crap. Right at the beginning, I was like like, you know, I have to make a change into something. You have to start saying I care about something. And then I became a professional in it. And now the customers, they're buying into that, right? And they're like, okay, this guy really knows what he's talking about. And he and he gives a crap. And At the end of the day, I do, right? I have to support my family somehow, so I might as well give a crap about what I do. And you know, and I always look at it like I don't know everything about a house, right? I don't know how to lay shingles. I don't know how to siting, whatever. So, so, but what I'm good at when I go to someone's house, I want to make sure I'm as close to the best as in it as I can possibly be because whoever I hired to do something on my house, I want them to be as close to the best as they can possibly be.
Speaker: Right? Cause it's all a big circle at the end of the day. So yeah I just, I want to hire someone who gives a crap. And I want to know, I want the customer to know when they hire me, I give a crap. Like I want to do right by you and your family. Cause we all work hard for our money. And I want to make sure that that customer knows that their hard earned money is going to good use. And yeah. were rock Exactly. And it you know, yeah and yeah, you know, you do that. You get good at what you do. And then you start making good money. And then you decide if you want to buy a car already done, or if you want to buy a car that needs to be redone and pay somebody else to do it for you.
Speaker: Because that would be me. I would go to the junkyard and be like, I want that Mustang. And then I'd be like, all right, I'm going to go to this shop for the engine. I'm going to go to this shop for the body work. I'm going to go. No, you're 100 % correct about that. um You have options when you become a legitimate professional and you make more than just a living, right? At the end of the day, we don't want to make just a living. We want to we want to prosper.
Speaker: And, and, and I'm, I'm very fortunate to where I am able to prosper, but it didn't come right away. I had to put forth all the efforts, all the sacrifice. I don't, there was times I remember that it just is what it is when I owned the beach house. And in order for me to own that beach house, there was times that I remember paying for dinner. Like I'm looking through a restaurant window at my wife and kids eating, and I'm standing on the outside ah of that building into a customer because I know what it takes for my wife and kids to go eat that dinner while at while I while we live in a beach house.
Speaker: I'll, you know, it's like, and she would be mad and I'm just like, suck up Buttercup. This is what I have to do it's for us to live an amazing freaking life. I am, yeah I'm my early freaking thirties and I owned a God dang beach house. Well, I owned another house in another state. It's like make sacrifices. Like ah last week I was just gone for nine freaking days from my house. Do I want to do that? Hell no. But in order for me to make the living I make, I have to do things like that, right? A six -figure income is a growing tree. You have to earn that freaking that that freaking position.
Speaker: And buddy, i there there was a guy told me once, what you won't do, somebody else will. And that was, I don't even know if my daughter was born then. And I took that in the heart. And I was like, okay. Well, I'm sure that I do what other people won't do to get exactly where I was want to be and as much sacrifices I have to put in my younger years to get there, I'll make sure I get there, right? like yeah I'm willing to ah do what I have to do because there's so many people are like, no, I don't want to do it. And it's like, okay, um I'll take on that burden. And I've been really freaking successful. And and and I'm grateful every day. I'm humble.
Speaker: And, and I, I try to build pull up around me. I never knock someone for doing less. I'm just like, why can't you do more? But if you don't want to do more, I'm like, oh, put that, you know, I don't look down on people, but I do my best every time, not only with a customer, but people who work for me to build them up as well. If I try to be as humble as possible, I, you know, i Like I was saying earlier, you know, I'm willing to teach anybody. I'm willing to train anybody, but I've reached a point that I could tell but within five minutes if they really want to learn or not. And if they don't want to get the fuck out of here, I don't have the time. I don't have the patience. Now I'll be an asshole. You know, does it doesn't really matter. You know,
Speaker: What aspect do you want to talk about? Whether it be in the, in the, in the construction field or but even as simple as on this podcasting thing. I mean, I'm still learning too, but there's guys out there that think they know everything. And it's like doing your ass from a hole in the ground. Let me help you out. And then they don't want to take advice. And it's like, all right, well get the fuck on. Go on about your business somewhere else. Yeah, but some of those guys we don't know how to have it on. Let's face it, one of the guys don't like to have fun. And it's like, hey, Glick, there's there was a boo -boo tonight. And then I actually found out first and I contacted you. He contacted you and was like, Hey man, let's just wing it, right? let's Let's go have fun with the people. Let's go have fun with the network. We, just because we have a title show doesn't necessarily mean we have to stick to it. It was really open to what tonight could be. And I'm kind of, I'm kind of cool with it didn't turn out to what the title was.
Speaker: Uh, you know, just sometimes just, uh, this isn't a men caring for men kind of scenario that was last night. Um, but this is a different view on garage talk, right? yeah Garage talk is everything. That's what's super cool about garage talk and in garage talk, I'm like warehousing and any kind of thing. Right. Yeah. You know, if if you want to bring it back around, everything we've said about the construction industry applies into the, you know, you start out at working at Valvoline oil, changing oil. Then you work so you work your way up and you're working for, you know, mom and pop garage and you and you're, and you're, you're learning more stuff and one more things, you're changing brakes, you're, you know, you're changing carburetors and fuel injectors and doing tuneups and this, that, and the other thing. and
Speaker: then who knows you land you a fucking sweet ass gig for like Honda. And I know Honda right now, they they're bringing people in off the streets with no knowledge and sending you through college for free yeah while you work to get the education that you need to be a mechanic for Honda. ah you know And then you do that for a few years, you get the education, you save up some money and the next thing you know, you own your own garage. And you're a specialty college because you were, you're the only guy in town that can work on Honda's or Honda's or, you know, whatever. Absolutely. Uh, like a manager or anything. I mean, they' yeah the options are are open. Once you start getting that education and that experience, right? You don't have to stay where you're at. I mean, Honda also equals Acura at the end of the day. You see, you see, uh, Oh man, the Acura dealership's hiring, you know, just you going off your example.
Speaker: There's so many opportunities. People people should really spend the hard work and manual work can really pay off in dividends in the long run. yeah but know that With no debt, that's the most important part. I have no debt. yeah
Speaker: You know, that's the other thing. I mean, you get all that education and all that, ah you know, and I'm a hand on guy, like I'm not the type of guy that's going to, you're not going to put me in a classroom and teach me anything now. ah to
Speaker: Yeah. Put me out in the field where I can, where I can get hands on. And and and I'm also the type of guy like, I'm going to make mistakes, but I'm going to learn from him. And then next time, uh, you know, uh, I might be a little bit better and then it's time progressions. I'll be a little bit faster. I remember the first time I ever changed a ballast. I had no idea what I was doing. I got a lecture. yeah I got electrocuted probably 10 times on one, the first ballast I ever changed. Of course it's not much. It's just like a little bite. You know, it makes you go oh shit, you know,
Speaker: I probably got bit 10 times. and But the second ballast, I only got bit five times. I've been doing it long enough now. you know i' i've been doing it long enough now i don't i don't I don't work on electricity hot anymore because I don't want to get bit anymore, even though I know what I'm doing and more than likely I'm not going to. But I don't want to take the chance. So I hit the breakers and do what I got to do. But shit, I pop up there. knock a ballast out in five minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've changed a bunch of balances working in Coca -Cola.
Speaker: ah
Speaker: Yeah. was a built on bill technician which I was a better technician and cooler technician. I changed out a bunch of ballasts. I know exactly what you're talking about. So every time I had to change one, I did the old unplug. Yeah. So I know it it was, they, they bit me a lot less that way. Yeah, exactly. And I got a little tester too. Even if I flip the breaker, I got a little tester that I'll put up to it. And if it doesn't do anything, I'm good. If I put that little tester up there, it goes beep. I'm like, nope. Now I got to figure out where this is wired at and why it's still hot.
Speaker: Yep. Damn, that's funny. But that's experience, people. That's that's what experience teaches you. um Well, man, this was a fun show tonight. This was great hanging out with you. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a long time since we've got to hang out. Yeah, this this was fun. Thank you, everyone, ah for all the comments. We appreciated a little bit of a different show, maybe next Tuesday. And if it's how that goes, I don't know. but so so I guess Glick and I will find out in the days coming.
Speaker: i'm I'm not sure. yeah i i'm I'm curious to see if Jeff will be on the show tomorrow night because, God, I really want to know what I really want to hear what this situation is all about.
Speaker: And if he is, I want to see what the background looks like. Is that Pedro? Oh no, that's Pedro and Carlos and Juan. What the hell is going on here? What the hell is happening, god damn it? That's not any clip. No. we yeah We have no idea what Jeff is doing or where Jeff is. Uh, as we said in the beginning of the show, um, I had planned on being here for a little bit. The first segment, if anything, I might've stayed a little bit longer, just appended. Um, and, uh, I was in the studio late and then I was getting ready to message Jeff and Benji texted me and said, Hey, uh,
Speaker: don't do a show of me tonight, like maybe an hour or a little more because Jeff's not going to make it. So I messaged Jeff and he said, yeah, I'm not, I'm not going to make it tonight. I was like, okay, cool. I don't think he has any idea that we still did the show that ah but I hosted it. it was like yeah And there was a fan and then it just went everywhere.
Speaker: We had a couple of minor technical difficulties at the beginning, but, uh, we got to figure it out. we Appreciate it. You know, I enjoyed hanging out with you, man. I enjoyed the conversation. Like I said, it's been a hot minute since we've got to hang out on one of the shows together. Um, yeah, just because I worked in one place, worked in another place, worked in another place. I lived in one place that would go back to that place. And it's, I'm everywhere, but here. Yeah. And every once in a while I get to be here and not there and over there and over there. So so sometimes I get to be here. i don't i don't you know A part a part of me ah part of me misses those days, but then also a part of me doesn't miss those days. I just changed up everything because I wanted to play a song for an outro. I don't know if Jeff does or not, but
Speaker: I'm going to. But a part of me misses those days where I got to travel. you know I've worked for companies where I've got to travel all over, you know go to different states, and be there for a while, and and do different things. And and I loved it. you know But I think now, I don't think I would enjoy it as much, A, because like you know I have kids. I didn't have kids back then. I have kids in their order. I mean, if they were younger, it might be a little bit easier to do. But now that they're older, um Wow, that's the part man i complete prophe of you. yeah I'm more willing to travel because my kids are older.
Speaker: Um, so my youngest is getting ready to be 16. If they were younger, um, that, that was, that was the reason I left Coca -Cola was because I had young kids and I literally would clock in at five 55 in the morning. And I was fucking lucky. If I got home at nine o 'clock at night and I was like, there's no way I'm continuing to do this because I am not seeing my kids. I'm not raising my kids. My kids don't even freaking know me, but now, um, yeah my My daughter's almost 16 years old, so it's there's of course technology has progressed a lot in 16 years, right? So yeah there's that there's all this stuff so it I don't mind it as long as I can keep the travel less than five days. This week I went nine.
Speaker: so So I don't know, I went seven, but I came home for exactly like 14 hours and like 20 something minutes and then I left again for a couple of days. that that that was That was too much. So if I keep it at five days or less, I don't mind the travel any more than five days. I miss my wife, I miss my kids, I miss my dogs. right you know yeah I work hard for what I have here at the house and it's like, I do want to see it. Um, yeah, you want to be able to enjoy it and that, yeah that's one of the things that, you know, I think the biggest thing is my kids, are theyre they're older, so they have more going on now compared to, but I think that's the one thing that, you know, when I, when I moved back home to Ohio, uh, from South Carolina or from Charleston, because literally that felt like that's all I did was work. I was working so many hours and long days and stuff like that. Um,
Speaker: you know i When I came back home, I was like, all right, I'm probably not going to make the money I was making in South Carolina, but I am going to have a better work -life balance. I'm going to have more of a life and less of work, which is something I've stuck to. sure you know The job now, I'm 7 to 30 every day. I'm home on the weekends, get the occasional call in, you know whatever after hours. ah but ah you know, I'm home on the weekends. If I want to take a day off, I just be like, Hey, I'm taking tomorrow off. And they're like, all right, we'll see you when you come back. Yeah. You know, whatever. Yeah. But I, you know, I can take time off and I get paid for it. I think that's kind of what's weird about my schedule. I don't work, I probably work, I'm not even going to BS. I work way less than what you work. Right. I don't know the last time I worked even close to a 40 a week.
Speaker: It's been absolutely years. I say most of my weeks are below 30 hours when I'm actually physically working. Um, I got off at two o 'clock today. I cracked a cold beer by two 30 something. Um, yeah. And we, we knocked out, we knocked out a 10 plus thousand dollar job and I don't know, 12, 14 hours maybe. And then I take off and I got to drive two hours to work tomorrow. Go knock out a pretty difficult job, but I had an option not to do that. the the The owner was like, no, you don't have to. And I'm like, no, I want to because the the the I want to get this job done because this family needs the help.
Speaker: Right. Yeah. That's the difference between maybe me and a worker because I want to help these family and I got to drive two hours. Like cool. He's like, Oh, I'll put you in a hotel. I'm like, no I'll just drive back. and so It still takes me six hours to do the job, but I'm just like, whatever, man. I got to work a long day. I mean, there I've worked long days before and it's like, cool. If I got to drive four hours, but I'm only going to work six, I'll do that. I probably believe won't even work 30 % Friday. Like, you know, it's like, it's cool. Um, Yeah, man, yeah you have to be grateful and thankful for what you do have, right? And every day I'm grateful and thankful for what I do have. And I am ah fortunate to where I don't have to work a 40 hour week. I'm able to help people who have some medical issues sometimes with with stuff. And I'm so grateful and thankful and I always try to pay it forward.
Speaker: eight People have to be grateful and thankful for what they have. It is so important to be humble and and just put your best foot forward. Because there's no saying go, someone always has it worse, right? and And that is insanely true. And I have been in a situation where I've had it a lot worse. It's like, um um I haven't personally been, but when I got with my wife, we were on food stamps. and know So I know how it is. I grew up extremely poor. So you know having what I have now, I take nothing for granted. And yeah and I just put forth all the hard effort. And it's like, you do what you got to do. and And that's what's always cool about you, man. We've always related into the construction field and going out and about to different sites and doing things like that and just giving it all that you've got at the end of the day. yeah
Speaker: Yeah, and that's ultimately all we can do. you know you know I might not have everything in the world that I want, but I'm doing better than others at the end of the day. yeah Absolutely. Absolutely, man.
Speaker: So yeah, it can't beat that. I like what I do though. I mean, it's like we were we we were talking today and and You know, my job's not very stressful. I was talking to my, my, my, my boss and her and I were chit -chatting a little bit, you know, my job's not super stressful. I got some shit that I really don't want to do. So I'm putting it off and knocking out other things that I, that I need to do first so that, and then I'll eventually get to it. She's like, it needs to be a priority. I'm like, I'm making it a priority. It's just not a high priority. No, I got you.
Speaker: ah But, uh, but, you know, there's, there's the cool little perks that come with the job, you know, like, you know, we're, we're here in in Columbus. I do a big fireworks display. It's called red, white, and boom. And my building is right downtown. So it's like, I got free parking in a parking garage for red, white, and boom. You know, if I go down to nationwide arena for a hockey game or a concert or something, nationwide arenas are right across the street from my buildings, a park in the garage for free. You know, there's like. The ah shit that I don't necessarily want to do, and I'm only one person in my building, it the perks that are there outweighs it. So it's like, I could be grumpy about having to do this one thing I don't really want to do. But then at the end of the day, I can also look at the fact that I can come down here and go to a hockey game and not have to pay $50 for parking. you know Just so you guys know, the team and the playoffs that's in Ohio,
Speaker: Glick's team didn't make it this year. Yeah, no, they haven't been in the playoffs in a couple of years. but Just so you know, my team didn't make it past the Rangers. It is what it is. They're they're re ah rebuilding the blue jackets. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah. that So your blue is called Carolina Panthers here. they're They've been in a rebuild for a long time. Yeah. We're the new Browns. I mean, they were in the playoffs. They were in the playoffs a couple of years ago. We had a really good coach and then they're like, yeah, you're fired. And now he goes, and then he goes down to Tampa and we all know Tampa has been doing lately. So, you know, was like, thanks. Smart people. yeah I mean, my hockey team made it pretty far. I mean, like I said, we didn't get past the Rangers, but I'm a hurricanes fan. So, and actually he's good. Um, what, what am I?
Speaker: 10, 12 miles from the hurricanes arena. I'm pretty close to that. Actually, man, I'm pretty excited. I think June 27th, we got some tickets to go see a toll, like the band toll kind of scenario. Thanks. i'm I'm super excited. I got a date night. Haven't had one of those in a long time. What what what is it what is a date night? now i will like I'll text you about it but once I figure it out. Yeah, i will say I will say that about Nicki and I. That's one thing. I mean, the Panthers are up 2 -0 in the series. So let's go Florida Panthers. Yeah, the hockey game has been a really good. Yeah, he's actually talking about Carolina.
Speaker: Oh, I thought you were talking about the Florida Panthers. We were talking hockey. No, the Florida Panthers were freaking amazing. but We're not going to, we're not, we're not going to talk about the Carolina Panthers. I know. Like I'm a Browns fan. I know, I know you're, I know you're paying in your struggle right now. So yeah, yeah, yeah. It's okay. It's the part of being a fan, right? You've got to stick to the thick and thin. Um, yeahp okay. Well, I got to get the dog in because he's harassing yeah Walker buyer, but I really, really appreciate everyone coming in tonight. Glick again, man. I appreciate you jumping in on
Speaker: Complete freaking whim and kind of you know, don't we have to do for the network, right? You know, I do what I can, you know, you know, it was one of those nights where it's like, Oh yeah, I'm available. I ain't got nothing else. I'm just waiting on Nikki to get home from work. So I can, uh, I can go to the gym and, uh, other than that, I'd have just been sitting on my fat ass playing video games. I'm getting ready to go do that. Yeah. I'm thinking, I'm thinking about going out and kicking my daughter off the TV and play a couple of games. Give me a couple of rounds of color. But no, man, you know, it was fun. Like I said, I enjoyed talking. I always enjoy talking to you. You know, you know that always have. um So guys, thanks for hanging out. Thanks for listening. I know it was a little bit different. Jeff's garage tonight. ah However, it is Jeff's garage. As you say, as you see my name, not Jeff, ah but I don't think Jeff typically like does it, but I can do one. I can do one thing kind of car related tonight.
Speaker: Uh, you're going to make broom noises or something. I don't know. yeah it's It's kind of ish car. related yard looking show i'm making noise my god it's It's about a truck. So there's that my guy. Yeah. My, my guy Derek Wayne Douglas, he was on with me last Friday night. Uh, make sure you guys check him out on all social media. He's got a new song that just dropped and actually his debut album drops Friday, Friday. So make sure you guys are checking that out as well. Uh, here's this song, uh, Chevy Silverado. It's a short song.
Speaker: I'm in my Chevy Silverado, even the label I belong to
Speaker: Oh, we'll follow I'm just living every moment I borrow in my Chevy Run fine, but it still ain't driving Sometimes I enjoy my silence Cold beer with the moonlight shining Right here, that's where you'll find it That's perfect timing You ain't heard, I'm vibing That's the words I'm trying To use to prove I ain't lying Just chilling with the window down You can hear that sound, crickets in the background You can feel that now, just chilling with the window dial You can hear that sound, crickets in the background You can feel that now, I'm in my Chevy Silverado
Speaker: Every moment I borrow in my Chevy Just recline, unwind In the moonlight or the sunshine It's your life and I got mine Sometimes all we got is time Creekside in the tall pines Maybe B -side with the palm skies Or mountain weather living too cool On Plus level feeling too smooth I'm in my Chevy Silverado Peeling the label off a long niggin' bottle Ain't thinking about tomorrow Oh, well, follow I'm just living every moment I borrow in my Chevy I'm in my Chevy Silverado Healing label off a long nigga bottle Ain't thinking bout tomorrow Oh, well, follow I'm just living every moment I borrow in my Chevy Just chilling with the window down You can hear that sound Crickets in the background You can feel that now
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