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I layout the next 2 individuals I think you should follow and unfollow.
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Morning Routine and Daily Plans
00:00:01
Baker Plbg
Okay, good morning. It's like five o'clock in the friggin' morning. you can probably tell by my eyeballs. I just got out of bed. i go to busy day today. Things are going really well.
Influencer Discussion: Who to Follow and Who Not To
00:00:11
Baker Plbg
ah I'm gonna do, I've decided I'm gonna do a good and a bad.
00:00:16
Baker Plbg
ah Someone you should follow, someone I think is in my top 10, and someone that I think is in my top worst. bottomware Bottom worst, bottom 10. So you should follow or unfollow accordingly.
00:00:28
Baker Plbg
You should do exactly what I say because that's what this ah social media stuff is all about.
00:00:35
Baker Plbg
Do what i say or be damned.
Interview Announcements
00:00:38
Baker Plbg
oh I got a couple more interviews coming up this week with people that are sort of tangential to the trade. They aren't actually tradesmen, but they are part of ah the ecosystem, if you will.
00:00:52
Baker Plbg
And I think have some good things to offer.
Spotlight on Saeed - Plumbing Excellence
00:00:56
Baker Plbg
That said, number one, ah the one person that I think is doing a fantastic job that gets zero recognition is the hat I'm wearing, Plumbing vs. Everybody. He's since changed his name to Plumbing Against Everyone.
00:01:08
Baker Plbg
That's Saeed out of Chicago. I don't know what union he's with, ah but his website, if you want to check it out, is plumbingagainsteveryone.bigcartel.com. Go check it out.
00:01:22
Baker Plbg
This is the only hat that I've ever bought. All the other ones have been sent to me or I've had made, obviously. um But totally worth it. I've had this thing for five or six years now.
00:01:34
Baker Plbg
I don't even know. But it was one of the first ones. Saeed is absolutely killing it. he If you want to see how your grandpa plumbed, then go check him out because that's how he does it in Chicago. Nothing but copper and cast and brass and just immaculate work.
00:01:53
Baker Plbg
ah Family Man, just in my estimation, is is the epitome of being a tradesman and ah doing it without ah the praise and the applause of the world.
00:02:08
Baker Plbg
And so go to check him out. Fabulous dude. i don't He doesn't get ears near knuckle. enough recognition in my estimation.
Critique of Miss Paige and Trade Influencers
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Baker Plbg
ah Number four as ah the bottom 10 is ah whatever she's calling herself now, ah Miss Paige. I'll just call her Miss Paige.
00:02:27
Baker Plbg
She was Plumber Paige. She changed herself to something else. I got sent a couple of her reels. Apparently she's now at the electrician trade show, Nika, I think is what it was called. Girl, what are you doing?
00:02:40
Baker Plbg
yeah You don't know anything about Um, ah electrical. I mean don't know anything about plumbing or HVAC for that matter. Um, asking people, questions in your, I mean, she's, I'm sure she's a very nice girl, but she is grifter, not grifter. and grifter What the word? of my course She's a fan girl.
00:03:01
Baker Plbg
The other G word I was looking for is she's basically a groupie. If you know what I mean, if you know, you know,
00:03:10
Baker Plbg
anyway, um, The problem that I see with, you know, ah we've talked about it lot of what's happening in the in the States is it's so frenetic down there that nobody knows who's certified and who's not.
00:03:24
Baker Plbg
She goes to six months of trade school, gets her diploma and calls herself a plumber. Right. And as I've said before, works on a couple of projects that her of her dad's properties. And was ah, I'm going to I'm going to influence the trade.
00:03:39
Baker Plbg
What is an influencer? Right. An influencer is someone that's on here for their own, because I've been called that, ah for their own gratification. for They're here for the clicks and the likes, ah to monetize themselves so that they don't actually have to do the work of what the of of what they're representing. I mean, that's the whole point of it, right? And don't forget, I am the bad guy.
00:04:07
Baker Plbg
um that's what they're That's what they're trying to do I don't care. i i mean, I guess I am some level being influential, but ah if i everybody could follow unfollow me tomorrow and I would continue to do what I'm doing.
Reflections on 40 Years in the Trade
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Baker Plbg
I'm not here for the applause. I'm not here for the praise. I'm here because i i my intention is to share what 40 years of the trade has done for me.
00:04:34
Baker Plbg
And how it's affected my life, how it's a wonderful way to earn a living, how you can do it well into your 50s and 60s. I'll be doing this in a decade from now.
00:04:46
Baker Plbg
I, I'm 55. I've been doing this since I'm, you know, 14. I've been doing this for 50 or what is the amount of 40 years, 41 years.
00:04:59
Baker Plbg
When I got my learner's license, I was driving around streets of Calgary being the delivery boy for my dad. and And, you know, I could go back to, you know, eight years old making snakes, putty snakes for my dad. But I'll just stick it 14 or 15. So 40 years in the trade.
00:05:18
Baker Plbg
I love it. I am i am i am healthy. Uh, I am mentally with it. Um, I saw, I was watching the football game last night and there's, you
Physical Activity vs Medication for Mental Health
00:05:28
Baker Plbg
know, mental health. There's like a minute commercial on mental health.
00:05:31
Baker Plbg
Listen, you want to improve your mental health, get out and do something like do something other than for yourself, right? Serve somebody else, be a part of the community.
00:05:44
Baker Plbg
Don't like get off your, uh,
00:05:49
Baker Plbg
I'm clearly not a doctor, but get off your your medications. Get off your therapy and go do something physical. Like work up a sweat.
00:06:01
Baker Plbg
It'll change your life. Lots of people are in here, oh, my shoulders and my knees and hips and wrists. And and those are all absolute side effects of it. But I have been blessed in my own life to have – i a body and that is capable of handling the rigors of running, ah being a plumber, of running your own business for, for basically, well, for technically what am I on now?
Business Success and Resilience
00:06:28
Baker Plbg
29 year, 29, almost 30 years in it of running my own business, uh, with varying degrees of success, depending on what year, ah it's going incredibly well at the moment.
00:06:39
Baker Plbg
Um, and, That's all because I've been able to amalgamate all the good and the bad, the betrayals, and there will be betrayals. Look in the camera.
00:06:51
Baker Plbg
There will be betrayals. Prepare yourself for that because they're coming. And there will be massive successes. The problem that I see, and it's evident, you know, we're still getting some blowback from our little conversation with Tap and Stray Dog.
00:07:10
Baker Plbg
ah There are so many soft, self-soothing, sensitive um souls. That's a pretty good alliteration.
00:07:22
Baker Plbg
um that just can't handle any sort of conflict or any sort of critique. ah I mean, I won't. I should show you my DMs. They're full of the ah critiques on YouTube. It's starting on YouTube. I posted that video of, you know, how how profitable our boiler jobs are. And somebody's like, ah that's bullshit. I'm like, it's not bullshit. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's impossible.
00:07:53
Baker Plbg
I'm not lying to anybody. Those numbers are real. Those profits are real. You need to work to get there. You need to develop the reputation and the skill set um in order to pull those things off, it ain't easy.
00:08:09
Baker Plbg
And I can assure you that that whatever number i whatever I did the math, it like 3,200 bucks an hour when we do those boiler jobs. Wow, that's crap. Is it crap?
00:08:20
Baker Plbg
Just because it's beyond your scope of reasoning? it's just i mean, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. And that's what I'm here to do is lead you to the promised land of how fabulous the trades can be.
00:08:34
Baker Plbg
you don't want to come along, if you want to, you know, uh, what's my, uh,
00:08:42
Baker Plbg
it's a bit early in the morning for my B words, B smirch. And, uh, um, anyway, I'm not going to go too crazy.
Parting Wishes and Social Media Wrap-up
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Baker Plbg
I should look it up. Anyway, I won't, uh, I want to wish everybody a fabulous week.
00:08:56
Baker Plbg
Uh, hope everything goes well. Uh, I hope you're successful. I hope your family life is going well. Um, I don't wish anybody ill will.
00:09:08
Baker Plbg
I want everybody to be successful. i I certainly critique people's behavior and and have seen where those behaviors lead. And we're seeing that in real time right now. People have made poor choices and know they've made poor choices. And now they're like, ah, somebody, please don't don't publish that. Don't tell anybody.
00:09:32
Baker Plbg
right. like Okay, dude. Dudes. Anyway. Okay, that's it. Everybody have a fabulous day. um Keep it under 10 minutes.
00:09:43
Baker Plbg
Those are the people that you should... those are That's someone you should follow and someone you should unfollow. ah Go follow Plumbing Against Everybody and go unfollow whatever page she's calling herself now. And I suspect she'll be something else.
00:09:58
Baker Plbg
You know, nuclear physicist page.
00:10:02
Baker Plbg
Because she needs to get in onto the old, onto the scientific community now. Because she's not making enough dollar bills in the trade. Anyway. As usual, those are my thoughts, not yours. Good luck out there, everybody.
00:10:15
Baker Plbg
Have a fabulous, what is it today? Tuesday. Fabulous Tuesday.