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Answering questions from chat (resale, book keeping, etc.) opening packs of cards and recapping how the first quarter of 2024 went for the junk removal industry.
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What's up?
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Yo.
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Here we are on episode 102
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of the Trash Talk Business Podcast.
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This is our weekly chance to
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get together and talk about
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trash and business and
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growing and scaling and
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building your junk removal dream.
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I'm Andy Wines, joining you from Milwaukee,
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Wisconsin.
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And as always,
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I'm joined by my partner in crime,
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Big D-bound Casey Bubblards.
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Casey,
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what are we going to talk about today?
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Word.
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First off, I'm not from Dallas.
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I'm from Fort Worth.
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So let's get that straight.
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That's where I'm out of.
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Second of all,
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I actually heard from you
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that you have something you
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want to talk about that you
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kind of had some experience
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with the other day.
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Let me just see what this text is.
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I know.
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I saw Jordan Peterson last night.
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That was fucking awesome.
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Four packs of basketball cards.
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Yeah, also that.
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For the last three weeks,
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I've had these four packs
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of basketball cards at my desk.
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Because they came off a job.
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And we got like 100 packs of
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unopened cards.
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And I loved basketball cards growing up.
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The challenge is 93-94 is a
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rough year because Jordan
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didn't play that year.
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And there's no significant rookies.
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Shaq was a rookie the year before, 92-93.
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Yeah.
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I have four packs of cards.
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I have watched a few times
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where people are like,
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let's sit there and open the cards.
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They're like, flippy flip.
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We might do that.
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Actually, we might.
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It's funny because I was at
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my dad's house this weekend.
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I found this old framed
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thing that had all these cards on it.
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These baseball cards.
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They're all in their little
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glass containers.
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From when I was a kid, man.
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And I was like, man,
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I just don't follow card
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trading that much to know
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if these are even important.
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But I remember one row,
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and I have it in my truck,
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but one row was all Mark McGuire,
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all his different cards,
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his rookie card and all that.
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And I remember that was the, you know,
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in 1998,
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while my sister was being born is
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when he cracked the home run record.
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And we were watching while
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Caitlin was being born.
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We're like, hold on.
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Wait a second.
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Yeah,
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that one barely got... I remember
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watching it live.
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It barely got over the wall.
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Yeah.
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But that's... I mean, the other ones,
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obviously, I know the players.
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You know, I recognize them.
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But, man, I just don't know, you know,
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what cards are worth what.
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And, you know,
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I just have to look into it.
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Yeah,
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these packs on open are worth like $2
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a piece.
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So we're not... Right?
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These are not... We're not...
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I mean,
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I'm not retiring on what may or may
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not be in these four packs of cards.
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I'm more interested.
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I'm smelling.
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I'm more interested in the smell.
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I love the smell of fresh
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basketball cards.
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They used to come with bubble gum.
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They used to.
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Baseball did.
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Basketball cards, when I was collecting,
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never.
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Yeah, they smell like new cards.
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And the weird thing is, like,
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when we get new promo material,
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it's that same smell.
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It's like that, whatever,
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lacquered paint smell.
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Yeah.
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I love that smell, right?
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Actually,
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Carol and I were talking about
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that this weekend because I
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have a food allergy.
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Whenever I eat something
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that I'm questioning,
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I'll smell it first.
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So why do we smell shit?
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I'm like, you got to know.
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Or like if I grab a shirt
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and I'm not sure if it's clean or dirty,
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like we're on vacation.
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So like I had a dirty pile
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and then I had a maybe
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clean pile and then I had a clean pile,
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right?
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So like you smell the maybe
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clean stuff like, yeah.
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Like, how not?
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Like, it's a, you know,
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where you're going to wear, like,
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a beach cover-up.
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Like,
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I have a Savannah Bananas baseball
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jersey.
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I'm going up to the beach.
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Like, it doesn't have to smell that great,
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right?
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It's probably going to smell
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like sunscreen and ass a little bit,
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right?
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And I'm okay with that.
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I got to walk 50 feet and
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put the old toes in.
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You know, it's funny because, you know,
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we used to partner.
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So this is actually really important,
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obviously.
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This goes back into partnerships.
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But we partnered with a game and...
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sports memorabilia place
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down the street from our shop.
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And they would come by.
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If we ever saw something
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that was like unique figurines or stuff,
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some of the packages and
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he'd come by and just take a look.
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I, you know,
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I'm interested in this and
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whether he'd buy it from us or not,
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he would tell us like, Hey, yeah,
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I think I'd like this and
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I'll give you 10 bucks for it.
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Or, you know, bring it by the shop.
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Let's put it on consignment.
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It was very important
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because I would say
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probably two or three times a month,
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Maybe twice a month.
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Not even three times.
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Twice a month we probably
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give them a call.
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Hey,
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found something that might fall in the
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realm of what you do.
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The funny thing was this statue.
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Man, I still have this thing.
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Oh my gosh.
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It's completely freaking heavy.
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Yeah, that thing's awesome.
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I just want to get rid of it.
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I don't know how.
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I can't find this thing online anywhere.
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I found the artist.
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I found other sculptures.
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But this exact one,
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I cannot find it anywhere.
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Next time you come up here,
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put it in your check bag.
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Holy shit, it seems like 40 pounds.
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That's fine.
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Put it in your carry on then.
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I don't give a shit.
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I'll take it.
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The Peach Maker by Richard Muno.
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I don't give a shit, man.
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It looks cool.
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I'll take it.
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And it's all bronze.
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Yeah, bronze ain't that fancy,
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not compared to brass.
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I'm throwing it out there.
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All right, so let's do this.
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Today, we don't have a guest,
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and we knew that coming into it.
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Taylor said there's some
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stuff on the internet he
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would like answered.
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My challenge to the people
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that are live watching us right now,
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throw up some questions.
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I'm going to open some cards.
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I will talk.
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A lot of people are
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complaining about this year
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being slow or whatever.
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We had our monthly KPI report.
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Uh, I'm, I'm fucking killing it this year.
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That's, that's a fact check, right?
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We are, we are up year over year.
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We are up year over performa.
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We have an extremely aggressive growth, uh,
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goal this year.
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We had a very aggressive growth, growth,
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growth goal last year.
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Um,
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And here's what I will say.
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I'm going to say this out loud.
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So we finished... So the
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first two weeks of the
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month were very strong in February.
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And then the third week was all right.
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And then the fourth week,
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we really puttered towards the end,
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which is unusual.
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Normally, end of the month,
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beginning of the month,
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that's when we see the
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most... We also had warmer
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weather than usual.
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That's the thing.
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We had warmer weather.
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And then the last...
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The March 1st,
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we had a fucking rock solid day.
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And that was that Friday of that week.
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And Fridays typically be our heavy,
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heaviest days.
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So it's like February, we finished strong.
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We made our,
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made our numbers and we didn't finish.
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We didn't, we finished.
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Okay.
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We, we were, we were definitely.
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And then March kicked ass.
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And then last week we just puttered.
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Now it had nothing to do
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with me being on vacation.
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It was.
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We had one big job push this week.
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We had another job that we
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anticipated going that didn't happen.
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And now this week,
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we have more work booked
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this week than we already did last week.
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So we're already in good shape.
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So this is my hypothesis.
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People go on social media
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when they're slow to bitch.
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And when they're busy,
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they just don't go on
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social media because they're, well,
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I hate to say busy,
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because they're productive.
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So I go, right?
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Not always.
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But how often do people...
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Are there like, hey, I had a great week.
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Keep kicking ass.
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No, people want to be bitchy and negative,
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right?
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And the guys that are kicking some ass,
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I'm not going on social
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media to tell people how
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awesome I am and how great
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I did this week.
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I'm fucking running my goddamn business.
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So, yes.
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It also goes towards your clients, though,
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right?
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What's that?
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I mean, depending on your clients.
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So, okay, for instance, you know,
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I notice this a lot.
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So in the big groups,
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you see people market their business.
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I'm like,
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that doesn't make any sense to me.
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It's like, hey, man,
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like rep in Idaho Falls
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junk removal on something
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that has 20,000 members.
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It's all junk removal companies.
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And they'll put an actual ad
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in there like it's,
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if you need junk removal, call us.
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I'm like, all right.
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Bet, man.
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I'll steal that from Andy's book.
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Bet.
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I'll call you.
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Hey, I got a couch.
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Oh, yeah.
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Fort Worth, Texas.
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What's up?
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Yeah.
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Like, it doesn't make sense to me.
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Then I noticed the coaches
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and the other lines of
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business that work with junk removal,
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They're actually out there like, hey,
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I had a slamming week and
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these three junk removal
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companies are kicking ass
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because it's ABC.
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And it's kind of like, man,
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I like that because they're saying, hey,
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I'm doing great,
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but I also brought some
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other people in the picture
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that are doing great too.
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And here's why, right?
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Well, here's the deal.
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Also,
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if you're selling to junk wool companies,
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it does you no good to
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bitch about having a slow
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week because then misery
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doesn't want that company.
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I made a call on a company I
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was working with, I don't know,
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six months ago.
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Yeah, November when we ended our contract.
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And I was 100% right from
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the day that I actually started.
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The first day that we signed
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a contract together,
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we started looking at each other.
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I knew they were not going to Lex.
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I figured they were not
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serious about this business.
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They had money, family money, right?
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Mom and dad money.
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But I think it was more of
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the son was just bored.
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And just didn't see the interest.
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Not a great reason to start a business.
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I'm just throwing it out there.
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Boredom is the reason.
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his reason was he didn't
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want to be in an office all
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day hey okay I can respect
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that but at the same time
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you know every everything I
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saw from him and his wife
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they were always traveling
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and doing this great stuff
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which I was like that's
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great but you don't see
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that in first year business
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when you're starting a
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business well come to find
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out I mean he's not in
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business anymore right here
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we are march and then close
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it down because I'm like
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hey look I wasn't going to
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stay with him past six months
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Because I wasn't getting
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what I needed as his coach.
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And that's the thing is,
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not all coaches are like that.
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A lot of coaches won't be, hey, man,
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if you don't bring your shit to the table,
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I'm not going to do business with you.
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No.
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They'll be like, oh, yeah, that's fine.
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I'll keep working with you
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because they want that money.
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For me,
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I felt like it was just kind of
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like showing up to a
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meeting and you just have nothing to say.
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Just like, why am I here?
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It's a waste of time for both of us.
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And it was.
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um and now they're not in
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business anymore which
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sucks but hey it is what it
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is now the other people
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that I've seen just firing
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on all cylinders all year
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long and this year for some
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reason has just been this
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q1 has been crazier than
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I've seen in a couple years
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I think from me well
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they're actually they're
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actually out there just
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doing great well I talked
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to my old business that I
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sold I talked to them pretty frequently
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He's like, I need people.
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I'm hiring.
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I'm hiring.
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I'm hiring.
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That's funny because one thing,
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and I'm sure all of our listeners can say,
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no matter how good or bad
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you're doing in this business,
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you're always hiring.
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Or you should be.
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That's right now his number
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one pain point is hiring,
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not so much as getting jobs.
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He's getting the business.
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He just can't hold it all right now.
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I don't know if it's an
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economic thing or maybe
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it's because people are
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just ready for Trump to take back over,
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but
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Business is picking up
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pretty soon right now.
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You hear that?
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Choo-choo!
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That's the truck train
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pulling in the station.
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Well,
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we went a whole 12 minutes without
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mention of it, so here we go.
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No, for us,
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the milder weather has benefited.
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Also,
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I have not seen a lot of my fucking
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ankle-butter competition types.
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What the hell?
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You learn how to fucking do banners there?
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Is that fucking...
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Is that Taylor doing that?
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That must be Taylor.
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That's Taylor, man.
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The ticker.
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Yeah.
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Do you guys even have a saying?
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How about them cowboys?
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How about them cowboys?
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Yeah, you just don't like chant it,
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though.
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Yeah, like, go, Pat, go.
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That's a solid, solid chant.
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Yeah, we don't have a chant.
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I mean, this isn't college,
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but I don't know.
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Well, men have cheerleaders,
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and you guys do, and that's, you know.
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I just wasn't by a choice
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between cheerleaders or a chant,
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I'll be honest.
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Cheerleaders.
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All right.
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Here we go.
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All right.
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Without further ado,
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I got to open up one of these packs.
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I've been waiting a month to do this.
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I'm opening this pack.
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I'm excited to be doing this.
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We're going to not look.
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So I got to hold it up in the camera.
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All right.
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First one, Eric Ridley.
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Oh, you know what?
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They're like sticking together.
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This will be a colossal letdown.
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They're all stuck together.
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Oh, they're just a little, little, I mean,
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it's been 30 years.
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Let's be honest.
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93, 94, 30 years.
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These have been chilling and
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I'm about to screw it up.
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All right.
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You hear that?
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You hear the crack?
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Kraken.
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All right.
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Eric Ridley.
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Second round draft pick.
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No big deal.
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Never heard of him.
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David Wesley.
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Rookie free agent.
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Never heard of him.
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Mario Ellie.
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Houston Rockets.
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I'd be lying if I said I heard of him.
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Randy Brown.
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Hold on.
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Randy Brown.
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Played for the Bulls.
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Won three championships.
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Came off the bench.
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Played the one behind Ron Harper.
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Randy Brown.
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I know him.
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Oh, here's a Bulls player.
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Dave Johnson.
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I know him.
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All right.
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We're getting some there.
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Mark Aguirre.
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No clue who that is.
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Uh-oh, we got a good one here.
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We got a good one.
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I might have this card already.
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Alonzo Mourning.
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Money.
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That's a guy.
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Man, I can't.
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There it is.
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You can clearly see how I don't know how.
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I'm going to put that one to the side.
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All right.
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Johnny Newman.
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No.
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Eldon Campbell.
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Oh, yeah.
00:14:12.371 --> 00:14:13.513
Eldon Campbell played for the Lakers.
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I remember him.
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Haywood Workman.
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Never heard of him.
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Bill Weddington.
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Big Bill Weddington won
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three championships with the Bulls.
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I think it was when they did
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the second three.
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Pete was there.
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Big Bill Weddington.
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Sean Kemp.
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Sean Kemp is famous for
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having nine kids with eight baby mamas.
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I don't remember him playing
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for the USA team.
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Obviously, it wasn't an Olympic team,
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93-94.
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And then Byron Russell, Utah Jazz,
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most famous for Michael
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Jordan shooting his final
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shot as a Chicago Bull over him.
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No big deal.
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There we go.
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There is my wealth of NBA
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knowledge from the mid-90s
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and a pack of cards that's
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probably worth less than $2
00:15:06.201 --> 00:15:07.522
they were worth unopened.
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I'll be honest.
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Hold on.
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You know, I never smelled them.
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That was the one thing.
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They still got it.
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They still got it.
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That is, you know what?
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I should keep these around like cocaine.
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Like every time I'm not
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feeling good about myself,
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smell the cards.
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Be like,
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What's up?
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Here's the deal.
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I have actually a whole case
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of cards over there.
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The thing about getting
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things off of jobs for the
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people that sell them and do well,
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it's awesome.
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When you scale, it is difficult.
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It is complicated to have a
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business wherein the resale
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and the service revenue
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complement each other.
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Like for us,
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our resale slash recycle
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revenue is 4% of our total
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revenue because we focus so
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much on the service side of the house.
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And when I've seen businesses,
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because there's a business
00:16:02.221 --> 00:16:03.322
argument to why I open those cards.
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When I've seen the
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businesses where one person
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is running the two sides of the house,
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hey, the removal and the resale,
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they put in these
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artificial ceilings because
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you're going to struggle to
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have vision for both.
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Is that what you want to talk about?
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We can talk about that.
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It came up.
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I'm waiting for Gravnew.
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Gravnow?
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Govro.
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Govro.
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God.
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Every week.
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Every week.
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No, I do want to talk about this.
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So my cousin has a
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successful removal and resale business.
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So she does removal.
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She does rum and sales.
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She does estate sales.
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So she started in junk
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removal when she worked for me.
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We got another franchise.
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I didn't know that.
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What was that?
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She worked for me?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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She worked for me for a
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period when we were,
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when we were still part of
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the franchise and then she
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got into it with one of my
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former employees,
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who's now her business
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partner and it works for them.
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And this is the reason it
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works for them is because
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she does a lot of the sale,
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the networking on the front end, you know,
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networking, marketing, that's her jam.
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And then she does the backend,
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which is the resale.
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And he does all the shit in between,
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which is the operations.
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And then, you know, for the most part,
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the scheduling and then the
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jobs themselves.
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And she's participating,
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but she's not in charge though, right?
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They're kind of there together.
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And so it works for them
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because then he doesn't get
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involved in the resale.
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He gets onto the next project.
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And so for them,
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it works that they have
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this resale business and
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that they have the online
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auction and also in-person auction.
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Because it's two different
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businesses with two
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different visionaries
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running the businesses.
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There was someone that was
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part of our franchise network,
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husband and wife team, same thing.
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She stayed at home, answered the phones,
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did the operations,
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and also they had a rum and
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sale every Saturday.
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And so she ran the Facebook page.
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the, you know, the operations, you know,
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Facebook, both, both sides of the house.
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Right.
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And he banged the jobs.
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So he went to the networking events.
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Right.
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So that,
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that one's divided because she was
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home-based and he was on the road.
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Right.
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There's a clear division of
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responsibilities.
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When I see people in these
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groups that are like, oh yeah,
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I'm doing resale business.
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It's like,
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All right, well, you're doing removal,
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and then you start doing resale.
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Well, now you got more removal.
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There's another woman who
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was part of our franchise out in Maryland,
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and she had a restore,
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and it started really doing well.
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Well, then her removal slowed down.
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So then she started doing more removal,
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and then her restore slowed down.
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And then she ended up
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getting rid of the removal business,
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or getting rid of the resale business,
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rather,
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because you can have removal
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without resale.
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You can't do the other way around.
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So that's the other thing is, for me,
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i you know like that's a lot
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of people and we saw this
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in the franchise too they
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started the resale portion
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of it and then they
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immediately were like oh
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yeah it's it's the same
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name but resell and I'm
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like you are an idiot I was
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like first of all I
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personally wouldn't even
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start its own entity I
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would have it as a back-end
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revenue stream which is
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what we did we got to the
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point I believe it was 11
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streams of revenue
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The thing is,
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but you weren't doing the resale.
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No, that's the thing.
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You had a vendor.
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That's a huge difference.
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Well, that's what I'm saying.
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We looked at it like a service,
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except we contracted out
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the labor portion of it.
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So when we would get in items,
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we had this process.
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You'd come into the shop, right?
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You'd drop off in the front shop,
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which is our main office
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and our main warehouse.
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You'd drop off the donation items.
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And good items,
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items that aren't disgusting or whatever,
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right?
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Like if you had a lawn chair that was nice,
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cool, drop it off there.
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And that's where you'd put it first.
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Then they would go to the
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recycling warehouse.
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Anything like bulk recycling wise,
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where the electronics, appliances,
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some scrap, whatever,
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that's where it would all go.
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Then if you had like
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mattresses and hardscape
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and then actual like waste,
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we'll go out to our yard.
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because our container you
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put the mattress in the
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container because we sold
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those that was a revenue
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stream just everybody knows
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and then the hardscapes
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that was we didn't sell it
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but it was a very very
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cheap disposal method
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because it did it in bulk
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and then the waste would
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all get put into the
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dumpster well in the front
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end the donations right I
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actually had a conversation
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with one of our local
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charities up here we
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haven't worked together in
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years so we started talking
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and catching up but
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We had about 11 different
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vendors that would pick up from us.
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So in the beginning, okay,
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we had to go take it to their places.
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Hey, who would take a couch?
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It's a nice couch.
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Where can we take it?
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Who can take this?
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Where can we take it?
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But then we got to the point,
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as long as we were regular
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and we were consistent,
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they would come to us and
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pick up our stuff.
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And we would put it in the
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area for donations.
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And then as far as the stuff
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that was for resale, right?
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We would either, A,
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if it was a Marketplace item,
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it would have a Marketplace
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sticker that we put on it.
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And if it was an auction item,
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we would actually have a
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company that came in every two weeks.
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Who did the Marketplace?
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Marketplace was usually my
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mom just because she was at
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the office and she liked doing it.
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And as a caveat to our guys…
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They could,
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we allowed them to sell things
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on Marketplace as long as
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they're not selling or
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doing pickups during work hours.
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And our payout was 50%.
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They could keep 50% of the cash.
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How many of your guys would
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do that consistently?
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Two or three, maybe.
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Yeah.
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You know what's funny?
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The guys will say that.
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All of them bitched about
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wanting more money or more
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opportunities for money.
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But only two or three of
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them really actually did it.
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That's two or three more than I ever have.
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I get guys all the time.
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Oh, I'm going to do this.
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I'm going to do this.
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I'm like, all right.
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Nope.
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And then nothing.
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Fucking nothing.
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All right.
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Let's get to a question here.
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I will answer this question
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immediately because I have
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the answer because I already do it.
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Thoughts on delegating
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bookkeeping services to a third party?
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Yes.
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Next question.
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Absolutely, 100%.
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Here's the deal.
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I run the numbers for our company.
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We had our KPI report earlier today.
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I build all the scorecards.
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I build the scorecards.
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We use EOS,
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the Entrepreneur Operating System,
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so we use their scorecard.
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I build all the formulas, right?
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Once the formulas are built, I also,
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in the back end of QuickBooks,
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I do all the chart of accounts.
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I do all the products and services.
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I build it all.
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I do not go in there every
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week and click the buttons.
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I do not reconcile the accounts.
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I want 100% pay people.
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So Emmy from Squared Away.
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Squared Away is a
00:22:44.923 --> 00:22:48.666
third-party executive assistant company,
00:22:49.548 --> 00:22:50.989
and she's awesome.
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Emmy is amazing.
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So we had the episode a couple, what,
00:22:55.453 --> 00:22:56.414
three weeks ago, four weeks ago,
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with Michelle, who founded Squared Away.
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And the name of the episode
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is Get You an Emmy.
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So I highly recommend getting you an Emmy,
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100%.
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And whether you have a
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third-party executive
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assistant do the bookkeeping or
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You have a bookkeeper do it.
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You have your tax or
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accounting company that has
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a bookkeeper on staff, right?
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There's three levels for people.
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When you hear accounting,
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there's basically three levels.
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There's bookkeeping,
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which is your daily or weekly data entry.
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There is accountant who is
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doing more of the reconciliation work.
00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:30.540
balance sheets,
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making sure everything's jiving,
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depreciation of assets, right?
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They're a little bit next up.
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And then the third level is your tax prep.
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I have worked,
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I worked with this lady years ago.
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She's like, well, I can do it all.
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And she was a really good
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bookkeeper that kind of understood taxes.
00:23:47.488 --> 00:23:48.868
And in shooter, two different things.
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That is correct.
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So, so yes,
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I would argue you need at least two.
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I have a system of three.
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And you could be one of them.
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You could be the bookkeeper
00:24:01.404 --> 00:24:02.805
or your operations person
00:24:02.825 --> 00:24:03.586
can be the bookkeeper.
00:24:04.066 --> 00:24:05.086
We don't have operations do
00:24:05.126 --> 00:24:06.247
bookkeeping because I look
00:24:06.267 --> 00:24:08.768
at bookkeeping as more of a financial.
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If I look at the six buckets of business,
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bookkeeping falls under finances,
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not operations.
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I've had people want to argue...
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I will actually, I was going to say,
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I'm not willing to die on that hill.
00:24:20.654 --> 00:24:22.536
I am willing to die on that hill, I guess.
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Because all that costs
00:24:24.076 --> 00:24:27.737
receivable and payable goes all to admin,
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which falls under financial.
00:24:30.097 --> 00:24:31.298
Yeah, but so if you have,
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let's just say you have three,
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which is fine.
00:24:33.699 --> 00:24:34.159
In the beginning,
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you don't have to start there.
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In the beginning.
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So how we did it was we
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started with an accountant.
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You need an accountant.
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Yeah.
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Tell you how to do it yourself.
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Exactly.
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Helped us kind of show what
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we needed to do to make their job easier.
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And then the coolest part is
00:24:47.984 --> 00:24:49.986
as you progress through business,
00:24:50.346 --> 00:24:51.226
what you really want to do
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is get your tax prep and
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your accountant and your
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bookkeeper all talking the same language.
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Because this is why I think
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it's very important.
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A lot of times you'll see people like, hey,
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I did my taxes this way
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this year and I got a big return.
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It was awesome.
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That's great.
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But here's the problem.
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If you're trying to exit a business,
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it looks way different.
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from when you're trying to
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just start out in the first year or two.
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Now, the other thing is the bookkeeper.
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A lot of times that accountant will say,
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hey, I can do bookkeeping as well.
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That's great for them.
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But sometimes it won't be
00:25:27.323 --> 00:25:28.463
good for you because you
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need to learn how to read that,
00:25:30.025 --> 00:25:31.086
at least enough to say, hey,
00:25:31.125 --> 00:25:32.186
I'm going to spot check you
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because this is my business after all.
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And even though I hired you to do a job,
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you're human.
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And if you make a mistake, it falls on me.
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And I need to make sure I
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can catch it before it's too permanent.
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So I still believe sitting
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down with your accountant
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and bookkeeper and going
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through it together so that
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way you can learn, hey, Emmy,
00:25:55.252 --> 00:25:55.972
how do you do things?
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Cool, this is how I do it.
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How can we both understand the same thing?
00:26:00.732 --> 00:26:02.713
And begin with the end in mind, right?
00:26:03.233 --> 00:26:05.054
Because I have the way that
00:26:05.114 --> 00:26:06.734
my tax prep guy does books
00:26:07.115 --> 00:26:08.515
and the way that I do books
00:26:08.575 --> 00:26:10.776
for operations is different
00:26:10.836 --> 00:26:12.457
because he goes off of a cash basis,
00:26:12.876 --> 00:26:13.037
right?
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What comes in and I go off
00:26:14.876 --> 00:26:15.958
of a cruel basis, right?
00:26:15.998 --> 00:26:17.958
Which is when did the thing occur?
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I don't care that I get paid
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in 90 days from now.
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I want to know what work I did this week,
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not money I collected this week.
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So because of that, knowing that end state,
00:26:25.941 --> 00:26:26.621
like I know,
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I only talk to my tax guy quarterly.
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And when he pulls the reports,
00:26:29.843 --> 00:26:30.303
it's going to look
00:26:30.363 --> 00:26:30.982
different than when I'm
00:26:31.022 --> 00:26:32.163
looking at it quarterly
00:26:32.183 --> 00:26:33.364
because I'm on a cruel basis.
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So begin with the end state in mind.
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I do know companies out
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there that are on cash
00:26:37.546 --> 00:26:38.406
basis because that's what
00:26:38.426 --> 00:26:39.707
their accountant told them
00:26:39.727 --> 00:26:40.548
to do because it's better
00:26:40.567 --> 00:26:41.468
for them for tax prep.
00:26:42.008 --> 00:26:44.108
And then we try to, I actually, a company,
00:26:44.269 --> 00:26:45.589
I coached a guy in North
00:26:45.609 --> 00:26:47.631
Carolina and I'm like, well,
00:26:47.651 --> 00:26:49.271
how much work did you do last week?
00:26:49.291 --> 00:26:49.632
He's like, well,
00:26:49.652 --> 00:26:50.511
we collected this much money.
00:26:50.531 --> 00:26:51.532
I go, that's not what I asked.
00:26:52.393 --> 00:26:53.134
Because now I'm looking at
00:26:53.153 --> 00:26:54.957
your hours worked against
00:26:54.977 --> 00:26:55.917
their dollars collected,
00:26:56.137 --> 00:26:57.019
and it's not jiving.
00:26:57.420 --> 00:26:58.119
I can't tell if you're
00:26:58.141 --> 00:26:59.201
efficient or not because
00:26:59.241 --> 00:26:59.843
the money collected,
00:27:00.022 --> 00:27:01.163
you get a $10,000 check
00:27:01.183 --> 00:27:02.605
from a job you did 30 days ago.
00:27:03.307 --> 00:27:04.949
That doesn't correlate for
00:27:05.028 --> 00:27:06.730
shit with your job.
00:27:08.378 --> 00:27:09.461
You know, on QuickBooks,
00:27:09.901 --> 00:27:10.842
it's just like what you just said.
00:27:10.962 --> 00:27:12.243
Oh, shit.
00:27:12.304 --> 00:27:12.825
Timmy Wells.
00:27:13.286 --> 00:27:14.527
Timmy Wells says, yeah,
00:27:14.807 --> 00:27:16.269
I have all three done in
00:27:16.289 --> 00:27:17.391
the same person slash company.
00:27:17.431 --> 00:27:17.971
I'm talking to me.
00:27:17.991 --> 00:27:18.712
It's his phone call.
00:27:19.133 --> 00:27:19.673
All right.
00:27:19.693 --> 00:27:20.015
That's fine.
00:27:20.055 --> 00:27:20.915
I got plenty of shit to talk about.
00:27:20.935 --> 00:27:21.616
All right.
00:27:21.656 --> 00:27:22.298
Let's talk about this.
00:27:22.337 --> 00:27:23.318
Timmy Wells says,
00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:23.878
Yeah.
00:27:23.919 --> 00:27:24.759
Same person company.
00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:25.140
Yeah.
00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:25.539
I would not,
00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:27.020
I would argue not the same person.
00:27:27.800 --> 00:27:28.801
Certainly the same company.
00:27:28.862 --> 00:27:29.182
Cause again,
00:27:29.241 --> 00:27:30.321
it's going back to what Casey
00:27:30.362 --> 00:27:32.222
said because you can do it all.
00:27:32.242 --> 00:27:33.364
It doesn't mean you should do it all.
00:27:33.963 --> 00:27:35.484
And I also know that a
00:27:36.125 --> 00:27:37.384
bookkeeper in my market
00:27:37.786 --> 00:27:39.787
goes billable about 25 to
00:27:39.787 --> 00:27:42.627
$30 an hour and a good tax prep person is,
00:27:42.988 --> 00:27:43.768
or a good accountant is
00:27:43.807 --> 00:27:46.108
probably 50 to 90 and a
00:27:46.148 --> 00:27:47.910
good tax prep guy is over a
00:27:47.970 --> 00:27:48.830
hundred an hour.
00:27:49.471 --> 00:27:49.990
for that.
00:27:50.030 --> 00:27:50.892
So that's why, uh,
00:27:52.212 --> 00:27:52.874
and I know that because
00:27:52.894 --> 00:27:54.234
when I get my bill from my accountant,
00:27:54.755 --> 00:27:55.875
I get a couple of different line items.
00:27:55.935 --> 00:27:58.397
It's no different than, um, my lawyer,
00:27:58.458 --> 00:27:58.637
right?
00:27:58.678 --> 00:27:59.638
When his assistant does
00:27:59.679 --> 00:28:00.398
something versus the
00:28:00.419 --> 00:28:02.601
paralegal versus the junior account,
00:28:03.082 --> 00:28:04.883
the junior lawyer versus my lawyer,
00:28:05.123 --> 00:28:05.262
right?
00:28:05.323 --> 00:28:06.644
It is way different rates
00:28:07.184 --> 00:28:08.204
and it's no different than our business,
00:28:08.265 --> 00:28:08.465
right?
00:28:09.646 --> 00:28:10.928
My billable rate owner of
00:28:10.968 --> 00:28:12.147
the company is going to be
00:28:12.249 --> 00:28:16.551
different than the billable rate of, um,
00:28:17.983 --> 00:28:20.265
My crew chiefs, my team leaders,
00:28:20.785 --> 00:28:22.405
my junk rule specialists.
00:28:22.586 --> 00:28:22.786
Right.
00:28:23.165 --> 00:28:25.007
And so who is the person on
00:28:25.047 --> 00:28:26.087
that food chain that can do
00:28:26.147 --> 00:28:27.307
it with the least amount of
00:28:27.407 --> 00:28:29.449
dollars and equivalent knowledge?
00:28:29.509 --> 00:28:29.669
Right.
00:28:30.349 --> 00:28:30.769
Two weeks ago,
00:28:30.789 --> 00:28:31.990
I ended up banging jobs on a
00:28:32.029 --> 00:28:33.030
Friday afternoon because
00:28:33.050 --> 00:28:33.851
that's how the day went.
00:28:34.551 --> 00:28:34.672
And.
00:28:35.632 --> 00:28:37.335
At the time, yeah, I was the best asset.
00:28:37.694 --> 00:28:38.695
It is not the best use for
00:28:38.736 --> 00:28:39.738
our company for me to be go
00:28:39.778 --> 00:28:40.679
banging jobs every day.
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:41.901
No different than it's not
00:28:42.161 --> 00:28:44.503
ideal to have a tax prep or
00:28:44.544 --> 00:28:45.625
tax preparer go out and do
00:28:45.685 --> 00:28:46.287
your bookkeeping.
00:28:46.547 --> 00:28:48.249
So find the best fit for the company.
00:28:49.210 --> 00:28:50.311
I do agree with what Casey said,
00:28:50.792 --> 00:28:51.333
same language.
00:28:52.273 --> 00:28:53.275
And ultimately,
00:28:53.295 --> 00:28:54.596
you as the company get to decide that.
00:28:54.675 --> 00:28:56.557
A good accounting company will say,
00:28:56.577 --> 00:28:58.219
how do you want your reports to look?
00:28:58.578 --> 00:28:59.259
And they'll adjust.
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:00.500
Because how they do things
00:29:00.520 --> 00:29:02.021
in the chart of accounts go to you.
00:29:02.281 --> 00:29:03.663
Mine are super detail-oriented.
00:29:03.762 --> 00:29:05.484
I know that because that's what I want.
00:29:06.653 --> 00:29:08.574
then tie those right this is
00:29:08.594 --> 00:29:09.614
where it matters like we
00:29:09.634 --> 00:29:10.755
had our kpi report this
00:29:10.775 --> 00:29:11.914
morning so or this
00:29:11.974 --> 00:29:13.135
afternoon like so just like
00:29:13.155 --> 00:29:14.096
three hours ago so it's
00:29:14.115 --> 00:29:15.317
still it's fresh on my mind
00:29:15.396 --> 00:29:17.176
right I tie my accounting
00:29:17.537 --> 00:29:18.458
right to my marketing
00:29:18.498 --> 00:29:19.798
company so I know when I
00:29:19.817 --> 00:29:20.939
spend dollars on google
00:29:21.278 --> 00:29:23.079
that dollar gets cut up
00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:24.779
between how many jobs right
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:25.601
so I can see my customer
00:29:25.621 --> 00:29:26.601
acquisition costs I can see
00:29:26.621 --> 00:29:28.142
my average job size so I
00:29:28.561 --> 00:29:29.801
it's taken me years really
00:29:29.922 --> 00:29:31.002
eight years to get to a
00:29:31.663 --> 00:29:33.124
a monthly KPI report that I
00:29:33.163 --> 00:29:34.785
feel really good about the data on.
00:29:35.325 --> 00:29:36.965
And, and so it's, we,
00:29:37.205 --> 00:29:38.067
it's a couple of systems, right?
00:29:38.106 --> 00:29:40.847
So I have QuickBooks that, or Jobber,
00:29:40.887 --> 00:29:41.648
everything goes into Jobber.
00:29:41.669 --> 00:29:42.148
Let's start there.
00:29:42.509 --> 00:29:44.069
Jobber is the hub of all things, right?
00:29:44.390 --> 00:29:45.711
And the hashtag love Jobber,
00:29:45.770 --> 00:29:46.510
get you some Jobber,
00:29:46.550 --> 00:29:49.173
getjobber.com backslash camo crew,
00:29:49.512 --> 00:29:49.893
sign up.
00:29:50.133 --> 00:29:50.753
I get a few bucks.
00:29:50.814 --> 00:29:51.034
Fine.
00:29:51.114 --> 00:29:51.294
Good.
00:29:51.334 --> 00:29:51.513
Done.
00:29:51.693 --> 00:29:52.595
There it is.
00:29:53.214 --> 00:29:53.974
So this is how it works.
00:29:54.315 --> 00:29:55.516
I put the data into Jobber.
00:29:55.996 --> 00:29:58.117
Jobber shits out data to QuickBooks.
00:29:58.397 --> 00:30:00.219
Then I can pull the QuickBooks data.
00:30:01.038 --> 00:30:03.019
I can also pull reports from Jobber,
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:05.500
which show where my
00:30:05.540 --> 00:30:06.800
marketing dollars are being spent.
00:30:07.161 --> 00:30:08.602
And so when I pull those marketing dollars,
00:30:08.761 --> 00:30:10.061
I then take all that data,
00:30:10.402 --> 00:30:11.403
put it into Excel.
00:30:11.583 --> 00:30:12.502
We use Google Sheets because
00:30:12.522 --> 00:30:13.383
it's simpler to communicate
00:30:13.403 --> 00:30:14.064
between people.
00:30:14.443 --> 00:30:15.503
Anyways, so I can say, okay,
00:30:15.523 --> 00:30:16.785
I spent this many dollars on Google.
00:30:17.125 --> 00:30:18.545
And of that, I got this many jobs,
00:30:19.506 --> 00:30:21.566
this many leads, this many jobs.
00:30:21.786 --> 00:30:22.727
Here's my close rate.
00:30:23.567 --> 00:30:24.907
Here's my customer acquisition cost.
00:30:25.167 --> 00:30:26.469
Here's my average job size.
00:30:26.808 --> 00:30:28.950
Because not all job lead
00:30:29.009 --> 00:30:30.411
generations are the same.
00:30:30.871 --> 00:30:31.951
And then also what I get to
00:30:32.031 --> 00:30:34.573
see is referrals and existing customers.
00:30:34.593 --> 00:30:35.534
So I segregate them.
00:30:35.634 --> 00:30:36.773
Once you've used me more than once,
00:30:37.075 --> 00:30:38.555
I've now segregated you as
00:30:38.635 --> 00:30:40.375
existing and or referral
00:30:40.415 --> 00:30:44.098
work versus new customer generation.
00:30:44.578 --> 00:30:46.680
Because referral work, it costs a lot less,
00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:46.900
right?
00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:47.800
So I have my costs
00:30:47.820 --> 00:30:48.820
associated with it because
00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:49.761
I still need promo costs.
00:30:50.981 --> 00:30:54.583
And also then my repeat business, right?
00:30:55.083 --> 00:30:56.403
And part of my class of
00:30:56.463 --> 00:30:58.384
Jobber allows me to do those things.
00:30:58.684 --> 00:30:59.585
The other thing that we use
00:30:59.625 --> 00:31:01.125
with Jobber is Nice Job.
00:31:01.445 --> 00:31:03.365
So Nice Job integrates with Jobber,
00:31:03.727 --> 00:31:05.826
which sends out emails and
00:31:05.866 --> 00:31:07.347
text messages after job
00:31:07.807 --> 00:31:09.568
asking for reviews first and foremost,
00:31:09.588 --> 00:31:10.269
which is awesome.
00:31:10.568 --> 00:31:13.210
And then sends out links for referrals.
00:31:13.630 --> 00:31:14.451
With our customers,
00:31:14.590 --> 00:31:17.132
over 30% of our customers
00:31:17.251 --> 00:31:18.272
end up giving us reviews,
00:31:18.492 --> 00:31:19.673
which drives up our SEO,
00:31:19.953 --> 00:31:21.295
which allows us to then
00:31:21.654 --> 00:31:23.796
track where are our jobs coming from.
00:31:24.135 --> 00:31:25.636
Our referral rate is over 25%.
00:31:25.876 --> 00:31:27.959
Of our total jobs we get,
00:31:27.999 --> 00:31:30.759
over 25% of them come from referrals.
00:31:31.621 --> 00:31:33.082
15% comes from existing customers.
00:31:33.102 --> 00:31:35.462
So we know that jobber's
00:31:35.502 --> 00:31:36.903
integration with NiceJob,
00:31:37.263 --> 00:31:38.204
consistently staying in
00:31:38.224 --> 00:31:38.944
front of our customers,
00:31:39.105 --> 00:31:40.605
asking for reviews, asking for referrals,
00:31:41.047 --> 00:31:42.768
ultimately leads to us
00:31:43.327 --> 00:31:46.892
being able to keep, A, have good data,
00:31:46.932 --> 00:31:47.813
and then make the best
00:31:47.853 --> 00:31:49.273
decisions based off of that data.
00:31:49.615 --> 00:31:51.497
So nice job.
00:31:51.876 --> 00:31:52.857
Integrated with Jobber,
00:31:53.118 --> 00:31:54.259
absolutely fantastic.
00:31:54.598 --> 00:31:55.720
plug it, use it.
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:56.339
I love it.
00:31:56.380 --> 00:31:57.761
I've talked about nice job in the past.
00:31:58.682 --> 00:32:00.443
Now it just kind of worked
00:32:00.483 --> 00:32:01.304
into the conversation.
00:32:01.605 --> 00:32:03.086
Nice job has reached out to me to be,
00:32:03.125 --> 00:32:03.405
I don't know.
00:32:03.425 --> 00:32:04.247
I told you this Casey,
00:32:04.527 --> 00:32:05.847
a brand ambassador to talk
00:32:05.867 --> 00:32:06.769
about nice job because they
00:32:06.788 --> 00:32:07.368
saw that I was already
00:32:07.409 --> 00:32:07.950
talking about them.
00:32:08.329 --> 00:32:09.730
So now they signed me up.
00:32:09.770 --> 00:32:10.251
I'm going to shoot some
00:32:10.311 --> 00:32:11.133
commercials with them and
00:32:11.153 --> 00:32:11.893
do a bunch of stuff with
00:32:11.913 --> 00:32:13.294
them because I fully
00:32:13.334 --> 00:32:14.375
believe in their product.
00:32:14.555 --> 00:32:16.156
And it all goes back to where I started,
00:32:16.176 --> 00:32:19.499
which is the financials where, you know,
00:32:19.859 --> 00:32:20.859
what hillbilly Mac do you
00:32:20.901 --> 00:32:22.442
have to make the best decisions?
00:32:23.714 --> 00:32:24.875
Yeah, so the data, and that's the thing,
00:32:24.894 --> 00:32:25.715
is the data is the most
00:32:25.736 --> 00:32:27.435
important part of any business, I think.
00:32:27.596 --> 00:32:29.836
And what's funny is me first
00:32:29.876 --> 00:32:30.757
getting into business,
00:32:31.376 --> 00:32:32.298
I never thought about the
00:32:32.337 --> 00:32:34.137
data as much until after I met you.
00:32:34.178 --> 00:32:35.358
Did you say data or data?
00:32:35.939 --> 00:32:37.338
I say data, just like I say gala.
00:32:37.358 --> 00:32:38.660
I don't say gala or data.
00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:39.380
I think it's stupid.
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:41.480
I say route.
00:32:42.401 --> 00:32:42.861
Gala?
00:32:42.901 --> 00:32:43.340
Gala.
00:32:43.721 --> 00:32:44.221
Gala?
00:32:44.661 --> 00:32:45.102
I don't know.
00:32:45.122 --> 00:32:45.942
I say gala.
00:32:46.301 --> 00:32:49.282
But, you know, it's important,
00:32:49.343 --> 00:32:50.242
and I never realized the
00:32:50.303 --> 00:32:51.284
importance of it until
00:32:51.364 --> 00:32:52.663
after you and I started talking, like,
00:32:53.345 --> 00:32:55.546
Probably after the first year, I realized,
00:32:56.307 --> 00:32:57.386
you know, OK,
00:32:57.426 --> 00:32:58.448
I'm dealing with someone who
00:32:58.748 --> 00:32:59.769
is data driven in his
00:32:59.808 --> 00:33:00.910
decisions for business.
00:33:00.970 --> 00:33:02.390
And I, you know, for me,
00:33:02.470 --> 00:33:03.270
I was new to the business.
00:33:03.310 --> 00:33:04.571
My mom was new to the business.
00:33:05.332 --> 00:33:07.553
And you have to learn those things, right?
00:33:07.573 --> 00:33:08.394
You have to take it from
00:33:08.453 --> 00:33:10.295
someone who even if you look at them like,
00:33:10.335 --> 00:33:11.056
hey, I don't really know them.
00:33:11.076 --> 00:33:11.736
They're on different sides
00:33:11.756 --> 00:33:12.695
of the earth as me.
00:33:13.277 --> 00:33:15.117
But what they're doing,
00:33:15.198 --> 00:33:16.358
I can implement that into
00:33:16.378 --> 00:33:18.259
what I'm doing and I can see success,
00:33:18.299 --> 00:33:18.420
too.
00:33:19.201 --> 00:33:20.042
That's the other thing I
00:33:20.063 --> 00:33:21.303
wanted to touch on.
00:33:22.124 --> 00:33:23.964
Timmy Wells said he has all
00:33:23.984 --> 00:33:25.665
three done by the same person or company,
00:33:25.685 --> 00:33:26.266
which is great.
00:33:26.665 --> 00:33:27.287
I will say this.
00:33:27.946 --> 00:33:28.886
There's nothing wrong with that.
00:33:28.968 --> 00:33:30.188
I would challenge you, though,
00:33:30.347 --> 00:33:31.828
to separate the tax prep
00:33:31.868 --> 00:33:32.569
from the accountant.
00:33:33.190 --> 00:33:35.330
The only reason why is behind me,
00:33:35.371 --> 00:33:36.432
it's funny, I had this up here.
00:33:37.172 --> 00:33:38.053
Behind me is one of my
00:33:38.093 --> 00:33:40.294
storage facility properties.
00:33:40.574 --> 00:33:42.055
This is like my to-do list and bullshit,
00:33:42.115 --> 00:33:42.255
but
00:33:43.123 --> 00:33:44.604
The one thing that we made
00:33:44.663 --> 00:33:45.765
sure we did with our tax
00:33:45.805 --> 00:33:47.526
prep is got someone who has
00:33:47.586 --> 00:33:49.126
experience in commercial properties.
00:33:49.488 --> 00:33:50.887
And in our case,
00:33:50.909 --> 00:33:51.949
they actually are investing
00:33:51.989 --> 00:33:52.789
in some of their own.
00:33:53.349 --> 00:33:54.510
So we could have that
00:33:54.530 --> 00:33:57.653
relatable knowledge between us and say,
00:33:57.692 --> 00:33:57.833
hey,
00:33:57.873 --> 00:33:59.595
I'm learning from this guy who not
00:33:59.634 --> 00:34:01.895
only does it himself,
00:34:02.537 --> 00:34:04.538
but here's why he does it himself.
00:34:04.637 --> 00:34:07.160
And if you have a financial advisor,
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:08.601
the first thing I ever talk
00:34:08.621 --> 00:34:10.101
to them about is what would
00:34:10.161 --> 00:34:11.722
you do for your own finances?
00:34:11.963 --> 00:34:12.884
Because that's what I'd like to do.
00:34:13.626 --> 00:34:14.748
So when it comes to an
00:34:14.788 --> 00:34:16.628
accountant and a tax prep,
00:34:16.708 --> 00:34:18.909
I keep those separated because for me,
00:34:18.949 --> 00:34:20.010
I can get an account anywhere.
00:34:20.030 --> 00:34:21.371
No offense to any accountant out there,
00:34:21.931 --> 00:34:22.592
but to me,
00:34:22.612 --> 00:34:24.092
an accountant's job is very important,
00:34:24.112 --> 00:34:26.273
but it's also very draw the
00:34:26.293 --> 00:34:28.134
line in the sand.
00:34:28.173 --> 00:34:29.375
The tax prep guy for me,
00:34:29.675 --> 00:34:30.235
I want to make sure they
00:34:30.255 --> 00:34:30.936
have relevance in the
00:34:30.956 --> 00:34:33.496
industry and I can learn
00:34:33.536 --> 00:34:34.637
from them the reasons why
00:34:34.677 --> 00:34:35.237
they're going to be doing
00:34:35.297 --> 00:34:36.458
things the way they're doing.
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:37.998
Because at the end of the day,
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:39.500
they will not do things
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:40.880
that you don't tell them to do.
00:34:41.610 --> 00:34:43.532
And if you don't know why
00:34:44.172 --> 00:34:44.813
something and you don't
00:34:44.833 --> 00:34:45.773
know what to tell them,
00:34:46.213 --> 00:34:47.735
you can ask them the differences.
00:34:48.155 --> 00:34:49.675
And they'll legally be able to say, hey,
00:34:50.056 --> 00:34:51.197
here is what you get with here.
00:34:51.318 --> 00:34:52.038
Here's what you get with here.
00:34:52.057 --> 00:34:52.577
And here's why.
00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:53.338
Correct.
00:34:53.358 --> 00:34:54.340
Depreciation.
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:54.920
Yeah.
00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:55.981
Do you want to bring it up this year,
00:34:56.001 --> 00:34:56.300
next year?
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:56.981
What do you want to do?
00:34:57.422 --> 00:34:58.643
And here's the implications of it.
00:35:01.304 --> 00:35:02.686
A good accountant is like a good lawyer.
00:35:03.045 --> 00:35:05.728
They will tell you your options,
00:35:05.829 --> 00:35:07.090
the ramification of your options,
00:35:07.349 --> 00:35:07.869
and then they'll say,
00:35:07.909 --> 00:35:08.431
what do you want to do?
00:35:09.574 --> 00:35:10.994
And eventually you'll figure out a cadence,
00:35:11.054 --> 00:35:11.275
right?
00:35:11.436 --> 00:35:12.476
Like, what does that look like?
00:35:13.237 --> 00:35:13.838
And again, this is,
00:35:14.117 --> 00:35:15.599
we talked about profit first in the past,
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:16.119
right?
00:35:16.219 --> 00:35:17.320
Implementing profit verbs, like, hey,
00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:18.181
how much money do you want to make?
00:35:18.242 --> 00:35:19.603
And what does that look like?
00:35:19.963 --> 00:35:22.326
And then that's all part of it too, right?
00:35:22.806 --> 00:35:23.686
And then you talk to your
00:35:23.766 --> 00:35:24.628
accountant from day one.
00:35:24.807 --> 00:35:24.947
Hey,
00:35:25.148 --> 00:35:26.570
I send my proforma to my accountant
00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:27.030
every year.
00:35:27.271 --> 00:35:28.231
Hey, here's the proforma.
00:35:29.096 --> 00:35:30.197
So he can say like, okay,
00:35:30.737 --> 00:35:33.117
this is what we need to put aside, right?
00:35:33.157 --> 00:35:33.918
Percentage-wise,
00:35:34.418 --> 00:35:35.099
based on if that's what
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:35.478
you're going to do,
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:36.280
this is what we need to put
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.240
percentage-wise aside every
00:35:38.300 --> 00:35:39.862
month so you have money at
00:35:39.882 --> 00:35:42.402
the end of the year to pay taxes, right?
00:35:42.563 --> 00:35:44.364
The standard like 15% aside
00:35:44.403 --> 00:35:45.545
that Profit First
00:35:46.545 --> 00:35:48.186
recommends might not be the
00:35:48.206 --> 00:35:50.487
best dollar amount for you, right?
00:35:50.527 --> 00:35:51.887
Figure out what the dollar
00:35:51.907 --> 00:35:53.188
amount is and put that
00:35:53.228 --> 00:35:54.588
aside every year and have a
00:35:54.608 --> 00:35:55.750
conversation about that.
00:35:56.987 --> 00:35:58.806
So February for me was a banging month.
00:35:58.927 --> 00:36:00.487
I'll be honest.
00:36:00.507 --> 00:36:02.148
I was very unexpected,
00:36:02.188 --> 00:36:03.929
but I had a really good February.
00:36:04.909 --> 00:36:06.509
And the one thing I did
00:36:06.588 --> 00:36:08.489
immediately was I reverted
00:36:08.530 --> 00:36:10.030
back to my January and say, okay,
00:36:10.570 --> 00:36:11.989
I got through January on this amount.
00:36:12.610 --> 00:36:13.231
I'm going to see if I can
00:36:13.251 --> 00:36:14.210
get through February on this amount.
00:36:14.291 --> 00:36:16.510
And in this excess, the surplus of funds,
00:36:17.132 --> 00:36:18.192
I'm going to disperse to
00:36:18.211 --> 00:36:19.152
these three criteria.
00:36:20.047 --> 00:36:21.208
And what I like to do is I
00:36:21.268 --> 00:36:21.947
use percentages.
00:36:22.007 --> 00:36:22.849
It changes sometimes.
00:36:22.909 --> 00:36:23.690
Sometimes it's 10,
00:36:23.690 --> 00:36:25.650
sometimes it's 12 or 15.
00:36:25.650 --> 00:36:28.052
But when I talk to my tax prep person,
00:36:28.913 --> 00:36:31.594
I ask them, hey, first year,
00:36:31.614 --> 00:36:32.596
I want to know how can I
00:36:32.655 --> 00:36:33.815
avoid certain taxes?
00:36:34.396 --> 00:36:35.237
Legally, obviously.
00:36:35.257 --> 00:36:36.398
I mean, I don't give a shit either way,
00:36:36.458 --> 00:36:37.119
but for him.
00:36:37.898 --> 00:36:38.599
And he'll let me know.
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:40.541
And then I'll say, okay, second year,
00:36:41.101 --> 00:36:42.202
what is a good strategy for
00:36:42.222 --> 00:36:43.043
me to use this year?
00:36:43.123 --> 00:36:44.083
That way it sets me up for
00:36:44.103 --> 00:36:45.184
the next year because
00:36:45.684 --> 00:36:47.505
eventually I'm going to have a really big,
00:36:47.686 --> 00:36:48.025
fat tax.
00:36:48.797 --> 00:36:50.498
know profit potentially at
00:36:50.518 --> 00:36:51.277
the end of this four or
00:36:51.418 --> 00:36:52.318
five year whatever whenever
00:36:52.358 --> 00:36:54.059
we do the refi last thing I
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:55.519
want to do is is get
00:36:55.579 --> 00:36:57.860
screwed so he teaches us a
00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.760
lot of different things
00:36:58.981 --> 00:37:00.181
that we can do with our tax
00:37:00.202 --> 00:37:01.762
prep whereas the accountant
00:37:01.782 --> 00:37:02.782
is kind of like hey look
00:37:02.802 --> 00:37:03.802
you have all these sources
00:37:03.842 --> 00:37:05.543
of funds coming in this is
00:37:05.583 --> 00:37:06.423
how you need to organize
00:37:06.463 --> 00:37:08.965
and I was like okay so for
00:37:09.025 --> 00:37:10.346
instance I keep petty cash
00:37:10.405 --> 00:37:11.527
separated from our main
00:37:11.547 --> 00:37:13.047
bank account and the only
00:37:13.086 --> 00:37:14.887
reason why is because last
00:37:14.927 --> 00:37:16.248
week I had to go replace a
00:37:16.289 --> 00:37:17.128
freaking converter
00:37:18.447 --> 00:37:19.489
And I wasn't about to go to
00:37:19.509 --> 00:37:20.829
the bank account to pull out $1,200.
00:37:20.829 --> 00:37:22.610
I'd rather just dip into the
00:37:22.670 --> 00:37:23.490
cash and be like, all right.
00:37:24.170 --> 00:37:25.271
And then this week,
00:37:25.291 --> 00:37:26.012
we're cleaning out one of
00:37:26.072 --> 00:37:28.092
our offices so we can rent it out.
00:37:28.972 --> 00:37:30.853
And I got real creative
00:37:30.934 --> 00:37:32.434
because of my junk removal history,
00:37:32.474 --> 00:37:33.114
I guess you could say.
00:37:33.135 --> 00:37:34.655
I hired two crackheads.
00:37:35.856 --> 00:37:37.577
And the two crackheads,
00:37:37.637 --> 00:37:38.677
they live on my property.
00:37:38.697 --> 00:37:39.338
And they're like, hey,
00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:41.418
I figured out they were lying to me.
00:37:41.778 --> 00:37:42.639
And they're actually three
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:43.619
months behind on rent.
00:37:44.081 --> 00:37:45.021
So I gave them an option.
00:37:45.041 --> 00:37:45.800
I was like, look,
00:37:46.161 --> 00:37:47.101
we can go through evictions.
00:37:47.608 --> 00:37:48.528
Not going to be fun for anyone,
00:37:48.628 --> 00:37:49.389
but I'll call the sheriff's
00:37:49.409 --> 00:37:50.230
department because both of
00:37:50.250 --> 00:37:51.331
them have warrants, by the way.
00:37:51.351 --> 00:37:52.132
Yeah.
00:37:52.291 --> 00:37:53.152
Like, oh, we're not felons.
00:37:53.172 --> 00:37:53.913
I'm like, I don't care.
00:37:53.972 --> 00:37:54.534
You have warrants.
00:37:54.554 --> 00:37:55.313
So it gives me leverage.
00:37:56.155 --> 00:37:57.456
So I say, look, I'll make you a deal.
00:37:57.476 --> 00:37:59.018
I have a lot of shit that
00:37:59.038 --> 00:38:00.418
needs to be cleaned up so I
00:38:00.438 --> 00:38:01.599
can get this place rented out.
00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:03.981
If you can do it within seven days,
00:38:04.621 --> 00:38:05.623
I'll squash your debt.
00:38:06.603 --> 00:38:08.985
And dude, yesterday, day one,
00:38:09.246 --> 00:38:10.007
they sent me a picture.
00:38:10.266 --> 00:38:10.987
Holy crap.
00:38:11.208 --> 00:38:11.907
I was impressed.
00:38:12.789 --> 00:38:13.889
I was like, damn.
00:38:14.494 --> 00:38:14.934
And I told him,
00:38:14.954 --> 00:38:16.036
you can keep anything you want,
00:38:16.615 --> 00:38:17.577
any money you get from any
00:38:17.597 --> 00:38:19.038
of the scrap or anything you can keep.
00:38:19.057 --> 00:38:19.559
I don't care.
00:38:20.059 --> 00:38:21.541
It needs to be done in seven days or less.
00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:24.483
So that helps me out a lot.
00:38:24.503 --> 00:38:25.885
I don't have to spend money.
00:38:25.905 --> 00:38:27.326
I already lost $1,500 from
00:38:27.365 --> 00:38:28.606
them over the past three months.
00:38:28.646 --> 00:38:30.509
Yeah, you're not getting that back.
00:38:31.289 --> 00:38:31.510
Yeah.
00:38:31.550 --> 00:38:32.811
So I immediately called my
00:38:32.831 --> 00:38:33.592
accountant and said, hey,
00:38:34.211 --> 00:38:35.092
you can already go put
00:38:35.273 --> 00:38:37.594
minus $1,500 because I
00:38:37.635 --> 00:38:38.335
thought we were going to be
00:38:39.097 --> 00:38:40.378
getting it from the previous owner.
00:38:41.260 --> 00:38:42.822
Because we still had the trends.
00:38:43.063 --> 00:38:43.744
It was a shit show.
00:38:43.923 --> 00:38:44.324
So I was like, hey,
00:38:44.344 --> 00:38:45.184
he was still getting checks.
00:38:45.525 --> 00:38:46.686
So he's giving it to us, whatever.
00:38:47.327 --> 00:38:48.369
But I told my accountant, hey,
00:38:48.969 --> 00:38:49.690
we're not going to see that $1,500.
00:38:49.690 --> 00:38:52.413
Let's just put it.
00:38:52.472 --> 00:38:53.755
He goes, put it down as an expense.
00:38:54.335 --> 00:38:55.056
Is there anything you have
00:38:55.076 --> 00:38:55.956
to spend money on right now?
00:38:55.976 --> 00:38:56.858
I said, actually, yes.
00:38:56.878 --> 00:38:58.278
I was saying people that are
00:38:58.300 --> 00:38:58.760
behind on rent.
00:38:58.780 --> 00:38:59.621
And he goes, that's perfect.
00:39:00.454 --> 00:39:01.655
That's a $1,500 job.
00:39:02.574 --> 00:39:04.376
You know what?
00:39:04.476 --> 00:39:08.297
For me, that's how I bought my forklift.
00:39:08.416 --> 00:39:09.898
We bought a forklift as
00:39:09.978 --> 00:39:11.077
credit towards a job
00:39:11.097 --> 00:39:11.998
because we cleaned out.
00:39:12.338 --> 00:39:13.159
This is our latest forklift.
00:39:13.179 --> 00:39:14.920
Yeah, it was an accounting function,
00:39:14.980 --> 00:39:16.760
and we just depreciated it,
00:39:17.081 --> 00:39:17.740
and we're depreciating it
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:18.740
over the one year.
00:39:20.282 --> 00:39:20.822
Again,
00:39:20.942 --> 00:39:22.202
these are the conversations you have
00:39:22.222 --> 00:39:22.802
with your accountant.
00:39:24.304 --> 00:39:25.884
What I did not understand
00:39:25.903 --> 00:39:26.423
when I first got into
00:39:26.463 --> 00:39:27.664
business was all these people.
00:39:27.724 --> 00:39:28.505
And I still see it to this day.
00:39:28.525 --> 00:39:29.286
I had a guy reach out to me
00:39:29.306 --> 00:39:29.806
like two weeks ago.
00:39:30.226 --> 00:39:31.146
Hey, can you help me with my numbers?
00:39:31.186 --> 00:39:31.987
I think I'm doing them wrong.
00:39:32.067 --> 00:39:32.827
And I looked at his numbers.
00:39:32.867 --> 00:39:35.467
I go, I cannot make sense of this.
00:39:36.449 --> 00:39:36.608
Right?
00:39:36.628 --> 00:39:38.650
Because he just tracked how
00:39:38.690 --> 00:39:39.889
much money he had at the end of the week.
00:39:40.389 --> 00:39:41.670
Like, well, you're...
00:39:43.309 --> 00:39:44.208
There's not a starting point.
00:39:44.469 --> 00:39:46.170
Number of jobs, what were your tickets,
00:39:46.550 --> 00:39:47.329
how much revenue.
00:39:47.349 --> 00:39:49.690
Yeah, but it was the last thing.
00:39:50.391 --> 00:39:51.251
I can't tell you shit
00:39:51.271 --> 00:39:52.731
because if you got an oil
00:39:52.771 --> 00:39:53.773
change that week, well,
00:39:53.853 --> 00:39:54.853
then you're down 90 bucks.
00:39:54.893 --> 00:39:55.273
I don't know.
00:39:56.552 --> 00:39:57.514
Crack everything.
00:39:58.393 --> 00:39:59.135
We've talked about this before.
00:39:59.534 --> 00:40:00.675
Track everything when you're
00:40:00.715 --> 00:40:01.436
first in business.
00:40:01.615 --> 00:40:02.617
You don't know what you need.
00:40:02.996 --> 00:40:06.239
Earlier today, Chris, our marketing guy,
00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:07.960
he made a comment about events.
00:40:08.221 --> 00:40:09.702
We always spend a lot of
00:40:09.722 --> 00:40:10.682
money Q1 on events.
00:40:11.202 --> 00:40:11.903
And then he's like, yeah,
00:40:11.983 --> 00:40:13.184
one point last year it was
00:40:14.626 --> 00:40:15.505
in the yellow because we have green,
00:40:15.525 --> 00:40:15.766
yellow,
00:40:15.806 --> 00:40:18.668
red for our three tiers of whether
00:40:18.688 --> 00:40:20.289
or not we're profitable on
00:40:20.309 --> 00:40:21.550
a marketing expense because
00:40:21.570 --> 00:40:22.391
it's generally in the red
00:40:22.431 --> 00:40:23.632
throughout the year because events,
00:40:23.711 --> 00:40:24.672
we don't do great on events.
00:40:24.733 --> 00:40:25.733
It's more awareness and
00:40:26.494 --> 00:40:28.800
meeting people and less
00:40:29.101 --> 00:40:30.222
actually closing deals per se.
00:40:31.112 --> 00:40:32.172
And so he's like, yeah,
00:40:32.193 --> 00:40:33.032
there was a time last year
00:40:33.052 --> 00:40:34.514
where we were actually in the yellow.
00:40:34.833 --> 00:40:35.614
Like, oh, let's take a look.
00:40:35.793 --> 00:40:37.155
So I went back to like March
00:40:37.215 --> 00:40:38.614
and April and May of last year and like,
00:40:38.635 --> 00:40:40.135
yeah, April, we were in the yellow.
00:40:40.536 --> 00:40:41.155
So it's like, okay,
00:40:41.175 --> 00:40:42.016
let's anticipate being in
00:40:42.036 --> 00:40:42.697
the yellow this year.
00:40:42.996 --> 00:40:44.958
We tracked it and we always track it.
00:40:45.177 --> 00:40:46.898
So then when we, so then we know it.
00:40:47.018 --> 00:40:48.340
And then when we have a hypothesis,
00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:49.820
we can check to see if it's right.
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.320
There's so many times where people in our,
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.282
in our company have been like, oh,
00:40:53.302 --> 00:40:54.101
I think this is what's going on.
00:40:54.141 --> 00:40:54.862
It's like, well,
00:40:54.882 --> 00:40:56.123
what data do you have to support that?
00:40:56.523 --> 00:40:57.884
Is it a thought or do we have,
00:40:58.871 --> 00:40:59.911
something tangible we can
00:40:59.952 --> 00:41:00.753
chew on that actually
00:41:00.773 --> 00:41:02.434
supports this hypothesis.
00:41:02.454 --> 00:41:02.753
And again,
00:41:03.114 --> 00:41:05.076
data driven decisions is the key.
00:41:06.117 --> 00:41:06.418
Do you,
00:41:06.458 --> 00:41:08.259
do you really budget based on
00:41:08.498 --> 00:41:10.481
average or high, like a high value?
00:41:10.501 --> 00:41:13.483
It's like for like, okay, for instance,
00:41:13.603 --> 00:41:15.125
if I'm like,
00:41:15.164 --> 00:41:16.306
if you average out the past
00:41:16.346 --> 00:41:17.206
five years or what you
00:41:17.447 --> 00:41:19.489
spent Q1 and events in
00:41:19.548 --> 00:41:20.690
order to create that budget,
00:41:20.730 --> 00:41:21.429
are you going to go high
00:41:21.469 --> 00:41:22.451
with it or average?
00:41:22.471 --> 00:41:23.411
Cause I usually go high with
00:41:23.452 --> 00:41:25.353
my budget underneath.
00:41:25.373 --> 00:41:25.653
Yeah.
00:41:26.146 --> 00:41:27.628
It depends what the expense is.
00:41:27.648 --> 00:41:29.251
Fuel, I go average.
00:41:29.271 --> 00:41:30.092
Disposal, I go average.
00:41:35.686 --> 00:41:35.985
labor.
00:41:36.005 --> 00:41:36.746
I go, no, I go,
00:41:36.827 --> 00:41:38.307
I pretty much go average or
00:41:38.327 --> 00:41:39.489
I even go below average
00:41:39.849 --> 00:41:40.851
because I'm getting aggressive.
00:41:40.891 --> 00:41:41.210
I want to,
00:41:41.271 --> 00:41:42.452
I want to drive the number down
00:41:42.891 --> 00:41:43.793
right on my pro forma.
00:41:43.813 --> 00:41:45.393
I'm like, Hey, I want, especially on the,
00:41:45.875 --> 00:41:47.615
this is variable expense, fixed expenses,
00:41:47.635 --> 00:41:48.237
fixed expense, right?
00:41:48.277 --> 00:41:49.338
My rent is what my rent is.
00:41:49.797 --> 00:41:50.978
Insurance is what insurance is.
00:41:50.998 --> 00:41:51.259
You know,
00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:54.202
like I know I'm on a 10 month
00:41:54.242 --> 00:41:55.322
cycle on insurance, I think.
00:41:55.603 --> 00:41:55.782
Yeah.
00:41:55.922 --> 00:41:57.023
So I started paying in March.
00:41:57.804 --> 00:41:59.646
And I pay it off by December of a year.
00:41:59.827 --> 00:42:00.626
So January, February,
00:42:00.646 --> 00:42:01.347
I don't get a bill for
00:42:01.387 --> 00:42:02.608
insurance only because my
00:42:02.628 --> 00:42:03.710
policy renews in margin.
00:42:03.750 --> 00:42:04.630
It makes more sense to get
00:42:04.650 --> 00:42:05.371
paid by the end of the year.
00:42:05.652 --> 00:42:05.972
And actually,
00:42:05.992 --> 00:42:07.512
it's nice because then January, February,
00:42:07.753 --> 00:42:09.034
when I'm typically late on
00:42:09.213 --> 00:42:10.375
money because it's slower months,
00:42:10.635 --> 00:42:11.996
I don't get hit with big insurance bills,
00:42:12.536 --> 00:42:12.717
right?
00:42:14.278 --> 00:42:15.440
No, I always go average.
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:17.521
I go average and then I adjust.
00:42:17.541 --> 00:42:18.621
And if I adjust to anything,
00:42:18.942 --> 00:42:21.184
I adjust to being more aggressive.
00:42:21.204 --> 00:42:21.304
Yeah.
00:42:22.085 --> 00:42:22.844
Yeah, absolutely.
00:42:22.905 --> 00:42:23.545
Or, or up.
00:42:23.585 --> 00:42:23.806
Right.
00:42:23.826 --> 00:42:25.126
Like, so for example,
00:42:25.166 --> 00:42:28.409
like when it comes to revenue, I'm like,
00:42:28.628 --> 00:42:29.969
this is, this is where we're at.
00:42:30.050 --> 00:42:31.010
This is where we need to go.
00:42:31.309 --> 00:42:32.690
And then, yeah.
00:42:32.731 --> 00:42:33.452
And then I go beyond.
00:42:33.472 --> 00:42:35.813
So like last year we were at a, the number,
00:42:35.893 --> 00:42:36.672
I didn't like the number
00:42:36.753 --> 00:42:37.434
going to this year.
00:42:37.893 --> 00:42:40.094
And so I just upped it like
00:42:40.094 --> 00:42:41.376
70,000 to make it an even number.
00:42:41.556 --> 00:42:41.815
Right.
00:42:41.856 --> 00:42:42.516
Like, so I'm like, all right,
00:42:42.817 --> 00:42:43.797
this is what I think we can grow.
00:42:43.898 --> 00:42:45.538
And I'm going to add another 70,000.
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:45.818
So right.
00:42:45.838 --> 00:42:45.958
Yeah.
00:42:48.737 --> 00:42:49.237
That's it.
00:42:49.757 --> 00:42:51.398
I'm going to add another $5,000 a month,
00:42:51.458 --> 00:42:51.878
essentially,
00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:54.702
because that's where I want
00:42:54.722 --> 00:42:55.322
to fucking go.
00:42:56.182 --> 00:42:57.603
I don't like to base even numbers.
00:42:58.824 --> 00:43:00.286
We're putting a marketing
00:43:00.306 --> 00:43:01.746
plan together for a couple
00:43:01.786 --> 00:43:02.807
of our storage places.
00:43:03.007 --> 00:43:04.969
The one thing that we're
00:43:05.028 --> 00:43:06.210
putting into it is things
00:43:06.230 --> 00:43:07.811
that we haven't done before,
00:43:08.692 --> 00:43:09.472
which are going to cost
00:43:09.532 --> 00:43:12.255
more because we've never done it.
00:43:12.315 --> 00:43:13.195
We don't know the outcome.
00:43:13.295 --> 00:43:14.436
It really is an experiment,
00:43:15.376 --> 00:43:16.358
but that's what the funds are for.
00:43:17.172 --> 00:43:18.414
And the one thing I was looking at is,
00:43:18.693 --> 00:43:19.835
so for instance, billboards,
00:43:19.875 --> 00:43:20.755
this goes back into it.
00:43:21.476 --> 00:43:22.518
We're doing a directional
00:43:22.538 --> 00:43:24.099
billboard at the
00:43:24.418 --> 00:43:25.400
intersection of a highway
00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:26.240
and a county road.
00:43:26.601 --> 00:43:27.621
What do you mean by directional?
00:43:28.682 --> 00:43:31.445
It literally says, hey, down this road.
00:43:31.826 --> 00:43:32.746
Oh, yeah.
00:43:33.027 --> 00:43:34.807
I mean, it tells you where you're going,
00:43:34.827 --> 00:43:36.530
where we want you to go, whatever.
00:43:37.224 --> 00:43:38.166
So Buc-ee's does a lot of
00:43:38.206 --> 00:43:39.666
directional when they say, Hey,
00:43:39.666 --> 00:43:41.827
150,000 miles until you can go this.
00:43:42.407 --> 00:43:43.668
I know we got, we got one in Wisconsin.
00:43:43.728 --> 00:43:45.869
It's like 482 miles to your next Buc-ee's.
00:43:45.909 --> 00:43:46.889
And I'm like, that's fine.
00:43:47.311 --> 00:43:48.411
And it works though.
00:43:48.530 --> 00:43:49.692
Here we are in Wisconsin,
00:43:49.771 --> 00:43:50.992
Buc-ee's is 500 miles away.
00:43:52.052 --> 00:43:52.233
Yeah.
00:43:52.273 --> 00:43:52.793
So we have,
00:43:53.134 --> 00:43:54.173
we're putting up a directional
00:43:54.574 --> 00:43:56.215
at the end of the road and
00:43:56.436 --> 00:43:57.295
we know we're going to keep
00:43:57.315 --> 00:43:58.197
it up there all year.
00:43:58.597 --> 00:43:59.978
It's going to be a 12 month investment.
00:44:00.737 --> 00:44:02.778
And the reason why is because where we are,
00:44:02.838 --> 00:44:03.278
it's growth.
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:04.000
It really is.
00:44:04.420 --> 00:44:06.041
And if you look at any kind of marketing,
00:44:06.751 --> 00:44:08.954
Would you really wanna take that down?
00:44:09.773 --> 00:44:10.795
I mean, when it says, hey,
00:44:11.155 --> 00:44:13.797
go here for what I want you to need.
00:44:13.817 --> 00:44:14.077
I mean,
00:44:14.097 --> 00:44:15.197
that's pretty much what it's saying.
00:44:15.838 --> 00:44:15.978
Now,
00:44:16.018 --> 00:44:18.101
the other side of this marketing plan
00:44:18.201 --> 00:44:20.541
is we updated our signage on the site,
00:44:21.382 --> 00:44:25.166
but we didn't update our
00:44:25.206 --> 00:44:25.947
Google listing yet.
00:44:26.367 --> 00:44:27.427
So we're about to put some
00:44:27.467 --> 00:44:28.327
stuff in the Google listing,
00:44:28.347 --> 00:44:29.849
but we're not gonna be spending on ads.
00:44:30.670 --> 00:44:31.231
And a lot of people are like,
00:44:31.251 --> 00:44:32.010
why aren't you gonna spend
00:44:32.030 --> 00:44:32.811
money on Google ads?
00:44:33.472 --> 00:44:35.574
And for me, the main reason is
00:44:36.411 --> 00:44:37.010
Where we are,
00:44:37.030 --> 00:44:39.751
I don't want to pop up on a
00:44:39.791 --> 00:44:41.233
little blip of radar of the
00:44:41.293 --> 00:44:42.494
other stores across town
00:44:43.074 --> 00:44:44.173
that have way more money
00:44:44.193 --> 00:44:45.695
than we do because I'm not
00:44:45.715 --> 00:44:46.514
going to get into an ad
00:44:46.534 --> 00:44:47.275
spend war with them.
00:44:47.715 --> 00:44:48.735
I'd rather just rely on my
00:44:48.755 --> 00:44:50.416
directional and then also
00:44:50.476 --> 00:44:51.838
our Google listing and say, hey, look,
00:44:51.858 --> 00:44:53.657
start leaving good reviews.
00:44:53.978 --> 00:44:54.918
We put this plan together.
00:44:54.938 --> 00:44:56.619
We went high with our budget.
00:44:58.019 --> 00:44:59.780
I guess it's first year,
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:01.722
so it's really hard to go off of that,
00:45:01.822 --> 00:45:01.961
but
00:45:02.992 --> 00:45:04.914
I know hope is not something
00:45:04.934 --> 00:45:05.576
you like to hear,
00:45:05.635 --> 00:45:15.485
but my outcome that I'm
00:45:15.525 --> 00:45:17.025
wanting is even if let's
00:45:17.065 --> 00:45:18.367
just say 10 grand a month,
00:45:19.047 --> 00:45:20.248
which is not our budget,
00:45:20.268 --> 00:45:20.969
but that's insane.
00:45:21.329 --> 00:45:22.210
Let's just say 10 grand a
00:45:22.271 --> 00:45:23.853
month is our high end, right?
00:45:24.432 --> 00:45:25.695
I'd like to get to the point
00:45:25.715 --> 00:45:26.514
where at the end of the year, it's like,
00:45:26.534 --> 00:45:26.976
you know what?
00:45:28.208 --> 00:45:30.309
that high end is now our mid like that.
00:45:30.369 --> 00:45:31.550
That was actually fine with us.
00:45:31.769 --> 00:45:32.610
We can actually raise it if
00:45:32.650 --> 00:45:33.931
we want to and either
00:45:33.990 --> 00:45:36.391
pocket the change or, you know,
00:45:36.411 --> 00:45:37.532
inflate that,
00:45:37.793 --> 00:45:38.472
that number a little bit more.
00:45:39.416 --> 00:45:40.157
So last year,
00:45:40.177 --> 00:45:41.818
we overspent on our marketing budget.
00:45:42.018 --> 00:45:43.177
And we knew we did.
00:45:43.297 --> 00:45:44.458
And we continued to spend.
00:45:46.179 --> 00:45:47.458
And that was a data-driven decision.
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:48.340
It wasn't like, oh, hey,
00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:49.139
we're over budget.
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:50.539
Let's stop spending money.
00:45:50.579 --> 00:45:51.081
It's like, OK,
00:45:51.601 --> 00:45:53.221
I know how much over budget we are.
00:45:53.661 --> 00:45:54.702
And I'm still willing to spend.
00:45:55.141 --> 00:45:56.202
And there's things, obviously,
00:45:56.242 --> 00:45:57.041
you buy in November,
00:45:57.061 --> 00:45:58.623
December that carry into the next year,
00:45:59.182 --> 00:45:59.983
pre-signing up.
00:46:00.063 --> 00:46:00.583
And normally,
00:46:00.603 --> 00:46:01.983
they're relatively expensive items.
00:46:02.003 --> 00:46:02.844
You do a $1,200, $1,500 trade show,
00:46:02.864 --> 00:46:03.164
and you
00:46:05.324 --> 00:46:05.545
you know,
00:46:05.585 --> 00:46:06.746
you save 200 bucks by paying
00:46:06.786 --> 00:46:07.525
before the end of the year.
00:46:07.565 --> 00:46:08.786
Like that's beneficial.
00:46:09.126 --> 00:46:10.507
That's a win-win for everybody, you know,
00:46:11.586 --> 00:46:12.407
who's having the credit
00:46:12.427 --> 00:46:14.829
card paid off in 60 days, 40 days,
00:46:14.869 --> 00:46:16.048
whatever your next credit card bill.
00:46:16.228 --> 00:46:17.309
So it's, it's still worth it.
00:46:17.949 --> 00:46:19.489
Anyways.
00:46:19.510 --> 00:46:19.650
Yes.
00:46:19.670 --> 00:46:20.391
To your, to your point,
00:46:20.411 --> 00:46:21.110
hope is not a plan.
00:46:21.130 --> 00:46:23.351
I'm going to use that as a plug.
00:46:23.512 --> 00:46:24.411
Words fucking matter.
00:46:24.592 --> 00:46:25.472
Hope is not a plan.
00:46:25.853 --> 00:46:26.293
It's in the book.
00:46:27.297 --> 00:46:27.838
There's your plug.
00:46:28.057 --> 00:46:28.458
Go buy it.
00:46:29.259 --> 00:46:30.539
Govro thinks it's fucking awesome.
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:31.380
So there you go.
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:32.280
Loved it.
00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:34.041
If you're still listening,
00:46:34.121 --> 00:46:34.960
if you're out there, Govro,
00:46:35.922 --> 00:46:37.943
throw up what your top
00:46:37.963 --> 00:46:38.943
takeaway from the book is.
00:46:38.983 --> 00:46:40.844
I'm always interested to hear what people,
00:46:41.264 --> 00:46:41.884
what resonates.
00:46:42.164 --> 00:46:43.025
And what's interesting is
00:46:43.085 --> 00:46:44.324
when I wrote the book, what I thought,
00:46:44.826 --> 00:46:44.945
right,
00:46:44.965 --> 00:46:47.005
what my hypothesis was of what
00:46:47.045 --> 00:46:47.827
would resonate with people
00:46:47.867 --> 00:46:49.887
the most has not come to fruition.
00:46:50.228 --> 00:46:51.507
So again, data-driven decisions.
00:46:51.608 --> 00:46:53.309
I make decisions now on what
00:46:53.349 --> 00:46:55.130
I speak about in my book.
00:46:55.449 --> 00:46:57.070
workshops based off of what
00:46:57.130 --> 00:46:58.132
resonates with people the
00:46:58.152 --> 00:46:59.333
most that read the book.
00:47:00.052 --> 00:47:02.193
Dylan Pruitt, Keep Rockin' It fellas,
00:47:02.253 --> 00:47:02.775
the Missouri,
00:47:02.795 --> 00:47:04.295
I want to say he's a Missouri guy.
00:47:04.916 --> 00:47:06.336
He's an e-waste guy.
00:47:07.077 --> 00:47:08.719
Midwest e-waste guy, Dylan.
00:47:09.298 --> 00:47:09.938
We hung out with him.
00:47:09.958 --> 00:47:11.440
Adonis.
00:47:11.699 --> 00:47:14.282
Adonis Electric Waste or something.
00:47:14.302 --> 00:47:14.521
Remember,
00:47:15.663 --> 00:47:17.224
he sold his company to a bigger one.
00:47:17.244 --> 00:47:17.903
They bought him out,
00:47:18.005 --> 00:47:19.405
and now I think he does like,
00:47:20.485 --> 00:47:21.467
he's still a part of it.
00:47:21.806 --> 00:47:22.688
He did what you're supposed to do.
00:47:22.748 --> 00:47:24.268
He sold his company, became an employee.
00:47:24.568 --> 00:47:24.929
It's amazing.
00:47:25.443 --> 00:47:25.844
Good for him.
00:47:25.884 --> 00:47:26.065
Yeah,
00:47:26.105 --> 00:47:27.164
sell your company and be an employee
00:47:27.204 --> 00:47:27.385
of it.
00:47:28.545 --> 00:47:30.128
Yeah, there you go.
00:47:30.168 --> 00:47:31.849
What was the name of the book?
00:47:33.230 --> 00:47:34.170
Words Fucking Matter.
00:47:34.550 --> 00:47:35.831
What's the name of the book?
00:47:35.891 --> 00:47:37.452
Kevin Hess, Words Fucking Matter.
00:47:37.853 --> 00:47:39.014
Available on Amazon.
00:47:39.074 --> 00:47:40.076
I will throw up the link.
00:47:41.376 --> 00:47:42.717
And I'm jonesing to open
00:47:42.737 --> 00:47:46.541
another one of these packs.
00:47:46.561 --> 00:47:47.221
You're about to make me go
00:47:47.240 --> 00:47:48.621
to my truck and get to baseball cards,
00:47:48.681 --> 00:47:49.643
but they're already open.
00:47:49.682 --> 00:47:50.083
You know what?
00:47:50.182 --> 00:47:50.884
They've been sitting here
00:47:50.923 --> 00:47:54.507
for a month and here we are.
00:47:55.898 --> 00:47:58.139
Currently, 4.9 star rating.
00:47:58.820 --> 00:48:03.362
Amazon bestseller with seven... Holy shit,
00:48:03.382 --> 00:48:04.664
that's a long-ass fucking link, Jack.
00:48:04.684 --> 00:48:05.443
I don't know how to do that.
00:48:05.903 --> 00:48:07.005
I've got to shorten that, man.
00:48:07.465 --> 00:48:12.487
Holy shit, that's like... Alright.
00:48:12.528 --> 00:48:13.648
I can hear Taylor laughing.
00:48:13.889 --> 00:48:14.150
Taylor,
00:48:14.190 --> 00:48:15.409
find a way to make that thing shorter.
00:48:15.670 --> 00:48:16.710
Or just go to AnnieWines.com.
00:48:16.731 --> 00:48:17.472
How about we just do that?
00:48:17.791 --> 00:48:18.791
AnnieWines.com.
00:48:19.992 --> 00:48:20.934
You can get the book there.
00:48:21.773 --> 00:48:22.054
Alright.
00:48:22.934 --> 00:48:23.434
I'm Jones.
00:48:23.474 --> 00:48:24.175
I'm going to open another book.
00:48:25.882 --> 00:48:26.601
It's a good-ass book.
00:48:26.682 --> 00:48:27.802
It's about a 90-minute read.
00:48:27.822 --> 00:48:29.264
It's written at a
00:48:29.324 --> 00:48:30.344
fifth-grade reading level,
00:48:30.724 --> 00:48:33.487
so it's in line with military.
00:48:33.867 --> 00:48:34.367
You know what?
00:48:34.708 --> 00:48:35.128
Real quick,
00:48:35.168 --> 00:48:36.188
I want to go into this right
00:48:36.208 --> 00:48:37.349
here because this reminds
00:48:37.389 --> 00:48:38.329
me of some shit right here.
00:48:38.449 --> 00:48:39.990
Follow, like, fucking me.
00:48:40.010 --> 00:48:40.972
All right.
00:48:41.692 --> 00:48:42.833
So I'm going to talk about
00:48:42.873 --> 00:48:44.213
this while you're opening those cards.
00:48:44.634 --> 00:48:46.235
For your listeners out there, look,
00:48:46.275 --> 00:48:49.117
we're all in leadership positions, okay?
00:48:49.137 --> 00:48:49.396
We are.
00:48:50.527 --> 00:48:51.168
I will say this.
00:48:51.568 --> 00:48:52.869
I have found this out over the years.
00:48:53.449 --> 00:48:54.831
Military, post-military, whatever.
00:48:55.271 --> 00:48:56.192
The best leaders know when
00:48:56.231 --> 00:48:58.273
to follow and who to follow.
00:48:58.554 --> 00:49:00.295
More importantly, they know how to follow.
00:49:00.936 --> 00:49:01.615
Me, for instance,
00:49:01.695 --> 00:49:02.577
I'm working with someone.
00:49:02.597 --> 00:49:03.237
We're doing this big
00:49:03.277 --> 00:49:04.617
nonprofit gala bullshit.
00:49:04.697 --> 00:49:06.719
I don't have experience doing any of that.
00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:07.760
Am I coming down for that?
00:49:08.521 --> 00:49:10.601
You said I was going to...
00:49:10.702 --> 00:49:11.762
This isn't the same thing.
00:49:11.782 --> 00:49:12.503
This is a fundraiser.
00:49:13.744 --> 00:49:17.067
You can, but it's not your audience.
00:49:17.907 --> 00:49:18.608
That makes no sense.
00:49:19.976 --> 00:49:20.496
All right, that's fine.
00:49:20.577 --> 00:49:21.097
I'm good with that.
00:49:21.177 --> 00:49:22.737
I got cards to read off.
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:24.119
Our keynote is actually,
00:49:24.139 --> 00:49:25.699
it's a ranger who got burnt
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:27.161
on like 75% of his body.
00:49:27.181 --> 00:49:27.701
No hands.
00:49:27.740 --> 00:49:28.481
Thanks, Mike Schlitz.
00:49:28.882 --> 00:49:29.601
Little power hitter.
00:49:31.063 --> 00:49:33.643
But anyways, I don't put on gals.
00:49:33.664 --> 00:49:34.284
I don't do events.
00:49:34.905 --> 00:49:36.646
The guy that we hired to
00:49:36.686 --> 00:49:38.146
organize this charity fundraiser,
00:49:38.686 --> 00:49:39.507
he's my boss.
00:49:39.788 --> 00:49:40.547
That's how I look at it.
00:49:40.947 --> 00:49:41.528
We hired him.
00:49:41.548 --> 00:49:43.168
I listen to what he says.
00:49:43.409 --> 00:49:44.349
We talk every week,
00:49:44.389 --> 00:49:45.670
sometimes multiple times a week.
00:49:46.190 --> 00:49:47.851
And he lets me know how I
00:49:47.931 --> 00:49:49.572
can get the most successful event.
00:49:50.282 --> 00:49:51.242
So if I'm not willing to
00:49:51.282 --> 00:49:53.364
work with him and do what he says, right?
00:49:53.384 --> 00:49:54.405
Because that's all he does.
00:49:54.764 --> 00:49:55.264
He's one of the most
00:49:55.284 --> 00:49:56.445
successful in the country.
00:49:57.226 --> 00:49:59.768
Then I can't expect the results, right?
00:49:59.847 --> 00:50:03.150
So a lot of us get this pride issue like,
00:50:03.170 --> 00:50:03.329
hey,
00:50:03.369 --> 00:50:05.271
who are you to tell me how to do things?
00:50:05.992 --> 00:50:08.753
But what I challenge you to do,
00:50:09.173 --> 00:50:10.914
if you have a manager, a general manager,
00:50:10.994 --> 00:50:11.994
operations manager, whatever,
00:50:12.516 --> 00:50:13.456
I challenge you to start
00:50:13.556 --> 00:50:15.838
treating them like they are your manager.
00:50:16.378 --> 00:50:17.478
Because a lot of the times...
00:50:18.467 --> 00:50:21.628
You will overshadow better
00:50:21.688 --> 00:50:24.409
ideas and better processes
00:50:24.489 --> 00:50:25.590
because you're the boss.
00:50:25.811 --> 00:50:26.530
You're the fucking leader.
00:50:27.570 --> 00:50:28.251
And you kind of,
00:50:28.992 --> 00:50:30.432
you silence them without
00:50:30.492 --> 00:50:31.532
actually telling them to shut up.
00:50:32.474 --> 00:50:33.213
And that's one thing I
00:50:33.253 --> 00:50:35.074
learned later on when I got
00:50:35.255 --> 00:50:36.956
Augie in as my operations manager.
00:50:37.916 --> 00:50:38.856
I actually started asking
00:50:38.896 --> 00:50:41.538
him his advice more so than, hey,
00:50:41.757 --> 00:50:43.039
what do you think about what I said?
00:50:43.298 --> 00:50:43.719
No, I'm like,
00:50:44.378 --> 00:50:45.519
what do you think we should
00:50:45.539 --> 00:50:46.440
do in this situation?
00:50:46.500 --> 00:50:47.641
How would you go about this?
00:50:48.619 --> 00:50:50.041
and I'd let him go first
00:50:50.081 --> 00:50:51.282
because if I say it it kind
00:50:51.302 --> 00:50:52.824
of goes by us right hey
00:50:52.923 --> 00:50:54.005
augie I'm going to do this
00:50:54.284 --> 00:50:54.985
what do you think about
00:50:55.005 --> 00:50:56.987
that well as an employee he
00:50:57.027 --> 00:50:58.068
might see that as a
00:50:58.289 --> 00:50:59.490
conflict to say oh I don't
00:50:59.510 --> 00:51:01.112
like it so instead of doing
00:51:01.132 --> 00:51:02.713
that I'd say hey augie this
00:51:02.753 --> 00:51:04.175
situation here's all the
00:51:04.215 --> 00:51:05.217
facts what do you think
00:51:05.257 --> 00:51:06.978
about you know the solution
00:51:07.059 --> 00:51:08.960
like what solution yeah yeah yeah
00:51:10.070 --> 00:51:11.050
And then next thing you know,
00:51:11.590 --> 00:51:13.472
he is running my business.
00:51:14.331 --> 00:51:15.693
And I wish I would have done
00:51:15.713 --> 00:51:16.914
that earlier with the
00:51:16.954 --> 00:51:18.134
previous guy because I
00:51:18.153 --> 00:51:18.855
would have found out real
00:51:18.894 --> 00:51:19.954
quick he's not a leader.
00:51:21.215 --> 00:51:22.777
And I just want to put that out there,
00:51:22.797 --> 00:51:23.036
man.
00:51:23.356 --> 00:51:24.378
That chapter in your book,
00:51:25.697 --> 00:51:27.079
it fucking means something, man.
00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:28.119
No,
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:29.621
it is interesting the way you brought
00:51:29.641 --> 00:51:29.920
that up.
00:51:30.001 --> 00:51:32.322
That is 100% why I let go
00:51:33.842 --> 00:51:35.384
the president of our company is because
00:51:36.715 --> 00:51:37.757
it was this pissing match of
00:51:38.237 --> 00:51:39.278
when I told him to do stuff,
00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:39.920
he would argue.
00:51:40.240 --> 00:51:41.021
And I'd be like, all right, cool.
00:51:41.561 --> 00:51:42.362
I stopped telling him.
00:51:42.382 --> 00:51:43.204
And I was like, all right,
00:51:43.405 --> 00:51:44.025
here's the problem.
00:51:44.806 --> 00:51:45.266
Here's the facts.
00:51:45.327 --> 00:51:45.748
What, what do we,
00:51:45.768 --> 00:51:46.648
what should we do about it?
00:51:46.989 --> 00:51:48.751
And there was almost never an answer.
00:51:49.012 --> 00:51:49.693
It was, well, we need to,
00:51:49.833 --> 00:51:50.574
we need to achieve this.
00:51:50.614 --> 00:51:51.375
It's like, yeah, no shit.
00:51:51.394 --> 00:51:52.516
We both know what we need to achieve.
00:51:53.273 --> 00:51:53.873
And that's interesting.
00:51:53.893 --> 00:51:56.155
So I, without even in line.
00:51:56.476 --> 00:51:57.856
So this last week when I was on vacation,
00:51:58.356 --> 00:52:02.418
going into the vacation, Casey, our, uh,
00:52:02.617 --> 00:52:03.798
he's, we call it project manager,
00:52:03.858 --> 00:52:04.880
fleet commander, whatever.
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:06.139
He also runs the warehouse.
00:52:07.221 --> 00:52:07.420
And, uh,
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:08.760
Going into it,
00:52:09.061 --> 00:52:10.202
we knew he had to reset the warehouse.
00:52:10.902 --> 00:52:11.842
And I said to him, I said, hey,
00:52:11.882 --> 00:52:12.483
what's your plan?
00:52:12.744 --> 00:52:13.585
Because it's real simple.
00:52:13.625 --> 00:52:14.184
State a plan.
00:52:14.465 --> 00:52:15.365
I want to hear a solution.
00:52:15.465 --> 00:52:16.626
I want to poke holes in a solution.
00:52:16.847 --> 00:52:17.907
And then I want him to go execute.
00:52:18.349 --> 00:52:19.208
So I say the plan.
00:52:19.228 --> 00:52:21.231
I say, hey, what's the problem, right?
00:52:21.251 --> 00:52:22.311
The warehouse needs to be reset.
00:52:22.692 --> 00:52:23.333
I said, what's your plan?
00:52:23.492 --> 00:52:24.434
And he told me his plan.
00:52:24.634 --> 00:52:25.494
And I poked a few holes.
00:52:25.534 --> 00:52:25.894
And I was like, oh,
00:52:25.914 --> 00:52:26.496
I don't know about this.
00:52:26.516 --> 00:52:27.175
I don't know about this.
00:52:27.476 --> 00:52:28.056
Tell me more.
00:52:28.077 --> 00:52:29.717
Do you anticipate this problem?
00:52:30.139 --> 00:52:31.440
And once he had enough
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:33.041
Cause something's like, yeah,
00:52:33.101 --> 00:52:33.860
once I move things around,
00:52:33.900 --> 00:52:35.061
I got to see how they fit.
00:52:35.081 --> 00:52:35.422
It's like,
00:52:35.581 --> 00:52:36.902
we know mathematically they'll fit,
00:52:37.181 --> 00:52:38.322
but you got to move pallets around.
00:52:38.362 --> 00:52:38.563
Right.
00:52:39.202 --> 00:52:40.684
And then it was a great thing.
00:52:40.864 --> 00:52:41.925
I even said this to a couple of people.
00:52:42.065 --> 00:52:42.264
It was a,
00:52:42.565 --> 00:52:44.485
it was a blessing that I was gone
00:52:44.525 --> 00:52:46.126
this last week and they did the reset,
00:52:46.226 --> 00:52:47.726
the warehouse reset the week I was gone.
00:52:48.186 --> 00:52:48.967
Cause I couldn't come here
00:52:48.987 --> 00:52:50.128
and interject and fuck it up.
00:52:51.088 --> 00:52:52.228
And today, since I've been here,
00:52:52.289 --> 00:52:53.409
I haven't gone out to the warehouse yet.
00:52:54.190 --> 00:52:55.291
Because Casey's been gone
00:52:55.331 --> 00:52:56.231
most of the day doing estimates.
00:52:56.431 --> 00:52:57.771
So as soon as we're done with this podcast,
00:52:57.791 --> 00:52:58.371
I'm going to go walk the
00:52:58.391 --> 00:52:58.992
warehouse with him.
00:52:59.193 --> 00:53:00.534
Because I want to see his logic.
00:53:00.634 --> 00:53:01.554
And I want to see what his plan is.
00:53:01.574 --> 00:53:03.414
Oh, it's not like the McDonald's job.
00:53:03.675 --> 00:53:04.596
In Atlanta.
00:53:04.695 --> 00:53:05.115
Yeah, 100%.
00:53:05.295 --> 00:53:06.237
In Atlanta.
00:53:07.117 --> 00:53:08.318
You kept getting in the middle of shit.
00:53:08.338 --> 00:53:09.418
And it was actually making it worse.
00:53:10.478 --> 00:53:13.139
And what you really need to do is back up.
00:53:13.460 --> 00:53:14.181
Set the expectation.
00:53:14.201 --> 00:53:15.742
Go back to your room and do emails.
00:53:15.762 --> 00:53:15.742
100%.
00:53:16.001 --> 00:53:16.822
But to your defense...
00:53:22.025 --> 00:53:23.746
It's so natural and routine
00:53:24.086 --> 00:53:25.628
to interject because, hey,
00:53:26.367 --> 00:53:27.909
this is how I would do things.
00:53:28.469 --> 00:53:29.730
And you're not really thinking, hey,
00:53:30.070 --> 00:53:31.010
this is the best way
00:53:31.210 --> 00:53:32.490
everyone could do this.
00:53:32.610 --> 00:53:33.911
You see what I'm saying?
00:53:34.211 --> 00:53:34.672
You're thinking,
00:53:34.711 --> 00:53:35.813
this is the best way I
00:53:35.853 --> 00:53:40.994
think we should do this.
00:53:41.375 --> 00:53:41.775
As a leader,
00:53:41.795 --> 00:53:43.416
I want to be a servant that
00:53:43.496 --> 00:53:44.456
gives people the answers,
00:53:44.536 --> 00:53:45.896
not ask them the questions.
00:53:46.818 --> 00:53:47.057
All right.
00:53:47.777 --> 00:53:49.139
Speaking of giving people the answers,
00:53:49.579 --> 00:53:51.579
Marlon Maxey, never heard of him.
00:53:52.550 --> 00:53:53.471
The old checklist.
00:53:53.490 --> 00:53:54.112
These are the worst.
00:53:54.431 --> 00:53:55.331
Write 14 cards.
00:53:55.351 --> 00:53:56.032
You get a checklist.
00:53:56.052 --> 00:53:57.112
I don't want a checklist.
00:53:58.594 --> 00:53:59.313
Tell us, Frank.
00:53:59.673 --> 00:54:00.155
Timberwolves.
00:54:00.175 --> 00:54:00.635
Never heard of them.
00:54:01.755 --> 00:54:03.155
Matt Weinstrom.
00:54:03.635 --> 00:54:03.936
Rookie.
00:54:03.976 --> 00:54:04.416
Free agent.
00:54:04.617 --> 00:54:04.896
Nobody.
00:54:05.617 --> 00:54:06.376
Sam Cassell.
00:54:06.416 --> 00:54:07.077
Rookie card.
00:54:07.137 --> 00:54:07.777
No big deal.
00:54:07.797 --> 00:54:08.297
Sam Cassell.
00:54:08.318 --> 00:54:08.757
Rookie card.
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:09.318
Of course,
00:54:09.338 --> 00:54:10.498
that was one of the ones that's sticking,
00:54:10.518 --> 00:54:12.039
so it's got dots all over it.
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:13.201
We'll put that in the key pile.
00:54:13.221 --> 00:54:14.041
We'll put that in the maybe pile.
00:54:14.061 --> 00:54:14.400
Oh, here we go.
00:54:17.324 --> 00:54:19.085
Look, look, Bradford Smith.
00:54:19.266 --> 00:54:19.746
Never heard of him.
00:54:19.945 --> 00:54:20.387
Here we go.
00:54:20.427 --> 00:54:21.067
Here's the one.
00:54:21.228 --> 00:54:21.927
Here's a good one.
00:54:22.369 --> 00:54:23.168
Rebound King.
00:54:23.949 --> 00:54:24.791
Not a great picture.
00:54:24.811 --> 00:54:28.713
The year before that would have been.
00:54:28.733 --> 00:54:31.476
I can't, I can't for the life of me.
00:54:31.896 --> 00:54:32.797
My brain doesn't know how to
00:54:32.838 --> 00:54:34.800
like do things sometimes.
00:54:35.460 --> 00:54:35.780
Come on.
00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:36.280
Autofocus.
00:54:36.300 --> 00:54:36.561
There you go.
00:54:36.581 --> 00:54:38.483
Shaquille O'Neal rebound King.
00:54:38.503 --> 00:54:39.182
That's in the good pile.
00:54:39.945 --> 00:54:40.405
Here we go.
00:54:41.206 --> 00:54:41.987
Isaiah Thomas.
00:54:42.007 --> 00:54:43.608
There's a great story about Isaiah Thomas.
00:54:44.449 --> 00:54:45.510
He was on the USA team.
00:54:45.931 --> 00:54:47.072
Obviously not the Olympic team.
00:54:48.193 --> 00:54:48.632
Basically,
00:54:48.672 --> 00:54:49.514
he didn't make the Olympic team
00:54:49.534 --> 00:54:51.074
because Jordan didn't like him.
00:54:51.434 --> 00:54:53.996
And no one will actually admit to that,
00:54:54.597 --> 00:54:55.398
and yet it's a dead truth.
00:54:55.898 --> 00:54:56.679
Mark Price.
00:54:57.340 --> 00:54:58.139
The card looks like shit
00:54:58.159 --> 00:54:58.840
because it was sticky.
00:54:59.161 --> 00:55:00.041
Most of these cards are sticky.
00:55:00.202 --> 00:55:01.202
So if they were something,
00:55:01.222 --> 00:55:01.943
they're worth less now.
00:55:02.443 --> 00:55:03.143
Hershey Hawkins.
00:55:03.204 --> 00:55:03.605
I remember him.
00:55:04.065 --> 00:55:04.625
Charlie Hornets.
00:55:04.826 --> 00:55:05.826
Charlie Hornets.
00:55:06.327 --> 00:55:08.507
My brother Isaac's favorite color.
00:55:09.375 --> 00:55:11.135
is the teal from the
00:55:11.195 --> 00:55:12.096
original Charlotte Horns.
00:55:13.356 --> 00:55:13.956
They weren't out there.
00:55:15.476 --> 00:55:16.717
Now they're, what, in New Orleans?
00:55:16.938 --> 00:55:17.117
No.
00:55:18.617 --> 00:55:19.518
What are the Charlotte Horns now?
00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:22.400
They're not in Charlotte anymore.
00:55:22.460 --> 00:55:22.840
But they were...
00:55:25.648 --> 00:55:26.789
Don McLean, Bullets,
00:55:26.969 --> 00:55:27.949
back when we had the Bullets,
00:55:27.969 --> 00:55:28.688
the Washington Bullets
00:55:28.708 --> 00:55:29.608
before they were the Wizards.
00:55:30.530 --> 00:55:34.891
Andrew Lang, Tom Hammonds, John Sally.
00:55:35.431 --> 00:55:37.030
John Sally, big fan of John Sally,
00:55:37.050 --> 00:55:38.891
mostly his work on
00:55:39.831 --> 00:55:41.371
podcasting and shit talking.
00:55:41.711 --> 00:55:42.972
John Sally with the Heat,
00:55:43.293 --> 00:55:44.873
who's more famous for being
00:55:44.913 --> 00:55:47.253
one of the bad boys, Detroit Pistons.
00:55:47.293 --> 00:55:48.293
Come on, AutoZoom.
00:55:48.793 --> 00:55:49.393
That's what I got to do.
00:55:49.474 --> 00:55:49.793
There you go.
00:55:49.813 --> 00:55:50.853
I got to cover up my face.
00:55:51.514 --> 00:55:52.494
That's what it is, right?
00:55:52.534 --> 00:55:53.235
Is that my face?
00:55:54.963 --> 00:55:55.503
Not my face.
00:55:55.682 --> 00:55:56.043
All right.
00:55:56.083 --> 00:55:56.463
Ring light.
00:55:56.583 --> 00:55:56.943
There we go.
00:55:57.003 --> 00:55:57.563
John and Sally.
00:55:57.623 --> 00:55:57.884
Okay.
00:55:58.204 --> 00:55:59.405
We opened two decks of cards.
00:56:00.286 --> 00:56:01.166
I'll be honest.
00:56:01.965 --> 00:56:03.266
Not nearly as gratifying as
00:56:03.306 --> 00:56:05.027
I thought it was going to be.
00:56:05.088 --> 00:56:05.228
No.
00:56:05.748 --> 00:56:06.809
I set expectations.
00:56:07.188 --> 00:56:07.849
I had a theory.
00:56:07.869 --> 00:56:09.829
And everything went to shit.
00:56:09.849 --> 00:56:10.510
All right.
00:56:10.530 --> 00:56:11.391
Let's go through the comments.
00:56:11.411 --> 00:56:12.030
Did we hit everybody?
00:56:12.050 --> 00:56:12.731
We did everybody.
00:56:14.231 --> 00:56:14.692
Thank you.
00:56:15.753 --> 00:56:16.773
Kevin Hess.
00:56:16.813 --> 00:56:17.934
Do we know Kevin Hess?
00:56:17.974 --> 00:56:18.773
I don't know if I know this guy.
00:56:19.675 --> 00:56:20.175
Kevin Hess.
00:56:20.235 --> 00:56:20.454
Thank you.
00:56:21.985 --> 00:56:23.927
It kind of reminds me, where is he from?
00:56:23.947 --> 00:56:25.327
I can't click on his profile.
00:56:25.367 --> 00:56:26.487
I want to see what state he's out of.
00:56:27.027 --> 00:56:27.686
That's a lot of work.
00:56:27.706 --> 00:56:28.027
All right.
00:56:28.168 --> 00:56:28.768
Well, there's that.
00:56:31.108 --> 00:56:31.467
You know what?
00:56:31.487 --> 00:56:33.148
We didn't even get to Jordan Peterson.
00:56:33.628 --> 00:56:34.289
You know what?
00:56:34.349 --> 00:56:35.248
I'll plug my other show.
00:56:35.389 --> 00:56:36.289
Andy Wines Live.
00:56:36.989 --> 00:56:40.351
Every Monday, 3.30 Central Atlanta.
00:56:40.411 --> 00:56:40.931
ATO.
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There we go, Kevin Hess.
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I'm from Atlanta originally.
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Stone Mountain.
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decatur illinois decatur uh
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atlanta that's where decalb
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county decatur atlanta
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that's what it says on my
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birth certificate and then
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we lived in stone mountain
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so uh if you know where
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that is stone mountain huge
00:56:57.998 --> 00:56:59.398
fan big fan of stone
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mountain um and georgia oh
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that's yeah yeah georgia
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the the capital of the
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south um before sherman
00:57:10.545 --> 00:57:11.927
came by and burned it no big deal
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Uh, 1864, not a great year.
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It's 64, 63, 64.
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All right.
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Uh, so I,
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what I did not get to when I
00:57:21.195 --> 00:57:23.914
started plugging, uh, I talked about, um,
00:57:24.695 --> 00:57:25.255
Jordan Peterson.
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I got to see Jordan Peterson last night,
00:57:27.356 --> 00:57:28.795
live at the Riverside here in Milwaukee.
00:57:28.815 --> 00:57:30.157
Talk about we who wrestle
00:57:30.197 --> 00:57:32.036
with God is new book, book tour.
00:57:32.436 --> 00:57:33.157
It was awesome.
00:57:33.916 --> 00:57:34.097
Um,
00:57:34.197 --> 00:57:35.398
we did not talk about it here on the
00:57:35.438 --> 00:57:36.597
trash talk business podcast.
00:57:36.617 --> 00:57:38.577
However, you can take a listen.
00:57:38.958 --> 00:57:41.338
If you go over to my LinkedIn page, um,
00:57:41.559 --> 00:57:41.619
um,
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:44.460
or youtube uh as I am uh
00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:47.059
andy wine's live will
00:57:47.139 --> 00:57:48.541
officially be a podcast
00:57:48.641 --> 00:57:50.240
later this month so thus
00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:52.061
far it's been a video only
00:57:52.242 --> 00:57:53.382
and so well we have 25
00:57:53.382 --> 00:57:55.943
episodes already it's hard
00:57:56.023 --> 00:57:56.603
for me to believe it's
00:57:56.643 --> 00:57:57.362
already been six months
00:57:57.422 --> 00:57:59.664
basically and so that'll be
00:58:00.043 --> 00:58:01.963
um oh taylor just said the
00:58:01.983 --> 00:58:02.644
charlotte horns are
00:58:02.664 --> 00:58:03.585
charlotte horns once again
00:58:04.005 --> 00:58:05.105
they were the bobcats from
00:58:05.105 --> 00:58:06.766
04 to 10. they switched
00:58:06.786 --> 00:58:07.425
back to the hornets
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As I said in a lot of my...
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I think they're back to the Hornets.
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Yeah,
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that's why they keep pushing those
00:58:15.757 --> 00:58:16.077
jackets.
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So back in the 90s,
00:58:16.818 --> 00:58:18.820
that turquoise jacket... Hold on,
00:58:18.860 --> 00:58:19.981
hold on.
00:58:20.001 --> 00:58:21.001
They were the New Orleans
00:58:21.021 --> 00:58:22.402
Hornets at one point.
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That's what it was.
00:58:23.242 --> 00:58:23.643
They were.
00:58:24.302 --> 00:58:26.204
Charlotte Hornets turned into New Orleans.
00:58:26.965 --> 00:58:28.706
New Orleans Hornets turned
00:58:28.726 --> 00:58:30.126
into the New Orleans Pelicans.
00:58:30.686 --> 00:58:32.568
Charlotte Bobcats turned into the Hornets.
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I'm saying that with some
00:58:35.967 --> 00:58:38.028
level of confidence,
00:58:39.510 --> 00:58:41.090
and yet we can also go to Wikipedia.
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That's it.
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Charlotte Hornets, based in Charlotte, NBA,
00:58:45.512 --> 00:58:46.873
originally in 1988.
00:58:46.873 --> 00:58:52.157
In 2002, they relocated to New Orleans,
00:58:52.998 --> 00:58:53.938
which became the Pelicans.
00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:56.480
Michael Jordan, former NBA player,
00:58:56.681 --> 00:58:57.380
greatest of all time,
00:58:57.820 --> 00:58:58.521
don't even care what you say.
00:58:59.867 --> 00:59:00.907
about anybody else.
00:59:01.027 --> 00:59:01.367
I agree.
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Uh,
00:59:01.927 --> 00:59:03.009
acquired a minority stake in the
00:59:03.128 --> 00:59:06.510
Bobcats in 2016 or 2006 and
00:59:06.550 --> 00:59:07.451
became the majority owner.
00:59:07.550 --> 00:59:08.110
And they announced they
00:59:08.130 --> 00:59:09.311
would rebrand as the Charlotte Hornets.
00:59:09.632 --> 00:59:12.534
Question is when the Bobcats start a lot,
00:59:12.554 --> 00:59:13.554
a lot of things going on here.
00:59:14.474 --> 00:59:14.614
Um,
00:59:15.833 --> 00:59:16.134
Anyways,
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I only recently found out that
00:59:17.536 --> 00:59:18.617
teal is my brother Isaac's
00:59:18.637 --> 00:59:19.498
favorite color of all time.
00:59:19.958 --> 00:59:22.902
And my sister had these... No, my sister?
00:59:22.943 --> 00:59:23.403
Someone I knew.
00:59:23.423 --> 00:59:25.106
I had the jacket.
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You had the pullover?
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Like that wind jacket?
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The starter jacket.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I had the Packer one.
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My sister had a Phoenix Suns one.
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Back in 97, 98,
00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:42.621
that was about as hot as it got.
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Starter pullover jackets.
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And the wind suits were awesome.
00:59:47.623 --> 00:59:48.003
Oh, yeah, dude.
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The wind didn't stand a chance.
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The wind did not stand a chance.
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Don't forget our next episode, by the way.
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Yeah, next episode.
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Yeah, next week.
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That's our next episode.
00:59:59.637 --> 01:00:02.737
Next week, we do not have a guest yet.
01:00:02.958 --> 01:00:03.077
See,
01:00:03.097 --> 01:00:04.498
we're supposed to tease it with a guest.
01:00:04.918 --> 01:00:05.338
However,
01:00:05.637 --> 01:00:07.539
this week was a scheduled no guest
01:00:08.619 --> 01:00:10.318
because we wanted to sit and bullshit,
01:00:10.420 --> 01:00:11.099
so that worked out.
01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:13.300
And next week's a no-guster,
01:00:13.460 --> 01:00:14.099
as it sits right now,
01:00:14.139 --> 01:00:15.860
unless you want to be the guest.
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:16.840
It was a reschedule.
01:00:17.420 --> 01:00:18.181
It was a reschedule.
01:00:18.221 --> 01:00:19.121
Yeah, I know.
01:00:19.242 --> 01:00:20.021
And now we have open abilities.
01:00:20.041 --> 01:00:20.322
Yeah.
01:00:20.342 --> 01:00:20.961
So.
01:00:25.858 --> 01:00:27.121
I might reach out to someone and be like,
01:00:27.141 --> 01:00:27.581
hey, look,
01:00:28.202 --> 01:00:29.105
who is someone we haven't
01:00:29.144 --> 01:00:30.666
talked to who could provide
01:00:30.708 --> 01:00:31.668
value without boring people?
01:00:32.610 --> 01:00:33.132
That is correct.
01:00:33.351 --> 01:00:35.094
Or who is someone that has a
01:00:35.175 --> 01:00:36.438
problem that needs to be solved
01:00:37.235 --> 01:00:40.038
That we can solve, right?
01:00:40.057 --> 01:00:42.018
I thought last week's episode with Taylor,
01:00:42.378 --> 01:00:43.159
that was the reschedule.
01:00:43.179 --> 01:00:44.661
This was a schedule, you and I only.
01:00:44.681 --> 01:00:45.141
Anyways,
01:00:45.181 --> 01:00:46.260
last week's episode with Taylor
01:00:46.302 --> 01:00:47.601
was great because we did
01:00:47.802 --> 01:00:49.063
cost of goods sold exercise.
01:00:49.884 --> 01:00:50.643
I had a great time.
01:00:50.724 --> 01:00:51.965
I don't know what the listeners,
01:00:52.005 --> 01:00:52.605
I would love to hear what
01:00:52.625 --> 01:00:54.146
your perspective was on solving issues.
01:00:54.586 --> 01:00:55.726
I do have a guy I reached out to.
01:00:55.746 --> 01:00:56.887
He reached out to me earlier today.
01:00:57.427 --> 01:00:58.369
I might get him on the podcast.
01:00:58.789 --> 01:00:59.789
He wants to know how to demo,
01:01:00.050 --> 01:01:01.271
interior demo of a 1,100
01:01:01.271 --> 01:01:02.010
square foot house.
01:01:03.231 --> 01:01:03.552
We'll see.
01:01:03.931 --> 01:01:05.413
If he has time for the project,
01:01:05.452 --> 01:01:06.713
then we'll have him on the podcast.
01:01:07.771 --> 01:01:10.313
And grenade and shovels and brooms.
01:01:10.994 --> 01:01:11.215
Yes.
01:01:11.896 --> 01:01:12.235
All right.
01:01:13.157 --> 01:01:13.898
And Taylor said, well,
01:01:13.918 --> 01:01:15.099
you could tease season
01:01:15.139 --> 01:01:16.840
three coming out in a couple episodes.
01:01:17.181 --> 01:01:18.262
So season three, I guess,
01:01:18.322 --> 01:01:21.045
officially starts with episode 105.
01:01:21.045 --> 01:01:22.467
So we are on episode 102.
01:01:24.108 --> 01:01:26.072
And season three means
01:01:26.132 --> 01:01:27.552
nothing other than we have
01:01:27.572 --> 01:01:28.273
two years behind us.
01:01:28.353 --> 01:01:28.614
That's it.
01:01:29.402 --> 01:01:30.963
And that's it because we've
01:01:30.983 --> 01:01:31.985
already started the trans
01:01:32.204 --> 01:01:33.626
that transition where we're
01:01:33.666 --> 01:01:34.246
working on the whole
01:01:34.306 --> 01:01:35.768
entrepreneur and we are
01:01:35.827 --> 01:01:37.628
selecting guests that are, um,
01:01:37.668 --> 01:01:38.869
going to be more beneficial
01:01:39.150 --> 01:01:40.472
to the entire person, right?
01:01:40.512 --> 01:01:41.152
First year was about
01:01:41.172 --> 01:01:42.012
tactical junk removal.
01:01:42.353 --> 01:01:43.474
Then it was about the, um,
01:01:44.173 --> 01:01:44.954
then it was about the
01:01:44.994 --> 01:01:46.096
business owner last year
01:01:46.135 --> 01:01:47.496
and strategy this year is
01:01:47.536 --> 01:01:48.056
about the whole
01:01:48.117 --> 01:01:49.778
entrepreneur and going next level,
01:01:49.798 --> 01:01:50.318
big picture.
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.481
Um, and again, not every guest yet, um,
01:01:54.202 --> 01:01:55.083
starting to work more of
01:01:55.123 --> 01:01:56.163
those guests in because we
01:01:56.182 --> 01:01:57.844
saw last year the most
01:01:57.903 --> 01:01:58.664
engagement we were getting
01:01:58.684 --> 01:01:59.364
was when we were bringing
01:01:59.405 --> 01:02:00.505
in guests that were outside
01:02:00.525 --> 01:02:01.666
of the industry and
01:02:01.706 --> 01:02:02.365
sometimes outside of
01:02:02.425 --> 01:02:03.827
business to talk about
01:02:03.887 --> 01:02:05.286
different ideals in this world.
01:02:06.248 --> 01:02:07.748
We got you to ask Chris
01:02:08.027 --> 01:02:09.148
Gronkowski if he'd want to
01:02:09.168 --> 01:02:09.809
be on the show.
01:02:09.929 --> 01:02:10.128
I mean,
01:02:10.148 --> 01:02:12.230
he's a small business owner and he
01:02:12.250 --> 01:02:13.610
hired me in the very
01:02:13.650 --> 01:02:14.451
beginning to clean out a
01:02:14.490 --> 01:02:17.632
warehouse and then we all
01:02:17.652 --> 01:02:18.512
started with junk removal.
01:02:19.134 --> 01:02:19.934
We all started with junk removal.
01:02:19.994 --> 01:02:20.574
Let's hire Chris.
01:02:22.034 --> 01:02:22.215
Yeah.
01:02:22.940 --> 01:02:25.402
All right.
01:02:26.043 --> 01:02:27.623
Top takeaways from today's show, Casey.
01:02:27.643 --> 01:02:28.184
We'll start with you.
01:02:28.224 --> 01:02:28.804
Top takeaways.
01:02:30.246 --> 01:02:32.427
Takeaways are make sure you
01:02:32.487 --> 01:02:33.849
have a separation of power
01:02:33.889 --> 01:02:35.429
and state in your business.
01:02:36.610 --> 01:02:37.951
And the reason I say that is
01:02:38.010 --> 01:02:40.773
because it's very easy.
01:02:40.793 --> 01:02:42.614
Tim, I'm not picking on you.
01:02:43.054 --> 01:02:45.076
It's easy to go to a one-stop shop.
01:02:45.717 --> 01:02:45.976
It is.
01:02:46.976 --> 01:02:49.838
But I recommend shopping for
01:02:49.858 --> 01:02:50.460
the specialty.
01:02:51.246 --> 01:02:52.505
Because you want that.
01:02:52.706 --> 01:02:53.606
This is the same reason I
01:02:53.646 --> 01:02:54.706
only go to about three
01:02:54.746 --> 01:02:55.407
different insurance
01:02:55.467 --> 01:02:56.887
providers when it comes to junk.
01:02:57.628 --> 01:02:59.248
They are very.
01:03:01.148 --> 01:03:02.150
What's the word I'm looking for?
01:03:02.309 --> 01:03:03.369
They know the business.
01:03:03.849 --> 01:03:05.971
They're used to the business there.
01:03:06.190 --> 01:03:06.351
Yeah,
01:03:06.391 --> 01:03:07.811
they're they're used to dealing with
01:03:08.032 --> 01:03:09.692
different size junk removal clients.
01:03:10.693 --> 01:03:12.253
And for me, I'm like, OK,
01:03:12.773 --> 01:03:13.773
I get there's a thousand
01:03:13.813 --> 01:03:15.634
junk or a thousand insurance companies,
01:03:15.673 --> 01:03:17.934
but you all specialize in this industry.
01:03:18.887 --> 01:03:19.489
So for me,
01:03:19.509 --> 01:03:21.550
I think if you're going with a tax prep,
01:03:22.831 --> 01:03:23.532
I would shop around,
01:03:23.572 --> 01:03:24.472
just get warm and fuzzy
01:03:24.492 --> 01:03:25.873
with a couple that could
01:03:26.014 --> 01:03:27.155
possibly have an interest
01:03:27.414 --> 01:03:28.275
in that industry,
01:03:28.315 --> 01:03:30.338
whether it be home services
01:03:30.358 --> 01:03:31.117
or even real estate,
01:03:32.398 --> 01:03:34.221
because they will help you.
01:03:34.521 --> 01:03:36.463
I think they'll just be,
01:03:36.483 --> 01:03:38.143
it'll be a little different in my,
01:03:38.164 --> 01:03:39.125
in my personal opinion,
01:03:39.885 --> 01:03:40.626
that way you don't have to
01:03:40.646 --> 01:03:41.646
always rely on the same
01:03:41.706 --> 01:03:42.748
person to do your books,
01:03:42.807 --> 01:03:45.150
your accounting and your tax prep.
01:03:45.170 --> 01:03:46.190
Because also lastly,
01:03:47.230 --> 01:03:47.829
that motherfucker does
01:03:47.849 --> 01:03:48.871
something illegal and goes to jail,
01:03:49.070 --> 01:03:50.211
you just lost all three of those.
01:03:52.132 --> 01:03:53.614
That's an interesting take.
01:03:53.634 --> 01:03:55.775
That got awfully aggressive really quick.
01:03:57.137 --> 01:03:58.557
My top takeaway coming into
01:03:58.617 --> 01:04:01.980
today is from with Jordan
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:03.641
Peterson last night.
01:04:03.981 --> 01:04:05.021
One of the things he kept saying,
01:04:05.362 --> 01:04:06.543
the adventure of your life.
01:04:06.603 --> 01:04:07.364
I keep looking over my
01:04:07.384 --> 01:04:08.043
whiteboard because that's
01:04:08.065 --> 01:04:08.724
where I wrote it down.
01:04:09.045 --> 01:04:10.405
The adventure of your life.
01:04:10.525 --> 01:04:10.846
And so
01:04:12.447 --> 01:04:14.168
That's what this is all about.
01:04:14.208 --> 01:04:15.510
That's what this podcast is about.
01:04:15.809 --> 01:04:17.851
That's what living my junk
01:04:17.911 --> 01:04:18.911
removal dream is all about.
01:04:18.931 --> 01:04:20.773
I joke about growing and
01:04:20.813 --> 01:04:22.054
scaling my junk removal dream,
01:04:22.074 --> 01:04:23.295
and yet I'm living the
01:04:23.315 --> 01:04:24.056
adventure of a life.
01:04:24.416 --> 01:04:26.036
I haven't had a job in eight years.
01:04:26.197 --> 01:04:27.057
I'm unemployable.
01:04:27.739 --> 01:04:29.019
This is what I love doing.
01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:30.721
I love having a junk removal company.
01:04:31.181 --> 01:04:32.322
I love the fact that last
01:04:32.362 --> 01:04:33.362
week I was on vacation,
01:04:33.862 --> 01:04:35.704
and my company with our
01:04:35.885 --> 01:04:37.425
amazing team continued to
01:04:37.485 --> 01:04:38.485
move the ball forward,
01:04:38.585 --> 01:04:40.128
and yet they still also need me.
01:04:40.987 --> 01:04:41.869
to a certain extent right I
01:04:41.889 --> 01:04:43.130
can come back now here
01:04:43.170 --> 01:04:44.010
today and impact the
01:04:44.050 --> 01:04:45.492
organization and that's the
01:04:45.512 --> 01:04:46.592
adventure of my life right
01:04:46.612 --> 01:04:48.855
now is growing and scaling this business
01:04:49.869 --> 01:04:50.929
and then seeking out other
01:04:50.969 --> 01:04:52.891
opportunities to grow and
01:04:53.070 --> 01:04:55.592
scale other people's
01:04:55.612 --> 01:04:56.652
businesses by giving them
01:04:56.672 --> 01:04:57.612
the information for free.
01:04:58.052 --> 01:04:58.952
Jordan Peterson puts his
01:04:58.992 --> 01:05:00.873
lectures on the internet free of charge.
01:05:00.893 --> 01:05:01.733
You can watch it on YouTube,
01:05:02.474 --> 01:05:03.014
no different than us.
01:05:03.034 --> 01:05:03.914
We spend an hour a week
01:05:04.054 --> 01:05:05.115
having conversations to let
01:05:05.135 --> 01:05:06.956
people see behind the, you know,
01:05:07.215 --> 01:05:09.536
behind the layers, if you, if you will,
01:05:10.277 --> 01:05:11.518
to learn about junk removal
01:05:11.577 --> 01:05:13.219
and listen to business people talk and,
01:05:13.679 --> 01:05:14.358
or maybe people are
01:05:14.378 --> 01:05:15.179
listening to this as for
01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:16.460
pure entertainment purposes and
01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:18.599
while they're working that job,
01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:20.981
getting ready for that career, right?
01:05:21.081 --> 01:05:22.061
Or they want to see that, yeah,
01:05:22.240 --> 01:05:22.581
you know what?
01:05:22.621 --> 01:05:23.521
There is the grind and the
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struggle that other people
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are going through.
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So for that,
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it is about the adventure of my life.
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And for that,
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I'm thankful to our listeners.
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And I'll throw out nice job and jobber,
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nice job and jobber for
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allowing us to continue
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doing what we're doing here
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in the junk world space.
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So that's my top takeaway.
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And a little gratitude.
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A little gratitude goes a long way.
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A little big deal.
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Getting all sappy.
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Getting soft on you guys.
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All right.
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Anything else for the group, Casey?
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Or are we going to move on with our lives?
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Y'all get ready.
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Q1 is gone.
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Get ready.
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Q1 is gone.
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Just as fast as it freaking showed up,
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it is gone.
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Yes.
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Episode 105, 106.
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I will tease that.
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We'll have Andy Barton back
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on the show for quarterly
01:06:11.646 --> 01:06:12.708
Barton updates to talk
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about how gone Q1 is.
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So without further ado, I'm Andy Wines.
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He's Casey Bubba Lawrence,
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and we will see you next week.
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