My Producer’s Plumber - Jimmy

Daniel learns the nuts and bolts of plumbing with his producer’s plumber, Jimmy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can ninety nine percent of plumbing problems be solved with
a plunger? No, okay, you got a plunger? No, I
don't think I do either.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
I don't have a plunger. You guys got plungers? Yep, yes,
Huh Pasha Pasha Shows Show. Welcome to todh show with
me as always Eddie. How you doing, Eddie?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm doing pretty good.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
You're working on any new songs? No, Eddie, you're always
working on a song. Here this with some of your
your new material. Go ahead, some sing sing us a
new song.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Why be a biter? Just be a pincher. I like it.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I like you.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I don't know what, because pinching is a way to
make friends.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay says that is a good song.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's for kids.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know what you are? You're like like that Wayne Brady.
You're like you're like a nice Wayne Brady. Uh, it's funny.
All right, Well we got a great show today. Uh
minus the first part of the show where I get
some feedback from some of the commenters. This always puts
me in a swell mood.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
There are a lot of comments people not knowing what
a lettuce trim is huh.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, no, it's not like an urban dictionary thing. But
as it's been told to me over the years, it's
it was just a U. It's a slang term for
a cosmetic surgery where some women's uh, you know, labia
flap and hang low a little bit and they cut

(01:44):
it back, you know. And so instead of instead of this,
it's it's more more like this.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
From the fire Festival episode, how about I buy a
condo for six hundred K and spend the other four
hundred k going to normal, amazing music festivals for the
rest of my life.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't know how many million dollar tickets he's going
to sell, but I mean, he seems he seems like
he's got good intentions.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Daniel continues to dress to the nines. I need to know,
are you wearing a T shirt under these sweaters? Or
is this sweater on skin?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Thanks?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Look, this is a it's it's all about the nip.
If my nipple shows through the sweater, I wear an undershirt.
If it doesn't, then I go.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Bear back from the fire Festival episode, when Billy got out,
he celebrated a shrimp. This says, I'm a seafood industry
expert fifteen years dealing especially with wild salmon and Costco.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Sakey salmon is number one, and I know why.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
You picked that. You're trying to justify it is good
saying why you buy seafood from Costco. There you have it, folks,
that's from an.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Expert comments on your TV show Hijacked. I've been an
airline pilot for thirty plus years. I've never carried a
metal thermos with me to work or known anyone who has.
Is that for lunch and break room with a pack
of SIGs.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Thirty years plus. This guy's been in the cockpit, never
once had a metal thermos, just in case he needed
to bash his co pilot within an inch of her life.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
This is from the George Former episode when did the
full disclosure that his wife was white. Such a beta
move to have to clarify that George's wife is white,
and then he wasn't trying to perpetuate a stereotype that
all black people are late to everything even if his
wife was black.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Who cares?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Tosh must have had his testicles removed by Hollywood when
he moved there you done.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I know there was a lot of people that wrote
stuff like this, and I hope all of them are
listening right now, Okay, because I don't like to do this.
I don't like to explain to you why I'm better
at comedy than you are, Okay, but I'm going to.

(03:56):
I'm gonna have to show you how the sausage is made,
because first of all, let's be clear, I don't give
a fuck about making a shitty joke about black people
being late, Okay, And how I know that you don't
get what I did is by people commenting like that.

(04:18):
The reason I put that full disclosure comment in is
because the next story that I told in the interview
was about when I messed with his wife at a
playground and said it was the kid that looks like
George Foreman. And if you didn't know that she was
white before that story, and you thought maybe she was black,

(04:42):
then it's not a funny thing to say the kid
that looks like George Foreman. When the guy responded, oh
is she black? Do you understand? So you needed to
know that she was white before that. But I couldn't
just write on the screen, by the way, George's wife
is white because a majority of our listeners YouTube, I know,

(05:05):
you might not want to hear this. Are still only
listening to this in audio form, so it would be lost.
So I had to make this little thing in front
of it because I'm like, oh shit, I forgot to
say that is what wife was white in any way
to make this story make sense about teasing this guy
that was trying to figure out which kid was his. Okay,
I don't know if that made sense to you or not.

(05:26):
And then in doing that little full disclosure, I tried
to put jokes in there by saying, you know, white
is the absence of color, which, by the way, people,
technically that's not true. It is true. Black is the
absence of light, not color. I don't even want to
go into it with those fucking idiots. But and then
I also got to do a dig at making fun

(05:49):
of Cubans for always being late. Again, I'm just layering
comedy in there to set up another joke down the
road where you needed this information. Also, I got to
make fun one of the fact that his wife swears
all the time, which I forgot to do in the
interview because everyone thinks she's a saint, So that was
also a part of it. It's exhausting, have some compassion,

(06:12):
you know, I was born fully libed hearted. Okay, you
chose to be a magai.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Ref growing up listening to focus on the family sermons
as wild, especially how Tosh was able to leave all
that heavy conservatism behind, because that's not just regular conservatism,
that's conservatism on crack.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
See. I've been on both sides of it my whole life.
Can't we all just wash each other's feet? Hmm ah,
that'd be a good ad campaign, you know, putting our
differences aside, but just washing each other's feet. Somebody should
make that something.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I know.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
There's a lot of discussion on why you want to
protect women's reproductive rights.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Mmmm.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Classic using the underage rape example.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Lol. Rape account for one percent of all abortions one percent,
so GTFO using that straw man bs, and only two
percent are from medical emergencies. Over ninety five percent of
abortions are completely voluntary from people who made a choice
to have unprotected sex or sex out of marriage, people
who did those things without any intention of having a child.
Those people are murderers.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
I respect your opinion because you believe they're murdering babies,
and I don't believe that. And let's say that your
stats are right, there's only one percent. I mean, I'm
not even gonna argue the fact that in stual rape
is the least reported. But let's say the number is
way less. Let's say it's only happened one time. If
you're telling me you're okay with killing that baby, then

(07:42):
your argument loses a little credibility because I'm okay with
it at any stage. I don't believe it's murderer. I
do want to thank you for commenting, because everybody who comments,
you know, it adds to the popularity of the videos
and ultimately leads to more proper And I want you
to know that I am taking some of the money

(08:03):
from ad revenue and using it to donate to abortion
clinics and to pay for abortions. So therefore, everyone who
has commented or watched a video of mine, you technically,
by definition, are an accessory to murder. All right, Now,
that's probably gonna affect some sponsorships, but I want you

(08:28):
to know that that technically, in Alabama right now, you
would serve fifteen years in prison. And when you pass
away and get up those pearly gates on judgment day,
you will be turned away. I'm sorry, those are the rules,
all right? What any moore Eddie?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
We got one more?

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh, it's a comment about your son's bedtime stories. For
a story about helicopters, he sure did focus a lot
on the boat.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
My son catching strays. I mean, you're critiquing a three
year old's stories. All right, let's get today's interview. Today's
guest is a plumber, but he's not my plumber. I'll
be honest, I considered interviewing my plumber, but I'm I'm
just pretty sure he wouldn't be the right fit for

(09:20):
this format. One time I was talking to him, he
was trying to fix something on my toilet. He's just
leaning on the open The lid's open, but the part
that my butt sits on every day, he's just leaning
on it. Sitting on the floor talking to me and

(09:41):
like we're talking for way too long for him to
just still just be leaning. And then mid conversation goes,
you got heated seats, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, I do,
I've got heated seats all right. By the way, today's podcast,
you might have noticed the video quality is being broadcasting

(10:04):
four K and that's that's awesome, But we are experiencing
a few audio difficulties. So we've gotten the visual element up,
but the audio element occasionally is going to sound like
utter shit. But you know, growing pains. Huh. Enjoy, Pasha,

(10:31):
My guest today has seen some shit. Now I will
be focusing ninety percent of my questions on shit because
I'm sure as shit not going to trade school. Please
welcome Jimmy the Plumber. Jimmy, thank you for being here,
Thank you for having me. My first question, Jimmy that
I ask all my guests. Do you believe in ghosts?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
No? Really?

Speaker 1 (10:54):
All right, Jimmy. How long have you been a plumber?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
About fourteen years?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Fourteen years?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Did you always want to be a plumber?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Did you come from a long line of plumbers?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Nope? Not at all.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Jimmy, you pee in the shower?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, of course, who doesn't.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well I didn't know it doesn't I do. It's okay
to write, it's it's okay for the plumb. That water
that's all going to a gray all right, okay, it's
good for you. Like a shower?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
You prefer bath shower cold showers?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Do you like a cold shower?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Showers.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
You're nuts.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I don't I don't do a hell water.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
You don't use hot water, Jimmy, that's the craziest thing
I've ever heard. What are you telling you?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, that's the best for your for you.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'm sure I'm trusting me for you. I believe you.
But but it doesn't feel good.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well the first the first few they see it is
gonna it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I know. And then you get used to it.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
You get used to it, You get used to it jumping.
You know, cold.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Showers, how long do you shower for?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Like five minutes?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, see I like the shower for a good fifty
five minutes. Get out of here, Like I like a
nice hot shower. You're a kid, so you always do
cold showers.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
So you like all the steam coming out steam.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I like to brush my teeth in there too, with
hot water. My wife takes a shower and she has
water so hot, and I don't even believe that she's
touching the water or it's not even hitting her. She
just kind of moves back and forth. Unlet's just like
hit her hands in front of her. She's like, what
do you do? What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Where are you originally from from Garland, Texas?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
You like Texas?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I like it?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I like it? Now you like it?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (12:40):
California is right? So are you everybody wants to live California?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Are you one of these people that wants to jump ship,
leave California and go back to Texas?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I have family out there. Most of my family is
in Texas.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
So do you think you're gonna end up back in Texas?
I don't know. Don't wantase California, Jammy, that's that's not
what you do.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay? Are you?

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Are you married?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Legally married?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Now?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah? Are you legally married? You're not married, but you
have a serious relationship?

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, all right, I want to get into legality.
How'd you get into being a plumber?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Basically? You know, I was between you know, going to college.
I went to college and back and forth doing you know,
part time jobs.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Why were you going to college just.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
To make my family happy?

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Right?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (13:27):
You felt obligated?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah? Yeah, basically my parents that are like, oh, you
got to go to college. You gotta you know, you
gotta finish school, you gotta do something. And that was
the reason I was going. But you know, I will
go to college. I would just take general classes and
some dumb classes as well.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Sure I took I took team sports and my team
sports class, Dante Culpepper was in there and we played
dodgeball one day and it was very scary. I get
in trouble for this sometimes where I say people shouldn't
go to college, and I don't really mean it, but
I do think if you know what you want to
do in life and you don't need college, like, don't

(14:07):
don't saddle yourself with debt going to college exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
So, like I said, I was going to college with
part time jobs, you know, doing I was as a
clerk for a bank.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
All right, for you were a banker, and being a
banker is so boring that you're like, I would much
rather be you know.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know what I hate about the thing what I
was having a partner job is one of those locations
in the middle of nowhere you get like, you know,
three or four clients an hour. Probably I was the
only a male clerk in the mank. The rest all girls.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's nice, it's nice, but okay, you.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Know, here's the thing. They're in the own little world,
you know, talking about their stuff. Sure, and I'm here,
you know, just sitting there waiting for my client to
show up. Since the old female, they will get all
the clients, so would just sit there. It was, you know, boring.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
My My father in law is a banker and he
just loves to talk about it, acts like it's the
most exciting thing in the world. And I just stare
at him. So you dropped out of college to be
a plumber?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Basically? Yeah. So, like I said, I was going to college.
I didn't know what to do with my life. You know,
I was parrying college working. Finally this family party, my
brother in law at the time, you know, he came
up to me. He's like, hey, you know, do you
know do you know any anybody wants to work plumbing?

(15:35):
I'm like, yeah, I can probably ask a couple of friends,
you know. And then he goes like, yeah, you know,
the pay is good, the minimum which was you know,
they were paying like like four or five dollars more
than the minimum wage. Okay, you don't have to know anything.
You know, had to have tools. I was thinking about it,
like I said, I was. I was in the bank.
So I spoke to my manager at that time. You

(15:57):
know in the bank, I'm like, hey, you know what,
I need a week you know, I'm having you know,
some finals and going.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
On okaye the line, yeah right, normal, right, Sure, you're
double dipping. You're still getting paid by the bank, but
you're gonna go check out. See if you want to
be a plumber. You don't want to. I get it. Listen,
it makes complete sense, all right. And so you agreed that, hey,
this is this is a good switch. I'm done. I'm
going to do this for a living.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
So I asked for a week off. I called my
my brother in law and like, hey, you know what,
I want to give it a try. And he's like
you sure, yeah, And he's like it's it's you know,
it's pretty tough to to you know what you're going
to do.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Why is he trying to like get you to not
do it? When he first asked you to do.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
It, well, he asked me if I knew anybody, Oh,
he didn't want it to be you.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
I guess you know what it was was your parents
upset that you dropped out of college.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
First.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes, but you're like Mark Zuckerberg, except with toilets. Mark
zucker dropped out. Just do the Facebook, whatever that stuff.
I like that, I said, the Facebook, I remember. And
then how long until you opened your own company?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I will say maybe six seven years?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
And has it been easy starting your own company? Or
was it? Was it difficult?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I got my license and then I knew this friend, right,
he's been doing plumbing forever. So I came up to him.
I'm like, hey, you know what, I have a license.
Now you had a client. What do you say if
we partnership? And then he's like, you know what, Yeah,
that's a good idea. Let's do it right away. From
the get go, I had clients and I was working

(17:31):
with you know, like city jobs pretty much, you know,
so it was pretty good, you know, like I didn't
struggle at the beginning, like after we split it. I
was with him for about two years. And then after
we split, you know, because obviously you know, after two
thousand and a, everything you know, slowed down.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
The big recession two thousand and eight slowed everything's down. Yeah,
how long is the school to get your license? How
long does that take?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Depends on it individual.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know, how long did you get How long did
it take you to do it?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean it took me maybe like three months.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Tell me if I'm wrong. Basically, everything just has to
angle down. It's just about an angle. You just need
to slow it is. That's all plumbing is, start at
one height and make it go down.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Ship has to go down, Shit has to go down.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
How many different types of plumbers are there?

Speaker 2 (18:25):
So you have basically it's different branches, I will say.
So they have the service plumbers.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
You don't about the Rotor Ruter Fox.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's a different brand.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Do you like rot You like Rotor Ruter or No?
They get any good? Should we not be calling Rotter River?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
No? Well, here's the thing, Rotor, it's it's it's a
big company, right, sure, So it depends what area are
you in. But I know some guys that they do
some treaky things.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, can you answer me. Have you you've done plumbing
in a high rise before?

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Sorry, here's what I want to know. There's just toilets
all the way up into the sky and and and
there's just one It just goes to one big line.
And these turns are taking two hand foot dives exactly.
They are well literally yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
But most of the time you have they call it
vertical risers, and those are you know, obviously you're talking
about ten inch twelve inch pipes that all the drain.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Will still that.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
It will be tough. Yeah, trust me.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, So yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
He goes, you know, horizontal, ground level, horizontal, and then
he dives into the vertical risers.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
What about the water pressure?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
They have it all usually most of the most of
the buildings, they have a split system which goes from
the basement ground level to the I would say maybe
the third or four floor, which is CD pressure. Then
from the fifth to whatever floor it goes with a pump.

(20:03):
So you pump all the water into tanks up in
the roof, and then you let gravity do its job.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
In hot water too, because this is like some of
these high rises there's furnaces on every floor. Is that
what's going on?

Speaker 2 (20:17):
No? No, No, you have a big, a big tank
up in the roof.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
How much does that tank hold?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Was? Maybe like five thousand and six thousand gallons of water?

Speaker 1 (20:28):
It confuses me so much. Is fixing plumbing problems in
high rises? Is that harder than like homes or.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, it's actually easier. It's just that you have to
deal with the fact that when you're doing that repair,
you have to shut down the entire floor, so you
have to deal with people.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
You know. Okay, my wife, her hair possibly clogs every
drain in the house at some point. I don't know
where it's coming from. I don't know why it's in
the kitchen sink.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Here's the thing. We all complain about women's you know,
being the ones, but we all lose hair obviously.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, but our hair is short.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, but still I think showers are the worst when
it comes to that.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well, she does this thing where she she sticks all
of her hair that's loose on the wall, and then
you know, does the thing where she you know, then
she can take it all out. But the thing is,
she fucking never does it's all. Then I go into
the shower and I see this big dry hair ball
on the side of the shower and eventually it falls in.
All right, But but hair is a real problem.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, but you know, here's the thing. It's one of
one of the easiest problems to fix pretty much.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
What about what about a liquid DRAINO should we ever
use that stuff?

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Showers? Yes, not on the sinks. Don't use liquid drain
or toilets or toilets now, because liquid drain is basically
a chemical to burn the hair. So if you put
it in your toilet or on your sink, you're just
gonna get a messy clock.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Can ninety nine percent of plumbing problems be solved with
a plunger? No, you got a plunger?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I don't think I do either.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I don't have a plunger. You guys got plungers? Yep, yes, huh,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I mean they sell like some nice ones that.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
They still they still when you pull them out. Where
do you clean a plunger.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
On your buyers?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Right, that's the right answer. You should do it in
your backyard with a hose. But no, what does everybody do?
They take it out, It drips everywhere, and they put
it in their bathtub. That's disgusting. What's your stance on
wet wipes butt wipes? Flushing them? Can not even though
they say flushable now, no, you cannot flush them all. Right,

(22:51):
here's my routine. Okay, I think you'll approve of it.
It's a little disgusting. But I use wet wipes, okay,
but I don't flush them. I don't use any toilet paper.
I've got the toilet I've got in my room, in
my bedroom, the only toilet in the house, the fancy
toilet with the bidet and everything. So it cleans me.

(23:11):
Then I use a wet wipe, but the wet since
I'm already clean, the wet wipe is just an extra
layer of clean. This then I throw it in the trash,
so I'm flushing nothing. You flush the toilet at night
when you go to the bathroom if you pee. I don't.
It's too loud. It wakes me up. I don't flush
at night anyway. So I got a fancy toilet. I
was like, this is going to be my gift to

(23:31):
myself and my home, a fancy toilet. But the first
one that we got, and they're expensive, those toilets, those
fancy toilets are really expended. Do you spend ten grand
on a toilet. That's crazy anyway. So the first one
that we bought was one of those modern ones that
goes into the wall, not down a wall mount, which

(23:53):
is nice because you get to clean the floor underneath
your toilet. It's cleaner. But here was the problem. Mount one,
and they're so all low flow. Now there's not much water.
Every time you took a shit no matter what kind.
It left a huge streak on the bottom because it's
like a hard ninety hear. And then we read the

(24:15):
reviews of the toilet after we've already installed it, and
they're like, yes, it it leaves poop stains. My wife said,
we can't have this. I go, but it cost seventy
five hundred dollars. She said, we can't have it. I
can't have poop stains every time I go to the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
So you keep flushing and flushing and he doesn't go.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
So I paid to have it taken out. Put another
expensive toilet, but a one that goes straight down in
lesson learned Lesson learned on that toilet. The average man
in their lifetime, if they live to be seventy five
years old, we'll spend six years sitting on toilet. It now,

(24:55):
I made it up.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
But.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
It My point is, have a good seat. Talk about
some of the disasters that you've walked into.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I don't know if you if that comes as a disaster.
I walk into an adult film set by mistake.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
By mistake, they didn't have any plumbing problems.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
No, I was there to to to just do a walk.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
To lay some pipe.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
But I didn't. I didn't know that that that was
happening at the moment.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
You know, that's funny. Did you did you watch at all?

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's great. Was the story good or no?

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well I didn't. I didn't stick for that all. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
I rarely make it anything.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm walking almost at the climax. At the climax.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's good timing Mario or Luigi? Which one? Okay, should
we be drinking tap water?

Speaker 2 (25:55):
No, not at all?

Speaker 1 (25:56):
You serious? I drink tap water every day, especially for
my pills, and I put my mouth underneath it.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean, I will say, maybe like sixty five percent
of the water that you're getting on the fosse is recycled,
so unless you leave in one of those places that
is still get it, you know, from fresh.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I don't know that I do.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
So, yeah, you're drinking recycle pool water.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, I mean that's got to have some benefits.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Now. Oh yeah, Hey, I.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
The fear people have of a snake, an actual real
snake coming up a toilet, is that real?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, I've always worried about it.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
But I mean, you can get older, you know, you
can get cockroaches.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, in the toilet coming up. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know if I've ever seen that.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
They can survive, they can swim.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh man, all right, upper decker?

Speaker 2 (26:46):
You know?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
An upper decker is that's when you poop into the
top of the tank of someone's toilet at their house.
You do it during a party. It's fun, and then
when they flush, brown water comes out. Have you ever
seen an upper decker?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay, is there a busy season for plumbers?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh? Not really?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
I mean I was thinking like after the super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Well you know what? Actually, actually no, actually Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Thanksgiving that's a big meal.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah. I always get the calls.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
You get the calls because everybody's family's there. People are
using their toilets way more than they normally.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Normal, and and shit happens.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
How long do you wash your hands at the end
of the day? Hello, yeah, how long do you wash them?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Like? A minute? All right, listen a minute?

Speaker 1 (27:37):
All right? You're not worried or like, oh man, I.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Always wear latest gloves. You wear gloves, yeah all the time.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
You ever ever been hit on by one of your customers?
Somebody comes to your house and then all of a sudden,
uh oh.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, uh huh uh it was an old lady.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
How old?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well at that time I was in my meet twenties,
so was probably, like I was saying, like forties, early forties.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, okay, So did you make it happen?

Speaker 2 (28:08):
She wasn't that attractive? Okay? You know all right?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
What makes a good or bad customer?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
How long did it take to pay?

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Talk some shit about John? You did you do the
plumbing for this place?

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Does he did he? What did he treat you fair?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah? Did he pay you on time?

Speaker 2 (28:27):
No? That is.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
This thing up to code?

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I don't know. That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Now if somebody wants you to do something that's not
up to code, like like you know you can't even
get shower heads in this state. That yeah, that will
actually the water come out.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
More than whatever the stay requires, right right. It's like
when you order something from online and you see these
nice face that you like, m hmm, but when you
when you put on your car and it says, uh no,
it cannot be shipped to this location because California. Right.
So what I you know, have my customers do is

(29:08):
like when they want something like that, it's like, you know,
just order out of state or you know some you
know out of California, and then so help bring it over.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Even if I drill drill it out some of the
pipes and take out the water savory, it's still there's
just not enough water pressure coming to the house for
it to ever change. And I feel, here's my argument.
I'm all for saving water, and I do my part.
Here's how I do my part. I shower with my

(29:39):
wife and my two kids all at the same time.
So that's four people getting clean. I should be allowed
to have water hitting as harder. Right, that's my logic.
But you're saying the only workaround is like you got
to go out of state and you got to buy
your fixtures, but that still doesn't affect.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well, that's if if if you have like a low
consumption whatever you know, faucet mm hm, and you want
to get more water. Yeah, but but you know, in
your case, it sounds like the plumbing, the plumbing in
the wall, it's probably undersize or it's old galvan ice
and it's all rusted out, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
So no, no, it's not rusted out. This is all new.
This is new. But but a lot of the plumbing,
the size and because it's for them to sign off
on it.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
And then there's then there's like a is there like
a bar inside the pipe?

Speaker 2 (30:29):
A restricter?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Huh, the whole way through all the pipes.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, that's pretty much what a favorite thing from California
a witch.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
They don't have that in Texas.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
They don't know, they don't care, just.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Taking taking nice showers in Texas. Do you have any
celebrity clients you ever deal with people? You're like, Oh,
I know who this person is?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Now are there are there ships different than ours? Are they?
Is it all the same? M hm? What what race
of people has the worst smelling ships? Go ahead, I
don't know. No, you ever meet Andy Gump? You know
who he is? Do you know?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
And I know that company right, But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Is there a person is Andy Gump? A person could
be What are your thoughts on those? On those work site?
Porta potty is just the worst place.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
In the world, or yeah, they're they're disgusting.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Well, here let me tell you something. As I have
a sensitive stomach, so I was recently working. I was
in South Carolina. I was pushing It was late at
night and I was pushing my daughter in a stroller
trying to get back to my hotel. My stomach was
upset and I wasn't gonna make it. So here's what
I did. I pushed my daughter right up next to

(31:40):
the chain link fence at a construction site, jumped the
fence and went and used the porta potty and just
hoped that no one took my daughter because it went
fine okay, But but I had to as someone with
a bad stomach, I know I always might, Oh there's
a construction site.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well here's here's the thing. Though, now nine days what
they're doing is they're putting locks on those things. I know,
I know when everybody leaves, they lock those things and.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Get You know what I do if it's locked in
that scenario, I shove it over, tip it over, and
ship on top of it, just to let them know
that they are awful. Now, when people are on my show,
I always give them a gift from my house. I
just give something from my house. And I was like, oh,
what can I give Jimmy the plumber? And then I
thought about it. I was like, oh, this is perfect.

(32:29):
You worried or no, it's never It's pretty. I figured
I go he's from Texas, I go, and plumber's crack.
I don't ever want to I don't want him to
have it. So I got some of my old belts
that that I had that have the text right, Nice,
I said, I I go, there's a perfect gift for Jimmy.
Couple old leather belts with a big old Texas longhorned

(32:52):
belt buckle.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Nice, thank you.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
I know that those things were gifts to me from somebody.
I was like, yeah, I don't. I don't ever dress
like this. All right, put that on the floor that
that's what's your waist.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Size thirty six? That'd be fine.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Plumbers crack? Where did that stereotype come from?

Speaker 2 (33:13):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Are you self conscious and always make sure that your
pants are up?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh? Yeah? Always? Okay, have you seen some some plumbers
crack here and there?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Sure you have the term white mice? You know what
that is? Right? You don't know the term white mice
is in the plumbers world. And then a woman's tampon
that clogs up the toilet. Oh you've heard it.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, I never heard of the white mice.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Okay, have you have you found those?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Oh? Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
What's the worst thing you've seen people flush in the.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Toilets uh, sex toys?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Was it on purpose or did it fall out?

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Maybe a mistake and just you know, went down. I
want to pick it up.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
You gotta you gotta flush of sex toy? How far
can you actually snake a drain or a toilet? How
far can you actually go?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
You know it depends without removing the toilet? Six feet?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
That's it? What about talk about roots? Tree roots? And
is that just a nightmare? What do I gotta do?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
If you sewer outside? Is clay pipe?

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
It's an I got you have to get rid of
the clay.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
I'm not I just keep paying to have the roots
cleaned out because it's.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
The jedal right, yeah yeah, Unfortunately, you can't do nothing
about it unless you replace it.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
All right, I got to replace it. What's the biggest
funk up you've ever done?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
That was back when I was working for a company
at the union. You had to do uh they call
it a brace shuddering, which you used, you know, like
a torch, you know, the torch they use for t
welt stuff and melt things. The guy who was my
you know, my foreman, He's like, oh you know what,

(34:54):
you know, you want to learn how to do this?
I'm not sure. And he's like, okay, so this is
how you mix you know that the oxygen and nitrogen
to get you know, the perfect flame so you can
brace the copper. So he's you know, he started showing me,
you know, you mix it this way, and okay, fine,
we shut up this day. I think he was off today.

(35:16):
They send somebody else with me, you know, because usually
usually when you're working on those companies, you work you know,
with a partner. So they send this other guy and
he's like, oh, you know, what are we doing today.
I'm like, well, we're going to keep raising you know
this these copper pipes, right, and he's like, you know
how to do that? I'm like, oh, yeah, I know,
you know. So I grab this tea we're talking about,

(35:40):
you know, at that time, this is back in two
thousand and five and six. At that time, that tea
was worth almost three grands the copper tea, coppery, yeah,
ten inch, ten inch copper tea. So I grabbed the thing,
you know, put it all together, put it on the table,
started working on it. This guy is watching me thinking

(36:01):
that I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
You've heard about it.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
At least I put a hole into the tea. So
is that done? Done? It's done done. You can't do nothing.
So that goes to the trash well recycled, recycle.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
It goes back your car.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
So so I'm like and he looks at me. He's like, oh,
I tell you you knew what you were doing. Like,
uh oops, So what do we do now, Well, let's
just pretend that never happened, cut it, put it in
the back of my truck, and then we told the supervisor, oh,

(36:37):
we need this tea and he's like, whoa, I order it.
You know it's it's in the in the box in
the job box. Oh we can find it. Oh no,
So it was a it was a you know, expensive
fuck up.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Well, right, but it didn't cost you any.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well yeah, and then I actually took it back to
a recycled place and I get some money out of it.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Jimmy, that's not the right thing to do. Would you
consider yourself a reputable do you like, make sure you
know you talked about the road up people Sometimes they
take advantage of people. Do you ever take advantage of
customers or try to upsell them? Or do you just
be like here, this is this is what you need,
this is what you get.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
You know. I think the reason that I kept myself
busy until this time, you know, and I'm always busy.
I never advertised, never done any advertising. No, everything is
being warm mouthed.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
And you didn't mention that story about you know, costing
that one client ten thousand dollars with that tea.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
No, No, that was that company that used to work for.
I know.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I mean this, you were a young buck and you're allowed.
You're allowed one of those per career.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
So here's the thing I've been trying to always even
even some of my guys, you know, like I had
this guy working for me one time and he's like, Jimmy,
what do you do? This is so perfect? Not perfect,
but you know what do you make it look so nice?
I mean, the client is not gonna it's not gonna

(38:04):
see it. It's gonna be inside the insulation in the walls.
I'm like, don't worry, just do it because I like to,
you know, keep it symmetrical, keep it nice looking. You know,
I don't want to all messy.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
You need an honest person.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
That's how I being keeping my business.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
You know, do you hate the fact that you know
how to fix stuff all the time? Like do your
neighbors come over and go hey, man?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Uh, here's the funny thing, like when you know, once
I go home, I don't want to do anything. Even
if there's a leaky fact in the house, I don't
touch it if my neighbor, if my neighbor comes out.
I actually had this old lady. She she's she's really nice.
She's she lives by herself. She came out the other day.
I was I was pulling the trash cans ole and

(38:44):
she came out and she said, oh, Jamie, how are you.
I want to I want to ask you for a favor.
I'm like, well, what happened?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Because I ordered this stove from home depot and uh
they I told, you know, the deliric guy. Oh you know,
I was gonna pay him, you know, to install it
for me to connect the gas line. But he didn't
because he said I didn't have the right connection.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
You know, that's a real favor.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah, in my head, right, I'm like, oh, but you know,
it's just an older lady by herself. Okay. So I
went I went up and whatever connection she had. It
was that it was the right one. It just happened
to whoever showed up. They didn't care. You just wanted to,
you know, drop off the box and leave. That's as

(39:29):
much as I do, you know, with my neighbors and
stuff like that. But you know, I don't want to
know anything about plumbing.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
What's it. I'll do some advertising for you. I'll give
you free advertiser on this show. What what's the name
of your company?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
You see Flow Plumbing Services, Easy.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Flow Plumbing Services. I just rolls off the tongue. Did
you have sex with your neighbor when you went over
there to install the stove? Now, okay, that's what I
think of plumbing. I think the plumbers are just having
sex with everybody. I had a pipe. It was running
across my bedroom and it was it had permanent hot

(40:06):
water going through it, like real hot water. That and
it had one of the welds or whatever, one of
the seals. It had a leak, but a pinhole. But
it was so the water was so hot that when
it dripped it it didn't drip, it evaporated. It evaporated.
So for like three years it was evaporate. But when

(40:29):
it hit the dry wall below it. It turned back
to water so like you couldn't see where the drip
was coming from until about three years later where I
put my hand on the wall and my hands went
right through the wall.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
He didn't call me, No, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
I used I used my guy, Barry, you know Berry. No,
it's not as small, not as small of the circle
as I thought it was.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
No, there's tons of towns plumbers on there.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
No, I know Barry. Barry's the guy that just leans
on my toilet and goes. You got a heated toilet.
See you got graphics on the side of your truck. No, No,
you don't want anybody to call you ever.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I used to. I used to, But what happened is
that with Dad, what you're doing is you creating tief
to pretty much follow you and then steal your crap.
Because I have my vent stolen a couple of times.
So now I don't do it. Like I said, I
don't do any advertising.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Do you want me to advertise for you or no?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Not really? Yeah, that's funny, all right.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
I appreciate you taking time out, Jimmy. Thank you for
your hard work, and thank you for having me I'll
see you around. That's a soft hand, strong.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Pasha.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
That does it, Carl. Another one's in the books. I
want to thank Jimmy the Plumber for being on the
show and doing all the plumbing in our studio here.
Haven't had a single problem. There's a good guy. I'd
give him a plug, but he says he doesn't want him. Fine,
speaking of plugs, I uh, you see this, guys. This

(42:17):
is a boys Wear pinktote from Boyswearpink dot com. Okay,
let me tell you some of this tote. This tote
goes for twelve dollars. But if you order something on
the website, it'll ask you when you're checking out, do
you want to add a tote? Listen, Carl, for only
an extra five dollars? Right, Okay. Well, the other day,

(42:41):
and I'm gonna call her out, we get an order
from Lori in Connecticut and she just got a tote
for five dollars. I'm like, how'd she beat the system?
It looks like what she did she put in her
cart something and then she deleted the main thing and

(43:02):
it just kept the five dollars tote in there and
it didn't go back to the twelve dollars price, But
now she had to pay for shipping. But still Laurie
got a tote without purchasing anything else for five dollars.
You believe that she beat the system. I'm not gonna
fix it either. Now I'm encouraging people, Carl, you don't

(43:27):
find this fascinating that somebody figured out a way to
get toats for just five dollars when they were originally
twelve dollars. That's a pretty cool workaround, all right, you
win that round, Laurie. What else is going on? The
goat on Amazon? Check that out? My tour, check out
our dates, buy tickets go on now before we go,

(43:49):
a bedtime story from my once three year old son.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
See you next week, room ballad mounting shan't outside you
now they little popped into a gig trip.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
You already told the story of popsicles. I don't want
to hear it anymore. Tell me a new story.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
Once upon a time a wabbits went to the end.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Okay, that is insane.