#6 - Steve Mercado: From Fires to Foundations - Four Day Breaks

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And today we got a guest with us, Mr. Steve Mercado. How you doing, brother?
I'm good. Good. Good. Good, brother. Steve Mercado here.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. How did your cycle go? I know you're still in your in-between day,
Steve, but how's your cycle been so far? Anything interesting?

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No, dude. We've been pretty chill. I think I've had in the past
two shifts, we've probably had like four calls.
No shit. Yeah. We didn't have sun. What was our first day? Sunday, right Basan? Sunday.
Yeah, Sunday. Sunday, I didn't have a single call at station two. And then where was I the second
day? I was at station two with Javi. I think we had like two calls or three calls. And then

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last shift we had one call. So yeah, I had a boring cycle, this cycle. I mean,
granted it's good, right? There was nothing bad on anybody, but it was a slow cycle.
Yesterday we had a false alarm for a house fire, but did you smell the smoke inside?
Well, as well that we've been having these past couple of days, the electrical systems are

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just panicking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It happens. It happens.
Aside from that, how's everything going on your end? I know you have home rescue solutions. You
know, you're doing your job on that. I always see you posting and stuff like that. How's all that
going? How does- It's going good, man. It's going good. We have our seasons where it's a

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little slow, you know, depending on what people are looking for. Because we specialize in all types
of roofing, commercial and residential. But little by little I've been transitioning into remodeling.
So for like me, I met you probably less than a handful of times. So if you can tell me

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and the viewers what your business is and stuff like that, what you guys do exactly.
Okay. So we handle insurance claims for roof leaks, wind, hail damage, mold mitigation, fire
mitigation, and then any kind of remodeling, restoration that you need. If you want to take

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a tub out of a bathroom and make a walk-in shower, we can do that. If you want to add a room to your
house, we could do that. Dang. Yeah. I just did a shower addition into a half bath.
Wow. We just extended her half bath into the garage and made her a walk-in shower.

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I've been wanting to extend, I guess, my master bathroom, but
it's a hassle to have to go through all that. And then especially how long it takes. If it takes more
than a few days, you have to have a bunch of different shit. Yeah. Usually an addition with
plumbing. It just depends on a lot of factors. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of

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variables to it, right? Yeah. Because if I need to go through the foundation to move the plumbing
to a drain or something, then it's going to take a couple of weeks. It could take a week or two.
I'm meeting with a client on Monday for a full house remodel. Oh, dang. New flooring, new kitchen,
new bathrooms. See, I'm fortunate that my house was remodeled before I bought it.

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Oh, man. Yeah, for sure. And a lot of people are doing it now. A lot of realtors actually are-
Oh, really? Buying homes and renovating them and then reselling them and then flipping them out.
Yeah. They're just fix and flip, fix and flip. Yeah. So my dad does that actually. He buys houses,
fixes them up, and then he either rents them or sells them. Yeah. I mean, you look at it as passive

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income. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I do know. More people are renting than buying now. Yeah. Yeah. And I think
the thing with that too, right? With renting and buying and everything like that, it's just
like, it's so... Like me, I bought my house, right? So I never lived anywhere else outside of

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my parents and then I just went straight into buying a house. So going from that, I look at
it and I'm like, dude, if something fucks up, right? I had an issue with my AC last year.
I don't have anybody to call to fix that shit. It's on me. Well, besides obviously a HVAC tech
or whatever, I'm sort out the issue, but compared to like, I don't have anybody to call to fix that

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issue, but compared to like, if I rented the house, I could just call the landlord and be like,
hey, something's going on. Get the shit fixed. They fix it. It's on their dime. You know what
I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I see the benefits though. I see the- That and then you're
ever going to move town, hey, I got an opportunity and up north or something, you can just get up

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and go. You don't have to worry about, oh, I got to sell my house and all this stuff. Or even listed
to rent. Yeah. It's a bigger headache, I guess, when you got to move. Well, I mean, I didn't see
myself leaving anyways. You know what I mean? I mean, maybe if high rise blows up and it becomes
a multimillion dollar company, maybe relocate to another city, but I don't see that occurring in

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the next few years at least. And even if it did, it would still take a lot for me to have to like,
not have to, but want to get up and leave. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Nowadays,
you can just fly to wherever you need to be if you need to be somewhere for meetings and shit
like that. And then with our schedule at work- Yeah. Exactly. With our schedule, it's so much
easier to just say, hey, you know what, take vacation one day and now I got six days to do

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whatever I got to do. So- Yeah. I've been planning on our four day breaks to take off up north for
further duration of the four days and get jobs up there in San Antonio, Kingsville,
Corpus, all that stuff. Yeah. Because that's what I was going to ask. Does your business go anywhere
past the valley? What was the- Yeah. So pretty much I have a network of other,

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you could say contractors that I work with that are in San Antonio, Austin, the Hill country area,
and then Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and then some in Corpus and Kingsville. So if I ever get a job
up there, I just call them and, hey, can you go do this roof or do this for me or scope it out,
price it out? And then they'll send me their price or whatever. And I'll cut them percentage or a

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referral fee or something like that. Yeah. And they're good with it. Or they'll just be like,
hey, my guys are available. Just use my guys. Okay. No shit. So it's basically like a network
of contractors essentially, right? Pretty much. You can say I'm pretty much a general contractor
now because before I was just doing roofing, I went from, I took on solar cells part-time as a

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side hustle and did good. And I was running into a lot of clients that needed new roofs.
So I had a buddy that had a roofing company. He's been in the roofing game for like 15 years.
So I was giving him the roofs and he was making money on the roof and I was making money on the
solar part. So he was like, dude, why don't you just open a roofing company and you can

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make your own money on the roof and on the solar part. And I'm like, yeah, no, dude,
I don't want to do that. And he's like, no, no, no, let's do it. I'll teach you everything. All
right. So I got into it, started doing it. And then it took off, man. We got hit with a storm
after that, about maybe six months after I opened the roofing company, maybe about a year later

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that I opened the roofing company. Yeah. During that storm, right after that storm, dude,
I was doing neighborhoods. Dude, that is fucking crazy. I mean, obviously it's unfortunate,
but the luck for you to start that. Yeah. Like I just went into one, one house called me
and then the neighbor came out. Hey, can you give me a quote? The next neighbor came out. Can you

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give me a quote? And my buddies would call me that were roofers and they're like, dude, I just drove
into a neighborhood and saw your signs like on every yard. And I'm like, yeah, dude, I don't know.
I don't even know what I'm doing with insurance claims right now. That was just a different ball
game for me, you know, I didn't know before, but I wasn't going to say no. Yeah, of course.

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Of course. So that's how that started. But what made you want to like, what inspired the home
rescue solutions, like the actual, the entirety of the company itself? Like what made you,
or what drew you to creating? I mean, we're in customer services firemen. Yeah. You know,
in the fire service, you know, customer service is a big deal. And I feel like with my company,

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that's what I base my company on is customer service. Like I'm not there to get rich off your
job. I'm not there to, you know, I just want to give people what they need. Yeah. And I've even
done, you know, kind of what we do in the fire department. Hey, we'll install free smoke alarms.
I'll do the same thing. If you don't have any, I'll go buy some at Lowe's and I'll install them

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for free, you know, just to be safe or paint numbers on your curb or put them on your mailbox,
you know, just because it helps the fire service. Yeah. When we want to identify a house. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, it was just, uh, I've always wanted to have a, a business, you know,

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and I never wanted to work part time, like on the box or, you know, go do more stressful stuff. But
even though this is a pretty stressful, uh, business that I'm in, but, but it's yours
compared to working somewhere else. So, yeah. And then I think about our, you know, the fire service,
we don't get paid what we should, you know, we do get paid good, but yeah, I feel like you do your

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25 or 35 years for a plaque at the end of that, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And not just that though,
but the toll that takes on you, you know, mentally, physically, you know, you know,
you got to live with all the shit you've seen and all the stuff that we don't feel that it bothers
us. Yeah. When we first see it, but later on it comes out, man. I've, I've been in the fire service

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for 20 years now and, uh, it's, it's taken a toll. I've had to like, realize sometimes where like,
Hey, I'm kind of damaged, you know? Yeah. No. Yeah. And I think that's a, that's a big like a bridge
between like, obviously someone like you, right. Or like JP, right. That have been in the service

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for such a long time now to look at a Basan, right? For example, Basan still fresh in the,
in the service. I'm kind of in the middle between both of you and that dynamic, you know, like that
bridge between it. But at the end of the day, if it came down to it and we're all working on the same
shift or we're all working on the same truck, like it's, it's, it's go time. You know what I mean?

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Oh yeah. Time to kind of like backpedal and shit like that. It's more of, of, you know, getting down
to what, what needs to get done and, and making it happen essentially. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's,
you know, there's days where I clock in and I got to find that fire, man. It's like,
all right, let's, let's do it. Let's do another day. You know, it's yeah. That motivation. Yeah.

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Sometimes I'll see like all these new guys we're hiring that are 20, 25 years old and they're
living the dream, you know, like, oh, my career dream job, you know? And I'm like, man, you don't
even know. No, yeah, man, for sure. Yeah. 100%. But I don't like to be the negative Nancy, you know,
I want to encourage them and stuff like that. So I got to find that fire and just train them up and

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make sure I'm there for them and stuff. Yeah. And I think it's, it's good though, right now,
especially with our department, we're in such a, a different spot than it was like when I got hired,
you know what I mean? Oh yeah. When I got hired, it was all about, Hey, we need it. We have three
stations or we have two stations that aren't manned. We need to start manning them. You know what I
mean? Like I came in right after you guys, right after you guys manned station too. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. So it was, it was like that dynamic of like, Hey, we have two stations that are not manned.
We need to get to that. And now it's more of, we need to fill up a, you know, an aerial truck
because we need to get the ISO rating down or we need to do X amount of training. We need like,
it's a whole different dynamic from when, when I was, I can only imagine how when you were in JP

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were, when it was one station, you know what I mean? Yeah. One station, dude, it was, it was
an ass raping all the time. I believe it, man. I believe it as busy as we are sometimes for one
station to have to respond to everything that. Yeah. Imagine dude, like you're running out with
two stations. It sucked at times. You know what I mean? Yeah. You have only, you're only four guys

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on a crew. Exactly. That's just, and then for, for a population, right, obviously at the time it was
saying like, it was about 70 to 80,000, but we all knew with the university and everything, it was
well over a hundred thousand. Holy shit. But dude, dude, just for two stations, bro, that's, dude,
yeah, bro. Dude, that was even one station, bro. Yeah. Damn bro. It was crazy times. When I, when

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I got there, it was, it was busy all the time, all the time. And obviously as it developed more
stations now, obviously we have the vacation station, the fire alarm station, the station out
there in the boonies with five, like now we have everything kind of separated a little bit, but
when I came in, they had just opened up station two and it was just nonstop with two stations is

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rolled and rolled and rolled and rolled. And then, well, I mean, now it's station five. We're over
there feeding pigs and yeah, just future farmers of America over there at five. We're out of,
we're out of corn, man. We need more. Yeah, man. And it's a crazy dynamic to see, you know, from,

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I can only imagine from your perspective compared to mine, right? Cause it's different seeing it
from where I came in and then seeing the way everything changed. I came in at a young age too.
I was 21 when I got hired and you know, it just kind of developed into it. And like JP, for example,
came in at a little later time. He was working as a mechanic and then went up. So it's, I definitely

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see like there's a, there's a big bridge between the fire service, as far as the old heads and new
heads and kind of bridging that gap. I mean, and we're all kind of, we all, I think I feel we all
have the same goals. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. I mean, and the guys have been there 10 years,

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you know, five years, eight years.
You, you had cut off in the beginning part. What was the first part you said?
All right. Some technical difficulties on our end. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I've been noticing it too,

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like a very like little, yeah. Now we, now we can hear you fine.
Might've been a disconnect from like the wifi or something like that. Are you on?
Yeah. That's what I'm thinking too.
This is that 16 minutes. So I could probably go back and delete some of this. So no big deal.
Okay. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's cause I got a phone call, dude.

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You did, you did. All right. So where was I saying? I think we all have the same goal in mind as far
as the new guys coming in, the guys that have been here, you know, six years, eight years,
the guys have 10 year already, the guys have been here forever. Besides, I feel like we're all

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promoting into those positions where it's going to start, the change is going to start happening,
you know, with Cito being a DC and Mark being a captain and, you know, everybody's kind of moving
up, you know, Brian's next to her for captain as well. Yeah. You know, those are all changes that

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are good for the department, you know? Oh yeah. Yeah, for sure. Cause we're getting the younger,
the younger guys in there that all think alike. So yeah. And I think, I think that's, that's a good,
I think it's good for the department as far as like how we're kind of going about it with all
the new positions and stuff like that. I think as far as city council and all that goes, well then

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we'll see what happens within our department. Yeah. Yeah. But I think, I think ultimately,
I mean, our, I don't see our department having a lot of issues right now, as far as like the,
Oh, that wouldn't say the upper brass, but the middle brass, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
The lieutenants captains and even like the DCs are kind of all on the same page for the most part.

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Yeah. Obviously I can't speak on prevention side of things just cause I don't see how things are
on that end, but as far as suppression, I think everybody's pretty much on the same, the same
train, you know what I mean? Everybody's kind of just going with the flow and let's see where,
where things go from here and make adjustments as needed, you know? Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I think that's where, that's where I had started back to the whole subject of

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that we started this conversation, home rescue solutions, like named it home rescue solutions,
just cause I wanted something to do with rescue, you know, being that I come from the fire service
and then I feel like I just wanted to build something more than just having a pension.

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Once I retire, you know, if I only do 20 years, cause to be honest, I don't see myself doing more
than 20 years, regardless of what position I'm in, you know, I'm going to be kept off at my 20
year and that's it. Yeah. I said I had 20 years of service with a volunteer service that's here

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and paid. So, but it's all been with Edinburgh. So that's where I started the business and
just going through trial and error with everything in the business. Cause I've never
been, how long has it been up and running already? Yeah. So it's gonna end.

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Yeah. So it's gonna end. We're going to be five years now. Oh, wow. Yeah. So 2020 peak COVID.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I took a chance and you know, the, I mean, if anything, I think that was
probably the time to do it when everybody was at home. Yeah, for sure. And that's where everybody's

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like looking around their house, like, yeah, exactly. I need this or, yeah, I need to do this.
You know, I'm bored. My house is hot. My house is hot. I need like spray foam insulation,
you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did see that. So I had buddies that owned, I have, I have a lot
of buddies that own spray foam insulation. So I was going to get into that and buy a spray foam

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rig and all that and be a part of my company. But I wanted, I wanted to buy a box and make it into a
spray foam rig. Dude, that'd be fucking sick, man. It has to be, yeah, it has to be a big box. It
can't be like a bigger one. It has to be one of those. Just take, just take RestU2, bro. We won't
say nothing. Yeah, for sure. Just take it, bro. We don't know what happened to it. It just disappeared.

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It's still, I was getting a lot of calls for that too. And my buddies, I have probably like five,
five friends that have those. So I talked to another contractor, friend of mine in Austin,
and he was like, dude, why are you going to go get in debt 80 grand for a spray foam rig?
When you have five buddies that have rigs, that means you have five rigs. And I'm like,

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what are you talking about? You know, how do you, what do you mean? And he goes, dude,
if I need somebody with spray foam, I'm not going to go buy a rig just to spray foam the house,
just contract it out. And I'm like, oh yeah. And then I started doing that more. And then that's
how the general contracting started. Besides the roofing, because the roofing, I have my own crew

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and I got certified in roofing as well. Metal roofs, composite roofs, like plastic, they look like
a, like barrel tile, like the clay tile. Yeah. But they're plastic. They're like recycled,
recycled material. And those are like hell proof, destruction proof. You can like,

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you can run over them. Nothing happens to those. Dang. Yeah. I'm certified in different types of
roofs, but a preferred contractor with GAF and with Owens Corning as well. Those are the only two. I
like to use those two types of shingles, but if I need to go cheaper, I will. Yeah. Depending on the

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client's budget and stuff like that. But that was the main thing. I just wanted to build something
for my family to, you know, something I can leave behind for, you know, my boys, if they ever want
a business, there's one here. Or, you know, if I can't lift a finger anymore or I'm disabled for

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some reason, this is a business I can run without having to go anywhere. You know, I can do it from
my laptop pretty much. Yeah. If I want to, you know, I can just call people and make it happen.
No. So that's where you came up with the name Home Rescue Solutions, obviously wanting to keep it to

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the fire service. It's as funny as it sounds, that is one of the biggest things with Hi-Rise.
Originally we had the HR logo put together, right? And then we were trying, I was talking to,
who was I talking to at the time? It was Josh Marcus and Ray. We were all at station two. And

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I was like, yo, like what could we get from the HR? The only thing I could think of was heavy rescue.
Right? That was the only thing I could think of heavy rescue. But I'm like, it doesn't make sense.
You know what I mean? Like the heavy rescue, like for an energy drink, it doesn't make any sense.
So we're playing with it. We're doing all this other shit. And then Ray was actually the one
that came up with the name Hi-Rise. And instead of going with Hi-Rise Energy, because there was

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already a company named Hi-Rise Energy that was in solar, I think, or some shit like that.
I went with fuel because obviously, at the end of the day, it's kind of, I guess, not a metaphor,
but it's kind of, with an energy drink, you think of it as fuel sometimes. So it kind of just
matched or whatever. And that's where we ended up getting Hi-Rise fuel. But seeing that dynamic,

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to like, I guess the common thinking, right? From your end to my end and Ray and everybody,
when we first started Hi-Rise, it kind of, having that thing, we wanted to base it off the fire
service and kind of blend it. And then we added the Maltese background to the logo. We added the
little pipes on the side of the HR and started adding all these different things, the Hi-Rise
lettering and all that kind of stuff. So it's cool to see that in that same realm, you kind of had

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that same concept. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm still trying to make a logo. I have Home Rescue Solutions
logo, but I want more, I want to do something that I can put on my truck, kind of like the way you
use the Maltese cross. I was thinking of putting like a fire helmet on a pitch of a roof, making

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that the background of my logo or something like that. No shit. Just trying to play with it.
Cause I think I'm going to wrap my truck here pretty soon or put some details on it or something.
And just wrap it, bro. I haven't think about wrapping mine too, but I'm just like, nah,
like it's a piece of shit little truck. I don't want to spend money on it. You know?

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Well, you'll make it look better with a wrap. I mean, yeah, of course you can make anything.
You can make the turret look better with a wrap, but it's just like, I spend the money to do it,
especially because my guy isn't doing it anymore. Once he left the Navy, he's not here anymore.
So there's not a lot of people, I'll be honest with you, a lot of the companies, and I swear,
I'm not trying to like bad mouth anybody down here, but a lot of the people that do wraps down

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here aren't good. Yeah. Like I've seen a lot of the wraps, right? Being in the car scene for so
long, like I've seen a lot of the companies that are down here that offer it. And a lot of them
don't, they don't either, they don't tuck it right. You could see the lifts. You could see,
you know, where they try to do like what's supposed to be a one piece, but it's hard to do it in a

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one piece. They make it into two and you can see the little edges and everything like that. It's
just like, nah, you know what I mean? Like not as clean as the guy that did it. And this guy did it
out of his garage at his house. You know what I mean? So it was like a whole different ballgame.
And you know that guy was good. Yeah. He was golden, bro. Like he, every part of my vehicle

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that was in one piece was wrapped in one piece. And like for a Challenger, if you look at the rear
quarter panel, it goes into the pillar into above the fucking the doors. Like that's all one piece.
He like trimmed everything, tucked it away. And I couldn't find a single thing that wasn't right
besides the mirrors because the mirrors couldn't be wrapped in one piece. It was like virtual. He

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showed it to me and I, I even tried to do it and it's like virtually impossible, but everything else
was like top tier. But he told me that a lot of these companies try to pass that, that buck off
and be like, no, like it's all good. It's the best. It's going to be whatever, yada, yada, yada.
And yeah, I'm just not a fan of it, but that's a whole nother conversation, right? But it's,

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it's good. I like, I like rap, man. I think, I think wrapping vehicles is a,
is a huge plus. Not only does it protect it, right? The paint and everything like that,
but you can literally go as crazy as you want. Obviously with my Challenger, it was color
changing. That thing turned heads all the time. You know what I mean? But definitely, I mean,
I think that's something that I've been looking into. I know JP has been talking about wrapping

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his a little bit, maybe not changing the blue, but adding details to it with a high rise logo
and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I might even do like the side, the back door windows
and the back windshield just because I liked the color scheme on my truck. You know? Yeah. I
haven't seen your new truck. I probably have. I just don't remember it. Cause I remember the old
truck, the one that, the one that, the one that, that, uh, that I wrecked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This

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is the same thing. It's a four door long bed, F3 50 same thing, but it's, uh, got the two tone.
It's a King ranch. Okay. It's got, it's got the, the gray on the bottom. The
receding shit boys are all, all diesels bro. Yeah bro. Well their shit. It's got a six inch
lift with 38 inch tires. God damn Steve, I stand next to you brother and you're a little shorter

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than me. What are you doing with a six inch lift? Hey, it's got 24 inch wheel with, uh,
with floating caps, you know, no more. I don't know if you ever remember with Stuart,
but when he would show up to the station for shift, he'd hop out the truck man is crazy.
Yeah. Whenever I'm in my truck and somebody's in the passenger side, dude, if I get off

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and walk around the truck, it'll take a while before you see me, bro. Like,
but sometimes it's good because I'll just back up to the house. You know, if I need to get on the
roof and I can pretty much get on the roof from using my truck as a ladder instead of having to
take that's fucking wild. That's crazy, bro. From the guys. Yeah. From the bed. Like I step on the

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side, the sides of the bed, like it's a normal little one story home, you know, older houses.
That's fucking crazy, bro. I mean it works, dude. For real, man. Sometimes it works, bro.
We're called fucking, uh, what is it? OSHA, bro. Whenever I see you out somewhere.
Or I'll just pass, you know, tools, like I'll back up to the garage and see that. I can understand,

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but using it and replacing a ladder for that, bro, is wild.
Yeah. I feel, I feel safer on that thing than I do on the ladder, bro. Oh dude, for sure.
Dude, for sure. Just take truck two and set it up, bro. It's all good. Gotcha. Yeah, man. So,
yeah. General, general contracting it. Explain that a little bit to me. Cause I, I kind of,

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I mean, obviously it's like, I think of it like general surgeons, right? Like they're kind of,
I wouldn't say masters of everything, but they do like a plethora of things, right?
Right. Right. General contract is like that same, pretty much home rescue. Yeah. Home rescue. We
can do, dude, I could build you a home if I needed to, if you wanted one. Uh, I, that's what my team

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consists of. I have guys for cement. I have guys for tiles, sheetrock, tape and float painters,
electricians, plumbers, roofers, you know, insulation. I've got it all.
But do you think you would be able to go that route? Like maybe sometime in your future?
That's the goal. Uh, I want to open up another business that separates roofing

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crumb home rescue solutions. This, and that's going to be more mitigation, uh, for fire mold and
water to where I'm just doing insurance claims. Yeah. And I want to separate it from home rescue
and have home rescue as the renovations or the remodeling you can say. And then have another one

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for building new homes. And the, the, the, the plan is to build barn doors, not, not really homes,
like spec homes or anything. I want to get into barn dominions because like we do metal buildings
with home rescue solutions. So like people that want these big kind of like the ones that station
to where the fire trucks are parked in the back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the trailers and stuff.

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We build those all the time. So, uh, the fact that people want to live in something like that, bro,
amazes me. Bro. Some of them are really nice, dude. I've seen a few, but like, I just can't see
myself living in something like that. Why? I mean, some of them are more efficient than homes. Yeah.

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No, I know what I'm saying is like, I, I'm also looking at it from like, I've only seen the nice
barn dominions from like up North, like Austin type area, right. And the big fucking, you know,
five acre, 10 acre plots of land and shit. So like, I see those, but I'm looking at them.
I'm looking at them from like, if I walk into it and it feels like if I'm going to the back of

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station to, to go to look at, you know, the brush or the rescue truck and it's not like AC'd and
shit, I'm not with it. You know what I mean? Like, and I know that they're obviously, you know, AC'd
and everything like that, but like, I just, that's my thought process. I've never actually seen
a barn dominion in person as a home home. Yeah. Yeah. And pretty much it's, it's a, it's a home.

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It's a regular home inside, but your garage space, you can make your garage space as big as you want.
You know, that's the part that's awesome. Like I've seen some that have, you know, three, four car
garages with two doors instead of four garage doors. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. The bay

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doors are just bigger and of course they're air conditioned spaced, they're spray foam insulation.
So that's a conditioned area. You know, it just looks nicer. The thing is they're cheaper to build
compared to building a home. Oh, are they? Yeah. Yeah. That's why people, a lot of people build them

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on these big ranches because building a regular home, I mean, those are still million dollar
million dollar barn does, you know, they are more expensive than a regular barn dough down here or
whatever. But, you know, if you're going to build a little three bedroom, two bath barn dough,
and you're going to save a lot of money compared to building a spec home or,

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you know, the cost of what percentage would you kind of get off of it?
As far as savings. Yeah. Like, let's just say a three bedroom, two bath, maybe, you know, like
1800 or 2000 square feet. What is that looking like cost wise compared to a... I would say you
can build it for about a hundred grand. Oh, dang. All in? All in. Yeah. No shit. And that's like,

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not like the cheap route. That's like the... That is like a medium. Yeah. That is like a pretty good
route. Like that is not the cheapest material, you know, stuff like that. It all depends on,
on who, again, who you hire and what labor you're using, who I make sure guys are charging and stuff
like that. And what about the insurances? Like, do they, I mean, do they cover that? Yes. Insurance

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covers that. There was an issue. Some insurances, they do give you a little hassle with like metal
roofs and metal buildings. Yeah. That's what I feel like they might. Yeah. Because they don't see it as
a residence. Yeah. You know, they, they see it as a warehouse and, or like a barn and that's not
what it is. You know, you got to show them exactly what it is. Okay. Look, it's air conditioned. It's

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got insulation. Oh, another phone call. Busy man. Busy man, bro. That's all it is. Man is nonstop.
Can you hear me? That was literally 16 minutes on the dot. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yes, sir.

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Yes, sir. Okay. Then phone call again. Yeah. So then from that, so for, for example, on the,
the insurance side of it, they, they might give you an issue with it, but is it.
Something that's you're looking at something that's going to last you,
you know, a lifetime, dude, these, these barn doors, it's like a metal roof. They give you a

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50 year warranty on a metal roof. Shit. God damn. Yeah. Like what, what's going to happen in 50
years when we get, we're going to get a shit load of hurricanes and storms. You know, if we get a
hell storm, yeah, there's a possibility that it'll be strong enough to put dents in your roof. But

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I mean, usually hell storms on metal roofs are covered a hundred percent by the insurance.
If you got, if you got the right roof for the run, the claim for you, you know. Yeah. Yeah.
No shit. Yeah, man. It's, it's a, I mean, I think they're bad ass.
You might, you might've just sold me on it, man. Maybe one day we'll see what,

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what comes out of it, but I've seen them, bro. I've seen them out there like near the Austin
area, especially like whenever I see scrolling. Dude, there's some there on 490 that are up for
sale right now. I mean, they're, they're high dollars. Oh, they don't, Basan, they don't.
Hey, we can set up one so we can have the, you know, the four day break podcasts in it. You know
what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I'm down bro. And then we'll just have, we'll have Steve renovate the

(37:34):
entire room for it. And we'll be chilling. Yeah. But go buy it first Basan and then we'll do it.
Hey, we do. But go buy it first Basan and then we'll do it. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I helped remodel
some commercial buildings at like Pro Pit here at Medenberg. We renovated that. I've never been

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there. Well, if you're ever in barbecue supplies, you need barbecue supplies, barbecue pits, you go
there and check it out. I will. I've never been, I've heard of it. JP's told me about it, but I've
never, I normally never go anywhere when it's like barbecue shit. Yeah. So you don't know how to cook
then. I know how to make a steak. That's about it. That's, that's as far as you'll get and everything

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else, bro. I'm going to throw it on there, bro. And I'm going to take it off when I feel it's good to
go. Yeah. Once it's nice and crispy. Yeah. Oh yeah. Once the chicken fajitas start looking like beef
fajitas, that's when I take it off, bro. Oh yeah. You're hungry. You're going to eat. Yeah. If you
don't want to eat, it's all good. Yeah. But other than that, it's pretty much just steaks and shit

(38:40):
like that. But like, yeah, I'm not, I'm not at that level. Like with, with you and Jay, I see your,
your shit all the time. I see JP always sending me snaps too. They're always doing some, some crazy
shit with, you know, he's making briskets and making for Thanksgiving, making a turkey and the
smoker and doing all this other random shit. I did a whole hog on a rotisserie cooker, dude.

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Yeah. See like that's, that's some crazy shit. Yeah. That's insane, bro. Open, open fire.
Open fire. Yeah. I put an apple. Was it good? Good. It was good. Good, bro. I like, I like
ham bro. Ham's fire on things. Oh dude. Yeah. But I'm more of a big turkey guy though, bro. You can't?
No, I don't even do turkey anymore, dude. Like. Really? Yeah. I do. I can't, dude. I don't know.

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It pisses me off. I don't know why. What? Like eating it or cooking it, bro? I'm lost. I'm trying
to keep my composure here, bro. I don't know. It's like, my family would be like, okay, we're
going to get three turkeys. I'm like, ah, fuck, I'm not going. What do you mean you're not going?
I fucking hate turkey, man. I mean, I'll eat a little bit of it, but I normally get a fuck ton

(39:54):
of the ham. That I will get. On things living, I already got a fuck ton of ham. Yeah. I'm not a ham
person either, dude. Nah, bro. I'll fuck up some turkey right now, bro. Like right now. Live?
Like a live one? Live, bro. Live. Live, bro. That's crazy, bro. You're not down, bro. I'm
going to buy one right now, bro. You're not down. Shit. We'll make a YouTube video out of it. I

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got to see this. We'll make a YouTube video out of it right now, bro. Matter of fact, hold on. Let me
call real quick. Turkey, Turkey 1-800, bro. Or some shit. You'd be that guy from fucking Butterball, dude.
Yeah. I think that, dude, I don't know, man. Going into like, that's a whole other topic of

(40:38):
conversation, right? With cooking and shit. But like, yeah. Yeah, bro. I don't know. I try to pay
attention when JP's doing shit, right? That he'll try to like teach me something, right? Like, yeah,
this do this, do that, whatever. And I'm just like, hey, bro, like, I just want to eat, dog.
I don't give a fuck what you're putting on it.

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Pull. I don't give a fuck if it's dirt that you're putting in there, bro. It tastes good, bro.
Just let it be. Yeah. I can't. It's a lot, bro. Like I've seen, like, I know I've had, like, I've
tried it myself to make like other shit outside of just like states, right? And yeah, bro, I just

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always chalk it, bro. Somehow, somehow, some way, bro, I fucked it up. Never, never fails.
Yeah, it's all trial and error, bro. I know I've seen you, you do some crazy shit too,
though. Like I've seen your, your, your stories and shit. You'll be making some,
some crazy shit. Yeah, I do all kinds of shit, dude. Fucking I can make ribs into lollipops, bro.

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This four day break, bro, I want some tape in the station too, bro. Yeah, bro.
So that's what I did with with dino ribs.
On lollipop rib, bro. I dissected the dino rib, right? Each, each rib, individual rib, I dissected
it and then took all the meat off when it was before it was cooked, right? And then wrapped the

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meat at the tip of the bone and tied it off with a string and then smoked them in the smoker.
And then made like a chimichurri sauce with it. Bro.
It was for a competition that the meat market had. And it was, it was on Facebook and they were like,

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hey, post the picture of our special this week is dino ribs. So your objective is to buy the
dino ribs, cook them how you want and post a picture of it. The winner gets entered into the
next competition and gets the free, free meat for the category. No shit. Yeah. And then they were

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going to have an in-person cooking competition. So you got invited to that cooking competition
if you want one of the times. So the first week, the first week, dude, I got first place in the
pictures. It was the pictures with the most likes and most views. So like mine got the most likes

(43:28):
and views, but everybody freaked out. Like even the owner called me. He's like, bro, what did you
do? I was like, dude, I don't know, but that picture looks bad. Yeah. I got to see this picture, bro.
Yeah. No, bro. For sure. I'll share it with y'all. Yeah. That's a, yeah. You see like shit like that,
bro. I can't, I can't do that. I don't have that level of, especially with like cooking too,

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right? There's a level of patience that goes with it. I don't have it in me, bro.
It's all fire control, bro. That's what it is. Yeah. But I mean, I, I'm really good at putting
the fire out. You're more of a, like a griller type, like get in, get out type guy. Yeah. Like,
I mean, to give you probably have a gas, you probably have, I was about to tell you to give

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you insight. I do have a propane. Just real quick light it up, go inside, get the steak, throw it on,
come back inside and I'm good, bro. I'm not going to lie, dude. Gas stoves. I love them.
Gas propane burners outside, dude. I love those because they're quick, dude. You can,

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Hey, we're going to have steaks for dinner. 10 minutes. You're eating. Yep. 100%. You know,
that's what I'm saying. Like that's the type of shit that I've been doing. I don't do any of the,
I've been, I've thought about buying like a pellet grill or even like just a, I know JP's shown me
like some, some other smokers and shit like that, but it's just like, bro, like I don't have the
patience to cook a fucking, a brisket for fucking six, eight hours. You know, I can't do that either,

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bro. I mean, pellet grill will take all the patience out of it, dude. Like you don't need
to babysit it or anything. You just put it in there and set it and forget it. And then,
yeah, but like I'm the type, like as soon as I throw it on there, bro, as soon as I throw the
steak on there, right. I'm already salivating that I want the steak. I'm going to throw the
fucking brisket in there and I'm going to just be impatient as fuck. Like, is it done yet? Is it done

(45:25):
yet? Yeah. That's my thing, bro. It's just, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you. I got you. Impatient as
fuck with that shit. But, but I mean, don't get me wrong. When JP makes it, we do it at three. Sometimes
we'll go over there and have ribs or whatever the fuck. It comes out fire as hell, right? When we're
eating, but like the patience of waiting for it to get done is like, yeah, that sucks. Yeah, I'm not,

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I'm not with it. I'm not with it, but kudos to those that are with it because it's always good
to go and eat, right? Yeah. Yeah. Are you going to do, are you going to do the, ah, Sucida was telling me
about it. There's like a, a rib, all you can eat rib challenge or who can eat the most ribs challenge

(46:10):
with PD. I haven't heard about it. Sucida was telling me about it and I told him, me and JP were down. I think I did hear about it.
Yeah. With, with PD at Roadhouse was going to be a bunch of ribs. Oh, wow. Oh yeah. I don't know who's in
it. It's supposed to be five E five. That's all. That's the last thing I heard from Sucida was like,
all right, I'll put your name down. And that was it. That's the thing. Like, I don't even, like,

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I don't even go to places and like, if I go to like
a restaurant, I'm not going to order something that I can cook better than the restaurant.
I get you. I get you. I'm a very picky guy, dude. Now when I go out to eat, because like a steak,
I'll order a steak and then I'll order it medium rare because that's the way I like it.

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And then next thing you know, like, he did it back medium. Yeah. This thing's like
overcooked. Like this guy doesn't know what he's doing. You know, it pisses me off. I'm,
I'm the same way, but a steak is a steak. I'll, I'll go and I'll, I'll order it and I'll eat it,
right? Cause it's, it's a state, but I do agree with that though. I tend to, yeah, I feel like,
you know what? I can make the state better. Yeah. It's real hard for me to like,

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go to a barbecue, like the only barbecue joint down here that I am very impressed with. Well,
there's a couple, but some that are like right there with me are like in Edinburgh, it's Vargas
I haven't had right there by station three. Uh, it is on Cano and, uh,

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what is it? 18th or 17th. It used to be a little drive-through. Okay. It's caddy corner from, uh,
where the Paloma is at. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I know where that's at. Yeah. It's right there
in that corner area. He used to be a drive-through store. Yeah. Never heard of it.
I might have to try that one day. Yeah. So he came out, Texas monthly, all that stuff.

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Oh, okay. So that place, what else? And GW's barbecue in San Juan. Again, San Juan. Oh my God.
This is good. That one is good, bro. Yeah. No shit. I haven't had that one either.
That one is good, bro. That one's right across from the shrine. Yeah.

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No shit. Yeah, bro. Whenever they have like leftovers and stuff like that, bro, when I was
there in San Juan, dude, they would straight up go drop it off. Always at station one, bro. They
would never drop it off at station two. And they're like, Oh, like if you guys can, can you take
some to station two? And we're like, nah, fuck them. It's going to be for us, bro. That sounds
like central here, dude. They dropped off 15 pizzas. Y'all come get them. Like we're at station five,

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dude. We're not going to drive all the way over there and pass up three pizza joints on the way.
Yeah. I think, I think, I think that's something that always happens to men at central. They'll
always text, like even when I'm acting and when Ray's acting or when Ray's there, they'll,
they'll always hit us up like, Hey, they brought burgers. They brought sandwiches. They brought

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this. I'm just like, bro, I'm not driving to central for that, bro. Send somebody or don't go.
Yeah. If I have an extra guy, then I'll send him like, Hey, go to central and pick up this.
Yeah. Not, not for something like that. Not for something. I can just literally go down the
street or I can even order to get delivered, bro. Everything nowadays, always, always a luxury

(49:43):
nowadays, right? You gotta kind of what, what can you do to make your, I guess your way of life
easier? And to me, honestly, bro, I fucking spend so much money on Uber eats and shit. It's
ridiculous. Like right now I'm about to eat lunch in a little bit, bro. And I'm probably going to
order something instead of going somewhere. I ain't got nothing to do. Steve, my son, nothing.

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And I'm not good, bro. That's not good, bro. That's just life, bro. Dude. I feel like I work
more in my days off than I do on shift. Yeah. I did see that. Yeah, I bet.
Bro. It's, it's the, the whole, like what you do, obviously it's, it's busy, right? Especially here

(50:29):
locally. There's a lot of people looking for that. So it's always busy right now. Like the season for
remodeling is in dude. Like my phone rings every day. And, uh, right now I'm the only, I am the
owner. I'm the manager. I'm the project manager. I'm the salesman, bro. Like I don't have, I have
one fireman from McAllen that throws me work whenever he finds it. And I just brought on a

(50:57):
paramedic friend of mine that, um, works out of town. He works in Rivera for an ambulance company.
And, uh, he was like, Hey dude, I want to make some extra money. What's this thing you're hiring
and all this. And I was looking for door to door salesman, you know, for roofing. So now I'm showing

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him the ropes and stuff. Cause he has like three, three to four day breaks. So on those three or
four days that he's here, he'll, he'll push, you know, my business.
I'd rather hire firemen or people in our service because customer service is a big deal to us. You

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know what I mean? Oh yeah, bro. So, and it's all right now it's all commission based. You know, I
can, I have a red line for roofing. So anything above the red line that you sell at, well, that's
a hundred percent yours. Yeah. I'll say less. I'm going to sell a roof for about a hundred thousand
bro. Hey dude, I've, I've done an insurance claim for a roof for a hundred grand.

(52:11):
Damn. Yeah. And dude, insurance claims, all it is is wording, bro. And I tell all this to the
homeowners, like, if you do your own thing, make sure you don't use certain words like mold or rot
or stuff like that, because then your insurance claim is going to get denied. Like I've had

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insurance claims. Uh, homeowners call me and they'll be like, Oh, I did a claim. They sent me 300
bucks. Like they just sent you money to pretty much shut you up. They didn't. Yeah. To fuck off
basically. Yeah. Like, Hey, we're not going to give you anything. So then I come in, I reopen the
claim, do my inspections and everything. And then I send in my paperwork and now the guy's getting

(52:57):
like 25, 30 grand. And he's like, what? And I'm like, yeah, guess what? All that's mine because
I'm going to do all these repairs. And you're like, Oh, okay. You ain't getting the same, bro.
Yeah. Yeah. But roofs are roofs are so expensive too, man. It's, it's, uh, I think, I honestly

(53:17):
think it's probably coming up for me too. I don't, I, when I bought the house, I did not,
the previous owner didn't know when they replaced it. They know that it was replaced. They just
didn't know when. Right. So it's like, I know eventually here sometime in the next few years
or so, I'm probably gonna have to do that right now. I'm actually working on getting the fence
replaced on the side or maybe not replaced, but fixed. It's starting to lean that that thing's

(53:41):
been like two years in the making, hasn't it? Yeah. 100%. Yeah. And never did anything for it,
bro. I have nothing to do on my days off. The other side, we got that sorted out with the other

(54:01):
neighbor, the, the west side. Oh, okay. Maybe it was that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one,
that one's already sorted out. The east side fence is the one that's starting to like fucking
really like, it's starting to be like, like a genuine fat Joe, bro. It's starting to just lean
back a little too much. We get some good wins at things just going to fall over. Yeah. Yeah.

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Pretty much. Pretty much. And I got some quotes, bro, but it's just like, bro, like these, like
the quotes I'm getting to just replace the post, bro is like, Oh yeah. You know, we'll do it for
one of the quotes I got was like 900. I was like, okay. And then yeah, that's just labor.
That's not including. Just for the posts? That's just labor, brother. I'm just like,

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that's a no. So then I looked at some other ones and then I'm like, damn, like this guy over here
saying another 600. And I'm like, damn, and I got to buy the material myself. Damn.
Dude, I got my guys right here, dude. Well, even then you're on a four day break. You take a case
of beer. You'll have firemen at your house. Bro, that's all I was about to say, but see,

(55:06):
here's the thing bro. You take two gins. Basan, first of all, you ain't going to show up. First
of all, I'm going to pull up first of all, earliest. You just show up as soon as it's done,
bro. Guaranteed. You late as fuck to everything. But, but, uh, you got to think about it, right?
If I, if I throw the invite out, if I didn't like Matt to show up, I'm good. Right. Matt knows his

(55:31):
way around shit. We'll be all right. If I did Robert show up and Robert G not Robert, a,
Oh, I think I'll be all right. If I get John to show up that fucking fence is going to shit.
The beer is gone and he's leaving, bro. Yeah. If I get Evan to show up that fence is fucked,
like, you know what I mean? Like there's, you gotta think about it, bro. I'm gonna say,

(55:52):
a pull up, I got, you know, some beers will fix the fence. It's you gotta look at the,
who's going to show up. Who ain't no show up? Oh yeah. For sure. I make sure there's the right
ones because John I love you I know you're probably gonna listen to this I
love you mijo but uh Chuck you are not you are not the sharpest tool in the
shed and I'm sorry that I think we we have a lot of a lot of firemen aren't

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the sharpest tools in the shed yeah yeah but I think you know it works right
because sometimes you don't need the sharpest tool in the shed sometimes you
just need something to hit something with yeah yeah it just kind of in in some way
shape or form it kind of just fits in it blends in so yeah I mean even me I'll be

(56:43):
honest too I don't know my way around that shit I'd probably fuck it up too I
looked at it and I thought about I'm like man I'll just do this shit myself
and then I looked at it and I'm just like nah bro I'm a fuck around and this
fence ain't gonna be a fence anymore bro it's gonna be like a fucking table or
some shit like I'm not even a good table that'd be uneven table bro fucking
gazebo in the bag like it's not gonna be what I intended to be how do you like my

(57:10):
fence it looks like stairs like yeah the stairs don't even work bro you can't
even stand on them cuz they're uneven and shit like yeah bro that's that's the type of shit I'm
not I'm not a handyman like that that's not my I mean I'm pretty good when it
comes to you know tools but there's some things do that I see my guys do and I'm

(57:31):
like what like what did you just do like I was standing here for like 45 minutes trying to figure out what
you were gonna do and this guy did it like in five and just made it happen
mm-hmm and that's where I'm like it's a where you pay for they like that saying

(57:52):
is with a plumber right you have you try to fit something they say oh you know
what I charge this much to fix it and they fix it in like five minutes when
you were there struggling for five hours yeah you're paying for what they know
you know what I mean you're not paying you the but I think for like a fence I
don't think I don't see that as a fucking you know $1,400 job like just
yeah yeah and I mean maybe to replace like maybe I'd see upwards of like

(58:17):
three G's to replace the entire fence but yeah material yeah not just replace
the post you know I mean yeah yeah cuz a lot of these guys charge my square foot
I mean linear foot for us yeah so yeah they all they were all measuring
everything and shit like that I'm like I just need the post brother you don't
even need to do every single one you just skip one if you want like it's just

(58:40):
one side of the fence that's really fucked up but like are the are the
planks are they rotted out or anything um I don't know the question I didn't
really pay attention to that I just know is lean yeah so it could be just a
couple posts it doesn't even have to be all of them yeah so like even on the other side like on the
the west side like that that got fixed with just putting two you know I mean he

(59:02):
didn't even take out the old post he just put one next to it yeah so it was
like whatever it works out but but yeah I'm not I'm not in that that realm to do
that shit on myself but son you want to do it or what we'll do it this this
Monday right now five first of all you're leaving I go right now I'll buy
five things is in three bro yeah but that's all I need to bro I'm about to

(59:26):
put in some work bro fucking fences gonna be the fence and even don't be
there he's gonna have a board like a
board fucking hammer to his head you're gonna see me pull up with the stapler
bro instead of I just took mine down last week damn dude I the house we're

(59:54):
doing right now I had to I haven't been able to complete a roof because of the
weather that came in mm-hmm cuz it's cold weather the shingles get real hard
so they're not pliable and they end up cracking and stuff and we're messing
with them mm-hmm so I gotta wait but uh he had Christmas lights on this house
right and I'm like hey do you want me to take those Christmas lights off he goes

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bro I don't even know they work and I'm like what do you mean he's I was like
you didn't they're not from this year and he goes dude they've been up there
for like eight years maybe I love it who was I just talking to about this with
bro there's somebody I was talking to somebody about and they were like yeah

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bro like I haven't taken off the lights from my house in like three years I just
leave them there I just said fuck it you know
those things where you don't want to do it every year yeah oh yeah yeah I try
procrastinate the hell out of it bro my girl hates it I like yeah yeah I'll do
it you know right after Thanksgiving she's already wanted to put it up no

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like yeah I'll do it and nope fun and wait till like the day before
Christmas and I put them up yeah I got to the point where I just put the little
that little globe thing in the yard that shines on to the house and oh yeah
yeah I just do that now because my wife and my kids already know that I'm not
gonna put Christmas lights on because I say I am but I never get around to it

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and I hear you but yeah I think I think that's a we call it a good practice I
guess I need to start doing it every year trying to try to keep track of it
no yeah maybe I'll do another year with this fence to bro see how long it lasts
for yeah do an insurance claim with the roof and the fence yeah I mean that's

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the way to do it bro might as well might as well just do it the whole I'm not
even gonna lie to you bro when I bought the house they told me about the the
fucking garage wall it has like a little like gap in it it's fucking weird so I
divided if I push the side of my garage right the bricks move oh I'll do that
supposed to be happening no from shifting the foundation or what no is it

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a void space between the brick and that's what I think it is because it's a
it's the outer one not the inner so like it's the one that leads to the side of
my house on the outside of the garage so like you have to go through the garage
and then go inside the house right yeah yeah it's weird it's been like that bro I
haven't I have never looked into it I just never lean on that shit never put

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any weight on it either like anything on it so that was happening at my house I
noticed when we would close the front door the bricks around it on the very
top would move back and forth oh shit and I was like dude if somebody slams is
hard enough one of those bricks is gonna come down hit him in the head or
something mm-hmm so I just sealed up all the all the cracks around it and it

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stopped moving yeah you can buy like cement in a tube bro like in a in a
cocking tube with a common gun and put it all in there like growl kind of yeah
I'm not I'm not handy like that bro you telling me these things like they're
easy to do I guarantee you bro I will find a way to fuck it up it's like I

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don't even know what a cocking gun it's not I fucking my dog right he was he
got into this like little mania a long time ago like a year and a half ago he
started biting like the side of the fucking door for some reason he did it
for like a few days he tore some of the wood off and I bought all the shit to

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fucking like cover it fits it up a little bit I even bought a little bit of
the paint to paint it and shit ask me if I've done it Steve
ask me if I've done it that would that would I bought to fix it as part of the
fence now bro I just covered it with black tape so if you walk in my house

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my son whenever we're gonna do like another poker night or something and you
see the fucking the door the front door and you see a little piece of black tape
over it mind your business that's what it is
it's funny dude yeah bro that's not me dude I mean the furthest I'll go is like
all right you want me to isolate the power to something cool we do that at

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work right so like shit like that I'm like all right I could do that but I go
into anything else bro and it's like nah dude believe it or not I learned how to
tape and float at work to what tape and float sheetrock oh no shit yeah so you
know how they put sheetrock on the walls and yeah and then they tape it up yeah I

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learned how to do that on shift oh yeah building when I was eight to five when I
first got hired we had to build the burn props I remember dude Sean gave me you
know Sean gave me some tape and a putty knife and all these screws and like hey

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go to Lowe's buy sheetrock you're gonna go do the building props the frames are
already done just put the sheetrock on and tape them float them and I'm like I
don't know how to do that chief and he's like well you're gonna learn here we are
dude taping and floating me and I don't even know who was with me I think it was
it might have been Brian it might have been Brian was there at the time yeah

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but we were taping floating painting and then and Joey he was he got hired with
Brian too yeah no shit that's crazy man I I don't yeah I don't I don't see myself
figuring all that shit out normally I just pay someone to I don't I'm to the
point Steve and this is terrible to say right but I'm to the point bro I don't

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even cut my own yard bro yeah I get my kids to do it now but well yeah I don't
have kids yet maybe later on when I do I'll do that but yeah I pay someone I do
that shit yeah I bought a pole saw to cut my tree and I cut a couple limbs off
and I was like I don't like it this is so now I use that like whenever we have

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trees in the way and we're doing roofs roof jobs I take that with me and I'll
just trim the trees for the homeowner so they won't rub on the roof but some
guys came over to the house either they're like hey man we'll trim up your tree real
good you know and leave the brush right here in the corner of your yard and I'm
like all right dude how much 200 bucks and do it it's like we have an electric

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pole saw is that cool it's like it's all right I got one too in the garage I just
took 50 bucks off your pay because you're using my equipment and they just
they just did my front and back literally like last week it was a hundred

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bucks yeah I'm not yeah for each one that's not bad these guys like my my
tree looks naked bro yeah I'm gonna lie bro they cut it a little short yeah like
it looks good but damn I don't even know if it's supposed to be that skinny now

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the only thing I hated about it is they left the part over my they told me to
they're like yeah we left you a little bit over the the driveway for for the
shade right and I'm like all right cool whatever I didn't think nothing of it
now the birds only go there bro and they just shitting all over my truck that's
exactly why I wanted to trim mine dude because my truck is every I'd wash it

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and then next day come out and like all the passenger side was covered in shit
like yeah man yeah so now I gotta call this guy back so he can cut the whole
tree or kill the birds one of them yeah which everyone's easier I guess I tried
doing that for a while sitting in the garage and shooting birds from the

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garage and then I was like you know I don't go to the backyard shoot the wind
in the backyard and then I started to shoot cats and I was like okay cats
those are I need to go inside now that is crazy

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my son what's uh what's it looking like on your end right now right now I'm
still chilling bro still chilling hey Steve I have a question what's so like
like for like the people that live there like in Los Lagos and stuff like that I
mean like bro golf balls are just fucking bright it fucking houses dog
like oh I'm right there with you bro that's why that's I got a hell bro how

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does that work with like the insurance like companies like you know I'm pretty
sure I'm pretty yeah so and I've always wondered that I'm pretty sure that
their their insurance because of that area has to have some type of coverage
I've never had to deal with that so I don't know if they would cover it yeah

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because you do have stuff called all other perils on your policy that is
other than your roof so it's everything else around your home I mean the windows
are expensive bro oh yeah I do for sure for sure like that's one thing I would

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like man that's I wouldn't want to live on the golf course I don't know how they
do it yeah no fuck that cuz they can one of the holes like there's a there's
solar panels too and you can see like the cracks on it too because of like
the balls they were hitting it like you know oh like it's crazy so I don't even
know if they still work yeah solar panels yeah those are usually a lot of

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homeowners don't know but they should be putting them under their home insurance
because when you need to replace your roof your roof I'm gonna have to take
those solar panels off and put them back on to do the roof so it costs $300 per
panel to take off and put on holy shit yeah because I have to read I have to

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buy new footings for the panels as well I can't use the same footing so doing
that you're looking at anywhere depending most of these homes have more
than 20 panels yeah you know so you're looking at you know six seven grand
on the small system just in panels that's crazy but insurance will cover

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that you know will cover that part of the that part of the claim but solar man
that's a big deal too man a lot of people got did I get so many fucking
people come into my house offering it bro it's there's I've stopped answering
the door I mean it really works if everything is done correctly bro and said

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correctly you educate them correctly because what it comes down to is like a
lot of when I started before I started home rescue I was in solar right I was
in solar for about three years mm-hmm and that's still I still offer it I just don't push it as much

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because it's a hard sell now due to all the other companies that were opening up
down here little mom and pop shops that were sold selling it and lying out of
their teeth like hey dude you get solar panels you'll always have power even
when your neighbors don't have power like that's bullshit your house doesn't
it's not like a solar light to where during the day it's charging and then at

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night it turns on you know only if you have battery backup is the only way
you're gonna have backup power mm-hmm so that wasn't said to these people and a
lot of people bought because they were like oh I'm gonna I want power when the
power's out well now that they don't have power when the grid goes down

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they're like what like this shit doesn't even work mm-hmm so that and then all
the solar companies all the third party energy companies that were doing buy
back plans well they noticed how much money they were losing with people that
were saving on their energy bills by going solar so now they're changing

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rates they're changing the way they buy back oh we're not offering buy back
plans anymore or we're making the distribution fees more expensive so
they're taking that credit from those clients like I've had people call me
like from one year to the next like hey dude I used to get a hundred a negative
light bill of a hundred dollars it was negative a hundred every month mm-hmm so

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he was producing more than what he was using so they would give him a credit
every month yeah and then all of a sudden he's like hey bro I got a fifty
dollar light bill like what's going on and I sent me your bill and I'd look at
it and like oh yeah they increase your delivery fee dude to a hundred bucks
there's your there's your credit right there I go you produced you know you

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produce you overproduced but you're not getting credit for it because of that
delivery fee yeah damn bro that's crazy that is yeah I didn't even know yeah
there's a lot of stuff to that man it's crazy we also install backup battery
backup generators to generate generators mm-hmm we do those also shit that's what

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I needed that setup bro I mean fortunately I have I have guys that live
in my neighborhood that are from a piece or whatever the power goes out they're
pretty good at getting that shit up quick but yeah having backups always
good yeah that or just the plug for the portable generator works too mm-hmm you
can't run your whole house on it but you can run your appliances at least you

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know mm-hmm it can choose like hey I'm gonna go go to the restroom let me turn
the lights on and then come shut them off when you're done yeah yeah that's
what I would like to I mean maybe down the line I'm not I'm not too in need of
it at the moment but maybe down the line yeah our grids been pretty good so far
so far yeah that's not jinx it yeah for some shit we'll see what we'll see what

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it's gonna be that next cold front bro I think we're I think we're good with them
now no there's no only when it starts dying out yeah
hearing yeah yeah yeah okay fucking phone calls dude you're busy man bro you
get on my iPad next time yeah next time that's not next time we should be in

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person man that's a yeah something we're trying to work towards but it's where you
know do you have a do you have a space for that like they're at high-rise or
what they're at the building no we're probably do it probably at my house I
need to figure out how I'm gonna make room for it bro I have I have a whole
room dedicated to like my computer and everything I would just need to figure
out the whole setup as to how I'm gonna set up for to have like I guess a

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table or a desk with you know the three mics and everything like that so we can
actually talk to people that come down the part that would complicate that is
doing it with people from we have a lot of like the the the guests they're not
from here so that would be the biggest thing is the hurdle is getting down here
yeah yeah yeah so that's why for now we're just sticking virtually and then

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we'll transition over to in person down the line see how it works it's all
trial and error too man oh yeah for sure did it so it's all just us trying to
figure things out on the go on the fly yeah that's I mean that's like
everything else do trial and error I'm pretty sure yeah same thing when you
first started yeah hundred percent everything everything bro there's not a

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single thing in this in this world I guess that isn't trial and error at some
point right unless it's already been figured out but for the most part there's
always gonna be that that step that you have to take but yes leave anything
anything else in your realm anything you want to kind of go over talk about um

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not really man just that like if you all ever do insurance claims and you get
anybody and anybody and you get denied that's not the end of the world you can
still fight the insurance if they send you something that's not feasible to get
your repairs you can still fight for the amount you need there they're obligated

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to give you what you deserve you know yeah especially you've been with them
for a long time I feel like we're all in the wrong game dude let's see let's see
what this is see what that I got a good question for real let's start some shit
right what what in your in your experience Steve you you deal with a lot
of insurances right huh who is by far the worst snake farm really farm damn

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you want to throw some insight on that as to exactly tails but all my I could
tell you all my stakes on my sleep all my snake farm I found a snake farm dude
because it makes no shit yeah state farm all my clients that have had sleep farm
have been like long fights bro where I had to go legal like we had to sue them

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get what my clients knew is really do that yeah saying yeah and have to go the
lawyer route which some insurances are like that but for the most part all
state USA Geico all these other there's a bunch dude that there was some that I

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had never even heard of like sure-fire or something like that all kinds of weird
ones so in other words what you're saying is they're not they're not good
neighbors is what you're saying that's exactly what I'm saying Jake Jake that
guy is a motherfucker dude yeah Jake they spent all their money putting Jake and

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Patrick Mahomes on their commercials bro that's where that's probably where all
their money oh yeah that's all that dude at twitchcon bro in 22 really I don't
understand dude like we could still win them well I've been able to beat them
right but it is it's a hassle bro who would you say on the other room who

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would you say is by far the best USA now that makes sense
yeah I'm swapping over I don't even do it if you have the chance to get USA through
anybody in the military or veterans you know family or anything I would because
when it comes to your home they might not have the best prices as far as

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vehicle coverage but for homes they don't hesitate to pay out bro like like
I send in one price and they send it right back and say here's your can
here's your money you know mm-hmm what about what about on the regular the sieve
side without the military side of it I would go with like all state if it's a

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known company known company all states good there's a bunch of little ones dude
that that I've worked with I'm trying to get some off the the top of my head but
I can't remember there's a lot of people go with these bigger ones all state guy
go state farm you know mm-hmm yeah I'm with a guy cool I'm actually looking to

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switch all states been reaching out to give quotes but it's man dude insurance
is so fucking expensive oh I know dude I just got insurance for my truck dude
like I didn't have insurance probably for about a year bro yeah I was like dude
after that accident with the other truck I had Geico and they didn't want to total

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my truck and it was undriveable bro they fixed it and and the dealership the
manager called me he's like hey I just test drove your truck dude like I can't
keep it in the lane I have to fight to keep it straight and I'm like well then
it's not drivable you know you need to tell the insurance and he's like no the

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insurance wants me to go back under and try to figure it out and I'm like no I'm
not gonna be driving that $80,000 piece of shit down the road after that yeah
sure bro so that's when I just you know what I don't want the truck dude if
you're not gonna total it I don't want it and they're like what yeah I don't
want it dude pay me out just I'll trade it in give me what we can for it so I

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did that but yeah I switched from Geico after that because Geico was my
insurance and the other guy didn't have insurance so they had to use my
insurance yeah of course yeah so for like a year dude I was driving around I
was like man I'd rather just get a ticket for no insurance than pay a
thousand dollars a month mm-hmm cuz that's what I was paying I have three

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vehicles so when I was the three vehicles was like 1200 bucks a month dude
damn yeah I'm paying I'm paying like three for two that's his only one is
full coverage the other one is just liability yeah so I just got a quote from
green guy or green insurance a group or something out of McAllen mm-hmm and

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they're charging me 500 bucks for three cars oh nice awful coverage so that's
not bad yeah I've been looking they don't have to send me that I'm looking
for some and I need auto in home bro this shit's getting expensive my fucking
my taxes went up my insurance went up so my mortgage went up just fuck

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yeah everything's going up dude especially like with home insurance a
big thing is people always want to save monthly mm-hmm right so then they pick
the highest deductible well yeah I can fuck you when you try to get your roof
done or you get any in your house because if the cost to the repairs it's

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not more than your deductible or your deductible is half of the cost of the
repairs like you're not gonna get any money back yeah to do the repairs so
always go with a 1% you know deductible don't go for more than that yeah yeah we
gotta look more into that but this is like I've had people that have like

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$10,000 deductibles dude on the hot love it that's crazy dude your your deductible
cost ten grand and your roof cost seven yeah that doesn't make any sense yeah
yeah yeah I need to look into that I believe mine is at 1% yeah I always

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keep it at 1% don't go more than that the only one that isn't bro is the
fucking the hurricane one I think yeah hurricanes always gonna be more
expensive yeah that one is any named storm so even if it's not a hurricane
but it's you know a named storm oh yeah like a tropical storm whatever yeah they

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give they just name it yeah if you do a claim for that during that time then
they're gonna charge you that storm deductible instead of your regular 1% so
that's where that's that's where the insurance has those little loopholes
dude yeah I don't want to give no money out yeah yeah that's the thing I hate

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about it man I hate that it's mandatory to have it's mandatory to have but then
you never either you never use it yeah and then if you do use it you get
fucking punished for it yeah you get you get penalized and they they still didn't
cover a hundred percent of what you needed yeah yeah when they when they my

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when I had the fucking little Hyundai Elantra it was parked outside my parents
house and they they a guy was going through with a fucking trailer for
whatever fucking reason into a little neighborhood he didn't clear the turn
right and fucking scratched it up and dented it fucking fucked up the the the
actual the wheel and everything like it fucking popped off the fucking what's

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called like off the hub or what yeah like off the hub and shit like that so
it was like all fucking chalk that shit and the insurance was like no we're just
gonna PDR or what is it the paint dent repair on some of it yeah replace this
all and nah bro you're this is a brand new I had fucking like 2,000 miles on
the car browser you're fucking replacing I'm not doing any of this shit fucking

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fixing it we're replacing the whole fucking everything from the rear fender
to the fucking front the wheel if you need to replace an actual replace that
like fix it yeah yeah like they didn't want to the guy hit me head-on went
underneath my front bumper and he hit like yeah I remember I was there yeah he

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hit my axle on my tire mm-hmm and the axle snap the control arm snapped my
fender was dent is a little bit my bumper was dent a little bit but you
know just with that impact alone you know what happened further behind that
you know behind the drive shaft the drive shaft snapped like okay that's all

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impact going backwards towards the end of the truck yeah there has to be some
fucked up shit you know mm-hmm and no they were like oh good thing it's all
suspension so we're just gonna buy a new lift and break a new bus crazy
brother yeah that's crazy that they have to go through all that shit bro

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literally through all that shit yeah bro it's it's it's and that's the thing it
wasn't even my insurance rose it was a company right really what the yeah man
it was it was a company that that hit my my car so they had to get the and

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apparently was that guys like second in like two days or some shit
and fired yep so I was just like look bro I told I told him like the the
insurance adjuster whatever I was I look as long as this shit gets fixed like
repaired I'd replaced and it looks like brand new I'm cool soon as I got the car

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back bro literally that same like day or the following day I took it traded it
literally I didn't wait my truck for like a year dude and I was still paying
the insurance that whole year and no shit and making truck payments that
whole year bro yeah fuck that bro and I was like you didn't have the what is it

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the rental shit the rental only covered 30 days yeah mine only covers 30 days so
that's where the insurance gets you too because oh we got we gave you rental
insurance like it's only 30 days no shit I didn't know that I have that shit off
yeah I'm gonna cut that shit I cut that shit off real quick dad I cut off

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medical shit too cuz I have health insurance I don't need that shit mm-hmm
uh yeah dude when I got into the accident I was pissed bro I got off I
wasn't they kick that guy's ass I remember I was gonna go up to his way I
went up to his window and I left my wife and the passenger side all crying and

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shit I just stormed out dude went to his his fucking the driver's side of his car
and the motherfucker I opened the door and he's all unconscious and shit I was
like oh fuck I'm gonna go to work let me give him a sternum rub and check him out
so then I gave him a sternum rub and he was like oh making all these noises he

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was responsive so I was like yeah you're good I'm gonna go check my wife you fuck
at least you checked on him you know yeah that just that made a hole in my
heart dude I was in love with that fucking truck yeah and ever since then
dude I've been getting raped at every dealership every time yeah mm-hmm no

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shit yeah dude sucks yeah I need to look at all that all that shit man you start
figuring out what I'm gonna do with it yeah other than that Steve it's been a
pleasure yes sir it's been a pleasure to get you back in the future

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once we get in person that way everybody talks bro yes I'm with it bro we'll
start up a whole series for it bro I'm down I'm actually gonna start putting on
some barbecue classes bro so there you go there it is we'll work with it bro
we'll send Basan to learn how to cook something yeah he'll have to make
something the whole shift yeah I'll make it work I'll provide the zen Basan

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oh stay there right now son that's it I'm gonna lie to you Basan I was actually
thinking about buying some yesterday when I got home I stopped to put gas on
how to go inside because for some reason the card shit wasn't working outside and
normally I just leave like I'm the same way I leave then I really needed gas so
I was like fuck all right I'll go inside so I went inside and I saw the zens and

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I was in a dead zone but I forgot to I didn't know what flavor to get so you
know what I'll wait and I'll ask my son and then I'll go in so bro damn I can't do zens anymore bro no I
found a different one that's stronger and I see I'm not I'm not with it bro I
had the three and that was like more than enough for me and I only tried it

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that twice actually the one time I'm doing 15 I'm doing holy fuck that's crazy yeah
I just swap to the VLOs bro whatever they're called yeah like a they're like
a dollar 99 right now that's why everybody likes those cuz that's what
the guys on my shift dude it's looking good model and many are all VLOs and I'm

(01:31:44):
like no dude they're not strong enough I end up if they're not is there low in
milligrams I end up doing more of them because I'm constantly throwing them
away yeah and the stronger ones fuck they they hit and they give me a headache
what flavor you are you rocking with right now so oh but song with okay so

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right now like literally like when we started this podcast I popped a wild
berry right now just to get like a little wild you know what I mean I mean you are
just one time wild berry I don't even see that on here bro yeah bro it's like
a purple can and then I'm all about the me and spear me I'm like the mint type of

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guy yeah spear mint shit so what do you what flavor are you rocking with right
now Steve mine it's called lush it's like a water it's like a watermelon
bubble issues and I put a flavor to it once you if you smell the can you're
gonna be like dude that smells like bubble issues the watermelon flavor I

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might fuck around and chew it bro that's the problem with flavors like that I've
done that I've done that dude at a structure fryer dude I was what rinsing
out my mouth one time with a bottle water right and I had a zoom I had a
pouch in my mouth I don't know those as then or one of these and I was there
swishing around swishing around and I swallowed the water next thing you know

(01:33:13):
I'm like oh shit I just swallowed the whole fucking pouch like looks at me he's
like hey dude what's up you look like kind of scared and I go either I'm gonna
get real fucked up or I'm gonna get the shit so I don't know away why I go I
swallowed the pouch bro I had a pouch in my mouth this whole time like during

(01:33:36):
when we were fighting the fire dude I had a pouch in my mouth he's like and you
swallowed it I go yeah just rinse my mouth though right now and I swallowed it
and he's like oh you think it's gonna hit harder and he's like we don't find
out in about five ten minutes so like they don't really hit me dude I've never

(01:33:58):
gotten like a buzz from them oh yeah bro cuz these are just brutal six other
they're just sixes like even even the 15s like I don't get up I get a headache
mm-hmm you know I mean that's your buzz room cuz it could maybe you're just
naturally immune it could be that I'm just dehydrated as fuck and I'm just

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drinking a shitload of caffeine and that's a teen all the time that's all
you need boom that's all yeah that's crazy and it could be that I've been
dipping for so long but nothing really doesn't yeah yeah it's just a habit I
couldn't do that man I tried it and I don't like it what dip yeah yeah I

(01:34:45):
started dipping when I was 14 Lee she was he back in the days that's all you
could do bro I used to buy with a dirty used to put dirt and then you swap it
out for dip bro I used to I used to buy the cans of Copenhagen for 75 cents bro
damn yeah damn 75 cents how much were the burgers like 50 cents still I'm not

(01:35:09):
that he was around when their whole combo was 25 cents she yeah yesterday we
took I took info from the call we went to yesterday right mm-hmm possible
regular or whatever and we get back and Eric's looking at me and he's like a

(01:35:29):
bro I want to tell you something but don't get mad what what are you gonna
say and he's like so we asked if anybody had taken we asked the lady if anybody
took the info cuz I was freezing dude I was like I'm gonna go sit in the truck
and my job's done you know mm-hmm so I was there waiting for him and I got back

(01:35:50):
whatever went back to station and then he's like I asked the lady if anybody
took her info and she said oh yeah the little old man the little the little old
the little old bald guy he's like bro she called you old right and I go what

(01:36:14):
she was born the same fucking year as I look at my notepad and I was like she
was born the same year bro that's crazy he's like oh shit I go yeah I go do I
really look that old and he's like no I was like fuck I feel like the old man in
the fire service now bro I mean you kind of are but JP is too that's the thing

(01:36:38):
I tell JP all the time bro like they're like my JP and my dad are the same age
they got me and me and JP son we're the same age bro we were in high school at
the same time yeah yeah bro that's what I'm saying like it's it's wild but uh

(01:36:59):
yeah other than that back to what we're saying there's a pleasure talking to you
Steve down the line we'll get we'll get more in person and we'll come up with a
whole little series for it would you know we'll do some barbecue and talk in
person and shop it up again see what's what changes have come up and stuff like
that see if the insurances have changed maybe there's a new better one in town
or something like that oh yeah maybe we'll uh maybe uh we'll have more

(01:37:23):
firemen working for home rescue yeah hopefully yeah all firemen in the valley
you're looking for some part-time work you know Steve get with them and see
what what you uh what you can do what you can sell at get some extra paper can
get you some more paper on your taxes of 1099 all right man it was a pleasure

(01:37:44):
talking to you my son I'll see you on shift yes sir and yeah we'll chop it up
there we'll leave it there and appreciate everybody taking listen 10-4
man see you later boys later all righty later

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