Beards On The Street - Episode 47 - Relocations and Remarkable Journeys: Embracing New Beginnings, Family Bonds, and Willie G's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey, hey, hey, everybody, Welcome to Beards on
the Street.
It's Friday, march 1st.
Can you believe?
It's March already, as you cantell and see that we're minus a
beard today.
Aaron had a concert last nightand I'm not sure what's going on
with him this morning.

(00:47):
So, welcome, welcome.
Got a special guest on here.
Can't wait to talk with him andget a little promo for him and
maybe hopefully drive somebusiness to this guy.
Anyways, it's been a week, guys,and here we are.

(01:10):
Holy cow, what a week.
I moved, which was such a painin the ass.
I can't even tell you.
Moving sucks, that's just all Ican say.
My body's pissed off,everything hurts, but we got it

(01:34):
all moved.
Now we've got who knows howlong to get everything unpacked
and we're downsizing a bit, sothat's going to be kind of a
challenge as well.
So, yeah, that's what's beengoing on in my life.
Aaron went to a cool concertlast night with a whole bunch of
people downtown.
I was supposed to be there, butI was just too tuckered out,
couldn't make it.
Anyways, a couple of justhousekeeping things.

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So, uh, without further ado,let me uh introduce you to this

(02:40):
cat, willie G.
What's?
going on baby.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
How are you doing?
Kid Good, I'm alive up ready togo?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, you're upright, Exactly right.
Can't be a bad day.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So give a little bit of back history.
Willie is basically my godson,for lack of a better word.
I've known this kid since hecame out of the womb.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, it's true I've known Dean longer than I've
known many.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, yeah, I've known Willie a long time and his
dad is one of my very best andlongest friends.
I think I only have one otherfriend that I've known longer
than him, that's Brent Forbush.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Well, we've gone back quite a while.
Dean met his wife.
I like to take credit.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
He likes to take credit.
I think his mom has somethingdifferent to say.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
See, she likes to take credit, but she wouldn't
have been friends with her if Iwasn't friends with her son, so
it kind of worked out.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And she would have never showed up to your mom's
birthday party.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Exactly right.
Me and Graham would have neverbeen in scouts together.
I mean right.
Who knows right?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
yeah, I've known willie for a long, long time,
seeing this kid grow from beinglittle, teeny tiny to being this
big old monster that he is now,and his little brother's even
bigger than he is.
That's true.
That's crazy.
You you ever think Tyler wasgoing to be?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
taller than you.
We knew the whole time that hewas going to be taller because
we had the lines on the wall.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, the charts yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
The lines on the wall , and every time, at my age, he
was a little bit taller than Iwas, but I don't know he was so
far behind that.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I never thought he would actually catch me.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
And then, just yeah, these uh uh, sheree and Matt,
they, they grow them tall.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Something must be in the water up there.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Maybe I'll, maybe I'll grow a little taller.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, right now that you're here, right now I'm going
to be living in Centerville.
Can you people believe that Imoved back to Centerville?
It's all right.
Yeah, you know what it's notlike.
We don't drive up there almostevery freaking weekend.
You're always up here, so mightas well stay up there, hang out
with the schultzes and thejoneses and and the good ones,

(04:52):
and you know the good old daviscounty crew, yep banging in
davis county that's the spot.
No, it's it.
I'm actually really excited,willie.
It's this, this.
We were talking about it on thedrive here, because I live
right next to you now and youcome and pick my ass up.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I've got to drive you to work today.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, so you know it's.
I never thought I'd move backthere, but we remodeled the
condo and man, it'll be nicewhen it's all done and we're
moved in and can just chill out,for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
You've worked your ass off getting that place
looking nice, though Holy cow itdoes.
I've been there for like 5% ofit carrying some flooring up,
and I was tuckered out already.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Every day dude Every single day.
I know.
Every day dude, every singleday.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I know it was either carrying up stuff, or carrying
stuff out, or crawling around onmy hands and knees sanding and
sanding and painting and doingflooring, oh my, goodness.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
So I'm just glad I'm on the tail end of it.
Yeah, now I can get my focusback sleeping in there, now
you're yeah, we're there, dude,we're out, we're out that's,
that's our home.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
There you go.
That's so exciting.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
We look like a bunch of hoarders right now because
there's boxes everywhere, littlepathways going everywhere you
go hey, that's why you got mefor a dump run right today,
exactly this will be what likethe third or fourth.
Yeah, it's amazing how muchshit you gather up when you're,
when you're, and garbage thatyou get.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Everyone's, got it, dude, everyone's got stuff, so
let's talk about this, willie.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So Willie started a company called Space Makers, and
Space Makers is basically ifyou got junk, if you got garbage
, if you got something that youwant hauled away, call Space
Makers, call Willie.
Willie, what's your phonenumber?
We're going to put this outthere multiple times.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
All right, 801-664-5446.
664-5546.
Not quite 801-664-5446.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
5446.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
There, you go.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I have one too many fives in there and not enough
fours Not enough fours Sneak upon you.
So talk about Space Makers,willie.
Talk about kind of in thebeginning and where you're at
now.
Bud yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I'm going to throw up.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
while you're talking, I'm going to throw up your logo
, Sure, sure.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Started out because, well, you know, my mom might not
like me saying this, but ourgarage was a little bit of a
hoarder, phil, for a second.
There was, I've seen it, therewas cardboard boxes and Hell
half the time.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I want to go through your garage because it's good
shit.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
There's some stuff out there that's good, you know,
but most of it we just you knowit was stuff that we couldn't
let go of.
So I'm showing your befores andafters right now too, willie,
yeah, so my mom didn't reallyknow there wasn't a real
solution.
You know the only other peopleout there in the junk removal
space are.
You know you've got these bignasty dump trailers with the big

(07:52):
cartoon logos, big brightcolors.
And they charge astronomicalfees yeah well, they're letting
everyone know in yourneighborhood that you're just
full of shit pretty much.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
You've just got a ton of stuff and you're not taken
care of anything like that.
What I started Space Makers wasfor the reason that it's a
little more you know.
It's minimal, it's simplistic,it's a little more intimate,
where you're like, if I'm havingthese college kids come into my
house instead of, you know,like a crew, you don't know,
we'll.
We'll talk to you, we'll work.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Bunch of construction guys tromping through your
house and don't give a crap.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I just had a whole bunch of them, by the way, and I
got you know, we got shoecovers to make sure that your
house is completely clean.
We want it's an intimateexperience.
Junk removal is because it'syour stuff, you know if you're
inviting people into your house.
So that's what we focus on isjust being a little more and
willie is a really good kidprofessional.
Thank you trying to do a littlebit more professionally, like

(08:51):
clean, you know, taking care ofyour home but also making sure
you're happy making sure we'renot taking anything you don't
want double checking with youright before we leave.
You know, is there anything inthe trailer you think you might
still actually want to keep partof?
Is there something else?
You want us to take Stuff likethat On one of those before and
afters, the one of the yardcleanup?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yep, I'm going to do it right now.
There it is.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
You'll notice on the side we left some bricks and
pavers behind Because theydecided they wanted them Because
they said you know what, that'ssome bricks we might be able to
use to our house.
So we actually took those outof the trailer for them because
they decided you know what,that's actually something we
might be able to use.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Dude, that was a super mess before.
Oh, it was Snow and all thatjunk and you just got in there.
I mean, it looks the before andafter is amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, yeah, all those little pieces of so what?
So what actually happened withthat picture is they had a
contractor come in but didn'tpay him to take the stuff away.
So he came in, redid all oftheir tile and just made a big
pile of crap, a lot of theirsheetrock.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
We know all about that.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Threw it right in the side of their house, right, oh
my gosh.
So we were in there and it wasone by one inches, of just
little pieces of tile that hadbeen broken and shattered, and
we got in there and took care ofit, you know it took us.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't why would they just have him take the
stuff away?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
that's well, he didn't bring a dump trailer and
they just threw it all to theside of the house.
I didn't know where else to putit.
Wow, you can't fit it all inthe dump or in the garbage, can?
They won't take it.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
No trust me, I know I've had willie run, like I said
, two or three times for me Acouple dump runs we should have,
I got another one for you today, dude.
There we go there, we go, so,yeah, so, if anybody out there
needs to do some so-calledspring cleaning man, I know the
kid, that's what we're here forand he's got, just so you guys

(10:33):
know, he's got a box trailerthat my rat rod is in right now.
That's true, that's true,that's true.
I I told him I was borrowing itfor just a minute and then I I
show up and put it back in hishouse with my car in it.
It's storage for now, right,yeah, thanks, willie, yeah so
I'm here for yep, he's got a boxtrailer and a dump trailer.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I do, it's a combo dump trailer.
So you know that's another partthat we like to focus on is, uh
, re up cycling in a sense, youknow.
So if stuff's good, you know alot of the other places they'll
just take it, they throw it allin the landfill, they don't
really care.
Yeah, we'll take it to the di,we'll take it, and that's
awesome and you know, make surethat there's a purpose.

(11:12):
If there's life left in a pieceof furniture, or if there's life
left in something, we want tobe able to reuse it.
We don't want to to have to addto the problem.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
So that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Clean, clean waste stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, I like it and I told you I'd do my part and help
you in any way I can to get yousome business.
So scream out that number again.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah right, 801-664-5446.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Remember 5446.
You need more 4s, less 5sPerfect, okay.
So if anybody has some springcleaning or just a project or
maybe just stuff in the basementand you want to downsize, like
I'm doing right now, freakingcall, willie, don't put that
shit in storage.

(11:56):
Trust me, I'll be the first oneto tell you guys, man, it's so
ridiculous that storage is to.
I paid for storage for 12 yearsand at the end, willie, I ended
up just pretty much throwingall of it away yep, that's just
how it is.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
And what do you do?
Why?
Why you think that you want it.
You know there is emotionalattachment items.
What you get, you know, if it'sfurniture stuff like that, you,
you want to take a second lookat it.
But but the way that we like tolook at it is if you don't see
yourself using this item in thenext year so either you're going
to be sitting on it in somesort of way or you don't see a
plan for it in the future it'sprobably time to let it go.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Plus, your tastes are going to change, you know yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Between.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Lisey and myself.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
We have a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, that's true, and it's getting downsized.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, downsized.
That's good, though I know it'scrazy.
You walk into the modern homesand it's just so simple very
little furniture.
Easy living you don't havestuff for the old couches, the
old stuff like that, you don'thave stuff for the old couches,
the old stuff like that, andit's like I mean just big,
gnarly heavy-ass furniture.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Yeah, totally, and Willie's gotit and he's got a number of
guys that he can tap into tobring out as much help as he
needs.
I've got a crew that I candefinitely bring, that's for
sure.
He's got the boys and they showup and they're all very
respectful and clean.
So all you people out there,let's show this kid some love

(13:28):
and let's get him some business,and he'll talk about
geographics.
Where won't?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
you go.
Anywhere.
I mean I live in Bountiful.
We go anywhere 45-minute radiusof there, so we'll come
wherever.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
So northern Utah County all of Salt Lake County,
maybe Tooele Exactly.
It's forever out to Tooele orGrantsville, but you'll still go
.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, we'll still go.
If you've got a job where wecan help you out and cover the
gas, then we'll be there.
And then as far north as what?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Ogden yeah, okay, and then as far north as what,
ogden?

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, okay, yep, totally, ogden.
That's a pretty big area, dudeit is, you know, and we can
cover it.
We've got the manpower at themoment.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
You know we do have the two trailers, yeah, and if
you've got to send one one wayand one the other you've got it.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
That's when we get going.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Because I know your brother's helping you a little
bit with it.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
My older brother, we're working on getting him in.
Right now he's working forWestern Fence, yeah that's my
buddy owns that.
Oh yeah, he's working 40 hoursa week, though, so we get him on
weekends.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, you know what the nice thing is?
I can tell you guys right nowthere is nobody harder working
than freaking Nick Schultz.
Oh my goodness, that guy, he'sa stud.
He is a stud, yeah, likeliterally.
So I'm really good friends withJason, who owns Western Fence,
and Jason tells me all the timebest worker best worker by far,
and he's smart and he's justdedicated and you don't have to

(14:49):
keep in his ass, you don't haveto tell him what to do.
He's going to get it done.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Jason might kick my butt when I hopefully overtake
Nick here in a little bit Allright.
That's the, that's the object,right, yeah, and that's the
other thing I want to talk aboutis, uh, not only you know we do
junk removal and that's our,that's our primary business, but
also, if there's just thingsthat you can think of.
You know, hauling smallfurniture, small, exactly small

(15:15):
move.
I moved my cousin out of hisapartment to a different one.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know, I uh I know that your grandmother, uh, went
into a different one.
Yeah, I know that yourgrandmother went into a home and
you guys.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
We took care of that completely in the box trailer.
We got her in, moved everythingand then we did all the junk
removal over there for her tooNice.
So any estate sales, anythinglike that where you got your
grandparents, you got yourparents' things and you don't
know what to do with it.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Or here's an idea, these garage sale guys.
They should call you to comehaul away the stuff they don't
sell.
Exactly right.
Or the buyers can hire you tofollow them around and pick up
all their stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
No, that's well.
Furniture delivery is going tobe a big thing.
That we're doing too, whereit's.
You know a lot of people.
You go online, you go on ksl,you need a new couch need, but
you don't have a truck.
You don't know what to do withit.
You don't have a truck.
Even if you do have a trucksome of these big sectionals
you're not getting in the backof a short bed, right?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
so you know we got that, we'll bring the trailer
and then we'll take the oldcouch.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know anything like that.
So, dude, that's, you knowthere's a lot of jobs you know,
even if it's just moving fromone level of the house to
another, and you just need acouple of stronger college boys
that can come help you out.
That's what we're here for.
You know, any of those jobsthat you need?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
and willie is priced right, guys.
I mean I'm not going to put himon on the spot and ask him in
pricings for anything, but youknow I've used him a few times
and he's been just more thanwilling and, and I mean, jumped
right in, did it, didn'tovercharge me, you know I called
uh, what's that one you see ontv all the damn time 1-800.

(16:53):
Yeah, god, junk the competitordude, they're not competitors
with you.
I called them one one time andtheir quote to do what I was
needing done at the time was soridiculously overpriced Like I
seriously was in shock.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
They do a full load.
It's a $700 job Wow, and it'snot close.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I think it's even more than that.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yep, and they don't do any of the extras too, so I
mean it's wild.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, I mean to them it's just a job.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, it's just a job , it's just a corporation.
They're founded in Canada, butthey're everywhere.
Yeah, you're fine, they'recompletely everywhere.
So it's a little less intimate.
They don't really have to worrymuch about each job because
they have so many.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, that's why we like to take care of it like
it's like, hurry up, just get itdone just get it done, throw it
in the trailer, go dump it atthe landfill.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Let's do six jobs a day, right where I'm like.
All right, we're getting youknow six a week.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
We're rolling there, we go right, exactly right well,
we'll get you busier, I promiseyou we'll get you busier.
We're working on it there.
I guarantee you we've.
We've got peeps out there thatthat are gonna be calling you.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, say that number again, uh 801-664-5446 all
right, guys, you got it.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
You need it, get your , get your.
Get your phones a dialing.
Get old willie out there tohandle stuff he's good at it.
Get the spring cleaning.
Spring cleaning boy, I justspring cleaned.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, and if you know someone else you need that
could use our service.
If you haven't mentioned yourname when you're booking, I just
started a little referralprogram where I'm giving 10%
back up to $50 for any kickbackBuddy.
So what's your website?
Where do they book?
So it's wwwspacemakerscom.

(18:37):
Simple, yeah, it's just rightthere, straightforward.
All the booking goes through myphone.
It goes just right there,Straightforward.
All the booking goes through myphone.
It goes through calling me andwe'll set you up on a schedule.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
So you guys heard it spacemakerscom.
Yep, it's that simple.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
There's, you know, a contact a little more about us,
what services we offer.
There's a pricing sheet onthere, you know.
So if you want to know ageneral idea of how much you've
got and how much it's going tocost, we got something like that
on there too, john Greenewald.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, because we just hired movers and I was kind of
ticked off, the dude charged anextra $150 because some of the
boxes were heavy.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Give me an extra, extra weight fees.
That's all over and moving andeverything.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Steve Trang and they dropped hints all day long about
tips.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, we, you know it's definitely not required.
With how much that we chargealready, it's definitely not
something that you need to.
You know it's required, butthat's the thing is that you
don't want it to be more of like.
You want it to be an intimateplace where, if I'm coming and
helping you move, what I'll dofor you is I'll be helping you
move and talking you throughabout each and everything, what

(19:40):
I'm not even thinking aboutpayment plans.
Next, you know it's down theline, but if we're moving, we're
moving.
You know I want to be able totake care of you.
Same thing with junk, likeyesterday I did a job.
I stole a gram from you when Iwas helping you move.
It's all right.
So we had two buddies up thereoriginally and there's this
500-pound armoire.

(20:01):
We're taking down this90-degree set of staircases and
the problem is on the middlelanding pad.
There's not enough room totwist it.
So we have to put it on a stepand twist it on the step.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Like on the corner.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
On the corner, but then if there's no one
supporting the backside, it'sgoing over Right.
So I'm sitting here with this500-poundmoire like over this
railing.
So we had to come steal Graham.
He, he saved us.
But good, that was.
The thing is, I didn't, youknow, I didn't think well for
twice, you know.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh, I'm gonna charge them extra because this thing's
so heavy to take care of yeah wehad one of those at our place
and the only way they could getit out was to go out on the
balcony and over the balcony andover the back.
Okay, there you go.
That's how they do it.
And, willie, have you seenthose shoulder strap things?
Oh yeah, I have some.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Those things are the bomb.
Oh, the lifting ones, where youjust put it under and you don't
even have to hold it.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah you got that thing and you just stand up and
it's all supported.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
You know, we got those in those money I bought.
Those came in yesterdayactually, because I ordered them
a couple days ago.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Oh, buddy, you're going to love them.
I know that's some good stuff.
Yeah, these, I saw it a whileback, actually, when they
brought my stove they had someand I thought that is just
ingenious, yeah.
And then the movers that helpedus move they all had them.
They all had them, and it isamazing.
Oh, I only imagined, becauseyou know the big problem with a

(21:24):
lot of those pieces of furnitureyou bend all the way over, try
to get your hands under them andthen you're lifting and killing
your back.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
There's no lip or anything either.
Yeah, these things.
That strap just goes underneathand all you got to do is
balance it.
A real squat, yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
And you're freaking, carrying that weight with your
whole body, not just your arms,yeah, not just your forearms
exactly shooting those out.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
So I'm glad you got some of those.
Oh yeah, we just got those in.
We got some shoe covers too.
Keep that house clean.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Got to keep the house clean, yep, and, unlike our
movers, don't use their bathroom.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, no, that's just bad show, that's just not yeah,
no, that's just bad show, it'sjust not.
I've never seen so manyfreaking big dudes have to shit
and they're big dudes they sureare insane?
Yeah, they're not.
That's you know.
It's the difference.
So we like to make it a littlemore intimate we like to be able
to spend time and talk with youtoo.
It's not just a we don't haveto.

(22:17):
You know, right, right, it'slike, and he's a good kid, and
you know, it's just how it is.
You know, it's more of a littlelittle more intimate.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I like it closer together, so uh, again, all you
people out there, spacemakerscom.
And Willie's phone number is801-664-5446.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
There you go, I got it.
Woo Got that taken care of.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, on my phone I just go to Willie and hit and
that works too.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Save the contact as Willie.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right.
We'll be taken care of that'sright.
Okay, willie man, I'm so glad Ihad you on buddy.
This was fun.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, it was a good, good time.
Yeah, thanks for having me, ofcourse.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
All right people.
Thank you so much for watchingUh.
Aaron will be back next weekand uh, thank you guys for
supporting us and and being apart of uh, our little, our
little program that we have Loveyou a long time.
Have a fantastic week and wewill see you.