April 4, 2025 • 41 mins
The aftermath of disaster often reveals the most profound aspects of humanity—our capacity for resilience, generosity, and connection. In this deeply moving conversation, disaster relief volunteer Jeremy Barker opens his heart about the transformative journey that began when he abandoned his fishing plans and $70,000 in savings to help rebuild a storm-ravaged community in Barnardsville, North Carolina.
Jeremy's story unfolds with raw honesty as he describes how what started as building emergency sheds has evolved into creating a community retreat center—a place for healing, connection, and renewal. "This place is more than just where we build sheds," he reflects. "This is a retreat and a place where we've built infrastructure to serve the community."
The challenges are immense—from coordinating volunteers from across the country to installing proper septic systems, managing Airbnb properties for displaced homeowners, and preparing fields for regrowth. Yet through these obstacles, Jeremy finds unexpected rewards. He shares vulnerable insights about the difficulty of taking days off: "Your brain will not let you take a day off. The only thing to fix it is to get out there and deliver a couple sheds, hug somebody—it recharges you."
Perhaps most powerful is Jeremy's reflection on the relationships formed through disaster response: "The biggest reward in this whole thing is the relationships I've built." From local community members to fellow volunteers and the remarkable response from the shed industry nationwide, these connections have become the beating heart of recovery efforts.
Looking ahead, Jeremy sees this experience not as an endpoint but as preparation: "This is a training field. We're just being set up for the next thing we're going to have to deliver and help." His perspective transforms disaster response from a temporary intervention into part of a longer journey of service.
Want to support disaster recovery efforts or connect with these remarkable volunteers? Reach out directly and discover how your skills, resources, or simply your presence might become part of someone's journey from devastation to hope.
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Sam (00:08):
Welcome back to part two of a two-part episode.
Be sure to go back and listento part one.
You might've missed something.
Hope you enjoy the conversationtoday.
Jeremy (00:19):
This is a Airbnb house, you know, and it rents for about
$185 to $200 a night.
It's got a jacuzzi, bigscreened in porch.
I can sleep eight people overhere.
You know, it's one bathroom,but it's nice.
Sam (00:36):
But he's not going to rent it because he's not got a bridge
built back.
Jeremy (00:40):
He ain't got a bridge built back.
So I worked out a deal.
You know with them from thebeginning that I would pay all
the power, all the Internet, andyou know, give them a little
bit of money here and there.
And you know, and I've beentrue to that and able to do that
through donations, you knowwhat I mean Keep all the power
bill and stuff paid, because Idon't want them paying out of
(01:03):
their pocket for our operationto run around here.
You know what I mean.
And I keep volunteers up therein the white house.
Anybody that's come and stayed,you know, uh, up there, uh, oh,
the Daniel cane, he, he lovedthat house up there.
He liked, he liked that house upthere when he come hauled and
uh you know, yeah, you know,everybody's been staying in the
(01:27):
houses and they ain't making nomoney, so they had their first
paying customer come in thisweek, that's great.
And, uh, so we got that house.
I got the house cleaned up andput back online last week.
Uh, after volunteers left, Istraightened it up and put it
back online and we got it rented.
So they got them a little bitof money for that.
(01:47):
And those folks come in and theyasked me.
They said what's it cost tobuild a shed?
You know, we see what you'redoing here.
And I told them I told themit's about $7,000, $8,000, you
know to finish one and they saidthey want to pay to furnish one
.
Airbnb finish one.
(02:08):
They said they want to, theywant to pay to furnish.
So, uh, clients, yeah, airbnbclients.
So over the past you know about72 hours with john here coming,
the videographer that you sentmy way I've discovered that this
place is more than just a placewhere we build sheds and we
store sheds and finish sheds.
This is a retreat and this is aa place that we have built
(02:29):
infrastructure and made aninvestment to serve the
community and, uh, people cancome and use it as a retreat and
, uh, a way to get closer to god, get closer to yourself, get
closer to the earth, whatever,be able to give back and help.
And you know, uh, we're gonna,I'm, I'm.
Uh, we got a new idea of beingbored, john.
(02:53):
He's like I can't stay heremuch longer because you don't
have a plan at fitness.
Yeah, he's like every placewith this type of situation
needs a gym.
So we're gonna, we're gonnabuild a gym now and uh, we're
gonna have a gym here on thefarm and uh, people can come and
work out and the airbnbs uhwill be more successful.
(03:14):
But my main goal, to get backto the farm, is this man's 75
years old.
He worked all his life to havethis.
The storm come through here anddestroyed his pastures he had.
He had about 15 acres worth ofpasture before the storm and now
he's cut in about two, threeacres past.
You see how small it is.
Horses ain't gonna be able toeat on that grass this summer.
(03:35):
So, uh, we're having to moveour campers over here and
rearrange all that and thatfield is going to be minimized
down.
They're going to pull the fenceto the road goes here.
The fence is going to go downthe side of the road.
So everything on the left sideis fair game.
But the right side, where ourcampers are at now, is going to
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have to be cleaned off and we'regoing to have to reseed that
for grass.
And we're working to get theseAirbnbs back up and going.
We're working to get theseAirbnbs back up and going and
I'm hopeful that I cantransition out of this place by
May 1st and we'll have some kindof bridge in here.
But they've gotten the runaround.
The bridge is stuck in Iowa dueto a DOT flagging.
(04:21):
So driver got flagged, had anindustry injury working on an
airline on his brake booster.
Air hose come off his brakebooster whipped him in the face.
He's a truck at a truck stop inthe parking lot.
You know what that's like.
And then he's got a 90 footbridge behind him.
(04:42):
Dot flags him out.
He's got all the permits setfrom all the way from Missouri
all the way out here.
So now he's stuck and uh, Davidand Amber, they don't know what
to do to bail him out.
Johnny said that if we couldget a confirmation that he would
drop the load there, that hewould make sure that he found
(05:05):
somebody to go get it or hewould go get it himself.
Sam (05:09):
Yeah, um, you know, we would find a driver.
Jeremy (05:12):
You know that yep, so, uh, we're waiting to hear back
on that now.
But that's the deal with thebridge, but, uh, just trying to
help these folks out, uh, that'shelped us so much and um, yep
you know, we've got thebathhouse and the bunkhouse,
thanks to you, you know, and uh,everything you've done to make
that happen through thanksgiving, and uh, I was just.
(05:35):
You know, I've gotten in.
This morning I met a guy thatcome out.
I'm no longer waiting on, uh, ahomemade septic system.
We have hired a company andwe're having a septic system
will be installed next Monday,not this Monday but next Monday.
And Mr Greg Horncold thatyou've seen today, he's raising
money.
He's raising money for that.
(05:55):
So the guy come out he's likelook, I'm not charging any labor
, he's like, but you got to buythe tank and the materials and
you know my machine fee and allthat.
He.
He said it'll be under twogrand, but we're gonna get that
put in there for you.
So, uh, and it's gonna be legal,he's gonna permit it and
everything so well, I've doneright and that's a good thing
(06:16):
because, especially with whatwe've gone through with the
power company, I still got thepower company after me trying to
charge me 5800 for choppingthat line with the excavator.
But I asked them.
I said you ready to get on thenews Because I am?
I said when everybody knowswhat you're trying to do to me
and they find out what I've beendoing for the people up here,
(06:39):
you're going to be in bigtrouble.
I got calls from them but I'mnot worried about him.
I told you know the farmer andhis wife.
I said if it comes down to themtrying to charge you and make
you pay for it, uh, I'll takefull responsibility for it.
Sam (06:55):
But as the story goes.
Jeremy (06:57):
Now we don't know where them volunteers was come from
and come here and cut that lineon that excavator.
It got cut by a volunteer andthat's it.
We're trying to help people andwe're going to move forward.
But we've destroyed this man'sfarm and spring's coming.
I've got to get some grassgrowing.
I've got to get transition.
I've got a group of guys.
(07:17):
I don't know the name of theiroutfit, but they said they're a
pretty big manufacturing outfitin Oregon, the Pacific Northwest
.
They're sending nine guys sevendays.
They said they want to build 20.
I said well, I don't know if Igot the material for that.
They're like oh, don't worryabout it, we'll figure it out a
way, we'll get some material.
They've never been here.
(07:39):
I'm pretty familiar with thePacific Northwest.
I travel there prettyfrequently and those are some
hard working people and they'recoming out here and we're going
to build sheds here.
Hopefully they're coming in.
They're coming in for sure onthe 13th and leaving the 19th.
So they're excited, they'repumped up.
(08:03):
They've been following alongwith the journey.
They've got mad respect for you.
Sam (08:08):
We've got some guys from Pennsylvania too right, and
Ohio's bringing guys back again.
Jeremy (08:14):
Yep, the Yoder is coming back tomorrow but Mark's coming
by himself from Ohio.
And then I've got some peoplecoming in from Texas, a family
of four, older son, dad, mom.
They're all in the remodelingbusiness anyway and they're
going to be.
I'm going to pair them up withMark and they are going to work
(08:37):
on Monday and Tuesday gettingour own site build down there,
the 36-footer, uh, insulated andpaneled.
Because, uh, I've got to a firmplat line with the organization
next door, the community center.
That, hey, all we bargained forwas a structure that was
insulated, wired and paneled,just like the shits.
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We can't go build a bathroom, akitchen, none of that.
Our budget doesn't entail that.
Sam (09:05):
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Jeremy (10:52):
We're going to do that and stand beside them, because
this new organization is usingthat as a kind of a bellwether
of what we've done and they'relike, if we could do more of
this, this is where we need tofundraise for.
So I've got to kind of completeit, you know.
But they did get the drivewayfixed so we can drive up there.
(11:13):
So I've got that group yeah,I've got that group scheduled up
this week to work on that.
And then, you know, thefollowing week the guys from
Pennsylvania are coming in.
But the guy he told me todayhe's like I don't have a way to
transport the hemlock and Idon't have but just me and
(11:35):
somebody else coming.
Is there going?
to be other volunteers.
So I'm like well, that's thehard part of juggling volunteers
is making sure that you gotenough people to work with each
other, you know or I just thinkI'm the old fort to finish sheds
.
Regardless, we got plenty ofwork for them to do, but yeah
you know, the volunteer thing Ithink is is going to change in
(11:57):
the spring.
I think we're going to get somemore people that's going to
come in and help us finish upthis thing.
Uh, I'm believing in that andI'm looking towards the future
of transitioning into fixingsome of the houses and trying to
help other people do things,and if that don't work, I'm
going to go back to fixing theland with Tim.
Uh, you know one way or another, but, uh, I've got the farm
(12:20):
here and you know, um, we'vemade it.
We've made a big effort onbuilding what we've built, so
we're not we didn't do all thisand come this way to pack up and
go home and then I got peoplestill calling me you touched on.
Sam (12:36):
I want to talk about um before we end this one too, and
that is we don't just needcarpenters, we still need guys
with skid steers, track hose.
There's plenty of cleanup workthat can still be done, and
there's also carpentry work thatcan be done outside of sheds.
Jeremy (12:53):
That Eastern Shore Fencing Company was a role model
in showing what you can do byjust sending your skid steers
and a little bit of your labordown here.
I mean, I've got 25 debrispiles separated metal, uh, scrap
metal.
Hard metal, uh tin metal, uhbrush.
(13:14):
Debris.
Car parts uh Mr.
Carson's uh 40 by 60 metalbuilding that was in a kit that
blew all over the field downhere.
They gathered up all that stuffand put it in piles.
They helped Tim, they helpedCarl, they helped Mr.
Larry that passed away down thestreet down here.
(13:35):
All that in four days' time.
Sam (13:38):
Yeah, they killed it.
Jeremy (13:40):
They did good Love it and I think, if you've got
equipment sitting around andyou're slow, you need to come
down here and see what we'reseeing, to feel what we feel.
And, like I touched on before,we've worked our whole lives.
We've all worked since we wasyoung boys.
I've been working since I was12 years old and I got my rest
(14:03):
of my life to work, because I'llnever be able to quit.
No, but I've never had anopportunity to do nothing like
this.
Yeah, this is my first timestorm trooping.
You know, I've never done thisbefore, but I made a vow to
myself when I was 18 years old.
I was a power lineman.
I was down, kat, and I lookedto the people down there and I
(14:28):
couldn't do nothing for thempeople and I always said, god,
if you ever put me in a positionwhere I'm financially stable
and a storm comes through and Ican go, I'm gonna go.
And when this storm hit, I justfinished two of the biggest
jobs I'd ever done in my life.
I had probably about 70 000 inthe bank and, uh, I was planning
(14:50):
on the month of October,fishing the outer banks.
Yeah, November and December Iwas going to build me a shop and
we don't have we.
I ain't done none of it and Iblowed all the money.
Sam (15:05):
I know I know, oh it's crazy.
Jeremy (15:11):
I put another tarp over my shed last week before I left,
I put another tarp on, sothat's five tarps.
I got strapped across my 20, uh, my 12 by 24 at home.
That's got all my tools and ourgreat grandfather sentiments
inside of it.
You know and uh, I, I know god'sgonna provide I look at that
(15:33):
red garage on the way out of the, out of the farm, every day I'm
like I need to clean thatsucker out and bring up some of
my stuff and put it in hereuntil I get done.
Or I said better yet, I'm goingto buy that shed, I'm going to
buy that thing Before it's overwith.
I'm going to buy or havewhoever built it build me one
identical to it.
Sam (15:52):
I don't want to call that thing the Gastonia.
Jeremy (15:54):
Hey, I'm going to tell you what I will solve my
problems when I get theseproblems solved up here.
Sam (16:03):
Thank you.
Jeremy (16:04):
I'm not worried about my problems because the more and
more I talk to people and theycry out to me, the more it fuels
me to be here.
Yes, and then when I look at youand I'm like Sam don't have to
be here, Sam can go do anythinghe wants.
And I was like, as long assomebody else is up here, so I
know that I ain't the only one.
(16:25):
That's crazy, I won't.
I won't think I'll ever quit.
People ask me every day.
They're like, how are you gonnado it?
How's he gonna survive?
I'm like all it takes is me tobuild one good bathroom yep I
can finish this and you'll buildone good bathroom.
And jump back on my feet.
Sam (16:43):
Thank you.
Jeremy (16:45):
I ain't worried about it , because we got the rest of our
life to work.
Sam (16:48):
We do these people.
Jeremy (16:49):
Up here.
It's getting warm.
People are asking for airconditions Now.
People's wanting their shedsmoved back and forth, move
around.
I've got a list of mule workthat I could do.
I could put a mule on thatlittle trailer and go ride
around for 15 hours just movingsheds around.
Sam (17:05):
Yeah, I got the same issue starting now.
They all want to move.
It's like come on, guys.
Jeremy (17:13):
We're going to continue, Sam.
I'm proud to be with you Beforewe jump off here.
I know a lot of shed guys thatI've met, like Colin and Dale
Neuschwanger and Daniel Cain andJohnny and all them.
They've touched my heart.
Sam (17:31):
Yeah.
Jeremy (17:32):
They have touched my heart.
They are the true definition ofwe, the people.
I mean me and Colin.
We deliver sheds at midnight,Mr.
Sam (17:42):
Carl's shed.
I still got the pictures.
Mr Carl's shed was delivered inthe dark, in the dark, and I
just think about it.
Jeremy (17:53):
I think about the camaraderie that you guys hold.
At first it made me jealous ofhow my brotherhood, my industry
is and I'm like you know we putflooring in every one of these
sheds.
But you know how many, how manyof the installers, local
installers in N orth Carolinahas come to help me one one.
Sam (18:16):
He's a good dude the rest of them.
Jeremy (18:19):
they're like I ain't coming over here putting lvp in
sheds.
We got tile and set we makingmoney.
We $100 an hour.
We can't stop on our knee padsfor free.
Sam (18:29):
I do the same thing.
Just for the record, we haveplenty of those also.
We just have a really goodbatch of superstars.
I don't know if you knew thisor not, but Calvin was down
yesterday and today.
Mr Shirk, yeah.
Jeremy (18:46):
Hey.
I missed you I know you touchedmy heart.
Sam (18:52):
I know he touched your heart.
That's why I brought him up.
I had him down in Old Fort.
He came in yesterday afternoon.
He brought two sheds down forme from Virginia.
Yesterday afternoon he broughttwo sheds down for me from uh
Virginia, that another.
Their competition donated twosheds and uh carl's, uh Calvin's
boss, josh helmuth, said, yeah,you can haul them down there.
Um, so Calvin brought them down, delivered both of those
(19:16):
yesterday, went tohendersonville this morning,
picked up two army sheds, wentand delivered them, delivered
another Indiana shed for me andthen did a Cajun Navy shed
that's going to be a permanentone tonight.
And now he's headed back.
He's driving home tonightbecause he wants to beat this
storm home.
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Sam (21:18):
Wow, you can't, you can't.
I'm telling you, man.
So that's what I'm.
This is what I want to end with.
You just led straight into it.
The biggest, the other, otherthan blessing the socks off of
survivors, which we have beenable to do over and over again,
my biggest reward in this wholething is the relationships I've
(21:40):
built.
Would you agree with that, orwhat do you see?
Jeremy (21:45):
Well, it's like Mr Carl, we set that shed that night.
He walked into breakfast placethe next day and he's calling me
right now.
He's calling Ever since thatnext day.
We've been, we've been likethis and he tells everybody.
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He said that man come in thelast bit of my time where I give
me hope, and he said he helped.
He helped restore my hope and,uh, the least thing I can do is
show up for him and help him andthe relationships that I've
built here.
Everybody in Gastonia knows mebecause I'm the preacher's
grandson and I was an avidmotorcycle man for many years,
(22:34):
so everybody knows me.
I can't learn anything new orplant any new seeds in Gastonia.
I feel like when I walk into aroom here that people are proud
to have me here and they'regrateful for everything we're
doing.
And I had about nine to 12people ask me why ain't Sam here
(22:59):
with you tonight?
I said I'll come on behalf ofboth of us.
That's right and that shows merespect that we've gained from
the community.
And one day we're going to haveto get old and I always loved
the mountains and I'll probablyend up in the mountains one day.
And I sure want some of thesepeople, yeah, to remember what
(23:21):
we've done for them, and I'vehad people try to give me land
up here, miss gail uh miss obama.
She, she offered to give us twoacres of land for us to put an
operation on up here, and I toldher I couldn't take it.
I said you got to figure outwhat the minimum donation is
that I'll give you and I'll doyou a park in front of it on the
(23:41):
creek bank for your, your latehusband that passed away in
honor of him, and the storm andeverything.
Blah, blah, blah.
But I got to pay for it.
I've had Mr.
Carson open this farm up.
I've had the ladies down at thebreakfast place feed me and
they don't deliver food tonobody's table except for mine.
I got the women at twistedlaurel taking care of me feed me
(24:01):
.
I can walk into a place and Ishow appreciation.
Um the relationships areimportant.
Sam uh no, we, when you postthat about that trailer the
other day.
Like I told you, we'vedelivered a lot of hope with
this, that trailer yes yeah,well, we took that thing out
(24:22):
last week.
I didn't want to touch onsomething.
I needed to deliver sheds lastweek because I needed that.
I didn't do it to hang out withJohnny.
I need that because thatrestores my hope.
That builds me back up.
That recharges me.
Sam (24:38):
That's like doing a big old line and being recharged right
there and with the energy of theworld we should do a Facebook
live on this part, becausepeople are constantly telling us
we need to take a day or twooff, or three days off, and you
and I wholeheartedly agree onthis.
Days off terrible, because yourbrain will not let you take a
(25:00):
day off.
And when you're on a day off,you're sitting back at the house
.
That's when it just startsrolling around in your head over
and over again and the onlything to fix it is to get out
there and deliver a couple shedsinsulated shed.
Do something, hug somebody, doyou, and it recharges you yes I
told you told you last Sunday.
Jeremy (25:21):
I said I'm going on.
You said you're going to go bea mechanic, put a rear end in a
recliner.
I said yeah, but about eighthours after that I was wearing
the recliner out, getting up andout of it, up and out of it, up
and out of it because Icouldn't sit still.
And then by the next day, thecalls and the focus and my mind
going to what's going on up here, and then having John up here.
(25:42):
John, you know, I was like I'mgoing back.
The minute he released thatvideo and tagged me in it and I
watched it.
You're gone.
I was packing my tools back up.
I was ready to go.
I you know I done went andswapped the trucks.
I went and rechecked my truckin and figured out I wasn't
(26:05):
getting another one so I had totake all my tools out and then I
put them back in there.
But I was like I'm ready to goand as soon as I got up here
opened the door up at thatcamper and he was in there and I
got him and took him and wewent and done some more
interviews.
A whole burden had lifted offof me, like now you can rest,
(26:28):
amen.
And today I did.
I read.
I got up this morning and wentand met the airbnb customers
that said they wanted to makethat donation and give them the
information and all that stuffand give them business car.
I went down there and gotbreakfast, brought my breakfast
back to the house, I went backto bed nice and I'm like, yeah,
I gotta learn this.
I gotta learn to rest up here soI don't have to burden myself
(26:51):
with going home to rest.
Uh, because there's still a lotof work up here, you know, and
um, I you know this is okay.
I got a lady know she alreadygot a shed from us.
Now she's telling me where myautistic son has to come home.
I need another shed.
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Jeremy (27:13):
And I'm working through that and trying to figure out
that.
I got this lady in a meetingthe night crying during the
meeting.
You know, come and sit besideme interrupted the whole daggone
meeting just so I'd see howserious she was.
I'm like I know how serious youare.
I'm helping, but those littlethings are the reason why we're
here.
That's why God brought us here.
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That's why he brought forthyour industry and all the great
shed haulers and the peopleinvolved in the industry and the
people in the manufacturing anduh, you know, the people that's
cultivating your industry.
Everybody is seen and broughtinto the light of what we're
doing here, all because of whatyou're doing, Sam, and I believe
there's a reason all behindthis, and I believe that we are
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all disciples and I believe thatgod brought us together for a
reason, because there'ssomething bigger.
And this is not where we end.
This is a training field.
We're just being set up for thenext thing that we're going to
have to deliver and help.
You've done disasters before.
God's used you again to comeback and he equipped you even
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better than the last tornado orhurricane.
You went on and you learned andyou progressed and I seen it as
true professional man.
Gotta have two, three trailers,two trucks, tears up stuff.
I'm gonna be ready before thenext, yeah you know what I mean
I'm looking, I'm I'm looking touh set myself up because I know
what we're doing.
Here is not the end of it and Iknow all this storm is biblical
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and people talk about thegovernment did this and the
government did that, and I don'ttake that here is not the end
of it and I know all this stormis biblical and people talk
about the government did thisand the government did that, and
I don't take that credit awayfrom my God.
No, I don't like it, and Ibelieve that there's more to
this.
Sam (28:56):
And you know I just there's more opportunity.
Jeremy (29:01):
I think we're here for a reason and, uh, we need to be
true testaments and, uh,faithful servants and uh, good,
uh, examples of, uh, whattradesmen and craftsmen supposed
to be.
You know what I mean.
And uh, I've been around toolsand equipment, I've drove
anything I could drive a tank.
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I've drove trucks.
I went in my first storm and Ididn't even have my CDL license,
I just had a permit and I drovea Drigger down to Katrina, down
to New Orleans, and I hauled aload of 80-foot poles on that
truck with no license and run 50mile an hour all the way down
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there, wide open.
And I've been in trucking, I'vebeen in excavating, I've been
in grading, I've been inbuilding industrial.
You know, I grew up with apainter, a heating and air man
and a plumber.
You, know, and my papa's andeverybody's has instilled
everything into me.
If anybody was equipped to comehere that was versatile, it was
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me.
I tell everybody there's areason why he sent me here.
I just ain't figured it out yetand uh, I gotta say I couldn't
ask for a better person to doneall this with than you, Sam
Ballard.
Sam (30:24):
It's been great.
Jeremy (30:26):
You'll be a friend forever.
Sam (30:27):
You'll be a friend forever, you said something one day and
I said yeah, but we're going toget old together, so there's no
worries there.
Jeremy (30:34):
I know that's right.
Sam (30:37):
Well, I have this one stuck up on the side of a mountain
over there somewhere, somewhere.
You and Mr Johnny got to run upthe mountain and finish up for
me.
Jeremy (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that was another amazingthing.
You know that man, his wifedied and he got remarried, and
you know, I couldn't imaginelosing a spouse.
Sam (30:59):
No I can't.
Jeremy (31:01):
I don't know what I would do Because I've been with
mine too long.
I see it up here.
Sam (31:09):
Yeah, we do yeah.
Jeremy (31:10):
I see it.
Sam (31:14):
What do you want to put out there to the shed industry?
Jeremy (31:16):
Yeah, other than my gratitude, um, and my thanks for
all of you stepping up, uh,from the manufacturers back to
Amos and Alvin that put togetherthe load of barns, and the
other manufacturers that haveraised money on their own build
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a load of barns, hauled themdown here, the main, the haulers
that have borrowed rigs orbrought their own rigs or use
their company rigs to come here.
Um, the materials, uh, the thedonations.
A lot of people in yourindustry have donated.
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Uh, it's like I told johnny,you know, uh, he started
supporting me right off the batand helped me out, sent me money
several times you know, just tokeep me funded and, uh, that
meant a lot to me and for him toshow up last week.
It even just showed me even moreconfidence, so of what we're
doing.
(32:17):
But as far as the shed industrygoes, I'm in awe of the
performance and progress of allof you and I'm thankful, and if
anybody ever needs any bathroomwork, I can help you out.
I don't know how I can help youguys.
I don't know how I can help youguys.
(32:38):
I'm just looking at it and youknow, who knows, who knows where
I'll be in a year.
You know I got some ideas aboutbathrooms and sheds and all
that, but I won't dig into itright now.
We'll talk about it later butuh, later, absolutely yep but
I'm thankful for all of you guys.
Um, yep and I, and and we'rebegging from the bottom of our
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heart that we need more haulers,maybe the way that some of you
guys fundraised and gathered thematerials and the funds to
build a load of barns.
Instead of doing that, send adriver down.
Send a driver down and let uspay for fuel, uh, and just
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donate your time and your rig sowe can, um, we can, get these
people taken care of.
Sam (33:32):
We can complete this mission you know, I have two
drivers right now that will giveme, will give me uh, thursday
through saturdays, if somebodycan help them raise some money
for fuel.
Jeremy (33:44):
Yeah, I've seen that Chad.
Sam (33:46):
Mapps.
Jeremy (33:47):
Yeah, Chad Mapps.
Sam (33:48):
He said he'd want to help and we've got.
I've got 20 sheds.
In Memphis, Tennessee, we'vegot 20 sheds where they're 10 by
16 to 12 by 32s that they saidif we come get them, they'll
make sure every rig leavesloaded.
We've got sheds.
I feel like I'm juggling threebowling balls because I need
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sheds, I need my sheds finishedand I need my sheds hauled.
They're all important, but everyonce in a while, one of them
gets more important than theothers, and right now it's it's,
you know, right now it'shaulers.
We get five guys here next week.
The following week it'll besheds again.
Um, because we got a long wayto go, um I'm not here.
Jeremy (34:37):
You got stock in in in old fort and, uh, you know, I
got more guys coming in to buildand I think it's lucrative.
We get some haulers in here andyou know, I've I've uh I've
been in the process of looking.
I need a.
I need a uh, three-quarter ton,one ton diesel truck bad, like
yesterday.
Uh, I've been, I've beenhaggling back and forth on this
(34:58):
22 um uh ram, uh, tradesman,yeah, it's a nice 70 000 mile
truck.
You know I got the guy down to41 000 on it.
I can get it.
Uh, it's uh, you know somethingthat's far-fetched for me, but
I would like to uh eventuallyhave me a trailer that I could
haul some sheds on a shorttrailer.
(35:20):
I don't want nothing thatextends out and stretches, but I
do want to acquire me a smallertrailer that I can do it,
because I've watched enough andI've played with it enough.
I think I can do it, you knowand.
I know I can drive oh yeah.
But the thing is is, I think,hauling and getting the
inventory out of here, likewe've done, you know, last week,
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uh means a lot, uh and uhgetting them to their final
destinations.
But we can't do it without youguys, we can not do it without
the shed industry, um so, theshed owners.
Brotherhood is amazing to me.
Y'all keep on doing what you'redoing.
Sam (35:58):
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Sam (37:01):
Alright, I'm going to wrap this one up.
I'm sure to wrap this one up,I'm sure Shannon will turn this
into two parts.
Shout out to Shannon, the ShedGeek, for giving us a platform
where we can speak on and we cantalk about anything.
We talk about sheds, we talkabout life, we talk about storms
.
You know we got bad stormscoming through tonight and
they've been bad all the wayback.
Jeremy (37:24):
It's blowing bad out there.
Sam (37:25):
Wind's blowing bad out there right now I can hear the
wind here too.
So, um, you know there's.
I've already had guys tell mehey, you going to Arkansas,
Mississippi, Missouri, Kentucky,and I'm like I'm not done there
, I gotta finish what I started.
I'm not saying we won't go outthere and help, we'll send some
crews or get the local guys outthere involved.
But my focus, until I get donehere, I've got to finish what I
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started here.
But that doesn't mean we're.
You know, you mentioned on itearlier that you know where do
we go from here, and part ofthat is the fact that we have
the ability.
You know've, I could put 100haulers together in two days in
a local area out there.
That can't come help us, butthey can help their local area
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yep so that's that's what we do,our resources.
Jeremy (38:13):
Just use our resources.
I don't know when the end isnear, but we're establishing
resources.
People worry about finances.
They worry about when you'regoing to quit.
When you're going to do it, Idon't know.
I'm living by the faith of God.
You know, like I told you theother day, I got enough money
for one more month, but I praythat God's going to supply me.
You know, or bless me.
(38:33):
You know what I mean and we'llpush forward, but I know in my
heart that one month ain't goingto do it.
Sam (38:42):
Oh, I agree, it ain't going to do it, so always give people
the opportunity to putinformation out there if they
want to.
How do people get in touch withyou?
How do they contact you?
Do you have an email?
Do you have a website?
Do you want your phone number?
How do?
Jeremy (38:59):
people get a hold of you .
You can call me telephonenumber 704-912-8828, or email me
at bathmatic704@gmail.
com.
Sam (39:11):
Facebook.
Jeremy (39:12):
Facebook Jeremy Barker on Facebook, alu-man, one Hand
Cut man on TikTok and Bathmaticon Instagram.
So yeah, they say, sayillumination is a lighting
company, and they call me a looman because I'm a lumen, a
little light.
Yeah, they say I'm a brightlight, a beacon of light.
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Anyway, that's what I want tobe.
So, uh, you know it's, uh, youcan get in touch with me anyways
, and uh, just reach out to me.
If you want to help, if youwant to talk or if you have any
ideas, you get a hold of sam, dome or whatever you know.
Outside of that, you can findme in barnardsville, North
Carolina.
Sam (39:54):
You ain't gotta look too far to find me and we'll put all
that info in the newsletterthat we email out with the with
the broadcast.
We'll put all your info inthere.
And that we email out with thewith the broadcast.
We'll put all your info inthere.
And, uh, you can always you canalways reach out to the shed
geek at info at shed geek andyou can reach me at Sam@ shed
geek.
com.
So you can get a whole bunch.
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You can and, uh, anybody wantsto help?
Feel free to reach out to usand help.
Jeremy, thank you so much fordoing this with me.
I have been looking forward tothis one for two months.
I just didn't know when Iwanted to do it.
When it had to happen, um, Iknew I wanted you up there in
the cabin, um, because I wantedyou in the frame of mind that
you were in um, you did verywell.
Jeremy (40:37):
Appreciate you so much, sir, thanks for saying the honor
man is honored anytime I get toeven work with you or be with
you.
I love you, brother, so much.
Sir, thanks for coming.
It's an honor man.
It's an honor to any time I getto even work with you or be
with you.
I love you brother.
It's a good time as always, andhopefully we'll catch y'all
back on the next episode oranother time around.
I'd love to come back again.
We'll talk some bathroom andshed innovation.
Sam (41:01):
We'll come back around and do it again.
Jeremy (41:03):
Thank you guys, it's.
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Sam (41:04):
We'll come back around and do it again.
Thank you guys.
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We always have fun on Fridays.
Man, it's Friday, because youjust got to have fun.
Thank you guys for listening.
Jeremy (41:20):
Until next time.
Welcome back to part two of a two-part episode.
Be sure to go back and listento part one.
You might've missed something.
Hope you enjoy the conversationtoday.
Jeremy (00:19):
This is a Airbnb house, you know, and it rents for about
$185 to $200 a night.
It's got a jacuzzi, bigscreened in porch.
I can sleep eight people overhere.
You know, it's one bathroom,but it's nice.
Sam (00:36):
But he's not going to rent it because he's not got a bridge
built back.
Jeremy (00:40):
He ain't got a bridge built back.
So I worked out a deal.
You know with them from thebeginning that I would pay all
the power, all the Internet, andyou know, give them a little
bit of money here and there.
And you know, and I've beentrue to that and able to do that
through donations, you knowwhat I mean Keep all the power
bill and stuff paid, because Idon't want them paying out of
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their pocket for our operationto run around here.
You know what I mean.
And I keep volunteers up therein the white house.
Anybody that's come and stayed,you know, uh, up there, uh, oh,
the Daniel cane, he, he lovedthat house up there.
He liked, he liked that house upthere when he come hauled and
uh you know, yeah, you know,everybody's been staying in the
(01:27):
houses and they ain't making nomoney, so they had their first
paying customer come in thisweek, that's great.
And, uh, so we got that house.
I got the house cleaned up andput back online last week.
Uh, after volunteers left, Istraightened it up and put it
back online and we got it rented.
So they got them a little bitof money for that.
(01:47):
And those folks come in and theyasked me.
They said what's it cost tobuild a shed?
You know, we see what you'redoing here.
And I told them I told themit's about $7,000, $8,000, you
know to finish one and they saidthey want to pay to furnish one
.
Airbnb finish one.
(02:08):
They said they want to, theywant to pay to furnish.
So, uh, clients, yeah, airbnbclients.
So over the past you know about72 hours with john here coming,
the videographer that you sentmy way I've discovered that this
place is more than just a placewhere we build sheds and we
store sheds and finish sheds.
This is a retreat and this is aa place that we have built
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infrastructure and made aninvestment to serve the
community and, uh, people cancome and use it as a retreat and
, uh, a way to get closer to god, get closer to yourself, get
closer to the earth, whatever,be able to give back and help.
And you know, uh, we're gonna,I'm, I'm.
Uh, we got a new idea of beingbored, john.
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He's like I can't stay heremuch longer because you don't
have a plan at fitness.
Yeah, he's like every placewith this type of situation
needs a gym.
So we're gonna, we're gonnabuild a gym now and uh, we're
gonna have a gym here on thefarm and uh, people can come and
work out and the airbnbs uhwill be more successful.
(03:14):
But my main goal, to get backto the farm, is this man's 75
years old.
He worked all his life to havethis.
The storm come through here anddestroyed his pastures he had.
He had about 15 acres worth ofpasture before the storm and now
he's cut in about two, threeacres past.
You see how small it is.
Horses ain't gonna be able toeat on that grass this summer.
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So, uh, we're having to moveour campers over here and
rearrange all that and thatfield is going to be minimized
down.
They're going to pull the fenceto the road goes here.
The fence is going to go downthe side of the road.
So everything on the left sideis fair game.
But the right side, where ourcampers are at now, is going to
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have to be cleaned off and we'regoing to have to reseed that
for grass.
And we're working to get theseAirbnbs back up and going.
We're working to get theseAirbnbs back up and going and
I'm hopeful that I cantransition out of this place by
May 1st and we'll have some kindof bridge in here.
But they've gotten the runaround.
The bridge is stuck in Iowa dueto a DOT flagging.
(04:21):
So driver got flagged, had anindustry injury working on an
airline on his brake booster.
Air hose come off his brakebooster whipped him in the face.
He's a truck at a truck stop inthe parking lot.
You know what that's like.
And then he's got a 90 footbridge behind him.
(04:42):
Dot flags him out.
He's got all the permits setfrom all the way from Missouri
all the way out here.
So now he's stuck and uh, Davidand Amber, they don't know what
to do to bail him out.
Johnny said that if we couldget a confirmation that he would
drop the load there, that hewould make sure that he found
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somebody to go get it or hewould go get it himself.
Sam (05:09):
Yeah, um, you know, we would find a driver.
Jeremy (05:12):
You know that yep, so, uh, we're waiting to hear back
on that now.
But that's the deal with thebridge, but, uh, just trying to
help these folks out, uh, that'shelped us so much and um, yep
you know, we've got thebathhouse and the bunkhouse,
thanks to you, you know, and uh,everything you've done to make
that happen through thanksgiving, and uh, I was just.
(05:35):
You know, I've gotten in.
This morning I met a guy thatcome out.
I'm no longer waiting on, uh, ahomemade septic system.
We have hired a company andwe're having a septic system
will be installed next Monday,not this Monday but next Monday.
And Mr Greg Horncold thatyou've seen today, he's raising
money.
He's raising money for that.
(05:55):
So the guy come out he's likelook, I'm not charging any labor
, he's like, but you got to buythe tank and the materials and
you know my machine fee and allthat.
He.
He said it'll be under twogrand, but we're gonna get that
put in there for you.
So, uh, and it's gonna be legal,he's gonna permit it and
everything so well, I've doneright and that's a good thing
(06:16):
because, especially with whatwe've gone through with the
power company, I still got thepower company after me trying to
charge me 5800 for choppingthat line with the excavator.
But I asked them.
I said you ready to get on thenews Because I am?
I said when everybody knowswhat you're trying to do to me
and they find out what I've beendoing for the people up here,
(06:39):
you're going to be in bigtrouble.
I got calls from them but I'mnot worried about him.
I told you know the farmer andhis wife.
I said if it comes down to themtrying to charge you and make
you pay for it, uh, I'll takefull responsibility for it.
Sam (06:55):
But as the story goes.
Jeremy (06:57):
Now we don't know where them volunteers was come from
and come here and cut that lineon that excavator.
It got cut by a volunteer andthat's it.
We're trying to help people andwe're going to move forward.
But we've destroyed this man'sfarm and spring's coming.
I've got to get some grassgrowing.
I've got to get transition.
I've got a group of guys.
(07:17):
I don't know the name of theiroutfit, but they said they're a
pretty big manufacturing outfitin Oregon, the Pacific Northwest
.
They're sending nine guys sevendays.
They said they want to build 20.
I said well, I don't know if Igot the material for that.
They're like oh, don't worryabout it, we'll figure it out a
way, we'll get some material.
They've never been here.
(07:39):
I'm pretty familiar with thePacific Northwest.
I travel there prettyfrequently and those are some
hard working people and they'recoming out here and we're going
to build sheds here.
Hopefully they're coming in.
They're coming in for sure onthe 13th and leaving the 19th.
So they're excited, they'repumped up.
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They've been following alongwith the journey.
They've got mad respect for you.
Sam (08:08):
We've got some guys from Pennsylvania too right, and
Ohio's bringing guys back again.
Jeremy (08:14):
Yep, the Yoder is coming back tomorrow but Mark's coming
by himself from Ohio.
And then I've got some peoplecoming in from Texas, a family
of four, older son, dad, mom.
They're all in the remodelingbusiness anyway and they're
going to be.
I'm going to pair them up withMark and they are going to work
(08:37):
on Monday and Tuesday gettingour own site build down there,
the 36-footer, uh, insulated andpaneled.
Because, uh, I've got to a firmplat line with the organization
next door, the community center.
That, hey, all we bargained forwas a structure that was
insulated, wired and paneled,just like the shits.
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We can't go build a bathroom, akitchen, none of that.
Our budget doesn't entail that.
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Jeremy (10:52):
We're going to do that and stand beside them, because
this new organization is usingthat as a kind of a bellwether
of what we've done and they'relike, if we could do more of
this, this is where we need tofundraise for.
So I've got to kind of completeit, you know.
But they did get the drivewayfixed so we can drive up there.
(11:13):
So I've got that group yeah,I've got that group scheduled up
this week to work on that.
And then, you know, thefollowing week the guys from
Pennsylvania are coming in.
But the guy he told me todayhe's like I don't have a way to
transport the hemlock and Idon't have but just me and
(11:35):
somebody else coming.
Is there going?
to be other volunteers.
So I'm like well, that's thehard part of juggling volunteers
is making sure that you gotenough people to work with each
other, you know or I just thinkI'm the old fort to finish sheds
.
Regardless, we got plenty ofwork for them to do, but yeah
you know, the volunteer thing Ithink is is going to change in
(11:57):
the spring.
I think we're going to get somemore people that's going to
come in and help us finish upthis thing.
Uh, I'm believing in that andI'm looking towards the future
of transitioning into fixingsome of the houses and trying to
help other people do things,and if that don't work, I'm
going to go back to fixing theland with Tim.
Uh, you know one way or another, but, uh, I've got the farm
(12:20):
here and you know, um, we'vemade it.
We've made a big effort onbuilding what we've built, so
we're not we didn't do all thisand come this way to pack up and
go home and then I got peoplestill calling me you touched on.
Sam (12:36):
I want to talk about um before we end this one too, and
that is we don't just needcarpenters, we still need guys
with skid steers, track hose.
There's plenty of cleanup workthat can still be done, and
there's also carpentry work thatcan be done outside of sheds.
Jeremy (12:53):
That Eastern Shore Fencing Company was a role model
in showing what you can do byjust sending your skid steers
and a little bit of your labordown here.
I mean, I've got 25 debrispiles separated metal, uh, scrap
metal.
Hard metal, uh tin metal, uhbrush.
(13:14):
Debris.
Car parts uh Mr.
Carson's uh 40 by 60 metalbuilding that was in a kit that
blew all over the field downhere.
They gathered up all that stuffand put it in piles.
They helped Tim, they helpedCarl, they helped Mr.
Larry that passed away down thestreet down here.
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All that in four days' time.
Sam (13:38):
Yeah, they killed it.
Jeremy (13:40):
They did good Love it and I think, if you've got
equipment sitting around andyou're slow, you need to come
down here and see what we'reseeing, to feel what we feel.
And, like I touched on before,we've worked our whole lives.
We've all worked since we wasyoung boys.
I've been working since I was12 years old and I got my rest
(14:03):
of my life to work, because I'llnever be able to quit.
No, but I've never had anopportunity to do nothing like
this.
Yeah, this is my first timestorm trooping.
You know, I've never done thisbefore, but I made a vow to
myself when I was 18 years old.
I was a power lineman.
I was down, kat, and I lookedto the people down there and I
(14:28):
couldn't do nothing for thempeople and I always said, god,
if you ever put me in a positionwhere I'm financially stable
and a storm comes through and Ican go, I'm gonna go.
And when this storm hit, I justfinished two of the biggest
jobs I'd ever done in my life.
I had probably about 70 000 inthe bank and, uh, I was planning
(14:50):
on the month of October,fishing the outer banks.
Yeah, November and December Iwas going to build me a shop and
we don't have we.
I ain't done none of it and Iblowed all the money.
Sam (15:05):
I know I know, oh it's crazy.
Jeremy (15:11):
I put another tarp over my shed last week before I left,
I put another tarp on, sothat's five tarps.
I got strapped across my 20, uh, my 12 by 24 at home.
That's got all my tools and ourgreat grandfather sentiments
inside of it.
You know and uh, I, I know god'sgonna provide I look at that
(15:33):
red garage on the way out of the, out of the farm, every day I'm
like I need to clean thatsucker out and bring up some of
my stuff and put it in hereuntil I get done.
Or I said better yet, I'm goingto buy that shed, I'm going to
buy that thing Before it's overwith.
I'm going to buy or havewhoever built it build me one
identical to it.
Sam (15:52):
I don't want to call that thing the Gastonia.
Jeremy (15:54):
Hey, I'm going to tell you what I will solve my
problems when I get theseproblems solved up here.
Sam (16:03):
Thank you.
Jeremy (16:04):
I'm not worried about my problems because the more and
more I talk to people and theycry out to me, the more it fuels
me to be here.
Yes, and then when I look at youand I'm like Sam don't have to
be here, Sam can go do anythinghe wants.
And I was like, as long assomebody else is up here, so I
know that I ain't the only one.
(16:25):
That's crazy, I won't.
I won't think I'll ever quit.
People ask me every day.
They're like, how are you gonnado it?
How's he gonna survive?
I'm like all it takes is me tobuild one good bathroom yep I
can finish this and you'll buildone good bathroom.
And jump back on my feet.
Sam (16:43):
Thank you.
Jeremy (16:45):
I ain't worried about it , because we got the rest of our
life to work.
Sam (16:48):
We do these people.
Jeremy (16:49):
Up here.
It's getting warm.
People are asking for airconditions Now.
People's wanting their shedsmoved back and forth, move
around.
I've got a list of mule workthat I could do.
I could put a mule on thatlittle trailer and go ride
around for 15 hours just movingsheds around.
Sam (17:05):
Yeah, I got the same issue starting now.
They all want to move.
It's like come on, guys.
Jeremy (17:13):
We're going to continue, Sam.
I'm proud to be with you Beforewe jump off here.
I know a lot of shed guys thatI've met, like Colin and Dale
Neuschwanger and Daniel Cain andJohnny and all them.
They've touched my heart.
Sam (17:31):
Yeah.
Jeremy (17:32):
They have touched my heart.
They are the true definition ofwe, the people.
I mean me and Colin.
We deliver sheds at midnight,Mr.
Sam (17:42):
Carl's shed.
I still got the pictures.
Mr Carl's shed was delivered inthe dark, in the dark, and I
just think about it.
Jeremy (17:53):
I think about the camaraderie that you guys hold.
At first it made me jealous ofhow my brotherhood, my industry
is and I'm like you know we putflooring in every one of these
sheds.
But you know how many, how manyof the installers, local
installers in N orth Carolinahas come to help me one one.
Sam (18:16):
He's a good dude the rest of them.
Jeremy (18:19):
they're like I ain't coming over here putting lvp in
sheds.
We got tile and set we makingmoney.
We $100 an hour.
We can't stop on our knee padsfor free.
Sam (18:29):
I do the same thing.
Just for the record, we haveplenty of those also.
We just have a really goodbatch of superstars.
I don't know if you knew thisor not, but Calvin was down
yesterday and today.
Mr Shirk, yeah.
Jeremy (18:46):
Hey.
I missed you I know you touchedmy heart.
Sam (18:52):
I know he touched your heart.
That's why I brought him up.
I had him down in Old Fort.
He came in yesterday afternoon.
He brought two sheds down forme from Virginia.
Yesterday afternoon he broughttwo sheds down for me from uh
Virginia, that another.
Their competition donated twosheds and uh carl's, uh Calvin's
boss, josh helmuth, said, yeah,you can haul them down there.
Um, so Calvin brought them down, delivered both of those
(19:16):
yesterday, went tohendersonville this morning,
picked up two army sheds, wentand delivered them, delivered
another Indiana shed for me andthen did a Cajun Navy shed
that's going to be a permanentone tonight.
And now he's headed back.
He's driving home tonightbecause he wants to beat this
storm home.
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Sam (21:18):
Wow, you can't, you can't.
I'm telling you, man.
So that's what I'm.
This is what I want to end with.
You just led straight into it.
The biggest, the other, otherthan blessing the socks off of
survivors, which we have beenable to do over and over again,
my biggest reward in this wholething is the relationships I've
(21:40):
built.
Would you agree with that, orwhat do you see?
Jeremy (21:45):
Well, it's like Mr Carl, we set that shed that night.
He walked into breakfast placethe next day and he's calling me
right now.
He's calling Ever since thatnext day.
We've been, we've been likethis and he tells everybody.
(22:07):
He said that man come in thelast bit of my time where I give
me hope, and he said he helped.
He helped restore my hope and,uh, the least thing I can do is
show up for him and help him andthe relationships that I've
built here.
Everybody in Gastonia knows mebecause I'm the preacher's
grandson and I was an avidmotorcycle man for many years,
(22:34):
so everybody knows me.
I can't learn anything new orplant any new seeds in Gastonia.
I feel like when I walk into aroom here that people are proud
to have me here and they'regrateful for everything we're
doing.
And I had about nine to 12people ask me why ain't Sam here
(22:59):
with you tonight?
I said I'll come on behalf ofboth of us.
That's right and that shows merespect that we've gained from
the community.
And one day we're going to haveto get old and I always loved
the mountains and I'll probablyend up in the mountains one day.
And I sure want some of thesepeople, yeah, to remember what
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we've done for them, and I'vehad people try to give me land
up here, miss gail uh miss obama.
She, she offered to give us twoacres of land for us to put an
operation on up here, and I toldher I couldn't take it.
I said you got to figure outwhat the minimum donation is
that I'll give you and I'll doyou a park in front of it on the
(23:41):
creek bank for your, your latehusband that passed away in
honor of him, and the storm andeverything.
Blah, blah, blah.
But I got to pay for it.
I've had Mr.
Carson open this farm up.
I've had the ladies down at thebreakfast place feed me and
they don't deliver food tonobody's table except for mine.
I got the women at twistedlaurel taking care of me feed me
(24:01):
.
I can walk into a place and Ishow appreciation.
Um the relationships areimportant.
Sam uh no, we, when you postthat about that trailer the
other day.
Like I told you, we'vedelivered a lot of hope with
this, that trailer yes yeah,well, we took that thing out
(24:22):
last week.
I didn't want to touch onsomething.
I needed to deliver sheds lastweek because I needed that.
I didn't do it to hang out withJohnny.
I need that because thatrestores my hope.
That builds me back up.
That recharges me.
Sam (24:38):
That's like doing a big old line and being recharged right
there and with the energy of theworld we should do a Facebook
live on this part, becausepeople are constantly telling us
we need to take a day or twooff, or three days off, and you
and I wholeheartedly agree onthis.
Days off terrible, because yourbrain will not let you take a
(25:00):
day off.
And when you're on a day off,you're sitting back at the house
.
That's when it just startsrolling around in your head over
and over again and the onlything to fix it is to get out
there and deliver a couple shedsinsulated shed.
Do something, hug somebody, doyou, and it recharges you yes I
told you told you last Sunday.
Jeremy (25:21):
I said I'm going on.
You said you're going to go bea mechanic, put a rear end in a
recliner.
I said yeah, but about eighthours after that I was wearing
the recliner out, getting up andout of it, up and out of it, up
and out of it because Icouldn't sit still.
And then by the next day, thecalls and the focus and my mind
going to what's going on up here, and then having John up here.
(25:42):
John, you know, I was like I'mgoing back.
The minute he released thatvideo and tagged me in it and I
watched it.
You're gone.
I was packing my tools back up.
I was ready to go.
I you know I done went andswapped the trucks.
I went and rechecked my truckin and figured out I wasn't
(26:05):
getting another one so I had totake all my tools out and then I
put them back in there.
But I was like I'm ready to goand as soon as I got up here
opened the door up at thatcamper and he was in there and I
got him and took him and wewent and done some more
interviews.
A whole burden had lifted offof me, like now you can rest,
(26:28):
amen.
And today I did.
I read.
I got up this morning and wentand met the airbnb customers
that said they wanted to makethat donation and give them the
information and all that stuffand give them business car.
I went down there and gotbreakfast, brought my breakfast
back to the house, I went backto bed nice and I'm like, yeah,
I gotta learn this.
I gotta learn to rest up here soI don't have to burden myself
(26:51):
with going home to rest.
Uh, because there's still a lotof work up here, you know, and
um, I you know this is okay.
I got a lady know she alreadygot a shed from us.
Now she's telling me where myautistic son has to come home.
I need another shed.
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Yep.
Jeremy (27:13):
And I'm working through that and trying to figure out
that.
I got this lady in a meetingthe night crying during the
meeting.
You know, come and sit besideme interrupted the whole daggone
meeting just so I'd see howserious she was.
I'm like I know how serious youare.
I'm helping, but those littlethings are the reason why we're
here.
That's why God brought us here.
(27:33):
That's why he brought forthyour industry and all the great
shed haulers and the peopleinvolved in the industry and the
people in the manufacturing anduh, you know, the people that's
cultivating your industry.
Everybody is seen and broughtinto the light of what we're
doing here, all because of whatyou're doing, Sam, and I believe
there's a reason all behindthis, and I believe that we are
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all disciples and I believe thatgod brought us together for a
reason, because there'ssomething bigger.
And this is not where we end.
This is a training field.
We're just being set up for thenext thing that we're going to
have to deliver and help.
You've done disasters before.
God's used you again to comeback and he equipped you even
(28:17):
better than the last tornado orhurricane.
You went on and you learned andyou progressed and I seen it as
true professional man.
Gotta have two, three trailers,two trucks, tears up stuff.
I'm gonna be ready before thenext, yeah you know what I mean
I'm looking, I'm I'm looking touh set myself up because I know
what we're doing.
Here is not the end of it and Iknow all this storm is biblical
(28:38):
and people talk about thegovernment did this and the
government did that, and I don'ttake that here is not the end
of it and I know all this stormis biblical and people talk
about the government did thisand the government did that, and
I don't take that credit awayfrom my God.
No, I don't like it, and Ibelieve that there's more to
this.
Sam (28:56):
And you know I just there's more opportunity.
Jeremy (29:01):
I think we're here for a reason and, uh, we need to be
true testaments and, uh,faithful servants and uh, good,
uh, examples of, uh, whattradesmen and craftsmen supposed
to be.
You know what I mean.
And uh, I've been around toolsand equipment, I've drove
anything I could drive a tank.
(29:21):
I've drove trucks.
I went in my first storm and Ididn't even have my CDL license,
I just had a permit and I drovea Drigger down to Katrina, down
to New Orleans, and I hauled aload of 80-foot poles on that
truck with no license and run 50mile an hour all the way down
(29:44):
there, wide open.
And I've been in trucking, I'vebeen in excavating, I've been
in grading, I've been inbuilding industrial.
You know, I grew up with apainter, a heating and air man
and a plumber.
You, know, and my papa's andeverybody's has instilled
everything into me.
If anybody was equipped to comehere that was versatile, it was
(30:08):
me.
I tell everybody there's areason why he sent me here.
I just ain't figured it out yetand uh, I gotta say I couldn't
ask for a better person to doneall this with than you, Sam
Ballard.
Sam (30:24):
It's been great.
Jeremy (30:26):
You'll be a friend forever.
Sam (30:27):
You'll be a friend forever, you said something one day and
I said yeah, but we're going toget old together, so there's no
worries there.
Jeremy (30:34):
I know that's right.
Sam (30:37):
Well, I have this one stuck up on the side of a mountain
over there somewhere, somewhere.
You and Mr Johnny got to run upthe mountain and finish up for
me.
Jeremy (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that was another amazingthing.
You know that man, his wifedied and he got remarried, and
you know, I couldn't imaginelosing a spouse.
Sam (30:59):
No I can't.
Jeremy (31:01):
I don't know what I would do Because I've been with
mine too long.
I see it up here.
Sam (31:09):
Yeah, we do yeah.
Jeremy (31:10):
I see it.
Sam (31:14):
What do you want to put out there to the shed industry?
Jeremy (31:16):
Yeah, other than my gratitude, um, and my thanks for
all of you stepping up, uh,from the manufacturers back to
Amos and Alvin that put togetherthe load of barns, and the
other manufacturers that haveraised money on their own build
(31:37):
a load of barns, hauled themdown here, the main, the haulers
that have borrowed rigs orbrought their own rigs or use
their company rigs to come here.
Um, the materials, uh, the thedonations.
A lot of people in yourindustry have donated.
(31:57):
Uh, it's like I told johnny,you know, uh, he started
supporting me right off the batand helped me out, sent me money
several times you know, just tokeep me funded and, uh, that
meant a lot to me and for him toshow up last week.
It even just showed me even moreconfidence, so of what we're
doing.
(32:17):
But as far as the shed industrygoes, I'm in awe of the
performance and progress of allof you and I'm thankful, and if
anybody ever needs any bathroomwork, I can help you out.
I don't know how I can help youguys.
I don't know how I can help youguys.
(32:38):
I'm just looking at it and youknow, who knows, who knows where
I'll be in a year.
You know I got some ideas aboutbathrooms and sheds and all
that, but I won't dig into itright now.
We'll talk about it later butuh, later, absolutely yep but
I'm thankful for all of you guys.
Um, yep and I, and and we'rebegging from the bottom of our
(33:02):
heart that we need more haulers,maybe the way that some of you
guys fundraised and gathered thematerials and the funds to
build a load of barns.
Instead of doing that, send adriver down.
Send a driver down and let uspay for fuel, uh, and just
(33:26):
donate your time and your rig sowe can, um, we can, get these
people taken care of.
Sam (33:32):
We can complete this mission you know, I have two
drivers right now that will giveme, will give me uh, thursday
through saturdays, if somebodycan help them raise some money
for fuel.
Jeremy (33:44):
Yeah, I've seen that Chad.
Sam (33:46):
Mapps.
Jeremy (33:47):
Yeah, Chad Mapps.
Sam (33:48):
He said he'd want to help and we've got.
I've got 20 sheds.
In Memphis, Tennessee, we'vegot 20 sheds where they're 10 by
16 to 12 by 32s that they saidif we come get them, they'll
make sure every rig leavesloaded.
We've got sheds.
I feel like I'm juggling threebowling balls because I need
(34:15):
sheds, I need my sheds finishedand I need my sheds hauled.
They're all important, but everyonce in a while, one of them
gets more important than theothers, and right now it's it's,
you know, right now it'shaulers.
We get five guys here next week.
The following week it'll besheds again.
Um, because we got a long wayto go, um I'm not here.
Jeremy (34:37):
You got stock in in in old fort and, uh, you know, I
got more guys coming in to buildand I think it's lucrative.
We get some haulers in here andyou know, I've I've uh I've
been in the process of looking.
I need a.
I need a uh, three-quarter ton,one ton diesel truck bad, like
yesterday.
Uh, I've been, I've beenhaggling back and forth on this
(34:58):
22 um uh ram, uh, tradesman,yeah, it's a nice 70 000 mile
truck.
You know I got the guy down to41 000 on it.
I can get it.
Uh, it's uh, you know somethingthat's far-fetched for me, but
I would like to uh eventuallyhave me a trailer that I could
haul some sheds on a shorttrailer.
(35:20):
I don't want nothing thatextends out and stretches, but I
do want to acquire me a smallertrailer that I can do it,
because I've watched enough andI've played with it enough.
I think I can do it, you knowand.
I know I can drive oh yeah.
But the thing is is, I think,hauling and getting the
inventory out of here, likewe've done, you know, last week,
(35:41):
uh means a lot, uh and uhgetting them to their final
destinations.
But we can't do it without youguys, we can not do it without
the shed industry, um so, theshed owners.
Brotherhood is amazing to me.
Y'all keep on doing what you'redoing.
Sam (35:58):
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Sam (37:01):
Alright, I'm going to wrap this one up.
I'm sure to wrap this one up,I'm sure Shannon will turn this
into two parts.
Shout out to Shannon, the ShedGeek, for giving us a platform
where we can speak on and we cantalk about anything.
We talk about sheds, we talkabout life, we talk about storms
.
You know we got bad stormscoming through tonight and
they've been bad all the wayback.
Jeremy (37:24):
It's blowing bad out there.
Sam (37:25):
Wind's blowing bad out there right now I can hear the
wind here too.
So, um, you know there's.
I've already had guys tell mehey, you going to Arkansas,
Mississippi, Missouri, Kentucky,and I'm like I'm not done there
, I gotta finish what I started.
I'm not saying we won't go outthere and help, we'll send some
crews or get the local guys outthere involved.
But my focus, until I get donehere, I've got to finish what I
(37:49):
started here.
But that doesn't mean we're.
You know, you mentioned on itearlier that you know where do
we go from here, and part ofthat is the fact that we have
the ability.
You know've, I could put 100haulers together in two days in
a local area out there.
That can't come help us, butthey can help their local area
(38:10):
yep so that's that's what we do,our resources.
Jeremy (38:13):
Just use our resources.
I don't know when the end isnear, but we're establishing
resources.
People worry about finances.
They worry about when you'regoing to quit.
When you're going to do it, Idon't know.
I'm living by the faith of God.
You know, like I told you theother day, I got enough money
for one more month, but I praythat God's going to supply me.
You know, or bless me.
(38:33):
You know what I mean and we'llpush forward, but I know in my
heart that one month ain't goingto do it.
Sam (38:42):
Oh, I agree, it ain't going to do it, so always give people
the opportunity to putinformation out there if they
want to.
How do people get in touch withyou?
How do they contact you?
Do you have an email?
Do you have a website?
Do you want your phone number?
How do?
Jeremy (38:59):
people get a hold of you .
You can call me telephonenumber 704-912-8828, or email me
at bathmatic704@gmail.
com.
Sam (39:11):
Facebook.
Jeremy (39:12):
Facebook Jeremy Barker on Facebook, alu-man, one Hand
Cut man on TikTok and Bathmaticon Instagram.
So yeah, they say, sayillumination is a lighting
company, and they call me a looman because I'm a lumen, a
little light.
Yeah, they say I'm a brightlight, a beacon of light.
(39:35):
Anyway, that's what I want tobe.
So, uh, you know it's, uh, youcan get in touch with me anyways
, and uh, just reach out to me.
If you want to help, if youwant to talk or if you have any
ideas, you get a hold of sam, dome or whatever you know.
Outside of that, you can findme in barnardsville, North
Carolina.
Sam (39:54):
You ain't gotta look too far to find me and we'll put all
that info in the newsletterthat we email out with the with
the broadcast.
We'll put all your info inthere.
And that we email out with thewith the broadcast.
We'll put all your info inthere.
And, uh, you can always you canalways reach out to the shed
geek at info at shed geek andyou can reach me at Sam@ shed
geek.
com.
So you can get a whole bunch.
(40:15):
You can and, uh, anybody wantsto help?
Feel free to reach out to usand help.
Jeremy, thank you so much fordoing this with me.
I have been looking forward tothis one for two months.
I just didn't know when Iwanted to do it.
When it had to happen, um, Iknew I wanted you up there in
the cabin, um, because I wantedyou in the frame of mind that
you were in um, you did verywell.
Jeremy (40:37):
Appreciate you so much, sir, thanks for saying the honor
man is honored anytime I get toeven work with you or be with
you.
I love you, brother, so much.
Sir, thanks for coming.
It's an honor man.
It's an honor to any time I getto even work with you or be
with you.
I love you brother.
It's a good time as always, andhopefully we'll catch y'all
back on the next episode oranother time around.
I'd love to come back again.
We'll talk some bathroom andshed innovation.
Sam (41:01):
We'll come back around and do it again.
Jeremy (41:03):
Thank you guys, it's.
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Sam (41:04):
We'll come back around and do it again.
Thank you guys.
This is another episode of theShed Geek Podcast.
Sam Baller, your host Fridayfun day.
We always have fun on Fridays.
Man, it's Friday, because youjust got to have fun.
Thank you guys for listening.
Jeremy (41:20):
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