Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Where are they?
[00:00:04] Speaker B: They're probably upstairs.
They never answer the door. Oh, wait, it's Monday night. They're on the second floor.
What's up, guys? Welcome back to the second floor.
Thanks for checking back in with us.
I got a couple things today.
You know, I have a.
I have a hard time sometimes with. And you guys, you may experience this too, and sometimes with. With friends and family. I literally went through my phone and you know how you have people in your phone that's dead? Well, yeah, I had a few people that was dead.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: I got a ton of that. I need to go through mine.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Well, I had some dead and some of them that I wish was dead and some of.
I'm just kidding. Just kidding.
I'm just kidding. Okay, okay. Just kidding.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: Weird humor.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: But, you know, you get. I had like, I don't know, it was close to like 400,000,000 contacts in my phone. Yeah. And I went through and cleared a bunch of them. And I have some that I have collected in the last 10 years of business that when I was trying to grow my business or when I was
[00:01:31] Speaker A: trying to get it off the ground.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Get it off the ground and trying to be that extra hand that people might need or, you know, trying to just be better.
And 80% of those people are in my eyes now, looking at them now, you know, trying to help them out, you know, with. If they had a lawn care business or they had something else try, or a shop or whatever.
They're losers, man.
They're absolute losers.
And, you know, so I go through all these contacts and I mean, I went. I deleted a bunch.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: I mean, people might think you're a little bit harsh.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Well, I can't help it.
The only time the people call me is when they need something. And that was a lot of. That was a lot of ones that I raced. I raced a ton of them that, I mean, probably I would say at least 150 that I erased out of my phone that I'm like.
And some of them that I still deal with on the day to day. But I have made it a point in life to where I've got the people around me that's close friends, family that I will go to war with.
And then I have my friends and family that I have to distance myself from them. And everybody's got them in their families.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: Like you still have contact, like when needed or distance yourself. Like communication.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Some of.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: Some of limited communication only as needed.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah, well, as, as, as I have to, like reunions, family get togethers, you know. Yeah. All that sort of stuff.
But.
And I'm sure you've got them and everybody else has got them, but man, I feel like sometimes I have got like I get anxiety over when I see these people calling my cell phone when I have a place of business down here that the phones are open from 8 to 6 o' clock and they want to call my cell phone. And they may call it at 7 in the morning, they may call it at 9:30 at night.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: So what in my mind you don't answer, right?
[00:03:59] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: But you're eventually gonna quit, ain't it? Or don't.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: Well, it's. We're working on, we're working on a.
I'm working on 10 years and it ain't quit.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: So you're telling me that you've got one person say one,
[00:04:16] Speaker B: I've got one right now that is deleted. And, and here's my problem here was my issue with some of this stuff.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: But they've called for 10 years and you've not ever answered. And they just keep calling.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: I mean, okay, that ain't happened, right? That's not happening. Okay, okay, but I mean if, but, but usually it's, it's usually like call Matt and then they.
Right behind it, they'll call the parts store and I'll answer the phone. Generally, I mean, I don't, I don't run up the phone and try to answer it. But if I'm there, I'm like, why is this guy calling my cell phone, dude? And then it'll be for something, whatever. That's, that's not, that's another story for another day.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: It's cuz they want to go. I mean, I had a guy, I had a guy call at work yesterday.
I hear Rusty on the phone, he's with a customer right now. Is there anything else I can help you with? And I've got him trained up front. Ask, figure out why they're calling because nine times out of ten it's stupid. Well, yeah, I'll just go ahead and get you scheduled. And he punched it in and he gets off the phone, he's like, gotta call and ask for. You want to schedule tire rotation. I'm like, God, it's just so you,
[00:05:14] Speaker B: you deal with it too.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Oh yeah, you deal with it too.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: In business like that, when you've been, when you've built it, when you've kind of built it, you know, I don't
[00:05:21] Speaker A: care to help you, but you don't need my help for some stuff. I've got people there to help you, you know?
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that, that I'll touch on that here in a little bit. But yeah, my big thing is, is when I deleted these numbers out of my phone, I'm looking at some of them, I'm like, oh, my gosh, why is that? You know? You know, those. They was probably a good five or six solids that I'm like, these guys called on the weekly and I don't answer their phone call, but it doesn't matter. They call persistently and try to get me, and then they'll call the store or whatever. But anyways, so they're getting through the store. But in my mind, this is just the way I'm wired.
If I don't know who's calling me, I don't have their number memorized.
I think I've got your number memorized because it was so close to my number when we were in 16 years old or whatever. But I've got yours memorized and a few, and my wife's and my mom and dad's and that's about it. But if I don't know these numbers, I don't feel, near as I feel bad when they call me. Yeah, it's just the way I'm wired. I don't know. But I feel bad when they call me. But I get mad, too.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: And you don't answer, you mean.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: And I don't answer because the side of me wants to help them, but they don't do anything. I. I'm not saying that I want somebody to do something for me.
They don't. They're not. They're not a proud supporter of my business, you know, but when they need help, they expect for me to drop what I'm doing and come to them. And that's just not who I anymore, is not who I am. I mean, if you buy from me, you know, you work with me and do things with me, I'll help you any way I can. But as far as getting a. Getting, you know, that was my fault for giving them my cell phone number when I first started my business because I thought I could drive them to growing my business. But they're just like a leech, is the way I look at it. They're just like a leech. And they are. They are. That's just the way it is. They want something for nothing. That's just it.
But so I went through my phone, done all that, got to the point to where, you know, now it's so nice when these numbers call because they
[00:07:37] Speaker A: don't leave Messages and you don't know who they are.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: And I don't know who they are. I don't think a thing about it now. It's like, what a breath of fresh air.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: Okay, that makes sense.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Does that make sense? It does make sense because I took my wife's. Like, why do you even. Who, why do you care? And I was like, I don't know why I care, but I do. I'm just wired that way. I don't know. So. So, so now I don't know who's calling me. I don't.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: Like there's people out there that I've called before or that some. I hear somebody says they've called somebody and they just have no return phone call. Like they just don't call them back, you know, And I. I cannot do that.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Like if I don't answer it, I'm going to call them back because I know who it was. They might need something, whatever.
So one thing I've worked on, this brings.
This reminds me of something that's sort of somewhat similar. Tell me if you. Tell me if you feel that if you have this happen now, you might be a little bit different because you're earbuding a lot. Okay. If I had an earbud in all the time, it would be different for me. But I don't. Okay, you name it. It don't matter what you're doing, but it's something difficult, some kind of difficult task you're laying on your back or twisted up trying to do something and your phone rings. Okay, all right. That's bad enough altogether.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Absolutely cannot stand it.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: There's not a phone call coming in right now that if it's not my wife or kids or my parents, if something's happened, I need to know and it might be important other than that I can call whoever it is back, but I will pull out my phone and it says Megan.
And I go, I don't have time to answer this. I need to keep doing what I'm doing. My hands are covered in grease. I've got my pinky, the only thing clean to even swap with, you know, But I'm, I'm. I shouldn't answer it because I'm so busy. I should just roll on. I can call back here in a minute, but I can't because it's my wife that's watching my kids and they may need me in some sort of emergency type style situation and I just refuse to not answer it. So I will.
Hello, you know, or whatever.
Hey, I want to Tell you what happened. I'm like.
And then I'm. And then I'm mad. And now sudden, we're arguing, you know, and it's like, if I just wouldn't have answered. Right.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: But you can't not. You can't.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: Not five, ten minutes later. I could have called her back perfectly fine, been able to talk for a second. She'd been content. I'd have been okay.
But because there's a potential emergency or something going on, I cannot bring myself to.
Even if I was to have said, hello, let me call you back in just a minute by. Or be fine by. Or. Why'd you even answer the phone? You know, kind of sigh.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: Do you deal with that?
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. No, I mean, I'm the same way with my wife. But now, like, now. Because I earbud a lot.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: It's a big. That's.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: It's a huge difference.
It's a huge difference. But the problem is I don't wear my earbuds until somebody calls me.
Ah.
So it's still like answering the phone. I don't leave it in my ear because I can't hear out of one ear anyway.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: I can't hardly hear out of one ear, so I have to leave my good ear open. But.
So she, you know, I'll do the same thing. But I'm bad about, like, if I'm talking to my buddy that works for UPS or something, I'll be like, hey, gotta go by click. Just hang up on him. Or I will just hang up on him.
And he. And he's cool with that.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah, well, he knows why. Yeah, yeah. He'll call me back when he gets a chance to finish talking.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: Hey, you know, let me hop off here or whatever. And I just hang up on him. But. Or, you know, guys I ride motorcycles with or whatever, if they call me, you know, but anyways, I, you know, I've had to distance myself.
Well, I'm trying to be nice about it. I've had to distance myself from friends and family because of their actions, their habitual behaviors.
You know, I've had to find people in life that want to be with you for you, build you up and be. Always have good vibes and good energies.
And I have so many family members that are not like that, you know, and so many friends that are not one that. Acquaintances. I wouldn't even call them friends.
Our old manager, well, it probably wasn't your manager, but our old manager. I ain't got no friends and I ain't got no Buddies. That's what Williams would always say.
And I love that. I use it all the time, you know, oh, your buddy called or your buddy this or your buddy. I ain't got no buddies. I ain't got no friends.
And ever since then, and you can take it however you want to, but you, You've got them buddies and you've got them friends. That, that's. They're there for just what I was talking about. They just want to bleed. Just want you to bleed out and bleed out and bleed out and bleed out until you. You just get over it.
Until you just, you know. So that's one reason I say that, you know, Like, D. West called me the other day. It was like a breath of fresh air talking to him. I was like, oh, yeah, that's. That's a guy I can talk to right there, you know, but, you know, he didn't, you know, it was just casual conversation.
But anyways, It's hard for you to distance your own family sometimes. I struggle with it because, you know, they are family and I do love them, but I have a hard love to. For him, you know, because I'm not trying to be, you know, nasty towards you, but when I distance myself, you know, don't come and ask me. Just come and ask me straight up, say, hey, what's, what's. What's the problem here?
But I think they live in such a fantasy to where they, they know if they ask Matt, they're gonna hear
[00:13:44] Speaker A: what they're gonna hear what they don't want to hear.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they just say they're gonna hear
[00:13:48] Speaker A: the cold, hard truth.
[00:13:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So. And I'm not, I'm not a hard nose. I ain't.
I'll sit and talk with you for hours. Or the people that, that I hold close. But, but, but, man, you have to separate yourself from these people. And you gotta find people to be that. That, like I said, that are for you and, and have same. You don't have to say the same. Just the same likes or interest or anything, but you do have to have that understand you. When work and where you come from, it's just like my guys I ride motorcycles with, man. Steven. I absolutely. He's like a brother to me. He is.
And I, you know, I, I can call him up right now and when you can call somebody and it's just like, just like you just got off the phone with them five minutes ago, and you may not talk to him for two weeks or a week and you can pick back up with somebody. That's the people you want, you know? I think so, but, man, it's just like when I get with my guys on Saturdays or Sundays or, you know, after church or before, it's whatever. And go out and ride with them, that is like.
That is like some. Some of the best time that I can possibly for. For me.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: Y' all got little speakers and stuff in your.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: We do.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: Where y' all can talk to each other.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: Yeah, no, but we don't. We don't really link. We. We like each other a lot, but we don't like each other that much. I don't want to hear. He don't want to hear me, and I don't want to hear him. So. Yeah, that's what you do.
Yeah, the whole time, but.
And I've. I've got some, you know, some people that. That I, you know, that don't. That don't.
I've talked to you about it, but, man, that's.
That is doing things.
Yeah, yeah, they're benefit. Yeah, but they're. But they're being fit and they've been a fitting off of me, but, you know, I'm always the type that. That I'm. I'm. I'm. I'll be for you until you're really, really, like, pushing me really to a point to where I have to be like, okay, you know, this ain't right. You know, you shouldn't be sucking off the government. This kind of. This. This kind of money or, you know, that you shouldn't be doing this to your family member, but you are, you know, until you get.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: They're, like, talking to you about it or something.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Well, like. Yeah, yeah, like. Like I've got a guy that manages. It's just, you know, I. I like him, but I don't like his belief, you know, the way that he. I don't hate him because of his beliefs or not. I don't. I just. Some of the things he does I just totally dislike.
And we just can't. We just can't vibe together. You know what I mean? We just cannot see how to. I. And the things. The way that you live and the things that you do and your.
Your behavior. Continuous snowball behavior that you have, and the way that you.
I think the way that we do life is the way that you should do life. You should go to work.
I think you should make a decent wage and living and provide for your family and be the man of the house, and if you can figure out
[00:17:18] Speaker A: a way to get it done on
[00:17:19] Speaker B: your own and be successful, then that's awesome.
I think that's great. But when you just continuously.
When you're around these people, man, I had, I don't know, four or five months ago, dude, I was struggling because I didn't know how to get rid of somebody.
So I finally just set the dude down. I'm like, dude, I can't do this no more.
I said, I'm a grown man. I said, I feel like when I talk to you that we're in high school, you know, I said, I literally feel like I'm going back till I'm 15 years old again. And you got. You've got drama, you've got baggage, you've got all this crap. I don't want to deal with it, dude. And you've got some psychological stuff going on in your head that you really need to think about, dude. You know, Think about some stuff.
And of course, I'm the bad guy. That's fine.
I'm used to being the bad guy, whatever.
And even with my family, you know, I'm the bad guy. I'm the problem. Not. Not anybody else. I'm the problem. I'm just being too. Too tough or I'm being too this or that, whatever.
But we all have got those family members that. That are just like, I'm going to love you from over here.
I'm still going to love you. I do love you, but I do not agree with you at all, you know?
So, you know, I just think for. For. For mental health, man, you've got to find somebody to. To rock and ride with. You got to be able to call them up, hit them up.
I just. But I did. I deleted all those people out of my phone. And I had like three numbers this week that's called. I have no idea. They don't ever leave messages. You know, they don't ever leave messages. They don't text me, which is fine. There again, I don't answer text and I don't answer phone calls. If I don't know, I'll immediately. I won't even look at them. If there's a phone number, it text me.
I swap them babies if it texts me.
So if I'm texting you back, be glad because about 150 of them are gone.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: But I probably need to do that same thing. I don't have.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: I do have few people. I had a lot of people, actually. Probably, like, at least. No joke. I hate to even say it's like eight or 10 people. It's probably in my phone. It was dead.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: I. I don't doubt it at all.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: I mean, we had. I've got. There was at least 6. I probably have from the, from. From the automotive shop.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: I probably have half of that in my phone. And I've deleted them before. Yeah, like I've went through and done that before. I'll tell you what, that's one of the saddest things you could ever do is look at your phone and see someone, one of your buddies or whoever it was your people used to work with or whoever. And no, I can't call them, you know, and you got to delete it. That's like. That's like, I'll never, I'll never.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Do you know how hard I had one from. You know.
You know how. You know I loved Eugene to death.
He was a turd old mechanic we used to work with. I love Eugene and jd. I love both of them. But I had a voicemail from, From Eugene and it was like four years ago.
And I don't know how or it wasn't four years ago, it was probably two and a half years ago. But I had it on my phone and it took me a long time just to delete it because I didn't go back and listen to it and be something. It's kind of weird too. But anyways, he was like, I can't remember what it was about, but I was like, I had that on my phone. And I'm like, man, that's sad.
I eventually did delete it, but.
But his phone number was still in there, you know, Easters was in there, you know, Fredericks. I mean, a lot of them that was still in there.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Jd. Otis.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: Yeah, Otis. Yeah, Otis was in there. JD was. Yeah, JD was still in. I think I'd already deleted. I don't know. I don't know. There's so many of them, but they was at least six guys from the shop that was dead. And I was like, dang. And then Eugene. Eugene. And JD Was used to be kind of my go to, like after I left the shop and be like, if I was doing something or needed help or got a question on something, I'd call them up, you know. Yeah. And there was a couple times there that I'd called. I'd call JD When I first opened. I'm like, hey man, I can't find this part. And he's like, oh, you know, let me get on here. And he'd give me a part moog. Part number or this or that or Whatever.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Help me out.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Mm.
But then after they die, you're like, man, I can't even. That's. It's not even a thing no more, you know, but.
But, you know, we could sit there. That was. That was. You know, we could sit there and I have family members that. That's. That they hold on to that stuff and they can't let that stuff go, but we have to let it go. We can't let it control us either, you know, because it sucks. JD was like a shop dad.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: I'm gonna go through my phone now that you said that, and I'm gonna look at everything. Yeah, that's a good idea. Get rid of people you ain't talked to number you.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: I guess you don't see it as bad as I do because you've probably. And I would never do that.
I don't want people's number in my phone that don't. You know, that I don't. I don't jive with. You know what I mean?
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Well, so you see, it's a bad. Because it was your business. You're trying to get it off the ground. You want to see over helpful. Here's my phone number. Call me when you need something, you know?
[00:22:33] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Whatever. You were just doing all that. Me, from my point of view, it's like, you know, our clientele is so. Well, not necessarily in valley established, but overall as a company, it's established and the name is recognized easily. You know, where I didn't have to look for anything. It's coming to me. I had to just provide a service that they wanted to come back for. So I didn't really have to do that. You didn't have to fight for that much. Matter of fact, when it comes to family and stuff, you know, I'm so far away from where I live.
There's a store between us. You know, they can go there quicker or, you know, and I just assume keep. Keep people. I know. Now, that being said, I'm fixing to do something for somebody on Monday.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: That I know.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: But still.
And it was. And it was totally fine, but it was. It was a text message. Text me about it and. But he'd already talked to me in person about it, but I didn't care because it was a. There was a sort of a. It was a story that didn't really get put to bed from another store that I'm trying to resolved. So whatever.
Well, that's okay.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: So. So, okay, think about this. Think about the one phone number. When it pops up in your phone, I don't care who it is, pops up in your phone and you're like, oh my gosh, why?
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Why?
[00:23:52] Speaker B: And you're even debating on answering it. That's how like 10 of them was in my phone that I'm like, and the problem was in my mind, I knew who it was. And, and I have to face that person because they still may come in my, my store or come in, or see them out somewhere. I'll try calling you. I ain't got your number no more. Sorry. You know, and I don't even offer to give it back to, you know, or act like, you know, I'm just like, I ain't got your number, whatever, you know, I don't answer no phone calls, you know, and I don't want to just block them, Alex. I want you to just block them. I was like, well, it's too late for that now because I don't even know their numbers.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: You know, I'd be like, I put a blocker on my phone, had it set up through my cell service to where it only allows phone calls between certain times of the day. And if it's a number that hasn't called me in so long, it doesn't even let it go through, I should do that.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: I should be like, yeah, I've got it. I got it set up on my phone that I don't receive phone calls while I'm at work from, from seven till seven. And then my, my bed, my, my do not disturb goes on it at 8:00 clock when I get home. Yeah, you got this 30 minute window.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: I did away with my cell phone. Hang on just a second. Hello?
Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: Yeah, but there's those people in your
[00:25:17] Speaker A: lives where you got to do that too.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's, it and unfortunately, like, man, a lot of mine is, is family from, from my mom's side, my dad's side, you know, just, you just have to.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: I guess I'm fortunate I don't have that. But, you know, if you're, if, if you're a dagum mechanic or working on cars or anything to do with that stuff, that's something everybody's got and everybody's gonna have a problem with, you know, And I don't know what it is, but I guess I should be thankful that I don't have a lot of family members. I, I deal with that with. I really don't.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: I have a huge family. My mom come from a family of eight brothers and sisters and my.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: Your dad's is bigger than that, surely
[00:26:03] Speaker B: no, no, Dad's is. Dad's is three brothers. So, I mean, there's. There's three of them. But now they. They have family that's out there, but I just don't know sometimes.
And then those family members, just like I've talked to in the past when they go other places and that stuff is crap right there, man.
[00:26:26] Speaker A: That would be my reason right there.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: Well, you know, and it's hard. It's so easy to say that, but man, when they're standing and looking at you and they do have a problem, they catch me on the wrong day, it will be bad because I try to be as nice as I can to everybody and be as human as I can, but one day they're gonna catch me on the wrong day and it ain't gonna be pretty for them and whoever else. But it's hard to sit there and say, we bought all your crap down the road. Won't you go down the road and find somebody to fix it? You know?
But anyways, goodness.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: It's just like our boss, man, your old boss, my boss, you know, I'll be like, why are you even dealing with that? Bo? I'm loyal to a fault.
Sometimes I'm just loyal to a fault. And that's you? Yeah, same deal.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: And. And for. For me it is too.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: I mean, dude, I absolutely. I don't care.
Jacob, come in.
Moody, come in.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: And I was seeing him in years.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: I hadn't seen him since like high school.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: And he found out that I was down here, man. He's been a rockstar. He come up, him and his dad, they bought two weed eaters from me. He's been buying all of his automotive stuff from me. Drives all the way up, you know, passes four part stores to get to me.
That's the kind of people that you need in your life. I told him, I said.
I said, I don't care. When I said, I've already bought like a overhead. I think I. What did I buy?
I think I bought my.
My overhead range and my stove from him. And I just went down there and had my. I think I had my in laws.
They were in town or something. It was on a Saturday and they just went down there. I said, I told Alex, I said, just go out there and pick it up and have your dad help you. And Jacob was there. He didn't know my wife or anything, but anyways, and I told him. I was like, dude, this really does mean. You know, I was like, man, it means a lot. Thank you. I Appreciate it. It really, you know, that's the kind of people that I want. And you know, yeah, I might be a little more expensive or I might be a better price at this and that might be more expensive on this or that. But I'm like, at the end of the day, we have to be for each other that, you know, especially the people that. The people that are for you. Like. I told him, I was like, dude, I'm coming down there and buying. I've got to buy a dishwasher I got by refrigerator. So I said, I'm coming to get it from you. I said, I've just.
The dishwasher is like, it's got to be.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Now.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Alex done told me that it's got to happen, you know, I guarantee it. So our kids, our kids are our dishwashers right now, which work pretty good. I mean, they, they, they either hand wash them or they put everything in the dishwasher and do all the things. But for some reason I got something wrong. I ain't looked into it, but I got something wrong with the top. The top drawer up there. She don't clean, so everything has to go on the bottom.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: So.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: So I've got to get that. I gotta go down there. But I don't care. I don't care if he's a hundred dollars higher. I don't care if he's $150 higher. I'm going to go down there and buy that thing from Jacob Moody. I don't care. As long as you got a black one. He got black one. I'm coming. You got a black washer or dishwasher? I'm coming to get it.
[00:29:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: And I mean, he's just trying to make it like we are. You know what I mean? I mean, he's just. Everybody's got their own thing they're doing. They got their own little niche that they're in. And I told him, I said, I'm coming to get one, you know, and that's just the way we have to be for each other. But he, I mean, he passes up, passes up four part stores to get to me, that means a lot. You know what I mean?
[00:30:00] Speaker A: Do business people, you know.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Absolutely, I do. I do. Absolutely. More than, you know, people may think. That's really. That's dumb. That's what I go. I want to go up there, you know, he's going to be $10 more, you know, it might be. I don't know.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Well, some people don't think about that. And then, and then the People, it means something to. It makes them look. Look at them a different way.
[00:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: I mean, so.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Well, I can tell you my family. I don't care that. I don't even care to say it. There's some pos's is what they are. They know. They know good and dang well what they're doing. I just. I have no. I mean, I just cannot. What world do you live in that you think that you can't go support your family up the road? I have an uncle that drives. Literally, he passes the same four or five part stores 20 miles down the highway to get to me.
That's the ones I want. You know, that's. That's the ones that when he calls me, I answer, yeah, you know, he's the one that I answer. It's these other ones, the other family members and the other friends and stuff that. That, you know, when it's just dire need and Matt can get me out of a pinch, that's the ones that call. That's the ones I don't.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: I feel like you're talking about me.
No, I feel like you are.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: You just. You just bought parts from me today.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: So what?
[00:31:20] Speaker B: I promise you. I promise. Are you being convicted? Are you being.
[00:31:24] Speaker A: I feel convicted right now.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: I feel like you're just. You're talking about me, You, Dustin, Brody, Boom. I don't think I thought about you guys. You guys have got a freaking part store and Farragut Harden.
[00:31:38] Speaker A: Are you gotten at our hands that bring it to us?
[00:31:42] Speaker B: I get that. I don't expect that at all.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: But next oil change, you better do your oil change here.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: I feel.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: I ain't doing that. That means I gotta do it myself. I ain't doing that.
I. I feel that way too, though, like.
So the people you're describing, I try not to be that person, but there's times I feel like that.
So I'll give you great examples. Okay.
Today I texted Chapman about spray foam.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Okay?
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Matt asking him who did his stuff. He gave me a phone number, said, call this guy. He did a great job, blah, blah, blah.
Well, I also asked him about sepia. I went and looked at his.
I went and looked at his garage when I was getting ready to build mine. Now with all that being said, I. I feel what I'm getting at here. Or if I need dirt, if I need rock or whatever, he's him or Bill or who I call.
And I've used both of them in the past. Whatever.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Well, so you're saying.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: But I feel Like, I'm always calling, but I'm not doing anything.
You see what I'm saying?
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Oh, so you're one of those guys.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: Well, I mean, I had him come out and do my septic for me whenever, when my subject backed up behind my house. I mean, I got mad to do that, and I've got stuff from him. But I feel like, because I don't know that side of the world that much, I call them for advice and
[00:33:00] Speaker B: then I don't do nothing with them.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Well, I may not do anything. Right, right, right, right. You know, if I did, it'd be a different story. But, like, for example.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: Oh, I get you. So you're just saying you're just trying to get. You're not doing the work. You're just trying to find out who to get to do the work.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: Well, just how much I'm looking at if I'm doing it or something.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:33:16] Speaker A: You know, so like a perfect example is I called a guy who I know, you don't know him, and he does. He. He has done concrete his whole life. His dad did concrete.
So I called him the other day wanting to know what he could price my pad out for.
So he talked to me on the phone there for a little bit and we talked about it, and he gave me advice of what he thought and what he wanted to do and said, let me know.
And his price was literally the same price that I got already from another guy that I know also.
But because I. I got this one first, the second one who I called for advice wasn't any more expensive.
I just wanted to make sure this was in line with where I needed to be, you know, and if. If this guy would have been cheaper or whatever, then maybe I'd have went with that guy, you know, but because it was line item for line item, cost wise, good.
And I had this guy come out and look at it already, and I'd talk to him first. I felt obligated to use him versus using my buddy I call or my friend I know I called to get it, and then I ended up not using him.
So now I feel guilty for not using him, but I would have felt guilty for not using him. So I put myself in a bind doing that on my conscious, you know, so. But that's kind of how I get with, you know, Bill and Matt. I mean, I went out, I bought something from Bill one time. I mean, you know, you know, I bought that Kawasaki from him, and I've had him haul some dirt for me, and I had him Put in a water line for me one time. And, I mean, I've used Matt for rock, you know, and paid him and what they do.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: But, yeah, I get what you're saying. You're just calling somebody to. You know.
[00:35:01] Speaker A: I mean, I try to give them all a little bit of business here
[00:35:03] Speaker B: and there, but I guess I'm lucky on that side of things, too. Like, I have cousins that are like my brothers, and I can call them and say, hey, I want you to figure this up for me. And I can talk to him like, I.
I'm thinking about pouring a 20 them.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: Like, they're my friends.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: I do them too.
[00:35:21] Speaker B: But I call them up and say, all right, well, what do you think? You know? He's like, well, you know, just call and see what. That. They're. They're. They're just straight to the point. Like, with the concrete that we did at the. At the store, they were just like.
We didn't really even get quote. We're just like, okay, that's the concrete. Yeah, we want this in it. We want that in it. We want it here.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: Get it here. It doesn't. So. So I'm not gonna say that. Well, they're. This place down here is $10. You know, they're. They're, you know, $600 cheaper. Or this place was. It's just like, boom, here it is. It's done. You know, you don't even really think about it, right?
But you can kind of get a. You know, you. You call them and say, you know, hey, what's your average? This or that? You know, I'll give you a good
[00:36:05] Speaker A: example of what I was trying not to do, and what I was getting at is, is I try not to be the person you're describing.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: The ones that just.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: And I really don't want people to think that of me either.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Well, I don't either.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: You know, I would rather.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: I would rather never get anything done or, you know, I would. Or try to figure out it myself before I called somebody and aggravated them, you know, because right off now, I wouldn't care to call Bill because I wouldn't care to call Chappie. I wouldn't care to call those guys and say, hey, what do you think?
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Well, I don't either. That's why I do it.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: But I don't want him think that about me. Yeah, yeah.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying.
[00:36:39] Speaker B: I know.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: But a perfect example is I called to get spray foam quotes. I've been calling for two days. Places. I'm waiting on phone calls back for estimates on spraying my building.
I got one quote Yesterday that was $8100. I got one today it was 5400.
Like, I'm trying not to get screwed that hard. That's what I'm getting at.
[00:36:57] Speaker B: I get that.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: I get that, right?
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that is bad. That's really bad.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: So 3,000.
I mean, that's what I'm trying not to have happen to me, but, you know, by. By achieving it. But at the same time, you know, when it comes to that, it was
[00:37:11] Speaker B: this, like, company for like. Like, legit company. Legit company. And this ain't like, Bo and Matt gonna go spray foam dudes building for 5,400 bucks.
[00:37:19] Speaker A: Right?
[00:37:20] Speaker B: Okay. Okay.
[00:37:21] Speaker A: Right.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:37:21] Speaker A: These are two companies.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: Okay. All right.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: That far off.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Hey, boy, you don't go spray foam. He goes, pray foam his place for $5,400.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: That far off. Now, granted, granted, granted.
Actually, I take it back.
I don't know on thickness. That the first one. I can't today. I know everything about today's conversation, but I can't remember yesterday's quote, what their thickness was on roof and wall, ceiling and walls, and things like that.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: I'm just curious. I mean, can you do it any cheaper yourself? Yeah.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: So that stuff is high, man. You can buy. So they make them. They make kits. You can buy.
And you can buy, like, a 36. 36 cans kit. That would do, like.
I think it was 3, 420, 380 board feet or whatever. Cubic feet or square foot, whatever. However you want to look at it.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: Like what?
[00:38:21] Speaker A: And it was 550 for that kit.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: Gosh.
[00:38:24] Speaker A: Okay, 550. Yeah. Now that's enough to do this wall at one inch thick and, like, a little bit of this wall.
[00:38:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:36] Speaker A: So now I need another. That's another. So there's $1,000 to go around this, the rest of this one, cover a little bit of this one.
And now I need another $550 to go on this way and cover it. To be able to get my inch and a half is kind of the standard they do in garages.
But you need. Or no, I'm sorry, an inch. It's an inch on walls, inch and a half on ceilings. I think now, if you want the value of, like, you know, a higher R value, you got to do thicker than that or whatever. But that's kind of the standard they were going off of. But anyway, by the time I did that back wall and the ceiling, I mean, I'M in it.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
[00:39:15] Speaker A: Is like $4,000.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: It's probably. It probably is a couple thousand.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: When Scott looked into it.
Well, no, it's less than that. When Scott looked into it, he was. If he did it himself, he could. He could buy the material and do it himself, or he could pay $1,000 more and the company comes out, does it professionally, cleans it up, tapes everything off, and he's not spending an entire weekend hoping he gets it right. You know what I mean? So it's absolutely worth it. I just couldn't imagine there being $7,000 of spray foam there.
No, that was. That was somebody trying to get me. Somebody trying to get me. Well, I just want to be treated fair.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:39:58] Speaker A: You know, the same as everybody else. That's what.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: That's what. That's what this whole episode's about.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: Is I want to be treated fair sometimes, same as everybody. I try to. I hope that I'm never a nuisance to somebody.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't want to be that.
[00:40:11] Speaker B: I don't. But I just.
It's unfortunate, but. But I think if you have people in your life that are just like, just taking you and they just feel like they're just right on the back. They just feel like they're pulling you down to the ground. You gotta cut them off. I mean, it's just the way. I mean, it's hard, it's tough love, but it just. It is.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Separate yourself from them and just don't.
Don't give into it. Let them be like. Let them. There's nothing wrong with being like everybody else.
Walk through these doors, call the phone and get your stuff done like everybody else does. I can go ahead and tell you right now, I don't feel like anything. I get done. I get any breaks cut for me. Right.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:40:56] Speaker A: For the most part. I mean, now, don't. Don't get me wrong, I've got some buddies that help me out on some stuff a little bit here and there, but, you know, for the most part, just freaking.
[00:41:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I don't get it. I know. But.
Well, I mean, I've got cousins that they can. They can build a house, they can run a business. They can. They can do whatever, you know, that's. That's my go to when I promise you, I'm on their butt about something. I'm always like, well, what'd that cost you? You know, I'd like to do that. What's that Cost, you know, this. You know, so they don't care to share that stuff. But, you know, some of that stuff, you know, I just think you got to be around the people that are for you. I mean, it's just, you know, and if. And if you. People see people fading off from you, maybe you're the common denominator. You know what I mean?
[00:41:51] Speaker A: I don't know. People fade for different reasons.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Well, I'm just saying, though, when you're. When you're trying really hard and people just are trying to keep their distance. You see what I'm saying?
[00:42:02] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, exactly.
[00:42:05] Speaker B: I mean, I just think, you know, you might need to check yourself.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: True.
True.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: I. I don't know.
But, yeah, I did. I just. I was done with it, so it was driving me crazy. It's driving me crazy getting ready to
[00:42:20] Speaker A: go through my phone. So I'm gonna go ahead and look at that and see if there's anything I can do. If I ain't talking about it. I wish you could run, like, a report on your phone. Have I talked to him in the last year? No. Delete it. You know, just get rid of it.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I even had Elton on there.
I. I didn't delete his because I wanted to reach out to him and just text him. I don't even know if he text or not, you know?
[00:42:40] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. I talk to him all the time. I didn't.
[00:42:43] Speaker B: I didn't delete him because I thought, man, I need to. I need to call that old cat and see if he's. He asked about you.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: Every time I see him.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Really? I want to. I want to. I want to text him. I didn't delete his.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: He always.
[00:42:53] Speaker B: I didn't delete Hensley's because I was. Text both of them.
[00:42:56] Speaker A: How's Matt doing? He asked. Every single time.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: I'm surprised.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: I go play golf with him. He asked me about you.
[00:43:02] Speaker B: Every time I'm surprised he ain't come by.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: Well, you don't get down this way unless he comes down to play golf.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: He's retired.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: He's down here, play golf or something with us. I mean, he's close enough. He probably swing by on his way back or something, but we don't. We don't go down here and play much anymore, but, yeah.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: Oh, well, I had to get that off my chest.
[00:43:21] Speaker A: That stuff sounds like you got it out of your life already, so it's gone. You got to worry about it no more.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: True. That's true. So if you made the Cut.
And I answer my phone call and call you back, you made the cut. But if I don't call you back, you didn't make the cut. And I. It a. It ain't. I ain't putting myself on some sort of pedestal where I don't want to talk to you, but I don't want to talk to you.
It ain't that I'm any better. I just. I ain't got time for you. Yeah. You just got other stuff.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: It's simple.
[00:43:52] Speaker B: I'm going up.
I want to do more. I want to be a better husband. I want to be a better dad. I want to be a better.
And these people that just grab ahold of you and try to jerk you down.
I want to be better for my family. That's my main thing. Be better for my family, my wife and my kids.
And you just can't. You got to cut these people out of your life. You don't need to be around them. I cut people that I've been around for 20 years.
I ain't been to their house in two years, if that tells you anything. I ain't been in the house in two years.
And I was there religiously at their house for 18 years. I mean, like clockwork. Stayed all night there. Just done everything.
And I don't have anything, you know, I just distanced myself.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: There's nothing wrong with that.
[00:44:48] Speaker B: No, there's not. But it is in their eyes. But they won't come and ask you, so.
And I have a problem with that, too. But we won't get into all that.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Dude's got something bothering him. No doubt.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: I heard. I do.
[00:45:02] Speaker A: Struggling, guys. Thanks for riding with us this time. We'll be back next week. Catch us on Monday, new episodes. Appreciate it.
[00:45:12] Speaker B: See you guys.
