Let’s go back in time. No technology. No electronics. Blackout?

[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. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of Second Floor Sessions. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Thank you guys for joining back in. We just want you to dive in with this. Dive in with us on this one. I was just thinking today, where would we be without any sort of technology if we had absolutely nothing? We take it back to, like the 1980s, before I was even born. [00:00:54] Speaker A: When you had technology. [00:00:56] Speaker B: Well, computers. I'm talking about, like, toward the point to where we flip open ourselves. If we did not have these right here, if we didn't have this, we didn't have that computer sitting there. [00:01:06] Speaker A: What are you doing? Give my phone back. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Well, all right. So if we didn't have these things, [00:01:11] Speaker A: stuff's so easy for us. [00:01:13] Speaker B: It's so accessible. So you, you, you like even before dial up Internet? Sure, Absolutely. [00:01:19] Speaker A: You might know what dial up Internet is. [00:01:21] Speaker B: I do remember those days. That was rough. That was rough stuff. But I was just thinking, you know, on the business side of it, you have people that come in all the time that'll be like, I know that you probably do. You probably don't have it as much as I do, but they'll be on their phone. Well, I can get this at so and so's for, you know, for $21. Well, I can't even buy it for $21. I'm not going to sell it to you for that. If you want it for that, go get it online. So. But. But not. I'm not gonna get into the business that. That sort of side of it. But I'm thinking about, like, I don't remember when I was. I don't remember, like, when we would go places, which back when I was young, we don't. Like if we went to Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg, that was a treat to us. Or if we went to the Cumberland Mountains and stayed in the cabin, that was a treat for us. Like, we didn't go to the beach. I never. When we went on family vacation, I never. We never went to the beach ever. When we were young, we never did. I didn't go to the beach, probably. I think the first time I seen the ocean was when I went to Faith Promise Church when I was, like, probably 14, 15 years old. [00:02:37] Speaker A: So. [00:02:38] Speaker B: But the technology side of it, Faith [00:02:40] Speaker A: Promise Church is not at the beach. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Well, I'm sorry. Faith Promise. We went on a youth camp, so. Yeah, my bad. Whatever. So I should have said that we went we went to church camp and it was at the beach in Florida with Faith Promise. [00:02:55] Speaker A: But that's one way to get people to show up. [00:02:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:00] Speaker B: You're not on a mission in Haiti. Yeah, no, that's right. So. But the tech. Not going back to technology. We like. I remember MapQuest, but that was still with technology. [00:03:14] Speaker A: I don't remember, like, opening up printed directions. Yeah. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Like you had like four sheets of paper. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I do remember that. [00:03:20] Speaker B: I remember that. But I don't remember, like, opening up a road atlas and you know, you know, pull over and look the road atlas to get to where you're going sort of thing. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Megan talks about that all the time. She used to. Her dad used to make her read the map to her if they were going places. [00:03:34] Speaker B: I don't. I mean, we didn't go nowhere, so it wasn't a thing for us. But just thinking about, like, I mean, if you really just dive in, just start thinking of everything we do and we touch, even to the vehicles we drive are so technologically advanced to where you have to. You have to have computers. People's like, you know, people say all the time in here. Well, they just. They put them computers on them and, you know, you don't have, you know, ain't no more. There ain't no real mechanics anymore because they just use those computers. Well, you have to. I don't care. You can't diagnose one without it. It's not going to happen. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Correct. [00:04:15] Speaker B: You're. You're dumb for even thinking that. You know that. You know, you can't start rub your little magic wand around and hope that's that. That you. That you find the right part. [00:04:28] Speaker A: But the business side of it, you brought up, that's a. That's a really good point. I know. I mean, as dumb as it sounds, because I'm not a. A big technology. I mean, obviously I use technology every freaking day, but I'm not real, real big on it. You know, I'm not up to par with what everybody else knows or whatever. And I don't really want to be. You know, I want to kind of stay. [00:04:51] Speaker B: I want to be outside of it a little bit. [00:04:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Simple. Absolutely. [00:04:54] Speaker A: I mean, you. Can you shut our computers off at work or. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Mm. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Go back to green sheets and handwriting. Oh, you're. You're. You're done for. Yeah. If you lose Internet, take Internet. The only good thing about that is it's nowhere near as busy because our Internet goes through our phones, so our phones won't ring, and I'm just like, yeah, this is. This is gonna be good. You know, but then you're holding on. You're stacking up invoices. You're not billing anybody out for anything. You know, It's. [00:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Your credit card terminals are shut down, too. You ain't got Internet. You ain't. Nothing's happening. [00:05:27] Speaker A: Right. Well, I can't tell you what it cost anyway. Everybody's. I got cash. I'll pay for it. And I'm. I can't tell you what's gonna cost you. Oh, that's right. Just like you said. I mean, that's what everybody thinks. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:37] Speaker A: You know, so. Yeah. [00:05:39] Speaker B: Well, it's like. I mean, you. You lose Internet here, you know, at. At my work. I mean, my goodness, It's. You gotta shut down. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:48] Speaker B: It's crippling. Can't do nothing. [00:05:50] Speaker A: And used to, we could operate flawlessly without it. Now you depend on it so much. But. But you do. It's the same way with your phones. Imagine if you're on a road trip across the United States. [00:05:59] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. [00:06:00] Speaker A: And your phone just quit. [00:06:01] Speaker B: Dr. Out west somewhere. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:03] Speaker B: On some side road and be like, all right, what are you gonna do? You can't pull your phone out. You can't do nothing. All you got to figure out is road signs and. And where the sun's setting and where the sun rises. [00:06:15] Speaker A: Well, I know I need to go keep going west. I'm going that way, you know? And, I mean, you got to know a little bit to be able to manage. [00:06:21] Speaker B: You do have to. [00:06:22] Speaker A: That's why. I know. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Do you realize there's some. Like. I was read. I read an article the other day, speaking of that, that some kids can't tell you where the sun. You know, sun or set, which way it sets. They have no idea. I could not imagine growing up. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Probably can't tell you there's a North Star. [00:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I could. I could not imagine that. But. But that's just how bad, how crippling technology has made us. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah. No. 100%. 100%. And also, I tell you what else it's done. It's made it to where nobody can be wrong. [00:07:00] Speaker B: Oh, I know. Yeah. [00:07:01] Speaker A: You know, all right. We. I worked with a guy one time, Daniel, said, name ain't nobody. You know, let's say that. But they used to accuse him. They'd say, oh, did you hear someone? You hear so and so talk about that? Yeah. I watched him go around his phone and Google it and then come over and try to talk to us about it. I've never even thought about doing that, you know. Oh, I've heard. [00:07:24] Speaker B: I've got customers that do that story stuff that, that will like, like in front of you. I mean, not like try to hide it and come over and act. [00:07:33] Speaker A: Know what you're talking about. [00:07:34] Speaker B: Yeah. But like, they'll be like, oh, yeah, well, Google says it's this. I'm like, well, that's. I promise you that's not right. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, you hear that all the time, but most of the time I hear, well, I don't know anything about cars. I just found that out on Dr. Google, you know, like they're, they're making a joke about it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Nobody's like, I know that's right. You know, ain't nobody saying that, so. But it's definitely crippled. I mean, it has a hundred percent handicapped us if we don't have it. You feel like you don't. [00:08:03] Speaker B: For my side of the business. No joke. Like if. Well, they don't have catalogs no more. When we first open, we've got a handful of catalogs that we could look up parts in. But the only way that if everything technology shut down and it, you know, no more Internet, no more computers or to the point that you couldn't use them, you had a blackout or whatever the case is. Only thing you could do is, Is come in and let me see the part. And then I'm gonna have to go back here and shuffle through all this stuff about through 80 boxes and see if I've got something that'll work for you. But as far as lookup, your lookup's all on. On computer. [00:08:42] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, so it's made things better and more fluent and efficient and whatnot. In ways. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Yes, in ways. But I love pulling up a catalog and being like, okay, yeah, you've got this, this, this, this. Well, right. Boom. Right there's your number, you know, because. Yeah, that's easy. [00:08:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:58] Speaker B: If that ain't there, I've got. I've got a store full of parts that I have no idea what it fits. And you know. [00:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I enjoy a day with no power. Shut your power off, lose everything. I, I like it. I mean, I. I do. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:12] Speaker A: People come in, they walk, they walk through the doors and they're just like, oh, I guess y' all are out of power too. Yeah, well, I've got. Can't do it. I have no power. You know, what can I do? I can Take you? Yes, I can take your wheel off. I have four. Four ways and jacks can't change it. Entire machines electric, you know, can't air it up. If I did get it changed, you know, I mean, I literally. I can't help you. You know, everybody thinks. Or you can do this, you can do that. You just point stuff out. [00:09:41] Speaker B: They're like, oh, yeah, okay. Yeah. [00:09:43] Speaker A: You know, we've had power knocked out from stuff like that before. [00:09:46] Speaker B: I've got. As crazy as this sounds, it sounds silly, but I have a generator that when power goes off at the store, I fire the generator up and then luckily the cell phone works your hotspot to a computer. The only thing that. The only thing that doesn't transpire is this is the printer. The printer won't. It's all, you know, unless I run a hard cord to it from this to that. But I just be like, if you want your ticket, you can come back later and get it, but I ain't gonna have it for you right now. I can pull on. I can pull you up a credit card. I can pull you up. I can hotspot off a credit card. I can hot spot the computer and then the. The server to get everything up and running and it works, you know, so it kind of. It kinda can limp you along. Yeah. But at that point, it's almost so aggravating because you got about the time I get everything set up, generator power comes back on, you know. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I would. I would love to. Let's shut the power off for a month, everybody. [00:10:48] Speaker B: That would be a trip. Golly. Imagine that, dude. It'd be people going absolutely crazy. People would lose their mind. If we had a blackout. [00:10:56] Speaker A: We've got. [00:10:57] Speaker B: I mean, you talking about. You talking about everything. [00:11:00] Speaker A: I mean, everything. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Everything. Yeah. [00:11:02] Speaker A: I mean, grocery stores are losing meat. You ain't gonna have food. Yeah. Let's figure it out for months. Figure it out. We'll let that weed out. We'll let that weed out some of this bad civilization we have. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Golly. There'd be people out there killing each other. [00:11:18] Speaker A: Oh, for. No doubt. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Immediately. [00:11:20] Speaker A: No doubt. [00:11:21] Speaker B: It would be so quick. [00:11:22] Speaker A: No doubt. [00:11:22] Speaker B: To have a major black two days. [00:11:24] Speaker A: I think maybe no deaths would happen if it was like something limited like that, but you got a month. [00:11:29] Speaker B: I think, though, these people. You take people's phones and Internet away. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Well, it's more about not having. Not being able to sustain with food. I mean, well, when you. When you lose that, you lose people, you lose all these things. You lose your mind. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Yeah. People mind is so warped with. With the phones and all the stuff. Like first couple days of their phone, they're going to go absolutely crazy. I mean they. I mean. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Yes. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [00:11:53] Speaker A: It'd be good for them. [00:11:53] Speaker B: I know. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Oh, it will be good for us. [00:11:55] Speaker B: It'd be good for you. I don't know. I mean, gosh, I could. That's. That's wild to even think about. If you had a month. I think that's a bit much. I think let's start with a weak and bring people in. [00:12:06] Speaker A: No, we don't need to break nobody in, man. Let's do away with the weak as long as the strong survive. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Okay. I like that. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And you may not be here, but I feel like you will. [00:12:15] Speaker B: No, I would be. I'd make something happen. Absolutely. [00:12:18] Speaker A: Yeah. We're get her downers, man. I feel like we'd survive. [00:12:21] Speaker B: We would. [00:12:22] Speaker A: But we get rid of all these idiots at won't can't live now way it is. Let's go ahead and get rid of everything that keeps them alive. And if they make it, they're going to be a big time contributor. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Drop off everything. Everything. Their. Their means of income. They're everything. [00:12:39] Speaker A: And you don't have to go to work for a month. You don't have to do nothing for a month. Let's see. Let's see who's still there. Let's see who's still there. That shocked you, huh? [00:12:51] Speaker B: That's so good. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Well, I like it. I like that. So I think part of. I think part of me wanting to get to the. The garage there to start the home building process is. Is that is, you know, man's like, well, I'm worried about what about the heat if it's cold and this. And I'm like, let's just figure it out. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Let's just figure it out. Let's just go and we'll figure it out. I mean, you're gonna make it happen. [00:13:15] Speaker B: You know you will. So you're gonna make it work. Absolutely. [00:13:19] Speaker A: Yeah. But technology for sure. [00:13:21] Speaker B: So we have gotten so comfortable in the way we live and then the way that we. [00:13:27] Speaker A: You have it at your fingertips. [00:13:28] Speaker B: I know everything. [00:13:29] Speaker A: I want this. I wonder what that costs me. Just look it up. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:32] Speaker A: Do you remember who that in in blah blah blah year so and so ran a touchdown back and this, this and that. Oh, that was so and so. Yeah, that's right. You know, and I want to go back to where you just don't know. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:13:48] Speaker A: I just don't Remember? [00:13:49] Speaker B: Yeah, Well, I. I kind of live that way, you know, now as far as, like the. As far as. I try to stay off of social media. I try to stay away from the news. I try to. But as far as, like, just being completely, like, in. Up. Yeah. I mean, you're gonna have to make something work. You know, that's. [00:14:10] Speaker A: Let's see who can build a fire. Let's find out. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah, you're going to. [00:14:14] Speaker A: Yeah, let's find out who can hunt, you know, I mean. Oh, I'd learn. [00:14:18] Speaker B: I would learn. I mean, that's just it. It just have to happen. You get hungry enough, you'll figure out how to do things. You'll be fishing and hunting. You'll be doing all those things or [00:14:28] Speaker A: you'll be killing somebody else for their food. [00:14:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. That's true hunger. There'll be a lot more of that going on than them trying to kill something out in the wild, probably so. Oh, I guarantee you. I guarantee you somebody can run easier. Somebody can run up and kill somebody now over some petty something. You get hungry. You get hungry and your food, your family, and you ain't got no food, and you get desperate. Yeah, your family. [00:14:50] Speaker A: That's what's on your mind right there. That and yourself. I mean, when you. When you think about it, when you're hungry, it's gonna be hard going to sleep. When you're thirsty, it's gonna be hard going to sleep. When you mix those three things together, then. [00:15:02] Speaker B: And then those two sleeves with deprivation. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Yes. [00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:05] Speaker A: You're gonna lose your mind. Yeah, you would lose your mind. You'll go to extremities to make whatever you need happen. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Yeah. You'll turn into an animal. You'll go into survival mode, and there's [00:15:16] Speaker B: really nothing that you can do to get you back out of that unless, [00:15:20] Speaker A: you know, power comes back on. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Yeah, but. But my goodness. Even. Even. I don't even. Like a month's time. I don't think it would take that long. I think in a week's time, you'd start seeing a lot. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Oh, you would. People dropping you would. You would. But there's still those that. That are. Let's say they're. Let's say they're coming and robbing you for what you got because you figured out a way. You don't want those people around still. [00:15:41] Speaker B: No, no, you don't want those. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Take care of three more weeks of that. They're going to. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. So you want to make sure. If you're going to do it, let's do it right and let's. I think, man, I'm sitting here just [00:15:53] Speaker B: in my mind, it's just going like, I'm just. I'm. I'm already building my empire, like trying to figure out, like, yeah, okay, I can do this. I could do that. I could do this. You know, I already know my water supply, you know. Wow. Thinking about how to get. [00:16:08] Speaker A: If. [00:16:08] Speaker B: If. How to. Like, you could. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Well, you'd have. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Generate. You could generate power. You could. You could make something to generate power. Yeah, sure, to a certain extent. [00:16:18] Speaker A: You know, put a horse on treadmill. [00:16:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:16:21] Speaker A: Windmill. Put up a windmill. But back to the technology part of it. I mean, so you're talking about remembering. So here's what I remember about not having technology, which I really like. I really like it. I remember weekends, whatever it was, we'd be getting ready to go to go fishing or we're gonna. We're gonna go somewhere and we're not gonna be home when mom gets home from work. We'd leave notes. [00:16:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:16:53] Speaker A: You know, I remember leaving notes hanging on the stove, the. [00:16:57] Speaker B: The hood. [00:16:57] Speaker A: You know, I can remember you always wrote a note. You left it there, you left it on the fridge, whatever. So when your parent got home, it wasn't there. They knew where everybody was. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Wow. Yeah. That. [00:17:07] Speaker A: That take you back, you know that I remember. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:09] Speaker A: You know, I remember having to do before cell phones before. I mean, those were the days. Those were 90s. That's growing up in the 90s, you know, and. And early. Probably early 2000s too. I don't remember when cell phones, everything. [00:17:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, about 2000. I don't know what year 2000. 2001. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Those. Those were the days. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Those were the days. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Days. Oh, man. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Wow. I. You know, I do remember when. When everywhere you went, like when I was younger, on your credit card, you roll your credit card. [00:17:49] Speaker A: Yeah, we didn't have those. [00:17:50] Speaker B: That's. [00:17:51] Speaker A: We paid cash or check or something. I can't remember. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Well, I mean. Well, I remember it wasn't my parents, it was the. The. Where I worked and everything else. You just had that. Yeah, you just. That roller that you had. Most people had credit cards, but it was almost like if you. In my mind, when I was 11 years old, working at that grocery store. [00:18:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:13] Speaker B: So you had a credit. If you had a credit card, I thought you had money. [00:18:18] Speaker A: I remember my. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Looking back at it now, cards. [00:18:20] Speaker A: I remember that when debit cards first came out, I remember that. [00:18:24] Speaker B: When was that? [00:18:25] Speaker A: I don't know, but I remember thinking, but that's cool because now you ain't got to carry on cash all the time, you know. [00:18:30] Speaker B: And then now look at me now. I'm like all. I want cash. Yeah, I want cash. I don't want to touch my debit card, I want to touch credit card. Yeah. Now I'll play the, I'll play the credit card roulette and, and play off my interest and stuff, you know. Yeah, yeah, make money off of that. But, but as far as I'm a cat, you know, cash still, to me, cash is king. But they're slowly weeding all that out. I mean, I believe, I believe in, I would imagine somewhere in the 15 year mark, probably 15, maybe, I don't know, I don't want to say 20 years, that may be a bit far fetched, But I'd say 15 years, I think will be a cashless society. [00:19:12] Speaker A: Well, that's part of the, that's part of the book of Revelations. [00:19:15] Speaker B: Oh, I know, I know that. [00:19:16] Speaker A: Or no, it's a one world currency. [00:19:18] Speaker B: The one world, One world currency. But the scary part about that is, I mean, you're. They're going to know every, they'll know every inch about you. There's nothing you can hide. There's nothing you can, you know. [00:19:31] Speaker A: Well, as long as people don't go to that. They won't. I mean, people who carry cash. Okay, there again, what went away this year? [00:19:39] Speaker B: Oh, I know, the penny. Penny's gone. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:41] Speaker B: But there you go again. If you don't do it, do without, you know. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:47] Speaker B: If you don't turn over, do without. And then there's that hole going back to you. Blackout. It ain't a blackout, but I mean, you start taking that away, you know, [00:19:55] Speaker A: man, I strive for that. I would, I long for that. I really do. I mean, think about, think about. You're at the house, you're not expecting it. Now, I'm not saying it's got to be abrupt, you know, maybe this could be planned, you know, and it's not going to happen. I get it. But I mean, not unless we get hit with China's electromagnetic pulse. Wipes out everything anybody has. Then that would be, you know, fantastic too, I guess. But I, I would love it, man. I mean, I think it would get wild, I think it would get crazy. I think it would get, you know, you. [00:20:28] Speaker B: But you, we could handle business. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, you would have murder, you would have, you know, starvation and everything would be there with it. But I mean, that's that's how the world goes around is, you know, this. Only the strong survive, you know. But yeah. A limited. A limited technology society just take everything away and let's see. [00:20:54] Speaker B: I would love. [00:20:54] Speaker A: I would love it. [00:20:55] Speaker B: I would love it. You know, I wish there was. I wish there was a place like that you could. If you wanted to go. Not like. Not like as a. [00:21:06] Speaker A: And yes, we realized we wouldn't be here doing this. We realized. [00:21:09] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. [00:21:10] Speaker A: Before you're sitting there going those idiots talking about what. [00:21:13] Speaker B: We realized this but you know, like almost like a trial period. Like say going on vacation, for instance. Like if you almost had like a detox where you had absolutely nothing. Like there was a place like people that are built like me and you [00:21:37] Speaker A: and that's called Naked and Afraid. You got me. You got to sign up for that show. Oh, you mean having clothes on. On. Oh, sorry. [00:21:47] Speaker B: Oh gosh, no. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Or the loan shows and stuff that. Come on. [00:21:51] Speaker B: No, I mean, I mean like a. You know, almost like a. Almost like an event that people could. Like maybe that's what we need to do. Maybe we need to make it. You know, instead of like a. We need to buy a piece of property. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Okay. [00:22:09] Speaker B: That. That tell her secret here that people could come to. Not maybe to detox, but try to live in a blackout. What you would call it, or a. Almost like a detox from everything. From everything. Technology. [00:22:27] Speaker A: How long would you stay there? [00:22:29] Speaker B: Well, I mean I think a week for most people. [00:22:32] Speaker A: You'd have to put up a 20 foot fence electrify with razor wire. You ain't gonna keep them people in there. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Well, I mean you would. I mean if they, you know, my goodness. The, the. The just the. It would almost be like going to a haunted. A haunted house. Yeah. [00:22:50] Speaker A: Going. This ain't gonna work because you've already said how bad this would be. Ain't nobody gonna pay for that. I'm going to tell you that is a. That have to be a like a volunteer thing. You ain't gonna. I mean they'd have to. That. That's like you paying them to come and do it. [00:23:09] Speaker B: You would have to make it. You would have to make it to [00:23:11] Speaker A: where almost they make it a week, they get a thousand dollars, you know, something crazy. Yeah, yeah. [00:23:18] Speaker B: It would have to be something like a. Some sort of. Because I mean you take most people now they're granted. I think, I think like you say me or you. I think we could do 2, 3, 4. I mean I think we could make things happen. But you take the, some of the people, they ain't going to make it a week, dude. [00:23:37] Speaker A: The rich would go first. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Yeah, you ain't gonna make it a week. [00:23:40] Speaker A: The rich would go first because they ain't had to figure out something for a long time on living obviously with their business and their success. They are. But you know. Yeah, take away, take away all of that. They're used to not, not figuring anything out. Oh yeah, I mean, I still have to. [00:23:56] Speaker B: I mean, you know, I tell you, speaking of the rich doing things on their own, I had a customer that came in and on a mower, he had a discharge chute talking about, you know, well, we didn't have his discharge chute. It was like a 13 year old mower. We can order it for you, you know. So he calls us up, go ahead and order it. So we put it on order. We're not going to make a special order and pay $30 in shipping and all that. We're going to wait two more days and we're going to get free freight and then we're going to have it to him in three days, two to three days. So he comes in, he's upset because it ain't made it yet. Well, just cancel my order and forget about it. I'm going to order one offline myself. I've done, you know, so he goes, the rich, now this is in a high end community down the road. And he says, he comes back like three days later and his shoot sitting here and the Matthew side of me is like, I really don't want to sell in this thing. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, did you, did you, did you contemplate on sending it back or did you say it? [00:25:06] Speaker B: No, I can't send it back. That's the thing. Oh, I can't send like some of this stuff. [00:25:10] Speaker A: Would you have? Because I would have, I have told many times, you know, they're like, oh, so and so just called and canceled those tires. I ordered whatever. I'm like like, you want me to send them back? You know, and that. And that's a lot of money, you know, a lot of money. [00:25:25] Speaker B: And I go, seven, eight. And I'm like a thousand. [00:25:28] Speaker A: I'm like, who was it? You know, and if I witness it that day and I hear there, I hear them talk and stuff like that, I'll make a call on that. And I'm like, better hold on to that. And for about two more days, no call back. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:41] Speaker A: And want it, you know, And I'm like, well now we ain't got to reorder you know, Would you have made that call if you could have on something like that? [00:25:48] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe. You know, but, you know, I've done ordered it, you know, it's done. You know, it's done. [00:25:55] Speaker A: So anyway, dude, come back. [00:25:57] Speaker B: The rich. The rich. The dirt. Dude, come back. Well, when you buy stuff like this for mowers, cars, whatever, you know, when you buy an alternator for your car, you buy a discharge chute for your lawnmower, it don't come with the bolts that go in it. It don't come with the nuts that go in it. All that stuff is sold separately. That's just how they make money off that stuff, you know? So he comes in not knowing how to do anything. He's took his shoot off. So instead of taking the nuts. The two nuts up underneath the deck off because they're packed with grass, and, you know, he didn't want to clean it out or nothing. He just takes a hacksaw and cleans it. I mean, and wax it off. Wax the two studs off of it, the nuts and studs, you know? And so I was like, he's, like, older than he. And then he's trying to make me feel good, you know, he's like. He's like, yeah, yeah. I should have just. I should have just, you know, waited on you guys and. And this and that and. And. But. But, you know, here we go. Here I am. You know, I'm. I need that. That shoot if you, you know. Well, yeah, I wished. If you. If you ordered it, I was like, well, yeah, we ordered it. It's here, you know, So I bring it up there. His little rod that he cut don't come with it. And he's ordered this one offline. And it's some. It's some. It ain't no OEM nothing. You know, It's a. It's a knockoff, and it's got the rod with it and everything. So he's like, where's the rod at? I was like, they don't have a rod. You have to buy all that stuff separately. You're a kid. And I was like, no, no, absolutely not. So what's wrong with your rod? I cut it. I'm like, well, you're gonna have to have a rod. I said, that one ain't gonna work. And he's like, every time I do something, you know, every time I do something, I just. It just. It's just the bigger. It's just. It just grows and grows and grows and grows. [00:27:40] Speaker A: Maybe you need to Quit doing something. [00:27:41] Speaker B: I said, well, man, it was only two nuts that you needed to loosen up and you've whacked them off with a grinder, you know. And that's what I'm going with that though, is there is the people that. That's the week right there. They're gone, they're done, it's over. You ain't going to see them no more. You give them about four days. They're, they're, they're in bad shape. [00:28:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:02] Speaker B: You know. Yep. [00:28:04] Speaker A: You want your loved ones to stick around that can't make it. Bring them on board with you and have them help you. Yeah. And let's get through a month and our society is going to be much better. Much better. Y. And it might need to be longer than a month. I don't know how long it takes a human body to die off. Well, they can't take care of it, so I don't know. [00:28:21] Speaker B: Yeah, you've got, I mean, you can sustain for quite some time. [00:28:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So maybe it needs to be longer than that. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Well, but the problem is people are so addicted to the technology, their minds [00:28:34] Speaker A: would be so bad off when it comes back. Couldn't do nothing. [00:28:37] Speaker B: They couldn't. It couldn't. I ain't got Google to show me how to pull the plug on my take, change the wipers on my car, you know. Ain't got Google to tell me how to do that. Yeah. Or, you know, [00:28:51] Speaker A: well, and I mean, I don't mean apocalypse. [00:28:55] Speaker B: They, you know, but I'm just. [00:28:56] Speaker A: It's the end of the world. Nothing's working. Every. It's a free for all. I mean, your dispatchers are still working, your police are still working. [00:29:05] Speaker B: There's no technology. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I said power, but. [00:29:09] Speaker B: Yeah, well, but, but there's no. [00:29:10] Speaker A: That's taking it to an extreme, but yeah, if you just said no technology. [00:29:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:29:15] Speaker A: You would have a society full of absolute crazies. If you did that for a while. Yeah. If you did away with power too, then that would do away with them. Then they ain't gonna make it. [00:29:27] Speaker B: It's. I just think that in the, in the grand scheme of things like you, there's just not a world that, that, that, that a question to be asked. I'm around so many. I mean, we had, we've got, we've gotten 60 to 70 customers a day flowing and, and the dang. You know, they don't even know what they're looking for. They don't know what it is, you know, and you, you tell Them and then boom, they're Googling it immediately. That's, you know, when they're up front of you, they're googling it immediately. And if you've ever looked up anything on Google, it has a million other things of what you can Google something [00:30:18] Speaker A: and it ain't gonna fit what you're looking for, guaranteed. Yeah, it's the first one for sure. [00:30:23] Speaker B: But that they go to that phone every single time. And it's AI. AI generated. Everything's AI generated. And it's a. You know, and people run with that stuff. And I'm like, you. That is so far. Like, where do you even think that that's a thing like you want to do? [00:30:39] Speaker A: I just. Just straight up ask me. Is that what you want to do? [00:30:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:41] Speaker A: You want to do that? [00:30:42] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:30:44] Speaker A: You're. You're driving this ship right now. You want to do that? [00:30:46] Speaker B: Go for it. [00:30:47] Speaker A: Go for it. What do you think? I think no. [00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:50] Speaker A: Okay, what do you think then? I mean, but we're getting away from those people who think, okay, well, this guy's standing in front of me. He knows what he's talking about. I'm gonna think logically and I'm gonna listen to him. Those people are going away. You ain't gonna have any more of those, and you're gonna have all these idiots. [00:31:05] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I had. And I don't know the people, but they, they just moved here. A customer today. Just today customer moves here. They bring a mower to me from Lowe's box store, you know, big box store. They bought a Toro mower. About a Toro mower, push mower, and it's the big 30. It's a seventeen hundred dollar push mower. Big old dude. So I said, and the first thing I asked him, did you buy it? You know, did they have it already assembled or was it in the box? No, it was in the box. Okay, well, nine times out of ten, I know exactly what's happened to it. It's already smoked the belt off of it because the adjustments, not right. It's just. That's what happens. That's why you buy it from a dealer. But this, I'm assuming by the grass clippings that was on the man's mower. He's in a fine neighborhood somewhere because you don't find grass like this. I asked him, I said, we've been in it. We're on. We're in a dang drought right now. Until this weekend. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:07] Speaker B: I said, where in the world did you find grass like this? He Said, oh, it's. It's fresh sod they put down in my neighborhood. And I was like, okay, so now I'm so. But anyways, this guy that is upset, I told him. I said, take it. You know, he can't think logically. He's on his phone the whole time looking at Google AI and telling him, well, it could be this and could be that. And I finally stopped him. I was like, listen. I said, I'm gonna be as nice as I can to you. I can fix this. I can take care of this under warranty. I said, but you've bought it from Lowe's. It smoked the belt off. You ain't had it no longer in a month. I said it was adjusted incorrectly. I said, you're kind of upset at me. But I didn't. There's nothing about this except me being a Toro dealer that, you know. I said, I'm just trying to be as nice as I can to you. I said, you bought their junk package about the warranty and this and that. You buying Lowe's warranty don't mean a hill of beans to me. You know, I deal with Toro. That's all. I don't deal with Lowe's warranty. And I said, so what you need to do is you need to load this mower back up and you need to take it to Lowe's, and if they'll swap you out, I said, I will do you a favor. You bring it back to me. Do not touch it. You bring it back to me in this box, or you get your money back, and I'll. I'll sell you one either way. But if you want instant gratitude. Because he was like, I gotta have it. Da, da, da, da, da. You know? I was like, if you want instant gratitude, if you want it right now, go up there, get you another box, bring it back down here. And he looks at me, he's like, man, that sounds like a. That's just, you know. You know. And he was talking about something about his third one or something. I don't know. This will be my third one. I have no idea what he's doing. And I told him. I was like, well, man, I don't know what to tell you, but I said, this is the only options that I've got for you, and this is what we're doing. [00:34:06] Speaker A: That's when I get down to the nitty gritty, and I go, what do you want me to do? Yeah. And if they say something and I don't like it, I go, I'm not doing that. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not doing that. [00:34:15] Speaker A: Yeah, okay, I'll do that. That. You're choosing that, and that's what I'll do. [00:34:18] Speaker B: Right? I told him. I said. I said, basically, the only option you've got is to leave this here with me. I'll put a new belt on it. I'll adjust it correctly. I mean, I'm not giving you a lawnmower. The way you're going to get a new lawnmower is you're going to take it back to Lowe's, they're going to trade it, and they're going to give you a new one, and then you're going to bring it to me and I'll set it up for you, and I'm probably going to charge you half hour labor period. I mean, I'm not going to do it for free. I do this when the people buy mowers from me. And he was like, well, I never thought about that, you know? And I was like, well, I don't know. You know, I'm just. [00:34:51] Speaker A: World you're living in. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I told him. I was like, well, that's just how. That's just how it's going to work if I have anything to do with it. And by the time we got finished, I said. And I told him, too. I said, now, I said, my personal opinion. I said, you need to see if you can get your money back on that Lowe's warranty junk. I said, because that's garbage. I said, if you're going to do anything to the Toro warranty, it extends it through a Toro dealer. That way you can just handle it through that. Because I said, you got to drop that mower back off at Lowe's. It gets put back on a semi truck, drove to Georgia, Alabama, wherever it's at, where they do these warranties for Lowe's at, and they fix it, and it's down six weeks, eight weeks, however long it takes. So I said, you do what you want to with that, but, you know, here you go. So he calls me back like, I don't know, 30, 40 minutes later. Hey, he was very nice after the fact. It's like, I just really want to thank you. You know, he was on my side at this point, you know, he was a lot better. I was like, well, you can drop it off tomorrow sometime. And I said, you just have to, you know, let me get to it when I can. But that's the people that I talk about. I mean, he's literally over on his phone work. I'M pulling it apart as he's talking. He's over there on his phone. I'm pulling the mower apart. I've done got it apart. It's saying that maybe the cable is slipped. And he's trying to like, he's showing, he's like, he's like, you know, look, look at this, look at this. Look, here's the cable. Does it look like I'm like, dude, I've got it, okay. I've got it handled. Trust me. And it's just, it's just that sort of stuff. That's where the phones has just gotten out of hand. I went back inside. I told, I was like, I was like, what do you do for somebody that. I mean, I mean, I mean, the whole time I'm out there working. Why don't you shut up, put your phone down and you watch me do this and figure out how to make it work, you know. But my gosh, but he did. He went up there and got him a new one. And I'm sure tomorrow I'll be well. But my gosh, dude, the phone, I mean, that drives. That was driving me up a wall. Well, Google says that if you do this and this and that. I was like, I said, I know. I said, I got it figured out, man. [00:36:51] Speaker A: The Internet has helped in so many ways and hurt in so many others. [00:36:55] Speaker B: It's hurt probably more than it's helped in my eyes because everybody is as don't learn how to do. [00:37:04] Speaker A: They're dependent. [00:37:05] Speaker B: Yeah, they're so dependent on it. [00:37:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. You can use it as a tool or you can use it to really hurt you. You can. And it's hurt a lot of people. And that's the way, I mean, look at, you know, I'm not going to sit here and act like I haven't ever played a video game or done anything like that, you know? Well, I mean, I love technology when it comes to certain stuff. I absolutely love it. I think, I think some of the social media that I see is hilarious. Matter of fact, when we get done, I'm going to tell you about some of them I thought was so funny. But I mean, I like it for different reasons. But I can do without it. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Oh, I can too. You know, Try to take a social media break. Tired. Try to take a. A away from Internet and social media and screens and all the stuff and see how much better your head space is. I mean, it's, it's, it's a guaranteed. It's going to feel better. [00:37:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:57] Speaker B: But I just I think honestly that you just as far as phones and, and I mean, that's you, that's, that's the weapon of today for people that's in business. It's a weapon. So it's used, it's used. It's used on me more than any. [00:38:18] Speaker A: It is, it's, it's more reviews and public eye. [00:38:22] Speaker B: That's what, that's what I'm saying. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Oh, for sure. [00:38:26] Speaker B: Your Google. Yeah, your Google. You know, I mean, golly bum, it's just anything that somebody can do to just put a little slander on you, put a little hurt on you, you know, they'll do it son you. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Yeah, they'll do it in a heartbeat and they don't care. And that's not all of them, but it's probably 90%. It's high. Yeah, whatever it is, is super high. Yeah. You know, crazy, incredibly high. [00:38:52] Speaker B: I had, I had a review on one of mine, speaking of that. And the customer was talking about another customer that was looking at him. He gave us a three star review, but the customer said I. This customer was looking at me like I had four eyes when I was trying to explain something about what he was needing. [00:39:12] Speaker A: So the customer didn't like, you're gonna [00:39:15] Speaker B: give me a bad review because you're this customer. You don't, you can't explain well enough. My gosh. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. [00:39:24] Speaker B: It absolutely shattered me when I lost my five star review. [00:39:30] Speaker A: Over that. [00:39:31] Speaker B: No, well, it was, yeah, over that one mainly. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I'm like four, nine now, but still. Oh, I was devastated. I was only at like 30 or 40 reviews way on early. Yeah, it was like 30 or 40 reviews and I was apt. Because I was like 5, 5, 5, 5, 5. And this dude throws a 3 and it puts me down to like. I'm like, oh my gosh. I mean, talking about a dude, it was looking at him. That was, you know, like, it was my customer. It was looking at you. I wouldn't look. I mean, I was helping you. But then. And it led to say like, like, but he found we, we found the part and he got me fixed up. Three star, Mike. What? [00:40:10] Speaker A: The negative side of it had absolutely nothing. [00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. With what you're reviewing. Yeah. I'm like, boy, I'd hate to be that, that insecure of myself. You know what I mean? [00:40:20] Speaker A: Man, when in the world did reviews? But I mean, I wish we didn't even send out things like that. Yeah, give us a review. Screw all that. Get rid of all that yeah. Shut the damn power off. Let's go. [00:40:33] Speaker B: Let's just shut it off. [00:40:35] Speaker A: Shut it off. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Let's do it. [00:40:36] Speaker A: Shut it off. We'll weed all these people out and we'll just start all over here in a month. We won't have all them idiots around. [00:40:43] Speaker B: Let's freaking do it. I'm ready for it. [00:40:45] Speaker A: I mean, that. That's thought of in society. I mean, society, you know, it takes care of itself. You know, diseases and. And everything else. I mean, you know, it wipes out people, cancer and everything. I mean, that's what controls part of the population. [00:41:01] Speaker B: I mean. Shut the power off. We took care of 30% of everybody. Yeah, 30. We weeded out 30. [00:41:10] Speaker A: Go way down. Yeah. You know, there'll be room in schools again. I mean, you know, grow. You go to grocery store and, you know, get through the line quick. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Oh, that's great. [00:41:21] Speaker A: You know, I mean, golly, it would be fantastic. Yeah. And you have. It's thought of on a daily basis by people that make movies out of it. But look at the. You know what. You know, the. The movie. The Purge is old. Old movie, but. Or not. Not that old, but I mean, it's where for like one night a year or something. I don't remember how when it is, there's no laws, so it's a. It's like a horror movie. People killing each other is what it is. [00:41:48] Speaker B: That's why I haven't watched it. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:49] Speaker A: You don't like that kind of stuff? [00:41:50] Speaker B: No, I don't. [00:41:51] Speaker A: I don't know that I've watched it, but I know what it is. I. I don't know if I did. I can't tell you nothing about it, but, I mean, I can tell you that. But I mean, that's where, you know, it. It. Society handles itself. You know, I think we get rid of all this. This technology that's keeping everybody around, and we just. [00:42:07] Speaker B: I'd agree with that. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Let's get back to the basics. [00:42:10] Speaker B: I like it. [00:42:11] Speaker A: I love it. [00:42:12] Speaker B: I love it. [00:42:15] Speaker A: We can do it. [00:42:16] Speaker B: All right, guys, that's a wrap. Hope you guys enjoyed it. We'll catch you all next time on the second floor. [00:42:23] Speaker A: Thanks for tuning in. [00:42:23] Speaker B: See y' all.