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So many things to talk about. I have a lot of thoughts, shot,
a lot of things to talk about today. But Kevin van Vaulkenberg is
here from the Little Speech shop. Man. It's been a while. It's
been a while. Yeah, how you been, dude, crazy, It's
been like crazy summer again. Were renting cars down at the Walkings gun people.
Yeah, we got rental cars and we could talk about that. That's
pretty amazing. Yeah, I'm like really excited about that. Like we have
three rental cars now, tour exactly the same in another one's a race car,
and we rent them out and people are loving it. They went over
really well. And people show up cars broke, they don't know what to
do and they're like, hey, I need to get on track this weekend.
I'm like cool. We got a car. Like, so we got
one. We're ready to go, Yes, sir, Oh that's pretty good.
That's great. The uh. I was just we've been having a lot
of discussions lately about electric cars, and I was I was just reading an
article that came out about nineteen minutes ago in the La Times. And in
the La Times, I think they're saying that one out of every five cars
now is electric in California. In California, so they say one out of
every five cars sold, let me rephrase that every five cars sold in California
is now powered by battery. And you know Governor Newsom who was just over
in China and I think was playing basketball and not the kid to the ground.
Oh he he's saying again, you know, the twenty thirty five date
for us, And I just I don't know why. I don't know why
it's been in my head so much lately about these electric cars. But then
I saw this thing where Norway, much smaller country, really pushed gave a
lot of government incentives. And then what they found was two things. One,
you know, they are saying, just to give you a statistic,
they're saying that motor vehicles generate nearly a tenth of the global carbon dioxide CO
two. So there they went as much electric as possible, and now they
were finding in they were most of the people that were getting the electric cars
and taking advantage of the incentives were richer people. Poor people never even really
had any access to it, so you got a bigger gap disparity. This
is according to people in Norway. And they found that more people were buying
cars, so it was clogging the city streets because of the incentives to buy
the cars, not using public transportation, and not doing what would really what
they really wanted in the cities in Norway was more bike paths, more walking
paths, more stuff, the stuff that would really cut down on CO two.
And they're finding like all these problems, and I think it's interesting because
they're sort of the first ones to go and I'm so torn, like they're
cool to drive, So I just don't know the efficiency or the effect of
I think I sent you a couple you did messages recently about like the disastrous
could possibly cause on the environment with not the inability to recycle the batteries.
Yeah, and also taking all these minerals out of the earth, right produces
way more mass to get it right, to get just to get the minerals
to make the matter. I mean that's what we're doing. Yeah, and
then you already have where you've had brown outs in California because of electric problems,
and so now you've got one out of every five soul. It's like
they cannot support it right now. What I heard recently is that Walmart has
gotten ahead of all this too, and they're actually they have a team that's
putting charging stations all like they do with campers, very embracive of that.
Yeah, they're gonna have destinations for Walmart to be able to charge your car.
Give me the smartest, probably smartest that they've done, is because where
am I going to go while charging my car for thirty minutes. I'm gonna
walk into Walmart and I'm gonna spend money I don't have credit and drive myself
deeper in debt. It's just an interesting thing because I feel like the the
original idea was one of betterment, right, like to make things better,
make the earth better. The initiative behind it was pure, and now I
go, it's like everything else, it gets mucked up by everybody else.
You know, let people choose what they want and let's not I think there
should definitely be a progressive incentive to get an electric car to drive around for
like a daily driven, daily driven car, But doesn't mean that, like
what are you going to do with I gotta drive to Florida, right,
you know it's going to take you three or four days. You got to
stop all the time, like you gotta find charging stations, and like,
no, Tesla network is like way better than any other network. It is
that's out there and it's like so easy, like because I had one for
a short time and I thought it was great, like just for bopping around
town and stuff like that. But also at the same time, I was
like, we are not in a good place if I have to like take
a trip to Florida or to a hockey turn in an extra hour and a
half to get the Philly because they had to stop. They gotta stop and
charge. Yeah, when you say it out loud, it starts to like,
oh, this really doesn't make sense. Well, it doesn't make sense
in that Like again, if you were primarily primarily around the Rochester area,
you're fine. Most of our commute is twenty forty minutes. But that's the
idea though. They want they want you to eventually get to fifteen minute cities.
In other words, anything you need to get is within fifteen Well are
you gonna do in l A thank you? Right? Well that's the point.
That's the point. Though they're gonna convalidate an hour right minimum. Right,
I'm gonna drive right now. They want to consolidate it. Yeah,
it's it's it's a joke. Say it out loud. It's ridiculous, I
know. And it's not it is it time with a car? No?
Or is it is it it's driving? No, I'm just saying congestion and
then also time with the car. And then what are you gonna do just
the bat the battery is just running because you're even sitting in traffic, it's
still taking your time. And then you get this thing called range anxiety because
you're like, oh yeah, got to do with your like a five percent
I gotta tracke my full set of road rage. I'm gonna get range.
I'm gonna get range rage. You're gonna get range rage and road rage at
the same time. Everybody's gonna die. Oh man, this is this is
phenomenal and you got to replace clear streets though, Yeah, well it was
clear streets. Yeah, that's what's gonna happen. No one's gonna get to
work. Everybody's gonna be working from home. It doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Get a bicycle you're better off or cycle. Yeah. The unicycle was
great set mine. I was supposed to ride it, but I haven't in
a while. They didn't adjust it and die I tried. You want to
try it, pompy. So all we have to do is lower the tire
pressure a little bit. That's how you learn. And it's great for core
balance. It was a big Yeah. Boxing stuff was great. When you
did core balance, you could do it. I can't do it. I
haven't done it in a long time. So I and this seat needs to
be But I brought it in because Danny didn't believe I actually had one,
so I had to prove that. Like one of these things. It's like
the other night. Uh, they went to a party and Kevin said to
Danny, bitch, can't run to the top of that hill. These are
grown men. Yeah. Danny goes, okay, same thing. It's like
a challenge steps and he's like, you know what, even try if he
did three steps up you have to have a cigarette break. You didn't challenge
me. I would have done it, you would. I would have done
it with you. I just want to stay up there for the rest of
the nights. I wouldn't come back down. One of the things that I
think is impacts people way more. And you're seeing it now. We've had
colder mornings. We had snow today, snow big. I walk into Wegmans
and it's it's an old guy, mister uh observant. As I walk in
there, he goes, oh, some big flakes, huh, because they're
all over my head and down on my jacket. And I go, yeah,
big flakes. But as that air pressure, you know, temperature changes,
your tire pressure changes, it does, right. Yeah. So these
newer cars are great because if you go to put air in your tire,
you may get the warning that it's low. You don't have it. There's
a lot of times at the gas station they don't have a gauge on that
thing. But what will happen is the newer cars, your horn will beep
when you hit Sometimes it'll scare the shit out of you if you're not prepared
for it. But it'll hit when you hit the right thing, and then
you'll know you're at the right tire pressure. But I think underinflated tires.
And I've been saying this since I bought tires as a kid, that they
at the salvage yard. It would go and just find all the same size.
They didn't have to match and turns anything. Planes. They were fucking
fifty dollars a tire at the time. But I learned that tire pressure was
so important. I remember guy going, it doesn't matter as much as long
as the tire pressure is the same. You're going to be riding a little
rougher, but you're okay. But the tire pressure, I mean, I
know somebody who said, yeah, they got their second flat tire, and
I go, probably because it's under pressure ized you're riding on the walls and
there you go. Well that's what happens. Actually, I had to go
over to uh my mother in law's houses morning because I was like, oh,
I checked my tire pressures and they are low. My car said they
were low, and I was like, you know what what happened was,
well, here's the deal. Have a very very easy thing to figure out,
Like every ten degrees is one psi change. Right, So if if
you filled your tires up, last time you filled your tires up, it
was sixty five seventy degrees, and now it's like thirty or twenty, you're
gonna lose No. Five six seven psi and then all of a sudden your
tire pressure light's going to come on and stuff like that. So like it's
you gotta like. But sometimes as you're driving and the day warms up and
the friction of the road, your tire pressure will increase as well, but
it may maybe not as much as the degrees have dropped. So what are
you saying? It's one for every ten degrees, one psi for every ten
degrees, Okay, one psi for every ten degrees. Now these other things.
What I've always done is I figured when if you do like one Mississippi's
when you're filling your tires, I always go, I think, can get
three p s i for ten Mississippi. I don't know anything I'm about.
I'm about that in my rough just watched the machine that tells you no,
the machine doesn't or well, the machine the machines at an angle you're next
to it, and the face of it's up here, you can't. Oh
it is in this gas station, you can. And so any time I
go there, it's right around the corner. If I'm doing it, that
I always have to go. I'll do a ten Mississippi and it usually is
about three. It's the roughly three for me. Actually that kind of makes
sense. Yeah, yeah, depending on the air compressor to just throw in
like three or four mississippish ad give Mississippi is not hail Mary's no not You'll
be there all mic. Somebody sent me a h Facebook message that you had
what I think is the best off the assembly line race car there is.
And it's a street car. What is it? But you had it in
your shop and you must have known that the color may not have been desirable
to a lot of people because you put in there that it's a decal that
it could come off. Oh are you talking about the R Yes? Yeah,
look at that. So hop quick, hop quick. So we got
this Audi ra I love traded in so that this he's actually a younger kid.
He's done really well for himself. He is a V eight automatic Audi
R eight to two thousand and eight with like seventy thousand miles. The cars
are bullet profuse drive all the time. So we've done all the work on
the car for like several years in the car, and then he wrapped it
like about a month ago in purple. Hey in purple and a purple speckley
wrapped yeah, And I was like, I wasn't sure. I like that.
Called called and said, hey, I'm going to trade this in on
a BMW wagon that you have and I was like, okay, BMW wagon
for an Audi R eight. He's got an idea. He's like, why
to do his thing with the wagon like lower and get some wheels on it
and like do a thing. I was like, cool, Like I love
wagons. But he he literally just wrapped the car and I was like,
oh my god, we cannot present this car with a wrap on it.
We went back and forth about it, and somebody made buy it like that
though. Somebody actually, so we call the customer that's it totally wanted that
particular car and he goes, oh, leave the rap on it. So
we've been waiting like two weeks right now for this kid to come through.
And he's like in a transition from a job and this and that, and
we're like, if you don't come through, I'm pulling the wrap off,
like you gotta let me know because I can't stand this. Like it's it's
silver underneath. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's gorgeous silver with a black panel.
It's like, yeah, I love that. I don't like the purple
butt. Like it presents really well with the photography. You know what.
It looks like. It looks like it could be in that Barbie movie,
the car like the colors. That's the first thing I thought out that I
didn't even see the Barbie movie, but I'm telling you that would fit.
That's a great car. It's like really good, yeah, really awesome wheel
drive. It's an eight. Oh it's an eight all wheel drive. Ah
wait all wheel drive outie, Oh god, you just drive. You can
put snow tires on, like it's crazy. It's like they just don't break
it, just change the load to the ground. See. The problem is
around here is like the cars loaded the ground sometimes our roads they're they're awesome,
just blast through stuff just like yeah, but it's the it's the potholes
and ship I want you know. That's im back at the little speech shop
and I'm getting all the undercaracter. None, and that's fine, blown out
tires, but yeah, that car is that car is awesome. I just
can't. I'm like, I'm like, if this kid doesn't come through the
next week or two, I'm pulling the wrap off, Like so we'll see
what happened. What else is happening over a little speech shop in terms of
because now you can you are a dealer as well, like you're selling selling
cars. Yeah, the race season just ended. It's it's all imports that
you're doing. Yeah, just just mainly European cars. Yeah, European imports.
Right. Yeah. But like if somebody comes up and they're like,
hey, youre a friend, and like you have a Chevy pickup truck,
I'm like, yeah, I'll work on the car, like yes, yes,
in terms of working on it, guess. But I mean if I
were buying or selling, it's primarily most of the stuff that I buy is
like for the dealership. Part of the shop is things that like I like
so like BW purple purple rads. Yeah, like I didn't actually that was
like that. I'm still try a man that would hug the tracks. So
fun great cars and this car that we have has an aftermarket suspension on it
and an aftermarket exhaust, so it sounds great. Wow, Yeah, it's
really throat. That's the problem with the electric cars. You gotta like it's
artificial speaker in front. Did you see some of the cars that come out,
they're like they put speakers. Yeah, they do to make it all
that well, you know, I watched that. I watched an episode of
Robert Downey Junior's show on HBO Max where he takes some of his vintage cars
that he has and he brought him to a shop in Vermont that converted it
to electric. But he wanted this truck to stay just as strong in terms
of towing capacity and everything. And then he did something with the Army where
pulled a tank. The truck was still able to pull the trank as maybe
so much power. Yeah, there's a ton of post so it was sort
of silly to say that. But you don't have the sound, so he
wanted the sound. I'm still not gotten over the fact that I had a
Tesla for a little while. Like some of my friends are still like what
are you doing, Like why did you do that? Why'd you get rid
of the Tesla? No, like, why did you even do that,
Like that's ridiculous of everybody else, like shouldn't have had a Tesla terrible,
but like it's really funny because like I'm glad I had it because it was
fast, it was fun. Yeah, the kids thought they were sitting in
they were like enveloped in an iPad. Yeah, like that's pretty wild.
Yeah did you fit in it comfortably? How tall? You so comfortable and
the seats are comfortable and like fake leather, but like there did feel like
leather and you could just like turn your car on from your phone, like
I feel yeah, even fifteen minutes, it's going to turn it on,
warm it up, you know, like it'll be all warm into frosted by
the time they get out there. And I'm like, great, what see.
At the same time, I'm like, where am I going to go?
Not far? Not far. I just saw one of those Rivion trucks.
I'd never I never ever heard of it cars and Coffee. Recently was
one of the brand new Hummer electric trucks. Really yeah, how does that
sound? It sounds I mean like this right now? Yeah, kar nothing
because nothing because it's electric, Like no, well he saw the party.
The Hummer Electric yeah. Hum electric truck. Yeah, it's like just electric
and it's like quiet, it doesn't make any noise, there's nothing there,
and like it does. It's like a whole weird thing where like it can
like crawl at like different angles and wow, it's military. Yeah, the
US military wise too, are they getting it because of the silence of it
to be they're trying to without knowing they're trying to do some of that in
the military, Like yeah, but they're bringing out a giant you'd run out
in the middle of the desert Campbell forty miles and then just die and then
you're just like, well, you got a bunch of dead trucks and guys,
I'm not sure it would really. Uh, I think you're done.
You know that you're you got quite the reputation I'm in. Maybe it was
Auto Zone, AutoZone and Penfield. Oh yeah, and I was just looking
for something. The friend of mine got a new car, so it's just
getting little things for the new car. And guy, I can hear the
guy going, yeah, man, Kevin over a little speech shop, blah
blah blah. I was like, what shut up? Really? Yeah,
they were talking about whatever car you had. Yeah, one of those Cherry
air freshers and sells the best fuzzy dice aero dynamic. They turned themselves on.
We have the pit operator from your phone Electric Custom air Fresheners at the
whole speech up. It's a good idea. Actually, maybe you should do
that. We'll take a moment. There's lots of things to get to.
But Laura, Laura right, okay, has come in and she's an organizer
from what I understand. I don't know. We'll we'll find out about that
and then maybe later. And I don't mean any offense by this, but
there's been uh something horrible that's been getting a lot of attention over the past
couple of days at Cornell University, which now has a direct tie to Pittsford.
So we will give you the racist incident and you have to tell us
what suburb in the Greater Rochester area that it had. Game. It's a
game, but we'll walk you through why Pittsford has had all these problems.
And so I even called my son because the person at Cornell graduated the same
year he did. Now, my son was in freshman year Pittsford Mendon,
but then he went to McQuaid and this kid went all the way through.
He says he didn't know him, but then all of a sudden, I'm
getting text about oh eight, Yeah, and then he knew a bunch of
people who did know this kid. Yeah. It's I don't know. It's
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Go ahead, Danny, let's hear your saying. Come on, buddy,
laid down some sad news. Just happened, Just happened. Will you
call untea on me? Let me technical if I throw a chair and have
them chairs in heaven. Yeah, legendary coach Bobby Knight has passed away west
Point. Really that's how Skiszewsky got to start. Yeah, at west Point,
he just came under him and then coached with him. Having just gained
another bullet, and Bobby Knight used to I mean, man, you talk
about stuff you could never ever ever do today. He was didn't he throw
stuff a guy chair? He kicked me? He choked stuff. Yeah,
he choked the guy. He kicked his own son Patrick when the twenty point
lead in like ninety two or ninety three. And then afterwards I knew he
was aiming for the chair. Okay, I know my dad was aiming for
the chair. And then what what what his ticket out of Indiana was choking
Neil Reid. Yeah, but by the way passed away like a few years
ago. Yeah, but Neil, but it was many years. I thought
after Neil was done playing that that came out. No, I thought Bobby
was still there for a little wile after that. I thought it came out
after I don't Oh no, no, no, you're right. The Neil
read happened? Then that happened, wasn't her? Next Sports Illustrated, a
student came up to it said what up Night? Yeah, and he said,
you called me coach or you call me sir. And that led to
an explosion and he was on a zero tolerance policy. And that's when Miles
Brand kicked it. Anywhere to where the Red Raiders of Texas Tech Texas,
and he brought him. How about this story? He brings them to the
to the Sweet sixteen, and he credits his wife with coming up with a
game plan to get him there. His wife, his new wife, goes,
she's the one who Yeah, you got to give the new wife credit.
The new wife. Yeah, of course the old wife gets none of
the showing up with all the ship for years. She's the one who had
the children. He's getting interviewed by CBS. You or nobody. Yeah,
he's gonna get read by interviewed by CBS. He's got his arm round.
She came up with the game plan, and I gotta give her all the
credit. One'm like, Bob Knight's giving credit to a woman. Yeah,
but did you imagine if it was free Well trying to choke out Bobby Knight.
That was the rumor that like they're gonna bring Bob Knight to Indiana to
keep it quote cold of the trolls, free will. Uh, Laura is
your last name? Mckennny, It is okay? So Laura we met at
Greg's and then from there she went to Stephanie's party, which I did not
go to and then from there she ended. I was like, last night
I get a picture from Kevin van Valkenberg of he and Laura together at some
kids Halloween gathering or something at her house. Yeah, between was that your
house? It was at our house and your sister in last house because we
like the house is a very next door to Okay, all right, so
Kevin and I live in the same neighborhood. So I brought my kids down
up and I was drinking the apple cider and vacca alongside them. Apple cider
and vodka. Haven't done that? Tried that next year? Yeah, I
bet it is. So you're a professional organizer, I am. Okay,
So I'm thinking that the is there a lot of here's how do I phrase
this? How do you advertise your services? How do you let people know
what you do? Because I would think that there's many people in need of
a professional organizer, but don't know that maybe there are professional organizers and how
it all works. I think that everyone needs a professional organizer in their home.
I mean, most people nowadays have cleaners in their houses, but you
still make it messy, and you still are disorganized, and the kids are
still throwing your shit everywhere, So I don't really advertise. I have been
word of mouth since the beginning, the best way. Yeah, and honestly,
I really and that's how I always say when we begin the podcast,
you came late, so you miss, I'm totally kidding. I had a
nonprofit meeting rooms. Nothing nothing, I'm just kidding. But the I always
say, you know, spread the word, spread the word about the pirate
ship. You know, the same thing, because that you're never going to
get a better thing than a true endorsement from somebody who said, hey man,
she came into my house and it has never been better. My closets
are organized. I actually can find things I got rid of stuff. I
mean, how long does it usually take? Because I have many, many
questions? Okay, shoot them all. It depends on the job. Like
Kevin asked me today, He's like, what are you doing today? I
was assembling a Kia furniture for a lovely lesbian couple that don't know how to
assemble a Kia furniture. Now, the operative word in that sentence is lesbian,
because I would think there was somebody in that relationship would know how to
do that. Very very judgmental, but I'm just saying, but oh,
for two last night, I said, I don't know if you because there
was a local doctor who unfortunately passed away in a plane accident. But it
was a homemade plane. It was a homemade kiss. And I said,
if you can't put together ikea furniture without putting a nick or a dent or
a ding in it, or not screwing up in some way or that that
is, you cannot, then go build a plane. If you can't do
ike you can't. Is the entry into the plane ikea is pretty damn ridiculous.
They're instructions, but I can figure it out. I'm very handy.
But no, they're just they're stick figures and there's not steps. You go
there and didn't get Swedish Meatballso the lights that you liked at my graduate I
can't. Yeah, Iki, So now when you've gone into somebody's house,
what is the most valuable thing that you discovered, Because sometimes people have things
that they don't know are valuable. There's a guy who has gained some real
notoriety over the years as more of a motivational speaker and a real Hustler's name
is Gary Vee, and one of the things he likes to do is go
to garage sales and he will find something that he knows the value of.
I think I watched him on YouTube negotiate buying a bunch of Olympic pins from
Olympic you know, like just different Olympics, and he instantly sold it on
eBay for probably five times what he paid for it. Now have you discovered
anything like that in someone's home, Because a lot of times I would think
you're helping somebody get ready to sell or stage a home. I'd work with
a lot of downsizing projects. I actually have three moves that I'm doing right
now. But I have found thousands upout thousands of dollars of cash cash,
yes, and that people forget about. Oh yeah, Like I mean I
feel lucky in a winter coat pocket when I put it back on. Thousands.
So I had all these people. Yeah, I took a percentage.
No. They were a family that had immigrated and you know, going through
the depression era, they saved everything and they squirreled things away and I found
passports of theirs. I found jewelry like true diamonds, gold, but ended
up between their home, their storage unit, and their daughter's home finding thousands
of dollars that they had hid in their way, thousands of dollars. Yeah,
is there Have you ever walked into someone's house and thought there is no
way I can help them? Yeah? I mean, and I don't mean
to be funny, but I think over the years, you know, it's
until you actually move, you don't realize how much shit you've accumulated. Oh,
you stay in a house. I'd lived in a house for twelve years
trying to get out of there was a nightmare when you were going through and
it's it's all the stuff. And now we're coming up on a time of
year where now there's going to be more clothes with yeah, new clothes a
Christmas time, right, and new toys and knew this what would be a
tip for somebody to try to declutter a little bit? I mean, the
things that you don't love in your home, why keep them? Whether it's
I talk to a lot of women, kid, yeah, a lot of
kids are I talk to a lot of women because normally my main clientele is
that you know, forty to sixty year old woman who's hiring me to help
them keep their home straight because they're busy with life. They're back in the
workforce, they're running their kids around, and a lot of the times there
is one of the most stressful areas for them, including their closet getting dressed,
because women hold onto things that don't fit them, that they don't look
nice in just because they do they want's the biggest excuse you here for some
for for holding on to anything, whether it be and I'm thinking most of
it's probably clothing, but any kind of item that I just can't People are
lazy, is it really? You think? Yes, it's lazy, because
then they're like, Okay, they dump things in a pile to donate,
and then they're not even willing to take the donations anywhere, and they move
them to the car and then they move them back in. Or you know,
kids, the amount of toys that kids have is disgusting and parents are
like, but my kid wanted that. I'm like, when when's the last
time your kid has touched it? Like you know, yeah, it should
be like apps on your phone and their phone will remind you, hey,
you haven't use these twenty apps and like, however, Laura, Laura,
what's an easy first step then to to let's say declutter. What would be
the first thing someone who's just listening would do to to declutter, especially as
we enter new year? More toys, new stuff. Get rid of old
items in the pantry, in the kitchen, the expired items. If you're
working in a closet, get rid of clothes that don't fit you, that
don't fit the children. Just throw them in a bag and donate them or
call me because I will pick them up and consciously donate them. But then
just getting people buy bins and then they don't use them. So bind some
items up, get them off the floor, like make your house just not
look like a mess. But most people it's just they don't have the time.
So time is money to fund a can of my mom's pantry that was
expired before she moved, so it moved with her. That yeah, I
think it was like ninety eight, wow, fifteen, so it moved with
her. Okay, that's a new one. The people get an emotional attachment
though to these things, Oh they do. Don't think there's like an emotional
attachment because there isn't one person over I'll say we'll go with forty that maybe
they go, hey, one good dump and I'm gonna back into a whole
new wardrobe, you know what I mean, like a hold on to all
the clothes that fit me, and by dump I'm in, you know,
but you know what I'm saying. So you hold on to that with the
hope that, hey, these are gonna fit again. I just don't know
whcause they're gonna. You don't want to rebuy, well you don't, but
you wind up rebuying because you'll buy your jeans and the next size up you
look like a sausage as you squeeze it in. That look as ten years
gone. Yes, So I talk about purgatory piles a lot. So any
clothing that is maybe just one size too small, been net up and give
yourself six months six months, yes, Like if you can't lose ten pounds
in six months, you're not going to lose ten pounds in sixteen months or
in six years, like you know. So, But if it's a specific
like sentimental item that you're not gonna wear again, cut it up, save
a little piece of the cloth and then get rid of the rest, like
a wedding dress or something. I mean, screw wedding dresses. I'm divorced,
so that old Jim Kelly three days all right? All right? So
the Jim Kelly jersey that you had as a kid, or maybe the jersey
that you had that you played in. Do you have one of those?
Kevin? No, nothing, they Kevin has his framed. What are you
going to do with that forty year old jersey that's sitting down in your basement
like it smells, it's disgusting unless you're gonna put it in a shadow box
and display it. Has anybody said they're going to use it? Why are
you so mean when you do this sort of thing? God, I have
to think. So I'm listening to you and I walk in blonde sweet like
you know, nice, But then I am tough on people because they cannot
do it themselves. Well, the thing is, it's the emotional it's it's
emotions, right, and anything that when you don't have the emotional attachment to
it, you can see you can almost see the farce through the tree,
so to speak, or the jeans that fit through the clutter. But then
that's the other stuff. What is the big biggest contributor to clutter? Do
you think, like a lot of times now the male that comes in say
papers, people just stack papers in every area and then they don't know how
to go through it or file it or figure out what needs to be paid,
what needs to be shredded. So, honestly, what system do you
use? Is there a system? Tell me you get an acronym or something.
Oh no, I don't have an acronym. Realize different, Like so
every single client is different. It's yeah, yeah, you know what I
mean, like, you know, shred ship, shred, hoard something I
don't know, and recurgitate, educate, yeah, something. But okay,
so what we were saying as I interrupted, No, I'm just papers like
pile up for people. And then god, I have two boys and I
love them, but the amount of art that they bring home, that's just
everything goes in the garbage. I'm sorry, I don't I will. We
had art boxes for the boys. Yeah, so they went in these boxes
and then when we moved, I don't know, I don't know where they
ended up. But it was kind of cool to look through the stuff.
But how often are you looking through the stuff? Okay, So every you
know, mid fifty to mid sixty year old client that I have that has
me do their basement, it is bins and bins of their children's old school
items. We talked to their kids and they're like, I don't want any
of it, Like why are you holding onto apps? Because there was sentimental
value and it was a marker in time. Kids are a great marker in
time, and you can remember what you were doing. But I'll tell you
what the greatest thing is is if you took videos, put them on YouTube,
get them off your camera and stuff, because they're always there. I
always say that YouTube, to me, is the closest thing we have to
time travel. The only way you can travel is backwards. But there are
things you forget. Like a Halloween video popped up with me and my son
who's thirteen now he was six, and it's him and I go into I
went on Facebook live. I guess I don't even remember it, but it's
him running up and this lady obviously didn't get a lot of trick or traders
and she goes take two handfuls, and she goes, let me use one
of my hands. Here's even more. And then he turns around to the
camera and goes, this is the best Halloween ever, you know, And
so that those things are really cool to have. Have you seen a situation
like that show horders. Have you come across one of those? Absolutely?
Do you twitch when you walk in there? No, I'm excited, like
I yaes ch chang. But it's I really enjoy helping people into a lot
of people, it's a mental illness like the hoarding, and those people are
usually the worst about it. You got that paper from like nineteen seventy three
that has nothing to do with anything, and it's a lot of handholding and
coaching and you know, therapy sessions and letting them cry about seeing like,
if you want to change your life, you have to actively work right now.
When did you realize that that you had? I don't know. Is
it a skill? Yeah, I would say so. I have an eye
for stuff, and I really have a passion. I've always been in what's
that look for spatial awareness? Yeah? I do. I feel like it's
tetris. My eyes can figure out tetris on how things are going to work
really well. Did you study like interior design or anything. I went to
school for communications. I wanted to go into sports journalism and documentary work.
Yeah. So I've been trying to do that and you can't really break into
the Rochester area too easily, so I can't know. I was on radio
here for thirty years. There's nothing talking about Yeah, when you want to
do investigative journalism, Oh really can see? Is not? I started?
I started writing for the Webster Herald, and my first story was covering the
potholes in the road. Yeah, potholes. It's terrible. I hate them.
I kept saying that if now that marijuana is legal, I wanted to
open a dispensary called Potholes. I thought it'd be the perfect little name,
right. I thought. I thought it would be cool to do a pothole
registry where you could like name your own pothole, you know, donate money
this is pothole. Yes, they did. They did the list, filled
the potholes, and then they put their logo over tom of it. Yeah.
It was great. It was very smart. So are you still writing
for this paper? No? God, No, I did that County here.
No wrote for them too, Trust me, I knew some people,
uh that were in there. You did? What do you think about people?
Ah? Five Times Awayne County. I love the Times Awayne County.
I got turned onto that paper around nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and somebody
called up and said, because I was, I was wondering what was happening
in that part of the work world. That was when Walter Casper sent his
wife over a cliff he lived down in three one five. He had said
the breaks in the van didn't work, but he had jumped out and she
went over, do you remember this? Yes? Yeah too, yeah,
And then the guy got out of prison and he was going to go run
for I don't know, village board or something on one of the finger legs,
and then like his kids found out and they don't talk to him.
But that happened. Then some guy fell off his roof and impaled himself on
the ADT sign. Oh yeah, and that happened in three one five.
Yeah, killed himself by accident, clearly right, fell off. And then
there was something else and somebody goes, hey, have you ever heard of
the Times Wayne County? And I go no, So they mailed me a
copy and then they call and they go, hey, did you get it?
And I said, yeah, go to this page. And he opened
it up and there's two sheriffs and the Wayne County Sheriffs was a big drug
bust and they're standing in somebody's bedroom and they're proud with whatever bag or whatever,
and right over their shoulder is a giant dildo on the dresser in the
the And I always went old Draker's got a sense of humor because that that
ship would not fly anywhere else, but it was all there. Yeah,
And then they had stories of somebody getting busted because they had a tail light
out and they were driving and they got pulled over for the tail light out
and they were found to be wearing nothing but a pair of green panties.
It was a man in green panties and he had a bottle of Wess and
oil next to him, and he was on his way to Ontario Video and
News. No and Ontario Video News. The one in Ontario anyway had buddy
booths. Oh yeah, I know people who work there. My mom took
me there for the first time. Wait for what the three, one,
five tillion coming out? It was my cousin's birthday and we went and we
bought them a blow up doll. Okay, yeah, but I mean I
remember going in there once and seeing all these people like waiting outside the booths
and the light would go on and somebody going, what the fuck you get
out of here. It was in the booth, some other guy watching I
don't yeah, watching videos like now this was early two thousands. Now we
all got a smartphone. Nobody's coming out of their house, you know what
I mean, just coming over. Nobody's watching anything. So how do people
hire you if they were looking? Are you booked through already? Are you
taking on new clients? Yeah, I normally book about three weeks out,
so November I'm fully filled. But I am, like I said, word
of mouth. People will just text me. I get referred to in those
Facebook mom groups all the time. Yeah, you know, people the Facebook
groups are great though. Yeah, those groups are great reading. Oh,
I mean a lot of time, it's yes, but people, you know,
sometimes even worse. I don't know, say that. Like I had
a client the other day, say, well, it was a couple of
months ago. She had posted in Pittsford Mom's group like she wanted, uh
a mester closet overhaul, and she wanted someone who could assemble like the shelving
for her too. And I have fully insured, so I actually can do
all of those things. And you're fully insured like a yeah, because I
have for carpentry or for minimal like I can't hang like too much weight bearing
stuff limits, but I do. Yeah, I am because if I'm ever
in someone's house and I break any of their items, or if I get
her, I have to have insured. Have you ever had have you ever
broken somebody something where they got very upset? No, yadro or no.
But last year I carried a ten thousand dollars base in a move. Really
yeah, where was it from? It was from something ten thousand dollars on
a vage. I'm the same person to buy a Tesla Billy. Yeah,
no, no, no, no, damn, you can stop it.
I could go anywhere in the test like ten, I'm thinking twenty minutes.
I think a ten thousand dollars Is it from like the Ying dynasty or it
was a very wealthy family that used to own a business here and they sold
actually very similar i'm doing right now. They sold a six thousand or six
thousand square foot house, and though MAM's downsizing, the kids have both moved
out. Yeah, it's like a three thousand square foot house, which is
still I think the biggest house I ever had was twenty eight. I'm tomorrow
moving a I love this person, this client, but he is turning forty,
just sold his business and I'm moving him into a six thousand square foot
house tomorrow Pitsford. Well it backs up to Oak Hill six thousand square foot
from what six thousand square foot house? I know, but like what was
he moving? Oh? He probably is at No. Twenty eight hundred square
foot house and a wife and two kids everything else. So we already figured
out the furnishings. I've already packed up their old house. So the center
candles are all gone. Those are very toxic for you. Yeah, they're
horrible. It's know, like kerosene all night. Yeah, I told my
said no more. What do you think about the essential oil stuff? That's
all right. I'm not that much of a hippie, but for if people
who to believe in it believe in it, Like I like the sense.
I like going in the shower and doing steam showers with the essential Ah.
Yeah, I do the cold shower in the morning, then I do a
hot shower. So way I like it. Cold plunge. Yeah, I
haven't gotten there yet. It's great. We're gonna find the ice. That's
the only thing you got to find the ice. I have a friend who
has a cold punch tub in her basement, or go to drip house do
cryo therapy. So good for you. Drip house is pretty all right,
my tesla. Sure, I'll take you over in a tesla. All right,
great, looking forward to it. I kind of like stop any problem
with them, like a little too soon. Yes, I'm with you.
Well, this is where too much. That's why I've been bringing it up
every time you've come in. Is I I've said that about that. But
if you need it to work onze? Do you do garages as well?
I do garages all the time. I was in a garage. This lat
makeover is a big deal for guys. It is so much fun. I've
had a guys love a nice garage makeover. Get the Florida cabinets, yeah,
tools organized and the screen in the summer and making a garageo. Yeah.
I did a tool bench as a father say surprise for someone one time,
and it was really fun. Well, I was just thinking like what
a great thing to let's say, could somebody buy pay for your services and
give it as a Christmas gift? Yeah? I have gift cards. Yeah.
That happens quite a bit around Christmas and Mother's Day. I get a
lot of it. I'm thinking, like for to Kevin to Van Balkerer's point
there, because we got to Kevin's I think it's a great idea with the
garage. Yeah, yeah, oh I love doing garages. Garage season is
normally October for me because people in the summer just their garages become a mass.
They dump their bikes there, they dump everything, and then they're like,
shit, it's gonna snow. It's Rogester like I need to be able
to part Yeah, capt my congrage. Yep. There's stuff everywhere. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. Mouse poop. I mean I deal with mouse poop
all the time. Is there anything that gross? Have you found anything that
really like skiwed you out when you're doing real quick? Yeah? Back back
to the what was the Hoarders episodes? Remember like the Holders episodes where they're
like I lost my cat like five years old, like pulling papers up like
like that. I have never found a Okay, So then they took the
newspaper the stain of the cat and framed it the hold on Sorry Kitty,
many mice. And I actually told Kevin the other day a dead mummified squirrel
in a garage. Mum, it was yellow. It was just you could
hardly tell what it was, but you know, it stunk so bad.
Yeah. The only job I've ever turned down was a hoarder house where they
brewed beer in the basement and it was covered in mold. Yeah, and
I was just like, I've worked with mold. I'm you know, i
will do the gloves, the mask, everything, but I'm not going to
do a full basement full of mold. How did this begin for you?
I yeah, I've always just had an eye and I've always been very organized.
I used to do event planning and nonprofit work, and so you know
that event planning aspect of like being organized. I started to just help people
in joy doing it, like my friends if they were like can you help
me rearrange my basement? Like can you help me do this? And then
I loved helping people move, which is so rare, like you don't need
to give me the rear and the pizza, Like, let me help set
you up in your new home or help purge your items that you have.
And then it just it took off. How would people find you? Yeah,
I have a website, Facebook, Instagram. My company is Polished Home
Organizing, so Polish home organizing. Polish home organizing, polished polished. Okay,
yes, polish, but yeah, I started to do it. All
that's interesting. I love it. All right, we will polish home organizing,
not Polish. No, that's what environment. Yeah, colic of interest.
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what happened with this this Cornell student from Pittsford. We'll get into that next.
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I would agree I think there. Do you know this band? Yeah?
You've driven their cars? Yeah you drive, you drove, you got rid
of it. Everybody's fake. Go why would you have that kind of car?
Yeah? This is Avan Teslavan Tesla. You might be a little bit
young, No I'm not. I was more seventy six, like, okay,
yeah, so you're my sister's age. Yeah, you're a centennial ban
Yeah, do you have a feel this way? I always loved this band.
Listen to it out of the way health well they didn't like put on
and put on my Spotify now and does Yeah, I love this band.
I don't know why. To me, I love that gree I was a
big Stones fan. Yeah, I probably listened to their new million times,
but they were very gritty black Crows I love the same thing. Yeah.
Yeah, they weren't writing that smalty stuff. They weren't putting on makeup.
They were just a straightforward eighties rock band, right, that is true,
and they were actually talented. So while we were off Mike, Laura said,
hey, uh, I was scheduled to come to one of your boxing
classes on a date, and kevil F goes, what kind of date is
that? Right? I mean yeah it was it was going to be a
third date, and what was the first date? And she punched up,
like slowly, what did you say? Jella wrestling? We went to the
Windfield and then the second date was the first date was at like a lunch,
Tell me it's lunch at the Windfield. God no, it was like
a happy hour. Happy hour. Okay, that place gets packed, like
you can't find parking. It's very frustrating. And then yeah, second date
was we went out for Saint Patrick's say, and the third date was supposed
to go we were going to go boxing on Monday because I go to embody
as well, how are you teach? And he was just obnoxiously clinging on
Saturday, so I said, you know, oh you had to. Yeah,
we were saying that, you know, no emotion there, no emotional
What what would be clinging from a guy, because guys use that term with
women a lot. What is clinging from a guy? Constant pda? Like
telling my friends who you're just me that, like you really I have feelings
for me? Like I just I don't playing it cool. Just be cool.
I know you're not talking about me. You have no emotion, like,
yeah, I know my time out a second. I'm a very sensitive
person. I am if I get to know you, otherwise I don't have
a nerve bad. I can admit that you have a cold heart. Yeah,
well so you have to people to throw away. Yeah well, but
it's also I don't know you. They complain about their houses being a mess.
But then you have to do something to get where is most of your
clientele? Side? All right, So there you go, so sticking with
that east side in an in a uh, another check in the racist column
for Pittsford. Now Pittsford, for people who don't know, is an affluent
Rochester suburb where there has been what may be called a pattern of racist incidents.
And I'll just run them down. It's typically called racistem I'm just gonna
know, lived in Pittsford for many years. I now live in Fairport,
but very similar. Yeah. There was a twenty twenty one New York Times
article that they did on Pittsford, and Channel eight had some of it,
and it said in the first paragraph of the New York Times article references made
to a video of a student with images of a weapon and racist messages that
circulated at Pittsford Sutherland, leading to safety concerns. Investigators later determined that the
weapon was an airsoft gun. It was a video made in the spring.
It resurfaced in the fall one year, and it was a kid and he
just as he starts to say, what you believe is going to be the
n word. The video cuts off, but he's got a gun and it's
an airsoft gun. But it was made in May, but it resurfaced in
September of that year, so a new academic year, and it became all
over the news. Oh, kind of like the Ray Lewis video. Yeah,
remember like all of a sudden, it comes out right before the season.
Oh, he's got it, we gotta cut him. Yes, and
then the video, Yeah, it came out just days before parents is okay.
There was another one. That video that came out was just days before
parents and students in the Greece Central School District accused players on the Pittsford Mendon
Boys and Girls varsity soccer teams of making racist comments and slurs toward black students
from Greece Arcadia in September. So you had that video and then that incident
all in twenty twenty one, and then both districts investigated. Pittsford said they
heard nothing, and Greece determined that game, audio, video and interviews supported
the claims of the kids from Pittsford were using racial slurs. Then, in
June of twenty twenty two, number three thirteen wam Our local ABC affiliate had
this story. The Pittsford Central School District is facing new criticism, with students
making actuations of racism and bigotry, and some saying the issue is simply ignored.
There was a girl name is Zoe Barnes, a recent graduate. She
graduated in twenty twenty two from Pittsford men In High school, and she said
on Instagram she wrote this, there have been a lot of microaggressions and just
racism that have experienced, and a lot of my friends have also experienced through
the district. Pittsford claims to be accepting and progressive, but if you ask
anyone who is different who has gone through Pittsford schools, they will tell you
a different story. Whether you're like me, a bisexual Chinese adopted Jew who
grew up with yes, she said, one of the odds who grew up
with constant jokes about the Holocaust and swastika is being drawn on my paper,
people making fun of my middle name and constant comments about the shape of my
eye. Or you're a Pakistani Muslim whose religion is teased and you're called a
terrorist whenever the Islam unit is taught in history class or whether you're South Asian
and your peers constantly call you smelly and make fun of the food you bring
from home. She's talking about her other friends that are like that, and
she said, at Pittsford, I learned many things, but the one thing
that sticks out to me is the blatant racism and ignorance that presents itself.
Since I was in kindergarten, I've grown up with the constant reminders that I'm
different and the constant normalization of microaggressions and prejudice. Then there was a quiz
that was handed out a few years ago that made news in Pittsford because it
had racial overtones too. I think it was a substitute teacher. I don't
remember, like questions about slaves or something. Yeah, there's a sponsor of
this podcast, Bilified podcast who took his kid and this is a tough thing
to do. He is obviously a different shade of skin tone. And the
kid was saying that there was a lot of racism going on and a lot
of racial slurs being used toward him, and the parents pushed back against the
district and they allowed him to live in the district. But they got to
another public school or he felt where he felt safer, which I like.
My kids went to Pittsford all the way up to high school. I didn't
remember seeing anything like that, but this was all in the news and it's
documented, and the New York Times did that big article. So I don't
know. I will tell you there was a time that this always stood out
to me. We had a boxer and the boxer got cancer and it had
a big tumor on its neck, and so all of a sudden, the
electric fence wasn't working, and there were a lot of people from they wouldn't
want to be I think they were Pakistani. They lived there, and then
you know, lovely, no big deal, it didn't matter. But the
dog got out and the man and his wife were walking. An older man
and his wife were walking down the street and she ran into the middle of
the street because she didn't know the dog was just going to come and lick
you. But it's a boxer and it's coming at you with all its muscles,
it looks like it could be aggressive. And my oldest son, who
was probably about eleven at the time, and also so on the spectrum with
Asperger, So some social stuff came running in saying, somebody's yelling about our
dog. We got to get the dog. And he's saying he's going to
get our dog taken away. And I said, well, what is he
saying. He goes, I don't know, blah blah blah blah blah because
he had an accent. But my kid was very upset. That man got
so mad that my He said that my son was being racist, and he
wasn't. But what did that guy experience prior to that in this town?
I don't know, you know what I'm saying. I have no idea.
So now we have this one twenty twenty Pittsford Mendon graduate. His name is
Patrick. I don't know if it's Day or die. It's Dai. My
kid told me it was Day because that's the year my son, Jordan graduated.
But he graduated mcuaid in twenty twenty, but had gone through Pittsford schools
up to that point to high school. The New York Post ro Patrick Dye,
a junior at the prestigious university, was arrested by federal authorities Tuesday for
allegedly making a string of disturbing online post over the weekend threatening to kill and
rape Jewish students and to bring an assault rifle to campus quote unquote, Investigators
traced as the post puts at the dranged post to Die's IP address at his
off campus apartment, where he allegedly admitted to being the culprit. Di'es parents,
however, believe their son is innocent. My son says the father is
in severe depression. He cannot control his motion well due to the depression.
No, I don't think he committed the crime. And from what I understand,
this kid entered Cornell as one of five National Merit Scholars named at Pittsford
Mendon High School, which is very impressive. He's a twelve time ap scholar
who also logged time volunteering at Rochester General Hospital. At Cornell, he worked
as an undergraduate consultant, helping to tutor other engineering students in a computer programming
language, and as the director of logistics for the school's Science Olympiad. However,
he underwent dramatic change after just one year, his parents said, and
he was told by a doctor due to deep depression to take a year off.
So he's twenty one. Normally you'd be a senior if you went traditionally
through school. It doesn't matter. But so he's a junior and he was
always very nice to society, well organized, helpful to my family and his
classmates. Before twenty twenty one, his father said, he told us he
lost his life goal and motivation. As parents, we tried to give him
more in love. At the suggestion of a doctor, he took time off
and then they weren't hearing from him, the parents, So the mother drove
down to Ithaca, and just when she got there, that's when the cops
were coming in and arresting the kid for all these things. And I go,
man, if you're friends with this family, it's got to be the
hardest thing, because I'm sure in a way, you go, there's no
way they would do this, But the rest of the world is probably looking
at him, calling it. Do you know what I'm saying, Hilert,
right, yeah, high alert? Right now, there's somebody going, well,
you know that makes sense, but I doubt I don't know. And
then you go, could it be depression that you know, the start that
starts this and you blame it? I have no idea. Depressions in general
terms, is considered rage inward, right, yeah, in a rage,
So I mean they could have contributed to that. Yeah, doesn't excuse it.
Well, if he did it, no, it doesn't. I don't
know. Uh. The lore with Hitler was that he was trying to be
an artist and he couldn't get into art school and he blamed Jews for that.
But historians will tell you he did sell some art even though he didn't
get into art school, and the person that bought it the most was a
Jewish guy. So it's like, I don't know. And then you go,
is this like a product of social media? Do we have too much
information now? Where you can find like mine, Like you love imports?
Yeah, I love out of rs, I can join the oud R club.
Oh my god, but it's all the other ship yees. Social media.
There's too much information. Yeah, there's too much accessibility to everything right
now. Well, the thing that's weird is how many people And I say
this gingerly because I don't know who gets upset in that. But when Trump
came in, all of a sudden, it became like this divisive thing.
Like, all of a sudden, people who you were friends with who maybe
were Trump or maybe you were Trump, and no longer were your friends that
like became this crazy, didn't you see? Yeah, because what happened was,
yeah, so Nate Silver is like that guy from five point thirty eight
who does all the polls, and he's like, Hillary's gonna win this election,
no problem. Right. Well, what been found out was like nobody
who wanted to vote for Trump would admit they were voting for Trump. And
then when Trump won, they all went on social media go whoa yeah,
and they kind of revealed who they were, which, okay, fine,
you vote, you vote whatever. But then the other side got angry about
that, and then all of a sudden, like you know, then we
basically learned how divided we really are. Yeah. Not to mention part of
the the uh, Trump's opposition, Hillary and others were painting him as a
racist. I mean even zat Zach Salfanakis made a joke about him wearing a
quote white power tie when he was interviewing Hillary Clinton. Remember, so,
I mean so yeah, so I guess that that so people had that stigma,
even though I'm sure most of them were doing a racist vote in their
body, They just voted for Trump because they wanted to quote make America great
again. It is it bad. I feel really badly for the family.
I do too, because I go just the Dye family in Pittsford like their
kid, right. I don't know. I would think I don't know how
all this came about. But most of the time, if you feel a
certain way that it's against the greatest society, you keep it to yourself,
keep it behind closed doors. Now it's out everywhere. I mean, it's
on Fox, and here's the Fox News report. New York Governor Kathy Hokel
says police now, I mean, huge story everywhere. So everybody you know
now knows it's your kid and the way you got to change your holiday plans.
You know what I'm saying. But I'm sure Cornell loves the press too.
Correspondent Mike Emmanuel has all the breaking details. Mike, what are you
learning? Hi? Iisha New York Governor Kathy Hochel announcing a short time ago,
law enforcement has identified a person of interest in relation to threats of a
mass shooting and anti Semitic violence at Cornell University. This individual is currently in
New York State police custody for questioning. I think he's in the Brown County
jail. Cornell. We're threatened by a social media post quote Jewish people need
to be killed. If you see a Jewish person on campus, follow them
home and slit their throats. Hocal is trying to offer some comfert right,
like what happened? You were volunteering in Rochester General and now you're writing this.
This is a very large Jewish population at Conall as well. Yes,
I know my brother went there, but I mean it screams mental illness.
Well yes, but the other thing is is it possible that somebody got into
his computer and it came from his IP address except that he admitted it.
He admitted, So why are you gonna, you know, turn the blame
on yourself being expressed? Good point on their campus, even with police.
You know, it's still frightening. Sure, it would be about our daily
lives, and we're trying to continue to be proud and stay strong as our
Jewish selves, but it's still scary. A law school professor at Cornell says,
Unfortunately, nobody should be surprised by this hateful reaction. We've got a
toxic atmosphere and Cornell and other schools need to consider whether this hyper focus,
this obsession with race, is actually making matters worse. I know that at
Cornell it's making matters a lot worse for Jewish students. Okay, I have
to play that piece again because that stood out to me so much because there
was a Bloomberg article from February of twenty twenty one talking about hyper focus on
race and what that does in the workplace to people. So if you are
a minority, that a lot of times you feel marginalized because you're not recognized
for your ability and your skill, but more like, hey, you're the
You're the black person who can tell us, hey about this Black Lives Matter
thing. And you may not have any idea, it's just another human being.
But there's a hyper focus like this is We've got a toxic atmosphere,
and Cornell and other schools need to consider whether this hyper focus, this obsession
with race is actually making matters worse. I know that at Cornell it's making
matters a lot worse for Jewish students. So I would say, let people
be people. Let's hate them for their shitty dad jokes. Yes, just
like anybody else. I want to hate people on merit, yes, Okay,
I want to hate you for good reasons to hate you I want to
bring I call it a meritocracy. We need to bring back merit in this
country. For example, Kevin from Canada, I hate Canada. There you
goada, You've earned it. I don't. That was that was I don't
hate Canada. I'm a age tragical HIF fan. Just to back it.
I just it's It's an interesting thing because there's a lot of focus on race,
and sometimes you wonder if it's starting to fuel Oh yeah, all the
freaking teash. Like I walked into Fisher in nineteen ninety eight and you have
to take these quote diversity classes. I'm like, okay, what's that?
I think, Oh, just something different like diversity. I'm I'm a white
kid from Silver Creek, New York, where ninety nine percent of the population
is white and the rest is Native American. Okay, So I walk into
class and the first thing that you're taught by these like diversity classes, that
all white people are racist. What I'm not joking. No, I can
tell you the professor's name, can tell you the classes. And I'm like,
this is in the school, this is the reflection, this is the
teeth, these are the professors. All white people are racist? And if
you disagree, you're going to get a C. If you agree, you're
gonna get an A. That's how it was. You either got an A
for following what the professor said. Dude, you know what, you shouldn't
still have the notes you graduated a long time ago. Laura had to throw
seriously like you're You're like, that's that's what they're taught. All white people
are racist. You can't choice about it. It's you can't do anything about
you benefit. You benefit from white privilege, Therefore you're a racist. Okay.
Well, and I kind of went along with, like, yeah,
that makes sense. All right, Well did you realize one day after like
about you know, that's the stupidest thing of a freaking but hang on,
slow down just a minute, because it's not. What's what's the stupidest thing
you ever heard? White privilege? All white people are racist? Okay,
Well, I can't do I can't control that. I find that very hard
to believe that that's what was said, what was taught. All right.
I didn't have I didn't have any diversity classes at at Fisher, But I
would say that there is a better I I have said and I do truly
believe in my soul that I have benefited from being a white guy in this
country. I have walked the line of trouble since the time I popped on
this planet. I had police showing up at my house to find out who
was at parties where property got destroyed that I did not because they knew.
I knew everybody. I knew every party. I never but I got away
with it all. I got ticket I got so many tickets. I got
on the radio in Poughkeepsie at nineteen and thanked a police officer for not showing
up at court and saving me all this money. I got pulled over all
the time. If I were a black kid, who the fuck knows what
would have happened? I agree, do you know what? And that's why
I'm saying when people say, oh, white privilege, I still had to
work hard. Yes, I'm sure you did. But what also happens is
I was doing ninety not long ago down the New York State Thruway, within
the last two years, and I got pulled over, and I showed some
kind of identification that was in my wallet, and I was told to have
a nice day and slow down. I don't know if it would have been
the same for someone of a different tone skin. I also have a family
that's mixed. You know. My brother in law, yes, is Somalian,
he's his dad was a diplomat, and my sister looks much like me.
And he is very worried about like his kids. One of his kids
was uh in nursery school with just a pure naked just all of a sudden,
he's like two or three years old, pere naked. And my mother
thought it was really funny and and Mustapha said, please don't laugh. He
the rules aren't the same for him. Now, I don't know. I
get that, you get that. That's the only thing I see is white
privilege. But I don't remember hearing everybody's race. All white people were racist.
That's what Dick Sullivan and Vince Goldfan taught at s chuff Fisher then in
college. I don't even know those guys. Yeah, and I never had
That's what they that's what they taught. That's what they taught, and they
weren't and they weren't the only ones. Yeah, you could, and I
could give you a laundry list of people who are in the same class,
who are the same that's disappointed over and over and over pain and the broad
brush. Because here's the thing though, so now they call it selling out
for a grade, right, So you just reflect back with the professor teaches
you in your papers and in your tests so that you get an A instead
of a C or a B. And then after a while it starts to
go along because there's no opposition, there's no oppositional thought. So oh,
all of a sudden you start to believe those things. Then nine to eleven
happens. You're like, Okay, hold on, we need to really rethink
everything. I have to tell you. I'm very, very very bothered and
disappointed by what I'm hearing because I never experienced that as Saint John Fisher.
I went there, I took all philosophy classes where you had real critical thinking.
I was challenged like I've never been challenged in my life in terms of
writing. And I would be someone who was more for in an ethics class
how to write a paper that I could not come with my own argument.
It wasn't even being told one way or the other on how to write it.
But I would be for a woman's choice. I still am. I
would say you have the right to choose that, but I couldn't come up
with an argument for myself to come through literally or logically that it challenged my
whole way of thinking as to whether or not abortion was ethically didn't have to
be legally just ethically, where would I stand with it? And I never
had anybody tell me you have to do it this way? Do you understand
what I'm saying? And boy, that's a really damning thing to say about
a university. I've never been nineteen ninety nine, and I never heard that
from anybody. And I know many many people and have done so many things
with Fisher that I'm surprised to hear that. I really am. I'm surprised.
I've never heard that. I've never even had to take it in ethics
or a diversity class there, so I don't know. One class was called
Martin and Malcolm, meaning they were like trying to compare Martin, Luther King,
and Malcolm X, even though we never talked about either. We just
talked about racism every day. And then the other class was called word Up.
Do you know what I'm saying? It was about communicating in the modern
world, But that was also a class that talked about race more than anything
else. And when you walk out of there, you're like, uh huh
uh huh huh. And eventually you turn into a zombie because again you're listening
to college professors telling you stuff, and of course you're a college student.
You're not really doing the homework. You're just doing your homework that you're assigned
because you want to go to the next party or do whatever. And then
eventually it just soaks into your brain and you just go along with it.
And I think that's what that generation does too, because my generation was susceptible
to it in terms of what do you mean, like like going along with
yes, professor, Yes, okay, yeah, you know what that makes
sense? Yeah, you're right, because there was never a counter argument.
Man, I had it. Man I had arguments, Like God, I
had this guy who would come and sit with me in the commons area and
we would just debate, and he was the philosophy professor and never and I
think sometimes just took the oppenice decide because he like engaging with it. At
one point, in fact, at one point I'm not gonna make this up
either. At one point, not that I anything before, Well, it
sounds like maybe maybe maybe there's a flaw. No, because well I think
you think that it's nuts. But there was a student and Dick Sullivan was
the was the professor, and he didn't say who the student was, but
he wrote a paragraph, he copied a paragraph that this student wrote to him
saying, all the stuff you teach is complete bullshit about racism, about everything
is okay, prove it to me then, and he oh, who's the
student. I'm not gonna say who it was. Somebody in this class wrote
me this. I'm not gonna say who it is. But now you gotta
let your assignment is to prove this. Prove that none of you could prove
this. None you could think like I can. Now, yours as smart
as I. That's what it is, what he said. Yeah, but
in the class for that challenge it that's where you know that, that's where
I think we fall down. Now, you're right, we don't have a
dialogue, an honest dialogue. We don't have it. All right, Well,
we'll have an Ilons dialogue. We'll play a name our racist suburb.
I'll give you the scenario. You tell me the suburb. Just just things
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I love that school. I'm not blaming the school. This list a
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professor's mouth. I love this album by the way, I've come. I've
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But I don't know. No, are they coming to Heimark Stadium again?
They probably are, I think, so, Yeah, you heard that.
I heard it. I don't know where, and I know I heard
it. Greig's probably got taken. Greg. I wouldn't be surprised. I
would not I would not be surprised at all. All Right, I'll give
you the the scenario. You tell me the town. Okay, all right,
the suburb this former town supervisor. Since we've had a lot of Greece,
I'm gonna say grease right now. I was just gonna see it now.
The area has had some things that people have deemed I would say they're
more racial than necessarily ra hang on, this former town supervisor used racist,
sexist, homophobic language against employees. A pair of civil rights lawsuits alleging workplace
discrimination and harassment have been filed against this town and the former supervisor. Name
that racist suburb, Henrietta. That would be right, yes, Okay,
here we go. One more on the board. After a racist video shared
on the social media giant TikTok, allegedly from a college student, made its
rounds on social media, students states to protests. In addition to the TikTok
video, group of young women say they were yelled at by men in a
truck using inappropriate and racial language. They feel the police are not acting on
it, but they say the problem goes deeper than those two incidents. Name
that racist suburb college, So think of that Brockport. Kevin says, Brockport.
There's only like three, so I have to go with Pittsford. I
was kids Pittsford for Naturreth and Fisher. The enter is Brockport. You are
correct. A group of African American friends were watching a video of comedian Kevin
Hart in summer school in twenty eighteen. The skit used the N word.
When a white student reported it to school administration, This female student, who
was entering the tenth grade, was admonished for sharing showing the video to her
other friends. Deciding that she'd been treated unfairly, this tenth grader took her
grievance public with a lengthy July twelfth YouTube video describing the incident, in addition
to alleging racial bias at the school and in the town. Name that racist
suburb. Summer school's got to be west Side. Okay you're saying west Side.
You're going to Rondequoit. Okay, Kevin, I'm going man, I'd
like I think maybe one that we wouldn't think of. This may be one
Rochester talking about like not Hilton Hilton. The answer is right answers, because
this girl said as a black student, she said in her video, everybody
thinks I'm urban, suburban, but I live minutes walking distance from the school.
But because I'm black, I realized I had school on the east side.
Yeah, what did you said? Didn't realize they had summer school.
Usually it's usually to get ahead. It's usually what it is. It's usually
to get ahead. Uh, let's see, I had the papers, got
out of We're gonna out of. Oh, come on, I have my
favorite one. I got one. This guy ran for governor of Louisiana.
He's a from here, from No No, from Louisiana. It was our
suburbs. Keep it a low all. I hope you say, who is
David Duke? Easy? Racers? Stand on your beliefs. You can't not
good. A wealthy white couple from what is Pittsfords Hang on now, hang
on? A wealthy white couple who adamantly defended themselves against what they called quote
false claims of racism. The couple allegedly had a large backyard political fundraising party
that was decorated with Juneteenth flags and cups that were placed near buckets of KFC
and bottles of Hennessy cognac. According to the document, name the racist suburb
or part of the city that couple lived in. What was the name of
the is Yeah, he was a dentist, and they were right on East
Avenue in the city of Rochester. On Yeah, this is this is big
news. Yeah, I made national news. And then she stood up and
said, I don't have a racist going to my body. But then she
said, I wish I should have pulled the audio. And then she said,
while I did have a parody Twitter account that did have a lot of
racial that lawyer got the bar stood in front of cameras and said this covenant
and the lawyer got dispired apparently for being stupid. Really, all right,
one last one here, some high school students held demonstrations after what was described
as racist and offensive content was posted on social media and then email sent from
the school district to families. The principal explained that over the last few days
there had been quote sharing and posting of offensive content to social media involving students
from this suburban high school name the racist suburb. This is one we have.
Nobody's handled, nobody's mentioned. You're not far off. Nobody's is a
fair Oh, Fairport has been pretty good. Penfield close, I mean Webster,
Webster, Webster, Thomas Webster, Thomas right there, Thomas tell yeah,
I mean, we could say there was a lot or was there a
lot? Were just highlighting it that and it shouldn't be tolerated. Somebody who's
the town supervisor shouldn't be using rates as sexist language. It should not be.
But sometimes the hyper focus, I don't know if it's if it's helping
to be quite on that's the only If we can all just have a discussion,
we probably still wouldn't get anywhere, but at least we over body stands
Yeah, just ta, I just like I just like being human. And
then I'll hate you for your shitty jokes or whatever dumb thing you hate people
on merit. That's my new campaign for twenty twenty four. I'm still stuck
on that Cornell student. And you know, I have a client in Pittsford
that they have Asian heritage, and she spoke openly with me about the bullying
that her children have had at Pittsford. So I'm sort of wondering if the
Dye student day DAI. So I don't know if it's day or die.
My son said day when I talked to him, but I don't know if
he was bullied, and now you know he internalized that hate and now after
going through or had the Tiger Asian mom if he went to college, if
he went to Cornell on a merit scholarship and now is sort of regressing and
taking his hate out on someone else, it could be messy. There's any
number of things. You're right, but he was highly accomplished. I mean
Brand Dice is a well known Jewish school, okay, and there have been
reports of like people who support Palestine like going after Jewish students at Brand Dice,
like who or even Jewish Jewish students turning on each other at BRANDI Here.
I mean, it's like it's a lot of this, Like you're hearing
a lot of so much noise in knowledge the stuff that that went on in
Gossam. Yeah, it's over that Hamas is original. So some of the
most inhumane stuff I've ever heard in my life. It's absolutely awful. So
I don't know why you just I mean, not everybody's gonna like everybody but
not liking you because you happen to be of a certain thing you didn't control
that we know of, right. I don't think anybody chose to be whatever
they are. They choose that, So why are we getting mad? About
that again. Shitty jokes. I fucking hate you. Get out of here.
Yeah, right, you know I want to hate you on that you
drive it if you don't drive a car that Kevin van Wackelberg deems excepting hate.
Yeah that, I'm not going to kill you. No, that's the
thing I don't understand. That's the stuff that I can't Cowboys. Wrap my
hand around. Head around, right, cowboys. By the way, some
changes in the NFL. I see already they've already made their first firing in
the NFL at the coaching position, Josh McDaniels. Is that Josh McDaniels,
his offensive coordinator, his general manager of fire in the waters. See.
The bad part is the Raiders had signed John Gruden to a ten year contract,
and then John Gruden, for racist reasons, was fired. They went
back through. They were trying to get Daniel Snyder, who owned the Commanders
out. They wanted him to sell the team. He was accused of inappropriate
behaviors, sexual harassment from the owner like the people as well, like the
commanders. I don't know that's the packers, but the commanders know, and
and this guy they wanted out. So they were going through all these emails,
and they found emails that Gruden had sent to the team or someone act
was working for the Yeah, when Gruden was was when Gruden was with the
ESPN, he would send emails to the general manager, Bruce Allen about de
Morris Smith, the head of the players Association, who's black, talking about
the size of his lips. Oh, and that's what got gad. So
then they came back and they fired Gruden. But so now you got the
Raiders who are looking for a name coach. You got a guy who is
an offensive coordinator for a multiple super Bowl winning team. You bring him in.
This is the second time Josh McDaniels has failed as a head coach.
Yeah, he failed in Denver, and then he spurned Indianapolis. He got
the whole coaching staff hired, and then he goes, yeah, I don't
want to go there. Yeah, that's how Frank Craik got the job.
Hey, by the way, it just popped into my head since I'm looking
at you. You hire a lot of people. I mean, think about
like how much your business has grown. Yeah, and then but think about
the people you've hired, the families you your business, you're that was wanting.
Yes, that's right now. The thing that we hear a lot,
but I think it's very different in your business is it's hard to find people
and to retain people. Like we had a guy sitting where you are hospitality
business, say they put something out for a chef, had six people respond
and set up interviews with six people. One of them showed up. Are
you seeing that in your so like knock on wood, we have not had
that problem, So yeah, I think it's a very different, really thing
uh with retention. And we have like a really good little speech oop community
with our employees and we've seen god, what was it. We were just
talking about this the other day. So many of because they're guys basically basically
all the guys that work there, they've all started single, got girlfriends,
got married, right, got a house, having children, and they're growing
up and we're like the business is growing with them. Yeah, and we're
trying to like nurture that as well. And it's like a really hard thing
to do. But like we haven't had a problem like trying to find people.
We've only had a problem like right now, we're hiring a new person
and really cool kid. He's single, like has everything going for him,
and we're like really excited to bring him in. But if I was desperate
to try and find somebody of like say three or four my guys quit because
we didn't do everything that we did in previous years to like nurture the business
and nurture these people and bring them up and support them through their lives and
everything else. And like if they're like having a bad day and then like
I got to go, my kids sick or this happened or whatever, we're
just like just go. I don't think we would be at the point that
we're at. And like that's what trying to Like it's a different environment over
there, Like it really is it. It really is like most of the
time, Like and that was the biggest thing, is like when I started
the shop is that I didn't want to be your just automotive mechanomic shop.
Yeah, no you're not. I want to have like a family. It
is the cleanest garage. I've said this many times and all the ads we
did, I always said, it's the cleanest garage you've ever been. I
know, Like I still had to have you guys. Laura would go over
there and she would be so disappointed because there's nothing to organize. It's all
done nothing. Yeah, well there there's sometimes right now, it's really funny.
Yeah, we got to come up for you. But like sometimes you
come over there and you're just like, oh wow, there's like five engines
torn apart and you're just like whoa like and you just don't want to touch
any No, you know, well somebody knows where, like everybody knows where
everything goes. But at the same time, like and then what we try
and clean up really good for cars and coffee once a month, and uh,
what's it's going to kind of get out of control for like the next
couple of months because it's all indoors. It's all yeah, well we don't
do the indoors stuffel like, which is kind of whatever. But there's a
lot of big projects coming through right now and we're just like yeah, but
yeah, it's crazy. It's really really hard. I see the problem.
I can see where other shops and other industries would have that problem, especially
in like the blue collar industry. Yeah, like really, there's not a
lot of people that want to work. There's not a lot of people that
want to get into it. There's not a lot of people that like really
have that drive anymore. It's interesting because it's very rare to find somebody.
That's why, like we've recently found somebody and we're in the process of hiring
them, which is probably gonna start in several months. And I just love
it and like we actually, you know to One of the things that like
I have a lot of respect for is like our I think our guys and
girls and stuff like that work for us, respect us so much. One
of our techs is leaving and going to Florida, and his whole entire family
is like, Oh, don't tell him. Don't tell me to leave me
until like the last minute. But he's like, no, I have to
tell them because they've been really so good to us. But he told us
like two months ago, and he's not leaving till like January or February to
like move to Florida. And we're like, oh, I really appreciate that.
And now I'm we'll get someone up to say fails for you come back,
And like I've had another employee that left at one point and then came
back and said, hey, this didn't work out. I'm like, yeah,
you were so amazing. Definitely I'm going to hire you back, Like
yeah, yeah, it I just think it's a well one. It's a
different environment. Do you do meetings and things there, Yeah, it's the
one I love to hear because I don't think meetings should be should last more
than fifteen minutes. I really like, we don't really do like group meetings.
The last big meeting that we had was when COVID started right that whole
thing, and we were just like I had a meeting with everybody and said,
listen, everybody, I don't know what's going to happen. The only
thing we have to do is to protect the little speech job. Ye,
Like I don't care about like myself, my family, your family, whatever.
Like if we protect a little speech shop, we'll all have a job
when whatever happens happens. And we had a couple of people that we had
to lay off, but like they all got paid because we did it appropriately
and they stayed home and they got paid and did whatever their thing and stuff
that they came back and they've been with us every since. So like yeah,
it's like I think that it's you have the type of people though that
almost take a little bit of ownership. They do like all our guys because
I think even that stuff, like I've jokingly said, over there your fabricators
and stuff, they're artists. Yeah, I've seen the work they've done.
I've seen it. And too, that's a lot of yourself and a lot
of pride in that. And so you know, hey, it's it's the
little speed shop, but it's Mike at the Little speech Shop did this,
yes, or you know what I mean? Or you know, Liam was
whatever. And I always think that though that there's a little different there and
your a higher end yeah, you know, I mean in terms of the
work and stuff, it's right, and like so we're like like just below
dealership pricing, but like at the same time, we offer so many different
aspects of that. Like you can come in and like you can get the
full circle of everything you pain protection film or your car workd on or just
an oil change on anything, and then just go from there. But like,
yeah, and like everybody just knows, like hey, we have to
like grind it out once in a while, we just have to, like
if if it's in the middle of winter, and maybe all the BMW's and
porches that everybody likes to work on, they're all trained in. They come
out of the dealerships like to work on. But there's nothing but Chevy trucks
and box vans. That's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. It's
like we gotta do and then it'll all come back in the spring, hopefully
like wood like that's hopefully what comes back. But we try. Man,
I love watching this because I've seen it over and you've got to come over
and see that car that were Did you see the Bronco recently? Remember the
Bronco that we've been it's almost ready to get delivered finally really single nut and
bolt screw thing has been like rebuilt and brand new and all this other stuff.
And then we have remember that like from years ago, that BMW that
I had on the jig, Yes, I cut it off the jig recently
you did ground yes, yes, So this was like you were taking a
modern day. I ended up putting it in a body. But it's really
complicated. But like I took a modern BMW. Yeah, and I took
an old BMW from seventy three? Was it the frame? So I took
the front and rear subframe and engine and drivetrain off of modern BMW and then
cut it off, and I made a jig right to hold this car,
and then I took the body off through the bodyway from the new one,
and then took the old car and put it on there, and then cut
it all apart and then shortened it shortened the frame and chassis. Do you
realize fit in there? People were like, how do you do? People
don't understand that. They don't, But like if you get under there and
you look, like now the car is up on the lift and you can
like look around and you can roll the car around and stuff, and you
look around it and you're just like, whoa, this is insane. I'm
like, this has been a passion project for you, was a passion project
between it's mainly for It's mainly for me, but it's for like my customer,
which I was like, hey, we've done a couple of the car.
Remember the white nine to eleven. Yes, I did that car for
him that was him, Yes, okay, and then another car as well,
and then yeah, this is a thing that we were actually sitting at
breakfast one day and I was like, I got an idea, what do
you think about this? And he was like, all right, let's do
it. I'm like, okay, Like it's gonna take a lot to Danny
that guy could afford to say, ask how much. We've never talked about
price. Yes, that's the best. And that's the only thing too,
is like if you go to a restaurant and they don't list the prices and
you're nervous leave, well, just world service. Everything's out there and this
is a very like small niche part of the business. The other thing that
we do with especially the thing with the Bronco is like that's out of it.
What are you doing with it? We took like a early seventies Bronco
that was a complete disaster basket case, and we've revitalized it and put like
a Mustang car engine and done all this other stuff. It Wow and like
it's digital, Like we've done every single wire that goes to everything and every
nut bolt. And this is for somebody in Atlanta and Atlanta Wow, how
did they find you through a friend? Wow? Yeah? About and they're
like can you do this? I'm like yeah, And like they're like can
you do it in a couple of years, I'm like sure. And then
it's been like three years now, like a little more than three years.
But we're just like you got to you gotta come and see it. Like,
were you document any of this stuff? In terms of TV shows?
You can because the next fast and loud or whatever. You know, it
would be so fun. I know, I look at those shows. You
guys are a joke. Yeah, you look like you did this at the
whole thing in thirty minutes. Like there's no way, there's like face years.
They try to make it sound like that they do. I couldn't imagine,
like we need just done in a month, man, because we're going
to auction bullshit. That happened, Well that happened, like that crazy shit
happened with Netflix. Yes, yeah, yeah Flix show right, the Drifting
show. Yeah yeah, that was the stuff that we had to do and
I was like, dude, I'm not going to do this again. Was
it was all night all night? Yeah? Yeah, So we would start
like well, I mean we had the they shot this show over at the
Kodak parking line and one oh four they closed it all off to the public.
But it was a it was a drift, just a drift contest.
It was drifting all over the world because we got in there and slid around
and yeah, polls and things, right, your sponsored. We didn't sponsor
it, but we actually got called from the producers and they kind of found
us through The producers told all the contestants and then they looked it up at
themselves and said, who can we have help us for a couple hours a
day, which will like really quickly turned into you guys have no clue what
you're doing. Yeah, And it was all night and it was all nice,
so we would I was actually there. I actually rented a friend's motor
home and I think I lived there for like four I sucked a Kodak in
a motorhome. Yeah, for like from like literally four weeks. And we
would start at like three pm and end at like seven o'clock in the morning.
But that didn't even end there because everybody would leave at seven o'clock in
the morning by the time the sun was up. Everybody would leave, the
contestants to go back to bed and all this other stuff. And then we
would take the cards that got all smashed up during the day back to our
shop and then do whatever we could to fix them, pull them back straight
again, and do all this other stuff. And there were smashed up,
banged up, patching radiators and all this stuff, and there was like cars
from like Japan and Australian right, which is sometimes slightly Germany, Like yeah,
yeah, like and like you go back and you watch you watch it's
still on Netflix now, but like hyper Drive, Hyperdrive, you watch it
now, and I'm like, this is nothing that. There was one video
like this guy from Japan had this like police car and he came up the
ramp. Remember the tilting level thing, yes, level thing whatever it was.
He came up and then jumped and smashed and then went up and they
filled the whole rest of the episode and he went back down. That was
two days apart because we had to fix his car because he was in his
car, and then we were like oh oh, and then we had to
like we actually, you know, rented a flatbed tow truck from some random
guy in town. We're like called and we're like, hey, can we
rent your tow truck for like a couple of weeks or like a week or
something. He's like, yeah, I don't really use it. I don't
even know how we found the guy. And then we put our logos all
over the tow truck. Yeah, and we ended up having it for like
four or five weeks. I kept calling its like, kept calling why in
his tow truck back and we're like, uh, let's just not answer the
call. I just don't we really need it? Because yeah, the magic
of Hollywood. Yeah, I mean there they have organizations. There has been
two organizational shows you should do it and funny I want to why would want
to be on TV? No? But why wouldn't you shoot something on YouTube
to show before and after? We could have talked about that or like me,
we should or we can come out. I'm not good on the social
media like And that's the thing is people just want to see the before and
after photos. I can show you that all day long. I have thousands.
What about the process where we job well? And that's the thing is
that people don't see how much work it goes into it and all the behind
the scenes. And you have the shows of Home at It or Tidying Up
with Marie Kondo, which living a minimalistic lifestyle is so unrealistic, especially when
I'm working with most people who have little kids and everything or the home edit
they make it look like they do this room in one day and it's all
acrylic bands in rainbow order, like nobody wants to live in a rainbow colored
house. Like, let's be real, but you know what are you talking
about? That is what people think. And I'm like, no, like
it needs to work for you, it needs to be customed to your Yeah,
sure, like every client is different. Well I think that so many
people get persuaded that this is the way to do it. Yeah, Like
I had this just as an offshoot, but same thing. There's a series
on Netflix called The Blue Zones and it's about people who live to be one
hundred right, So why are people in parts of Italy and these other parts
of the world living to be one hundred years old? And I'm watching this
and I was getting myself madder and madder matter because I go, somebody's going
to start selling the Blue Zone diet. But basically all these people do is
walk instead of sitting on their ass. They grew some of their own food,
They ate mostly vegetables. It's all the things we already know. It's
all the ship we already know, and that you've got to be able to
put it in your into your own life right the way it fits for you
and fits you comfortably. But you know, all of a sudden, just
because you're putting honey in your tea doesn't mean you're going to live to be
one hundred. But people would buy that ship and do that. And I
think it's the same thing with these organization shows. I'm going to start using
this system. Well, that system didn't work for you because it didn't fit
your personality. And you saw it, you thought, oh, this looks
great, and you do it for three months and then you're back to the
same ship by March, and people love all the bins, Bess, and
now the bins are just like sitting in the hallway creating even more clutter dust
it and I'm like, yeah, that's the way, that's the way it
is. All right, We'll close it out. Thank you, Kevin,
very nice to see you again, Laura. Fun to learn all about your
business. Danny for the rats. I love. I love what Danny gets.
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