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Built from Scratch: Trades, Brotherhood & Creating Your Own Path · Here's to You

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  Yes, we're sitting with some really cool dudes.
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  We're with Luis Acosta and also Steven Reed, who are the owners
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  of Elite Electric Company and well, veterans really turned
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  builders. So I mean, they're building a
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  company, they're building a business, they're building a
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  team. They're building lights for you,
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  They're keeping the lights on for you.
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  They're turning you on, wink wink, and they are helping you
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  build your body, but in a healthy way, not in a way that's
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  beating you up or beating you down.
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  Right, 'cause we here on the pod, we definitely don't
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  romanticize hustle culture because it's not fun to do that
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  and we don't want to do the burnout.
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  We're human, we're messy, we're make mistakes and that's why
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  we're drinking on the pod 'cause we do that.
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  Cheers to that. Yes.
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  So Luis and Steven, we're so excited to finally have you
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  guys. Here, Yeah.
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  Appreciate you guys having us for reals.
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  How are you guys feeling? We feel good today.
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  I think we had a great start today.
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  Yeah, yeah. We feel great today.
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  Well, you guys were up really early at 6:00 AM.
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  Yeah, but we had to be there. I think I have what, 540-5550?
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  So we were up by 5:00 AM, Yeah. Why?
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  We had to check in early, Yeah. So for we did a So today was
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  like our first, like full blown. So we have a run club, the elite
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  run club, and today was like our first after your kickoff of the
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  whole run club getting together at Orangetheory.
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  So Orangetheory put together like a little kickoff event for
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  all the whole run club, all the members.
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  Well, most of the members that showed up and we had to be there
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  at 6:00 in the morning though. Who chose the 6:00 AM time,
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  Steven? Yeah, well, sauna.
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  Oh, OK, yeah. Time I did.
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  I just think that, I just think they have like a certain time
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  that they had to get us in before their actual customers.
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  Yeah, this was like a thing that they kind of reached out to us
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  and was like, hey, we wanted to have you guys over at
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  Orangetheory bring you guys, you know, members and whatnot.
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  And they did it for free for everybody.
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  I love that though, that's so exciting.
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  Yeah, it was a good time. I think everybody was dying, but
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  it was fun. Yeah, there's.
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  Something good about that, right?
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  Like there's something good about like tearing your body
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  down and build it off. Well, it's funny.
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  What I mean? That was my first time there.
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  And like, they have like, these bands they put on you and then,
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  like, it shows your screen and it shows, like, your heart rate.
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  Yeah. And it shows like, whenever,
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  like there's like different colors, like you're in the
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  blue-green, orange and like, what is it?
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  Red, red. And if you're in the red,
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  you're, you know, you're kind of your heart rate's going crazy.
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  And this guy was in the red the whole time.
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  From the beginning. What is that like Zone 2, Zone
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  4, Is that what they're they're measuring?
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  Is that what they're saying? I guess I don't know what it is,
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  but I. Would imagine him being in the
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  red. His heart rate was very high,
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  yeah. It's about like 17180.
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  Like, yeah, I haven't worked out since November, so.
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  Oh, that makes sense, yeah. I'd be right there in the red
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  with you, yeah. So usually, like I said, we, we
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  with our run club, we usually try to get together once a week
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  or every other week. I just think with, with the
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  winter, we kind of slow down a lot, you know, obviously just
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  the cold, the cold and all stuff.
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  So now we're just trying to get back into it.
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  Now it's trying to get nice again.
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  And everybody was just like, it's been a while since I've
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  been working out. Like, trust me, you're not the
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  only one, right? Well, I have heard you guys do
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  that. Yeah, you guys are really
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  consistent, you guys. But also like with your, it's
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  not just, and we'll get into Elite in a second too, but with,
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  since we're on the topic of VRC, I've noticed that yeah, you guys
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  do once a week. What is it every Tuesday
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  typically or something? Like that.
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  So we were doing every Tuesday we did Tuesday, Tuesday training
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  it either it would it would be either with myself or doing a
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  class or tiny she did another class too.
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  So we would like kind of collaborate and just take turns
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  on doing it. And then on Saturdays or Sundays
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  we would and that will the Tuesdays are more like a workout
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  training. OK, so it's like a hit training.
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  It's not just running. We want to focus on body
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  strength, you know, upper body strength, not just legs and
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  everything like that. So it's a full blown body
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  workout and then we do like hill interval training, we'll do that
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  too. Yeah, I those looked intense.
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  Yeah, so we would do that and then on the weekends, like
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  either a Saturday or Sunday, we would do the actual runs with
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  everybody, you know what I'm saying?
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  And then just kind of get everybody prepped up.
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  And throughout the year everybody signs up for run like
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  run events, SO5KS10, KS, half marathons, whatever they want to
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  run, sign up for. And we all push each other and
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  train each other for those events, so.
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  Are you a runner too? I wouldn't say running, I'm, I'm
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  running, but I'm Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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  I think yeah. So last year I did well, I
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  didn't do the half marathon. I did 5 Ki hurt my my leg.
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  But yeah, we just we put together last year was a 14 week
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  half marathon prep and we signed up.
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  I think it was like 10 people who did it.
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  They've never done it. They just started.
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  We all kind of came together and just built every week and.
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  You're talking about prepare fire for the Oh, there was way
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  more than 10. That we that we trained.
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  With that, we the the whole the group photo.
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  Yeah, like 20 in there. Yeah, it was quite a bit.
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  Yeah, it was quite a bit. But half marathon isn't that.
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  Well, how many miles is that? 13 point 113.1 miles I.
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  Don't know how you guys do that shit man.
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  To some people it's easy. To other people it's it's hard,
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  you know what I'm saying? And that's the thing though.
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  But but one thing about the ERC though, is we don't, we, we
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  promote, you know, beginners, advanced, everything.
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  It don't matter your level of expertise of running.
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  We're going to get you. If you have a goal, we're going
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  to help you get there. You know what I'm saying?
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  I'm not a professional running out, You know, I'll be honest,
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  like I don't, I don't really enjoy running.
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  Yeah, but to see how much motivation I can give these, you
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  know, everybody around me, I love that.
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  And to see them hit their goals at that's like, it's worth it at
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  the end. That's why I do it.
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  So on that note, I thought you were going to say something on
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  that note. OK, How did you guys start ERC?
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  What led you into that because you also had Elite for a while.
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  You guys have had Elite for what is 10 seven?
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  OK. I know that you guys were
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  hitting your 10 pretty soon. No, we said 7.
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  Seven years, OK. We just had a, we just had our
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  sixth year anniversary last year.
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  And then you're talking about like, I think like you, you're,
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  you just said this, but it's more about not, you know, trying
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  to get to the goal, not to try to finish the whole thing, but
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  it's welcoming everyone and pushing people.
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  And I'm hearing that thing in a lot of the your guys's
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  personality. So kind of tell us a little bit
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  about Elite. What got you guys started with
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  that? As far as electric?
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  Yes. OK, Yeah.
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  So it started Elite Electric 2019 back story.
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  I was in the military, Lewis is in the military.
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  Together we both went through. Military.
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  Wait, you guys were together? Yeah.
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  Really. Yes.
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  We've been we've been best friends for what will be 20
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  years next year. Oh, best.
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  He's so cute. And then they traveled together.
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  Guys, they didn't travel. We we met at we met at AI had a
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  house party a long time ago. Yeah, I was like younger in my
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  mom's house. Yeah.
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  And like he just came by one time and we just like we just
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  started hanging out playing beer pong and then ever since we just
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  started hanging out kicking it after that and shit.
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  And ever since we've always been travelling, partying and just
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  being boys after that. Wait, so are you both from
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  Wichita? I'm from Wichita.
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  I'm from Utah. OK, OK, so you moved to Wichita,
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  throw a house party. Both of you are like, let's join
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  the let's play beer pong, but in the Army.
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  Fuck yeah, dude, let me let's give our soul to the government.
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  And then you're like, let's party there.
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  And then you're like, oh, this is not party.
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  And then and then you're like, hey, let's what if we open
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  something together? Is that what?
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  Happened, yes. I mean, I joined the military.
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  I got that $20,000 bonus and I was like, hey, you want 20,000,
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  right? Yeah, did that.
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  And then as an electrician you joined and then they're doing
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  the same. There's a local apprenticeship
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  that we went to. I think I was maybe?
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  Two year or two. Years ahead of him and then
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  right after when I got done and got my license, I was the
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  apprenticeship that we went to is very that's like white male
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  dominated kind of like about who you know, not what you know type
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  of thing. And for for me I was like, oh, I
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  could do this myself Oh yeah. So 2019 broke off and he was,
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  you were just getting your license I think, or just had as
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  well. And we're just like, I mean, we
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  can figure this out so. That was around, that was around
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  COVID time too. That's hard to start a business
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  around COVID time, so. Like around that time, like he
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  said, like, you know, being in that, in that industry with the
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  in the union, pretty much like at that time, I got really slow
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  and a lot of people was kind of just getting laid off at that
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  time. A lot of people were losing
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  their jobs and whatnot. And at that time within that
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  industry, it was a lot about who you knew, not what you knew, you
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  know, I'm saying and for. I mean, that's all like business
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  honestly, it kind of is. It's, it's good and bad, right?
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  Like it's good. It's good if you meet bad
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  people, of course, and it's bad when you meet the bad, of
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  course. And then you're like either like
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  I think like us as humans, right?
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  We all have ego. So it's like what you're going
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  to feed into it, like, and then if you're surrounded by a lot of
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  bad, you're going to kind of go that way.
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  Yeah. So I think for us though, that's
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  like kind of like like he just said, it was like a very like
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  dominant thin friends in that industry over there.
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  And then we just, we were kind of the 1st to go, you know what
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  I'm saying? So we're just like, we just do
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  our own thing. I think that's really like says
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  a lot about you guys, you know what I mean?
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  Because like again, you could have been like, well, it is we
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  can just keep there with them. Like what made you kind of want
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  to separate? What made you guys realize like
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  this? Is it for me to go that way?
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  Well, I was, I, I always knew I was going to leave.
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  I mean, I've always wanted to do more.
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  I don't. I've never been like a paycheck.
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  Like every time I had a job that paid more or I was able to do
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  more, I would. So I figured like, I'm going to
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  do something. I thought I was going to be a
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  real estate agent, which is kind of entrepreneurial or it is
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  entrepreneur. Sorry, not kind of.
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  Yeah, they're. Going to come out, you know?
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  Yeah, exactly. I'm kidding.
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  They're not. They're not.
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  They're going to, they're going to send you letters to your
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  house about that. They're going to buy your house
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  for cash. And then it's going to piss you
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  off because it pisses me off all the time that they tell me.
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  Yeah. But like so then yeah, just
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  already doing electric work, started working with some
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  investors and then kind of just talk to him into it.
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  And I don't know what what made you.
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  I mean, just, you know, like I said, just like Stevens always
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  been a great leader. You know, he's, he's always been
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  like one of the guys, the head of the pack and he's like I
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  said, I've always supported him and anything.
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  And when he asked me to come on board with him, because he
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  already had started Elite actually.
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  So he was the original founder, right?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then like, like he was
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  asking me like, hey, come on board with me, bro.
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  Like, come on. You know, be my partner and all
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  this stuff. And then I took a little bit
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  because at that time I had just transitioned and got my license
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  and then I had just bought a brand new home.
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  So I was like, man, dude, like, you know.
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  That's a big risk. Yeah, so I'm just like, because
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  I was still kind of working and I was like, man, you know, if I
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  do this like we need to go 100% because I just bought a brand
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  new house, you know. So I was just kind of like
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  nervous at 1st and then but we took off really, you know.
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  So Steven had the what's funny how we started though was like,
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  so Steven had like this house on the north side and his garage
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  was like our shop and then his laundry room had it attached to
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  his garage and that was our office so.
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  I love stories like that though. I feel like those are that's
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  where everything. Starts.
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  That's where everyone goes and eats, you know what I mean?
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  Like we have pictures of us sitting on the washer and stuff
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  with our computers and stuff. Like that's how we started
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  though. Like for real, like the first,
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  what, 2 years, we kind of started out of there.
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  We pulled money out of our own pockets and bought our first
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  like service vans and stuff like that.
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  And we just kind of just focused solely on residential at first
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  was like our only thing. And it was like me, Steven and
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  another partner that we had at the time.
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  And then it was just us 3 for a while.
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  And then we started bringing in like, like a helper here and
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  there. So like my nephew came on board
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  with us. He's still with us to this day.
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  But so it was just like four or five of us.
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  And for the first two years, it was just straight, strictly
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  residential small stuff. But we were doing good though.
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  Like we were taking off meeting a lot of, like he said,
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  investors and builders and contractors and, and building
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  that port, like building that reputation for ourselves.
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  Yeah, yeah. You know, And then we started
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  getting that big invites to the bigger projects.
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  And that's really where it really kicked.
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  Us out how'd that feel for you guys?
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  Like when that like the moment that you know, you were, you
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  were focusing on residential and then you start getting invited
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  to the commercial ones. How'd that feel?
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  So I loved it. So, so here's my, so how we, how
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  we were talking about the whole like we was in the union for a
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  long time, right? And, and, and I don't want, I'm
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  not dogging the union like I, I enjoy what I learned from them
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  and whatnot. But at the end of the day, when
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  we got when we started getting invited to these bids, we're
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  there and then those contractors have been around for all these
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  years. They were there too.
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  And we walked in to go do these bids and they're like looking at
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  us like, what are you guys doing here?
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  You know, like thinking. Like, and then you're like, what
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  are you doing? And it's like that spider man.
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  I mean, but like, what are you doing here?
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  So like just to see the reaction of like then this is like now,
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  like we're your competition now, like we don't work for you no
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  more like we're your competition type thing now.
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  So and now like it's it's like we've built that reputation
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  greatly here. We've heard stories of.
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  About how you turn people on well.
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  That's our, that's our, yeah. Yeah, OK, OK.
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  So there. Is more, don't worry.
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  So far you keep saying that. So the people that don't know
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  why she keeps saying that, That is our motto, right?
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  So we have our business model and it's we're here.
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  Kidding. We're here to turn you on
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  electrical wise. Electrical wise.
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  Wink, wink. We're here to turn you on
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  electrical wise, but no like so like just just so now that they
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  seen like our growth and whatnot, there was kind of we
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  kind of heard some rumors that like when we first started
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  taking off people, we had signs like we put yard signs out on
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  job sites and we heard other contracts were going up and
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  ripping them out and throwing them away.
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  So we're like, hey, we're doing something right.
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  Yeah, yeah, something right. So yeah, we had, we had some
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  guys that like I said, we have a lot of friends in there and they
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  were telling us direct like, hey dude, you guys are, you guys are
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  making waves now, you know, saying so.
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  No, that's it. I mean, yeah, you're you're a
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  little like those, those little that was a little immature.
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  We're in high school, grown ass. I can't, you know, imagine a
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  grown ass man walking over to someone's yard.
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  Get over there and RIP that sign out of that yard.
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  Literally. And I'm like, yes, Sir.
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  So now, I mean, we got, we got to a point where we started
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  getting these big contracts and then now we have an actual brick
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  and mortar location. Now we're over by the airport.
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  We have a full blown shop, warehouse, we have offices.
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  Now we start like I said it start off where I, I think this
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  last year really we kicked off a lot this past year.
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  Last year was tough, but then over this like past year we
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  really did a lot of good and picked up a really big
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  contracts. Now we went for what like 8
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  employees 2222 now we have 22 employees now.
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  Oh. That's so exciting and scary,
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  right? You know what you know.
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  What I mean 22 families that's. Yes, that's what every, everyone
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  who has told us, you know, it's a part of like you know how you
• 17:15
  do have to think about how you have to feed everybody else's
• 17:18
  family. It's like, I mean, you don't
• 17:19
  want to take on that pressure, but you kind of do like kind of
• 17:22
  share a little bit about that. It's also a blessing, you know?
• 17:25
  Yeah, it's a blessing to be able to all the things that you've,
• 17:29
  you know, been dreaming for you like, hey, we wanted this.
• 17:32
  We look back at the times where we were, you know, in the
• 17:34
  laundry room or whatever. And now we can see like, oh
• 17:37
  shit, we're, you know, we're here.
• 17:39
  So I, I take it as a blessing. I take it as an honor, you know,
• 17:44
  and that'll take it lightly for, you know, all the guys and and
• 17:48
  women that we have worked for us, that we try to make them,
• 17:52
  you know, the best version of themselves that we can, whether
• 17:55
  they're with us or not, we're trying to get them to the next
• 17:57
  level, either outwork their position to move up and take
• 18:01
  over my position. But we're we're, we just want
• 18:04
  everybody to be better. So I mean, for me it's a
• 18:06
  blessing. Yeah.
• 18:07
  Yeah. So one thing I want to emphasize
• 18:09
  is like, you know, the electrical trade, it's not just
• 18:12
  a, that's not just a job, you know what I'm saying?
• 18:15
  Like it's, it's a way of life. You know, we're always going to
• 18:17
  need electricians in this world. And so whenever we do interviews
• 18:20
  with everybody, I always say every single time we interview
• 18:23
  somebody, if you want to come in and get a job, I can give you a
• 18:25
  job. But if you want to come in and
• 18:27
  make this a career, we can also do that for you too, you know
• 18:29
  what I'm saying? Because at the end, you know.
• 18:32
  Yeah, that that was Run that back.
• 18:34
  So because I want to tap, I want to tap into something else
• 18:37
  that's going to tap into that. So here in Wichita, there's only
• 18:41
  two, was it 2 schools, There's two apprenticeship schools,
• 18:45
  there's a union and there's a non union school.
• 18:47
  Well, you know, we had our guys went through we was non union
• 18:50
  for a while. IUC was a great program.
• 18:53
  You know, they did their, but we kind of seen a way to do it
• 18:57
  ourselves. So now we haven't kicked it off
• 19:00
  yet. It's in the works still, but
• 19:02
  we'll be kicking off our own apprenticeship program starting
• 19:05
  August this year. Damn, that's exciting.
• 19:09
  Exclusive sneak preview. Yeah, yeah.
• 19:12
  So it'll be the elite. What is it the?
• 19:14
  Elite apprenticeship Academy so you can go on IG follow the page
• 19:19
  they have more information website.
• 19:22
  Yes, yes, really how, how do you guys go about doing that?
• 19:26
  Is it? Is it?
• 19:27
  Is it really strict or? It's not, it's, it's not as
• 19:30
  strict as you. I mean, these days with AI you
• 19:33
  can learn to do anything. Right, right, right.
• 19:36
  Should I? Yeah, I mean, not it's like
• 19:39
  Bessie, but also not it's. Not it's, there's some things
• 19:44
  you know, you have to get with like Kansas Works and get with
• 19:47
  there's like business things that you have to do behind the
• 19:50
  scenes. But I think as far as like
• 19:52
  building the curriculum, the labs, like all the things I, I
• 19:56
  don't feel like it's been too difficult.
• 19:58
  We've been putting in a lot of work.
• 20:00
  So Mike who he's our CFO, our other partner.
• 20:04
  I wanted, yeah, real quick. We have another partner.
• 20:06
  He lives in Dallas. He's just, you know, so he's,
• 20:08
  he's our CFO, our financial. And here's Mike with the weather
• 20:13
  now, because we're gonna pop him up in a zoo.
• 20:15
  Yeah, we're gonna pop him up in a quick picture.
• 20:17
  You can put Mike on there. He want he was gonna try to be
• 20:19
  here this weekend, but he got really.
• 20:21
  Part. Of a dope.
• 20:22
  He comes down quite a bit. He just got busy in Dallas and
• 20:25
  couldn't make a pack out here, too.
• 20:26
  I think that just means we all need to go down there and yeah.
• 20:29
  I mean, yeah, shit, I guess. I guess we have to take two
• 20:32
  podcast trips. This.
• 20:33
  Year, you know, honestly we that's, we always do that.
• 20:36
  We go to Dallas quite a bit and where I was like, it's a
• 20:37
  business trip. Like that's a write off.
• 20:42
  But no, yeah, so Mike's been working on, he's a very
• 20:45
  technical guy. He can build anything.
• 20:49
  He used to build multi $1,000,000 systems for huge
• 20:52
  companies in Dallas. So he's been doing most of the,
• 20:56
  like I've been saying, hey, this is what electricians and
• 20:59
  apprentices need. He's he's implementing it just
• 21:02
  because I have like the obviously know what people need,
• 21:05
  what kind of training they need and what would work best for
• 21:08
  that, that kind of mindset, because you know, tradesmen
• 21:12
  mindset and then college, it's it's very different.
• 21:16
  We're talking about hands on learning versus like a textbook.
• 21:19
  So. This, this program will have a
• 21:21
  lot more like labs, which is hands on things that you know,
• 21:26
  we'll take things that students actually want to learn and be
• 21:29
  able to give them hands on. They can learn how to do it.
• 21:32
  They can ask as many questions, they can spend as much time as
• 21:34
  they want. I'm trying to, you know, perfect
• 21:37
  these kind of these techniques and stuff.
• 21:39
  So, but it has, I don't feel like it's been very difficult.
• 21:45
  Well, sounds like you're just passionate about this.
• 21:48
  You know what I mean? Like, I think that's what it,
• 21:50
  that's what it sounds like. It's like, yeah, you know, it's
• 21:52
  work, but it's like, man, this is what's needed.
• 21:54
  And this feels like the right next step.
• 21:56
  This feels like the right next step even for me to challenge
• 21:59
  myself and to do this, but also more importantly, for like, who
• 22:02
  I'm doing this for. That's what I'm hearing you say.
• 22:04
  It is. It's that and I think maybe just
• 22:06
  personality too, because I don't, I don't see anything
• 22:09
  really challenging. So I'm always like, no, that's
• 22:11
  easy. And the guys are like, we know
• 22:13
  if he says that, that's going to be difficult.
• 22:15
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, have you seen those,
• 22:18
  like, reels where they're like, when you go out with your
• 22:21
  entrepreneurial friend who's like, you're getting a drink and
• 22:24
  then they're doing math in their head, like how they just sold
• 22:26
  this many drinks here. They've made this much money,
• 22:28
  OK. And then this is a system that
• 22:29
  they did for this. OK.
• 22:30
  I think we can do this, guys. Yeah, exactly.
• 22:33
  That's you, huh? I do.
• 22:34
  That all the time. And then and then Luigi's like,
• 22:36
  fuck yeah, that means like 12345 things that we have to do.
• 22:40
  And then I have to go find somebody who's going to do this,
• 22:43
  and then I have to go do this and do that.
• 22:44
  Steven is definitely the chill thinker.
• 22:46
  I am the overthinker. Yeah, hands down.
• 22:48
  Like, I will admit that all the way I'm.
• 22:50
  I stress myself out. No.
• 22:52
  Yeah. Kind of sounds like us, the
• 22:56
  chill thinkers, The overthinker, yeah.
• 22:58
  Yes, yeah, but it's good and bad.
• 23:01
  You don't. Worry about it, We got this.
• 23:03
  Yeah, it's good and bad. Yes, yes.
• 23:05
  Straight up, he's like, he's always just like, we'll be all
• 23:08
  right, bro. I'm just like bro.
• 23:10
  He's. Like we cool.
• 23:13
  Yeah. And then I'll be like, Dusty,
• 23:14
  did you feel that? I felt that.
• 23:16
  Did Hey, hey, what about this? And he's like, Oh my God.
• 23:21
  And I'm like, hey, did you feel that energy shift?
• 23:23
  I felt it. Yeah.
• 23:24
  That's funny. Yeah, I get it.
• 23:29
  So. So is that what annoys you about
• 23:31
  Luigi? Doesn't annoy me, it's just I
• 23:35
  mean. We've.
• 23:36
  Known each other so long that it's I know how he thinks, you
• 23:40
  know, he knows how I think it's for myself.
• 23:44
  I think I'm very good at like knowing, like reading people and
• 23:47
  being able to. But like I said, we've known
• 23:49
  each other so long that I mean, he knows what I'm going to say.
• 23:52
  I know how he's going to feel about things, so.
• 23:55
  Well, you guys have 20 years of friendship.
• 23:57
  Yeah, Yeah. You know what type of toilet
• 23:59
  paper you guys like? I don't.
• 24:00
  Know about all that? Yeah.
• 24:01
  We don't go that deep. No, no.
• 24:04
  What's his What's his coffee drink?
• 24:06
  Vietnamese. They are best sugar.
• 24:11
  Free caramel latte. Shut out coffee days.
• 24:16
  We always do if you ever want to assassinate us.
• 24:19
  Raw coffee days like every morning.
• 24:21
  Yeah, 6:30 when you open, I'm the.
• 24:23
  First one of the door. That was so cute.
• 24:26
  You don't know. What is?
• 24:31
  What is your? Coffee order.
• 24:36
  We don't have 20 years of friendship.
• 24:39
  Quite a bit, but not 20. Now we've been through a lot
• 24:42
  together, man, you know, beyond the business, outside the
• 24:44
  business, there's, there's been a lot that we've we've endured
• 24:46
  together and I'm grateful every day.
• 24:48
  I think, you know, he put, they put, he put him in my life as my
• 24:51
  best friend. So yeah, likewise, yeah.
• 24:54
  And we do a lot of another thing.
• 24:55
  We just do a lot of travelling together.
• 24:57
  We explore a lot of the world, you know, then business write
• 25:00
  offs. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:00
  Yeah, what's been maybe your guys favorite thing you've done
• 25:04
  together and then and then opposite.
• 25:07
  I want to hear the thing that you're like, fuck, I never want
• 25:09
  to do that again. I don't know, we're very
• 25:11
  adventurous. Like we like to go and just like
• 25:13
  we'll just book a trip just to do it.
• 25:15
  Like we see something on Instagram and we're like, let's
• 25:17
  go and we'll book it. But like one thing like so for
• 25:19
  one, like we like to ski and snowboard, right?
• 25:21
  So like we'll take off to Colorado a lot for like in
• 25:24
  December. Just this past December, we
• 25:26
  seemed like they had like a whole music winter festival and
• 25:29
  in California and what was it, Big Bear or Lake Tahoe?
• 25:33
  Sorry, Lake Tahoe and we just seen it and we booked it.
• 25:36
  I love it. I love people.
• 25:37
  Like that, we'll just go, you know?
• 25:38
  So we was out there for full Rave Bender all weekend.
• 25:44
  Yeah, I think what was that trip when we won the snowmobiles?
• 25:48
  Yeah. So we went to, we go to
• 25:49
  Breckenridge a lot, Colorado. It's like it's a either a quick
• 25:52
  drive from here or just a quick flight and we go to break and up
• 25:55
  and break, you know, we go, we up Keystone Vale, we do all the
• 25:59
  all the mountains up there. And then we did one time, we did
• 26:02
  the snowmobiles and man, it was intense.
• 26:04
  It was so much fun, so beautiful.
• 26:06
  Yeah. Yeah, I've never done this.
• 26:07
  Yeah, they always look so much fun.
• 26:09
  I would. Be like, yeah.
• 26:10
  And then like, so like they have different ways you can do it.
• 26:12
  So you can do like a guided 1 where they have like a guide
• 26:15
  that leads you and shit. Or they would just give you a
• 26:17
  map like here and go explore yourself.
• 26:18
  And we did that one. It was well worth it.
• 26:20
  Yeah, worth it, that one. Yeah, well, so you guys are
• 26:24
  adventurous. Oh yeah, Yeah, you're like,
• 26:26
  we'll figure it out. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Yeah, Fannie Bear, keep up when you get lost.
• 26:33
  We're just like, we're just, you know, off the edge.
• 26:35
  It was like, let's just go do it.
• 26:36
  Like we don't care. Like we don't, you know, we had
• 26:38
  more fun. Just felt like we went to
• 26:40
  Jamaica too, right? And then like we got off.
• 26:42
  It was on the cruise and we got off and then they're like, oh,
• 26:44
  don't take these taxis. These are like the sketchy taxis
• 26:46
  I'm going take. And guess what?
• 26:48
  We went on that sketchy taxi and we had the best fucking time of
• 26:50
  our lives. That's.
• 26:51
  Me on the time too though, like so honest.
• 26:54
  Actually, I think I probably should have passed away a long
• 26:56
  time ago. You know.
• 26:59
  That's, you know, it's like the amount of shit that I've gone
• 27:02
  into, I'm like, but actually I've met some of the best people
• 27:04
  there, I feel. Like can't.
• 27:06
  Judge a book by their cover. You can't.
• 27:08
  Yeah, you can't. So we just, we, we like I said,
• 27:11
  we're very adventurous. We've done a lot of stuff.
• 27:12
  We've skydive. We've we've done all kinds of
• 27:14
  stuff. We just go do it.
• 27:15
  And like I said, it's all while holding hands.
• 27:17
  No, no, about that. Not all that.
• 27:21
  I'm only clipping the part where I said that.
• 27:23
  I'm not clipping the other part where you say no.
• 27:27
  We clip them into sayings. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:29
  Like no, they said that they do. It's funny, but now we, like I
• 27:35
  said, we have a lot of things that in common too, like we golf
• 27:37
  all the time, we love golf. There's just like a different
• 27:40
  stuff that we just and we just go out and just fucking hang out
• 27:42
  and kick it and drink. We had to drink.
• 27:45
  Fair. Now I get that.
• 27:46
  So what's something that you guys have done then you're like
• 27:48
  never again. That was for the experience and
• 27:50
  then we're not doing this again. It could be both in business or
• 27:53
  in life or whatever, or a run or a workout or a 6:00 AM class
• 27:58
  again, or A5 AMI. Don't know, You know, there's
• 28:03
  been a lot of stuff, I guess, like you go through life and you
• 28:05
  like the day of, you're like, that fucking sucked.
• 28:07
  But then like a couple fucking weeks later, like, let's fucking
• 28:09
  do it again, you know? I don't know.
• 28:11
  I can't really think of anything right now.
• 28:12
  Yeah. I don't know, Like when I went
• 28:15
  through like basic training for like the Army, I was like, not
• 28:17
  during the basic training. That shit sucked.
• 28:19
  I hated it. But then when I left, I was
• 28:20
  like, I'm glad I wouldn't do that.
• 28:21
  That was pretty cool, you know? How long is basic training for?
• 28:24
  Like 12 weeks, 12 weeks, like 10 to 12 weeks.
• 28:26
  It depends. So like, well, your first, your
• 28:28
  first initial like entry, like a week long of like paperwork and
• 28:32
  shots they put in your ass and all kinds of shit.
• 28:34
  Fucking crazy. It hurts.
• 28:37
  And then like the I think it's yeah.
• 28:39
  And then it's like what, 9 weeks?
• 28:41
  I think it's like 9 weeks straight basic training after
• 28:43
  that. Yeah, OK.
• 28:44
  Well, it's training like for the non.
• 28:46
  Well, it's changed now, people. Who have sold their souls.
• 28:49
  I think it's, it's, I think it's changed now from when we went in
• 28:51
  back in the day. So it's, it was more intense
• 28:53
  back then. I heard it's a lot more chill
• 28:55
  now. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:56
  What did you guys have to go through?
• 28:59
  I don't know. We just.
• 29:00
  I don't. Know, I didn't think it was that
• 29:02
  bad. You're like I was trying to.
• 29:03
  Blur it. There he was a.
• 29:04
  Game that was like not that bad. We're thinking we're like that.
• 29:08
  Just looked. Yeah, yeah, like it was pretty
• 29:11
  chill. I think the time I think the
• 29:12
  worst thing for me was like having to stay.
• 29:16
  I I can sleep at any point at any time.
• 29:19
  I probably fall asleep right here but like having to stay
• 29:22
  awake for so long like they will.
• 29:25
  Not let you sleep? Yeah, you will.
• 29:26
  Not let you sleep. Yeah.
• 29:27
  It's it's there to like kind of put some stress on you that way,
• 29:30
  you know, if you were to transition into like real time,
• 29:33
  like war, you know, you have to. Kind of you have.
• 29:36
  To be right, people like see hey, who's fit to do this who's
• 29:40
  not you know so I mean I think like the FTXI do FTX where
• 29:46
  you're out there for a couple days that's.
• 29:47
  Like your last. So it's like your field training
• 29:49
  exercises. It's like your final like
• 29:52
  fucking you're out there for like a week straight and you're
• 29:54
  just non-stop going through missions and you have to prove
• 29:56
  like, you know, your leadership or, you know, like just just
• 29:59
  kind of like just going through the whole actual exercises.
• 30:02
  I mean, you have like rounds, like they're they're not,
• 30:05
  they're blanks, but everything's like real like how do you spell
• 30:08
  it? Like, yeah, like re enacted and
• 30:10
  whatnot. And so like they'll give you
• 30:12
  missions and whatnot. And then like your final thing
• 30:15
  you have to do is it's like the night fire.
• 30:17
  So pretty much like you have to go.
• 30:18
  It's like a football field long of sand and like you pretty much
• 30:21
  have to crawl like the whole way.
• 30:23
  And they're throwing live grenades next to you.
• 30:25
  And, and then they're shooting live rounds above you.
• 30:28
  So you cannot stand, you stand up, you're getting shot in the
• 30:30
  head. So like these drill sergeants
• 30:32
  are shooting like all these live rounds and you just see like all
• 30:34
  the like the lasers, it looks like lasers like all above.
• 30:36
  It's pretty cool. And so you do the whole FTX, you
• 30:39
  have to do like a rock March for like 20 something miles with all
• 30:41
  your gear on. You do like a couple days out on
• 30:44
  the field. You don't you don't sleep, you
• 30:46
  don't shower, you barely eat. And then the final thing is the
• 30:50
  final night fire. And then at the end of that you
• 30:52
  go pretty much you're like inducted into like your like
• 30:55
  ceremony that you finally finished basic training.
• 30:58
  And then like the next day and then they finally take you back
• 31:00
  to your barracks and then the next day you have like a
• 31:02
  warrior's meal and like it like they let you like just talk to
• 31:06
  everybody and just kind of relaxed.
• 31:07
  Now you're pretty much finished basic training and whatnot.
• 31:10
  So it was pretty cool. I guess the reward at the end
• 31:11
  was cool, but yeah, during it was.
• 31:14
  Brutal. It was.
• 31:15
  I mean, it sounds like, I mean, but it's also the situation that
• 31:18
  they're training you for stress. Yeah, yeah, right.
• 31:20
  So when you say no sleep, like no sleep at all?
• 31:23
  I mean, there's little. Sleep or like, what's the most
• 31:25
  sleep that you would get in a day?
• 31:27
  You know, like you're not getting.
• 31:28
  Your, I mean you. Would you're not getting your 12
• 31:29
  hours like? They would have lights.
• 31:31
  They would have lights out what like a 9 or 10 and then they
• 31:34
  would wake us up at like 5-4 or five like fitness, like PT in
• 31:39
  the morning. But but in that night time
• 31:41
  though, you have to do like night watch like rotations.
• 31:44
  So that was like the worst. Yeah, you have to wake up and
• 31:46
  stay awake for and if they caught you sleeping, then you
• 31:49
  get. Fuck you up.
• 31:52
  Have you been wanting to get into the medical field for your
• 31:54
  career? I know before our podcast career
• 31:56
  started taking off, I had thought about it.
• 31:59
  I think I'd be a good pharmacy technician.
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• 32:38
  Yeah, it was. Yeah.
• 32:39
  They would. They would jump in.
• 32:40
  They would smoke you is what they call it.
• 32:41
  They smoked. You what does that?
• 32:42
  Mean so like they would like make your ass do a bunch of push
• 32:44
  ups, sit ups like. Everything like you owe me 50
• 32:47
  burpees. Yeah, Oh.
• 32:48
  Right now, I saw you sleeping last night.
• 32:50
  And then like, well, The thing is too, if somebody.
• 32:52
  I I saw you with that teddy bear, fucking do it right now.
• 32:56
  Well, then it's like, and then The thing is like, you know, you
• 32:58
  fuck up, one person fucks up. Well, the whole platoon has to
• 33:00
  pay for it. Yeah.
• 33:01
  So then you have all everybody have to everybody.
• 33:03
  Yep, exactly. So we have, we have what's
• 33:05
  called a be accountable. We used to have what's called a
• 33:08
  battle battle room, like a battle Bay.
• 33:09
  And like it's like 1 big old room is just a big old concrete
• 33:12
  walls. And they would put us in there,
• 33:13
  shut the door. They're like nobody leave until
• 33:14
  these walls are sweating. And we would.
• 33:16
  Yeah, it was bad. Yeah.
• 33:18
  Everyone. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 33:20
  They're like, they'll make you do this thing.
• 33:22
  I think it's called Superman, Like the floor.
• 33:25
  It would be everybody's swelled by the floor, but they'd make
• 33:27
  you like do this and pull yourself.
• 33:29
  But it was so sweaty you couldn't pull.
• 33:30
  Yourself. They'd be yelling at you.
• 33:33
  They'd be like, that's just sucked.
• 33:35
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, oh, yeah.
• 33:38
  You're like the trauma, it's coming back, the trauma.
• 33:40
  But this was like I need a drink it out for real.
• 33:44
  These are like and then like when we went to basic train, we
• 33:46
  went to Fort Leonard Wood. Well, I went to Fort Leonard
• 33:49
  Wood. I went to South Carolina,
• 33:51
  whatever. That so where I was at in Fort
• 33:53
  Leonard Wood, like where we stayed at the barracks that we
• 33:55
  stayed and we're like old, like the building was super old and
• 33:58
  like it was just run down a little bad.
• 34:00
  But I think now that everything's all renovated and
• 34:02
  whatnot, I think they changed a lot of the regulations of the
• 34:04
  Army now. Like our PT test back in the day
• 34:07
  was a little different now from what it is now.
• 34:09
  I don't know really exactly how it is now, but you know, shout
• 34:12
  out my fellow Army buddies and they're still out there.
• 34:16
  We have a lot of friends still in the Army.
• 34:18
  We came in contact with them. That's another thing we do with
• 34:20
  the, so we was in an engineer company here and we was at the
• 34:24
  226 engineer company in Augusta, right?
• 34:26
  So it's an engineer company where they do a focus on a lot
• 34:29
  of construction or like natural disaster, like rescue or like
• 34:34
  recovery, like like picking stuff up.
• 34:36
  And so like whenever they have projects and they need
• 34:40
  electrical help, they'll call us.
• 34:41
  And we've collaborated with projects with, with them and we
• 34:44
  don't charge them or nothing. We're like, we'll do with you
• 34:45
  guys. And, you know, so we've had some
• 34:48
  good times where we we still got to see our old Army friends and
• 34:50
  whatnot when we do collaborations on those
• 34:52
  projects. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 34:54
  Yeah. I want to hear about a time
• 34:56
  where you guys made your whole team have to pay for something
• 35:00
  that you guys either slept too long for.
• 35:02
  And then what? That punishment was the talking.
• 35:06
  About like in the army, Yeah. Oh man, I.
• 35:09
  It was never on me. It was never on.
• 35:12
  Yeah, you just, you're like, I'm not saying.
• 35:14
  But there was, I mean, there was people like.
• 35:18
  They would go. Find the you know, and they'd
• 35:21
  find the person that was like lease in shape and they would
• 35:23
  pick on them like, you know, everybody do this push ups and
• 35:26
  if he if he doesn't make it, then everybody's getting you
• 35:29
  know, so everybody's like, come on, like he doesn't make it now,
• 35:32
  you know, so he can't be mad at that.
• 35:33
  But like it's, I didn't really think there was any times.
• 35:37
  Like, no, you don't. Like you say, you don't really
• 35:39
  get mad at each other. Teammate, you know, you're
• 35:41
  always. Most of the time it's like, you
• 35:44
  know, you know, that sucks, but also everybody's doing the same
• 35:46
  thing together. So we're all in together.
• 35:48
  We're trying to build that, you know.
• 35:51
  So what'd you do that made everyone?
• 35:53
  I never did my same thing. I never got it.
• 35:55
  But I will say one time I did like I had a good, like one of
• 35:58
  the drill sergeants sent me to go do like I had to go get some
• 36:01
  paperwork or something on another level.
• 36:03
  And like I'm walking by this room where they're getting
• 36:05
  chewed out by their drill Sergeant.
• 36:06
  Not even my platoon, it's a whole different platoon and they
• 36:09
  just grabbed me and put me in there with them.
• 36:10
  I'm like damn, I'm getting smoked with the whole amplitude.
• 36:12
  I'm not even with and I got fucked up and.
• 36:16
  You're like at wrong place, wrong time.
• 36:18
  That's exactly what it was. I'm like, I'm just here to grab
• 36:20
  paperwork to like get your ass in there.
• 36:21
  I'm like fuck you're. Like, yes Sir, I'm going.
• 36:25
  Yeah, and I got, I got smoked. It's all good though.
• 36:29
  Just a lot of experiences, but it was cool.
• 36:30
  But that like that was just basic training.
• 36:32
  And then after that, like the engineer company we was in is
• 36:34
  very chill. We didn't have, I mean, they
• 36:36
  didn't do that actually in your job title.
• 36:39
  They don't do that there. So yeah, yeah, you're pretty
• 36:41
  much there working. It's a job, yeah.
• 36:44
  OK, so So what would you guys say something that the military
• 36:47
  gave you and then something that maybe that it took from you and
• 36:52
  it. For me, it gave me a lot of
• 36:53
  great friendships. I still talk to a lot of great
• 36:55
  battle buddies. Yeah, that's it.
• 36:58
  Took from me. I don't think it took anything
• 37:00
  from me. You were perfect when you first
• 37:02
  got there. It didn't take away your, your,
• 37:04
  your fear or something and didn't take, you know what I
• 37:06
  mean? Like it didn't take anything.
• 37:09
  No, not really. I just like like for me, like
• 37:11
  I'm very family oriented. Like that's, that's one thing I
• 37:13
  did suck. Like when I left.
• 37:15
  I hate that I had to leave my family, you know, like, I'm
• 37:17
  really close to my mom and my siblings.
• 37:19
  And so just being gone away from them, that was my first time
• 37:22
  being like, gone like that. And then you don't have no cell
• 37:25
  phone access, like none of that stuff.
• 37:26
  Like when I was there, we had to write letters, you know what I'm
• 37:29
  saying? So he was only communicating 2.
• 37:30
  Letters and whatnot. Like dear family today I did.
• 37:33
  Yeah, pretty much. But Mom, I'm really happy.
• 37:38
  Hey Mom, what did you have for dinner?
• 37:40
  I really missed your cookie. Oh yeah.
• 37:42
  For. Real.
• 37:43
  Can you please make me somole when I get home?
• 37:46
  Yeah, their food. They cook.
• 37:47
  They cook all their food with no salt.
• 37:49
  No, there's nothing that's bland.
• 37:50
  Super bland. And then you have MRE's.
• 37:52
  You know what, MRE? Is the the packets right?
• 37:55
  Yeah, you have to eat those like every day.
• 37:57
  That shit was nasty. Steven, what about you?
• 38:03
  Said what is? What is something that the
• 38:04
  military gave you and something that it took from you?
• 38:08
  I think it gave me confidence. It gave me prior like leadership
• 38:16
  skills. I've been, I don't know about
• 38:20
  taking anything, but I think time, but I mean, I don't think
• 38:24
  I regret joining the military. Being the military I was.
• 38:28
  I think it put me to where I needed to be, you know, today
• 38:33
  and I enjoyed it. You know, everything.
• 38:35
  I went on deployment to Afghanistan for a year.
• 38:38
  That was just tough for, you know, obviously family kids
• 38:42
  here, so. How old were your kids at that
• 38:45
  time? 2010 so they would have been
• 38:53
  3:00 and 1:00. Oh, that is tough, Yeah.
• 38:57
  Yeah. But like, also tough on you.
• 39:00
  Yeah. You know.
• 39:01
  Yeah, for sure. Probably more on you.
• 39:03
  Well, like 'cause then you get back.
• 39:05
  How long were you gone for? One year.
• 39:06
  One year? Well, still, I mean like, you
• 39:08
  know, they're very impressionable still or like if
• 39:11
  you're not around enough, you know, and then they're and then
• 39:13
  they might not recognize you. I don't know.
• 39:15
  Those are stuff that I used to I.
• 39:16
  Mean they were younger, so it wasn't really I think it's it
• 39:20
  didn't really affect too much. Oh, OK.
• 39:22
  But yeah, it was, I mean, I liked, you know, you don't
• 39:27
  really these days, you know, you don't write people's letters.
• 39:30
  I, I liked that, you know, the feeling of not knowing when
• 39:34
  you're going to get like a care package is what they call it.
• 39:37
  So like, you know, my mom would write letters and put stuff in a
• 39:40
  box because stuff you can't get over there.
• 39:43
  So they'll send it to you and you just, you know, that's an
• 39:46
  exciting thing because then you're like, OK, now you got
• 39:48
  whatever she sent and then letters like, and then you write
• 39:50
  a letter back. So like stuff like that.
• 39:52
  I, you know, I still enjoyed it. It's just I think being away, I
• 39:56
  think what it I needed though at that point I was, you know, you
• 39:59
  get to work out every day, You know, it's.
• 40:02
  You can focus on, you know, other things except for instead
• 40:05
  of like when you're here, you're just always so busy.
• 40:08
  You feel like you have to do something.
• 40:09
  But when you're there, your time slows down and you feel like at
• 40:13
  some point I was kind of like I could be here for.
• 40:16
  I feel less stressed here than being back in the in the regular
• 40:19
  world because the expectation is this your job and you get off.
• 40:23
  You don't have to worry about the other things.
• 40:25
  You don't have to. You're not driving anywhere.
• 40:27
  You're not, you know, so I enjoyed it.
• 40:30
  Yeah, yeah. Do you like with care packages
• 40:33
  and writing letters? Is that something that you guys
• 40:36
  are now romantic with or? No, you don't do that.
• 40:39
  I haven't done it in a while, not since.
• 40:40
  You're like, fuck that shit, no one's getting a letter from me.
• 40:43
  But like he said, it was those days whenever we got the mail,
• 40:47
  like mail calls in, it was. And like I said, it's because
• 40:49
  you're just out there. You're like, you know, you're
• 40:51
  just, you don't have nobody. You're.
• 40:52
  Imagine, Imagine what a girl would feel like if you guys
• 40:56
  wrote them a little letter. Get that Dear John letter.
• 41:03
  Corey said fuck no. He said fuck all that.
• 41:11
  So OK, let's kind of switch a little bit back into you were
• 41:14
  saying a little bit about like even you, you got to focus on
• 41:16
  other things You were working out on your body.
• 41:18
  Let's come back a little bit to ERC.
• 41:21
  So why didn't you guys kind of name it?
• 41:24
  Well, E because you're a Lee Electric Company ERC.
• 41:29
  Yeah, Where the? Where the?
• 41:30
  Fuck is it? OK, I was like where the fuck?
• 41:33
  I think I. Got a blonde moment there.
• 41:35
  Yeah, I did. I did.
• 41:36
  I did. I was like, what?
• 41:39
  It wasn't. It wasn't adding up.
• 41:41
  I'll let Steven touch on that because they started it.
• 41:43
  So what was the question? Yeah.
• 41:44
  When did you guys start it? What?
• 41:45
  Was it? Yeah.
• 41:47
  Was it last year? Yeah, it was.
• 41:49
  Last year and I'm going to refill while I'm listening.
• 41:52
  I can refill. Yeah, it was last year.
• 41:54
  So I mean, maybe two years ago we were running pretty heavy in
• 41:58
  the summer, and then this last year we started running again
• 42:03
  and this is me, Luigi and Sana. And then we were like, well,
• 42:09
  there's, I don't know, just kind of like, hey, there's some other
• 42:12
  people that. Want to run to?
• 42:14
  So we're just like, hey, let's start meeting.
• 42:16
  I think I watched. There's a Dallas run club, it's
• 42:20
  called Run It Up and they have a it's huge, but it looked like a
• 42:26
  lot of fun. You know, it's like building
• 42:28
  community. You know, every people meeting I
• 42:30
  was like, oh, we should do that here.
• 42:31
  You know, let's get all of our friends together and just do
• 42:37
  something that we're already doing together.
• 42:39
  Why not just bring other people in and kind of build that that
• 42:42
  community? Yeah, so I kind of came down to
• 42:44
  like, you know, we have a big friend following and they were
• 42:47
  just like, hey, you know, we want to go run with you guys
• 42:49
  too. So we kind of just already
• 42:50
  started like having more people come with us and whatnot.
• 42:53
  And then we start collaborating with like other run clubs too.
• 42:57
  So like, you know, Fortune 88 with Cole, you know, he's he's
• 43:00
  killing it right now, Jake with was it run, run three, win six.
• 43:05
  Yeah, they're growing pretty big.
• 43:07
  So like going out and and collaborating with these run
• 43:10
  clubs and whatnot. And it's like, I don't know,
• 43:13
  it's just like it's all movement and like it's so great to be a
• 43:16
  part of it now, you know, Oh, you're that elite run club guy.
• 43:18
  Like, yeah, that's, that's me, you know, and when you guys meet
• 43:21
  together and all stuff and like, it started off, like I said, it
• 43:23
  start off with just a few of us and now just seeing how slowly
• 43:26
  we've been growing, like a lot of people just showing up and
• 43:28
  showing out. And so it's not a requirement.
• 43:31
  That's why I'd like to see people pull up because they want
• 43:33
  to help themselves in one way or another.
• 43:36
  And we're there to support them and help them any way we can,
• 43:39
  you know what I'm saying? So it's just it's great to see
• 43:41
  that growth within everybody, within themselves.
• 43:44
  I wouldn't, I'm curious more like, 'cause I, you guys have
• 43:47
  mentioned Sana a couple of times, so is she related to you
• 43:49
  guys? Is she part?
• 43:50
  Of no, she's, that's my daughter's mom.
• 43:52
  Yeah, my youngest, yeah, yeah. So she does all the videos she
• 43:57
  does. Maybe she now she does
• 43:58
  everything. She pretty much does all of it.
• 44:00
  And then I we just show. Up yeah, so she runs the ERC
• 44:02
  pretty much that's why I wanted to mention Sana.
• 44:04
  She runs the ERC, but we help her with the events we help her
• 44:07
  with the training and all that stuff.
• 44:09
  So like she like like approached me with a hey Luigi, like what
• 44:11
  do you think about doing the Tuesday training?
• 44:13
  You know, cause a lot of people want to do some hit training and
• 44:15
  you do pretty good. I'm just like, cool, I'll do it.
• 44:17
  And then same thing with tiny. You know, Sana approached Tiny
• 44:20
  and asked her to help as well and then, you know, just Steve
• 44:22
  and helping with the with the events at one time.
• 44:24
  So yeah, we kind of just all help each other and whatnot.
• 44:27
  Yeah, I love it. It's all in the family, you
• 44:30
  know, Or like, eventually, like, all the friends turn into
• 44:33
  family. Yeah.
• 44:34
  For sure, and that's the thing like it's we're big, you know,
• 44:36
  elite run club family. Like I said today like it was
• 44:39
  our first time back together fully and since what?
• 44:42
  Probably the prayer fire. Yeah, well, we didn't running
• 44:45
  yet. We we did a karaoke night.
• 44:46
  Oh yeah, so that's another thing too.
• 44:48
  So on top of the running like, we don't just like get together
• 44:51
  to do running you. Also dream.
• 44:52
  Yeah, so we it. Sounds like a reenactment of us.
• 44:56
  So that you would have joined if you came on Sunday.
• 44:59
  Had you got. Yeah.
• 45:00
  I mean, you purchased, but you didn't come.
• 45:02
  So like, also, you guys just kind of fucked up of them.
• 45:05
  Sorry. I'm kidding.
• 45:06
  I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
• 45:07
  I'm sorry. I forgot you had an emergency.
• 45:08
  But we had a. Steven, it's fucked up of you.
• 45:11
  I still support that pay, yeah. Hey.
• 45:16
  Exactly. You're helping us keep the light
• 45:18
  lights on. And I was going to say the other
• 45:19
  thing, but then I was like, Nah. So I guess like outside of like,
• 45:23
  so we kind of like fell off a little bit after the cold kind
• 45:25
  of hit us, but we still want to keep everybody together and
• 45:28
  motivated and whatnot. So we had like last month we did
• 45:30
  a adult skate night. So we all went to Carousel, had
• 45:33
  like adult skate night with everybody and then this past.
• 45:36
  It's fun to fall together. Yeah, yeah, that's like probably
• 45:39
  the worst thing we could have probably done.
• 45:40
  I'm going to go injure ourselves before our run season starts,
• 45:43
  huh? But.
• 45:44
  There is something. About like.
• 45:46
  Embarrassing yourself together, you know what I mean?
• 45:49
  But and then last weekend we did, like I said, karaoke night
• 45:52
  and we had it at our shop and it was pretty cool.
• 45:54
  Everybody had a good time. Oh yeah, I think I saw something
• 45:57
  that you guys posted. About Yeah, yeah, we did like a
• 45:59
  little karaoke night had like a potluck style.
• 46:00
  Everybody brought food, everybody brought BYOB, bring
• 46:02
  your own drinks. And we was there and everybody
• 46:05
  was nervous at first, but once the drinks kicked in, everybody
• 46:07
  was fighting for the microphone. What?
• 46:09
  Was the song that you guys went? What was your go to song?
• 46:11
  Should. We do a lot of regulators.
• 46:13
  We do some regulators, alright. We're rappers.
• 46:15
  Alright, we don't sing around. No, you don't wanna see it.
• 46:18
  You gotta pay. You gotta pay to see that you
• 46:19
  later. That's great.
• 46:21
  That's you gotta pay to see that the more show up.
• 46:25
  Yeah, Hey, we were going to have it in our playlist.
• 46:28
  I took, I took it off because I thought you were going to keep
• 46:30
  that song on. And so then like, and then we
• 46:32
  fucked up because both of us took it off.
• 46:35
  Yeah, we both had to. We both took it off.
• 46:38
  My little sisters called me. He's got, you know, some Warren
• 46:40
  G and some. That was the first song I
• 46:46
  committed to memory when I was like 4.
• 46:49
  I think everybody should know the lyrics.
• 46:51
  And my babysitter was like, you shouldn't know all the words of
• 46:55
  that song. You know, like. 4.
• 46:57
  Like. I think you should know the
• 47:00
  lyrics. If you don't know the lyrics, at
• 47:02
  least know the mound up. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:04
  Yeah, yeah, man. And you're not going to rap for
• 47:08
  us. Nah.
• 47:08
  I'm not going to rap. You got to pay for that or give
• 47:11
  me some more, or you got to get more drinks.
• 47:13
  You know, yeah. Yeah, I know.
• 47:15
  Yeah, I don't. I'll be I'll be D Jing for free
• 47:18
  or nothing. Exactly.
• 47:20
  You don't get a full hour mix out of me.
• 47:22
  You get the 20 minute mix. For free.
• 47:25
  Yeah. So, but yeah, that's part of
• 47:27
  like I said at the end of the day, it's all popped to growth,
• 47:29
  helping each other out, pushing each other.
• 47:32
  I know these this year we already like we have a big group
• 47:34
  chat of everybody and we're just kind of like touching back base
• 47:36
  with everybody and see what what we got planned this year.
• 47:39
  Yeah. Are you guys on?
• 47:40
  Do you use Messenger or WhatsApp?
• 47:43
  No, we have just everything on Snapchat, OK, just a big old
• 47:45
  group chat Snapchat, and then we just keep adding members as they
• 47:48
  come. On Oh my God, Snapchat is now
• 47:50
  going to charge us for like having to the memory on it like
• 47:56
  have you guys not seen that yet? Are you guys going to pay for
• 47:58
  it? I don't.
• 47:58
  Know I don't have Snapchat. So how do you stay in the chat?
• 48:01
  I tell them yeah. That's where you need WhatsApp
• 48:06
  or Messenger. We use Messenger and I use
• 48:08
  WhatsApp with like other friends instead.
• 48:10
  Well, the FBI is watching you on the Snapchat.
• 48:12
  Now you hear about that girl that got.
• 48:14
  No. What happened?
• 48:16
  Had a group chat, she put something in there and police
• 48:19
  showed up to her school I. Think yeah, I think she said
• 48:21
  like, oh, there was some little girl something they were like on
• 48:24
  a group chat and say something about her boyfriend and like,
• 48:26
  oh, I'm going to kill him or something like or something kind
• 48:28
  of thing. Yeah, some crazy thing,
• 48:29
  something like that and BI showed up.
• 48:33
  I seen somewhere something like that be.
• 48:34
  Careful with your Snapchat. Yeah, be careful.
• 48:35
  What you say be. Careful with Snapchat.
• 48:37
  I mean, apparently according to the recently released 3,000,000
• 48:41
  Epstein files, they're watching all the emails and stuff
• 48:45
  anyways. That's true.
• 48:46
  That's true. Wait, I thought, I thought that
• 48:48
  was because like they took his stuff.
• 48:51
  Well, that's why he had to. They had to talk in codes and
• 48:53
  stuff because they're being watched already.
• 48:57
  Yeah. We see that new movie that came
• 48:58
  out recently with Chris Pratt called Mercy.
• 49:01
  You've seen their previews. I haven't seen that one.
• 49:02
  It's like, it's like, it's like it's called the mercy program
• 49:05
  where everything's AI, like the whole judge like program is like
• 49:09
  AI and like they can they give you like night.
• 49:12
  Like if you're convicted of like, I guess like the movie,
• 49:14
  he's like convicted of murdering his wife and they gave you 90
• 49:16
  minutes to prove your innocence through AI.
• 49:20
  So like, and you have access to everything.
• 49:22
  And it's crazy what they pull up.
• 49:23
  Like they tap into phones, cameras, like everything you
• 49:27
  know, and you can ask for it. So it makes me wonder, like what
• 49:29
  they really tap into these days. Right, right.
• 49:31
  They're tapping into our podcast for real.
• 49:33
  They're. Probably watching.
• 49:34
  This. They're probably laughing.
• 49:35
  Because I'm so much fun. They're like, man, I want to
• 49:39
  drink with her. They see her hair like no threat
• 49:41
  there. No threat there, she's just
• 49:44
  mentally broken. That's a blue hair.
• 49:51
  Fanny, we're good. That's funny.
• 49:55
  Oh, shit, no. But yeah, Snapchat is I I'm
• 49:57
  curious what people are. Yeah, like Snapchat right now is
• 49:59
  saying that like you have to pay.
• 50:02
  Look, hold on. I show you.
• 50:03
  I show you. You must have a lot of photos or
• 50:05
  something. There I do that's.
• 50:06
  It that's your. Problem a memory every day.
• 50:08
  For real, that's you. Four years ago, I've had it
• 50:10
  forever. I've had it.
• 50:11
  I've had it too forever but never asked me anything.
• 50:13
  No, OK, 'cause the cloud storage full 23.1 GB.
• 50:18
  Probably like 20,000. Out of five, Yeah, dude, 'cause
• 50:21
  like, you know, I had Snapchat since, like, it started, OK,
• 50:24
  right, 'cause I mean, Snapchat's not that old.
• 50:26
  But then I guess when you think about it, I guess we're old.
• 50:28
  But speak for yourself. Well, I'm younger than you.
• 50:31
  I'm the youngest one here, actually.
• 50:33
  Kidding, but. Let's not talk about age on the.
• 50:38
  Yeah, we're not. Talking about age.
• 50:39
  Thank God. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:41
  But yeah, no, now it's charging you, which like, I never really
• 50:45
  saved my like, I used it like as a separate storage, you know
• 50:49
  what I mean? Like if I was like with my
• 50:51
  friends or whatever and you know, you're recording, I used
• 50:53
  it as a storage there 'cause you know how you can store it there
• 50:56
  and then you don't put it in your photo album or whatever,
• 50:59
  'cause it was just easier and they won all my shit everywhere.
• 51:02
  And so now I'm like, fuck, do I have to transfer all this shit?
• 51:05
  Well, wasn't there a point where people's Snapchats were just
• 51:08
  deleting or something like that and they lost all their
• 51:09
  memories? See, that's what I'm saying.
• 51:12
  I think I've seen something like.
• 51:12
  That and now they're going to charge you.
• 51:15
  How much are they charging though?
• 51:16
  What, like a dollar? I, I I'm not going to pay
• 51:19
  though. Actually, yeah, I didn't think
• 51:23
  I'm thinking you're not wrong. OK, so it's you're.
• 51:27
  Definitely paying for that. So OK, so it's monthly 490-9199
• 51:33
  per month for 250 gigs of storage.
• 51:36
  Annual is 199 per month. And then you can do platinum
• 51:39
  which is $14.00. You were right.
• 51:41
  You're so I'm paying though that shit.
• 51:46
  I'm like that's I'm the worst person like to because like I do
• 51:50
  apps, but I'm the worst type of user to design for it, which is
• 51:54
  good, I guess, because like it keeps me honest and it keeps me
• 51:56
  like, how do I make sure that people want to use this?
• 51:59
  But like I am that user that like I never want to give my
• 52:02
  e-mail. I don't want to fucking pay for
• 52:04
  the subscription. And no, you cannot.
• 52:07
  Every time it asks for me for the cookies.
• 52:09
  Nope, you can't get access to my cookies.
• 52:12
  I'm always like, no, no, no, to everything.
• 52:15
  And then like I'll be in the meetings talking about this
• 52:17
  business strategy of it, and I'm like, yeah, I think it's really
• 52:20
  good that we capture the cookies because then we can track
• 52:22
  retention. Yeah.
• 52:24
  Well, that thing that you showed me the day of the monarch, I
• 52:25
  didn't realize how many subscriptions I had on my prime.
• 52:28
  And I'm like, oh, fuck yeah. So like he was showing me like
• 52:31
  this new financial like thing that kind of organized your
• 52:34
  finances and stuff and your money.
• 52:36
  Monarch. It's called Monarch Yeah and
• 52:38
  like out and it and it brings up all you just you just attach all
• 52:41
  your accounts and it. I didn't realize I was paying
• 52:43
  for some shit on prime. I was like what the fuck, I'm
• 52:44
  paying for this, so I'm like going through and like clearing
• 52:48
  my finances up a little bit more.
• 52:50
  I mean, believe it or not, like it's not much, but it adds up
• 52:52
  it. Adds up.
• 52:53
  It adds up, though. It adds up.
• 52:54
  Yeah. Yeah, the rich, yeah.
• 52:57
  Yeah, I put my referral link in the.
• 52:59
  There you go. $50 off. Yeah.
• 53:02
  I think. So bad.
• 53:04
  Hey, if you want to come on the pod as a sponsor, please hit me
• 53:09
  up. We're here's to
• 53:10
  youpod@gmail.com, Here's to you cast on Instagram and here's to
• 53:16
  you pod on TikTok. So reach out to us.
• 53:18
  We do have sponsorships. Like when have you got tequila,
• 53:21
  One Life Spirit who sponsors this and allied health career
• 53:24
  and training. So, Speaking of sponsors.
• 53:26
  Why you guys want to sponsor us? You know what?
• 53:30
  We've sponsored. So much or in the last couple
• 53:32
  years and we're as you should I'm not gonna lie, we're kind of
• 53:34
  pulling back a little bit. Oh, that's like that'll just I'm
• 53:36
  not Eddie Pans, Eddie Pans. But like before we would say yes
• 53:40
  to everybody and everything. I mean, we was sponsoring Little
• 53:43
  League baseball. We were sponsoring what was it
• 53:46
  soccer. We were sponsoring events, we
• 53:48
  were spotting and then like finally, like when Mike came and
• 53:50
  we broke down our. Finances.
• 53:51
  Oh, I bet. Yeah, 'cause.
• 53:52
  He's a spot. Yeah, yeah, he was like.
• 53:54
  Yeah, we need to cut back on all this.
• 53:56
  Just saying yes to everybody because we're just too nice.
• 53:58
  We don't want to say, you know, we feel bad.
• 54:00
  You know, we want to help the kids.
• 54:01
  We want to help everybody, you know, the nonprofits and
• 54:03
  everything. But it does add up it.
• 54:05
  Does add up? A lot.
• 54:06
  But one thing about what the Elite Academy though they are
• 54:09
  looking it's a nonprofit organization.
• 54:11
  It'll be a nonprofit, so we'll be looking for, you know,
• 54:14
  sponsors, partners. You should get with Empower.
• 54:18
  Have you have you talked to Libya, Libya over at Empower?
• 54:22
  You should talk to her. OK, sorry, sorry.
• 54:25
  Hey, shut up. Lydia haven't reach out to you
• 54:27
  soon. Well, you know, the thing about
• 54:29
  like what I want to point out to is like, so a lot of people when
• 54:32
  they think of like high school and getting high school,
• 54:35
  everybody thinks you automatically have to go to
• 54:36
  college. Yeah, right.
• 54:38
  There's trades schools that are cheaper, pastor.
• 54:42
  I mean, there's so many ways to do it.
• 54:43
  I didn't know about like when I was of like out of high school,
• 54:46
  like I grew up Latino. My mom, like, you know, she
• 54:49
  raised us thinking you have to work a nine to five and you have
• 54:52
  to go or go to school and go to college, right?
• 54:54
  You know, 'cause I mean, like, that's the American dream that
• 54:56
  was sold to all immigrants. Stuff.
• 54:58
  Like any immigrant, right? Like you were sold that too.
• 55:01
  Like that's the American dream is that you can get a house and
• 55:03
  that you can get own a car. And that's through working in
• 55:07
  eight to five and going to school.
• 55:09
  Exactly. So like when I graduated high
• 55:11
  school, when I, I got, I, I dropped out, I got my GD, but I
• 55:14
  went to AI was, I know I was kind of bad in school, but my
• 55:19
  sisters live out for that. But like I, I went to college,
• 55:22
  like I went to college and I, I built up this tuition and I
• 55:25
  never even finished college just because I just, I didn't enjoy
• 55:27
  what I was doing. And then I found out about the
• 55:29
  trade schools and the trade schools were like way cheaper.
• 55:31
  And it's like I said, it's not, it's something you take with you
• 55:34
  the rest of your life, you know, as an electrician, whether it's
• 55:37
  electricity or plumber, HVAC, like mechanical, I mean,
• 55:41
  everything there's, there's different trades.
• 55:43
  I'm not saying become an electrician.
• 55:44
  There's so many trades out there, but that's what we want
• 55:46
  to show. Currently cutting hair and being
• 55:48
  a hair stylist is. Awesome.
• 55:49
  I mean, that's what I'm saying. There's so many things.
• 55:51
  They come in, they come in with their, I like those reels when
• 55:54
  they come in where they're like, we're a trade and then they're
• 55:56
  like wearing the overalls and everything.
• 55:57
  But like, a lot of kids don't know that.
• 55:59
  Yeah, a lot of these kids do not know that.
• 56:01
  Like I said, they think. Because you're not exposed to it
• 56:03
  exactly. So that's why we want to kind of
• 56:05
  promote like if anybody wants to know more about how they become,
• 56:09
  they can become electrician or if they don't want to be
• 56:10
  electrician or a plumber or or mechanic, like whatever, we can
• 56:13
  help and point them in the right direction for sure.
• 56:15
  Yeah. So that's one thing we want to
• 56:17
  like put out there just to kind of help with those that, you
• 56:20
  know, maybe their kids have a vision or want to do something
• 56:22
  'cause we get people asking us now a lot more, hey, how like,
• 56:25
  how do I get a license? And we tell them the process.
• 56:28
  There's a full process to it. Right.
• 56:30
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that's true
• 56:32
  though, like because going to college and doing all that
• 56:36
  honest, I mean, I went that route, but it's not, I'm not
• 56:39
  dogging it either. I think it's just not for
• 56:41
  everyone, you know what I mean? And I think that's important
• 56:44
  though. Like that we know that like it
• 56:45
  doesn't have to be and you don't need to feel bad about that.
• 56:49
  Like there are so many options for you.
• 56:51
  And then there's also so many like as, as you continue to grow
• 56:54
  in life and you're just like constantly.
• 56:57
  Changing well, let me just say this, I'm not going to throw a
• 56:59
  full blown dollar amount, exact dollar amount, but you can get
• 57:02
  your full journeyman's electrical license in 4 1/2
• 57:05
  years for around 10 to 15,000. And what are college costs now
• 57:09
  what we're just talking about? Yeah, colleges cost like, well,
• 57:11
  how much credit Like it's, it's amazing.
• 57:15
  One class is like. $15 it's crazy, you know, So there's a
• 57:20
  lot of famous. I can't afford that a lot, you
• 57:21
  know, some of these kids don't get that scholarship or the ride
• 57:24
  or anything like that, you know, so they have to find a way to
• 57:26
  get that or there's other routes too.
• 57:29
  Yeah, for sure. So that's one thing we want to
• 57:31
  help and promote with the Academy.
• 57:33
  If they want information on that, we can help them on that,
• 57:35
  you know? Come out with a very good paying
• 57:38
  job. I mean you and that's.
• 57:39
  Another thing, and that the trades are growing.
• 57:41
  Right. Well, The thing is too, there's.
• 57:42
  No one going into trade. And then another thing with it
• 57:44
  though, too, is you work while you go to school, so you're
• 57:46
  getting paid while you're going to school.
• 57:48
  Look at that. He's a salesman.
• 57:49
  No, I'm being serious. Like.
• 57:52
  Hey, coming out in April to a town near you.
• 57:54
  August. Oh, August, coming out in August
• 57:59
  2020, sixth to a town near you. But I mean, what's it called
• 58:02
  again? Elite Apprenticeship Academy.
• 58:04
  Elite Apprenticeship Academy, we're here to turn you on.
• 58:09
  That's the motto. That's if I have my shirt on.
• 58:12
  All our shirts. Have it?
• 58:13
  You mean if you have your shirt off?
• 58:16
  You have one of those? Do you have one of those those?
• 58:18
  We gave you guys some cars and senses and they have them on
• 58:20
  there and we get commented on those all the time.
• 58:23
  They love them. Let me see that.
• 58:24
  Check it out and you can check out we bought that merch for you
• 58:28
  guys. That was the worst throw you
• 58:30
  could ever hear to turn. You on?
• 58:32
  Well, I tell you, I'm not playing.
• 58:33
  That's our motto. I like it.
• 58:34
  I like it. Throw it again.
• 58:36
  I'm kidding. He's going to hit my head.
• 58:40
  Oh, they're you. Can have the winter.
• 58:42
  Ice, What do you think it was? Winter, can I open it?
• 58:44
  Go for it, I want to smell it. Go for it, make a car smell.
• 58:47
  Smell it? You guys hear that?
• 58:50
  That's really good. This is what Enter Ice smells
• 58:53
  like. I'll tell you real quick.
• 58:57
  Smells very fresh. Oh my God I'm turning myself on.
• 59:00
  It works. I'm there bro.
• 59:09
  It's funny though, because our shirts have them on the back and
• 59:11
  it says, you know, our logo on the front and then the back says
• 59:13
  here to turn you on and then it says call da da da da.
• 59:16
  Yeah. And hey, no this.
• 59:17
  Amount of comments we get for that model, it's it's hilarious.
• 59:20
  I love it. I love it.
• 59:21
  Hey, no, this smells really good.
• 59:22
  Smelly. I'm I'm not kidding.
• 59:24
  That was that was just for the ad.
• 59:25
  That's for the clip. Oh yeah, it does.
• 59:29
  That's very fresh. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:33
  It's like fresh laundry. We need, we need to make more.
• 59:35
  Yeah, Every. Those are a hit.
• 59:37
  Those are a hit. We always ask people those are a
• 59:39
  hit. Everybody would ask us to make
• 59:40
  more of them. And and the people even leave
• 59:42
  them just hanging, even though that scent's gone.
• 59:44
  Like, we still have your logo here.
• 59:45
  Thank you. Appreciate.
• 59:46
  That. No, I do like this.
• 59:48
  Yeah, you guys should. Yeah, I like this idea.
• 59:52
  You know, sometimes like that's what sucks is like when you make
• 59:54
  merch, it's like you need to make it functional that
• 59:57
  someone's going to want to use. You know what I mean?
• 59:59
  We have. We have chapsticks too.
• 1:00:00
  Oh, oh, wait, I liked your. I liked your Christmas sweater.
• 1:00:04
  Oh. You liked that?
• 1:00:05
  That was cool. Nice.
• 1:00:06
  Yeah, he had the idea for. That those were cool Instagram
• 1:00:10
  yeah I'm going to we're going to have to put so we have your
• 1:00:13
  picture here. Sorry, Dusty or editing.
• 1:00:15
  So we have. So we were supposed to do a five
• 1:00:18
  year anniversary the year before and we never got a chance to do
• 1:00:21
  it because we got busy. So last year we did our six year
• 1:00:23
  anniversary Christmas party and he had the idea of us, me, Mike
• 1:00:28
  and Steven. We had custom elite.
• 1:00:30
  It was like, 'cause it was like a ugly sweater contest.
• 1:00:32
  So we made like some custom elite sweater, you know.
• 1:00:36
  So I wonder if they were ugly, but they were cool.
• 1:00:38
  No, they were. Cool.
• 1:00:39
  They're not. Ugly.
• 1:00:40
  They're cool. They were pretty.
• 1:00:41
  Cool, they were cool. Like I'd rock that for.
• 1:00:42
  Sure. Yeah, we got a lot of
• 1:00:43
  compliments on them. So it's pretty cool.
• 1:00:44
  Yeah. No, I liked them.
• 1:00:45
  I liked them. So I want to know like, OK,
• 1:00:50
  stepping out a little bit from all the business, from all the
• 1:00:52
  running, from building ourselves up and then like it just kind of
• 1:00:55
  coming back to who we are as people, right?
• 1:00:57
  So like let's kind of who we are without the acolytes, without
• 1:01:02
  the names, without this. So if Elite disappeared
• 1:01:06
  tomorrow, would you say you guys are?
• 1:01:11
  Go ahead. Like what would I do or who am
• 1:01:15
  I? Yeah, Who?
• 1:01:16
  Who are you? I don't think about what you
• 1:01:18
  know. We're not here to glorify all
• 1:01:19
  the. Capitalist, let's say if elite
• 1:01:22
  disappeared tomorrow, I would be, I mean, I would still be a
• 1:01:25
  father. I've recently gotten back into
• 1:01:31
  church, so that's something that I'm pushing this year.
• 1:01:37
  And then I don't know, I think I'm just a someone who wants to
• 1:01:42
  help as many people as I can. So I I don't know what I would
• 1:01:48
  do. But those are things that
• 1:01:51
  probably be a golfer. Play golf every day.
• 1:01:54
  I love that. Yeah.
• 1:01:55
  Smelling the grass, yeah, right, 'cause I would.
• 1:01:58
  Yeah. The grass on the golf course is
• 1:02:00
  really. Nice.
• 1:02:02
  We go to, we go to drink. When you gonna actually golf?
• 1:02:07
  He'd be whipping around the golf.
• 1:02:08
  Cart, you know what we play and we play decent, but we're really
• 1:02:12
  there to drink and have a good time.
• 1:02:14
  We went yesterday, we went yesterday.
• 1:02:15
  It was paddling him back and. I thought you guys went this
• 1:02:17
  morning, so that was yesterday. OK, OK, OK.
• 1:02:21
  Yeah, OK. Luigi, who are you?
• 1:02:23
  I'm Luigi. Oh, sorry, Luigi or Louise, what
• 1:02:27
  do you prefer? So I've been calling you Louise
• 1:02:28
  on. This whole thing, No, it's all
• 1:02:30
  good. So my real name's Louise.
• 1:02:32
  When I was a baby, my family gave me the nickname Luigi and
• 1:02:35
  it's stuck. And it's been that my whole
• 1:02:37
  life. So my friends and family that
• 1:02:39
  really know me are close to me. They all call me Luigi.
• 1:02:41
  So and I prefer Luigi. Honestly, I prefer Luigi.
• 1:02:44
  And it's funny though, because like my mom and my Dias and
• 1:02:46
  everybody, they're all he kind of, and they have that accent.
• 1:02:49
  So like when they say it, they can't say Luigi, so they say
• 1:02:51
  Luigi. And it's so funny, but.
• 1:02:54
  That's what they call me. Literally everybody called me.
• 1:02:56
  It was funny because one of my cousins yesterday, I was at my
• 1:02:57
  aunt's house and then one of my cousins called me Louise.
• 1:03:00
  And everybody looked at him like, who the fuck is Louise?
• 1:03:02
  And then they're like, that's Luigi.
• 1:03:05
  So that's I I prefer Luigi. OK, OK.
• 1:03:07
  I'm sorry. Have a tattoo mommy and
• 1:03:09
  everything. Am I your friend now that I can?
• 1:03:10
  Just call you Luigi. Call Luigi, yes.
• 1:03:12
  You heard that here first. So if Lee were to disappear, I
• 1:03:17
  mean, for me, I don't have any kids, I'm no girl, nothing.
• 1:03:22
  I'm just kind of like AI like to help people too.
• 1:03:25
  I've always felt like people. God put me on this earth to help
• 1:03:28
  other people before myself. So I put a lot of people before
• 1:03:31
  myself all the time. I'm going to continue to be that
• 1:03:33
  person. I'm not a St.
• 1:03:35
  I'm not I'm not perfect. I've had my, you know, mistakes
• 1:03:38
  in life, but I take all those mistakes as learning curves in
• 1:03:42
  my life. So but my thing is always to
• 1:03:45
  help somebody. So that's why I like I told you,
• 1:03:47
  I hate running, but I do it because I motivate people.
• 1:03:49
  I guess I don't know why, but I motivate them.
• 1:03:51
  That's why I do it with them. Working out, I love working out.
• 1:03:56
  That's it. I mean, like I took a big
• 1:03:57
  fitness journey these last two years.
• 1:03:59
  I kind of, I lost a lot of weight.
• 1:04:01
  I was a bigger dude and I've kind of got more into like
• 1:04:04
  building myself up more muscular, I guess you can say.
• 1:04:07
  And I really love fitness now. It's like my niche.
• 1:04:10
  So, so just sticking, just sticking with that, I guess and
• 1:04:13
  tattoos. Yeah, shut out.
• 1:04:16
  I'm the tattoo guy. Steven, are you, do you have
• 1:04:18
  any? Yeah, you.
• 1:04:19
  Do yes I. Don't you?
• 1:04:22
  Just look like I have. Any I can't even remember if you
• 1:04:24
  wore but do you have a sleeve? Though yeah, I have my whole
• 1:04:26
  chest, this arm, this whole leg. OK, I I figured you had sleeves,
• 1:04:30
  but then I was like, I didn't creep enough.
• 1:04:32
  Yeah. I don't.
• 1:04:34
  He's always just, you know. I mean, he's.
• 1:04:36
  Definitely. More, yeah, he's definitely more
• 1:04:38
  tatted, but I mean, I think, I think like to a point, I mean,
• 1:04:42
  you still have your chest and you have two sleeves.
• 1:04:44
  I think there's a point where you get to it where you're like,
• 1:04:47
  no, I only have like 1-2, three, you know what I mean?
• 1:04:50
  And you're probably like at a point where you're like, yeah, I
• 1:04:52
  have 123. Four.
• 1:04:54
  Here's the thing I get asked every day at the gym, How many
• 1:04:57
  tattoos do you have? And I'm just like one big one.
• 1:04:59
  Yeah. See what I mean though?
• 1:05:01
  That's how it feels. That's how it feels like when
• 1:05:03
  someone. Why the blue?
• 1:05:04
  Because I'm fucking cool. Leave me alone, Yeah.
• 1:05:07
  I was gonna ask three questions. How many do you have?
• 1:05:09
  How much did it cost and did it hurt?
• 1:05:11
  I'm like 1 big 11, big one. I don't know how much I spent.
• 1:05:14
  And they always fucking hurt. Yeah.
• 1:05:17
  So, I mean, I'm. I'm being serious, you know?
• 1:05:21
  Of course that's a fucking needle for fucking 8 to 10
• 1:05:24
  hours. It fucking hurts.
• 1:05:25
  Yeah. Do you like, do you guys like
• 1:05:27
  the tattoo paint? No, I hate it too.
• 1:05:30
  No. Yeah.
• 1:05:31
  I hate it. Like I'll start something big
• 1:05:33
  and then I'm like. Look, I'm going to be honest
• 1:05:34
  with you guys in front of everybody.
• 1:05:36
  Full disclosure, I went years, years of putting my whole body
• 1:05:39
  is like, well, I'm like 8085% covered for years with no
• 1:05:42
  numbing cream. And now I fucking use numbing
• 1:05:44
  cream. And I don't care what anybody
• 1:05:45
  says. I use numbing cream.
• 1:05:47
  I fucking use numbing cream. I don't give a shit.
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  I put in my time. I use it now.
• 1:05:51
  Yeah, yeah, now I hear that. Do you use numbing cream yet or
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  not? No, I haven't had to.
• 1:05:57
  I don't I'm done tattoo. I just.
• 1:05:59
  You're done with. You're probably done for a
• 1:06:01
  while. I'll probably get this leg, the
• 1:06:03
  rest of this leg done, but there's always room.
• 1:06:06
  Yeah, there's always room, There's always, there's always a
• 1:06:09
  little corner. Everybody you got a little.
• 1:06:11
  Corner, everybody always says like, aren't you fully done?
• 1:06:14
  Do you have any more space on? Like there's always room.
• 1:06:17
  There's a little corner we can fit something.
• 1:06:19
  In it's just, that's just who I am, though, like, so like my
• 1:06:21
  mom, like my mom very old school.
• 1:06:23
  She doesn't like, like tattoos and whatnot.
• 1:06:24
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:06:25
  So like growing up, like I was, I would get tattooed and like my
• 1:06:29
  mom would like, hit me on the head or something.
• 1:06:31
  Like, why'd you do that for her? And now it's like to a point
• 1:06:34
  where it's who I am and I get them.
• 1:06:36
  And like, she don't even like, realize it no more.
• 1:06:37
  Well, I mean, you're kind of covered.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah. Pretty much like you.
• 1:06:40
  Know where it's at, but she doesn't know where it's at.
• 1:06:42
  You know what I mean? Like.
• 1:06:44
  It's like I when I did my birds on my neck, it was like one day
• 1:06:46
  I was eating at her house. I didn't even tell her.
• 1:06:48
  And then like two months later she came in.
• 1:06:50
  She was like, when'd you do this?
• 1:06:51
  I'm like, no, I had it for like 2 months already.
• 1:06:54
  It's just, you know, like this is who I it's just part of who I
• 1:06:57
  am now. No, I get that.
• 1:06:58
  I was I was. I had gotten my calf and I'm not
• 1:07:01
  that tatted. I only have the outside and I
• 1:07:05
  had it's. Just such a weird way to put
• 1:07:10
  that. And so I had gotten my calf and
• 1:07:16
  then my dad, I was in the kitchen and I was wearing shorts
• 1:07:19
  and my dad was like, what the fuck?
• 1:07:20
  When did you get that? And I was like, man, I've had
• 1:07:22
  this for I've been around you in shorts for at least almost a
• 1:07:28
  year, which was a year when I got it a year ago.
• 1:07:33
  One thing like I try to do though, I like, I try to stay
• 1:07:35
  like professional, like I wasn't going to do my hand.
• 1:07:37
  There's no such thing as that. That's what I'm saying though,
• 1:07:39
  right? Like, 'cause like as a business
• 1:07:40
  owner, like I want to present myself where I can cover myself
• 1:07:43
  up and still present myself professional, right?
• 1:07:45
  But I feel like now tattoos is just a way of life, you know
• 1:07:47
  what I'm saying? And I've gotten more compliments
• 1:07:49
  about my tattoos and I've got any kind of negative looks or
• 1:07:52
  anything about me. So I finally caved in and I got
• 1:07:55
  my hands done. And shout out Emerson, Emerson
• 1:07:58
  did my hands. George Martinez is my other
• 1:08:00
  artist. He does all he's done.
• 1:08:01
  He's done all most of my work. But now it's just like I said,
• 1:08:04
  it's a way of life now. And if you have a way that you
• 1:08:07
  feel towards that person, I look a certain way I perceive like
• 1:08:10
  I'm a bad guy or something because of tattoos.
• 1:08:12
  Like that's your personal issue. Sounds like, 'cause I really am
• 1:08:15
  a big teddy bear. Yeah, yeah, no, I hear that.
• 1:08:18
  One of the nicest guys you probably ever meet so.
• 1:08:20
  Yeah, no, I got that. Yeah.
• 1:08:23
  I, I work, I work in corporate America.
• 1:08:25
  I feel like now at this point, like if I were to interview
• 1:08:29
  somewhere that's like, hey, you got to wear you cover that or
• 1:08:31
  change your hair. I'd be like, this is not the
• 1:08:33
  place that I need to be in because I'm.
• 1:08:35
  Not a culture. Fan.
• 1:08:36
  Like no, that's me too. Like now I go to my customers
• 1:08:39
  houses or when I meet with my GCS and I do my, you know, my
• 1:08:42
  meetings and whatnot. They love it.
• 1:08:44
  They always compliment it. I'm like, this is who I am.
• 1:08:46
  And then I built, honestly, I built some great relationships
• 1:08:48
  just because of my tattoos. Yeah, it's something that people
• 1:08:51
  feel like you're more human in a.
• 1:08:52
  Way. Oh yeah, for sure.
• 1:08:53
  You know what I mean? You're just like you're not,
• 1:08:55
  you're not perceived a certain way, I guess.
• 1:08:58
  But of course you you do still get the looks or the things in
• 1:09:02
  certain like sometimes like travelling out to certain
• 1:09:05
  countries, it's still illegal you.
• 1:09:07
  Know. Oh yeah, no, I've heard about
• 1:09:08
  that. I've seen, I've just seen
• 1:09:09
  something. Yeah, you still have to wear
• 1:09:11
  like a long sleeve if you're pretty.
• 1:09:12
  Really. Tatted in.
• 1:09:13
  Certain. Places.
• 1:09:14
  Yeah, certain places. Yeah, that you want to get into,
• 1:09:16
  like tattoos are illegal here. Yeah, that's crazy.
• 1:09:19
  I did see something like that where like they kind of frown
• 1:09:22
  upon if you have a lot of tattoos and whatnot.
• 1:09:24
  Yeah, but I mean. So it still kind of depends, but
• 1:09:27
  I mean, I think that's everywhere.
• 1:09:29
  But there is something about traveling that really opens your
• 1:09:31
  whole eyes to everything, yeah. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 1:09:34
  Definitely keeps you grounded. What would you guys say is like
• 1:09:38
  a version of success that you're still feeling like you're in
• 1:09:41
  learning? For me, real estate, I want to
• 1:09:45
  get to more real estate. So I have two rental properties
• 1:09:48
  right now. I want to get more heavily
• 1:09:52
  knowledgeable in real estate, eventually get to a point where
• 1:09:56
  I can purchase more properties and have that passive income.
• 1:09:59
  You know, that's like my goal is like real estate these next
• 1:10:01
  couple years. I want to tap in more into that.
• 1:10:03
  So that's one thing I want to learn a lot more.
• 1:10:06
  Do you have a team or do you do that by yourself?
• 1:10:07
  No, just me and Steven. Well, me and Steven have one
• 1:10:10
  together, We share one together. And then I have one on my, I
• 1:10:13
  have a separate LLC myself and I have one property that I just
• 1:10:17
  have. So, yeah.
• 1:10:19
  But eventually I want to get more into real estate.
• 1:10:22
  Yeah. So gotcha.
• 1:10:23
  Yeah. What's the question?
• 1:10:29
  What's like a version of success that either you're still
• 1:10:32
  learning or trying to unlearn A. Version of I say for me this
• 1:10:39
  year, like my a big a big goal of mine, I guess is not being
• 1:10:46
  you talked about the the hustle culture.
• 1:10:49
  I'm I've have been very also culture like, hey, you know,
• 1:10:55
  feeling your feelings don't matter.
• 1:10:56
  This not like get to work, put in the work.
• 1:11:00
  I think this year some of the things that I want to do and
• 1:11:04
  like vision of success for me would be to be spend a little
• 1:11:08
  bit more time like be able to be mentally away from work and like
• 1:11:13
  spend that quality time with my kids.
• 1:11:16
  I think putting in for myself because I think I put so much
• 1:11:19
  out for everybody else that I don't, you know, I don't really
• 1:11:23
  focus on the health and all that stuff.
• 1:11:24
  So that's something I want to do.
• 1:11:25
  So putting more into myself, putting more into my family,
• 1:11:28
  that's kind of what a vision of success would be for me for this
• 1:11:32
  year. So.
• 1:11:33
  I love that. Yeah, that's such a hard thing.
• 1:11:35
  Like I feel like you're always learning it and unlearning it
• 1:11:37
  and you know, and you're constantly doing this over and
• 1:11:40
  over and over and over until. I think it gets to a point where
• 1:11:43
  you're just so like tunnel vision, yeah, you know what I'm
• 1:11:46
  saying? And you just forget everything
• 1:11:48
  else, you know, like just around you kind of.
• 1:11:50
  And you just like you said, like you don't, you don't put invest
• 1:11:52
  too much time in yourself. And I'm going to say that he's,
• 1:11:55
  he's more fucking focused than I am.
• 1:11:57
  Like he's always fucking like this.
• 1:11:59
  I'm like, bro, sometimes you got to revert a little bit and enjoy
• 1:12:01
  yourself a little bit. I try to tell him that
• 1:12:03
  sometimes. So that's a hard thing.
• 1:12:05
  Yeah, yeah. For me, like, I mean, my thing
• 1:12:07
  is my fitness, you know, like I enjoy getting off of work and
• 1:12:10
  going straight to the gym. That's like my getaway at the
• 1:12:13
  gym. We have like I have my business
• 1:12:14
  phone and I put it away. I'm like, hey, I'll call you
• 1:12:17
  tomorrow, you know, like my customers or something like
• 1:12:19
  that. It's not that I'm trying to
• 1:12:20
  ignore you, it's just I need my time to.
• 1:12:22
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's hard.
• 1:12:24
  Yeah. It's hard.
• 1:12:25
  And then like when you get to a point where you're like equating
• 1:12:28
  who you are to that you, you take that in and it's like, no,
• 1:12:32
  I need to realize that there's a time for me to, of course.
• 1:12:37
  You have to, you have to, you have to have balance.
• 1:12:38
  Yeah, you have. Because if not, you're going to
• 1:12:40
  go crazy, yeah. So we're at this point where we
• 1:12:43
  go into Lightning Grounds. This is where we ask you guys a
• 1:12:48
  bunch of questions. And these questions are meant to
• 1:12:51
  be a little more like fast-paced.
• 1:12:53
  And I'm going to switch to my phone for this.
• 1:12:58
  It sounds scary, but it's not that scary.
• 1:13:01
  Yeah, we'll ask you like just some random questions in here.
• 1:13:05
  And then you, you kind of just want to say what's off the top
• 1:13:07
  of your. Head If I offend anybody
• 1:13:10
  advance, I apologize. I'm very, I'm very blunt, so.
• 1:13:13
  That's not. Yeah, yeah, We're going to ask
• 1:13:15
  you guys a bunch of political shit.
• 1:13:17
  I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
• 1:13:20
  I'm sorry. That's one thing you can ask me.
• 1:13:21
  Politics. I'm going to tell you I don't
• 1:13:23
  know. I don't fuck with politics.
• 1:13:25
  I'm sorry. That's a good answer.
• 1:13:26
  Yeah, sometimes. So I don't know.
• 1:13:29
  Especially right now, it's just like too much.
• 1:13:30
  I'm like, yeah, yeah, I got other things I worry about in my
• 1:13:33
  daily life. OK, what's harder, starting your
• 1:13:38
  business or staying consistent when no one's watching?
• 1:13:42
  Stay consistent. I was starting your business.
• 1:13:46
  Starting your business? Yeah.
• 1:13:47
  Why? Why for both?
• 1:13:50
  OK, so I would say staying consistent just because I mean
• 1:13:53
  starting it is because like how we start off small.
• 1:13:55
  I felt like it wasn't that hard to start it.
• 1:13:57
  I feel like staying consistent and trying to keep and maintain
• 1:14:00
  it's it's been more stressful. I feel like on my on my part or
• 1:14:04
  just take me thinking about it. I think if you're passionate
• 1:14:07
  about something, you're, you'll be consistent.
• 1:14:09
  And I think that starting it, you know, people, people do a
• 1:14:14
  lot of the analysis paralysis like, oh, I got to do this.
• 1:14:16
  Oh, what should I do? I think jump in, start it and
• 1:14:20
  and figure it out and you'll be consistent.
• 1:14:23
  See. Different answers.
• 1:14:24
  I know I I know, I like this. I really.
• 1:14:27
  Like this? I love this though.
• 1:14:30
  I love you need balance like that.
• 1:14:33
  What's a habit people praise you for that you actually feel like
• 1:14:36
  you kind of suck at? I think I wouldn't say have, I
• 1:14:42
  would. I think people think that I feel
• 1:14:48
  like I don't work hard enough or that I don't do enough.
• 1:14:51
  But I feel like people are like, oh, you're doing so good, you're
• 1:14:53
  killing. And for myself, I always feel
• 1:14:56
  like, I don't know, I feel like I could do more.
• 1:14:58
  And I don't think it's like a thing about seeing other people
• 1:15:01
  doing more. I think it's just.
• 1:15:03
  I know, I don't know. I it's.
• 1:15:05
  Like you want to push yourself more.
• 1:15:06
  It's like a little drive. Yeah.
• 1:15:08
  In the back of my mind, I'm like, you shouldn't be.
• 1:15:10
  You could have done this. Like keep going, keep going.
• 1:15:12
  I don't know. That's my thinking.
• 1:15:15
  I'm, I'm, I'm actually, I'm the same boat with that one too,
• 1:15:17
  where I feel like a lot of people look at me like, oh, you
• 1:15:19
  guys are doing so big and it's so good.
• 1:15:21
  I'm just like, but the background saying like I'm not
• 1:15:23
  doing the best myself. I feel like there's always going
• 1:15:25
  to be more improvement. So yeah, let's see, guilty
• 1:15:31
  pleasure show or content you guys like to like, look and
• 1:15:35
  watch? Guilty show.
• 1:15:37
  I don't. I don't commit to the fucking
• 1:15:38
  shows. I don't have time.
• 1:15:40
  It's a guilty pleasure like you. Like a chocolate chip cookie, I
• 1:15:44
  mean. OK, yeah, if you want to talk
• 1:15:45
  about fucking nutrition, I'm fucking.
• 1:15:47
  I have a sweet tooth like a motherfucker.
• 1:15:48
  I'll ice cream, ice cream, ice cream flavor.
• 1:15:52
  I'm a chocolate kind of guy. Chocolate.
• 1:15:54
  Any type of chocolate or are we talking?
• 1:15:56
  Rocky Road. Rocky.
• 1:15:57
  Yes, Rocky Road. That's my favorite chocolate.
• 1:15:59
  That's my, you know, but I I talk all this fucking fitness
• 1:16:02
  shit, nutritional shit, but you'll catch me on a fucking
• 1:16:05
  Sunday at Brahms and they're fucking dry food.
• 1:16:07
  So I got to have my fucking sweet fucking cravings every
• 1:16:10
  once in a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my
• 1:16:12
  that's my guilty pleasure is been not binge, but like fucking
• 1:16:17
  cheating on my fucking nutrition and getting me a pint and and
• 1:16:20
  alcohol. They're a.
• 1:16:21
  Little stuck. There and alcohol.
• 1:16:23
  And alcohol. That's fair.
• 1:16:24
  And alcohol. I, I, you know what, did you
• 1:16:26
  guys see that Bert Crushire podcast where he's like, I keep
• 1:16:28
  myself healthy enough where I can.
• 1:16:30
  Oh yeah, I love, I love, I love his motivational speech.
• 1:16:33
  On it that. That's my favorite thing all the
• 1:16:35
  time. I'd be like.
• 1:16:36
  You know what, I went nine months over for a while and it
• 1:16:38
  was cool, but I just love my drinks, man.
• 1:16:41
  I love it. So that's me, alcohol and ice
• 1:16:44
  cream. Mine gives a pleasure.
• 1:16:49
  I play Fortnite with my daughters.
• 1:16:51
  I, I think it's more of a bonding thing, like all three of
• 1:16:53
  my daughters will there. So it's a four player thing and
• 1:16:56
  we play together. But also like that point, I
• 1:16:59
  think I kind of overdo it 'cause we'll be playing a little too
• 1:17:02
  much. I feel like maybe this isn't
• 1:17:04
  like I, I mean, it's bonding, but also I'm kind of like, is
• 1:17:07
  this like parenting like good. Parenting like maybe we should
• 1:17:10
  be doing something? Maybe we didn't be at a four
• 1:17:12
  hour session. Today, yeah, I'm like 2 hours
• 1:17:14
  should have been enough. I'm teaching them something and
• 1:17:18
  tell you fucking. Around.
• 1:17:19
  I love it, though. That's what.
• 1:17:20
  Hey, at least you're fun. You're bonding.
• 1:17:22
  At least you're fun. I'm gonna play.
• 1:17:23
  Fortnite day in my life but. Yeah, I've never played more
• 1:17:25
  party in you. Yeah.
• 1:17:27
  Yeah. But that's fun.
• 1:17:28
  You're doing it with your your girls, your kids.
• 1:17:30
  Yeah. What's some of the best advice
• 1:17:34
  you've ever received? Best.
• 1:17:37
  Advice. Damn, that's a good question.
• 1:17:40
  God, I don't know where to start on that one.
• 1:17:42
  I don't know, best advice I feel like.
• 1:17:46
  I mean, for me, I guess it's just, you know, talking to other
• 1:17:50
  business, like we go to a lot of networking events, we talk to a
• 1:17:52
  lot of big business gurus, multi millionaires, all that stuff.
• 1:17:57
  And one thing they always say is when we especially at the golf
• 1:18:00
  events, you know, we see them at the golf events, they're like
• 1:18:03
  take time for yourself, you know, outside of whatever you do
• 1:18:06
  routinely work, working out, whatever it is, you got to kind
• 1:18:10
  of step away from that and then kind of have fun.
• 1:18:12
  Hence why I love playing golf. That's, you know, so you got to
• 1:18:15
  just kind of have that balance, I guess.
• 1:18:18
  We've met a lot of people at these golf events and they've
• 1:18:22
  told us a lot of stuff. I can't remember every single
• 1:18:23
  one of them right now. But you know, just talking to
• 1:18:25
  them guys that been around for a long time making all this money
• 1:18:28
  and just seeing them now, they're just like kicking back
• 1:18:31
  and they letting other people run the show for them.
• 1:18:33
  And that's one thing we want to do one day too, so.
• 1:18:38
  I don't know how he put it, but somebody told me I have.
• 1:18:42
  They said always, if you always do what's right and you always
• 1:18:46
  do like, like to say if something happens, even though
• 1:18:50
  you're embarrassed. So like, and you're, you always
• 1:18:52
  want to over communicate and be very truthful with with what you
• 1:18:56
  do, you're always going to be successful.
• 1:18:57
  And that's kind of something that we've put into what we do.
• 1:19:00
  No matter, you know, what kind of situations.
• 1:19:03
  Sometimes, you know, there's something that goes wrong and
• 1:19:05
  you're just like, man, this is like, it's a stupid mistake.
• 1:19:09
  But also, you know, look stupid talking to whoever it is.
• 1:19:12
  But I think doing the right thing, no matter how much it
• 1:19:15
  cost you. I think doing the right thing,
• 1:19:16
  no matter how much, how stupid you're going to look, that's
• 1:19:20
  always the right thing to do. Because at the end of the day,
• 1:19:23
  you know, karma comes around and that's what's going to make you
• 1:19:25
  successful is being able to always do right by people.
• 1:19:29
  And you don't want to be looking over your shoulder thinking
• 1:19:31
  like, oh shit, I'm going to see this guy here.
• 1:19:33
  You know, so I don't, I don't remember who told me that, but
• 1:19:37
  they had to talk. And I've always kept that with
• 1:19:39
  me. And that's how we do.
• 1:19:41
  I do everything that I do. There's a lot of uncomfortable
• 1:19:43
  stuff you have to do as an owner, especially the phone
• 1:19:46
  calls dealing with stubborn customers.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah, running with people or running alone.
• 1:19:54
  With people. With people I.
• 1:19:55
  Don't run alone. Why?
• 1:19:57
  It's fucking boring. Do you guys?
• 1:20:01
  Listen to music while running. All the time I listen to music
• 1:20:03
  you. Listen to music and you still
• 1:20:04
  prefer to have the company. Yeah, like because you're going
• 1:20:07
  to. Talk well, so like what I'll do
• 1:20:08
  is like, so I'll have my headphone, I'll put like 1
• 1:20:10
  earbud in. But like I still talk to
• 1:20:11
  everybody around me. You know, if, if I'm in a
• 1:20:14
  competition, if I'm in an event where I have to like PR or do my
• 1:20:17
  own record, then I'm locked in, right?
• 1:20:19
  I'll put my headphones in and I'm going and I'm focused,
• 1:20:21
  right? But for the most part, I hate
• 1:20:24
  it. I'm there because I'm there with
• 1:20:25
  everybody else, but I'm running by myself.
• 1:20:29
  But with them, I don't know if I can say that right, But for the
• 1:20:31
  most part, I love running with everybody else.
• 1:20:33
  Yeah, OK. Yeah.
• 1:20:35
  I don't. I don't listen to music when I
• 1:20:36
  run. You don't.
• 1:20:37
  No, you just raw dog in life. I'm just just raw dog in the
• 1:20:41
  course. Just raw dog this shit.
• 1:20:44
  I said I got enough and. You're like more kids I'm
• 1:20:46
  getting. Thoughts in my head that I can
• 1:20:48
  stay busy all the. Time.
• 1:20:50
  That's my favorite type of dogs. I'm just kidding, Just kidding.
• 1:20:56
  That sounded. That sounded awful.
• 1:20:58
  That's not what I said. I just.
• 1:20:59
  I just always. I think that's a funny saying.
• 1:21:02
  So I say raw dog in the walk. Shut up.
• 1:21:09
  Oh my God. OK.
• 1:21:11
  What's something that you used to chase that you don't care
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  about at all anymore? Used.
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  To chase used. To chase I don't care about
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  anymore. I would say like, so like I
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  said, I don't have Snapchat, but I, I don't say Chase, but I
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  would, I think I used to like, you know, sometimes you like
• 1:21:39
  post something. So it's like somebody sees I'm
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  doing something. Now I, it's very like I'm not
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  really on social media like that.
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  If I didn't have a business, I probably wouldn't be on social
• 1:21:50
  media at all. But like, you know, I don't have
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  Snapchat. I'm rarely on the Facebook,
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  Instagram, so I miss a lot of message and stuff.
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  But I used to be like, you know, checking that stuff, you know,
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  And now I hardly look at it. Yeah, no, I got that.
• 1:22:04
  Yeah, it's hard. I think for me it's just, you
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  know, I've always been a social person, so I used to want to go
• 1:22:10
  to like every event and party and club or anything like that.
• 1:22:14
  You know, I went through a phase where I was just partying all
• 1:22:17
  the time. I was out Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 1:22:20
  Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you know, like, you
• 1:22:23
  know, we used to, like, kick it. Yeah.
• 1:22:25
  Like, so I was always like, you know, I just didn't want to miss
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  anything. You know the FOMO.
• 1:22:30
  Yeah, that's what it is. It's the FOMO.
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  Yeah. I would always want to be at
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  everything. And now I'm just like, you know
• 1:22:35
  what? I like being in bed at home by
• 1:22:37
  8:00 and just chilling and relaxing, you know, So I don't
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  chase that no more. No.
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  I do have my nights though. I mean, so I'm still, like I
• 1:22:44
  said, I'm not young, but. We're young.
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  Damn it. But you know, I still, I'm still
• 1:22:51
  just, I mean, I'm like I said, I'm single.
• 1:22:53
  I ain't got no kids, so I can just get up and go and do
• 1:22:55
  something and, you know, go party.
• 1:22:57
  But I don't chase it. I don't crave it, you know.
• 1:22:59
  So yeah, I'm more there for like if it's a friends event, I'm
• 1:23:03
  going to go support it more than anything.
• 1:23:04
  If it's like all Rock Island's doing, you know, Latino night
• 1:23:08
  tonight, I was like, oh, I have to be there.
• 1:23:09
  Like no, I know. I know I can't listen to Bad
• 1:23:14
  Bunny while I'm. Cleaning.
• 1:23:15
  Hey, do some Audrey. Do some deep cleaning.
• 1:23:18
  That's me. Yeah, that's me at home for
• 1:23:20
  real. I couldn't be mopping.
• 1:23:22
  I guess get. Some shit done at home because
• 1:23:24
  I'm never really home. So yeah.
• 1:23:25
  That's me now. So no, I get that.
• 1:23:27
  OK, what deserves a toast right now?
• 1:23:31
  What deserves a toast right now you guys for having us here?
• 1:23:36
  Oh yeah, yeah, we're cool. I.
• 1:23:37
  Know and I already drink my drink so I don't.
• 1:23:38
  I can't even toast anymore. Oh.
• 1:23:40
  Shit. No, like I've been watching you
• 1:23:44
  guys podcast is amazing. I love it.
• 1:23:46
  I love how you guys do incorporate the drinking.
• 1:23:48
  You guys have fun. You know, some people have very
• 1:23:50
  serious podcasts. You know, we listen to podcasts
• 1:23:52
  quite a bit, you know, and that's cool.
• 1:23:55
  Everybody tweets their own, you know, some some of them.
• 1:23:57
  There's a place for everything. Exactly, you know, but I love
• 1:23:59
  how you guys have the the you know, the hangout, the aesthetic
• 1:24:02
  behind everything. Shot me go with the shot.
• 1:24:04
  You know the spot and everything is pretty dope.
• 1:24:07
  I love how you guys do it. And then you guys, you know,
• 1:24:09
  looked at us like, hey, we need to have them guys on here.
• 1:24:11
  We appreciate you guys. So I'm going to toast to that.
• 1:24:15
  Thank you. I toast the Bad Bunny, man.
• 1:24:22
  Me getting more excited over that than our toast I've.
• 1:24:25
  Been watching a lot of like, you know, the clips and stuff that
• 1:24:27
  like seeing just what you know, the I love that like I'm only
• 1:24:31
  watching the Super Bowl to watch that, you know, and that you
• 1:24:36
  know, him being able to win that best album of the year, the
• 1:24:39
  first person with an all Spanish album.
• 1:24:43
  That's fucking badass. I love seeing the content, I
• 1:24:46
  love that passion and I love seeing people win and that.
• 1:24:49
  It's kind of sad to see the separation of what this nation's
• 1:24:52
  going to because of that, you know, it's just super sad.
• 1:24:55
  You know, us being veterans, like we are very close with
• 1:24:59
  everybody and we wanted to see. And that's why, that's why I
• 1:25:01
  don't get involved in politics because I don't, I don't want to
• 1:25:04
  have any anger between anybody. But at the same time, it's just
• 1:25:07
  sad to see that, you know, this whole ICE thing, it's fucking
• 1:25:10
  crazy. I don't want to speak on it just
• 1:25:12
  because my family's Mexican, Mexican too, you know what I'm
• 1:25:14
  saying? Like just having growing up in a
• 1:25:17
  Latino life and family, it's, it's it's sad to see this right
• 1:25:21
  now what we're going through. And I just don't try to just,
• 1:25:24
  you know, I try to look away by the same time.
• 1:25:25
  It's hard to look away. How do you look away at this?
• 1:25:27
  You know, but the whole Bad Bunny thing, yeah, it's badass.
• 1:25:31
  It's badass. Yeah, man, shout out to him.
• 1:25:33
  Yeah, for real. Well, now we've heard a little
• 1:25:35
  bit about you guys, your passions, your interests.
• 1:25:38
  Tell us and our listeners where we can find you and where we can
• 1:25:40
  support you guys. Go ahead, Steven, that's all
• 1:25:42
  rude. All right, you can find this on
• 1:25:45
  Instagram at Elite Electric. I think under score, Elite
• 1:25:50
  Electric, under score. You can find us at Elite
• 1:25:54
  Apprentice Academy. Facebook.
• 1:25:56
  You can find us on Facebook. You can find us on Google.
• 1:25:59
  We have. We're on Google.
• 1:26:01
  Coffee we have 6:30 in the morning.
• 1:26:04
  Yeah, we have a web we have, we have a website, you know
• 1:26:06
  www.eliteelectriccompany.com you know, you can book on there.
• 1:26:11
  And you can go to one of their events while they're running or
• 1:26:13
  getting work at it with them. Elite run club, like I said and
• 1:26:16
  like I said, we collaborate with a lot of other run clubs.
• 1:26:18
  So just you, you'll see us out there, we're very social.
• 1:26:21
  We'd like to be involved with everybody and support everybody.
• 1:26:23
  So and that's why we're here with you guys too and support
• 1:26:25
  you guys as well. Oh, thank you.
• 1:26:27
  Well, Barriva. Plus, yeah.
• 1:26:29
  I know, I know, I know. I got a LOTRO barriva.
• 1:26:32
  Can I, can I pour a shot real quick?
• 1:26:33
  Yeah, do. It yeah, do a shot.
• 1:26:35
  Do a shot. Yeah, do a shot.
• 1:26:41
  I thought you weren't. Drinking is that, is that, is
• 1:26:46
  that una Vida? OK, shout out, Bryce on the una
• 1:26:48
  Vida. Yeah, that's my dog.
• 1:26:51
  They're keeping the lights on for us.
• 1:26:53
  Yeah, I'm trying to. All right, Well, thank you,
• 1:26:57
  guys. By the Santro.
• 1:26:59
  By the anthro. Delicious.
• 1:27:05
  Thank you, Bryce for the una Vida.
• 1:27:09
  Thank you guys for having us.