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SHOP TALK #6 - Frankie, Malcolm & Eddie · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  How you doing Frank? How's life as a shop owner at
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  the moment? Pretty bad.
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  This is one of those weeks where I owe the state of New Jersey
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  $12,000 because QuickBooks fucks some up.
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  I'm going to owe almost the same amount of money in rent in about
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  a week. I got credit card payments due
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  on my birthday, so in two days that I don't have the money for,
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  I have to pay you guys tonight. And yeah, so it's pretty bad, I
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  would say, but this is just normal.
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  Hey. Business as usual.
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  As they said, sounds like the American Dream.
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  Living the dream and then everyone just comes in and they
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  go. Must be nice.
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  You have a shot. Yeah, I mean, in some eyes, it's
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  like those are nice problems to have, I guess, right?
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  Yeah, sure. I guess owing people all your
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  money so you don't have any. Yeah, I guess that's a good
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  problem to have. I don't know, like I don't know
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  what was that one question. Remember that guy?
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  He was like, oh, that was the that was the last podcast.
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  So it won't have anything to do with this this Patreon video
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  but. What was it He.
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  Was like, would you do anything differently with the shop?
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  And I was like, in my head I was like, yeah, not do it, but
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  that's really it. I mean, I guess right?
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  Or what? Yeah, I mean.
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  Or just have like a shitty looking shop and just living
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  here in the darkness. Like the old shop?
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  Yeah, no. Oh.
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  Like don't renovate. Yeah, this when we moved in,
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  yeah. Imagine I didn't do a terrible
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  Yeah. That's.
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  What I mean? That'd be terrible.
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  Like I feel like we didn't have a choice.
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  Probably be smoking cigarettes by now.
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  Just ashing on the ground. In the shop.
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  I mean, in the office you could smoke cigarettes in the shower.
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  Like no one's going to say anything.
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  Yeah, but it might make people's cars smell.
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  Yeah, I mean, we would never do that, but I'm just saying has.
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  Anybody ever smoked in here? Probably Ethan, if anyone.
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  Yeah, probably. It was probably like snowing
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  outside. I'm not fucking going outside.
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  Or Miyagi. Those two are the only ones that
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  probably would have. But yeah, I don't know.
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  I just owe a lot of money and it's annoying.
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  I want to. I want to get that New Jersey
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  thing done with. How many months straight have
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  you been listening to me say, OK, I just need to do this one
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  more thing and then we won't owe anyone money any any more money
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  every month for the last what? Yeah, a year.
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  At least a year, right? Yeah.
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  That's I feel like that's going to be the case every month.
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  Yeah, I don't like it. I don't know.
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  I don't know what to tell you, kid.
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  The only the only thing that can help is like selling more parts
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  on the website. That's the only thing that could
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  help. Yeah.
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  Obviously getting more service work too, but I feel like the
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  service work has been pretty good this month.
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  It's really good. Yeah, it's busy.
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  Yeah, it's busy as fuck and they're they're big but easy
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  job. Not easy, but like.
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  Like in and out type of stuff. Almost less less than a month
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  turn around. Yeah.
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  If that's a three-week turn around.
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  God help us, please keep sending that work, because that's the
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  only thing that's keeping this place alive right now.
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  The fact that we still get new customers.
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  Is a good sign, says A. Lot.
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  I think it's more more important that the repeat customers keep
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  coming. Which they do, that's what.
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  I'm saying that's even more. Like we already get the repeat,
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  we already have our, however dozens of repeat customers.
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  But the fact that we still get unique customers, new new faces
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  is that's progress, baby. Yeah, that's show business.
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  Chris was talking about 1/3 employee, the other I was like
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  slow down about the brakes. Yeah.
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  I can't afford another technician.
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  That's crazy dude. I mean, the shop's big enough
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  for it, but it's just that's no, just no.
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  Like the shop worker would have to increase what, 30%?
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  I would say more. 50%, probably, yeah, probably 50% of what it is
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  right now. It would have to increase by and
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  it would have to be steady, which is a whole nother problem.
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  I mean, even with like 2 mechanics right now, it's like,
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  is it steady enough? You know what I'm saying?
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  This month, yes, but that was it, yeah.
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  Was it steady the whole month for 2%?
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  I actually think it was steady the whole year for two
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  mechanics. But you still have that doubt in
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  your mind like this shit could Like, yeah, we.
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  Were just waiting for winter. Here we are.
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  We're in September so now, but. Winter.
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  Last winter was the best winter ever.
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  Yeah, but. So this winter might be even
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  better. Yeah, let's see what happens.
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  Maybe. Like last winter, it it was
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  almost as if nothing really like the weather didn't.
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  January was crazy. Yeah.
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  January was the best January. January was the best month we've
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  had ever, wasn't it? Yeah.
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  Was that when I was here? Yeah, no, this last.
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  Oh. This, yeah.
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  Yeah, it. Was right like on paper that was
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  the. Yeah, I mean with.
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  That that made no sense. Origin giveaway, I guess it did
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  a lot. Yeah, that origin.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So. Yeah oh 100% Every winter is
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  literally like. You've seen the show.
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  Right. You've seen The Last of Us,
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  right? I was going outside.
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  I was thinking about that other show where they just like a
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  tumbleweed rolling winter is coming.
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  Oh yeah, you've seen game. Of Thrones, yeah, that's what.
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  It feels you've seen the White Walkers.
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  What's that girl like? It was slow though.
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  Oh, Amelia. Amelia Clark.
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  I'm not really an Amelia Clark fan, but God damn in that role.
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  Yeah, what was her name? Fuck Daenerys.
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  Daenerys. What's her other name is?
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  She a Targaryen with. Her Daenerys Targaryen, but she
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  had another name when she. Was Mother of Dragons.
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  With her when she was a queen to the the Dothraki guy Khaleesi
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  Khaleesi. Daenerys let me see the
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  derriere. That was something, right?
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  I thought it. Cooked with that one.
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  Radio silence. And the whole time I was saying
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  that I was like, we do have one chick in here.
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  There is one chick Patreon follower.
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  So yeah, watch what I say. No, I don't.
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