This is episode number 315 of The Homeowner Show. Whether you're DIY or looking to hire, we're here to help you find the best information and options for you and your home. My name is Kevin Hacken, and here with me is Greg Williams.
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The Homeowner Show. We are so glad that you could join us for another live episode here in the studio. How you doing, Kev?
Man, I'm doing good. It's, man, one of my favorite weekends of all the year.
Oh, because you like basketball?
I, well, I, you know me, don't you? Like, if it's sports related, I probably do love it. Yeah. But yes, I do love college basketball. Thoroughly enjoy it. And March Madness is so much fun for me. Yeah. Who else?
Who else still kicking it?
Well, I mean, it's, this is the second round ends tonight. We're recording this on Sunday. If you're listening to the podcast, this will go out in a couple of days from now, but So we're— we'll head to the Sweet 16 coming up.
And so right now, I mean, all the number ones are still in, you know, Auburn, Florida, Houston, and Duke are still in. My Red Raiders are still in, which is awesome. A&M's right out, but they got beat by Michigan.
And it looked like they got shellacked.
Yeah, they— well, they did. I actually, believe it or not, believe it or not, I picked them to win over Michigan.
But they didn't. And so it won't be the last wrong thing I did in my bracket, but I almost had— I had Florida losing to UConn today, and Florida was losing until about the last 2 minutes of the game and didn't lead at all in the second half until then. And then they lost by— they won by 2. So, okay, I had some, some crazy picks in there that I thought, you never know. I mean, this might happen, but we'll see what happens. It's just fun, man. Like the one and done. It's just the nature of, of March Madness is fun.
Yeah. So, yeah, so we got, we got a full studio tonight. We do.
Full house. You want to bring them in now?
Yeah, we got, we got Ryan and Shay. Let everybody know who you are and what you guys do.
We'll go— let Brian go first.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm Brian with Jet Clean Pressure Washing. And this is my wife, Shay. We are glad to be here.
Okay, cool. Just here to make us all look ugly.
I don't believe that one minute. Yeah, any time there's—
I'm gonna talk that one time and then I'll take over.
I mean, I've found typically that when there's a woman in the business, she does all the work. So. That's, is that not true?
I do all the physical work and she handles literally everything else. I mean, I'm just saying, like, she starts telling me about websites and all this stuff and I'm like, okay, that sounds good.
Yeah. Yeah. Let me know when I need to get in the truck and go somewhere.
That's funny. All right. So before we do a deep dive on y'all's business, we got to handle a couple of news stories.
And then we got to, we got to thank our sponsors. Which one do you want to do first? Uh, let's do sponsors first. Let's do sponsors.
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So a couple of quick stories I wanted to hit on tonight, mostly because I think they're interesting and fun. I know, I know Ryan and I were talking a little bit before the show, but have you heard about the discovery with the pyramids?
If LiDAR has done what we think LiDAR has done, something unbelievable has been discovered.
Yeah. So 2,100 feet beneath the surface.
Let's explain what's happened.
Well, they found 8 symmetrical cylinders underneath the pyramid that look like structures that almost are like corkscrewed.
Um, and, and it, it'd be weird if they found one. It's really weird that they found 8.
That are almost exactly the same size, 2,100 feet underneath the pyramid.
But the purpose of them, who knows? Yeah. We, my guess is that they're, they're structural.
So, yeah. I mean, in, in some ways it's almost like pillars, you know, that we, we build pier and beam stuff all the time. you know, with, with 12-inch piers.
Um, but like, why would you go down that far? And what they're— I don't know what they're saying that they found with the LiDAR is that there actually are rooms.
Well, that's— here's the thing. If it was done, if it was done the way it looks like it was done, they could have been both. They could have been both structural and supported like something inside of them as well. Um, now where that trapdoor is to get like down into it, it's why I think the cylindrical actually makes sense because those could be stairs or something, um, to, to help you get into different compartments. It's, it's wild. If you haven't seen images of it, like, go online and look.
It's very interesting. She's shaking her head. She's like, I haven't seen this.
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Yeah. Well, it's— no, it's these, uh, Italian researchers that have been out there. Like, it's a kind— it's a form of radar that they've been shooting underneath the ground. And they found these cylinders going 2,100 feet. And for those of you that don't know, like 2,100 feet's a long fricking way.
I mean, you know, 300 feet is a football field, right? So 100 yards. So we're talking, you know, 700 yards below the surface.
And if you don't know what, like LiDAR is a mapping system.
Is really what it is. So like if you have it, we talked recently about a robot vacuum Most robot vacuums have a little, you know, something on top of it that looks like a little cylinder and it's got a little spinny thing on it. That's LiDAR. And it maps, it helps map out your house.
Basically, basically like a fish finder for the desert.
Yeah. No, it's a, it's a great, a great way to, it's a, it's a mapping system. And so they're able to find things. It's bizarre.
Well, so, okay. So I, I read an article. That said, what they've found is 2,100 feet below the surface. What they're expecting to find is about 4,000 feet below the surface. So there's additional structures that they think are beneath these cylinders. It's like, what is going on?
And it is lighting up the alien community like none other. Yeah.
I mean, the whole idea of it being a power plant instead of a tomb.
Yep. People have been saying that for years.
Yeah. Well, I kind of, I don't know.
You fall in line with that?
I kind of go back and forth on it, but it kind of seems like it could be.
Which is— that'd be wild. And then this might help to clear up maybe what's going on with them. I don't know.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know. For me, it's, it's kind of like the JFK assassination. I don't think it's going to answer any questions. I think it's just going to rev up more conspiracies.
Because they— I mean, like, one, like, the only way to understand it is to dig it up. And they're not going to do that. There's no way the Egyptian government's going to let them start digging around these things.
They make way too much money on the mystery.
You know, the other thing that I heard about this is there were some scholars—
that have said, because like Egypt isn't the only place where we have pyramids, right? We have them in South America. There's some other places where we see them.
Yeah, they're all over the place.
Yeah. And what they said about the Mayans and the Aztecs is they would actually build the pyramids on top of what they considered sacred caves. And so they were like, well, maybe these are just sacred caves that they built the Egyptian pyramids on. And I'm like, 8 symmetrical cylinders that are caves?
I'm like, I just spent some time in some caves. Like, there's, there's nothing symmetrical about any of them.
No. And most of them you don't You, you can't—
it's not a straight shot down. It's nothing like that. Like, it just doesn't look like that.
Um, unless they're built that way.
It's just, it's just weird.
Well, I mean, it's, it makes it even crazier, you know. Everyone talks about how the pyramids were built, right? You know, and that's a conspiracy in itself. But then who could, you know, back then, who could dig cylinders down to the ground? Yeah, you know. So that's even more mind-blowing. And, you know, It is. It makes no sense. It is telling what's going on.
You know, who knows what's going on? But like, it's an interesting and developing story. A lot of people are trying to debunk it, which good on them. I mean, like, it's good to be skeptical.
But I've also never gone down the pyramid rabbit hole, and this is kind of like—
This is kind of itching that scratch for me. It's like, okay, maybe now's the time.
Yeah. Well, we can ask your mom what she thinks.
I'm sure she has an opinion.
Well, and so the other, the other big story from this week that I thought would be interesting because it actually does affect our audience is Trump essentially dismantling the Department of Education.
Yeah, that, that is interesting. There's a couple of things you mentioned. JFK.
Mm-hmm. Well, I mean, they released all the documents from that, which basically said nothing.
Well, it's, it's really difficult to filter through anything.
I mean, it's just like the Epstein thing. It was like, oh, we're gonna release all this stuff.
Well, it was like everything we already knew.
So there, there's a lot of weird things going, but like you said, dismantling the Department of Education. And what I'll say about that to begin with is that I understand, reasonably so, there are a lot of people freaking out about this.
Freaking out as in, like, it's a bad thing or freaking out as in it's like, woo-hoo?
No, that, that it's a bad thing.
There are a lot of people doing that because especially people in education that are, you know, not just in, in the, like, grade school level, but also in the college level. There are people that are concerned about this partly because they're educators that have kids. And so they're, they're going, hey, for my kids, I'm concerned about what's happening here because for so long there's been these standards and this, that, and the other. And, and I get all of that. I'm, I'm not, disqualifying that in any way.
I'm very concerned with my own kids, and we, we, in fact, we had during the election not too long ago, we had, uh, Dr. Mark Ruffin on here.
Who's a superintendent out of Montgomery. I'm a huge supporter of, of a lot of things related to schools. Um, my wife is an educator herself. So, um, I get all of that. However, there are certain things that I think we have to understand with all of what's happening in the government right now. Just because something gets taken away does not necessarily mean something else might not replace it.
And that's something that I think that it gets overlooked, is just like, oh my goodness, they're just taking this away. It's like, okay, hold your breath for just a minute and let's see what happens. And oh, by the way, there are some things that states do really well with. The problem is where you have states that are like 45th, 49th in the country of how they run their, you know, their school system.
And those are the ones that I would be really concerned about. Here in Texas, we don't have that problem. We have a pretty good education system.
So it's different. So those are my initial thoughts on all of it.
What did y'all hear about it?
I mean, yeah, I knew about it. Yeah.
But I mean, are y'all kids in public school? Yeah.
They go, both of them go to Canyon Creek.
Yeah. I don't know. I heard about it really just in the last few days, but I haven't really looked into it. And, you know, everything that's—
It's hard to keep up, honestly.
I mean, there's stuff happening every day.
That's kind of the problem with him, man, is like, one day you could be upset about what he's doing. The next day he's just doing 5 other things. So you don't know what to be upset about, what to be happy about.
You don't really even have time to research what's really going on.
If you should be mad or not, or, you know, it's like, oh, on to the What?
So like, do you guys, do you guys even know about the lady that's running the Department of Education right now?
Yeah. She's from like the WWE. Yeah. One of his old wrestling buddies.
But it's like, it's McMahon. Is that? Yeah. Yeah. It's the—
And it's like, look, if you wanted to like go in and just like blow up the Department of Education, send in the WWE. That's, that sounds like a great idea. Right. Right.
Like, they're not going to do anything.
I mean, Bill hitting people with folding chairs.
He could have called Billy Corgan, but he— and we're back.
Somehow we got to relate it back to Bill Burr, right?
That's how— that's our— that's our connection.
No, so they're not— they're not really brothers, right? It's just a whole thing.
It's hard to know. I keep— I keep seeing videos and I'm like, wait, are they? Wait, so they're not.
Here's— here's the problem. They refused to take a DNA test.
Both of them refused to take a DNA test. But Billy Corgan went on Rogan and confirmed the story that, like, it was plausible.
And Bill Burr hasn't denied it. This is the thing, is like, everyone keeps saying it's a bit, but like, I'm like, Billy Corgan is not a comedian.
And like, he has nothing to gain from that at all. No, none. And, and, and so he's just, he's just relaying the story. And if you go watch like the outtakes from the Howie Mandel podcast, like they're talking, like they have a conversation like, what was dad like at your place? What was dad like at your place? And it's bizarre.
Yeah, I saw that and I didn't know if it was a bit or not.
Well, like we were, we, like we were one of the first ones to report on it and, and then people were like, you're such an idiot. It's a bit. And I'm like, look, like, no one said that it is. And until they come out and say that it is, I'm just going to take them at their word that they're— they had like a— and so the way it seems to be playing out is that Bill Burr's dad, supposed dad, was like a— I think he was a dentist or something like that.
And but like, what if you listen to Billy Corgan talk about his dad? His dad was kind of a psychopath. And so, like, had supposedly fathered, like, a bunch of kids.
Like, across the country. And it seems like Bill Burr's mom may have had a little side action with Billy Corgan's dad.
Because that's— I bring that up because so many people are like, well, we know who Bill Burr's dad is. It's like, no, we know the guy who raised Bill Burr, right? But like, if you look at Bill Burr and you look at Billy Corgan, they're the same. There's some, there's some stuff going on there. Yeah.
Well, and, and, and Billy Corgan is saying, of all the people I've ever known, Bill Burr looks more like my dad than anybody else.
That's what he said. He said it was like looking at my dad. And I'm like, that's crazy.
So, but like, I mean, you can also just do that because you miss your dad. You had a bad relationship. I mean, like that, that's kind of stuff happens. Anyway, I wanna come back to the Department of Education.
It's fine. Bulletproof. It's triggering because, you know, people target me online because of this stuff, which is why I wanna come back to it. Apparently I'm a bootlicker. Well, oh, what did we get? We got, we got called something new the other day.
Oh, that's what it was. Um, uh, you know, like the, uh, the little creeper guy from Casablanca that, uh, I would never say that. With like the big eyes.
Um, I've never seen the movie, so I'm not helpful.
No one would even know who he is if I said his name. Anyway, um, uh, he was an actor back in like the '30s. Anyway, they said that I was him. Ah. And that you were some weird Duck Dynasty clone.
Yeah, that was the, that was the latest, like, volley of like why we're wrong is because we're those guys.
That's what it's come to is like they don't, You can't bring any, like, substantial, like, argument against us, so you just make fun of our appearance.
My soul patch has come up many times, by the way.
Well, I trimmed off 6 inches of my beard, so that makes a difference.
So anyway, I actually listened to the Trump speech about basically just gutting the Department of Education. And everything that I've heard from people who are opposed to it say, he affirmed in his speech. And what I mean is people were wondering what's going to happen with the Pell Grants.
And he's like, we're keeping the Pell Grants. And he's— and people are concerned about what happens to funding for special education and special needs children. He goes, no, we're keeping all of that. All of that is staying. And so he goes by it, he goes through it line by line, which is really weird, like, to hear Trump do that. I've never heard him like— he He usually speaks in, like, like, big grandiose ideas and things like that.
Yeah, exactly. Very general terms. But he, like, went through line by line of all the things that I've heard other people express as a concern by getting rid of the Department of Education. Not to be fair, we're not getting rid of the Department of Education. You're— it's gonna take Congress voting, and we don't have the votes to do that. So it's not— I don't think it's actually gonna happen.
But he was saying all of the things that you're concerned about, we're gonna keep.
And, and to keep it in perspective, we've only had the Department of Education since 1979.
Like, that's not that long.
And, and the, the thing that a lot of people that are in favor of this are pointing out is that since 1979, education standards have drastically declined.
And we have like the worst or one of the worst.
One of the worst. And now I don't, I don't know that you can lay that all at the feet of one department. Yeah.
I, I don't think that's fair.
Especially when the states do still still have rights when it comes to what they teach and how they teach it.
On that. Like, there's a reason there's local school boards that get together and talk about a curriculum. Now, like, some of that is kind of narrow that they can actually discuss.
And make changes on. But I— so when— whenever we have conversations about this, I usually bring this book, and that's the reason I brought it in the studio today.
So this is a book that I keep in my library, and, and People, people that listen to the show regularly probably don't know, like, I am an avid book collector, reader, all this kind of stuff. I have had this book in my collection for about 30 years.
And this book was published in 1904.
Okay. And can you read the title?
It says Poems Every Child Should Know.
Poems Every Child Should Know. So I actually use this when I talk to young adults a lot of times because I want them to understand how their brains have changed over the years because of technology. If you— this is actually a school book from 1904. And if you read the introduction to this book, what it will tell you is the intention of this book is for children to memorize these poems.
Okay. That doesn't happen anymore, first of all.
And if you open— and like, when I say poems every child should know, that's exactly what it means. is that you should know these poems, right? And these are not lightweight poems. I mean, some of these poems go for pages. A lot of this is Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron. I'm just flipping through it to give you context for what— Longfellow, right?
It's not Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout.
No. And it's not like Shelley Silverstein, which He was a great poet.
But like the intention of this book was to be a reader that children would memorize and know poetry. Kind of like, I mean, and I'm not trying to be like religious about it, but like kind of like children were expected to read and memorize the Bible.
Back in the day, that was a big part of people's educations.
And so like we learn different now and standards have changed and I get that. But like at the same time, the potential for our brain is not being used.
You know, I don't disagree.
And, and so like, it's good to go back and look at a book published in 1904.
I mean, that was before World War I, y'all.
That's— yeah, there's— well, and, and like, whenever you think about their— it's funny, whenever you hear some older generations talk about younger generations, one of the things that they do talk about is the dumbing down.
They, they talk about dumbing down and, and part of it definitely has something to do over the, you know, the years of how technology has decreased our capacity to think. Because I mean, you, you remember whenever we were children, we would sit around and we would talk about a subject.
And we would talk about it and talk about it and talk about it and talk about it and talk about it until we just decided, Well, I guess we don't know anything. And now all you gotta do is pull out a phone and you can find the answer. And we do this all— I find myself doing it all the time. Well, let me just look it up real quick.
Even when you don't need to do it, you're just—
And all of a sudden, within moments, I've got the answer and I never had to think.
Yeah, it's access to exterior reservoirs of information.
Which isn't a bad thing. Please don't hear me say that.
No, no, it's not a bad thing.
It's actually wonderful. I'm so thankful that I have the technology to be able to find answers so readily and, and quickly, but it does change what our brains are actually doing in that process.
And, and like, you can, you can, you can run this as a test, which I think is actually kind of fun and interesting, is, is if you talk to anyone between the ages of like 15 and 18 right now, and, and you stop them on the street and you say, could you tell me your parents' phone number?
Kaylee can, but I made sure Kaylee knew our phone number.
Our daughter. Okay. I made sure Kaylee knew my phone number, but she couldn't tell you his.
But she knew my phone number because when she went to school, I was like, I drilled it into her.
This was mama's number. This was mama's number. But if you asked her what his was, she—
But did you, did you know your parents' phone number whenever you were growing up? When I was growing up, we didn't have cell phones, but your home phone number and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah. My mama and daddy still had their cell their, their house phone until they sold their house 3 years ago.
And when they finally cut the cord, I was like, but what happens to the phone number?
Did you know, did you know a work number as well?
No, I didn't really call my parents at work.
No. Well, I was just curious. Like, I, I did. I mean, I knew my— now, in where I grew up, you only had to know the, uh, the, the, the last 4 digits plus 1. The prefix was, uh, we had 806, and then it was 872, and then you had the last 4 digits. We only ever had to dial 2 and the last 4 numbers. It was small town, but nevertheless, it's, it's, to your point, the things that we have to store in our brains are very little.
Yeah, I feel like our brains, like There's just so much going on nowadays that your brain just gets pulled in so many different directions that you can't really focus and learn or memorize things. It's just like, if you had a million different things going on.
Memorization is tough nowadays. And I don't know what it is, but like, it's really, really hard to get people to memorize things. You know, like when you talk about phone numbers, I remember my home phone number, which my parents haven't had for years. And honestly, the only reason I remember it is how I get a discount at Kroger on my gas.
Hey, I tried to use my parents' one time and it didn't work.
They must have changed it.
You were looking for that extra 10 cents. I know what you were doing.
I did. I was trying. I was trying.
Well, I use, I use the, uh, the last 4 digits of my parents' previous, their old home phone number. They don't have anymore as like the code to a lot of things. Like, because I mean, no one's ever going to find that number again.
You know, and I have it stored up here. You know, forever and ever.
It's, I mean, it's, it's a different world, man. It really, really is. And when you start thinking about like what Neuralink is trying to do, give you like direct access to information and interface with technology, it's just, it's gonna be, it's gonna be a weird world really, really fast. Yeah.
Anyway, let's, let's talk about you guys, which is much more calming.
We have nothing to do with Neuralink. Yet.
Well, yeah, look, as soon as they make the power washer that you don't have to control with your hands and you just gotta think about it.
Well, they do, but I mean, there's bigger companies that use drones that—
Yeah, they'll do, you know, really tall buildings or whatever.
They're doing it with drones. Is it like, is it like a drone to like carry like a hose?
Yeah, it takes, takes the hose up there. You can soft wash.
It climbs and they have ones that climb up the building and spray it all the way down.
Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff going on now.
We need to play with that stuff, y'all.
You got some drones, man. I'll hook a hose up to it.
Yeah, let's do it. I might be calling you.
Let's do it. I'm, I'm in favor.
Like, as long as we get the video story building, I gotta get to the top of it.
Well, so let's, let's start there. Tell us what you do, how, you know, how long you've been doing it, how you got into it. Let's just, let's just kind of start with an overview.
So yeah, we, we got into it about last August. So it's only been a few months. So we're very small. Um, but yeah, uh, pressure washing, soft washing. Um, we do everything residential. So roofs, uh, soft wash house, uh, any concrete work, uh, fences, decks, all of that. We clean that.
Can you start off by explaining the difference between pressure washing and soft washing?
So pressure washing is mainly for like concrete. Or if you're, you know, you use it for fences sometimes, but mainly like harder surfaces that aren't going to get damaged. And then soft washing is using— the standard is SH, which is sodium hypochlorite, or, you know, basically pool bleach. You mix that with soap and water and you spray the house down and it'll take all the, you know, the organic growth and all that sort of thing off.
And you kind of mold and mildew.
Yeah, mold, algae, mildew, all that sort of thing on the outside of the house. And it helps to preserve the wood and siding and all that. So, you know, you're not replacing that, you know, after a few years.
Is it different when you're dealing with like HardiePlank or something like that? Or, you know, say stucco?
Yeah, yeah. So the ratios of bleach and water change. Mainly like from brick to siding, that sort of thing. Like siding's very easy to clean. It's only usually like 1.5% to 2% bleach. And then brick is usually like 3% to 4%, sometimes 5%, depending on how dirty it is.
Get a little heavier handed.
Yeah. And then if you're doing a roof, which is asphalt shingles most of the time, that's usually like 6% bleach.
Yeah. So And a lot of times I'll just let it sit on there and it'll clean. And it'll, you know, the rain will wash it off. And by the time it washes that down, it's, you know, the corrosiveness of it is faded out of the bleach.
So do you have to like cover landscaping or?
Yeah, so you do have to be very careful. You have to either have someone on the ground that's rinsing, you know, if you, you know, you have bushes around the house or grass, Um, I would say bushes, you need to cover it if you're doing a roof.
Um, like a good tarp or something like that. Yeah.
Like a tarp or something on the section that you're doing. Um, does that, does that change if you have, uh, gutters?
Like if you have gutters, can you?
Yeah. So you just have to be careful.
Yeah. Overspray. And then you might have to capture at the, at the bottom of the, the gutters. Sure. So you, you have to pay attention to where it's running off at. Mm-hmm. You know, definitely if it's like running off into a neighbor's yard or that person's yard.
You know, might put a trash bag or some, something to capture, you know, and not have all that running. But also you want to keep everything wet all the time. Um, that way it's diluted down. So even if, I mean, you're going to get some bleach on the plants and things sometimes.
Um, but as long as you keep everything wet, it won't do anything.
Is that something that, you know, the DIYers kind of struggle with? I mean, I would think that, you know, you, you, you know, you go buy like a Troy-Bilt power washer and you're like, I'm going to wash my house. Like you're just going to use like soap and water. I mean, like, and you know, like, are they not using it properly to clean their house?
You can, I mean, you can clean a house with, there's chemicals that don't use bleach also.
Um, but a lot of times they're using household bleach, which isn't going to be as strong.
Um, or they mark up their, uh, their screens. You can tell the ones that use the full glass. You can see where they scratched and messed up their screens.
Yeah. We've seen that at houses too, where they'll, they'll pressure. So that's another reason why we soft wash houses. You don't want to put pressure to them because it just, it'll damage everything.
And I mean, I've been to houses where I've cleaned them and, you know, they had a guy come out there with a pressure washer and to pressure wash their house and he just took it to their house. And I mean, left like lines in the screens because it's just blasting through the screen.
And yeah, I mean, using like the, the, like the pin.
Like the, it's the red tip, which is like the one that's just like the strongest. And yeah, you see that stuff like that all the time. And there's like, oh yeah, you know, we called a guy and he came out and I'm like, well, screwed it up. Yeah. Yeah.
You should have called. I mean, like permanently. Yeah.
Yeah. Where you, I mean, you have to buy recovery from that. You have to buy new screens if you do that. Yeah. So yeah, we soft wash. And so, I mean, it's, it's pretty gentle on everything, like the house washing and stuff. It's, it's not really going to tear up your plants or anything like people think it is. You know, you see videos online of people doing it and all the comments are just like, oh, well, there goes your grass, you know, there goes your bush or whatever. But yeah, as long as you're safe, you rinse everything down before. Usually as I'm washing, I'll, you know, turn the soap off, keep rinsing everything down while it's sitting there.
And then I'll rinse the house down and then I'll go back, rinse the grass off again. And as long as you're doing that and keeping up with it and you're not just leaving bleach sitting there on everything, then you're good.
Are, are other companies not doing like, or like recommending these? You know, I'm, I'm thinking about these companies that marked the, the screens. Are they not doing that because they don't know any better or because it goes faster or like?
In this industry, I think you run into a lot of just guys that are trying to do it. Just to make a few extra bucks on the side.
Yeah. Yeah. And they don't, yeah, they don't do any kind of research and they're just like, well, I have a power washer, so I'll just get the one out of my garage and, you know, I'll go to my neighbor's house and tell them I'll do it for $50. And it's that kind of thing. You go out there and they're just, you know, trying to blast dirt off the house and they don't know any better, you know, and they didn't really research it. So, I mean, there's, you can go on YouTube, you can research all of it and find out what chemicals do what. I mean, there's. you know, all kinds of different stains and things that you
find on houses that you need to, you know, know how to get off too. So.
What's, what's the toughest one?
Uh, you get a lot of clay stains can be tough.
Um, are you talking about like clay, like from the ground bouncing up on the house?
Like you'll see it on like new construction and stuff, you know, when they don't have any grass or whatever sod in the yard.
You know, they'll, they'll get clay up on like the concrete and sometimes I mean, once you get it on there, it's real hard to get off. Yeah. Like rust stains on a driveway. Um, yeah. I mean, you have to use certain kinds of acids and things to get those off. So yeah, that can be tricky. And a lot of people, you know, aren't asking for that kind of stuff.
But, you know, every once in a while, you know, you'll have something like that or like oil stains, things like that.
Are those, are those kind of like specialty services or?
Yeah, that'd be, you know, yeah, if you're doing like a driveway clean and then you have a giant rust spot or something, it'd be extra.
So like, I mean, say I had Jimbo come do an oil change in my driveway and he spilled some oil. I need you to come get that up. I mean, like, so like, what, what am I looking at? I imagine it depends on the size, but like, you know.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not, I'm not asking you to like pin, pin you down or anything.
Yeah. I'm just, I'm curious what I'd be looking at.
Well, I mean, it wouldn't be, it's not, it's not a lot extra. I mean, especially if it's just like one spot. But also with oil stains, I mean, those are one of the trickier things. And really, if it sits there longer than a few days, I mean, you're not getting it fully out.
Well, I think that's one of the things that you should know about concrete in general is it's very porous.
Yeah. And it's like a sponge.
That stuff gets down in there quick. And, you know, yeah, if you don't get cat litter on it or something and keep it at the surface level. Now, if it's up at the surface or you do it real quick, I mean, you can get it off.
And, you know, basically I just scrub degreaser into there and let it sit and try to bring that oil and stuff back up to the surface and then clean it off with a surface cleaner. But if you're just doing surface cleaner, it's not going to get it off.
Does it take a long time to do something like that?
No, it doesn't take too long. I mean, you just, you scrub it in there, let it sit for 10, 15 minutes, let it get in there real good. I usually kind of soak it in there and then let it get down in there and then I scrub it. After like 5 or 10 minutes and get it down deep in there. And then, yeah, just try to get it out as best you can. You might have to do it a few times, but—
If nothing else, I mean, you can probably make it lighter than it was.
Yeah, you make it a lot lighter. It looks a lot better. It's just, you know, I always tell people that, hey, you know, I mean, I, I'll try to let them know upfront that this is going to be tough and, you know, you might not get it completely out.
You know, and as long as they know, they're usually okay with it.
Shay, you might know this one, but you may not.
But what are homeowners' biggest misconceptions about hiring a power washing company? I mean, as far as expectations and services and—
They, I think, expect it to be cheap.
They really do. They want the house wash, a fence, driveway, gutters, and they only want to spend $200. And they have like a 3,000 square foot house. Wow.
Okay. So for like, for, for people to understand though, I mean, like a 3,000 square foot house, if you're doing the house, you're doing the fence, normal size yard, how long are you guys going to be out there?
He's, so the last job that he was out, he did the, he only did half of the house. Um, 2 driveways, right?
No, no. The last one was, it was all concrete, but it was 2 driveways and it was a giant path that went around her whole house.
And this is, God, I want to say the house is like 4,000 square feet.
Um, so you were just doing the driveways in the white house?
Yeah. But they had curbs on everything too. Like normal, most driveways don't have curbs. And for me, it kind of took longer just to, you know, you had to, it was a lot of detail work too. But I mean, even that took, it took like 4 and a half hours, I think.
That's, I mean, and it's a long time to be.
And that's a good pressure washer with a surface cleaner, you know, and having 2 people work it. It's, I mean, 4 hours.
I mean, like that's But that's a bunch of time. That's a bunch of money.
You know, with us, you know, we clean it. Also, I pretreat the concrete. So I'll spray bleach and soap on that, let it sit. It brings all the organics up and it kills them. And then you go over it and then I post-treat it also. So that takes time. You're rinsing off all the dirt in between. Yeah, it takes a lot of time too.
But You know, not, not to mention the time it took you to prep to go there. Yeah. Yeah. To drive there.
Yeah. You're running out of things back and forth. There's a lot of—
all the bleach that sits in my car because I have to— yeah.
She has to go on bleach runs somewhere. Don't get in an accident.
Yeah. I think that's the other thing to talk about is chemicals aren't cheap. No. And, and so you're, you're talking not just about, I mean, it's not just water cuz you're, that's being supplied. Y'all have your own equipment. You have chemicals that you're doing. Now you have, you have drive time, you've got gas, you've got, you've got overhead. I mean, there's just some stuff that's built in and oh, by the way, you have labor time. And so once you start adding that up, people, this is, this is common across all industries right now. People really have a misconception about how much things cost.
And this is why we encourage people to do your research. And what I really encourage everyone on our, our show to do is like, go in without an expectation if possible and go, look, this is what I want. How much is it gonna cost? Check with y'all, check with Jim Bob and check with somebody else.
And, and, and start finding out like, and you'll, you'll find that most people are, you know, there, there's a consistency somewhere. and there's someone that's completely inconsistent, don't like rule those people out and go with the consistency and just go, okay, well, this is something I either have to plan for or I'm ready to go.
Well, it's like most things. I mean, you're going to get what you pay for.
You don't want to go, I mean, yeah. I mean, there's probably some people out there that are just like, oh, it's the 3 grand, you know, to do and it's way over.
Just trying to get as much as they can, but like, You know, you do have to spend a little bit to get quality work. And also with pressure washing, soft washing, you're only doing it once or twice, twice at the most a year. So if you get a good house wash, someone comes out and does your driveway, I mean, probably 6 months at the earliest is when you're gonna need it done again.
And that's if you live under a bunch of trees, you know, and it's always moldy and grows, you know.
So it's that yellow snow season right now. Yeah, no, it's here.
I imagine y'all should be getting busy right now.
Yeah. So let me ask this. Let's say that you've got, I mean, typical, typical just home, 2,000 square foot is what I'm gonna go with, and a 2-car garage, normal driveway. We're not talking about acreage or anything else, just a, just normal home. Uh, what, what, what might I consider a price point? Because honestly, if people are You know, next door neighbor's doing it for $50, but it's also not $3,000. Where is my price point somewhere?
So, so for a soft wash on a typical like, uh, 2,200 square foot house, um, it usually the house washing starts at about $400 is what you're looking at.
Yeah. And so, and what I do is if I go out there and I'm like, hey, you know, someone wants me to wash their house, I might give them the driveway for $50.
Even though, because you're already there.
Yeah, I'm already there. I already got everything pulled out. Um, if it's just the driveway, it usually starts around $150. Um, so yeah, I try to bundle things together too because it's, you know, it's a lot easier once you're out there.
Right. I mean, I heard bundle is life. So just, I heard that somewhere. I heard bundle is life. It's a commercial.
Well, like here, here's the thing I try and point out to people all the time is so they can look at you and go, oh, he was here for 4 hours. You know, and I paid this much. But like, I, I always ask people like, what would you pay yourself? Because it's when you don't consider the drive time, when you don't consider the prep, like, and, and so like, let's take that into consideration. You're on the, this, this last job that we talked about, you were there for 4 hours. Well, I'm gonna assume it took you at least 2 hours to prep and drive there and back. Mm-hmm.
So that's 6 hours. I'm gonna guess it's gonna take them at minimum 12 hours to figure out how to do it, buy the equipment, you know, and so like you're already out the cost of the equipment, you're out the cost of the chemical, and then you're out 12 hours. What would you pay yourself to do that job? And I, I'm guessing it's probably not $12 an hour.
That's a full, yeah, full weekend of work.
You're out there, you know, burning under the sun.
And it's, it's, it, and it's like, look, if you're just a DIYer, that's fine. Like if you enjoy that, do it. Like we've, we've had this conversation 100 times. Oh yeah. Like we used to have the calculator on the website. Um, but like, that's the thing is like, is it, is it worth 12 hours of your free time, your free time that you're not getting paid for to do this job? Exactly.
I had a buddy of mine, uh, he was texting me the other day and he, I did his driveway and then the neighbor came out and asked me, you know, how much?
So I gave her, I quoted her a price and she was like, okay, well, you know, you could tell she didn't want any part of it.
And so I'm like, okay, well, just let me know. Gave her a business card. And then, you know, a month later or whatever, he's texting me going, hey, she's out there and they rented a pressure washer and they've been out there all day long on a Saturday.
And they're gonna be dissatisfied.
Yeah. And yeah, and you're gonna leave lines and unless, you know, that's another thing. So if I'm pre and post treating it, you're not gonna have the lines. It's gonna be bright and, you know, it's gonna look like a new driveway.
Yeah. He had a— we, so we've experimented on stuff. on our friends and family. And he had a friend that texted me, or the wife did. She texted me and said, I didn't realize our driveway was so bright.
Yeah. They said it glowed in the dark, you know, when they got home that night or whatever.
It does look like that. Like when, like when it's had so much grime on it and you clean it, it's like, oh my gosh.
You was, you really don't know how dirty they get until you clean them, like professionally clean. And then, you know, you see it afterwards, you're like, oh my God. Like, it's Doesn't even, it's not even the same color.
Like it's just completely different. Uh, the last job I did, the lady was just like, I, I'm like blown away. Like it, it looks way better than I expected it to.
And you know, yeah, she was very pleased. So I, yeah, people don't realize that. I mean, it's a lot of work, one. And then, you know, you, if you're gonna get it done, just, you know, spend a few hundred dollars and get it done professionally and You'll be happier. Yeah, you're gonna be happier for longer. And then yeah, you might have to pay that, you know, once a year.
And so what is the— what is the purpose? Like, I mean, okay, so my driveway is a little bit grimy, or my, you know, my house has some green on it. I don't even know, like, what— why, why do I need that gone? Does it really matter?
Yeah, I mean, it preserves the life of your house too. So I mean, it just—
what do you mean? I mean, I got brick and the wolf can't blow it down.
So like, what's the big deal? Well, brick, you're probably all right.
Now wood or hay or what was the first one? What was the first one?
Sticks and hay. Hay, then sticks. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah, no. So driveway and bricks and things like that, that's more appearance. I mean, they're not going to, your bricks aren't going to like rot away or anything.
Right. It's more of like an HOA thing. Like your HOA will come through and be like, well, yeah, that too. Your house has got a little green on it. We need to take care of that or your driveway.
Yeah. That's a good point.
Do y'all know that, uh, that Trump has floated like banning those?
Oh, the HOAs? Uh-huh. Interesting.
Well, that, that's, I don't think it's a great idea. Well, yeah, I think that's a good idea.
If you have a good HOA that's not just trying to nickel and dime you or whatever, then you're okay with that. Then that's good.
There's, there's lots of people out there just like cheering for it. I guarantee you are.
Yeah, but the neighborhood is horrible.
That's the problem. Well, okay, so, okay, hard surfaces, you're probably okay. What about my roof? Like, I'm, I'm concerned about this because am I going to get granular loss, which they already talk about, like all this kind of stuff? Like, where, where is the right, like, choice whenever it comes to all this?
Uh, A roof, I really haven't seen that. Like when I clean a roof, I haven't seen like the, the runoff of the granules into the gutters or whatever. Like I haven't really seen that now long-term. I don't, I don't think you're gonna have a problem with it. It's just, I, I look at it this way. Like if you've ever seen someone that never washes their car and you just see the paint start fading off and just, it just looks like crap.
I mean, Same thing with a house. Like, if you're never washing your house, you're just letting organic grow all over it. You've seen houses like that, or like, you know, old communities where someone moves out and no one ever moves back into a house and it gets— just looks terrible.
You know, the wood starts rotting away, everything starts to rot away. So yeah, if you're not keeping it clean and you're not, you know, keeping that organic growth from rotting into the wood and the siding and all that stuff, then Yeah, you might have problems.
So we're, we're a big advocate of maintenance on this, uh, podcast. We talk about it all the time.
Not like those other shows, right?
Those less than number one shows who won't be named. The ones, the ones that aren't number one in their category. That's right. Yeah.
Um, that's when you hit that applause button.
Um, so But we are, like, we talk about this all the time with your HVAC system. Like, do the maintenance on it with your appliances. We talk about do the maintenance on it. Do the things that you need to do to get things, you know, make sure things are working well. I mean, I've got a septic system. Every year I've got someone out coming and checking it, making sure everything's working well because the problem is we get sidelined with things and we just forget about the play that's happening in front of us.
And we go, man, so busy with these other things that we, we lose track of it. And then what happens is we go, oh my goodness, we've got this big problem. And Jehu comes over to my house, my HVAC guy. And, and he's like, Kevin, if you would've done the maintenance on this, we wouldn't have this conversation, but now you need a new system. And it's like, oh man, I gotta pay 10 grand on a new system versus $50 twice a year to have you come out and, and fix this. This is a similar type of thing. We have maintenance that needs to happen because you own a home. You chose to own a home. Don't just let it go to waste. Like, do the things that need to be done, right?
In the grand scheme of things, it's not that much, you know, to get, you know, just to have it cleaned once or twice a year.
Have your driveway cleaned. Um, another thing too with concrete is if it does get a lot of organic growth or you do live under a bunch of trees where it's just like, I mean, you've seen driveways that are just green when it gets wet. I mean, it's not safe.
So yeah. Yeah. Or like in front of a business, you know, if you have real slick concrete and you're having elderly customers walking through, you know, I mean, that could, how much is that going to cost if they slip?
I don't want to think about it.
You get sued and yeah. So that's another thing to think about.
I'm not far away from being one of those elderly.
You're close. You're a lot closer than me.
Yeah, yeah, I understand that.
I don't want to fall now.
I'm not getting back up for a while.
I'm gonna roll around and rest for a little while. Yeah, and I want that— I want— if I'm rolling around on the ground in pain, I want it to be clean. Yeah, I don't want to have a bunch of algae growth, right, rolling around in.
No, it's the last thing I need.
I mean, they're already laughing at me.
Yeah, you don't want barnacles on your driveway. You got those, you got problems. Yeah, you probably live close to the ocean.
Well, just salty in a pineapple under the sea. Yeah, right.
You mentioned barnacles, that's immediately where my mind goes. But whatever, whatever. I, I, I'm sure there's other questions. Do you have other questions? I, I'm blanking on one right now.
Yeah, I mean, what's the weirdest thing you guys have cleaned?
Uh, I haven't cleaned anything too weird. I cleaned the inside of a garage.
Um, and it was like a, uh, I guess like a, they were having their whole house kind of renovated and they did the garage. And I mean, there was a ton of stuff left over and it was just like, it was white with like sheetrock dust.
And, you know, just, and it was tricky because they just renovated it. So you go in there to clean it and you're, you don't want to splash water on the walls.
You don't want to, you know, ruin all the work that just got done. So that was a tricky one and that was kind of weird. Um, so it took a little longer than we thought, but yeah.
How did you, how did you manage it? Did you put like some like water resistant stuff up on the walls or like?
So the, the surface cleaner doesn't spray out.
Are you talking about like the round light? Yeah, the round thing. Okay, yeah, I see.
I had to use that in there and now they had like a flooring, uh, what is that stuff called?
Yeah, that sort of thing. But it was, it was older and it was already kind of worn down.
And so I had to kind of like take a little pressure off to do that to make sure it wasn't pop up. Yeah. Yeah. And so it was fine, but yeah, it was, it was a tricky one, but the surface cleaner doesn't spray water out. It just keeps it under it. I gotcha. So especially like near the walls, I was doing that and, and yeah, it was—
I got, I got a weird one for you. So my mother-in-law has, um, this little screened-in porch area. It's small. It's not even as big as this room that we're in. But it, you know, concrete floor and the walls are painted, but they were instead of sheetrock, you know that stuff they put in like wet spaces? Like concrete board. Yeah, concrete board. That's what it is. So that it's painted, but that's on there. And she's got a screen in there. Um, water does come in, you know, whenever it rains or whatever. Um, but is that something that if it— I mean, it is near trees and I don't know what it looks like, but I'm just thinking
she did, she did do like, uh, she had my, my kids came in there and, and did like brick sponge the, the, the floor.
To make it look like bricks with like paint, sponge paint. Oh, um, but it's— it— she used concrete paint on it.
Um, so she did it the right way as far as that goes. But is that something that could be done or is that like, uh, I might not do that?
Yeah. I mean, I'd have to see it. Uh, anything could be clean. It's just, you know, you really have the method. Yeah. The method of it would, yeah, might need to change. And 2, you know, going into a job, you want to do test spots to, you know, with certain chemicals. Like if I'm using bleach and I'm like, well, you know, the bleach might damage this or whatever, I'm going to try it and maybe a little tiny—
I didn't know he did that at one point. He was like taking his finger and like rubbing it in a spot.
Yeah, just like something that's—
An inconspicuous spot that's not, you know, not going to be seen ever.
You know, you just test it and, you know, see if anything happens. And yeah, and that's, that's kind of how you see, okay, well, this might be a problem or It's okay, it didn't do anything, we should be good.
And then you try a bigger spot and then you go from there. So yeah, I mean, it's probably just a change in method for something like that. I mean, you know, certain paints and things can be problems. Yeah.
Well, I know we talked about shingle roofs. What about like the alternative roofs? I mean, we have tile, metal. Um, what are some of the other ones? I'm thinking, oh, I'm blanking.
Well, there's like clay or Um, you said tile, but is that what that is? Yeah, like that Spanish tile.
Okay. Yeah, that's pretty much the same method, you know, soft wash. And usually, yeah, those take like a higher concentration of bleach. Now, if you're doing like a metal roof, uh, it would be lower and you really have to make sure that you rinse it off really well because the bleach can mess up the metal roof if you just like spray it on there and leave it. Okay. And it dries on there.
I mean, what would it do to it?
Like it, it can turn it. It, I've seen jobs where it turned it, not my job, but like, but where it like turns it, starts to turn it black almost.
Yeah. It'll, it'll, it'll mess up metal.
What about, what about solar panels?
Solar panels. I've never done solar panels, but that's more of like a, you would use probably like window cleaning equipment.
So yeah, like a, I mean, if you have a really tall squeegee.
Really tall, you know, pole or whatever and get up there and do that.
I actually imagine that's, that's got to be something that needs to be done on solar from time to time, especially after pollen season.
Oh, thank goodness gracious.
Well, I would think, yeah, I would think they'd be, wouldn't be very effective.
You need to clean them to increase the efficiency. I mean, that's a good question. We need to ask Josh.
Yeah. I think we should ask him.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure they hire people that, you know, I would think that's more of a window cleaning type of deal.
Maybe y'all couldn't handle it.
Well, we're, we're, we're looking.
Everything we do anything. with a drone. Of course, we have a whole team of drones.
Yeah, I would like to shower by drone. Yeah, that would be—
Yeah, yeah, take a shower in nature. Absolutely.
Just go out in the backyard and have it, you know, why not?
You said anything, I think showering by drone. Can you imagine like going camping and you're like out in the wilderness, you're like, drone shows up, showers you?
That's a real quick way to have the whole place to yourself.
I know, I already want the shower, you know, I want to get a shower.
All of a sudden you hear a drone and you start starts taking his clothes off.
Like, yeah, that is— it's really weird whenever you hear—
that's, that's a real Pavlovian response.
It's like every time Kevin hears a propeller, it's even weirder if you hear that noise and there's no drone around. Taking your clothes off. Yeah, that'll really clear your brain.
I'm just saying, it's a, it's a thought in my head. So, you know, you don't want to live up here. I didn't ever learn those poems.
I didn't do none of that book learning.
That's right. Well, okay. So, um, you've been doing this now for like what, like 8, 6, 7, 8 months.
What would you say is whenever it comes to things you've learned and whenever people are preparing to, you know, get something like this done, what would you say is one of, besides price, what would you say one of the biggest misconceptions people might have, something that you've figured out and go, okay, every time I want to make sure that I tell people this. It's a common thing that I say.
Uh, I don't know, like, I guess, you know, the main thing is just, you know, make sure that they're getting everything, you know, prepared ahead of time. Um, getting everything off of like, you know, the porches or whatever when we're about to clean. Uh, I usually try to give people a heads up on that sort of thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pets, like if I'm just done cleaning, you know, hey, maybe don't walk out on the driveway in your bare feet, you know, like, right. That's, that's something. I mean, I've had to tell people, they'll start walking out, like looking at the work and I'm like, oh, hold on, hold on. Wait, let it, you know, let it sit for a minute.
Put those Crocs on, people.
It's those crunchy moms, man.
Crunchy moms. Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, generally before or after a job, those are the types of things I'm telling them. And then, yeah, you know, The main thing, like she said, was the pricing is kind of what catches people off guard because they think it's going to be, you know, $100, $200 for everything.
So at what point do you start offering maintenance plans? Do we go, I'll come out to your house twice a year and do this?
Uh, we haven't started doing that yet. We just started, I think in the next maybe couple months we'll try to start, if Once we start getting more customers coming in, we'll start doing that.
When I think when it gets a little busier, we'll start doing that sort of thing. And yeah, I mean, we do try to, you know, I, I've had a few people already that are like, oh, okay, well, yeah, in 6 months I'll give you a call and, you know, we'll, we'll probably need this and this done too, or whatever.
I just think it would be a, you know, one more way for you as a business person in general, just to kind of think, okay, repeat business, but also for, for people that are normal, They just forget. And then, and then they're like, I'll call you in 6 months. And then it's 6 years before they call you back. But they, and had they done it maybe every 6 months, maybe it would have been, you know, less work, maybe quicker, maybe not as expensive.
Well, as we start recording like the, the customer, you know, the database.
They get a database together and start contacting them like after 3 or 4 months. Hey, you know, it's about time. We noticed you had this done. You know, you need me to come back out and do it, or maybe we can do your house this time, or, you know, something like that.
So yeah, a little discount even. Hey, give you a little discount if we come out.
Well, we currently do have our, we do have a discount for customers, 20% off for customers.
Yeah. Okay. Anyone like returning customers? No, any, any new customer.
So it's, yeah, 20% off if I'm doing, you know, I'll take it off the total bill of whatever I'm doing. So it's 2 or 3 things. That's more money off, you know. Oh, that's awesome. So I love that.
It's a good time to do that too.
So I mean, do they just need to ask for that or is that just something you guys do just right off the bat?
I'll just, I'll let them know. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, right now since we're still new, we're, we're trying to get customer base up. We're trying to get reviews, all that sort of thing. So yeah, we're, we're just trying to get customers in.
Yeah, we'll work with them.
That's a good way to do it.
I mean, Well, I mean, that's what you got to do. I mean, you got to start somewhere and you're building the business. And one of the things I love about this is like right now, if you're listening to this, especially if you're in the Montgomery County area, which is I guess mostly where you're working.
Yeah, it's mainly Montgomery, Conroe, Willis, Huntsville. I mean, I've done jobs in Houston.
Yeah, we went all the way out to Cypress.
So if you're in this North Houston area, I mean, you could really benefit from utilizing a newer company. They're giving a steep discount right now. And, you know, it's probably something you've been thinking about anyway. And, you know, you're gonna, you're either gonna spend, you know, a few hundred dollars with them or you're gonna go buy that Ryobi, you know, thing that's got the little—
It's not quite powerful enough.
It's not powerful enough and you're gonna be disappointed in it anyway. And it's $100. So. You, I, I just, I look at this and I go, man, what a great opportunity. And, uh, man, I, I'm, I'm rooting for you guys. I know that, I know that things are already kind of working well for you, but, um, it's a great, great deal for sure.
So, um, any, anything else you guys want people to know?
No, just, uh, we have a website. It's, uh, jetcleanpressurewashing.net. And Facebook page is Jet Clean Pressure Washing.
All right. You got a phone number? Yes. All right. We'll link it up in the show notes.
Okay, good. Don't worry about it.
It's right below in the show notes.
But it's a new phone number.
There's so much going on, Craig. We can't remember everything.
What the heck? I can't do it.
Give him a freaking break.
Oh my. I'll give him a break. I'm gonna put it in the show notes. That's right. I'm also gonna double down on the point I made earlier.
It was a good point, obviously.
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