How A Mechanic Built A Community By Building People

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Welcome back, faithful listeners.
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To redevelop that here with Derek and Tiffany.
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Hey everybody, it's been a minute.
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Glad you're all back.
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Hopefully you've all been having a wonderful summer and uh enjoying our slight transition to fall here.
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We hopefully that will uh end soon and we'll be into a true fall season.
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Sure hope so, because that's our favorite season on Water Street.
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All of our events start back up next month in September, and then we've got something going almost every weekend.
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Yeah, it becomes a busy season, September, October, November, leading into the fall and holiday season.
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So uh we look forward to a lot of great opportunities to be outside and be out on Water Street, downtowns, come out, check out the things going on, and we'll uh keep on listening into the future.
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We'll have more dates of uh what the events are that are coming, and uh we're excited about that that time of year.
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Yeah, and check our website also on social media so you'll see what's coming.
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We have some really cool events coming up this fall.
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Perfect.
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Also, just kind of an update on uh what's going on in redevelopment areas, uh our redevelopment areas here in the city.
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Uh I know for a number of uh long while a lot of our shows uh we talked about one particular project, the watermark, uh, that it was coming and it was coming and that it was almost done.
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And it's here.
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It's here.
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Now we can officially say it's here.
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So it's open, it's uh people are moving in and renting the new apartments, and the commercial part of it is getting closer to to being rented uh leased out.
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So we we look forward to a lot of uh uh great uh businesses moving into the area and we'll see what how that what brings what that brings to pass here for us.
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They also I just am gonna give them a little plug.
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They have some great move-in specials right now, um, up to eight weeks free rent with new lease signings.
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So if you or anybody you know are thinking about living on Water Street, um for one, you'll be right in the heart of all of our events this this season.
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But two, the apartments are really nice.
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They're nice, modern, you'll get a live in them, no one else has lived in them yet.
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Yeah, it's a great great place.
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Come check them out.
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Yeah, but we also have a couple new restaurants since we've last read.
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Bajamar on Pacific is great.
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It's a seafood and Mexican restaurant.
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That's delicious.
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Always a good combination, right?
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And then we have some new new restaurants that are coming.
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That are coming also in the future that we uh learned about here recently.
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Some um actually right next door to Bahamar.
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So we're gonna have a great little restaurant corridor right there on Pacific.
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That'd be awesome.
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And then Cuckoos, if you haven't checked out Cuckoo's Cafe, their new location is over at 35 East Basic Road.
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Yep.
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If you followed Cuckoo, longtime Cuckoo follower, and was uh was sad about losing them on uh Pacific, but they have reopened at their new location and they're doing wonderful, they're doing great.
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We're just in there the other day and it was packed and busy, so I think they're they're enjoying their new space.
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Yeah, go check out their new location.
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So excellent.
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Well, today we are not talking about downtown.
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We are not talking about Water Street, but we are talking about Eastside, uh more specifically the Sunset Corridor.
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Uh if you recall, uh several about a year or so ago, we we visited uh with Kat Byler with uh Atomic Motors, and she gave us a great rundown of what they do and who they are and what they're about.
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And today, though, we had the opportunity to sit down with her husband, uh Bill Byler, who is also known as Dr.
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Atomic.
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You'll get to hear from him uh a little bit about his story.
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But it was a fascinating story sitting with him and uh learning uh some of his background and where he's come from and how he got to where he is today with uh the Atomic Motors uh campus that it's turned into.
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It really has.
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It's so cool, such a hidden gem in our valley.
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Yeah, there's a lot of uh a lot of great uh great things they're doing there.
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You'll hear in the interview.
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It talks a lot about uh his business philosophy uh and why he does what he does, which I think was a pretty amazing outlook on on how to grow a business uh that it's not necessarily about growing, specifically growing the business, but growing the people uh within the business.
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I love his philosophy.
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I think our listeners will get a lot out of this interview.
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So so won't we take a moment, sit back, relax, enjoy our interview with Bill Bailer or Dr.
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Atomic, and we'll be back soon.
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We'd like to welcome to our show Bill from Atomic Motors.
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Yes, Dr.
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Atomic here.
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Thanks for being and with me today, and uh sending all your friends and everyone from the city, which is we love you to death.
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You know, I had an opportunity recently to uh do the uh Citizens Police Academy.
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Oh yeah.
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I suggest anyone that can pass a background check.
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Now, if you can't pass a background check, you may not want to check yourself.
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Right.
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But if you can pass a background check, especially if you're ex-military, you'll really enjoy the police department.
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There, what I found was that they are experts in de-escalation.
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I think that it really wins and bodes well to this group of men and women uh who 24 hours a day, seven days a week to protect Henderson and his residents.
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I think it's hard to believe that uh anyone can actually rise to this level that they have, especially for the size of our city.
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Year in and year out, we uh we are ranked as one of the safest cities in the in the nation, and so they definitely do uh yeoman's work in uh keeping us safe.
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And uh I think they do an amazing job also of uh de-escalating situations and making it uh you know making the outcomes more way more amenable than that sometimes they could end up being.
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That's right, that's right.
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And uh one thing I did notice is that we're very shorthanded and uh we do not have enough officers for the population, talk about the population, and that's because they're overworked.
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Uh right now I believe we have uh 14 or 15, probably 15 motor officers, and we should have about 35 to 40.
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Uh motor officers are very important to keep the speeders down, but uh who wants a person donating to a residential neighborhood.
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You don't want that.
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That's something we just can't have.
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Yeah, so that's an important part.
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And uh we're probably another you know, at least um 120 to 130, maybe is my good guess.
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I could be wrong, maybe it's as high as 200 officer short.
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Yeah.
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And it would be great if they had uh more uh officer recruitment drives uh for qualified people.
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Yeah, that's uh always an ongoing challenge with the city, is uh public safety and oh yeah, they're great.
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It's a fabulous city.
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I've lived here a long time and I like it here.
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Yeah, how long have you been here in the city?
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Interesting question.
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I'm glad you brought that up.
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I originally had moved uh from a small town in Northern California, a little place called Danville.
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It's a nice little community.
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Uh and I moved here to take over a motorcycle dealership called Arlen Ness Motorcycles that was over on Boulder Highway.
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Uh-huh.
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And we uh were very successful at at selling motorcycles because we liked motorcycles.
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We became America's first Indian dealer again.
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Uh-huh.
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And before that, in um the late 90s, I'd become the first Indian dealer again in America.
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We're the first Indian store company that had gone bankrupt.
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But um that was, I guess, 19 years ago.
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Oh wow.
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And I'd moved up in Henderson up to a retirement community.
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Uh and it was um what's it called?
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Uh if you drive all the way to the top of uh Eastern until you run out of road.
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Uh-huh.
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Right?
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Uh Anthem.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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And there's a there's a retirement, Dell Webb retirement community up there.
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Yeah.
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Well, you you can buy a house there, you can uh rent a house there, and no one says nothing.
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But after you move in, right, they charge you$100 a week if you're not 55.
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Oh wow.
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They don't care if you live there, they just want to charge you$100 a week.
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So I put up with that for a couple of years and finally moved out to Lake Las Vegas.
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Oh nice.
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And Lake Las Vegas was really fun because it was dead, dead, dead.
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Uh unlike it is now, which is alive, alive, alive.
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Yeah.
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I think they've built about 2,700 homes in the last three years out there.
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Easily.
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And still building.
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Yep.
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And it's a very strong community, and it's uh it's one of the places you can get in a golf cart and just drive everywhere.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, they don't care.
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They just hop in and go.
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Now they have a great little uh down there, they've got a great little um grocery store called Seasons.
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Uh-huh.
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I'm hoping Seasons expands and moves up the hill and builds a bigger store because for that many people it just becomes an emergency place to go shopping instead of a place that you could actually go shopping.
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Every day.
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Well, because the park is uh just a little too restricted down there.
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Right.
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So that's a that's a tough thing.
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But Lake Las Vegas is nice, the people are comfortable.
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And I haven't um found a part of Henderson that wasn't just friendly.
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Uh people keep their homes nice uh in most parts.
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They keep their yards.
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I can't say mowed because we don't have any grass.
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But uh yeah.
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You remember when you were a kid, was there grassy?
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Oh yeah.
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Was there grass where everybody grew up?
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Okay.
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Well, as a kid, I mean I want to I want a snapper mower or a John Deere mower.
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You know, I dreamt about having a better lawnmower than the one you push, right?
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Right.
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Uh but uh now it's just something gone with the wind, right?
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There's there's no more lawnmowers, there's no more grass.
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But you know, they have really nice, you know, we're in uh category nine, right?
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Level nine for plants.
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So if you go out and buy something, make sure you look at the tag from one of these home improvement places or a garden center.
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If it doesn't say nine or above, it's going to die.
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It's not gonna make it.
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I I I got tired of throwing plants away.
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And uh and uh m it's really funny.
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I came full circle.
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I now live in a tiny little retirement home.
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It's so small you can't you you you bump butts moving around and the thing.
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But you know, I don't mind that I've gotten older to have a small house.
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Kind of like living on a boat, I think.
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Probably, yeah.
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Kind of like living on a boat.
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I actually lived on a boat once.
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Oh man.
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I did out in Monterey Harbor.
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Yeah, you made a have you ever been to Monterey, California?
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I have been, yeah.
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Okay, you know, you go down down there, there's two piers and two harbors.
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There's a Coast Guard and the old city one.
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I lived on the Coast Guard Pier.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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You know what you you know what you get when you live down there?
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That's what you hear.
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Oh, and they start at 4 30 in the morning.
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You're gonna wake up.
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A rooster has nothing on you.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, I guess 18, 19 years I've been here.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and now you're just hoping for a nicer golf cart, right?
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Uh yeah, I don't have a golf cart.
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Uh-oh.
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I bought a um, I know this sounds horrible, but I bought a gym.
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Now, a gym was a defunct, you know, I fix everything, right?
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I'm a mechanic.
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Really, I'm just a mechanic.
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And we we try to help everybody, but some folks uh are beyond help, but we do the best we can.
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Yeah.
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So I bought a gym.
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Now that was a little car at the time that was owned by Chrysler Corporation that's electric.
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Imagine a more robust golf cart, better brakes, that kind of thing.
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Well, upgrade.
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Well, it was dead.
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I mean, it was just dead, dead, dead.
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So I brought it back and I scratched my head a couple of times.
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I looked at it, and you know, you can buy a pretty good one of those for almost nothing.
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Oh, yeah.
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Matter of fact, if you tow it away, you might get it for free.
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And it's actually a licensable vehicle.
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They come with a title.
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So I came back and I had wrenched on that thing for two or three weeks.
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I got things going, and now I can't keep up with everybody, but I can certainly get to the grocery store with it.
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As long as you're not in a hurry, I think it's just fine.
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Just right.
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Yeah, it's just and I don't be in a hurry anyway because I'm old and retired.
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But yeah, so that's it.
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Yeah, so I do have something like that, but not an official uber expensive thing.
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Right.
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I just got something I could fix and go.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you're a mechanic by trade, and uh, that's what brought you here.
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Motorcycles, it sounds like brought you to to Henderson, and uh and now you've moved up a little bit.
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Well, just motorcycles, but you've included uh No, my first car dealership was in was in Pleasanton.
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Okay.
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And um, it was in business for 40 years, and um it was a beautiful dealership downtown, 4321 First Street Pleasanton.
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I was on the junior city council, the people they helped train uh to one day be uh mayor.
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Okay.
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I did that for a number of years.
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It was really nice to volunteer for the city.
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I enjoyed it back then too.
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Um, you know, I I I told the fellows of the police department I can't be a police officer, I certainly could run for sheriff.
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And and uh they they looked at me funny for a minute.
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I laughed.
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I said, I'm kidding, yeah, I'm not gonna do it.
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But uh yeah, a little I had a little dealership there, a little classic car store and antique motorcycles, and I just kept building them.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, I just kept building them and and selling them, and before you knew it, I was I had nothing to do.
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I uh when we sold out to uh a larger company, uh we I had three months with zero.
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You remember that lake out there?
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Yeah, I walked all the way around it twice a day.
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That's uh that's uh about 16 miles around it, the long way, you know, out in the desert.
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There wasn't anything out there out in the desert.
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Coyotes come out and look at you and they run away and they stop and look at you.
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Maybe you got a treat.
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I didn't have any treats.
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After about three months of walking, 16 miles, 17 miles a day, I couldn't handle it anymore.
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So I needed a uh hobby shop.
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So that's how this started is a hobby shop.
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So we're here at Atomic Motors.
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Yeah.
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Uh what uh what came uh what came about the name?
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That's an interesting thing.
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So uh long time when I was kid I restored antique radios in high school uh for people with tubes.
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And I'd always go over to swap meets and buy old tubes.
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And I had a tube tester, like a deluxe RCA tube tester, like you can't imagine.
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And you stick all these different types of vacuum tubes in it to test them if they're still good or not, right?
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And I could tell if I had good ones, right?
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I put them on one side and I had the bad ones.
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Well, they're junk and they gotta go away.
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And uh even back then, the right thing to do was to recycle them, so it was recycled.
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Those vacuum tubes had a certain type of recycling in them.
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Uh, you know, they have uh mercury and silver, things like that in them, so they have to go to the right place.
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Right.
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But I would fix those up, and on the front of this machine, it said RCA, right?
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And if you look at our logo, somewhere on here, we got a logo.
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If you look at our logo right here, uh-huh, that is the RCA um logo right for their um radio repair division.
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And uh I always liked that logo.
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Uh-huh.
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So I when when we started, I I called them up and I said, Hey, what do you think?
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And I, oh, we don't want nothing to do with it.
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You can have it.
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It's it's out of date.
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It's not ours anymore.
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We don't want to say, great, I'll use it.
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And also that this is where all the bombs went off.
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Uh-huh.
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And also that um uh well, it's Vegas, Miss Miss Atomic.
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Have you ever seen Miss Atomic?
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Yeah, she's her, she's covered in like uh like white cotton balls and not much more, you know, just an idea of white cotton balls.
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Uh but uh you know, I had something interesting happen the other day.
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Uh this is my ADA coming out.
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I I live with it, but um, squirrel, rabbit.
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Uh but uh I got a phone call from these nice folks, uh-huh, and that's the Atomic Museum.
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And uh there's a very special lady over there.
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Her name is Tina.
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Tina is fabulous.
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I'm talking about a great human being.
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Um we were able to go, myself, my and my best friend, my wife, and his wife uh go out to the Nevada test site.
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Okay.
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Have you been there yet?
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I have been there.
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It's really fabulous.
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We took the ride around all day long and we went to the the little restaurant there and uh we had a lot of fun and and uh got something cold to drink.
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I think we got a snack or something.
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But we spent the day out there and I really enjoyed it.
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And uh, you know, I like their I like their thing, their logo too, which is much like ours, right?
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I didn't even know they existed, right?
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Of course, they've been out there for 90 years.
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How would I not how would I not know they existed?
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But they turn out just to be a really good bunch of kids, yeah.
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Boys and girls and the adults that are just really working hard out there.
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But Tina at the at the museum itself, I I recommend everybody go to the museum each quarter because they're always expanding the museum.
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And if you don't know anything about it, you give Tina a call over there at the Atomic Museum and treat yourself and your family.
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Spend a couple of bucks if you if you feel like donating something to somebody, donate to them, they're a worthy cause because they tell the history of where we've been, where we are now, and where we're going.
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Right?
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And so it's kind of a fun thing.
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Yeah, I have a little bit of inside uh inside pass on the test site.
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Also, my dad worked for the Department of Energy for 25 years and was the director of safety out there, so he was the one pushing the button.
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That's it.
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That's fabulous!
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And he was the one building uh he was the one building all the uh test equipment that would test uh test the uh potency of the weapons.
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So it was uh so he would take us out there and tour us around all the craters and show us all the big ones and the smaller ones and how it works.
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So yeah, so it's pretty uh it's pretty amazing.
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I've been to the museum several times, and yeah, the the history of it's pretty amazing of what uh you know what we have out here in the desert.
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Uh a lot of folks won't agree with me, but you know, if you think about it, there's been a couple accidents, just a few, not too many, you know, an arm's length of of things over all these years at nuclear power plants.
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And it really is an amazing power source.
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And I was as a kid, I thought, why doesn't every city have their own little re reactor, right?
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Wouldn't that be great?
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You wouldn't have all these other things, all these other things happening.
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Right.
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But it just never happened.
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I don't know why.
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So, Shane, it would have been really great.
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Mysteries of the world, right?
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Mysteries of the world.
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So you got uh so you have you moved here, you've uh set up a new uh uh classic car dealer shop that has uh slowly uh been uh growing and expanding.
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You know, uh we've interviewed your wife uh a couple of years ago, and you guys were only in a couple of the buildings here on your campus on Sunset Road, and uh and now you guys are in about almost all the buildings in uh here on Sunset Road.
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And so what has it been like for you to grow your business here?
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Well, well, you know, my driving force was not to grow the business at all.
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I never thought of it that way.
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Um the I had an employee, and I thought, well, Kat, how do we get health insurance for this person?
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His teeth, yeah, a person with a problem with the teeth, you know.
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And uh, how do we get them vision and dental and and and help them save some money and stuff like that?
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And she said, Well, we have to have so many.
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I think it was 20 we had to have to qualify for insurance.
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Okay, right?
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And um, so I worked really hard to find to get to 20 employees so we could apply for that.
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So now all of them, right?
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If they need a tooth repair or they need glasses, or uh they need uh, I don't know, heart surgery.
00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:09.279
You know, we offer the we offer insurance for them.
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Uh then um if they have vision and dental, so if they can't see, they get fixed.
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I mean, I wear cheaters myself.
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I've been thinking about that zapping of the eyes thing, but I just haven't done it.
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But uh, but you know, it's good to have those on, especially if you're grinding something on a wheel.
00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:24.480
I've had them stick right in the lens of my glass, the wire, right?
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So there you go.
00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:45.839
But uh, but that was really the goal to make it was it but if you think about this, let's say, let's say you have a company and you have 40 people, I think we have 42 here, and if your real mission is to make sure that they can buy a house, and we've had uh countless numbers of our employees buy houses, they they couldn't have done it before.
00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:51.119
Um, they live, they work in an air-conditioned or heated environment, depends on the time of the year.
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They have a 401k.
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Most of them never had a 401k, so it it basically forces them to do better.
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So when they get older, they have some dou remi, right?
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Right.
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Uh they can set up um things for their kids for college, right?
00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:07.359
Uh all those things that that, you know, I'm old.
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I'll just be honest, I'm an older guy.
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And um, you know, I don't, you know, I don't have any children, I don't have any of that stuff, right?
00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.880
But uh so everyone here is like uh family member, right?
00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:24.400
So they it's good to have all this stuff for them because it's important um because they couldn't they didn't have it before.
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But now they can, you know, they can buy a car and they can make their dreams come true.
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Let's say you want to live in this neighborhood and you got a job, and the the bank says, Okay, prove you have a job, and oh well, you do have a job.
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And then pretty soon they sign the paperwork, and the bank gives them a house on payments, and pretty soon they they got a house, and uh, well, you know, maybe they want to buy another house as an apartment they can rent out.
00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:50.799
And we have lots of those gals, the guys and gals here that have grown with us.
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Um oh gosh, we've been here almost 12 years.
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Yeah, right?
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So it's it's good.
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Now we've had some come and go, um, and it was always sad to see them go, you know.
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Yeah.
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Uh and uh we've even had the weird anomaly where you hire somebody on on Friday to come in Monday and they never come in.
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You ever heard of that one?
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Yeah, where'd you go?
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Well, they just never returned a call.
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And they were they were qualified, but they just I don't know, that mostly younger ones, but the older, more mature, and you know, uh probably a third of all of our employees have owned their own companies.
00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:22.960
Really?
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They've owned their own companies, yeah.
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Wow.
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Third of the employees have owned their own companies.
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That's amazing.
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Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it?
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Yeah, right.
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But it's easier here for them because they don't have to worry about accounting or insurances and things like that.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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So that's a very uh that's a super interesting uh way of growing the business.
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Is that not to uh uh that you're growing it for your employees more than you're uh more than for yourself.
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I'm already old.
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Yeah, they're not.
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So they're not.
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So there you go.
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I already live in a tiny little house.
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In a retirement community.
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So I so there I am.
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I can't I you know I'm not going.
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The other way.
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I've gone full circle.
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Yeah.
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You know, you know, I think a lot of folks when they're younger, they they start off and they they want the big house.
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Yeah.
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Of course they want the first house.
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And all of a sudden they got five, six, seven kids that get lucky and have children.
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Do you have children?
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I have three, yeah.
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Oh, you're so lucky.
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I would have had ten if I could have.
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Yeah, but I never did.
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My wife died of the cancer.
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So I after she died, she was only 26.
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I never got around to I didn't think about it.
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All I did was work seven days a week.
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Like, you know, you won't believe this, but we've been married uh, oh, let's see now.
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17 and a half years.
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I might get in trouble for this.
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I'm just saying you're going on record.
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So 17 and a half years, and uh we've never up until uh the second weekend in January.
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We'd never taken a vacation and we'd never had a honeymoon.
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Oh wow.
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We worked seven days a week.
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In the last 10 years, I've had three days off, seven days a week.
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And um my my buddy put us um uh afforded us to be able to take three days off a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and took us to um Court Elaine, Idaho, right?
00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:10.559
Yeah, and um and he's a local resident and he's my favorite person, and he and I just get along like peas and carrots.
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Uh-huh.
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And his name is Don Ahern.
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Yeah.
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So he's my best friend.
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And uh he and I have a other my wife, she's my best friend too, but Don and I, we get along like peas and carrots.
00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:21.680
You know, it the yeah, he's the guy you'd fall on a sword for.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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But uh, but he's just a real peach of a guy.
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He had uh, well, he still has thousands and thousands of employees, but he does the same thing to make sure that they they have good medical, dental vision, all that stuff too, so that uh they can have a good life.
00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:34.880
Right.
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You know, but like if you're in the army, you're already it's your mom, it's your mom and dad.
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Your mom and dad's gonna take care of you, you know.
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If you need a stitch, they put a stitch in you.
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:44.640
Yeah, right.
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If you if you if you bump your head, they they put a rag on you, a little cool compress, right?
00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:55.839
But when you are out and about in society, I think a lot of companies could do more to help their folks than they do.
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And he's uh he's a real peach, and and I I can't fault him for nothing.
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Of course, people make stories up about him, which aren't true, but yeah, but that's not kind, is it?
00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:04.240
No.
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No, it's not very nice.
00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:05.920
No.
00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.480
Hey, what's this thing about dust in the city?
00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:09.359
What about dust?
00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:11.119
Dust, it's a very odd thing.
00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:17.920
So let's say you're driving along and um you see a hard-working group of men, right?
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Okay and women, and they're out there driving their things around in a field, and some dust comes up.
00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.079
Uh-huh.
00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:28.160
Well, you the kind of field they're pushing around in, there's no way to get a water truck out there.
00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:28.559
Uh-huh.
00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:29.279
Right?
00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:34.960
And then here comes along the city and gives them a$10,000 fine.
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Why is that?
00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.079
Uh, that's actually the county.
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The county does it.
00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:40.640
Uh it's air quality.
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Bad air quality, bad county.
00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:43.920
These people are trying to make a living.
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Let them make a living.
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There should be a mediator or some way to not just shut a job down.
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I talked to a fellow the other day who couldn't get a car because he was a truck driver driving rock out of the middle of nowhere out here somewhere.
00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:06.480
And they shut the job down and gave them, he said, a$20,000 fine, and they had he hasn't been gone back to work since, so he can't get his car.
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:07.759
That's not very kind.
00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.920
They put out to work, he said, 18 people out of work for some dust.
00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:12.160
Yeah.
00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:13.279
We're in the desert.
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Have you seen outside today?
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Look out that window.
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Not very clear.
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No, it's dust.
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It's full of dust.
00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:23.279
Those county people should give Mother Nature a fine to see how that works.
00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:26.480
Do you have other people tell the truth like this?
00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:27.440
You probably do, don't you?
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:32.079
Yeah, it's just it just isn't, you know, it isn't right to put a man out of work or a woman out of work.
00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:35.440
It's definitely a challenge living in the desert on both ends of the spectrum.
00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:39.039
I guarantee that person wrote that check is still that wrote that uh fine.
00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:43.759
I guarantee that person still getting their paycheck, whether it's dusty or not outside.
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See what I mean?
00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:45.759
Yeah.
00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:46.240
Yeah.
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Have you ever been here in Vegas with a good windstorm?
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Yes.
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What was that like with the dust?
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It was it was cutting.
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:53.440
You see this thing I wear here?
00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:53.839
Yeah.
00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:55.359
See why I wear this?
00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:57.680
There's a reason I wear that 24-7.
00:25:58.160 --> 00:25:59.680
Because of where we are, dust.
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So if you're out there listening, stop being mean to guys and gals who are trying to make a living.
00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:05.839
Stop that dust stuff.
00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.160
We're trying to we're trying to do some work here.
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:08.880
Okay, good.
00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.240
So what's the next question?
00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:21.680
So uh so you so you built your company here, you built your business, you've grown it uh for great purposes or great causes of uh building uh building people, uh is what I hear.
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:23.920
Oh yeah, it really had nothing to do with me.
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:32.720
And so um and each time someone would leave, um then we just expand and paint and put I like pictures.
00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:33.200
Uh-huh.
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:40.480
There's over 5,000 framed pictures of oil paintings and watercolors and set sign posters and doodads.
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:45.519
Over 5,000 of them, all kinds, uh, because they look better than just a plain wall, right?
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.000
So that's a fun thing for people to come see.
00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.680
As a kid, I've never got to go, but I like to look at the pictures in the book of the Louvre.
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:52.720
You ever heard of that joint?
00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:54.720
They got a lot of great stuff over there, right?
00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:56.319
But I never got to go.
00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:58.160
I have never gone anywhere, really.
00:26:58.319 --> 00:26:59.519
But it except here.
00:26:59.599 --> 00:26:59.759
Yeah.
00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:00.160
Right?
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:01.119
So I can make my own.
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.160
You brought it to you.
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.000
Well, everywhere I go, I buy one.
00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:04.319
Yeah.
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:06.799
Even if it's five bucks or more.
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.119
I was gonna say, I don't know, I was gonna ask where you uh where you're gonna have to call it just anywhere and everywhere.
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:16.079
I just drive around and you know, I just sometimes I I can drive 10,000 miles in a month.
00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:16.960
That's a lot.
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:17.519
That's a lot.
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:20.960
And uh, you know, I just drive until I get tired and I go to sleep in the truck.
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.279
I got a pickup truck with a million miles on it.
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:23.599
Wow.
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:24.640
Her name is Marge.
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.319
She's a dually, an old one.
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:27.599
I'm on her fourth engine.
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:28.240
Holy cow.
00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:33.200
Yeah, I was gonna get a new one, uh-huh, but it just wasn't in the budget.
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:35.119
They're really expensive.
00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:40.079
Oh well, you know, me and Marge go way back, so I'm also very loyal.
00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:40.319
Okay.
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:43.519
But and Marge will make a U-turn in the middle of the street.
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:44.799
The new ones won't.
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.039
Yeah.
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.039
It's a three or four-point turn there.
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:47.359
Yeah.
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:50.000
Well, you could drive over curves, but you know, I hate breaking curves.
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.599
I'm the guy that paints the red on the curves.
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:51.920
Okay.
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.680
I'm out there cleaning up and sweeping.
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:55.680
Yeah.
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.839
So where do uh where do your cars come from?
00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.799
Oh gosh, you know, everywhere that there isn't rust.
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.519
Uh I hate rust, rust never sleeps, it's terrible.
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:04.640
So it's a funny thing.
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.319
They come in and we inspect them.
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.559
We have a a really group, good group of guys.
00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:10.160
One of my favorite guys in there.
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:11.680
There's two of them.
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:26.079
Uh one is going to be Guy, uh, he's a shop foreman, and the other one um is Frank, and he makes sure that the service department runs effectively and efficiently, and that the the everyone's taken care of.
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:32.079
You know, and then there's we have a great parts department, a great parts man, and all the men that work here and gals that work here are very good.
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.359
Um but they they chuck the car out and they root it a tutor it and make sure it's really good.
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:48.079
If it needs anything, if it needs an air conditioner pump, if it needs an antenna or 10i, there's some cars actually be able to, uh, especially like a 50s custom too with antennas, right?
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:50.400
Uh if it needs uh radio, it doesn't work.
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:54.319
Or if there's a scratch in the glass or something like that, we fix everything.
00:28:54.480 --> 00:29:04.400
Then it goes next door and goes on a dynamometer, and they run it on the dynamometer until they actually tune it in and tune the shifting because the modulator valve on most old cars aren't shifting right anymore.
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:06.799
So we set the shifting up, and we can do that to your car too.
00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:09.680
So if you have a classic car style shifting right, just get it on over here.
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:10.480
We can set that up.
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:13.759
And even a modern car, we have computers now that hook up to that stuff.
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:17.200
And we're also experts on a thing called resto modding.
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:21.039
So if you have an old car but you want a modern drive line, you know, what do they say?
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:25.359
If your wife's a nagging and your tailpipe's a dragon, come and see me, right?
00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.640
So we'll do that.
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.240
And after it's all dialed in, they then put it up on a lift.
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.400
And then on a lift, they steam clean the chassis until it's absolutely spotless.
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:40.400
And once the chassis is spotless, then they um they take the wheels off of it, they steam clean it to bare metal, the whole thing.
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.960
Suspension, engine, transmission, rear end, everything, the gas tank, the exhaust.
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:51.680
Then they sand it and they prime it with epoxy primer, etching primer, and then they paint it, and then they clear it.
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:59.440
So the bottom of the car, if you go online to atomicmotors.net and you open a car and you click down under photos, you see the bottom, they all look better than new.
00:29:59.519 --> 00:29:59.599
Wow.
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:04.079
Every car is absolutely painted perfectly under every one of these cars, as new or better.
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:04.960
I'm sure they're nicer.
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:12.480
And then uh the fender wells, originally like a European car, most European cars, the fender wells are painted to match the body, right?
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:14.240
Where American cars they're black.
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:14.559
Right.
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.480
So, and then we repaint under the hood.
00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:17.920
We have a full upholstery shop.
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:23.440
So if there's any upholstery work done, they replace the leather, worn carpets, kick panels, things like that, and headliners.
00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:28.640
And then uh we make sure again, check one more time on glass, make sure there's no delamination.
00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:30.079
Uh, then they every car.
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:35.519
Now, this is an oddity, only in Clark County, not even California does this, they go over for smog.
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.160
Oh, yeah.
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:39.920
Let me tell you about something that is useless and weird.
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.559
In California, it's 20 years and older.
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:43.039
Uh-huh.
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:46.799
So that is 2005 and newer in California.
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:48.319
2005 and newer have to be smogged.
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:49.599
2004 older, no smog.
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:49.920
Right.
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:51.440
Here it's 19.
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:54.400
Listen to this, before it was ever invented.
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:56.160
1968 and newer.
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:56.880
Oh, geez.
00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:59.359
Do you know what we have to do to make a car smog here?
00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:00.640
This is shocking.
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:01.599
I can only imagine.
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:02.640
No, it's impossible.
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:02.880
Yeah.
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:05.279
If you buy a 68 Camaro, it will not smog.
00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.640
You can't make it smog.
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:06.960
Yeah.
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:09.359
The greatest shop in the world cannot tune that enough.
00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:09.680
Yeah.
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:20.559
What we do, so you'll know, and the world knows, the only way to pass their emissions is to do one heck of a great tune-up, possibly rebuild the engine many times.
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.240
The engine has to be rebuilt.
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:27.599
Then a brand new exhaust system to include catalytic converters.
00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:31.200
The catalytic converters are what gets it over the line.
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.720
So they hook it up.
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:38.640
There's no cars in the world cleaner than the ones that leave here because they all have catalytic converters on them.
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:41.599
They can't smoke, so if it smokes, it gets a new engine.
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:43.200
We have a full machine shop here.
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:45.440
They take the engine out, they rebuild it, put it back in.
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:47.759
So it's the most difficult thing in the world.
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:53.359
And that's, I think, why they invented the thing called um classic plates or vintage plates.
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:53.599
Uh-huh.
00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:54.240
You've seen those?
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:55.119
Yep, I've seen those.
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:58.559
But I think they're restricted to so many miles, like 5,000 miles a year.
00:31:58.799 --> 00:31:59.119
Okay, yeah.
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:02.720
But but remember this if a dealer sells a car, it still must pass smog.
00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:04.720
So every one of our cars gets that.
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:05.119
Wow.
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.200
Is that that the it's just crazy, huh?
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:07.920
That's crazy.
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:08.480
That's wild.
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:09.599
You can't make a pass.
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:12.000
It's no pretty old cars here.
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:13.039
So that I can do it.
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.440
Smog, smog, smog, smog, smog, smog, smog, smog.
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:17.759
All have to be smogged.
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:18.319
Yeah.
00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:19.519
That's insane.
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:20.400
That's wild.
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.240
That's that's amazing.
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:28.559
But um all it does is it makes the engine run hotter, uh, which is harder on the valves and stuff like that.
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:30.880
But if that's the rules we have to play by, that's what we do.
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.039
And we have big computers that we strap to these cars to make sure they pass smog before we go down to try.
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:37.359
Okay.
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.039
Because that's 35 bucks if it doesn't pass.
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:39.440
Yeah.
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.799
So we've got to make sure it passes.
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:42.160
You don't want to keep it perfectly.
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:42.720
That's right.
00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:44.000
No, they have to pass.
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.079
And you know you won't believe this.
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:48.000
Our van out front, the big box van.
00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:53.200
I that's my favorite vehicle to drive, because no one tries to run into it because it's big and ugly, right?
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:54.319
But it's really great.
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:56.319
That used to be the DMV smog van.
00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.200
Oh, they used to drive around and yeah, I bought it from them.
00:32:59.440 --> 00:32:59.680
Okay.
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:02.000
Yeah, I got it for 3,500 bucks.
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:04.079
Yeah, 30,000 miles and 3,500.
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:05.440
Oh, it was great.
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.279
And and they had they had like tried to take the stickers off, but it faded the paint.
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:12.079
So if you go out and look at it, you'll see on the side it says DMV.
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:13.200
You can see it right there.
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:13.759
Yeah.
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:15.200
So it's kind of fun.
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.039
So yeah, we just make sure it works correctly.
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:27.200
So you guys, do you have a full uh I won't say uh it has a full restoration shop that does everything.
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:27.759
Yeah, exactly.
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.960
Oh, it does upholstery, suspension, so not only does paint everything.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.839
Somebody came to you and we do it all the time.
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:37.680
There's 87 cars here for restoration.
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:38.480
That's a lot.
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:40.400
Yeah.
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:41.359
Yeah.
00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:47.279
People come from all over Well, we've um we get we get the craziest things.
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:49.440
We tell everyone not to restore a car.
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:50.559
I can't make this up.
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:51.279
We tell them that.
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:54.240
Please, sir or ma'am, do not restore your classic car.
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.759
Please buy one already restored.
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:56.640
Well, why is that?
00:33:56.799 --> 00:34:04.400
I had a lady here with a um a car not very long ago, her and her husband had a car, and I you know, said it's gonna be between three and five hundred thousand dollars to do this.
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:05.359
Well, why so much?
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:14.159
And I said, well, two hundred just at 200, it well, I think we're 210 an hour or something, but at 2,000 hours to 3,000 hours, at 2,000 hours,$400,000 in labor.
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:15.440
Why would you do that?
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.360
You could buy a brand new car or one fully restored for$100,000.
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:19.519
Right.
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:21.440
But just a beautifully fully restored car.
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:25.119
Why, well, it was my first car, it was Aunt B's car or Uncle Bob's.
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:26.719
Well, that's what it's gonna cost.
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.400
And I think it finally sets in that that's what it actually costs to do the car.
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:31.199
Yeah, right?
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.880
Yeah, two or three years later, they well, why'd I spend so much money on the car?
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.119
Well, there, because you I told you not to.
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:40.719
I had a beautiful car right here that's gorgeous, right?
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.360
Yeah, I please don't do a full restoration.
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.599
Now, maintenance, what we do a lot of, we do that every day.
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:46.239
That's easy.
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:49.039
You mean you got a car that's hot and you want air conditioner on it?
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:50.400
We put air conditioner on it.
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:54.079
Now, there's a lot of there's a lot of people get a car without air conditioning.
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:55.360
I'm one of them.
00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:57.360
I'm not driving anywhere without air.
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.000
I do ride a motorcycle almost every single day to work.
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:00.800
That's how I get to work.
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:01.519
I ride a motorcycle.
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:02.639
You get air that way too.
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:03.199
Oh, yeah.
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:05.119
I get up early and I go to bed early.
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:05.440
Yeah.
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:06.079
I'm old.
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:07.039
Remember the old part?
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:08.880
Old people do that.
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.199
Yeah, like like what time do you go to bed at night?
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.800
Not early enough, that's for sure.
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.159
Are you in bed by 9:30?
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:14.559
No.
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.199
Yeah.
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:16.480
I'm I'm before that.
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:16.960
Yeah.
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:19.440
Snooze and lagalog, but I get it before.
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:20.239
What time do you get up?
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:20.800
Five.
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:21.360
There you go.
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:22.559
Oh, you should get more rest.
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:23.840
I know, I should actually.
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.239
Yeah.
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.840
Yeah, that's how that works.
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.440
So, how long have you been with the city?
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:29.360
Uh, over a little over 20 years.
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.159
20 years?
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:30.480
Yeah.
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:31.199
That sounds nice.
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.960
So you're on the PERRS system.
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:33.840
You sure are.
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:35.760
That's awesome.
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:37.280
So I got a few more to go.
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:41.360
Yeah, and then will you uh after this, will you go to work for like the uh like a big manufacturer or something?
00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:42.320
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:43.039
It'll be fun.
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:43.599
Second career.
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.199
You can always come sell cars with me.
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.239
I would that'd be fun.
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:49.280
Do you know what every one of these cars has that the other ones don't have?
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:50.400
Howdy, folks.
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:52.239
Yep, every one of these cars.
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:53.119
Thank you, Bill.
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:54.159
Thank you, sir.
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:57.440
Every one of these cars has a two-year warranty on it.
00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:57.920
Wow.
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:04.000
Every car we sell, unless it's a reproduction car, like a Cobra kit car or a Porsche kit car, something like that.
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:09.760
Or um, if it's been heavily modified with like a giant supercharger or twin turbos or something.
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.079
But if it's a car like this, just a regular car.
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:14.480
If you don't beat me up on price, right?
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:16.239
Yeah, it comes with a two-year warranty.
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:16.960
That's amazing.
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:17.440
I'll tell you.
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.519
It took 11 years to get that.
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:24.960
The underwriting company, uh, I think it's D O W C or something, something like that.
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:27.039
Um, they're tough.
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:33.440
They investigated us, they looked at us, they went up and down with us, and they came and talked with the techs and everything else.
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.559
Yep, nope.
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:35.280
You're good.
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:37.119
We were the only one that they told me past.
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:37.840
That's amazing.
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.320
So if you want an antique car with a warranty, we you have it here.
00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:42.320
That's kind of nice, huh?
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:43.199
Two-year warranty?
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.639
And you I don't you don't charge for it.
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:44.960
Yeah.
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:46.159
But you know what they do do?
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:56.719
Let's say a person buys a crazy car and they want a really big warranty, something more than I can give you, they they do have other packages if you only feel like four years or something like that, you know, that kind of thing.
00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:59.760
But um, but yeah, I want to make sure that there's there's no real troubles.
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.920
And a lot of these cars don't get a lot of miles to begin with.
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:02.159
Yeah.
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:04.000
They just don't drive them around a bunch.
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:06.880
So within the classic car community, uh huh.
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:12.559
Uh, you know, I know there's not very many other classic car dealers here locally that I'm aware of.
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:17.760
I know there were used to be a couple, but you know, nationwide, you know, what is what does it look like?
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:19.039
You know, what is your business?
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:24.400
How does your business compare to other classic car businesses out there, restoration shops?
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:26.639
Uh probably a different motivation.
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:26.880
Yeah.
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:27.920
Wouldn't you think?
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:29.199
I think so.
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:31.679
You know, really it's just a different motivation, right?
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:32.079
Yeah.
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:42.000
Yeah, I uh I built 12 dealerships in my lifetime and sold them and built them and ran them and so uh yeah, probably I'm older, remember that part?
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.679
Yeah, and you know, I'm not 25 years old trying to set the world on fire.
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:46.079
Okay.
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:48.320
Honestly, I'm just glad if someone shows up.
00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:54.559
You know, on Saturdays and Sundays I give out free donuts, and inevitably there's always donuts left over.
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.719
How can there be donuts left over?
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.639
How is that possible, right?
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:00.800
Hey, you know what I started doing for the kids?
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.000
Um, it whether it doesn't matter if you're three years old or 90 years old.
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:06.079
Uh were you ever a Cub Scout or a Boy Scout?
00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:06.559
Oh yeah.
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:08.320
Did you have a Pine Derby race car?
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:08.800
Oh yeah.
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:10.559
I have a Pine Derby track.
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:12.400
And um we saw that over there.
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:17.599
Every Saturday Sunday at um and I'm gonna say this out there, check this out, moms and dads and kids.
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:23.599
Um every Sunday you come by, you get I if I'm here, I can't guarantee I'm always here, but if I'm here, we have pizza and races.
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:27.760
So most weekends on Sunday I'm here if I'm not delivering a car across town, but I'm always working.
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:29.920
So we have pizza and races at noon.
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:30.079
Okay.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.039
Sunday at noon, but Saturday and Sunday, 10 to 2, there's always free donuts, which is nice.
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:50.960
Um yeah, what makes me different than the other ones is uh we do full restorations, maintenance, even on brand new cars, and we also do um sales and we buy cars and we we just try to make them happy.
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.239
We probably got like a 99 percentile.
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:59.519
You're always gonna get that 1% that there's you know, that there's maybe a wire's loose up there, right?
00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:01.039
Less than ecstatic.
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:02.719
Well, but no, I wouldn't say that.
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.360
I think that they just are there's angry people in the world.
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:06.719
You ever met an angry person?
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:07.519
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.320
Many times you see them on the news, they're serial killers, right?
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.159
And I and anyone that has the time to sit around and write bad things online, right?
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:19.119
And hide behind a keyboard, I would certainly say, is probably a little touched.
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:19.760
Yeah, you're right.
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.360
They should they should have a hobby.
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:26.559
I don't care if it's painting mountainscapes, but they they should not take it out on their fellow man and woman.
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.679
Have another outlet.
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:29.920
Yeah, they should be try to be kind to people.
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:33.199
Yeah, yeah, but other than that, this probably uh I have a different motivation.
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:34.320
Yeah, it's fun.
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:40.639
And uh I what I have said I mean, really, if I had room for another hundred cars or three or a thousand cars, I would go get them.
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:42.559
Yeah, wow, and I would keep doing that.
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:44.480
I would continue to do that.
00:39:44.559 --> 00:40:05.119
What it needs now is the city needs a big museum, a big, giant, huge museum that tells the story of America, it tells the story of Nevada, it tells the story of Las Vegas, and it tells the story of the Air Force and the Army and the Marines and the Navy and the Coast Guard and the National Guard.
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:14.880
It tells the story of the fire departments, it tells the story of the police departments, it tells the story of the fabric of a republic because we're a republic.
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:16.960
All these people talk about a democracy.
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:18.559
This is a republic, right?
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:18.960
Right?
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:19.679
You remember that?
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:20.880
Third grade in school.
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:21.119
Yeah.
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:21.519
Right?
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:22.400
This is a republic.
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.480
We need a big museum like that.
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:29.760
Um I went down to a big Air Force base and they'll give me all the planes I want.
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:32.639
I'm just gonna paint them up and put them on a static displays.
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:34.320
Don't be surprised, right?
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:39.599
One day if you wake up and there's the the biggest museum anywhere with all these things in it.
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:41.840
We need to tell about the story of the silver.
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.280
You know, um uh do you are you familiar with Tonopah?
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:45.679
Yeah.
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:46.639
Okay, Tonopah.
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.440
The first printing press in Nevada was in Tonopah.
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:50.800
Okay, Tonopah.
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:56.880
There was at one time more than more than a hundred thousand people that live there in tents.
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:57.440
Yeah.
00:40:57.679 --> 00:40:58.159
Tents.
00:40:58.320 --> 00:40:59.599
Because they were digging for what?
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:00.079
Gold.
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:01.280
Gold and silver.
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:02.639
That was Tonopah.
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:03.440
Crazy, huh?
00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:04.239
You've driven through there?
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:04.800
Yeah, yeah.
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:06.880
It's like, oh did I pass that?
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.400
They have the clown motel down there.
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:10.960
They do have the clown motel, that's right.
00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:14.639
Yeah, Totopah is a lovely city, but really it used to be massive.
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:14.960
Yeah.
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:15.440
Right?
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:18.000
And they had the first printing press that was in the late 1800s.
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:18.159
Yeah.
00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:19.679
So let's tell the story that.
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:29.679
Let's tell the story correctly of all the things that um that maybe the next two, three, four generations of us, of us, everybody, can see what the people did before.
00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:29.840
Right.
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:37.440
And take the good and the bad, and not try to manipulate history and cover up history just because it doesn't fit our narrative.
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:38.159
Right.
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:42.880
No, it's definitely important to recognize where you came from and why you're here.
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:44.800
You know what a good pilot says?
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:45.840
What's that?
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:46.559
Are you a pilot?
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:47.679
I'm not a pilot.
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:50.079
Where are we going and how do we get there?
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:51.440
That's all you need to know.
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.119
Everything else is gonna work out fine.
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:53.679
Exactly.
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:55.679
Where are we going and how you how are we gonna get there?
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:58.079
So, where are you where are you going next here?
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:02.800
Oh, just keep painting and building and do doing new stuff and make things.
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.119
And um, have you been over to the Ahern Hotel recently?
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:06.239
Ahern hotel?
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:06.559
Yeah.
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:07.039
Uh-uh.
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:07.760
Downtown?
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:08.559
Oh no, no.
00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:12.800
That's a really neat place because inside there's all kinds of things I've built.
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.360
Uh I've got Evil Kinevil Jumping Snake River.
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:15.519
Okay.
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:16.719
I've uh built that.
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:19.760
So there's all kinds of stuff you won't believe inside that and outside that.
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:21.599
And it's a really great venue just to have fun.
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:22.559
They got great restaurants.
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:33.119
One of the few places on the strip that you can um get free parking, have a great meal, breakfast, lunch, or dinner, uh, have an event, right?
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:34.880
And uh, did you know we do events here now?
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:35.679
I didn't know that.
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.360
It's the craziest thing you've ever imagined.
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:38.880
We just had EOS Fitness.
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:39.760
Are you familiar with them?
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:44.079
Very nice company, very nice ownership, very nice corporate chain.
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:48.079
Uh, they have their Christmas party here every year, and so do a lot of other big companies.
00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:56.320
But we do weddings here, we do quincene eras, we do high school reunions, Christmas parties, Easter parties, Thanksgiving parties.
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:57.360
We rent the buildings out.
00:42:57.519 --> 00:42:57.760
Wow.
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.000
We have a soda machine we turn on for all the parties.
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:00.880
Yeah, right.
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:02.559
And so, yeah, it's a great event.
00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:09.360
Then we've got four rooms already finished up for that have been remodeled to have different venues, all the way up to 9,500 square feet.
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:09.840
Wow.
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:10.960
And that's uh Trinity.
00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:16.239
If you ever ever want to have some really fun event, yeah, you come and check us out, even online, call Trinity.
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:17.920
Okay and uh she runs that whole department.
00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:18.719
Perfect.
00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:19.920
That's good to know.
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:21.280
Yeah, so that kind of stuff.
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.920
Something, you know, it's it's more fun to share stuff.
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.559
Like that cub airplane, yeah, it flies.
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:28.639
Problem is I'm too fat to get in it.
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:29.840
I am.
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:30.960
Pretty skinny.
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:32.320
I'm you know, I'm pretty narrow.
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:35.199
I'm six foot tall, two hundred and thirty-five pounds of me.
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:36.079
Yeah, right?
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:41.360
And I'm I'm probably, you know, I'm probably 15% pure blubber.
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:42.400
Right?
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:45.039
So that's the way that's the way that works, right?
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.440
Well, I know if you can't get in it, I can't get it in it either.
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:48.719
So yeah, we're both in trouble.
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:49.039
Yeah.
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.320
But now if you were about 150 pounds or less, that wouldn't be a problem.
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:54.079
You could fly to New York probably if you had time.
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:59.199
But I think that's a guy, that's a that's a real airplane that works, and it works quite well.
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.119
But It looks better than this air, doesn't it?
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:04.400
Yeah, than you know, me plugging into the side of the hill somewhere in it.
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:04.960
Definitely.
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:05.840
We don't want that.
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:07.840
Fat boys don't look good in small planes.
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:09.599
It just it just doesn't work out right.
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:10.400
It looks great.
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:11.199
It looks great right there.
00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:13.760
It'd be like me wearing a sweater two sizes too small.
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:14.000
Yeah.
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:15.679
That would not be something you want to see.
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:16.159
No.
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:19.360
It's uh one of the one of the images we'll leave for somewhere else.
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:20.880
Did you grow up in a wealthy family?
00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:21.519
I did not.
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:22.960
No, we had no money.
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:28.480
You know, I was raised by four older sisters, and they all left pretty quick, but uh I still remember being very small.
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:31.440
And if you have no money, what you do is you sit around and talk about people.
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:34.960
And so uh they would take us uh to a little town.
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:46.480
We we we first off started off in a very small town of 23 people in Missouri, but we there's a big city up there uh called Cape Girarde, and they had a mall, but not really like a mall mall you think of, like an outside mall.
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:46.800
Yeah.
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:52.719
And uh there's nothing to do with a kid on a Sunday, so you'd set them down in a corner and you'd you just leave them, right?
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.840
They'd just leave us, and we'd sat there and watch, and they give us a little bit of money, maybe have a cherry coke or something.
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.000
But uh, this is farm people, right?
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:01.920
You know, they're out doing whatever they're doing, you know.
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:09.119
They're and uh so crazy thing, but uh my sisters taught me how to talk about people, and that's what my my sister would say.
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:10.400
You believe she's wearing that?
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:12.079
And uh, oh my gosh.
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:14.960
Well, we were so broke.
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:21.599
Now we're never poor because we had food, because we had we had things to eat, because we had you know lots and lots of land to eat from.
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:26.559
We had to grow our own vegetables and stuff, but we had no idea we just had nothing.
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:28.239
I mean, less than nothing.
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.280
Uh, when you were a kid in summer, did you have shoes?
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:34.239
Yeah, no, we were growing.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:35.760
See, as a child, you grow, right?
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:37.599
So you grow out of your shoes by the end of school year.
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:38.000
Right.
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:39.519
All summer long we never had shoes.
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:41.519
We did not have shoes.
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:47.039
And so you at the beginning of school, right, uh, you would uh get new shoes.
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.800
Yeah, like a pair of Buster Browns and corduroy pants.
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:51.119
Uh-huh.
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:54.239
I gotta tell you, until I was 10 years old, I wore a lot of hand-me-downs.
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:57.920
Now, now my sister's hand-me-downs are a little bit different.
00:45:58.159 --> 00:45:59.920
Uh definitely.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:01.519
Well, no one else knew anyway.
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:05.039
I was an original cross dresser, but I was seven years old, right?
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:06.960
But uh, you know, what a hoot, though.
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:08.079
We didn't have any money, right?
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:08.400
Right?
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:09.440
So, you know, no one cared.
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:15.119
Well, I can tell you one thing, I was an expert at taking women's clothes off because the buttons are on backwards.
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:18.239
A girl's buttons are backwards from a man.
00:46:18.559 --> 00:46:18.800
Okay.
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:20.000
Did you know that one?
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:21.039
Oh, see there?
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.199
That's uh those were hand-me-down shirts.
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:23.440
Yeah.
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:25.920
Did any of you grow up in a big expensive house?
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.239
I don't know about you, but no, we had hand-me-downs.
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.079
I still remember my father coming home.
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.039
He's a road agent.
00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:31.679
He's tough.
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:34.719
Boy, he's a machinist and uh tough old man.
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:37.679
And um, he looked at me one day and said, Get in the car.
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:39.360
And we drove quite a ways.
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:43.920
And we drove all the way out to a place called um Western Auto.
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:44.559
Okay.
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:49.679
Western Auto is like a hardware store that sells bicycles and clothes.
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:50.079
Okay.
00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:51.760
Imagine this.
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.639
In the middle of nowhere, right?
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:56.559
Attached to a small town.
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:57.039
Uh-huh.
00:46:57.599 --> 00:46:59.280
A hundred miles from anything.
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.960
I still remember going to the little, I was just, I was a tiny little kid too.
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:09.599
I just still remember going in there and say, pick something out.
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:12.000
Because you're not wearing that anymore.
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.760
So I got my first pair of real boy pants, really, if you want to know the truth.
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:17.199
And they were uh corduroys.
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:18.960
You remember those corduroys were really thick?
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:19.440
Oh, yeah.
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:20.480
Oh, that was cool.
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:28.400
I got a pair of those, and I got a Buster Brown shoes, and uh, I got a little cowboy shirt that had uh like pearl buttons.
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:28.800
Okay.
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:30.159
Because that's what I picked out.
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.400
I think one too many days of wearing girl clothes, right?
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:34.159
But he let me have it, right?
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:38.719
And uh and I had uh little little like uh um what do you call it?
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:43.039
Little epaulette things that had the little little pockets with like the little buttons on them.
00:47:43.599 --> 00:47:44.400
Man, I love that.
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:45.440
You were fit right in.
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:48.480
Oh, I was I was one cool dude.
00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:50.719
As you know, as a little kid.
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.760
So yeah, it's interesting growing up with nothing, isn't it?
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Yeah, you don't realize you have nothing.
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Right.
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Just where you are.
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I grew up on the west side of Vegas, so in the desert.
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And see during the summer was you basically kicked out of the house and come in when the streetlights came on, and it was uh if it was hot out, you just went and sat in the shade and drink.
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Uh we were having that conversation the other day, actually, with someone like about drinking, uh drinking out of the hose, and like, I never drink out of the hose.
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I'm like, Really?
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I survived.
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Doing really well, right?
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You should wait till it cools down.
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Out here, that hose water is boiling hot when it comes out.
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Let it run for a minute.
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Yeah, it'll be better.
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You know the deal.
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Oh, yeah, it'll be much better.
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Yeah.
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Reminds me of that story.
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You know, that story, um, there were uh three three fellas out there driving around in a car out in West Texas.
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And we had uh Derek and we had uh Alejandro and Bill, and of course there was a girl near Tiffany with us, and Tiffany was driving.
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And we were we were about uh, I don't know, 15, 20 miles outside of town.
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And uh Derek looks over and says, Hey Bill, he says, uh, you know, out there at the at the Williams farm, there's really cold, ice cold water.
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And I said, Well, that's deep down in there.
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He says, I think we can get it.
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So uh Alandro says, Let's go.
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Stephanie says, Great.
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So she turns off the road, drives out through the fields a few miles out.
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We come up to an old abandoned farmhouse, you know, and there's a pump.
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Have you ever seen a mechanical pump before?
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Ka chink ka chink, ka chink ka chink, ka chink, ka chink, ka chink, ka chink, right?
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So I looked over at him and I said, uh, now I'm gonna tell you the story about Henderson right here.
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I'm gonna tell you the story about uh your life, everyone listening.
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I'm gonna tell you the story about atomic motors and my life.
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I'm gonna tell you the story about your parents' life.
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Now I want you to follow along close.
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So Derek says, Hey, let's get that water, right?
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.760
So Alejandro says, I'm gonna grab the bucket.
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So there he is.
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Derek's chink it, chicka, chink it, chica, chica, chica, chink it, chica, chicka, chica, chink it, chicka, chink it, chicka, chicka, chica, chicka, chicka, chicka.
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He's just beating the hell out of that old pump, you know, just going to town.
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Chicka, chicka, chica, chica, chicka, chic, chic, chicka, chicken, nothing's happening.
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I look at Alejandro, holler, oh, do me a favor.
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Run down another old creek, an old muddy creek, just a little bit of water.
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Fill it up with water.
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Run down there as quick as you can.
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I was there, not a problem.
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So he runs up there and I said, Now, you see that thing sticking out of the front?
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Chicka, chica, chicka, chica, chicka, chica, chicka, chica, chic, chicka, chicka.
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Now we got Tiffany rootness on, go, go, go, right?
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Now she's trying to find some shades.
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She can't find any shade, but chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chikik.
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Alejandro, so you start to pour it in there, right?
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There's the mouth on the side of a pump.
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You've got to fill it in.
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That's called Prime the Pump.
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Gurgle, girl, gurgle, goggle.
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Nothing.
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I said, give it to me, Alejandro.
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I take off running.
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You're worn out now.
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Man, I'm gonna tell you, Derek is just worn out.
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Alejandro, get on there.
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Now, chicken, chik, chicka, chik, chicka chicki, chicki chik, chik, chik, chicka.
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I come up with a full bucket of wire and start pulling it and pour it in real slow.
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Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, chika, chica, chik, chika, gurgle, gurgle, chika, chica, chicka chica, chikka, chik, chika.
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Pretty soon, you won't believe it, I poured the whole another bucket in and water gushes out.
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Bloosh, gook, chika, chika, chik chika, bloosh, chika, chika, chika, bloosh, chicka, chika, chika.
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A lot of says, I'm too tired.
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Take over, Tiffany.
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Tiffany takes over.
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Okay, boys.
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Chika, chika, chik, chika, chika, chika, chika, bloosh, bloosh, bloosh, bloosh.
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And I said, Don't stop now.
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It's coming out.
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Well, what you do now, Tiffany, is keep constant, easy pressure.
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Just keep constant, easy pressure on that pump now.
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Chinka chinka, chinka chinkka, chinka, chinka, chinka, chinka.
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So you know what's happening?
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All the water in the world is now coming out of there.
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You see, you had to put something in the pump to get something out of the pump.
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Wouldn't you agree, Derek?
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How about you, Alejandro?
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Tiffany, you in agreement?
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You bet you are.
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So, constant, easy pressure.
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That's life.
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That's the story of all of us.
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Constant, easy pressure.
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Before you know, you have more water than you know what to do with it.
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Everybody's having a good time.
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I take over all in the pump.
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Now, she can rest for a minute.
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Chink ka ching, ka chink ka ching, ka chink ka ching.
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And it's just gushing out.
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All the water in the world we could ever want.
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And that's the story of Henderson.
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That's the story of Atomic Motors.
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That's the story of all of us here.
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You have to put something in to get something out.
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That's amazing.
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That's awesome.
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I don't know how to how to finish this any better than that, Dr.
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That's a wonderful uh way to finish our meeting today.
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So grateful for your time today to sit down with us and share everything that has that has built who you are and built a built an amazing company here, amazing business here in Henderson.
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And so thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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And thank thank you for pumping that lever as well as you did, kids.
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You did a great job, man.
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I'm more out.
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I'm tired now.
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Okay, good.
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Thank you.
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Thanks, Bill.
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:35.920
Welcome back from that wonderful interview with Bill and Dr.
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Atomic.
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That was an amazing opportunity to sit down with him and hear his stories.
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And oh my goodness.
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I think I could listen to him all day long.
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Yeah, I think you could talk all day long.
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Those were great, great stories.
00:52:48.079 --> 00:52:50.559
It's an amazing story of how they've built atomic motors.
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:51.360
Yeah.
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Just from a startup and uh start up as a mechanic, uh motorcycle mechanic, and grow it to what it is today of full service restoration and car collector.
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If you're looking for a classic car, I think they might have it.
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So it's well, and not only that, it's such a hidden gym.
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You can go down every Saturday um and do tours of the area and Bill buys donuts for everyone.
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And Sunday you can take the family down and the kids can do their own Pinewood Derby slot car racing.
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And he gets pizza for 'em.
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There's just so many cool things about that place.
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They're an amazing uh community partner, that's for sure.
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So they are they are in and they enjoy what they do, and uh it's definitely uh evident in Bill's stories, and so we really appreciate him sitting down with us and sharing that those uh nuggets of wisdom that he had.
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:47.519
And hopefully you enjoyed it also.
00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:58.079
Uh taking take some of the that would those words of wisdom from him on on business life and what uh what it takes to grow a business and be successful business owners.
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It's uh uh it's not just a nine to five job all the time.
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It's uh as I'm sure Bill can attest, uh that you know he is there every day.
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And I think uh he said that he took one vacation.
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He's taken one vacation in the last little while.
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In the last not a little while, 17 years.
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So and I only think only it was only three-day vacation at that.
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So it was it was not very long, but uh but yeah, go check it out.
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Go check out Atomic Motors and uh down on sunset and near Eastgate, you'll uh you'll appreciate the you'll be glad you did.
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Yeah.
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Check it out.
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Take take your whole family.
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Yeah, spend a few hours.
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You're gonna need a few hours.
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There's so much to look at.
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So much.
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I mean, on their four-acre campus, there is just countless things to look at.
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You can uh you can wander through all of the restoration uh bays and see cars being restored.
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You can see all the cars they have restored, and yeah, it's amazing.
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Do a little window shopping, all the cars you would like to purchase.
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Right.
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Bring your credit card or a check.
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Uh or a bank statement that says you have enough.
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Yeah.
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Uh but yeah, they're a lot of cool.
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And then go, yeah, definitely go check out the Dr.
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Atomic store, uh gift shop.
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There's a lot of cool things in there.
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Uh a lot of fun, uh, fun historic um relics back to good old days of Las Vegas.
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That's what I was gonna say.
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It's almost like a time capsule in there.
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:28.559
Yeah, there were so many cool items.
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Yeah.
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You would never kind of those rare, those rare finds that you just kind of come across and you're like, oh man, that's cool.
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:37.840
I hadn't seen one of those in a long time.
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Yep.
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Brought back some memories.
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Yeah, brought back some memories, that's for sure.
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:50.320
But well, thanks again for uh joining us for this wonderful uh interview with Bill Byler and a Doctor Atomic Tog Motors.
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Again, if you if any of you are interested in us coming out and um sitting down with you and uh being a guest on our show, we would love the opportunity to come uh come hang out with you and hear your story.
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Uh, you can always reach out to me at Derek.aln at city of Henderson.com.
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That's D-E-R-E-K.
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Alan A-L-L-E-N at city of Henderson.com.
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:14.800
Or you can go to our website at city of Henderson.com slash redevelop that.
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:21.119
And you can uh get in touch with us, touch with us there, and we'll come out and see how you're doing.
00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:38.079
But hopefully uh you are all uh prepped and ready for the fall season here and ready for some uh great events and activities coming up and want to be a part of uh Water Street, and we're excited to have you be a part of our community, and so we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Till next time.
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Till next time.