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title: 01-26 Worksite Directives and Personal Discussions
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Speaker 1 00:00:00
It's only did you see the little message that you sent we can go over it on on this bigger screen.
Speaker 2 00:00:44
You know walk in.
Speaker 1 00:01:04
Sorry Saturday changed on me. No.
Speaker 3 00:04:26
Thanks for watching. 
Speaker 1 00:05:34
We're going to come off of somebody's house three-way. Remember in the beginning, we were just tripping everything, right. 
Speaker 4 00:05:42
I have a three-way, too. But I didn't have it with me, I guess, when we were working here. With the brakes? With the brakes, yeah. Just like the one Manuel has? You do? Okay. Well, then, just do a...
Speaker 1 00:05:54
I think I put one on. I'd like to come off the house. You know, I think every person running electrical should have something. Us from having to... I mean, how much time do we waste finding lines? You know what I mean? So, I'm not giving them out, but I do want to supply them, right. 
Speaker 4 00:06:25
I have one. And it's working.
Speaker 2 00:06:29
Okay.
Speaker 4 00:06:30
It's got all three prongs on it.
Speaker 1 00:06:33
So, we're on the same page. We're going to go an inch this way, an inch down, cut it at 45 degrees, right. 
Speaker 4 00:07:03
From line to line.
Speaker 1 00:07:05
Right, and all the way around, right? That way they can make that curve around. And this is kind of a side view, right, a section view. So, I'll go an inch that way, an inch that way, we're going to cut that, right? We've got our membrane C, we're going to go two inches all the way around, right? Okay, steps, they mark off your...
Speaker 4 00:07:31
Do you have a chalk line or something like that? I do. So it's going to be two inches back from that one-inch cut mark, right? Then take the piece of the throw away.
Speaker 1 00:07:41
Right. That's where I put one inch, two inch, right? So essentially from that original cut. Okay. Yeah. I always feel it's better if we just chalk it. It gives us a straight line. Does it really matter? Do I need that line to be perfect? No. But I do think we should just as a wheel. You know, I view a lot of this, we're guiding the next guy, you know. So you might not need the chalk line.
Speaker 1 00:08:13
No, I think I do need the chalk line. What I'm saying is, I'm more trying to change the thinking. You might not need a chalk line, but we need to make sure that he sees, you know, so he doesn't get away with it, you know, from us or whatever.
Speaker 4 00:08:30
you know if you have i think the main thing about this is just breaking away the bc pro from the.
Speaker 1 00:08:42
mindset of your heart okay so we'll cut the lines you know with the vacuum 45 degree angle grind, off the pro the vacuum i just don't want to recreate them apply and tie in the membranes. that's what we're doing here so we'll go sensor from here down this new cut so i think you know.
Speaker 1 00:09:22
depending on how we do it how much progress we make today you might be able to go oh, We got off, clean off everything, get all the B-Pro off, ready to go. Might be a day in the next year. You know, in the pressure wash, install the memory and C, install one more coat, right?
Speaker 1 00:09:57
And then, you know, let's just say you finished everything today, as far as removal. You came back tomorrow morning, installed the memory and C, same thing, B-Pro. So I won't make this, like, one day, you know, or you go home. So, no, good question.
Speaker 1 00:10:28
No. and then this is don't use on natural stones this is natural stone yeah this one applies for get out rust but this one doesn't quite um so let's try this guy first sure you know with the bristle brush remember this is concentrate so we'll remember we mixed it in and whatnot let's see yeah that's a big thing to let it kind of set for a little um then this guy you know i don't.
Speaker 1 00:11:05
mind using this but i'd say test it in a little first does that look like yeah colors testing right because i mean we've got here right these guys here so we want to clean. I mean, this is, and this to me, this is the crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 00:11:35
We didn't want to take the time. I'm not saying it like that. We didn't think to take the time to pretend like, oops, right? We just really need to go. We're never going to set down our stuff on their stuff. We've got to set it down on the grass, those bags, you know, and then set it down on this, 46, 50, because, hey, you know,
Speaker 1 00:12:10
I just, I understand mistakes. Right, right, right. We just have to be thinking a little bit better through all this. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:12:54
I've been rowing the last two weeks, and it's great, it's causing the team, you know, but, you know, I feel like this is just kind of part of the process, but it's like, I went to go throw something yesterday, and I'm sure you understand, if you go to, like, chuck, something, you're like, wait a minute, right, and so the last second, I pulled back a little.
Speaker 2 00:13:19
bit, and it went, and I was like, and that felt good, you know, um, you, uh, my wife.
Speaker 1 00:13:33
said, I can feel my shoulders, and it's like you can feel this like knot.
Speaker 4 00:13:40
I hear those little red berries that grow on the bushes over there. We were seeing how far we could go. Right, so it's like I want to get back.
Speaker 1 00:13:52
I mean, even, it's nice. My wife's like, hey, shoulders are bulking back up. And I'm like, yeah, two weeks, two weeks. You know, it's like imagine, you know, it's like they're so fast. You gotta understand, I've always been fast.
Speaker 2 00:14:10
That walks in, and they go, oh, we need another guy for that. I go, whoop, let's go. The fact that I can't even do what normal guys do, it's like, it just kills me.
Speaker 3 00:14:34
and we help you drop something i don't and i'd say for you bringing in one i think anything.
Speaker 1 00:15:05
that's questionable to go in and play down more kind of like a little bit of alpine at least i think there's going to be points where we go oh did we rub off a little bit too much there.
Speaker 1 00:15:39
Yeah, I mean, in theory, I think that we could really, in theory, I think we could actually go, I'm not saying to do this, but I think we could cut that 45, M1 to seam of each one of those membranes, right, that we can see, and then membrane to that, and the membrane from M1 to M1, are you following me?
Speaker 1 00:16:12
Yeah, I understand. You know, right, but really we wouldn't need to, right, so in theory, it's just in theory, right, we could...
Speaker 3 00:17:02
like a spirit and nobody liked it.
Speaker 2 00:18:08
It's just perfectly level, so, you know, I think, but I do think that our grinded, right, we try to get too much breeze as we're scuffing up there, but I do think we give ourselves.
Speaker 2 00:18:40
that coverage and just kind of take that top thin.
Speaker 1 00:19:08
starting to like this guy like that tablet yeah i like the biggest screen i like to be able to draw i like not being limited by space you know i can just here i'll give you a great i went over to broad beach because i want to redo that so you know i was able to take a picture and they go this is this much this is this much you know you draw and sell so i was able to come and do all.
Speaker 1 00:19:44
that right right so well not already what i already had i mean i was there but i just went pop and then came back and put up with that yeah as if you whatever you go to, take dimensions or something you have to go okay what's that dimension represent you have to draw, okay it looks like this right instead of just this one this one saved me so i started on the.
Speaker 1 00:20:21
on the worst on my little notepad and then i was like like the notepad but only better right right and i'm not for me they worked with me long enough to know like i think a little bit, differently you know that most people do and it's kind of like i spaz out a little bit on just i'm being limited by one sheet of paper because it's like no this doesn't quite capture my thought.
Speaker 1 00:20:53
you know and that does this allows me to expand it right and then sometimes i can do my whole thing and then go okay this won't make sense to any of them, But I understand it now enough to simplify it into something that will make sense. Sometimes I don't know what I want. All right. That is one. Hopefully Alex made you do it. You saw his last text, right?
Speaker 1 00:21:23
8 o'clock. So. And if you want to start setting stuff up or even, you know, hey, I'm going to attack the rust first. You know, because that's a one-man deal. Okay. So whatever you think is. I got it. Okay. Put that CLR off to the side for me. I don't want Corey to go, hey, you know, we've got a plan. I don't want him to run the assumption.
Speaker 1 00:21:58
Do you need me to hang out here at all or can I go down? I might just go by. Take pictures, upload, Corey gave me crap about us not uploading and what not, so...
Speaker 4 00:22:13
I mean just pictures of your...
Speaker 1 00:22:15
Yeah. Okay. What I do is every time you go to a different tool, take a picture. Right? We talk about it. Picture. Right? We cut. Picture. Okay. So you don't need to upload until the end of the day. Alright, thanks.
Speaker 1 01:04:19
My recommendation is to set up the float strips on the vertical wall and then if you feel comfortable have Renee start floating as you go around the pool and set up all the guides. What do you think. 
Speaker 3 01:10:57
Thank you.
Speaker 1 01:17:20
Make title case.
Speaker 1 01:18:50
Replace with title case.
Speaker 1 01:19:50
Convert to title case.
Speaker 4 01:21:50
It's lightening up, so it's not like, it's going to leave or just soak, I guess, for a little bit. Do you have a scrub brush? Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:22:02
The neoprene. 
Speaker 4 01:22:03
Yeah, the little narrow one, skinny one, like the gray one.
Speaker 1 01:22:07
With the nylon little thing, I'm just thinking something that can get actually into the pores a little bit more. I've got one in the truck, in my truck, if you need one. I've got one in my bag. So, what's wrong. 
Speaker 4 01:22:19
Pretty sure I do.
Speaker 1 01:22:26
If you can get it to loosen up the rust, you probably don't even need to scrub much. You can use a pressure washer to get it. The pressure washer will get in there better, actually, than the brush will.
Speaker 4 01:22:39
One at either end and one in the center. Okay.
Speaker 3 01:24:09
Thank you.
Speaker 4 01:30:33
I don't know if these ones are clean.
Speaker 2 01:30:42
Check Monday.
Speaker 1 01:30:47
Um, why don't you just sit for a little bit.
Speaker 4 01:30:54
Why don't we see if the pressure washer will... Alex has the, uh, the hoses for the pressure washer. Oh. Okay.
Speaker 1 01:31:03
Well then, who bothers you most about me trying to get him to edit? You need to think it right. At least I think... Because I'm always wrong. And, like, for me, like, I eat weight. I'm almost never wet. Pretty accurate. Right? It says, hey, you're going to get there about 9.20.
Speaker 1 01:31:33
I get there about 9.20, 9.25. And sometimes it'll go, hey, traffic's building up ahead. And then it changes. So I go, hey, it's saying.
Speaker 4 01:31:47
I just hate the whole, like, I worked for a company. It was the first company I worked for, and I was late. These guys are incredibly late. One day the boss didn't say a word to me when I got there. He didn't say a word to me. He just ignored me. And then finally we crossed paths, and he stopped, and he said, you know what being late can mean? It means you have no respect for somebody else. You had an agreement with me at a certain time,
Speaker 4 01:32:20
and I just built my interview with you. And now that only sets my day back. Right. Now the time will mean for you, like I said, and I have other appointments that I need to make. Right.
Speaker 1 01:32:31
No, and that's, I think that's appropriate, you know, it's, I mean, I, look, I, we all over, I will say this, though, I will say this, that is not my particular problem, you know, I've got mine overstretched, I don't think I've overstretched in the sense of like where, oh, shoot, you know, um, happened several times, um, but the whole thing is like, let's.
Speaker 1 01:33:21
make this, whatever issues you have, fix them, I don't mind, you know. Those were there before. I always take a video before we enter. Okay. That's, that's fun.
Speaker 4 01:33:47
You can see our toolbox and then the, uh, those had some sprayers that we have with us. Right. So, and even like these guys here.
Speaker 1 01:33:56
That's from the toolbox. I think that's from the toolbox. I got two marks here, but those would have been here. So they're obviously not there anymore. So yeah.
Speaker 2 01:34:13
What about these over here. 
Speaker 1 01:34:15
I think that's the other legs of the toolbox.
Speaker 2 01:34:17
The toolbox is going.
Speaker 1 01:34:42
I mean, look, at some point in time, rust comes out. I'm not worried about it. The idea that that didn't happen, that happened.
Speaker 1 01:35:21
But you're absolutely right on the perspective.
Speaker 2 01:35:32
Well, I mean, respect is a thing, right? Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:35:37
Especially... We're all this way, but especially this younger generation is like, even watching my kids, I'm up there with their iPads. Just the idea, funny, when I send them over to my, and they've had the entire day to only get what they want, my iPads are what I want to want, you know, and then Granny, oh, you want, no, you want steak? Oh, you want.
Speaker 2 01:36:10
my pizza? Here you are. And so, no, that's not what I want.
Speaker 1 01:36:23
And then the idea comes up, you know, and so, in my generation. 
Speaker 2 01:36:34
it's your job, you know. Well, my kid's just a nutball. Well, he might be a nutball. It's just mind-blowing.
Speaker 1 01:36:47
I've lost more friends out of Mexico, and how they raise their kids than any kid else. So, anyway. No, no. This is what we're having. And you know what? My kids are good with this. You know, other parents set the bar so low that everybody thinks that my kids are good. I still have a lot of room, you know,
Speaker 1 01:37:20
to get my wife to eat. I'm like, we're not doing this. Well, don't I get to do this? And I'm like, okay, no problem. But I start to get to choose how to use my kids.
Speaker 1 01:38:28
I'm really interested to see what happens when you guys try to watch that, but can you let me know. 
Speaker 3 01:38:60
For the record, do you guys have any toilet paper. 
Speaker 1 01:39:25
There's none down there. Do I need to go to the store? No, no, no. I mean, I can make sure to grab everything for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 01:39:39
I have a set of napkins in the car. There's, like, a label for the car right there. In the back of the seat, it's a knobby on it.
Speaker 1 01:39:52
It's, you know, I never want it to be... That should be something we probably put in our to-go box, too. You know, whatever crews go and we're only seeing four locations.
Speaker 4 01:40:09
You know, certain places where there's not an outhouse.
Speaker 3 01:40:12
Yeah, there he is.
Speaker 5 01:40:25
What do you use as your software? Uh, I use the MapStorm smartphone. Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:40:36
I always use Waze, and it's pretty dead on, and then when it changes, I just, but it usually doesn't change that significantly.
Speaker 5 01:40:46
Yeah, well, I mean, I'll give it a try, but, yeah, I mean, yeah, I kind of, I always have that issue with maps. Like, it'll tell me I'm going to arrive somewhere, but, like, I always end up getting there, like, either way earlier or way later. I hate maps.
Speaker 1 01:40:58
I use Waze myself, and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 01:41:55
i was thinking the circular saw longer run there whatever works for the corners we can get in with a grinder and then to cut the angle and then we've got a cup grinder for the bc pro and some but the wire wheels wire wheel is in there the wire wheel i have isn't the real strong one which one you have i have the one that we were using to clean the drought like i almost think that that might be.
Speaker 1 01:42:27
better i almost stopped and got one and i was like no you know what they said that they got everything so i'm not yeah i got the bigger one but the one with the stuff you're talking about like you know the stronger one being the one with the knots right yeah like yeah that might be good too but i just i think i don't know you guys let me know.
Speaker 4 01:42:54
We're going to prep the pressure washer so we can better use it. Do we have BC cool today? Do we have BC cool? No. No, we're going to do it. We're going to get it all demoed and ready for...
Speaker 1 01:43:07
Did you get that image I sent. 
Speaker 5 01:43:09
Yeah, yeah. I saw it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:43:10
So... All right. Well, I'll leave you guys alone. If you need anything, let me know how that thing comes out and go from there. Sure. So, what I told Brandon is anytime we're coming to a house, you know, we should be.
Speaker 1 01:43:42
using...I'd like us to use, you know, each person that's going to use electricity that. freeway so we can protect...we don't...it's possible.
Speaker 5 01:43:55
How much time do we spend finding new? So when you mean like each one of us can say like just like each extension cord that we have connected, we should have one of those at the end? Is that what you're saying? Okay.
Speaker 1 01:44:07
Yeah. Really? I mean, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that we should have more than, you know, if we got four guys on site, should we have five extension cords connected? Probably not. Right. You know? But you go, hey Brandon, I'm gonna hook up one for you and one for me. Right. I mean, this one's got each one connected, right? Right. But I put one over there. I wasn't sure if you both had one. He said he has one, so. Right. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1 01:44:39
And I also bought another.
Speaker 5 01:44:43
Okay, sounds good. Renee and Manny are at H3? Yeah. Okay, so the bins are, they're perfectly organized and everything. I went through all the storage bins. We kind of ran out of time, so I wasn't able to get them labeled and get them completely organized. But as far as, there's one bin on the left side. I think it's one of the ones on top. I pretty much was going to use that bin to throw everything that we weren't going to be needing at the job sites in that one.
Speaker 5 01:45:14
So, well, actually, no, you probably wouldn't be able to take it today. But I don't know. I'll talk to Rene. I'll text him and see if he's going to have time to be able to label this.
Speaker 1 01:45:28
It's not a rush for me. I just need it to be, you know, this is, I need this to be a thing that we continue to do, right? And so we don't lose sight of it. So, yeah, I'm not trying to wave a wand and get it done today. I just, it's got to be, it's screwing up is what's happening. You guys are coming to me. Like here, even with the materials, Manuel, you know, I bought grout, I brought extra grout because Manuel's always off on what he, even my calculations are always off, so I bought a lot extra, and Manuel hits me one day, he's like, we ran out of grout, we need four extra feet, I drive all the way up to North Hollywood, grab a whole other bag, right, and then, you know, we finish grouting, we're loading up, and I go, and they go, what do you want me to do with the grout, and I say, leave it back here, right, leave it back here,
Speaker 1 01:46:33
so that way they have their color, and their lot, and everything, they never need to do anything, as we're unloading at 8th Street, we find another bag of grout, and it's like, you know, of course, everybody wants to do this, and it's like, look, it's real simple, you know, open bag, goes in a bucket, you know we go for the bucket first then the clothes back yeah yeah and and it's all right here, so i'm just kind of this is causing issues where we're not we're not maintaining the rules.
Speaker 1 01:47:09
because we're like oh i want to get my job done fast in the long run it's making the job longer yeah it's costing more and it's just wasting time and yeah thank you all right man thank you.
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Speaker 6 01:52:04
Thanks for watching. 
Speaker 7 01:52:56
Good morning. How are you? Good. Nothing like giggling with you in bed at 5 a.m. in the morning. It's like driving with Matty today. I'm like, dude, you drop kicked me in my booty this morning, buddy. He's like, oh, I know. I was awake for that. I'm like, you were? Because then your dad tried to smother you with a pillow. He's like, I don't remember that. I'm like, yeah, he placed a pillow right over your face and your balls.
Speaker 7 01:53:32
Anyways. Ugh, I'm so tired.
Speaker 1 01:53:35
Did you really come to bed? Did you come to bed at 1 o'clock. 
Speaker 7 01:53:38
I just couldn't get up. Like Eric went to bed at like 11 and I just like sat there in and out of consciousness on my phone, Like I fell asleep a couple of times. No, he went to bed he went to bed and I just stayed out there I could not get myself up was so beat so.
Speaker 7 01:54:10
That was all. Yeah, so how's your day going? Oh.
Speaker 1 01:54:33
Second it's kind of nice. I was able to like draw everything out today.
Speaker 7 01:54:50
How are your muffins. 
Speaker 1 01:54:55
It wasn't as dry as I expected it to be. There was a point where it got caught in the back of my throat and I'm like, so dry. I told you to warm it up and put a little butter on it. I totally forgot about that. But no, I mean, outside of that. You know me, I'm not...
Speaker 1 01:55:26
I know. I think you're choosy about food.
Speaker 7 01:55:31
Just don't give your soup.
Speaker 1 01:55:32
I didn't say don't give me soup. I just said don't ask me to be excited about you giving me soup. There's a difference. A big difference. so that was that whole thing was in response to your question why don't you ever look excited.
Speaker 7 01:55:49
i'm just joking uh um how's your morning just tired slow to get up you know everybody wanted cuddles this morning just because they were tired so you know the boys were kind of slacking, everybody was kind of on half you know like half sleep right looks like our thing is broken again.
Speaker 7 01:56:20
what thing the um frame that goes around our um the frame that goes around our one of our um electrical sockets oh in our room no and try where the kids like to put their feet on the wall. Really? Yeah.
Speaker 2 01:56:46
I'm gonna buy a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 01:56:50
They're like a dollar. Sounds good. It's a pain in the butt. I mean, it's not... I mean, it's just... I just don't feel like I should... You know, it's like... Stop freaking kicking the ball against them.
Speaker 7 01:57:00
They kick that thing, you'd think. They kick the, like, the... I agree. Doesn't matter. Alrighty. Anything else that I should know about? Um... Oh, I have to pick up the kids today from school. Yeah. I forgot them. Sounds like a plan soon.
Speaker 1 01:57:31
Okay. Um... Let me just check the calendar real quick. So, I'm gonna have to start sending stuff off for Servite, because I'm assuming that, the check-in link is working oh we totally forgot about my dad yesterday i know i thought about that actually i looked at my it's like okay i gotta call my dad today right now i'm gonna call my dad today it's his birthday and i'm like wait a minute so and then ben has training at seven.
Speaker 1 01:58:03
tonight which i believe fabio is taking home so we don't have to worry about that i have a, you'll like this i got um a uh because i told ben i was like you know the problem with you at practice is you're standing around so long um so you're not really getting the cardio that you need because he's taking you guys you guys wait in line too much so i need you to stay active.
Speaker 1 01:58:37
throughout the thing and he's like dad i'm trying i just keep on forgetting, So I'm like, all right, here's what we're gonna do. And so I set a new workout, a custom workout on his watch. Will alert him when his heart rate drops below 150. And so he tried it on his last practice. He's like, dad, that was really hard to do. That's funny. But he's trying.
Speaker 1 01:59:07
Yeah. And so I was like, dude, you can, like only you can decide what's what. Right. But if you need to adjust it to like 145 and try again, that's okay, you know? Right, at least he's aware, right? I said, but I'll let you, you know how to adjust it. You know, you know what to do. So do what you gotta do. Okay, I'll think about it. So, we just got to make sure he's taking his watch.
Speaker 1 01:59:38
Because that is, I think that'll be really helpful for him.
Speaker 7 01:59:40
Yeah. Yeah, he was like, he's also bummed because he doesn't know how much he can eat. Like, when I picked him up and took him to Friday's practice, he was like, where's my watch? And I'm like, oh, sorry, buddy. He's like, uh.
Speaker 1 01:59:53
Right. Well, and that's good, right? So, he can track. And that's the thing. It's like, no. You can give yourself extra calories. Just track.
Speaker 7 02:00:08
Right. Track what you're expending.
Speaker 1 02:00:12
Right. And then, even now, it's like, oh, you did extra. Let's, you know, yeah. You can put a little extra and you can have more food.
Speaker 7 02:00:20
Right.
Speaker 1 02:00:24
So, anyway. all right well all right that's that so i think our schedule is pretty easy tonight once we get the kids home if you need me to um make dinner or something like that to make up for the time.
Speaker 7 02:00:40
picking up the kids i'm happy to do that okay sounds good so you got it i'll let you know what i need i just gotta get going here i got a meeting at 9 30 with dan so okay love you all right love.
Speaker 1 02:00:55
you too bye hey there hey how you doing good how you doing you're doing well i um.
Speaker 1 02:01:26
told myself i had to call you for your birthday this morning and then i looked and it's at 26 and.
Speaker 8 02:01:30
i'm like ah son of a well at least my other son called me you know that's all that's important.
Speaker 1 02:01:41
you know it's important to know what you've done right in this world and what you have not done right in this world you know you you did right with one son not so much with the other you know he you know which one are we talking about here in this in this case me you know um sorry about that we talked about you know we we talked about calling you and ashley ann's like i got to figure out how to do this because i intended to call your mom and i never called your mom and if i call your.
Speaker 1 02:02:15
dad you know it's like that all she wants from you is a recognition and that will go a long way, and she's like i know i just gotta do it so but yeah but but no big deal i i know just uh i know you don't mind uh well i mean yeah i know you're easy with it i but i still you know.
Speaker 1 02:02:45
i've now buried my neck for you you know.
Speaker 8 02:02:55
so uh um but uh oh yeah so you know just drove back to miami yesterday so that's kind of you.
Speaker 1 02:03:07
know how we did right in the morning it's like yeah we won't be able to facilitate a call because, you know they're they're getting off the ship you know i've been tracking you every day, uh-huh so but we were getting calls um you know i mean over wi-fi i meant like a face time but.
Speaker 8 02:03:25
anyway yeah yeah but uh but yeah yeah no big deal so because there was this you know we just kept looking at the weather because it's like oh big guy that's why i didn't bother you know you know.
Speaker 1 02:03:38
when we talked about in the morning and i don't know how i made the difference you know that the change in my brain but it was like we talked about you know uh google maps okay you know.
Speaker 8 02:03:50
here because no in miami mine was hot man it was still like 80 degrees and uh you know they're running the marathon and it was you know my miami's man i mean it's kind of a cool storm, you know you know you guys you know be make sure you have extra stuff in your case you gotta spend the night in your car you know.
Speaker 1 02:04:12
oh yeah we're not letting you back on the ship we're out we're gonna no no this.
Speaker 8 02:04:19
is from this is from we had a nice yeah we had a nice cruise you know in fact, you're our sweet city you know if you like cities but it's it's just like LA.
Speaker 1 02:04:35
trying to get around you know yeah yeah it was pretty bad when we went there as.
Speaker 8 02:04:41
well yeah just trying to you know navigate around the city it's not a bad walking city but kind of I someplace what a mess oh yeah you know the guy cleans our rooms so we went out and we went to you know their nicest restaurant, the ship was gorgeous by the way, their nicest restaurant and then we came back and he had made these two um swans out of towels.
Speaker 8 02:05:18
oh yeah and then and then bent their necks so they were touching and it shaped the heart well generally your mom will have to send you a picture and it's like you know they look like little electric candles every place and then uh heart um red heart cutouts you know and it's like wow you know he really did a good job here uh so uh you know it's funny.
Speaker 8 02:05:49
how you kind of you know you kind of make friends on on the cruise you know like that yeah um you, know so you know we gave him our contact information and you know so hey if you're like he's he was Kenyan um and uh you know if you're ever in South Carolina, you know he's he was Kenyan um you know he's he was Kenyan um you know he's he was Kenyan, you know look us up you know that's cool but uh yeah yeah so um so but anyway but yeah no we had.
Speaker 8 02:06:20
we had a really good time you know mom really enjoyed herself you know she was like looking back to you know okay where are we gonna go next year you know and and uh you know it's like wow i guess i did good because trying to find something that she likes is really difficult you know so that was nice and erica seemed to enjoy herself too even though she was always busy but, at least you know um she could go off and do things chloe was taken care of you know a cruise.
Speaker 8 02:06:57
for you know like with chloe is probably you know the best thing to do right right you know. So, but, but yeah, yeah, we had a good time, you know, and, and, you know, watching football games on the way home in the backseat. So I had to suffer through the Rams game.
Speaker 1 02:07:24
Yeah. I mean, I, I didn't even get a chance to, to watch it. I was like, you know, and then when I sat down, so I, I watched the last three minutes essentially during life group. Cause we decided to get something to eat at a restaurant. We wanted to do a meal together and, you know, and then I get home, put down the kids and, you know, open up the news and it's like,
Speaker 1 02:07:55
watch the play that ruined the Rams and I'm and so I go and I hit watch and and it was like I see the uh the fumble you know the punt you know oh yeah and I was like oh my gosh you know so it's.
Speaker 8 02:08:12
like just you know and he you could just see him afterwards he's like man oh but anyway but you.
Speaker 1 02:08:23
know I was talking to Solomon at a hearse I'm like what happened and he's like well and he's like well he's right in safe space you know I can tell he's like I just gotta say man CJ killed us, he's like he threw three interceptions last game, But defense scored 14 points, right?
Speaker 1 02:08:55
And in this game, he threw, you know, he threw like four interceptions and we had a fumble, you know. Fumble, right? Yeah. And he's like, and so we start talking about it and it's like funny, you know, because really what it is at your level is the consistency to deliver, right? It's how to have a mindset that is basically unimpeded by, you know, everything, you know, around you to be able to deliver at that level every single time, you know, or, you know, more often than the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 02:09:39
And he's like, yeah, yeah, it's all about, you know, just execution, execution, execution.
Speaker 8 02:09:50
Yeah, yeah, because we watched that on the ship, or I watched that on the ship, and it was just awful, and they still managed to semi-stay in the game, you know? Right. So, anyway, so, got anything new and exciting going on this week. 
Speaker 1 02:10:16
No, no, just, you know, we're, uh, Eric took the assessment on Friday, on Saturday, for a cervite, which Olu will also accept. So, Olu, cervite won't accept Olu's assessment test, but Olu will accept cervite's assessment test, so it's like, Eric, do well here, no matter what, and, uh, turned out he, he...
Speaker 1 02:10:48
you know and eric tests really well um so he he said he was one of the only kids that actually finished each section um and uh you know um he said the only areas he had forgotten that the the differences between like mean median and um oh whatever the other like average yeah it was like.
Speaker 1 02:11:20
it was so long ago that i went through this stuff this is you know it's all um but he's like yeah it was super i mean eric consistently tests in the like 99.9 percentile amount for his age you know and so that's that's nationwide and then you know his english. i don't remember the number but he he tests not awesome but he tests high for that so what kind of.
Speaker 1 02:11:52
even when we were talking to things like oh well you know to the people at servite they're like if he goes to fairmont he'll be just yeah so um but we're still going through the what does that look like ash wants him to go to olu i want him to go to serve now why why does she want him to go first, first friends and what's that the emotional trauma that i i i uh.
Speaker 1 02:12:28
the emotional trauma that it you know might and this is my words not her words but, That it might place on him not being accepted or the idea of, I mean, so Ashley Ann was changed from school to school when she was a kid, because they were trying to come up with the perfect school for her dyslexia. And so she is, you will see her, like Ashley Ann is a strong woman, you will see her just break down, you know, when it comes to the idea of her kids having new people, you know, or trying to not know.
Speaker 1 02:13:04
Because you could just see that, and she'll admittedly go, it's probably why I'm so good at being outgoing now, but I just can't handle it. Thinking back to, you know, how hard that was. And I don't ever want my kids to ever have to go through that. You know, and it's like, okay, but that's more your issue than it is their issue. You know, but I can't even say that with them, you know, with her. I said, look, my goal is that whatever decision we come down to, even if I decide to go a different direction than you do, that you will feel like I understood.
Speaker 1 02:14:03
I took the time and consideration to understand exactly how you felt and where you were coming from.
Speaker 8 02:14:14
Right. Because you got heard.
Speaker 1 02:14:15
Right. Right. And I said that to Eric as well. You know, he's like, well, you're just going to pick whatever you want. And I said, I am. You're right. by the way that was it was said in a respectful way right um it was said in a respectful way it was like you're dead you're gonna do what you do right like and it's like yeah but i i want to know.
Speaker 1 02:14:45
how you feel about it all i mean there are things that you could be that you might you know be thinking about or worried about or seeing that i'm not and wouldn't you be in a much better position with me knowing your thoughts on this than me to just make a decision for you without knowing your thoughts on it he's like well yeah it's like okay then you know, if you think i want to fight you and your mom and you know have all this you know go to a farther.
Speaker 1 02:15:23
away location and do this and do that am i just like he's no i know that dad it's like okay, So this is your opportunity to at least share with me your concerns, your frustrations, your, you know, what's going on. So we've talked through all that. So, and of course, we go to the open house athlete night. You got seniors that are basically what's the most impactful thing you, you know, they do. And by the way, I understand that these are coached, you know, people, right, that are going up there. They're not, you know, but, you know, you got seniors.
Speaker 1 02:16:04
Right. That the captain of the soccer team goes, they said, what's the biggest thing to open up your eyes, you know, here at Servite? No, this is Servite. Okay. Yeah. And, and the kid goes, you know, I've always been good at soccer, but. Servites helped me to realize that God gave me these skills to glorify him. So when I go out on that field and when all my brothers go out on that field,
Speaker 1 02:16:37
we're there trying to do our best, not for ourselves, not so we get lifted up, but so that he gets lifted up, so that he gets the glory. And it was like, coach or not coach, that's a great, you know. I mean, it was said with conviction. It was said like, you know. And so then you break out and you talk to the coach. And there's so many people talking to the coach. They have almost, they're hoping to hit 90 players this coming season,
Speaker 1 02:17:09
this coming, this next school year. And if they have a frosh, soft team, a JV team, and a senior, and a varsity team. they said if we hit 90 players then we can we can feel the fourth team and i'll hire another coach and a whole new and we'll spin up a whole new system so we're really hoping for that because we've developed so many more players because we can get more players field time um but this guy goes on and just kind of answers questions for 45 minutes or so and then um and then um.
Speaker 1 02:17:45
um you know he's very eloquent very well spoken um and um you know so then turns out one of and uh one of ferrick's old teammates is there from the rangers and so i talked to his dad and he said yeah his dad's like yeah i went in here and i'm like hey is this, is all this like brotherhood and leadership and character development is is you know is it is it.
Speaker 1 02:18:20
just talking points or is it a thing and it's like no it's you know i mean it was big when i graduated here and you know it's even bigger now from what i can see and so we talked for you know probably 30 45 minutes um and we walked out and eric's like he sits i don't remember exactly how he said it and he's like well that was kind of game changing and i'm like what are you talking about like you.
Speaker 1 02:18:55
feeling good he's like no i'm not feeling good you're feeling good you have this head coach who has this wonderful speech you know you know uh andy's dad gives this wonderful act oh yeah, so so he's like yeah hey coach gives this wonderful speech andy's dad gives us all this backing like gives you all the the ammunition you need and uh and so i was like well let's get something straight dude he didn't give me more ammunition he just made sure that all my bullets.
Speaker 1 02:19:28
were real you know um and that's what i'm looking to do i'm just looking to confirm that my suspicions or my research is you know accurate um here's my take i mean i went to private schools.
Speaker 8 02:19:50
my whole life right i went to christian schools and i went to non-christian schools and, um but they're all private they were the same right, Right. There is there is no, you know, other than having a Bible class, it is exactly the same thing. And I think Brethren was a decent school. There was no attempt to create formation.
Speaker 8 02:20:27
Right. Christian. It was just formation, you know, Christian, you know, formation of a man. Right. Because there's a lot of components that go into that whole thing. Right. And and I'll tell you what, you know, if I had, you know, if I was to look back and say, what is the one thing that I wish I had, it would be character formation because I got zip.
Speaker 8 02:21:01
You know, I mean, my dad never did anything. Mom would, you know, say, did you read your Bible? Hear the Bible stories. Right. But there was no character formation, you know. And subsequently, I did stuff that, you know, I shouldn't have done. Now, if I had my character, I mean, would I still do that? You know, I don't know. But it's a whole different way of looking at life.
Speaker 8 02:21:37
Yeah. Right. And, you know, so, you know, my two cents for for that, you know, I think whether you do it on your own or you have the school help you building character into Eric, especially as he's such a wise guy right now. And I'm not criticizing, you know. um you know because he is kind of cute but there's some guy stuff um he needs to understand.
Speaker 8 02:22:10
how all these different things go into making a man right you know it's not just a one thing and you know just because you're old and you can vote and drink doesn't make you a man right and i you know i'm around guys you know who are my age that are not yet men you know yeah.
Speaker 1 02:22:36
yeah no i that's it's kind of my thought process on the whole thing it's like you know my my answer to the the catholic versus christian thing is like i'd much rather go to the send my kid into the lion's den you know and. have him go in somewhere where they're trying to get him to believe something else than to send him, you know, to a friendly place that'll water down his religion, you know?
Speaker 1 02:23:08
Right. I mean, what's the worst thing that's going to happen. 
Speaker 8 02:23:11
He's going to respect Catholic traditions? I mean, there's not a whole lot wrong with that.
Speaker 1 02:23:16
Right, well, I mean, but, you know, they pray to Mary, they worship Mary, and it's like, no, they don't, you know? And that's the problem, it's like...
Speaker 8 02:23:24
Well, they do pray to Mary, right. 
Speaker 1 02:23:26
And they do worship Mary. Well, what they do, and it's the same thing, is you've got cultural Christianity and, you know, cultural Catholicism, essentially, right? And I think those that understand what they're doing, because I've been diving into this, right, is those that understand, you know, Catholicism properly, go, look... We don't hold that Mary has any, we don't pray to Mary, we pray with Mary, and the idea is that there's no difference between, you know, me grabbing your hand, Braden, and saying, pray with me about this thing, you know, and where two or more are gathered, but what better person to pray with than the saints, the people that are already glorified, already perfect, and so they are praying with us.
Speaker 1 02:24:26
You know, and we believe that that's just a better, yeah, that's the intellectual version of it. Well, I'll tell you what, in Latin America and Spain, it is not like that. And I agree, I think that there's, but, My point is that I think that there are distortions everywhere with all of that, and I'm not worried about my son waking up one day and going, you know what I need to do?
Speaker 1 02:24:56
Mary will understand.
Speaker 8 02:24:58
You know? No, I agree, but that's my whole point. He's going to grow respecting Catholic traditions, which I think is fine. Right.
Speaker 1 02:25:10
Honestly, I... Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 02:25:13
No, that's basically it. I mean, there are differences, and, you know, I'm not going to become Catholic. And, you know, Sean is much more Catholic than I am. And, but I just, you know, the biggest issue that I have with Catholicism is tradition over biblical knowledge, right? Right. Tradition wins, right?
Speaker 8 02:25:44
Um, you know, and, you know, and even, you know, I've got problems with the way the church is set up also, but, you know, anyway, um, I wouldn't ever become Catholic. Um, but I don't think you need to worry about that with, uh, with him either.
Speaker 1 02:26:00
No, but, but I mean, you know, but I do worry, I worry more about, you know, I mean that the, the theological staple at Orange Lutheran is, um, it is our goal to know, and here's, here's what really bothered me, um, is our goal to make sure that when every kid leaves here, they know that God knows them and that God loves them. And, and then, and then I was quizzing Jameson about it.
Speaker 1 02:26:34
Cause Jameson, Jameson goes there, right? He's a freshman there right now. and it's like what do you you know what do you like about it this what about theologically it's like oh we got theology classes and i'm like okay is there is there any foundation they stand on and verbatim he goes oh yeah it's very important that they know that god knows us and god loves us and it was like that's scary you know yeah.
Speaker 8 02:26:58
yeah i mean you know i mean i don't know what synod they belong to um you know but i mean i mean and i'm not trying to tell you what to do but i you know i'd probably go to survive versus you know watered down um christian schools you know i i i i agree um but not only.
Speaker 1 02:27:25
that but it's like the fact that you know there's other things too it's like, You know, hearing some of the women on staff go, you know, I can't walk across the campus carrying something without one of the boys taking it out of my hands and walking with me, you know, it's like, that's what I want. That's character. That's chivalry. That's, that's concern for others. Understanding, you know, understanding your role as a servant to others, as a protector to others, you know, if I can get my son and look, I don't, most people look at the.
Speaker 1 02:28:07
schools and they go, oh, this school is going to fix this thing about my kid. And, and I go, no, I'm, I'm that guy. But if I can have a school, if I can put my kid into an environment where they're, they're running the same direction I am, oh man, my, my job just got so much easier. You know, because he's getting peer pressured to do the things that I'm asking him to do, you know, instead of peer pressure to do the opposite.
Speaker 1 02:28:37
Right. I mean, it's just, you know, it's just so big. And I, you know, my wife is unfortunately not thinking about this clearly. And I think she's got some understandable reasons for not doing so. Not that I'm letting her off the hook, but I can understand how hard this is going to be on her, you know. And she was kind of taken back.
Speaker 8 02:29:06
I mean, everything shifts when you go to high school anyway. You know what I mean? Right. It doesn't really matter. I mean, take it from a guy who went to three different high schools in three different countries, you know. You know, I mean, it's not something you want to do. um you know i would much prefer to have gone to one high school but you got to make the change eventually and that you know it you know you you can only protect the kids so much you need them.
Speaker 8 02:29:42
to go out and experience change you know you need them to adapt the you know the uh um you know the.
Speaker 1 02:29:54
the tools to be able to do so right i agree with all that i yeah so anyway so i'm no i'm you're.
Speaker 8 02:30:07
i think we're on the same page um yeah i'm not trying to preach i'm just you know it's just you know i believe a lot of the things the same way you do you know um and ultimately, It's, you know, what decisions do I make that help my kids become the men that God wants them to be? Right. And the problem with, you know, schools like Olu and everything else is, you know, it's kind of like you're kind of good to go.
Speaker 8 02:30:43
It teaches you this Christianity that is just not real, you know. Well, and I, you know, I'd say that, you know, like at Brethren, you know, and, you know, it could be a survey too. But at Brethren, you know, 50% of the kids didn't grow up, you know, to be solid Christians, you know, maybe even higher than that.
Speaker 1 02:31:08
Well, and that's kind of, I mean, I was saying the other day, you know, I was saying Biola, you know, like nobody that we went to Biola with do I think is a solid Christian now, you know. And it's like, there, there's, and there's a reason for that, you know, and, you know, I think we need to look at that, because we, you know, I think, you know, you send your kids to these schools, and you think that, like, oh, you know, I've done the best for them, you know, and honestly, it's not, you know, it's just, it's not, you know, and that's, that's why I, I mean, this is where the devil excels, you know, he excels in thinking, oh, no,
Speaker 1 02:31:57
you know, say the prayer, you're good, bro, you know, or whatever, like, I'm not, we're not fighting about whether or not Christianity is the right thing, we agree, you know, just, you know, but you got to take care of yourself, too, right, you know, and so, And that's where it's just like, I don't need more of that, you know, and, you know, and, and again, like the whole no girl aspect, you know, boys being boys. I mean, the coach is like, yeah, man, I like seriously, they're farting in class and everybody's giggling, you know, it's like that, that never happened with a bunch of girls around, you know, and you see all the soccer kids next to them, they're there to represent and they're all kind of giggling, you know, it's like, that's boys, you know,
Speaker 1 02:32:51
but let let them be boys, you know, there's a different dynamic that goes on when, when they're just guys, you know, and they don't need to be distracted by the girls, they don't need to be worrying about, you know who they're gonna date or you know um i mean are girls gonna be in their lives yeah of course you know and i know they do dances with like the you know there's rosary which is an all girls school down the street and whatnot i know they partner with them on a lot of things but you know i i know the influence that girls had in my life during high school and it's like i don't.
Speaker 1 02:33:28
want that for my son all right you know so i'm so glad that he doesn't even have half of what i had you know at this age so anyways but that's that's where we're at so oh good yeah, well i should uh jump on site yeah i'm gonna run uh denise over to jessica's okay cool well.
Speaker 1 02:34:06
good to have you back and I love you love you too and tell everybody else you know I'm gonna try to get the kids to try to call you a little bit later today and it's like our first day where we don't have a million things going on it's been so busy lately so but but yeah so cool well then yeah I'll hit you up a little bit later and and we'll go from there all right cool see ya.
Speaker 3 02:35:38
Thank you.

[AI_SUMMARY]
Braden McLeish leads discussions on worksite directives, emphasizing new safety and documentation protocols for a construction project. He details specific cutting methods and safety measures for the team, while also addressing personal matters, including choosing a high school for his son, Eric. The conversations explore educational philosophies, with Braden favoring Servite for its character formation focus, while his wife prefers Orange Lutheran due to her past experiences. The document also touches on Braden's parenting strategies and daily routines, along with logistical discussions about team efficiency and organization on-site.