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created_time: 2026-01-16T01:13:00.000Z
title: 01-15 To-do List: Personal Errands
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Speaker 1 00:04:07
It was like, if I don't go now, he's screwing my day already, you know, let me screw it as little as possible. So you finally get to see the shop. 
Speaker 2 00:04:20
This is a fucking disaster right now.
Speaker 1 00:04:24
You know what, like, so, before I came to work for Corey, I worked at a manufacturer. Okay. Yeah, well, this, you know, this is, you're another, you guys are at another level than what we, you know, we get to stick with.
Speaker 2 00:04:47
Yeah, it's hard because all the pallets that are outside, we stack up right here. And then obviously just put on top of this stuff. And then we've got shit up there and shit up there. And this shit is just everywhere. What's this? That's the plasma cutter. I'm using this. We have that on the cart over there. Uh-huh. The great thing is you can pull apart and fold around it. But now this is computer controlled.
Speaker 2 00:05:19
So for example, my daughter's been trying to do some artwork for school. Uh-huh. And she's been cutting out different shit and playing with different heat settings and all sorts of shit. That's cool. So it's cool. Yeah, it's got a computer and you can program pretty much anything you want and then go to count on it. Yeah. It'll cut up the inch and a half.
Speaker 1 00:05:41
It's a monster. I mean, we, you know, my kids were like brilliant with the torch. And, I'm watching the one, you know, it's one of those, you walk up to a site, shoot, Corey bought that drill, you know, for referencing yesterday, you know, it's like you walk up to a site, you know, and next thing you know, I've got, got them a briefcase and it's so much easier.
Speaker 2 00:06:05
Yeah. It's all about the fucking tools. Yeah. When I worked for my old man, he didn't want to spend the money on it, but without this, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 00:06:15
Well, and that's the whole, like, even with the brief, like, so we used to do, um, we used to build compactors and every, every place you went to, oh, this needs to come out of it this way. And what, you know, so we'd end up building legs and stuff like that. So just rent one, you know, like, Hey, how much, how much faster did it make us? Okay. Now I've got a number. How can we do these things? I'm going to try to record it more.
Speaker 1 00:06:48
It's 15 grand.
Speaker 2 00:06:52
Money and bullshit.
Speaker 1 00:06:53
You know? You plan to stop building pools anytime soon? And Courtney's pretty good with all that. But he just, I don't know.
Speaker 2 00:07:12
It's hard. I mean, when we bought this one, it was, I think, this was the lower end model. And I won't say the same, but I got like 75 into it. It does what we need. Originally, I wanted to get a water jet. But the problem with the water jet is all the shit that comes out is hazardous waste. So with the county and the state, it goes into a fucking completely different scenario. And I was like, I don't want to deal with that. We already have them come in here. The county comes in. He'll get a flashlight and look inside there what different types of material cutting and looks in our scrap bins.
Speaker 2 00:07:47
Well, there's even those paint cans that scrap in or are they full of air? No, we puncture them Okay, I mean if you don't have the fucking answers, it's like oh, yeah Just like in the spectra same shit. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 00:07:58
By the way, I was in South Central, right? So we show up.
Speaker 2 00:08:27
The first lady that came in here. The guys all saw it and you're on this job, but it's relative, you know people slowly disappear, minutes, everybody was gone. Fucking everything. And I told her, I said, do me a favor. She's like, well, you're supposed to have this on the computer and you need to have this on the website and you need to have this with us. And I said, well, come to the office. Let's get on the computer together and show me. And dude, I fucking played the whole spiel.
Speaker 2 00:08:57
And at first it was a $10,000 fine, just for a few pieces, like the paint can and the trash can. Then she came back the next day and she's like, well, I noticed you moved some welding cylinders and this and that. And she got us down like 4,500 bucks. And what's, what's the difference from when you first came in and now she said, she's like, go into places and these people are just complete assholes. And I deal with that shit. So if you're good, I will do whatever I can to help you in any way.
Speaker 1 00:09:28
No, I tell you, like, you know, my guys used to go like, you follow that guy around everywhere. You're so nice. I'm like, yeah, fuck. Yeah. You know, like water, what else can I get you? You know, you want my chair? You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 00:09:50
Yeah, so we do a lot of it here. Certain things that I don't have here are the capabilities we'll send out as you guys do.
Speaker 1 00:10:07
No, I love this. I bought a proper weapon.
Speaker 2 00:10:16
Well, it also, he says the same thing. He's like, do you. So when I first met him, have you ever heard of a company called Fan Prof Construction? I've heard of that. Really bad. And he wanted me to build and stuff, and they came in here. The owner of that company was telling Rocco that I basically said Rocco sucks and this and that and then playing the fucking game. so after i finally told that guy to get the out rocco came in here one day he said okay what the is going on he's all i've seen you on the job site the that i'm hearing is not what i see coming out of your mouth so he started talking so he quit there.
Speaker 2 00:10:49
he said the biggest thing here is you have every tool to do the correct job right almost 10 years ago i bought him he has a new truck now newer i bought a new truck it's got a camper shell with the welder and all the tools in the back and i try to go out and do all the estimating and then all the shop work but he does all the installs unless he needs help and i go out there where we have yeah but the cool part is we do work for the cool industry we do work for.
Speaker 2 00:11:24
a bench or for a boat. We tailor to so many different people that know we've got materials.
Speaker 1 00:11:41
Is it primarily because we do all the things. 
Speaker 2 00:11:48
All the people that have basically learned about us know that we're really good at building weird shit. Like, if you called me up and wanted 5,000 feet of fence around your property, I appreciate the effort, but there's really, as I would call it, weird nails and all that kind of stuff. Then we can do a little structure. We put this thing up on a weekend a few years back. We needed a little more space, and I called the building owner. He's like, yeah, I know what you're doing. Just fucking do it.
Speaker 2 00:12:20
He's like, what do you think? He's like, holy shit, you did that over the weekend. 
Speaker 1 00:12:23
That's exactly what's on the plan right now. But it's true. We've got the right plan. We've got the right setup. We've got the right tools. It's, you know, and there's even something, you know, when I first started with Corey, he's like, you know, but they should be buying all the tools. Like, everybody's got to have their basics, right? And that just says, like, you know, you'll lose rank.
Speaker 1 00:12:54
But if I don't have the right tools, I can work, like, ten times fucking harder. I can figure it out in labor. That's the same conversation I have. I think you guys can, I think you guys are still good.
Speaker 2 00:13:25
Yeah, it's a good rule. It's interesting. We do work for probably, I'd say, ten different pool contractors. Okay. i can tell you flat out if you were to show me a picture of a pool you want to build i could point to specific guys and say these guys no problem these guys not a chance it just it's like before you said the other day it's a different mindset when you get into these several million dollar pools and little guys that not just because they're little but they just they.
Speaker 1 00:13:55
don't understand it right well there's also the mentality of them you can't just you know have to be able to and you know that's the biggest thing for corian differ because even today these guys just show up and like they should know that and why we don't hire and solve it we teach only.
Speaker 1 00:14:35
but you have to have the mindset so my thing is always culture you have the right cultures, here's who we're about and once you have people culture anybody that's going together and people you know you didn't do that right understand what he's doing and why this is an issue with him.
Speaker 2 00:15:12
that's funny because we're on a job where we put some handrails in a commercial building once and we were three-eighths of an inch away from the ball where returns the inspector failed it and i told him you give me a favor i said i'm not being an why give me give me something so i understand the thought process behind it and he says the easiest way i can explain it is, Fireman's got a limp fire hose over his shoulder, so you know they're flat. It goes fucking barreling around the corner. The hose can wedge in there and get caught.
Speaker 1 00:15:44
Makes sense to me. Fucking get it. But you need that stuff, right? Like, you know, I can't tell you how many times. Why have I got to? I'll pay for it. Just tell me. Help me understand so I don't do it again, because obviously I did it thinking that this was okay.
Speaker 2 00:16:06
That's fine. Yeah, I've been there. I've done a lot of weird shit, but it's cool.
Speaker 3 00:16:13
I like it.
Speaker 2 00:16:15
The only thing that we wish is we had a shop that was maybe 50% bigger. Like, I first told the owner, I said, no, I'd love to get all these offices out of here. I need my office, which is like the plans office, and then we have what we call the accounting office. Very simple. The rest of it, I don't need any of it. You can do whatever you want, but when you leave, you've got to put it back. I don't want to waste my time with all that. Can you extend the floor? Well, that's one way through with the mezzanine up there.
Speaker 2 00:16:48
It gets all of our, like you can see the slip roller here, and then there's a shear on the backside and then a break, and it gets all that type of tooling out of our way. Still need more room because, obviously, you put that up there, and oh, fuck, now we've got space for another machine. Right, right. But it works. Then we thought about moving it at one point, but we're still wired into this building, literally. Yeah, I know. Buddy's an electrician. He's like, it'd probably be $25,000 to get into a new shop.
Speaker 2 00:17:20
and rewire what you guys would need to do. So that was actually open for a while. The one on the far side is actually open, and I'm the building owner. I don't know what it is, but he has this mindset of it is worth gold now. And the new unit's basically the same size, and he wants over twice of what we pay here. And you live around here?
Speaker 2 00:17:50
Not far. Table Canyon, a few miles away. Not far. When I ran my dad's shop in West LA, I used to live in Agoura. I did the commute down PCH every day. And after I quit with him, I told myself, I'm not doing that shit anymore. I'll commute to a job site, no problem. But that sucks.
Speaker 1 00:18:10
That's what I can't work for 40. Like, let's do driverry part of my day. So I want to be, I got three boys. They're still, like, so mad. They're 14, 12, 10. So I got my boys from school, but every time I need to wake up. wherever I need to be.
Speaker 2 00:18:34
So that's what we did in the beginning is we shifted from the typical eight to five, to six to three. That way, three o'clock, go home, do whatever you want, hang out with family. Doesn't matter if you need to leave early a day and we have a job where you can start early, then I can start at two in the morning, I don't care. Right, yeah. That's cool, that's a big one.
Speaker 1 00:18:54
Yeah, my, you know, again, they're boys, right? So they need, they want me, or they need me, you know. My wife, she's like, go on. They need me to go back into whatever. Whatever I do, it's gonna be my animal. 10-hour days, on-site, and it's this, a lot of talking at one time. Honestly, every time I walk in the door, you know,
Speaker 1 00:19:27
and I hear something going on, you know, it's like, you're not ready yet. Oh, that's awesome. They're good for us, I mean, we're kids.
Speaker 2 00:19:42
Quite the stirp she is.
Speaker 1 00:19:44
Well, you're always gonna, you know, push the limits, you know, so, and my wife and my sister, my rules, Ben, he's gonna come down here and kick your ass. If I hear about it, it's a problem. If she tells me, like, if she intentionally tells me to handle it, oh, bro, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1 00:20:14
Those are the type of use.
Speaker 2 00:20:23
Oh, man. And the hard part is, you have to, like you said, you have to teach somebody how to use it, as, let's say, if you take it, you drop it like that, and it chips one of your tooth. But as you're drilling, you watch the actual curly cues come off, and some guy's just trying to manhandle and force it through, and the thing shatters, and you don't get those hundred-something bucks.
Speaker 1 00:20:46
Yeah. No, so, years ago, a buddy of mine hands me this, you know, what seemed like just a compliment. The guy's like, that's a Lurican. So I show up to him, and he shows me out of the middle of it all. Let me talk to him a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1 00:21:17
I'm like, no, it's fine. I've got a big guy, you know. So I go, so I can give away something. Yep. Musicians. So I give it to my buddy. And I already finished mine, so I didn't call it a deal. Holy shit. 
Speaker 2 00:21:44
Yep.
Speaker 1 00:21:45
Your tools matter. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:21:50
That's so funny, because I know the feeling, you get certain guys that just, no idea, and then you give them basically the right tool. Shit, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 00:21:59
Right. So, you know, and I've always managed, right? So I, my first thought, you know, let me say it differently. You know, starting, you know, like you work for that, right? And so I've watched all these guys come in. I know better. Watch. Why are we good? Figure that out. Then do whatever you know. So I've always had this like. Maybe I'm not the smartest guy in the room. Maybe they know, maybe I am the smartest guy in the room,
Speaker 1 00:22:30
but they know how to do it better than, you know. How would you do this? I'd do, oh, well, if you can do that, can you do this? Well, yeah, but now I wanna do it this way, you know. And me and my, my, I can pull it. Then, inevitably, they come to me and say, okay, here's what we're gonna do. What do you, you know.
Speaker 2 00:22:52
It's funny, Rocco and I will hash it out back and forth like that all the time.
Speaker 1 00:22:56
It's the beauty of, I mean, who cares, you know, who cares who's the smartest guy, who's the, I mean, gonna have different, different take on, you know, and different goals. So you need, I should get out of your hair and get back to this. Let's get this symbol in the back of your truck.
Speaker 2 00:23:22
Is it this? I put the tape on here. I don't know if you guys are worried about it or not, but it has all that. Okay, perfect. It's along the side of the ship.
Speaker 1 00:23:37
In case, might as well. I'm going to pop this button.
Speaker 2 00:24:48
Some people want all the info, some people don't. I know. So this is the sticker that actually comes off the sheet, and that's the actual mil cert.
Speaker 1 00:24:56
Cory's, uh, things I think he'll care about, he doesn't. And things I don't think he'll care about, he does. So I grab it all now.
Speaker 1 00:25:60
All the way in, if you don't mind. If not, in a second I, uh... Yeah, if you just pick up the back end, it should slide.
Speaker 3 00:26:16
I think that back end's there.
Speaker 1 00:26:44
Yeah. Do you care if I take one of those. 
Speaker 2 00:26:51
It's better, but if you don't, the crackheads do. They come through at night and take anything and everything for... Really? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:27:07
Now, I'm going to ask this just because a smart person told me to worry about it, but I don't. Corey's like, hey, I want you to wrap it with ram board and plastic, because it might warp. It's not a world, that thing.
Speaker 2 00:27:24
It won't warp like that. Now, if you quarter inch... Let me start over. Yes, it could, but it needs to get a lot hotter. Right. If it's quarter inch, yes, it will warp. The biggest thing that I've seen is if you leave them on a job site, people start setting tools and shit on top of it, and they'll scratch it. And that'll do you get rust. Great. But obviously, for what you guys are doing here, it's . . .
Speaker 1 00:27:48
But that's stainless steel. You'd still get rust, or . . .
Speaker 2 00:27:51
Well, what happens is, you get cross-contamination, where, let's say you take . . . This guy has no paint on it. So, put the exact wording in, so that you can buy . . .
Speaker 2 00:28:26
Yeah. Years ago.
Speaker 2 00:28:58
And you can see how it's got a little... Yeah? I mean, it's literally both the side of the wheelhouse and it's salt water 24-7. Eventually, that's gonna happen. You can tell the inside is not as much as the outside, specifically because it's more protected. Exactly. But yeah, so eventually, everything will start to rust.
Speaker 2 00:29:42
Play around with that stuff. You just... You literally just spray it on there and then you let it sit for a while and then you more or less wipe it off.
Speaker 1 00:29:52
Okay.
Speaker 3 00:29:53
Cool.
Speaker 2 00:29:55
Yeah, Corey was asking, when we do it, it's basically like a little welder. You take a wander, this one has a small brush on it, and you see the fabric, and then you break these little pieces off, and you literally go over it, and it's like welding. There's an arc that goes through it, and it electronically brings the chromium to the surface to help prevent the rusting.
Speaker 1 00:30:17
I want to say I saw them doing something like that when they were going through how to paint, essentially, the Cybertrucks. You know, and put the cover on it, and something like that. It's like a three-layer deal with a wand, electronically.
Speaker 2 00:30:41
Yeah, so when the guys weld the trough and everything together, we'll do this for all the welding after he's done. When you weld stainless, just by the stainless getting hot, it'll rust on that area if you don't do anything. There's a lot of shit to it. A lot of shit. Thank you very much. No problem. Anything else? Give me a holler. Will do. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 00:31:12
One thing I can tell you about any of that passivation stuff, don't let it get on concrete that you like. Oh, okay. It will fuck the concrete up the market.
Speaker 1 00:31:22
Sounds good. I'll stop by my neighbor's house and write my name down. Have a good one. Thank you.
Speaker 1 00:32:21
No, I'm, I'm good. I was just more of like, how do I just not make it so they, uh, they slide. So, you know, cause I'm more worried about, I mean, at some point in time, if it slides, it slides, um, side to side, but the second I hit my brake, it'll, you know, so I grew up in trucking. So.
Speaker 1 00:32:56
this is always, you know, it's always something. What's that? Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, uh, so this way, so I got this truck when it was COVID. So I wasn't happy. I only had to, you know, I would have preferred to have a longer bed, but this is all there was.
Speaker 2 00:33:19
Yeah, but you can't carry as much with what I've, you know, the way I pack stuff, you know, I'm always the, uh, always been the guy that, oh, we don't have enough room for this. Are you kidding? After I left, you have quarter of the truck left over. There's plenty. I remember a buddy of mine was a rule that we have. Everything has to be in a box. Certain room or certain items are specific size box. Yeah. Because I know in our truck we can get eight boxes up, six across and two BP. It's always a space on top.
Speaker 1 00:34:04
When then it's, you also, at that point in time, you can get everything to be square, right? So you can put everything on top of it. When I hated the moving industry, I was in there for like four months. Yeah, it's like, I'll move you, but only if, you know, it's like, only if.
Speaker 2 00:34:22
Here's a small stupid trick. Hook a tie down from here to there. Hook another tie down, go through it, and back that side.
Speaker 1 00:34:33
I was, that's a better one, yeah. I was, because I was like, okay, at some point in time I'm going to have to come over, but yeah, that is better than my idea, so. Yeah, it's kind of funky the way you put it through each other, and most people are like, oh, that doesn't work. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It definitely does. There's a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 00:34:56
Is that 115 each. 
Speaker 1 00:35:15
60 pounds about 600 pounds he's only 115 a piece oh goodness all the fun oh you're working cory.
Speaker 1 00:35:54
it's always been um i live farther so he and i used to live like 10 minutes apart okay until he moved to uh huntington um so i'm out um i'm out in your blinda so yeah um. yeah yeah it's my choice but I like it's it's rough you know you like larger.
Speaker 1 00:37:01
always had a lot of you know the difficulty when you and I'm done small and big but the difficulty is like especially small. Hey, nobody's here, right? So, for instance, we had to rebuild the tile crews, the guys down there. And they were like, why don't they get it done?
Speaker 1 00:37:35
Like, we're going to include the repetition aspect of it. And then there's the aspect of, like, aren't you getting in there? It's like, well, and I think you should get in there. But you also have to know when to pull back and let them do it. Let them do it and try to get it done.
Speaker 1 00:38:09
Then they're going to say, hey, they're going to roll away. you know and one day he and i look nobody showed up who's what who's in there doing it every time, you know but you want to put me on the job and uh you know and so you've got to think long term about how this whole thing is so to answer your question yeah i like it um um and of course both.
Speaker 1 00:38:50
right i'm sure he would have fired me a long time ago too um him more than i'm committed to the company and uh um you know and so you know so it's a when you ask me that question it's more like, It's complicated, there's other things, you know, I mean, he's come along, you know, I'm not, I'm not trying to, I talk crap on him sometimes, but I get so much respect.
Speaker 1 00:39:32
And so, um, I don't know how to say it, because it's a little bit more earlier to me.
Speaker 2 00:39:47
Honestly, we've known him, definitely 10 years, if not more. I think in the beginning, when I was quoting Pricey for St. Louis, he was one of the guys like, oh, you're fucking crazy, and then he realized how much your shit costs, right?
Speaker 2 00:40:43
Oh, it's heavy. He'll never fly out of the bed. Everything will fly. A little hunched out. He said he saw it hit the freeway. Oh, the scrap guy's like, hey, piece of steel over here if you want it. The scrap guy went over and looked at it. He looked right behind him. Touch it, I'm going to give you a fine. It's all for littering. It's all littering.
Speaker 1 00:41:11
So I'm the opposite, right? I came from transportation. Oh yeah, put this helicopter in the back. It'll be just fine. And so we've got stories of, you know, remember those bubble front helicopters? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:41:41
They forgot to strap one down or something like that. Oh, shit. Dropped one off the back. And so, I've got all those stories of like, oh, remember the time when, you know. Nope. It's, uh, that's not true. These guys don't understand. It's like, well, how do you put it in that corner?
Speaker 1 00:42:11
It'll slide over there.
Speaker 2 00:42:16
Build everything off of that. It's crazy. I never knew this. This UPS guy that used to buy here. You know, UPS says their routes up, so it's all right-hand turn.
Speaker 1 00:42:26
FedEx started that.
Speaker 2 00:42:27
Yeah, man. Try not to make a left-hand turn because there's more chance of accidents.
Speaker 1 00:42:31
And it's quicker. They, during Christmas, so they, they started it. Um, they started it. And they would only do it during Christmas a bit, initially. Well, that's the thing. For the right people, man, there's money to be made. You know, if I was just going to put it...
Speaker 1 00:43:03
I was like, oh, I'll just put it right there. No one else is going to fall on it and crush it. It's not very strong, but it's incredibly easy.
Speaker 2 00:43:23
Well, cool. I appreciate it. Have a good day. You too.
Speaker 3 00:50:36
how much bc pro will you need question mark do you still need to go to ralph's today or did you.
Speaker 1 00:51:32
already do that.
Speaker 1 00:53:27
Hello? Hey.
Speaker 4 00:53:28
Hey, what's up. 
Speaker 1 00:53:30
Um, World of Concrete. When are you leaving. 
Speaker 4 00:53:35
Monday. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:53:38
And are the boys going to your parents' house that day or is there a plan for that. 
Speaker 4 00:53:42
We don't have any plans yet for them. It just occurred to me this week that they had one.
Speaker 1 00:53:49
Okay. Are you leaving Monday morning? Monday. 
Speaker 4 00:53:53
I'm going to leave Monday morning. Yeah. I'm going to try to get out there as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 00:54:00
Okay. Just putting it in my head, trying to figure all that out.
Speaker 4 00:54:11
Yeah. I haven't talked to my mom about it yet. But I told the boys that, you know, they're going to be home alone for a little bit and that I'm going to try to talk to family and pop about it. This morning. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:54:28
And then you'll be home Wednesday night. 
Speaker 4 00:54:32
Yeah, I'll probably be home closer to before dinner, but I don't know what that looks like, or how long I'm going to stay, or if I'm going to be able to meet up with people, or whatever the case is.
Speaker 1 00:54:44
Yeah, no, I try not to hold you to any of that.
Speaker 4 00:54:55
Any other questions. 
Speaker 1 00:54:59
No, I was asking about Ralph's because I have two prescriptions over there, so I'll just stop by there.
Speaker 4 00:55:06
Matt, you should have a prescription available too, if you wouldn't mind picking that up for me. Alrighty. Cool beans. Um, yeah. I hope I don't make you nervous when I tell you that you're a perfect fit for something or whatever. I hope you just see it as a thing where I believe in you. and I look at certain positions with a lot of conviction because like you know whether or not you get this job is up to the Lord and what he has planned for you and I dare not try to imagine.
Speaker 4 00:55:41
what his plans are and in my very imaginative like big picture thinking it's like oh like your career like you have this experience from this and this experience from this this experience maybe this is all you know like accumulating up for something like this you know and I dare not know what God has planned for you you know in that sense but I hope you just see it as a way as me.
Speaker 1 00:56:07
like just believing in you if anything else yeah no I always I uh I always look at it you know it's, you know she sees that it aligns really well so yeah I'm firmly you know fixed in the idea that.
Speaker 1 00:56:37
the Lord's in control so yeah so no worries but uh all right okay I just don't want you to get nervous or get me get caught up on that um no I uh I think you know I'm I'm in a really good space.
Speaker 1 00:57:07
I mean it's always different once I'm like ready to go into the interview or something like that, check that either but you know um but no I I don't. the lord is in control um so i'm not bothered and you know i in fact i i see this as um just.
Speaker 1 00:57:44
information they're going hey you know like some of the ones that i see that reach out to me i'm like you know i probably would have clicked submit on this too if she you know if i was the one applying for this but you know this one's this one's a stretch as far as whether or not they think you know you know i think you and i are similar it's like you know there's can i do it and will they think i can do it or two completely different things.
Speaker 1 00:58:18
you know so right but you know because i don't i don't question, Whether or not I can do most of this stuff.
Speaker 3 00:58:29
Right.
Speaker 1 00:58:35
So, anyways. Alright. Well, I don't want to keep you. So, I've been meaning to ask you to get me some hand sanitizer. But then it's like, just get it yourself, Brayden. And then I go, yeah, but she might want some. And, you know.
Speaker 4 00:59:01
I already have some. I usually try to keep some where our soap is. Or where I keep our soap and candles here. Yep, I have some right here. I have two things of it. Sprays. Okay. So, it's okay to ask me. any offer to get it yourself like i'll tell you if i'm too busy if you're like if you will allow me.
Speaker 1 00:59:31
to do that and then absolutely but i don't want to like sometimes it's you know sometimes i feel like i ask you to do some stuff for me and sometimes i think i ask you to be my assistant and i try not to to do that even though you know you're willing to most of the time you know but i also like you know i truly believe what i told ben it's like you know okay you know we're both.
Speaker 1 01:00:07
like major contributors here you know i don't want to take advantage you're busy i know you've.
Speaker 4 01:00:15
been stretching yourself look do i want you to get it yourself. i do tend to do things like that you know so it's like i'm okay as long as you know i don't really have time to do that or like when do you need to buy or like you know if i'm already going to the grocery store yeah it's okay to be like hey you're going if you're going to grocery store or trader joe's you might have some hand sanitizer too you know like i think that that's totally okay to do.
Speaker 4 01:00:49
like i get irritated when ben's like like i made a dessert right for you and maddie and maddie's i put strawberries on so he opens up the refrigerator and this dessert that i made him and he goes you're gonna put strawberries on that and it's like put them on yourself right you know like and i don't think he understands like why i respond the way i do but it's like hold on here like why don't you say hey mom like um why don't you ask me would you mind putting strawberries.
Speaker 4 01:01:21
or like if you have the time mom could you put some strawberries on that or like would you mind if I put strawberries on that better like I'd be like oh yeah sure buddy like you can do that or I'll do it later I'll get to it you know like.
Speaker 1 01:01:35
no I think with Ben like we really need to figure out how to get him to think you know a little bit deeper you know because it's just like you know.
Speaker 4 01:01:52
like he really doesn't mind telling me what to do like I work for him I mean that's not just it's not just a mean thing.
Speaker 1 01:01:59
but here's the thing like he's it's like he really struggles with the idea of like like wrapping your head around like thinking about why why would she be offended, you know and it's like and then he stops there you know right and it's like i can't come i can't comprehend why she would be like because you don't think about it you know but he's so freaking smart on other stuff it's so freaking dense right you know that's why i'm like i don't understand like.
Speaker 4 01:02:34
what's going on here where are we missing it is it your immaturity is it like you know like where like what am i missing here that's making us struggle so much all right all righty i love you love you too talk soon bye.
Speaker 1 01:04:44
Hi Bill, comma, I am so sorry I have not gotten back to you, period. Unfortunately, I am not available this Saturday, comma, but I could make next Saturday, period.
Speaker 1 01:06:03
Regarding a topic, comma, how do you feel about work life, question mark. Additionally, comma, with regard to your men's breakfast invite, comma, I do appreciate it, period.
Speaker 1 01:06:39
I ended up having two tournaments happen that weekend with the boys, and so I wasn't able to attend much. Hope you're doing well.

[AI_SUMMARY]
Tasks include talking to Ashleyann's mom about watching the boys during her trip to World of Concrete and Braden picking up two prescriptions for himself and one for Matt at Ralph's. The conversation also touches on work-life balance, family responsibilities, and the importance of communication in relationships.