record_id: 305f8b3e-f83d-813e-89a1-c37bacbeb08a
created_time: 2026-02-12T23:30:00.000Z
title: 02-12 Meeting: Leadership, Team Dynamics, and Project Post-Mortem
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Speaker 1 00:00:15
Thanks.
Speaker 1 00:00:56
Sighs. 
Speaker 2 00:01:39
Hey, how you doing? Good, you good?
Speaker 3 00:01:40
Thank you. Let's get the hurry. Hey, good morning. Everything good?
Speaker 2 00:01:46
Yeah. So I guess I'm going to mention some rice items. They find a food part of this and they're not doing the whole thing. Yeah, yeah get uh dimensions get shop drawings going and get approvals and start uh. 
Speaker 2 00:02:09
We're good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:02:10
Yeah. Okay. So, you know, everything is like sell, sell, sell, sell. You know and it's like okay, okay When is it coming? And then it's like You got it! You got it! You got it! Wait wait wait wait wait! Yeah, you know how that is So It's uh, nice to be on the other. 
Speaker 2 00:02:35
End of yeah That's good.
Speaker 3 00:02:40
Rick, Four, and uh, depending on how things shake down in the next little bit, we might be you know from yeah. Um. Is Pancho still works? To the park? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:02:57
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 00:02:58
Pancho Colon Memo Rudy and uh, yeah, so it's those four, yeah. And then uh.
Speaker 3 00:03:07
I don't know if you know any of these guys. No, you know,
Speaker 2 00:03:10
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 00:03:11
One of these guys was uh Michael's helper.
Speaker 2 00:03:15
Oh okay. Okay, so Michael's gun uh what's his name uh Martinez gun too right? Martinez gun, okay,
Speaker 3 00:03:23
Um Michael's got, and they're all they're all family. So once one went, they yeah, the rest of them went. And uh, it was knowing that. We kind of were, you know, we pulled off of a couple jobs. Uh huh. Because the you know it's like that whole pre-COVID after COVID thing. What do you mean it's more right? So it's like, you know, um, you know it's like that that boost of went four times higher. You know. So all of a sudden, everybody had a you know, so they had no problem with a couple of our jobs. And that's oh okay, but when so when I saw.
Speaker 3 00:04:06
Things going slow. We're going to make a move. You know, it's the time to make the move, you know. And uh, you know, we only we only asked one person to leave. The rest of them are all on their own letter. We kind of knew that would okay,
Speaker 2 00:04:24
Who was left because here were team Michael.
Speaker 3 00:04:26
And we had we had last year, though we had uh Eric Beatrice I think, yeah, yeah, you knowum.
Speaker 3 00:04:36
And then we had. Raul. Over Raul, too? Yeah. Oh. So, his son left. Mhm. His son got mad at me. We had made a deal. Corey wanted to make sure that uh, that I mean the community, you know, he Corey made, said, look, he wanted to make sure that he graduated high school Got it And, so he said, You can come work for us. He's gone.
Speaker 3 00:05:07
You know, that's our yeah. you know, And we're not gonna pay you the same rate as everybody else until you finish school. you know.
Speaker 2 00:05:19
It's like a sort of a motivational for the kid, yeah.
Speaker 3 00:05:22
Yeah, cause honestly, if if he wasn't Raul's son, we wouldn't have brought him on board, yeah. You know, and uh not that there was, i mean, but he was he's a kid, right? You don't what happens when you hire a nineteen year old?
Speaker 3 00:05:36
And uh. One day he got mad at me, cause I was like no, I keep on asking you for your. Records. Right. You can come when you give them to me. Screw you, he said. So and then uh. Oh hurt himself personally, right? Something something else had to have a medical procedure and then. Oh okay. Never came back.
Speaker 3 00:06:06
I heard he did a great time, but he wants to go work with his son. Okay, that's fine. He and I still text every once in a while. Hey, you know, and he'll come back and tell me happy Father's Day. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:06:18
Yeah, have that good relationship with him?
Speaker 3 00:06:20
Yeah, I mean. He's. He's. This sounds bad. But. He's the only one that I'm really sad is gone. I really like Joe.
Speaker 2 00:06:29
Well, he was a hard worker. Yeah. I mean everybody would have it. I mean at all this is uh he had like. 
Speaker 3 00:06:36
He cared. Yeah. He cared. And and for those guys, you know, even'cause he wouldn't install. Aha. He wouldn't.
Speaker 2 00:06:46
You wanted to just uh one You didn't want uh responsibility basically?
Speaker 3 00:06:50
Well, I didn't know so I did why, but one day I mean we found ourselves. It was just me. And him, We had a fountain up in the Hills All right And, I said, you can do it No no I can't I, said I'll show you Okay You know. And so I said, okay, here's the measurements. Here's what you're going to do. Do you think you can finish this today? He says, yeah. I come back, and all I really wanted was him to set up two sides of the float strips for the floor. When I put my straight edge on it, it dipped and they like that. And I see his face. 
Speaker 3 00:07:36
I did it. I said, "Okay, let me know." You know, he goes, "I put the level on. I did this. I don't, I don't know what happened." So I said, "Okay, give me the level." You know. So, he gives me the six footer and I put it up to a straight edge, and it's perfect. So I okay so what you put it like this? Yeah And then I didn't even notice push down in the center and it flexed Gotcha Right? Yeah So he went to go. I said, "Oh, come here, come here." It it'll look. And I and then here's and here's the key. So you know every time I ever made a mistake with these guys, they laugh at me. You know? Yeah. Never do this again. This is the first time somebody showed me how to do it. You know? And that was good. Okay good. We're going to go. And then he got hurt Oh my god. We were we were I mean he was Yeah 'Cause he knew so much You know Yeah He just needed somebody to.
Speaker 3 00:08:35
So. He'll keep there. Yeah, it's like dude, man, I would have made you into installer and everything so.
Speaker 2 00:08:42
But he's a. I mean he's responsible.
Speaker 3 00:08:45
Mhm dependable,
Speaker 2 00:08:47
And he and he was on I think he was on a comfort zone, probably with the all the guys, And uh, oh, probably the all they guys I think, because I noticed, too, they they were like, kind of bored to be honest with you. Oh.
Speaker 3 00:08:59
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 00:08:60
So I think that's kind of uh sucks and kind of uh He didn't feel like.
Speaker 3 00:09:05
Right, it's all that machismo. I get so many, I'm sure you guys do it too. You get this this, uh you know this guy that says, oh, I'm I'm the guy. And if I show you how to do everything, then you're going to try to take my job. You know and it's like, you can never build a good team that way. Yeah yeah yeah. Um one thing I try to tell Martine the whole time, I don't want to work with you. Mhm. I want to work with you but not. 
Speaker 3 00:09:37
Exactly. So, The sooner we can figure this out together, I go. You know. Yeah, yeah. And you know.
Speaker 2 00:09:44
So he comes to a point where he thinks that he. Okay Most of the people, sometimes, or a lot of people, sometimes they think that they know everything, and they won't listen to all their ideas, or they won't check. They won't accept the way or others is the way you want to do it. Right, or the procedure according to certain specs. Let's do it this way because of the specs. And and that's what you know they they don't feel comfortable with. They've done this for so many years and and uh it's probably a problem.
Speaker 3 00:10:21
Look, I've been that's been my job. I've always been sent into. Yeah yeah go figure it out like. And so I always have to come alongside you right?
Speaker 3 00:10:34
You know, I mean, with the courtyard. Right? He and I got into a big, big fight. You know. You always come in here telling me. And I said, "Have I ever told you how to do anything?" No. We've. I've asked you questions. I've asked you. I've given ideas to you. But I've never told you what to do. We agree on that?
Speaker 3 00:11:04
You know how to do this. You don't need any help. That's your position. Yes, so why is that dimension three quarters off? I don't know. That's my special. I can't float right now, right? Like fuck, I have you there step back, understand it from me. 
Speaker 3 00:11:34
And they help you dial in while you're going. That's it. You know, I want to help you. You know,
Speaker 2 00:11:45
Work together, right? Right. And uh. Sometimes those sort of teams like this kind of hard to understand for some of the guys.
Speaker 3 00:11:53
You have to first admit that you need help,
Speaker 2 00:11:58
Right? That you made a mistake and then you know, you need to figure out how to make it work with the team. Yeah. That's that's where the that's where the team will come in, Mhm. Let's figure it out. Okay. Like that guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:12:08
He doesn't miss him, man. Uh- huh. You know? Yeah But because first we said, you know, So I told Gene that this is a new feature, how to do this and I haven't figured it out yet, You know? Right And then you know Oh we failed over here why? Okay we're not going to do it that way. 
Speaker 3 00:12:34
And actually, set protocols for those things. You know, first you get up. You always want to use the laser. I'm like, you don't like the laser because you don't know how to use it. And then once I show him here's how the laser works, he's like, oh yeah okay now he's can I take the laser? Yeah okay. But and then now that we've got we're doing right there isn't it? Now we're saying so okay how can we get past that one today? Right first.
Speaker 3 00:13:05
That part's been difficult before. But it's like you can't yell at me for both, right? So, anyway.
Speaker 2 00:13:14
I'm glad you have people that listen and understand and team players basically. That's good. Because, it's hard when you try to deal with people that they know what they're doing, but they won't play along with you. That's a problem, right?
Speaker 3 00:13:34
Right. I know you guys say interrupted.
Speaker 2 00:13:38
No, no worries.
Speaker 3 00:13:39
We're pretty much done. Okay,
Speaker 2 00:13:40
We got what we mentioned. We're just getting there. Fair enough. But whatever happened to your open? Did anything came up through that? Yeah, yeah, yeah Have you have you not seen it?
Speaker 2 00:14:03
Yeah, we just finished. I mean, we're left with didn't see the entire project.
Speaker 1 00:14:13
That was cute. Um,
Speaker 3 00:14:22
I go to favorites, but that's not where I have it. I have it in the completed pools. Which I can never find.
Speaker 3 00:14:33
What's the point of uh albums? So right, that's before the grass. It has grass now. It's nicer, but and that's the entryway that we got there. Yeah, it's from the fire pit. They have one, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3 00:15:03
I know I've got it somewhere. But here's the, here's the master spa. Oh man. Okay. So it's got an infinity edge. Yeah. Right?
Speaker 2 00:15:13
Yeah And you guys did that one too? Yeah Okay So oh that's uh yeah that's in two,
Speaker 3 00:15:17
That's uh on the water. Yeah. So this is just on the other side. Oh. Okay And, then that's the cold plunge Um. Yeah, it That house will have everything, right? Oh yeah Pool and hot tub. 
Speaker 3 00:15:36
I see, but keep up. Yeah. His name always just gets me somebody you know, um, Pete Lowe. Yeah, I think he owns uh West Point. Oh. Right? Um, let me see if I can get no picture in here of the. 
Speaker 2 00:16:30
A lot of pictures, huh? It's how did I get them?
Speaker 3 00:16:34
Where is it? But I know I take a picture of it almost every time. I go there.
Speaker 1 00:16:51
There you go.
Speaker 3 00:16:54
You know, I've got a video of that. Um.
Speaker 1 00:17:20
Three Thousand videos.
Speaker 3 00:17:42
Just drain. It was leaking for a little bit there, and so we hadum. Under underneath or?
Speaker 2 00:17:49
Yeah, we found you know when they shock treated anything. And there was there was a void. There was like a skin of concrete there and then behind it underneath both the split drains, huge gap.
Speaker 2 00:18:44
Special machine.
Speaker 3 00:18:46
Uh, so there are guys. There actually. Right? So you see that whole caddy there? They just blow it all out. You know, um.
Speaker 2 00:19:01
You guys took care of it?
Speaker 3 00:19:02
Yeah, but there's guys that'll go in and andum. Just take the. Yeah, and they'll they'll uh. I know I have a video of the fountain somewhere.
Speaker 3 00:19:16
Maybe it's not. Sometimes it doesn't have the address on it, so I'll just foil it the same way. I'll have to send it somewhere else. Um, but they put guys that will go in, goggles and everything, and they'll take like a syringe and some dye. And on all the areas that they think it probably is because usually there's some sort of penetration. Something is coming through their waterproofing. And they'll squirt dye, and the dye now you see like blue coming out right? And then the blue will just go into the, But the blue just sits there, right? Then there's no leak. But if the blue goes in, then you know you got a leak there. I didn't know this until. Oh, that's interesting. So we fixed that side, we filled it back up and started leaking again. You know. And so we went and checked the other side because it's we had to keep on bringing this guy out because you know.
Speaker 3 00:20:14
Oh, it's fine here. It's like you know, you fix your toilet after years of not use, right? No, there's a leak here and then leak there. Yeah. Until we went to the other side. Okay. And I told Floyd like, hey man, It's not showing You know very badly. We know it's leaking. I'm telling you Right there How sure. Are you Ninety percent And? Uh do it So. He opened it all up and You know and just went pop Shoo. Right, we just take a screwdriver right in there. Right there. You know. So. But, you think about it. He had to do all that. So he got like all of the things you never see experience, you know? And so now I can take that and go hey remember what happened here? Yeah yeah yeah I remember what happened here, right?
Speaker 2 00:21:06
That's uh, that builds your uh, makes you become the master basically Right Yeah Right Based on experience. 
Speaker 3 00:21:12
Right Right.
Speaker 3 00:21:16
But yeah, I'll I'll find that video. That's right. Yeah, of course. Get your stuff right. And, then you uh, everybody wants to take a little bit of pride in it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2 00:21:24
I didn't see it finished. That's that's what was wondering if everything got all nice.
Speaker 3 00:21:27
And no, it's they. So they the owner pulled Cory aside and saidum that that his his favorite thing of the entire house was was here. Wow, yeah, yeah. So I'm really happy with all your guys'work. We we still maintain it, you know. So I I go there, you know, once every month or two. Oh okay. Check it all out. Yeah yeah Still looks good, You know, Great Um Interesting Yeah So Cool Good to see you I'm sure I'll, we'll probably be here for the next month or two.
Speaker 2 00:22:00
So Yeah yeah We'll see each other here. Cool We'll be here Yeah Okay yeah Again. We just got to get uh the process. 
Speaker 3 00:22:05
Going now No I Yeah I, get it You get it All right Thank you Best in seeing you.
Speaker 3 00:22:57
I Was in such a hurry to get here, I forgot about Home Depot. So when you when you texted me. I I look on the freeway it's like right there. Yeah, yeah, I was going to Home Depot right now. Um, I brought the pressure washer. So it's the one that that was leaking oil. They had to get a seal kit.
Speaker 3 00:23:30
And they're like, yeah, we don't know when it's gonna come. So I uh, I said just put it back together and give it to me. And, so is it just wear and tear that causes this? Or is it us? Or. I don't. I wasn't talking to the main guy, and he's like only only Luis works on this part. So I can't tell you. So but I asked the same question. 'Cause we would like to know so that way we stop doing whatever he's. Right right. 
Speaker 3 00:24:01
Um, My guess is there's something we're doing to lose pressure because we had this problem recently. But I'll definitely be asking him. Do you have a mill gauge on you? Uh, I'm my person, I have one not on me exactly. I'm gonna i'll get it though. I trust you because it's you.
Speaker 3 00:24:32
But it sounds fish in your truck. Yeah, not on my pocket. Would you have checked it? Uh, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:24:45
Judging, I will check it.
Speaker 3 00:24:46
We we we should make a habit of it. Okay, at a very minimum, have it with you. I know that you guys get a feel for this stuff, but you know I'll say the same thing like even, You, you don't notice that you're fat until you're fat right? It's every day. It's a little bit different. And uh. You know I'd I'd like to uh. We should at least check when we're doing it. Just that's a verification. Yeah, we still know what we're talking about. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:25:30
Oh.
Speaker 2 00:28:14
How are you? I'm good. Good.
Speaker 1 00:28:21
Been there.
Speaker 1 00:31:54
Okay.
Speaker 3 00:37:57
Chipping hammer, pressure washer, everything's out.
Speaker 1 00:42:26
Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:52:55
Okay.

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