1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show. 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: Is on the air. 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 3: The following feature has been rated R. 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: It is intended for mature audiences. 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 3: I just wanted to say to everyone out there, I'm 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 3: no longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP. 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: It's official. Now you know the rest of the story. 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 4: Joy, you like movies about gladiators. 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 5: What if your childhood amolia fus shoes, take me, take me? 11 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: Your mother was a humpster and your father snake off Elaberry. 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: How much you want to make a bet? I can 13 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: proll football over the mountain. 14 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 6: The Donga need food? What are you kidding? 15 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: We got some family here not already? 16 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 6: Well, well, sir, lovey until tonight, then one and more Bye. 17 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: So we got two calls during the break to affirm 18 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: that Billy Little is a good chimney sweep. But Billy 19 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: hasn't called. We haven't heard from any other chimney sweeps. Oh, 20 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: is he is a what a mason? Contract contractor or 21 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: masonry or he's a mason. There's a different he's a contractor, 22 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: who's a mason, or he's a masonry contractor? What do 23 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 1: you mean, David. 24 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: Yep here you're on my masonry contractor. 25 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: Are you a contractor who's a mason or you a 26 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: masonry contractor. 27 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: I am a masonry contractor. I employed lots of masons, 28 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 2: and I'm the one that generally has to go and say. 29 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: We look at fireplaces all the time and the big 30 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: the biggest things that we find are number One, check 31 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 2: make sure the dampers open. Okay, don't load it all 32 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 2: up with a bunch of firewoods. Light it on fire 33 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 2: and realize the damper is not open. Yeah, have a problem. Yeah, 34 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: if there's any question whether the damper is not open 35 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: or not, gets you a piece of news paper or 36 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 2: a piece of a little piece of a paper sack 37 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 2: or anything and light it and watch it and if 38 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 2: it draws and goes out, then most likely the dampers open. 39 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: The other thing that we encourage people to use is 40 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: good dry hardwood. Don't use time or anything that's real green, 41 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 2: because it'll leave a tar inside the fire box and 42 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: the flu and that's where fires start from. Those sorts 43 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: of things. But people that the real simple and easy 44 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 2: and obvious things you can do. Number one, check your damper. 45 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: You can take your phone, you can chine the light 46 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: back up in there and mash record and if you 47 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 2: see bird nest orb instructions in there needs to say 48 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: you need you can most time you can reach dright 49 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 2: above the damper. That's where they nest on top of 50 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: the damper. You can clean it off with your hand. 51 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 4: And uh. 52 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:05,839 Speaker 2: But if you haven't lived there, or you you bought 53 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: a new house, maybe an older home with a fireplace 54 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: in it, I would check all those things first. And 55 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: if if if you can see light out the top 56 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 2: and and and you don't see a bunch of tar 57 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: build up, you're probably okay. 58 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: But David, I'm going to ask you a question. And 59 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: I understand this is a very naive question, but I 60 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: don't mind asking dumb questions. Okay, So, all right, your 61 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: average fireplace, it's it's brick to the to the naked 62 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: eye inside there. Is it treated with anything else? Or 63 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: is it just brick? Is it is there? 64 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 6: No? No? Uh? 65 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: An average? Well, the last thirty years I've been building them, 66 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: we use a clay flue liner. Okay, it's made out 67 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: of it's it's a it's it's it's harder than a brick. 68 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: It's just it's like a terra cotta blue line. 69 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I would have now, David, here's my question. 70 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: Here's my dumb question. Okay, if I go to a 71 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: pizza joint. Arturo Boada has a little place called Arturo 72 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: Boada's on Del Monti at Voss and it's in a 73 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: little rundown strip center and it's nothing to look at, 74 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: and you go in and it's a little slice of heaven. 75 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: Arturo's a great restaurant tour and kind of the central 76 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: feature of this tiny little restaurant, which he put this 77 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: thing together on a shoe string budget. Arturo was kind 78 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: of at the end of his line, and he for 79 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: the first time he wasn't going to have a big 80 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: fancy restaurant. He had a restaurant downtown that was named 81 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: the top restaurant, number two restaurant in the country. He 82 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: had Arturo's over in Uptown Park. There were times that 83 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: he had some really fancy restaurants. This isn't that he 84 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: did all this on a shoestring budget of himself. But 85 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: in the middle of the dining room there is a 86 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: like a Dutch oven that he uses for pizzas, and 87 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: they slide it on one of those long it's got 88 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: a stick and then it's got a long flat tray 89 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: or whatever that they slide the pizza in there. There 90 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: is a raging natural fire inside. Is that your blinker? 91 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: It's not flasher? Feah, I'm sorry, Oh that's okay. 92 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: So they put that thing in there. Well, I like 93 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: to go in the kitchens and you know the whole thing. 94 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: So I go around to the backside, which is where 95 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: they feed this fire. That fire is licking the dome. Okay, 96 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: it is literally hitting the dome the entire time. So 97 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: here's my dumb question. What is the problem if a 98 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: fire starts up in the fireplace because it is designed, 99 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: it strikes me to control a fire, to handle a fire, Well, 100 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: it's not like something like I don't understand what's it 101 00:06:59,000 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: going to do. 102 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. If it's full of tar, say 103 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 2: just say you're you're burning green stuff and you're burning 104 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 2: pine or something that has a lot of sap to it. 105 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: That sap needs a residue inside, the inside, the inside, 106 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 2: the inside the chimney, and that stuff will catch on fire. 107 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:30,239 Speaker 2: And if by chance, over time there is a crack 108 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 2: in the flu liner or maybe some mortal that fell 109 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: back or whatever. You can cause a fire to get 110 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 2: into the cavity of an attic or somewhere, and it 111 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 2: can really cause a problem. But as a general as 112 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 2: a general rule, it's built to handle the heat. It 113 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: shouldn't be a problem. But as things age, Uh, we've 114 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 2: had some that have been Lightning has struck a house 115 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 2: and it's busts. It strikes a chimney because it's the 116 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 2: tall is part of the house and it will bust 117 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: that flue liner and you know sometimes they have to 118 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: be uh put stainless sleeves in them, or basically took out. 119 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 2: I don't really like working on somebody else's work because 120 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 2: the last guy that worked on someone that's lieful. So 121 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 2: you know, we're gonna make one hundred percent sure when 122 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 2: we check something that we sleep well at night, and 123 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: they do too. 124 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: No, I understand, David, but I need you to explain 125 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: this to me. If I go in, if I go 126 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: in Ramon's fireplace and about I don't know, four feet up, 127 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: I build a fire, and I like that thing on fire, 128 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: so it's not just a smoke coming up. I light 129 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: an actual fire right there. Why is that a problem 130 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: because it is within contained masonry. Hint, the fire just 131 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: rage until it. 132 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 2: It shouldn't it shouldn't be it should just burn itself out, 133 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 2: and it shouldn't be a problem. But that the heat 134 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: of the fire is in the firebox. 135 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:05,079 Speaker 7: And y'all come to get the car. The car is 136 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 7: not here. The car is in the shop and one 137 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,679 Speaker 7: part is at another shop. If y'all want it that bag, 138 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 7: y'all can go pay that man to get it out 139 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 7: and then pay the person to get the other part out. 140 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 7: I mean, because y'all, y'all couldn't be patient. You knew 141 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 7: that we was gonna get it taken care of. So 142 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 7: if y'all wanted it that bad, y'all can go get it. 143 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 7: You pay the man and pay the other man, and 144 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 7: we can leave it as that. Because we're not on 145 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 7: that much on the car. Y'all wanna trip on it 146 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 7: now that we're only got on a thousand or two 147 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 7: thousand on it, So you know what, God bless you'll, 148 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 7: y'all can go pick up the car. So you know what, 149 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 7: give me a car back, and so I will give 150 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 7: you the direction to run. A man is and I 151 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 7: will let him know that y'all gonna be paying him 152 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 7: to get it out because y'all don't be patient. We're 153 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 7: not rich like y'all. That's one thing y'all gonna have 154 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 7: to understand. But one day this year we will be 155 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 7: because we have black Obama. 156 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 6: You'll jump cow. 157 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 2: Boody every days game. 158 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: I wish you to film me doing with Patrick's ways, 159 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: the impersonation, and we could have posted it. They probably 160 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: have it on security camera. That's a good point. That 161 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: is that is a very very good point. 162 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 163 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: Uh, if you go buy that Vincanto, what you want 164 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: to do. The charcouterie is good, don't get me wrong, 165 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: but you want to try the pizza. And they don't 166 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: really pride themselves on being a full blown kitchen or anything. 167 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,319 Speaker 1: I went into the kitchen. It's not a traditional but 168 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: they do have a little pizza they make for those 169 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: of you who used to drink at CA's. I was 170 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: probably there while you were there. Dwayne Hefley had a 171 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: little uh what do you call that thing? Just a 172 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: little you know, has four legs on it and you 173 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: put your toast in it and you could see it. 174 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: It's like like a toaster, but it's not a toaster. 175 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: There's a term for it. Oaster brand. Oaster was a 176 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: brand that made it. Everybody had one. You know what 177 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Okay, So follow me here. You got 178 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: a box, it's rectangular and you got one rack in there, 179 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: but you could put something on the bottom and it's 180 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: about yay white. So it's about eighteen inches across and 181 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: about eight inches tall. Okay, and it would be glass 182 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: and you can watch what you were eating. What toaster oven? Yeah, 183 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: toaster oven. I just couldn't think of the word. And 184 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: what was I talking about? 185 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 6: Oh? 186 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: So inside that toaster oven he had uh because he 187 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: didn't have a grease trap or anything. It's an old 188 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: rundown building and they didn't have a vent hood or 189 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: grease trap or any of that. And they would take 190 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: out a Tatino's pizza and they would slide it in there. 191 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, you've never tasted a 192 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: Tatino's pizza that is so good until you are about 193 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: twelve beers in and there's a hunger that if you've 194 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: been there, you've been there. This is what Waterburger is 195 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: built on. There is a hunger that attaches onto you 196 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: when you have had a bunch of beers with your buddies, 197 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: and several hours have gone by and y'all have had 198 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: a good time and it's knee slapping and you're just laughing, 199 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: and you've gotten money in the jukebox, which they did 200 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: it case and many was the night. There was an 201 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: old lesbian woman that worked there and she hated me. 202 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: I can't imagine why, except for the story of about 203 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: tell you. And just about the time that she would 204 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: declare there were no more pizzas, I would get it 205 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: in my head that I needed a pizza, but I'd 206 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: wait five minutes till after she did it, not on purpose, 207 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: I assure you, and I would ask her to make 208 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: me a pizza and she would declare there's no pizza. 209 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: So I would drunk dolld Dwayne and I said, Dwayne, 210 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: can you make her make me a pizza? And He's like, 211 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: I can't make her do anything. And so at some 212 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: point a few beers and I was that guy. You 213 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: don't have to go, oh, you're an ass. I know 214 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: I'm not telling the story so that I look good. Okay, 215 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: you don't have You're only getting the impression I intend 216 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: for you to have. I'll get twenty emails. Man, you 217 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: sound like a real ass. Yes, that's the point of 218 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: the story. I'm not telling this story for you to 219 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 1: think I'm a nice guy. At that moment, I was 220 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: not a nice guy. So I'd go in the back 221 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 1: and start making my own pizza, and she'd get mad 222 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 1: and eventually and I owe. And it would also go 223 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: like this, I pay you twenty extra, I pay for 224 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: the pizza, and I pay you an extra twenty. I 225 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: don't want the twenty, I pay forty. And at some 226 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: point I'd get up to one hundred dollars, which one 227 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: hundred dollars was a million dollars to me at that time, 228 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: but I wanted the pizza, and at that point it 229 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: really is just a question of really wanting the pizza. 230 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: But anyway, so my point is, you don't have to 231 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: have great food because nobody's coming for dinner when you're 232 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: a wine bar. So you start with the expectation that 233 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: all they have is meat and cheese. And at some 234 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: point where we say, Ricardo, two c's, is there any 235 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: chance you got some melt? Because we've busted this charcooterie apart. 236 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's so picked over, there's nothing left 237 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: it just a board and it's sad and we're having 238 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: wine and it's getting late and you know, we need something. 239 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: And he said, he doesn't call it a pizza. Did 240 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: you hear what he called it? He called it aroma. Well, 241 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: somebody in the group, a chance I think, said uh, 242 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: you have flat bread and he his eyes popped up 243 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: like that was the devil, and he said, no, we 244 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: do not have flat whatever, whatever the thing is with 245 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: flat bread, he is not a flatbread guy. And anyway, 246 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: he brought something out that was for all intents and 247 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: purposes of pizza. He just doesn't call it a pizza. 248 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: And it was delicious. That was the point of that 249 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: whole story. Oh, d Little is the wife of Billy Little, 250 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: and they are the chimney sweeps who were recommended to me. 251 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: D Yes, Sir Ramone said, how come you called it 252 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: not Billy? 253 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 6: Are you? 254 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: You're more kind of the face of the operation. 255 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 3: No, Billy is in the middle of a route right 256 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 3: now and didn't want to leave a customer hanging. 257 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: Even to be on the Michael Berry Show. I feel 258 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: like if he was to say, hey, as you know, 259 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: I'm here because I'm kind of a chimney expert and 260 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: my expertise is needed for the masses on the Michael 261 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: Berry Show right now? Can you give me ten minutes? 262 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 3: Well, you know some customers would be fine with that, Yeah, 263 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 3: but some aren't. 264 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: Did he check? I? 265 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 3: Honestly, I have not talked to Billy this morning. My 266 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 3: office assistant was the one that were you coordinating everything? 267 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: Do you work in the office running the operation? 268 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 3: I have for twenty years that I've been out with 269 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 3: Billy on quite a few and you kind of absorb information. 270 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: But in a patch, could you get up in there 271 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: and do it? 272 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 3: If I had to? I could? 273 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: Okay, have you done it before? 274 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 3: But I wouldn't want right now? 275 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: I got it, I got it, But but you could 276 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: is the point? 277 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 6: Yes? 278 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: Okay? Ramon said that you had an opinion that was 279 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: contradictory of the masonry contractor and you wanted to make 280 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: sure if it was okay for you to come on 281 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: and tell it. And the truth is, we love for 282 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: people to contradict other people because that's good quality radio. 283 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: But before we do that, Before we do that, how 284 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: do people reach y'all if they need a chimney sweep? 285 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 3: Our office number is nine three six two seven to one, 286 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 3: nine seven eight one. 287 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: Okay, one more time. 288 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 3: Nine three six two seven one nine seven eight one. 289 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: And you have a You must have a website because 290 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: I was on it earlier. Let me see if I 291 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: can find that again. Here we are Guardian Chimney suitep. Yes, 292 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: you don't look old enough to have worked there for 293 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: twenty years. Well is that an old picture? 294 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 3: That history is a few years old. 295 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 1: Now it's a good picture. 296 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 3: Thank you. 297 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: Who's that cute little kid that's all dressed up Mary 298 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: Poppin style? 299 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 3: That is our grandson Blake. 300 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:21,959 Speaker 1: Okay, hold on just a second, we're in she's going 301 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: to contradict the guy. It's the Michael Barry shows a 302 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: sweet on the bottom most run No, ey, spend my time. 303 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: So one of our listeners who emails me under the 304 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 1: name gay Dave, who claims to be our gay expert. 305 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: The problem is with gays or blacks, or foreigners or 306 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: women or anything else, everybody thinks they're the only one 307 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: of their type that listens. We got a bunch of 308 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: homos listening to the show. And that's not to insult 309 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: the ones that are like, hey, I'm the official homo 310 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: of the show. Is just I want you to understand 311 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: You're not the only one, He writes, Czar, you came 312 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: so close. You almost had the gayest Michael Berry show 313 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: the other day. Just like David Allen Cole said, you 314 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: were missing something to make it the perfect gay Michael 315 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: Berry show. That was your official gay expert. I tried 316 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: to rectify the situation, and I called at the end 317 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: of the show, but you wanted to end the show 318 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: with poetry, which I admit is pretty gay. But it 319 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: still wasn't the perfect gay Michael Berry show. We can 320 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: try again. If I didn't get a chance to tell you, 321 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: hope you and your yours and all your crew on 322 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: the show have an amazing Christmas. I know I got 323 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: the only present I really wanted in November, Gay Dave. 324 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 1: And then there's a red heart, a baby blue heart, 325 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: and a royal blue heart, and he says I had 326 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: to add heart emojis to gay it up for you. 327 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: And there you go, Ramona, save that right there. So 328 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: when people say, hey, you insult the Mexns, and you 329 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: insult the women, and you insult the Blacks, and you 330 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: insult the Hillbillies, and you insult the homoes, Wait a minute, 331 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 1: you can say all those others would read this right 332 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: here see what this guy wrote. Yep, all right, d 333 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: what did you have to say to contradict the earlier 334 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: masonry guy? Since you and Billy Little of Guardian Chimneysweep 335 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: are experts in the matter. 336 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 3: If you see flames at the top of your chimney, 337 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 3: you have major issues. 338 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, but how come the damn thing can't contain a flame? 339 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: That's what nobody can answer for me. 340 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 3: Because what happens is chreoso builds up. Yeah, and that's 341 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 3: a natural part of using a chimney. It will have 342 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 3: kreosop build up. Christ is highly flammable. If it goes 343 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 3: all the way up your chimney where you're seeing flames 344 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 3: the top, that can catch your roof on fire. 345 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: Okay, now you got me? 346 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 4: All right? 347 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: Everybody tells me, well, because you will cause a fire. 348 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm in that movie Vengeance. As 349 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: to why waterburger is good is because it's good. But 350 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. If the flame leaves the 351 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: actual yes. 352 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 3: Because it's. 353 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: In the business d. 354 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: Well. Some have chases, some just have a regular cap 355 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 3: on top. 356 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: Oh, let me ask you this, do most fireplaces chimneys 357 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: do most of them have something to keep stuff from 358 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: getting down in there from the top. 359 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 3: Yes, you want a cap on it? It's nothing else. 360 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: Let me catch you gut. 361 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 3: I have one. He's just very vocal. 362 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: What's his name? 363 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 3: His name is PJ. He thinks he's a dog. He 364 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 3: was raised by my dogs. 365 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you work out of the house or do 366 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:08,959 Speaker 1: you have a separate office. 367 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 3: The office is in the house, and I've semi retired, 368 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 3: so my daughter runs the office. 369 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: Now, why have you semi retired? 370 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 3: I had about with cancer a few years ago in 371 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 3: complications from the chemo, and everything kind of me in 372 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,360 Speaker 3: for a few years. It is the chemo and radiation 373 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 3: was worse than the cancer. 374 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: Everybody says that, how long has it been. 375 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 3: Well, thankfully it's been about ten years. But I'm still 376 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 3: dealing with the after effects of the radiation. 377 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: How old is your daughter? 378 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 3: She is twenty nine, so she's grown up with us. 379 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: Is she there now? 380 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 3: She is? 381 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: Okay? So what is she She's booking the calls. 382 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 3: She books the calls, does all the paperwork. It handles 383 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 3: ninety percent of the office now. 384 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 1: So when you say the paperwork, how much paperwork are 385 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: we talking about? 386 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 3: Well, with any business you know you have not only 387 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 3: the paperwork from customers, you have tax paperwork. Do you 388 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 3: have the paperwork? Yes, they do, and she just separates 389 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 3: everything on the taxes. I go in every month and 390 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 3: work on that. 391 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: But how do you handle Billy do when he arrives? 392 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: Do they write him a check or Now I've noticed 393 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: a lot of this. There's off the shelf software. Now 394 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: where you from the office. Can you shoot an email 395 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: and the person can click and pay right there. 396 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 3: Well, we have a system. Billy still uses paper copies 397 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 3: because that's what he's used forever, but we have a 398 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 3: system that goes across the iPads. And our technician wants 399 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 3: they're out on a job. After he completes the job, 400 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 3: he'll do everything in the iPad and hit invoice and 401 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 3: it'll send it straight to the customer's email and generally 402 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 3: he'll take payment while he's there. Some that we have 403 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 3: multiple accounts with we will build them, but it'll automatically 404 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 3: send the bill to them. 405 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:52,959 Speaker 1: Do you pack him a lunch and then they can? 406 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 4: No? 407 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: Does he carry a lunch? 408 00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 3: No, he gets to go to Quaterberg. 409 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: Is that what he does every day? 410 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 3: Yeah? They usually go through a drop through somewhere. 411 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: So I don't eat breakfast lunch. I don't eat until dinner. 412 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: But when I did eat breakfast and lunch, I could literally, 413 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: I'm not exaggerating, I could literally eat water Burger every day. 414 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: What's PJ doing right now? 415 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 3: For personally? He's getting ready to attack. 416 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 4: One of the dogs package and you get it all 417 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 4: fiberglass hood with air grabbing scoops mitter, Michael Berry, fucking 418 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 4: Hood Bensonsmobile, Escape from the Ordinary. 419 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: Rag it lone Star stucco rights. Growing up in Pennsylvania, 420 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: my job was always to bring the wood and load 421 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: the fire and keep it going. Love to let it burn. 422 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: Lucky for me, my father, the attorney, represented the majority 423 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: the police force and the firefighters. Majority of the police 424 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: force and the firefighters in our community. We had three 425 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: good chimney fires and they all blamed him, but I'm 426 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: the one that did it. Greg Morgan lone Star Stucco. 427 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: And then there's the office number, and there's Angela's cell 428 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: and Greg sell text preferred you need any stuck o ramon, 429 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: Let's go back to D and PJ. 430 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 3: D yes, sir. 431 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: A lot of people commented by email on PJ. They 432 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: were happy to hear from PJ. 433 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 3: Thank you. 434 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: What kind of cat is he? 435 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 3: He's taking a nap now. 436 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 6: He is. 437 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 3: Just a little, short haired black cat. He was found 438 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 3: on the side of bill wag eight. 439 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: At what age? 440 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 3: He was small enough to fit in the palm of 441 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 3: my hand? 442 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: Were you driving by yourself. 443 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 3: Or actually someone else was? And they turned it into 444 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 3: my bed, who turned around and ask me if I 445 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,959 Speaker 3: would please bring it home because she had brought one 446 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 3: home week prior and was afraid her husband would disown 447 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 3: her if she brought in another one at that time. 448 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: You know, I see these people. My assistant Emily is 449 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: one of these people. I see these people that will 450 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: stop in the middle of the traffic and shut everything 451 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: down for an animal, and I always I would like 452 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: to see I wish I had better access or time 453 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: to study the data, because I'm sure there's a data 454 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: point somewhere, if it's coded properly of the number of 455 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: people who were killed per year rescuing a straight animal 456 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 1: in the middle of a road, I guarantee you it's 457 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a number, it's it's up there, 458 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: and I don't think they understand the risk. But in 459 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: any case, okay, So where did you contradict David the 460 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 1: masonry contractor. I'm not sure I caught that part. 461 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 3: Okay, If it's not an issue with the lining or anything, 462 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 3: it's the kreoso build up in the flu of the chimney. 463 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 3: It needs to be cleaned out. Otherwise, if those flames 464 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 3: spark anything, they're catching a fire somewhere, Yeah, other than 465 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 3: your chimney. 466 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: So listen, I will admit thee I'm a complete rank amateur. 467 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to impress anybody with my knowledge on 468 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 1: fireplaces and all that. So I'm just going to ask 469 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: dumb questions because that's the only way you learn. And 470 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: you've forgotten more about this than I'll ever know. But uh, 471 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: do I recall? It feels like I once read or 472 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: heard or saw that there was something you could put 473 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: in your fireplace and burn it and it would have 474 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: the effect. I know you're going to say it's a 475 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: terrible idea because it would put you all out of business, 476 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: but it would have some effect of cleaning out some 477 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: of that kreosote and things like Is that true? Do 478 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: I recall that correctly? 479 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 3: Actually, Dura flame makes logs that'll help reduce the kreosoap. Yeah, 480 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 3: but you still need to have it cleaned at least 481 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 3: every quart of wood that you go through. 482 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: How much does that cost. 483 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 3: In the Houston area, we charge one ninety that they'll 484 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 3: clean it inside out and inspect everything to make sure 485 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 3: it's safe. 486 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: What does it consist of? 487 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 3: Okay, you have to Marry Poppin's song on and Mary 488 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 3: popping And you see those brushes they're carrying. They're real 489 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 3: stiff metal brushes and it's scraped all the creosote out 490 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 3: of there. 491 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: And what does he doing? What is how's he protecting 492 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: his face while that creosote's falling down? 493 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 3: They should be wearing masks, but they don't always do that. 494 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: Doesn't it get in their eyes? 495 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 6: No? 496 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: Does he ever come home and he's tracking creosote or 497 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: different soot into the house. 498 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: Oh? 499 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 3: Yes, they come home, especially in the hot of season, 500 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 3: they'll come home creosotes streaked all over them and looking 501 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: pretty nasty. They have to get undressed in the garage 502 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 3: on those days. 503 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: Do you have more than one family member that's in 504 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: this business? 505 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 3: Our sons and sons in laws work with them, and 506 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 3: our nephew Charles works with them. 507 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: How much busier are y'all at this time of year 508 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: with the firing up the fireplaces than you are the 509 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: rest of the year, because I read the side of 510 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: the truck and it said, y'all do pressure wash. You'll 511 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 1: do all sorts of stuff, but I assume this is 512 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: probably kind of your super Bowl. 513 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 3: This is our busiest chimney season, and generally we will 514 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 3: only book cleanings during this time of year. If repairs 515 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 3: are needed, we try to put them off until the 516 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 3: spring because they take so much time and it just 517 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 3: depends on how intense the repair is. 518 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: Can you pretty much set back a watch by the 519 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: fact that when the first freeze comes, that's when you're 520 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: going to get all the calls. 521 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 3: Oh yes. Generally we start getting busier about a month 522 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 3: after school starts because that's when people start getting in 523 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 3: the mindset of it'll be cooling off and holidays. So 524 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 3: maybe October the first ish, yeah, somewhere around there. 525 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: And then how long does that. 526 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 3: Go, depending on how long we have cool weather. 527 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: How aggravated do you get at people who call and 528 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: get huffy that y'all can't come out there that day 529 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: because they want to fire up their fireplace. 530 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 3: Usually if you talk to them and explain it. They're okay. 531 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 3: On occasion, you do get some that are ugly and 532 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 3: you just have to be firm and you can't do it. 533 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: Have you ever had to use a curse word at 534 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: a customer. 535 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 3: And attorney? 536 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: Just PJ sitting hind you the whole day? 537 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 3: No, Like right now, he's wrastling one of the dogs. 538 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: He was just napping a minute ago. Literally one minute ago, 539 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: he was napping. 540 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 3: The dog walked by, so he decided to play, Well, you're. 541 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: A treat, what is it? 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