WEBVTT - “I AM A HEARSE ENTHUSIAST” 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.720 Hello, Yeah, this is Dakota. 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.040 Oh hey Dakota, Dakota like this like North and South Dakota. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:12.080 Oh absolutely, what's up Dakota. How you doing today? 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.280 I'm doing pretty good. I got off work. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:15.480 I'm uh. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.840 I'm working on my hearse right now, getting ready for 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.040 Hearst com this weekend. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.799 Shut the fuck up, there is there is no such 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:23.720 thing as hearse. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:28.640 Con dead ass. It's in Denver, Colorado. A few hundred 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.920 hearses go. We have like one hundred vendors, some live music. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:33.720 It's a pretty stick time. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.320 Get the fuck out, you're you're literally dead ass. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.960 Yeah. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.320 Wow. Do you just like I have a question, do 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.000 you work for like a funeral thing or do you 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.440 do you just do you just drive a hearse as 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.640 your personal car? 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.840 I just I drive a hearse as my daily driver. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.880 I work in the halloween industry. Whenever that comes around, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.760 it's like as a scare. And I actually I won 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.240 the hearst earlier this year at a Halloween trade show 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:05.679 and expo. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.560 You won a hearse. What was the competition? 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.600 Yeah, uh yeah. It's just charity giveaway. So you buy 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.840 raffle tickets and all the money goes towards charity. The 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.960 hearse is donated from a funeral home, so it was 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.360 just retired earlier this year, and yeah, they give it 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.639 away and I just got lucky. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:27.600 And this is your day to day vehicle. You go, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.480 you go grocery shopping in this hearse. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.800 Oh absolutely, I was just at Walmart actually buying spray 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:33.440 cans earlier. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.800 Do you get weird looks on the street. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.840 All the time. I mean it's not every day you 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.160 see a hearse. And mine's a little pimped out, So you. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.360 Know, what does a hurt? What do you mean pimped out? 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.000 What is that? How do you pimp out a hearse? 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:51.720 Yeah? 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.560 So I have a bunch of like stainless steel art 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.840 pieces I made on the side, because you know it's 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.120 a big like canvas top, So I have a bunch 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.720 of like flowers and leaves on the side. I have 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.680 a special hood ornament I made with like a bat 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.919 on top of a skull, like its wings out. Yeah, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.320 eventually I'd like to get some underglow lower it, but 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.760 you know, I just got earlier this year, so we uh, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:19.400 we got some time to do that. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:27.959 Hmm. And you say you work in the halloween industry, Yeah, absolutely. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.320 I helped maintain like the Halloween animatronics, you know, like 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.480 the little crappy scary monsters that jump out at you. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.000 And then I'm also a scare actor. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.280 What do you is that your full time job? Is that? 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.880 Like a do you spend eleven months of the year 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.160 preparing for Halloween? 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.519 I wish that's that's a part of the dream. But 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.079 right now I'm a metal artist. I actually make big 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.880 metal cactuses of the full time job. And then you know, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.720 for four or five months of the year, whenever I 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.960 have free time, I help out with our local hont house. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.960 Wow, you're a You're you're a cool cookie, Dakota. This 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.240 is this is fascinating. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.160 Hmm, thank you. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.040 Do you do you ever make like, uh, this feels 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.720 like a burning Man thing like you make? Like you 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.040 ever make a sculpture for that? 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.639 I've I've wanted to. I actually learned about Bernie Man 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.680 through you. I was listening to your podcast earlier and 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.800 y'all were talking about going to Bernie Man. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:36.480 Mhm. So you make big metal sculptures. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:42.920 Yeah, yeah, primarily cactuses. I work for a comp. Oh 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.200 go ahead, no, you go ahead. Yeah, I work for 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.760 a company and all we do is we make metal cactuses. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.640 I do all of their bigger surrar caractices. And you 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.040 were from seven feet up to twenty one feet tall. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.080 So why what you know? What's so funny? As I 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:05.080 love I love the various like things that exist that 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:11.440 keep people employed. You know what I mean? Like like 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.640 like that's such a specific thing that you work for 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.760 a this is a company. How many people work at 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.880 this metal cactus company? 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.039 More than you think? I think right now we have 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:29.479 close to like forty employees. You have with costcos and 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.320 stuff you do, you do a lot of what oh, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.479 I like deals with Costco. So like I I live 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.960 in Kansas, which is such a weird place to have 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.320 a cactus company, and then we ship everything out to 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.440 like Nevada, Arizona, a bunch of like casinos, buyer stuff. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.280 What what is the most okay? Because I the economics 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:58.919 of places is interesting to me. Like I remember maybe 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.279 I've talked about this on the podcast before, but I 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.960 remember I was I went to Coachella one year and 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:13.680 I was driving from Los Angeles to the Coachella Valley 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.919 and along that route is a bunch of like really 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:25.440 really small California towns with like low populations, And I 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.760 saw I was driving and I saw a mattress store 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.919 in this small town, and I was like, how many 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:41.040 people a year buy in this town? Need to buy 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.440 a mattress and go to this place so that it 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.200 can pay rent and pay for all these like employees, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.279 you know what I mean? Like how many? What is 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:57.159 what is the market demand for metal cactuses? 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.560 You you be very surprised, to be honest with you. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.800 So we're constantly like with our bigger sculptures, everything's made 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.599 to order. Right now, we have like a four month 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:14.880 wait on our cerro cactuses, But then we do a 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.640 lot of like high production volume stuff that goes into 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.880 Costco and stuff like that. I mean we just fulfilled 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.719 like a you know, the six thousand count five foot 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:30.200 tall like sorrow cactus order for Costco. So I mean 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.600 we're constantly busy. Our slowless time is January and February, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.320 and even then we're barely keeping up with demand. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.760 Why do why do people want these metal cactices? No offense? 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.279 I don't know, I don't know what they Why do 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.080 people want these things? 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.440 I honestly cannot tell you. I mean it's just the 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.480 art art. It's like, we deal with a lot of 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:58.279 landscapers and you know it just it looks pretty in 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.360 your yard. But our stuff is way too expensive. I 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.640 would never buy anything from us. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.880 I mean, what's a metal cactus? 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:07.160 Yeah? 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.760 What's what's a metal cactus? Run you? 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.120 Yeah? So, like are the cheapest cactus I make is 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.640 a sub foot tall cactus and it goes like eighteen 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.960 hundred dollars. Then our nine foot one goes up to 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.840 twenty five hundred, and then it just goes up from there. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.560 I mean, we have cactices that cost like seventeen grand. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.880 Dakota. Who the fuck is buying these cactuses? 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:30.240 I don't know. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.240 I don't deal with our customers. I just make the shit. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.600 You don't know you? Well, how do you not know that? 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.680 You've never you've never? You just I love you know what? 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.000 Actually it's I actually think it's great that you don't 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:47.320 know that, because you've just been spending years of your 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.200 life making big metal cactuses and not asking any questions 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.000 about it. Really. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.320 I mean sometimes I'll ask, like who bought this big 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.400 order and then they'll just say, oh, some casino and guess, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.440 like all right, that's I guess scared enough for me? 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.840 What what is your what's can? I are you? Is 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.040 it kosher if you plug this? Because I want to look. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.560 I want to see these cactuses. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:13.880 Yeah. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:19.320 Absolutely. Our company is called Desert Steel. Anyway you can 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.640 see oh yeah, Instagram, Facebook. We have a website. Like 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.320 I said, we do a lot of cheaper stuff. I 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.400 just do a lot of the more expensive, lower volume stuff. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.000 So like we I think our cheapest thing is like 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.680 one hundred, one hundred and fifty. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.600 Okay, here we go, and then I'm on your guys 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:41.440 website right now, okay, shop These are all metal cactuses. Wait, okay, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.920 I will say this. These look really cool. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.120 Yeah, they look good. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.120 This is not an ad. By the way, this is 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.520 this seems like a very elaborate ad. I promise it's not. Yeah, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:57.920 Like I'm looking at this five piece Mexican fence post. Okay, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.760 this looks. This looks really cool, But like, who the 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.040 fuck is spending seven hundred dollars to buy this? 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.080 I don't know, you don't know, like it has to 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.120 be really rich people. I mean, I I don't know 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.800 that I've never met the type of person that wants 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.920 to spend that much money for yard art. I mean, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.959 I'll buy cheap stuff that's like fifty bucks, but I 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.280 won't spend anything over like one hundred and fifty. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.040 Now you guys have some cheap stuff. Okay, we got 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.400 to look at this. This is a metally prick metal 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:36.840 prickly pair cactus that's only one hundred and sixty but 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.800 still who I'm looking at the it is three hundred 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.640 and twenty seven reviews. Dude, people are actually buying this shit. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:43.520 This is insane. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.800 Oh yeah, a lot of people buy this stuff. All right, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.320 hold on, which blows me away. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:55.080 Our story. I'm looking at the our story part of 0:09:55.120 --> 0:10:03.760 the of the website. Yeah, and it says our pieces 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:09.840 stand firm through rain, snow, wind and sun and structurally 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.880 should last a lifetime. That's not the fucking story that 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.960 tells me nothing about this, I know. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.920 I mean our our story. I can share some dirt 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.719 about our story because like, our boss fucked over his 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:31.560 brother really hard to make the company. Like there's some dirt. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.000 But I mean, okay, first of all, I'm excited about 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.200 to hear about this because this sounds like an HBO 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.560 documentary in the making. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.040 Oh shit, you're right. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.040 Go ahead break this story. What's the what's the dirt? 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.600 If you're at liberty to say, I don't know, if 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:47.040 I don't want. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:47.360 To get used? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.720 Oh yeah, I am no, there's no way they listen 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.960 to this. So our boss his name is Eric, and 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.520 let's just call his brother Jason, just for the story. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.600 So Eric and Jason were looking at starting the company, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.040 and then Eric stole the plans from Jason and then 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.440 went with his stepdad to start the company, and Jason 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.160 kind of got left in the dirt. So then Jason 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.440 started up a rival company that makes like exclusively palm trees, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.520 and now he's trying to get into the cactus industry. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.600 So you have this family that split apart between Eric 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.160 and Jason because Eric wanted to run off and not 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.520 wait for his brother. So we have a little rival 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:28.600 rival company. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.120 Oh do you have a rival company started by the this? 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:35.520 Yes? 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.760 Oh shit? That actually? That actually is pretty there's a 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.280 fucking metal ca That's so stupid that there's two of 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.360 these companies. I'd give it if there was one. But 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.120 how's how's the brother company doing? 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.319 Uh? I don't know. I hear they pay better though, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.120 So I'm kind of looking at going over there. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.520 Yo, Yeah, that's you know what I feel. Here's the 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.120 thing is, Okay, so your brother basically made a spike 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.440 Not your brother, this the CEO's brother basically made a 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:05.440 spike company. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:07.839 Yeah. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.680 Absolutely, So here's the thing. Here's here's how the code 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.599 of here's how you can benefit is because listen, I 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.520 don't know how much money these people have. Apparently, if 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.160 they're selling this many twenty five hundred dollars cactus, this 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.440 is probably a lot. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.920 But I have a lot of money. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.480 I'm sure they have a lot of money. So here's 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:29.640 the thing. The brother, right, if you already work for 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:35.440 the company that his company exists solely to spite you're 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.439 you're a very attractive laborer, because he would want you 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:44.040 only so that his brother cannot have you. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:44.559 You're right. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.840 So that's that. You're so, you're a you're a You're 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:53.520 in a strong bargaining position here, I really am. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.079 I can make so much more money and fuck over 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:56.880 my current company. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.640 Do you not like this current company? He seems like 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:01.360 you don't like him. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.200 Uh, management wise, it's kind of shitty. Uh. People wise, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.000 it's pretty cool. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:08.400 Okay. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.480 Yeah, it's a job at the end of the day. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.760 Okay, I can tell you don't like it, because you don't. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:20.160 You don't seem the way. The fact that you're talking 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.280 about all of this on the podcast right now makes 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.160 me think that you're like, you just have this thing 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.120 of like they're probably not going to hear this, but 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.760 if they do, I don't fucking care. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.040 Yeah, I'm kind of looking to spice up my life 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.320 a little bit. So if I get fired, you know, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.280 it is what it is. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.320 Okay, great, I'm I'm happy to help you get fired. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:41.079 Thank you. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.560 What where did you hear that the rival, the brother 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:45.560 company is paying more? 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.360 I heard from my uh the plant manager, because we've 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.240 actually already lost one person over there, and I was 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.680 just talking to a manager about it, like, oh yeah, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.000 they're paying a little bit more because he knows I'm 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.920 unhappy and he's just a genuine cool guy. So like, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.319 if there's a better opportunity, you taking it. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.880 So what's the what's your what's your boss's name? The 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.480 guy who wins the company or you give a fake name. Eric? 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.280 Is he pissed? Okay? Whatever is he? Is? He pissed 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.760 off that that that his brother took took someone? 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.360 Uh? Yes, and no does. It really doesn't. Eric is 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.240 rarely there, so it really doesn't get to him. But 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.200 I know he found out. In the day he found out, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.720 he was absolutely pissed. So I'm just gonna say. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:36.800 It was that. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:42.160 But here's the thing is this guy Eric, I don't 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.160 know him, and maybe he's maybe he'll listen to this 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.840 some day, but he should. I can't imagine him living 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.600 a life where he's pissed off about anything, you know 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.120 what I mean? Because let me and here's why, and 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.960 here's why. Here's why I say that. Here's why I 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:02.720 say that is like, look, if you and I say 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.280 it by the way I want to. I'm just I'm 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.920 gonna say this from pure personal experience. Okay, if you 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:18.320 become if you start a successful business doing something really stupid, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.800 like like like dressing up as a gecko or selling 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:31.440 twenty five hundred dollars cactuses, at a certain point you 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.200 have to go the fact that I was ever able 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.920 to do this in the first place is a hilarious 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.160 cosmic gift, you know what I mean. So, like, so 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:48.320 like if your if your brother poaches your golden Cactus company, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.080 you gotta just be like we had a great run 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.800 on this stupid cactus company. None of this should have 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.480 ever worked. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:58.920 You're so right. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.240 There's no reason. There's no reason. We live in a 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.920 there's no reason this guy should be able to sell 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:13.240 twenty five hundred dollars colding cactuses. I mean, I'm just bullshiting. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.360 I'm I don't I don't mean any of this, but 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.320 I mean, I kind I also do a little bit, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.560 but he should. It's just funny. It's funny. It's just funny. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:26.800 It's I'm gonna keep looking at this guy's website. Where 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.160 the fuck, How the fuck is he doing this? How 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.440 do you get started with this? Sane? 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.040 I want to go to art shows. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:41.360 Look at Jesus fucking Christ, Look at this, dude. Look 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:47.280 at this Desert steals metal Joshua tree. You can buy 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:55.440 a metal Joshua tree from this website for five thousand 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:01.440 dollars and it has twenty seven reviews. Twenty seven people 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:02.040 bought this. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.040 What a surprise you if we're constantly selling them like 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.560 we're behind on those two. We have three dedicated workers 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.840 only doing the Joshua trees and we're still behind. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:18.720 Who the fuck are these? Look at this? Elena L. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:24.879 Verified buyer ur Hoa sent us a nasty message for 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.960 planting it without permission. We felt very smug when we 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.520 told them that it's a metal sculpture and thus not 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:40.760 under their jurisdiction. What a life this person lives. What 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:45.920 a life to write a review about the five thousand 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:51.040 dollars Joshua Tree, This is so funny. This is insane. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.080 Hold on, that's not even the most that's not even 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.439 the most expense. What's the seventeen thousand dollars? 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:56.720 One? 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:57.879 Uh? 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.320 Yeah, So that one is special order. If you under 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:06.800 serraros on our website, then you can go there's like 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.399 two options, one for torch cactuses. They are once for 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.959 like normal cerros. That's all the cactuses I make, and 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.120 on our website we only go up to fourteen feet, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.199 but we do a bunch of customer orders for a 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:19.560 seventeen foot cactus. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.560 All right, here we go. Yeah, we got a sagur 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:29.560 Sagurro torch three hundred and sixty nine dollars, five hundred 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.960 and ninety four reviews. Yeah, by the way, the one 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.800 by the way, so they're they're all five star reviews. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.560 They're basically one hundred five star reviews. So do you 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:43.480 feel proud about that? 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.320 Uh? Yeah, yeah, I used to make them, and uh 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:49.920 I wish I could say I give a fuck when 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.440 I made them. But they're pretty cool I have to 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.160 do at my house. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.840 Okay, look, oh wait, okay, all right, here we go. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:06.320 This is a metal cactus, seventeen feet high, eleven thousand dollars, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.280 fifty two reviews. I need to read these reviews. I 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:10.879 need to know who these people are that are buying 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:16.560 this cactus. This is a great website. I could spend 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.760 all day on here. Someone said, someone just wrote worth 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:31.000 the money, great quality. This is crazy. How much does 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:32.119 like a real one cost? 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.520 I got no clue, but I know that you have 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.879 to like care for them along they look forever and 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.879 they take forever to grow. So I just know you 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.640 need to like buy an adult one, which are that's 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.359 pretty expensive, or you can buy a baby one, but 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.639 then you know, by the time you're eighty, you'll probably 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:51.600 be like four feet tall. 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.720 I'm truly agast at the existence of this company that 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:02.439 you work at doing great. They're doing great. Look at 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:06.320 this they loo and nine point I swear on my life, 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.520 this is not this is not an advertisement. I swear 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.680 in my life it's not I really if if you're 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.680 asking me, I my I don't think you should buy these, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.359 but I I'm I am excited, not because and no 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.400 offense to you, de Cooda. I'm sure that they are 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:28.800 great quality products. I'm sure that they're great, but I mean, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.600 this is insane that this exists. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.040 Trust me, no offense taken. Like I said, I would 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:34.920 not buy them either. 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.600 Do you have any I mean you make them? Do 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:39.560 you ever you keep any? 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.399 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I take home like the fucked up ones. 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.520 So yeah, I got like a seven foot one. I 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.399 got few five foot ones I got. I remember one 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.719 day I took like fifteen hundred dollars worth of product 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:53.879 home just because it was all fucked up. That was 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:54.400 a good day. 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.320 Why don't you get into the business, Dakoda. I feel like, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.680 if you're the one making the fucking thing, why don't you. 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.840 Just you know, uh yeah, they did like a fuck 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:06.480 ton of patents that's why. 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:12.680 Oh okay, yeah, well I got that ship walk down? 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.960 Are you not? But I like, I don't know. If 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:17.960 I were in your position, I would just be like 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.440 I would be like, wow, people will spend a lot 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:26.800 of money on again, no offense. I'm sure these are 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.720 very well crafted. I really, I truly, I'm sure that 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:36.040 they are a great product. But are you not? Are 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.080 you not? Are you not at this? Are you not 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.520 at this job? Being like I have the skills to 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.600 make stuff, and I am seeing firsthand that people will 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:52.600 spend exorbitant amounts of money on like random stupid things. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.440 Are you not? Are you not inspired by this? Are 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:59.919 you not? Like, let me go start a make go 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.320 old and shrimp that people can buy or whatever. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:08.720 I am. I am very inspired by it. So, like 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.760 I said with my hearst, like I made stuff. I'm 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:16.000 a metal artist by trade. Before I got into the 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.320 cactus business, I was a metal artist at like a 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:23.280 handblown glass shop. And then yeah, now I'm in the 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:27.040 cactus business, I guess. And in my free time now 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.960 just make like metal art pieces. And uh yeah, slowly 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:33.160 we're making movies. 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:35.760 You're making movies. 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.320 Yes, me and my best friend we just produced a 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.919 horror movie for Shutter coming out this December. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:43.879 Oh cool? 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:46.480 Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:50.800 Cool is it is it? Did you guys? Uh uh 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:52.159 write it together? 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:53.520 Yeah? 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:55.920