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SPEAKER_02All right, today in the zone, I have a previous guest. He is the author of How to Make the IRS an offer they can't refuse, featured on Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS. Uh name of station. He's been on there. Love to pick his brain. Of course, I'll put a link to the previous episode because there's so many good tips. Is Carlos Samineiego? Carlos, welcome.
SPEAKER_01Keith, good to see you, man. We were just talking about you said it's been three years. I'm like, we just did that last two months ago. How's that three years, man?
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SPEAKER_02I had to listen to the old episode and go, well, okay, well, that hasn't been implemented. We're so worried about, but this has been implemented all sorts of um shenanigans with tax stuff. And and you know, my thing is, you know, networkers they spend so much time and and and money learning skills, creating an income. And I want them to keep as much as legally and ethically as possible. And let's just start right into it. I mean, what is something that every single person can do right away today that most people aren't that just can easily make their life easier on taxes, don't have to think about taxes, make sure they're doing denied like just something like super simple, and of course, we'll we'll kind of go into more details. Like, what's one thing that most people aren't doing that they should?
SPEAKER_01You know what? And I'm gonna talk, uh, assuming you know, most of your listeners are small business owners, network marketers, um, you know, uh have their home-based business. And it's this and it's the simplest thing that they can do, and uh the most important thing. And I'm coming, you gotta remember where I'm coming from. Um, I'm not your ordinary tax guy that, hey, can you do my taxes or do tax planning? I'm literally what I um I actually deal with the problems when you don't do the things right. You know, when the IRS is coming after you for not paying your taxes, for um owing too much taxes or not filing your taxes. So I see kind of the worst of the worst. I I almost say I run an emergency room for tax problems, right? Um, and the number one thing I see with small business owners, um, um, home-based business owners, is they just don't keep track of their expenses. And they're commingling all those expenses into like one bank account. And here's what I mean by commingle. Um, you know, you start your you start your networking business, um, you you you know, you buy your kit, you you you get products, you do advertise, you do a variety of different expenses, and they're just paying it out of their checking account. And then, you know, they get their income and it just they put it in their um, you know, they get their commission checks and they put it in their bank account. And it's what you're supposed to do, but here's what the IRS requires you to do is to keep them separated. And that's just the simplest thing you can do is open up a separate bank account. Doesn't even have to be a business bank account, just open up another bank account, and then all the expense um if you earning income, make sure it goes into that bank account. And if you have any expenses that you have to pay for that business, make sure you pay it with that debit card. And you might be saying, Well, I haven't made any money yet. Well, just take some money that you're investing into your business, pop it into that bank account, and go pay the expenses. Believe it or not, that is the simplest, most important thing anybody can do. Because what ends up happening is tax time rolls around and your accountant says, Well, I say you start or started a network, a networking business, a home-based business. What were your expenses? And they're like, I don't know. Oh, my checking account, and here's the last thing you want, because here's what they will ask you if they're they're doing this correctly. Well, we're gonna have to figure out those expenses. Can you give me all your bank statements so I can go through it? Do you really want your accountant to go through all your personal bank statements to see what food you're eating, where you're shopping at? You don't want to do that. And that's literally what the IRS will do. They'll do the same thing. If you ever audit it, show me your bank statements, and they get to go through all that stuff and they will start asking questions. Well, what was that payment made to? Why did you pay this person? In fact, just yesterday I had an IRS agent say was going through somebody's bank account. They paid money to this person, this person, and this person, and we need to know why they paid them that money and what it was for. That's pretty intrusive. So, so to answer that question, is just open up a separate bank account and keep track of those expenses in that bank account.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's simple. It's it doesn't have to be a new bank. Just go to your exist, log into your existing account, add an account. Like an account.
SPEAKER_01That's all you gotta do. It's so simple, but nobody does it. And in fact, it's one the one of the questions when you're if you're ever audited, unfortunately, they ask, did you keep did you have a separate bank? It's a question. Did you have a separate bank account for your business? And part of that the the questioning is they want to see if you're truly treating it like a business or is it just a hobby?
SPEAKER_02Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01So we we always hear, you know, get business cards, get this. You know, you can have business cards and everything else, but if you're not truly treating it like a business by doing something as simple as having a separate bank account for the business expenses and income, something very simple.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. And it's like most businesses, like they may not make a profit for one or two years, and then all of a sudden your business explodes, and you're like, oh, now I have to no, it's it's already set. You already got the account set up, you already got the card set up, you already got the receipts, um, you know, collected, whatever.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no. It's just that's just a smart move. And the the the the I'll share another one that's really big, and especially uh I remember when I was running my my network marketing business um for years. Um you do a lot of um well, I don't know. You know, here's the thing that a lot of it's done online now. I remember back in the day when we were in the same business, we're driving to hotel meetings, and um it's funny, I was just sharing with my family how one of the first meetings I went to, um, I remember Art Jonak, you know, um brother-in-law, close friend, he said, hey, we're gonna go to a personal development center. We're gonna go see Jim Roan out in Dallas, Texas. Well, you know, that's a traveling expense, right? You got to keep track. Um, so what I was gonna share is that keep track of your car miles. Um, if you're gonna be driving to do go to events, um, something really simple to do with that. If you do a lot of traveling in your car, use an app called mileiiq.com. Um, I share this all the time, mileiiq.com. Um, I have it on my phone and it automatically tracks every every mile in your car. And it's simple as swiping right or left as uh if it's a business or personal, and even with the internal AI stuff that within it, it knows what's a personal drive and what's a business drive after a while.
SPEAKER_02So oh, after a while, the destination okay, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_01Okay, you know, you know, if you're if every every time you're going to the bar, you're saying that that's personal, that's personal, that's personal, it starts to realize more than likely it's personal going forward.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and you have a problem. Okay, so yeah, I know what you said. We're we were talking about travel, and that's the thing, yeah. Yeah, all the travel expenses, and there's a lot of things that people can do. Like a couple of years ago, you know, I had to go to a convention, and of course, you know, you gotta pay for the hotel, you gotta pay for um, you know, the flight and everything, but like all that is ordinary and necessary, or whatever the terminology is. And so at the same time, I was like, well, let's let's bring the family. Of course, I used miles for them because I can't deduct it, and the hotel's already paid, you know, it's the same price for one king bed or two queens. So I was like, that's already deductible. Come on in. I mean, go go ahead and use the the extra bed, you know.
SPEAKER_01Exactly, exactly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you guys will be having fun, uh, but I'll have have my own fun at the same time. But like, all that's like you can you can benefit for so certain things.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, it's funny because um we just celebrated 20 years of marriage a couple of weeks ago. Um, and um that that's where I got this fancy sweater, you know, it's nice and warm for this older guy. Yeah, yeah. Um, but uh I told Liz it's uh and my daughter would make fun of me. It's like every time we go somewhere, she's just like, is this another business trip? I go, of course it is. I will be conducting business where we're going, um, to to be able to um um have a uh a legal tax deduction. Um and my family is coming with me. So yeah, there are strategies behind that. And what you're saying, you know what? Hey, uh, when I go on a business trip, I tend to get not get the king bed. I like to have a double bed, right? Two beds in the room. So, but yeah, you you can definitely take advantage of that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it makes them think too, like, yeah, it's teaching kids whether they go into their own business or not. It teaches kids like be smart with your money.
SPEAKER_01Like, really No, absolutely, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02You know, you're talking about it's been three years, and there's been a whole wave, and it could just be my algorithm, but there's a whole wave of horrible TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube advice on set up this and this and this, and uh there was one the other day said, Oh yeah, set up a business so everything's deductible, like your entire life is deductible. Like, what what like people are because it's free to use all these uh applications, of course, and the people are actually taking this to heart. Like there's so much bad advice out there, and of course, then there's like the uh what they call the reacts video of like tax attorneys saying, like, don't follow this and stuff like that. Yeah, there's so much junk out there. Like, how do you how do you know what's right and wrong?
SPEAKER_01Like, what's the here's the thing um the I and and and this is a big one. The IRS is starting to recognize all the illegal, inappropriate, um, fraudulent tax advice that's being given on social media. Um, and they've already have memos n telling people don't follow this stuff. In fact, it just happened this was about seven months ago, it was the beginning of last year's tax season. We had a um extended family member, right? Not a close family, extended family member reached out to us that they had an over a hundred thousand dollar tax bill. Um what we later found out that and she specifically said it, I followed the advice of a social media, a TikTok person, and um we filed the returns, we got this refund, and we just got a notice from the IRS we owe a hundred thousand dollars. And um, this had to deal with it's called fuel credits. Um, and whether it's fuel credits or something else or starting separate entities, it's just assume what you're uh and I tell people, assume what you're hearing on so um on social media is incorrect, period, or fraudulent, period.
SPEAKER_02Uh opinions, yeah. Horrible opinions.
SPEAKER_01If they're not willing to sign your tax return, um I would definitely not do anything like that. If you if they are not an enrolled agent, CPA, uh a tax attorney that specialize and are signing your return, um, or you're paying them for that legal advice, assume it's just I would not take that whatsoever. Because here's what the problem people don't realize um with tax advice you can get tax advice, you can file the return, and you will hear nothing for one year, two years, and it's typically the third year, and there's a reasoning behind that is the IRS has got up to um once three years has passed, once you filed a return, the IRS really cannot audit a return. So that so that it typically takes them about three years to catch it. Sometimes they'll catch it much faster, at least automated, automated, um, um, their automated system will catch it faster. Um, and in fact, going forward, Keith, the IRS is really using a lot of AI to catch this stuff a lot faster. But up until recently, it's been quite a few years. So you think everything, wow, that was great tax advice. I got a hundred thousand dollar refund um with that strategy, only to find out you have a hundred thousand dollar bill. You well, it it began it gets worse, right? Because you took a hundred thousand, you probably spent the hundred thousand, and and when I say hundred, it whether it's ten thousand, whatever that is, you took it's money, either way, blew the money, now you owe the money with refund, and the IRS is not going to be very kind trying to get that money back. So you just gotta be very, very careful and just assume it's assume it's all bad. It really is.
SPEAKER_02And and I'd imagine like if you're used to paying X amount every single year, give or take, whatever, 10, 20, 30 percent, and next thing you know, you're paying like 90% less. Uh you don't need AI to figure out that's a red flag or something's up, or you got horrible advice, or you're doing something.
SPEAKER_01It's it's yeah, no, it's and it's one of the reasons why when we do returns, we ask for the last um at minimum two years of returns to see what's happened in the past, to see if there's any, you know, hasn't has there been any variance here? What's going on here? Um, so we want you we want to see that. Um, you know, a lot of times people say, Well, this this look, I'm getting these notices, this is what happened. We'll say, Well, give us the last two years of returns, and we're like, Oh, we see the issue here. You you it it like stands out. It's it's scary how how much it stands out. So you just gotta be really careful, really careful.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so is there any like obviously, you know, get your book, uh is there any like things that people can do, like are any people that you follow, or you know what?
SPEAKER_01Here's if you want to follow people, um, I mean, there's some very uh I'll tell you, he's my actual um his firm is my tax attorney. Mark Kohler um is a great YouTube, um, he's an attorney, CPA, um, that understands tax law. He has a great YouTube channel. Um nice. Um, I would definitely um just type in Mark Kohler. Um, in fact, um I I went through his tax planning certification program um quite a few years ago. Uh excellent program. He provides some really good solid information. You can start there, but again, when you're watching these things, um, you want to be looking for are they uh a tax attorney, enrolled agent or CPA? Most of the time, you know what? We're we not most of the time, but we are bound by certain um um rules of the IRS that we can't be giving like false information. Um, so when you start getting tax advice from the 20-year-old um with the Maserati out front with no name, you know, no initials behind his name, I I I'd still I'd be very careful.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. Buy my course.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, it's just it's not a good situation.
SPEAKER_02So oh wow, yeah, and yeah, it's that's the thing, too, is I just even if they don't want to listen to tax advice on a regular basis, subscribe, like if they get advice like, oh, let me let me do a search off of their channel, search within the channel.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. And uh, you know what, and I always tell people I'm the guy you don't want to hire. You you don't want to hire me. Um, you only want to hire me if um you got the uh these um notices from the IRS that they're coming after you. That's when you want to hire me. Um, or you haven't filed your tax returns in years. And talking about that, Keith, I'll tell you this right now. You know, the there's about 11 million people um who do not file or have not filed tax returns in years. In fact, and and you know the story, Keith, is that I went eight years of in my 20s, not filing my own tax returns. Um, this was back when I was working as an EMT paramedic, back when I was involved, heavily involved in network marketing as well. Yeah, um, I I just decided not to file. Um, and and the thing is, it happens. Uh, people say, well, you were a bad person. No, it's just, you know what? One kind of like we just noticed, it's been three years since we last got on a podcast. Is that you know things like that happen pretty quickly. It's like you don't file one year and then two years rolls around, and then you sneeze, and it's eight years later. That's kind of how fast time goes, right? Um, and that's what happened with me. Uh, I went eight years not filing my taxes, almost had a combined um an extremely large tax debt with the IRS and the state of California. And then I ended up getting married to my wife, who's sitting right over here, co-founder of my company, um, and never told her about it. In fact, um, I talk about it in my book, How to Make the IRS an offer they can't refuse. And I actually have a brand new book that's coming out um next week, Keith, on my birthday, um, uh, where I talk about this story. Um, but you know, here's the thing, uh, and it goes back to the non-filers. If you have not filed your tax returns in years, and we talked about this three years ago, that the IRS, we were just coming out of the COVID time frame, it was right around that time frame, and the IRS was really getting ready to ramp up to come after people. Um, and then a lot has happened in three years. Literally, the the IRS, um, instead of um hiring 80,000 people, they ended up firing 50,000 people. And people think, well, you know, this is great, they're really not gonna find me. No, they're actually even getting more aggressive now. But if you have not filed your returns in years, you need to do that now because they um AI is catching these people quite fast. And um, they're coming after people pretty quickly, and just just it's the most important thing you can do. Don't worry about the tax debt. The IRS has a solution for tax debt for anybody, no matter how bad you are, how much money you don't have. What they don't deal with kindly is not filing tax returns. That is you you just gotta get your tax returns filed. And if if you were like me that went eight years or longer, I get I've had people 19 years not file tax returns. Here's the good news IRS only wants six years to get you fully compliant. Um six years to get you fully compliant. So if if you're that person uh maybe watching this, that's something you definitely want to look into. So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean, uh, I think you mentioned the previous episode, you know, they'll work with you on payments and and and things like that. But people think, oh the country needs revenue. That's just how it is. That's the way I look at it.
SPEAKER_01Like that's what it comes down to, you know. But everybody I I crack up, oh uh, here's a new one, Keith. You know, we talk about social media and how it's a how people are being affected and stuff like that. Is that everybody thinks um I and I've had a lot of these just recently, people are saying, hey, I'm not gonna worry about my tax debt because the new administration is getting rid of the IRS and tariffs, it's gonna be replaced with tariffs. Uh this is on my website, tax debt consultant, and I say this this country has survived three major war wars, um, hundreds, or not hundreds, but a ton of different presidents, massive amount of recessions over the over the years, and the IRS is still hanging on. And trust me, the IRS ain't going nowhere. Um, the they are not getting rid of it, they need that rev, they need your revenue. Um, so it ain't going nowhere. So don't think that you can just ignore it because it's gonna disappear tomorrow. It's not because even if they did, even if it happened tomorrow, even if they said, hey, we're wiping out the IRS and shutting down, that's gonna take years for that to happen.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I think news channels are like social media on steroids, like you know, anything that gets attention, anything clickbait, rage bait, everything.
SPEAKER_01So absolutely, and I tell people, yeah, yeah, if they shut down the IRS, it's gonna take a few years, but here's the problem they're gonna take 30%, 25% of your paycheck probably by next week. Um, so next week, a few years, you know. You yeah, play with the time frame there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. The country needs revenue, but at the same time, like that's why I want people to take uh their business seriously, take the deductions seriously. Like every every other business, if you're a restaurant, 30% you're gonna deduct for food because 30% of your cost is food. Like it's the exact same thing. Like you have expenses, you know, but don't pay more taxes than than you should. It's just like in your business, take take take the deductions legally.
SPEAKER_01You know, and here's the thing, you know, um, I'm pretty sure you we have some AI professionals uh listening to this call. And people always call a lot of times I get calls, well, Carlos, what can I write off? Here, here's a simple tool, guys. Just go to ChatGPT and say, I uh I am in X business. What are the top 30, 40 tax deductions that I should be taking that I would probably miss? It will literally knock out every possible tax deduction um in most cases, or at least the most common, that you're they're like, Well, I didn't think of that. Um, be because it's a great tool. It's just use it to help maximize your tax deductions, maximize your income in your business. But um, I use it uh within my business.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. And of course, fact check it at the end.
SPEAKER_01Of course, of course. One of my favorite tools, one of my favorite AI tools is perplexity because it tends to do a very good job when it comes down to researching. Um and it it it just does a lot less. W w what what's the word? Um there's a word when it just makes up AI makes up things. I can't think what it's called.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it just it just tries to make you happy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
SPEAKER_02So okay, so you have your book in is it ebook, paperback? What's the best way? You know, how can people?
SPEAKER_01You know what? The best way to get this book, it's called How to Make the IRS an offer they can't refuse. Ooh, I can't make it here. Um, if you go to taxdebbook.com, you can get this book. Taxdebbook.com. Um, the next big book that's coming out for me is December 10th. It's called Stop Hiding from the IRS. Um, your personal escape manual from the tax underworld. Um that one, I'm actually launching that one on my birthday. Uh if you download this book, you'll get notified when that book actually comes out. And it's free. It's uh um you'll get a free copy of the book, um, an e-copy. If you want the physical book, you can always just go to Amazon, pick it up. Um, but that's the best way of kind of um, you know, um getting my contact information. Um I'll I'll be emailing you some stuff automatically there. So cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, it's weird because yeah, you're the emergency room. Nobody wants to see, nobody wants to do business with you.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no, no. Exactly. That's the weirdest part, you know. Oh no, exactly. But you know what? When you need uh when I was working on the ambulance for all those years, it's like you know, nobody ever wants an ambulance to show up at their house or show up to, but you know what? When you need it, you are so thankful that they are there. Um, because um, you know, I'll I'll share a story kind of um and it's a sad story for for me. Um tax problems are uh the you know, if you start dealing with tax, it it's a very stressful, um almost you feel like there's no way out. And I and I remember I had a friend that lived in Texas um um in this industry. Um he ended up having a medical professional that um ended up having a very six a very large six-figure tax issue. And um unfortunately this individual ended up committing suicide over it. He thought there was no way out. And and I tell everybody, is like believe it or not, the IRS is as much as we hate them, they will work with you. But you gotta work with them. Um, you know, they can't guess what's going on in your life, they have no idea. They have no idea that you lost your job, they have no idea that you're going through a divorce or um or dealing with um a medical issue in your family. Our job is to reach out to them, to share with them, hey, here's what's going on, and here's what they can truly afford or not afford. You know, they actually have options like they will tell you you can't afford to pay us back. So we are gonna put you in um it's called a not collectible status because we want you to get on your feet, to be able to pay your bills, to to be able to survive and get a job and do that stuff. So um it's just important to understand that part of it. Um, you know, it there's always a way out. But the ultimate key is just don't get there in the first place. File those returns, take all the deductions that you can legally take, and um, and listen to people like um Keith and um Keith Schreider and Tom. Dude, your dad, um I love your dad. We we talk almost um every few weeks we'll text back and forth, and he's giving me he's giving me book book tips and writing. He actually just gave me a recent uh book idea that I'm working on as well for um uh maybe next quarter.
SPEAKER_02So oh, excellent, excellent. Yeah, yeah. And remember when you first came out of the old book, you were kind of putting it into the the group pages and everything else like that. Absolutely. And I know that uh you've done a couple of videos, a couple of uh uh podcast things as well. It's it's evergreen, so it's still out there as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I got I think last year I did like 45. Um, no, no, no, just over 50 podcasts. Um and all that information is evergreen, you know, and um you know just type in my name, Carlos Sammaniego E A. Or or go to my website, taxdeckconsultant.com. If you go there, you'll you'll you'll see my contact, but but yeah, and and you know, if any of your readers, if you have um um you know somebody that might be going through this, um, you know, send them my information. I'm be more than happy to talk to them. I I don't I here's the one thing I don't do. I don't charge for to talk to people. Um, you know what? My job is just to see if if they need the help. Um, and um um I I've had a lot of people, I says, there's no reason for you to hire me, period. Um call this number, say this, and they get their problem solved. So cool.
SPEAKER_02There you go. Just like just like the world's supposed to be. You help people.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_02The ones that will do business with will do business with you, and you'll you'll get your name out there and help people out. Awesome. There you go. Okay, well, I know you have a hard stop here, but I still have three more questions. Sure, you got the lightning round. Oh no, I'm good, I'm getting on time. Here's uh question number one. What's like the best tax advice everyone should put into practice right away? Be besides obviously, you know, doing the the I kind of asked this question at the beginning. You know, what else can people do?
SPEAKER_01Uh I think the best tax advice is um is just learn. Learn the basics. Um you know, um, learn understand uh it's it's learn about about personal finances. Um and then the second one is if you're not using some type of like a a simple uh finance manager for your for your home, um get something like QuickBooks or something like that, home QuickBooks. Um it's a real eye opener when you start to realize how much money you're spending on different different areas of your life.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, uh no, that's cool. And yeah, it's it's crazy when you realize where your money's going. Wasn't there is there like an app out there that even like Yeah, I've seen that for automatic subscriptions and yeah, yeah. Maybe I listen to too many podcasts.
SPEAKER_01No, no, I get it, I get it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, know where your money's going. All right. Uh, question number two. I know you've done a lot of traveling, especially with uh you know, uh kid out in the Coast Guard and everything. Where do you want to travel in 2026?
SPEAKER_01You know what? Um my the next four years of my life, I've already said that most of my traveling is gonna be on the East Coast. We did expand our business to the Connecticut, Boston area, um, that general area. But you know where I'm excited? I'm actually doing a workshop and uh going on spring break and doing a workshop in Puerto Rico. Keith, I've been trying to get to Puerto Rico for 20 years. I think one of the last times where we were on a cruise and we ended up getting hit with a hurricane in Miami. Um, so they diverted all the plans and we ended up going different places, but I've never been to Puerto Rico and I've always wanted to go to Puerto Rico. My wife's from um family's from Puerto Rico, so we're going there in March. So super excited for that.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so it's it's a business trip that just happens to land on spring break.
SPEAKER_01But oh, yeah, it just happens a lot. You know, Bella kind of brought it up. She wanted to go to Hawaii from Connecticut. I'm like, that's a long trip, expensive trick. Let's go to Puerto Rico. And she was like, Yeah, let's do it. So, but I am doing I am teaching a class for taxes out there during that week.
SPEAKER_02So okay, all right, yeah. Well, uh, I'll bounce some ideas after we hit stop. So that's good. That's good. I got some food ideas for you. Uh well, speaking of food, what's uh question number three? Last question. Hey, what's for dinner? I know we've been talking uh before we hit record about food, but hey, I I gotta ask you.
SPEAKER_01You know what? Um, I'm really craving some FUD tonight. You know what? Um, I was a connoisseur of pho before the world became a connoisseur of pho. Um I started eating pho like 25 years ago, um, if not longer, almost 30 years ago. Back when pho was like $2.35 a bowl. Um here at a local place here in San Bernardino. Uh, and I'm still addicted. I got my wife addicted, so that's like the ultimate comfort food.
SPEAKER_02So that's actually my go-to, is Vietnamese for my daughter.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she was uh I'm a big Vietnamese food fan, so oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_02Oh well, I had all these leftovers, and now I'm craving it because it's actually cold. Anything under 70 degrees here is like we're whipping out the sweater.
SPEAKER_01I I I I I have a close friend. Um, his daughter is going to um um it's uh Catholic University St. Thomas, there in Houston. Oh yeah, yeah. So yeah, so she's enjoying this weather. She thinks this is perfect weather.
SPEAKER_02So oh, that's awesome. Well, again, Carlos, uh I appreciate all the the awesome tips and of course uh the catch up and everything, and I'll put links to the previous episode, uh, your book. Uh and yeah, make sure to uh get this information out there.
SPEAKER_01It's my pleasure, man. I I appreciate us connecting, man. Hard to believe, dude. This is this is over because I've known you before I got married, so there's like a 30-year relationship here.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, I'm thinking uh late 90s.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um um no, early 90s, buddy. Early 90s.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. The 90s were a blur. I mean, we were younger back then. So I know. Oh, awesome. Well, again, Carlos, uh, appreciate all your time today and uh have an amazing day.
SPEAKER_01Sounds good. Take care.
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