Life to the Max Podcast
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Luxury Mobile Car Detailing with Sergio
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Have you ever faced challenges that seemed impossible to overcome, only to find the strength to push through and come out stronger on the other side? Join us as we sit down with the inspiring car detailer, Sergio, who shares his stories of resilience and perseverance against all odds. From getting pulled over with a suspended license to being evicted by his own roommates, Sergio's determination and outlook on life serve as a reminder that every day is a chance to make the most of what we have.
As if losing hard earned money wasn't enough, Sergio also details his experience of being evicted from his apartment, after his roommates changed the locks and took all his belongings. We discuss the importance of understanding the law and the consequences of being unprepared, as well as navigating conflict with maturity and kindness. Sergio's experiences provide invaluable life lessons on facing challenges head-on and finding the silver lining in even the most difficult situations.
But it's not all heartache and setbacks - we also delve into the fascinating world of car detailing with Sergio. Learn about the meticulous process of steam and shampooing, the use of chemicals and extractors, and the psychology behind shiny and matte finishes. You'll walk away with a newfound appreciation for the art of car detailing and the satisfaction that comes from a job well done. So don't miss out on this incredible journey of personal growth, perseverance, and the power of living life to the max.
Life to the Max
Speaker 1Hello, uh, a, a A. Uh, me and Max, we get paid. What is this guy's heart? We get paid A A. Let him hate. That's what we do. So, as fuck, do if you in a truth, uh Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. You mean it. Ha, ha, ha, ha ha. You mean it. You mean it Me and Max In a cunt. We don't give two shit and we don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3That's what we do.
Speaker 2And shit the truth.
Speaker 1We live in life.
Speaker 3To the max. To the max, i'll be smoking shit. It's a drink. We live in life.
Speaker 2To the max, just one.
Speaker 3Ha, ha, ha ha ha. The fruit and the fucking sausage. That's what we do. I don't like fucking the make of. That's what ended up, really like you and me. Ha ha, ha ha ha. That's what the powder actually were, yeah, oh well. Well, let's get this. Let's get this y'all.
Speaker 1Alright world. That was Max monologue and that shit for six minutes about the military. We're back again on another episode of life to the max. Yeah, it's the Quadfather. It's your boy, eric Dutcher, aka Eradic. Quadfather's name is Max Millian Gross. In case y'all don't know, we got a special guest today. He got my car squeaky clean. He got it shining with the sun out today. Welcome Sergio on the podcast. He be detailing the shit out of cars independently, ain't that right?
Speaker 4Hey, y'know, it all depends on what type of car it is.
Speaker 1And we gonna get right into your interview Right after the intro.
Speaker 3Hey, what's up world? You know a lot of bad things can happen. Shit happens, you know, and you can eat your life and you can just like sink down and not be nothing. But you know what? I'm paralyzed for a neck down, breathing through a machine that does stop me from following my dreams and doing what I love to do. I don't got an excuse, and neither should you.
Speaker 1Damn He be dropping that intro heavy on people. That hits bro Now one, just like I might cancel the podcast right now and just go to the gym right now.
Speaker 4It motivates you, it gets you moving.
Speaker 3For real. Honestly, You want to get the blood pumping right.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, definitely What's it called? It gets you drunk.
Speaker 3I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 1Yo tell the people about your day today, Sergio.
Speaker 4Can I cuss Or no? Yeah, It was fucked up, man. I was about to start my day off. you know my first deep sleep.
Speaker 3What was fucked up? How fucked up was it?
Speaker 4A thousand dollars fucked up.
Speaker 1You lost a thousand today.
Speaker 2Man just in a quick G.
Speaker 1You lost a K Hour. You lost a G. You lost a K.
Speaker 4Man, it was you know the max. it ain't nothing For regular people, me.
Speaker 3Why do people say that My house isn't that big? Why do people say that?
Speaker 1Look at his shoes. You got pillars behind you. Max, We're inside. Percules couldn't knock this bitch down, Max yeah, maybe I am Hercules.
Speaker 4Man. his driveway is almost, i guess, a block down, basically a block.
Speaker 1The driveway is falling apart, so But length wise, it's pretty long.
Speaker 3That's funny.
Speaker 1So tell people how you lost this thousand.
Speaker 4I was going on my first detail appointment. I ended up, you know, cruising. I was cruising with traffic. I don't know where I see flashing lights. I turn right is what it is. He tells me I'm doing 80 and a 45.
Speaker 1Isn't that technically a felony.
Speaker 4Yeah, i think it's over 24 or 26 miles an hour. You're getting booked right And so my license is suspended. He gets me out of the car. You know what Get out Your license is already suspended. Damn, so I knew, but he still made it here fellas.
Speaker 3That's a total Mexican move. You have to suspend. We don't discriminate.
Speaker 4You have to suspend my motor.
Speaker 1He's talking shit about Mexicans.
Speaker 4You have to suspend my motor. Trans breaks everything. I am not going to stop driving. We got to make that money every day.
Speaker 3Keep moving forward.
Speaker 4Like Max said, you have to move on.
Speaker 1I would not be able to live with that period.
Speaker 3He doesn't have any excuse, but he left out some details.
Speaker 1people, Where did you get pulled over?
Speaker 4Literally five, four minutes away down the street from Max's house.
Speaker 1And then he asked for the address and he says, yo, I got pulled over on this road.
Speaker 4Literally in the police station is in front of Max's house. I had to walk for about an hour to go to the closest ATM. Come back, pay the fine, come to find out. At the end of the day, Max lives literally across the police station. That shit is crazy. That's messed up, man.
Speaker 1It's my personal security. Yeah, Max chose this house just strictly because all he needs to do is roll up the window and be like hey, officer, So what's going on? I need some help.
Speaker 3There's a heart here. She wants to watch you look like she was in what she looked like.
Speaker 1This is not what I ordered, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4What's it got, but it was expensive. An expensive.
Speaker 1Yeah, man, we get knocked down. Man, life throws us, hurdles It can't stop you though. You got to keep moving forward.
Speaker 4You have to appreciate every day As long as we wake up, you're winning. That's what matters.
Speaker 1That's what he was telling himself, fellas, when he got right back behind the steering wheel, when he got right back. I'm bringing this footage to the cops right across the street. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4He's got a piece of shit.
Speaker 3The cop told me.
Speaker 4He said he sees me driving, it's automatically.
Speaker 1Officer Roy Nelson, how much will you give me if I turn somebody in for you?
Speaker 4Man and then it was messed up because I get pulled over everything. I get the tickets. I didn't have my insurance with me. I get a ticket for insurance and suspended. My gates were busted. I get in the squad.
Speaker 3Dude, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 4I just moved.
Speaker 3I just feel like I'm white. I got the insurance ready. I got my license ready.
Speaker 1Before the cop steps out of his vehicle, he's ready Like he's playing Yu-Gi-Oh or something.
Speaker 3He's like license ready. I'm like oh, you already have it.
Speaker 1Are you Tom?
Speaker 2Gross's son.
Speaker 1You can take this bag.
Speaker 3You're going very away. You're just swerving between fucking waves.
Speaker 1Smells a little bit like alcohol. Maybe you should spray some air for us, you can be alright.
Speaker 3Just let it go. But you are driving without insurance, driving a car without a license. How dare you.
Speaker 4Hey, man, this money. You got to get this money one way or another And then, like you said, you wake up. You got to keep moving forward.
Speaker 3If you crash into my car, I would find some. I would literally hire someone to break your kneecaps.
Speaker 1And then he's going to get up. Next. He's going to be like I still got to get this money. I was in trouble. Definitely It was a car I'm not going to detail on these cars.
Speaker 4I just got into an accident. It's my fault. Never. What's it called? I just got into an accident a month ago. Somebody hit you. I was going straight down the street.
Speaker 3I bet you wish you had that insurance.
Speaker 4I didn't even have to cover anything. What's it called? Their insurance covered everything.
Speaker 3You said your insurance. My insurance.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 4I do got insurance, i'll see.
Speaker 3So it's imaginary insurance, not all.
Speaker 4Mexicans say God's my insurance and everything.
Speaker 1You guys heard that one before. It makes sense.
Speaker 4When they tell you oh, you got insurance here.
Speaker 3We don't discriminate.
Speaker 1Finish your story.
Speaker 4I've only heard Mexicans say that. That's why I say it God is my insurance. That's all they said.
Speaker 1Now you heard a Puerto Rican say it. I'm going to carry that. God is our insurance. God is our insurance.
Speaker 2He's a little winger, i'm going to have to do some editing on this podcast. He said oh yeah, he's going to say it.
Speaker 1Anyways, world. I met Sergio actually via Snapchat, because his screen name is luxury car detail And I was like you know what I need, my car detail. Hit them up, how much you charge, didn't even know who was behind the Snapchat?
Speaker 3Are you talking about the GMC or the Yukon?
Speaker 1What was the first car I brought you? The white Nissan Toyota. I brought him a Toyota.
Speaker 3OK, No the.
Speaker 1Nissan. The Nissan Animal one Remember Were you guys, it was a Toyota, bro, it was a Nissan, it was a Toyota, i promise you.
Speaker 4I'll pull it up How you going to tell me, Anyways world.
Roommate Finessed and Stole Belongings
Speaker 1This man cleaned my car Second car detail that we got on the podcast And I was like you, trying to get on the show, And he told me he's like, yeah, He's like, I actually got a story to tell. He told me that he was living in a location You can correct me when I'm wrong And the people that also lived with you, Oh you were going there, It was man, finish, finish, finish my story. They finessed everything.
Speaker 4I.
Speaker 3Like flexing and finacling Background knowledge.
Speaker 1Sergio has an independent business detailing cars out of his van that he got pulled over into today.
Speaker 4Made no money. lost money, Do you sure?
Speaker 3Just offer the officer like hey, man, I'll tell you, i'll detail your squad car.
Speaker 1So what happened at your?
Speaker 4previous location. I was living there for about six months. You know I'm a single father. I was there, I'm renting out a room And I was with roommates, Venezuelanos, and first Wait what?
Speaker 3What do you say?
Speaker 1Is it the last name.
Speaker 4No, that's their brother from Venezuela.
Speaker 3In Mexico.
Speaker 4No, it's Venezuela. Oh, they're Venezuela, yeah.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, they're going to fuck you over. I've been fucked over by a lot of Venezuelans, but you continue.
Speaker 1I can't count how many Venezuelans I met, Yeah go on And what's it called.
Speaker 4So I left Saturday early five in the morning, started detailing at six, come back home, all locks are changed, everything's changed. I was like, okay, what's happening, you know. But the day before that I got into it with one of the roommates. He, he wanted me to detail his car for free, you know. I was like, okay, no, i said, does it go like that? You know, i got money to be made, i got to pay rent, i got to pay bills And I told to the next day.
Speaker 3How do you come up to use like yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you detail my car, you like yeah. Man like yeah, for free.
Speaker 4Oh, what's it?
Speaker 1Yeah, he said kind of like how Max goes to his tenant upstairs and he said he's a barber and he's like yo cut my fucking hair for free. You live in my house, Cut my hair for free. I want three lines on the side of my head, Do it?
Speaker 3Two lines.
Speaker 4Um, i came home, locks were changed, everything was changed. I was like, okay, you know, let me go in through the window to my room. I go into this room, this man one of the roommates is smoking a joint in my bed with all my stuff is gone My shoes, shirts, everything. Gangster your shit and chill, finessed everything. So from there, i had a screw. I had a screwdriver in my hand, had a couple of thoughts. You know different routes. He was authoring the screwdriver mix.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 4And then after that, like I chased them down You know where's my shit, where's everything at, i'm a color cops, i'm a color cops column. You know, i don't care Where's my stuff, like PS5.
Speaker 3Do you have a PS5, PS4?
Speaker 4Oh yeah, I had a PS4. My kids clothes, my kids toys, my clothes, my bed bedroom, like everything.
Speaker 1I'm talking about like they got a U-Haul truck and just dumped all your shit. So like who?
Speaker 3would they sell it? They got goodwillers, they threw it away.
Speaker 4One of the other guy. One of their friends reached out to me like four months after, literally last month, he reached out to me and said hey, you know why didn't you do anything legally? And I'm like it's not worth it. I can start over. You know, money's not a thing, It was all material things, But they were shitting bricks. Right after that I left. There was nothing I could do. They literally took all proof that I had that I lived there, Gone None of my stuff, Nothing was there.
Speaker 3What No snap shots?
Speaker 4I showed them, I showed the cops the receipts that I would sell them money for the rent and I would put rent money.
Speaker 1Was it kind of under the table, like you moved in with these guys, kind of like officially?
Speaker 4Oh, yeah, yeah And, but I would sell them.
Speaker 3How do you know these Venezuelans?
Speaker 4Through a mutual friend.
Speaker 3Mutual friend Yeah.
Speaker 4So it was all good until that. Last month It all started with the landlord wanting money from my business So he would see how many cars I would bring in. He started telling me. He told me when he seen my brother in like 10 cars in one day. He said I want $100 from each car you bring in.
Speaker 3Bro, you should have just went to like a parking lot, Like just hey, I'm gonna detail the car here.
Speaker 4Well, i didn't have any. What's it called? my van broke down at that for a month, so that's what I was doing it from.
Speaker 3You can't show people what you're earning, bro.
Speaker 4I didn't tell him how much it was or anything, And he said I want a hundred bucks strictly From there. It all just started going downhill. The landlord came in knocking doors down and that's when I got my, my concealing carry, my Ford. So I told him you know, next time don't come into my house.
Speaker 1There's a difference in a concealing carry and a Ford. Oh no, i had both I had both.
Speaker 4So I told him you know, next time don't come in here like that Barge in, I'm sitting in a pop of cappin' his ass in his house.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, what's it called?
Speaker 1Well, unofficially living on his property, I had the I don't know how it's going to stand in court.
Speaker 4Oh, the cops came and everything And they said I had to have it right. Really, yep Cause all my belongings were there. They seen my belongings Shout out to the cops. They seen all my belongings Once. they didn't they all my belongings were gone.
Speaker 1Sergio called the cops. I got to your license. He's like oh.
Speaker 2I got.
Speaker 4I got this.
Speaker 1You ain't stupid.
Speaker 3I'm sorry. It seems like your license is expired and it's not good.
Speaker 4Man, i even I got arrested that day too for having a warrant. Damn, i'm telling you, i don't get pulled over. I haven't got pulled over in three years, literally three years, and this was one in three years.
Speaker 3What was a warrant out for murder?
Speaker 4Man, it was for not showing up to court for a traffic ticket.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, So kind of like kind of You know he's not going to show up to court for this. the speeding ticket either, fellas Cause he's got money to make.
Speaker 4Definitely, You know every day. I'd rather make money than lose money.
Speaker 2Your honor.
Speaker 1Sometimes those court fees are bogus though, for real, just just the court fee $300 just to step in the room.
Speaker 4That's crazy, and then those legal aid attorneys that just, oh yeah, i think you should be guilty, just say you're guilty, just for the youth for them to tell you that they charge you 400 bucks. It's, it's crazy.
Speaker 3See, I've never been in a courtroom. It's probably cause I'm white, but I've never been in a courtroom.
Speaker 4Cause you have your license straightened on your insurance. That's what.
Speaker 1It mind boggles me that you didn't, That you didn't try to go after them legally. You know what was your major thought process that made you feel like just letting go and continuing what you're doing?
Speaker 2For me. You know making that money back.
Speaker 1It took everything, bro. That's more than just a price tag. That's principle, that's that's personal disrespect.
Speaker 3You're taking my kids clothes, i think. I think it's probably like the attorney would probably cause some money. You know it's like to sue.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, but what's it called? It took a lot, man, it's honestly. I had one time I did, you know, stopped by see who's there. Bad thoughts came into my head, but I just decided you know what? What would? what's the best thing to do? Drop it and move on. I knew he was going to say it.
Speaker 1He's going to say it.
Speaker 3Oh Jesus, yeah, you were going to say it. You were going to say it.
Speaker 1He was going to say Jesus is my insurance. You're going to break in that bitch like a Kool-Aid man.
Speaker 4I never knew what happened.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, what's it called? Yeah, i just. my reasoning behind it was just, you know, drop it. I had money for another apartment. Good thing I had cash on my wallet at all times, because I did notice a day before it happened I did notice a hundred bucks went missing from my wallet And that was crazy.
Speaker 3They were just. they were just. I got a secret. It was me. I stole it, I drove my wheelchair out there and I was able to find out the dog to open up your wallet and take the money and put it in my crotch and I left. It was me.
Speaker 4It was. It was very weird, though.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's a weird.
Speaker 4But the whole situation besides Matt, it was, I feel like you know how, Max we were talking before it all started on. The podcast started on. God puts you in some situations that you can overcome.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4I feel like he put me in one of those situations to get over because I wasn't thinking about moving out. Honestly, you know, i was thinking there, live there for about another year. But from there I moved up, got my own place, got an apartment, you know, and then my kid had his own room. Now we're all good. Now you know Every thing happened. I believe in everything happens for a reason. Yeah, we heard that hundreds of times. I'm a podcast.
Speaker 1That's one of the solidified slogans on this podcast. It's honestly true. It's about how you handle the bullshit. You know what I'm saying. Definitely Are you gonna let the bullshit turn you into bullshit. All right, it was what happened to you. Gonna make you turn into a fucking demon and running that bitch and lay out some motherfuckers, steal some shit back, make you just as bad of a person as they were.
Speaker 2Yeah, And where are you?
Speaker 1gonna walk away, let that shit ride. you know bullshit And you're gonna make yourself a better person.
Speaker 3I mean, i think maybe he thought about you know, like you know, popping a cast, capping their asses, but he was like, oh, i guess I'm gonna go to jail and I'm not gonna be able to take care of my kid.
Speaker 1But we all gotta go through. It right, There's all types of assholes around us.
Speaker 3You know it's like comparing contrast. You know, like pros and cons are a pro, I can fucking knock this dude out and he's done it, And maybe he becomes paralyzed like Max because he stole my money and God, I'm going to jail.
Navigating Conflict With Maturity and Kindness
Speaker 4It was. I feel like it was more of my kid and becoming, not becoming a monster in my kid's eyes. You know it was more showing of maturity and moving on from something that could have escalated into me going into life. Yeah, to jail, you know. So it was more of let it ride. God will serve him in a silver platter, max.
Speaker 3So you know, there's, like I say, like there's men and then there's apes, but we're both inside of each other, right, and apes can do whatever they want. They can go fuck around or whatever they want. They can like fucking, kill their people or whatever, and like you have to like fight the ape inside of you and still become, still be a man, because when you become an ape, you become a monster. You just do whatever you want and you stay, you kept your composure and you're like you know what? I'm going to keep being a man.
Speaker 4And that's what I believe, that that's what's life. That's what's life about, that's, you know, 100% I believe in be nice to everybody. you know, no matter what you're going through, love everybody around you, no matter if, let's say, somebody's in. you see somebody in the road tells you, fuck, you, have a good day. you know, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2Simple, so kindness.
Speaker 4Yep, perfect Cause what you, being dick you know, going back and forth with him. what does that do?
Speaker 1That's throwing gas on the fire Max Just have love for everybody.
Speaker 4Treat everybody the way you would like to be treated.
Speaker 1But sometimes I feel like sometimes violence is necessary Indefensive purposes It happened to me once, I believe a week ago. I had a. I had a-. Everything's so recent. Chris, can you let Lilia out please? So you had to beat somebody's ass last week. It all happened like this, but he still got scabs on his knuckles, max, oh no, what's it called. I had a my kid got punched in the bus.
Speaker 4It was the downstairs neighbor And I went to talk to the kid's dad, you know he told me, you know that's what your kid deserves. So he pushed me And I had to get him to get me out of there. And I said, you know what, socked him right in the mouth, you know in the mouth, grabbed him, body slammed him And then from there I grabbed him by the head, you know, got him in a headlock And out of nowhere his wife comes out, tries to hit me with like a wooden spoon, my girl.
Speaker 3Out of nowhere grabs her from the hair And it went-. Oh, that's really. You see, she thinks you're a child getting fucking punished. She's like get over here.
Speaker 1Is it a big ass wooden spoon?
Speaker 4It was like one of those cooking spoons to smoke And out of nowhere That's all she had.
Speaker 1She was over there mixing the salt I don't know. She looked up the window, seen her main game be. That's all she had. She already had in her hand. She ran out with it.
Speaker 3I definitely got the wooden spoon. I was like, okay, we'll continue Yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, she started hitting me in the head with the spoon right And after that my girl sees that Oh my God, that must have hurt so bad. I almost got a concussion.
Speaker 3Wait what.
Speaker 4I almost got a concussion. You know Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait, wait, wait, wait the spoon.
Speaker 2What the fuck.
Speaker 4After that my girl comes out of the truck and just snatches her, i'm telling you, just one-handed, slams her into the ground And after that she tried to His wife ran away And after that I tried to get into the truck and the guy comes with a glass bottle and tries to say you know, i'm gonna kill you. And I tell him you know what Is this like at a bus stop? No, it was where I live, literally because it was. It all happened Because his kid punched my kid.
Speaker 1And your son has the same. Like they get dropped off on the bus and so on.
Speaker 3I mean, like what were you doing? I was asking him like were you gonna be? like, hey, man, like you, look at him.
Speaker 1Oh, and talk to your fucking son, don't let it happen again.
Speaker 4You know, like.
Speaker 1that's what I would say It's been happening so many times.
Speaker 4First time his son called my son a bitch, you know. So I was like hey, you know, talk to your son about it, but both are a bitch Bitch. Okay. So then after that I had, he didn't believe it. He was in disbelief And while I was telling him that the kids, his kids were running right around us and you just heard his kid fucking bitch And I'm like, okay, see, there you go.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And he was like oh okay.
Speaker 4Second time he brings up a lie and tells him you know, oh, your kid was pushing my kid. I asked the bus driver, nothing happened. Okay, it's just a bunch of drama, man It's. And after that, the last thing that you know that broke the camel's back the fight, and after that it just went bad.
Speaker 3There's one thing missing in this story.
Speaker 4Where I had a.
Speaker 3No, you guys fighting the wife fighting all that and your kid whooping that other kid's ass, That would have been like the cherry on top.
Speaker 4Oh, my kid, my kid socked him right back.
Speaker 3Oh, so he was a part of it.
Speaker 4Yeah, what's it called in the bus? Cause I seen his kid he had a bruise on his cheek.
Speaker 3He could have fell out of bed.
Speaker 4Oh no, my kid. my kid told me he said I socked him How old, was he son. He's six Six And that man he's been begging me for, put him in boxing. Straight back to Oh yeah, he, he gets, we play fight. He takes it too serious, man, i get hurt Yeah.
Speaker 1He fucks me up. You were like yo too. Yep, definitely. Why you hitting so hard? You chill, Yeah, Hit his ass back. Bam Told you it was a two.
Speaker 4Oh man, it gets. He has my hands, but it's.
Speaker 3So I mean that was a crazy story, but I heard from the great find that you, you still live in Chicago and then you moved here. Can you explain that?
Speaker 4When I was. So I grew up and I was raised. I was born in the South side, raised in the South side. Right, I was seven years old, moved out here with my mom, you know, made it out to basically the ghetto, came out here. What?
Speaker 3was that like? Just do you remember any memories as a child being in the ghetto I don't like that word, ghetto, but being in the slums.
Speaker 4It was. You know it's. I guess it's something to appreciate. You know, when you're being raised in, in in nothing to something, you know it's a big difference. You appreciate everything. Cause back in the day for us, you don't go into the gas station, it was the best You'd get. You'd find quarters, you'd get a dollar, whatever it was. Go to the gas station, get some chips and cheese. That was 75 cents. You'd be the happiest kid in the block, you know.
Speaker 3Hell yeah, i remember that I used to live in a bad part of the religion, right right by right by a Yale boarding library. There was this, there was this, there was this like house And it had like the little the.
Speaker 4You're talking about the little house down the hill where they would sell the chips and everything. Yeah, i know it's been very 20, 25 cents. Yeah, they were awesome.
Speaker 3I mean like I don't always get hot cheetos. I still eat hot cheetos, but I always get hot cheetos and like freaking, like the lime ones and like and I would go home and play around the phone. It was a good time.
Speaker 4That was the best you know. You didn't, you don't know, you didn't appreciate, you don't appreciate those days until they're gone, until you're you know.
Speaker 3Is it still there?
Speaker 4Oh yeah, it's still there to this day, I got a, i got a drive man.
Speaker 3Wheels were in there really like hey, remember me.
Speaker 4I said let's go for a drive. Um, but yeah, it's. It's more of of being raised in the ghetto. It's more about appreciating everything that you've had. You know the small things to now. It's like you know you have it. It's not, you don't have to struggle anymore, but you appreciate the shit that you have It's right So.
Speaker 3so when you were in South side and you transitioned, you moved to Elgin, Was there a huge difference? culture shock.
Speaker 2Hmm.
Speaker 4Not really, it was just the same. You know it was. I feel like the neighborhoods were a little bit better. You know the roads, especially notepad holes over here when I was younger, um, but besides that it was just more.
Speaker 3You remember potholes when you moved here as a child.
Speaker 1Yeah, you read all you can remember, even the back seat you fucking. Yeah, right there.
Speaker 4Definitely flat tires all the time out there. Potholes are as big as this tape. water Two, three feet deep. No, no lie.
Speaker 1What the fuck does it get like that? The plows.
Speaker 4Yeah, the plows, so they don't replace it, fix it nothing, It just gets like.
Speaker 3So are you on the east side or the west side of Elgin?
Speaker 4So I started off, I guess right next to.
Speaker 3South Elgin Oh okay, south Elgin. So I used to grow up in South Elgin as well.
Speaker 4Yeah, so you see Bluff City right around there. Bluff City, yeah, so you know where it's at? Yeah, Yeah. so right around there, Bluff City, it's right off 20. There's a VP in McDonald's.
Speaker 3Yeah, no way. The Burger King, the VP in Burger King you're talking about.
Speaker 1Max is thinking right at the bottom of Sundown when you, you know you, oh, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4So, you get. You get on 31, right, And you get on 20. You know where I'm talking about. Yeah, you, you keep going down. There's a little under.
Speaker 3Oh, i know what you're talking about. Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, i like how he seeded it.
Speaker 4I didn't even explain, I just had to take a left on the right and he said oh god, Yeah, no, I just so he started.
Speaker 3And then, where did you end up?
Speaker 4Like now.
Speaker 3Like where'd you go to school? LJ High School.
Speaker 4Yeah, when at LJ High School Hey let's go to Maroons.
Speaker 2You said Maroons. No, i'm just.
Speaker 3I don't, I'm just, I don't know the Maroons, But so how was LJ High School? Was there a lot of fights? were there games? Was there fights? Did you have a good time with the teachers? Did you get stabbed?
Speaker 4I never went. I hated school.
Speaker 1I never went like I drive without a license, i don't got to go to class.
Speaker 3Jesus, chris, so what? what got you into cleaning cars like I?
Speaker 1don't fill out job applications, i just clean cars. All right, give me my money.
Speaker 3So fuck the diploma.
Speaker 4Yeah, no bullshit. I've had about over, i'd say, 30 jobs, really over 30, 40 jobs like no bullshit, well got me jobs or like jobs, like you could put on taxes and stuff, jobs that you can put on taxes. Um, what got me cleaning cars was just, you know, the satisfaction about having a clean car. It's about seeing the difference between Cracks and removing the dirt. You see the difference of. It's more about. I guess you know how you love sneakers.
Speaker 3Yeah, you know what my girl, like I kept my hockey equipment in the car, yeah, and I mean I kept it relatively clean, but I kept my hockey equipment in the car and I was taking her out on a date and like she literally Said, like I'm not driving this car, we're driving in my car. I was like why, what's the problem? And apparently my hockey equipment smelled like shit and I didn't realize it, but it actually did so.
Speaker 1But like if I knew you 10 years maybe you would have cleaned my hockey equipment.
Speaker 4Oh, definitely, man. What's it But?
Speaker 3I watch her.
Speaker 4Um, everything that got me into where I'm at now is, i guess I'm just appreciating what I've always had.
Speaker 3Okay, so let's run through it. So you went through these 30 jobs, fuck these jobs, and then you're like you know what I like cleaning cars, that's what I like doing. How much is all this equipment? because I was like talking to Eric the other week about you and I was like you know what I could clean my car by myself. All I have to do is just go to a fucking place, you know, blast some music, grab the vacuum cleaner, vacuum out my car. Yeah, you know, and It'll be fine. The party is all you know. Leave. My bitch is looking clean. So What makes a detail difference than me cleaning my car?
Speaker 4I guess it's besides. So it's, you can see it as a consumer side and a detailer side. A consumer side is what you just described. A detailer is a person that gets into those grooves. Those are like, let's say, those, those seat rails, those get steam cleaning. Everything literally I'm talking about to the cranks and crevices of every the whole car gets cleaned with brushes, steam cleaned.
Speaker 1You ain't shampooing the interior carpet makes.
Speaker 3Yo, what's the most disgusting thing you found in the car?
Speaker 4tampons Get out of here when I first started, you dirty fuckers, that is This is disgusting.
Speaker 3Hey, can you clean my car?
Speaker 1and leaves that shit It was. They're getting their money's worth, man It was.
Speaker 3What about used condom?
Speaker 4Never I found a used condom, that'd be. I found wrappers, yes, but um, i found I feel like that and What about food?
Speaker 3like anything just goes through. When I came to food, some oldy shit.
Speaker 4Yep, mold right there, i found drugs. Yeah, the owner's like yeah, i gave it right back to him because it was oh, i thought you were pocket that shit.
Speaker 3You know it's powdered shit, yeah so it was.
Speaker 4It was powder. I was like you know what? I'm, okay, they, they've offered me, before you know I've, i've dealt with customers that offered me. You know, pay me and and And, basically drugs and I'm, i decline I know how do you cash only My kid?
Speaker 3I gotta fucking pay for this rent All right, let's get it.
Speaker 4I gotta get lawyers for the suspended license.
Speaker 1I gotta get.
Speaker 3Insurance, finally, but hey yeah.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 3So how much is the equipment to detail a car? Because I could just go to this place like I did the car wash, and I can, you know, put 25, 50 cents into the fucking vacuum cleaner, just vacuum my car.
Speaker 1Congratulations. You haven't met your biggest hater.
Speaker 3Maximillion gross Game on grab some windex, you know fucking, you know get. Get the Windshield, you know you know get the fucking, the what. What do you?
Speaker 1call this time defend your business.
Speaker 2I should hire him.
Speaker 3Like I clean the crevices too with that big ass hose. I'm talking about why it's why, like they always have that white hose or whatever, like that's all I Tell him about the vacuum.
Speaker 1Yeah, all you got is vacuums and wet wipes. This motherfucker right here got the steamer. He's waxing.
Speaker 3I want to know how much this equipment costs.
Speaker 4So, starting off, you know you can go to the basic, basic you can. You can literally start a detailing.
Speaker 3Yeah, but your luxury, that's your brand right, luxury, cardio to guard card Detailer.
Speaker 4Yeah, um, so It right now what I'm carrying. Right now It's around, i'd say, about five to seven grand.
Speaker 3Okay, so five, seven grand, Let's uh break down the equipment. What is it?
Speaker 4Generator water tank, power washer, vacuum hoses Hoses aren't cheap Um dude hoses aren't cheap. I know Trust me uh um reels supplies, chemicals, brushes, Scrub pads, towels scrub products polishers um bottle holders, yegels on and on what?
Speaker 3the fuck got you into this. I used to tell you no, i know like where? where did he say like, oh, i need to get a scrub pad, i definitely need to get this.
Speaker 4It's basically so I try to spend on.
Speaker 3Yeah, we'll just fart inside, Sorry.
Speaker 4I, i try to. I try to get into What makes my job easier. So if I have to spend, let's say, $300 and it's gonna save me 45 minutes, so I imagine 45 minutes throughout every detail and I do four details a day, that's about two hours, three hours in total.
Speaker 3So it takes 45 minutes for you to detail a car.
Speaker 4No, it takes me about three to four hours.
Speaker 3Three to four hours to detail a car. Damn, so you're really getting in there. It only took me like an hour to clean my car, so I'm telling you I should hire you, You. So it starts to say I bring you this dirty-ass car with a used tampon on that. My girlfriend left it. Okay, so how do you start?
Speaker 4I bring out. basically, you know, if you check it out, walk around, it give you a set price, because all my prices are different.
Speaker 3How much would that price be?
Speaker 4Let's say you just want the interior done and it's really, really bad. I had to upcharge the price up to around $50, $60. So the total would have come out to around $180 just for the interior $180 to clean your car. Yep, and then from there get all the biggest trash you can, you know, remove it, carpet skis clean, shampooed, and from there vacuum blow everything out. I like it Crevices and everything Crevices like blow every little dust you can see out.
Speaker 1Max knows about cleaning out crevices.
Speaker 3Oh no, i do. yeah, man, if you don't clean out that rubber part in the fucking fridge like the army dude, don't fuck you up. I learned that, so your crevices are important.
Speaker 1I was talking about cleaning out the crevices of your female friends.
Speaker 3Bro, you know what?
Speaker 1He said oh yeah, i do, man That's a different story.
Speaker 3He said don't talk about what I do. I do it.
Speaker 4Um, especially so you know you blow everything out. It makes it easier, For example, that special tool just to blow everything out.
Speaker 3So you like blowing stuff?
Speaker 1That's just not just blowing.
Speaker 3Blowing it out.
Speaker 1What's it called It's a vacuum. How do you talk about sucking?
Speaker 3He's got a vacuum. I don't dare him while he's got a vacuum.
Speaker 4It's a big vacuum.
Speaker 3Okay, so you blow it out. Is it like a bunch of dust or is it like just crumbs from people eating?
Speaker 4Yes, it blows everything out from the crevices, rails between the seats. It blows it out. It opens the carpets up. you know has fibers in it. It opens them up. It saves you about 30 minutes, 25 minutes of just vacuuming And from there. So you do suck With vacuum?
Speaker 3yes, I told you, you're sitting there like no way, don't you? Keep it on?
Speaker 1You didn't want to talk about cleaning crevices with your tongue. You brought that up.
Speaker 3I was talking about cleaning crevices in the refrigerator. I was trying to tell the world your talent Max.
Speaker 1There it is fellas There, it is You couldn't resist He was thinking about it.
Speaker 3You see that You got to do it counterclockwise.
Speaker 1You got to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 3Sometimes Flick three. All right, i'm going to stop Where was I Okay, so you vacuum.
Speaker 4You suck it up, max, i'm just kidding. So you vacuum.
Speaker 2After that you start warming up the steamer.
Speaker 4Getting everything ready. I steam clean all plastics, everything At least, so you don't burn them up, scrub them down. You especially have to do the crevices and the door jams. You know how they have a little plastic rubber seal right there, nobody cleans it, you always have to clean it. It messes up, it breaks or makes your detail, especially that.
Speaker 3What's in there? Like fucking used condoms or something.
Speaker 4It's mostly dirt that gets stuck in there When you step in and step out of the car, so you have to steam clean it, blow it out, pass a towel through it, make sure it's clean.
Speaker 3Okay, so you've probably had like muddy cars before, like from like you know, those guys, like you know, go truck, truck driving in the mud, mudding or whatever. Have you ever had like muddy cars or no, never, honestly never. I've never received a muddy car.
Speaker 4Damn.
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Speaker 3I wish you did Honestly because I want to see what this vacuum is Steam or shampoo, or it could do So. Do you steam and then shampoo, or do you shampoo and then steam? I steam then shampoo, just so. This is steam. The heat loosens up the dirt And then from there extraction.
Speaker 4you know you suck it up, so okay, so let's continue. So for example, you know you steam, clean it, you add whatever chemical you're using Steam and then you can use it.
Speaker 3So you can use it, you can use it.
Speaker 4You can use it. You can use it. You can use it. You can use it A lot of different things. You can use this. You can use it. You mean really, yeah, and other things.
Speaker 3I can use Steam and then, uh, agitate and extract, so it's easier for the stains to be removed And you just pull up the use of extractor with hot water as well and remove that stain right away.
Speaker 4Okay, it smells.
Speaker 3Delicious.
Speaker 4Yep, and it removes, so it leaves a nice matte finish Tasty. Oh yeah, matte finish. And it leaves it literally like brand new It's brand new. And I try to leave a coating behind. So when let's say you know you get in, you drop your soda or whatever. The coating helps for the water or whatever falls on there, not stick And it gives you time. It's crazy water This it's got to.
Speaker 3It's providing a defensive seal, Yeah it's funny, it's like he's a doctor.
Speaker 1But, he's for cleaning cars.
Speaker 3I got to make sure that the heart is perfectly in balance. I got to make sure that Max gets back to normal and all this stuff And you're like. I got to make sure that he won't.
Speaker 1I got to make sure the car If the soda won't soak into the carpet.
Speaker 3I got to make sure the soda will not soak into the carpet, because otherwise the carpet will get sick.
Speaker 4It's, it's, it's a craft, It's a craft?
Speaker 3Yeah, it sounds like it.
Speaker 4Like.
Speaker 3I thought it was just, you know, vacuuming in Clorox, like I did. So how does it like win one? OK, so are you done detailing, or is there more?
Speaker 4Oh no, it's, it's way more.
Speaker 3OK, so From.
Speaker 4Eustine Clean Shea.
Speaker 1Max is like we got all night. We got eight minutes left for this podcast.
Speaker 4I try to wrap it up, all right. So you extract, you know. After that you scrub all surfaces and everything You try to leave. I try to leave the coating on behind dries up live. I asked the customer do you want to finish shiny surface? It's up to them. Some customers don't like it.
Speaker 1After that, Wash, i go, shine you all the way.
Speaker 3You know, psychologically Man like shiny things. Why I don't?
Speaker 1Because in nature think about it.
Speaker 3Pussy shine.
Speaker 1Think about it A turned on vagina is wet and shiny which promotes male humans to promote life.
Speaker 3Unless it's a dirty vagina.
Speaker 1By impregnate. You know what I'm saying. You see where I'm going with this. Yeah, So psychologically, when men see shiny things, we get turned on. We're like that's nice.
Speaker 3Just like Eric when I swam. Hold on.
Speaker 2I told you that off the camera.
Speaker 3So let's finish this up. So you do the matte or shiny. The matte finish, the shiny finish.
Speaker 4I've met people who have done both. You know From there seals on the door, seals, door jams get that all cleaned up. You know That breaks or makes your detail Because you could make a fantastic job in the interior. But if you leave that dirt on the door jams and the seals your detail looks like shit. It's not going to come out right.
Speaker 3So you've done it before.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 3You learn from your mistakes.
Speaker 4And that's how we become better.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4But what's it called? Yeah, Then window. You can't forget the windows with Windex. You know The Mac Special.
Speaker 1The Mac Special Oh yeah. At the million at the end of the Maximilian Special.
Speaker 3Honestly, bro, honestly, bro, what you just explained felt like you're giving the car a fucking bath or shower And me, i'm this amateur thinking, oh yeah, i can make my car look nice. I don't even have fucking detail Like I'm going to grab this hose that looks like it's from an industrial place.
Speaker 1I'm like, try to get every door to a place with a sign that says free vacuum.
Speaker 3Excuse me, i'm going to grab my Windex wipes And I'm going to wipe my windows. I'm going to grab my Clorax wipes. I'm going to wipe my dashboard. I think it's good, but the real question is what does it feel like when the customer gets in the car? They're like yeah, like yeah.
Speaker 4You know what Not a?
Speaker 3year Steering wheel feels nice. How does that feel to you?
Speaker 4Now that you mentioned it, i think that's why I got into detailing, because I love customers' reactions. I feel like that's what made me get into it. A customer's reaction is the best thing, but when they don't like it, that's the worst.
Speaker 3Do you have customers who are like whoa, you didn't get this part, bro. Like what the fuck?
Speaker 4That was him last time Man.
Speaker 1I was like oh, yeah, i was like hold on, you ain't getting between the shifter bro. I was like hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, you ain't get in the buttons of the window. Nah, i'm talking.
Speaker 3OK. So this car is like brand new, squeaky clean, So you can polish a turd right. So like Eric's Yukon, for example.
Speaker 1He actually detailed my Sonata.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, they came back to life.
Speaker 1Yeah, that honestly. No, I don't know Shout out to Silas for fucking it up, but I brought it back to life. Let's go.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3He's like the freaking guy who goes to the ER and you're with the doctor And you're like you know what? I got this. We're going to do this. We're going to bring this car back to life. That's how it is. That's how we live life to the max. We're going to bring this car back to life, that's what we're doing The max in any way, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3Fuck every other job. I like details, that's what I do. And you know what I was wrong. I was wrong. I thought I could clean a car like you, but I was wrong. Maybe I could, maybe I could if I bought your shit. But I don't think I would want to buy your shit. I think I would just say, hey, you wanted to detail my car. And then my girl would be like, oh, it's like brand new. I'll be like, yeah, I did it myself.
Speaker 4I got a detail. I got a detail.
Speaker 3I stopped vacuuming, i got a professional to do it. You like it. Yeah, let's go for a drive.
Speaker 4Honestly, anybody can start it. Honestly, it's just your drive You want to do it Your drive.
Speaker 1That's a nice pun, man.
Speaker 4You guys are fucked up.
Speaker 3You just spring in that suspension Suspension. Oh wow, That's an urban.
Speaker 1Pun after pun, after pun after pun.
Speaker 3We're having a lot of fun.
Speaker 4But honestly, anybody can start a detailing business. It's just about you wanting to get to the next level. I've met a lot of people that have been into the detailing business for about six, seven years And I'm already on their level. not to bring myself up, but honestly.
Speaker 3I can Get some self up. You know what That's an art pun.
Speaker 1You know He's killing it.
Speaker 4You have to, because nobody who else will.
Speaker 3You have to be your best cheerleader And you're killing it 90%.
Speaker 1Everybody else is going to do a detail thing.
Speaker 3I have one more question, one more Do you have any enemies? Are you like you know what? Fuck this dude. He doesn't know how to detail a car. I detail cars better. He can go fuck himself. Or do you have people say oh wow, your detail is way better than this other guy? You're like, yeah, fuck that dude.
Speaker 4I tried to minimize that, do you know? And just like I said, it's love for everybody, never I tried not to have enemies.
Speaker 3You have to have enemies.
Speaker 1This man was robbed, bro. He was rob naked And he turned the cheek. It's just, you can't It only comes to the point when somebody harms his kid is when he comes in He says don't worry me, Definitely You got to.
Speaker 3So you know what You do have an enemy It's your neighbor.
Speaker 1It's your neighbor.
Speaker 4Yeah, ok, i can sit. Yeah, yeah, besides that, people might hate me, people might dislike me. I'm OK with that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3That makes me go harder every day. If haters going to hate, you're going to do better.
Speaker 4And if you ain't have no haters, you ain't popping.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying. That's why I said you need to have enemies.
Speaker 4I don't have enemies personally. I know people that hate me. I don't hate them, i love them. I appreciate them. Until they hit you kid, and then I'm going to jail, definitely.
Speaker 3That's the story. We're going to end it hard jail Right back from the start. Huh.
Speaker 4You guys don't remember me, i got it. Guys that has a suspended license never goes to court.
Speaker 3I wanted to make this podcast funny, like the detailing, because I didn't want you to sit there and be like well, i do this and this and that.
Speaker 1You did a good job. You did a good job On life to the max.
Speaker 3We live life to the max.
Speaker 1On life to the max. People, all guests, tell their version of what live in life to the fullest.
Speaker 4I think that's going to be my new slogan live in life to the max.
Speaker 1So how would you live life to the max? How do you just steal that?
Speaker 3shit from me with a fuck.
Speaker 4I guess it's just for me. It's enjoying every second and moment I can I can with my family, with my kid. You can't get those back, you know. You never know what might happen to me, to him, to my girl, anything. I try to make the most memories I can, because that's the only thing you take. You don't take money, you don't take cars, nothing Fix.
Speaker 3You don't want to eat anything. What are some little things you forget about?
Speaker 2For me it's breathing.
Speaker 1I forgot Breathing was like what's some little things that have a huge impact on you.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1You know, think about the big little things in life.
Speaker 3The crevices.
Speaker 1Yeah Or sucking their blood. That's an example, like cleaning a certain part of the car, Something that won't mean anything to someone but it means a lot to you, you know.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4I think that's a question I got to me. I don't know.
Speaker 1It's all about the delivery mix.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's time to do it?
Speaker 4Are you guys talking about in life detailing?
Speaker 3Anything little that you, like I wouldn't say, take for granted. But you realize you have it, but you don't appreciate it.
Speaker 4I guess in those words, nothing. I appreciate every single moment that I have. I appreciate this moment that you guys have with me here and I appreciate all the people that I know, every single person like. For example, i just met a. I guess I've been knowing that person for a while, but he's been. He became like a brother to me. He's jumped over hoops for me. I appreciate him. You know, i have just been. I'm grateful for everything that I have And I have.
Speaker 1All right. We're coming to the conclusion of this episode. Do us a favor.
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Speaker 3Gratefulness. That's what it is Gratefulness, gratitude. You live in life to the max. Look into that camera. Tell us what you're doing next. Tell us your future. Welcome to your camera. Tell us your future.
Speaker 4My name's Sergio. I'm living life to the max. There you go. Am I going to court next time? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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