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Ever found yourself wondering how the humdrum of infrastructure and personal finance could make for riveting podcast material? Well, wonder no more! Season two takes off with a bang, and I'm here to assure you that this isn't your average finance talk. We're mixing sharp wit with practical insights, and Meghan's dropping by with the lowdown on insurance ratings and their sneaky impact on your mortgage. Judd syncs up with our vibe, while Connor chimes in with techie talk that'll have drone enthusiasts and design buffs nodding in agreement. And just when you think you've got us pegged, we switch it up with a debate on the music industry that'll have you questioning everything from ghostwriters to producer tags.

Hold onto your hats because our neighborhood tales will take you on a roller coaster of emotion, from the adrenaline rush of a near miss with a torch that could've ended in flames, to a tree removal that had us cheering for the local arborists. But it's not all heart-stopping moments; there's a chuckle or two waiting with tales of vehicular mishaps and the neighborhood's best-kept secret—a backup car! It's the kind of storytelling that stitches together the fabric of our community, with a healthy reminder to never skimp on safety.

Now for the entrepreneurs, Meghan's back in the hot seat with her commercial insurance wizardry. She draws a clear line between personal and commercial coverage and why your business needs its own shield. And because we love a good deep dive, we tackle the often-confusing territory of bonds versus insurance. You'll come away understanding why that A-rated insurance provider matters, especially if you have a mortgage. We wrap it up with personal musings—from boat adventures to global changes we'd wish upon the world. Trust me, it's not just another business talk; it's a treasure trove of anecdotes and insights you won't want to miss.

Chapters

• 0:00 Podcast Preview and Rap Analysis
• 11:37 Close Call With Torch and Tree
• 17:08 Insurance Needs for Small Businesses
• 27:55 Insurance and Bonding Discussion
• 40:46 Metal Maniac and Flying Wing Chat

Transcript

Podcast Preview and Rap Analysis

Speaker 2 0:00

What she's on the.

Speaker 1 0:02

I've been tasked with podcast.

Speaker 2 0:06

She had to wind up to it.

Speaker 3 0:08

I've been taxed with Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 0:12

Yup, pretty close Good stuff. Hey guys, welcome to season two of I've been tasked with, and it's just me right here on the mic for a second. We got our crew coming in. I wanted to urge everybody, or request everybody, to hit the download button, and it's just me right here on the mic for a second. We got our crew coming in. I wanted to urge everybody, or request everybody, to hit the download button if you enjoy any of the comments that we offer.

Speaker 2 0:32

This is not family friendly. It is explicit lyrics. There is a rap song coming up that does have some racy stuff. It's about four minutes long. After that you should be all right, but what you're going to hear on this podcast is some commentary on the bridge. We're going to talk about insurance tips with Megan, and she does actually have some really really good stuff. We speak with Judd he gets his five minutes. That goes really well and then we have Connor at the very end and Connor and I are discussing drones and our designs, where we're at, with a few things, as well as a few funny commentary things here and there. This is a comedy show, information exchanging podcast. So welcome to season two, episode one of I've Been Tasked With and, like I said, please, our future sponsors will be paying us and rating us based on how many people hit the download button, so thank you for being here and enjoy the podcast, see you.

Speaker 1 1:35

A rating from A down to B. If you have a mortgage, you're going to have to switch insurance carriers, because mortgages typically have a clause that they have to be insured with an insurance company with a rating of A.

Speaker 2 1:54

Oh, so they got rated down because they're not covering what they're supposed to be covering in order to keep the A rating.

Speaker 5 2:02

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:04

That makes sense. So, like a good neighbor, state Farm might not be there. It's not there. Might not be there I won. Thank you. I've been working on my sketch writing. I hear it it's working. Yeah, dude, technology is pretty fucking awesome yeah. This is copyright, not protected right. We're allowed to use this. That's great, Nick. What?

Speaker 5 2:33

is that what is?

Speaker 2 2:35

that the bass was great.

Speaker 5 2:38

A Drake diss track from Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 6 2:41

Which one? Hasn't he dropped like 12 in the past four days? Yeah, this is his most recent one and last one.

Speaker 2 2:47

So he's an artist, right, he's a rapper.

Speaker 5 2:49

Yeah, he's a very well-known artist. He's from Compton.

Speaker 2 2:51

I like that really, really trebly, just tick, tick, tick. Yeah, so that.

Speaker 5 2:57

DJ is DJ Mustard. He is also from the US side. I've heard his name before from.

Speaker 2 3:07

I've heard his name before. Yeah, you've heard his tag, his tag. Sorry, cj, I didn't mean to offend you. If you're a rapper that has you wouldn't know all the names right?

Speaker 5 3:11

I am not. No, a tag as a tag is what? Who is, who creates the beat? It's more or less the engineer. It's a whole different audio thing that I've ever heard like dr dre, this is cool yeah I mean my knowledge I don't think Dre has a tag, but more or less more newer I guess.

Speaker 2 3:31

I mean Drake's tag is Drake.

Speaker 5 3:36

Yeah, Drake doesn't have a tag because he's not an engineer.

Speaker 2 3:39

Oh yeah, we don't know that he's the rapist Does Drake buy his?

Speaker 6 3:44

We'll get into that.

Speaker 2 3:44

He's the rapist. Does Drake buy his?

Speaker 5 3:46

We'll get into that yeah.

Speaker 2 3:47

I'm sure we will. Does Drake buy his own? Well, we're getting sidetracked, but does Drake write his own music?

Speaker 5 3:54

I mean that's up for speculation.

Speaker 2 3:56

Okay, I mean, it's very respectable to buy others' music. That's a thing. You buy it and you make.

Speaker 6 4:01

know, make yeah when you say music, you're talking.

Speaker 2 4:04

You're talking to a pre-recorded song lyrics and I mean, but all of that it's gonna be separate. It could be yeah, there's a lot of typically.

Speaker 5 4:13

Typically an artist doesn't make their own beats okay, so what?

Speaker 2 4:17

what is the scandal or story we have going?

Speaker 5 4:20

with this.

Speaker 2 4:20

You'll find out, because I said that I heard drake's house got shot uh, today.

Speaker 5 4:24

That's not. That's not relevant.

Speaker 6 4:26

It's not relevant to this, that's like part five of this 18 part series.

Speaker 5 4:31

Yeah just go for it. Let's get back to the song. So that's a reference to uh I believe carl malone and the utah jazz yeah and um it, I mean. I mean it could be seen as two different things. Like john stockton, I believe he holds the all-time like assists record what was the lyric. I'm finna pass on his body.

Speaker 2 4:58

I'm john stockton that's so that letter a little snippet so cj knows who John Stockton is.

Speaker 5 5:04

I believe he holds the all-time assist record. But not only that he was teammates with Carl Malone, who is famously known for impregnating a 13-year-old girl.

Speaker 6 5:15

That did happen, oh, uncle Carl, but that's references.

Speaker 2 5:19

These are like multiple double so they're pushing at each other's buttons Double, triple entendres on this shit? Yeah, and they're pushing at each other's buttons double triple entendres on this shit and they're having arguments kind of or fronting they just hate each other, throwing bars at each other sometimes you gotta pop out and show niggas certified buggy man walking down the whole time I know he got some hoe in him.

Speaker 4 5:43

Pull on him, extort shit, bully, the flow in him. Say time, I know he got some hoe in him. Pole on him, Extort shit, Bully death. Throw on him. Say Drake, I hear you like I'm young. You better not ever go to sell Black One To any bitch that talk to him. And they in love, just make sure you hide your little sister from them.

Speaker 5 5:55

They tell me Charles the only one to get your saying oh man, I heard it on.

Speaker 2 6:01

I heard that part. Oh not, they didn't play that on the news, but I heard them talking about the story. I'm like I have no idea what songs are talking which we're 52 seconds into the song into this four minutes just like what's the name of this one not like us okay yeah, bye.

Speaker 5 6:18

Bye, kendrick lamar, okay, all right, I'm gonna continue, all right.

Speaker 4 6:22

I'm going to continue.

Speaker 2 6:44

Just holds the note.

Speaker 5 6:45

Yeah, so that's in reference to the, the diss track that drake released right before him. He. He basically said, um, something along the lines of that kid is dave freeze and he held the note for like stupid long and he was basically holding that note. Just, you know, like I listened to your shit and it it wasn't good, kind of yeah, he's, he's dissing him yeah, but he also basically said he's trying to strike a chord and it's a minor yeah, good, good writing they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us?

Speaker 1 7:24

you think not like us.

Speaker 4 7:25

They not like us. They not like us. You think the bagel? Let you disrespect pop, nigga. I think that Oakland show go be your last stop, nigga. They cold foul. I don't know why you still pretending. What is the owl Bird, niggas and bird bitches? Go the audience not dumb. Shape the stories how you want. Hey Drake, they're not slow. Rabbit hole is still deep I. They're not slow. Rabbit hole is still deep.

Speaker 2 7:48

I can go further, I promise. Ain't there something? Be rest, that's for bitching. You, malibu most wanted, ain't no law boy? You ball boy fish, get ready to something. All right, I'm not. I'm not playing all of that. Which part, which part of that should I play?

Speaker 6 7:54

I mean, I like the don't this pock part, because drake in his first one put pox in his yeah, he did an audio ai voice.

Speaker 2 8:02

Why did you say malibu's most wanted?

Speaker 6 8:04

yeah, because have you ever watched the dumbass movie?

Speaker 2 8:06

yeah, it was really good. It was a good movie.

Speaker 5 8:08

Drake is mixed and he's basically saying that Drake is trying to steal the culture of black people because be rad.

Speaker 2 8:15

Yeah, not Brad be rad, be rad and I had this bitch jumping.

Speaker 4 8:21

You niggas will get a wedgie. Be flipped over your boxes. We're holding your foe. The other vaginal option Pussy. Think about a straight name Come on Nate.

Speaker 2 8:29

I'm not doing that. Let's end this story.

Speaker 5 8:32

Where are we going with this Motherfucker? You're the one who wanted me to play this.

Speaker 2 8:36

Not the whole song, no, no, I want to know. Want to know really like yeah, what was copyright or whatever? Yeah, it's released. Yeah, that's cool. So it's amazing we can play that song.

Speaker 5 8:48

So where do you want me to go with this?

Speaker 2 8:50

I thought I thought the story had an ending with the it's a four minute song, oh okay and we're.

Speaker 6 8:57

We're still in the middle of this story, but I'm not sure how drake's to come back. I don't know that anybody is. Nuh-uh, Nuh-uh, that's what I said yesterday to some people. We were talking about the same stuff and it was just like you're a pedophile, drake's like no, I'm not.

Speaker 5 9:12

Yeah, nuh-uh. Let me talk about Millie Bobby Brown.

Speaker 2 9:20

I'm trying to use the story. I have a visual of the podcast Use. I'm trying to use the story.

Speaker 5 9:25

I have a visual of the podcast.

Speaker 2 9:26

Use it how you want it. It's like two minutes and I was trying to. I thought that there was an end. How did this get back to Drake's house? I thought Drake.

Speaker 6 9:32

Drake got shot before this came out. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 5 9:35

What you're asking me to do right now is take five days worth of content, okay, and one song, that is the end of the beef and sum it all together okay, so that's what I didn't.

Speaker 2 9:50

I don't know if I fully got that. This song is the end of the beef thus far so far, this is the most skyrocketing yeah, I, I was more, I'm just I. I'm focusing on the, the writing of the, the music, and it's a lot of repetitive stuff. But uh, let's do something else. Let's let's call megan. I don't want to lose megan we have megan okay. What do we have going on in the studio today? Nick Megan, we have Megan, okay.

Speaker 5 10:13

What do we have going on in the studio today, Nick? Nothing really. It's just us three sitting here at the moment.

Speaker 2 10:18

Okay, it's been a week. Anything happen with your guys' lives. I almost died this week. I can chat about that.

Speaker 6 10:25

No, nothing that crazy happened in my life.

Speaker 2 10:27

Yeah, CJ and Nick both know this story. This is fast Make it quick.

Speaker 5 10:30

I was backed into a car yesterday with a box truck. There we go.

Speaker 2 10:33

That was interesting with a box truck yeah I've sliced open another car with a box truck before.

Speaker 5 10:39

Yeah, I, um, I was so close to backing into this car that my, like you know, the rubber part that is used to back up to, like the, the garage area bent their mirror backwards. Didn't break it, but bent it backwards. And it was very scary, I bet, because from my mirror I can see that the mirror's bent backwards and I'm like, holy shit, is there a big gash on the side of that car?

Speaker 2 11:08

You don't even really feel it in the trucks, do you? I felt it.

Speaker 5 11:11

That's how I knew to stop. I hit them, I hit my brakes as soon as I felt it hit the mirror and, uh, you know, I pulled forward, I adjusted myself, reversed, and then, uh, I had to go close the back of the truck and I just kind of like, made it, made it seem like I was just going back there to do that, naturally and on my way back.

Speaker 2 11:26

I just, I was just here doing this. Pop it back in the socket. Yes, I did.

Close Call With Torch and Tree

Speaker 5 11:30

Looked at the mirror. Everything looked good to me. I was like, all right, so I'm gonna go ahead and skedaddle that's good stuff, I I'm so.

Speaker 2 11:37

My thing was I almost died where, uh, I was using a torch to uh, uh, recolor the wave runners, hoods, and uh, last year I did it with, uh, a heat gun and it warms it up and it changes color to its back, to its original color, kind of gives it a sheen.

Speaker 2 11:54

Well, this year I ramped it up like tim and the tool man taylor, like I always do, and I got a freaking blue torch. Uh, it wasn't the yellow bottle, it was the blue, which is a little bit less. I think it's butane or propane and I'm, yeah, torching the hood and then I close the hood and I get towards the very end of it and I guess I got close to the edge of the hood where there's gas inside, a good mixture, and the whole thing just goes whoomph and the hood tried to open, everything tried to open like the seat, tried to blow off of it. I just saw this whoomph and then just smoke and it caught fire real quick but extinguished. I think it ran out of oxygen. It went out immediately, just as it started. But yeah, that was some what do you call that when it was pushing out.

Speaker 6 12:41

Explosiveness.

Speaker 2 12:44

Outwards pressure from the inside of the hole and I had sprayed it down with after I nearly pooped my pants and I grabbed the fire extinguisher.

Speaker 6 12:57

That didn't work he actually.

Speaker 4 12:58

I did not you wish, I pooped my pants I got an extinguisher didn't work.

Speaker 2 13:01

That sucks. Since then I've checked all the extinguishers. But I immediately grabbed the second one and I blew everything that was inside that extinguisher, inside that wave runner, in all spaces because I was like I don't know if there's a fire still going right. It was so much smoke and I'm by myself.

Speaker 6 13:18

That's freaky as hell.

Speaker 2 13:18

I'm by myself like I could have died. I don't know how gasoline works that well. I didn't know how it was going to catch that. I was I'm dumb sometimes, but I did admitted that. Don't do that. That's to the world. Don't put butane propane anywhere near gasoline in any way, shape or form. I got super lucky, so let's get Megan on here. I was hoping you guys were going to say oh, we have somebody coming in the studio.

Speaker 6 13:45

Did you see the size of that tree that got cut down out back?

Speaker 2 13:47

I did that tree is huge.

Speaker 6 13:49

That cross section of that trunk is as tall as you are.

Speaker 2 13:52

I asked him if I could. It's pretty short, but it's still tall.

Speaker 5 13:55

Did you see it happening?

Speaker 6 13:57

No, I got home and it was down.

Speaker 5 14:00

I was surprised at how fast that tree I saw it. I came home early because I wasn't feeling that great.

Speaker 2 14:07

I don't know 80 feet high.

Speaker 5 14:09

No, they were up high, they were in a bucket. I feet high. Oh no, they were up high, they were in a bucket and, uh, like I was very surprised because there was at one point that they had like a tie off. Like you know, they tied off to another piece of the tree and then they cut it and it swings down, drops down, they release the rope, send it back up and we should have had them come in on the podcast.

Speaker 2 14:25

Those guys were good.

Speaker 5 14:26

Uh, I forget the name of the company was one of the guys, it was when I got home nationwide tree service nationwide tree service.

Speaker 2 14:33

They were amazing they're not sponsored.

Speaker 6 14:35

They must be good to take down that size of a tree in one day, but when?

Speaker 5 14:38

I got home.

Speaker 6 14:38

One of the guys was seriously just laying. Yeah, he was laying in your back, pauline pauline in the driveway in the driveway. Yeah, looking at his just staring upwards he's.

Speaker 2 14:47

I mean I can't imagine them out. They're really good and they I. And they said no. I asked him. I was standing on my back porch. I said I was like I'm going to go ask him if I can have that wood in the, in the, in the truck bed Right, and from my porch the wood looked big, looked kind of big as I, as wide as the truck. Yeah, uh, from bottom split. So if you're looking at the back of the truck, it probably had the bottom of that hunk of wood diameter of like six feet at least incredibly huge and it was a good six foot long.

Speaker 2 15:26

It was the trunk. That what you see from the grass up of this tree that over shadowed three homes. Yeah, I mean so, uh, anyway, that was really cool to see that. But I, I think I got closer, I liked he's like that, that is a lot of wood and I was like, yeah, no, thank you, he's like you, you want it. I'm like, and I was thinking Nick's got to park a vehicle in his yard.

Speaker 6 15:51

I was going to dump it. I was going to put it in your grass, a vehicle or this cross-section of a tree.

Speaker 5 15:57

No a vehicle.

Speaker 2 15:58

It would have taken up A vehicle across the street and there's no moving it.

Speaker 6 16:01

Oh okay, who's?

Speaker 2 16:03

red car. That's my red car. You just got a new car? Huh no, it's my backup car.

Speaker 5 16:13

Where has, where's that been? I've never seen it. I keep it at the yard at work okay gotcha. And then that other car over there is my father's gray, the ford explorer.

Speaker 2 16:18

Yeah, okay, yeah, the little red car is my, uh, uh yes, I'm here wondering what the hell's going on yeah, did you like the rap?

Speaker 1 16:27

megan's been listening no, I couldn't hear the rap, I just, you know it's because we were on the phone oh yeah, so she didn't hear any of that, she didn't.

Speaker 5 16:35

She just heard us. You just heard us talking.

Speaker 2 16:37

Okay, so you probably heard.

Speaker 1 16:38

It probably looked, sounded really weird to you, megan yeah, but she's like, yeah, as the benzino deaths of um from eminem so yeah, that was uh, um, that was a few weeks ago.

Speaker 5 16:58

We were in reference to the Kendrick Lamar Drake thing. That is kind of still ongoing.

Speaker 2 17:00

It's been happening the last week. You know you follow your gangster rap, right?

Speaker 7 17:05

Well.

Insurance Needs for Small Businesses

Speaker 2 17:05

Drake's a pop star. Anyway, Megan, I'm going to ask you a question.

Speaker 1 17:13

Who are you? I'm Megangan. I'm a commercial insurance agent commercial insurance okay so yeah, so I work a broker, which means like I have access to tons of different carriers um you know, for your insurance needs is this health home auto commercial commercial not everything I am licensed to do personal, but I strictly kind of um do commercial okay all right, but no health I I think nick's struggling to grasp the fact of what does commercial mean, no, I got that, it's to every.

Speaker 2 17:50

We got 3 800 people listening, so like commercial and residential.

Speaker 5 17:54

I got yeah, but like you're insuring their business.

Speaker 2 17:58

Yes, so if you have a vehicle accident and it's under the company, does that count?

Speaker 5 18:04

it would more or less be you're not insuring biz like a vehicle, you're insuring their work.

Speaker 2 18:11

Megan, help us out here.

Speaker 1 18:12

Correct. So I was just looking at an electrician. So I'm like okay, you have employees, so you need workers' comp insurance. You have autos, so you need business auto insurance. You need general liability to cover the ongoing and completed operations.

Speaker 2 18:32

Liability. So if you screw something up.

Speaker 5 18:34

Have you ever seen on the back of like, uh, like she, like she mentioned an electrician's vehicle that says we are licensed and insured?

Speaker 2 18:41

no, but I'm sure that's a thing I don't doubt you if you look at like um, I'm surprised I haven't seen. I see the back of a lot of vehicles like contract builders or um plumbers I've always wanted to, to have a small business where I had something licensed and insured, just look at the back of some work vans like Ford Transits or those Nissan 3500s.

Speaker 7 19:00

Megan, do you have?

Speaker 5 19:01

stickers. No, that's for the company to provide.

Speaker 6 19:05

Can we just get the?

Speaker 2 19:06

stickers without getting insured. I just want the stickers, Megan shirt.

Speaker 1 19:13

Yeah, I just want the stickers, megan, I know a lot of my company, like my clients either wrap their vehicles with their you know their business logos or they have, like, the vehicle magnets, megan, you love minutia megan.

Speaker 2 19:22

Uh, I was speaking with megan previously about coming on the podcast and she was excited. She's like, oh my god, let's draw out an outline of everything we're gonna. I'm like, whoa wait, hey, this is not that kind of podcast, but she did a lot of, like you know, pre-planning, which was great. So what were the bullet points you wanted? My bullet points that her and I figured out would work for the podcast is what does the general population not know about insurance that they should know.

Speaker 1 19:51

It's kind of a broad question, but I mean there's a lot, there's a lot that they should know. It's kind of a broad question, but I mean there's a lot, there's a lot that we should know. There's so much they don't know yeah.

Speaker 2 19:59

I mean, I don't you know, I would love for you to spill the beans of stuff, but that's not really what I'm here for. If you have a house and you're getting an electrician to work on your house, you need to have them be insured themselves or like stuff like that. I mean, what is that? What are the loopholes we're going to fall into in our lives?

Speaker 1 20:18

Yeah, definitely. I feel like a lot of people they do look for jobs and say, hey, I'm looking for somebody to fix my roof and they look for the cheapest option, but in reality they didn't make sure that they have insurance and that's a major liability issue, because if you're having somebody get up on your roof and they fall off your roof, but it was only $48 instead of $120. Yeah, and then you're in court and you potentially could lose your house because you and you've seen that happen.

Speaker 1 20:56

Um, I mean, I personally haven't on my book like um my clients, though.

Speaker 2 21:02

Yeah, but I mean, it's a story that goes around, and don't do that, cause this happens.

Speaker 1 21:05

Yeah, I mean I had somebody come do my gutters last year and I like asked for their insurance and he he said he's like surprisingly not many people ask this. And it blows my mind because you know we're getting up there in heights and I said yeah, they're like we're almost dying on their property yeah, um, so that's something that you definitely need to make sure that they're insured. So.

Speaker 2 21:32

I have insurance on my house. Here's a question and right now I need to get some paving done on my property and the paver trips and hurts his ankle. Am I just on the blanket as having home insurance? I didn't ask when I bought a house. They didn't go like well, who you know, that I know of. But, like you know, am I covered for all my contractors Just knowing that I have home insurance?

Speaker 1 22:03

I mean with that I mean you will have liability coverage for that. But you need to make sure that they have insurance because if they trip on the job, that should be covered under workers' comp insurance.

Speaker 2 22:16

Under their side, but if they don't, they're coming at you. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 1 22:21

Yeah, and that's the importance of you needing to make sure that they have workers' comp insurance general liability. It just depends on what job.

Speaker 2 22:35

CJ, you had a porch redone right your concrete uh, I had you do some of the concrete okay, that guy was not insured. I was talking about the, uh, the steps or whatever, didn't you have?

Speaker 6 22:47

I didn't, uh, miss pauline. Miss pauline did damn. I'm thinking of the wrong house. I would like to have some if, if you did.

Speaker 2 22:54

Now I, I remembered I did some kind of.

Speaker 6 22:56

I've always thought that if I hired a contractor to do work and they hurt themselves doing the work I'm paying them to do, that's their own ass. Yeah, I feel like I did not think that I was liable for them.

Speaker 2 23:06

So you know how my sidewalk was fucked up out front yes, did you know that I was liable for them.

Speaker 5 23:10

So you know how my sidewalk was fucked up out front.

Speaker 6 23:13

Yes.

Speaker 5 23:13

Did you know that I was liable if somebody fell and tripped on that when it was all cracked up?

Speaker 6 23:17

Yes, I did know that. But, that's different than.

Speaker 5 23:21

That's ridiculous. That's county property Tell us, Megan.

Speaker 2 23:23

if we're wrong, it's not county property, our property goes to the curb.

Speaker 5 23:29

Nah, I call it cap. Nah, to the curb, correct nah I call cat nah, the county put that sidewalk in the county maintains that sidewalk anyway. That's true, megan right. So if I were to, so if I were to have like dug out that cracked up sidewalk and replaced it myself and the county came at me like who's technically in the wrong, me or the county?

Speaker 2 23:51

what are you you talking about? You do it wrong.

Speaker 5 23:53

No Like, say I were to take out all that concrete from the sidewalk and I and I poured it myself Right.

Speaker 2 24:00

And like the County comes by and they're like. Hey, that wasn't like that before you know, yeah, well, now you're improving it?

Speaker 6 24:05

I don't think I had somebody I paid out of pocket to fix my sidewalk.

Speaker 2 24:11

But I will say Did you make sure he was insured?

Speaker 7 24:14

No.

Speaker 6 24:16

I took Miss Pauline got somebody and I was like can you do mine too while you're?

Speaker 2 24:20

at it, and that's how that went.

Speaker 4 24:22

That's good stuff.

Speaker 6 24:22

But I do see that somebody walking along and hurting themselves is different than me paying someone to be here to fix something and they hurt themselves while fixing it. I feel like people would hurt themselves on purpose just to win lawsuits. That was a thing back in the day.

Speaker 2 24:36

That was a possibility there was a few years where people were doing that and I think that the judges eventually were like yeah, no, this is a thing we're not going for. The first 12 or 15 people that hits that judge, they're going to be like oh yeah, you shouldn't, oh't, oh, this is a thing.

Speaker 6 24:53

Jackpot yeah.

Speaker 4 24:55

Okay.

Speaker 2 24:55

That's how I feel like that works out. So, megan, I have another question for you. I know you have other things to talk about. If I'm starting a small business and I have 10 people or less because that's basically where I'm going in my life at some point how early do I need to have commercial insurance? Immediately, because you're starting a business, you don't have any money to buy stuff.

Speaker 1 25:19

So typically let's say When's the time? Let's say you start to train your employees before you actually start the job. You should have workers' comp insurance while they're training. I mean, I've had claims in from clients that their employees fall on their first day.

Speaker 2 25:43

Yeah, all of a sudden, they're not doing heroin anymore and they're working, and they are not normal.

Speaker 1 25:51

I'm sorry. That's how life is, they, you know it depends on the state too, Cause I know, um, I think, a couple of states down South is it Texas? Oh, I'll have to look at every state's different If. If they have like five employees or more, you're mandatory for insurance. So it also all depends on the state. So keep it under five. Keep it under five. I'm in Maryland.

Speaker 2 26:19

I'm not going far, no, I just thought how much would it cost specifically not with you, but in general. What does the market cost for a 10 person or less business per year? For a pretty good amount of what the insurance you would think that they need.

Speaker 1 26:35

It depends, because a lot of things are rated off. Payrolls, really, oh, so you make more money.

Speaker 2 26:43

The insurance brings more A million dollars per year as opposed to a company that's barely raking in $100,000 per year You're going to have different insurance rates.

Speaker 5 26:52

Yeah, because you're not working as much right, yeah, you can be, as much income is higher.

Speaker 6 26:57

The amount you can be sued for is different oh okay, it makes sense, I'm getting that okay.

Speaker 2 27:03

No, I mean I've never. When am I going to walk into a commercial insurance place and start talking about this stuff?

Speaker 6 27:08

especially if you're an llc.

Speaker 2 27:10

I've had an LLC, I didn't have insurance on it.

Speaker 6 27:13

But was it just you?

Speaker 2 27:14

Yeah, I had one other employee who would steal money from my money area On the truck. You put it in that glass compartment up top. That's where you keep your money right.

Speaker 6 27:27

Nice to know.

Speaker 2 27:29

Yeah, so I don't know. We have some other things to talk about with Megan and it involves how to talk to men and that we have three men. What, what's that, megan?

Speaker 1 27:41

This is not a topic, Not a damn it.

Insurance and Bonding Discussion

Speaker 2 27:45

Can I at least put my my attempt, Cause it was really good that we had a really good conversation over how, so we're not allowed to talk about that. This is all just insurance.

Speaker 6 27:55

I did have one quick question Do you do bonding as well as insurance, or are those the same thing? Because I think bonding is for like ensuring the work that they do versus insurance for pain and hurting themselves.

Speaker 1 28:11

So it's funny you mentioned that because we did have like a bond meeting. Today we are starting to get more involved with that. I the only bonds that I've done in the past couple of years. I think it's for residential cleaners, okay.

Speaker 6 28:30

Yeah, like if they, if they knock something over while in the middle of their work, the it's more like the employee theft.

Speaker 2 28:38

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insure for that it's.

Speaker 6 28:41

Insurance and bonding, I think, are slightly different.

Speaker 2 28:44

This is cool, so like I'm working and someone steals a 600 toll for me. I can call megan and be like hey, I got a receipt, Something was stolen.

Speaker 1 28:55

Correct. I mean they do have liability for if they break something or damage the floors, but that's just the bond for employee theft If one of my machines falls and dents a floor. That would be under liability.

Speaker 2 29:12

Good, because I've dropped, dropped stuff. I dropped a wrench on one of the brand new toilets that I was putting into my, my house. I was working, you know, right above it with a wrench. I just fell out of my hand right brand new toilet. But anyway, yeah, tools that that shit happens on a real nice hardwood, fully finished floor. That's what. What is that? Four to five thousand dollars to get it resurfaced oh yeah yeah, I mean a big ding dash, something like that.

Speaker 2 29:39

Yeah, that makes sense, I'm getting it. What else we got, miss Megan, for tips for other people? Don't do something.

Speaker 1 29:48

Well, I know that State Farm we don't partner with State Farm but I know a lot of people have State Farm for their personal business. I mean personal insurance. They had a rating from A down to B. Have a mortgage, you're gonna have to switch insurance carriers because mortgages typically have a clause that they have to be insured with uh, an insurance company with a rating of a.

Speaker 2 30:22

So oh, so they got rated down because they're not covering what they're supposed to be covering in order to keep the a rating yeah, that. That makes sense. So, like a good neighbor, state Farm might not be there, it's not there. Might not be there. And one Thank you. I've been working on my sketch writing. Okay, so that's cool.

Speaker 6 30:44

Now I don't have State Farm, but if, let's say, I did have State Farm, would they have to disclose that to me, like send me a letter and be like, hey bro would they have to disclose that to me, like send me a letter, be like hey, bro, we just hey, we're kind of here, we're just not really following, we just got knocked down to a b.

Speaker 6 30:57

So if they ask, we're an a, if somebody calls, make sure you tell them we're an, a you need to get a new company or something along like is, are they?

Speaker 1 31:04

correct.

Speaker 6 31:05

Either they will or the mortgage company that you um have your loan with well, that's nice to know that people are just floating out there not knowing this information and just being screwed If something happens with their B rated insurance company Interesting.

Speaker 2 31:22

That's cool stuff, so we're not allowed to go over anything about boating. No stories, megan, it's all insurance. We didn't just what.

Speaker 1 31:33

What stories about boating no stories megan, it's all insurance, we didn't just what.

Speaker 2 31:36

What stories about boating I know I I wanted to share the story of my last podcast. I said that I had a 16 foot uh 1960s cadillac boat. That was my first boat. You have been in that boat this 1960s john boat that was not restored in any way. It was just this a hunk of garbage. Megan got in the boat with me and we went and watched. Did we watch fireworks in that boat?

Speaker 1 32:06

yeah, I think we almost got ran over. Yeah, it was a real tiny boat.

Speaker 2 32:09

I mean this thing, this thing was uh, john boat mean.

Speaker 6 32:12

I've been in a John boat. They're usually a bit wobbly. We were drinking beers. Flat bottom.

Speaker 2 32:19

Yeah, flat bottom. Yeah, but it wasn't flat, it was a V. If you look at 1960s Cadillac boat, there was only one.

Speaker 7 32:27

It's right, there, you had the only one.

Speaker 2 32:29

I mean, there was one model that they did and they have an image of you know. It's like a sketched out image of the exact thing and it has like a windshield on there and a steering wheel. I didn't have any steering wheel.

Speaker 6 32:45

It was just an engine on the back that you held onto with a stick Sounds sexy.

Speaker 2 32:47

Yeah, no, it was cool. That was my first vessel, my first time going out on the water. Megan experienced that with me, did you like that boat? It was fun. It was fun. You don't need to get a good one, nick, just get a crappy one, yeah.

Speaker 5 33:04

Just go out on his and just get a motorcycle first.

Speaker 2 33:09

No, I'm just trying to. What was the other question I was going to ask? I have something written down for Megan. Where's my book? Oh, I'm just trying to. What was the other question I was going to ask? I have something written down for Megan. Where's my book? Oh, I texted it to you, it's probably downstairs.

Speaker 2 33:19

You don't have to say it, I'm going to ask you that question. Oh, I know what it was. Okay, do you want to ask the question CJ? Do you want to ask Megan the question of? I normally do an interview question, which what is it is? What one thing would you change?

Speaker 6 33:36

I've never heard you ask that. I've asked you that.

Speaker 2 33:38

Well, what one thing would you, would you change in the world if you could? Okay, what was your?

Speaker 6 33:44

answer cj. Uh, my answer had to do with the 24-hour news cycle, if I remember correctly to get rid of the 24 shut that down, make people chill out a little bit more. What?

Speaker 2 33:55

one thing in the world could change in your life, Megan, and we're sharing this with the world. If one thing could change in a large thing, you had a magic wand. What would that be to make your life better?

Speaker 1 34:10

I think more kindness, I think if everyone was more empathetic it would lower corruption, depression, uh, greed and poverty, just improve overall life so how?

Speaker 2 34:23

how could the population do that? What would one thing that people could do differently? Is it to show you that they are kinder. Just don't be a dick somewhere, or what Like. What is the kind Drill into it?

Speaker 1 34:39

I feel like everything's getting so fast-paced and people have less patience and everybody just had more kindness, and you know.

Speaker 2 34:51

I mean I open the door for other people and I hold the door.

Speaker 7 34:55

So chivalrous.

Speaker 2 34:56

I'm just like what could I do in my you know? Just be more kind. So give people more margin of error, let them be a little bit you know you might not be the person or people she's talking about. No, I'm pretty sure I have definitely talking about that Exactly.

Speaker 7 35:10

No, I'm pretty sure, I have definitely talking about that.

Speaker 2 35:12

Exactly. No, I'm just saying, but, like, if I'm talking as people are listening and they're hopefully engaging with what we're discussing, so they're thinking what is what do they mean? You know, what is it? The people that are driving and running you off the road, is it? What is it that's bothering you about the kindness off the road? What is it that's bothering you about the kindness?

Speaker 1 35:34

I mean, it's not anything in particular Okay.

Speaker 2 35:38

I didn't know, if you were like somebody screamed at me when I did something wrong.

Speaker 1 35:43

No, I just. You know, everybody says world peace and you know stuff, so I figured more kindness.

Speaker 2 35:52

That's good.

Speaker 6 35:53

Give Pease a chance.

Speaker 5 35:55

Larger folks saying that it's a thyroid issue, saying that they're heavier. You said if you were forced to not eat enough and to start starving and continue to starve, forced to do labor and starved more you lose would you? Or would you look just like everyone else?

Speaker 2 36:18

would skin and bones motherfucker is what you wrote. I wrote skin and bones motherfucker.

Speaker 3 36:23

Like I don't know what you're saying is it's okay to be overweight it's okay, it's healthy.

Speaker 5 36:28

Sometimes labor yeah, you would skinny.

Speaker 2 36:30

I'm not going against everybody in the world. I feel like if everyone were to starve down and be uncertain, everyone would turn into a skinny person eventually.

Speaker 5 36:41

Yes and no. Is that true. I mean, metabolisms are different.

Speaker 6 36:44

I do think that there are real thyroid problems that can cause weight issues. I think a lot of people probably blow it out, don't add that out of proportion or blow it.

Speaker 2 36:55

Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, that makes sense. What is megan? Any thoughts? Are we do we still have megan in studio?

Speaker 1 37:00

oh I mean, I agree, I think there are people that have thyroid issues, but I also think the food that we have so much preservatives and crap that like isn't healthy for us to you know, eat.

Speaker 2 37:18

So yeah, we gotta eat something we're supposed to like raise our own lobsters like I don't think lobsters is what she's talking about. I know oh, that's a natural food, you know, it's actually not bad. I've got a fish tank nick.

Speaker 6 37:31

Yeah, lobsters you could raise lobsters in this fish if I made them. You realize, lobsters are like years and years old before I mean these fish are years old you could raise his own lobsters if he wanted to, but then he wouldn't want to eat them because they'd be his babies. Back to my statement of of uh.

Speaker 2 37:49

What was the last line I wrote?

Speaker 4 37:51

skin and bones, motherfucker.

Speaker 2 37:54

That's what I wrote on my note, that's whatever. That's what I did and I sent it to nick or no.

Speaker 6 37:58

I just showed it to him. I think if you were to actually have nothing in other than vitamin supplements, water to make sure water and vitamin supplements because you will just die.

Speaker 2 38:07

We all get skinny.

Speaker 6 38:07

I'm not saying that I'm skinny I do think that they would lose weight, even with a thyroid problem, even with a thyroid would lose weight.

Speaker 2 38:15

So that's, I don't know. I don't know. Somebody sent me a photo of something disgusting and gross walking around in the world and I was like God, that's a choice, Right? I mean, why can't we say that this is free speech, right?

Speaker 6 38:32

Yeah, everything's free speech. The government can't come after you. It's a choice.

Speaker 2 38:37

It's a choice to look like that. I had to see that, but anyway.

Speaker 1 38:42

I mean this conversation after I said more kindness in the world, right.

Speaker 2 38:48

I said what, specifically what? And you didn't say don't make fun of people that are visually unpleasing.

Speaker 5 38:55

Just be kind to them.

Speaker 2 38:56

Yeah, I don't know. Man, Megan, say adieu to Nick. We're going to get one more insurance tip. You probably have 40. How are you going to do that? Nick's leaving with the phone. All right, Megan, hit us with an insurance tip. You're still on the clock. For three minutes You're zero paycheck. I said 8 o'clock.

Speaker 5 39:16

I'm looking at the clock it's at 7.57,. Motherfucker, I'll give you 45 seconds. All right, megan.

Speaker 2 39:20

One more tip on insurance.

Speaker 1 39:22

I guess one thing that I commonly see, not on personal insurance endorsements for sump pumps if your home or personal property in the event of a water damage from some pump drain or sewage overflow, so that's a common endorsement that is left off. Yeah, I don't have that?

Speaker 2 39:43

I don't think yeah, so I mean I didn't tell him. I want that I don't remember definitely.

Speaker 1 39:50

I mean I'll look at your policy to see, but I highly suggest that because we see a ton of those claims.

Speaker 2 39:56

I would love for you to see my insurance policy. That is great. I don't know why I went over and had dinner at her house with a light on her ceiling and, yeah, I should have brought my insurance policy.

Speaker 6 40:06

Because when talking about sewage, shit happens. No, yeah.

Speaker 2 40:12

Can it happen from the second floor? Yeah, and then just come down the steps it can't. Is it covered, megan? Am I covered? Yeah, you're covered in shit, if once okay, we're gonna fix all that.

Speaker 6 40:23

But you're not with all of this, you're not covered from water coming from outside in. That's a whole separate endorsement, if I, if I remember all right, well, we're gonna, we're gonna to have my.

Speaker 2 40:33

We're going to go over that. So, thank you, megan. Bye, nick.

Speaker 5 40:37

All right, goodbye, megan. We're going to have to hang up because when Nick leaves the phone, leaves.

Metal Maniac and Flying Wing Chat

Speaker 2 40:40

Bye, megan, we'll talk to you in the future. Bye, okay, Bye. I want to get. This is Judd Rizzo, our metal maniac on the street. I just sent Judd an image. Okay, so I want you to tell me I was tasked with building a shed. I started yesterday.

Speaker 7 40:56

All right, hang on, I'll put you on speaker here. Let's see what Dan.

Speaker 2 41:01

Speaker.

Speaker 7 41:02

Dan sent me. Oh, that looks good.

Speaker 2 41:05

Hell yeah, I did it all by myself. It's 7 foot by 10 foot. It's frames I built.

Speaker 7 41:14

Is it supposed to be crooked like that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 41:17

You're such a jerk.

Speaker 7 41:20

It's not crooked. Come on Wait. It looks lower on the left-hand side.

Speaker 2 41:24

You're the worst. I love it. It is radio, it's not lower, it is perfect. It's a lean-to. It's a lean-to Wait lower.

Speaker 7 41:34

It is perfect. It's a lean to. It's a lean to wait. I assume you made it lower on purpose on the left hand side so you wouldn't have a standing wave when you record it in there.

Speaker 2 41:38

Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. It's all about the recording. You're such a metal maniac. We were talking earlier and you said uh, what was it you said about the? You're like when, when I hear a beat.

Speaker 7 41:51

What I said was Dan, thank you for bringing me a double bass pedal for my nine-year-old's drum set.

Speaker 2 41:58

Yeah, your nine-year-old has a $280 freaking bass drum pedal now.

Speaker 7 42:02

So I could go.

Speaker 2 42:08

And then I show up at Judd's house, I install this double bass drum pedal and I did most of what Judd would want to do with a double bass drum pedal. I did with one foot. Well, you know, come on, you were blown away. You were like what I was. I had my left foot outside of the drum set and I'm like I was very impressed.

Speaker 7 42:29

Yeah, I was like wait a second.

Speaker 2 42:34

I said you're using double bass for that right.

Speaker 7 42:35

I was like no, I'm just using my right foot here, watch. I was like wow.

Speaker 2 42:41

Yeah, you got to start on the bottom of the pedal, work your way up when you're rolling.

Speaker 7 42:48

So that's what Dan. So I've never played drums before in my life, and the first month I played drums this is what Dan is going to teach me is how to play A double bass drum pedal.

Speaker 2 42:57

I literally my student I have now I literally remove the double bass drum pedal because he gets so distracted. Right, that is not a thing that people use normally. I know, but I know, and I totally get that, I know and I totally get that, what we're referring to is two pedals, one on your left foot, one on your right foot, and they both do the same.

Speaker 5 43:17

Note on the bass drum.

Speaker 7 43:23

So you can literally use both legs and go. But, dan, wisely, instead of saying, judd, I'm not doing that, you need to learn all this single bass stuff first.

Speaker 2 43:31

You wouldn't shut up about it.

Speaker 7 43:32

I'm not doing that you need to learn all this single bass stuff first, you wouldn't shut up about it. Dan wisely understands that I've been playing guitar for 48 something years and when I and I'm a musician, and I at heart, and it doesn't matter, and I hear stuff in my head that I need to, I need to get out of my system. So that's why you brought the double bass. Even though you know a kid, a kid at eight, nine years old who wants to learn drums, you would never do that Right. But somebody who's you know, over 48 years old, you know, and he says I want to play this on the drums and you say, well, you need a double bass pedal for that, or?

Speaker 2 44:05

whatever, the stuff that you like to do is the roll. It's a, it's like a 16th note roll. As you get towards the snare drum hit in the standard beat boom, bop, brum, brap, yeah, something like that. Boom, brap, bap, bap, bap, boom, boom, brap, you like it's like a polka beat on it. If you like polka, you should go to, you should was it the dutch no, no, no, it's, it's not the. Accordions are hot right.

Speaker 7 44:36

Like that punk. That's why I can't stand punk music, ska punk.

Speaker 2 44:39

Ska punk. I used to like that. I had an album called Skarmageddon. Skarmageddon, I think it was. Skarmageddon was a bunch of different ska hits and there was a volume one and volume two was a bunch of different.

Speaker 4 44:53

Ska hits and there was a volume one and volume two and, if you like Ska, if you, want to get into some stuff.

Speaker 2 44:56

you hated it. I played it for you. I've had it since. Somebody gave it to me when I was like 16, 17. And I still have the CD both of them and they're playing stuff like Mr Smiley. And if you're into Ska, it's good stuff.

Speaker 7 45:14

Judd will not listen to it. I, I'll give it a shot. I tried, so yeah, I'll give it a shot.

Speaker 2 45:22

Okay.

Speaker 7 45:23

So to talk about something.

Speaker 2 45:24

Oh, four minutes and 55 seconds, you've got three seconds left. I'm sorry I didn't give you a All right.

Speaker 7 45:29

Listen to Chris Daughtry his new. We're out of time.

Speaker 2 45:33

Yeah, chris Daughtry, okay, good stuff. New single yeah, chris Daughtry, okay good stuff New single. Yes, yep New single. Very hot, very nice.

Speaker 7 45:42

I'm going to play you out, Judd. My favorite country song is Chris Daughtry's new song.

Speaker 2 45:47

Metal Maniac in the Street. Thank you, Judd.

Speaker 5 45:49

It was great having you on.

Speaker 2 45:50

Ba-da-ba-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

Speaker 3 45:58

I'm sitting at a bar.

Speaker 2 45:59

I was going to say it sounds like you're in a stadium, that's cool. What are you up to, dude? I haven't heard from you forever.

Speaker 3 46:06

I know I'm sorry. It's been crazy. I'm going up to Pennsylvania next week.

Speaker 2 46:10

Pennsylvania.

Speaker 7 46:12

What's in?

Speaker 2 46:12

Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 46:12

Something. Yeah, it's a job. I'm going up there for an interview. Oh, that's cool. What part do you think?

Speaker 2 46:20

Harrisburg, yeah it's a job. I'm going up there for an interview. Oh, that's cool. What part do you think?

Speaker 3 46:24

Harrisburg. No, it's close to the university. It will be at the Penn State Laboratories, so it will be close to the university up there.

Speaker 2 46:33

That's neat. Yeah, is there anything you wanted to say to the audience, because you haven't talked to them forever. I want to keep you alive.

Speaker 3 46:44

It's just me and you.

Speaker 2 46:52

I wanted to say, you know, chase the Northern Lights you know.

Speaker 3 46:54

And so chase nothing, chase nothing, chase nothing, exactly, especially not women.

Speaker 2 46:58

Not women. Are you going gay now? What Are you going gay now?

Speaker 3 47:04

what are you going gay now?

Speaker 2 47:12

only for them only for me.

Speaker 3 47:13

Yeah, I wish I could go gay. I mean I would have so many other options I could go with wow, but I mean none of them would do what I would do.

Speaker 2 47:18

Well, no, you would be one of them. You'll be the. You know, you'll be my number one choice, of course.

Speaker 3 47:22

I feel like if we ever did that, if you and I ever decided okay, then we would just have a big party. You know what I mean. If you're going to do it, you've got to go big.

Speaker 2 47:34

I don't know. I don't want to dream any farther into this. I want to end this segment immediately and it was funny for like three seconds and we're done. Have you been doing any flying of quadcopters or drones recently?

Speaker 3 47:48

I have actually a decent amount.

Speaker 2 47:51

And I have stuff to show you. Yeah, what's your vehicle of choice right now?

Speaker 3 47:56

Actually a ultra lightweight the nylon flying wing design that I was, uh, I had drawn up before the nylon.

Speaker 2 48:06

Is it based off of the inflatable flying wing design that you and I came up with?

Speaker 3 48:12

I think that if you went inflatable you gotta go big, you know.

Speaker 2 48:15

Yeah, yeah, so I actually To make it worth doing, you know.

Speaker 3 48:20

I, I did, I did a little bit of research and, um so, even really before drop stick technology really took off, like the idea of it, um, the us marines actually had inflatable manned aircraft that they use in vietnam oh, nice, easy to transport.

Speaker 2 48:39

that's what that was the inflatable idea for me, yeah.

Speaker 3 48:43

They say the biggest issue with it is obviously inflating it in the field. So like people had issues with that.

Speaker 2 48:49

Oh, you can't just blow on it. Yeah Well, I mean it's a whole.

Speaker 3 48:55

Like the thing is huge compared to like. Also, like the amount of pressure you need is like crazy.

Speaker 2 49:01

I don't know the inflatable subboards that all of this idea came from was. They're like 14 PSI.

Speaker 3 49:08

Oh, stand-up paddleboards, Sorry, yes, you're right, that is where it all came from originally, I think the more I've looked at it like, the more I've realized how much of this is like actually being utilized, but not really at a drone level. That's the interesting bit.

Speaker 2 49:23

Yeah, that's why I wanted to move land and water into drone. That was my idea.

Speaker 3 49:30

That's what you and I came up with. I guess I like the nylon wing. You're going to like that too. Right now, I'm focusing on making it more modular.

Speaker 2 49:36

So is it nylon, just nylon, nylon that's flat, or is it nylon with stuff inside?

Speaker 3 49:43

I'm thinking of it, the way that I view it is like a paraglider, yeah, like a kite.

Speaker 2 49:48

Yeah, paraglider, that's the best Okay.

Speaker 3 49:50

Exactly, then ultimately, the dimensions of it match that of a flying wing, even though it has a separate tail and boom. It just means that it's smaller and more. You can take it apart easier, and I think the goal is to put it all on a backpack.

Speaker 2 50:05

Yeah, yeah. So you and I originally a long long we're talking two, three years ago came up with the thought of it's not original to us, but creating our own RC remote control paraglider, our own RC remote control paraglider. Okay, so the paraglider idea that you and I came up with earlier, about two, three years ago, we never got to because we had an issue with making the parachute. So I'm going to task you with Mr Conner coming back next time I see you with your best parachute for an RC that can parachute something like one of our electric motors pushing I think that's a good idea and I've already been looking up a bunch of these parachute designs already.

Speaker 3 50:51

It's crazy. It's like they're really good. I've been wanting to implement a few, but like I take it one step at a time. But I'd be happy to put something together. Worst case scenario we put it on something, build a little door and have it come out of the sky via parachute. I think that would be fun too.

Speaker 2 51:08

Connor, I have an announcement for you, and this is an announcement not just for Connor, but for everyone listening. I am now a co-owner of a three-dimensional printer, the Ender 3 Max, and I wanted to ask Connor's opinion or view on how cool that is.

Speaker 3 51:28

First of all, I think that that's the coolest thing I've heard all day. Yeah, I've been wanting to buy a 3D printer for like forever and then, additionally, like, the amount of stuff that we could make with it is going to be insane.

Speaker 2 51:44

Yeah, there's a thing called the Rocktopus. It's an octopus with the Dwayne the Rock Johnson's head on it. That's what we're making. That's what really sold it to me.

Speaker 3 51:56

I mean it's the right way to go for the first print. I mean obviously.

Speaker 2 52:01

My buddy Will, I said it's the right way to go for the first print. I mean obviously my buddy Will. I said where's my rocktopus, my rock the rock? It's just Dwayne the Rock Johnson's head sitting in the middle of an octopus. It's freaking awesome. Well, I'm going to call you again, or maybe call me later when you're not inside of somebody's football game.

Speaker 3 52:24

Inside of somebody's mom. Absolutely Good one I couldn't think of anything off the fly.

Speaker 2 52:29

Call me again when you're not at a stadium. It is bad, it sounds. All I hear is like forks, knives, people laughing. It's good, it's not awful. It's not like you're like yo, yo, yo, no matter. There's good, it's not awful. It's not like you're like yo, yo, yo, no, what is it? There's nothing bad happening.

Speaker 3 52:44

It's the ambiance yeah, I don't want to piss. My career is a good ambiance.

Speaker 2 52:47

Yeah, I like the ambiance too, but I don't want to piss people off. Well, actually, right now it's completely silent. What I did was I have a backtrack, as if you're in a restaurant, just to give us something to talk about.

Speaker 3 53:03

I would never do that. This is awful. We're gonna hang up here.

Speaker 2 53:04

I'm actually sitting right next to dan yeah, you're, he's in the room, hi, connor.

Speaker 3 53:08

Oh, stop touching my leg I almost said something bad, all right hey, I'll talk to you later, connor.

Speaker 2 53:16

I thanks for answering. Uh, this was a test, an emergency test of the Dan's phone system podcast.

Speaker 3 53:24

I love you Dan.

Speaker 2 53:25

I love you too, Dan Bye.