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The Craziest Entrepreneur Story You'll Hear | Michael Tandoi
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From crack addiction, getting shot five times, and seven years in prison… to building a multi-million dollar paving company.
In this powerful episode of the Gold Coast Podcast, host Eric Winegard sits down with entrepreneur Mike Tandoi, a man whose life story is nothing short of unbelievable.
Mike shares the raw truth about his past — running nightclubs at 21, battling addiction, high-speed chases with police, surviving multiple gunshot wounds, and eventually serving seven years in prison. But what happened next is what makes this story incredible.
With only $500 and relentless belief in himself, Mike launched Tandoi Asphalt & Sealcoating and built it into one of the most successful paving businesses in his region.
In this episode, Mike reveals:
* The moment that changed his life forever
* How prison became the turning point for his success
* Why investing in yourself is the most powerful move you can make
* The discipline required to rebuild your life from nothing
* How he turned $500 into a million-dollar business
* Lessons for entrepreneurs who feel stuck or behind in life
This conversation is raw, emotional, and incredibly motivating — especially for anyone who feels like they've made too many mistakes to succeed.
Mike’s story proves that your past does not define your future.
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📘 Book: The Man I Was Destined To Be by Michael Tandoi
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Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Gold Coast Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Weingard. Today I'm very, very excited about this guest because I have watched this story unfold since I was the age of 10 to the age I am today of 45 years old. I knew this guy in middle school. We played basketball with each other. He had some incredibly brutal challenges in his 20s. And today he has a multi-million dollar a year, unbelievable success story, owns a paving business, very successful one that, yes, we do marketing for here at Rare Blue Moon Marketing. And I'm very excited to introduce my friend, my client, my guest, Mike Tandoy. Yeah, so I'm glad you're not drinking anymore because I I don't I don't drink much, but but I have I don't want to say I have to, but it's usually networking, dude. It's like I'm going to some fucking. I know, it's all social.
SPEAKER_01Oh that's why I eliminate I eliminated a lot of my social bullshit.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then I just started focusing on that Monday through Friday work thing. Yeah. And then coming home, being with my kid, going to bed, going to the gym, staying disciplined.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Where the social life really ain't I'm not doing it as often.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, it's just not part of the diet anymore. So do so So like we just went on a seven-day cruise. Okay. My mother had the drink package. She originally bought me the drink package. I says, cancel it. I said, get me the water package. You know, and they bring you the fucking two cases of water right to the room. So I got my water for the week. I drank nothing during the entire cruise. And I could have drank all week long.
unknownRight?
SPEAKER_01I canceled. Yeah, I got the water package instead of the alcohol package.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Right? But the old me, I would have drank every day fucking until I was feeling right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You know? So what so what was the what was the I'm done moment. I had enough.
SPEAKER_01Well, I think I I don't think I had the conversation with myself. I think that um eventually I just had to say to myself, okay, this is where I'm at. Right? And if I continue to build my health, so Vito died at 44. Katie died, she was 43. So now the kid's missing an uncle and she's missing a mom. And then my father died at 56 from a massive heart attack while I was incarcerated. So if my dad died at 56, Vito died at 44, Kate died at 43, I'm 46 now. And I lived harder than all these motherfuckers, right? Like every single person I know, I couldn't, I couldn't even say, oh, he was close. There wasn't even a close race, right? Like I lived pretty fucking hard. So I'm saying if I want to continue to live this life that I'm living, because I don't want to change much, how do I get healthy? And that's when I joined the gym. That's when I went to the doctor, that's when I got all my blood work done. And it was like a zigzag. You know, some shit was good and some was off. Some was good, some was off. And before you know it, um, I go back to the doctor now, everything's right down the middle. Everything. You know, my testosterone levels are good, everything's good, like my cholesterol, everything. So, I don't know. I mean, I'll socially go out with you right now, and you know, but if I'm gonna do it, I want to make sure it's that a day that's worth doing it. Instead of just like frequently doing it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. No, I love it. So, not to get emotional on you, it was the deaths around you. That's what got you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, people die. Yeah, you know, and every day somebody else passes away, you might know them, you might not know them, but death surrounds us. So, you know, at any given moment, it could be like fuck, I do 140 miles an hour on a race boat like an asshole. Like I never owned a race boat before. Fastest boat I ever owned went 19 miles an hour. You know, as a little fucking 19-foot Baja. Um, you know, I I buy these race boats, I'm doing 140, 145 miles an hour on the water in the ocean. I've never been in the ocean before, right? And I'm trusting this Garmin that tells me there's nothing in front of me. Well, the fucking thing sucked because I hit every sandbar in Key West. From from from North Miami to Key West, I found every sandbar. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. I love I love this version of you. I I wasn't 100% sure, but I it's you're charismatic, you're happy. I can just feel your energy is like you're vibrating on a totally different level right now, dude. Yeah, completely different, you know, and like, dude, come on, I'm I'm I've been there, I've I've recreationally used everything. Sure. I've drank too much. And and what I found out, what I realized about it, when I was my unhappiest, is when I was doing that the most. Yeah. Right. And then when I was the happiest is when I'm like, no, I I want to be sober out because I want to go enjoy the day. Right? I don't want to be hung over on a Saturday. I want to go have coffee with my wife. I want to, you know, go look at where we're gonna have the gender reveal and go look at the spots. I want to enjoy life. When I'm not happy and I'm not enjoying life, it was just like it was a mask. It was just like, I'm just gonna go get fucked up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, think about it like this. You wake up Monday through Sunday. You probably wake up at the same time every day. It doesn't matter if it's a weekday or a weekend. It doesn't matter. I'm up at 4 30 in the morning. I'm a fucking psycho, right? 4 30 in the morning, it doesn't matter what time I go to bed, it could be 11, it could be 9, it could be 2. I'm still up at 4:30 in the morning. 5 a.m. the latest, right? I start my gym routine at 6 a.m. Because if I start it after 6 a.m., I'm never gonna get there because you never know what's happening on your work day. But when I wake up in the morning today, I look in the mirror. They call me Mikey Mears at the gym, right? Every time I do another thing, I'm like, oh man, is that new? Right? And then like, because I was the Tony Soprano body, right? My athletic type was Tony Soprano, right? You know, you know, athletic, no, moderate, no, Tony Soprano, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Big belly.
SPEAKER_01I big belly, you know. Um, so like when I look in the mirror now, I see self-worth, right? And then when you gain that self-worth, you want the people in your circle to feel the same about themselves as you feel for yourself, right? Because it eliminates all the bullshit, you know. So I I feel like I've always had to figure that part of my life out. Yeah. And for the first time in my entire life, I know today I don't have to surround myself with anybody that doesn't want to be around me or anybody that I don't want to be around myself. And I feel that I need to elevate, you know, and you only do that with the circle, the team of people that you put with you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I'm I'm I'm like, I don't need to be with this young blonde broad that's got nothing going for herself anymore, right? You know, I don't have to date her, right? And I don't have to date this person either if I don't want to date this person here. I'm, you know, I can do whatever you want once you start feeling like that.
SPEAKER_00How do you how do you handle how do you handle the old friends? The ones that you you were running the parties with, the one that you're on the boats with, raging. How do you handle them thinking you're I don't want to call you a sellout, but the ones that maybe are saying to you, oh you're too good for us now? Because there's no way you're around them all the time.
SPEAKER_01Look at I think that as men comes great responsibilities, okay? And if people aren't benefiting you, no matter what level of if if that's part of your circle, your crew, your surroundings, if they're not benefiting you today at 46 years old, right? Like I'm 46 years old now. I don't have to um beg for it or or accept it or entertain it. I don't have to be involved with that. You know, there's gotta be a point in everybody's life where they grow up. So if part of my circle isn't doing the right thing, I just don't have to surround myself with that. Yeah, you know, I love everybody. You know, I've got a large, vast variety of friends. I I know people from all over the world, and I know that people enjoy my energy, they enjoy my person, they live by curiously through me. I have pastors that call me up monthly, I have, you know, friends that have been married for a hundred years call me up weekly, uh, you know, just to check in, just to see what's going on. What's exciting? Where did you go last week? Um, you know, so I don't know, Eric. I I just think that you are who you're with, right? So if the New England Patriots didn't have a good team this year, they wouldn't have gone to the Super Bowl, right? So if they had a bunch of slacks, they wouldn't have made nothing, you know. So it's on your your team, you know.
SPEAKER_00How do you find um something that was hard for me is I realized that my my friend nothing against my friends back home, but the people back in Rochester that I hung out with, a lot of times, you know, the only time I would make bad decisions is when I would be in that circle. Sure. For me, moving to a new environment helped me out a ton. You know, the past six years, seven years of my life, I'm a totally, totally different person. I still like that font. Don't get me wrong, I'm still the same guy. Um, but I but I found for me getting into a new environment really helped me get focused. Do you are you ever do you ever find that being in certain environments are more challenging than others? So I think that my how do I put this?
SPEAKER_01If if if if an alcoholic goes to a bar every day, you're gonna meet other alcoholics, right? So if I'm not an alcoholic, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna hang out with these people at the bar every single day. Look, am I gonna go out every once in a while? Sure, absolutely. Um my boat parties sometimes get to be, you know, extreme, you know, and so like I'll be I'll be on like straight and narrow, I'm under the radar, everything's going good. All of a sudden I'll get a phone call, and it's it's it's a blow-off day in Rochester at Arondakoy Bay or Sodas, and I'll pull into the spot with the biggest boat, you know, and we turn on the radio, and next thing you know what I got 75 people on a boat. You know, so that but that has ended. It's not happening this year. I I made a promise to myself. I went out, I replaced all the interior outside of the boat because they destroyed it last year. I mean, after some of these parties, my seats were hammered. It was a brand new boat, right? I'm like, what the fuck? So I got new seats. So I promised myself, since I don't have to do, like, I don't have to, I don't have to be known for that no more, right? And I don't want to be known for, I want to be known for the guy with the really nice fucking boat, not the guy with the really nice boat that's always got you know these big huge yacht parties, whatever you know, Rochester's too small. It's not Miami. You can't boat the same you can boat in Miami. And Miami less is best, and Rochester less gets you, you know, everybody's talking. You know, if you pull some of the stuff up that, you know, goes down in South Miami. You know, when I first started boating in Rochester, um I I I belonged to the Rochester Yacht Club, right? And that's for the elite, and that's the most upscale boat club in upstate New York. I mean, the Rochester Yacht Club is that's the spot. When I first got there, I went in there, I think I had my big Versace sunglasses, and I pull in, and it was Memorial Day weekend, and I was just coming back from South Florida. So the girls that I had on the boat had, you know, they were wearing American flag outfits from Memorial Day, you know, but it was like G string. You know, I didn't know. Sun's out, Bunzout. Everybody was in their blue pants, white pants, jackets. So I made a bad, it was a bad look. It was a bad look. Yeah, you know, I was excited. I get excited, you know. I would have been excited to be able to do it. Um, but so after the first year, I mean, my first year there was Rocky. They had me on probation. I wasn't even allowed at the club for a couple of weeks, right? Um, but um, now that I've been there for five years, they love me. I love them. Like we built such a beautiful relationship with from the Commodores to the presidents to the managers. I mean, it's like one big family for me right now. Yeah. And I'm so blessed to be. They just had me do uh a seminar uh two months ago. I went there and spoke in front of all the members about my book, and I told them my life story. And um, by the time I got done with the story, half the crowd was in tears. I had people coming up to me, hugging me in tears because it touched home. You know, the disease of addiction, it doesn't matter who you are. You know, it doesn't matter how elite your family is or how poor your family is. It does not discriminate against any families. You know, so uh it I I had touched on topics that they haven't talked about in forever ago. You know, you know, I got shot five times, took a 38 caliber on fucking Holly Street. You know, high speed chases, and here I am telling these elite people from the Rochester Yacht Club my story. Uh, and I didn't care what if they were gonna judge me or not, you know, because again, it goes back to that self-worth. I know my value today. So I can tell you my story. I could tell you I was a fucking maniac. I used to smoke crack cocaine, you know. I mean, the first time I took a hit of that, I mean, I pretty much basically left my life. You know, and I married, it was like marriage for you know them guys, you met her on Monday, you married her Tuesday. That's how it was with her.
SPEAKER_00Crack. You married crack, you fell in love with her.
SPEAKER_01This the first time I took a hit, lights out. It was a transparent screen. I went my light, life went from light to darkness. The life that I knew back then was completely erased. I was running a successful nightclub. I was 21 years old. Um, I just couldn't sniff cocaine anymore. So it was a Friday night. You want me to tell you a quick little story? I'll give you a quick version of it.
SPEAKER_00Mike, I was there. Yeah, I was there one night. I saw you do something like this, by the way.
SPEAKER_01Just like I witnessed you do that. One line, bing.
SPEAKER_00It was like a whole bar.
SPEAKER_01Dude, I used to walk around the bar with two eight balls, one in this side, one in this side, to let it marinate, right? Give it a little seasoning or whatnot, or fucking keep what I had in there already stuffed up there, right? Friday night, I called my father up. He says, Dad, you gotta come to the club? I said, We got a problem. He said, What's wrong? I said, My nose won't stop bleeding. I went home Friday night. My dad ran the club. I was driving a Jaguar XJ6, old school, you know, little El Capone car. And I slept Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'm sure my dad checked my fucking pulse to make sure I was alive, whatever. My socks were so busted up that, you know, I was just when I woke up, I couldn't even open my hand. Right? Like, I had to like go like that with my hand because I didn't realize that I was even addicted to cocaine. I thought I was just doing what the, you know, what I was supposed to do. I thought that, you know, I'm successful, I'm 21 years old, I got, you know, a nightclub going. Uh every movie I ever seen, nightclub owners, we blow cocaine, you know, and whatever. Um, so I I thought it was normal. I never knew I had an addiction. That night, when I woke up Monday morning to get out of bed, dude, I was stuck. My fucking bones hurt. Everything in my body hurt. I was paving Monday through Friday, running the nightclub Thursday through Sunday. I never slapped. I was burning the candle all ends. You know, if I finished the club at 3 o'clock in the morning, I went right to work for the paving company at 6, 7 o'clock in the morning. I was fucking exhausted, but I wasn't, you know. Let's go another day. So I was so weak I couldn't even pour uh uh milk into a cereal bowl. So, so after I get done making my my cereal, I take a shower. I go out to the car, it's gotta be like 9:30, 10 o'clock. I already missed a day of work with my dad. I was supposed to work on Monday. I go to start my car up and the fucking thing won't start. So I'm like, motherfucker, I call my dad. You know what my dad said to me. You little cocksucker, I'm gonna fucking kill you when I get home, you motherfucker. You fucking worthless motherfucker, right? So I go into the garage and I had a CBR 600 or a CBR 650, one of the two, a little bullshit crotch rocket. So I jump on that because my car battery was dead. I jump on that, I drive it into the city. I get to Broaden Brown. If I go straight, I go to my dad's construction shop. If I veer off to the left, I head to the nightclub, I can check liquor orders, I can make some, you know, you know, some inventory checks, whatnot, to see what we need for the upcoming week. But I turn right and it took me down Genesee Street. And when I went down Genesee Street, I started going down all the side streets, Columbia, Barlett, Adams, Trout, you know, every fucking street. And then I went down this street called Hawley Street, and I seen a group of guys standing there with the basketballs all over their jacket and shit. I knew the these were my guys, these were the guys I was looking for. So it took me 15 minutes to tell them I wasn't a cop, you know, because I'm white guy on a motorcycle trying to fucking cop some crack. And um so I bought my first$200 worth of crack cocaine from uh this guy. And um I went to the bodega, I bought a stem, a char, a lighter, and I went to a park. Dude, I knew nothing about this shit. I know I had to push it and make it tight. I just threw the whole fucking char in there. I threw the whole$20 bag in there. I fucking lit that motherfucker up. I inhaled it, I held it, I blew it out, and it was lights out. I went right back to the drug dealer's house and I bought every fucking ounce of crack he had, right? Because I needed that shit. You know? And then I became addicted for three years. Because of it, I got shot five times on the corner of Hawley and Jefferson Avenue in uh 2003. I took five 38 caliber shots, uh broken femur, you know, broken wrist. Who was shooting at you? Some some fucking runner. You know, they probably thought I robbed them, which I probably did earlier that week. You know, you know, I mean that was that was part of the high. Where'd you get shot? I took one in this wrist, one three in this leg, and then one went through the uh back window to the windshield. Yeah, but the wrist shot could have taken my head. The guy was shooting sideways. So that first shot that came in that blew out the back window, then he came and shot three, four more shots through the side, right? Point blank range. So I I I went to get out of the truck, right? Because adrenaline's kicking, right? Your skin's burning, your your blood system's burning, the fucking lead hurts. Um, I go to reach my back pocket for a gun. Motherfucker, I don't have a row with a gun. I'm a crackhead. What am I doing with a gun? I'm robbing drug dealers. So I laid out right in the middle of the road, dude, and I prayed, and it was just like a hood movie. Boys in the Hood, when there's a shooting, everybody closes their fucking doors. Everybody in the city closed their fucking door. All right. There I was, left in the middle of the road, blocking traffic, laid out, waiting for an ambulance to come get my ass. Yeah. Life support, three weeks, the whole night. But you know, to bring the short end of it, I didn't learn my lesson. That wasn't enough. I had to get clean. I stayed with the elderly people that my father put because he was afraid. I was John Doe now. Um so he sent me off to Kenetius Lake with an elderly company, Jim and Granny, who saved my life. Um, they they rebuilt me. I couldn't even wipe my ass. Granny used to have to wipe my ass. I couldn't even eat ice cream right. Granny would feed me ice cream. Jim would watch Yes TV all fucking day long. Jeopardy, New York Yankees, Wheel of Fortune. I watch a thousand of these things. But they brought me back to life for six months, and then I go to rehab. I get the completion, I come home, I meet my ex-fiance, Dina. We think life is great. We build a house. I got the restaurant going now. I I lost the club, but now I got the restaurant going that hot sohoy. I had the floating hot dog boat. I missed this period. I had a floating hot dog boat. I built a pontoon boat, put some uh grills on it or whatnot, got my permits, and I opened up a hot sohoy. All right, yeah, beautiful Italian girl, nice set of tits on her, right? And we were right below the pair. So when you ordered your food, it was perfect. So I did that, but it wasn't enough. I relapsed a year later. I relapsed, started smoking crack again, and uh, this time I'm breaking down houses with an AK-47 bulletproof vest, right?
SPEAKER_00To rob them?
SPEAKER_01Well, because the one drug dealer told me no. Right? So if I'm gonna spend$7,000 with you in one week on crack cocaine, right? And my average buy is fifteen hundred dollars a day, and I can go seven days a week. And I call you up on a Sunday night and tell you that I need to keep going until morning because it's Sunday night. There's no more ETM, there's no more cash, there's no more money. Right now, you gotta wait until tomorrow. And I used to, you know, I used to have credit. And crackheads don't get credit. I used to get a lot of credit on the street when I had the club. But the so when I get to the guy's house, he told me, he says, You ain't got no money, I ain't got no crack. So I felt like he treated me like a crackhead. So I went to my dad's shop, I grabbed the fucking Bulletproof S, the AK-47, stuffed a fucking banana clip in there. I went right back to his house. Put everybody on the floor. I took all his crack and his money. And that night I almost got arrested because I got so paranoid now after the fact because when you're smoking crack, you get paranoid. I get paranoid. I take off all my clothes on Lyall Avenue. I'm running down Lyall Avenue butt-naked with a bulletproof vest on, bro. I get into a fight with the City of Rasta police department. Bro, dangling. It's like a fucking baby's arm. And a bullet.
SPEAKER_02Bam, bam.
SPEAKER_01And fucking thing was swinging all over the place. So the city of Rogester, the fucking, they beat my ass. And uh then they sit me down and I'm telling the guy, I know the guy. I'm like, Todd, what the fuck? I'm swinging on him. I try climbing a fence, the horn. You know what he says to me when he gives me a blanket? I says, Todd, why didn't you fucking stop, bro? I we played basketball together, GBA. He goes, My name ain't Todd, it's Tim. Motherfucker, Tim, Todd, Joe Vinny, it's all the same. You know I know you. It was Tim Fucking Camp. Tim Camp. Yeah. So as a favor from Tim, instead of booking me that night, because I was on$50,000 bail. I was on bail. He sends me to the hospital for a mental hygiene. Thank God.
SPEAKER_00He's a solid dude.
SPEAKER_01He was a real the most solid. He was great. Dude, he was a good basketball player. He was a stud. He was a great basketball player. Football player. I used to play GBA with him, and when we had to play his team, I fucking hated it. I was on his team. I'd walk into the gym, I'd be like, damn it, we gotta play this guy.
SPEAKER_00Dude, I was on his team, and you could only score 25 points or else he sat. He would get to his 23 points, and then the coach would be like, Don't score again, Tim. Just play defense. Wow. He was great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he was great.
SPEAKER_00Because he grew. He was a monster.
SPEAKER_01He was a monster back in the day. Yeah, you know, now we caught up to him. I'll size him up, you know, see if he'll beat me up this time. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's a good football player, too. He was an athlete. He was an athlete. Yeah. Yeah. He was an athlete. I think he even played soccer.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01I think so. I think he played for the uh Cobras. Wow. Because I never made the Cobras. My family didn't have enough money. So I was on I was on the Buccaneers for the military. Your parents weren't doing too bad. Come on.
SPEAKER_00Your mom and dad were solid. Wow. So, okay, so you keep relaping. You know what one of the interesting things I keep hearing come out of you? Because I've known you since you're like 10, 10 years old. I think we've known each other. I feel like even back then, in sixth and seventh grade, you were always like you were a business-minded dude. Sure. So at a young age, even though you're just fucking up like crazy and you're an addict, you're always a business mind. We always, I always had a job.
SPEAKER_01My dad told me, I told my dad, I said, Dad, I want to buy a car. He says, You better get a job. I got three jobs. I was working at Sullivan's, I was working with Terry Tasta Polakins, I was working at Da Vinci's, I was working at Marcella's Bakery. Uh, you know, I had jobs because I knew that I wanted things in life, right? So when we were kids, I'd throw a fucking illegal car wash. I'd sell fucking car wash tickets and wash cars. You know, if the school was doing it, I would do it the weekend before or the weekend after. You're a hustler. You've been a hustler since day one. You know, shoveling drivers, whatever it was, it didn't matter. You know, and then my father fucked up because when I got suspended from school, he would make me go to work. Well, after two, three days of out of school suspension, that means I worked two, three days for my father. If he gave me$50 a day, I just picked up a buck fifty. I went back to school, I made$150, everybody else in class is broke. So I started doing that all the time. That was a side hustle. What do you mean, in school? You're not giving me in school. I gotta get out of school suspension, man. You know?
SPEAKER_00So how did you so how did you end up? What's the whole story? So how long did you go to jail for?
SPEAKER_01I ended up relapsing heart, okay. Yeah. And I ended up getting into a cat and mouse chase with the Monroe County Sheriff's Department. Um, Officer McKenzie, Sergeant McKenzie today. Um I used to uh fret, you know, like tease him, right? He'd go to pull me over, I'd lose him. He'd go to pull me over again, I'd lose him again. And he called me up once and told me that I need to turn myself in at the Monroe County Sheriff's Department. I said, okay. He goes, but don't bring an attorney. Don't bring an attorney. I'm not going anywhere without an attorney right now, you know. So I showed up with the attorney and he wanted to talk to me. I mean, this was before body caps, okay? So they wanted me there, they probably wouldn't even have wrote me a ticket for the high-speed chases. I think they wanted to fuck me up, right? They wanted to beat the shit out of me, which is fine. I probably should, I probably deserved 100%. I deserve the ass whooping. You know, and I I I I I honestly wish that law was like that today, right? Some people just need their ass kicked. And I feel like the I'm not gonna say the world as a whole, but I feel like we're teaching these kids how to be soft. Right? I haven't met too many men, right? When I see these old timers go, I'm like, nigga, that's one of the great ones. That's one of the last ones of that generation. Once our generation is gone, what the fuck about the next generation and the generation below that? These kids are fucking dunces, you know. Um, so I ended up getting into a high-speed chase again. They had my whole house surrounded in trilages. The whole neighborhood was. And you'd think one of my neighbors would have called me up and said, Hey, by the way, you might not want to come home tonight. Right? The neighborhood's fucking jam-packed with cops. Nobody tipped me off. Pull into the neighborhood, I see the cops, I pull up to the cop, and he couldn't open his door. That's how close I was. He said, We finally got a warrant for your arrest. Get out of the car. You gotta catch me, buddy. You know? So I get into an all-county high-speed chase, smoked 17 bags of crack cocaine during the chase. Um how long is this chase? Oh, it went from county to county. I I ultimately I remember this in the news. I I had a 15-count felon indictment. Uh, three counts or six counts of assault against the police officer with a deadly weapon. My car was the deadly weapon. I was throwing cops in ditches. I was going head on with them. You know, we were head on. I was going the wrong way on the motherfucking expressway. You know, I mean, I was out of my mind. I can't even believe I'm alive today. You know, between all the high-speed chases, the five shots that I took, the the amount of drugs that I did back in those days, you know, to think that I got blessed with the opportunity to still be here on this earth and to learn all of those lessons, you know. So, I mean, not everybody gets to make it out, which is the sad thing. So, anyways, I ended up getting seven years for that shit. And um, but during my incarceration, it was the best part of my life because I finally, for the first time, I got to cut everything off. And then I got to say to myself, what do I have to do to never come back to this? I mean, it was humiliating. You go on a visit, you get done with the visit, and I don't care if you had your tongue down somebody's throat for 20 minutes, you get thrown in that back room, you're getting butt naked. Showing another guy your dick, your balls, your ass, you're spreading them, you're lifting them, you're shaking it out, you know. For me at the time, it's exactly what I needed. If they gave me a one to three or two to four, I might not have learned my lessons. I did the maximum amount of time I can get charged for that sentence. And after my father, because my father died during my incarceration, after he died, that's when the light started to click. That's when I had my first spiritual awakening. You know, I was a a prison gangster. You know, I was running all the grocery stores in my unit, you know, the two for ones. Uh, I was selling the porno books, I was running the blackjack games, I was running the Italian American Club. Like, if you needed something besides drug, I never touched a drug in prison because I knew drugs brought me to prison. So I knew that if I wasn't gonna come back to prison again, I can never touch drugs again. Right? So I I never saw the drug, I never did a drug. I did absolutely I didn't even smoke cigarettes in prison, right? And I could have smoked cigarettes. I gave it all up. So um once my father had died, and I had because they took me to visit with him. So when I got the phone call that my dad was in the hospital from my mother, they let me go visit my father that night. I got the two-hour visit because it's either you once you're on deathbed status, you can go see him when he dies at the at the funeral, or you can go see him at the hospital on his deathbed status. But he's got to be deathbed status. So they got me there, thank God, because I had that conversation. You gotta be the man of the family, you gotta take care of your brothers, you gotta promise me that you know Donna's always okay, this and a third. So I had to like take over his entire legacy, but I was still in prison, I still had three more years to do. So a month after he dies, I get thrown into solitary confinement for a gambling ring. Oh no, no, that was months before that. This time I get in for an extortion charge. A guy says that I was extorting him because he ended up owing me like$575 on the book because I kept giving him whatever the fuck he needed. Money doesn't come, money doesn't come, money. Now it's two months later, the bill's up to$575 and what now you owe. Well, now the money came in. So I had my guys intercept his package and uh, you know, take some of the money back. He goes back to his unit, the CEO says, Where's all your stuff? Tando had his guys hit me on the fucking walkway. So 30 days after my dad dies, the jump out van comes, they put me on the ground, they throw me in solitary confinement, and this I'm mad. I'm mad that this fucking bastard that I was taking care of just signed in under me, right? So he doesn't have to pay the bill. I'm mad that my dad just died, so now I'm mad at you, God. And that was my first ever argument fight that I ever had with God. And I called him every name in the book. I mean, I'm in a six by ten cell, porcelain toilet, no sink, like a 24-hour lockdown, S block. And um, so I'm I'm mad. Um I told him that I will never believe in a Santa Claus fairy tale ever again, unless you show me a sign. You show me a sign, you show me something, I'll give you my life, I'll change my life, I'll let you take care of it. That night, I don't know if you remember on Woodsmoke Lane, my next door neighbor that we would always kick the soccer butt, always hit her house, the old lady, Mrs. Conklin, that I haven't seen since I was 15 years old, sends me a letter to prison. And I get it that night. And it says how much Jesus loves me, God loves me, how much potential I have, how amazing of a child I was, how God's calling me, He saved me for a reason. This, that it was like Jesus just wrote this whole letter and put Mrs. Conklin's name on it because she's an angel, you know, and I haven't seen the lady since I was 15. I'm 33, 34 years old, or whatever, you know. So I go to the uh hearing the next day in front of the sergeant. I tell the sergeant, I said, Sergeant, you already know how the prisons work. You got the stores, this guy owes, he's trying to sign on me. I didn't do nothing. I never harmed him. I protected the guy. I said, but before you sentence me, I gotta read you this letter that I got from Jesus Christ last night. I read him the letter, Eric. Just like that. He let me out of the box. Case dismissed. If I didn't get out of the box and I got charged with the tier one ticket that they wrote me, I would have lost all potential good time. I would have lost fucking I I wouldn't have started my company. I would have lost my company because of it. Because when I opened up my business in 2013, if I had to wait another year to do that, who the fuck knows? I needed 213, it was the perfect year to enter. You know how everything's number, mathematical, whatever. 2013, there was a gap in my industry. You know, my competition or whatever you want to call it, they they got complacent. You know, it's all old money. You know, when I told my mother I was gonna start my own construction company, she told me that I was nuts, that I couldn't start my own construction company because I couldn't compete with the competition. And my my answer to my mom was I know the industry, but you can't afford it. You ain't got no money. The competition's got all the money. I says, Don't worry about it, I'm gonna do everything myself. Eric, she gave me a prepaid credit card for 500 bucks for Christmas, all right? In 2013. It would have been 2012 Christmas.$500 prepaid credit card. She says, keep this, use it. When you, you know, when you spend the money, just let me know. I'll pay the bill until you get yourself a job. Because I was working for Chucky Manel, but then I had to quit because Chuck's son kept fucking me over, right? So once you fucked me over three times, that's it. I gotta cut you off now. Now you're out. So I had to leave, or else I was gonna go back to prison because I was gonna fuck this kid up. So when when she gave me the prepaid credit card, I bought advertisement on yellowpages.com and the lady asked me if I had a phone number for the company. I says, I gotta call you back. I gotta get a phone number for the company. So I say to myself, wait a second, my father's business has been in business for 40 years. I gotta find my father's phone number. So I started calling all the telephone companies to find out who owns the 4546590, and I found it. Look, if I sell my phone number today, I want three, four mil just for the phone number. My phone don't fucking stop ringing. My office for a little small business, we take 200, 250 calls a day. Every day. That's that's that's a lot of phone calls for a local paving company, you know. You want my phone number now? Give me a couple million dollars just for the number, right? That's what I sell my phone number for. Because my phone rings more than theirs. Okay. Um, so like I bought the number back. Then remember Joyelle's ambido? Um Joel's Hambido, she was from my neighborhood. She was uh an Athena girl, smoking hot.
SPEAKER_00No, remember it now.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, I took her out to dinner. I said to her, I says, Look, it I can't afford to take you to dinner, but maybe I could take you to Wagmans, we'll buy the food, and then we'll go back to your apartment and I'll cook for you. So that's what we did. She picked me up because I couldn't drive. She picked me up. We go to Wagmans, I go to pay the bills like 68 bucks. The credit card got denied. I said, You gotta be fucking kidding me. I says to the lady, it must not be right. Your machine's gotta be broken, try it again. Boom. I get it denied again. Joy El says, she stops me. She says, I got this. I was so fucking embarrassed that I couldn't afford to take a girl out for$68 at Wagnants, you know, and go back and cook for her. But it's because I bought the advertisement and the telephone number, it's not like I spent the money on anything else. So, I mean, March, February of 2013, I was welfare ready. I was broke, I had zero dollars, my mother knew I was hurting, and she said, Um, you should get on welfare. You know, and after doing seven years, you can get on welfare just like that, and they give you, you know, whatever. I needed help, I had no money. I was shoveling fucking driveways for 30, 40 bucks. 2013 winter, my back was killing me. So my I she takes me in February to welfare, and I was as I'm walking into the door, it's a shitty Rochester day. It's snowy, windy, rainy, it's nasty February day. And as I'm walking up the steps, I I there's a guy 10 foot in front of me, and he goes in before me, and then I go to reach for the door, and the door shuts in my face, and I hear my father's voice in the sky say, Don't go in there. Turn around. I promise you the phone's gonna start ringing. Right? I went back to the car, I cried like a five-year-old kid in my mother's arms, told her I couldn't take the money. She told me I was nuts. Go get the fucking money, she would tell me, right? And uh I said, no. I said, Dad told me the phone's gonna start ringing, don't take it. And I didn't want it. Is it the pride? Yeah, well, look at the state. If you need it, it's there for you. I didn't need it. I was capable of, right? And I knew that if this if if if I gave them that power over me, it would have limited my success, right?
SPEAKER_00It's getting you very emotional thinking about that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, because I invested in me, right? Every dollar I've ever invested, especially in the beginning, it was for me, like I invested in me. Um, it was my word. I went and seen the owner of McDonald's, and I says, Lou, please can I have my father's account back? Because my father used to do all the paving. And this was senior, Lou Sr. And he says to me, he said, You know, I cannot believe that you just wasted 12 or seven years of your life going to prison. And I looked at Lou and I said, You know, Lou, I said, seven years ago, I probably would have agreed with you. I said, but today I can tell you it was the best seven years I've ever spent in my life because it turned me into the man that I needed to be. Men don't do the things I was doing, right? You know, and today I know I'm a man, right? And I I've been a man for a long time. I had some missing elements, right? Today, I ain't gotta lie to you. If you're gonna ask me a question, expect the right answer. And if you don't like the answer, then you probably shouldn't be asking me the fucking question, right? End of story, right? That's the way I look at it. I'm 46 now. My, you know, I'm I'm I'm up there now, right? What do I gotta lie to anybody? For what? What game do I have in line to you? If you don't like what I just told you, you probably shouldn't ask me in the first place. Because I'm not willingly having this conversation with you, but you're asking. So now that you asked, here you go. The plate's wide open. You know, I mean, I got nothing to hide now. Um, so but besides that, once I opened the door in 2013, like I had I didn't even have a paver. I had no tools, I didn't even have a screwdriver, I had no wheelbarrows, I had no dump trucks, I had no roller. So if you got a call. I got a call in March from a Lewanda Brown on Blue Mountain Drive in the town of Greece. She says, I need a driveway paved, right? I says, I'll be there tomorrow to get it to give you an estimate. I went to Staples, I got fake contracts where I had to write Tandoy asphalt and SEAL card and the address. I I was given three-year warranties, the whole nine, everything. I was signing deal. I sold my first$3,000 driveway to Luanda Brown. She gave me a$300 deposit check. I brought it to CMB Bank. They told me you can't open an account. You you uh you don't have a business account here. I said, Well, how do I get a business account? She goes, You got to get a tax ID number, a federal number. Well, how do I do that? You got to go to the county building. So I go to the county building and I buy it. I go back, I deposit it. I think my first year in business, I did like off that$300 investment, I did just under a million dollars. I was like$978,000 in sales in 2013. Okay, just under a million bucks. If I sold 10 jobs on Monday and Tuesday, that means on Wednesday and Thursday, I bought another piece of equipment. I bought a$3,000 dump truck, my first pickup truck was$800, uh, my first roller was$1,000, my first paver was$10,000, but it was on a note where I had to give the guy$500 every single week for two years for a$10,000 paver, you know, which was a gift. And then that was it. You know, the rest is history. You know, we're the the the the saying at Christmas to to my family because when I was away, I used to tell them I used to send a letter home to my cousin Danielle, D-Rex, I call her. And I used to send this letter back to her, uh, pretty much extorting my entire family, letting them know that I love them. And when I get home, I'm gonna do Christmas. I'm gonna give you the best prime rib, the lobster, the you know, the surf and turf. Um, but for now, you guys gotta get together and come up with 10, 15, 20 bucks a piece and throw it in a hat. And, you know, for Christmas, I need a new Christmas gifts, right? Like I wanted the boom box one year. I wanted the extra cool jacket one year. You know, so every year I would send a letter. Danielle would collect the money. So now at Christmas. Christmas is at my house every year, and I says to the family, I says, It looks like the competition can't keep up with us. But I don't consider, you know, I consider the asphalt industry is unique, okay? Because the guys that jump into the asphalt industry, that are asphalt guys, they last one season, two seasons, we see it all the time. A true asphalt guy will tell you that he's not really competing with anybody, right? Because at the end of the day, our group of asphalt contractors that are replicable, that are really good, we get enough work where we don't have to hate each other. I love all the other company owners. You know, I respect them all, they respect me. If I needed a paver because it, you know, paver went down on a job, I got five other pavement companies that I could call, you know, within minutes. I'll figure it out. Um, so it's like we're in competition, we want to win the jobs. I want to take this job from this company, absolutely. You know, but as far as like not liking our competition or being a part of our I talk to my competition all the time on, you know, just whatever type of stuff. Um but with that type of attitude that I've had, my business is going national right now. Like we're doing big work all over the place. You know, this past year I was not only in upstate New York, we were in New York City, Staten Island, Rhode Island. We were hitting five boroughs, you know, and you just can't get into Atlantic City, New York City to pave, you know. So it's like that's been an experience. You know, we went to Pennsylvania three times last year, you know. Um so we'll see. Yeah. You know, the growth is limitless.
SPEAKER_00Are you are you how do you feel? Because I'm sensing your energy right now. Like, do you think, like, are you gonna go for it these next five or six years and try to blow this thing up, or are you kind of do you find yourself wanting to chill a little bit? No, so either answer is fine. You've worked hard.
SPEAKER_01I believe that right now the vision that I have uh for my paving company is to always keep my local paving company going. Okay. Um, you know, whether that's downsizing it or whatnot, just to serve our community. Um, I'll keep a Tandoy asphalt there, but like my main vision and goal, my ultimate dream is to be a part of the National Paving Association. You know, I want to be able to uh work with these guys from all over the world. I mean, these guys are amazing people. I was just in New Orleans three weeks ago and uh I was there for the uh um National Pavement Expo, you know, uh Pave X. And uh everybody there I know. I know them all. You know, I got relationships with these people. We work together with these people, you know, and I just want to continue to do that, you know, whether it's working with them, however it is. I mean, these guys that's that's the major leagues. That's it. You know, so like right now, locally, we're still in the minors. We're we're not in the major leagues yet. You know, I know asphalt guys that have 3,000 employees, 350 employees, you know, couple hundred trucks. You know, I mean, there's massive? I don't want that. I do not want that. You know, every time my trucks leave the shop, it's another liability. You know, there's so much liability. You know, we had one guy this year drive a dump truck. He was an hour and a half away from the site. He was not even on this the route he was supposed to take. He went down an illegal road in Ithaca, New York, um, coming back from Binghamton, and uh, he went right through the side of a mountain, destroyed the whole truck, everything. It cost me$12,000 just for the fucking tow bill.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_01Just to tow the truck out.
SPEAKER_00You know? Let me ask you a question. Uh, one of the reasons I I started this is I is I really want to inspire young entrepreneurs. How much time do you have? You got is is you know, uh, what would you say to a 26-year-old guy doesn't have his shit together, doesn't feel like he has the ability to be an entrepreneur, maybe is working for a boss that he fucking hates. Like, did you have did you have self-doubt about being an entrepreneur, or or have you always known you could be an entrepreneur?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I mean for me and many, you're either born with something or you're not. You know, like the kid that's really good with history, or that's a mathematic guy that looks at a number, he figures out any problem or whatever. I feel that my father instilled that work ethic into me. You know, I didn't learn how to be an entrepreneur. You know, I've always been, you know, bumping and grinding, hustling my ass off, always, you know, four, five, six jobs, 16 years old. You know, Frankie, he used to say, Mike, I don't know how you do it. You never sleep. You're always up before everybody, you never sleep. We just got home at six, I'm going to bed for two days, and you're going to SEAL coat 25 driveways. You know, that's how it was growing up. You know, so for me, it was instilled in me. I didn't learn business because I didn't know business. But when I did go to due time in the gated community, I um I took a two-year small business course, and that taught me the inside of the business. So, you know, an employee is great, but he doesn't know how to run the business on the inside. You know, so I was always an employee for my father. So I knew the outside field, I knew nothing about the inside. So that was a great course. But um, if I were to give advice to a 26-year-old kid today, um, with with the way technology is today, it's it's gotta be it's it's gotta be challenging for him in a lot of ways, but realistically, there's a lot of shortcuts that they can be taken today. I mean, with the AI and everything else, you know. Like I used to have to handwrite my business plans. I can go on Chat GBT right now, tell her what my ideas, and then 20 minutes later she shoots me out a proposal. You know? Um if you invest in yourself, right? If you're good with you and you invest in yourself and you're investing in something that you enjoy and you love, you'll never fail. Right? You'll never fail. You know, but like you know, self-control. If you start making a hundred grand a month, two hundred grand a month, whatever your number is, fifty grand a month, twenty-five grand a month, and you're owning the business, running the business, and you don't know how to fucking budget that money, you know, and you just spend it all, well fuck, you won't be in business much longer. I mean, the economy's wild right now, you know. Um, so I I think education's got a lot to do with it too. You know, but I would, if I was 26, I wouldn't be fucking doing any of the fuck off shit that I did. I would have made that initial investment, I would have continued doing what I was doing, you know, minus the drugs.
SPEAKER_00I think the big thing you said is investing into yourself. That like that. Right. It's almost like you made uh multi-millions off of 500 bucks.
SPEAKER_01Right. Well, I mean, think about it. If you love what you do, like you obviously love this podcast thing, right? You're you're a marketing genius, right? And now you fell in love with a new hobby. This is a hobby for you, right? Some people get paid to do it for you know for a paycheck. You do it because it's a hobby, okay? Um, but um you won't ever fail at this. You enjoy it. You look forward to coming to work and having an interview. I haven't even had to talk with you. Like, you were like, I'm canceling, I can't make it. You're like, damn, so you kept that block open. You would have been bored today if I didn't show up.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But I'm glad I was able to come here today. Um, and I didn't want to let you down. I didn't want to miss the opportunity because I feel honored to be here with you and your staff and your team. You know, I wanted to check out the building. Um, you know, Eric, I've g-checked you. Okay. I've g-checked you. I've called other firms from our area just to check the SEOs and the this and that, the back pages that I can't see that I know nothing about.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01Just to make sure you guys remember, you know, look at you never know. You got to check your investment, right?
SPEAKER_00Well, first of all, so I'm raising my prices this year.
SPEAKER_01Gotta G check my buddy.
SPEAKER_00That's we gotta turn that that, we gotta spin that in terms of some marketing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So tell me, so tell me exactly what you did. You got a few people to check it out.
SPEAKER_01I got a few people, and I I had um professionals that came in and looked behind the scenes at everything that Blue Moon marketing was doing for me. And uh he says, dude, they're doing a great job. He goes, they're doing actually really good. They're doing you know, everything that you guys talk, your language, yeah, right? I know driveway language and Italian, slang, Italian slang. Um, but so they they approved it. And uh I wanted them to say that you weren't doing a good job. That's what I wanted. Yeah, right, because I wanted to look I wanted to look for an excuse to fucking you know pull a Luke Corona on your ass. Ding ding boom! Yeah right, so um, but no, I mean the review came back great. Yeah, and um, you know, at the end of the day, everybody's marketing campaign can always be a little bit better, right? Um there's so many different ideas, so many different avenues, so many different things that could work. You got to test the waters, whatever, you know. Um, but as far as the stuff that you guys are doing, we're happy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we so when we this is our plug, like when when we work with somebody, let's say it's somebody that's never worked with me before. I had a guy reach out to me in Rochester, uh, awesome guy. Should I say his name? Doesn't matter. I guess it doesn't matter. It'll give him some marketing. I will do it. Same as Steve Nally, awesome kid, um, owns a landscaping business. I believe I know Steve.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00He awesome dude. I'll leave it there. Awesome dude. I I've I knew him about eight years ago, and he actually reached out to me for some marketing advice. He actually didn't even realize that I owned a company. So he messaged me on Facebook. He said, Hey, can I talk to you? I need your opinion on something. And he said, Hey, I'm getting this sales pitch from this marketing company. They're suggesting I do this, this, and this. And I said, Okay, well, I said, tell me a little bit about your business, what's your top line revenue, what does it look like when a lead comes in? What are your goals? What are you trying to do? And he goes, you know, he told gave me all the answers. And I said, Well, I said, the plan, in my professional opinion that they're giving you, isn't gonna help you accomplish those goals. I said, What so when I so I'm gonna recommend that whoever you go with, you want to start here, here, and here. Worry about that in a few months. But this is if you want to get your business up from X to Y this year, you want to prioritize this. So, of course, I wanted to say, buy everything. Right. Of course, I make more money that way, but I know if I just can get him a win and he and he and he starts making some money, I build up trust with him, and then I can say, hey, let's push these other things on you. And then he goes, Wait, do you own a marketing company? I go, Yeah, of course I do. Boom, he does business with us. Right. But it's because I I'm I never try to oversell somebody anything. Now, don't get me wrong, I love big deals and big contracts. Sure. But at the end of the day, I'd rather just say, here's what you absolutely need. Let's let's build some trust over the next 90 days, and in 90 to 120 days, I'm gonna throw the whopper on you. Right. Right? Because you've sure you've built the the trust with them. Um, do you do you got anything else that you want to talk about? I think we've touched a lot today. Yeah, you know, no, it's good.
SPEAKER_01I think we touched a lot today. Yeah, um, I had a good time. This was nice. I I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_00I feel like you've been wanting to get this off your chest. I can tell. It's great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think we had a good conversation. Me too.
SPEAKER_00Well, I think you know, my my personal observation of you, dude. I think, you know, you know, we're in we're both in a position where we're financially good, right? And it's like maybe not good. There's always stresses, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01If always stresses if if we don't go to work today, it's gonna affect us for sure, right? So I'm not at the point in my life where we can't go to work today. Yeah, we still gotta go to work. You know, are we financially did did we make some good decisions and you know, things are going good for us? 100%, you know.
SPEAKER_00I think you're gonna get some fulfillment though, I think off of you got to get on stage, man. You you gotta you do, you gotta get on stage. You people gotta hear your story, dude. And you're so like you're just so electric.
SPEAKER_01So I I went to Spencerport High School uh about two months ago. Yeah. And once the kids in the school find out that I'm coming, nobody misses class, right? Once I start talking, so I'll do five classes in two days, or six classes in two days. And the one class to talk to the next class to talk to the next. So the whole school's talking about it. Can't wait to get to the class. And if you've ever been to a high school and you start a class, there's always some asshole that says, I gotta go to the bathroom, right? Not once out of the six classes does anybody leave the classroom for anything. No bathroom, nothing. They hold it because they don't want to miss my next sentence, right? Um, so yeah, no, I I I love helping people, you know. So I do that back for the Spencer Port High School. Um and uh I'm I'm going to um a boys and girls club next week to do a podcast with them. So that's gonna be a nice little opportunity. It's uh the Villa of Hope, and they have an aftercare program uh for for the kids, and then they got a homeless shelter on the same property. So I went there two weeks ago to check it out, and they invited me to do a podcast.
SPEAKER_00So I think I think in the next five years, I I just think organically you're gonna have some doors open. I I believe it. You're gonna have some doors open that just take you to a whole another place. I love that, and you feel even better for it because you're talking to that 26-year-old guy who probably needs to hear it. Yeah, or that 18-year-old guy that probably needs to hear it. Sure. You know, that's maybe high at class. Do me a favor, that handsome face of yours. He's always been good looking, by the way. Since sixth, seventh grade, he was always good looking. Look into the camera, and if somebody wants to learn about your business, learn about your story, yeah, check you out. Where can they find you?
SPEAKER_01So Tando Asphalt and SEAL coating, uh, 454-6590. Um, you can uh if you got any questions about um my life story, that's uh the man I was destined to be book, right? So uh I wrote that book and published it in 2013. I wrote that behind bars and it's been on bookshelves ever since. Uh again, it's called The Man I Was Destined to Be by Michael Tandoy. Um, and then if you boat, we're automatically friends because I'm a big boater. I love boating, so I'll see you on the water soon. Um, but uh the paving company, Tandoyashfalt.com, uh Tandoyasphot and SEAL coating. We're from upstate New York, uh, but we're willing to go anywhere you want to send us. You know, we'll go anywhere. Um, I appreciate this.
SPEAKER_00This is good. This is fun for me because I barely had to talk. This is this is dope. I need more guys than you on here. Hey guys, thanks again for tuning into the Gold Coast podcast. Make sure to like and subscribe. We'll see you again soon.