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Let's get started. Welcome back to another episode of I Will Not Lose Podcast. Good morning,
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success we brought him back by popular demand we got law the barber i'm your host tony ortiz and
we're here with law the barber good morning good morning we're gonna give an introduction for
people that didn't tune into the last episode okay so uh uh social media named lauren uh law
the barber um named lawrence right um owner of the barber pill which is a small upscale barber shop
in bethlehem pennsylvania and uh so far so good um building a true good community out of this uh
six-year run that i had so far and a lot has changed a lot of you know a lot of different
things came up uh actually the book bag drive was very successful you just had the book bag drive
yep um wasn't expecting the news to be there but it happened and the right message got conveyed
that you know when we do things like that we want to do it um in the right aspect for for the right
reasons all the time because um that one particularly made me realize and it was my
second time doing it by myself like that with carter and um sharonda miss debbie hasiel helped
out and a host of others that donated you know thank them all um for what they did and especially
the folks who came out in the morning to help me um carter came earlier than everybody else to set
certain things up and once he did that everybody followed suit so it was great um uh particularly
want to mention a family that came and uh that kind of set the tone for the day for me well tell
me about it so i was a young lady with four kids and um she uh was very transparent about um what
what it meant to her um in terms of um having support like that in the community and uh it
kind of opened up my eyes you know made me see how much fortunate most of us are versus someone
who's in a kind of like a tough spot and um when the help is there it's it's such a great thing to
see that um that what we did um helped her in such a great way yeah that was brave of her to come out
and be vocal about it yes i was very i she was on the news right i did see the news clip yes that
was her yes oh that's amazing and i'm like man um yeah that one got me a little bit so i just had
to mention that one it was still on my mind fresh so oh that's sad to say it put a perspective on
the things we do in the community it really does matter absolutely whether any kind of business
but specifically a barbershop because it's so different it's so much more intimate in terms
of you getting to know people over years you know it could be um how you like pass down a torch
right um you start cutting the son then the son becomes a girl you know a teenager then he becomes
a man then he starts his family but before him was his father right and and so on and so forth
it's the same thing with people in the community how you build your rapport and how you do things
it really does matter i hear that man i had a blessed week i had a couple things that put into
perspective just what we do why we do it you know oh man speaking of that uh as i was telling you
this story earlier about you know like remember the last episode we talked about mental health and
um uh that has um is still there and i'm still making sure that people know that you should be
aware uh you should check on someone um each day whoever you pick you know it could be any random
person just make sure you check on somebody um because you just never know where they are yeah
and that happened a couple of times um especially this week um that happened yesterday to me
actually and it was a good thing my wife mentioned the person and i hadn't check up with this person
in a while so i'm like wow for her to say that name it kind of triggered me so i was like oh man
let me let me really put out a call and see what happened and lo and behold that person was going
through a rough time yeah yeah so they needed you yeah yeah i mean i needed to hear them and they
needed to hear me yeah you know what i mean it's a way to put it it's a support system so
it goes both ways nice man yeah nice i gotta get are you gonna be over at the barber shop
this afternoon i know you guys meet up every friday um they'll they usually come out at
spur of the moment sometimes um well we know my four o'clock's gonna be there no matter what
so that's about the time when everybody starts coming so we'll be there um well at least me and
him i know will be there um the other guy you know they all have stuff going so we'll see if
everybody shows up sometimes they pop up in spurts sometimes it's fredo you know drain surgeon we
mentioned that yeah big shout out to fredo exalt jujitsu imec power sometimes hasiel
um wagner and my man tony here will show up so that's pretty much the it or renard may pop up
once in a while so there you go those are the names you know um but it's it's good to have guys
like you around though so you know i learn things from all of you even though you might not think so
but i pick up on things and uh it's very helpful to have a good group of guys like you around so
that we can have a support system for each other yeah absolutely reach out to these guys at a
couple yeah here pull do me a favor pull the mic a little closer to you yeah that sounds good um
so what else are you working on what do you have in the works another book bag drive just went by
right um i'm thinking of um doing a coat drive and um i want to assist um carter with his uh
turkey drive if he does have it um don't want to talk too fast but that's the idea um if he does it
I'm going to go in and help out and we're going to see how many, uh, more people that we can get
to support that cause. And obviously, you know what, this is for people who are less fortunate,
who don't have, um, people who can't afford it, homeless, if you're home, you know what I mean?
So every little bit counts, every little bit helps. Every little bit counts, man. That's a
great way to put it. Every little bit helps. Cause you know, sometimes you see like these
huge companies doing these large drives and you know they may be doing it for a tax write-off and
they may hit a large impact you know but it's good to know a little bit that you do effects like
sometimes like you say even if it's just one person you know somebody listening is going to
pick up and be like of course man there's people i didn't even know there was people doing stuff
like this allentown bethlem you know that's what happened with the book bag drive and for us to get
to those people um really and truly though the book bag drive i wanted to get to the people who
are um afraid to ask for help yeah um sometimes pride gets in the way and that sucks but um
really and truly those are the people i was trying to get to come out but we got to the
ones that we got to and i'm pretty sure the next time around they'll be there
you know because now they know we'll be there and it's a consistency thing um when i was
coined coining the term building a cornerstone um i kind of took a page out of bob marley's book
because the builder refused that song he talks about how the builder refused that stone that
same stone became a great stone which he was talking about him okay you know his father
rejecting him right um i'm not familiar with that but that's great when you look it up you'll see
what i'm talking about um so that was a special story about barb marley and his between his him
and his dad but the cornerstone like building a cornerstone um you want to be um present and um
active in your community right and that's what the barbershop is pretty much that's what we do
um it's not just about cutting hair and um sometimes it doesn't look that way at first
and then after the cutting hair gets to be a natural thing now the work um the rest of the
work has to be done now because now you have community relations and how you deal with the
community right so the consistency of us let's say every august now i'm going to do the book bag
drive every august now so that it's a consistent thing and that's what i think resonates with a
lot of folks if you're consistent with it you're good about doing it and it's genuine you're you're
really showing that you care and we forget about those things sometimes we just said the little
things you just have to make sure you show genuinely that you do care and you care what
happens to people absolutely because we lost we lost some of that and i was telling that to um
the interviewer from 69 news that um some people haven't bounced back from that whole
covid situation and are still struggling you know so it anything like that that we can do
to put people back on track let's just say yeah um and i always say if you're blessed i think we
should bless others if you're blessed like a turkey drive that's such a great way because
you know food's expensive absolutely oh my gosh it turns into memories you know what i mean you
have a nice turkey you have a you know nice sides and stuff like that yeah i remember the bad
thanksgivings you know what i mean and right it's nice to to put something nice even if it's small
you could be appreciative for it so think about this so let let's take a mind journey real quick
So you're thinking about the hot food.
You're there with people that you love, right?
We all care about each other.
And now we're sharing a meal together, like breaking bread.
That's a wonderful feeling.
Yeah, there's something about sharing a meal.
That's the one thing that I won't, in terms of Zoom meetings versus meeting in person.
There's this whole thing, like after the pandemic, it's acceptable.
It was really hard to get somebody for a Zoom meeting before that.
now people are like oh do i have that as an option right but to set myself up and be like okay um
i'm not gonna meet anybody in person sometimes there's a connection where you just you know
you share a sandwich over lunch or even sharing a cup of coffee something about what we're doing
food it's uh it's definitely something intimate it's that's cool man it's hospitality i i think
it's um a part of being um grateful it's gratitude to show that you appreciate someone you know and
that goes a long way and these these are the little things that we talk about that we all
sometimes may forget you know how how grateful that we should be remember we were we just said
this this morning right thankful that we got up this morning right yeah and that's the start of
it you know because without that you can't go any further because we all know somebody didn't make
it today nah you know an exercise in gratitude i was working with a coach one time and he's like
tell me something you're grateful for and i'm like you know my wife and he's like it's easy to be
grateful for your wife like you're picking the the big things because i need to train you to be
grateful for that pencil on the desk in front of you right and that kind of switched my perspective
i'm like okay so you switched your brain like that you know flipped it even when we uh it was
funny i had my buddy johnny in here last week and we had uh we had a picture up of when i'll show it
to you i had a monitor stand yeah with my mic's garbage tied to like where it was and the way
that the monitor would swivel i had like this much room to come back and forth and get the sweet spot
and i did that for like for months oh man but i was so grateful that when we had the idea we wanted
to put out an episode for gil thompson that turned into all this and now we have the whole set see uh
but we just we did what we had and dude these are they're not expensive they're not expensive but
we had what you know i was grateful for what we had i wasn't sitting there like oh i'm not
gonna do this now because we don't have right you know you used what you had you used your resources
and and there we go back to what we were saying using your resources the things around you and
um i mean i've got this from a lot of people that they didn't know it was a barbershop which is
pretty i mean to me it's pretty cool that it's just there and those who know and who come there
know it's there but it's for the people who walk by it every day and not know what it what it is
yeah you can't really you can't really tell from the outside yeah i pulled up to the place next to
And I thought I was in the wrong place.
The GPS takes you to the, the, like the, is that the lawyers next door?
Yeah.
Well, well, um, it's the, uh, the apartment building and then you got the
salon and then the library across the street, maybe that's what I was looking
at the salon and I was like, is he cutting out of the salon or, I don't know.
It usually takes them right there.
But then when they, once they pull up, they see the barber pill in the window.
Yep.
So for those that don't know, Law has a single chair barbershop in Bethlehem, PA.
um really high tech too you book through an app he has his own app with the i don't know if you
guys can see on the camera but we have the logo um the barber pill yes but you go and click that
logo on the app go and set up booking i know people use like uh different booking apps but
yeah i don't know anybody that has their own that's actually you had that a while for a while
For a while, yeah, because it was Jason Majors.
I forgot to mention Jason because Jason comes by too.
Yeah, to the barbershop.
Yeah, so he told me one day, he's like, why are you being stubborn?
You should just get electronic booking, you know, stop writing appointments down.
And I was like, now I got to deal with all this, you know, internet stuff.
You know, I didn't really want to go that route.
So I decided to call up Efex Apps.
And he said, okay, I said, how much to build the app?
he tells me what will it be a month he tells me and i'm like all right let's do it because
it would be an investment for a lifetime that's how i looked at it and i'm like okay if this is
going to be really serious i have to get serious with how i do business you know what i mean so
um watching tyreek tuesdays and how he mentioned you know he's giving the tale of the story
of how tyreek built his app through effects and what it has done how it has changed buildings
how businesses are built and how the payment system is set up.
And I had to learn all those things.
And once you learn it, it becomes a lifesaver because, you know,
I think I had mentioned this in the first episode,
how the wife was like, why are they calling you at this time?
And so I had to cut, we had to end that.
We had to stop that.
So we had to stop that.
So I said, okay, let me build an app.
But even though I built an app, what I did was I put the link on all the social media.
So wherever the barber pill is, wherever a lot of the barber is, I've tried to put a link, whether to the website, because you can book from the website and the app's embedded with that link to it.
So I put one everywhere, but people are still old fashioned.
They'll walk up to the barbershop and, hey, can I get a haircut?
And I'm like, well, unfortunately I do everything by appointments and this is my spiel to the persons who are going to walk through the door.
some of them don't know so I spend the time to explain how it works and that's it you know
it's disappointing when they can't get the haircut that they walked up to the barbershop for but
on my sites I put appointments only for a reason right but some some people are unaware of that
and I get I get it so I continue to push the app and I continue to let them know it's free to
download so if you download it you can see all the appointments that are available you can book
whichever day it's a free-for-all um there are rules you have to cancel before 24 hours just
like a doctor's office or you're gonna get charged do you pay right through the app too
absolutely there's a paid system in there they pay they could make a deposit or pay for the full
haircut yeah man so you're on another level with that just an easy way to do it and then
on top of it because i know how it goes once they get there they're gonna want another way to pay
let's say they made a deposit and they want a complete payment right i decided to come up with
getting the zelle getting um i was cash app venmo all the other ones because you never know and i
have a credit card um card readers and stuff like that because nobody really carries cash that much
anymore i mean i know some guys who are old school i only take cash out really when i'm getting a
haircut for the most part right so you know there's still right so i would carry cash because
i still do but um in our day and age most of everything is not necessary well everything
mostly electronic for me i wish it was just one app but no i do the same thing with my clients i
except Venmo, PayPal, Cash App.
And then everybody's like, oh, I have Apple Pay.
That's like the one thing that I don't.
You know, you brought up a sore subject,
even though I'm not an Apple guy, right?
But I had to get with the program, right?
So I ended up getting a-
Wait, get with what program?
Getting an iPad so I can see what the app-
Why do you have, that's not-
Because I had to know, because you know what?
There was a bug on my app that I couldn't relate to
because i have an android so i needed to i needed to see what these apple users were telling me
because we had an incident and this person was describing this horrendous it sounded crazy to me
so i'm like okay you know what i'm gonna resolve that issue i'm gonna get an apple device and get
an apple thing you know what is apple id yeah so you have to get one of those and then you set it
up and obviously my my app is on the apple platform so i i have something of the sort for
that right but it was to see the bugs that they're telling me because i can't i don't know what to
tell them because i don't have an apple phone so i don't know what the bug is you had to troubleshoot
so i ended up doing that and once i went into my app kind of made some changes re-download it
and re-save everything kind of went smooth and if i had a problem i can always call effects to
resolve it remotely for me so it's kind of it's a lifesaver it took the stress off of me worrying
about people for the most part but i do have the people who still you know come in and walking and
stuff like that but yeah you're gonna have that i still people still write me checks i'm like yeah
but take all this electronic uh well yeah you know usually if it has to go through an accounting
department or something i guess they can't really just sign on cash exactly right exactly so now i
have um scan to pay also yeah i saw that in your shop yeah so i have the little guy and it's the
same system that's inside the app which is great so now it's uniform now if they come i said okay
just scan the uh paypal right there and you pay that's it because you could be a guest you don't
have to necessarily have a i think a paypal to do that you can just pay just like that and i have a
card um it's almost like when you go to a show and you want someone to pay for products so i have
this card key that's a pull string that i could just show them and they scan to pay if i'm ever
out yeah it's pretty cool nice nice just little things for them you know i gotta get up on some
stuff like that just for the coolness factor i do have something with my business card i gotta put
you onto it uh the qr code when they scan it it opens up their contacts and it pre-fills all my
information my website my social media oh i think carter did some type of scan thing on the back of
the uh on my business card for me i think carter has the beacon he had uh he has like the little
website that has his links to all this stuff yes yes so he definitely so he changed it shout out
to carter i hope he's feeling better yeah carter man you are the guy man he was supposed to be here
today with us yeah right oh man but i hope he's feeling better but yeah he has these little
gadgets, man. He knows how to work his way, you know, internet wise, you know, websites and all
this stuff. He's definitely social media savvy. I have some photos he took from the last photo
party that I got to post. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh man, definitely. I was asking him for something to
push that even though it was supposed to be today, it's not going to be anymore, but.
Yeah, that broke my heart. Yeah. I was excited about that. I was excited to go to that. I was
all prepped and ready i had my chair i had my station i had my table yeah i was ready i don't
know maybe it'll work out better not being over the holiday or something i think i think everything
worked out for a reason yeah so i think it's going to be even better now that he you know that this
little hiccup happened you know i appreciate him taking it so seriously you know what i mean he
could have just said well nobody's taking this serious anymore and oh no no he had the party but
so i i spoke to him yesterday and i said way to uh take the responsibility it's almost like when
And when I caught that, I had to shut down.
I let the customers know who came that day.
I called each one.
It's all about the responsibility.
Because remember, if I'm servicing people, I'm responsible for your health and well-being if you're in the shop.
Yeah.
Well, as a barber, you got to.
Yeah, you got to.
I have to touch you.
I'm in your space.
I was just going to say, that's a contact sport.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So, you know, I think that's great.
he took the initiative and uh you know that that's the way you have to do it oh man so i wanted to
talk a little bit you're testing for belt stripe man yeah this is coming up man what a crazy
so the savage race i forgot to update you so the savage race went well um had a a three three man
team this time um and uh matt who is a triathlon shout out to matt who's going to europe to go
participate in the iron man contest oh wow so yeah um he won this the the race itself he was first
um wow i was 18th and i forgot what um alex brother um oh man i'm throwing a blank
but um he was the third guy and um we did good overall we all showed up we all finished
that was i think i saw you have pictures of the finish yes right right so i yeah i'll throw them
up and and uh yeah i'll send it to you um so that was an accomplishment itself because i was
training since february for that yeah we talked did we talk about it on the last podcast yes yes
Because some people made a commitment and they all like, in the end, nobody showed.
Anyway, so it was supposed to be a couple of guys jumping on this one, but it didn't work out that way.
So the very first one was my motivation.
So it was me and Wagner.
So you remember Wagner.
So me and Wagner went to the first one and that was it.
I was hooked.
So I said, you know what?
This is definitely something to look forward to.
and it's um an accomplishment in terms of you have to work for it you can't just show up and
run that race you have to be prepared right just like anything else you you have to be prepared
for certain things you can't just go out and you know like this test coming up mentally that's
draining this this whole preparation it's like the the the fight or flight and so explain for
people that don't know about the the test what are you testing for all right what sport i'm i'm a
part of kim's black belt academy um it has three schools one in allentown one in bethlehem one in
quaker town and um so i'm going for the fourth dan test this time around so it's it's gonna be
a challenge and uh i'm a little nervous but i'm working my way that's why i keep running with
to keep my level of um i'd say cardio cardio because it's not going to be easy and i know
master kim is very tricky so i have to expect the unexpected because he will just switch it on you
on that day so i had him he did that to me one time i was supposed to do a specific kick and
he's like nope you're gonna do this kick so it's almost like let's say somebody see your potential
and they know you can do something,
they'll say, okay, I'm going to bump you a level up
because I know you can do this.
Yeah, I can see that.
And he'll do that to challenge you.
So that's part of it.
So there's a level of preparation
and then a level of unpreparation
because you got to just deal with it.
Because you have to expect the unexpected, yeah.
Aye, aye, aye.
Yeah, so that's what's coming up.
So I'm going to keep running.
But that's so adaptable to life.
There's so many things in life you're like,
okay i have to lay this out or set this up i mean even just like uh anything could go wrong with
all these different cameras and microphones and stuff people see one right steady conversation
but there's a lot that comes to put that together exactly you know exactly we're in a set right now
it's so bright he's got the sunglasses yeah right i had to i was like wow like you changed it you
change it around so pending this test you'll be uh what like what's your title or no it's it's
well it's not about title because um he asked me one day i had a conversation with him and i was
like um can i um order the belt without the stripes because i don't the stripes don't really
prove a lot to me anyway um um and i took a page out of his book because he never wears his stripes
so he just wears a plain old belt yeah like a plane you know but i just see that as a sign of
being humble and um i think i i took that i took a page out of his book with that so um it's not
the title it's what i can offer back to the students who are coming up behind me that's how
i look at it so anytime he'll ask me to like let's say lead class or teach class i'm honored
you know um so it teaches me lessons too by teaching you know what i can do better what i
can improve on and i get feedback a lot from the students you know um great class today but you
know that lets me know i'm i'm at least doing um a good job with lead you know giving them their
workouts and and make it meaningful every time they come to class oh man yeah see that's why
you guys inspire me i'm like like everybody's doing multiple things you know what i mean it's
not like you were just training for the savage race you know you have the entrepreneur going on
the other side working putting everything together yeah and then you're looking at uh
we have to is it too early to talk about the building uh yeah so that now what i did was i
held off on the building so um a couple of things happened so with those it it comes to well this
all came to light um investors are coming in the area and just snatching up buildings so after the
first one that they took took off the market um the second building i found it was it was not in
contract at the time i'm guessing but as we dug in to see what was going on it went under contract
and then boom they just bought it right away it was like one two three it's like something is you
know obviously bethlehem's growing yeah so you you know obviously investors are going to come
around and you know get whatever big properties on whatever main street that you can get you know
in terms of business that's great because it's the same thing with um oh shout out to bethlehem
food co-op and north side alive so bethlehem food co-op is getting um their own location
and you see it's on broad street because there's a lot going on on broad street especially in the
downtown little area there yeah and that building is going to be a new building i don't know what
else is going to be in there but i know the food co-op is going to be in that building so i just
say i'm just going to wait i don't want to rush because when you rush things like that you all
usually can jump into a situation that you might not be ready for so i i i took a heat of caution
my wife um said you know let's just wait you know let's let's look at keep looking obviously
and then when the right situation comes up it'll come so in the meantime it's a month-to-month
situation and you know we'll see what what happens with with this because i don't know
if she's going to come up with a new lease or whatever but you know i was too happy about the
last one but you know it's all good i i see what the trend was the trend was to jack up rent by all
these um landlords you know um and basically for for money purposes you know what i mean yeah it's
not really increased service you're not adding new additions onto the building or and yeah because
you know if you were okay so if you're a landlord you're doing the work and you're taking care of
the place all right well we can see how that can even out but when you're not doing the work and
you know, things like that.
It's just crazy.
But either way, I adjusted
and I'm just going to make it work
for what it is right now, wherever I'm at.
But I'll be there until I don't have to be there.
So I already have my storage set up.
Like we said, we're grateful for it.
Hey, grateful for what is there.
Yeah, exactly.
So I'm also grateful that I have a storage
just in case something crazy happens.
I could, you know, take the whole first floor
and that's it.
So I'm trying to work on emptying out the lower area.
that's cool you know just clear it out just so i can have a peace of mind and i don't have to go
down the in the basement for anything and that's it and i'm just gonna keep you know doing what i'm
doing we'll keep the people posted yeah definitely keep doing what you're doing absolutely man i'm
gonna keep on doing my part you know that's all i could do is my part and i'm grateful for the
people who are willing to help me and along the way yeah do you have anybody else you want to
shout out oh man so who didn't we shout out today oh shout out to marv he's not here anymore but
on demand detailing that's my guy um he's in georgia now though um shout out to black viper
entertainment uh hopefully i'm not forgetting anybody here you gotta introduce me to some of
these people oh man so uh oh romeo g i just met him part of carter dj dj yeah shout out to dj i
just ran into him i've seen him a couple places since the photo party he was the last person to
come with a delivery i think when the backpack drive shout out to hasiel obviously i i said i
didn't really um shout him out um and jason that i didn't talk about so jason's usually the brains
we call him the brain because he comes real estate right well he comes up with these ideas man um but
it's so unique that we have different like you know when we come up with ideas and and things
like that um it's it's really cool talking with him his perspective is so different it's um
more on like i would say the level side of things you know so it's kind of great to have that
balance you know it's the same thing isaiah comes up with good ideas we're afraid oh um what are we
getting together for dinner again so that's the plan now we have to come up with um where we're
in terms of goals obviously we're gonna do this again um so isaiah said he doesn't like to make
the dates anymore so i'm gonna kind of reach out to everybody in the group text and see what when
we could come up with a date you know summer's over you know pretty much it's coming to an end
so we gotta um you know come up with some some meeting times even if it's recording over the
holiday oh i uh well it's the holiday yeah right now yeah you look exactly every day he's like he
was like oh you didn't know it was the holiday yes it's labor day every day weekend so fast
i may drop this i don't know if i'm gonna drop this on the holiday or just put some filler
episode well nobody i'm not gonna have anybody's attention oh my god well shout out to my wife
velma so it's our anniversary over this weekend oh happy anniversary how long oh man 13
Oh, wow.
Yeah, 13, yeah.
We just celebrated seven.
We're getting there, we're getting there.
So 2010, right?
That makes it, yeah, that makes it 13.
Man.
Yeah, 13 and then 23 or 24.
So I met her in 2001.
Oh, you guys were together for 10 years before you got married?
Yeah, yeah.
That's awesome.
You guys do anything special?
Yeah, we're going to do probably like a group massage
and then maybe a dinner or something.
you know dinner lunch something like that real nice man man just nice and easy you know takes
work you got to have that balance if you're training for savage races and fourth degree
black belt taekwondo and training and running hard work yeah then we see him over at jujitsu
shout out to evan exalt jujitsu yep shout out to evan i'm gonna have him on sounds like something's
going on i didn't account for the fact that uh people will be home today oh boy that's all right
it's hey that's like show must go on hey it's life man definitely just like anything else you
know but do you have any other main points you want to go over uh yeah so the last thing was um
like we were talking about the mental health so i'll keep pushing the mental health as i said um
definitely working closely with preventive measures and i'm going to continue to do the walks
which every year that's going to happen um i think may right may is usually around when that happens
um like i said uh community events um being active staying active um continue to cut hair
and change lives one one day at a time so one person at a time it's only one chair so as long
as i'm there and i have health and strength i'll continue to do it shout out there you go man
that's the best you know that's the best way to even go about that you know well shout out to the
barber bill we got to do a whole episode on mental health that'll be pretty cool yeah because yeah
share stories i got stories when it comes down i've been through some things and yeah it's it's
strange because we don't live in a society where it's like uh men are allowed to open up or be
vulnerable or share do something like that yeah so i just say like all right forget that i'm gonna
make a podcast about it so yeah it's cool and then people do reach out yeah people reach out
personally so by you going out there and speaking and being vocal about things because it's serious
it's a really um you know it's it's not a situation until it is a situation and all i'm
trying to do is make sure it doesn't become a situation and the last thing you want if it is
a situation is to be like i can't talk to anybody it's right i mean you see what i'm saying so this
is why i always say at the if i have a little um skit or or a story i always say make sure you
check on somebody today that's important i'm gonna do that right after this episode and you know
because you you never know and it's a it's a good habit to keep because it may come back just might
come back to you somebody will call you to check on you you know yes i think i think it's a good
thing man well grateful i'm in a good place right now yeah you know this was nice yeah man this is
always a pleasure welcome to come back anytime we'll do something uh absolutely for season four
okay no worries um hopefully i'll be around hopefully i still gotta get um i don't have my
ending memorized oh you're ending but you gotta you gotta pretty much thank you for listening
thank you for the support check out i will not lose podcast.com i gotta put a little
i'll uh do some practice and memorize it or i'll punch it in and just cut this off and put the
perfect ending on it or whatnot you know i should this is a perfect ending this is a perfect ending
us laughing because we just had a great conversation right yeah no absolutely cheers
that's hot yeah man cheers grateful for this coffee it's not starbucks no but hey listen
this is the best stuff the homemade yeah man thanks for having me yeah definitely appreciate
Thank you for listening.