This Past Weekend - A Plumber | This Past Weekend #249

Episode Date: December 12, 2019

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I'll be back in the future at a more decent rate and And also, I want to let you know February 28th in Oxon Hill, Maryland at the MGM National Harbor Today's guest is is a working man. He is this is one of my favorite episodes and we're so glad that he was here He is a plumber and a regular man Ladies and gentlemen, the toilet champion is here Plumber Brad Luskowski We're here with Brad Luskowski and that's Polish, huh? Oh, yeah Polish power, dude Yeah, thanks for joining us today, man. Thanks for having me

Yeah, just happy to talk to a plumber man because I don't know anything really about plumbing. I ask away, you know All right, I'll think about this. So what is the difference between plumbing and septic tank? I was thinking about that. All right, like some of you hear like You know, you hear people have septic tanks. I would hear a lot of times growing up people had septic tanks, you know Or somebody got like sure, you know Something happened to him by a septic tank. That's how I actually got my start was dealing with septic tanks. I started 20-something years ago with Roto Ruder. I'm sure you heard of them. Oh, yeah Yeah, and and that's a commercial outfit, isn't it largest plumbing company in the world. Is it really? Wow?

So, yeah, the very first day I get hired. I gotten out of the Army I was 20 years old to get hired with this Roto, huh by Roto Ruderman in Alabama Were they in and were they in listing people? I mean, it was like a program from the Army to Roto Ruderman No, no, no, no, no, no, I don't know I got out of the Army and I went to work at Lowe's the home improvement store Oh, yeah, I love that point. I was actually when I got out of the Army I was I was 20 and I had applied to Atlanta SWAT and I was going through all the SWAT Qualifications and everything else because I was I was kind of heavy-duty in the military, you know So I didn't really have a whole lot of skills when I got out. How'd you get out of 20? I joined when I was 17. Damn. So I

Graduated early, you know a little smart, you know, yeah figured some stuff out and hard working You must have been huh? Very still am. Yeah, most people will call me the hardest worker they ever met Dang, so I kind of take that as a point of pride, you know, I could see that dude You like to Joe Rogan a plumbing dude because Joe Rogan is I think it's the hardest worker that I know That guy is busy. Dude. I think there's nine Joe Rogan There has to be more than one because he's in too many places at once Sometimes I have a I have like out of a daydream where he's gonna bring me in a room and be like, hey Hey, I want you to meet these other children

Okay, so you get out of the military so that's a dude that's a note for young fellas if you're like I don't know if I should go into the military if I 17 out by 20. Yeah. Yeah, I can I use my VA benefits. You know, I everything's cool. Everything's like normal Yeah, I just I joined early. I got out or I signed up for three. I got out Okay, so they offered to re-enlist me, but I had just met this girl. Mm-hmm. She was just pregnant You know, it was young. Did you get a pregnant or she was not? No, she was pregnant when you met her. Yeah. Wow That's a brave deal. I stuck on with that crap for seven years too with her and her kid Well, we eventually had one too her. Okay, like a few years later her and I my mom married

Yeah, all right, and then divorce 27 left. Anyway, the point of the septic thing was Dude that hires me as old big old fat dude from Alabama, you know, southern and as all can be yeah Take you out on your first day. You'll see it's not that bad. Okay, and we go out and dig up a septic tank Which is plumb will hide them or what but they're always buried Oh, so so so the pipe that leaves your house goes underground and it goes out to a box in the yard and that it basically Naturally decomposes everything that's in there. Okay, so it's compost almost kind of in a way. Yeah. Yeah, but it's it's it's a big It's it's five feet deep. It's it's a big box. You could bury a lot of bodies in there You could you could and it so it's five feet deep and it's buried in the ground. Yeah, usually a foot deep maybe more

Okay, and and and it's fine. How is it square? It's a it's about like this table. You know, it's a big long rectangle Maybe a little wider or so about five feet deeper. So I saw a dude weld one and a half one time I remember some of them usually concrete Well, then this got kind of I guess well, did it with like a um Maybe a concrete sure. Well, he might have used it He might have had a steel box because I mean you I've seen some rustic septic tanks made out of 55 gallon drums with Holes punk punched in the side. Okay, so you see some rural ones. I've seen you seen them

I've seen you seen fucking the Noah's Ark of fucking in-ground shit. You better believe it in Alabama They'll do whatever it takes. Oh, yeah, I went to one house in Alabama They didn't even have a septic tank the pipe went down it went out about a hundred yards and that was it Oh, wow, it just left out on the ground. Wow. Yeah roots were all growing up into the end of the pipe and everything So I had to go there and cut them all off and open it out and snake the pipe out and get everything good to go and everything So but that's no septic tank. Yeah, just a long pipe your freelance old school. It's illegal. It is Yeah, you can't do that. No black water needs to be contained. Okay, so that's really the rule Yeah, black water has to be contained brown water or gray water likes kitchen sink water and

Washing machines dishwasher stuff like that. You can actually and I do Install a 55 gallon drum with a pump in it and separate those lines from a septic tank Okay, so all that washing machine water that's bad for a septic tank now goes into a 55 gallon drum with a pump in it And then you can water your yard with that. Okay, so that's washing machine water that gray water Yeah, you can take that into a drum. Yeah, if you wanted to and then reuse that It's actually good because it's got soap in it and soap and the phosphates are good for your grass Oh, wow. Yeah, go figure. So that's so but the dark water the black water black water has to be my law has to be contained

Contain yeah, and then what do you do after you contain it? Well in a septic tank system after a couple of years all that stuff breaks down and separates the solids will sink to the bottom and turn to a sludge the things that are not Biodegradable like a wedding ring or something like if a dog eat anything that would sink we'll go to the bottom obviously But anything that's grease Won't biodegrade it'll collect and it'll turn into a ball basically a hard kind of crust on the top of the septic tank water or Condoms won't biodegrade. They'll float. Oh, wow Man one time I popped a septic tank open and I saw about 10,000 condoms in there

I swear I mean I didn't count them or anything But they were all over the top of the tank and who was the guy a little Asian guy No, no, no, it was that the homeowner him he was standing there watching me dig this tank up, right? So I have kids or something like it was no kids. No. Oh, yeah, because they weren't his condoms. No way I could have guessed it was a homeowner Yeah, he was standing there watching me I popped well He called me because that his his toilet wouldn't flush them all right now get there and I snake the drain out and

And and it won't go down. I'm like, well, I got to dig up your tank. So I dig up the tank And when I open up the tank and you look down and they're just everywhere They're coating the wall the pink ones and green ones and I mean every color of the razor Easter colors Oh, yeah, dude worked at a tire manufacturing plant the graveyard shift for like 20 years and I'm betting every night No, she had somebody coming they got a divorce. So you really so that's Man, that's crazy. So sometimes opening up that septic tank It's almost like a time capsule for your butter almost or so or for your you know for below the waist It's almost like a time capsule for what you or anything you've been doing in your home. Yeah, yeah

Yeah, I mean that that actually happened twice that that instance caused a divorce the next Time that happened where I found condoms in the tank. It was a young girl She was like 14 or 15. Oh, it was her grandma's house Oh, and the grandma was standing there watching me and who's were they you think they were the granddaughters for sure Oh, good. I mean, they were it was just a those are the only two ladies living in the house is the 14-year-old girl and the And the grandma's like they mine That's gonna be awkward game of go fish that they play later in the day, you know, where'd you get all these? Why are they in here?

So that's why you started in Alabama. Yeah, you worked with a man. Do you remember the gentleman the guy who hired me? Oh, absolutely. We still talk. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, he's a good man. He is and so now when you What was like your vibe when you started working there? Were you like it? Were you like, oh, this is a career that I want to make or were you like this is just a job that I want to do What was kind of your your goal if you had any going into it, you know, I the money I didn't really have a goal going into it. The money just sticks you plumbing pays well Yeah, and it always has so and they say I've heard this is a Saying in the universe that plumbers make more than lawyers. I believe that you do. Yeah, and how does that break down because why?

Lawyers ain't working 40 hours a week, right? You know what I mean? They get paid a lot for what they do, but they don't do it all the time, right? So that's great that they get $400 an hour Three hours a week, right, you know, I work 50 60 hours a week every week, right? And you know, I'm only charging a hundred maybe more or whatever, but but you add it up over time That's why they do it. Yeah, because you always hear that you always hear that lawyer that plumbers make more than lawyers That's just like a thing. I've always heard or doctors though. Yeah, I heard it as doctors But I mean same thing I went to a university professor's house years ago

And I handed him the bill at the end and he just flipped out like he was just couldn't believe it costs that much You charge more than doctors do Do you realize it took me 10 years to learn how to do this? Right, you know, it literally is a 10-year program Yeah, it's it's as hard. I think of course because I went down that road as any eight-year Doctorate or master's degree that you're gonna get to become I get yeah I mean anything you're gaining knowledge. Yeah to become a well-rounded plumber anyway. Yeah And so so you start this job you got the guy with rotor-router. Yeah, and so you work there for how long? With that guy for five years a little over five years dude gave me a thousand dollar bonus for every year

I work for it. Did he really so second year was two grand third years three fifth year was five That was nice. He uses later in his Christmas bonuses Fuck man Well, that's God working right there because I mean it on my mind Dude needs a little bit of help This is the hardest worker. He's the hardest worker. I know he works very hard and he really is man Well, hook him up and he's very good at that. Yeah, I agree with you. Hey, I saw that we do our best Well, I saw on one of your other shows you were talking about if it came down to killing him or killing you

You might not even kill him. Yeah, that's a pretty big I forgot I said that but I still agree with Okay, so And also with plumbing you can if it's like if it's a holiday then those prices are higher, right? You have to do it. Don't you when I was working for the commercial companies? Yeah, I see they did now that I I Actually quit doing the working for commercial companies Mostly because I was tired of hearing the complaints from the customers about how much it cost Oh, really, you know, I'm going to do in the work and I'm getting paid from the company, right?

But not very much. Okay. Not not as obviously not as much as now. Yeah, but I mean you got to understand any large company They got overhead. They got you know insurances that they that are Humongous advertising just for having a place do my LNI just for myself is almost 20 grand a month or a year a year And if I were to add on like an apprentice or something that doubles, right? It's wild, isn't it? That's why I do everything by myself, right? You know, it's interesting. Yeah, it's like you got to get um, yeah I just realized we have to get a policy in case anything like errors and omissions policy We have to get for podcasting now You have to get workman's comp. Yeah for an EPL and I or some some similar type of policy that I just that they just sent me

Something for the other day. It's like, I don't even know fucking afford it. So it's like but it's interesting Yeah, once you start to If you want to build something bigger, yeah or add more more there's more costs and liabilities That are incurred and they say, you know, California is the hardest place To to run either a small business or to get get a start-up going. Yeah, there's so many restrictions and so many fees and and Regulations that govern it's crazy. It's almost too much. It's like what's even going on here when I was in Hawaii I was rolling in money. Yeah, just so didn't have to worry about nothing now. How do you? How do you plum in Hawaii because?

Slower Everything's slower. Well, it seems like you have like all the water pushing on the island It's gonna push everything back up the toilets. No, no, no, they I mean they their infrastructure is, you know, significantly Improved from way back those days, you know, everything's built up. Everything's feet off the ground and all that They have sanitary sewer systems, which is which is the name for You call it sanitary sewer. I don't know why because it's not fucking sanitary at all. It is it There's turds floating down This pipe that leaves this building

Is called the sanitary sewer line. Okay, it's full of turds. It's not sanitary in any way I have no idea they don't know. I mean, I everybody's everybody in the building. You know everybody in the building the whole I'm like fuck. I just thought we were like the Damn fucking no exit of this building has one great big pipe that leaves it from all the smaller pipes that come from each toilet Okay, they all join together and make one big pipe that pipe goes out to the street Which is a bigger pipe probably 12 14 24 inches who knows a city like this is probably big Okay, and all the turds are floating down that. Okay, it's a constant stream It looks like a river if you were to open up a manhole in the street and look down there

It's a constant stream and that's a water. Yeah, that's black water. Okay contained. That's contained But they call it sanitary and then my whole life at Plum in 25 years or whatever It's always been called sanitary sewer. Yeah, why I think probably to get people's safe idea Just like oh suppose in case they see the pipe. They're like, oh, yeah, it's yeah, we're doing our best. It's It's down there. Yeah, yeah, it's out of the way. It's sanitary. It's hidden so all that goes to a sewer treatment facility where they Process and treat it and then release the clean water into a stream and out to the ocean Okay, and is it really clean when it gets out there? You could be honest

It passes EPA standards, right? We'll leave it at that. You know, I wouldn't drink it I wouldn't drink any of the water near it What if you made a ice tray cube of trays like ice of it? Would you put one cube like in a soda or so? Oh, no No, you gotta get a little more polis in that man. I have been around enough turds in my life. Have you? Oh Oh After like 11 years of that I had to give up on the rotor-rooter thing and the rotor-rooters deals mostly with with feces Now what is that? Oh, let me ask you What's the term that's comfortable to use like because every time if a plumber comes over? I don't know if I say shit

Do I say poop? Do I say turds? Do I they really like man? Okay, whatever you like You know, they all work I Had this guy in Alabama one time. I I knock on the door and everything, you know rotor-rooter man I'm here and he opens the door and he goes. Thank God. You're here, man. I've been fighting these turds all morning And I go in there and he's got just water sprayed up all over the walls He's been plunging the shit out of this toilet for like an hour and nothing making no headway Oh, I said give me that and I take the dude's plunger and he goes that ain't gonna work

You're gonna need something way more than that and I put it in there and hit it like two three times pop pop it goes away How the fuck do you do that? Man, I do this for a living. This is what I do Do some people um like if you is it uncomfortable? I feel like it's uncomfortable If you go into a place does the guy does do you like does somebody be like, okay? I pooped in here. Do people just kind of vague about it. Hey, somebody shit in here. Sometimes sometimes people are super embarrassed And they're like, I'm really sorry about it. That's how I would be. Yeah, I would too Hey, if it were me, I'd get the turd out. Yeah, I mean if I didn't know what to do

I'm right put it on a paper or something running outside or something. Yeah Fish scoop it up or whatever you got But I mean I've seen some rose petals in there You know, so I can't call this lady out. She's probably dead by now anyway, but I used to have this one customer It was the sweetest nicest lady. I went to her house probably Three years, you know constantly I was going to her house like every month Once a month I'd go to her house and unstop both of her toilets. Hmm because I Know this little graphic, but she would shit baseball. Oh, wow really just round balls of shit

I'm not sure what was going on with her intestines. We used to talk about it. The rotor ruder guys Yeah, you like what's up with this lady? How does this happen? She's got the Walker Bueller colon right there I'm going to go That Joe Musgrove, I'm wondering if she's shit in baseballs. How fast do they come out? You know, could we clock these things? Oh, it must be so intense. It's like a curveball slider. It's probably a slider. Yeah, it's probably a It's probably a slider my head. So anyway, they would clog the toilet and so and you get in there And what so you if you can't hit it with a plunger, which these turds were solid man. They were Packed they were well-built turds. And do you think she's eating something unique? She is she whatever her diet is is creating this glass

Maybe like paste turns, you know, you could so we had a snake for the toilet right that you stick in the toilet on stop It'll grab things too This snake would like go through the turd and just put a little hole in it And then once you pull the snake out, it's like the turd would close back up like Jell-O the turd would just close back Like Terminator, yeah, like the like the liquid Terminator, you know So you'd you'd basically just have to run that snake back and forth and back and forth that till you could break up enough of that Turd to get the water helping it out to flush this thing all the way through How far does that rotor-router thing go that one would only go through the toilet like four or five feet?

Oh, just right to the yeah Because the toilet will go down and then up and then down again and that's about three feet by the time it finishes Okay, that's really all you need, right? Because if it's any farther than that you need to pull the toilet off the floor and go after the pipe Okay, you know I'm saying so at that point. Yeah, you once you do after that three feet You're going into into the pipe into the sewer system. It's a different ballgame. Yeah It gets a little more expensive after that usually, okay So and why does the pipe on the toilet go up and down like that after it would seem like a straight pipe would help out better

It's a trap. It has to go down and up like that So water always stays in that portion right there. Otherwise, you're gonna smell shit coming out of the out of the Pipe all the time that that water there prevents the smell from coming back. Ah, so that's why it has that That kind of snake that s-curve p-trap the p-trap. Yeah, same thing underneath your sink You see that little u-band underneath right you've been in so that it stinks But it's up and it's stuck in the top part of that pipe Well anything downstream of that where that water is smells really bad I say that water is what blocks the gas sewer gas from coming back at you

Oh, yeah, you ever go into a building that just kind of smells like shit Yeah, yeah, like the whole place smells like sewer and you can't figure it out Usually what that is is a dry floor drain somewhere because floor drains even in the bathrooms They have that same p-trap in the bottom of them But if nobody pours water in them that'll evaporate. Here's a free tip for like everybody out there That'll evaporate and then you'll get that sewer gas smell coming in it's coming in because there's no water there to block it Correct. So a lot of times you just I mean so many times I'd walk into a building and I know that smell. Well, we got this smell We don't know. Oh, yeah, I know it and then I just search around and find the dry floor drain pour some water in there

And give me my money. Yeah Right, so a lot of this probably over the years you learn these different ways of like, oh, okay Instead of you know going through every pipe in the building the first time to the thousands time you come in It's the smell you find the dry drain sure and I'm done. Oh, man Yeah, you know after 20 years of experience pays tons. Hey, it really does and it should yeah Well, yeah, and it should because you put in the time. So is there certain points where? Like do you feel uh, oh, I interrupt you about the story with that lady. Oh Was that it? She just had some while she just had wild turds man. We used to talk about we would never you know

Shame her embarrassed. Just go there and take care of it. We're sorry You know give us call when you need us. We gave her a super discounted rate because she called us all the time, right? Eventually and she used to give That the first lady that I married the kid that the daughter that she had that wasn't mine, right was She used to give that girl presents a little dolls and stuff. So she's almost like, you know family a little community Yeah, here's for your daughter. Yeah, so after like three years of feeling guilty on stopping this lady's toilet every month Look on my day off. I'm gonna come over and I'm gonna install you to Pressure-assisted power toilets for free. Dang you pay for the toilets. I'll give you the labor for free

And I went over there on a Saturday. I jerked her old toilets out that were you know, obviously not up to the challenge She was putting on them and And and put in these you've seen those body works those jet toilets where you flush them They just sound like a jet engine going on. Yeah, I put two of those in she never called us again. Wow Fixed good to go. I mean she did call us like a year later because her kitchen sink was stopped up or something like that, but How many thousands of dollars did that just save over the lifetime of all that you gotta do that every once in a while Yeah, I mean, yeah, you help out man You help out where you can especially if you notice those patterns

Yeah, you know, you're like at some point it does get to be like, oh, I'm yeah I'm keep giving this person this person keeps giving me business But at a certain point I can just be helpful or something and you almost feel like you're Robin I'm after a while. Yeah, I like having that thing inside of you That feels like that because then it tells you when to like be one way and when to be another way And that's why I do it by myself now. I can't do it for a company. They charge too much And so you did rotor rotor for how long 11 years and that was in Alabama No, no, I five years in Alabama and six years in Tacoma in Seattle. Oh, wow. Yeah, so when I got divorced in Alabama

I moved to Washington, which is where I was born and that's higher altitude and people are do people see level Oh, it is. Yeah, I was right on the water right right in Seattle is sea level. Huh? Yeah, I just feel like overall Nick We just looked that up and I'm not challenging. I'm just curious myself is is Seattle what the Difference in land elevation is for some reason I always think of the South as being like a lower I'm not sure what it was in Alabama. But when I was in Alabama, I Want to say they were a couple hundred feet up where Seattle is I mean, there's water right there right in front of you Right, that water is sea level because it's the Puget Sound. Oh, yeah, that's the dang sea. Yeah, you're right So base elevation Alabama probably a couple hundred feet, maybe. Oh, do 500 feet above sea level. There you go

I mean, I'll basically five hundred feet Highest point in Seattle is five hundred twenty feet. Yeah, you got some hills for sure But the lowest point which is sea level. Wow gang, bro Average elevations 170. All right. So anyway, so yeah, that's a lot where you're driving around the Pacific Northwest Seattle and all the Surrounding areas a lot of the area you're looking at water, right? You know at the sound out there, so Not elevation so much but cold rainy wet gray

And how does that affect plumbing like is there different type of plumbing going on? That's what I want to know is there different plumbing going on in the Pacific Northwest that we don't know about or something as Opposed to what's going on like in Alabama in Alabama the rules. What so when I was in Alabama, they ran off the national plumbing code which is a book about Three-quarters of an inch thick or so got a lot of pages in it Maybe a hundred pages or so National plumbing code pretty simple do what you want as long as it works basically and don't leak, right? I moved to Washington and

they as As California does now too, but back then they didn't uniform plumbing code Which is the the gold standard and that book is like this thing and it's got a den Dendoms and additions and revisions constitution or science. My god. It's unreal. Crazy. It's everything out west Once you get out here, there's so much paperwork and this and that and you gotta and nobody if somebody doesn't want to work at all You got a fee you got a fucking bomb I had taxes or all that the farther west you go the harder it is on the working man Yeah, it really is so they say Washington's the hardest state to get a license in for plumbers, Michigan's the second hardest

Really? Yeah, you think people would be doing a lot of shit in in Michigan and they would need more help That's all their shit freezes. Oh really? You know, I mean they they have oh, I didn't even think about that dude Imagine now it's frozen frozen shit. You got a whole different battle You can't run a sewer cable through frozen shit. Fuck. What do you do dude? Restrictions are different and cold weather climates. I I I've never been to Michigan, but I'm gonna guess that they're gonna be somewhere similar as to like Colorado And I did do Colorado plumbing Wow, and all their shit's buried eight feet deep in Colorado Oh, all of their septic tanks and everything's buried eight feet all the water lines. Everything. That's the rule

Yeah, eight feet deep is to keep it warm enough. Yeah, to keep it from freezing. Wow. Yep Interesting Washington is 24 inches. So two feet deep. I think California is 18 inches and Louisiana I think it's just right out the window basically Alabama was ground level was it yep one inch deep Just don't let your lawnmower hit it See that's wild so and yeah, cuz I remember they had like a neighbor when I was growing up Uh, that they would just they had like a shit line and this went off into the woods Yeah, and then at a certain point where we ran back there and when you're kids

You don't know you think it's like a little river like a little lake or something. So yeah People are jumping around skipping rocks off of shit. Yeah, just you know Making little boats who used to make little school boats and like push them out and like this like kind of duty canal Kind of just hey, you're a kid. You sick now. I'm not doing great, but I'm doing This year, I'm feeling okay, but generally speaking throughout your whole life. Are you a healthy dude? Yeah, me too. You know why why cuz you played with shit Yeah, and you got dirty every once in a while You didn't give a crap about washing your hands every single time you went to the bathroom

Oh, yeah, I would hear like everybody that I saw some woman get a bunch of hand sanitizer and wash your son's neck with it The other day and when I was at the bank, I can't be good for him Fuck that kid's gonna fucking get him by lightning. All right. Yeah It's definitely can't be good for you. Yeah, just letting that Alcohol soak into your skin like that. Yeah, and just like at a certain point everything has diminished What is it called diminishing returns diminishing returns? Yeah, it's everything does it's like okay You want to get so clean and everything then fine, you know Something small comes along a breeze with a little bit of cigarette smoke in it

Yeah, now your kid can't fucking see for two years, you know Carlin said some stuff years ago about you know, you spend so much time washing this and scrubbing that and making sure you're so clean That when something real does come along your immune system is not gonna be prepared for it Yeah, and you're gonna die. Yeah, your immune system is that like a four-star restaurant or something? Yeah, you need a little hitchhiker comes in you can't fucking handle it, right? You gotta build it up. You gotta do something to kind of strengthen your immune system somehow So yeah, I'm gonna go play with some turds every once in a while. Amen, bro Look, I'd watch people do it. Yeah, you know do it yourself though. Mario made you do it

Oh, yeah, dude when I was young they had a kid in my neighborhood used to make me bury his duty and In his yard for him or I couldn't play with him and he was a tough kid like beat the crap out of you No, he would shit in his yard and I had to bury it You know and I didn't you know, I didn't I I did it man. I just did it man Fucking did it dude. His mother was a librarian I thought she was a nice lady and he died actually drove a bass boat into an embankment in the middle of the night Damn, we can look that up. Mario Rafino and

RIP as well man. RIP What's some I want to know some good tales man, we got we have some great video questions that came in for you They will get to in a minute. Uh, yeah, I wanted I want to know a tale from the I Found a chafuncta right there is right there Six-day search man damn Chafuncta, what city is it? What town is this in? That's a Covington, Louisiana and Chafuncta how it got its name It's a famous Indian River

A big Indian threw a big rock in there and that's a sound it made when it went in That sounds about right. It is. Yeah, that's crazy, isn't it by the overpass man I knew a fucking kid who jumped off that overpass one time and fucking hit a boat when he fucking went in Is that where you're originally from? Yeah Yeah, man, well, then you know the sound we all prayed and we just knew God It was gonna let his body surface so we could take him out and give him a proper burial and We and get proper closure man Mario Raffino traveling upstream at high speed just after midnight. That'll do it man

What's he doing driving a boat in the dark smashed into the overpass? Had he been drinking I Bet he had it says Raffino was last seen at a bar right there. Hmm May have had a beer or two that's what they put in there But man, I'll tell you that boy lived at top speed from the moment I ever fucking met him, bro It was like it was like the whole world was that I mean he was just at high speed that kid You know, if you were to ask him right now, he probably ain't got no complaints then. Oh, man. He that guy Yeah

Yeah, he didn't I Mean, I guess I was he didn't believe in plumbing. I fucker remember that You know, dude, I got this fucking yeah, we're gonna save a lot of money Mom and dad. I'm gonna have some kid bury our poo. Oh, that's right Blubbing what's some wild stories that happened out there man. Oh man wild like or tell me something I was crazy, you know, I got them all chicks trying to have sex to pay off their bill. Is that true? Oh, yeah, that happens I never did because you're a handsome guy. I'm sure you going there and there's the opportunity for sex every now and then

Hey, it's happened. You know, I had a lady in Seattle. She was she's good-looking. She's you know, she took forever for her to come To the door. I still remember it because she was trying so hard. Yeah, I mean, right You can tell when somebody's coming on to you. Yeah, you know, I'm blind and all but yeah I mean, I'm a dude. We miss most of those signs all the time a lot of times you miss them But so if you don't miss them if a regular dude doesn't miss them, it must really become as strong. That's what I realized This chick answered the door in a very thin white t-shirt. Okay, and that's it. Wow And that t-shirt was just long enough. Oh, yeah, right and then her stuff was upstairs So I'll show you, you know follow me

So I followed her up the stairs staring at her ass the whole way up So I could plunge her toilet in 30 seconds and fix it And then she has me sit there for like 20 minutes. I bet mm-hmm Wow, she sings karaoke to me on her little private karaoke machine. No way still in this little t-shirt Oh, yeah, with great big titties That you can see every bit of there. She didn't even need to be wearing the t-shirt both at a tit you could see them Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, the shirt is so thin you can see right through. Oh, yeah So but the point was I knocked on the door and I got there and I got no answer and I knocked again

I knocked again. It took her like five minutes to come to the door. And were you getting scared? What do you think she was doing? I was thinking she wasn't there. I heard her at first when she first came up I heard her come to the door. She looked through the peephole. Mm-hmm. She saw wasn't an old fat dude Probably, you know, because you don't know what plumbers showing up to your house. That's true, huh? So and then it was I kept knocking I'm like so I called dispatch because at the time It was this roto you were gonna roto at the time this was before cell phone. So all we had was next to oh, yeah Beep beep. Yeah, you know, hey, can you call this customer that I'm here at her house? And I've knocked I hear that she's in there. She ain't answering. Oh, yeah. So they call him. Oh, okay

She's coming to the door. I'm like, cool. Thank you. And she answers the door like that Now I know what the fuck she was doing. She went got already and put her makeup on and whatever else Was she wearing sunglasses or anything? Nope. Nope. No, she's slightly a little bit on the heavy set side But you know good-looking and it's afternoon. Is it morning? It was morning probably 10 11 o'clock in the morning You know cares what anybody's body's like in the morning, you know, right? South African white chick. So that'll kind of she had an accent. Oh, yeah It you know, but still, you know, I'm on the job Right your profession. Are you wearing a uniform? Oh, yeah. Yeah, and at the time I was single and still

You don't shit where you eat no matter what No, you just it's only gonna clean shit or you don't fuck where you clean shit because that's that's true too But I don't know something got instilled in me years ago Don't ever have anything to do with anything with work like that. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah, don't Fuck your clients. It's gonna. Yeah. Yeah, and it's still a bad thing man Once you put sex into any work equation, it all becomes uncomfortable. It's why I'm meeting Nick. Is that why you guys don't get along? That's why we go to separate rooms and touch ourselves No, we've never done anything like that, man, and we never will Nick and that's why it's working so well

Yep, that's why the work is so well, dude. Look, I promise you the second me and him Have any sexual interaction. It's over It is over, bro It is over and I think he would agree. Yeah. Yeah, so I moved to Washington No, so the lady you're there. You're in the place. Oh, I that was it. Oh, I hate you know It's such a it could have been so Karaoke music. No, that's what I mean. What karaoke music? Oh, she's singing like love songs and stuff and trying to like sell me her voice basically and and you know

Why was she saying that she used to do music? She considered and she was totally into music and and she wanted me to hear her sing She was trying to get me to nail her on the couch right there. Wow And where was the uh karaoke machine I mean, this was after unstopping the toilet. I had gone back downstairs to write the invoice. I'm sitting on the couch She's next to me on the couch. Oh, yeah, I got I've given her the invoice She's got the checkbook and instead of writing me the check so I can go to my next job She spends all this time singing trying to

Seduce seduce me basically and I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be cordial I'm not and look lady. What song though? What song? I can't you have 20 years, man. This is literally 20 years ago. I bet 15 years ago. I I just can't remember. Was it rap music? No, no, no. I want to say it was like slow Like put your head on yeah, so something, you know Something softer than that. Oh, wow. Yeah sexual healing Mervin gay. I think you got it Wow, she she was she was pulling out all the stops to try I had another lady in the same town Grab my junk and come in and grab me and kiss me and I had to literally I was married at that time

So I'd you know, you said hey. Well, even if I wasn't right get off me pay me my money. Let me go Right. Let me go mostly. I'd be so scared You know We're in an age of lawsuits. Yeah now we definitely are though but 15 years ago I think we still were and what if it don't work out say this girl kisses me and I I throw her on the floor and just ravage her and we have a great time. Yeah And then I don't call her back and now she calls my company and says he Rape me on the floor and or whatever, you know, don't even go down that road. Don't even cross that bridge. So yeah

I mean in hindsight, do you ever fantasize about having haven't had a romantic instance though about you know Obviously the South African one kind of stands out if if I could have gone back now being single I you know, I probably could have taken a run at that and had a good time. Yeah, and all would have been fine But hey, mate. Yeah, I don't think they say that What uh, what's one of the wildest yeah, we gotta ask like how much shit is out there really And how much shit is is all is the middle of the earth just filling up with shit all the time Like I say, it all gets processed cleaned and then jumped back into the ocean And but the septic box that thing that the septic box is even more

Environmentally friendly. Wow Better for everything it it contains it decomposes It leeches clean water out into your yard And that's why you see those green lines and a lot of people's grass because that's where the septic tank leech field is Okay, and it makes the grass a little bit greener in those areas. Oh interesting. Yeah, but And does it sift the sludge or just a sludge builds up because really in the end it's very little solids, right? Right Uh, a perfectly working septic tank if it is working it has active live bacteria in it Uh, they're constantly breaking down the solid material. Okay separating the solids from liquids

Um, they sell this product called Ridex, but you can use buttermilk. You can use cultured, uh cultured buttermilk or cultured yeast, I mean, uh, all these things work to To promote the bacterial growth of your septic tank. Oh interesting bleach and other chemicals tend to Kill the active bacteria that are doing the job. So you don't want that So you want those cultures you want to yeah, you want to have like a little ecosystem going on live bacteria They're doing the job my grandma and grandpa were I mean they had people coming over to their house, but they lived in the same house for like 25 years And when the guy came because uh, the law says when you sell a house it has to you have to have the septic tank pumped

No matter what. Oh, wow. So that's when you start over. Yeah So when the guy came to pump their septic tank after it had been buried for 25 years, he said it looks like brand new Wow, this didn't need to be done. This tank is working properly. Dang, and if they are working properly A true working septic tank will never have to be pumped. Dang Huh, that's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a completely self-contained system if you do the right things to yeah You know, you can't just ignore it and let it build up. You've got to treat it You got to take care of it. You can't put the wrong things in it Now have you ever had to go looking for something that someone flushed that they needed back?

Like a tooth or like a wedding ring $20,000 diamond ring really at midnight Yeah, and were they on drugs or something? No, I don't know. It was a lady at an apartment company She was the manager of an apartment complex. It was years ago. This is in Alabama The boss calls me and says, hey man, this this lady and we know this is one of our clients, you know, they got 1500 apartments in there. We're going there all the time. Hey, she dropped her wedding ring down the toilet at the office Can you go get it? So I get there and she's just bawling crying You hug her. What do you do just go and you know hug? Yeah, I'm a plumber man. Nobody wants to touch me anyway. Yeah, and I got a rodeo. Probably got turds somewhere on me

So I go in the bathroom and I take the toilet off the floor and I give it a shake And I can hear it's in there Oh, that's good news man because if it makes it down the pipe, I gotta send the camera down there And I gotta basically really slowly with the camera until I find it And then I gotta chase something down like a snake with a hook on it to try and get it out And how that's like an endoscopy almost how much does that cost? How much is that upcharged with you when you get that cam out? um

It varies by area Obviously in this area. I think a camera is around $500. Yeah, I could see that back in the day Uh, this was like I say 15 years ago. I want to say we would probably charge her around $200 to do that Fortunately, I found it in the toilet. So so I didn't have to go that route I had the camera in the truck, but no need busting it out. Nice. So I go to shake it I'm like it's in there. So you shake the toy. You can hear the pipe. You can hear it rattling. I can hear the The ring rattling around inside. So I shake it. What a neat way to think about it instead of just looking Listen first it fell out. I got it. I put it on my finger on my pinky finger

I put the toilet back together and I go back into the office because it's midnight. She's still waiting for me. I'm like I couldn't find it Oh, no No, no, no, I'm kidding. Here it is. Here it is. Yes. Did you get down on one knee? No. Oh, man Here you go. Uh, she gave me a hundred dollar tip. Oh, that's nice. Yeah for it Because it was an overtime like midnight thing. I think the bill was probably like 85 bucks 15 years ago in Alabama. Yeah here that same midnight charge would probably be 400 or 500. Wow From from a commercial company for me to come into it. I don't care about overtime or late night or whatever

It's all the same. Is there anything you notice about people like just in different areas going into different areas over time? Like do you notice any difference in like people in different Environments or anything like that, man. Yeah, California is tough. Yeah, it it's I hate using the word liberal because I don't really like that word but Well, it's very liberal out here. Yeah, it's it's very People out here at pussies. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know how else to say it. There's a lot of Labia out here. I like to say a lot of freelance It's uh, the vaginization of California has taken place soft

So soft man, it's and that's what it makes it tough being here too. But then there's also a beautiful side to it too because you know, um The weather is so nice. There's so many great people that come here to chase their dreams to do things like uh There's there's so many types of people like it's tough. But yeah, it gets this shit gets you soft out It's tough, but it's also the best, you know, it's it's the best. It's the best and the worst you got to take the bad with the good There's there's that soft side of a lot of people But also there's there's there's tons of good people Yeah, if you hook up and you meet with the right ones then then you can kind of get set here. So yeah, you know

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And use code Theo clean up your nuts and make santa proud this year When I was young The plumbers came because my mom had been Flushing coffee grounds on the garbage disposal and the and the little paper thing that was in the coffee pot She even like putting that in there just in the morning because it was easy. She was on the go Yeah, and she was like do not tell the plumbers that I've been doing that or The we're gonna have to pay and the building won't have to pay right and right when the plumbers came in

It's like I was such a rat, dude I was like my mom is But my mom has been flushing coffee grounds and the paper things. They would have found it. They would have found it anyway Fuck man, I never even told anybody that's all just now man, but I feel so bad if I get through my mom right under the bus Did she have to pay? I don't think she did man I think the plumbers knew that like she was a single mom and stuff and were like, uh, well, you know I've done that before actually where you know, so

You go to an apartment complex So you go to a rental, you know a lot of rentals I'd go to where the owner would say hey If the customer put something in there that they weren't supposed to I ain't paying right like tampons Or you know paper towels is a big one. We get a lot of paper towels out of drains baby wipes Oh, yeah, baby wipes seem impossible to flush. They don't break down. Yeah, so if they get down there and they get caught on something They're just gonna pack up and other stuff's gonna pack up on here's a couple of good tips You know for years, they would say coffee grounds is okay in the garbage disposal egg shells is supposed to be good for it No

Don't ever put pasta. Don't ever put rice. Don't do eggshells. Don't do coffee grounds Those are not good for your garbage disposal. They go in the trash or in the compost Uh, your garbage disposal is for the tiniest little bits or or whatever's left on your plate Is what your garbage disposal was originally designed to do Chunk that stuff up mix it with some water and send it down What about fat like if you're cutting the fat off of a chicken like you're getting some peat chicken pieces I mean if you got one or two get it in there, but don't don't take the don't don't carve a whole chicken and throw all the Extra stuff in your garbage disposal. That's not gonna be good for it. You're gonna call a plumber. What about bones? No, okay

No bones. No one lady One lady called me because she stopped up her garbage disposal with a whole steak She called her son was gonna come over for dinner. He called he said he couldn't make it She got pissed off and she threw the steak down the garbage disposal and it didn't make it Oh, and she hadn't cooked it. No, it was raw So, yeah, that's that uncooked meat won't go down really, huh? No, well, I mean it'll chunk up But once it gets through there, it's just gonna pack up right because it's that weird consistency at that point

so garbage disposal is coming different Power, you know, some of them were really strong. I went to this frat house in Auburn, Alabama Tons of frat dudes and they needed a new garbage disposal. They're old one and Taking a crap or whatever war eagle. Yeah more eagle War damn eagle Yeah, you're right So I get him this one horsepower garbage disposal and I put it in and this the head of the

Frat houses there and he's like, is this a good garbage disposal? Is it strong and I'm like They actually advertise this garbage disposal will chew up a beer bottle. Damn And he's like word Yeah, he's like that's awesome. I'm like, okay, cool. Bye. Give me my money and I left Like a week later. I had to go back to that same fraternity house Because all the pipes underneath the garbage disposal and the whole main pipe underneath the house was packed full of broken glass That's amazing because they had a party that weekend and dudes were going watch this and just dropping beer bottle after beer bottle down the sink Have you ever uh, have you ever seen a gas powered garbage disposal? No

That'd be pretty cool though. It'd be pretty cool, huh? I think that thing would work I wouldn't want to connect it to my to my sewer system though because That's just gonna send too much nastiness down there. You know Now if you run out of drain with stuff, can you pour gasoline down your drain? Don't pour drain on down your drain. Really? No, man. That stuff's bad. Is it? I guess honestly dude, sometimes when I'm not even feeling good about myself as a person I'll go get a couple things to drain out and pour it in all the drains in my place. Why? I think it just makes me feel like something's being done even though I'm not feeling good. Do you own the house?

No, it's an apartment. Then fuck it Hey, your pipes. Yeah, but I just like I don't know something about it's like, oh man I can't unclog my own life, but I'm gonna do my best on these drains right now. You know, I think it's kind of a anyway, um It's uh anything with hydrochloric or sulfuric acid Pipes are not designed to handle that. Wow. It might eat through the clog But whether it does or not there's gonna be some residual Acid left in your pipes. I have grabbed pipes solid cast iron pipes

That people had used drain on and I can crush them with my hand because they're so brittle Or plastic pipes that just have the whole bottom channel where the water runs. Oh, yeah gone. Just melt it away Yeah, that's what we had growing up. It would be plastic piping right through some uh plywood Like right through a hole in piece of plywood or so you you think getting a drain is unstopped Or are you think getting a drain unstopped as expensive try replacing a pipe? Yeah, that's what it gets pricey Right, so you you want to spend 20 on some Drano to try and save yourself 100 or 200 on on a plumber for unstopping your drain That Drano might cost you thousands in the pipe repair that that comes down the road

Or the damage that the water leak will cause because you're not going to notice it Right away. It's going to do some wood damage first and some mold and rot Fuck that's crazy, bro. I can't even yeah, because I I guess I'll stop getting it and some of them I get the expensive when the little gold bottle There's better tricks boiling water works really well really yeah Boiling water with a little bit of vinegar in it keeps your drains smelling good and it keeps them running clean Dude, what's crazy is in the morning when I get up. I get some warm water and put some uh Vinegar in it. There you go

See where I mean you're already right there myself. Oh and drink it really Yeah, like it's like a popular thing. We looked that up. Do you mind Nick? How does that work? It works good? I feel like it makes me feel It makes me feel like kind of I don't want to say fresh bro because that's kind of a bitch word here, but it makes me feel kind of like So you're masculine from this side. Yeah, I'm masculine from the top. All right. That's that fucking Manson gill What's coming up a lot is apple cider vinegar. Yeah. Yeah, that's all right. All right Yeah, sorry not straight up like dye your hair. Oh my girl was doing that for a little while. Yeah, you know like

That and something else. She said it. It didn't taste very good But it was supposed to be pretty good for like does not taste good. Yeah It does not taste good. I just read on there though that it relieves nighttime leg cramps Which is because it has uh That's a warm water potassium. Oh and honey Damn, I fucking want some right now dude because I got on these uh compression socks because my legs hurt Um What is the most complicated septic system that exists out there or the the most complicated one that you've ever come upon?

Hmm They don't they are not complicated. They're not no it's it's hard to find one like that There there are usually that the most complicated thing I run into is when people try And they don't know what they're doing I day before yesterday for example I went to a house where the guy called me and said this is going to be a big thing but Do what you can and I go in there and the plumber couldn't he wasn't a plumber the guy couldn't put the toilet Uh pipe in the center of the space right where the toilet goes

So he didn't and he installed it over in the corner And he put the toilet on it like a diagonal coming out funny and it didn't sit right it didn't look right It was not proper not only that but he didn't use the right material So the toilet wasn't even stuck to the floor. It was just kind of Oh, yeah, I've been on the functional. Yeah, it feels risky. Yeah, and soon as I start moving things and I get in there. I'm like Had this not have taken place in the first place it would have been so much easier for me to fix But that I have to undo The problems of somebody else right and then recreate from you know, basically

I got to undo all this before I can go back to the beginning So when it gets complicated is when somebody Tackles a project they probably shouldn't have yeah, they should have just called a plumber in the first place Right. So yeah, instead if you get brave ideas to just kind of Lewis and Clark your fucking shit future Change it up and hire somebody that knows what they're doing. Yeah, it's worth the money I mean, it's some of these companies, you know, I can't be everywhere. So you're not going to get me And some of these companies are not very cheap But it is worth the money these guys have learned a lot over there however many years it took to to

Be a professional plumber You know, what's your company, right? It's called toilet champion. Oh, really? Yeah. Hell. Yeah, you like it? Bro, it's crazy because in my mind. I'm like this guy is a toilet champion. Yeah I won a contest you did. Yeah, it was putting a toilet together. It was it was a plumbing supply store in washington was having this contest. They had a shitload A shitloads of toilets in the box like everything is in the box that you need to put this toilet together. Oh, wow And and the contest had a barbecue and everything and they had like vendors there

That were selling tools and stuff like that and this was the contest Whoever puts the toilet together in the fastest amount of time you get a like a trophy You get a hundred bucks and and there was something else involved in it and I did it in a minute 54 Damn out of the box fully assembled. No leaks So I get this little trophy with a dude holding the toilet up over his head, you know I'm like, I'm the toilet champion. So that's awesome. It's been the name of my business ever since dude That's beautiful and toilet champion is based where it's here in in los angeles. Yeah specific area los angeles or I tend Not to come into la too much. I kind of stick more toward the valley and uh thousand oaks see me

But I mean, I'll move around where you know, dude, I went to cambria a couple of weeks ago and re-piped a whole house That's four hours away. So So you'll do some adventures. You'll do some stuff. Um, let's The toilet champion toilet champion dot com man. It's its own website and stuff. I love it We got a question right here from a guy who has a beard now. Can you cut your hair and flush it down the pipe? Yeah You can yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's all right Don't do it in like large quantities at once, but I mean little bits it'll go through it'll go through fine Have you ever found something a pipe that you thought this person could be a murderer doing something dangerous?

Like some bonus or anything like that. I found a baby in a pipe once faded. Yeah, I call a baby. What a baby human? Oh, damn. Yeah That was a pretty sad day. I had to call the police though. You did. Yeah So she she uh, she miscarried he beat the crap out of her. Oh, she miscarried uh flushed it So it wasn't a very large. It was just barely bearing the size of your hand or so but um it uh It uh, fortunately for her Their sewer line was already stopped up. Mm-hmm. So when she flushed it down

It didn't go all the way. Mm-hmm. And a couple of days later They had called wrote a router and when I got there and undid the the cap out in the front yard Uh, the baby came out. Oh And I'm looking I had to look at it for a couple of minutes because I've seen so many rats in pipes Right. So a rat that has been drowned or is it will lose all its fur and it'll also be white And very small and have bones. So you got to kind of look it over. It it was not dissimilar from that Minus the tail and all that but it was definitely a human baby. Wow. And I'm like, uh So and what do you do? Did you feel something like spiritually at that point at all? Yeah, I felt horrible

I didn't know what was really going on at the time. I think I was like 21 or 22. You know, I was very young So I uh, I picked up the next tail and I called my boss Lamar man. It baby came floating out of this drain What do what do I do? I'm way on the country on the mill and nowhere, you know And he goes you pack up your shit get in the truck and leave right now. Don't stop that drain. Don't do nothing So I did I packed up. I didn't even talk to the lady. I just loaded up my stuff and drove away They called the police the police showed up. They did their thing the guy went to jail for beating the crap out of the lady Oh, so at least that happened. So right sad story and all that but at least you don't get some small There's justice. Yeah, maybe yeah, maybe they don't find out right and maybe he continues beating the crap out of her

So, you know, it's funny. It's almost like a little bit of euphemism for life It's like you think you can put everything into the hide everything inside of yourself or in the you know in the drains You know in our emotional drains or in the ground or wherever, but it all comes to the surface eventually Eventually, it's all gonna pop out. You can't hide it forever. Yeah RIP man, it's so sad, dude. What kind of babe was it a boy or girl? Do you know I couldn't tell it was like I say it was so small and it had been in there for a while So it was already starting to kind of and it was fully developed and all that right Yeah, yeah sad man that drain baby and it was Alabama. That was in Alabama. Yeah

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I mean, it's just called brown friday. It's to be honest. It's mostly kitchen sinks. Ah Yeah, our response Potato peels 80 percent of it's going to be potato peels in the garbage disposal. Hmm. They you know You got a big Thanksgiving dinner. You just peeled 20 potatoes. They all went down the drain. They didn't go very far, right? Yeah, so yeah, yeah Yeah, potato peels are have they just have that same consistency like a little layer of skin. They can just gather up. Yep So, uh, they call it. Yeah, he's right though. They do call it brown friday, man One year I did 14 service calls in one day

Good day after Thanksgiving And is it mostly shit related or is it like a mix of things? It's you said a lot of its food Like I say, I out of those 14 service calls. I think 12 of them were kitchen sinks So it's just food particles and everything and the other two are main lines And do you go to places where sometimes people are embarrassed like they'll they'll like come in but they'll never even look you in the eyes It's over there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. Well, not only that people have a lot of shame around feces in around shit so it went beyond that because um

Several years after quitting with road or router. I started working for one of the largest luxury hotels In the world. Wow, I don't know if I'm allowed to say who it is. Oh, you're certainly allowed. Oh, we have four seasons Four seasons in Seattle. So I'm working for four seasons in Seattle and and those toilets stop up just like any other toilet But these people are fancy and they don't want to interact with the common folk who is coming to unstop their toilet Yeah, the plumber's a strange guy to them Well, I actually work for the four seasons. Oh, so yeah, I was a maintenance man one or for like kind of an area Eventually I worked for three. Okay, but one at a time I worked four seasons Seattle for three years as their overnight maintenance

So it wasn't just plumbing I was doing drywall repair and painting and all this other You know, whatever needed to be done including, you know, all the building maintenance and handling guest room calls So yeah, most of the time if a guest were to call with a stopped up toilet that guest would not be in the room They just dip out Let you fix it. They don't want it. Yeah, you know You already got to smell their shit. They don't want to talk to you. Yeah for the most part There was some small occasions where they would be in there and they would just be it's in there, right? Yeah, lady. I know where the bathroom is. I work here

Have you ever had anybody like put on a mask or something so they don't see you like no People have so much shame surrounding like body, you know activity and stuff. Uh, they do but no I had one lady anybody hiding behind their hand or anything like anything that's no No, I had one lady open the door with the robe and the robe was open. Oh, yeah I mean just everything was showing. Hey, I'm nice looking or not. Yeah, real nice looking. Yeah. I ain't trying to lose my job Right. Uh, I can't come in. I'm sorry. Wow. She's like, no, no, no, it's okay. Come on in And I'm like, no, I can't her husband pops around from the corner and he's like, yeah, it's okay. Come on in I'm like, no, it's not okay. Yeah, like surprise me with a man that ain't gonna help

No, no, no, no y'all trying to invite me in here for some freaky stuff. I ain't down. Let me fix your toilet Have you ever hit anybody off for you? Yeah, just straight up point blank here's a couple hundred dollars Watch me bone Rhonda or whatever, you know, like watch us do something man. I might get down on that But no, I never had that. I I mean if I just got to stand there and watch Not yet No, it'll come man. I'll tell you this man when you guys hire the toilet champion You throwing three hundred dollars. He'll watch you guys bone for a half hour. That's for damn sure. Look man I guarantee you somebody will hire you now to come do it. Hey. Hey, man. Money is money. You're gonna pay me three hundred dollars

Well, look, I ain't gotta do no hard work. I just gotta stand there and watch Frank is still plumbing. You're watching right somebody's laying pipe. Get that half a sandwich dog Here comes a white guy from with a question. Oh from Seattle from your old Stomping you got a nice hat on and I will say before I play this one We got more questions for you than we have in a long time for a guess, but like Two-thirds of them were have you ever had sex on the job? Did anybody ask you to clean your pipes a lot of that stuff type stuff? Yeah, a lot of euphemisms. Oh, yeah We covered that pretty in depth

What's happening Theo Ryan from Ohio? I just want to ask super morio there if he uh, when he's cleaning out toilets Um, clean a real nasty drain Is he glove up the hands or is he going raw? I used to work with this cat in Pittsburgh. He's from Pittsburgh. Just thought I threw that in there from Pittsburgh he uh You know, we worked on the river together on the boats and anytime he was cleaning in a shower cleaning the toilet He never gloved up the hands. I always called him nasty He said it was because he used to be a plumber and you know, all plumbers did that

I just wanted to know if super mario there did that and He'll probably chat a lot to you and say he didn't because you got him on the spot right now So just don't shake his hand when he goes to leave gang gang gang gang brother. Thank you. Ryan. Was that Ryan from Ohio? Yep, Ryan Boyer. Oh, thank you, mr. Boyer. I appreciate that's a good question. It is uh Uh, yeah, uh first four or five years No gloves That's my toilet champion and and still if if I don't have gloves, I don't give a shit Yeah, I mean if I have them, I'll use them. But if not, I know how to wash my hands

Yeah, I'm not trying to stick my hands in my face or on my eyes or shake hands with people or anything Yeah, it's work. But here's the other thing I went to cooking school for a year So that was a every day Four hours a day thing and and the biggest thing that that that they teach you in cooking schools to wash your hands and and such Good cleanliness habits with your hands. So I can understand the difference You know, you know what I'm saying that It's okay to stick your hands in poop

If you know, you're gonna wash your hands before you shake somebody else's hand or right, you know, stick it in your mouth or whatever But yeah, yeah, I've no worries. I don't care. Yeah, you got good. Yeah, you got good hand, uh etiquette Yeah, you got hand plans. You play plans for your hands. I'm not trying to touch food right after cleaning out somebody's toilet I'll probably wash my hands three or four times before I do that Yeah, you ain't gonna clean out a shitter and then fucking polish off a thing of deviled eggs immediately. Most likely not. Yeah, but Back in the day I did. Amen. In the first five years. Yeah, I'd go unstop somebody's thing and then go eat lunch without washing my hands Hell, yeah, I didn't know any better. I was a kid. So yeah And at that time do you when you're it's it's water when you're young you could spare a couple years

You're like, oh, I get lymphoma. I get you know Carcinogen or whatever. I'm gonna be fine. You know what I'm saying? I'll fucking lose a limb. I'll sprout another when you're young You have that in your head Invincibility attitude. Yeah, you're like, oh, whatever dude. I'll fucking have a uh You know, I have a couple spare ribs and fucking half a third for lunch, bro I'm not gonna be careful when I get out of bed because it's a ways down, you know Um What do we have Nick? Let's get to a video question. I'm not we actually had a

Uh, that was a great question though by that guy. Yeah. Yeah, I I would have just assumed. Yes. They do wear gloves So that's very interesting. We actually had a message from someone you might know Uh, uh, it's a it's a voice memo. Actually not a video. So let's hear this What's the biggest turd you've ever seen while plumbing? That's my father. Is it really? Yeah, I know that guy's voice. Wow. That's like luke. I am your father That was like very star warsy and I know it. I know it's voice. Yeah, one more time. Let's hear it What's the biggest turd you've ever seen while plumbing? Oh, that's awesome, man. I you know, it has to be the one I was talking about earlier the lady with the baseball poops

Yeah, there's coal and ryan. That's what they call It's great. Thank you, bro. It's great. It just came into my brain, man I'm gonna have to get a hold of my friend at Alabama and tell him that he'll laugh. He'll remember I'm a houston jersey You gotta do coal and ryan do this thigh young award winners. That's what I'm talking about now. I mean, yeah, that was the biggest one Wow plumbing, but I was walking down the streets of Seattle like I don't know 10 years ago I was plumbing a building actually and we were just taking it because we were a commercial plumbers doing high-rise buildings

and kind of got out of that Turd chasing business. That's what they call wrote a ruderman turd chasers chasers. Yeah So I got into the the new construction high-rise clean pipe. No no more dirty hands, right? And we were walking downtown Seattle headed to Whole Foods like we did every day to have our 10 o'clock morning 15 minute break and we passed I kid you not A one foot turd. Oh, wow. I mean in diameter. It was a pile of poop

Shit squat now. That's insane in diameter. Jesus And where'd they get it from? You think you think it came directly out of a body? You think it was a group of people it was a human turd one human turd And it was just kind of like one of these kind of soft serve deal. Yeah, that's a thing though. That's that's a homeless thing I don't know if you knew that or not Homeless in major cities shit on the sidewalks on purpose Oh, yeah. Yeah, I knew that it's like they're Fuck you to society or whatever. Yeah

So it's not uncommon to see a big turd and it's I almost think like they're kicking back like hey I got a three-day turd built up. I got to go find a sidewalk, you know Yeah, and then we'll kick back and watch all these people walk past it. Oh And honestly You can't fucking find entertainment. No, come on man. That's that's free entertainment. That's amazing imagine Laying just a real snake in the basket heater across the way Yeah, and then you and your buddy crack open a couple natty lights and sit over in the corner and watch and fucking watch I saw that in hollywood like two months ago. Oh and people had stepped in it. So there was like foot tracks going away from it

It was crazy You know, it's interesting too because at a certain point with bodily functions We become almost like animals in a way, you know, it's like we mark our territory or oh, yeah And when I was young I used to be real scared and I would urinate in places in my bedroom All right, you know, and I think in hindsight, I never really knew why I did it But I think I was like scared that something was gonna come get me So I would mark my territory, you know, I don't think it was a choice that I was making I felt like it was a Of not involuntary reaction, but just something that was more on the animalistic DNA of me, you know, did you ever outgrow that?

Yes, I did. Well, I have not yet. You really? Wow You'll just do it sometimes I get in trouble with with my girl and my fiance a lot for peeing in inappropriate areas. Wow That's interesting. Do you think that's any reason why you got into plumbing? No, no, uh-uh but Uh, I'm drinking sometimes comes comes into play with the with the peeing on the floor or whatever

Oh, yeah on an ironing board in a hotel room or something or Yeah, you never know. Yeah, I mean, so you'll do some wild pissing but also More to your point like you're saying kind of every time I move into a new place. I gotta pee on it. Yeah in some somewhere I'm gonna pee on the house I I don't know why I just have to Dude, my buddy's dad when I was growing up used to get on the roof from time when he'd been drinking and he'd let us watch him piss down the chimney Down the chimney to come inside and then mom. They wouldn't know we'd sneak up and then the mom would fucking get Oh, yeah

Yes, they just get they just can't understand why you can't go use the toilet. Yeah, well because I don't have to Yeah, I don't have to I don't have to dude you you could pee you're supposed to be in the toilet But you can also pee wherever you want exactly wherever you want in a suitcase on ironing board Do you feel like it's territorial for you? I think so. Yeah, yeah Yeah, I hope I don't know if I'll grow out of it. I I don't care if I do or not really it's yeah it's not really a The only bad vibe I get from it is is from from the missy auntie. Yeah, she's she's not comfortable with it Well, look dude, that's when you break out that trophy and say hey lady. I am the toilet champion

And the toilet champion's gonna do what the toilet champion is gonna do I need to get a belt too You really do man. I'm not joking, bro. I probably could give one of the kids when you go into the house and they're in there um That's awesome that your dad called in because we didn't know that he was gonna call in right now Right. I just recognized the last name. Yeah, Laskowski was on the lineup of just people that he called. Yeah, that's pretty awesome That's cool. Uh, did you and your father ever work together? Uh No, well, uh, yes and no, uh, not not really so I'd have to say no

I I got a job working at the same company as him But for a very brief period of time, we weren't doing the same thing. We weren't even working in the same area but it was only a an in between until I could Uh, construction plumbers get laid off from time to time, you know, you hit a big job or whatever a high-rise building when that Building is over a lot of those plumbers are going to go on unemployment. I see Uh, it that seems to be the way of it and I don't like to sit still. Yeah So my model man had a company he was working for and they'll hire anybody. They don't care

It's barely better than minimum wage, but it you know, it's money Wow, so I went and worked for him for like a couple of months But like I say him and I never really he he him and I do different things. He's he's a painter And you guys must be pretty close if he called in that's pretty cool. Oh, yeah. I mean, um, since we've become adults Yeah, we're best friends. I you know, he's he's my best guy friend. I think wow my fiance is probably my best real friend And your dad is a pretty hard worker himself. Oh, yeah, he's 62 63 been working his whole life So, you know instilled some good values. I would say yeah, it sounds like a man How do you get from so for the young plumbers out there and plumbers apprentices and you know, young man

They're like, well, what do I do do? Is there a way up out through that business? How did you? You know, tell me how to get that those young men can get from Starting working from a company with a rotor route or a commercial group some outfit like that How they can get to that next level of being now Um, a toilet champion, you know, or or self-sufficient or self-sufficient. Yeah. Yeah, because there's a lot of There's pride in that. There's even though there's other expenses that come in, you know, it's nice to be able to To have something that feels like yours, you know to piss in your own fucking yard, you know Hey, make no mistake. I got to work hard for it. I'm always out there hustling still

I mean, I'm I've not hit easy street by any means. Oh, and there never really is the more work you bring on or create Or that you're a part of the more work there is. Yeah, it's like it's like It growth begets growth and it's it's a blessing and a curse is a law of diminishing returns. It's like you it's never It's great, but it's different. Yeah. Yeah, so To answer that I would say to start and if you're in your own, I mean pride I want to say pride in your own Abilities or your own work ethic, you know, how hard I work and how I want it to look is what drives

People paying me they pay me because what I put in looks good and it works I don't charge a fortune, but I'm not the cheapest out there either I I pick what works price-wise for me and I try to be as Completely open and fair with my customers as I possibly can be and that seems to work well Whether you're doing plumbing or carpentry or you know, yeah treat treat people right treat them honestly Don't rob them and you'll get customers for life. Yeah, I've got people that call me from Five six some ten years ago. Hey, you still in Seattle. I got some plumbing. I'm sorry, man

You know, but they'll hold on to your number forever if you did them, right? That's so true. Yeah, you save it in there Yeah, brad plumbing if you're to ask how to succeed on your by yourself Treat people right and don't rob them and that'll you'll be fine. What commercial? Plumbing companies are charging it. I understand that the overhead and the expenses and the insurance and everything else and advertising and all that But it's still You know The owner is making money for doing very little right, you know, it feels egregious It's a little like it's a little too far. So at some point you got out though

You started to do your own thing. Would you do just you started in LLC? You started to do I have an LLC, right? Um, and then you started advertising. How did you go about that? I'm just trying to get some of these young guys Who may be curious about that sort of stuff how to get out of somebody else's toilet? Yeah, yeah and get into their own Hoist up their own fucking. Yeah, at least pretend yours is a bird bath for a little while. Yeah, Craig's list was a good way to start That's how I got my start. Uh, there's a couple other avenues like Angie's list And there's a couple other apps that you can use that will send you work But you have to pay for it. So uh thumbtack Angie's list

Um, there's a couple of others that will give you job leads But if you were to accept those job leads, they can be quite expensive and all they are is leads, right? So if the customer decides not to go with your price, then you're out that money You're still paying for that lead. Yeah, and and they and that bill started getting so expensive that it wasn't worth it For the return. I was getting out of the jobs that would hire me. I see so it ended up being um, You know some a guy needs a new water heater for example. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, I can put in a water heater Way cheaper than they can put in a water heater But it cost me a hundred dollars just to tell that guy that

And what if I tell him and he decides to go with somebody else? I'm still out that hundred dollars. Yeah, so I gave up on all those They are an option If you're small time really small time and you're only doing the minimum bids then it's probably not going to be too expensive But if you're out there and you're trying to make it a business Craig's list works pretty well Because it's five dollars per post and that's not very expensive And you do you get one job and you got your return on that. Yeah And word of mouth I think is probably my best

Amen that it seems to work better than anything And I've been here a few years So I have enough built up now that I rarely do but I do post every once in a while on craigslist matter of fact That's how uh Johnny found me. Oh really? um, yeah, and gianni everybody knows is uh, is the beautiful little twink, and I'm not sure he's a twink, but he is a Nice young man who's on a new He's an actor and he's in he's gonna be on a new television show called. What is it?

He was just in he was just in the sixth season of power Power yeah, he was just in the sixth season of power, but he has a new show that he's taping right now that we can't talk about Yeah, but we just did so man. Oh, we don't know what it is. Yeah, but also we have insurance Come at us. Yeah Hey, if I'm paying for it Have you ever seen kids like I knew we'd go to these kids house and sometimes they would flush the toilet Obviously, and then use it as like a little bit of like a pool or something one of their kids. Oh, yeah, you see that a lot Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah kids kids

Oh man kids will swim and whatever Yeah, yeah in the toilet We had this one kid small Alan and he could fucking Literally bro go all the way under the water and hold his breath man In the toilet. Yeah, that's gross. It was beautiful. I thought at the time But yeah now in hindsight as an adult if I saw him in there, I'd be like get the fuck out of there Alan um Let's see. Yeah, uh overflowed upstairs tub on purpose

Yeah, the tub was that big toilet That's that's a big one to see happen a lot or bobbing for apples people over doing anything like they've ever seen any crazy somebody A lot of tech you have to pee. Oh go pee. Is that okay? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Don't pee in here I gotta mark my territory somewhere Just mark it in the bathroom across the hall. There's a key right on there and Nick will get it for you Today's episode is brought to you by toilet champion Get that shitter baby you feel me? Oh man

Um All right, we got a couple more questions for you that have come in here from listeners man And then we're gonna uh, we're gonna get you on your way man. This guy's just trying not to get a bit It's a very specific question for him, but Hey, Theo man, this is JD I'm out of Pittsburgh, Kansas And uh, I see you want you getting on with the plumber. So I got a plumbing question for you I turned my bathroom sink on

It just can't keep up the drain it gets full I can't leave it running, you know Ah, so I'd like to ask the plumber. What what should I do about that? Uh gang gang gang, bro. Thank you. Bradley. Was that his name? it was JD sorry JD Bradley I'm Bradley, right, but still not somewhere. I was trying to

myself Uh, thanks JD. That's a good question, man. That's a really good question. So yeah He's in there in the morning. He gets it going and then he's like, oh shit I'm trying to shave and stuff. Now I gotta wait and let it go down. What's going on there, Brad That's happened at every like college house I've ever been in and like almost immediately and then you just live with it. Yeah. Oh man, such a simple fix, too Really? Yeah, I love this. I love this question JD It's a five minute fix. He's back in business

He can either grab that stopper and pull it straight out But sometimes they're connected To a rod that's behind the pipe He has to reach behind there and undo that nut Pull the rod out and then he can pull the stopper out and there'll be so much gunk and hair And nastiness on the bottom side of that stopper you throw that in the trash Put the stopper back in slide the rod back in and tighten that little nut that holds it in place You're good to go. So what's going on there is the problem is if you pull the stopper up

It won't come all the way up, right? That's the issue. The pipe is like this, right? And there's a rod Into the pipe and the stopper is connected to that rod that way you can't pull it out Right. So that little nut you just it's it's finger tight usually 90% of the time It's finger tight and you just undo it pull that rod out to release that stopper and pull it out Clean it all off. A lot of times what I'll do is I'll clean it all off and put the rod back in without the stopper And then just drop the stopper in so it's free floating You can you can use it as a stopper it still works. But if you want to take it out, you can't more manageable. Wow Dude, that's awesome. Um, thank you, JD. That's a great question. And I hope that that that that's a fix for you

My friend and I appreciate you Calling and leaving that's a great one um, and also I was thinking about You know the reason why you're here today We thought about like we just wanted to have like just more norm just people in the world, you know, like It's just more fun sometimes to talk to somebody that um, you know not having to talk to like celebrity or try to get So or just sure it's it's fun to just I don't know. Celebrity life is a little different for sure. Yeah, and um We're just glad you're here today. That's what I'm trying to sell. Thanks man. Thanks for having me

And what I want to say is so you talked about putting an ad even on craigslist every now and then Yeah, and that's how we found you. Yeah, like our our idea was just we want to have somebody on we want a plumber Yeah, let's let's do it. We're trying to get an illegal alien to come on So we're like we want a plumber so we go on craigslist to look and because you put your ad out there You are searching for business. You are doing your job. Sure. Then that's how we found you right now Yeah, and we were just talking about like, uh toilet champion at least website traffic Maybe it's not local people who can you actually hire you but it's gonna blow up and I bet you'll get some tpw fans in

The valley hitting you up. I'm hoping dude. I'll drive out there and shit and call you Cool man But uh, just the way that you put yourself out there and and work hard man in that um And that's how we're here today because you don't put that ad out. We don't even know about you Right, and this has been an amazing Um, it's been an amazing time. It was fun. Just learning about it. So real quick. I got a uh, I told nick this this story You got to hear it man. It's it's it is the funniest thing that has happened to me Right

It's worth it. I didn't want I wanted to introduce it, but I didn't want to step on it. So I'm glad you said something All right, awesome So I moved I transferred from rotor-ruder alabama to rotor-ruder to coma. Okay, and this is the toilet champion story No, okay, I told you that one that was just putting the toilet together and winning a trophy in a hundred bucks Right, okay. So I shouldn't have interrupted you That uh, I moved like I said transferred. I'm working for rotor-ruder into coma and we get a new dispatcher And the new dispatcher that gets hired is going to come on On ride along with somebody excellent so she can kind of learn or he can kind of learn what we do

In the field, you know experience. Yeah So this girl nicky she comes with me And uh, we go, you know, she sounds cute. Is she cute? Yeah, she's cute enough. Yeah, she's cute enough great bagel boobs Both of them, bro. Yeah, they were both big You don't always get that Anyway, she's uh, we go on, you know, two three four service calls or whatever it was go eat lunch So I have um, kind of a rare form of colitis and my stomach can just blow up at any time Yeah, it sucks. It's it's weird too. So plumber, you know

But in all the years even with bad guts and all that stuff I've never used a customer's toilet because that to me is just bad etiquette. You know, I'm here to fix it I'm not here to use it. Yeah, but this instance I had to use it But I couldn't because everything in the house was completely stopped up. Their toilets were full of water They're tubs with full of water everything they needed their main sewer line unstopped and I Cannot hold this anymore. You got that boy on uh, I I got a shit something fierce I know when I really have to have my eyebrows start shaking. That's when I can't take it anymore

I start sweating. Oh, yeah, because it's it's about it's way out of your body. Yes. Yeah So what can I do? I jumped into the back of my roto-ruder van I grabbed a bucket and I shat very explosively and very loud With her sitting in the passenger seat. No way. Nicky with them tits Smelling in here and every bit of what was going on. Did you tell her first? I said, I'm really sorry

I don't know what she's like just do it and she's got the windows rolled down. You could tell she's not happy about it But she she suffered through it. She said the the worst part was The people still had the plumbing problem. So after I finished blowing up that bucket I had to leave it there and go fix these people's plumbing for another 30 minutes Leaving her with the bucket of shit in the car. She got out for most of it and just kind of hung out outside You got to get out and get on your phone or something So I finished I get the drain unstopped and everything else. I get back to my rinse rinse out the bucket and clean it all out and everything

And we drive all the way back to the roto-ruder office in silence Not speaking to each other. Oh, but so much chatter going on in y'all's heads, man. We ended up living together for three years Yeah Man, yeah, she was my girlfriend for a long time. Praise god, brother. That is fucking like miracle on 34th street Obviously, she didn't mind the smell of my shit that bad Wow guys, so you want to talk about how to meet a lady? Man, that's crazy how the vulnerability of something brings people together right it really does

I mean, could I have been more vulnerable in that situation? Yeah Yeah, you know, I'm I'm almost in tears like I'm so sorry. I have to do this. Oh, you know And what did you tell her to look the other way? Was there any rules you gave her? Well, you know, you know, in a service man, you got that bulkhead wall right behind the right behind the seats So, I mean, it's a steel wall, but there's holes through it. Yeah, so I mean she's facing forward She can't see she can hear everything that's going on Like gunshots. She could probably taste I said that she could probably damn near taste everything

Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do dude, you gotta do what you gotta do you're crazy, man, but you're the best That's awesome. You've been a plumber for how long Brad? I started when I was 20. I'm 43. Are you really? Yeah You look like Daniel too from our cartoons doesn't he a little bit? Yeah That's beautiful. Do you look like this kid I grew up in a Daniel dude who ironically He used to drink off the hose. He would he would put the hose in his mouth, bro He put the hose in his mouth and then have you turn it on even if it had been sitting there all winter and take that first hose Hit bro that fucking hot hit. I don't I don't mind the taste of hose water. It's all right, but not the hot hose water He would get that fucking hot it he would go some time and lay the whole

Hose in the yard bro on the hottest day and let that bitch heat up for a couple days sometime, dude The spiders get in there. It'll boil you dude. He'll put him right to the dome, bro Why just taste the lord brother? He was he was about the spirit man, you know, he just I don't know but unbelievable, dude that you Have bad plumbing in your body and you deal with bad plumbing in the world, right? And then I became a cook so I could like deal with it coming in and coming out You know full service man, brad lakosky the toilet champion

of uh Of the valley and maybe of the whole world, dude. I think of the trophy worldwide. I think so Why not nick? I've never had anybody try to take it away Boy come take it off. Come take it all. Come get this. I dare you. Yeah, we will see you I got insurance. We will see you in these shit streets, man uh Yeah, thank you for being here today, man. I'm so happy your dad got to be a part of it and um and just an inspiration Man working hard and just doing what you do, dude

Um, and we're gonna pay you. I don't know what the time is, but we're gonna pay you $500 for being here today with us Oh, shit, and um, that's awesome. Yeah. No, we appreciate it man. A lot of our listeners are uh hard working people And um, and we're just happy to be associated with you. So thank you so much. Hey, you ever getting any further questions? Shoot them my way. I'll answer whatever I got. Look, I'm gonna save your number, bro I certainly will toilet champion. Thank you. Hey, thank you For me to set that parking brake and let myself on Oh