Tosh Show - My Producer’s Plumber - Jimmy

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

Daniel learns the nuts and bolts of plumbing with his producer’s plumber, Jimmy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, I like it. I like it, I don't know what. Because pinching is a way to make friends. Okay. Okay. Ha ha ha, that is a good song. It's for kids. You know what you are, you're like that Wayne Brady.

You're like a nice Wayne Brady. Oh, that's funny. All right, well, we got a great show today. Minus the first part of the show, where I get some feedback from some of the commenters. This always puts me in a swell mood. There are a lot of comments, people not knowing what a lettuce trim is.

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Back from the Fire Festival episode when Billy got out, he celebrated with shrimp. This says, I'm a seafood industry expert 15 years dealing especially with wild salmon and Costco's sockeye salmon is number one. I know why you picked that. You're trying to justify why you buy seafood from Costco. There you have it, folks. That's from an expert. Comments on your TV show, hijacked.

I've been an airline pilot for 30 plus years. I've never carried a metal thermos with me to work or known anyone who has. Is that for lunch in the break room with a pack of sigs? 30 years plus, this guy's been in the cockpit. Never once had a metal thermos. Just in case he needed to bash his co-pilot within an inch of her life.

This is from the George Foreman episode when he did the full disclosure that his wife was white. Such a beta move to have to clarify that George's wife is white and then he wasn't trying to perpetuate a stereotype that all black people are late to everything. Even if his wife was black, who cares? Tosh must have had his testicles removed by Hollywood when he moved there.

You done? I know there was a lot of people that wrote stuff like this and I hope all of them are listening right now. Okay? Because I don't like to do this. I don't like to explain to you why I'm better at comedy than you are. Okay, but I'm going to.

I'm gonna have to show you how the sausage is made. Because first of all, let's be clear. I don't give a fuck about making a shitty joke about black people being late. Okay. And how I know that you don't get what I did is by people commenting like that. The reason I put that full disclosure comment in is because the next story that I told in the interview was about when I messed with his wife at a playground and said it was the kid that looks like George Foreman.

And if you didn't know that she was white before that story and you thought maybe she was black, then it's not a funny thing to say the kid that looks like George Foreman when the guy responded, oh, is she black? Do you understand? So you needed to know that she was white before that. But I couldn't just write on the screen,

by the way, George's wife is white. Because a majority of our listeners YouTube, I know you might not want to hear this, are still only listening to this in audio form. So it would be lost. So I had to make this little thing in front of it because I'm like, oh, shit, I forgot to say that his wife was white in any way to make this story make sense about teasing this guy that was trying to figure out which kid was his. Okay, I don't know if that made sense to you or not. And then in doing that little full disclosure, I tried to put jokes in there by saying, you know, white is the

absence of color, which by the way, people go, well, technically that's not true. It is true. Black is the absence of light, not color. I don't even wanna go into it with those fucking idiots. But, and then I also got to do a dig at making fun of Cubans for always being late. Again, I'm just layering comedy in there to set up another joke down the road where you needed this information. Also, I got to make fun of the fact

that his wife swears all the time, which I forgot to do in the interview because everyone thinks she's a saint. So that was also a part of it. It's exhausting. Have some compassion. You know, I was born fully libtarded. Okay? You chose to be a magari re. Oof. Growing up listening to focus on theari re. Oof, growing up listening to focus

on the family sermons as well, especially how Tosh was able to leave all that heavy conservatism behind. Cause that's not just regular conservatism. That's conservatism on crack. I say, I've been on both sides of it my whole life. Can't we all just wash each other's feet? That'd be a good ad campaign, you know?

Putting our differences aside, but just washing each other's feet. Somebody should make that something. I noticed there's a lot of discussion on why you want to protect women's reproductive rights. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Classic using the underage rape example, LOL. Rape victims account for 1% of all abortions, 1%.

So GTFO, using that straw man BS and only 2% are from medical emergencies over 95% of abortions are completely voluntary from people who made a choice to have unprotected sex or sex out of marriage. People who did those things without any intention of having a child. Those people are murderers. I respect your opinion because you believe they're murdering babies and I don't believe that. And let's say that your stats are right, there's only 1%. I'm not even going to argue the fact that incestual rape is the least reported, but let's say the number is way less.

Let's say it's only happened one time. If you're telling me you're okay with killing that baby, then your argument loses a little credibility. Because I'm okay with it at any stage. I don't believe it's murder. I do want to thank you for commenting, because everybody who comments, you know, it adds to the popularity of the videos and ultimately leads to more profit. And I want you to know that I am taking some of the money

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he was trying to fix something on my toilet. And he's just leaning on the open, um, the lids open, but the part that my butt sits on every day, he's just leaning on it, sitting on the floor talking to me. And like, we're talking for way too long for him to just still just be leaning on it. And then mid conversation goes, you got heated seats. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I do. I've got heated seats. All right.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Paw Show! My guest today has seen some shit. I will be focusing 90% of my questions on shit because I'm sure as shit, not going to trade school. Please welcome Jimmy the plumber. Jimmy, thank you for being here. Thank you for hiring me. My first question, Jimmy, that I ask all my guests, do you believe in ghosts?

Not really. All right, Jimmy, how long have you been a plumber? About 14 years. 14 years. Yes. Did you always want to be a plumber? Nope. Did you come from a long line of plumbers?

Nope. Not at all. Jimmy, you pee in the shower? Yeah. Of course. Okay. Who doesn't? Well, I didn't know.

Who doesn't? I do. It's okay too, right? It's okay for the plant, that water. That's all going to a gray. Come on. All right, okay. Maybe you should.

It's good for the plants. You like a shower, you prefer a bath. Shower. Uh-huh. Yeah, cold showers. You like a cold shower? Cold showers. You're nuts.

I don't do hot water. You don't use hot water? Jimmy, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard. What are you talking about? That's the best for you. I'm sure it's good for you. I believe you, but it doesn't feel good. Well, the first few days, yeah, it's gonna be a new day. Days?

Yeah. I know. And then you get used to it? You get used to it. You get used to it. No way. You use jumping, cold showers. How long do you shower for?

Like five minutes or something. Okay. See, I like to shower for a good 55 minutes. Get outta here. I like a nice, hot shower. You're kidding me. So you always do cold showers. So you like all the steam coming out?

I love the steam. I like to brush my teeth in there too, with hot water. My wife takes a shower and she has water so hot and I don't even believe that she's touching the water, or it's not even hitting her. She just kind of moves back and forth and lets it just like hit her hands in front of her. She's like, what are you doing?

Like playing around. What are you doing? Where are you originally from? From Garland, Texas. You like Texas? I like it. Now I like it. Now you like it? Yeah. What does you doing? Where are you originally from? From Garland, Texas. You like Texas? I like it. Now I like it. Now you like it?

Yeah. What does that mean? You know how California is, right? Everybody wants to leave California. Are you one of these people who wants to jump ship, leave California and go back to Texas? Well, I have family out there. Most of my family is in Texas. Do you think you're going to end up back in Texas?

I don't know. Don't leave California. Jamie, that's not what you do. Okay. All right. Are you married? Legally married now. But yeah. Yeah, are you legally married? So you're not married, but you have a serious relationship. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Want to get into legality? How'd you get into being a plumber? Basically, I was between going to college, going to college and back and forth doing part time jobs.

Why were you going to college? Just to make my family happy. Right? Yes. You felt obligated. Yeah. Yeah, basically. My parents, they were like, oh, you got to go to college.

You got to finish school. You got to do something. And that was the reason I was going. But I will go to college, you gotta finish school, you gotta do something, and that was the reason I was going, but I will go to college, I will just take general classes and some dumb classes as well. Sure. I took teams like volleyball. I took team sports.

In my team sports class, Dante Colpepper was in there and we played dodgeball one day and it was very scary. I get in trouble for this sometimes, where I say people shouldn't go to college and I don't really mean it, but I do think if you know what you want to do in life and you don't need college, like don't saddle yourself with debt going to college,

is my thought. Exactly, exactly. So like I said, I was going to college with part-time jobs, you know, doing, I was just a clerk for a bank. All right, you were a banker, and being a banker is so boring that you're like, I would much rather be a banker.

You know what, I hate about the thing. What? I was having a part-time job, it's one of those locations in the middle of nowhere. You get like, you know, three or four clients an hour, probably. Okay. I was the only male clerk in the bank. The rest, all girls.

That's nice. It's nice. But, you know, here's the thing. They're in the only little world, you know, talking about their stuff. Sure. And I'm here, you know, just sitting there waiting for my client to show up since they're all female, they'll get all the clients. So I would just sit there. It was the, you know, boring. My father-in-law is a banker and he just loves to talk about it, acts like it's

the most exciting thing in the world. And I just stare at him. So you dropped out of college to be a plumber. Basically, yeah. So like I said, I was going to college. I didn't know what to do with my life. I was partying, college, working. Finally, this family party, my brother-in-law at that time, he came up to me, he's like, hey, do you know anybody who wants to work plumbing? Yeah, I can probably ask a couple of friends, you know, and then he goes like, yeah, you know,

the pay is good, the minimum wage was, you know, they were paying like four or $5 more than the minimum wage. You know, you don't have to know anything, you don't have to have tools. I was thinking about it, like I said, I was in the bank. So I spoke to my manager at that time, you know, in the bank and I'm like, hey, you know what? I need a week off, you know,

I'm having some finals and going on school. So you're lying? Yeah. All right. Normal, right? Sure. You're double dipping. You're still getting paid by the bank,

but you're gonna go check out, see if you wanna be a plumber. You don't wanna, I get it. Listen, it makes complete sense. All right, so you agreed that, hey, this is a good switch. I'm done. I'm going to do this for a living. So I asked for a week off. I called my, my brother-in-law like, hey, you know what, I want to give it a try. And he's like, sure.

Yeah. And he's like, it's, it's, you know, it's pretty tough to, to, you know, what you're going to do. Why is he trying to like get you to not do it when he first asked you to do it? Well, he asked me if I knew anybody. Oh, he didn't want it to be you? I guess not. You know what he was. Was your parents upset that you dropped out of college? At first, yes.

But they didn't. You're like Mark Zuckerberg, except with toilets. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out, just do the Facebook, whatever that stuff. I like that I said the Facebook, I remember. And then how long until you opened your own company? I would say maybe six, seven years after. And has it been easy starting your own company or was it difficult?

I got my license and then I knew this friend, right? He's been doing plumbing forever. So I came up to him like, hey, you know what? I have a license now. You have the clients. What do you say if we partnership? And then he's like, you know what? Yeah, that's a good idea.

Let's do it. Right away from the get go, I had clients. And I was working with city jobs pretty much. Uh-huh. So it was pretty good. Like, I didn't struggle at the beginning. Like after we split, I was with him for about two years. OK.

And then after we split, because obviously after 2008, everything slowed down. The big recession, 2008, slowed everything down. How long is the school to get your license? How long does that take? Depends on each individual. You know, like. How long did it take you to do it?

I mean, it took me maybe like three months. Tell me if I'm wrong. Basically, everything just has to angle down. It's just about an angle. Slow. You just need to slow. Yeah. That's what it is.

That's all plumbing is. Start at one height and make it go down. Shit has to go down. Shit has to go down. How many different types of plumbers are there? So you have basically different branches, I will say. So they have the service plumbers. You talking about the rotor-ruder, Fox?

That's a different brand. Do you like rotor-ruder? That's a different branch. Do you like rotor-ruderooter? Do you like Roto-Rooter? Or no? Like any good? Should we not be calling Roto-Rooter ever? No. No?

Well, here's the thing. Roto-Rooter, it's a big company, right? Sure. So it depends what area are you in, but I know some guys that they do some tricky things. Okay. Can you answer me? Have you done plumbing in a high rise before?

Yeah, sorry. Well, here's what I want to know. There's just toilets all the way up into the sky. And there's just, it just goes to one big line and these turds are taking 200 foot dives. Exactly. They are. Well, literally, yeah.

Yeah. But most of the time you have, they call it vertical risers. And those are, you know, obviously, you're talking about 10 inch, 12 inch pipes that all the drain would still clog that. It would be tough. Yeah. Trust me. Okay. So yeah, it goes, you know, horizontal, ground level, horizontal, and then he dives into the vertical raxers. What about the water pressure? Do they have it all? Usually, most of the most of the buildings, they have a split system, which goes from the basement,

ground level to the, I would say, maybe the third or fourth floor, which is city pressure. I would say maybe the third or fourth floor, which is city pressure. Then from the fifth to whatever floor, it goes with the pump. So you pump all the water into tanks up in the roof. And then you let gravity do its job. And hot water too, because this is like some of these high rises. There's furnaces on every floor. Is that what's going on? No, no, no.

You have a big tank up in the roof. How much does that tank hold? I would say maybe like 5,000, 6,000 gallons of water or more. It confuses me so much. Is fixing plumbing problems in high rises, is that harder than like homes or no? It's actually easier. It's just that you have to deal with the fact that when when you're doing a repair, you have to shut down the entire floor.

So you have to deal with people, you know. OK. My wife, her hair, possibly clogs every drain in the house at some point. I don't know where it's coming from. I don't know why it's in the kitchen sink. Here's the thing. We all complain about women's, you know, being the ones, but we all lose hair, obviously.

Yeah, but our hair's short. Yeah, but still, I think showers are the worst when it comes to that. Well, she does this thing where she, she sticks all of her hair that's loose on the wall and then, you know, does the thing where she, you know, then she can take it all out. But the thing is, she fucking never does.

It's always left. Then I go into the shower and I see this big dry hairball on the side of the shower and eventually it falls in. All right. But hair is a real problem. Yeah, but you know, here's the thing, it's one of the easiest problems to fix pretty much. What about liquid drain-o?

Should we ever use that stuff? Showers, yes, not on sinks. Don't use liquid drain-o on your sinks. Or toilets. Or toilets. No, because liquid drain is basically a chemical to burn the hair. So if you put it on your toilet or your sink, you're just going to get a messy clock. Can 99% of plumbing

problems be solved with a plunger? No. You got a plunger? No. I don't think I do either. I don't. I don't have a plunger. You guys got plungers? Yep. Yes. Huh. I don't know. I mean, they sell like some nice ones. Yeah, but they still,

they still, when you pull them out, where do you clean a plunger? There you go. On your backyard with the hose? Right. That's the right answer. You should do it in your backyard with a hose. But no, what does everybody do?

They take it out, it drips everywhere, and they put it in their bathtub. That's disgusting. What's your stance on wet wipes, butt wipes, flushing them? Can't. Not even though they say flushable now. No. You cannot flush them. Don't do it. All right. Here's my routine. Okay. I think you're gonna, you'll approve of it. It's a little disgusting, but I use wet wipes. Okay, but I don't flush them.

I don't use any toilet paper. I've got the toilet, I've gotten my room, in my bedroom, the only toilet in the house, the fancy toilet with the bidet and everything. So it cleans me, then I use a wet wipe, but the wet, since I'm already clean, the wet wipe is just an extra layer of clean this Then I throw it in the trash. So I'm flushing nothing

Do you flush the toilet at night when you go to the bathroom if you pee? Yeah, I don't it's too loud It wakes me up. I just I don't flush at night anyway, so I got a fancy toilet I was like this is gonna be my gift to myself in my home a fancy toilet But the first one that we got, and they're expensive, those toilets, those fancy toilets are really expensive. Do you spend 10 grand on a toilet? That's crazy. Anyway, so the first one that we bought

was one of those modern ones that goes into the wall. Do you know what I'm saying? Not down. Yeah, a wall mount. A wall mount, which is nice because you get to clean the floor underneath your toilet. It's cleaner, but here was the problem. The wall mount one, and there's so all low flow now,

there's not much water. Every time you took a shit, no matter what kind, it left a huge streak on the bottom, because it's like a hard 90 to, and then we read the reviews of the toilet after we've already installed it. And they're like, yes, it leaves poop stains. My wife said, we can't have this.

I go, but it cost $7,500. She said, we can't have it. I can't have poop stains every time I go to the bathroom. So- And then you keep flushing and flushing and it doesn't go away. So I paid to have it taken out, put another expensive toilet but one that goes straight down in, lesson learned, lesson learned on that toilet.

The average man in their lifetime, if they live to be 75 years old, will spend six years sitting on a toilet. Get out of here. No, I made it up, but my point is have a good seat. Talk about some of the disasters that you've walked into. I don't know if that counts as a disaster. I walk into an adult film set by mistake. By mistake? They didn't have any plumbing problems? No, was there to to to just do a walk to lay some pipe

I didn't know that that I was happening at the moment, you know That's funny. Did you did you watch at all? Yeah? Was the story good or no, well, I didn't stick for that long. Oh, yeah, I rarely make it through a while. I think I'm walking almost at the- The climax? At the climax. Wow, that was good timing.

Mario or Luigi? Which one do you- Mario. Okay. What the shit? Should we be drinking tap water? No. Not at all. You serious? Not at all. I drink tap water every day,? No. Not at all.

You serious? I drink tap water every day. Especially for my pills at night, I put my mouth underneath. I mean, I would say maybe like 65% of the water that you're getting on the faucet is recycled. So unless you live in one of those places that you still get it, you know, from fresh. I don't know that I do. So yeah, you're drinking recycled poop water. Well, I mean, that's got to have some benefits, no? Well, yeah.

Some bacteria, right? Some bacteria, right? The fear people have of a snake, an actual real snake, coming up a toilet. Is that real? I don't think so. OK. I've always worried about it, but.

I mean, you can get all their, you know, cockroaches, yeah. In the toilet? Coming up? Yeah. Oh, I don't know if I've ever seen that. Yeah. They can survive. They can swim.

Oh, man. All right. Upper Decker. You know what an upper Decker is? That's when you poop into the top of the tank of someone's toilet at their house. You do it during a party. It's fun. And then when they flush, brown water comes out.

You ever seen an upper decker? No. No, okay. Is there a busy season for plumbers? Not really, I mean. I was thinking like after the Super Bowl. Well, you know what, actually, actually, no, actually Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Thanksgiving. That's a big meal. Yeah, definitely. I always get the calls. You get the calls because everybody's family's there, people are using their toilets way more than they normally do. They're getting more than normal and it just happens. How long do you wash your hands at the end of the day?

How long? Yeah, how long do you wash them? Like a minute? Less than a minute? All right. You're not worried? You're like, oh man, I've been talking. the end of the day. How long? Yeah, how long do you wash them? Like a minute? All right. Less than a minute, right? All right.

You're not worried, you're not like, oh man, I've been talking. I always wear latest gloves. You wear gloves? Yeah, all the time. You ever been hit on by one of your customers when somebody comes to your house and then all of a sudden, uh-oh. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Uh, it was an old lady. How old? Well, at that time, I was in my lady. How old? Well, at that time, I was in my mid 20s. So she was probably like, I would say maybe like 40s, early 40s. Okay, okay. So.

Did you make it happen? No. No. She wasn't that attractive. Okay. So. You know. All right.

What makes a good or bad customer? How long did it take to pay? Talk some shit about John. Did you do the plumbing for this place? Yes. Did he treat you fair? Oh, yeah. Did he pay you on time?

No. He did. He did. Oh, yeah. Is this thing up to code? I don't know. That's a good question. Now, if somebody wants you to do something that's not up to code? I don't know. That's a good question.

Now if somebody wants you to do something that's not up to code, like, you know, you can't even get shower heads in this state that will actually let water come out. More than whatever the state requires, right? Right. It's like when you order something from online and you see this nice faucet you like. But when you put it on your car and it says, it cannot be shipped to this location because it's California, right?

So what I have my customers do is like, when they want something like that, it's like, hey, just order out of stay or out of California and then somehow bring it over. Even if I drill it out, some of the pipes and take out the water, save it. It's still, there's just not enough water pressure coming to the house for it to ever change.

And I feel, here's my argument. I'm all for saving water and I do my part. Here's how I do my part. I shower with my wife and my two kids all at the same time. So that's four people getting clean. I should be allowed to have water hitting us harder. That's my logic. But you're saying the only workaround is you gotta go out of state and you gotta buy your fixtures,

but that still doesn't affect. Well, that's if you have like a low consumption, whatever, you know, faucet and you want to get more water. Yeah. But, you know, in your case, it sounds like the plumbing in the wall, it's probably undersized or it's all galvanized and it's all rusted out, you know. No, no, it's not rusted out. You know, so no, no, it's not rusted out. This is all new. This is new, but but a lot of the plumbing, the size and because for

them to sign off on it. Uh, and then there's, then there's like a, is there like a bar inside the pipe? A restrictor. Uh-huh. The whole way through all the pipes. Yeah. That's pretty much what a savory thing from California. I bet you they don't have that in Texas. They don't. No.

They don't care about that. Just taking nice showers in Texas. Do you have any celebrity clients? Do you ever deal with people where you're like, oh, I know who this person is? Yes. No, are their shits different than ours? Or is it all the same?

They're all the same. Mm-hmm. What race of people has the worst smelling shits? Go ahead. I don't know. No. You ever meet Andy Gump? No. Do you know who I'm talking about? Andy Gump. I know the company, but I don't know. Is there a person? Is Andy Gump a person? Could be. What are your thoughts on those worksite porta- porta potty is just the worst place in the world or yeah, they're they're disgusting. Well, here, let me tell you something. I have a sensitive stomach. So I was recently

working. I was in South Carolina. I was pushing it was late at night. And I was pushing my daughter in a stroller trying to get back to my hotel. My stomach was upset. And I wasn't gonna make it. So here's what I did. I pushed my daughter right up next to the chain link fence at a construction site, jumped the fence and went and used the porta potty and just hoped that no one took my daughter.

Because it went fine, okay? But I had to. As someone with a bad stomach, I always am like, oh, there's a construction site. Well, here's the thing though. Here's the thing though. Now, in days, what they're doing is they're putting locks on those things. I know they are. I know they are. When everybody leaves, they lock those things and... And you know what I do if it's locked in that scenario? I shove it over, tip it over, and shit on top of it, just to let them know that they are awful. Now, when people are on my show,

I always give them a gift from my house. I just give something from my house. And I was like, oh, what can I give Jimmy the plumber? And then I thought about it. I was like, oh, this is perfect. You worried or no? It's never. A little bit, a little bit.

It's pretty. I think, I go, he's from Texas. I go and plumbers crack. I don't ever want him to have it. So I got some some of my old belts that I had that have a text right. Nice. I said I go I go this is a perfect gift for Jimmy couple old leather belts with a big old Texas long horn belt buckle. Nice, thank you. Know that those things were gifts to me from somebody. I was like, yeah, I don't ever dress like this. All right, put that on the floor. What's your waist size?

36. That'll be fine. Plumbers crack. Where did that stereotype come from? No idea. Are you self-conscious and always make sure that your pants are up? Oh yeah, always. Okay.

Ha ha ha ha. I've seen some plumbers crack here and there. Sure you have. I'm like, oh. The term white mice, you know what that is, right? No. You don't know the term white mice is in the plumbers world? No.

Isn't that a woman's tampon that clogs up the toilet? Oh, okay, okay. You've heard it? Well, I never heard of the white mice. Okay. Have you found those? Oh, yeah, definitely. What's the worst thing you've seen people flush in the toilets?

Sex toys. Was that on purpose or did it fall out? Maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe they were so excited and just, you know, went down. They didn't want to pick it up. You got to flush on a sex toy. How far can you actually snake a drain or a toilet? How far can you actually go?

It all depends. Without removing the toilet, six feet. That's it. That's it. Talk about roots. Tree roots. Is that just a nightmare? What do I got to do?

If you sewer outside, is clay pipe? Yes, it is. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. You had a nightmare. I got you had to get rid of the clay. I'm not. I just keep paying to have the roots cleaned out. You the because it's a rental. The jetter, right? Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, you can't do nothing about it unless you replace it. Alright, I gotta replace it. What's the biggest fuckup you've ever done? That was back when I was working for a company at the union.

You had to do, they call it a brace soldering, which you use like a torch, the torch they use for weld stuff and melt things. The guy who was my foreman, he's like, oh, you know what? You wanna learn how to do this? I'm like, sure. And he's like, Oh, you know what, you know, you want to learn how to do this? I'm like, Sure. And he's like, Okay, so this is how you mix, you know, the, the oxygen and nitrogen to get, you know, the perfect flame. So you can brace the

copper. So he's, you know, he started showing me, you know, you mix it this way, not okay, fine. We showed up this day, I think he was off the day, they sent somebody else with me, because usually when you're working on those companies, you work with a partner. So they send this other guy and he's like, oh, what are we doing today?

I'm like, oh, we're gonna keep bracing these copper pipes, right? And he's like, you know how to do that? I'm like, oh yeah, I know. So I grabbed this tea, we're talking about, you know, at that time, this is back in what, 2005, 2006. At that time, that tea was worth almost three grams. The copper tea. Copper tea. Yeah, 10 inch, 10 inch copper tea. So I grabbed the thing, you know, put it all together, put it on the table, start working on it. This guy is watching me thinking that I know what I'm doing.

Well, you've heard about it at least. I poke a hole into the tea. So is that done? It's done. Done. You can do nothing. So that goes to the trash. Well, recycle. It goes back to your car. goes to the trash. Well, a recycle. It's a recycle. He goes back to your car. So, so I'm like, and he looks at me. He's like, oh, I tell you, you knew what you were doing. I'm like, oops.

So what do we do now? Well, let's just pretend that never happened. Cut it, put it on the back of my truck. And then we told the supervisor, oh, we need this tea. And he like, well, I order it. You know, it's in the box, in the job box. Oh, we can find it.

Oh no. So, it was a, you know, expensive fuckup. Well, right, but it didn't cost you any. Well, yeah. And then I actually took it back to a recycle place and I got some money out of it. Jimmy, that's not the right thing to do. Would you consider yourself a very reputable?

Do you like make sure you don't? You talked about the Rotoroo people, sometimes they take advantage of people. Do you ever take advantage of customers or try to upsell them or do you just be like, here, this is this is what you need, this is what you get? You know, I think the reason that I kept myself busy until this time, you know, and I'm always busy, I had never advertised.

Never done any advertising? No. Okay. Everything is being word mouth. And you didn't mention that story about, you know, costing that one client $10,000 with that tea. No, no, that was the company that I used to work for. No, I know.

I mean, you're a young buck, and you're allowed one of those per career. So here's the thing, I've been trying to always, even some of my guys, you know, like I had this guy working for me one time, he's like, hey, Jimmy, what do you do this? It's so perfect. Not perfect, but what do you make it look so nice?

I mean, the client is not gonna see it. It's gonna be inside the insulation and the walls. I'm like, don't worry, just do it. Cause I like to keep it symmetrical, keep it nice looking. I don't want an old message. You need an honest person. And that's how I'm keeping my business, you know.

Do you hate the fact that you know how to fix stuff all the time? Like, do your neighbors come over and go, hey, man? Here's the funny thing. Like, once I go home, I don't want to do anything. Even if there's a leaky faucet in the house, I don't touch it. You call a problem. If my neighbor comes out, I actually had this old lady. She's really nice. She lives by herself. She came out the other day.

I was pulling the trash cans out and she came out and she's like, oh, Jimmy, how are you? I want to ask you for a favor. I'm like, what happened? Oh, because I ordered this stove from Hon Dipo. And I told the delivery guy, oh, I was gonna pay him to install it for me, to connect the gas line.

But he didn't because he said I didn't have the right connection. In my head. That's a real favor, yeah. In my head, right? I'm like, oh, but you know, it's just an old lady by herself. Okay.

So I went up and whatever connection she had, it was the right one. It just happened that whoever showed up, didn't care. He just wanted to drop off the box and leave. That's as much as I do with my neighbors and stuff like that. But I don't want to know anything about plumbing. I'll do some advertising for you. I'll give you free advertising on this show.

What's the name of your company? Easy Flow Plumbing Services. Easy Flow Plumbing Services. I just rolls off the tongue. Did you have sex with your neighbor when you went over there to install the stove? No. Okay. That's what I think of plumbers.

I think of plumbers are just having sex with everybody. I had a pipe that was running across my bedroom. And it had permanent hot water going through it, like real hot water. And it had one of the welds or whatever, one of the seals, it had a leak. Pinhole. But a pinhole. But the water was so hot, one of the seals, it had a leak, but a pinhole.

But it was the water was so hot that when it dripped, it didn't drip. It evaporated evaporated. So for like three years, it was evaporated. But when it hit the drywall below it, it turned back to water. So like, you couldn't see where the drip was coming from until about three years later, where I put my hand on the wall and my hand just went right through the wall. Is he going to call me?

No, I didn't. I used to, I used to my guy Barry, you know, Barry. No. It's not a small, not as small of a circle as I thought it was. No, there's tons of tons of plumbers out there. No, I know. Barry, Barry's the guy that just lebers out there. No, I know. Barry, Barry's the guy that just leans on my toilet and goes, Hey, you got a heated

toilet seat. You got graphics on the side of your truck? No. No, you don't want anybody to call you ever. I used to. Okay. I used to. But what happened is that with that, what you're doing is you're creating a thief

to pretty much follow you and then steal your crap because I have my van stolen couple of times. So now I don't do it. Like I said, I don't do any advertising. Do you want me to advertise for you or no? Not really. All right. Yeah.

All right. That's funny. All right. I appreciate you taking time out, Jimmy. Thank you for your hard work. And thank you for having me. I'll see you around. That's a soft hand.

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