The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”

All right, this guy might be the king of side hustles. He makes about $3 million

side hustles. He makes about $3 million a year off of six or seven different side hustles, different streams of income. And normally all the advice you

income. And normally all the advice you hear is about focus, focus, go all in on one thing. This guy's like Mr. Shiny

one thing. This guy's like Mr. Shiny Object Syndrome. So I loved having him

Object Syndrome. So I loved having him on. He's very fun. And he comes on, he

on. He's very fun. And he comes on, he tells you the side hustle ideas that he loves. So things that you could do,

loves. So things that you could do, they're kind of weird businesses, but you could do them really in any local market. And on this podcast, sometimes

market. And on this podcast, sometimes we have really brilliant people, but they talk about stuff that's for most people not something they could go do.

It's interesting to hear, but you can't really do it. This is an episode I'm going to send to my sister, you know, my brother-in-law because I think they would like to do these businesses. And I

think these are things that anybody actually can do and get to where he's gotten where I think he's making $8,000 per day of free cash flow off of these uh side hustles per day. That's pretty

crazy. So, enjoy this episode. It's all

about the weird crazy side hustles that anybody could do if you just got a little bit of hustle.

All right. What's up? We got Chris here.

Chris, you are a crazy guy. Uh, you're a mad man. And one of the reasons I wanted

mad man. And one of the reasons I wanted you on here is because most business advice on the internet sounds like this.

You got to focus. You got to lock in.

You got to grind. You have to just go all in on one thing. Focus, focus,

focus. And you're like the exact opposite. You're a dude who you see a

opposite. You're a dude who you see a shiny object, you chase it, and you're not ashamed to say it. That's actually

your strategy. Uh we were talking before this, and you were telling me that you have, I think, started 30 different businesses that crossed over 50,000 in

revenue, maybe 35. You said you have six different revenue streams right now that each produce over $100,000 of cash flow for you. And I was doing the math on

for you. And I was doing the math on some of your numbers and I think basically just on your side hustles, you're making like $8,000 a day of cash flow. And I think that is amazing. I

flow. And I think that is amazing. I

want to hear what your side hustles are.

I want to hear what other side hustles you found cuz you find these like random simple businesses that are cool. I want

to hear which ones you think are cool that other people can go do uh for their own side hustles. And I want to hear your philosophy as you go because again, I think you defy some of the odds. That

sounds perfect. Absolutely. Let's do it.

So, tell me about some of the ideas you have that other people could do. Dude, I

think you should pull up that video of the hole-in-one golf challenge. This is

one that I can't get out of my head. All

right. So, here we go. Look at this freaking thing right here. And I see a basically a a golf putting green. So,

like the the where just the part where the hole is. And it's just floating out in the ocean. And you said that this driving range in New Zealand pays out $10,000 if you hit a hole in one. It's

111 yards away. You get this like plaque if you hit the hole in one. And um so what is the business here? They

basically they it's like a carnival game. They charge you a little bit to

game. They charge you a little bit to try to hit a hole in one. Is that it?

Yeah. It's kind of like think of like unbundling a carnival. It's the business is math. They're just using math, right?

is math. They're just using math, right?

And here's the math. The the average amateur golfer, and I don't golf. I hate

golf. um has a one in 25,000 chance of getting a hole in one on a par three, which this is okay. A and so this company in New Zealand, it's right off

the road on this lake. Um they have announced multiple times that they pay out on average once every two weeks. So

I can use math uh to say, "All right, these guys," and I know how much they sell balls for. It's like 40 bucks for 25 balls or something. Uh they have a sensor in the hole and they have divers go get the balls every couple weeks.

Yeah. There's like a scuba diver swimming around the thing. Is he there all the time or he just does that once a week? Goes and gets all the balls just

week? Goes and gets all the balls just once a week. And so I can surmise based on math and statistics that this place net profits like $3 to $500,000 a year,

which is there's nothing to see there.

It's a little stand with a floating green. One guy just standing there with

green. One guy just standing there with an iPad. So why isn't this all over the

an iPad. So why isn't this all over the place? Wait, so you said this is just

place? Wait, so you said this is just roadside in New Zealand? There's one

there's one of these in the world that I know of off the side of a road in New Zealand, but it's off the side of the road. It's not even like near a golf

road. It's not even like near a golf course or tourist attraction. You're

just saying this is just in a random area right now. Yeah. All right. So,

let's say we wanted to do this. Let's

brainstorm this together and maybe we'll actually do this. Maybe we'll find a listener to run this for us to make it happen. But like we'll make this an MFM

happen. But like we'll make this an MFM case study. All right. So, how would we

case study. All right. So, how would we do this in order to make this happen? um

you know quickly like get momentum and then have it actually work, have it actually be successful. So to me it's all about piggybacking, right? I don't

want to guess where the golfers are.

Like there are no golfers where this place is, but how much better would they be doing if there was all already a captive audience right there? And so I would just find one golf course. You

know how you you go you go to a golf course and like after the 18th hole there's just like a putting green where you can chill. It would be like that.

Okay, take your nearest pond, put a floating green out there, put a T and have a little iPad with a stand and say, "Here's your ball." Just like a driving range, 20 balls, 20 bucks or whatever, $10,000 if you get a hole in one. And

it's a way for a golf course to earn additional revenue. They're not about to

additional revenue. They're not about to build a floating green and work out the logistics of the point of sale. So, you

could Yeah, you could do this as a service and say, "We'll install this.

You're going to have more net income without doing any work. We're going to take 30% of all your revenue as a fee.

Okay, I kind of love this idea, but you need the water for this floating thing, right? Or what do you what are you

right? Or what do you what are you suggesting? So, like, how would you do

suggesting? So, like, how would you do this if the golf course is not situated by like, you know, like in this case, it's like the ocean or whatever, like I think I'm glad you brought that up because I think the water is a key

point. Like, as men, we want to throw

point. Like, as men, we want to throw rocks in the water. Yeah. I think

visually there's a there's a there's something that like my testosterone went up like 15 points just looking at this.

Like, I could I could do this, right?

Like If it was literally just like a, oh, like here's just like a hole. Here's

the 19th hole, right? You could do that.

You could brand. Oh, this is the 19th hole. But just having that obstacle of

hole. But just having that obstacle of mother nature there. Yes. There's

something to that. I mean, you win either way. So, you get it on the green,

either way. So, you get it on the green, you feel awesome. You get a hole in one, you win $10,000. You really feel awesome. You miss, you see a splash. You

awesome. You miss, you see a splash. You

can't lose. Or worst case scenario, you're just playing golf. You're paying

you're paying money to play golf, which is why you're there in the first place.

And you're going to get content out of this also. You're going to have your

this also. You're going to have your buddy film you or we set up a camera here where you get like an Instagram worthy story for, you know, for this thing. How How much do you say people

thing. How How much do you say people pay to take a swing at this or, you know, they buy 10 balls or what do they do? 30 It's like 20 bucks or like 35

do? 30 It's like 20 bucks or like 35 bucks for 20 balls or 50 bucks for 40 balls, something like that. Oh, so you get like 20 to 40 hacks at it to do it.

Uhhuh. Yeah. That's pretty good. And

every guy thinks he can do it, right? Of

course.

or that today might be my day. And also

golf you're already like I don't know what the average spend is of a golf day like of a golf outing. I don't play golf personally but like there's the there's the actual like the cost to actually play that day on the course. There's all

the clubs investment you've done.

There's the there's the tips. There's

the food. There's the the beer along the way. There's all this like money spent.

way. There's all this like money spent.

Dude, to spend an extra 40 bucks to have a blast with your buddies at the end or to have a story or to just like, you know, do something at the end. That's an

absolute no-brainer. If you actually did this with the golf course. I thought you were going to say though that you would do it just on the route to the golf course. You know, there's a lot of

course. You know, there's a lot of golfer traffic. Who's going to take a

golfer traffic. Who's going to take a roadside stop here and and try to do this? I mean, you could do that, too.

this? I mean, you could do that, too.

Like, I'm picturing like a freeway with a a lake over to the right and an exit nearby. You rent the billboard right

nearby. You rent the billboard right above it, arrow pointing down, $10,000 for a floating hole in one, and people can just pull off and do it. Like, it

doesn't have to be a golf course. I like

you could use the same principle and to me the principle is just math as a service, right? We're calling this a

service, right? We're calling this a mass business. Okay. And it's like let's

mass business. Okay. And it's like let's say you have a one in aundred chance.

It's a it's it's an outdoor casino. Yes.

Exactly. Exactly. What is a slot machine? What is roulette? What is

machine? What is roulette? What is

craps? What are all these games? These

are games where the house just said, "Cool, we'll take an edge. We'll take a math edge and you get to play and have fun, right? But we we take the edge."

fun, right? But we we take the edge."

And that what you're saying is to do the same thing. Yeah. even like a putting

same thing. Yeah. even like a putting green in a mall or something or or a walkable outdoor shopping area. Let's

say you've got like a one in500 chance of making a 30- foot putt, right? So,

you say, "Hey, 30 foot putt you get it, we'll give you 500 bucks." And you just do the math and you say, "All right, I'm you know, every $3,000 I get, I'm going to pay out 500 bucks." Statistically

speaking, dude, I love this idea. If you

if you want to do this idea, email me, Sean Shanie, and then me and Chris, we will we will help you do this and we will document the journey. We'll put it out there in the public. kind of make it a thing because I think part of it is

the branding and the novelty factor and you want to see this online first and then people will actually drive out to do it or they'll plan to stop, not just whoever happens to see it and understand

it while they're driving 50 m hour down a road. You know what I mean? Yeah. I

a road. You know what I mean? Yeah. I

like the name 19th Hole. That's a good one. It's good. Right. We might need to

one. It's good. Right. We might need to snag that domain name before this goes live.

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All right, so I love the hole-in-one golf course. All right, give me the next

golf course. All right, give me the next side hustle idea. Okay. Well, I want to talk about Facebook Marketplace. I feel

like there's an entire economy in Facebook Marketplace. There are seven

Facebook Marketplace. There are seven figure business owners, let's say fencing business. All they do is post to

fencing business. All they do is post to Facebook Marketplace organically once a week to get all their leads. By the way, Facebook Marketplace has one billion monthly active users. Just that tab.

Crazy. And no one's talking about it.

What are we doing?

So, I've got a I've got a story for you.

I got a story. And by the way, just explain the thing you just said real quick before you go to your story. So

you said there's people who own like local fencing companies. Their entire

sales machine is posting on face marketplace fencing services. Is that

what you're saying? Or answering uh the request for fencing service. What are

they actually doing? Yeah. Like they're

just posting, hey, I put up fences cedar 6 foot um $8 per linear foot. And then

people message him and he goes out and gives a quote and he has a $7,000 job.

Like there's nothing paid. There's no

paid ads. This is just one organic post that takes him five minutes and he'll refresh it every couple days. Dude, I

don't know if you saw this. We did this episode with uh high schoolers. I think

it was like a high school version of Shark Tank. I saw that. Yeah. And there

Shark Tank. I saw that. Yeah. And there

was a kid who was I think 17, 18 years old and his entire business, I forget even what the service was. It was home services of some kind. I don't remember.

Like window washing or something. Yeah,

it was like window washing or like it was gutter cleaning. It was their their their highlight thing. It was like gutter cleaning. And his entire business

gutter cleaning. And his entire business model was off of Next Door. So he's

like, "Yeah, I just started this in my neighborhood where I live. I went on Next Door and I said that I do this and I serviced, you know, the last year I serviced 60 homes in this neighborhood of 600 homes or whatever it was for

gutter cleaning and that generated I'm making up the numbers now cuz I don't remember off the top of my head, but it was like 500,000 in revenue." And we were like, "What?" He's like, "Yeah, just post on there that this is what I do and then it's people in our

neighborhood." And I was like, "So could

neighborhood." And I was like, "So could you post in the next neighborhood?" He's

like, "Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to get around the rest." You know, like, "Yeah, I can. and I just haven't done that yet. It's like, wow, this is everybody should do this. Like, you

know, what is my kid doing? You know,

what are they teaching you in prek right now? We got to get after it with this

now? We got to get after it with this next door uh, you know, next door lead genen, basically. And so, you're saying

genen, basically. And so, you're saying the same thing is happening at a bigger scale on Facebook Marketplace. Yeah,

both great opportunities. Okay, great.

So, tell me the story you were going to tell me. Yeah, this is this is an

tell me. Yeah, this is this is an outlier example. Okay, results not

outlier example. Okay, results not guaranteed. But 20 2021, China had

guaranteed. But 20 2021, China had cancelled Bitcoin mining, right? 2021

was a crazy year. A lot of money being printed. Uh and we started a Bitcoin

printed. Uh and we started a Bitcoin mining facility and people were selling Bitcoin miners and hosting services on Facebook Marketplace. Um and so these

Facebook Marketplace. Um and so these miners cost $10,000. So you go type in the name of the model and you see them listed. Cool. Uh, but I thought, huh,

listed. Cool. Uh, but I thought, huh, the the hosting price, because if you buy a Bitcoin miner, you have to host it at like a data center, and it's usually like 200 bucks a month for the hosting

fee. So, I just posted organically of

fee. So, I just posted organically of Facebook Marketplace, uh, Bitcoin mining hosting service, but instead of putting in the price of the minor, which turns people off, $10,000. $10,000. Great.

Yeah. I put in the price of the hosting, $200. And then when you click into it in

$200. And then when you click into it in the description, it's like, it's actually$200 for hosting. Here's the

cost of the miners. I'm not

exaggerating. Um, that one ad and I had it going on multiple accounts. We would

refresh it, but no paid. No paid. Did

$9.8 million all on Facebook Marketplace in 3 months profitably. Like this isn't like your oh

profitably. Like this isn't like your oh and we spent $ 9.8 million in ads like right profitably. That's like the

right profitably. That's like the potential and kind of an extreme outlier, but I have other more just to be clear. You were selling miners that

be clear. You were selling miners that you had that you already owned or what were you doing? We were pre-selling them and then ordering them from China. So,

we had a positive cash flow conversion cycle in addition to all that. All

right. So, you went on Facebook ads. You

specifically did the marketplace ads. Is

that right? Not even ads. We were just posting. Just posting. All right. Just

posting. Just posting. All right. Just

organic posting. And you're posting every day. You're posting You're posting

every day. You're posting You're posting it in every city. Did you set up like a farm to post these? How'd you do that?

Yeah, we used VAS and multiple Facebook accounts and we posted in multiple cities because most people want to buy from someone local. Um, and the funnel was, you know, VA answers, uh, response,

then they pushed them to a sales call because it's hard to sell something so expensive over the internet. Once they

got on the sales call, we would close like half of them, right?

And so, and then you would close them and then you'd go order that same thing from China because there's like a knowledge arbitrage here of like I don't know how to go or I don't trust spending $10,000 on Alibaba or AliExpress. And

so, you would then do that and you'd have a margin. What was the rough margin on something like that? Call it 30%. 30%

like high ticket. So, and this one I'm guessing didn't last in the sense that like you know in 2025 maybe the same market dynamics, the demand, the supply are not the same. Is that true? Yep.

Really the biggest variable here is like the frothiness of the mining market which is not good right now. So, I think this would work again if the mining market turned around more when the timing like like would you do this like

are you planning to do this again if the mining market, you know, gets uh gets hyped again? Yes. Yeah.

hyped again? Yes. Yeah.

And how do you spend your money, dude?

So, let's say you make a few million dollars doing something like this. What

do you What does Chris like to spend his money on? Oh, man. Um on my family. We

money on? Oh, man. Um on my family. We

go on cool vacations and starting more businesses. Um, I invest in real estate,

businesses. Um, I invest in real estate, but I just I like starting businesses is my it's the only thing I know. But it

seems like you start businesses that don't take a lot of capital. Yeah,

that's true. But I like investing uh like tripling down on businesses that are more mature along the way where I can see a clear path to growth with more

capital. What's another Facebook

capital. What's another Facebook marketplace idea that somebody could do?

Like, is it as simple as, "Hey, I noticed that there are garage shelving companies. they're not currently active

companies. they're not currently active in my area. I go talk to 10 business owners. I say, "Hey, if I bring you a

owners. I say, "Hey, if I bring you a customer, give me $300 or whatever it is." And you do lead genen because that

is." And you do lead genen because that that business owner doesn't even think to do Facebook Marketplace activity to to drive leads. Most most service people, most small business owners don't even think this way, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you could literally build an agency that just posts a Facebook marketplace for business owners, sells them the leads. Right. Right. But you

mentioned shelving. I interviewed this guy named Alex on my podcast, The Kerner Office, and he has a six-figure business just building not shelving, but garage

shelving on wheels with Costco totes.

Like, that's it. Uh, only with organic Facebook Marketplace post. And he net profits $180,000 a year. That's the

whole business, right? Garage shelving

on Facebook Marketplace.

I mean, he has a $300 saw and he goes and buys 2x4s and he he didn't even have a truck for like the first year and a half, right? Okay. What are your other

half, right? Okay. What are your other ideas? I see a list of 10 here and we've

ideas? I see a list of 10 here and we've probably done two or three. So, give me give me more. All right. Any idea? You

You want No, no. Any idea. You want me to call out one of these? Just team me up. Yeah. Take local tourist traps and

up. Yeah. Take local tourist traps and put them in your home market. Is this

like the hole in one challenge or you talking about something else? Different.

Yeah, this is a good one. So I went, you've seen arrest development, I assume. Of course. Okay. So there's

assume. Of course. Okay. So there's

money in the banana stand. We all know that. Um

that. Um first day of business school in Harvard.

That's what they teach you. Yes. So I

went to Baloa Island with my family last year. And we went to the banana stand.

year. And we went to the banana stand.

For whatever reason, this one street, it has like seven banana stands. And

there's one that's supposedly the best.

And I shelled out like $8 each for these bananas covered in chocolate and nuts.

And I made a video uh about, you know, how much profit these guys make because as I went to the window, I had to I asked her, "How many of these do you sell a day? What's your busiest day ever? What's your slowest day ever?" All

ever? What's your slowest day ever?" All

these people are behind. Do you want nuts or no nuts on a banana?

People were But I had to know. And then

to make matters worse, I pull out my phone and make a video about how anyone could copy them. So I'm a great guy. But

uh Exactly. I I don't remember the exact number. Still your girl over here.

number. Still your girl over here.

That's right. Steal your banana. The

This one little shop that's like 300 square ft is doing like 7 million a year in frozen bananas like and what's the margin on an $8 banana with chocolate

and peanuts? And so I just thought like

and peanuts? And so I just thought like why isn't this like why isn't this a thing? I didn't go to Baloa Island for

thing? I didn't go to Baloa Island for the bananas. Once I was there I I got

the bananas. Once I was there I I got them. But there are Baloa Islands all

them. But there are Baloa Islands all over the world and most of them have no banana stand. Like so it's this idea

banana stand. Like so it's this idea isn't just about banana stand. It's

about taking something really unique and novel. Maybe it's like the old western

novel. Maybe it's like the old western timey photo booths that you see in Pigeon Forge. Maybe it's like um funnel

Pigeon Forge. Maybe it's like um funnel cake or like the mini donuts that you see in Gatlinburg. Like take something like that and just test it. I'm not

saying it's going to work, but you could test it very very cheaply in other tourist markets or in non-ourist markets. Yeah, that's interesting. I

markets. Yeah, that's interesting. I

wonder if that would work. Like I wonder how much of the appeal is that oh humans just like these kind of frozen chocolate bananas or is it that in that area on

that street it's kind of known for this and you see a line and so you see the line you start doing it like I wonder if that like it's kind of like an organ transplant. I wonder if there's like

transplant. I wonder if there's like that you know donor rejection or so the the host rejection of the of the organ when you put one of these in a new in a new area. It could be. But I think the

new area. It could be. But I think the the greatest chance you've had you would have for success is taking specifically a tourist trap and putting it in a different tourist trap where it's like

this is a unique novel thing that people don't buy when they're home. But like

for instance, um I have a friend in in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee that owns an indoor sledding facility. You can't tell me that wouldn't work in other tourist traps that have the same type of demographic there, you know. Yeah. Yeah,

that makes sense. Um okay, give me another one. about um Toasted Tours.

another one. about um Toasted Tours.

What is this? This is a All right. This

This is in Northern California by you.

This guy took a a 40ft shipping container, put it on the back of a semitr, cut out the walls, put handrails on there, put tables in there, chairs in

there, and he takes people on wine tours. It's a party bus, but it's not

tours. It's a party bus, but it's not even a bus. It's a shipping container.

And it's open air. Open air. Yeah. They

like cut out the sides. Yes. And so I'm swiping Instagram one day and I see this video that just broke my frame. It's the

shipping container and people are like dancing inside as it's going around a bend at a high rate of speed and it's like looks dangerous. What am I looking

at? But this guy crushes it like his

at? But this guy crushes it like his first year and he had experience in doing like wine tours but nothing like this. I think he did like over a million

this. I think he did like over a million bucks his first year with like 60% margins. What I like about some of these

margins. What I like about some of these is that they are visually viral. So, you

know, the definition of virality, people get it wrong. People think it's word of mouth. Word of mouth is actually a

mouth. Word of mouth is actually a different thing. Word of mouth is I like

different thing. Word of mouth is I like this so much I want to tell my friends about it. Viral is actually more like a

about it. Viral is actually more like a sneeze. You spread a virus without even

sneeze. You spread a virus without even wanting to spread it. Right? This was

like back when uh you know, Hotmail started. I'm just sending you an email.

started. I'm just sending you an email.

I'm not trying to tell you to use Hotmail, but because I'm sending you an email from my Hotmail address, and at the bottom it says, "I sent this via Hotmail, you know, they they added that to the bottom of the email, it spread

like a virus." And that's how, you know, a lot of the big viral services actually spread. Facebook was like this, right?

spread. Facebook was like this, right?

I'm I'm uploading photos. I'm just

tagging my friends. I'm not trying to tell them, "Hey, you should join Facebook. I'm having a grand old time

Facebook. I'm having a grand old time here." They tagged a friend. It sent

here." They tagged a friend. It sent

them an email. Said, "You got tagged in a photo." And people can't resist being

a photo." And people can't resist being like, "Somebody put a photo up of me on the internet. I must see this. And

the internet. I must see this. And

that's how Facebook grew early on was like this this one viral loop. And then

there's this other types of virality.

One is like this visually viral where it's not like the people on this truck we're trying to go tell everyone about it, but it's so novel looking that I can't help but look at it, learn about

it, you know, and and I think the the hole in one challenge has the same benefit which is like you see it, it's super interesting to look at. You get

the concept right away and it's worth remarking on. you're talking about it

remarking on. you're talking about it with people, you notice it, you want to do it. The act of somebody else doing it

do it. The act of somebody else doing it made you want to do it. And so I like these things that are sort of walking billboard style businesses because um you know, they market themselves once

you get them going.

Dude, I I have some really good uh good examples of visually viral stuff. Have

you seen that guy that does like he'll mow people's lawns for free? Please tell

me you've seen that. Who is this guy?

Okay, this guy out of Kansas or something. young guy. He owned a lawn

something. young guy. He owned a lawn care business, small kind of struggling business. And one day he sets up his

business. And one day he sets up his tripod, SB mowing and SB pressure washing. He sets up a tripod in the

washing. He sets up a tripod in the driver. Big YouTube channel now, right?

driver. Big YouTube channel now, right?

So this guy has 45 million followers across platforms combined. 45 million.

And all he does is he sets up a tripod.

He puts on a mic. He walks up to a door.

He says, "Hey, your lawn looks like crap. Mind if I mow it for free?" What's

crap. Mind if I mow it for free?" What's

the catch? I publish this to YouTube and make money. Cool. And then he mows it

make money. Cool. And then he mows it for free with a time-lapse video.

Visually viral it. Yeah. Yes. We want to see the outcome. The retention is there so the platforms push it. Like what is it going to look like when he's done?

And this guy I mean what is the value of 45 million social media followers versus the value of a local lawn care business right? I mean dude look at this by the

right? I mean dude look at this by the way like if you just sort by popular you know he stacks the things. So there's

the visual viral part of uh before and after which humans want to complete that. They want to know the the

that. They want to know the the solution. Then you have um the sort of

solution. Then you have um the sort of novelty surprise factor like, "Oh, this guy's doing this for free. That's

interesting. Why? I want to know what's the answer here." But then he stacks on drama. So the top videos are angry

drama. So the top videos are angry homeowner confronts me while I'm mowing this vacant home. Cop approaches me while I'm mowing this deserted home and

tells me this. Homeowner stunned at how how wide the sidewalks are. Right. Her

tears said it all. My prayers have been answered. So this guy has this great

answered. So this guy has this great skill stack where he's got, you know, the the lawn care, this sort of that's one skill that okay, he's worth, you know, only X dollars in the market of of

the economy, but then he stacks on being really good at content. And those two together created a how many lawn care guys are really good at content? I don't

know, zero. Like, you know, the numbers less than a dozen. And so suddenly he became rare. And when you're rare,

became rare. And when you're rare, you're valuable. Exactly. Yeah. That's

you're valuable. Exactly. Yeah. That's

really cool. Okay, so let's jump in side hustles and um the ones that you currently have. So, let's do some of the

currently have. So, let's do some of the fun ones. The one I met you on on is

fun ones. The one I met you on on is about BIES. And so, for people who don't

about BIES. And so, for people who don't know, could you explain just how crazy of a business BIES is and then the side hustle you created off the back of BIES?

Yeah, BIES is like your redneck Disney gas station. They're about half the size

gas station. They're about half the size of a Costco. There's 51 locations and they do like 60 to 80 million in revenue per year each. And it's just if if you

haven't been there, there's nothing like it's like a really So the math on that is like three billion in revenue on 50 gas stations. Yeah. Yeah. What?

gas stations. Yeah. Yeah. What?

I've never been to a BIE. What What

makes a Bucky so great? Is it even a gas station or is it just something else with that happens to have gas? It's a

brand with a gas station. They have over 100 pumps. You walk in, there's just

100 pumps. You walk in, there's just things happening everywhere. You've got

tacos being made. You've got people shouting about brisket. You've got

beaver nuggets, t-shirts, like beavers walking around, the the cleanest bathrooms you'll ever find. There's

nothing else like it. You just walk in and you're you're amazed from the get-go. Okay, before you tell me your

get-go. Okay, before you tell me your side hustle off the back of that, what's the quick kind of origin story of this?

Has this been around for like a hundred years? Who started it? Like why is this

years? Who started it? Like why is this so successful? I mean, I've never heard

so successful? I mean, I've never heard that. $3 billion in revenue on 51 gas

that. $3 billion in revenue on 51 gas stations. They founded like 40 years

stations. They founded like 40 years ago. This guy named Arch. He was called

ago. This guy named Arch. He was called Bucky as a kid and he opened a gas station and then they just started going bigger and bigger and bigger. They just

kept pushing the envelope and their whole signature was this mascot, just this cheesy looking beaver that people just loved. And so once they started

just loved. And so once they started selling merch, t-shirts and tumblers and all that, they just exploded. And

they're really unique in that they put themselves in far-flung areas. um

they're not like in the city, they're on the way to a vacation or close to a vacation destination. Oh, so it's like

vacation destination. Oh, so it's like the perfect rest stop, right? Because if

any like I was just on a road trip, we drove to Tahoe and it's a three three-hour drive roughly, but there's these patches where you need to stop in the middle and the bar is so low for

rest stop experience, right? It's like,

you know, it's basically a porta potty in a in a good scenario. And then you get like the trucker rest stops, then you get a gas station, then you get like maybe a little strip mall with a Starbucks. But what you're saying is

Starbucks. But what you're saying is they built something actually like really cool out and that's on those drives. And that maybe is like one of

drives. And that maybe is like one of the golden insights for them. Yeah. It's

just they you walk in and you're a captive audience. You can buy lunch, you

captive audience. You can buy lunch, you can buy gas. Most people just park at the pump. You can buy a t-shirt. And the

the pump. You can buy a t-shirt. And the

average ticket, I don't know what it is.

They're privately traded, but people spend hundreds of dollars there. You're

not just like buying a Celsius and and hopping out. All right. What is this

hopping out. All right. What is this business you created on top of BIES or like your side hustle for BIES? Yeah.

So, back to what you said about me not being able to focus. I was in the middle of running this business that was growing and demanding all of our time and attention. And I took my business

and attention. And I took my business partner to Bies and he was from Utah. It

was his first time. And on the way home, I distinctly remember this. I remember

the overpass. I was driving, I'm ashamed to say. I pulled out my phone and I

to say. I pulled out my phone and I said, "Kirk, these guys must kill it online." And I said, "Do you know Disney

online." And I said, "Do you know Disney does like X billion just through their online merch store? These guys must kill it." So, I go to bies.com. I look for

it." So, I go to bies.com. I look for the shop button and it wasn't there.

They didn't sell online anything. Not

food, snacks, shirts, anything. And I

just like I just sat there in silence. I

felt like capitalism was being murdered.

Like, what is why? What like what good reason is there for this? And this was like six years ago. And so then we just started talking and we're just like, what if what if we launched a website

for them? What if we went online for

for them? What if we went online for them? Because we were running a 3PL

them? Because we were running a 3PL third party logistics business at the time, really hard business. And we

thought we could launch this business for them as like a permissionless way to get their business uh end to end and get them as a customer. And maybe they'll try to sue us, but worst case it'll be a

great story. And so what'd you do? So

great story. And so what'd you do? So

the first thing I did was started cold emailing the founders, the executive team, everyone, and saying, "Hey, you need to be online. We can do it for you.

We'll build a Shopify store. We'll do

everything end to end. We have a warehouse, shelf space, etc." No response, just crickets. So at that point, it's like, "All right, let's take this into our own hands." So most people give up there, right? Trying to partner.

Most people won't even cold email, but if you do cold email, you give up when they don't reply. Yep. Exactly. So, we

bought beaversnacks.com uh because that's their mascot was a beaver and I went to Thumbtac and I hired a photographer for like $200 and I I documented all this. I have pictures

of all this. I took my four kids and wife to the nearest BIES and my wife and I split up. I said, "You get merch. I'll

get snacks. If it has a BE logo on it, buy it." Like, I don't want the Doritos

buy it." Like, I don't want the Doritos or the Coke. It Cuz they white label a bunch of stuff, right?

I only want something with a B logo. So,

we spent like $3,000. We had a receipt this long. We took it back to the

this long. We took it back to the warehouse. Was like, "Wow, what are you

warehouse. Was like, "Wow, what are you what are you doing?" They were Everyone was looking at us and I'm like an introvert. I hated it. I felt so weird.

introvert. I hated it. I felt so weird.

I'm like, "Don't look at me. Just let me do my thing." So, we bring it all back to the warehouse. We put it in this office, hire this photographer, and she takes pictures of everything. We upload

it in a CSV to Shopify. We launch a website uh beaversnacks.com and I say launch like nobody knew it existed. So the first thing I did was

existed. So the first thing I did was start scraping and cold emailing every Texas reporter I could find. Eater

Southern Living, uh Texas Monthly, Fox News 38, you know, San Antonio district, you name it. And I just start saying like, "Here's who I am. Here's what I'm doing. Here's who I am. Here's what I'm

doing. Here's who I am. Here's what I'm doing." And so you weren't afraid

doing." And so you weren't afraid because most people try to be laying low doing this because hey, we don't have an official partnership. You took the

official partnership. You took the opposite approach. You're like, "Hey,

opposite approach. You're like, "Hey, can I use this story to get some attention whether it be good or bad?" Is

that right? Yeah. Cuz I thought like, "Okay, worst case scenario, cease and desist. We have great story for a

desist. We have great story for a podcast one day." Best case scenario, we get them as a customer or this is a standalone business. Somewhere in

standalone business. Somewhere in between is going to be interesting, right? Maybe I have to fill my pantry

right? Maybe I have to fill my pantry with snacks, like $3,000 worth of snacks and my kids eat it for the next seven years. We had a guest come on and he

years. We had a guest come on and he said, you know, do what makes the best story. When in doubt, like when you're

story. When in doubt, like when you're at a fork in the road, do whichever take whichever path will make the best story.

You chose the path that will make the best story here. Okay. So, yes. And I

heard that I heard that episode and I thought that's me. I agree with that.

So, I also did my research and it's called first sale doctrine, which means anyone can sell, resell whatever they want. They just can't pretend or imitate

want. They just can't pretend or imitate that brand. Right? like the there's a

that brand. Right? like the there's a guy that imitated Trader Joe's to do what I did, but he called himself Pirate Joe's. The logo was similar, the store

Joe's. The logo was similar, the store layout was similar, and he got sued out of existence. So, I thought, okay, as

of existence. So, I thought, okay, as long as I say I am not BIES, I'm a third party reseller, and I'm clear about that, they really don't have grounds to sue me. So, I started cold emailing

sue me. So, I started cold emailing people. They loved the story, and I

people. They loved the story, and I started getting on the phone with reporters. And any tips on that? So, you

reporters. And any tips on that? So, you

know, I've learned this with with with PR, which is that there's PR is this very specific niche game, and once you understand how a journalist thinks, you

can reverse engineer what you need to actually do. So, like for example, our

actually do. So, like for example, our buddy Ramon did this recently. He went

mega mega viral because, and he knew this. He texted me, he called a shot.

this. He texted me, he called a shot.

He's like, "As soon as the tariff dues came out and uh some people thought this is going to be horrible for businesses, some people thought, well, why don't those businesses just make it in America? We'll buy it if it's made in

America? We'll buy it if it's made in America." And so he launches an AB test

America." And so he launches an AB test on his website. So he aphina.com, it's like a shower a clean shower head. So he

was he runs an AB test and he says you can either buy buy the one that's sourced out of China or you could buy the one that's sourced out of America.

And the American one costs a little bit more uh because it costs more to make it in America. But, you know, here you go.

in America. But, you know, here you go.

You have a choice. And the results were something crazy. 25,000 visits or

something crazy. 25,000 visits or something like that. And there were literally zero checkouts on the American product. There was a few hundred on the

product. There was a few hundred on the on the on the Asian made product. And he

goes to the journalist. He ran the test cuz he knew, look, either the results are going to show people will buy a made in America or they won't. In either

case, I have a very strong story. And he

goes and he gets it written up. It's

been written up in like 40 major publications now. and he got tons of

publications now. and he got tons of traffic to the site, tons of back links.

His SEO went way up. It was a genius quick acting move on the back of the tariff news when most people were playing defense like me in ecom. You're

like, "Oh [ __ ] I just need to survive."

He went and played offense. So, I was I'm curious. Do you have any tips from

I'm curious. Do you have any tips from your experience about how to get people to actually write about you? Yeah, I

mean, you have to understand that reporters want something cool to write about. Um, I get DMs all the time from

about. Um, I get DMs all the time from people wanting something from me and 98% of them, they have nothing interesting to talk about. But if someone DM' me and said, "Hey, I did this cool thing. Will

you post about it?" I would, cuz I want to post about cool things. You know, my job is to post interesting things. Yes,

please send it to me. Um, so once you realize that, like do something interesting, something cool, and then go tell as many people as you can about it, and a small percentage of them will post

about it, reporters included. How did

you frame it at the time? I framed it as I am doing a viral marketing stunt and I want to get Buckyy's attention and if I don't then I'm going to run this business as well as I can. Oh, so you

told the reporters that upfront. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Gotcha. But by the way, give us the headline cuz you know we're talking about this also. We haven't

mentioned how well it's done. Can you

give us some numbers that give us an idea of like the success of this? I

mean, I'll tell you what the headline literally was, and it was like, "Texas man makes 200 grand in his first 30 days reselling Buckyy's goods online." That

was it. And

so, Texas Monthly reached out to me.

They're the biggest Texas news publication, and they were like, "We love this. We're going to make this a

love this. We're going to make this a feature story. Give me everything you

feature story. Give me everything you can." So, we talked, we talked, we

can." So, we talked, we talked, we talked, and then later that afternoon, they're like, "Chris, good news. Uh,

Buckyy's in-house counsel would love to chat." And I'm like, "What's good about

chat." And I'm like, "What's good about that?" like I'm dead. I'm dead in the

that?" like I'm dead. I'm dead in the water. And so I was like, "Okay, you you

water. And so I was like, "Okay, you you told Bucky. He's great. I'm glad you

told Bucky. He's great. I'm glad you were able to get a hold of them." Uh so I get on the phone with him and he's like, "Listen, we actually don't mind what you're doing. Uh I don't like the

name Beaver Snacks. We're a Beaver. It's

kind of confusing. I don't like that your colors are yellow. We're kind of yellow. Uh change the name. Put a

yellow. Uh change the name. Put a

disclaimer in your logo that is persist throughout the whole website. Put a

disclaimer on every product page and you have our blessing." like we're not gonna sign anything, but we're not gonna come after you. Like we will support you. And

after you. Like we will support you. And

so we did. We made those changes and then they linked to us. What a cool ass general counsel. That's pretty rare.

general counsel. That's pretty rare.

Yeah. Yeah. And then they linked to us in their FAQs, which is like the most amazing backlink ever. So, on one hand, going viral meant we got a million

competitors and like all these copycats, but on the other hand, we have like the biggest SEO moat that we could ever hope for. So, wait, how you skipped a step.

for. So, wait, how you skipped a step.

You said their headline was $200,000 in 30 days, but you didn't say how you got the $200,000 in 30 days. How did you initially get that traction? It was all based on those viral articles. We didn't

do any paid ads. We just went viral. Uh

we put everything as in stock. uh you

know on Shopify you can do that whether it's in stock or not and we just started selling out. So the articles initially

selling out. So the articles initially must not have been 200,000. The articles

initially were just like Texas man starts shop to sell Bucky stuff online.

Correct. Yeah. Yeah. They've written

about us since then but in the beginning it was Texas man they called it text paths instead of expats. Like Texas man launches online Bucky store for text paths. Um, that was like the big

paths. Um, that was like the big headline. Uh, and that's how about like

headline. Uh, and that's how about like a person from Texas who's no longer in Texas but misses their stacks, misses their And that was the whole thesis because these bies are in like Andis, Texas, like these places that you never

heard of cuz they're on the way to the beach. And so if you fell in love with

beach. And so if you fell in love with this random bohemian garlic jerky, you could never buy it again, right? And so

that's where we came in. Like buy it from us. And so how's this business

from us. And so how's this business doing now? Was this a flash in the pan

doing now? Was this a flash in the pan or is it still doing well? This business

has grown 20 to 50% per year every single year. Steady, Eddie. We just we

single year. Steady, Eddie. We just we are completely riding on the coattails of BIES and we are not ashamed to admit that. So, can you say how much revenue

that. So, can you say how much revenue you guys are doing on this thing? We're

doing between three and 500,000 a month profitably with very very little paid ad spend. And the the funny thing is here

spend. And the the funny thing is here you go buy it retail, right? You don't

have like a wholesale discount. They're

not they're not giving it to you at a cut. You you buy retail and then you

cut. You you buy retail and then you just mark it up what 10 20% or something. What what do you do? We mark

something. What what do you do? We mark

it up 100%. Oh, okay. Cuz you're like if you want it if you want it that bad here, this is the you know this is your way to get it. Honestly, we mark it up as much as we have to. I mean, you know,

e-commerce to make a 15 20% net margin and that happens to be about 100% markup right?

That's amazing. Okay, so that's one of your side hustles. We said that there was, you know, like six that were each uh, you know, six figures. I don't know if we'll get to all six, but give me another one. So, what's another of your

another one. So, what's another of your side hustles right now that are contributing to your your cash flow? So,

we started a pet cremation business. Uh,

and that's a fun one. That one's

actually very profitable. That's a fun one. It is fun for fun for you, maybe.

one. It is fun for fun for you, maybe.

Okay. So, explain how did you get the idea and then what is it and how how'd you do it? Okay. So, it all started with uh a relationship that my business partner had with a very high volume

veterinary clinic here in DFW. They do

as much business as five veterinary clinics and he learned about the industry and how pet cremation has like 90 plus% net margins. It's a very old

school business and so there's a but you know we've had this puppy boom during co so all these puppies are 5 years old now. Uh there's more dogs than children.

now. Uh there's more dogs than children.

That's that's like the whole thesis.

There's more dogs than children. It's

only getting crazier. And Cremation has 90% margins. Most of the operators are

90% margins. Most of the operators are 60 plus years old. They're doing great.

They're doing fine. They don't need ads.

They don't need organic. And if you go look at the Google keyword tool, we saw that the search competition was low. The

ticket size was high. Uh and the the um the search traffic was high. So, we

launched a business around that thesis.

So, sorry. So, explain. You went to you went to uh the Google Ads keyword tool, right? That's where you went to to kind

right? That's where you went to to kind of diligence the the the demand for this. That's it. And you found obviously

this. That's it. And you found obviously the holy grail. Low low competition, high ticket, and what was the third one?

Growth or demand? Volume. High volume,

low competition, high ticket. It's holy

grail. And so you start one of these and you're you're actually the service that does it or you're the lead gen. We are

both We have two different businesses.

One is a programmatic SEO site that generates leads for cremation facilities all over the country. And then the other one is we're just a middleman. We have

refrigerated vans and we pick up the pets frozen from the facilities and deliver it from the veterinarians and then we deliver it to the cremation facilities and take a margin. Okay.

Gotcha. And so tell me a little about this business. I don't I know nothing

this business. I don't I know nothing about the pet cremation business. What

did you do in the first 90 days to make this business come to life? cuz I like the speed with which you operate. We're

going to talk about another one in a second that I think is like a a quick off the ground version of these ideas.

And you very much are a zero to one kind of guy. Like I like that you do a lot of

of guy. Like I like that you do a lot of different things. I like that you're

different things. I like that you're high energy and you're basically like not lazy. There's a lot of people out

not lazy. There's a lot of people out here who sell this kind of like side hustle, passive income. There's nothing

passive about you. I feel like you are Mr. active actually in the sense that you get after it once you have an idea you know I have this phrase like you know inspiration is perishable ideas are

avocados they go brown very quickly and I think what's great about you is that you don't let the ideas and the inspiration perish you actually act on it very quickly and you have you have a high high bias for action so what are

the first 90 or so days look like when you have a new idea and maybe you could use this one as an example or if not you could use a different one yeah I focused

most of my energy on validating the idea with like some ad spend or a couple conversations or whatnot. I I don't do any like extensive market research. I

don't talk to any potential customers.

And I'm not saying there's not value in that. That's just not how I roll. I

that. That's just not how I roll. I

really really like using tools like Facebook, like general publicly available tools that most people know and love. Stuff I can do from my boxers

and love. Stuff I can do from my boxers at home. That's what I like. Right. Yes.

at home. That's what I like. Right. Yes.

And a lot of times by the end of the day I realize, oh, this is a dud. Let's move

on. Um, but also a lot of the times by the end of the day I'm like, oh wow, there's something here. My thesis was true. Let's let's put another day into

true. Let's let's put another day into this. So So like what what would you do

this. So So like what what would you do in this pet cremation business? What did

you do? So the thesis here started with this relationship that my business partner had. Uh, and the pitch was let's

partner had. Uh, and the pitch was let's get the the cremation facility owner and the veterinary clinic owner in the same room together and pitch them this like

win-win. Hey, we're going to get you

win-win. Hey, we're going to get you more veterinarian clinics because we're really good at sales. Okay? And then to the vet, hey, uh, you need to raise your prices. You're way too low. Uh, you're

prices. You're way too low. Uh, you're

going to make even more margin working through a middleman, believe it or not, because we're going to be we're going to only do one thing. We're going to pick up pets and we're going to drop them off. And so there was a big conflict of

off. And so there was a big conflict of interest interest here because the cremation facility owner was about to lose some margin, but he was like we were selling him on the fact that we

would bring him a lot more customers.

And so basically this was a good like example of what I normally do. If that

conversation doesn't go well, I don't launch the business. I just move on. And

you weren't afraid that when you put those two in the same room, they're like, "Great. Yeah, we should do this.

like, "Great. Yeah, we should do this.

Who's this guy? What is he? Why do we need this guy?" Did you see any risk in putting yourself there as the middleman with this and and actually connecting the two dots, the really high volume vet clinic with the information service that

you thought they should be using? Well,

the thing is is that they were already working together, right? And so what you're saying was correct. That was the risk. We we insert ourselves. You're

risk. We we insert ourselves. You're

saying there was some friction. There

was some friction that you were offering to remove. Is that right? Yeah. And the

to remove. Is that right? Yeah. And the

friction in this case was what? it was

that the the veterinary or the cremation facility owner made all his margin on the actually doing the cremation and he was losing money on all the logistics.

Okay. Um but this customer we were talking to was one of his biggest customers and so we were saying, "Hey, you're going to lose some margin on this biggest customer because we're inserting ourselves. We're going to take some of

ourselves. We're going to take some of it, but we're going to more than compensate for it by a removing that logistics off your plate and b finding you more veterinary clinics." And then

for the vet clinic, you were saying, "Hey, raise your price a little bit."

And that we we need to be able to do that for to make this work. Yep. And so

our thesis was if that conversation doesn't go well, the the business, right? It's an asymmetric bet. But if it

right? It's an asymmetric bet. But if it does, then we have, you know, the the hardest part. We have customers and

hardest part. We have customers and revenue through the door from day one if if they're if they agree to this.

Exactly. Yeah. And then you went and tried to recreate that with, you know, getting 15 other veterary clics. Now,

most of them, I assume, would already have had a partner or some vendors for cremation services. And so, what's your

cremation services. And so, what's your sales pitch to them? How did you go and get more customers on board? Yeah, our

sales pitch was like our competitors were very unsophisticated. Like, they

would literally walk through the front door of a veterinary clinic, get the frozen dogs, put them in a bag, and then walk out the waiting room. And so, our pitch was like, that's our competition.

We will never do that. We'll pull out back, unmarked van. we'll be very caring and respectful. Um, in some cases they

and respectful. Um, in some cases they don't even have to pay anymore. Uh, and

we'll just be we'll just pick up the phone and be reliable. That was the pitch. And is there something to learn

pitch. And is there something to learn here about like, you know, there's so many of these simple businesses where the bar is really low or people are simply not doing any outreach. They're

not doing any doortodoor sales. Like,

have you made a killing in just, you know, Warren Buffett has said this before. He goes, "The secret to winning

before. He goes, "The secret to winning is low compet is is weak competition."

Right? Like he's not looking to prove that he's a genius at the hardest games.

He's looking for very weak competition where he can simply be competent and he can just do best practices. Oh dude,

like it is so true. We see it on Twitter all the time. Like just go go find a business with a fax machine and compete against him. Like yes, that actually

against him. Like yes, that actually works.

I we own a tree trimming business and a big bottleneck for us is stump grinding.

So, we thought I thought, man, there needs to be a business that's just stump grinding, but B2B, not stump grinding that goes through homeowners, but only the ones that goes through uh the other

tree trimming companies, cuz we own a tree trimming company, and we could see it from the inside. So, I had a thesis.

I I hired a virtual assistant, and today I would just use an AI voice agent. And

I took the city of Houston, and I scraped every single tree trimming business in Houston. There was about a thousand. And I had this virtual

thousand. And I had this virtual assistant call every single one and notate, did they answer? Did the number work? If they did answer, say, "Do you

work? If they did answer, say, "Do you grind stumps?" If yes, then would you

grind stumps?" If yes, then would you ever outsource that? If yes, then how much would you pay? So, I spent like $200 getting this. I I I'm not familiar with the tree trimming business.

Surprise, surprise. So, why does a tree trimming business not also do the stumps? Why is that a separate problem

stumps? Why is that a separate problem that they don't like to deal with? Yeah,

great question. So, a tree trimming business needs sometimes a bucket truck to get up high and a chainsaw, right?

But that's only half the battle. Then

you got to get the stump out of the ground or else, you know, you can't grow grass there. And so it's a a stump

grass there. And so it's a a stump grinder you've got to pull on a trailer, whereas before you don't even need a trailer. It's just a whole different

trailer. It's just a whole different system. And they got to go rent it. They

system. And they got to go rent it. They

stand in line, they pay $300, they rent it, they put gas in it, they drive it back to the job site, they grind it, then they got to bring it back. And it's

like it it eats into their profit. And

so I thought, okay, if a tree trimming company could just outsource all of their stump grinding, B2B only, is there an opportunity there? So the assistant goes, she calls everybody, she asked them, would they be willing to to

outsource that? And are people just

outsource that? And are people just saying, "Yeah, yeah, we we'd be willing to outsource that." Is that like a Can you get that clear of a signal just off of a a VA's phone call? So only 22% of

people answered the phone. Um, that's

it.

And of the ones that did, almost half of them said, "If I could outsource this, I would gladly." And then we then we even

would gladly." And then we then we even got further down the script and said, "Would you pay seven uh $7 per inch or whatever of diameter?" Yes. And then I

published all that info on my podcast and people went out and started stump grinding businesses with the exact thesis and we learned, yeah, pick an industry where people seem to be doing

well and call all of them, see how many answer their phone. You can cross reference that against like the Google keyword tool and, you know, publicly available stuff and see how much demand

for supply is there in any given market.

Okay, I like that. You did one recently.

You had this um Instagram video. I'm

going to actually play it here. But I

love this video for a couple of reasons.

Uh, one, just the idea is fun, but the but two, like, you know, your energy and what you're describing here is is pretty great. So, uh, here, I'll load this.

great. So, uh, here, I'll load this.

This is you talking about starting a pickle ball facility. This freaking

thing right here. I'm right here in my warehouse/shop. It is 2100 ft. And I'm

warehouse/shop. It is 2100 ft. And I'm

putting a business here. It's called

Secret Pickle Ball, and it's going to be 99 bucks a month. I'm going to cap it at 200 members, $20,000 a month. There are

7,700 people within 10 minutes of here that play pickle ball every week. And I

just need 200 of them to make this a six-figure business. No employees, 24/7

six-figure business. No employees, 24/7 key card access right there, cameras, bathroom, vending machines already in the next 60 days. We're adding drywall.

We're painting lines, adding the bathroom back there. If you want to watch me fail or you want to watch me win, follow and I'll document the whole journey or get the full business plan here. Basically, you're standing in this

here. Basically, you're standing in this warehouse and it's and you're like, "Look at this freaky thing right which is how you start all of your videos, which I think is a hilarious little hook. So, can you uh add some color to

hook. So, can you uh add some color to this? So, where's the what's the origin

this? So, where's the what's the origin of this idea? How's this going? Tell me

tell me more about this idea. Yeah, so

that shop that I'm in in the video is in my back backyard basically. It's at the back of my property. Historically, I've

rented it out to landscaping businesses for like 25 years. You live on like a ranch or something? What is this? It's

three acres and it's very like Yeah, it's at the back of my of my property.

And so, I was just thinking like what is the best and highest use of this property? And have you ever been to uh

property? And have you ever been to uh Secret Pizza in I think it's the Cosmo in Vegas? Yeah. You been there? Yeah, I

in Vegas? Yeah. You been there? Yeah, I

love that place. Yeah, that place does like 9 million a year in pizza and they don't have a Google profile. They have

no website. Yeah. If people haven't been there, it's like 5t wide. It's like a tiny hallway. Like in high school if

tiny hallway. Like in high school if your locker was like on the side, it's basically that. And they just sell

basically that. And they just sell slices of pizza at the Cosmo Hotel in Vegas. Yes. So I was going for that.

Vegas. Yes. So I was going for that.

Like I call it secret pickle ball. And I

I just thought, okay, I'm going to run some Facebook ads. I'm going to go to my shop. I'm going to take three videos.

shop. I'm going to take three videos.

I'm going to ABC test them on Facebook ads. Instant form, six mile radius.

ads. Instant form, six mile radius.

Sorry. Was your ad a video like this where you're saying, "I'm going to build this here or was it like a mockup?" That

was one of the three. Yeah. The one you showed was one of my three ads. Yeah.

And what were the other two? Were they

like finished product like a rendering or what did you do with the other two?

One of them had like an AI really bad AI image rendering like overlay for a split second, but that's it. I'm just standing in this empty warehouse. And when you say I ran some Facebook ads, give people a sense of how you do that, right?

Everyone I know who does this, they have uh you know a certain budget like hey I'm going to run five I'm going to spend $500 and I'm looking for maybe this cost per click or I'm looking for this much

net conversion of people signing up to my weight list or or they even have a fake checkout and then they refund people afterwards saying like hey sorry this doesn't actually exist yet or you know I'm we got delayed but it'll be out

soon. I refunded you for now, but you

soon. I refunded you for now, but you know, it's coming. And they're looking for that funnel, the metrics to to sort of validate that, hey, cool. If this

works at $500, I think I'd be able to spend maybe a,000 or $5,000 in order to get my 200 members or, you know, $50,000 to get my 200 members, whatever it is.

Um, can you explain your method for Facebook ad testing this? Yeah, for

sure. So, I used one campaign and then three ad sets and three ads, one video for each adset. And I started it at $25 a day per video. So, $75 a day total. My

ad was a Facebook instant form asking for name, phone, email. Then after the instant form, it it forwarded them to a type form with 19 questions that are very granular. What is your skill level

very granular. What is your skill level at pickle ball? How often do you play?

How do you do doubles or singles? cuz

all of this is going to determine how many members I can take on. And the

whole the whole thesis is to be one pickle ball court indoors, nice private air conditioning, uh that people pay $100 to $200 a month for. So I don't want the pros that play twice a day. I

like it's a very finite resource. I want

people that hardly ever play like the plan of fitness model except expensive.

I want I just want to have my cake and eat it too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I knew 5% of Americans play pickle ball weekly.

And I knew within 6 milesi of me there's 200,000 people. So I needed like there's

200,000 people. So I needed like there's like 5 to 7,000 people in my TAM, my local TAM, right? And I was hoping that I could convert someone for $100 because

my guess is that the LTV, the lifetime value is going to be about $1,000, but I think it's actually a lot more because no one plays pickle ball alone. So I get one customer, they're going to bring two

to three or four, right? What I learned was I'm converting like I don't the LTV is still to be determined, but I'm able

to convert new customers at $12 each.

And so how many members does this secret does this exist now? Like this I don't know when you post this. I'm building it out. I'm I'm literally putting a septic

out. I'm I'm literally putting a septic tank in the building right now. Like

it's being built out, but I'm How much do you think it's going to cost you to do this? All right. So you already had

do this? All right. So you already had the structure there. How much are you going to put into making a pickle ball cork to bring this idea to life on the low end? 20,000 realistically. 30 to 40.

low end? 20,000 realistically. 30 to 40.

That's it. Wow. I would have guessed it's more. Yeah. Well, it has air

it's more. Yeah. Well, it has air conditioning. I I need to expand the

conditioning. I I need to expand the building cuz I need room for a bathroom and then I need to add a bathroom. So,

if if I didn't need a bathroom, it would be much less. And then I need to paint lines. So, anybody could just Google

lines. So, anybody could just Google Maps pickle ball court in your area, right? Like wherever you live, you could

right? Like wherever you live, you could Google maps pickle ball. You could just take a map and you could be like, "Where is their not space?" And then you could go drive them and just see, oh wow, that one's kind of shitty or it's outdoors,

right? Or this one over here, it's

right? Or this one over here, it's always overrun. It's always packed. And

always overrun. It's always packed. And

you could literally just map out that, oh wow, I just need to take an industrial space and convert it to a a private pick a wall gym, a membership, right? One court, two court, three

right? One court, two court, three court, whatever. Uh, and so the math

court, whatever. Uh, and so the math you're saying here, are you charging 100 bucks or what' you end up charging? I'm

going to end up charging 149. All right.

So you're So you're charging 149. Are

you still targeting 200 members or did you find out that that assumption was too high or too low? It's it's I can accept around 150 members if I accept the right members. All right. And so

you're talking about 22,000 a month of topline revenue from this. And you're

saying it might cost you in this case 20 grand, 30 grand to to build. I think

somebody else let's just assume it's even $75,000. let's triple the price um

even $75,000. let's triple the price um to to build out because maybe their space needs it or you're just being conservative. So you got 22,000 coming

conservative. So you got 22,000 coming in uh top line. Is there any opex here?

Do you need a person there? Is it like do you have a key membership thing like that? Do you need what is your monthly

that? Do you need what is your monthly cost in terms of like you know roughly you think utilities everything else?

Yeah. uh key card entry 247 online booking system through a thirdparty app cameras no employees cleaner that comes there and I'm going to use the cleaner I use for my house she'll go go there like

two to four times a week depending on how dirty it gets insurance utilities internet it's like we're talking including cleaning 1,500 a month 2,000 a

month all right so you're talking about like you know 90% profit margins on this but let's be conservative let's even say 80% Mhm. That would be roughly

80% Mhm. That would be roughly generating about 17 to 18,000 a month in cash flow off of pickle ball off of one pickle ball court.

Yeah, that's pretty crazy to me. Yeah.

And it's actually pretty unique. I used

deep research to to see if are there any other private indoor courts that only have one to two courts? Because there's

a lot of franchises that have 15 courts and a lot of the haters on Twitter were saying that like no one no one would pay for this because people they want multiple courts. They want other people

multiple courts. They want other people to see him play pickle ball. I'm like

dude nobody wants to be seen playing pickle ball. Well, no, but maybe they

pickle ball. Well, no, but maybe they just don't want to wait, right? You

know, they want they're not able to get courts. Um and so there there are very

courts. Um and so there there are very few of these. And um anyone this is something anyone could do like with some Facebook ads. You don't need to buy a

Facebook ads. You don't need to buy a building or have a building. You could

go rent a building and and run some Facebook ads before you even sign a lease. Like, what are we talking about?

lease. Like, what are we talking about?

What are we doing here? What are we doing? All right. Now, let's be

doing? All right. Now, let's be realistic. Uh cuz, you know, there's a

realistic. Uh cuz, you know, there's a lot of people on the internet who will say, "It's so good. So easy. Look at

this. The math is the math is math." And

where does a business like this actually suck? You've done enough businesses now

suck? You've done enough businesses now to know that there is no such thing as these like perfect businesses. So, in

this one, realistically, why would this fail? What might you be getting wrong

fail? What might you be getting wrong here? Or maybe at least like why would

here? Or maybe at least like why would the numbers not be as rosy as they sound right now? Yeah, it's going to be like

right now? Yeah, it's going to be like uh customer support inquiries like that are a lot higher than I thought. Things

breaking, the AC going out in July in Texas. Um zoning issues. Uh it it's not

Texas. Um zoning issues. Uh it it's not the type of business where you're going to have a hard time finding customers.

But pick your problems. There will always be problems. I think it's going to be customer support. Um, and you know, getting calls at 3 in the morning from someone that's playing this random game in the middle of the night and the

AC went out. What sort of problems do you like to pick? I would love to not have to worry about customer acquisition and operations. Like I am terrible at

and operations. Like I am terrible at operations. I I would much rather try to

operations. I I would much rather try to sell or market something than operate it. So if it's marketing heavy and I

it. So if it's marketing heavy and I don't have an issue finding customers, that's my business. And then the operations either being simple or you offloaded it to somebody else. Yeah,

exactly. Give me some of your beliefs here. So what what like you do all these

here. So what what like you do all these random things. You have all these random

random things. You have all these random ideas. Actions come from thoughts.

ideas. Actions come from thoughts.

Thoughts come from beliefs. And so what are the beliefs that are leading you to do all these random actions like starting this pickle ball secret pickle ball court or going and and you know being like Bucky Shell online. I'll do

it for them and I'm going to do this as a publicity stunt. Maybe they'll partner with them. Maybe this will work. I don't

with them. Maybe this will work. I don't

know. Maybe it'll just be a good story and I'll get sued out of existence. Like

what are some of the beliefs that you have? We talked about one at the front

have? We talked about one at the front which is like focus is overrated. Mhm.

Talk about that one and then give me some of your other ones. Yeah. I think

focus is overrated because compounding doesn't care. Like the the principle of

doesn't care. Like the the principle of compounding does not care if we're working on one thing or a dozen things.

As long as we stay in the game, whatever that game is for us, and keep going, compounding is just going to keep going with us. Right? So, if you're curious

with us. Right? So, if you're curious about something, like let's say you're you've got a side hustle and it's going well and you're like, "What about this this side hustle?" Test it. Like, answer

that question. Now, if you have a side hustle and it's like you're not sleeping because you're just cashing all these checks and customers are beating down your door, you're not going to be thinking about, oh, what about this

shiny object? Like, you've got product

shiny object? Like, you've got product market fit. That's a signal, right? So,

market fit. That's a signal, right? So,

just chase the signals. chase the

curiosities because you're going to learn something over here that you're able to apply over here that no one else has ever thought of because they weren't doing these seven other things like you

were. So net of net I like if I gun in

were. So net of net I like if I gun in my head I think you will be more wealthy if you do one thing but you're more likely to be miserable and not have an enjoyable life.

Yes, focus actually does work but it's not the only way and it's a lot of fun to not focus is actually what I'm hearing. You have a similar thing. I'm

hearing. You have a similar thing. I'm

going to read you this. I want you to to give a little take on it. You said, "Say yes to everything. Take on way too much.

Increase your capacity for stress and let Parkinson's law do its job. Most

people have no clue what they are capable of because they don't take on too much and they never stress test their life." And you have something

their life." And you have something called the restaurant hostess analogy.

Can you explain that a little bit? Yeah.

Let's say you're you're a hostess at a Michelin star restaurant in New York, Manhattan. You're slammed 24/7. People

Manhattan. You're slammed 24/7. People

coming in and out. people yelling

whatever and then you got a hostess in de mo Iowa in a diner and they're usually pretty slow and then you know a soccer team pulls up and like oh I table for 15 and she's like oh my gosh table

for 15 oh jeez what do I do like to to the woman in New York like that's nothing that's nothing because that's her norm that's her her new baseline right so most people that I talk to are

like oh I could never run a Facebook ad campaign because I have to clip my toenails that afternoon like what like they don't like they're not doing

enough. They they think that like the

enough. They they think that like the barometer is down here and they think people like Elon Musk are just he's an alien. That's not even realistic. And

alien. That's not even realistic. And

it's like no, he's just like took on way too much and and now he's able to do way more than ever before because the less important things just kind of fall off the plate. That's Parkinson's law. You

the plate. That's Parkinson's law. You

you bite off way more than you can chew and if you forget about it, then that's a signal that it was worth forgetting about.

Yeah. I think that if you ask people honestly, you said, "What percent of your potential are you tapping into?"

I think that's a pretty scary question for most people. Um because the answer is not going to be what you would want it to be. Very few people I know, right?

Like you almost have to be very low self-awareness to be like 100%. The

answer is not 100%. Right? I think David Gogggins has said this about when he trains and he says like you know the moment where your brain is ready to quit when it's over your body still has 30%

left like the brain quits before the body and the brain will stop you as a safety mechanism when you still have 30% left to give and I don't know if the number is right but I think directionally he's correct when it comes

to like what you're physically capable of and then in terms of what you're you know creatively or ambitiously capable of I think it's kind of the same thing.

I think it's probably even a worse ratio than that. I think most people are

than that. I think most people are tapping into less than 30% of what they're capable of doing. And it doesn't mean you ne necessarily need to work 100 hours. I think it's just like your

hours. I think it's just like your capacity to output and to be creative and to go for it and go for it with full force on the things that you're trying to go for. Um, and maybe it's maybe it

is take on an extra project or maybe it is but sometimes it's just go faster.

Sometimes it's just think bigger. And

the, you know, these all sound cliche, but they're they are they are cliche for a reason. They've been around for

a reason. They've been around for thousands of years because I think humans tend to have this problem where, you know, we don't actually tap into, you know, how fast we can go, how big we can go, you know, what what truly going

for it looks like without, you know, the fears, doubts, and hesitations that people have. And so I I agree with you.

people have. And so I I agree with you.

You know, are you are you a family guy as well? Like I guess like you're doing

as well? Like I guess like you're doing a bunch of these businesses. Is that cuz you're, you know, the counterargument is, well, yeah, you're 21 years old and you don't have a kids and a mortgage.

You know, that would be a way that somebody would maybe try to discredit the amount of output that you have.

Yeah. I mean, I've I've got four kids. I

had all four kids between the ages of 23 and 29, and I was building all these businesses throughout that time. I never

miss dinner. I travel very rarely. I

never miss a sporting event. and I'm in my office, you know, from 7 to 4, give or take, working. Sometimes I pop out to hang out with the kids, but I think it's

important that my kids see me work. Uh,

but it's also obviously important that I spend time with them. So, we go on a lot of vacations, four to six a year. We've

seen all 50 states. We go all over the world. Uh, you can do both, period.

world. Uh, you can do both, period.

Right. I think it's important for my kids to see me work. Unfortunately, my

work just looks like me talking and laughing with friends. And so, I don't think they get it. I don't think that's happening. Um what about um what about

happening. Um what about um what about you know you said you're building your family and you work let's say the 7 to4 what are you doing during that 7 to4 to make those hours count for more than

maybe the average person is doing. So

like how what do you do to have more productivity or more effect in those same number of hours? Like how do you structure your day? What are some things that you you've noticed you do maybe better or differently than the average

the average entrepreneurial bear? Yeah.

Um, the perfect day for me is nothing on my calendar. Um, I definitely time

my calendar. Um, I definitely time batch. Like if I have seven calls that

batch. Like if I have seven calls that week, I'll try to put them all in the same afternoon. Um, I think a lot of

same afternoon. Um, I think a lot of people kind of feel insecure about having an open calendar because it's like it's kind of like a comfort blanket like, okay, now I know I'll be productive today, right? But when you

have so many ideas, like so many ad campaigns I want to run or newsletters I want to write, like I don't have time filling I don't have problem filling my time. And so I I don't use any fancy

time. And so I I don't use any fancy CRM, Notion, or anything. If a tab is open in my browser, it's a to-do list.

When I close it, it's done. My notes

appe admittedly. And I I don't worry about

admittedly. And I I don't worry about context switching. I used to really

context switching. I used to really stress like, all right, let's we could do this for 30 minutes. Do this. Don't

context switch. Like I feel like with anything in life, we we can evolve to it. We can become a lot more acclimated

it. We can become a lot more acclimated to it. And so I'm always context

to it. And so I'm always context switching. always and I feel I feel like

switching. always and I feel I feel like I'm good at it because I've done it so much. Another one of your beliefs you

much. Another one of your beliefs you said, "The longer I'm in business, the more I realize this to be true. If you

want to be a billionaire, you got to innovate and focus. But to be a millionaire, you simply need to copy paste. Don't even try to copy something

paste. Don't even try to copy something that works and put your own twists on it. No twists. Stop twisting. Just copy

it. No twists. Stop twisting. Just copy

what's working and organically over time you'll discover the tweaks on your own, but you don't have to lead with all the twists or you'll just screw it up."

Yeah. I think there should be like there needs to be a school or something on reverse engineering. Like it is an

reverse engineering. Like it is an underrated skill. I'm in like the meta

underrated skill. I'm in like the meta ads library and the web archive all the time. Let's say there was this taco

time. Let's say there was this taco restaurant that just in my town that had a line around the corner 24/7 and they all they sold uh were steak tacos.

That's it. And you said, "All right, they've got more demand than supply. All

right, this town could use another taco shop. All right, I'm going to copy them.

shop. All right, I'm going to copy them.

I'm going to do it even better. People

want more variety. They want steak and chicken. And there's no drinks. You

chicken. And there's no drinks. You

can't even get drinks there. Yeah. I'm

going to do this. I'm going to do that.

Every change you make is another variable to screw like to screwing it up. Risk a risky value. Yeah. Like you

up. Risk a risky value. Yeah. Like you

you're going to you're let's say you copy them verbatim and you open, you're going to learn really quickly. Oh. Oh,

they're probably using that as their point of sale and not that. Oh, this is why because the onions, they have to separate them from the meat. Oh, like

you're going to learn all these things that are going to force you to have to change things. But if you do that before

change things. But if you do that before you know if that copying works or not, you're just going to increase the likelihood of of screwing it up and thus not being successful.

That's interesting. You know, um Monish Pabry, who's come on this podcast a couple times, has this phrase, he calls it being a shameless a shameless cloner.

And so he says, you know, I'm a shameless clone of the Buffett and Munger philosophy. I, you know, I claim

Munger philosophy. I, you know, I claim to have no no good ideas except for one, which is, you know, to copy the good ideas that already exist out there. If I

hear a good idea, I I take it on as my own, right? And he talks about, you

own, right? And he talks about, you know, the dumbest person in the world is the gas station across the street from a more successful gas station. He's like,

cuz you know, you see that guy and that guy comes out when a customer's there and he washes their windows for them and he prices it a certain way and he's uses certain bright lights so that he's more visible at night. You have to be a real

idiot to be across the street, see that guy doing it, and then for your own stubbornness, not just do those things, implement those best practices. And so,

um, pride. Yeah. Yeah. Pride. And I and I think there's like, you know, a version of that in business. And like

you said, you will organically end up putting your own twists on the business.

But you, you know, you bring up an interesting point, which is that baking in all those twists up front is a bit of unnecessary risk. I think there's a view

unnecessary risk. I think there's a view that entrepreneurs are risk takers when actually they're risk minimizers. and uh

you know they're trying to take as little risk as is necessary but but are willing to take the necessary risks in order to do something unless there's like you know a big asymmetric reward for it they're not going to do it and so

um you know I think that you're right and I think that this is very true for especially at like the local level and service level like this is not true if you're trying to be a founder go through

YC build the next big thing the next breakout app which is going to be you know the next social network you can't just copy Facebook it's not going to work Right? The next uh the next ride

work Right? The next uh the next ride sharing service can't just be Uber, right? They do have to innovate. They do

right? They do have to innovate. They do

have to do self-driving cars like a Whimo or something like that. So, this

advice does not apply to people who are playing what I call the business Olympics where they're trying to do the stuff that's like global greatness, move the world forward, disrupt a totally an industry. Yes, you absolutely do need to

industry. Yes, you absolutely do need to be innovative there. But in terms of people who are trying to become financially free, you know, working backwards is not a bad way to go. I have

I have a very annoying phrase I say a bunch which is in my companies anytime we have run into an issue and people are bitching and moaning about it I just say well we're probably not the first ones to have this problem right because it's so true and you're in an ecom business

and suddenly you have this supply chain problem well guess what a thousand or a million other e-commerce business have had that same problem and they figured out a way to solve it so what did they do let's start with that I was talking to actually a friend yesterday who's

yeah this guy's almost a billionaire and he's in the real estate game and he's just crushed it on real estate on his And now for the first time after 15 years, he was raising money for his projects. He never wanted to do it. He

projects. He never wanted to do it. He

always wanted to use his own capital.

But you know, finally sort of relented and realized, okay, I could do bigger scale and do more projects if I if I raise capital from other people, not just use my own personal balance sheet.

And so I told him, I was like, you know, he's giving me all his ideas about how he's going to raise money. And I go, dude, every real estate guy I know raises money. Have you first looked at

raises money. Have you first looked at what they did? Like why are you trying to figure this out on your own? That's

the hard way. There's no bonus points for doing this the hard way. Like, let's

just start by reverse engineering what other people do. Like, go talk to five to 10 other people who have already done this. See if there's a common blueprint.

this. See if there's a common blueprint.

Go try that and only innovate where needed along the way. When you run into some bottlenecks or some walls that you hit along the way of trying to implement that plan because for most business problems, you can just ask the question like, has anybody else ever solved this?

And what do they do? And turns out it's almost always like it's very common.

This is a common problem. There is a common solution and we should try that first. Yeah. like we we place our

first. Yeah. like we we place our innovation on the wrong thing. We place

it on the features and the benefits when we should be placing it on being innovative about copying how they're doing what they're doing. We had a 3PL and you know 3PL's, right? And it's like

the worst. Nobody likes their 3PL. It's

the worst. Nobody likes their 3PL. It's

it's impossible. And so we saw all the other 3PL's out there when we launched and we're like, "Oh my gosh, they charge for storage and pick and pack and this and that and they mark up shipping.

These guys are idiots. That's so

confusing." So, we set out to like innovate the industry, simple, flat pricing, and like at the end of that 2-year experience, like we looked like all the other 3PL's cuz we're like,

okay, oh, oh, they charge for storage because some companies go out of business and then they're left with this big bill and they don't, oh, that's why like, so that's another signal is if you see other competitors in your industry

and your first thought is like they're so stupid. Why are they doing it this

so stupid. Why are they doing it this way? Probably for a reason. like you

way? Probably for a reason. like you

just haven't learned that reason yet, especially if they're successful, right?

Don't copy somebody who's failing, but if they're successful, you can start with that and say, "All right, can I do that as well?" Um, and you know, the reason I like this idea is because this is not the only way to win. I spent most

of my life playing in the innovation space and I really love that. It's super

fun to be creative and to come up with the idea and it feels really satisfying when you've you're the first to do something. That's a I mean, that's

something. That's a I mean, that's amazing. I'm very proud of that whenever

amazing. I'm very proud of that whenever I've tried to do that. But it that gets talked about a lot because again it sounds super noble and I think that does work. But there are many ways to win.

work. But there are many ways to win.

And what I like about what you're saying is that it is another way to win. You

say, "Oh wow, those guys did that gutter cleaning service using Next Door in their neighborhood in Massachusetts. I

should do that in my neighborhood in California. Let me start with that." And

California. Let me start with that." And

and I and I think that more people should do that if they want to actually like be successful. And because that is another way to win. It's not the only way, but it's another way. Yeah. It's

the midweight meme all over again.

Right. Right. My my first business was Yeah. I I read about this iPhone repair

Yeah. I I read about this iPhone repair shop making 30 grand a month and I thought I can make 30 grand a month fixing iPhones in my city. Like it's

kind of an ignorant thought, but it worked and I did, you know. So you got to you got you got to be dumb like I like I am.

Chris, this was fun, man. I we still have like half of the dock of other ideas and small business and like you know random businesses that you've come across that we could go for. I think

maybe maybe we do a part two if people like this one uh to have Chris back. If

you if you like Chris uh either tweet at me or uh put in the YouTube comments would be best that you know bring them back because I think this is a lot of fun. I really love the little nooks and

fun. I really love the little nooks and crannies of the economy that you go looking in to find these you know stump grinding or the hole-in-one business or the shipping container for for wine tours. Like, you know, this is fun stuff

tours. Like, you know, this is fun stuff that I think, you know, sometimes on this podcast, to be honest, we have brilliant people talking about what you can do with AI and what you could do with XYZ, and that's great. I love that

stuff, but those aren't episodes I can send to my sister or my mom because those businesses are kind of out of reach for what they want to do. Uh, but

I I think what's cool about, you know, the businesses you talk about, you know, your pickle ball court, this is stuff that anybody could do. Chris, thanks for coming on. Maybe give people a shout.

coming on. Maybe give people a shout.

Shout out your your Twitter, your podcast, whatever you want people to go check out. Yeah. Uh, the Kerner Office

check out. Yeah. Uh, the Kerner Office podcast is where I publish three times a week. Spelled like my last name and it's

week. Spelled like my last name and it's on your hat. So, that's right. Never

miss an opport.

That's right. All right, man. Thanks for

coming on. Thanks, Sean.