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I had a situation to take care of. I was on the
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right? I couldn't find my leg. We couldn't find
his leg. We couldn't find his leg. That was a
medical emergency. It was in the mountains. How
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be coming in that night at 7 30 p .m But tonight
we are making catching up on who we're supposed
to have on our podcast On this week's episode
We've always had the question, you know, if you
remember back in the day chew how Southwestern
Bell would Yeah, Southwestern Bell or CPNL was
pretty much monopolizing the valley with just
them were the only ones that required electricity.
Well, to be fair, they're the only companies
who knew the valley exists. Exactly. So fortunately,
years down the road, more companies came down
and there was more options. And unfortunately,
that monopolized it just would crash and burn
and what's on so forth. But anyways, On this
week's episode, it's not only just one internet
service area out there. There's a lot more other
services out there. And here's one of them today.
And I'll let them introduce themselves. But today
on the podcast, I have, so I get this right,
Danny, Frank, and Juan in the podcast. That's
good. These guys just work in the corner, man.
They just say, oh, you want to buy internet,
bro? Yeah, we do door -to -door sales we're professionals
in it A lot of people don't understand what that
is, but basically it's just you literally knocking
the door and offering something, you know? So
you go out there and you go door -to -door and
you offer yeah, and we get that a lot one time
we went to this house Oh, yeah one time while
one of the one of the reps I had dropped them
off and we were we were working a neighborhood
and this guy's like Yeah, bro. Uh, my first door
got us out right away. I was like awesome, dude
He's like, yeah, he's gonna let me inside and
he has me on speaker and the guy's like Okay,
are you ready? And the guy's like, yeah, you
stay right there turns around shotgun to this
to his chest holy crap and the guys like the
guys like and and like sir you have a gun pointed
at me he said it because i was i was speaking
i was hearing him and i was like oh i was like
hey just stay there dude if you move a lot he
probably would have done something so right That's
crazy. He chilled out because I was on the phone
with him and then from there he's like, all right,
I'm calling the police. And then the cops showed
up and they actually asked the rep. If he wanted
to press charges, it was crazy. He wasn't there
to do any harm. They were trying to sell something
or offer a different something to offer on them.
He was invited in too. That's crazy. Why don't
you step into the door? That's the only way I
can shoot you. That means the law won't take
me in. Jesus Christ. I'm just going to put a
chalk out here. You don't pay attention to that.
So tell a little bit about yourself. Danny, start
with you, man. Where you grew up. And we'll go
down the line. Go ahead. So there's a lot of
things that I've done in this industry for door
to door. And I think I started doing this about
seven, eight years ago. I've been in this field
for a while. I've built an organization with
like 50 plus members. from scratch and it's it's
cool because it's something where I don't have
you know someone telling me hey go to work you
know hey go to work do this do this I'm happy
I'm not working by the hour you know right I
think my first thing I ever started doing was
selling door -to -door for something called deregulated
electricity you know how back in the day they
used to have uh light all that stuff at a co
-op at a monopoly and then they deregulated it.
Spots like that opened up like here. There's
a spot up there in Lubbock, Texas that just opened
up and it's just crews and crews of people doing
that over there. So I came from that and they
were telling me a hundred dollars a sale and
I was just like, I need a thousand bucks. So
I was doing 10 a week every week. It was awesome.
Yeah, that was my mark dude as soon as I hit
a 10 mark Like if I caught it in the first three
days, okay, I'll chill out for a while. Right,
right But it was cool. That's it's my background
and then we started something two years ago for
the telecom So we're fiber pros now, but we didn't
start that way. We started doing Electricity
so now we're doing Wi -Fi cells So what else
is better than selling someone something where
all you're doing is a bill swap. You're not adding
expenses to somebody's life by selling what we
sell. All you do is get something that you're
already paying for and then you just make it
cheaper. So that's all we do really. Wherever
you live, that's where you can get service. It's
pretty cool. That's about me. You know, that's
pretty much what I do Other than that if I'm
not doing this man I'd say I'm out there like
doing some crazy shit, you know Yeah, that's
what I'm doing and I'm like hey, dude I knocked
this random guy's door and he had a whole bottle
of moonshine and I think we're... I'm going to
do this for the rest of the day. Knock on doors,
see what we're doing. This opens your eyes, it
tells you people are friendly and it's a real
big thing here in Westlaco because Westlaco...
Dude, everybody's nice as hell here like not
very nice You where I come from where I was born,
Brownsville, Texas. I was there for a long time
It's a good city But now it's packs too packed
for me to go back and and live there cuz When
you go to Walmart, there's like four or five
people behind you dude waiting for you to finish,
you know You looking at whatever you need to
it's pretty packed right now and the West look
oh, it's super nice here Go ahead and look at
him standing in front of the church. It's blue.
Just grab a color. But they're all different
shades. I need to take my time. One has to call
my name. One has to call it. Frank, what about
you, man? What's going on? Talk to us. I live
in Fort Texas. I've been living there most of
my life. I've been doing the door -to -door thing
for about two years. and I'm still learning.
I mean, we learn something new every day. I met
Danny not too long ago, but it's been an experience
and then every day we learn something different.
It's a really good thing to do. What did you
do before, before you did the door to door thing?
Mostly customer service, jobs, you know, I work
in a call center. Oh, okay. Also you have more
or less an experience already what you need to
do. Yeah, talking to people. Right, right, right.
Yes. Communications. A lot of the experience
like that, you know, either on the phone or face
to face. Right, right. So it's something you
got to feel comfortable with. or develop the
ability to talk to people so they can feel at
ease with you and feel comfortable and that way
they can trust you. Is that what drew you to
the job? To sales? Yeah. You're interacting with
people. Yeah, pretty much. I love it. Even though
we're out there, in the heat or the cold or whatever.
I really like doing this. It's the interaction
with people. And I hear what you're saying, man,
because when you're a door -to -door salesman,
you interact with a lot of people. Not only that,
you meet a lot of new people that you wouldn't
think you would ever meet. You guys have to meet
new people every day. Yeah, I hear you say, man,
my camera's going way out of focus here, man.
What the hell's going on? Anyways. Too ugly.
Shut up. But for some reason, I feel that Juan
is the ringer here, man, because Juan's quiet.
Juan's too quiet. Yeah. He's analyzing the room.
Let me show these guys. Let me show this guy
what it's all about, man. Who's going out first?
Tell a little bit about yourself, Juan. OK. Need
a microphone or just talk loud? You got one in
your chest, man. All righty. Yes. This young
man are little babies compared to my age. I'm
not gonna tell you just yet how old I am, but
I've been retired for 13 years. I was in the
working world for 47 years before I retired.
And basically all my life I've done, I've worked
for myself. I've had businesses. I started out
in the fields, working in Michigan, Florida,
picking whatever fruits that needed to be done.
I mean, I dragged my wife and my kid all on the
road. And then I say, hey, man, this is getting
tiring. And when it's hot, it's hot. And when
it's cold, it's cold. Right, right. Remember,
now again, I'm hitting to tell you how old I
am. Anyway, my son was three years old and me
and my wife, you know, always liked to be the
top pickers on anything, you know. And we were
picking apples. It was getting late in the season.
It was almost time to come back. to the valley.
Right. Because once the first flurry say, I have
a name. Oh, yeah. And my son would say, my name
is Juan, but I changed it to J .C. OK. My name
is Juan and I go by J .C. and my last name is
Castro. Right. Right. My my son would say, Juan,
you know, peace. Anyway, from there, you know
what, we need to change jobs. So I came back
home and my sister had some businesses going.
And I asked my brother -in -law, hey, you got
a job? Yeah, you wanna sell carpet? Because this
is what his business was selling carpet. Oh,
okay, right. Carpet salesman, all right. Yeah,
carpet sales, flooring salesman. There you go.
And I said, yeah, get in there. We'll get you
a car and you can drive up all it up and down
the valley and the valley was starting to grow
Right. There's a lot of construction So I go
from Brownsville all the way to to Rio Grande
City trying to sell it, you know make sales and
You would feel great once you got a good sale
and this is a mission and this was a door -to
-door also yeah that first yes, this was a door
-to -door and then I got to the point that I
said, you know what? I don't wanna work for my
brother -in -law anymore, so I opened up my own
retail store. And I said, well, where am I gonna
put my store or my business? So I was talking
to my mom, I said, hey, well, I got the garage
sale, just clean it out, put your samples in
and work out of the garage. One thing led to
the other, and I started learning or knowing
suppliers, and how to do a retail work. Right.
And I was doing so good that this rep says, oh,
you want, you want to open up a store? I've started
working for this manufacturer in Georgia. OK.
He's looking for outlets down here, people to
sell his products. And he said, well, OK. but
I don't have any credit." I said, well, I'll
give you some credit. I start you off with five,
$10 ,000 credit. Just find you a warehouse. Just
find you a warehouse so we can ship you the products
and you can start from there. Everything started
falling in place. I don't know, I have all night,
but this story goes a little bit wrong. I said,
well, okay, let me see what I can find. So I
went up and down the street and the highways
and I found this perfect spot. Needed a little
work, you know, a lot of cleaning. Of course.
So we cleaned it up and I said, okay, I got a
place. I said, okay, let's write down the list
of what you think you're going to need. Right.
And I said, okay, so I get what, a maximum of
$10 ,000 of credit? He said, yeah. But the good
thing is you don't have to pay it all at once
or in 30 days, just pay as you sell. Right. Consignment.
I mean, sounds good. So I started. We started
doing the list and I said, hey, how much have
we written down? Oh, you're right at twenty five
thousand dollars. Wow. Damn. They say, well,
what is your boss going to say? Hey, don't worry.
Let's just get it down here. So just find yourself
somebody, if you got a buddy with a trailer,
tell them to go pick it up and tell them to bring
it down to you. I said, okay, I got a lot of
friends that are truck drivers, the old truck
drivers from back then. And I had this friend
and he said, I'll pick it up there, but you got
to go to Fort Worth and pick it up. It was at
Fort Worth in Dallas. and Irving somewhere in
there. You see, I can pick it up there because
that's where the old, all the muata of carpet
outlets are in the warehouses. Right. So you
go pick it up there and you can bring it down
to me. Oh, OK, no problem. I'm going to go to
Chicago on the way. And the way back, I'll pick
it up and bring it to you. Damn. Everything worked
fine. He got here and the owner of the warehouse
says, hey, Juan. don't send me that guy anymore.
Why? Because his truck, his floor was all breaking
apart. And he got down here and said, now we're
going to get all that stuff down. We didn't have
a forklift or anything. So the man called up
a couple of. a forensic study with a rope in
the truck and pulled him down. Jesus Christ.
Kind of displayed him and the rest is history.
There you go. Wow. I went from there. It was
like a five, six hundred square feet warehouse.
And then five years later, I moved to a three
thousand square foot warehouse downtown. There
you go. And five years after that, I bought a
property on the expressway and I had ten thousand
square feet of carp. Jesus Christ. And then we
picked up the U -Haul business also next door.
So I had plenty of room. Yeah. And we started
clicking, selling carpet. Carpet was king in
the 70s, 80s and 90s. Right. Right. It was king.
Right. And I was making big bucks. Yeah. And
then Home Depot comes in. There you go. Rose
comes in. And you know, I had banks that would
buy my paper, and then these guys come in, new
store, big store, and everybody had credit. And
my credit approval was 90 or 50%. And they'd
give, you know, a hassle with all the customers.
And then business started slowing down. And by
that point, I had already paid off all my properties
and inventory. And I said, told my wife, you
know what? This is not working anymore. We're
losing money. Right. Right. So, you know, country
losses. Yeah, it's time to sell. Right. Right.
So everything and I retired 13 years ago. Four
years ago, my wife passed away. So I became.
a widower, and I don't want to say he's great,
but I've met a lot of old ladies since then.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, watch it now. I did say I'm
not available right now. I'm not sure we're going
to say I'm not a little whiner. Well, we'll ask
you tomorrow. Anyway, and then I'll meet Danny.
But it was, it's a different door to door business.
But I had been out of contact with the customers
for 13 years. So I decided, you know what, I
have to do something. It's like riding a bike.
You just get back on there and do it. You never
forget. But I'm getting older, my body doesn't
respond the way we want it. So, but Robert, I
mean, Dan. It's got me in another position, which
I love. And I'm learning, and the door -to -door
is a little bit too much for me right now, until
I learn the tricks. I look at him and say, oh,
man, these guys are good. I got you. Anyway,
better cut it a little short. Let somebody else
do the talking. You should tell them what you
do now. So he doesn't focus like it's not always
door to door. You know what I mean? He does online.
He's getting that internet money So I'm getting
The vibes back in see I told this guy's hey,
man I gotta get all this rust out of my brain
and started get it working again, right? but
Then my age like right now I'm gonna be 76 See
so and but I need to do something. I just can't
just stop and do nothing. I have to press ahead.
Definitely. And help these guys. I love young
guys when they're building their business and
seeing flourish because I built a business and
the most I sold in a year was a million two hundred
dollars. That's not bad. That's not bad. That's
the peak of my... There you go. My ability. Right,
right. And what I saw. And I love when these
guys talk, hey, we want to do this. And we're
going to open up. We're trying to see that. I
say, hey, man, go for it. It's a different experience.
Do it. It's a different experience because you
see that from the younger generation that's willing
to put in the work to. Yes. And if I can put
my two cents worth and give them a little advice,
if they want to take it, that's fine. If not,
they've got. They got their own ways of doing
business and getting to where they wanna go.
Right, right. That's good, man. That's awesome.
We had sales experience ourselves. We used to
work in sales. Still doing sales experience.
I'm still selling, as you speak, as where I'm
working right now. We made five bucks doing this.
It's been sweet. It's growing, people. It's growing.
It's a firm five bucks. Not to mention our cap
sales. That's awesome. The cap sales, oh my God.
They are rocking. $2 .99. No, man, that's awesome.
I always, like I said, growing up, seeing the
Jordan Moore salesmen, for me, seeing them pretty
much on cartoons. where you have that guy walking
up some of the vacuum cleaner or something, carpet
or or a new shop. Yeah, exactly. That's that's
what I assume what a door to door person was.
But actually see when person when I got older,
when they would come in and knock on the door,
hey, you know, insurance or or electric bill
or or have you voted yet? Those would do it over
here. You believe in Jesus? I'm not even going
to add the extra to that. I have thoughts. But
it's it's a it's a whole different playing field
because you're the fact if you work in retail,
you work in retail, you're behind a counter or
you're out on the floor walking around. It's
totally different because the customers are coming
to you. You know, that's it's easy peasy. I mean,
they're coming to your store. They're there.
All you got to do is approach and sell your product.
When you go door to door. It's more of an effort.
You have to make the effort. You got to be a
communication person. You got to be a people
person to go up and knock on the door and say,
hey, my name is so -and -so. How are you doing
today? What kind of service do you have? This
is what we offer. What kind of speed you can
hear about so -and -so on that. That's what a
door -to -door show -off does. But the number
wise, the number game, for me, I think it's very
difficult. that sometimes at some point. But
like I said earlier in the episode, you know,
there was these big companies, Southwestern Bell,
CPNL, these electric companies, phone companies
that were just pretty much like what you said.
They're the only ones that knew the Valley existed.
Yeah. You know, so they monopolized monopolized
everything. You know what I mean? So that's I
totally understand that. But now that this is
happening, you're like, OK, now I have. options,
you know, everybody from dial up to high speed
to, to, uh, you know, fiber, all that stuff.
You're just like, what is the best one to get?
Which is the one that's going to keep me afloat
when I'm in desperate need of internet and other
choose adult films for chew. But for me, it's
more, it's more, have you ever actually like,
just hits different. One thing I was going to
say. Have you ever actually just turned off the
Wi -Fi at your house and then just lived it with
just pure phones? No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
I suddenly feel attacked and uncomfortable. Let
me go 30 years back. When I started doing the
cold calling out there, I was basically hitting
the contractors. And we were driving in a car
and said, hey, man, I got to call the office
because... They might be, somebody might be looking
for, I'd have to look for a phone, a phone booth
or a phone in the street. Hey, is anybody calling?
Oh, no, not, not, not, they haven't called. Nobody's
called. Okay. Try for another couple of hours.
Put a pager. A phone first. And then that would
stop. Hey, has somebody, yeah, man. They're mad,
because you haven't sent the material. You're
like, yeah, get over here. And I mean, in Holland,
OK, I'm on my way over there. And then, coming
forward another five years, the pager, bam, bam,
bam. What was the noise those pagers were making?
Oh, my god. I forgot we got a youngster here,
man. If you want to leave a text and you have
a rotary phone At that time, electronics was
moving super fast, real fast. And then the big
phone, the brick. You had to put the transmitter
in the trunk and have the phone in between the
counselor here or on the floor. but hardly nobody
had too much signal. If you had a car and had
a phone, oh, you were the badass. You were the
badass of the block. And then comes the flip
phone. Yep. Which till today, till today, I still
see a lot of older gentlemen, even people my
age. that still use the damn flip on and I freak
out like why? Now you have a mini computer in
your hand. I mean, it's moved that fast. But
the flip phone is still pretty popular, though.
Yes, it is. There's a lot of people, they don't
want to bother with anything else. They just
want it for a phone call. Home calls and that's
it. Right, right, right. I'm not into watching
videos or YouTube. None of that. But testing.
Danny's making that face like, speak for yourself.
I need my iPhone. I'm an iPad child. Sometimes
I have to slow down then it's okay slow down
then it run it through me back again. I didn't
understand that. That was three hours of information.
Oh man well that's cool dude I mean consider
the fact ladies you're right Juan JC that through
the years. how it's changed so much. But I mean,
going to what we're talking about a few minutes
ago, we'll step into it right now because I got
to go to commercial breaking and commercial break,
talk to our sponsors for real fast. But I want
to talk about a little bit more about what, you
know, what's going on in that world. What's the
best? What's the what's not the best? What to
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a lot of questions about it. So that's something
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man, and reflect. I mean, that's the best way
to do it. Just keep yourself out of trouble,
man. We don't need any more trouble in the streets
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I'm sure Shu has one right there in front of
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guys here Tell us a little bit about me service
wise. I know there's so many services out there
what? Services are the best at the market right
now. I know we can't really go into detail because
I know those First start off with what you got
exactly you guys do for the Valley, right? Exactly.
That's what we want. Okay, that's something I
wanted to talk about go for this. We literally
empower Communities whenever we say this we actually
do it literally like if you go home and Let's
say like like I was trying to mention earlier
If you turned off your Wi -Fi and you tried surviving
with just pure phones, you get me? Even if you
have hotspot on your phone, it doesn't make your
house feel comfortable. Everything's weird. Your
kids will freak out. You yourself, if you have
a smart fridge, you're gonna be like, something's
going on with it. You know, if you have cameras,
what you want is high speed, you know, and around
here, that's fiber. So fiber is super high speed
because we come from satellite. I don't know
if you guys have ever bought a unit where they
kind of when you get service and they kind of
build it outside and then put it in the ground,
put it into the sky like a satellite. Right.
Or sometimes they'll mount it on your roof. Oh,
gosh. Like people used to think that type of
speed was. Cool, you know, 50 megabytes per second
tops, you know, that was fast, you know what
I mean? But then they noticed the clouds came
and the signal was out. Yes. Or if it was windy
or rainy. Yeah, rainy. Or a bird shit on it.
Why not? Or a bird going nest in it. Yeah, why
not? Yeah. That's when they started bringing
out copper. So some guy had an idea of somewhere
of Getting a really long string of copper and
transferring data to that So that's that Roadrunner
you ever heard of Roadrunner? So Roadrunner was
going hard they were giving everybody a hundred
megabytes per second, you know, yes, that's fast
and then I think What are other companies that
you guys have know or remember that was like
old school, you know Dude man, I mean we're going
to go back to go back to that dammit. I mean,
yeah, I don't I really don't remember most of
it back then back then JC give me up on this
back Back then it was It was basically dial up.
You would connect directly to your phone services,
which kind of sucked because if you're doing
something online and someone called it to kick
you off like, ah, yeah, I'm on the phone. I'm
watching something. I was in the middle of my
download. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. That's what
it was. Yeah. They call that DSL, right? I guess
at the time. Yeah. I remember the yeah. Yeah.
So what's your bell? Yeah. and then another person
had an idea of like hey let's transmit data at
the speed of light and that's crazy dude because
why would you need that right and then they started
inventing speeds of a thousand like right away
so it's just fiberglass it's a fiberglass and
inside that glass it's just transferring data
super fast um right now game consoles do you
guys game yes like oh yeah Everybody knows what
a PS5 is, right? So the capacity of a PS5 is
1 ,000 megabytes per second. That's all it can
process. You get me? So now you have people buying
services that are 2 ,000 megabytes, 5 ,000 megabytes,
7 ,000 megabytes. Those are more for gaming systems
like the computer towers. Yeah, because like
you said the the ps5s and the Xboxes they top
out at What 2000 you say so if you have a cap
if you ever if you ever had a doorbell camera
You know or let's say you don't have one at all.
You don't have any cameras in your house. Yeah,
and If you have high -speed internet get a doorbell
camera that that right there is gonna be a very
handy it helps you Well locks, you know the doorbell
camera. Yeah, I believe you I believe Besides
that other things that we do for people is like
put them in better situations I've met people
that are paying $300 for services Just for like
some simple stuff, you know, and when we come
around we tell them hey, it's $50, you know,
you know, they it's We actually do help people
save a bunch of stuff, you know, I have seen
I have seen well I mean we did talk before the
podcast and everything about the situation But
I have seen some of the stuff that's been offered
on there and it's some good stuff man compared
to what I'm dealing with right now. The crazy
part is the speed for the price. That's what
matters. Exactly. Yeah, we're getting more and
more digital devices that need that speed. Exactly.
Exactly. To get something up. It's like a demand.
Just keep going back. Yes, it's going back to
what JC was saying at the when we get information
all day. All right, come back until some people
at this generation. I was like, we got to go.
Let's go. Let's go. Go. You'd be surprised how
much data my beeper needs. I mean, my page account
takes so much. Yeah, dude. But yeah, but going
back to that, I mean, it's everybody wants it
done. Now they want they want to be there now
yesterday. Yes exactly should have been done
yesterday And you know, everybody's always looking
for the fast the faster Product better and reliable,
you know, and sometimes you can sometimes you
can't I mean now then I'm not pointing fingers
and anybody right now because they're They're
running my stream right now But sometimes you
have hiccups, you know and A lot of people are,
you know, understandable. New company. There's
going to be a couple of hiccups. There's people
with brand new people are jumping on. They're
trying their best to get it running 100 miles
per hour every single day. And some people don't
accept excuses. It doesn't matter. I paid my
bill. Where's my service? Who's getting reamed
out right now about that? And those are the Karens
of the Valley. You know, something super crazy
is like every time there's. an outage right from
whatever type of internet dude like over the
time I'll get like 18 messages text messages
at night like at 2 or 3 a .m. that it's buffering
and I was like oh dang give me your phone number
I'll make it 19 messages because this happened
to me four nights ago watching Debbie Does Dallas
I'm not out of service. I was disappointed. You're
laughing too much, J .C. I'm sure you don't respond
to all of them, but I mean, you let people know
what's going on, right? Whoa, what do you mean
respond when they text you? Well, like when they
when they texted you that you know, it's buffering
or that there's no service Oh at that time. Yeah.
Oh the people that are cool with me that I know
like I had a real good, you know, Closer experience.
Yeah, you know, I'll just be like it's out, bro
I'm seeing it right now myself. Yeah, I got you.
I got you. So I mean, so Talking about services
wise, I mean, what is it one that usually everybody
asks you for? Like what's the one number one?
What's the what's the most popular most popular
one? The most popular plan that people get is
a $50 range. Or if they have money. like good,
like, you know, if prices don't really issue
and they want super, super fast stuff, that's
$90, you know, that's $90 a month. And that'll
give you super, super fast. Where do I sign up?
Like, what is that? What is that? What is that?
Like six gig? Five, five, five, five. Five thousand
terabytes. Okay. So that's. Terabytes? For 90
bucks, that's not bad at all, man. If you do
something like that, like literally, I've tested
how fast things, you know, this is a real, real,
real experiment that you can try at home if you
ever have fiber service. And you've never seen
it, right? So there's a difference between an
Android tablet and an iPad. The operating software
for the iPad, it's quick. It's naturally super
quick. But on an Android tablet, for some reason,
you'll have a lag. And that will be with copper.
If you switch it over to the fiber, The way that
an Android device performs, it feels like an
iPad do super quick. And that's something you
can try at home. If you don't have fiber service
yet and you're thinking about it, mess with one
of your iPads like that's an Android. And then
the next day, once it's already connected, you're
going to trip out. It's so quick. Yeah, so it's
a smoother faster service. Pretty much is what
you're saying Yeah, like when you watch YouTube,
it'll it won't buffer at all now I know the last
the first the first time I met you Danny was
that uh at Walmart where you were there with
your with your uh, but I was with JC wasn't it?
Think about that I forgot to say we run retail
stores as well. Oh, okay Like if you're ever
in a super center, you know And you you see one
of us like literally like we're doing the same
thing. We're showing intranet, you know, it's
super cool So we have people that do it inside
and outside that that's something new that I
got into about six months ago. Okay, that's pretty
cool Alright, so I mean so like I was saying
before me you guys for the first time, you know
Seeing all the the great plans you all have y
'all offer I know I had asked you that You know,
I know for the city of Westco, you are they are
offering this in particular plans already there.
They are some some sections of the Westco are
available, if I'm correct. Right. Yeah. Not the
whole not the whole piece of Westco. Right. Like
there's there's areas where it's spreading. OK.
But well, the good side of town, like where I
live, it's already there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
OK. If you're on the south side of the expressway,
you're screwed. How fast is it how fast is this
is this a fiber Increasing as far as the body.
What's the next city or what what next two cities
are next on the map literally? It's growing because
we're here. We're we're we're in West Loco. It's
already growing towards Mercedes Okay, that's
crazy, and there's this one spot that it already
grew towards and as soon as it became unlocked
man it was crazy it was it's a spot in Donna
because it's going out there now everybody over
there man they had like maybe 10 12 reps out
there just just crushing it, you know? Right,
right, right. Yeah, because people are tired
of the other guys. Yeah. It's so expensive and
you get such slow service sometimes. It's crazy.
Yeah, the other guys, the other guys, the other
guys. You shut up. They can hear us. I can't
say it. No, you can't say it, man. Don't say
it. Don't know. It's just, you know, we're going
to ask you. You got more of these words. Oh,
you got a lot more of that, buddy. He's so funny.
That rice there's is fiber optic right there
So You are the city so Mercedes is already on
the spread and Donna's already slowly going to
it. What's in Mercedes needs it? Cuz like We
got it. We got a buddy who lives out there. Yeah,
I know Before Joe. Yeah, I know he's been struggling
out there. But uh, yeah, you know, he actually
had satellite There are some locations opening
up that we can't tell you yet, but if you really
want to know, contact us and we'll let you know
some good spots. Well, we're pretty sure sales
people will be showing up in the area. Knocking
on doors soon. That's something I'm looking forward
to. You guys work pretty quick because I remember
once I spoke to the agent who... I spoke to not
maybe a week later a cruise started showing up
to install the Install the line in the neighborhood
and at my at my place. So it was it was crazy
and you saw them doing the work Yeah, I saw them
doing the work doing the trench doing everything
taking an actual wire connecting to your house.
Yeah, that's crazy Yeah, it was it was it was
something because like I said it it was within
the week And it's like, oh crap, like they're
really moving on this, like they're serious.
And it was awesome. And I've had it ever since.
And there's been a couple of hiccups, but it's
nothing too serious. It's what you were saying
earlier, what Danny gets is that what, at two
or three o 'clock in the morning, like that's
what you were telling me last time, right? Yeah.
I mean, that's when I'm up and most active, you
know, starting the Bible and shit. I started
the Bible late at night like Jesus did, all right?
What's what's uh, what's something that you guys
do yourselves, I know you guys run this you know,
and it's it's cool I like what you guys do cuz
I I didn't really know a hundred percent that
Westico had culture like that. They were able
to connect with each other and not just be close
-minded. To see you guys grow, because you've
been growing over the years, it's super cool
and I'm glad you guys are still doing that. It's
been great. It's been amazing for us. We're going
on season seven in January. That'd be an equal
of seven years already doing this. Uh, it's been,
it's been a trip, bro. It's been a trip. I mean,
uh, I know just recently, uh, they had a, some
sort of convention over in Mission, Texas, uh,
for, uh, I think it was, uh, bloggers or for
networking on stuff from around the valley. Uh,
and the ticket was not to. say, you know, it's
worth it. But it was like a single person to
go with like for one day is like $250. It was
it was it was a networking event. Yeah. And it
was, you know, for high. Yeah. For high movers.
And exactly. I mean, I would have loved to gone.
Oh, yeah, it would have been great if we could
have scraped the money together. But I mean,
that that's just a big part of of what we do.
Yeah. It's we're just wasn't within our budget
to go. No, no. But even if it was, I'm not sure
I'd want to spend two hundred fifty dollars on
one event. Right. Exactly. Exactly. And what?
That's us. It's something that that's the beautiful
thing about community networking within the community.
We've been here for seven years. We were going
on seven years. We've reached out to majority
of the community here in Wessico, Hardingen.
McAllen basically from Brownsville all the way
across to we've had people from all over the
valley yeah and outside the valley yeah yeah
and they've they've uh come into our podcast
we've been blessed to have them on here like
you guys having you having here is a blessing
also so we know more about what's going on your
neck of the woods and people can get more information
not only by watching the video but also going
back and listening to it you know what i mean
and all of that most of our guests they come
on here They get so excited when it comes out
on Spotify, or on iHeartRadio, or on ApplePod.
They're constantly sharing it with everybody.
They're like, hey, check it out, check it out,
check it out, listen, listen. And that's what
spreads the word even more. And I get more people
going, hey, how can we get on your pond? Yeah,
that's what I'm going to end up doing, dude.
You have no idea how many people I know. We're
just going to be watching this. Yeah, so I mean,
yeah. doing the pod for so many years and that's
what the standout was to help not only the big
corporations that have these great commercials
out there on live tv but the little guys like
us you know we we're starting off small eventually
we'll get there but you know there's got to be
somewhere where we can start from you know get
our feet wet before we get to to the bigger bigger
ocean you know then i could put that out there
but yeah yes yeah exactly unless some big corporation
wants to buy us out in which case we'd love you
guys i don't know about my end of the body i
don't think about you out of them you can see
them on 10th street every friday night uh but
but uh i know uh Coming like you were saying
before about the fiber optic so you believe the
fiber object is a better better way faster easier
You know interruptions. It's gonna happen. Yeah,
we're always looking for people to help us do
this Okay, okay, like literally like it's not
enough There's there's not enough people that
that know about this you believe it or not like
Not everybody knows even what fiber is dude Yeah,
like there's there's there's so many conversations
that we have where they're like I Have time order,
you know, they'll say something like that something
super old, you know something that they should
be around and and like random companies and I
don't know like It's it's cool to let them know
that there's other stuff. Mm -hmm And what's
crazy is there won't be any new stuff for at
least 20 years. Right. Right. I got you. Yeah.
This technology is crazy, dude. Yeah. It's constantly
moving up the chain as fast as it can. It's at
the speed of light. I mean, you can't really
do much better than that. I've heard, like...
like stories where people will get like an ethernet
cable and they'll connect it to their tv and
it'll read 10 000 megabytes like it's crazy dude
yeah that's fucking nuts and with uh tvs and
the equipment getting more and more you know
technologically advanced all these smart tv you
need more speed yeah Yeah, smart TVs. It's crazy.
It's the smart refrigerator that he was mentioning.
Who thought of that? Talking to the fridge. That's
crazy. There's actual fridges that I know when
I used to work at the Orange Box, the Home Depot
back in the day. No offense, JC. But there was
a time when they were bringing those actual refrigerators
that had the actual built -in tablet into the
door. You could ask, hey, make me a list of what
I might need. And it remembers, I think when
you would put items there, it would take a picture
of everything you put it in. If you're running
low on kits out, it would automatically write
it down into a list for you. And then at the
end of the month or in two weeks, it would send
you a notice, say, hey, you're no on milk. Hey,
you're out of butter. Hey. this what you bought,
you don't have it anymore. You may want to buy
some more. Actually, it was the Chinese spies
who were reading that. That were stealing the
data. They were reminding me 30 bucks. They were
just reminding you, hey, fat American imperialist,
you're out of milk. By the way, by Chinese. Oh,
by Japanese. Japanese, yeah. No, but yeah, technology
has gotten so fast to the point where you can
go with your phone, you're at the supermarket,
boom, camera turns on, you can look inside your
river ridge, oh yeah, I'd better buy something.
Talking about that writing on your phone, what
you need, I still get my little pet, paper pet.
Write it on down. faster look look I look at
the paper fastest and I can remember oh my god
I better I better check my oh that's wrong I'll
tell you I'll tell you a quick story we're 56
minutes of the podcast I have this one customer
his name is Tacho a good friend of the good friend
of my man he comes to our store a lot and buys
a lot of plumbing equipment and he has a flip
phone Just to give you an idea. He still has
a flip phone. But he comes in with a... He comes
literally with a sheet of paper. So big. About
that big. Looks like the size of an iPhone. Okay.
And he goes, let's see. I have to take out the
iPhone. And he gets the tablet and he goes, thank
you. Thank you. Let's see. I go, what are you
doing? Oh, it's off. But it has a charger. Let's
see. Paper. What are you doing, dude? Let's see.
Look. Damn. Here are the photos. Look. But yeah,
man, I love that man. He's an awesome customer
of mine. But yeah, dude, like like you're saying,
Danny technology runs so fast. It's crazy. It's
hard to stay in front of it because once you
think you're in front of it, you're there are
like five steps down and you got to catch up
again. So I mean, but other than that, I mean,
social media is guys where they can reach and
find you guys where they can ask questions for
stuff that you guys are offering. I have. Instagram,
I run Facebook. A lot of people can find me on
Facebook. I'm always promoting content. I'm always
posting. I even checked in that I was here. It's
pretty cool. But the tags, it's for my IGs, dannyflame
.1216. That's one thing that a lot of people
kind of knew me as growing up. They give me like
this nickname of Danny Flam. I don't know really
where it came from, but it's stuck around. You
could find us on IG if you want to work with
us. That'd be cool to have somebody help out.
Frank, where can they find you, man? I'm right
here, bro. I don't really do a lot of social
media. I just recently started because of him.
I started learning more about my Facebook. I
stopped using it many years ago. I just recently
started doing the online advertising because
he taught us how to do it and we know it works.
Mr. Juan also experienced it. You know, we do
post things on there, but I can't even tell you
right now Well, I've been learning a lot from
Danny, Frank, Sam, but where you can find me
is at the coffee shop here down here. I got my
neck working down there. My girlfriend said,
are you gonna go to coffee with the old farts?
But like right now I've got the email. I don't
know how to get in there, but I've got the email.
You can text me, you can leave a message. I stopped
going to Whataburger. They don't have any decaf
anymore. But I'm easy to find. A lot of people
know me here in town. That'll get a phone number
sniped. But next time, I'll be ready. There you
go. There you go. If I get Danny, and Danny can
kind of go down the line. I'm still like a turtle
in the networking business. Don't worry, man.
The tortoise always wins, man. There's me walking
the warning, property protected by Cisco. Well,
that's that guy right here. So that's not even
going that far. So but no, it's it's I'm learning
and it's fun. I'm getting out there now It's
giving me the energy to to start again. That's
good, man God bless on that man. Gentlemen. I
would first of all want to say thank you for
three of y 'all coming in No, there was a fourth
before you show up. What's name was Sam Sam if
you're watching Sam We're coming for you. We're
coming for you. No, we're not Sam. It's fine.
I'm Sam This guy will be in your front door knocking
with his leg. One leg. One leg. That's what we
call him. Yeah, literally he has to. But if Sam
was here, he'd say that he likes UTSA. It's like
a, I think it's like a San Antonio. College up
in San Antonio. Yeah. Yeah. The Roadrunners.
That's his thing right there. Really? UTSA. Sam.
Damn it, Sam. It's a good thing you're not here.
It's a good thing. I hear Sam. I would have beaten
you up against the walls a couple of times. I
would have just looked at you. Yeah. But no,
guys, like I said, thank you so much for coming
to the podcast, man. I appreciate you guys coming
out. I know we were supposed to do this last
week. Unfortunately, we couldn't do it. you know,
something going on, a personal matter, whether
to take care of. But other than that, I mean,
continue doing what you guys are doing. I did
put the QR code up there. I'm not going to put
it up again. If you guys want to reach a goal
and see this company, we really didn't mention
the name of the company because we're hold to
a clause. But you did have it out there. So you
look at click on that QR code takes you for all
the information you need. If you want to give
a reach out to Danny here, give his info out
there so you can. get all the information he
needs he needs from you to get you going rolling
on this program but uh other than that guys thank
you once again i appreciate you guys oh you said
uh jc you had a joke didn't you you want a quick
joke dirty ass joke dirty no dirty joke it's
a clean joke oh okay all right well we can say
for next time well not that clean go ahead man
you got you got the you got the camera go for
it I don't know if there's something wrong with
his eye. Somebody busted his eye. You're born
with that. He looks like that, but he doesn't.
There was this little drunk guy in the bar, and
he says, she was running out of beer, and he
says, hey, guys, I bet you I can bite my right
eye. He says, oh, yeah, bet you a beer. OK, I'll
bet you a beer. So he takes out his eye and bites
it with teeth. What the hell? Puts it back in.
After a couple of beers, I bet you another beer
I can bite my left eye. Oh, man, if he can pull
that eye out. Okay, I bet you that. He takes
his dangers off and starts. That's a good one.
I'll let that one go. Thank you once again guys
for coming out having a little fun with us here.
Hope you enjoyed you guys and Well, next time
down the line, if something big is coming up,
let us know. We'll try to get you on ASAP. All
right, man. Thank you. Appreciate you guys. Thank
you. I'm ready for the winter. Oh, you're telling
me. Yeah. You're ready for the winter, you damn
bear. That is our podcast for the week. Oh. I
was going to place something on the pod for you
guys, something my little boy and myself, we
put together. It is available on my Facebook
page. It is available on TikTok and Instagram
already. We did an actual animation. It took
us a while to put it together. It's really good.
It came out pretty nice. You guys want to check
that out. It is available on my Facebook page,
on the TuneIn Podcast TikTok, and also on our
Instagram. Check it out. We've been getting great
reviews. A couple of people are reaching in to
look at it. I appreciate you guys taking the
time. It really means a lot to my little boy,
man, because he's really into drawing a lot of
characters. And I just helped give him a little
push to put into voice acting and stuff. So he
did a great job. Other than that, guys, thank
you so much. But man, you see the camera keeps
going out of focus, man. I'm going to put the
camera on you. Just call it a night already,
dude. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that.
Look at that. No, I see it. I see it. OK. OK.
Bam! There it is right there. Ladies and gentlemen,
we'll see you Thursday night this week at 7 30
p .m. We got another guest coming in. Stay tuned
to watch who's up next. And then we have our
Thanksgiving special next week with Eric Shadows.
Should be good. Should be a good one, too, man.
But tune in next week. Also, 7 30 p .m. on Tuesday
night. That'll be the one before Thanksgiving.
Any last words to spectrum sucks. I didn't say
that. I'm not going to say it, but they do. Oh,
great. Oh, shit's slowing down now. You see what
she did? You see what she did? That's why the
camera's always out of focus, dude. Damn you!
The megabits are in the mail or something, dude.
Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
tuning in to us once again. We will see you Thursday
at 7 .30 p .m. with this guy over here and myself.
Sign us out, Chu. I've been Chu. And I will see
you Thursday night. Ladies and gentlemen, peace
out. Bye, everybody.