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I used to, in the old days, but. What, boxing or? Yeah, boxing and everything, really. I used to watch NASCAR, but I don't watch NASCAR anymore. All right, now my aunt loves NASCAR. I'd show off both TVs one. So then what do you do now, like for fun? For fun? We travel. We're both retired, so. Oh, wow. Yeah, so we travel. We have an RV, so in May, we're gonna head out and go to Indiana and do a suspension upgrade on my RV, and then I think we're gonna go up through Michigan and then go up into Canada and go all the way over maybe to Nova Scotia. Oh, wow. Spend a little time in Maine, and then I've got a daughter. Her family lives in Syracuse. Yeah, yeah, that's where this T-shirt's from, so. We'll go there and hang out and see the grandkids, and like that, you know? Fish, I like to fly fish. Oh, wow. And so can you fly fish out here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, in fact, there's a fishery east of Farmington at the Santa Ana River below the Navajo. It's like a world-class fly fishing destination. It's awesome. I usually go there at least once, sometimes twice a year. Wait, and where is it again? Far northwest, up by Farmington. Oh, wow. And east, east of Aztec. Big fish. It's all, you know, the first like three or four miles is all catch and release, so they've been doing it so long that the fish that are there are huge. Average is probably 18 1⁄2, 19 inches, something like that. Oh, wow. Big trout. It's a good time. And like what, rainbow trout, or? Rainbows, browns, mainly. Some hybrids, I guess, these days. And you can fly fish for rainbow trout? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good time. It's relaxing. Yeah, it sounds cool. So you're thinking about doing your own school, huh? Yeah, well, I found a building in the middle area. So now it's time to start a school. That's cool. Sir's School of Barbering. That's cool, man. You know, and then, you know, they give you like a $500 kit like when you go to another school. Right. Well, I'm gonna give you a $1,500 kit. And so I kinda think like I'll have all the best tools like in that kit that, you know, you can get. Sure. Cool. You know, just to cut above the rest. You gotta differentiate yourself somehow, right? Absolutely. Yeah, every little way. Either that or you have competition. Right, sure. So you have no competition. That's awesome. That's why I even, you know what? When you say that, when you use that language, I also, I really believe in that because that's why I also did men's salon. I don't wanna be the same as everyone else. I wanna do my own thing. It's like, and that's why I label myself more as an artist than, you know, just a barber. Even though I am a barber, like, you know, barber, stylist, artist, you know, really just an artist when it comes down to it. Sure. You know, I was with these, with these shirts that went on. I've seen those videos. Well, then how do you, see, and this is what, okay. Yeah, and a lot of people, I mean, but here's the other thing. How do, okay, so I don't get it. Like, so do you have a passport and you're allowed to drive through Canada or? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a passport. Oh, wow. Yeah, I had to check with my insurance agent this morning, actually, I got thinking about it. I thought, wow, I wonder if I need, like, you know, special Canadian insurance. Did you? No, you, there is a requirement that you have a special insurance card that shows that you have coverage while, not like going to Mexico. Well, so is it hard to go to Mexico then, or? Yeah, you go to Mexico, they always recommend you get Mexican insurance. Oh, yeah. Yes, and it's, it can be tricky up here. I've never done it. And so what will you do, just drive through Canada and? Yeah, you know, we get, like I said, we get an RV, so we'll hit some of the provincial parks, which are like, kind of like our state parks, state slash national parks. Nice. Kind of hang out, maybe do some fishing and hiking, and a little bit of sightseeing, that kind of thing. Just see what's up there. I've never been up there. I've been to Toronto for business several times in years gone by. Well, see, what did you do when you used to work? I've been in telecommunications business for 44, 45 years, various companies. Telecommunications? Uh-huh. So I worked for the Hertz Corporation before I came to New Mexico, and I did a bunch of consulting work up there for Hertz, in Toronto. For consulting about what? Telecommunications, so putting in phone systems for all their different locations. Like their phone systems in the prison? Yeah, kind of like that, but like, so theirs was all, you know, basically airport, and then the little rental, neighborhood rental locations, and then they had like heavy equipment rentals, that kind of stuff. Oh. Yeah. It was interesting work. Yeah, sounds like it. Came out here, though, and got back into the field. I was, when I was working for Hertz, I had like a team of analysts that worked for me that took care of all the locations, like 5,000, 6,000 locations across the United States. And then, when I came out here, I went back to field technicians, which was interesting work. It was kind of cool, you know? I wanted to come west. I was in Oklahoma when I worked. Oh, well. And I always kind of wanted to live in New Mexico, so it kind of just worked out, time-wise, and so we made the move about 40 years ago. Oh, so you've been here a while. Well, that's not that long. Nah. Not long enough. Yeah, we live here. And where do you live? Up in East Mountain. Oh, nice. San Diego Park. Sick. Yeah, it's quiet. I like that, like, high desert area and everything, because then I get, like, the mountain views, and it's just, it's away from the city, but it's close enough to the city that you're right there. That's why I like it. It almost reminds me of Corrales, but way less boring. Yeah. Because I couldn't do Corrales just because of how boring it is. Kind of boring, yeah. And I'm not trying to have one way in and one way out, like, you know, quite to that degree. Right, right. In the sense of, like, what if they close that road down? Do you not make it out that day, or? Yeah, but San Diego Park's not really the East Mountains. I see what you mean about East Mountains. It is, like, the foothills, really, but. Well, I guess it is the East Mountains. It's not Edgewood, is what I'm thinking. Oh, yeah, no, it's not Edgewood. No. Do you know where's a good little hidden gem is Indian Swarm Tramway? Believe it or not, even though it's headed that direction, there's a good little neighborhood up there. Yeah, that's a good part of town, I think, yeah. We don't come to Albuquerque very often, honestly. Well, then, what do you mean you don't come to Albuquerque? You just stay over there? Yeah, we just kind of stay there, kind of hang out, you know? And do what? What is a typical day seem like? What is a day? For me? Yeah. Oh, you know, I still have my office. I work from home for a long time, so I have my office set up in a detached shop at my house, so I kind of go over there and dink around, you know, various things, doing home repair and upgrades, and working on my Jeep, and my mom's up in the year, so I kind of take care of her finances, so I do that, and you know, it's really weird, because I kind of thought before I retired, what am I going to do with all my time? I don't have that much time, that much free time. It's like, you know, I've always got something, something I'm doing, so, yeah, that's good. Yeah, we come to Albuquerque for church, come down here to see you, we come down to get groceries, you know, two, three times a month, maybe. And where do you go to church? We actually go to church at the Lady of Ascension. Oh, you're a Catholic? I'm Catholic. Oh, awesome, me too. Yeah, Ascension, I always want to say Ascension, it's actually, what is that? I don't know, I have no idea. I just didn't think so, it was for some weird reason, it was like, Jesus Christ. It's actually Lady of Annunciation, I always get that wrong for some reason. We've been going there a couple years. Yeah, of course, he was like, it's out of control, so he might have gone. Lady of Assumption, it's all my kind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I travel to Christian church, but then they keep pushing you to give them money. It's, uh. And so it's like, I don't, dude, I'm not having you, one of them, you know, I won't even mention, but it's like, was like, you know, however much you make, you know, it's 10%, and it's like, dude, I'm not giving you a dime. Yeah. It's like, show me the homeless people on the street and I'll go hand it out directly to them. I don't need, your wife drives a brand new Mercedes, you're in these iPhones, and dude, it's until you allow me to do your accounting, you know what I mean? Hey, show me exactly where it's going and I'll gladly give it to you. Yeah, it's hard to contribute. But I'm not just giving you a specific amount, dude. 10% of what I make is too much. Yeah, when you see the lifestyle some of those guys have, it makes you wonder, right? That's right. And the Catholic Church never really bugged about like any of that, like giving away money or, you can donate and you should. Oh yeah. But I mean, you do it at your, you know, Whatever you want to do. You do how much you want to do. Yeah. You know, you put a check in the basket or, you know, once a month or whatever, write in a check or leave, you're out of your mind. And especially if it's going towards the right thing. Yeah, that's, I'm with you. Yeah, 100%. Because I don't want to see all the bullshit and... A lot of evangelical churches get very, very political. And I'm just, I don't... Yeah, I don't like that part of it either. I don't. I want to keep it separate. Me too. Absolutely. I agree with you about that. Whenever it gets very political, it's almost like politics play a part in their religion. Yeah, and I just... A big part in it. I'm not down for that at all. I want you to come here and I'm going to tell you how to spend your money and where it should go and how you should. And it's like, no, you're not. Yeah. You can ask me for a donation. I don't mind giving any donation. But it's going to be the amount that I choose to give. Right, right. I can't have someone telling me it's... You grew up in California? Yeah. Is that right? Is that what you told me? Born in Santa Ana, California. Santa Ana. Orange County. Lived in Reno Valley. Yeah. I lived in California and LA for a summer when I was a kid. But what year? It would have been 78. Oh yeah, you knew that already. I was born in 78, but I'm saying that was... That was a rough time. I'm just trying to give it a time frame of that was a rough time. That wasn't... You were living in LA in 78. It was like, maybe it ain't the LA of today. Oh no, I'm sure it's not. It was hell on earth. It was... I'm sure it's not. Yeah. I had a good time. Enjoyed it. In 78? Yeah. Geez. Oh yeah. Was it dangerous though or not? I don't know. You know... Or did it get more dangerous later? It probably got more dangerous later. Oh yeah, it was probably in the 80s and 90s. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty normal when I was there. We had fun. Oh, that's right. Yeah, no, we weren't. Yeah, we were not close to Watts. Drove by it. You meet some lady back then and she seems kind of nice. She's, oh, where do you live? It's like, Watts. It was like, she's like, oh my God. Yeah, I gotta go. It's like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, time for me to go. It's like, holy ----. Yeah. Well, I'm right over there in Watts off Grape Street. It's like, my God. It's like, holy, you hear drive-bys as you enter the, it's like, well, I can't even go in there. Welcome to Compton. It was like, geez. That wasn't like an area that you turned off on. Right, exactly. You didn't exit to see when it said Compton. Yeah, just keep going. Even if you had a flat tire, you waited till it said something else. It was like, God. Right. I did some work for Hertz in San Diego. That was, that was a good time. I like San Diego. If it wasn't so expensive. And what year is this? Eh, it would have been, time flies when you're having fun. It would have been like 2020. I mean, not 2020. About 2005, maybe. Oh, nice. Something like that. That was a good time, man. Big place. Good time. When somebody else is paying the bill. It's a really good time. We like to travel. We've been a lot of places. We went to, down to Peru in 2003. Yeah, 2003. Got to see Machu Picchu. And then we did some, it was like a mission thing with the church. Yeah. Went down and built some homes and stuff. It was cool. It was a good time. It was interesting to see how the rest of the world lives, you know? And how do they live? A lot rougher than we live. Oh, really? Oh, man. It's night and day. I mean, there's, you know, and especially in Peru, and I guess, you know, from what I read these days, it's even more stark difference, but it's, you don't really have a lot of levels of economic prosperity. It's, you have it or you don't. So it's extreme poor or extreme wealth? Well, not extreme wealth so much. It's like they have the middle class and then they have extreme poor and that's it. Yeah. And I mean, obviously there's. So nobody has wealth? There is some wealth, but it's, you know. Far and few retain it. Very, I think. And so how do they retain their wealth? Good question. You know. Even such an impoverished. There's so many poor people down there. Yeah, culturally so different, obviously. Good people though. Really good people. Yeah, that gentleman that was in here, just in here, he travels to Asia a lot. Oh, really? Yeah, and down to Brazil and. I've never been to Asia. So he's told me kind of all those other countries. Like, you know, even like what you can get out there for like they cost too much. Right. Yeah. Like you can eat out there for, you can have a housekeeper for like $5 a day or something. Oh yeah. Yeah, a lot of time housekeepers come with the house. You know. That's nice. Yeah. And I'd like to go back to South America at some point. Maybe down to Chile. My wife was actually in the Peace Corps when she was a kid. So she lived in Chile for three or four years, I think. Oh yeah, man. What do you think? Oh yeah. I'm gonna watch him a little bit. Awesome.