From Street Racing to E-Commerce Success: Brian's Journey

Right all right guys what's up i'm here with brian arman how you doing brian's a fellow drop shipper yes i am and he's a biker one of your students actually yeah he he took the high ticket drop shooting master class and actually freaking did it yeah actually just followed everything the course said to do and instead of overthinking i was just like you know what i'm gonna do exactly what he says to do in the videos and i did and you know some some of the videos some of the things change a little

because there's always updates but you know it's it's pretty simple very straightforward and they got everything going really quick and before i knew it i was running a business it was you know my first first real business that i was running and yeah it's a great feeling you know it's like one of my first born children pretty cool how did you get uh interested in like e-commerce and dropshipping in the first place?

Honestly, my friend, she was an avid traveler and she was living in Australia for probably about a month. And then she came back and she reached out to me and said, Hey, let's hang out. Her name was Camille. And she was an avid traveler, traveled all over the place. And I didn't think too much of it at the time. I was a car guy. I was, you know, street racing and just throwing money into my car and racking up my credit cards, not really thinking financially smart, anything of that sort.

But anyway, we start hanging out again and she goes, Hey, next year, I'm going to go to New Zealand. I want you to come with me. I want to show you what it's like to travel. And I told her, I was like, I can't afford that. And she basically told me, you know, I'll pay for it right now.

You have a year to pay me back. And so I said, okay, long story short, she took me traveling. and I caught the travel bug. I went on another trip with her the following year and a couple other friends. We did a group trip to Thailand and that's when I thought about it. I was like, Trevor lives here because he was living there at the time. Unfortunately, when I reached out to him, he was in the States and I was in Thailand.

So it didn't really work out. But long story short, Trevor and I have known each other since, I don't know, we were skateboarding. While I was BMXing, he was skateboarding. Stoner Kids. I think maybe 2006-ish. Yeah, something of that sort. Maybe 2007, yeah. And, you know, we're just skateboarders smoking.

It's all on the same page and everything. thing and when i was in thailand and i reached out to him i thought about it and i was like, wow he really progressed from where we say hang out back in the days he's doing this whole business thing and and it's he's traveling he's living in thailand and it was literally the best trip i was on in my life best day i've ever had in my life was in kopi islands it was like one of the best.

Extravagant parties just it was a beach party beach bar and the the waves were coming up into the bar and there was lightning and everyone was partying and it was just it was just an amazing site i highly recommend it but long story short i was like he is doing this course thing and it is what he's doing and this is what he's doing and you know this is what i want to do for my life for now on and that's when i reached out to him and bought the course and went with it damn sick Sick.

I'm psyched. I got to inspire you to do some cool.

Cause you're one of the only dudes that I've known from back in the day that actually got something going with like an e-commerce business, you know? So I didn't stop. You're one of those types of people that just like, doesn't give up. Yeah. I don't give up. Once you like figure something and you're just like, I'm just going to keep going. Something bad happens. It doesn't matter. Like just keep going. Yep. Definitely. And I don't, don't get me wrong. I don't reinvent the wheel.

I follow what you do, But then also I'm like, I see Amazon do things like the AI generated one review and I'm like, Hmm, if they're doing this, I can do this. And so now I'm trying to find ways to, to add a little more extra to my site, which is pretty cool, but figuring it all out as we go along.

So as far as like what you've learned along the way, what are some of like the biggest like mistakes and some of the biggest wins? All right. So my biggest mistake was when you start making money, save 20 percent. I mean, 20, save 30 percent, excuse me, of your your profits, your net profits and put it in account for taxes. Taxes, yeah. Because, you know, the IRS hit me up and, you know, I was making payments for a while.

And then I basically felt like my business was in the negative for a half a year because of I was making payments of taxes for the previous year. It was miserable. That was federal or state or both? Both, yeah. Well, yeah, we're here in California. Federal got most of it. California's got like a 10%. Yeah, California's horrible. Plus they are federal, yeah. Yeah, it was like 15% on top of my regular taxes. It was insane. Right.

Yeah. But yeah, that's one of my biggest mistakes. It's a very smart thing to do is put money away for in like a savings account or like, what, how do you manage that? So I'm kind of, I'm kind of cheating the system a little bit. I'm putting it in a compound interest account. Okay, that's smart. Because I have a bunch of compound interest accounts.

I read, I read a book called Prosperity Consciousness and it teaches you, you know, to open five accounts and you put all your funds in one account and you spread them through the five accounts and you do certain things with the five accounts. It's a very good book or it's an audio book only because it's, it's a course, but I really highly recommend it. But anyway, one of these accounts I just decided to make for taxes for the business. That way, why all my...

The funds that are being held in the account for the tax is my 30%. At least I'd be making a little bit of money off of them with the interest. Yeah. I mean, it's not going to end up being a huge amount, but. Yeah, not a huge amount. I mean, it's better than nothing, you know? Exactly. It's better than just holding it in a little bank account. A little extra something, something.

So I looked at it that way. Yeah, that's good. What about like managing the business? What kind of things have you learned? Because you've had it for a while now. It's like, how many years? I think I'm on year four of it actually operating. operating five years total to put everything going and get it operating. Uh, cause I kind of, I did it. I literally did everything myself. I have not hired a single VA.

I have not done anything. And I'm starting to think right now that that might be a mistake because I've been reading a lot of reviews and Trevor's been telling me all the time, I hire a VA, you know, they, they, they can do things that you don't know. They know things that you don't know. And yeah, I just, I just gotta be able to pull that trigger. Yeah. It's a mindset thing. I totally understand. Cause when I first hired my VA, I was like, Oh my God, I'm going to hand off this to him.

Like, it's like the most important thing when you're talking to customers and like dealing with like suppliers and stuff, you know, like you're, you're just like wondering how the, the, cause it's a Filipinos who you're going to hire, you know, you want them to be competent. You know what I mean? I'm legitimately scared that they're not going to know

how to close a sale. Yeah. Obviously like, obviously I'm like, damn, it took me four or five years to learn all these products and now they're going to learn all these products from scratch and they're going to be they're going to be rusty as hell and i mean when you take a phone call about the products that you know it's like it's it's you already know about the products yeah answer the question super fast right you know at the very beginning i was like oh give me one quick moment let me

look this up and i pull up the owner's manual and stuff up real quick but you know things are a lot easier now of ai but. Yeah that's kind of easing my mind a little as well with the the va it does help literally if somebody asks you a question you can literally just type it in the tag gbt and it's incredible And 99% of the times it comes up with the correct answer. Pretty much. Yeah. So, I mean, technology is insane.

So, yeah, but yeah, I mean, that's, that's probably another one of my mistakes. I feel like, I feel like if I hired VAs and focused more on email marketing, for instance, and, and my ads and everything, I probably would have scaled a little bit more instead of just doing all the customer service myself. Cause that does take a lot of time out of my day. I'm not to mention on top of this, I am, since I live in California and it's

very hard out here, I am also doing this while working a full-time job. Yeah.

Which is pretty common. And I think a lot of people like drop shipping isn't a full-time thing for most people that do it. 60 hours a week driving. Yeah. So between 60 hours a week driving, you still have time and there's no excuse to get a drop shipping business going and running all by yourself. Cause if I can do it, you can do it. Damn straight. 60 hour work week. It's the same shit I was doing. I mean, I wasn't 60 hours, but like, yeah, but you know, I, I was driven.

I needed, I stayed up till two to three every morning and then woke up at like five of the seven came to work late a lot i mean you have a couple hours you can you can watch tv or something or like just like screw off whatever like just get super high and do nothing or you could like yeah honestly you know there was there was there was a time i don't know how long it was because you know it's just a cloud when you just like zone into working but there was just

a time where i remember sitting in my bed like working and i looked up at my tv and i went wow i'm, I don't think I've turned that thing on in months because I'd literally come home and just go straight to the computer. You know, I had so much to do or I was excited. I was loading new products or making, making deals or closing sales over the, over email after hours, you know, just it's, it's fun. It's like a game. Yeah. It's exciting. Right.

It's exhilarating. I'm addicted to it. Yeah. It's like you win the game and you get a sale, you know, or like when it ships out or like whatever, when the customer's happy, you know, like, like that's a true win is when the customer is super happy and they like write you about it or tell you about it or something like that. They give you the good review on Shopper Approved. Yeah, the good reviews, yeah. Or send a picture or something like a video or something. Yeah, they send you the picture.

They send you the email marketing where you try to get them to give you a review. And they actually give you a review. You go, whoa, all right. This is my content now. It's awesome. Yeah, there was a time when I actually completely got rid of my TV because I was like, this thing's too distracting. I was like, if I just have my computer and no TV, I guarantee you I'll be twice as productive. Honestly, it's kind of how I am right now because I have the baby now.

Know yeah we just had a baby and trying to work with a baby in my lap is crazy like he's just touching the keyboard he's screaming wiggling and i can't work so it's like i started watching tv again and i'm sitting here like watching holding him watching tv and i'm just like i should be working yeah at the same time i'm like you know what they're like i'm in my kid's life i'm watching a show with him right i need to relax this is my family i think it's sensitive to the like Like the vibrations,

you know, like how you feel when you're working is more like, I don't know, high vibration.

You're like, you know, and then you're relaxed and you're watching TV. So it's probably different for them too. Yeah. But I don't know, maybe like if they're growing up around you and seeing you hustle all the time and like focused on work, that might also make the baby like grow up that same way with that same mindset. I'm going to plan. I'm going to, I'm going to teach him to.

Are you going to teach him how to do dropshipping? I'm going to teach him to run his own business from the start. So, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to have them. I mean, unless he really wants to, and he wants to pursue a career and something that he wants to do, like a firefighter, or he wants to go to college and be a doctor or something, I'm not going to force him to do the whole, you got to go to school.

You got to go to college. You got to get it. Gary, like our parents taught us, you know, it's, it's a different world now. Yeah. It's you create your own business. You create multiple streams of income and it's about who, you know, not what, you know, that's going to get you the connections and the jobs. That's super true. So networking. I mean, yeah, it's a completely, completely different world now. Yeah. So I got to train them different from what schools and everything has treated us. Yeah.

But it'll work if you you'll bring you'll keep it going. Social media has changed a lot, man. It is crazy now. It's so easy to connect with people, but the connections aren't really as deep because they're through social media that when you meet someone in person, then you really feel the energy. You really vibe with them. You can create like a much deeper friendship, you know, like, for instance, with dropship suppliers, most of the time you're

just talking to them on the phone. You know, you don't actually meet them in person. Like if you go to like a trade show or or you go to like their headquarters, wherever that is, and actually talk to them in person, and like totally enhances the relationship, you know, like you're almost become like close friends with them and stuff. It's cool. Yeah. Once you see them face to face, they just, every time that you call them, Hey Brian, how are you doing?

You know, good to hear from you. What's going on? And they're excited to hear from you. So it's, it's pretty cool though. I mean, there's, there was one supplier I have, I'm not going to say the name, but basically I was trying to get it for a while and, and I couldn't. So I went through a distributor and was still selling the products, but through distributor getting a cheaper rate.

And finally i went to a trade show and behold there was the president and so i walked right up to him and started talking to him told him who i was you know and he's like oh i remember your emails and next thing i knew i had a straight account with him i just closed it right there on the spot in person and he just said hey you know like next week i'm gonna shoot you everything over and then next thing i knew i was making 250 an order instead of 85 to 100 that's amazing yeah Yeah.

So you just, a little thing like that can go such a long way, man. Just establishing like a better relationship with the supplier and with the customers too. I mean, I don't really have never met a customer in person. Actually, I take that back. So back in the day, before I did dropshipping, like kind of the way I do now, I was doing it mostly like using SEO and stuff like that. I started a bike shop and I was selling bikes online. Right.

And that was a totally crazy experience. Cause like, you know, I had the online sales still, but a lot of the customers came into to the shop. And so I was talking to customers and hanging out with them. And like, we do like selfies and stuff like that. Like it was cool, you know, building them bikes, like making them custom bikes. It was a good time. I met a lot of cool people. And it's, it's, it's kind of fun watching them in person too. I mean, I love, I love, I love sales.

Yeah. Kind of, kind of learning this, this drop shipping and closing sales.

Like you, you tend to really like it. And that's kind of also what held me back from getting a va at first but now i'm thinking about it and i'm like i need to think about the bigger picture yeah i mean it's don't get me wrong it's fun it's fun being the the the store owner that everyone rants and raves about because they're like wow i actually spoke to the owner of the store thank you for calling me back you know it's it's not someone from

the philippines because there are a lot of customers out there who are like that that want to speak from somebody from the states right but you know time and time again, it's just kind of forgot where i was going with that but i i it's about time to change you get a va pretty soon here yeah so that okay vas are like all right i'll just give you some advice since it's your first time yeah definitely live coaching call here okay hire a different va for different things

for sure like for like if you're gonna do customer service sales hire one that just does that you know yeah the only other things you can have them do is maybe do like inventory updates and like price updates when they're only like really necessary yeah like if something's out of stock, you know, but that VA shouldn't also be doing like product uploading or like whatever, you know, like have a separate VA if you're going to have someone do product

uploading and like data entry and stuff like that, just because it's better. And then the VA can do a lot of cool stuff besides just customer service and sales. They can also do like outreach.

So like you can, if you set up Gmass, which is like a Gmail plugin and it's paid, but there's a free version, but Gmass is cool because you can send email blasts to a ton of email, addresses at the same time and like one email and you can create templates so like let's say you want to get more backlinks to like you know get better organic rankings yeah yeah so if you just like have the va research like a list of blogs in your niche and

then shoot a ton of emails out to all those people and then like the va can do the negotiations and stuff and usually backlinks are like 50 to 100 bucks you know and then you just get basically put a blog article on their website with the link to your website and you can get links from a bunch of different websites that way and your va can pretty much manage the whole process themselves you know so like there's so many

things the va can do for you that will free you up especially because you have a kid you know yeah no i definitely now that i have a kid i'm like i really yeah because yeah you know everything's starting to slack a little bit more now that i have less time um the only thing about it of course is that it costs money yeah you know so like three to four dollars an hour so you're talking like to start like five to seven hundred dollars a

month maybe scale it up like as they get better and stuff like that.

It kind of eats into your margins, you know, obviously, but if you're doing like a decent amount, I think you're doing like 50, 60,000 a month, right. On average ish, maybe a little bit more in the summer. 50, 60,000 is, is kind of, you know, the regular mid months, summer, summer. I, the highest I've had was I think 156,000, 161,000 a month in sales, which was amazing. I was just blown away at that when that happened. That was during COVID, which was pretty crazy. Yeah, COVID was cool,

yeah. Yeah, it was insane. I feel like I was at the right niche at the right time. Right, for sure. But, you know, that was pretty wild. But, yeah, averaging about 60,000 on normal months. Slow months, maybe 50. It's a pretty cool. Christmas, New Year's. It's the perfect place to be because it's, like, not too scaled so that, like, things get tough to deal with.

But it's making enough money, you know, it's, like, profitable. so yeah just my niche is not a niche you'd you know buy everyone something for christmas which those months are a little a little slower it's better though it's like stuff people need you know yeah exactly so that's the important thing especially during you know summer and spring yeah and fall it's just huge it's just flowing yeah if you guys are trying to figure out like what niche to sell i think it's like one

of the hardest things to determine when you first start i usually always tell people just like look around your house like there's a bunch of cool stuff around your house that's expensive you know a thousand fifteen hundred dollars there's like fire pits and there's like you know pool cleaners and i don't know there's probably can't sell like regular motorbikes but you can sell electric bikes you know there's there's a lot of the gazebo thing hot tub you know whatever you know

i know if you guys are right that is actually they they started drop shipping sites for bike parts yeah like they're doing these crash bars i bought this crash bar off of my buddy's drop shipping site okay because i saw he was doing it And I was like, hey, I'm going to support you. And so I bought this crash bar off of him. And then I also bought all the internals for my motor off of him through his drop shipping site. So I gave him some good amount of money.

And he was like, wow, thanks. And I was like, dude, from one guy to another, you know, you said you could give me the parts. I'm going to go through you. So, but yeah. Yeah. So tell me more about your motorbike stuff. Yeah. How long have you been riding bikes for? About five, six years. Five to six years now. It's a wow. Wow, feels like yesterday when I first got this thing. So anyway, oh, I've been riding dirt bikes since I was probably about...

1718 is when I so what is this is a Harley this is a Harley yeah what's the Harley Davidson, it's a it's a street bob but it is a it's all dyna bro it out you know I raised the suspension so it can dip in the canyons a little harder yeah got crash bars and everything of course and I had to rebuild the motor because I blew it already well how did you do that I guess the friends I ride with they ride pretty hard so I guess I just beat the crap out of it and It's a Harley. They say they break.

So I was, I just heard a ticking noise and I was like, hmm, that's not good. So I opened it up and found out there's problems. But yeah, I put about as much money in that bike as I paid for it. But it's worth it. It's fun. This is actually the first street bike I've ever owned. Oh, okay. Yeah, before it was all dirt bikes. I walked into a Harley dealership just curious. I was just, I'm going to sit on a couple bikes here and there and just kind of see what I want.

See what i feel like and next thing i knew i was coming out with this thing sorted on the spot it was this kind of funny because i was walking up and i looked at it and had these big ugly t-bars on it but it already had a step-up seat and an exhaust and so i was like wow that's a few grand i don't have to pay already and i was like it's a really cool looking bike like but there was no tag on it so i was like it's got to be an employees so i was sitting on some bikes and came out and

he was like oh yeah we just got this one in as a trade-in and we just cleared it and i sat on it and I started it and then I called my neighbor to drive it home because I didn't have a license.

That's my story on that wait how did you get a motorbike before you got your motorbike license I bought the bike and then I got a permit okay but I mean you have to take a training course to get the license out here right yeah oh you don't have to take a training course but it's a lot easier to take the training course than it is to. Do the DMV test. Okay. Oh, okay. So you did the DMV test? No, I did the training course. Oh, you did. Okay. I did the three-day training course.

Yeah, I did that too. And I was riding in the bike a while before I did the training course because I got my permit. So you were like messing around. Yeah, it was just easy. It was so easy. They threw me on a little 200 bike and I started mobbing around and it basically got to the point to where everybody was like, just follow what he's doing. They pointed to me. And I was like, okay, cool. And then the final day of the class where I was going to take the test, I was like, fuck, screw it.

I don't know if i can yeah it doesn't matter i can't okay so fuck it i'm just gonna take the bike so i showed up on the bike and everyone was like what the hell you ride you've been riding this whole time and i was like yeah what do you expect and and uh the instructor is like what's up jacks he called me jacks with sons of anarchy and i was like call me that dude come on he's like where's your white shoes and i was like dude fuck off just because i have a harley and i it was it was fun

good good good experience i have not well i've laid the bike down but very slow when i first rode it but i have not crashed and i've not gone down yet and it's been six years so did you get the bars for like when you're going really deep in the canyons like no the bars just in case the bike crashes just yeah yeah it just kind of protects the bike yeah yeah i got you for instance that's smart a little stunt bike back there i got a little z125 i'm trying to practice

wheelies on because i don't want to destroy that thing make sure the camera I can't see it because it is pretty sick. Oh, it's just right behind you. Yeah, you can kind of see it. I'm going to carry this over there. It's a pretty sick little bike. This little tiny one's got a cage on it too. I've been practicing on it. Yeah, this thing's cool. I've eaten shit on that thing multiple times. It hurts eating shit on the street. It's another part of it. Yeah, super nice bikes.

Yeah, I love the bike life. It's very dangerous riding in Los Angeles. So you get good really fast well you're trying to avoid all the crazy ass drivers and yeah it's last time i was out here it was funny i was we were at yeah we were hanging out with jakes on the last night and i had to return the motorbike into the place in hollywood or whatever i remember that and i was trying not to drink alcohol because that was the main thing but i got super high smoking like bongers or whatever and

i just remember like getting on the freeway and thinking you know what i'm just gonna treat this like bali right now and see what happens and it was funny man like all the cars would just like get out of the way like when they saw me coming because i you know, that's just what they do out here it's kind of cool they're just like yeah they just split well a lot of times they do it when you're on a harley as well because they don't know if you know

you're you're rocking colors in the harley and they don't know if you're a dangerous person just a normal person because there's all sorts of different things going on around here so people kind of fear the harley riders a little bit more and they kind of get out of the way but i still have my fresh share of people when i'm lane splitting that will come over and try and block me and keep me from doing it and then flip me off while they're while they're

sitting there even though it's legal goal i just stay back because you know you're on a bike you're never going to win against a car right so i just stay back and cool and just go around them what's the thing about riding in bali that's so interesting is it's like a completely different right away system i loved it yeah it's it's amazing you know once you get used to it there's just no law it's so easy yeah i feel like oh red light everyone's

going through it anyway let's just not hit anybody pretty much i had so.

Much fun yeah man so much fun and then uh thailand you know that thailand i got a motorcycle too and i was riding around thailand just mobbing around and it was the same thing it was you know no laws and and i mean thailand was my first one so that's the first time i experienced no laws but i was riding around having a great time and then all of a sudden i got i turned and there was a checkpoint and i was like oh crap because they give a guy on the the bike

they gave me the bike said oh you don't have a license they do that don't go through the checkpoints and so i went up to the checkpoint and the the police stopped me and you know made me get off the bike took my passport which was very nerve-wracking for me i was like oh dude i just gave someone my passport in another country like i was and it was my second time out of the country i was scared you know you don't know if they're corrupt of course and they didn't know english i didn't

know thai so they're giving me papers the sign that i came to read and i'm like no i'm not signing this i cannot read this and then finally he gave me like a horribly english written version of it and it basically said you know i pay him this fund which was his bribe and i got three a three-day pass or something of that like that or end of day pass ridiculous tickets and i was like what like if you go through another checkpoint

you don't have to pay you know how our money is out here compared compared to out there is when they charge you like three bucks or something yeah it was like.

Gave him the money gave him a passport and i was like well i threw the helmet away and i was like i'm gonna go without a helmet now screw it and so i went without a helmet i got pulled over three more times dude and i showed them all the paper and they let me go and i was like this is the best experience ever you're like next time i'm going right to the fucking first one yeah so then And then I was that idiot,

you know, mobbing around all hard and shit. I was probably that tourist that everybody hated. But, you know, now that I've been out of the country more than once, I know kind of more to not be so reckless and stuff on the bikes. Yeah.

I'm more i'm more go for the cultures and to see what it's like in the other country and enjoy, the differences than out here my favorite thing about riding a motorbike in bali is that you can drink as much as you want and never have to worry about getting pulled over yeah true like you can be completely fucking wasted and it's on you man like but you're never gonna get pulled over get like a dy or some shit did you ever you ever ride you ever

never get caught riding the bike in a rainstorm too oh yeah that's happened oh yeah that happened in thailand oh my god worst dude we we We went, we went, we went like three hours from our Airbnb. Oh no. Three hours away to go to some crazy jungle resort. All right. And we're at this jungle resort. We're having a good time. We're getting trashed. And we look up and there's dark black clouds in the sky in the corner of the area, but everything else is clear.

So we didn't think too much of it before we knew it was over us. Yeah. And it was a storm. Yeah. And we had to ride, we had to try to ride back to our Airbnb for three hours through this storm. Oh no. And it was basically following us the whole time. Let me guess, it was like a little ass motorbike, like a 125? Yeah, they were little scooters. A tiny little scooty thing or something. Houses with sandals and swim trunks and a little tank top.

Because when you rent a motorbike, they don't give you like a big one. They usually give you like the tiniest little crappy. Like this thing's probably not even good with wet asphalt, you know? And I figured it wouldn't be because when the storms hit, you know, the road was clear. All the businesses were closed. I was like, am I supposed to be out here riding? But you know, we kept going, we made it back, but it was, it was, it was interesting.

It's funny, man. Yeah. I was in Phuket in the last October or two Octobers ago, 2022. And it was like a honeymoon or whatever, but we stayed out this resort near the airport and I didn't really realize at the time, but like, there's nothing out there besides just the airport, like a tiny little town. And I wanted to get some weed because weed's legal in Thailand. So I went from the hotel.

It's like a half hour drive to the weed shop. It's in a little town near there and about 10 minutes into the ride rain starts and it's heavy rain and witty's on the back of the bike with me and she's like tripping i'm tripping and so i pull over like the first little like enclave i can find it's like a little shop and they had like this burlap sack or something like a couple of them and i was like fuck it so i ripped it open to the top

and just like put it over did it work i mean temporarily because like all i needed to do was get to the next 7-eleven and it was like i knew it was down the road a little bit but so i I wore the burlap sack so that the rain hitting me in the chest wouldn't completely drench me. And then I got to the 7-Eleven, took it up, went inside, bought a new T-shirt, got a rain thing, and then at that point we're like halfway there already.

So we're like, well, screw it. It might as well just go the rest of the way, get the weed and then come back. You know, so we did is like another 15 minutes or something. And luckily the store was still open. This is like nine or ten at night. And I was like, if this place is closed when we get here, it's going to suck. So we get there. It's like mom and pop shop. You know, they got a bunch of weed, whatever.

We get a bunch of weed. Cool. we drive back it's still raining we get back smoke a bunch of weed super high and pass out but that was like the craziest fucking.

Riding motorbike in the rain experience in my life i bet so stupid so stupid man but whatever we survived and witty was super cool about it like she yeah she was so freaking out no it wasn't like yeah which was amazing i was like oh thank god and she was like yeah that was a crazy experience let's never do that again that's what i love about mel too when she's on my bike she doesn't freak out over things thank god man you know there was a guy that almost took

us out in santa monica he He blew a red light and he hit my front wheel, but my front wheel, like I saw him at the last minute and I braked and my front wheel just twitched, you know, just from the rubber of my tire hitting the side of his truck as he flew by me and he slammed on the brakes after that.

He was an old guy and he turned and I followed him in and we apologized to everything, but, she was on the back and I thought she was going to have a panic attack, you know, because that was like, well, if we were a few inches more like that probably would have been death to us how fast that guy was going and the fact that he blew the light when it's been red for quite a long time he wasn't paying attention but she was stayed calm and she was i was like you okay

and she's like yeah i was like wow so all right cool we're still good i gotta check because i forgot i'm filming this on 60 frames per second and of course it takes up like 10 times as much space on your phone than a 30 frames per second video does but i've got it set to 60 because when When I skate, it looks better, you know? Yeah.

So when I'm getting up and checking the phone, you know why. Yeah, you're looking for time. I'm making sure it hasn't like stopped recording. Then we'll be like, ah, crap. Yeah, exactly. We're still good. Horrible. So five years of drop shipping. Yeah, five years of drop shipping. Most people don't even keep their stores for like two or three years, you know? Yeah, a lot of people sell. There was a time where I thought about,

you know, selling it. But then I was like, can I sell it? What am I going to do? I'm going to start from scratch again. Yeah, you're going to have to start from scratch. I don't have the same story I have with this one. That's true, man. I'd have to restart everything. And so you got a really good relationship with the suppliers. It's hard to get that, you know? Yeah. So that's why I was like, I'm going to keep this one. And then I started a second one.

There we go. And that one, that one is still being built and still, still in the works. It's, it's completely built. Actually. I'm just uploading suppliers. And then once I get a few more suppliers uploaded, then finally, since Google ads has finally loosened up. Yeah. Google merchant center. Finally.

Yeah. Since they loosened up a little bit, I can, can i can try to reach out to them set up an ads account so yeah so that that just i just figured this out like a month or so ago like i was off google ads for a long time yeah i remember i. Think it was your pot i think it was a couple years youtube video i watched of you quickly yeah you said the google ads are back and i was like oh crap you know i clicked on it right away

and i was like no way yeah yeah yeah that's the thing man i'm so excited you can do new stores now and merchant center will accept them but you gotta have the content just right and you gotta have all your policies good and like there's a bunch of stuff on your site that has to be perfect you know so but i figured it out so i'm i'm i've got the templates i'm redoing all the content, templates and everything just so that everything is really good and then you

can use that for new stores if you want you know what i'm kind of doing with the new store too is i'm still using your templates and content and everything the the same the same good template but i'm i'm paraphrasing it with ai as well yeah yeah yeah the words yeah of course yeah yeah make it look a little different Yeah, you have to make it unique. Yeah. And it's, and I did it for the second site.

So it's gonna be like a little fun little test and test and analyze game where is this I can produce way more than the first site, etc. So when you go to launch on Google Merchant Center, if you do get suspended for misrepresentation, all you have to do is request the review. And then usually it takes them a few days. And then if they keep coming back with like misrepresentation, we still don't like it. We still don't like it.

You can reach out to this guy and he's, it's called GMC doctors.com is his website. It's like 500 bucks or something. Is it November? GMC, like Google Merchant Center. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so it's like 500 bucks or something and he'll do the whole like look through at your site and just like basically tell you like everything you need to change. He'll look at your merchant center, make sure everything matches and then like give you the best basically like opportunity to get approved.

And then he doesn't charge for the service until after you get approved, which is great. So it's like, it's like, it's like a legal, like an attorney doing pro bono cases or something like that or whatever, you know, kind of sort of like that. But he's definitely there to help you out. But God, I'm so happy that guy exists. And he, he emailed me and I got this email and I was like, wait, what? He wanted me to promote his services to my audience. I was like,

dude, I need help with that. And then, yeah, it worked. You have no idea how happy I am. That's awesome. The law of attraction. Yeah. Seriously. Just like, like an angel, man. He reached out to you. The universe brought him. Oh my God. Cause it knew. And I asked him, I was like, how did you figure this out? You know, like, cause Google Merchant Center doesn't tell anybody. So there's no way this guy was able to like talk to somebody over there,

like figure out exactly what they want. And he said all he did was he talked to a bunch of different people and masterminded and like they all came together and sort of like figured out what works and they did it, I guess. It's crazy. There's always a hack. Dude, I honestly thought I was going to like never get back on Google Merchant Center at one point. I was freaking out. I was I was kind of worried for my second store that I was been.

I was like, oh, man, I put all this work in the store and I'm not going to be able to launch it. And as good as my first store. And, you know, Microsoft doesn't work as well. I was kind of down from that. You know, and so I just kind of dropped the ball in that store for a little bit and kind of started doing other end of that other.

Other uh in devours i i think there's a word i can't think of the word right now endeavors endeavors and devours, brain fart yeah it was bad you know you're on camera so you start saying i gotta go i'm just trying to finish my sentence at this point. You know what i'm saying anymore i already kind of said it i gotta go with it. So the best thing to do for sure if you are ever thinking about selling a site is is have a second site that's already making sales. You know what I mean? Exactly.

Like don't sell your site and then try to build a second site. Have a second site already going. Yeah, that would have been all my work gone. Yeah. I had a little lump sum of change that probably would have been gone in no time. And then I'll be like, wait, back to square one. Right. That's pretty much what I've been through multiple times. So I've made that mistake a bunch of times already. And it sucks because you get a bunch of money, you get lazy.

You know what I mean? Because you want to chill after you get a bunch of money. And then you enjoy it a little bit. Right. And then a year later, you're back at square one.

And you don't really have you know anything going so it's like you should always get something going first and then think about that and then take that money and probably don't even like look at it as like spend money like invest it you know or something like right back into the business yeah or just like put it somewhere where it will produce more money yeah whatever that happens to be like you're talking about land flipping which i wanted to talk about too

which is really interesting you know it's actually another business i'm just starting and trying to get into too it's really cool man just just because i live in california and so everybody i i work, i tow out here that's my driving job so i i see a lot of people all right and all these people i pick up in calabasas with these multi-million dollar mansions and these you know seven hundred thousand dollar rolls royces and i'm just sitting

there thinking like how do you get to their level going, well, what did they do? So we, when I'm telling them, I just was like, screw it. I got the, I got them in my sights for about 20 minutes of a drive. So I'm going to find out, Hey, what do you do? And most of them say real estate and it's interesting. And I'm just like, so you just buy and sell properties and businesses and stuff. And they said, yeah.

So I thought, you know, I'm, I thought about it and I was like, you know, I really got to get into real estate, but I don't have the capital. And so I started looking at everything and then I was just figured what's the cheapest thing in real estate? And I was like, Oh, land without a house on it. And so I'm going to start with that. True. And so I started, I started a land flipping. Well, I started a land flipping LLC and then I got a domain, but I don't have anything else going yet on that.

I'm just building it up from there, waiting for the domain to come through because it was a, I paid a little bit of money for this domain because it's like a high premium domain phrase. Yeah. I paid a grand for this domain to pay a thousand dollars for a domain is like, ah, but so you got to do, something with it you know yeah the only reason why i did it that way and i just paid the grand for it was because. Trying to find a name in a real estate industry that is very highly saturated.

Like you think dropshipping is saturated at all, which it's not. Dude, real estate is saturated. You look up, you know, Harmon Venture Company, there's an LLC. You look up Harmon Venture Capital, there's an LLC. You look up Harmon Venture Properties, LLC. Harmon Venture Props, it's LLC. You look up any name. I went through so many names of LLCs going through Google, and there was an LLC for everything.

And I was like, how do you figure out a name that's going to, you know, catch the people yeah and so i finally i finally found one and i paid for it and i got it and i obtained it and i'm trademarking it real fast because i want to make sure it's mine but it's just plentyofacres.com you know worth a thousand dollars that's a great domain name yeah so with that domain i'm guessing you're going to have like a lead generation thing i mean the plentyofacres.com is probably going to be the website

i'm going to be selling my properties on okay i'm gonna also i'm also going to like a shopify store no i'm i think i think something kind of like that i'm gonna i'm gonna throw a little drop shipping kind of shopify theme store into it i'm gonna build my own version of the website dropship land yeah so maybe it's like it's it's not technically drop shipping but it's because you know you just gotta it's almost like selling a digital high ticket

land yeah it's almost like selling a digital master class yeah it's a digital product that you don't have to ship, just a person pays it, you get the paperwork taken care of and you're done. We were talking about this the other night. And one of the things that came up was that there's problems when you sell property sight unseen, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. There's huge, oh, by the way, do not put, if you ever try to do drop shipping and property, don't mix the businesses together.

I was looking into that as well because it's very highly likely when you're selling properties that you're probably going to get sued. Okay. So separate LLC. Yeah, there are lots of lands, especially if you don't do due diligence. There's a lot of lands out there that. Are not livable on. And people were like, wow, this is a great deal.

I'm going to buy it. I'm going to put a house on it and I'm going to move to Arizona, you know, and you know, they get the property and it's a cliff, you know, like shit, I spent a lot of money on this and what the hell, they didn't tell me it was a cliff. And you know, I mean, the buyer should have done a due diligence and the seller should have done a due diligence, but technically a seller cannot say, Hey, this is a good property to live on.

And then, you know, you're going to get a lawsuit. So if you get a lawsuit, which you're probably going to in the land sales and you have your land sales under your umbrella for your business dropshipping business the land service can sue your drop streaming service you can use everything so i'd keep everything separate definitely good idea but yeah it's it's gonna be interesting i'm gonna i'm gonna test it out i'm gonna dip my toe in the water and i'm just

gonna go with it like i did with your course what are some of the resources you're learning from about like courses or blogs or websites are going crazy yeah so to start the To start the land flipping, I actually bought a course from Seth Williams. I think it's REITipster.com. And there's a whole bunch of different courses out there. There's Grant Cardone. There's The Land Geek.

There's all sorts of many different courses out there for land flipping because it's not that much of a saturated industry yet. I mean, a lot of people that are doing real estate just want to jump to the big properties and they'll get loans and they'll get houses and they'll rent them out or they'll Airbnb them out.

But sure yeah i just bought a course and went with it you know i did i did some reviews i'll stay in i i was gonna do the land geek but he wanted 11 grand oh that's a lot and when he said it must be like a coaching thing right like yeah it was a it was like a full-on coaching thing i think it was like they would do everything for you as well and right yeah yeah no i've seen a lot of these like they have like a value ladder where it's like

thousand dollars then ten thousand and there's like $50,000 packages. And I was like, dude, I'm not throwing $11,000 on a course on something that I don't know. You're just getting your feet wet. Yeah, let's not load that. Don't happily take your money. I mean, there was cheaper plans for that course too, but I wanted something that had the full course. But REI Tipser was pretty good. I think it was like $2,000. Okay. So I was like, $2,000, I can throw down on it. That's pretty normal.

And so I just threw that on it and now I'm just doing it.

And it has like a community of people you can talk to. yeah that's the most important thing i think because once you get into like the nitty-gritty there's going to be weird things you know and it's good to like be able to ask people questions and they'll help you out and shit yeah definitely yeah they have they have the i think it's a discord too even yeah cool i don't know if it's just for what but i literally just started that

last week i that's when i finally pulled the trigger so so have you looked at like potential land like things out here yet so i've been everywhere i drive now it's kind of like when i started drop shipping you know every single building i walked into i started looking at of that you know what's around furniture appliances toiletries like you know.

Moldings like stuff to build the houses with just everything you know i started looking at everything i wonder if i could drop ship that i wonder if i could wonder how that would sell i wonder if this is popular you know and and i started doing that with land so now i'm driving everywhere i'm driving i'm like oh that's a vacant looking plot of land is it for sale what do you use like red fin or something like that just look it up no i'm gonna just write

it down there's a way you can get cheaper prices and wholesaling but i just don't know how to do it yet yeah yeah i haven't gotten that part of the course for sure but i just been looking at the land so i know i'm not gonna be buying wholesale i think it's gonna have something to do with reaching out to customers that are not paying their taxes on their property for sure i get rid of their properties you like you got to find highly motivated sellers who just need the money definitely and so you

get the discount yeah i was reading i was getting the kind of gist of that from other courses and youtube videos and, introductory videos so i mean that's going to be a pain in the butt and there's gonna be a lot of mail definitely hire a va dude oh yeah because they can do all that outreach for you yeah i think well at least the digital outreach i think the rei tipster guy that has it has a va service that already does it for the mail for me because it's a ton of

outreach yeah because i'm not looking yeah what do they call it yellow letters or whatever.

Write it out like no no way yeah yeah i mean oh no no no when i when i first thought about that i was like yeah this is you know 2024 is there a better way to get a hold of people but then you think about it again iphones block calls that yeah everybody's like emails are blocking everything now gmail is blocking everything yeah they're working on that yeah so it's it's it's gonna be a lot harder to reach out to people i mean you can just knock on doors but if it's land there's

no door to lock on yeah i mean unless you find you know that you somehow skip trace the owner of some land Or they're just like standing there. You know, taxes on for five years and you're knocking on his door. Like, Hey, I'm here to buy your land. Well, it should be an exciting journey. Yeah, it's definitely going to be. And it's like one of those things you do. You don't just sit in front of the computer the whole time. Like you go out and talk to people, you know? So I think that's cool.

If there's anything local, I'm going to want to check it out. If, if I want to check it, I mean, I mean, I don't want to be using some of my drop shipping stuff for this project with the land. Like I'll start building stuff with it. Yeah. And kind of put everything together and then promote my dropshipping site with the stuff on the land. If I find a piece of land I really like in a different state that I really want to promote at, you know. Right. Where else was I going with that? There was.

I don't know. You're like, fuck it. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's cool though. I think it's smart to, cause when you have a retail store, like you were saying with the bike stuff, like you never know who you're going to meet. People are definitely probably going to be interested in buying that. So they might as well buy it from you. When I first got on a motorcycle, I had no one to ride with my neighbor who picked up my bike. He was, he had a family. He was like, Oh, I can't ride.

I can't ride. Why says no, no, I can't ride, you know? And he never wrote to me. So I learned on my own. And then one day I picked up a guy that I towed and he told me he rode and he's like, hit me up, ride with me. And then I met all of his friends and I met this huge community of bikers. And it's just crazy how talking to people will get you where you are.

I love it. The biker community is cool too because everybody's like a really, I don't know, they're really strong people, like solid, you know. Yeah, really strong willed, but they're very nice. Very cool. Very nice. Exactly. It's kind of a funny thing. Yeah.

Yeah. Like teddy bears. i never thought i'd ever be in any i never thought i'd ever be like you know my mom hated bikers like we'd be at when i was a kid you know we'd go up to a restaurant there'd be a bunch of bikers outside and she'd turn around go to different restaurants oh my god there's a bunch of bikers yeah scary dude but you know like even some of the outlaw bikers i've met just riding and i got to know you know they're normal people i mean there's

a bunch of them that are obviously doing the criminal stuff but then there's other people that are normal people that are just kind of of mixed up in it but they're nice but you know i don't do any of that club stuff i just like to ride for fun yeah but yeah yeah i mean it's just crazy the the people you meet and how nice everything is so it's like now it's when i look at these clubs i used to fear them and now i look at them and i'm like oh that's so-and-so's club

yeah you know exactly yeah it's just a group of people that ride together you know just enjoy that thing and that's kind of the way they wanted to go in life everybody's got different things like everybody every group is going to be like yeah exactly yeah yeah look look at us like this i know you and i will walk into a elevator and old lady will squeeze her purse a little tighter because it's like oh there's this guy covered in tattoos

and yet you know we're just entrepreneurs exactly you know just you know that's building our future that's a very very true thing man a lot of people do like look at tattoos and think oh they must be involved in like crime or like drugs or something you know like or just like a mean person. I think, you know, it goes back a long, long time ago, you know, criminals would get tattoos and stuff, but tattoos nowadays are totally different. It's like an art thing.

And it's like a expression. It's almost normalized now. Yeah. It's like totally normalized. Yeah. I'm starting to see law enforcement with tattoos right now. They used to not allow, they used to not allow that. One time I came back to the U S and I went through.

Customs right immigration or whatever and the and the guy asked me did you bring anything back with you from thailand i was like oh yeah just a few new tattoos you know and i showed him my sleeve, and he was like oh yeah sick man i got a tattoo also you know and he showed me it was like a flag of korea or something like that and i guess he was talking about like he was in the korean war or something like that you know it's like hey there you go see like tattoos mean something,

to people you know bonded yeah a little moment right they're like oh yeah check out mine it's really it's really about like i don't know it's like a moment you know that it's like a memory.

Like etched in your skin so you always kind of remember it yeah you know and i love talking to almost everybody i meet professionally and and you know fun because you never know who you're gonna meet yeah you never know you're never gonna know what they could provide for you in your life or what you could provide for them in their life that's gonna like bring you both up true so it's it's i try to meet as many people as possible when i'm doing especially business stuff yeah

yeah just like same kind of here like if i ever hang out with somebody.

Like i'll just like kind of lightly mention what i do and if if they're interested then i'll talk more about it if they're not no no sweat like i don't even like i don't i don't try to push it on them but like you know oh yeah drop to me yeah i heard about that yeah it was great like when we're going when we're at breakfast this morning you're like hold on let me let me grab my laptop quick and you pulled it out and you took care of some business and i was looking at that

and i remember telling you you know hey you know like at the beginning that was me all the time you know we'd go out my friends houses and everyone would be partying and drinking and smoking and i'm just sitting there like on my laptop still talking everybody but then i go back to my laptop but then everybody's like what are you doing and i'm like oh i'm working this is my business like oh can you show me how to do that and i'm like no i do not know how to do i cannot show you how

to do that but i know the guy who can and you know i try to shoot them your way and then you know so so far no one's pulled the trigger yeah it's definitely one of those things that takes a lot of commitment man yeah you know they're probably hesitant but not everybody knows how to use a computer very well if they thought like me and i was like hey i saw trevor do it I can do it. I mean, that's kind of what gets everybody to Brian do it. I can do it. Yeah.

You know, when I when I started the Facebook page and and I was sending all the likes to my friends. I had a lot of people reach out to me and go, dude, I think your page got spammed. Yeah. Like, what are you talking about? Like, dude, you're sending me, you want me to like this company? And I said, yeah, it's my company. Like, no way. You did not start a company. You start a company. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. I was, I was impressed too. Like they're just blown away.

Hell yeah, dude. All the stuff we used to do, we thought were. Well, Hey, it's super rare, man. Like, you know, I just, most people just don't want to start business.

Because it's like scary or whatever you know it's scary but you know you got to do it i was scared when i was pressing that launch domain button i was scared when i was pressing the launch domain button i was like oh man like everybody's gonna start calling me right now asking me questions about products that i have no idea about you know and so i press that button dude and i pull over in the tow truck and i'm like looking

like okay i gotta study this a little bit study this a little bit there was this one of these one of my students i built him a store but But the story had before that, he was telling me that he was doing like that where he'd like have to pull over in the car and like take the sales call and like close sales on the phone and then get back going again, like have the laptop on him all the time.

Hey man, that's such a great deal. Yeah, I carry the laptop with me all the time and there's a lot of people I tow that, you know. Will ask me about it and I'll tell them about it too. And, you know, it just, it sparks up a good conversation. And then they say, wow, like I'm really proud that the, you know, people I don't even know are telling me like, yeah, I'm really proud that you decided to go out this way. Like you're already doing more than an average person.

And, you know, it feels good when people bring you up like that. Cause it's, it's not like they're trying to bring you back down to their status. They're just like, wow, I'm proud of you. I can't believe you did that, you know? And it's a good feeling, but then you also have those people that try to bring you down to their status.

And yeah and you know those are the ones you just kind of got a distance you got a yeah distance exactly we're losing sun here so you want me to put some lights on real quick yeah i was just kind of thinking about it um i'm not sure it's this camera or it looks pretty good on camera still it does okay cool we're good so the phone and that's right we do have good technology iphones are amazing man just yeah i don't like i have a gopro and i hardly ever use it i just film with this

thing you know yeah is that the new one 14 but yeah i think i'm gonna wait till the 16 comes out and get that because it's already like yeah i guess when you get the 15 they give you some like tutorial oh because it's new like some professional way to take photos it's like a whole new photo and that's cool video system so i guess they got this new updated video editing or something on the iphone i don't know i haven't looked

into it iphones are like half video half you know everything else like i feel like the camera and video part of the iphone is like so important yeah you know if the iphone wasn't as professional as it was with With a camera system, I probably wouldn't want it as much, you know?

Most of the reason why is because it's such a nice video system that I can use it for filming, skating, or whatever, and then post to social media, you know? So, I remember when iPhones first came out, man. I did too. I remember the first time I bought one, my friend made me, she forced me to buy one because I had a BlackBerry. And I liked buttons. You know, I didn't like, I was like, what's this touchscreen crap?

Yeah exactly i'm like it's always gonna mess up i always fought on it i like the buttons and then i got one blackberries are the shit man i love my blackberries i didn't want to get rid of it but you know i was drunk one night and i fell and i crushed it my hip actually that hurts so bad the next morning but you know she it was literally the first iphone and i swear to god it was like it was a tiny little thing yeah yeah iphone 4 or something.

Basically like an ipod with like a phone it was a straight ipod but you know you can make a phone call with it glorified ipod and then when they started doing videos and stuff on it too i was like i can't believe you can watch videos on tv i had a i had one of the first ipods too actually that was amazing because before that like the mp3 players were so shitty yeah and then they had a little yeah i find the little round thing right thing and the noise when

you're switching through songs oh man it was the best yep i could like chill and skate and like ipod dude it's so much nicer than putting a fucking cd yeah the cd oh i remember those big ass you're bouncing around and the cd starts skipping and your music's going to shit because you're moving and you're active yeah oh dude the things we struggled with before technology yeah yeah kids these days i know they They just don't have them.

Yeah. It might be a little too much technology for them now. Yeah. God. That's a whole different subject. What do kids go through when they're like discovering iPhones and iPads? Like, you know, they must be like, my son is already, he's already like, look at this phone. Yeah. He's cause he's so bright. He's like, yeah, he's reaching for it all the time. And I'm just like, dude, keep the phone away from him. I want to keep him more focused on toys.

Just think about like life. If we didn't have these devices, like we, you know, in the nineties or the early two thousands, like everything was you were always focused on around you like there wasn't this device to look at that was like insanely bright and colorful and everybody's posting all the time and you look at everybody now everybody's walking with their head and they're yeah and no one's acknowledging each other saying hi to each other anything of that sort yeah

and it's just it's yeah it's like a whole new it's almost like a zombie world it is kind of not not a not a physical zombie world all been a mental zombie world where everyone's just sucked in on social media yeah yeah i mean i fall trapped with that sometimes too like you know and i i do my best if i open instagram i try to make it it's like either i'm gonna post something or i'm gonna message somebody but like just don't scroll the feed you know like that's the worst thing if

you start scrolling the feed that's when you get sucked in you're screwed because i'll sit down and you know i gotta do this task and then all of a sudden my phone beeps and i look at it real quick and then you know i got a message i look at the message real quick and then i go back and i'm like Oh, that's cool. And I play a real swipe up real fast. And next thing you know. It's like 45 minutes later. Right. And I'm like, ah, I got to do this.

And you know, time just flies. Yeah, exactly. No, it's true though, man. The algorithms are so good. They know exactly what people want to see, you know. Dude, I'm starting to think they know what we think. Yeah, they're probably listening to us. For sure, because whenever I say something. It pops up, yeah. Yeah, later it'll pop up. Definitely. I know that part, but the scary thing was, I think it was last week.

I thought about something like i didn't even open my eyes i thought about something and then i saw an ad crazy i was like what what and i i don't know if it's coincidence you maybe i didn't know in the back of my mind i was like uh i know this is real i know they're messing with like near link and stuff with it you know can like read your brain waves yeah because i've heard stuff about that too yeah so that's why i'm kind of like are they reading but i wonder how How far,

yeah, like how far is that technology already? Yeah, you never know. You never know if, you know, they might even have all this technology done and it's top secret and none of us know about it, but, you know. But at the end of the day, it's all about commercial advertising anyway, so it's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it's not a big deal. That's a good way for them to market advertising. That's going to get other businesses, you know, more stuff. Yeah, exactly.

You know, and that's good, but, you know. I mean, the social media. You get the wrong person reading into people's minds and you're going to have issues.

There's that. Yeah, that's true. a whole that's like whole another fantasy movie or if you're a bad person like say you like are trying to be a terrorist or some shit and they find out about that they're going to track you down because like the nsa can basically listen to anything right oh yeah so you know that would be pretty gnarly actually you know if you're sitting there thinking about like hey i'm gonna do this yeah

you know and next thing you know the feds are at your house yeah right exactly yeah oh man they have the they have the power to do that ever since after 9-11 basically right but But then again, they'd need the evidence. Yeah, well, yeah, that's, they got all the evidence they needed. It's right on your phone. Whatever crazy machine is or whatever that, whatever read your mind. Yeah. Oh, I'm getting bit up by mosquitoes out here. Yeah, for sure. Well, it's getting a little bit dark anyways.

Yeah. Well, it's good to have you on the podcast, Brian. Seriously. Yeah, thank you for having me. And dude, it's so fucking cool what you're doing and I love it. Thanks, I love it too. I'm stoked that I went down this journey. I mean, I was gonna try and be a cop before I went to Thailand. No shit. I remember literally sitting on the plane.

Going to thailand and i was like oh this guy's a sheriff and i met him i'm talking because i talk everybody and i'm talking to this guy on a plane he's a sheriff in texas and i'm like cool you know like i'm i'm hitting it off with him tom i want to be a cop blah blah blah blah and then by the by the end of thailand i was like i don't want to be a cop no more i want to be an entrepreneur, yeah dude crazy thing and then covid hit and then the riots hit out here and

the whole every every time all that was happening i was sitting there thinking man i'm so glad i didn't go that would have been crazy if you were yeah you know i'd either be dead or i'd be you know in the middle of all these riots like just hating life like this is why did i get this job yeah, but yeah i'm glad i went with the route and i'm glad i mean if you didn't start that course dude and and i probably would never be where i was so i thank you

for that for sure you know because we're skating and smoking and yeah right complete opposite little hood rats back in the way just you you know, skateboarding and throwing rocks through people's windows and causing ruckus and being a little assholes, you know? And then we went to, Oh wow. You know, now look at us. It's pretty cool. I know it's crazy. It's growing. I guess it's called growing up pretty much adulting. Cool, man.

You guys, let me think. I don't think you... Do you have a closing statement? Yeah, I'm trying to... So usually when I do a podcast with somebody, I'd say, hey, go check out their Instagram. But I don't know if you want people following you on Instagram or anything like that. Yeah, I mean, you can... Or if people want to reach out to you with questions about dropshipping or something, how can they reach out? Feel free to reach out to my Instagram.

I mean, it's fxdbrian, so F as in foxtrot, D as in delta, and then Brian, B-R-I-A-N, 85. Oh, lights? and now we're good we're gonna stop soon yeah we're gonna stop yeah it's all good yeah thanks.

Well yeah fxdbrian85 is my instagram um you know i'm i'll put i'll put in the link in the description link as well yeah feel free to shoot a follow i mean i do have some travel photos on there so you can see some of my travel adventures and not any recent ones because i have the kid now but we're gonna be taking him on his first travel adventure soon it's gonna be probably somewhat a little bit more local for his first for sure the second one we're gonna go overseas seas for sure bring into bali

someday for sure yeah bali for sure we might make a stop in bali as well i think we're gonna hit australia and italy first oh sick yeah because we got we we gotta take my lady's grandfather who wants some of his ashes in italy so we're like okay we gotta go to italy that's a perfect excuse for a trip perfect excuse let's go do it so we're gonna make a trip out of that and then uh australia she's got some family into that she wants to see,

so when we go to Australia we're definitely going to Bali yeah.

I'll be reaching out and be like hey come on over, let's go hang out if you guys are in Bali let me know I'm in Bali most of the years so we can kick it hang out go drink some bintangs on the beach yeah and I'm in Los Angeles so you know there's millions of people here and probably millions of you here, if you guys are in LA definitely reach out if I don't have the answers, I'll send you to Trevor's I don't know I'm always willing to help everybody out alright cool it was a pleasure thank you.