The Dirt Monkey Shop Mission and Community Support

cool stuff we have there. But, one of the things that helps us out personally is buying our merch. That's what drives these truck sales for us is if you buy any of our hats, our t-shirts, got a sweatshirt? Got a sweatshirt. Sweatshirts. You buy one of our sweatshirts, that's really what helps us. So, a rising tide raises all ships. I've always said that. If we can help the people that are on our website, and we can come out better by helping you guys by selling our own merchandise on that website, then it's a win-win-win. So, I hope that this strikes home with you guys because that's the whole point to this channel has been from 15 years ago. As a contractor that had no clue. You know how I got started was my old man. If he hadn't been there helping me out, I wouldn't have done it. Timmy and I worked with my old man how many years? I don't know. Probably 10, 15 I suppose. >> Yeah, yeah. Before he passed away and then I just kept I I held that mantle, but he's what built that work ethic and that drive into us and I realized there's not a lot of people that have that in their life. And so when I started the YouTube channel, the whole reason I started it was to help guys that didn't have that. They didn't have the knowledge. They didn't have someone spurring them on. They didn't have someone encourage them how to do it. And the only thing I could use was my words. That's all I had. And you and I we we'd out without shoot videos and we would give away every single secret we ever had. I remember that one. Sure you want to tell them how to bid that? You sure? Yep. Yep. I was like, >> Yep. Okay. Yeah, he's Timmy was always like, "You sure we want to do that?" And I'm like, "Yeah, Timmy, we want to do it because we're not taking anything with us. When we leave this earth, the only thing we're leaving behind is our wisdom and what we've been able to foster in other people. But now we've been able to have the blessing to be able to do this. And this helps us take it to the absolute next level. This to me is a dream come true. This is where I want to go with everything. [music] I This is To me, this has brought the excitement back into what we're doing. You [music] know, I'm going to tell you right now, I'll be honest with you. Being a contractor is probably one of the hardest and easiest things you can ever do simultaneously. Yeah. Easy to get work. Hard to make that work profitable. Hard to make that work enjoyable. Hard to make that take that work…