So so um, ah it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the chat and now, let's queue up the intro music yo. What is up everybody? I hope you guys are all doing well, hopefully uh those of you that are fathers had a nice father's day and or um spent time with a father figure of some sort. I guess you can say is that the right thing to say a father figure of some sort? I don't know i'm surprised that.

Well, we don't usually get this. We usually don't get it's family. Somebody yeah. We usually don't get this uh.

I don't know if you want to say whatever, but i'm gon na make a comment. I'm surprised that they haven't canceled father's day. Yet i'm surprised that with uh everybody being so worried about everybody's feelings and stuff that they haven't decided that father's day isn't inclusive and so that they haven't canceled it me, maybe i'm a trendsetter. Now you just watch that's going to be the headlines.

There's going to be an article written by the huffington post and it's going to say how father's day is not inclusive, and so it should be canceled. I don't know you're just off on a tangent. I am off on a tangent. Welcome, no comment.

No constantly she's, not gon na she's, not gon na humor, my my craziness um, so uh. This is my wife jill. If you guys haven't uh hi met her on screen yet or whatever that's kind of weird. If you say, if you met my wife on screen, no, that's not right! Anyways um, welcome to the hvacr videos live stream, so uh for those that are new to the channel.

My name is chris um, i'm an hvac our service technician here in southern california. I started making youtube videos as a training aid for my employees and then i hit the public button. That's the condensed audiobook version of it all so anyways we're here. I started making these videos just to try to help everybody or i started making these live streams, to kind of answer the questions and consolidate some of the questions.

So i could spend more time with my family. So have my wife jill here with me and we want to cover a few things, um kind of continuing on with our hvac our life series. If you haven't seen it already, we have a series of like five or six videos on this channel. We haven't done one in like two years a year and a half, but well actually you guys don't know we do have one.

I haven't edited it. We just never put it together. I don't know it just it's funny, because i don't know, i think, we're. I think it's in our heads a little bit too much about that, because i feel like it's probably just fine, but we just i don't know we both got done with it and we were like uh.

I don't know. Well, you kind of go off on these tangents and then i'm like wait. We weren't supposed to cover this or this like that. So you see it's not just on my live streams and the various youtube things that i do that i go off on tangents.

My whole family's used to my tangents it'll, be like one topic and then it leads into like five other things. That's, that's me. The craziness does not stop on the videos it just comes home with me. Have you i have a question for you.

So when i'm a um or when i'm doing like anything at home, i tend to focus like intensely just like i do at work like. I have a weird focus that i do on things so have you noticed or do you have any memories of me like getting so hyper, focused that i just shut you guys out uh, i'm any memories. I mean. That's all that like daily.

Is it? Oh? It's a daily there's, there's too many memories, you don't bring it up you're like doing something, and you start talking and i'm like what are you saying and then you're? Not even you don't even acknowledge when i say what are you saying because you're talking to yourself, i am, i do talk to me and i realize okay, i'm just gon na walk away: yep um uh! Oh i'm just reading the comments right now yeah. So if you guys do have comments or things you want me to cover, do me a favor, throw them in caps lock that way, i can try to get to them. If i miss your guys's questions feel free, send an email, hvacr videos, gmail.com uh, you know whatever. If you have questions - and that's another thing too, if you all um again, what we're going to do is talk about just kind of how jill deals with my craziness and work and all that stuff tonight, and we got we're going to cover some other things too.

But in general, if you guys have questions, if your spouse's have questions on how we make things work, understand something we're not telling you how to live your life, we're not telling you how to how it's gon na work for you, we're telling you how it works! For us or how we deal with the chaos, so how we've been through things like the more and more when we talk about all these little topics and how i deal with stuff, i think that, as the years have gone on and our kids have gotten bigger, It's not as stressful for me as it used to be, so that's also something if you have. I think i've always wanted to say if you have younger kids like it does get better as they get older, it's not as stressful yeah um. Well, i don't know if it's not as stressful, because as as a dad, we tend to bottle our stress up and that's one of my biggest things is that i bottle things up and then you know i don't know. I think it's just like an instinctual thing.

That's talked to us are taught to us. I think it's just a in men in general, we tend to bottle our emotions and not talk about them and then well for you. You still carry a lot of stress. Your job hasn't changed, i'm i'm talking about like with the and the kids that matters no, like your stress, like our stresses, are different, but, like my stress yeah, i know i know, isn't it as much as it used to be right in a different way and And yeah, i i agree that you are coping with it better.

I don't think that the stress has disappeared. I think you've just learned how to cope with it is my thought on it. Does that make sense to you yeah? I know in a way, but yeah you probably don't see it. How i see it too? I guess right so for those again, we have new people watching right now, so we're gon na kind of go back a little bit so jill and i we started dating in high school.

We went to rival high schools in the same community and uh we started dating, so we have been together since we were kids. I think she was 17 16 and a half and i think i was 17 or something and somewhere in there, but we started dating really young and we got married what five years later or something like that. I think about that anyways. So the point i'm trying to make is is that jill in essence, grew up in this industry.

Just like i did okay, so to give context and to make everything completely fair you've grown up in this. So i think this is all you've ever known. So i don't know if that quite makes your experience the same and or um, but i think other people have schedules like that. They've brought into relationships like when we got married.

I was still working nights and you were working days and we still found time to do things and have you know trips and vacations and you know minimal, but right you know like, and i think and i wasn't trying to make to to deflate you or anything. I was just saying in general, we have to point out to these people. That was the point i was trying to make. I realized i probably came across the wrong way, but the point i was trying to make is is that all of our situations are going to be different.

So you know just because something works for us doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work for you guys, but at the same time i want to say one of the biggest things when i talk to people when i hear people's stories when i read stuff on facebook In the different groups about husbands, saying how their wife doesn't understand, this trade or the one that drives me bonkers, is this trade is responsible for my divorce. That doesn't make any sense to me, and let me ask you that, is it fair for someone to say that their trade is responsible for their divorce? I don't think that's a fair statement at all. I mean i don't know. I think that that's hard, i think, there's gon na be more to it than that and that just well and that's the point i'm trying to make it plays a role like it's not, but i mean i think that it's hard and if you're not, i don't Know if you're not gon na accept or like i don't know the schedule and and those types of things like, i think it's taken me a while too, like it's hard for me, like a lot of the times, i know i think you're gon na bring this Up but like the communicating while you're at work like most of the time, i try not to call you during the day because i know like if i'm calling you i'm typically interrupting you like, because you're gon na be working and like you do, make a good Effort at calling me, but there's lots of days where you're gone and then you're you know it's all day and then you walk in the door at five or seven or whatever, and i haven't talked to you yeah, but those days i just know.

Okay, you must be having a really busy day, and so you you basically i'll call you. If i it's like emergency or yeah, you gauge it all right. But if you don't hear from me, i'm just busy yeah is the kind of thing. What i try to do on a regular basis, i want to get back to where i started with that, but um for once you sidetracked me it wasn't me sidetracking you, but um.

You know i try to communicate with her as much as possible throughout the day. I try to remember even sometimes, if i only have a minute like in between something that i'm doing i'll, give her a call and i'll just say: hey just wanted to check in it's a super busy day and then you know sometimes you'll start saying. Oh and you want to tell me a story, something that happened there in the day and i have to say i can't i can't talk right now. I just wanted to check in i'll call you back later.

So again, i'm not saying that fixes our problems, but that's kind of one of the things that's worked for us, but i want to get back to the point. I don't even know how we got there like well. I want to get back to the question that i started it with and the topic that drives me nuts. When i hear people say that hvac ruined their marriage or is responsible for their divorce, hvac is not responsible for your divorce.

You are responsible for your doors because you're, a human and you have a choice. So i'm not trying to say you're wrong or whatever, but you have a choice. You can't blame it on your career because you choose to go to work and you choose to to do what you do. You do have a choice now, there's repercussions if you change that, but to blame your divorce or your relationship.

Problems on your career is an invalid statement in my opinion, so it is what it is. You know take it as it is um, but okay, so with this trade it is a busy and can be a very stressful trade. So, in my opinion, it's how we deal with those stresses now in the past. I have not had and she can attest to it.

I have not had a good. I haven't been doing good with stress um. I i think i've been better lately, but i'm still having a really hard time. I think that maybe it doesn't come across occasionally i say something in my videos, but i try to stay as positive as possible, but at the same time, just like when i used to edit out my mistakes on my youtube videos, when i stay completely positive, all The time in my videos, it's not real, so i i try to show more and more of the real me in the videos.

That's why i leave my mistakes in my videos and don't edit them out anymore. I felt like an imposter syndrome thing: okay, um, so for me to go out and say that everything is rosy and always positive is not a fair thing. It's just not um recently and we've been kind of discussing some of the comments, because we've had some interesting comments lately on the channel, and let me preface this and i'm going to ask you: do you think i take the comments to heart? Do you think that they eat at me? I wouldn't necessarily say they eat at you, but i i know we've had a couple conversations where you'll get like one like negative comment and you're like uh. I just you know like those those er can bother you and i'm like yeah, but think about the thousands of good comments like those are so much more well like, but i think it's just human.

I try as much as i sing it yeah and i try as much as possible not to let the comments get to me, because i realize that i can't control everybody. But one thing that i have been doing and i don't mean to come across as snarky. I don't know if it comes across as snarky to you. Maybe not is with some of the comments, not all of them.

Well, with some of them i like to go ahead and respond, and i i kind of passive aggressive - maybe i guess but maybe slightly, but i try to genuinely ask people a question when they come onto my channel and leave a nasty comment. First off, i don't delete comments unless they are like vulgar and or uh. You know belittling other people, that kind of stuff or restaurant names. If you're trying to guess restaurant names, i delete those ones, but i'll leave negative comments.

I don't mind negative comments right because creative con um when constructive criticism, sorry constructive criticism, i think, is a good thing. So i do learn from the comments, but i've been trying to respond to people and ask them questions kind of like what is it that you think is so bad about my channel. I think recently i had a comment this last week. That kind of bothered me, but then you know it, i don't let it dwell with me, but someone had said uh in the comments um as if i don't read my own comments.

He said this guy needs to so he's talking in the third person or whatever, but this guy needs to uh stop putting commercials in his videos or something like that. You know and or or he said, i'm i'm starting to think about stop watching or something or he's not going to watch a channel anymore. That kind of stuff i do occasionally respond to and um. I i just don't understand that you're free to move on like i don't take it the wrong way.

But if you don't like my channel move on, i'm not going to change it, that's one thing. I have to stay true to and i'll ask you about that too, but i have to stay true to the fact that i don't want this to become a job that i hate. I like, i enjoy the videos, so i have to show. Do you think it's fair that i i show my um like what i show in the videos sometimes like.

I show how it's real, sometimes how i might be a little bit frustrated. You know um yeah and i think a lot of the times, people that have something negative to say or like they're, responding like that, like they're, just looking for other people to be like oh yeah like and see how many people they can get like. I don't know even certain arguments like just yeah. I always i always do like to think one thing that does make me kind of laugh, and i challenge you guys to do something like this too.

I don't know if they've ever told you this, but when i, when i have a comment you know from someone like especially a dude. That's like really really rude, because i rarely get any females even watching my videos but um, let alone commenting. But usually it's a guy and you could just tell this guy just needs to be heard kind of a thing, and i always just imagine that this guy probably goes home. His spouse probably beats him and he just comes on the internet and feels like he has to just say something.

You know so it's like. It always makes me laugh thinking about that. He has like little man syndrome. No, that's i always try to.

I don't know. Whatever anyways um so let's go through here now talk about this bathroom story. Oh you're, you're, intrigued guys. So in the comments in the comments, i put a little note because i have a sheet in front of me right now of things that i want to talk about, and so when jill sat down, someone said something about a restroom story and she's really confused.

I'm like how come i don't know, i think you've heard the story. I don't know what way. What do i need to know here so all right, first off for full context here, if you don't watch the hvac overtime, youtube show all right on friday evenings about 605 pm pacific on youtube myself and several of my friends, we go live on another youtube channel Called hvac overtime, i'm gon na preface this with saying: if uh you don't like bad words and you don't like guys talking to each other like they do at a bar or something like that, you don't want to go to that channel. But if you want to laugh have a good time friday evenings it pops up on there anyway, so we have all kinds of conversations so full context.

This story goes with a trend on that channel about issues that i have. Okay - let's just leave it at that, but um uh, if you're curious, go over to that channel and check it out, we're always talking about it but anyway. So i was working a couple years back. I was actually working at riverside city hall in the city of riverside california, so i was working at riverside city hall for an outside vendor that set up a food space in city hall, basically and uh had to go to the restroom, really really bad um, like Almost wasn't gon na make it so make my way into the restroom.

Do what i got to do sitting down in the restroom and uh there's nobody else in the restroom and then all of a sudden. You hear that door open up and you hear clip clop clip clop, clip clop and i'm like that's a curious, sound, and then you hear the stall next to me open and you know you can see underneath the stall when someone sit next to you and it Was high heels and i'm confused and i'm scared at this point because i'm sitting in the stall right and now there's someone next to me, they hear workbeats, they obviously had to know. Isn't it yes right because they could see work boots right. So it's funny.

So i finished what i needed to do really. Well, i waited for the person to leave and then clip-clop clip-clop walking out and i'm like, okay, okay, what is going on here so finish, what i need to do and i'm like all right. I got a bolt for the door wash my hands. Actually i didn't even wash my hands.

I i washed my hands ran out the door, i mean i i didn't wash. My hands ran out, the door turned around and it said women on the door and then i went straight into the men's room and washed my hands again and then went back to work. So you never heard that story. Oh gosh, yeah, that's very funny! Oh man, you had to go so bad.

He didn't even care which one it was yes, yes, oh no, it wasn't that i didn't care. I thought i was in the man's restroom. I was just uh had tunnel vision, making my way to the bathroom so had to go. You know what but uh so, but it's funny yeah anyways.

We won't go there, but you'll have to read up there's more like now. I think there's so many more all. Gender bathrooms, oh yeah, so we won't really run into that. So the all gender restrooms, if you guys don't know what it is, we don't get like crazy political.

You know keep personal beliefs and stuff whatever out the door, but um here in the state of california. You know whether i agree with it or not. They instituted that you have to have restrooms that are acceptable for anybody to go into. So i don't know if you know this, but the main reason why you have an all-gender, restroom and there's usually only one or two of them is because it was cheaper than and and less made them less liable, um, basically to build a separate restroom, so oftentimes They'll build them in a separate place, so it'll say all gender restroom and then again, but yeah they're still like men and women and men and all gender or it's just not all, or sometimes it's a family bathroom before that and stuff.

So anyways anyway. So as we go off on all kinds of tangents on this channel, see she does it too, but anyways. Probably so, let's rub that off on you yeah exactly let's get into that hours thing real quick! So when you know in this trade i get busy in the summertime right um it's it's funny, though i don't know if you realize this, but on the flip side, if you go to the midwest or the far east coast, especially up towards the north, those guys Don't have as much of a summer time and their busy time is the winner so like because it doesn't get tough they're, slamming temperatures and then summer. But then, if you didn't know, like heating calls yeah and a lot of those homes too, they don't even have air conditioning, you know and that anyways that's a whole thing but um.

So it's kind of cool uh. You know it's funny. My daughter had made a comment again going off on a different tangent, because my daughter helps me sometimes with editing and stuff and transcribing my videos, and she commented she's, like you know, i'm gon na know how to like fix stuff. Just because, like she can hear me talking on the phone or something and then she'll be like, oh, is that what you were talking about in your video, because she watches them and edits them.

So it is kind of funny. I want to talk to you about our kids um, you know whatever, but with our kids. Let me ask you this would and answer this honestly. Okay, first off the top of your head, okay off the top of your head, don't don't think about it.

Would you want our children, whether they be boys or girls, to get into this trade? Would you want one of our children to be an air conditioning refrigeration technician, probably not why i don't know the hours, the heat, the stress. Okay, i mean, i think, it's nice to have the hands-on knowledge, but not so much the in the field. Yeah stuff - i guess one one of those yeah and i think that's one of the hurdles that this trade needs to overcome. Yeah.

You know right now we're trying to find more technicians. You know we're short on technicians, there's a skills gap um. I do think - and i think you've heard me say this, because i've told you a story about this before but um. I get coke notes going on right now, um, but uh just like wondering if it is complete allergies, because if you only do that here, yeah do you do that during the day? No, so i wonder, oh my i'm having like, i think, i'm allergic to our animals, i'm starting to notice all kinds of weird problems with my nose itching and different things.

My i'm sneezing, my freaking arm. I get like anyways yeah, going off on tangents, see you're responsible for me going off in tandem. You started talking about your nose, that's right! So that wasn't me talking about my nose. I was like my nose is aging like no.

I said i have coke notes. Okay, i'm talking to them. Oh, oh man, you get me off track now. What were you saying? Oh, can i talk now so in this trade, one of the things that i think that we can do to help shorten the skills gap or get more people into the trade is, i feel like one thing is: we need more women in the trade um, but There's a lot of things about this trade that need to change, and i think it's a fair statement to say with women and the way that us in general talk to each other and different things like that.

I wouldn't want my daughters coming into this trade today because of that, but i'm not saying that i wouldn't want my daughters to work with their hands. I'm not saying i wouldn't want them to be technical people that do hvac, i'm saying in general the morale, the the the way that we talk around each other in this trade is not appropriate for females, and i think we need to change that. So, assuming that we have to change that on the flip side with the younger generation, you know um us, you know people of my generation, i'm 39. I just turned 39 on thursday, thursday yeah last thursday, anyways um, my generation.

Isn't you know a lot of my generation went into computer school and engineering degrees, different things that are totally different: they're, not hands-on people but they're also not pushing their kids into the trades and the previous generations weren't pushing their kids into the trades because hard work, You're back then, i think they did have some valid arguments that you didn't make as much money. I feel like. We have the opportunity to make a lot of money now in this trade. I think the wages are improving dramatically, so i don't think the wages are.

A problem, but i think that the general work environment, the 24 7 being on call - and here i am a business owner - and i realize these are the problems. But that's one thing that pushes people away is the on-call schedules. The 24 hours a day service calls the long days the hot addicts the different things like that. So i feel, like we've got some improvements to drive people into this trade.

Well - and i feel like bigger companies - might have it differently, and maybe i would have a different look at it. But with you and a smaller company you're on call most of the month and then for a lot of years in a row. Yeah and to be fair too, what she's talking about is i'm a business owner for those that don't know so i run my own business and then it's a small company. Yes, so you don't have you know even 10 or 20 guys under you, where you guys are rotating and you're only on call once every like eight weeks or you know something like that, you're on call every other two in a row or do you remember like I mean it was 15 years ago now or 10 years ago.

Now, when we used to have six trucks, we used to have a lot of tech. I mean for us that was that was the biggest we ever got. We had six trucks that was actually pretty good because i think you could we're like more comfortable being able to like take a vacation. So let's take a weekend, that's interesting from your perspective.

You were still on the phone more often yes, even if you did get to go like you were still helping, yeah, yes um, so i mean it, but also when i had six technicians, it was really difficult on the business side like yeah. I could take time off, but it was really hard for me to turn my phone off like i was literally on my phone. I think there's only there's only three times that i can think three or two two or three times that i can think of that. I actually turn my phone off for a week, two or three times in the last.

However, many 20, something years that i've been doing this well and just the other day when you had no service. So, oh yeah, we went to a concert, that's right, but i was free. I was losing my mind right, but anyways, that's one of the things is: is this trade? Has some hurdles we need to overcome? I would like to see more females in the trade. I would like to see more younger people in the trade too, but we need to change some things so um, that's just something we all have to work on.

It's going to be an interesting, i think, like you've said before too, and i'm going to go off on a different. What is that? Okay change the subject? Yeah, i'm! No, i'm not changing the subject. I'm just elaborating into it like for more kids to know about it like to be talking about these trades in high school. So when they're like looking at careers, they're, not like so small narrowed like at what's out there and everybody's focused on i want to be, you know a teacher or a doctor, or you know like that, there's more interesting careers out there interesting things is.

I have always been a somewhat mechanical person, but i didn't want to do this. I didn't want to work for my dad um. I didn't want to work in hvac. I grew up doing it and i hated it um, but i think because the local high school that i had had career trade classes now uh it was auto collision, so actually um.

All all four years of high school i took auto collision learning how to do bodywork, dents and paint and different things on cars and then in high school. I went to work for a body shop and then i worked for them for a year after high school. I actually came to work for my dad in 2002. Um april of 2002 was when i officially came to work for him, but had i not had that trade program in high school, i don't think i would have gotten in the trades, because i hated working for my dad.

I i did not like it now. There's reasons as to why i didn't like it i'll explain that in a minute, but had i not been in auto collision, i wouldn't have gone into uh. You know to work at the body shop to be in the position where one day i looked at my boss at the body shop and he was a nice guy, i love the bit the place i worked for, but i just didn't want to be him. He he just didn't seem like he had.

He was. You know it's ironic. He was stressed to the max and all this different stuff, and i didn't want to be him, so i decided i wanted to do something different, but again had i not had that trade class auto collision in high school. I don't think i would have came to work for my dad because i hated it so much and i feel like i never would have even considered it, but after working at the body shop, i realized like hey.

I really liked this. I liked using my hands and uh. I don't know i just finally just was talking to my dad one day and i was just like yeah i'm gon na. I want to come work for you, you know, and so and there it started and um.

It definitely was a different way than a lot of people get into the trade too. I would think, but we definitely need more of the career ed things. Do you remember um when we went to our daughter's uh introduction to the school or whatever to high school? They had like a career, fair out there or something or no they were trying to sell the high school right. So they had all the clubs out there and the different programs.

So you could be excited for your kids. Were you with me when i went up because they have a trade program at her high school and i went up and talked to the trade teacher and i said hey, my name is chris, i'm an hvac service technician. You know - and i explained the whole presence on social media and youtube and stuff - and i said, hey i'd really like to get involved with your school. Do you remember the story? I mean, i think you knew you were going to go, ask and then yeah and then they were like yeah.

He wasn't interested, he was just like, and i was kind of like really, but i think we've mentioned something recently, i'm not sure to who, and they said you might want to bring it back up, because there would probably be more open too. So i could do that um. I would love to be more involved in the high school trade programs and stuff i'd love to be able to get more kids i'd love to be able to recruit kids out of high school. You know come work for me.

Go to school at night, and that's that's the thing like with my business. One thing my dad started and we continue to do if someone comes to work for us, and this is where a young kid would benefit from it tremendously. We will pay for their schooling, yeah i'll pay to send them to go, get a degree. I mean, if they're getting something right as long as they take hvac classes too.

You know like yeah if you want to get a degree we'll pay for that. As long as and what we do is we make them pay for it up, front, uh and then um we basically if they pass the class with a b or above then we reimburse them for all their expenses. So like i would love to do that more. It's just how do we get these kids into it? So let's have a look at the chat and see what's going on in there see if we're missing anything in here uh thanks so much, i saw super chats coming through pat finley ike.

I saw one from you earlier. Thank you, so very much uh will st thanks for continuing to be a uh uh, a supporter of the channel man. It's awesome so do i think quality craftwork limits you to a company of five texts. You was told this by an old timer peter grady, yes, actually peter.

That is a really really good question and um. Yes, i am limited by my employees. I do say that okay, nothing against my employees, um. I have great guys working for me um, but each person uh.

I can tell the type of person that they are and some people aren't motivated to go any farther. Some people don't have the drive or the ability to learn. You know bigger better stuff, so i stay in my lane and i i stay with employees because you know i stay with what my employees are comfortable working on basically so um. I am limited by them for sure.

That's a really interesting question so and again there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying there's anything bad but like the stresses involved with me, hiring a chiller technician to come on to my company and then now we have a chiller division. Okay, the problem with that is, is that my main techs, you know that are the normal side of the business. They can't come over and back the other guy up.

So unless i hire multiple guys, we've got one guy, that's going to be working every single day. You know it's just i just don't want the extra stresses of bringing more stuff on. So i don't want to say it's just my employees that are the problem. It's just it's me too, and maybe the fair statement to say is because the type of person and i'm gon na ask you this the type of person that i am um.

I totally lost my train of thought right. There don't even know i don't even know if you know how to respond to what i was going to ask. I totally lost my train of thought: go figure whatever anyways we'll move on lost it uh hamilton, saying talk to my local schools. Programs exist to feed.

You apprentices yeah, they have those with the community colleges, just not with the high schools yet um. Let me see uh tools, jill, i'm gon na. Ask you a question with the youtube stuff. How do you feel? Do you think it's excessive the stuff that i buy for youtube cameras and different things all the time i mean you're, pretty good at? What's the word um justify there, you go so how i don't really know, i'm okay, you need it.

Okay, who am i to yeah, who am i to say, i just thought that would be a funny question. Yeah i mean i tend to really question the things when i'm like hey. I need this, for you know tennis, you know it's not my my job. It's you know, so, let's, let's go back to that, because you actually brought something really good up so tennis um in high school.

You were athletic, you played tennis, but after high school life happened, we got busy, we had kids, you were working. Tennis became something that just kind of was forgotten: oh yeah yeah. It was like an every occasional. So i got a question when is snowboarding coming back for me, you said you can't afford to get hurt.

So no snowboarding for you, i'm just kidding. I don't know. That's true, that's i think that's what you're holding here, i've brainwashed you so when i was in high school snowboarding was my thing but anyways. The reason why we need snow here in california that hasn't happened.

Yeah that definitely hasn't happened, but uh back to the question. So um, where was i going with that? You sidetracked me again: you sidetracked yourself, um tennis, you're talking about yeah one of the things that um i noticed a long time ago, and i think i recently told her about this. But one of the things that i noticed a long time ago many years ago was - i noticed that she was starting to get like. She was home alone with the kids all the time and i knew she needed to get out.

At the same time, she found a resource that helped her. You know talk to people, and that was like a group. I don't even know if they do them anymore, but it was involved. Oh yeah, when the kids were younger almost up until i would say our oldest was like 10..

We were, i always tried to be in some sort of moms group, but that took me a couple years to find. I want to say our youngest was probably three and two or three three, three or four. Maybe even - and somebody said, oh, you should look into mom's group because that's when we lived um away from family and all the friends we had so the mom's group helped her, but the the one thing that i started to notice was one thing. Besides.

The mom's group was when you went back to work, even though you were stressed because of work. I think that you benefited from communicating with other people yeah i i. The thing i liked about serving was that just every day is different and you're talking to all different kinds of people all the time, so the the the way i'm going with this is for her. If she would have been a stay-at-home mom, her entire life, it wouldn't have worked for her.

She needed something she needed to communicate with other people it just maybe it works for other people, but for us again this is how we deal with things that wouldn't have worked. So her going back to work was beneficial and i saw that and then even when for a brief. While you went back to school and got your degree and that benefited you, you know, even though there was added stress because of that, because your homework and different things like just the the human social interaction was the biggest thing so for her. She needed to get out when i i think she had mentioned something we were driving one time or something like that, and she mentioned.

Oh those tennis courts, look cool, you know and i was like hey. You should totally get back into tennis. You know well yeah. Well also played a role in our daughter starting high school, and we were talking about her trying it out like for a sport, just because it's nice to be involved in a sport in high school.

In my opinion, and so she was getting into it. And then you said: hey, why don't you you know go back because we have some courts nearby, that we can have a membership too. So i got back into that and then we, both my oldest daughter and myself, took lessons and then i met some people through the lessons that play often and so for her is kind of what what helped was was joining a group um being involved with people. Even though again there's all kinds of different stresses because of those starting a girl scout troop, you know it was beneficial, it was beneficial and it helped you, but then there was a lot of other stuff that came with it.

But the point i'm trying to make is for her: she needed to stay busy. She needed social interaction, so i encourage everybody out there figure out what it is that you need. Oh yeah or your spouse needs and i've always enjoyed being active. So, even for a long time it was like.

I was part of like a mom's group. We got together and walked or something of that sort, and then i usually had a gym pass and then, with kobe, that's what shut down the gym pass and then kind of inspired us to get outside back outside and go to the tennis courts. Yeah um peter smart. Thank you very much for that super chat man.

That is unbelievably awesome. Ike awesome bud. Thank you. You're you're, awesome too wow.

These super chats. These are amazing everybody. Thank you very much um. You know.

That's one thing that i do have to say: thank you for um is everybody's support. You know there's several ways you can support this channel. I do put in a lot of time to it uh while selfishly i do get a satisfaction from it too. On the flip side, it does help having a little bit of extra income coming in to make up for the time, because i let's be fair and say that i probably spend on average, two to three hours a day on youtube.

So if you figure i work a 10 hour day, then i'm possibly spending two to three hours. When i get home doing different things, i'm not trying to beg for pity or anything like that. I'm just pointing out - and this also happens with other creators too so um. One thing that has benefited is that jill has been able to step up and help me out, and we were convinced by a lot of you, viewers to start doing merchandise, and that's one thing is she's really able to help with the videos as she handles the Merchandise, so an order comes in from one of you in amazing this last week, when i posted about my hats, good gosh everybody.

Thank you very much uh. I want to address the the don't. Let me forget to address the pricing of the merch too, because i want to talk about that, but um uh, damn it. I keep losing my train of thought here.

That's kind of what i'm doing for work now is helping you here. I i left my job being a server yeah during the night and he was gone during the day, so we're just kind of bypassing each other so often and then with kovid being home for six months off, work, yeah and then realizing hey. I can take on this instead of having to go to work right, so i can work from home now and yeah and so that's kind of cool too, as she gets to to be home and she gets to - and i think it's important too, that you get To see a glimpse into, why i do this and and the reasoning behind it, because you get to see the interaction uh this last year, uh she was also. You were also able to come with me to the ahr convention and i think, even though you didn't stay for the trade show, you came in yeah, we hung out, you saw the trade show.

You got to meet a lot of my sponsors and different people, so that was really cool to be able to interact in the whole world there and you know yeah and so they're there. This allows her to see. You know your guys's comments and different things. All the time too, so, thank you all so very much for that.

Uh yeah lots of orders, and so thank you guys, yes awesome and they should be going out tomorrow. Yes, those that have over here tell your story. Oh yeah, i rushed home. We had like a whole morning and i had an hour and i was like i'm gon na, get all these orders done and then mailed out and filled all the orders loaded, the car i drove to the post office and it's closed today i was like.

Oh, we were just all so excited to get the orders out. You know i try yeah. I try my hardest when i see them to, you know, get them out the next day or the day of yeah um. So one of the things that i did want to say again and i think i try to make this as clear and try to be as transparent as possible.

So with the merchandise you know we never planned on selling merchandise. That was not our goal and, in all honesty, the first couple people that asked me. I thought those were weird comments like i'm not going to sell merchandise. That just wasn't my thing, but enough people kept saying it that i started thinking about it and we decided to do it.

But when we were pricing, the merchandise we wanted to make sure that we're not over here just trying to sell t-shirts like it's an advertising thing. You know it's all that stuff. So we appreciate all the support, but we try not to step on the merch too much and i mean with the pricing okay. So for the most part we make uh depending on because we have free shipping with our stuff right.

So um it's built into our pricing. Basically, but um. We try to make about five dollars an item. Okay, so we're not over here trying to just make crazy money off of anything.

You know we try to make that and then and then usually like a dollar of that, or so you know, goes to um. I guess that wouldn't be our profit, then, but that it kind of goes to shipping and different things yeah and depending on shipping. I think a lot of people have probably noticed this too, but it used to take like, depending on it, was like two to three days with shipping, and now i'm noticing it'll tell me it's like four or five days, yeah for some some places and then some Places it's three or two and it's like just a just an fyi if it's not coming as quick as you think, it's male yeah. So it's it's kind of crazy, but you know understand something.

We are um, we're not experts at this. We're just trying to have fun with it we're trying to balance it out. Um, i think getting you involved a little bit kind of makes a little more fun. Getting our daughter involved makes it a little more fun she's behind the scenes, but and then potentially we have talks of getting my other daughter involved too, with some changes that we're potentially going to make to the channel so um.

Let me ask you that, so when it comes to the youtube stuff, i know we're kind of getting off the hvcr right now, but when it comes to the youtube stuff, do you think i'm too crazy with like all my different ideas, i'm always coming up with Ideas on how i want to change things now, whether or not we implement them, i don't know, but i have a million ideas written down of like where i want to go. You know, i think it's always nice to like have goals or have something new to do, to mix it up and keep you interested. So i don't think you're crazy and a lot of the times it works for everybody yeah, and you know one of my goals with this channel i mean it seems a bit extreme, but i think you're on board with it too, is when our children move out When they're, you know moving on and you know starting their lives, i ideally would like to step away from my refrigeration business and do some sort of traveling training, some kind of consulting thing, or something like that and continue to take hvac videos to different locations like That would be a goal of mine whether or not that's all going to be realized. I don't know, but some portion of that will be realized because something to think about for the future.

This is definitely what i like doing is. Is this so you know again, i guess this kind of does go back to hvac too. You know. Another thing to remember is i'm over here saying trying to explain to people how you deal with hvac, but i don't even really talk about how i deal with hvac um.

You know, i guess that's probably not something that we talk about honestly. I don't think i've ever talked about that before you know, but but how i deal with hvac is by having hobbies by having things that i can focus on now. Unfortunately, because of my craziness in my head, i really can't have more than one hobby, because i'm hyper focused on it. Uh hvacr videos is my hobby.

If i wasn't doing hvacr videos, then i probably would have to have something else. You know some kind of advice that something that i look forward to doing now. I've also given up things well yeah, and i think that in the past, like you've, you've gone through different things like on your free time, but a little free time that you used to have or have at some points. Um, you rode quads, and you know you know like there's, then little different bursts of like different things that you try to do on in the little free time that you get, and i think that the youtube stuff helps because you're, so i don't know thrown in With the hvacr so like it's just kind of a bonus and to have people that like know what you're doing and yeah know what you're talking about to have people to talk to you well get people to relate yeah, really yeah yeah, because it's very very it's Not very realistic, ironically, i live in a place like california, where there's tens of thousands of hvac service technicians, probably more than that, but i don't bump elbows with them.

I don't run into people outside of of my business. I just don't in my social circles or anything so the fact that i'm able to find friends on the internet right my fake internet friends that um you know i can relate with, and do you know that? That's that's important so again for us. How do i deal with hvac by finding my friends by focusing on things that i enjoy um, focusing on my family too, and that's one thing i want to kind of close up. Your segment with this is focusing on our family is really important.

At the same time now i say this because i don't - i know that i don't do this properly, but we need to spend more time with our families. We need to make them a priority. Um i've been trying to make it more and more of a priority. I also have an interesting dynamic, not trying to make excuses, but i'm also a business owner, so i'm not just an hvac service tech.

So the stresses involved in that are kind of crazy, too, but so we have to communicate with people. We have to explain that stuff and um. You know, try to spend more time with our family too. I think it's very important so and we try to get you on your like free weekends or something we we go outside.

I don't know we're looking forward to the summer time because we'll get to take some uh time to go. Paddle boarding, hopefully coming up so just a little things that you can so find those things like joy as a family baseball games ever you know occasionally yeah. We would like to get um, so i'm gon na go ahead and jump into a few of these questions that don't really pertain to you. So if you want to balance, i know you.

She didn't necessarily want to be on here this long, but i'm going to jump into the last part where she does the battle a lot of things, so yeah anyways. If you guys have any more questions, you can email or whatnot, but we'll see you later all right, bye, so um a couple other things that i want to cover and then i'll get to the chat a little bit too right now, um is and i'll get To the the comments too again, thanks everybody, it's it's awesome, everybody's, so supportive and stuff. So um. Let me go into my thing.

I already talked about that. I already talked about that um uh. I want to get to a technical question that zack had asked me. So zac had emailed me asking me when i'm working on exhaust fans, if um, i grease the bearings, because he was saying that they don't, and he just noticed that the bearings had zerk fittings on him: okay, so uh yeah.

Definitely when you're working on exhaust fans. If you have greaseable bearings on a set schedule, you do want to be greasing. Those bearings understand something you shouldn't necessarily be squirting grease in a bearing every single month. You know, grease bearings are only supposed to be greased.

So often you follow the manufacturer's instructions. But yes, you should be servicing the bearings on the exhaust fans and the motors if they are greaseable. You need to follow manufacturer specs, though, on how to grease them. Uh, definitely something you need to do.

Um, let's see what else uh hvacr125 yeah it was discussed earlier in the stream um. Let's see what else uh um! What else do we got going? I'm looking in here, um yeah uh jill on instagram, if you're interested my wife who is just on here, if you guys are just tuning in um, she has an instagram page called uh at hvacr, wife, w-i-f-e uh. So it's at hvac, our wife on instagram and uh. She has a lot of discussions with other hvacr spouses, wives, husbands, all that stuff and um uh she'll talk.

You know they all communicate back and forth. So, if you're interested go, give her a follow, uh, let's see what else so i'm starting to what i'm starting to notice is the more. I include the family in this, the more fun it's getting for me. So that's what we're trying to do?.