#246: How To ⚡️ Instantly Jolt Your Ass ⚡️ Into A Pivot-Move Side Gig Like Will Smith in Aladdin w/ Special "Guest" Bert Kreischer
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Law Smith
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Eric Readinger
4:17
Oh, yeah pussy
Law Smith
4:19
just because you've got an old school hoop it up sure doesn't mean you got the power yeah
Eric Readinger
4:22
about this right. I dad found it you know saying this is from when they still did hoop it up in downtown Tampa. So you know how bad the roads are in downtown Tampa?
Law Smith
4:34
Well, it's like New Orleans. Like, we're we're like technically under sea level at certain points. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
4:39
And those roads are far from perfectly flat.
Law Smith
4:43
Yeah,
Eric Readinger
4:44
it was a shit show. But it was cool. Playing underneath the skyscrapers and
Law Smith
4:48
my favorite thing was everybody illegally put what number what age they were because there's no IDs. Don't get me started on that. I'll get started. I want to hear about
Eric Readinger
4:57
it well, when they're playing
Law Smith
4:58
around, look, everybody Every city that played who put up that I've talked to because it'd be a reference I'd throw out there back in the day. That's a fun little. And I didn't know every city had it. I thought it was kind of in the southeast. I guess it was a touring thing. Yeah, it was like a traveling circus. I played pump it up or air it out that weirdo. Yeah, football one wasn't as aggressive. I had a super team and we were, we got smoked and we lied about her age, right?
5:22
Well, dude, we went to my
Law Smith
5:24
whole drive home.
Eric Readinger
5:25
We went to the finals one year, and we were you know, scraping and clawing our way to get to the finals. And we get there and it's against the PA l team that we have no idea what that means. We get there to police athletic league put together this team of goons that were I mean, we were probably 14 or 15 at a time and there's no way these guys they might have been cops.
Law Smith
5:47
Yeah,
Eric Readinger
5:48
I don't know. But they were like, it was like our biggest guy was the size of all their guys. Yeah, it was like dude, is that fun for you? Get your little trophy like yeah, are they shit? Yeah, it is. had it for a while I know I wish I would allied dominated some 12 year olds
Law Smith
6:04
you know what you know, it was funny and like this is the type of ball you play the the friends team that I would have because I wasn't good at basketball. I wasn't good enough. I could I could board but that's about it. Yeah. Which is good. I'm, I'm that guy you want to play with on your team? Because I'll play defense and broad. Yeah, but but
Eric Readinger
6:25
the other team?
Law Smith
6:26
Yeah, I don't want I'll take a good three every now and again. But that's about all I'm good for. Now. So I'm the I'm kind of the best team teammate and the worst when you're playing with a group of friends who are just jumping on each other seems back and forth. Right? So like, Fuck, man, you
Eric Readinger
6:45
got out the team? I'm like,
Law Smith
6:45
of course. I'm gonna try. Why wouldn't Why wouldn't I try to play defense a little bit? I'm not likely to suck that bad that
Eric Readinger
6:51
they thought you weren't trying.
Law Smith
6:52
No, I'm not doing I'm not gonna press like, full court press the whole time. But I am gonna like, yeah, I'm gonna try to do that. If I can't, I'm not gonna out dribble anybody. Right? So what do I got? I can. I'm faster than most of the people out there so I can hustle. Yeah, you know. Anyway, my favorite My favorite thing was like, this is how my high school football team played. We played Super fundamental, like, super boring. Sure. Run, run two times. Throw it on third, if we have to kind of thing. Well, we'll never get caught outside. Yeah,
Eric Readinger
7:28
but our Catholic school teams had to be right. Yeah, we were in basketball two
Law Smith
7:33
guys on our football team.
Eric Readinger
7:34
We only had like two. Well, like, for basketball. We're the same way it was like we're just gonna be the best condition team because we're not gonna be taller than anybody. We're not gonna really outrun anybody. Yeah, but we can at least run all day right and out hustle you and
Law Smith
7:49
we're not gonna have the skill position guys, but we're going to have the offensive linemen are going to start coming our way because the big white guys that can't play any other sports or start, they're gonna start coming down. are high school. So what our offensive line was bigger than, like, I think we looked at it, we were like a 10 pound, like 10 pounds under the average, like, college line or something like that, like that
Eric Readinger
8:12
dude, what top 25? Well, I mean,
Law Smith
8:15
in high school though,
Eric Readinger
8:15
yeah, crazy. What's funny is law and I went to quote unquote rival high schools, Tampa Catholic and Jesuit. And my high school I think has lost like 23 years in a row like I don't ever remember. Even being a game with you guys. And we, you know, I'm in high school wasn't that long because, you know, obviously was 20 years ago, whatever, but
Law Smith
8:39
like, God, you know,
Eric Readinger
8:42
I beat him. It's like, Oh, no, this is like, they're just, we're not gonna do that. We're not gonna beat you guys. I don't understand why we're getting all hyped up for it.
Law Smith
8:49
I remember the frenzy of making them think like they they made us think y'all were good. And we would be like shit when we can't fuck this. Yeah, so it's a lot of psychology and a lot of I don't find up but in hoop it up my friends because I would you know when you're not when you're not playing you just go there for the day to hang out. Oh yeah, you're that guy. You're the you're the chubby friend that's not playing like well dude
Eric Readinger
9:13
yeah it's good theater man but fights break out every five minutes so
Law Smith
9:17
everybody my age all my group of friends they would like to say one year younger and then like the real badass as they go down like three levels and there'd be a guy with a mustache that said he was like an 11 year old. You're like this guy's six two Yeah, I No kidding. I love I love that whole part of it that that everybody cheated though, right? Every not. There's not one person that didn't lie about their age. Sure, a little bit.
Eric Readinger
9:44
And I mean, that was the last year we played the year we went to
Law Smith
9:47
how most people do taxes not me.
Eric Readinger
9:49
Yeah, well, no, that's that's another you know, yeah,
Law Smith
9:52
they all lie. Yeah, my CPA won't let me know. Yes, we use fresh books. Calm you
Eric Readinger
9:59
Once I say about hoop it up, okay,
Law Smith
10:02
that you you've got a shirt that looks like 1993 Clemson. Yep, yep, well Purple and orange. And it's that kind of fun.
Eric Readinger
10:11
I guess I was just talking about how we we of course did do the cheating and still we're dwarfed by these gentlemen.
Law Smith
10:19
But my friends that played by fundamental like pass it you know focus on passing making sure that open space and stuff even on cracked dog track parking lot ground that's where ours were out not so fucking hot. Yeah played in darkest dark pushing no shade. And that's before all those candidates stupid canopy tents that people bring out to the bench beach. Uh huh. Don't you hate those things? Because you get you get deputized to put those out. Oh yeah. I wouldn't have brought this if I had to put it out. I now.
Eric Readinger
10:56
Write are nice though. At the beach.
Law Smith
10:59
My thing is tough. out. Group it up tough it out aired out.
Eric Readinger
11:02
Sure. Yeah,
Law Smith
11:04
but that's because I'm a little brown boy now. See how how tan I am? Yeah. Yeah, no
Eric Readinger
11:11
see so tan.
Law Smith
11:12
Shiny. Yeah, I blend in with the wall you don't even know. Yeah. I'm trying to get that vitamin D and I listened to a lot of Rogan By the way, hundred million dollar deal with Spotify. Yeah, you know if we're riding a wave of some sort with podcasts, we don't know where we fit in in that we're very small ripple but there's 900,000 ones caught in the undertow that the lifeguards watching very closely rip to that wrestler
Eric Readinger
11:40
that die I saw that hey, way to bring back down my joke.
Law Smith
11:43
Well, I thought that's where you're going. Oh, nevermind windows, a famous person get like, rip current death.
11:52
You know if they can't swim. Well,
Law Smith
11:55
what do you say? Black? Is he I don't
Eric Readinger
11:58
know. Wow. So it was against some wells
Law Smith
12:01
that will teach you in Catholic way
Eric Readinger
12:04
to make it racial. All
Law Smith
12:05
right. But that's one of the worries. Well, now I want to just keep it on erases the whole time.
Eric Readinger
12:12
Yeah, well, okay. Well, while I'm thinking of it the VPN thing, yeah. See that the FBI? I don't know if it actually passed, but they there's a law. I think it went through that the FBI can pretty much look up your search history, however they want with no warrant.
Law Smith
12:30
That it gets tricky. I don't know. No, I haven't seen that. I'm trying to pull up
Eric Readinger
12:34
a new thing. But
Law Smith
12:36
yeah, they just have carte blanche to do it. Yeah. Well, if you really want to do it, the best way to do it is you can get an onion router and you can get a VPN and use both of those. Right? Although on your router, they can look up that
Eric Readinger
12:52
that and also ask yourself do does it really matter? No. Search History really matter other than the embarrassing pornography that people You know what to hide? Other than that, what else is there?
Law Smith
13:03
Well, I don't know that that gets a slippery slope kind of thing where you're like, I you know, neither you nor I, we don't really care for surveilled because we're not. We don't do anything wrong day to day however, you know, the the the anti establishment in both of us doesn't like it yeah so like I think a lot of people were conflicted in that in that regard I think most people are in that kind of zone in America. I feel like with ExpressVPN The thing that I liked about it, I wouldn't have actually taken it as a as an offer for podcast sponsor. If I didn't know was my whole thing is is it easy to use? Like is it three clicks and boom, right? Then Yeah, then that's that makes sense to me. Right? And that's gonna come out as there's gonna be more and more of that. You know, I feel like I feel like philosophically with the vaccine for Coronavirus stuff, people What people don't talk about is our ability to be entrepreneurial and figure out stuff collectively, like people are like, well, the average it takes four years to make a vaccine. Okay, we've never gotten one for the flu really. We don't have them for certain things already. And it's like, okay, but I think humans do amazing play, if we collectively with the, with the effort we have now, I mean, look at, look at what we kind of did together. As far as self quarantining in one direction. I'm not saying the results are what we wanted, economically, but at the same time, look at what we could have done collectively, and we weren't even near, you know, I would say 75% participation in that, you know, yeah, I still, I'd say about a quarter of the people I knew still were doing whatever they do. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
14:51
Well, I mean, when you close the restaurants and gathering places, it does limit things,
Law Smith
14:58
right. But I mean, you drive a truck yourself. Driving truck.
Eric Readinger
15:00
Yeah, there's that's quarantining itself.
Law Smith
15:03
You know, those Yeah, those guys are cutting corners. Yeah, they're on their own anyway, for the most part, but I'm saying like, I don't know, I just feel like what people don't throw out there as trying to look at the futures. They don't really look at the collective whole, like, Okay, if we all work together and innovating something like Dyson made that ventilator in like 10 days,
Eric Readinger
15:25
right, right.
Law Smith
15:26
That was who was probably the coolest ventilator because I'm right I do but
15:32
it's in breathe, right? Same with the Dyson voice. Same with
Law Smith
15:34
like Elon Musk, making ventilators like, in two weeks, they've kind of made what they could. And that's what a lot of manufacturers are doing. They're pivoting to go What do we have laying around that we can help with? You know, baseball uniforms for MLB in the minors. They those companies went into just making mask. Oh, did you know that? No, I didn't. Yeah, so I feel like read this. We don't really count for ingenuity when it when it's called upon, or when necessary.
Eric Readinger
16:05
Something interesting. I got for my house I have these they're called y's w y, z cams, security cameras. Basically they're like 30 bucks are great. If you want to get a cheap security camera that's, you know, as well as on Yeah, they're on Amazon. But I was on the app, and it popped up that it said masks at $24 a case the wise team has curated for the wise community masks that we're gonna sell, you know, to whoever owns these cameras, and I was like, that is
Law Smith
16:45
what weird. Wait, hold on. I'm thinking why is potato chips number one, right?
16:52
You're hungry, which are bad.
Eric Readinger
16:54
Well, it was just on an app. Basically for security cameras, huh? pops up and stuff. Hey, if you want to buy masks at whatever this I don't know if it's a good rate or not. Yeah, before $24 a case, which I think is pretty good at this point.
Law Smith
17:09
Yeah. Even if there's 24 lucky,
17:12
but uh, your wifey Yeah, do too.
Eric Readinger
17:15
I mean, ask her about PP stuff. Get her started but yeah, they, they were like offering it to their community of people who own their cameras. I just that's so weird to me like Why? Um,
Law Smith
17:32
yeah, there. There could be deals there. I could see why, I guess. I guess maybe the first thing to offer Sure. Maybe the person selling homes trying to get to trying to get to people of some sort. You know, maybe maybe someone in marketing goes well, you know, the correlation between people that are buying security cameras are going to be the people that also are worried about having enough stock a face mask. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
17:57
Yeah, that's true. I mean, it's a weird a lot of weird products. out there that you can't find. Like what? a coffin freezers for one, but if you've been like, Oh, well, I you know from ice baths
Law Smith
18:08
when are we going hunting? That's what? Yeah, it's a deer meat in there. Okay. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
18:15
But yeah, like I was looking at them just because you know my new ice bath is like twice the size of my old one and I'll have room for the 60 pounds of ice that I need at a time. And my mom was doing the same looking for one and she said they're all out. This is after, you know a couple weeks ago they were fine without like Craigslist and stuff. That's
Law Smith
18:34
where I really look is like when the secondary market is selling stuff. Remember I was telling you like those weights, those click weights, the NordicTrack ones that you have the ones that for those that don't know, they're the ones that like our space Savers, essentially, they can go up to 50 pounds a dumbbell and you just click them down and up and you can change the weight on the dumbbell. They're awesome. I was like, I saw some of them for $1,000 in probably late March, early April. And I was like, if there's a time to sell the one do you have fun?
Eric Readinger
19:09
Yeah. Well, they do. I mean, they are 500 bucks. Normally the Bowflex official brand that actually, you know, hold up and stuff, but is it Bowflex? Yeah, I think that's who makes them. I can't see it. But yeah, just a side note, if you can't go to the gym yet, which my gym has reopened, but I'm saying and gone. Yeah,
Law Smith
19:27
I've gone. Oh, my gosh, are this good?
19:31
But yeah, they're
Law Smith
19:32
great. The Bowflex like tech, like 552, which is kind of the one yeah, that's the, they've got like, they're mostly black with the little red in the middle in between them. Yep. The plates. Yeah, they're selling for 650 on eBay. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
19:48
Well, easy alternative resistance bands. Yep. I got, I think it's by Black Mountain products. They sell there on Amazon too. You know, 30 bucks. And it comes with all the little the smaller ones, but you can get heavier ones you can use two at a time. Yeah, but I mean that stuff, if you just, you're going to get bigger from using resistance bands, but you know, at our age, we're not getting bigger ever again. Like there's very little growth happening.
Law Smith
20:20
I'm getting annoyed. I'm getting dalvin cook tresa and all
Eric Readinger
20:23
Yeah, but those things they're they're good to like they they do the job. It's just a matter of getting out and getting them.
Law Smith
20:32
Yeah, no, I you just have to work. Yeah, I mean, most people just pivoted to fit. I mean, a lot of what is
Eric Readinger
20:39
that now?
Law Smith
20:40
Well, I mean, I heard someone call it the COVID-19 like the freshman 15 which I think is pretty funny.
Eric Readinger
20:48
I heard quarantine 15. Whatever.
Law Smith
20:52
I the one I heard it's funnier. Why? Because it's the actual name of the thing. You just call At the pound, yeah, like I got the COVID-19 disagree. It could be more confusing, so maybe not. Um, so what I'm saying is did you just try to get taller than me on on camera? No, I raised the microphone. I can raise my seat up to bro. So, because you got the saddle seat, but what I was saying is, I think everybody just has you figure out how to pivot. A lot of people are trying to figure out, myself included trying to figure out extra work that I can, I can pick up on top of the for a full time job I'm doing, you know, on top of this too, which is a part time job. That's fun. I would say, you know, without well it's
Eric Readinger
21:41
Oh, Bert kreischer. Bert kreischer is calling us right now. Okay.
Law Smith
21:48
Hello. Hey, it's Bert. Bert. You're on our podcast sweat equity right now. I'm pulling what you do sounds white buddy. What do you got? No way. Oh really? Yeah. Our podcast can 69 or 69 right now how you doing man? Good. Okay Tampa. Tampa is hot as shit. This is really strange. I was just talking about you about 15 minutes ago how Yeah, what? How you bring people on? Did you call him? I didn't call him No fucking way I swear to god no way. Yeah, I synchronicity
Eric Readinger
22:29
No way. He just called you randomly.
22:32
Yeah, dude. I'm gonna
22:35
I don't that is so weird.
Law Smith
22:37
Yeah, that's really weird His name is going to the title of
Eric Readinger
22:41
Bert kreischer I
Law Smith
22:42
guess that is really strange. Dude, what are the changes over to That's funny. Oh my
Eric Readinger
22:48
god that's weird.
Law Smith
22:50
Yeah, it I've had a lot of those synchronicities lately. Yeah. Like I was telling you of the Fred Willard thing right? Yeah. Fred Willard died right that before you told me about it on slack that day on set last Saturday, right before you told me about it, what's it called? So I was thinking about when I was in Chicago, opening for Kevin Bozeman at the zanies in Chicago, and Fred Willard came into watch. Yeah, I was watching community that that Saturday morning. I've been binge watching on your Hulu account. I've heard a lot of you watching community because it's all the stuff from our office all the fire sticks and shit. Yeah, there's still have half half my logins half your logins in there, but I'm watching it Fred Willard on an episode as Chevy Chase one of the episodes Dude, I saw something I was watching and
Eric Readinger
23:51
thought about. Yeah, you know, I had something else on put it on. I don't remember what it was. It's gonna drive me fucking nuts which He showed up, like randomly Fred Willard on Sunday. And I wasn't like, Oh, I'm gonna watch this because Fred Willard in it. I was like, Oh my God, he's in this What?
Law Smith
24:09
What is happening? Yeah. And so too, so that what was weird about that is I was thinking about Fred Willard, how nice that guy was that he came up to me after and said like, You did really great. He didn't have to do that. I'm always amazed. Like Bert is one of those guys too, that he didn't have to be nice to me when I moved to LA and helped me out. Yeah, just kind of pointing in the right direction. He didn't have to let me open forum when he would come into town. And he did. And then in a weird, a weird, another weird synchronicity on top of that is birds giving me the best compliment of my life. When I moved back to Tampa,
Eric Readinger
24:54
I was kind of sour Jake isn't that small?
Law Smith
24:56
I was well, you know, he had he hasn't seen it, but I got out of the water. I got out of the pool with wearing umbrellas so you can see the impression. Sure, you know, yeah. You remember in high school you're like, Yeah, I don't have board shorts, but
Eric Readinger
25:08
I got basketball surely fine. These boxers will be.
Law Smith
25:11
I'll just make a tent out of it as soon as I get out of the water. So it doesn't stick like Yeah, it looks like I'm wearing like a fucking skin suit or something. Yes. And so Burt gave me like, kind of, in a weird way, one of the best compliments I've ever had in my life, which is, I just moved back here from LA and kind of bout a year after moving back here, and I was at the tip of improv. And he was in town. So I just showed up. I was showing up just to watch a show, sitting at the bar, and he's like, Oh, dude, I didn't know you were here. And I was like, I moved back and he was like, dude, you're lit. You're living like, You're fucking doing it, man. I'm like, What? He's like, Yeah, man, I every time I see you on Facebook or whatever, you're doing some kind of party. I wish I was at it was like what the You, you fucking van Wilder Yeah. What? Yeah, so shit like that. It's just weird synchronicities that he probably hasn't called me in five years. That is two years.
Eric Readinger
26:11
That is so weird. We were talking before this because we were trying to think of somebody who could call up and you go Oh, we'll just sell it for tracer does his podcast and he fucking called you?
Law Smith
26:21
Yeah, we're great. I guess the great magnet the law of attraction, all that stuff. That's crazy. Yeah. Now Now we got nothing else to talk about.
Eric Readinger
26:29
Why did he call though and hang up?
Law Smith
26:31
I don't know. I couldn't I don't give a shit. I'm on it. We were on his podcast. Yeah, he's talking to someone. I don't know who and all I could hear was him giggling
Eric Readinger
26:44
I know he really did. Yeah, verify it himself.
Law Smith
26:47
I think cuz by first name will and he was telling someone he knows another Will Smith or something. That's what I went by. Growing up, I think. I bet that he said something like that because he got He got to deal with the real Will Smith. Oh, good for him growing up in the 20s 20s but I think like, I don't know it. It sounded like a prank call must. Yeah, fine. Yeah. No, yeah, we were I was saying right before we started let's call triple A. But he's got two baby girls and I don't want to bother him so I kind of want to plan that out. It's just funny.
27:23
Weird. But yeah, well one populated.
Law Smith
27:27
Alright, so we've got five minutes left. So what I want to do is I'll give everybody out there. I don't know if I did this on the last podcast or previous couple but what's it called? We need to follow if you're looking for that, that kind of gig. That extra gig. One thing you can do, I would follow adam. His name is Adam capper Rick. I butchered his last name. Adam Carpi AK QRP Yeah. Adam QRP AK, he wouldn't come on the show because he preferred to remain private, which right now you've outed him. No, no, I told him I'm gonna use him as a reference. So I tried to book him on. He, he's much he's like a much better just with what I'm doing on here. So like something I saw today that he posted was like, hey, recruiters spend longer than he is a like, recruiting, consulting firm. But he's very funny. When you follow his stuff about like, he'll give you pointers on like, okay, yeah, you do have to follow the PDF. You should have a PDF version or a doc version uploaded as a resume for this reason, because the doc versions don't get scanned well, he'll give you like real practical advice if you're trying to find another job. But like he wrote like recruiters spent longer than six seconds reviewing the resume if a cap if applicants spend longer than six seconds reading into the job Hit easy apply. Yeah. So like, he'll throw out stuff like that I like followed his account because he's kind of witty, but he lost. He's, he's in our kind of lane. I would say that's why I want to be a guest on the show, but I would follow him. And then, you know, a friend of ours, a couple lawyers were looking for work a WordPress guy, but they didn't want to hire me or you because they want to hire friends. They want to hire someone that could fire and I'm like, Alright, here's a list of people. But after that, go to Upwork put your skills up their list, list your pricing, then you can go on Tori, you can go on bark.com you can put your stuff on LinkedIn with LinkedIn pro Finder. there's a there's a myriad of places out there that you have to really kind of start looking at your niche. Yeah, yeah. And then start talking to recruiters if you really want to get like, you know, a contracted job on top of the one you're doing. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't. Yeah. Do you think of any other sight sight that I've started to think of other good ones. I have, like 40 of them, but none of them are really like,
Eric Readinger
30:07
yeah, bark was the one that had the where you kind of bid for.
Law Smith
30:12
You have like casino chips essentially like right you have 40 bark, bark bark bucks. Yeah. So they were there, and then you can go, alright, I want to bid on this gig for 1010 barkbox. But they guarantee if you do the premium, they guarantee that you'll get a job out of it. So it seems like no matter what, you'll you'll get some money back. Yes. Yeah. Which is that? To me, that's, that's pretty good. The problem with all those is, or with everybody not doing them is you have to, you have to continually just keep doing it. So like, hey, maybe you get a gig. Maybe you get two full time gigs that you're happy with. You should still keep updating that profile so you can you can not take gigs but you're there when you need them. You Yeah, you know, same goes for doing your own website, I would say that's the biggest thing. Do your own website on Squarespace. Make a resume, and then show the work you've done. Yeah, that's a good call. That's what I'm working on. Now that I, my work with MDI, it's just, it's stilted because I work in the b2b sector. I'm talking to manufacturers, all the unsexy stuff in supply chain. They're all right, it's big ticket items for big ticket sales. So it takes those things take longer to really develop relationships. It becomes harder when we can't meet in person kind of stuff. Yeah, and all my stuff kind of pause. So at the same time, I'm just trying to hedge what I can do professionally.
Eric Readinger
31:42
Yeah. Just put it on sweat equity pot calm. Let them go there that too. I mean, just throw it up there. But those are out do it
Law Smith
31:50
up work. If you're a digital specialist, that's probably the best one to be on. Yeah, look, you're gonna take shitty jobs. At first, it's gonna feel like Fiverr and then you grow that profile. Don't I need to I need to update my shit yeah
Eric Readinger
32:03
chances are I mean I don't know I'm asking you should it be like focus on one or you think you should be
Law Smith
32:08
yeah one's going to be your lead dog but you should update all the
Eric Readinger
32:11
other ones do all of them you think
Law Smith
32:13
well think about it it's like SEO right? You want to be available to everybody? Yeah, you you want your Google My Business listing that's going to bring in most of the people searching for a but it doesn't mean you shouldn't go on like Moz or yaks and have yourself listed on everything else. Yeah, that's how I think about it. Sure. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
32:31
Yeah, that's kind of a
Law Smith
32:34
we're trying to get a brand chief officer from yaks to come on so I love he's a family friend.
Eric Readinger
32:40
just seemed like a kind of a the same thing. Well, I they have like Yahoo and like the off brand, you know everything they
Law Smith
32:49
bought. They got a bunch of bought like 40 directories right. You can only get through them. Yes. But if you're a small business I was trying to help someone else out. I was like, Look, just go a Mazda dx pay the hundred dollars. A year. You're pretty much stronger. Yeah, yeah. That's been our show. Okay, buddy. Yeah. Well, sweat equity pod.com
33:13
Thanks, Bert.
