Season 2, Episode 118, Andrew Weaver discusses his Auto Glass Repair Company

 

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Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1s):

I never thought that I would be so excited to talk about auto glass, but I am. And I think one of the reasons is the guy that we’re gonna have on the show wears costumes while he installs auto glass.

Sean P. Holman (13s):

So you’re, and he’s been to your house glass installing cosplay?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (17s):

I don’t think he’s a cos player. I think it’s, it works great for Instagram and that’s how I found him. He was wearing a tuxedo and then it became a, a chipmunk or something. And I’ve never seen a glass installer be entertaining. And Andrew Weaver from SoCal Auto Glass Kings seems to be that guy. And from what I understand, Holman, he just paid you a visit.

Sean P. Holman (39s):

Yeah. You found him. And I just so happened to need my glass replaced on the Wrangler and it, it kind of sucks because I had my Wrangler for two days and I was in Utah in a 75 mile an hour sandstorm, where big rigs in front of me were tipping over on two wheels going down the highway. And it was like being sandblasted and my brand new multi expensive dollar Jeep, what

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1m 5s):

Did you just call it? A multi expensive dollar Jeep.

Sean P. Holman (1m 8s):

Multi expensive, a thousand dollar Jeep was completely pitted on the way home. And I, I’ve said it before, I thought the Jeep was toast. And it turns out that the Expel saved my paint job and saved my Jeep. Did not save my windshield though. And I’ve been driving around for a year and a half with a windshield that looks like you’re looking through a bunch of crushed diamonds. And I just got tired of it. And my friends at Mopar said, Hey, you really should try the Gorilla Glass out. And they sent me one. And so it’s been sitting at the dealership for six months or something. And our friend Mike Rice just left at, at a certain point and point, he goes, Hey dude, you need to get your

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1m 44s):

Auto glass. I was gonna say, doesn’t it get like absorbed like a wound? It just like goes back into the dealership if you go

Sean P. Holman (1m 49s):

There too long. So he brought it by and it’s been sitting on my garage floor for a few weeks. I’m like, man, I gotta find a glass guy. And then you said, well, you have a glass guy coming on. I’m like, Whoa, do we know anything about him? And I’m like, all right, well I might as well have

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (2m 1s):

Him himself. I know that he dresses up in a, in a chipmunk costume.

Sean P. Holman (2m 3s):

He didn’t do that for me. He came just dressed in a polo and knocked it out and very good quality work. And I’m happy ’cause my windshield is like, see-through again.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (2m 13s):

Did you guys bond? ’cause I hear he drives the Jeep too.

Sean P. Holman (2m 16s):

He pulled up in a glass gladiator. A glass gladiator, Well. it wasn’t made of glass. He had glass in the back. Oh,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (2m 22s):

Windshield. That would be a good

Sean P. Holman (2m 23s):

Spot. But Norm, but it’s like a five foot bed. So normally you’re going like, no, you can have a, like everybody has a F-150 or, I dunno, something. But no, the gladiator rolled up and it’s all wrapped and everything. I’m like, all right, this guy’s cool. Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (2m 34s):

Okay, good. Well I’m excited to talk about glass. I, I think what you got going on? So

Sean P. Holman (2m 38s):

This past week I went up to Monterey and so OVR had a activation, but that’s not what excites me. I mean. We had a like 35 overland vehicles at the Monterey Fairgrounds. And it was awesome ’cause we did a parade lap around the whole fairgrounds and there was all sorts of super cool high-end cars. And I’m just driving the Wrangler and I’m like, and so people were like cheering and clapping. Oh really? And that was fun. Yeah. So anyway, I go up there and as you know, I was in Colorado and Utah and, and, and traveling the, the, the, the mountains. I was outta cell phone range for like two and a half, three days. And I’m still recovering like hundreds of emails. So much work to do. And it’s just like crap.

Sean P. Holman (3m 19s):

And I always hate leaving ’cause I’m, I don’t have cell service when I’m out in these places. So I’m like, You know what, if starlink ever came out with a small dish, I would be all over that. And then on Facebook I see an ad for starlink. Nope, I see this ad for starlink mini case and I’m like, starlink Mini. And I check, I click on it, it’s like, here’s a hard case for storing your startling mini. And I’m like, what? So I go to starlink. Sure enough, they just released a fricking starlink mini, which is smaller than my laptop. It’s like 11 by 12 or 10 by 11 or something like that. It’s 50 bucks a month for 50 gigabytes. And you can use it while driving. And it’s supposed to get a little less bandwidth than the, the big dish.

Sean P. Holman (4m 2s):

But it’s made to be portable, super lightweight. The wifi router is actually built into the dish. So all you do is plug in to power and you’re boom, you’re done. Really? That’s it. Also self-contained. And it’s tiny, right? It’s like the size of my laptop. So I’m like, ah man, should I order it? What’s the box C cost? Well, right now the big, the the big normal size one is, is that the, like you’d put on like a sprinter van or a motor home? No, your house. You put on your house. Okay. Whatever their full size, some of ’em you can use for run, they have different versions, but it’s like 5 99. They have it on sale for 2 99 at Best Buy and through starlink and some other places. So I’m like, man, that’s pretty cool. And, but it’s 150 bucks a month for unlimited roaming.

Sean P. Holman (4m 42s):

I’m like, I don’t need that much data. ’cause this is only gonna be when I’m like away from data and my cell phone’s got unlimited and blah, blah, blah. The starlink Mini is only 50 bucks for 50 gigs and it’s a dollar a gig. So it’s like, no, you know, surprise, if I want extra I could buy it. But the dish was like 5 99. So then I looked at it as well. But the payoff in six months, it’s like half for the mini dish because it’s 50 bucks a month. So you’re basically, every month you save a hundred bucks over the other one. So you quickly catch up to the price. So I’m like, all right, I’m just gonna do it. And we’ll see. And there’s a bunch of people are like, oh, you know, they have these giant like starlake dishes on the tops of their sprinter vans or their Jeeps or their raptors. They use Bob. Yeah, they’re like 36 inch dish. But they’re huge.

Sean P. Holman (5m 22s):

And it looks like you have a wing on the top. And I’m like, that’s ridiculous. The mini, I ordered the mini and I’m like, I gotta find a Mount Well. it turns out. So a couple people that I know, so Matt Duney, he’s like from the Raptor runs and then Greg Fz from Fz Motorsports, apparently they started this little company called High Speed Mounts. Hmm. So they made a mini mount and it’s able to be used on the T slots on my Rhino racks. So I went through all my hardware and I’m like, I have the hardware to mount it, call ’em up. I’m like, I think I sent ’em an email and I didn’t even realize who they were. And we found out that we all knew each other like later. So I bought the, I bought the mount, put it on, put the mini on it. Dude, that thing is like life changing really? So everybody’s like, oh, it’s gonna suck while you’re moving.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (6m 2s):

Do you need to be able to see like the southern sky?

Sean P. Holman (6m 4s):

No. Well they, they, ideally you wanna be pointed toward the northern sky, but this particular dish is like their latest dish where it can be flat. So it’s flat mounted on the roof. I can still take, put it in the garage. I have it mounted in the middle of the roof rack. Can’t even see it when it’s, when it’s on there. Does it get,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (6m 17s):

Get blocked by your lightener boxes?

Sean P. Holman (6m 19s):

I had the lightener box on, but you gotta remember the lightener box is plastic. Oh.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (6m 23s):

It goes right through it.

Sean P. Holman (6m 24s):

A lot of people on Broncos and Wranglers put ’em on the inside of the fiberglass hard tops in the back. Mm. There’s a few mounts for those so you can see up. But I’ve got the racks, I had to put it on the outside. It’s fully weatherproof. I was impressed. I was driving and I saw anywhere between like 70 and 140 megabits per second. Oh

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (6m 40s):

My gosh.

Sean P. Holman (6m 41s):

While driving. Yeah, that’s not bad. And then parked, they’re like, oh yeah, it’s round up. You should be able to see like a hundred, a hundred parked. I would seen like 1 60, 1 70 that’s just parked.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (6m 49s):

That’s really I mean that you wouldn’t wanna stream, you know, high quality video. You can, you could though. You could, but really that’s for like all your email. Yeah,

Sean P. Holman (6m 56s):

Yeah, yeah. It stuff that, but but you only need 20 megabytes per second to stream HD video. So like I could watch a movie in the middle of nowhere if I wanted to. But yeah, the idea is I need to be able to answer emails. I need to be able to send people things. I need to be able to keep put the podcast up. ’cause the podcast got up late ’cause I had no cell phone. I had no way to get ahold of anybody. So now this way I, I don’t have that problem. And I already pay like 200 bucks plus a year for my satellite communicator. So like if something bad happens, I hit SOS and the helicopter comes and I can send, you know, messages out to people. I’m like, I’ll dump that. ’cause I got Starlake, I use wifi calling on my phone now, so I’ll be in the middle of nowhere. Oh yeah. wifi calling through it. And the wifi dude, I’m like, they say a hundred feet away.

Sean P. Holman (7m 37s):

I was like 150 feet no problem. Still had like 70 gigabytes.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (7m 41s):

So you could have your laptop by the campfire.

Sean P. Holman (7m 43s):

Totally. Oh, interesting. So anyway, that was my little thing is, oh, this all

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (7m 46s):

But this, this defeats being by the campfire though, doesn’t

Sean P. Holman (7m 49s):

It? Not when it’s the being by the campfire’s your job.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (7m 52s):

Oh, good point.

Sean P. Holman (7m 54s):

So now, now I don’t have to worry about, oh, where do I have to be? I’m like, boom, turn the starlink on. Done. And it plugs into, I have it plugged into my inverter, but you can plug it in USBC to a hundred watt USBC, high power outlet and you can use it that way. How’d

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 8s):

You get powered to the top of the Jeep?

Sean P. Holman (8m 9s):

I just ran it right through the Freedom panel tops. Just right through it.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 13s):

The freedom panel tops.

Sean P. Holman (8m 14s):

The removable panels in the front. Yeah, there’s a seam right there. So I just ran it straight through there.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 18s):

Oh, it fit right through there. Yeah. You didn’t have to

Sean P. Holman (8m 19s):

Drill a hole. Not drilling a hole. Because I wanna be able to take it off. It’s not a permanent, but it needs to be up there and out of the way. When is

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 25s):

It a, is it a flat cable or is it round? It’s round. It’s round. Okay. Because they make flat cables as well. Yeah, it’s,

Sean P. Holman (8m 30s):

Huh. Worked fine. Didn’t leak. Nope. No issues. So

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 32s):

Is this an Elon Musk company? Yes, it

Sean P. Holman (8m 34s):

Is. starlink, SpaceX, starlink Tesla. Damn that boy. No, he’s killing it. And dude, I remember the first time I saw starlink, I was standing in Utah. It’s pitch black moonless night and a bunch of us are out there and all of a sudden it starts sparkling. And if you’ve ever seen it, it looks like a, the aliens are invading.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 53s):

You’re talking about the satellites.

Sean P. Holman (8m 54s):

The satellites themselves.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (8m 56s):

I’ve seen those. I when I was in Lake Powell,

Sean P. Holman (8m 58s):

It’s a ribbon of flashing lights that are like in a train, in a line that get more intense as they get above you than fade as they go toward the horizon. If you’ve never seen one before, like it’ll freak you out the first time you saw that. But it’s interesting when you, you can look at the view on the app, the app’s actually pretty good. And it’ll show you like where the satellite coverage is above you. And it’s like you’re out in the open, it’s like full blue globe above you of all the satellites. I don’t know how many tens of thousands that he has up there now. But thanks for the wifi Elon, because now, now I never have to worry about it. He’s running

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (9m 31s):

A junky junkyard of satellites above our heads.

Sean P. Holman (9m 33s):

Dude, it’s crazy. I, I just like the technology. It’s crazy. But again, the fact that I don’t have to plan on, you know, I have to tell you, oh, I’m gonna be out. I might not have it. You have to put it up, whatever. It’s fine. Wherever I am, I can make a phone call. I can FaceTime the fam, I can put the podcast up, I can answer emails. I have 500 when I get back and I can use it while driving. Except,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (9m 52s):

Unless you’re again in like a slot canyon, then you’re, yeah. I

Sean P. Holman (9m 55s):

Mean you need a, a view of the sky if you’re in like heavy trees or Yeah, slot canyon. But normally I wouldn’t be camping in slot canyon. ’cause if dangerous it rained, I’d get washed away. So that was my, that was my weird week of technology.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (10m 8s):

Oh, my weird week of technology involved. My video going viral. And we’re not gonna about talk about the subject matter. I’m just gonna say it’s weird going viral. Haven’t done it. Been in the media for, for many long

Sean P. Holman (10m 18s):

Time. How long death, how many death threats did you get? I

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (10m 19s):

Didn’t get any death threats. I got a lot of, Hey, I’m gonna come steal your vehicle. It’s, I told,

Sean P. Holman (10m 22s):

I told you that was gonna happen. So that is a little bit funny.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (10m 24s):

It’s not a lot. Well one guy said, I’m a career criminal and I’m gonna tell you I’m gonna get it. That’s awesome. And so that was kinda spooky. I’m not gonna lie to you. It was kind of weird. He’s like, I I’m gonna come get your truck and here’s how I’m gonna do it. And then about an hour later he says, just kidding. I work in environmental protection out of Canada

Sean P. Holman (10m 39s):

And he also says, I’m still coming to

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (10m 41s):

The truck. No, but like, but he, he, he messaged me directly. It wasn’t a comment. Yeah. Like he was, he was like, I’m gonna show this guy.

Sean P. Holman (10m 47s):

Oh, I love that. Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (10m 48s):

Yeah. So that was really weird, the video. I thought I was gonna be super, super happy if I was gonna crack like a million views. That was like viral to me. As of today. Just YouTube alone. Holman any idea?

Sean P. Holman (11m 3s):

28,000,030. Nice.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (11m 6s):

Stupid. It is just ridiculous.

Sean P. Holman (11m 7s):

It is, it is stupid. It’s

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (11m 8s):

Stupid. It’s crazy. So it’s The Truck, Show Podcast. My name is Lightning. He’s Holman. But for this episode, you’re gonna call me Viral Sensation. That’s disgusting.

Sean P. Holman (11m 17s):

Is

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (11m 18s):

There a,

Sean P. Holman (11m 18s):

Is there a, a pill for that? Or a cream or like how, how do

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (11m 21s):

We Yeah, I got a, I got a a. It’s an ointment.

Sean P. Holman (11m 25s):

Well you keep your viral and your ointment over there. Alright. Thank you Nissan for sticking with us and presenting The Truck, Show Podcast with the greater masses and for having a great truck. And we would like you to go check out that truck by heading down to your local Nissan dealer where you can drive the Nissan frontier or a little secret if you wait a couple months, the 25 models are coming and they’re awesome. So you could find out more at Nissan usa dot com where you can build and price. And I’ve been looking at the, the new interior of the 25 Frontier and I’m like, man, that screen is nice. That interior’s pretty, pretty dope. And I kinda like

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (12m 2s):

The, what

Sean P. Holman (12m 2s):

Are you saying? More aggressive grill. It’s got the old hard body like three slats in the leading edge. I’m like, I think’s cool.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (12m 9s):

Are you gonna say that you’re gonna trade in your leased electric car for

Sean P. Holman (12m 14s):

Frontier? I do miss having a pickup.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (12m 16s):

You do need to have I mean a jeep is a great utility vehicle without the utility.

Sean P. Holman (12m 20s):

That’s not true. it does everything except for haul stuff, oversize big things in the back. Oh, it hauls plenty of things, including as Yeah it does. But but no, a Nissan frontier would fit into my life pretty well. If you think you need a pickup truck, then head on down to your local Nissan dealer.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (12m 36s):

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Jay “Lightning” Tilles (14m 13s):

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Jay “Lightning” Tilles (14m 55s):

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It’s The truck show with your hosts Lightning and Holman.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (15m 38s):

Another in studio guest here at The. Truck Show Podcast. We’ve got Andrew Weaver, who I found on the Gram. He’s the owner of SoCal Glass Kings. And you’re like, wait, bottle Glass. And we talked about it on an episode, go or two. I said that I had become infatuated with his channel because he’s wearing like bare costumes. He wears the tuxedo as he’s installing glass but doing auto glass. And I’ve never found anyone who’s been interesting to watch install Auto Glass. So Andrew, welcome to the podcast. Hey, what’s up everybody? Good to be here. Thank you for having

Sean P. Holman (16m 13s):

Me. And by the way, I hired him to replace my auto glass so

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (16m 17s):

You’ve got experience firsthand with him. I, I do. Fantastic. All right. Before we can let you talk, we’ve got quick Intro. Don’t move. What does it? does it take Entrepreneur

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Quit And don’t let anyone, you can’t There this is an entrepreneur.

Sean P. Holman (16m 44s):

You found him and you didn’t tell me about it. No. And I get the notifications from our scheduling software and it says Andrew Weaver. And I’m like, who’s that dude? Who’s

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (16m 53s):

That guy? Yeah.

Sean P. Holman (16m 54s):

And then I looked and it said SoCal Glass Kings. And I was like, okay, I actually have a need for Auto Glass and I hit you up. I’m like, what’s this all about? You’re like, dude,

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I follow him on Instagram. And I was like, okay,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (17m 7s):

He’s gotta, he’s gotta do this voice. Come on

4 (17m 9s):

My podcast that’s talk about

Sean P. Holman (17m 11s):

Yourself. And then I went, have you ever worked with him? And you’re like, no, nope,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (17m 16s):

Just follow him just on the

Sean P. Holman (17m 18s):

Ground. So, so I went to Yelp and he had like 55 star reviews and I’m like, alright, good enough for me. I’m like, Hey dude, you’re gonna be on my podcast next week and I’d rather talk from a place of experience. Can

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (17m 28s):

You come over and do something Gorilla Glass on 3 92?

Sean P. Holman (17m 31s):

You put a new windshield in my 3 92. So you did, you were here yesterday. Yes sir.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (17m 35s):

And I knew that because they saw it on his Instagram. It’s SoCal Glass Kings, right? Yeah. SoCal Autoglass Kings. SoCal Autoglass Kings. And so I didn’t even know he was over until I saw your front yard. I’m like, what? Wait,

Sean P. Holman (17m 47s):

What? Yeah, so he was here yesterday and so far the, the glass and the Wrangler has not shattered. It hasn’t popped out. There’s no like extra urethane goo around the edges or anything like that.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (17m 59s):

I’m gonna go see Urethane Goo. They’re playing at the Palladium tomorrow night.

Sean P. Holman (18m 2s):

Yeah. And great punk band. So, so far five out of five stars hasn’t,

Andrew Weaver (18m 5s):

Hasn’t blown off yet. Hasn’t.

Sean P. Holman (18m 7s):

Yeah. Well I didn’t drive it today so I let it just bake in the 95 degree heat. So. Alright,

Andrew Weaver (18m 13s):

That’s

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (18m 13s):

Good. So Andrew, what’s the backstory? How did you end up being the guy on Instagram with like 60,000 followers or more, whatever it is. And you’re dressing up in interesting outfits. So before you, I saw you in like tuxedos and stuff like that. You were just using very innovative tools that I’ve never seen. Now maybe they were tricks of the trade that like Safelite or those guys, your competition they were using and not showing us because they wanted to keep them secret. But here you are with like all these interesting mirrors and tools and pulleys and you were doing everything yourself. You’re, you’ve got these giant front windshields that are like for a full sized one ton pickup truck or larger.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (18m 55s):

You are installing them by yourself with all these interesting apparatus. How did that happen? Where, take us back

Andrew Weaver (19m 0s):

From the very, very beginning.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (19m 1s):

Yeah. Like how did you get an auto glass

Sean P. Holman (19m 3s):

By the way? On Instagram is a hundred thousand followers.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (19m 6s):

So I was way under.

Sean P. Holman (19m 6s):

You were way under. Damn. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (19m 8s):

So it all started a long time ago. I was actually doing DoorDash and, and I wanted to be a mechanic. My wife wouldn’t let me be a mechanic. She said that my body would deteriorate too fast. So I was like, okay, fair enough. And then I saw auto glass and she, that was on the approved lifts of occupations. So I thought it was really cool. ’cause not only do I get to work on cars, it’s a lot easier than being a mechanic and it’s a lot cleaner. And then not only that, but I get to work on Maseratis and Beamers and Benzes. Whereas most mechanics, they get older cars, you know, who needs brake changes and maintenance stuff. Yeah. ’cause

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (19m 41s):

All the warranty work, the new cars are going to the dealerships.

Andrew Weaver (19m 43s):

They’re all gonna the dealerships. Right. So you never really see new cars as a mechanic. Exactly. So it was really cool to see all these, you know, the ins, ins and outs of, you know, where someone sees like, oh look at that Audi. Like I’ve been in and out of that Audi 25 times. You know, at Safe Flight actually is where I started and she, I had applied and then they denied me and then she was like, Whoa, let’s apply again. So I was like, I don’t really feel like it. So she applied again for me. Your

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 6s):

Wife applied for you?

Andrew Weaver (20m 7s):

She did, yeah. Yeah. That’s crazy. And so while I was door ashing,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 10s):

She apply me not to turn it on myself here, but like my girlfriend many, many years ago applied for me at the radio station I ended up spending a 25 year career at. So it’s interesting that she applied for you. You go to work for Safelite and,

Sean P. Holman (20m 23s):

And and how are your kids together?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 26s):

How are my kids together?

Sean P. Holman (20m 27s):

Oh, you don’t know her anymore? No. She did that for you and you bailed on her?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 31s):

No, no. didn didn’t bail on her. She, she, she bailed. She found another dude

Sean P. Holman (20m 36s):

That wore a

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 37s):

Black leather jacket.

Sean P. Holman (20m 37s):

Ooh. Did it have chains that would jingle? Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 40s):

Yeah. Like one of those, those like punk rock, like Ramon style leather jackets. Yeah. She left me for him.

Andrew Weaver (20m 46s):

That’s

Sean P. Holman (20m 47s):

That’s awesome. Thanks for

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (20m 48s):

A little bit bitterly Wow. Picture peeling off the scab. Appreciate that man. Well you brought it up. You’re, you’re the one who said not to make it about myself. I I know, right? Let Lemme go. She was the one that I brought to an Ingle Boingo show at Irvine Meadows at the time. Okay. And I brought her up to Was it a dead man’s party? Yes, it was. It was on Halloween. And I went to, and I introduced her to Kevin and Bean and they’re like, well she’s way too hot for you. And then yeah, but that’s what all your friends always say about Dean decided to hit on her. Well, yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, she was, was Bean wearing a leather jacket? No, he was not. He was wearing board shorts the way he normally was. Sounds about right. That’s that’s inside baseball talk here for K Rock fans in LA for XK Rock. Yeah. So back to safe flight.

Andrew Weaver (21m 28s):

So yeah. So yeah, so she applied for me, then they hired me again. They absolutely loved me the second time. Immediately fell in love with it. Immediately was like super good at it. Do you

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (21m 39s):

Have to start out as like an apprentice? You go out with somebody else who is a, a pro and you just watch and shadow that person.

Andrew Weaver (21m 46s):

So they do like a, like an actual training class. So you actually go, you learn the, the how’s and the why’s and then you actually had to have hands on training for a while. And then they kind of let you do it on your own for a little bit. And then when they deem you ready then they let you go. And

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (21m 59s):

So what is this like a three month process? Six months? How long are you? Three months. Three months. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They gotta make sure you’re not gonna destroy paint and dashboards and everything else, right?

Andrew Weaver (22m 8s):

Yeah. And even then I mean it’s, it is really hard, you know, ’cause there’s so many different makes and models and so many different glasses on each car. It’s impossible for really someone to be, you know, ready, perfectly ready, but they get you ready enough and then, you know, send you out. That way you can start, start doing it. Yeah. I just caught on super fast. Really, really fell in love with the craft. You know, it didn’t matter if it was super hot, if we had a ton of cars to do that day. I was like, I was ready to go. I thought, I always thought it was super fun. And not only that, but when it got busy then you get more hours. So I was like, dude, let’s work 50, 60 hours a week. I’m down, let’s go. So I was just, you know, I just really, really loved the house.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (22m 45s):

He was ripping glass man.

Andrew Weaver (22m 46s):

I was, yeah, I would. And man, I would rip through ’em super, super fast. I don’t even work as fast as I do. ’cause I was just like, I would rush through all the jobs because that was kind of the culture there, unfortunately. But then saying you

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (22m 56s):

Rush

Andrew Weaver (22m 57s):

The quality sometimes goes down. Okay. Because you’re, you’re going so fast you can’t even really think about what you’re doing. So I damage a lot of stuff back in the day. I made a lot of mistakes. But I feel like my process, even though it was kind of reckless at the beginning, I front loaded all my mistakes and now I almost never really never make mistakes. So what

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (23m 14s):

Type of mistakes do rookies make?

Andrew Weaver (23m 19s):

Breaking moldings, getting glue all over the place. Messing up people’s, you know, a pillars, stuff like that. They’re breaking stuff.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (23m 26s):

All the plastic tabs that don’t go back on. And you gotta use some kinda like gummy glue to that little leaving extra glass on the windshield. ’cause you gotta break the old one out, right?

Andrew Weaver (23m 36s):

No, sometimes. Yeah. But it’s like a lot. It’s like a, it’s a lot of little stuff and I made a lot, a lot of little stuff. So I was like the guy that everybody talked about at the beginning. And then very soon after I was like a beast and I was the number one on all the leaderboards. O other managers were like, Hey man, you wanna come over to my shop? And I was like, no, my shop’s a 10 minute drive for me. Yeah, exactly. Like I don’t wanna come to this shop.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (23m 57s):

The stuff that you, so Andrew, the, the, the stuff that you were breaking, I just want to go in because I can imagine this, you get hired to do like Bentley glass or Newport Beach or something and, and it’s a door. It’s not the windshield. It’s like a door has been busted out or like an attempted theft or something. There have to be all sorts of tabs and screws that are hidden that you can’t see behind burl wood panels and all this stuff. And you don’t, there is no, like, you can’t just go on all data on, in the field on your phone and look up. How do you remove this door panel? You’re just feeling around using your little plastic pry tool, prying stuff off. Is that what was going on?

Andrew Weaver (24m 30s):

Yeah. Well thankfully most cars, you know, you can look ’em up on YouTube if you get real stuck. But I mean for the most part you kind of feel around. I, I think I, I made a lot of mistakes because I was trying to rush and do as many jobs as I possibly could. And then I would just end up, because I was rushing, I would end up making mistakes, breaking stuff. And then like the company paid for it all. But they have a system to where like if you break stuff, they’ll actually like dock your pay. So kind of backfired on me. But

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (24m 57s):

Like if you, if you, you’re working on a truck. Yeah. Guy’s, brand new truck, whatever. And you, you break an A pillar or something, th that guy gets pissed off and then he calls safe flight and they have to make good instead of a new A pillar. Yeah. And then, and all that. So it’s like, it just seems like a bad situation. Like I, I would be Did you feel bad like later for going through that period?

Sean P. Holman (25m 19s):

No, he went in there like fricking Mario and Donkey Kong and was had his big mallet and he’s like smash, smashing everything up. Smashing stuff up.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (25m 26s):

No. Were you, I know you’re a young dude, but like You know what,

Andrew Weaver (25m 29s):

Did you feel guilty at all or You know what

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (25m 30s):

Honestly? Or were we getting, are we on commission?

Andrew Weaver (25m 33s):

No, it was always hourly. It was hourly with bonus at first. And then they restructured it to where they was like only hourly without bonus. But then if you fall into all these categories, which one of ’em is like mistakes, if you make too many then they’ll actually like demote you and dock your pay. But You know what to answer. Your other question. I did not feel bad at first. I was like, oh crap, this broke. And then I was like, well the company’s gonna pay for it so you’re okay. You know? And I really never placed myself in my customer’s shoes until one day, like my lead asked me, he’s like, he’s like, Andrew, what if that was your car? Like, would you feel comfortable with someone like working on it in the way that you do? And then I was like, oh man, You know what I never really thought about. Like yeah that’s kind of, I’m a dick.

Andrew Weaver (26m 13s):

Yeah, pretty

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (26m 14s):

Much.

Andrew Weaver (26m 14s):

Yeah. I was like, that’s kind of selfish in a way, you know? ’cause I’m just doing it whatever way for me. But I’m really like being careless with their materials that really they trusted us with. So then I was like, dude, like it really changed for me that one, that one day and ever since, like, I’ll be like laying stuff down, taking care of their stuff, making sure I didn’t damage it. So yeah, to answer your question, no I didn’t feel bad at first. But then once I had that realization I was like, oh man, You know what? Yeah, because I would, I wouldn’t be okay with that. I’d be like, dang, like You know what? You guys are just hacking up my car. That’s messed up. You know? So

Sean P. Holman (26m 42s):

Yeah man. It’s like an extension of us car enthusiast. So at what point did you decide, all right, I’m done working for the man and you’re gonna jump out and do your own thing?

Andrew Weaver (26m 52s):

So I was at Safelite for a little while and then I was at another company called Allstar Glass and they’re now auto glass now they got got bought out by a bigger company. I’ve

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (27m 3s):

Used both Safelite and Allstar.

Andrew Weaver (27m 5s):

Oh have you? Yeah. Yeah. So I was at Allstar actually really, really loved Allstar. So here was the, my turning point right here. So I was at Allstar, completely different from Safelite. It was like, I always imagine at Safelite, ’cause they have so many rules, there’s so much pressure. They want you to do all this work in a little bit of time. They want you to clock out as soon as possible. And they really milk you there. Man, it was horrible.

Sean P. Holman (27m 25s):

Loved it. They had a crappy jingle.

Andrew Weaver (27m 27s):

I know, right? And, and I hate when people sing the jingle. I’m like, no, that’s no go, go away. No. You know? So it was, the culture was so different. They were like, Hey, do You know what? Do your work do it right and go home. And I always dream when I was to say I always dreamed, man, what if there was a glass company where I could just go do my work and go home. Yeah. And be at peace. You know? So going, there was night and day difference. I was, I was really happy there. And their top performing store was in Gardena, which is not too far from here. Sure. But for me, going from a 10 minute drive to my shop, to a 45 minute drive to Gardena and then back and then I’m over here doing ministry at my church. I’m like, I have all these stuff going on. I was always super stressed out about how I’m gonna get home. Sometimes I go to LAX and Oh. my god, that’s a nightmare. Trying to get back. That’s an hour and a half instead of 45 minutes.

Andrew Weaver (28m 9s):

And I kept telling ’em, Hey, You know what? When they onboarded me, they said, being in Gardena for now, but we’ll move you to Orange County. Yeah, soon. Yeah. Air quotes, air quotes, you know, it never happened. And I was like, it, it never happened. And it never happened to the point where I kept asking ’em like, Hey, what timeline are we working with with Orange County? ’cause you know, I’m kind of reaching my breaking point here. It’s been three to six months and I really don’t wanna keep making this drive. And they were like, oh, well You know what, well we’ll get you over there. And then I was like, okay. Then I started looking for other avenues. ’cause I wasn’t just gonna take it. I was, I’m, I’m a very highly skilled tech at that point. I was about a year and a half in, but I was, I was cranking ’em out for one super productively and two with the skill of like a five to seven year tech. So I already knew my skillset, what I brought to the table.

Andrew Weaver (28m 49s):

And I was like, okay, well I can get a job anywhere I want. So then I went to, I, I tried to get hired at Glass America and I told ’em, Hey, I’m gonna quit. And that’s when they moved me over. But at that time I was, I was already like getting the ball rolling with my business. I got all my licenses October of 2022. So, and it was kind of over at that point. ’cause in my, in my, in my mind, my wife was like, Hey You know what? Maybe you should do it on your own. And the next day I had all my licenses. So I was like, that’s all I needed was wifey to say something. I was like done. Cool. ’cause then I had didn didn’t have to convince her, it came outta her mouth. So I was like, okay, we’re good. All we’re

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (29m 19s):

Good. What kinda licenses do you need? I don’t know. Business

Andrew Weaver (29m 21s):

License. So it’s just, yeah, you’re gonna need a city business license, California state license and then a federal EIN number and then a seller’s permit for taxes.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (29m 29s):

You don’t have to have any kind of special like a contractor would have or something like that, you know? No, nothing

Andrew Weaver (29m 34s):

Like that. You pretty much just go ahead and start installing.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (29m 35s):

You can totally go out and ruin anyone’s windshield that you want. Very much. Yeah. But you gotta have insurance. ’cause if you do, man, if you damage, if you damage a Bentley or something like that.

Sean P. Holman (29m 43s):

What about your Benzs? Or you have a glass on your Benz?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (29m 45s):

That’s one of the reasons I, and we’ll talk about that. What kind of s do you ask about SL 55 2007.

Andrew Weaver (29m 50s):

Oh God. Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (29m 51s):

And so it’s a convertible and and I from, I believe that the, the windshield is a structural member, right? It

Andrew Weaver (29m 56s):

Is on IndyCar. Yeah. Well especially on a convertible. On a convertible. But they also have the cross boards at the bottom. But on any car really the wind, the windshield structuralize the vehicle.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (30m 4s):

It is though. And it’s pitted and it drives me crazy. But I haven’t done it. ’cause I’m scared to death. I’m not gonna ask you to do it. But I am gonna ask, well here we are and I wanna find out more about the business. But like, since we’re on the topic, I am scared to have someone mess this up. And I only want to buy Mercedes glass. I have, I don’t want safe light glass. I wanna try and get some actual MB glass. Yeah. It’s got all the FM antennas and all that stuff and whatever else it’s got in there. And it’s the original windshield from, from oh seven from what I, according to the paperwork. And I just, I’m super scared about having someone do it. Well I don’t, well get the man right here. I know, right? I mean what, what do, well let’s come back to this.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (30m 44s):

I feel like

Sean P. Holman (30m 45s):

I mean you’re here. Let’s cross this off a list.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (30m 48s):

I mean what, what can I run into? Like I don’t want someone to damage the paint. ’cause it’s got a special paint there. There were only like a hundred made of that entire year of that color. So it’s white, you wouldn’t know, but whatever. I don’t want them to gouge the A pillars. Yeah. I don’t want like all that stuff. I want it done right. And I want all the sensors to work and I just don’t trust someone just to pull up the house where I lead. Drop it off at a Mercedes dealer. You get charged an arm and a leg and just some numb nut comes in the back where, you know, in the bay in the back and does it and comes out and like, and it’s leaking and creaking. And they

Andrew Weaver (31m 20s):

Else, they do, unfortunately all the dealers, they pretty much just find the cheapest guy. ’cause I’ve tried to go get contracted with the dealers. Like, oh, we, we go with this guy, he charges 160 bucks. I’m like, what the heck? And it’s like some guy, no one’s ever heard of. And to some degree he has to produce consistent work. ’cause obviously if he’s ha hacking up all the cars, you know, but at the same time they, they literally just find the cheapest guy to come and do it for them. And, and then they charge you. Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (31m 40s):

They need, they need to make profit. Of course they’re in business to make money. Right. Yeah. And so I, that’s why I haven’t done it. And I’m also kind of sketched out because I Well so what do you, what do you recommend? Like do I buy I

Sean P. Holman (31m 53s):

Think he just recommended himself. Yeah,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (31m 54s):

Well he did. But like do I, is our, what do you think about Mercedes Glass?

Sean P. Holman (31m 58s):

That’s like him coming on this show and going, Hey, do you know any good podcasts?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 0s):

Yeah, that’s true. I’m not one of ’em. So I would recommend Rogan or somebody like that. Right. Okay. Yeah. And it looks like there’s a weird film between two panes of glass that’s starting to like wrinkle if you took cellophane, like the bottom half of the glass. Yeah, dude. Like eye leveling down. That’s,

Sean P. Holman (32m 14s):

That’s laminate glass. That’s lam. It’s for sound. Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 16s):

Okay. Well it’s got that it’s not special and it’s starting to look, the top doesn’t look wavy, but the bottom looks wavy

Sean P. Holman (32m 21s):

But’s age over time from UV and is that what it is? Heat cycles and things like that? Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (32m 24s):

Yeah. It is. It delaminating. It’s

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 26s):

Not, well when you say delaminating, I, you can’t touch it or feel it?

Sean P. Holman (32m 29s):

No, no. It’s between two pains. But it’s delaminating if it’s starting to shrink discolor or wave

Andrew Weaver (32m 36s):

Waving. Especially around the edges. Especially

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 38s):

Around the edges. No, this is right through the center. Right? Like my eye line and below the whole thing from my eye line below.

Andrew Weaver (32m 44s):

Are you the original owner?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 45s):

No, two other owners.

Andrew Weaver (32m 46s):

Hmm. Is it, is it tinted?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 48s):

No.

Andrew Weaver (32m 49s):

Are you sure? Yes. Hmm. That’s weird.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 52s):

I know it’s weird. I know it’s sounds like

Sean P. Holman (32m 54s):

It’s time for new glass again.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (32m 55s):

There we go. If I put you in and you look at a street sign, you don’t notice it. But when you,

Sean P. Holman (32m 58s):

Is it better for him to get his own OE glass or you for

Andrew Weaver (33m 1s):

You to get it? No, because, so if you go, unless you actually have a wholesale account, then they’ll give you wholesale pricing. But if you, if you go as a retail customer, the price is like astronomically higher than I go

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (33m 11s):

In. Yes. It’s like two grand.

Andrew Weaver (33m 12s):

Yeah. So if I go in on my wholesale price, it’ll be a couple hundred bucks less. So you’ll save a couple hundred bucks already off the tag and then on labor. And then you don’t have to have the risk of trying to carry this $2,000 glass around. True. There’s also the benefit, I’m gonna throw it in my truck, which is already, you know, suited to carry a glass and then I’ll just go wherever you’re at. So. Gotcha. Okay. But as far as like beyond saying, I’m the auto glass guy, use me. If you were to look for an Autoglass company, I would say use someone, I’m a huge review guy. But then there’s no single source of, there’s nothing. You can look at one standard and be like, oh, he’s, this guy’s perfect because of this. So I would say just you’re saying

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (33m 50s):

It’s a Google versus Yelp or you mean like should they be looking

Andrew Weaver (33m 52s):

At No, I’m saying like anyone can fake reviews realistically. Yeah. Like I, I have a bunch of reviews on, on my platforms, but realistically I could have potentially faked all of them. So. Well the other

Sean P. Holman (34m 2s):

Side of it is, is like even if you have somebody that has a bunch of good reviews, you’ll see like glass is so varied from vehicle to vehicle that somebody may be able to do X job a hundred times no problem. And then this other car is super difficult and then bam, there’s an issue and somebody’s

Andrew Weaver (34m 18s):

Happy. Very true. Very true. So I would say just look at someone who has a good track record and then see if they work. So like yours is obviously a luxury car. See if they kind of work on luxury slash exotic type stuff, I mean really at the end of the day, you’re gonna be scared, but you’re gonna have to trust somebody to do it. Sure. Right. Because you’re not gonna do it yourself and you probably wouldn’t even wanna do it yourself. So I would say at the end of the day, just do your homework. If you’re super, super concerned, do your homework and kind of ask ’em some questions, you know, pre-qualify.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (34m 43s):

Yeah. What are the type, because for example, a lot of our listeners, they don’t live in California, Southern California. So they’re Yeah. And they’re gonna need glass and they can’t hire you ’cause you don’t travel to, you know, Missouri. Yeah. So what questions are they asking

Sean P. Holman (34m 55s):

Here? I’ll tell you one right now. One of the things that when I was researching him, even though he was brought to my attention from you, I went on his website, I went on Google, I went on Yelp. I’m like, all right, I gotta find out about it. The, the number one thing for me is that he had ADOS calibration even on the side of his van and on the side of his gladiator pickup. And so a lot of people, especially with newer cars, you have to have the A DDoS or the adaptive cruise control recalibrated. And so he’s got the tools to do that. And so a lot of people, they don’t want to, they don’t wanna be liable for it. No, no, no. They don’t wanna do the extra steps or the extra labor that it costs to have it valued. ’cause they’re like, oh, I’m just putting in the same glass.

Sean P. Holman (35m 38s):

Why do I need to be calibrated? Well, because the distance from the camera and the, the optical clarity of the glass or aftermarket versus oe, there’s enough difference in there that if you don’t have it calibrated, your four collision warning’s not gonna work. Your adaptive cruise control’s not gonna work. Right. The car may decide to break in the middle of a turn rather than falling, like all that stuff. So I wanted to know, hey, I’ve got a glass guy that can calibrate it. And on Wranglers, the dealers don’t like doing it if you have a lift because there’s special tools you need. I haven’t even asked, asked him about it yesterday because I had heard horror stories of people go into the dealer to have their glass replaced. They’re like, oh, dealer says you have to let all the air out of your tires if you’re on 30 sevens to get the height right. Well he’s got an after no way. Yeah, that’s crazy.

Sean P. Holman (36m 18s):

He’s got an aftermarket tablet where he measures the distance of the vehicle’s ride height and then it does the algorithm and then he drives it around and he can tie it all together. So the fact that somebody has the ability to do ados, especially on a new vehicle for me was, was pretty big. Because that’s a pretty involved process. I mean it takes probably what, 45 minutes or so to do, right?

Andrew Weaver (36m 42s):

On the driving one? The

Sean P. Holman (36m 43s):

Driving stuff, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, obviously there’s some you can do parked with a whatever, but like on my Jeep, it’s a driving one. So he sets stuff.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (36m 49s):

Well, of the videos that I was fascinated when I first found your account is that you had this incredible contraption, kind of like a, like a bullseye that you were setting up, you know, as if I were like, and it all folds out all like, looked like aluminum or steel and it unfurls and you got got a target and you were targeting the ADOS system Yes. On this. And so how did you learn to do that? Was that at Safe Flight or was

Andrew Weaver (37m 10s):

That later? That was at Safe Flight and so I learned how to do it there. And then when I started my own thing, so here’s a, here’s a couple things. Like when I started out, I, I knew what I wanted to do. I knew the company that I wanted to be, I just had to figure out the pieces of how to get there. So I already knew I wanted to do insurance work. I knew that no matter what I had to do, I was gonna do it. I knew that I wanted to do the calibrations. I, I would research all the tools that were on the market. I was bent either toward the TEL one or this newer one called the Car Cal, which is the one that I use. It’s super convenient. Folds up real flat, it’s like 35 pounds, whereas the tel is like 90 and you can’t fold it down flat. So I, I ended up going, going for that one. No regrets. It’s been super awesome.

Andrew Weaver (37m 51s):

And they advertise it as a mobile stand, whereas there’s a lot of confusion as to like, oh, it’s only supposed to be in a shop. Other side, other guys you can say you can do a mobile, there’s variance in the, you know, if you do it on a street, there’s, it’s not, there’s a crowd

Sean P. Holman (38m 2s):

Of the road. Exactly.

Andrew Weaver (38m 3s):

So, and what the, the manufacturers and, and the guys at the Cartel said they’re, because I, I asked him a lot of questions ’cause I was like, dude, I don’t want to be just going and making money for no reason. And then putting people in danger, Well it. And by

Sean P. Holman (38m 16s):

The way, he offers a lifetime warranty on his work and his ADOS calibration. So he needs tools that are gonna make it. That was one of the things we talked about. And I’m like, all right, what if the ADOS is off? He goes, dude, drive it around. If there’s a problem, call me back. I’ll recalibrate it for you. Yep. So like that was a big deal too. So like, you know, he definitely wasn’t the cheapest guy around. But I hired him because he, he checked all my boxes of how

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (38m 35s):

Stuff I was looking for. How, how do you calibrate that? Do you plug in OBD? Is that how

Andrew Weaver (38m 38s):

It works? So it is, it is all OBD Well there’s two types of different calibrations. One of ’em is static where you’ve maybe seen some of the videos where I, you know, I set up the target boards as you’re mentioning. Another one is dynamic. So basically we’ll plug in the same tablet into the OBD port and then start the calibration. And then we drive it and as we drive it, basically the tablet’s telling the OBD and the ECU to read the lanes and the data from the road. And then it recalibrates to the new windshield, the new windshield, you know, screen and, and the new windshield position.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (39m 5s):

Gotcha. So it’s done everything for you, but you’ve gotta know the process. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (39m 8s):

So then once it’s done it just says, you know, calibration successful or, or not, you know, and if it’s not then, then you gotta figure out why it’s not, it’ll tell you this might be why it’s not. And then every, every great once in a while is the glass. I actually did one today that unfortunately it was the glass and I had experience with these Audis before and we used to always get the American FYG glass if glass one of the major OEM manufacturers. But for the American FYG on these Audis, for some reason they would, the recals just would not go through. And then we would try and try ’em, try ’em, we swap out the glass for OEM, boom, we’ll go through right away. Interesting. And what

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (39m 43s):

Do you attribute that to? You don’t know. Is it something reflective within the glass or that it’s, well, not allowing, well, You

Andrew Weaver (39m 49s):

Know what, when I picked up, so the other day when this happened, we had a Chinese XYG, which people kind of give Chinese glass a bad rap. But honestly in my experience, never had a problem. So, so even on stuff where, you know, like, like I kind of within myself, I’m like, I wonder if I would’ve used a Chinese glass if it would’ve calibrated or not, if we wouldn’t have to get OEM. So, but the other day I was training one of my guys to use one of the setting tools. One of the cups actually detached and the glass broke. So then I had to run down to the warehouse, grab another one. They handed me an American FYG. And in my mind I was like, oh crap. Like I kind of had a feeling, I was like, I hope this calibrates, but if it hasn’t, like I guess you know, it is what it is.

Andrew Weaver (40m 33s):

So then I already drove 30 minutes. That’s the only glass they had. So I had to come all the way back and then another 30 minute drive. So then we got it set up, we got it set. I threw all those old cups away. I was like, You know what? I literally just bought all new cups that day. You’re talking about suction cups? Suction cups, yeah. ’cause that gave out. I was like, this is never happening again. So I threw all the old ones away, I bought all new cups and then So, we set the glass and then when I, we set the glass, I noticed a very, very slight bow in it. And I was like, when I saw the bow after we set it, I was like, I think we’re screwed. Just as I thought when I saw the glass originally. And then sure enough we tried to calibrate it like four or five times. I was like, it’s not gonna go through. So I just told my customer, thankfully he was super chill. He was like, all right, cool. I was like, okay, you’re gonna, we gotta pay your deductible today. ’cause we just put the glass and he’s like, all cool.

Andrew Weaver (41m 13s):

I was like, okay, cool. Sounds good. So, we, so how, how did we solve it? So, so basically, unfortunately we had to come back, redo the job again for free. But it is what it is. ’cause we gotta take care of our customers, right? So we just ordered the original Audi glass and then thankfully it was also insurance So, we just billed ’em for it. There’s no out of additional cost to our customer. And sure enough I swapped out the glass. OEM went through first time. So yeah. Interesting. So

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (41m 38s):

Is there, is there any downside to like, taking glass on and off too often? Like do you end up scoring?

Sean P. Holman (41m 43s):

Don’t you? Can I, I think are you talking about on the car or the glass on the car. Oh, okay. I say the windshield’s done the

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (41m 48s):

Windshield’s yeah’s the mattress. Yeah. Throw it away. You’re not allowed to reuse it? No. Well no,

Sean P. Holman (41m 51s):

You can’t reuse it. ’cause normally you break it when you pull it out. Oh,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (41m 53s):

Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. So two questions. You inspired me. I wonder if you, are there instances where, where guys wanna save it like it’s an antique. Like I, here here’s a 1953 GMC pickup. I need you to take this glass out ’cause we’re gonna paint it and then I need you to put it back in. Does that ever happen? it

Andrew Weaver (42m 10s):

Does. And then I usually end up either, I’ll just let ’em know, Hey, it could break I, well, right around the fifties era and, and before, that’s kind of where, not my expertise. So I honestly don’t really touch ’em. But when, when it comes to like the newer ones with the laminate glass and the gaskets, I can knock those out all day. So that’s when I start messing with ’em. But if it’s older than that, like if you get like a 1950s something with the little square flag glasses, I don’t even touch those. ’cause I, that’s just not my expertise. And

Sean P. Holman (42m 32s):

The, and the stainless steel trim that pops in that you Oh God. Bend immediately.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (42m 37s):

So then back to

Sean P. Holman (42m 37s):

You look at it funny and you bend it. Yes,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (42m 39s):

Exactly. Back to my first question then. Is there a number of times where the glue residue starts caking up and you just can’t get a good seal anymore? If like for instance, you’re driving off road like Holman, he’s just put, you put the gorilla glass on the other day, he gets popped by another rock. You know, Bernard Lightner is in front of him and Rus on him and he busts the front windshield. It’s how many times can he redo this glass before you’ve got a buildup of the glue where you just can’t get it flat anymore to make a seal? Well,

Andrew Weaver (43m 5s):

So every time you take off the glass you always trim the old glue down. Like pretty much all the way near the metal. Not too metal, but you leave like one to two millimeters of the glue leftover. I have never seen a car where there’s like been so many installs where it’s like, Oh, my god this is horrible. Some of ’em you can tell like, oh, like they’ve replaced this glass a few times, but never to the point where it’s like, okay this is really, really like bad and you know, problematic for the install process. ’cause the thing about it is you, the way that urethane bonds it either bo it bonds best to old urethane. Once you trim it, you just put the old new urethane right on top of the old bead that’s on the car. And it also bonds best, best to primer basically.

Andrew Weaver (43m 45s):

You know, realistically, even if it’s all caked up, it’s kind of just like a nice seat for the new Gotcha. The new glue anyway. Yeah. Gotcha.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (43m 51s):

What is the worst truck to put glass into to replace new, old, whatever?

Sean P. Holman (43m 59s):

Actually I’m gonna refine that question. Okay. Not the worst. What’s the hardest? The hardest. And what’s the most involved? Because I see those as two different things. I get like one could be hard. Yeah. And it’s a pain in the butt. One is like, it’s not hard, but maybe there’s a lot of pieces or the windshield stuff. Yeah. It’s really technical. Like, is there,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (44m 15s):

We’re not talking about a 21 window Volkswagen van either. Well,

Sean P. Holman (44m 18s):

We’re just talking about one, one pane of glass. Not

Andrew Weaver (44m 20s):

So in relation to trucks, not a

Sean P. Holman (44m 21s):

Samba.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (44m 22s):

Yeah. Let’s first do trucks. ’cause I’m sure there’s a lot of cars that have some really interesting shapes, but it’s truck show podcasts

Andrew Weaver (44m 27s):

Trucks are generally pretty simple. So obviously some are a little bit easier and funner to do than others. But if you want to ask me personally, which ones I seriously hate Jeep

Sean P. Holman (44m 38s):

Wrangler Js.

Andrew Weaver (44m 40s):

They’re not my favorite.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (44m 41s):

Well, was there a reason that I didn’t see the install on his Instagram? I saw them before.

Andrew Weaver (44m 44s):

Oh no, we actually, we actually did film it. Oh, you did? Did We sent it to our editor and he chops ’em up and then he gets ’em back in a couple days. So. Gotcha. Okay. So we’ll, we’ll no, we’ll post it soon. I saw

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (44m 53s):

The teaser. I was like, oh, it’s laying on the, oh, it’s gorilla glass. So it’s on the ground on a blanket and all of a sudden it’s in, I’m like, oh, I got

Sean P. Holman (44m 58s):

Ripped off. I, no, I, I asked him, I go, you know, these are flat windshields. There’s gotta be pretty, pretty easy. Say I don’t like these. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (45m 5s):

Yeah. I get a lot of flack from like other glass technicians of why I don’t like ’em. ’cause they’re like technically the simplest, but they require, so on the new wranglers, they require a lot of care not to scratch the paint. And then on the old wranglers, they require a lot of care when shooting ’em. That way you don’t get ooze ’cause there’s no molding to

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (45m 20s):

Shooting them. Meaning the glue,

Andrew Weaver (45m 21s):

Meaning applying the new glue on the Got it. Yeah.

Sean P. Holman (45m 24s):

Well the nice thing too in your wife even mentioned it because wranglers, especially jls, have a front cage structure. So when the windshield folds down the, the cage is still there, right? Oh, there’s the, a pillar and whatever the, the camera and the rear view mirror mounted to the cage structure. So there’s no bonding needed to put your mirror back on the new glass or anything like that. So you just pull the glass out and the camera and the mirror stay in the vehicle still. Right. And just slap it right back on. Yeah. Which is, I thought that was pretty cool. But yeah, he’s,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (45m 53s):

But in addition to the Jeep, what else gets your ire? Well

Andrew Weaver (45m 56s):

Why did you say, I don’t really hate the Jeep. Like if I pull up to a Jeep, I’m like, all right, cool. You know, just another day. There’s only a few that I super seriously hate and they’re actually not really trucks. They’re more, oh, You know what truck is really bad is I, I it’s all the same glass, but it’s a Yukon suburban Sierra Tahoe. It’s all the same windshield for that car. But between the years of like oh one to like oh nine from oh one to, oh, I think oh eight, it’s a, it’s a, like they all look the same, but there’s one windshield and then from like oh nine to, I dunno where it cuts off like 13, it’s like the same windshield, but it’s slightly, it’s like two inches taller. But there’s just like, you gotta take off all these screws on the side and then you gotta figure out how to get the cowling out.

Andrew Weaver (46m 39s):

So, we take off all the pieces. Some guys they just kind of pull everything back and shove the new glass in. But we try to do it by the book. We do everything the right way. So when you do all the steps the right way, it’s super annoying to do those for me. I know some guys who like ’em, but I absolutely hate ’em. I is

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (46m 53s):

It because you need to make room to get in around to the glass to the right pressure points to, to break it free? Like when you’re removing it? Or is it putting, installing the new glass that is important to, to remove all the plastics and such?

Andrew Weaver (47m 5s):

Yeah, so basically you can do it what I call the ghetto way is kind of just to remove enough of the trim and then pull the cowling back just to lift it up a little bit and then shove the new glass. Basically you lay the glue and then you shove the new glass in between the cow and the glue and kind of just shove it in. It’s called stuffing actually. It’s called stuffing. So some guys stuff, you get like two cheaper guys. They’ll usually stuff everything to save time and just because like, you know, they’re in and out, they’re there to make a quick buck and move on. Whereas when we do it by the book, we do it the right way. And then that not only allows for greater, you know, adhesion for safety purposes, you know, ’cause as we mentioned, it’s structural, but that also just allows for a better quality job.

Andrew Weaver (47m 45s):

You know. ’cause sometimes when you, when you slide the glass in, you, you, you clip the bead in the, the, the glue in the wrong way and you get like an air leak so you’re

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (47m 53s):

Like whistling. So this sounds, you’ve just heard, another question you guys should be asking your potential glass guy is do you remove, are you a stuffer? Yeah. Are you stuffer stuffer? He’s gotta know your insider at that point. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (48m 1s):

They say, they say leave the stuffing for, for Thanksgiving. That’s it. Right,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (48m 4s):

Exactly. So that’s a good question. Do you remove all the pieces so you can put it in perpendicular, not slide it in at an angle. Right, exactly.

Andrew Weaver (48m 11s):

Exactly.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (48m 11s):

Yeah. And so then you had some other, so it’s trucks, all those GM vehicles you can’t stand.

Andrew Weaver (48m 17s):

So yeah, as far as trucks, I don’t really like those. All, all the other trucks are, are kind of okay if you want to group vans into trucks. The two that I absolutely hate the most are the Mercedes sprinter and the, is that just

Sean P. Holman (48m 30s):

’cause it’s so

Andrew Weaver (48m 30s):

Damn big. It’s just so big. Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh. And then you gotta figure out how to set it and it’s really heavy, really, you know, big and bulky. And even if you use two people, you gotta be real careful setting it. And then if you use one person, you gotta be super careful setting if you’re using a tool. And then also the, what’s that van? The, like the, the Chevy Express. Yep. Oh God, I hate those. Yeah, I hate those so much. Yeah. They’re just so big and and bulky. Those are like, those are like my kryptonite right there, man. I, I absolutely detest those. I,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (48m 58s):

I had an express. I’m glad I don anymore. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (48m 60s):

Then we can be friends. Yeah. So

Sean P. Holman (49m 1s):

What’s the, what’s the easiest, what’s the one glass you can slam in every single time? It’s like a Ford

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (49m 6s):

One 50 or

Sean P. Holman (49m 6s):

Something. A hundred percent accuracy. You just, no problem. You’re like, somebody calls you and goes, Hey I wanna do this, this glass. And you’re like, here’s the price. And they’re like, okay. And you’re like sweet. I can do like 10 of these today.

Andrew Weaver (49m 17s):

So yeah, if you wanted to gimme a car where, you know, it’s just makes my day and I could do 10 of ’em all day. Probably be like a, like a mid model Corolla. Like anything between like oh eight, like maybe like 20 13, 20 14. I could do those all day long. Let’s see. Like, or like a newer Nissan, like Altima, like those you could smash out real quick. That was the fastest job that I ever did was a newer Nissan Altima. And I timed it. It was 22 minutes start to finish. Hey

Sean P. Holman (49m 43s):

Oh. my

Andrew Weaver (49m 43s):

Gosh. Yeah. So yeah, those are pretty fun.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (49m 45s):

Nice. Any, any preferred trucks that are just really easy to do? You’re like, oh no sweat.

Andrew Weaver (49m 52s):

I would say the, the, the Ford F-150, the newer one with the curved glass at the top. Those I could smash out pretty quick when I was at safe flat. I used to do those 30 minutes, like all day long. Those are pretty fun. And then the newer, the newer model of the Tahoes, those are really fun too. The windshield coat on that is like a 2274. Those are super fun. Yeah. Okay.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (50m 13s):

Glass is the question. Let’s go back and we, I’m kind of gonna circle back to the glass thing. Oe safe light Chinese glass, is it case by case? Or is there a general rule where a guy’s like, hey man, I’ve called around and my glass guys, they said they can get me three different glasses. Is there one that you prefer having been around thousands of them now?

Andrew Weaver (50m 35s):

Well, if money’s not an issue, then get the OEM. But if

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (50m 40s):

And and why?

Andrew Weaver (50m 41s):

Well, just because it’s just, it’s, it’s perfect. You know, it’s just a, it’s just perfect. But then when you say that, then it leaves room for you to think, oh, how imperfect is the aftermarket? Then it raises concerns on that side. But this is what I tell people, honestly, you can use aftermarket for almost any car. It’s more case by case where like if you have like a higher end, like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Porsche recommend OEM, other other ones like that Audi that I mentioned earlier that we had to swap out OEM’s better Honda pilot that has like these, it has a double calibration. OEM’s always better for those. So it’s kind of case by case. For the most part, aftermarket is fine. Especially like if you don’t want to pay a thousand dollars for like, you know, your 2013 Corolla.

Sean P. Holman (51m 22s):

Yeah. If it’s like a 10th of the cost of the vehicle, like maybe you don’t need to do that.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (51m 25s):

Right. Yeah, exactly. Is there a difference in thickness or, or, or safety or

Andrew Weaver (51m 28s):

Any of that? No. So as far as like durability and quality

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (51m 30s):

Rock ship per like, I guess they all chip the same or are some

Andrew Weaver (51m 33s):

Essentially more or less. Yeah. Yeah.

Sean P. Holman (51m 36s):

Well and they’re all, the quality has to be the same. ’cause it’s the safety part of the rock.

Andrew Weaver (51m 39s):

And it has to be Exactly. So they’re all engineered to read, to meet the United States federal guidelines for windshield safety. So they all have to be an engineered minimum strength to at least meet that. So they’re all engineered more or less the same.

Sean P. Holman (51m 53s):

So. So there’s not like some dude in his backyard pouring windshields?

Andrew Weaver (51m 56s):

No.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (51m 57s):

Have you ever dealt with any covers? Not like an expel paint protection, but have you rolled up on a car that had a, some type of a clear barrier on the exterior of the windshield where he is trying to prevent rock chips or something? ’cause there have been several companies that have made them some successful, some not. I was researching those like, hey, if I, you know, I don’t want, if I replace the windshield on my ram or the Mercedes, I don’t wanna do it again. Like, and it’s just, I don’t replace ’em. ’cause they generally break. I replace ’em ’cause they get so rock

Andrew Weaver (52m 30s):

Pitted. Yeah. So there is a company that makes ’em, from what I’ve heard, a like some of my detailers offered the service, but it’s like 550 bucks, but it’s called clear plex. So I’ve heard, and they show me a demo video where they basically took a car and they shot it up with airsoft guns and God bunch of chips on it. And then they replaced the windshield, put the clear plex on it and they shot it up again and there was no chips. I was like, oh, that’s cool. I’m sold. But it’s five 50. So yeah. So

Sean P. Holman (52m 56s):

Let’s, let’s say it’s like half the price of windshield anyway, right? Plus there’s, I don’t know if it’s the same company, but some of those companies, they are like three layers because your windshield wipers are gonna scrape it and, and damage it. That’s what I’ve heard. When you’re washing whatever. So you peel back a layer, you peel back a layer. Oh really? Peel back a layer. Yeah, there’s a, I can’t remember the company. There’s one that makes it for, I feel

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (53m 13s):

Like that’s what road vehicles, that’s for like your motocross goggles. You just keep, you know, like tear offs.

Sean P. Holman (53m 18s):

Yep. So, but I I mean I’d rather just have the glass. ’cause I think the optical clarity changes and I’m already bugged about that stuff.

Andrew Weaver (53m 26s):

Yeah. So when you think about it, it’s like, eh, like is it super worth it to get it? Maybe if your windshield is like $3,000 might be worth it. But then if you, Ooh, but then my thing in the back of my head, because I’m always thinking of all the possibilities. Like what if you’re driving and then you get like a big piece of metal and then you lost your windshield and your $550 clearex, then you’re like, damn, this sucks. Yeah. You know,

Sean P. Holman (53m 43s):

Like what’s the most expensive windshield you’ve ever replaced on any vehicle?

Andrew Weaver (53m 47s):

It was actually a, yeah, it was the G wagon. $3,600. Oh

Sean P. Holman (53m 53s):

Yeah. Was it

Andrew Weaver (53m 53s):

Oe? It was oe, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sean P. Holman (53m 56s):

What, okay, what’s, what’s the weirdest story? So, okay, you’ve clearly replaced like broken windshields. Like, oh, I was behind a dump truck and it dropped off a boulder off the back and hit my windshield. Or I hit a bird or whatever. But like, what did you roll up and you’re like, dude, what happened to your car? Like what’s the weirdest glass replacement story

Andrew Weaver (54m 15s):

I have? Yeah. So in the wintertime we get like a handful of them where you see the white, like you look at it and then you’re like, oh, they were trying to change their wipers and it crack and it slapped down and cracked. Oh

Sean P. Holman (54m 25s):

Yeah. Yeah. So was it spring loaded when it’s just the arm? Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (54m 28s):

Oh, So. we get a lot of those in the wintertime and then we get a, I’ve had a handful of ’em where I was like, Hey, what happened to your glass? ’cause I like to make conversation. Usually they’ll tell me the story about how they saw the rock fly at them. Or there’s three main ones. So like, oh, the rock flew at me and I saw it, I heard a big crack and then I didn’t see it until later. Or I just came out to my car in the morning and it was cracked. And so I’m like, okay. I always hear those a bunch of times. But then the craziest one, oh, I’ve had a handful of ’em where it’s like, oh yeah, my boyfriend was super mad and he punched a glass so it cracked. Okay. But the craziest one I’ve ever seen was like a 2013 Camry. And man, when I pulled up, like I was, I was like rubbing my hands, like it’s kinda like the crawl. I was rubbing my head like, Ooh, I’m gonna smack this thing out. Like it’s gonna be done faster than it. Like it’s over as soon as it starts, you know?

Andrew Weaver (55m 10s):

And then when I looked at it, I was like, oh heck no. Like when I say every inch of the glass was smashed, I mean like there was not even,

Sean P. Holman (55m 17s):

Which makes it hard to remove, right? Like it does

Andrew Weaver (55m 19s):

The big it does. Yeah. So, and then that one I asked him, I was like, dude, like I wasn’t like, Hey man, what? I was like, dude, what the hell happened to

Sean P. Holman (55m 24s):

Your car?

Andrew Weaver (55m 25s):

And then he was like, oh, like a giant tree branch flew at me and then it just smashed the entire thing. So I was like, damn. And

Sean P. Holman (55m 30s):

Its name is Sarah, what were you doing dude?

Andrew Weaver (55m 35s):

And so I was like, damn, like that’s insane. And then so I’m just like thinking to myself like, man, I thought this was gonna be a nice fun job. And then so I end up doing it. And

Sean P. Holman (55m 43s):

Then while you’re doing it, you’re thinking, how did the tree branch hit it in five different spots? Right?

Andrew Weaver (55m 48s):

So yeah, I mean it was so broken that when I actually removed it, ’cause it’s laminated so it’s not like temper where it’s just in a million pieces all over the car. And I vacuum it all up. It’s still bonded to the car to some degree. So I’m cutting it out with the blades and then,

Sean P. Holman (55m 60s):

And you’ve got gloves on and protective stuff. Yeah. On

Andrew Weaver (56m 2s):

The full line. Yeah. And then, so I cut it out and then when I took the glass off, I literally folded it into quarters. Like a blanket?

Sean P. Holman (56m 9s):

Yeah, it was, did you leave it with the customer? You’re like, Hey, here’s a gift. Yeah. Frame this on your wall.

Andrew Weaver (56m 15s):

No, I had to throw it in my trash can in the van. It was

Sean P. Holman (56m 17s):

The

Andrew Weaver (56m 17s):

Worst man. It was glass everywhere. That’s, and then, and then, so it should have been a 30 minute job. It took me an hour and a half because of all the cleanup. Oh yeah.

Sean P. Holman (56m 23s):

It was horrible. And I’m sure you booked your stuff the rest of the day based on it being a Camry or something. Right? You’re like, yeah, well that, oh dude, I got four more jobs today. No problem. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (56m 31s):

Well that was back in the day, thankfully when I was at safe flight. So that was like, I was like, eh, I’m getting paid hourly. But still, like, I never had the mindset to where I was like, oh, I’m getting paid hourly. Let me milk it. I was like, dude, I’m banging out all these and getting laid.

Sean P. Holman (56m 41s):

That wasn’t a safe flight repair. That was a safe flight. Replace. Right.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (56m 44s):

So two more questions. Theft, you are you, you’re like boots on the ground, right? Yeah. You are seeing what is being broken into and potentially why? Yeah, because you’re showing up and, and a lot get reported and a lot don’t. What trends are you seeing in the market? Like what are you seeing being broken into all the time and what windows and why? Yeah.

Sean P. Holman (57m 4s):

Are you doing more than just windshields? Are you doing Yeah, So, we

Andrew Weaver (57m 7s):

Just

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (57m 7s):

Glass on size?

Andrew Weaver (57m 8s):

Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do all the glass on the car. Mainly you’ll see it on our page that it’s mainly windshields. ’cause that’s like what we do most. But we do, we do all the glass. And then, so the thing that I always tell people if it ever gets brought up is like it’s bags. So that would be backpacks, diaper bags, gym bags, any bag that you know you could possibly leave in your car if you just leave it open. Even if you live in a nice neighborhood sometimes. ’cause some of these thieves will actually travel to the nice neighborhoods and then scope it out, hit a couple cars and then go back to wherever they live. But it’s always bags, you know, sometimes they get stuff and sometimes they don’t. But that’s the number one thing we see break-ins for. And then obviously like if you leave your laptop on your seat or like your purse on your seat, you’re kind of asking for it in a sense.

Andrew Weaver (57m 49s):

And the thing about it is, you can never really be too safe. ’cause even if you’ve left your purse on your passenger seat for the past three years, you know, three years and then two days will be the day that it gets broken into and smashed. And then, you know, you got people trying to see your identity. People just, you know, you had 900 bucks in your wallet that you lost. You know, all your credit cards. You got all these random charges. Basically

Sean P. Holman (58m 7s):

What you’re saying is a locked car is not safe.

Andrew Weaver (58m 9s):

Correct. Yeah. I mean you

Sean P. Holman (58m 10s):

Just break

Andrew Weaver (58m 10s):

Glass. Yeah. And it’s pretty easy too, And when you, so like when you think like a thief, ’cause I boiled it down too ’cause I’m like, okay, after seeing so many break-ins and you see the kind of the trend of how the car looks when it gets broken into, it’s like, okay, they literally just walked up. They’re like, oh, that’s the only thing they took. So they literally walk up, look in the car, smash the glass, take the bag and leave. It’s a ten second, you know, it’s a ten second deal. They’re gone. You know,

Sean P. Holman (58m 34s):

Why is it when I’m looking at like all the police, you know, cameras like, what are the, the cameras that they wear? The body cameras, the body cams, and they roll up to like a accident, right? And they pull out their baton or their asp and they’re wailing on the back window and it won’t crack. Right? They’re trying to save somebody’s life. What? What magic glasses, that stuff. ’cause I feel like a thief just comes over and then just like taps a glass and then walks away with my wallet. Meanwhile, some dude’s like in a fiery car crash and the cops are throwing everything they can at the window and it just keeps bouncing off. I’m like, just blows me away. So

Andrew Weaver (59m 5s):

The thing with tempered glass, it’s actually made to be super strong. You have to either hit it with blunt force really hard or like if you hit it on the corner on the edge, it’ll break super easy. And then so a lot of the thieves, if you hit it with a center punch anywhere, generally Yeah. It’ll always break. Like one time ready to go. I’ve had a couple of ’em where I hit a center punch two or three times and then it broke. Yeah. That’s why. So if they’re just hitting it and hitting it, hitting it, they’re probably hitting it like right in the center. Right. And they’re hitting it with blunt force to the point where it’s just not gonna break. Interesting.

Sean P. Holman (59m 34s):

So yeah. All

Andrew Weaver (59m 35s):

Right.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (59m 35s):

Yeah, I was saying like they use either the center punch you could buy at any Home Depot, right?

Andrew Weaver (59m 40s):

Or Harbor Freight. It’s a dollar freight.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (59m 41s):

Yeah, it’s like a dollar. Yeah. It’s crazy. Or they come up with like a, one of those little hammer

Andrew Weaver (59m 44s):

Plugs.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (59m 45s):

Yeah, I’ve seen a spark plug plug too. Yeah, that works too, because the ceramic, are you seeing any trends in the market like Camaros or a particular truck? Or have you seen that happen? Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (59m 54s):

What he’s asking if

Sean P. Holman (59m 55s):

Ram Ram rear windows are a thing right

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (59m 57s):

Now. I mean they are for me. But I, that’s

Andrew Weaver (59m 59s):

What you, you’ve got yours broken into. That’s,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 0m 1s):

That’s

Andrew Weaver (1h 0m 1s):

What you’re asking.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 0m 1s):

Steal your truck. The rear slider.

Andrew Weaver (1h 0m 2s):

Yeah. Did someone try to steal your truck? Yes. Do you have a TRX? Yes. And that’s why. Yeah. So if you got a TRX, you got a big target on your back and it’s the little centerpiece in the back. Correct? Yeah. I’ve done a handful of those. And then first time, well here’s the, the first time I hear something I’m like, oh, they tried to do this. And I’m like, okay, okay. Oh man, they tried to do that. I’m like, I half believe it. And then I see it a couple more times. And then I have people actually explaining in depth the process of how they try to steal The truck. Then I’m like, oh wow, that’s crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anything Mopar ramped here? Actually you got a huge target on your back, but really anything Mopar is really hot as far as like theft, vehicle theft even. And then a lot of like Camaros too. Camaros, but newer

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 0m 41s):

C, right?

Andrew Weaver (1h 0m 42s):

Kias? I haven’t

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 0m 43s):

Heard about Kias. No. Okay. No. They

Sean P. Holman (1h 0m 44s):

Just punch the locks on those and drive

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 0m 46s):

’em away. Well, no, they’re all, they’re all key FOB replication is from what? Understand Well. it depends

Sean P. Holman (1h 0m 49s):

On the ear.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 0m 50s):

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (1h 0m 52s):

Did you see they have a, the cool thing about the Rams is they’re pretty profitable for me with those little centerpieces. ’cause one, they’re super easy and two, you call around a bunch of places and they’re all like, oh, I don’t know if we can do ’em. You gotta replace the whole thing.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 3s):

So I went to the dealer and they had to replace the whole window. They

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 6s):

Don’t, they don’t. And it

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 7s):

Sat there for,

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 8s):

I’ve done a handful of them. And you just take the centerpiece? Yeah, you just undo the wire, the, the little electronic wire. You clean up all the glass, put the new one in, you’re done. No

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 15s):

Way. So it sounds like you’re trying to sit there.

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 18s):

What did you pay for that?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 19s):

My deductible was 500 bucks and the window was two grand.

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 23s):

Dang.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 23s):

Two grand. That’s crazy. And they made me do the whole thing and I wanted OE glass and the guy said, no, we have to do the whole thing now. I don’t know if they inspected it and looked to see if the, the cable had been messed up. You know, because the cable now

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 36s):

It’s messed up. No, because I mean they’re not, they’re, they’re not manhandling the mechanism to the point where, oh man, the cable’s messed up. We have to replace, it’s like they just smashed a glass and got in to steal your truck. They didn’t sit there and break the hole, you know? Right. Me mechanics.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 50s):

And you can buy just the center section. Yeah,

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 51s):

It’s available.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 52s):

Wow. Interesting. Apparently our glass expert did. Yeah. I waited 40

Andrew Weaver (1h 1m 56s):

You know

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 1m 57s):

What? I waited almost two months for that glass. Dang. They were back ordered. They’re still back ordered according to dealership. Yeah. They’re back order. There’s so many being busted.

Andrew Weaver (1h 2m 3s):

Yeah. Yeah. The first time I went I was like, Hey man, You know what? I’ll be perfectly honest with you. I think I can, I’ll spend my time and I’ll drive out there and I’ll see if I can do it. And then sure enough, I kinda looked at it a little bit. I was like, oh yeah, I got this. Boom. 45 minutes later he had a new centerpiece and it was kind of close to that 500 mark. I think it was like around four 50. And with the OEM glass. Yeah. Done.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 2m 22s):

Wow. Who knew? Okay. Yeah. What else are you seeing truck wise out there? Are you seeing, are there any particular ones other than the RAM TRX that have targets on them? So to speak?

Andrew Weaver (1h 2m 31s):

Not really. Okay. No, just the T Rx. Oh man. That’s why when you said, Hey, is there something about the ram? I was like, oh, you got a T Rx. Yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 2m 36s):

Yeah. T Rx. Yeah.

Sean P. Holman (1h 2m 38s):

He’s trying to lead you into that. I’m like, let’s just go right

Andrew Weaver (1h 2m 40s):

Where?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 2m 40s):

Right. I’m gonna, if

Andrew Weaver (1h 2m 42s):

He, he’s like,

Sean P. Holman (1h 2m 43s):

Why? Why waste your time? I know exactly what he wants to hear out this.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 2m 46s):

Yeah. I’m just curious. It sucks.

Sean P. Holman (1h 2m 48s):

No, you’re not, you’re not curious. You’re val. You’re validating

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 2m 50s):

What you already know. I’m validating what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s absolutely true. What started the costumes?

Andrew Weaver (1h 2m 56s):

Oh

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 2m 56s):

Yeah. Because you guys, even if you don’t live in Southern California, again, give your Instagram handle again

Andrew Weaver (1h 3m 2s):

At SoCal. Autoglass Kings,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 3m 4s):

SoCal Auto Glass Kings. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (1h 3m 5s):

And

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 3m 6s):

We’re on

Andrew Weaver (1h 3m 7s):

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook everywhere.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 3m 9s):

Perfect. Yeah. You will instantly find him. ’cause you’re like, oh, that’s the guy in the bear costume. Like, how did that start? I love it. I think it’s hilarious. And the fact that you’re installing stuff with giant mittens on, you know, or whatever. Yeah. Or you’re, or the first one, I think I saw you like you were in a tuxedo, then you’re in three piece suits.

Andrew Weaver (1h 3m 25s):

Yeah. So that all started one day. So I’m a Christian, so I actually used to be a drug addict back in the day, was a drug addict from 13 to 20. I got saved when I was 20 years old. And I gave my life to God. Never looked back. So super grateful for that. And I’ve been sober for six years. Six years. Congrats. What, like a month or so? What

Sean P. Holman (1h 3m 43s):

Was your drug of choice?

Andrew Weaver (1h 3m 43s):

All of them. Yeah. So, so yeah, that was, that was my history before that. And the church that I go to we’re Christians, but we like to wear suits, you know, on Sundays, like Sunday’s best. So one day I, so I work, I’ve been working seven days ’cause I, for one, I’m kind of crazy. And for two you enjoy it. I, I enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah. I enjoy it. But then also, like, we’re still kind of in our first couple years, so it’s kind of like what we’re really doing to get like the traction moving. And it’s really worked. After Sunday, one day someone hit me up for a chip repair. Super simple. Like, you know, it takes 20 minutes. It’s not labor intensive and it won’t get me dirty.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 4m 21s):

So you’re saying it’s on, it’s on a Sunday and you’re already wearing Sundays?

Andrew Weaver (1h 4m 24s):

I was already wearing my suit. Yeah. And I was like, man, I got more stuff to do. I’m not gonna go home and change, you know, just to go do this chip repair. So I just pulled up my suit and I was like, Hey man, you know, I’m here to do your chip repair. And You know what, surprisingly when I pull up in a suit to a job, I, I don’t call ’em and say, Hey, I’m gonna record this video in a suit and da da da da da. I just pull up in a suit and like see how it goes. And like they’re always like, okay, here’s my keys. Like they don’t even question it, which is I find is weird. Sure. I would

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 4m 45s):

Go, why are you wearing a suit? Exactly.

Andrew Weaver (1h 4m 46s):

Nobody ever questions it, especially when

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 4m 48s):

You’re dressed as a chipmunk. Right.

Andrew Weaver (1h 4m 50s):

Well that one, thankfully he, I was always, I was planning, I was like, man, how am I gonna do this in a TED costume? Because I’m like, oh, it

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 4m 55s):

Was a Ted costume. Yeah,

Andrew Weaver (1h 4m 56s):

Yeah. So I’m like, how am I gonna do this? And then thankfully it was someone from our ministry that he kind of already knew.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 5m 1s):

Oh, he knew you. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (1h 5m 2s):

He knew your jam. So then I just, I was able to do the replacement and then when he saw me, he was like, what the heck? And I was like, he already knew. Yeah. So it was cool. So the first time I went through the chip repair and then he goes, he goes, man, you guys dress like this at every job. I was like, no. He’s like, oh well I think it’s really cool uniform. And I was like, oh thanks. I was like, yeah, just came from church. So he is like, oh, okay. And then as I was doing the chip repair, it dawned on me, ’cause I was already doing the videos and I was trying to like think of different dynamic ideas and I was like, dude, I need to wear my suit and do a replacement. And that’s gonna be the sickest thing that anyone’s ever seen. And sure enough, like people eat it up. Like I actually have one that I have stored, ’cause I haven’t recorded in a suit all summer. ’cause God, that’ll be horrible.

Andrew Weaver (1h 5m 43s):

’cause

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 5m 43s):

It’s so hot out right now. Yeah,

Sean P. Holman (1h 5m 44s):

Yeah, yeah. I, dude, I live two miles from the beach and he’s at my house yesterday and there’s like almost no breeze. And it was like 88 outside. And I like gave him a car, like a case of water. I’m like, here’s a, here’s like 20 bottles of strip. You felt so guilty. Just drink what you need. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (1h 6m 1s):

So that was when I had the idea and I told my wife, I was like, dude, we need to do a windshield replacement in a suit. And then, so I had a black suit already that I kind of sacrificed in a sense. But, and then one of the things that I get a lot of comments

Sean P. Holman (1h 6m 14s):

On, did you have to tuck your tie in to keep it outta the urethane?

Andrew Weaver (1h 6m 16s):

So sometimes I wear a tie clip and sometimes I just, you know, go for it. And then people, like, I get a lot of comments like, dude, how did you keep your suit clean? Like, you know, did your tie ever get caught? And I’m like, no, my tie never gets

Sean P. Holman (1h 6m 27s):

Come

Andrew Weaver (1h 6m 27s):

On now. Yeah. So, so and then it’s cool because, and then what I ended up doing was then I bought three suits and then I wrote ’em all off. Because they’re technically marketing, right? Yes they are. So, and then it actually really effective marketing too. ’cause they always generate a ton of, ton of attention, ton of engagement. And then we get a lot of followers and we, you know, and we’ve just been rocking and rolling. So then one of my, one of my followers on TikTok was like, dude, you need to do it in a Batman costume. And I was like, what the heck dude? And then, and then for some reason I always wanted to do it. Well, after he said that, then I was like, huh, I never thought of costumes. And then I looked up a Ted costume and then I saw it. So then I did I, but I actually have the Batman costume. Oh dude,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 7m 6s):

You gotta do that.

Andrew Weaver (1h 7m 7s):

So yeah, v looking out for that one. But it’s, it’s, it’s too hot, man. Yeah. So I’m probably gonna record that like a, you know, couple

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 7m 12s):

Months. That’s fine. Space ’em out. Exactly. You don’t wanna do ’em all at once. Exactly. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (1h 7m 16s):

’cause I, I recorded three of ’em all On, the same Day and I actually have ’em all stocked up. I have one left that I have just sitting. ’cause then I posted one like, like two months ago, one a month ago. And then I’ll put ’em post this one probably pretty soon. Gotcha. But

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 7m 28s):

Yeah, you gotta start coinciding with like big film releases, you know, like

Andrew Weaver (1h 7m 32s):

You gotta be Oh, like hop on like Deadpool or something. Deadpool, exactly right. Yeah. That’d

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 7m 35s):

Be cool. That’d be cool. It’d be funny Who’s shooting this? Is it your wife who’s shooting you? Because you can’t, it’s you, you’re actually doing the glass. It’s like, it’s not in the tripod. The camera’s moving on. Oh,

Sean P. Holman (1h 7m 43s):

His, his wife came yesterday. Oh, is that

Andrew Weaver (1h 7m 44s):

The deal? Yeah, so, so wife, he helps me out. It was kind of a learning curve with her, but I mean it is with anything that does anyone that does anything, you know. And I kind of had to tell her. She was like, no, I wanna do like this. Like no, like it has to be here. The best shots look center frame. Like I know how I want it to look. I’m just not the camera man. I’m the glass man. So I had to fully explain to her. And then every time we pull up to a job,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 8m 5s):

Honey, don’t you know the rule of thirds,

Sean P. Holman (1h 8m 7s):

Dude, he needs a license plate glass, man. Oh,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 8m 9s):

You do

Andrew Weaver (1h 8m 9s):

Need glasses, dude. I actually have a license Seinfeld plate

Sean P. Holman (1h 8m 11s):

Cover it. Oh,

Andrew Weaver (1h 8m 12s):

My god. So she, she shot, she actually shot a couple of ’em and I was like, dude, we can’t even, we can’t even use this. So there was a couple where we shot and I was like, ah, this is trash. But she got a lot better. She’s actually really good. ’cause if you look at the framing and everything on the videos, really, really solid shots, honestly. Like, she got a lot better. She’s really, really good. So yeah, that was kind of a learning curve. But yeah. And then every time we pull up to a job we have at least like one fight. So Yeah. Married.

Sean P. Holman (1h 8m 37s):

Married, yeah. There’s a couple yesterday. Yeah.

Andrew Weaver (1h 8m 39s):

Oh yeah. You Heard that. Oh God.

Sean P. Holman (1h 8m 40s):

Yeah. I’m the same. I’m like, oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, they’re married

Andrew Weaver (1h 8m 42s):

So yeah. Oh yeah, they’re married. Sure.

Sean P. Holman (1h 8m 45s):

That’s not his girlfriend, that’s why

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 8m 46s):

Not point. Yeah, they’re

Andrew Weaver (1h 8m 47s):

Married. There’s some days where it goes real smooth for like 75% of the job. And then it is like, oh, like we had have a fight. We almost made it.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 8m 53s):

Does she come with you on all to all the gigs or No, no,

Andrew Weaver (1h 8m 56s):

No. Every once in a while I’ll be like, Hey, like there’s a car coming up. I really wanna film it. A lot of the times I’ll drop it on her same day. We’ll wake up and be like, Hey, we’re gonna film this one. And she really hates

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 9m 4s):

That. Does she not have a job? Like what’s

Andrew Weaver (1h 9m 6s):

No, she, she runs the office. She works for me. Yeah, she runs with me. She’s, she’s the office manager. You’re

Sean P. Holman (1h 9m 9s):

Like, you’re just out in the field today.

Andrew Weaver (1h 9m 10s):

Yeah. So she, she really hates that. I think it’s kind of funny.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 9m 15s):

She really punishing her. Making you, watching you dress up in costume.

Sean P. Holman (1h 9m 19s):

All right, well if you, if you wanna follow our friend Andrew again on Instagram, it’s at SoCal Auto Glass Kings. And then you guys also have a website. It’s SoCal dash auto glasss kings dot com. So you can fight out about all the work that they do. See the videos also see the ADOS process again. That’s freaking huge. That’s advanced driver assistance systems. But all the new cars have ’em, they’re being mandated by the government. And so moving forward, having a glass guy that can calibrate that stuff is gonna be a must have.

Andrew Weaver (1h 9m 48s):

Absolutely. And I think that’s one of the marks of Quality Shop. Just to tack back on that one question you asked, like what do I look for? I think even if they offer like how you already noticed, like oh he offers it. Like that’s already something. Yeah. I think that would be something to look for too. Like if they offer ados, they take it pretty seriously. Fantastic. They do it by the book and stuff. Yeah. Dude,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 10m 4s):

Thank you very much for coming in. Really appreciate

Andrew Weaver (1h 10m 6s):

It. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for having me. You’re

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 10m 7s):

An awesome Thanks

Sean P. Holman (1h 10m 7s):

For coming to my house twice, right?

Andrew Weaver (1h 10m 9s):

In two days. Yeah, right. Awesome. I was like, yeah, I finish up your glasses was like, well I’ll see you tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 10m 16s):

All right. With Holman being out of town for the last couple weeks, they have amassed and now it’s time to dig into the mail ban.

2 (1h 10m 23s):

You emailed? Yeah, I email Do it. We email. That’s right. Everybody email type it up. You email proofread. I email send it. We email. Click it. Everybody email.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 10m 42s):

All right Holman. You gotta divvy those up. You got about 50 email over there. There’s no way we’re gonna be able to read all those on this show. It’s just way, way too much. Truck Show podcast at gmail dot com or this guy Lightning at truck show podcast dot com Or that guy over there. Holman at truck show podcast dot com. Alright,

Sean P. Holman (1h 10m 59s):

We’ve got one from Rich Humphreys who tells us he needs a new family ride. He says Lightning Holman, the wife and I are in need of a new family wagon looking for something that will hold the six of us. And a dog needs to toy a 7,000 pound trailer. The wife really wants an entertainment center for the backseat passengers. Do you know if the Fort Expedition will be coming with the Power Boost or any other vehicle? Have something like that? Thank you for the amazing content Rich hashtag diet Dr. Pepper ain’t right. Hashtag Yeah buddy. Yeah buddy.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 11m 29s):

I feel like he shouldn’t get Emmy because,

Sean P. Holman (1h 11m 32s):

Because he hates her die.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 11m 33s):

Dr. Pepper. Yeah. So she’d be like Finnegan. Yeah

Sean P. Holman (1h 11m 35s):

Buddy. Oh by the way, Emmy Hall texted me yesterday

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 11m 40s):

And

Sean P. Holman (1h 11m 41s):

And was it

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 11m 42s):

About Dr. Pepper?

Sean P. Holman (1h 11m 43s):

No, it was very inappropriate.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 11m 45s):

She

Sean P. Holman (1h 11m 46s):

Says, she sends me a, a screenshot of a post where somebody was talking about greasing their trailer ball.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 11m 56s):

Okay. And she, I saw, I saw that greasing the trailer ball and she comments saw just

Sean P. Holman (1h 11m 59s):

Yesterday and she comments never in my life have I greased my trailer ball. Other balls, sure. But not the trailers. And then JJ smokes tires apparently has a fascination. She writes effing real grease the trailer ball, the jokes write themselves. And I said, solid zing. And she goes, Oh my god, JJ Smokes tires has a crush on me. And I said, lots of people do mostly because they don’t know you like I do. And she says, and all I needed to do is make a joke about grease balls. I said, well You know what they say if you make it. They will. Yes. Dot,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 12m 30s):

Dot

Sean P. Holman (1h 12m 31s):

Dot. Exactly. So anyway, that is our friend Emmy Hall. So yeah, it needs to tow a 7,000 mile trailer. You want entertainment, you could look at a Jeep Grand Cherokee L you could look at a expedition. Yukon Tahoe, grand Wagoner. You could look at a Toyota Sequoia I mean I think anything in that,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 12m 51s):

Everything pulls 7,000. Right.

Sean P. Holman (1h 12m 53s):

Mid Mid to yeah, mid to full-sized SUV range would be, would have an entertainment center. What about G?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 12m 59s):

Oh no, there’s no entertainment center. No

Sean P. Holman (1h 13m 0s):

He’s looking, yeah he says a new family wagon so I’m assuming wants A SUV. So yeah. Rich, go look at you.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 13m 7s):

Got a lot of choices. Look

Sean P. Holman (1h 13m 8s):

At everything on the market in that size class and I think they’ll all meet your needs. We appreciate you listening to The Truck Show Podcast Drug

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 13m 14s):

Show podcast at gmail dot com is where this one came in from Merrick. And he says, tips for your trip to Italy. Well I guess this would just be for me ’cause Holman’s not going to Italy, at least that I’m aware of. But I’m, I’m going very soon. Just wanted to let you know that my son, the one with the Lego NICs Raptor and soon the brand new gwa and I did a similar trip to Italy last

Sean P. Holman (1h 13m 38s):

Year. Now he’s talking about a, a comment you made about wanting to take your family to Italy.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 13m 43s):

Yes, that’s correct. I’ll be going towards the end of September. You won’t know because we’ll have recorded some episodes in advance. So he says the factory tour and museum at Lamborghini is a must. They visited both Ferrari museums. He toured the Paani factory, visited the Lambo Museum in Santa Gata. And it says, he says all this is in and around Medina, Italy. And it can be done in one to two days. Two days is better. And if he says if you drive north you could visit Stuttgart. See the Porsche and Mercedes museums both are amazing. Not just the cars but also the architecture of the buildings. Mercedes I guess looks like something from Star Wars. Hard to explain it.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 14m 23s):

You just have to see it. Also, you can rent a Porsche for a day and take it around the Audubon. He rented a Cayman S. That sounds crazy. I have been on the Audubon and it’s bonkers except I was at a, in a Mercedes S four 30 with five guys. It was nuts. Let’s see if you drive further north, he says you can visit ber the Bering, which I was also on and I did rent a lap. So check that off the bucket list. And then just last week he said he took the taxi, which is a 640 horsepower BMWM five Cs, which is the competition lightweight one. And the German driver said at the beginning, okay, so first we gotta pass these boxes. And then they proceeded to pass about 20 cars including Porsches.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 15m 6s):

And he felt like others weren’t even moving. I did not do that when I was on the Nurnberg ring because it was on a Sunday and they were closed. They didn’t have the the taxi service but that would’ve been fricking awesome. I heard they’re just amazing drivers. He said his son and was sitting in the front seat talking to the driver. Needless to say, this was one of the very best experiences ever. Keep those parameters mounted and five stars

6 (1h 15m 29s):

Monitor key engine parameters.

7 (1h 15m 32s):

Five star review, five stars.

Sean P. Holman (1h 15m 36s):

So Jeff Stevens emails us says the people must know. He says the people must know. I just say 40 bucks on a soldering iron kit from Habanero, but it gets even better. The very next day I was texted a picture of my order ready to ship and they also include some details about the product. Absolutely unheard of. Customer service PS thanks to Holman for the recommendation of the seven three Godzilla from Ford. PP Smoky Mountain Knife Fors is offering a special edition ProTech knife currently, which is super awesome. He says five and three quarter stars. Wow. I’ll

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 16m 7s):

Take it. Well I don’t have a jingle for that one.

Sean P. Holman (1h 16m 8s):

Okay, well give him, give him what we do have. Well

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 16m 10s):

You know what leave the three quarter portion on Spotify where we need more reviews. There you

Sean P. Holman (1h 16m 15s):

Go. And

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 16m 15s):

The subject line is, you guys made me do it from Brian Sands. Good morning gentlemen. I’ve been a very happy 2007 F 2 56 oh Crew Cab Long Bed FX four owner for the past 12 years I’ve had zero complaints with the six oh and it’s treated me very well. And now with 200,000 miles on it, now that my work needs have changed, I’m looking to downsize to an F-150 to be easier for daily driving and parking. I’ve been looking at a few different models than thinking about the tremor model, which I think you guys know that we are fans of. After listening to an episode of you guys talking about The truck, it put me over the edge. So I ordered a brand new 2024 F-150 tremor with a five liter V eight and there will soon be a supercharger in my future.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 17m 2s):

And like Lightning, I too live in Long Beach by two major freeways and are, and I’m scared that my new truck will disappear. So I’ll be doing some Lightning inspired security features but not Ballards. Love the show. Keep up the good work. Brian from the LBC.

Sean P. Holman (1h 17m 16s):

So Jeffrey Brown says Thunder and half woman.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 17m 20s):

Wow. Lame.

Sean P. Holman (1h 17m 21s):

My coworker who drives a Lightning shared with me this photo, which I have to say is my favorite of its kind that I’ve seen. And apparently it is a Ford F-150 Lightning and instead of truck nuts it has enormous wire nuts just on it, which is those

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 17m 36s):

Are awesome. The wire nuts that you’d use in like house electrical.

Sean P. Holman (1h 17m 40s):

Yeah, except they’re giant. They’re like, they’re

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 17m 42s):

Like wing nuts. Yeah.

Sean P. Holman (1h 17m 43s):

Bigger than like a standard one and they’re hanging off the back. So. All right Jeffrey, I appreciate that. That’s a good one.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 17m 48s):

Wish me luck. Five star subject line from Tim Brown. Gentlemen, first time writer. You’ve been an influence since I started listening to you in Maryland. Before that state told me that I had to repair my decrepit 2002 Ford Explorer Sport in 2021 and when I bought my used 2018 2.7 liter F-150 crew cab at the time, it was a great choice and still is for the fuel efficiency when driving in the DMV and now back in Idaho and The truck is finally paid off. As my family says, a paid off vehicle is the best kind it is time for mods before driving from Idaho to Michigan. Replacement JL rear speakers in the mail for buzzy factory rear speaker, new Linex liner in the bed and a roll t track is on the way.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 18m 32s):

Nice. Ooh,

Sean P. Holman (1h 18m 33s):

Lemme stop you there. Don’t forget to go to truck show podcast dot com to our featured products page because there is a way to get a rebate through EGR USA by telling them that The Truck Show Podcast sent you so.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 18m 46s):

And if you’re not familiar with the term rebate, that means they send you cash. Yeah. Yep. Did I also say that I’m gonna try that. AMSOIL Mudslinger and glass cleaner. We’ll see how good it holds up to the construction dust with a potential new EGR USA made Cordova cooler onboard. I’ll let you know how it all goes on the drive in a few short weeks. Maybe in the future some expel pay protection. Nice. Take care of yourselves. Five stars and the good old fashioned fit again. Yeah buddy

Sean P. Holman (1h 19m 12s):

Guess he listens to the show.

7 (1h 19m 13s):

Five Star review. Five star.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 19m 16s):

Yeah

Sean P. Holman (1h 19m 17s):

Buddy. We got this one from Jim says I’ve had my 2012 GMC 2,500 HD for seven years. I bought it just to tow my Jeep Wrangler, which I don’t have anymore but I do have a mini truck. it has 195,000 miles. it has never been apart and he sent us two photos. One is of his regular CAD, GMC HD looks like a g mt 900 truck and he is also got an S 10 the, that looks like the last generation. Oh it’s lowered. Looks like well look at the rear wheels. It looks like it’s set up for a quarter mile. Oh

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 19m 45s):

Yeah, he’s got some, they’re not slicks but they are

Sean P. Holman (1h 19m 49s):

Big wide fat tires and looks like maybe some welds. No,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 19m 51s):

It’s missing a hood. Yeah. So. this is going racing that think’s

Sean P. Holman (1h 19m 55s):

Cool. I like it.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 19m 56s):

And this one’s from Gregory VanderPol. Hey Lightning and Holman just got this old Jeep from my uncle and got it running. It’s a little rusty but it runs pretty good. It’s got a manual transmission and manual. Everything else I six engine and 33 inch tires and that thing is rusty but super cool. It’s awesome. Yeah that thing’s awesome. It’s Patina,

Sean P. Holman (1h 20m 16s):

It’s a CJ five that looks like a, I guess a later one because it’s got the high back buckets in it. Oh man, that thing’s simple. Where are those? Bucket stock? Yeah,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 20m 24s):

No kidding huh? Yeah

Sean P. Holman (1h 20m 25s):

Those things are, that thing’s awesome. They definitely see a lot of cancer but how

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 20m 28s):

About that roll bar? Is that roll bar stock as Well? it looks like it sits really high.

Sean P. Holman (1h 20m 32s):

Yeah, I think that’s stock. Yeah because it’s above your head.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 20m 35s):

How about the tow bars? That

Sean P. Holman (1h 20m 36s):

Stock tow bar is not stock but that’s how you move it around from place to place when it’s

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 20m 40s):

Not running. I would leave that

Sean P. Holman (1h 20m 41s):

Thing super, super crusty and and Ranchy fresh and then just have somebody do a full mechanical rebuild on it so that it runs and stuff and then you don’t care about it getting scratched. ’cause that thing is, that thing’s a beauty. Yeah,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 20m 53s):

That’s a good toy.

Sean P. Holman (1h 20m 54s):

And then one final one from a friend, Ryan Evans says I like regular cabs and what’s regular now is Crew cabs. So yeah, I like regular cabs. That was for two-Door Standard cabs. Those are my favorite. I think he’s saying that even though a Crew cab is now a regular cab, that a regular cab is a single cab and that he still likes the single cabs or standard cab more than he likes crew cabs. That’s what I’m getting outta that.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 21m 15s):

What are you saying? That’s

Sean P. Holman (1h 21m 16s):

Just what I’m getting outta that. Thank

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 21m 17s):

You guys so much for the email appreciated. Truck show podcast dot com is where most of you tend to send an email, but you can send it directly to me Lightning at truck show podcast dot com Or to this guy over here, Holman at Truck Show podcast.

Sean P. Holman (1h 21m 29s):

They can’t see you pointing at me. Right?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 21m 30s):

I think when I say the words that guy or this guy, they feel me pointing like through the speakers. I feel you pointing. Yeah, I know you. You close right before we hit the jingle. Can I give you a present?

Sean P. Holman (1h 21m 40s):

Well then I’m gonna feel bad about what I’m gonna do before the end of the jingle. You’re

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 21m 44s):

Gonna insult me somehow.

Sean P. Holman (1h 21m 45s):

Probably a little bit. I’m gonna insult both. Both of us though. It’s equal opportunity.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 21m 49s):

Okay.

Sean P. Holman (1h 21m 49s):

Which one do you wanna do first?

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 21m 51s):

I guess get it. Get the paint outta the way first.

Sean P. Holman (1h 21m 53s):

All right, so one of my friends posted that apparently you can go to chat GPT now and ask it to roast your Instagram page.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 22m 3s):

Yikes.

Sean P. Holman (1h 22m 4s):

So, oh geez. So immediately thought this is not gonna go well. I thought, I thought this is gonna be funny. So you

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 22m 9s):

Had it roast my Instagram page. I

Sean P. Holman (1h 22m 11s):

Had it roast both of ours. So let’s, let’s, I’ll start with myself. ’cause I went to myself first and I did two for each of us. So. this is, this is two. Okay.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 22m 20s):

No. What is the prompt that you put in chat? GBT

Sean P. Holman (1h 22m 23s):

Roast at Sean. P Holman. Oh

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 22m 24s):

Really? Yes.

Sean P. Holman (1h 22m 27s):

It’s pretty funny. Your Instagram feed is like an overland adventure brochure that’s trying a bit too hard to convince us. You’re the Indiana Jones of off-roading. Oh wow. Between the endless shots of rugged landscapes, vehicles caked in mud and you gazing off into the wilderness like you’re contemplating the meaning of life. Spoiler. It’s in the Jeep Manual somewhere. It’s clear that you’re the ultimate road warrior. At least you want everyone to think so. But let’s be real, your truck probably spends more time posing for photos than actually off the beaten path. Well

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 22m 52s):

That sounds like me. That was pretty funny.

Sean P. Holman (1h 22m 54s):

So then I said, I’m like, okay, let’s see if, let’s see if we can do better. So the second one was, Sean, your Instagram is like a midlife crisis wrapped in a truck decal. You’ve got, you’ve got the Off-Road vibes down, but we all know those vehicles are getting more pampered than actually push their limits. It’s clear you’ve mastered the art of looking adventurous without ever leaving the comfort of wifi, which is funny with the Starling Oh. my gosh, I saw my Starling Post. For someone who spends so much time around heavy machinery, your posts are surprisingly polished. Like you’ve traded in real grit for Instagram filters.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 23m 24s):

Oh, my gosh,

Sean P. Holman (1h 23m 25s):

That’s pretty funny, right? This is

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 23m 26s):

Cutting. All right, you sure? This wasn’t written by Jeff Ross, the comedian that that goes by Roastmaster General? Nope.

Sean P. Holman (1h 23m 32s):

The, this was written by Chet GPT, which cuts a little too hard. So I of course said, well, now I have to know what at LBC, Lightning, oh, this roast would be gonna be bad. So the first one, your feet is like watching someone who peaked at being average and decided to document it.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 23m 50s):

That’s

Sean P. Holman (1h 23m 51s):

Awesome. It’s a mix of trying too hard to be hardcore, but ending up just another person with more gear than skill. It’s like you’re constantly trying to prove something, but the only thing getting convinced is your ego. The only thing striking about your page is how it manages to both be over the top and underwhelming at the same time. Oh,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 24m 6s):

That’s accurate. Oh, that’s cool.

Sean P. Holman (1h 24m 8s):

Or the second one. Yeah. At LBC lighting’s feed is like watching someone overcompensate for something. We can’t, we can’t quite put our finger on with every post. It’s as if you’re trying to prove you’re the baddest in the game, but the only thing you’re really proven is that you’ve got a lot of free time on your hands. Your attempts at being edgier are about as shocking as a static charge. Lots of buildup for a whole lot of nothing. Nah. If this is what Lightning looks like, I’ll stick with a sunny day.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 24m 33s):

Nah, You know what that is. This is funny. That is a fortune cookie thing. You know what I mean. They’re just kind of like generic. Maybe didn didn’t feel like the first one was a little like, it actually scrubbed my post a little.

Sean P. Holman (1h 24m 43s):

Okay. Okay. All right. How about roasting the at truck show podcast? Oh, at Truck Show podcast is like listening to two Gearhead who got lost on their way to becoming professional banters. The show is basically a nonstop flex of truck trivia mixed with dad jokes that should have stayed in the garage. It’s the podcast equivalent of that guy at the car meet who talks way too much about his mods, but conveniently leaves out the fact that his truck hasn’t seen dirt in years. If you’re looking for groundbreaking insights, you’re better off digging through your glove box.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 25m 11s):

Wow, that’s good.

Sean P. Holman (1h 25m 13s):

Yeah. So anyway, those, that was a, that is what chat GPT thinks of us.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 25m 17s):

Wow. Thought

Sean P. Holman (1h 25m 18s):

That was funny. Took a

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 25m 19s):

Couple of layers of skin off us just Well,

Sean P. Holman (1h 25m 21s):

Yeah, that’s okay. Alright,

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 25m 22s):

Well, I, I’m going to lighten the mood a little bit after roasting us, and I’m gonna give you a couple of gifts. Our buddy at Habanero cordless heating tools sent over some gifts for, for y’all.

Sean P. Holman (1h 25m 36s):

So apparently our listeners have bought a freaking metric crap ton of habanero and heating

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 25m 43s):

Tools. While you’re opening this, and I’m unpacking this one for you, I want you guys to know that if you’re hearing this, and it’s still August 40% off the cordless heating tools, 40% off, not 10, not 20, not 30, 40% off. Okay. Now what you’re seeing here, Holman, is you did not expect this one. Okay. This tool you’re holding,

Sean P. Holman (1h 26m 2s):

I didn’t expect any of of this, so, okay.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 26m 4s):

The tool that you’re holding right now Yep. Is designed for bonding plastic.

Sean P. Holman (1h 26m 7s):

Oh, this is the Oh, yeah. ’cause I see the plastic rivets or the staples that you weld into. Correct.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 26m 13s):

Correct. Oh, that’s cool. So you’ve cool. And you’ll see the long pieces of plastic in different bags down there. Yep. You’ve got polypropylene, you’ve got a BS, you’ve got nice melamine, you’ve got all bunch. Well, that’s pretty cool. You can bond to a bumper if you’ve got a crack in your roof or whatever it is. You’ve got all the tools to do that there.

Sean P. Holman (1h 26m 32s):

And this has the tip where you can feed in the material from one end That’s right. While it’s heating from the other end

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 26m 37s):

While it’s melting in. Yeah. Like a syringe at the other side. That’s cool. The other side, the other tool right there is where you put the staples into it. So was

Sean P. Holman (1h 26m 43s):

Was this a just a, a thank you for

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 26m 46s):

This was a thank you because we blew away. You guys were fricking awesome. Awesome. So. we are the beneficiaries of you guys. That’s really cool. Buying a lot of products from habanero, cordless tools. Awesome. So we’re, we’re, we’re really tickled pink, as they say. Here’s the one that we talked about right there. Yep. That is your Diablo soldering iron

Sean P. Holman (1h 27m 3s):

Right there. And I, I like the way it feels in the hand. It’s getting, got the little detents for your fingers, so That’s correct.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 27m 9s):

Awesome. And let me show you something cool. So a, it’s got the safety, but check this out Holman. Yep. If you take it like this and put it right there in the box, it stand straight up. Yep. So you can solder with the soldering iron like on, in its upright position and you can Yeah. Maneuver the, the wire over it so you don’t have to hold the soldering iron. Yeah man. It’s really, really pumped. So thank you guys so much for supporting our, our guests

Sean P. Holman (1h 27m 30s):

Well and everybody who’s gotten one of these things has told us so far that they love it. ’cause we’ve had quite a few of you email us and, and say, wow, this, this, if you solder, if you like electricity, if you like doing all that kind of stuff, this is like the best tool that we’ve ever found.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 27m 45s):

Again, if you’re hearing this in, in it’s still August, the code is still good and that secret code is Lightning. So if you use Lightning at checkout, 40% off at Habanero cordless tools, just Google it. It’ll pop right up. Truck Show podcast at gmail dot com is where you’re gonna send that email to us Truck show podcast at gmail dot com. Or you can hit Holman at truck show podcast dot com or this guy right here, Lightning at truck show podcast dot com.

2 (1h 28m 8s):

The truck show, The truck show, The truck show, Whoa Whoa.

Sean P. Holman (1h 28m 14s):

And you can follow Lightning and his viral videos at LBC Lightning. Or you can find me at at Sean P Holman. Or you can find the podcast at Truck Show podcast. And please think about leaving us a five star review on the Apple Podcast app, or even on Spotify. It definitely helps with, you know, our visibility and people being able to find us. And don’t forget at truck show podcast dot com, you can find any local events going on in your area. You can submit those by emailing us or you can find out any of the discounts that we have on featured products. Or if you’re an EGR customer, get your rebate. All the information for getting a Truck show podcast rebate if you bought a roll track or if you bought Fender Players or any of the other stuff from EGR are right there on truck show podcast dot com

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 28m 58s):

And you can see what it actually looked like. Oh, Holman, I didn’t tell you that. Oh, I just gotta, I’m gonna kill the music. This is too funny. You killed

Sean P. Holman (1h 29m 3s):

The music last

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 29m 3s):

Week. Yeah, no, it’s just, it’s my thing now. No,

Sean P. Holman (1h 29m 5s):

You stop doing that. It messes me up. I like having that long, long

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 29m 9s):

Fade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is the, so one of the, one of the guys thanked us for the habanero. He bought it, he was super happy. He was giving a review. I, I’ll read it next time. And he says, oh, by the way, I went on your website to get the info, the website stuff. And I, and it’s like, I saw your picture. He goes, now I know where you’re on radio. He goes, he had no idea what we look like. So there are a lot of you that are like, I wonder what Lightning looks like ’cause you don’t follow us on Instagram, whatever. And Holman’s got all those pictures of his Jeep and not him. ’cause he’s, you know, like making up for something. You can see what we look like at churchill podcast dot com right there. I’m the dude on the right Holmes is the dude on the

Sean P. Holman (1h 29m 43s):

Left or in different pictures. We’re in different places.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 29m 46s):

I’m saying on the main picture when you go like, oh, that’s what they look like. It’s a big letdown. I’m not gonna

Sean P. Holman (1h 29m 49s):

Lie. Yeah, I was gonna say don’t meet your heroes.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 29m 51s):

Let’s Yeah. No I mean it’s, it’s a big letdown but kinda like the show. There we are. Yeah. Well You

Sean P. Holman (1h 29m 56s):

Know what it is not a letdown. And that’s our friends over at Nissan who are the presenting sponsor of The Truck Show Podcast. They’ve got that brand new 2025 Nissan Frontier on the way to dealerships now. So you can get a deal on the 24 or wait a couple months and get your butt into the comfortable zero gravity seat of the 25 model. You can build and price your Nissan frontier. You can find out all about it and you can experience all the different features by going to Nissan usa dot com or down to your local dealer.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 30m 23s):

And it’s not often that you can buy a performance part for your diesel pickup truck that actually makes the part that you bolted to last longer. Such as the case with the new monster Ram for the 2017 to 2024 Duramax L five P, the Monster Ram is a turbo inlet. It bolts right to the compressor and it not only improves throttle response, it drops the shaft speed and that the shaft is moving slower. It spins fewer times over the life of The truck and it lasts longer. You’re welcome. Go to Banks Power dot com to buy yours

Sean P. Holman (1h 30m 57s):

And speaking about lasting longer. AMS oil synthetic lubricants are exactly what you need for your truck. And AMS oil makes it really easy to do an oil change because you can go to AMS oil dot com and you can order up an oil change kit that comes with the oil that you need. Nitrile gloves a funnel, the correct oil filter, and it even comes with that little tiny oil change sticker that comes in the corner of your windshield. So you can guess at your next oil change interval when the UV fades the pen after your, your year of its sticking up there because AMS oil also has extended oil change intervals. The other thing AMS oil has is a ton of different lubricants and car care products. It’s not just oil, it’s synthetic everything. Go to AMS oil dot com and pick out the products that’ll make your truck last longer and look

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 31m 38s):

Better. And speaking of making your truck look better, head over to EGR USA dot com to find Fender flares VSL lights that are great for off-roading, window visors, hood guards, body side moldings cabs, boilers, sport bars, undersea storage and roll track tunnel covers. EGR USA dot com has the very best upgrades for your truck.

Sean P. Holman (1h 31m 59s):

Since I’m not feeling creative about some funny, hilarious out, I am going to seed that responsibility of coming up with a way to bookend the show by heading over to chat GPT. And I’m gonna say create an ending for The Truck Show Podcast in one paragraph. There’s

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 32m 12s):

No way this is gonna go well.

Sean P. Holman (1h 32m 14s):

And here’s what it says. Okay. And that wraps up another episode of The Truck Show Podcast. Whether you’re wrenching on your ride or dreaming about your next overland adventure, we hope you found some inspiration, a few laughs, and maybe even a tip or two to take away with you. Keep those trucks dirty, the stories epic. And don’t forget to tag us in your latest build or offroad escaping. Until next time, keep the rubber side down and the shiny side up. See you on the trails. Dude, that was painful.

Jay “Lightning” Tilles (1h 32m 40s):

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Lower than the.