The Hangout Podcast - Episode 4 - Brent Aho

EP 4 — BRENT AHO

🎙️Episode Four is live.Brent Aho

He built the stage we sit on. Then he sat down on it and told us everything.

Christine Staley & Corey Long sit down with Brent Aho — Entrepreneur. Contractor. Road to Recovery to Redemption in Minot.

The oil fields. The addiction. The wife who loved him hard enough to call the cops. The daughter’s letter that finally broke through. And then coming out swinging.

This is what it looks like when somebody decides they’re done with the past and starts building the future instead.

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Transcript

Speaker 2 0:22

Good afternoon, everybody, around Minot, in Minot. Um, you know, I want to welcome you back to our podcast today. And uh today we are joined by an entrepreneur, a guy I've known for gosh, since 94-ish. Yeah, 1994. That's quite a while, guys. Quite a while, yeah, yeah, yeah. 30, 32, 33 years, 32 years, give or take. And uh, you know, it's Brent Daho. Brent Daho. Um, you know, welcome. Welcome to the podcast, Brent.

Speaker 1 0:49

Brent is the Yes, welcome to the Magic District Hangout Podcast. We're just hanging today.

Speaker 2 0:54

Yes, awesome.

Speaker 1 0:55

It's our pleasure.

Speaker 2 0:56

Um, you know, uh Brent is an entrepreneur. Uh he is uh a guy that has uh you know has uh has has has brought himself um out of the depths. And uh Brent, I guess uh really if you want to, you know, tell us your story, tell us how you got to mine at North Dakota.

Speaker 3 1:10

Well, and I came here in '94. Um my parents split up a course, and so I finally we we drew a line in the sand in '94 and said, at least my junior and senior year of high school, we're gonna stay in one place, so at least that can make a few friends. So uh I was born and raised in Stanley, and then from there we went to um uh Arizona, Minnesota, and then we found our way back here to mine it in '94. So this has kind of been home-based on and off for the last 30 years since '94, which was pretty good. Um, I've always kind of done instruction. I got my mom was a single mom, three boys. Um, you know, she did the best she could. We didn't always have everything, but we were never without anything either. So um it was pretty good.

Speaker 1 1:52

What number were you? Were you the first? That kind of thing.

Speaker 3 1:54

No, this is really the interesting part, too. My quin brother, I'm a twin.

Speaker 1 1:57

Oh, you're a twin.

Speaker 3 1:58

That I quit and brothers three hours older than me, because back in the 70s, they didn't have the good ultrasounds, and so I was a big oopsie to my mom. Oh my goodness. So she didn't even know she was having twins? Yeah, well, I already had my brother, and three hours later they figured out there was another kid.

Speaker 2 2:10

Oh wow, my goodness. I mean, I knew you're a twin, but I know didn't know it was it like three hours later. Oh, so I got something else coming.

Speaker 1 2:16

That's like yeah, that's like that that blows my mind, I have to say, because I've heard of like Twilight Births as well. I don't know if you've ever heard of this. No, the women weren't even like awake when they had a baby. So to not know that you're not having a second child, but then not knowing that you're like giving birth, I mean, you know, you have that Queen Elizabeth. Really? Yes. Oh wow, that's I'm talking like a long time ago. But yeah, I find that like the medical industry, like it's really progressed. Yeah, a little bit, yeah. Because I'm telling you right now, having a baby is definitely something, people. If if ladies out there, you know what I'm talking about. But that's amazing.

Speaker 3 2:46

No, so that's my mom. She took us both of us took to the surprise very well. My parents, of course, that was during um the first boom. So money was good in Tyoga and Stanley area where we were.

Speaker 1 2:57

So you guys are like an oil family then, like from that time.

Speaker 2 3:00

So if that if almost they could that that was the second oil boom, if they call it North Dakota rough. Oh, if that's the 70s or something, yeah.

Speaker 3 3:09

So then when that crashed, um my parents they had a bakery in Stanley and stuff. They did that for a while, and then of course, when when it crashed, it crashed, it went from a booming town and there was nobody. So then, you know, our family's pretty stressed out till then. So we moved to Arizona. And then from Arizona, we moved between here and then Dickinson and then all of Minnesota, Benson, Minnesota, a bunch of little places. But we moved a whole bunch like my sophomore year, so that's when we decided, all right, we're coming to Mina. Staying to Mina. It seemed to be a pretty good little place. Of course, uh, we weren't exactly the best four children for a single mom to be raising on a fixed income. She was always a server her whole life. So I mean, so like when we grabbed I I I got a hundred dollar bill, I'll tip a hundred bucks. Everything's based on service.

Speaker 1 3:51

My mom raised kids on so you learn because of the work ethic your mom had and what she did, is like that's how you see now when you go walk into an establishment. That's really important. So you so she you without knowing you were being taught that, you learned that lesson to like respect and care for like the server.

Speaker 3 4:08

I wish I could have learned her saving ethics a little earlier. Yeah, but my point is I wasn't a very good saver. And so then from there at the end of 95, then I had my son in 99. So I never finished high school. Okay. I never went on to college. I knew I would be a worker be. That was just never I had a kid young. I went to work. We went to we moved to Montana. We worked, I worked oil field there for whatever 12, 10, 12, 15 years, whatever it was. I can't remember. Uh 15 hours a day, seven days a week, never gave up. And then that's uh that's kind of where so my life was kind of on a high at that point when we were there. And then I kind of blew my back out. And then that kind of started my road downward where where we where I started addiction, because you don't work 15 hours a day, 115 hours a week in the oil field, and not start turning to something after years. Yeah. Um, so I turned to drug use and that wasn't very good. My wife, bless her soul, has weathered it up and down, up and down, up and down. And I'd managed to always get away with it for years. Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:09

So she was she was supportive of you doing whatever you were doing because she loved you, but she wasn't happy maybe with it. Is that kind of yep?

Speaker 3 5:17

No, she was she was supportive that I always had a job for the most part. Okay. I mean her went without being a provider necessarily. Yeah. So I was more of a functioning addict at the beginning, which helped disguise it a lot. So I was lying to myself the whole time too. Yeah. But when guys are working 115 hours a week, you're burnt out after a couple years on this a decade in.

Speaker 1 5:37

In that industry, it's it's explain now what industry you're talking about now at this point. Oil field.

Speaker 2 5:42

So what did you do in the oil field?

Speaker 3 5:43

Yeah. Oil field construction. So I was more on the production side where and it was pretty laxed on the safety till the very end there. Now it's a whole nother ballpark. Everything's very regimented, it's very clean, adamant. But um, you know, so my wife said, All right, we're gonna move back to mine it here and whatever, five or six years ago. She said, All right, we're gonna start over, new start. She came here, I came here. I just kind of moped around, did whatever, and and then uh finally came to a headway of my drug use because uh she was sick of disguising this. Yeah. She kept calling cops and getting me in, and they pull me in and out, in and out. I mean, she was forcing the cops to do something.

Speaker 1 6:23

So she was really now trying to get you to like push over the edge so you can get take treatment and help.

Speaker 3 6:28

I wasn't on the radar of the police department at all. It was Brent Who.

unknown 6:32

Yeah.

Speaker 3 6:32

And like I said, I'm Brent Who. But you don't know, no Brent.

Speaker 2 6:37

But surely I don't know. She really, if you will, uh progressed it to to where you hit that bottom.

Speaker 1 6:42

Yep. She wanted you to get caught, is basically what happened. Well, go for her. I mean, look where you are now. She weathered it out.

Speaker 3 6:47

We've been married, we've been together 23 years now. Oh my goodness. We've known each other since 94, too, because I met her and Corey basically at the same time went to town. And uh bless her soul and my family. So I had one biological son, she has two kids, and so then my daughter London basically basically gave me a dear John letter of when will I be good enough over the drugs? And that's the moment that you know, because I get trouble, you thumb out, you get chum out, but the mind always goes to what's familiar. Yeah, so my bad habits are familiar. So I just kept over and over and over. And it finally came to a headway where I got locked up here for I think eight months total, I think it was. And so that gave you a lot of soul searching. I'm I'm not saying if N-A-A-A or whatever thing that wasn't me, me convincing myself that I was better than that and repenting, starting to surround myself with successful people, yes, and people who are moving forward in life. That's was the big change. That's the big kicker, yes. So it was to get out I get up before I go hang out with the same people, do the same things.

Speaker 2 7:47

You had to change your environment to kind of get step outside of it and that's all ties everything, but I'm I'm telling you, I was down to my last but it's also keeping the door open in case somebody wants to go from that, if you will, from from that area.

Speaker 3 7:59

Yeah, so yeah, yeah. I've been fortunate enough a lot of people don't judge me. Um, that is one thing. I'm pretty vocal about what I do, so I kind of don't hide that I've been incarcerated and I was an addict, and and you're always an addict, I guess, but I don't hide it either. I'm not trying to deceive anybody, but I don't like people to judge addicts that are coming out of recovery and doing better. Because if they keep bringing up the past, then what's your mind brings it to? It brings you right back to my people, nobody lives in the past, they support the forward everything. I got a great group of investors that support me around town. I got great contractors that support me, so then so then thereafter I got on incarceration, I just decided I'm just gonna flip the switch, make life better, be a better man for myself first and foremost, and then for my children and my wife. And and it kind of worked out. So then I we start the first business was BTRAN design and build, which right now that's more um commercial management, uh general general contractor, wholesale cabinet plurian, that business, and then the voho builders is kind of just us smaller projects.

Speaker 1 9:03

That's kind of my which is how I met you because you created this lovely stage we're sitting on.

Speaker 3 9:08

Which we that that that business I we I kind of use just to help people. Yeah. If there's elderly people that need something or whatever. I love that. But you know, if you're on a fixed income and you can't afford things, uh as long as you So really quick too, uh how can they get a hold of you, Brent? Uh I guess my phone number is 406-480-7410. I guess I really don't solicit a whole lot of work. I've been fortunate these last three years coming out swinging, and I haven't really, but uh yeah, if anything anybody wants anything done, we're more than happy to no job big or small. We got we we build a lot of nail salons. Right.

Speaker 1 9:39

So because you shared that part of your story with us, and we were we had a guest in here not too long ago that was a musician who literally basically wrote their music through their addiction and you could hear it. What did you do to help yourself like you know, deal with those feelings? Because you probably had a lot of feelings that you had to deal with.

Speaker 3 9:58

I had a lot of regret and depression. The depression's the big part.

Speaker 2 10:02

I guess fortunately you your your dry out period, if you will, yeah, was was incarceration. Was incarceration, right?

Speaker 3 10:08

It was a post-serviety, yeah. I wasn't gonna teach myself that. Yeah, and I wish I would have.

Speaker 2 10:13

I I mean so in some situations, being incarcerated, if you will, yes, the dry out helps out.

Speaker 3 10:18

Yes, and yeah, and and and I wish they had something more of a program here locally while you're incarcerated. Okay. They do if you go to prison and you come back, then they do the rehab while you're incarcerated. Yeah, sure. But not if you're just sitting here 365 days, right? Then you're just wasting it.

Speaker 1 10:35

So there's no internal program, and so that's what I was trying to figure out. Is that like, did you just did you journal? Did you do something? Did you read?

Speaker 3 10:42

You want to know why? Because I I I got my friend Rainey, and he works over at Fo over here. So he's the one kid I met in there, he's done great. He's he's been an inspiration to me, and I think I've been an inspiration to him. But he came out, he came out swinging, and he started helping people, but just talking about it, like being like telling people, yeah, you're not nobody's perfect. I will I will never be perfect. Yeah, but I want what I want him to know is so like he sprayed and he started surrounding himself with good people.

Speaker 1 11:07

I surrounded myself, and so it became like a gravitational energy pool that like you guys all kind of worked in the same.

Speaker 3 11:14

It's breaking the old group of people, and right none of them are bad people, I don't say per se, or all of them ain't, but they were make a report.

Speaker 1 11:21

But it's like they say, you don't want to run with the same crew if you're not gonna be doing the same things anymore. So, like, for example, I used to smoke cigarettes, no one knows that in high school. And you know what's funny is that my story was I called it like if you can't beat them, join them. And it was true. My mom, no, going back to my mom smoked and she was pregnant with me.

Speaker 11:37

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 11:38

I was like 4.125 pounds. Oh wow. They call that premium, but then she took me home, it was fine, apparently. But she smoked me in the house, my dad smoked. It's like they smoked. All my friends out are at high school, they smoked. So it's like you can't beat them, you join them, right? So I remember when I was like done, my body physically can't take cigarettes. So what I'm saying to you is that I realized I had to take things out of my house that reminded me, music that reminded me, anything that reminded me of wanting to have a cigarette, as dumb as that sounds. Even like hanging out with people, going to places, driving down certain roads, as dumb as that sounds. Right. I know myself. So kind of like for you, did you notice anything like that where you had to kind of like separate your habits of other things? 100% everything.

Speaker 3 12:18

Okay. Sleep schedule, work schedule. I mean, like I said, I've never not really not had a job. Yeah. So that part was always okay. That's always always an excuse too. It's an excuse too.

Speaker 1 12:30

But but the job is also an excuse to like not deal with it. Yep. So when you were saying about regret, what is it that made you realize that that was the real big kicker that you had to deal with?

Speaker 3 12:40

My dear John letter from my daughter. So the daughter's letter. Straight up. I mean, the wife yelled at me ultimatums, but you know it didn't hit. I learned the hardest way possible. There's no way uh someone could say, Oh Brent, just do that, and I would just do it and follow blindly. Um, but my daughter's letter to you. Your daughter was uh in jail here. Um basically saying when when will she be enough? When will my kids be enough? That resonated as being a parent because I always wanted to feel that way with my parents kind of because you know, like with my dad's love and stuff. You know, there was a lot of other probably little issues while I turned to uh drug uh drugs and stuff, but um, you know, that my daughter's the one she's she's she's the was the one that landed on you that really hit on her finger, she can call any day for anything, and I will go.

Speaker 1 13:24

So let's talk about your brother. How was he dealing with your addiction? Did he know? I mean, do you guys have that like sex sense thing where he's like, I know something's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 13:34

Really? We do like it, Brandon Brandon and Brandon be like, I'm gonna start slapping my face at three o'clock in class, and you start going, oh, oh, oh my gosh. So we so so when you were in in in some schools, we we'd fool people like that. You moved around a lot. We're we're paternal, not identical. So yeah. Um, he's uh he's a little different than I am. Where I'm kind of meat and potatoes, he's more escargo, I guess.

Speaker 1 13:58

Oh, interesting.

Speaker 3 13:59

He's very and they're heather fine. They do like empowermental life stuff. So we we we did totally different life paths.

Speaker 2 14:05

But now though, you could almost say you're kind of the equal sense because you both want to uplift. You're looking for that. Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 14:11

So you guys finally came back together, then it seems like when I scared that empowerment of life was uh like accountability. Yes. So that's one thing he kind of taught me. And the other thing I like is know your worth. You can say no to things, you know your worth. Don't ever sell yourself shirt. It's okay to say no, you don't say yes. Oh, no, it's a great on any spectrum of life, yeah. Your worth, and it's being walked over. It is not there's no point in sitting at a job or in a relationship or anything. Yeah, know your worth, know what you feel like for it and go for it. Like and that's how I ended up where I am today. I've been very fortunate, and that's why we I like to try to get back to the community or anything I can do for downtown here, right?

Speaker 2 14:48

And though and Brent has.

Speaker 1 14:49

So who does it who do you work with?

Speaker 2 14:50

Is like do you guys work with a group that like you put yourself out there in that capacity so people can well I how how I got reconnected with Brent is uh just uh you know, with like uh he donated um to the downtown DVA. Yeah. Um, this this last go-around, and it was quite a quite a gift. And uh, you know, another one was too is that uh he was a sponsor for the Dakotan that we just had this uh this recent.

Speaker 1 15:12

I did see your name on that.

Speaker 2 15:14

Yeah, yep. And uh, you know, Brent uh Brent just simply helps out. Uh, you know, we wanted to shoot a video on the Big M building. Brent was our our door inside. Yes, okay, guys. If you have not seen this video, you definitely should go to Thunder on Facebook, check it out, it's on there. And uh Brent has a has the the whole history um you know of of of the uh the big M building. You essentially how you got back into construction in and around Mine It after you know um getting out, if you will.

Speaker 3 15:39

Uh you you started working for who well, I I worked I worked for Martin here for a little bit before I opened my own business, and then uh actually I I got out when I was out on work release yeah, right. I was literally went to HireQuest, got oh yeah, right there on the corner. Hooked up with the the um CB ye or Epic it was at the time that did this and the Maverick uh the Big M and Maverick project. And once everything imploded there, um the board decided to hire me on. Um because I wasn't gonna probably because you hustled hard. And you did you're you're you like you said your work would be. But I didn't lie to them either. Yeah. If it's not a good deal in some of the things, honestly is the best policy. Yeah. So we we I helped I helped help the board a lot, I feel. And I feel that that the appreciation between me and the board uh has has been reciprocated between both projects, you know.

Speaker 1 16:27

But uh and you're moving along, and that's the thing, they're moving forward.

Speaker 3 16:32

I think it will.

Speaker 1 16:33

I think uh I think I I think I think I think if we put the good energy out there, I think it will.

Speaker 3 16:37

Yeah, yeah. I'm I just think it'd be a great place to have something going on.

Speaker 2 16:40

So yeah, and I think it would yeah, help uh you know, encompass this whole area of downtown.

Speaker 1 16:45

It'll be like the jewel of downtown at this point. It would be you know, the ground jewel because it is a large building, it'll bring a lot of you know people, but also it's it's it's a showstopping building because it's like the biggest one down here.

Speaker 3 16:55

Yeah, so that's 110 feet to the top, and then of course the Maverick out where I'm at my hospital, that's that's 85 feet top. So this one's quite a bit taller.

Speaker 1 17:03

Okay, yeah, yeah. So what's next for you? I mean, it sounds like you've had quite the journey. It sounds like you have a sense of community here now because you are helping out with other things and the downtown.

Speaker 3 17:12

I finally am chasing my dream too, so I'm gonna start racing this year. Oh, fantastic. So my car's gonna be done, and that's one of those I think.

Speaker 2 17:18

Are you gonna race in in minute, right? Race in minute. Okay, and mid time are the races on they start at seven uh here always at Nodak.

Speaker 3 17:26

At Nodak, I think they start seven at every track. Underwood, botano, all summer long, right? Dickinson, Mandad, and Fargo. We'll probably go to Fargo, Ada. We'll probably go all the way out to Ada. That's quite the heck.

Speaker 1 17:37

So what's your what's your what's your class?

Speaker 3 17:38

I race and I'll be an IMC Sport Mod. Nice. And then so uh my number will be AH0, so Aho A H O. Oh my goodness. So it'll be kind of nice. So it'll be a lot, but it'll be fun. That's kind of what I'm gonna focus on here. Probably the Maverick probably won't be done there, but they will be building. Um uh Will out there, the president of the board, he is going to do three other buildings out there.

Speaker 1 18:02

And and if you guys don't know what he's talking about, he's referring to the buildings right across from the Trinity Hospital out. Right. What is that what is that road? What is that street? What is that 37th? Yes, okay.

Speaker 3 18:13

But yeah, no way, and that should be quite the big complex. Um there should be four of them. It'll be whether I'll live work play deal. 49 apartments are in this one with two floors of commercial, which is nice. Two floors of commercial. And is there any is is it still open?

Speaker 2 18:27

I mean, people can are is it or is it rented out?

Speaker 3 18:30

No, you guys are more than welcome to stop by or give me a call if you're if anybody's interested in an apartment or lease space or um IMM, once it's turned over, we'll take over the IMM be the management company. Okay, but uh no, it should be a it should be a good deal. I mean, yeah, they got uh they got a lot of things going in there now. Um so that'll be interesting to see it all develop. Yeah, it'll be probably a 15-year deal or something, yeah, 10-year.

Speaker 1 18:54

But uh will they be condos like HOAs?

Speaker 3 18:56

Nope. No, okay, all apartments. So the next building I think will all be single stories. These are all two-story apartments out there with two.

Speaker 2 19:02

Two-story apartments, really.

Speaker 1 19:04

Well, there's two floors to each apartment area upstairs. Nice. See, that's nice. That's that's that's that's where I'm from, that's normal. Okay, it's kind of classy. It is for my knot. That's high end.

Speaker 3 19:17

Nice. So I mean, it's just we're gonna try and stay in the upper management of doing them bigger project commercial projects. Um, probably keep doing nail salons because it's nail salons are great. Nail salons are great.

Speaker 2 19:28

Not for me, but hey, yeah.

Speaker 1 19:29

No, hey, hey, every man needs to be manscaped with nails. Yeah, I've to from toes to fingers. Listen, women do look at men's toes, okay, guys. If you hear me out there, I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 19:38

JJ's nails out there is actually SP from up top. Yeah, so I'll get you guys a couple gifts. Okay. Oh, look at you. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 19:46

He's plugging you already, guys.

Speaker 3 19:47

Yeah, I never ever thought I would be. I thought I'd turn into man card, but I still feel like.

Speaker 1 19:52

But do you know what it's nice to be put together and the woman, the women really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 19:56

I'm getting a little bigger with this, isn't it? Bending over to clip the nails.

Speaker 1 19:59

Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 19:59

Oh, is that kind of a win-win for me? I see, I see. I don't have to exhale and then go back down. I can just go there, relax. Right on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:08

So I have a question for you. I I really love how you intertwined where you came from, where you've been, because you moved around a lot. You had a twin brother by three hours, and clearly you had, you know, family divorce, which I understand because I came from a family that divorced as well. So I I understand that part. If you were to say anything to a young person who is kind of going down a certain path where they feel they don't have focus, but they're also in, say, commercial um, I don't know, building or whatever it may be, some type of, you know, laboring job where you feel like sometimes you don't have a lot of life for your to give. What do you recommend they do now, being young, so they don't end up where you went? Because you clearly had a something, some there was a guiding light for you. And I want to I want to just put that out there.

Speaker 3 21:01

Just stay focused and it's never too late to chase your dreams. Like I said, I've always helped with everyone's race cars. I've done that. And now this year I find fortunate enough I have a race car and and everything to do that. But as far as like addiction and wanting to go there and this way and this and that, I feel like if you surround yourself with the right people, you'll always get that high you need in life.

Speaker 1 21:22

Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah, no, it does. But what if they don't have it? Would you recommend them for the other thing?

Speaker 3 21:26

But of course, me and everything. I mean, there was no other I'll I I'll honestly say there was no other alternative than to hit that bottom and to come up. But if if anyone could never not reach that bottom, and I'd I'd just say figure out a way to find different people to hang out with. Yeah. Um I you know, I if there's somebody out there that needs an opportunity, I'm I'm always willing to help people with the opportunity.

Speaker 1 21:47

So like as a mentor. Hey guys, you hear that? If you ever need a uh someone to chat with, he probably will help you out. It's uh it's important to be mentors.

Speaker 3 21:55

It's never too late. Like I love that. Even when I was younger, I hustle, I hustle, and like I said, I don't have an education. So I made sure I was always the first one to do have an education, it's a life experience education.

Speaker 1 22:05

It's it's it's it's life experience, and I like to call it Street Smart because it seems like you've hustled through, you've gone through a lot of different experiences. But it you know what everyone's doesn't have every part of a personality that's filled in.

Speaker 3 22:19

My hustle has treated me where I'm fortunate enough to share it with people, which I'm I'm grateful for and I'm grateful for every opportunity to be.

Speaker 2 22:24

You hustled for the turnaround and you did it.

Speaker 3 22:26

Yeah, I came out swinging, but uh yeah, I've just I just some some people got to hit bottom and some some people are smart enough not to get bottom here, right? Yeah, we're like, all right, I go and I love it, I'm family, and and there's just some people that'll never change. Yeah, sure. Those are the people I try to stay away from.

Speaker 1 22:42

And and I and again, and those are the people you just put the good energy out and just hope that they find their way someday because again, you you just can't be pulled down again. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 22:51

But uh yeah, no, it's been great. But uh yeah, if anyone ever needs anything or ran away.

Speaker 1 22:55

Well, I'm excited to go watch you in the races. You got a whole like gear you're gonna wear too? Whole like suit.

Speaker 3 23:02

Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna have to do some hot yoga or just to get in the car. I know, I see that.

Speaker 2 23:09

You're gonna be like a pretzel getting in there. You will be here every Sunday night racing. Yeah, at no deck.

Speaker 3 23:13

Okay, fantastic. Because I got some good sponsors, some Pepsi sponsors we've got. Nice but you're yeah, I'll probably I'll probably be giving away like Reese Sun kissed and cherry Pepsi, any Pepsi related. I love it.

Speaker 1 23:25

Cool. Well, I I want to say thank you for first of all, Corey, to you for connecting me with him. Yeah, Brent, because this is a beautiful stage. By the way, this stage was put together in like two days, less than two days. Yeah, it was insane. Even the floor, everything. Phenomenal job. Yeah, and it's got storage, it's got it all. And then also I want to say thank you to you for coming on and telling your story because I know it's takes you know effort and brave to be brave to tell your story. And also I love that you're helping the community because downtown is only getting better and you're making it better with what you're doing for your donations to your work and everything else. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 24:01

Yeah, oh well, I I keep bragging about your sub, so these Utah guys Oh my goodness. Oh, I love it. I love it. Oh thank you. I appreciate you guys having me taking a moment out of your guys' schedule.

Speaker 1 24:15

Oh no, this is it. This is what we did. This is what we did, and you make this happen. So thanks for everything. Thank you, Brandon. And we so appreciate it. And guys, if you guys are looking for any kind of like side work that you need done, not like handyman work, but like real build-out stuff, his crew is awesome. I would reach out to him. And what and how do we get you? Are you a phone build too? Yeah. All right. So, guys, if you need any help with anything, any project, right?

Speaker 2 24:42

We will see you guys again. Thanks for hanging out with us, chatting with us, and uh talk to you soon. Yeah, guys, have a good one.