Brooks

I put the envelopes together, but I did not look at any of the names.

You know what I mean? Let me open this up. Brooks does know. He sent me the list to print. I printed it and cut them up without looking at it.

We'll hit the drum roll and you open it. Why can no one say drum roll now? I don't know. That's the second time today I've watched it.

47%.

66%.

If it had gone, we don't need to get into it.

The refs made the wrong call. Okay. First drive. Other than that, the Packers played like garbage.

Thanks for having us.

What did you pay off? Well, there's about $35,000 for the food truck for the business. Nice. And then? You're looking at weird people. Let's go. You paid off the house.

And just go after it. And, you know, the first goal was, well, what does it look like if we can pay off the house by the time our oldest is graduated from high school? Okay, we can do this. Well, what about the youngest once he graduates? Okay, and then boom, boom, boom. And then we found like, what if we do this in six months? If we do this, we do this, we do this. Holy smokes, yeah.

Let's just go after it and, you know, just be tenacious with it. And we didn't go gazelle tents. We went scorched earth and nothing is left.

So the 35 was from retained earnings from the business. I had the cash on hand, but I was reluctant to spend it just because that's that safety net, just in case anything happens. And, you know, like you all say, just pay it off and it's better off for it. And we are. Yes, that's right. And thankfully, we just sold it last week. We closed on it. Oh, wow. Are you done with the food truck?

business it just didn't work out what kind of food was it uh just you know pub pub food you know burgers uh fries things like that it's just it's a tough industry oh yeah we own and operate a craft brewery so uh that was just a addition to it and it's just it's a tough industry to to live and work in and uh so we just decided to uh to move on because it wasn't working so awesome uh focus on other food that was much more profitable and mainly less stress for me yeah absolutely

What's in your hand? That would be our lucky lobster. This is our hazy double IPA. Wow. This is good marketing.

All the tips we earned from the tap room, everything. I mean, we were scouring the couch cushions just to get a couple quarters here. And just, we have a goal and we're going to be tenacious at it and we're going to get after it and mission accomplished.

No. No, we don't.

Well, I mean, mama needs a new car, first and foremost. We've been driving Hoopties, I mean, my entire life I've been driving paycheck cars. Okay. I kind of like them because you don't have to worry about getting them damaged. Facts. You know, the first thing that you do when you buy a new car is someone scratches up against it in the parking lot. Yeah, you got to park it. Back in the back.

With the new house we have, we haven't completely finished the basement off, so the bar is going to go down there. And then possibly Europe as well, too.

There was never a pool, but you put different priorities on things, which is most important. Nothing wrong with that.

Well, you know, it's well and getting back to the new house. So we actually lost our original home. So the home we paid off, we lost in a fire. Oh, my goodness.

Wow.

We were at home at night. At night?

Just before we went home. And long story short, it started in our garage. And we had a door with a doorbell. And we had no notice of the fire except the doorbell rang.

At 10 o'clock at night on a Monday night.

And the garage was completely inflamed. Who rang the doorbell?

The Lord did.

That was the hand of the Lord. Maybe that's something we need to look into for business.

They did. So we had the choice whether we wanted to sell off the land and then buy a house somewhere else or rebuild a new to us house. And we got to design the house of our dreams within budget. Wow. And it's the house we live in. We often say we paid off the old house.

the current house which we live in is the gift the Lord gifted to us and will propel us to do marvelous things in the future and actually one thing Shannon left out as we were walking away from from the fire To this day, I can still remember her saying to our boys, something good will come from this. Something good will come from this.

And it really has put us into a financial position to do a lot of good things within our community because our community, I can't say enough about, we can't say enough about them.

I mean, you can go from living high on the hog, life is great, to being homeless in a matter of an hour and not having anything at all.

Yeah, it's our boys can all be replaced. The four things that needed to get out of the house got out without any harm. We can replace other other things. We can replace the cars. We can replace this, replace that. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter.

Long days, long nights working every Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday, just to reach our goal and just to go after it.

scorched earth which you used i want to just point out the irony is rich here let's get let's get the boys up here what's going on guys names and ages so this is colin we call him tank he's 14 here when you go by mom and this is uh ian we call him e or biggie so he's 12 uh tank is 14. Wow.

Awesome.

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