Richard Taite

I think it's a speed bump in life.

I think if you've donkied off a decade, okay, you lost that decade, but you didn't accomplish nothing during that period of time.

even if you didn't accomplish anything in your mind, you learned a lot in 10 years because you had to grind and grift and hustle and steal and whatever.

So you got an education of some sort that is going to help you

down the road okay they called it street smarts when i was a kid okay you have to tell people the truth so when you when they come in you're like this is a speed bump right but we're gonna have to do some work here well and then they hear the word work and they're like oh shit i didn't come here to work i came here to you know get the heat off or i came here to get well and whatever so i tell them i'm not look you're not digging a ditch here i didn't ask you to paint my house

OK, the only thing you have to do is be open and honest.

OK, and have the discussions that are going to feel uncomfortable to you.

But until you get right sized on this thing, then you're going to continue to have to drink and use because of the pain you're in.

OK, but I've had that pain and I don't anymore.

And I was just like you.

And that's kind of the message that you give people not, you know, you're being a bitch.

Now, sometimes I lose my, I lose my shit when somebody hasn't done what they were supposed to be doing, you know, whatever.

And then, you know, they get the full Monty.

Okay.

Then they get the full rich.

Okay.

But that's very rare because I've got a staff that is better than me.

Yeah, it was 32, 37.

I forget.

I started getting loaded from 12 on, and I lost 25 years.