From 1 Shop to 650: Crash Champions’ Epic Growth Story | Matt Ebert DSH #1352

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Man, I've seen some crazy ones lately in Vegas. Oh, yeah? I think Vegas just saw this article, the most expensive state to own a car. Oh, wow. Because of the insurance and everything.

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Yeah, there's definitely something to cities where you can... A lot has to do with speed. So like the number one kind of metro as kind of accident per individual or driver is like Portland because it's a metro, but also can get up to... pretty decent speed around there. So, um, combination of a lot of cars, congestion and speed usually equals lots of accidents. That makes sense.

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Really? You're worse than your wife at driving?

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Well, I got into the collision industry because I can't drive very well. Okay. Well, and I can't see out of one eye, so that perception's kind of bad. That makes it hard to drive? A little bit of ADD, so yeah, I'm not a great driver.

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What's the, okay, do the colors of the car matter? This is kind of debated online, I see. Like, do red cars get more accidents?

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I always thought it was red. I think red cars get stolen more. But dark cars, dark colored cars get in more accidents, especially at night. It's like about 40% more likely to wreck a dark car. That's way higher. Yeah. Stick with white then. Yeah. And I don't understand at night because it's basically you see the lights anyway. Right. But.

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I wish I knew the science behind that because I think if you can't see the car except for the lights, what's the matter with the color of the car is? But dark cars are definitely 40% more likely. Yeah.

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Uh, last year I think was a Rolls Royce that was over 90,000 to repair it. Jeez. Yeah. Now the value of vehicles, like, I mean, there's, believe it or not, some million dollar, $2 million cars out there, but they might not have, you know, they might only have a few thousand worth of damage. So it depends how you want to look at it. Did you see what happened to Tate's car, his Kona Sug?

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I heard of it. First day he drove it. And that's like a $10 million ride, I think, right? First day. Yeah. How bad was it? I didn't see the pictures. I heard about it. Probably six figures if I had to guess to fix it.

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Oh, I imagine. Is it fixable? I hope so. You just got it. First day, drove off the lot. His fault or... Who knows? You know, I don't think anyone will ever know.

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and rounded up and the number's still less than zero. And I'm thinking in my head, man, I've been like decades of like an average of four to five hours of sleep a night.

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And I remember a really viral interview I saw when I was younger, because I used to be a huge fan of Shark Tank, was with Damon John. And the guy asked like, how often do you, how many hours do you sleep? He's like four to five a night.

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So there's a lot of people in this, in the same boat, but medically they say it's pretty bad for you.

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Terrible. But that's the sacrifice we take, right? Yeah.

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Yeah, but it's not just the being busy. I honestly, even if I have a day off, I struggle to stay asleep. That's just me personally. You're just wired. Yeah, I wake up and then the mind starts going. You've been like that, huh?

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Yeah, so I think, you know, a work ethic that gets you working those hours that you described is going to still be in you. But we'll see. We'll catch up in a decade and see if you slow down.

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I mean, physically, I know I've slowed down because I play basketball a lot. When I get injured now, it takes a few days to recover.

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Wait till you're 50.

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Wait until you're 50 and see how that goes. I mean, when I was 18, I would roll my ankle and play the next morning. Next morning. No issue.

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You know what happens is, like, you're about to get married, right, soon? Yeah, a few months. So if you guys have kids, then that's a whole new world, too, for sleep.

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Yeah, that's insane. That's a lot of employees for someone that didn't go the traditional education route, right? Yeah.

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I don't know. Um, there's really no way to do what we do without people. And so it's just a necessary thing. And, and I think it's a great thing because, uh,

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You know, if you think about a world where everybody is excited and nervous about AI and where the world's headed and what jobs it's going to replace or what jobs it's going to enhance or what we definitely see is in a service industry like ours or many others, like there's just not a world in the near future where... AI or robots are going to take over those, those jobs.

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And so it's kind of exciting in that, um, Our ability to do well is basically the quantity and quality of our people. If we don't have enough people.

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As a young person, you just don't get in there with a wrench and start to work on your own car because they're way too hard to figure out nowadays.

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Yeah, all the old movies, that's how they showed them. They would get under the hood, put on a wrench, you're good to go. It's not like that anymore?

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No, I mean, because you're going to see a bunch of wires and a bunch of microchips. And I mean, here, like there's... 3000 microchips in, in a, in a car today, maybe up to a hundred computers and plus the engine. And if it's a, if it's a, you know, a gas powered vehicle plus the engine and everything else. Wow. I didn't know that.

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But back to, you know, what you asked with the younger generation, I don't, I also think there's an element of, they just don't know that there's a good living to be made at the blue collar stuff. And so we're really on a campaign to talk about it because college isn't for everybody.

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And I get the instant gratification, but I, I feel like take, for example, collision repair, there's nothing better than a wrecked vehicle, uh, And then literally with the work of the skill that you learned, in a couple days later, you've taken that what was a disaster and turned it back into a car, back to pre-accident condition again.