#TheGrind

Wesley Knight 0:00
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Eric James 0:14
Good morning and welcome to the grind. I'm your host extraordinaire. Mr. Eric James, what is the grind, simply put, the grind is a half hour conversation that speaks to local business entrepreneurs and explores their take on where our local economy is heading, and asks them to tell us their own story of the sacrifices and work ethic that it takes to have a successful business boom. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I have a show for you today. I know I say that every month, but today is a whole different day. I got to hurry up and get into these guests right away, because each one of them could fill a whole hour by themselves, and I only got a half an hour to get their stories, their personalities and their their bios out to you folks. So I think today's gonna be a great day. It's beautiful outside. The weather is cooling off, and we're going to get into this fall vibe right away. So I get right to these guys. I'm going to talk to them. I'm speak to them. I get to know them a little bit better, and I'm hopefully you folks will get to know them a lot better as well. So I'm going to start off with Dominic Jones, and then we're going to move over to Mr. Lawrence weekly, and we're going to end with Mr. Richard husser, and I want to make sure that I give them all fair time. So Dominic, tell the folks a little bit about yourself, because what I know of you is dynamic young brother, director, producer extraordinaire. Tell them what you're working on. Tell them about this new movie that you project you've been working on. Tell them about you and let them know what you're working on in that grind.

Dominick Jones 1:40
Hey, how's it going? How's it going? Everyone out there. My name is Dominic Jones. My name is Dominic Jones. As Eric mentioned, I am a director and producer. I currently, I am working on a project called the bunny rabbit murders, which we actually shot here in Nevada. I'm originally from Los Angeles. I've been living out here for about two years, so don't cut yourself. This is, this is the first narrative project that we've done out here in Nevada since I've been out here. So really excited about that right now. And it's a it's a thriller, it's a thriller project that we're looking to expand into a series.

Eric James 2:15
So my understanding is you filmed in search light Nevada. Now I've been to search light, and a whole lot of folks out that way, but you actually filmed this in Nelson ghost town that has a population of 22 people. Now I don't know if they were all there at the time that you were filming, but I'm assuming it was a big deal that when you were in town, when the town only has 22 people, they gotta they everybody coming out with chairs like it's a parade or something, to see what's going on in the neighborhood and who these black folks, other folks coming showing up in their town, like something extra had to be so tell me a little bit about Nelson, this ghost town. Nelson, you're filming

Dominick Jones 2:49
that. Nelson, very interesting. Like you said, definitely not a lot of people out there, very small population. And it was a big thing, as you could imagine. It was a very big thing. We're shooting this horror film and wondering who is this crew that's coming in, invading our town. So it was that type of vibe. We had a lot of looky Loos, but Nelson ghost town, it was a very what I was looking for, something that I needed, something that had a horror film vibe. We weren't working with a super large budget, so I kind of needed something that was already, that had some type of character already that we didn't have to come in with this massive art department and change it over. So the producer I was working with suggested a couple of different locations. We went and looked at a few locations here in Nevada, somewhere here in Las Vegas, and when I saw Nelson ghost town, it just instantly I knew that was it. It kind of looked like what I had written in the script. So it was perfect. It was it was what I was looking for. It had the horror film vibe. It was this small town where you could imagine. It was very believable. It kind of helped bring my story to life.

Eric James 3:57
So you were born right outside of Hollywood, but now you live in Las Vegas, aren't you going the wrong direction for the film industry?

Dominick Jones 4:03
You know, I'm actually back and forth. The production company square circle production that I'm represented by is still out of Los Angeles. So I spent, I've been here for two years, a little almost two years, and I spent the first year and a half actually going back and forth to Los Angeles to do projects. So I really wanted to bring it here. I know the proposition that they had recently that went under. What was it? I think it was proposition 238, that didn't pass. I was kind of excited about that. But once Warner Brothers, I think Warner Brothers was the first to pull out of that, and once they pulled out, it kind of went under. So I wanted to bring, I kind of want to still keep that momentum and bring a little of the film here. There's a lot of talented people here in town that I've met with, and a lot of people that's trying to do big things. And so I kind of wanted to bring some of that, that that my knowledge. I have a lot of knowledge. I've chatted a lot of major directors, Oscar winning directors. I have a lot of experience. So I kind of want

Eric James 4:55
to drop some names. You should not be on the radio. Drop names. Let me Alphonse.

Dominick Jones 5:00
Korean. That's one, you know, children of men. I shadowed him for four days right after he won his Oscar for Galaxy. And I mean various directors, Chris Robinson, Colin Tilly, I can go on as far as musically. I mean, Spike Jones. I did Spike Jones on where the wild things are. It was a feature film that spike Joan did, so I shadowed on that so a ton of experience shadowing directors that I grew up admiring, and was fortunate to be put on a path where I got to actually shadow some of these directors that I grew up admiring and so but going back to making that journey from Los Angeles originally, it was made for investment purposes, my wife and I were looking to invest in real estate and property. So we felt like Vegas wasn't too far away from home, where we can travel back and forth. So that's originally how it started. And then I started looking, obviously, for film opportunities. And when I first came out here, my company Square, or the company I was represented by square circle, we were shooting depositions for the lawyers. And so that's really how I got into the started meeting people out here in in in the film industry. I started doing depositions, meeting other people that were doing depositions, that had film backgrounds, and yeah, and from there, we just

Eric James 6:15
got it. So, I mean, so sounds an interesting path like said, My show is about people that didn't take the nine to five route and bet on themselves in unique, different ways. And there's no more interesting way, because, you know, I have my own production company, Black Rose LLC, man, and it is an interesting journey in that particular genre, in that field, that it is not for the shy. Well, you know, far as this film industry, the gentleman sitting next to you here in the studio probably knows some folks that you might want to talk to to help us get this entertainment bill and studios built. His name is Lawrence weekly. Now if you from Las Vegas, this gentleman does not need an introduction, because if you don't know who he is, your head was in the sand here in Las Vegas, he is he his resume is so long, like I said, he could fill an hour all by himself, but I'm gonna give him a few minutes to talk. We're gonna then go to our third guest, and then come back to each one of them, each, each of the guests, and learn a little bit more about him. But Mr. Weekly, aka Lawrence weekly, aka Commissioner weekly, aka Councilman weekly, aka radio personality personified weekly, aka Professor weekly, aka lobbyist. I can't keep going because I run out of breath. So I'm let him do his own talking, because he knows how to talk much better than I do. Mr. Weekly, take it over. Tell the people about who you are that don't know you, because there are some new folks

Lawrence Weekly 7:34
today. Cut it out. Man. Happy Sunday morning to you, my friend. First of all, one of the most important ones that you missed was Dr Lawrence. I'm so excited about that one. You know what I mean? I mean that was a long time coming in. What a blessing. I'm so very grateful I actually have had an opportunity to go to school here at UNLV and earn a doctorate degree. Was a blessing. And so, man, I'm just so honored to be here on your show listening to Dominic talk about his his film industry experience and some of the things that he's doing his horror movie now, I'm gonna start seeing bunny rabbits in my sleep. I guess. I don't know how this gonna work, but this is exciting. But he spoke briefly about the film bill that was in this past legislative session, and it's not dead Warner, but Warner Brothers and Sony have teamed up together, as a matter of fact, and they're working with the Howard Hughes company. And so I think it's great that Dominic and his wife are commuting back and forth between here and Hollywood, California, because something's going to happen here in Southern Nevada. And I say stay tuned, and keep your ears and eyes open for that, because, lo and behold, there's a strong possibility that there will be a special session by November, and if that happens, I'm almost positive that this will be a part of that dialog. So DOM keep your keep your antennas up and stay tuned. And you're in the right place at the right time.

Eric James 8:50
I told you know I'm that that's just somebody you need to talk to get the inside scoop on things. Shoot. I learned just being around that brother and Lawrence, you and I have known each other. Yeah, I think going on got to be close to 20 years, over 20 Over 20 years now and and it's unique. You know, I have several friends that are politicians or folks in different positions in the world. I mean, I know people that throw garbage for a living, and I know people that live in very big mansion. They have a unique skill set. But hanging out with Lawrence. There's been times where him and I will be sitting there having a personal conversation, and somebody will walk right in front of me, stand in front of me as if I'm not there, and talk to him. This is when he was back in his political days, and talk to him, You are my Councilman and my Commissioner. I would like to speak to you about something. And he'll look around them, look at me, and I'm like, No, it's that's the job, you know, that's the job. That's the hustle. It comes with it. So being a for Dominic, being in Hollywood, or being famous in that aspect, or being well known or famous in a sense, as a political person, are two different worlds, and it's unique. I'd like to know, how did you manage that? Pressure or that, how did your personality fit to allow you to manage the impositions and the the pressures that impose on your personal life and your family life?

Lawrence Weekly 10:09
Yeah, yeah. I appreciate that question, and some days it would, it could be really tough and challenging. Fortunately for me, I have friends like you, people who you in trouble. Then you know Eric. Eric, he jokes around a lot, and he says little things like that. But Eric, I know for me, in my political career, was truly a friend. You have to have people around you that will hold you accountable, that will keep your feet on the ground, that won't allow your ego to get so inflated, that don't get so mesmerized when they're hanging out with you, the kind of friend that says, Have a seat. What are you ordering? I'm gonna run to the men's room. I'll be right back. Order me this and that, and they treat you like a real friend, kind of person that you can be transparent with, that you can go and have one of those breakdowns where you are literally and I think I was with you one night where I literally started crying. I was in tears, because I was so full of just everything the impact of life was on my back. And so I appreciate people like you and what you do. I'm so happy to see you doing this, this radio show, and you're giving small businesses like DOM and Mr. Russell an opportunity to share what they have to offer. You know me, being a former elected official, I am now a government affairs director and civic and community culture director for the College of Southern Nevada. I also have an opportunity to wear a hat. As a small business advocate in my office, as an elected official, had an opportunity to put a lot of folks on. And the thing for me now is I sit on the Allegiant stadium board of directors, and there I get an opportunity, because I'm the chairman of the community benefits committee, where we select all the vendors that go into the arenas. And we'll be doing the same thing with the a stadium. So you know, this show is about small businesses Erica. It's not about politics. And I appreciate you having me on outside of your rim to say that small businesses here in Southern Nevada are so needed, and we need to support shows like this so that we can continue to stay on our grind, to continue to support each other. And you know, this is what's this is what's going to help Las Vegas sustain itself. Eric, and we appreciate a show like the grind making sure that we keep this type of information out there in the community.

Eric James 12:09
All right, Lawrence, we're going to come back to you because there's a whole lot more I want to know about you, and I'm not going to let you get off the hook and just talk about your outside stuff that my show is about, what the person, your personality, who you are, and a more personal touch. And so I know a lot about you, but due to people out there in the community that don't know you, because one of the how Lawrence and I actually became friends, he invited me to a round table for this was long years ago, like I said, over 20 something years ago for young entrepreneurs in the community of color, and there was probably 2030 people in the room. And I pulled him aside and I asked him a question, and to this day I remember that question, and I asked him, Who, how do you know who to trust? And he just stared at me for a couple seconds, and he says, in his response was, let's have lunch and talk. And we sat down at a restaurant right next to the mob museum. I forget the name of the restaurant now, but next to hogs and heifers and and him and I had lunch, triple George. Triple George, correct, sir, and him and I sat there and had lunch, and we talked about, how do you trust people when everybody wants something from you? But that's the nature of the business. So we'll come back and talk a little bit more about that, but I want to get make sure I give proper time to my third guest. He's a real estate extraordinary individual. He is a marketing genius in my aspect of because there's I meet, I know a lot of real estate mortgage reps, and there's some good ones, and there's some average ones, just like any other industry. But this gentleman, he's unique in His own grind, his home hustle, and I got the opportunity to be on his radio show just approximately about two weeks ago and talk and listen to him do his vibe and his spit and how he flows, talking about his various business entities and his unique approach I find inspiring as a business person, when you find somebody unique that does something outside of the box, as the old saying is and finds a way in a market that's saturated with competition to stand out above and beyond. So Richard, tell folks a little bit about yourself and and talk to me about some of your business concepts, and then I'm going to ask you some personal questions, because we're going to get into why a surfer, a California surfer, lives in a desert where there ain't no water ocean for him to put his board down. Go ahead, sir.

Richard Husel 14:21
Appreciate you having me. And yes, you're on our show, the Richard Hus real estate hour on KMZ Q, am 670 Yes, I am a real estate agent, lots of agents out there. I'm blessed to be in the top 1% in the country. I'm also a licensed property manager and credit investor. I'm licensed in Oregon, California and right here. And I'm also a car guy. I've taken that car, car stature. I'm the only agent the country that owns a Ferrari Lamborghini Maserati repair shop been in business 51 years. I'm thankfully, I've owned it, bought it this year, and I've also got my my dealer's license. And I'm kind of utilizing, utilizing that with real estate.

Eric James 14:55
So what you're saying is, I can't bring my beat up bucket over to your shop next to those I am. Vehicles. You're going to turn me away at the door and tell me that my little beater upper is not going to make it into your shop.

Richard Husel 15:05
I'm going to absolutely help you with your little beater. I don't know which beater you have. I saw you're really nice rig drove over. We can service all all of those, but I'm using that like my son. My 21 year old son's right here in in marketing. He's in mechanical engineering. He's going to graduate this coming a year. I help him and his friends. They his friend, but he needs an alternator. They're in school. I get it for him at cost. I help him get it put on. But going back to that marketing thing I do, I'm the only agent that I know of that does a one call. I handle a little concept. I own a fleet of new moving trucks. Got a license, insured in house, handyman service, and we handle your move, your decluttering, all of your marketing, everything in hell. So handle the cleaning the haul off and all of that I pay for your move.

Eric James 15:46
I'm always impressed when I see somebody with unique perspective, a Realtor that will move your stuff for you, clean out your garage and sell you a house and fix your car all in one I don't know where you finding that, but if you got somebody that's doing more than this man. I need to speak with him, that person as well, and because I'm amazed. Now, my understanding is you, you graduated, or you went to the University of Oregon. You were a ducks fan. Now, I'm not sure if Dylan Gabriel is going to make it with the browns, but I'm I got some hope out for that young man. Tell me about your time in Oregon.

Richard Husel 16:19
Yeah, I grew up in, uh, grew up in Oregon, went to U of O. I've also though that was undergrad I did, completed my first year of law school here. I'm also UNLV paralegal. I did that at the tender age of 47 I'm 56 now. Worked in a law firm for about 2000 hours plus. Worked for a UNLV professor that I signed. An NDA, won't say who that is, but now I

Eric James 16:39
think your biggest accomplishment, you're a scout master. The biggest accomplishment

Richard Husel 16:42
is Eagle Scouts. I've got two Eagle Scout sons, and they both will say, I love you and love you dad, in front of their friends. To me, that's my biggest success thus far. So that that is good. So yes, I got two, two sons in college. One of them works for me and is going to CSN. The other one hopefully graduate from here in mechanical engineering this spring. And he

Eric James 17:01
started a fire for us. He made some rope for us and tied some knots. I think I got a badge, you know, eagle scout badge. You know, accomplishment. I'm just giving you a

Richard Husel 17:10
heart. Oh, I did that five years to be involved with the boys and take him to those events. And those are memories you'll never, never forget. Those are the things that I cherish really the most, not so much the work things. But my

Eric James 17:19
brothers, one of my daughters, was a girl scout for about a year and a half, and so I got a taste of that part of things. But also, you're a surfer, or you're a surfer, I want to know what kind of board you have. I did my homework. I like to do my homework on board your longboard, short board, fish board, fun board, mid length, gun board, what kind of board did you you

Richard Husel 17:38
run? I'll throw in one more, called a mini tanker. So long boards, you know, 10 feet, plus a mini tanker gives you the characteristics of a long board. It's wide, easy to ride in smaller surf, little bit more effort to duck dive under there. But when the waves get bigger, I still have some shorter boards. They call that a quiver. So you have multiple boards, not just one board, to ride. So you saw me bring in one of my work vans for property management. When I go to San Diego and sell homes down there. I take a couple boards. I don't know what the surf's going to be, so I might take that mini tanker for easily paddling. Maybe I'll take a little bit sharper board, if the waves

Eric James 18:08
are a little quicker. Wow. See now that's got to be a great work to pleasure moment where you can go out there, make some money, do a little grind, and hit a wave or two, and enjoy yourself and find balance in life. Because for me, that's always been one of my own personal mantras. You have to find balance. Is life. As much as I work, I like to play just as hard, to balance it out, but also learn, if you're playing too much, you're not accomplishing your goals, and you're not getting to where you need to be, which you know, things aren't getting any easier cheaper out here in the world. So you better make sure you accomplish some of the goals. And so Richard, I give you much props and respect as a business person and as a father and as a scout master, among other things, and much respect. So we're going to reach back to Dominic, but first or tell people where they can find you and find find you as a business owner, which rich business or whichever business you would like to talk about?

Richard Husel 18:56
Sure, I'm easy to get a hold of. My name is Richard hussell, H, U, S, E, L, you can Google me, find me on Instagram. Richard Huss realer, richardhusel.com,

Eric James 19:04
one more time, because I know somebody's got a pen, yeah, trying to write all that down. He's like, will he do this and that? Which one do I tell? Tell him one more time. What the best way to get ahold

Richard Husel 19:12
of you? Well, I have a motto. It's one call, and I handle it all. And that really is it. And you're talking to me directly. I take care of those things. It's hustle, H, U, S, E, L, realtor. Richardhusel.com, or find me on Facebook or Instagram.

Eric James 19:24
All right. Thank you, sir. Like so we're gonna come back to you. We got about 10 minutes left of the show, so I want to hit I'd like to hit everybody at least twice, and we were packing a lot into a half an hour, but I think that's what makes the show work. All right. Mr. Jones, tell me a little board like said, per my notes, you've done some stuff with or you submitted some stuff to people like Lizzo and Chicago kid and a bunch of other folks. Now I know you're not just about the industry, because I know you're a father and I know you're a married, married man. How long you been married? I've been married for seven years. How does your wife handle the industry? Sided things, because as far as I know, our conversation, she's not in the industry herself, and it has to be a very hard balance, handling the fact that you're out, you're near stars and what comes with the Hollywood lifestyle at times. How does that balance work for you and your

Dominick Jones 20:14
family? It works. My wife is very easy going. She's a total different field. She's an RN, so she's in the medical field, and she's very easy going. Originally, when I first started directing music videos, I come from a music video background, so originally, she would always come on set with me, but I think after the third music she's like, whatever, yeah, nobody doing nothing here, yeah. And then, you know, when I would do a project with a known artist, and she'd come out sometime, but she quickly got over it, and now it's just a

Eric James 20:45
job to her. So you ever get in front of the camera, I have a couple of music videos

Dominick Jones 20:50
where I did I'm not really. That's an art. I respect acting. I've tried to do it, and I am not. I like to believe that I can do anything I put my mind to, but acting is that's a different that's a different beast. I've never been in front of the camera.

Eric James 21:04
I agree with you again, having my own entertainment company, my business partner has tried to put me in front of the camera multiple times. She's quick to say, you got a big mouth and a big personality. It should show easily, and I am not. I can sit there on the radio all day. I can stand in front of 300 people and give a talk, a lecture, sit on a chair. I can do all that, but in front of the camera, I does not translate as well for me, possibly because I can't remember my lines half the time, so I'm thinking and not just acting, but it's a different monster be behind the scenes and being in front of the camera. And so I was curious, if your skill sets translated over to in front.

Dominick Jones 21:41
You know, I did. I was a show called the what is it? The something specialist, I want to say the doctor. It was a show back in the days, but Ron, or test, actually, he was doing some acting, and he actually had a role, on a role, and at the last minute, his agent called into the production and said that he wasn't going to make it. At the time, I was an assistant director on the show, so they came to me the first assistant I was the second assistant director. First assistant director said, Hey, Dom, do you have any acting skills? Would you like to replace them? Because they just needed a replacement quick. And I jumped in. I did it. And needless to say, it got cut. That scene got cut from out of

Eric James 22:18
the thing. So they said, we liked you, but we didn't like you. So that whole scene now, Ron does, didn't he change his name to metal world peace? Yeah, yeah, matter,

Dominick Jones 22:27
yeah, it was metal world peace.

Eric James 22:32
Remember him? He had a few situations that he had to deal through with his temper and among other things. But so, so family man, a dedicated family man working you also have an IT company. Is that

Dominick Jones 22:45
correct? I have it background, yeah, I have a cybersecurity background. More so education, I have education, education in cybersecurity, and it was set up more so for a back, a backup plan,

Eric James 22:57
okay, what is the name of your company? I know you mentioned earlier, the name of the company you worked with here when you first came out to Vegas. But do you have your own company or brand that folks can look up on social media and other things on?

Dominick Jones 23:08
Yeah, we have, I'm represented by and part owner of a company called square circle production group. And you could find that on Instagram at square all one word square circle productions with an S plural, and you can find me on IG at director DOM one, 313, Director Dom 13, and that's on Instagram and on Twitter. And we're looking, right now, we're looking to grow the social media platform and really push it a lot more. I was always word of mouth, and been fortunate. I started working as a production assistant very early, and so I've always had a lot of connections, and word of mouth has always kept me going. So now we're looking to really push it, and really start to aim to push the social media.

Eric James 23:50
When will the movie be out? Or do we have a platform yet that the movie is going to be on?

Dominick Jones 23:54
Yeah, we're right now. I'm working with a company called typhoon on demand, and so chances are we're going to release it there. We don't have a release date. We're currently in post right now. As we speak, we're in post right now. I'd love to get it done by the end of November, but, you know, that goes a lot of the things that need to happen. We're scoring a movie, one of the one of the people that has to put hands on a movie out in LA, so I'm going to have to go out there and sit in the studio with them. So a lot of back and forth to get it done, but I'm looking to have it done by end of November. We are, hopefully I can come on the show again and and I could, uh, once we get the dates for the screening, we are going to do a screening here where I'm going to invite investors. I'm looking to meet with investors. I met some really good lawyers while I was doing while the company was shooting the depositions. So we are going to do a screening here where I'm going to invite a lot of people out that I've met that's trying to grow here in the film industry. And again, investors, investors, I know it's always important. I mean, it's the only way that projects can get done is if we had the backing right now, with all the different with all the different streaming platforms, it does open up that opportunity for investors to see a. ROI on their investment.

Eric James 25:01
So, all right, so Well, hopefully if we get this, these movie studios here, I do know there's a lot of growth going on in the community with different smaller production companies moving here that most people don't realize. A lot of this warehouse space that we're seeing around the city is filled with production companies or smaller companies. They don't know that the internet or the cloud storage here is massive amount of cloud storage companies here that hold those films and other things here, multiple companies here. So Vegas is making a headway in that direction. So we're going to head back to Mr. Weekly here, because he, you know, he thinks I'm going to let him off the hook and not talk about his personal life a little bit, because, again, my show is more on the personal touch. Where did you grow up, sir, I'm a native Nevada, and what high school, or what school, Western High School, see now, that's where I graduated. We a couple years apart. I graduated, and show my age in 87 what year did you graduate to 82 Yeah. See, I'm younger. So you know, I got to respect my elders and and

Dominick Jones 26:06
I see where we going.

Eric James 26:09
But how did you, how did you transition from the entertainment, because you had multiple radio shows and other performance type business into politics?

Lawrence Weekly 26:19
Well, I mean, for me, I've been, I've been the talk show host of straight talk on KCP. I've been the host for 35 years straight, so I've not done any other shows. I think for the most part, you know, just that transition coming out of education, I was working for the school district, Clark County School District, and at that time, I'm gonna be honest with you, Eric, real quick, man, I was more or less looking for a job to be able to pay off my student loans, you know what I mean. And so I, at one point, I had three jobs, and so I did what I had to do in order to make ends meet. Okay, yeah,

Eric James 26:52
so it was more of a financial move to take care of and feed your family at that time. Did you have children when I first started? No, no, no. Man, and what was your first office that you held? I was city

Lawrence Weekly 27:03
councilman. I became a city councilman in 2000

Eric James 27:06
How did your wife or your family take from you being on the radio, which is one thing, to being out in the public in that that fashion,

Lawrence Weekly 27:14
I would advise anybody that have have a family, especially a young family, and you're looking to go into politics, I would say it's truly you mentioned the word balance. You have to know how to balance. You got to get a good group of people around you to help you stay solid and stay grounded, if you will. But it's a challenge being in office. And anybody who says it's it all works hand in hand, and it's a piece of cake. It's not telling the truth. It's a challenge. Because you're away from home, a lot your family will share you. They have to share you with the public, and a lot of times, the public is not very nice, and so you have to be able to create an environment to where you protect your family and you shield your family from all of those outside sources,

Eric James 27:50
right? So what our last couple minutes? I switch back to Richard here. Give him the last word before we wrap up. I know you're a snow skier. Are you a snowboarder?

Richard Husel 27:59
Yes, both. Mostly a skier. Grew up skiing before snowboards. I'm better at skiing, though, so the surf, the snowboarding, looked cooler. I'm a surfer. I thought I'd get good at it, but I was so much better at skiing that I'll put it on I want to still beat my kids and my friends down the hill, so I'll jump back onto the regular boards when I do

Eric James 28:16
both. Now, I went to school in Reno, Nevada for a few years before my father unfortunately passed away in my 20s, and I moved back here to Vegas, and I skied back then. And then my stepson at the time, or my my daughter's brother, half brother, was living with me, and he wanted to learn. So he was into snowboarding, or wanted so I learned to snowboard at that time with him, 20 something years ago. So I do both as well, but I've never mastered surfing, and that's one I've never tried or mastered. One of these days, next time you're going out to San Diego, maybe my brother to come out with you, I'll get on the paddle board and pretend I'm doing something and splash around and tell everybody that I was trained by the best.

Richard Husel 28:55
I'm at the point I just like to actually go out and paddle. I don't even have to catch too much just being out the water.

Eric James 29:00
I just love it. Well, the Wesley our sound, our engineer, has given me the sign that looked to tell me to wrap this thing up. I want to thank all of my guests today. Like I said, each one of them could have filled an hour show all by themselves, so I'm going to have to invite all of them back in to sit with me, to talk with me, to learn a little bit more about them and what they do, their grind, their hustles and again, gentlemen, thank you for your time today. I know your time is precious and valuable. Thank you for your hustle. Hashtag the grind. Hashtag the grind. Have a beautiful Sunday, everybody. Thank you for having them. Thanks for listening to the grind again. My name is Eric James. We hope that today's show was two parts entertaining with a dash of education. Feel free to reach out to me at my office at 702-836-0953, and remember to always stay on your grind. You.

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