Life to the Max Podcast
Luxury Mobile Car Detailing with Sergio
Have you ever faced challenges that seemed impossible to overcome, only to find the strength to push through and come out stronger on the other side? Join us as we sit down with the inspiring car detailer, Sergio, who shares his stories of resilience and perseverance against all odds. From getting pulled over with a suspended license to being evicted by his own roommates, Sergio's determination and outlook on life serve as a reminder that every day is a chance to make the most of what we have.
As if losing hard earned money wasn't enough, Sergio also details his experience of being evicted from his apartment, after his roommates changed the locks and took all his belongings. We discuss the importance of understanding the law and the consequences of being unprepared, as well as navigating conflict with maturity and kindness. Sergio's experiences provide invaluable life lessons on facing challenges head-on and finding the silver lining in even the most difficult situations.
But it's not all heartache and setbacks - we also delve into the fascinating world of car detailing with Sergio. Learn about the meticulous process of steam and shampooing, the use of chemicals and extractors, and the psychology behind shiny and matte finishes. You'll walk away with a newfound appreciation for the art of car detailing and the satisfaction that comes from a job well done. So don't miss out on this incredible journey of personal growth, perseverance, and the power of living life to the max.
Have you ever faced challenges that seemed impossible to overcome, only to find the strength to push through and come out stronger on the other side? Join us as we sit down with the inspiring car detailer, Sergio, who shares his stories of resilience and perseverance against all odds. From getting pulled over with a suspended license to being evicted by his own roommates, Sergio's determination and outlook on life serve as a reminder that every day is a chance to make the most of what we have.
As if losing hard earned money wasn't enough, Sergio also details his experience of being evicted from his apartment, after his roommates changed the locks and took all his belongings. We discuss the importance of understanding the law and the consequences of being unprepared, as well as navigating conflict with maturity and kindness. Sergio's experiences provide invaluable life lessons on facing challenges head-on and finding the silver lining in even the most difficult situations.
But it's not all heartache and setbacks - we also delve into the fascinating world of car detailing with Sergio. Learn about the meticulous process of steam and shampooing, the use of chemicals and extractors, and the psychology behind shiny and matte finishes. You'll walk away with a newfound appreciation for the art of car detailing and the satisfaction that comes from a job well done. So don't miss out on this incredible journey of personal growth, perseverance, and the power of living life to the max.
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Speaker 3:That's what we do.
Speaker 2:And shit the truth.
Speaker 1:We live in life.
Speaker 3:To the max. To the max, i'll be smoking shit. It's a drink. We live in life.
Speaker 2:To the max, just one.
Speaker 3:Ha, ha, ha ha ha. The fruit and the fucking sausage. That's what we do. I don't like fucking the make of. That's what ended up, really like you and me. Ha ha, ha ha ha. That's what the powder actually were, yeah, oh well. Well, let's get this. Let's get this y'all.
Speaker 1:Alright world. That was Max monologue and that shit for six minutes about the military. We're back again on another episode of life to the max. Yeah, it's the Quadfather. It's your boy, eric Dutcher, aka Eradic. Quadfather's name is Max Millian Gross. In case y'all don't know, we got a special guest today. He got my car squeaky clean. He got it shining with the sun out today. Welcome Sergio on the podcast. He be detailing the shit out of cars independently, ain't that right?
Speaker 4:Hey, y'know, it all depends on what type of car it is.
Speaker 1:And we gonna get right into your interview Right after the intro.
Speaker 3:Hey, what's up world? You know a lot of bad things can happen. Shit happens, you know, and you can eat your life and you can just like sink down and not be nothing. But you know what? I'm paralyzed for a neck down, breathing through a machine that does stop me from following my dreams and doing what I love to do. I don't got an excuse, and neither should you.
Speaker 1:Damn He be dropping that intro heavy on people. That hits bro Now one, just like I might cancel the podcast right now and just go to the gym right now.
Speaker 4:It motivates you, it gets you moving.
Speaker 3:For real. Honestly, You want to get the blood pumping right.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, definitely What's it called? It gets you drunk.
Speaker 3:I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 1:Yo tell the people about your day today, Sergio.
Speaker 4:Can I cuss Or no? Yeah, It was fucked up, man. I was about to start my day off. you know my first deep sleep.
Speaker 3:What was fucked up? How fucked up was it?
Speaker 4:A thousand dollars fucked up.
Speaker 1:You lost a thousand today.
Speaker 2:Man just in a quick G.
Speaker 1:You lost a K Hour. You lost a G. You lost a K.
Speaker 4:Man, it was you know the max. it ain't nothing For regular people, me.
Speaker 3:Why do people say that My house isn't that big? Why do people say that?
Speaker 1:Look at his shoes. You got pillars behind you. Max, We're inside. Percules couldn't knock this bitch down, Max yeah, maybe I am Hercules.
Speaker 4:Man. his driveway is almost, i guess, a block down, basically a block.
Speaker 1:The driveway is falling apart, so But length wise, it's pretty long.
Speaker 3:That's funny.
Speaker 1:So tell people how you lost this thousand.
Speaker 4:I was going on my first detail appointment. I ended up, you know, cruising. I was cruising with traffic. I don't know where I see flashing lights. I turn right is what it is. He tells me I'm doing 80 and a 45.
Speaker 1:Isn't that technically a felony.
Speaker 4:Yeah, i think it's over 24 or 26 miles an hour. You're getting booked right And so my license is suspended. He gets me out of the car. You know what Get out Your license is already suspended. Damn, so I knew, but he still made it here fellas.
Speaker 3:That's a total Mexican move. You have to suspend. We don't discriminate.
Speaker 4:You have to suspend my motor.
Speaker 1:He's talking shit about Mexicans.
Speaker 4:You have to suspend my motor. Trans breaks everything. I am not going to stop driving. We got to make that money every day.
Speaker 3:Keep moving forward.
Speaker 4:Like Max said, you have to move on.
Speaker 1:I would not be able to live with that period.
Speaker 3:He doesn't have any excuse, but he left out some details.
Speaker 1:people, Where did you get pulled over?
Speaker 4:Literally five, four minutes away down the street from Max's house.
Speaker 1:And then he asked for the address and he says, yo, I got pulled over on this road.
Speaker 4:Literally in the police station is in front of Max's house. I had to walk for about an hour to go to the closest ATM. Come back, pay the fine, come to find out. At the end of the day, Max lives literally across the police station. That shit is crazy. That's messed up, man.
Speaker 1:It's my personal security. Yeah, Max chose this house just strictly because all he needs to do is roll up the window and be like hey, officer, So what's going on? I need some help.
Speaker 3:There's a heart here. She wants to watch you look like she was in what she looked like.
Speaker 1:This is not what I ordered, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:What's it got, but it was expensive. An expensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, we get knocked down. Man, life throws us, hurdles It can't stop you though. You got to keep moving forward.
Speaker 4:You have to appreciate every day As long as we wake up, you're winning. That's what matters.
Speaker 1:That's what he was telling himself, fellas, when he got right back behind the steering wheel, when he got right back. I'm bringing this footage to the cops right across the street. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:He's got a piece of shit.
Speaker 3:The cop told me.
Speaker 4:He said he sees me driving, it's automatically.
Speaker 1:Officer Roy Nelson, how much will you give me if I turn somebody in for you?
Speaker 4:Man and then it was messed up because I get pulled over everything. I get the tickets. I didn't have my insurance with me. I get a ticket for insurance and suspended. My gates were busted. I get in the squad.
Speaker 3:Dude, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 4:I just moved.
Speaker 3:I just feel like I'm white. I got the insurance ready. I got my license ready.
Speaker 1:Before the cop steps out of his vehicle, he's ready Like he's playing Yu-Gi-Oh or something.
Speaker 3:He's like license ready. I'm like oh, you already have it.
Speaker 1:Are you Tom?
Speaker 2:Gross's son.
Speaker 1:You can take this bag.
Speaker 3:You're going very away. You're just swerving between fucking waves.
Speaker 1:Smells a little bit like alcohol. Maybe you should spray some air for us, you can be alright.
Speaker 3:Just let it go. But you are driving without insurance, driving a car without a license. How dare you.
Speaker 4:Hey, man, this money. You got to get this money one way or another And then, like you said, you wake up. You got to keep moving forward.
Speaker 3:If you crash into my car, I would find some. I would literally hire someone to break your kneecaps.
Speaker 1:And then he's going to get up. Next. He's going to be like I still got to get this money. I was in trouble. Definitely It was a car I'm not going to detail on these cars.
Speaker 4:I just got into an accident. It's my fault. Never. What's it called? I just got into an accident a month ago. Somebody hit you. I was going straight down the street.
Speaker 3:I bet you wish you had that insurance.
Speaker 4:I didn't even have to cover anything. What's it called? Their insurance covered everything.
Speaker 3:You said your insurance. My insurance.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 4:I do got insurance, i'll see.
Speaker 3:So it's imaginary insurance, not all.
Speaker 4:Mexicans say God's my insurance and everything.
Speaker 1:You guys heard that one before. It makes sense.
Speaker 4:When they tell you oh, you got insurance here.
Speaker 3:We don't discriminate.
Speaker 1:Finish your story.
Speaker 4:I've only heard Mexicans say that. That's why I say it God is my insurance. That's all they said.
Speaker 1:Now you heard a Puerto Rican say it. I'm going to carry that. God is our insurance. God is our insurance.
Speaker 2:He's a little winger, i'm going to have to do some editing on this podcast. He said oh yeah, he's going to say it.
Speaker 1:Anyways, world. I met Sergio actually via Snapchat, because his screen name is luxury car detail And I was like you know what I need, my car detail. Hit them up, how much you charge, didn't even know who was behind the Snapchat?
Speaker 3:Are you talking about the GMC or the Yukon?
Speaker 1:What was the first car I brought you? The white Nissan Toyota. I brought him a Toyota.
Speaker 3:OK, No the.
Speaker 1:Nissan. The Nissan Animal one Remember Were you guys, it was a Toyota, bro, it was a Nissan, it was a Toyota, i promise you.
Speaker 4:I'll pull it up How you going to tell me, Anyways world.
Speaker 1:This man cleaned my car Second car detail that we got on the podcast And I was like you, trying to get on the show, And he told me he's like, yeah, He's like, I actually got a story to tell. He told me that he was living in a location You can correct me when I'm wrong And the people that also lived with you, Oh you were going there, It was man, finish, finish, finish my story. They finessed everything.
Speaker 4:I.
Speaker 3:Like flexing and finacling Background knowledge.
Speaker 1:Sergio has an independent business detailing cars out of his van that he got pulled over into today.
Speaker 4:Made no money. lost money, Do you sure?
Speaker 3:Just offer the officer like hey, man, I'll tell you, i'll detail your squad car.
Speaker 1:So what happened at your?
Speaker 4:previous location. I was living there for about six months. You know I'm a single father. I was there, I'm renting out a room And I was with roommates, Venezuelanos, and first Wait what?
Speaker 3:What do you say?
Speaker 1:Is it the last name.
Speaker 4:No, that's their brother from Venezuela.
Speaker 3:In Mexico.
Speaker 4:No, it's Venezuela. Oh, they're Venezuela, yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, they're going to fuck you over. I've been fucked over by a lot of Venezuelans, but you continue.
Speaker 1:I can't count how many Venezuelans I met, Yeah go on And what's it called.
Speaker 4:So I left Saturday early five in the morning, started detailing at six, come back home, all locks are changed, everything's changed. I was like, okay, what's happening, you know. But the day before that I got into it with one of the roommates. He, he wanted me to detail his car for free, you know. I was like, okay, no, i said, does it go like that? You know, i got money to be made, i got to pay rent, i got to pay bills And I told to the next day.
Speaker 3:How do you come up to use like yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you detail my car, you like yeah. Man like yeah, for free.
Speaker 4:Oh, what's it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he said kind of like how Max goes to his tenant upstairs and he said he's a barber and he's like yo cut my fucking hair for free. You live in my house, Cut my hair for free. I want three lines on the side of my head, Do it?
Speaker 3:Two lines.
Speaker 4:Um, i came home, locks were changed, everything was changed. I was like, okay, you know, let me go in through the window to my room. I go into this room, this man one of the roommates is smoking a joint in my bed with all my stuff is gone My shoes, shirts, everything. Gangster your shit and chill, finessed everything. So from there, i had a screw. I had a screwdriver in my hand, had a couple of thoughts. You know different routes. He was authoring the screwdriver mix.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:And then after that, like I chased them down You know where's my shit, where's everything at, i'm a color cops, i'm a color cops column. You know, i don't care Where's my stuff, like PS5.
Speaker 3:Do you have a PS5, PS4?
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I had a PS4. My kids clothes, my kids toys, my clothes, my bed bedroom, like everything.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about like they got a U-Haul truck and just dumped all your shit. So like who?
Speaker 3:would they sell it? They got goodwillers, they threw it away.
Speaker 4:One of the other guy. One of their friends reached out to me like four months after, literally last month, he reached out to me and said hey, you know why didn't you do anything legally? And I'm like it's not worth it. I can start over. You know, money's not a thing, It was all material things, But they were shitting bricks. Right after that I left. There was nothing I could do. They literally took all proof that I had that I lived there, Gone None of my stuff, Nothing was there.
Speaker 3:What No snap shots?
Speaker 4:I showed them, I showed the cops the receipts that I would sell them money for the rent and I would put rent money.
Speaker 1:Was it kind of under the table, like you moved in with these guys, kind of like officially?
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, yeah And, but I would sell them.
Speaker 3:How do you know these Venezuelans?
Speaker 4:Through a mutual friend.
Speaker 3:Mutual friend Yeah.
Speaker 4:So it was all good until that. Last month It all started with the landlord wanting money from my business So he would see how many cars I would bring in. He started telling me. He told me when he seen my brother in like 10 cars in one day. He said I want $100 from each car you bring in.
Speaker 3:Bro, you should have just went to like a parking lot, Like just hey, I'm gonna detail the car here.
Speaker 4:Well, i didn't have any. What's it called? my van broke down at that for a month, so that's what I was doing it from.
Speaker 3:You can't show people what you're earning, bro.
Speaker 4:I didn't tell him how much it was or anything, And he said I want a hundred bucks strictly From there. It all just started going downhill. The landlord came in knocking doors down and that's when I got my, my concealing carry, my Ford. So I told him you know, next time don't come into my house.
Speaker 1:There's a difference in a concealing carry and a Ford. Oh no, i had both I had both.
Speaker 4:So I told him you know, next time don't come in here like that Barge in, I'm sitting in a pop of cappin' his ass in his house.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, what's it called?
Speaker 1:Well, unofficially living on his property, I had the I don't know how it's going to stand in court.
Speaker 4:Oh, the cops came and everything And they said I had to have it right. Really, yep Cause all my belongings were there. They seen my belongings Shout out to the cops. They seen all my belongings Once. they didn't they all my belongings were gone.
Speaker 1:Sergio called the cops. I got to your license. He's like oh.
Speaker 2:I got.
Speaker 4:I got this.
Speaker 1:You ain't stupid.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry. It seems like your license is expired and it's not good.
Speaker 4:Man, i even I got arrested that day too for having a warrant. Damn, i'm telling you, i don't get pulled over. I haven't got pulled over in three years, literally three years, and this was one in three years.
Speaker 3:What was a warrant out for murder?
Speaker 4:Man, it was for not showing up to court for a traffic ticket.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, So kind of like kind of You know he's not going to show up to court for this. the speeding ticket either, fellas Cause he's got money to make.
Speaker 4:Definitely, You know every day. I'd rather make money than lose money.
Speaker 2:Your honor.
Speaker 1:Sometimes those court fees are bogus though, for real, just just the court fee $300 just to step in the room.
Speaker 4:That's crazy, and then those legal aid attorneys that just, oh yeah, i think you should be guilty, just say you're guilty, just for the youth for them to tell you that they charge you 400 bucks. It's, it's crazy.
Speaker 3:See, I've never been in a courtroom. It's probably cause I'm white, but I've never been in a courtroom.
Speaker 4:Cause you have your license straightened on your insurance. That's what.
Speaker 1:It mind boggles me that you didn't, That you didn't try to go after them legally. You know what was your major thought process that made you feel like just letting go and continuing what you're doing?
Speaker 2:For me. You know making that money back.
Speaker 1:It took everything, bro. That's more than just a price tag. That's principle, that's that's personal disrespect.
Speaker 3:You're taking my kids clothes, i think. I think it's probably like the attorney would probably cause some money. You know it's like to sue.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, but what's it called? It took a lot, man, it's honestly. I had one time I did, you know, stopped by see who's there. Bad thoughts came into my head, but I just decided you know what? What would? what's the best thing to do? Drop it and move on. I knew he was going to say it.
Speaker 1:He's going to say it.
Speaker 3:Oh Jesus, yeah, you were going to say it. You were going to say it.
Speaker 1:He was going to say Jesus is my insurance. You're going to break in that bitch like a Kool-Aid man.
Speaker 4:I never knew what happened.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, what's it called? Yeah, i just. my reasoning behind it was just, you know, drop it. I had money for another apartment. Good thing I had cash on my wallet at all times, because I did notice a day before it happened I did notice a hundred bucks went missing from my wallet And that was crazy.
Speaker 3:They were just. they were just. I got a secret. It was me. I stole it, I drove my wheelchair out there and I was able to find out the dog to open up your wallet and take the money and put it in my crotch and I left. It was me.
Speaker 4:It was. It was very weird, though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a weird.
Speaker 4:But the whole situation besides Matt, it was, I feel like you know how, Max we were talking before it all started on. The podcast started on. God puts you in some situations that you can overcome.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I feel like he put me in one of those situations to get over because I wasn't thinking about moving out. Honestly, you know, i was thinking there, live there for about another year. But from there I moved up, got my own place, got an apartment, you know, and then my kid had his own room. Now we're all good. Now you know Every thing happened. I believe in everything happens for a reason. Yeah, we heard that hundreds of times. I'm a podcast.
Speaker 1:That's one of the solidified slogans on this podcast. It's honestly true. It's about how you handle the bullshit. You know what I'm saying. Definitely Are you gonna let the bullshit turn you into bullshit. All right, it was what happened to you. Gonna make you turn into a fucking demon and running that bitch and lay out some motherfuckers, steal some shit back, make you just as bad of a person as they were.
Speaker 2:Yeah, And where are you?
Speaker 1:gonna walk away, let that shit ride. you know bullshit And you're gonna make yourself a better person.
Speaker 3:I mean, i think maybe he thought about you know, like you know, popping a cast, capping their asses, but he was like, oh, i guess I'm gonna go to jail and I'm not gonna be able to take care of my kid.
Speaker 1:But we all gotta go through. It right, There's all types of assholes around us.
Speaker 3:You know it's like comparing contrast. You know, like pros and cons are a pro, I can fucking knock this dude out and he's done it, And maybe he becomes paralyzed like Max because he stole my money and God, I'm going to jail.
Speaker 4:It was. I feel like it was more of my kid and becoming, not becoming a monster in my kid's eyes. You know it was more showing of maturity and moving on from something that could have escalated into me going into life. Yeah, to jail, you know. So it was more of let it ride. God will serve him in a silver platter, max.
Speaker 3:So you know, there's, like I say, like there's men and then there's apes, but we're both inside of each other, right, and apes can do whatever they want. They can go fuck around or whatever they want. They can like fucking, kill their people or whatever, and like you have to like fight the ape inside of you and still become, still be a man, because when you become an ape, you become a monster. You just do whatever you want and you stay, you kept your composure and you're like you know what? I'm going to keep being a man.
Speaker 4:And that's what I believe, that that's what's life. That's what's life about, that's, you know, 100% I believe in be nice to everybody. you know, no matter what you're going through, love everybody around you, no matter if, let's say, somebody's in. you see somebody in the road tells you, fuck, you, have a good day. you know, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2:Simple, so kindness.
Speaker 4:Yep, perfect Cause what you, being dick you know, going back and forth with him. what does that do?
Speaker 1:That's throwing gas on the fire Max Just have love for everybody.
Speaker 4:Treat everybody the way you would like to be treated.
Speaker 1:But sometimes I feel like sometimes violence is necessary Indefensive purposes It happened to me once, I believe a week ago. I had a. I had a-. Everything's so recent. Chris, can you let Lilia out please? So you had to beat somebody's ass last week. It all happened like this, but he still got scabs on his knuckles, max, oh no, what's it called. I had a my kid got punched in the bus.
Speaker 4:It was the downstairs neighbor And I went to talk to the kid's dad, you know he told me, you know that's what your kid deserves. So he pushed me And I had to get him to get me out of there. And I said, you know what, socked him right in the mouth, you know in the mouth, grabbed him, body slammed him And then from there I grabbed him by the head, you know, got him in a headlock And out of nowhere his wife comes out, tries to hit me with like a wooden spoon, my girl.
Speaker 3:Out of nowhere grabs her from the hair And it went-. Oh, that's really. You see, she thinks you're a child getting fucking punished. She's like get over here.
Speaker 1:Is it a big ass wooden spoon?
Speaker 4:It was like one of those cooking spoons to smoke And out of nowhere That's all she had.
Speaker 1:She was over there mixing the salt I don't know. She looked up the window, seen her main game be. That's all she had. She already had in her hand. She ran out with it.
Speaker 3:I definitely got the wooden spoon. I was like, okay, we'll continue Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she started hitting me in the head with the spoon right And after that my girl sees that Oh my God, that must have hurt so bad. I almost got a concussion.
Speaker 3:Wait what.
Speaker 4:I almost got a concussion. You know Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait, wait, wait, wait the spoon.
Speaker 2:What the fuck.
Speaker 4:After that my girl comes out of the truck and just snatches her, i'm telling you, just one-handed, slams her into the ground And after that she tried to His wife ran away And after that I tried to get into the truck and the guy comes with a glass bottle and tries to say you know, i'm gonna kill you. And I tell him you know what Is this like at a bus stop? No, it was where I live, literally because it was. It all happened Because his kid punched my kid.
Speaker 1:And your son has the same. Like they get dropped off on the bus and so on.
Speaker 3:I mean, like what were you doing? I was asking him like were you gonna be? like, hey, man, like you, look at him.
Speaker 1:Oh, and talk to your fucking son, don't let it happen again.
Speaker 4:You know, like.
Speaker 1:that's what I would say It's been happening so many times.
Speaker 4:First time his son called my son a bitch, you know. So I was like hey, you know, talk to your son about it, but both are a bitch Bitch. Okay. So then after that I had, he didn't believe it. He was in disbelief And while I was telling him that the kids, his kids were running right around us and you just heard his kid fucking bitch And I'm like, okay, see, there you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he was like oh okay.
Speaker 4:Second time he brings up a lie and tells him you know, oh, your kid was pushing my kid. I asked the bus driver, nothing happened. Okay, it's just a bunch of drama, man It's. And after that, the last thing that you know that broke the camel's back the fight, and after that it just went bad.
Speaker 3:There's one thing missing in this story.
Speaker 4:Where I had a.
Speaker 3:No, you guys fighting the wife fighting all that and your kid whooping that other kid's ass, That would have been like the cherry on top.
Speaker 4:Oh, my kid, my kid socked him right back.
Speaker 3:Oh, so he was a part of it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, what's it called in the bus? Cause I seen his kid he had a bruise on his cheek.
Speaker 3:He could have fell out of bed.
Speaker 4:Oh no, my kid. my kid told me he said I socked him How old, was he son. He's six Six And that man he's been begging me for, put him in boxing. Straight back to Oh yeah, he, he gets, we play fight. He takes it too serious, man, i get hurt Yeah.
Speaker 1:He fucks me up. You were like yo too. Yep, definitely. Why you hitting so hard? You chill, Yeah, Hit his ass back. Bam Told you it was a two.
Speaker 4:Oh man, it gets. He has my hands, but it's.
Speaker 3:So I mean that was a crazy story, but I heard from the great find that you, you still live in Chicago and then you moved here. Can you explain that?
Speaker 4:When I was. So I grew up and I was raised. I was born in the South side, raised in the South side. Right, I was seven years old, moved out here with my mom, you know, made it out to basically the ghetto, came out here. What?
Speaker 3:was that like? Just do you remember any memories as a child being in the ghetto I don't like that word, ghetto, but being in the slums.
Speaker 4:It was. You know it's. I guess it's something to appreciate. You know, when you're being raised in, in in nothing to something, you know it's a big difference. You appreciate everything. Cause back in the day for us, you don't go into the gas station, it was the best You'd get. You'd find quarters, you'd get a dollar, whatever it was. Go to the gas station, get some chips and cheese. That was 75 cents. You'd be the happiest kid in the block, you know.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, i remember that I used to live in a bad part of the religion, right right by right by a Yale boarding library. There was this, there was this, there was this like house And it had like the little the.
Speaker 4:You're talking about the little house down the hill where they would sell the chips and everything. Yeah, i know it's been very 20, 25 cents. Yeah, they were awesome.
Speaker 3:I mean like I don't always get hot cheetos. I still eat hot cheetos, but I always get hot cheetos and like freaking, like the lime ones and like and I would go home and play around the phone. It was a good time.
Speaker 4:That was the best you know. You didn't, you don't know, you didn't appreciate, you don't appreciate those days until they're gone, until you're you know.
Speaker 3:Is it still there?
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, it's still there to this day, I got a, i got a drive man.
Speaker 3:Wheels were in there really like hey, remember me.
Speaker 4:I said let's go for a drive. Um, but yeah, it's. It's more of of being raised in the ghetto. It's more about appreciating everything that you've had. You know the small things to now. It's like you know you have it. It's not, you don't have to struggle anymore, but you appreciate the shit that you have It's right So.
Speaker 3:so when you were in South side and you transitioned, you moved to Elgin, Was there a huge difference? culture shock.
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 4:Not really, it was just the same. You know it was. I feel like the neighborhoods were a little bit better. You know the roads, especially notepad holes over here when I was younger, um, but besides that it was just more.
Speaker 3:You remember potholes when you moved here as a child.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you read all you can remember, even the back seat you fucking. Yeah, right there.
Speaker 4:Definitely flat tires all the time out there. Potholes are as big as this tape. water Two, three feet deep. No, no lie.
Speaker 1:What the fuck does it get like that? The plows.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the plows, so they don't replace it, fix it nothing, It just gets like.
Speaker 3:So are you on the east side or the west side of Elgin?
Speaker 4:So I started off, I guess right next to.
Speaker 3:South Elgin Oh okay, south Elgin. So I used to grow up in South Elgin as well.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so you see Bluff City right around there. Bluff City, yeah, so you know where it's at? Yeah, Yeah. so right around there, Bluff City, it's right off 20. There's a VP in McDonald's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no way. The Burger King, the VP in Burger King you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Max is thinking right at the bottom of Sundown when you, you know you, oh, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4:So, you get. You get on 31, right, And you get on 20. You know where I'm talking about. Yeah, you, you keep going down. There's a little under.
Speaker 3:Oh, i know what you're talking about. Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, i like how he seeded it.
Speaker 4:I didn't even explain, I just had to take a left on the right and he said oh god, Yeah, no, I just so he started.
Speaker 3:And then, where did you end up?
Speaker 4:Like now.
Speaker 3:Like where'd you go to school? LJ High School.
Speaker 4:Yeah, when at LJ High School Hey let's go to Maroons.
Speaker 2:You said Maroons. No, i'm just.
Speaker 3:I don't, I'm just, I don't know the Maroons, But so how was LJ High School? Was there a lot of fights? were there games? Was there fights? Did you have a good time with the teachers? Did you get stabbed?
Speaker 4:I never went. I hated school.
Speaker 1:I never went like I drive without a license, i don't got to go to class.
Speaker 3:Jesus, chris, so what? what got you into cleaning cars like I?
Speaker 1:don't fill out job applications, i just clean cars. All right, give me my money.
Speaker 3:So fuck the diploma.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no bullshit. I've had about over, i'd say, 30 jobs, really over 30, 40 jobs like no bullshit, well got me jobs or like jobs, like you could put on taxes and stuff, jobs that you can put on taxes. Um, what got me cleaning cars was just, you know, the satisfaction about having a clean car. It's about seeing the difference between Cracks and removing the dirt. You see the difference of. It's more about. I guess you know how you love sneakers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what my girl, like I kept my hockey equipment in the car, yeah, and I mean I kept it relatively clean, but I kept my hockey equipment in the car and I was taking her out on a date and like she literally Said, like I'm not driving this car, we're driving in my car. I was like why, what's the problem? And apparently my hockey equipment smelled like shit and I didn't realize it, but it actually did so.
Speaker 1:But like if I knew you 10 years maybe you would have cleaned my hockey equipment.
Speaker 4:Oh, definitely, man. What's it But?
Speaker 3:I watch her.
Speaker 4:Um, everything that got me into where I'm at now is, i guess I'm just appreciating what I've always had.
Speaker 3:Okay, so let's run through it. So you went through these 30 jobs, fuck these jobs, and then you're like you know what I like cleaning cars, that's what I like doing. How much is all this equipment? because I was like talking to Eric the other week about you and I was like you know what I could clean my car by myself. All I have to do is just go to a fucking place, you know, blast some music, grab the vacuum cleaner, vacuum out my car. Yeah, you know, and It'll be fine. The party is all you know. Leave. My bitch is looking clean. So What makes a detail difference than me cleaning my car?
Speaker 4:I guess it's besides. So it's, you can see it as a consumer side and a detailer side. A consumer side is what you just described. A detailer is a person that gets into those grooves. Those are like, let's say, those, those seat rails, those get steam cleaning. Everything literally I'm talking about to the cranks and crevices of every the whole car gets cleaned with brushes, steam cleaned.
Speaker 1:You ain't shampooing the interior carpet makes.
Speaker 3:Yo, what's the most disgusting thing you found in the car?
Speaker 4:tampons Get out of here when I first started, you dirty fuckers, that is This is disgusting.
Speaker 3:Hey, can you clean my car?
Speaker 1:and leaves that shit It was. They're getting their money's worth, man It was.
Speaker 3:What about used condom?
Speaker 4:Never I found a used condom, that'd be. I found wrappers, yes, but um, i found I feel like that and What about food?
Speaker 3:like anything just goes through. When I came to food, some oldy shit.
Speaker 4:Yep, mold right there, i found drugs. Yeah, the owner's like yeah, i gave it right back to him because it was oh, i thought you were pocket that shit.
Speaker 3:You know it's powdered shit, yeah so it was.
Speaker 4:It was powder. I was like you know what? I'm, okay, they, they've offered me, before you know I've, i've dealt with customers that offered me. You know, pay me and and And, basically drugs and I'm, i decline I know how do you cash only My kid?
Speaker 3:I gotta fucking pay for this rent All right, let's get it.
Speaker 4:I gotta get lawyers for the suspended license.
Speaker 1:I gotta get.
Speaker 3:Insurance, finally, but hey yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:So how much is the equipment to detail a car? Because I could just go to this place like I did the car wash, and I can, you know, put 25, 50 cents into the fucking vacuum cleaner, just vacuum my car.
Speaker 1:Congratulations. You haven't met your biggest hater.
Speaker 3:Maximillion gross Game on grab some windex, you know fucking, you know get. Get the Windshield, you know you know get the fucking, the what. What do you?
Speaker 1:call this time defend your business.
Speaker 2:I should hire him.
Speaker 3:Like I clean the crevices too with that big ass hose. I'm talking about why it's why, like they always have that white hose or whatever, like that's all I Tell him about the vacuum.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all you got is vacuums and wet wipes. This motherfucker right here got the steamer. He's waxing.
Speaker 3:I want to know how much this equipment costs.
Speaker 4:So, starting off, you know you can go to the basic, basic you can. You can literally start a detailing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but your luxury, that's your brand right, luxury, cardio to guard card Detailer.
Speaker 4:Yeah, um, so It right now what I'm carrying. Right now It's around, i'd say, about five to seven grand.
Speaker 3:Okay, so five, seven grand, Let's uh break down the equipment. What is it?
Speaker 4:Generator water tank, power washer, vacuum hoses Hoses aren't cheap Um dude hoses aren't cheap. I know Trust me uh um reels supplies, chemicals, brushes, Scrub pads, towels scrub products polishers um bottle holders, yegels on and on what?
Speaker 3:the fuck got you into this. I used to tell you no, i know like where? where did he say like, oh, i need to get a scrub pad, i definitely need to get this.
Speaker 4:It's basically so I try to spend on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll just fart inside, Sorry.
Speaker 4:I, i try to. I try to get into What makes my job easier. So if I have to spend, let's say, $300 and it's gonna save me 45 minutes, so I imagine 45 minutes throughout every detail and I do four details a day, that's about two hours, three hours in total.
Speaker 3:So it takes 45 minutes for you to detail a car.
Speaker 4:No, it takes me about three to four hours.
Speaker 3:Three to four hours to detail a car. Damn, so you're really getting in there. It only took me like an hour to clean my car, so I'm telling you I should hire you, You. So it starts to say I bring you this dirty-ass car with a used tampon on that. My girlfriend left it. Okay, so how do you start?
Speaker 4:I bring out. basically, you know, if you check it out, walk around, it give you a set price, because all my prices are different.
Speaker 3:How much would that price be?
Speaker 4:Let's say you just want the interior done and it's really, really bad. I had to upcharge the price up to around $50, $60. So the total would have come out to around $180 just for the interior $180 to clean your car. Yep, and then from there get all the biggest trash you can, you know, remove it, carpet skis clean, shampooed, and from there vacuum blow everything out. I like it Crevices and everything Crevices like blow every little dust you can see out.
Speaker 1:Max knows about cleaning out crevices.
Speaker 3:Oh no, i do. yeah, man, if you don't clean out that rubber part in the fucking fridge like the army dude, don't fuck you up. I learned that, so your crevices are important.
Speaker 1:I was talking about cleaning out the crevices of your female friends.
Speaker 3:Bro, you know what?
Speaker 1:He said oh yeah, i do, man That's a different story.
Speaker 3:He said don't talk about what I do. I do it.
Speaker 4:Um, especially so you know you blow everything out. It makes it easier, For example, that special tool just to blow everything out.
Speaker 3:So you like blowing stuff?
Speaker 1:That's just not just blowing.
Speaker 3:Blowing it out.
Speaker 1:What's it called It's a vacuum. How do you talk about sucking?
Speaker 3:He's got a vacuum. I don't dare him while he's got a vacuum.
Speaker 4:It's a big vacuum.
Speaker 3:Okay, so you blow it out. Is it like a bunch of dust or is it like just crumbs from people eating?
Speaker 4:Yes, it blows everything out from the crevices, rails between the seats. It blows it out. It opens the carpets up. you know has fibers in it. It opens them up. It saves you about 30 minutes, 25 minutes of just vacuuming And from there. So you do suck With vacuum?
Speaker 3:yes, I told you, you're sitting there like no way, don't you? Keep it on?
Speaker 1:You didn't want to talk about cleaning crevices with your tongue. You brought that up.
Speaker 3:I was talking about cleaning crevices in the refrigerator. I was trying to tell the world your talent Max.
Speaker 1:There it is fellas There, it is You couldn't resist He was thinking about it.
Speaker 3:You see that You got to do it counterclockwise.
Speaker 1:You got to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 3:Sometimes Flick three. All right, i'm going to stop Where was I Okay, so you vacuum.
Speaker 4:You suck it up, max, i'm just kidding. So you vacuum.
Speaker 2:After that you start warming up the steamer.
Speaker 4:Getting everything ready. I steam clean all plastics, everything At least, so you don't burn them up, scrub them down. You especially have to do the crevices and the door jams. You know how they have a little plastic rubber seal right there, nobody cleans it, you always have to clean it. It messes up, it breaks or makes your detail, especially that.
Speaker 3:What's in there? Like fucking used condoms or something.
Speaker 4:It's mostly dirt that gets stuck in there When you step in and step out of the car, so you have to steam clean it, blow it out, pass a towel through it, make sure it's clean.
Speaker 3:Okay, so you've probably had like muddy cars before, like from like you know, those guys, like you know, go truck, truck driving in the mud, mudding or whatever. Have you ever had like muddy cars or no, never, honestly never. I've never received a muddy car.
Speaker 4:Damn.
Speaker 3:I wish you did Honestly because I want to see what this vacuum is Steam or shampoo, or it could do So. Do you steam and then shampoo, or do you shampoo and then steam? I steam then shampoo, just so. This is steam. The heat loosens up the dirt And then from there extraction.
Speaker 4:you know you suck it up, so okay, so let's continue. So for example, you know you steam, clean it, you add whatever chemical you're using Steam and then you can use it.
Speaker 3:So you can use it, you can use it.
Speaker 4:You can use it. You can use it. You can use it. You can use it A lot of different things. You can use this. You can use it. You mean really, yeah, and other things.
Speaker 3:I can use Steam and then, uh, agitate and extract, so it's easier for the stains to be removed And you just pull up the use of extractor with hot water as well and remove that stain right away.
Speaker 4:Okay, it smells.
Speaker 3:Delicious.
Speaker 4:Yep, and it removes, so it leaves a nice matte finish Tasty. Oh yeah, matte finish. And it leaves it literally like brand new It's brand new. And I try to leave a coating behind. So when let's say you know you get in, you drop your soda or whatever. The coating helps for the water or whatever falls on there, not stick And it gives you time. It's crazy water This it's got to.
Speaker 3:It's providing a defensive seal, Yeah it's funny, it's like he's a doctor.
Speaker 1:But, he's for cleaning cars.
Speaker 3:I got to make sure that the heart is perfectly in balance. I got to make sure that Max gets back to normal and all this stuff And you're like. I got to make sure that he won't.
Speaker 1:I got to make sure the car If the soda won't soak into the carpet.
Speaker 3:I got to make sure the soda will not soak into the carpet, because otherwise the carpet will get sick.
Speaker 4:It's, it's, it's a craft, It's a craft?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it sounds like it.
Speaker 4:Like.
Speaker 3:I thought it was just, you know, vacuuming in Clorox, like I did. So how does it like win one? OK, so are you done detailing, or is there more?
Speaker 4:Oh no, it's, it's way more.
Speaker 3:OK, so From.
Speaker 4:Eustine Clean Shea.
Speaker 1:Max is like we got all night. We got eight minutes left for this podcast.
Speaker 4:I try to wrap it up, all right. So you extract, you know. After that you scrub all surfaces and everything You try to leave. I try to leave the coating on behind dries up live. I asked the customer do you want to finish shiny surface? It's up to them. Some customers don't like it.
Speaker 1:After that, Wash, i go, shine you all the way.
Speaker 3:You know, psychologically Man like shiny things. Why I don't?
Speaker 1:Because in nature think about it.
Speaker 3:Pussy shine.
Speaker 1:Think about it A turned on vagina is wet and shiny which promotes male humans to promote life.
Speaker 3:Unless it's a dirty vagina.
Speaker 1:By impregnate. You know what I'm saying. You see where I'm going with this. Yeah, So psychologically, when men see shiny things, we get turned on. We're like that's nice.
Speaker 3:Just like Eric when I swam. Hold on.
Speaker 2:I told you that off the camera.
Speaker 3:So let's finish this up. So you do the matte or shiny. The matte finish, the shiny finish.
Speaker 4:I've met people who have done both. You know From there seals on the door, seals, door jams get that all cleaned up. You know That breaks or makes your detail Because you could make a fantastic job in the interior. But if you leave that dirt on the door jams and the seals your detail looks like shit. It's not going to come out right.
Speaker 3:So you've done it before.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You learn from your mistakes.
Speaker 4:And that's how we become better.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But what's it called? Yeah, Then window. You can't forget the windows with Windex. You know The Mac Special.
Speaker 1:The Mac Special Oh yeah. At the million at the end of the Maximilian Special.
Speaker 3:Honestly, bro, honestly, bro, what you just explained felt like you're giving the car a fucking bath or shower And me, i'm this amateur thinking, oh yeah, i can make my car look nice. I don't even have fucking detail Like I'm going to grab this hose that looks like it's from an industrial place.
Speaker 1:I'm like, try to get every door to a place with a sign that says free vacuum.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, i'm going to grab my Windex wipes And I'm going to wipe my windows. I'm going to grab my Clorax wipes. I'm going to wipe my dashboard. I think it's good, but the real question is what does it feel like when the customer gets in the car? They're like yeah, like yeah.
Speaker 4:You know what Not a?
Speaker 3:year Steering wheel feels nice. How does that feel to you?
Speaker 4:Now that you mentioned it, i think that's why I got into detailing, because I love customers' reactions. I feel like that's what made me get into it. A customer's reaction is the best thing, but when they don't like it, that's the worst.
Speaker 3:Do you have customers who are like whoa, you didn't get this part, bro. Like what the fuck?
Speaker 4:That was him last time Man.
Speaker 1:I was like oh, yeah, i was like hold on, you ain't getting between the shifter bro. I was like hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, you ain't get in the buttons of the window. Nah, i'm talking.
Speaker 3:OK. So this car is like brand new, squeaky clean, So you can polish a turd right. So like Eric's Yukon, for example.
Speaker 1:He actually detailed my Sonata.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, they came back to life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that honestly. No, I don't know Shout out to Silas for fucking it up, but I brought it back to life. Let's go.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:He's like the freaking guy who goes to the ER and you're with the doctor And you're like you know what? I got this. We're going to do this. We're going to bring this car back to life. That's how it is. That's how we live life to the max. We're going to bring this car back to life, that's what we're doing The max in any way, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3:Fuck every other job. I like details, that's what I do. And you know what I was wrong. I was wrong. I thought I could clean a car like you, but I was wrong. Maybe I could, maybe I could if I bought your shit. But I don't think I would want to buy your shit. I think I would just say, hey, you wanted to detail my car. And then my girl would be like, oh, it's like brand new. I'll be like, yeah, I did it myself.
Speaker 4:I got a detail. I got a detail.
Speaker 3:I stopped vacuuming, i got a professional to do it. You like it. Yeah, let's go for a drive.
Speaker 4:Honestly, anybody can start it. Honestly, it's just your drive You want to do it Your drive.
Speaker 1:That's a nice pun, man.
Speaker 4:You guys are fucked up.
Speaker 3:You just spring in that suspension Suspension. Oh wow, That's an urban.
Speaker 1:Pun after pun, after pun after pun.
Speaker 3:We're having a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:But honestly, anybody can start a detailing business. It's just about you wanting to get to the next level. I've met a lot of people that have been into the detailing business for about six, seven years And I'm already on their level. not to bring myself up, but honestly.
Speaker 3:I can Get some self up. You know what That's an art pun.
Speaker 1:You know He's killing it.
Speaker 4:You have to, because nobody who else will.
Speaker 3:You have to be your best cheerleader And you're killing it 90%.
Speaker 1:Everybody else is going to do a detail thing.
Speaker 3:I have one more question, one more Do you have any enemies? Are you like you know what? Fuck this dude. He doesn't know how to detail a car. I detail cars better. He can go fuck himself. Or do you have people say oh wow, your detail is way better than this other guy? You're like, yeah, fuck that dude.
Speaker 4:I tried to minimize that, do you know? And just like I said, it's love for everybody, never I tried not to have enemies.
Speaker 3:You have to have enemies.
Speaker 1:This man was robbed, bro. He was rob naked And he turned the cheek. It's just, you can't It only comes to the point when somebody harms his kid is when he comes in He says don't worry me, Definitely You got to.
Speaker 3:So you know what You do have an enemy It's your neighbor.
Speaker 1:It's your neighbor.
Speaker 4:Yeah, ok, i can sit. Yeah, yeah, besides that, people might hate me, people might dislike me. I'm OK with that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3:That makes me go harder every day. If haters going to hate, you're going to do better.
Speaker 4:And if you ain't have no haters, you ain't popping.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm saying. That's why I said you need to have enemies.
Speaker 4:I don't have enemies personally. I know people that hate me. I don't hate them, i love them. I appreciate them. Until they hit you kid, and then I'm going to jail, definitely.
Speaker 3:That's the story. We're going to end it hard jail Right back from the start. Huh.
Speaker 4:You guys don't remember me, i got it. Guys that has a suspended license never goes to court.
Speaker 3:I wanted to make this podcast funny, like the detailing, because I didn't want you to sit there and be like well, i do this and this and that.
Speaker 1:You did a good job. You did a good job On life to the max.
Speaker 3:We live life to the max.
Speaker 1:On life to the max. People, all guests, tell their version of what live in life to the fullest.
Speaker 4:I think that's going to be my new slogan live in life to the max.
Speaker 1:So how would you live life to the max? How do you just steal that?
Speaker 3:shit from me with a fuck.
Speaker 4:I guess it's just for me. It's enjoying every second and moment I can I can with my family, with my kid. You can't get those back, you know. You never know what might happen to me, to him, to my girl, anything. I try to make the most memories I can, because that's the only thing you take. You don't take money, you don't take cars, nothing Fix.
Speaker 3:You don't want to eat anything. What are some little things you forget about?
Speaker 2:For me it's breathing.
Speaker 1:I forgot Breathing was like what's some little things that have a huge impact on you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, think about the big little things in life.
Speaker 3:The crevices.
Speaker 1:Yeah Or sucking their blood. That's an example, like cleaning a certain part of the car, Something that won't mean anything to someone but it means a lot to you, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I think that's a question I got to me. I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's all about the delivery mix.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's time to do it?
Speaker 4:Are you guys talking about in life detailing?
Speaker 3:Anything little that you, like I wouldn't say, take for granted. But you realize you have it, but you don't appreciate it.
Speaker 4:I guess in those words, nothing. I appreciate every single moment that I have. I appreciate this moment that you guys have with me here and I appreciate all the people that I know, every single person like. For example, i just met a. I guess I've been knowing that person for a while, but he's been. He became like a brother to me. He's jumped over hoops for me. I appreciate him. You know, i have just been. I'm grateful for everything that I have And I have.
Speaker 1:All right. We're coming to the conclusion of this episode. Do us a favor.
Speaker 3:Gratefulness. That's what it is Gratefulness, gratitude. You live in life to the max. Look into that camera. Tell us what you're doing next. Tell us your future. Welcome to your camera. Tell us your future.
Speaker 4:My name's Sergio. I'm living life to the max. There you go. Am I going to court next time? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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