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Gabriel Covarrubias: One of the big shifts that our

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Gabriel Covarrubias: manufacturers implemented in the last few

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Gabriel Covarrubias: months is now, instead of looking through

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Gabriel Covarrubias: video, we can talk or text into our VMS

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Gabriel Covarrubias: software and we could say I'm looking for a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: gentleman with a white t-shirt and blue

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Gabriel Covarrubias: jeans on and blonde hair, and it's going to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: pull up that video in seconds.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Oh my gosh.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And it's going to scrub all of the cameras

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Gabriel Covarrubias: on that account or the selected cameras

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that you choose from.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So, going to that video investigation piece,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we've really expedited that process tenfold.

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Mark Haney: That's incredible.

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Mark Haney: That is yes.

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Mark Haney: This is the Mark Haney Show, on a mission

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Mark Haney: to ignite the entrepreneurial revolution

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Mark Haney: right here in the hometown we love.

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Mark Haney: We do that by building the Backyard

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Mark Haney: Advantage, which is really working on

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Mark Haney: building the most connected community in

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Mark Haney: the world for local entrepreneurs.

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Mark Haney: It's based around this culture of love and

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Mark Haney: you know I love entrepreneurs and sharing

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Mark Haney: the story of entrepreneurs is something

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Mark Haney: that I feel like the most successful

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Mark Haney: entrepreneurs should be on a pedestal and

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Mark Haney: we need to share their story so it inspires

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Mark Haney: the next one in line, and so today that is

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Mark Haney: what we are doing.

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Mark Haney: We have Gabriel Covarrubias.

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Mark Haney: Did I pronounce your name right?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, that's really close Covarrubias.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Thank you.

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Mark Haney: Covarrubias, and you know we have kind of

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Mark Haney: got to know each other.

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Mark Haney: We met each other at a UCP fundraiser a few

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Mark Haney: months back and it turns out we are kind of

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Mark Haney: from the same industry initially security

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Mark Haney: cameras, and there was a little bit of a

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Mark Haney: bond over that, but we just started bonding

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Mark Haney: too over family and discussing kind of like

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Mark Haney: some of the things that dads and I'm a

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Mark Haney: grandpa now as well, but you know that we

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Mark Haney: go through and dogs.

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Mark Haney: So you're a dog guy and I wouldn't call

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Mark Haney: myself a dog guy, that we go through and

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Mark Haney: dogs.

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Mark Haney: So uh, yeah, so you're a dog guy and I

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Mark Haney: wouldn't call myself a dog guy, but we've

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Mark Haney: got a bunch of dogs at our property.

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Mark Haney: So, uh, uh, I want to start the show by

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Mark Haney: talking a little bit about that, because I,

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Mark Haney: we started the show before you and I really

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Mark Haney: got into this and for the audience, this is

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Mark Haney: how it came up.

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Mark Haney: So about 40 minutes ago, you know, we had

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Mark Haney: just celebrated a nice family win.

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Mark Haney: I went home, worked out and, you know, sat

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Mark Haney: in the sauna.

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Mark Haney: I get up and decide I'm going to go for a

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Mark Haney: ride in my Jeep with my wife because we're

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Mark Haney: getting some new gates put on the you know,

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Mark Haney: at our property, and so I jump in the Jeep

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Mark Haney: to drive her across to go look at it.

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Mark Haney: And we have, like there's a bunch of dogs

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Mark Haney: on the property but there's like three or

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Mark Haney: four of them like to chase the Jeep and so

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Mark Haney: they're chasing the Jeep and I'm going

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Mark Haney: pretty slow and so we look at the gates and

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Mark Haney: we're pulling away.

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Mark Haney: I'm going maybe like one mile an hour and

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Mark Haney: this one dog, that's like super fast.

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Mark Haney: All of a sudden I hear yelping oh no, what

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Mark Haney: happened?

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Mark Haney: I could feel it under the Jeep, the dog had

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Mark Haney: got under the Jeep somehow and I was only

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Mark Haney: going about one mile an hour.

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Mark Haney: But the dog comes out limping and I just

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Mark Haney: felt like crap.

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Mark Haney: Went to put the dog in the Jeep so we could

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Mark Haney: take it to the vet or get it checked out or

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Mark Haney: whatever.

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Mark Haney: And it was my son's dog and it bit me and

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Mark Haney: so I've got this bandage and so I scrambled

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Mark Haney: to get here in the show, um, while

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Mark Haney: everybody's dealing with the dog taking it

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Mark Haney: to the vet.

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Mark Haney: But, um, just, you know life of, uh, you

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Mark Haney: know real world life.

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Mark Haney: You know entrepreneurs and you know we all

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Mark Haney: have these things that like, uh, great day

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Mark Haney: becomes this, you know really bad day and

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Mark Haney: now it's a great day again because I'm

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Mark Haney: talking to Gabe, but, um, anyway, thanks

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Mark Haney: for coming on the show, but you have a lab

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Mark Haney: and a golden retriever, yeah, yeah.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So I've got two senior dogs, I like to call

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Gabriel Covarrubias: them.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I've got my rescue.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: She's approximately 13 years old.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: She's our golden retriever.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Uh, absolutely love her.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We've had her for about five years.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And then our family dog that we got when he

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Gabriel Covarrubias: was a puppy, it's our black lab.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: He turns 10 in October, so interesting.

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Mark Haney: I've been bit one other time in my life and

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Mark Haney: it was by a black lab, but we have three

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Mark Haney: yellow labs, so they're white, whitish in

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Mark Haney: color.

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Mark Haney: What's the demeanor of your black lab?

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Mark Haney: Is that a?

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Mark Haney: It sounds like a 10-year-old dog.

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Mark Haney: Is it super friendly towards people and

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Mark Haney: that kind of thing.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, super, super friendly.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: This guy will lick your hand, although far

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Gabriel Covarrubias: from biting it.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Wow.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And what's interesting about him?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: At 10 years old, anytime he meets somebody

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you think it's the first time he's ever

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Gabriel Covarrubias: been introduced to humans Because he gets

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Gabriel Covarrubias: so excited about any new scent he just like

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Gabriel Covarrubias: will just start like not really barking,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: but kind of yapping with excitement, almost

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Gabriel Covarrubias: like a cry like pet me, pet me, please give

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Gabriel Covarrubias: me attention.

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Mark Haney: Oh, wow Sounds like a super cool dog and

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Mark Haney: our three yellow labs sounds like they have

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Mark Haney: a very similar demeanor.

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Mark Haney: They're super friendly.

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Mark Haney: They bark at the Amazon guy or whatever,

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Mark Haney: but then he comes up and they're all happy

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Mark Haney: to see him.

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Mark Haney: Actually, they're just barking.

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Mark Haney: I don't know why.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, same with this guy.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: He barks to make noise, but if he actually

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Gabriel Covarrubias: sees a person, he's just going to run up to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you and want you to pat on the back.

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Mark Haney: What made you decide to rescue the dog?

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Mark Haney: Did you grow up being a dog lover type guy?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, interesting story.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So my wife and I are just total animal

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Gabriel Covarrubias: people and that that's you know, gone down

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to our children.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Uh, the unfortunate reality is my stepmom

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Gabriel Covarrubias: passed away in 2020, and so in her wishes

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Gabriel Covarrubias: was that one of the children take care of

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Gabriel Covarrubias: her dog.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Okay, and so that's where we inherited the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: black lab, and uh yeah, so the rest has

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Gabriel Covarrubias: been history with her.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We brought her in immediately and she's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: been taken in as one of the family members

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and you've got little kids, so they're

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Gabriel Covarrubias: probably great with those little kids.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Oh yeah.

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Mark Haney: Yeah, that's how our dogs are too.

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Mark Haney: It's a.

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Mark Haney: It's a good thing, and I hadn't had a dog

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Mark Haney: for a long time since my kids were younger,

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Mark Haney: and when COVID hit, we went out and got

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Mark Haney: some yellow labs and you know my wife's in

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Mark Haney: heaven.

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Mark Haney: So I'm now I know nobody's mad at me for

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Mark Haney: running over the dog, but everybody feels

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Mark Haney: really bad about it.

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Mark Haney: So it's a tough deal.

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Mark Haney: But this show is not really about running

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Mark Haney: over your dog.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Although there are ups and downs in

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Gabriel Covarrubias: entrepreneurship.

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Mark Haney: Today was an up and a down.

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Mark Haney: It started off as a great day and now it's

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Mark Haney: ended up being this weird day.

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Mark Haney: So thanks for I know I was a couple minutes

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Mark Haney: late for the show, so thanks for sticking

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Mark Haney: around and let's share your story Now.

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Mark Haney: You built a business in security cameras,

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Mark Haney: which is intriguing to me as a security

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Mark Haney: camera guy.

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Mark Haney: Let's talk about your journey.

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Mark Haney: Tell me about this journey into

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Mark Haney: entrepreneurship, and the name of your

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Mark Haney: company is MSC Integration.

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Mark Haney: It was Mr Security Cameras, right, or is it?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: still that that is correct.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, so it's still Mr Security Camera Inc.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We're just doing business as MSC

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Gabriel Covarrubias: integration Gotcha, and that change

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Gabriel Covarrubias: actually came about four or five years ago

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Gabriel Covarrubias: as we started offering a lot more than just

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Gabriel Covarrubias: video surveillance and security cameras.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: The business started doing card access,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: intrusion detection systems, live video

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Gabriel Covarrubias: monitoring, anything that really

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Gabriel Covarrubias: encompasses security needed for a business,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and so we felt a name change was necessary

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to help express kind of who we are, what we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: do and how we're going to do it.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: But the parent company is still Mr Security

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Camera Inc and we still hold true to that.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Hence the MSC is just a play on words.

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Mark Haney: Okay, I didn't even catch what that stood

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Mark Haney: for.

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Mark Haney: Okay, well, I like the name, mr Security

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Mark Haney: Cameras, because it's I mean, it's to the

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Mark Haney: point.

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Mark Haney: It's like if you think you, if you have an

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Mark Haney: incident and you want to get some cameras,

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Mark Haney: okay, well, these guys are Mr Security

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Mark Haney: Camera, it's not wannabe security camera

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Mark Haney: dude.

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Mark Haney: And you, your company's really grown over

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Mark Haney: the years and I think you may have worked

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Mark Haney: with one of our companies is we do video

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Mark Haney: surveillance in casinos and I know so I

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Mark Haney: know you do like big jobs.

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Mark Haney: You know we do pretty much enterprise type

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Mark Haney: video security and then we do a little bit

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Mark Haney: of that card access and some of that stuff

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Mark Haney: too.

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Mark Haney: But you've built quite a business of a

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Mark Haney: variety of, I guess, industry verticals.

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Mark Haney: So maybe tell me about the different parts

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Mark Haney: of your business and the different customer

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Mark Haney: types.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So originally on back in the early days of

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Mr Security Camera, we were primarily a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: residential service company.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: To your point, we were the guys that if you

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Gabriel Covarrubias: had something security related for video,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you called us, we were Mr Security, and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that really carried us through and that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: started like as a side gig for you.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You called us, we were Mr Security, and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that really carried us through and that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: started like as a side gig for you.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Right, it did.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It did, yeah, it really started.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I was in transitioning from another

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Gabriel Covarrubias: business this is actually the fourth

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Gabriel Covarrubias: business I've started in my career and I

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Gabriel Covarrubias: was transitioning out of a business selling

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Gabriel Covarrubias: it back to my original partner at the time,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: just trying to figure out what I was going

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to do.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I was just doing some like side gigs,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: working with some friends and you know we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: were doing some Craigslisting, essentially

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Gabriel Covarrubias: installing security cameras for local bars

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and restaurants and things unlicensed.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Didn't quite know what we were doing, but

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Gabriel Covarrubias: just having fun doing it and that's what

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Gabriel Covarrubias: got us started.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And in 2014, when we became a licensed

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Gabriel Covarrubias: contractor for Mr Security Camera Inc.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We focused on that residential market,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: providing that quick turnaround.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You can call us today.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We're going to be out there tomorrow pretty

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Gabriel Covarrubias: much installing cameras getting your house

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Gabriel Covarrubias: protected.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: As that progressed over the years, in 2017,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we made the shift to go from straight

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Gabriel Covarrubias: business to business and our primary

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Gabriel Covarrubias: vertical now is going to be multifamily

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Gabriel Covarrubias: housing and light distribution warehouses.

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Mark Haney: Okay, I'm going to take the listeners down

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Mark Haney: a little bit of a memory lane.

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Mark Haney: Some may know this, but so when I got into

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Mark Haney: security cameras, it was 1992.

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Mark Haney: It was way back when, and it the people

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Mark Haney: that were in security cameras were doing it

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Mark Haney: totally on the side.

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Mark Haney: There really weren't too many security

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Mark Haney: camera specialists.

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Mark Haney: You had these alarm companies, right.

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Mark Haney: So, like a security company that does a

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Mark Haney: alarm, maybe a fire alarm, you know they

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Mark Haney: people started asking them for security

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Mark Haney: cameras and so they learned how to be

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Mark Haney: security camera installers.

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Mark Haney: Maybe there's an electrical contractor and

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Mark Haney: he gets a call, you know, okay, yeah, I can

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Mark Haney: figure it out.

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Mark Haney: And so when I got in at that time, and

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Mark Haney: because my mom and dad had owned a TV shop

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Mark Haney: when I was a kid, the security camera thing

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Mark Haney: I won't say it was easier for me, but I was

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Mark Haney: sort of attracted to it in a way, and

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Mark Haney: that's predominantly why we, you know,

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Mark Haney: built our, you know, we had a handful of

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Mark Haney: security camera companies, but very, very,

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Mark Haney: very focused on security cameras versus,

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Mark Haney: you know, everything associated with

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Mark Haney: security and that, and deciding to

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Mark Haney: specialize, at least at that time, ended up,

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Mark Haney: I guess, being a blessing for us.

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Mark Haney: So now you get into, take back to 2014 when

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Mark Haney: you first started getting into this Walk me

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Mark Haney: through that, so it becomes an official

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Mark Haney: business and you started off with the

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Mark Haney: residential site and maybe bars and small

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Mark Haney: businesses.

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Mark Haney: Was there a turning point in there where

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Mark Haney: you said, wow, I'm really onto something

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Mark Haney: and I can really expand?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, actually, the turning point happened

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Gabriel Covarrubias: prior to us making it an official business,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: back in 2023,.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We started getting into some customers

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Gabriel Covarrubias: commercial customers that I started.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: The light bulb started to turn on and I

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Gabriel Covarrubias: said, wow, there is something here.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: There's a need in our local market, people

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that are not servicing it effectively.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Going back, to, the types of companies that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: were offering the service were kind of one

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Gabriel Covarrubias: man show alarm companies, and something

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that we were hearing from our clientele

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Gabriel Covarrubias: base at that time was they needed somebody

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Gabriel Covarrubias: they can call that's going to answer the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: phone, that's going to be able to provide

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Gabriel Covarrubias: support and walk them through help when

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Gabriel Covarrubias: they need it the most.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And that's what we based the business on.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And so when 2014 hit and the light bulb had

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Gabriel Covarrubias: already turned on, at that point I said,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: wow, we can do something here.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We have not necessarily a secret sauce.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Our secret sauce is communication.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We're going to be here and we're not going

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We're not going to be a fly by night

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Gabriel Covarrubias: company.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And what also happened at that time in 2014,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we went from buying camera systems at

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Costco and and installing them for you to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: finding a distributor at that time, which

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Gabriel Covarrubias: happened to be a company I think you might

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Gabriel Covarrubias: have some association with Mark Northern

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Video.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yes, okay, yeah, so, interesting enough, I

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Gabriel Covarrubias: went to one of our clients' facilities last

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Gabriel Covarrubias: week at Tikert, and they still had the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: original Northern Video PTZs.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We sold them back in 2014.

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Mark Haney: Oh my gosh Still functioning Still.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: great video quality, by the way.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: 14 still functioning still great video

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Gabriel Covarrubias: quality, by the way.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Uh, the server happened to to uh pass away

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Gabriel Covarrubias: on us, okay, but the cameras have outlived.

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Mark Haney: That cameras worked.

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Mark Haney: Okay, that's good to hear.

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Mark Haney: Uh, you know, keep kept in, because that's

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Mark Haney: uh, that's that's pretty old.

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Mark Haney: The northern cameras, yeah, yeah, I don't,

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Mark Haney: they're not, so for anybody that might be

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Mark Haney: listening.

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Mark Haney: So I owned a company called northern video

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Mark Haney: and it was actually a pro video company and

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Mark Haney: we sold basically no security cameras and

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Mark Haney: then we started selling Sony security

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Mark Haney: cameras.

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Mark Haney: Ultimately, we built it into like the

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Mark Haney: largest independent security distributor in

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Mark Haney: the country.

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Mark Haney: It got bought by.

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Mark Haney: We actually merged with another company and

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Mark Haney: went on a roll-up strategy and bought a

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Mark Haney: bunch of companies and became the largest

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Mark Haney: security camera distributor in the country,

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Mark Haney: and then we ended up getting bought a few

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Mark Haney: more times later.

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Mark Haney: After I left the company, it's now, I think,

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Mark Haney: part of the largest distributorship in this

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Mark Haney: realm in the world.

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Mark Haney: Do you still buy your stuff there?

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Mark Haney: We do, and that's Wesco now Wesco.

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Mark Haney: Okay, I forgot the name of it.

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Mark Haney: I don't deal with it anymore.

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Mark Haney: I have my security camera company.

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Mark Haney: Now I'm like a silent, whatever we want to

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Mark Haney: say.

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Mark Haney: I'm like a silent passive investor, if you

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Mark Haney: will.

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Mark Haney: My brother-in-law runs it, so I'm not up to

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Mark Haney: date on where we get all our stuff these

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Mark Haney: days.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, they still operate out of the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: original Triad which was part of, I believe,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: your roll up with Northern Video and Triad,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: so they're still there in Natomas, wow, and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: they've been a great partner for us.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We've been working with them since 2014.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: That's great, do you?

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Mark Haney: guys buy from ScanSource at all.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Very little.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I think that's where we we don't buy, we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: buy most of our stuff directly from the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: manufacturer.

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Mark Haney: But when we have to buy something through

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Mark Haney: distribution on the video side, I think we

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Mark Haney: buy it from ScanSource, who got into the

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Mark Haney: business, you know, late in the game,

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Mark Haney: because they're like they have.

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Mark Haney: They're just a distributor that got into

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Mark Haney: video because they thought it was a.

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Mark Haney: The video was an emerging technology, so

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Mark Haney: interesting.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, we do a little bit with them.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Our go-to is going to be Wesco and then

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Gabriel Covarrubias: direct with manufacturers such as Avigilon.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Okay, yeah, yeah.

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Mark Haney: We deal somewhat with Avigilon as well.

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Mark Haney: So now thinking about the technology, so

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Mark Haney: it's interesting to think about how the

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Mark Haney: technology has changed over the years.

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Mark Haney: You know, back in 92, I kind of talked

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Mark Haney: about people's reluctance to get into

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Mark Haney: security cameras, and partially because

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Mark Haney: they just weren't that good and maybe

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Mark Haney: people were like kind of anti big brother.

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Mark Haney: At that time People were like, oh, you know,

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Mark Haney: I don't want cameras all over keeping an

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Mark Haney: eye on everything.

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Mark Haney: It was like almost they were worried about

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Mark Haney: them being offensive to their customers and

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Mark Haney: to uh, you know, to the populace.

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Mark Haney: But now I think people want security

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Mark Haney: cameras.

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Mark Haney: If you're a patron, it makes us feel more

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Mark Haney: safe when you know that you've got enough

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Mark Haney: cameras up to keep track of stuff.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Well, most certainly.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I think the industry and market has shifted

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Gabriel Covarrubias: 180 degree.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Now people want to go to places that they

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Gabriel Covarrubias: know have an adequate video surveillance or

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Gabriel Covarrubias: security system.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: The world that we live in nowadays it's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: gone from being the big brother to now

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Gabriel Covarrubias: adding that layer of protection that, if

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you're going to go out to a shopping center

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Gabriel Covarrubias: or a shopping mall, knowing that there's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: video surveillance everywhere you go, and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: if you're out with your kids or your loved

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Gabriel Covarrubias: ones, knowing that you have that little

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Gabriel Covarrubias: extra layer of protection, provides that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: peace of mind.

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Mark Haney: You sort of get used to it.

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Mark Haney: They're everywhere, they're ubiquitous.

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Mark Haney: If you will and I don't know if you do this

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Mark Haney: or not you know you hear the stories about

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Mark Haney: if you're, let's say, your wife's pregnant

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Mark Haney: and then you start noticing pregnant people.

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Mark Haney: Well, if you're in the video surveillance

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Mark Haney: business, if I walk into a store,

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Mark Haney: especially if I go into a casino, which is

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Mark Haney: like our customer base is all casinos

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Mark Haney: they're everywhere.

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Mark Haney: There's just thousands and thousands of

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Mark Haney: cameras inside a casino, but a lot of times

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Mark Haney: you sort of just get used to seeing them.

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Mark Haney: They don't even stand out anymore because

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Mark Haney: they're so small, but the technology is so

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Mark Haney: much better than what they had been in the

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Mark Haney: past and they're getting better every day.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, most certainly getting better every

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Gabriel Covarrubias: day.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And what I find to be fascinating about the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: technology shift is we went from, you know,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: just even a few short years ago, where a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: lot of the analytics and computing was

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Gabriel Covarrubias: happening on site.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know it was happening at a camera level

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Gabriel Covarrubias: or a server or NVR level that was located

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Gabriel Covarrubias: on premise, and now that the industry is

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Gabriel Covarrubias: pivoting to cloud, the possibilities and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: capabilities are absolutely endless and it

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Gabriel Covarrubias: is amazing what we can do with video

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Gabriel Covarrubias: nowadays to maximize, you know, coverage,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to searching video, investigations and the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: time that we've been able to cut out of the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: picture.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: What used to be a full-time job we can now

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Gabriel Covarrubias: do in minutes and in seconds.

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Mark Haney: Yeah, it's crazy how much better it's

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Mark Haney: getting.

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Mark Haney: I heard this on the news today that and I

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Mark Haney: attribute it at some level to security

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Mark Haney: cameras.

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Mark Haney: But I hear crimes actually coming down in

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Mark Haney: America some recent statistics, even though

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Mark Haney: you know, maybe it's gone up over the last

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Mark Haney: several years due to you know how well we

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Mark Haney: enforce the law, but I think surveillance

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Mark Haney: cameras catch bad guys, bad people, and you

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Mark Haney: know how well we enforce the law, but I

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Mark Haney: think surveillance cameras catch bad guys,

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Mark Haney: bad people, and you know we have all kinds

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Mark Haney: of examples of solving challenges in

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Mark Haney: society by just stringing, piecing things

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Mark Haney: together because more people have cameras.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, I would agree with that.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I mean something I've said for years is it

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Gabriel Covarrubias: helps keep honest people honest, right.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It takes that opportunistic criminal and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: makes them think twice.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know they see a bag sitting on a table

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Gabriel Covarrubias: at a restaurant.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: They know that there's cameras.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Maybe they might have been a not so good

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Gabriel Covarrubias: person and said I'm going to take that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: opportunity and steal that bag or steal

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that phone.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: But I feel a lot of that is starting to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: become alleviated throughout time with the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: implementation of video.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, there's kind of like a peace of mind.

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Mark Haney: Now, one of the things that you did you

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Mark Haney: were telling me about is you made an

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Mark Haney: investment into I'll call them towers I

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Mark Haney: don't really know what you call these

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Mark Haney: things, but they're portable surveillance

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Mark Haney: systems that go high in the sky to keep

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Mark Haney: track of.

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Mark Haney: It could be construction site or something

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Mark Haney: like that and that has done pretty well for

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Mark Haney: you guys.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, most certainly.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So that's our latest brand that we launched

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Gabriel Covarrubias: officially September of 2024, which is our

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Mr Security Camera Trailers brand.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So that's for our mobile security units.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Those are completely off-grid,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: cellular-enabled generator backup, if need

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Gabriel Covarrubias: be, eyes in the sky.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We've got a few different models that we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: can deploy within, I'd say, less than 24

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Gabriel Covarrubias: hours.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Wow, so the time a client calls us, I mean

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we've even done same-day delivery.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We just did for a local police department

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Gabriel Covarrubias: in the Bay Area last week and so it's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: becoming increasingly popular to cover

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Gabriel Covarrubias: those off-grid areas or areas that might be

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Gabriel Covarrubias: a little cost-prohibitive to put in a full

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Gabriel Covarrubias: integrated security system.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We can deploy that unit, like I said,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: within 24 hours.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We can custom tailor the solutions to any

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Gabriel Covarrubias: client's needs.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Most of those units go out for job site

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Gabriel Covarrubias: security and parking lots, as well as

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Gabriel Covarrubias: special events.

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Mark Haney: Yeah, that's what I was imagining is you

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Mark Haney: mentioned law enforcement.

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Mark Haney: I started thinking, well, why, how would

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Mark Haney: that work?

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Mark Haney: But picture there's a protest, you know

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Mark Haney: it's going down or you've heard about

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Mark Haney: something happening.

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Mark Haney: It's like, well, we better bring extra

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Mark Haney: security.

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Mark Haney: And it's instead of just showing up with

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Mark Haney: just showing up with 200 cops, let's show

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Mark Haney: up with 100 and a couple of trailers and we

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Mark Haney: can basically manage part of the situation

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Mark Haney: from a remote location versus everybody

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Mark Haney: stuck down in the crowd.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Exactly, and that was the use case for that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: local municipal was.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It was a union strike actually, and so they

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Gabriel Covarrubias: were worried about some retaliation during

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that strike.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: They were short staffed and officers, so

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we're able to maximize their capabilities

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and coverage by getting those trailers out

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Gabriel Covarrubias: there.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So within 24 hours we had three units

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Gabriel Covarrubias: deployed and providing extra eyes in the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: sky that one officer can manage all of

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Gabriel Covarrubias: those units.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: They get full live feed on those trailers.

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Mark Haney: Interesting Because you hear that there are

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Mark Haney: less, and I don't know if you've heard this

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Mark Haney: or not, but I've heard that there are

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Mark Haney: people out there that don't really want to

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Mark Haney: go into law enforcement because of, maybe,

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Mark Haney: backlash from society or certain people

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Mark Haney: don't like cops and stuff like that.

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Mark Haney: So maybe the recruitment for strong police

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Mark Haney: officers is maybe a little bit more

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Mark Haney: difficult than it might have been 10 or 20

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Mark Haney: years ago, but cameras are actually an

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Mark Haney: affordable way to deal with and a safe way

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Mark Haney: to deal with a security scenario where

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Mark Haney: you're not really putting police officers

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Mark Haney: as many police officers in harm's way.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, I would agree, and I think it's just

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Gabriel Covarrubias: the nature of that industry right now and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: the stigma that's been put on it by society

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to your point.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It is increasingly harder for them to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: recruit and most jurisdictions that we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: speak to are understaffed in that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: department.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So being able to get them an affordable way

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to utilize what resources they have and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: provide that at a cost-effective solution

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Gabriel Covarrubias: is something that we're able to help with.

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Mark Haney: Yeah, and then I feel like it would make

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Mark Haney: sense too, because a lot of times these

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Mark Haney: guys, these government agencies, or even a

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Mark Haney: larger you know, corporation.

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Mark Haney: It's hard for them to allocate the funding

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Mark Haney: for, let's call it, 500 cameras and a

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Mark Haney: complete system might just be like that's a

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Mark Haney: CapEx expense.

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Mark Haney: We got to go to through all these layers of

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Mark Haney: approval and it's not in this year's budget

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Mark Haney: and stuff kind of gets kicked down.

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Mark Haney: The, you know, the can gets kicked.

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Mark Haney: But we have an event.

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Mark Haney: Let's go rent a trailer, let's go get a

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Mark Haney: couple of trailers.

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Mark Haney: You could sort of like almost make it a

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Mark Haney: variable expense, so you deal with it more

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Mark Haney: on a you know as needed basis, versus like

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Mark Haney: we just had this massive outlay.

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Mark Haney: Now we have a small outlay.

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Mark Haney: Every time we, you know, feel like we have

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Mark Haney: threats or opportunity to you, opportunity

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Mark Haney: to get hit.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, most certainly.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I mean.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: The beauty about our mobile security units

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Gabriel Covarrubias: is they fall typically under an operating

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Gabriel Covarrubias: expense budget, not a CapEx budget, because

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Gabriel Covarrubias: it is a much lower cost of entry.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We don't sell the units, so we only lease

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Gabriel Covarrubias: them out on rental term, and that's where

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Gabriel Covarrubias: it comes in.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Is that operating expense as opposed to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that CapEx?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And on one trailer, how many cameras are

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Gabriel Covarrubias: there?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Typically Typically four.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Okay, we do have some custom units where we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: have up to six cameras on them, depending

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Gabriel Covarrubias: on the use case.

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Mark Haney: So four cameras will typically.

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Mark Haney: You're looking, you have 360 degree

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Mark Haney: coverage.

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Mark Haney: It's like front and back.

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Mark Haney: You can see everywhere.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, 360 degree coverage.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We equip all of our trailers with PTZ

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Gabriel Covarrubias: cameras, so pan tilt zoom up to 25 times

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Gabriel Covarrubias: optical zoom.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So from any direction that we're looking

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Gabriel Covarrubias: into, we can zoom that camera in up to 300

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Gabriel Covarrubias: feet effectively.

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Mark Haney: Right, so everything is transmitted to the

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Mark Haney: cloud.

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Mark Haney: So somebody is actually pan tilting and

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Mark Haney: zooming from a remote location.

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Mark Haney: If they're doing it live, is that right?

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Mark Haney: That is correct, so you can do that, live

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Mark Haney: through the crowd, and you could be back at

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Mark Haney: police headquarters if you will and zooming

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Mark Haney: in on a hotspot and I would assume like I'm

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Mark Haney: not up on the latest technology but there's

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Mark Haney: things like facial recognition and there's

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Mark Haney: different kinds of things that you can have

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Mark Haney: the camera look for and help highlight

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Mark Haney: certain issues right?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, most certainly so.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: The facial recognition we've got some

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Gabriel Covarrubias: behavioral analytics that we can implement,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: as well as audio analytics that can help

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Gabriel Covarrubias: detect threats from a noise level.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Now, all of those are just customized

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Gabriel Covarrubias: features that we could add on to any mobile

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Gabriel Covarrubias: security unit, and same with facial

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Gabriel Covarrubias: recognition and any sort of analytic.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We can add that on on the backend, because

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Gabriel Covarrubias: now all of that's done in the cloud

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Gabriel Covarrubias: computing side and it's not hardware

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Gabriel Covarrubias: limited.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: On the actual trailer Wow.

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Mark Haney: So cool, so cool.

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Mark Haney: So what's the all right?

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Mark Haney: So where do you think the industry is going?

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Mark Haney: And then I want to hear sort of your vision

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Mark Haney: for where MSC is going.

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Mark Haney: But from an industry standpoint, security

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Mark Haney: is, from what I can tell, is people.

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Mark Haney: There's an increasing need for security and

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Mark Haney: an increasing desire for cameras

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Mark Haney: specifically.

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Mark Haney: So I think we're on a growth trajectory.

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Mark Haney: You and I are both in a business that is

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Mark Haney: probably going to grow pretty steadily over

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Mark Haney: the next several years.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, most certainly, and our data is

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Gabriel Covarrubias: showing that as well.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: When it comes to video and card access and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: intrusion, that is a market that is going

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to continue to grow for the foreseeable

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Gabriel Covarrubias: future.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Aside from your statistic you brought up

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Gabriel Covarrubias: earlier, most would argue that, you know,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: is crime getting better or worse?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And most response to that is it's not

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Gabriel Covarrubias: getting better, of course, it's getting

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Gabriel Covarrubias: worse it feels worse it is.

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Mark Haney: So I just heard it on the news as I was

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Mark Haney: coming in from getting my finger bit and I

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Mark Haney: heard it on John McGinnis show.

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Mark Haney: I was listening to KPK and I'm like crime's

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Mark Haney: going down Really.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I did not know that Exactly and and it's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: subjective maybe, to to a local area.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know zip code maybe, but realistically

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I feel that the crime is not getting better.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Uh, as our population continues to grow,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: there's going to continue to be more and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: more crime and the need for security.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Um, the industry right now is in a really

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Gabriel Covarrubias: good position as things are starting to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: shift to all cloud computing.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: For the security side of the business, we

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Gabriel Covarrubias: went from strictly on-premise, very high

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Gabriel Covarrubias: cost initial investment getting your

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Gabriel Covarrubias: servers and cable infrastructure etc.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Bringing that cost of entry up pretty high.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Now, cloud side of things makes it scalable,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: affordable and you can go to infinity in

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Gabriel Covarrubias: terms of scalability.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You're not limited to the hardware you have

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Gabriel Covarrubias: on site anymore.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So that's a big push for our company.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: At MSC We've almost strictly gone to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: cloud-based offerings for gate entry

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Gabriel Covarrubias: systems, card access and video and the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: compute power is increasing at this

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Gabriel Covarrubias: exponential rate.

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Mark Haney: It's incredible how AI is infiltrated every

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Mark Haney: technology in the world, but it is making

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Mark Haney: strides in video analytics.

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Mark Haney: That is really game-changing for video

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Mark Haney: security, and really anybody who's doing

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Mark Haney: things with video right now is seeing AI

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Mark Haney: come in and be, I guess, really helpful and

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Mark Haney: really disruptive as well.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, one of the big shifts that our

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Gabriel Covarrubias: manufacturers implemented in the last few

00:26:55,250 → 00:26:57,303

Gabriel Covarrubias: months is now, instead of looking through

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Gabriel Covarrubias: video, we can talk or text into our VMS

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Gabriel Covarrubias: software and we could say I'm looking for a

00:27:02,942 → 00:27:04,627

Gabriel Covarrubias: gentleman with a white t-shirt and blue

00:27:04,667 → 00:27:06,982

Gabriel Covarrubias: jeans on and blonde hair, and it's going to

00:27:07,003 → 00:27:08,307

Gabriel Covarrubias: pull up that video in seconds.

00:27:08,407 → 00:27:10,583

Gabriel Covarrubias: Oh my gosh and it's going to scrub all of

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Gabriel Covarrubias: the cameras on that account, or the

00:27:13,029 → 00:27:14,593

Gabriel Covarrubias: selected cameras that you choose from.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So, going to that video investigation piece,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we've really expedited that process tenfold,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that's incredible that is.

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Mark Haney: That's awesome, actually, because that

00:27:23,985 → 00:27:28,854

Mark Haney: means we're getting to the, because time is

00:27:28,894 → 00:27:29,335

Mark Haney: of the essence.

00:27:29,380 → 00:27:31,626

Mark Haney: If you're on an investigation or you're

00:27:31,646 → 00:27:35,898

Mark Haney: looking to solve some issue, time is

00:27:36,339 → 00:27:36,700

Mark Haney: critical.

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Mark Haney: If you have to go back and rewind the tape

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Mark Haney: and search and you know who is that guy and

00:27:42,363 → 00:27:47,280

Mark Haney: you zoom in and it looks like crap that guy

00:27:47,301 → 00:27:48,343

Mark Haney: and you zoom in and it's all you know.

00:27:48,363 → 00:27:48,784

Mark Haney: It looks like crap, uh.

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Mark Haney: I mean, all that technology is just making

00:27:49,706 → 00:27:51,931

Mark Haney: things uh, makes all the uh solutions

00:27:51,971 → 00:27:53,694

Mark Haney: happen at a very fast pace.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, so you saw more crime and I like to

00:27:56,082 → 00:27:57,886

Gabriel Covarrubias: express that like think of something you

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Gabriel Covarrubias: know, not as bad per se as like a lost

00:28:01,781 → 00:28:04,027

Gabriel Covarrubias: child at a mass transit maybe you get

00:28:04,067 → 00:28:05,852

Gabriel Covarrubias: separated from your child at an airport and

00:28:06,262 → 00:28:07,206

Gabriel Covarrubias: you've got a recent picture.

00:28:07,260 → 00:28:09,061

Gabriel Covarrubias: You could run up to security and say I'm

00:28:09,101 → 00:28:09,925

Gabriel Covarrubias: missing my son.

00:28:10,460 → 00:28:11,646

Gabriel Covarrubias: He's about four feet tall.

00:28:11,840 → 00:28:13,046

Gabriel Covarrubias: He was last seen in a red shirt.

00:28:13,500 → 00:28:15,318

Gabriel Covarrubias: They could type that in and scrub all the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: data within seconds to find that that's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: incredible and that's something that we're

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Gabriel Covarrubias: really proud to be a part of.

00:28:22,101 → 00:28:23,707

Gabriel Covarrubias: We're not the manufacturers of that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: equipment of you know, we're not the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: manufacturers of that equipment.

00:28:27,045 → 00:28:28,069

Gabriel Covarrubias: We're the integrators, we're the installer,

00:28:28,089 → 00:28:29,033

Gabriel Covarrubias: we're the person that hands off to the end

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Gabriel Covarrubias: user to make sure that we implement the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: systems effectively and train them on the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: use case.

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Mark Haney: Well, it's great that you do that.

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Mark Haney: Have you ever done work in prisons?

00:28:37,006 → 00:28:40,076

Mark Haney: We have, okay, so we used to sell.

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Mark Haney: We didn't go in and do the integration into

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Mark Haney: prisons although my current company has

00:28:43,985 → 00:28:47,432

Mark Haney: done a little bit of that, but that can be

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Mark Haney: an experience, I assume, like.

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Mark Haney: What prisons have you done, have you worked

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Mark Haney: on?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Well, so we were a subcontractor for a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: nationwide integrator and we have touched,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I want to say, about 25 of the 32 prisons

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Gabriel Covarrubias: here in the state of California.

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Mark Haney: Oh, my goodness.

00:29:05,271 → 00:29:07,134

Gabriel Covarrubias: Our team was the installation piece behind

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Gabriel Covarrubias: those, so I've done more time in prison

00:29:09,826 → 00:29:13,246

Gabriel Covarrubias: than most would ever admit, but they let me

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Gabriel Covarrubias: out every day, and so, as a project manager

00:29:17,007 → 00:29:19,144

Gabriel Covarrubias: working on those sites, I've seen a lot of

00:29:19,204 → 00:29:20,108

Gabriel Covarrubias: interesting things.

00:29:20,441 → 00:29:21,545

Gabriel Covarrubias: Well, they've got cameras.

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Mark Haney: You know, keeping track of death row people

00:29:24,400 → 00:29:25,282

Mark Haney: and people are in it for life.

00:29:25,302 → 00:29:25,683

Mark Haney: And you know it.

00:29:25,703 → 00:29:26,504

Mark Haney: Keeping track of death row people and

00:29:26,524 → 00:29:27,185

Mark Haney: people are in it for life.

00:29:27,205 → 00:29:28,347

Mark Haney: And you know it's like, oh my gosh, you've

00:29:28,367 → 00:29:31,393

Mark Haney: you got to go into some very hostile areas

00:29:31,473 → 00:29:40,001

Mark Haney: where people they have nothing to lose

00:29:40,021 → 00:29:40,822

Mark Haney: anymore and you're in and among those

00:29:40,842 → 00:29:40,963

Mark Haney: people.

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Mark Haney: Obviously, I would assume they provide a

00:29:41,924 → 00:29:43,988

Mark Haney: level of comfort for you so that you don't

00:29:44,088 → 00:29:48,074

Mark Haney: feel completely at risk, but that's gotta

00:29:48,094 → 00:29:48,535

Mark Haney: be scary.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, I would say that the very first time

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Gabriel Covarrubias: entering a prison I walked into a prison

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Gabriel Covarrubias: down in Central California called KVSP and

00:29:59,549 → 00:30:02,053

Gabriel Covarrubias: we were walking the site with the assistant

00:30:02,113 → 00:30:04,385

Gabriel Covarrubias: warden, all the engineers, project managers

00:30:04,445 → 00:30:06,660

Gabriel Covarrubias: associated with this job site I want to say

00:30:06,680 → 00:30:08,344

Gabriel Covarrubias: total implementation was around 1,100

00:30:08,404 → 00:30:11,231

Gabriel Covarrubias: cameras and we're walking through one of

00:30:11,251 → 00:30:13,402

Gabriel Covarrubias: the yards and you know, we're in a group of

00:30:13,462 → 00:30:16,410

Gabriel Covarrubias: maybe 20 people, about five, 20 civilians,

00:30:16,550 → 00:30:18,422

Gabriel Covarrubias: 20 civilians yeah, about five of them,

00:30:18,482 → 00:30:21,708

Gabriel Covarrubias: maybe more were correctional officers that

00:30:21,788 → 00:30:25,281

Gabriel Covarrubias: kind of kept us in a pod and we walk

00:30:25,341 → 00:30:27,509

Gabriel Covarrubias: through the gates of the yard and we get to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: the programs, which is where they have all

00:30:30,627 → 00:30:32,131

Gabriel Covarrubias: their commissary and things like that

00:30:32,211 → 00:30:35,125

Gabriel Covarrubias: library, and we get into the programs area

00:30:35,707 → 00:30:37,912

Gabriel Covarrubias: and the gate shuts and I'll never forget

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Gabriel Covarrubias: this, the siren sounded about five seconds

00:30:41,083 → 00:30:45,150

Gabriel Covarrubias: later and I'm like what is going on here?

00:30:45,610 → 00:30:48,815

Gabriel Covarrubias: Within about 60 seconds we see CEOs coming

00:30:48,875 → 00:30:51,105

Gabriel Covarrubias: from all directions and they're in riot

00:30:51,145 → 00:30:53,772

Gabriel Covarrubias: gear and a riot had kicked off on the yard.

00:30:54,875 → 00:30:57,442

Gabriel Covarrubias: And you know me being new to this

00:30:57,522 → 00:30:59,547

Gabriel Covarrubias: environment, completely caught off guard,

00:30:59,567 → 00:31:00,370

Gabriel Covarrubias: I'm like, do we run?

00:31:00,410 → 00:31:02,302

Gabriel Covarrubias: Do we hide what's going on, kind of thing.

00:31:02,322 → 00:31:03,404

Gabriel Covarrubias: And they're like, no, we have to go into

00:31:03,424 → 00:31:03,885

Gabriel Covarrubias: this room.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And everybody was very calm about it.

00:31:06,389 → 00:31:08,853

Gabriel Covarrubias: And you know, after the fact, speaking with

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Gabriel Covarrubias: some of the CEOs there, it was interesting

00:31:12,546 → 00:31:15,452

Gabriel Covarrubias: because they had acknowledged that they saw

00:31:15,492 → 00:31:16,114

Gabriel Covarrubias: this coming.

00:31:17,200 → 00:31:19,126

Gabriel Covarrubias: And what I thought was interesting it was

00:31:19,567 → 00:31:21,111

Gabriel Covarrubias: nothing had happened until we left the yard

00:31:21,740 → 00:31:24,822

Gabriel Covarrubias: and as soon as you know, the contractors

00:31:24,862 → 00:31:26,723

Gabriel Covarrubias: and everybody associated with the project

00:31:26,764 → 00:31:27,184

Gabriel Covarrubias: left the yard.

00:31:27,224 → 00:31:29,285

Gabriel Covarrubias: That's when the riot took place and I don't

00:31:29,305 → 00:31:31,127

Gabriel Covarrubias: know the outcome of that situation.

00:31:31,147 → 00:31:33,608

Gabriel Covarrubias: I just know that nobody in our group was

00:31:33,668 → 00:31:34,709

Gabriel Covarrubias: harmed whatsoever.

00:31:35,730 → 00:31:38,972

Gabriel Covarrubias: But there was a level of angst.

00:31:39,092 → 00:31:41,053

Gabriel Covarrubias: Originally, getting into the prison work,

00:31:41,394 → 00:31:43,055

Gabriel Covarrubias: we did prison contracting for about five

00:31:43,115 → 00:31:44,956

Gabriel Covarrubias: years, wow, up and down the state of

00:31:44,996 → 00:31:47,278

Gabriel Covarrubias: California, throughout Texas, florida and

00:31:47,318 → 00:31:50,362

Gabriel Covarrubias: Louisiana, and you know the general

00:31:50,402 → 00:31:52,846

Gabriel Covarrubias: consensus that our team had received from

00:31:53,367 → 00:31:54,769

Gabriel Covarrubias: inmates, as we were working around inmates

00:31:54,809 → 00:31:56,652

Gabriel Covarrubias: for many years, is we were kind of the

00:31:56,712 → 00:31:58,455

Gabriel Covarrubias: heroes to them, which is really interesting

00:31:58,475 → 00:31:58,795

Gabriel Covarrubias: to think.

00:31:59,520 → 00:32:01,426

Gabriel Covarrubias: So putting in the video surveillance really

00:32:01,466 → 00:32:04,033

Gabriel Covarrubias: helped them, you know, from issues that

00:32:04,053 → 00:32:05,979

Gabriel Covarrubias: they might have had with correctional

00:32:06,039 → 00:32:07,703

Gabriel Covarrubias: officers or abuse and things like that.

00:32:07,964 → 00:32:08,345

Mark Haney: Interesting.

00:32:08,365 → 00:32:11,052

Mark Haney: My former son-in-law is a prison guard at

00:32:11,841 → 00:32:14,787

Mark Haney: Folsom and he's in the worst of the worst

00:32:14,887 → 00:32:18,034

Mark Haney: and he has described to me that, just as he

00:32:18,801 → 00:32:21,266

Mark Haney: begins to, you know, enter the town of

00:32:21,306 → 00:32:21,767

Mark Haney: Folsom.

00:32:21,787 → 00:32:23,812

Mark Haney: He doesn't live in Folsom, you know his,

00:32:24,192 → 00:32:27,399

Mark Haney: his whole um, he, he has a visceral

00:32:27,439 → 00:32:31,107

Mark Haney: reaction to uh, every morning when, or you

00:32:31,127 → 00:32:32,089

Mark Haney: know, when, he goes to work.

00:32:32,110 → 00:32:34,161

Mark Haney: It's like before he gets to work it all of

00:32:34,201 → 00:32:36,587

Mark Haney: a sudden hits him because it's such a high

00:32:36,647 → 00:32:38,652

Mark Haney: stress sort of environment.

00:32:38,712 → 00:32:41,103

Mark Haney: So you got to just hand it to those people

00:32:41,184 → 00:32:43,348

Mark Haney: that do that on a daily basis.

00:32:43,408 → 00:32:45,291

Mark Haney: You don't think about like you are just in

00:32:45,371 → 00:32:47,215

Mark Haney: danger for the whole shift.

00:32:48,964 → 00:32:52,032

Mark Haney: And yeah, being a contractor is bad as well,

00:32:52,220 → 00:32:55,344

Mark Haney: or it's not bad but scary, or probably had

00:32:55,384 → 00:32:56,007

Mark Haney: your heart racing.

00:32:57,601 → 00:33:02,012

Mark Haney: I was at CrossFit preparing for the MRF,

00:33:03,221 → 00:33:06,122

Mark Haney: which is a CrossFit workout, for it's kind

00:33:06,062 → 00:33:06,249

Mark Haney: of called a hero workout, and a group is a

00:33:06,190 → 00:33:07,336

Mark Haney: CrossFit workout for it's kind of they call

00:33:07,277 → 00:33:07,699

Mark Haney: it a hero workout.

00:33:08,541 → 00:33:10,890

Mark Haney: And a group of our CrossFit people were

00:33:10,910 → 00:33:12,798

Mark Haney: going to go over to Folsom Prison and

00:33:12,878 → 00:33:13,761

Mark Haney: compete against the guards.

00:33:13,781 → 00:33:14,823

Mark Haney: So they're like, mark, you want to go

00:33:14,863 → 00:33:19,732

Mark Haney: compete and nah, that's okay.

00:33:20,013 → 00:33:21,863

Mark Haney: My son-in-law says it's not that fun.

00:33:22,204 → 00:33:22,985

Mark Haney: So I didn't.

00:33:23,567 → 00:33:26,253

Mark Haney: I've never been on Folsom prison grounds

00:33:26,600 → 00:33:29,227

Mark Haney: and I don't know that I really have a

00:33:29,267 → 00:33:30,129

Mark Haney: desire to.

00:33:31,252 → 00:33:32,884

Mark Haney: I don't know, Would you go back on there?

00:33:32,904 → 00:33:33,708

Mark Haney: I mean, you quit doing it.

00:33:34,201 → 00:33:35,948

Mark Haney: Sounds like you were doing it until more

00:33:35,988 → 00:33:37,505

Mark Haney: recently, but why'd you quit?

00:33:37,980 → 00:33:39,667

Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, the contract term had ended.

00:33:40,242 → 00:33:41,374

Gabriel Covarrubias: That was a term with the state of

00:33:41,415 → 00:33:43,044

Gabriel Covarrubias: California and some changes happened with

00:33:43,064 → 00:33:44,288

Gabriel Covarrubias: the prime contractors.

00:33:44,308 → 00:33:45,110

Gabriel Covarrubias: They were acquired.

00:33:47,201 → 00:33:48,885

Gabriel Covarrubias: You know, mark, you're not missing much.

00:33:48,905 → 00:33:52,313

Gabriel Covarrubias: Okay, you know it's not a desirable place.

00:33:54,001 → 00:33:57,112

Gabriel Covarrubias: You know it's interesting to witness some

00:33:57,132 → 00:33:59,219

Gabriel Covarrubias: of the things that we did and see some of

00:33:59,239 → 00:34:01,805

Gabriel Covarrubias: the unique places that myself and our team

00:34:01,865 → 00:34:02,907

Gabriel Covarrubias: got to be a part of.

00:34:03,709 → 00:34:05,131

Gabriel Covarrubias: But it's not a place that you're going to

00:34:05,172 → 00:34:07,444

Gabriel Covarrubias: run back to and say, man, I can't wait to

00:34:07,464 → 00:34:09,050

Gabriel Covarrubias: get on the grounds of another prison.

00:34:09,240 → 00:34:11,394

Mark Haney: Yeah, you're going to have to pay me a lot

00:34:11,414 → 00:34:13,785

Mark Haney: of money to get in there because of the you

00:34:13,805 → 00:34:13,906

Mark Haney: know.

00:34:13,926 → 00:34:15,302

Mark Haney: I would think that that would be where your

00:34:15,603 → 00:34:16,668

Mark Haney: company approach would be.

00:34:16,981 → 00:34:18,064

Mark Haney: It's like if I've got to put that kind of

00:34:18,124 → 00:34:21,063

Mark Haney: stress on the team, it needs to be a

00:34:21,124 → 00:34:21,927

Mark Haney: lucrative contract.

00:34:26,400 → 00:34:27,122

Gabriel Covarrubias: Otherwise it's just not worth it.

00:34:27,142 → 00:34:28,144

Gabriel Covarrubias: Agreed, agreed and we did take it on.

00:34:28,164 → 00:34:29,026

Gabriel Covarrubias: It was fairly lucrative for the time that

00:34:29,046 → 00:34:30,188

Gabriel Covarrubias: we were in with that contract.

00:34:30,248 → 00:34:33,281

Gabriel Covarrubias: But it's not an area that we run back for.

00:34:33,602 → 00:34:36,068

Gabriel Covarrubias: We're happy in our current lane.

00:34:36,108 → 00:34:37,431

Gabriel Covarrubias: We do a decent amount of government

00:34:37,491 → 00:34:40,964

Gabriel Covarrubias: contracting, mostly for facilities, DGS,

00:34:40,984 → 00:34:43,869

Gabriel Covarrubias: that type of stuff, and then we work with

00:34:44,090 → 00:34:46,594

Gabriel Covarrubias: local municipals but we've been happy to

00:34:46,634 → 00:34:48,944

Gabriel Covarrubias: get out of the prison and even local

00:34:50,006 → 00:34:51,990

Gabriel Covarrubias: jurisdictions for jails and things like

00:34:52,010 → 00:34:54,341

Gabriel Covarrubias: that, Because the jails, I would honestly

00:34:54,401 → 00:34:55,062

Gabriel Covarrubias: say, were worse.

00:34:55,423 → 00:34:58,910

Gabriel Covarrubias: Those people, they don't have necessarily

00:34:59,370 → 00:35:01,802

Gabriel Covarrubias: the respect that you would get in a prison

00:35:01,982 → 00:35:02,745

Gabriel Covarrubias: from the inmates.

00:35:03,367 → 00:35:03,888

Gabriel Covarrubias: Again, there's a-.

00:35:04,069 → 00:35:04,570

Mark Haney: What now?

00:35:04,940 → 00:35:06,084

Mark Haney: Yeah, there's a whole the there's, there's

00:35:06,104 → 00:35:09,544

Mark Haney: a jail feels uh, sketchier than the prison

00:35:09,705 → 00:35:11,869

Mark Haney: yeah, because, and because the people in

00:35:11,909 → 00:35:14,581

Mark Haney: the jail that are there let's call it short

00:35:14,641 → 00:35:16,786

Mark Haney: term they have less respect.

00:35:17,407 → 00:35:19,471

Gabriel Covarrubias: I would say so wow, that's interesting the

00:35:19,511 → 00:35:21,202

Gabriel Covarrubias: prison and not to get into it because I

00:35:21,222 → 00:35:21,523

Gabriel Covarrubias: don't know.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: A lot of it is there is, I heard it when I

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Gabriel Covarrubias: went on.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: The first prison is a term called prison

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Gabriel Covarrubias: politics and and they have their own little

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Gabriel Covarrubias: society there.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: A guard had once told me he goes, remember

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you're a guest in their house and I said

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Gabriel Covarrubias: well, why is that?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: He goes?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Because they sleep here and we all go home

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and so they show a certain level of respect

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to the inmates and the inmates give them a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: certain level of respect.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: As a contractor, we didn't feel threatened

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Gabriel Covarrubias: in most prisons.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Jails were different Jails.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It seemed like people would make comments

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and try and you'd say things, ask you for

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Gabriel Covarrubias: screwdrivers or lighters or that type of

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Gabriel Covarrubias: stuff.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: But prison didn't happen very often.

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Mark Haney: Well, I guess that's a note to anybody out

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Mark Haney: there Don't get yourself arrested and go to

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Mark Haney: jail for even a night.

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Mark Haney: It might not be too pleasant.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, and don't go to prison.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, definitely don't go to prison.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Let's face it, that's not a place I think

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Gabriel Covarrubias: anybody would desire to be.

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Mark Haney: Okay, this is an interesting show.

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Mark Haney: We've taken the show in some different

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Mark Haney: directions today, but I always like to know

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Mark Haney: two last questions.

00:36:28,946 → 00:36:31,248

Mark Haney: It's like what's the vision for the company?

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Mark Haney: And then I'll finish with one or two last

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Mark Haney: questions.

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Mark Haney: But what's the vision for MSC moving

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Mark Haney: forward?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, great question.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Right now we have two legs of the business.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I have pivoted my focus and gone to our

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Gabriel Covarrubias: mobile side of the business and currently

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we're expanding our mobile security units

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Gabriel Covarrubias: rapidly.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: From last year to this year we 3X'd our

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Gabriel Covarrubias: inventory, our fleet.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: This year we're looking to hit our first

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Gabriel Covarrubias: hundred units by the end of the year.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Wow, and have those units leased out.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It's one thing having them sit in a park.

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Mark Haney: Yeah, yeah.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We want to make sure they're out protecting

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Gabriel Covarrubias: properties and facilities.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: On the integration side of the business,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: we're going to continue to focus our growth

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Gabriel Covarrubias: trajectory there, pivoting our clients to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: cloud-based solutions.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: A big growth for us right now has been card

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Gabriel Covarrubias: access.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: As you see in the news on a regular basis,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: unauthorized individuals gaining access to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: businesses, buildings, et cetera and,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: unfortunately, doing some heinous crime.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So that is a big vertical for us that we're

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Gabriel Covarrubias: focusing a lot of effort and energy into to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: make sure that we provide a comprehensive

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Gabriel Covarrubias: product for our clients Wow.

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Mark Haney: And so what did I not ask you that I should

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Mark Haney: ask you?

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Mark Haney: What message should we get out there about

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Mark Haney: your business or about anything else you're

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Mark Haney: working on?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: That's a great question, what I think you

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Gabriel Covarrubias: asked some really good questions.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know I'm a Sacramento native here, born

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and raised in Carmichael.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: What high school.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Did you go to?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Interesting enough, mark, and I'll say this

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Gabriel Covarrubias: on the air here I'm an eighth grade dropout,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: really, so I did not go to high school.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Did you go to?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Interesting enough?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Mark, and I'll say this on the air here I'm

00:38:06,863 → 00:38:09,242

Gabriel Covarrubias: an eighth grade dropout, really, so I did

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Gabriel Covarrubias: not go to high school.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I grew up primarily in the foster system

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Gabriel Covarrubias: from the age of six and left the foster

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Gabriel Covarrubias: system at the age of 13.

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Mark Haney: Tell me about that.

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Mark Haney: Okay, so you left the foster system.

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Mark Haney: The foster system.

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Mark Haney: I assume that was a very difficult set of

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Mark Haney: transitions.

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Mark Haney: From what I've heard that you know there's

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Mark Haney: a guy named Dale Carlson, a local person

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Mark Haney: that has really helped a lot of that system

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Mark Haney: and helped so many people through the sleep

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Mark Haney: train.

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Mark Haney: So I followed his, the stuff he's working

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Mark Haney: on and there's these really cool

00:38:47,819 → 00:38:49,405

Mark Haney: inspirational stories about people that

00:38:49,425 → 00:38:51,210

Mark Haney: have gone, had it so difficult and then

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Mark Haney: live to, you know, really do great things

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Mark Haney: in their life.

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Mark Haney: But was it a tough?

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Mark Haney: Was the foster system difficult for you?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Most certainly it was tough.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: My brother and I were separated.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I want to say I was about eight years old,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: he's a year and a half older than me, so

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Gabriel Covarrubias: he's probably about nine and a half ten at

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that time.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We got separated in the foster system and

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Gabriel Covarrubias: went to different homes, had a family

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Gabriel Covarrubias: member that took us in for, or took me in

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Gabriel Covarrubias: for, a little while, and that was

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Gabriel Covarrubias: short-lived, that lasted about two years,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and so through various group homes, um,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: group homes, group homes, yeah.

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Mark Haney: What's a group home like for a little kid?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, very scary number one, oh wow.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Number two.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I mean I think they were called orphanages

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Gabriel Covarrubias: or various names over our time, but now

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Gabriel Covarrubias: they consider them a group home.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It's going to be a location that's a safe

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Gabriel Covarrubias: haven for children to come, and so, in the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: event that you get separated from a family

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Gabriel Covarrubias: member, your parents, the first stop you're

00:39:51,126 → 00:39:52,952

Gabriel Covarrubias: going to go to is going to be a group home.

00:39:53,735 → 00:39:55,803

Gabriel Covarrubias: That home is going to house you in a pod

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Gabriel Covarrubias: with maybe 16 other kids of your age and

00:39:59,470 → 00:39:59,951

Gabriel Covarrubias: gender.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: They'll have a school on site.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: They'll have teachers and counselors that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you would still try and live a normal life

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Gabriel Covarrubias: as possible, but everything to the Dale

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Carlson ticket to dreams.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: We work with those guys too a little bit.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know you live out of a black trash bag

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Gabriel Covarrubias: as you transition, and so Wow.

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Mark Haney: Okay, so you got.

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Mark Haney: Whatever all your belongings are in a big,

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Mark Haney: put them in a big trash bag.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Big trash bag yeah.

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Mark Haney: And so you leave your family member's house

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Mark Haney: who only wanted to have you.

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Mark Haney: For did you get in trouble and you had to

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Mark Haney: go to there?

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Mark Haney: Got in trouble, yeah, got in trouble, yeah.

00:40:35,765 → 00:40:36,026

Mark Haney: And then.

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Mark Haney: So then you got hey, sorry, you're going to

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Mark Haney: the group home.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Well, a little bit different.

00:40:40,875 → 00:40:41,996

Gabriel Covarrubias: You know, got in trouble.

00:40:42,116 → 00:40:44,037

Gabriel Covarrubias: I wasn't one for authority at a young age.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: So, uh I, I would run away.

00:40:46,739 → 00:40:48,720

Gabriel Covarrubias: And uh, in the event, I would run away if,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: uh, I would run into a law enforcement

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Gabriel Covarrubias: figure.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, I wasn't a criminal, I was a little

00:40:53,043 → 00:40:53,403

Gabriel Covarrubias: kid.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And so they'd take you back to the group

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Gabriel Covarrubias: home.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And every time you transition, for my, my

00:40:57,971 → 00:40:59,894

Gabriel Covarrubias: situation, anytime I would transition out

00:40:59,934 → 00:41:00,855

Gabriel Covarrubias: of a foster home.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know, if they couldn't find housing for

00:41:03,900 → 00:41:05,047

Gabriel Covarrubias: me right away, it would be back to the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: group home.

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Mark Haney: Yeah, Wow, and so you go to school.

00:41:11,943 → 00:41:14,529

Mark Haney: Did you go through like seventh and eighth

00:41:14,589 → 00:41:17,235

Mark Haney: grade at the group home or did you go to a

00:41:17,756 → 00:41:19,039

Mark Haney: school like in Sacramento?

00:41:19,385 → 00:41:20,449

Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, Seventh and eighth grade.

00:41:20,469 → 00:41:22,275

Gabriel Covarrubias: I went to some local middle schools here

00:41:22,445 → 00:41:24,751

Gabriel Covarrubias: Starking and Churchill and I was living

00:41:24,832 → 00:41:26,617

Gabriel Covarrubias: with foster families during that time.

00:41:27,166 → 00:41:30,515

Mark Haney: And then you tell them one day you don't

00:41:30,555 → 00:41:31,437

Mark Haney: want to go back to school.

00:41:32,946 → 00:41:35,012

Gabriel Covarrubias: One day I get in trouble at the end of

00:41:35,052 → 00:41:35,634

Gabriel Covarrubias: eighth grade.

00:41:35,654 → 00:41:35,955

Gabriel Covarrubias: What'd?

00:41:36,135 → 00:41:36,456

Mark Haney: you do.

00:41:38,425 → 00:41:39,927

Gabriel Covarrubias: I came home late because I wanted to spend

00:41:39,947 → 00:41:41,549

Gabriel Covarrubias: the last day of school with a girl I had

00:41:41,589 → 00:41:41,770

Gabriel Covarrubias: met.

00:41:42,410 → 00:41:44,373

Gabriel Covarrubias: Of course, boys and girls is all the

00:41:44,413 → 00:41:44,693

Gabriel Covarrubias: trouble.

00:41:45,494 → 00:41:48,538

Gabriel Covarrubias: So I came home late and when I'd gotten

00:41:48,618 → 00:41:53,991

Gabriel Covarrubias: home, you know I was abused a little bit.

00:41:54,291 → 00:41:57,177

Gabriel Covarrubias: Not bad and not to go down that, but we'll

00:41:57,197 → 00:41:57,999

Gabriel Covarrubias: talk a little bit later.

00:41:59,186 → 00:42:01,431

Gabriel Covarrubias: So I took off, you know the individual

00:42:01,471 → 00:42:03,015

Gabriel Covarrubias: decided that they thought it was

00:42:03,135 → 00:42:06,267

Gabriel Covarrubias: justifiable to hit me and at that point I

00:42:06,347 → 00:42:06,788

Gabriel Covarrubias: ran away.

00:42:07,490 → 00:42:09,355

Gabriel Covarrubias: That was actually the last home I had ever

00:42:09,455 → 00:42:11,890

Gabriel Covarrubias: lived in and I'd been on my own ever since,

00:42:11,931 → 00:42:12,694

Gabriel Covarrubias: since the age of 13.

00:42:16,091 → 00:42:16,693

Mark Haney: Where did you live?

00:42:16,713 → 00:42:18,918

Mark Haney: Where did you go to get shelter and stuff

00:42:18,938 → 00:42:19,238

Mark Haney: like that?

00:42:19,805 → 00:42:20,709

Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, great question.

00:42:21,935 → 00:42:23,462

Gabriel Covarrubias: I have been able to surround myself with

00:42:23,502 → 00:42:26,030

Gabriel Covarrubias: some really great individuals that I still

00:42:26,070 → 00:42:27,635

Gabriel Covarrubias: call family to this day, so I just had

00:42:27,695 → 00:42:28,297

Gabriel Covarrubias: older friends.

00:42:29,665 → 00:42:31,269

Gabriel Covarrubias: You know, I lived in my first apartment

00:42:31,330 → 00:42:32,693

Gabriel Covarrubias: with a good friend of mine.

00:42:32,814 → 00:42:33,455

Gabriel Covarrubias: He was 18.

00:42:33,515 → 00:42:34,177

Gabriel Covarrubias: I was 13.

00:42:36,226 → 00:42:37,167

Gabriel Covarrubias: He slept on the couch.

00:42:37,247 → 00:42:39,769

Gabriel Covarrubias: He had a great paying job and I found ways

00:42:39,849 → 00:42:41,211

Gabriel Covarrubias: to create side hustles.

00:42:41,231 → 00:42:42,512

Gabriel Covarrubias: I found ways to create side hustles.

00:42:42,652 → 00:42:46,455

Gabriel Covarrubias: I was a great Craigslist advertiser and

00:42:46,515 → 00:42:48,157

Gabriel Covarrubias: sales guy at a very young age.

00:42:48,217 → 00:42:49,978

Gabriel Covarrubias: I would take things from garage sales,

00:42:50,499 → 00:42:52,220

Gabriel Covarrubias: things that maybe he was getting rid of,

00:42:52,320 → 00:42:54,482

Gabriel Covarrubias: and found ways to generate income.

00:42:54,542 → 00:42:54,722

Gabriel Covarrubias: Wow.

00:42:57,225 → 00:42:58,347

Mark Haney: So you've always been like that.

00:42:58,367 → 00:43:03,256

Mark Haney: I guess that's what difficult times brings

00:43:03,356 → 00:43:05,159

Mark Haney: out of people, brought out of you.

00:43:05,405 → 00:43:07,511

Mark Haney: Difficult times caused you to be sort of

00:43:07,551 → 00:43:11,042

Mark Haney: scrappy and use your ingenuity Craigslist

00:43:11,443 → 00:43:11,704

Mark Haney: yeah, wow.

00:43:12,245 → 00:43:13,550

Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, I started learning a skill.

00:43:13,590 → 00:43:15,267

Gabriel Covarrubias: I had a good friend I think I was probably

00:43:15,287 → 00:43:17,812

Gabriel Covarrubias: about 15 years old Taught me how to tint

00:43:17,852 → 00:43:21,028

Gabriel Covarrubias: windows in automobiles, so I would work

00:43:21,108 → 00:43:23,233

Gabriel Covarrubias: under the table at a shop here in

00:43:23,253 → 00:43:25,538

Gabriel Covarrubias: Sacramento and would tint windows.

00:43:26,225 → 00:43:28,130

Gabriel Covarrubias: So that was a good gig for a while and in

00:43:28,210 → 00:43:31,237

Gabriel Covarrubias: fact in 2008, that turned into my very

00:43:31,297 → 00:43:31,958

Gabriel Covarrubias: first business.

00:43:32,165 → 00:43:34,310

Gabriel Covarrubias: I opened a window tinting shop over there

00:43:34,331 → 00:43:35,373

Gabriel Covarrubias: off Marconi and 80.

00:43:35,574 → 00:43:38,870

Gabriel Covarrubias: So it's very first business in a rough time

00:43:38,890 → 00:43:39,933

Gabriel Covarrubias: to start a business too.

00:43:39,953 → 00:43:40,193

Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah.

00:43:40,234 → 00:43:40,454

Mark Haney: How old?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: were you then 2008?

00:43:42,005 → 00:43:42,832

Gabriel Covarrubias: I was 18.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And so it was probably within a month after

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Gabriel Covarrubias: my 18th birthday I went down and got my

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Gabriel Covarrubias: first business license and now look what

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you've built.

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Mark Haney: I mean you've got this incredible.

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Mark Haney: You're putting in thousands and thousands

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Mark Haney: and thousands of cameras.

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Mark Haney: Uh, you've got these mobile trailers.

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Mark Haney: You've got a vision for growth and you're

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Mark Haney: still a young dude.

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Mark Haney: I mean, you're still a really young guy

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Mark Haney: with a young family.

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Mark Haney: You are got a vision for growth and you're

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Mark Haney: still a young dude.

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Mark Haney: I mean, you're still a really young guy

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Mark Haney: with a young family.

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Mark Haney: You are just a great, I guess.

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Mark Haney: Story of my shirt says everything is

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Mark Haney: figureoutable, which is one of my mottos,

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Mark Haney: and you are a you're living proof that

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Mark Haney: everything is figureoutable, no matter what

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Mark Haney: kind of circumstances you put yourself in.

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Mark Haney: Even if you are a little anti-authority,

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Mark Haney: maybe have a chip on your shoulder for one

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Mark Haney: reason or another, you can straighten it

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Mark Haney: all out and figure it out.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: That's so true, mark, and I love that on

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Gabriel Covarrubias: your shirt.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I'm going to have to get one of those

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Gabriel Covarrubias: shirts from you.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It is something I live by that you can

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Gabriel Covarrubias: figure out just about anything, and to the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: point of hardship and trouble and setbacks.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I learned at a young age that, no matter my

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Gabriel Covarrubias: story, no matter what I'm going through,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: somebody always has it worse and I'm the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: last person to say, oh, pity me, or man, I

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Gabriel Covarrubias: didn't have this.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I didn't have that opportunity growing up,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I didn't have the parents that stayed

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Gabriel Covarrubias: together.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: I didn't, I didn't have that.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: But instead of saying, wow, this was the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: cards I dealt or I was dealt and I have to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: deal with that, I said, no, I'm going to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: change that trajectory, I'm going to be the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: difference on that family, that family line,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and and that's something that motivates me

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Gabriel Covarrubias: every morning and now married with two kids,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: beautiful family, absolutely love, love my

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Gabriel Covarrubias: family.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And you know I look back my wife had the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: great, great family, upbringing, beautiful

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Gabriel Covarrubias: parents, stayed together their whole life,

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and high school and college, all that fun

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Gabriel Covarrubias: stuff.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And, and you know as, as we started a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: family, I said to myself and to her uh, I'm

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Gabriel Covarrubias: not going to do what, what I had done to me

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Gabriel Covarrubias: and and just making sure that I I'm the

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Gabriel Covarrubias: change in that path, but, um, I never let

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Gabriel Covarrubias: you my past be.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Uh, something that's going to hold me back

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Gabriel Covarrubias: in what the future holds, because

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Gabriel Covarrubias: possibilities are endless.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: It's all up to us and what we make of it.

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Mark Haney: Well, I was going to ask you for words of

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Mark Haney: wisdom for somebody who's aspiring to be an

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Mark Haney: entrepreneur, but I can tell you you've

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Mark Haney: added a lot of wisdom and a lot of

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Mark Haney: inspiration and I didn't really understand

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Mark Haney: that this was going to come out of this

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Mark Haney: show.

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Mark Haney: But I'm really honored that you came on the

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Mark Haney: show and were, you know, made yourself

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Mark Haney: vulnerable, you shared, you shared the real

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Mark Haney: you.

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Mark Haney: But is there any other words of wisdom that

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Mark Haney: you might have up your sleeve?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Words of wisdom, specifically if we're

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Gabriel Covarrubias: talking to some younger individuals that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: are thinking about entrepreneurship, is

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Gabriel Covarrubias: don't give up.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And you know, no idea is a bad idea.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You know, see it through, try it, run it by

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Gabriel Covarrubias: your peer groups, talk about it, but don't

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Gabriel Covarrubias: give up and don't use your past as a

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Gabriel Covarrubias: crippling to your future.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Right, it's up to you.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: You hold the keys of what you're going to

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Gabriel Covarrubias: make of your future.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Wow.

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Mark Haney: Well, thank you for sharing your story.

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Mark Haney: Appreciate you?

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Yeah, thank you, mark, I didn't expect it

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Gabriel Covarrubias: to come out.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: Just, you know I used to run from the truth

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Gabriel Covarrubias: there and you know it's something I would

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Gabriel Covarrubias: never lie about.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: But I would just deviate the question.

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Gabriel Covarrubias: And as I've gotten older and decided that

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Gabriel Covarrubias: that's not something I want to hide

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Gabriel Covarrubias: necessarily, I think it's important for

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Gabriel Covarrubias: people to understand that you know you can

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Gabriel Covarrubias: come from any walk of life and still do

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Gabriel Covarrubias: great things in society, and that's

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Gabriel Covarrubias: something I strive to do every day.

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Mark Haney: You can come from any walk of life and do

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Mark Haney: great things.

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Mark Haney: Wow, what a, what a statement.

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Mark Haney: Thank you for coming on the show.

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Mark Haney: Thank you, mark.

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Mark Haney: You bet, thanks for watching today's show.

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Mark Haney: My goal for every episode is that you find

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Mark Haney: a takeaway, something tangible you can use

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Mark Haney: in your business today, and if you have a

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Mark Haney: comment about a favorite takeaway, feel

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Mark Haney: free to put it in the in the box below.

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Mark Haney: And if you have a comment about a favorite

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Mark Haney: takeaway, feel free to put it in the box

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Mark Haney: below.

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Mark Haney: And if you have a topic that you'd like me

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Mark Haney: to bring up on the show, don't forget to

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Mark Haney: let me know.

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Mark Haney: And also, don't forget to subscribe to our

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Mark Haney: YouTube channel if you wanna learn more

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Mark Haney: Biz, we are always by your side.

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