 Uh-oh, we're live. I know we're kind of jumping on live, didn't do very much announcing or anything like that. So we're gonna wait on some people to come on in here. I am live at the new job. So if anybody hasn't seen already, I ended up leaving the dealership that I worked at for 13 years and came down south to work at and for SP Tools. So working with SP Tools, I'm gonna be there heading up their student next tech program. So if you guys don't know what that is, we can talk about that here in a little bit. It's pretty much gonna be taking care of students, sorry, of all the traffic and noise. There's gonna be, I'm gonna be taking care of all kinds of student things, getting students all the kinds of discounts that they need for them to start off their automotive career in the right way, pretty much at any school, getting you guys discounts on tools, equipment, whatever you might need to be able to start off your career on the up and up. So we're going live here at the shop and so we're gonna be going through the shop and talking with everybody here. Uh-oh, somebody's knocking on the window. Nope, they must be okay in there. So I'm gonna be kind of walking through the shop here. Didn't give them much of a notice or anything and this is gonna be the pretty much headquarters, the command center for SP Tools and cutting edge automotive solutions. This is where kind of their base of operations is here in fully Alabama. So we're gonna hop on in here, see if we can freak them out here and enter the nerdery. Everyone? We don't just let anyone walk in here. This big guy. John, what's up buddy? What are you doing here? Doing email blasts for you guys. We're gonna run some special offers for you know, spooky deals for Halloween. Oh sweet. Working on that for you guys. And that new impact? Heck yeah, awesome impact. Nice. Emily? Hi. How's it going? What are you doing? What are you working on? Setting up promotions for next year. Oh yeah? Already? Yes. Man, it's important. Trying to feel the goody-tooth shoes here. I'll do what I can. No, this guy, he doesn't really care that much, right? No. Bill's lame. That's not appropriate. And appropriate. Thanks for all the new subscribers. It's working great. Exactly. If you guys have not already, on the last video, I kinda gave you guys a couple of links to the Cutting Edge Automotive Solutions and the SP Tools USA sites with, in regards to here on YouTube, they have their own pages. And I'm actually gonna be on there quite a bit more over the next couple of months or so. We're gonna be doing some new series. We've got some pretty cool ideas, right? Dude, we have a whole notebook full. Yeah, a whole notebook. But what? A notebook full. A notebook full. That's the thing. John said if we get to 1,000 subscribers, he'll shave his head. John's gonna shave his head at 1,000 subscribers. Look at that. I'm gonna say that. Goldilocks over here, he was gonna shave his head if they get to 1,000 subscribers. That's not true, I think. Yeah, I think it's true. We'll make it happen. Can we make it happen though? Maybe. If it happens in the next 24 hours, maybe. I mean, look at that. I mean. He's gonna have to do it. He's gonna have to do it now. So if you guys haven't already, after the live stream, we'll put the links down below for, let's see what this is. Are you gonna have tool trucks like Snap-on and Matco? Yes, they actually do have a tool truck down here in Alabama. They're gonna be putting more tool trucks out throughout the US. Hopefully in the upcoming future, that is definitely the plan there is gonna be those. So yeah, we'll have links to the SB tools and the cutting edge automotive solutions and stuff after this. I'll make sure to post that here. Make him shave his head in January. Well, see, that's not that big of a deal. Down here in Alabama, it doesn't get that cold. I mean, I'm sure you'd feel naked all the same, but. Okay, let's go walk through the rest of the compound here. See what else we can get into. See ya. See ya. Oh, more people hard at work. No, tech desk. And then we have this guy who didn't prep at all. Say hi, this is Jesse. This is the command center for SB tools. What are you working on? Student tech stuff. Student tech stuff, getting some actual lists and things going. So we've actually been working quite a bunch over the last couple of days. I've been working with Jesse on trying to get some big tool kits and big tool sets kind of all set up and ready to go for the Student Next Tech program. So we're gonna have a couple of different tiers for the students coming up. We're gonna have tier one, two and three for the students to give you guys some kind of different choices in everything when it comes to the school list. I know not everybody can afford to have exactly all the tools that they want right off the bat and everything. So we wanna be able to give them a, I guess more choices, especially when they're going in and through school. That's the hope here at least. Give them a lot of discounts, especially differences when it comes to that and what they're talking about, and differences from other tool manufacturers and how expensive they are. See if we can peek in here and, yep, catching them off guard. Hey, say hi, you're live on YouTube. Hi. Mr. Lee Locklear, the CEO, cutting edge automotive solutions. That's the boss. Walk through here. Check out this new garage that I'm gonna be doing a lot of videos out of as we can see here in the future. Check this stuff out. We've got all kinds of new equipment here in the shop to do some training on alignment machines. Got his boat because they do a lot of work with Texas, USA software and everything. Earlier on this week, we did some training on their new RCCS unit, their new ADOS software and their new ADOS equipment. Yes, exactly, Annabelle. So we did some training on some of their new ADOS training stuff. And if you guys haven't done any kind of the driving assistant training, I don't feel too bad for you. I, thankfully, Chrysler had a lot of their dynamic training and stuff on a lot of their software. So I didn't have to really go through a whole lot of that when it came to ADOS stuff. So unfortunately, now that they have that software, a lot of the Mercedes products and everything has to do a lot of the standardized ADOS training. So now I had to actually learn a lot of that. Thanks, Mark, appreciate it. All right, let's see what else we can get into over here. Check out some of these other projects that they've got going in the shop. Old 60s fastback Mustang. They're gonna be doing some work on this one. Actually, they already had this stuff kind of pulled apart before I even got here. I mean, they started all this fun, ripped all this stuff out and didn't even include me in it. Captain Ron in the house. What's up, buddy? What's happening? See some more of their projects going on here. The funny thing is, look at their other project car over here. Looks an awful lot like Project Cheap Caddy that is not Project Cheap Caddy but it looks a lot like it and it's way more of a piece of junk than even Cheap Caddy but they've got a pretty nice little setup in here and in Southern fashion, they have, see that red thing there? And the red thing over there, that's air conditioning. This is an air conditioned shop. I've never, never been able to come to work in an air conditioned shop. All right, I'm gonna sit you guys down and kind of see, take a seat here. Be able to interact some with you guys. Check out some of this stuff. Pandy's, just because you're a little angry, Captain Ron, you can't be that upset about it. You just can't. We got some really cool tools and toolboxes back here. What else do you guys wanna know? What have you guys been up to lately? Careful, gotta watch out for that row of stuff. Captain Ron, you miss me? Miss me? Is it that bad in the shop without me? So this is my first week not working in the dealership and I'll have to tell you guys that it has been different. Can you purchase one of the shirts that I have on? No, not yet. They are gonna, we're gonna do a lot when it comes to redesigning some of the apparel and stuff that they're gonna have available over on the SP Tools stuff, but this stuff is not available yet. But for the input on that, I really appreciate that, that you like this style of shirt, I assume. If you do, I'm just taking more input on that to be able to understand what kind of, kind of shirts and hats and swag and stuff we will be able to have on the site here coming up in the future. If you guys haven't already, make sure, don't forget to turn on the bell notifications for the channel and hit the thumbs up for this video. I like seeing thumbs up. 45 people in here and only 11 thumbs up. Come on, man. If I know that if SP will be getting into heavy truck tools. So they do have quite a few things of heavy truck tools. Yeah, SP Tools is big overseas. A lot of the heavy truck stuff they actually do get into. The problem here is they're trying to get a lot more of their tool lineup here in the United States. It's been a little bit hard trying to get everything here all at once, but they do have everything all the way up through three quarter inch impacts, massive sockets. I have big pry bars. I've used that on the channel. I've got a four foot SP Tools USA pry bar. That thing is a beast. I don't know if they have one sitting around here. And like I said, I haven't worked here long enough to know where the stuff is, but I mean, we can rip through all the boxes and stuff. Look at some cool tools, hold on. Look at these crow's feet. Crow's feet that actually grip onto what you're trying to hold onto. Line wrench crow's feet. Those are pretty awesome. I didn't have a set of those to show. Got some extensions, not really that fun. Punch and pick sets, these little pick sets, these are pretty cool. They're like rotating dental pick ends, but they can go in your pocket too for all you pocket protector guys. One and a half inch socket. So they do have big boy sockets. And then this one, I wanted to go through this one because yes, they definitely sell heavy duty truck tools. So actually after this little live stream here, we're gonna be going live over on the SP Tools USA channel or Cutting Edge, one of the two. So if you guys haven't already, make sure you look up SP Tools USA and subscribe to their YouTube channel. We're gonna be going over this bad new Johnson. This is their brand new Air. This is their stubby impact, half inch drive. Look how tiny this thing is. I mean, as comparison, my hand. This thing can put out 715 foot pounds. 715 foot pounds. We'll see if I can find something that's like comparable weight-wise. That's pretty close. So this is the mid-torque impact without a battery on it. Also from SP Tools, bad ass little impact. But it's a little bit less than that. Little bit less than that right there. So I know on the channel, I've been doing a lot when it comes to electric tools, but for you guys who are still using air tools, you know, you gotta get you the big air inlets for this. You have the big half inch chuck that way. These, you can get the correct airflow to it. But as you guys can see here on the back, you have three different settings in forward and reverse for it, one, two, three, one, two, three. And like I said, how awesome is it to be able to have something that's this big and has over 700 foot pounds of torque? That's pretty awesome. So we'll be going in more in depth into this tool here in a little bit over on the SP Tools USA's page. So make sure you guys follow that one. We'll rip some lug nuts and stuff off the truck and I don't know, see if I can break something around here. I haven't, I haven't broken anything here yet. It kind of feels weird going a whole week without using pry bars and torches and impacts. I don't know, I'm gonna have to find something to break around here. What do you guys think? What should we get into? We're gonna have a lot of good times when it comes to the SP Tool guys and the crew here. Everyone that I've met and been able to work with here has been absolutely amazing. And it's been a good, a good first week. It's been very much different from the shop lifestyle from the whole flat rate system. Trying to get in and through that one has been definitely an eye-opening experience. You know, when you're working the flat rate system, you go into it on Monday and you're like, hmm, I wonder how this week's gonna be. Am I gonna have my hours? Am I gonna be able to make time and make up the money that I have to make? It's a big question. And it's not like that, you know, all the time, like you guys are pretty busy, but a majority of the time, you are constantly trying to battle back and forth thinking, am I gonna make my hours this week? And once this week, I have not had that issue. He wants to know if SP needs a parts guy. Sorry, Greg. I think they're good on parts personnel here. Not a whole lot of parts in this one. I'm thinking, so they have two, kind of two locations here in Alabama. They've got their kind of command facility here where they do a lot of their sales, marketing goals, everything in the nerdery there that you guys saw. We also have the big garage here for all the testing, the videos, the fun stuff. And then they also have a huge warehouse. And I'm thinking if they let me, I don't know if they're watching or not, cutting edge garage podcast. Yes, the cutting edge garage podcast studio. It's up there. It's hidden away. It's up on their mezzanine. It's up there, but we're gonna get to go on and through some of that stuff later on as well. Maybe this next week, we might do another live stream and see if we can get in over at the SP Tools kind of storage facility. Yep. I'll be an SP Tool Truck seller in Arizona. Hey, I'm be okay with that. We need to get a lot more trucks out there. Like I said, the truck here in Alabama, it does quite well. For being the very first tool truck that they've had on the road, it does actually very, very well. And they do have the full competition. Snap on Mac and Matco in the area. And they do very well comparative to a lot of the other tool trucks in the area. So I guess if you really are serious about being a tool truck, I guess driver for SP Tools, then yeah, call into SP Tools or cutting edge automotive solutions, message into them. I'm sure they'd be down for it. I know they're looking to expand. They've got a couple of trucks that are gonna be starting on the road up in the New York area. Here over the next couple of months, I know they've been trying to set up an account up there to get trucks rolling up there. So that's kind of exciting for them. And then yeah, we're trying to get things rolling here. If you guys are just stopping in and have not seen the video, again, I left the dealership and working for SP, I'm gonna be taking up their student next tech program. If you guys are one of the ones who do not have, love to see some SP Tool Trucks in Arizona, well yeah, Antonia would love it. If you guys don't know what the SP Tools next tech program is, there you go. There's the email you can send that stuff to. You know, I'm not really sure about the coupon codes on top of the next tech program because trust me, the discounts and everything on the next tech program is beyond what pretty much anybody can even think about getting on any platform from any manufacturer. The tool manufacturers, they do a pretty good job when it comes to student discounts, but trust me, the difference between the Snap-on Tool Programs and the Mac and Macco Tool Programs, SP Tools has them knocked out of the water. For the first thing, they don't limit you to what you can choose from your tool list. Every other one of the manufacturers, you only have a certain list of tools or boxes or anything that you can choose from off of their tool list. They don't let you pick from everything. SP Tools, literally anything and everything on their parts in their tools catalog is able to be purchased through the student next tech program. It is available for you to get to your massive discount for that one. You have a price ceiling, I don't know. Welcome to lower Alabama. Yes, I actually have been loving it down here out in Alabama. So the funny thing was we came down, started this last weekend, and my wife came down with me for the first couple of days because I brought Project Cheap Catty down with me to leave down in here. So leaving it here, so she came down and we actually had our 14th anniversary. Well, I've been down here and she's, we'll just say she loved it down here. Yes, Snap-on tops you out. Their ceiling on purchase is 11 grand if that's what you were talking about. That's their purchase ceiling. SP Tools, you don't have a purchase ceiling on what you're able to buy. Now through credit, yes, there are some, no, I'm not leaving Ohio fully yet, at least. Prentice, this ain't Walmart. Nope. So that was the other big cool thing that's the difference between SP Tools and the other manufacturers. Like I said, you do not have to be limited to certain lists of tools and everything. So all your Silver Birch Duramax have an LLC, which the guy who did my truck was nice of job. I mean, it is a little bit different when you're shooting some of that raptor stuff. That's why I definitely made the point in that video to say, hey, make sure you practice on a few certain things before you shoot your baby. You know, just that FYI when you're shooting the raptor liner stuff. So more on the Student Next Deck program, there's gonna be a lot of big changes. We're gonna be making a lot more discounts when it comes to purchasing toolkits. They're new toolboxes, which we'll be definitely getting into here on the channel and over on the SP Tools USA channel here soon because we helped them design some really awesome new toolboxes that we're super excited to be able to see. 58 Heavy Duty Mechanic in Texas need to get SP Tool Truck sales here. My back and knees would be happy. Hey, Mark Stevens, seriously, scroll up and they put a link up there. They're looking for some people to be able to start running some more tool trucks across the US and to be honest, Texas really isn't that far away from here either. Hear that, Jesse? Lots of guys want to start having their own SP Tool Truck. Yeah, we put their email address there into the comments and afterwards we'll put the email address also in the description below. So if you guys are serious about that one, I'm pretty sure they'll definitely be entertaining the idea of that one. Oh yeah. But we've got lots of stuff coming for the Student Next Tech program on top of the availability to purchase anything on their list here. They also are gonna give you guys the best discounts when it comes to the tools. They make themselves known in the market that their percentages are not gonna be beaten by the other tool trucks. A lot of the other tool manufacturers, they bump up some of their prices before they discount them. So in some of the circumstances, you're only getting 10 to 20% off of something that's already inflated massively. So I'm telling you right off the bat just from what I've seen and been able to put together with some of these tool lists that they don't do that here at SB Tools. I've also been given a lot of, I guess, leniency to put some tool lists together. A lot of the students, when they go into the programs, whether it be automotive, diesel, aviation, they have a lot of tool lists that come from the school that are their recommended tool lists. And I'm building some custom tool lists off of those to be able to see some custom tool build boxes for students. There's gonna be three different tiers of them that we're gonna be aiming for, a low, middle, and a high tier, and four of the students to be able to get in on this realm. We'll tell you guys for, I've been putting together some of their tier two stuff. You're looking at being able to get a 59-inch tool box is gonna be in their new line of things and it's gonna be some really exciting stuff and their tool, we'll just say their tool list that I've been able to put together has been extremely awesome. I'm able to put together a tool list that beats what I paid for my tool list from Snap-On, which was 10 years ago, I went through the tool program and I spent over $7,400 on my final tool bill purchase. And this was at their student discount rate, about 7,400 bucks. I've been able to put tool lists together that are very comparable to that in what I got from there for like 30% less than that. So one thing if you guys are serious in this student next tech program, make sure you go and check out the website. Over at SP Tools USA's website, they do have a link to the next tech program and we'll have some links down in the description below after the live stream ends here. So yeah, lots of exciting stuff going on here at SP Tools and the Cutting Edge Automotive Garage. The Cutting Edge Automotive Solutions, as you guys can see down below is commenting. Make sure you guys go and subscribe to that channel. We're gonna be doing a lot when it comes to interviews and really awesome videos over on their channel here in the next couple of weeks. So make sure you go and subscribe to that as well as SP Tools USA. As a matter of fact, like I said earlier, we're gonna be going live on one of their channels here in the next probably hour or so. Doing some review and checking out this new 715 foot pound stubby air impact from SP Tools. Pretty BA little tool. I don't think they have any SP Tool trucks up in Wisconsin. No, because they only have one in down here in Alabama, but SP Tools is available online at www.sptoolsusa.com. So make sure you guys check that one out. And like I said, if any of you guys who were in here, we're really serious about wanting to run tool trucks and everything, they did put the email address into the live comments and I will put it into the description below after the live stream is done as well. So make sure you guys look into that one. Like I said, we're gonna go live over on their channel here in the next hour. So make sure you stay tuned there. That's about all I got for you. Hopefully this next week, we'll be doing some more great fun and videos. I'm here down south for the next week or so. But I know Dalton Bertrand 850, he's gonna be coming up this way from Florida with his Lambo. We're gonna be doing some fun stuff with that one, hopefully this next week. So make sure you stay tuned for that one. Well guys, that's about all I've got for you today. We're gonna sign off and appreciate you guys sticking around. It's been an awesome journey. Well, we'll see you guys later. You guys stay awesome.