 Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 10th episode of King Penny's podcast, man. They try to shut us down, but they can't, we're going to push through, man. Hey, we got a special guest today, man, a local Longmont business, man, man, entrepreneur. Hey, you know, entrepreneurs always bring the smile up out of me. I love the spirit, man. Hey, so let's welcome our guest, man. Hey, so let's start up, man, your name, where you from? Okay. So my, I go by my nickname, Churchill. I got that same when I was a kid, a baby, because I was cheeky. So that's where I got Churchill from. So everybody knows me by my nickname, not my real name. So I'm more used to my nickname than my real name. And yeah, I've been here in Longmont since like, I was, since like I was 16, 17, somewhere around there. You liked it? Yeah, I love Longmont. I love Colorado. I love Longmont, but I love Longmont more. I like Longmont. I mean, there's a lot of nice places, but to live, I'm comfortable. I love it here. I like it here. That's legit, bro. What's the family looking like? Good. I got my wife, I got one daughter and one son. They grew up too fast, but I'm happy where I'm at. Hey, look, I would ask you how the kids is. I think you didn't know. No, you're as young as you used to be. Still young. Hey man, nah, because I heard the son, he balls, right? Are he plays basketball? Yeah, no way he was. He was doing pretty good. I mean, he still, I'm pretty sure he still plays good, right? He was playing through school. Yeah. So now that he's out of school, he's just working, you know, and he's at that point where he's just like looking to see what he wants to do. Yeah. All right. So what do you do for a living? So I do window tinting for Longmont community, Colorado community, anybody. Yeah. So whoever wants to come down, we continue. Where are you located at? We're at 1136 Kimbark Street here in Longmont. Okay. All right. So what would all do you offer? Like as far as 10 goes, like, so right now, all I got, I mean, people have asked me that. So all I do is window tint right now. Okay. But I'm looking to do like, you know, smoke lights, but with like the 10, it's like a material for the, for the lights and stuff that and I don't know. There's a few more things that I'm kind of thinking if I want to do, but more, you know, doing more things, it'll take more time. So it's just, that's kind of where I'm at right now because window tint is right now is going pretty good. So yeah. No, but you're the greatest thing about it. I see you all over social media, right? Yeah. What was the thing that you did with the temperature check through the 10? Oh, okay. So it's a, so it's a meter that meters the heat. Yeah. Okay. So there's, there's different material for 10. A lot of people could kind of think the darker, the more heat is going to block. Yeah. But no, it doesn't work like that. It's, it's the material. So I mean, it's, it's the basic, the middle one and the expensive good one. Yeah. You know, so that meter check, that's why I did it because I did a, the one, the video you're talking about, I'm explaining how hot it was that day with that meter. And then I put it towards the window and it dropped all that heat. So that particular video that you're talking about, I had recently installed ceramic tint. So that's the best thing right now. It's called ceramic tint. So that's what that meter was for, to show how I was pointing it to towards the sun, how hot it was. And then I brought it into the car where the, where the tape I installed on that ceramic tape and you've seen how much it dropped a lot. So that's what that ceramic thing is. It's the best thing, you know, so, so I have three different options. So I mean, if you just want to do something basic, whatever, we can do it. If you want, like the middle, we can do it. And if you want ceramic, it's the best choice you can do. And we can do it. Hey man, I heard that. So you don't do, because I remember back in the day, right, you used to do like lettering and didn't you used to like put letters on? No, no, no. So I got friends that make stickers and stuff. I could still do that. Oh, so like I'll be tinting and I got a lot of friends that, oh, I want a sticker or who can make stickers so I can, you know, you know, it's just the connections. Okay. I know somebody who does them. Okay. Can you get it? Yeah. I can get him for you. But that's in the VIP section. Yeah. I'll get him for you. I'll have a friend. He can do him. He'll make them and he can. So he'll make them and then just people while we're there, they'll he make, he put them out for me. I like doing what I do. So yeah, of course I'll help them out. So speaking of doing what you do, what did you do before? I worked at a trash company in Boulder. Oh, okay. All right. So I worked there for many years. Yeah. So why did you decide, finally decided to take the leap into, you know what I mean, running your own business or because where I'm at my age and doing, so, okay, I was at the trash company for 15 years. I started window tinting 10 years ago. So I was doing both for 10 years, right? And right now, I just, where I'm at, I just started getting physically tired by myself because doing both jobs over there, trying to hurry up over there, come over here and do what I got to do over here and, you know, sleep, eating right in a whole bunch. It's just a whole bunch of little stuff that at the end, I just started feeling it myself like it's getting heavy for me. So I had to make that decision. So nervous? Were you nervous like when it happened or are you nervous? You get nervous. I was nervous because obviously because the income and stuff, you know, I mean, I had my family and then the income and just little things like that. Yeah. It's not nice, man, especially with the price. I mean, it's going up, but I mean, you pay for like to live in a good area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get what you pay for. But taking that risk, I'm sure, like, you know what I mean? Yes. Was it was a tough one, man? Yeah. So would you, what would you suggest to up and coming entrepreneurs or, you know, I mean, people who are thinking about taking that leap, like what, what suggestions would you give them? I think first you got to make sure you're, you're right. Like, I mean, like, you got to make sure you're whatever, if they have a regular job and then they're doing the side, what they like to do as a side job, but they're going to go to that full time. Is that what you mean? Yeah. Yeah. You just got to make sure you know what you're doing at first because you can't just, you can't just go start something and be like, I'm going to quit my job because I want to start doing, you know, because you have a lot to learn. You have a lot to learn. Well, because, I mean, longer than 10 years, you've been 10ing for how long though? Like for, for, for about 10 years, about 10 years, like you just been. Yeah. So, so that, so yeah, that's what I mean. That's why it took me 10 years to quit my, my main job because it's like everything you use, you, you, you, uh, you're learning, you're doing something, you're, um, you want to master your craft. Yeah. I got you. Yeah. You want to master your craft and because, so it's a trash company. So before I started window tinting, you know, we're working your whatever you just by yourself, you're thinking in me, that's why I started because I was thinking, what do I want to do when I'm older? Because I've heard a lot of people leave trash companies because they get her or whatever. And I will just think about all that. And that's one of the reasons I started window tinting because I'm like, okay, I might be pretty beat up when I'm older. We're working at this trash company. So I'm, what am I going to do after I still want to keep working? So, so I'm like, oh, window tinting is not a, it's not a, how do you say it's not a heavy job? How do you say it's not? It's not. It's not physical. It's tragic. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty tough. Mentally, like you have to have a lot of patience and all that. So then I'm like, I'm going to start window tinting. That's why I started, when I was a kid, my brother, my older brother, he's, he's a businessman. He has a deal card dealership. Yeah. He's the auto sales. This auto sales right there, about 17. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, way before when I was a kid, he sent me to go help one of his friends window tinting kind of give me like a little job. Like a little helper. But I was younger. I didn't pay attention. I was just, I mean, I paid attention, but I was in like, I didn't really want to work. Yeah. I was, I just wanted to be with my friends and stuff. You know, when all the kids, I was a kid too, but like certain little things stood to me. So, so that I talked to my brother, he had his car dealerships. I'm like, what if I start window tinting and I can start doing your, your cars? He's like, yeah. You know, he gave me that opportunity too because he was taking it to some other guy here in Longmont. He's like, yeah, and that way, you know, help him out. He helps me out. And that helped me out a lot because I was getting a lot of work when I was starting, you know what I mean? So I had to learn. I had to learn. I had to learn. So that's what I mean. You got to learn before you leave your main job because you got to, you just have to be prepared, be prepared because it's even now I still have hard times. There's like cars that I've never tinted and I'll get one and I'm like, oh, I'll just have to check it out real quick. Yeah. Because it's something different. I mean, it always turns out because, you know, I know how to, I already understand my, my, my, my film, how it works. So, you know, but that's why you got to know what you're doing because, you know, if you're start to do, you quit your main job and you start doing something else and it doesn't work. That's going to suck. Especially if, you know, you have your family, your income, your home and car or whatever. That's going to make it tough on you. Also too, when it comes to business, right? Learning business. A lot of advertising now is just social media. So I see you on all platforms. Like that, that's crazy to me. Yeah. Because, you know, I don't know how to work a lot of this stuff. Like I have you. I try to figure it out and stuff like that. But I see you. You know what I mean? Like we're like the same age. You know what I mean? You'd be navigating all through it on all platforms. Yeah. Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram. All that I do it all by myself. That's crazy. All by myself. Just with my phone. I don't have all like a bunch of stupid. I want to know who the DJ is. Because you always got to slap something. Who's the DJ? You said seriously. Give me a song or somebody. Because somebody else has to be DJ. Yeah. No, no. It's me that I do everything. So I mean, I don't know. Do you have a TikTok? No. Okay. So see that? You don't have it. And that's why you don't know. So then you like, so the way TikTok works is like, you're on TikTok. It's like when you get on Instagram or whatever. You see a video. You like that sound or song. You save it. So it saves to your TikTok page. And you have it there on your favorites. So then, you know, like I said, I do everything with my phone. Just my phone. I don't have somebody to come. If somebody wants to come record me. He said, hey, hold camera. He's gonna shoot inside. Look here. You want to show me how to do it the right way? Yeah. Look at me. He said I'll take it. No. So that's how it works. You just, I learned how to do it just by myself. So, and I use all my social media to make it happen. So what I do, I just grab my phone. Boom. Set it right here. Boom. I'll just set it right there. Start recording little clips. I'll set it earlier to another little clip. Give me from different angles. And I'm saving every little clip. So at the end of the day, when I'm done working and everything, like I'm not just there messing with my phone. Nothing when I'm doing a customer's car. No, I'm working on the customer's car. But since I want to make videos because I want, I know the customer's going to be happy to see their car in a video getting tinted. So that's one of the reasons I like to do it too, because I know they're going to like it. And so I'll use Snapchat to record all my little videos. Boom. I'll put my phone here. Then I start working. It stopped. I saved it. Boom. I'll put it somewhere. That's just how it goes. I mean, it's a little bit of type consuming, but it works out. And I mean, it doesn't take too much time for me to take a customer's car and have the customer waiting all day. No, they don't. So then I do like little clips here and there. So at the end of the day, like I said, when I'm done working, that's when I get on my phone. I'll start, I'll crop. How do you say I'll crop it? I'll trim it. I'll start trimming like all my little videos. And then I'll save them. And then they stay in my gallery. So then I'll go to TikTok. So then on TikTok, that's how you do it. You put all the everything you want to put together. And then the music you saved, you just decide what song you want to put or what audio you want to put. And then that's where it happens. So then when that happens, TikTok saves it. And then that's where I share it to my Snapchat, my Instagram, my Facebook. And that's where everybody sees it. And it helps me because... No, not that it helps me. Like I said, I like doing it because people are seeing their cars get tinted and they're seeing the change in the car. Because a car, when it's a fishbowl and it gets tinted, there's a difference. It feels different. Even people tell me, it feels like I'm in a brand new car. Like if they don't have a brand new car but they didn't have tint, once they get the tint, they're like, feels like I'm in a brand new car. And I've even had people ask me, hey, can you do a video of my car too when you tint? So that's what I'm saying. So I know people like it. And I know people don't mind it, but I know people like it. And Kenny, he got his... I think his wife's windows tinted or something like that. We used to work at the trash company with you. And he showed up to my gym with it. I was like... Oh yeah. So then he got a... So that's going back to the sticker thing. So I did his wife's... We tinted his wife's windows and two front ones. So he just got another car like a yellow Camaro or Pontiac. And he got it with no stickers. And he ordered his own stickers that go on that car, that original stickers or something like that. So then the same thing, like going back to the sticker thing, he says he sees my videos. And either he hit me, hey, can you help me out with it? And then we got a video of that too where we're putting the stickers on his car and it made a big difference when we put the stickers on his car. Everything changes when you put something on. Well, yeah, when you customize it. It looks clean though. What is this red Coke can that you added? Red Coke can? You know, it's classic like a kind of Coke can. Classic like a kind of Coke can. What is this? What year is that? It's 1968 Chevy and Paula. Yeah, that's clean. I'm going to need a picture to throw on here. I'm a joyer by that thing. So that's another thing that... You know, it's like everybody. I'm not the only one, but anybody in life who wants something, if you really want it, right? So this is a car that my brother had when I was a kid. So I'm talking about my older brother. He's like, I don't know how old he is. I don't remember how old he is. But I think he's like maybe eight or seven years older than me. So then when I was a kid, he was like he was like 16, 17, 2, I think. He had the same car. Low rider like that. Nice car here in Langma. I'm pretty sure anybody remembers him back in the day in Langma and remember hit that car. So then I was a kid and I was in love with that car. So then he sold it and that's when I was like, I was heart broke. You know, so I always stuck with that. And I always wanted to have the same car. So when I was 16, 17, I bought my first 68 like that one because I wanted to build it like that one. So I mean, it didn't happen. I was still a teenager. I was messing around with my friends, whatever. So I sold that one for cheap too and whatever it happened. And then later on in my life, I bought another one. I was like in my 20s or no, 19. I bought another one. Same thing. I was just messing around, you know, not not paying attention what I wanted in life and this and I just messing around with my life and sold that one too and it didn't happen. So then but I still wanted. I always wanted that car. I'm like, I have to do it. I saw you really big in cars. I saw that your business also sponsored the car show at the YMCA. You know what I mean? You guys helped them put that on. Yeah, for Randy Lopez. He said that boxing. Yeah, man. That was super cool. So you've been in the cars for a while, right? I want to switch gears though. So you grew up around like in Boulder County and stuff like that. So you had a lot of friends over the years, right? But some of them haven't went the same way that you went. Like you kind of did the family thing, the business thing and you're headed this way and everybody hasn't taken that route. You know what I mean? Everybody has pitfalls and you know me shortcomings and stuff like that. How have you maintained the focus to stay locked in on the family and on, you know what I mean? Better. A lot of it. The main thing is you, right? It's you, who you are, what you are, what you have inside. The main thing is you. But there's always, you know how everybody wants to talk about me growing up and it's true. So the main thing for me is it's the same thing as most of everybody else, our parents. It starts with our parents. So when I was a kid the same thing, my dad was an alcoholic. That's where he died from. He was an alcoholic. But before that when he was with my mom they had their problems and everything. I was always the little one crying in front of them. So then I always said to myself I'm going to grow up and I'm not going to be like him with my mom, my wife. That's the one. That's why I'm still with my same girls since I was a teenager. So that's that reason and then the family thing too. I didn't have my dad growing up after me being a teenager. I didn't have him with me. So there's a lot of things I don't know either about having a dad because I didn't have a dad showing me all those little things. So that's for the father's side. And then on the maintaining my home and all that other stuff it comes from inside of me. I want to give my kids that like I don't want to say I want to give them what I didn't have. I want to give them like what I didn't have but I don't mean money wise. It's just a union together family being together and I want my kids like now I have my son helping me so I want him to see you got to work for what you want and stuff so that's something I would have wanted from my dad you know like so just being better being better like things you wanted to learn from your old man you that's what I want to show my son like the little bit of whatever I know a little bit I want to show him because I want him to grow up knowing that I showed him you know what I mean. And that's things I wanted but I didn't get it so you know that's what that's kind of things like you know just little things like that. Yeah that's super cool man. But like I said man I brought you on here man like the risks you took like leaving you know what I'm saying a great job to moving and doing your own thing man and putting it on the line and you know what I mean but mastering your craft all in the process before you jumped out the window. That's the main thing you got to like you said master the craft. You got to know what you got to know what you're doing. So you know what I mean so I want to make sure we spotlight man highlight the motivation man you know what I'm saying and tell them again whatever they can find you at. We're at 1136 Kimbark Street here in Longmont Colorado. And then the social media handle is So you guys can find me in Facebook it's Well hold on the Instagram know is the CH8 CH8 underscore Compean is my last name. So we'll blast that on the bottom up here we'll blast it socials man you got to check about man put some funny stuff up man like yeah and the videos be great too I like the music I'm gonna figure out who this DJ is because I don't know if you remember I don't know if you remember when we very first met right. I remember that a lot. There's one specific song I always hear that song and I remember that's like when we met when we were to finish our route. Hey man I'm trying to tell you that was like You probably don't remember that song but you you want me to tell you? No not now. I'm in front of America. But now I remember back in the day like but the thing about this bro you've always been supportive you always had a positive attitude man so like I said I want to plug because even like one of my very first rap concerts you were there like back in the day we're talking about like when I met you was 2007 that's when I met you yeah it was 2007 because that's when that's when I started yeah man so it was like rap and all that stuff man but no man like I said man the family thing was great bro like the business is great man the person you're becoming is great and giving back you know what I mean to the community to boxers like you used to box back in the day so giving helping with that man I mean I'm trying to tell you I'm on the outside looking in bro and I'm trying to say like I said if you really want it you're gonna get it because it's how it is like when you want something you're gonna go get it when you start getting hungry what are you gonna do you're gonna go get food that's how it is you're gonna go get it so like how right now you're saying everything's great I mean we can't always just say great I mean to people people are always gonna think you're doing whatever but I mean like we all have normal lives we all you know if things get hard sometimes I mean it could be with your family it could be at the business it could be whatever you know everybody has problems everybody has stuff like that you know what I mean so I mean it's just how you want to deal with all of it just you just gotta think and do the right do the right choices but like you said earlier too not everybody goes the same route everybody takes different exits yeah so okay man blast it man hey man I'm King Penny man you're here with Chocho man go see him for all your window tent needs man I'ma drop the address on the bottom of this man you guys check him out man tap in all the stuff he's doing hey long man I appreciate you guys joining us man Chocho King Penny man we're out of here man I'ma need one of these hats though they have the cameras hey what's up everybody so we're at the shop now this is a heat box display that we have here at the shop as you can see there's a light bulb inside which gets pretty hot and that is to show you what our three films do so this is a pro classic 20% right here so that's just the regular basic tent you're gonna feel he and it's just for looks we have the carbon tent which blocks a little bit of heat and uh it pretend I mean it's not gonna turn purple on you it's not gonna bubble up it's good film it's you know in the middle class kind of and after carbon we have the ceramic tent 20% right there and it's the same and the fourth one it's a ceramic 50% the higher the number the lower the tent the more clear so the dark the light the smaller the number it's the darker the tent and the higher the number the lighter the tent so this is a 50 ceramic you can see the light bulb pretty good right there so right here I have a meter I'm gonna turn it on has a low battery but it still works it's at zero I'm gonna turn on the light bulb inside of the heat box display I'm gonna put it first so you can see the basic tent we'll start with the basic tent so I'm gonna turn it on it's on right there if you come by you can feel yourself with your hand here's the meter I'm just gonna pick it up I'm gonna pick it up and put it right here by the and it's reading it's at the 300s whatever okay so now I'm gonna turn the box now it's at the carbon tent and see how it dropped see how it drops the temperature temperature drops it's at carbon 20% and now I'm gonna turn it to ceramic here it's at on ceramic and right there you can see how much lower it dropped so that's what ceramic tent does it blocks out as much heat possible so it's the best tent so that's the best choice you could do for your vehicle using our cars you know and having that sun bead on your face it's pretty tough this is a 50% ceramic window tent and see it does the same thing it's lighter than the 20% and it also does the same thing it's still gonna block out all that heat okay so anytime anybody feels feel free to stop by we're at 1136 Kimbark street unit B you can stop by and check it out if you're interested in this heat box display what our tent does and what you would like to install in your vehicle you know in the future or now or whenever we can set up an appointment and get you in and get you taken care of