Law Have Mercy!

Chaz Roberts in the Hot Seat: Personal Reflections, Car Wreck Tips, & Podcast Growth [Ft. Guest Host Carter Simoneaux]

• Chaz Roberts, AcadianaCasts • Season 4 • Episode 49

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Law Have Mercy! Join us for a special, albeit unusual, episode of the podcast this week as our producer, Carter Simoneaux, takes over the show as guest-host! We're pulling back the curtain to share everything from our podcast journey and evolution to predicting what lies ahead. We also recap the most essential tips we've shared or learned on the show and some of Chaz's unexpected favorite moments from the last 1.5 years of hosting the show....and that's only the beginning! 

We also dive into the indispensable role of personal injury lawyers and how they can be gateways to crucial resources, plus, how understanding jurisdictional differences can dramatically impact personal injury claims, potentially altering outcomes significantly. 

And Chaz wouldn't be Chaz if we didn't spend at least a little time talking about the biggest risk we open ourselves up to daily; Road safety and preparedness take center stage as he reviews practical tips to ensure you are well-prepared for any eventuality. We even reflect on how modern conveniences and social media have affected driving behaviors. Don't miss this heartfelt, introspective episode of reflection, empathy, relationships, evolution, enjoying the journey, and more. 

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If you are in need of legal guidance, visit our website: https://www.chazrobertslaw.com/

This show is co-produced by Carter Simoneaux of AcadianaCasts Network, Chaz H. Roberts of Chaz Roberts Law and Kayli Guidry Bonin of Beau The Agency, and Laith Alferahin.

Speaker 1:

Hey, this is Chaz with another episode of Law have Mercy. On today's episode, my producer Carter is going to ask some questions of yours truly. We handle car wreck questions and just about the podcast in general. I know you'll enjoy it.

Speaker 2:

Hey folks, if you're wondering why, if you're watching on the YouTube, there's a very handsome man in this seat, or if you're listening and you hear the velvety sounds of my voice, it's because it's me, producer extraordinaire Carter Seminole, behind the mic interviewing Chaz Roberts today on Law. Have Mercy, chaz, I appreciate flipping the tables this time around, giving me the chance to ask you some questions. I've been working with you for about a year now. When I approached you, I followed your Instagram. I was a big fan of the content you were making and you were really my first client with Acadiana Casts, and it's been a heck of a journey. We've improved the show from a tech standpoint. You've gotten better as an interviewer, I've gotten better as a producer and you've also given me some advice when it comes to running a business. It's been a heck of a journey this past year.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, man. Well, I just first want to say thanks for dressing up today. Hey, it's festival day, man. I appreciate the Hawaiian shirt. No, carter man, look. It's been great to work with you. It's been an ongoing journey and I think we have done a lot of great work together. I've enjoyed doing this, man. I mean, I've spent some unbelievable time just reflecting on it and just meeting with so many cool people, reconnecting with people serving the public, giving them so much information for free. I think it's been a real worthwhile venture. I look back and I'm like why, how crazy was I to think that it would? I would be on a podcast, right, and now it just makes so much sense. Yeah so yeah, thank you for your contribution.

Speaker 2:

Well, I'm happy to do so. You've brought in so many guests that I've learned from, and we're going to get into some of that in a little bit, but I got to ask you what does Law have, mercy mean to you?

Speaker 1:

All right. So the purpose of Law have Mercy is I wanted to bring smart lawyers on in different areas of law to provide the general public with free legal education. Okay, cause I came from a small town, I didn't know any lawyers growing up. My family didn't know any lawyers growing up, so I'm really trying to serve my, my family of 25, 30 years ago, and so if I was in that situation, then I know there's a lot of other people that are in that situation and so, yeah, that's my goal and I think I've done a. So many lawyers I realized, like my me, being a lawyer gives me access to a lot of cool people like Cupid, like Raymond, like Daniel, and they all have something to offer in terms of mindset. What made them successful, what made them achieve the highest level of success in their particular industry, their particular industry? And so I want to pick their brains, since I have access to them, so that they could potentially inspire that same group of people who could benefit from the legal services.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and from the legal standpoint, being a civilian, a non-lawyer, you never think about the law unless you actually need a lawyer, and so this show really helps serve that. It's given me a lot of information that I've passed on to friends. I've recommended episodes to friends and family members as well, so have I.

Speaker 1:

So someone contacts me and says hey man, I got a legal question about if I need a patent for this type of thing, Do I need a trademark? I said here Boom, I'll send them Sarah's episode on intellectual property. Somebody calls me and has divorce questions Boom, I'll send them Sarah's episode on intellectual property. Somebody calls me and has divorce questions Boom, I'll send out. I'll just literally text them. Look, listen, spend an hour of your time and you'll know more about divorce law, child custody law than 99% of people.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's, it's. Some of these really serve as almost like a, a webinar or a masterclass. If you're just getting into, like if, let's say, you're going through a divorce, unfortunately, that's a great episode. To kind of get you started in the process, give you some back information that can prepare you for this wild journey you're about to go on.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and here's the best part, it's free, right, and if you don't like listening to it on a podcast, you go on YouTube and you can watch it. And if you don't have, if your attention span is like my, mine or yours, where you don't want to listen in an hour, you can watch a clip on a 30 second clip on reels on Instagram or Facebook or Tik TOK. So I've really tried to make it easily digestible, no matter where I want to meet you, where you are, and maybe get you interested in it, and then maybe you want, maybe you'll see a 30 second clip and maybe you'll listen to the full hour. I think it's a worthwhile investment. Look it costs.

Speaker 1:

When I was in school, it cost me $70,000 to get a legal education. Right now that's probably $200,000. And so I'm and then, not to mention 10, 15, 20 years of experience, the what to do, what not to do, and and you know all those at bats and all those reps I'm bringing these experienced people on and you get all of that information for free. It's crazy, yeah, and it's like I I'm so grateful to all the lawyers that come on and they say well, chaz, do you get business from it? Well, I don't know maybe, but I know a lot of the people that have come on have gotten business from it, because a lot more people getting divorces than car wrecks, I guess. But good for them, good for my friends who've come on the podcast and to get business, because they gave me an hour of their time and share their life's endeavor, their life's goal, their life's passion, um with with the audience for free. So I'm really happy for for my, for my guests as well.

Speaker 2:

Yeah and uh. To start off, you you really brought on you know, friends of yours, people you've met, or people you've met through your work, um, um. But it's always kind of followed a line of are you interested in it, as Chaz Roberts interested in it, um, and that comes through in the episode, like you're actually intrigued and that helps the viewer or the listener, uh, also get into it because you're so interested in it. With that being said, what have been some of your highlights? For maybe, maybe some of the ones that you weren't expecting to do for you to enjoy as much as you did.

Speaker 1:

Wow, you know what's crazy is? Um, I'm asking I have a good base of a lot of different areas of law because, coming up, I did so many different areas of law before I became a personal injury lawyer full-time. So I have a pretty good base and I had a pretty good understanding. That's why I'm able to ask pretty good questions, but I always learn something in every single episode. I think back to the episode with Sarah on Wiseman Anderson, who is a cyber lawyer. I didn't know what a cyber lawyer is. I was trying to prepare questions before she got here. Not only did I enjoy reconnecting with an old friend that I hadn't seen in 10 years, but she scared me shitless.

Speaker 2:

Yes, especially with how active you are on TikTok.

Speaker 1:

TikTok and emails and spam accounts and some of those things. Like I went in and I started putting some action into what she was. I locked my credit score based on her advice. Like I've learned at least one thing from every single guest, even the non-lawyers. Right Like when Raymond was on you know he was he. He was kind enough to come here right before he was headed to Michigan to go play football, right before training camp. And when he, you know, not only told us about Tom Brady, but like just how intense practice is and how practice is actually harder than the games. I never thought of that.

Speaker 1:

I never thought about the sacrifice that those guys made. I never thought about when somebody gets injured in the NFL they're on an Island they're at home All right, and they have all those thoughts going through their head and they they deal with struggles. People see the glitz and the glam. They don't think about the struggles that those guys have.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you, you relate to that being a personal injury lawyer.

Speaker 1:

You probably have clients who go through that same exact struggle. Yes, it's, it's really, uh, it hit home. You know, and and and he was actually talking about how he made a decision to go to college based on his dad's injury, uh, from a car wreck. The man that made it all the way to the NFL decided what college to go to based on his father's injury that resulted from a car wreck that hit home. You know, because, um, you, you see, when people are dealing with pain, you can hear them talk about pain, but you don't think about the family that's involved and and the community that's involved, that that revolves around a person. So when they're hurt, it hurts everyone. Yeah, well, I've, I've, like I said, I've learned a person. So when they're hurt, it hurts everyone.

Speaker 2:

Well, like I said, I've learned a lot and I know now why it's very important to hire a lawyer after an accident. I've been in a few accidents myself, not in the past five years.

Speaker 1:

Should have called me bro.

Speaker 2:

I didn't know you back then, but for our audience, why is it so important to hire a lawyer?

Speaker 1:

All right, I can go on a rant here, but this is, to me, there's three big reasons, right. Number one is we're a sword and a shield, all right. So we have the power to file lawsuits, we have the power to try a case in front of a jury, okay. So the average person is not capable of filing suits trying their own case. So the fact that we have that, that we can attack them right, we have the sword puts them on their heels, okay. And so that makes them open up their checkbooks because we pose a risk of getting a huge, runaway jury verdict Okay.

Speaker 1:

The other thing is we shield them so they don't have to speak to an adjuster anymore, they don't have to speak to a defense lawyer. We protect them from others and we really protect them from themselves, like, why would you post on social media? Be careful of their surveillance? We are shielding them from bad things that they don't even know exist. The other thing is we have significant resources. We're able to hire doctors and accident reconstructionists and life care planners and economists to bolster their claims, bolster their case value. Bolster their case value, right. And so we know, like, if you get hurt here and you need a shoulder, surgery.

Speaker 2:

Who's the?

Speaker 1:

best shoulder guy in town. I don't know who's the best spine guy in town, who's the best ankle guy in town. You don't know those guys. I got those guys on my cell phone. I talk to those guys regularly. I can tell you who will give you the best level of care. Okay, so we have resources. And I think the third and final thing is we know what cases are worth. Okay, so we know every verdict and court of appeals award and Supreme Court award in every particular jurisdiction.

Speaker 1:

Lafayette is different. Lafayette Parish is different than St Tammany Parish, where you're from. That's an extremely conservative district. People in St Landry Parish have nothing in common with St Tammany Parish, where you're from. That's an extremely conservative district. People in St Landry Parish have nothing in common with St Tammany Parish. Bossier has nothing in common with St Martin Parish, right. So every jurisdiction is different. A lawyer studies this and knows what a broken arm is worth in Opelousas versus New Orleans, and so that knowledge helps us put together a better presentation to the insurance adjusters, the defense lawyers, a jury, and that really maximizes your case. You might think, carter, off the street, that $5,000 is a lot of money for a broken arm and I may say Carter, that's actually a $65,000 injury buddy, and I can take that to the finish line. So if you want to maximize your case value, you need a lawyer, because lawyers know what cases are worth and will not settle for less.

Speaker 2:

I want to break down some of those things because one of them and I didn't realize, I guess to the extent until the last interview that we did with Crystal the insurance adjusters and different parties reaching out to your client or just the person who was in the wreck. Can you expound upon that even more, because that's wild to me. I never thought about that aspect that all these other parties are reaching out trying to trying to sell your case.

Speaker 1:

Right. So if you get in a wreck, as soon as they have Carter's phone number, they're going to be trying to call you and you may actually initiate the call because you're trying to get your car fixed. And they're going to say hey, uh, mr Carter, why don't we send you $1,500 so you can take care of your medical bills? And all you need to do is I'm going to email you a document and just DocuSign it. Don't even worry about it, man, it's all good. And what about my future injuries? What about my future? Hey, we'll take care of that, just sign that DocuSign so we can move forward. Boom, they got you to sign and release your case. You're done, you're out, it's a docu sign, is is a written, is written, it's valid. Okay, um, they're going to also say okay, mr Carter, we want to just ask you a few questions about your injuries. Um, you told the cops that you were okay, so you're not really hurt, are you? Well, you know, I mean, I'm sore, I got man, that's all recorded. Or you may be talking about your neck injury, but forget that your back is also hurting and that your left pinky finger is also hurting, because you're more concerned about your neck and you forget those things.

Speaker 1:

Well, three months down the line, we have a workup for all those injuries and they say oh no, we have Carter on a recorded line saying X, y, z, saying that only his neck hurt. They're not your friends, they're going to try to contact you. You hire a lawyer, we send a letter immediately. I'm about to sign up a case downstairs in 30 minutes, before the end of the day, the insurance companies that get a letter from us that says you cannot contact my client anymore. So that's where we provide that shield Now. It relieves his stress, it relieves the burden, it relieves playing phone tag with insurance companies. So there's some practical things that are going to benefit him. But even more important is going to preserve his case. Right, it's going to. He's not going to settle his case and he's not going to say some stuff that he shouldn't have said on a recorded line or or on social media.

Speaker 2:

You know, I just have a story to tell.

Speaker 1:

I want people to understand that people love social media, man. I mean, I I'm a big fan from. From a business perspective, if you look at my business page, I have umpteen hundred posts. If you look at my personal page, my last post is like from 2010. Right, it's just. People love social media, though, man, and they can't wait to tell people that they've been in a wreck, or they can't wait to flex and show themselves in the Bahamas, and those types of things can ruin your case. I give a pamphlet to all of my clients and say here's what you got to look out for Social media surveillance. Talking to people, talking to adjusters.

Speaker 2:

Now you mentioned that the law firm will recommend doctors and healthcare providers after an injury. Yeah, how did you develop that list? Was there any trial and error involved? Did you trust people that give you the right?

Speaker 1:

recommendations. Yeah, when you say the lawyer told the client where to go, if you're looking at it from a pessimistic view glass half full, half empty, I'm sorry. It says well, the lawyer's doctor shopping, right. That sounds like could potentially sound bad. It's not, though. It's the opposite. It's a client has been hurt and doesn't deal with doctors every day. They don't deal with spine doctors every day. They don't deal with shoulder doctors every day, so they really have no knowledge. Most people just go to the emergency room or just go to their family doctor.

Speaker 1:

A lawyer from their experience has seen who does good surgeries, who has good bedside manner. Because I get the feedback from my clients and then I see their reports and I see who writes good reports. I talk to other lawyers and I've been in court and I see what doctors testify well. And I've been in court and I see what doctors testify well, what doctors have credibility because they handle car wreck cases. But they handle not car wreck cases. They've represented plaintiffs and they've represented defendants. So they call it down the middle right. So that comes from expertise from reps and just time in the market and understanding them. Yeah, good question.

Speaker 2:

Outside of the law firm, have you? I know your kids are super active in sports. You know you're. You're an athlete yourself. Has there been any recommendations to friends and family outside of work for doctors?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, absolutely. Um, I can. I can tell you like, um, I have family that are dealing with health issues and I can direct them to the same and I would send them to the same people that I send my car wreck um clients to. Right, because I will not send my car wreck client to someone that I would not go to because it's B, it's bigger than the case. I want them to get the best level of treatment. So, yes, I've been able to refer different people and I use the same people that we use as part of the car wrecks I sent to the best doctors in town.

Speaker 2:

That's such a great by-product of what you do that I don't know if you ever even thought of that when you wanted to, that first thought of becoming a lawyer, that, oh, I can also help my family members by cultivating all this, this knowledge.

Speaker 1:

When it comes to the medical field and the area that I live, yeah, my mother-in-law is, uh, was asking for some advice recently and she's a nurse, so she has a very high standard for for doctors and I was like, okay, let me give you these five. This one does this, this one does this, this one's good at this and not so good at this, this and and she appreciated that's like one of the selling points. They have a house in Baton Rouge, a house in Lafayette and they're looking at moving and, um, I was like that's one of the selling points to to to be here, because I know every medical provider in town and I can direct you the best way possible.

Speaker 2:

Well, me personally, chaz, I'm a. I'd like to be prepared. I was a boy scout. I made my Eagle, uh, uh, worked hard to get that. But you know, preparedness is is big in my family. My dad's in the safety industry, uh, so he he's. He's always the one during a storm, just like peeking out the window making sure that the, the, the storm's not going to get us, um, but when it comes to driving around, as we all do, or most people do, uh, today, what? What are the things that I and the audience can do to proactively prepare myself, without, you know, never wishing for?

Speaker 1:

a wreck, obviously, but preparing myself in the event that that does happen. Most people don't think that bad things will ever happen to them. People actually don't think they're going to die, which is crazy, you know, like people don't. I think we're programmed that way, like we don't expect bad things to happen to us, but, statistically speaking, most people will be involved in a car wreck at some point in their life. Okay, and so what? I recommend three things. Number one get a safe vehicle. All right, the you can Google safety ratings, you, you want to buy a safe vehicle. Number two drive defensively. All right. Here's a good example. When you get to a traffic light and the light turns green and you're the first car, pause, wait a second, look both ways and make sure that somebody is not about to run the light. How many times have you been at a light and you paused and you see a car just fly by?

Speaker 1:

and you're like look, if I was a super aggressive, I'd have been, I'd have been hit, I'd have been killed, I'd have been T-boned. That has happened to me a dozen of times. You never want to be dead right. You never want to be dead right. That happens in merging situations, that happens in high traffic, high stress situations that you just want to be a little bit more aggressive. That's when bad things happen, right, if it's raining outside, leave early or leave late. You don't want to be in the mix with everyone else, all right.

Speaker 1:

And then the third thing and it's the hardest sell for me, but this is the drum that I bang all the time is get uninsured motorist coverage. There it is, there it is. You're tired of hearing about this and look, not only get uninsured motorist coverage, but get the most you can afford. What does uninsured motorist coverage do? It protects you from the bad acts of other people. Okay, so it covers you if the other person doesn't have insurance which, by the way, statistically speaking, there's a lot of people that don't have insurance, like more than you think and it also protects you if they don't have enough insurance, all right.

Speaker 1:

So if you go to an ambulance, if you take an ambulance and you go to an emergency room. You're looking at $7,500 off top Emergency room's not going to do anything for you. They're going to give you medication and send you in your way. You haven't even begun the recovery process. You might need therapy, you might need injections, you might need surgery one day. Unfortunately, that's $150,000 that I just rattled off. Okay, who's going to pay for that? You miss time from work. You miss three months from work. You heard Crystal talk about being out of work for 18 months. Miss time from work. You miss three months from work. You heard Crystal talk about being out of work for 18 months. Who's going to pay for that?

Speaker 1:

You have to have uninsured motorist coverage because that folds on top of what the other person had. Okay, if FedEx hits you, you'll be okay. You don't need uninsured motorist. I'm saying okay, and from an insurance perspective. I'm not saying okay from a physical perspective. But if it's the other six out of ten vehicles on the road because that is the statistic, six out of ten either have no insurance or minimum you're going to be screwed. You're going to have to come out of pocket.

Speaker 1:

So buy uninsured motorist coverage, add it to your policy. You're presumed to have it. You actually have to reject it. And most people think I got full coverage, I'm good. Reject it. And most people think I got full coverage, I'm good. I can't tell you how many times someone told me I have full coverage and they did not have uninsured motorist coverage. What people say think that they have full coverage, that means they have collision. Okay, and collision is important. Collision is if you put your car in a ditch, in a single vehicle wreck is going to pay for your car If the other person doesn't have insurance and hits you it's going to pay for your property damage.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that's what collision is Comprehensive. Is hail theft something other than a car wreck? Right? Rental coverage is pays for your rental while your car is being repaired or while your car is total loss. But uninsured motorist coverage protects your body. You would not believe how many people care deeply about fixing their car and don't really care about fixing their body. It boggles my mind. This is your one body that you have for the rest of your life. This is your one body that you have for the rest of your life. For crying out loud protect it. Pay just a little bit more money on your insurance policy.

Speaker 2:

And it's really not that much more. I kind of have a hypothesis and I want to kind of pick your brain on it. But with the convenience that we have in today's society when it comes to things like Amazon, like same day delivery We've got DoorDash, uber, ways to get around easier Social media has kind of helped shorten our collective patience, along with this convenience. To relate that to driving, I've caught myself being in everyday life, not just behind the wheel of a car, but finding myself a little more impatient, a little more impatient, um, and hearing you talk it helps me. When I'm driving, I've thought of you before and I've actually kind of slowed down a little bit, or being a little more patient, so that I'm not hitting that guy who runs the red light at the very end. You know, do you think there's anything to that of our collective patients being dwindled and that affecting how we drive?

Speaker 1:

Yes, I think I went to a conference a while back and the guy's thesis was your competition is not the law firm down the road, it's Amazon, apple and all these other things that have made life super easy, and I didn't really get it at the time, but it go. It speaks to what you're saying. Right now, everyone's used to one click, one, push one, and so, as a as a lawyer, I realized that people are going to have unreal, unrealistic expectations of me because of how easy the iPhone is to use or how easy it is to push a button and get an immediate response at Amazon. So I keep on lifting the bar with my legal services.

Speaker 1:

That's not the question you asked, though. You asked if just collective patience is less, and that adds to some of the road rage or some of the problems that you see on the road, and I think the answer is absolutely. I think that people's expectations and patience have changed dramatically in the last five years, and I think that that has led to more wrecks, not to mention people might be checking out on Amazon while driving, people are scrolling social media while driving, right? People are texting while driving, and so that's added so many more complications and led to so many more car wrecks.

Speaker 2:

Well, kind of getting close to wrapping up here, chaz, I want to talk a little bit more. You personally, from what I've seen and from the stories I hear, you're a great father. You're super proud of your kids. You were just showing me one of your sons, his progression from five years old to seven years old throwing the football. How does being an attorney, and especially what you do, how does?

Speaker 1:

that affect you as a father in any way? If it does, I think first of all, being a father made me a better lawyer and it's not being a better lawyer made me a better father. Being a father made me a better lawyer. So when I get a client and I've talked about this in recent podcasts is that I'm I'm so the client that I get. I'm seeing someone in them so I can relate to them.

Speaker 1:

So if I represent a single mother, I remember my mother. If I represent a child of a single mother, I see myself. If I represent a mother of young children, happily married and this has taken a toll on her marriage, her, her responsibilities I see my wife. If I represent an older client, I see my grandmother that I that I spent so much time with. If I see a father of a family and know how important the father is to that unit, I see myself Right, and so I don't think that I had the level of emotional understanding until I became a father to understand that piece of it. So I would say being a father has made me a better lawyer and I do try to bring my children around the office and I actually let them hear some of the conversations I have with my clients, so that they can build that empathetic muscle and that muscle of service and kindness to others in their time of need. Do you see?

Speaker 2:

Law have Mercy. The conversations that you have, these open conversations where you get to kind of peel the onion that is Chaz Roberts, but also some of these other people in front of a camera on a microphone Do you see that as a way to, as almost a gift to?

Speaker 1:

your children Absolutely, and that's my biggest sales pitch when I'm trying to get people on the show. I was like, look, if you get hit by a bus tomorrow, your kids will have an hour-long video and recording of Wesley Gaujour on April 24th 2024. They will see how you looked, how you act, how you spoke, the pride in your eyes when you talked about what you do, the pride in your eyes when you talked about your family, and for me it's cool that now I have almost 50 episodes in, and so if something happens to me you know my father died at 51. My grandfather died at 37. You know how cool it would be to go back and listen to hours and hours of them BSing with their friends.

Speaker 2:

I would give anything for that I saw an old video of my grandfather who passed away before I died, my dad's dad uh, just an old home video, and I heard his voice for the first time, like like last year, and it like it was super beautiful and just really really cool to to experience that.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, well and look. If they never listen to it, that's fine too, but it'll be there for them and it'll be there for my grandkids, that's. One good thing about the podcast is that it's evergreen. It's going to live somewhere in a digital space forever. Hopefully it's not like the compact disc. I don't know where all my CDs are, man. I was looking for my chili pepper CD the other day. We got to burn those.

Speaker 2:

Well, law have mercy. Where does it go from here?

Speaker 1:

You know that's a great question. That's a great question. I'm learning every day and every episode. I feel like we get a little bit better, we hone in a little bit, but I'm just going to build, I'm going to build. I think too many people in life have to have the end goal in sight before, before they even start, and they get analysis, paralysis by analysis, and they never actually start. And for me, I like to start and then fly the plane as I'm building it, and so I don't know where it's going to go, man. But I know that every single episode helps someone and to me, if I help just one person per episode, it's a worthwhile venture.

Speaker 2:

Well, chaz, I, uh, I appreciate you, man. I can honestly call you a friend, a mentor, um, and my, my lawyer, whenever that day comes. Um, it's, it's. It's been really cool. I love sharing some of the stories that I've heard just sitting behind the producer desk over here, that you're able to get from some of these guests Really valuable information, and I'm happy to be on this ride with you and take this thing to the moon. And, at the end of the day, most importantly is help people, and I've surrounded myself the past few years with really empathetic folks, like a John Williams, like I just mentioned, and people who care about others. You know the slogan of love of people is helping others, help others, and that's you live that to the T and it's it's. It's cool to be around your orbit and see how you operate and how you treat people and and you've had all the success in the world and it shows Well.

Speaker 1:

I appreciate that and you know what. You reached out to me first and said I think you would be great on a podcast when you were just watching the social media stuff, and not only did you put the bug in my ear, but you also created the capability to do so. It would have taken me years to be able to figure this thing out, and you were able to jump in and help put this thing together, and that means a lot to me and, uh, I consider you a friend as well and keep doing the things you're doing, man, and you're a cultural ambassador and, um, you've done a lot in the community, like what you just mentioned, so I really appreciate you and, um, thanks, man. I look forward to working with you.

Speaker 2:

Well, speaking of which, I'm going to take this nice Hawaiian shirt and go celebrate the culture in Festival International this evening and this weekend, all right, Well, can you at least put a Chaz Roberts Law undershirt on it for when you take the Hawaiian shirt off? Yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah, when that gets ripped off later today. Chaz real quick remind folks where to follow you.

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