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RUNNIN' VEGAS - The John McNamara Podcast
Talking local sports, business and real estate.
RUNNIN' VEGAS - The John McNamara Podcast
Andrew Devitt owner of Sport Social teaching kids social skills through sports, art and music
Hey guys, the John McNamara host Running Vegas. We're talking local sports, business, real estate. If you guys like what you see, subscribe, follow us. I'm Running Vegas Podcast. All right, we got our co Ron at Vegas Podcast, All right we got our co-host. George Hernandez in the house. What's going on? And we got a special guest, two-time guest, andrew DeVette, devette, devette.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Sports social. Las Vegas in the house. Owner of Sports Social. Thanks for coming on, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, vegas in the house. Owner of sports social. Thanks for coming on, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thank you, excited to have you on. So you probably don't know this, so you, you're on. You know you were on a year ago, obviously, yeah, but you were actually our most viewed podcast oh wow.
Speaker 1:So I really enjoyed our conversation, so super excited to have you back on. But the people have spoken, yeah and they want to see you again and just a love and support through like social media, youtube, everybody's like love andrew. He's the best. We hear it when we go and you know we go, uh, volunteer where's andrew?
Speaker 3:yeah, we don't even have our own designated names at the volunteer. We're known by your mom and everybody else as Andrew's friends. I don't know if.
Speaker 2:I deserve it, but I'm honored.
Speaker 1:You're doing big things you are so excited having you on. So it's been about a year give or take since the last time we had you on. Yeah, like, tell us what's been going on last year with your business. You know what are changes, what's everything going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm trying to think of a year ago or so. Today, as we're going into summer, I guess we it's a good amount has changed. We've been shifting, really, I guess, like our identity and our direction as an organization, so pretty big pieces. By that I mean sports social has always existed, kind of on our own little island of like. This place that helps, you know, helps kids learn social skills and sports, art and music right, helps kids learn social skills and sports art, music right.
Speaker 2:But over the last year we've more, and we've been a place where we've been focusing on helping, like, all kids that are struggling in their life in some way right. But over the last year we've more doubled down to specifically being in this field what's called applied behavior analysis. It's always been a therapy technique that we've used, but it's not been as fully integrated, right. And so a year later from today, sport Social is more clearly designated as a place for kids with autism and special needs. A year ago we were trying to help a little bit more wide. We were trying to help anyone and everyone that was struggling in their life with social skills, and that was just too broad of an approach, right. And so since then we've said no more. Specifically, we're here for kids with autism and special needs.
Speaker 2:We're clearly using applied behavior analysis. We're clearly working. Yes, we're using it through sports, art and music, but to teach social and communication skills. There's a pretty big field in this field of applied behavior analysis. There's maybe 100 companies in las vegas. There's tens of thousands in this country. Um, we're trying to help shift what that field looks like. Right, it is typically done in therapy rooms and classrooms and kids are sitting at tables learning a lot of skills that they could be doing in more natural, fun ways, yeah, and so our direction has been to really try to make sports socials approach more of a common practice to get kids out of therapy rooms and out of classrooms and get them to learn in meaningful, fun ways and clearly in that category of applied behavior analysis Cool, can you give?
Speaker 1:us examples of that. What do you mean? Like the classes and what the kids do?
Speaker 2:At Sports Social, yeah, yeah, yeah. So our kids are learning through a sport, art or music, right, okay. But while they're doing that, they might be working on their ability to attend to a task, right.
Speaker 2:Our students struggle to stay engaged and pay attention, right, so they have a clear behavioral goal of like attending, right or they might have a social skill goal of like learning to join in, or they might have a communication goal of for them to express their some sort of their wants or needs. And so we're working on these important social and communication and behavior skills, but in these contexts of sports, art and music which I think is universal.
Speaker 3:Right, because it's like I have, as you're saying, this it's we are now progressing to classrooms and how Jim was taken away, music's taken away, arts being taken away, all these creative things. So these kids are sitting in at desks and we're wondering why they're hyper, why they're not learning, why they're not engaged. And because that's not real life, it's just kind of I don't know how would you call it Old school, or it's just a method that doesn't work anymore and it's like, yeah, why do you think it takes so long for there to be a transition? Because I think it should be universal. I don't think it should just be for applied analysis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a great example. I mean, I think it's just there's lack of effort and creativity being applied. It's easy to throw kids in a classroom and teach them content. It's harder to come up with creative ways for someone to experience and learn something and to, you know, have fun while doing it. It just takes more effort to teach and creative in different ways. You know, have fun while doing it. It just takes more effort.
Speaker 3:Yeah, teach in creative in different ways, you know so, with that being said, is it so, how hard is it to find talent to recruit people? Because I know you're doing that right now. I literally just said I'm like, hey, I like repost anything, I love sword social, I love you. So, um, how hard is it to find talent and keep that moving?
Speaker 2:Yeah, same thing Like if we wanted to just hire people to make money, we could easily do that right. But if we want to have talent and instructors that are creative and that are empathetic and that are respectful, it takes time to do that, and so we spend a lot of time filtering and interviewing people that we think might be a good fit. So we're looking for athletes, musicians and artists that emulate our cool friend core values yeah.
Speaker 3:And so if you guys know of anybody, it's like, yeah, hit him up, this is your. Uh, what's the american saying?
Speaker 2:like your plug, I plug, yeah, yeah yeah, we're looking for people that want to make a difference, want to make an impact and that are willing to do a really hard job. It's so hard Like it looks like. It's just like a fun place. Like, oh like they just play with the kids or whatever.
Speaker 2:You know, like you might think that from looking at Instagram. But no, like, our kids are there because they have real deficits and real challenges in their life, and it's our job to help them learn these important skills they're missing through these activities, and so we find lots of cool people, but they don't have the desire to work as hard as this job requires, Right.
Speaker 2:I could see that, or people that are willing to work really hard, but they don't have the, maybe the values or the skills that we're looking for right, we're looking for talented people that are artists or athletes and musicians that can share that with our kids. You know, and not everybody, is that A lot of people don't have that background.
Speaker 3:You know what's the training process like. So like, let's say, somebody wants to get into sports, social, wants to work for you guys. They are an athlete, a musician or in the arts, but they don't have applied analysis or any of that background or psychology.
Speaker 2:How does that work, is it? It's all good. So if they are that and they demonstrate respect and empathy and they're creative and they color outside the lines, then they would be considered to train with us. They go through a little over two week training course where they learn everything that we do. They learn the applied behavior analysis. They learn all the sports, art and music that we teach. You might be a skateboarder, but you don't do skateboarding the way we do. We break skateboarding down into hundreds of little steps. You know, and so you learn the sports, art, music. You learn the, the science that we're based in applied behavior analysis, and then you learn about our culture and our values and how to take a value like respect and integrate it and use it as a teaching methodology. Um, so they go through.
Speaker 3:I think the world needs this class right, it's like no right because there's so many kids just struggling and they don't have that resource. So what does that look like to get into sports social as a kid or as a parent that has a kid that wants to enroll them?
Speaker 2:They come for like an initial tour we do like a free mini lesson. It's a placement assessment, so we determine what are their child's skills and deficits, what do they need to work on, and then from there the supervisor recommends a program and, depending on which type it is, they would go into it.
Speaker 3:You know a new addition also from a year ago is we now take insurance and medicaid. Oh, very cool. Oh, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:That's a big one for us that was going back in line with. You know, we were kind of on our little island we did. We were all cash pay. You know, always I never wanted to go into this realm of like rules and structure and you got to follow guidelines and you can do these things. Because I hate that part.
Speaker 2:I mean, I just don't like that yeah it's a rebel on you but it has unlocked a huge new uh ability for us to serve kids and in different ways. Most of our kids come for one to two hours okay. Now when we're working through insurance they come for 10 to 20 hours a week okay, and they get. They can go way more in depth into all those, like those social and behavioral skills, um, and so some kids like I'm going back, they come in for that tour and assessment. They go in that route. Maybe we recommend them for insurance. There's over a year wait time to get started with that service for us, unfortunately, because of those different parameters that we need, or they might be recommended to like a sport lesson, or they might be recommended to a social skills group and they might be recommended to come to summer camp yeah, 10 different programs that they might go into from there how many kids do you have?
Speaker 1:right now about 800.
Speaker 3:So yeah, you have like 96 staff, right 96, that's crazy. Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 2:So we're seeing a similar number of students that we saw a year ago. Okay, the total number of students hasn't changed. We have a huge amount more staff than we did because we're providing way more service hours to those 800 kids. That's phenomenal.
Speaker 3:So you do TruFusion. What do you do to, like, stay patient, because it's a lot, because you're wearing a lot of different hats. Yeah, it's like, even to get lunch with you is hard, yeah's like. Yeah, I'm like, oh, what are you doing? I can't, I can't I'm just giving you, yeah, no, no no which is a good thing, to stay patient you know, uh, or stay composed, or just kind of keep going, yeah and manage that many pity and that many kids.
Speaker 1:That is a lot, you know I can't even manage myself. We've had a team of 10 when we broke down.
Speaker 3:We need to be talking to you. I guess we don't have problems at all.
Speaker 2:It depends on how much I take on. When I have large amounts of things I can, my emotional state cannot be its best and I can be not the best representation of myself. For sure I can be frustrated and and short and like just in the zone and and not the best leader, you know, when I take on too many things or when I'm not doing enough of like the things that I need to do, like my own self-care things like doing Pilates and yoga and running and having my morning routines. So I'd say I go up and down in it. You know, with being in a good emotional, like mental health state is just challenging in my spot. I don't know. I feel like I do a lot of things but no matter what, it's just hard to stay in a joyful positive state's.
Speaker 1:It's just hard to yeah, to stay in a joyful, positive state is just hard right you have to be more intentional on how that's crazy yeah yeah, and for real estate it's the same thing, because it can be very difficult, because we we have to deal with a lot of emotions of adults, you know, and you you have adult 96 of them. Yeah, but, yeah, the same challenges.
Speaker 1:We were talking about this, you know you thought I was hard, but yeah, it's funny if you get away from it just for a little bit. The meditation truth whatever walking, it can catch up on you, not in a good way yeah, it only lasts for so long.
Speaker 2:Like you do stuff in the morning like okay, I'm good, I feel good, and then you go throughout your day and you just get triggered or upset from you know whatever be a customer or yeah, or just feeling down about how the market is or something.
Speaker 3:I'm sure it's similar, yeah yeah, because it's not just a kid. I'm sure you have very demanding clients parents right yeah, they, we all see it at everywhere, right it's? Like hey, it's like there's certain demands that need to happen, and do they occur or not?
Speaker 1:And are the parents tougher or the kids I?
Speaker 2:Think the toughest is the is the actual business. Oh, it's just the inter workings of the business is like the most frustrating and difficult piece, right, I think there's there's the staff, and then there's the, the kids, and then there's the business. You know, yeah, and that those things don't always match up right, like what's good for the business isn't always good for the staff or isn't always good for the clients, and I think the toughest thing is finding an equilibrium, like a healthy, balanced place where the business is good, the staff is good and the kids are good.
Speaker 2:It's hard, it's hard, it's hard to have that balance of like we're here to help people and we're here to make money and we're here to treat our staff well. Show me somebody that's perfected it Like I'd love for somebody to give me some, that would be utopia right, do you?
Speaker 1:have like a leadership team or anything to help you out with that.
Speaker 2:For sure Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like that's a lot on one person, yeah, and yeah, I'm definitely not alone.
Speaker 2:I mean, I have people that I've, you know, a team of managers and then a team, you know, executive team above them even Great. So it's just, it's hard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, but it sounds like, and it sounds like from conversations we've had in kind of have like the leverage kind of down Once upon a time. I know you were kind of balancing that out, or is that not? Correct me if I'm wrong?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Sometimes we think we have stuff figured out and we don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't One minute later, right I?
Speaker 2:feel like that's the other thing just about. You know, being a business owner is like one day you think I've got everything figured out and like I'm'm like everything is so solid and my future is like so it's gonna be so great and like everything's so amazing, and then the next day you're like I'm gonna be bankrupt everything. Yeah, I don't know how to do this. Yeah, that is just like is this?
Speaker 1:I don't know I think, that's just how it is it's funny you say that, yeah, because I'll. When I have those moments now I'm like, oh man, everything's going swell. I kind of go like uh-oh, chill out humble yourself a little.
Speaker 2:Something's gonna happen, like it's usually sick when you think like your shit doesn't stink and like you know, everything and everything's fine, like you're not as aware of, maybe, things you should be tending to or paying attention to, and it bites you in the ass and then you're back to where you were you know or not back to where you were, but it's always like a few steps forward, yeah steps back, and that's just.
Speaker 3:You have to be okay with that. Yeah, so I've never asked you, but now I'm thinking about it. It's like so what's the most rewarding and the most challenging part of your business life? Good question, yeah, I can't believe I haven't asked you this before. We have long dinners too. Our dinners are like two, three hours.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't think about that question. I mean, I think that the most rewarding is just being able to help kids, you know. And that can be challenging, like because, like again, like helping people costs money, you know, and like if I'm not careful with how I utilize the resources, like I'm helping so much but then I'm losing money, right, that's for business.
Speaker 3:I don't know most of them weren't like.
Speaker 2:I met a kid kid, I gave him a tour, I loved the kid, he was the sweetest kid and, um, the grandma was really sweet and and then just kind of started talking about their, their situation in life and, yeah, and mom, you know not in a good, in a good place, with their health, she had cancer and just the whole thing and and I just was so connected to them in that moment. And the kid wanted to come to summer camp and I was like all right, you can come all summer long and it's free, and moments like that where I can just ignore that it's a bad business decision to give away what's like thousands of dollars to one kid when there's lots of people that maybe I could help or choose to help. You need a me what's that?
Speaker 3:like john has me and it's like, yeah, because it's like, then it kind of they go through the process, yeah, but john's very giving and I'm like no, this doesn't make sense, you know, or just anything I feel that yeah, no, and I'm looking at finances and sometimes it's just ten dollars. It's like oh, nope, and I do, and I do have that for sure. Oh, do you have someone?
Speaker 2:okay, good, because it's very important, because yeah, yeah, kelly, who like runs the entire operations. She's always giving me that, you know, rational side.
Speaker 3:But she also encourages me to do the things that I want to do.
Speaker 2:You know like I think it was like 3500 or something that I gave away. Well, meanwhile we're like scraping pennies and like trying to tighten down every corner. Yeah, and I go and do something that is like that, but that is what's most rewarding to me. I guess the answer, yeah, is just being able to like, disregard everything and just help someone yeah, yeah, when it doesn't even make sense yeah so do you.
Speaker 3:So I feel like that's the most rewarding and challenging, but you can answer both.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's good answer. Yeah, so have you had any cool events that you've had over the last year, or some events are gonna be coming out in the future that you can let our audience know?
Speaker 2:One cool one I'm working on is called. It's a friendship speed dating event. Oh, that's cool. And so we're gonna in a collaboration with the organization called Best Buddies and Feet of Southern Nevada. But you know, we work on all these social and communication skills for our students because they struggle to make friends or they don't have a friend in their life. Right, they are lonely and isolated and their life is pretty much going to school and going to therapies and being at home in your room playing video games.
Speaker 2:You know yeah um, and so we want to do this event where the kids will get a chance, just like a typical speed dating, where they're sit in chairs and they will rotate and they will get a chance to ask a bunch of questions, get to know someone across the chair from them.
Speaker 1:I'd be good at this. No way, they would just sit down and see me all the time.
Speaker 3:I'm like I had one more question. Anybody that knows me, I ask a lot of questions. That is just my nature. I have to know. I've always been this way.
Speaker 2:It's such a good way to connect and understand other people right. We teach our students to ask a lot of questions about the other person because it makes the other person feel reinforced when someone's asking about you and then you get to know who that person is and eventually you find something, some sort of shared interest, and then you connect and make a friend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, that's great, I love that because yeah, I was shy as a kid, so something like that would have been huge for me. And I'm very like 101. I like to connect and have that conversation. I'm assuming I was similar as a kid, but that would have been huge for me so you're like a social butterfly.
Speaker 2:I'm not so I love that. That's cool.
Speaker 3:So we still working on the details of it, but um should be pretty cool include us with anything that needs promotion or just shout outs or even attending whatever it is. Yeah, I feel like I always tell you this and I know we're all really busy, but this is one of the few things that I'm like oh, this is really cool. I'm not inspired by a lot of things, but Social is definitely inspiring, for sure.
Speaker 1:So I know you told some stories, but you have any other fun stories, anything you want to share? I want to hear about the ice cream truck there we go well because it's so cool to design. If you guys haven't checked it out and does it travel like to like?
Speaker 3:first Friday, like I have all these questions.
Speaker 1:This whole I said I was going to bring out that.
Speaker 3:I'm like that's actually a good concept.
Speaker 2:All right, it's all right. So it's called Alien Ice Cream. Why Some people are like why did you buy an ice cream truck? Why did you do that? Why not? The answer is because I wanted to.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:Sports social is a reflection of me and my childhood, right it's been. My goal is trying to recreate all the things that I love to do, the childhood I had, and share it with all these kids right, I don't know about you but when I was a kid like I, playing outside and you hear the ice cream truck come on, like Just happiness.
Speaker 2:And then you're like yeah, you're outside, playing in the tree or riding a bike, and then you go to get ice cream. Like those are some of my happiest moments as a kid. Our mission at Sports Social is happiness and friendship. And like what better way to help spread happiness and friendship with this community than have an ice cream truck? Yeah, and so it's an opportunity for us to get Sports Social into the community and to share who we are and what we do better than showing up a little booth and table right again, right, that's cool yeah, there's traditional ways you can teach a kid.
Speaker 2:Put them in a classroom, right. There's traditional ways you can share your information with people. You can put them at a table at a booth and you can talk about yourself. Or there's more creative ways, and so our ice cream truck is a creative way to share who we are with the community. It's also an opportunity for our graduated vocational program students to have a paying job selling the ice cream Nice, and then we sell all gluten-free, dairy-free and dye-free ice cream.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, a lot of those with a non-cism diagnosis. That is so you. I love that, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Also, it's me right.
Speaker 3:I want other things. I want to eat, but also those with autism special needs diagnosis. Many have like a special diet that excludes those things.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, it's awful, okay, so it's there, so is the ice cream truck in front of sports.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, okay, and it's there. From what time or what time?
Speaker 2:uh, no, it's only open for it's specifically to be booked for specific events and times it's not just like we're not driving around the neighborhoods.
Speaker 3:It's not open all the time I thought, for some reason it was like in front of the booths as they came in, because you have a coffee shop too. Yeah, we still have a coffee shop, and that's all day. It is out front.
Speaker 2:No, the coffee shop is also open during select times where we have students running it.
Speaker 3:There are specific times where we have guys. So I want to get a copy. What time would that go?
Speaker 2:Saturday or Sunday morning.
Speaker 3:Okay, perfect, all right, cool.
Speaker 1:And then the ice cream, ice cream truck is Do you have some events coming up where this ice cream truck's going to be at?
Speaker 2:Tomorrow we're going downtown to a low-income area with a collaboration of an organization called Nevada Youth Network, okay, and we're giving out free ice creams and skateboard lessons in their neighborhood.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:And so we're just doing random different things. Yeah, you know, um, we have an event coming up, so just different, and you organize the events, or do I like? I'm like, hey, I have an event and I can hire yeah, you can hire it To pull it like a cool open house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a luxury list. Yeah, really nice. We got an open house this weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really yeah, yeah, yeah it will be.
Speaker 3:Well, that's all I want to do, so, okay, all right. Well, yeah, no, no, no, okay, cool, yeah, I just needed a little clarity on that. Okay, very cool, and then people are confused by it.
Speaker 2:So thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I wasn't sure. I just thought like maybe it was just there at all times and I'm like, oh, that's cool, as kids are coming in, they're buying ice cream, maybe on the way and their way out. But yeah, okay, that makes more sense, it does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fun. You know, when you're got a little you don't seem like you'd have a lot of time off. But when you do get a little time off, yeah, what do you like to do? Um?
Speaker 2:just check out different restaurants in town. There's lots of different great restaurants in here. Like to eat at exercise, trying to do those healthy things like running and yoga and pilates. I like to leave the city and go travel to the beach or something often Cool. Are you a foodie? I guess, so I don't know. I'm vegetarian, so I'm a little more restricted.
Speaker 3:We found some really good places. Yeah, yeah, I would never be vegetarian, but I'm like the places we go to. I'm like these are really good. Yeah, saffron, I think, was my favorite, but I saw there was a a new restaurant that opened up and I was actually gonna send it to you, so we'll try that out next. It looks really pretty. I have no clue. I have to look for it. I save everything on my Instagram and then I'm like, oh, let's go here.
Speaker 1:It's called.
Speaker 3:NowCliff.
Speaker 2:I can't retain it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I can't remember.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 3:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:Do you have any restaurants you can recommend, because I'm sure there's a lot of other vegetarians out there?
Speaker 2:Well, my favorite is we're a Thai.
Speaker 3:I eat there maybe times a week, la Littai. Yeah, oh, it's called.
Speaker 2:We're a Thai. Oh yeah, we're a Thai. We're a Thai. Okay, there's one on Rainbow in 215 area over here. So good, I love the Italian restaurant called Amari.
Speaker 1:Have you been there? No, yes, where's that? It's in the Uncomments. Buddy, we just went One of our guests there.
Speaker 3:I'm not good with names either, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went with. Yes, I have been there, yeah.
Speaker 3:It's is pretty good too, oh god yeah that's silly.
Speaker 1:Are you traveling? I see you say you like go beaches. Do you have any travel plans coming up or like destinations you like to go to or any cool spots?
Speaker 2:I love Newport, it's like my favorite place to be I also love Carmel. It's like a little further on the coast Carmel is really nice I want to take you.
Speaker 3:That's part of the road trip that I told you about. It looks like a whole other little town, carmel, by the sea yeah, we'll get there.
Speaker 1:Feels like anything on the coast is great, yeah have you been to solvang?
Speaker 3:uh-uh, okay, so all in california as well. So if you like little towns like that, look european. Yeah, solvang would be where to go, oh cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll check it out, yeah I'm not.
Speaker 3:I'll send you the link. I went there and I thought it was the most beautiful little town ever. It's like yeah, so so what else is new for you? It's like we haven't seen you a little bit, so I feel like a lot what else is new?
Speaker 1:yeah, what is going on last?
Speaker 3:yeah, what's going on in your a little in your personal life, not like private life, but just new aspirations or even sports social. Is there going to be a second sports social in a different city?
Speaker 1:yeah, what are your goals? Like what?
Speaker 2:are your dreams, your ambitions, your desires my goal long term is to buy a hotel and operate something in like mexico. I'd love a hotel on the beach. That's like health, health focused um the road. I'm not sure where yet, but I love Mexico and I love Cancun side. I love all of Mexico. I love Mexican people. They're so respectful and just hardworking. I just love the Mexican culture. We are why. Thank you.
Speaker 3:It's just such a happy culture. The music, it's just everyone's like.
Speaker 2:They like cervezas, they like cervezas, I like cervezas. They also like to like. Not follow rules like you want to build it, you want to make it like, okay, just build it, you know, put a second story in your house like who cares? I love like that, but everyone's hustlers if you think you can do it, like just do it you know like that like yeah, everyone's hustlers, that's when we were in mexico city.
Speaker 3:Well, we traveled quite a bit in mexico, but it was yeah, everybody has their own little like business right. So you're like really hustling and you got to stand out and you got to make those connections. So there's a lot. I like that retreat idea. We were just talking about that. I feel like I need a reset in my life right now and that would be cool. I literally told him I'm like I think I need to go to like to a shaman or something like you know, just a three-day retreat somewhere but now they do have those all relaxation yoga the pilates.
Speaker 3:All of it in one hotel. It's these beautiful places like tulum that'd be really cool.
Speaker 1:yeah, In Mexico there's a lot of places. The customer service down there is just insane. You want anything? I've never heard a no in Mexico. It's whatever you want, they figure it out.
Speaker 2:A little more authentic than the customer service in Vegas. Yeah, we have great customer service here, but it's not as real.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it's gone down.
Speaker 2:Don't even get me started After.
Speaker 3:It's not as real. Yeah, I think it's gone down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't even get me started After the pandemic it's really shifted right, and you're right because, like in Mexico, they want to talk to you and have conversation, have build relationship. It's a totally different experience. So it's and you see the work ethic which you appreciate. It's kind of, yeah, things have changed in our culture a lot, yeah.
Speaker 3:All right, is there anything you want to leave them with? Any event, anything you just have to throw out there, something that will help you promote. We've got a job fair coming up Saturday June 7th.
Speaker 2:If you're already a registered behavior technician or if you want to become one, you can come out meet our team. You can come skateboard play, basketball play in the the music room, just have fun and then see if we're the right fit for you and talk about what the next steps would be for for employment awesome collaborate with us on Instagram, we'll promote it as well, to our clients price on email yeah, if you ever need, yeah, yeah, so okay, all right, but we're gonna.
Speaker 1:We're gonna wrap this up want to thank my co-host, george. If you're a parent out there and you have a kid that could use these services, hit Andrew up. It's great service. You guys run Vegas. Take care of yourselves today.