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Rebuilding Hope After Disaster: Jeremy Barker's Journey from Addiction to Advocacy Pt 2
The aftermath of disaster often reveals the most profound aspects of humanity—our capacity for resilience, generosity, and connection. In this deeply moving conversation, disaster relief volunteer Jeremy Barker opens his heart about the transformative journey that began when he abandoned his fishing plans and $70,000 in savings to help rebuild a storm-ravaged community in Barnardsville, North Carolina.
Jeremy's story unfolds with raw honesty as he describes how what started as building emergency sheds has evolved into creating a community retreat center—a place for healing, connection, and renewal. "This place is more than just where we build sheds," he reflects. "This is a retreat and a place where we've built infrastructure to serve the community."
The challenges are immense—from coordinating volunteers from across the country to installing proper septic systems, managing Airbnb properties for displaced homeowners, and preparing fields for regrowth. Yet through these obstacles, Jeremy finds unexpected rewards. He shares vulnerable insights about the difficulty of taking days off: "Your brain will not let you take a day off. The only thing to fix it is to get out there and deliver a couple sheds, hug somebody—it recharges you."
Perhaps most powerful is Jeremy's reflection on the relationships formed through disaster response: "The biggest reward in this whole thing is the relationships I've built." From local community members to fellow volunteers and the remarkable response from the shed industry nationwide, these connections have become the beating heart of recovery efforts.
Looking ahead, Jeremy sees this experience not as an endpoint but as preparation: "This is a training field. We're just being set up for the next thing we're going to have to deliver and help." His perspective transforms disaster response from a temporary intervention into part of a longer journey of service.
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Welcome back to part two of a two-part episode. Be sure to go back and listen to part one. You might've missed something. Hope you enjoy the conversation today.
Jeremy:This is a Airbnb house, you know, and it rents for about $185 to $200 a night. It's got a jacuzzi, big screened in porch. I can sleep eight people over here. You know, it's one bathroom, but it's nice.
Sam:But he's not going to rent it because he's not got a bridge built back.
Jeremy:He ain't got a bridge built back. So I worked out a deal. You know with them from the beginning that I would pay all the power, all the Internet, and you know, give them a little bit of money here and there. And you know, and I've been true to that and able to do that through donations, you know what I mean Keep all the power bill and stuff paid, because I don't want them paying out of their pocket for our operation to run around here. You know what I mean. And I keep volunteers up there in the white house. Anybody that's come and stayed, you know, uh, up there, uh, oh, the Daniel cane, he, he loved that house up there.
Jeremy:He liked, he liked that house up there when he come hauled and uh you know, yeah, you know, everybody's been staying in the houses and they ain't making no money, so they had their first paying customer come in this week, that's great.
Jeremy:And, uh, so we got that house. I got the house cleaned up and put back online last week. Uh, after volunteers left, I straightened it up and put it back online and we got it rented. So they got them a little bit of money for that.
Jeremy:And those folks come in and they asked me. They said what's it cost to build a shed? You know, we see what you're doing here. And I told them I told them it's about $7,000, $8,000, you know to finish one and they said they want to pay to furnish one. Airbnb finish one. They said they want to, they want to pay to furnish. So, uh, clients, yeah, airbnb clients. So over the past you know about 72 hours with john here coming, the videographer that you sent my way I've discovered that this place is more than just a place where we build sheds and we store sheds and finish sheds. This is a retreat and this is a a place that we have built infrastructure and made an investment to serve the community and, uh, people can come and use it as a retreat and, uh, a way to get closer to god, get closer to yourself, get closer to the earth, whatever, be able to give back and help.
Jeremy:And you know, uh, we're gonna, I'm, I'm. Uh, we got a new idea of being bored, john. He's like I can't stay here much longer because you don't have a plan at fitness. Yeah, he's like every place with this type of situation needs a gym. So we're gonna, we're gonna build a gym now and uh, we're gonna have a gym here on the farm and uh, people can come and work out and the airbnbs uh will be more successful. But my main goal, to get back to the farm, is this man's 75 years old. He worked all his life to have this. The storm come through here and destroyed his pastures he had.
Jeremy:He had about 15 acres worth of pasture before the storm and now he's cut in about two, three acres past. You see how small it is. Horses ain't gonna be able to eat on that grass this summer. So, uh, we're having to move our campers over here and rearrange all that and that field is going to be minimized down. They're going to pull the fence to the road goes here. The fence is going to go down the side of the road. So everything on the left side is fair game. But the right side, where our campers are at now, is going to have to be cleaned off and we're going to have to reseed that for grass.
Jeremy:And we're working to get these Airbnbs back up and going. We're working to get these Airbnbs back up and going and I'm hopeful that I can transition out of this place by May 1st and we'll have some kind of bridge in here. But they've gotten the run around. The bridge is stuck in Iowa due to a DOT flagging. So driver got flagged, had an industry injury working on an airline on his brake booster. Air hose come off his brake booster whipped him in the face. He's a truck at a truck stop in the parking lot.
Jeremy:You know what that's like. And then he's got a 90 foot bridge behind him. Dot flags him out. He's got all the permits set from all the way from Missouri all the way out here. So now he's stuck and uh, David and Amber, they don't know what to do to bail him out. Johnny said that if we could get a confirmation that he would drop the load there, that he would make sure that he found somebody to go get it or he would go get it himself.
Sam:Yeah, um, you know, we would find a driver.
Jeremy:You know that yep, so, uh, we're waiting to hear back on that now. But that's the deal with the bridge, but, uh, just trying to help these folks out, uh, that's helped us so much and um, yep you know, we've got the bathhouse and the bunkhouse, thanks to you, you know, and uh, everything you've done to make that happen through thanksgiving, and uh, I was just. You know, I've gotten in. This morning I met a guy that come out. I'm no longer waiting on, uh, a homemade septic system.
Jeremy:We have hired a company and we're having a septic system will be installed next Monday, not this Monday but next Monday. And Mr Greg Horncold that you've seen today, he's raising money. He's raising money for that. So the guy come out he's like look, I'm not charging any labor, he's like, but you got to buy the tank and the materials and you know my machine fee and all that. He. He said it'll be under two grand, but we're gonna get that put in there for you.
Jeremy:So, uh, and it's gonna be legal, he's gonna permit it and everything so well, I've done right and that's a good thing because, especially with what we've gone through with the power company, I still got the power company after me trying to charge me 5800 for chopping that line with the excavator. But I asked them. I said you ready to get on the news Because I am? I said when everybody knows what you're trying to do to me and they find out what I've been doing for the people up here, you're going to be in big trouble. I got calls from them but I'm not worried about him. I told you know the farmer and his wife. I said if it comes down to them trying to charge you and make you pay for it, uh, I'll take full responsibility for it.
Sam:But as the story goes.
Jeremy:Now we don't know where them volunteers was come from and come here and cut that line on that excavator. It got cut by a volunteer and that's it. We're trying to help people and we're going to move forward.
Jeremy:But we've destroyed this man's farm and spring's coming. I've got to get some grass growing. I've got to get transition. I've got a group of guys. I don't know the name of their outfit, but they said they're a pretty big manufacturing outfit in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest. They're sending nine guys seven days. They said they want to build 20.
Jeremy:I said well, I don't know if I got the material for that. They're like oh, don't worry about it, we'll figure it out a way, we'll get some material. They've never been here. I'm pretty familiar with the Pacific Northwest. I travel there pretty frequently and those are some hard working people and they're coming out here and we're going to build sheds here. Hopefully they're coming in. They're coming in for sure on the 13th and leaving the 19th. So they're excited, they're pumped up. They've been following along with the journey. They've got mad respect for you.
Sam:We've got some guys from Pennsylvania too right, and Ohio's bringing guys back again.
Jeremy:Yep, the Yoder is coming back tomorrow but Mark's coming by himself from Ohio. And then I've got some people coming in from Texas, a family of four, older son, dad, mom. They're all in the remodeling business anyway and they're going to be. I'm going to pair them up with Mark and they are going to work on Monday and Tuesday getting our own site build down there, the 36-footer, uh, insulated and paneled. Because, uh, I've got to a firm plat line with the organization next door, the community center. That, hey, all we bargained for was a structure that was insulated, wired and paneled, just like the shits. We can't go build a bathroom, a kitchen, none of that. Our budget doesn't entail that.
Sam:We've already blowed the budget actually and uh introducing the challenger,
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Jeremy:We're going to do that and stand beside them, because this new organization is using that as a kind of a bellwether of what we've done and they're like, if we could do more of this, this is where we need to fundraise for.
Jeremy:So I've got to kind of complete it, you know. But they did get the driveway fixed so we can drive up there. So I've got that group yeah, I've got that group scheduled up this week to work on that. And then, you know, the following week the guys from Pennsylvania are coming in. But the guy he told me today he's like I don't have a way to transport the hemlock and I don't have but just me and somebody else coming. Is there going?
Jeremy:to be other volunteers. So I'm like well, that's the hard part of juggling volunteers is making sure that you got enough people to work with each other, you know or I just think I'm the old fort to finish sheds.
Jeremy:Regardless, we got plenty of work for them to do, but yeah you know, the volunteer thing I think is is going to change in the spring. I think we're going to get some more people that's going to come in and help us finish up this thing. Uh, I'm believing in that and I'm looking towards the future of transitioning into fixing some of the houses and trying to help other people do things, and if that don't work, I'm going to go back to fixing the land with Tim. Uh, you know one way or another, but, uh, I've got the farm here and you know, um, we've made it. We've made a big effort on building what we've built, so we're not we didn't do all this and come this way to pack up and go home and then I got people still calling me you touched on.
Sam:I want to talk about um before we end this one too, and that is we don't just need carpenters, we still need guys with skid steers, track hose. There's plenty of cleanup work that can still be done, and there's also carpentry work that can be done outside of sheds.
Jeremy:That Eastern Shore Fencing Company was a role model in showing what you can do by just sending your skid steers and a little bit of your labor down here. I mean, I've got 25 debris piles separated metal, uh, scrap metal. Hard metal, uh tin metal, uh brush. Debris. Car parts uh Mr. Carson's uh 40 by 60 metal building that was in a kit that blew all over the field down here. They gathered up all that stuff and put it in piles. They helped Tim, they helped Carl, they helped Mr. Larry that passed away down the street down here. All that in four days' time.
Sam:Yeah, they killed it.
Jeremy:They did good Love it and I think, if you've got equipment sitting around and you're slow, you need to come down here and see what we're seeing, to feel what we feel. And, like I touched on before, we've worked our whole lives. We've all worked since we was young boys. I've been working since I was 12 years old and I got my rest of my life to work, because I'll never be able to quit. No, but I've never had an opportunity to do nothing like this.
Jeremy:Yeah, this is my first time storm trooping. You know, I've never done this before, but I made a vow to myself when I was 18 years old. I was a power lineman. I was down, kat, and I looked to the people down there and I couldn't do nothing for them people and I always said, god, if you ever put me in a position where I'm financially stable and a storm comes through and I can go, I'm gonna go. And when this storm hit, I just finished two of the biggest jobs I'd ever done in my life. I had probably about 70 000 in the bank and, uh, I was planning on the month of October, fishing the outer banks. Yeah, November and December I was going to build me a shop and we don't have we.
Jeremy:I ain't done none of it and I blowed all the money.
Sam:I know I know, oh it's crazy.
Jeremy:I put another tarp over my shed last week before I left, I put another tarp on, so that's five tarps. I got strapped across my 20, uh, my 12 by 24 at home. That's got all my tools and our great grandfather sentiments inside of it.
Jeremy:You know and uh, I, I know god's gonna provide I look at that red garage on the way out of the, out of the farm, every day I'm like I need to clean that sucker out and bring up some of my stuff and put it in here until I get done. Or I said better yet, I'm going to buy that shed, I'm going to buy that thing Before it's over with. I'm going to buy or have whoever built it build me one identical to it.
Sam:I don't want to call that thing the Gastonia.
Jeremy:Hey, I'm going to tell you what I will solve my problems when I get these problems solved up here.
Sam:Thank you.
Jeremy:I'm not worried about my problems because the more and more I talk to people and they cry out to me, the more it fuels me to be here.
Jeremy:Yes, and then when I look at you and I'm like Sam don't have to be here, Sam can go do anything he wants. And I was like, as long as somebody else is up here, so I know that I ain't the only one. That's crazy, I won't. I won't think I'll ever quit. People ask me every day. They're like, how are you gonna do it? How's he gonna survive? I'm like all it takes is me to build one good bathroom yep I can finish this and you'll build one good bathroom.
Jeremy:And jump back on my feet.
Sam:Thank you.
Jeremy:I ain't worried about it, because we got the rest of our life to work.
Sam:We do these people.
Jeremy:Up here. It's getting warm. People are asking for air conditions Now. People's wanting their sheds moved back and forth, move around. I've got a list of mule work that I could do. I could put a mule on that little trailer and go ride around for 15 hours just moving sheds around.
Sam:Yeah, I got the same issue starting now. They all want to move. It's like come on, guys.
Jeremy:We're going to continue, Sam. I'm proud to be with you Before we jump off here. I know a lot of shed guys that I've met, like Colin and Dale Neuschwanger and Daniel Cain and Johnny and all them. They've touched my heart.
Sam:Yeah.
Jeremy:They have touched my heart. They are the true definition of we, the people. I mean me and Colin. We deliver sheds at midnight, Mr.
Sam:Carl's shed. I still got the pictures. Mr Carl's shed was delivered in the dark, in the dark, and I just think about it.
Jeremy:I think about the camaraderie that you guys hold. At first it made me jealous of how my brotherhood, my industry is and I'm like you know we put flooring in every one of these sheds. But you know how many, how many of the installers, local installers in N orth Carolina has come to help me one one.
Sam:He's a good dude the rest of them.
Jeremy:they're like I ain't coming over here putting lvp in sheds. We got tile and set we making money. We $100 an hour. We can't stop on our knee pads for free.
Sam:I do the same thing. Just for the record, we have plenty of those also. We just have a really good batch of superstars. I don't know if you knew this or not, but Calvin was down yesterday and today. Mr Shirk, yeah.
Jeremy:Hey. I missed you I know you touched my heart.
Sam:I know he touched your heart. That's why I brought him up. I had him down in Old Fort. He came in yesterday afternoon. He brought two sheds down for me from Virginia. Yesterday afternoon he brought two sheds down for me from uh Virginia, that another. Their competition donated two sheds and uh carl's, uh Calvin's boss, josh helmuth, said, yeah, you can haul them down there. Um, so Calvin brought them down, delivered both of those yesterday, went to hendersonville this morning, picked up two army sheds, went and delivered them, delivered another Indiana shed for me and then did a Cajun Navy shed that's going to be a permanent one tonight. And now he's headed back. He's driving home tonight because he wants to beat this storm home.
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Sam:Wow, you can't, you can't. I'm telling you, man. So that's what I'm. This is what I want to end with. You just led straight into it. The biggest, the other, other than blessing the socks off of survivors, which we have been able to do over and over again, my biggest reward in this whole thing is the relationships I've built. Would you agree with that, or what do you see?
Jeremy:Well, it's like Mr Carl, we set that shed that night. He walked into breakfast place the next day and he's calling me right now. He's calling Ever since that next day. We've been, we've been like this and he tells everybody. He said that man come in the last bit of my time where I give me hope, and he said he helped. He helped restore my hope and, uh, the least thing I can do is show up for him and help him and the relationships that I've built here.
Jeremy:Everybody in Gastonia knows me because I'm the preacher's grandson and I was an avid motorcycle man for many years, so everybody knows me. I can't learn anything new or plant any new seeds in Gastonia. I feel like when I walk into a room here that people are proud to have me here and they're grateful for everything we're doing. And I had about nine to 12 people ask me why ain't Sam here with you tonight? I said I'll come on behalf of both of us. That's right and that shows me respect that we've gained from the community. And one day we're going to have to get old and I always loved the mountains and I'll probably end up in the mountains one day.
Jeremy:And I sure want some of these people, yeah, to remember what we've done for them, and I've had people try to give me land up here, miss gail uh miss obama.
Jeremy:She, she offered to give us two acres of land for us to put an operation on up here, and I told her I couldn't take it. I said you got to figure out what the minimum donation is that I'll give you and I'll do you a park in front of it on the creek bank for your, your late husband that passed away in honor of him, and the storm and everything. Blah, blah, blah. But I got to pay for it. I've had Mr. Carson open this farm up. I've had the ladies down at the breakfast place feed me and they don't deliver food to nobody's table except for mine. I got the women at twisted laurel taking care of me feed me. I can walk into a place and I show appreciation.
Jeremy:Um the relationships are important. Sam uh no, we, when you post that about that trailer the other day. Like I told you, we've delivered a lot of hope with this, that trailer yes yeah, well, we took that thing out last week. I didn't want to touch on something. I needed to deliver sheds last week because I needed that. I didn't do it to hang out with Johnny. I need that because that restores my hope. That builds me back up. That recharges me.
Sam:That's like doing a big old line and being recharged right there and with the energy of the world we should do a Facebook live on this part, because people are constantly telling us we need to take a day or two off, or three days off, and you and I wholeheartedly agree on this. Days off terrible, because your brain will not let you take a day off. And when you're on a day off, you're sitting back at the house. That's when it just starts rolling around in your head over and over again and the only thing to fix it is to get out there and deliver a couple sheds insulated shed. Do something, hug somebody, do you, and it recharges you yes I told you told you last Sunday.
Jeremy:I said I'm going on. You said you're going to go be a mechanic, put a rear end in a recliner. I said yeah, but about eight hours after that I was wearing the recliner out, getting up and out of it, up and out of it, up and out of it because I couldn't sit still. And then by the next day, the calls and the focus and my mind going to what's going on up here, and then having John up here. John, you know, I was like I'm going back. The minute he released that video and tagged me in it and I watched it. You're gone. I was packing my tools back up. I was ready to go.
Jeremy:I you know I done went and swapped the trucks. I went and rechecked my truck in and figured out I wasn't getting another one so I had to take all my tools out and then I put them back in there. But I was like I'm ready to go and as soon as I got up here opened the door up at that camper and he was in there and I got him and took him and we went and done some more interviews. A whole burden had lifted off of me, like now you can rest, amen. And today I did. I read. I got up this morning and went and met the airbnb customers that said they wanted to make that donation and give them the information and all that stuff and give them business car. I went down there and got breakfast, brought my breakfast back to the house, I went back to bed nice and I'm like, yeah, I gotta learn this.
Jeremy:I gotta learn to rest up here so I don't have to burden myself with going home to rest. Uh, because there's still a lot of work up here, you know, and um, I you know this is okay. I got a lady know she already got a shed from us. Now she's telling me where my autistic son has to come home. I need another shed.
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Jeremy:And I'm working through that and trying to figure out that. I got this lady in a meeting the night crying during the meeting. You know, come and sit beside me interrupted the whole daggone meeting just so I'd see how serious she was. I'm like I know how serious you are.
Jeremy:I'm helping, but those little things are the reason why we're here. That's why God brought us here. That's why he brought forth your industry and all the great shed haulers and the people involved in the industry and the people in the manufacturing and uh, you know, the people that's cultivating your industry. Everybody is seen and brought into the light of what we're doing here, all because of what you're doing, Sam, and I believe there's a reason all behind this, and I believe that we are all disciples and I believe that god brought us together for a reason, because there's something bigger. And this is not where we end.
Jeremy:This is a training field. We're just being set up for the next thing that we're going to have to deliver and help. You've done disasters before. God's used you again to come back and he equipped you even better than the last tornado or hurricane. You went on and you learned and you progressed and I seen it as true professional man. Gotta have two, three trailers, two trucks, tears up stuff.
Jeremy:I'm gonna be ready before the next, yeah you know what I mean I'm looking, I'm I'm looking to uh set myself up because I know what we're doing. Here is not the end of it and I know all this storm is biblical and people talk about the government did this and the government did that, and I don't take that here is not the end of it and I know all this storm is biblical and people talk about the government did this and the government did that, and I don't take that credit away from my God. No, I don't like it, and I believe that there's more to this.
Sam:And you know I just there's more opportunity.
Jeremy:I think we're here for a reason and, uh, we need to be true testaments and, uh, faithful servants and uh, good, uh, examples of, uh, what tradesmen and craftsmen supposed to be. You know what I mean. And uh, I've been around tools and equipment, I've drove anything I could drive a tank. I've drove trucks. I went in my first storm and I didn't even have my CDL license, I just had a permit and I drove a Drigger down to Katrina, down to New Orleans, and I hauled a load of 80-foot poles on that truck with no license and run 50 mile an hour all the way down there, wide open. And I've been in trucking, I've been in excavating, I've been in grading, I've been in building industrial. You know, I grew up with a painter, a heating and air man and a plumber.
Jeremy:You, know, and my papa's and everybody's has instilled everything into me. If anybody was equipped to come here that was versatile, it was me. I tell everybody there's a reason why he sent me here. I just ain't figured it out yet and uh, I gotta say I couldn't ask for a better person to done all this with than you, Sam Ballard.
Sam:It's been great.
Jeremy:You'll be a friend forever.
Sam:You'll be a friend forever, you said something one day and I said yeah, but we're going to get old together, so there's no worries there.
Jeremy:I know that's right.
Sam:Well, I have this one stuck up on the side of a mountain over there somewhere, somewhere. You and Mr Johnny got to run up the mountain and finish up for me.
Jeremy:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was another amazing thing. You know that man, his wife died and he got remarried, and you know, I couldn't imagine losing a spouse.
Sam:No I can't.
Jeremy:I don't know what I would do Because I've been with mine too long. I see it up here.
Sam:Yeah, we do yeah.
Jeremy:I see it.
Sam:What do you want to put out there to the shed industry?
Jeremy:Yeah, other than my gratitude, um, and my thanks for all of you stepping up, uh, from the manufacturers back to Amos and Alvin that put together the load of barns, and the other manufacturers that have raised money on their own build a load of barns, hauled them down here, the main, the haulers that have borrowed rigs or brought their own rigs or use their company rigs to come here.
Jeremy:Um, the materials, uh, the the donations. A lot of people in your industry have donated. Uh, it's like I told johnny, you know, uh, he started supporting me right off the bat and helped me out, sent me money several times you know, just to keep me funded and, uh, that meant a lot to me and for him to show up last week.
Jeremy:It even just showed me even more confidence, so of what we're doing. But as far as the shed industry goes, I'm in awe of the performance and progress of all of you and I'm thankful, and if anybody ever needs any bathroom work, I can help you out.
Jeremy:I don't know how I can help you guys. I don't know how I can help you guys. I'm just looking at it and you know, who knows, who knows where I'll be in a year. You know I got some ideas about bathrooms and sheds and all that, but I won't dig into it right now. We'll talk about it later but uh, later, absolutely yep but I'm thankful for all of you guys.
Jeremy:Um, yep and I, and and we're begging from the bottom of our heart that we need more haulers, maybe the way that some of you guys fundraised and gathered the materials and the funds to build a load of barns. Instead of doing that, send a driver down. Send a driver down and let us pay for fuel, uh, and just donate your time and your rig so we can, um, we can, get these people taken care of.
Sam:We can complete this mission you know, I have two drivers right now that will give me, will give me uh, thursday through saturdays, if somebody can help them raise some money for fuel.
Jeremy:Yeah, I've seen that Chad.
Sam:Mapps.
Jeremy:Yeah, Chad Mapps.
Sam:He said he'd want to help and we've got. I've got 20 sheds. In Memphis, Tennessee, we've got 20 sheds where they're 10 by 16 to 12 by 32s that they said if we come get them, they'll make sure every rig leaves loaded. We've got sheds. I feel like I'm juggling three bowling balls because I need sheds, I need my sheds finished and I need my sheds hauled.
Sam:They're all important, but every once in a while, one of them gets more important than the others, and right now it's it's, you know, right now it's haulers. We get five guys here next week. The following week it'll be sheds again. Um, because we got a long way to go, um I'm not here.
Jeremy:You got stock in in in old fort and, uh, you know, I got more guys coming in to build and I think it's lucrative. We get some haulers in here and you know, I've I've uh I've been in the process of looking. I need a. I need a uh, three-quarter ton, one ton diesel truck bad, like yesterday. Uh, I've been, I've been haggling back and forth on this 22 um uh ram, uh, tradesman, yeah, it's a nice 70 000 mile truck. You know I got the guy down to 41 000 on it. I can get it. Uh, it's uh, you know something that's far-fetched for me, but I would like to uh eventually have me a trailer that I could haul some sheds on a short trailer. I don't want nothing that extends out and stretches, but I do want to acquire me a smaller trailer that I can do it, because I've watched enough and I've played with it enough. I think I can do it, you know and.
Jeremy:I know I can drive oh yeah. But the thing is is, I think, hauling and getting the inventory out of here, like we've done, you know, last week, uh means a lot, uh and uh getting them to their final destinations. But we can't do it without you guys, we can not do it without the shed industry, um so, the shed owners. Brotherhood is amazing to me. Y'all keep on doing what you're doing.
Sam:Cool,
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Sam:Alright, I'm going to wrap this one up. I'm sure to wrap this one up, I'm sure Shannon will turn this into two parts. Shout out to Shannon, the Shed Geek, for giving us a platform where we can speak on and we can talk about anything. We talk about sheds, we talk about life, we talk about storms. You know we got bad storms coming through tonight and they've been bad all the way back.
Jeremy:It's blowing bad out there.
Sam:Wind's blowing bad out there right now I can hear the wind here too. So, um, you know there's. I've already had guys tell me hey, you going to Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Kentucky, and I'm like I'm not done there, I gotta finish what I started. I'm not saying we won't go out there and help, we'll send some crews or get the local guys out there involved. But my focus, until I get done here, I've got to finish what I started here. But that doesn't mean we're. You know, you mentioned on it earlier that you know where do we go from here, and part of that is the fact that we have the ability. You know've, I could put 100 haulers together in two days in a local area out there. That can't come help us, but they can help their local area yep so that's that's what we do, our resources.
Jeremy:Just use our resources. I don't know when the end is near, but we're establishing resources. People worry about finances. They worry about when you're going to quit. When you're going to do it, I don't know. I'm living by the faith of God. You know, like I told you the other day, I got enough money for one more month, but I pray that God's going to supply me. You know, or bless me. You know what I mean and we'll push forward, but I know in my heart that one month ain't going to do it.
Sam:Oh, I agree, it ain't going to do it, so always give people the opportunity to put information out there if they want to. How do people get in touch with you? How do they contact you? Do you have an email? Do you have a website? Do you want your phone number? How do?
Jeremy:people get a hold of you. You can call me telephone number 704-912-8828, or email me at bathmatic704@gmail. com.
Sam:Facebook.
Jeremy:Facebook Jeremy Barker on Facebook, alu-man, one Hand Cut man on TikTok and Bathmatic on Instagram. So yeah, they say, say illumination is a lighting company, and they call me a loo man because I'm a lumen, a little light. Yeah, they say I'm a bright light, a beacon of light. Anyway, that's what I want to be. So, uh, you know it's, uh, you can get in touch with me anyways, and uh, just reach out to me. If you want to help, if you want to talk or if you have any ideas, you get a hold of sam, do me or whatever you know. Outside of that, you can find me in barnardsville, North Carolina.
Sam:You ain't gotta look too far to find me and we'll put all that info in the newsletter that we email out with the with the broadcast. We'll put all your info in there. And that we email out with the with the broadcast. We'll put all your info in there. And, uh, you can always you can always reach out to the shed geek at info at shed geek and you can reach me at Sam@ shed geek. com. So you can get a whole bunch. You can and, uh, anybody wants to help? Feel free to reach out to us and help. Jeremy, thank you so much for doing this with me. I have been looking forward to this one for two months. I just didn't know when I wanted to do it. When it had to happen, um, I knew I wanted you up there in the cabin, um, because I wanted you in the frame of mind that you were in um, you did very well.
Jeremy:Appreciate you so much, sir, thanks for saying the honor man is honored anytime I get to even work with you or be with you. I love you, brother, so much. Sir, thanks for coming. It's an honor man. It's an honor to any time I get to even work with you or be with you. I love you brother. It's a good time as always, and hopefully we'll catch y'all back on the next episode or another time around. I'd love to come back again. We'll talk some bathroom and shed innovation.
Sam:We'll come back around and do it again.
Jeremy:Thank you guys, it's.
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Sam:We'll come back around and do it again. Thank you guys. This is another episode of the Shed Geek Podcast. Sam Baller, your host Friday fun day. We always have fun on Fridays. Man, it's Friday, because you just got to have fun. Thank you guys for listening.
Jeremy:Until next time.