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Off The Record: Ron Scolesdang's New Fancy Fish Business

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0:00 did you name your uh your aquarium place after like punching too I don't know if I should have lights out aquariums all right shook it kill him kill them Aquarium [Music] welcome back everybody to another awesome episode of the careful boys where today we have Mr Ron skulls we're just talking about uh this amazing situation where you have a tow company so no matter where you are in America you can get and request your car to be towed back to his if it's covered technically you can if it's covered but you know what's crazier is this ████ is fighting for a world title next week no no that's a towing dude

0:52 so when there's like oil stains on the driveway how hard is it to remove it very hard you have to soak it up in sand actually it's a legitimate question yeah you have to soak it up with Santa or you can actually use kitty litter which is a hacks you don't have to spend as much money kitty litter better than Santa costs more money uh so yeah well there's absorbent that they make that's specifically for oil spills but it costs a lot of money so instead we buy kitty litter at the pet store it's way cheaper and then it soaks up oil if you do it fast enough but if you wait too long it stains so you got to pressure wash it and you gotta polish it and grind it but when that happens usually the person that's getting towed will file a claim because you ruined their driveway from Towing it oh you know what's crazy though I heard you have a title fight next week no what's another boring topic you could talk about that to avoid that that whole yeah let's skirt around it a little we don't like talking about fights or

1:42 anything I mean what's your kitty litter preference top five top five top five I mean Kirkland is definitely the number one oh they're so good would you call that one The Knockout oh it's knockout serious and delivery and all that ████ did you name your uh your aquarium place after like punching too I don't know if I should have lights out aquariums all right sugar kill them kill them Aquarium [Laughter] oh ████ all the fish are dead in there okay ████ down no biggie no we ended up calling a normal name it's called The Reef The Reef oh that's a cool name it's cool it's not taken the only other little brief yeah the killer Reef that's not called the refs Reef we're the referee oh

2:44 what title are you fighting for next week no back to the fish oh yeah oh yeah what else do we got back to the referee oh dude I want to hear about the fight favorite fish classic favorite fish arowana oh wow love me in arowana what made you want to open that place up anyway you have like a passion for food um I mean I I raised fish since I was a kid my dad got this like 30 000 arowana when I was a kid 30 000 yes 30 000 is called a red tail golden it was super illegal and rare which I don't have anymore that was like from Asia huh yeah came straight from Asia Asia how to taste I don't know by the time he uh died he was just covered in mold and he had ick and all that whoa not good yeah I saw a 30 000 fish die right before my eyes it was the saddest thing ever how big was it um it was like this big it was huge how big was your tank that you added here like this big yeah he was just

3:34 stationary he's like a he's like a wagu cow it was like a freak accident type death no my grandma killed him uh yeah like Vengeance or like no just being a just an Asian grandma Yeah like you know it's like hey take care of it like this and this is what's supposed to eat okay no problem here's here's something else yeah it's like please don't give my kid candy here's all the candy in the world yes I went to Asia for like four or five weeks and then I told my grandma feed them the meal worms feed them the mice don't feed them any goldfish eats mice oh dude they're hardcore man they'll freaking come out just like the mice are drowning right and they're suffering whatnot and then it ends are suffering really quick it just like swallows them whole it's always just nicer when Ron says it though they're so hardcore so you buy the mice from like what like a Petco or PetSmart yeah yeah and then do you have

4:25 to like whack them first no you just drop them in and then they fight for their life and they're like blind they're like babies so they got like red eyes oh they're blind yeah so they only smell fear and they don't see it I mean when they're when they're when they're Neck Deep in water I'm pretty sure they know they're dying would a fish like that be worth even more today uh probably more since it's probably more legal oh it's more illegal now yeah they're like super like rare endangered which I don't have and you can't get at The Reef dirty ████ G's holy ████ yeah it was insane there's your grandma e30gs Yeah add it to the tap right she's like sure sure I'll pay it off one day but I I came home from Asia and the fish was there and like I saw ick ick is like this disease where you have like almost like mold all over the fish and then the eyes

5:15 and stuff it's so sad and the fish developed a personality you know like I saw it it saw me like we'd stare at each other sometimes they let me pet it he's like help me yeah yeah and then it looked at me and then finally looked at me and then just started having seizures like oh you saw the actual I saw him die yeah but you had like yeah it waited for me to come I'd like to think that it waited for me to come home we locked eyes I had a seizure it folded in half and then it floated to the surface and then it was just done and then there's um the Goldfish were alive um oh my God what a poetic last moment my heart was broken and then to make the story even more strange uh the reason why I had it was because my dad moved to Vietnam when I was uh when I was younger so it was like hey son I'm moving to Asia I'm not going to see you for a while um take care of my illegal things yeah here's here's my gift to you and as a kid in middle school I was like I don't want to take care of this fish I gotta

6:05 feed it like every day I gotta change the water like two three times a week um and so your grandma did you a favor I mean I ended up developing a relationship with the fish so I was like oh ████ grandma yeah you know I was like ████ that's heartbreaking grandma doesn't know any better you know Grandma's just um just killing things yeah just showing love doing her best yeah showing love not good enough Nick you know so she didn't mean she didn't know that feeding gold tissue my dad always used to do that ████ too I'm like so I told my dad I don't give taiku a chocolate oh yeah and then this ████ would always like give tiger chocolate hella chocolate and I come home and like type this ████ bouncing off the walls I'm like did you give him chocolate he's like no chocolate it's exact standard though your

6:56 grandparents friends whatever so is there an opening date for The Reef uh yeah it was like three months ago um we were I even pitched it too I was like Grand open oh so it's jumbee related huh I'm talking about got pushed back like six got blocked by like permit things huh it's not even the premise we just uh what was it we ended up meeting like 30 Grand in like additional equipment I'm like dude we already dumped like we dumped like like 200 Grand into this project we sold marijuana right there dude yeah and it needs like lighting and then you know our uh our partner he's like really he made this thing look like a freaking Apple Store Museum like it does look like really really crazy so he wants like top dollar everything I'm like dude we ran out of money we can't dump any more money into this um and then so we had to figure out a certain thing but we ended up getting

7:46 the funding for it and then so now it's back in back in Action didn't you say that something about this place has there's like a only one in the world or something there's like something in there that's super unique oh in the build oh we have a uh we have this million dollar fish tank that's in there what the ████ yeah it's just crazy it's like 10 000 gallons or something like that and it's custom made it's just like one giant like oh it looks it's beautiful you put like a mermaid in there how big is 10 000 gallons just for like it actually doesn't even this is it like Florida ceiling is that ten thousand oh it's like it's like eight or nine feet tall and then maybe like 20 feet long wow dude that's freaking big but for like 10 000 gallons you would think would be like a whole room yeah you think it's like a swimming pool but it's like the Showcase 20 feet long it is a whole room for some people [Laughter]

8:45 not that I live in a mansion or anything uh I live in a condo it fits in my condo oh it does it fits in like your garage no like the whole thing like like a front door to the back door oh the whole place oh wow I could live in there yeah I thought you're storing it at your house but oh yeah we have this unique thing where uh we have some we have some special license thingy where we can put rare illegal fish in as long as we don't sell it it's a museum now um so we're gonna start doing field trips and kids could come look look there's only one fish of this in America like separate tickets to that oh no we would make it public just as a publicity you can put a shark fin soup yeah oh yeah when they die it's like now it is edible oh there's that one shop in the OC that does like reptiles and stuff oh yeah yeah and it's almost like a zoo because they got like big pythons and

9:36 crocodiles and like iguanas and stuff but it's technically a pet store but I think people some people go there just to look at the animals because that's some crazy ████ yep yep the reptiles do in Fountain Valley yeah yeah yeah yeah this is super cool yeah since we since we only have like 10 minutes left how seniors fly back doing that oh wonderful we I'll just tell them earlier before we started um we went to uh Carnegie man we went to our first event outside of California so we went to Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University and uh yeah we did a work shop for the students and the faculty that's sick didn't you win another award for seniors fight back we got nominated but we had to turn it down because there's a there's a rule you can only win non-profit of the year once I guess [Music] sorry not profit of the Year Jesus Christ yeah we won that last year but we're not allowed to uh we're turning Champs dude wow you can't win the two

10:26 years in a row sounds kind of lame doesn't it I know I'm like really I'm like okay whatever sorry for being so good dude you're winning all across the board nothing but W's bro that's been really cool and then uh what else did we do oh we just had a comedy show yes we've seen it yeah random I'm not funny at all it's like bloopers like footage we won another award uh best comedy show there's a group called crazy vocations they they ran this Con uh this comedy show last it was last week um for us and then all the proceeds were gonna go to us in the Chinatown service Community Center oh cool and they had like 20 comedians should show up away yeah there's it was a long show it was like three hours I had to pee in the middle of it I didn't Eve 20 is a lot damn then um so how much they raise like 20 bucks no they're like five times that much wow before before costs yeah yeah this

11:17 is all for a good cause you know yeah um but it was cool uh I didn't I didn't do any comedy sets or anything but oh we did a little panel they did a bunch of jokes and I've never I've been to two uh three comedy shows now I've been to Ali Wong I've been to this is a short dude Kevin Hart and then um and then this one and so I've never really had that much experience experience experience in comedy so it's pretty cool to see what local local comedians do and say um so it's pretty funny what else is going on outside of like fight stuff in your life fighting stuff uh I brought my first investment property like two weeks ago wow right yeah congrats dude we're at uh in Fountain Valley right across my toe yard ████ Glory right now bro yeah we what what is it is it a a commercial or is it commercial yeah it's a it's M2 zoning so you can like manufacture do Automotive in there uh

12:08 initially we're gonna buy and occupy it uh but then after crunching all the numbers KO can't afford it so we're gonna we're gonna rent it out to another company oh so we're gonna have a competing Tow Company open up yeah yeah across the street and then squeeze them so it'll be really cool but uh it's my first time taking Hannah then so we're like I had you know a thousand dollars like okay pay someone to do a thousand dollars like f that you know which money we just paid I'm Gonna Save a thousand dollars I'm gonna do it myself and then so digging I was digging dirt for like four days and it doesn't seem like that hard it is the freaking hardest thing I've ever done in my life F digging dirt like I would rather why is there so much dirt to dig it doesn't even seem like that much it was like a little mound of dirt and there was like a plant in it and then as I'm like shoveling it like wheelbarrows like probably like 50 wheelbarrows worth of dirt I was like we should have thousand gallons of dirt

12:58 yeah I was like should I just paid a thousand dollars to get this done I'm like and then I found out there was a giant tree underneath the dirt and then so we had to get special equipment to to break up the tree and remove the tree and the company that was gonna charge us a thousand now bumped it up to three thousand because there's a tree in it and I'm like okay well now we have no choice what to do it ourselves oh oh and so we're digging and digging and digging finally it's all flat and then we're laying down cement and then oh so on that property there's nothing on it at all oh no there's like a little building and then like a huge parking space yeah but there was this mound of dirt with a big tree it looked like I don't know if I can see it okay you guys don't censor it it's a it's not even a bad word it's a ████ willow oh you were afraid of that I don't know from Pocahontas like you know that's not even racial that's easy what else you got I'm at the beef Willow

13:50 um by the way Ron used to coach kids class so he never cusses yeah it feels awkward he says fudge yeah like uncomfortable I feel like when when you do that like it makes me do that too yeah oh fudge like I'm sweating a little bit like fighting up ████ ████ ████ finish it dope man congrats on that on the property that's cool and you know just a heads up like I don't do anything about myself like the towing the investment properties even the fighting thing like I don't do anything about myself so I don't want to make painted picture like this is a one-man show like I have a whole team behind me this one man is responsible for all of them because you said that we think that it's all you know Liar Liar and on top of this you still have time to get ready for a ████ fight for World title fight I know kind of it that's I I never I never

14:40 expected that to happen especially since my life changed so dramatically in the past two years um how did that come about like how did the that opportunity come um it came about because I won the wbb I won the WBC title because you won another title uh two years ago and then um and you can't win them two years in a row yeah exactly they make you take it off and give it back and that one is for that one's for the that makes me number one in the U.S in the U.S for for Muay Thai yeah damn bro that's crazy man um but this sounds now now embarrassed but they they couldn't find me a fighter in America to challenge me for the belt um because I probably wants to fight you Ron I fought legit guys in America um and so that we've been having trouble finding opponents so like effort you want to move up a weight class and we'll offer you the wsk world title and I was like heck yeah um

15:30 and then so they offered uh Papaya's brother um super good dude from a really good team we ended up fighting him and then we ended up winning won the wck world title and then uh now they want me to defend it but the guy I was fighting couldn't make way he told me three weeks in advance hey I'm not gonna equate do you want to move up and wait I was like does that mean it's not a title defense like yeah it's just an exhibition like dude I'm freaking 37 years old what am I gonna fight for fun for you're only fighting for gold yeah I want to fight for a free kid either a massive amount of money or uh or a title yeah you know and then so I'll move up to 145 I'll move to 155 it's for a title and they're like oh no it can't be I was like it doesn't it doesn't make sense I was like okay well then find me somebody that can make weight and so they found me a better opponent um he's the current wvc champion for Mexico so I'll be fighting the number one ranked guy in Mexico

16:20 um next week you don't know his name oh it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it's Chavez uh something Chavez good guess I just found out like Salvador of Alaska Salvador of Alaska oh my gosh Salvador of Alaska so is this is this a fight that two seconds where's the venue can we watch this fight like is this one that we can go to yeah it's uh it's next weekend though the last time Bart came he watched me die can we go or what I went to one of his fights don't win it only time the one the one only fight that's why he got knocked out yeah yeah I almost said threw up like yeah when you watched like regular people fight there's no

17:12 emotional attachment yeah right like Ron is my coach he's coached me for two years and he's a personal friend so there's like an emotional attachment that I didn't know gives you a very visceral reaction so Ron was beating the ████ out of this guy and then um I think Ron got cocky should put his hands on coming down and this guy literally just like ducked his head and just went bam over the top and not Ron gets knocked out and I'm like oh he gets knocked out by the way it was like I couldn't even control it yeah that he hit me I whiplashed back and I just flat back on the ground and everybody was like uh bro I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe because I knew the guy he was gonna fight and I was telling everybody I was like bro Ron is gonna destroy this dude he was and he

18:02 was and he was but all it takes is one all it takes is one especially anime he talked so much crap and he earned it you know so I just said I was like but run it back though right for what what but you don't want it though you probably wouldn't though no there's no reason absolutely no reason to say what oh I got you back yeah yeah yeah you know who cares um he earned it he deserves everything um and everything like that they can yeah it's not uh that is that racist what I totally said his name wrong I say ████ will though nobody yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah just say ████ Travis now I feel awkward singing the tree so you I would never say that tree ever again delete that tree you have a fight next week on Saturday or Sunday or next Saturday so I I set my cut today day so I haven't actually eaten yet I'm fasting right now um I do keto and then I'm gonna do water

18:54 little gotta cut 15 pounds that's normal you gotta cut 15 pounds in one week yes well technically I'm gonna lose 15 pounds the night before because I'm gonna be drinking like freaking a butt ton of water oh um but like a willow ton a chunk full let's go to his fight let's go yeah it'll be fun said El cajon's at the Sycuan Casino um like San Diego area and like uh coincidentally I've become very Middle Eastern because all a lot of people in the towing industry in Middle Eastern um and so in El Cajon there's this middle eastern restaurant that makes this like and I didn't know this like when you go to like Mediterranean restaurants and Iraqi restaurants and like and Arabian restaurants they all seem like they have the same menu like it's a kebab or Shawarma yeah yeah yeah they're all completely different yeah it's I had no idea and so I started

19:44 eating Iraqi food and um there's this place in El Cajon it's one of my favorite restaurants ever I don't know the name of it because it's in a weird writing um but it's this old family and they just stand in this oven it would fire it with metal skewers and they're just standing there with like this meat skewers and like liver and all kinds of weird stuff and uh you bring it out and just eat it with pita and and tabula and Tzatziki and all that stuff and hummus and just eat with your hands and just and it's like the best meat ever like the meat is tender it's juicy it's like a charred crust on the outside and like all the veggies are fresh the pita has a slight crisp and it's like fluffy and steamy yeah it really is or that's how it is because you've been like water loading and like not eating I mean I don't know he's selling it to me though oh dude I don't work there I'm not affiliated with them I don't even know the name of the restaurant he's a true fighter follow me the food but I don't

20:34 know where to get it you can't even advertise it alcohol and it's in this like tiny little like one block Iraqi Chavez it's in it's called trellis wait can you briefly explain why the towing business is mainly uh Middle Easterns I have no idea on the history of that you know I assume maybe somebody from the Middle East came over and they're like let's do touring so just like Cambodian Donuts they invited everybody else that you're towing and then now because now everybody does Towing but it's pretty it's predominantly uh Middle Eastern Mexicans and white people um barely any Asians like maybe it was like like in the mother country we still over here with toe yeah we take we thought I think we think yeah I went to uh there's Towing conventions I went to one yesterday was it yesterday yeah yeah I went to Vegas yesterday and came back uh for a towing convention I know I didn't call you because I was I was here anyways

21:24 no because I would have not had time to come see anyways yeah I was like uh he's busy anyways but I went there and it's literally putting like 90 Middle Eastern people oh cool who was the musical act for entertainment um you know what you would think they would have entertainment it is they're none the entertainment oh [Laughter] Tony Bennett they're uh their entertainment is a beauty pageant but for tow trucks um so you go and you you you dress the truck up yeah you're just a checkup oh that's sick no yeah they're actually it's crazy dude some of these tow trucks are like a million dollars dude I believe it's pretty hardcore they hold ten thousand how much on average are the ones that you guys have at Ko mine uh trucks are about like 100 grand my Lord and you have how many now uh we

22:15 have 10 tow trucks and three service vehicles come on baby oh my God but keep in mind everybody thinks I'm balling ball and is just taking all the money we've made and just dump it back into other stuff so I've spread say that to your Range Rover outside yeah I got that for a really good deal [Laughter] [Music] oh

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