Lucas Congdon | Founder of Lucas Lagoons | How He Became America’s Viral Pool Creation Sensation

Audio Transcription

Speaker 1:
Thrive nation today’s show is going to be an incredible show. We’re interviewing today. The founder of Lucas lagoons, his name is Lucas Congdon. I actually found this guy on YouTube while contemplating building a pool in my backyard. And I was so mesmerized and so touched. So moved by his work on YouTube at Lucas lagoons, the YouTube channel that I decided to cyber stock this man to watch every video he has and to see if I could book him right here on the thrive time show. This is just a gift for me. Really, this guy is incredible. His work is legendary, and he’s going to teach you how he became America’s viral pool creation sensation. This guy is the pool wizard. His name is Lucas lagoons, and I could not be more fired up to have him on today’s edition of the thrive time show on your radio and podcast. Download

Speaker 2:
Brett, sir continues flashing, and I’ll be forced to ban you from all aquatic activity. Thank you. So I’m just, I’m just splashing water on myself. On my horse. You were sir, then the other guy’s doing it. Then the other guy, next thing you know, a body goes under and there’s bloated carcass stuck in the filter.

Speaker 1:
Three, two, one. You are now entering the dojo of mojo and the thrive time show, thrive time show on the microphone. What is this top of the charts in the category of business driven down on business topics? Like we are a dentist into shift pass that you might get motion sick, grab a pen and pad to the map. That’s stumped three, two, one here come the business Ninja.

Speaker 2:
Boom.

Speaker 1:
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Right patient. We are in the air everywhere and on today’s show. I apologize folks, if I sound nervous, if I sound giddy, if I sound like I’m like a boy the night before Christmas that cannot wait to unpack the gifts today’s guest. I have been chasing this guy around. I first saw a YouTube video, but on this channel called Lucas lagoons and I saw the video and it appeared to me like a vision. I thought to myself, this must be my backyard. And Andrew, I kept watching. I refuse to stop watching. I had some downtime. My wife had a true winning event and I had several hours. So I watched another video which led to the addiction to watch another video, which led me to then have the idea that maybe this is what my backyard should look like. So now ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, we have the host, the man, the myth.

Speaker 2:
Oh, Lucas lagoons,

Speaker 1:
Sir. How are you?

Lucas Congdon:
I’m great. I got to say that’s the best introduction I’ve ever had. So congratulations on that. That’s awesome, man. Love the music. Love the enthusiasm.

Speaker 1:
Okay. Well, I appreciate that. I’ll try to, uh, make sure the show doesn’t fall off the rails. Now. I usually I start strong and in bad. Now your last name is Lucas Congdon. Um, do, do, do people call you Lucas lagoon? Do people just call you lagoon?

Lucas Congdon:
Yeah. Or lagoon boy or whatever. Just call me whatever you want. Just call me, right? Yeah. Most people you did a great job pronouncing my last name by the way, most people, but put your, that you don’t even want to know what they called me in high school, but uh, yeah. Sometimes they, you know, people think it’s my last name is lagoons. I thought about changing it. But uh, you know, that’s too much work. So I’ll just keep calling Ben for now.

Speaker 1:
I really want to do like a custom rap song for your brand. I just love that. The whole thing it freaks me out. So how did it start? I mean, where did it start were using where you’re sitting on a, on a, uh, we were sitting in a lagoon at a resort somewhere and think to yourself, I should be come Lucas lagoons. Oh, tell us where, where you had had massive success, but where did it start?

Lucas Congdon:
Um, I think it started back when I was a kid. Um, my, my grandmother, my dad’s mom, her life’s work was to build this beautiful, amazing, like secret garden. And her whole house was built around this courtyard with a koi pond. And this is in little Compton, Rhode Island. So I’m basically straight out a little Compton. Um, you know, just, I grew up with so much inspiration around me. I really didn’t know anything else. I just thought that’s how things were, you know, and I just always kind of lived in my imagination.

Speaker 1:
So what was your first job where you, uh, where you, where you a pool boy, were you a pool helper guy? Were you, did you construction? What was your first job? It was getting you closer towards being the coolest guy in the world of the pools.

Lucas Congdon:
Um, actually, uh, you know, growing up on 64 acres on the top of a mountain in Vermont, you know, living off the land, working with my hands, you know, working my dad’s wood shop gardening. Um, when my parents got divorced, when I was about 10, I helped my mom out, you know, with her landscape business, she started her own business. She went to work for somebody for a couple of years and started her business. I was probably around 14. So that’s when I really started, you know, working in the landscape space, doing rock work, helping build ponds, you know, I didn’t really have a pool background at all. So I think that’s why maybe I see pool so differently. I think if I had gone to work for somebody building pools, I would have learned how to do it their way. So they kind of make a long story short.

Lucas Congdon:
When I moved to Florida, you know, I started doing tree work landscaping. I had an opportunity to do a pool remodel and I was just imagining doing the kind of work we did in the stone work and the landscaping and applying that to a pool. And that’s kind of how it all started with one pool remodel. I mean, I just, I didn’t know any other way. And I had to learn the hard way. I never worked for a pool company first. I just basically just fell into the pool world and kind of learned as I went. And that’s why I love doing a lot of consulting and helping other people do what I do because, you know, I really did have to learn the hard way and I learned many different methods of doing things and depending on the project and the situation, you know, um, you know, it depends on how you, how you do things and budget, of course. So, you know, I think because of that long, hard road and, and kind of figuring things out, you know, it just kept an open mind and I, I never was like, no, you can’t do that. I would have a vision and figure out how to do that. And you know, when I, I meet other pool people, you know, they’re, they’re kind of stuck in this box. So I think because I came from more of a landscaping creative background and then figured out the pool, it just kinda made us very different and unique.

Speaker 1:
Where did you, uh, get your first client from how’d you, how did you get your first 10 customers?

Lucas Congdon:
Uh, with the pools are just like my first business landscaping,

Speaker 1:
The first pool businesses. Do they come from the landscaping business?

Lucas Congdon:
Yeah, I mean, it kind of was an evolution. That’s why, like, as I started getting the pool work, I dropped my first company name, which was like earthworks and started Lucas lagoon. But I mean, the first clients, uh, really, um, came from referral from kind of the landscape side. And then I did, did a remodel and then, you know, it kind of started out that way. And as I was earning money, I was kind of putting money into some print advertising, which back then there was a, um, a magazine in Sarasota called house trends. And, you know, it has some nice content to it. It wasn’t just one of these like magazines that you pick up and it’s just people advertising the fix, your toilet or whatever. It was like a nice high end feeling magazine. And, um, you know, I think really what got us out there was, you know, you know, right away taking beautiful pictures of what we did, you know, doing YouTube videos and, um, just kind of promoting it as much as I could, I could afford to do, you know, joining the Florida swimming pool association and applying for awards.

Lucas Congdon:
And so, you know, it just doing as much as I can, you know, to promote and always doing, you know, more than what was expected on the project. So, you know, the first 10 customers, you know, these are very small projects, you know, very small budget. And every time, you know, someone would see something that I did, you know, the budgets grew and it was very a kind of a long, slow process of growing in the, in the early years until I was able to really kind of build a name and a brand.

Speaker 1:
Now there are people out there that are contractors I’ve met, who don’t have elaborate homes. They have a beautiful, they build beautiful homes, but they sort of live in like a, like a, like a fat shed. I’ve seen people that have a ton of money who drive. I see people that sell cars for a living, they sell Maserati’s, but they are driving around like a, you know, an old van that was once used to haul port-a-potties. I mean, I see people that sometimes, uh, don’t build for themselves that, which they sell to customers for whatever reason. Do you have kind of a bougie pool? Do you have kind of a beautiful pool?

Lucas Congdon:
Um, I mean, it’s beautiful. It’s small. It’s not what I build for my clients. It’s got a beautiful waterfall, actually bought a beautiful property with a guest home and six acres. So the boys can run and play and kind of put the money into that. And I traveled and worked so much and so hard. I, you know, my wife was like, look, let’s just remodel the pool that came with the house, make it beautiful for now. You can do the crazy thing later, but no, just don’t have the time, you know, to, to work on my own project. So we did a beautiful remodel. The nice thing is, you know, it’s not a huge pool. I can keep it heated and nice and warm. I’ve lived in Florida 20 years now. So, you know, I’m kind of a wimp. I grew up in Vermont. I could, you know, wear no jacket and 40-degree weather now, you know, if the water gets below 80, I’m not jumping in it. So I kind of got a little, little a wimpy on the cold stuff after all these years of Florida. So yeah, it’s a beautiful pool, but yeah, I’m closer to more of the guy that like, you know, there’s the shoemaker that doesn’t have any shoes, kinda guy, you know, I do have a pool, but it’s not, it’s not totally insane.

Speaker 1:
Now it’s time for the rapid-fire questions. These are the questions, Andrew, you’ve been on the show enough, you’ve seen this. This is the kind of question where a lot of guests did. They, they just hang up. This is true. This is the audio. The ladder almost had the cofounder of Netflix on this show, a Wolfgang puck we’ve had, um, you know, a Robert Kiyosaki’s partner. They’re sharing the elector from rich dad, poor dad. Uh, we’ve had, I mean, just huge films, dr. Ben Carson, we just had on the show and it’ll John Maxwell. And I won’t tell you what guests this was, but recently we had a guest tell me, go into the lightning round. I asked them a question. This is what they said, pretty intense, pretty intense. I’m prepared for the rejection, but I’m moving into the lightning round here. Um, Lucas lagoons, how can we pay you? Do you know what I mean? Like if I’m listening and I’m like, Oh, this is cool. Cause people are on YouTube right now, nerding out, dude, looking at your pools, how can people pay you? Are you a consultant? Are you a pool builder? How can we pay you?

Lucas Congdon:
I mean, we do, we do everything. You know, I’ve broken the company up into the umbrella company that owns the brands and they got the design consulting company and a construction company. And I did that so that I could help people in different ways. So, you know, kind of what we’re doing now is, you know, I come in and do the design consulting either. I work with, you know, a local pool contractor or contractor where we come in and we can do the construction. Um, you know, so that’s, that’s most of our businesses along those lines kind of the next step is to find really good tool builders that maybe just don’t do quite what we do, but want to and have that integrity and that, that willingness to, you know, do the right thing by the client. And we’re looking for those people in different States because we’re getting inquiries all over the world. So, you know, the next step is to have authorized installers of our designs, really kind of help them grow, grow their business. And that’s really kind of the next step. That’s the next big project that we’re working on.

Speaker 1:
Now, Andrew, you can vouch for this a little bit here. We know a guy, one of our clients who has a great company called P M H O K C. So Lucas, you check them out online. It’s P M H OKC. He, uh, does pergolas outdoor kitchens. He does, uh, fire pits, benches, patio, benches, patios, and people are always saying, could you put in a pool, could you, could you put in a pool? And he is now going to be starting a pool company this week right now. I mean, he’s this, guy’s doing 200, 300,000, literally two to $300,000 a week of sales right now per week two to 300,000 a week of sales, he’s rocking and rolling. If he wants to hire you, if he wants to license with you team up with you, what does that look like? What does it cost?

Lucas Congdon:
Um, so, you know, we’re, we’re working on that, but basically overall in a generic sense, it would be, you know, 6% of the, you know, the pool budget to have our brand and then any kind of additional consulting and design work that they need on top of that. So they get all my expertise and knowledge, you know, for, for 6% of maybe not on, you know, the stuff that he’s already doing, but like the pool, the pool, the grottoes, the stuff that, you know, they need my help on.

Speaker 1:
And do you have people pay you just to come out and consult? Or is it like, Hey, we’re having a relationship here. It’s going to be that 6% kind of like licensing your systems. How do you see it evolving?

Lucas Congdon:
Yeah. So, you know, currently I’ve got to consult and do some really cool design work in Madrid, Spain. We went to Australia and, you know, those were kind of one time deals, but you know, if it’s going to be an ongoing relationship, you know, I’m thinking like a builder knowing, you know, there’s not huge margins. Like people think, um, you know, in, in the construction business. So I’m not trying to just whack people with crazy numbers, you know, and, and with my systems and the things that we do, our brand, you know, they can easily have their margin more than what my fee is. So I’m trying to keep that percentage as low as possible. And if somebody has already got a business doing something, I don’t want to take 6% of their entire business. It’s just really the stuff that, that I’m doing and helping them with and trying to make it affordable for them.

Lucas Congdon:
And really, you know, my thing is I just want to want to help people. I want, you know, I, I learned the hard way, you know, I was fortunate enough to have a mentor, but not a mentor in the pool business. It was more kind of business in general. So, you know, I really, you know, I had a lot of hard lessons. I want to save people from that because there was nobody to help me with, with the vision that I had. I really, you know, was in the trenches trying to figure it out. And now I feel like we’ve really got a great system, got a great team. And you know, now I’m just kind of reaching out to help other people because I, you know, my passion is to make people happy. I’m a people pleaser, which is both a good and a bad thing, but, you know, I love making people happy.

Lucas Congdon:
And I think that’s the most rewarding part of what I do. We’re building these crazy things that just make people happy. They have more time with their family, you know, daily relaxation, you know, you can save up all year to go on vacation at the end of the year, but why not come home and have a vacation every day, you know, go back there. And whether it’s by yourself or with a friend, your, your kids, your wife, your girlfriend, you know, just have that moment where it just kinda feels like it makes all the hard work worthwhile. You know,

Speaker 1:
I got some more rapid fire by the way, sir, that was a good answer. And therefore you get to make a point. And I know that that’s why you’re in it. It’s to make points. Uh, Andrew explained to him about their redeem ability and what they’re worth. We have rumors they’re worth a lot in the afterlife. Please explain Andrew. Yeah. So, um, here on earth are worth absolutely nothing. Yeah. We have no proof. There was something here, but in the afterlife, they are infinitely valuable. So we had the founder of Netflix. He asked me, he said, can I get a mega point? He asked for one I’m stingy. I did give him one. I’m not just gonna throw them out though. I’m not like the federal reserve right. Is print money. I can’t just give out stuff I gotta have. Okay. So we have to have a gold standard here. Okay. So that we’ll be getting back on the rails here now. So you’ve got this, this brand that I found on YouTube. And I want to ask you this question and don’t play the games with me, Lucas lagoons. If I’m on YouTube, what’s the one video I need to be looking for me. What’s the one video that I need to be seeing right now that best shares what you are all about.

Lucas Congdon:
You know, this is where I’m going to get a negative point because I don’t know what to tell you on that. The crazy thing is I started on YouTube. I got so busy filming our TV show in st. Pools, which started on animal planet. Then it went to DIY. Now it’s on, it’s on a bunch of, it’s a platform we’re working on a new show. It’s been so long since I’ve kind of gone through my old videos that, you know, I, I, uh, I don’t have an answer for you there. I just been kind of pushing forward and kind of a need to need to get back out there. We’re, we’re working on some new YouTube videos, but I wish I could tell you a link or a certain one.

Speaker 1:
Well, the video now, I want you to know, although I respect you as an entrepreneur, I disrespect that answer. So I’m going to cue up this song says this is week played by SWV, and I’ve never dedicated this song weeks. And he goes, this guy is trying to tell me he doesn’t have a favorite video. So I’m going to tell you my favorite videos, folks. I’m going on YouTube right now. It’s kind of a romantic thing. If you guys weren’t around, this would take hours. I click, I click right here. I’m going to Lucas lagoon and I type in siesta. Key rock water pool with grotto siesta, key rock water, fall pool with ground-up Lucas. Look guns 906,000 views. Let me hit play. Here we go.

Speaker 1:
Oh, wow. Kind of conflicting music. We got to there. He goes. He’s talking. Oh yeah, come on up. There was a little that was Lucas talking to you. Let me pull it down here. Look at this. Look at this. Andrew. Look at this. Look at this, this fire. Other clients also wanted to play outside, but I didn’t want it to look like this. It’s got to look like a grotto. Look at this little surprise. They were wanting an outdoor shower and we’re basically generic sour off the wall of their home. Oh, we created basically a grotto. So they have some privacy that blows my mind. You watch some of our previous videos. We actually have one on building this grotto shower. If you want to see more about how happened, it was a good one. Now video number two here, this video here is a really good one. Know this is this. This is my second favorite video. That, that first one, there was my third favorite. This is my second family. Okay. Little muffled audio. There’s from my end here, but let’s go in here, starting with the April update on our new project in the Florida keys,

Lucas Congdon:
Kind of working our way up. Then we got some

Speaker 1:
Boss. How did you learn how to make caves? Like step one, make cave. I mean, what are you going to learn? How to make caves?

Lucas Congdon:
I dunno. Just figured it out. I guess. I mean, the crazy thing is like, you know, I, wasn’t one of those, one of those guys that got hired a designer to help me cause you know, we’re growing and you know, he likes to go on Pinterest and look for inspiration to show the clients I never looked at. I felt like it was feeling someone else’s idea. I had this weird relationship with inspiration. I feel like I had to figure it all out myself. So I never looked up anything watched videos, how to I literally like just lived in my brain and figured stuff out on the streets. So it was crazy. I just, I don’t know. I figured that shit out somehow.

Speaker 1:
And this is right here. I mean, this is a, the video is called April update on our new project in the Florida keys. And my favorite Lucas lagoons video of all time here, this one here, it says top pool designer, Lucas lagoons, latest project in the Florida keys. This video here gets me going. I mean, I had to stop watching this video. As I kept nodding, look at this Andrew top pool designer. I wanted to just start singing like I’m in church or something. What does it, I mean, it was like, I feel like Axel Rose was coming out of me. And this is the three D rendering is sick. There’s dots on them. He actually built this thing top. The video is titled top pool designer, Lucas, the goons latest in the Florida keys. I almost quit my career as a business consultant and owner of businesses. And I thought, I’m just going to call this guy up and say, I have to be your hype man slave for the rest of my life. I was so excited about this video. I just incredible well done. Lucas lagoons. That is a beautiful project. There is your wife impressed.

Lucas Congdon:
Um, you know, we’ve been together 15 years now, so it’s, you know, it’s hard to impress her after 15 years, but no, she must be. She’s still with me. She loves me. And uh, uh, I think, I think she, she’s one of those women that don’t really ever give you a compliment. They try to keep playing hard to get them. I think that’s how they keep you. Um, I guess somehow it worked

Speaker 1:
Well. What I’m going to do now?

Lucas Congdon:
Let me tell you a real quick, funny story. Uh, I’m in Chattanooga. I love going up to Ted Kennedy to get Tennessee. I get out of my truck. Guy sees me, Oh my God, it’s me. You think it’s a goose gets down to one knee, like praising me bowing down to me, like freaking out. And I turned to my wife and say, honey, this is how you should act. Every time I come home. It was perfect.

Speaker 1:
Unbelievable. I mean, you seriously, you are viral, bro. I mean you are everywhere. It’s awesome. I have final, I have four final questions and then we have an attorney here by the name of James that does from New York. Who’s going to ask you some litigious nefarious question and then Andrew will one up him. And then we’ll wrap up the show here, all leading, confused as to what happened. So, um, for people out there that want to get into the pool game, what’s your website, what’s your phone number? How do you want somebody to get in touch with you? If they’re saying, Hey, I wanna get into the pool game. I want to hire you to teach me how to become a pool boss. Uh, how do they get ahold of you?

Lucas Congdon:
Yeah. So Lucas lagoons.com. We have an inquiry form on there. So you contact us. You fill out, you know, if you’re a fan, if you’re wanting a project, you can do other. And just explain that, uh, you know, you want to start a business, whatever it is, Lucas lagoons.com.

Speaker 1:
There’s a dropdown menu. If you want to become a stocker too, that’s the one I clicked on. I just did the drop down against it or signed up there. I’ve been banned from being within a hundred feet of Lucas lagoons, but I’ve become a big fan. I think he did the interview just to get me to quit reaching out to him. Okay. So here we go. Now, now the brand is, I mean, it’s really going in a great direction right now. There’s a certain momentum. There’s a certain energy. Andrew. I can see this company becoming massive Lucas. When did you look up and say, wow, this may actually work. I mean, this, this pool game, this is because every entrepreneur has some doubts at some point. I mean, when did you realize, you know, I’m kind of a big deal?

Lucas Congdon:
Um, I don’t know. I guess, uh, I’m pretty humble. I didn’t ever realize it until, I mean, I don’t know. I mean, it’s been, I’ve had a lot of struggles up and down. It’s been, you know, it’s been tough to build a business from nothing. So, uh, I guess really in the last couple of years they really started realizing, Hey, you know what, actually, this is gonna work. You know, probably about three years ago. Um, when I, you know, finally some real money that year and I owed a bunch of money in taxes and I was like, are you kidding me? And then, you know, I was complaining about all the money I owed and I said, well, I guess this means I made it because now I gotta give it all back to uncle Sam.

Speaker 1:
Okay. So when you start a meeting, I find that to be true out of entrepreneurs, a lot of my clients will tell me once they get hit with a big tax bill, they recognize that that, that they’ve made, they’ve made it like getting a spoonful of Draino. Sure. It’ll clean you out. They’ll leave your hollow inside my final two questions for you here that I, this is kind of one, it’s a two part question. It’s those ones that trick people politics. I learned these from Chris, Chris Cuomo. He’s unbelievable. The two part question I try to it’s the master toward no matter what the answer is, it’s somehow isn’t right. Cause it’s, it’s confusing. There’s two parts, two parts. There we go. Two part question. What is your favorite business book or favorite business? You know, audio or favorite business podcast, but basically what’s your favorite business learning resource one and then two. What’s your favorite old school jam? Old school song you love?

Lucas Congdon:
All right. So I’d have to say, you know, I haven’t read a lot of books cause I’m a constantly just living in my mind and then kind of being, um, I always was accused of being a dreamer, but, uh, I did, you know, when I really felt like I had a turning point in my career, I was reading a lot of success by Napoleon Hill. And he’s basically the grandfather to all motivational speakers, basically all his material. He was the first one to study wealthy, you know, really successful people. The men who built America, basically there’s that whole history channel show about, you know, Carnegie, Rockefeller, um, I’ll, I’ll forward all those guys. And it just was incredible. You know, I’m reading this and starting to try to, you know, you know, just really you, you use those methods and think about those things and, and things just really started to fall into place. So I think that was just a really powerful book.

Speaker 1:
I named my son after the author. My son’s name is Aubrey Napoleon Hill Clark. That’s a true story. My son’s name is Aubrey Napoleon Hill Clark. So I too liked the book. And now I’m gonna ask you here, okay? Favorite old school jam. Don’t screw this up. Your career’s going well. There’s a certain momentum here. People are reaching out to you. Your YouTube videos are going viral. Your wife has stayed with you. You’ve read Napoleon Hill. So many great things are happening. We had one guest who was on the show who got this question wrong. And I could, I don’t even want to speak about what happened, but I can just say, I mean, he’s alive, but regrettably, he doesn’t want to live what he’s living now. So feel free to answer the question, knowing what could happen.

Lucas Congdon:
Well, this is an easy one, DC boys. You got to fight for your right to party.

Speaker 1:
That’s a beautiful, so let me, let me, let me, let me queue it up. Let me just see if it passes the test here because a lot of listeners, Beastie boys, you’ve got to fight for the right for you. You’re going to queue it up here and make sure Andrew wants to make sure that this is this passes. There’s a certain standard we have on the show here. We’re gonna make it up. Let me just make sure certain energy. I can feel it. Here we go. Here we go. He’s sitting on a plane. He’s sitting in a popular science magazine on fire in the video. Here we go.

Speaker 1:
Oh, here we go. You got to get to the chorus. [inaudible] no. Cause the goats buy stuff from him. Buy stuff from him. He’s focused the goats. Wow, God, I get excited about this. I get to the best, my favorite show. And I’m a long time. Think that was the right answer. No I wasn’t writing. I wasn’t the right. So I’ll give him a, make a point there. I mean, I know he cares about that a lot. Okay. So final two questions here, James. You’re an attorney. Okay. And I’m into the corner. It’s fine, Lucas. Nice to meet you. And you’ve done some great work I have to ask you. Have you seen this video? It’s gotten 185 million hits on YouTube. The title’s called 60 days. Build millionaire, underground swimming pool house. This guy builds it with nothing more than an oversized, putty knife and a bucket. And he’s wearing a bathing suit the whole time. He starts out. It’s insane. He starts out with just an open field and then builds this masterpiece of a pool. How much of this is crap? 60 days build millionaire, underground, swinging full house. None. You can see this, check it out. 60 days, build millionaire, underground swimming pool house. It’s 185 million views. It’s insane. Have you seen this?

Lucas Congdon:
I don’t. I saw one guy building. It looks like a stick. I don’t know if it’s the same one. They’d have to have to try to pull that up here.

Speaker 1:
Chops away with everything. And like makes a, makes a like, like a swimming pool house.

Lucas Congdon:
Yeah. But you got to have the right soil. It’s like clay. So it holds water. It’s crazy. Yeah. He’s just wearing like some shorts, right.

Speaker 1:
Shorts. And he fills it with a bucket and he keeps going to the river back and forth to the river to fill the thing you’ve seen that. It’s pretty amazing.

Lucas Congdon:
Yeah. I was watching that. Guy’s crazy. He’s done all kinds of ones just out of the dirt. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
Unbelievable. I don’t want the show to end, but Andrew, you can. And one final question. Oh, one final question. Andrew’s recently a recovering. Um, he has a drinking problem. He’ll hop into the pools and then drink the water out, which is party fell. I know you don’t do that. Drink an entire pool. And then it was once he was accused of, of yellowing a pool. It turns out he did, but he didn’t do it. But there’s two Rangers kind of working through this tough phase of his life, where he’s been banned from the pools from a lot of body guards from coast to coast. Now that you’re here and I’ve built up profile so much. What question do you have here? Wow. Yeah. Nice. So, um, yeah. I’m curious why you, why specifically you chose lagoons or do you do other styles of pools? Is it just lagoons? You know, there’s so many other styles of pools. Um, what, what’s your main fascination of, of lagoon style pools or where did that come from?

Speaker 4:
So, you know, we do all kinds of pools. You know, now we do a lot of cool modern pools. We do every kind of pool you can imagine. But in the beginning I was just really fascinated with creating a natural backyard. You know, somebody that couldn’t necessarily afford to live, you know, with the ocean view property, but it kind of build that, that bring the water to them, you know? And I was just fascinated with that. And on top of it, it sounds good with my name Lucas, Lucas pools or Lucas modern pools or whatever it was, you know, Lucas again just has a nice ring to it. So it just kinda all kinda all worked out.

Speaker 1:
Wow. Nice. I, you know, Lucas, I appreciate you being on this show. It’s been an awesome for me and I know for our guests and again, keep up the great work, man. Thank you for being on the thrive time show.

Speaker 4:
Thanks guys. It’s super fun.

Speaker 1:
And now without any further ed to three,

Speaker 4:
This is [inaudible] lazy hands make for poverty,

Speaker 1:
But diligent hands bring wealth. Proverbs 10, four. I’m here to tell you. You can do it. If you can just motivate yourself.

Speaker 4:
The mass had to cut off of you. So on the date I had to, I had to make [inaudible] might’ve been started from the bottom. My weight, I was bent, prayed up, present crying, said, you got to get it. Don’t quit. It [inaudible] should be all went to, but we cannot begin without self discipline to fall. When you’re faced a teacher up to Kohl’s are with the friends. When the getting up in the, and only be live with yourself, what you believe he believes in you, but not as much as God does. If you’re going through hell, he’s got nothing to apply. What you’ve learned and [inaudible] in due time you got money to sing and sing, increase what you do. Tell time you got money to money. I looked the shutdown, the dowers silver beads that becoming your dream flowers, empowering you to devour all the obstacles that make your sweet dream sour. As for me, I used to stay up on the microphone, smooth light. If I can do it, I know you can’t do, but you bust stick to it like postage to [inaudible]. And now is your short time today. Sing it Barton. Today’s your day. I realized I can’t sing like that, but I can’t talk

Speaker 5:
And play the woodblock. Okay. If you guys need me, I’ll just be over here.