The Michael Berry Show

One of our show sponsors and a personal friend of mine is Alan O'Neill

He owns Abacus plumbing and electrical

And we've been trying to track him down because I wanted to get his perspective because he has a lot of plumbers and electricians on his team.

You've heard me talk about Avocas Plumbing, and Electrical over the years.

Alan, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Michael, good morning.

Also, we needed a good Irish brogue on the show.

We haven't had that in a while.

There we go. I've told your story in bits and pieces over the years.

It's a great story, but when you talk about vocational and mechanical and trades and skills.

Your story begins in Ireland as to bring the show full circle I believe you were an aircraft

mechanic can you and then you won the lottery literally won the lottery to get

to come can you tell that story because I don't know that we've ever, you and I have ever told that story together?

Yeah, you have the story slightly incorrect, Michael.

So I start at...

It's my show.

I don't come over there and tell you how to turn wrenches. You figure out how to make the reality work with my story, which is always going to be more interesting than the reality.

All right, we'll do it. So I started out as an apprentice plumber straight out of school,

Michael, straight out of the equivalent of high school

in back in Europe in Ireland.

And, you know, worked at the trade from the age of actually 16 is when I

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