This "Boring" Business Makes $1M/Year While You Sleep
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Smog King
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers raw blue-collar gold with Arian Nazari — the entrepreneur who came to America with nothing, hit rock bottom, and built a smog check empire that runs itself whether the economy is booming or crashing, because in California, getting your smog check isn't optional.
Arian breaks down why blue-collar businesses are the biggest slept-on opportunity in the AI era, how he's netting seven figures from shops he doesn't even work in, and the playbook for getting your first location up and cash flowing for as little as $10,000.
While everyone else is chasing shiny AI startups, Arian's quietly building an empire in the industry nobody wants — and winning because of it.
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Website: http://smogking.net
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| 0:00.0 | You could make $7,000 to $12,000 out of a garage every month. Like clockwork. You're making money without doing anything. How much is that making you a year? About 1.3. The public doesn't know about it. I offer the funding. So all you got to do is just bring me the location. People in this business don't tell you how to start it. I do. What do you think the number one thing you wish you knew when you started? I'll leave you guys with a quote, one of the best quotes I've ever heard. |
| 0:26.4 | What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio. |
| 0:31.1 | Folks, I got a real treat, as always, Ari and Nazari in the house. |
| 0:35.4 | How you guys doing? |
| 0:36.5 | Folks, you guys want to pay attention, especially if you're looking for opportunities. |
| 0:40.0 | This dude's an entrepreneur and founder of Smog King, creator of a smog check business empire in California before graduating from USC. |
| 0:49.5 | Iranian immigrant who came to the U.S. at age five, overcame criminal charges at 18. What'd you do? |
| 0:56.5 | That's a conversation for another podcast. |
| 0:59.9 | What'd you do? What'd you do? |
| 1:01.3 | I was underage drinking, fake ID, resisting arrest. |
| 1:05.6 | It was like a normal kid. |
| 1:07.1 | It was, yeah. |
| 1:07.9 | All right, turned his life around and now mentors aspiring entrepreneurs to acquire their first business in the smog industry, which coincidentally, I freaking love the, the whole concept. Why? Well, because, dude, the state's mandate you get smog checks. Yeah. Like Like all you need is a receiver. |
| 1:29.9 | So if you open up a smog shack with obviously it's not this easy, |
| 1:34.4 | but if you open up one of those little smog shacks that I see around town, |
| 1:38.4 | you're going to get customers. |
| 1:40.1 | The question is, is how many? |
| 1:42.0 | What's your brand? |
| 1:42.8 | What's your process? |
| 1:43.9 | So you've figured it all out. and now you're helping people get their own. Exactly. And you partner with them. Exactly. So it's not like, like, dude, they can even, they can even, like, you'll pay for everything. Yeah. Yeah. So the legwork basically gets done by my team. I got 16 right now as we're sitting. You saw some of my numbers off the camera, but what's another tent? And so, and so folks, pay attention because if you're wondering, you know, how do I make money? How do I get rich? All these people, I'm tired of hating on them. I just want to start participating. That's what I would suggest. Stop hating on the people that figured it out. Everybody's a scam. Everybody's lying. |
| 2:21.6 | Everybody's cheating. Everybody's stealing. When in reality, that's not true. |
| 2:25.6 | Some people are, but some people have also figured out a system that they're happy to show you |
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