John Wetmore shares a house visit in Atlanta where he awkwardly tried to make small talk about cabinets and floors, only to realize the homeowners couldn't afford to fix their foundation. He decided that day to stop performing during sales calls and be authentic instead.
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The day I quit doing that, because I would try, I tried it and I hated it. I'm like talking about cabinets and dumb shit I don't know nothing about, right? Dude, I get in this house one time, I'm in Atlanta, it's not in the best part of Atlanta, and I get in there and it's a, it's just being real, it's kind of a piece of shit house, right? So I go in, I sit down at this little tiny kitchen table, and husband, wife, he's sitting there like this. I walk in and I'm like, I don't know how to do this thing, and I'm stumbling over dumb shit to talk about. And I remember I go like, I That's a dope floor. What is that? He goes, bro, that's my foundation. I haven't been able to fix my floors because we have no money. I was like, all right, I'm done.