Name: Trauma Restoration Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #392
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trauma Restoration Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #392' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-10. Transcript available.

Trauma Restoration Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #392

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the return of the rat
tour today's guest holds a unique job in the world and it's um it's that job
when when there's a fire
or a uh murdering or a hoarder or trauma somebody's got to go into those spaces
and um and clean up
somebody's got to go do the the dirty work baby you know somebody's got to be
that little shawshank
baby crawling through the muck and uh and we have that man here today he is a
trauma restoration man
and he's out of minneapolis and we're grateful for him uh today's guest is
trauma restoration
man mr bobby cotton
okay
yeah where are you from rob minneapolis oh nice dude yeah we went out there and
did some shows not
too long ago uh minneapolis is so strange now it feels like like the downtown
just feels deserted
yeah they're making everyone like the city and the state is actually after
businesses to bring people
back to the cities really yeah they want them back in the offices because they
uh like all the like
there's nothing down there it's just deserted so like all the little businesses
and shops are all
closing down because no one's down there yeah it's like the it's like a bunch
of murals and nothing
else yeah i'm funny it's like that everybody left and they just drew people in
the buildings yeah
yeah and and you know they had all the george floyd stuff all them riots that
happened
yeah man it was just the whole vibe down there well it's crazy everything got
smashed out you know
because i you know in restoration like a big old part of what i do is like when
there's a fire
a window gets broken i run out in the middle of the night and board the stuff
up oh really i mean
shit i mean i was i was working like 120 hours a week boarding up all the all
the buildings i had
you know 300 sheets of plywood going up a day it was crazy wow so you're saying
so um i'm sitting
here with rob cotton and he's a uh uh trauma restoration man and so you're
saying that during the um and we're
going to get into your job we just started chatting uh so in minneapolis during
the george floyd stuff
you guys were going out you guys go out and board stuff up yeah yeah so
whenever there's a you know
riot you know we do board up so anytime there's a fire or there's a robbery or
something you know
you got to secure those buildings and uh during the george floyd stuff we were
doing stuff preventatively
people were worried about getting robbed and there was a lot of looting and
stuff so i mean
we're boarding up and securing buildings trying to prevent people from smashing
the windows in
wow i mean we were working like 24 hours a day taking naps in the truck dang
yeah it was bad
were there certain things you would write on the certain boards to kind of keep
people out where
they're like you know like uh was there any like kind of trickery like that
like verbal word trickery
i mean we didn't do anything like that but a lot of the business owners you
know they put on like
minority owned or you know we support blm or lots of stuff got put on those
boards and
yeah i don't know uh i don't know if there was trickery or not i don't know if
people were
maybe a little dishonest on that but yeah yeah the people were putting stuff on
there
wow yeah because i guess you you most people think that just businesses go and
do that for themselves
but do you get hired by businesses to do it yeah so either by the insurance or
if they're in a really
high risk area like their insurance company might uh call to have the boards
put up as to try and prevent
the loss you know because it's obviously you know when the buildings get burned
and stuff like that
sometimes the the losses or the insurance claims are millions of dollars so for
five or ten thousand
dollars you can get all your windows boarded up that could save you yeah that
could really be the
difference between um your whole business going down yeah absolutely i mean
there was a
there was a liquor store they they're right in minneapolis there and they lost
like 1.5 million
dollars in inventory plus there was a fire in the building oh yeah well that's
the problem you get
a little bit of liquor in you you want to have somebody wants to have a dorale
or you know yeah
or you know roll up a john or something and the next thing you know the whole
place has gone up oh
it's crazy and i mean even you know i had a gun pulled on me when i was
cleaning graffiti down there
uh-uh yeah and why'd they do it uh they were just unhappy i was taking down
graffiti and i mean
you know whether or not that's out of turn i don't care if you put more
graffiti up i got
hired to take the graffiti down the second i leave you can do it again right
right yeah you're just
doing your job yeah so just just doing your job is really i mean your job is um
basically like your
job is basically restoration trauma cleanup how do you like give me an example
of kind of what that
entails sort of let's start well so like the the name of the industry is
restoration and so restoration
could be fire water mold trauma um so it can be anything from a natural
disaster to a pipe burst or
you know the the ground thawing outside or suicides murders and stuff like that
basically if something
terrible has happened your your building where the guy's a call and do you guys
go in there feeling
like the ghostbusters y'all just feel like a bunch of like uh garbage men is
there kind of a vibe that you
feel kind of going into certain no one no one is ever happy to see us okay you
know because okay
you know it's like and fires are generally the worst i mean like when you do a
trauma cleanup you're not
normally seeing anyone that lives there or anything like that because they're
typically almost always
gone okay um but like when you're doing a fire cleanup or something you know
and everyone's personal
belongings everything every picture every birth certificate everything's gone
and you're shoveling it out with snow
shovels you know it's it can be tough okay so stuff like that environments like
that where you're
cleaning up a place and there's a lot of personal effects there it really gets
pretty it probably
you know it probably squeezes your heart huh used to i mean it's it's hard you
get really desensitive
to it desensitized to it yeah yeah so take take me like into um an example like
you go to a company
something's happened you go to a business take me into some trauma cleanup yeah
well so just to use that was an
example so it was middle of the night it was a manufacturing facility and there
was a lathe
so lathe you know you make like like for example like a baseball bat so it
spins a piece of wood
and you're cutting on it a lathe lathe yep okay and bring it up rally if you
can on the screen here
okay so something like that yep yep so just like that piece of machinery yep
that green one is
just about the same one there okay and uh so the guy was wearing uh a glove and
so he ended up getting
caught in that and so it pulled his skin off from like his elbow all the way
off his hand it's called
de-gloving and so that got caught in there so it spun around because obviously
it's still spinning so
the thing just spinning around with the yeah they spin like crazy speeds like
thousands of rpms wow
red rover red rover yeah yeah and uh danny right over that's so so this thing's
still spinning you guys
you guys get called in the guy's been de-gloved de-gloved and that means so the
skin just peels
off like if you had a glove on you took it off except for that's your skin and
so that was spinning and
obviously we shut out by the time we got there but that blood was all over
everywhere so it was all
you know the ceiling's 25 30 feet tall and it was a big manufacturing facility
so they didn't want to
shut it down so it'll you know hang plastic all around where we were cleaning
and all that stuff had
to be scrubbed down and repainted okay so you guys hang plastic around the
actual site of whatever's going
on yeah if they don't want to shut it down dang they got to keep that money
coming in huh yeah so i
mean the whole time it was really crazy you know we're cleaning skin out of
this machine and on the
other side of the plastic you can hear people talking and what type of uh what
were they making
in there overall you think you know honestly i'm not sure okay yeah i'm not i'm
not positive maybe like
a cabinet shop or something yeah it was a woodworking facility okay wow and so
you guys get called in
something like that what do you do with the actual do you actually take the
skin the hand yeah so anything
that's like affected and there's a bunch of different like categorizations of
like materials
so like wood that gets impacted really needs to be cut out and replaced but
like concrete you can
clean that so anything that gets you know that that we have to cut out and
thrown away you put it in
these special bags and then you put that in a biohazard box and then a carrier
that specially disposes
that takes it away and typically they're going to go to like an incinerator
okay oh wow so that thing it
doesn't get returned to the rightful owner it gets they the skin yeah no you're
not getting that skin
back damn have you ever had an employee try to sneak off with something sneak
off with a thumb or
something never a rotting thumb now yeah or just a middle finger maybe they're
just going to pull it
out of the bar no no that would be something though so you guys hang up the
plastic and you guys go in
there as a team if there's some type of a trauma like in a workplace or or any
place really um and
so how long does something like that take like are you guys they try to send
you in in the middle of
the night and get it done fast do they so it really depends so there's certain
things like manufacturing
facilities and stuff because like a big manufacturing facility you know they
might be making a million
plus dollars a day yeah hundreds of thousands of dollars an hour in products oh
yeah i go i'm
trying to think of some different ones hormel trying to think of different
anything mitsubishi
i'm trying to think of any other i mean there's tons oh yeah yeah yeah i mean
even a good buddy of
mine had a call out to florida uh for a machine that broke down and it was a
kit kat machine they
made kit kits yeah like and i saw a little video of it i mean just millions of
kip cakes and you know
who's eating all these kit kats yeah and they're all under they're all stressed
because the kit
kat line is shut down like the world's gonna end up we don't have any cats well
squirrels love them
dude my dad he used to sometimes go park his car at the park and he would get
like a um he had a
buddy that used to get kind of old kit kats and they were like a couple years
old kind of but they
you know you could still eat them but the chocolate was turning white a little
you know what i'm talking
about fermented i don't know if i mean i don't know if it had become like
alcoholic or not but i
know it had uh it was a little bit decrepit bring up uh old chocolate
it's aged yeah old chocolate aged
like a nice fine there you go click on one of those riley oh no that's too old
uh yeah that's
molded out just give me something that um give me something that i should have
had at christmas you know
nope okay but i'll say this is that uh so