Why Jim Scano Loves George Bush & Limonata

Ron Lyons (00:00):
How many episodes of the Kardashians. Have you ever watched

Jim Scano (00:04): Zero?

Ron Lyons (00:06):
<Laugh> how many episodes of the bachelor have you ever watched?

Jim Scano (00:10):
Oh gosh. Yeah, a few. <Laugh> that's embarrassing, but yes.

Ron Lyons (00:16):
Welcome to CelinaRadio.com recorded right here in Celina, Texas, a quiet little dusty sleepy town that

has absolutely nothing going on.

Ron Lyons (00:31):

Welcome to another episode of CelinaRadio.com guys. Today we've got Jim Scano on the show and if you don't know Jim, that you certainly know his business, atomic t-shirts. He is a fixture around Celina, Texas. He's very engaged and very involved. He's also very funny. He's one of those guys that you hardly ever see without a big smile on his face. So I had a blast talk into him. You're gonna have a really good time listening in on our conversation. And we're gonna find out all about how he got to Celina, how he got in the t-shirt business and what he does right now to give back to the firefighting community. It's an amazing story. You're really gonna like it. So guys, sit back and let's talk to Jim Scano guys. I am sitting here right now with Jim Scano. It is Scano, correct?

Jim Scano (01:36):
It is Scano. Thank you.

Ron Lyons (01:37):
And, and not Scano, cuz I want to try and say Scano, but I understand that your brother actually uses a

variation of Scano. What is, what, how does he

Jim Scano (01:45):
Say it? He does, he sayScano. He likes to have that Italian inflection in, in the name, but it's actually, we

go by Scano, right?

Ron Lyons (01:52):
And his first name's not or anything like that, right.

Jim Scano (01:55):
It could be, but it's Jeff <laugh>.

Ron Lyons (01:56):

Okay. And, and we are sitting here right now in your t-shirt shop and, and tell us, you just recently moved over here. You've got atomic t-shirts right here in Celina, Texas. Kind of give me, gimme the quick version of what you've got going on here.

Jim Scano (02:13):

Yeah. So we're sitting here in atomic, t-shirts up on the second floor. We moved to this location in August. We originally started atomic t-shirts in 2015 over there by Celina star cafe kind of on the corner of pecan and Preston. And then we moved to this location and rebuilt this from the ground up over here in this little industrial complex, over off of Oklahoma. But we moved over here last August. So it's been almost a year.

Ron Lyons (02:40):

Very, very good. And you've got more than just atomic. T-Shirts going on out of here. What is the, what's the other thing that you've got, it's more of, I guess it's related to fire department fire stuff. What, what is that for

Jim Scano (02:53):

Sure? It is. We actually, when I was a fireman in Dallas in 2011, I started a company called firehouse shirt club. And basically it's a, it's an e-commerce business. It's a t-shirt club for people that, or, you know, like the fire service, maybe retired firemen, wanna be firemen, current firemen, whatever. And every month what we do is we feature a different t-shirt from all around the world from different fire stations. And we send that t-shirt out to our members. So our members, they pay, you know, whatever it is, 23 bucks a month. And then they get a t-shirt in the mail with a little card insert that talks about that fire station. And then of course the fire stations like to work with us because we make a really nice donation back to the fire station for featuring them, for allowing us to

Ron Lyons (03:35):

Feature. So, so atomic t-shirts, that's kind of been a staple around Celina for some time. And, and like you said, you used to be located over there, close to Preston road, kind of in there where the Celina star cafe and all that, is that correct?

Jim Scano (03:48): That's correct.

Ron Lyons (03:49):

Yes. And so at that time, you, you had the cafe next door probably and some stuff like that. Now you've got some new neighbors. So how often are you over at Roller Town and how often do you go next door and start throwing axes?

Jim Scano (04:02):
Do I have to disclose that? Is that missing

Ron Lyons (04:04):

<Laugh> I think when you signed the release, I think that was part of it, but how, how often are you at Roller Town? Is that, is that pretty often that you're right

Jim Scano (04:12):

Here, dude, on Fridays, we like to go over to Roller Town. Wife might, you know, swing by here on her way. And you know, before we go out to dinner or something and swing by railroad town, not as much as I, as I, as I, you know, probably should, but we do like to go over there. It's a great place and we love the ax guys next door as

Ron Lyons (04:27):
Well, throw in the axes is a blast. Is that not the funnest thing ever, dude.

Jim Scano (04:31):

It's great. If you haven't done it, it's great. It's great for like you know small business, you know what am I trying to say? Like get out, you know, when you get out and hang out with your sure. Coworkers also like churches and things like that. It's awesome. And the people that run are fantastic.

Ron Lyons (04:45):
Very, very good. And tell me, I'm, I'm looking across your place here and this is large. How many, how

many square feet are we taking in, in this new building now?

Jim Scano (04:55):

Yeah, so when we rented the space, we're actually renting 3,600 square feet, but when I designed it and we built it, we added about 800 square feet in a second floor, kind of a mezzanine. So we're actually about 40. What is that? 4,400 square feet. Don't tell the owners cause they might start charging me more rent, but officially 3,600, but we use about 4,400

Ron Lyons (05:15):
And I see a lot of machines down there. So some of these machines with these big screens on them,

what, what is all this?

Jim Scano (05:22):

Yeah, those are our printing presses, our screen printing presses. We've got a, a manual that we started with in 2015. That was our first piece of equipment. And then since then we've added a couple of automatics. But yeah, they're, they're just more automated ways to do traditional screen printing.

Ron Lyons (05:36):
Right. And gimme an idea of like, what is atypical client profile for atomic t-shirts like, who would you

make t-shirts for

Jim Scano (05:46):

Great question. We do. T-Shirts really, for a lot of people, we have small businesses come in you know, that need t-shirts for their car washing business or their landscape business. But we also do t-shirts for large corporations as well. Nickels and dimes, for example the guys down here on Preston, they've got that, that house where they, they run out of, they have arcades and such all over the country. They're a big customer of ours. Actually Roller Town. We do a lot of stuff for Roller Town a lot of local businesses as well, but there's not really, we do churches. We do a lot of stuff for the ISDs work a lot with the schools. Just really a lot of different companies.

Ron Lyons (06:25):

And I'm really, really curious how, what kind of journey it is that get you from in your past as a firefighter to making t-shirts and becoming such a staple, the business community with all these t-shirts and stuff. How what's what's that journey,

Jim Scano (06:39):

Man, it's been a long one. I'll tell you you asked my, my wife and she says, I'll, you know, I've done all sorts of things. And I have, I actually, I actually had an engineering company back in the day. Right. You know, not too far outta high school, over in Addison where we did mechanic electrical design on multi- family. But I kind of got, I don't know, burned out, I guess in my early thirties of that whole industry and I just wanted to go do something fun. So that's how I got into the firefighting business. I said, I'm tired of this corporate stuff. I just want to go, go do fun stuff. So I joined the fire department or I actually went through fire school and then I worked for the Dallas fire department and a little bit of time in McKinney and right about the time I I got outta the fire service was when my the t-shirt business, the the subscription business firehouse shirt club really took off, which was around 2015. And then that's when we opened up the print shop to support not only local printing needs, but also the t-shirt club.

Ron Lyons (07:32):

Very, very cool, nice, nice journey. And it makes perfect sense to me. I've, I've taken my own twists and turns to get where I'm at previous law enforcement now, real estate. And I put gyms in between and all kinds of fun stuff. So I get it. I totally understand. And I, I do believe that the firehouse shirt club that's done because of your passion for the firefighting life, for the firefighters, and certainly being in Celina, you've got a lot of passion for this community as well. So tell me, what is it that just really, really makes Celina so amazing to you?

Jim Scano (08:08):

Well, first of all, thank you for that. We do, I do my wife and I, we really do try to stay involved in the community. It's an, it's an excellent community. If, if people don't know it or if you don't know it, we get a tremendous amount of support. From the city, the EDC the people of the community are huge supporters of just trying to do business locally. And we appreciate that so much. It's an exceptionally supportive community. The people around here really, really make a, a, a strong attempt to do everything local which I certainly appreciate and any small business does. And that is, that's been amazing. The support from the city and again, the support from the community, the schools, just to support, support, small business like us. It's been fantastic. I, I wouldn't go anywhere else.

Ron Lyons (08:53):

And do you love what's going on downtown? Like, I, I think that the ideas that the growth is coming, everybody knows the growth is coming. And we want that to an extent, of course, but we don't want to just sell out who we've been. And what's been so appealing about Celina over this whole time. I've been here since 93, you've been here for what, 15 years or longer,

Jim Scano (09:13):
Maybe the area for, for 15 years,

Ron Lyons (09:15):

You know what I'm talking about. So what do you think about that downtown right now? Like it, we've got the best little downtown ever don't we shoot

Jim Scano (09:21):

It's best kept secret north Texas. It really is. And it's not much of a secret anymore. <Laugh>, you know, you can see that on anytime they do these events downtown, it just gets stacked with parking. But it is, it's a fantastic downtown. So

Ron Lyons (09:33):

One of the questions that I love to ask people, because one of the things I get feedback wise from the people who listen, and by the way, it's growing exceptionally fast. So, but where do you like to eat when you go downtown Celina?

Jim Scano (09:46):

Oh, gosh. Honestly I, I try to, I try to hit all of them. Unfortunately there's not very many of them, you know, so, so I have to eat a lot of them multiple times a week, but I think my my go-to at least once a week is a toasted Walnut. It's just a great place to grab a good sandwich or, you know, whatever they've got on the menus. Fantastic.

Ron Lyons (10:04):

So that's that's so that's the next question. If I walk in, you're sitting in a toasted Walnut and you're sitting there working on all of your reports and doing all of your work and stuff. What do I see you eating?

Jim Scano (10:15):
I had it today for lunch. The Italian <laugh> well,

Ron Lyons (10:19):
Of course, of course, Scotto that's. That makes perfect sense. Of course you had the Italian, so, you

know, tell me about that. I don't, I don't know exactly what that is. What is that,

Jim Scano (10:28):
Man? That's an Italian sandwich. I don't know. It's got all this Italian meat and some cheese and all the

goodness that Joey puts on that sandwich. It makes it amazing. You're

Ron Lyons (10:36):
Like, I, I'm not a cook. I make t-shirts but just trust me. It's good stuff. So

Jim Scano (10:40):
That's right. And I actually don't even do that. <Laugh> that's

Ron Lyons (10:43):

Awesome. Okay. You run the show, you run the show, right? Right. Now I'm sitting here looking at a drink that you brought me while ago, and you said I could have water, or I could have this. That's got a

really long name. It's Sanpellegrino Limonata Italian sparkling drinks. Now that sounds pretty fancy. So tell me about this. Like, is this, is this something that you like something you have on a, a regular basis or does, is this just what they had on sale and you grabbed it?

Jim Scano (11:10):

No. I found this, this is Sanpellegrino. It's a lemons, the flavor that I like it's, it's an Italian sparkling drink. Fantastic. you can only get it in certain places. You can get it at target. I actually order mine online because it's, it's hard to find and I have well, I can't tell you how many cases, because my wife would know, but I have OBS stashed all over this stuff is fantastic. I really don't know where I found it to be honest with you, but I found it probably within the last three or four months. You need to try it.

Ron Lyons (11:39):

I I'm gonna, I'm gonna open this up right now as we sit here. Okay. And then I'm, I'm gonna give this a shot. So bear with me one second. Going for the tape. Oh my gosh, dude. That's really good. That is very lemony and good. Right?

Jim Scano (11:56):
It's like actual Italian lemons. At least that's what it says on the can

Ron Lyons (11:59):

<Laugh> I like it. I'm a little worried about the calories. How are we on calories here? Not, no, not terrible. 120 calories. I can, I can, I can, I can hang with that. That's not bad at all. Wow. That's really, really good. So, so you like the, the Italian sandwich you like, you've got the Sanpellegrino here and yeah, we've got quite the eclectic thing going on here. So what kind of things does Jim Scano do for fun? Like what are your hobbies and interests?

Jim Scano (12:27):

Gosh, I really you know, I love being around my family, my friends, and that's the truth. We never, my wife and I, we spent a lot of time around around our friends, either going off to dinner you might be able to hear the train in the background or, and

Ron Lyons (12:39):
That's awesome. That adds so much. That's the lineup for you right there. That's

Jim Scano (12:42):

Awesomeness. That's for sure. But yeah. So yeah, I'd love to be around family and friends. I'm gonna wait til the train goes by. <Laugh> my personal, there it goes one more time. My personal ho my personal hobbies. I, I have a pilot's license and me and a couple of other guys have an airplane, so I fly a little bit.

Ron Lyons (12:59):
Okay. Tell me about this airplane. So are we talking about like a propeller type, like assess something

along those lines? Is that the, yeah, Jim Scano (13:05):

Exactly. It's exactly. It's a, it's actually a Piper, but it's a SA it's comparable to like assess no 1 72. A lot of people are familiar with. Gotcha.

Ron Lyons (13:12):
And if you take that thing out flying, are you just flying locally or do you take it like on little trips? What

do you do with it?

Jim Scano (13:18):

We've done both. And if I'm not going on a trip, I've just fly around north Texas. I buzzed around here quite a bit, but, but yeah, we've taken it as far as we've had it for about two years. I'm, I've taken it as far as Indiana.

Ron Lyons (13:28):

What a fantastic thing, what a great hobby. So I, I I'm, I'm kind of intrigued by this idea of having a plane and you share ownership with someone else, like you said, so where, where would you keep an airplane around here?

Jim Scano (13:42):

Surprisingly? it's hard to find a place to keep an airplane. Air airports are disappearing faster than we can keep up they're cuz they're not making any more of them. Land's too valuable. So we are fortunate. We have our plane in a hanger over at arrow country in McKinney, just right there, right behind Walmart, kind of three 80 Custer area. Right. We're right over there.

Ron Lyons (14:03):
Very, very cool. So you, you got your pilots license, how long ago?

Jim Scano (14:08):
Two officially. I think it was 2000, 19,

Ron Lyons (14:10):
2019. So you've been flying for a minute. Have you had any scary situations yet?

Jim Scano (14:16):

I'll tell you what. Yeah. So, so when we did our trip to Indiana, it was is me and my wife and my, our daughter, my daughter of faith. We were going up there to see my other daughter. She was at a horse show. So we flew up there and there's, there's a lot of things, you know, in a smaller airplane, there's, they're super simple to fly, but you gotta be smart about it. And you do these calculations for your fuel because I can only take, I can only fill up so much fuel for the weight that I have. You know what I mean? Right. Because we're going in a long distance. So if it's just me by myself, I could fill the tanks full, but with my daughter and baggage and all that, I had to empty the tanks a little bit. And so I had to calculate fuel and we had to make one stop, I think in Arkansas. And then our next stop was our, our destination. And I did a great job and my wife, Deborah kind of helped me calculate on the way there. But when we landed in you know, we stopped and we refueled Arkansas. But when we landed in Indiana, I think I had less than five gallons.

Ron Lyons (15:15): My

Jim Scano (15:15):
Goodness, which is, which is exactly what I calculated <laugh>. But in hindsight, probably, probably not

the smartest move in the world.

Ron Lyons (15:24):
So I I'm imagining five gallons. I'm like, I, I carry a five gallon gas can when I go out and mow the, the, the

front yard. So I don't know if I'd wanna be in your airplane with only five gallons of gas in it.

Jim Scano (15:36):
That's not, that's not when it's burning at nine gallons an hour, you know?

Ron Lyons (15:38):
Oh my goodness. So, wow. That's crazy. But does flying an airplane do things for you that only people

who fly would understand

Jim Scano (15:46):
A hundred percent, a hundred

Ron Lyons (15:47):
Percent? Give me an idea. Like what, what is it like, what's the attraction? What is it that just makes you

love to do that?

Jim Scano (15:54):

When you get up in the air at nothing else on the ground matters, like it just goes away. It really does because you are, you know, you're at altitude and you know, now the top gun gun came out, you know, I'm, I'm pretty popular, pretty popular guy. Right, right, right, right. But when you're at altitude, I mean, you do, you gotta be on your toes, you know, you don't mess around, you know, we, you have some time to relax a little bit, but, but you really gotta pay attention. And so all of the things on the ground sort of go away, they really, really do. I mean, I could probably go over a forest fire and not even notice it just because you're just, you just, not, you just paying attention to what's going on in the airplane. That is, especially when you're running, that kind of fuel.

Ron Lyons (16:33):
Yeah. <Laugh> so if I ever go up with you, I, the first thing I'm gonna say is how much gas do we

Jim Scano (16:38):
Have? Absolutely. It's a great question to ask any pilot. Actually,

Ron Lyons (16:41):

If I, if I get on the plane and I have my own jug, then you're gonna know this, this is what's going on. It's probably not even legal, but you know, you're

Jim Scano (16:49):
Not gonna be need that. We're good.

Ron Lyons (16:51):

I, I am flying with a former firefighter. I'm okay. I can bring gas on the plane. That's so I'm gonna ask you a couple of things. So like, if you didn't live in Celina or in the Celina area, where would be your next favorite place to live?

Jim Scano (17:05):

Gosh, I'm for me personally, I'm kind of a, a mountain guy. I would, I'd like to see Colorado, you know, growing up here, I'm just kind of over the humidity and I'm, I'm looking for a place to retire where the humidity, in fact, I went to all, I went to a little website and I looked at all the states to find out which one had the lowest average humidity. And I looked at all of 'em and that's kind of where I've got my eye on the top, you know, five

Ron Lyons (17:29):

I gotcha. And that makes perfect sense because if you go outside, it is, I mean, the heat's one thing. Right. But when you put the humidity in there too. Oh my gosh. It's just literally unbearable at times. So tell me this. What's your least favorite color?

Jim Scano (17:43):
Least favorite color would probably be green.

Ron Lyons (17:47):
Green. Okay. And what's your favorite?

Jim Scano (17:50):
Blue. Okay. I'm always wearing blue or gray.

Ron Lyons (17:53):
Makes me feel good that I'm wearing a blue shirt today. Yeah, you

Jim Scano (17:56): Too qualified.

Ron Lyons (17:56):
You qualify. I, I, it allowed me to get in the front door. I got past security. So that was good. If you could

be in a movie, any movie from all time, any movie you can't say top gun.

Jim Scano (18:07):
Oh man. That was such an easy one.

Ron Lyons (18:09):
<Laugh> what, what movie would you be in if you could star in a movie?

Jim Scano (18:14):
Oh gosh. Beyond that. I probably like the untouchables.

Ron Lyons (18:17):

Oh, wow. Nice. Very, very good. All right. That's good. And, and do you guys ever do things like, do you go to six flags? Do you go to the state fair? Do you tend to go to those types of places? Or is that something, yeah, not so much. We're not, we're not big on that.

Jim Scano (18:30):

Yeah. Not so much. I I'll go, you know, just of course to entertain the kids or the family, but I'm not a huge like crowd. I don't like a lot of crowds now, like downtown line, that's different, you know, it's kind of our community and I love going to those, but like going to, going to sporting events, going to six flags, it just, not my thing. And I don't like standing in lines.

Ron Lyons (18:50):

So, so what I was gonna ask is a person who likes to fly their own plane. Do you also get some sort of enjoyment out of riding things like roller coasters and stuff like that or, or they, or they distinctly different? I'm just curious.

Jim Scano (19:04):
Interestingly enough is I'm scared of Heights <laugh> so I don't

Ron Lyons (19:09):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You fly in airplane. Yeah. And you don't like Heights.

Jim Scano (19:15):
Yeah. But I'm telling you, like, I'm not the only pilot

Ron Lyons (19:18): <Laugh> like

Jim Scano (19:19): Ask or

Ron Lyons (19:20): Count.

Jim Scano (19:20):
It's not uncommon. I Don know what

Ron Lyons (19:22):

It is. This is how this is gonna work is we're gonna, we're gonna go up in plane and we're only gonna have five gallons of gas, right. With a pilot that doesn't like Heights here and we're in a little trouble, but you know what, when we go down, we're gonna have the coolest t-shirts on right -dang straight

Jim Scano (19:39): <Laugh> for

Ron Lyons (19:39):
Sure. So tell me about this. You don't like

Jim Scano (19:41):

Heights? No, I never have. I never had, and it made it really challenging to go through like fire school because, you know, we gotta go through ladders and third story buildings and we gotta, you know, get way up there. And man, my, I, I hated it. I hated Heights. I don't like being on roofs. Yeah. I don't like it. Little tall, tall buildings. None of it.

Ron Lyons (19:58):

Super, super awesome. So if, if you could spend a day with someone from history, it could be a famous person or not famous person. It could literally be anybody, but someone who's not actively in your life right now. Who would you like to spend a day with

Jim Scano (20:11): George Bush?

Ron Lyons (20:13): Which

Jim Scano (20:13): One? The junior?

Ron Lyons (20:14):
The junior. Tell me about that.

Jim Scano (20:16):

Yeah, he's just, I've always admired him, especially through, you know, when we went through nine 11 and his presidency. I just don't, I just don't know that I have ever seen someone who is more just caring as an individual, such a great parent, such a great husband. I've loved the, the new movie. I think it's just called Bush. It may be on Netflix or something like that, where they kind of show George Bush as a, you know, as a young adult and him growing in and, you know, going to being a governor and then the president and all of his, like, I guess screwups like he was, you know, he was kind of a jerk at times when he was younger, but then he just matured and became this just exceptional president. And I just have so much admiration for that guy. I love him.

Ron Lyons (21:02):
That's awesome. What a great person to spend the day with? Give me another one. Give someone else

that you'd like to spend a day with. That was a great one. Jim Scano (21:07):

Nolan Ryan.

Ron Lyons (21:08):

Oh my gosh. Okay. Now where you're talking my language, tell me, right? Yes. So every, he, he won me over at about the second punch on, on Ventura. I think that was, that was the gay right there. I was like, yeah, I have a new hero. And it's called Nolan Ryan. He is already just amazing.

Jim Scano (21:27):
Ventura was the only guy to get five hits outta Nolan Ryan and never make it to first base.

Ron Lyons (21:31):

<Laugh> oh my gosh. That is so awesome. That was, that was classic. That was fantastic. I mean, that was just, I I'm not condoning violence and that kind of stuff. Of course, but that was, Hey, he charged the Mo

Jim Scano (21:46):
Dude. You were, he was, I think he was like a young, he was young, right? He was like, maybe his first or

second year or something like that. And then you charged the mound of Nolan, Ryan mm-hmm

Ron Lyons (21:55):
<Affirmative> not real smart, not real smart, but this

Jim Scano (21:57):
Guy's a legend. He was a legend. Then Nolan, Ryan started playing baseball to pay for his ranching. No

Ron Lyons (22:03): Kidding.

Jim Scano (22:03):

He wanted to be a ranch. He's always wanted to be a rancher. I saw this on some documentary. So he wasn't like, Hey, I want to go play baseball. Cause I wanna be a, an athlete. No, he wanted, he wanted a ranch. So he went to play baseball, to pay for his ranch. I

Ron Lyons (22:15):

Had no earth of idea who are two very influential people in your own life. And it could be people that were family. It could be, you know, maybe a coach in the past or somebody who's been very influential in your life. Two people.

Jim Scano (22:28):

May I tell you that is a really hard question for me to answer because I can't narrow it down to two people. I get a lot out of, I try to get something out of all the people that I be that I, that I, you know, that I'm around. I mean, you know, most recently of course my wife she's been incredibly influe influential on my life in the most recent years. Growing up, of course, my dad and my mom good, strong

Christians. They they've been married, continue to be married, you know, 50, gosh, I think maybe 60 years. Oh my goodness. That's terrible. I don't know, but

Ron Lyons (22:57):
That's no, but that's amazing

Jim Scano (22:57):

A long, long time they've been married and so them for sure, my brother and my sister I'm about, I'm about nine years younger than my brother and sister. So I was somewhat of an only child once, you know, the time I reached whatever 10. Sure. but my brother and sister just incredibly influential all my life and just, just just they're, they're just awesome people. They really, really are. My friends I've got a very, very close group of friends that I grew up with. And and we still spend not a lot of time together just because we've got families, but we all still live within, you know, 20 miles of each other. So, and we get together for the big events. My friends are a huge influence on me, so it's hard to say too, but man, I've, I've had a lot of great, great people around,

Ron Lyons (23:43):

But that's, but that's part of like, what makes you, who you are is you, like you said, you get a lot, you, you have all these great people around you and you, and you gain something from that. If you can, I, I'm gonna hop over to some kind of fun questions real quick. And, and one that I like to ask people is if you were a ghost, what would you do

Jim Scano (24:01):
If I were a ghost and I could do anything. Right. So I could like fly anywhere.

Ron Lyons (24:07):
Yeah, absolutely. The world's yours, you're a ghost, man. I

Jim Scano (24:11):

Mean just thinking, you know, off the cuff and I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about this. I've never been asked that question before. So it's the first time and I'm, I'm not a super fast thinker. So off the cuff, I'm thinking, gosh, wouldn't it be cool to just like, hang around on an aircraft carrier or something and just see, you know, how the military runs and, you know, hang out on the day on the flight deck and watch those planes take off. I think that'd be pretty sick.

Ron Lyons (24:30):
That would be pretty awesome. So would you scare people?

Jim Scano (24:33):
Oh my God. It's ghost. Of course you've gotta

Ron Lyons (24:35): To right.

Jim Scano (24:36):

You

Ron Lyons (24:36):
That make a pin roll across the desk or, you know, just, just make the room, get colder, whatever ghost

powers are. I mean, absolutely gotta

Jim Scano (24:44):

Do that. As a matter of fact, I could tell you a little story when we were kids. One of our furnace, you know, one of our funnest little pranks that we used to do we did all sorts of stuff as kids, but so back then, you know, everybody had basically the same cable, you know, this before direct TV and all that, we had cable, right? So we would take our <laugh>. We would take my parents remote control from their cable box. We'd run around the neighborhood at night and look in people's windows and change their

Ron Lyons (25:09): Channels. Oh my God. In

Jim Scano (25:10):
Arrange the volume, turn the TV on and off it is. So we're basically playing ghosts then.

Ron Lyons (25:15):
Oh my gosh. That is insane. What a great, I am sorry that I missed out on doing that. That sounds

Jim Scano (25:21):
Totally innocent. Other than the fact that you're peeing in their windows. Right. <laugh>

Ron Lyons (25:25):

But that was, you didn't have a malicious intent other than just to scare someone. Yeah, this is awesome. I think that's awesome. That is, that's a lot of fun. So if, if you could go back in time, speaking of when you were younger, if you could go back to your 17 year old self and either give yourself some advice or just say something to yourself, what kind of thing would you say or ask yourself, or what advice would you give yourself?

Jim Scano (25:48):
Keep going, be patient. You know, we

Ron Lyons (25:50): Explain that.

Jim Scano (25:51):

Yeah. You know, as a, as a young adult and with, with brother and sister older than me, they were obviously ahead of me. Right. And I always wanted to catch up and I never, you know, I, I started young. I, I, I couldn't get through, you know, I had to get through college. I went through one, one semester of college and got kicked out for, you know, on academics just because I I just wasn't patient. I, I couldn't

sit still, you know, I, I just want to go, I'm tired of college. I'm ready to start my own business, you know, I'm I gotta, I gotta go. So I wish I'd have been more, more patient, more patient with myself.

Ron Lyons (26:25):
So you'd tell yourself be more patient.

Jim Scano (26:27):
Yeah. Follow through with, with the little things, stick

Ron Lyons (26:30): With it.

Jim Scano (26:30):

Yeah. It's so important. I've learned that as an adult to, to, to follow through with the little things, or you may have heard the, the guy talk about I think he was doing a commencement speech. It was a military gun. I don't remember his name, but he talked about the, you know, the, the, the things that you could do to make yourself successful. And, and the first thing that you can do is make your bed in the morning. Mm. Because regardless of how good of a bad or bad of a day you have, you come home and at least you got that done.

Ron Lyons (26:55):

Yeah. Profound stuff. Very, very, very good stuff. So if you can think back to kind of that time period in your life, like, let's, let's just say middle school, high school, what TV shows did you used to like to watch when you were a kid? Like, did you do I, I would school and then came home, flipped on the TV. And I think my first show was like, Gilligans island. And then just kinda whatever, it just rolled like that

Jim Scano (27:18):
Same. Did you island? That was the show. Yeah.

Ron Lyons (27:21):

I mean, every day. So to this day, it makes no sense, like to my child to, to watch that they hate it. Yeah. But it's, but it was greatness and I, and I love doing it. So gimme some other ideas of, of shows that you used to, like when you were a kid or cartoons, what did you used to

Jim Scano (27:36):

Like, I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons and I liked the road runner one. I can't remember the name of it. That was, that was always a really good one. I think I liked it. It's interesting. I think I liked it because if my dad got up and he would watch it with me, he would laugh his tail off. And I think that's why I kind of connected with it.

Ron Lyons (27:52):

I've got some very rapid fire questions for you. All right. And, and luckily, most of these are just like one word answers and stuff. So this is gonna, this is the way that I like to give somebody insight into somebody in about one minute.

Jim Scano (28:06): Okay. You got it. All

Ron Lyons (28:07):
Right, here we go. Iphone or Android?

Jim Scano (28:09): Iphone

Ron Lyons (28:09): Mustard or mayonnaise,

Jim Scano (28:11): Mayonnaise,

Ron Lyons (28:11):
Coke, or Pepsi, Coke, chocolate or vanilla chocolate chili with beans or without,

Jim Scano (28:17): Without

Ron Lyons (28:18):
Pineapple. Okay. On pizza or pineapple? Never on pizza.

Jim Scano (28:22): Okay. On pizza,

Ron Lyons (28:24):
More cream or more sugar,

Jim Scano (28:26): Cream,

Ron Lyons (28:27):
Classic rock or classic country.

Jim Scano (28:29): Classic rock

Ron Lyons (28:31): Ford or Chevy,

Jim Scano (28:32):

Chevy,

Ron Lyons (28:33):
Fruity pebbles or fruit loops.

Jim Scano (28:35): Fruity pebbles,

Ron Lyons (28:37): Acoustic or electric guitar.

Jim Scano (28:39): Acoustic.

Ron Lyons (28:40):

Okay. And this is the one I always paused on. I don't know why I did this to the mayor. I paused on this because you could take this two ways. Let me think this means, which would you rather play? Not, which would you'll understand when I ask first or third base?

Jim Scano (28:56): Third base.

Ron Lyons (28:57):
Okay. Do you see how that could really be taken the wrong way that could

Jim Scano (29:00):
Be taking the wrong way? That

Ron Lyons (29:01):
Could be. So I stop on that. I'm gonna scratch it out of my little book here. So I don't have to ask that

anymore. And you've already answered this one, but I'm gonna ask anyways, beat your mountains.

Jim Scano (29:10): Mountains,

Ron Lyons (29:11):
1986 or 19 99, 86 orange juice with or without pulp.

Jim Scano (29:18):
Absolutely. You can't drink it with pulp thats wrong. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (29:20):
I love it. Ralph mouth or Potsy

Jim Scano (29:26): Potsy

Ron Lyons (29:26): Laverne or Shirley

Jim Scano (29:29): Laverne,

Ron Lyons (29:29):
Disney world or Disneyland.

Jim Scano (29:32):
A hundred percent Disney world.

Ron Lyons (29:33):
What's the last thing that you Googled?

Jim Scano (29:35):
It was something of what? Not the last thing I Google. I think it was something about electricity.

Ron Lyons (29:39): Larry Curley or Mo

Jim Scano (29:40): Curly,

Ron Lyons (29:41):
Skim milk, or whole milk, whole milk, silver or gold, silver Harley or Corvette? Harley Davidson or

Corvette,

Jim Scano (29:49): Corvette.

Ron Lyons (29:50): Fred or

Jim Scano (29:50): Barney? Barney

Ron Lyons (29:51): Road, runner or coyote

Jim Scano (29:53): Road runner.

Ron Lyons (29:54):
How many episodes of the Kardashians have you ever watched?

Jim Scano (29:58): Zero.

Ron Lyons (30:00):
How many episodes of the bachelor have you ever watched?

Jim Scano (30:04): Oh gosh. Yeah, a few.

Ron Lyons (30:06): <Laugh>

Jim Scano (30:08):
That's embarrassing, but yes.

Ron Lyons (30:10):
Oh my gosh. All right. We'll just leave it right there. We'll just say yes on that one. That's we're not

gonna put a number on it. Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker,

Jim Scano (30:18): Luke Skywalker,

Ron Lyons (30:20): Miyagi-Do or Cobra, Kai

Jim Scano (30:22): Miyagi-Do,

Ron Lyons (30:24): Brown or white gravy,

Jim Scano (30:26): White gravy

Ron Lyons (30:27):
Brownies with or without nuts,

Jim Scano (30:29): Without nuts.

Ron Lyons (30:31): Am radio or FM radio,

Jim Scano (30:33): FM radio

Ron Lyons (30:34): Sausage or bacon,

Jim Scano (30:36): Bacon.

Ron Lyons (30:37):
You have to eliminate one letter from the alphabet. Which letter do you eliminate?

Jim Scano (30:42): Q

Ron Lyons (30:44):
What kind of animal would you be if you were not a human,

Jim Scano (30:47): A dog?

Ron Lyons (30:48):
<Laugh> you would be a dog. I like that a dog that's afraid of Heights or not.

Jim Scano (30:56):
I would prefer to be a dog that wasn't afraid of Heights. That'd be awesome to be sometimes, you know,

Ron Lyons (30:59):
Would you be a dog that drank Pellegrino? Liata

Jim Scano (31:03):
<Laugh> that's all I drink. If I could. <Laugh> that's awesome. We living the high life as a dog.

Ron Lyons (31:07):

Very good, Jim. I know you've got some social media stuff out there and I just watched a video, something you did, it was a bit of a promotion for your business. And it literally had me laughing and watching it all the way through. And it was fantastic. I wanna direct people to go watch that. As a matter

of fact, if I can, I'm gonna link to it on salon, radio.com on this particular video that I'm gonna link I'm I'm, I'm explaining this to the people. There's, there's someone standing in front of the building. He throws a t-shirt over the building, then runs in the front door, goes through the entire shop. And on his way through the shop, he like slides across the table. He picks something up like a t-shirt or something. I don't know, and like wax another person in the face with it. And he, and he goes through all his stuff. Obviously you couldn't throw a t-shirt over the building. Obviously you wouldn't have time to do all this stuff, but then he makes it out to the back. And as he's clearing the building here comes the t-shirt and lo and behold, he catches it. Yeah. And it's

Jim Scano (32:07):
Awesome. I just, no, Ron, that actually happened.

Ron Lyons (32:09):

It, it actually did happen. So that's the next thing I want to do then is I wanna come over here and actually film that, but you've got a really, really awesome window out front. And I saw that earlier. What is that like 1960s or what, what is

Jim Scano (32:22):

That? Yeah, so the word atomic is kind of like mid-century right. So the screen printing has been around for a hundred, you know, several hundred years, but really became popular in the states in like the mid, you know, fifties, sixties. So that's where the name atomic came from. So in our display window, right out here in front of our parking lot, we've got a long, tall display window where we have like a mid- century sort of what, like a, like a set. I don't know what the name of it is.

Ron Lyons (32:50):

It's mannequins scene history. It's, it's like a television there and you've got some and it's very retro and awesome looking. So it makes perfect sense with the atomic. T-Shirts it sense? So, so, you know, it'd be super cool.

Jim Scano (33:03): What's that

Ron Lyons (33:04):
Is if people came over here and stood in front of your window and actually did a selfie in front of

whatever scene you've got going on, cuz you're, you're gonna change that out from time to time, right?

Jim Scano (33:13):
Yeah. We, we will. So like Christmas, you know, probably throw up a Christmas tree and maybe a leg

lamp or something, but <laugh> but yeah, that'd be great. Let's do a promotion. I'm in, you

Ron Lyons (33:20):

Wanna do a promotion? So, so we can do a promotion. So if, why don't we say this? If somebody comes over, they stand in front of the window, do a selfie, throw it up on social media. What, what would you want them to tag?

Jim Scano (33:31):

Well let's just like Instagram. It's probably the easiest because it's simply atomic teases, T E E S. But yeah, if you tag us on Instagram at atomic tees with two E heck I don't know, we'll maybe we can do a drawing or something, give somebody a free t-shirt and you know what else I'll do? We'll throw in like a six month subscription to firehouse shirt club,

Ron Lyons (33:52):

Dude. I will love that. What a fantastic idea. So we we'd give away a free t-shirt and could I get you to autograph and sign that something like, you know, follow your dreams or something cuz that's, that's basically what you've done.

Jim Scano (34:02): Absolutely. Yeah. I'd love to.

Ron Lyons (34:04):

So we'll give away an autograph. T-Shirt straight from a atomic t-shirt and then a six month subscription to firehouse shirt club. And then they're gonna get the shirt of the month basically once a month for six months. That's it. Wow. I love it, Jim. That's a fantastic idea. We're gonna do that. But if people wanted to find you say on Facebook, Instagram, or if you wanted to share your email or a phone number, what, what kind of information do you want to share with people?

Jim Scano (34:28):

Yeah, for firehouse shirt club. That let's see it's on Instagram. It's just fire. You can just look up firehouse shirt club and for atomic t-shirt it's on Instagram, it's just atomic tees. Facebook is kind of the same. I think it's, you know, just Facebook slash firehouse shirt club and Facebook slash atomic. T-Shirts I believe on that one.

Ron Lyons (34:46):

I think you're in a very, very fun business and I think you're the right guy to be doing this. And you're certainly good for Celina. Celina loves you and I know you love Celina and we appreciate having you on the show so very much. And I'd love to have you on again. Would you, was, was it, was it so horrible that you wouldn't come back or would you be willing to come on again?

Jim Scano (35:02):
Did I come back in a heartbeat, Ron? I really appreciate you having me on it was a lot of fun.

Ron Lyons (35:10):

All right, guys, that was Jim Scano. And as a tribute to the window, you guys set up at the front of his atomic t-shirt shop right here in Celina, Texas. I thought I'd play a little 1960s music. So it's kind of in that atomic age, when we came out of world war II through the fifties in their early sixties, and this is the throwback to that time. So stop by his place. Check out that window. Remember to do a selfie in front of it, throw it up on Instagram and tag atomic Ts, T E E S. And we're gonna do that drawing and give away that six month subscription to some of those firehouse t-shirts. And you're also gonna get a special atomic t-shirt autograph by Jim Scano. Now guys do me a favor, share this on your social media, post us

on Facebook, go follow us on TikTok and Instagram and all that fun stuff and help us continue to build this as the number one podcast in Celina, Texas.

Ron Lyons (36:12):

And we've got some amazing guests coming up on the show. You're gonna wanna love it. I wish that I could just push 'em all out at one time. So you could just kind of do a binge listen, but of course we can't do that. Cause then you'd have nothing to look forward to. So guys stay safe out there. The world's a crazy place right now, but you know what? We're gonna make it through it together. And as I always say, God bless, and I'll see you on the next show. Now let's jam out just a little bit to some of this 1960s coolness.