{"podcast":{"title":"The Zach and Pat Show","slug":"the-zach-and-pat-show-6732613","podcast_index_feed_id":6732613,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/thezachandpatshow/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/thezachandpatshow","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/thezachandpatshow/20240115_020108_07b7952fd3f17016ecdb7a66092af19c.jpg","author":"Zach Fagas, Patrick Doyle","episode_count":271,"summary":"Welcome to The Zach and Pat Show! A podcast focused on manhood, business, and winning overall! Join us as we talk about current events, what it means to be a man in the decade of the 2020's, and how to win at this thing we call life!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T10:19:25.678527+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zach-and-pat-show-6732613"},"episode":{"title":"Your Foundation Guy Is Probably Lying to You — How Not to Get Ripped Off | Stephen Burton","slug":"your-foundation-guy-is-probably-lying-to-you-how-not-to-get-ripped-off-stephen-burton","published_at":"2026-07-10T19:33:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zach-and-pat-show-6732613/your-foundation-guy-is-probably-lying-to-you-how-not-to-get-ripped-off-stephen-burton","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zach-and-pat-show-6732613","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/thezachandpatshow/2978153","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/243521/2978153/thezachandpatshow/2026_07_10_19_31_21_2e24c157-49d4-4a44-9a5c-db663c3c80f9.mp3","summary":"Stephen Burton is the owner and educator of Foundation Rescue in St. Louis, with 35 years and $100M in foundation repairs behind him. In this episode he pulls back the curtain on an industry with no licensing test and no standards: why homes really fail (gutters and downspouts, not \"your walls falling\"), how to avoid getting ripped off, the $175 inspection he’ll do before you spend $30,000, the difference between clients and customers, and the faith and integrity that turned him from \"part of the problem\" into an advocate. Equal parts homeowner survival guide and a lesson in doing business the right way. What you’ll take away • The real cause of most foundation problems — and the two things every homeowner should do today. • How to tell a good foundation contractor from a predatory one (licensing, insurance, the 3-day rescission). • Why \"fixing the crack\" without fixing the cause guarantees a new crack. • Clients vs. customers — and why treating people as clients wins long-term. • Owning your mistakes: how he went from \"the problem\" to reforming the industry. Pull-quotes • \"Your walls do not fall. That’s the scare tactic.\" • \"Clients buy information. Customers buy products.\" • \"If you don’t know who the idiot is at the poker table, it’s you.\" • \"He was a slow learner, but he figured it out.\" (his tombstone)","meta_description":"Stephen Burton is the owner and educator of Foundation Rescue in St. Louis, with 35 years and $100M in foundation repairs behind him. In this episode he p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5257,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-zach-and-pat-show-6732613/episodes/your-foundation-guy-is-probably-lying-to-you-how-not-to-get-ripped-off-stephen-burton/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zach-and-pat-show-6732613/your-foundation-guy-is-probably-lying-to-you-how-not-to-get-ripped-off-stephen-burton.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}