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Back this week with some fun updates. We discuss two new videos we shot as well as whats going on at Greene Street and what Jon is up to in his shop and home.
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All right, we're cutting this intro off short. Let us know if the intro
Woodworking Education for Youth
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is too long. We got to cut that down a little bit. Welcome back to the show. How's it going? Not bad. Not bad. Just got what, two videos in.
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Sure. Yeah. We, we shot one with Cameron learning how to use the street big. Nice to see a young guy learning how to woodwork. Yeah. I don't think it doesn't seem to me like he has a past in that. I mean, no, he, um, like had, I think would shop in, in high school or middle school, like something very rudimentary. Um, which is funny because I didn't even have that. It was already gone by the time I was in school. They must be bringing it back, but yeah, that was it.
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Yeah, I think they have a, it's not called Woodshop now, I don't think. I think it's called like TechEd or something like that. My nephew used to teach that and they had a nice little shop at the old high school that I went to. And I did go to Woodshop.
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I went to Woodshop I think for maybe even three years and I was a foreman at the end. I ended up going to school until I think my junior year I started leaving school at 1230 and then going to work for a place called the Woodworker. I happened to be there at one and I worked there until six. Five days a week and then four hours on Saturdays. But we did have Woodshop and
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It was good.
Woodworking Safety: Tools and Precautions
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I hope they bring it back because it's, you know, look how many, like all of my kids know how to use tools. We were talking earlier about how the table saw is a little, can be a little scary or dangerous. And out of my three sons, the only one who uses the table saw is Walter because he uses it on a daily basis. And he's very tool. He's just a tool guy.
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where the other guys use tools, but they just don't use the table saw. Would they or? If I just want to give them a little heads up, I don't want them like I don't want Michael to be like, oh yeah, I'm going to go cut this on the table saw. No, you're not. Yeah, it's like getting that's like we're talking about.
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this too. I haven't let Cameron use the table saw yet because I feel like you need experience on other tools first. It seems simple because we've been doing it for however long.
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a lot can go wrong in that 10 seconds. And just because it's a, a saw stop doesn't, doesn't change it because then you have to think about kickback and all the other dangers there are like with a miter saw, your hands really aren't ever close to the blade where a table saw you're pushing through, you know, it's always going through. And yeah, so it's one of those things, like you said, if you cut,
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If you're a round wood and you're cutting other pieces or using other tools, you sort of intuitively learn how to read wood. And that's a big part of using a table saw, just knowing what a piece of wood might do as you go to push it through. So Walter has that, you know, he understands that, where it's completely foreign to anybody who hasn't used a saw.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like Cameron's only used the miter saw really. Um, I was going to like have him try the circular saw, but then I'm like, Oh, that's like, we got to wait a little bit. Yeah. You can, you can mess yourself up with the circular. So what about, uh, what about the, uh, what's the track saw? Um, it's a little safer because it's on a track. And yeah, I don't know if he's used it, but yeah, I would, I would, I think maybe I've had to make a cut.
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Yeah, remember, but that, that I would have no problem. That's like, you really have to be negligent to get hurt on that. You know, you got to stick your hand underneath while you're jigsaw I'd be comfortable with. Band saws are dangerous. Yeah. I think people get comfortable with a band saw because it seems safe.
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Exactly. It does seem safe, but you can, you can mess yourself up quick on a band saw. I haven't, but I'm, I was talking to one of my kids. I was like, yeah, that's like the main tool in a butcher. Yeah. And you know, that's what they cut all meat with as a band saw. It just slices through like butter. Yeah. So.
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Yeah, with the bandsaw, a lot of it is like you cannot lean into that stuff, you know, or like it's like thumbs, like pushing with your thumbs and not moving your hand because when you're putting pressure with your arms, when you go through, you know, you could just send your hands into the blade, you know?
Dealing with Equipment Errors
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Yeah. Yeah. That's a scary thought.
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I had a close call on the edge bander yesterday. So I told you Friday, we went to edge band some stuff, which is so funny because Eric was here from colonial with the new sales guy. I think his name is Sean. He was here on Wednesday.
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And he's amazing. Like we got to get him mic'd up and just walk around the shop for like a whole day. He gave a symposium on the edge banner to Cameron and I. Wow. And this new guy, Sean. Sean. I never met Sean. Yeah. So he's the new sales guy for like, I think New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, something like that. So he's new to Colonial Saw. So they were going around to a couple of different shops.
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And he, you know, Eric worked for Stiles for a long time, which is like huge German, one of the premier woodworking tool, if not the premier woodworking tool company. So he knows all these machines in and out, not just the stuff that Colonial sells.
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So, I mean, I picked up a couple things that I was like, man, I wish I had known these sooner. But he was just rattling stuff off effortlessly.
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about the edge bander. And then, so Cameron and I went to use it on Friday, just edge band a couple of things real quick. And I got a thermic relay error. So there's all these overloads inside the cabinet, where if something isn't right, something gets overloaded, it'll trip this
Impact of Sports Injuries on Lifestyle
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little breaker essentially.
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So we got that, I traced it back to the end trimmer and I couldn't get it to reset. So usually just reset it, clear the error, and then you could start working again. And it was like three, four hours of diagnosing this. It was the end trimmer. So we pulled the end trimmer, which is like you've seen in there. It's a mess of
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brackets and dust collection. And so getting it out and taking the blades off and we're getting glue. The end trim unit is a motor with a blade on either end, like a circular three-inch circular saw blade that cuts the end of the edge banding.
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And we're getting glue in there and it's basically seized it up. It didn't actually seize it, it was seized because of the glue. So the machine went to start, the motor wouldn't turn, so it sensed that, it overloaded the thing, and then it wouldn't reset. So anyway, I reached out to Brian. Brian's like, call Adwood, so I call them. They don't have the part, the overload,
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So I called another place. I'm on the phone with a guy, giving him the model number. I had to pull it off of the little rail that it's mounted to. And then just as I'm giving him the last digits of the model number, I hit the reset button and it resets. I'm like, what the hell?
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I guess it had gotten hot and it had to cool off, but it was like hours. I was trying to reset it for... But you didn't almost cut yourself. No. So then Monday, we're putting the whole thing back together, cleaning everything. And then because we pulled the N trim, I had to retune all the timing. So it's all pneumatic. And there's some stops that you can adjust where the
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the guide is versus the blade. So we're running all these pieces. I got the thing open and I'm making all these adjustments. So we run a piece. I'll make an adjustment, run another one, see what I have to adjust, whatever. So we run one and I stick my hand in there.
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Like the machine had turned off for a little bit, stick my hand in there and I feel on the tip of my finger. Thank God the blade was like just at the end of slowing down, but it was the end trim. That's four inch circular saw blade.
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I mean, it's just one of those things you don't think about. We have video of that on our, we did a video on the edge, edge bander and you can see those blades. Yeah. Jeez. Yeah. That's a scary thought. I was like, man. And like not even a scratch, you know, it was like they were turning that slow. That's a good lesson though. Because now you know, it's like, okay, I won't do that again. Like I've, hopefully you'll remember that. Yeah. You need those wake up calls like every so often.
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Yeah, because you can get like, it's not that you're getting lazy, but you can just. Complacent. Yeah, complacent with anything, you know, with even, you know, even like jumping out of your pickup truck, like as you get older, you're like, you know, I'm not going to just jump from the tailgate anymore because.
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You don't want to blow out your knee. You're 20 years younger than I, I don't know if you think that way yet. Well, I hurt my knee last Monday. Just, I don't even know what the hell I was doing. We were on an install bent over and it like, you know, popped a little bit. My knee that's already bad. And now it's like walking down the stairs hurts. Is your knee bad from footballs? Yeah.
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Yeah, I blew it out. I had a meniscus tear when I was 16. Did you play all through high school? Yeah, I played from the time I was five and then like all the way through high school. You probably loved it though. Yeah. Yeah. But not to the point where I, you know, where I look back, I'm like, wow, man, those times playing football were great.
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My brother Jim played. I was small. I graduated high school at, I think five foot four, like less than a hundred pounds. Wow. Yeah. I just grew like after high school. Wow. And yeah, I was like a sickly little kid. I think I was like five foot eight, two 75. Yeah. I was really small. And then I just like the year or two after high school, I just grew. And it's funny because
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I think in my mind, I feel like, oh, I'm not a big person. But then I'll see myself in pictures with people who I think are big and I'm bigger than they are. It just happens. So anyway, my brother Jim, he is a big guy. He's probably got two or three inches on me and a couple of pounds. And he played football and he was state champs way back in the eighties, but he loved it. And he doesn't have any injuries.
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I think he was a defensive lineman. He just had a great time. But there are so many people I know who played football and soccer, who I guess loved it.
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It almost seems like a pretty high price they're paying today because they're like hobbled. Yeah.
The Art of Beekeeping
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I had so many concussions too, like multiple concussions, you know, uh, my ankle, you know, for what? All for what? People get really serious about it. I mean, people get really serious about high school sports. Now my, my son's played a little bit of soccer and that was really my wife pushing them, but they're all surfers.
00:12:39
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And they just liked, they're more like surfing type. Did Middletown have a surf team or? I don't think so. So they played tennis. They all played tennis. I don't think Walter played his senior year, but I like tennis as a sport because I feel like it's a life sport. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's like, you know, what do they have at retirement communities? Tennis courts, shuffleboard. Yeah.
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So it's, it's funny to think of, uh, when, when you start getting older, you're like, wow, those injuries that you got when you were younger, you know, you kind of have to weigh and measure. So I'm, I'm.
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pretty happy that I don't seem to have any injuries that bother me on a regular basis. I don't have a knee that hurts or a back that hurts. My brother-in-law is back from wrestling. He is messed up. I can imagine. I mean, he is really hurting and it's gotten worse over the years and I'm like, holy cow, I'm so thankful not to have to deal with that.
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Like you know that I'm a pretty active guy now, so I mountain bike anywhere between four and seven days a week. I'm addicted to, I should say it's a pedal assist mountain bike, which means you have to pedal, but you are getting assistance and there's different levels. But I attribute that bike
00:14:00
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for getting me in the best shape that I've been in in like the last 20 years because you you really enjoy it. So the fun factors there. And because you want to ride harder and not get injured, I end up doing all these pull ups and dips and like I'm in this whole calisthenic thing.
00:14:18
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And so anyway, those are the sports that I'm into now. And I'm happy that I'm not dealing with any of these injuries that are holdovers from high school careers. Yeah. Yeah. I was at adult league women's soccer last night. My wife's the last game of the season. Did she get injured in the beginning of the season? Yeah. She was at this season or the last season. I think it was last season, like towards the end of last season, she had like a really bad sprain. Wow. Ankle.
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And, you know, I'm of like the school where I'm like, I want to say like, you're really going to like screw up, like work or because you want to play Rex. I'm not, I'm never going to say this to my wife, but that's like my, like I wouldn't play adult league lacrosse because I'm afraid that I'm going to get hurt and not going to be able to work. But your wife could probably still work.
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Well, yeah, you're right. She's on her feet all day or a hand or, you know, um, I mean, I think it's good that she does it, but she must love it if she's doing it. Yeah. They, um, they, they won. It was the last game of the season nine to nothing.
00:15:32
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They had some ringer on their teams. They brought some woman in from another team to fill in and she had like four goals, but still they still would have won five to nothing. Does your wife do a lot of extra training when she's not playing or does she just play? She just plays. Because I think soccer is so much running. Yeah. Like, holy cow. I don't know how you just do that cold. She was gassed. It was the first one that I had been to.
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And I was trying not to laugh because I didn't see she was like totally gassed. Wow. I mean, I would have been five times as gassed. Oh, I hate running. I don't enjoy running at all. And that's all soccer is. Oh, yeah. I didn't get home until 10 o'clock. It was like totally out of my
00:16:15
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I was falling asleep, not falling asleep, but I wanted to fall asleep on the drive to the game. How far away was that? It was like right off the parkway and wall. Okay. Yeah. So like 30, 45 minutes. That's good. Yeah, it's good. It's always good to be involved in something. I think physical activity is just such a
00:16:39
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a great thing. I know when I was working on my YouTube channel, I kind of just totally focused on that and it would be working and shooting video from early in the morning until like dinnertime and then editing until like right after dinner until I went to bed.
00:17:00
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and then editing in the morning and then going back into the shop. That's when I was trying to like do a video a week. And I remember maybe like three or four years ago, I was like, geez, what do I like to do anymore? And I was mountain biking on a regular mountain bike, but it wasn't super fun because
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I'd go out for an hour ride and I'd just be shocked. And then Cannondale, let me borrow a bike for about two months. And I was like, holy cow, this thing's great. That was pedal assist. Yeah. Yeah. So what happened right before the pandemic, a woodworker, Phil Capizio, he's on Instagram.
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he works for Cannondale and I would go on these rides on my Cannondale regular bicycle and I would tag Cannondale and he saw or he was following me and he saw that I was riding a Cannondale and then he reached out to me and we were just talking and he said yeah you can follow this bike for a while and then I thought I was going to buy one from them for maybe half price
00:18:01
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But then the pandemic happened and you could not get a bicycle. Oh, yeah. Everybody was out riding bikes. You couldn't get a bicycle. So I had that bike for maybe two months.
00:18:10
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And then two years went by and then, and you still couldn't really find a bicycle. And then I ended up finding, I got a random email from a bike shop in North Jersey and they had a bike there and I ended up buying it and probably paid a little bit more than I would today. But I think I mentioned that viral video on the bicycle rack.
00:18:36
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more than paid for it because it's like almost a 200 million views now. Even shorts, shorts don't make a lot of money, but it's made a couple thousand dollars and it's gained me more than 213,000 YouTube subscribers.
00:18:52
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which has probably turned into AdSense revenue on full length videos. Sometimes, I don't know how much that crosses over because I haven't uploaded a project video in a long time now. And if you don't constantly feed the YouTube machine, everything just sinks, sinks, sinks, sinks.
00:19:13
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I don't know, I just, you know, I'm not feeling it. I'm gonna post a project video probably in a week or two. And I think this week and I'm posting like kind of a tip video on how to finish something. I'm painting the inside of a bookcase and then the outside is natural finish.
00:19:35
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Yeah, I saw the real. Do you do what I do where you paint the inside and then sand the outside like to get any of the extra paint? So that's usually what I do.
00:19:48
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I've done that for years, but I tried something a little bit different this time where I finished the outside of the cabinet, including the edge, not worrying if I got a little finish on the inside and I banded the edge with a half inch
Woodworking Finishing Techniques
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by three quarter inch material to go over the plywood edge. And I didn't worry if I got any finish on the inside.
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And then after doing that, I put the, the delicate surface frog tape, which I think gives you a cleaner line as the yellow tape. I put that right at the edge. And then I, um, then I painted the inside of the cabinet, you know, primed it and painted it with two coats of Benjamin Moore command. And when I move, remove the tape, you do still get like,
00:20:37
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you know, it's not the perfect, most perfect line. Like a little bleed through. Just little bits here and there. And then I, I kind of feathered that in with a 320 and a sanding block. And then I went over it again with just one coat of waterlox. So that I finished with a wipe on varnish. So waterlox, if you're not familiar with waterlox, basically a wipe on poly is the same stuff from Minwax. And it worked pretty good because
00:21:03
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The problem with finishing a box that has got a back on it already, spraying it's always difficult because you just end up with a lot of overspray. And I was trying to do something that would appeal to somebody who may want to build it, but might not be able to spray. And so it really didn't take me that long because it's not a huge cabinet. So everything is, it's completely finished by hand and it looks pretty good. I'm pretty happy with it. It's never, ever completely perfect.
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Yeah. And like, you know, we're not building stuff for the MoMA. Yeah. It doesn't have to be. I agree. And like, I think anybody who looks at it will be like, Oh, that's perfect. That's a perfect line. But because I did it, I'll be like, Oh, there's a little area there. So I did have a tiny bit of bleed at the miter. Okay. And so sucked up. Yeah. Just a little bit. So I was able to get, you know, 99% of that off.
00:22:00
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but a little bit went into the grain. The piece is veneered with Hawaiian monkey pod and then the trim because I didn't have any solid boards of Hawaiian monkey pod is zebra wood. Really looks good match. Yeah, really good match.
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But because zebra wood has a little bit of a deeper grain in areas, there's a tiny bit of paint in the grain and a tiny bit of paint inside the miter. And so after, almost microscopic, but what I did there was I took a Sharpie and I just kind of painted it in. And it just disappears. And it made me think I should really get a dark brown Sharpie.
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Yeah. I use like colored pencils too. It's tough with a wipe on finish because you're going to wipe it away. Right. But if you're doing sprayed, like I've actually like drawn grain lines back in. I have a, um, a pack of colored pencils called, uh, what is it called? It's like colors of the world or something. It's like all different skin tones. So it's like, you know, every skin tone imaginable from like the palest white person to the darkest skinned person.
00:23:10
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Is it a woodworking product? No, they're Crayola colored pencils. Well, I'm wondering, do you have to worry about an adhesion issue because it could have wax in it? Yeah, potentially. But it's so small. But I think it's such a small, yeah. Yeah, so buyer beware, don't go and do it and blame me if you ruin your project, but. I've thought about that. You think about like, what can you draw on and what can you use? It's not going to affect the finishes. Just like you said,
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with a wipe on, you're going to have to think differently because you're, you could be removing it as you're wiping on finish or making this big smudge. Yeah. Yeah. So, but, and it's the same thing with a spray on where you could be creating an adhesion issue, but if it's so tiny, I don't think it really matters. Yeah. You would think that the other areas would sort of like lock it together. Yeah. So I saw you were doing the bees. Yeah. So we had a,
00:24:03
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We had a honey harvest. The guy I keep bees with, he stopped by Wednesday. I think we pulled the frames. So what happens is basically a beehive is you've got a brood box down below. That's generally where the queen bee is laying all her eggs and the nurse bees are taking care of any bees that are being born. The life cycle is,
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The egg gets laid and then three weeks from the egg being laid, the bee emerges. And then it pretty much goes right to work. Do they just constantly lay eggs or is it like other animals where it's like they lay eggs in the spring and then? Yeah. So it starts when it starts getting warm out. So it could be March, could be April. And she starts laying up to a thousand eggs a day.
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and that just continues for the whole warm period, like all summer? Yes, right into the fall. And the bee's life cycle is only three weeks. Wow. So the bee only lives about three weeks. So it's constantly being replaced, but you can get a lot of bees. But the queen lives longer than that, right? The queen can live a couple of years. Wow. Yeah. So what'll happen is the...
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If the hive starts to really expand, the bees in the hive might decide like, hey, we've got too many bees. Let's create another queen. And that's when your hive will split and they call that a swarm. So you kind of want to prevent swarms from happening because you want more bees because more bees mean more honey.
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So there's a few ways to keep that from happening. You can go into the hive periodically and look for what are called queen cells. And that looks almost like a peanut. And if you can get it where that is just starting to be built, you can remove those and that can kind of remove that desire for them to swarm. So is that like a super, do they lay the eggs into the comb? Yeah. So they, what'll happen is the,
00:26:07
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You've got, basically you've got three things in the hive. You've got the queen, you've got the workers, which are all females. And then you've got drones. Drones don't do anything. Drones are twice the size of the workers and they can't sting.
00:26:22
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They have bigger eyes. You can identify them by that. And their whole their whole purpose is just to mate. Right. So they go out, they fly out and they just look for a queen. And if they fly back, that means they didn't find a queen because if they did find a queen, they die after mating.
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And then the queen. So they're like infiltrating other beehives? No, they go out to like trees. They just like the, they call the queen. When the queen is born, she goes out on mating flights. Okay. And she may, I could be wrong about this, but she, she may mate with a bunch of drones. And then, so anyway, what happens when, when they swarm is
00:27:05
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you have a bunch of queen cells in your hive. That sends like a message to the queen like, okay, I'm out of here. And when she leaves, she takes half her hive. So if there's 10,000 bees in the hive, you just lost 5,000 bees. So anyway, what's happening down below is the brood box. That's where all that's happening. And then up above that are called honey supers. And the supers is where they store the honey.
00:27:33
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And so periodically you go through and you see what's happening up there. And the honey is flower nectar, flower and tree nectar. Most of your nectar is really coming from trees, really. If you think about how many trees there are compared to flowers. Right. What part of like flowers on trees or?
00:27:49
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Uh, like, so when you see a maple budding, you see like the, how a maple's got all those red buds, but it hasn't, it hasn't leaved yet. There's sugar all over those. And so they're just, they're, you know, maple trees, locust trees, birch, right? Probably. I should know, but I, you know, so they,
00:28:11
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They they're just getting their nectar from anywhere they can and they're putting it into those combs. And then once that nectar reaches a certain lack of moisture, they cap it with wax.
Bees vs. Wasps: Behavior and Control
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So when you go into the hive, you're looking for capped frames. That means it's ready to harvest. You can pull that frame, remove the cap and spin it to get your honey. If the frames aren't capped and you spin unframed honey or nectar, it's not dry enough and it will ferment.
00:28:50
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Is that just natural evaporation that's drying it out or are they doing something to it? They might be doing something to it. It could be natural evaporation. They might be kind of flooding their wings over it. I'm not 100% sure.
00:29:03
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So I thought we were going to have a lot more honey than we did because I have a bunch of supers on some of these hives. But it turned out that not all of the honey was capped or not nearly as much of the honey was capped as I thought it was going to be, which could mean we have a big fall harvest. So we pulled those frames out.
00:29:24
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And then I ended up decapping and spinning it by myself because Mike, uh, was away for the weekend. And, um, during the, during the pulling the frames, I got to be stuck inside my veil and it's like a moment of panic. I'm like, wait a minute. Does that be inside? And then before you know it, I got stuck, stung in the eyebrow. And, uh, if you watched my Instagram, you saw it blew up. Yeah. Yeah. It was just like swollen shut.
00:29:54
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And then and then I got stung like maybe two days later just because I guess one was mad, which is unusual. You don't get stung all that often. I was going to say, yeah, I thought honeybees were pretty docile.
00:30:06
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They are until you get stung. Yeah. I've been on like a war path with the wasps at my house. All kinds of wasps. Wasps are just jerks. They don't do anything. I have the blue mud daubers. So they're black and blue and they're like about this big and they're mud daubers. So they have that real skinny waist. Okay. And you can hear them. They sound like a helicopter. I was telling you, I got stung by one a couple of weeks ago. Oh, that's right.
00:30:33
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those paper wasps, yellow jackets, everything. It's just like, I don't know if it has to do with all the rain we had in the spring. Do you see a nest around you anywhere? No, I can't find them. I've been looking.
00:30:44
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Yeah. I, um, I'm not a big fan of was occasionally all, uh, I'll run over a ground nest, like with the law mower. And then you don't even, because you're in your own world when you're mowing the lawn, you know, you've got all like, you're hearing all this loud noise. The next thing you know, you're wondering like, why is the back of my arm burning? Yeah.
00:31:05
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And then you realize you're, you've got wasps all around. And that's like when you abandon the mower and you, and they'll just keep stinging you. Yeah. You know, they're bad. Um, I guess they're pollinators. Some of them, not all of them, but they also kill some insects. I don't have a problem with wasps and kind of just people will say that like the difference between a honey, being a wasp was wasps are just jerks, you know?
00:31:26
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Yeah, like I'm fine with Wasp, just stay away from my house. Yeah, go Wasp somewhere else. Yeah, it's been brutal. I'm taking them out with the spray. I hate using it, but I have no choice.
00:31:41
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Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. I mean, if they're kind of, you know, it can be dangerous, too. I mean, they're aggressive. They're, you know, they it's not like I could coexist with the wasp. Like, but if you start actively flying at me, I'm just trying to go to my shed or whatever. Like, I got a problem with that.
00:31:59
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I have a problem with honeybees when I do that. Like I had a hive maybe three or four years ago that maybe was like maybe three or four weeks in the summer, there was just an aggressive hive and I'd be walking out to the barn next thing you know, you're getting buzzed. And if you start getting buzzed around the head by a bee, it's looking to sting you. Otherwise it's just, there's no reason for it. It's looking to sting you.
00:32:24
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That's what happened with the one that stung me. I guess, I think I was telling you, I had a tree that had fallen. It was leaning on my neighbor's fence and I was cutting it up. And then, you know, something came. I guess they had a nest in the tree, one of these blue mud doggers. And that's what I was running all around my backyard. Almost had a freaking heart attack because I never run like that. Moving your hands. Yeah. All around my head. Yeah. I heard it like, you know, buzzing past my ears and then it finally got me.
00:32:51
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Oh, it hurt for like two weeks. Yeah. Well, the one I got stung on the elbow maybe three or four days ago still hurts. So it's, you know, it's one of these things where you see.
00:33:05
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Like there's the woman who says the bees, you know what I mean? She's an attractive woman who's probably in her twenties or thirties and she like rescues these beehives from all these different places. And she always ends everything with like, and it's another day of saving the bees. You know, like she says it forever.
00:33:26
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And anyway, she's never wearing any kind of beehive equipment or like a veil. And I'm thinking like, geez, I used to think you could do that. When I first got into beekeeping, I would watch all these people keeping bees without any protective equipment. And I wouldn't wear anything. I would just go just like I am now. Short sleeves, you know.
00:33:50
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And I'm holding up this frame and next thing you know, I get stung on the lip and I get stung on the eye and I'm holding the frame where I can't really put it down. And that was it. After that, I was like, forget it. I'm, I'm just putting everything back on.
00:34:04
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Yeah. And I feel like once you stir them up, they're like out for blood. Well, they send out a pheromone. So if you, it's, it's almost impossible not to have a honey harvest or beehive inspection without killing a bee because you're picking up these boxes that way, you know, 30, 60 pounds, whatever. And there's thousands of bees everywhere. You're just going to accidentally squish a bee. It happens.
00:34:30
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And they will send out a pheromone like, hey, one of our buddies just got killed. Let's go. You know, and that's there. I think, you know, if you think of, um, like bear just going to be nice. And I think that's why they say, don't wear black and also sting. Um, you know, they go for your face now because like a bear, I don't think bear penetrable. Yeah. Except for maybe it's nose, you know, it's eyes and it's nose. Bear is just so tough.
00:34:58
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I watch this guy. We've talked about him outdoor boys. He's like a YouTube guy who goes on these crazy adventures, whatever.
00:35:05
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I watched one recently, they were in Tanzania and they went out with these tribesmen or whatever, and they just like start ripping into this tree with bees, bees nest in the tree to get the honey. And they're just like, you know, wearing regular t-shirts. Are they getting stung or no? Oh yeah, like crazy. Oh my God. Yeah. Well, so I have a friend, Andrew from, I forget Andrew's last name, but
00:35:33
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Branch and Foundry and also Honey on Wales. And we see him every year at Maker Camp. He's a really good bee camp keeper. He really knows what he's doing. I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I know a little bit, but this guy knows what he's doing.
00:35:52
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He saw that post and he goes, well, you know, John, look on the bright side. Once you have a thousand stings, it won't bother you anymore. And it's like, I don't think I'm close to that. Oh man. We can start a new channel. Like you ever seen that guy, Coyote Peterson? No. His whole shtick is he goes and gets stung by all these and bitten by all these crazy animals and insects and
00:36:14
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That's insane. Yeah, he's making the money he's making. I guess it's worth it then. It's insane. I guess it's worth it. Insane. And that's YouTube. Coyote Peterson. Yeah. It's not a real name, but yeah. Like he's making like tens of millions of dollars.
00:36:30
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Yeah, that's awesome. Good for him. But he goes and gets stung by like a bullet ant, which is like the most supposed to be the most painful sting in in the world. Like all these crazy get bit by snakes like a copperhead or something. I don't know if he'll do stuff like that where it could like kill you potentially. But wow. Yeah.
00:36:52
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That's, I guess that works. It doesn't work for me. Yeah. I don't know. That's like those Jackass guys, you know, like you're going to make all this money, but like you might die. Those guys are pretty hurting now. I mean, they're like, they're beat up. I forget. I mean, I can only think of Johnny Knoxville, but I think he was another big one and they're all turned into alcoholics and drug or maybe they were at the time drug addicts.
00:37:16
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I think Johnny Knoxville seemed like he did the best or one of them that did the best. Ben Margera, he just seems like a disaster. Yeah, I think he, you know, is sober now, but was like, you know, they had to commit him and like all this crazy stuff.
00:37:32
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Well, the one guy, I forget his name, but he has a pretty successful podcast. Oh, Steve-o. Steve-o's great. Yeah. I like him. He's one that was like really messed up on drugs and stuff. And he's got his act together now. Didn't he just do something like get a weird face tattoo or something? Walter was telling me. I don't know, maybe. I think he put something like really like, I don't know, something pretty crazy like on his face and his friends were like, what are you doing?
00:37:59
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I don't know. I didn't see this, but Walter was telling me that he did something like pretty lewd, I think. Oh, really? I don't know. Yeah, I didn't know. So I get fed clips of his podcast sometimes on Instagram and he grew up in like a super wealthy family. I forget what his dad did, but he was like the CEO of some... They made something, I don't know. Let's say it was matches and they went to
00:38:23
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like the factory in Africa and he was like man look how these like your employees are working like can't you do something like to make it better and he's like there's more people outside waiting for a job than there are people working. I don't know what does that say.
00:38:40
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I don't know, but it was just, he was, oh, the point of it, he was like, oh man, my dad's a dick. That was his point. Well, apparently his dad was super successful and I think sober and his mom was a disaster.
00:38:57
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Like her whole side of the family was crazy. So the father side seemed to be like overachievers and the mother side seemed to be like crazy. And I guess he got that craziness because he was far out on drugs and alcohol. And I guess he's been sober for a while now. I mean, you have to be to do that stuff that they were doing. Yeah, it was pretty nutty.
00:39:21
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I was thinking before I didn't, I didn't look, I could probably scroll real quick and find one, but we told the people that we were going to be doing a comment of the week. Um, this was for the, uh, for the table saw. Yeah. So like for, for last week's video, the idea is this week to do a, um, a comment of the week.
00:39:44
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There was a, oh, I have one. It was from Chris Gardner, who's always got a snarky comment on the videos, but this one wasn't snarky. He said in his YouTube handle, his Chris Gardner 3606, it's like we're having a conversation. You're turning that knob on the fence and I'm saying to myself, what does that do? And two seconds later you say, to be honest, I don't know what this does. Almost fell out of my chair. Yeah, that was good. I thought that was a good comment. I liked that.
00:40:14
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I said something to the effect of, it's like, hey, I mean, we're honest. We're not going to reshoot the video because I didn't know what it was and then pretend like I knew.
00:40:24
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It's good because often it's one shoot. So it's one clip. And I think that that transition is just like a page turning because it was a good, like five minutes, like kind of looking at it, figuring out, and then figuring out, okay, how do we make this transition? And then we talked about the transition a little bit, then you said it, and then I just sort of cut all that out. And so it just flipped over and you're like,
00:40:51
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And then you basically said, oh, we didn't know what it does, but now this is what it does. Yeah. Which is like, I feel like 95% of people who were, let's say you bought the saw and you were, you would do the same thing. You're like, what the hell does this do? 100%. Yeah.
00:41:07
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I thought that was a good comment. I read all the comments. Jeff replies to them all. You're good at replying to comments. So it's, it's good that you do that. I think that's a great skill. Takes me a couple of days sometimes to like, so like sometimes on Saturday, I just don't have the bandwidth to like the mental bandwidth to reply. It's like sometimes takes me to like Monday, usually like Monday morning before work. I'm like, Oh, let me hit these comments.
00:41:32
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I tried it. I tried to do that on my channel and it's the same thing. I usually don't reply the first day again. I'm just sort of burnt out and I want to kind of read through them and then I'll, I might do that on a Sunday morning or something. And, uh,
00:41:48
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Or if you happen to be in a place where you can't really do anything, you know. You're sitting at the airport or something like that. Yeah, you're sitting somewhere or like you're waiting for the grill to warm up or whatever. I cook on charcoal, so it's a little bit of a time lag. Oh yeah, I don't have the patience for that.
00:42:07
Speaker
Well, break your gas grill and you'll get the patience. My his-laws are on charcoal now. My father-in-law, Jamie, is like, I'm just getting a little hibachi. I'm like, God, you're a goddamn mind. I ended up picking up one of the Weber's. It's like a hundred bucks. We had one of those when we had the house in Vermont and the kids were little. And for me, it's like nostalgic. It just
00:42:31
Speaker
letting the grill is like a sign to like relax. You know, it's sort of like, okay, sit back and have a beer or, you know, I don't, I quit drinking. I think I told you for probably four months or something, but I'm back to drinking. Not that I drink a lot, but I have like a beer or two, but often I don't drink nearly as much. Meaning like I would, I was good for like a beer or two a day, not every day, but just about every day.
00:43:00
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But then I stopped and now I drink just tonic water, which I like. It still gives you that sort of feeling like, OK, I'm like taking a break like a mocktail. Is that what they call that? Yeah, like a mock cocktail. Oh, OK. Yeah, they have ones that you would probably be into this like nootropic ones that are supposed to like, you know, they have they have like other I don't want to say like mind altering, but they, you know, things that might make you feel relaxed or and they're, you know, it's all botanical.
00:43:30
Speaker
See, I'd like to try that because tonic water is really not that good for you. Yeah, it's really high in sugar. Yeah, it really is. I do like the taste though. I do too. It's like I don't like soda. I don't like Pepsi or Sprite. And I don't like the feeling I get from sodas. Pepsi or Sprite will give me a headache immediately, but I can drink tonic water with ice. And I like to, I can't stand ice from the freezer.
00:43:59
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white ice because it's white. Yeah. And so I go and I buy like a bag of ice every couple of days. It's crystal clear. And, uh, you know, just, uh, I pack the, pack the glass full of ice and then just, you're really not having that much tonic water. I buy those, I think they're 10 ounce bottles because if you buy a large bottle, it goes flat so quick. What is it? Schweppes.
00:44:24
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I'll, I'll do, uh, Schweppes or I'll do the other one. Um, uh, Canada drive, whatever's there. Canadian club. That's a, uh, whiskey. I'm, I'm a seltzer guy, grapefruit seltzer. I'm going to have to try that. There's no sugar in that is there? No. Yeah.
00:44:41
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I just like tonic water, but I'll have to try that. I could get used to that. That's good. Like usually I just drink it out of the can and I like the Aldi brand for some reason. My wife, sometimes she buys polar, which is like kind of like a, it's not expensive, but it's more expensive than Aldi and it doesn't taste. It has a totally different taste from the Aldi one.
00:44:59
Speaker
Didn't you used to have that in the shop here all the time? Yeah. I remember having a few cans of that. They always explode in the fridge. So I stopped bringing them in because it's too cold. Yeah. And, and, uh, I was drinking so much seltzer that I was getting, uh, tooth sensitivity. Really? It's really bad for like the carbonation is bad for your, uh, enamel or whatever. So I've heard that about Coke had to come back. Wow. It's amazing how everything is, we'll get you.
00:45:32
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Yeah, I don't have too many vices either. I mean, that was it. I would love to have like one or two beers, but I just feel like as soon as I have a beer that I'm not going to work out where now I, you know, it's funny. I put these bars in for Michael when Michael was maybe 13. Uh, it's a, it's a set of calisthenic bars. So dips and pull ups.
00:45:50
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Yeah. It's like, man, I don't like drink or smoke. It's like, yeah, the seltzer.
00:45:58
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And they're they're kind of a little ways from the house. But now I'll go out like if I had a beer, there's no way I'd go out to those bars and do a workout. But with the tonic water, I'll go out there and be like, okay, I'll do a couple runs on the pull ups and a couple of the dips.
Lifestyle Choices for Health and Fitness
00:46:16
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And I would never do that otherwise. So I just find that as soon as you have a beer, you kind of put everything
00:46:22
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Oh, yeah, like if I if I have a couple of beers or even like one, I'm going to want to eat stuff that I shouldn't be eating. You know, I don't get that. I don't get the eating thing. I just I'd rather have my problems than I'd want another beer. Yeah. Well, that too. But yeah, like, you know, you have a couple of beers, you're like, I want to have a slice of pizza or whatever. Yeah, I guess so.
00:46:46
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It's like anything, you know, I guess it's all in moderation, but I'm just at a place right now where I'm really focused on fitness. I think you guys might know that I started trying to build a sauna a while ago, and that's one of those things I haven't really done. I was thinking about that again today. That'll be a cool project, though.
00:47:09
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Yeah. What'd you do with all the Baltic purchase? I, so we cut it. I'm, I'm doing the framing out of, uh, what's it 24 mil Baltic birch, which is about a true inch. So instead of using studs, I'm using this 24 mil Baltic because I want to make the walls two inches thick.
00:47:28
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And I just felt like this. I didn't want to rip a bunch of studs and I felt like they would turn into bananas, you know? Yeah. So, uh, we, um, Jeff ordered the Baltic birch and we ripped it down. I think we just, I think we just ripped it in half.
00:47:43
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Yeah. We ripped it in half or we might've ripped it at 12. I don't remember. I think they were just in half. Yeah. So we ripped it in half and then I just, I have that in storage along with all the shiplap that I made in Poplar. Oh yeah, I forgot about that too. I think what happened was it got warm out and the desire to make a sauna after it got warm sort of left. Yeah. But it'll come back. But that'll be nice. The idea of going from the cold plunge
00:48:11
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in, especially in like November to a 20 minute sauna will be, will be great. Is there any danger in like the, like, do you have to wait, like get out of the ice bath and then wait like a couple of minutes? You can just get right in. You can get right in. You're so cold. I guess that's the point is like that extreme shock.
00:48:30
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I think so. I mean, it's funny doing the cold. So I haven't done the cold plunge now in probably a couple of maybe, maybe almost two months. Cause it's just too hard to get it cold and I don't have a real thing. So I rely on it being cold outside. I was trying to make ice cubes and like with Tupperware is full of ice cubes and it was just like a lot of work.
00:48:52
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this weather man forget to have two five gallon buckets frozen and it's gonna last ten minutes it would be so easy to get into an ice bath in this weather though getting in an ice bath when you walk across the snow at bare feet that's like and then you have to break the ice to get in
00:49:09
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And the ice is sharp now. No, it's not bad. You know, it's funny because the the the tub is metal. It's just one of those things from tractor supply. You would think you don't want to touch the edge. Like you're going to stick to the edge like a cold pipe or something, but you don't. It's just because it's the same temperature as the water. Right. And
00:49:31
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It's it's one of those things. I guess there's a lot of hype around it and all that. But I found it to be pretty amazing. Like it's it's a game changer. So I would get in for three, three and a half minutes and then go right into weightlifting and and be freezing in the weightlifting until maybe 15 or 20 minutes in. So you almost need to like weight lift like so cold that you could barely like operate your phone because you're you're shaking so much.
00:50:01
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So the idea of going from that being that cold and then getting into a sauna is going to be nice. Yeah. And it's like a little reward to get you through those minutes. Like, okay, I got the hot, you know? Yeah. And it's like, I don't need much where I don't need to go on vacation. I don't, I, I'm a really boring person. Uh, the idea of just being able to go on a bike ride and then work out and read a book. Uh, it's all I need.
00:50:30
Speaker
Well, that's the secret. It's like everybody's living for the weekend. It's like, no, you got to build a life where you're you're ready to get up every morning and do your day that you do. Even if it's the same thing every day, you have to enjoy that. You can't live for vacation. What does that happen once a year, twice a year if you're lucky? The weekends, in my mind, aren't that much different from the weekdays. I probably work maybe even a little bit more during the weekends in the shop.
00:50:56
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because I'm not getting pulled from other places. Like during the week, I might have to bring my daughter somewhere. I might have to run some errand. But in the Saturday and Sunday, I mean, Sunday we go to church. So that's a pretty big spot of time. It's about a good hour and a half by the time you go there. And I usually will go on a long bike ride. I'll wake up early and go on a hard bike ride. So I have the patience to be in church.
00:51:22
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Well, Sunday is probably like when you get like, you know, later in the day, Sunday is probably slammed on the trails. Absolutely. Yeah. So my whole goal is to be in the trails when no one's in the trails. Yeah. And it's I found, though, that like four thirty five o'clock on a Sunday, people in a Saturday, even maybe six o'clock on a Saturday, people aren't in the trails because they're starting to think about their nightlife. Yeah.
00:51:48
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where I'm just an old boring guy. I'm like, okay, I'll be out here when nobody's out. That's a great time of day though in the summer.
00:51:55
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I love it. Yeah. The morning and the evening. Yeah. Best time. Speaking of church, we were at St. Anthony's. Cameron and I, I took him, I was going to go by myself. I'm like, I better bring him. I want to show him the work that we've done. We're going to be doing some more work over there. Some like maybe crazy molding on these curved ceilings, flexible molding. And yeah. Painted? Yeah. So they have a guy who will paint it. So we did this whole back altar.
00:52:23
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With all this crazy stuff we caught on the laser and they had a like one of the parishioners painted it in this gold paint. Looks great. Great. I was talking to Walter about that.
00:52:36
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We did this coat of arms. It's like the oratory of St. Philip or something, which I'll be honest. I'm not really sure what it is. I don't even know what oratory is, but St. Anthony's church was just named by the Pope as the official oratory. Whatever that is. Again, I'm not positive what it is, but so they want to get another one of these emblems made that we had put on the altar rail, like a big one and hang it over the
00:53:03
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The main altar. You've been in there, right? Yeah. Well, that was huge arch. That was the church that my I say my wife belonged to because I didn't start going to church until maybe six months ago. But she went to Catholic Church and that's where the boys were baptized.
00:53:19
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And that was the church we went to. So when you got, when you got, when you, Rob started doing those projects, I was like, holy cow, that's, that's wild. That's, that's Laurel's church. And I mean, I would go there from time to time for Christmas and Easter. Yeah. Christmas and Easter. Um, but she's now, she started going to red bank, uh, Baptist church, first Baptist, I think. And, uh, I like that because it's, it's, uh, I dunno, I just like it better. More contemporary.
00:53:49
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You don't have all the pomp and circumstance. I can grasp it. When I would go to church at St. Anthony's,
00:54:02
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I might've been a church, but I was mountain biking or working on something in my shop. You know what I mean? It was definitely not there. Yeah. They even do like the Latin mass or like the whole masses in Latin, stuff like that. I mean, it's, and I don't have any, I don't have any issues with any religion. I'm just saying, I responded more to the church that my, and again, so my wife was going to this church for maybe two or three years now.
00:54:28
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And then I think we went for maybe Christmas, maybe six months ago, right? And then the following week she said, oh, you want to go to church? And I said, yes. And so since then I've been going to church and the people are really nice.
00:54:45
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For for me, like I have to kind of work it around my schedule. And so I'll I'll do all this stuff and I'll get myself where I don't feel antsy. Yeah. Because I've I've woken up very early and done some editing and gone mountain biking and done all this stuff. And now I feel like, OK, I can chill out. Yeah, that's like if I wake up on the weekend, my wife's like, you want to go to the beach? It's like I get like a guilty feeling, you know?
00:55:12
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Do you go? I mean, oh wait, do you get a guilty feeling if you do go? Yeah, like about going because like I feel like I should be like at the shop working or something, you know? That's the condition that we are in these days. We're always supposed to be productive and I'm trying to get less of that. You know, it's, uh,
00:55:34
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I think that, I think that's a good sign though, because that means you're, you're kicking ass, you're doing stuff, your head's in the right place. But at the same time, you do have to say to yourself, Oh well, my wife asked me to go to the beach. We don't go to the beach that much. I'll go. And yeah, I'm, I'm definitely pushing myself to do, I was like the soccer game last night. Did I want to go? No, come on. Like, you know, at 10 PM. Who did you bring Hunter? He came with us. Wow. So that's a late night for him. Yeah.
00:56:04
Speaker
How was he towards the end of the night? He was good. He brought his tablet. He wanted to play. I'm like, no, like, listen, you're here to watch the soccer game. Like if you wanted to play your tablet, you could have just stayed home and went to bed regular time. Like, you know, I try and not be a dick, but like push him to like, you don't need to play your tablet. Watch the soccer game. That's what you're here for.
00:56:24
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Yeah, yeah, no. It's so important to have your kids participate in life. And those are the things that they'll remember. They're not going to remember playing the tablet. I made my daughter help me decap the honey. I think it was Saturday morning. I did most of it by myself Friday night and I had a few frames left. I think I was out there till almost 11 o'clock Friday night. Wow.
00:56:48
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But I enjoyed that. I'm listening to music. I'm just out in my shop decapping honey frames. So I had maybe eight frames left and I made her come out and do that with me. At the very least, she's always going to remember that, you know, and she didn't want, she's 15 year old girl. It's the last thing she wants to do. But she adopted a good attitude within, you know, halfway through the first frame. And that's something that she'll remember. Kids don't know what's good for them.
00:57:15
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Yeah. I get into it with my wife every now and then, like, you know, I'll, I'll push my son to do something, try something. And, um, you know, she'll be like, he doesn't want to do it. I'm like, listen, it's our responsibility to push him to do these things. If we didn't, he would just do nothing. He would just sit on it because it's the easy thing to do. Absolutely. And I'm telling you the worst thing you can do is spoil a child.
00:57:39
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kids don't know. Like my daughter would go fishing with me all the time. And the times that she didn't go, I would make her go. And she remembers that. And it's just, it's so important. I can't stress it enough. And I know that you don't spoil Hunter, but I've seen, I've seen people whose kids are around my age.
00:58:01
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not my age, my kid's age. And so I wasn't tough on my kids, but they had to help out. There was one time Jack and I got stuck in the van. I was moving something up into the house in Vermont and we kind of drove the van around the back. And as I was driving, I'm like, oh shoot, we're going to be stuck here. But I kept going because I was like, we're already going to be stuck on the way out.
00:58:25
Speaker
So after we unloaded the van, I told him we're going to get stuck here. So he got in the front seat with me and I think he was like nine or 10 at the time. And we didn't, we had to back out the way we came in. And of course we did get stuck. And then so we had to go find lumber somewhere and jack up the truck. And, you know, I didn't say go ahead and play somewhere. I said, you know, this is what we're doing. And I'm going to ask you to get stuff for me and do stuff. And he remembers that, you know, it's,
00:58:53
Speaker
And then the kids who, who were sort of spoiled, they just don't have the same work ethic. I mean, you only remember, you don't remember, man, remember that Saturday, five years ago where I sat on the couch and watched TV all day. Like it's, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do that stuff or you shouldn't let your kids, you know, veg out on their tablet, but you're not going to remember.
00:59:14
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Now, you got to push them beyond their comfort zone and introduce them to hard work because there's a real sense of accomplishment.
Home Maintenance Tips
00:59:24
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A big one for my kids was shoveling dirt, getting 10 yards of topsoil and say, okay, we got to move this. And then when they would see it get moved, they'd be like, oh wow, it's not too overwhelming. So I wanted to mention two homeowner projects that I did this week.
00:59:42
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one, everyone should be doing, which I let lapse. And that is cleaning out your, your vent hose for your, your dryer. Oh yeah. Yeah. Every time I take my laundry out, I'm like, I got to get something up in there. Yeah. I have an area in mind where
01:00:00
Speaker
I'd been cleaning out like the hose that came from the dryer and this hose that was close to the outside. But then I knew that there was a part of the hose that was in the wall that I'd never got to. Literally, it's been bothering me for years until finally the clothes just weren't drying. And so, and I knew it was going to be not like a 15 minute job.
01:00:26
Speaker
And I ended up having to like go through the sheetrock wall. I had to go through, they had all this radon plastic down from when they did that like 27 years ago when I bought the house had to do the radon and do all redo all the piping. But that one section of hose that I.
01:00:43
Speaker
wasn't able to get out, probably had the space in it of like an inch and a half. It was just. It's like a clogged artery. Yeah. It was just so full. I mean, it was just a fire waiting to happen. So that was one project it was, everyone should do. And, and I'm saying that now because it took me 20 something years to do it. And so I feel great about myself for getting a time.
01:01:06
Speaker
I have one of those things that you put on a drill, you know, it's like a, you screw them together. Does it go far enough? Oh, it's like 20 feet long, I think. If you can do that without busting your hose, then you're good. Yeah. Cause I've done that, but I couldn't get into this one area. Yeah. I gotta try that. I have it here. We had it for the, cause the duck work at the old shop went through the floor, you know? I remember that. And sometimes that would get clogged. I remember that. And it would back all the way up. It would fill the saw. We wouldn't know until the table saw was packed full of chips.
01:01:35
Speaker
Yeah. I remember that because Rob had the piping underneath the slab. So, um, I, I used that thing, but, uh, and that's, that is a good thing. And you can also use an electric leaf blower. Yeah. I've seen people do that. Yeah. That seems like a mess though.
01:01:51
Speaker
It also isn't, it's not really going to get out because the lint has a way of sort of sticking to the pipe. I replaced all the pipe. I just got rid of it all. And then the other thing that you probably won't have to do unless you have a septic system, I have a sewage tank and a gray water tank.
01:02:10
Speaker
And every couple of years I have to clean out the graywater tank. And what that entails is it's a straight run that's maybe 18 feet from the inside of the basement to where the tank is. And the way I figured out how to do that was I take a two by four and then I attached a piece to the end with a taper. So it's so it can actually have some pushing power.
01:02:40
Speaker
I ripped, I should say I took that two by four and I ripped it into like inch and a half by one inch, right? So like several pieces. And then, and that gives me like a plunger on the end, but because it's tapered, it won't get caught. Right.
01:02:56
Speaker
And I push that and as I get to the eight feet, then I screw another piece of that two by four to it with like two or three screws. Cause you don't want this to break off inside the pipe. If that gets stuck in there. Yeah. And it, it takes, um,
01:03:14
Speaker
It must only be about 14 feet, maybe 16 feet now, 15 feet, because it's just at the end of two, two by fours. I have three pieces, but I end up only using two. And I knew that because if I start to get water in my washer,
01:03:32
Speaker
That means it's not draining right. And I had to replace that about five years ago or maybe 10 years ago. So I know it works and I know how it works. You get that scum on top and then the water drains out into the leach field.
01:03:48
Speaker
But if you because it's a gray water, that's like the worst thing. That's like all like non. That's not like toilet. That's all the drains, like aside from the toilets and stuff. Yeah, that's all your sink and your washing machine. And those are the ones that will give you the most trouble because you don't grease and stuff. The grease. Yeah. So I mean, you're I'm like.
01:04:05
Speaker
I feel like the conditioner and stuff in the shower is like real bad, like hair. Yeah. Oh, yeah. My daughter's got really long hair. And I mean, the worst is when you have to unscrew that plug in the sink and I'm the guy who does that. And I'm just like, you should get a really short hair. Me too. And then my wife will use like this like clay, like on her face, like literally like clay. And then it's in the drain. I'm like, how?
Tree-Trimming: DIY or Hire Pros?
01:04:32
Speaker
Or the best, you see like rice and pasta in the kitchen sink. I'm like, this cannot be in here. I'm like, this is like going to destroy the plumbing. I found a teabag in the washing machine. Not the washing machine, the dishwasher. I was putting stuff in the dishwasher. I'm like,
01:04:49
Speaker
Nobody thinks about this stuff. Nobody thinks like, okay, that's out of sight, out of mind. No, you know, it's just like, you can't throw a Q-tip down the toilet. You know, that's just an accident. That's just trouble waiting to happen or a paper towel. So that's just, you know, again, being the maintenance man in the house.
01:05:07
Speaker
Yeah. When you have, when you're the shit shoveler, you know, you remember these things. Yeah. When you're the one who deals with it, you remember, right? But my, my wife's actually really good at like helping out with projects because she'll, uh, if I say, okay, I'm going to clean out this clean out, you know, the clean out, that's what it's called. Um, you know, she's right there sort of helping me get prepped and, and ready. You know what I mean? Like my wife is eager to help, but she doesn't take directions very well and it evolves very quickly.
01:05:34
Speaker
That may change as you get older. I think it changes. I think as you get older, I think my wife's pretty intuitive to what I'm doing and also appreciates where like when I, I remember when we first got married,
01:05:47
Speaker
I was like, you know, I think I really need a chainsaw. And she was like, what do you need to get a chainsaw for? And then when I bought a chainsaw and she saw what I did with it, she's like, Oh, well, if you need it, just saved us like a thousand. Yeah. Yeah. Like I rented a, I rented a cherry picker or I guess, uh, or I forget what it's called. It's just like a thing you drag behind your truck to get up to hide places. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not called a, I think it's called a something lift, like a man lift.
01:06:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's that kind of thing. Is it the one that didn't get stuck up or something? It did get stuck up a few times. When I picked it up, I said to the guy, I said, I've never used one of these. Just give me a quick lesson. The guy did not want to talk to me at all. Was it Semcor? Yeah, it was. And this guy had come and he's like, man, I can't believe I'm in here today. I'm sick. I shouldn't be here. And I'm like, well, just show me one or two things.
01:06:43
Speaker
So he showed me a couple of things, but he didn't take the emergency brake off. So by the time I got home, I'm like, where's the smoke coming from? You know, I'm like, I'm walking around on my truck. I'm like, man, I smell like burning rubber. The next thing you know, the back, the back brake, this brake or whatever it is, parking brake just burst into flames. Luckily, the hose was right there and I put it out.
01:07:06
Speaker
And then it was great because I told them I'd rather then pick it up because I didn't, you know, I wasn't really comfortable with what, if it was going to be a problem now. You're like, Oh yeah, we'll pick it up for you. And they ended up not picking up for like two days later. So in that time, I was like, Oh yeah, I should really trim that tree and I should trim that tree.
01:07:24
Speaker
But that's another one of those things where I said to my wife, I said, you know, I'm going to rent one of these things. And she's like, oh, great. And she's like pointing out all the trees we can trim, you know, instead of having a truck, a tree guy come and it's, you know, whatever a couple grand. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My in-laws just had a maple trimmed and like two grand.
01:07:45
Speaker
Yeah. Just trimmed. Yeah. Yeah. It goes, the price gets high quick. I mean, there's a few things that I are, are beyond me and I won't, you know, touch them, but there's definitely some more. I could see myself renting that machine again. I might rent the one this, I think the thing I rented might've been, I don't know, 350 all in. I forget. That's not bad.
01:08:09
Speaker
Not too bad. No, it wasn't bad at all. Is that for one day? Well, I always rent on a Saturday and then you see, you pick it up on a Saturday and they're not open on Sunday. Oh yes. So you get it at like seven o'clock in the morning on a Saturday and then you have it all day and Sunday. And I think I had that thing until Wednesday or something.
01:08:27
Speaker
But there's another one that I think might be closer to $600 that you drive. But that one has to be delivered and then you have a delivery fee too. But it might be worth it because driving the towing the thing around with my truck
01:08:44
Speaker
made it difficult to get into some of the tight spaces. There's, you know, a couple of septic systems on my property that I have to keep an eye out for. So it might be worth a couple of extra bucks. And especially, you know, you just do the math. Is it going to cost me three or four grand to get these trees trimmed by a tree guy? Or do I rent this machine for six or 700 bucks and do it myself? Yeah. So, and I would say that I would, I think I just used an electric chainsaw the entire time.
01:09:14
Speaker
Uh, and now that I've got that little Milwaukee hatchet, I'd probably use that for 80% of it because I mean, I don't cut a six inch log, no problem. Yeah. Which is pretty good size. Yeah. Pretty good size. And especially when you're just talking about lemon trees up. Yeah. It's not like you're cutting a whole tree down. Now then you break out the, the bigger saw when you have to go and figure, okay, how am I going to process this thing into parts that I can get to the dump or firewood? But
01:09:42
Speaker
Anyway, that's what's going on in my world. Yeah. What do you
Kitchen Projects: From Ideas to Execution
01:09:45
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think? Should we, uh, want to tell people what the video, did we talk about the kitchen? So we, yeah, we talked about the street big. Um, and then we also shot, we have a kitchen in the shop right now. Um, supposed to be leaving the shop in about, uh, about eight days. We'll see what happens with the doors. Um,
01:10:03
Speaker
What about all of like the inserts
Innovative Kitchen Storage Solutions
01:10:06
Speaker
and stuff? So we have like a spice. We got to get B roll of the spice thing for the drawer. Like a cooking utensil pull out for next to the stove so you can keep your big spoons and spatulas and all that stuff. A cleaning pull out next to the sink for paper towels and sponges and that kind of stuff. Cleaning products.
01:10:25
Speaker
have the Le Mans unit for the corner, which is like a kidney shaped pullout that articulates in and out of the cabinet in like this S sort of shape. Garbage pullout, baking sheet pullout,
01:10:42
Speaker
A bunch of rollouts. It's it's really nice. My wife, I'm going to show her that video and she'll really get her her wheels turning on what we want to do eventually, because at some point we're going to we have a we have like one of those terrible like. Lazy Susan. Lazy Susan. Oh my God. Horrible. Yeah. And like nobody makes those diagonal corner cabinets anymore or pie cuts, whatever. They're terrible. I was never a fan. No.
01:11:11
Speaker
No, you always get something that like sticks up and then you can't turn it because it's hitting like the handle of a pot or something. That's a huge amount of space. And you think about, I mean, that's a 24 by 24 inch space that just goes to waste. Yeah. There's other cool ones like magic corner where it's like two drawers, one pulls straight out and the other one comes over sideways. There's some cool stuff.
01:11:36
Speaker
Yeah, I think I think that'll be a good video. Yeah, I have stuff we didn't even talk about like these pegboards that go inside of drawers that have these different like you could have like a post so you can make like a border around like your plates. That way you can divide like your plates and your bowls and all that kind of stuff.
01:11:55
Speaker
The quality on those products, those organizational products, I mean, it's really top shelf. Just give me a price on, let's say, the rack for the cookie trays. Let me see. I can look it up exact. You know, you're talking a couple hundred bucks. I was going to say, because that is quality. Yeah. So those are made by Century Components, which is
01:12:17
Speaker
an Amish company and we buy them through Hayfla. And they're like a direct competitor to Revashelf, which is like sort of the standard for that kind of stuff. You know, everybody knows Revashelf, but if you're a cabinet maker or, you know, deal with a lot of cabinets, you know that the quality on Revashelf is just like, it's junk. It's made in Vietnam. It's not worth it. So let's see, Groszian.
01:12:47
Speaker
sealed this total. I spent like, I feel like I spent like 15 grand with Hayflow like two weeks ago. Um, here we go.
01:12:58
Speaker
So for the cleaning pullout, 329, the canister one for like cooking utensils, 419. Those are nice though. I mean, that's the thing that's going to keep a kitchen nice. Yeah. Like those canisters are just like when you said you put the olive oil bottle inside that, I mean, and the place to put the sponge and that like acrylic dish.
01:13:23
Speaker
Those are all the things that will keep your kitchen nice because you get a kitchen and then you select that space under the sink just gets gross. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like, you know, we have like a silverware thing, utility thing. This is those. So you put this pegboard in the bottom of your drawer and then you have all these.
01:13:42
Speaker
Oh, wow. That's nice. Yeah. I got some of these for my kitchen. So we could, we could, um, I don't have as much stuff in mind. I had, I just have a spice pullout, a trash pullout. Two of those, they're not Le Mans, they're the Solice version going in my kitchen. So we can always shoot another more in-depth one. I think that I know that I'm interested in that stuff.
01:14:07
Speaker
I was just blown away by the quality. I mean, just maple, solid maple. And it's all got a bunch of curl in it. It's really nice stuff. With a nice finish, too. It's just really solid. Yeah, their motto is bench made. There's some guy on a workbench making these. Reva Shelf is being cranked out in some factory overseas.
01:14:34
Speaker
The price for the reference, like, let's see, uh, how much was the garbage? Pull out three 35 rev a shelf. Garbage. Pull out three 89. Look at this. This is crap. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And all of this, um, century stuff. So the, I, if we didn't say the company's century components, um,
01:15:01
Speaker
They all have three drawer slides. So they have two on the bottom and then they'll have one on the top. Okay. Nice. Yeah. Like in the middle. Sure. So it doesn't rack.
01:15:13
Speaker
And they're using Bloom, which are, you know, the second best slide next to Saliche. But yeah, it's nice stuff. Haefla has another line that's more comparable to the Reva shelf stuff. And it's probably, it's got to be half the price of Reva shelf. Okay. Yeah.
01:15:32
Speaker
Will you use it? Uh, it's called elemental. It's a, an imported thing. Um, like, you know, given the job called for something cheaper. What about your own home? Uh, see, I would go to like the European stuff, which is metal at that point. Okay.
01:15:48
Speaker
You know, so I went with a Kessa boomer garbage pulled out of mine and you know, you get that for less than 200 bucks. All right. And it's nice German, Germany. Um, but it's metal instead of wood. You know, wood is cost money to make stuff out of it.
Engaging Video Content Ideas
01:16:06
Speaker
Anyway, so that'll be the video for Saturday. Yeah. So don't forget to write in your comment of the week also.
01:16:14
Speaker
There you go. And I guess we didn't do a listener appreciation or something like that, right? Well, yeah, that was the, that was our shout out to Chris Gardner. The, uh, are we doing
01:16:27
Speaker
Uh, listener idea. We were talking about a good tip. Yeah. Oh, I thought that was a video idea that we were going to compile all these tips from people. And then we, have we gotten any tips? Yeah. I started a folder in my phone of I'm screenshotting. Okay. Great. Yeah. We got a bunch. Okay. Great. Yeah. Well next week. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. So keep writing those in. Um,
01:16:49
Speaker
I think that that could be like an ongoing series where sort of like, uh, like a myth bus tip busters where you send in your tip and we could either. Well, it's also great content because I think tips just get a lot of views so we can categorize them. So they sort of go together or, uh, we'll figure that out, but it's, it's good for us because it's always good if we can get more views where I think that, uh,
01:17:17
Speaker
I think that, I mean, if we look at, I think our five tip video and the one that didn't work is probably one of our highest. Yeah. That's what, is it over 5,000? I think so. Yeah. And we're usually good for anywhere between 1500 and 3000 views, like in the first week.
Growing a YouTube Channel: Strategies and Tips
01:17:35
Speaker
So, and then we'll try to get some shorts. Cause it's always good if we can get a viral short, not that that crosses over into other videos that much, but it does sometimes build subscribers.
01:17:46
Speaker
Yeah. And you know, there's the stigma, like people, when they go to your channel, they look at your subscriber count and that's how they make a decision as to if you're worth watching or not. These guys have 5,000 followers. Or oh man, these guys have 500,000 followers. They must be. And for a potential sponsor. Yeah. So it's always good to do that. Yeah.
01:18:09
Speaker
Well, I guess we'll talk to everybody next week. Tune in if you're listening to this on Friday, tomorrow, Saturday, 8 30 AM every week for the video and keep an eye out for any midweek videos. Yeah. Well, I think we might have one tomorrow. Yeah. All right. Talk to you guys next week. All right. See you.
01:18:30
Speaker
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01:19:11
Speaker
been a change.