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00:00:00
Jeffrey Krug
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00:00:28
Jeffrey Krug
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00:00:51
Jeffrey Krug
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00:01:06
Jeffrey Krug
All right, welcome back. it's Good to be back. and yeah got Your printer over there. How do you like that? It's pretty good. Walter's thinking about getting one of those. Yeah, I like the tank printers. That's what that is.
00:01:19
Jeffrey Krug
All right. And that's ah bamboo. Is that what it is? Oh, the 3D printer. yeah I thought you meant like my printer printer. Oh, no, I like that too, actually. We need a printer. Yeah. that I had Julie on that. That was like one of the first things ah when she came on. I was like, I need a printer. I'm like, do some research. Find me a good printer that does 11 by 17. What was the price on that?
00:01:39
Jeffrey Krug
ah 350 maybe. That's not bad. You say a tank printer. Yeah. So you see there in the front right. Those are tanks of toner. It's a it's a ah ah laser laser. pretty Yeah. Yeah. I think that's correct. Yeah. And so it uses a lot less. It's not using ink. It's using toner. Yeah. what Does it use a lot less? Yeah. Like, you know, I've been using it for over a year, maybe a year.
00:02:09
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, let's say a year. I mean, you can see they're only down a little bit. Yeah. I don't print like a ton, but I mean, that'll last me five years. I'm going to definitely take notes on that because ah there's ah a lot of times where I need a printer, Walter needs a printer. And so I use a printer so infrequently that the ink goes dry. Okay. And um and also, and then sometimes I use it a lot. And then I run the rank the I run the link, run the ink out.
00:02:40
Jeffrey Krug
So anyway, that's not bad. 350. Yeah. And it comes with all the toner. So. Oh, wow. Yeah. So you didn't even have to put any more money into it yet. No. Because you can spend 60, 70 bucks on ink. Easily. Yeah. It's crazy. They want like, you know, 40 bucks for black and 60 bucks for color sometimes. And is it completely wireless? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. All right. That's not bad at all. No. No. And it's a scanner.
00:03:04
Jeffrey Krug
um Yeah, it works great. No complaints. So I feel like sometimes like the print quality is not the best, but like I'm not printing photos, you know, I'm printing out stuff like this. Yeah.
00:03:15
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, no, I think it's pretty good. Yeah. But I was talking about the bamboo. Yeah. Yeah. um That was 650. I think they reached out to me or somebody affiliated with them reached out to me and I threw a number at them and I haven't heard back. But maybe I'll try to get in touch with them again because I think Walter could really use. ah He has a decent printer, but he prints a lot of parts before he actually yeah mills them.
00:03:43
Jeffrey Krug
He was ah asking me if I could print something because I think maybe the the working area on this is slightly bigger than his. I think he's got like a Prusa Mini maybe. ah That's exactly what he has. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm shooting a video with him. I think right now ah we're scheduled for Friday on the mallets, which I started turning. I've been turning, but I i'd put some production hours in today and we're going to start the video at his shop going through. He's I think he has a few that are, you know, half done and then all the way done. And then some getting started. So we'll piece it together. I want to see him cut that big piece of brass.
00:04:21
Jeffrey Krug
He's cutting. He's cross cutting that first. yeah Yeah. But I mean, lugging that thing up onto the saw. I think he might have cut it in half. OK. First. And then he's you know, I think he's doing it on the ground ah with that evolution. So I think he put the evolution on the ground to do that. That's right. Yeah, it was heavy. I think it was. They said it was like one hundred and forty, but he said it felt a lot heavier. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's a shape that you're not used to being.
00:04:46
Jeffrey Krug
like a two by two thing or you know, it's just ah a total Yeah, you can hurt yourself with something heavy when way way back I used to do a little ah metal sculpture ah welded steel sculpture, a lot of found object. So artwork or sculpture inspired by so Picasso real quick art lesson Picasso was taught how to weld by Julio Gonzalez. And, um and then he kind of got other people into interested in making welded steel sculpture. Picasso was what, the 40s? Picasso was earlier than the 40s. I think he might have died in the 60s or 70s. But um I believe he came to fame like in the 20s, maybe even earlier. There's got to be like the infancy of welding.
00:05:37
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, well, so they were doing, they they were doing oxyacetylene welding. Okay. And then, and then it kind of got, it caught on a little bit in the mid forties over here with the abstract expressionist and you had David Smith, really famous American sculptor. I think I talked about him. He died in a, he died in a very minimal car crash, but he carried a steel around in a male truck and it all came forward on him. Oh yeah. I think we did talk about that. and and ah Anthony Caro over in Europe. But um anyway, so getting back to I used to do a little bit of ah steel sculpture and man, steel gets heavy quick. Yeah. And you can really hurt yourself with a piece of steel phone on your finger. Like you don't even I used to pick up steel from the junkyard. And I remember kind of shuffling up and I had a crappy old van too. And I remember
00:06:33
Jeffrey Krug
pushing this piece of steel, and ended up hitting, getting my finger caught between the steel and like the little um metal buckets that your seats rest on in ah in an old work van. And it just split my finger open. So that sounds bad. I had another friend named get Ken. I forget his last name doesn't matter really matter. But anyway, he he was getting a sheet of a four by eight sheet, a quarter inch steel. And he kind of ran out of his house with a pair of boat shoes on, no no socks or anything. And um the the piece of steel started to like get out of control or whatever. And instinctively he put his foot underneath it. Like you might do that with like a piece of plywood or something, kind of catch it with your foot. And I mean, it didn't cut his foot off, but he got got hurt. geez
00:07:27
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, so yeah, I always talk to Walter, but I said, Be careful with heavy metal. It's, you know, there's, you can get hurt. Yeah, even just like straight, you know, pull your back because it if you have something that that was well, like 10 feet long or something, the the amount of leverage on the other side, you know, you could really hurt yourself.
00:07:44
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, that we talked about that with your ladder, like if you don't Yeah, yeah, with your lab that 12 foot ladder, that starts to get away from you and your arm is caught in that ladder, you're breaking your arm. Yeah, you're not going to catch that anyway. I mean, that thing's unruly. Yeah, I did this again, cutting so I popped in on ah Saturday to pick up a couple doors for my kitchen and I was putting the handles on so you got to cut the snap-off screws and I was using mini bolt cutters. I either use that or linesman pliers which I think linesman pliers actually work a little bit better but I always sort of wrap my left hand around everything that's happening because that piece that you're cutting off wants to go flying so I'm trying to keep it from flying and I've done this about half a dozen times. I don't know when I'm going to learn my lesson but
00:08:33
Jeffrey Krug
the backside either the either the fish tape puller or the on the mini bolt cutters there's like a I don't know if it's a stop or like it's like a little thing to crush stuff but man I this was a big purple Yeah, because when it breaks the screw, then it comes down super hard. Right. Because you're squeezing, squeezing, squeezing, then bam, it goes through and just, ugh. I heard my skin crunch. I do the same thing because you don't want that piece of screw to go somewhere in the shop, like it could go into a machine or something. Yeah, and I'm standing next to all the painted doors. yeah My luck, it's going to fly and hit one of the doors. Yeah, you don't want that. Yeah, you got to be careful. it's easy to ah it's It's easy to get hurt, that's for sure. Yeah, utility knife, if anything. I did a stupid thing with the utility knife. I i had a utility knife where I was working and I ah needed some room to put something down and I brushed the knife away. done And next thing you know, I've got like a three-quarter of an inch slice of my pink Emily. yeah And now instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing, I'm bleeding on everything. So now I'm like looking for tape or something to stop the bleeding. Yeah.
00:09:45
Jeffrey Krug
So yeah, it's it's smart to ah slow down and be careful. Yeah, when you rush, ah it's never good. Jackie actually texted me yesterday. And she's like, you ever have days where you feel like you just shouldn't be on the tools? And I said, yes. And usually, it's good advice to heed. Like, if you feel like you shouldn't be on the tools, you probably shouldn't be on the tools. Yeah, I think that's a that's ah that's a smart idea. And that kind of goes with everything. I i get that way sometimes on a bicycle. I'll be like, OK.
00:10:16
Jeffrey Krug
Maybe I should turn around now or maybe I should slow down. You know, just just enjoy the ride. Don't try to be a hero or whatever. Yeah, that's not my hero on a bicycle. Well, so that because the saga is going to end soon, we got to do kitchen updates. Oh, yes. Next week is it's D Day. So what's ah you you told me a little bit of news. Do you want to get into that with the counter? Yeah. So um let's see when last we spoke, I had I forget where I was, but um ah yeah when we last spoke, Jackie was here. She had painted the door. So Jackie hit the doors that Monday. I ended up finishing painting them on Thursday, Friday. I was in New York for the hateful event. oh that That was cool. We could talk about that later. um Then Saturday I came in, I picked up a couple of doors. I was just antsy, you know, I wasn't going to bring any doors home, but I was like, oh and they're they're ready. I want to bring them home, clip them on.
00:11:17
Jeffrey Krug
So I brought like six or 10 doors home, clipped those on. And then the goal for the weekend was to get everything painted. So Saturday, um, you know, the paint stores don't open till nine o'clock, which drives me crazy. I didn't know that. Yeah. So like Jasmine's not open till nine. They're Benjamin Moore. Jasmine's not open till nine on a Saturday or Sunday Saturday. i'm I'm almost positive. I'm thinking you're wrong. Yeah. I hope I'm right because I i would have went over there. I'm thinking it's it's eight o'clock in the morning on a Saturday and Sunday is nine or 10. Let's see. um So I was I i was probably gonna go to painters Express anyway, which is where I went. Just because I know that they have every Benjamin Moore product. Like I don't know how much they have a lot. Yeah, surprised. Let's see. I think they're pretty knowledgeable to Saturday 8am 8am.
00:12:11
Jeffrey Krug
I'm going to remember that. um So I went over there. I grabbed ceiling paint. I grabbed ah my wall paint. I went with scuff X. I told him I said I'm between Aura, which I've used a bunch of times and scuff X. I said, I have I have a scuff happy son and wife. He said, well, go with the scuff X. So I got that. What's the price? I want to say sixty five bucks a gallon. And what's Aura? About the same. No more. Oh, really? Maybe 80, 90.
00:12:40
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, definitely more. um And then I got command for the trim. ah So I bought those. So you're brushing the command? No, I'm going to spray that stuff here. OK. And then I'll install and then touch up with a brush.
00:12:55
Jeffrey Krug
Okay, and you're using gloss or satin satin. Okay, so Matt on the walls ultra flat on the ceiling satin on the trim. Okay. um I just even semi gloss. It's just too glossy for me for trim. You know, it just looks it to me. It's like a little bit dated.
00:13:14
Jeffrey Krug
I just used, uh, gloss, so I'm totally offended now. I mean, it's way more cleanable. I just used gloss because I had it. Yeah. Uh, I don't know what I was doing with it, but I had it, but I would have preferred satin. You know what it is. It's, uh, it hides.
00:13:31
Jeffrey Krug
and hide stuff, too. Yeah, yeah. Gloss, like, when it's dirt it's when it gets dirty, it's going to look dirty. And if there's an imperfection, so I i put up beadboard, and a lot of areas I had to pinch nail because there was nothing to nail into. And often you pinch nail that stuff anyway because it's so thin. Yeah.
00:13:49
Jeffrey Krug
Anyway, there's some areas where I can see that I only I only have one coat of primer and one coat of paint and just point. But I I can see the nails yeah in some places. My wife hasn't pointed them out to me. But I can see where I and I think that's just because it's a gloss. ah You could always fill them again.
00:14:07
Jeffrey Krug
It's not so much that I think that I think because there's only a coat of primer and a coat of finish. Is it MDF? It's MDF and I filled everything with joint compound. So do you see like that little halo? Is that what you're saying? I think i'm I think I'm seeing where it just sucked into paint a little bit more. Okay. Yeah, because the MDF also has a primer on it right so where it gets nailed it raises a a little bit yeah you get that little mushroom yeah and so then i sanded that with a block and then so that's just mdf so that's goingnna suck in the primer and suck in to finish paint yeah so i think After a second coat, I think a second coat, it would go away. Yeah. But now I'm thinking, jeez, I'd rather just do this in satin. And a lot of times I've learned, I mean, I'm married more than 30 years now, um maybe just a little more than 30 years. um That if I think something, I should just go ahead and do it. I shouldn't say, what do you think? And I think I talked to told the story about the round table in my kitchen where my wife still thinks it's like four inches bigger than it actually is.
00:15:14
Jeffrey Krug
um So yeah, so I got my paint and then then it took me until noon to get ready to paint, you know, so I had to I had to pull all the recess lights down. I have in ceiling speakers. I just took the grills off of those. I wasn't worried about getting a little bit of paint on the outside of those. Plasticked everything off.
00:15:36
Jeffrey Krug
hit anything that needed to be, you know, with Easy Sand 5, any little dings or anything. What's Easy Sand 5? Hot mud, you know, you buy it in bags, powdered spackle that you mix up. Okay, okay. So it's supposed to dry in five minutes. Okay, gotcha. They have so like Easy Sand 5, 15, 20, 30, 60, 90. That's a video. I was thinking that when I was using it. Yeah, it's a video because I had to ask what it was.
00:16:04
Jeffrey Krug
um That's definitely a video. You could do that and just do a couple of tips like, here's some, some spackling or joint compound tips, you know, repair hole, Easy Sand 5, whatever. um So I'm writing that down. Yeah, I feel like it dries a little bit harder too than like a blue top or a green top spackle. I could be wrong about that though. Is that the brand name Easy Sand 5?
00:16:32
Jeffrey Krug
It's a it's a um U what's that company? U.S., the company that makes sheetrock. U.S., G.S., whatever. The United States chips some products. I don't know what you're talking about. It comes in like, looks like a bag of concrete. So you put that in a little cup and just mix it up with a stick? I have a pan you know a regular metal sheetrock spackle pan. But if you're if you're talking about just going around, filling stuff. and I use that because i I'm just used to using a pan. you know even if you were just going to fill like four nail holes. Yeah, because you always want to mix more than you need.
00:17:04
Jeffrey Krug
okay You know, it's like a, it's probably like a 25 pound bag or something. So it's like a lot of. But you would never just put like a teaspoon in a little plastic cup and put a tiny bit of water in there just to do a tiny little. Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah. yeah If I had just like one. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying like, if you just nailed a few things together, would you use that as a fill on any of the painted projects that you're using doing?
00:17:29
Jeffrey Krug
No. Why? umm i'm So my whole thing is I'm not saying that joint compound doesn't work as a filler, but it's not designed to be a filler. And there's products that are designed to be a filler. So I'm just going to use something that's has been formulated and designed to be used as a wood filler. That's just the way I look at it. All right. It it definitely works. I've never I mean, I'm going on a couple of decades with no issues.
00:17:56
Jeffrey Krug
And it's just so soft easy to use. Well, my feeling is you always go you're always going to prime. And I just feel like the prime sucks into into the joint compound. And then it makes it that much harder. Yeah. um My one my one ah fear would be like, you know sometimes when you're filling, it's just nail holes. And then you have, like a ah let's say, a piece cracked off or something. Then you have to go to use something else. So now you're using two products. OK.
00:18:24
Jeffrey Krug
um But it definitely works and if you're if you're just nailing stuff together It I'm sure it works great. Yeah, I mean that's that's what I use it for 18 gauge You know rad nail holes. Yeah, and it'll save you a lot of time in sanding because it's that much soft so easy Yeah, I mean you could sand sheetrock spackle like with your finger. Yeah so ah Okay, so I cut you off an easy sand 5. Oh, yeah, so I went and I I hit any um Spots that needed it on the ceiling and and the walls because um so I painted the ceiling one coat and I was getting real close to being through the whole gallon. So Ali was at work. I told her to stop at Jasmine, grab another gallon on her way home. So she grabbed another one and I put a second coat on. Look great. You used a whole gallon on your ceiling. I used about a gallon and a quarter. but Wait, one coat or two coats? Two coats. Wow. All right.
00:19:24
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah. It's about on par. You know, they say like 450 square feet, I think for a ah gallon. Okay. So the room is 22 by 12. What nap where were you? Were you using? Just three A's. Okay. I like to use a three quarter on the walls a lot of times. um But you know, it's with ceiling paint, sometimes it wants to fly everywhere. Yeah. Three quarter on the walls? Yeah. Why? Because it just holds so much more paint.
00:19:49
Jeffrey Krug
All right. Are you getting a are you getting a different texture, though, with three quarter ah over a little bit? Yeah. But, you know, when you lay it on thick, it it's sort of like ah levels out to and I'm not like a super experienced interior painter, but I was just using Wooster three days for the walls and the ceiling ended up using the same roller cover for for both. You know, just washed it out. All right. So I painted the ceiling.
00:20:15
Jeffrey Krug
on Saturday, two coats, and and you know ah got ahead of prepping the walls. And that took me until, I wanna say, six o'clock or something. It took me like all day. youre You must have been beat. Painting's exhausting. Yeah. And you know you're looking up. When you're on the ceiling. Yeah, you're looking up. And ah and you know the first coat never looks great. And then I'm like,
00:20:45
Jeffrey Krug
getting pissed off because I'm like, you know, um I can see the lines, but it's still wet. And then, I mean, it it it looks great. No primer, no primer over the sheetrock. No, I use Killz PVA okay primer okay on everything. And then i ah since then, because it's been primed for ah shot two years. Is Killz a Benjamin Moore product?
00:21:09
Jeffrey Krug
ah I don't think so so. I think it's a Rust-Oleum product. I use Fresh Start as a primer. Well, this is a Sheetrock primer okay made specifically for Sheetrock.
00:21:23
Jeffrey Krug
um It's like a you know, it's supposed to fill any Imperfections and stuff. All right, ah so I use that back right after was she rocked I I hit everything with that But since then, you know behind the stove and behind the sink it got it got kind of grungy sure so I hit it with kills with uh Yeah, well kit with like regular oil based or shellac base kills. Oh, that's a shellac base. I didn't realize that okay I was thinking of The original, the sheetrock primer was not, that was PVA. You're not talking about, that's not a bin product, kills. ah yeah um Because bin, I'm thinking the shellac-based bin primer, that's the only thing I know that shellac-based. Same thing, okay I'm pretty sure. Yeah, because it was what Lew used on the shop to spot prime. Okay.
00:22:12
Jeffrey Krug
see if Google can oh yeah it's made by Ben maybe it was Ben it was in a five gallon I actually can't remember what it what it said on it maybe this kills original um bla blah um because when I opened it there was like a layer of amber colored liquid I'm thinking this is definitely shellac and it had that smell so that I use that ah Behind the range and behind the sink where you know There had been cooking oil or hitting the wall and stuff and and I went back over it with the PVA primer a while back And it just bled right right through so now are you going to tile that area? I'm not sure so my in-laws across the street they they haven't put in a backsplash and And it's the same
00:23:00
Jeffrey Krug
house kitchen layout is pretty much almost the same because there's only so many because you're still vent outside. No, I have a microwave. Yeah. So the the cabinets are definitely going to get a little bit greasy, but um I don't hate the way it looks. So you wouldn't do beadboard. No, it doesn't really fit the look of my kitchen. It's just it's easy. That's all. Yeah. Easy and inexpensive. Yeah.
00:23:26
Jeffrey Krug
I, I think we were talking about the ceiling my ceiling being kind of gross from so many years of use. Yeah, I ended up washing it with a hot rag. I just kept putting a wet rag in the microwave. And it wasn't that bad. But it wasn't as bad as as I thought it was. And then I went over that with fresh star and then I went over that with two coats of I use Benjamin Moore. I forget the name waterborne.
00:23:54
Jeffrey Krug
I mean, for their finished paint, ah whatever their Oh, not ceiling paint? No, I went over I went over the ceiling first with fresh art, right? And then I went over with a wall paint. What she meant? Flat. Okay. Yeah. What's the difference between a ceiling paint and a wall paint? um Well, the ceiling paints formulated so that it spatters a little bit less. Okay. And then, like,
00:24:20
Jeffrey Krug
The ceiling paint I use is a ultra flat. So it's like a zero to two sheen. Okay. Whereas like a, so like the Matt Enduro is like a 10 sheen. Okay. So I don't know what Benjamin Moore's Matt would be considered, but yeah, I forget. I even forget. The flatter it is the more it, it looks great. Yeah. I mean, ah it just, anything looked better than what was there. And it looks nice though. You ever do a ceiling with like a drop of blue in it, get kind of like this sky.
00:24:48
Jeffrey Krug
I haven't. I've worked in houses where we've done that. Looks cool. Yeah, I bet it would look good. and So where were we? So, yes, yeah Saturday, finished the ceiling. Well, we were at the ah backsplash, I think. You you prime oh yeah so i back there. Yeah, I hit those. um That was like maybe like a week ago.
00:25:09
Jeffrey Krug
So Saturday, I started at 5.45. I started cutting in. And I'm using the color is Swiss coffee. Really nice. Just like a warm white. um So I started cutting in 5.45 and I had the first coat on by, oh no, so then I get to,
00:25:31
Jeffrey Krug
The switch for the lights, it ended up too close. i What happened is I roughed everything in, all the electrical, a long, long, long time ago. And I've changed the layout since then. So all my cans are in the wrong spot. you know they're not The one that's centered on the sink is still good, but the one that's centered on the range a little bit off, on the fridge a little bit off. And now the switch is too close to the tower cabinet that sits on the peninsula. I'll show you pictures and um in a minute. um So I had to move it over.
00:26:02
Jeffrey Krug
so that I have space for the end panel. otherwise So you had to do a sheetrock repair? So I had to cut it open. Wow. And then um I texted Jamie. I'm like, you have a scrap of five-ace sheetrock? My father-in-law across the street. He didn't have any. So I went to Lowe's because it was early. It was like 7 o'clock. And ah they didn't sell any like two-by-two pieces of five-ace. So I had to buy a piece of half-inch. So then I did like a blowout patch.
00:26:28
Jeffrey Krug
and put it in there. you know So it was between the cabinet and the door. So it's it's only six inches by eight inches. And I laid it on laid it on top. But it was it was kind of hollowed out. So I had to end up floating all the spackle and everything. So that was a pain. And it still it needs a little more work. um But I did that and got the walls all painted and was done by 3 o'clock. Wow. So not bad. Not at all. And so now your kitchen's going to look great for Thanksgiving.
00:26:59
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah. Oh, so then Monday. Countertops go in. That was the whole thing. I want to get painted. Sure. 99 percent ceiling, especially one to be done before the countertops went in. So ah they showed about 10 o'clock on Monday and. ah Yeah, put them in. They banged up the the wall a little bit. It's trying to get the one in it's kind cause it's between, you know, between two walls captive. um But yeah, they look great.
00:27:28
Jeffrey Krug
I bet, but there's a small crack or something. Yeah, so i I ended, I left at like 12 when they were done, came to the shop, Ali got home at like two and she texted me. She's like, there's a crack in the countertop. I'm like, what the fuck? Sends me a picture. It's just, um it's ah nothing crazy. It's right in front of the sink, you know, where you have that strip that's, um you know, just a couple inches wide and ah they're going to come fix it.
00:28:00
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, it's like unnoticeable. Yeah, I had it like when I went home and I saw the pictures there, you can't even see it. So you really had to look for it. Yeah, I had a hard time finding it like when I got home to find to look for it. So they just fill it with epoxy? Yeah, they're gonna, they might come today or maybe tomorrow, like when they're done with their install, they'll just come, yeah, fill it. Maybe they'll have to sand it a little bit or something. Nice. But it's soapstone, so you just put mineral oil Is that what you do? You put mineral oil on soapstone? Yeah, you don't have to put anything on it, but um different areas. So a soapstone gets like a patina. okay And ah you know if you have like say like a bottle of soap sitting in one spot, you might get like a ring where it's sort of like sucking any of the patina off for sure or like any oils that are on the surface. So you can just put a little mineral oil on that and it evens everything all out.
00:28:52
Jeffrey Krug
All right. Yeah. Is that something that you're going to do on a regular like will you a year or two from now kind of freshen it up with a coat of soap? Yeah, you could even do it like every you could do it as often as you want. OK. And it it will look a lot more like black and sort of shiny if you put the oil on it. But I guess I better show you.
00:29:14
Jeffrey Krug
And you're using the table now. Oh, that looks great.
00:29:18
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, it looks really nice. I love that floor. I know you have to go over it. But um that does look good. So what are you putting on top of the cabinets? I have ah a board. Okay, that's some of that painted stuff that's out there and then a crown. Nice. And what are you doing for hardware? Oh, that looks great. Do you think you get the floor in before before Thanksgiving? Yeah, I'm thinking about starting it tomorrow. Wow.
00:29:47
Jeffrey Krug
So i my trim came in today from ah to Dykes from Garden State. So I got to go pick that up. I couldn't believe it cost me like 815 bucks in trim. So it's a lot. It was ah two pieces of crown, two pieces of base, two pieces of shoe and 10 pieces of casing. Eight hundred. Holy cow. Yeah. If the ah if the hussy was working, would you have made it out of MDF? No. OK.
00:30:16
Jeffrey Krug
No, because then it would have cost me $8,000. anyway um Yesterday, I brought home all the panels. So I had the ah had to cut some of them to fit the wall. So I did that here yesterday. I brought them home. Is the trim that you're putting up, is it MDF or is it poplar? It's finger joint pine. Finger joint pine? Yeah. Yeah, it looks at the tops. Yeah, it looks really nice.
00:30:45
Jeffrey Krug
And you've been a while without a kitchen, so you must really enjoy it. Yeah, it's nice. see if i have Yeah, so they kind of wrecked the wall a little bit over here. But that's going to happen. Yeah. And then, of course, like, you know, the sink was leaking because the plumbing gets jostled around. Then I'm like, what the hell? You've got some great storage in there. Yeah, I like those ah pullouts. Yeah. What kind of stove did you go with?
00:31:15
Jeffrey Krug
ah It's a GE. And that's the appliances we bought like ages ago. Yeah, that's great. the ah you're You're lucky that you have gas because we have electric and it'd be nice to have a gas stove. Yeah, you don't even have gas to the house, right? I could get it. It's there now. It wasn't there when we bought the house. So I could switch everything over, you know, the furnace, everything. You might get some good rebates from New Jersey Natural Gas.
00:31:45
Jeffrey Krug
I talked with them last year and there was even potential of doing a video and getting a reimbursement like almost they don't, they don't supply a plumber, but they would just cut me a check to maybe ah pay for most of it. I got a guy I'll do it for you.
00:31:59
Jeffrey Krug
um No, but I mean, I was they were ah New Jersey natural gas was gonna pay for it that way. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. um But it was sort of like taking forever. And I just kind of gave up on I said, let's talk about it next spring. Yeah. Yeah. because i I think I had a decent amount of oil in the tank. And if I want to plan that, I'd like to be kind of almost out of oil yeah and kind of going into the going into the warmer months and um and just have a plan. I'd also... Your tank is in in the basement? It is. So I took my tank out of the ground when ah I would say almost 20 years ago, maybe 18 years ago, because
00:32:45
Jeffrey Krug
I think I told the story we had all. so Yeah, it sounds familiar. Anyway, um we took the tank out and now we have a it's called a Roth tank. It's a 275 gallon double plastic walled ah tank that's in the basement. Yeah, you don't want a tank in the ground. That's just like a recipe for disaster. Yeah. I have like a vent that comes out. They had a ah tank, I guess, in the basement and they had a little vent coming out.
00:33:13
Jeffrey Krug
of on the outside of the house or the inside of the house? The vents on the outside. And you're sure that it doesn't go to a tank? I don't know. You don't care at this point? Nope. Yeah, no, I mean, they they checked when before we bought the house and they they said that there was no evidence or whatever. I had a friend who he he bought a house and knocked it down. And ah and it had a tank.
00:33:39
Jeffrey Krug
And when they pulled the tank out, like it looked fine. But then he was like walking around the house or something towards the end of the day, and the the sun was low. And I guess it hit the back of the tank. It was just lying it was just lying on the ground. And he could see light at the back of the tank. And so he kicked some dirt up against the back. And when the inspector came, ah he's like, oh, yeah, it looks fine.
00:34:06
Jeffrey Krug
I mean, i i ah I get it. Like, it's really bad if oil leaks into the ground. But like, why is it such a big deal? I mean, when you when you see about all like these, like look what happened in East Palestine, Ohio, with like that big tanker truck blew up. Oh, yeah. Like that train, that big tanker train blew up. But we're talking about, let's say, 300 gallons of oil. I don't know. No, that's what I'm saying. Like, they it just seemed like a way for the for the government to make money on citizens, to be honest with you. Yeah. Well, I don't even think the government's making any money, but now you have to pay some contractor to come in and do abatement. Yeah, but there you have to get permits, like so then the government send sells permits, yeah you know and there's really remediation costs. So I don't know. I mean, with my situation, they they
00:35:02
Jeffrey Krug
They checked the tank and it turned out that it was leaking. Thankfully I had an insurance policy with my oil company and they went down about 20 feet and because we have thick clay soil and they you know they took a few dump trucks of soil out of the out of the ground and that was it, you know what I mean? um So now I have it ah have the oil tank in the basement and now it's just one less thing I have to deal with.
00:35:30
Jeffrey Krug
Like what's that oily? What about radon? Do you have a radon pipe in your house? No. All right. So I do. ah Now the prior owners didn't have them, but I guess when we bought the house, ah they said, Oh, you need to put radon, you know, remediation in. Yeah, i I actually looked into it. There's like a reason that I don't need it. I don't, I forget what it is though.
00:35:53
Jeffrey Krug
I got to replace my fans. my and That just happened recently. And that's not a big deal. I just go on Grainger, or a few hundred bucks or whatever. Grainger's really expensive. Are they really? ah Yeah, I only learned this within the last year or so. Grainger, all those prices are severely inflated. OK. You could find it somewhere else for probably half the price. I'll just go on Amazon, and because it's just a fan. Yeah, the contactor for the compressor, Grainger wanted $400. OK. I bought it for $75. Wow. Yeah.
00:36:22
Jeffrey Krug
Well, so I don't go to Granger all that often. i mean either They never have what I need in the store. Did you go to the one where you have to go all the way down to like Eaton Town? Is that where you went? I've been to that one and there's one in Plainfield. All right. So I think I bought, I think I bought a oil filled electric baseboard heat there. And I think I bought the last time I did an oil filled baseboard heater. I think I bought it at, I think I just bought it at Lowe's.
00:36:50
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, probably go to like Cooper or maybe I did go there. i forget it was Yeah, um because there's a big difference between a 220 oil filled like eight foot section of ah baseboard as opposed to like a not oil filled 110. Oh, yeah. It's like because my whole shop, my barn is heated by one eight foot strip. Wow. And it warms up night. I mean, it's insulated. Well, yeah. So that's a small building, you know, it does a good job though. But I went to Granger. Now that I know that I because i was thinking oh I'll go on Granger and get a new radon fan.
00:37:25
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, I thought I thought they were like supposed to be good. But what it is is, you know, there's big companies who have their that's like their supplier and they buy everything from mops to gloves to, ah you know, consumables, everything from Granger. It's like, ah yeah, it's like i was told that by a couple of almost like a U line kind of a thing. Yeah, it's like a total ripoff. Okay. I'm good to know. Yeah. um So yeah, so I'm picking up my trim, I got to do the trim the floor. And ah That's really it. And for Thanksgiving, you host? Yeah. Wow. So it's, pressure's on. One week. And are you going to be freaked out a little bit about your countertops getting beat up or no? No, I actually like, so we have like a lazy Susan. You can actually see in the picture it's right there. Um,
00:38:15
Jeffrey Krug
We got that, Ali got that at her bridal shower. So that was like nine years ago or something. And we just started using it because, you know, we never really had a place to put it. And I slid it on the countertop the first day and left like a so ah little scratch. And I was like, Oh, well, that's what happens. Like, I just have to um accept the fact that it's going to happen. And then you could just put a little oil on it and it goes away.
00:38:39
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, no, that's that's the only way to look at it. The kitchen is really like a shop. Yeah, that's the way you have to think about it. It's just it's just a working place. I mean, today, you see these kitchens that are just like ridiculously beautiful. And a lot of those kitchens barely get any use. Yeah, you know, where our kitchen and our house is as high traffic. Yeah, it's one quarter of my entire house is this room. Yeah. Well, everything happens in the kitchen. Yeah, it's amazing how that is.
00:39:09
Jeffrey Krug
So that's my kitchen. What's going on with yours? I'm going to put a shelf up. So ah basically, I put new windows in in the in the spring, finally trimmed those out, put beadboard up against the wall where I had some tile, took that down, took the cabinets down. And I'm just going to do ah two shelves, just you know one on each wall. And we're just trying to go minimal, like less is more. And I think that i think that what I'll do next is maybe replace a bank of cabinets on the other opposite wall and actually build cabinets.
00:39:53
Jeffrey Krug
And then I'll probably at some point do a vinyl floor. I'm just kind of doing, I'm trying to fix that, fix the kitchen up and still people use it like every single day. Yeah. But it's not the the main priority, but it looks good enough. It looks a lot better than it did six months ago. Yeah. So you're, are you, you're done for Thanksgiving or you you have a little more you're going to do? I'm done. I could put a shelf up, but I'm not going to. I got other things to do. got I have some work things I have to do. um I got to make a lot of mallets. yeah I'm working on that. And Thanksgiving comes in. So i end up I end up doing a lot to help Laurel, you know, whatever Laurel wants me to do, peel potatoes, carrots, whatever it is.
00:40:43
Jeffrey Krug
apples because we host as well. It's not huge. I think it might be anywhere between 10 and 16 people. okay ah But it's yeah ah it's the it seems to be the boys and Olivia's favorite holiday because you don't really have to do anything.
00:41:01
Jeffrey Krug
other that like especially when it's at your house yeah you know we do travel so we're ah you do volleyball we do volleyball and we leave the house i think at like eight o'clock in the morning on thursday morning play volleyball now when we started thirty years ago or more We were, we were, you know, the kids. And, ah and then you know 10 years into that then you had like all of my sons and everybody else's and they were the kids who would, you know, you, you would kind of put them on your team as a
00:41:33
Jeffrey Krug
I was like a favor kind of thing. Oh, yeah, you got the kids, you know, you you divide it up, you know, you got a couple of adults. And now it's like full circle where it's like you've got all like these big, strong kids giving up the old people, giving up the old people. And I'm thinking to myself already, I'm like, my I don't want to twist my ankle. I don't want to hurt my wrist. And there's a lot of people who have already tapped out. There's a lot of.
00:41:56
Jeffrey Krug
So I was at a funeral yesterday up in North Jersey. I grew up in Pompton Lakes, which is close to Wayne, if if anybody knows New Jersey. And ah I grew up really good friends with... um this mike My cousins and I lived in the same house. We had like eight kids in the house. my My dad, my mom, and my aunt. And we became really good friends with this other family who had like seven kids. Wow.
00:42:20
Jeffrey Krug
and um And we're like best friends, like where we just see them all the time. Like they're like almost like family. Anyway, um, uh, the mother of that family passed away earlier last week and I was up there. Uh, but everybody, you know, she was 86 maybe. And I think, but she, she was in really good shape, but kind of getting some health issues. yeah And so it was just sort of a normal course of events. That's a pretty good run 86. Yeah, and really great person like a really great great life great person and anyway That family is one of the families we play volleyball with so I saw them yesterday Which is unusual because I only see them like once a year at this volleyball game ah nowadays, so I'll see them again and um And it's like a small like family reunion whatever play this game, but all those
00:43:15
Jeffrey Krug
all those kids that I grew up with, now all of their kids are like big strong kids too. You guys do like breakfast or? So we get up to, my it's in Pompton Plains where we end up going, which is ah which is like a town over from Pompton Lakes.
00:43:30
Jeffrey Krug
We go up to my cousin Tom's house and um and a few people bring things like bagels and donuts and there's coffee. So we show up for that ah kind of, you know, just ah shoot the breeze for 10 or 15 minutes and people start picking teams and then ah then we start playing. And it's usually two courts set up.
00:43:52
Jeffrey Krug
It's a nice thing to do. It's amazing, like how sore everybody is afterwards. You know, it's like you're just not used to playing that. Yeah, mean those are like the volleyball motions are not common things that you're doing squatting down and like. It's a great tradition. ah It's it's a bit of a drive, you know, because it's an hour and 15 minutes. And any time you're driving on the Parkway, you don't know what you're going to be in for.
00:44:20
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, and it's, you know, it's a big travel day. It is. I might take 287 back. ah Usually I take like route 23 to route to the parkway. You get on the parkway like 153. Is it 153 or is it 53? I think it's 53. It gets higher as you go down, right? ah No, it gets lower. 153 is the oranges. Okay, yes. Yeah, that's that gets you to like 287, I think, right? 287 you can pick up, I think around 142. 78 to 87. Yeah, so we get on we get on at 153 and take that back to, I usually get off on 117 and come home through Route 35. That's how I go, yeah. let don come Unless I'm coming from the south, well, it depends. Shopper house is different.
00:45:11
Jeffrey Krug
do you Do you take, if you're getting off the park or if you're coming back from up north, would you take 35 to your house or 36? To my house, from north, I would take 117 and take 36.
00:45:29
Jeffrey Krug
36 just seems forever. Sometimes I'll take 36. I'm like, holy cow, why does this seem so much longer? It's like 17 miles, I think, from 117 to Sandy Hook. It's like really far. Yeah. I'm always like, when is this ever going to end? So I always, plus I'm kind of close to 35. Yeah, I just prefer 36. I mean, I live on 36. But if I'm coming from the south, I get off at 109. OK. And then you go half mile road. You probably go past my house, son.
00:45:57
Jeffrey Krug
ah It depends. Usually I'll go up to Chapel Hill Road and then take that so adjacent. But like if I'm going to if I'm going somewhere on like a Saturday morning, like to Ocean, it takes me right past your house. Yeah. Take me like up Portland or whatever. And then. Yeah, that that's what happens. I think that Waze and everything has directed people because the the traffic in front of my house is just gone.
00:46:24
Jeffrey Krug
way up over the years, over like the last four years, it's gotten much more, much busier. Yeah, because nobody takes the back roads unless they A, know about them or B, somebody tells them to go that way, you know? Yeah. So I think a combination of a few road closures and just ways and everything else now, the traffic is just, and my road is fast. I think it's 45. 35, I think it's 40. I don't know. Yeah, it's pretty fast.
00:46:54
Jeffrey Krug
I know that they bought the speed limit down over um on Locust Point Road. Oh, really? That's like 25, but, man, that's a dangerous road. Nobody does 25. That turn right there where the steel bridge is, like if you're going towards the red store from the Oceanic Bridge, the odds of somebody pulling out in front of you from from Locust Point... or Well, what is that? You're talking about the Blue Bridge? Yeah. yeah what's What road is that? That's Locust Point Road. Oh, what's the one where the Oceanic is?
00:47:24
Jeffrey Krug
Navas Inc. and Locust Point come together. Oh yeah, Navas Inc. River Road comes around. Yeah, like if you're on Navas Inc. River Road going towards the red store, the people on Locust Point want to pull out in front of you when you're going straight. That's the only road I have to cross when I do my bicycle ride. That's like the most dangerous part of the ride. Do you ride up there in like Clay Pit Creek? So wait, that's not Clay Pit Creek, that's Huber Woods.
00:47:50
Jeffrey Krug
I thought that I thought that sign on the other side of the Blue Bridge said Clay Pit Creek. I think it's Clay Pit Trail. Okay. Yeah. Clay Pit Creek, I think is the creek that is that you go over on the Navasink River, that bridge that they closed down and now they've got a light on it. I think they call that Clay Pit Creek. Okay.
00:48:14
Jeffrey Krug
So um yeah, Clay Pit, that is the trail that takes you from Huberwoods to the Blue Bridge. hu That's called Clay Pit Trail, I guess. But um yeah, that's why I was confused, Clay Pit Creek. But yeah, so... They're doing a lot of work over there. On the house by Clay Pit? No, that whole corner, I guess they're putting in like a turn lane or something. Or like a... I saw they had like a culvert or something that they were...
00:48:44
Jeffrey Krug
You know how bad that ah like that four way stop sign was, right? Yeah. That was like terrible. Yeah. In the van, like if I'm coming from like off of 36 and you take that little side street and then you have to get onto Locust Point. Yeah. Like that's like a hard turn in the van. Yeah, because you can't see anything. Yeah. And you have to go so slow. You've got people coming from you've got people coming from the bridge. You've got four different. Nobody knows what to do.
00:49:12
Jeffrey Krug
ah So I so I don't know what they're doing, but I do know about the construction that they're doing that they're doing there. I think it's they may end up putting a light there. But I think that's all to solve that traffic problem. Yeah, I think that's at first I was like, is this a house going in because they like They cleared out all those woods there. Yeah. And then there was that weird, that house had that weird piece of property with that long triangle and they kind of cut that off. ah And they now it's got like a weird, it's got like a weird dog leg to it that whole turn. Yeah. I just, we were going to Rumsen yesterday. I drove through it and I was just like, what the hell's going on? Are you looking at a job in Rumsen? I was back at a um ah repeat client. They just need like a railing going down into the basement.
00:49:59
Jeffrey Krug
um We did a mud room and a window seat just about a year ago. Yeah, I remember that job. That was nice. Yeah, I think did we shoot a video on? I think we we shot parts of that video. yeah It was sort of a combination of walnut and painted white maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's the job that ah Rob installed the slides, the Cilice slides.
00:50:20
Jeffrey Krug
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. ah So that made me think of um the hardware, but I want to get off of that. Let's talk about what we were just shooting that with the paint. Oh, yeah. So we started last week. We shot um the priming portion of the video with the deep base undercoat from Enduro. And then we shot, um you know, about 15 minutes ago here, the 2K top coat.
00:50:46
Jeffrey Krug
I'm curious to see how to that works. Yeah, me too. I'm hoping it looks flat. Yeah. And I'm hoping it dries because the plan now is to shoot the end scene. Yeah. and And have this video wrapped up so we can post it on Saturday morning. Yeah. So this is ah um you know the last however many videos have been sponsored by Enduro, but this is sponsored and about Enduro. It's it's the first of our videos with them.
00:51:12
Jeffrey Krug
Oh, cool. Yeah, I edited the first half. So that's done. and i Oh, cool. this Yeah, I wanted to get that done just so I knew where to kind of start off. Yeah, even it's kind of self explanatory, but just to kind of get warmed up before I get got over here today. Yeah. yeah I was working on, um so I was working on the mallets today. I'm gonna go back to working on that. I have this tiny little lathe at the moment. It's just a little Excelsior lathe. I ended up stopping because the lathe was getting so hot. I told Jeff about it. He said, maybe put a fan on it. yeah um But other than that, I just built this little, so I want to ah wanted to post a video to go up on Thursday or Friday to promote plans for Black Friday.
00:51:57
Jeffrey Krug
just to do like a promotion, whatever. So I made this little, called a call it a tall handle step stool. So I mean, step stools are great. I just love. Yeah, but I'm going to build something like that. I'm telling you, this tall handle is amazing. It's 36 inches up. It just has a little finger. Yeah, nobody likes bending over to pick up the stool. how tall So I made it 10 inches tall. I think you could do 12.
00:52:22
Jeffrey Krug
Always pretty short. So to get to the top shelf in the cabinets probably gonna be yeah might might have to be two steps. So I've done a two step step stool but they are a little sketchy. They can be a little sketchy. And then they get heavy.
00:52:37
Jeffrey Krug
i I ended up ah planing the wood down to maybe five eights to make that one. This one's all three quarter. It's all screwed together. I may, I just threw it together like on a Saturday morning made out of poplar to have one in the shop.
00:52:52
Jeffrey Krug
And now I'm going to make one out of cherry. Everything in made in cherry in my view looks pretty nice. Yeah. And so ah I made that made the made my plans from that shot a little video to explain some things to Brian, Brian venom. And he sent them back to me. And so I got those plans done. And I got to try to build that I mean, it's not gonna take long to build that step stool at all. ah But it just was screwed and plugged.
00:53:19
Jeffrey Krug
I'm screwing it and plugging it with square plugs. Nice. And ah I don't think I'm going to distress it, but it's just really simple. You know, and well if it's using the kitchen, it's going to get its own distress. That's the thing. I mean, um I'll show you a picture of it. I can find it. That's the thing. It's I like things to get used. I think, ah you know, and especially if it's made out of, if it's made out of, here it is.
00:53:47
Jeffrey Krug
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's it's sort of what I was imagining. Now, see, if I had a CNC, we could be batching these things out. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. Like I talk to Walter about that stuff all the time, you know, making things to just batch out and stuff. But the idea here is.
00:54:03
Jeffrey Krug
You know, the guy who just wants to get out of his house and go in the shop and doesn't know what to build. Yeah. He goes out there and you build a little step stool. It's a fun project. It's not a big time. It's not a big material commitment either. You can build it whatever you want, you know, with whatever material you want. But um it's something useful. Yeah. So so that's what's on my agenda just to get that all done, wrapped up and then take a little bit of a break, I guess, through the holidays. Yeah. Yeah. I'm i'm ready to be. ah done with the kitchen and just relax. Are you going to take you can take Friday and Saturday off? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I unless ah it's like an emergency. I never worked Black Friday. Yeah. I need to recover after all that evening. Yeah, it's nice. And it's you know, you don't get those that kind of time. Yeah. So it's nice to like we have a whole ridiculous thing.
00:54:57
Jeffrey Krug
Friday's kind of a day off. I'll probably play around in the shop a little bit. That's kind of like a day off for me, you know, not filming anything, just kind of doing some stuff, cleaning the shop, emptying the sawdust, you know, the dust collection, whatever. But then Saturday, we do something called Christmas by the Sea. Oh, yeah. And so that's down at my mom's house. We're a Polish family. So we we've been making Kibasi for the last that's from my dad's side of the family, you know, whatever for as long as I can remember. And so we do that. And then um and that's cousins, the family's gotten huge because there's so many cousins and with with my four kids from my mom and then four kids from my ah my aunt, and then all the grandchildren and their children. It's like you guys don't make pierogies.
00:55:45
Jeffrey Krug
We don't. We don't make pierogies, but we love pierogies. Oh, God. They're so good. they Do you know Walter made a pierogi cutter? Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah. It's what a cool product. Yeah. Yeah. I love pierogies. So what kind of pierogies you like? I like them anyway. I can get them.
00:56:02
Jeffrey Krug
OK, so if you're going to pick what I like the ones that have like the sauerkraut, you know, like the potatoes and the sauerkraut inside ah or cheese or I made them once homemade with. ah where i I cubed up the kabasi and cooked it in a pan and then put it inside with the potatoes. I've never had a pierogi with meat in it. Oh yeah, that was good. I took that on a fishing trip. um Now did you cook it with onions and butter? Oh yeah. Yeah, that's good. Sour That's good for you, too. Oh, God, they're so good. Even like Mrs. T's pierogies are good. That's what we do. I mean, that's just so easy. Like pierogies and steak, you just can't go wrong. I actually, I got to give a shout out to Ed Johns. Big thank you to Ed Johns. He he gave me a um a Blackstone grill, a small... but Oh, really? Yeah, he sent me a picture. He refurbished it and he did a great job.
00:56:59
Jeffrey Krug
He's he's working on a crazy contraption over there. Yeah. He's making a tail like a tailgate trailer. Yes. I think it's going to work. I mean, he's he's going to be using the front and the back of the tractor. So I went up to his place ah last Wednesday and picked it up. It was super nice guy. I was really I love that. Yeah, he's he's great. So I'm looking forward to to cooking some stuff up on that. And that would be great for cooking. perog Yeah. Did you get a smash burger recipe? I didn't. But I think i I talked with Walter. Walter's like, I think I can remember it.
00:57:29
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, it's just pretty sure it's 80-20. Yeah. Salt, pepper. Yeah, smash it down. but the Keep it simple. Yeah. And i look they looked like they were on ah ah potato buns, right? ah Yeah, I think so. Or maybe they're on more ah Big Marty's. Yeah, OK. Big Marty's rolls. I'm not sure. ah One last thing before we sign off so we can shoot the rest of this video. Have you have you had Shake Shack? It opened over there where Shop Right was. It used to be Mohs. I haven't.
00:57:59
Jeffrey Krug
Well, you know, kitchen was closed down, obviously Saturday and Sunday for the most part until later at night. So Sunday, Ali, Ali and Hunter went over there and got lunch and they brought me back a burger. It was good. Really? Yeah. Shake Shack. Yeah. I'll check it out. I think they originated in Brooklyn. Huh. Yeah, it was good. Like, you know, like a fast food burger. I don't know if you would consider it fast food. Maybe it's like fast casual. Yeah. It was good.
00:58:29
Jeffrey Krug
I'll check it out. yeah I'm looking forward to making some of those smash burgers that Ed was making. Those are joe were good. that yeah That hit the spot. And you can't make that inside. like Even in cast iron, you're going to make a such a mess. You've got to cook that outside. It's so funny because my son, Michael, is all about meal prepping. And he's you know he's super into physical fitness and the eating.
00:58:53
Jeffrey Krug
And he's like, Yeah, I'm just gonna cook up um three pounds of ground beef. And I'm like, Dude, go out on the grill. You're not cooking that in your house. You know what I mean? He's just like gonna stink up the whole house. oh Yeah. Yeah. And this, you know, even if you have it on low, that stuff spatters everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. So that's gonna be it's gonna get a lot of use. thanks That's awesome. Sweet. All right. Well, um everybody have a happy Thanksgiving because we won't you won't be hearing us until after.
00:59:21
Jeffrey Krug
Yeah, I guess we're gonna have to find a moment to shoot video next week. a Tool video that we're shooting. Yeah, you could call it a tool video and we'll have to shoot a record. Yeah, we'll do a short episode. Awesome. Alright, thanks for listening. See ya.
00:59:37
Jeffrey Krug
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Jeffrey Krug
no shame, but there's been a change.