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Sponsorship and Rob Barone's Return
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00:00:53
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Welcome back. Well, I'm sure everyone recognizes that voice. Yes, indeed. The long awaited return of Mr. Rob Barone. Yeah. It's, it's great to be back in the shop and here with you, Jeff, especially, you know, I missed you. Yeah. Likewise.
00:01:12
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want to everybody knows that I've been gone for quite a while. I want to tell everyone that reached out to me that that was really, really nice. I appreciate it. And anybody that's listening, feel free. It's totally cool to reach out. I just haven't been connected, really. Yeah. So, you know, let me know how you've been and stay in touch. Nice.
00:01:36
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Yeah, it's like, it's been weird because I mean, we recorded, I don't even know.
Challenges of Woodworking
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So it was what, three full seasons and then plus subs. So almost 200 episodes. But, you know, it's like riding a bike for you back into it. Excuse the noise, we got Keith and Jackie out there. Keith is working on some salt boxes. He's doing his best. Yeah. He hasn't hit his stride yet.
00:02:04
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Those are tough shoes to fill. Yeah, especially what he's doing with that little strip sander. Yeah, that was your role. Yeah, and it's...
00:02:19
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even when you have 2000 reps or whatever more because there's multiple pieces that get sanded. You know, it's easy. It's all about reps. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. He'll hit his stride once he gets into maybe layer two. Yeah. The part I like is, um,
00:02:40
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I've come in and talked to the crew and everybody sort of fantasizes. Everybody who's got their own shop and works knows, they'll appreciate this. But everybody thinks it's like this dream job of jobs, which in some ways it is. But for the most part, it's a lot of hard work. Yeah, you don't realize how fast you have to be.
00:03:06
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you know, and how much work it is. Yeah. You know, we say like, uh, uh, smooth is fast, fast. Was it smooth as fast and fast? Fast is good. Yeah. Something like that. Smooth is fast and fast is smooth. I forget, but it's like, that's just like the precursor to being fast and, and good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, um,
00:03:36
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Yeah, smooth is fast and fast. Yeah, smooth is fast and fast is good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll just say right off the bat,
Garden and Home Challenges
00:03:44
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I'm so impressed with the job you've been doing here. Thanks. Picking up the pieces and really soldiering on. I couldn't be more proud and impressed. I just am. I appreciate it. Yeah. It's been a journey. Yeah. We've both been on journey. Yeah.
00:04:03
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It's almost like, uh, when Afro Bob's talking about him with Andy, actually the builder, he was he, uh, so he just got his first Turkey. He's a, he has been Turkey hunting for a couple of years. He has property like in, uh, upstate New York somewhere.
00:04:19
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And he was telling me a couple of weeks ago, you know, that he he hasn't gotten one yet. So he's like, I didn't realize that. Yeah. Trying to get his his first turkey because it's it's like a spring and fall season. So I saw him yesterday. I said, oh, did you finally get your your turkey? And he did. Wow. Well, I was telling about Afro Bob, though. He's like obsessed with turkey hunting and the calls and and all that stuff.
00:04:46
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What weapon did he use? Uh, I shotgun. Okay. Yeah. I'm assuming some people hunt him with bows. Yeah. That seems crazy. Yeah. Oh, quiet. Right. That hum of a orbital sander. Yes. The things you get used to. Yeah. And I want to insulate the walls in this fricking office.
00:05:08
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Add it to the list. Yeah. Yeah. You'll get to that soon. Yeah. Where's Rocco? That's why I was like, when I saw the backyard, man, look at this boy who's been out here doing this.
00:05:24
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Yeah, so I was telling Rob, our neighbor, Kevin, I think we might have mentioned him before. Really nice guy. He's like, you know, been out there like weed whack. He like weed whacked some stuff before. But anyway, he stopped by a couple of weeks ago when John was here.
00:05:40
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He's like, I just want to ask, you know, I, I, uh, I grow heirloom tomatoes and I'm running out of space. I got all these like greenhouses and stuff. He's like over the, he was saying over the years, like him and Mike, if they, um,
Moles and Evolution
00:05:54
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had to like dig a hole in their property, like they would just like dump the dirt back there. So he said, Scott, like all this good dirt.
00:05:59
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And that the dirt where the knot weed grows is like really good for vegetables apparently. I guess maybe because it's like moist. Anyway, he asked if he could plant some tomatoes back there and I'm like, listen, I'm like, if it's cool with Mike, it's cool with me. I'm like, anything's better than what's back there now.
00:06:22
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Wednesday. Wait, what the hell is today? Friday? Yeah, it must've been Wednesday. I was here by myself. He rang the doorbell. He's like, all right, if you hear something back there, I'm going to go back there and cut all that stuff down and then cultivate. So he cut it all down on Wednesday. And then I guess yesterday while I was gone, he was back there with the cultivator and turned it. I mean, it's nice looking black dirt. It is. Which is funny because when we were back there, it looked like shit. Yeah.
00:06:47
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It looks amazing. Yeah. So we'll see. I mean, that's going to be a lot of tomatoes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to have to stop by and pick some. Yeah. Oh, so when he was here on Wednesday, he brought me a whole bag of quail eggs. He raises freaking quail back there. Really? Yeah. Wow. You know, he'll probably be into that is.
00:07:04
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You know, uh, uh, Baloo. No, no. Edge bander. Uh, RT Brian. Brian. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Who was it over there? Uh, with the duck eggs. Uh, yeah. Uh, Dean Dean. Wait, was it Dean that had the ducks?
00:07:20
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Somebody, one of those guys. I shot Brian a message yesterday. I saw this video of a guy driving this boat with like a huge, you know, like a 500 cubic inch, like blown motor, like right behind him. He's just like flying. I'm like, Brian, I'm going to kick out of this.
00:07:37
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Yeah. Yeah. He's a good man. Yeah. So he's back. Um, build a cabinets again. He is. Yeah. He called me, uh, I dunno, maybe, maybe six, eight weeks ago. Wow. Yeah. You can't, you can't nail that guy down. No.
00:07:56
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He probably could have retired after closing the shop. But yeah, I don't think retirement's in his vocabulary. Yeah. Not in his DNA. I saw he's working on his pontoon boat again, too. Well, he was building a couple of cars for the auto for SEMA.
Games and Outdoor Adventures
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Really? Wow. Yeah.
00:08:14
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I forget what he had. He sent me some pictures. Old truck in a car. Maybe it was a galaxy. And I forget, but cool stuff. I mean, this stuff's crazy. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Man.
00:08:32
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So I haven't been in touch with Corey. I know that he is the proud owner of his shop now, right? Yeah, I think I forget when, but he had closing. I remember he told me like a couple of days before we were talking and then I haven't heard anything else, but yeah, man. So he's on a whole new level of stress. I'm sure. Welcome to the club, Corey. Yeah.
00:08:59
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Yeah. You know, something's going to be like a leak in the room. I was just about to say that. Yeah. Yeah. All the infrastructure problems. Did your basement dry ever dry out? Oh my God. Mine just dried out about a week, two weeks ago. That stretch of time. I mean, what was it? I don't know, but it was wet for
00:09:21
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a long time. It was like every day going down there. Oh yeah. And then I just took your approach and I gave up and I just. Yeah. I don't think I told you. So I, I, uh, what was it? Did the sump pump, but you had to replace the sump pump. I replaced the sump pump. I got one with the battery backup, um, installed it. I told you, yeah, I told you about this. I swapped it out real fast.
00:09:50
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flooded the basement in the, you know, because I had to take the old one out and the basement got like three inches of water. And then like a week later, something happened. That one stopped working. Oh no. And same thing. Basement flooded. Um, so I went out and then I bought a Zoller. I bought like a, a basement watchdog or some of those basement guardians, something like that. Um,
00:10:14
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This was right before I went away. Like literally like two to. No, it was the day before I went away. It was Saturday. I left on Sunday to go to Dominican. So I bought a Zoller three quarter horsepower and put it in immediately. Drain the thing all the way to the bottom. The basement watchdog. It wasn't like really keeping up. Um,
00:10:38
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So yeah, I don't know. I think it had something to do with the outlet because the basement watchdog one had this big wall wart, like huge, like four by four or five by five. And I think maybe it was like not getting a good connection.
00:10:54
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because I ended up plugging, I have my little pump right there for the condensate on my furnace, because the furnace is right next to the thing. And when I plug that into the same plug, it like didn't kick on. So I think maybe that was the issue. So I didn't get rid of the other one or anything. I'm actually going to, I'm going to add it to a different spot. Yeah. Good idea. So I'm going to replace the pit that the Zoller's in.
00:11:18
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add another pit and put the battery back up on in. I'm sick of dealing with this water. I mean, it's bad. You know, there's like there's stuff down there that's moldy now. You know, I haven't really wanted to deal with it. I got rid of got rid of a bunch of stuff. But, you know, I have like the little gym down there and those rubber mats. Then the water gets between the floor and the rubber mat. Yeah, it's disgusting.
00:11:43
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Yeah. It was, I mean, I was thinking about you cause you had a lot more stuff in your basement. Yeah. Mine is just basically a concrete floor. Um, but it's, it's mentally fatiguing when that water just won't disappear. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I just, you know, at some point it's just like, well, this is it. I'm just not going to worry about it anymore. Maybe I'm just going to build a sub floor of six inches up.
00:12:12
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So I extended like where it ejects outside to get it even further away from the house where the sump pump ejects. The grass, like so I have that big lilac bush on the side. It basically goes like right. It doesn't go under the bush, but it stops right in front of it. The grass right there is like frickin' thick. It's a jungle. Yeah, it's crazy. But now I gotta move all those things when I cut the grass. Oh man. And like I was telling you, you got moles now.
00:12:41
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Yeah, Jamie pushed them all across the street, I think. Yeah, he got rid of them. That's probably exactly what happened. And he's well versed in the moles. So we're walking around. He's like, oh, yeah, right here. He sees all the, cause you can see like their trail. Yeah. Cause it leaves like a little bit of like a dome. Yeah. I have him in my yard too. And I have that real sandy kind of soil. So it's soft. They just plow through it.
00:13:08
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Yeah. He said step one of getting rid of the moles is getting rid of what they eat, which is grubs. Yes. Yeah. But they eat earthworms too, don't they? I don't know. I don't know. I only knew they ate grubs. Yeah. There's not grubs all year long though, as far as I know, but I could be wrong about them. But yeah, get rid of the grubs, get rid of the moles. He used a lot of mole traps.
00:13:34
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Oh, it kind of like snapped her head off. I guess. Yeah. It's like a guillotine. Yeah. You put it in the trail.
00:13:41
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They're small. They're surprisingly small, aren't they? Yeah. Like a little mouse. I didn't know what they were when I would see them and they'd be like lying on the surface dead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They look weird. They have like a weird face. Yeah. He said they like to go, like they always have a trail next to like a fence or like next to like the foundation. I don't know. I guess they, because they're blind, I guess they use it as like a reference. You know what I mean?
00:14:09
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So it's weird to think how an animal like that develops. Yeah. Yeah. Like what's the point? Yeah. I mean, I guess you could say about anything, but it's like, yeah, it's weird. Like where, what became a mole? Like where did it? Yeah. Like, was it a mouse type animal and then just started living underground? Yeah. Did the mouse come from the mole or did the mole come from the mouse? Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah.
00:14:37
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Yeah. I don't know where it was. I watched this show on like human evolution recently and you know how they're like finding all these different branches of the human tree. And now they're like, you know, so many more human type species or whatever.
00:15:00
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Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like especially like leading up to where like the, I guess the homo sapien and then homo sapien sapien like became the predominant. Yeah. And there, and there was like a lot of overlap. So like when Neanderthals and homo sapien were living at the same time. Yeah. It was pretty interesting. Yeah. It shows how much we don't know. Yeah. You know, how much guesswork there was and
00:15:29
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And then like anything, if you look back at the history, there's like a lot of coercion with it, like people, you know.
00:15:40
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changing the findings to better, you know, either like racially motivated or, you know, Oh, come on. That was like the, that was a big thing in science, you know, trying to justify life did not start in Africa. Sorry. Like, well, that's what, uh, that's what the facts say. Yes, exactly. Yeah. That's the flat earth there. Oh yeah. Oh my God. Don't get me started on that.
00:16:07
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Oh man. Yeah. It's, it's funny, you know, that I just sort of started going. I've
Craftsmanship and Community
00:16:14
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been doing these times, New York times word games every day now. Like in the, in the times. Yeah. I do it online. Is it like wordle? Yeah. Yeah. So I'm doing wordle man. That thing, I try that. It makes me feel like an idiot.
00:16:30
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Yeah, so I'm doing wordle, spelling bee connections. What's spelling bee? They give you, it's like an actual spelling bee. No, spelling bee is like, I think it's like six letters and a middle letters. They're in like this honeycomb kind of shape.
00:16:48
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And you got to spell as many words as you can, but you got to use that middle letter and you get points for how big the word is. Okay. So yeah, almost like scrabble. Yeah. So I'm horrible at scrabble. I do that. Um, so I've been doing wordle. I've been getting wordle and usually three today was four tries.
00:17:09
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They give you six. Some people are like they, they, they get the streak, you know, they're like, I'm on a 500 day streak on Wordle. Yeah. I mean, there are, I don't want to say tricks, but they, you know, there's more common letters in the English language. Yeah. Like the structure is pretty. Yeah.
00:17:33
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And connections is the one where they have like 16 words. And so you got to make groups of four that have something in common.
00:17:44
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And they try and trick you. Like they'll have like three things that like might be a weight. And then there's nothing like for the fourth one and it'll be like lead. And then it might be lead belongs with metals or it might be, uh, but it's actually lead. It might be like a go to harness. Yeah, I'm not good. I, uh,
00:18:09
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I overthink that all that stuff. Yeah, so what I was running to is that so I've been getting like this front page of the times and now I'm seeing like world news and kind of stuff for the first time in quite a while. Oh my God. Yeah.
00:18:27
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It's frightening out there. And it's- Just wait till we get a little deeper into the election cycle. Oh, geez. It's rapidly approaching. Yeah, I'm sort of fearful about that, because there's so much division, which isn't good. I mean, I don't care who you're aligning yourself with.
00:18:48
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We can't be courteous anymore. We can't be polite. We can't have, you know, informed discussion and disagree. I was talking to Jackie about it yesterday on the way down to Avon. It's like everything now. So somebody on the Keensburg Facebook page posted about Half Moon down there. Their recycling cans were on the sidewalk. I guess, you know, the recycling got, they were empty. They took them and that's where they put them when they, after they emptied them.
00:19:17
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And they're like, we're walking with a stroller and blah, blah, blah. And the comment section is just a circus.
00:19:26
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It devolves very quickly, doesn't it? That comment section. But then somebody's like, you must be a insert political affiliation here. It's like, yeah. How did it? Yeah. Why does every conversation now have to go? Somebody did something that you don't like. So they're the on the opposite political team that you're on. Yeah. You know, what's another biggie. And so I can't go on it.
00:19:50
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is like I, I watch a lot of like sports news and things like that. So if you're reading an article and there's comments, two to three comments in somebody's making some, uh, some racial, you know, everything, you know, and it's always super negative, super stereotype. Like, how did this happen? We were talking about somebody's batting average.
00:20:15
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an injury. Well, yeah. Uh, and Jackie was saying, it's like, you know, if you put these people in a room together, they would never say this stuff. It's behind the comfort of your little phone screen or your computer screen. That's right. What do they call that? Internet courage or internet war. Yeah. Like a keyboard warrior.
00:20:35
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Yeah, it's too much, but yeah, it's shocking, all the stuff that's out there. And just the belief systems and how adamant people are about stuff. Close-minded. Yeah. Yeah. So how was Pulaski?
00:21:03
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It was pretty good. So we showed up on, what do we do, Thursday? Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, came home Monday, yeah. So Thursday, you know how it is, Thursday, you don't need to do any time. I got there first. So I got there kind of early, I left. I left, I forget how early I left. Not that early, I want to say maybe seven. I ended up taking the van because I had so much shit. And this truck, you can't fit anything in it.
00:21:32
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Yeah, I don't even think my big rod would fit in the back. And I had all the podcast stuff and everything. And that cooler, my big cooler doesn't fit in my truck. That's a long ride to the van. Well, it was insane wind.
00:21:47
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Like it was white knuckle driving the whole way. Yeah. And the way people drive on that New York expressway. Yeah. You know, like everybody's like super close riding together. Like out on like two 80 and three 80 or whatever it was, you know, I'd be driving and it was real windy. And then I'd hit like an open area and the wind would, it would literally push the van. It was, it was scary. So I got up there about
00:22:12
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I don't know, 12 o'clock. I went to the tackle shop. I grabbed a couple of things and then I went over to Topps, which is the supermarket up there, which I guess is like an upstate New York supermarket. It was actually, it was really nice. I grabbed a couple of things and I was early, like you're not supposed to check in until three or something.
00:22:34
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So I rode down to the lake and I don't know how close you and Keith got, but I had a hard time like getting to a spot where I could really see anything. Yeah. We got right to this shore and we walked down to the shore. Yeah. Keith was driving. So, you know, he wouldn't. Yeah. So I went to the end of that street where the house is and you hit a stop sign and there's a little bridge right there. That's the estuary. And then I kept going straight and I got to like a neighbor. It was like kind of like a neighborhood.
00:23:02
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And then there was like a marina at the end, but it was still like in the estuary. I could see like the lake and I can see like the waves and stuff. Um, but I wasn't that close. And then I, I crossed that bridge and I went into Selkirk Shores park. Um, but I still, I couldn't get down to the water. Hmm. Yeah. Well, I remember, I mean, one of the things that really struck me was how sort of.
00:23:29
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you know, there were so many like trailers and, you know, sort of like a downtrodden areas up there, you know, right close to the lake. Cause it's so beautiful and, you know, in a natural sense. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it looks like the ocean when you're, when you're looking at it. Yeah. I wonder, you guys must've went like a little bit south or something or like a little bit west.
00:23:54
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Or maybe on the other way. Yeah. It was like a park. Like they had like a little like wooden thing, you know, almost like here in Kingsburg, you know, how they have the thing across from half moon. Like a little boardwalk. Yeah. Like in their steps and things like that. And signage. Yeah. Let me see. Put up on the screen.
00:24:15
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Yeah. Did you guys play pool? A little bit. Um, so yeah. So like I said, Thursday just kind of got in and got settled. Yeah. So I went, this is that road, you know, the house is up here and that's that bridge. So I went, I went down here
00:24:37
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And I got to this point. Oh, I see. Yeah. But this was pretty wooded. Oh, no, I didn't get that far. There was like a fence. I think maybe I got to here. So this this whole little jetty thing was in my way. I see. And then I went and I went down here.
00:25:03
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And I, I drove all the way down to this, but again, it was all trees here and kind of like a berm. You guys must've went down here or something. Yeah. We must've gotten in there cause there was like a building and stuff like that. Yeah. This was just this one long, and then like the trails going up this way were closed. So I couldn't, you know, they had like the things in front of them. So I just ended up going back this way, going through town and back to the house. Um,
00:25:32
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So was it Thursday night? No, I don't think so. So, yeah. So Friday, wake up. Everybody's still sleeping. Of course. And so I woke up, you know, I wake up, I think I woke up maybe 5 30. I slept in a little bit because, you know, we were up kind of late. And I guess everybody else was up very late.
00:25:56
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and woke up and it was like 17 degrees outside. So, you know, I would have like just gone out there, but I'm like, man, I better wait for it to like warm up a little bit. So that's cold. Yeah, I don't think we got out on Friday until maybe like 11 when the sun was good and high. Yeah. And it it it was cold, but it wasn't horrible. Willie hooked up on one, lost it.
00:26:26
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So then Friday night into Saturday, it snowed like about six or seven inches. Holy cow. Yeah. And it was real cold again. So then, then Saturday morning, we got a pretty late start again. So the house is, here's the house.
00:26:44
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Yeah. So we crossed over in this, this spot here or wherever it is right here, where we always cross and we walked all the way down. Wow. All the way down to here in the snow. Wow. It was brutal and fished our way all the way back up. Really walking in the river or? No, there's a trail. Okay. But just picking spots.
00:27:09
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Yeah, we walked, first we walked all the way down and then we fished like our way back up. I see. Like sort of like around here, we kind of just like stopped fishing and started walking. Man, I've been exhausted. My hips were killing me from, you know, you got to lift your legs pretty high in the snow and those boots are real heavy. Yeah.
00:27:31
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That was brutal. No fish that day. We saw a couple of fish. We were seeing fish. They were really beat up, you know, from the spawn or whatever. And then Sunday.
00:27:45
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Where do we fish on Sunday? I forget. Oh, Sunday we went up. Okay. So we went, we fished all the way, uh, up here at the black hole. We sort of stayed in this upper section, much closer to the house. Yeah. And then Monday we just
00:28:03
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Monday, Matt and I, Matt Vis and I left, him, Willie, and the other Matt, they went and they fished, like they left the house and parked somewhere over here and fished, you know, this section here. But it was super windy again that day. And then, was it snowing or raining or I forget, but the drive home was brutal too. Yeah.
00:28:25
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How is Viz doing? Good. At his new shop, he's all settled in. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's getting some of those machines. I know like his, his edge sander within the last little while, he's just getting that up and going and getting belts for it. It's got all those old machines. I know. God bless him. Yeah. I don't think the time saver is working yet, but
00:28:53
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I don't think it's a time saver. The white belt that he has. I forget who makes that. Sandaya, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got the CNC, Techno CNC out in Ronkonkoma trying to get me to buy a CNC. I'm like, yeah, I just don't see it. Yeah.
00:29:17
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Like we read your article and saw that you don't have a CNC. Yeah. Yeah. There's a reason. Oh man.
00:29:36
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Oh, wow. And so let's see who else, uh, you know, I, I'm going to reach out to Rob DeMarco and, and Lou, I've told you, I've been meaning to get back in touch with him. He's left me a couple of really nice messages. Um, who else is there? Wow. Um, yeah, it's been a while. I'm getting a scam likely call. Oh, there you go.
00:30:04
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I feel like they slowed down for a while, but now they seem to be ramping back up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, when I had put my phone away for probably about two weeks, maybe three weeks it was, and where I didn't look at it at all, I had almost 500 emails I had to go through.
00:30:31
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Yeah, when I when I went away on vacation, I like tried to keep my phone in the room. Yeah. Because it was
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00:30:39
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like, whatever. It's like, you know, I can't do anything anyway. Right. It was nice to like, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, at first, you're a little bit nervous. Yeah. It's like, like, what if somebody needs to get in touch with me? Yeah. But then after you get used to it, it's like, man, this is great. Yeah.
00:30:57
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Some people do like, you know, you can make settings on your phone where like certain apps don't work during certain hours and stuff like that. Yeah. Everything about trying that.
00:31:06
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Yeah. So yeah, it's a little liberating. Um, and then having to go through everything where like 90% of it are those junk mails that you just get rid of like 10 a day. And then, so you got to like fish through to see if, you know, there's something important. Yeah. Yeah. That's like with the blink cameras. If I don't open the app, like the, like, so right now it says,
00:31:34
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Like I have the little notification bubble with a two. If I was to open it, it would say like 700 or it would update. Cause every time it detects motion, it takes a recording. So if I wanted to go through that, you know, I can't even just like select all and mark as viewed because it turns into multiple pages. I have to mark all as viewed and then scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll until I hit, you know, I could do it in like chunks, like 250 or something. Oh God. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:06
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Oh, man. What else is there? Boy, I see you got the new laser just rocking and rolling. Yeah, worked well. It's a lot to get accustomed to because it's different than the other one. New software. Yeah, it's all browser based. So let's see, did I close? I did, but I think I can...
00:32:32
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So I might have, I might've turned off the laser so it won't connect, but it's, you know, you type this in 10.0.0.17. It's based on, you know, the settings on the machine and it, it's all in the browser. Like there's no, there's no app or software like that's separate. Yeah.
00:32:54
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So it was a lot to figure out because I'm used to using light burn, which is, you know, I had to figure out light burn when we got, and so now I gotta figure out a new thing. But I think Keith is gonna take that laser home next week. Good for him. Yeah, he's going up to the Blackthorn straight from here, where they had the hammer in this weekend. Oh, okay. Otherwise I'd be shoving in his truck.
00:33:23
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Walter and I got back from this install on Wednesday, and it was like a day where the dumpster was getting picked up. We got back here like five, and then, oh yeah, that's a good email from Full Spectrum Laser. So I was like, oh shit, I was like, we got to put the dumpster out. And then like the crate from the lasers leaning against it,
00:33:44
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the eight foot pallet that I used to pick up the kitchen parts was leaning against it. The laser was in front of it. And then there was no room to move anything because I, you know, the shop was like a bomb went off. So it was like a scramble getting that thing out. And then I, you know, there was plenty of stuff that could have went in there, but that's what it is. I filled it up halfway this morning with that freaking crate.
00:34:07
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still going out on the side over there. Yeah. They come early in the morning. Yeah. They, I think they came, it must've been before six, you know, as the weather gets warmer, they come earlier and earlier because the light or well, just because of the beat, you know, and all these beach towns, they got to get out before. Yeah. Otherwise they'll be in trouble. They'll be trapped in here. Yeah. I never thought of that.
00:34:36
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Yeah. What was I going to say? Oh, did you see that they renamed my street, Van Zant way? Oh, that's your, that's Wilson Avenue? Yeah. No matter how Steveie Van Zant. I saw that, that they had done that. I didn't know it was Wilson Avenue. Yeah. So did he grow up on Wilson Avenue? Yeah. He was, he grew up, not that far from my house. Cause my house is in the two hundreds and his house was in the two hundreds. Oh wow.
00:35:06
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So is your address actually going to change? No, it's a ceremonial thing where they put the sign on top of the sign. Yeah, that would create havoc. Does it go all the way to the wet side or is it just an address? No, I think it's just that strip from cherry tree to 36. Yeah, and the Rite Aid's closing.
00:35:28
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Well, yeah, I told you why. I looked it up. I was wondering about that. It's like, but they don't really have a hand in prescribing anything. You know, you know, I, I, I looked up, I said, can pharmacists prescribe medicine and they can. Um, so I don't really know the details of it.
00:35:44
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Because I looked up, you know, Rite Aid closing. And so they're closing them down, you know, in groups. And it said it was because they have all these lawsuits against them. They file for bankruptcy. Well, good. Fuck them. If they actually did it, then they're prescribing opioids, which is very evil. Yeah.
00:36:08
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Yeah, I bet you it's going to become a CVS. Yeah. Yeah. It's got to, because there's a Walgreens, you know, not that far away. They're probably licking their chops to get in there. Yeah. Because it's ready to go. Yeah. And the closest one is over on 35 over there. Yes. Not that close. No, no. The new one you mean over the, well, it's fairly new, right? Yeah. Yeah. By across from, uh,
00:36:33
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What's a gas station? Cranes or something? Craig's. Yeah. By the Wawa. Yeah. I like how they call that the first Wawa in Middletown. There's a Wawa right by my house. Yeah. I guess Leonardo is not part of Middletown until like, Fort Mamas, we're all like stepchildren. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:55
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Yeah, that or I don't know. Maybe it'll just lie vacant. Yeah. I mean, and with that whole redevelopment push, you know, like not having the vacant stuff. Yeah. I mean, it's a nice building. It is, you know, quite new. Yeah.
00:37:11
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Nice, you know, road frontage and the inside is nice too. It's like it had to have been redone like within the last like 10 years or something. You know, it's pretty, you know, look nice inside. But yeah, with Walgreens right there and because it's already set up, you know, because I feel like the pharmacy part has like there's, you know, specific infrastructure they have back there.
00:37:35
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Yeah, I don't know how it works, but I wouldn't be surprised if like a company like Rite Aid can buy like the pharmacy list or something like that because, you know, people use Rite Aid. Where are they going to go? Yeah.
00:37:50
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That's true. I use Bayshore now because it's right there next to my house, basically. That's the thing. Convenience is really where it's at. Yeah, that's where you guys go, right? Yeah. Well, now we go to Walgreens, which is just across the street.
00:38:07
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But the thing with Walgreens is that hours are not nearly as good as writing. Oh, really? Yeah. Then I close at six or something like that. And I think writing is open to like 11. Yeah. And I'm on Sundays or something where luckily my wife can pick up my prescriptions. Yeah. You can get home delivery now, too.
00:38:25
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Yeah, they used to do that with my prescriptions. But because of like the plan, you know, through my it's the like the New York City Board of Ed, they cut that out. We have to pick them up. We have to pick them up now. Oh, my God. Yeah. And and you have to take like a 90 day supply now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So my wife is always always forgets to pick up her stuff. She's like, hey, can you pick up my prescription?
00:38:54
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Yeah, especially if you have like, you know, medicine, you got to take every day. I don't know how people like get behind on this stuff. I'm like, you know, I got like a whole thing. It's like, do not run out of this stuff, right? I mean, you got to look at the inside of the bottle every day. It's like, I got 12 left. I got 11 left.
00:39:20
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Yeah, it's I don't know. I mean, I don't get it. I'm like that with like, you know, I take my college in in the morning and my electrolytes. It's like I could tell how many scoops are left in there, you know. Yeah. Although now I have it on like Amazon subscription. Okay. Yeah, that shows up. But yeah, I'm like totally like onto this thing. Yeah. It's like, you know, water or something. Yeah. I mean, if you got to take it, you can't run out.
00:39:52
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Yeah, because some of these medications, like, you know, there's all kinds of effects that kick in if you don't take it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so it's it's not like you just stop taking it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like you have to take it, take stuff at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Not like Advil. You just pop it whenever you feel like it. That's like, you know, I was taken
00:40:18
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I tell you about the wax in my ear. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I was taking prednisone because I thought maybe that would help. That's a serious medicine. Yeah. I thought I had ETD, Eustachian tube dysfunction, which is when the Eustachian tube, which goes from like behind your inner ear, I guess to like, I don't know, maybe to your sinuses or something. I thought that was like
00:40:42
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Uh, closed up like, like inflamed. Um, turns out it was not that it was just, I had a big chunk of wax clogging my ear. I took a wave. I don't think I talked about this. Took a wave to the ear in the Dominican. So I thought I had water in my ear and then I tried, I used swimmer's ear drops. So that, that.
00:41:00
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Immediately clogged my ear. So it was like there must have been just a tiny little air path left and then so anytime any little bit of water got in my ear would it would be Totally closed. Yeah, so I thought it was ETD. So I was taking prednisone and then
00:41:19
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What was it? So they had given it to my wife for vertigo. Cause last time we flew, she got vertigo. So they gave it to her just in case. They only gave her eight. So I took one when we were in the Dominican, uh, just once. And then when we got home, I took, uh, it said, take two the first day and then one. So I took two or six. No, maybe I took two in the Dominican. So there were six left. I took two, then I took one, then I took one.
00:41:47
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one again. And so there was one left. So I said, all right, I'll take a half and then I'll take a half the next day. The day after I took the half, I was totally fucked up.
00:41:58
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I felt horrible. Absolutely horrible.
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00:42:01
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That's when I went to the doctor. Um, and, and he got it out of my ear. Dr. Thompson in like 25 seconds. Yeah. Pulled out like a big clump of brown wax. I didn't even see it. Um, yeah, he just like shot. It was like, basically like, uh, like those zip bottles we have in there with like a tube and like a thing. And he just, and then it just came right out.
00:42:25
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It was like two weeks I was dizzy and couldn't hear. Yeah, messes with your equilibrium. Yeah. Hunter would talk. I'm like, I can't hear. I couldn't, I couldn't hear. You know, that's the man in me, not one to go to the doctor. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. You know, limbs gotta be severed. Yeah. I'm like, I don't, any day now I look clear up.
00:42:55
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I'm looking at this bowl that Ed made, man, it got so dark. Look at the sapwood, looks like regular cherry. Thank you, Ed Jones. I'm going to a high caliber camp next weekend. What's that? Is that shooting? No, no. So high caliber craftsman is Austin Saunders. He's down in Virginia. And like, so now he's just like a full on content creator guy, but he's a machinist.
00:43:22
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So he was originally, he started out like making pens out of like spent shell casings. So that's where the high caliber craftsman comes from. Keith's going, Ed Johns is going, full steam is going. So that'd be cool. Yeah. It's going to be a nice time. Yeah. Yeah. What are you guys going to do? I got to take off on Friday.
00:43:44
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which I'm not thrilled about. That's the double-edged sword. Just try and enjoy it. Because you're going to be off, so just enjoy it. Yeah, exactly. That was like on vacation. I'm like stressing about anything is not going to do any good. So I might as well just accept the fact that I'm not there and that's it.
00:44:03
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Yeah. So it'll be blacksmithing, machining, leatherworking. Keith's going to be teaching power carving, screen printing t-shirts. Oh man, all kinds of stuff. Yeah. But it's only like two dozen people.
00:44:18
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That's nice. Yeah, exclusive. Yeah. Invite only. Yeah. So that'd be cool. Yes. I never met Austin in person. We talk all the time, but so that'd be cool. Um, where in Virginia is it? He's like in the Norfolk kind of area. Okay. Is that coastal or inland? Yeah. Yeah. That's where like the, that big Naval base is, you know, like the Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel. Yeah. I think he's on the other side of
00:44:47
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of that, let me see the exact, is it Chesapeake? No, that's where we're staying. Keith took, it's like a camping thing, but Keith was saying, you know, like, so there's only like one Porta John and then it's like, you know, you wake up in the morning and there's like a line and like, you got to have like coffee talk with people like waiting to you. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:45:15
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Where's the nearest motel? Yeah, it's pretty far. If I'm taking off work to go do this, I don't want to be waiting to use the bathroom. Where is the address not on here?
00:45:35
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I bet you it's on this. Yeah. Chesapeake, Virginia. Let's check it out. I'm going to, Austin, I'm going to put your address in the description. That way people can send you fan mail. So yeah, he's not that close, but he's close to this, this like, uh,
00:46:03
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That's the Elizabeth River. Yeah. Yeah. So where's Norfolk? Oh, I guess Virginia beach. He's close to that too. Ah, yeah. Oh, I didn't realize Maryland had this big. Oh yeah. Like a peninsula. Yeah. Oh, there's Norfolk. Okay. Yeah. So it's just South.
00:46:29
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What's that? What's the road between Virginia and Maryland there? That long one 13 13. Is that a bridge? That must be the Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel. Yeah. Okay. I've actually driven on this before. So like when I went to the outer banks those couple of times, we, um, went through Delaware through this little strip of Maryland over the Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel. Pretty cool. Yeah.
00:46:55
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So I might ride with Keith on Thursday or leave on Friday. Depends on what kind of day I have on Thursday. Yeah, in a totally different direction. I was watching, what's that TV, the cooking show on PBS? America's Test Kitchen? Yes.
00:47:21
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And the Technivorm was the number one coffee maker. They said it's a little pricey, but it killed. Yeah, for a drip coffee machine. That's why I bought it.
00:47:36
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on there. I think I was looking for a coffee maker and stumbled across because I watched America's Test Kitchen, but I don't think I like it wasn't organic that I saw it. I was looking up like, you know, what's the best coffee maker kind of thing. And I came across a video. Yeah, I mean, it's like certified by the European Coffee Council or whatever.
00:47:57
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I mean, it's not even close. It's not even close. And really, it's only like two or three times more than like a good drip coffee maker. If you're drinking out of a Mr. Coffee, get your act together, please. Because it makes disgusting coffee.
00:48:18
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Because it was quite apparent that there's like, it should be in its own category, actually. Yeah. Like there's all the other like good coffee makers that are like $200, let's say. Like a Cuisinart. Yeah, they're not in the same class. The Technivorm is almost like, it almost makes like pour over coffee. Yeah. You know, and the temperature variation is like within crazy, you know, 205 degrees, like exactly. Yeah.
00:48:47
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Yeah, I mean, I don't buy like super expensive coffee. And my coffee out of that probably tastes better than if you're like, yes, you make an expensive coffee, you know, in a crappy machine. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's like Keurig. Like Keurig coffee tastes horrible. Yeah. Because it only gets to like 180 degrees or something. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Coffee is an important thing. Yeah.
00:49:14
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Yeah. I still like the Nespresso. Yeah. That that's a great machine for its place. Yeah. For its category. My wife says she has one in the, that her sister gave her in her car. Hmm. Oh my God. Yeah. Why don't you bring it inside? Yeah. I gotta do the kitchen.
00:49:31
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I'm thinking about just, I'm just going to buy it. I think I might have, might've mentioned it on the podcast. I'm just gonna, I'm not going to build it. I'm just going to have, you know, have it cut. I'll drop off my plywood that I got in the shop over to, to the CNC guy.
00:49:50
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Hopefully he doesn't mess this one up as bad as the other one. Yeah. It's just being realistic about, you know, the time available and, you know, I'm just ready to have it done. I was thinking about calling Lou to paint. Yeah. I'm just like, I'm at that point where I just want it to be done. My wife has been extremely understanding about the whole thing. I keep saying it, but it is true. Like it is better now half finished than it was before.
00:50:17
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I'll agree. I'll agree. It was, I mean, you saw it. It was like about this big. Yeah. You know, you couldn't you couldn't barely turn around because it's extremely functional now. Yeah. The like the fridge almost hit the wall when you opened it in the old one. There was one outlet. Yes. You know, I got a power strip now, but better than.
00:50:38
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So the only counter space was taken up by the microwave. You just had that tiny little section like about this big next to the fridge and like a sliver next to the stove and then it was the sink. So. Because it's really like just sort of unfinished now. Yeah. Before it was really inconveniently. Oh yeah. Arranged. The dining room was bigger than the kitchen. It's like I don't need. Yeah. I don't need that. But yeah, it'll be nice too.
00:51:06
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to get that done. Maybe, I don't know, before Labor Day. Wow. Yeah, baby. That's September. So yeah, the months come up fast. Oh, yeah. I'm supposed to be done with that kitchen in Avon by Memorial Day.
00:51:25
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What, when is that? Is that in May? That's yeah. In like two weeks. Okay. Yeah. Never quite been a, I know labor day, September. Yeah. I think Memorial day is like the last Monday in May. I think it's the 24th this year.
00:51:44
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Uh, no, 20, 27th, I think the calendars have covered, but that's what it looks like. Yeah. So I'm sure I'll be there Sunday night. Uh, I I've already started to make it clear to Andy, at least I'm like, you know, like I'm not going to be a hundred, a hundred percent by Memorial day. Like there's no chance, but
00:52:08
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They're, they haven't even started the third floor yet. So they're not going to be done with that. You know, they can move in and have a functioning kitchen, but you know, if the top doors don't have glass or something, you know, yeah, that's minimal. Yeah. I mean,
00:52:23
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They were late getting me answers on stuff to order the doors. And this was this, you reap the seeds. You sow. It's not my fault. That's right. And I never guaranteed anything. I said, you know, given my best shot. I said, desired completion date, like your desired completion date, not my very good, very good. Oh man.
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00:53:34
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I actually put a fresh blade. I think it's the rich carbide TS2000. I put it on the Unisaw this morning because the saw stop is set up. For Keith, I can hear he's onto a second layer in there. It's set up to cut the rabbet on those saw boxes. And man, that thing was sharp. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:53:57
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Yeah, it's nothing like a nice clean, sharp blade, you know? Yeah, I think when Keith's done with those saltbox bottoms, I'm going to take that blade and put it on the... On the saw stop. Yeah, because it's... I don't know. The one that's on there is that random blade that we had. I don't know who it was from. It was one of yours, like from way back when, like a peach tree or something.
00:54:23
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Good blade, but it's just it's I've been using it ever since I sent the other blades out.
00:54:32
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But one thing, I had one of those Everlast blades bored out for the Stree Big, one of those plywood blades. And it, I don't know, it's been burning. Really? Yeah. I don't know if, I don't know. I feel like I need to get a blade that's maybe more specific for the Stree Big. I don't know if it's got to do with like RPMs or, or maybe, I don't know, maybe it was just like a bad sharpening job or something, but
00:54:57
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Yeah, it was weird. And then I'm like, is the blade spinning the wrong direction? Like how would that, you know?
00:55:05
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Yeah. All of a sudden the thoughts go crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I put that, um, so like for this, this job, you know, these, these cabinet sides are 72 inches. So we cut all those and then I had to build a face frame. So the styles have to be 72. So I put that hollow ground blade on there and I was cutting the face frame material on the freaking street big. Wow. And they end up, you know, dead on the same cause there's no good way to cut 72 inches on that. No, no. Wow.
00:55:35
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That's cool. Yeah. I mean, you get a little bit of tear out. I was doing the scoring thing for the backside. You get a little bit of blowout on the bottom.
00:55:44
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but I could make like a fixture that it would stop that. That's cool. Yeah. That thing's, I mean, there's probably so many things that it does, you know, that you could adapt to it. Yeah. Yeah. That, um, you know, it's not just for breaking down plywood. No, no, no. No. The fixturing thing is huge. I think, um, you know, what I would do is probably build it a little bit higher because that mid fence, um, could be like a little bit low.
00:56:12
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And then you would have to set the depth on the blade so that it didn't go all the way in, you know, so that you could have like a backer. Yeah. Keep it from tearing out. But yeah, I mean, it's it's great. Yeah. Yeah. It's a wonderful machine. Yeah. Yeah. You guys, you've been in contact with the with those guys while they were out here in March.
00:56:41
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Um, uh, Dave and, um, and Eric came out. Eric came, flew out from Michigan. Really? Yeah. So that was cool. We shot, uh, shot some video. John came and like, um, sort of filmed and directed, which was good. It was, um, it came out really good. And, uh, you know, he edited a little thing and sent it over and they've been, they've been using some of the clips and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It was cool. And then we did, I did a podcast with them.
00:57:11
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Oh, cool. I sprung it on them and they were they were a little surprised. I thought I had meant I think I did mention it. But, you know, like we wrapped up. John left and I was like, I was like, all right, you guys want to do a podcast? And they're like, oh, yeah. Everybody thinks it's harder than it is. Yeah. And then I was asking like real like.
00:57:32
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not tough, but like kind of specific questions about, you know, they're like, man, I wish we were a little more prepared. I'm like, what's the tooling life difference between a CNC? But they were, they did good. They, you know, they, they were, they had the info at the ready. Yeah. Yeah. They're good. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Eric ran a,
00:57:57
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Did he say closets? Like a closet company. Oh yeah. Before he got into any work for Stiles. Okay. Before he got in with Colonial Saw. And Dave is, you know, he's the Streepig guru. Yes. Professor Streepig. Oh man. So what's coming up? What's, what's big on the horizon?
00:58:19
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Well, wrapping up all these jobs and then hopefully getting into into another kitchen. I'm hoping I can convince Angela to maybe still use us for her kitchen. I threw together some design on that, but I'm not sure how pleased she is with us at the moment, considering she kind of she's she's the one with the outstanding installation. But we're wrapping that up next week. That'll be getting installed. So we'll see. I think she's
00:58:49
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She's cool with it. I don't know. We'll find out. But that would be cool. That's a big kitchen. Some more commercial work. Well, you know, the variety of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. No, her kitchen is a nice gig. Yeah, it's big. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to write her a little note. Yeah. Explain my absence.
00:59:10
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She's been, she's been asking about you ever. I mean, everybody's been very understanding and yeah, you know, it's, it's certainly, um, you know, shown the better side of people, you know, cause it's easy to get caught up in all the crap that's goes on in the world. But I've been fortunate to see, you know, all these really nice people and know them and have them in my life. And, um,
00:59:39
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So it's a, it's been a real positive experience in that way.
00:59:44
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Yeah, it's easy to take for granted. And it's like you see, it's like, wow, people actually do like me. Yeah. It's like, wow, all these people are actually, you know, you know, I mean, I don't worry about it, but there's like that old thing. It's like, man, will people actually show up to my funeral kind of thing? Or was it all just BS the whole time? And then you see like, man, all these people are asking about me like, you know, people are. Yeah. Yeah. For me, it was like.
01:00:12
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I didn't realize, you know what I mean, that anybody would care. Oh yeah. Like I told you, it's like I couldn't even begin to rattle off all the people because I can't even keep track. So it was very surprising. And you know, so that says more about me.
01:00:36
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It's funny how that works, but that's how it works. Andres sends his regards. I wasn't super quick to transmit that information.
01:00:47
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Even Kevin was asking about you, the neighbor. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man. Funny. A lot of people call you Bob. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which, which I feel like I had never gotten before. I never got that either. But on my sabbatical, that's what everybody I came across. They're like, how's Bob? And like, at first I'm like, I'm like, who? Yeah. They tend to shorten my name to Bob. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be like, uh, Rob has never gone by Bob just so that you're aware.
01:01:20
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got a nice lunch coming from Julio's down the street. Yeah. So I saw they had a new banner in the window as they drove by. They had some specials and stuff. Walter said he went in there. It was nice. Yeah. I haven't been in there or gotten anything from there. I did wake up and there was a pizza box from Julio's on the counter. My wife had apparently
01:01:39
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Well, yeah, her local. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times I guess they get that for lunch, you know, and she's gluten free. Yeah. She's ordering a pie. They're small. Yeah. They got a good gluten free pie. Yeah, it is good. Yeah. So, yes, you know, a lot of times she brings home a couple slices. Anything else new popping up in the neighborhood?
01:02:01
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Um, they just repaved part of church street over there. I saw the other day and it looks like all these buildings down here, like where that lawyer was and like the, it looks like they're like, I don't know, either redoing them for people to move in or I don't know. Jackie was actually looking at, uh, uh, Donnie Douglas, not Jackie, Jacqueline was looking at, um, that lawyer's office. She was like, she was like, you know anything about this place?
01:02:28
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So yeah, we'll see. Because that whole block right there is empty. There's that short footage or whatever it's called. It's T-sharp kind of place. That's Zeke's or whatever I think. No, not Zeke's. Zeke's is over by you.
01:02:44
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Shorty. Sure. It's yeah. Sure. Some it's weird. Yeah. There's that. There's like the old Chinese restaurant. There's the lawyer place and there's like an and they're all vacant. Yeah. It's like all right in a row. Yeah.
01:02:59
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Uh, it's the other one. Maybe it's that old bar or something with the stone front. Yeah. So we'll see. Hopefully there's a pizza place on the corner. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Right across from Jillian. Yeah. Yeah. So that whole block basically is vacant. Yeah. Aside from Roma. Um, so hopefully they do something there. I mean, it would be nice to see main street of Kingsbury like, yeah, popping cleaned up.
01:03:21
Speaker
Yeah. Now it's just a bunch of kids just wrecking shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that place is really ripe for some stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a ceramic? Is that where the ceramics place is? That's right next to Jelani's. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the ceramic place and then it's the t-shirt place. Okay. What's the name of the t-shirt place?
01:03:43
Speaker
It's like somebody's name, I think it's got like that character on the, it's like a little cartoon dude. Yeah. Cause it's got like that has the side of the wall. You could see the, is that the one where you could see the side of the building? Maybe.
01:04:01
Speaker
I don't know. I only drive by it twice a day. Yeah. It's amazing what we don't notice. Yeah. Yeah. It might be. And then next to it's a post office, like it's like the post office and there's like a little alleyway. Yeah. You can't drive in it. And then it's the t-shirt. Yeah. Right.
01:04:21
Speaker
Yeah. I'd love, I'd love to see what I mean. Aside from like Jacqueline, what else would go nice there? Um, like a coffee shop. Oh, that'd be nice. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what do you have in town? Dunkin Donuts. Apparently there's like a coffee roaster or something somewhere in town I heard about, but I don't know where. Hmm. Yeah. Could it be up like whiz? How's that brewery doing?
01:04:48
Speaker
I don't know, but Jackie and Walter said it's good. I haven't been there. Uh, they got any food in there? The breweries can't have food. Yeah. That's because then it's like a brew pub and that's like a whole nother. Okay. Yeah. Like technically if you have a beer there, you're supposed to like do a tour. It's all bureaucratic BS. Is that the same like Ross?
01:05:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. They opened, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's supposed to be good. Yeah. I haven't been there either. Uh, I'd like to go back to that alternate endings in Aberdeen. That place was really good. They will do a company, a company outing. What's coming up? What kind of excuse fourth of July. Oh man. May day.
01:05:36
Speaker
Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A nice like local coffee shop, like, you know, like the, you know, like sit around. Yeah. Like fair mountain roasters and Atlantic islands or what you can't, I don't think you can really sit in there anymore, but, uh, water witch in Highlands. Right. Right. That's a great example. I love that place. Like, I know, like a little bit, uh, Bohemian, you know what I mean? Like not like super polished. I want it to be a little bit.
01:06:04
Speaker
Well, yeah, a little downtrodden. Yeah, yeah. Because then it's like cool, you know? Yeah. I don't want to be, I don't want it to be like Starbucks. No, no. Make the coffee good. And like Jersey Shore coffee roasters, you walk in that place, it's like
01:06:17
Speaker
you know, it's just like they threw some tables and chairs in there. Like that's cool. That's all I need. And the food at, at water, which was great. Uh, Kenny, the guy like was amazing. The baked goods were like so good. Yeah. That was your neighborhood haunt. Yeah. Every morning I would go for my bike ride and then it would ride there, sit, have a coffee, maybe like a nice little, uh, the lead or something. Those were the days. Yeah. Coffee shop would be,
01:06:45
Speaker
Awesome. Yeah, I don't I just don't know if there's like, yeah, the neighborhood to support it. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're not going to drive into town with no parking to. Right. Right. Because I mean, for coffee shops, it's got to be local business. Yeah. And it's got to be like pedestrian traffic, you know. It's surprising how many people like Dunkin Donuts. I know. Even my wife. Like that stuff sucks.
01:07:13
Speaker
It's like, it's not bad. It's not bad coffee, but like given the choice. Yeah. People go out of their way to go get it. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. Maybe another pizza place could open up. Or smoke shop. Yeah. That'd probably do great.
01:07:35
Speaker
Yeah. Pizza place, smoke shop, Chinese restaurant. I mean, doesn't anybody do anything else? It could open up a pizza hut or Papa John's to go against Domino's up the street. Yeah. Yeah. Keensburg's got, I don't even know how many pizza places six or seven. How can it support them? There's Luciano's. There's Anthony's. There's Roma. There's Domino's. There's Keensburg pizza.
Food, Business Ideas, and Marketing Skepticism
01:07:59
Speaker
Uh, I think there's another one or two on the boardwalk. And now there's Julio's and Julio's shit.
01:08:06
Speaker
Yeah. And the town's tiny. Yeah. Yeah. And then God forbid you go slightly outside of town. You got Lubranos right there. Right. Just right out of the stoplight. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. I mean, pizza is a big deal and like, you know, they're
01:08:26
Speaker
you could support a lot of pizzerias in New Jersey. I feel like it's like, I mean, a lot of people get pizza every week, you know? Especially like, when's Easter? Like leading up to Easter, you know, every Friday people are eating pizza.
01:08:46
Speaker
Yeah. I feel like three could go away and it would be about the right mix. Yeah. Yeah. Like Julio's. I never had Luciano's. Anthony's was good. We didn't have the pizza, but the salads were good. Roma's good pizza. Yeah, we had that. Uh, Keensburg pizza is supposed to be good. I don't know. I can't eat pizza. So if I do, it's usually a home. Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:11
Speaker
All right. So we got a coffee shop that will probably, uh, six months. Hot dog, hot dog stand. Oh yeah. Ice cream. Yeah, that would be good. Ice cream again. You know,
01:09:27
Speaker
And I mean, will people stop there on their way to the beach? That might be, you know. You need like a billboard. Yeah. There's also frozen flavors right there. Oh, yeah. You can take Main Street across 36. Yeah. And Dairy Queen's right up the street. Right. I mean, what would the local support here? Trump gift shop. They went out of business, didn't they? Yeah.
01:09:57
Speaker
That was a joke, but there was a- Yeah, there was one up on the highway. It was an actual store that was a- The Trump gift shop. Right up the street. Yeah. Man.
01:10:13
Speaker
Yeah. Cause maybe like, I mean, I don't know if it's BAM, but a dispensary would, I mean, people are fighting to the nail again in those places. Yeah. Um, like a licensed dispensary. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it's fully recreational now in New Jersey. Um, there's one in Eaton town and there's one in like the Asbury area, but I don't know where the next closest would be.
01:10:37
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm probably something like that. You could stick anywhere and it would it would be OK. Yeah. Yeah. Certain towns have like, you know, like Middletown before it even was possible bandit. Really? Yeah. Oh, I think so. Yeah. But I but smoke shops are fine. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, they're not selling weed. You know, they're selling just
01:11:03
Speaker
Parafinal, yeah. Actually, before I went away, I was looking for, you ever heard of De Jeep lighters? Just a brand lighter. No, I don't think so. They're like, they're kind of almost like the size of a Zippo. It's like a wide kind of squat lighter. It's like a Bic lighter, but just a different brand. I was looking for one of those because you can't fly with a butane or not with a torch lighter that I use for cigars.
01:11:28
Speaker
So I was looking for those if I could find them. So we stopped at 7-Eleven on the way back from somewhere. And then I said, well, check out the smoke shop. It smelled like raw sewage in that place. Like there was like it was disgusting. Like there was like a pipe burst or something. Oh, like Tom's used to be worse. Way worse. It was bad. Oh, geez. Yeah, that's that's rough. The sewage thing. Yeah.
01:11:59
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was gross. Oh, man. Well, I feel like, you know, these days, I don't know how those kind of places stay open because you can buy anything you want online. Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm going to go buy a, you know, a pipe at some store, some local, probably getting ripped off. You know, they're all made in the same factory. Yeah, exactly. You know, but they sell like the tobacco for like the hookahs and stuff. Yeah.
01:12:26
Speaker
but they didn't, the only lighters they had were like some, like the crap you see on the counter in like a crappy gas station, you know, like some known name. They didn't even have Bix. He's like, no, we have these. I'm like, that's all you have.
01:12:42
Speaker
Yeah. It was funny. He was talking about stuff made in the same factory. I ran into somebody and he was telling me about his restoration hardware furniture that, you know, it's like, yeah, I got this great furniture. It's better than Target. Yeah. You just sort of listen, you know? Yeah. You don't want to rain on the guy's grid.
01:13:12
Speaker
It's like, yeah, I've seen some of that in person. Yeah. And just the whole, you know, economics of in the manufacturing process and just the man. Yeah.
01:13:27
Speaker
Yeah. So it's really a shame, uh, how, uh, you know, the public at large has, you know, sort of been, uh, bamboozled in a way into thinking, you know, this, this better marketed is better quality. Yeah. Maybe marginally, but not, not, uh, proportional to the price difference. Yes. Yes. Yeah. At its core, it's basically the same stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
01:13:55
Speaker
I know. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny when you get into those situations, right? People are like telling yourself, you know, you just button your lip. Yeah. It's like that meme from Parks and Recreation when, um, what's his name? Uh,
01:14:18
Speaker
Nick Offerman, I forget his character's name, is in Home Depot and the guy walks up, he's like, oh, can I help you with anything? He's like, I know more than you. It's like one of those, I know more than this guy, I better just not say anything. Like I get into it sometimes with people with food, it's like, oh yeah, the place is great.
01:14:39
Speaker
I think everybody's got a friend. We have one, my wife and I, who always recommends a place. It says it's the best, it's the best, it's the best. And so we went to like one or two and they're awful. So now, of course, we can't go anymore. Her recommendations are worthless. And no matter what it is, it's like, yeah, I gotta go to the eye doctor. Oh, I got the best eye doctor.
01:15:12
Speaker
Yeah. Your wife's a tough cookie when it comes to the restaurants. Oh my God. She'll write everything from the bathroom to the, you know, the service, how it's laid out on the plate. I'm like, Oh my God. How about the bathroom in the place we went to in town, down there. I won't say where. Yeah. That was, that was scary. That was like a, like out of like the movie saw. Yeah.
01:15:38
Speaker
Yeah, I tell my wife she's high maintenance. She's like, no, I'm not. I'm like, oh no, your picture's in a dictionary. Oh, if you took her that place, she'd have a fit. Yeah. She'd want to be talking to the guy. Yeah. I'd have to slink away. Yeah. Yeah. She'd be like, you know, you really should do something about that with like all the best intentions. Yeah.
01:16:04
Speaker
Oh man. What do you think? Should we wrap it up? Coolio's is probably going to be showing up. That's great.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:16:12
Speaker
Well, that was great doing the podcast. Oh yeah. Yeah. I was like putting on a good old pair of jeans. Yeah. We'll have to make it. We'll try it. We should try and do it. You know? Yeah. Periodically. Certainly. Or as often as possible. Yeah.
01:16:25
Speaker
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