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Black Friday Extravaganza
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Episode Timing and Theme
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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Welcome back to the show. The American Craftsman Podcast. Yeah, how are you? We're here. It's a week before Thanksgiving, but you'll be hearing this on Black Friday. It's the Black Friday extravaganza. Oh, yeah. Before we get started, I want to thank our sponsor, Haefla.
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Contest Winner Announcement
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You build cabinets or furniture or anything of this sort. They definitely have something there for you. So check them out. All right. So last week, I have all these highlighters and I don't know how to unhighlight them. Last week we had our question and answer episode.
00:02:31
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And we need to select the winner that Chad will be sending the glass that he got to use for four weeks to the next winter. So I don't know if you have any initial initial thoughts. Well, I don't know why.
00:02:56
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Let's see, what do we have? We had, what was the first question? Matt, review of the beer and cheese. Yeah. And then the scope of work. Miles asking about, you know, what are we excited to do in the new shop? And tool purchases, what are we going to do with the laser?
00:03:16
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podcast guests, we've got Cody, how to build the boxes and how to build the face frames in relation. We had John with the real deep question about going back to work for somebody else.
00:03:31
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Um, Ed Johns asking about saw blades. Uh, Chris Dabriskie asking about what you're going to do with the shop. And Nick had the question about, um, installs and starting your own business. All right. I think I know who I want.
00:03:53
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Well, I'm going to vote for. Say it on three. Yeah. One, two, wait, on three or after three, one, two, three. And then say, all right. One, two, three. John or J 79. Yeah, that's John. Really? Yeah. All right, John, you're the winner. Chad will be sending that glass out to you at some point. We're just kidding, Chad. You don't have to, you get to keep your glass.
Q&A Episode Plans
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John, get us your address and we'll send that out to you. Did you see that mug that the working hands podcast mug said now with less Chad on it.
00:04:41
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I think it was, uh, I want to say, was it Viz? I can't remember who it was. I don't, I think I remember seeing that. Yeah. It was, it had, it was working class working hands podcast and then he kept spinning it around and then it said now with less check. Oh my God. Or Chad. Chad's a such a good sport. I really liked Chad. Yeah. Chad claims he's going to be a maker camp next year. All right. Well, we'll wait and see.
Vasectomy Stories
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Yeah. Apparently got some baller Airbnb.
00:05:11
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Oh, wow. Yeah. So yeah, congratulations, John. We'll send out that glass. And if you would like to win your own, we'll be doing another question and answer episode in, man, I got some high levels over here. I'm in the red. In the red. Plus 2.5 dB. We'll be doing another episode in three weeks. So you guys have, you have time, but get them in now.
00:05:38
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Yeah, it's always good to not procrastinate. Right. Let's see. How do we get these in an archive? Archive. There we go. I don't even know how to access the archive. That's the thing. You don't know how. Oh, wait. We got spam.
00:06:04
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What do you know? Udasi Smith. Congratulations. Yearly update. Um, where is the archive? All mail. Okay. There we go. It's an all mail. Cool. Um, that was the same.
00:06:23
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Oh, yeah, you have you have a couple of weeks, but get your questions in. You know, sometimes we record multiple episodes in a day, too. So we might be recording this episode as soon as two weeks from now. Yeah. So which would be one week from when you're here in this. So get them in. You want to win? Get it in. It could be, you know, like a. Doesn't have to be like a super.
00:06:49
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I'm trying to say here, super specific kind of question. It could be just something that gets us talking about whatever cheese card. Yeah. Um, so yeah, anyway, back to the regularly scheduled show. So I guess we'll do a little bit of a, of a shop update. Oh yeah. It's plenty going on. Yeah. Um, I promised I would talk about it this episode.
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So this is Thanksgiving week. Last week, speaking in future talk, it's this week for me, Monday had a vasectomy. So I was laid up for a couple of days after that, doing
00:07:35
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Catching up on all kinds of computer work that had to get done design some design stuff some back and forth with clients and Stuff like that. So yeah, I'm uh, you're back on your feet. Yeah Yeah, it's not too bad Well, so describe this operation Like what they did? No Like what what are the tools lasers? Oh god. No, they have like a
00:08:05
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If you see my accident, probably right here. Oh, you're reaching for your fishing bag. Yeah. Oh, no. Where my nippers are. Oh, but they cut the fishing line. Yeah, but like everything. Where are my nippers? I'm going to lose them.
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but everything looks like I want to pull them out because they have a very specific look to them. But they're, you know, these are mitten pliers ones I have, but, uh, I mean, do they go over with you before the hand and they go, this is how it's going to go down? Oh, no, not at all. They just come in, they start rubbing it down with some kind of iodine solution. And then, then they go for it.
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I must have it in, must have it in something else in a jacket or something, but they're all like, uh, Dr. Slick is the brand that I know. Let me see. I'll pull it up. And they're just like, you know, scissors and forceps and all that, but they're, they have the, the brass finger holes, which is what, see.
00:09:32
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So what kind of anesthesia is involved here? Zero. No way. It all looks like this. They're all like these, you know, scissors and forceps and little like angled, like almost look like cuticle scissors. That's like their main tool. I think they use is like the cuticle scissors. Um,
00:09:51
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So they I think there might be some kind of topical thing that they put on. Mm hmm. At least it seemed like that. Maybe that was just the fear setting in. Oh, yeah. Here's one. Oh, shit. Like these, like they definitely used. Oh, oh, where'd it go? I don't know why it's not working. Yeah, it's like these like. Yeah.
00:10:21
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And then they give you an injection. He goes, you're going to feel a pinch and a burn. So there was a pinch and a burn, which, you know, wasn't bad. And then, uh, they pretty much just snip you open with a pair of scissors, pull out what they got to pull out, cut it, cut a piece of it out.
00:10:44
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stitch it in some kind of way so that they can't reconnect and like cauterize the ends and they stuff it back inside of you.
Dental Surgery Tales
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You're giving me the heebie jeebies. Then they go to the other side. It wasn't painful at all.
00:11:04
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wasn't even really uncomfortable. Um, you know, the only time there was any type of pain was the injection, which is like, you know, you've had a shot, you've had a shot. It's not that bad. Uh, didn't even like hurt less than like, uh, getting your blood drawn kind of thing like that. Like usually there's like a actual pinch. This was a, you know, like you get your teeth for one second and then it's done. Um,
00:11:31
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And, you know, kind of just feels like you got kicked in the balls for like 48 hours. And if you're like, if you're like, you're supposed to have bed rest for two days. So I, I, uh, I had it done like midday on Monday, went home and, uh, stayed in bed all day until the morning when I woke up, I wake up before. So I got up and went downstairs and.
00:11:59
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And in the morning I sit on the couch and I sit on the part that's like a cheese lounge. So it's like basically like you're, it's like almost like you're laying down. And then I stayed there all day, Tuesday working. And then Monday, Wednesday morning until we met over at the shop around two o'clock or something like that.
00:12:23
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for, uh, to measure some stuff for the plumber. Um, but yeah, I just took it easy for, you know, you're not supposed to do anything for 48 hours really. And they only do them on Monday, Wednesday and Friday or Monday. No, Monday and Wednesday are the only days that this office does it. They only do it right before their lunch, they said. So you come in at 12. Uh, it's oddly specific. Yeah. I could only do it on either Halloween.
00:12:54
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November 14th, which is when I had it done or the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Otherwise I was waiting until like February. I'm like, I'm definitely not doing it on Halloween and I'm definitely not doing it on the day before Thanksgiving. Yeah. Which when, when is this episode going to air in relationship to Thanksgiving? Black Friday, the day after. All right. So, so yeah, I'll be fully good to go by them. Yeah.
00:13:25
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Um, yeah, it makes me think, uh, I got some, I had, uh, news from the dentist when I went there. Oh yeah. Yeah. They got to, they got to, um, take out a tooth. Oh my God. They're gonna retire off of you over there. Yeah. And then they got to, I'm going to get a, for this one tooth, I'm going to get a implant, but they got to do this surgery on the gums.
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And that made me think of it because they wanted me to come in there and you can't eat for like three days. We got to drink your meal. Well, yeah, you can't chew. You know, the people are, she said, well, you know, everybody's different.
00:14:11
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But, uh, let's see one the day before Thanksgiving, like, no, no, no, no, no. Are you crazy? So I'm going a couple of days after Christmas. Nice. Yeah. Actually I go on the 27th. I gotta go have a semen analysis to make sure everything's working.
Shop Updates
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Yeah.
00:14:30
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Well, make sure everything's not working. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to make that mistake. Oh, my God. Well, that's great that they check up to make sure that everything healed and is, you know, the roadblocks are in place. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what could happen is it could grow back together. Recanalization. They call it recanalization. Oh, yeah. I took a picture of the thing that they cut out. It's it's a lot bigger than you would think. Oh, man. It's like, you know,
00:15:01
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Like every chicken and you get one of those like weird, like thick veins. Yeah. Like in the chicken finger or in like a chicken leg or something or like a chicken thigh, you know. Oh God. Yeah. And then they put it in these little jars. What the hell they do with it? I know. Why are they saving that? That's what I want to know. This one's got some meat attached to it. Oh God. I said to him, I said, so you actually like take a piece out, right? He said, yeah. I said, can I see it?
00:15:33
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I actually looked up a video of a vasectomy afterwards. Thankfully I looked afterwards because it's, you know, it's just, you think it's going to be this like ginger kind of thing, but it's like, you know, like you don't watch a knee replacement video.
00:15:51
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Yeah. It's like they just, you know, grab ahold of your sack with a pair of forceps and then just come with a pair of scissors and just cut a hole in it. Oh man. They just stick something in there and pull, pull out your best deferent. It's, it's yeah. I guess it's, it's just, this is what it is. You just got to get to work. You know, you can't feel it. So they, they just got to get in there and do it.
00:16:17
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Yeah. And it's very mechanical for them. Yeah. It's, you know, there's no way to do it gently. They got to cut inside to the inside while that there's only one way to do it. It's just to cut and cut into the inside. Yeah. Nick's gone for his, uh, his little operation in December as well. Yeah. It's a little more invasive. You wonder why they can't do that for dogs.
00:16:40
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Huh. Yeah. You know, instead of doing a castration, why can't they do a vasectomy? Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, it only took, cost me $50 and an hour of my time.
00:16:58
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Yeah, it probably costs, I think, I mean, there's no insurance. $500 or $600. Yeah, that's no insurance for a dog. I'm sure the urologist charged way more than $600 to the insurance company. I'm glad that's covered. Me too. I think it's only about a thousand bucks if it's not. So that's probably what it's probably a thousand bucks if you got to pay out of pocket, but they probably charge the insurance company $5,000.
00:17:24
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because like I'm at a network at the dentist and he's, oh, he always lowers my fees. Yeah. They're good with that. Yeah. Cause I don't know. Yeah. I don't have dental either. Right. Yeah. I don't have dental at all. Um, so yeah, I got, got snipped. Um, I, I more feel shitty just from sitting around for two days.
00:17:51
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Oh man. It's great to be young. Yeah. I can't do it. I can't sit around. Yeah. Um, so what's going on over at the new shop? Yeah. Tons of stuff. Yeah. Um, the one important thing that's not going on is we don't have any gas installed yet. Not yet. Um, we saw yesterday that they had come and marked up the street. They did a, you know, uh,
00:18:22
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I don't know what you call it, not a survey, but they, you know, came in and laid out where the gas lines are in the street. They even went down Randolph and marked them over there. Oh, cool. Yeah. Um, so that means that they're definitely gearing up to do something. I wonder if they got to cut up the street. Oh yeah. Without a doubt. Yeah. Wow. They will get a new sidewalk.
00:18:44
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Yeah, I mean, the one thing about the sidewalk is great, but we got to keep it clear in the wintertime. Yeah. We should probably get a little electric snowblower. Yeah. Something at least a couple of shovels. Yeah.
00:18:58
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Where do we shovel the snow though? Just up against the building? Well, I guess you could... I mean, you're not supposed to put it out onto the street and plus that's our parking spot there. Yeah. As long as there's just a path. I mean, we don't have to like clear the hole. Yeah. You know, six or seven foot deep sidewalk because it's not just a walkway. With global warming, we probably won't get any snow anyway. Oh, I hope not. We'll just have like tornadoes in January. Hurricanes. Yeah.
00:19:30
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Yeah, that's some trade off. Yeah. Just like two shovel widths is enough. Yeah. And then just salt it. Yeah. Cause that's all usually I do. Like I, I don't even do my full width the sidewalk. Usually I just do like, if it's like a, uh, there's a lot to do. I just do like one snow plow with. Yeah. Some people don't even do anything. So yeah. I mean, you could see the kids walk home from school that way.
00:20:00
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Yeah. Yep. So yeah, we got a plumber coming this weekend to get one bathroom work in and fix anything that's actively leaking in the other ones. Yeah. Our electrician, Nick, is looking to get started either next week or the fall.
00:20:23
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Well we gotta remember we're talking in the future right now. So last week the plumber came. Yeah on Saturday and this week the electrician started or this coming weekend I wonder if he forgot it was Thanksgiving. But regardless electric work is starting soon.
00:20:45
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We painted the walls and half the ceiling. So by the time you listen to this, we might be done with the dumpster came last week. Yep. Which was today for us.
00:21:00
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So we've got a three yard dumpster on wheels. So we'll be able to have it inside the shop. Then when it's ready to get picked up, which is, uh, at this point we have it set up for once a month. We'll wheel it outside. They can pick it up. It's got like some kind of lock that automatically unlocks when they flip it over. I don't know how that works, but they have, I think something gets inserted in the back. Yeah. I think when the forks go in, it like hits some kind of thing and releases the, uh, that little,
00:21:31
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chain thing that was on there. Yeah. Um, which is pretty cool. I didn't, I had no idea that that worked that way.
00:21:42
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Yeah, hopefully we'll have, have some gas. So we got to see if the heaters work. Got to, you know, have a plumber or HVAC guy cap, any gas pipes that are open and, uh, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. That's kind of terrifying that there could be open gas pipes. Yeah. I mean, they'll, uh, they're probably going to run all new, I mean, we might not even use any of the existing pipes and probably just bring a pipe in and stub it out.
00:22:13
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You think they'll hook up to existing pipes? I think they'll probably just hook the meter up to that existing pipe that comes in, but I could be wrong. Oh yeah, and that pipe goes up to the roof. No, it goes into the ceiling and then goes over to the here. Oh, goes in the seal. It's in the ceiling. Yeah. I mean, if they want to demo that and come in through the same hole, then we can put a new connection to that pipe. That works too.
00:22:39
Speaker
Well, yeah, I don't want to have to run new gasoline. That would suck. Although it's not some black pipe in some time. But yeah, we got to drill a couple of holes for Nick in the beams.
00:22:55
Speaker
So yeah, it's getting there. I mean, it's a long process. We got to have to get an inspection. So, uh, there, I call it today, which is the 17th. They're like, well, you know, so-and-so is on vacation and next week's like a short week. So why don't you just call on the 28th and set some up like, okay, but we got to set something up just to have them come out and tell us everything that we're going to have to fix because we're not, you know,
00:23:22
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No chance that we could pass a CO inspection or without have, yeah, without having them come out and tell us
Woodworking Projects
00:23:29
Speaker
what, you know, I'm sure we need fire, uh, smoke alarms, but how many, where they have to be reminding an exit sign. Yeah.
00:23:42
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So yeah, we need them to come out and let us know all that shit. We can't move in until we have a CEO. So, but we can't move in until we have electric either. So, you know, it's, we're, we're not, uh, the inspection's not holding this up and we're actively working in the shop now. So, um,
00:24:00
Speaker
While I was out, Rob was breaking down a bunch of white oak. We're building these vanities for the Hamptons. We go out there in about a month, which is good. We're going to be able to get a lot done between now and then. We'll probably get the mantle and the foyer thing done too. So we're building two vanities now. Those will probably be done.
00:24:24
Speaker
Next week? Yeah, maybe. We got to get the drawers. Oh yeah. All that shit, but... Oh yeah, next week is this week. Next week, this week is short week. Yeah. Yeah. But we, I mean, we might be able to get those measurements tomorrow. Yeah.
00:24:43
Speaker
So it'll be done probably the week after Thanksgiving. The two vanities, one's a 24 inch vanity. That was a nine foot six vanity. Basically three, three vanities all connected into one. Then we're doing a fireplace around and we're building a freestanding coat closet.
00:25:02
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For the foyer, that's got to be painted. It's going to be painted in probably the Malaysia 1K, but we're going to color match to plain English nicotine is the name of the color. It's like a, like a mustard yellow kind of. Yeah. Imagine a heavy smokers teeth. Yeah. Yeah. Less Brown though. More and more yellow. I mean, why would they call it that? That's a terrible name for color. I don't know.
00:25:31
Speaker
It's a pretty cool color though. So those four things we can build and bring with us when we go out to confirm the dimensions for the wall units, the shelving, the countertops,
00:25:49
Speaker
All that stuff. I wonder if the kitchen kitchen probably won't be in, but I don't know how we're going to do the countertop. Like if we're going to just, if they're going to give us a drawing and we'll build it according to the, to the cabinet drawing and then we'll, I don't know, we cut the sink in on site or. Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah. I mean, they should have drawings.
00:26:17
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I would imagine they'd have drawings. Yeah. We can make a template for the sink on the laser. Yeah. You know, screw it to the underside, cut it out with a jigsaw, flush trim it. That's true. Yeah. So let's, uh, it's also, it's getting called, it got called last weekend. Um, we may have to get some pipe wrap,
00:26:47
Speaker
Yeah, I think we should do that. I'm actually set a reminder. Mind me tomorrow morning at 8 AM to get pipe wrap. Um, like the heated plug-in, uh, you know, the thing that heats up your pipe so it doesn't freeze. Yeah. Cause we don't currently have any heat and we do have pipes that have, uh, you know, water in them.
00:27:17
Speaker
Yeah, bad combination. Yeah.
Technical Challenges in the New Shop
00:27:21
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Here in the Northeast. Well, we can talk to the... Oh, wait, no. Well, the plumber's going on Saturday. I was going to say, we talked to the plumber about that, but yeah, we should probably just... I mean, they had a... They had one. I don't know what the hell they did with it. They got rid of it. But there was one in that bathroom under the stairs. Oh, really?
00:27:44
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I guess they thought that was the main, but apparently the main is in the second bathroom, but who knows? That red gate valve, yeah. There's one, I think there's one in each bathroom at the floor. Yeah, it'd be nice to have those, what do they call them, ball valves? Those things, I trust those more. Oh yeah, gate valves are horrible. I have on my main, I have a gate valve and then I had them
00:28:10
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above it, put in a ball valve and then just leave the gate valve open. I've had, it happened to me when I did the kitchen, you close it and then you can't get it open. Yeah. Or it kind of drips a little bit from there. They never, yeah, they never close fully. So yeah, hopefully he'll, he'll do that on Saturday, you know, put in a new, new shutoff. Even if it's just a quarter turn shutoff, that's fine too. Yeah.
00:28:41
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Which those are, I guess those are like mini, mini ball. That was like, seems to know what he's doing. That's good. Yeah. I haven't, I had met him a couple of times before, but not in a plumbing conversation. Yeah. He he's.
00:29:00
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So yeah, we're going to do a little point of use hot water heater under the sink. We're going to have to rig up a outlet for that. That's no big deal. We don't, you know, you just need to have that, have that there. We don't need hot water at the moment.
00:29:17
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Yeah. Like I didn't even ask him to cap off that, um, that pipe in the back room. He said, Oh, look at this. And, um, he went to his truck and God, he had to remove all pipe. And, uh, so he just did that. Yeah. We got the dumpster now so we can put the old toy. We're getting a new toilet, put the old toilet in the dumpster, get rid of it. We got all that bullshit at the, uh, the shop. We can start putting the dumpster.
00:29:49
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Yeah, the debris. Yeah. We got that nice pine we can make something out of. Yeah. It left all this pine. It's like inch and three quarter by 11 by, that must be 12 feet long or something. Yeah, easy. And there's got to be five or six of them. Yeah. I think there's five. We can make a frigging table for the podcast studio.
00:30:15
Speaker
Yeah, these baffles will come in handy in that. Oh yeah. Yeah. I don't know whatever happened to those people. And we get that piece of homosote up there. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:34
Speaker
Yeah, it'd be nice in there to maybe fur out the wall and then put a rigid foam insulation, because it's all blocked. Fur out the wall an inch or something. Go get five quarter by six decking, rip it, tap con it in, put rigid foam between, put up some like 3A sheetrock or something.
00:30:57
Speaker
Yeah. That's the, that room has that really awful tile on the floor, right? Yeah. The asbestos. Yeah. It's all peeled up and everything. Yeah. We'll just fucking go right over top of that. I mean, don't even rip it up because then you're opening up a can of worms. So what? Just put a subfloor down. Hey, put some, whatever, something like this, solid vinyl, luxury, uh, vinyl plank.
00:31:25
Speaker
Yes, that'll be our break room podcast studio. I guess we can't put too big of a table in that room small. It's probably only about this big, no? Yeah. Yeah. Well, if we had a table, we could put these at each at each head. Yeah. And then have spots on the side for guests. Yeah. Yeah. There's no, is there a window in there?
00:31:57
Speaker
Uh, no, no. There's that where there was a big window. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. We got to get that sign off the front of the building too. I had told them to take it off. They never did bastards. I think it's just screwed in. We got to get hammered in. I think. Yeah. We're like masonry nails. Yeah. I think so.
00:32:26
Speaker
Well, cut them on the grind or something. I hate pulling those out because you always take a big chunk of concrete. Yeah. Yeah. I keep forgetting that that sign is there. We got the cameras that we got. It's going to be too much work to run. PoE, they call them power over ethernet cameras that go to like a hard drive.
00:32:54
Speaker
In all the research I did, it was like those are definitely the best way to go, but the way the building is, the connection, there's like a whip that comes out of the back of the camera, and then that's where the ethernet plugs in. While the whip is too short to go from the outside to the inside, like through the block,
00:33:16
Speaker
So you'd have to run some kind of conduit outside. And then there's all these columns, which I don't even know what those columns are for because there's no, they're just decorative, I guess. Yeah. They're not supporting anything in the building. No, because the rafters are sitting on the outside wall.
00:33:39
Speaker
What the hell was I saying? Oh, so the conduit outside had to jog around all these things or go like on the roof and then down and, and the landlord doesn't want us to mess with the roof at all because it just got replaced. And, um, so we ended up going with a simply safe.
00:33:59
Speaker
Yeah. The lock for the front door. Yeah. So we got four cameras outside. We got the keypad, like lock, got the doorbell, which is another camera. We got three, uh, door sensors. And I think that's it. You know, it comes with like the base and the keypad. So when you go in, you know, uh, you can disarm and arm the alarm.
00:34:30
Speaker
So should be good. Yeah. Keep the assholes at bay. Yeah. Oh, you know, I should have got a door sensor for the garage door. I didn't think about that. The one thing I would be looking forward to is a garage door opener. I was looking at them, you know, you can get them for about 400, 400 bucks. Yeah. Just for security. I don't mind lifting it up. It's, it's the, the keeping it down part that I like about it. Yeah. Especially with those side mount ones. I don't think there's really any way to open it without,
00:35:01
Speaker
Um, using the opener. Yeah. So we got to see, we might be able to get power to that box that, uh, it's on the wall there that we started ripping out that outlet that was connected to it. Yeah. We just got to see where it goes into the panel and turn that breaker on and see if it's got, if the wires are hot. Did we have that thing where you
00:35:27
Speaker
You check the the panel and you check the other end of the wire and it lights up when it's. Yeah, but the way our panel is easy enough, just take the cover off and see what because those are. They're very specific colored wires. It's not like it's not black and white. It's they're like orange, red and orange, black and. Wait, no, orange, blue and green, something like that. I don't know.
00:35:54
Speaker
So yeah, we could just see which panel that conduit's going into and which ones take the cover off and see where one of those colored wires is gone. Yeah. Nickel sorted out. Yeah. Yeah. We could check that out. I want to see, uh, just make sure that's not hot too before we, um, cut into it. Yeah. We've got to replace the batteries in that stupid tester. And so what else we got going on?
00:36:23
Speaker
We got to get that forklift charged. Yeah. Uh, Nick said that's like his first thing is going to set up a charger. He said he was going to do it over by the, over by the panel first, just like a temporary one because he's got to get up there and run all the conduit anyway. So yeah, that I guess is going to be fed by the sub panel on the chimney. So, uh, he's putting in two sub panels, two, I guess, uh, a hundred amp sub panels.
00:36:54
Speaker
And we have two, I guess they're a hundred amp pounds already. Well, there's 400 amps. Yeah. But those, I don't think those aren't 200 amp pounds. That's 150 amp pound. Yeah. And they're, they're smaller than that. Oh, okay.
00:37:17
Speaker
So yeah, we've got 400 amps coming in. So yeah, he'll feed, I don't know if he's going to feed one from each panel or what, but then we have those panels as well that we can run stuff from. So like the Oneida dust collector will come off of the existing panel. Laser probably.
00:37:38
Speaker
Yep. Uh, no, I think that's going to come off that sub panel in the back wall. He's going to come back around with the conduit because those are all going to run at 48 and then drop. Um, probably something, uh, for the hot water heaters got to come off there. We got to get, Oh no, that's going to just come out of the bathroom. I'm just going to tie in, right?
00:38:04
Speaker
Yeah, we should be able to pull that right out of the switch. You know, just pull that switch out, put pigtails to the switch, you know, take the feed over to an outlet. We're just going to do that under cover. Pull some old outlet out of somewhere in there, you know, old outlet cover, so it doesn't look like anything that got done.
00:38:31
Speaker
Yeah. Cause apparently I think permitting works by like how much work you're doing too. Oh God. Like it's like a percentage of a cool. So we'll see what they're going to hit us for for permits by 500 bucks. Hopefully not more. Yeah. They got to get their money. Yeah. Got to get my wife over to the police department and the building department with some donuts.
00:38:57
Speaker
Yeah. Some Italian cookies.
Balancing Projects and Shop Setup
00:39:01
Speaker
Yeah. I sent her over to, uh, what's that bakery over by, uh, Neelam. Oh, um, yeah. J and M. J and M. Yeah. That place is good. Um, Thanksgiving's a good excuse to come wandering in with a cookie basket. Yeah. With a little card on there. Yeah. Green street joinery. That's a good idea.
00:39:24
Speaker
Gotta send her out there on like Monday or something before people take off. That's, that's a good day. Yeah. Is that a reminder? Yeah.
00:39:39
Speaker
man, Monday is it's right around the corner. It's Thanksgiving. I mean, this is, we're talking, um, you know, in future tense, it's black Friday, but when we're recording this, it's pre Thanksgiving and I'm still stunned at how fast this month has gone.
00:40:02
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I mean, in some ways it seems like such a long time ago that we were at makers camp. That was beginning of October. Yep. That was about, yeah, five weeks ago. But boy, time really does slip away. Yeah.
00:40:22
Speaker
Oh, we're going to be building some bank cats. Oh yeah. Her buddy, Jim. I don't know. I haven't heard from Mike. Jim Jamal about, uh, about the CNC stuff kind of on the CNC, but we'll see. Um, so yes, for you shape bank cats. He wants those the next three weeks.
00:40:45
Speaker
All right. Yeah. We got to knock those out. Maybe we finish up the two vanities. Yeah. And then, uh, then get to work on that. That'll probably just take us a week to do that. Yeah. Um, and then we got to bring them up. They're going up to, uh, Bergen County. They're not going to gym. Okay. We're going to Bergen County and, uh, they have an elevator and stuff. That's where we're going to make them with two pieces each.
00:41:12
Speaker
But I redrew everything as as the way they'll really be. Let's see. Yeah, see. Oh, yeah. This is the hard part, building these. This is what the springs have to go on. See, it's a separate. So they can take this off and then put it on later.
00:41:45
Speaker
that in the toe. But we'll see. Maybe Tim and Mike can cut it out for us on the CNC. We're going to get a message out and see what the deals with that. Yeah. The CNCs work magic. So that now actually have you had a
00:42:15
Speaker
I guess I have my expectations that people are too high. I mean, I have no idea why. I mean, you're pretty present in the world. I mean, it's not like I'm asking you to price out like a complicated job. It's just like, here are the files. They need to be cut. Give me a price, you know?
00:42:40
Speaker
It was like those first two guys with the electrical quotes. Oh my God. The one guy, it took him like two and a half weeks. I know. And they're armed with all of the measurements, all of the, you know, I gave him a dimension floor plan.
00:42:59
Speaker
You could sit there with a scale, an architect scale, and just say, okay, I got this, this, this. I mean, you don't use CAD, you're an electrician. Like, don't you make electrical plans? Yeah. Like, what do you submit with your permits? You had all the motors for each machine, amps and volts. Like, I don't know what these motor, you know, like, okay, you got here a planer, but I don't know. I'm like, I sent a key. It says machine key. Yeah.
00:43:31
Speaker
It says, powermatic planer, 15HH, three horsepower, this many amps, this many volts. How can I spell it out any further for you? But glad we found Nick. He's a nice guy. Seems like a good electrician. Yeah. He knows some ins and outs. Yeah. So we'll get that material ordered.
00:44:01
Speaker
this week. He's in Aruba. Yeah.
00:44:13
Speaker
What's the weather like in Aruba today? Amazing, I'm sure. Probably 80 degrees and sunny. Yeah, right now it's 42 degrees here and kind of cloudy. Yeah. Oh, did you get in touch with it? Did you email Conestoga? I did. They didn't get back to me though. Yeah, I'm just going to check it off my current weather list. Aruba.
00:44:44
Speaker
79. It's a little bit raining right now. Yeah, it rains every afternoon in the islands. Yeah. 85 today. Man. Monday 84 and sunny. I wouldn't mind a nice little island vacation.
00:45:03
Speaker
Tuesday 84 and sunny Wednesday 84 and sunny Thursday 84 and sunny Friday 84 and sunny Saturday 84 and sunny. Yep. Sounds good. Right. So yeah, we got our work cut out for us over there at the, at the new shop. Still trying to do work at the old shop in between, you know, get everything ready over there, but
00:45:30
Speaker
I tell you on the half of the shop that's painted and the ceiling painted and swept better.
Personal Life and Storage
00:45:38
Speaker
It feels clean. Like it feels that way. It felt, it felt really like you want to take a shower. Think about the first time we went there. Oh God. Thank God the lights weren't working. We might not have, uh, we could have seen everything. Yeah. Like, well, you know, it's just, we just can't see cause lights are off. Oh man.
00:46:01
Speaker
Like we didn't know the walls were green. No. And that sort of like a, you know, the color of Jello pistachio pudding. Yeah. That's, that's the color they want. It's like insane asylum green. Oh man. Yeah. I can't wait to get all the tools in there, get, you know, the material over there.
00:46:32
Speaker
Got the line mooring machine in my garage. Get that over there. Left to move your plywood stack over there. Yeah. What would you do with all that room in your garage? Just wait for the garage to collapse because it's probably not going to make it through the winter. It's a good thing we're going to get it out. Yeah. We got to move that stuff out of there. Oh man.
00:47:03
Speaker
Yeah, knock that thing down, get a Stoltzfus. Oh, yeah. Wow. When finance is low. Although you can finance those. Yeah. I would like to get a nice big shed.
00:47:18
Speaker
That would be nice. I had to see, I had to call our boy Tony and see what I could get away with in terms of being grandfathered and back sets and stuff. Yeah. Like if I can, if I leave the pad, can I go on top of it and keep the same footprint? Cause it's way too close to the property line. Oh yeah. I know that. Yeah.
00:47:42
Speaker
Yeah man, if I could have an overhead door on the highway side, I'd start parking over there. So I'll just drive my truck up and then walk to this door. That'd be nice. Yeah. What you want is a garage door, I'll press you to pull in. Yeah. I don't need to park my truck inside though. That's just taking up space for more shit I can put inside.
Holiday Reflections
00:48:14
Speaker
Yeah. The garage, the suburban garage is filled with stuff, not not cars. Yeah. That's funny. Ali's like, yeah, we could, we should rent, you know, rent it out as an Airbnb. Like, yeah, but then, you know, gotta have people like living in our backyard. Yeah. I'd have to have like a wall of hedges or something.
00:48:41
Speaker
Yeah. Big block wall. Or just make it so that that side has no windows at all. Mm-hmm. That's a good idea. Skylights only. Yeah. Clara story window. What's that? That's those windows up at the top, like, uh, like a transom. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:08
Speaker
Yeah. So we've been, we're busy boys. Yeah. Yeah. Got a lot of work coming in to bids or bidding a lot of work. Everybody wants it. You know, everybody wants it yesterday. They want to be first in line and you know, somebody's going to have to get the news broken to them that listen, your check came second. So you second in line.
00:49:28
Speaker
Yeah. And we also have our little sort of, uh, I'm not secret, but you know, the little things that we're doing on the side that we don't really, um, you know, a little projects like the watchbox stuff. You mean? No. Um, well, uh, you know, the shelf thing.
00:49:50
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean that we're going to have to do Nick's attic. Oh yeah. My God that we're probably going to have to do that after hours before hours, weekend hours. Yeah. That's going to, that's going to require overtime. Yeah. Because if we stopped everything, we're good. We'll go bankrupt. Yeah. But we got it. We're going to have to pay back or, or a barter. Yeah. With Nick, the electrician.
00:50:14
Speaker
I made sure I said, I'm like, well, you know, once you get those two, the slider and the edge band are hooked up, then we'll start working on your job. Like, cause we need those. Yeah. We got to get those powered up and just even see if they work. Yeah. Cause you know, knowing the way things have been going, they probably both need some type of work. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, it is what it is. We got to do it the old school way.
00:50:42
Speaker
in the beginning. We'll have to do that job piece by piece because it's a lot. It's a big closet. And getting it up into the room is going to be no small task.
00:50:56
Speaker
and it's almost like gonna have to like build like The section where the clothes are gonna hang go install it and then measure for the next piece, right? It's so Wacked out and nothing's consistent. No room is really really off. I mean Not not even close to being regular and we're gonna have to paint that with like Benjamin Moore or or something because It
00:51:27
Speaker
there's going to be stuff that's going to have to be painted on site guaranteed because it's, I mean, it's so, plus it's just, it's going to be too expensive to paint that in Malaysia or something. You're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars in material. Um, and though it's a lot of electric work, but I can almost guarantee that the closet is going to be more expensive than the electric. Yeah.
00:51:55
Speaker
So I'm sure they'll be cool with that stuff. They could be touched up easy too. And you get a nice, it is a nice finish, especially when it's sprayed. We have that pressure cup, so it'll spray. It'll spray fine through the PPS. I think I don't want white, I guess. Oh yeah. White shaker. I said, would you like something more contemporary? You know, like flat panel doors? She's like, I like the shaker. I'm like, fuck.
00:52:24
Speaker
I mean, we could buy doors too, but it's so, it's so whacked out. Yeah. It's no big deal to make triangles. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:40
Speaker
So everybody's sitting around today, Friday, thinking about Christmas already now. Yup. Probably did some online shopping. Yup. And then what cyber Monday is cyber Monday, the Monday after or is that a different day altogether? I think cyber Monday is the Monday after it's gotta be can't be the Monday before.
00:53:09
Speaker
Yeah, it must be the Monday after. But, you know, there's no real deals anymore. And what's weird is everybody just gets what they want all year round now anyway.
00:53:26
Speaker
It's, it's, it's just kind of lost its pizzazz. The whole like getting stuff for Christmas. Like when I was my wife's birthday, I'm like, what can I get my wife? She, she's just get anything that you want at any time now. I know.
00:53:44
Speaker
you never get what you want. Anyway, when somebody gets you a gift, it's like, you know, I'd rather pick this up myself. You know, I, I tell my family now make a charitable donation in my name. Don't get me any sweaters. Don't get me anything. I don't need anything. If I wanted it, I already got it. Yeah. I don't need anything popcorn, Park Zoo, send them $50. You know, they could use it more than me.
00:54:09
Speaker
Ali and I haven't exchanged Christmas gifts in, you know, we've been together 10 years, probably in eight years, not eight or nine years. Yeah. It's for kids, you know, when you have a kid. That's a joy. Yeah. But it's also a nightmare.
00:54:27
Speaker
The little elf's coming out soon. Oh yeah. Yeah. The elf on a shelf. Yeah. You know, it's always like, uh, what was it? Oh, first birthday when I built the frigging, when we built the swing set. Oh my God. I forgot all about the swing set. It fell so flat. I'm like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. Yeah. That was a, that was a full, full day job doing that swing set.
00:54:52
Speaker
and had to buy the swingset on top of it. This is like a $2,500 swingset at this point. I forgot all about us building that swingset. I was kind of pissed off. And then there's the Halloween. I had to do all the landscaping tiles and the mulch and the rocks. I mean, talking, it was thousands of dollars.
00:55:21
Speaker
They're better not be any requests for another pool And and the Halloween costume that you went all out on the guitar Yeah, it's not making any noise. I'm like, it's not a real guitar And it doesn't make noise. It's not Even an electric guitar. It's not plugged in doesn't make noise. Yeah, it does. It's just not loud. I
00:55:47
Speaker
sounded exactly like a, I mean, it has a bridge, it's got tuning pegs. It doesn't have a nut, doesn't have a nut, but still, I got it in tune. Yeah. Oh man, he cracks me up. And the frets were actually to scale. So it was like a fretless, but the intonation was, yeah, the intonation was probably a little off. It was close though.
00:56:13
Speaker
Oh, well, we bid everybody farewell. Yeah, that's all we got for you. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. And we'll talk to you in December.
00:56:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Happy
Closing and Support Options
00:56:27
Speaker
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00:57:09
Speaker
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