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Holiday Nostalgia & Traditions
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He is the first toy maker to the king. Welcome back to the American Craftsman podcast. Yeah. We were just singing Christmas carols. Yeah. That's from a Santa Claus is coming to town featuring Gene Autry, right? Yeah. Does the narration. Is that his name? Or was it Fred Astaire? Hmm.
00:01:39
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That's what it was, Fred Astaire. Yeah, those things just hold up. They just... Yeah, that to me is... Man, my computer's going crazy because I updated it and I haven't... This is the first time I'm opening it. Wait a minute, say something? About how those Christmas shows hold up? Yeah, it wasn't... There was no waveform on your side. I'd be nervous.
00:02:10
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Yeah, like to me though. That's those are Christmas movies to me that and like the music like the time life Christmas collection Mm-hmm. That's Christmas stuff to me. Whereas my wife, you know, she grew up with more contemporary stuff like everything we watched and listened to was from like the 60s and the 70s kind of Yeah, like your dad's era cuz that's my year right? Yeah Yeah, so it was a carryover from there. Yeah
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I love those shows. I watch them every year. Yeah. Oh yeah. Me too.
Woodworking Sponsorship & Savings Tips
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Um, we have to thank our sponsor. Let's do it.
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00:03:16
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right and left on the regular vis. I was talking to him yesterday about his, uh, uh, lamello connectors. And, uh, they were like a dollar, almost a dollar a piece per connector, cheaper through Haefla. Oh my God. That's big savings. The way he uses them. Yeah. You have to buy them by like the several hundreds. So you're talking, you know, you're saving 200 bucks or something. That's half a kitchen for vis. Yeah.
00:03:46
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That was busting his chops. He's putting a face frame on. It had like 16 dominoes and 25 lamellas. I'm like, my God, $18 later. Oh God. Different strokes for different folks. Yeah. We all have our neuroses, don't we? Yeah.
00:04:11
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Um, so I was looking up to see where we were in the, on the calendar.
Listener Engagement & Prize System
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Yeah. So, um,
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So this is not the question next week. Next week is questions, right? We might record that episode today, but I don't think we got any questions. So we might have to just bypass it. Yeah. Go an extra week. See, this is why, this is why we stopped doing the questions. Yeah. Um, said he was going to send one in. Let me see. I don't have. Nope. Nothing. Nothing. You win nothing. You lose.
00:04:50
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Does that mean we have to send Chad another glass? He's the reigning champion. Is it carry over like a belt until you're dethroned? Yeah. You keep getting a prize until somebody dethrones you. Yeah, Chad, we didn't tell you it's not that we send another glass to the next person. You actually, you have to send that to the next winner. So you better drink out of it. Now we got a chance.
New Shop Renovations & Preparations
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Um,
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So yeah, I guess we could, we could talk a little bit about, um, current events. Yeah. We were over at the new shop, uh, this morning and yeah. And this afternoon, not doing any woodworking. There's just so much work to, to ready the space before we can get in there and actually resume normal business practices there.
00:05:45
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Yeah. Yeah. I guess before we talk about that, we should clear up the last week was the auction. Oh yeah. That was, we were a day early for all of those things ended up. We didn't win anything. We stopped bidding. Um, I think we, we got priced out pretty early on. Yeah. Um,
00:06:03
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All those cantilever racks sold for like the cheapest one went for like eighteen hundred bucks, which we were not planning on spending that much. We're going to rough it for now with just some some skids. Yeah, sleepers on the ground. And plywood's easy. Just, you know, stack it up by whatever it is and put a skid between and just pick it up with a forklift. Yes. So, yeah, just to clear that up, because I know some people were curious.
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But yeah, we were so we're over at the shop this morning and we got a big rainstorm coming, which was the hurricane that hit or whatever it was tropical storm that hit Florida. Yeah. Today, right? Yeah. I think it actually was a category one when it hit Vero Beach. What'd they say? It was the latest hurricane to make landfall ever or something.
00:06:56
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Yeah, that's all we have in our future. Yeah. Um, so yeah, we got a bunch of rain coming and there were, there's two gutters at the new shop and there weren't any downspouts on them. So we went over there and said, Oh shit, we better check it out and grab. But at some time between when we looked and now somebody came and put on downspouts. Yeah. Yeah. It must've been Carlos's thing, which is good. Yeah. It takes it off our plate.
00:07:26
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Yeah. I wouldn't even, I mean, guess that they were those really big, uh, that what not diameter, but you know, they're sort of that rectangle. Yeah. Yeah. They were like four, four by six or something like real big downspouts, which is good because, um, it's just like two little three foot gutters that do the whole roof. Yeah. Yeah. It's essentially a very low slope roof to two sides. Yeah.
00:07:56
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Um, and we grabbed, uh, well, it's always hard to remember what the hell we talked about when we didn't, we went and got paint. So we got 25 gallons of paint to do some painting on the inside before electric.
00:08:12
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I don't remember if we had talked about meeting, meeting Nick. Yeah. I know we hadn't met and we hadn't met Nick yet. No, last week. But had we, did we go over there? Did we pod? Did we record last week? Yeah. Auctions new shop in Octoberfest. That was, um,
00:08:38
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Yeah, we only recorded one last time because we did it in the shop. All right. It's the one with the crappy audio. So when did we meet Nick? When did he come by the shop? It was Monday, wasn't it? Yeah. Okay. So we hadn't met him yet. But I wasn't sure if we had gone to his house. I think we did. I think we did. I'm trying to remember last week. Yeah, it's a blur. Where we were and when.
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because we would have had to gone over there on Friday if it wasn't podcasted. We might've even gone to Nick's the week prior. Yeah. Um, cause we've been going back and forth with, with the design for awhile. Anyway, uh, the guy who we're going to barter with, we finally met him on Monday, real nice guy, total piece of work. Um,
00:09:32
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And we're meeting again tomorrow to we went today and laid out. That's where I was going with this. We went and laid out where all the machines are going to be so you can get a better visual sort of of what he's got to run. Yeah. And the shop fills up fast, doesn't it? Yeah. It's six times the size of our current shop.
00:09:56
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We added two machines, but still everything just spread out a tiny little bit. Yeah. Not a crazy amount either. No, not at all. It's just that we have no separation of tools in our shop now. None. Yeah.
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Um, you know, still tried to
Hamptons Project & Material Logistics
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keep like the, the miter saw the joiner, the planer are all very close to one another in terms of like, uh, for processing and stuff. Right. Like the joiner and the planer are only a couple of feet apart, but they're, they feed, you know, in opposite directions. They're like, they're side by side basically, but joiner is feeding one way. Planer is feeding the other feeds it back the other direction. Right.
00:10:42
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Um, when are we going to get our material caught? That's a good question. You know, cause we're going to need that as we move our material around. Yeah, we're going to need a couple. That's true. Well, when's the next, uh, October fest party? Uh, next October.
00:11:05
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Uh, I started working on the Hampton's job a little bit. Rob started milling up leg, uh, leg material for the vanities. Yeah. Got 12 glued up the slab heads. Got, um, I don't know, eight of those cut. She did send me. Where is it? The sink. How to room and master vanity sink. Let's see.
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rectangular 20 and 1 eighth inch undermount or drop in sink in volcanic limestone. False white 20 and an eighth long 13 and seven eighths wide six and seven eighths high.
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Because they're doing those, they're doing five, wow, it weighs 52 pounds. Ooh, that's pretty heavy for a little sink like that. Yeah. That's really heavy for a little sink like that. Must be thick walled. Damn. Doesn't look cheap. It's roll, but it's a house of roll. Yeah. Volcanic limestone. What the hell was I going to say? Oh, they're doing five inch countertops.
00:12:32
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So I have to ask her if these are going to be top mount or undermount. Yeah. From where within the five inches are going to undermount, but you're like almost have a functioning top drawer almost. Yeah. Well, cause I mean, not quite cause you have the plumbing, but six, six and change deep. Six. Yeah. Seven inches deep.
00:12:56
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Not really, but I forget. I forget what you said we were going to do if they were going to be the top. We're going to be dummies or were you shaped. Yeah. Like you said, you can almost get a U shaped drawer in there. Yeah. I mean, you can definitely get. Yeah. Definitely get a U shaped drawer. I think if it was top mallet.
00:13:31
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So yeah, I've been working on that a little bit, waiting just to confirm a couple of things and we can knock out the, at least the small vanity and we could probably, I mean, probably make the big one too.
00:13:43
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We're doing the mantle there also and this foyer thing. We're just waiting to get paid on those. And we're going to try and, you know, bring up as much stuff as we can when we go up there in December to measure, you know, the things that don't need to be measured. Well, we can just bring them up. Exactly.
00:14:04
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Then we could potentially fit everything in the van for one trip when we go out there. Yeah. Yeah. Might be tight, but you never know. Yeah. We do have that countertop. That's going to be four feet by 11 feet. Yeah. I forgot about that. Lean that up against the wall. Yeah. Two wall units. Those could be stacked. One on top of the other. Yeah. One of those like nine feet.
00:14:35
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Hmm, I think they might be like 10. Let's see and the floating shelves those shouldn't be too bad See what we got I Want to say they're 10 10 feet On Saturday, November 12th fusion 360 will undergo planned maintenance. I
00:15:03
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Oh no, they're only 79 inches. Oh. Piece of cake. Yeah. That's nice. They'll be nice and easy to make. We got to order a bunch of walnut. So we got one, two, three, four, four big, like six foot long floating shelves for three foot long floating shelves with lighting integrated. The two 79 inch, uh,
00:15:29
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whatever you want to call these built in console. Yeah. I like that word. Um, you know, it's captive between the
Shop Equipment Arrangement Challenges
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walls with the brass legs. We've got to get hardware picked out doing the mantle, which is a three piece custom knives on the hussy thing. That'll be a just paint grade painted on site by somebody else. Thankfully. Um,
00:15:57
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We got to get a belly block for the laundry room. And we got to build the countertop for the kitchen. So it's a decent amount of stuff trying to fit in the van. Yeah. As you say, it doesn't sound like it's going to make it. No. Well, if we can get the foyer
00:16:22
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the 24 inch vanity, the nine foot six vanity, which is just three pieces. Basically we get those and the mantle. If we get those four things in the van, then it's just the two countertops, the two wall unit consoles and the shelves. Okay. I can see them possibly making it. Yeah. Because these, you're just going on top of each other. They're only, I think they're only 18 inches deep.
00:16:52
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18 and three quarter ago. Yeah. For the top. We'll have to see a wall covering on the back, but not on the sides. This is going to be one of those countertops. It's gotta drop in. Yeah. Um, which is always pain in the ass. It'd be easier to put those shelves in without the cabinet there, but I don't know if we could drop that countertop in.
00:17:24
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Yeah, I've got 21 inches there. I think that'll go. Yeah. I mean, really to clear one inch thickness, you only need just a couple inches, right? Yeah. And we can't cut it too tight because
00:17:50
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It'll be a template, template and trim it a, you know, a 16th light. One time. One 30 second gap on either side. Yeah. Just do it once and let it fall. Yep. That's what we did with the cherry. Drippy counters up. Yeah. That went in good. Yeah. Needed just the smallest amount of persuasion. Yeah. Um,
00:18:21
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Man, my mind's shut today. Well, we got so many things racing through our little brains. Yeah. Oh yeah. So this morning went to the shop and then we went to Lowe's and we got, uh, first we drove by Harbor Freight. They apparently Harbor Freight doesn't open till eight o'clock, which I thought that they opened earlier. Um, unless it said six on the door and I read it wrong, which is a possibility, but I doubt they opened at six.
00:18:45
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Then we went to Lowe's. We've got some vacuum attachments because we've got to vacuum the walls at the new shop before we paint. Yeah, we're going to spray it. We really should clean them, but I don't foresee that. We're just going to spray and pray. It'll be an improvement. That's a fancy looking can. Yeah. Well, you see that's like curved.
00:19:12
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Oh, yeah. I'm like reading and it says THC free. This is a CBD seltzer. I'm like, are you sure? Because I'm looking at it like this. I'm like, that's like warping. Yeah.
00:19:25
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The labels all crooked. These things are good. Except they cost like $4.50 a piece or something, or yeah, $3.75 or something.
Floor Plans & Electrical Installations
00:19:38
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Yes, we got the vacuum attachments. Then we went back over to Nick Nick's house, the electrician, and met with his wife because they were coming to the floor and she wanted our opinion sort of on what
00:19:51
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what the floor guy should do because we have like a railing that we're going to build. Yeah. Subfloor hopefully will be screwed down a little bit better than. Yeah. That closet is complicated. Yeah. Nick seems to realize there's not that much space. Yeah.
00:20:19
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But his wife is a little more. She's looking through a rose colored glasses big time. It's it's really tight. The geometry makes it nearly impossible to do anything normal. So it's going to be.
00:20:36
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I mean, I think I think we have it pretty much down to where they want it. And I just got to go back and redraw everything because, you know, when you're drawing something wacky like this, you just piece it together and draw it half-assed. Right. Just to get it done. Now I got to go back and draw it for real. Yeah. And you have a good handle on what it is now. Right. Yeah. Now it'll be it'll be easy to do it now.
00:21:05
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So, yeah, I mean, I think Nick realizes that we kind of need the electric done before the closet. I mean, we might be able to start cutting some shit up at the old shop, but we're going to want to fire that edge bander up and hopefully it works. Yeah, we better get some manuals and start reading them. Yeah.
00:21:26
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Yeah, I wonder. I found something online for the KD 68, but it was it wasn't a manual. KD 68 brand manual brand. There's a good German company, aren't they? Yeah, they probably have those manuals. What's this? Copy of manual for brand. KD 68 edge bander in stock.
00:21:56
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copy a manual. This product is downloadable only. It doesn't say when it's from though. Right? Like what year? Yeah. And this you got to buy. Yeah, we could, we could probably write brand and tell them we got one and they, they would either direct us or send us one. I bet.
00:22:22
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Yeah. I mean, if they have it, um, you know, they give us a link. Yeah. Well, if they have it, I'm sure I could just find the link, but what is this operator's manual? That was a trailer work ready trailers. That was weird. This is in like Polish. This is another buy now thing.
00:22:54
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I'd have to buy it. I'd be worth it even, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Even if it was 50 bucks or something, I'm sure it's only 10 or 20 bucks, but. Brand edge banner manual. Well, that looks like a scam site. Yeah, I could.
00:23:23
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reach out to, this one's pretty similar. Yeah, it's definitely smaller though. 380 volt. Anyway, could probably reach out to whoever sells brand their area, which I think is either Allwood or Stiles. I think Stiles, you know, they have direct contact with, with brand. Yes. They could probably get it for us.
00:23:52
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Uh, you know, we didn't mention not to, not to change subjects too abruptly, but our, uh, little trip we took on Saturday.
Road Trip & Culinary Detours
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah. So we delivered the boxes on Saturday. Yes. Those boxes drove, drove up to, uh, Connecticut. It was a nice easy drive up there. Met with, uh, Adam whom we had met before and, you know, got to meet, uh, Brad and his family. He was a super cool guy. Um, big into that spear fishing.
00:24:27
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Yeah. Yeah. He does all kinds of stuff. Um, you know, fishing and hunting and all that. Yeah. He's quite an outdoorsman. Yeah. Um, unfortunately he was tied up. He had to go to his, what was his wife's high school reunion. Um, so we didn't get to, we were going to, you know, do lunch or something. We weren't able to, but Rob and I ended up driving to Rhode Island.
00:24:52
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to get some lunch, which was like five minutes away. That's how far in Connecticut we had to go. Yeah, all the way, basically. As far as you can get. But yeah, had some good pizza. Yeah, that was interesting. And it was of Westerly. Sourdough. Yep. And they also had
00:25:18
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Fried to order donuts. Sour dough donuts. Which were pretty good. Yeah, not great. But pretty good. Yeah. I like my donuts to be a little more toothsome. Yeah. It was a little too soft. I enjoyed mine. I didn't. Well, yeah, not that I didn't enjoy it, but.
00:25:41
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Mine was drenched in chocolate. It wasn't like, you know how, when you get a donut from a regular donut shop, it's just like that little ring on the top. This thing was like, like a piece of candy dip in chocolate. That's how much chocolate was on it. Mine was a cider glazed that had like oats on it. Yeah. It was pretty good. I've had better donuts though.
00:26:10
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I think I have. Excuse me. I think they just needed to work the dough a little bit more, develop a little more gluten. Yeah. I mean, it was also I was still pretty stuffed from from lunch. Yeah. I couldn't quite really enjoy the dough as much as I would have liked to. I was driving, so it was yeah, it was difficult. And then we were like going through like a
00:26:39
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like exiting off of a highway onto another highway and I'm like with a donut in one hand. And it wasn't, it's not like a, you know, like a Dunk of Donuts donut. You could eat with one hand, no problem. This thing was like, they were messy. Yeah. Big time.
00:26:58
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The pizza was good though. Oh, yeah. I had the Rhode Islander, which had potatoes, clams, some kind of like chorizo or something. Yeah. It was freaking good. I just had like a margarita. Yeah.
00:27:16
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But I did have that Rhode Island coffee milk. Was that what it was called? Coffee milk. Yeah. It was very good. Yeah. Let me see what the name of the brand that makes it is. Yeah. It was basically like imagine like chocolate milk, except instead of chocolate syrup, they use autocrat coffee syrup. Yeah. Coffee syrup. 32 ounces for
00:27:45
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Excuse me, 1496 on Amazon. Yeah. Two tablespoons, 100 calories, 26 carbohydrates. Holy shit. Top ingredient, high fructose corn syrup. Second ingredient, corn syrup. Coffee extract, caramel color and potassium sorbet contain sulfites, not even a lick of real sugar in it. Oh my God.
00:28:17
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Yeah. It had that taste that, you know, you knew it because it was really sweet. Oh yeah. Oh girl, cords here. I did not have that. I had a chai, which was good. Yeah. It kind of made the milk tastes like sweetened condensed milk. Almost. It was so sweet.
00:28:41
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Yeah. First I was going to stick to my normal eating habits and then I'm looking at the menu. I'm like, there's like nothing on this that I could even eat. Yeah. Like they have like a couple of salads, but didn't even say like add chicken or anything. So I'm like, I'm not seeing a frigging salad. I'm like, I'm getting pizza. It wasn't an expansive menu. It was, it was, it was a limited menu. I'll say. Yeah. Yeah. I mean a small place like that. And I mean, if you want to have good, fresh food, you got to have a small menu. Um,
00:29:11
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Let me see, I wanna look up what was actually on that pizza. It was Nana's. Yeah, Nana's westerly. They have another place in Mystic. Menu. They have brunch too. Oh man, those donuts look good. Yeah. There's the pizza.
00:29:32
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sourdough bread, seasonal butter. The Rhode Island, it was called. Tomato sauce, potatoes, clams, fermented hot pepper, soupy oregano lemon. That was soupy. Is that a kind of sausage? I don't know.
00:29:58
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I was trying to figure out what that meant. I'm like, does that mean it's like a, like a soup, like a sloppy kind of pizza? Yeah, it is. Soupy, occasionally spelled soupy, soupy or soup. I'm, I'm saying these, you can not read them. Is it Sulfrasada? Z-U-P-P-I-S-U-P-P-I-E or S-O-U-P-I-E made of ground pork, but salt, pepper, or sorry. Yeah. Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and paprika.
00:30:23
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Early on the Calabrese raised their own vegetables and hogs and every winter they made what came to be known as Soupy. So it's a Calabrese sausage. But it looks a lot like chorizo. Yeah. Fortuna sausage. Smoked Soupy. What's Fortuna got to say about it? Oh yeah, look at that.
00:30:53
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Yeah, looks good. It was good. And then I ate the other two slices. I ate one slice when I got home because I had three left over. I ate one slice when I got home. And then the next morning I had the other two slices for breakfast cold. That was good.
00:31:08
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It's a cured sausage, like almost like a salami consistency, it looks like. Yeah. A dry cured Calabres salami or signature salami. Oh, well, there you go. Yeah. Oh yeah. I found your pizza in the backseat the next day. I'm like, Oh man. I know. I forgot. And I wanted it too. I bet.
00:31:28
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That's a long drive for pizza. It was good though. It was really good pizza. I texted my mom and sister like, you're getting pizza in Rhode Island. Like it's not like we went to like a pizza place, like in a strip mall. You know, this is like a, I don't know, some kind of hip restaurant that Brad recommended. So. Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely, we had to check it out. Yeah. So the two salads they had miso Caesar salad and, and shundahai farm chop salad.
00:32:00
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which had pasta in it. I'm like, I can't have that.
00:32:07
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So I went all in. They got risotto balls. I was looking at those. Preserve tuna sounds good. Yellowfin tuna, lemon aioli, show you pickles, sliced jalapenos, fresh herbs. I bet those risotto balls were good. Yeah, fennel parmesan cream sauce, basil and confit tomatoes, garlic bread, creamy tomato soup, stuffed clams. I get that with stuffed clams. Smoky bacon sourdough crumb, lemon aioli, sage. And you can ask to make it spicy.
00:32:41
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Tomato sandwich. Nana's burger. Charred fruit and vegetable salad. Charred local peaches and sweet corn. Cured local vegetables. I don't remember seeing that.
Furniture Repair & Equipment Movement
00:32:56
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Maramy show you. Blueberry preserve, lemon vinaigrette and feta cheese. What is this? Oh, dinner menu. Duck ministrone soup.
00:33:13
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Mmm. Bolognese pizza. I was kicking around the idea of the bolognese. Pizza. Wild Harmony Farm prosciutto. Chard, sourdough toast, sliced tomatoes, aioli, Wild Harmony Farm prosciutto and shaved parmesan. Mmm. I'm a little bit hungry. Cacio y Pepe toggliatelle. Homemade toggliatelle, fermented black peppercorns, parmesan, shio koji.
00:33:42
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Oh man, Zatar duck riettes. Comfy duck lemon, fresh herbs, cherry tomatoes, red onion cilantro, sweet lilac vinaigrette, toasted almonds. Interesting. Stonington scallops and polenta. Seared Stonington scallops, Davis Farms polenta, slow roasted tomatoes, basil arugula. I like polenta. You know 99% of people listening are turning up their nose right now. What is this? What is this crap?
00:34:12
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My mouth is watering literally as you're reading this. I got my eyes closed. I'm just listening. What's this hoity-toity bullshit? I don't even know what show you is. It's good. Yeah, man, that prosciutto and the scallops with polenta Zatar duck react. Man, I had to go back to Rhode Island.
00:34:42
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We're going to plan our next trip up there. Say, listen, we're going back to Nana's for dinner or rent though. We're running out the whole dining room. I don't even remember what tangent got us down into the talking about that. We, while we did talk about our trip up to road, uh, not Rhode Island up to Connecticut, the boxes, I heard that there's like 400 of those boxes already in the, in the postal system. Yeah.
00:35:12
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Yeah. Someone got delivered already. That's pretty cool. Um, but yeah, that was basically it. We had, we had lunch and we came home. The sun was brutal on the drive home. It was like right in my eyes the whole time. We jammed all thousand plus boxes into your pickup truck. Yeah. Uh, we got,
00:35:33
Speaker
uh eight boxes in the back and then had to get three into the back seat but the door was too thick like the opening was the right size but the door was in the way we had to jam them from the front into the back it was like they're like how the hell did you get these things in there because we were inside talking to brad's uncle chris um who did the first 200 or whatever they made and we went outside and the whole back of the truck was already empty and they're like how are we gonna get these ones out
00:36:05
Speaker
Luckily they came out easier than when, Oh yeah. Yeah. They came right out. Yeah.
00:36:12
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So today we went over to Nick's and then we went to the client who we built the drippy countertop for and all that stuff. And he had a desk that got stained with like, I don't know, it seemed like it was like maybe food on a paper plate or something. That's what I wore. I think he said it was a mug. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It looked like a weird shape.
00:36:39
Speaker
But regardless of what did it, it was a teak desk and the top was, it was, you know, like a metal base with a teak top and the wood is unfinished.
00:36:53
Speaker
So it got some kind of stain on it, multiple stains. They look like oil stains. Yeah. Um, so we sanded it and refinished it. And honestly, it looks better than it looked before. Oh, uh, a hundred percent. I'm not even saying that because we were involved. It just, it just does. Yeah. And I had them too. I'm like, look at the bottom because we left the bottom unfinished. Um, and it, I mean, it's just like a completely different thing now.
00:37:22
Speaker
Yeah, it's all strapped with steel and everything down there. Yeah. And it's been sitting in this house for whatever six months or something now. So it's it's reached whatever sort of state it's going to be in. I don't think finishing the top is going to have any and not the bottom would have any negative effect.
00:37:43
Speaker
Plus, it's screwed in with you should see that it's they have slotted holes in the bottom, but it's like this one's in this side and this one's in this side. It's like thing is like totally pinned. Yeah, it's not going anywhere in that metal frame. No. But like they, you know, they put slotted things and then they put them or the screws all willy nilly. So it couldn't even move. In the slots if it was right.
00:38:12
Speaker
But you know, it's made in some factory, probably with a dirt floor. But yeah, it looked good. That was pretty complete day and then we're here.
00:38:27
Speaker
Well, yeah, then we went back to the shop, then we went to the new shop, moved the slider and the edge bander where they're going to go and marked out all the electrical stuff. They finally got all the garbage out.
00:38:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's still debris there, but at least none of the garbage. Yeah, honestly those what I thought were two by tens might want to keep those.
DIY Projects & Forklift Skills
00:38:55
Speaker
Yeah, that was like a bench or something out of them. Eight-quarter pine. Yeah, we can make a table for the podcast studio. Yeah, big picnic table without back. Oh God, I want to be hanging out back there.
00:39:12
Speaker
Have our neighbor thrown empty bottles over the fence. Yeah. I mean, there's so much, so many little things that need to get done there. One day we'll have, you know, we'll get somebody to go back there and just rake it all and clean up all the old debris and everything that's there, you know, on the ground now that all that overgrowth is gone. Yep. We can make ourselves some nice desks for the office. Yeah. With that wood.
00:39:39
Speaker
I mean, it's like six pieces of a inch and three quarter by like 10 and a half inch pine. Yeah. I don't know what, where was used in the building. I don't know. The piece on the bottom is probably, probably no good, but you're sitting on the concrete. Yeah. Funny. You swear. Oh yeah. Worst case, just lean against the wall.
00:40:11
Speaker
Should have our dumpster, I think by next Thursday, I think it said the 16th. It was getting delivered. So we'll have a dumpster on wheels that goes inside. Then when it gets picked up, we'll have to wheel it outside, put it on the side of the building and it'll have a lock, you know, a lock on it. Then the guy will have to wheel into the street and pick it up. But yeah, that's not our problem.
00:40:41
Speaker
I didn't know that they did that. Um, so we, we had them come out cause we weren't sure how it was all going to work out. I mean, I don't know why they can't wheel it. I guess there's less traffic on Randolph, but you know, if they're going to wheel it out, they could just wheel it out onto main street too. I suppose if we left it.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if we're going to leave it out overnight, I'd rather have it on the side street anyway. Yeah. And if we have to, if it's too heavy to move or it's a pain, we'll just pick it up with a forklift. Yeah. Cause it's, if it's on wheels, it's got to be up in the air a little bit. So just pick it up, plop it over there and, uh, that'll be good. Getting better at driving the forklift. Yeah.
00:41:27
Speaker
successfully picked up the edge bander and the slider without dropping them. Well, we also removed the forks for both things which suited the machines better. Yeah. So they were they're a lot more stable. Yeah. Yeah, the edge bander would have been easy to move. It was just that
00:41:50
Speaker
We had no, like move it off of the trailer. There's no room to turn it or anything. Like, you know, I couldn't even turn it around because we're on a sidewalk. The trailer is on the street and it's only like six feet or whatever. And you know, the forklift with the thing on it's like 10 or 12 feet deep. You know, the forklift is, it's gotta be six feet and the edge banner and another four or something. So yeah, 10 feet.
00:42:17
Speaker
Um, that thing has to be like 14 feet long. It's big. It's real big. I mean, it barely fits in between the columns. Yeah. Those are 192 inches between was that 16 feet. Uh, yeah. Yeah. So it must be 14, 15 feet. Yeah. It's big.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah, it does. You got to have a big shop for that machine. Yeah. Yeah. It's half the length of the existing shop. Yeah. Basically. Yup. You would need the whole length to be able to infeed and outfeed because you got four, call it 15 plus eight and eight. Oh yeah. 30 feet.
00:43:15
Speaker
It basically, you know, the one wall, the shop is just slider. Well, it'll be plywood rack, slider, edge, bander, line boring machine. That's 70 feet. Yeah. Well, the compressors there and the dust collector. Oh yeah. But they're like tucked behind the, behind the what's called slider. Yeah. And we got our emergency exit door back there too. Yeah. Out to the garden. That's where the tranquility garden is going to go.
00:43:45
Speaker
Yeah. And the fountains. We're going to put sand down and get rakes and those pebbles. We'll just pave it so nobody's going to cut the grass. Just have them come drop blacktop back there. I like that, actually. What, blacktop? Yeah. Nice blocking space.
00:44:07
Speaker
Yeah. I figured once we're in for a little bit, we'll, we'll see if Boris will let us park at the Dunkin Donuts.
Weekend Plans & Shop Painting Strategies
00:44:13
Speaker
Oh yeah. He hasn't cashed the rent check yet. I don't know why, but, um,
00:44:26
Speaker
So yeah, we're, you know, did we say that Saturday we're going to start paying? We didn't put a date on it. Yeah. We have a meeting on Saturday with a designer and an installer, um, husband and wife team. So that's good tag team. And that's like mid day or slightly thereafter. So I can't sit around at home before that. And then I can't do that.
00:44:55
Speaker
Like sit at home until noon and then leave the house. Yeah. I could, I got to change the, uh, this weekend. I was going to change the valve in the downstairs toilet. It's running. Just jiggle the handle. That doesn't seem to do it. Believe me. I tried. That's easy. Those things just drop in. Yeah.
00:45:21
Speaker
This one it's one of those corkies, you know, it's like Looks like a self-contained kind of thing Yeah, like a black float that I Don't know it looks so almost like something you'd see in a fish tank. Hmm. It's weird Yeah, it doesn't have like the ball. No. Yeah. No, they don't really have those anymore
00:46:00
Speaker
Like this? No. This is what I'm thinking of. It's almost like a, it looks like a sump pump float. Yeah. That one looks better than the one that's in there. It looks more like that. Oh, this. Yeah. It looks like that. Yeah. I've never seen that before. Hmm. I mean, that's why you're in trouble. Could be. These are only five bucks more. Colder, silent filled toilet valve.
00:46:29
Speaker
Yeah, this is what I'm thinking of. It's just like a float on a thing. Yeah, I like the way that looks. This actually has like a screw, it looks like. Yeah, so you could adjust it. Genuine color part. Silent fill reduces unwanted noise. Tell your wife, listen, I'm going to get a quiet one, but it won't be done until next week.
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, she's going to pick up the parts. I never heard a quirky. They make those universal things. Oh my God, $8. That can't be good. That's it right there. $7.87. No wonder it's broken.
00:47:30
Speaker
Yeah. Well, what they're showing at replacing, it's like nobody's even got that anymore. Yeah. The black ball. Yeah. Those have all been replaced already. I don't like the self contained. Uh, no, that's probably, there's probably something not working in there. Made in the USA. Giving us a bad name. Corky. Corky with a K.
00:47:58
Speaker
fixes no or slow refill running toilet and noisy toilet places old technologies and then it shows look at the it shows the silhouette of of like the color one it shows the ball thing but then also the color one I don't know oh yeah old technologies well we'll see what happens with the new one yeah worst case only eight bucks just gonna yeah
00:48:32
Speaker
So that's my weekend that in pain. Yep. Sad. And a meeting. Yeah. So yeah. Uh, but John came by, dropped off the sprayer that we sold to him probably what a year ago, maybe more. Um, so we use that.
00:49:01
Speaker
Spray the walls. We're going to cut in right at the ceiling and the floor. Oh yeah. And around the door. No, you just get a piece of cardboard. You hold it up. You don't even have to. Um, I don't know that we really should paint the ceiling. The ceiling is the worst of it. The walls, I could, you know, the green is ugly, but it's not that bad, but the ceiling is hideous.
00:49:30
Speaker
It's like, I don't even know how the ceiling got that dirty. 50 years of industrial work. I guess.
Shop History & Cultural Tangents
00:49:40
Speaker
It can't be that old though, because it's sheetrock. That's true. What do you think the, what do you think was up there when it was a metal factory?
00:49:50
Speaker
I don't know. Beaver board or something. You know, the old school stuff. Cause the insulation that's up there is not that old. Maybe they had fires in there when there was like a homeless thing. Maybe. That'll, that soot will black and everything. Yeah.
00:50:13
Speaker
Around a garbage can or cooking beans. Yeah. Stone soup. Yeah. Got a hole in their shoe and the big toe is sticking out. They got a bundle of stuff on a stick over their shoulders. Yeah. It's called a bindle. I didn't know that. That's what that's called, the bindle. You see, you learn something every day. There's a big hobo culture. Bindle.
00:50:43
Speaker
Like people elect to be hobos? Oh yeah. There's the bindle. How you keep it on the stick? I don't know. How to make a bindle. Instructables. If you can't figure out how to make a bindle, you got issues. You can't be a real hobo without a bindle. It's got to be a black and white checkered handkerchief.
00:51:11
Speaker
Bindle Bindle bundles Bindle bottle water bottle for life on the move Here we go Bindle Oh, that's the pronunciation Bindle you didn't couldn't get it Carried by a hobo usually containing his possessions
00:51:33
Speaker
What the hell else is going to be in there? They've never been in New York because the bindle has been replaced with the shopping cart. Yeah. Or now they have the rolling suitcases. Yeah. Often on a stick slung over the shoulder or a blanket roll. You know what I noticed that when we were in New York that a couple of the, uh,
00:52:00
Speaker
I guess they were homeless, you know, rolling around with their possessions, use those soft sided, uh, moving carts. Like they were, did you see those? No, they're huge. Like a laundry. They're like three foot squares, like almost like a Dolly with his canvas sides. Yeah. Like a laundry. Yeah. Is anything in like a hotel? That's weird.
00:52:26
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, those people were carrying around plenty of stuff. I don't remember seeing any homeless people with that crazy lady at the bus stop. When I was coming here, she was at food town in the parking lot, like berating some guy in his car.
00:52:43
Speaker
I don't know where the hell she was going. She was at the bus stop waiting for the bus. It looked like before going the opposite direction. So now she made it two blocks in the other direction. She was just waiting to yell at the bus driver. She wasn't really waiting for the bus. Probably. When the bus stopped and opened the door, she didn't have a ticket. She just wanted to give him a piece of her mind. Oh my God.
00:53:10
Speaker
Yeah, so much for mental health care. Yeah, non-existent. So
Intricate Projects Collaboration
00:53:24
Speaker
yeah, I don't know. Oh, working on another watch box. The first of five. This is another protectfully, but it's the Tiffany.
00:53:35
Speaker
Uh, 57 11, which I didn't know they only made 177 of them. And one of them was auctioned off for $6.5 million. Oh man. Yeah. Where's my, where's my, uh, protectful leaf. That's what I want to know. Yeah.
00:53:53
Speaker
Scratch and dent used. I don't care. Just someone we just need it to look, you know, so just a reference. Just want it so I can wear it's like the next family gathering. People won't even know what it is. That's the thing. Like unless you. Well, that's like everybody knows what like a Rolex is. But.
00:54:14
Speaker
unless you got real money or you're into watches, you don't know what a protectful. Yeah. They can say, Oh, Rob, you got a new watch. What you got there? I'm going to say a fossil. I'll say, Oh, that's a protectful leap. Oh, that's, that's nice. What was one of those calls for? Huh? That is one 65,000. It's one of the lower, lower price models. The thing is like those watches retail for 55,000, the Tiffany, but
00:54:39
Speaker
They all get bought up and then they all get resold for an ungodly amounts of money. And it's what happens with all their watches, I guess. And the guy who designed the Nautilus also designed the Royal Oak, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, which is the other watch boxes that we've done. So got Corey from Odyssey CNC doing the CNC work on those. Also of the makeshift podcast. You guys check that out. Yeah, he's doing that. That CNC work.
00:55:09
Speaker
He's going to do the other four and send those out. Uh, once we get paid for the job, which was due, uh, it's past due now. Yeah. That's why I'm like, should I just invoice you through quick
Financial Management & Personal Preferences
00:55:23
Speaker
books? He's like, Hey, I'm like, good. Cause it sends automatic emails constantly. That's like, Hey, we're waiting. We're waiting for your payment. We're waiting for your payment. And you don't have to do it personally.
00:55:38
Speaker
He's good for it. Getting it stuff. Ain't that the way. Yeah. Ain't that the way. Well, it's, you know, it runs through his company's accounts payable and they're used to like, you know, they probably got 30 day terms with all their, listen, it's not how it works with us. I'm like, I'm not delivering it until. Right. They probably just put it on the stack when it comes in. You know, it's like, Oh, we got three and a half weeks before we have to pay this.
00:56:09
Speaker
Yeah. Well, yeah, I don't know how much more we got for you. Well, you're running 55 minutes. Yeah. They call that an hour. We're running on daylight savings time now. Yeah. We got the intro and the outro. That's going to add, you know, that a minute on each.
00:56:33
Speaker
Oh, excuse me. I've got quite uses daylight savings time. No. Well, this is standard time, I guess. Right. No, this is daylight saving. Uh, this is standard time. Yeah.
00:56:48
Speaker
We're on standard time. Yeah. I like daylight saving time. I like daylight savings times better too. I mean, I don't like changing, but I would have liked to stayed where we were. Yeah. It's dark when I wake up, no matter what. I don't need it to be dark when I get home from work. Yeah. So if it's going to be dark at seven, that's fine. I don't want it to be dark at four 30. Right. Um, I don't mind going to work in the dark. I don't want to come home in the dark.
00:57:18
Speaker
Throwing me all off in the morning now. Yeah. I mean, I wake up when the sun is up like maybe six times a year. So it's fine for me to wake up when it's dark. That's not going to change.
00:57:36
Speaker
Yeah. I like getting up in the summertime, you know, with the sun. That's, that's about my time. That's about my natural time. It's like, you know, five ish, five 30, something like that. Yeah. I get it before now. I just keep getting up earlier. Yeah. And going to bed earlier. Yeah. Pretty much. Hunter goes down to six 30 now.
00:58:07
Speaker
We put him down and all bets are off after that.
Evening Routines & Listener Engagement
00:58:13
Speaker
I've been staying up till nine o'clock lately. Yeah. I mean, I don't fall asleep until usually eight 30 or something, but
00:58:23
Speaker
Sometimes you just, you're just out. I tell you, uh, I'll walk up the stairs. I'll say good night. Andrea would be like at the sink, maybe like washing a dish or something like that. By the time she gets to bed, I'm already asleep. Oh yeah. You know, if she takes more than five minutes to get upstairs, I'm asleep. Yeah. I go out like a light.
00:58:51
Speaker
Well, anyway, I guess we'll leave you guys at that Yeah with our sleeping habits. Yeah, I don't think we have enough material for a second episode today No, we don't got the juice. So listen write in your questions because we don't have any questions
00:59:07
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01:00:40
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Ain't no shame but there's been a change