Outdoor Extension Cord - Size Matters - LIVE Stream 02-03-2022 Ask the Builder

Hi, how you doing? I'm Tim Carter. This is the builder and

uh, my hair doesn't look too bad today. Got us some stray hair there

Let's see if I can fix that. Ok. I know. I don't

you know, there's another guy that's done a home improvement television show and he's got a radio show and I've met him before and

um, he, he uses a lot of hairspray, you know, he's, he's pretty concerned about his image and

and that's ok. I guess I, I, me, I, I'm somewhere between him and

and Boris, you know, over in the UK. So, you know, I

the Prime Minister of England I'm talking about right now. I mean, that guy's got some wild hair

doesn't he? I'll tell you what. They just, he's got to have the most wild hair of

of any, uh, world leader I, I think I've ever seen and God bless him that he doesn't care what it looks like

I guess the messier, the better. Oh, gonna be a good live stream today

I think I've got, uh, got a really kind of a neat story to share with you. Uh

we're gonna talk a little bit about the weather right now for what it's worth. Um, the original forecast was that it was supposed to

rain a lot today here in New Hampshire. I'm in central New Hampshire. Uh

a lot of people are being affected by a big, big flipping storm

And just a moment ago before I went live, I, weather has always been like a minor hobby of mine

I've, I've always had an interest in weather. In fact, back when I was in high school I

I wanted to become a meteorologist but the, there was no, the University of Cincinnati

uh, had no meteorology program and there was no way I could afford to go out of town and I couldn't get a scholarship

Not, not on how I goofed around in, in high school. So, so II

I went into geology instead. That's it. So, Bernie Reno, if you've not watched Bernie Reno on

a Awe, you should. He, he's, he's a, he's a great meteorologist and he's got a great presentation style and he has a couple of

uh, he has a couple of, uh, pet phrases and one of them, two

both of them are never trust an upper level o and, and never trust

uh, you know, a stalled front and that's what we have right now

We've got a, a big stalled front all, I mean, it stretches all the way from

uh, the maritime provinces in Canada all the way down to Texas

And, um, you can see that if you, if you know how to read a weather map

you'll see the lines, um, that they draw that a stalled front is one that has

uh, the, the, the warm front symbol next to a cold front symbol next to a warm front

single symbol. So, uh, when a front is moving, when it's not stalled

it's just one thing, you know, it's, it's, uh, it's, it's all cold front or it's all warm front and the low pressure system

get this, the, the low pressure system that's causing this problem. Uh

when I just checked four or five minutes ago was about 100 and 50 miles south of

uh, maybe 200 miles south of Cincinnati. Uh, you know, right at the Kentucky Tennessee border

Uh, it's gotta be, that's gotta be, uh, 250 miles. Right. I

you know, I haven't measured that in a while. Um, maybe you can check that for me. Um

what's the distance from Cincinnati to, uh, to the Kentucky Tennessee border

I think it's, I think it's a strong, uh, three, let's see

three hour drive. Let's see, cause it's an hour and a half to Lexington. Um

it's probably 200 miles, 225 miles maybe. I just guess so. Crutch word that

low pressure system, it's got a long way to go, man. It's to get up here to New Hampshire

I mean, it might not be here till tomorrow at 34 o'clock in the afternoon

I don't know. It's gonna be interesting to watch. Uh, and if you

if you don't have an interest in this, uh, you might, you might want to start to look into it

you might want to just start to watch, uh, these weather maps and what's kind of cool

you know. So you have the ability probably to do it on your, on your smartphone

So here, you know, I know the screens all, all, you know

I know it's all. So I get this picture of the radar map, live radar. So you can, you can click that

you know, you can press that and it expands out into a full size map and then you can shrink it down

you know, I can shrink it down and there, you can see what I was talking about

Maybe you can see how the, the symbols, how it's red, blue

red, blue, red, blue and the um you know, the low pressure system is

wait right here, way here in Cincinnati, I mean, Cincinnati just north of it

So you can, um the, the point is, is once you kind of learn how to read the surface map

you can kind of get an idea of what's, what's really gonna happen and you can become your own weather forecaster cause you're probably gonna

do just as good a job as the pros. I mean, have you noticed the pro the Pros don't have a really great record

Uh No, not, not when we have active weather systems. It's um and

and that kind of goes back to the whole Jurassic Park thing. All right, we're gonna talk about extension cords in a minute

Believe me. Do you remember in uh Jurassic Park? Uh at the beginning

the one character, the scientist that I can't, I can't think of the actor's name

Got the glasses. And uh he um he was the guy, his ex

his expertise was the chaos theory. And uh that, that's when you think about the weather

that's what it is. It's just chaos, it's just chaos up in the air trying to think three dimensions of what's going on up in

the atmosphere. So that, that's why it's so hard to um to

to predict. So I, I cut those guys in slack. We're gonna talk about extension cords and then we're going to

um I'm gonna share kind of a really interesting story. It's almost serendipity from what I was talking about yesterday

I just brushed up against this topic yesterday and, and then, uh we

we can talk about anything you want. That's, that's the whole purpose of the live stream. If you're new to the live stream

Uh And you have a youtube account, you need to put a question in the chat

Your questions are what drives the live stream. It's really that simple

Nothing hard about this at all. Uh extension cords. I get, I have a column on the website about extension cord sizing

I get questions about this all the time, even though it's pretty clear

At least I think it is, it's really clear in the column. Um

how you should size extension cords. And, you know, a lot of people get

I don't know, they just get, I guess their brain locks up. They don't, they don't really understand it

But what you have to think of is you have to think of the copper wires that are in the cable

Think of them a lot like water lines. Like, in other words

if you have a water line that's only the diameter of this pencil

you know, which is what, maybe a quarter inch, a little over a quarter, you know

you're not gonna get a lot of water through that. I mean, you'll get some, it's like a straw. Um

but imagine if you had a water line, you know, I mean

a big one this, like this diameter, you know, which is like three inches, three inch water line that you're gonna get a lot of

water for that. All right. And it's the same thing with the copper wires that are in either a cable

in, in the wall of your home or in a, an extension cord and the thicker and the more copper there is the

the, the better the gauge is. And it's, and unfortunately the way we number

wire gauge, it goes backwards, you know, who, who came up with that convention

I don't know, but the lower the number is, the thicker the wire is so a 12 gauge wire has more copper in it than

a 14 gauge wire. You know, whereas the average person might think

well, gosh, 14 is a bigger number than 12. So, shouldn't the 14 gauge wire have more copper

Well, you know, maybe it should. I didn't, I didn't come up with the, the convention that

you know, anyway, it doesn't matter. The, the thing you have to know is that most extension cords for most of the things that you

would power both outdoors and indoors. Um, you, you always will do better with a 12 gauge cord

And in what happens, you have to realize that over long lengths that you have some voltage drop

you've got some friction in the wire and the, the, the bigger the

the bigger the wire is the, the less voltage drop you're gonna have. And if you have too much voltage drop

whatever you're trying to operate at the end of the extension cord, you could damage that motor and many people don't realize that that was

that. But at the same time it's, it's, you, you're fighting these two battles when it comes to extension cords

you, you should only purchase as much extension cord as you need

Meaning if you, if you, um, if, if, what you're powering is 40 ft away

then get a 50 ft cord, don't buy 100 footer. All right

thinking that, well, you know, maybe, maybe 100 ft is better. Well

yeah. Well, if you, but it is, if you're going 90 ft

so, just, just keep in mind if you want to keep the extension cords as short as they can be and get the job done

And, uh, you know, 14 gauge may work for a lot of things

12 gauge is better and, and understand the wire gauge. And this is all on my website

I've got, I'll, I'll share the column with you right here. I should have just done that before. You really need to go

Just look at this column. I got, I got some helpful tables there. I've got

I've got all kinds of information there that will help you. That'll help you size the cord

So just go to that column right there. Um Hey, thanks Josh 193 miles from downtown since I

there you go. Yeah, so I wasn't too far off 200 miles. That's kind of what I thought

Uh because I was trying to remember driving it, it seemed like it was a three hour drive

That would make sense. Uh It's been a long time since I made that drive

but I've done it anyway. Um, just go to that column and

then look at the, you know, understand that you have to sometimes do a calculation of because you have to understand how much power

the thing that you're trying to power is sucking. Um And everything

I'm trying to see if I have something around here. I don't, I don't

I'm sorry, I don't have anything around here ready readily. Uh But let's say like

like for example, if you, if you just like toaster, like the toaster in your kitchen

probably if you lift the toaster up and you turn it upside down on

there's gonna be a little uh sticker there, uh could be a little riveted plate and it will tell you how many watts that the

toaster draws and it may say it draws 1000 watts or 1200 watts

Uh hair dryers, you know, a hair dryer. Uh that, that a lot of women use in the bathroom

1200 watts, I think, typical. That's the typical draw. Guess what? The

um, the reason you can't plug in a hair dryer and the curling irons on the same circuit in most bathrooms is because many

many houses have only got a 15 amp circuit in the bathroom and a 15 amp circuit will only support 1800 watts

You know, as soon as you get up towards 1800 watts, the circuit breaker starts to heat up and it goes

that's it, we're done no more electricity and it pops off. Whereas that's why I like to wire every

every job I've done. Well, not every job because some customers insisted on 14 gauge wiring

But my own homes, my daughter's new home that I helped build

New Bar Harbor and I was the electrician there. There's no 14 gauge wire in the job

It just, I, I refuse to use it. Everything's 12 gauge and with 12 gauge

you have 20 amp circuits and you have 2400 watts and it makes a huge difference

Big, big difference. And when you then compare, you know, of course

things have gone a little crazy the last two years of pricing. But back when

uh, I was building my daughter's home, there was only an 11 cent difference in price per foot

All right, 11 cents for 12 gauge wire versus 14. Well, I mean

that's peanuts. I mean, you have to understand when it comes to like wiring like that

like permanent wiring. I'm not talking about extension cords now. You only get one chance to put it in

All right, one chance. I mean, you're not gonna go in and repair

you're not gonna replace the wiring in your house in 10 years. So

so put in 12 gauge wire and be done with it. You know, you'll

you'll never regret it. Uh Yes, bean shirts. This is, this is an LL bean

I like this shirt. This is a new one. I got it about 23 months ago. It's got a lot of blue in it

Uh, blue. Well, you can see my eyes. Uh, maybe, I don't know

a little bit of glare. Blue is probably my favorite color, followed by red and green

I mean, I am a blue, red green guy. And, um, anyway

uh, yes, I have one of those extension cords will that, uh

has the power on with a light. Yeah, it's got a little led that shows that it's

it's powered and energized if you have any questions about extension cords

Um, happy to help you. Um, happy to answer any questions really about anything electric

Yesterday was kind of an interesting live stream because we, uh, we got

we got really into some really cool plumbing stuff and Steve was here from the UK

We had a lot of really neat plumbing stuff. And in fact, Alex

um, Alex is the contractor from Los Angeles. He's been popping in and out of the live streams

He was on the Zoom call last Friday and I've been chatting with him over the past 24 hours

Uh, he shared, he, he had a really interesting, uh, job that he's on right now where this plumbing stack just completely clogged up

with just gunk and stuff. And I, I'm trying to get him to find out from the homeowner

What, in what in the world there, there's going on that, that it takes a lot to get a big stack like that clogged up

And my, my first inclination is that this homeowner is not, um

they're they're putting a lot of grease down the drain and that is a huge mistake

You do not ever want to do that. No, no grease. I mean, here's what you need to do

We're, we're, we're on a little sidebar right now. Uh, if, if you use paper towels at your home and if you're like my wife

and daughter who drives me nuts personally, um, they can't hear this. They don't watch the live streams but they'll dry their hands with a

paper towel. I just think it's a huge waste. All right. And the paper towel then is

you know, completely clean. In other words, they wash their hands and use a paper towel to dry it with

then they throw it away. So every few hours I go to the kitchen, I find a paper towel in there that's clean

I pull it out, you know, and I get it out of the garbage can and I put it aside somewhere where it'll dry and

then I, I have like a stash of those. And then after we cook

if, if there's any grease at all in a pot or pan, I use those used paper towels that are dry and I get all

the grease as much of the grease as I can out of the potter pan. I throw those paper towels away and I'll wash it

but you do not wanna be washing that grease in your kitchen sink

Uh, you don't ever wanna pour liquid grease down your sink? Oh, my God

Uh, it, because it just hardens and it, and what happens is it

it collects other food particles and pretty soon you got a clog

It's really tough to get it cleaned out. Uh, plumbers can come with some high pressure hot water stuff and they'll clean it out

But you'll probably spend 34 or 500 bucks to get that done. And

uh, there's no need to do that. Just get the grease out of the pots and pans and

and same thing I wipe, I wipe off the plates that have grease on it before they go into the dishwasher

So you wanna just minimize the grease that's going into your drain, your kitchen drain and you're not gonna have any problems if you do

that, I'm actually gonna write a column about it this weekend. Um, a kind of an interesting column about how to keep

um, how to keep your plumbing system in really great shape. Uh

if you have any questions, uh, put them in the chat. Happy to answer them

I am going to tell you a story in just a moment of what happened to me about

Oh, I don't know. Four hours ago at the grocery store, I think you're gonna find it pretty funny

Nothing like water, buddy. Good stuff. So, I, I go, it's funny

I, I started going to the grocery store a little over a year ago. Because Cathy

she was getting, uh, she, she's been doing the grocery shopping for years

I mean, like a long time and you know, I would offer to go with her and she's no

you're not going to the grocery with me. So I guess she just

you know, maybe it was some of the alone time she had cause I'm around all the time

but she was getting increasingly irritated. I could tell that the run up to go to the grocery store

she was getting into a bad mood. I mean, you just didn't want to be around her

And I just said, why don't I start to go to the grocery store? And so I took it off her back

you know, and uh she's never regretted it and, and, um, and at first I

I made a few mistakes, you know, bringing back some things, but I've gotten pretty good at it today

I go to the grocery store because I wanted to go there before this stupid storm that's coming

And here's the context. So yesterday in the live stream, I don't know

I don't know how it even happened. I don't know what, um, how we got it

We were only there for a moment. But I think I said

um, I really don't feel famous at all. Uh I mean, I mean

and I'm, I'm not because I mean, it's not, it's not like I'm Joe Rogan and

and have 10 million people. Watching the live stream. You know, I

we've not even gotten to 50 yet. We had quite a few yesterday or the day before

but we're up near 30 or so. And anyway, so I said

I'm not really famous and I said, in fact, I can only remember two instances where I've been out in public

And somebody comes up to me and says, hey, you're the ask the builder guy

And I said that yesterday on the live stream. I know I did. And then we moved on to topic today at the grocery store

I'm, I'm in the produce department and a guy comes up to me and goes

hey, you're the ask the builder guy. I watch you on youtube all the time

So I chatted with him for, I don't know, three or four minutes. He

he owns some rental properties and he watches my videos to help him make repairs on his rental property

And I, uh, I just, I, I just thought, how, how crazy is that

I just 24 hours ago, I was just talking about that. It was

uh, you know, and, and I, I told Kathy about that after I got home and I said

I can tell you that I'm still not famous. And she said

why would you say that? And I go because she didn't ask me for my autograph. So I

I, uh I don't know that I've ever had anybody ask me for my autograph. So that

that tells you all. You need to know that. At least that's, that's my benchmark for famous people

If they ask you for your autograph, you must be pretty famous. If you have any questions

put them in the chat. That's where they, that's where they belong. Anything about your home

It doesn't have to be about extension cords. It doesn't have to be about electricity

It could be about, um, roofing, it could be about concrete, it could be about

Um I really don't care what it is. Um It could be about

it could be about drilling your own natural gas. Well, on your property

All right. Um Here we go. Well, when we meet uh yeah

I have to sign the uh scorecard right for it to be legal. Uh Josh

here we go. So here's, here's a good, so the answer is it would probably be a good idea for you to download

You don't have, you know, you don't want to sit there and do it all at once. I don't know, you know, there's a famous

saying elephants are best eating a bite at a time. So you're talking about eating an elephant

Uh I would, Josh, I would probably download all of that and I'm sure I have to believe you've got cloud storage

You know, like if you've got a Gmail account, you get like 10 gigabytes for free and blah

blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, Apple has it, everybody's got it cloud storage and I would then just put them up in your own

folder up, up on your drive in the cloud. That would be the smartest thing to do

I have left instructions, um, with my son in law who's a tech guy and my son that

when I'm on the other side of the grass, I, I want to ask the builder to keep going

You know, if, if I haven't sold it by then and, you know

my son in law knows all about the servers and I have other friends. So

and I've, I've set aside some money to, to pay those bills, but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen

So, so protect yourself. You know, in other words, I don't anticipate croaking tonight

But if I were you, Josh, I would download everything and have your own copy

All right. Well, yes. Yes, I'll gladly autograph something for you. But it

it, it, but my autograph is, is worthless. Completely worthless. Oh, my gosh

I had Travis Pastrana autograph my safety vest last year at the rally

So he's a famous guy. And, uh, you know, so I'll keep that safety vest

But, um, there's only a few people who really care about Travis Pastrana

but pretty, uh, he's a great young guy in his mid, I think he's 30

I think it's just about the same age as my daughter. I asked him how old he was. I think he said he was 3737

or 38. So, uh, he's the guy that, um, I don't know when he did this stunt maybe 10 years ago

you know, he jumped out of an airplane with no parachute. Go look it up on youtube Travis

Pastrana. No parachute. Just, just watch that video. It's crazy. Oh, my

gosh. All right. If you have any questions, put them in the chat

that's the purpose of the chat. That's what it's for. Uh, maybe a comment

question, whatever it might be. Uh What did I want to share with you

Um, I wanted to share uh, that, uh, well, tomorrow I will be working in the morning on the newsletter

I wish I, you know, I don't have that software yet. I, I think I should have it in a month where I'll be able

to share photographs and screenshots with you. But I have this graphic right here

Let me, um, get this out of the way. There's gonna be a graphic that

um, I did a letter and, um, I have it right here in front of me

I, and it all came up as a result of the Zoom call that we did last Friday

And I asked my newsletter list. Uh, hey, I had this idea about maybe doing classes

I talked about this on Monday. I hey, I thought about maybe doing classes

you know, doing a video call, blah, blah, blah. And I asked about four or five questions

And the second last question was about, I found I got to the money part

you know, and, and so I asked a question, I said, what would you be willing to invest to have access either to

to each live video call or the recorded version? And um, then I gave him five choices

I gave $10.15 dollars, 2025. And then the final choice was I think the call should be free

So I, the people who take the survey don't get to see this data

They don't get to see any of this. But Google Forms creates really beautiful pie charts

very colorful. And I'm gonna share this pie chart on in Sunday's newsletter

but I'm looking at it right here. I wish I could share it with you

But um so just do this math add 26 and add 38

That's uh 64 right? 64. Yeah, 64. So 64% of the people that responded to the survey

they either want the call to be free or they are only willing to pay $10

So that, that pretty much submarine this whole academy deal. In other words

I don't want to put in a bunch of work um to

to go to all this, you know, this effort because if you're gonna do one of these classes

it's gotta be really good because what ha what's gonna happen? I already know from all these years of selling other products

If I put together this class and somebody attends it and, and 1012 minutes in they go

well, this isn't what I thought it was gonna be. I want my money back. And so all of a sudden at the end of

the class you get a bunch of people asking for their money back. All right. Well, I get that and

um, so I don't want to go to all the effort to

to, um, put together a class or two or three or five and then

you know, make $5 an hour. That's just not, that's just, that's not prudent

That's not a good idea. So, we'll see what kind of reaction I get

And the sad thing was this is, um, I'll make sure I do this math

Right. Um, yeah. So only one

half of 1%. So not even 1%. Only a half of 1% of the people that read about that

actually opened the newsletter and read about the academy. Only half of 1% took the survey

That's the, that's the more important number to be honest with than the, than the money

In other words, 99.5% of the people who read that newsletter were

like, I don't care about the academy. I don't care. I don't care

So that, that's really the, the, uh, if, if I would have had 10% of the people to take the

uh, who get the newsletter to the survey. That would have been, that would have got my attention

but not when 99.5% of the people will say to you, uh

I don't care about this stupid survey and you know, that, that tells you all

You need to know. Remember if you've got a question, you can put it in the chat and I would be more than happy to

answer you. Otherwise I'm just going to blabber on, uh, about nonsense that

that maybe you find entertaining. II, I don't know, but I, I

uh, I, you know, I just kind of blabber on, uh, what we'll do is

oh, I, here's what I'll tell you. I guess it was about an hour ago

I did a, one of my, maybe a little over an hour ago. I did one of my phone consults

a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona. Uh, she was having a, uh, this is really an interesting story

She was having a sewer gas odor in her home and she

she's been there three years and she went and online and she bought

it, looks like a ham radio. To be honest with you, it looks just like a AAA, what we call a handheld transceiver

But the body is a little bit bigger. She bought a, uh

a gas detector that, that can sense and, and rate, you know

methane or sewer gas. And so she's, she took her phone and she started recording a video as she got this thing closer and closer

and closer to, um, this, the sink in her master bathroom and

you know, and you could see the, the detector going off and

and so I immediately knew what the problem was. I, I knew right away and

um, I, I asked her, I said, do you use the sink every day? She said, yeah, absolutely

And, uh, and I said, ok, I said, I, I know exactly what the problem is

I said when, you know, and, and, and, um, then I went on to explain to her what the deal was and I gave her

you know, I told her how she could fix it and hopefully she's gonna get back to me in a week

I told her please get back to me. Let me know what, what happened. But it was really

I just found it very interesting that she, um, she had gone out and purchased one of these gas detectors

Very interesting. You can get them on, um, Amazon. Uh, hey, Lorraine

how are you doing? Glad you're here, Norseman, Southeast New Hampshire, down near Portsmouth

Um, what do you know? Well, I'm, uh, welcome. I mean, how are you doing

neighbor? Uh, will, who is here on the live stream? He is just north of you

He would be just north of you by about, um, I don't know

40 miles, 50 miles be my guess. Uh, anyway. Um, I think tonight you're gonna get more rain and maybe

we're gonna get some snow. All right, here we go. Will's got a question I think

Have you heard about the LRV for paint? My brother's home Association has to approve him repainting his house is confirmed

that the correct color in the LRV. I don't know what LRV means. I, that acronym

acronym means nothing to me. I don't know what that means. Will

Um, I don't know, but I do know, I have my, my

my best, you know, I've got, I've got, I don't wanna say I've got a couple of best friends

but one of my really, really, really, really, really good friends is

uh, lives in Southern California. He's a genius, uh, it person and he lives

in a nature a and very strict and boy, they are really strict about colors and I

I don't, I don't, I don't subscribe to that type of that lifestyle because to me it's just all very

it's almost like a utopia and, and I know there's a lot of places out in the southwest of that way

Uh, you know, and, and what they try to do is they, they want their houses to blend in and to look like part of

the hardscape, you know, because there's so little vegetation, uh, light reflective value

Ok. Um, I don't know. Uh, I don't know, it's whatever their standard is then that's what they gotta do

Uh, all right. You know what to do with that, that Russian get rid of that Russian idiot

I don't know. I told, I've said it 100 times, Steve Wonders. This, this, what happened

these people would come. Um, yeah, it's, um, here

in MEREDITH as far as the weather it's, it's only been spitting a little bit of rain

I, I don't even know that we've, I don't even know that we would have gotten all day 1/10 of an inch of that

But the temperature was, I, I felt, it felt like summertime out there

It, it was 45 degrees and I swear, luckily there was no wind

I swear I could have been on a t-shirt and been comfortable. I, I'm not kidding. It's just like it

it's so odd in other words and, and I often think about that when it gets really cold here

for example, just, uh, I mean, just a week ago, less than a week ago it was zero

So to go from 0 to 45 it is like going from 45 to 90

All right. So there's a big difference between 45 degrees and 90 so that's what a lot of people don't

uh, I don't wanna say they don't realize about the cold, but once you start to get down in the teens in single digits and

zero and below zero it's cold, it's cold. Um, and yeah, the temperature

it was just wonderful to be out there. But the, uh, the, the temperature is going to

um, let's see here. Uh, my, the forecast on my weather app here is

uh, if I can get it, if I can get it to come back alive, here we go is

um, I don't know. Yeah, it's gonna start to crater here. Um

you know, by eight o'clock it's gonna be down to 35. Um

and then it's gonna get down to freezing maybe, you know, maybe after midnight

Uh, all right, I got it. I see the, yeah, and that's exactly what I was talking about

So he lives in Arizona will, um, the, um, he, um, there

I, I, colors of the houses to be a very flat color and to

uh, and to be the earth tones, I mean, to be these browns and light oranges and

and buff colored, you know, so that the house is like almost camouflage

So that from a distance when you're looking at, you know, at a

at a, at a, at a side of a mountain or whatever that you can't even see the houses

That's, I think that's what their goal is and that's, that's what that's got to be about when you get to the bottom of that

yellow. Yeah. Up where you are still negative wind chills. Yeah, it's cold up there right now and we still have here in New Hampshire

Listen, we've got another six weeks of winter, no matter how you look at it

I, I mean, it, it can still be cold all the way through the end of March

Whereas in Cincinnati, uh, in Cincinnati by, I don't know, the third week of March

uh, the honeysuckle bushes would always start to bud and, and it's really kind of interesting

You would come down to the kitchen, I'd look off into the French Park where I used to live and it had been brown all

winter and you kind of blink your eyes and you go, that

it looks a little green out there and you, you know, you just go

nah, can't be. And then the next day it looks a little greener because those

those leaf buds, you know, those leaf things are starting to come out and

and, uh, within about three or four days it's starting to get green and that was third week of March

Always. All right. Here we go. Let's get caught up. Um, eight bit Vinyl

Love these temps who, uh, who needs the snow and cold, especially these oil prices

Right. Yeah, luckily I just got filled up. Uh, uh, Matt was here from Rhymes

Uh, Matt was here about an hour and a half ago and, uh

topped this off. I'm, I'm sitting on top of 900 gallons of propane right now and

um, that 900 gallons, if things, if the temperatures kind of just don't get real bitter cold that 900 gallons will take me all the

way to summertime. So that's good. So, I don't have to worry anymore. Um

yes. So Loreen, I was, I lucked out too. Uh, I have my neighbor next door

This is how crazy it is. Uh, it's a long story but I found out a year ago about a

a co op. I did not know, but there are these local co ops where you can get together with other homeowners and make a

big deal and blah, blah, blah. And, and they were gonna get

they were gonna get the propane for this season for a dollar like 99

And whereas my last fill up last year, it had gone up to 314 and

and it had been around $2.20 for a long time. So I found that pretty shocking 224 to 314

Uh, so I thought I got to do something about this long story short for

to be part of that buying group. I had to switch suppliers and I don't own my propane tank

Well, that's very problematic because it, it's very problematic. You, you then like if you wanna switch

like in other words, if I'm with a company called Rhymes Rymes and that's who owns the tank in the ground

I don't have to pay him any rent. It's just, it's their tank. And if I wanna go to Eastern propane or Dead River here

then Rhyme says, ok, cool. But, um, Dead River or Eastern, they have to pay us $300 a year rental

They have to rent our tank. Well, I paid that and so when the regional kind of manager

found out that I was gonna switch because I, I'm a pretty big customer in a way

you know, I use about 2000 gallons a year. Um, he said

no, no, no, we don't wanna lose you as a customer. We do not want to lose you. I said

ok, well then uh let's make a deal. So he, he gave me the same deal as the co op

So I signed a contract for 2400 gallon. I could get 2400 gallons at a dollar 98

And, and then I also saved the $300 which brought down my price to about a dollar 84

I don't know what I'm gonna be able to negotiate. I'm gonna try to hold off and negotiate until May or June because that's when

propane prices will go down and I wanna lock it in then and let's see what happens

But my next door neighbor, here's all I wanted to say. I had told my neighbor about this

He's got identical houses. I do same size tank. He um, he didn't do it

Yeah. And I asked him about three weeks ago. I said he, because I just like I filled up

I said, John, I said do you mind if I ask what you paid? He goes. Yeah, I said

dude, $3.70 a gallon. I'm like, oh jeez, like, man, that's a lot

you know. So anyway, I uh crutch work. Um Yeah. Wow

there you go. Rhymes price is almost $4 a gallon. That's exactly right

My, as I just said, my neighbor 23 weeks ago paid 374

I think he said um, uh Loreen's gotta go to a hair appointment soon

Uh, you look beautiful. You don't need to go get your hair taken care of

It's fine. It's a, you know, I mean, if your hair looked like Boris over there in the UK

I'd say yes, you need to go right now, but it doesn't

Hello, Shannon? Glad you're here. Uh Yeah, you had to prepay. That's interesting

Um, I don't have to prepay with my propane. It's just that I

for example, he came and, and, uh, the bills like $1300 because we got 600 670 gallons

I think they put in. Uh, they can only put, it's 1000 gallon tank, but they can only put in

they're not allowed to put in more than 900 gallons. You don't want to ever fill it up. And

uh, anyway, crutch word, excuse me. So 670 would be about $1300

That's correct. Uh Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, um, the

uh So I'm really happy that we have enough pro as long as it doesn't stay bitter cold and here we are

February, we're past the coldest, can still get cold. But the, we

you know, each day the weather is monitoring a little bit more and, and as long as you start to get into the thirties and

some forties, I'm out of the woods and I, I have to be honest with you

I always worry about this. I, I think I may have talked about this on a past live stream

My, my best friend here in New Hampshire lives just seven miles away and he heats his home with coal

He, he buys 50 pound bags of anthracite coal and he's got two coal stoves and he

the one in the main part of the house works, uh, he's got it going all the time and that's fine for regular weather

But if it gets down below zero, he's got a coal stove in the basement

A smaller one that he starts up, you know, to provide the extra BTU S that the house needs

But what's really interesting? He said what he really like, he, he says he loves the cold but he hates the cold

I mean, it's a pain in the butt because he's got to feed the fire himself and do it

Um, but he said what I really like about the coal is that at the

in October when it comes and it's delivered. I know I'm not gonna be cold ever and that's

there's a lot to be said about that and that's what I don't like about my propane situation because I got

um, I got filled up. I had, I, I, it's really kind of interesting

I only get about 44 fill ups a year if that I, um, I got topped off like last April and that

that 900 gallons, man, I mean, once you get into warm weather

we only use a very little bit of, of propane. May, I don't know

I'd have to do the math. I don't even know if we would use a gallon a day where there's a gallon a day

Maybe we do, maybe we use a gallon a day to heat water

But, um, I didn't get any propane until December. And so this past December was my last fill up

But, uh, and they, we were at 900 gallons, you know, about a week or so before Christmas

And then, um, I had to get filled up again today, so I can't make it through the winner with just one fill up

And that's, that's pro, that's a problem. And in my opinion, I

I don't, I don't like being in that situation. I can tell you that the next house I build

I, I'd probably go propane again, but I can tell you I would have, I would have designed the house and have a a backup

heating system. It might be wood uh, down in the basement and have a wood stove that

that and, and have five or six or seven or eight cords of wood stored

dried, split. Ready to go. That if, if things got bad, I'd still be able to heat the house like my buddy Jim does with

coal. Um All right. Here we go. Uh So, yeah, Lorraine. Yes

Um, yeah, prep pay August. That makes sense. And my guess would be the reason they do that is because they're

they're buying the propane futures. So your supplier is going out into the market from the wholesaler and he's buying

he's buying 150,000 gallons of propane because that guy wants to get paid

And so he did, you know, your supplier doesn't want to put out his money. Uh You know

so that's how, that's, that's why the certain but rhymes, it's very interesting. I, I did not have to prepay

I just pay as I go. Uh Yeah, my propane tank is also buried

Um And yeah, I'm curious about what my renewal is gonna be. Well

I would, I would hope that uh I'm, I'm gonna start to do a little bit of research about that and like I said

I'm hoping that I can uh that I hope that I have enough negotiating power that I can make the deal when propane prices

start to go down because they're gonna, they always go down in

in May and June because there's no demand for it. So, um

so let's see, Will says I've heard that fireplaces lose a lot of heat

They said yes. Yes. Well, a traditional fireplace. I, I don't know what percentage of the heat goes up the chimney

but it's probably 70% 80% goes up the chimney. And, and, and I actually think a wood stove that's out

in the room is far better than an insert because when you think about the

the wood stove, the entire wood stove is, is like a glowing ember

So it's radiating heat all through the room. And if you, if you could tolerate the

the, the smoke pipe, uh being, being, um, visible for a while

um, that, that is giving off heat, you know, and in fact

I, I helped build a sugar shack, you know, uh, uh, uh, back in Ohio

you know where, um, you know, for boiling down maple syrup, you know

maple sap, maple tree sap and the, the homeowner, he put the AAA little wood stove in one corner

but the vent pipe, the, the chimney pipe went all the way across the sugar shack so that it would radiate the heat down into

the sugar shack when it was cold. Uh So that wouldn't just go right up through the roof

Uh So, you know, you just have to use some common sense. Um Hello

Shannon. Uh, Loreen says we have a pellet stove in the basement which really helps the temperature

Yeah, it would. And that's exactly why, um, it's because it's just radiating all that heat

Shannon says, I agree to him. A wood stove is amazing. Yeah, I, Kathy hates them

That's why we don't have one. I, I, if I, if she divorced me the next day I would be buying a wood stove

I'm just telling you, I'm like that. I'm going right to the wood stove shop. Hi

Uh, uh, then, then you can put in a bucket of water on top

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Right. Yeah, that's what my mom did. When I was growing up

she would have bowls of water on the heat registers. Uh, well

don't pellet stoves need electricity to turn it. Yes. Uh, I believe so

Uh, the pellet stoves have a little auger. That's exactly right. Yes

Yes. Um, yes. Lorraine already answered. Uh, so I, I don't, um

I, I guess the pellet stoves are in need. I, I think it's a really neat technology. There are a lot of people here in

New Hampshire that use them, uh, because I drive by their houses and I see the pallets of pellets that they get delivered

Uh, and I've always, I've never done the math. I'm curious as to how much they're spending

um, a season to heat their home, you know, versus my buddy who uses anthracite coal

Uh, I know that I'm getting, I don't wanna say I'm getting hose, but I, I mean

let's think about it. You know, I'm spending about $4000 a year on propane

So, uh, yeah. No, I doubt no hand crank you, you would have to have that pellet stove hooked up to

a little generator. Uh, there's, there's no way the hand you're not gonna sit there and turn that hand cran

that's crazy. Not gonna happen. All right. If you have any other questions

if you have any questions at all about your home, we got kind of sidetracked into pellet stoves

whatever. Uh, you, you can ask any question you want. Um It doesn't matter what it is about

Uh, it can be about extension cords, it can be about pellet stoves

it can be about anthracite coal. It can be about plumbing. Uh

you name it whatever. Ok. So Loreen, so how long does a ton of pellets last for

That's the question. Um And Norseman says, yeah, well, you, you release power 4 to 5 times a year

Um I solved that problem by putting in a standby generator. Um

you know, but problem with my stand dry generator runs on propane. So it's really

you, you know, you have to really wa I really watch how much propane I have and if we had an extended power outage

um, I forget what that generator, what it's burning, it might be burning

it could burn. Uh It could burn a half a gallon, an hour of propane

maybe an hour. I mean, a gallon. I don't, I don't know, I haven't, I, it's been a long time since I've

the manual. Uh, but it will last a long time. So two bags a day if you burn 24 hours

Um, so is each bag 50 pounds? I'm just guessing it, because I've seen those bags

it seems like a bag is 50 pounds. Um, a ton of pellets for a dollar

100 100 and $87. That seems pretty cheap. That seems really cheap to me

Um Yeah, each bag is 50. Ok. Wow. So let's see, two bags a day if you burn for 24 hours

So that's 100. So here let's do the math real fast. I like to run the two bags a day

So um um so a ton, a ton you, you've got um you

get um 50 you get 100 bags. No, no, let's see. Um 2000 uh by 50

So you've got uh 40 bags, right? You got 40 bags um of things

So 40 bags. So 100 and $87 only last you 20 days if it's really bad

Um So 20 so you're paying $9 a day to heat, let's just say let's round it off and say 10

Um yeah, so you're paying about $10 a day to to heat with wood pellets

Um That's not the end of the world because you would, uh

if you consider a normal heating season would run 100 days. Um

you know, unless you're really far north, um, you know, like a full blast heating system that's only $1000

So that's not too bad. Uh, that's not too bad. Beats my 4000

Um, well, well, they, I mean, you know, it's, you, you can go on youtube

and watch a bunch of videos about how these pellet stores work and how you load them and

and I don't. Loreen might say how, how often do you have? That's a great question

Loreen, if you're still here, how often do you have to um, feed

How of what, what, how many, how many pounds will the stove hold

I mean, how many, how many times a day do you have to go down and feed the machine, the stove if that makes any

sense? Um It must have some type of hopper, you know, I

I don't have a pellet stove so I, I don't know. Um I would hope that you would not have to do it more than

three times a day. Um, versus low. Yeah, exactly. A bit. Um You

don't have to clean the stove out. Yeah. Cheap pellets and hold one bag in the hopper

Ok. One bag in the hopper and you said it takes twice a day. All right. Got it. Ok

There we go. That there that answers the question. Ok. Got it

All right, perfect. Um, and so that's a lot like my buddy who does coal

I think he says he only has to mess with the stove twice a day and I forget how many pounds of coal he burns

a day. Uh, but it's a little, it's a little messy. You know

I've heard people with the pedal stoves complain a little bit. A little dusty. It's not perfect

So, here's Josh, he's been lurking all afternoon. I just got my Elect Bill Day for last month

Wow. 484. 0, all elect. Ok. There we go. And we have a hot tub that's

um, that, uh, that would explain it. Um, Josh, do you heat with a heat pump

Uh, do you have a heat pump? I'd love to know that I would, I'm just gonna say I'm gonna guess that you do have

a heat pump. Ok. See you Lorraine. Um, good luck with that

The hair you can see mine. It's, I got some sticking up right here

All right. Too bad. Ok. Yeah, heat pump. All right. Great that you're here

Lorraine. Hopefully you'll be here tomorrow. Uh, good night. Um, drive safe

by the way. Yeah, heat pump. I, you know, I don't, I've never liked heat pumps

A lot of people call it, you know, it's a cold heat and what a lot of people don't understand about heat pumps

Now, the modern ones are a little better are actually a lot better

But what happens is that as the temperature drops outside, um, there's less heat in the air

And what happens is that it gets to what they call the balance point

And in the old days, the balance point was 37 degrees. So once the air temperature outside was 37 every degree it dropped down

Then inside the air handler in the basement of your home was a giant toaster heating coil

And so to, to get your house to temperature, electricity would have to be used to get that coil hot

So once it gets down to 20 or 15 or 10 or zero

you're not getting anything from the outside air or hardly anything. And you're just using that resistance coil

And, uh, it just seems like the plenum temperature of these, of a heat pump is generally

may, may, maybe you can get, maybe you can get air out the temperature of the air at 90 degrees maybe

Whereas a, a gas forced air furnace generally you can get a plane and temperature of 100 and 20 125 degrees

And, uh, the air is just much warmer coming out of the ducts. Yeah

Yeah, it doesn't get that cold down in Arkansas. Josh, 310 unit cold snap last month

Really made a jump. Yeah. No doubt it did. Or home from college

So we had extra people. Yeah, exactly. Big money. Yeah, I love this economy

It just there, you know, it, I'm just gonna say this, you know

we're, if you've not read, I, I talked about this a month or two ago

If you've not read at least the first book in the five book series of the Game of Thrones

I'm telling you, you should read the first book. All right, read the first book of Game of Thrones

And, uh, you know, it's a fantasy thing, med medieval type, you know

swords, you know, castles, kings and queens and, and it, it, it basically mirrors

exactly what's happening in our world right now and what has always happened

All right. So we, we, we, you and I right now, whether you like it or not

we're involved in a game of in the game of Thrones. The Game of Thrones is happening right now

It's happening here in the United States. It's happening in England, it's happening in Germany

It's happening in Australia. It's happening everywhere. All right, happens in every country and we

you and me, you and me, we are considered small folk. That's what it's

that's what George RR Martin, the author calls us small folk, meaning we do not matter

We are, we, we do not matter. We're only useful because we can

you know, help butcher things and grow wheat and, and uh you know

make things for the, for the kings and queens and, and all the, the, the people at the top of the food chain

So I, I, so all that, the whole economy thing, all I wanted to say was the whole economy thing just manipulated to make all

that stuff work for them up there. And, uh, I don't know if you saw this in the news kind of interesting and it's gonna

have an impact on you and your, your home stuff. If you, um

if you have any major home improvements planned, uh, you probably want to do them sooner than later

Uh I just saw on the, I think it was yesterday. Um, and I had predicted this

I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to do it, but the national debt here in the United States topped $30 trillion

All right. So that's, that's, it's, it's, it's, that's obscene and uh especially when you think what the national debt just go back and look

go back and look what the national debt was just 15 years ago and it's gonna get worse and

there's nothing they can do to stop it and it's, that's causing big inflationary pressure on

on you and that inflation is not gonna go away. You, the, the people who are playing game of Thrones

um, they um are gonna do everything they can to manipulate that number and make it seem like the number is much smaller

than it really is. So, I'm telling you, if you have a major home improvement project

you wanna do it sooner than later, you you, you need to spend that money before it costs even more to do it

So it's all I'll say. Look who's here. Hey, Steve. Howdy, buddy

Um, so, yeah, $90. Yes. Think about that Joshua heating bill, $3

a day. So just, you know, $96 or $98. So three times 30 would be 90

So you're paying a little over $3 a day extra for electricity. Um

Shannon says we'll have to link up and we can finally visit the UK. Yeah, I

I it's on my bucket list. I, I've always wanted to go to, uh

the UK. Big time. I wanna go. Uh, Oak Grove. That's somebody that's a new one

I have never seen you before. Thanks for being here. You could spend $10 million a day and take your two

And so there you go. Isn't that? There you go? That's, it's a huge amount of money

It's insane. Money. And what's gonna happen? I'll just say this. I, I, I'm not an economist

but I studied this particular slice a lot. And it's because I only lived 69 miles from where it happened

69 miles north of me is Brent and Woods. The Mount Washington Hotel

It's in this little Hamlet called Brenton Woods. Well, there's a big historical plaque at the road right when you pull into the driveway of

the, of the Mount Washington Hotel. And it tells you that in 1944 all these world leaders were in the hotel and they had the

Bretton Woods conference. Go look it up, go look up on wiki. I

some people call it Wikipedia. I call it wiki. Make your own reality

Wiki. Make your own reality. Go look it up. Look up the Bretton Woods conference

So bre tt on then Woods conference, what you'll discover and this

this impacts Steve. So prior to 1944 the British pound was the World Reserve currency

The, the England, they were in charge, man. Every other currency was measured against the British Pound

But what was happening in 1944? So I don't think Steve was born yet

but Steve's mom and dad and his aunts and uncles, they were trying to make sure they didn't have to start speaking German

So they were spent the, the, the government of England was they just turned on their printing presses from like 1939 until

1944. Just printing vast amounts of money, printing vast amounts of to pay

They were just putting all this money out there. You know, they were buying stuff from the rest of the world to

to be able to defend themselves and stay alive. Well, they ruined their currency

They completely trashed the British Pound and that's what's happening with the US dollar

You may not understand this but the US dollar is the world reserve currency right now

And if you've not read up on this. I'm telling you, you need to read up on this and this

You may not think this has anything to do with Home improvement. It has everything to do with home improvement

everything. Because when the US dollar is no longer the world reserve currency

everything around your home is gonna cost a lot more. You need to understand when that's going to happen

And depending on how old you are, you may live to see it happen

I predict that the US is not going to be the world reserve currency within 15 years

I don't, I don't think, I think by then it's gonna be gone. I don't know who else it's gonna be

I'm not an expert in it. Let me get caught up. Uh Steve says try living and rip off

Britain. Yeah. Uh it's a miserable place. Wow. I'm sorry to hear you say that I really am

Um I don't know that I would like to live in London. I can tell you that I am

I'm not a big city guy. I'm not, I don't like anything about him. Shannon says

yes, we want to visit and uh make some adventure videos in the UK

We had three trips get, I mean, and they've all had to cancel us. I mean

my goal, what I wanna do, I wanna come to the UK and I wanna go up into the

I don't know what you call it, Steve. I, I just want to go out into the countryside where you've got some kind of like

New Hampshire, you know, some bigger hills or just hills. Um, just

I wanna be on in the countryside. I'm, I'm not, I have no interest in going to the big cities but I would come to

visit you. Uh, so, um, yeah. Ok. Ok. Yeah. Well, no, no problem

Ok. If you've not read up on the world reserve currency situation

you should, I'm telling you, you need to keep your ear to the ground on that one

Really important. When, when you see the national, when you see the US national debt start to get up to 60 70 80 trillion

you better really be paying attention to what happened all the here, I'll just share this with you

What's gonna ha what happens when, when, when the US dollar is no longer the let's see anything

any dollars you have, it could be dollars in your wallet, it could be dollars in your mattress

It could be dollars in your savings account or checking account. They become

they just like go down in value like like very steeply. The bottom line is you want

you've got some time here to start making sure your wealth is not in dollars

In other words, you want to own things that are not dollars but they're valuable

It could be stocks for example. Like I know this sounds crazy and I know people

you know they, they, they don't like oil necessarily, but I'm just giving you this as a

being a geologist, meaning if you want to buy shares of stock of Exxon Big International Corporation

So Exxon, they actually own billions of barrels of oil, right? They own it

It's in the ground still, but it's theirs. All right. So that's an interesting asset

You know, you might, um, maybe, maybe you own shares of stock in

in, in a timber company. All right. So it's timber, it's not dollars

So I'm just trying to give you an idea. In other words, you need to, you need to own things and put your wealth into

things that are not dollars because the dollars are gonna be, becomes less

You, you and you need to talk to your kids about this. If you, if like I talk to my kids about it all the

time because they're going to live to see it happen, they're going and

and their stories, history is littered with stories where this has happened in other countries

This is not a first time event. It's not, but it's happened all the time and

and inflation just goes crazy. You could have 100% inflation in a year. All right

enough of that. Um uh Yeah, they want to get rid of the paper concealer together

That's exactly right. Um Yeah, the, the whole electronic currency thing is what's bad about that is

is then uh you know that the reason they want to do that is because they want to be able to trace everything that everybody

does. They want, they wanna know exactly what you're buying and I, I'm not a big fan of that

Shannon says Germany has 19% sales tax. Are you serious? No, that can't be true

Is that true? Oh, wow. Oh, good for you, Steve. You're gonna try to go to

London. Um, they have, uh, uh, you buy the eggs. Yeah, when government control your ability to provide you

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. What happened. That's what, you know, we, we don't want to necessarily get too deep into this

But, um, um, once again it's the Game of Thrones and if you wanna control the people beneath

you, if you want to maintain power, then you just read the book

I mean, just read Game of Thrones. It's really interesting. Um, you control their lives and you control their food and

um, Wink. Wink, you control their health. Hm. The illness. Right. Anyway

so, um, and, and then they'll do what you want. All right

So, uh, that's what's in play here. That's why I've covered this in past live streams

I'm a real big fan of self sufficiency. I have a friend of mine, a, a ham radio student and he's a nice guy

He's older than I am. He's trying to learn, he's doing a good job of learning Morse Code

And, uh, we, we, we get on the air each morning and, and he, and he practices and

um, but he has, he has a habit where he, I don't wanna say that he's lazy

I, I don't know what it is. He, it, rather than go research something

he'll ask me a question and my answer always is, well, when you went to my website about that and

and you looked up that topic, what did you discover? Oh. Well, I didn't go to your website

Oh, I see. You just want, you want me to, I'm doing and then

and then give you, give you this information. Is that, is that what's in play here

And of course, that is, that's what's in play, you know, but he gets a little irritated when I do that

And, uh, I, I just think that we, as a, people need to be

need to go back in time 100 years ago to when, you know

people had their own gardens and, and you, you were pretty much self sufficient

I mean, it's harder to do when you're in a big city like Steve is, uh, and

you know, I wish I, I should do more gardening but I don't. And

but I, but that's foods my weak link. But I can go ahead and buy a bunch of dried stuff and store it

But as far as repairing things and whatever I'm good, man, I can

as long as I can still breathe and move around man, if I have to patch a hole in my roof by God

I can get up there and do it. I, it may take me five times longer than when I was 19

but I can do it. All right. Let me get caught up here. Um

wow, 19% sales tax. That's crazy. Well, that explains so many things

You know, why, why they, you know how much of that 19% is going to all those immigrants that they accepted into Germany

Are you kidding me? Um, Oak Grove, uh where I live in the Southern us

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I can't imagine what state you would be in that has a 10% sales tax. I'll have to look that up

I thought California's was obscene. I thought California was 9%. Um Yeah

that's right. The Brexit. Um uh yeah, they're out of there, man

England got out of the European Union. Good for them. Um Yeah

the whole value added tax. Crazy. Flipping crazy. Oh my gosh. Just glad we don't have that here in the United

States, buddy. Uh Tell you that and it's really interesting being here

In New Hampshire. You know, I, we don't have a sales in New Hampshire. I think there's maybe five states in the United States

No sales tax, there's no sales tax where I live and there's no income tax

Isn't that crazy? Yeah. And here's all you need to know. Th this is

you should be, you should really, this should put your head on a swivel if you're listening to this and

and you live in the United States. So if you were to come to New Hampshire right now

there's a really good chance our roads are in better condition than the roads in your state

Uh We have the same fire trucks that you have, we have the same police cars you have um we have a lot of the

same social services that you have. Um And so you might ask

you might go, well, how in the world does all that stuff get paid for if you don't have a sales tax and an income

tax? That's a great question. Actually, what the question should be is why do you

you should ask your politicians, what the hell are you guys doing with all this money

Because the people in New Hampshire, they have all the fire trucks and police cars and roads

They don't have an income tax and a sales tax. Why do we have one? That's what you should be asking your politicians and

our real estate taxes. Good chance they're lower than yours. Uh, I was a real estate broker in Ohio for

um, 20 plus years and a lot of the whole real estate tax thing is really kind of a shell game to a lot of

people. It's very confusing. There's only one way to look at your real estate taxes and you should always look at your real estate tax

your annual real estate tax as a percentage of what your house is worth on the

on the market now. So let's do some really basic numbers. Let's say that you have your house

If you went out and sold your home right now, that you could sell it for $500,000 that's a fair price

And you'd have three people who want to pay you 500,000. Let's say that your real estate taxes

your annual real estate tax that you pay is $5000. That means that your real estate tax is one percent of your

the value of your home. I can tell you back in Cincinnati, Ohio

just about everybody in Cincinnati is paying 2.5 percent, 2.5% here in New Hampshire

And I live in a town where the real estate tax is a little high compared to other

The, the real estate tax here in New Hampshire varies wildly from town to town

I mean wildly, but I pay my real estate tax is 0.7 percent

0.7. Not even 1%. So, anyway, that has to do with home improvement

because taxes, because if you pay less than, if you pay less in real estate taxes

you have more money to spend on hot tubs. Right. All right

Let's see. I'm going to, uh, get caught up. Ok, Josh, good night, buddy

Uh, if I missed you, um, live free or die, that's exactly right

Um, general stark, you know, um, the, the other part of that

quote from his letter, he, that's from a letter he wrote, um

was death is not the worst of evils. All right. So what he was talking about death is not the worst of evils

And the re what, what he meant by that was the fact that I, if you have to live under a tyrant

then it, it, it, it might be better just to die. And so that's

that's what, that's what live free or die means. It means if

if you can't live free, if you're gonna be under the thumb of a tyrant

then it's like, you know what I think I'll do my best to overturn that and if I die in the process

ok, it's gonna be better than, than, you know, having somebody come and knock on your door and drag you out in the middle of

the night. All right. Oak Grove. Just on some items to certain areas like restaurant

food. Oh, I see. Then others like livestock. The are not taxed. Yeah. Well, we have the same kind of

well, we don't have any taxes here but that's, we, we have tax on

uh, if you go out to eat at a restaurant you're paying tax. Uh, there's, I think a 9% tax

Well, and, and to, and to answer, if you're curious, like, how in the world does New Hampshire do it

Well, we have a tourist economy. So what happens is the tourists who come here

they, they pump millions and millions and millions of dollars into the

uh, into the coffers of the state, millions, tens of millions, tens of millions of dollars

you know, for a lodging tax, uh, food taxes, things like that

Um, all right. So, oh, interesting. So, Brexit hasn't happened yet. I

did not know that. Um, very interesting. I'll, I'll go read about that

I am interested in that. Well, we got a little off track but that's what happens that

that we kind of go. That, that's good though. I, you know, just so, you know, I was watching

um, I was watching a, a show last night, uh, an opinion show before I went to bed

And this particular host was talking about Joe Rogan. You know, who here in the United States

I, I've not listened to any of his podcast but this guy is in the news here in America and he is

he's developed this massive following. His following is so big that he has got

he has got, um, our government is frantic about this guy. They

they are not happy and, and, and all that this guy does. It's really kind of interesting

He's not necessarily from what I, if this is true, what I heard and I don't know this

I've not listened to him. Uh, this Joe Rogan guy is not

um, he's not a hard left or hard, right. You know, person

He, he's just, he just has all these guests on the show and he's really good at asking really good questions because he's curious

that's what the description of him was. So if you happen to listen to Joe Rogan

uh would that be a good description of, of, of his podcast? I've not listened to it

Uh you know, you know, he's not trying to really push hard an agenda one way or the other and he just has different people

on and, and, and he must be a pretty smart guy because he knows the questions to ask

Well, that terrifies people because then what happens is the truth gets out there

you know? Um Yeah, yeah, the, the whole, yeah, the, the um this

whole thing about the illness is coming unraveled. Uh It's gonna really come unraveled completely

in my opinion, in the next 30 days. Um They, they tried everything

they, they, it and, and people finally are wising up, I think

although if you go to my church each Sunday, I just shake my head

I mean, there's a sign on the door, it says master recommended and I, I'm glad they use that word recommended

I mean, it's recommended. Well, I, I don't need a flipping mask on. I had COVID

I've got the best immunity you can get, I can't infect you and you can't infect me

I'm, I'm good to go baby. And um but my gosh, the number of people in my parish that wear masks and

and, and I just wanna say to him, um, hey, that, that mask you got on like a can you smell that pizza across the

street? Do you smell the pizza? I smell. Yeah, I smell it

Oh How do you think that's happening? How big do you think that particle is that's getting through your mask

Everybody's got to start thinking. All right. Uh All right, let's see here

Um Steve says it's no, it's happened but we're screwed over. We still

we still, uh we still, we give 80% of our fishing waters away

We gave Northern Ireland a what? And we still what? That's crazy

OK. A vinyl Joe asked, uh, asked the right and carefully ask questions and provides actual facts based on data

Not because, because you cannot argue facts. Yes. That's exactly right. Exactly

Right. So I'm, I, I need to start, I'm gonna have to subscribe and start listening to this guy's podcast

Um, anyway, um, yeah, exactly. Our

Southern, our southern border here in America is like, it's like a chain link fence

Uh, and it's like using a chain link fence to stop water

Oh, my gosh. Um, anyway, if you've got, um, we have, uh

we, uh, we have a lot of likes, that's good. If you are new to the live stream

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Just go to ask the builder.com right there on the home page. You can sign up um

uh Bos I talk, oh, Steve, before you got on today, I was talking about Boris a little bit about his hair and uh I

I uh I, I lo I love Boris's hair. I love everything about his hair

I mean, that just goes to show you um how, um how do I phrase this

How I can't think of the right words I want to use um

how strong he feels about his persona that he has disconnected his persona from his appearance

That's what I'm trying to say. Oh, because I had to, I know what I was

I was talking about one of my friendly peers who is the exact opposite of Boris Johnson

This, this friendly peer of mine, his hair has got to be perfect and he uses hairspray to keep it perfect and

and I just think it's, I, I just think it's hilarious. I just, I

because I was talking about my hair today how it was a little messed up, you know, like right now some of this hair is

sticking up in the air. Um, anyway, I don't care. Uh, all right

Um, ok. Well, I think I'm gonna get out of here. I think I've

I've babbled on enough for today. Uh, remember if you have any questions you can go to ask the builder.com

Hit the S Tim page. You can get in touch with me there

Yes, I agree. I agree that he is a clown and I agree

He looks like one. I agree. I agree. Uh, yes, exactly. You're

exactly right. Oak Grove. I, I've talked about this for over a year. Um

here, here's what a lot of people don't know about the illness. I always call it the illness

I don't, I don't want to use the word because there's a reason why I don't wanna get banned

Uh, the size of the illness particle. Here's how big it is

You could put 900 of them side by side on the width of a human hair

All right, 900 of them side by side. So think how small that is

And then what I actually, what I laugh about the most is II I really

and it actually, it troubles me a lot because I, I, I

I just am so worried about it. It just shows you the power of psychology

I'm a student of psychology. I use it in my business all the time. I've told you this before

You need to read this book. It's called Influence. I am, you know

the word influence and the subtitle is the psychology of persuasion. So influence the psycho

Uh Actually, I'll put a link to it right here. I got a link to it. You need to read this book

Make sure that's right. All right. Um Go, go click that link

go get this book and here this book is gonna be a life changer for you

It's gonna save you. I don't know how old you are, but it's gonna save you thousands and thousands of dollars

If you're a younger person, if you're in your forties or fifties

it's gonna save you tens of thousands of dollars over your lifetime. Tens of thousands

Go get that book, go buy that book. And that psychology that Doctor Chinni talks about

is what's been in play the last two years and within, I'll just tell you real briefly

I, I like talking about this. I'll talk about this very quickly in each human being in you

Me, everybody, everybody, even people in the rainforest, you know who, who you might consider not civilized

There are like five or six really deep rooted psychological triggers. The easiest trigger to

to push the easiest button to push on somebody is the trigger of reciprocity

So, reciprocity, the example of reciprocity. So Steve, I don't know if they do this over in the UK

if you're still here. Uh, if you go to the grocery, I don't know what you call it there

Maybe you call it the market and you're there on a Saturday and, and

and there at the end of one of the aisles at the NCP is a little lady and with an apron on and she's got

a little table set up and she has these little samples of cheese or sausage or whatever with toothpicks in it

And if you may and, and, and she says, here, take, take a free sample to try out this cheese

And if you make the mistake, if you make the mistake of taking one of those pieces of cheese and you put it in your

mouth done, boom. Because here's what happens. The average person. Um

One of two things happens. One of two things guaranteed to happen. You go oh OK

I, I I'll buy some of that cheese and you put it in your shop, you put it in your buggy or if you don't

buy the cheese when you walk away, you have a, you feel guilty

you feel guilty maybe for a second or two, but you have this little bit of guilt going on

All right. That's how powerful that psychology is the most powerful psychological trigger of all is scarcity

Go, that's why we waterboard prisoners. And I don't mean to laugh about it

It's just that if you, if, if, if you, if you want to get somebody to do something

then you make something scarce. That's what scarcity is. So in the case of waterboarding a prisoner

we take away something, we make something scarce. That's very valuable air

we take air away. So if you do that, they start singing like a canary

So, in your everyday life, what's scarcity? It's simple. It's so simple

You, you'll, you'll get uh you must from some company you buy from all the time

Um They'll, you'll get an email every other day and say, hey

the sale on these long underwear ends on Friday night on Friday night

the sale is over. You're gonna start paying the normal price after Friday

That's scarcity. And how many times when you get that email? You go oh my God

I got, I gotta go buy this long underwear. Boom. They got you

They push the scarcity button and they predicted your behavior and they just got money out of you

So what's happened in the past two years across the world? They played the scarcity card

You're going to die. We're going to take your life away from you

You better do this or you're going to die. That's the ultimate scarcity play death

Death is the ultimate, you gotta read that book. I'm telling you right now

Um Gotta read that book. All right. So um it's right there in the chat Um All right

I'm gonna go. So, uh get the book and the reason, the reason that book will change your life

I'll just tell you this because you, your eyes are gonna be opened up as to how psychology is being used on you every day

It's being used on you by politicians. It's being used on you by all these companies and you'll be better armed to resist it and

you'll be better armed to figure out what's really happening because they use the psychology to spread

propaganda. All right. So you'll, you'll just, you, you'll have a much better

you'll, you'll be able to be resist and uh social proof. So social proof is probably

I'll just say it real quick. Social proof is a really powerful psychological trigger here

And, well, here's what social proof is. So social proof is and I wrote a letter to the editor about this 18 months ago

All of a sudden he, here, here's an example, here's an example of social proof

You're walk and Steve, maybe this has happened to you in the UK, you're walking to work, you're

you're, you know, you're in London and all of a sudden uh two blocks away

you see a huge crowd of people that it's very unnormal, like what's going on

I mean, that's the first thought in your head you're going like what's going on and you become very curious and you

you uh more often than not, you walk towards it. You wanna see what's going on

You, you don't want to miss out because maybe, maybe those people have

have figured out some, maybe they're giving away money, maybe whatever's happening there

they're giving away $100 bills. All right. That's social proof. So how did

so here's how social proof works in the real world. So if all of a sudden

like when you're kids, if you remember when you were a teenager, you wanted to be in the cool group

And if all the cool guys, like when I was growing up in grade school

the fashion trend for boys was Madra shirts, all the cool guys wore mare shirts

So I went home and said mom, I have to have a mare shirt. I have to have a mattress shirt and

and you know, and, and then it became the eyes of lacasse with the little alligators. And then

I mean, you see it now you see young kids succumb to this social proof where if

if it's, it could be a certain nail polish, it could be whatever. Uh That's social proof

Well, in, in our world of adults over the past two years, all of a sudden you see everybody wearing masks

you go oh man mask, maybe I should be wearing a mask

Maybe they know something. I don't know. That's social proof. That's why you have to read that book

Gotta go get that book and share that, share that link as far and wide as you can

I'm telling you, we have got to get people to wake up

Hm. Uh, yeah. Yeah, that's correct. That's happened. We saw that news story break this morning

Steve, uh, that probably was done with a drone, you know, the drone and they shot a

a maverick or some kind of missile down and boom, you know

blew the guy up. Yeah. Um, well, the, what you call me

Yeah, exactly. Uh All right. OK. I'm gonna get out of here

Uh, I appreciate you being here. Let me rant a little bit about

I love talking about the psychology. It's, uh, it's really interesting. I'm telling you

there's the link right there. You got to read that book. I'm telling you

it just, it's gonna save you money, it's gonna make your life better

Um, it's, it's really an amazing book. Uh, what I like about that book

I'll just tell you really quickly is Doctor Chinni, he'll, he'll tell you something

Then he gives you the case studies. It's a really easy book to read. You don't have to be a psychology major to understand it

And he gives you the case studies to prove to show you the proof. Here's an example

I'll tell you real quickly. This, this is amazing. This is really amazing. Uh OK

good night Steve just one quick before you leave Steve Yellows Smith. There was an example in there

It's called, uh it's called Commitment. Well, it's scary. It was a scarcity play and here's how they

here's how salesmen will use scarcity on you. This is so important and he gave an example of a company that sold billiard tables

And what happened is the way that the company sold billiard tables is the s people would walk in

The salesman would say, well, uh, hi, thanks for coming. What's your budget? And the people said

well, we've only got $400 to spend. So the salesman would just show them $400 tables as soon as the

and the, and the, and the, the experiment was. No, no, no, no, no, we don't care what their budget is

we don't care. And so the salesman started showing them the $1000 tables

they would show him the $1000 tables first, the most expensive ones. Then they showed him the $700 tables and then they showed him the

$400tables.Andas,andasyouwentfromthe1000downtothe400the,thetablesbecamecrappier.Inotherwords,you'retakingawaysomeofthereally

great things about the billiard tables. Well, guess what? The, the sales of the company almost doubled because many people started buying the

$700table.I'mtellingyouthis,noneofthisis.That'sthekindofstuffthat'sinthatbook.It'sreallygood.Fascinatingread.Allright.Goodnight

Steve. I'm got here too. I gotta go. Um, yes, you're right

A bit. Um, yes. Well, you're exactly right. Exactly. Right. Um, a bit

Vinyl is, I think that this economy is making people want to be more self sufficient

Yes, it is. It is. Exactly right. Shannon. Good night, buddy. Um

good night. Will. Good night. But vinyl. Good night, Steve, if you're still here

uh, Oak Grove. Great to meet you. Uh, uh, it's, uh, it's a new name and I

I know, I don't know you, I don't, you're watching, but I don't know who you are

Thanks for being here. I hope you liked it. Uh, we stray off the path sometimes if that's ok

I try not to get overly political, but I love talking about econom economic matters

uh, because that directly impacts what you do home improvement wise on your home

It really does. You may not think it does. I'm not necessarily an economist but I know enough about it to

uh, to know what's in play. All right. But I'll be here tomorrow guaranteed unless

um, unless, uh, that God thinks it's time for me to go up to heaven and start

you know, fixing plumbing problems up there. All right. Thank you so much

Thanks so much for being here and I had another good time and will and I might be busy tomorrow

Will and I, I don't know what's gonna happen with this weather. We'll see. Um

I could be dealing with 13 inches of snow tomorrow. We'll see. All right

Well, we'll keep in touch. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see what we wake up to tomorrow morning

Thanks for being here. Will. Thanks for being here for moderating, taking care of all the bad people and I am Tim Carter

You've been watching Ask the Builder and we're gonna have another great live stream

I hope tomorrow uh, your comments are what? Bring it to life. Believe me, I love, love

love your questions and your comments. Thanks a lot. Um Us, Steve still here

They don't want you to be. That's exactly right, Steve. You're exactly right

We talked about that just before you got on here. It's all on the Game of Thrones man

read, read book one of the Game of Thrones. Um uh And remember what Queen Cersei says

it's on my, it's on my card. I don't know if I've ever shared that to you, Steve

You might like to get one. I'm happy to mail one to you. Actually, one of my ham radio QSL cards

You'd really like that. I don't want to show you what that is. I want to surprise you. So if you email me your address

I'll mail you this. But look at this quote here. It says

I don't know if you can read that, but it says when you play the game of Thrones, you win or you die

And then what Queens she said there is no middle ground and that's exactly what is in play when you play the game of Thrones

And, uh, that's what politicians play every day. That's what the game of Thrones is all about

And it's also played in business. You know, the business world is a, is a separate game of Thrones

Ah, ah, yeah, power could happen. All right. I'm out of here

Thanks so much for being here. Thank you so much. I had a great time and

um, yeah. Yeah, but that's power outages are pretty common like that

Well, I mean, big ice storms, there can be a lot of power outages. There's gonna be a lot of people suffering for

for days. Not just hours. I can tell you that right now, but not me

I've got, I got filled up on propane. I just have, if I, if that standby generator comes on

I just have to go out there every eight hours and turn it off and check the oil level, I'm out of here

Uh, seriously. Um, you might like to have one of my business cards

Got a lot of neat information on the back. Ok, Steve Will Oak Grove

Eight bit vinyl. Um, Shannon's already gone. Uh, Lorena is getting her hair done

Um, and we missed Alex today. Alex is not here but he was busy

He was busy on a big plumbing job out in L A. Uh, I was getting pictures from him

All day. I'm out of here. Had a great time. Thanks so much for being here. I'll be here tomorrow