Ask the Builder History - Part Two LIVE Stream 03-01-2022 Ask the Builder
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http://www.AsktheBuilder.com founder, Tim Carter, shares the history of Ask the Builder. https://askthebuilder.com
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Good afternoon. Let's see if I can fix that hair. I'm Tim Carter
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This is Ask the builder and I'm live and it is snowing and it's March 1st 2022
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But we made it, we made it through winter. Uh, it still can be a little cold here in New Hampshire
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But the remarkable thing here is the sun is now getting high enough in the sky
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I mean, think about it. We're only, I think we're now less than three weeks away from the equinox
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I mean, that's crazy when you think about it and it's high enough in the sky that it really takes care of the snow
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It's really starts eating up the snow. One of the really interesting things here at my own home
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I'll, I'll, uh, I'll get a photograph of it today. Um, because I just piled up some snow in this corner of my
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um, house that, that faces south and it's a, it's actually a 90
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It's an inside corner. So when the sun, when it gets around noon and it's up there
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it hits off the, the, uh, the light yellow siding and it eats up the snow from behind
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It's really kind of fascinating. So I'll uh I'll get some photos of that. I think you might be interested in that
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There's a lot to share today. I'm gonna start talking in just a minute about
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I'm gonna finish the Ask the builder history today. And, you know
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we yesterday I had to make an ADR abrupt uh exit from the live stream and sorry about that
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give you the Bums Rush. Uh, but today we'll finish the history of Ask the builder
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Um, because it, you know, in other words, you have to realize as the builder started with a syndicated newspaper column
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then I kind of grew from there. It got, got pretty big. It's actually when I think back
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uh, it's really kind of interesting but before we do that, we're gonna, we're gonna, um
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we're gonna, um, I want to talk about a few other things
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Number one, I don't know that he's here yet. Uh, hey, Vanessa
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Hi, how you doing? Uh, but will, will, is probably gonna check in and will I got some sting solver for me
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He bought, um, well, he got, he got one of these little bottles
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All right. And, um, I know it's all washed out from the
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but it's a really beautiful blue, um, not teal but a different blue
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But anyway, he, uh, he loves coffee and he's got this wonderful stainless steel coffee
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um, car that they, I guess they brew the coffee and I, I don't know
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but it's stainless steel and the inside of it had turned as they all do this crazy
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horrible brown, almost black. And he's tried other ways to clean it
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It's always tough. And I told him, I said, um, well, all you have to do is fill it to the brim with hot water
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put in a tablespoon of stain sulfur and walk away and come back in the morning and empty it out and it's gonna look brand
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new and of course, rinse it out a couple of times and he did and I was right
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Wait till you see the photos he took. You are not going to believe the photos II
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I was hoping to get him ready today, but I was busy on this other project
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Here's, I'm, I'm, I've started my third book and it's really kind of a fun one to write
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It's gonna be kind of big and I'm getting help and I could use your help too
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In fact, I'll have to, um, give you the link. Um, uh Anyway
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I'll, I'll get that to you. I'll get that to you in a little bit, but I'm writing a book called
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uh Home Building Hacks. And what, what it is. It's, it's basically the
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the coolest things you probably never thought you could put in your home and should do in your home
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And often you think about these things after it's too late after the home is built
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Some of them are cheap. Some of them cost nothing extra to do
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Uh often they often cost nothing extra and some of them are kind of expensive but everybody's got a different budget
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Uh Yeah, Vanessa. Yeah. It, it's um, it, the stain silver. It's such an amazing product
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First of all, it's certified organic. I'm the one who makes it, um
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it's totally organic and like I told will, you're, you're not gonna have to scrub you just
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just dump it. It's literally, you know, that's not true with everything
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but at least with coffee stains just takes them right out with no scrubbing
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And uh he, he's just amazed, wait, wait till you see these photos
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I'm surprised he's not here yet. But yeah, it'll take care of glass ones
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Uh anything, anything, you know, tea like certain uh regular teas, hot teas are very staining and it'll do the same thing
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Clean all that a any food stain, any food stain, anything like that, it'll clean off
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Um Sure Vanessa. It's simple. Just go right here. Uh Let's see
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Eight great product. I'm the one who makes
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it. Um Yeah, all the cannons. Exactly. And um it, it just
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it's just a great product. All right. So, um anyway, so we're gonna hear
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I'm sure we're gonna hear from Will. Uh you know, the uh now
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um what else did I wanna say? Uh oh, very quickly. This is
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I, I don't know how how I came across this and then we're gonna talk about as the builder
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but I just wanted to share this. This is kind of very, this is really interesting. So about five years ago
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I was up in um Chicago on business and I had a little extra time and I
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whenever I have extra time, I always want to go in and see my editor um the syndicate
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you know, that, that syndicates my column is uh you know, Tribune is
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is, is Tribune content, you know, agency. And I, I've had the same editor for about 15 years
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He's a wonderful guy, Dave Dave MCA and he w what we have this common bond and that we um um
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that, that we like old homes and uh old things. We, we like all that stuff
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And so he said, hey, he said, if you got a little bit extra time, he said, I want we need to take a walk
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about three quarters of a mile up the, up the road. And uh I wanna show you something
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I said, sure man, let's go. It was kind of a chilly day, but it wasn't bad. We kept
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we kept warm walking. So he takes me up to just below Lincoln Park and right behind the archbishop that the archdiocese of Chicago has
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this huge beautiful mansion. I think it might be John as one of John Astor's house
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that multi multi billionaire back in the 18 hundreds I think. Not sure
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Might be anyway. Um, crutch word. So, the roads, many of the roads in Chicago used to be paved
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with wood. All right. So they still have, they, they decided to recreate one alley using some of the wood they salvaged
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Uh, and, and you can go see it. So, um, go see this. Um
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uh, so go, go, go see if you're up in Chicago. You have to
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you have to figure out a way to go up and see this alley. It's absolutely amazing
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But go to that website, I just put in there and, uh, take a look at that
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Um, take a look at that wood alley. Vanessa says I almost bought a farm with a home built in 1774 here in Connecticut
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Wow. So you, you live not too far away from me, you know, you're, you're down south about four hours or so
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Um, 1774 house. Wow. You know, if Steve was here and he'll probably ship a little bit
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he would just laugh at that. They consider that a new house in
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in, in London, you know, they got houses there that are 1000 years old
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All right. So let's get back on to the acid builder stuff and then I realize if you have any questions about anything
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uh, put them in the, uh Bradley International. Ok. Got it. Good for you
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Um, I'm trying to think, isn't that, um, is that in Hartford
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I'm trying to think. I, I, I've never flown into Bradley, so
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I don't know. But I thought it was, uh, I thought it was
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uh, I thought it was in Hartford. Anyway. Um, hello, William. Glad you're here
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Um, yeah. So, anyway, ask the builder yesterday
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at the, if, if you wanna hear the, be the true beginning of how I even became as the builder
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You gotta watch yesterday's live stream. So that would be the February 28th 2022
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So watch that live stream. I the whole stream is devoted. It's really kind of an interesting story
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A lot of different people had parts in it. Actually, I forgot to mention yesterday
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one of the most important people of all without him, I wouldn't be here today on this video
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I'm telling you my father-in-law, uh doctor Doctor Dan Whalen. So Doctor Whalen
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a great guy. He was a medical doctor, but he was also a real estate investor
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That's what he did as a hobby. So he was pretty excited about me starting to buy old homes and fix them up
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Well, he wanted to teach me a lesson. He, you know, when this first house came up for sale that I bought in April of
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1975 he said, well, go see if you can get a bank loan. Well, he knew I couldn't get a loan
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but he didn't tell me that. So I I start going around to try to get a loan and every place just turned me down
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you know, and, and those that had the guts to tell me, they said, well, you're
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you're only 22 years old. What do you know about remodeling? You don't know
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squat. So, they just thought I was too high of a risk and, but he did that on purpose because he wanted to see
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uh, how diligent I was and I probably went to 10 or 15 banks
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And finally, you know, he check in with me every other day and I would tell him
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yeah, I just went here, I just went there, I just went here, I just went there and he finally said, listen
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he said, you're not gonna get a loan. He said, uh, here's why, blah, blah, blah. He says
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I'm gonna just finance it. I'm gonna write the check. I, I'll
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I'll, I'll lend you whatever money you need and you just pay me back and
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uh, you'll get this first house done. So that's exactly what we did and we act
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he actually financed the second one too, part of it. And it's really kind of interesting right behind that door
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right here, right behind this door. I've got a box of, of, I, I, I'm
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I inherited the Pack Rats disease from my mom. And so I have a lot of really cool stuff as a result
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I've kept a lot of stuff and I kept, um, um, I
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what happened is every time I wrote him a check, you know, we had extra money
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Kath and I worked, every time we had extra money, I wrote him another check for 1000 bucks
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which was a lot of money at the time. And, and I printed out a receipt
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you know, I made him sign a receipt that he got the check and I have every single one of those signed receipts uh in
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a file folder. It's pretty cool and you know, to prove cause II I was kind of thinking ahead
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I, yeah, I let's just say um maybe not everybody in Kathy's family likes me and
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and so I didn't want to get into a dispute with, with
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with the heirs, the other heirs of the estate saying, oh you got all this money and you never paid it back like
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well, you know what? Yes I did. Here's the, here's the proof
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All right. So anyway, um yeah, north of Hartford. Thank you, Vanessa
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Hello orange drink. Um Here we go. So that, so Doctor Whalen
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my father-in-law, totally responsible. Without him financing those two houses, I can pretty much assure you I would not be here
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He uh who knows what I would have ended up doing, who knows
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But those two houses launched my career and, and gave me such a huge amount of confidence by the time
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I was 25 I mean it was intoxicating. All right, he had an old saying
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nothing builds success. Like success took me years to understand it, but now I understand it
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Wow, Vanessa, you've got a really interesting history. That's really cool. Um
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I don't know, you're gonna, I, I'll tell you what, I don't know anything about this
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I, I don't know where there could be shade in a tobacco field
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I thought that every field, whether it's tobacco, corn, soybeans, canola, whatever is out in the sun
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So I don't know how you could be in the shade, working in a tobacco field. All right
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here we go. Pick it up now. So I early, early in my ask the builder career when I actually had started
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as the builder. So it officially started October 2nd or October 3rd of 1993
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That's when the first column was published in the Cincinnati en chore
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Right after that, I started to as rapidly as possible, add as many papers as possible to the list
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And I was self syndicated. I was making the phone calls myself. I was doing the billing
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I was getting the columns to the papers. It was really hard back in the day. Um I remember I had just
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I had been using computers for about six years. My first computer which I still have in that room back behind me for posterity was
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a Texas instrument. Uh was I clone of the IB MP, the PC
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the first IBM PC. And I used a program called pro com
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This crazy D OS program called Pro Com which allowed me to directly connect from my computer into the mainframe computers of the newspapers
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to upload my column. Isn't that crazy? The what happened is I started to add papers as rapidly as possible
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And, uh, all of a sudden I had 3040 papers uh, within a year's time was not doing too bad
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And with the extra money I made from, from selling those builder bulletins
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those little mail in things. 22 page sheets people bought for me for originally a dollar and a quarter that went to a dollar 50
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then it went to $2 then it went to $3 with inflation. Um Oh
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ok. Uh Interesting. Wow. I learned something today. Cotton nets on poles
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the shade keeps the leaves grow to large size for interesting. Very interesting
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I did not know that. Wow. Yes, I told people that you will
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Uh you're gonna have to tell the story yourself uh in the comments
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So I I'll let you do the testimonial. Here's where it got really interesting
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So remember if, yeah, if you, if you were here yesterday and you listened
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if not, you're gonna have to go back and listen. I told you the story about how
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what, what really got me into um you know, got, got me to launch the column was this interaction I had with another
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dad at an Irish dancing fest that my daughter went to and of course
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my daughter, you know, played sports as well. So, I don't know
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I'm, I'm doing my column for about, I don't know, four or five months and it
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it was, I don't know, February, it was right around this time of year and I go to a basketball game
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you know, kids basketball game at her school and I'm sitting right next to some parents we knew and
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um, that morning that it was a Saturday morning, that Saturday morning
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I had actually been a guest on a home improvement radio show in Cincinnati
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done by Gary Sullivan. And, and once I started answering the questions better than he could
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He stopped letting me talk on the radio. So that was kind of cool
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And so I, I'm next to this dad and I knew that the dad was the program director at
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at the big FM oldest station in town. Uh, his name was
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uh, Marty Thompson. And I said, hey, you're not gonna believe what, um
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what happened today. He goes what? And I told him he, he looked at me and goes
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well, how would you like your own home improvement radio show? I said
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seriously. He said, yeah, he said, I'll, I'm one of my buddies up in Hamilton
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They're trying to get one going and I'll, he's a real good friend of mine and blah
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So once again, connections. And, uh, five weeks later I'm on the air on 1450 wmoh
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I still have a bunch of my recordings in the other room. I have all of them basically
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Uh, I, I have, well, there's a few that are missing. I don't know where they are. And so I did a call and I
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did the, so the, the Builder radio show started in April of 1994 and I did that show for 12 years
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and, uh, turned into a two hour show. A lot of fun calling radio is so much fun
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It's all live and I, I ran the board. I'm a tech guy
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So if you've never run the board in a radio studio, that's a lot of fun
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And, uh, you know, and it was always a challenge because, uh, I had to hit the hard news break at
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at the top of the hour. I mean, it, and it's, it's, you have to be right on the money
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I mean, you cannot, um, and if you ever watch some of these cable news shows
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I mean, because I've, I've been in this industry, I, I know how hard it is and I can tell when
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when they're, and, and they've got the benefit that they've got producers through their IFB
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tell them, go, go, go 321. I mean, they're counting down and the person sometimes gets flustered or they
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um, they go too fast. Uh, you know, they, they, they miss the heartbreak in other words
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they do a really bad job in the transition. I didn't have any of that. I just had a clock
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you know, I just like, so I, I don't know, I'm just
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I'm kind of getting off the track here, but it's really kind, I just get a lot of enjoyment
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One of the best guys I think on, um, um, who really is really good at hitting the hard break
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There were two people, uh Martha mccallum, really good at hitting heartbreaks
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And, um, Brian K mead, both those people, they, they get it
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they understand how to do it really perfect at, at just getting it perfectly
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I mean, within a, a half a second. Um All right. Um All right
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So, uh, here we go. Let's keep on going. So I did the radio show
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started the radio show. So that's so as the builder started a newspaper
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went to radio. So I plod along, um, for a little bit and
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but also this is really important, uh, at the, at, back in the
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in the early, I don't know, back in the late, uh, 19 eighties
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I had found out about, you know, not so much the internet. I didn't realize it was the internet
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but there were local bulletin boards and I found out about this bulletin board and it was just basically
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if you, if you're old enough like me and you know, that these bulletin boards, they were just like a forum like a chat session
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and there was a guy running one. I don't know how I met him, Steve Shoemaker cannot remember that
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Um, but he asked me to if I wanted to do a home improvement one
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So I started this home improvement board back in Cincinnati, Ohio in the late 18 8
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19 eighties. And, uh then what happened is I became part of this computer club
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Texas Instrument Computer Club and one of the guys in that computer club
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um, in 1995 I remember it was September of 1995. He, he said
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uh, he said you should come over to my house. I wanna show you something, you know, I want to show you this thing called
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the internet. And I go the internet. What's that? And he said, well
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just come over. So once, if, I don't know if you're old enough to have remembered the internet in 1995 but it's nothing like it
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is now. Um, virtually no pictures, uh, or the pictures that were
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there were very small, all just text true, old fashioned blue hyperlinks
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Uh, and so I'm at his house and he's saying, ok, he fires up his computer
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probably got a 1200 bod modem. And, um, he, uh, we, we get on the internet and I
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I forget which website we're at. It doesn't matter. And I'm going
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how are you doing this? He goes, well, it's through the phone lines. Really? Well
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where's that? Where are we, where, where is that place? And he goes
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I don't know, you know, I don't know what's doesn't matter. He said it doesn't matter what city it's in
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There's, there's all these places we can go to. And so, um, he says
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but watch this, he said, see that, see that blue word there
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those words, he says, watch what happens when I take my mouse up and click it
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So he clicks it. And then, you know, I remember 1200 pot modem and all of a sudden we're at a completely different website
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in my III I wish we would have a photo of me. But I went like this
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I was blown away and I instantly got it. I thought, oh my gosh
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people are gonna be able to get information really fast. And I then through the Steve Shoemaker
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guy, he had a partner. I made a deal with them. I think it was for 500 bucks
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They built the first version of Ask the Builder and they built it with software
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I mean, they code, they wrote it was really well, Dave Dumont was the guy. He's the coder
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He wrote it all. And uh luck. And here's the thing that you need to know
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Back in 1995 the average web page, the average website, average website had 3 to 5 pages
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That's all I launched as the builder with 200 pages because I already had 100
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columns that I had already written and I had 100 Builder bulletins
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And you have to also realize that way back when I started the column, I was smart enough to maintain and keep the copyright myself
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I, I am the copyright of everything I did, right? Let me get caught up on the comments before they disappear in case something is
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important there. And you've got a question. Um OK, Vanessa uh last year
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no more shade tobacco was grown for the first time since these early as. Wow. Uh Vanessa filling space for 24 hours continuously difficult
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I don't know. I'm sorry, but I don't know what that means. Oh, William
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you've been watching since my first dream. Awesome William. Uh has everyone hit the like button
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Thank you. Uh Pre windows time. Oh, of course. It was pre windows. Yeah
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I reme I actually remember when I think window. Yeah, because remember when I started
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it was MS D so I can actually go into the room back there and show you. I've got the original MS Dos five and
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a quarter inch floppies. I've got the manual. I've got the original MS Dos manual right
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right behind that door right there. Um Vanessa, I began my BS degree in 1995 to return the US Air Force
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Well, thank you for your service. I did not realize you put your life on the line for us
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Thank you. Uh My dad, my dad got the bronze star in World War Two
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these are just fun type in the address IP address we could discover exactly
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This was pretty exact. Well, you can still type in IP addresses. Um
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you know, people, you know, most, I guess they figured out long ago that they needed to have words because people would never remember all
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those crazy numbers. Uh, you know, but I forget what the IP address is for the builder
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but you can just type in the number. Um will says worked with punch cards and paper tape and navy days
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Yeah, exactly. Love the history. Yeah, awesome. You guys got you say
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Yeah, so yeah, the old dial up internet. Yeah. Isn't it great
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Um All right. So let's see. Where was I So radio show? Oh internet
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So, um I know exactly where I was. I see the internet
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I'm driving home going, I need a website call Steve Shoemaker. He gets Dave involved
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And by, um, I guess we launched as the builder by November 1st
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But here's the really cool story. This is, this is totally true
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Uh And it's really good. I'm doing this. Uh Where's Rocco at? Rocco
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Thank you for um this great idea because um cause I don't know that I would ever write all this out anyway
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Crutch work, you know, I'm, I'm kind of a natural salesperson and so I um
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found out I was doing some research and I found out that Pella, Pella might have been so Pella windows
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It's possible that pe A was the first home improvement product manufacturer on the internet
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There may have been somebody before them, but I have no clue it was. I find I somehow find out about this
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So I call up Pella and I get in touch with um the marketing manager and I'll never forget her name
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Marianne Butterworth. And you have to understand this is really important. The website is not yet built
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It's, I'm not live yet. So this is like sometime in October
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And I, uh I say, I say, Mary Ann, I said, um I'm Tim Carter
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I'm launching my website here in less than a month
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They say I'm gonna have 200 pages and I have these newspapers that are gonna publish
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This is really important. Understand this. I was so lucky. I didn't realize I had all this stuff
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The newspapers will publish at the end of my column, my website address
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So that really got our attention. All right. And, uh you know
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I gave her a list of all the papers I was in, I said
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so I wanna see if you're interested in buying an ad for my website. And she said
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oh, yeah, yeah. She said, in fact, you, your timing couldn't be better
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She said, uh we're getting to the end of our, our year, our, our fiscal year and I've got
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she says I've got $15,000 in, in my ad budget that I have no idea to spend it on
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She said, but I just now decided she said, but I, I'd like to have a little re reminder
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She said, if I don't spend it, I'm not gonna get it next year. She said, so I have to spend it
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So she said, would, you, would you take $13,500 uh and give me put
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put our a banner ad A P A banner ad on top of um every page of the website and do that for six months
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I said, so you have to remember like the ability to report uh views
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and clicks all that was so basic and she didn't even ask for any of that
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So she sends me a check within seven days. I got $13,500 for my first ad buy and I hadn't even been live
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yet. So ask the builder has been in the black since day one. All right. So
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I mean, it's a true story. It's crazy. All right. So, so then I just started
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I just then. So from 1995. So this is, remember this is September
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October, November of 1995. So that's when I asked the builder launched and I continue down the timeline
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All right, I'm just working hard on the internet, loading up new content every week
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Uh Trying to sell more papers and things are just rolling along
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Let me check the comments before um, they stream off the screen for me
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Um Vanessa has got some a Ri Vanessa. You've got a rich history in the internet here
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Cool stuff. Uh com 64. Wow. The intense a phone line. 300 bot
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Yeah. 300 bot. I had my first modem was 300 bot. Uh Wow
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Crazy. All right. So this is, uh, this is, I'm glad this is bringing back memories for you too
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This is wonderful. All right. So 1995 1996 we're just
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kind of moving down the timeline, selling more papers, sell, I'm selling ads
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All right, I'm selling ads myself. You have to understand this is before Google even existed
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All right. Um, and I don't, I cannot remember how this happened
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how the next thing happened. Oh, I think I know how this should have been early
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This should have been like 1998 maybe the fall of 98. Uh
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we have four television networks in Cincinnati, um ABC NBC, CBS and Fox
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And so Fox, the Fox station was always kind of a little bit of an outlier
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you know, they were the rogue TV network, you know, they didn't have the rich history that the big three had
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And the, of course, if, if the managers are doing their job or the program directors
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you know, they're scanning all the media not only are they scanning their TV competitors but radio and newspapers
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So they, they had found out that I was doing a radio show and they knew that I had
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um, the newspaper column in the Inquire. And, um, I'm, I got
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got a phone call one day from them and they, they said would, would you like to come down once a week and do a
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live, like, tool or some type of little demonstration uh on our morning news show
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And I said, sure, you know, why not? You know, I, what, what I got to lose anything I can do to promote
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ask the builder no pay involved. So I got to do live television with the
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the morning host that, you know, the woman and the man and the man at the time was a guy named Pat Barry and a
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funny guy and he's very talented. Well, I, OK, I had no training
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No, nothing. I did not realize that he was trying to make this into an entertainment s presentation
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not necessarily infomercial, you know, or not infomercial, not informative, you know
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and I'm trying to be more informative, you know, because I'm thinking I'm on television and I
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I have to look professional and he's sitting here flipping goofing around. So
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so I, I finally figured it out. We, so we started to have a lot of fun
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you know, I would go in once a week and unfortunately none of these were recorded
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I, I, they're, they're probably all vaporized, who knows where they are, but I didn't record them and I don't even think I had a
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VCR at the time. Who knows? Maybe vcrs didn't even exist. I don't know
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I can't remember back that far about that stuff. Uh, so, so here's what
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here's what I also learned. I, I, um, when I would go into the studio
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if you've never been in a television studio, very interesting place. And they have
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it, it's, you might have seen some of this in movies and television shows
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but they have a bank of TV monitors up and they're tuned to all the competitors
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All right. So, so because they, because the news guys want to see what everybody else is doing in case there's breaking news or whatever
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even though, you know, they got a police scanners going off, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a very busy place
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The, the news director or the, one of the producers at the channel nine ABC station must have seen me one morning
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and went, what the hell? And they, they reached out to me and said
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uh we need you to come down and do a test. Uh WW we need you to do a audition
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Uh because we uh we need a new person to do a weekly segment on our news
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Oh, ok. So I did, I went down and did an audition. I passed, I got the job and they were paying money
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they paid really good money. And here's, this is really interesting by that time
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So this is 1999. Um, when this was happening, I, I had been doing the internet for enough years
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four years. And, and of course, back then, if you remember we had those big clunky monitors
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All right. They, they were televisions. All right. I knew that much
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I went, this is nothing but a television. And I said to myself
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while I was doing the channel nine, the Fox stuff, Fox 19
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I said to myself one day driving back, I said, you know what? There's gonna be video on the internet one day
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There's no doubt about it. It couldn't support it at the time. The infrastructure
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the modems could not handle it. I mean, they would just burn up. I mean
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they couldn't handle all of the electrons that had to flow through it
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It, it, it'd be like trying to power your house with a tiny 18 gauge wire
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I mean, you would just fry it. All right. So I, um
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so when they said we want you to do this job, I said
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ok, I said, here's the deal though. I said I'll be your guy and I'll take that money
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You're offering me every week. But I own the copyright on everything I do because I'm the guy on camera
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I'm the guy writing the script. All you're doing is sending a videographer out and um and I
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and said, and I said, furthermore, I want to have a copy of each segment that you have to give me
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you know, a VHS copy. And, and at the end of it
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it's tagged with me saying something different. In other words, if I was
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here's an example, um I would say, um like at the end of a video
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let's say I was doing a video about this tape measure. I would go, you know, if you want a really great electronic tape measure
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make sure you get one like this. I'm Tim Carter for eyewitness Nine News
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And the videographer would hold his thumb up saying good, good, good ending
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Then I would go, I go, I would go, I go, are you ready? He go. Yeah. And remember if you really want to go
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if you want a really good tape measure, get one like this. I'm Tim Carter for ask the builder.com and he'd go bingo
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So then the next week he would come to record me and he would hand me my tape that it was already already post produced
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Beautiful, done everything. It's got my ending on it. All right. So
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and, and I, and, and they never, and they agreed to that and they never asked me why I wanted it and
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and I wasn't about to tell them, I mean, they, they could not see that far ahead and the reason why if you've ever worked
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in that industry is, it's absolute insane. I, I can't even believe that anybody in the television industry
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like the television news industry makes it past age 50. I'm serious
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I can't believe it. The stress level is so flipping high and all that they care about
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You have to, it's a really interesting world. Like, if you look at your life each day you might be thinking about a year from
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now or two years from now, or five years from now, like, oh, you know
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I, I think we're gonna do, I think I wanna travel next year to the Grand Canyon. Whatever
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If you work in the television news department, here's how far ahead you think
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you think till six pm that day? That's it. That's all you think about six pm actually
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You know, because, because you have to have your flipping segment done before they go live
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You have, there's no excuses. They have to fill that air time
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So, so, so that they're in this mindset, they've got these blinders on
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They don't care, they don't care about the factory that's gonna burn down three months from now
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They don't care about the airplane crash a week from now. They don't care about any of that stuff
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It hasn't happened yet. So they didn't even think about the internet
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So I was able to negotiate that and that was a huge win on my part
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Let me get caught up on the comments all right. Um, Vanessa
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and will, are going back and forth about their military days. Good for them
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Uh, oh, yeah, I got paid. It was pretty good money. Um
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VCR. You're right. They can go look it up, they can go
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they can go look it up. What a VCR was, uh, video
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so, video cassette recorder. Um, uh, cat, the ray tubes. Yeah, I've got a bunch of Catholic
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radio tubes right in the other room there. I've got all I got about seven or eight old radios
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Um, you know, the old old fashioned radios from the 1819 twenties
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19 thirties. Um, copyrights are important. Yeah, absolutely. Uh John Rep. Hi John
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Uh though I had my first PC in 1981. 19. It was a 19 with email
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I could learn the heads of one way. Yeah. Crazy. Uh I got a really interesting story about email how
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dangerous it is. If I can get to it later, somebody just remind me later on about uh what's the battle that's going on here
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in my ho a oh man, I'm gonna fry my board in just two days
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Oh my God, the atom bomb. I told I showed them that I had the atom bomb three weeks ago I showed
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I told you that story about the atom bomb back in the past uh live streams
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So when you're in negotiation with somebody really quickly, if, if you're in this battle and you think you've got the winning hand
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You have to fly your plane over the other people and open up your Bombay doors and you tell them
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look up there that's an atom bomb. And if you don't, if you don't agree to this
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I'm gonna drop the atom bomb. I learned that from a really great attorney in Cincinnati
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Lou Katz. And so I, I did that, like, three weeks ago I told the board here in my HOA
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I said, look, I've got the flipping atom bomb. I'm serious. I have an atom bomb and
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um, if you don't back off this thing, I'm gonna drop the atom bomb. Well
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they haven't backed off, so I'm dropping the flipping bomb. The AM L is already queued up
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man. I don't know if you know this, if you've got Gmail, I don't know if you, if you use one of the big powerhouse
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emails, uh the gmail introduced us, I think about a year ago
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a lot of people don't even know about it. You know, typically they're writing an email
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they see that big blue button and they just click, send. Well, pay attention right next to the word send is part of the blue
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button is a little arrow, click the arrow next time. And um
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all of a sudden the little window opens up and you can schedule the send of the email to a future date at a future
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date and time in case you just want the email to go out in the future. And I did that for this email
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It's already queued up. It's ready to go. It's like the planes in the air flying towards the target
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It's amazing. All right, let's keep going here. Um, all right. So where was I
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uh, oh, channel nine, channel nine getting the TV segment. So that would have been 19 9 in it
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So I, I worked for channel nine for quite a few years and um he had a great videographer and what was really cool
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His name was Ron Fisher. And he taught me so much about how to do video and
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and here's, here's the interesting thing. If you, if you go and watch a lot of videos here on youtube
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especially ones in my, in my vertical, they, they suck. Most of them suck
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Uh Not all most because the people don't understand the value of cutaway shots and most people don't like to do cutaway shots because it's
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so much work. I mean, it's takes a lot, I mean, to do a three minute video
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you may spend 45 minutes of, of recording or more and you have to do things multiple times
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the same thing, you have to do the same thing multiple times, you know, because you wanna get a wide shot
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you wanna get a close up shot. Anyway, I learned all that from Ron and uh invaluable information to make good videos really
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really good. The um Then what happened is II, I ended up kind of
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my star was rising and I would get invited to all these editors conferences which were really in informational
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I got to travel all kinds of places. Um companies would, would bring in editors
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uh you know, to, to um uh you know, to these conferences for a day or two
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always, uh most of them were a lot of fun. Uh not all of them. Uh
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but, uh, you know, I, I got to make friends with a lot of the people that
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you know, my peers, uh, that, you know, I, I had some friendly competitors and
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and I had, I never really felt challenged because I just looked at there's so much information and since I'm only writing a weekly column
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I mean, literally there are hundreds of thousands of topics in home improvement
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Other words, I could, I could write, um, there are, there are probably 100 and 5200
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maybe 300 columns you could write just about drywall. I mean, just very finesse things like just how to use a different
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how, how do you use a, a specific taping knife? How to use a 10 inch one
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How to use a 12 inch one? How do you use an eight inch one? Um, how to use a banjo
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Um, you know, just how, how, you know, the special drywall primers
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how to skim co, I mean, I, I could just so, so in other words
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I didn't feel that I didn't care that there were other guys doing it because it's like
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well, so what, go, go write about what you write about. I'm going to write what I write about. We'll never odds of us crossing
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paths pretty, pretty minimal. And that's exactly what happened. The, um, um
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so then what happened kind of fast forward. I, uh, discover. I was
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I helped start in 1999 a very secret internet mastermind group and I can't really tell you much about it
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Uh But there's some really, really powerful people in it and I was fortunate to be surrounded by some people in this group
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very, very successful, very early adopters of stuff. And one of the people one day told me
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he, he was saying, oh, you know, there's this new thing out called Google Adsense
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you know, Google was probably by this time, about three years old, four years old, maybe
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And, and, and I, um I was kind of poo pooing it
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you know, because up until this time I said I want all my own ads and
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and uh we were at a buffet, a breakfast buffet, I'll never forget
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I'm not gonna tell you this guy's name and he bent over and he whispered in my ear
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He said, Tim, he said, uh you really should look into this
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He said my check from Google last month was $30,000. My
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eyes went like this like, whoa. And I looked at him, I said, are you serious
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He said, yeah, and he said you need to be doing this because you can make big money
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He says, I, I know what the, the ads are costing in your area
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So I couldn't, I couldn't put the code on my website fast enough and
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and I became um the p the poster boy for Google Adsense for Google
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you know, and they um they used me like a tissue, it was really kind of a bad deal
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Um But, you know, I also was smart enough to realize they're the big gorilla
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So I didn't wanna um sure wasn't gonna say no. And as a result I got invited to like the first three Google Zeitgeist
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which were very secret affairs. Um looking back. Um not so good
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I mean, just like some of the people that were there just um I don't know
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I, I don't really don't want to talk about it here, but I got, I was iiii I ate lunch one day at Zeitgeist was
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sitting, he, the guy sitting next to me was the librarian of Congress
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Did you know there was a guy named and there's only been like nine of them
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I mean, once you get this job, you keep it for like 40 years or so, 3040 years
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this old guy. And I mean, his business card, it had his name and all it said was Librarian of Congress
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No phone number, no address. No, nothing. I don't think I, I think I lost it
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It's like, oh, and he said, oh, yeah, anytime you want to come for a private tour
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you know, totally to see all this stuff, no one gets to see. Just let me know. I never took a B on it
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What a mistake. Uh, so, you know, to be able to get into the deep areas of all the historic stuff in the Library of
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Congress. Could you imagine that? All right. So um all right. So let's see
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I'm getting up to 2005. So uh what happened then is, and one of the zeitgeist
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you know, of course Google hiring the smartest people they knew about internet
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they knew about video. Uh youtube. It had already started, but it was really tiny Google did not own youtube at that point
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They had a thing called Google video. You might not, you might not know this, it wasn't there for very long
45:56
So just like Google has got Gmail and Google other stuff. So they had a thing called Google video and the people who ran Google
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video knew I was gonna beat the zeitgeist. They pull me off to the side and they say
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hey, um we're from Google video and we were wondering like, have you thought of doing any home improvement videos
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And I went, oh, I already have some really that you do
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How many do you have? I said I've got over 200. They said what I said
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yeah, they're already reproduced. They're already done. They're ready to load up
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They were blown away. They, they, they, we, we couldn't get them up on Google videos fast enough
46:39
And then a few months later, Google buys youtube for $1.8 billion
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I think. So, Google video got loaded into, got, you know, got folded into youtube and just disappeared
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And I became one of the first fif I was one of the 1st 50 partners of Google and I was the first home improvement
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channel on Google on youtube. Uh So, um so that's why I'm here today on youtube
47:02
All right. So I've, I've had this very long relationship with them ever since day one
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And uh so I think that's kind of where we're at. I mean
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I, not that after that after 2005, um that was probably the
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the, the most innovation e everything since then. Uh You know, I
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I've um I've tried to branch off. I, I got hurt really bad by Google in 2011 overnight
47:29
I lost 95% of my traffic and revenue in the panda update
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So if you know anything about the E every now and then Google shakes the snow globe
47:38
that's what we call it. They do a major algorithm update and it completely shuffles all of the results that you see when you look
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for something on Google and here's III I know I mentioned this in the past
47:50
I was probably in a bad mood, um, several months ago, but I
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um, I'll just tell you this again if you do a search on Google and if you think that the top three
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results you get back, if you think those are the best results for that topic
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I've got a bridge to sell you in New York. I've got a
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I've got this really awesome one to sell you in San Francisco. You're not gonna believe this bridge in San Francisco
48:20
I'm gonna sell you and it's not the crappy one going over to Oakland. All right
48:24
And in other words, Google, the results that come back in Google are
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are there to favor Google? Not you. In other words, if you think
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if you think for a moment that the search results you get back on Google
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are there to help you and, and, and that, that's the, that they're really thinking about you and trying to give you the best information
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about that topic. You are flipping dreaming and what's really gotten bad in the last 5
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10 years. They're censoring content. All right. So you're only getting one side of
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of, of an issue or story? That's, that's bad. Right. So that's
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that's different. All right. So, so what I've done in the last
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um, few years and what I'm trying to focus on right now uh is basically creating more content but all content that I don't
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put up on my website, I don't put up on youtube. Uh It's just content that I'm selling myself because um I learned a long
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time ago, you want to have multiple pillars of income and you really don't wanna build your platform
49:38
you don't want to build your audience on some other platform. Like in other words here
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it's really um I can tell you story after story after story of
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of influencers like me who started out on Facebook or started out on Instagram and all
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all of a sudden they've got 100,000 followers and whatever and then all so that when they post something
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100,000 people see it, then all of a sudden Facebook changes the rules
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I, well, I should call them fascist book because that's what it really is. So fascist book goes
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we're not gonna show your post to 100,000 people. Sorry, we're only gonna show it to 500 and
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and you go, what, what, what, what about the other 99,500? And they go
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well, sure we we'll show it to them but you need to pay us. So Instagram has done that
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A a all of those platforms are doing it. So it's a huge mistake to try to
50:31
to try to build your business on somebody else's platform. That's why I have my newsletter
50:38
Uh That's why I put so much importance on my newsletter and why you should be on my newsletter list because if you want all
50:45
the really good stuff, you gotta be on the newsletter list. Simple as that. And
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uh, I just finished my second book. I'm, I'm, I've just started my third one this morning and the third one is gonna be amazing
50:57
Uh, new home building hacks. So wait till you see that book. Oh my gosh
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So that's the story of, ask the builder. All right, if you got any questions, put them in the chat
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happy to, happy to answer. So, Vanessa is, uh, really going in
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uh, you're going down memory lane, aren't you young lady that all those years in the Air Force
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Good for you? Yeah, same thing with Amazon. Exactly. Uh, yeah. Well
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I just, you have to understand with Google that they, this is kind of a
51:30
it's kind of a very quirky thing in a way, uh, here in America because we're capitalistic
51:35
at least for now every day we seem to be going the wrong way
51:40
Uh, the board of directors of Corp of publicly traded corporations. All right
51:47
Understand that the board of directors of publicly traded corporations of which Google has won
51:52
You know, now it's alphabet. They have a responsibility to the shareholders to make the most amount of money that they can
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legally. All right, that's, that's in the law. If they don't do it
52:06
the shareholders can sue them. All right. So with that hanging over your head
52:15
you have to understand. Google is gonna put in the search results
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the things that make Google the most money. Come on. It's their job
52:26
it's their job for the shareholders. The shareholders come first. You come second
52:31
maybe even third. Oh, turn 60. You're still a pup. You're still
52:41
a puppy. Oh my gosh. Hey, Jimmy, how are you doing? If you have any questions about
52:47
ask the daughter, now's the time to ask him. I don't know how long the delay is today. Yesterday
52:51
we were having a horrible time, horrible delay in the chat. It was delayed, like five minutes
53:03
There we go. You know what to do with that will, the
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um, now that Vanessa, now that I know that Vanessa is only four hours away
53:13
um, I'm, you know, maybe, maybe we should, maybe I should have a New England meet up
53:19
I was gonna have a New Hampshire one here, maybe in a month because I've got some people closer in
53:25
but maybe, maybe people would be willing to drive 234 hours, you know
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to, to come to come, you know, have a, have lunch or something
53:34
I don't know, having a very extended lunch. So, something to think about
53:40
Um, all right. So I shared with you earlier if you, if you did not
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um, if you just kind of tuned in, um, trying to retire two more times before 80
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Me too. Me too. Uh I'm gonna paste back in this. Um
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oh, I know what I needed to tell you the ho a story. Um Right
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So there is a thing I talked about right at the beginning of the stream. Very interesting
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Uh, place up in Chicago. It's a little alley. In other words, the
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the streets of Chicago, many of them years ago, many years ago before the Chicago
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the great Chicago fire, they paved them with uh wood blocks. Go look at that page pretty interesting
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Um Oh yeah, good for you. Uh Well, my daughter, so I drive by Bangor
54:34
somewhat frequently. Um My oldest daughter lives in Bar Harbor, so we have to drive up I 95 and as you well know
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get off at exit 182 A to head down, um head down towards Ellsworth
54:49
you know, to cross over into the island. Well, if you, uh so Vanessa
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if you're ever traveling up to Bangor and you want to take a little bit of a detour
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uh and you have good friends up on top of New Hampshire anyway, um meet up for coffee or lunch one day if you're kind
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of near central Hampshire, just let me know, you know how to do that. Just go to the tim page
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Fill it out. Tell me who you are, blah, blah, blah. And uh I'll remember there's no doubt about it
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Say, hey, I'm Vanessa from the live stream. I know. Ok. Um
55:26
the other thing I wanted to share right now is, uh, so here I, I've kind of
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I teased a little earlier. I, I'm in this battle. Um, um
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up here in my ho a where they're trying to get the
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they need to get a two thirds vote, two thirds majority to do this, um
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to pass a short term rental bylaw amendment. Evidently there's, it's really popular right now for a lot of these communities to try to restrict
55:53
private property rights of homeowners like me to be able to rent my property. And evidently over the past year
56:01
last summer and maybe the summer before some, there were some renters that were here that were a little obnoxious on the beach
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And so that, that got people on a tizzy. So they wanted to do this
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this short term rental agreement and, and at first the first time they tried, it was a month and a half ago and they came
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up with a six month, like, if you wanted to rent your house fine, you got to do it for six months
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Like, are you crazy? That's nuts. And they shouldn't even do it anyway
56:26
It's, it's private property. I get to do what I want. And it's, uh, and, and there's a thing get there
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So I've done a lot of research, uh, in, in, in the legal landscape
56:35
There's a thing for, for hoas, like mine and other condominiums and just other places that
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that are hoas when the original developer writes the original bylaws, that's considered what it's called the scheme
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of development. And it's kind of an interesting power. In other words
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the original developer has got this power to create the vision of what he would like the community to be like
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And so he gets one chance to do it like he gets to wave the magic wand
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write the bylaws. That's it. They're cast in stone. If the original developer and
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and it's the courts don't like it. When the ho waves then go to try to radically change the scheme of development
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They don't like that because they say, wait a minute, that's this, this was uh you know
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done by the developer. So if the original developer where I live didn't want to have the rent
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didn't want to have renters, he could have put it in, he could have put it in the bottom and said
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look, you're not allowed to rent your home. And so if I would have known that when I bought
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I would have said OK, II I won't rent or nope, I'm not gonna buy there because I do wanna rent
57:47
So they're trying to change the game development. So that's, that's not a good thing. And oh my son calling
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I'm gonna answer this. I'll be right back. Hey, how you doing
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I'm live streaming right now and, and you're, you're on worldwide television
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Can I call you back? Ok, thanks. Bye. All right. So my son hates to have his photo
58:16
taken. He hates video. He, I don't know if you heard it
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He said he, he, he said yes with, with great um um great um
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intensity like yes that I don't wanna, I don't wanna be on live streaming
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All right. So, uh um, all right, let me get caught up on the ca uh things
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uh was asking Vanessa if she plays a golf. Uh Oh my gosh
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Uh Oh, that's great. Um Yeah, Vanessa is right about that. Um Well
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I used to be on the board. Uh Anyway, so, um my son just sent me a message
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text me, you don't have to just, you don't have to pick up the phone call when you're live screaming streaming
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I thought it might be an emergency, you know. So I'll tell him that later because
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you know, he doesn't call me that often, right? So, um, yeah
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I know Vanessa Will's trying to rope you into playing golf with us
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That's what's going on. So if you're going up to Bangor one day
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you know. So, um uh anyway, in your way. So, um I'm totally against the short term rental group
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Here's what it is, here's what it comes down to. Um the
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the short term rental agreement. What, what the, the, the I brought it up already in
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in, in a zoom call. It's not gonna solve the bad behavior problem
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That's what I said. I said, what, what's wrong with you guys? I said, why do you think that by
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by, by making somebody rent here three months, which is now the new bylaw
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They're trying to, they brought it from six months down to three months and
1:00:03
and that's the minimum. So I said, so now you're gonna basically make it worse because now if
1:00:10
if I rent my house, which you're letting me rent my house, I can rent it all summer long to the same ass hat who's
1:00:18
like cousin Eddie in the, remember in the Christmas vacation movie with Chevy Chase
1:00:24
So I I could rent now this person instead of only creating havoc for a week
1:00:30
In other words, you may have rented your house for a week under the old system and then they're gone
1:00:35
But now the person's gonna be here for 91 days every day down at the beach causing havoc like you bunch of flipping idiots
1:00:44
you're stupid. And then, you know, and then I try to go home to my or try to drive home the point
1:00:51
Why do you automatically assume that all renters are bad? I said, what happens if I want to rent my house to a bunch of
1:00:56
senior citizen who, who, who just want to sit on my deck each day and play cards
1:01:01
That's all they wanna do. They wanna look out at the lake, drink uh umbrella drinks and play cards
1:01:07
They don't want to go down to the beach. What happens if I want to rent my house to each week to a different group
1:01:12
of disabled kids who are in wheelchairs who wanna sit on my deck and just look out at the lake
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Why can't I do that? They're not gonna go down to the beach and cause trouble. See
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that's the trouble. In other words, they, they, they, they don't and, and some of these people
1:01:27
there's quite a few people here in the community think, hey, this is a great idea. It's a great idea to restrict uh you know
1:01:32
what you do with your private property. Like what's next? Then here's, here's what I asked him
1:01:36
I said, what's next? Because, you know, you're, you're thinking you, you're all the soft gooey feelings for the community
1:01:42
What's great for the community? I go OK. So I got an idea since you think it's a good idea to help the community
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Let's, let's put the net out a little wider. All right, let's put the net out a little wider instead of just helping Waldron Bay
1:01:56
Let's help MEREDITH, my town. So here's the new bylaw. Once a month
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this is what I would propose to him, you know, you know, because to show that they're such hypocrites
1:02:07
So once a month you have to rent, you have to go down to MEREDITH and you have to find four homeless people
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Or if you have to go down to Concord, go down there. I don't care where you go, you go get four homeless people
1:02:22
you bring them back, you put them in your home, you feed them
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you wash their clothes, you let they sleep in your freaking king bed
1:02:31
You can go sleep out on the deck. Um, but for a weekend
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once a month, that's what you're gonna do with your private property
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Oh, they don't like that when you tell them that you have to do that with their private property
1:02:45
See, that's the issue with issues like this. It's crazy. You know
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they don't look at it the other way. All right. All right. Let me get caught up
1:02:56
Vanessa, a lot of comments. I heard, uh, the Morris code. Right. Yeah, that's my
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um, I have my, my ring tone is the Morse code call
1:03:05
So call and then when Cathy calls me it, the Morse code is SMW os mwo
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See if you can figure that one out. Sm, no, I'm sorry
1:03:21
Sw. Yeah. Sw sw em, B os W em bo, sorry. Sw emb O All
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right. Uh, yeah. Yeah, Eddie. Exactly. The young have a lot to
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Exactly. Censorship and control. Not a good thing. Exactly. Help the community
1:03:43
I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Tell everybody. You have to go find four homeless people if you're so interested in helping the flipping community
1:03:52
Bunch of idiots. All right. Um, any questions about, ask the builder or anything else
1:03:59
Um, boy, I can't believe it's already been an hour and four minutes. Holy tomato crazy
1:04:05
Um, trying to snow a little bit here. I did talk really early in the
1:04:10
in the, um, live stream. I'm really excited about. I get excited
1:04:15
Like March 1st. It's a really March 1st to me, which is today is a Hallmark
1:04:21
I mean, after will, will laugh at this, you know, will, who's probably lived in New England his whole life
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Uh But I'm, I'm a flatlander. That's what they call us here in New Hampshire. I, I'll never be a New Hampshire
1:04:31
Right? I'm a flatlander. I was not born here. So I've discovered that March 1st
1:04:40
is like a Hallmark Day because we made it, we made it through winter
1:04:47
I mean, it can still be cold. We're still gonna get some snow. It's light snow
1:04:51
Now, we're supposed to maybe get an inch overnight. But it's, it's now at that point of time in the year
1:04:58
I mean, think about this, I said this earlier in the stream, we're only three weeks away
1:05:02
less than three weeks away from the equinox, the sun's getting higher in the sky warmer
1:05:07
Um, uh The sun really eats up the snow and I don't have to be as concerned about getting the driveway
1:05:14
Perfect. That's the point. In other words, I've got a really steep hill the there
1:05:18
I've got a section of my driveway that's about 35 ft long
1:05:23
I've never actually measured the grade but, you know what I'm gonna do it tomorrow
1:05:27
Um, I think the grade is probably, it could be, um, 30%
1:05:34
I mean, it's steep. I mean, it's really steep. Um, it'll be interesting to measure it
1:05:39
So, you know how they do percent grade. It's how many feet does something rise in
1:05:44
in 100 ft? So, you know, it's that right triangle, you know
1:05:48
but the base of the triangle is 100 ft. Let's see where we are
1:05:55
Um, yeah. Uh, maple syrup that, you know, a lot of people don't know that
1:05:59
Maple syrup. That's the first crop for farmers. You know, that's the first crop of the year in the northern hemisphere
1:06:07
Uh, mud season. Yeah. Mud season. Oh, my gosh, Jimmy. Where, where
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I bought the massive fire. No restriction. No permits. Yeah. No, I
1:06:20
I agree with that. But even still, even out in the town, you know, you'd have to buy in a pretty rural town that has
1:06:27
really slack zoning. I, I would never go into an HO A again
1:06:30
I'd never planned to be in this ho a, this long, it's a long story. I was supposed to be in a new house that
1:06:36
I built for Kathy. But the financial crisis happened three months after I bought this place in 2008 and then in 2011
1:06:47
overnight, I lost 95% of my revenue. I've never gotten it back
1:06:52
I mean, I've, I've built some of it back but not even close. So it was a really
1:06:57
really rough time. 2012. Uh, all right. So, um, John. All right
1:07:04
So great question. How is the Pumas testing going? Did I miss anything? No
1:07:08
you did not. Here, here's what you need to do. It's really interesting. Go back to that live stream last week
1:07:14
I can't remember. I can't remember what the topic was. I think it was Floor Trusses
1:07:18
I can't remember. Well, you can just type in pus. Um And
1:07:22
and because of the closed captioning, you'll find it. The guy that I was going back and forth with turns out he's a
1:07:31
uh, he's a chemistry guy. All right. Um Here's what happened. We had that little exchange
1:07:39
I thought it was getting a little contentious and I was actually more contentious than he was
1:07:44
And, um, so he backed off. All right, he backed off and next morning
1:07:52
So I, I, here's what's really important. I have all the comments on all my videos set for moderation
1:07:58
I learned a long, long time ago that it just, you know
1:08:02
if you don't do that, there's just all this garbage that's on there. And, and so
1:08:06
so what happens is I have the power to, to delete a comment and
1:08:10
and so I, my comment policy on my video on my channel is simple
1:08:14
If your comment doesn't add value I'm not gonna show it. So the next morning after that live stream about the Pumas Stone
1:08:24
John had written a long comment and if you remember, I had challenged him
1:08:29
I said John, if you because he was saying like, oh no man, it's not scratching anything
1:08:34
And I know it was, I know it was, it's just that he could not see the scratches under the water
1:08:39
And because the color of the China, the white tile hides the scratches
1:08:46
Would you? Anyway? He, he comments and says he says there's no need for you to do the test
1:08:54
Don't, don't go out and buy one, don't do it. He said, you know why? Because I, after the stream was over
1:08:59
I went into my pantry, I'm just kind of adding, I, I'm embellishing a little bit
1:09:03
He says I got an old clear glass, you know, I don't have one here and I took the puma stone and sure enough it
1:09:10
scratched the heck out of it. So, you know, so he came clean in the comment
1:09:16
So he said there's no need for you to do the test live. You know, it's, we already know it's gonna
1:09:20
I already can tell you it's gonna scratch it. It's, it's like I, I replied back. I know that's why
1:09:24
that's why I was having the back and forth with you, man. I already knew it was gonna scratch it
1:09:30
All right. So that's the answer question. So I'm not gonna do it. I don't need to do it. I already know what's gonna happen
1:09:37
Vanessa says I, oh Vanessa, um, it's just about to disappear off the screen
1:09:44
It says I'm a math teacher now for high schools, uh, the most college teachers
1:09:49
So, so I'm gonna, I make this offer to teachers all the time and very few of them take me up on it and you
1:09:55
don't have to, you don't even have to come in here. But if you feel it would be a good idea to
1:10:00
um, have me in, as a guest for a little bit of time for
1:10:04
in one of your classes. If you're even allowed to do it on a video call, I'm willing to jump in and
1:10:09
and the reason why is I wanna give a few examples to the kids of why they need to pay attention to you
1:10:15
how math will really help them down the road, especially the high school guys
1:10:20
Oh, my gosh. So, just understand that it's an open invitation. Um
1:10:28
so anyway, you say I'm gonna let a neighbor know about your French. Strange. Yeah, they, uh, they're fantastic
1:10:34
What's really, what he really needs to know about is I offer a product in my shopping cart where I'll draw the plan for him
1:10:41
I'll, I'll show it exact, uh, you know, I'll come, I make a custom plan showing exactly how to put it in and then I
1:10:48
do a 30 minute phone call with them. So I offer that service
1:10:54
Ah, the toi thank you. Will the toilet cleaning edition. Of course. How, how could I
1:10:58
what an idiot? I am some days. How could I not remember that? Uh John
1:11:07
Great. Yes, true. Sets is free. Hello, Loreen. Yeah, you made it uh
1:11:13
almost is volcanic. Exactly. Silica, high silica content. Uh Exactly. That's exactly right
1:11:21
Um Yes. All right. So, anyway, just know Vanessa that I'm, I'm happy to um happy
1:11:30
to um to come in on a video call and then if
1:11:36
if you're actually, if you're actually doing a stand in Connecticut, just so, you know
1:11:40
um and if those are high school kids, you, I know this sounds crazy
1:11:46
I have a day rate I can actually travel to, to um I can actually be there in person and I have a day rate
1:11:54
and you could get a local lumber yard or a local plumbing place
1:11:58
They, they have an, a budget where they would pay that fee just so, you know
1:12:02
um you know, to bring me into town, you know, and then I do a little promotion for that company while I'm there
1:12:07
Uh because, you know, they realize that those, some of those kids might become customers for life
1:12:12
So just something to think about it works better for trade schools than just regular high schools
1:12:17
but you never know. Um All right. Um Any questions, any questions about anything about your home
1:12:24
Uh, I'm happy to answer it. Uh, it doesn't, um, uh, doesn't
1:12:29
um, and what's really interesting today is that chat is very responsive
1:12:34
uh, yesterday or the day bef before. Yeah, it was yesterday. Boy
1:12:38
it was like, delayed by three or four or five minutes. It was horrible. Um
1:12:42
even Steve complained about it if you have any questions about your home
1:12:46
Happy to answer them. Um, happy to. Oh, I just want to share this
1:12:50
I shared in the newsletter on Sunday, my latest book, it's called uh
1:12:55
New Home, New Home Hacks. So it's all the things that you never thought were possible that you might not have thought possible to put
1:13:02
in your new home. Uh, really cool things that can, that can
1:13:06
you know, convenience savers, comfort thing, things about comfort. Uh And, and so I told this to my newsletter list and I created a form
1:13:16
where you could go to if you wanted to, um, if you wanted to
1:13:22
to help, you know, I, I would like to hear your, your
1:13:26
um, your ideas. So I'm, I'm actually going right now and I'm gonna get, um
1:13:31
I'm getting a copy of that link for you. Um So if in case you wanna help case you want your idea
1:13:38
So here we go. Um, let's see. So this is gonna be a really odd link
1:13:44
Um, doesn't matter, it's gonna look really funky, but it's completely safe to do
1:13:50
So if you want to, if you've got some really cool things in your home or even things that you wish you had
1:13:57
In other words, maybe there are things you hate about your home and you go
1:14:01
gosh, I, I just wish my house had this. It's so hard to do whatever
1:14:07
So that's the kind of ideas I'm looking for. So, uh, go here and fill out the form and
1:14:15
um, at the bottom of the, now, what you have to realize is I'm gonna use your idea in my book
1:14:21
I, I'm not gonna compensate you. The only thing you're gonna get is you get a free copy of the book
1:14:25
a PDF version. All right. So if you don't want to do it under those terms
1:14:31
then don't bother filling out the form. But I also give you the ability that you can either have your name and city and town
1:14:38
mentioned in the book in case you want to be published in a book. Um You know
1:14:42
I don't put your home address or if you want to be anonymous, you can be anonymous
1:14:46
So you, you click one of those buttons on the bottom of the form. You'll see
1:14:50
So go there and tell me if you had a magic wand
1:14:53
what are the top three things you wish you had in your home? Or maybe the time if you have a custom home and you
1:14:59
incorporated some very cool things. Uh Share it. What do you have
1:15:04
Here's some of the things that's really surprising. I, I've, I've, I've already gotten back a lot of
1:15:08
of, of, uh, ideas and it's stunning, stunning how many people. Um
1:15:16
and this is like one of my, I didn't know if I was gonna put this in the book because I didn't wanna telegraph or
1:15:23
advertise what I'm gonna do in my next home. But I'm, I'm gonna do it now based on
1:15:30
on what, um, um, on, on all this feedback I'm getting. So I've always been intrigued
1:15:37
um, with secret rooms and secret passageways and I've always wanted to have a house that had secret passageways in it
1:15:44
Just like the game in clue. You know, you play clue and you go to those two rooms in the corners and you go into
1:15:49
the one room and you can go all the way around the board if you want, come out the other room
1:15:55
Well, evidently I'm not the only one who, who wants that and
1:16:00
and people want hidden safes and you would be stunned how simple it is if you're trying to make a hidden room
1:16:07
even if it's a small one, like a small hidden closet, um
1:16:13
that the average person who's breaking home, they would never know. Um
1:16:16
it can be done without doors. It's very cool and I mean
1:16:20
not even secret doors. So I'm gonna share that in the book. Very cool
1:16:24
So there, there's, so this book is gonna be chock full of so many things
1:16:28
You're not gonna believe it. All right. So Vanessa says I am building a wood fired oven on my patio
1:16:34
Oh, good for you. Um, well, if you need any wood and you got a pickup truck or do I have a lot of it
1:16:40
up here? I own 90 acres. Come up and get all the oak you want. Oh
1:16:44
yeah, Lorraine, uh, hidden room. I've, I actually have one here in my house
1:16:48
It's very small. I discovered it by accident and I told Kathy about it and told her
1:16:54
I said, hey, I'd like to go. Now. She said, no, we're not doing that. Like
1:16:58
are you kidding me? So, but she's ok with the new house doing it
1:17:02
Right. So anyway, uh Yes. Uh exactly. And that's what it is
1:17:09
Um And that's exactly what people want to vanessa a secure room hidden as well
1:17:14
Uh Absolutely. So it's big. It's gonna be in the uh it's gonna be in the book
1:17:20
Um, Loreen, I love nooks where you can go to relax and read
1:17:24
Yes. So like window seats. So that's one of the things in the book, a window seat
1:17:28
you know, it's, it's like a lost, I mean, it's like they're lost. Like people don't understand that you can do a window seat and
1:17:34
it just have a simple, you know, flip up lid, you get all this extra storage and if you have any grandkids or kids
1:17:43
I mean, talk about a hiding place for hide and seek inside the house on a rainy day
1:17:48
Are you kidding me? It's one of the best places in the world to hide
1:17:53
Um, yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I do here for you
1:17:59
Vanessa, if you want it. I have a big giant, big, huge slab of cherry aged oak
1:18:04
cherry. This piece of cherry is 40 years old. It's, I brought it from Ohio up here to New Hampshire
1:18:11
It's probably 1214 inches high, four inches thick and, um, probably 1214 ft long
1:18:19
probably weighs 100 and 30 pounds. It's yours. If you want to come up and get it
1:18:23
you can have it. Yeah. There you go. Kernel mustard with a candlestick and the like
1:18:28
Exactly. Uh, exactly. So cool book. So I'm working on that project right now
1:18:34
Like this morning I was, I, it was, it took me about an hour to figure out how I could curate this stuff
1:18:40
And because as I'm, as I'm pulling these tips down, some people want to be anonymous
1:18:44
Some people don't. So I figured out a really cool system how to track all that is
1:18:49
I copy down their ideas and then I'm gonna expand on them. So I
1:18:52
I finally figured out the format and I punched through, I don't know
1:18:56
I got at least another three hours to go through all the ideas I have so far
1:19:01
But even with the ideas I have so far and all the stuff in my head. This is gonna be a pretty cool book
1:19:07
you know. So, yeah. All right. So, um, I'm pretty wasted
1:19:17
I, uh, I'm gonna get out of here, uh, for Jimmy's got a co for zone three
1:19:23
How thick? Uh, shakos. I don't, I don't know, Jimmy. I don't
1:19:27
I don't know the answer to that question. I don't, um, I don't know, I don't know
1:19:31
And um I'm not a big fan of, of, I'm not a huge fan uh um of
1:19:39
of, of spray foam insulation, not a big fan of it. Uh If something goes wrong
1:19:46
um, you know, or you need to run a wire in the future or whatever you're done
1:19:53
you're, it's over. So I, I'm just not a big fan of it. There's a lot of advantages I know
1:19:59
but I think that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. So that's just my personal feeling
1:20:05
Uh So Vanessa, I'm confused by your lead pipe comment. My best choice was lead pipe
1:20:14
I, 00, I know what you mean in the game of clue. Of course, I got it. Yes
1:20:18
that was a fun game. Whoever came up with that. It's a really great game. Um
1:20:22
wonderful game. So secret passages. Um So you're like this, there, there was an outside chance I was gonna build
1:20:31
uh our next house up in Bar Harbor and I became friends with the head building
1:20:35
Inspector up in Bar Harbor. Um, really, really great woman. Her name is Angela Chamberlain and
1:20:44
she's been the building inspector for like 20 years. She started her career as a young woman working for the city and the building department
1:20:51
And what I like about Angie. Here's what I like about Angie
1:20:56
Angie is tough, but she's fair. All right. So that's a, that's a really important combination and she's
1:21:05
also willing to bend a little bit. And you have to understand that the building inspectors in every single town
1:21:11
they can't, they, they don't have the, you have to understand that the building code, like the uniform building code U BC
1:21:16
That's just a set of recommendations. Understand that it's recommendations and some
1:21:23
some towns and cities that are lazy, they just adopt it and say, ok
1:21:27
this is what we're gonna do. Well, guess what the local building inspectors can say
1:21:32
I don't like that part of the code. We're not doing that here. All right, we're not doing that or they can make parts of
1:21:37
it tougher. So Vanessa understands that. All right. So I was up and I was up there in Bar Harbor last Fall
1:21:47
and, um, I reached out to her ahead of time. We, we, you know, cause I
1:21:50
I, she had to inspect all my work, my plumbing and electric and heating for my daughter's home
1:21:56
And, uh, you know, I was very respectful to her and I, and, and, and we became friends
1:22:01
All right. So I said, V I said, uh, Angela, I said
1:22:06
could I, do you have like 10 minutes? I'm gonna be in town visiting my daughter and granddaughter
1:22:11
I would love to have a very short meeting with you. She said, sure
1:22:15
Absolutely. So I sit down with her and I go, I go
1:22:20
can we go, actually go outside? And it was a, it was a warmer day
1:22:24
She said, sure, that's ok. I said it, it'll make sense when we go outside
1:22:29
She goes, ok. She trusts me. All right. So we're outside, we're out of the building
1:22:32
And I go, listen, this is an off the record question. Ok. And I told her
1:22:37
I said, I told her about my interest in passage ways, secret passage ways because they
1:22:42
because understand a secret passage way, you don't want it to be really wide
1:22:46
You don't want it to be. The code says it's got to be a minimum 36 inches wide. Secret passageway can be as narrow as
1:22:53
18 inches in work. All right, 20 inches. And so I said
1:23:00
um, I said, it's so much easier to build that stuff in while you're building the house and
1:23:09
and I said, but it's not gonna pass. And she says, well
1:23:15
after I give the certificate of occupancy, it doesn't really matter what you do with your house
1:23:20
Right? And that's all she said. All right. So, so, um, anyway
1:23:29
that's so you can actually build the house to code, but you can build it in such a way that
1:23:40
well, I don't want to go on video and say this actually, if, if you ever want to know how to do this by one
1:23:45
of my phone calls, I'll tell you how to do it. I'm
1:23:49
I'm telling you, it's not as hard to do as you think. Just it, not that hard
1:23:53
All right. Hello, Hassan. How you doing? Um Oh, all
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right. Let's see. All right, great. I'm caught up on the comments
1:24:11
I'm gonna get out of here hour and 24 minutes. That's a long time. Uh So
1:24:16
so I had a great fun today, Vanessa. Great to know you. Um boy
1:24:19
you've got a really interesting history. Holy tomato. Um And will I thought you were gonna tell everybody about how great
1:24:28
Stover was? You didn't say a word. I'll, I'm gonna take your photos tomorrow and create a page of stain so I uh I can
1:24:37
identify you or not identify you. I could just say a personal and you have to email me
1:24:41
let me know what you want me to say, but then I'll share your photos tomorrow if you don't mind uh here on the live
1:24:49
stream, but people are not gonna believe the results you got. It was really amazing
1:24:52
wasn't it? I mean, really amazing. Uh uh I mean, your photo that your after photo was unbelievable
1:25:00
I mean, it's like that thing was new. I mean, how, I mean, it's almost blinding the photo
1:25:05
how shiny the stainless steel was. Uh And I'm also interested. You didn't leave a comment
1:25:10
You didn't tell me about the taste. You know, in other words, past cleaning things would
1:25:16
would, would make the coffee taste not so great stain solver. It should
1:25:20
it should taste perfect as long as you rinsed it out really well to get rid of that
1:25:24
So there you go. Well, sustained solver is great. It is, it is great
1:25:37
There's got lemon water today. All right, I'm gonna let everybody know Vanessa asked before
1:25:50
That's how you get it. That's where you go to get your Stain Solver tastes great
1:25:55
No, no, no, do not. Seriously. Here do not put Stain Solver in your mouth
1:26:00
I I'll tell you a quick stain sover story you're gonna like this. Um So Stain Solver is an oxidizer
1:26:07
Um pretty. It's a very powerful oxidizer, right? So you would never want to get it on mucus mem
1:26:14
especially the dry powder. If you get the dry powder on an open cut
1:26:19
you're gonna think that somebody has put a white hot iron on your skin
1:26:26
I know the voice of experience. It burns like crazy. You do not wanna get just like any other household chemical
1:26:35
You would not want to splash chlorine bleach in your eyes. You would not wanna splash ammonia in your eyes
1:26:41
You wouldn't you say you don't wanna do that with stain sulfur the solution or the powder
1:26:45
Um, you do not want to get it on any MS Membrane. All right, anywhere
1:26:49
Um, the, uh, here's the funny story though, but if you wear dentures or if you have bridge work
1:26:56
if you have dentures or bridge work and you want your dentures to look brand new
1:27:00
like white, just put your dentures in some, just do what will did with his coffee pot
1:27:06
Just let your dentures soak overnight. You are not gonna believe how beautiful they look the next day and it
1:27:11
and the stain solver will not harm the um I don't know the pink part
1:27:17
the plastic part, whatever, whatever they use to make the dentures with it, why not harm that
1:27:22
It's amazing. Uh Same thing with bridge work, take out your bridge soak it in stain silver
1:27:27
So here's a true story. This is many years ago. I mean
1:27:32
we've been selling Stain Solver since 1996 and probably 20 years ago I got a phone call one day
1:27:41
You know, this is back in the day. People called the 800 number and I answered the phone and this lady
1:27:48
this lady, she's an older woman and she goes, um I just wanna know uh how long
1:27:59
like if I wanna put my foot in a bucket filled with Stain Solver, how long could I keep my foot in there
1:28:05
I go, I go. Well, um I said, it depends on the concentrate
1:28:10
I couldn't understand why she wanted to put a foot, foot in a bucket of stains on. Um
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I said, I don't know, half an hour, an hour. I said
1:28:20
I, it's, uh, your foot may start to feel a little weird. If it starts to feel weird
1:28:25
I'd probably take it out. It said it's, but it's not gonna hurt you. It's not gonna
1:28:29
it's not so strong that it's gonna burn your skin. You know
1:28:33
I, but I warned her about the open cut. I said, if you have an open cut on your foot
1:28:37
it's gonna hurt. She said, OK, hung up the phone. She calls back a month later
1:28:47
I answer the phone again. She goes, hey, I don't know if you remember me
1:28:51
I'm the woman who talked to you about um, if I could put my foot in a bucket of stain
1:28:55
So, yeah, I remember, uh she says I just wanna let you know that you have got the best toenail fungus remover in the
1:29:04
world. She said I have tried everything and it doesn't work stain solver
1:29:10
Got rid of it in two weeks, but I can't market it that way
1:29:15
I can't tell people it gets rid of. Well, I'm doing it here on the video but I can't put it on the
1:29:19
the label or anything like that or I'm not gonna put a page on stains solver about that
1:29:23
So, uh anyway, you got toenail fungus. Stay, will take care of it
1:29:32
Uh There you go. Great. So um um will says no
1:29:41
change notice. After exactly, you just see here's what happened. So all that stain solver is um I can give you the
1:29:50
the official chemical name. It's pery hydrated carbonate of soda, per oxy hydrated carbonate of soda
1:29:58
That's a very fancy name for dried. A very, very strong, very strong
1:30:04
much stronger than what you buy in the brown bottles. Very strong hydrogen peroxide and soda ash
1:30:13
We also have to add some dense soda ash to the blend to get it
1:30:18
It's such a powerful chemical on its own. I'm not allowed to ship it in trucks without that dangerous yellow label
1:30:25
And, and if I put that on UPS goes, we're not taking it
1:30:29
forget it. We're not doing it. They don't want that dangerous stuff in their system
1:30:34
So I have to get it just below the dot Standard. So we do that by adding soda ash
1:30:39
dense soda ash. Well, guess what? The dense soda ash increases the ph a little bit
1:30:45
which is good. If you want to clean things, you want a high ph. And um uh so that's why the stain so works
1:30:52
But the soda ash. So when you mix stain solved with water
1:30:57
here's all that happens. If you mix stain solved with water, it starts a chemical reaction that automatically liberates oxygen and those oxygen ions are
1:31:06
What's cleaning things and it creates more water. Ok? Because why h2o 2
1:31:12
So if you break off one of the oxygen ions you're left with h2o
1:31:17
So when you mix, stain salt water, you get oxygen, you get water and you have the
1:31:25
uh, uh, you have the soda ash. So if you let some of the solution just dry on a dark top after it dries and
1:31:32
the water evaporates, you see that powder left behind, that's just soda ash
1:31:36
So you don't want to be eating soda ash. It tastes a little alkaline. So that's why you have to rinse and it's really easy
1:31:43
Soda ash is very water sole. It rinses right off. So if you had not rinsed the coffee pot out
1:31:49
well, it, it would taste a little alkaline. That's all. So you did a good job
1:31:53
You got rid of it all so good for you. Um Oh
1:31:58
all right. Um ok, good. Um Yeah. Well, it just, I I I'll
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email me before you go to do. Here's all you gotta do. Lorraine
1:32:11
You just fill the car with hot water as hot as you can do it. Even if you want to microwave some
1:32:17
get it up to about 100 and 40 degrees not boiling hot, just about 100 and 40 which is typically hotter than the water heater
1:32:24
does fill it to the brim. And then I guess will I told Will to put in a tablespoon
1:32:30
I don't know if you two have the same size carrots, but it did a beautiful job on wills
1:32:36
So, um, yeah, there you go. Stains. So is the only thing
1:32:42
boy, I can't wait to use that testimonial. Wow, that's a good one
1:32:47
Anyway, Loin de, so um have a great trip. Be safe, drive safely
1:32:53
Um, we always miss you. I it's not the same when you're not here
1:32:58
It's uh great that you're here. Uh And you're exactly right, Vanessa, boy
1:33:01
you're a smart woman. Uh That's why high Ph makes things slippery
1:33:07
That's why soaps are slippery. Exactly. And they do that on purpose because the way traditional soaps work
1:33:14
they try to surround the dirt particle and then they try to slide it out or off the surface
1:33:20
That's, that's how basic soaps work. Uh You know, but sometimes the stain is like flipping velcro or like a bird that
1:33:29
you get on your pants in the woods and no matter how much soap surrounds it
1:33:33
it's not coming off. But Stain Solver blasts those stain molecules apart
1:33:38
That's why Stain Solver works. Um Oh yeah, I I cannot. Um So the fireplace must come along pretty good
1:33:48
Uh Oh, there you go, Jimmy. Yeah, it works fantastic, man. I just
1:33:53
you just mix up some Stain Solver solution. Stir it up in nice warm as
1:33:57
as hot a water as you can tolerate with your feet, dissolve it and then just like you would soak your foot with Epsom salts
1:34:04
It's the same process. So I, you know, I can't remember. It's been so long
1:34:09
I don't remember how long she let it soak for probably 20 or 30 minutes each day
1:34:15
Um Vanessa, look at you, man. I just completed my masters in math in 2017
1:34:25
The ancient 10 my God. What a story. I, this is what I love about the live stream
1:34:32
And I, I told them, I told that when we did our Zoom call
1:34:36
you need to be on our next zoom call, Vanessa. If you want to be on our Zoom call
1:34:41
um you need to email you. I need to find out your email address
1:34:45
I will not share it. I won't stalk you. Um But the only way that people can be on the zoom call is I have
1:34:51
to email each person separately to let them know the invite and the time
1:34:55
But think about it. But look at you flipping masters in math
1:35:00
You're gonna love my quick, I'll do this quick math story then I'll get out of here. All right. So you'll appreciate this
1:35:04
You'll really, you will really appreciate this. Oh my gosh. Um So I sucked at math
1:35:12
I mean, I was in high school. I just, I just barely passed algebra geometry and trigonometry just barely passed for a whole host of
1:35:20
reasons. All right. I, I just, I was a wild flipping. I was a wild animal back in high school
1:35:27
Um, uh, my grades were so bad that I got rejected from going to a four year college
1:35:33
The University of Cincinnati would not take me. That was the wake up call
1:35:38
That was highly embarrassing. All my other friends got into flipping college but the University of Cincinnati had a AAA twoyear college
1:35:47
You know, the, like these, uh, like a community college. It was sa
1:35:51
it was right on campus, same campus called University College. The nickname for it was Candy College
1:35:57
All right. It was, um, basically just advanced high school. And so I
1:36:04
I was allowed to go to that. And so the thing was the terms were, if you got a 3.4 grade point average or higher
1:36:11
after the first year, you could transfer out, go to the four year college and all your credits will transfer over
1:36:18
It's like, ok, that was the flipping fuse to light the rocket
1:36:23
So I had to take, um, um, I had to take algebra and trig that first year and I got straight A's
1:36:33
in it. But I also tell you, I had a good teacher. He would, he
1:36:36
he, he, people, the reason a lot of maybe you understand this Vanessa
1:36:41
The reason, uh, people like us have trouble with math is because it's no different than
1:36:47
than, um, you trying to learn Morse Code or somebody else or you trying to learn French or German or some other language because
1:36:57
mathematics is a language and that's why people like us have trouble with it
1:37:02
I'm just telling you well, he understood that. He figured it out how to work around that
1:37:08
All right. So, got Straight A's. I, I, and, and not only that I understood it and I enjoyed it
1:37:13
All right. So fast forward you had to take certain math classes to
1:37:18
um, get your degree in geology and one of them was calculus. So calculus
1:37:24
Are you kidding me? This my senior? OK. Get this. My senior year
1:37:32
I'm taking flipping calculus. Spring quarter. All right, spring quarter, spring quarter for a senior
1:37:41
It's warm and sunny in Cincinnati. The only, the, the only class I could get into
1:37:49
Are you sitting down Monday, Wednesday and Friday from four until 5 p.m. And
1:38:02
so it was taught by this grad student. I'll never forget he had dark black hair
1:38:06
tall guy. I don't know his name and he, um, he said like the first day of class
1:38:13
I don't know there were like 15 of us in there. All right. He goes. All right
1:38:18
He says I get it. He goes, um, I know that we're gonna have maybe 15 people here on Monday
1:38:26
We're gonna have eight people here on Wednesday and we're gonna have just one or two on Friday
1:38:30
I get it. Well, he starts teaching and this guy, he had some gift from God
1:38:39
I'm telling you cause calculus is for the average person is not easy
1:38:44
I got it. I was like, oh, my God, I understand this. So I never missed a class
1:38:50
Never. I mean, I'm, I would be walking home from college in May on Friday afternoons
1:39:00
at 455 because class ended at 450. I never missed a class
1:39:05
He couldn't believe it. He couldn't, because I was a senior because that was the other thing
1:39:09
I was a senior. Most of the other people in the class were sophomores. True story
1:39:14
But I got an a I got an a in the guy's class in calculus. So I really
1:39:18
here's what I love about calculus. Um And I'm probably gonna get this wrong Vanessa
1:39:22
So um I think if I get this wrong, I'll, I'll try to fix it
1:39:31
What I loved was the derivatives. And so if I, if I um say this right
1:39:37
the formula for the area of a circle is the derivative of the formula for the circumference
1:39:47
And the same thing is true for the formula for the volume of a sphere is the derivative
1:39:57
I think of the formula for the surface area of the sphere
1:40:01
Now, I could have it backwards but that just as soon as he explained that I went
1:40:05
oh my God, I get it. All right. So whatever. Um All right
1:40:10
So let me get caught up and then I'm gonna get out of here. Uh Why am I not surprised
1:40:15
Look, at Vanessa's uh uh I had a perfect 4.0 listen to you
1:40:22
You're a flipping wizard. I hope I get to meet you one day Vanessa
1:40:27
I swear. Um Wow. I uh tutor grad and shit
1:40:36
Wow. What a story you've got such a story to tell? Oh my gosh
1:40:45
Uh What do you know? Uh Hello? Uh 100. I'm just gonna call you 100
1:40:50
Uh So here we go. So you're getting us back on track. How do you see all the concrete dust from
1:40:54
Oh, great. Um, wall was dry, locked p by and likely trapped moisture
1:41:00
I don't know what, I don't know that that caused it. And typically you don't have dusting on a concrete wall
1:41:05
Um, so if you, um, um, have
1:41:17
you, have you tried this, uh, 100? What I would do? I would like to see you do this
1:41:22
I would like to see you get a bucket of clean water, go to a place on the foundation wall
1:41:28
try to scrub it, um, and try to clean it. All right
1:41:33
And, um, obviously you're, the water's gonna maybe turn gray, let it dry
1:41:40
scrub it. Really? Well, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get off
1:41:44
I'm trying to see how bad the dusting is, then let it dry
1:41:50
Go back a couple of days later, do the same thing and see if you get as much
1:41:54
see if the water is gray or is as gray or less. In other words
1:41:57
you're trying to see. Are you getting I, is there just, is this just a really light dusting thing on the surface
1:42:05
If so that means if you just go in and clean all the walls really well
1:42:11
the whole thing, which is a big project, the dusting problem should go away
1:42:16
If it doesn't, I would then buy a small can of Cyle Ciloxan water repellent
1:42:22
Don't, don't get a whole bunch of it. If you can get just a court can I have links to it on my website
1:42:26
Just type the word Silene si Lane into the search engine on my website
1:42:31
You'll see links to it. Um, and then I would do the same thing
1:42:35
I would clean an area, let it dry really well. And then I take a paint brush and I would paint the silla Ciloxan on
1:42:43
read the label how to do it. Sometimes they want you to put two coats on within so many minutes
1:42:48
Uh, because if you put one coat on and you wait too long, the second coat won't penetrate
1:42:54
Then once it dries in this small test area, take your hand and you know your clean fingers and run it across that area
1:43:03
a week later and see if you get any dust off. If not bingo, you solve the problem and make sure if it's a basement
1:43:11
Um, if you have any f uh, like propane or natural gas appliances do not use the oil based one
1:43:19
You know, you're gonna blow your house up. So use a water based Salines selection
1:43:26
Yes. Derivative of the volume is. Yes. So, I think I got it right
1:43:31
I think I got it right. Um, hm. He was a grad student
1:43:37
Well, he, he didn't have a choice and he was a nice guy and he was right on Friday
1:43:43
There were only like two or three of us. We had like a party. He was, I'm telling you what
1:43:47
I it was a great class. Wow. All right. Let
1:43:56
us know how it comes out. 100. Let me know how it comes out. All right, I'm gonna go. This is the longest live stream
1:44:01
I've ever done. This is crazy hour and 44 minutes. Insane. All right
1:44:05
I had a great time, Vanessa. Somehow our paths have got across
1:44:11
Uh, maybe you can come up in the day that will and I are gonna golf and you can
1:44:16
um, ride carts with us, just ride and we'll all talk about you got such great stories
1:44:21
Oh my gosh. Wow. Good for you. All right. Will Lorraine. Lorraine is probably gone
1:44:28
Vanessa. Uh Awesome. Um Vanessa. Um 100 Jimmy. Um
1:44:38
All the other names have scrolled way off. I can't see them. Rocco is here
1:44:46
All right. So Rocco, um I finished the history for you, buddy. I hope you got to listen to it
1:44:50
Uh, early on so good night, everybody. Uh oh, Lorraine is still here
1:44:57
Good. All good, so good night to everyone. Um Glad, glad that you're here
1:45:02
Uh This was a really fun live stream for me today. Really fun. II
1:45:06
I enjoyed it. Got to get a lot. All that as the builder history out
1:45:11
Have a great night. Yes, I will, I will tomorrow. Oh, you're gonna, I'm gonna look different
1:45:14
I'm getting a haircut in the morning, so I, I think I always go too long
1:45:18
I, I don't know why I, maybe I should space the haircuts closer
1:45:22
but tomorrow I'm gonna look a little different. All right. Well, great job on the uh
1:45:28
a great job on the cara will. Awesome, man. Amazing. Whole lot mos it whole lot of you
1:45:35
All right, I'm out of here. Thanks very much. Uh History is awesome
1:45:39
Thank you, Vanessa. Ok. Have a great night, everyone. Uh We should get about an inch of snow
1:45:44
I'll let you know tomorrow. I'm Tim Carter. You've been watching, ask the builder here on youtube
1:45:51
I had to look down. So I had the mouse on the end stream button. I'll see you tomorrow
1:45:55
Uh All right. All right, bye bye. Yeah. No, I, you'll see it tomorrow if you tune in
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