Ask the Builder History - Part Two LIVE Stream 03-01-2022 Ask the Builder

Good afternoon. Let's see if I can fix that hair. I'm Tim Carter

This is Ask the builder and I'm live and it is snowing and it's March 1st 2022

But we made it, we made it through winter. Uh, it still can be a little cold here in New Hampshire

But the remarkable thing here is the sun is now getting high enough in the sky

I mean, think about it. We're only, I think we're now less than three weeks away from the equinox

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

It's really starts eating up the snow. One of the really interesting things here at my own home

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

um, house that, that faces south and it's a, it's actually a 90

It's an inside corner. So when the sun, when it gets around noon and it's up there

it hits off the, the, uh, the light yellow siding and it eats up the snow from behind

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

There's a lot to share today. I'm gonna start talking in just a minute about

I'm gonna finish the Ask the builder history today. And, you know

we yesterday I had to make an ADR abrupt uh exit from the live stream and sorry about that

give you the Bums Rush. Uh, but today we'll finish the history of Ask the builder

Um, because it, you know, in other words, you have to realize as the builder started with a syndicated newspaper column

then I kind of grew from there. It got, got pretty big. It's actually when I think back

uh, it's really kind of interesting but before we do that, we're gonna, we're gonna, um

we're gonna, um, I want to talk about a few other things

Number one, I don't know that he's here yet. Uh, hey, Vanessa

Hi, how you doing? Uh, but will, will, is probably gonna check in and will I got some sting solver for me

He bought, um, well, he got, he got one of these little bottles

All right. And, um, I know it's all washed out from the

but it's a really beautiful blue, um, not teal but a different blue

But anyway, he, uh, he loves coffee and he's got this wonderful stainless steel coffee

um, car that they, I guess they brew the coffee and I, I don't know

but it's stainless steel and the inside of it had turned as they all do this crazy

horrible brown, almost black. And he's tried other ways to clean it

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

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

new and of course, rinse it out a couple of times and he did and I was right

Wait till you see the photos he took. You are not going to believe the photos II

I was hoping to get him ready today, but I was busy on this other project

Here's, I'm, I'm, I've started my third book and it's really kind of a fun one to write

It's gonna be kind of big and I'm getting help and I could use your help too

In fact, I'll have to, um, give you the link. Um, uh Anyway

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

uh Home Building Hacks. And what, what it is. It's, it's basically the

the coolest things you probably never thought you could put in your home and should do in your home

And often you think about these things after it's too late after the home is built

Some of them are cheap. Some of them cost nothing extra to do

Uh often they often cost nothing extra and some of them are kind of expensive but everybody's got a different budget

Uh Yeah, Vanessa. Yeah. It, it's um, it, the stain silver. It's such an amazing product

First of all, it's certified organic. I'm the one who makes it, um

it's totally organic and like I told will, you're, you're not gonna have to scrub you just

just dump it. It's literally, you know, that's not true with everything

but at least with coffee stains just takes them right out with no scrubbing

And uh he, he's just amazed, wait, wait till you see these photos

I'm surprised he's not here yet. But yeah, it'll take care of glass ones

Uh anything, anything, you know, tea like certain uh regular teas, hot teas are very staining and it'll do the same thing

Clean all that a any food stain, any food stain, anything like that, it'll clean off

Um Sure Vanessa. It's simple. Just go right here. Uh Let's see

Eight great product. I'm the one who makes

it. Um Yeah, all the cannons. Exactly. And um it, it just

it's just a great product. All right. So, um anyway, so we're gonna hear

I'm sure we're gonna hear from Will. Uh you know, the uh now

um what else did I wanna say? Uh oh, very quickly. This is

I, I don't know how how I came across this and then we're gonna talk about as the builder

but I just wanted to share this. This is kind of very, this is really interesting. So about five years ago

I was up in um Chicago on business and I had a little extra time and I

whenever I have extra time, I always want to go in and see my editor um the syndicate

you know, that, that syndicates my column is uh you know, Tribune is

is, is Tribune content, you know, agency. And I, I've had the same editor for about 15 years

He's a wonderful guy, Dave Dave MCA and he w what we have this common bond and that we um um

that, that we like old homes and uh old things. We, we like all that stuff

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

about three quarters of a mile up the, up the road. And uh I wanna show you something

I said, sure man, let's go. It was kind of a chilly day, but it wasn't bad. We kept

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

this huge beautiful mansion. I think it might be John as one of John Astor's house

that multi multi billionaire back in the 18 hundreds I think. Not sure

Might be anyway. Um, crutch word. So, the roads, many of the roads in Chicago used to be paved

with wood. All right. So they still have, they, they decided to recreate one alley using some of the wood they salvaged

Uh, and, and you can go see it. So, um, go see this. Um

uh, so go, go, go see if you're up in Chicago. You have to

you have to figure out a way to go up and see this alley. It's absolutely amazing

But go to that website, I just put in there and, uh, take a look at that

Um, take a look at that wood alley. Vanessa says I almost bought a farm with a home built in 1774 here in Connecticut

Wow. So you, you live not too far away from me, you know, you're, you're down south about four hours or so

Um, 1774 house. Wow. You know, if Steve was here and he'll probably ship a little bit

he would just laugh at that. They consider that a new house in

in, in London, you know, they got houses there that are 1000 years old

All right. So let's get back on to the acid builder stuff and then I realize if you have any questions about anything

uh, put them in the, uh Bradley International. Ok. Got it. Good for you

Um, I'm trying to think, isn't that, um, is that in Hartford

I'm trying to think. I, I, I've never flown into Bradley, so

I don't know. But I thought it was, uh, I thought it was

uh, I thought it was in Hartford. Anyway. Um, hello, William. Glad you're here

Um, yeah. So, anyway, ask the builder yesterday

at the, if, if you wanna hear the, be the true beginning of how I even became as the builder

You gotta watch yesterday's live stream. So that would be the February 28th 2022

So watch that live stream. I the whole stream is devoted. It's really kind of an interesting story

A lot of different people had parts in it. Actually, I forgot to mention yesterday

one of the most important people of all without him, I wouldn't be here today on this video

I'm telling you my father-in-law, uh doctor Doctor Dan Whalen. So Doctor Whalen

a great guy. He was a medical doctor, but he was also a real estate investor

That's what he did as a hobby. So he was pretty excited about me starting to buy old homes and fix them up

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

1975 he said, well, go see if you can get a bank loan. Well, he knew I couldn't get a loan

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

you know, and, and those that had the guts to tell me, they said, well, you're

you're only 22 years old. What do you know about remodeling? You don't know

squat. So, they just thought I was too high of a risk and, but he did that on purpose because he wanted to see

uh, how diligent I was and I probably went to 10 or 15 banks

And finally, you know, he check in with me every other day and I would tell him

yeah, I just went here, I just went there, I just went here, I just went there and he finally said, listen

he said, you're not gonna get a loan. He said, uh, here's why, blah, blah, blah. He says

I'm gonna just finance it. I'm gonna write the check. I, I'll

I'll, I'll lend you whatever money you need and you just pay me back and

uh, you'll get this first house done. So that's exactly what we did and we act

he actually financed the second one too, part of it. And it's really kind of interesting right behind that door

right here, right behind this door. I've got a box of, of, I, I, I'm

I inherited the Pack Rats disease from my mom. And so I have a lot of really cool stuff as a result

I've kept a lot of stuff and I kept, um, um, I

what happened is every time I wrote him a check, you know, we had extra money

Kath and I worked, every time we had extra money, I wrote him another check for 1000 bucks

which was a lot of money at the time. And, and I printed out a receipt

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

a file folder. It's pretty cool and you know, to prove cause II I was kind of thinking ahead

I, yeah, I let's just say um maybe not everybody in Kathy's family likes me and

and so I didn't want to get into a dispute with, with

with the heirs, the other heirs of the estate saying, oh you got all this money and you never paid it back like

well, you know what? Yes I did. Here's the, here's the proof

All right. So anyway, um yeah, north of Hartford. Thank you, Vanessa

Hello orange drink. Um Here we go. So that, so Doctor Whalen

my father-in-law, totally responsible. Without him financing those two houses, I can pretty much assure you I would not be here

He uh who knows what I would have ended up doing, who knows

But those two houses launched my career and, and gave me such a huge amount of confidence by the time

I was 25 I mean it was intoxicating. All right, he had an old saying

nothing builds success. Like success took me years to understand it, but now I understand it

Wow, Vanessa, you've got a really interesting history. That's really cool. Um

I don't know, you're gonna, I, I'll tell you what, I don't know anything about this

I, I don't know where there could be shade in a tobacco field

I thought that every field, whether it's tobacco, corn, soybeans, canola, whatever is out in the sun

So I don't know how you could be in the shade, working in a tobacco field. All right

here we go. Pick it up now. So I early, early in my ask the builder career when I actually had started

as the builder. So it officially started October 2nd or October 3rd of 1993

That's when the first column was published in the Cincinnati en chore

Right after that, I started to as rapidly as possible, add as many papers as possible to the list

And I was self syndicated. I was making the phone calls myself. I was doing the billing

I was getting the columns to the papers. It was really hard back in the day. Um I remember I had just

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

a Texas instrument. Uh was I clone of the IB MP, the PC

the first IBM PC. And I used a program called pro com

This crazy D OS program called Pro Com which allowed me to directly connect from my computer into the mainframe computers of the newspapers

to upload my column. Isn't that crazy? The what happened is I started to add papers as rapidly as possible

And, uh, all of a sudden I had 3040 papers uh, within a year's time was not doing too bad

And with the extra money I made from, from selling those builder bulletins

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

then it went to $2 then it went to $3 with inflation. Um Oh

ok. Uh Interesting. Wow. I learned something today. Cotton nets on poles

the shade keeps the leaves grow to large size for interesting. Very interesting

I did not know that. Wow. Yes, I told people that you will

Uh you're gonna have to tell the story yourself uh in the comments

So I I'll let you do the testimonial. Here's where it got really interesting

So remember if, yeah, if you, if you were here yesterday and you listened

if not, you're gonna have to go back and listen. I told you the story about how

what, what really got me into um you know, got, got me to launch the column was this interaction I had with another

dad at an Irish dancing fest that my daughter went to and of course

my daughter, you know, played sports as well. So, I don't know

I'm, I'm doing my column for about, I don't know, four or five months and it

it was, I don't know, February, it was right around this time of year and I go to a basketball game

you know, kids basketball game at her school and I'm sitting right next to some parents we knew and

um, that morning that it was a Saturday morning, that Saturday morning

I had actually been a guest on a home improvement radio show in Cincinnati

done by Gary Sullivan. And, and once I started answering the questions better than he could

He stopped letting me talk on the radio. So that was kind of cool

And so I, I'm next to this dad and I knew that the dad was the program director at

at the big FM oldest station in town. Uh, his name was

uh, Marty Thompson. And I said, hey, you're not gonna believe what, um

what happened today. He goes what? And I told him he, he looked at me and goes

well, how would you like your own home improvement radio show? I said

seriously. He said, yeah, he said, I'll, I'm one of my buddies up in Hamilton

They're trying to get one going and I'll, he's a real good friend of mine and blah

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So once again, connections. And, uh, five weeks later I'm on the air on 1450 wmoh

I still have a bunch of my recordings in the other room. I have all of them basically

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

did the, so the, the Builder radio show started in April of 1994 and I did that show for 12 years

and, uh, turned into a two hour show. A lot of fun calling radio is so much fun

It's all live and I, I ran the board. I'm a tech guy

So if you've never run the board in a radio studio, that's a lot of fun

And, uh, you know, and it was always a challenge because, uh, I had to hit the hard news break at

at the top of the hour. I mean, it, and it's, it's, you have to be right on the money

I mean, you cannot, um, and if you ever watch some of these cable news shows

I mean, because I've, I've been in this industry, I, I know how hard it is and I can tell when

when they're, and, and they've got the benefit that they've got producers through their IFB

tell them, go, go, go 321. I mean, they're counting down and the person sometimes gets flustered or they

um, they go too fast. Uh, you know, they, they, they miss the heartbreak in other words

they do a really bad job in the transition. I didn't have any of that. I just had a clock

you know, I just like, so I, I don't know, I'm just

I'm kind of getting off the track here, but it's really kind, I just get a lot of enjoyment

One of the best guys I think on, um, um, who really is really good at hitting the hard break

There were two people, uh Martha mccallum, really good at hitting heartbreaks

And, um, Brian K mead, both those people, they, they get it

they understand how to do it really perfect at, at just getting it perfectly

I mean, within a, a half a second. Um All right. Um All right

So, uh, here we go. Let's keep on going. So I did the radio show

started the radio show. So that's so as the builder started a newspaper

went to radio. So I plod along, um, for a little bit and

but also this is really important, uh, at the, at, back in the

in the early, I don't know, back in the late, uh, 19 eighties

I had found out about, you know, not so much the internet. I didn't realize it was the internet

but there were local bulletin boards and I found out about this bulletin board and it was just basically

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

and there was a guy running one. I don't know how I met him, Steve Shoemaker cannot remember that

Um, but he asked me to if I wanted to do a home improvement one

So I started this home improvement board back in Cincinnati, Ohio in the late 18 8

19 eighties. And, uh then what happened is I became part of this computer club

Texas Instrument Computer Club and one of the guys in that computer club

um, in 1995 I remember it was September of 1995. He, he said

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

the internet. And I go the internet. What's that? And he said, well

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

is now. Um, virtually no pictures, uh, or the pictures that were

there were very small, all just text true, old fashioned blue hyperlinks

Uh, and so I'm at his house and he's saying, ok, he fires up his computer

probably got a 1200 bod modem. And, um, he, uh, we, we get on the internet and I

I forget which website we're at. It doesn't matter. And I'm going

how are you doing this? He goes, well, it's through the phone lines. Really? Well

where's that? Where are we, where, where is that place? And he goes

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

There's, there's all these places we can go to. And so, um, he says

but watch this, he said, see that, see that blue word there

those words, he says, watch what happens when I take my mouse up and click it

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

in my III I wish we would have a photo of me. But I went like this

I was blown away and I instantly got it. I thought, oh my gosh

people are gonna be able to get information really fast. And I then through the Steve Shoemaker

guy, he had a partner. I made a deal with them. I think it was for 500 bucks

They built the first version of Ask the Builder and they built it with software

I mean, they code, they wrote it was really well, Dave Dumont was the guy. He's the coder

He wrote it all. And uh luck. And here's the thing that you need to know

Back in 1995 the average web page, the average website, average website had 3 to 5 pages

That's all I launched as the builder with 200 pages because I already had 100

columns that I had already written and I had 100 Builder bulletins

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

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

important there. And you've got a question. Um OK, Vanessa uh last year

no more shade tobacco was grown for the first time since these early as. Wow. Uh Vanessa filling space for 24 hours continuously difficult

I don't know. I'm sorry, but I don't know what that means. Oh, William

you've been watching since my first dream. Awesome William. Uh has everyone hit the like button

Thank you. Uh Pre windows time. Oh, of course. It was pre windows. Yeah

I reme I actually remember when I think window. Yeah, because remember when I started

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

a quarter inch floppies. I've got the manual. I've got the original MS Dos manual right

right behind that door right there. Um Vanessa, I began my BS degree in 1995 to return the US Air Force

Well, thank you for your service. I did not realize you put your life on the line for us

Thank you. Uh My dad, my dad got the bronze star in World War Two

these are just fun type in the address IP address we could discover exactly

This was pretty exact. Well, you can still type in IP addresses. Um

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

those crazy numbers. Uh, you know, but I forget what the IP address is for the builder

but you can just type in the number. Um will says worked with punch cards and paper tape and navy days

Yeah, exactly. Love the history. Yeah, awesome. You guys got you say

Yeah, so yeah, the old dial up internet. Yeah. Isn't it great

Um All right. So let's see. Where was I So radio show? Oh internet

So, um I know exactly where I was. I see the internet

I'm driving home going, I need a website call Steve Shoemaker. He gets Dave involved

And by, um, I guess we launched as the builder by November 1st

But here's the really cool story. This is, this is totally true

Uh And it's really good. I'm doing this. Uh Where's Rocco at? Rocco

Thank you for um this great idea because um cause I don't know that I would ever write all this out anyway

Crutch work, you know, I'm, I'm kind of a natural salesperson and so I um

found out I was doing some research and I found out that Pella, Pella might have been so Pella windows

It's possible that pe A was the first home improvement product manufacturer on the internet

There may have been somebody before them, but I have no clue it was. I find I somehow find out about this

So I call up Pella and I get in touch with um the marketing manager and I'll never forget her name

Marianne Butterworth. And you have to understand this is really important. The website is not yet built

It's, I'm not live yet. So this is like sometime in October

And I, uh I say, I say, Mary Ann, I said, um I'm Tim Carter

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I'm launching my website here in less than a month

They say I'm gonna have 200 pages and I have these newspapers that are gonna publish

This is really important. Understand this. I was so lucky. I didn't realize I had all this stuff

The newspapers will publish at the end of my column, my website address

So that really got our attention. All right. And, uh you know

I gave her a list of all the papers I was in, I said

so I wanna see if you're interested in buying an ad for my website. And she said

oh, yeah, yeah. She said, in fact, you, your timing couldn't be better

She said, uh we're getting to the end of our, our year, our, our fiscal year and I've got

she says I've got $15,000 in, in my ad budget that I have no idea to spend it on

She said, but I just now decided she said, but I, I'd like to have a little re reminder

She said, if I don't spend it, I'm not gonna get it next year. She said, so I have to spend it

So she said, would, you, would you take $13,500 uh and give me put

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

I said, so you have to remember like the ability to report uh views

and clicks all that was so basic and she didn't even ask for any of that

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

yet. So ask the builder has been in the black since day one. All right. So

I mean, it's a true story. It's crazy. All right. So, so then I just started

I just then. So from 1995. So this is, remember this is September

October, November of 1995. So that's when I asked the builder launched and I continue down the timeline

All right, I'm just working hard on the internet, loading up new content every week

Uh Trying to sell more papers and things are just rolling along

Let me check the comments before um, they stream off the screen for me

Um Vanessa has got some a Ri Vanessa. You've got a rich history in the internet here

Cool stuff. Uh com 64. Wow. The intense a phone line. 300 bot

Yeah. 300 bot. I had my first modem was 300 bot. Uh Wow

Crazy. All right. So this is, uh, this is, I'm glad this is bringing back memories for you too

This is wonderful. All right. So 1995 1996 we're just

kind of moving down the timeline, selling more papers, sell, I'm selling ads

All right, I'm selling ads myself. You have to understand this is before Google even existed

All right. Um, and I don't, I cannot remember how this happened

how the next thing happened. Oh, I think I know how this should have been early

This should have been like 1998 maybe the fall of 98. Uh

we have four television networks in Cincinnati, um ABC NBC, CBS and Fox

And so Fox, the Fox station was always kind of a little bit of an outlier

you know, they were the rogue TV network, you know, they didn't have the rich history that the big three had

And the, of course, if, if the managers are doing their job or the program directors

you know, they're scanning all the media not only are they scanning their TV competitors but radio and newspapers

So they, they had found out that I was doing a radio show and they knew that I had

um, the newspaper column in the Inquire. And, um, I'm, I got

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

live, like, tool or some type of little demonstration uh on our morning news show

And I said, sure, you know, why not? You know, I, what, what I got to lose anything I can do to promote

ask the builder no pay involved. So I got to do live television with the

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

funny guy and he's very talented. Well, I, OK, I had no training

No, nothing. I did not realize that he was trying to make this into an entertainment s presentation

not necessarily infomercial, you know, or not infomercial, not informative, you know

and I'm trying to be more informative, you know, because I'm thinking I'm on television and I

I have to look professional and he's sitting here flipping goofing around. So

so I, I finally figured it out. We, so we started to have a lot of fun

you know, I would go in once a week and unfortunately none of these were recorded

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

VCR at the time. Who knows? Maybe vcrs didn't even exist. I don't know

I can't remember back that far about that stuff. Uh, so, so here's what

here's what I also learned. I, I, um, when I would go into the studio

if you've never been in a television studio, very interesting place. And they have

it, it's, you might have seen some of this in movies and television shows

but they have a bank of TV monitors up and they're tuned to all the competitors

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

even though, you know, they got a police scanners going off, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a very busy place

The, the news director or the, one of the producers at the channel nine ABC station must have seen me one morning

and went, what the hell? And they, they reached out to me and said

uh we need you to come down and do a test. Uh WW we need you to do a audition

Uh because we uh we need a new person to do a weekly segment on our news

Oh, ok. So I did, I went down and did an audition. I passed, I got the job and they were paying money

they paid really good money. And here's, this is really interesting by that time

So this is 1999. Um, when this was happening, I, I had been doing the internet for enough years

four years. And, and of course, back then, if you remember we had those big clunky monitors

All right. They, they were televisions. All right. I knew that much

I went, this is nothing but a television. And I said to myself

while I was doing the channel nine, the Fox stuff, Fox 19

I said to myself one day driving back, I said, you know what? There's gonna be video on the internet one day

There's no doubt about it. It couldn't support it at the time. The infrastructure

the modems could not handle it. I mean, they would just burn up. I mean

they couldn't handle all of the electrons that had to flow through it

It, it, it'd be like trying to power your house with a tiny 18 gauge wire

I mean, you would just fry it. All right. So I, um

so when they said we want you to do this job, I said

ok, I said, here's the deal though. I said I'll be your guy and I'll take that money

You're offering me every week. But I own the copyright on everything I do because I'm the guy on camera

I'm the guy writing the script. All you're doing is sending a videographer out and um and I

and said, and I said, furthermore, I want to have a copy of each segment that you have to give me

you know, a VHS copy. And, and at the end of it

it's tagged with me saying something different. In other words, if I was

here's an example, um I would say, um like at the end of a video

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

make sure you get one like this. I'm Tim Carter for eyewitness Nine News

And the videographer would hold his thumb up saying good, good, good ending

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

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

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

Beautiful, done everything. It's got my ending on it. All right. So

and, and I, and, and they never, and they agreed to that and they never asked me why I wanted it and

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

in that industry is, it's absolute insane. I, I can't even believe that anybody in the television industry

like the television news industry makes it past age 50. I'm serious

I can't believe it. The stress level is so flipping high and all that they care about

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

now or two years from now, or five years from now, like, oh, you know

I, I think we're gonna do, I think I wanna travel next year to the Grand Canyon. Whatever

If you work in the television news department, here's how far ahead you think

you think till six pm that day? That's it. That's all you think about six pm actually

You know, because, because you have to have your flipping segment done before they go live

You have, there's no excuses. They have to fill that air time

So, so, so that they're in this mindset, they've got these blinders on

They don't care, they don't care about the factory that's gonna burn down three months from now

They don't care about the airplane crash a week from now. They don't care about any of that stuff

It hasn't happened yet. So they didn't even think about the internet

So I was able to negotiate that and that was a huge win on my part

Let me get caught up on the comments all right. Um, Vanessa

and will, are going back and forth about their military days. Good for them

Uh, oh, yeah, I got paid. It was pretty good money. Um

VCR. You're right. They can go look it up, they can go

they can go look it up. What a VCR was, uh, video

so, video cassette recorder. Um, uh, cat, the ray tubes. Yeah, I've got a bunch of Catholic

radio tubes right in the other room there. I've got all I got about seven or eight old radios

Um, you know, the old old fashioned radios from the 1819 twenties

19 thirties. Um, copyrights are important. Yeah, absolutely. Uh John Rep. Hi John

Uh though I had my first PC in 1981. 19. It was a 19 with email

I could learn the heads of one way. Yeah. Crazy. Uh I got a really interesting story about email how

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

in my ho a oh man, I'm gonna fry my board in just two days

Oh my God, the atom bomb. I told I showed them that I had the atom bomb three weeks ago I showed

I told you that story about the atom bomb back in the past uh live streams

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

You have to fly your plane over the other people and open up your Bombay doors and you tell them

look up there that's an atom bomb. And if you don't, if you don't agree to this

I'm gonna drop the atom bomb. I learned that from a really great attorney in Cincinnati

Lou Katz. And so I, I did that, like, three weeks ago I told the board here in my HOA

I said, look, I've got the flipping atom bomb. I'm serious. I have an atom bomb and

um, if you don't back off this thing, I'm gonna drop the atom bomb. Well

they haven't backed off, so I'm dropping the flipping bomb. The AM L is already queued up

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

emails, uh the gmail introduced us, I think about a year ago

a lot of people don't even know about it. You know, typically they're writing an email

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

button is a little arrow, click the arrow next time. And um

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

date and time in case you just want the email to go out in the future. And I did that for this email

It's already queued up. It's ready to go. It's like the planes in the air flying towards the target

It's amazing. All right, let's keep going here. Um, all right. So where was I

uh, oh, channel nine, channel nine getting the TV segment. So that would have been 19 9 in it

So I, I worked for channel nine for quite a few years and um he had a great videographer and what was really cool

His name was Ron Fisher. And he taught me so much about how to do video and

and here's, here's the interesting thing. If you, if you go and watch a lot of videos here on youtube

especially ones in my, in my vertical, they, they suck. Most of them suck

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

so much work. I mean, it's takes a lot, I mean, to do a three minute video

you may spend 45 minutes of, of recording or more and you have to do things multiple times

the same thing, you have to do the same thing multiple times, you know, because you wanna get a wide shot

you wanna get a close up shot. Anyway, I learned all that from Ron and uh invaluable information to make good videos really

really good. The um Then what happened is II, I ended up kind of

my star was rising and I would get invited to all these editors conferences which were really in informational

I got to travel all kinds of places. Um companies would, would bring in editors

uh you know, to, to um uh you know, to these conferences for a day or two

always, uh most of them were a lot of fun. Uh not all of them. Uh

but, uh, you know, I, I got to make friends with a lot of the people that

you know, my peers, uh, that, you know, I, I had some friendly competitors and

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

I mean, literally there are hundreds of thousands of topics in home improvement

Other words, I could, I could write, um, there are, there are probably 100 and 5200

maybe 300 columns you could write just about drywall. I mean, just very finesse things like just how to use a different

how, how do you use a, a specific taping knife? How to use a 10 inch one

How to use a 12 inch one? How do you use an eight inch one? Um, how to use a banjo

Um, you know, just how, how, you know, the special drywall primers

how to skim co, I mean, I, I could just so, so in other words

I didn't feel that I didn't care that there were other guys doing it because it's like

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

paths pretty, pretty minimal. And that's exactly what happened. The, um, um

so then what happened kind of fast forward. I, uh, discover. I was

I helped start in 1999 a very secret internet mastermind group and I can't really tell you much about it

Uh But there's some really, really powerful people in it and I was fortunate to be surrounded by some people in this group

very, very successful, very early adopters of stuff. And one of the people one day told me

he, he was saying, oh, you know, there's this new thing out called Google Adsense

you know, Google was probably by this time, about three years old, four years old, maybe

And, and, and I, um I was kind of poo pooing it

you know, because up until this time I said I want all my own ads and

and uh we were at a buffet, a breakfast buffet, I'll never forget

I'm not gonna tell you this guy's name and he bent over and he whispered in my ear

He said, Tim, he said, uh you really should look into this

He said my check from Google last month was $30,000. My

eyes went like this like, whoa. And I looked at him, I said, are you serious

He said, yeah, and he said you need to be doing this because you can make big money

He says, I, I know what the, the ads are costing in your area

So I couldn't, I couldn't put the code on my website fast enough and

and I became um the p the poster boy for Google Adsense for Google

you know, and they um they used me like a tissue, it was really kind of a bad deal

Um But, you know, I also was smart enough to realize they're the big gorilla

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

which were very secret affairs. Um looking back. Um not so good

I mean, just like some of the people that were there just um I don't know

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

sitting, he, the guy sitting next to me was the librarian of Congress

Did you know there was a guy named and there's only been like nine of them

I mean, once you get this job, you keep it for like 40 years or so, 3040 years

this old guy. And I mean, his business card, it had his name and all it said was Librarian of Congress

No phone number, no address. No, nothing. I don't think I, I think I lost it

It's like, oh, and he said, oh, yeah, anytime you want to come for a private tour

you know, totally to see all this stuff, no one gets to see. Just let me know. I never took a B on it

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

Congress. Could you imagine that? All right. So um all right. So let's see

I'm getting up to 2005. So uh what happened then is, and one of the zeitgeist

you know, of course Google hiring the smartest people they knew about internet

they knew about video. Uh youtube. It had already started, but it was really tiny Google did not own youtube at that point

They had a thing called Google video. You might not, you might not know this, it wasn't there for very long

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

video knew I was gonna beat the zeitgeist. They pull me off to the side and they say

hey, um we're from Google video and we were wondering like, have you thought of doing any home improvement videos

And I went, oh, I already have some really that you do

How many do you have? I said I've got over 200. They said what I said

yeah, they're already reproduced. They're already done. They're ready to load up

They were blown away. They, they, they, we, we couldn't get them up on Google videos fast enough

And then a few months later, Google buys youtube for $1.8 billion

I think. So, Google video got loaded into, got, you know, got folded into youtube and just disappeared

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

channel on Google on youtube. Uh So, um so that's why I'm here today on youtube

All right. So I've, I've had this very long relationship with them ever since day one

And uh so I think that's kind of where we're at. I mean

I, not that after that after 2005, um that was probably the

the, the most innovation e everything since then. Uh You know, I

I've um I've tried to branch off. I, I got hurt really bad by Google in 2011 overnight

I lost 95% of my traffic and revenue in the panda update

So if you know anything about the E every now and then Google shakes the snow globe

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

for something on Google and here's III I know I mentioned this in the past

I was probably in a bad mood, um, several months ago, but I

um, I'll just tell you this again if you do a search on Google and if you think that the top three

results you get back, if you think those are the best results for that topic

I've got a bridge to sell you in New York. I've got a

I've got this really awesome one to sell you in San Francisco. You're not gonna believe this bridge in San Francisco

I'm gonna sell you and it's not the crappy one going over to Oakland. All right

And in other words, Google, the results that come back in Google are

are there to favor Google? Not you. In other words, if you think

if you think for a moment that the search results you get back on Google

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

about that topic. You are flipping dreaming and what's really gotten bad in the last 5

10 years. They're censoring content. All right. So you're only getting one side of

of, of an issue or story? That's, that's bad. Right. So that's

that's different. All right. So, so what I've done in the last

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

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

time ago, you want to have multiple pillars of income and you really don't wanna build your platform

you don't want to build your audience on some other platform. Like in other words here

it's really um I can tell you story after story after story of

of influencers like me who started out on Facebook or started out on Instagram and all

all of a sudden they've got 100,000 followers and whatever and then all so that when they post something

100,000 people see it, then all of a sudden Facebook changes the rules

I, well, I should call them fascist book because that's what it really is. So fascist book goes

we're not gonna show your post to 100,000 people. Sorry, we're only gonna show it to 500 and

and you go, what, what, what, what about the other 99,500? And they go

well, sure we we'll show it to them but you need to pay us. So Instagram has done that

A a all of those platforms are doing it. So it's a huge mistake to try to

to try to build your business on somebody else's platform. That's why I have my newsletter

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

the really good stuff, you gotta be on the newsletter list. Simple as that. And

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

Uh, new home building hacks. So wait till you see that book. Oh my gosh

So that's the story of, ask the builder. All right, if you got any questions, put them in the chat

happy to, happy to answer. So, Vanessa is, uh, really going in

uh, you're going down memory lane, aren't you young lady that all those years in the Air Force

Good for you? Yeah, same thing with Amazon. Exactly. Uh, yeah. Well

I just, you have to understand with Google that they, this is kind of a

it's kind of a very quirky thing in a way, uh, here in America because we're capitalistic

at least for now every day we seem to be going the wrong way

Uh, the board of directors of Corp of publicly traded corporations. All right

Understand that the board of directors of publicly traded corporations of which Google has won

You know, now it's alphabet. They have a responsibility to the shareholders to make the most amount of money that they can

legally. All right, that's, that's in the law. If they don't do it

the shareholders can sue them. All right. So with that hanging over your head

you have to understand. Google is gonna put in the search results

the things that make Google the most money. Come on. It's their job

it's their job for the shareholders. The shareholders come first. You come second

maybe even third. Oh, turn 60. You're still a pup. You're still

a puppy. Oh my gosh. Hey, Jimmy, how are you doing? If you have any questions about

ask the daughter, now's the time to ask him. I don't know how long the delay is today. Yesterday

we were having a horrible time, horrible delay in the chat. It was delayed, like five minutes

There we go. You know what to do with that will, the

um, now that Vanessa, now that I know that Vanessa is only four hours away

um, I'm, you know, maybe, maybe we should, maybe I should have a New England meet up

I was gonna have a New Hampshire one here, maybe in a month because I've got some people closer in

but maybe, maybe people would be willing to drive 234 hours, you know

to, to come to come, you know, have a, have lunch or something

I don't know, having a very extended lunch. So, something to think about

Um, all right. So I shared with you earlier if you, if you did not

um, if you just kind of tuned in, um, trying to retire two more times before 80

Me too. Me too. Uh I'm gonna paste back in this. Um

oh, I know what I needed to tell you the ho a story. Um Right

So there is a thing I talked about right at the beginning of the stream. Very interesting

Uh, place up in Chicago. It's a little alley. In other words, the

the streets of Chicago, many of them years ago, many years ago before the Chicago

the great Chicago fire, they paved them with uh wood blocks. Go look at that page pretty interesting

Um Oh yeah, good for you. Uh Well, my daughter, so I drive by Bangor

somewhat frequently. Um My oldest daughter lives in Bar Harbor, so we have to drive up I 95 and as you well know

get off at exit 182 A to head down, um head down towards Ellsworth

you know, to cross over into the island. Well, if you, uh so Vanessa

if you're ever traveling up to Bangor and you want to take a little bit of a detour

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

of near central Hampshire, just let me know, you know how to do that. Just go to the tim page

Fill it out. Tell me who you are, blah, blah, blah. And uh I'll remember there's no doubt about it

Say, hey, I'm Vanessa from the live stream. I know. Ok. Um

the other thing I wanted to share right now is, uh, so here I, I've kind of

I teased a little earlier. I, I'm in this battle. Um, um

up here in my ho a where they're trying to get the

they need to get a two thirds vote, two thirds majority to do this, um

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

private property rights of homeowners like me to be able to rent my property. And evidently over the past year

last summer and maybe the summer before some, there were some renters that were here that were a little obnoxious on the beach

And so that, that got people on a tizzy. So they wanted to do this

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

up with a six month, like, if you wanted to rent your house fine, you got to do it for six months

Like, are you crazy? That's nuts. And they shouldn't even do it anyway

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

So I've done a lot of research, uh, in, in, in the legal landscape

There's a thing for, for hoas, like mine and other condominiums and just other places that

that are hoas when the original developer writes the original bylaws, that's considered what it's called the scheme

of development. And it's kind of an interesting power. In other words

the original developer has got this power to create the vision of what he would like the community to be like

And so he gets one chance to do it like he gets to wave the magic wand

write the bylaws. That's it. They're cast in stone. If the original developer and

and it's the courts don't like it. When the ho waves then go to try to radically change the scheme of development

They don't like that because they say, wait a minute, that's this, this was uh you know

done by the developer. So if the original developer where I live didn't want to have the rent

didn't want to have renters, he could have put it in, he could have put it in the bottom and said

look, you're not allowed to rent your home. And so if I would have known that when I bought

I would have said OK, II I won't rent or nope, I'm not gonna buy there because I do wanna rent

So they're trying to change the game development. So that's, that's not a good thing. And oh my son calling

I'm gonna answer this. I'll be right back. Hey, how you doing

I'm live streaming right now and, and you're, you're on worldwide television

Can I call you back? Ok, thanks. Bye. All right. So my son hates to have his photo

taken. He hates video. He, I don't know if you heard it

He said he, he, he said yes with, with great um um great um

intensity like yes that I don't wanna, I don't wanna be on live streaming

All right. So, uh um, all right, let me get caught up on the ca uh things

uh was asking Vanessa if she plays a golf. Uh Oh my gosh

Uh Oh, that's great. Um Yeah, Vanessa is right about that. Um Well

I used to be on the board. Uh Anyway, so, um my son just sent me a message

text me, you don't have to just, you don't have to pick up the phone call when you're live screaming streaming

I thought it might be an emergency, you know. So I'll tell him that later because

you know, he doesn't call me that often, right? So, um, yeah

I know Vanessa Will's trying to rope you into playing golf with us

That's what's going on. So if you're going up to Bangor one day

you know. So, um uh anyway, in your way. So, um I'm totally against the short term rental group

Here's what it is, here's what it comes down to. Um the

the short term rental agreement. What, what the, the, the I brought it up already in

in, in a zoom call. It's not gonna solve the bad behavior problem

That's what I said. I said, what, what's wrong with you guys? I said, why do you think that by

by, by making somebody rent here three months, which is now the new bylaw

They're trying to, they brought it from six months down to three months and

and that's the minimum. So I said, so now you're gonna basically make it worse because now if

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

like cousin Eddie in the, remember in the Christmas vacation movie with Chevy Chase

So I I could rent now this person instead of only creating havoc for a week

In other words, you may have rented your house for a week under the old system and then they're gone

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

you're stupid. And then, you know, and then I try to go home to my or try to drive home the point

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

senior citizen who, who, who just want to sit on my deck each day and play cards

That's all they wanna do. They wanna look out at the lake, drink uh umbrella drinks and play cards

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

of disabled kids who are in wheelchairs who wanna sit on my deck and just look out at the lake

Why can't I do that? They're not gonna go down to the beach and cause trouble. See

that's the trouble. In other words, they, they, they, they don't and, and some of these people

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

what you do with your private property. Like what's next? Then here's, here's what I asked him

I said, what's next? Because, you know, you're, you're thinking you, you're all the soft gooey feelings for the community

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

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

Let's help MEREDITH, my town. So here's the new bylaw. Once a month

this is what I would propose to him, you know, you know, because to show that they're such hypocrites

So once a month you have to rent, you have to go down to MEREDITH and you have to find four homeless people

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

you bring them back, you put them in your home, you feed them

you wash their clothes, you let they sleep in your freaking king bed

You can go sleep out on the deck. Um, but for a weekend

once a month, that's what you're gonna do with your private property

Oh, they don't like that when you tell them that you have to do that with their private property

See, that's the issue with issues like this. It's crazy. You know

they don't look at it the other way. All right. All right. Let me get caught up

Vanessa, a lot of comments. I heard, uh, the Morris code. Right. Yeah, that's my

um, I have my, my ring tone is the Morse code call

So call and then when Cathy calls me it, the Morse code is SMW os mwo

See if you can figure that one out. Sm, no, I'm sorry

Sw. Yeah. Sw sw em, B os W em bo, sorry. Sw emb O All

right. Uh, yeah. Yeah, Eddie. Exactly. The young have a lot to

Exactly. Censorship and control. Not a good thing. Exactly. Help the community

I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Tell everybody. You have to go find four homeless people if you're so interested in helping the flipping community

Bunch of idiots. All right. Um, any questions about, ask the builder or anything else

Um, boy, I can't believe it's already been an hour and four minutes. Holy tomato crazy

Um, trying to snow a little bit here. I did talk really early in the

in the, um, live stream. I'm really excited about. I get excited

Like March 1st. It's a really March 1st to me, which is today is a Hallmark

I mean, after will, will laugh at this, you know, will, who's probably lived in New England his whole life

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

Right? I'm a flatlander. I was not born here. So I've discovered that March 1st

is like a Hallmark Day because we made it, we made it through winter

I mean, it can still be cold. We're still gonna get some snow. It's light snow

Now, we're supposed to maybe get an inch overnight. But it's, it's now at that point of time in the year

I mean, think about this, I said this earlier in the stream, we're only three weeks away

less than three weeks away from the equinox, the sun's getting higher in the sky warmer

Um, uh The sun really eats up the snow and I don't have to be as concerned about getting the driveway

Perfect. That's the point. In other words, I've got a really steep hill the there

I've got a section of my driveway that's about 35 ft long

I've never actually measured the grade but, you know what I'm gonna do it tomorrow

Um, I think the grade is probably, it could be, um, 30%

I mean, it's steep. I mean, it's really steep. Um, it'll be interesting to measure it

So, you know how they do percent grade. It's how many feet does something rise in

in 100 ft? So, you know, it's that right triangle, you know

but the base of the triangle is 100 ft. Let's see where we are

Um, yeah. Uh, maple syrup that, you know, a lot of people don't know that

Maple syrup. That's the first crop for farmers. You know, that's the first crop of the year in the northern hemisphere

Uh, mud season. Yeah. Mud season. Oh, my gosh, Jimmy. Where, where

I bought the massive fire. No restriction. No permits. Yeah. No, I

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

really slack zoning. I, I would never go into an HO A again

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

I built for Kathy. But the financial crisis happened three months after I bought this place in 2008 and then in 2011

overnight, I lost 95% of my revenue. I've never gotten it back

I mean, I've, I've built some of it back but not even close. So it was a really

really rough time. 2012. Uh, all right. So, um, John. All right

So great question. How is the Pumas testing going? Did I miss anything? No

you did not. Here, here's what you need to do. It's really interesting. Go back to that live stream last week

I can't remember. I can't remember what the topic was. I think it was Floor Trusses

I can't remember. Well, you can just type in pus. Um And

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

uh, he's a chemistry guy. All right. Um Here's what happened. We had that little exchange

I thought it was getting a little contentious and I was actually more contentious than he was

And, um, so he backed off. All right, he backed off and next morning

So I, I, here's what's really important. I have all the comments on all my videos set for moderation

I learned a long, long time ago that it just, you know

if you don't do that, there's just all this garbage that's on there. And, and so

so what happens is I have the power to, to delete a comment and

and so I, my comment policy on my video on my channel is simple

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

John had written a long comment and if you remember, I had challenged him

I said John, if you because he was saying like, oh no man, it's not scratching anything

And I know it was, I know it was, it's just that he could not see the scratches under the water

And because the color of the China, the white tile hides the scratches

Would you? Anyway? He, he comments and says he says there's no need for you to do the test

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

I went into my pantry, I'm just kind of adding, I, I'm embellishing a little bit

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

scratched the heck out of it. So, you know, so he came clean in the comment

So he said there's no need for you to do the test live. You know, it's, we already know it's gonna

I already can tell you it's gonna scratch it. It's, it's like I, I replied back. I know that's why

that's why I was having the back and forth with you, man. I already knew it was gonna scratch it

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

Vanessa says I, oh Vanessa, um, it's just about to disappear off the screen

It says I'm a math teacher now for high schools, uh, the most college teachers

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

don't have to, you don't even have to come in here. But if you feel it would be a good idea to

um, have me in, as a guest for a little bit of time for

in one of your classes. If you're even allowed to do it on a video call, I'm willing to jump in and

and the reason why is I wanna give a few examples to the kids of why they need to pay attention to you

how math will really help them down the road, especially the high school guys

Oh, my gosh. So, just understand that it's an open invitation. Um

so anyway, you say I'm gonna let a neighbor know about your French. Strange. Yeah, they, uh, they're fantastic

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

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

do a 30 minute phone call with them. So I offer that service

Ah, the toi thank you. Will the toilet cleaning edition. Of course. How, how could I

what an idiot? I am some days. How could I not remember that? Uh John

Great. Yes, true. Sets is free. Hello, Loreen. Yeah, you made it uh

almost is volcanic. Exactly. Silica, high silica content. Uh Exactly. That's exactly right

Um Yes. All right. So, anyway, just know Vanessa that I'm, I'm happy to um happy

to um to come in on a video call and then if

if you're actually, if you're actually doing a stand in Connecticut, just so, you know

um and if those are high school kids, you, I know this sounds crazy

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

and you could get a local lumber yard or a local plumbing place

They, they have an, a budget where they would pay that fee just so, you know

um you know, to bring me into town, you know, and then I do a little promotion for that company while I'm there

Uh because, you know, they realize that those, some of those kids might become customers for life

So just something to think about it works better for trade schools than just regular high schools

but you never know. Um All right. Um Any questions, any questions about anything about your home

Uh, I'm happy to answer it. Uh, it doesn't, um, uh, doesn't

um, and what's really interesting today is that chat is very responsive

uh, yesterday or the day bef before. Yeah, it was yesterday. Boy

it was like, delayed by three or four or five minutes. It was horrible. Um

even Steve complained about it if you have any questions about your home

Happy to answer them. Um, happy to. Oh, I just want to share this

I shared in the newsletter on Sunday, my latest book, it's called uh

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

in your new home. Uh, really cool things that can, that can

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

where you could go to if you wanted to, um, if you wanted to

to help, you know, I, I would like to hear your, your

um, your ideas. So I'm, I'm actually going right now and I'm gonna get, um

I'm getting a copy of that link for you. Um So if in case you wanna help case you want your idea

So here we go. Um, let's see. So this is gonna be a really odd link

Um, doesn't matter, it's gonna look really funky, but it's completely safe to do

So if you want to, if you've got some really cool things in your home or even things that you wish you had

In other words, maybe there are things you hate about your home and you go

gosh, I, I just wish my house had this. It's so hard to do whatever

So that's the kind of ideas I'm looking for. So, uh, go here and fill out the form and

um, at the bottom of the, now, what you have to realize is I'm gonna use your idea in my book

I, I'm not gonna compensate you. The only thing you're gonna get is you get a free copy of the book

a PDF version. All right. So if you don't want to do it under those terms

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

mentioned in the book in case you want to be published in a book. Um You know

I don't put your home address or if you want to be anonymous, you can be anonymous

So you, you click one of those buttons on the bottom of the form. You'll see

So go there and tell me if you had a magic wand

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

incorporated some very cool things. Uh Share it. What do you have

Here's some of the things that's really surprising. I, I've, I've, I've already gotten back a lot of

of, of, uh, ideas and it's stunning, stunning how many people. Um

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

advertise what I'm gonna do in my next home. But I'm, I'm gonna do it now based on

on what, um, um, on, on all this feedback I'm getting. So I've always been intrigued

um, with secret rooms and secret passageways and I've always wanted to have a house that had secret passageways in it

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

the one room and you can go all the way around the board if you want, come out the other room

Well, evidently I'm not the only one who, who wants that and

and people want hidden safes and you would be stunned how simple it is if you're trying to make a hidden room

even if it's a small one, like a small hidden closet, um

that the average person who's breaking home, they would never know. Um

it can be done without doors. It's very cool and I mean

not even secret doors. So I'm gonna share that in the book. Very cool

So there, there's, so this book is gonna be chock full of so many things

You're not gonna believe it. All right. So Vanessa says I am building a wood fired oven on my patio

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

up here? I own 90 acres. Come up and get all the oak you want. Oh

yeah, Lorraine, uh, hidden room. I've, I actually have one here in my house

It's very small. I discovered it by accident and I told Kathy about it and told her

I said, hey, I'd like to go. Now. She said, no, we're not doing that. Like

are you kidding me? So, but she's ok with the new house doing it

Right. So anyway, uh Yes. Uh exactly. And that's what it is

Um And that's exactly what people want to vanessa a secure room hidden as well

Uh Absolutely. So it's big. It's gonna be in the uh it's gonna be in the book

Um, Loreen, I love nooks where you can go to relax and read

Yes. So like window seats. So that's one of the things in the book, a window seat

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

it just have a simple, you know, flip up lid, you get all this extra storage and if you have any grandkids or kids

I mean, talk about a hiding place for hide and seek inside the house on a rainy day

Are you kidding me? It's one of the best places in the world to hide

Um, yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I do here for you

Vanessa, if you want it. I have a big giant, big, huge slab of cherry aged oak

cherry. This piece of cherry is 40 years old. It's, I brought it from Ohio up here to New Hampshire

It's probably 1214 inches high, four inches thick and, um, probably 1214 ft long

probably weighs 100 and 30 pounds. It's yours. If you want to come up and get it

you can have it. Yeah. There you go. Kernel mustard with a candlestick and the like

Exactly. Uh, exactly. So cool book. So I'm working on that project right now

Like this morning I was, I, it was, it took me about an hour to figure out how I could curate this stuff

And because as I'm, as I'm pulling these tips down, some people want to be anonymous

Some people don't. So I figured out a really cool system how to track all that is

I copy down their ideas and then I'm gonna expand on them. So I

I finally figured out the format and I punched through, I don't know

I got at least another three hours to go through all the ideas I have so far

But even with the ideas I have so far and all the stuff in my head. This is gonna be a pretty cool book

you know. So, yeah. All right. So, um, I'm pretty wasted

I, uh, I'm gonna get out of here, uh, for Jimmy's got a co for zone three

How thick? Uh, shakos. I don't, I don't know, Jimmy. I don't

I don't know the answer to that question. I don't, um, I don't know, I don't know

And um I'm not a big fan of, of, I'm not a huge fan uh um of

of, of spray foam insulation, not a big fan of it. Uh If something goes wrong

um, you know, or you need to run a wire in the future or whatever you're done

you're, it's over. So I, I'm just not a big fan of it. There's a lot of advantages I know

but I think that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. So that's just my personal feeling

Uh So Vanessa, I'm confused by your lead pipe comment. My best choice was lead pipe

I, 00, I know what you mean in the game of clue. Of course, I got it. Yes

that was a fun game. Whoever came up with that. It's a really great game. Um

wonderful game. So secret passages. Um So you're like this, there, there was an outside chance I was gonna build

uh our next house up in Bar Harbor and I became friends with the head building

Inspector up in Bar Harbor. Um, really, really great woman. Her name is Angela Chamberlain and

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

And what I like about Angie. Here's what I like about Angie

Angie is tough, but she's fair. All right. So that's a, that's a really important combination and she's

also willing to bend a little bit. And you have to understand that the building inspectors in every single town

they can't, they, they don't have the, you have to understand that the building code, like the uniform building code U BC

That's just a set of recommendations. Understand that it's recommendations and some

some towns and cities that are lazy, they just adopt it and say, ok

this is what we're gonna do. Well, guess what the local building inspectors can say

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

it tougher. So Vanessa understands that. All right. So I was up and I was up there in Bar Harbor last Fall

and, um, I reached out to her ahead of time. We, we, you know, cause I

I, she had to inspect all my work, my plumbing and electric and heating for my daughter's home

And, uh, you know, I was very respectful to her and I, and, and, and we became friends

All right. So I said, V I said, uh, Angela, I said

could I, do you have like 10 minutes? I'm gonna be in town visiting my daughter and granddaughter

I would love to have a very short meeting with you. She said, sure

Absolutely. So I sit down with her and I go, I go

can we go, actually go outside? And it was a, it was a warmer day

She said, sure, that's ok. I said it, it'll make sense when we go outside

She goes, ok. She trusts me. All right. So we're outside, we're out of the building

And I go, listen, this is an off the record question. Ok. And I told her

I said, I told her about my interest in passage ways, secret passage ways because they

because understand a secret passage way, you don't want it to be really wide

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

18 inches in work. All right, 20 inches. And so I said

um, I said, it's so much easier to build that stuff in while you're building the house and

and I said, but it's not gonna pass. And she says, well

after I give the certificate of occupancy, it doesn't really matter what you do with your house

Right? And that's all she said. All right. So, so, um, anyway

that's so you can actually build the house to code, but you can build it in such a way that

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

of my phone calls, I'll tell you how to do it. I'm

I'm telling you, it's not as hard to do as you think. Just it, not that hard

All right. Hello, Hassan. How you doing? Um Oh, all

right. Let's see. All right, great. I'm caught up on the comments

I'm gonna get out of here hour and 24 minutes. That's a long time. Uh So

so I had a great fun today, Vanessa. Great to know you. Um boy

you've got a really interesting history. Holy tomato. Um And will I thought you were gonna tell everybody about how great

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

identify you or not identify you. I could just say a personal and you have to email me

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

stream, but people are not gonna believe the results you got. It was really amazing

wasn't it? I mean, really amazing. Uh uh I mean, your photo that your after photo was unbelievable

I mean, it's like that thing was new. I mean, how, I mean, it's almost blinding the photo

how shiny the stainless steel was. Uh And I'm also interested. You didn't leave a comment

You didn't tell me about the taste. You know, in other words, past cleaning things would

would, would make the coffee taste not so great stain solver. It should

it should taste perfect as long as you rinsed it out really well to get rid of that

So there you go. Well, sustained solver is great. It is, it is great

There's got lemon water today. All right, I'm gonna let everybody know Vanessa asked before

That's how you get it. That's where you go to get your Stain Solver tastes great

No, no, no, do not. Seriously. Here do not put Stain Solver in your mouth

I I'll tell you a quick stain sover story you're gonna like this. Um So Stain Solver is an oxidizer

Um pretty. It's a very powerful oxidizer, right? So you would never want to get it on mucus mem

especially the dry powder. If you get the dry powder on an open cut

you're gonna think that somebody has put a white hot iron on your skin

I know the voice of experience. It burns like crazy. You do not wanna get just like any other household chemical

You would not want to splash chlorine bleach in your eyes. You would not wanna splash ammonia in your eyes

You wouldn't you say you don't wanna do that with stain sulfur the solution or the powder

Um, you do not want to get it on any MS Membrane. All right, anywhere

Um, the, uh, here's the funny story though, but if you wear dentures or if you have bridge work

if you have dentures or bridge work and you want your dentures to look brand new

like white, just put your dentures in some, just do what will did with his coffee pot

Just let your dentures soak overnight. You are not gonna believe how beautiful they look the next day and it

and the stain solver will not harm the um I don't know the pink part

the plastic part, whatever, whatever they use to make the dentures with it, why not harm that

It's amazing. Uh Same thing with bridge work, take out your bridge soak it in stain silver

So here's a true story. This is many years ago. I mean

we've been selling Stain Solver since 1996 and probably 20 years ago I got a phone call one day

You know, this is back in the day. People called the 800 number and I answered the phone and this lady

this lady, she's an older woman and she goes, um I just wanna know uh how long

like if I wanna put my foot in a bucket filled with Stain Solver, how long could I keep my foot in there

I go, I go. Well, um I said, it depends on the concentrate

I couldn't understand why she wanted to put a foot, foot in a bucket of stains on. Um

I said, I don't know, half an hour, an hour. I said

I, it's, uh, your foot may start to feel a little weird. If it starts to feel weird

I'd probably take it out. It said it's, but it's not gonna hurt you. It's not gonna

it's not so strong that it's gonna burn your skin. You know

I, but I warned her about the open cut. I said, if you have an open cut on your foot

it's gonna hurt. She said, OK, hung up the phone. She calls back a month later

I answer the phone again. She goes, hey, I don't know if you remember me

I'm the woman who talked to you about um, if I could put my foot in a bucket of stain

So, yeah, I remember, uh she says I just wanna let you know that you have got the best toenail fungus remover in the

world. She said I have tried everything and it doesn't work stain solver

Got rid of it in two weeks, but I can't market it that way

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

the label or anything like that or I'm not gonna put a page on stains solver about that

So, uh anyway, you got toenail fungus. Stay, will take care of it

Uh There you go. Great. So um um will says no

change notice. After exactly, you just see here's what happened. So all that stain solver is um I can give you the

the official chemical name. It's pery hydrated carbonate of soda, per oxy hydrated carbonate of soda

That's a very fancy name for dried. A very, very strong, very strong

much stronger than what you buy in the brown bottles. Very strong hydrogen peroxide and soda ash

We also have to add some dense soda ash to the blend to get it

It's such a powerful chemical on its own. I'm not allowed to ship it in trucks without that dangerous yellow label

And, and if I put that on UPS goes, we're not taking it

forget it. We're not doing it. They don't want that dangerous stuff in their system

So I have to get it just below the dot Standard. So we do that by adding soda ash

dense soda ash. Well, guess what? The dense soda ash increases the ph a little bit

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

But the soda ash. So when you mix stain solved with water

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

What's cleaning things and it creates more water. Ok? Because why h2o 2

So if you break off one of the oxygen ions you're left with h2o

So when you mix, stain salt water, you get oxygen, you get water and you have the

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

the water evaporates, you see that powder left behind, that's just soda ash

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

Soda ash is very water sole. It rinses right off. So if you had not rinsed the coffee pot out

well, it, it would taste a little alkaline. That's all. So you did a good job

You got rid of it all so good for you. Um Oh

all right. Um ok, good. Um Yeah. Well, it just, I I I'll

email me before you go to do. Here's all you gotta do. Lorraine

You just fill the car with hot water as hot as you can do it. Even if you want to microwave some

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

does fill it to the brim. And then I guess will I told Will to put in a tablespoon

I don't know if you two have the same size carrots, but it did a beautiful job on wills

So, um, yeah, there you go. Stains. So is the only thing

boy, I can't wait to use that testimonial. Wow, that's a good one

Anyway, Loin de, so um have a great trip. Be safe, drive safely

Um, we always miss you. I it's not the same when you're not here

It's uh great that you're here. Uh And you're exactly right, Vanessa, boy

you're a smart woman. Uh That's why high Ph makes things slippery

That's why soaps are slippery. Exactly. And they do that on purpose because the way traditional soaps work

they try to surround the dirt particle and then they try to slide it out or off the surface

That's, that's how basic soaps work. Uh You know, but sometimes the stain is like flipping velcro or like a bird that

you get on your pants in the woods and no matter how much soap surrounds it

it's not coming off. But Stain Solver blasts those stain molecules apart

That's why Stain Solver works. Um Oh yeah, I I cannot. Um So the fireplace must come along pretty good

Uh Oh, there you go, Jimmy. Yeah, it works fantastic, man. I just

you just mix up some Stain Solver solution. Stir it up in nice warm as

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

It's the same process. So I, you know, I can't remember. It's been so long

I don't remember how long she let it soak for probably 20 or 30 minutes each day

Um Vanessa, look at you, man. I just completed my masters in math in 2017

The ancient 10 my God. What a story. I, this is what I love about the live stream

And I, I told them, I told that when we did our Zoom call

you need to be on our next zoom call, Vanessa. If you want to be on our Zoom call

um you need to email you. I need to find out your email address

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

to email each person separately to let them know the invite and the time

But think about it. But look at you flipping masters in math

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

You'll really, you will really appreciate this. Oh my gosh. Um So I sucked at math

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

reasons. All right. I, I just, I was a wild flipping. I was a wild animal back in high school

Um, uh, my grades were so bad that I got rejected from going to a four year college

The University of Cincinnati would not take me. That was the wake up call

That was highly embarrassing. All my other friends got into flipping college but the University of Cincinnati had a AAA twoyear college

You know, the, like these, uh, like a community college. It was sa

it was right on campus, same campus called University College. The nickname for it was Candy College

All right. It was, um, basically just advanced high school. And so I

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

after the first year, you could transfer out, go to the four year college and all your credits will transfer over

It's like, ok, that was the flipping fuse to light the rocket

So I had to take, um, um, I had to take algebra and trig that first year and I got straight A's

in it. But I also tell you, I had a good teacher. He would, he

he, he, people, the reason a lot of maybe you understand this Vanessa

The reason, uh, people like us have trouble with math is because it's no different than

than, um, you trying to learn Morse Code or somebody else or you trying to learn French or German or some other language because

mathematics is a language and that's why people like us have trouble with it

I'm just telling you well, he understood that. He figured it out how to work around that

All right. So, got Straight A's. I, I, and, and not only that I understood it and I enjoyed it

All right. So fast forward you had to take certain math classes to

um, get your degree in geology and one of them was calculus. So calculus

Are you kidding me? This my senior? OK. Get this. My senior year

I'm taking flipping calculus. Spring quarter. All right, spring quarter, spring quarter for a senior

It's warm and sunny in Cincinnati. The only, the, the only class I could get into

Are you sitting down Monday, Wednesday and Friday from four until 5 p.m. And

so it was taught by this grad student. I'll never forget he had dark black hair

tall guy. I don't know his name and he, um, he said like the first day of class

I don't know there were like 15 of us in there. All right. He goes. All right

He says I get it. He goes, um, I know that we're gonna have maybe 15 people here on Monday

We're gonna have eight people here on Wednesday and we're gonna have just one or two on Friday

I get it. Well, he starts teaching and this guy, he had some gift from God

I'm telling you cause calculus is for the average person is not easy

I got it. I was like, oh, my God, I understand this. So I never missed a class

Never. I mean, I'm, I would be walking home from college in May on Friday afternoons

at 455 because class ended at 450. I never missed a class

He couldn't believe it. He couldn't, because I was a senior because that was the other thing

I was a senior. Most of the other people in the class were sophomores. True story

But I got an a I got an a in the guy's class in calculus. So I really

here's what I love about calculus. Um And I'm probably gonna get this wrong Vanessa

So um I think if I get this wrong, I'll, I'll try to fix it

What I loved was the derivatives. And so if I, if I um say this right

the formula for the area of a circle is the derivative of the formula for the circumference

And the same thing is true for the formula for the volume of a sphere is the derivative

I think of the formula for the surface area of the sphere

Now, I could have it backwards but that just as soon as he explained that I went

oh my God, I get it. All right. So whatever. Um All right

So let me get caught up and then I'm gonna get out of here. Uh Why am I not surprised

Look, at Vanessa's uh uh I had a perfect 4.0 listen to you

You're a flipping wizard. I hope I get to meet you one day Vanessa

I swear. Um Wow. I uh tutor grad and shit

Wow. What a story you've got such a story to tell? Oh my gosh

Uh What do you know? Uh Hello? Uh 100. I'm just gonna call you 100

Uh So here we go. So you're getting us back on track. How do you see all the concrete dust from

Oh, great. Um, wall was dry, locked p by and likely trapped moisture

I don't know what, I don't know that that caused it. And typically you don't have dusting on a concrete wall

Um, so if you, um, um, have

you, have you tried this, uh, 100? What I would do? I would like to see you do this

I would like to see you get a bucket of clean water, go to a place on the foundation wall

try to scrub it, um, and try to clean it. All right

And, um, obviously you're, the water's gonna maybe turn gray, let it dry

scrub it. Really? Well, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get off

I'm trying to see how bad the dusting is, then let it dry

Go back a couple of days later, do the same thing and see if you get as much

see if the water is gray or is as gray or less. In other words

you're trying to see. Are you getting I, is there just, is this just a really light dusting thing on the surface

If so that means if you just go in and clean all the walls really well

the whole thing, which is a big project, the dusting problem should go away

If it doesn't, I would then buy a small can of Cyle Ciloxan water repellent

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

Just type the word Silene si Lane into the search engine on my website

You'll see links to it. Um, and then I would do the same thing

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

read the label how to do it. Sometimes they want you to put two coats on within so many minutes

Uh, because if you put one coat on and you wait too long, the second coat won't penetrate

Then once it dries in this small test area, take your hand and you know your clean fingers and run it across that area

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

Um, if you have any f uh, like propane or natural gas appliances do not use the oil based one

You know, you're gonna blow your house up. So use a water based Salines selection

Yes. Derivative of the volume is. Yes. So, I think I got it right

I think I got it right. Um, hm. He was a grad student

Well, he, he didn't have a choice and he was a nice guy and he was right on Friday

There were only like two or three of us. We had like a party. He was, I'm telling you what

I it was a great class. Wow. All right. Let

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

I've ever done. This is crazy hour and 44 minutes. Insane. All right

I had a great time, Vanessa. Somehow our paths have got across

Uh, maybe you can come up in the day that will and I are gonna golf and you can

um, ride carts with us, just ride and we'll all talk about you got such great stories

Oh my gosh. Wow. Good for you. All right. Will Lorraine. Lorraine is probably gone

Vanessa. Uh Awesome. Um Vanessa. Um 100 Jimmy. Um

All the other names have scrolled way off. I can't see them. Rocco is here

All right. So Rocco, um I finished the history for you, buddy. I hope you got to listen to it

Uh, early on so good night, everybody. Uh oh, Lorraine is still here

Good. All good, so good night to everyone. Um Glad, glad that you're here

Uh This was a really fun live stream for me today. Really fun. II

I enjoyed it. Got to get a lot. All that as the builder history out

Have a great night. Yes, I will, I will tomorrow. Oh, you're gonna, I'm gonna look different

I'm getting a haircut in the morning, so I, I think I always go too long

I, I don't know why I, maybe I should space the haircuts closer

but tomorrow I'm gonna look a little different. All right. Well, great job on the uh

a great job on the cara will. Awesome, man. Amazing. Whole lot mos it whole lot of you

All right, I'm out of here. Thanks very much. Uh History is awesome

Thank you, Vanessa. Ok. Have a great night, everyone. Uh We should get about an inch of snow

I'll let you know tomorrow. I'm Tim Carter. You've been watching, ask the builder here on youtube

I had to look down. So I had the mouse on the end stream button. I'll see you tomorrow

Uh All right. All right, bye bye. Yeah. No, I, you'll see it tomorrow if you tune in