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Optimizing Home Improvement: Paint, Primers, and Goal-Setting Hacks for the New Year · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, everybody. Happy weekend. How are y'all doing?
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Speaker 1: I mean, we hit the weekend, so really, there can't
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Speaker 1: be that much complaining out there, right, I mean we
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Speaker 1: hit the best part of the whole week. Yeah, gotta
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Speaker 1: love it. You're listening to the Repco Light Home improvement
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Speaker 1: show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and I'm wondering, what has
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Speaker 1: everybody got going on today? You know, after the show.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're not going to bail on the show,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you're gonna work while the show's going. But
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Speaker 1: what do you got going Maybe a home project, maybe
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Speaker 1: a little painting. Maybe you're just gonna crash, you know,
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Speaker 1: watch a few movies. That sounds kind of good. Personally,
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Speaker 1: I kind of got a hankering to go roller skating.
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Speaker 1: Don't really know why we watched Back to the Future
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Speaker 1: over the Christmas break. I'm wondering if that's it. You know,
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Speaker 1: maybe the eighties nostalgia kind of hit a little hard
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Speaker 1: and brought me, you know, back to my big time memories,
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Speaker 1: you know, skating around the Grand roller Rink in Holland
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Speaker 1: if any of you remember that place doing that when
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Speaker 1: I was in elementary school, I had some big times
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Speaker 1: some big memories back then. You know, a cooler kid
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Speaker 1: you've never seen, you know, skating smoothly in this huge
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Speaker 1: loop around this place, the disco ball and all the
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Speaker 1: music going on, you know, only falling periodically. You know,
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Speaker 1: I was pretty good skating with a girl, even a
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Speaker 1: couple of times. I remember that, you know, getting a
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Speaker 1: little sweaty, you know, my little sweaty hand while I
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Speaker 1: was doing that, and then finding it really hard to
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Speaker 1: keep a hold of her over you know, the turns
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Speaker 1: because of the sweaty hand. Sometimes who she just kind
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Speaker 1: of zip off to the side and crash into the wall.
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Speaker 1: And I'd go back to skating alone anyway, rambling roller
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Speaker 1: skating the golden years when I was in elementary school. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how I got to roller skating, but
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Speaker 1: it's a thought. It's something that you might want to consider, right,
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Speaker 1: think about it, all right, who cares. Let's get back
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Speaker 1: to the show today. We're going to be talking about
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Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions. Now. Last week Friday, I think it
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Speaker 1: was was Quitter's Day, the day most people give up
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Speaker 1: on their New Year's resolutions. There's actually a day devoted
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Speaker 1: to it, Quitter's Day. Yeah, that was last week Friday,
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Speaker 1: and so we're going to talk now about a mind trick,
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Speaker 1: like a little Jedi mind trick to help you stick
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Speaker 1: to your resolutions longer and actually see them to completion.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to get to that at the end
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Speaker 1: of the show. We're also going to talk briefly about primers.
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Speaker 1: I mean, really, in a world full of paint and
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Speaker 1: primer all in one products, why do primers even exist
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Speaker 1: in the first place? You know, why would you want
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Speaker 1: one or why would you use one? Is it just
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Speaker 1: you know, wasted steps, you know, money, extra money spent,
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Speaker 1: or or is it a secret weapon to help you
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Speaker 1: achieve professional results and actually save money? Who knows? Who knows?
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Speaker 1: Only the shadow knows. And we'll talk about that in
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Speaker 1: a little bit. But right now, I've got a paint
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Speaker 1: point that I want to get to and it's going
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Speaker 1: to take me a long time to do it because
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Speaker 1: I found a really fun article that sets it up.
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Speaker 1: And this fun article was supposed to be just this
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Speaker 1: brief introduction to the topic that I wanted to cover
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Speaker 1: the paint point itself. But this little article is so
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Speaker 1: good it warrants its own segment. It's not a brief introduction.
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Speaker 1: It's its own segment. So we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: that I'm short, right, I don't hide that. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I'm ridiculously short. I like to say average height,
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Speaker 1: you know, when I'm having conversations with friends and family.
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Speaker 1: But when I do say that, people around me always
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Speaker 1: look at me and say, you know, you're on the
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Speaker 1: shorter side of average, just so you know, you people
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Speaker 1: like to keep me honest. I guess let's just say
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Speaker 1: I'm not tall, all right, let's just establish that. But
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Speaker 1: could I be? That is the bigger question. Is it possible,
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Speaker 1: you know, to make a few, you know, outer changes,
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Speaker 1: something simple and gain some height. And I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: silly changes like walk around in stilts. I mean legitimate
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Speaker 1: changes that will give height to somebody of average or
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Speaker 1: you know, on the shorter side of average height. Well,
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Speaker 1: I did a lot of research into this topic, and
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Speaker 1: I found an article online that seems really super legit,
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Speaker 1: and I discovered that yes, with a few simple changes
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Speaker 1: and a little exercise, but really mainly some simple changes,
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Speaker 1: I can go listen to this from five foot seven
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Speaker 1: ish all the way up to six foot three in
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Speaker 1: about six months. In fact, I could go from five
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Speaker 1: foot seven to six foot one in hours. That extra
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Speaker 1: two inches, you know, to get to six foot three,
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Speaker 1: that comes from exercise. That's going to take time. I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to decide if it's worth it. Do I really
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Speaker 1: need those extra two inches or shall I just go
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Speaker 1: with this, you know, the plan that will will have
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Speaker 1: me at six foot one in hours? Anyway, here are
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Speaker 1: my find these, find to find these. Here are my
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Speaker 1: find these my finding and here's my plan. And for
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Speaker 1: all of you other height challenge folks, you know, get
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Speaker 1: out the notepads. I'm dishing out gold. Here all right,
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Speaker 1: tips to consider. So if you want to look taller,
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Speaker 1: the tips that you'll need. We're going to start simple.
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Speaker 1: First off, wear shoes that make you look taller. You know,
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Speaker 1: this isn't rocket science. I just need to find some
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Speaker 1: shoes that have a bit of a sole, you know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of sole, and I need to find it.
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Speaker 1: You know, shoes that have a sole composed of lightweight material.
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Speaker 1: I guess you know. It can't be thick, heavy rubber
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Speaker 1: or I'm going to get tired, you know, really quick,
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Speaker 1: really quick. I don't want that. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: look for tall shoes that are lightweight, and when I
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Speaker 1: find them, I'm easily, according to this article, going to
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Speaker 1: be able to add at least half an inch. So
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Speaker 1: there we go. I am right now at five foot
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Speaker 1: seven and a half. We're going to do the math
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Speaker 1: and keep track. Okay, five foot seven and a half
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Speaker 1: just from shoes alone. I could go higher, but I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be ridiculous. All right. Second thing, lose
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Speaker 1: body fat. All right, this one's the exercise thing. I'll
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Speaker 1: decide if I want to do it. But it turns
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Speaker 1: out weight actually compresses the spine. I guess that's not
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Speaker 1: rocket science either. Really, it does make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: You know, if I wore a necklace of twenty five
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Speaker 1: pound weight plates, i'd compress my spine. I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: of it. I'm not a doctor. It just seems to flow.
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Speaker 1: It makes sense. So the same is probably true when
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Speaker 1: it comes to a little extra girth. Probably weighs me
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, compresses my spine. I bet my
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Speaker 1: body blubber. You know. It's probably holding me back, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe from another inch. So if I lose that weight,
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Speaker 1: my spine's gonna decompress and boop, I'm gonna shoot up
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Speaker 1: probably another inch, maybe maybe more. So it's not easy
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Speaker 1: to lose weight. I get that, but it's not impossible.
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Speaker 1: So I'm planning on it. And if I do that
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Speaker 1: and pull it off, that'll make me five foot eight
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Speaker 1: and a half. Okay. Third thing, improve your posture again,
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Speaker 1: no rocket science here, still not at that point yet,
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Speaker 1: that's coming. But slouching makes you look shorter. So the
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Speaker 1: guy who wrote the article, he went into the military
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Speaker 1: and after twenty six weeks of training he had grown
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Speaker 1: another inch and a half. Another inch and a half
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Speaker 1: after just twenty six weeks of boot camp and training.
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Speaker 1: You know, he attributes it to good posture. So slouching
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Speaker 1: it's the short man's enemy. So I'm gonna work on
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Speaker 1: eliminating the slouch. And let's just say that by doing so,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to gain, you know, another inch, so you know,
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Speaker 1: five foot nine and a half, right, Okay. Now number
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Speaker 1: four wear fitted clothing. And I really don't know how
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Speaker 1: I feel about this one, and I don't know that
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Speaker 1: it's really all about being tall. It's about creating the
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Speaker 1: illusion of being tall. One of his paragraphs. Actually, when
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Speaker 1: I look at this this point, I only included it
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Speaker 1: because of this this paragraph that he has in there,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of cutting. It hurts a little bit. Let
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Speaker 1: me quote it. You wear well fitting clothing because quote
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Speaker 1: those things won't make you look taller per se, but
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Speaker 1: because we associate good things in clusters, and being tall
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Speaker 1: is good, says in his quote, Dressing well goes a
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Speaker 1: long way in creating the illusion of height, or at
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Speaker 1: the very least, it draws attention away from how short
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Speaker 1: you are. End quote. Wow, I don't know. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure what to do with that. Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know where fitted clothing. I'll let you decide
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Speaker 1: if you're going to pursue that one. I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to give his quotes because I thought he's pulling no
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Speaker 1: punches here. He's trying to help us, and he's being
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Speaker 1: brutal in the process. All right, And it's funny, I
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Speaker 1: should say. The guy's six foot something, so it's not
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Speaker 1: like he's one of us talking to us. He's talking
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Speaker 1: down to us in every every way that you can
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Speaker 1: talk down to people. You know, he's six foot three
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Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know how tall he
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Speaker 1: is after after boot camp gained another three inches. He
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Speaker 1: could be seven foot tall by now, who knows he's
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Speaker 1: talking down to us short people anyway. Number five, let's
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Speaker 1: get back to his recommendations, wear a hat now here
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Speaker 1: here where his and some dark horse, unexpected gold star recommendations.
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Speaker 1: Hats make you look taller, of course, because they extend
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Speaker 1: the top of your head. And you know, as an aside,
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Speaker 1: you know, a freebie if you will tall hair. I
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Speaker 1: could do the same thing. You know, a few people
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Speaker 1: realize it, but I think Lyle love it. You know
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Speaker 1: that singer. I think he's actually five foot two, but
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Speaker 1: with the hair, you know, he clocks in over six foot.
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Speaker 1: I can't get my hair to do that. But I
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Speaker 1: can PLoP a hat on my head, now, Panama hat.
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Speaker 1: That would give me a good inch or so, I
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Speaker 1: think it could. It make me look like Indiana Jones.
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Speaker 1: So that's cool. But a top hat here's where I'm going.
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Speaker 1: A top hat that seems to be the way to go.
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Speaker 1: You know, first, you gain another six inches or more
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Speaker 1: depending on your top hat. Secondly, it's super classy, right,
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Speaker 1: and classy clothes you know, also distract from how short
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Speaker 1: you are. We just talked about that were fitted clothes.
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Speaker 1: I'm reading that as as classy clothes. So top hat,
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Speaker 1: that's classy. It'll distract from how short I am. So
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Speaker 1: if I take that top hat, you know, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to add four more inches. You know, maybe six more
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Speaker 1: inches if I went nuts, but let's just be reasonable,
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Speaker 1: four more inches. I was at five nine something. I'm
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Speaker 1: over six foot at this point. Anyway. The rest of
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Speaker 1: his points, don't wear belts because belts divide your body
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Speaker 1: into segments and they draw the eye downward. You know,
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Speaker 1: hats do the same, they draw your eye upwards. So
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Speaker 1: don't wear belts. You know, you want to wear high
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Speaker 1: waisted pants. Again, you don't want to divide your body
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Speaker 1: and have your eye drawn downward. So if you wear
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Speaker 1: high waisted pants, you know, up around, just tucked under
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Speaker 1: your armpits, it's going to draw people's eyes up. They're
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Speaker 1: going to think, man, that kid has amazingly long legs.
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Speaker 1: You know, look where the waste of his pants is.
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Speaker 1: He's got an incredibly small torso though, So I think
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Speaker 1: this part's problematic, but you know, who knows, it might
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Speaker 1: work for you. The last one that he's got that
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Speaker 1: I'm going to focus on is dress in monochromatic color schemes.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you only wear one color, your eye
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to factor in any break. Again, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about how the belt breaks things up. Your pants breaks
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Speaker 1: things up. If it's all monochrome, a monochromatic color scheme,
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Speaker 1: there's no breaks. You know, your shoes, your pants, your shirt,
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Speaker 1: all of those things are the same color. Your big hat,
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Speaker 1: all of those are the same color. You're naturally gonna pear,
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Speaker 1: you know, up here taller along those lines. I wonder
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Speaker 1: what happens if you'd wear you know, like a jumpsuit
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Speaker 1: or something. It's a one piece, so no breaks at all.
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Speaker 1: It's a one color kind of a thing. There's no belt,
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Speaker 1: seems like it's checking all the boxes, you know. Just
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Speaker 1: get something that looks like prison garb, and you might
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Speaker 1: be good to go. You know, prisoners, You know, I
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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of experience, but they do seem
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Speaker 1: you know, quite tall when I encounter them or when
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Speaker 1: I see them in movies, they seem seem big. Might
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Speaker 1: be the jumpsuit doing that. So if I can find
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Speaker 1: a prison suit that you know, kind of feels business casual,
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Speaker 1: you know, that might help me help me clock in
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Speaker 1: at some bigger heights, some taller heights. But with all
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Speaker 1: of these things that I'm doing with the hat, the
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Speaker 1: shoe use and all of those things, and the illusions
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Speaker 1: that I'm creating by wearing my prison business casual suit,
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Speaker 1: I'm really I've gained I don't even know how many
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Speaker 1: inches anymore, but I'm clocking in around six one sixty two.
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Speaker 1: If I do the exercise, lose the belly fat, and
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Speaker 1: my spine decompresses. Oh my goodness, look out, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: have to be bending to get into doorways. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: there you go. If you're struggling with height and you
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Speaker 1: want to look taller, you want to be a mountain
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Speaker 1: of a man, It's all about how you dress. It's
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Speaker 1: all about the accouterments that you bring to the process.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: we're going to get to the actual paint point. How
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Speaker 1: to make your small room look bigger using nothing but paint.
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Speaker 1: It's similar in concept, but way better because it's smart
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Speaker 1: and I came up with it. All right, it's all next,
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Speaker 1: stick around, and we're back. You're listening to the Repcolite
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Speaker 1: Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, And right now,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the paint point. I mean, finally, right,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the paint point. You know, last segment
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Speaker 1: I gave out some solid gold advice on how to
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Speaker 1: make yourself look taller using nothing but clothes, shoes, good posture,
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Speaker 1: a little bit of weight loss, but not much. But
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Speaker 1: now let's get to the paint point, and let's talk
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Speaker 1: about how to make small rooms in your home feel
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Speaker 1: larger just by using paint. You know, if we all
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Speaker 1: had the budget and the layout of the home allowed
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Speaker 1: us to, it'd be really nice, you know, to knock
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Speaker 1: down walls, expand rooms and really make our spaces bigger.
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Speaker 1: But that's expensive and often it's impossible with our homes layout.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about an easier way to do it.
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Speaker 1: In fact, let's talk about five practical ways to make
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Speaker 1: a room feel larger just by using paint. All right,
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Speaker 1: First up, you've got to use the right colors, and
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Speaker 1: typically we'd recommend lighter colors because they reflect more light
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Speaker 1: and this, in turn, when it's reflecting light, is going
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Speaker 1: to create a sense of openness. So think off whites,
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Speaker 1: light neutrals, pails, pastels, pretty much anything that doesn't weigh
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Speaker 1: the room down. Visually. A great example of this would
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Speaker 1: be to think about some soft blues. You know, I
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Speaker 1: know blue isn't everybody's color, but these shades naturally recede,
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Speaker 1: so the walls seem to push back to fall back.
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Speaker 1: For dim rooms, you could try an airy blue, kind
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Speaker 1: of like Benjamin Moore's Smoke and actually just put it
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Speaker 1: on the ceiling and it's kind of like you rip
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Speaker 1: the ceiling off of the home and there's nothing but
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Speaker 1: blue sky overhead. It's open, it's airy, it's expansive. And
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Speaker 1: if the room doesn't have a lot of natural lighting
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Speaker 1: coming through, you could pair that blue ceiling with an
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Speaker 1: off white that kind of has a warm, you know,
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Speaker 1: sunny undertone. And if you do that, you've got this,
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Speaker 1: you know, something that feels like an eternal spring day
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Speaker 1: going on in that room, and that kind of tone
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Speaker 1: gives off open, expansive, airy vibes all day long. Right, So,
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Speaker 1: light neutral colors, that's the way to go. But there's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem. Now. If you listen
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Speaker 1: to the s Show on a regular basis, and if
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Speaker 1: you don't, well I don't know what's wrong with you.
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Speaker 1: But if you listen on a regular basis, You've got
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Speaker 1: to be wondering about some of what I'm saying. You know,
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Speaker 1: after all, we've talked on the show tons of times
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Speaker 1: about how darker colors can make a room feel bigger too, Right,
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Speaker 1: You've got to be wondering what's up with that. Well,
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Speaker 1: here's the scoop. Darker colors can create depth by making
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Speaker 1: walls visually received. All of that's true, However, there is
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Speaker 1: a bit of a catch. It works best on one
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Speaker 1: or two walls or the ceiling, not the whole room. Also,
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Speaker 1: and probably more importantly, good lighting is absolutely crucial, you know,
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Speaker 1: otherwise you just risk making the room feel enclosed. So
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Speaker 1: in smaller rooms with limited light, which is what we're
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Speaker 1: talking about, lighter colors are usually going to be your
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Speaker 1: best bet. Dark colors can work wonders too, but only
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Speaker 1: with the right setup. All right, Next, try a monochromatic
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Speaker 1: color scheme. Now, it's almost like we rip this off
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Speaker 1: from the fashion article, but really what's true in fashion
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Speaker 1: is true with design. Using different shades and tones of
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Speaker 1: the same color for the walls, trim, and ceiling is
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Speaker 1: going to create a continuous look and really help minimize
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Speaker 1: visual breaks. And this is going to expand the space.
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Speaker 1: For example, if your walls are a canvas colored neutral,
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Speaker 1: you could use a lighter neutral or a deeper off
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Speaker 1: white on the trim. You know, a stark white on
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Speaker 1: the trim would break the room into more clearly defined segments,
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Speaker 1: and that would make it feel more closed in. If
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Speaker 1: you really want to eliminate the line, you know, really
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Speaker 1: go whole hog into you know, opening up that space.
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Speaker 1: You could look at the third trick and that's color drenching.
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Speaker 1: And basically this means using one single color everywhere, walls, trims, ceilings,
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Speaker 1: maybe even furniture. You know, it's dramatic, it's crazy bold,
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Speaker 1: but it does a better job than monochromatic schemes when
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Speaker 1: it comes to eliminating visual breaks. You know, no more
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Speaker 1: crown molding, no more baseboard, no more doors cutting up
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Speaker 1: your space into smaller chunks. It's all one color. Everything
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Speaker 1: blends and you've got this unified, larger feel. Now, for
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Speaker 1: those with imagination out there, just imagine a small room
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Speaker 1: with soft green on every single surface, you know, the
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Speaker 1: same color on everything. And when you've got that, the
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Speaker 1: breaks completely disappear, the room flows, the space just feels
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Speaker 1: way bigger. If you can't imagine that. Well, the Google,
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Speaker 1: the Google is going to help you out Google color drenching.
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Speaker 1: You'll get an idea, all right. Moving on, Idea number
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Speaker 1: four is to consider accent walls. You know, a darker
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Speaker 1: shade on the far end of a narrow room can
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Speaker 1: add depth and make that room feel longer, last and
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Speaker 1: kind of similar to accent walls. Don't forget about the
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Speaker 1: power of two toned walls to draw the eye upward.
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Speaker 1: You know. Paint the lower half of your walls all
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Speaker 1: the way around the room a lighter shade, and then
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Speaker 1: the upper half, including the ceiling, a little bit darker.
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Speaker 1: Or you could try the reverse. You know. Either way,
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Speaker 1: this is going to blend the ceiling with the walls,
17:42
Speaker 1: and it erases that dividing line and naturally draws your
17:45
Speaker 1: eye upward and gives the illusion or impression of height
17:49
Speaker 1: and space. We talked about that a couple of times
17:52
Speaker 1: in the last month or so, and if you miss
17:54
Speaker 1: those shows, just head back to the archives and check
17:57
Speaker 1: them out. All right, there you go. That's the paint
17:59
Speaker 1: point for the week. Five techniques to make small spaces
18:02
Speaker 1: feel bigger. You know, remember that paint it's not just
18:05
Speaker 1: about color. It's about creating atmosphere, about tone, you know,
18:09
Speaker 1: creating the tone that you want. It's even about creating space.
18:13
Speaker 1: For a relatively small investment, you can transform pretty much
18:16
Speaker 1: any room in your house, no matter what architectural constraints
18:19
Speaker 1: you're working with. If you do have questions or tips
18:22
Speaker 1: of your own, any painting tips, any painting questions, maybe
18:25
Speaker 1: a topic you'd like me to tackle on the show,
18:27
Speaker 1: or even a friend or a relative, or maybe a
18:30
Speaker 1: contractor that you think should be interviewed. If you've got
18:33
Speaker 1: any of those ideas, I'd love to hear from you,
18:35
Speaker 1: So email me at radio at Repcolight dot com and
18:39
Speaker 1: let me know what you're thinking. All right, let's take
18:41
Speaker 1: a break right now. When we come back, we're going
18:43
Speaker 1: to be talking about primers. You know, in this day
18:45
Speaker 1: and age of painting, primer all in one products. Do
18:47
Speaker 1: you even need a primer? We're going to get to
18:50
Speaker 1: that in just a minute. Stick around, and we're back.
19:02
Speaker 1: You're listening to the repco lighte Home improvement shows sponsored
19:05
Speaker 1: by Benjamin Moore, and it's time to talk about primer. Primer.
19:10
Speaker 1: Pretty exciting stuff. Buckle up, it's gonna get real with
19:14
Speaker 1: all the paint, and primer all in one products out there,
19:16
Speaker 1: and we all know there are an absolute boatload of
19:20
Speaker 1: these products out there. With all of them out there,
19:23
Speaker 1: why in the world would you ever, ever ever want
19:26
Speaker 1: to use a primer again, you know, just a standalone,
19:28
Speaker 1: dedicated primer. In fact, why do we even make primer?
19:33
Speaker 1: Why do we keep doing it? Isn't it completely you know,
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Speaker 1: unnecessary at this point? You know, the whole point of
19:38
Speaker 1: a combo product is to eliminate the need to buy
19:41
Speaker 1: the products separately. Right, you know you've got shampoo and
19:44
Speaker 1: conditioner all in ones. You don't buy that and then
19:47
Speaker 1: stock up on conditioner just in case. Right, You've got
19:51
Speaker 1: the combo here. It does it all. You don't need
19:54
Speaker 1: the separate parts, or toothpaste with mouthwash built in. You know,
19:58
Speaker 1: talk about a technologic advancement, talk about a time saver.
20:03
Speaker 1: You don't need the other components. At that point, you
20:05
Speaker 1: know you've got everything you need all in this one product.
20:07
Speaker 1: What other ones are out there? Oh? I should have
20:11
Speaker 1: made a list. Should have made a list ahead of time.
20:13
Speaker 1: A laundry detergent with fabric softener that's out there, right,
20:17
Speaker 1: Let's move on because I'm not sure don't fact check me.
20:20
Speaker 1: Convertible sofa beds. I know that's a thing. It's a sofa,
20:23
Speaker 1: it's a bed. It's both, right, it's a combo. It's brilliant.
20:28
Speaker 1: You know. We've got all these amazing combos out there,
20:30
Speaker 1: and they serve double duty. And isn't Peyton Primer all
20:34
Speaker 1: in one really just as brilliant as all of those
20:37
Speaker 1: other brilliant products that I talked about. Isn't it as
20:40
Speaker 1: brilliant as those? Well? I think it is. I think
20:43
Speaker 1: it really pretty much is exactly as brilliant as all
20:46
Speaker 1: of those. And think about all of those things for
20:49
Speaker 1: just a minute. Which one of those combos that we
20:52
Speaker 1: just mentioned, Which one of those combos is better than
20:55
Speaker 1: the two parts separate? You know, maybe it's a time saver,
20:59
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have to wash my hair twice
21:01
Speaker 1: go through that process. I did it all at once,
21:04
Speaker 1: and I shampooed and conditioned. It's a time saver. But
21:08
Speaker 1: is it better? You know, I don't honestly know. That's
21:10
Speaker 1: a terrible example for me to use because I can't
21:13
Speaker 1: attest to the veracity of my statement. I don't know
21:16
Speaker 1: the truth of the question. Shampoo conditioner, Is it better
21:20
Speaker 1: as a combo, better separate. Who knows. Let's talk about
21:23
Speaker 1: convertible sofa beds. That's something I can get down on
21:26
Speaker 1: and I know, I know the facts here, I know
21:28
Speaker 1: the truth. Who has ever sat on a convertible sofa
21:32
Speaker 1: or slept on a convertible sofa and thought? Whoa, that's
21:37
Speaker 1: something to write home about. That is the best rest,
21:40
Speaker 1: the best most comfortable sit that I've ever had. It's
21:43
Speaker 1: the best sleep I've ever had ever in all of
21:47
Speaker 1: my life. You know, this convertible sofa bed. It's won
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Speaker 1: me over, It's converted me. I'm going to get rid
21:53
Speaker 1: of all my dedicated couches and my dedicated beds, replace
21:56
Speaker 1: them all with convertible sofa beds because I can have
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Speaker 1: a party in the bedroom, I can talk and have
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Speaker 1: people over. Who knows? Who has ever done that? Nobody's
22:05
Speaker 1: ever done that? You know, sitting and sleeping on a
22:08
Speaker 1: convertible sofa bed. It's okay, comfortable, but it's not something
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Speaker 1: that's as good as a dedicated couch, as good as
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Speaker 1: a dedicated bed. Or what about the toothpaste and the
22:17
Speaker 1: mouthwash all in ones? Do you really think you know?
22:20
Speaker 1: Do you really think that your breath is as fresh,
22:24
Speaker 1: flowery fresh, garden fresh, garden fresh after doing just the one.
22:29
Speaker 1: You know, I guess I'm only thinking about myself here.
22:32
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing or casting shade or whatever you do
22:35
Speaker 1: with shade these days, you know, to make somebody feel bad.
22:39
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing that, doing that towards you. I'm just
22:42
Speaker 1: talking about me. But sometimes I go to put my
22:44
Speaker 1: toothbrush away, and that little guy is wilting like a
22:48
Speaker 1: dying flower. You know, I need the second step. Mouthwashed.
22:52
Speaker 1: Toothpaste isn't enough. I need to follow up. I need
22:56
Speaker 1: something to power through. I need that mouthwash just to
22:59
Speaker 1: be able to tolerate myself. All right. Same is true
23:02
Speaker 1: with paint and primer all in ones. They're crazy popular
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Speaker 1: right now. You know, people think they're saving time and
23:07
Speaker 1: saving money, but in the end, you're just not getting
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Speaker 1: the best results that you could be getting by using
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Speaker 1: more dedicated products. And I should mention right off the
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Speaker 1: bat as we're starting this is that there really is
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Speaker 1: no such thing, no special paint out there that's a
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Speaker 1: chemically formulated paint and primer all in one. Nobody adds
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Speaker 1: primer to the paint mix to come up with this
23:29
Speaker 1: miracle hybrid Payton primer all in ones are really just
23:33
Speaker 1: good high quality paint with the phrase paint and primer
23:36
Speaker 1: all in one smacked on the label. So we've got
23:39
Speaker 1: them as well. Benjamin Moore has them as well. Pretty
23:42
Speaker 1: much any high quality paint will function as a paint
23:44
Speaker 1: and primer all in one. That's important to understand. But
23:47
Speaker 1: because the marketing is just absolutely brilliant on these, and
23:50
Speaker 1: it's all pervasive. Because of that, so many people think
23:54
Speaker 1: that a paint and primer all in one is absolutely
23:56
Speaker 1: the way to go on every project. Well, let's look
23:59
Speaker 1: at where a primer excels and why a primer, a
24:02
Speaker 1: dedicated primer can make a huge difference on your projects.
24:05
Speaker 1: And first off, let's look at bonding. Primers are specifically
24:09
Speaker 1: designed to bond to surfaces like wood, drywall, even glossy
24:13
Speaker 1: glossy surfaces, and they're designed to create a strong foundation
24:16
Speaker 1: for your finish paint. In fact, there are some specialty
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Speaker 1: primers out there that take this bonding thing to you know,
24:22
Speaker 1: ridiculous levels. Honestly sticks from Benjamin Moore talk about it
24:26
Speaker 1: all the time. STI X it sticks to everything. I
24:30
Speaker 1: don't know that that's their tag for it. But you know,
24:33
Speaker 1: I'm a marketing genius and seems to work for me.
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Speaker 1: So sticks from Benjamin Moore. It bonds to everything. It's
24:40
Speaker 1: incredibly tenacious. You know. It's like that that relative that
24:43
Speaker 1: just won't leave, you know that sticks. We've had displays
24:47
Speaker 1: in our stores and at home expos home shows where
24:51
Speaker 1: we've taken you know, glass blocks or something glazed ceramic
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Speaker 1: tiles and without sanding them, without really prepping them, we've
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Speaker 1: just primed them with sticks. And once it's dry, once
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Speaker 1: it's cured, you can scratch at it as long as
25:03
Speaker 1: you'd like, and you're only going to get tiny little
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Speaker 1: flakes of it to come off, tiny tiny little flakes
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Speaker 1: of it to come off. It bonds that well. Painton
25:10
Speaker 1: Primer all in one products can't match the adhesive strength
25:13
Speaker 1: of a standalone bonding primer. Second, if you're dealing with stains,
25:17
Speaker 1: a specialty primer is often your only solution. You know,
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Speaker 1: water stains, smoke stains, knots in wood, other things like that.
25:24
Speaker 1: They can bleed right through regular water based paints. Even
25:27
Speaker 1: those Painton Primer all in one products, it'll bleed right
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Speaker 1: through you put them on the stain can bleed right
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Speaker 1: to the top. You put another coat on bleeds right
25:34
Speaker 1: back to the top. These things are just regular paint
25:37
Speaker 1: after all, you know. It's what we talked about at
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Speaker 1: the beginning. If you've got situations where you've got a
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Speaker 1: water stain, a smoke stain, knots, and wood, you really
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Speaker 1: need a primer that's specifically formulated to block those types
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Speaker 1: of stains. It's just not going to happen with one
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Speaker 1: of the combo products. Third, when you've got porous surfaces
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Speaker 1: like bare dry wall, a dedicated primer seals and covers
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Speaker 1: these better than a combo product's going to do, and
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Speaker 1: that means you're gonna get a smoother, more even finish
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Speaker 1: with your paint. It's just gonna look better. And Fourth
26:05
Speaker 1: kind of connected to that. While paint and primer all
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Speaker 1: in one might seem convenience, seem like a money saver,
26:10
Speaker 1: you often end up spending more money and using more
26:13
Speaker 1: of that expensive product, you know, the paint and primer
26:15
Speaker 1: all in one to get your desired results. When you
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Speaker 1: use a dedicated primer, it does the heavy lifting at
26:21
Speaker 1: a cheaper price, you know, a way cheaper price. It
26:24
Speaker 1: steals up the surface and you don't need as much
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Speaker 1: of the more expensive finish paint, so in the end
26:29
Speaker 1: you save money, and depending on the size of the project,
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Speaker 1: it actually could be a fair amount of money. All right,
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Speaker 1: So there you go. There are four quick reasons to
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Speaker 1: use a dedicated primer. There are more, but that's enough
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Speaker 1: for now. I do want to take a second here
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Speaker 1: to let you know that until the end of the month,
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Speaker 1: one of our more versatile primers is on sale at
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Speaker 1: all Repcolite locations for just over forty five percent off
26:50
Speaker 1: the usual price. It's actually right around forty seven percent off,
26:54
Speaker 1: like forty seven point something, but you know, forty seven
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Speaker 1: percent is close enough, right. That gets the case the
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Speaker 1: point across anyway. Quicksand Multisurface Primer. It's available all month long.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, for forty seven percent off ish. It's
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Speaker 1: just under twenty one bucks a gallon, so it's way
27:12
Speaker 1: cheaper than your finish paint and it's going to give
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Speaker 1: you that foundation that you want so you get beautiful
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Speaker 1: results with your finish without having to use so much
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Speaker 1: of it. It's a really really smart way to go.
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Speaker 1: Quicksand is recommended. If you're thinking about it, you could
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Speaker 1: use it on wood, trim, doors, drywall, pretty much most
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Speaker 1: interior surfaces. It bonds incredibly well, and it dries really fast.
27:34
Speaker 1: There are comparable products out there, and they usually need
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Speaker 1: to dry for about two hours or so before you
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Speaker 1: can sand them. Quicksand can be sanded in as little
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Speaker 1: as thirty minutes, So that's a big time saver. It
27:46
Speaker 1: means that you're able, you know, to keep working on
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Speaker 1: your project with less downtime, which means you get done faster,
27:52
Speaker 1: which means you can go do you know, other work
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Speaker 1: around your house, or you can go have fun quicker.
27:58
Speaker 1: So all of that's really good. I'm sure you know
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Speaker 1: I just said sanding in as little as thirty minutes.
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Speaker 1: Quicksand can be sanded in as little as thirty minutes.
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Speaker 1: I say that, and I'm sure there's a bunch of
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Speaker 1: people going, what are you talking about sanding my primer?
28:11
Speaker 1: Who sands their primer? What blasphemy is this? Well, if
28:15
Speaker 1: this is news to you, I'm sorry, but you actually
28:17
Speaker 1: should do a light sanding on your primer before you
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Speaker 1: move to your finished paint if you want the best
28:22
Speaker 1: results possible. It's a little bit of a topic that
28:27
Speaker 1: needs more explanation than I can give right now, so
28:30
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that next week. Why you should do
28:32
Speaker 1: that sanding. And the good news is it's not a complicated,
28:35
Speaker 1: you know step, it's not adding a lot of time.
28:37
Speaker 1: It's going to go fast. We'll talk about sanding your
28:39
Speaker 1: primer next week, why you would do that and how
28:41
Speaker 1: to do it quickly. Anyway, back to quicksand, it sands
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Speaker 1: with very little clogging you know of the sandpaper, So
28:47
Speaker 1: that's great, you're going to go through less sand paper.
28:49
Speaker 1: That saves you money too. It applies well, it seals
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Speaker 1: up poor as surface as well, provides an even base
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Speaker 1: coat that ensures your finished paint looks great. Overall, it's
28:58
Speaker 1: a wonderful primer that cover there's a lot of different
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Speaker 1: surfaces inside the home. And it's on sale, like I said,
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Speaker 1: forty seven percent off the usual price until the end
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Speaker 1: of the month. All right, Primers, if you have questions
29:09
Speaker 1: or you need help finding the best primer for your project,
29:12
Speaker 1: you can email me at radio at repcoll Light dot com,
29:15
Speaker 1: or better yet, just stop out or call any of
29:18
Speaker 1: our locations. Anybody there. Everybody here is happy to help.
29:21
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break. When we come back,
29:24
Speaker 1: we're going to help you and me accomplish all of
29:26
Speaker 1: those New Year's resolutions that we made a couple of
29:28
Speaker 1: weeks ago, in which many of us quit on last
29:32
Speaker 1: week Friday. That's just a head and stick around, and
29:40
Speaker 1: we're back. You're listening to the repcol Light Home improvement
29:42
Speaker 1: Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and in this last segment,
29:46
Speaker 1: we're going to get straight to solving or saving. I
29:49
Speaker 1: guess I should say everybody's New Year's resolutions. Now, last
29:52
Speaker 1: week Friday, I didn't know about this. I didn't know
29:56
Speaker 1: what was a thing I should say. But last week
29:58
Speaker 1: Friday was something called Bitter's Day. You know, Quitter's Day,
30:03
Speaker 1: The second Friday in January is always called that because
30:06
Speaker 1: it's the day most people give up on their New
30:08
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions. Quitter's Day comes early for me, normally earlier
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Speaker 1: than that. You know, that's like a long, a long
30:16
Speaker 1: wait for Quitter's Day to get all the way to
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Speaker 1: the second Friday before we give up. But that's when
30:21
Speaker 1: most people do it. Most people gave up last week Friday.
30:24
Speaker 1: How did you do? You know? Are you still going
30:27
Speaker 1: with yours? Did you bail? Did you even start? Did
30:30
Speaker 1: you even have a new year's resolution. I didn't. I
30:33
Speaker 1: didn't make a resolution this year, a single one, because
30:36
Speaker 1: I know what happens. Like I said, I already said it.
30:39
Speaker 1: I quit right away, and then I feel profoundly guilty.
30:43
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, that's the way to start
30:45
Speaker 1: a new year with huge helpings of guilt. I will
30:48
Speaker 1: pile that guilt on naturally throughout the year. I don't
30:51
Speaker 1: need to, you know, streamline the process with resolutions that
30:56
Speaker 1: fail immediately. Now, I didn't set resolutions this year, but
31:00
Speaker 1: not because I'm lazy, not completely lazy. Instead, I made goals,
31:06
Speaker 1: and that's what I want to talk about right now.
31:08
Speaker 1: It's not just wordplay. There really is a difference between
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Speaker 1: the two, between resolutions and goals, and you're much more
31:14
Speaker 1: likely to get results from goals than you are resolutions.
31:18
Speaker 1: Why is that, Well, first off, resolutions are usually vague,
31:22
Speaker 1: they're broad, and they're kind of abstract. You know, you've
31:25
Speaker 1: heard things like this before. I'm going to be healthier
31:27
Speaker 1: this year. I'm going to spend less money this year.
31:30
Speaker 1: It's really kind of like saying I want to go
31:32
Speaker 1: on a road trip this year, but then not bothering
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Speaker 1: to pick a destination or exactly you know, map out
31:37
Speaker 1: how you're going to get there. It's vague, it's abstract,
31:40
Speaker 1: hard to wrap your brain around exactly how to do it. Second,
31:43
Speaker 1: with New Year's resolutions, a really common idea is that
31:46
Speaker 1: we need to come up with some sort of sweeping,
31:48
Speaker 1: you know, huge change for our lives. And that's going
31:52
Speaker 1: against the grain of our natural inclinations as people, as humans,
31:57
Speaker 1: you know, we're not wired to make huge sweeping changes.
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Speaker 1: Think about it. I hate it. I hate it more
32:04
Speaker 1: than I should, more than is reasonable. When they change
32:08
Speaker 1: the interface on you know, the Facebook or Instagram or Netflix,
32:13
Speaker 1: my life goes into this brief tail spin. Perhaps when
32:18
Speaker 1: the phone updates and things function differently, or my apps
32:21
Speaker 1: aren't in the same place. I mean, it's a mental meltdown.
32:25
Speaker 1: I struggle with little changes that are inconsequential, and yet
32:28
Speaker 1: every year I somehow think I'm going to jump into
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Speaker 1: this major life change and just breeze right through it
32:34
Speaker 1: like I'm walking in the park. We're not cut out
32:36
Speaker 1: to make big, sweeping changes in our lives. That's another
32:38
Speaker 1: problem with resolutions. Third, resolutions are often externally motivated. You know,
32:43
Speaker 1: every New Year, people everywhere are making resolutions, and so
32:47
Speaker 1: we kind of feel like we should too. It's kind
32:49
Speaker 1: of like peer pressure, right, for lack of a better phrase,
32:52
Speaker 1: we're doing it because other people are all right. Fourth,
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Speaker 1: resolutions are based on something that we think we should do,
32:58
Speaker 1: and they're less about focusing on what's in it for us,
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Speaker 1: and that's really just not enough of a motivator to
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Speaker 1: keep us moving. Long term change is tough, crazy tough.
33:08
Speaker 1: And if we're just doing something because we know we
33:11
Speaker 1: should or think we should, but not because we're focused
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Speaker 1: on what we're going to gain from that change, it's
33:16
Speaker 1: really difficult to stay on track. Finally, many resolutions lack
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Speaker 1: accountability or a way to track progress, and as a result,
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Speaker 1: we find we're not motivated, we get frustrated, we don't
33:26
Speaker 1: have a clear vision for why we're doing what we're doing,
33:29
Speaker 1: and then we fall off track and drop the resolution. Right,
33:32
Speaker 1: that's the problem with resolutions. So why is goals? You know,
33:36
Speaker 1: why is setting goals any better? And honestly, I should
33:40
Speaker 1: say that goals can be just as bad as resolutions.
33:43
Speaker 1: Really if they're not good goals. Good goals follow something
33:47
Speaker 1: that's called the smart framework. Smart I didn't need to
33:51
Speaker 1: spell it. I don't know why I do that. It's
33:53
Speaker 1: an acronym. There's specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound.
33:58
Speaker 1: They're smart right. For example, they're specific, instead of a
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Speaker 1: bag resolution like I'm going to spend less money this
34:04
Speaker 1: year really vague. Instead of that, when we're creating a
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Speaker 1: good goal, we're more likely to say, let's save x
34:10
Speaker 1: amount of dollars every single month by eating out only
34:13
Speaker 1: once or twice every two weeks. Or instead of saying
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be healthier this year, we may say
34:18
Speaker 1: something like I'm going to walk fifteen minutes every day.
34:20
Speaker 1: They're specific. They're also measurable. You know when you're on track,
34:24
Speaker 1: and you know when you've failed. You know when you've
34:26
Speaker 1: walked three days in a row but missed the fourth day.
34:29
Speaker 1: You can see it it happened. It's easy to see
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Speaker 1: how it's going, how you're doing, how your plans are working.
34:35
Speaker 1: If your resolution is to be healthier this year, how
34:38
Speaker 1: in the world do you ever track that? You know?
34:40
Speaker 1: How do you know how you're doing? Have I arrived?
34:43
Speaker 1: Have I made it? It's only the third week in January?
34:46
Speaker 1: Am I healthier? Maybe I'm healthier? I don't know, it's possible.
34:50
Speaker 1: I guess to track that to some extent, but it's
34:53
Speaker 1: really not clear cut. Good goals are going to be measurable.
34:56
Speaker 1: You're going to see it easily. Good goals are also achievable.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy critical here. Resolutions are usually not always, but
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Speaker 1: usually focused on bigger, you know, a bigger, wider perfection
35:07
Speaker 1: that we're shooting for. You know, I'm going to fix
35:10
Speaker 1: up my entire home this year, inside and out. You know,
35:12
Speaker 1: that's perfection. That's a huge, sweeping resolution. Good goals, on
35:16
Speaker 1: the other hand, they kind of value progress over that perfection.
35:21
Speaker 1: You know, a good goal would say, I'm going to
35:23
Speaker 1: have the bathroom repainted by the end of January. Good
35:26
Speaker 1: goals are a step in the right direction. They're progress,
35:29
Speaker 1: they're achievable, and our brains can see that they're achievable,
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Speaker 1: and you know, that's what gives us the motivation to
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Speaker 1: keep going. You know, right, an unachievable resolution, who's got
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Speaker 1: the gumption to keep doing that? Third or fourth or
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Speaker 1: whatever are good goals are relevant. You know, you're not
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Speaker 1: just going to walk for fifteen minutes a day just
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Speaker 1: because you're going to walk for fifteen minutes a day
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Speaker 1: so you can lose x amount of pounds so you
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Speaker 1: can enjoy beach season or whatever whatever enjoyed beach season.
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Speaker 1: I would love it if we could go back in
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Speaker 1: time or bring fashion back from the twenties and dudes
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Speaker 1: could go to the beach wearing you know, like those
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Speaker 1: full body jumper suits like little onesies that babies wear,
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Speaker 1: but you know, for grown up people, I could go
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Speaker 1: for that. I don't know that I need the stripes
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Speaker 1: because the horizontal stripes just make me look chubbier. Maybe
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Speaker 1: vertical stripes that would make me look taller as well
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Speaker 1: at the beach. But anyway, anyway, the bigger point is
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Speaker 1: you're going to walk for fifteen minutes a day to
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Speaker 1: lose a certain amount of weight so you can enjoy
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Speaker 1: a certain season a little more. You know, it's not
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Speaker 1: just a naggy idea that you know, I probably should
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Speaker 1: do this because sitting on the couch all winner is bad.
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Speaker 1: You've got a positive goal in mind. Finally, good goals
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Speaker 1: are time bound. I'm going to have the bathroom repainted
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Speaker 1: by the end of January, or the kitchen cabinets redone
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Speaker 1: by March. Having that time bound puts us on a
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Speaker 1: schedule and helps us power through days when we feel
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Speaker 1: like procrastinating. Basically, goals set in this manner, oh man,
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Speaker 1: they're way easier for a brains to grasp, and that
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Speaker 1: makes us much more likely to stick to them. So
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Speaker 1: if resolutions are not working for you, and have not
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Speaker 1: worked for you in the past, it's not too late
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Speaker 1: this year. I mean, we're three weeks in. You know.
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Speaker 1: Most people just quit last week Friday, so it's all
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Speaker 1: right to start up again. We've got a whole new
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Speaker 1: year ahead of us. Maybe it's time we just ditch
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Speaker 1: that whole idea of resolutions and switch to setting clear, measurable, smart,
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Speaker 1: you know, goals. Now, before we wrap up for the week,
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Speaker 1: here are three quick ways to maintain some long term
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Speaker 1: success with your goals. Start small. Break those bigger goals
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Speaker 1: into micro goals. You can experience success which keeps you
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Speaker 1: on track. This is critical. If your overarching goal is
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Speaker 1: to have the whole interior of the house repainted by
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Speaker 1: the end of the year, you need to break that
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Speaker 1: up into many different micro goals. You know, maybe you
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Speaker 1: need to break it into By the end of this week,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to have colors for the living room. Next week,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to paint the bathroom. Maybe you can go
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Speaker 1: bigger than that and say the kitchen is going to
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Speaker 1: be done by March, the living room by April, and
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Speaker 1: so on. However you do it, set smaller goals that
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Speaker 1: work to bring your larger goal to completion. Second, focus
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Speaker 1: on habits, not immediate results. Habits are the most important
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Speaker 1: things to change as we set our goals. It's habit
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Speaker 1: that's going to call us back to the couch from
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Speaker 1: the treadmill, and it's habit that's going to help us
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Speaker 1: say no to the couch and start our daily walk.
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Speaker 1: Focus on building those habits first, and keep your eyes
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Speaker 1: on that rather than looking at the bathroom scale for results.
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Speaker 1: At least in the beginning. The results will come, but
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Speaker 1: that habit needs to be formed first. Finally, track your progress.
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Speaker 1: Use a journal, an app, just a simple checklist to
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Speaker 1: measure how far you've come. You know, take photos and
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Speaker 1: chronicle the journey. It doesn't seem important at the time.
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Speaker 1: It never does, but there's always going to be a day.
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Speaker 1: It happens to me all the time, a day when
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Speaker 1: I want to look back and see how far I've come.
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Speaker 1: You know, the motivation that comes from that is great.
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Speaker 1: Be sure that you can do that. Most of the time,
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Speaker 1: I don't take those pictures along the way, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just going by memory. How did the kitchen used to look?
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Speaker 1: Is it bat better? I think it's better, but I
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Speaker 1: don't ever know how much better. And knowing how much
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Speaker 1: better and how big an improvement I've made really propels
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Speaker 1: you to the next thing. So track your progress, keep
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Speaker 1: those records, and there you go. That's all the time
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Speaker 1: we've got. We're gonna have to wrap this one up.
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Speaker 1: If you want to cut it again, you can find
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Speaker 1: it online at repcolit dot com. Whatever you do today
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Speaker 1: makes your paints a part of it. Have a great weekend, everybody.
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Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks for listening.