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5 Tips for a Flawless Paint Finish; Dating Cinnamon Slate; History of Caulk; Dog Camera · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning. You're listening to the repcoll Light Home
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Speaker 1: improvement show is sponsored by Benjamin Moore and I hope,
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Speaker 1: I hope, hope, hope you all survived the intense cold,
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Speaker 1: the frigid weather that we've experienced at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: this week. I mean it was brutal. It was brutal
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Speaker 1: at my house. Anyway. We've got a couple of dogs
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Speaker 1: and I've spoken about them before on the show. Mainly
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Speaker 1: I've spoken about Maggie. She's a Golden Retriever and I've
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Speaker 1: talked about her a ton of times. She's angelic, you know, sweet, obedient,
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Speaker 1: kind hearted, gennal. You know, Maggie, She's amazing. We also
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Speaker 1: have Fern. Fern's a black lab. She's getting better. Let's
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Speaker 1: just leave it at that. She's getting better. She's a
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Speaker 1: work in progress. Anyway. Fern wants to go outside to
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Speaker 1: go to the bathroom every ten minutes. That's literally how
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Speaker 1: she operates almost all the time. Maggie can wait, you know,
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Speaker 1: tell her it's going to be sometime next week, and
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Speaker 1: she'll hold it. Won't say a word about it, won't gripe.
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Speaker 1: We'll just sit there and hold it. Fern. Now, every
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Speaker 1: ten minutes she wants to go outside. But if we
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Speaker 1: let her outside, you know, without us being tethered to her,
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Speaker 1: we'll probably never see her again. She'll just go zip
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Speaker 1: off into who knows where, and we'll probably get letters
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Speaker 1: from who knows, you know, the other side of the
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Speaker 1: country anyway. So we have this war of wills with
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Speaker 1: Fern every single stinking day, probably thirty different times. You know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. But when this cold
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Speaker 1: weather hit, I figured that we'd probably get a break.
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Speaker 1: You know, Fern's a lab she has thin fur and
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Speaker 1: she gets cold really quickly, so we figured she wouldn't
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Speaker 1: want to go out or be out as long as usual.
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Speaker 1: Silver linings. Right, we've got this frigid weather. It's like
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Speaker 1: the Arctic out there. But on the upside, Fern doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to be out there either. No, she didn't care,
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Speaker 1: not at all. On top of it all, when she
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Speaker 1: goes out, she cannot and will not settle in. And
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Speaker 1: just do you know her business, you know what I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about, right, so much spinning, and it's early. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to go into a lot more detailed than that,
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Speaker 1: but she'll spin and spin and spin in circles almost
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Speaker 1: almost incessantly, and then she'll abandon the plan. She spun
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Speaker 1: for five minutes. It's got to be time Fern settle
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Speaker 1: in do it, and then she'll just all of a sudden, whoop,
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Speaker 1: She's off in another direction. Then she'll spin over there
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Speaker 1: for a while. She cannot get this thing figured out.
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Speaker 1: We actually dug into it trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: is going on with her? And you know, why does
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Speaker 1: she spin four hundred times trying to find the premiere,
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Speaker 1: prime ideal spot to go to the bathroom? Do you
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Speaker 1: know why dogs do this? Do you know why? You know,
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Speaker 1: if you've got a dog, why your dog does that? Well?
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Speaker 1: Neither do I because the info that I found doesn't
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Speaker 1: match up with Fern. It doesn't match up with what's
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Speaker 1: going on. For example, the Internet says it could be
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Speaker 1: is a survival instincts, you know, survival instincts. Fern is
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Speaker 1: flattening the ground out, the Internet says, to make sure
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Speaker 1: that she's safe from predators, right like her ancestors, the wolves.
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Speaker 1: Did you know, no snakes, no other threats. That's what
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Speaker 1: the Internet's saying. But I don't buy that, not even
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Speaker 1: not even for a second. You know, first off, Fern
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Speaker 1: flattens a circle, you know, with a twenty foot radius
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Speaker 1: every night, at least three times in that night. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she does that four times, and the whole yard has
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Speaker 1: been determined to be safe at that point. And it's
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Speaker 1: two degrees out there. No snakes, Fern, no snakes, not
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Speaker 1: at all, not in this weather. Now, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's that. It could be that she's spinning to check
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Speaker 1: for predators. The Internet suggests that, you know, head on
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Speaker 1: a swivel kind of a thing. It's ridiculous with Fern.
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Speaker 1: She's not paying attention to anything at all. She's just
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Speaker 1: looking at her feet or smelling something here and there,
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Speaker 1: and then she falls over because she's dizzy. It's not survival.
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Speaker 1: It's not head on a swivel. Another idea is that
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Speaker 1: she's trying to align I love this one. She's trying
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Speaker 1: to align herself with the Earth's magnetic field before she
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Speaker 1: goes to the bathroom. Does that make any sense that
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Speaker 1: she's got to align herself with the Earth's magnetic field
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Speaker 1: before she goes I don't know who's right on the
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Speaker 1: internet these days, but that seems really questionable. You know,
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Speaker 1: maybe dogs like to go to the bathroom facing north.
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Speaker 1: Who knows. I don't think that's what's going on with Fern,
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Speaker 1: because we'll intentionally face her north, you know, just to
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Speaker 1: get her off on a good start. We tell her, Fern,
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Speaker 1: you're aligned with the north. And it doesn't help. She spins,
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what direction, north by northwest, south by southeast.
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Speaker 1: It's a mess anyway. There are many reasons why she
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Speaker 1: may do this, and we'll probably never know. All I
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Speaker 1: do know is that this last week was really miserable,
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Speaker 1: sitting out there with her and waiting for the spin
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Speaker 1: cycle to end. Thankfully, one of the kids takes her
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Speaker 1: out most of the time, so I really we don't
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Speaker 1: have that much to crab about. But still I'm crabbing vicariously.
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling his pain vicariously. It was brutal in the
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Speaker 1: cold when I went out for us. It never affected
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Speaker 1: Fern in the least. She was fine, so you can
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Speaker 1: save your emails. She was fine. She probably is burning
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Speaker 1: too many calories spinning around to even feel the cold. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: I hope you weathered the cold, you know, the big cold,
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Speaker 1: and you're ready for this weekend. And I've got a
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Speaker 1: ton of stuff on the show that I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about today, and we'll revisit the whole dog topic
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Speaker 1: at the end of the show because we bought a
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Speaker 1: new monitoring camera and I love this thing. I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to tell you about it, and I guarantee when
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Speaker 1: I do, you're going to be thinking about all the
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Speaker 1: different ways that you could use one in your home.
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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. I'll also be talking about the history
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Speaker 1: of calk and it really is crazy interesting. It's way
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Speaker 1: cooler than even I thought. And I'm an expert at this,
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Speaker 1: and I thought it might be interesting. I had no
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Speaker 1: idea it was going to be as interesting as it is.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to get to that. The other thing
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Speaker 1: that we're going to be covering, what is that. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I've got an absolutely ridiculous segment planned. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to tell you about it. It's coming up after this one,
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Speaker 1: and it's really, really weird. That's coming up in just
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Speaker 1: a minute. Right now, though, let's get to the paint point.
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Speaker 1: And last week I mentioned in the show, if you
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Speaker 1: paid attention, if you took notes, if you're consulting those
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Speaker 1: notes right now, I made a promise last week that
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Speaker 1: I would talk about something in more detail this week.
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Speaker 1: Last week I talked about how it's important to sand
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Speaker 1: your primer before you apply your finish paint, and I
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Speaker 1: told you that that doesn't have to be a terrible,
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Speaker 1: big process, and i'd explain it for those of you who,
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Speaker 1: for one reason or another didn't catch last week. Let
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Speaker 1: me quick explain sanding your primer before you apply the
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Speaker 1: finish paint is something that you should do. And I
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Speaker 1: know that's news for a lot of folks out there,
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Speaker 1: But here's the scoop. When your primer dries, or even honestly,
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Speaker 1: that first code of finish, when that dries, it's rarely
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Speaker 1: as smooth as you might think it's going to be.
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Speaker 1: Even if you apply it carefully, you're likely to end
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Speaker 1: up with some texture from the roller cover, some lint
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Speaker 1: from the roller cover, or other small imperfections. We always
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Speaker 1: end up with little hairs in the wall, stuff like
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Speaker 1: that little good ease that you pick up as you
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Speaker 1: apply the paint to the primer or whatever. On top
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Speaker 1: of that, you know certain primers can raise the fibers
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Speaker 1: in drywall, So if you're priming bear drywall, certain primers
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Speaker 1: will do that much worse than other ones, and then
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Speaker 1: that can make it feel pretty rough. If you're priming
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Speaker 1: bear wood, primers can also raise the grain in the
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Speaker 1: wood and give it a rough feel. If you skip
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Speaker 1: sanding at that stage, these little imperfections are going to
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Speaker 1: remain in your finished code, and it's going to make
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Speaker 1: that final surface, that final code look uneven. It's not
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Speaker 1: going to be as nice as it could. Sanding eliminates that,
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Speaker 1: and it creates a smooth base that lets your finish paint,
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Speaker 1: you know, really shine. I guess, for lack of a
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Speaker 1: better word, it really will look the best it possibly can.
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Speaker 1: So that's why you should stand that primer, And honestly,
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Speaker 1: I did hint at it. Your finished paint as well.
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Speaker 1: A lot of old school painters do a quick standing
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Speaker 1: on their first coat of finished paint as well, not
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Speaker 1: of course, not the last coat. That last coat of
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Speaker 1: finished paint. You leave that one alone. But you put
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Speaker 1: your primer on, do a light sanding, put your first
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Speaker 1: coat of finish paint on, do another quick light sanding,
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Speaker 1: and then you go to that finish you know, that
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Speaker 1: last final coat, and you leave that one alone. All right. Now,
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Speaker 1: I talked about all of that last week. But before
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Speaker 1: you start doing that and jumping in, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: quickly walk you through the process because it's possibly not
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Speaker 1: nearly as bad as some of you are maybe thinking,
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Speaker 1: and conversely, it might be a little bit more intensive
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Speaker 1: than some of you are hoping. So let's get rid
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Speaker 1: of all confusion. Here's what the whole thing looks like
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Speaker 1: and how you can pull it off easily. First off,
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Speaker 1: you've got to wait for your primer to dry. And
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Speaker 1: I know that sounds really ridiculous and dumb, completely unnecessary
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Speaker 1: to say, but I'm saying that for the same reason
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Speaker 1: that microwaves say, Hey, they have that little sticker that says,
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Speaker 1: don't use the microwave to dry your dog after a
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Speaker 1: dog bath, Right, somebody somewhere we don't even want to
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Speaker 1: think about that. But for the sake of the primer,
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Speaker 1: I want to say, it's got to be dry, because
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Speaker 1: somebody somewhere needs to hear that. You know, somebody is
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Speaker 1: a rusher and they want to rush through the project.
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Speaker 1: And as dumb as what I just said sounds, it
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Speaker 1: is a little more nuanced than you may think. A
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Speaker 1: surface can seem dry to the touch, but it can
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Speaker 1: still be soft below. You know that initial surface and
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Speaker 1: sanding too early can cause more problems than you're fixing,
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Speaker 1: so you've got to make sure that it's dry. Most
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Speaker 1: primers are going to need at least two to three
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Speaker 1: hours before they're ready for sanding. If you do want
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Speaker 1: a quicker option than that, repcoll It's Quicksand Primer is
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Speaker 1: ready to sand in just thirty minutes. And as a bonus,
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Speaker 1: it's on sale right now through the rest of the month,
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Speaker 1: so you still got a week or so before that
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Speaker 1: sale ends. And it's a good sale. It's like forty
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Speaker 1: seven percent off. It's an all purpose primer. You can
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Speaker 1: use it on pretty much any surface inside. It's great
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Speaker 1: for doors, walls, trim much more. Quicksand Primer on sale
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Speaker 1: right now. Check that out. Anyway, whatever you're using, whatever
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Speaker 1: primer you're using, you've got to make sure that it's
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Speaker 1: dry before you stand it. Second, you want to use
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Speaker 1: the right sandpaper and the right amount of pressure. We
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Speaker 1: recommend a two twenty grit sandpaper. It's fine enough to
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Speaker 1: smooth out the imperfections without removing too much primer. After all,
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Speaker 1: and this is the good news here. Your goal isn't
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Speaker 1: to sand the primer off. You're really just trying to
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Speaker 1: knock down any rough spots and create a smooth surface
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Speaker 1: so you don't have to go nuts on the wall.
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Speaker 1: Don't sand until the powder's flying, you know. All that
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Speaker 1: powder in the air is primer that you actually want
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Speaker 1: to leave on your surface. For the most part, just
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Speaker 1: do enough of the quick sanding to knock down the
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Speaker 1: rough spots. Third, for larger walls or ceilings or bigger areas,
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Speaker 1: use a sanding pole. Basically, it's a sanding head that
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Speaker 1: almost looks like the business end of a swiffer, you know,
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Speaker 1: a swifferlor cleaner kind of looks like that. You put
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Speaker 1: sandpaper on that, and then you affix it to an
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Speaker 1: extension pole, and then you can move really fast across
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Speaker 1: your walls. It's still manual work, you know, it's not
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Speaker 1: a robot. It's not going to do it for you.
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Speaker 1: It's still manual work, but it's going to help you
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Speaker 1: cover a lot of ground really quickly and much more
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Speaker 1: easily than holding a sanding block or something like that.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy. Don't do that. Get one of these, you know,
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Speaker 1: sanding pads or sanding heads. Put it on an extension
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Speaker 1: pole and you're good to go. If you have no
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Speaker 1: idea what I'm talking about, you know, complete blank in
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Speaker 1: your mind right now, just stop out at any repcolite
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Speaker 1: and ask. They're not expensive. It's not a fancy tool,
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Speaker 1: but it will come in really handy for larger areas.
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Speaker 1: So think about that. Fourth, when you're sanding your trim
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Speaker 1: or detailed surfaces, foam sanding pads are pretty much your
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Speaker 1: best friend. They're flexible, they're easy to hold, and they're
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Speaker 1: going to conform to curves and edges, and it's going
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Speaker 1: to help you maintain or achieve a smooth finish without
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Speaker 1: cutting through through the primer too much, which you can
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Speaker 1: do really easily with some stiffer sandpaper. You can cut
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Speaker 1: right through the primer. On contoured areas, use the sanding pads.
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Speaker 1: They're great for that. Finally, after sanding, you've got to
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Speaker 1: wipe down that surface with a damp rag to remove
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Speaker 1: the dust that you created, allow the surface to dry
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Speaker 1: completely before you apply your finish paint. And by doing that,
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Speaker 1: you're ensuring that the finished paint adhere's properly and prevents
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Speaker 1: you know, you're also preventing any dust from getting trapped
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Speaker 1: in the paint, all right, So you don't want that.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go through all this work and
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Speaker 1: then still trap a bunch of dust in your finish
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Speaker 1: and you've achieved nothing at that point. Sanding your primer
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Speaker 1: might seem like an extra step, but it's a little
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Speaker 1: touch that delivers really big results. All the good old
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Speaker 1: school painters do it all the time. If you missed
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Speaker 1: any of the steps that we talked about, you can
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Speaker 1: more weekly, along with links to blow posts and things
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Speaker 1: like that. All right, let's take a break and when
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Speaker 1: we come back, I've got a ridiculous segment. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how it's gonna go. Let's find out together. That's
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Speaker 1: just next stick around. Welcome back to the Recolite Home
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Speaker 1: improvement shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and let's just jump
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Speaker 1: into this weird segment. Back in October, Benjamin Moore released
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Speaker 1: their color of the Year for twenty twenty five, Cinnamon Slate,
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Speaker 1: and along with Cinnamon Slate, they revealed a collection of
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Speaker 1: supporting colors their Color Trends twenty twenty five collection. Now,
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Speaker 1: this year's Color Trends collection is pretty exciting because all
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Speaker 1: of the colors, you know, just work really well together.
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Speaker 1: In previous years that wasn't always the case, that's not
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Speaker 1: what they were working for. But this time, pretty much
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Speaker 1: anything in that color brochure can be paired with any
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Speaker 1: other color in the brochure and it just works well together.
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Speaker 1: It's really smart how they do it this way. You
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Speaker 1: can use these colors as is right from the booklet
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Speaker 1: to create beautifully curated, well put together color schemes for
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Speaker 1: your home, or you can use the collection kind of
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Speaker 1: as a jumping off point. You know, you can see
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Speaker 1: how certain tones work well together and then go find
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Speaker 1: different versions of those colors that will work in your
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Speaker 1: specific situation. It's a really cool collection, and like I said,
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Speaker 1: if you haven't already checked out Benjamin Moore's Color Trends
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five, do so look into it. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's not weird. You know, I said it was going
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Speaker 1: to get weird, and that's not it. So what do
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Speaker 1: I mean, how are we going to get weird? Well,
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Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to the colors from Benjamin
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Speaker 1: Moore's color Trends over time. I can't do it all
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Speaker 1: right now, but over time. But I don't want to
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Speaker 1: do it in a way that I've seen everybody else
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Speaker 1: do it in a way that we've done it in
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Speaker 1: the past. You know, here's a purple, you compare it
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Speaker 1: with this color or that color. You can use it
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Speaker 1: in a bedroom or whatever. It's good info, but it's
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Speaker 1: boring info, right, There's a better way. There has to
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Speaker 1: be a better way. I don't know that I've come
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Speaker 1: up with it, but i have come up with a
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Speaker 1: different way. And I've imagined these colors as profiles, you know,
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Speaker 1: on a dating website. So that's where this is going
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Speaker 1: to get just a touch weird. It's probably gonna be
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Speaker 1: weird for you to listen to. It's certainly gonna be
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Speaker 1: weird for me to say. But I still think it's
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Speaker 1: kind of clever, and I think it's potentially funny. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's not a knee slapper. It's not something you'll guffaw over,
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Speaker 1: but you might smirk. You know, I'm looking for a smirk,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you know your eye will crinkle just a
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Speaker 1: little bit in something akin to joy. Anyway, with no
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Speaker 1: further ado, let's get to and meet one of these
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Speaker 1: colors from this year's color trends. And of course, since
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Speaker 1: we've only got time to meet one, we're gonna meet
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Speaker 1: Cinnamon Slate. Now, Cinnamon Slate, she's a thinker, she's a poet.
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Speaker 1: She loves quiet, thoughtful nooks and spaces in your home.
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Speaker 1: But she's not uncomfortable hosting a gala event, you know,
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Speaker 1: with wine and fancy cheeses and things like that. She
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Speaker 1: fits into all of that. She's grounded. She's casual and
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Speaker 1: yet sophisticated and elegant. Whatever the mood or situation requires,
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Speaker 1: Cinnamon Slate is ready, you know, to deliver now in appearances, Now,
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Speaker 1: it's not all about appearances, you know, well, I guess
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Speaker 1: with color, with color, it probably pretty much is all
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Speaker 1: about appearances. So I guess we're not being shallow at
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Speaker 1: this point. If Cinnamon Slate was a real person, we
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Speaker 1: would talk about her personality, right, what she likes to
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Speaker 1: eat and stuff like that. I guess that's not terribly
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Speaker 1: important either. This is why I don't run a dating
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Speaker 1: website anyway. This is about color, So appearances matter here.
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Speaker 1: Cinnamon Slate is a subtle mix of a muted plum
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Speaker 1: and a velvety brown. And this, this mix, this wonderful
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Speaker 1: little amalgamation of color, gives her a personality that's both
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Speaker 1: moody and elegant. But not moody in a negative way,
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Speaker 1: you know, not sit in a corner pouting like a
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Speaker 1: little kid moody. No moody in the sense that she
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Speaker 1: evokes a sense of you know, introspection, dramas, all of that.
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Speaker 1: Because of this, Cinnamon Slate is all about creating a
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Speaker 1: timeless and grounded atmosphere in your home. And as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: she's casual, comfortable and comforting and yet sophisticated and elegant
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Speaker 1: at the same time. Now, when it comes to past times,
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Speaker 1: Cinnamon Slate loves to spice up an accent wall or
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Speaker 1: maybe bring a cozy, introspective or dramatic mood to a library,
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Speaker 1: a dining room, a living area, you know, places like that.
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Speaker 1: If you want to enjoy Cinnamon Slate's grounded, comfortable side,
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Speaker 1: you know her sweatshirt and jean side. Pair her with
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Speaker 1: soft whites and rich browns if you want to explore
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Speaker 1: her more sophisticated side the gala event side. Pair her
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Speaker 1: with deep olive greens or something like that in a
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Speaker 1: nutshell cinnamon slate. She's got this way of balancing warmth
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17:48
Speaker 1: she's never shy, and she's more than happy to be
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Speaker 1: the color in your space that holds the attention of
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Speaker 1: reach out her numbers two one, one, three, dash forty.
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Speaker 1: There you go. A little bit weird, a little bit silly,
18:02
Speaker 1: but in another sense, it may give you a vibe
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Speaker 1: for the color. You know, after all, there's a lot
18:06
Speaker 1: you can do with cinnamon slay. You know, being able
18:08
Speaker 1: to pair it with whites, olives, browns, and more gives
18:12
Speaker 1: you a lot of freedom to create the atmosphere that
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Speaker 1: you want to create in your space. You know, it's
18:16
Speaker 1: not your typical wall color, but it's not so out
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Speaker 1: of the box that it leaves you struggling to find
18:21
Speaker 1: a way to use it. Honestly, you're gonna be surprised
18:23
Speaker 1: how easily it works in a space and how it
18:25
Speaker 1: really does have a personality that almost begins working with
18:29
Speaker 1: you immediately to create the vibe that you want. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's Cinnamon Slate. Next week we'll meet a couple more
18:35
Speaker 1: colors from the Color Trend's twenty twenty five collection. All right,
18:38
Speaker 1: let's take a break, and when we come back, we're
18:40
Speaker 1: digging into the Gilgamesh epic and ancient poem and we're
18:43
Speaker 1: gonna find out what in the world it has to
18:45
Speaker 1: do with Caulking. It's a history lesson with a lot
18:48
Speaker 1: of interesting twists. That's next. Stick around and we're back.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Rep Go Light Home Improvement Show,
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Speaker 1: and it's time for a history segment. And we're gonna
19:07
Speaker 1: do this, going to go back in time and look
19:09
Speaker 1: at history stuff because I've got it in my notes
19:11
Speaker 1: that i need to talk about Culk today because we've
19:14
Speaker 1: got a particular call Accelerator CALLIC from Tower Ceilings Quick
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Speaker 1: to Cote from all Pro on the East side of
19:20
Speaker 1: the state. They're the same CULK, just packaged differently depending
19:24
Speaker 1: on where you are in the state. Anyway, that Culk's
19:27
Speaker 1: on sale and I've got to talk about it. But
19:29
Speaker 1: just talking about call and saying it's on sale, and
19:31
Speaker 1: here's all the things that it does. That's boring. I'm
19:34
Speaker 1: going to get to all of that stuff. But I
19:36
Speaker 1: was curious first about, you know, having a conversation about
19:39
Speaker 1: the history of Caulk, and I started wondering, when did
19:42
Speaker 1: it come about? You know, when did calking, calt guns,
19:44
Speaker 1: all of that? You know, when did it start? How
19:46
Speaker 1: did we get to where we are now? So I thought,
19:48
Speaker 1: let's look at that, let's dig into it. I did
19:51
Speaker 1: not anticipate it to be as big a segment as
19:54
Speaker 1: it turned out to be. There's a lot going on,
19:56
Speaker 1: a lot more than I expected, and it goes back
19:59
Speaker 1: way further than and I ever dreamed. So to start,
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Speaker 1: we're going to go back to around the year twenty
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Speaker 1: one hundred b C. And we're gonna look briefly at
20:07
Speaker 1: the Gilgamesh Epic. Have you ever heard of that? I'm
20:10
Speaker 1: betting most of you probably have not heard of it.
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Speaker 1: It's an ancient Mesopotamian poem, all right, and you may
20:17
Speaker 1: not have heard about it before. It may be complete
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Speaker 1: news to you, but the story that it tells is
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Speaker 1: probably going to be very familiar. The text contains a story, really,
20:26
Speaker 1: really similar to the Noah story from the Bible, the
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Speaker 1: story of the Great Flood. Now, I spent a year
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Speaker 1: in seminary in Kentucky long time ago, and we studied
20:35
Speaker 1: this text, and I've always found it fascinating. Now Here
20:38
Speaker 1: are just a few of the similarities between the story
20:41
Speaker 1: of the arc and the flood that we've got in
20:44
Speaker 1: the Bible and the tale of the Gilgamesh Epic. All right,
20:47
Speaker 1: So the Gilgamesh Epic, it talks about this guy, Gilgamesh,
20:50
Speaker 1: and he gets this divine warning that a flood's coming. Yo, Gilgamesh,
20:55
Speaker 1: send them a flood. It's going to destroy everything. So
20:58
Speaker 1: we get that similarity. It's a warning from above, from
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Speaker 1: on high that there's a flood coming. He's instructed to
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Speaker 1: build this huge boat, and then he's instructed to go
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Speaker 1: gather the animals so he can preserve their lives. Then
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Speaker 1: the flood calms, it submerges the earth, and after a
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Speaker 1: period of time, Gilgamesh goes to the top of the boat,
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Speaker 1: opens a little window and releases birds. Right just like
21:22
Speaker 1: the Noah's story, All of this is the same. He
21:24
Speaker 1: releases the birds to find out if the flood waters
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Speaker 1: have received so a lot of similarities. That's the Gilgamesh
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Speaker 1: epic written between twenty one hundred and one thousand BC.
21:34
Speaker 1: Somewhere in there, and in that story, because as endlessly
21:38
Speaker 1: fascinating as all of this I'm sure is, I need
21:40
Speaker 1: to pay the bills and I need to get us
21:42
Speaker 1: around a cal In that story, we encounter a reference
21:45
Speaker 1: to caulking being used to keep that all important boat
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Speaker 1: watertight and afloat. Now the passage is as follows, and
21:53
Speaker 1: it kind of reads like an awards ceremony for the
21:55
Speaker 1: guy who did the caulking. Here it is quote for
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Speaker 1: the caulking of the boat to Putsarahmuri. That's the guy's name.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him mister P because I got his
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Speaker 1: name right that first time, but I'll probably never be
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Speaker 1: able to pronounce it right again, So I'm gonna call
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Speaker 1: him mister P from here on out. And let me
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Speaker 1: go back to the beginning of this quote for the
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Speaker 1: caulking of the boat to mister P, the boatman, I
22:18
Speaker 1: give the palace together with all of its contents. So
22:21
Speaker 1: think about that. This guy Putsarahmuri. I did it really
22:25
Speaker 1: well that time he calks the boat the ship. You know,
22:27
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly when the distinction between the two
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Speaker 1: came about. But our guy, mister P does the caulking,
22:34
Speaker 1: and I'll explain what that is in a minute. But
22:36
Speaker 1: not only does he have the satisfaction of doing a
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Speaker 1: job you know, really well, but he also is given
22:43
Speaker 1: the palace together with all of its contents. What a
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Speaker 1: gift though, really, you know, the pessimist in me really
22:50
Speaker 1: does wonder how exciting this really was. You know, when
22:54
Speaker 1: was he given this gift? Was he given it before
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Speaker 1: the flood? You know that's too bad because afterwards won't
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Speaker 1: wall there it goes? Was he given it during the flood?
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Speaker 1: You know, as they're floating on the boat. Here you go,
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Speaker 1: mister And I'm assuming mister P made it into the boat.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't. Maybe we you know, he was given
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Speaker 1: the kingdom or the palace and all of that, and
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Speaker 1: then left behind to enjoy the spoils of his calking.
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Speaker 1: Who knows. Those are mysteries lost, lost to history, and
23:25
Speaker 1: they probably don't matter here anyway. In the Gilgamesh epic,
23:29
Speaker 1: we've got this ancient reference to caulking and it's referenced
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Speaker 1: as a process right in shipbuilding, and it was meant
23:35
Speaker 1: to keep the ship water tight. So how do we
23:37
Speaker 1: get from that, from a step in the shipbuilding process
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Speaker 1: to what we think of today when we use the
23:43
Speaker 1: word caulk and we talk about caulking. And how did
23:45
Speaker 1: all those tubes come to be? I mean, no matter
23:48
Speaker 1: whose brand of calk you look at, ninety nine percent
23:51
Speaker 1: of them are all in the same shape container. How
23:54
Speaker 1: did all of that happen? Well, let's start with the
23:56
Speaker 1: term caulk. Now, it originally came from the Old North
23:59
Speaker 1: French word colcare, which means to press down. It's the
24:03
Speaker 1: origin of the English word colca, which means to stop
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Speaker 1: up cracks with a filler, or to pack the seams
24:10
Speaker 1: of a ship with waterproof material. So historically, shipbuilders would
24:14
Speaker 1: use fibers like cotton and hemp soaked in pine tar,
24:18
Speaker 1: and then they drive them into the seams between the
24:20
Speaker 1: wooden planks using a calking mallet and a tool called
24:24
Speaker 1: a calking iron. Right, the process sealed the joints, preventing
24:28
Speaker 1: water from getting in and sinking a ship. Now, as
24:30
Speaker 1: wooden ships gave way to iron and steel ships, the
24:34
Speaker 1: colcking process shifted from pounding fibers into seams to using
24:37
Speaker 1: tools that compressed metal edges to create water tight joints.
24:42
Speaker 1: It's very interesting what has to be done even today
24:45
Speaker 1: with materials like this. Boilers are made, or at least
24:48
Speaker 1: were made in a similar manner. Look into that. It's
24:51
Speaker 1: very interesting to think that the phrase caulking applies to
24:54
Speaker 1: those materials and those processes as well. Also around this time,
24:59
Speaker 1: you know, in the early to mid eighteen hundreds or so,
25:01
Speaker 1: the term culking began to be applied to the process
25:04
Speaker 1: and the fibrous or tarlet materials used to fill gaps
25:08
Speaker 1: in wooden structures, you know, in construction now, so by
25:12
Speaker 1: the late eighteen hundreds, culking is now a concept that's
25:15
Speaker 1: familiar to the world of construction and home building, not
25:18
Speaker 1: just you know, relegated to the world of shipbuilding. It's
25:21
Speaker 1: something that we're starting to use in construction conversation now.
25:26
Speaker 1: It's interesting the application of these materials in the construction setting,
25:30
Speaker 1: you know, these tar like substances, the caulks, the putties,
25:34
Speaker 1: the application of these was all done manually using putty
25:37
Speaker 1: knives or even bare hands. And I can only imagine
25:41
Speaker 1: what that process was like. You know, I'm a mess
25:44
Speaker 1: whenever I call I try. I literally pep talk myself
25:48
Speaker 1: up before I start, you know, I tell myself to
25:51
Speaker 1: pay attention to your hands, Dan, pay attention to your hands.
25:55
Speaker 1: Pay attention, little friend. Keep a damp rag, handy. Don't
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Speaker 1: wipe the calck on your clothing, Dan, don't wipe it
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Speaker 1: on the floor. I'll pay attention to your hands. Is
26:04
Speaker 1: there calck on your hands? Don't touch stuff, don't touch
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Speaker 1: anything else other than that damp rag. You know, I've
26:09
Speaker 1: got an entire precc prep routine that I run myself
26:12
Speaker 1: through every single time. But I'm like a meme, you know,
26:16
Speaker 1: I'm a living, breathing meme. One half of the image
26:19
Speaker 1: is me giving myself that pep talk, and the second
26:22
Speaker 1: panel is me. You know, thirty seconds later, I'm covered
26:26
Speaker 1: with cock. The walls are covered with cock fingerprints. The
26:29
Speaker 1: damp rag is so full of cock that it just
26:31
Speaker 1: smears cock on everything I wipe it with. Right, that's
26:34
Speaker 1: me with modern advancements. I can only imagine what it
26:38
Speaker 1: was like back in time. If I had to go
26:41
Speaker 1: back there to the earliest applications of cock, where you
26:44
Speaker 1: used a putty knife or your hands to apply it.
26:47
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, anyway, I'm glad I live in the time
26:50
Speaker 1: and period that I live in. Anyway, suffice to say
26:53
Speaker 1: it was messy work back then. And then this breakthrough
26:56
Speaker 1: invention comes about Theodore Witt wi Tt, a gentleman who
27:01
Speaker 1: we know very little about. Theodore is walking home from
27:05
Speaker 1: work one day. Where did he work? We don't know,
27:08
Speaker 1: at least I don't know. Somebody maybe does, but they're
27:11
Speaker 1: not talking, so we're just saying he's walking home from work.
27:14
Speaker 1: Perhaps he was a cacker during the day. Perhaps his hands,
27:18
Speaker 1: you know, are coded if you need a visual, his
27:20
Speaker 1: hands are coated with cock and he's trying to peel
27:23
Speaker 1: it off before he gets home. You know. Maybe he
27:26
Speaker 1: brushed his hands on his new pants and he knew
27:28
Speaker 1: that missus Witt was going to let him have it
27:31
Speaker 1: when she saw him. So maybe he's taking the long
27:33
Speaker 1: way home. Who knows. But what we do know is
27:35
Speaker 1: that he's walking home and he passes by a bakery.
27:38
Speaker 1: Now he probably paused to look in the window, right,
27:41
Speaker 1: Maybe he shared shared the contractor's love of donuts and
27:45
Speaker 1: baked goods. Who knows, you know, not that they're bad.
27:47
Speaker 1: I do enjoy a good donut or a baked good myself.
27:51
Speaker 1: Maybe mister Witt was the same. Anyway, he stops and
27:54
Speaker 1: he stares through the window, and as the story goes,
27:57
Speaker 1: he sees the baker open up this huge vat. I'm
28:00
Speaker 1: sure it's not a vat, that just sounds gross, a
28:02
Speaker 1: huge container, a pot full of frosting. Right, He's got
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Speaker 1: this cake that needs to be frosted, and he's got
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Speaker 1: this container full of frosting. And mister Witt thinks to himself,
28:13
Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go. He's gonna lather that stuff
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Speaker 1: on with his hands or some kind of putty knife
28:20
Speaker 1: type thing, and I'm sure this poor baker is gonna
28:23
Speaker 1: end up as coated and sticky with frosting as I
28:25
Speaker 1: am with colk. Right, I'm sure something like that goes
28:28
Speaker 1: through mister Witt's mind. But as he watches this whole thing,
28:32
Speaker 1: he's dumb struck. As the baker applies all of the
28:36
Speaker 1: frosting to the cake without mess using a piping bag.
28:39
Speaker 1: At that point, you know, the clouds parted, a little
28:42
Speaker 1: beam of sunlight came down. Somebody saying, oh, you know,
28:47
Speaker 1: much nicer than that, because that would have just scared
28:49
Speaker 1: mister Witt. But angels saying and inspiration strikes mister Witt,
28:53
Speaker 1: and he goes home to invent the first caulking gun
28:56
Speaker 1: in history, and that's eighteen ninety four. His putty tool,
29:00
Speaker 1: as he termed it, was designed to streamline the process
29:04
Speaker 1: of applying coc by allowing for efficient and clean application
29:07
Speaker 1: of putty without direct contact. This marked an incredible advancement
29:12
Speaker 1: in not just the application but also eventually the packaging
29:15
Speaker 1: of sealants. Now, as I mentioned earlier, before the cult
29:18
Speaker 1: gun or the putting tool, whatever you want to call it,
29:21
Speaker 1: before that was invented, cocks and sealants were applied manually,
29:24
Speaker 1: you know, by hand or by putting knife, and the
29:27
Speaker 1: materials were pulled from these bulk containers. That's how everybody worked.
29:31
Speaker 1: With wits invention, people could now fill that gun directly
29:35
Speaker 1: from the bulk supplies, which was more efficient and less
29:38
Speaker 1: messy than other methods, but it still wasn't completely perfect.
29:42
Speaker 1: So before long, manufacturers started producing pre filled cartridges designed
29:47
Speaker 1: to fit within the dimensions of the caulking gun. And
29:50
Speaker 1: this standardized both the tool, you know, the gun itself
29:53
Speaker 1: and the containers for the sealants that we use the
29:56
Speaker 1: gun to apply. And this simplified everything simplified the whole
29:59
Speaker 1: process us and completely revolutionized you know, all of that.
30:03
Speaker 1: That's why we've got tubes today that are consistent across
30:06
Speaker 1: the board, you know, That's how it all came about,
30:09
Speaker 1: very very interesting to me. And then of course, over time,
30:12
Speaker 1: you know, the materials used for calking have evolved to
30:15
Speaker 1: meet all kinds of different construction needs. You know, we've
30:18
Speaker 1: got paintable calls, super stretchy calls, mold and mildew resistant calcs,
30:23
Speaker 1: gap filling cauls, incredibly moisture resistant calks, and on and
30:27
Speaker 1: on and on and on. In fact, there are so
30:29
Speaker 1: many different types of calls out there it can really
30:31
Speaker 1: seem complicated to figure out which one's right for your project.
30:35
Speaker 1: And that's where will help. Just swing out to any
30:37
Speaker 1: REPLI tell us what you're working on, and we'll help
30:39
Speaker 1: you get the right cock, and we'll walk you through
30:41
Speaker 1: everything you need to know to get it applied cleanly
30:44
Speaker 1: and easily and professionally and honestly. Just because I admitted
30:48
Speaker 1: earlier to making a mess whenever I use calk, that
30:50
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we don't know what to do and
30:54
Speaker 1: how to use it without making that mess. It's really
30:57
Speaker 1: just a me problem. And it's not that I don't
31:00
Speaker 1: know what to do. I know what to do. I
31:02
Speaker 1: just don't do it, you know, because my brain is
31:05
Speaker 1: like five steps ahead of the rest of my body.
31:08
Speaker 1: You know, that's the good way to describe it. It
31:10
Speaker 1: could be, you know, five weeks in the past, you know,
31:13
Speaker 1: way behind the rest of my body. Either way, it's
31:16
Speaker 1: not directly connected to my body. And I think things
31:20
Speaker 1: while my hands and the rest of my body do
31:23
Speaker 1: different things. So it's a me problem. It's not an
31:25
Speaker 1: US problem. It's a me problem. And we can help
31:28
Speaker 1: you at Repcolite get all the info you need to
31:31
Speaker 1: take that then go home and have great results. All right.
31:35
Speaker 1: That finally brings me to the cal sale that I
31:37
Speaker 1: need to talk about briefly before we wrap this one up.
31:40
Speaker 1: It's going on all month long at Repcolite. We've got
31:42
Speaker 1: a couple of different premium cocks on sale. Actually it's
31:45
Speaker 1: the same caulk, just under different names. On the east
31:48
Speaker 1: side of the state, the culk is all pros Quick
31:50
Speaker 1: to Coat. On the west side it's Tower Cealans Accelerator,
31:54
Speaker 1: the exact same culk in both places, just sold under
31:57
Speaker 1: different names and in different packaging now accel or Quick
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Speaker 1: to Cote. They're premium culs that work on many different
32:03
Speaker 1: interior surfaces, and they're big claim to fame has to
32:06
Speaker 1: do with the speed at which you can paint over them. Now,
32:09
Speaker 1: most problems that occur when people use culk, or at
32:12
Speaker 1: least one of the big problems that occurs is that
32:14
Speaker 1: they paint over it too quickly, you know, before the
32:17
Speaker 1: culk has dried, and lots of different problems occur when
32:20
Speaker 1: that happens. Now, with accelerator and quick to coat, you're
32:23
Speaker 1: not going to have that. It's going to eliminate all
32:25
Speaker 1: of those concerns. You can spray over those cults immediately
32:30
Speaker 1: after you've calked them, after you've applied that caulc that's
32:32
Speaker 1: completely unheard of, no problems, no concerns guaranteed. So if
32:37
Speaker 1: your contractor looking to save some time in labor, these
32:39
Speaker 1: cocks are a brilliant answer and at least look into them.
32:43
Speaker 1: But even for di wires or for contractors who aren't spraying,
32:46
Speaker 1: they're finish on. With accelerator and quick to Coat, you
32:49
Speaker 1: can brush over that caulk after just thirty minutes, So
32:52
Speaker 1: it's still ridiculously fast. Anyway, Those cacks are on sale
32:56
Speaker 1: at Repcolite for two twenty five a tube all through
32:58
Speaker 1: the rest of the month. If you've got any caulking
33:00
Speaker 1: at all to do on your next project, it's worth
33:02
Speaker 1: checking out. And there you go, the long, drawn out,
33:05
Speaker 1: surprising history of caulking. How it started as a term
33:08
Speaker 1: used for making ships watertight and now largely refers to
33:11
Speaker 1: seiling up the gaps between your trim and your walls. Crazy.
33:15
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break. When we come back,
33:17
Speaker 1: we're talking about a dog camera, a dog monitoring camera.
33:20
Speaker 1: I guess I should say I love this thing and
33:23
Speaker 1: I can't wait to tell you about it. And that's all.
33:25
Speaker 1: Next stick around and we're back. You're listening to the
33:34
Speaker 1: Repolite Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and I
33:37
Speaker 1: want to circle back to my dogs. I started the
33:41
Speaker 1: show talking about my dogs, Fern and Maggie. Maggie's obedient
33:45
Speaker 1: beyond description. Angelic, I believe, is the word I use
33:49
Speaker 1: to describe her. And Fern she's a work in progress.
33:53
Speaker 1: We love her, we do love her dearly, and she's improving,
33:57
Speaker 1: but she is a little nuts. You know. I talked
33:59
Speaker 1: about that already. Anyway, we went through a pretty stressful
34:03
Speaker 1: rite of passage with Fern a few weeks back. I've
34:06
Speaker 1: got a couple kids in college and when classes let out,
34:09
Speaker 1: you know, part way through December, they settled in at
34:12
Speaker 1: home to enjoy a lengthy winter break. And that meant
34:15
Speaker 1: Fern could also enjoy a winter break. See normally, because
34:21
Speaker 1: she's a little nuts, she's a little naughty. Fern is
34:23
Speaker 1: kenneled up during the days while we're at work and
34:25
Speaker 1: nobody's in the house. We really can't trust her yet.
34:30
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to to be free around the house.
34:32
Speaker 1: You know, she's two, she's a free spirit. She's nuts.
34:35
Speaker 1: I've said all that a month or two ago. I
34:38
Speaker 1: think I talked about this on the show, but this
34:40
Speaker 1: should make the case. A month or two ago, she
34:42
Speaker 1: was left in the house alone for twenty minutes if that,
34:47
Speaker 1: and in that time she ate fifty dollars worth of
34:49
Speaker 1: fudge from Macana Island that she got out of a backpack.
34:54
Speaker 1: Somehow she ate all the fudge wrappers in all, fifty
34:58
Speaker 1: dollars worth of fudge. That's not cheap, but that's the
35:01
Speaker 1: least of my worries. We had to bring her to
35:03
Speaker 1: the er vet and had to pay a boatload of
35:06
Speaker 1: money to make sure Fern stayed alive because she consumed
35:11
Speaker 1: so much fudge it potentially could be fatal. Oh my goodness,
35:15
Speaker 1: thank you Fern, Thank you so much. Christmas was much
35:19
Speaker 1: smaller this year thanks to Fern. But we told ourselves
35:22
Speaker 1: we have Fern, but because we want to keep Fern.
35:25
Speaker 1: She goes in the kennel when there's nobody there, a supervisor,
35:28
Speaker 1: but she hates it. Of course, she hates it. She
35:31
Speaker 1: hates it intensely. And after having a solid month home,
35:34
Speaker 1: you know, a solid month of freedom with the kids,
35:36
Speaker 1: we were all dread putting her back in that kennel
35:40
Speaker 1: when we went to work, and yet we were terrified
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Speaker 1: to leave her out of the kennel. Anyway, all of
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Speaker 1: that to say, my daughter gave me the answer. She's
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Speaker 1: getting married in October and her fiance just adopted a
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Speaker 1: new dog, and with his dog, he bought a monitoring
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Speaker 1: camera so he could keep an eye on her all
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Speaker 1: day long. I should have thought of this myself. I
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Speaker 1: did not. But even when she told me, I wasn't convinced.
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Speaker 1: I assumed it was going to be crazy expensive and
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Speaker 1: that it wouldn't work all that well, that it'd be
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Speaker 1: kind of clunky. I explained some of that, or she
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Speaker 1: sensed the hesitation, and she jumped right in. She knows
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Speaker 1: exactly what to tell me. She told me, it's a
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Speaker 1: thirty dollars camera. Well, instantly, I'm interested because they've got it.
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Speaker 1: It's working for them. It's thirty bucks. They love it.
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Speaker 1: And the biggest thing, the big selling point for me,
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Speaker 1: is the camera that they bought. The model they've got
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Speaker 1: has a speaker and a microphone built in, so you
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Speaker 1: can listen to what's happening in the house. If you
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Speaker 1: need to. You can turn it off, but you can
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Speaker 1: listen if you want to, and if necessary, you can
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Speaker 1: sound this little alarm, or you can actively using your
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Speaker 1: phone talk to the dogs or the burglars or who's
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Speaker 1: ever there. You can do that all from your phone.
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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. Now, nobody out there, I am certain nobody
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Speaker 1: listening to me right now is surprised by any of
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Speaker 1: this technology. I'm sorry about that. I'm stunned. I'm stunned
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Speaker 1: that all of that technology, all of abilities, can be
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Speaker 1: contained in a thirty dollars package. But it can be
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Speaker 1: I love this thing. I snatched one up. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: put links to it in the show notes, links to
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Speaker 1: the exact model that I bought. But it's the Wise Camog.
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Speaker 1: The whys is spelled wyse. Why'scamog? Like I said, under
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Speaker 1: thirty bucks on Amazon. Now here are just a few
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Speaker 1: quick details of what you get with this camera. Super small,
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Speaker 1: easy mounting. You can set it up easily anywhere. You
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Speaker 1: plug it in, install the app on your phone. In
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Speaker 1: five minutes or so, you've got video that you can
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Speaker 1: monitor on your phone or your tablet or whatever. Super easy.
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Speaker 1: If you want to add a camera, just buy one
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Speaker 1: and it adds easily to your network. The camera itself,
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Speaker 1: it's a ten adp HD camera with night vision, and
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Speaker 1: that night vision is crazy good, completely black room, no
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Speaker 1: lights on at all. If I've got that, I can
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Speaker 1: still see the dogs like there's daylight. It's night vision.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's what you would expect it to be.
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Speaker 1: I just did not anticipate that it would work this well.
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Speaker 1: It's rated for indoor and outdoor use. You can customize
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Speaker 1: the alerts you get. You know, right now my phone
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Speaker 1: will let me know when there's movement so I can
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Speaker 1: go pull up the camera, and sure enough, one of
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Speaker 1: the dogs is, you know, scratching yourself or looking out
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Speaker 1: the window or something like that. And then, as I
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Speaker 1: had mentioned earlier, using your phone, you can listen to
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Speaker 1: what's happening in the room, or you can intervene by
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Speaker 1: hitting the speaker and actually talking. There are a ton
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Speaker 1: of other benefits that you can get, but you get
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Speaker 1: the idea. This crazy little thirty dollars camera has completely
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Speaker 1: given me peace of mind leaving Fern out. You know,
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Speaker 1: this big rite of passage we were dreading was so
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Speaker 1: easy because we could monitor and actually intervene. And that's
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Speaker 1: just using it for dogs. You could use it for
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Speaker 1: all kinds of other things, as a baby monitor, as
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Speaker 1: a security camera on your porch. I mean, really, the
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Speaker 1: possibilities are pretty endless. Just don't use it for nefarious purposes.
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Speaker 1: That is not the point of talking about this anyway.
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Speaker 1: If you've got dogs, or any other situation where you
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Speaker 1: wish you could monitor your home easily and cheaply, you've
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Speaker 1: got to look into this camera or another one like it.
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Speaker 1: The one I have again is the Whysekmog, the Wyze Wyskamog.
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Speaker 1: It's thirty bucks on Amazon. Really worth it. Check it out,
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Speaker 1: all right. That's all the time we've got that's going
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Speaker 1: to have to do it. If you want to catch
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Speaker 1: this one again, you can find it online at Repcolight
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Speaker 1: dot com. Whatever you do today makes your paints a
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Speaker 1: part of it. Have a great weekend everybody, and I'll
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Speaker 1: see you next week. Dan Hansome, thanks for listening.