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The Red-Breasted Sapsucker · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello, welcome to the Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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  We are Nick and Kristen. We're married.
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  We have a 7 year old daughter. You're all cut up.
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  Thank you for listening to the show.
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  And we just got our car washed, which leads us to our very first
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  topic. Yes.
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  So shout out to Jeremy, who is one of the car washing
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  attendants at the Chevron down the street from our house.
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  And it's as we were pulling up, we started talking about, man,
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  that job seems like it would be a good job to have.
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  Well, we're unemployed from radio, but I'm still a
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  therapist, but Nick definitely is looking for something to do.
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  And I am always kind of on the eye for like I, I was talking
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  about this with my boss to it at my therapy clinic.
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  Like, man, wouldn't it just be not have a nice, wouldn't it be
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  nice to have a job where you could just pop in some
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  headphones, listen to some music, just kind of do something
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  with your hands, Not really. Like feel like you have to
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  report to anybody and then just be done at the end of the day.
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  Yeah, zero stress, zero pressure.
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  And that's the job that it looks like Jeremy has.
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  I don't know. I don't know what the, I don't
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  know what the the stress is that he deals with on a daily basis.
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  But when we pulled up, we handed him the receipt and he said, by
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  the way, love the podcast. And immediately I just felt
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  like, Oh my gosh, that's so wild.
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  Yeah, it's weird because we used to run into people that loved
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  our show and like, hey, like, listen to you guys this morning.
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  And I never thought it would happen for the podcast because,
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  right, our podcast numbers are not like huge numbers.
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  And so the fact that he specifically said the podcast.
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  Thank you, Jeremy. You validated everything that
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  we're doing. It did really feel good.
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  Like it felt really weird because like now that we're not
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  on a radio station, it sort of feels like, well, we're just
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  going to fade into obscurity. Like nobody's even going to know
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  or care who we are. Not that we really care about
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  that, but then like be like recognized for something we are
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  doing, felt on our own, just felt really good.
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  It was like, oh, that's really nice.
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  Yeah. Thanks, Jeremy.
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  And I was at a bridal show on, like last weekend, and somebody
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  there noticed me and they were, they said that they were sad
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  that we got fired from. Yeah.
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  So that was like, oh, I expect that to happen a lot, yes.
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  But then to mention like the podcast, like that's like, oh
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  man, you're a you're a day one follower.
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  So thank you. So much.
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  Thank you, Jeremy. Also, tell me more about this
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  job because I could, I could see myself myself doing that job
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  washing cars this summer is coming.
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  You probably need someone out there to also listen to
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  headphones while you're out there and I'm the guy I'll.
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  Go listen to a Star Wars book and you guys can wash cars
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  together. It would be great.
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  That would be great. Let's do that, Jeremy.
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  After we washed our car, we headed over to the Walmart and
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  we went there originally. Why did we go there?
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  We were looking for fabric. Fabric I wanted to try to see if
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  I can find some strawberry fabric because I was making
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  something and I, I didn't end up finding any fabric.
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  But as you do, you kind of just wander around.
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  Also Lily needed some like new shorts for summer and we were
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  like well let's get some bubble or like solution refill because
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  all of her bubbles were out. All the little stuff that you
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  see that you're like and I just, we've been so tight on our
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  budget lately that I I needed this like feeling to get out and
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  just buy some dumb stuff. We didn't spend a lot of money,
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  but it was like little stuff that we saw and you saw a see
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  through bird feeder. We have just, I mean, a ton of
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  birds. Then we, yeah, like, so back
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  when we had money and we were just spending it like, like it
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  was never going to go away, we went to Costco and I bought 50
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  lbs of bird feeder because I thought, oh, like, wouldn't it
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  be nice? We'll feed the birds and like,
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  well, Nick's really into birds and like we'll get a Washington
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  bird map and we'll check out the birds that we see in the
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  backyard. Basically you put the bird seed
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  in a bucket and put in the backyard.
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  It rained once. It turned in, yeah, it turned in
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  like mush and I was like that's never going to happen.
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  So we got a see through bird feeder that suction cups to our
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  window. So it's like a little clear
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  house. You put the bird seed in and
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  then the birds will come up and hopefully sit on the the perch.
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  Yeah. And then see them through the
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  window and we'll be. Able to observe them and be
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  like, OK, it's red and white and let's look up what that bird is.
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  And and yeah, so we're our like $6 at Walmart.
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  I know it was. It was a hell of a deal and I
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  was 100% on board because I like birds.
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  He loves birds. And so now we're watching it
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  like Hawks. I know, waiting for the first
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  bird to discover the bird feeder.
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  Yeah, because it's kind of off to the side a little.
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  Bit they said like 10 feet away from like a natural habitat
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  that's about as far as you can kind of go.
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  And like there's a there we have, it's like 3 feet away from
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  like the bushes and the trees. And so I pour the bird seed in
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  from the minute I walk into the house.
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  Nick goes, how long do you think it's going to take for them to
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  discover the seeds? And.
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  I was like. Staring at the window way way
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  longer than that buddy. Like nobody's watching right now
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  going on. Like, I started noticing new
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  birds that were floating around. I was like, oh, they know it's
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  because you put up the house. You stuck it to the window.
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  And then I saw like some red and yellow bird that I'd never seen
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  before. I know.
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  But I was like, where'd that bird come from?
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  And then all these birds started hitting the trees.
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  I was like, are there just that many birds here or did they know
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  something have they been waiting for?
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  Us, they're not like, oh, Chris is bringing out the good stuff.
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  They have zero idea that it's there, that what's going to
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  happen is in the morning when they're pecking through our
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  grass looking for worms as you do, they're going to go, what's
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  that up there? Or they're going to see the bird
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  seed that fell because I dropped a bunch and they're going to go,
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  this is new. And then they're going to look
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  up and they're going to go says what's that all about?
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  Then they're going to fly. Out there and then you're going
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  to hear it. Chirp chirp chirp chirp which is
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  guys. Guys, that's what we're hoping
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  for anyway, but it could go undiscovered for.
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  Months it might, because. It's like kind of out of the
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  way. And I don't know how
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  investigative birds are, you know what I mean?
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  Like, do they fly around and look at everything and Peck at
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  everything? I don't like is that is that
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  food? Is that food?
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  Is that food? What do you have to be an
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  ornithologist or? Something.
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  Like that for a bird? Sam Yeah.
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  So I will let you know. We'll put up a live Cam.
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  I have an extra camera that I could put up for a live Cam.
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  We just watch the bird. Know what, this isn't a bad
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  idea. You go on Tiktok, you stream
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  just all day on Tiktok live bird feed Cam you.
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  I know it would suck. Are you in if you saw that?
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  Like this could be a viable business for us at.
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  This point we're monetized on Facebook and I'm I'm monetized
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  on YouTube. We're not, but I am.
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  And so I could, I could, I could go.
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  Live bird feed. Camp I could go live on TikTok,
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  so yeah. And then you could do
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  commentary. You could be like, all right,
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  this is you saw that. What was it the other day you
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  told me there was? A new bird, red breasted
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  woodpeck or a red breasted sapsucker.
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  Sapsucker. I was like nuts.
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  A red. The names on birds are like my
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  favorite. Whoever names birds, Yeah.
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  So Nick come home from work after like 8 hours, I sit down,
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  I eat 11 spoonful of my dinner and he goes by the way we saw a
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  red breasted SAP sucker today and I go what?
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  I need so much more context and he's like Lily saw something red
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  in the tree. So we grabbed our bird app and
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  we opened it up and Oh my gosh. And he got video of it and it
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  was like pecking at the thing and I was like what's it doing?
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  He's like it's a red breasted SAP sucker.
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  Obviously it's looking for SAP, Kristen and I was just like.
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  It's a beautiful you know what? I'm going to put the picture up
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  here. There you go.
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  I didn't shoot this for anybody. I'll even put video on here.
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  It's welcome to. Yours dragging you along with us
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  on our bird journey. As I move my way into the elder
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  years of my life, I know where I'm going.
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  I'm going bowling and I'm bird watching on the weekends.
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  So if if you're OK with this being me, then then we're going
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  to. Last, there's way weirder things
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  you could be into. That's true.
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  You brought up something that you think that I should be doing
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  now, now that I am unemployed and I'm sitting around the house
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  and you think I'm not doing. Anything OK, so I don't want
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  this to come off like I don't think you're not doing anything
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  Like I know you are everyday actively looking for jobs.
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  We're recording this podcast, you're editing this podcast.
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  I very much know you're busy. You're cleaning the house like
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  on a very regular basis. It always looks nice.
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  You're cooking dinner for me, you're going grocery shopping,
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  you're taking care of Lily. I know you're busy.
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  So when I said this, I was like, gosh, I hope he doesn't take
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  this as like, oh, what are you doing all day?
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  No, it's a project that you, it's a, it's a good idea.
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  We were just kind of driving home from Walmart and you're
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  like, why aren't we doing more projects?
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  Yeah, so like a while back I got to be in my bonnet about doing
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  some DIY around the house. There's something you need to
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  know about me, and it's that I love working with my hands.
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  I love learning new things and I love learning new skills and I
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  love doing things like actively, tangibly with my hands.
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  That's why I like pottery and sewing and knitting and all
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  those kind of, they're more crafty things, but I wanted to
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  translate that into like DIY around the house.
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  And so years ago again, back, back when money was flowing, we
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  went to Home Depot and I bought all new flooring for one
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  bathroom. So like 3 packages of this kind
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  of like snap and place flooring. And because it was a bathroom
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  that I wanted to redo, I bought like the waterproof kit, like
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  the spacers, everything you would need to do redo the floor.
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  And I always said one day we're just going to RIP up the linole
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  and we're going to lay this kind of hardwood plank snap in place
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  floor. Yeah.
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  And and I bought new tools I had.
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  We're with Ham, yeah. I want everything that I need to
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  do this. And every time we've had a
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  garage sale, I'm like, dude, should we just put this out?
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  And you've always been like, no, no, no, one day we're going to
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  get to it. Well, yeah, because the the
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  thing, the only thing that's stopping us is US time.
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  Like and time, it was always time.
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  When are we going? To do this and we had a young
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  kid and we, we knew that this wasn't going to be 3 hours.
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  So one and like we were going to RIP off the OR put the floor
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  down to be like there it is done right.
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  It was going to have to be open and exposed to a child and we
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  don't want to have to deal with that.
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  Although the floor was always meant for our bathroom, but now
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  I kind of want to do hers because I think there could be
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  mold. But like so anyways, like so
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  we're going to find out. But like, so it's been sitting
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  there and I was like, Hey, why aren't you doing this?
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  Like, why don't you take this on?
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  Like I always wanted it to be my project, but like, that's just
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  not going to happen for me while this is going on.
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  But what would be great is if you did it, you learned how to
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  do it. And then the next time could
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  teach me because I'm not a great YouTube learner, because I'm
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  like, Hey, I have a question. And then he just keeps going
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  like, whereas you, you, you learn really great from YouTube.
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  You're able to extrapolate the information and kind of problem
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  solve. And this way when I go, well,
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  what do we do about this? You could explain it to me and
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  then I could really be helpful. And so I was like, hey, like,
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  why not be doing that? Why not be painting in the
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  walls? Why not be patching up holes?
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  Why not be doing these kinds of things since we have time?
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  What I'm realizing is that you saw that I fixed the shoe rack
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  with duct tape. I did.
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  And you were like, well, why not go big or go home?
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  Let's redo the floors. Well, and then like we've been
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  wanting to redo the cabinets. And.
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  Like. We just, yeah, we don't have the
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  time and. And it always was like, yeah,
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  time. It was always time.
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  It was always energy. It was like, well, you know, we
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  only have so much time with Lily every day.
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  We wanted to spend time with her, and we weren't willing to
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  give that up. But now that like you find
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  yourself with a couple hours every day because I know you're
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  busy, but there's maybe an hour every day that you could work on
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  something. Yeah, I mean, if you give me a
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  project. Yeah, well, you're gonna get
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  obsessive about that. I'm gonna get obsessive about
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  it. So yeah.
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  But my, my biggest problem is starting it.
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  And then once I started, yeah, I'm unstoppable.
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  So, but that's what I'm, that's what I'm banking on, right I?
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  Know yeah, yeah. So it's once I get the guts to
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  RIP the floors up, then I can't just sit there with the floors
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  up. I'm like, OK, well this is so I
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  will spend the next two days learning how to do this.
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  OK, taking all the tools and seeing what I can see and
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  figuring it out. And I think that why not?
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  What else am I? Doing.
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  What else are you doing? I.
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  Can live stream the whole process or I can document the
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  process and then give us something to talk about on the
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  podcast it. Gives us something to yeah, it
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  gives us content. But also like, and I say this,
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  you know, I'm not trying to like freak anybody out.
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  I'm certainly trying not trying to freak myself out.
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  But like there's a very good possibility that if we want to
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  work in radio again, like we're going to have to move.
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  And like moving looks like selling this house.
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  And there has been no renovations to this house since
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  we moved in because we were always kind of like, well, first
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  of all, we don't know what we're doing.
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  And second of all, like, why would we move?
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  And now there's a possibility where it's like, well, this
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  might not be our forever house. And so if we learn how to do
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  these things and the house ends up kind of looking nice and
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  something goes, hey, a radio station says, hey, we need you
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  here in two months, then we won't have wasted all this time.
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  The house will be in good showing shape.
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  And we could be like, all right, let's sell it and we might get
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  some money for it. And the.
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  Skills we learn doing this house we can translate to the next
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  house exactly. That's what.
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  I'm saying it's our customer. No, I know that that's what
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  these houses are for. Like this is supposed to be our
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  first and like starter home where you go in and you break
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  stuff. And we've been here for five
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  years and we haven't broken anything.
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  And so it's like we we haven't even painted the walls.
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  We've looked there is a stain on our bathroom or in our bedroom
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  wall. Yeah, this is like a white.
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  It looks like a bird pooped on the.
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  Wall it does, yes. And they used to have a picture
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  there, I'm assuming, and it's just.
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  And it's still there five years later.
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  We haven't done 0 anything. Nothing.
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  There's patches that are just like paint patches that they
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  paint. Yeah.
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  Like, yeah, the only thing we've done is painted Lily's room in
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  my room because I wanted it darker for video and she wanted
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  rainbows. Yeah, I'm.
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  Like we've done absolutely nothing.
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  But we should. We should.
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  While we're here, we might as well.
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  And we're not going to do a sloppy job because like, you'll
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  be able to take the time to research how to do it.
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  So like, I mean, it's good. Already, Yeah, we're going to
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  mess it up or I'm going to mess it up at least a couple times
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  and we just. Can't hire a contractor, so you
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  just got to figure. It out.
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  All I have are the materials, so when I run out of those,
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  whatever's left. Hopefully you bought way more
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  than we need. I think so, yeah.
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  At least for Lily's bathroom. You could probably do ours and
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  Lily's. So now Lily's twice.
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  Yeah. There you.
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  Go then you said, well, you said you bought like a saw for the I
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  was like, how are we cut this? You're like, oh, I bought a
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  electric. I bought a.
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  Saw like well hospital bills like I don't know if we.
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  Have Well, we do have insurance. That's true.
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  And maybe I should take a life insurance?
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  You might have maxed out our deductible so we might be
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  alright. Haven't gotten gallbladder
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  surgery overnight hospital bill yet but I did look into my 4-O1K
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  and it did say that I could take it out pen money out penalty
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  free if there's a medical emergency.
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  Oh really? And so I was like, OK, well, I
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  don't know if this is considered medical emergency, but like we.
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  Have to clarify what the. Maybe it could have killed me, I
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  don't know. Well, no, it definitely could
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  have killed you, right? Yeah, I.
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  Mean if it kept going it could have been flamed.
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  All right. Well, thank you for watching and
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  we'll keep you updated on the bird feeder and the brand new
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  bathroom. Yes, the home improvement with
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  Nick Steele.