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These Are My People; Remembering What You First Loved; Must-Have Home Improvement Tools · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, everybody, Good morning. How are you doing.
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Speaker 1: We've made it to Labor Day weekend, made it through
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Speaker 1: that horrible summer. Who likes summer? So glad to see
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Speaker 1: summer going right. We're at Labor Day personally, personally, you know,
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Speaker 1: full disclosure here, Memorial Day and fourth of July they
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Speaker 1: are way higher on my list. I get a lot
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Speaker 1: more pumped because they're at the start of summer. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of hope when Memorial Day comes around.
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Speaker 1: I envision a summer of just ecstatic fun, all the
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Speaker 1: things that I'm going to do. Memorial Day, it's just
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Speaker 1: pumped with all this hope. Then there's a lot of energy,
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Speaker 1: you know, when the fourth of July comes around. But
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Speaker 1: then Labor Day kind of SLINKs across the finish line,
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Speaker 1: schools starting. Summer's oh, summer's not over. But for all
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Speaker 1: practical purposes, summer feels like it's over. Winters looming kind
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Speaker 1: of looking in our windows, threatening, you know, waiting to
0:58
Speaker 1: move in and spend months and months months on end
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Speaker 1: with us. All of that is kind of summed up
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Speaker 1: when I think about Labor Day. But I've got to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, glass half full. You know, I've got to
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Speaker 1: be that guy. Now, I've got to be optimistic, and
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Speaker 1: I've got to remember it's a day off from work, right,
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Speaker 1: and it's a Monday off on top of all of that,
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Speaker 1: which is, you know, really nice. We get a nice
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Speaker 1: long weekend and we've got no Monday to deal with
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Speaker 1: this next week. So that's all good. So I'm going
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Speaker 1: to take it and I'm going to enjoy it. I
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Speaker 1: hope you do too. You're listening to the Rep Goo
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Speaker 1: Lite home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And because
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Speaker 1: it is a holiday weekend, the radio stations every time
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Speaker 1: a holiday weekend comes up, they always suggest that I
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Speaker 1: run a best of episode. You know, I think they'd
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Speaker 1: hate for me to waste a game material if I
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Speaker 1: don't have the ear of all of Michigan hanging on
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Speaker 1: every single word that I'm saying. So that's what they recommended.
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Speaker 1: Run a rerun. But I'm a maverick and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do my own thing, and instead of reruns, I've
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Speaker 1: got an all new show planned for today. But it's
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Speaker 1: definitely a little bit lighter than usual. You'll see what
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Speaker 1: I mean in a minute. It's a holiday weekend, right,
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Speaker 1: we're going to kick back a little anyway. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the show, I've got a few must have
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Speaker 1: tools that you should budget for and add to your arsenal.
2:12
Speaker 1: You know, they bailed me out of a situation recently,
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Speaker 1: and they'll help you too when this time comes around
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Speaker 1: for you. So we'll talk about those at the end.
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Speaker 1: I'll also be dishing out the last George job for
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Speaker 1: the summer, and it's the toughest one yet. But right now,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the paint point. And for this one,
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Speaker 1: it's less of a paint point and more of a
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Speaker 1: real life point. You know. Get the box of Kleenex out.
2:34
Speaker 1: It's a tear jerker, all right. Here's the scoop. I
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Speaker 1: was looking through journals and notes and things that I'd
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Speaker 1: written over the years, and I stumbled on something from
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Speaker 1: twenty ten. Now. I've been doing radio stuff, I think
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Speaker 1: since yeah, basically fifteen fifteen or more years, and I
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Speaker 1: started doing things on a little local station in Holland here,
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Speaker 1: and they gave me five minutes every day that I
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Speaker 1: could do something with that, you know, and I called
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Speaker 1: them another day at Repcolite and this is something that
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Speaker 1: I wrote for that and basically I'm going to read
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Speaker 1: it to you now. It's basically what my spring break
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Speaker 1: twenty ten look like. You know, what it looked like
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Speaker 1: for me and what it looked like for the family.
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Speaker 1: And I tried to figure out a way to deliver
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Speaker 1: this that would make it make sense because I'm going
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Speaker 1: back in time to when the kids are littler, and
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Speaker 1: there's really no way to tell it other than what
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Speaker 1: I've come up with. So we're going to just imagine
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Speaker 1: that we're going back in time to find twenty ten Dan,
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Speaker 1: you know, sitting at his table writing all these thoughts down.
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Speaker 1: And to let you know when we go back in
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Speaker 1: time and when we come back to the present, I've
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Speaker 1: got sound effects, you know, nothing but the best on
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Speaker 1: the Repcolite Home Improvement show. We are high tech, if
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Speaker 1: nothing else. So we're going to get in our little
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Speaker 1: time machine now and travel back to twenty ten. So
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Speaker 1: imagine us swirling through the years twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, twenty eleven. Here we go. We see Dan's
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Speaker 1: house twenty ten, We pop in through the window. Twenty ten,
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Speaker 1: sitting at the table writing things down, and here's what
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Speaker 1: he's got going. This week was crazy. I'm writing it
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Speaker 1: all down so I can look back on it later
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Speaker 1: and laugh about it. Anyway, here's what it looked like.
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Speaker 1: I'd wake up first, around seven o'clock or so, and
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Speaker 1: I'd let the dog out, and then he'd go around
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Speaker 1: when he came in the house, and he'd find everybody
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Speaker 1: and then push his cold, wet nose and his cold
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Speaker 1: wet fur all over their faces, which, of course, you know,
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Speaker 1: that meant that every single one of the kids started
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Speaker 1: off each day in a ridiculously great mood. You know,
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Speaker 1: Calb would wake up saying cheery things like I hate warnings,
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Speaker 1: I hate waking up, I hate wet dog fur, I
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Speaker 1: hate having to move when it's this early, you know,
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Speaker 1: every day, all kinds of great, happy stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: That's how we started. Well. From there, we moved smoothly
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Speaker 1: into breakfast and breakfast, breakfast just nuts. With five kids,
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Speaker 1: each kid routinely asked for something different every single day.
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Speaker 1: Every single day, nobody, not one of them would eat
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Speaker 1: the same cold cereal as the previous child did, even
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Speaker 1: if they wanted to, and I mean that, even if
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Speaker 1: they woke up craving Captain crunch. That is all they
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Speaker 1: want in this world right now is a great big
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Speaker 1: spoonful of Captain crunch, if that's what's going through their head,
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Speaker 1: and the kid next to him asked for Captain crunch boom.
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Speaker 1: They'd mentally assess what cereals had already been chosen and
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Speaker 1: then ask for one that hadn't been all because they
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Speaker 1: wanted me, you know, to have as much work as possible.
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Speaker 1: I can't think of anything else. It's the only explanation
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Speaker 1: I can come up with. Well, anyway, Eventually, mercifully, breakfast
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Speaker 1: would end, and then joy of joys, the questions about
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Speaker 1: video games would start. Now Maddie, she was ten at
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Speaker 1: the time, my oldest daughter. She would ask me if
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Speaker 1: she could play her video game well before I could
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Speaker 1: answer her. Tessa, several years younger, would ask if she
5:52
Speaker 1: could play her video game before I could answer either
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Speaker 1: of them. Caleb, Maddie's twin brother, would say that I
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Speaker 1: wasn't being fair. I hadn't answered anybody yet, and he's
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Speaker 1: already telling me I wasn't being fair, that they played
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Speaker 1: their video games the day before, and that it should
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Speaker 1: be his turn. And then he looked at me and asked,
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Speaker 1: can I play my video game well? When those words
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Speaker 1: leave his lips. The girls start crying before I had
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Speaker 1: answered anybody, and I'd finally be forced to say, darn it, guys,
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Speaker 1: nobody's playing video games right now. Well, then, of course
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Speaker 1: more crying would happen. And then Andrew, who was seven
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Speaker 1: years old at the time, he would raise his hand.
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Speaker 1: Every question he has is a hand raised in the air.
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Speaker 1: He'd raise his hand and ask if darn it was
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Speaker 1: a bad word. So I'd reassure him it's not a
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Speaker 1: bad word, you know, And then i'd have to try
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Speaker 1: to convince him that he probably shouldn't say it. But
6:43
Speaker 1: before I could make his little brain grasp the concept,
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Speaker 1: Caleb would start up about the weather. This was the
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Speaker 1: next series of questions. He'd peel his face off of
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Speaker 1: the window, his little tear stained face, and he'd say,
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Speaker 1: is it gonna rain all day? Dad? Well, I tell
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Speaker 1: him I don't know. I don't know it's spoke to
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Speaker 1: rain all day, but I don't technically and with absolute certainty,
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Speaker 1: know that it will do. So, you know, I've been
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Speaker 1: burned on this before earlier in the week, and I
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Speaker 1: knew I had to hedge my prognostications on the weather.
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Speaker 1: If I was even slightly off, they'd let me know,
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Speaker 1: so I played it safe, I don't know. Well. He'd
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Speaker 1: look at me for a minute, and then he'd ask
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Speaker 1: if it was cold out, Hugh, I tell him, go outside,
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Speaker 1: just go outside and check, and then you'll know. Well.
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Speaker 1: He'd simply go down and find Mom wherever she was
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Speaker 1: and ask her is it cold out? And then Mom
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Speaker 1: would tell him I don't know, and then she'd shout
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Speaker 1: at me, is it cold out? Well? Of course, after
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Speaker 1: all of that, I'd just go outside again and feel
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Speaker 1: the air, and then I'd come back and say to
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Speaker 1: everybody who cared, yes, it's cold out, And then in
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Speaker 1: a chorus, they would all say how cold? Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: without a thermometer, How in the world do you answer that?
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Speaker 1: How do you convey a specific level of cold you know?
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Speaker 1: To kids? Over the course of the I figured out
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Speaker 1: the answer. I learned that you need to say that
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Speaker 1: it's see your breath cold, or snow on the ground cold,
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Speaker 1: or goosebumps on your arm cold, or wear a sweatshirt cold,
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Speaker 1: all of those things. All of those things mean something
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Speaker 1: to kids. So I'd tell them it was one of
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Speaker 1: those kinds of cold out there. But before I could
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Speaker 1: get all of the words out of my mouth, Tessa
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Speaker 1: would ask if she could have a snack. Well, I
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Speaker 1: tell her, no, we just had breakfast. Literally, we just
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Speaker 1: had breakfast twenty minutes ago. We just ate. And then
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Speaker 1: she'd start weeping, weeping uncontrollably, which gets old instantly. So
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Speaker 1: I'd cave every single day, every single day, and then
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Speaker 1: every single day I'd tell her, you may have a
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Speaker 1: snack as long as it's and I quote something easy. Well,
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Speaker 1: she was happy, she'd march off, and then I'd find
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Speaker 1: her ten minutes later, sitting on the kitchen counter surrounded
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Speaker 1: by peanut butter, honey, a bag of bread, apples, our
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Speaker 1: apple peeler, a big butter knife, a two liter of
9:01
Speaker 1: diet coke with floaties in it because she's been drinking
9:04
Speaker 1: from the bottle, and a cart and of strawberries. See
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Speaker 1: this is because Tessa's idea of something easy and my
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Speaker 1: idea of something easy, they are completely different. They live
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Speaker 1: on entirely different, different planes of existence. And every single
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Speaker 1: day I fell for this. Well, when I'd see that,
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Speaker 1: I just see this chaotic mess, I'd say, darn it, Tessa,
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Speaker 1: I said something easy, right. We talked about this yesterday
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Speaker 1: and the day before. I never meant that you could
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Speaker 1: go and eat everything we have in the house every
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Speaker 1: single day. And then, of course when you do that,
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Speaker 1: she'd start crying. And then out of the corner of
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Speaker 1: my eye, I'd see Andrew's hand shoot up in the air,
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Speaker 1: and before I could call on him, he just blurt out,
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Speaker 1: I'm confused. Is darn it a bad word? And as
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Speaker 1: I'd stare at him, wondering why We've got to have
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Speaker 1: this conversation yet again, Caleb would ask for a snack.
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Speaker 1: You know how this goes. I'd say, no, no, I
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Speaker 1: just cleaned up multiple breakfasts, multiple snacks. We can wait
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Speaker 1: till lunch. I'd explained that all of that we just
10:09
Speaker 1: need to settle. Let's just enjoy our day. Lunch is
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Speaker 1: only an hour away. And he took that like a
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Speaker 1: grown up, right, not a chance, broke down crying how
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Speaker 1: come Tessa gets one, but I can never have a snack. Well,
10:21
Speaker 1: as I'm staring him down, Mom hollers up from the basement,
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Speaker 1: So what is the weather like? How cold is it? Anyway?
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Speaker 1: That was spring break twenty ten and we're traveling back,
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Speaker 1: so that was the past close it in on the
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Speaker 1: present and here we are to blu bloop, back in
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Speaker 1: good old twenty twenty four. And now it's time for
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Speaker 1: the paint point, or basically, as I said, the real
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Speaker 1: life point. And I think what I'm gonna do is
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the real life point on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the break. So you got the big fun story.
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Speaker 1: It's Labor Day. We're just kicking back here on the show.
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Speaker 1: You got the fun story. We're gonna take a break.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, I'll get to the paint point,
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Speaker 1: the real life point. That's all just ahead, stick around,
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Speaker 1: and we're back. You're listening to the repcol Light Home
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Speaker 1: improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and it's kind of
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Speaker 1: a weird one this week, kind of a weird one.
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Speaker 1: I had intended to do a best of episode because
11:25
Speaker 1: it's the Labor Day weekend and everybody's busy doing all
11:29
Speaker 1: kinds of last minute fun things, and maybe there's not
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Speaker 1: a ton of listeners out there, so I'm going to
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Speaker 1: do a best of. Well, I decided I did have
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Speaker 1: one thing, one brief thing I wanted to say, and
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Speaker 1: I was going to put that at the beginning the
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Speaker 1: open of the show, the paint point, the real life
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Speaker 1: point for the week and a little and behold, I
11:48
Speaker 1: rambled on and on, and by the time I'm done
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Speaker 1: with this point, I'm going to have eaten up half
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Speaker 1: the show. Anyway, last segment, I walked you through pretty
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Speaker 1: much what my spring break in twenty ten look like
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Speaker 1: with all the little kids in the house. You know
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Speaker 1: how that played out. And now it's time to get
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Speaker 1: to the actual paint point, the real life point. And
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Speaker 1: here it is. I just completed another vacation with those
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Speaker 1: exact same kids. It's fourteen years later, but the same kids.
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Speaker 1: We went up north. We spent some time on Mackinac Island,
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Speaker 1: and then a week at a cottage on Bert Lake.
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Speaker 1: And those kids, those same kids that I just described.
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Speaker 1: They helped me prepare each meal. They helped me clean
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Speaker 1: up everything. When we were done everything, they ate normal snacks,
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Speaker 1: they cleaned up their messes. Nobody played any video games,
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Speaker 1: and nobody cried about not being able to play any
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Speaker 1: video games. We worked together. Every one of us had
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Speaker 1: their own particular job, you know, vacum and garbage duty,
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Speaker 1: the chooser of the movies that we would watch, the
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Speaker 1: Toilet Bowl, scrubber, on and on. We worked together, and
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Speaker 1: because of that, we had a lot of time to
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Speaker 1: do a lot of fun stuff. Swimming, hiking, sitting and talking. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: talking talking, not whiny conversations about who got to do
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Speaker 1: this or who didn't get to do that or whatever,
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Speaker 1: but actual, full blown, real life, grown up conversations. You know.
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Speaker 1: We talked about stories that we wanted to write, We
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Speaker 1: talked about interesting things that we read in books. We
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Speaker 1: talked about what happened at church or whatever, you know.
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Speaker 1: And then every day, every single day ended with all
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Speaker 1: of us laying on this large swimming dock at about
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Speaker 1: ten o'clock or so at night, and we'd lay out
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Speaker 1: there for an hour or more watching the stars come out.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we just sat there, and sometimes we'd laugh and
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Speaker 1: laugh and laugh and then try to be quiet, which
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Speaker 1: makes you laugh a little more, you know, because it's
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Speaker 1: quiet time out there. But we didn't disturb anybody, I
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Speaker 1: don't think. I think we did fine. But a ton
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Speaker 1: of fun, ton of fun. Those little people that drove
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Speaker 1: me nuts way back in twenty ten, you know, they're
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Speaker 1: now some of my favorite people in the whole wide world.
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Speaker 1: And I guess you know, it'd be fair. Of course
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Speaker 1: they always were my favorite people. I owe, we love them.
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Speaker 1: They were always great. But now they're actually earning that
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Speaker 1: title of favorite people. So okay, In all of that,
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Speaker 1: in all of that, blah blah blah, what's the real
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Speaker 1: life point? What am I getting at? I guess to me,
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Speaker 1: it feels it's obvious and it's nothing new. It's not
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Speaker 1: rocket science. Probably everybody out there already knows it, and
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Speaker 1: I'm just wasting your time on a Saturday, But maybe
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Speaker 1: somebody needs to hear it. Your busy, crazy life with
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Speaker 1: little kids is going to fly by. You know, old people.
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Speaker 1: Old people say it all the time, right, that's all
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Speaker 1: we hear about. Talk to mom, you talk to your grandma.
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Speaker 1: They just talk about how time flies. Well, now I'm
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Speaker 1: aging myself because I'm saying it now, the time literally flies.
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Speaker 1: Back in twenty ten, I really don't know if I
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Speaker 1: would have believed, you know, if somebody came and told
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Speaker 1: me that fourteen years later, fourteen years down the road,
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Speaker 1: my little family's going to be functioning so tightly as
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Speaker 1: a group. If somebody told me that that the kids
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Speaker 1: were going to be working hard and getting along and
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Speaker 1: always having each other's backs you know, I don't know
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Speaker 1: that I would have really believed that. You know, back then,
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Speaker 1: I did laugh about the crazy times, you know, to
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Speaker 1: be fair to myself, I laughed about those crazy times.
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Speaker 1: I laughed about those crazy days. But they really were crazy.
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Speaker 1: They really were exhausting. I remember that they really left
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Speaker 1: me wondering how I was going to make it through.
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Speaker 1: But you know, in the end, I did. And now,
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Speaker 1: this past Saturday, my daughter Maddie moved out of the
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Speaker 1: house so she could spend a year living with a
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Speaker 1: good friend before Mattie gets married. She's engaged. We got
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Speaker 1: all kinds of big changes coming up on the horizon,
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Speaker 1: and you know, Maddie decided to move in with a friend.
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Speaker 1: She's living nearby, you know, with one of her best
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Speaker 1: friends from high school. And I know they're living it up.
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Speaker 1: They're doing girl things, they're having fun. But there's an
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Speaker 1: empty room at the end of the hallway now, and
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Speaker 1: I do not like that. You know, it's tough. I'm
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Speaker 1: happy for her. I'm excited to see her grow and
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Speaker 1: mature and all those things. And I hope she's not
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Speaker 1: fighting about video games with her friend Mallory, and I
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Speaker 1: hope she's not incessantly snacking in all of those things,
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Speaker 1: But man, that empty room, that is something else, you know.
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Speaker 1: Right now, I keep the door closed so I don't
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Speaker 1: have to see it. I've talked about it on the
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Speaker 1: show before, how and I'm sure all of you do that.
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Speaker 1: It's not like this is something I alone do. But
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Speaker 1: sometimes the kids' rooms can get a little out of hand.
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Speaker 1: They're a little messy, so I'll make sure I shut
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Speaker 1: those doors. There was one room in particular that I
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Speaker 1: would if the door was open, and I would see
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Speaker 1: that it was open, I would sneak down the hallway
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Speaker 1: looking the other way, and reach and paw until I
16:34
Speaker 1: got my hand on the handle the doorknob, and then
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Speaker 1: I could pull the door shut and never actually see
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Speaker 1: what was in that room, you know. So I've done that.
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Speaker 1: I've blocked those rooms off because they're messy and I
16:43
Speaker 1: don't want to see them. But this one, this room,
16:46
Speaker 1: Maddie's room, is so it's completely barren, it's completely empty,
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Speaker 1: and I hate that look even more so I keep
16:53
Speaker 1: that door closed too. So anyway, what am I getting at?
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Speaker 1: I guess all I'm trying to say is, if you're
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, your present day. Your today looks kind
17:04
Speaker 1: of like are a little bit like what I described
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Speaker 1: my twenty ten. You know what my twenty ten look like.
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Speaker 1: If you see some comparisons, there are some similarities. I
17:13
Speaker 1: just want to let you know, hang in there. If
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Speaker 1: you're dealing with little kids and they're driving you crazy
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Speaker 1: and you're exhausted, hang in there. It all comes around
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Speaker 1: in the end. You know. If you've got a son
17:23
Speaker 1: or a daughter who's feeling overwhelmed with the crazy of
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Speaker 1: raising a family or making a home, just remind them
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Speaker 1: it does ease up. And most importantly, we joked about
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Speaker 1: going back in time, and I use little sound effects
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Speaker 1: and all of that, But if I could go back
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Speaker 1: in time and tell tell myself something, you know, if
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Speaker 1: I really could do that, I'd tell myself to pause,
17:42
Speaker 1: you know, hit the pause button, take a deep breath,
17:45
Speaker 1: stop worrying so much about everything, and just enjoy all
17:50
Speaker 1: of these crazy times, you know, enjoy everything. I tell myself,
17:54
Speaker 1: Enjoy everything about the little kids at those ages and
17:56
Speaker 1: at every age as they grow up. It's just there's
17:59
Speaker 1: so much to be had in that. If you really
18:02
Speaker 1: can can can you know, pull it out of it
18:04
Speaker 1: and pay attention to it. I think I did a
18:05
Speaker 1: pretty good job with that, but I do know that
18:08
Speaker 1: I spent way too much time wishing they were older,
18:11
Speaker 1: thinking that was gonna make it easier and things would
18:14
Speaker 1: be smoother, and in some instances some cases it does.
18:17
Speaker 1: But you know, their problems get bigger too as they
18:20
Speaker 1: get older, and they're harder to solve. So I guess
18:23
Speaker 1: I just wish I hadn't spent so much time wishing
18:27
Speaker 1: away certain days and I had just stopped and enjoyed more.
18:31
Speaker 1: All right. I don't know if that says anything to
18:34
Speaker 1: anybody out there, or if I've just wasted your Saturday
18:36
Speaker 1: morning or part of your Saturday morning, but you know,
18:39
Speaker 1: whether it speaks to you or not, that's the paint point.
18:41
Speaker 1: That's the real life point for the week. Like it
18:44
Speaker 1: or lump it, that's what I've got. All Right, We're
18:46
Speaker 1: gonna take a break, and when we come back, I've
18:48
Speaker 1: got the toughest George job of the summer, and it's
18:52
Speaker 1: the last one that's all coming up. Stick around. Hello, Hey, howdy,
19:04
Speaker 1: we're back. Everybody can breathe a sigh of relief. You
19:08
Speaker 1: made it through all those you know, all those commercials
19:10
Speaker 1: maybe you had a bathroom break, you know, who knows what.
19:13
Speaker 1: You probably reheated your coffee. Whatever, you did all of that,
19:17
Speaker 1: and now you can settle back down and just soak
19:20
Speaker 1: in the radio goodness. You're listening to the repolite Home
19:23
Speaker 1: improvement Show. And yeah, I am over hyping things quite
19:28
Speaker 1: a bit. I kind of feel badly about this week.
19:32
Speaker 1: I don't have as many projects or home improvement topics
19:35
Speaker 1: as I normally try to have. I haven't even done
19:37
Speaker 1: I don't think I've done any No, I haven't done
19:39
Speaker 1: any paint stuff yet. I've said the word paint several times,
19:43
Speaker 1: but I really don't think that counts. Yeah, normally, even
19:47
Speaker 1: when the entertainment industry produces something that is, you know,
19:51
Speaker 1: verifiable garbage. Even when they do that, and even when
19:55
Speaker 1: they know that it's verifiably garbage, they still make nice,
19:59
Speaker 1: shiny commercials about it and sell it as gold. And
20:03
Speaker 1: for the sake of transparency, I refuse to do that.
20:06
Speaker 1: I think this particular episode has potential, but I understand
20:11
Speaker 1: this one might not be for you. All Right, enough
20:13
Speaker 1: of that, it's time for the George job for the week.
20:16
Speaker 1: In fact, this is the last George job of the
20:18
Speaker 1: summer and very very quickly. A George job. It's just
20:22
Speaker 1: a small job that you can tackle around the house
20:25
Speaker 1: that will help you start to feel in control of things.
20:28
Speaker 1: If you feel out of control. George jobs are geared
20:31
Speaker 1: to help you feel like, Okay, you're gaining some control.
20:34
Speaker 1: It'll help you gain some momentum and maybe it will hopefully,
20:37
Speaker 1: you know, propel you forward and help you accomplish more
20:40
Speaker 1: and more projects down the road. That was the idea. Well,
20:44
Speaker 1: this particular George job that I've saved for the last
20:47
Speaker 1: turns out to be the most difficult one of them all,
20:51
Speaker 1: I think. So anyway, I do, and I'm giving it
20:54
Speaker 1: to you on Labor Day weekend. And that's kind of
20:57
Speaker 1: like I understand this. It's kind of like getting under
21:00
Speaker 1: wear for Christmas. You know, when you're a kid. When
21:02
Speaker 1: you're grown up, you thank God that you got underwear
21:05
Speaker 1: for Christmas. Thank goodness, I don't have to wear what
21:08
Speaker 1: I was wearing. But when you're a kid kind of
21:10
Speaker 1: feels like getting you know, a big, complicated George job
21:13
Speaker 1: on Labor Day weekend. You know, that's what it feels like.
21:15
Speaker 1: But with all that said, I'm still going to require
21:19
Speaker 1: as much as I have the power to require anyone,
21:22
Speaker 1: I'm going to require that you all do this job,
21:25
Speaker 1: every single one of you. And yes, this is a
21:29
Speaker 1: project every one of us needs to do around our homes.
21:32
Speaker 1: And originally I thought it was going to be a
21:35
Speaker 1: super easy one. I really thought I was giving everybody
21:37
Speaker 1: a break. But it turns out it was really tough
21:40
Speaker 1: for me. Here's the deal. I was on vacation this week.
21:44
Speaker 1: You know, this past week or so, I talked about
21:47
Speaker 1: that ad nauseum. You've heard about it, You're sick of it.
21:49
Speaker 1: But when I came home, I can't tell you how
21:52
Speaker 1: bummed I was, you know, not just about coming home
21:55
Speaker 1: and having vacation, you know, be over. But I got
21:58
Speaker 1: home and I was completely overwhelmed. You know. I got
22:01
Speaker 1: out of the truck and the very first thing I
22:03
Speaker 1: see is that the yard, of course, hasn't been mowed
22:06
Speaker 1: in ten days, and it looks knee deep. You know,
22:09
Speaker 1: that's going to be a huge project. And then I
22:12
Speaker 1: walk into the house and I noticed that weird house smell,
22:14
Speaker 1: you know that I was talking about last week. I
22:16
Speaker 1: noticed that I kind of made light of it on
22:18
Speaker 1: the show, but it was it was gut level, depressing, disappointing,
22:24
Speaker 1: whatever word you want to use. It hit me right
22:26
Speaker 1: between the eyes, and it was eye opening and sad,
22:30
Speaker 1: to say the least. Anyway, from there, we start unpacking,
22:33
Speaker 1: and then I realized how cluttered certain parts of the
22:35
Speaker 1: house are, And for some reason, I noticed it as
22:38
Speaker 1: I was putting our gear and stuff away. You know,
22:40
Speaker 1: I hadn't noticed it before. I'm noticing it now. Then
22:43
Speaker 1: I start mowing and I see the flower beds. Oh
22:47
Speaker 1: my goodness, the flower beds. Sweet mercy, the flower beds.
22:51
Speaker 1: Weeds have moved in. They've displaced everything there, even the dirt.
22:56
Speaker 1: I think it's like a mini jungle, and it's everywhere
23:00
Speaker 1: because I've got so many flower beds. The previous owners,
23:05
Speaker 1: I guess, lived to have flowers and huge flower beds,
23:08
Speaker 1: and now I'm living with those those big flower beds,
23:12
Speaker 1: and I cannot keep up on them. So I've got that.
23:15
Speaker 1: On top of that, the squirrels have gone absolutely crazy
23:19
Speaker 1: over all of the hickory nuts in our trees. You know,
23:21
Speaker 1: They've covered almost every square inch of earth that I
23:24
Speaker 1: own with these munched up, crunched up shells. Sharp, they're pointy.
23:30
Speaker 1: It looks terrible so frustrating, so overwhelming. Depressing is a
23:34
Speaker 1: strong word, but that's the one coming to mind right now. Anyway,
23:38
Speaker 1: as I'm mowing, I'm looking at all of that, and
23:41
Speaker 1: I'm remembering the little cottage that we've been staying at,
23:43
Speaker 1: you know, the little cottage on bert Lake at Bert Lake,
23:47
Speaker 1: that we could you know, deep clean. We could deep
23:49
Speaker 1: clean that thing in like twenty minutes. I was thinking
23:52
Speaker 1: about the small yard that was pristine, that was immaculate,
23:55
Speaker 1: the flower beds that had get this flowers in them.
24:00
Speaker 1: You know, as I thought about all of that, I
24:02
Speaker 1: really I became frustrated. I've said that, overwhelmed with my
24:06
Speaker 1: house and all the work that I've got to do.
24:09
Speaker 1: You know, I get caught up, and then all of
24:11
Speaker 1: a sudden boom, a week of life happens and it
24:13
Speaker 1: feels like I'm miles and miles behind. And really the
24:16
Speaker 1: sad thing here is that that's just the outdoor stuff.
24:19
Speaker 1: Inside there are projects coming out of my ears. You
24:22
Speaker 1: know about some of them, You know about a lot
24:24
Speaker 1: of them, but I keep a lot of them, you know,
24:27
Speaker 1: kind of close to the vest here. You don't know
24:29
Speaker 1: about everything. The house. It's not a big house, it's
24:33
Speaker 1: just a ranch, but it does kind of feel big.
24:35
Speaker 1: You know. It feels like a lot of work, that's
24:37
Speaker 1: for sure, And it feels overwhelming, like I said, And honestly,
24:40
Speaker 1: most importantly, I guess when I really think about it,
24:43
Speaker 1: it's it's embarrassing. You know, I work with paint. For
24:46
Speaker 1: heaven's sake, I do this show. I should have, you know,
24:50
Speaker 1: a better handle on all of this. I see people
24:53
Speaker 1: online all the time, customers who are seemingly perfect. You know,
24:58
Speaker 1: they're painting mudrooms, they're not going to walls, they're wallpapering ceilings,
25:01
Speaker 1: they're installing hardwood floorists. For heaven's sake, these people are
25:04
Speaker 1: amazing to me. And I feel terrible that I'm not
25:07
Speaker 1: doing more, that I'm not doing better. So I'm mowing
25:10
Speaker 1: the yard. I've got a point, trust me, just right
25:12
Speaker 1: with me. It's Labor Day weekend. We're just kind of
25:15
Speaker 1: strolling through the show this week. I'm mowing the yard,
25:18
Speaker 1: and after coming home from vacation, all of this is
25:21
Speaker 1: going through my mind. And I decided at that point,
25:23
Speaker 1: as I'm owing that I've got forty more George jobs
25:27
Speaker 1: to tackle and talk about on the radio. And then
25:29
Speaker 1: as that thought's going through my mind. A sudden shaft
25:31
Speaker 1: of light hits me. I hear angels sing, you know,
25:34
Speaker 1: the clouds part angels sing, and I have an epiphany
25:38
Speaker 1: and I realized that, you know, yes, I've got a
25:40
Speaker 1: lot of George jobs to tackle, but there was one
25:42
Speaker 1: that I needed to do first, and I knew right
25:44
Speaker 1: then that it would be the last one that I
25:47
Speaker 1: talk about on the radio. And like I said, it
25:49
Speaker 1: turned out to be really tough for me, tougher than
25:50
Speaker 1: it should have been. But I needed to do it,
25:52
Speaker 1: and I need to keep doing it, and you need
25:55
Speaker 1: to do it too. Now, I've spent a long time
25:57
Speaker 1: building up to this, trying to kind of set scene here,
26:00
Speaker 1: but here's the George job. You've got to go and
26:03
Speaker 1: make a list of ten to fifteen things about your
26:07
Speaker 1: home that you absolutely love. It's the opposite of pretty
26:11
Speaker 1: much anything I think I've ever said on the show.
26:14
Speaker 1: Don't add anything to that list that's even slightly frustrating
26:18
Speaker 1: to you about your space. Don't add anything that needs
26:21
Speaker 1: to be fixed before you like it. You know, when
26:24
Speaker 1: you moved into your home, most likely you saw all
26:27
Speaker 1: the work that needed doing, and yet yet despite that,
26:31
Speaker 1: you still fell in love with the place, right. I
26:33
Speaker 1: think we forget that, you know, over time, as the
26:36
Speaker 1: years go by, we forget about that, you know, the
26:38
Speaker 1: first love, those moments, you know, when we first see
26:41
Speaker 1: our house. If you like home improvement, if you're big
26:44
Speaker 1: into painting, if you follow people who do all of
26:47
Speaker 1: this work in their own homes, you most likely find
26:50
Speaker 1: yourself slipping into home envy. I would think a lot
26:54
Speaker 1: of us do. Anyway. I can't speak for everybody, but
26:56
Speaker 1: a lot of us probably slip into home envy or
26:58
Speaker 1: home frustration. You know, we envy their homes or were
27:01
Speaker 1: really frustrated about ours, something along those lines. If you're
27:04
Speaker 1: constantly watching what these people do, and if that's something
27:07
Speaker 1: you kind of like to do, If all you do
27:10
Speaker 1: is look at the work that you've got to do
27:11
Speaker 1: around the house, what's really easy to lose the happiness
27:15
Speaker 1: and the fun that goes with having a house, or
27:18
Speaker 1: at least to let the peace and joy fade a
27:20
Speaker 1: little bit or be tarnished. I've sure done it. In fact,
27:23
Speaker 1: when I was mowing after getting home from vacation, I'm
27:26
Speaker 1: walking around thinking I just needed to move, I needed
27:28
Speaker 1: to start over, start fresh, you know, a clean burn,
27:32
Speaker 1: and we'll just rebuild. You know, my ridiculous brain told
27:34
Speaker 1: me that if I just started fresh, then it would
27:37
Speaker 1: be okay. You know, that's so dumb for so many reasons.
27:41
Speaker 1: One of them, the primary reason, is that the only
27:44
Speaker 1: problems with the house are problems that I've caused, either
27:48
Speaker 1: by action or inaction. You know, I'm the problem. Wherever
27:52
Speaker 1: I go, there goes my problem. So just starting over
27:56
Speaker 1: that's not going to fix anything. Secondly, I love this
27:59
Speaker 1: house when we moved in. I've just lost sight of
28:02
Speaker 1: that because I'm trying to compete, you know, in my
28:04
Speaker 1: own mind, maybe with the experts, the influencers, the designers
28:08
Speaker 1: that I'm seeing that you're seeing in social media, you know,
28:11
Speaker 1: on and on and on. It's good to drive yourself
28:14
Speaker 1: to be better. That's a good thing, but you know,
28:16
Speaker 1: that's a losing game for me in a lot of ways.
28:18
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of other things that I've got
28:20
Speaker 1: to do. I work. I have a job, you know,
28:22
Speaker 1: forty forty eight forty whatever hours a week. I've got
28:25
Speaker 1: five kids, two dogs. I do a lot of the cooking,
28:28
Speaker 1: all of the cooking. You get it, you know, you
28:31
Speaker 1: do the same thing you do all of that. Everybody
28:33
Speaker 1: out there has a life and we live into that
28:36
Speaker 1: and those are the things that take priority. We don't
28:38
Speaker 1: have lots of extra bonus time. So anyway, I started
28:41
Speaker 1: looking at my house as I mowed, and I started
28:43
Speaker 1: trying to come up with the things that I loved,
28:46
Speaker 1: you know, just as they were, without needing to have
28:48
Speaker 1: lots of changes made. And it was a really simple
28:50
Speaker 1: exercise in gratefulness. And crazy enough, it's not always easy
28:55
Speaker 1: to be grateful, but it does get easier as you go.
28:58
Speaker 1: So I started looking at my yard. That's that's right,
29:00
Speaker 1: you know, began looking because that's what I was doing.
29:02
Speaker 1: I was mowing, and I realized how glad I was
29:05
Speaker 1: when I found this house thirteen years ago or so,
29:07
Speaker 1: and it had such a beautiful, big yard. You know,
29:10
Speaker 1: the kids spent a lot of years playing baseball, tossing
29:13
Speaker 1: a football around and just running around out here. We
29:16
Speaker 1: came from a house in town and Zealand that had
29:19
Speaker 1: like a postage stamp sized yard and the kids could
29:22
Speaker 1: barely do anything out there. Now, when we moved here,
29:25
Speaker 1: we didn't need to go to the park to play.
29:27
Speaker 1: The park was outside our front door. Yes, it's work
29:30
Speaker 1: work to maintain that yard. But I love that about
29:33
Speaker 1: the house. I still do. So there we go. There
29:35
Speaker 1: was a good thing that I found that made me
29:37
Speaker 1: feel better about what I was monkeying with. You know,
29:39
Speaker 1: as I'm mowing, then I'm looking around, and I noticed
29:42
Speaker 1: the old fifties brick that makes up, you know, the
29:45
Speaker 1: bulk of our house. It's an old ranch house. It's
29:47
Speaker 1: nothing special, nothing special. You've heard the rest of my house.
29:50
Speaker 1: You know, it's nothing special. But I remembered as I
29:53
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, you know, trying to make my list,
29:56
Speaker 1: I remembered that when we were looking for houses, for
29:58
Speaker 1: some reason, I can't expec but for some reason, my
30:01
Speaker 1: dream house is a brick ranch with a big yard.
30:03
Speaker 1: You know, that's what I wanted. I always called them
30:05
Speaker 1: little Grandpa and Grandma houses, you know, the little brick
30:08
Speaker 1: houses that you see with those gazing globes or whatever
30:11
Speaker 1: those things are called in the flower beds. You know,
30:13
Speaker 1: I don't have the gazing globe, but I've got the
30:15
Speaker 1: brick ranch. I've got exactly what i'd been looking for.
30:18
Speaker 1: I'd just kind of forgotten about it. Then I thought about,
30:21
Speaker 1: you know, all the space that we've got inside yes,
30:24
Speaker 1: it's a lot of area to clean, but I've got
30:26
Speaker 1: five kids, and there are times, even though we get along,
30:29
Speaker 1: there are times where it's really nice that everybody can
30:32
Speaker 1: wander off to a different part of the house and
30:34
Speaker 1: just crash there without being stacked on top of anybody else.
30:37
Speaker 1: You know. Again, at our old house, we were all
30:39
Speaker 1: stacked in like we were trying to make space saving
30:42
Speaker 1: an Olympics sport. Now we can expand we can breathe
30:45
Speaker 1: a little without, you know, having to smell everybody around us.
30:49
Speaker 1: I could go on and on. I sat down and
30:51
Speaker 1: I made a long list of the things that I
30:53
Speaker 1: love about my place, and it was really really helpful.
30:56
Speaker 1: It walked me kind of off the crazy ledge and
30:58
Speaker 1: I realized I had a pretty good thing going here.
31:01
Speaker 1: I realized that even if I'm not cranking out project
31:04
Speaker 1: after project, I still have a good place to live
31:07
Speaker 1: and raise a family. And for me, when I did that,
31:09
Speaker 1: some of the stress and anxiety faded just a bit. Now,
31:12
Speaker 1: I know it's sappy, I know it's touchy feely, blah
31:15
Speaker 1: blah blah, all of that stuff. To make up lists
31:18
Speaker 1: about what you like about your home or your kitchen
31:20
Speaker 1: or your bathroom or whatever is really weighing you down.
31:22
Speaker 1: I know that's a little sappy, and I know people
31:25
Speaker 1: out there. I know because I get people. There's a
31:28
Speaker 1: group of you thinking that this is ridiculous. You know,
31:31
Speaker 1: what good does that do? It's just feel goods? You know,
31:34
Speaker 1: how does that help you get anything done? Well? To
31:36
Speaker 1: those people, and you know that's usually how my brain
31:39
Speaker 1: would work as well, So to those people. To me,
31:41
Speaker 1: I'd say, look, am I really lacking in lists of
31:45
Speaker 1: things that I hate or want to change about my house?
31:48
Speaker 1: Is that something I'm lacking? Well? For me, no, I
31:51
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I've got an abundance of
31:54
Speaker 1: those lists. I know what annoys me, and I know
31:56
Speaker 1: what I'd like to change. But when it came to
31:58
Speaker 1: the things that I love about my house, even you know,
32:00
Speaker 1: in their current states of imperfection, when it came to
32:03
Speaker 1: those lists, well I really had to dig and reach
32:06
Speaker 1: for them. They were there, and they were really good
32:08
Speaker 1: when I found them, but they weren't the first things
32:11
Speaker 1: in my mind. And you know, while lists of projects
32:13
Speaker 1: to tackle and fix are good, you've got to have them.
32:16
Speaker 1: They help you get things done. I really do think
32:18
Speaker 1: that taking a quick break and just recentering yourself and
32:22
Speaker 1: kind of reconnecting with all of the good stuff that
32:24
Speaker 1: you've got going on. Doing that, that is a nice
32:27
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. So that's your George job for
32:29
Speaker 1: the week. It was a long one, long winded one.
32:32
Speaker 1: It's labor Day weekend. We're just having fun here and
32:34
Speaker 1: everybody has to do that job. I'm requiring it, sending
32:38
Speaker 1: around people to double check on you later this week.
32:41
Speaker 1: Ten to fifteen things that you love about your house
32:43
Speaker 1: as is. Do that, take the time to do it,
32:45
Speaker 1: and I promise, as much as anybody can promise, you
32:48
Speaker 1: know on the radio, I promise you're going to feel
32:50
Speaker 1: a lot better about your home. And feeling better really
32:53
Speaker 1: about your home energizes us to jump in and start
32:56
Speaker 1: making the changes that we want to see accomplished down
32:58
Speaker 1: the road. All right, let's stop there, take a break.
33:02
Speaker 1: When we come back, I've got a very quick list
33:04
Speaker 1: of simple must have tools that you need to budget
33:06
Speaker 1: for and acquire. That's all coming up next. Stay right
33:09
Speaker 1: there and we're back. And yeah, I admit it, it's
33:18
Speaker 1: been a bit of a lightweight episode. A lot of
33:20
Speaker 1: touchy feely stuff, a lot of stuff I don't really
33:23
Speaker 1: know how to categorize. You're listening to the Repco Light
33:26
Speaker 1: Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and really, really,
33:30
Speaker 1: I'm just taking it a bit easy on you guys
33:32
Speaker 1: out there and on me because it's Labor Day, right,
33:36
Speaker 1: It's the last big holiday we're going to get before Thanksgiving,
33:39
Speaker 1: at least a lot of us. Some of us will
33:40
Speaker 1: get some extra sprinkled in there, But for me at least,
33:44
Speaker 1: I think Thanksgiving is the next one I get to
33:46
Speaker 1: enjoy if I make it that far. But even though
33:49
Speaker 1: we've been having fun, we can't phone it in for
33:51
Speaker 1: the whole episode. So let's get serious. Let's get our
33:53
Speaker 1: serious faces on for this last segment, and let's talk
33:57
Speaker 1: about a few tools that you absolutely you'd budget for
34:01
Speaker 1: and then add to your arsenal at home if you
34:03
Speaker 1: don't already have them. They're not stunners. They're not new
34:06
Speaker 1: things that you've never heard of. You're not going to
34:08
Speaker 1: gasp and just be stunned by the brilliance, you know,
34:11
Speaker 1: flowing over the airwaves. But if you don't have these things,
34:15
Speaker 1: I really think you can't go wrong. So here they
34:17
Speaker 1: are utterly simple and straightforward. You need to pick up
34:20
Speaker 1: an air compressor, you need to get a trim nailer,
34:23
Speaker 1: and you need to acquire a tire inflator with a gauge.
34:27
Speaker 1: You know, all these things that will work with that
34:28
Speaker 1: air compressor. All right, let's break it down. When it
34:31
Speaker 1: comes to air compressors. There are you know, tons of
34:34
Speaker 1: options out there, and really what you should get is
34:37
Speaker 1: going to depend on what you want to do with it.
34:41
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into all of that here.
34:42
Speaker 1: I'm going to devote a segment in the next few
34:44
Speaker 1: weeks to talking about air compressors and all the different
34:47
Speaker 1: options and will go really in depth on it and
34:49
Speaker 1: help you figure out which one's best for you depending
34:52
Speaker 1: on what you want to do with it. In this segment,
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Speaker 1: I'm really just talking about typical home use, you know,
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Speaker 1: inflating some tires, nailing up trim, things like that. If
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Speaker 1: you're just going to be doing the basics, you can
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Speaker 1: find small pancake air compressors for under one hundred bucks. Now,
35:07
Speaker 1: these don't have huge tank capacity, so they're going to
35:10
Speaker 1: run more often, they won't run as many tools at
35:12
Speaker 1: the same time, things like that, but they're small and light,
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Speaker 1: they're easy to transport, and they will do the basics
35:19
Speaker 1: that most people need from time to time, So snag
35:22
Speaker 1: one of those, a pancake air compressor or an air
35:24
Speaker 1: compressor of any kind. Snag it through the legal exchange
35:27
Speaker 1: of currency, want to be clear, and then when you
35:30
Speaker 1: do that, if you do any amount of projects around
35:32
Speaker 1: your home, make sure that you grab a nail gun
35:35
Speaker 1: to go with it. Just like compressors, there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of different options out there. Pin nailers, brad nailers,
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Speaker 1: trim finish nailers all will fire different gauge nails and
35:44
Speaker 1: you really do need to do a little research on
35:46
Speaker 1: that to make sure you pick up the one that's
35:48
Speaker 1: most suited to the projects you tackle. And again, just
35:51
Speaker 1: like the compressors, will devote a segment to that in
35:53
Speaker 1: the future and kind of dig through it. But with
35:56
Speaker 1: that said, these nail guns, they generally can be picked
35:59
Speaker 1: up or anywhere from thirty bucks on up. Going out
36:02
Speaker 1: cheapo isn't always the wisest way to go, but if
36:05
Speaker 1: you're only going to use it once in a while,
36:07
Speaker 1: that might help you be able to acquire a couple
36:10
Speaker 1: different ones so you can cover more projects either way,
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Speaker 1: look into that, look into getting a nail gun for
36:15
Speaker 1: your air compressor. You got to get that air compressor first.
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Speaker 1: Nail gun is not going to work. You can't put
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Speaker 1: the hose on and just blow through it and hope
36:22
Speaker 1: for the best. You need the air compressor, right, that's first,
36:26
Speaker 1: then the nail gun on top of that. The next
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Speaker 1: thing you should acquire. The next must have tool is
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Speaker 1: a tire inflator with a gauge. With a tire gauge.
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Speaker 1: That's important. And really, when I think about it, I
36:39
Speaker 1: might I probably should have put this in before the
36:44
Speaker 1: nail gun. I think it's more important than the nail gun.
36:46
Speaker 1: You know, when I got my compressor, I used that
36:48
Speaker 1: nail gun that I bought on a number of different projects,
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Speaker 1: a lot of projects, and it really simplified the work.
36:54
Speaker 1: It sped things along. I was able to work faster,
36:57
Speaker 1: more professionally, and all of that with a nailer. So
36:59
Speaker 1: if you do that kind of work, like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's great, it's important you love it. But we all
37:04
Speaker 1: have tires. We've all got car tires, spare tires, bike tires,
37:08
Speaker 1: lawnmower tires, wheelbarrow tires. We've got all these tires. And
37:12
Speaker 1: if there're anything like mine, most of them are constantly
37:16
Speaker 1: in need of tweaking. You know the other day. For example,
37:19
Speaker 1: just the other day, my daughter called me that she
37:21
Speaker 1: had a flat tire. So I get that call and
37:23
Speaker 1: I drive home intending to fill it up. I knew
37:25
Speaker 1: I had that compressor, but all the way home, I'm
37:28
Speaker 1: trying to remember where my tire gauge was. I have
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Speaker 1: like four of them, five of them. I don't even
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Speaker 1: know how many, but nobody knows where they are, me included.
37:36
Speaker 1: It's just it's like the Bermuda triangle. When things come
37:39
Speaker 1: to my house, who knows where they go. We use
37:41
Speaker 1: them once and that's it. So I'm driving home thinking
37:43
Speaker 1: up a plan where to start looking. But turns out
37:46
Speaker 1: I was even smarter than I give myself credit for,
37:49
Speaker 1: because almost a year ago, based on a recommendation that
37:52
Speaker 1: we literally gave out on this very show, I bought
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Speaker 1: a tire inflator for the compressor with a tire gauge
37:58
Speaker 1: built into it. So I got that phone call from
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Speaker 1: Maddie and in ten minutes, the tire was inflated to
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Speaker 1: the right pressure and she was able to drive it
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Speaker 1: to the shop to get it fixed. Buying an air
38:08
Speaker 1: compressor and a nailer and a tire gauge. I know
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Speaker 1: that's not really the pinnacle of excitement. Very few of
38:14
Speaker 1: us rush home to unbox those items, you know, just
38:17
Speaker 1: so we can stare at them and marvel at them.
38:19
Speaker 1: But I speak from experience here. When you get that
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Speaker 1: flat tire call and you can go home and solve
38:24
Speaker 1: that in minutes, that's pretty great. When you decide to
38:28
Speaker 1: finish installing the trim in your bathroom or wherever, and
38:31
Speaker 1: you've got the nailer and the compressor, you're gonna find
38:34
Speaker 1: it's a lot more fun than you may think. Now,
38:36
Speaker 1: these are tools you're not going to use every single day,
38:38
Speaker 1: but when you need them, you're going to be thrilled
38:40
Speaker 1: that you've got them. All Right, that's it. That's all
38:42
Speaker 1: the time we've got. We're gonna have to wrap this
38:44
Speaker 1: one up. Before I completely send you all off to
38:46
Speaker 1: have a great Labor Day weekend, I want to let
38:48
Speaker 1: you know that we're running a sale on Benjamin Moore,
38:50
Speaker 1: ben Regal Interior and Aura Interior until September nine at
38:54
Speaker 1: all Repcollite stores. It's twenty percent off at all Repcollites,
38:57
Speaker 1: so check that out. And also all of our locations
39:00
Speaker 1: are going to be closed on Monday, September two, so
39:04
Speaker 1: enjoy your long weekend and we'll be back at it
39:06
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. All right, whatever you do today makes your
39:08
Speaker 1: paints a part of it. Have a great Labor Day weekend,
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Speaker 1: and I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for listening.