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Welcome to Hammer and Nails with Skip and Allison Bedell. Back doing our thing. Skip Biddell here. You have such the DJ voice. Hey, now. Oh, my God. You totally did the DJ voice. Really? Yeah. Now do the same voice, but with your wedding stuff that you say. My wedding stuff? Yeah. Well, like, I do? No, when you're emceeing a wedding. I don't even remember the last time I did that. And now, for the very first time, husband and wife. Sounds something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm Allison Biddell. And I already told you who I am. And you might recognize Skip Biddell from maybe your wedding. Yeah. Could be. Maybe he hosted the best party you've ever had.

And welcome back to Hammer Nails. It is Tip Tuesday. Tip, tip, tip Tuesday. Tip Tuesday already? It's Tip Tuesday already. Not only is it Tip Tuesday already, but we are ridiculously late again. That's what we do. Yeah, I know. Shuffling 27 things at once. That's what happens. Yeah. It's still Tuesday, though. Yeah, I'm at the I don't care part. You know what? It's still Tuesday, and I feel like I've been very overwhelmed lately. There's been a lot going on. I've got a lot on my mind. I think everybody gets overwhelmed at certain times in their life, right? It's probably just like, you know, it's kind of par for the course when you're a busy adult person. Yeah, I'm dealing with it differently than I used to, though. Like, I used to be very organized. Even though I was overwhelmed, I had everything organized. Right. But right now, I am feeling like I don't give a shit.

Like, oh, I gotta do this. I don't give a shit. Right. Like, we got those important papers in the mail to sign for our solar panels. Yeah. They had to be in by, like, two weeks ago. Yeah. And I didn't even look at the paper that said to sign it. I was like, oh, look at this. Some papers came. There's probably, like, 30 other things that we had to, like, look at and sign this week with, like, contracts and all kinds of other stuff. So I can see how that might have slipped through the cracks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I might have been lost in the shuffle of, like, a pile of papers that we're looking at. Yeah. I didn't even care to look at anything. I don't care. Yeah. I just don't care. You just don't care right now. I don't care. You know, though. It goes through, like, the just I don't care phase. Yeah. I care about some things. I think you need to take, like, a mental break

Or you just snap. So it's like, I'm not going to snap. So what can I, you know what? I just don't care. Right. If I don't care, then it can't bother me anymore. That's what I think. I won't feel overwhelmed if I don't care. Right. This is like psychology class. That's an amazing, like, you know, self-preservation. Yes. In order to avoid the cognitive dissonance. Yes. Whoa. Yes. Was that 101 or was that like second year? That was 101. Really? Yes. Wow. Yes. Cognitive dissonance. Wow. It's like when you are having like conflicting thoughts and like, you know, it's like you're, you're just, your brain is just fucked up. Right. It said that right in my textbook. See if a psychology.

degree and it's interesting because you're one of the few people I know that actually went to college and actually remember anything they learned while they were there attending. Or use it in your career. Yeah, yeah. Can you move your mic closer to you, my love? I was always really, because on the last one I noticed I'm sounding perfect and you just sound like you're just dialing it in. Well, it's just because you're perfect and I'm just me. I don't aspire to be perfect. I'm just like, you know, I'm just me. You can aspire to be me. No, no, definitely not. But you'd have some really nice boobies. I would. Yes, that would definitely be my best feature.

Yeah, so I'm trying to use some coping mechanisms to get myself through all the crap that isn't important and maybe is. But it's just too many things, like all the stuff growing in the garden, and I have to fix hoses, and I've got to set up soaker hoses and the drip system, and I have to deal with the stuff coming in the mail, and we're doing the kitchen, we signed our contracts, we're thinking of ideas, and there's so many things all at once. Wow. But you know what's good about that, though? Like, you're still, like, you, like, you know, you've got to find the good in every day. Like, you're above ground, right? You're healthy. You're walking around. You're doing your thing. And I'm still getting the podcast out. You have places to go and things to do. Yeah, of all the things that we're doing. The phone is ringing. Yeah. People are, like, you know, want to be around you and doing stuff with you. So, you know, that could be, it could be a lot worse, I guess. Yeah, I suppose it could. You've got to try to, like, you know, that's another good coping mechanism. You've got to, like, try to be grateful for, like, the good stuff. And sometimes it's hard to find that when you're overwhelmed with things. You're just, like, ugh. Yeah. It's, like, too much. Everything's too much. Yeah. No, that

Um, and this thing comes in the mail, like just an example, you know, like sometimes I just, I need to, I need you to take it, you to handle it. You know what I mean? Like sometimes I just, I don't want to be relied upon. I have no problem with that. I can do that. You just say the word and I will. Yeah. Like you went grocery shopping last week and that was fucking awesome. And that helped me out a lot. I had a day that I was here, you know, working at the house and in between, I'm waiting for someone to show up and I had about an hour or so. And you know what, let me just, uh, let me get something. Just next time you do that, do not get, do not get the mango sriracha flavored. I try not to do that too often though, because usually what I do, you, you complain that I got, I did something wrong.

When did you ever eat the mango sriracha flavor? I find that the more times I try to do something just for no reason. I need to criticize. I'm going to fine tune you. Yeah, like you're saying, like, sign, paper, you know, whatever. I tend to, like, veer away from those things because somehow or another you'll be like, ah, but you didn't do it. It's kind of like when we're driving. There's nothing wrong with that, though. Sometimes, you know, you need to be fine tuned. You are absolutely the worst passenger in the car, I have to say. You're a backseat driver in the front seat. Yes. And, yeah, so either I'm not going fast enough or I'm going too fast or I've got to get around the car that's in front of me. Like, you always have to be, like, the first in line in the car. Yes. Why are you like this? Two lanes.

One lane has 10 cars. Someone's hesitating like a half, like a tenth of a second. You're like, oh no, oh no. I don't understand those people who get in the line at the light that's like 10, 15 cars long and then the other lane is two cars. Why are you getting in the long lane? I don't understand it. I have no comprehension of that. There is such a thing like the lines on the road in case you've forgotten there are like dotted lines. Dotted means you can peg, you can move. Single and double and some of those lines are solid which means you need to stay where you are. No, no, no. Not for you though. Not when it's two lanes there's not solid in between the two lanes. Okay. It's a rare occasion unless it's like in a dangerous like curvy area like on the mountainside but other than that it's dotted. Right.

Yeah. I know about traffic lines. All I can tell you is that when we're driving, it's pretty much like, there's been, how many times have I said to you, do you want to drive? Yes. Can you, can you? No, I don't want to drive. I want you to do what I say and do it right. Can you even put a number on that? You need to drive right. No, I do drive right. You need to learn how to drive. I drive right. No. No accidents, no tickets. No. I drive right. You pass.

Everything. I said, you know what? How many times I just, I don't tell you what turn to get off of because you're always like, I know, I know. You want to drive? And then I'm like, okay, motherfucker. You take over. And then you pass everything. You like nag sometimes. You don't know how to do it right. I know how to turn. I know how to turn. No, you don't. You're like, turn right here. I'm like, you don't need to give me instructions every time. Yes, I do. Because the one time I don't, that's when you pass. Yeah, exactly. The one time you don't, I miss a turn. It's true. Like, you see, I have to tell you every time I turn. Yes. I mean, that's how it works. You can't complain on the one hand. On the other hand.

need me to tell you. Okay. And here is why when we were in California, we're filming every season of Contractor. I drive. You drive every, well, actually that's not the only reason why it's always because I have a shit ton of things to look at. Like, you know, the building plans for the project that we're going to film that day, the code stuff that we're doing. I have a million things to look at by the time we get to the set at seven in the morning that I need to know when they're like, okay, you ready? Let's roll cameras. And if I don't know those things, so I read usually in the car while you're driving. That's one good reason. The other good reason is that if I drive, I hear that the whole way. Don't miss the exit. You're going too fast. You're going too slow. And I can't fucking relax as a passenger because every time I'm the passenger, God forbid I fucking look down or close my eyes for a few minutes to relax.

guaranteed you go the wrong way. Every fucking time. So it's like I might as well drive because you're going to, if I don't pay attention, you're going to, I don't want to have to pay attention. I'm fine with you driving. Listen, I need you to be responsible so I don't have to be. I am not too proud to say I'm the man I'm going to drive. You can drive every time. No, but the thing is, is I don't want to have to, I don't want to have to do it. It's so much easier though. I want to be able to rely on you and be able to do it right. I don't have to hear you flap your lip and keep going and going and going. You're going to hear me flap my lip and ultimately you really don't give that much of a shit or else you wouldn't have tied yourself to it for the rest of your fucking life. That's true. Thank you.

There are other things that weigh out the nagging driver. On the scale of one to ten, all those things being considered, I'd say that's like at the bottom of the, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I think that we... We have plenty of other good shit to make up for being a nagging driver. Yeah, and I think we have a really, we have established a very good flow of you... Yeah, I tell you how shit gets done and you do it. And when I tell you to. Oh, no, I was just going to say the same thing. I know you were. That's why I beat you to it.

You like to think that, but... You don't know how to do anything unless I tell you. Thank God. Thank God you've been around for the last six years. What did I do for the other 40-some-odd years? I don't know. How did I ever survive before you came along? You are one of those husbands, though, that puts up with a lot of shit. Well, thank you. I'm so glad to hear that you recognize that. Well, I know you do, and thank God you do. I think I'm very tolerant. You are, and thank God, and I know it, and I appreciate it. You're a bossy bitch. I'm out. And I love you for it.

But the thing is, is that you know the inner, inner me. So you know where it's coming from. Yeah. You know what I mean? You can't help it because it's just your personality. Yeah. You have to tell everybody what to do. And you know, yeah. So I kind of play along. Yes. And you know why I'm neurotic. Until you get out of control. But then you also admit that I most often, it turns out I'm right. Very often you're right. But sometimes I need to pull back the reins on you. Yeah. It's okay. It's okay. But, you know, because sometimes you see other couples, you're like, what the fuck is he dealing with that bitch for? You know, like, I wonder if people say that about us. You know what? You remember when we were in California and.

and Bobby was staying with us, she... Because you do have wrestling bitch face, by the way. Most people probably think you're like a royal bitch, but actually you're not. You're actually really nice, and you're sexy as hell, and you're really smart and compassionate, and you've got a lot of good qualities, which is why I tolerate your bossiness. But they don't see all those other things, because they don't hang out with you privately like I do, so they only see the other controlling, crazy... Well, I am controlling, because it's that genius thing in me. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, because I'm usually right. I was wondering what that was. Yeah, and it's like I know that I'm right, so I need to make sure that everything is going the way it's supposed to be. Until I tell you that you're wrong. Then you're like, oh, yeah. I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong, though. You know that, too. You don't.

I like that about you, though, too, because many times I've said, no, no, that's not it. And then you're like, okay. Not all the time, though. Well, if I feel that I'm really, really right and I have a reason to back it up, then I'll stick by it and I'll explain it to you. Yeah, and then sometimes you're like, ah, whatever. But I also told you that I fucking love when you're right and I'm wrong because that is such, that really, that's such a...

fucking relief to my brain that I'm with somebody who's... I thought you were going to say it's a turn-on. No, it's not a sexual turn-on, but it's a brain turn-on for me because it sucks being the smarter one where there's no brain stimulation when you're with somebody who never, ever knows something more than you. It's like, I want you to know more shit than me. I want you to teach me stuff. I want my brain to get little tingles every time you tell me something.

You did that to me before when you came home and, like, you know, a little hug and a little squeeze. And your friend Dick Tingle came to visit. Yes. Yes. I love it when Dick Tingle stops by. Yes. I had my arms around you. I gave you a little butt squeeze. I'm like, oh, ding. He rang the doorbell. What's that? Ding, ding, ding. Hello. Oh, hi, Dick Tingle. Yeah. I love it when Dick Tingle stops by. Oh. Yeah. Well, what I was going to say before is that when we were in California and Bobby was staying with us and we ultimately ended up not being friends anymore through a long series of bullshit, all her fault. But she ended up saying to people.

shit about us and our relationship some of which was like like um you're afraid of me and i i'm mean to you and it's like if you are an outsider listening to us and our banter and you don't really know my heart you might think that you know but I am never, I never have meanness in my heart towards you. You know, like when we're doing our little arguing thing or disagreeing or if, or even joking, sometimes it's like, we'll talk, we'll say words that sound really fucked up, but there's zero conflict. We do that a lot. And if anyone was listening through the window, like, Oh my God, they're really fighting. But like, we're not, but we're not at the end of it. We laugh. And I'm like, yes, yes. And it's like, and I respect you and you respect me. Yeah. And so I was really fucking pissed that that bitch had the nerve to say things like that. And it was also insulting to you because.

the nature of our relationship and how we make it work and that we're both so happy. Who the fuck is anybody to judge it and say that I'm anything towards you? You know, if you're happy, I'm happy. Well, you got to look where things come from. You know what I'm saying?

People who are jealous and they wish they had. I'm not really insulted by much that anybody can say because I don't really give a shit. But it pisses me off. I'm happy with me. I'm happy with us. Me too. So if anybody else has got a problem with it, there's a door. But I just don't like when people have the fucking nerve to open their mouth about shit. I'm almost like Mama Bear with you. I want to protect when people talk shit about you. Yeah, you are a little Mama Bearish with me. Yeah. I noticed that too a lot with our production stuff and deals that we do with the shows and things like that. And I've noticed some emails and some conversations you've had with people. And I'm like, that's not really necessary. I can have that conversation myself. And you just take it upon yourself to step in.

Yeah. No, I don't. I am not going to watch people treat you in any way other than with the utmost respect and give you what you deserve. Always. You definitely got my back. We're definitely a unit. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck you, haters. First of all, I'm happy to say that I'm not really aware of very many at all, if there are any still. I know when we're airing the show, you always get a little bit like, you know, people are like, you know, this is bullshit or whatever. But it's in one ear and out the other. But I don't really pay much attention to any of this stuff anyway. I've never really.

I don't care. No. You know, I think I'm in my own little bubble. Yeah. I don't give a shit. Yeah. And, you know, people also, when they're alone and they can't maintain a relationship and they're jealous of what you have, that's more incentive for them to talk shit about what you have and to put it down. Because the more that they put your good relationship down, the more they're feeling like they're not missing anything. You know, like, we don't have anything. Well, I can only wish that, you know, other people have a good relationship and happy. It's not easy to find that. It's really very hard to find. No, I can't see. Now, you're such a good-hearted person. And I'm like, fuck that bitch. I hope she's never happy. She doesn't deserve happiness. You know, like, I think a lot of people...

are in relationships and probably for, certainly for the wrong reason. A lot of people do a lot of things for the wrong reason. They get married for the wrong reason. They stay for the wrong reason. And we've all done it. They have babies for the wrong reason. And we've all done that. A lot of bad life choices that have, you know, like everlasting, eternal consequences. You know what I'm saying? So it's like when you, I think if you're lucky enough that you can figure it out in one lifetime, even if you're older when it happens, then you made all those mistakes and you meet the right person and you figured out all the shit not to do. It's like, you know, I think it's a blessing. You know, it's the second time around sometime. Maybe it's a third or fourth or fifth. Second time around. Yeah.

You're thinking like a disco song. I'm thinking of Frank Sinatra second time around. He has a song? Yeah. How's it go? I can't think of it right now. Come on. It'll come to me.

I've never heard that. Is it a popular song? Sing it. It's one of his popular songs. Sing it. I'll let you know when it comes to my head. I know he has a song about that, though. I can kind of hear the lyrics, but I can't hear the melody. You know what? And now that I just said it and I just sang the main lyric, that's a good song. I'm going to have to look it up. Oh. Yeah, well, there you go. Add it to my playlist. Okay. Add it to your, yeah. Add it to your playlist. Yeah. So we have many things going on. What is that? We forgot to mention that we went to the, what's it called? The gender reveal party for your sister. Can you break for one second? Okay.

So we went to the gender reveal party, and we were thinking, we both had the same thought. We were keeping our fingers crossed, hoping it would be a girl, but believed that it was going to be a boy, and we were both right. It's a boy. That's right. She cut the, you know, they had the cake. I thought that was pretty cool. I've never seen that before, this whole gender reveal thing. I didn't know. Is it a new trend or something? Yeah, it's along that new bullshit that everybody has. You know, like when you go through that time of your life when all your friends are having babies? Yes. I don't have any friends that are having babies, so I don't know what the baby trends are right now. Yeah. Well, I thought, see how much I know. I thought that it was like the cake, the icing, like when you open the box, you're like, ah!

But it turns out the cake is just frosted with, like, white. And it's the cake on the inside that is colored blue or pink to tell you what the baby is. So you got the couple, you know, getting ready to cut the cake together. Everyone gathers around with their cameras on cue ready to take the picture. I knew when they started slicing it, too. Because Steven was pulling his knife up and down, up and down. Yeah, the knife was going up and down rather than, like, forward and back. Yeah, I saw a blue crumb. I was like, ugh. Yeah, the first time he dipped it in and pulled the knife out, I'm like, you know, a couple of cuts. I'm like, oh, it's blue.

It was like, okay, we're in a secret. Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty cool. Like that whole concept is actually. Yeah. You know, it was like, it was, it's nice to find out in that moment, but I just find it amusing how so many people make such a big deal of it because really it's only two choices. And you're going to be happy with either one. I think that is cool. Like I've never, you know, I've never been part of that. It's nice to share it with everybody at the same time. Yeah. So you can gather all your friends and your family and they had an envelope for like over a week because she got the test results back, but she wouldn't open the envelope, you know, in preparation for this party. And then she gave the envelope to the baker. Right. Right. So I never heard of such a thing. So he's got the test results from her blood test or whatever. Maybe it was a she.

And then they made the cake based upon those results and gave it a letter back, but she kept it sealed. I'm like, how did you not want to open that letter? It's like being a kid on Christmas Eve, you know there's presents on the tree, you don't want to sneak down. So now we know we're having a boy. Yes, we are. And I think I said that we need to register as well. Oh, my God, yeah. There's going to be lots of baby activity here. Yes, we're going to be having all the baby stuff here, too. Because, you know, you're not going to want to hole all that bullshit back and forth every time you take the kid. No, the kid's got to have a whole setup. A separate setup. Yeah, absolutely. So we've got to find a place to put all this shit. You've got to start building the other half of the attic. I don't have a place to put my own shit. And I've got to put, like, cribs and strollers. Do what you did upstairs for the cat room and then do the other half of the baby. On the other side. On the other side. Yeah, we have, like, the whole top of the house, the attic, which was unfinished. And one half of it I finished for the cat penthouse. Yes. I don't know if you guys

But it's, you know, like a vaulted ceiling that goes up into like skylights. And we got these big cat trees that like go up into the skylights and they climb up and hang out in the sun. And if you're a cat, it's basically like paradise. Yeah, it is. If there's everything in there, they've got every type of cat tree, cat bed, cat toy. They've got heated beds where I actually literally plug them in. They have a water fountain. And they have, I give them the best quality food. And they have a separate room for five litter boxes. So they stay clean.

Yeah, there's a poop room up there, which is actually really, you know, got ventilation in it. It's a window. I thought of everything because I'm like, first of all, I'm allergic to cats. So when you and I moved in together and you got all these cats and I never had any cats, I'm like, this is going to be fucked up. How am I going to do this? You know, like when we came to the house together and you brought all your animals from your last house. Oh, yeah, I did everything. You did everything and you don't give up in my world.

This is karaoke night at the Vidal. What I would not do. Karaoke Eric would be so proud of you. That's right. He would sing that song. Yeah. So anyway, back to the cat room. So that was one of the first things. The first thing. A few days after we moved into this house, I started building that room because I need a place to put all these animals so they're not in my face all the time. And so that was priority number one, which we did. And you know, it's an unfinished space. No heat, no air conditioning, no water, no lights, no nothing. It's just unfinished. No insulation, nothing. So we basically finished the whole place and made this cool little...

like penthouse getaway for them. Yeah, I love that I've got the water. Close the door, they go up there. We can just keep everybody up there. Yeah, it's really, it's a dream come true. Well, yeah, if you are fortunate enough to be one of our pets. Yes, and I've got there, it's decorated very modestly. It's not like a shit room. I have one picture of everybody and it's in black and white, but I left their eyes color and they all have the same frame. And so I've got like a wall with nice pictures on it. One of everybody. It's like a photo gallery up there on the wall. Yeah.

like a professional picture of each one of them, like a portrait type of picture. And that's right next to my recliner. That's actually pretty cool that you did it, like a little collection of all of them. Yeah, it's next to the recliner so that I can chill out up there. It's just a really cool spot in the house to hang out. It is, I like to hang out there sometimes. Yeah, I wouldn't even mind sleeping up there like if I had my blow-up mattress. You piss me off, you just might. That's the way you'd be sleeping. You just might. I don't think so. You'll be out there in the tool shed or in the cat room, so make up your mind.

I just want to say that it's lucky that our couch is comfy as well. You're like, I don't think so. But I don't think so. I think out of our entire, entire relationship, I think I only slept on the couch once. Once. Yeah. And I think that you probably didn't notice because you were drunk. Oh, yeah, that's possible. I think it was very early on when we first moved in and we had like an argument when we came back from a party or so, whatever it was. And I probably, if I recall, I had too much to drink and you were, whatever it was. But yeah, I think you slept on the couch. Actually, not even the whole night though. I think about halfway through the night you came in. Yeah. Like, all right. I never did the whole night. Yeah, no, no. I can't. Because I can't. No. Because I can't sleep. Yeah, you're like, okay.

No, you were. Oh, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What do you mean? Oh, so at the party, we brought Milo with us, of course, and there was a big pool, and Milo swam for the first time. Oh, that was cool. It was adorable, and we got a little video of it. It's so cute. I was in my bathing suit. Yeah, it was so fucking cute. He was afraid, but he did it, but I'm not going to put it up because I was in my bathing suit. I thought you looked good in that bathing suit. You did? Yeah.

Well, because I was like, yeah, they were, but because I was crouched over, you know, like bending over a little bit, the stomach area wasn't so sweet. You know what Dunlap is? Attire, you asshole. No, well, kind of, yes. Dunlap is when you belly dunlap over your pants. That doesn't make any sense. You belly dunlap over your pants. I don't, that doesn't make sense. It's like lapped over, you know, like. No, when is the word lapped over, even in a word, an expression? All right, well, not for you. Did you just make that up? Not for you, but you know. Dunlap is attire, and attire around your waist. That's what it would mean. Well, I say it the other way. The other way, there is no other way.

Well, I'm gonna I don't know if I can maybe do some movie editing to get for myself Maybe I'll put it up so I had noticed because I had my hair up that day It was fucking hot and I knew that like I didn't look that great because of the hair was up so I didn't I didn't I wasn't any pictures like Nobody said, come on. Nobody. Nobody should have to say that. Like, get in the picture. Like, you know, nobody said, say over there. I don't know. Like, why would you think that you shouldn't be in the picture? But I'm not going to like, well, if you're not getting up and getting the picture, maybe I've seen you sometimes, but you don't want to have pictures taken. Yeah, well, what I did was the next day after, like, all these pictures were posted on your sister's Facebook page, I then downloaded all of them, and I found the best picture of me in my phone. Oh, that was great. And I photo edited me into every single picture. That was great.

It was like I was in every picture, facing both directions, you know, depending on the picture. You guys have a big head, though, compared to everybody else's hair. No, it was because that was my good hair day. Was that when I took, like, when I had... Like a big beach hair day? Yes, yes, yes. And in case you guys, or you girls, I should say, don't remember my beach hair tip, I gave it, I think it was about three episodes ago. So I just got a... Was it on a tip Tuesday? I think it was on a tip Tuesday. Maybe it was two weeks ago. Well, I must have been totally out of tips. I had... No, I have tips, too. Fuck you. You do, you do. I had a really good... And even though I look like shit, like my hair right now, because it's...

fucking hot and humid outside today. It's really, really, really, really bad. But I'm telling you, this thing, this new technique that I'm using, it is like a winner. It is a guaranteed awesome hairdo every single time, and it's so fast. Whatever you're doing, just keep doing it. Ceramic space heater.

You keep doing that, and I'll keep doing you. And you know what? Also, ladies, I was thinking that somebody's probably thinking to themselves, well, that's like having a diffuser on your hair dryer. And my answer to that is, no, it's not. Because I have a diffuser. I've had many diffusers. And air still comes out of the diffuser is my first dispute. And my second is that you still have to hold a hair dryer with one hand and use only one hand to then cup your hair and style it while you're drying it. So with the space heater, you put it on a table or a desk, and then you lean over, and you use two hands to scrunch your hair and hold it in front of the space heater. And when you're done drying your hair like that, just you stand up, and you're like, oh, my God, I'm glamorous. Nobody's better.

than me wow really is that what happens yeah i gotta try that out jeez all i need is a space heater yeah yeah i mean it was like what's um necessity is the mother of invention oh yeah that's how i came to discover because i just one day i just had some like my hair was wet and i just didn't have a dryer Yes! I saved it because it's just... You're so funny. I'm so proud of you. Because I'm so proud of you that you didn't know how to do it. I really had no choice. Either that or I'm eating my salad with my fingers. So it's like I'm on a job site where we're out in the rural part of Rhode Island. There's nothing around. We're out in the sticks. There's no power at this site. We're running generators and everything. So we all brought our own lunch to the site every day. And I go to open up my lunch.

bag or whatever, and I made a salad. I left there a salad from the night earlier, chicken in it and all that type of stuff, but it was a big salad with a lot of lettuce and vegetables and whatever, and I forgot the fork. So, you know, I got all the dressing mixed in it and everything, and it's like, you know, it's really kind of oily and everything. I'm like, son of a bitch, and I was really hungry, too, and all I had to eat was this salad. So, because it was so hot today, we all had, like, gallon jugs of water, like the big plastic gallon jugs, so what I had done was I took the handle, like the jug handle that comes with the plastic part that comes out. It's kind of like a hollow, tubular handle that molds back into the bottle. Like a typical gallon container. Yeah, and I cut that handle off.

Um, at the top and then at the bottom where it connects back to the jug, but I cut it like kind of like with a big circle at the bottom of it. And then I took a pair of tin snips, which we're using on the signing job. And I fashioned that, the lower part of that into like a, what looked to be kind of like a spork. Yeah. And I ate my salad with that jug plastic. You're like a prehistoric gorilla, but it worked. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. Yeah. When you, when you came home with that thing, it's like, you don't even care. I've never seen anything like it. I just was, I, I'll never forget my.

what I felt. Yeah, you were amazed. You were, like, so proud. Like, when a kid comes home with, like, his first, like, arson crash, like, hanging in school, like, in kindergarten, you're like, oh, my God, I'm going to hang this on the refrigerator. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very different from when you told me that you made use out of the bag that you had your lunch in to actually take a crap in when you didn't have a toilet at the job site. Yeah, that was another, yeah, I think that was a different job site that the Porter Potty had not shown up yet at and there was no plumbing at that job site yet. And I'm like, well, got to take a dump. I'm not really sure how this is going to go, but it's got to happen right now. So, yeah, I proceeded to remove all the contents of my plastic, like, I have a, you know, plastic bag from a grocery store.

And went out behind the garage there at the property and did what I had to do right in the bag. And knotted that thing up and threw it in the dumpster. It never even happened. And you used your napkins. You had wipes with you. Oh, yeah. You always keep wipes in the truck. I always keep wipes in the truck. Yeah, you got to keep a container because you never know. And a rollercoaster. Yes. I keep a couple of rolls in the trailer or in the truck because you just never know. You never know. Especially in job sites that don't have any water or electricity. Like, what are you going to do? You got to wipe your ass. There's no port-a-potty there or whatever. You got to go. You got to go. Yeah. So, yeah. I have done a lot of improvising when it comes to that. Oh, my God. Speaking of job sites, we got, you got.

More boxes. I am so excited. Milwaukee was just amazing. They overnighted that stuff, by the way. Oh, really? I was wondering how fast it got. I had finally gotten around to the list of the products that they had put on an email that they had shown us while we were there. And they said, if you're interested in any of those products as an example, circle it, let them know. So I finally went through the list and I circled it up.

Well, it was basically like 10 pages. They're not even done sending you shit yet. Some stuff hasn't been released. It was like 10 pages of like bulleted tools. There's probably like a couple hundred different tools that when we went to the Milwaukee Expo for a couple of days as we did with the DeWalt a few weeks later, we spent a few days just like, you know, test driving all their newest tools. And then at the end of the whole thing, you're like, well, let us know what you like and we'll send it out to you so you can try it. And of course they want you to take pictures and post it, talk about it. And we will. Absolutely. Oh my God. I have so many things to do that with from DeWalt too that's been sent over here. It's all forthcoming. It's just that we're going to need to do like a whole photo shoot there, just tools and demonstrations and stuff because both of those companies have sent over some amazing stuff and I'm so excited to share it

like to read the other guy's stuff who was there at those shows to see what they think about the tools so then with other people's opinions in mind you can see how how it really if you feel the same way You know, if you're applying it the same way that they are, if you're using it for the same type of job. Yeah, there's a number of people that get invited to these, you know, once a year expos, most of which are, like, either people on shows like us or they're people that are, like, writers for blogs about tools or tool magazines or hardware. You know, something to do with construction tools or whatever. And these are the people that they want to talk about. Yeah, they're magazine writers. They're people that are just tool addicts who just love to post about their tools on, like, Instagram. And they've got thousands of followers. It just fucking blows my mind that these guys have thousands of followers. And it's because they know how to work the Instagram. There's a whole fucking science to it. They take a picture, like a couple pictures every day of a tool, and then they talk about it.

like using it, you know? And if you're a tool nut, all their followers are all tool free. So it's like, it's a great way to get reviews on tools and find out, you know, if you're looking to get, let's say a screw gun or a saw or whatever, you can go on there and flip through the guy's picture. Or you can even ask them. And, you know, they probably have a blog. They probably use everything. I always said that Matt D'Andrea from CarCast, Adam Carolla, he's got the best job because he has a blog and a podcast about cars, mostly about sports cars. So like so many times he went to Carolla Studio and there's Lamborghinis, there's Ferraris, there's Bentleys, there's like everything you could possibly imagine. McLarens, like million dollar cars that Matt D'Andrea would just get sent over from the manufacturer to test drive for a week.

Here, take it. Take pictures with it. Take it down to PCH. Have fun. Let us know what you think. And then write about it and talk about it on your podcast. So I'm like, that guy's got the job, man. I mean, I'm like taking pictures of a fucking circular saw. He's driving a Bugatti down to PCH. What's wrong with this picture? Yeah, yeah. It's tough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people. Yes. Well, on the flip side, I also, because I'm into the makeup, like you are into the tools. And so I'll get like obsessed with something like lipstick colors. Like all of a sudden I'm looking for lipstick colors and I'm on all the different Instagrams for the brands. But the brands now post pictures on their Instagram of people.

Who are wearing the product. I don't know if they're like models or what. But some people that they're posting on there. They have a lot of followers. So now I'm looking at their Instagram. And then I went on to YouTube. Because I wanted to get. Kylie Jenner has a whole makeup line of lipsticks. That she put out. And there was like a whole lot of stuff going on. Do you have a little girl crush on Kylie Jenner? I hear we talk about her a lot.

No, she's a child. Is it Kylie or the other one? Kendall is the older one. No, they're children, my love. How old is Kendall? She's like 18. Oh, really? Yeah. No, Kendall is like 19 and Kylie is like 18. Yeah. No, it's the makeup. It's their style. Oh, it's not the girls. It's the makeup on the girls. Yes. Because Kylie, like me, has no lips. None. And she gets hers enhanced with fillers. Can you imagine if it was possible to switch the top with the bottom?

What? Can you imagine if you were able to, like, switch, like, the lower ones with the upper ones? What? What the fuck are you talking about? Imagine that. I know. I can't imagine. Why would I? Then you don't have any problems. What are you trying to say? Because you're saying, like, you know, women have small lips, so they get, you know, like, injections or all the stuff that they do to, like, make them bigger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What does that have to do with the bottom? I'm making a joke. I don't get it, though. Are you insulting my dog? No. I'm just the opposite. I'm saying it's perfect. Anyway. Yeah. Anyway. So, I like what she's done to her non-existent lips, which are now very full. And, um.

Fuck you. Think about what an interesting smile you would have. Sometimes you just really slip back into caveman. I can't help it. The dude comes out every once in a while. Yeah. And I can't help it just roll my eyes. Yeah. All right, whatever. Anyway, so I was looking at YouTube yesterday at videos to see the reviews of her lipstick line. And these are fucking nobodies. They're girls sitting at home with their webcam, trying on the makeup, telling people what they think about it, comparing the colors. And they've got...

Over a million, some two million views. These are nobodies. But they have followers or they're somebody. It's unbelievable to me. digital people that do that stuff for you, which a lot of people do. A lot of people that really are very much into the internet marketing, especially Instagram marketing and all that. They have people that just sit all day and post for them. No, these are girls who don't have anything to do but do that. Right, that's my point. Either you have the time to do it yourself and you do it consistently every day. Multiple posts a day is what it takes to do that. And you've got to be tactful. You've got to know how to do certain things with the hashtags and all that to build. And I know what to do. It's just the time it takes. Me too. The last picture I posted was like... I can't seem to bring myself to do it all the time.

It's just, I don't want to, you know, it's like, I want to do nothing sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes it feels a little bit like, you know, a job, like a chore. Yes. I know I need to be doing it, but I'm just like, I just don't quite have the energy to do that right now. I'll put the thought into all the words I want to say about it. And once we get onto another show. If I could just post a picture, it'd be great. I have a thousand pictures that I could send right now. Oh yeah. Like, Hey, check this out. Yeah. But like, you know, people want to hear what you have to say about it. Yeah. Right. Exactly. I get creative.

I've been getting tool followers because I've been posting the pictures of you with all the tools and doing the hashtags and everything and then you're just reposting or should I say I'm taking your phone and just reposting into your Instagram regramming so it's I'm taking the time that I am taking to do it is your stuff and I'm getting the tool followers I'm tagging all these guys they're not following you because of my lipstick they're following because of your lipstick no they're following you because a hot chick is posting something about tools I'm like oh wait a second because they just like that they want to see what the tool stuff so yeah Once we get another show also, because there's usually like the ebb and flow, you know, like you get the people who are now all of a sudden interested in you if they like the show that you're on or you got followers from Fox and things like that. It goes up and down. But the number of followers that we have is actually just funny compared to these people who are just like high school students and post about fucking nothing. Like I just said, you got to be on it. You got to be, it's a job, you know, you have to pursue. We need to hire a child to do our social media. I think you're right because like social media people are really expensive. Yeah. So it's like, I think you just need to hire like a high school kid because who better. That's what Sarah Bendrick kept saying. Like she's a, she's from a DIY network. I hate my yard. She was hiring like an intern.

a school student to do her social media for her. That's a great idea. But the thing is, is that we don't have the kind of money to fucking salary somebody. Like, we would have to, like, really get a kid who's got half a brain because don't forget, when somebody's posting on your social media, they're also representing you. That could be a problem. Yeah, it absolutely can be a problem. Yeah.

So I don't know that I want to take that chance on saying or doing the wrong thing and it wasn't even me. Well, you know, like you've heard me say a thousand times, you get what you pay for. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. Well, I do some of your social media. You do some of mine, you know, like so that during the day we can get some stuff out. Right. But I don't know that I want anybody else to do it. I think all that's considered being that we do it ourselves. We manage to get, you know, some things out, which is good, but not nearly as much as we should be doing. So it's just one more thing that, like, you kind of have to be a little more on top of, especially with what we do with shows and all that. Yeah. And now with our new show coming up.

It's like, you know, we're going to have to really start pushing that stuff as well. So that's going to be exciting. Maybe we can whine a little bit and have them do it for us. That would be good. I think that should be in the contract. Yes! What a great idea. No, that's not the contract it would be in. It would be the next one. I think that's a great idea. The funny thing is that most entertainment contracts now, they put that in for you. As part of signing you to do the show, they want you to agree to be active in social media and promoting. I'll provide the pictures. I don't mind providing the pictures because we take pictures everywhere all the time. But I want to give it to them and have them post it, them tag it up or whatever, have a responsible adult.

whose profession is social media, and is getting paid by somebody else to do it for us. I think that's a great idea. That's a great idea. Let's implement that. So today, I just got the announcement from the newspaper that Hillary Clinton has now made history as the first official presidential female candidate. So I know people are not happy about her running, but I'm happy that at least there's a woman who has gotten that far. Okay. Well, you know, good for women.

That's all I'm going to say today. Also, I had a thought go through my head, but maybe I'll save it for Friday about some of the other stuff that's going on in the world right now. So I'm going to save that. There's a lot of juicy stuff going on. Yeah, I wrote notes to myself here. Did you write any notes to me? No. You know what I did write a note about is that I continue to forget to tell people lately about HammernailsPodcast.com. Oh, yeah. I love that website. What?

It's hammernailspodcast.com. Oh, hammernailspodcast.com. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They have some great stuff on there. Great pictures, like all sorts of videos. You know, they have links. Links to the products that we talk about in the episode. So, like, if you happen to be listening to a particular episode and you're like, oh, shit, I want to get that thing that they were talking about. All you have to do is go to hammernailspodcast.com and then click on the episode summary link and you're going to see the link directly to what it was that we were talking about. It's really, I make it so easy for you. And you know what? Nobody has written to me lately because I haven't been pumping up. My meatloaf recipe is on there.

Really? My meatloaf recipe and some cookie recipes. And I only posted them because they are super fucking outrageous, and I've even gotten a lot of feedback from listeners who have cooked the meatloaf and baked the cookies. Right. They are top-notch. And if you guys are, like, at a loss for something to make for your family, please go to hammerandnailspodcast.com, and then you can click under Allison's Obsession. Just look under my name at the heading of the page. You do have some good recipes on there, I have to say. Thank you, my love. And I'm going to add to it. It's not too often that you cook, but when you do, you make up for the lack of frequency and quality. Oh, that's really sweet, baby. Yeah. You are the most...

Understanding husband. I love you so much. But that's not going to continue because now that you're getting this gourmet kitchen, you better start cooking. You know what? I might enjoy cooking now that I have a place to put my shit and, you know, I'm going to have new things. It'll be fun. I like meatloaf and cookies, though. It's a good combination. Yes. I can't wait to bake again because I'm getting...

You are such a clown. Oh, my God. Okay. See, I did it again. You did it again. I'm being such a dude tonight. Yes, you are. We have some questions that we still had. Well, let's get on it then, girl. All right, then. Let's roll. Let's do it. When helping people with their homes, they call Skip Badell. You want to avoid a headache and save money? He's the man to talk to. Skip Badell. Skip Badell. Skip Badell. Skip Badell.

Do you have any advice on what to do with an extreme case of puppy biting? They're 15-week-old furniture molding humans. I know they're supposed to bite when they're this age and we have a million appropriate biting toys, but this is getting ridiculous. I went to the pro. The pro, Denise Herman, who is, she is the dog trainer that I got Kilo from and that we also got Milo from. David Bowie, who's now deceased, and his alive wife, Iman. So yeah, she works with that. I was highly, highly impressed when she came over here to work with Milo. You know everything, you know fucking nothing. And that's why there are professionals who do dog training and not just anybody. Big Kong treat toys, you know, the Kong, K-O-N-G.

and put wet and dry food inside of it and freeze it and dry food on the inside of it. Every single meal. Do that for every meal. Give them each meal. It's rewarding for them. It shows them what they need to be biting on, and it's a reward. So they're getting the energy out. Two hours. Yeah, but think about the reason behind the Kong, and it's keeping them busy. They got that whole, she knows best. She says that's what you need to do. That's what you need to do. All right. Okay, so we're going to get to our next Tip Tuesday, Skip's Tips question. Oh, yeah, let's hear it. The next question is from Steve Meisner.

He has a question for Tip Tuesday. What is the best way? It's a 911. His basement flooded. Oh, okay. What's the question? I don't know. His basement flooded. All right. Well, of course, you got to get the water out of there and you got to stop the leak. That's number one. What is it that he didn't say what he needs to know? Like 911? Well, he provided his phone number, but in the absence of calling him.

All right, well, I imagine, Steve, you've probably already taken measures to remove the water, and then hopefully you found out what has caused the leak, and you've done something to stop that and shut it off and whatever. Depending upon how much water you've got in that basement, whether or not it's finished is going to be two different ways on how you handle it. But obviously, if it's finished, you've got to cut back all the drywall. You've got to get rid of everything that got wet well above wherever the water line was and get your dehumidifiers running your air movers and fans and get the place wet back out. I don't know exactly what it is that you're looking to talk about specifically. I mean, there's a lot of different things that have to happen when you have a flood like that inside the house or mold prevention and everything else.

I will tell you that anything that got wet, any structure, any wood, of course, needs to be opened up and aired out completely and then get a good antimicrobial afterwards and clean everything down to prevent any mold. You've got to get the moisture out of there. That fogger that you have is a great thing for things like that. Yeah, we can put a link to the fogger. That's something that comes really very much in handy whenever you have a flood in the house or a pipe leaks inside a wall or anywhere that's tough to get to places. I have this machine that uses the antimicrobial fluid. Professional stuff. Yeah, it's like a very high concentration. But, you know, it's like what the restoration people.

used to come in and do like you know mold abatement and stuff like that and basically what they do this isn't the home ownership this is like the real professional turn the fire on and it basically gets into all the places that you can't get to you know like it gets in between all the planks all the floorboards everywhere and that fog seeps in with all the fluids that kills mold anyway hopefully that you've got to that point where you stop the water and you got everything that's wet out of the house. That's the first start and plenty of ventilation. And I wish I, you know, I knew exactly specifically what your question was, you know, electrical plumbing, like what is it that we're talking about so I can help you repair it. Perhaps if you hear this podcast tonight or tomorrow and you want to message me back with any specific things that you need help with, I don't know if, you know, your electrical system got wet or if it's, you know, a domestic water leak or if it's a, you know, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, Okay. Somebody else on, I think it's Twitter, Dr. D. Rich. I don't know how to, I don't know. 88. They want to know if anybody tried to fool us on Catch a Contract with a fake story to get a remodel.

Yes. People have tried, but they didn't actually make it to the show. Yeah, we've gotten a number. So we have like a whole department of people that work on our team for that show. You know, there's dozens and dozens of people that help us get that show on the air, of course, that are behind the scenes. And part of that is, you know, taking in all the stories, like the casting of the show where they write into that website that you see on the bottom of the screen, the ticker that we run whenever the Catch a Contract is on. That's where we get our stories from the viewers. And a lot of them have to be weeded out. You know, they go through all sorts of different background checks and legal checks. And many of the stories that have come through have been found out to be like the people were already awarded money like a year prior in court. Oh, did you forget to mention that?

They're paid restitution, but they never used the money to fix the house. They, you know, they smoked it or whatever they did with it. And then they're still saying that the contractor, you know, we're going to go chase the contractor so we can fix their house for free. There's been a number of those. Yeah, I think anytime people have the opportunity to get something for free, you can pretty much expect they're going to come crawling out of the woodwork. Yes, the answer is absolutely yes. You know, I also had seen online people were suspicious that Mario and his wife might have been in cahoots with Manny. Yeah, and pretending that, you know, they were being fooled by him. I can tell you firsthand, I was in that room during the sting.

I was right there in between Mario and his wife, and he was hurting. I felt so bad for him. He was holding back tears for real. He was turning red. He was really upset. He's not an actor. He's just a guy. He'd have to be an Academy Award-winning actor to pull that off. There's a lot of emotions that run high in that show. There's a lot of tears and a lot of anger and a lot of everything. And plus, just the scene alone in their house when he confronted him, you can see the anger. We were there.

And it was real. Yeah. There was no bullshit about that. I can say that the people that, again, that do all the screening for the show have done a very good job. And because we really haven't had many cases where we got into filming and then realized, you know, except for like season two, you know, the Floyd's episode that we realized there was some things that they weren't completely forthcoming with. But for the most part, everything that, you know, all the stories that we've dealt with, they are exactly as you see them. Yeah. Yeah. And especially that one, though, that he was very emotional because a lot of the times in the sting, some of the people, you know, they're just sitting there and they're like, oh, I got a liar, you know, like, and they're watching. But.

He was the closest to crying and to breaking. He actually went to push the monitor off the table. I'm like, dude, that's not your monitor. Break your own shit, not ours. Our security guys had to hold him back. He was like, let me out him, let me out him. I know. He was trying to get out of the room. He wanted to go. And we're like, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to stay right here. Yep. Well, Manny was definitely a rare case. He's the only one that we actually caught twice. It was dumb enough to keep going and keep doing it. Yeah. Peter Gruenwald said he's upgrading his electrical. What's the best way to pull cable?

Well, I guess that depends on what we're talking about where you're going. If you have conduit that you're working with there in that house or if you're just going like regular Romex through wood construction. And in many cases, what electricians will do, especially if you're pulling for high hats, the ceiling lights are from first floor to second floor or from basement up to the main floor, wherever your panel is. Sometimes they'll cut channels along in the drywall and then they can drill their holes through the studs and get to where they need to go to pull their wires through. And then it's only a very small slot, so to speak, that we can fill back in like a three inch wide by, you know, whatever the length is, eight foot across the board that we take out in one piece and then they can drill them.

holes through all the studs pull their wires that's one way to do it you'll get a little collateral damage on the walls and we have to go back and spackle and paint and that type of thing as opposed to you know taking all the walls out or um some some structure is obviously going to be easy to snake through than others. So it kind of really depends on what type of construction that you have there. But electricians have a lot of different tricks that they use. Fish tapes, snakes, different flexible type of fiberglass rods that we use with hooks on them that thread into each other. So I have a set like that. It's actually a quarter inch fiberglass rod, quarter inch diameter. And I have, I think, four or five, maybe four foot lengths that all thread together from end to end. And if you put them all together, you've got about 20 feet of flexible quarter inch fiberglass rod that as you pass it down through a hole or up through a hole, it'll flex through wherever it's got to go. And then you run out of rod, you know, you're at the end of the wall.

you need a longer rod then you just thread the next one on you keep sending it in when it finally comes out where you want it to uh it's got a hook on the end of it and then you can put your wires on you know attach them to that and pull them back through snake them back through your wall so a lot of different tricks that electricians will use um but you know without having more information from what you're telling me i would say some of the things i just mentioned to you are probably your your best bet and if you want to get back to me again it's another question sometimes i need a little more detail with these questions so i can better help you but if you want to message me uh tomorrow i'll be happy to give you some more information if i can you're so nice Ryan Dillon said that he is replacing all the facial on his house, and he needs to cut a half-by-half channel in a 2x8, probably about 150 linear feet. Good Lord, that's a lot of channel. What's the best tool to use? A table saw with a dado blade. So a table saw with a dado setup, basically you can use that to notch out a channel, you know, like a rabbit, basically like a dado, a slot out of a piece of wood that you can set to different widths. And when you set that up on your table, you take your regular blade off and you put the dado setup on it, and you can take out, you know, a...

all different widths of that wood and set the depth of it as well with the depth on the blade, the depth adjustment on the table saw, the height of the blade. So that would actually be the perfect tool to do that with. Another thing you can do is run a router down it, you know, set up a stop on the material, on the piece of lumber and take your router, you know, with a blade in it that you can use to punch, you know, punch down through it, whatever the depth of the channel is that you need to run that down the length of it. But I think the easiest tool to do would be if you have a table saw to set it up with a dado blade. Okay. There you go. Just run your lengths all the way through one at a time. Rip them right out. They'll all be exactly the same width, the same depth. They'll be identical. And when you run them up against the fence, there's really no, you know, no room. There's no error involved because they're all going to be cut the same way. So when you line them up end to end at 150 linear feet of two by eight, the slots are all going to line up. Okay. There you go. You know, I just put a post out right now because we were talking about it and talking about it and talking about it and didn't do it yet. So if my phone rings from Facebook Messenger, I'm going to answer the call. Oh, good. Yeah. All right. Put it out there. Okay. Go for it. Yeah. I hope they know how to do it.

I hope people are paying attention. What do you got next there? I hope I have Facebook friends. Okay. The next one is Sonali. I know. Hi, Sonali. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Long time to hear from her. Yeah. Hey, Sonali. She built a pergola. Oh, no.

She didn't build a burglar. I was going to say, wow. I know she worked at Home Depot there for a while, but she's pretty handy. Yeah, Skip knows her from Home Depot, and she's also an amazing cook, and she used to bring in food for everybody. Amazing cook. Yeah, I used to love it when she'd bring in food, man, because she cooks every night. She makes a full dinner for her family, and she would bring in leftovers or whatever. And then you'd take stuff home to me. Yeah, totally. Yeah, she makes some amazing food. We've had lots of post-coital Sonali food. Oh, that's right. Thanks, Sonali.

Because I get really hungry afterwards. Yeah, and you would, like, bring it over to me. I'm just, like, raiding the refrigerator. I'll just, like, do shots of, like, ketchup or whatever is in there just to, like, you know, I don't even care. Like, I just eat calories in me afterwards. And then, like, of course, there's the Tupperware full of, like, something that Sonali made. And I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah. I got that. Yep. And you know what is really interesting about Sonali is her name. S-O-N-A-L-I. If you chop her name in half and switch it around, it's Allison. Oh, wow. Look at that. See, now only the private investigator side of you would know how, like, you just, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Just take things apart in your mind and manipulate them and put them back together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not too much. Yeah. Somebody wrote. So what is her question? Oh. How about that? Okay. Let me get back to her question. Stand by. I lost my place. Really? Yeah. I lost my place. She said, I know Skip built a pergola. Was it difficult? I would love one for my yard. There are all sorts of great programs. You can go online. You can look at Pinterest. You can look at, you can even just like Google. You'll see people on YouTube that have.

filmed all different types of projects. I mean, some very simple and some very ornate and very detailed, depending upon what you want, what your taste is and how you're going to attach it to your house or if it's going to be freestanding. They're not really that difficult to build. It's not like building, you know, a full structure like a house because, you know, there's no walls on it. It's basically just like the skeleton of a structure. And, you know, in most cases, you're building some form of roof on it, you know, like a ridge roof or like a shed roof or however you're going to pitch it. But typically, you know, if there's no roof cover on it at all and it doesn't have to shed any water, it's really just, you know, like rafters across the top of your beams that can even be level to the ground or parallel to the ground. So it doesn't require a lot of...

carpentry skills. You just need to know the materials and you need to follow some directions. I'm sure there's a million great plans out there. You could probably even get them in the home centers that have garden projects and things like that. How would you rate the level of difficulty for somebody with no carpentry skills? I would say it's a project for the weekend that's going to take a couple of people. Maybe her husband is also really handy. I know he's involved with...

He built something. I forget if he's in cabinets or what it is that he does. I met him. Super nice guy. It's a project that you two guys could definitely do like on a weekend. You know, figure out the design that you like. Go online, see if you can get, you know, a little set of plans to build something. And it's probably like a two-day deal. You know, you've got to set your post in concrete, let them set, come back the next day and frame this thing up. But, you know, if you've got some basic tools like a circular saw and some, you know, hammers or pneumatic nailers and you can go out and get some lumber, I would tell you that you'd want to definitely use either pressure-treated lumber or some cedar or redwood, something that's, you know, kind of will hold up to the elements and a little more impervious to insect damage and things like that. I actually built mine and a number of others at a pressure-treated lumber.

Let it dry out for a week or so. And then actually go back and put on a semi-solid stain or some sort of sealer right over that pressure-treated lumber, which once it's dry, you can do that. But it takes time to let it dry. And that's a great way to make sure that wood's not going to rock because it is exposed. Especially if it doesn't have a roof cover over it, it's going to get wet a lot. So you want to make sure you use the right kind of wood. But you got my number. Give me a call. I'll be happy to even shoot you some drawings or something. Holla. How's that? Holla. Autograph set of plans.

Okay. Michael Estridge. And by the way, she's been asking us to come over to eat. I know. So Sonali, listen, pick a specific day and give us a specific invitation and we will make sure to be there. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. Love to see them. I'd love to have somebody cook for us. We haven't had a kitchen in months. True.

True. And who better to do that? Yeah, than the queen of all cooking. Yeah, she's amazing. Michael Estridge asked, I want to restain our stair railing with a darker stain. Will I need to remove the railing or can I do it as is? How time-consuming will this be? If I were guessing, I would say we have about 24 feet of railing. This is another one of those questions that, like, you know, I really need to know more about the railing. If we're talking about a railing that bolts onto the wall that runs up your interior staircase with, like, railing brackets that can...

fairly easily be unbolted and taken off out of the house and worked on i would always suggest that you do that so you're not worrying about protecting your stairs or carpeting or whatever the treads are finished with or whatever from getting stain on it anytime you can eliminate the possibility of getting you know damaging the surroundings it's great to remove those things which is why like when i do trim work you know all my crown all my casings are outdoors and windows and base moldings for floors and all the finish trim i do and that's one of the things that i do a lot of i love to do finish work i pre-paint pre-stain as much as I possibly can before I ever get to hanging any of that wood. I pre-paint it, pre-stain it, cut it to size, and then hang it all finished so I don't have to go back and worry about taping off the walls and dealing with all that stuff. So similar situation with your stair rail. Now, stair railings can be very detailed. They can have, you know, millions of... Wait a minute. We're getting a phone call. Standby. Let's see about this. Let me see. Oops. Are you there? I'm here. It's our first phone call. Is this awesome? Yeah.

Who's that? It's Chad. Remember Chad? Of course. Hi, Chad. How you doing, man? Hey, just wanted to ask you guys. I've had some problems with my roof, and it's still leaking, even though we've got drip edge, and I don't know what to do. Do you or Skip have any ideas or tips? Can you tell me a little bit more about the leak that you have? What are the symptoms, so to speak? Are you seeing water in the interior of the house, and is it toward the edge of the roof, or where are the leaks coming from? Have you identified that?

So typically when we roof like that over the sheathing, typically what we'll do is there's a roof edge, like a drip edge, like aluminum or galvanized, whatever we use along that edge there that'll have a... a drip edge or a flare out to the end of it. Over that, we'll also, you know, we'll seal that with the flashing cement or flashing tar, rather, and then come back over that with the underlayment for the roof, whether it's synthetic or tar paper, and all of that will actually hang out right to that edge or even a little bit past that edging. And then, of course, come back with a starter course of shingles. You know, I'm not sure when the roof was shingled last, but you want to make sure that you have a proper starter course of shingles. That's actually like a second layer before you actually shingle the roof that goes all along the perimeter of the roof.

So without knowing a little bit more, seeing it, like, you know, diagnosing roof leaks can be a tricky thing, even when you're on the roof and you're physically looking at it. So just from what you're telling me, it's kind of hard for me to give you a definite answer. But I would tell you that you're definitely going to want to. Are you getting water inside the house or is it coming down in the soffits? Where are you seeing it? Definitely. I'll send you a video, Skip. Yeah, send me a picture, man. I'll be happy to take a look at it for you. Maybe I can give you some more information.

Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Oh, my pleasure. Thanks for calling. How are you doing? Everything going good? We see you a lot on Facebook. We appreciate you following us. I know he's giving us some questions and stuff. Oh, he hung up. Oh, he did? I don't think he realized that you were still talking to him. Oh, all right. That was really nice of him to call. So I don't know if you remember where you left off on that other question. What was the question? The question was about the railing. Oh, yeah, so the railing. So stair railings can be really detailed. I mean, you know, without knowing what kind of railing you have there, are there spindles that are attached to it? You know, is it something that you can actually just physically unbolt from the wall and it's not all part of a railing system? Without knowing that.

I don't want to necessarily go ahead and tell you to remove it from the stairs unless it's something that is, you know, removable without having to get into a whole production. If that's the case, then you may want to just, you know, take your time and spend a couple hours and really kind of save everything off and tape everything off and, you know, take your time and do a neat job. But in most cases, especially when you're staining, even more so than painting, there's a lot of preparation that's involved with staining. You know, it's got to be sanded properly. It's got to be conditioned properly. You have to get the wood ready to accept that stain. And, you know, of course, all the steps that go into that. And it's kind of time-consuming, and it also can be a messy process. So, again, if there's any way you can get that railing off the house, it's...

you know, lowers your chances for getting that stain and all the other products that you'll need to use, the sanding dust and everything else in the house. So that would be my recommendation. Okay. There you go. Thank you. Bob Park. You send me a picture. Like, there's another one of those questions. You can send me a picture of what you have. Message it to me or whatever, and I'll be happy to expand on that once I see what you have. Okay. Bob Park. Hi, Allison. Hi, Skip. Hi, Bob. Skip, what's the best way to apply water-based polyurethane? I was doing a project, and I found that it's too thick to spray with a Preble sprayer because it orange peels, yet when I thin it out, it runs and leaves drop marks. The instruction says to use foam.

a foam brush to apply, but that leaves bubbles. What do you suggest for my next poly project? Okay, well, first of all, polys, you know, oil-based and water-based, or waterborne, as they're otherwise known, are, you know, two totally different animals. The oil-based, of course, is going to leave a little bit different appearance, and color is going to give kind of an amber, you know, hue to the wood as well, and it takes much longer to dry. So you've probably already determined that you want to use water-based polyurethane for the reasons that it dries very quickly. So rather than getting in, like, one coat a day, because typically with oil-based, you've got to wait, like, you know, seven, eight hours, nine hours between coats to let it completely dry, sand, and then do multiple coats after that, wait for drying time between each.

one. So it can be, you know, a day or two process to do a couple of coats with oil-based. Whereas the water-based, you can actually get in three or four, which is typically recommended with water-based four coats in one day, you know, because it only requires like an hour or two hours maximum for drying time. It actually dries really fast. Now that I told you everything, you probably already know. As far as the application, yeah, they will recommend that you use like a foam pad applicator. I'm not a big fan of that. I would prefer a brush if you get a really good stain quality brush. And as far as getting bubbles in waterborne, that's something common that if you shake the waterborne urethane, if it gets moved around too much or it gets shaken, some people will try to shake the can up. Yeah, don't shake it. Because it typically appears like milky when it's coming out of the can. And, you know, so people tend to want to shake it and, you know, and mix it so it's not going to be milky. It's always going to be milky until it gets on the material and starts to set up, and then it will turn clear. But when you shake it, you're always going to get bubbles. So be sure that you don't do that. If anything, you can stir it.

slowly, but never shake water-based urethane. So as far as spraying it, if you want to spray it, rather than using like a regular paint spray that you would use on an air compressor, I would suggest that you use an HVLP, which is a high-volume, low-pressure gun. It's designed more for thicker materials. It's exactly what it says. It has a high-volume flow to it, but low pressure. And there are a couple of different machines that you can get out there. If you do a little research and look into HVLP machines, you'll see that, you know, the prices really range. Wagner actually makes a relatively inexpensive one that you can get at the home stores. I think they call it the fine coat. There's a couple of different models that they make that you can actually put.

the material right into the unit, and it has kind of like a pump rather than a compressor. There's also gravity-fed ones like DeVilbiss, D-E-V-I-L-B-I-S-S. I had one of their humidifiers in my room since I was like a toddler. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, now you can spray paint your room with the same thing. Yeah, they make a great gravity feed setup. Hold on. We're getting another phone call. Standby. Hello?

Allison. Hi. It's Brian Cole. Hey, Brian Cole. How you doing, man? What's up, brother? Dude, I'm just waiting to hear you shred out. Like, I always see stuff with your music and everything on Facebook and stuff. I'm just looking forward to hearing you play some music. I'm signing a new record deal.

Awesome. Actually, we sent the label a few songs that we had finished mixing, and they were so stoked about it. They were like, we have to have you on the label. How cool is that, man? Oh, wow. Fantastic. Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations. It's so competitive, and oh, my God, that's a really huge accomplishment. Good for you. That's great, man. Thank you so much. Thank you. So what kind of question you got? I wanted to keep this kind of in the hammer and nails kind of thing. That's an easy answer, nine inches. Yeah, I don't even need to hear your question.

This kind of goes in line, you know, skip with you. Cool. Shoot. How many chucks would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck? Really, dude? That's great, man. Listen, I had to be a smartass. That's awesome. How cool is that? Well, I already have your answer. I just said it before. Nine. There you go. Okay, great. The answer is nine. Well, let me ask you a question. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a chump? Oh, boy.

Yeah, I bet you would. That's awesome. That's great, man. That's all right. You can say that on this podcast. Oh, okay, great. It only takes a couple, baby. Yeah, that's right. There you go. Atta boy.

It only takes a couple. Get the job done right and quick. There you go. That's right. That's right. Well, listen, I miss you both on your show. And, you know, I'm a longtime friend, and I'm proud to call you guys my friends. And so, you know, hope to see you guys doing more stuff. I think you've got a great thing going with the podcast. And I just encourage more people to tune in and listen to what you guys have to say because you're both awesome. Oh, thanks, man. Thank you so much. Yeah, we really appreciate you. You've always been a big supporter of us right through the show and the podcast. And thanks so much, man. And please send us whatever info you can on your music. Yeah, we'll share it. When you're getting ready to release stuff, we'll be happy to plug you up as well.

Yeah, the label's going to do kind of an official release and everything like that. So as soon as that happens, I'll private message you guys, and I'll let you know what's going on. Well, great. Well, maybe when you have your big release, you take a trip out to New York or if you're in L.A., wherever we happen to be at the time, and you can give us a live performance on the show. You got it. Absolutely. Well, I have a lot of friends in the city and everything. Oh, cool. I mean, I just live in Pittsburgh. Oh, right on. Oh, not far. Let us know when you're in town, man. Oh, great. Got it. Thanks so much for calling. We really appreciate it. All right. God bless you. Take care, Brian. Thanks. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Brian Cole. Yeah, two Coles in a row. Chad Cole and then Brian Cole. Yeah, talented musician right there. Songwriter, musician, really talented guy. Always been a big supporter of us.

Yes, it's very nice. So where was I? I don't know. I was elaborating on, I think, water-based. Yes, and that's a really good question, too, because anybody who's ever tried to apply that stuff knows that it gets bubbles. It's awesome. Actually, it's really great because it dries so fast. Now, you know, they recommend that you put on, first, of course, you always have your staining. You always want to make sure you raise your grain on the wood, and you want to make sure you use a conditioner to get your stain on. That's going to really raise the grain up, give it a light sand. Also, you're going to want to sand between coats, of course. But I think your problem, you probably already know all of this because you're already into urethaning. So your problem was getting orange peel and having a problem with it running and things like that. Okay, what I can tell you is that you're going to have a lot less of that.

problem with an HVLP gun. Number one. Secondly, you want to also make sure the ambient temperature in the room is at the right point for when you're going to be spraying or applying a waterborne urethane. The best temperature you're going to be working with is between 60 and 70 degrees. If it's a lot warmer than that in the room and you don't have good ventilation, you're going to wind up having the urethane dry too quickly. Because the waterborne dries so fast, it will also tend to orange peel when it dries too fast. You want to really kind of wet that surface up, and you want to lay it on heavy enough to where it's not going to run on a vertical surface, but it's not going to dry too fast. It's going to orange peel. So it takes a little bit of practice. Guys, to finish furniture, it's a skill. It takes time.

have to really get familiar with your gun and learn how to adjust the settings on it with the uh with the ratio and the mixtures and once you get familiar and by the way on your gun make sure you're using the right tip for a waterborne urethane because the spray tip on the guns you can get different tips or some of them are adjustable and you want to make sure you have it either on the right setting or the right tip that allows the right amount of material to come out because that'll also uh you know make a big difference in the finish um and what else did i want to say to you there's one other thing um let's see the oh the product itself i don't know what you're putting through that gun but you know everybody uses like a minwax it's off the shelf from a hardware store paint store um minwax in particular it's a good product overall they tend to be a little bit They're a little bit thinner than some of the others, and what you might find is you're going to experience them running or some of the other problems that you mentioned with that product. You might want to try out Olympic or General, also make some really good Warner Born products. Ryan Stenger is calling us. Check out the General High Performance. Ryan? Yes? How are you doing? I'm great. I've got an interesting question about reclaimed barnwood accent walls. Oh, cool. Awesome. Let's hear that one.

So I've got a good wall for it. And my question is, I've got a couple of friends with farms that are all offering me all kinds of different stuff. Can we make friends with them too? Yeah, you're a lucky guy. I've got a lot of old wood. I've got a lot of old barns. Wow. I've got some dried stuff that's been going for 25 years. Nice.

Does this all need to be kiln-dried before it goes up on my wall? I would definitely make sure that it's dried out, it's adequately dried out, yeah, before you hang it up on the wall, for a lot of reasons, especially if you're going to apply any sort of finish to it or if you're using any sort of adhesive. Also, just moisture trapped inside the wood if it's been outdoors and it has moisture in it. Just like if you bring in a wet piece of wood in the house, like a log or firewood or whatever, you're bringing that moisture into your house and everything that comes along with the moisture. Depending upon how wet it is, I don't know that I go as far to kiln-dry it, but I would certainly make sure it spends some time out in the sun and it gets dried out before you bring it in. So it's been in an old barn for, if I'm inside, like laying there, drying out.

years okay but the concern is less of the moisture for me at this point than it is of some type of insect yeah i was thinking about the bugs too yeah well that is a concern i mean you know it's especially with wood like that, many times can be subject to termites or carpenter ants or woodworms or whatever. So most of that stuff is going to come with kind of evidence. You're going to see wormholes on it. You're going to see evidence of portions of the wood kind of deteriorate. It almost looks like it's crumbly a little bit. If you've got a good solid plank that looks like it doesn't have any holes in it or any damage, it's not like sawdust around it and all the things that you would look for that kind of go along with insect damage, chances are you're not going to have a problem with that. It's pretty hard to guarantee it, though, because those little suckers could drill little holes in the wood and get pretty deep in there. But I would take a look at where it's coming from and take a look at the surroundings.

actually hanging or is it has been stacked it's been stacked okay gotcha yeah so i mean you know there's a chance that uh you know you're gonna get some good solid lumber there and not have but i would definitely go through it thoroughly and really inspect it every side of it and make sure from end to end that you don't see any evidence of that and if you do go on to the next plank and leave it you know or cut it you know because that they can be kind of hard to get rid of and the last thing you want is like you know a nest of that hatching in your house once you're hanging on the wall yeah i've got a two-month time limit by my wife so if i have to kill and dry anything on my own i'm gonna lose that time limit right yeah well if you've got to kill them by all means i mean i'll take care of the problem right there All right, guys. Well, I appreciate the help. Absolutely. Hey, thanks for calling. Thanks for the questions. And happy to help any time, brother. Thanks. Take care, man. Bye. Bye-bye. It's Lynn Steele. Lynn Steele. Is this Lynn Steele? It is Lynn Steele. Is this the author Lynn Steele? Yes. I'm me, but I'm not. Yeah, I know. I'm me, but I'm not, but I am. That's so cool. So proud of you that you got that done. This is our good friend Lynn Steele that we're talking to you right now. Our forever follower since the beginning of Catch a Contractor time. Yeah. It is indeed. Yeah. It is. I told my mom I was.

She's calling, so Mom said to say hi, and she loves you. Oh, that's sweet. Tell her that we love her, too, and make sure you give her a big hug from you, as usual. As usual. Every time I give her one, she lights up like a little Christmas. Oh, good. That's great. That's great. That's so nice. How are you doing up there in Canada? Doing amazing. Watching, you know, I'm happy with her reruns of Catch a Contract, of course. Oh, yeah. Good for you. Thank you for watching, as usual. And hopefully we'll have another show out on the air fairly soon that you can watch. Awesome. Mom says, oh, how did that skip? Oh, my. Oh, that's really nice. She's the best.

Thank you. That's so nice. Thank you so much. You've always been a big supporter, you and your Canadian friends up there, and we really appreciate it for all the stuff that we're doing, so thank you for that. Yeah, thanks for sticking with us. And we'd love to give your book a plug again, as we've done a couple of times. Tell us the name of your book again. It's called I'm Me, But I'm Not, and it's a story about her being an adopted child. Which I love, by the way, because I don't know if you're aware of the fact or not, but I'm adopted as well. She was not aware. I was not.

There's a very big, long story about this that we have not gotten into yet because we're waiting for the right moment. But there's going to be like a story reveal. And so that's forthcoming in the future. We're not sure in what forum or how we're going to tell it. But it's a story that is going to like have you like glued to your seat and crying. And it's just it's such an awesome story.

Well, I won't give too much away, but you can kind of use your imagination. But I will tell you that... I'm going to bleep out whatever you tell her right now so that everybody else can't hear it. All I'm going to say is that, you know, I was given up for adoption at birth the moment I was born. You're killing me. Yeah, yeah. It's a good one. It's a really, really good story. And, I mean, it's such a good story that it's... And there's so many details. It's just we're, like, waiting for the right place to tell it because it's just too good of a story to just tell on a podcast. And I see the book as well. It's crazy. Like, we figured out that when... Right before my mom and dad adopted me, they were actually living...

Wow. Wow. right down the freaking road, like two blocks away. Wow. Isn't it so crazy how stuff like that happens? You know, you talk about all the degrees of separation and like, you know, how people are linked to each other and, you know, it really is such a small world when you think about it. Yeah, we were talking to an author as well. Yeah, it's definitely book-worthy. That's the only...

I regret is that my dad didn't get to see it finished. I know you went through a tough time with that. I remember while we were airing the show, you had, I think, messaged me on Twitter, and we were real sorry to hear about you, Dad. He sounded like a great guy. Oh, it was just awful, you know. It was just something I never thought I'd have to deal with. You don't think you'll have to deal with it. You know it's going to come, but you're not ready for it, even if you're ready for it. Sure, yeah, you're never really ready for that. And I had just set up his...

remember yeah i remember yeah in the hospital because he's like i can't miss it because he wanted to watch catch a contractor oh that's so sweet yeah no kidding that guy's on his deathbed and he's like i gotta watch my catch a contractor oh that's so that's awesome so you know but i mean hey that's how much of an impact that you guys have on people even just people watching tv that don't even know you wow well we're totally knowable though you know like i feel like we've always been so accessible online yeah we try to really interact with people and you know it's uh the thing that we do like you know we we just We love helping people, and that show really was a great platform to be able to do that on a mass scale because not only all the people that we help actually on the show, but well over a million people every week watch that show, and now it's syndicated around the world. It's actually playing in just about every country around the world, everywhere but here. We were playing in Canada. You guys get to see it. We're not even seeing it right now. Assholes. Oh, God. I know. Well, we're getting it, so we're happy about that. Yeah, thank you very much again for all the support you guys give us, and you and your mom and all your friends up there in Canada. We really love you guys, and we really very much appreciate it. Yeah, thank you for calling us, too. We appreciate it.

Love you guys so much, and I just wanted to make sure that I got my little scooch in there to say how much I love you guys. Thanks again for calling. You are so welcome. I got more little gifts I'm going to be sending you guys, so I'll let you know when they're on their way. That's so sweet. Thank you, Lynn. You're the best. All right. Love you guys. Love you, too. Talk to you soon. Love you. Have a good night. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye.

She's another one. Right from the get-go, she was with us. One of our earliest fans of the show. There's a whole flock of Canadian fans that got really behind our show, Catch a Contractor, a couple years ago when we first started airing it. They're just the nicest people up there. They just love Catch a Contractor. There's another couple that are friends with her. Jen Savady. I don't know how to pronounce her last name. I think it's Sparazzi. No, I thought it was S-A-V-A-D-I.

Oh, right. She's not in front of me. Yeah, Canada. And they sent us, they were following, since season one, they were following us. And they sent us a homemade Christmas card. That was the best. And her husband made, like, caricatures of us. And I cried when we read it. I totally cried because it was just so sweet and the nice things that people were sending us. Savanti. Yeah.

And I was just so touched that people were so nice. And they were saying nice things to us online. And people sent us Christmas cards. And I just, I've never, I've never. Yeah, they sent us Christmas cards, pictures of their family. Watching the show. Watching the show. Yeah. They sent us a number of different things, right? Like, I think her husband made those, they were kind of like, what do they call them?

Your avatar? Yes, yes. Like a digital, like, you know, a little avatar of each of us and me, you, and Adam. Yeah. I thought that was the coolest thing. Yeah, that was so, so cool. And just the people that we sent, that asked for signed autograph, like pictures from us, then people were putting them on their wall and taking a picture of it, like in their room and sending us a picture of our picture. Right, right. So, so nice. I'm just like, sometimes, you know, because I'm always the first one to say I hate people.

But not those people because it just – You don't hate all people. You hate like douchey people. Yeah. Like I'm just saying it's like a general statement. People just never cease to disappoint me because I'm always expecting people to do – Then you have like the fans of our show that like just surprise us. They're the best though. Those people. Those people who never even met us, most of them from all parts of the world are like so supportive and so kind and nice. They are nicer than the people that I know in person.

You know what I mean? Everyday people that I meet, people that are at work or people that are supposed to be your friends that stay in the back. These people that we've met through being on the show are the kindest people I know. It's crazy. What else you got there for me, wife? We'll wrap this thing up. We're going to wrap this thing up because I have a lot of editing to do, being that the first half of the episode was all chunked up.

Yeah. I think we're talking about going back to – We're going to go to Joe's studio for the next episode. Joe's studio, yeah. So Friday's episode, we're actually back with JC. We'll be back in the studio with our buddy Joe. That's going to be great. Yeah, yeah. In a few months, we'll be recording with him. Yeah, and being that the election is coming up and he is like – Oh, God. He's going to have to squeeze in some of his Trump-isms. He's super political and super like, you know, if there's anything that we can involve controversy in, he's like on board with it. Yeah, yeah. Don't get him started. I'm not going too crazy about it. I try to get all the political stuff when we're talking to him. Yeah, the whole podcast will be like, you know, bashing Hillary. This whole phone thing was fun, and I hope that people –

that are listening, keep an eye out on their Facebook for when we put it out there that we're going to take some calls because I like talking to the people. Yeah, that was a great way to do it. Yeah. It's an easy way for anyone to access it as opposed to like Skyping and things like that. You have to know the Skype code and the name and all that. This is just like, you know, a messenger, you just ring the phone. Yeah, it was a pleasant surprise every time the phone rings. So thank you guys so much. The good part is that, you know, if you're like a dick or say something really stupid, we'll just edit it out. Yeah, exactly.

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