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Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Mike. And I'm Nate. What are we smoking today, Nate? We are smoking

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a Punch, Rare Kuroho, and Mike was saying this is the magnum size for his or her pleasure.

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It is, which means that it's a Robusto. Which we like, I think. Sorry, Nate. It's alright,

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as long as you don't get those in my coffee. We are in person together, together forever.

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We are in person today, it's very nice. More drinking coffee and Johnny Walker Black. There

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you go. Alright, we're gonna light up on here. There was no weird flavors on the cap or anything

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of that nature. Nice and, did we decide creamy wasn't the word we were supposed to use? It works

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though. Yeah. Yeah, milky's not the right word. No, it's got that smoothness. Buttery isn't the

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right word. No, not quite. Smooth for sure. And boy, do we have a doozy of a topic today. Yes,

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we do. So, it's the holiday season and we all are, you know, buying crap that we don't need and

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buying crap for other people they don't need. But if you don't buy it, then you're on their shit list.

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That's right. And you could be like Uncle Mike and just give 50 bucks, you know, but then nobody

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wants to do that anymore. No. Of course, with the rate of inflation, it might have to go up

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50 bucks. I don't want to admit that. My grandmother gave me 50 bucks. That's why I give my nieces and

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nephews 50 bucks. Yeah. 50 bucks in like 1995 was a hell of a lot more money than it is now. Now you gotta do the

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crazy inflation calculator. Okay, so my grandma gave me 50 bucks in 1995. What is 50 bucks in 1995

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worth in 2023 dollars? That's right. That's right. I still get 50 bucks for my birthday. So whatever.

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There you go. So anyway, we're gonna go over devices. It's not truly just devices, though. It's kind

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of like devices, appliances, things you use about the house. Yep. Tools, you know, gadgets, all those

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sorts of things. Yeah. I think we should make it clear right away right up front that we don't have

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any affiliate marketing with any of these products. Nobody's paid us to. No. Mention these products

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or talk about these products. These are just things that Mike and I have found throughout the

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course of our lives and internet sleuthing to fix problems we have or to do things more efficiently

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than the old things we're doing, I guess. Right. Yes. And unfortunately, it's coming out after

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Black Friday. So many of these companies are gonna have had sales that you're not gonna get

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anymore. But you know, sales like 25% off happen a couple times a year. We all know that it's gonna

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be like every freaking holiday. Yeah, they do like a last minute, you know, hey, it's the two weeks

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before Christmas or one week before Christmas. You know, absolutely. Come get your shit. Last

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minute. I can remember one company, they do like a first of the year sale. Okay. Where it's like

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that they called it the hangover sale. So it's like right away in the morning till like noon on

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the very first of the year. So yeah. Well, if you got family at distance, you know, you can always

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say, oh, yeah, it's in the mail. And then, you know, go out after Christmas and get the sales and ship

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it. Right. Nobody's the wiser. And we're gonna have a little bit of overlap and possibly.

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Probably. I mean, how do you want to do this? I didn't really organize them. I just kind of

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stream of conscious listed them. I stream unconscious. And then I tried to break them up a little.

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Okay, we can just stream a conscious talk. It's not like it matters if we talk about a ratchet and

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talk about an air fryer. It's no big deal. Yeah. I mean, this is so that's my list. I don't really

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have that much. Oh, I have. Well, as usual, Mike, a lot of notes. Yes. All right. Well, I don't know,

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I guess the first one that kind of prompted this. I don't know that it really prompted the episode,

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but we were talking about mostly the instant pot. Yes. At some point. So that's the first one on my

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list here is the instant pot. And when they were big, I don't know how many years ago they're kind

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of like the big thing to have like five years ago, maybe. Oh, it had to be more than that. Probably

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10 years ago. Okay. I don't think it was quite 10 years. I remember this was pre pandemic and

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pre kids for us. And we were in the office and everybody was kind of talking about like, oh,

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the instant pot, the instant pot, it can cook a chicken breast from frozen in like an hour or

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something. The reason why I say 10 is because my old travel partner was a huge instant pot guy.

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Okay. He would bring his instant pot and I would bring a Vitamix and gas grill. Okay. And we would

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travel and then that's every meal that we ate was cooked in there. You know what I mean? And then we

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had a coffee pot too. But I always brought, we're going to talk about the coffee pot. Okay. I brought

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it. And that had to have been 10 years ago. Okay. I mean, I feel like they probably came out 10

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years ago and I don't know if they really caught on with the, what you would call it, like the

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Stepford wives or the class females in the office type. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like it didn't trend

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or what you would put the, everyone would say now is like, it wasn't trending. Yeah. We were like

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traveling industrial electricians who wanted to be able to have home cooked food every day. Yeah.

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And that was like his secret weapon. Yeah. Well, we, we used to have a rice cooker and it was just

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as big, if not a little bigger than the instant pot, but all it would do would be rice. Then it

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made great rice. Like it was fantastic, but we were gifted an instant pot and I was kind of like,

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okay, cause everybody at work was like, wow, the instant pot can cook these frozen chicken breasts

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in this amount of time. And I'm like, yeah, so can my oven, you know, like that's not that special,

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but the instant pot also does rice. Yeah. And that's primarily what we use ours for is rice,

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but there are some really good, like one pot instant pot meals that you can cook in the instant

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pot. And it's got a saute feature. So in this stainless steel bowl, you can put your, your ground

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beef or whatever down in the bottom and saute it, and then put all the liquids and stuff in and,

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and pressure cook that thing and let it go, you know, and there's a lot of really good recipes

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out there. If you can get through all the blog stories on the recipe, recipe sites, but we use

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that fairly frequently just to make big batches of rice and yep. And it's a slow cooker as well,

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which is awesome. So you can do the sear function and then turn it into a slow cooker and let us

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sit for how many of our hours you're at work. And that's a lot of times what we did, cause we'd cook

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in the morning and then I'd make like smoothies for us and then coffee and then he'd like rip up

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dinner or whatever. And then, yeah, anyway. Yep. So it's, we still, we kept our slow cooker,

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just, I don't know. I don't know why. Sarah and I have several slow cookers, but we keep them for

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various other things. Yeah. It's always good to have. But we were able to replace the rice cooker with the instant pot because it does

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rice cooking and more. So if you've got a small, small kitchen, we've got a smaller kitchen, you know,

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kind of maximizing your, your appliances and theirs. Right. And I still have my rice cooker. Okay. When

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my rice cooker goes bad, I'm not buying another one. I'll just use my instant pot. Yeah. But I had the rice

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cooker before the instant pot. Yeah. Which I got as a gift from my old travel partner. So next one,

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and a lot of people have these. And I was, I was skeptical until I bought one, but we got an air fryer

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and I fucking love my air fryer, man. You can cook vegetables in it, frozen vegetables in it. And you

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can do all your like shitty junk food you buy from the frozen section that nobody should really eat.

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But, and then you can cook like pork chops in it. You can cook chicken breast in it. You can pretty

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much cook anything you want in it. Yeah. And it's fantastic. I like to do drummies, like chicken legs.

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And then I have like a basically like a fried chicken leg with hot sauce. Okay. But it's kind

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of a game changer for us. Okay. Because it's fast and you can just put it in, drop it, and then you

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can let it run and then do something else. We have a big kitchen. Yeah. So anything that allows me to

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multitask and shorten my time is good. Yes. So, and I know that a lot of people have them already,

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but if you don't have an air fryer, get a big ass one. Get the bigger the better. Can you do the

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pizza rolls in there? Yeah. Oh yeah. You can do pizza rolls in there. You can do damn near anything

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that isn't going to kind of fly apart. So you can't do like a grilled cheese in it because of that

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convection. Yep. And yeah, I like it. Yeah. I think it's worth every penny. Well, I guess as long as

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we're on like the kitchen gadgets here, and I think I put this one on here too. Oh yeah, I did. Toaster

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oven. We don't have a toaster at our house. And for I think three or four years, we ran without a

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microwave and we just use the toaster oven or the oven or the stove top. And the toaster oven we

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have has the toast feature. It's got the oven bake feature. It's got the broil feature. So it's a

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fairly large one and the shelf can go in two different places. You could fit a 12 inch pizza

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in there and cook a pizza in there. Oh, nice. You can do probably, depending on the loaf, you could

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probably do six pieces of toast at a time in it. So you can do, well, we did actually three bagels,

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you know, split open in there. So we like that. It's quick. It's easy. You don't have to wait for

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the big oven to preheat. If you're just warming up something small, it's great for leftovers that

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would get soggy in the microwave. Right. You know? So yeah. Yeah. And well, since we're in kitchens,

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I got a lot of kitchen stuff because I like to cook and I've always been a home cook.

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I mean, we're recording this the day after Thanksgiving. So we've got food on the mind,

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right? Exactly. So Sarah, a couple of years ago for my birthday, got me a great gift and it was

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a Lodge brand, which is made in USA. Cast iron wok. OK. And I like stir fry. It's quick and easy

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to make. And once you get that fucker up hot, you have to get it like maximum hotness, like

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eight out of ten hot. Yeah. But it is so quick and you can make a meal for yourself in 10 minutes.

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And almost all of it is just heating up the wok and you can walk away. Ha ha ha. So and it's cast

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iron. You got to make sure it's oiled and all that. And you got to use wooden utensils so you

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don't melt your plastic utensils. But yeah, I like the Lodge stuff. We've got I don't know if they're

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Lodge. We've got a couple cast iron fry pans that we'll put on our stove top. But I've got a Lodge

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cast iron Dutch oven as do I to go camping with. And I use mine at home. OK, I do. I don't have the

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feet on mine. Mine's flat. It's got a flat top. Yeah. And then it's got the lid that you can

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put a little hooks on. Oh, yeah. Mine's the full on camping. You. Yeah. You put it on top of the

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the charcoal briquettes. Yeah. And then you put briquettes on top and you just let that thing go.

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My top and bottom separate and they can be used as pans. They don't have. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Cast iron is great. You just got to take care of it and clean it now with soap. I clean it

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the right way and do all the right stuff with it. So but if you take care of it, it lasts for forever

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and ever and nothing sticks on it. Yeah. Even if you get rusty, you can re cleaning, you can score

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it out and then redo it like, yeah, do it outside. Yeah, it's a big process. But, you know, we've

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we've reconditioned, I think is what it's called. Yeah. Yeah. I've done that a couple of times and

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recondition them. One other thing, this is my last kitchen gadget. OK, I might as well just interject

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it here. Absolutely. Well, we do like our quesadilla maker. So but sometimes I just make them on the

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flat pan because the flat pan is easier to clean than the quesadilla maker, which was just a thrift

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store. Like, hey, it was five bucks. Right. So but we were gifted an egg boiler and it's a little

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round thing like this. It holds maybe six or eight eggs and it comes with a clear plastic measuring

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cup kind of thing. And it tells you, you know, soft, medium or hard for boiled. And that's how much

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water you put in it. And you dump that water in. You put your eggs on top, close the lid, plug it

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into the wall, push the button and then it beeps when it's done. And you do your ice bath or

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whatever. And the measuring cup has a little needle on the other end so you can pop the cap off and

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score and crack your eggshells that way. So it's good for doing a bunch of eggs all at once and not

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having to wait for stuff to boil. You know, it's closed little unit. Sure. So just set it. And when

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it beeps, it's a horrendous sound. But, you know, it works. So that's topical because my

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Sarah's making deviled eggs right now and I boiled 20 for her yesterday and she's doing probably

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half a dozen more today. Yeah. Anyway, I got a lot of kitchen stuff because I love kitchen stuff.

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Well, you go through your kitchen stuff and I'll ask questions if any arise. Perfect. I should mention,

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now look at this, Mike, on the cigar here. Oh, you're gonna crack. That little leaf is cracked and

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kind of pulling up on the wrapper. It doesn't really affect the taste and I've got some nice

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ash going as does Mike. Interesting. But it is a little strange. That's the importance of letting

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people know that these cigars came from my humidor and from Nate's. So they're going to have been

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kept in probably slightly different conditions. Slightly different conditions. I just did go and

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re-up all my humidor fluid in my humidor. I need to do mine. I don't let any of mine get too low.

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You know, they're usually always around the 72 to 60, mid 60s percentage. So I use Bavada packs to

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yeah, manage. I found a bottle of humidor juice on Amazon that is like, I think is rated for 72%.

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Oh, really? So I guess you can get them pre-filled. I just use the regular humi juice. Yep. But yeah,

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so I don't know what the difference is. I didn't look at the makeup of, you know, whatever. I think

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it's supposed to be distilled water and propylene glycol. I know you can make your own, but I don't

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know. It's not that expensive. No. I really want to be doing chemistry. No, it's not. So anyway,

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I'm going to go through mine. I'll be fairly quick with some of them. I like the Vitamix blenders.

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Okay. I love it. And I got little travel cups. I have an old 5200 machine and then I upgraded

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here to like a 750 machine and it has like the different size cups and everything. Okay. And

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it's got travel cups and everything. And I used to drink green smoothies a lot for breakfast.

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Okay. And that's why when I was traveling, I was at a Vitamix because we would do a green smoothie

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for breakfast, which once you convince a construction worker that it's okay, he can drink it, it gets got

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so many vitamins and everything in it. It's got that boost in the morning that it's pretty easy

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to convince people to continue to drink them. Now is that similar to a NutriBullet? So no. Well,

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I have an attachment that makes it similar to a NutriBullet, but the Vitamix is like a two

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horsepower full on blender with a stick that you can make ice in. Yeah. You can like freeze

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bananas and turn it into ice cream. And then one of their tricks is that if you puree tomatoes in

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it, you can actually cook it in there up to hot temperatures because it has so much power and

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spinning force. The friction. Yeah. Yeah. We've got a NutriBullet and I didn't put it on my list

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because we don't use it very frequently, but it's got the chopping blade and a blending blade. So

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you can choose it, but it's the size of a cup. Basically it's a very small little blender, but

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I've used it to make brown sugar when we've been out of brown sugar and it's molasses and regular

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sugar. That's literally all that that is. But it blends it up really nicely. Better than you

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could do with like a whisk or anything in a bowl. I like to make margaritas in the summer too.

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Okay. And having a big powerful blender like that. Yep. Yep. It's a game changer. I mean,

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making margaritas, because I had a KitchenAid blender before I bought my Vitamix and I burned

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it out in six months. It's a hundred dollar blender. Yeah. I'm like, fuck that. So I went

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and got the big daddy. Yeah. Yeah. We have a food processor that I like, but my Sarah does not like

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it because it's too easy to, you know, if you toss an onion in there to chop it, if you don't really,

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really watch what you're doing, then you have like onion juice. Yeah. So she doesn't like it as much

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as I do. So it doesn't get used a whole lot and it's rather large. So it's kind of cumbersome to

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pull out and use. And then it's a bitch to clean. Yeah, of course. So this is going to be an

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interesting one because my coffee pots no longer made, but there's an association called the

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specialty coffee association and they will certify coffee pots. These coffee pots have all of the

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temperature sensors and everything else. So where your water is 198 degrees, it comes onto your

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filter. And anyway, this, this specialty coffee associations exists to certify coffee equipment

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for the quote unquote best cup of coffee. So if you're going to get a coffee pot at home and you

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want extremely good coffee all the time, go onto their website. They have 20 coffee pots, probably

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on there right now. I went there yesterday and checked it out and they're like OXO and KitchenAid

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and you can find these in stores. Yeah. Like it's not impossible. I have a bun. Like I say,

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they don't make the one that I have anymore. They probably will come out with one again,

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because I like the bun. But yeah, and it makes a huge difference. The coffee that comes out of my

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coffee pot is I don't go to Starbucks. Yeah. Like there's no reason. And I don't drink coffee at

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gas stations either because it tastes like trash. Yeah. To go along with that, I have a Baratza

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Encore grinder. It's a hopper grinder and you can do anything, any size coffee grounds for French

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press or for your regular drip. And it's worth the money. It costs a lot. Is that, that's a burr

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grinder then? It's a burr grinder with a hopper. Yeah. And it's a hundred and I think I spent 140

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on mine. Okay. Which seems like a lot because it is not really for, I mean, not for burr grinders.

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If you're really going to get into the, and that's what that's something that I want is a burr grinder

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because we've just got the blade grinder, which is fine for, we just have a drip pot, but we've got,

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you know, that we've got the French press and we've got pour over stuff and it's, you can't really,

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with ours, it's just, well, you hold the button down for a little less time and you get a coarser

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grind. Yep. The Baratza Encore is pretty much considered the best. It's not the best, but it's

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the most economical with it. It still does everything that you need. And then you can take

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it all apart and all the parts are replaceable. Okay. So if you tear a gasket or something,

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you can order a replacement part. As long as you don't burn the engine out, you're fine. Yeah. And

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it's worth every penny. I had a black and Decker one before this one. Okay. And it worked pretty

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good, but it didn't do fine grinds very well. Sure. So it would do drip and do like cold,

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cold brew and press pot, but it, we couldn't get into an espresso type grind. And we have

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an espresso maker and this, we will do an espresso grind. Yeah. I know for camping, I've got a,

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I don't know, it's kind of like a little bit bigger in diameter than a paper towel tube,

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you know, in the middle tube. And it's a hand crank coffee grinder. You can set your size on

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there. And I believe it's a burr grinder and it's all stainless steel and you can do that. And then

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I've got a stainless steel percolator that goes on a little cricket burner for camping. Yeah. So you

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can make real nice coffee out in the woods, in the sticks, wherever you may be. Yeah. And we have a

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percolator and I'll just pre grind all the coffee and bring it with me. Yeah. You can do that too.

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Yeah. Theoretically, if I was in my truck, I have a inverter so I could run a grinder on it, but I

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don't know if I can do that. Screw that. And then you might as well just stay home. Yeah, exactly.

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You might as well. You might as well. And then I have other things like Americans don't usually

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have electric kettles. Yep. And I didn't have one, but I like French press coffee and I have a

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Bodum chain board pot, which again, a little more expensive, but every part is replaceable. So I've

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had mine. I got mine my first year of college. Yeah. So it's old. And yeah, but yeah, I like my

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electric kettle. I fought against it, but I like it. And then I usually, I have a digital scale too.

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Okay. Yeah. I've got a digital scale. I haven't used it for much. I originally got it to do

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my own CO2 for our aquarium, but I found a different method that just takes regular kitchen

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measurements. And so I don't have to sit there and measure out, you know, 0.057 grams of yeast or

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whatever. Right. So on the weekends, I like to make French press coffee. Okay. And I'll measure

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the weight in grams. Okay. And I kind of fuck with it like a hobby. You know what I mean? For no

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reason. Yeah. That's still good to have because sometimes you do come across recipes or things

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where they do grams or whatever. So all the time. And they're not expensive. The little digital.

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No, I have an Amazon branded one works great. Yeah. I think I've got an Amazon branded like package

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scale, mailing scale. So I use that all the time because if I sell something online and you just

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ship something out or ship something to relatives or whatever, I can weigh it. And I just go to

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pirate ship. You get the corporate rates for the USPS and you can do a USP or UPS, I'm sorry. And

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you can schedule the pickup. So you print off the label, slap it on the box, and then schedule the

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pickup and the mail person comes and picks it up the next day. Nice. And you're good to go. Nice.

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And we talked about this previous episode, but Pamper Chef makes a spritzer that you can put

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your own olive oil in. That thing is awesome. I have two of them. Got so much. I like them

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because I thought I lost it when I moved and I didn't. I found it later. And then a Soda Stream.

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Man, I am obsessed with my Soda Stream. I know. I want to get one of those. Oh, dude. And they're

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in hot water right now because they're made in Israel. Yeah. But come on, man. They're a

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first world nation. Like who gives a shit? Yeah. Like the people working in that factory make

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exactly what they make here. So, yeah, I mean, I get it that people are getting a little touchy

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feely about things, but yeah, it's better than made in communist China. Yeah. I don't know. I'll

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have to put it better to make your own carbonated stuff than get it from a plastic bottle from a

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plastic bottling plant that will then just go back to the dump or whatever. Right. So

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and mine has a, I have the one with glass bottles. Yeah. I like it a lot. We just got a whisk as a

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gift and I don't know what the brand is called, but if you look at it, it's got metal balls on

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the end of it. They're like straight tines. Okay. And if you're looking for a whisk for whatever

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reason, get one of those. Okay. Yeah. They're like German made. So is it not like your standard like

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egg beater? It doesn't come around in an egg beater. They come off all those little metal

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tines from the handle. Okay. On the end of each metal tine, there's a metal ball. Okay. And then

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we have two of them. We have one with metal and one with plastic. Yeah. And they are so much better.

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Okay. So much better. I hate those egg beater ones because they don't really fit in drawers.

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That they'll, this one doesn't fit in drawers very well either. Okay. But you also don't get all that

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shit built up on the end of it. And like you can beat that piss out or whatever you're doing. Yeah.

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And it works really well. Speaking about the Pamper Chef stuff. And I know we talked about this in a

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previous one too, but I really like stoneware baking things like a stoneware pizza pan or pizza

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stone, I guess is what you call it. And then a stoneware loaf pan. Oh, and those are great. And

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they're similar to cast iron where you don't ever use soap on them, but they all come with a little

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plastic like scraper thing, you know, and you just scrape them off under hot water and then they dry

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out and they're good to go. But the pizza stone is crazy because you'll cook the pizza and it cooks

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it really nice. And then you put it on top, you know, wherever on your counter. And then you come

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back for like another piece of pizza and it's still hot. It's not like the aluminum pans where

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they lose their heat right away. Yep. You come back and you're like, wow, this is still, it's

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almost like as if it were under a heat lamp, but you know, from the pan from up above. So. Yep. I

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really like the stoneware cooking things in addition to cast iron. Oh, hell yeah. I have a

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piece of stone pizza pan as well. I didn't think about putting it on the list because I've always

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had one, but yeah, you know, that's why you're going through your list. And if I think about it,

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I think absolutely. Absolutely. You can't possibly think of everything you use or everything. Right.

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Yeah. It's like, oh, I'm going to sit down and write down everything I use. Yep. And then I'm

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going to skip a couple because it's like nonsense, but one thing that really helps out if you're a

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hunter and you're going to do a lot of butchering is a electric knife sharpener. I have a chef mate,

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but there's sharp makers. There's all kinds of brands. You can pick whatever we want,

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but I can tell you what, man, that thing saved me so much time. Cause if you shoot a couple deer,

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let's say, and you have to butcher and then you have to resharpen and blah, blah, blah. It is

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so much better than trying to run it on a stone. Yeah. Or, you know what I mean? Like I don't want

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to waste my time. I've got a sharpening kit that will let me do serrated blades and things.

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Yep. But it's got the guides and the rods through the stones. So you can go. You have a Lansky

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system. Yeah. Yeah. I also have one of those. Okay. And I like it for my pocket knives. Yeah.

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I'll use it on our chef knives too, because you can get the angle right. But I think in the grand

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scheme of life, if you get any kind of sharpening thing, you're a step ahead because you don't have

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to go down to the knife sharpening store and get your knife sharpened and come back in a week and

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pick it up. And sharp knives are safer than dull knives, especially with cooking or cleaning animals

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or whatever. Absolutely. Yeah. Everybody has their knife preferences. I was going to say,

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just get a nice chef's knife, get a nice paring knife. Yeah. Possibly a nice filet knife,

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and then you're good to go. You can go sharp and clean. Yep. Oh, speaking of knives,

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because we have a small kitchen. I really, really like, it's an aluminum magnetic knife rack.

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vertically above our sink. And then you can just slap your chef knives up there because we don't

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really have the room for a knife block on the countertop. And then it keeps it out of reach of

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kids too, because it's high up. And this will make people laugh is that Nate has a very economical

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and small kitchen. I have a very large kitchen and on our island, we have two knife blocks,

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because I have a knife block and Sarah has a knife block and neither one of us want to put our knife

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block away. But you also have your own knives. We also have our own knives. Yeah. So it's kind

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of like, you know, if you, I don't know, and you work in the kitchen, so, you know, the chef brings

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their own knives in there. They have their own like tools. Yeah. Like an auto mechanic or something.

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I worked in kitchens for a long time. So I have a nice set of knives and Sarah's got a perfectly

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adequate set of knives. They're not as nice as mine. That's it for kitchen gadgets. I think on

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my part, I do have this. Oh, Sarah wanted to put a Houdini corkscrew for open wine bottles.

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Yeah. Is that the electric one? No, no, no, no. It screws in and then it's got like a gripper handle.

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Oh, sure. Yeah. You can open a wine bottle with a tennis shoe. How do you do that? You, and I,

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this is one that you probably need to practice a little bit before you whip it out at your next

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wine party. But you take your shoe off and you put the punt end of the wine bottle into the heel of

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your shoe, as if it were your limb, right? Your foot. And then you will bang it against a door frame

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or a wall and the pressure will work the cork out of the end of the thing. So the trick is you need

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to, when the cork is adequately out that you can grab it with your hand to pull the rest of the way

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out. You stop the banging or else you're just going to bang and it'll pop out and all the wine

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will spill on the floor. Interesting. So, but that's a way. I mean, you know, when you're in college,

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not that we were drinking a lot of wine, but you have to find different ways to open beer bottles

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and wine and other liquor things. So definitely a way to do it. There we go. That's it for my

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kitchen gadgets. I've got a couple sound audio visual things that I like. So I've got a pair

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of headphones, they're Bluetooth headphones and noise canceling. And honestly, I don't use the

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noise canceling a whole lot because I'm not really on a plane and it works best for kind of the

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continuous noise. It's not like if you have children screaming in the background, you'll

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never hear them with noise canceling. It's more, you know, just noise removal basically, but they

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are Bluetooth and they're comfortable and they have the 3.5 jack. So you can do them without that.

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Okay. The battery, you can turn the noise canceling on and off. So you're not constantly

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draining the battery. Battery life lasts a long, long time. And these are the headphones that I

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usually use when we're doing our podcast. Although I've been doing the hard line in now recently,

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just for no reason. They're Tautronics. So they're not like a big name brand. They're really

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affordable, but they work just fine. I also have a pair of headphones on here. Mine are for work

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and they're Isotune Pro-Aware. They have an NRR rating of 26. So they're certified hearing

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protection. And then the aware port is that you can turn them on and you can hear outside noise

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and it'll automatically block any sound that's over 76 decibels. Because they limit to 76.

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And then of course you can hook them up to your phone and listen to your stuff and work. And then

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they're hearing protection and also you can use them at the gun range if you wanted to or for

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hunting or anything like that. And I like them a lot. I got two pairs. They last about a day.

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Okay. Yeah. I used to DJ quite a bit for weddings and things. And I have on here downbeats. And they

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are just silicone things that go in your ear. They come in a little carry case that goes on

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your key chain if you're so inclined. And usually whenever I go to a concert, first Av or anywhere

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where there's going to be loud noise for a long period of time, I toss the downbeats in and they

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really do cut down that, I don't know what you would call it, like the post show headache or

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whatever to the ear from that. And I think on their website, and they're like, I don't know,

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$12, $16 on Amazon. You can get them any color you want. And they cut down I think 15 or 16 decibels.

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And you can hear people close to you and conversation just fine. And honestly it doesn't

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affect the audio quality from the concert at all. So Nate told me about these. And I bought myself

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a Mice era them. And they are a game changer. They're way better than having earplugs in.

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I'm so glad you did. I'm so glad.

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They are way better. And if I forget them, I'm really bummed because then I got to put earplugs

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in because I don't want that loud ringing all day long.

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The earplugs muffle.

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And they muffle. These do not muffle at all. So I don't know how they do it. I bought one for

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Dev because we went to a show together and he was like, what are you sticking in your ears there?

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And I'm like, oh, here you go, man. Just get your own pair.

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So yeah, they're definitely worth it. And the black case is cheaper.

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Everybody knows.

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That's the one I have.

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Yeah. I have black. Sarah has purple.

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But yeah, I got purple for my reasons.

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Yeah. For reasons. I think hers were like 18 bucks.

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Even though we're married to these respective Sarah's,

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I don't want her ear stuff in my ear.

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No, not really.

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No, not really.

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So yeah. So that was that. I don't know. I guess I'll root some of mine off.

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We've got two of these now because all modern phones have wireless charge capability.

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Mm-hmm. Or most of them do. And I found this good one. It's a Utech,

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Y-O-O-T-E-C-H. And they're just wireless charge pads. They're cheap. You can get them in any

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color you want. So there's like, I got a minty green for Sarah and it's got a black one for me.

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Yeah. But the nice thing about these is they have an LED. So it'll light up green when you,

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when it senses the connection. Because there's been a couple of times when I had a different one,

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when I put my phone down and I thought it was charging, but it wasn't lined up the right way

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on the wireless pad and it was not charging. So I was pretty disappointed the next morning

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when I was at like zero. But those, I like those.

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I have an iPhone and I have a MakeSafe case. So I have MakeSafe stuff for my phone.

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Yes.

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And I pretty much always buy Anchor branded products.

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The Anchor's good.

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Consistently good. I got a battery bank. It's like 2,800 milliamps. I got a couple years ago

361
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for my hunting and fishing trips.

362
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Yep.

363
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And yeah, Anchor, if you can get it at Anchor and it's on sale.

364
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Yeah.

365
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,640
Probably a good investment because it's...

366
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I want to talk about my battery bank. I almost brought it in here so you could see it, but it's

367
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Inui. I-N-I-U. I don't know. It's got a little paw print that lights up blue and it'll tell you,

368
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depending on how many paws or little toes are left, how, what the percentage is left.

369
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It's got two USBs out, one USB-C in, and it's got a little flashlight too on it.

370
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:12,160
Oh, that's cool.

371
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If you need it. I've never used a flashlight on it, but it charges quick and I don't know what

372
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the capacity is, but it'll charge a phone at least twice.

373
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Sure.

374
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,080
It's just a nice thing to have if you're out and about, if you're taking a bike ride or

375
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,640
Sarah's working in overnight once. And I'm like, here, take the battery pack so you're not out of

376
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,640
phone by the end of the night when you're coming home at like three in the morning or something.

377
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So yeah.

378
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Yeah. My Anchor is like the size of a checkbook,

379
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but it'll charge your phone for a week every day. It's huge.

380
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:41,600
Yeah.

381
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

382
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,960
Mine's a little more travel friendly, I believe.

383
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:45,200
Yeah.

384
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,360
Yours is a little bit bigger than maybe my phone, like a little thicker than a phone,

385
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,000
but it comes in a nice little corded pouch and it comes with the USB-C. And then I just shoved an

386
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,440
iPhone cable in there. So it's like, it's got both things so I can charge almost any device.

387
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,440
Absolutely. Yeah. I bring mine for like a Rockfest, which were there for four days.

388
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:03,760
Yeah.

389
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:09,440
And it'll charge my phone for four days. Easy. And Sarah's phone. It'll be, yeah. It's great.

390
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:16,800
As far as, uh, talking about phones, I bought and it's called UB size is the brand and it's a camera

391
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,920
tripod, but for your phone. Okay. It's a phone tripod. Super light. We take it on hiking trips

392
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and I'll throw it in my pack. And that way we can actually set up a tripod with a timer and we can

393
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:34,480
have a proper photo of us or whatever we want. And it's steady. And we have two. I bought one

394
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for Sarah as well. Yeah. Cause she wanted one for her adventures and things. Yeah.

395
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:44,800
And, uh, yeah, that'll be something I have to get is, yeah, it's pretty tall. It extends up.

396
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:50,880
And so I've got a little gorilla pod that I'll use for my GoPro sometimes. Oh, sure. Maybe there's

397
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an attachment that you can just, you know, I'm sure there's a phone attachment for a gorilla pod,

398
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little backpacking, you know, that's one with the little articulating things. You can wrap it around

399
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:06,400
a tree branch. Yeah. They look like they're spiders. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Um, keeping it like

400
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,360
the audio visual, I guess I'm just going to say like the Roku stick is nice. Sarah wanted to put

401
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,560
that on there too. She's a big Roku. I did a lot of research before, you know, getting whatever

402
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:23,520
the Amazon one is or the fire stick or the Roku or whatever. And, uh, the Roku will do the Amazon

403
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:29,520
video stuff and it just seems to work well. There's apps for both iPhone and Android that

404
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:36,000
you can control your Roku from. Yep. Um, there's a third party app for iPhone that you can cast

405
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:42,560
things from your iPhone to your Roku. Yep. So when we went during the pandemic, we virtually went to

406
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:49,440
the Mumford and Sons Red Rock performance. Oh, that's cool. But we had a link on the phone and

407
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,560
we were like, well, how are we going to get this up there? I'm like, well, we'll just, let's cast it

408
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,040
up there with this third party app. And it worked just fine. There was no lag and nice, you know,

409
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:01,760
we've got the, we've got the one that's got the Bluetooth remote. Okay. So there's no little

410
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,400
infrared sensor thing you have to do. And Sarah's parents have the infrared sensor thing. So it's

411
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,680
kind of like, you got to get it just right because they've got stuff piled on their TV.

412
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,920
I think ours is Bluetooth too, because I can point it. I can like, I don't need to point it anywhere.

413
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,600
I can just touch it. And then I know that it has a phone app that you can use your phone for.

414
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,760
Yep. That's pretty convenient. Yep. So, uh, my old travel partner, and I'm not sure if you can get it

415
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:27,600
anymore, he had an Amazon fire stick that was a European fire stick. It was not an American one.

416
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:34,240
Yeah. So he had access for free to all of the European TV stations because they had a contract

417
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:39,920
with like the BBC and whatever Univision and all these other big European companies. So he could

418
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:46,080
get for free all of the European channels and movies and everything. And, uh, it was awesome.

419
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,320
And I'm not sure if you can even find, you probably can find something like that on eBay or something.

420
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,600
I'm sure you could. I think, I think with the, and you know, if you want to do third party stuff,

421
00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:01,120
I think it's fairly easy to install your own stuff onto a Roku stick. Oh, sure. Probably a fire stick

422
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:06,320
as well, except I would imagine a fire sticks a little more locked down. Possibly. Quite possibly.

423
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,320
Let's see. What else do we got here? We're, I mean, we should do, I think we're a little beyond

424
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,680
halfway. We're around halfway. We're around halfway. It's still smooth, spicy. We're getting,

425
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:21,120
yeah, I'm getting a little spice. Yeah. It's very nice. Yeah. I relit a little bit because, um,

426
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:27,040
I've moved past that leaf flaking off part. So yeah, let's see. The other thing that I have next

427
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:36,160
to my bed, it's a PowRui, P-O-W-R-U-I, but it's an eight outlet, four USB, six foot flat plug power

428
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:42,720
strip block. Okay. So it's nice because it's got the four USBs. So I can, I plug my wireless

429
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:47,760
charge pad into that. And then I just keep a cord there for like my Kindle or whatever else I might

430
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:53,440
need to do. And then it's got enough plugs because we just got kind of the one plug behind our headboard

431
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,360
on our bed. So one goes over, Sarah's got a different one because she doesn't have as much

432
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,800
electronic stuff. But one goes over to her side and one comes to my side. And this one's nice

433
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,920
because I can plug in a lot of things to that. The other thing I really like is the Wyze security

434
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:14,160
cams. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I've got, I've got one on the driveway, um, cause it's ready for outdoors

435
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,480
and it makes it through the winter just fine. No problems. I've got a Wyze doorbell, uh, which

436
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,720
works just fine. And then I've got two in the house, just, you know, in case one of the outside ones

437
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,280
misses somebody breaking in, there's still two more in the house as a little surprise for, for

438
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,960
people. But it's nice to check on the cat too, you know, like, oh yeah, there's the cat or, and they've

439
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:37,120
got pretty nice, um, smart detection. So you can tell it to ignore pets or to trigger on pets. So

440
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:43,120
very nice, you know, trigger on vehicles and people. Yep. So, uh, on that note, we have

441
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:48,960
Casa switches and receptacles in the house and, uh, not all of them, but it is, you have no idea

442
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,600
guys, if you don't have any smart switches and smart receptacles in the house, God, it's nice.

443
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:58,240
You have timer on them. You can remotely turn it on and off with your phone. You can connect it to

444
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:04,640
your Alexa or Google box or whatever sort of home smart system you have. And, uh, on that note,

445
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,520
I have a smart thermostat and I know Nate does too. I have a Honeywell. Oh, Honeywell, I've got an

446
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:16,640
Echo B. Yep. Yeah. And, um, it's awesome. It saved a ton of money on my bill for, uh, heating and

447
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:23,200
air conditioning, uh, because you can set a wave pattern or not the wave pattern, but you can set

448
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,480
your schedule and your schedule. Like for me at night, I don't care if the house gets a little

449
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:33,520
cooler or hotter in the summer or whatever. Yeah. I have to go colder at night when we're sleeping.

450
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:38,800
Yep. See, and I have, I basically turn it off and then I have an away mode. So in a way setting. So

451
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,240
when I, when we're away from home, it keeps everything cooler or in the summer, warmer.

452
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:49,680
And then it's nice because before, before we leave, I'm going to fire up my phone app and tell it that

453
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:54,400
we're home and then it'll be warm when we're home. Yep. Yep. And we have, uh, what did like

454
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:01,280
curtains that are rated to keep temperatures in the like curtains. Yep. And, uh, in the winter

455
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,760
time you can put your hand back there and it's freezing cold behind them. So it really stabilizes

456
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:11,520
the temperature in the day. Yep. My heater does not turn on from six 30 in the morning until

457
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:18,480
three right before time off of work. Yep. And, uh, it's nice cause it saves so much money.

458
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,000
When I know if the Echo Bees, you can get a temperature sensors, you can put other places

459
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,000
in the house and then it will calculate the average temperature, you know, and then keep your

460
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,400
house averagely. Oh, that's nice. And it'll work with multiple stage or multiple zone

461
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:41,840
furnaces or HVAC systems and things. So that's nice. And I like that they give me a reminder to

462
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,600
change my furnace filter. Oh, sure. It'll pop up and say, change your furnace filter. And I'm like,

463
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,480
oh yeah, probably time. So then, you know, nice and easy to do. And we have some smart bulbs,

464
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,160
which I'm less thrilled about. I like them, but people come and then mess with the lamp

465
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,840
because they think they can turn the lamp on. But if they turn it off, then I have to re-sync

466
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,600
the smart bulb, which is a pain in the ass. But I do have one smart plug, but I should get some

467
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:06,240
more smart plugs for the lamps. So they're worried about people messing with my stuff. Yep. And that's

468
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:09,840
one nice thing about the Casa switch. The only difficulty is that if you have a three-way switch,

469
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,720
you have to put it on the load side of the first switch, which is something that an electrician

470
00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:19,040
can do, but home users are, if you're not confident, don't do it because you could hurt yourself

471
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,480
or others. Yeah. I put my 3d printer on here because I use it quite a bit. Okay. I just have

472
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:30,320
an Ender 3. I've, I don't want to say severely modified and upgraded it, but that's kind of the

473
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:36,480
fun of these 3d printers is it's a cheap entry-level 3d printer and you can buy parts from

474
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:43,200
AliExpress or wherever. And it takes maybe four weeks to four months to get to you, but it's only

475
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,480
$16 instead of $97 for the American version or the Swiss made version. Right. But it does the same

476
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,280
thing and it works just as fine. So you can go and you can 3d print anything you want. I 3d printed

477
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:59,120
a DVD case holder for our child. So you can put one of the old school DVD players in the car and

478
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,320
it sits right on the back. I just took the measurements and designed something quick on

479
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,960
the computer. Nice printed it out. I print a bunch of board game stuff for that. Yeah. You printed me

480
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,680
off some Dune stuff. Yep. Some Dune stuff. So, and those are awesome. They look really good. Yeah. So

481
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:16,720
it's just, it's fun, fun to do a fun little hobby, but you can make lots of things that are also

482
00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:22,960
useful to your life as well. If you're going to be getting a 3d printer as my one friend did and

483
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,680
asked me for my input, I said, get whatever you want, but make sure you get the biggest bed,

484
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:32,240
print bed you can afford. My print bed is smaller than his print bed. And I was trying to print

485
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:36,400
something and it wouldn't fit on my bed. No matter, no way, no house. I sent him the file.

486
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,280
It was like, Hey, can you print this out on yours? He's like, yeah, no problem. Cause I printed out

487
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:44,000
bunch of stuff for him before he ever got one. Oh, here's one you might think of, or you might know,

488
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:49,360
the little giant ladder. Yeah. Now I don't have one. I don't have one, but I borrowed one from a

489
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:54,400
friend. They loaned me it. Yes. During the Nate falls down the stairwell multiple times incident

490
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:02,640
year. But it's, it's great. It's awesome. It works on stairs. It folds up, folds down. Yep.

491
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:08,560
It's essentially, I'm going to get one very useful. I hated the idea of it because it's aluminum and

492
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:13,520
it's kind of gimmicky, but you can have a short straight ladder. You can have, you can send it out.

493
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:20,000
You can do more steady than the extension ladder thing that I have at home now. And it's more

494
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,560
sturdy than any of the letters my dad ever had. See in mines not, but I have like professional

495
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,640
grade ladder. I'm guessing if you go anywhere in my neighborhood and ask to see their ladder,

496
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,240
it's going to be some rickety piece of shit. Yeah. And so this is going to be better than those.

497
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:38,800
Right. Word to the wise, you have to wear a pair of boots that have a steel shank in them because

498
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:43,360
that little rung is sturdy, but it is small and you do not want to stand on it in a flip flop,

499
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:49,360
which I have done. Yes. Or a croc. Yeah. Or a croc or a Paris. Sarah was trying to do it with her

500
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:54,320
like old work sneakers. Okay. And I'm like, nah, nah, nah, go get your boots on. Yeah.

501
00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:01,040
Cause you know, my feet hurt. I'm like, well, no shit. But yeah, it's a great home device as far

502
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:06,240
as that goes. And then if you guys have a dog, this is related to home tools. And then the

503
00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:11,040
electronics, we got our dog, a halo collar. Okay. And they are expensive. What do they do?

504
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:17,280
It is a GPS tracking collar and you can create custom fencing zones. And then if you train your

505
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:22,640
dog on a shock collar, which we already did, they have buzz auditory and then the shock. Well,

506
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,800
this does the same thing. Yeah. So if you've already trained your dog on a shock collar,

507
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,960
and then you work with your progression, so buzz auditory, and then finally, you know,

508
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:36,800
this is the big zap. Yeah. The dog will natively know how to use this collar because it'll go to

509
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:41,120
the zone. It'll give it a little buzz or vibrate. And then it'll give an auditory sound. And then

510
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:47,680
it'll shock them if they go past the, the no-go zone. And it is great. You have 20 zones. Yeah.

511
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,840
So like my place I have on my parents' place, my brother's place, whatever. Yeah. And you can

512
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,240
bring the dog with you and you can make temporary zones. Okay. And you can both draw it on the map

513
00:42:56,240 --> 00:43:01,120
or you can physically walk around and create GPS points for custom. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.

514
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:06,320
So it works and it's really expensive, but it's a lot cheaper than putting an underground fence.

515
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:11,040
And it's certainly cheaper than building a real fence. Yeah. Yeah. We, speaking about pets and

516
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:17,120
things, we've got a cat and we used to have an automatic feeder and it was a big hopper style

517
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,880
and had this big conveyor belt thing that would go up and you, you know, you'd set it, you could

518
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:29,120
program it to what, how many servings per day, serving size per serving and whatnot. But it

519
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,520
finally went out and then I did some more research on them and that one was really expensive. It was

520
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:38,640
like a hundred dollars. And then you had to buy the separate, the separate AC backup. Yep. So it ran

521
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,080
off of like, it would run off the batteries first. And then if the batteries went out, it would run

522
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,320
off the AC. So it was a little backwards. And this new one I got, it has a big hopper, but it's got a

523
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:52,400
little spin dish at the bottom to kick it out. And it has batteries for backup and runs off the outlet.

524
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,800
And it's a lot easier to program and it's easier to see if it's full or not. And if you need to

525
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:03,200
fill it up and it's great because our cat has never been fed by us directly. We've only ever had it

526
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:08,720
feed off of an automatic feeder. So we don't really get the 3 a.m. wake up calls like meow, meow, meow,

527
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,520
feed me. I'm hungry. It's like, no, you just, and she knows if we don't see her for a bit, our cat,

528
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,560
I'll go downstairs to like do the laundry or something or check something downstairs. She's

529
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,480
like sitting right there by her food dish. So she's not bothering me. Yep. And then we can go away

530
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,280
for long weekends and she's got food. We have auto feeders for our cat as well. Yeah. And that we

531
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,640
have a spinner style and it's the AC power first battery backup second. And ours will run on battery

532
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,960
only if you want it to. Yeah. But yeah, it's great. It's better to have that. Yeah, it's awesome.

533
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,440
I wanted to do another shout out. I know we talked about this on one of the ones when I

534
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:45,520
was talking about my car repairs, but the the those if screw extractor set, T.H.O.S.A.F. saved

535
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:51,680
my butt again. So we had a kitchen drawer that had a critical malfunction failure and I had to put in

536
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:57,280
new side rails and cut some some stuff out with an oscillating tool, which I'm sure you're going to

537
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,920
talk about. Yes. And one of the screws, because it was so tight and cramped in there because you're

538
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,320
not really supposed to be putting these things in when the countertop is on. So you just kind of

539
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,960
have to make do with what you make do with. Well, one of these screws stripped out and it was in the

540
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:16,800
track path. So it was going to block the opening and closing of said said drawer. So I went and

541
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:22,800
grabbed my handy screw extractor set and it popped right out again. So this one, though, I did have

542
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,800
to I drilled with the smaller size and tried with that same as the reverse bits. They've got the

543
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:31,280
drill on one side and the extractor on the other side of the bit. So it's they're already sized.

544
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:36,400
Right. You know, you put one in drill, flip it around and extract. But I went up a size on the

545
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,720
extractor and that's what popped it right out of the wood. Oh, nice. I can't recommend that enough.

546
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:48,000
It was not expensive at all. But if you ever run into those things because you've got your torque

547
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:52,640
set too high on your on your power drill, let's raise our hands. That's me. And you strip screw

548
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:58,160
heads out a lot. But for like outdoor stuff, I use a lot of the Torx heads now instead of the Phillips

549
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:02,240
because they don't strip as easily. Yeah. Yeah. Torx is yeah. For a lot of stuff is a lot better.

550
00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:08,560
Yeah. And then I we talked about this list before we started the show, obviously. And I didn't have

551
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,720
an oscillating saw until like two years ago. Maybe. OK. It was during Covid and they had a great sale

552
00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:19,920
on a DeWalt on Amazon. OK. It was like an oscillator and two batteries and a thing in a bag. Yeah.

553
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:25,120
The charger for like ninety nine bucks or so. OK. And it doesn't matter what brand tools you have

554
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:29,600
at home. I like to keep every tool with the same battery. And I'm a big proponent of battery power

555
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,720
tools. Yeah. So if you don't have an oscillating saw, I can tell you if you're doing home projects,

556
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:39,680
things a lifesaver. Yeah. You can cut custom things into your cabinets if you have to put in

557
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:44,160
extra stuff. Yeah. They work great. Yeah. And you can get cheap blades. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You can get

558
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:49,200
this whole sets of them for like 20 bucks. Yeah. I think our oscillating tool because it's not it's

559
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,280
not a saw. It's a tool we got from Harbor Freight. So super cheap. Oh, yeah. It's corded. So it's not

560
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:59,120
battery power is corded. But then it comes with a big Allen key and you can put there's a big blade

561
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,200
for cutting wood. And then I bought a smaller blade about the size of my fingertip for cutting

562
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:08,960
wood. It comes with a sander. Yeah. And then it's just a standard oscillating tool head. So you can

563
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,280
go to Home Depot or whatever and just grab what you need for it. And, you know, you don't need it

564
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,680
every day. But I've used it multiple times. It's great for drywall cutting through drywall. I got

565
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:23,120
a dry. I have a special drywall blade so I can put in boxes, receptacle boxes. Yeah. I also

566
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:27,600
have a sanding pad. We used it on our deck a couple of times when we have to repaint. I got paint

567
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:32,960
scraper. Yeah. It's a great little tool to have around. Yeah. And like I say, if you own Milwaukee

568
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,480
Tools, the Milwaukee one's going to be your jam. They're all going to be the same. They're all going

569
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:41,200
to be great. If you want a Makita or a Ryobi or whatever. If you're on a budget homeowner, just go

570
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,440
to Harbor Freight and grab whatever their brand is. Yeah. The one I didn't put on here is my Dremel

571
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:50,560
tool. I use my Dremel tool all the time, but I'm going to fight you a little bit because you like

572
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:57,280
battery powered things. And for my tools, I like corded power. I like that consistent power. I love

573
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:02,080
the cordless drill. My battery powered drill. Yep. I only have one battery for each of my two drills.

574
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:07,120
If I know I'm doing a drill project, then I'll just use one drill and keep the other drill ready

575
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:11,600
with the battery back up charged and then I can swap and whatever. It's not a big deal. But for

576
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:19,200
Dremeling, Sarah has a rechargeable Dremel that just sucks. That's probably lame. It just sucks.

577
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:24,640
And for some of these tools, you kind of need... All right. So we're going to go on a little tangent

578
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:30,800
here. I have a Dremel. It's corded. I would never buy a battery powered Dremel because of the power

579
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:36,400
factor. The same thing with a grinder. If you're going to buy a grinder at home. I have at work

580
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:41,760
a Hilti branded $400 battery powered grinder. And I swear to fucking God, if I put a leather

581
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:47,520
glove on, I could stop that blade at full speed. It is the weakest, shittiest tool ever. Now I have

582
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:54,480
a battery powered chop saw and that maniac saw is powerful, dangerous. By the same token, I have this

583
00:48:54,480 --> 00:49:01,440
on my list too. If you own a major power tool company branded thing and you have woods, buy

584
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:08,480
the battery powered chainsaw because I have a DeWalt one and literally 99.5% of all chainsaw needs,

585
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:13,360
including trimming, that's all you need. That's the only thing I have that battery powered

586
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,080
chainsaw and a battery powered, what the hell is it called? Like a limbing saw. It's got the

587
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:23,280
extensions on it. Between those two, I literally, you can cut down a tree that's 20 inches with a

588
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,840
12 inch blade. You know what I mean? Like it's great. We have a battery power weed whip and it's

589
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:33,280
fantastic. And so you can flip it and it'll also do edging. Yep. So you can get the all the crap

590
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,680
off the edge of your sidewalk. Yep. I do all my edging stuff. It's a huge battery pack and it's

591
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:44,400
never gone out mid whip or trim. Most modern batteries have the charge indicators on them too,

592
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:49,520
so you can kind of know before you go out. They do, which is nice. And then Weightly is a company

593
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:54,320
that makes like cologne batteries for power tools. And they're really reasonable, especially this

594
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,440
time of year. You can get like a double pack of five amp hour Weightly batteries for like 40 bucks.

595
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:05,280
And yeah, it's so much cheaper than buying the real stuff. And I'm not saying they're as good

596
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:10,000
as a DeWalt battery or a Milwaukee battery or a Makita battery, but they're close enough for,

597
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:15,120
they're close enough because you can get a shit ton of them. Yeah. And having multiple batteries

598
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:20,160
for one tool versus having one really good expensive battery for one tool is better to

599
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:25,040
have the multiple because you can swap to a full charge. Yeah. You know, I've only got two things

600
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:31,360
left on my list of things. One is I've got, and now this is one where I've got, it's a battery,

601
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:38,160
it's not corded. But sometimes I wish it was, but it's a little wall in a zipper pouch beard

602
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:44,560
trimming kit. Oh, sure. So it's got the fine little trimmer to do around your lips or catch

603
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,640
a little strays. And then it's got a regular kind of like the hair clip one. It's got a little

604
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:55,360
attachment so I can trim the whole thing. And then it's got like a foil, so I could do like a close

605
00:50:55,360 --> 00:51:00,400
shave if you wanted to spend hours with this tiny little, you know. And then it's got a little wider

606
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:05,280
blade for any other body hair trimming, you know, when your buddy's over and they ask the bar your

607
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,920
razor, you're like, yeah, sure, go ahead. And they come back out and they still have a full beard.

608
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:16,160
So it only happened once. Yeah. But it's nice. It's a little like carry pouch and there's

609
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:20,720
absolutely zero LEDs on it. So you never know if it's fully charged. You just leave it on the outlet

610
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:24,480
and then come back the next morning or something and assume it's fully charged. I don't like to

611
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,560
leave things on charge for too long because it kind of wears down the batteries, but you know,

612
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:35,280
this was a cheap like beard trimmer and we've got a corded wall for haircuts and, you know,

613
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,280
things like that. But it doesn't have the same precision blades that the little wall

614
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:44,320
beard trimmer thing does. I have an Oster, was it Speedcut or something? It's one of the Made in

615
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,360
USA Osters and I did a lot of research on it because I got one, I inherited one from my dad.

616
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:54,320
For those who are listening and don't know, I have not had, since 2006, I've gone to the hair cutters

617
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:58,400
twice and both times they fucked me up. One of them cut my sideburns off and the other time I

618
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:05,120
had to go for a big wedding out of country. So I got the full like $75 everything done to make

619
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:11,280
myself look nice. So I've cut my own hair exclusively pretty much for 17 years, something like that. And

620
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:17,520
I have an Oster, I think it is a Speed Series. It's the Made in USA one and this is a theme for all

621
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:22,560
the shit I buy. You can buy parts and you can repair it at home. And that's what I wanted.

622
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:27,520
Yeah, we've got the wall, like I said, is corded. You know, you plug it in because that's, if you're

623
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:32,720
doing big haircuts, like full top of the head haircuts, you don't want a battery one. We had

624
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:37,600
one and Sarah was cutting my hair once and it was like running out of battery. So I was catching and

625
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:43,520
pulling hair instead of cutting hair. Just get the corded one. But yeah, I don't have much hair. So

626
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:49,280
I always toss on the 1-8th guide and just go zip, zip. So when I had short hair, I always cut it one

627
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:54,000
inch long because my hair sticks straight out and at one inch it'll actually lay flat. And then I

628
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,400
trim my beard and everything with it and do all my touch-ups and they last. If you take care of it,

629
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:03,520
I have Barbicide that I use to clean it out and I oil it and all that fancy stuff and they last a

630
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,040
really long time. Yeah, yeah. And most of them are self-sharpening blades or whatever they are.

631
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,640
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you get a good enough one, you can get a different blade if it ever

632
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:16,480
gets dull. And I like that stuff. What's your other one? My last one is Kindle Paperweight.

633
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:22,400
So this one is, it used to run on the 3G network as well and it came included with the purchase of

634
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,720
the device. So you could download things, but it's the paperweight. So it is only black and white.

635
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:31,440
It's that E Ink that doesn't take much battery power. The one that I have is, I don't know,

636
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:36,640
it's got to be five generations old by now. It was one of the first, not one of the first, but

637
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:42,400
relatively first paperweights. I know the new paperweights are like water resistant or waterproof

638
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:48,240
and things like that, but I do a lot of eBooks from the library. You can set up your library card with

639
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:54,160
the app called Libby and it will just deliver these Amazon eBooks to you for 30 days or 25

640
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:59,520
days or whatever it is. Sarah does that as well with hers. And I like the paperweight because

641
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:04,560
I just want to read the book. I don't want Facebook notifications. I don't want to also have the

642
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:09,440
option of watching movies on it. I don't want all that stuff on there. So it's a nice for me,

643
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:15,120
distraction-free reading, even though generally I prefer the physical book. But if I'm traveling,

644
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:19,520
I like the paperweight because I've got a bunch of books on there that I haven't read yet. And I can

645
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:23,600
borrow books from the library and read them on there too. And usually I try and borrow the books

646
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:29,920
from the library before getting them for like $2.50 on eBay, used books. But Sarah got me the

647
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:36,800
Kindle paperweight because she did not like how many books I have, but it hasn't, it's curbed

648
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,840
the buying of books, but it hasn't really reduced the amount of books that I still have.

649
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,720
Yeah, exactly. Interesting. So I have a bunch of other stuff.

650
00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:44,240
Let's get it. Get on it.

651
00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:49,600
So for those guys who work with their hands, I have started in the bedroom.

652
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:56,800
I have switched to All American Jean Company carpenter pants, and they are a 15 ounce weight,

653
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:01,840
100% cotton work pants. And I mentioned this because Sarah and I were looking for work clothes

654
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:07,200
the other day, maybe a couple of weeks ago now. And I noticed that all the work pants and shit

655
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:12,080
like that you can find in the stores are all blended. They're not 100% cotton anymore.

656
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,760
Yeah. And that's dangerous if you're going to be working with grinders and stuff because

657
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,720
I think I mentioned it to Nate, a couple of weeks ago, I was cutting down something with a maniac

658
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:26,960
saw and I lit myself on fire. And of course I had 100% cotton pants on.

659
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:27,840
Well, you look fine.

660
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:33,440
I look fine. It just smoldered. I didn't actually catch on flame, but I couldn't imagine trying to,

661
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,920
you know, if you were to catch these poly blend work pants with a grinder,

662
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:43,280
holy shit, that could be a big problem. And they're not cheap. I think they're 70 bucks a pair,

663
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:48,240
but like right now you can get them for 20% off. And they're made in America. And they're very

664
00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:53,280
high quality pants. And who cares, man? If you get a good high quality pair of work pants,

665
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:59,280
it'll last you five, six years. And I recommend them to people. They're not generous sizing.

666
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,800
So you have to measure yourself and then get what the measurements are, not your standard

667
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:08,720
pants size. So my pants size, like two size bigger on the waist and the same length. But yeah,

668
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:14,480
they're really good. And then Carhartt came up with a new design for their vest. And I like wearing

669
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:22,320
a vest for work. And the new design is superior. It's got big pockets. So you can put a cell phone

670
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:29,840
or a checkbook wallet in any of the upper pockets. And then it's got a little holder in the hand

671
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:36,000
pocket for a pen. And I like it. It's kind of one of the first times in a long time that a company

672
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,960
has made an improvement on their design and had to be a genuine improvement. And it's still 100%

673
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:47,680
cotton on the shell. And I recommend it to people if you want to wear a vest. And then for those guys

674
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:53,120
who do have hand tools and you're looking for a new bag, I actually got my coworker to buy one,

675
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:59,440
Vito ProPak. They make some extremely high quality bags. That bag right there, which you can see in

676
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:04,720
the corner because I'm working on house projects. For all your listeners, that's our left.

677
00:57:04,720 --> 00:57:10,240
That's our left. Yeah. But it's like 12 years old and it looks brand new. And granted, they're $300.

678
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:15,840
But you're putting $2,000 for the tools in it. So you buy quality and take care of things.

679
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,960
Generally, they will outlast you. And if it's worth the money, especially if you get your

680
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:28,800
hands on it and see what you need. I have an HVAC tech bag because I have meters and everything on

681
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,120
the one side. I don't like the electrician base because they're all open top. I like when to zip

682
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:38,400
close so you can throw in the back of a pickup. And yeah, they're worth the money. They're crazy

683
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:45,120
expensive, but they're worth the money. Speaking of tools, you recommended me to buy a voltometer.

684
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:49,920
Oh, voltmeter. Voltmeter. Yeah. And it's got the multiple settings and it's got the prongs

685
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:57,280
and everything. And I really enjoy that. And that has come in handy a lot of times. Yes. And we are

686
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:01,360
going to internet the show right now. The other thing I wanted to mention, and I don't think that

687
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:06,720
the brand of this matters too much, Mike might slap me afterwards. But my brother introduced me

688
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:11,520
to this thing. It's a little, like it's a little three prong plug with LEDs on it and it's real

689
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,320
tiny. And you put it in your outlets and it tells you if it's grounded, it tells you if there's

690
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:22,960
power there or if there's not. So you can't do as deep diagnosis as you can with this other tool,

691
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:27,440
but it will also tell you if the polarity is reversed. Oh yeah. Which you could do with the

692
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,920
tool that I have that you recommended me by and I did. If you know what you're doing and know how

693
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:36,960
to read these things. And I have very, very basic knowledge of these things. So I also picked up one

694
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:41,760
of those little plug LED checker things. And if you're not doing a lot of rewiring stuff and you

695
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:46,000
just want to check and make sure your stuff's grounded, just pick up one of the little LED

696
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,760
things. And then if you ever have a problem with an outlet, you can stick that thing in there and

697
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:54,080
it'll tell you if it's fine. We actually found out in my brother's house, his refrigerator was

698
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:59,440
reversed polarity. The outlet his fridge was plugged into. So which luckily hadn't caused any

699
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,760
issues, but over time it could have caused some serious issues for the fridge and potentially

700
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:08,080
fire hazards. So we were able to diagnose that and we checked the rest of it. That was in his house

701
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:12,960
and that was the only one that was reversed. But yes, now I'm having to find a, I'm trying to find

702
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:19,200
this thing thing, of course. And, uh, no, there we go. So the one that I recommended to Nate and I

703
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:23,360
recommended it to my cousin, uh, cause she bought a house and she wasn't sure about some of her

704
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:30,000
electric stuff. And it's the fluke one-oh-one multimeter, which fluke is the premium brand,

705
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:35,360
everybody, uh, for multimeters. Just if guys don't know that, I guess if you're not an electrician,

706
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:41,040
yeah, you wouldn't know that. And, uh, it's like 40 bucks and it's got every setting you could ever

707
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:46,480
possibly need as a home user. Uh, and some you don't in some you don't. Yeah. It's got, uh,

708
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:52,400
AC DC volts. It's got millivolts. It's got homes. Uh, you can check, uh, resistance. You can check

709
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:58,000
capacitors with it. I don't believe it has impacity. And as I told Nate, you don't want to check

710
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:03,280
impacity for the most part as a home user. Uh, that's really something if you need to check the

711
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:08,320
amps that you have on a circuit, you should probably start talking to an electrician because

712
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:13,120
the amps is the part that makes you not alive. And, uh, if you want a meter that has impacity,

713
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:17,360
you're looking at several hundred dollars, uh, for something that's going to be good and reliable

714
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:23,760
and all that stuff. Yes. So, but I can vouch for that one because it was great and we put up a

715
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:29,680
new light fixture, but the cord coming out the top that would be wired into the box, the two

716
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:36,160
wires were the same color and had no positive neutral indication on them whatsoever. So Mike

717
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:41,120
was able and gracious enough to walk me through the right setting on the meter to figure out which

718
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:47,760
one was the positive and which one was the neutral and make that happen. So any sort of home or any

719
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,680
sort of electrical work where you're trying to troubleshoot, you pretty much have to have a

720
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:57,520
volt meter. Yeah. Uh, and for reference, I have a fluke three 74, which is a $300 meter. Yeah. But

721
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:02,400
I am also, uh, an electrician who used to do a little voltage work and pretty much does everything

722
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:08,080
you need to do. Uh, it's clamp meter and all that fancy shit. So you can check your impacity. Yeah.

723
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:13,040
Uh, like I say, if you're, if you're looking at the amps that you have on your lines,

724
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:19,600
it's probably something you need to, uh, contact a professional with. Yeah. Uh, it's like what I tell

725
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:24,560
her, a three year old almost on a daily basis. If you don't know what this thing is, do not touch it,

726
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:30,960
please. So exactly something I use and pass any meters all the time. Yep. As far as my work, but

727
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:37,680
you really shouldn't be checking that. Yes. All right. How much more you got there, Mike?

728
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:42,240
Oh, I got all kinds of crap. I added, I had all kinds of unnecessary stuff. Uh, Sarah wanted me

729
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:48,000
to add, uh, there's foam pandings or there's, we have around, you know, a disc sander. Okay.

730
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:54,240
They have foam pads, like it's got sanding, but there's foam behind it and it'll mold into what

731
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:58,720
you're sanding. Okay. She says that they are worth the money. She wasn't sure if it was a gimmick or

732
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:05,200
not. Yeah. But apparently if you're doing some home refurbishing projects, uh, speaking of home

733
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,560
things and things that are nice, I have some that I haven't put down yet, but for in front of my

734
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:16,320
work bench. And I noticed, do you have some in your kitchen, the anti-fatigue mats? Yes. Are those on

735
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:21,760
your list? No, they're not. Okay. Sarah likes the anti-fatigue mats and they're good. Restaurants

736
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:27,040
have them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All sorts of things like that. Yeah. My buddy, uh, the woodworker gave

737
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:32,160
me a set after we built my work bench and he spends a lot of time standing at his work bench

738
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:36,640
and I have a stool for our podcasts when I am at my work bench. So I don't have them down right

739
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:40,640
now, but if I were to be doing a long project, I'd put those down and he says it makes all the

740
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:45,120
difference in your joints and stuff being, you know, standing along hours and basically the same

741
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:49,600
spot. Yep. I do have something for the truck owners out there for guys that own pickups who

742
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:55,200
is it the little balls that dangle from the no, if you do get truck nuts. And I know this because

743
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:59,440
I went to school with a guy who overheard our conversation and we were making fun of truck nuts.

744
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,800
Yeah. He turned around and said, if you ever buy truck nuts, make sure you get the ones that have

745
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:07,840
antifreeze on the inside. Otherwise they'll explode in the winter. Okay. So for those guys who want

746
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:13,120
truck nuts, make sure you get ones that have antifreeze on the inside. There you go. Good to

747
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:20,800
know. Right? Uh, no. So I have a tonneau cover for my truck and on the top of the truck on the rails,

748
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:25,040
they have the little drop-ins on the four corners of the trucks. And I bought a product a while ago

749
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:29,600
and I ended up getting them from my dad as well. It's called a bull ring and they're drop-in and

750
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:33,920
you can pull it up and they have a hook so you can, uh, put a ratchet strap on them and they're

751
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:38,800
rated for a thousand pounds. Okay. And, uh, if you're going to haul stuff and ratchet strap,

752
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:46,240
it is nice having four extra attachment points. So in my bed, I have four corners of the bed have

753
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:50,080
ratchet strap tie-ons on the bottom. And this is your truck bed, Mike, not your,

754
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:55,040
yeah, not my regular bed. Then I have four attachment points on the walls of the side of the

755
01:03:55,040 --> 01:04:00,880
bed. And then I have four on top and those 12 attachment points make it very easy and convenient

756
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:05,440
to pretty much attempt like tie anything down in the bed. Yeah. And, uh, I think they're 20 bucks

757
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:11,040
for two over 40 bucks. You can have these drop-in bull rings. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, they're very

758
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:15,440
useful if you're going to haul like a something tall that you actually have to come down on. Yeah.

759
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:19,280
Pretty convenient. And then weather texts, everybody knows about weather tech, but you

760
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,240
should get weather texts in your vehicle. If you don't, if you have a nice vehicle and you don't

761
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:27,200
have weather tech mats, I have a weather tech bed mat in my truck that has a lip on it and you can

762
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:31,520
just empty it out and then you don't have crap going around the back. Yeah. Yeah. I've got,

763
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,280
I don't have weather tech in my car because obviously my car is my car. Yeah. And it's going

764
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:40,960
to be 20 years old soon. Boy, how they grow. Uh, but I've just got, I've got, I don't know, mats,

765
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:46,560
they're not weather tech mats, but any mat is better than what comes with the car. Yes. So

766
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:50,800
even if you're not going to spring for weather tech, right, you, you know, the other ones are

767
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:55,200
going to wear out a lot quicker, but it's still better than the carpet mats that you get with the

768
01:04:55,200 --> 01:05:00,160
car. So yeah, I think there's a couple of brands that like copy the weather. Yeah. Yeah. But the

769
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,320
text are still, I'm not trying to poo poo on whether I'm just trying to say like some of this

770
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:09,840
stuff is like, yeah, it's just nice to have mats that are better than the, the mats from the

771
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:15,280
factory. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it definitely is worth it. I know Sarah's got weather texts in her car.

772
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:20,560
Yep. And, uh, my Sarah has weather text. My Sarah wants weather texts. So yeah, maybe they're

773
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:24,400
awesome because I got the lip and then he just kind of like dump them all and spray them down.

774
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:30,080
And, uh, my weather tech bed mat in my truck is that was great, way better than the standard

775
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:35,520
rubber, uh, device. And I, yeah, well, that's the thing. There's a lot of things that you get

776
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:40,880
where the thing itself is nice, but some of the little accessories and not just with cars,

777
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:45,440
but with other things too, you know, like some of the little accessories, they kind of skimped out

778
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:50,240
on those. So upgrading little tiny things makes a big, big difference. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's like

779
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:55,280
having a, like my dad's got a Chevrolet pickup. He's got a little tiny car mirrors on it. I have

780
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:59,520
big tow mirrors on my truck. I'm like, yeah, you want the big tow mirror, obviously. Yeah. Yeah.

781
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:04,880
And you want one like mine are heated, the top and the bottom are heated. Like that's right there.

782
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:11,360
That's what you want. And, uh, even though I see these Dodges that have these massive like

783
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:14,800
extension mirrors on them and they have like little tiny car mirrors, I'm like, what's the

784
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:20,160
point of that? Just to make it look goofy. I guess I'm sure that the, anybody who's driving a Dodge,

785
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:29,040
like, oh, they're the best. Whatever. I'm pretty much done. Uh, I have a, a Venger as W E N G E R,

786
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:35,520
uh, which makes Swiss army knives. Okay. They make a fingernail clipper and it is awesome. Okay. Yeah.

787
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:39,920
It is if you need a fingernail clipper. I'll have to look that up. Cause I've got, uh, I've just got a little set,

788
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:44,400
but I'm not a huge, I like to keep my nails trimmed, but I don't like to trim them. Yeah. So

789
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:48,240
I'm kind of a weird thing. Uh, I was going to mention I've got, uh, and I didn't think about this,

790
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:53,760
but I do now because I'm staring at this bottle of Johnny Walker and I've got some whiskey stones

791
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:58,720
and they're, I think marble or something, some kind of marbled, they're squares and you keep them

792
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,560
in the freezer and I'll use those if I'm bringing whiskey. And then I also have two, I think they're

793
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:07,840
Oxo. I think I got them from Target probably, a sphere ice cube molds. Yeah. And those are cool.

794
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:13,040
And those are really nice. Um, they take a while to freeze. Of course, as you've got all that volume

795
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:17,920
there and you can't overfill them even by like a, like a milliliter because then it'll ooze out the

796
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:22,640
top and everything. So you really have to watch what you're putting in. But if you put in filtered

797
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:28,720
or distilled or boiled water, you know, to remove the impurities, you get a really nice clear sphere

798
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:34,000
of ice that then goes in and you can, it's not the same as going to like a ritzy place and they

799
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:39,760
hand shave the sphere because you're going to see the little seam or whatever, but it's like,

800
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:45,360
it's impressive enough for the people I have over, I guess. Right. And then I have one final product

801
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:49,280
and it's a Minnesota made product and it's a definitely a luxury item that not everybody

802
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:54,400
is going to go out and get, but there's a company called Itasca Leatherworks. Okay. That's based out

803
01:07:54,400 --> 01:08:00,880
of St. George, Minnesota, which is by the park and they make moccasins and those are some kick ass

804
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:06,080
moccasins and they're not crazy expensive and they go on sale every now and again. And you can

805
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:12,240
get some pretty nice handmade moccasins right here in Minnesota. And they're definitely a luxury item,

806
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:20,400
but I like mine and I got a set for my niece and she likes hers and they're worth it, especially

807
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:26,320
this is something you buy what every 10 years. Yeah. So yeah, if that is so much aware of them,

808
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:31,840
right. Exactly. Yes. Yes. I know we always, every Christmas we get the rubber sold slippers like

809
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:37,040
I'm wearing right now, which are nice for, you know, running the garbage out in the winter and

810
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:44,240
coming over to Mike's smoking emporium where it's cooler than 70 degrees. Yes it is. But yeah. Well,

811
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,600
I think that's about it for the episode. Yeah. What do you think of this cigar? I think it's really

812
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:53,360
good. I like this one as well. Got spicier as it went on. It did. Nice progression and I would

813
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:59,120
recommend it. Yeah. Good start and an even better finish. All right. Thanks for listening. Be safe.

814
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:08,240
Have fun.