Diving into the chaotic world of home improvement advice, Eric G takes us on a wild ride through the absurdity of DIY culture. With his signature sarcasm, he highlights the alarming trend of influencers dishing out questionable tips for clicks rather than genuine help. From YouTube stars with millions of followers who wouldn't know proper construction if it hit them in the face, to the questionable wisdom found on social media, Eric navigates the treacherous waters of home renovation advice. He calls out specific offenders and emphasizes the importance of vetting sources before trusting your home to the hands of someone who thinks a sandbag foundation is a good idea. By the end of this segment, listeners are not just entertained but armed with the knowledge to dodge the minefield of misinformation out there. So, if you've ever wanted to turn your home improvement project into an episode of 'Nailed It', tune in for some comical yet crucial insights.

Takeaways:

• In this episode, Eric G dives into the murky waters of home improvement advice, warning us about influencers who are more interested in clicks than good advice.
• He hilariously critiques DIY channels that lead unsuspecting homeowners astray, highlighting how bad advice can cost you big time.
• Eric shares his personal experience cleaning out a dryer vent, revealing how a simple maintenance task can save you money and prevent disasters.
• The show emphasizes the importance of reliable sources for home improvement tips, steering listeners towards trustworthy channels and away from the clickbait crowd.
• Eric discusses his recent home projects, showcasing the craftsmanship he admires and the importance of quality in home renovations.
• Listeners are reminded to be cautious with AI-generated home improvement advice as it can sometimes lead to misinformation based on popular but flawed sources.

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• Home Renovision DIY
• Home Love Construction
• Aerobroom
• System Pavers
• Miller Paint Company
• Rust-Oleum
• This Old House

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Now here's your host, Eric G. Welcome.

To the around the House show, the next generation of home improvement.

I'm Eric G. Thanks for tuning in today.

We have got a great show lined up.

Johnny Dudley is out moving, so he will not be assisting in the co pilot's chair.

Today.

He is moving cross country down there in Columbia, so he is getting into his new place.

So you've got me flying solo like we typically have done in the past, but we will see Johnny Moore in the future, so don't worry about that.

If you've been enjoying the show, I wanted to talk today about a bunch of different stuff.

One of them is at home improvement advice and how people have been getting it.

And I really want to help you navigate this because of course, we've got our own sources here at the around the House show where I try to give you the best tips that I can find on the latest, newest products and of course, the right ways to do it.

Now, the problem that we run into is in YouTube especially, and as well as Instagram and even Facebook, there are people out there that they make money off producing faulty or bad home improvement advice.

And these people, I think, and I again, I don't want to make huge blind accusations here, but it's my opinion, looking at how they do it and how they interact with people, that they are doing it for the clicks.

Because here's what happens.

If they have enough people watch their videos, whether they like it or whether they hate it, they can monetize it.

And so what happens is if you go out there and give people bad advice in kind of a spoof manner, all of a sudden you got all the people out there that know better creating this huge issue.

So what happens is we see this stuff go sideways.

So great example.

There are guys out there that I just, it drives me nuts on the home improvement side of things.

And what they do is, like I said, they start out and we'll say, hey, I'm going to take on this project.

And it gets really interesting when they dive into these projects because they set it up and then they do this horrible work.

So let's talk about my first one on here to be careful for out there.

Yeah, I'm going to call a few people out today.

So I'm not trying to be mean here, guys, but I am going to call out the people out there that clearly seem is in my opinion are doing these projects to, well, get clicks and get the hate coming so they can get people to tune in.

So it's interesting.

So here's what I'm seeing here.

Home renovation DIY and Jeff on this show is absolutely horrendous on doing things wrong.

Great example he's got on the front of his page for people that don't follow is DIY garden shed in two days.

Budget friendly, simple and tool is budget friendly and simple tools is what it says.

Sorry, I'll spit that out.

Now.

Here's the thing.

He starts out, okay, I'm going to build this.

Doesn't need to have delivery.

Don't have to have this stuff done.

He still goes gets lumber instead of getting it.

So delivery has nothing to do with it.

So he starts to build a base.

So instead of doing this correctly.

Yeah.

And he's in Canada, so he's not even doing it right for Canada.

So he actually plops down some bags of sand, pours some sand right onto the turf, the ground, the weeds, whatever you want to call it, and puts down these plastic pads to set the shed on.

So I get these are deck blocks.

These are not meant for a shed.

They're not meant to be foundation.

They're meant to hold up a deck, not a structure.

And then putting them on sand.

Give me a break.

That is going to settle.

It's going to move these guys up there, up north tend to get frost heave.

So you're going to have things moving around everywhere.

It's absolutely nuts.

So on my best to avoid list, I'm going to put on there the Home Renovision DIY channel.

Somehow they've got 3.8 million subscribers.

But so many of these are so bad.

And you got to be really careful because if you're trying to learn from this, there's a great chance you're going to learn it wrong.

And of course, he didn't just do one video this way.

They're pretty much all this way.

He just put out another video called Most Dexter attached wrong.

Only this method prevents rot.

Guess what?

If you'd have actually done the other method that he did before, it is the example correctly with the right flexible flashing.

The right flashing in the right places.

And actually knowing what he's doing here, he would have actually had something that turned out better than what he had.

So it's really bad when you have guys that have no idea on building science and how to flash things, give videos on how to do it.

Just trying to promote some deck product that they get were given some bracket.

This guy's putting just house wrap around with some tape.

And then of course, he's putting vinyl siding over it.

But if you would actually flashed it correctly with the flexible flashing so when the fasteners went through it, it just didn't tear a big hole.

This guy, no matter what he's doing right here, is just going to create this hot mess and it's still going to fail even with this new bracket, because he didn't do it correctly there either.

This would not be my trusted resource for information on home renovation or DIY stuff.

It's just really bad.

Now the next one is equally as bad.

And this is Home Love Construction.

And they do this did you know series.

And what's hilarious is this dude that's wearing a polo shirt that is about one size too tight and doesn't have the body shape to wearing it that tight is out there doing these construction things.

And he clearly has never ever done this before.

So maybe he's an office guy.

Maybe he's somebody that drives around and checks to see if things are going on.

This guy has no idea what he's talking about.

Most of the advice that I see him give is either wrong, purposely wrong, or he just doesn't know what he's talking about.

It's way wrong.

He'll be out there with his dad's shoes and his polo shirt.

Nothing wrong with that.

But man, you are getting people off on the wrong track.

Because he goes, did you know?

And they tell you how to do it and it's wrong.

For instance, he was talking about they put material up on the walls over the drywall and the boxes were too shallow because they added to it.

If you'd actually laid it out right, you wouldn't have needed box extensions.

But this guy had never heard of box extensions which bring that out.

So that's where the problem is.

That can be a huge issue.

So stay away and be very careful with the information you get from Home Love Construction.

Yeah, and I know I'm being a little hard on these guys, but I tell you what, I just want you to know your sources are and to make sure you're not getting played while somebody's trying to Take advantage of people that might just not know any better.

They go, hey, this people have three and a half million people watching them.

They look good.

And not knowing that you're.

That you're getting bad information, and that's just not great.

So be careful out there.

Buyer beware.

Now, the other thing is, people have been going on to Google, which can be good, and AI.

Now, AI has a lot of great information out there, but here is the problem.

AI is only relying on what's been published out there.

And the problem we have is with home improvement projects, some of these people, like the two that we just referred to here, can be sources of AI information because it goes, wow, these people must be important.

It's the same mistake that you make if you see these people and do it.

So AI is only good as the information that it's fed.

That's information that's crawled and it grabs.

A video goes, wow, a lot of people have watched it.

AI doesn't know that's been punked and that you got a big problem.

So you got to be really careful because AI can make those mistakes.

And if you're trying to find out, that can be a problem.

Now, if you're looking for good sources, of course, we've got us right here at around the House.

Head over to our YouTube page at around the House, Eric G. Or just make it simple.

Head over to our website aroundthehouse online.com and you can find it over there, bottom of the page, you'll see the videos.

You can click link and follow.

We got some great stuff coming out here soon.

I can't wait to share with you on that.

And there's some other great sources out there.

I'm not the only great source out there.

You've got fine home building.

You've got this old house.

Those are great sources of information out there with people that are not trying to play you.

So take a look there.

That can make life a little bit easier for you.

And worst case, join our around the House insider.

Get a little bit more information.

And of course, by doing that, you can join us on the group.

And of course, you get my email address.

You can just send me a message and I can answer it for you personally.

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Well, today we kind of hit in different subjects each segment of the hour.

So we got four different subjects today.

We're just talking about where you're getting your sources for home improvement information.

And this segment, I wanted to give you some tips on saving some energy here in the fall.

See if you can dial back that energy bill a little bit.

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They're just a tiny little company, but the great thing about them is she is an inventor.

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And I tell you what, it is so fun to see something so cool being built by inventor and bringing it to market himself.

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And he keeps running out of stock so he's got him in right now.

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Check them out@arrowbroom.com I wanted to talk today about really making sure that you're doing all you can to get the most out of your energy bill because, man, they are not getting cheaper out there and that adds up quickly.

So one thing I just did over at my girlfriend's place, because I tell you what it needed to happen and it's that one thing that people forget in maintenance, it is the cleaning out the dryer ducting that goes between your dryer and the exterior of the home.

Now hers was built in a new build construction.

So it went up the wall, up through the attic space and out to some place up on the second story up high that I haven't even been able to find.

And so I had to do all the cleaning from the inside, which isn't as nice as from the outside.

But I went through and got it cleaned out.

I hauled out about, oh, a grocery bag size, like one of the plastic ones you get the grocery store, one of those full of lint that was stuck inside of it and in one spot in a corner.

I think it was mostly plugged because when I was putting the brush up in there, it just jammed up solid.

It didn't want to get through there, so I had to push through it to get it.

And as I kept going farther and farther, it kept getting more out of there.

So it was really plugged up.

So that's one of those things that's worthwhile to clean out every year.

And if you use a lot of fabric softeners and dryer sheets, it doesn't help.

So it can be a little bit worse.

So make sure and go through and get that cleaned up and looking really good.

You can buy the kits on Amazon, you can go into Lowe's, Home Depot, they usually have them there as well.

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And on this one here, I actually just disconnected the dryer and I could tell just looking around the back of the dryer that it was plugged up because it was trying to push stuff up everywhere and her clothes were taking a lot longer to dry.

So here's the thing, if you have to run that dryer more than twice, you've got a problem because a lot of the sensor dryers do a really decent job of making sure that the clothes get dry because it's part of the energy efficiency.

If you have to keep going on to time dry or something like to get it dry, you got an issue and that's costing you money.

That dryer is expensive.

Now here's the thing.

If you think about a clothes dryer that uses about 3.3 kilowatt hours per load, so that's all it uses.

So on average you're talking about based on 16 kilowatt hours per load, about 8,45 per month.

It's not a big number, but if you have to keep running it, you could add that two or three times.

So all of a sudden you're adding up 16 to 20 bucks extra on top of that adds up especially when money is tight.

So that is a great one there for savings.

That can really start to save you a bunch of money.

If you're on the more expensive rates, that could be costing you 30 and that could be costing you 60.

So then you could be paying another $30 a month.

Guess what?

Why waste your time and have it cost you more to do that?

So take a look at that.

Next thing is if you're looking at replacing your water heater, take a look at the heat pump water heaters.

I have been using an aerotherm for about three years now.

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Awesome stuff.

And I tell you what, totally worth it.

My cost to heat water per year for an 80 gallon tank is about 160 bucks.

So that can be two or three times more for your gas or even electric heater, depending on your costs.

So that can save money really quickly.

And the nice thing is too is if I'm actually running my generator in the house, when I have those typically power outages that are every year for three, four, five days from ice storms and things like that, I can run that heat pump water heater and it's only using 500 watts of power.

So it really saves you some money in the long run.

And the other thing that I like about the Aerotherm, those are super cool because they're repairable.

Many of the other brands, when you walk into a home center, those are not repairable.

So if the compressor fails or something dies on the thing under the warranty period, they have to replace the whole thing where they could have somebody come out and fix it the other way.

So really smart, really Works.

I like it.

It's a great way to save some serious money.

And I think that's going to be a great way to really help yourself out in saving some money all year round.

Now, this is the time of year, too, to go around and take a look around those doors and windows.

I like to take a flashlight, put it outside the door.

Especially when it's dark outside, you can take a look underneath it and see what lights come in.

If that sill is not adjusted correctly or any other, the weather stripping is worn, torn, or destroyed.

That can be like working with an open window in your house, trying to heat around that.

So that gets super expensive.

So make sure you do that.

Now, the other thing is, if you've got oil, heat, gas heat, propane, whatever you have that's outside of electric, you really should have somebody come out and service that in the fall.

Here's what happens.

People go, oh, it's working great.

No, you want them to come in, clean it up, and then check the combustion on it.

This could be running like your car.

It could be running too rich, it could be running too lean.

It could be costing you money.

If you go in there and have them clean it and service it, the chance of you spending more money later for a service call is really reduced.

Every time that I've had a breakdown, I missed a service call that annual maintenance, and that would have probably predicted the failure because they're looking to see if everything's working right, and that would have saved me a lot of headaches.

All right, we're gonna run out to break here, guys.

When we come back, I got another one for you.

We're going a completely other direction just as soon as around the House returns.

Welcome back to the around the House show, the next generation of home improvement.

I'm Eric G. Thanks for joining me today.

As we've been diving in the second hour of the show, we have been talking about a different subject in each of the four different segments.

I love when we get to do these because we get to hit stuff that maybe isn't going to make the show, but we can all pile it in and make one great show out of it.

And so this segment, I wanted to talk about my house, what I've been working on, and of course, some of the cool projects that I tackled.

And if you listened, oh, probably a couple months ago, we had Joe Roy on from Old Castle, and those guys make everything from sacri concrete to all the different exterior stuff.

We talked to the senior designer with them.

Everything from moisture shield Decking, lots of different brands.

And so I did a project out back right before getting my house ready for sale.

And I worked with my friends over at System Pavers.

Now we've had him on the show a lot, the CEO, and that's not what we're talking about here.

I worked with them on about a 12 by 12 patio project and it turned out stunning.

And I really have to say this is one of those things that I just absolutely enjoy when I see beautiful craftsmanship get done in my backyard.

Now here's the thing.

First, to even do this, I had to get in there with my friends over at park rose Hardware.

Actually had to get one of their walk behind excavators, their buckets back there, to really move stuff around and move some dirt around.

And I had some rocks that were heavier than the excavator.

These things were 4ft long, 24 to 30 inches high.

Just a big round potato of a rock.

I had three of those where I wanted to put this, and I call them icebergs because you saw what was 10 by 12 inches on top.

But there was a grand big hole down beneath it.

So I did a lot of moving around, got those dug out, got those out of the way.

So we had someplace square to work with and level.

Now I went in there, got that all worked in, packed in, kept it wet for a while so it was ready for that project.

Then they came in with their three guys.

And these guys are monster workers.

They got in there, they dug down about 8 inches, packed down the soil, made sure it was right, got it all level, built up a beautiful base.

Rock and gravel and sand all the way up.

Got it really built up.

Got in that, that weed barrier or that thick tarp material in there so we could keep everything where it's supposed to be.

And these guys in about two days came in there, got all that dug out, got it all dialed in.

And what I thought was cool was is that area wasn't level to begin with, but on one side they built greed beam because it was going to be the low side.

So it was going to be like a, oh, 10 or 12 inch drop down there.

So what they did is dig down.

They poured concrete in there and set wall retaining wall blocks on top of each other so they'd have the right height.

So when everything finished out right, that patio paver block would sit directly on top of that where they could glue it onto that and it wouldn't move.

That way I didn't have to worry about washouts.

It was Just going to be this super solid edge there.

So it wasn't sinking, wasn't falling away.

Ah, beautiful job.

Beautiful job.

It was 99%.

And the one guy looks over at it, you know, they're actually now I'd say they're 90.

They were just putting in the last blocks on one edge and the guy realized that the wall was out maybe 3,8 of an inch.

And I got a video I'm putting up on this here and hopefully I get it up here before this radio show airs and podcast.

But here was the crazy thing.

They looked at it and went, not good enough.

They stopped, took out the concrete, took out the block, rebuilt it back up maybe 3,8 of an inch over.

They wanted this dialed in perfect.

And I was shocked at how awesome that was.

Then they came in, got it done.

And it is a beautiful addition to my backyard.

Put in a fire pit.

And I used this empire block, which gives you.

It's a kind of a long rectangular, maybe 3 inch by let's say 12.

And it's got patterns in it, all variable patterns.

So I have the inside corner staircase that comes off the patio, three steps, drops down to this level.

And we put the corner of the herringbone off the corner of the steps.

Turned out gorgeous.

You know, when you design stuff, you go, hey, I think this is gonna really look good.

Wow.

Gotta give it to those guys.

Turned out really great.

And System Pavers, thank you very much.

That turned out just absolutely beautiful and I'm so happy with it.

And man, that is going to be a lifelong thing out there for the next homeowners that take over my house because I tell you what, that looks gorgeous.

So System Pavers, great job, Great people.

Could not have been more pleasant to work with.

And you get what you pay for with those guys.

They do the right job and quality is the deal.

They did this just absolutely perfectly.

And they made it right before I even had a chance to even say anything.

They looked at it, went, no, we're gonna get that dialed in a hundred percent.

And they did.

So gotta thank those guys.

Great teams over at System Pavers might have one in your area.

Cause they're nationwide now.

The next thing I worked on too, which was totally fun to get knocked out around there was I actually went around and was working on getting other little projects done and it was frustrating because I ran out of some of my touch up paint.

We were knocking stuff out.

And of course because my Miller paint company that I worked with here in Portland for so long got bought out by another Company they had changed the sheens.

And so now we had to do a lot more painting because I couldn't just go get some touch up.

It was repaint those walls.

And so that turned out really well.

But really I did a couple things.

I used one of the.

I had a small section of deck on the back of my house that I was going to be rebuilding after I did some work.

Cause I was going to put in a dog wash area.

I had a lot of things that I was going to be doing.

I had a lot of plans for this.

But like we say, divorce sometimes comes at the wrong time.

Nobody likes to go through that.

But that's what I went through.

And so I wasn't able to get that project finished.

We're gonna run into some permitting issues with it every anyways I'm trying to get that to.

To meet all the codes for the dog wash area.

So we just had to abandon that project unfortunately.

And it's gonna turn out really nice cause we actually put on there one of those deck over type products.

And I tell you what, this was the rust oleum deck product.

And I have a video coming out for it here this next week.

I'll show you.

This came out really well.

Now this wasn't a rotten deck but it was a pressure treated deck that had a few years in.

It was a little worn.

And this will give it life for a few more years till somebody wants to go in there and do some rebuilding or any other construction.

And that could be really cool.

And it will really add another.

Just adds just another beautiful look.

And it's really non slip which is great as well.

So that turned out good.

So really happy with those projects.

Got those knocked out as well.

And feels good to get those things off.

My body now is healing back up.

I tell you what guys, just cramming on these projects 24, seven, seven days a week.

Even taking a day or two off here and there.

I'm finally starting to heal up from that.

Because I tell you what, doing construction and remodeling and projects and sports as a kid and all that other stuff takes that toll.

As I'm in my early to mid-50s here.

This is where it starts to pay the price on your body.

So take care of it.

If you're a little bit younger than me, you pay for it later.

And that's what I'm doing right now.

So feeling a lot better.

And now that I've got this big project off of my plate now it's time for me to start diving into the TV show and all of that we're going to start putting together and I'm going to talk a little bit about that when we come back here because I wanted to give you a quick update on that as well as some of the stuff we got coming up.

It's just been a lot of fun getting this house knocked out and it's a project that you guys get to see because I've got it up on our Facebook page if you want to see what my house listing looks like and what it's going for in my area.

And I'll put together a shoot picture of before and afters of what we did on that place and I'll get your comments and stuff as well.

Put it up on our Facebook around the House Show Just take a look at around the House podcast actually is where it is, where you can find it on our around the house online.com page.

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We're going to talk about some insider stuff on my television show and what I see going on in the media out there as well, and some of the things that we see not going to be talking politics, but I will tell you how this stuff works and what's going on so you maybe have a better understanding of what the media landscape on the television side is looking like.

That'll get you a little bit more information there.

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Welcome back to the around the House show, the next generation of home improvement.

I'm Eric G. Thanks for joining me today.

If you're just catching us on the radio, you're listening to the the around the House show and you can find out more about us ataroundthe house online.com in this segment here.

We've been doing the four segments, four subjects kind of thing today, which I love in this second hour to do sometimes so we can catch up on some important stuff.

I wanted to give you an update on my around the House Northwest television show that I had been producing with Gray Television up here in the Pacific Northwest in Portland for the last two and a half years.

Now I own of course, the brand, the around around the house.

So that's my trademark.

So once we ran out the show there and it came to its logical conclusion with gray television and it stopped a little bit earlier than we had planned because they wanted to stop it.

But here's the thing, and I say this, I didn't want it to continue in its current form.

I liked the people I worked with.

I had the best team in television working with me.

We were a tight team.

We were running hard together and it was a lot of fun.

Now this show started out with Bradley, with me, and there was not a harder working guy in television.

We did a one hour show for probably 80 something episodes each week, 52 weeks a year.

Two of us.

Now we had Ryan, our producer, great guy who was working 15, 20 hours making phone calls, doing what he can, but he had a whole other show he was working on.

So we had the leanest show on television.

When we burned Bradley out, he left.

As a gentleman and a scholar, I've never seen anyone leave a team in such great shape as he did.

I have never seen someone plan that out.

That was a world record event just how he did that.

Hats off to Bradley.

Now here's the thing.

We brought on a new team, brought the show down to a half hour, got some chance to run some reruns so we could get caught up on things.

And I realized as we were coming up here, close to me, starting to renew the contract.

And here's the problem.

When you produce a television show like Ed did with around the House, Northwest Great Television owns the content because they paid for the production, which means the 700 videos, I get 698, if we want to be exact.

The 700 videos that we had up there in a round number, I don't own a single right to them.

They can put it up, keep it forever, they could take it down.

I have no say it.

And that's what happens when you work.

That's what a lot of happens to a lot of people that are on HDTV.

It's not on their YouTube channels because they don't own it.

So that's why I decided that I'm going to produce my own show with maybe some of the same people that we've had in the show in the past.

So we're going to be putting together a team and we're doing that right now and I'm excited about it.

But the TV landscape is changing so much and that's what's getting interesting.

You might have seen it on HDTV Food Network.

If you're into the Velocity channel, which was Motor Trend tv, you're seeing these companies, Discovery went out, bought all these companies that were TV shows, all these TV production companies and channels for a high premium, super expensive, right?

They bought at the high point, not the low point.

Now with streaming and everything and the cable landscape changing, they now own stuff that is worth pennies on the dollar to what it was.

So Motor Trend tv, which was one of my favorite channels to catch all the car shows this last year, they canceled and shut down their own production studios.

So all those shows got axed.

Now it's just a shell that is running reruns every day.

And they're just putting in the autoplay of okay, it's going to be this shows, this show.

Now there might be some new stuff coming out.

I don't know.

I'd need to check with my buddy work, Mark Warman down at Graveyard Cars and see what they're doing.

But I'm seeing so many things that are just out there.

They're just running with one show all day long on these monster sets and I guess until their contracts run out.

So it'll be interesting to see how that goes.

Now what you're seeing with other channels, hdtv, we saw all the cuts that we saw there.

And I think what's happening is they're realizing that they're paying these celebrities huge dollars to do these shows, that it's really doing that thing.

Like it seems like what MTV did when they got rid of music videos.

They got so far away from what their core audience was doing.

They got into reality television, they got this stuff, they got away from what the people were wanting to look at.

And with HDTV in the last, what, eight years losing half of their audience, that's hurts sponsorship dollars and all that.

And then they're paying people more, not less.

That's a recipe for disaster.

So that's why I've decided that we're going to be doing our own show.

Now.

I'm not sure if we're gonna be putting it on a TV channel here in Portland or not.

And I'm curious to get your guys opinion.

I'll put a poll up on our around the house page here over the weekend because I want to get what your take is on that.

Because I tell you what, many people these days don't watch cable TV.

They don't watch over the air TV.

They're watching stuff on YouTube, they're watching stuff on streaming and it costs us money to put it on A television station.

Now, of course, the only reason I'm really looking at that is our sponsors and advertisers.

Many of them are still very old school.

They put their arms around TV and that's what they know.

It's kind of like how people put their arms around the newspaper.

I still love reading the newspaper.

Awesome.

That's great.

I don't still use the Yellow Pages, so I get how things change in time.

So I'm really thinking about how we're gonna do this.

And we're just about ready.

We're working through some details.

One TV station that we had just about a deal worked out with didn't have any time.

And I'm sorry, guys, I'm not gonna pay to put the show out for you guys to catch at 1:30 in the morning or 5:30 in the morning on a weekday.

It's ridiculous.

That has little value to me unless you're setting a dvr.

So we're working through that.

I got a great partner now that we think we're working through some stuff on and we've got a few other options out there as well, but that's what we're working on to get that put together.

So really, TV is at this big crossroads, which we're not getting into the politics of Jimmy Kimmel, but when you've got huge companies that own a majority of the local TV stations, and that's where that twist comes in with Kimmel.

We've got two big stations, they've been around forever.

You got Tegna, you've got Sinclair, you've got Nexar, you've got Gray tv.

These big companies out there that run a majority of our local TV stations out there, when two of them team up on a network and say, hey, we're not going to air our show because we are going into needing some help from the fcc and we have to follow what's best for the public interest.

The last thing they want to do is kick the people in the mouth that, guess what, have to approve their deal later this year.

So they're acting like all of us as kids when we were going to go ask for a raise on our allowance, we made sure our rooms were clean.

We made sure that everything was dialed in before we went and did that, that we were in the best place for it.

So that's what we're seeing.

We're seeing that play out.

I'm not going to get into the whole censorship and all the mud throwing because it's pointless.

There's not a certain not A person out there that changes their mind on what they hear on social media, podcasts or on the radio.

So I'm not going to get into the that debate with you.

Everyone will take their side, but that's what you're seeing on the back end of why these companies are really trying to do that.

It's positioning for a bigger deal down the road where they're trying to merge a few companies.

So that's what they're trying to do.

So anyway, I hope you understand what's going on with the home improvement TV out there.

Hopefully HDTV gets together.

There's a lot of people out there on these other channels that are starting to put together streaming things.

We might be talking with them.

But I really wanted to talk to you about how you're seeing the media out there with that and like our first segment of what to Trust, what to Not.

And of course, my only big trusted source that I love working with out there that I watch religiously still to this day, this old house.

Love those guys.

Great people, great show.

And I just, I love what they're doing out there.

They've been through a lot of change as well.

They got rid of their magazine pretty much.

I think that's absolutely gone now.

They're now owned by a different company and a lot of things happen out there with them and I hope it all works out.

And my friends over there, and I say, friends, Kevin o' Connor is a friend of mine.

He's a good friend.

I love working with that guy on stuff when we're out doing media stuff together.

So he's a just as good a person you see on TV as he is out in the real world.

And he's always been a great friend to hang out with.

Now, coming up here in future episodes, we got some great stuff coming up here.

And if you've got a question, if you're like, man, I need some help with this, or if you're trying to do a debate, post it up in a couple places.

One, you can send it over to me at aroundthehouse online dot com.

If you have pictures you want to share up, head over to our closed group.

We're going to rebrand this thing here pretty soon.

So it's going to be a little bit different down the road.

But that's around the house nation.

Just ask, be a part of that if you're a Facebook user out there and that'll really help you out and you can share that up and you get the whole network of people.

We still have all those people over there.

It's not been as busy because I, quite frankly, have been working on my house and I haven't been in front of the computer to really do a lot with that.

So we're going to be doing a lot more with that in the coming months with a little bit of a rebrand to help freshen that up and get some new content out there for you.

And that way you've got multiple ways to get help on your next project and maybe we can get it done faster, we can get it done for less money and you get to enjoy it sooner with a successful project.

Thanks for tuning in today, guys.

I'm Eric G. And I appreciate all you for tuning in and taking the time.

Today you've been listening to around the House.