My recap from the International Builders Show and Design and Construction Week 2023

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[00:00:34] Eric Goranson: Happy Tuesday afternoon everybody. Thanks for joining us today. I missed you guys last week and that was because I was at the Design and Construction week show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I tell you what, it is a massive show. They said there were 200,000 people that showed up for that show last week, and here's what's cool about it.

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[00:01:29] Eric Goranson: Dude's a badass, absolutely great first time meeting him and, uh, can't wait to go down and do some more work with him. He was a lot of fun. We did about nine interviews around the show floor and walked 14 miles, so that was pretty crazy. And then day two and day three, we ended up doing, uh, Well, radio shows and podcasts you'll hear upcoming from EXI exhibitor booth.

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[00:02:27] Eric Goranson: Root Cher, and you're like, root Cher. What's this? So if you've got trees, garden bushes, this is a device that you hook into your sprinkler system and heck, if you want to even hook into a hose, you could do it. People have done that and at Barry's underground, And injects water into the underground root system for treason shrubs.

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[00:03:15] Eric Goranson: But, uh, Robert and Maria, the co-founders, they started this out by having the family orchard done in Southern California and they basically said, Hey, These trees are not healthy. They're too old. You're gonna have to tear out the family orchard. And they went, what? There's gotta be a better way. So they started working on this, noticed the trees getting better, and they created a product for themselves that saved their orchard.

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[00:04:03] Eric Goranson: So we're good. So more information on those guys. Guys. Head over to route quench.com. They're available in some Western us. Um, Home Depot stores, uh, or you can get 'em online@homedepot.com, route Quench, those guys. Impressive stuff. I love their story. We will tell that story a little closer into the spring here as we get closer to that time of year.

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[00:04:54] Eric Goranson: So I had to kind of give a self tours. You'll love that segment as I was reading signs talking about what they [00:05:00] had there. So that was pretty funny. Got a funny story before we go into crazy products. This was absolutely insane. So one in the evenings, I'm sitting there at the taxi line because we didn't wanna walk all the way back to two miles back to the Uber in the back of the building because you know, that's what they do in Las Vegas.

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[00:05:41] Eric Goranson: It's three lanes. Oh. It's like the airport. But this is only for taxis. This 20 year old kid, maybe 22 year old kid, young kid. Comes popping in the taxi line with this newer Camaro that has more wings and things than it. This thing should [00:06:00] came out of a Transformers movie. I'm a car guy. It had more carbon fiber that was unnecessary.

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[00:06:38] Eric Goranson: I'm like, great. Domestic violence in the taxi line. Not a good thing, not something to joke about. This was not pretty, so I couldn't understand what was going on. Really. None of us could, cuz we couldn't, none of us spoke Chinese, so we couldn't tell what the thing was being said back and forth. But this maybe [00:07:00] 18 year old girl jumps out, starts screaming at him.

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[00:07:38] Eric Goranson: Then to make it worse, what happens? Oh yeah. Hold my beer. This gets weirder. Another girl of the same age comes over, jumps in the car. She gets more furious because a, at this point I'm going, okay, this seems like this is some triad movie that I'm watching. Um, [00:08:00] and then all of a sudden it's like, okay, what's going on here?

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[00:08:27] Eric Goranson: We finally, everybody's yelling at the kid, get outta the way. Of course he's not paying attention to this guy standing in front in the yellow shirt, but he's there dropping the clutch, trying to make the car jolt forward. And I'm like, dude, dude, get outta the way. You're gonna get killed here. You're gonna get hit.

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[00:09:14] Eric Goranson: So that was pretty insane. Well, let's get onto the cool things of the show that happened here. That was the not so cool thing of the show. And, uh, you know, typical of Vegas. Sometimes it happens, but I tell you what, going around. Got to see a lot of good friends. It was so great. I'm sitting there getting ready to shoot, um, over at, uh, one of the booths and it was so much fun because I got to see my buddy Jeff Devlin.

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[00:10:03] Eric Goranson: The only bummer is I didn't get to see my buddy Skip Adele. I saw him from a distance every time I went by, uh, he was shooting something and I was shooting something. So it was just one of those things. And then Andrew Pace got to see him. So it was a lot of great people. Guido stopped by. It was an awesome time at the show, so I had a great time.

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[00:10:45] Eric Goranson: But, uh, Toto, oh my gosh, those guys every year, you know, they're the largest toilet manufacturer in the world, more so than even American Standard and Kohler combined huge. So they could, uh, they have this toilet. That [00:11:00] is about as self-cleaning as you get. It actually has this misting feature, which myths under the seat and stuff to keep it from getting dirty.

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[00:11:27] Eric Goranson: They've got some great stuff coming up this year, you don't wanna miss. And then I went over to, uh, my friends over at Fiberon and so we're gonna be doing some cladding on the front of my house. And, uh, went and talked to, talked to them a little bit and, uh, man, talk about a 50 year product you can put on the outside of your house.

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[00:12:10] Eric Goranson: I thought that was absolutely crazy. So you're gonna be able to monitor your existing system and new systems. They'll be able to check what the pressures are. They can come out and mount the system in and it will tell them what's going on in your system before you, they even show up. So you can literally text into them and they can look at it.

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[00:12:46] Eric Goranson: Uh, then, let's see, we went over to, uh, Kohler. Oh my gosh, it was Kohler's what hundred 50th birthday. Those guys had to have spent 10 million in this booth. Showing off all the crazy cool stuff they do. [00:13:00] And, uh, there are so many things from this cool shower system to, um, this is the one that I thought was amazing.

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[00:13:31] Eric Goranson: And, uh, it's a completely dropdown ceiling faucet. And, uh, you know what I'm gonna, I'm gonna, here we go. I'm gonna change our rules a little bit. I'm gonna make that the cover for this episode so you can see what it is and that way you can take a look at it. So that was cool. Uh, went over and saw a really cool German kitchen line Hacker kitchens.

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[00:14:07] Eric Goranson: It was avocado green, it was the oranges, the yellows, uh, the pinks. It was all those colors outta the fifties and sixties and early seventies, and they had 'em all made up there. And, uh, you got to pick the color and the color that you picked as a group was gonna be the next color from them. So I thought that was really cool as well.

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[00:14:50] Eric Goranson: So you don't wanna miss that. I'll give you that little tease ahead with that. But, uh, tell you what, man, it's been awesome guys. I really appreciate all that. And, uh, thank you for keeping busy with [00:15:00] me here too. I have been burning the candle up both hands with the TV show coming out here and under two weeks.

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[00:15:30] Eric Goranson: And then you'll be able to stream it on your phone on that. So you can go to your, your Google, your Apple. Take a look at it there, add it on there, and you'll be able to do that as well as on that app. You can actually, right now, if you look for around the house, you can actually submit a question. On the TV right there, it'll be in my upcoming show.

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[00:16:06] Eric Goranson: That is the one there for the, uh, television show. So we're gonna have one separate for the radio show, one for the television show, just to keep it so it's not. Jumbled together. So you, as our friends and insiders here, get to, uh, understand where it's coming from. So you're not, was that tv, was that radio was that podcast?

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[00:16:50] Eric Goranson: Those guys, um, I used to work with them for over a decade selling cabinets back in my designer days. And, uh, Special thanks to, uh, Charlie and her [00:17:00] crew for having, uh, us as a guest that night, and that was great up there at Liberty Bay. Cabinetry outta the Seattle area. Those guys were great. Great catching up with old friends and that's fun.

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[00:17:28] Eric Goranson: And, uh, we're gonna be doing a cool segment on the tv, uh, which is gonna be our maiden USA segment until we turn this on nationally. We're gonna call it Maid in Northwest here in Portland. But I tell you what, it is a segment we are featuring. Products that are made in the United States here, and, uh, even our local area.

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[00:18:06] Eric Goranson: I'm really looking forward to on the radio and podcast. There's, uh, if you're listening on the radio show, of course the podcast has the extended. Version, but if you're catching us on the radio when you're out, running around, we do appreciate you tuning then there as well. All right, everybody, have a great rest of the week.

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