Swim Spas + What is a Yurt? + a preview of Constructing Hope

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[00:00:39] Eric Goranson: Cuz Caroline and I, we just had a killer interview. Didn't we?

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[00:00:52] Eric Goranson: Summer's flying, we ended up having, going out to the coast, staying out in a year on. Wednesday and [00:01:00] Thursday and, and, and, uh, had a great time tell

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[00:01:10] Caroline Blazovsky: So tell people what a year

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[00:01:32] Eric Goranson: So the, so the walls stay uptight, but it is a round tent. And there's no G wires on the outside that sits above the ground. So you have a couple steps to get up into it. And then you can put in bunk beds and a heater and power in there. And it's not that it's condo living. I mean, you still have to walk over to the bathroom and you still have, a faucet hookup outside for camping.

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[00:02:04] Caroline Blazovsky: And they make these things like yours can actually be quite luxurious and people can actually make them into homes. I've seen crazy situations. It only, it kind of reminds me of burlap. Do you know what burlap is?

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[00:02:20] Eric Goranson: here, they, they actually had more of a vinyl coat because these are 365 days a year. And on the coast, they. A hundred inches of rain out there. So it's, it gets hammered. There's salt, water, they get abused. And so they've got the heavy duty UTS, I wouldn't wanna buy one of those cuz I, they gotta be thousands and thousands of dollars for those things, but those are the high end as far as durability goes, but.

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[00:03:07] Eric Goranson: So that was pretty brutal.

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[00:03:12] Eric Goranson: to going there. That was, yeah, I was at the very end of vacation. So I was like, all right, so she was a trooper. We gotta looked at, she actually hairline cracks. So technically broken. So she'll be, uh, out of commission on that, uh, on typing on that hand for a little bit.

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[00:03:31] Caroline Blazovsky: To Eric in the Y

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[00:03:44] Caroline Blazovsky: No, that is important. And, um, yeah,

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[00:04:06] Eric Goranson: And my buddy Dave doll, who is the founder of Dave's killer bread. You probably have seen him on your grocery store shelves, playing a guitar. And, uh, we bring on constructing hope. That was a powerful interview.

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[00:04:42] Caroline Blazovsky: And a lot of these people, they may be in for a misdemeanor or something that really. Isn't gonna prevent them from having a future, but they feel like they have a lower self-esteem cuz they've been in jail or been incarcerated. So instead of them repeating a process and ending up in jail, cause they don't feel that they have the, the wherewithal or the,[00:05:00] background to have a, a job or that anybody's gonna wanna take them and put them in a position.

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[00:05:14] Eric Goranson: it's a great program. We're gonna talk about it. And if you wanna go take a look at it, you can do that. Now. That's just constructing hope.org.

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[00:05:40] Eric Goranson: So this is something that's really could make a huge change across the country by putting people that want to stop that cycle and put 'em into having something very constructive and fill in the need for the trade. So it's a win, win, win across the board.

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[00:05:58] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah, I mean, this is, I mean, every [00:06:00] time I turn around from. Someone putting in pavers to electricians, to plumbers, everybody's saying they can't find good help.

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[00:06:15] Eric Goranson: And, and, Dave doll is that, that, that person, he's, he's that, that win he's the guy that, spent forced ins in prison. And created a, multi hundred million dollar bread empire, I mean, brilliant. Such a

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[00:06:37] Caroline Blazovsky: I mean,

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[00:06:58] Eric Goranson: So it's just [00:07:00] another extension of him being able to do the same thing without having the bread company. So I love that he's still, even this day, living well and having a great time, but the same time he's, Putting this money where the mouth is, he's getting after it and still helping people get their lives turned around.

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[00:07:17] Caroline Blazovsky: miss and guess what? You know what I wanna talk about?

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[00:07:24] Caroline Blazovsky: swim spas.

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[00:07:28] Caroline Blazovsky: So on. Yes. So, so you buy shopping. I am on, yes, I am on the road to getting either. A hot tub or a swim spa.

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[00:07:56] Caroline Blazovsky: Did you know that they actually use some of the companies use spray foam? That's [00:08:00] used in houses every day. Yeah. Not crazy, isn't it it's like built like a house and it has its own filtration system. So when you're talking about all this air quality, I can get into this cuz the water treatment there's ozone there's UVC or ultraviolet lake technology.

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[00:08:22] Eric Goranson: What's cool. Is that one thing I don't like? And maybe it's just me. One thing I don't like about the spray foam stuff is that in a hot tub, if you have a leak, you have to rip all that spray foam out to get to it.

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[00:08:37] Caroline Blazovsky: wants to dig through foam to get to the leak? Oh, it's no, you're, you're a

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[00:08:56] Eric Goranson: I mean, it's great for insulating value, right? I mean, it works well. [00:09:00] It doesn't, if it's closed cell, it's not soaking up water, that's it. Leaks can be horrible with hot tubs and that can cost your money. And I don't wanna have to go dig in and find this little pinhole leak. That's coming out on a hold the other side of the tub, cuz the foam is pushing it there.

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[00:09:14] Caroline Blazovsky: Master spas, which is the, is a company that recommends the foam. See, they go and say, oh, it's great to have the foam. My theory is, I agree with you. Who wants to go through that mess where the other companies use more of a, a urethane foam or I guess it's a urethane insulation. Probably insulation.

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[00:09:34] Eric Goranson: So I would much rather have foam on the outside of it that has created a wall system around it, so that you've got that there. And it's almost like an insulated crawl space underneath the tub. I'd much rather see the outside, but I still want to have access to those jets and stuff from the bottom side.

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[00:09:56] Caroline Blazovsky: and you will like most of these, if you're buying a hot tub, you're looking at [00:10:00] a seven to eight year max on a hot. And even like the fiberglass. So you have these most traditional hot tubs now are made with acrylic yeah. And thick, different variants of thickness.

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[00:10:25] Caroline Blazovsky: So that's gonna hold up longer for you, but most hot tubs, it's a seven to eight year investment, and I'm not seeing a really vast difference between a hot tub that costs let's say $9,000 and a hot tub that costs $25,000. If you're only gonna use it for 78 years and it's predominantly the same part. I mean, what are you gonna spend?

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[00:10:45] Eric Goranson: name, the jets. Sometimes if it's got the stereo system, I mean, stereo system, you kinda create lights bad.

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[00:10:58] Eric Goranson: I'm not sure they have my own music system [00:11:00] around it.

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[00:11:15] Eric Goranson: So that's, that's interesting. And then you've been. What's this, I'm a, if I'm gonna put in a swimming pool, I want a swimming pool that I can put my feet up. I can go get on my floaties out and, put my arm floaties on and get in the pool. You can do

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[00:11:33] Caroline Blazovsky: And this is the reason you can use this thing. 12 months of the year, doesn't matter. The weather, the temperature. It's gonna cost you $2 a day to have it heated. So that was the big thing. What's gonna be the electric and think about it. If you're on solar and you're running this thing, it's like nothing.

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[00:12:06] Caroline Blazovsky: Michael Michael Phelps has this swim spa that is $54,000 and something crazy, but it's got magnetics. You could get in and have the whole spa experience on one side and the whole swimming experience on the other. I mean, let me tell you, I wanna put you in one and I think you would be like, you'd have a cocktail in there and you'd be all ready to go.

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[00:12:36] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah, but what did swimming pool? Steve say it is to put in a pool now who has now you're hundred, hundred times that hundred 50. Yeah. Yeah. And you can only use this, you know what, okay.

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[00:12:57] Eric Goranson: So that's an interesting debate, you know what I mean? It's just an [00:13:00] interesting debate.

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[00:13:21] Eric Goranson: Like everything else is that I would almost rather have the swimming pool for everybody to, to entertain in. And then have the spa swim spa over on the other side, away from it. So that would be on your, yeah. Have both

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[00:13:50] Caroline Blazovsky: That's kind of cool. You've got lights. That's cool. I could totally see you in a hot tub. You're a hot tub guy.

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[00:14:10] Eric Goranson: I get rid of it. I'm like, does it work? Well, I was told it worked when I bought the house, but it's been drained. I'm like, well, I'll take it. So we ended up getting the neighbors, riding lawnmower. Building a little cart, rolling it up the street, using six neighbors to put it in my backyard. And then it kind of worked.

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[00:14:43] Caroline Blazovsky: one. Yeah. But you know, what's fascinating about a hot tub is that if you have a good fiberglass, like, so the material that the tub is made out of mm-hmm and the cabinetry is in good shape, you can fix almost anything DIY inside the hot tub for, for components.

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[00:15:07] Eric Goranson: Yeah, the Shell's good. It's not leaking, the parts are available. You're not having to put too many universal parts in it. Yeah. I mean, you can make it a DIY project by going up and staggering on somebody's, $1,200 hot tub off Craigslist.

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[00:15:22] Caroline Blazovsky: you gotta be careful. there's two companies that actually make all the internal parts. That's what I was reading about. It's two manufacturers that, off-label it for everybody. Yeah. And so it's interesting. So they, they sell, it's all marketing. So I guess if you're looking at jacuzzi or you're looking at mm-hmm hot Springs or bullfrog or whichever one.

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[00:15:44] Eric Goranson: Yes. In a lot of the same parts in it, whether you're buying a mm-hmm maybe a sec. I mean, I'm sure there's different grades of parts, just like anything else, there's probably the cheap motor and the, the super high end motor that's, that's higher quality quieter, there's probably different levels of stuff because there's definitely different levels.

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[00:16:01] Caroline Blazovsky: Swimming pool. Steve gave me that insight. So check out swimming pool. Steve, if you guys wanna get additional information, but he said there's two major manufacturers for all of those hot tubs.

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[00:16:14] Caroline Blazovsky: And around the house, we've got secrets.

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[00:16:31] Eric Goranson: Yep. I get that. I get that. Well, man, we've got, and if you're out there, Hey guys, just another quick note before we leave, if you're out there still shopping for dear old dad, and by the way, it is father's day on Sunday coming up here, on, uh, this next weekend. If you're listening to the show here during the middle of the week when we recorded it, here's the thing.

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[00:17:04] Caroline Blazovsky: too late to shop. You got it. Amazon can have it to you overnight. If you pay prime prices,

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[00:17:19] Eric Goranson: Hmm. Fits in a card that way. So what do you got going on in the rest of the week? Caroline? You got anything going on?

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[00:17:40] Caroline Blazovsky: New Jersey green and, and also environmentally conscious. So that's exciting. And anybody can register too. You it's an online event too. You can do it virtually. And we're gonna be there talking about all kinds of good stuff about indoor air quality. So, uh, sustainable red bank, New Jersey, check it out.

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[00:18:02] Eric Goranson: register@redbanklibrary.org Ford slice calendar on the event page.

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[00:18:12] Is

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[00:18:13] Eric Goranson: Yeah. Clean air in the home. And you're gonna be there, live doing that. Huh? Mm-hmm nice. Your first live event post COVID.

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[00:18:25] Eric Goranson: have you done ano this? Have you done other live events? Post COVID? Not many, but yes. Okay. Mm-hmm I wasn't sure if you'd done any, I couldn't remember if you'd done any live ones.

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[00:18:34] Caroline Blazovsky: We did. We, I did one or two, I think since. Okay. But not nothing

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[00:18:48] Caroline Blazovsky: No, who wants autograph from me? you know what you'll get from me. You'll get a lecture about how bad your indoor air quality is.

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[00:18:57] Eric Goranson: Ah, there we go. There we go. That's not how you sell this, [00:19:00] by the way.

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