What's up Tyler? Hey, how how was your how was your fourth July? It was hot.

It was hot. Hot girl summer. Everyone's talking about humid hot rain. It was hot. Yeah. No, it was good. I took some time off. I left late Friday, spent until Tuesday afternoon with the girls and then came home to get back to work Wednesday.

Just because I have a lot going on with that job. You took the week off, right? Yeah. We shut down for the whole week. So everyone did. Yeah. Nice. Oh, no, I shut everyone in someone mess. Someone reached out. I was like, do your subs not work your job sites. I said, that's correct. We shut the jobs down. Like it's it's yeah known. Like, well, what don't the subs get aggravated? I'm like, I don't tell them the day before. Yeah. Like this is all on their schedule. We know like they're not working that day.

You know, everyone takes time off anyway. So it's like, what happens? You know, yeah, it costs because we pay. We pay everyone for that week anyway. But, you know, a ton of people take time off. So then it's a matter of like moving people around, shuffling people, trying to figure out who's doing what and and not sure who's going to take time off or if people extend vacations. I'm like, you know what, it's right in the middle of the year.

Let's start Q2 with a quick break off. Everyone recharge come back and we'll do the same thing for Christmas. Yeah, it's one of the cabinet companies that I use does the same thing. They take the the new year break. And then they take the week off around July 4th. And it is, it's like halfway through the year. It's nice. A nice reset forever on it. And it get like and I can actually go away and not worry about work or worry about getting a phone call. It's like everyone's off. No one's bothering anyone. And we come back and we're good.

Yeah, general. It's the same thing as Christmas. People are going away. They want to be able to do their own thing. And like if you're working on their house, not have you there. So it does make sense.

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So today we have Austin from building culture. He was an apprentice for a previous guest clay that we had thousand year old house.

But they design and build homes with triple white solid machinery walls.

Yeah, so it's very similar to what clay does. And he's looking to do something similar where he's developing these communities.

Based on that new urbanism movement. And really building something that's sustainable and durable and more akin to what we built a few hundred years ago.

Obviously with updated technology and utilities and everything else, but just building a smaller more traditional style home that will last a very long time.

So we talk about craftsmanship. We talk about his start as an accountant where he decided to give up that career, take a massive pay cut.

In order for him to, you know, explore what he later found out to be a passion of his.

And we also dig into some building science and discuss, you know, whether or not we should really be building airtight homes.

Yeah, I enjoyed speaking with him. I had not met him before. I was unaware of who he was. But when I started looking him up and I listened to a couple of podcasts with him. He's very well spoken.

Super informative, very knowledgeable and just very enthusiastic about what he's doing, which is just I love talking to people like that. I mean, you could talk to me about something that I am not interested in whatsoever. I mean, I am interested in this.

But if somebody is just into what they're doing and loving what they're doing is very contagious. And it makes for a great conversation.

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