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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

339: Nick Schiffer—Will A.I. Build Your House

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Nick is a custom homebuilder and skilled trades advocate who founded NS Builders and hosts the Modern Craftsman podcast. He talks skilled trades, the labor shortage, and the ancient dilemma of juggling quality, schedule, and price. 

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0:00.0

Will AI Build Your House? That is the title of episode 339 of the way I heard it.

0:10.8

Let me just stop you right there. No. No, it will not. I feel pretty strongly about it.

0:15.7

You seem very certain. And our guest today has also a certain amount of certainty regarding a certain amount of things.

0:23.6

He's a builder.

0:24.6

He's a custom home builder named Nick Schiffer.

0:29.0

And I really like what Nick is doing.

0:31.9

And you wound up going on his podcast as a guest recently.

0:37.1

How did that happen? And why? Can you dial back that all

0:40.7

just a little bit that like what that, W-T-A-F? When you asked that question? Sorry. He asked me,

0:50.4

I mean, I was a consolation prize, truth be told. He wanted to get you on the podcast. Apparently, his podcast, all of his listeners, have wanted you to be a guest for the longest period of time. And of course, you are incredibly busy. But when I first met him to talk to him, we had a conversation. We zoomed for like 45 minutes and we had this great conversation.

1:14.7

And he kept trying to get you on the podcast. I thought, he's not available then. He's not available then. But blah, blah, we'll try and do it or whatever. And he said, well, why don't you come on?

1:17.4

We had such a great chat. So I certainly answered the hell out of that one.

1:29.5

MicroWorks, my modest little foundation, is giving away a million dollars next month.

1:34.8

We're in the midst of our work ethic scholarship program, the second one of the year.

1:39.5

So super excited about expanding that.

1:43.0

And I know this guy, Nick, because I did a live Instagram

1:47.4

thing with him. It was a disaster about a year ago. I mean, it worked out all right, ultimately,

1:54.7

but he was in Switzerland, and I was technically challenged. We wound up having a really great

1:59.9

conversation. And, you know,

2:02.5

I kept his contacts because I thought, you know, Nick is doing something. He's a custom home

2:08.1

builder. He started out as a carpenter and now he's a general contractor and he's really good.

2:14.7

He has a company called NS Builders.

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