Crbnly A/C Cross-Breeze

We put the Crbnly gloves back on and duke it out over A/C best practices and how to save energy and stay cool! Welcome to another showdown -- while you listen head over to IG and let us know what you do to manage the heat and stay sustainable.

Useful Resources
Is It Better to Leave Your A/C on All Day or Turn It Off? (Women's Health)
Analysis: Does turning the A/C off when you’re not home actually save electricity? (PBS)
Does turning the air conditioning off when you’re not home save energy? (ARS Technica)
Is It Better to Leave Your A/C On All Day or Turn It Off? (Good Housekeeping)
Should You Turn Your AC Up When You're Not Home? (How Stuff Works)
Optimum Energy Management for Air Conditioners in IoT-Enabled Smart Home (National Library of Medicine)

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Transcript

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[Shane]: All right, hello everyone, Shane here.
Welcome to the latest episode of Carbonly Conversations.

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[Shane]: Today we're gonna try to keep it a
little cool. We're gonna dig into what's the

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[Shane]: most carbonly way to stay cool. And
that has to be about the AC, air conditioner.

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[Shane]: Do you keep it on? Do you shut it off
when you're not home? with all the hot pockets

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[Shane]: of extreme heat, energy consumption,
and the ongoing question of how I stay safe

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[Shane]: and cool and be carbonly at the same
time. So we've got the full team here with

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[Shane]: us today. We've got Steven Anshad joining
me.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: That's Chocolate Daddy.

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[Chadwick]: Can we redo it? Shane, like someone
sounded like they're running a pencil sharpener

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[Chadwick]: like half the way through your...
I don't know.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Yeah, the printer activated.

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[Shane]: Oh, yeah.

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[Chadwick]: Okay, I'm not sure that's let's
do it again

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Hold on, just, it'll give
it some time.

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[Shane]: You have a fax machine.

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[Chadwick]: Stephen's

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[Shane]: Who's

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[Chadwick]: going

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[Shane]: print...

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[Chadwick]: to his next contract faxed in.

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[Shane]: Yeah. Who's printing?

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I think my parents are probably
doing it.

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[Shane]: We'll give it a shot now.

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[Chadwick]: Let's try it again.

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[Shane]: Alright, how-

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[Chadwick]: and stare at it, Stephen.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Oh

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[Shane]: Oh.

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[Chadwick]: We may just have to live with it.

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[Shane]: Yeah, it's all good. Hello everyone,
Shane here. Welcome to another episode of Carvely

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[Shane]: Conversation. Got the full team with
me today. We've got Chad and Steven joining

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[Shane]: us in this conversation.

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[Chadwick]: Good morning,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: What's up,

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[Chadwick]: good

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[Chocolate Daddy]: y'all?

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[Chadwick]: morning, good morning, good morning.

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[Shane]: And today, we're gonna dig into what's
the most carbonly way to stay cool this summer?

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[Shane]: Do you keep the AC on or do you shut
it off when you're not at home? I know we all

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[Shane]: have been experiencing some extreme
heat, record highs, I believe, about a week

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[Shane]: or so ago. So with all of the hot pockets,
energy consumption, and ongoing question of

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[Shane]: how I say safe and cool, and also be
carbonly at the same time. So we'll get that

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[Shane]: conversation going. Before that, we
just wanna make sure to remind you that we've

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[Shane]: made it easy for you to listen to us
on your favorite podcast app. Literally all

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[Shane]: you need to do is look at your phone
now. If you're listening, scroll down to the

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the conversation. That's gonna give you the...

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[Shane]: the availability to explore past conversations,
as well as catch our future episodes, which

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[Shane]: we try to release every Wednesday.
So do that, follow us on Instagram, YouTube,

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[Shane]: Facebook, you name it, to stay caught
up with the conversations. So let's get it

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[Shane]: started. Chad, I know you kind of,
I think we've, I guess maybe to give the listeners

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[Shane]: some background. AC, everyone knows
AC is important. Chad and I, we live in our

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[Shane]: homes, we have window ACs. So there's
some time, whenever we record in the summertime,

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[Shane]: we have to turn them off so that, you
know, the

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Hmm.

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[Shane]: audio is pleasurable for all the listeners
ears. And sometimes it gets pretty hot. Like

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[Shane]: you may even see me sweating on some
episodes,

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[Chadwick]: Yeah.

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[Shane]: you know?

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Poor... poor bastards.

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[Shane]: Yeah, yeah.

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[Chadwick]: Not because of the grill down on
the carbon like topics, but it's because our

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[Chadwick]: one way of keeping the heat away
or keeping the heat at bay is minimized.

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[Shane]: Yep. I mean, you've got the ceiling
fan going, so we'll get into that later. But

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[Shane]: yeah, I think this will be a fun discussion,
and we would, after, we would love to hear

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[Shane]: all of the listeners' ideas on how
they stay cool. But who wants to kick this

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[Shane]: off?

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I could kick it off as a
as a person that is currently residing in Florida

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[Chadwick]: The Florida man says... Ah-

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Yeah, which I think I can't
remember what Florida like the only the invention

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[Chocolate Daddy]: of the AC Was pivotal for
developing Florida like we this would have

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[Chocolate Daddy]: probably been like some backwater
state well It might still be, but it would

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[Chocolate Daddy]: have been way less developed
without AC. Like nothing would have happened

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[Chocolate Daddy]: here. There would have been
no Miami.

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[Shane]: Mm-hmm.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: AC is important to us. And
I think my method for doing things, I don't

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[Chocolate Daddy]: think is the most efficient
because I work from home. So I'm home all day.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I can't do the... you know,
turn my AC off during the hottest part of the

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[Chocolate Daddy]: day type thing. Um, I'm,
I'm more in the camp of let it run sun. Uh,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: um,

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[Shane]: Do you keep it

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[Chocolate Daddy]: but.

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[Shane]: at a certain temperature all day?

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I keep it 76. Yeah.

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[Shane]: Okay,

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[Chadwick]: That's

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[Shane]: well that's,

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[Chadwick]: really good.

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[Shane]: yeah, that's

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[Chocolate Daddy]: That's

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[Shane]: pretty

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[Chocolate Daddy]: right.

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[Shane]: high compared to most people. I've
been to some people's houses in their ACs on

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[Shane]: like 68. That's like, your bill has
to be scary.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Yeah, but there's also ceiling
fans in every room. So that's why I say it's

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[Chocolate Daddy]: not the most efficient because
those ceiling fans are also using up electricity

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[Chocolate Daddy]: because if we're in the room,
it's on and I don't really turn it off until

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I leave the room.

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[Shane]: Mm.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: And I'm in the office right
now. I spend like eight to 10 hours a day here,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: so it's running. I see yours

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[Chadwick]: Do you guys

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[Chocolate Daddy]: is on

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[Chadwick]: have

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[Chocolate Daddy]: too, Chad.

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[Chadwick]: wall units or do you have a central
air?

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[Chocolate Daddy]: We have central air and it's
kind of nice because we We were all Jamaican

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[Chocolate Daddy]: so we're warm weather people
that's why 76 is not an issue

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[Shane]: Mm-hmm.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: And we also spend a good
deal of time Outside on the patio So, yeah,

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[Chadwick]: Mmm.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: but while we're outside AC
still running steel run

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[Chadwick]: Yeah, I think that's the biggest
lesson I learned through the multitudes of

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[Chadwick]: articles I read and shared with
you too, in which for our listeners will be

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[Chadwick]: in the useful resource link. After
reading about a dozen of them, most of them

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[Chadwick]: from 2022 for some reason, not a
lot of companies and publishers writing about

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[Chadwick]: the impact of AC on electricity
in 2023 for some reason.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Mm-hmm.

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[Chadwick]: That could be its own story. But
they referenced two or three different research,

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[Chadwick]: a set of research done to like explore
this question. Like is it better to leave your

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[Chadwick]: AC on all day at a consistent temperature?
Is

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[Shane]: Thanks for watching!

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[Chadwick]: it better to shut it off when you're
not there or turn it up really high and then

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[Chadwick]: let it run on when you get home?
It's pretty much like the crux of it. And what

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[Chadwick]: I took away, or at least what I
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[Chadwick]: and this research was that the When
everyone, let's just pretend everyone works

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[Chadwick]: a nine to five schedule, which the
majority of at least Americans do when they

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[Chadwick]: come home at that four 30 to five
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[Chadwick]: or crank it, um, that demand of
energy, a, there's just more people using it,

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[Chadwick]: but be that initial startup and
running to cool down your house was like the

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[Chadwick]: culprit of, of demanding all that
extra

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Hmm.

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[Chadwick]: electricity. I'm wrong. So all of
you that think I was on a track have heard

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[Chadwick]: that. Like it doesn't

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chadwick]: take any extra energy to crank up
your AC and get it running or crank up your

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[Chadwick]: central unit to get it running.
The real point of it is it just, if you haven't

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[Chadwick]: sat at 72 and your house is at 76,
it just might take a little bit longer to get

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[Chadwick]: it there. So the

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Hmm.

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[Chadwick]: duration of time is where it'll
actually eat up some of that energy. And

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[Shane]: Hmm.

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[Chadwick]: what I found through the reading
is that you may actually spend more electricity,

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[Chadwick]: demand more power, keeping it set
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[Chadwick]: it up or off, and then turning it
on when you come back home.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Well,

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: one thing that doing the
research for this did help with a lot is it

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[Chocolate Daddy]: helped me to, like I said,
I don't think I have the most efficient usage

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[Chocolate Daddy]: of my AC, but I think through
researching, I can be, I can make what I already

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[Chocolate Daddy]: do more efficient. So I don't
actually,

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chadwick]: Mmm.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I don't think I'm gonna change
the way I use the AC, but there's other things

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I can do to minimize

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: my footprint.

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[Shane]: Well, and one of the articles, I forget
which one, but I mean, Steven, you already

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[Shane]: keep your AC set at 76.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Mm-hmm.

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[Shane]: And what they say is you can actually,
it saves, it's three to 5% less energy for

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[Shane]: every degree you raise it. So like,
if you were to just raise it two degrees to

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[Shane]: 78, whenever no one's home,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Mm-hmm.

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[Shane]: you're actually, I mean, that would
help with your footprint at that

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Mmm.

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[Shane]: point, you know, and it's not

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Okay.

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[Shane]: a big difference to what you already
keep it at, you know,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Yeah.

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[Shane]: so.

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[Chadwick]: And it doesn't take you that much
longer to get it to where you want it to be

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[Chadwick]: when you get home.

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Yeah, and we're also looking
into like planting new, like, bigger bushes

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[Chocolate Daddy]: around the house to cover
the windows.

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: That was something our next
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[Chocolate Daddy]: it was just because they
were like doing something creepy and they didn't

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[Chocolate Daddy]: want people looking into
them and through the windows.

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[Chadwick]: That's

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[Chocolate Daddy]: But

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[Chadwick]: why

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[Chadwick]: you

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[Chocolate Daddy]: turns

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[Chadwick]: can buy curtains,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: out.

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[Chadwick]: Stephen. You

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[Shane]: Yeah,

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[Chadwick]: can

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Okay.

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[Chadwick]: go to the thrift

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[Shane]: yeah.

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[Chadwick]: store and get curtains and be as
creepy as you want. You don't need to plant

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[Chadwick]: a bush. I applaud, I applaud

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[Chocolate Daddy]: But

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[Chadwick]: at the...

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: it looks really pretty.

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[Shane]: Yeah.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: But yeah, it turns out that
it will help lower your energy usage by like,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: you could probably do, be
more efficient by like 3 to 4%. So that's-

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[Shane]: Yeah, I like the fact that the women's
health article mentioned that like planting

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[Shane]: some bushes,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Mm-hmm.

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[Shane]: that all goes back to even being more
carbonally, like just having that tree

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[Shane]: or bushes

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[Shane]: nature. I mean, it's, it's proven we
won't get into too many of the statistics,

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[Shane]: really lowers the temperature. pretty

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[Chocolate Daddy]: So in our backyard,

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98 here in Florida, but the backyard is actually

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we have mango trees, we have

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[Chocolate Daddy]: avocado trees, we have soursop
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[Chocolate Daddy]: he has water and he's always
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[Chadwick]: Yeah, I'm glad we're referencing
the good housekeep. Was it good? Yeah, good

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[Chadwick]: Cause the other thing that they
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[Shane]: that

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[Chadwick]: all day compared to an AC unit,
there's just a different. kilowatts per hour

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air circulation helped so much. I have so many

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[Chocolate Daddy]: And it's nice because what
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[Shane]: your setup, you have the central air,
you guys keep it usually 76.

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[Chadwick]: it's about, it's less than 10 years
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and lo and behold, she bought warranty on it

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[Chadwick]: is what it is. Um, it's also in
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So you've got 74, 73, like that's fine. This

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like that's real. We do have, because we live

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we have been setting it at 70. I feel guilty,

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so please help me. I think my big regret, and

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a claim on, if anyone's looking, any of our

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would endorse this 100%. It has,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: I'm sorry.

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That way you can get an app on your phone.

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[Chadwick]: Like when Lauren and I lived in
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[Chadwick]: think it scans. So it will turn
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all that matters over time. And I think that's

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[Chadwick]: that two to 5% energy during that
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[Chadwick]: And because it knows it because
it learned it from you.

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carbon-free is saving money.

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down to also saving a little bit of money off

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[Shane]: Yeah, I mean, definitely I would say,
so I personally, I have two of, so I live in

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about a little under 1200 square feet. I don't

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running on, I have two, I have those portable

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the window. It's like a, it sits in the house

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[Shane]: yeah, to blow all the hot air out.
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[Chocolate Daddy]: Would you want central air,
like let's say like, or, but is there an argument

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[Chocolate Daddy]: to be made that like, there
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not cooling down a whole house all the time.

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[Chocolate Daddy]: Like if you know that like
maybe Sunday's your lazy day, you're probably

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your bedroom and maybe the kitchen. You know,

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[Chocolate Daddy]: and like your kitchen, like
you're not really gonna cook today. So like

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So like all your energy goes towards like cooling

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don't have central air. Usually some of them

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[Shane]: So. My reasons as of right now, I do
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I need some, I'll need some duct work updated

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the, that suck the air down instead of blowing

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[Shane]: Yeah, the exchange. So like, so my
friends, they have an older home too. They

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[Shane]: So I need to have some updates done.
And then I would say the average cost of getting

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[Chadwick]: Yeah, the amount

404
00:22:42,510 --> 00:22:42,870
[Shane]: So that

405
00:22:42,870 --> 00:22:43,030
[Chadwick]: of duck

406
00:22:42,970 --> 00:22:43,211
[Shane]: that's

407
00:22:43,071 --> 00:22:43,272
[Chadwick]: pork.

408
00:22:43,251 --> 00:22:48,218
[Shane]: been my main reasons for not having
it yet. It's just the expense of it

409
00:22:50,254 --> 00:22:51,714
[Chadwick]: Steven's asked a good question.

410
00:22:51,868 --> 00:22:52,009
[Shane]: That

411
00:22:51,874 --> 00:22:51,974
[Chadwick]: So

412
00:22:52,070 --> 00:22:52,292
[Shane]: is, yeah.

413
00:22:53,354 --> 00:22:58,176
[Chadwick]: I think if you were in a, we'll
just call it like a geothermal home, like one

414
00:22:58,236 --> 00:23:04,457
[Chadwick]: made mostly of brick, mortar, cement,
or even like maybe a 3D printed home would

415
00:23:04,477 --> 00:23:09,759
[Chadwick]: fall into this category. I think
then you could localize your heating and cooling

416
00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:16,621
[Chadwick]: because most of your home has that
added layer of insulation through

417
00:23:16,323 --> 00:23:16,629
[Chocolate Daddy]: Mm-hmm.

418
00:23:17,661 --> 00:23:23,466
[Chadwick]: that brick mortar work. Because
some of what I've read here and then just I

419
00:23:23,486 --> 00:23:29,268
[Chadwick]: would consider just how house-homing
understanding is that most of houses are made

420
00:23:29,308 --> 00:23:34,669
[Chadwick]: of wood and technically need to
breathe. Like you need air exchanging around

421
00:23:34,770 --> 00:23:39,911
[Chadwick]: it and the less air exchanging around
it or the hotter you let it get and the colder

422
00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:45,973
[Chadwick]: you let it get really changes we'll
just say the organics of the wood and the materials

423
00:23:45,993 --> 00:23:51,655
[Chadwick]: in the home and that's where you
start to get a little bit of or other issues

424
00:23:51,696 --> 00:23:53,537
[Chadwick]: that will cause cost you

425
00:23:53,533 --> 00:23:53,701
[Shane]: Mm-hmm.

426
00:23:53,857 --> 00:23:58,281
[Chadwick]: over time. And that's where like,
I think the trade off in the electricity of

427
00:23:58,321 --> 00:24:01,284
[Chadwick]: a central air unit versus like localized

428
00:24:01,027 --> 00:24:02,727
[Chocolate Daddy]: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

429
00:24:01,344 --> 00:24:06,188
[Chadwick]: cooling and heating plays out a
little differently than just like the peer

430
00:24:06,228 --> 00:24:09,151
[Chadwick]: calculation of energy consumption
is like

431
00:24:09,155 --> 00:24:09,695
[Chocolate Daddy]: Gotcha.

432
00:24:09,211 --> 00:24:13,835
[Chadwick]: what's the well maintenance and
management of the home because of central air.

433
00:24:14,396 --> 00:24:18,311
[Chadwick]: And we haven't referenced a lot,
but. Think one of the better articles and of

434
00:24:18,351 --> 00:24:25,836
[Chadwick]: course, it's from the how stuff
works podcast the My phone is going off here

435
00:24:27,037 --> 00:24:30,880
[Chadwick]: And they actually reference that
a lot on that central air is like if you're

436
00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:33,902
[Chadwick]: gonna be gone for a couple days
It's kind of turn your central air up But if

437
00:24:33,922 --> 00:24:36,944
[Chadwick]: you're gonna be gone for a couple
weeks and the pets aren't gonna be there to

438
00:24:36,984 --> 00:24:41,768
[Chadwick]: shut it off But the advantage is
having central air is that even at a moderate

439
00:24:41,808 --> 00:24:46,474
[Chadwick]: temperature just kind of keeps your
house comfortable and healthy

440
00:24:47,069 --> 00:24:47,258
[Shane]: Yeah.

441
00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:50,916
[Chadwick]: Unless of course like I want to
call it like you can build into the side of

442
00:24:50,936 --> 00:24:55,878
[Chadwick]: a cliff or Bury half of your house
under like a sod house or like where the roof

443
00:24:55,918 --> 00:25:02,201
[Chadwick]: kind of goes up the hill Those that
kind of changes the game Because of the materials

444
00:25:02,241 --> 00:25:05,982
[Chadwick]: that you're using Which should be
a good caveat. This is where we really should

445
00:25:06,002 --> 00:25:12,145
[Chadwick]: get a plumber in here Heat pumps
so heat pumps work a lot a little differently

446
00:25:12,165 --> 00:25:15,538
[Chadwick]: because they're not they are They're
more or less using the difference between the

447
00:25:15,998 --> 00:25:21,081
[Chadwick]: air temperature inside and outside
to condense or something else. I don't know

448
00:25:21,101 --> 00:25:25,843
[Chadwick]: what the heat pump actually does
interchange that change in temperature to either

449
00:25:25,883 --> 00:25:31,205
[Chadwick]: create heat or create cooling of
the house. But the value of is that it keeps

450
00:25:31,245 --> 00:25:35,147
[Chadwick]: the humidity and the temperature
of the house really consistent in a range of

451
00:25:35,187 --> 00:25:41,666
[Chadwick]: temperatures, let's say, like 82
to 22 degrees Fahrenheit. And. all by the power

452
00:25:41,706 --> 00:25:46,408
[Chadwick]: of a electrical motor that runs
a pump and a fan, which is very economical.

453
00:25:47,171 --> 00:25:47,252
[Chocolate Daddy]: Hmm.

454
00:25:47,768 --> 00:25:51,510
[Chadwick]: So they're like a godsend for the
majority of the country, but like when you

455
00:25:51,530 --> 00:25:57,192
[Chadwick]: get those extreme hot or cool, that's
where like localized heating and cooling becomes

456
00:25:57,232 --> 00:26:01,134
[Chadwick]: really important as well. And I'm
not an expert on this at all, other than like

457
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:07,877
[Chadwick]: they're a solution for the mid range
of people and doesn't take a lot, like they're

458
00:26:07,977 --> 00:26:09,417
[Chadwick]: air curtains, you could install

459
00:26:09,256 --> 00:26:09,318
[Shane]: Hmm.

460
00:26:09,457 --> 00:26:13,727
[Chadwick]: an air curtain. Like, so I think
a lot of homes like yours, Shane, that have

461
00:26:13,747 --> 00:26:19,190
[Chadwick]: been around for a hundred years
or more, 80 plus years that were built before

462
00:26:19,270 --> 00:26:29,256
[Chadwick]: all of this technology existed,
a heat pump is a way to manage the comfort

463
00:26:29,776 --> 00:26:34,359
[Chadwick]: and then actually manage the health.
I hate to call it like the healthiness of your

464
00:26:34,399 --> 00:26:35,379
[Chadwick]: home, but your

465
00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:35,546
[Shane]: Yeah.

466
00:26:35,419 --> 00:26:38,301
[Chadwick]: home in some ways kind of like a
living creature because

467
00:26:38,492 --> 00:26:38,660
[Shane]: Yep.

468
00:26:38,701 --> 00:26:43,053
[Chadwick]: there's all that. airflow through
it and all the little bugs and little things

469
00:26:43,093 --> 00:26:46,757
[Chadwick]: that can grow in it or not, you
know, and how you insulate it how you plastic

470
00:26:46,857 --> 00:26:52,003
[Chadwick]: it like how you like keep shit from
the rain running into the corner like really

471
00:26:52,043 --> 00:26:52,483
[Chadwick]: matters

472
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:53,149
[Shane]: Yeah.

473
00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:58,778
[Chocolate Daddy]: Wait, all right, so just
making sure I understand things because this

474
00:26:58,818 --> 00:27:02,682
[Chocolate Daddy]: is fascinating and I plan
on owning a home someday, so this is good to

475
00:27:02,722 --> 00:27:13,310
[Chocolate Daddy]: know. So the good thing about
central air is your electricity bill might

476
00:27:13,410 --> 00:27:19,315
[Chocolate Daddy]: be a little bit higher than
maybe your current setup right now, Shane.

477
00:27:19,615 --> 00:27:23,298
[Chocolate Daddy]: But in the long run, you're
actually saving money because you're avoiding.

478
00:27:24,111 --> 00:27:28,879
[Chocolate Daddy]: uh mold and uh moisture damage
and things like

479
00:27:28,676 --> 00:27:30,978
[Shane]: Mm-hmm.

480
00:27:28,919 --> 00:27:31,344
[Chocolate Daddy]: that okay that's great

481
00:27:31,078 --> 00:27:31,299
[Shane]: Yeah.

482
00:27:32,466 --> 00:27:32,626
[Chocolate Daddy]: that's

483
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,121
[Shane]: And

484
00:27:32,646 --> 00:27:32,886
[Chocolate Daddy]: great

485
00:27:33,341 --> 00:27:39,728
[Shane]: increasing the value of your home in
some ways as well. But yeah, that definitely,

486
00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:46,716
[Shane]: this house is about 80 something years
old and the moisture has definitely probably

487
00:27:46,776 --> 00:27:48,738
[Shane]: done some damage to the house, you

488
00:27:48,707 --> 00:27:50,961
[Chocolate Daddy]: Hmm.

489
00:27:48,758 --> 00:27:48,958
[Shane]: know.

490
00:27:50,981 --> 00:27:52,228
[Chocolate Daddy]: Damn, we should be on HGTV.

491
00:27:53,712 --> 00:27:55,473
[Shane]: We need a show. Hit us up,

492
00:27:55,528 --> 00:27:55,748
[Chocolate Daddy]: We need

493
00:27:55,693 --> 00:27:56,233
[Shane]: HGTV.

494
00:27:55,829 --> 00:27:56,230
[Chocolate Daddy]: a show.

495
00:27:55,987 --> 00:27:56,892
[Chadwick]: The Carbon Lay crew.

496
00:27:57,554 --> 00:27:58,454
[Shane]: Yeah.

497
00:27:57,957 --> 00:27:58,118
[Chocolate Daddy]: Yep.

498
00:27:58,494 --> 00:28:02,176
[Shane]: We just go inside people's homes and
tell them what to add just to be more

499
00:28:02,102 --> 00:28:02,291
[Chocolate Daddy]: Yeah.

500
00:28:02,236 --> 00:28:02,717
[Shane]: carbonly.

501
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:03,764
[Chadwick]: to

502
00:28:03,757 --> 00:28:03,977
[Shane]: Turn

503
00:28:03,785 --> 00:28:04,114
[Chadwick]: be more,

504
00:28:03,997 --> 00:28:04,097
[Shane]: your

505
00:28:04,134 --> 00:28:04,340
[Chadwick]: yeah.

506
00:28:04,178 --> 00:28:13,943
[Shane]: AC up. But yeah, and just one more
thing. Like the smart ACs are, so like I said,

507
00:28:14,003 --> 00:28:20,647
[Shane]: two of mine are smart ACs. So what
I usually do is when I'm not home, all of them

508
00:28:20,687 --> 00:28:26,527
[Shane]: are off. the upstairs windows, I'll
open those. I'll keep the downstairs windows

509
00:28:27,228 --> 00:28:36,155
[Shane]: closed for safety reasons. And so I'll
do that. And then usually when I'm on the way

510
00:28:36,175 --> 00:28:42,280
[Shane]: home, I can turn the AC unit that's
in the living room, I can turn that on. And

511
00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:47,061
[Shane]: then the one in the bedroom, I usually
won't turn on until, you know, an hour or so

512
00:28:47,101 --> 00:28:52,143
[Shane]: before I go to bed, you know, so that
by the time I'm going to bed, the room is nice

513
00:28:52,183 --> 00:28:58,284
[Shane]: and cool or, or unless I'm hanging
out in the room, of course, but I don't use

514
00:28:58,384 --> 00:29:02,806
[Shane]: AC that much and it's not fun. I mean,
there's definitely days where it's brutal.

515
00:29:03,346 --> 00:29:07,047
[Shane]: You know what I mean? And like I said,
I do plan on getting central air installed.

516
00:29:07,107 --> 00:29:07,247
[Shane]: So

517
00:29:10,926 --> 00:29:11,066
[Chadwick]: I feel

518
00:29:10,994 --> 00:29:11,139
[Shane]: It's

519
00:29:11,086 --> 00:29:11,227
[Chadwick]: like

520
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:11,181
[Shane]: a

521
00:29:11,267 --> 00:29:15,862
[Chadwick]: we could call this episode the carbon
like cross breeze. Just out in that last day

522
00:29:15,882 --> 00:29:16,584
[Chadwick]: right there. Ha ha ha.

523
00:29:18,610 --> 00:29:25,595
[Shane]: It's a give and take, like, you know,
but, and I think we would be wrong if we didn't.

524
00:29:25,635 --> 00:29:30,719
[Shane]: And anyone out there that listened
to our Black History Month episodes, we brought

525
00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:37,464
[Shane]: up Frederick Jones, but I think we
would be, we wouldn't do this episode justice

526
00:29:37,524 --> 00:29:45,034
[Shane]: if we didn't give him another salute.
So salute to Frederick Jones. Who was the African

527
00:29:45,074 --> 00:29:51,100
[Shane]: American that invented the first portable
air conditioning unit? You're a savior,

528
00:29:50,922 --> 00:29:51,082
[Chadwick]: made

529
00:29:51,140 --> 00:29:51,341
[Shane]: buddy

530
00:29:51,162 --> 00:29:56,666
[Chadwick]: it, yeah, he's a savior, made it
viable to ship all that produce from California

531
00:29:56,686 --> 00:29:58,207
[Chadwick]: across the,

532
00:29:57,208 --> 00:29:58,015
[Shane]: All of that, yep.

533
00:29:58,287 --> 00:30:02,630
[Chadwick]: I mean, kind of put us in the predicament
of like all that water from the Hoover Dam

534
00:30:02,670 --> 00:30:07,754
[Chadwick]: being sucked into the Central Valley,
but at the same time, we got really cheap food

535
00:30:07,874 --> 00:30:08,675
[Chadwick]: to grow as a country.

536
00:30:09,351 --> 00:30:09,519
[Shane]: Yeah.

537
00:30:09,896 --> 00:30:11,857
[Chadwick]: Every decision has consequences,
but yes.

538
00:30:12,132 --> 00:30:16,845
[Shane]: Yep. Just like leaving your AC on or
off when you're not home.

539
00:30:17,386 --> 00:30:17,426
[Chadwick]: I

540
00:30:17,387 --> 00:30:17,527
[Shane]: There

541
00:30:17,486 --> 00:30:17,806
[Chadwick]: mean,

542
00:30:17,567 --> 00:30:18,510
[Shane]: can be consequences

543
00:30:17,846 --> 00:30:18,627
[Chadwick]: we couldn't have set that

544
00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:18,691
[Shane]: to

545
00:30:18,667 --> 00:30:18,807
[Chadwick]: up

546
00:30:18,751 --> 00:30:18,811
[Shane]: it.

547
00:30:18,847 --> 00:30:22,590
[Chadwick]: better up. It has consequences and
hopefully we unraveled some of them.

548
00:30:23,101 --> 00:30:23,290
[Shane]: Yep.

549
00:30:25,032 --> 00:30:29,596
[Chadwick]: I think in the end, just getting
a wifi enabled one, that's like the hill I'll

550
00:30:29,616 --> 00:30:35,961
[Chadwick]: stake a claim on so you can manage
it actively, set a schedule and have it just

551
00:30:36,021 --> 00:30:40,265
[Chadwick]: set up higher when you're not there
and have it comfortable when you get home.

552
00:30:40,385 --> 00:30:41,245
[Chadwick]: Like that's pretty powerful.

553
00:30:42,064 --> 00:30:43,319
[Shane]: Yep.

554
00:30:44,930 --> 00:30:45,387
[Chadwick]: comfortable.

555
00:30:47,510 --> 00:30:47,915
[Shane]: comfortable.

556
00:30:47,694 --> 00:30:54,892
[Chadwick]: because the last month on the planet
Earth was the hottest one ever recorded within

557
00:30:54,932 --> 00:30:55,393
[Chadwick]: our knowing.

558
00:30:56,596 --> 00:30:57,078
[Shane]: Crazy.

559
00:30:56,886 --> 00:30:56,948
[Chocolate Daddy]: you

560
00:30:58,084 --> 00:30:58,547
[Shane]: Scary.

561
00:30:58,958 --> 00:31:04,780
[Chadwick]: ever, ever. And you look at like
the, they have like a, I don't know, it's like

562
00:31:04,860 --> 00:31:09,362
[Chadwick]: a, it looks like a normal curve
because the temperatures usually peak in the

563
00:31:09,402 --> 00:31:14,704
[Chadwick]: summer and go down and so that it's
from like January to December on the timeline.

564
00:31:15,204 --> 00:31:19,406
[Chadwick]: And then it's just like average
temperature goes like this and they have every

565
00:31:19,446 --> 00:31:23,768
[Chadwick]: year plotted. So there's just this
big band where, because most of the temperatures

566
00:31:23,808 --> 00:31:31,789
[Chadwick]: fall in the same range. And then
2023 is like, on the graph just there's space

567
00:31:31,829 --> 00:31:33,071
[Chadwick]: between that and the big band.

568
00:31:36,260 --> 00:31:40,667
[Shane]: Well, Chad, I see some beads of sweat
coming down your forehead, so we should probably

569
00:31:40,767 --> 00:31:41,368
[Shane]: end this one

570
00:31:41,611 --> 00:31:41,972
[Chadwick]: Wish you get

571
00:31:41,949 --> 00:31:42,049
[Shane]: so

572
00:31:42,012 --> 00:31:42,555
[Chadwick]: this AC

573
00:31:42,530 --> 00:31:43,071
[Shane]: you

574
00:31:42,595 --> 00:31:43,057
[Chadwick]: turn back

575
00:31:43,091 --> 00:31:43,252
[Shane]: can

576
00:31:43,238 --> 00:31:43,479
[Chadwick]: on.

577
00:31:43,272 --> 00:31:43,993
[Shane]: turn your AC

578
00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:44,162
[Chadwick]: Here it is.

579
00:31:44,033 --> 00:31:45,776
[Shane]: back on. There

580
00:31:45,709 --> 00:31:46,031
[Chadwick]: Crank

581
00:31:45,796 --> 00:31:46,176
[Shane]: you go.

582
00:31:46,051 --> 00:31:46,211
[Chadwick]: that

583
00:31:46,197 --> 00:31:46,417
[Shane]: Yeah.

584
00:31:46,231 --> 00:31:55,284
[Chadwick]: thing up. Yeah, whoo! Whereas Stephen
Sittman is ballin' me 76 the whole

585
00:31:55,161 --> 00:31:55,364
[Shane]: Yeah.

586
00:31:55,324 --> 00:31:55,605
[Chadwick]: time.

587
00:31:56,340 --> 00:31:58,021
[Chocolate Daddy]: Mmm, yes. Uh,

588
00:31:58,388 --> 00:31:58,723
[Shane]: I'm out.

589
00:31:59,463 --> 00:32:03,687
[Chocolate Daddy]: yeah, we, uh, sorry, I thought
about this a long time ago and I've been waiting

590
00:32:03,727 --> 00:32:09,052
[Chocolate Daddy]: to say it. We gotta stay
cool, like the coolest AC of all, AC Slater.

591
00:32:09,092 --> 00:32:11,354
[Chocolate Daddy]: Boom.

592
00:32:11,092 --> 00:32:11,736
[Shane]: There you go.

593
00:32:11,394 --> 00:32:13,396
[Chocolate Daddy]: I don't know if you guys
watch Safe by the Bell, but

594
00:32:13,368 --> 00:32:13,609
[Shane]: Yeah.

595
00:32:14,062 --> 00:32:15,984
[Chadwick]: I mean,

596
00:32:14,497 --> 00:32:15,978
[Chocolate Daddy]: it's a good joke. It's a
good joke.

597
00:32:16,464 --> 00:32:20,268
[Chadwick]: I watch him on my TV when I'm in
the hotel, when he's telling me what shows

598
00:32:20,309 --> 00:32:21,930
[Chadwick]: to watch on the hotel TV screen.
Yeah, yeah,

599
00:32:22,583 --> 00:32:23,070
[Chocolate Daddy]: There you go.

600
00:32:23,181 --> 00:32:24,150
[Shane]: Oh yeah, that's true. Yeah.

601
00:32:25,014 --> 00:32:28,277
[Chadwick]: he looks great. Looks like he has
an A just from high school.

602
00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:32,180
[Shane]: Yeah, just better hair, you know. But.

603
00:32:32,483 --> 00:32:33,163
[Chocolate Daddy]: That's true.

604
00:32:35,056 --> 00:32:38,618
[Shane]: Yeah, if you listen into this, let
us know what your setup is. Let us know what

605
00:32:38,658 --> 00:32:46,804
[Shane]: you, what you think is best. Because
like I said, out of all these articles, there's

606
00:32:46,844 --> 00:32:54,869
[Shane]: still no really fact on like, OK, this
is better. This is, you know, so let us know

607
00:32:54,889 --> 00:32:57,511
[Shane]: what you do and stay cool.

608
00:32:58,690 --> 00:32:59,803
[Chadwick]: Stay cool, Daddy O's.

609
00:33:05,516 --> 00:33:05,979
[Shane]: I mean, we went.