I feel smart understanding both things but ADHD and hyperfixations will do that when you love chemistry and building shit out of parts and recycled electronics. Idk that I could fully explain both but like I have the background knowledge to understand what both things are at a basic level
“Nigel, no one understands you like I do” 100% sure Nigel has a stalker. Nigel is going to start getting flowers, chocolates, and enriched uranium mailed to him
they talk about how people can't finish nigle's new video because of how long it is, but i think i've watched it through probably four times and the only time i couldn't finish it in one sitting was the first watch through because i had school work to do the day it came out. he's like my comfort youtuber so maybe that's why, but i can't imagine not finishing and rewatching his stuff
@@bczarrockbeast6264 yeah it was great, I’m not sure if he was going crazy or if he was really excited about this project but he sounded different in this video
It just seems like something a lot of people have problem with. I love a nice long video because I can just pop it on and churn out some code or get a bunch of smaller mindless projects in something like Minecraft knocked out while watching. Good way to turn the boring parts of something your doing into a much more enjoyable experience.
Thank you Nigel for setting the record straight right away on the ventilator needs. It was not just a media frenzy... and Italy had to triage patients for them.
My family didn't drain our septic tank for the entire 20 years we had been there and it was so bad there were inches of old crusty poop blocking the drain hole that our septic guy had to drill the poop crust to be able to pump it. Probably the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed. Please drain your septic tanks regularly.
Yeah there's about four distinct (English) Canadian accents but it's pretty common for our accents to be pretty weak. We generally have a pretty generic north American accent from my experience
Ontario south accent, Ontario north accent(basically just french), Ontario rural accent (also found in Saskatchewan, québécois English accent (Montreal) québécois french accent (diff than Ontario north) east accent excluding Newfoundland, Newfoundland, far west Canada, center Canada, and northern Canada. That's the majority of them. Almost no one says aboot, it's more like abowet. But newfound and rural areas say aboot. Sorry is usually a longer o unless ur from Ontario, then it's a 5050. Other than that we really don't have an accent you can tell apart from northern states or the Midwest.
@@PhaythGaming Yep. My boyfriend is from the GTA. I find him and his parents accents mostly only come out in random words. I mostly notice word/phrase differences. He says "write a test" instead of "take a test", pylons, washroom, etc
These are so late at this point, it’s kind of funny. I was over here thinking “there’s ANOTHER new NileRed video?” And then realized “Oh it’s the video from almost two months ago”.
The real problem is that ventilators are actually much more complicated than everyone thinks. They don't just force air in and out on their own timing, they respond the the patient's natural breathing and make it easier, among many other things.
10:48 I have a video of my toilet BLASTING water out from the sewer so hard that it was spraying all over the ceiling. It took me a while to figure out how this was possible, but i eventually learned that the city will sometimes pressure test the sewer line on the utility side after a bunch of houses have had the house side of their sewer lines replaced. We had something like 5 houses in a row replace from the house to the main sewer line and the city had replaced a huge amount of clay pipe with modern plastic pipe. When they ran their pressure test, they screwed something up with allowed pressure to escape through my toilet. it was like a demon was escaping my toilet. if i had been sitting on the toilet when it happened, it would have hurt pretty bad, not to mention it was disgusting sewer gas smelling air being blasted out. The only way i got it to stop was running outside and sprinting up the street to the service truck and shouting that my toilet was exploding. The service guys look horrified and kept telling me that it wasn't possible. I went back inside to call the city and as soon as i walked away from them, they packed their shit up and hauled ass out of there lol
Ive ran lines to old clay sewer connects and they are so brittle its insane they wouldnt replace it in this case. We shoved our pvc pipe as far down it as we could and then concreted around it just to be sure.
Ventilators were in high demand because of our knowledge of the disease at the time, the treatment plans we were using and where that often got us (ventilator). However, they had a few significant milestones in how they treat that reduced ventilator frequency substantially (maybe like 80%) and then the mutations also made it less severe (but more transmissible, mostly).
I am an exterminator working for a local company. I was making about 40k a year when I was doing general nuisance pests like spiders and ants. Switched to doing termites full time for the same company and now I make more than double what i was making. Although I do perform the services and I get hourly, as well as making a labor fee per service completed, a lot of it is sales commission because I actually inspect and bid the homes as well. Spiders and ants are annoying, but termites are devastating. I think what Will says is correct. If you can get rid of people's problems you can make a lot of money.
This made me think of states that regulate the towing industry. States had to put a cap on what a towing company can charge. It's an extreme version of the "make people's problems go away" idea.
Kevin is so cool, he's just immediately "bubble it through a column of water" such a simple way to do a pressure relief, easy to build, easy to understand, genius
When I was in high school, I worked summers at an HVAC company. Basically, it was the physically hardest job I’ve ever worked in my life. I’d rather move rebar than work in hot garages and attics. I learned a lot about electrical engineering though, but there’s definitely way easier ways to learn.
I learned a lot when I was a hvac tech for 3 years. I would of never understood electronics or the physics of heat and pressure. the 140f attics didn't bother me it was the climbing on to roofs on a fully extended ladder in 0f Temps
I worked a welding job in high school. Same story. Incredibly difficult physically, but gave me a skillset that I'll be able to use for the rest of my life. Also, my heat tolerance has become astronomical.
As a medic. I've been triaging for years now. Unfortunately sometimes I have to choose which patient gets what and which can wait etc. It sucks but you do your best.
Septic tank overflowed during a house party. In the morning dudes were looking at the aftermath guffawing at the turds on the lawn. But when I pointed out the tampon in the mix it was suddenly gross.
Nigel is the is the ying and yang of his own self. The professional Nigel is very particular, detailed, high standards, perfectionist. But the casual Nigel, drinks bubbly pop, complains a lot, drives a toyota, doesn't remember much, has low expectations. lol
The counter to Will's idea of receiving a huge sum of money at once is better than receiving it over several years is the TV show "The Lottery Changed My Life"
Human minds can't actually comprehend large numbers in the millions plus. We just have no way to tell intuitively how large numbers actually get after that. It's like volume, if you double the dimensions of something the volume increases by the cube of 2 (8 times), and our brains just don't seem to be very good at *getting* that. There are very few people that could have 100k+ in liquid assets without fucking it up and ending up broke, or worse off than they started. Always take the annuity. Always hire someone to manage the money for you. You'll spend more money on shitty financial decisions than you will on a good CPA/CFP. They'll put those winnings to work for you each time you get an annuity payout. You could multiply what you won a few times over by the end of your life easily.
The whole thing with ventilators was that the real useful kind of ventilator (which has to sense your desire to breathe and react to that. it's really fucking complicated) was really really rare relative to how many people they would normally have used them on based on how well they were breathing. But like, they have a shitload of shitty ventliators, as many as they wanted, but they're not actually helpful because how we breathe is really complicated and easy to make it worse with improper pressures. Like; they were saying "please do this just in case it might make things better for people triaged out of real ventilators" but then it went away when they realized that they were worse than nothing.
I hava a good question for Nigel that might also be a good concept for a video, how much piranha solution will it take to convert all the poop in Kevin's septic tank into water ? And did anyone else had same idea of dissolving poop in their septic tank after seeing piranha solution. Will it be safe and how much will it cost compared to hiring someone clean the septic tank.
Will is completely wrong saying the average person can handle $5 mil. I’m a financial advisor and have dealt with hundreds of people who have inherited massive wealth. The vast majority of them have NO IDEA how to manage it, it ruins their relationships and they blow it much faster than you’d think. Horrible take.
@@EnlightenedSavage That's like saying a doctor's experience with patients isn't valid experience for understanding how to practice medicine. It's *literally* their specialized occupation.
@@EnlightenedSavage it’s what I do all day long every day and I’ve done in for close to a decade. I KNOW FOR A FACT, the vast majority of people can not handle receiving an enormous amount of wealth out of nowhere without assistance from a professional. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a naive fool. I’ve seen a countless number of people completely blow millions of dollars they receive through inheritance or other means in a matter of a couple years. All of those people were under the illusion that they could handle money.
Really enjoy the part that Nigel explained about the behind the scenes for his video, especially how much consideration he has to make about the volume. I can't wait whatever big project he is going to come out with.
I think that when the work you do gives you a sense of purpose the money you have in the bank doesn't matter. My mother kind of got into a similar situation when she was in her early 30s where she was forced to take an early retirement while still earning about half way in between the median individual income and the median household income in our area. Our expenses were low so that money went a long way. She had all the time in the world to do whatever she wanted but it was probably the most bored and miserable she's ever been because it gets old after a while and that sense of purpose gets lost. 10 years of that paired with good money management and now she's 41 and can pretty much permanently retire off what she saved and invested and live the rest of her life never having to lift a finger ever again. Still she's back working minimum wage in a field she's familiar with and the happiest she's been in a long time because she's being productive again. At the end of the day living life without that purpose just really isn't living. Its just wasting time until you eventually die. That purpose isn't always found in work though. For some people retiring early might give them a change to find what gives them purpose. My mother is working her way back up into opening her own company again like she did before early retirement when my father died. Running a company is the opposite of the stress free life she lived for a decade but its what she personally wants.
theres a local "label printing" company here that does exceptionally well because -and this may be the case for your local label printer as well -they're money launderers lol. Something to think about! There's no way they do THAT well
I grew up in a tiny town of like 500 people. I knew a really rich guy. He drove an old beat up ford ranger pickup and wore ratty clothes. His business was a US distributor for a specialized electronics company. All he did was relay shipments into the US. He sometimes had one employee, lol.
also helicopters are silly expensive. I'm working on my PPL right now and it's already expensive, about ~$7.5k for everything. Helicopters are devices that shouldn't fly, so of course they're expensive. With a plane you can rent them for ~$120-150/hr with fuel, which is relatively cheap if you do it a few times a year. Insurance is cheap for a plane.
41:13 - About 10 years ago I was pretty broke and lived in a tiny (shitty) apartment, my nextdoor neighbour (exact same place as mine) was a multi-billionaire, with a *B.* His car was worse than mine, his meals were worse than mine, his furniture... He was the sole owner of a chain of (UK) nationwide busineses. He spent his entire life making money, talking about money and working out how to make more money, right up until his death.
So will, sometimes we add contrast and sharpness to footage to get better tracks. It uses color contrast for tracking, so sharper edge objects are ideal. If you are using footage from a cinema camera (or cinema settings) they are intentionally set to be alot softer, because we can always add the sharpness / contrast later, but we cant take it out. Nigel: Hope you have fun with VFX! its a cool hobby!
As a physics buff with a strong electrical background this initial discussion on the ghetto ventilator hurts physically I could explain it so well for all three and we’d become friends lol
"I am ok with hording wealth" is such a shit take. A few million might not hurt but when we are talking billions it unequivocally hurts the economy for anyone besides other rich people invested in stocks. That money needs to circulate somewhere, and if it was to build a stupid vanity pond? So be it, blue collar workers are getting paid, end of discussion.
Just have to say that I've loved this podcast since the beginning and it has been especially great during Big Willy's hiatus. But, also I loved Allen's Michael Superbacker video so much, and it was awesome to see Allen, Kevin, and William together in such a funny situation. My sides were hurting. Just a general appreciation for the safety third crew and all their regular guests.
The ventilators didn't become a problem because they found that early intubation didn't help as much we thought it might. People had better outcomes without early intubation and so the ventilators ended up being used only on the sickest patients. If this hadn't been the case, there would have been a significant shortage.
Yay something I know about!!!(HVAC contractor) So here's what you do Kevin. You need a friend who installs air conditioners for a living and become his friend! That simple! You need an ac guy, a plumber friend, and electrician friend, and a buddy with a truck! Those 4 friends (better if one counts for 2 or 3) will save you thousands over a lifetime!
Btw Kevin, you would fall backwards if you knew how much less a contractor pays for a system! So that 3 or 4 thousand difference is more like 6 or 7 thousand dollar difference! The most popular and the worst company should never be used. That's all I can say...
Best thing I ever did was make friends with my local mechanic. Now he's retired, but he still works out of his house garage lol. He's saved my car from many a disaster
There's an amount of money where you are rich and comfortable. Then there's an amount of money where you have power. These billionaires aren't trying to increase their personal liberty through earning any more, it's about directing what happens in other people's lives.
@@Lnd802 Politicians are supposed to have been elected by the people to change the people's world for the people. Billionaires are bypassing the democratic system, they're not suppose to direct other people's life. One is not like the other.
I used to work with a guy who was a combat helicopter pilot with multiple tours during the Iraq war. In his retirement from the military, he wanted to do commercial helicopter work. So he had to recertify to commercial standards etc etc. Despite having flown helicopters upside down in a war zone, he had to do an asinine amount of hours to certify and it was going to take him years to be able to fly some people to the top of a mountain to ski down.
Nile’s comment about building a lake. I worked for a women in high school. She had a huge house and man made lake on her property. She and her husband had a phone answering server. But most their money came from… and the reason for the man made lake… was for their dogs. She trained hunting dogs for show. She also bread them or studded them out. One of her dogs was a champion and show winner estimated at 250,000$. 1/4 of a million for a dog. I love dogs but damn. She paid me really well too was really nice.
My boss knew someone when he was in school that has since made 10's of millions by just renting traffic cones to construction companies. Also we have been contracted to work at a very exclusive golf club before and quite a few of the members fly to the club in their own helicopters, or in a hired helicopter from the nearest international airport so thats at least one thing you could use it for lmao
If i was just given $5mil, i would still keep my job, or at least a job. 100% im straight up spending $2mil on what i want, specifically land a build my own house. but after that i would still want a job in the career field im in right now because i actually really like my job (biomedical equipment maint. ) and frankly i would get bored.
That’s 3.5 mil after taxes. Spending 2 mil on what U want leaves you with 1.5 mil for land and a house. Not too much. And then you have no money invested. Also what do you mean about 2 mil on what u want… don’t you want the house and land??.
@@joedavid4545 so for one, im not assuming its prize money, im assuming there was a just a $5 mil deposit. Also the $2mill would be for material possessions that aren't likely to hold any value. Car, computer, gun parts, etc. And i already have a plan for land and a house and $1.5 mil would be more than enough, you clearly live in a city where a studio apartment costs $1,600/mo. I know where i can get vacant woodland for $1,000 an acre in the continental united states. No i'm not telling you where, stay in your fucking city.
Keep it up big Willie!!! These podcasts are gold, but I hope you make videos again soon. I know that the 5% of comment haters messed you up, but just think about the other 95% of people that respect you and love your videos.
Plumbing and HVAC business make huge amounts of money, because they are incredibly annoying to deal with for a regular person without the special equipment. Other than that a lot of programming jobs are also about "making problems go away" but on the B2B side, all the business software companies like Salesforce or SAP make absurd amounts of money dealing with that stugg. I guess business auditing also falls into that category, those make just absurd money
1:40 it's pretty damn useful. The largest killers on the field aren't bullets being fired at you, but shrapnel. And a lot of lethal shrapnel is blocked by relatively soft body armor. Then of course you want the plates. But there's a reason a lot of special forces just run soft armor.
I love watching all of Nigel’s videos. But my hyper focus is tuned in to science often. So I will put on video after video and watch Nile Red or Nile Blue all night. Thankfully it is the very best distraction when I have painsomnia, or I’m so anxious about nothing I can’t sleep. Since discovering this podcast I am genuinely enjoying will, Kevin and several other channels I have learned about from here too :) so thank you so much for not only having an excellent series of videos with some of the most incredible minds, but also thank you for introducing me to all these wonderful worlds to escape to and enjoy! You have no idea how much it helps.
I think the reason the guy Nile was talking about got so rich is because he took advantage of covid-19 all the stickers on the windows floors of grocery stores where do you think they came from(I'm pretty sure the Canadian municipal government made them mandatory in some places or something)? The reason it looked like a warehouse is that he probably got them posted from china or vistaprint, etc Very lucky
4:55 Having just made a bunch of code that automated creating 8 16x16 textures, this rings true. I spent three days writing a program that saved me 20m of work.
I seen the video was the length of a movie, so I allocated one of my movies watchings to that video instead. It doesn't have the same entertainment of a movie, but it has a great informational value. So it was an even trade off.
There's this one guy in an area I camp in and I remember the name of his business because it's so good. His septic tank service is call "The Turd Burglar" and I refuse to call anyone else if I ever need septic service lmao
I worked for a start up that made cheap, low maintenance analog ventilators for use in third world countries. Even these cheap motors were expensive, a few thousand dollars, and the reason is that it is very easy to hurt a person with a ventilator, and very hard to get medical equipment certified.
Some hospitals had major issues with respirators because of over crowding and they were short on everything. Less probably in the states but other countries were really bad some areas like huge cities had issues.
Just saying, the best way to create a mechanical pressure release is with a spring-based mechanism, endcapped with rubber or cloth (or anything, and a certain strength threshold/spring constant. I wouldn't even begin to mess with non mechanical mechanisms to release pressure.
I used to work in sewerage treatment and testing. It's honestly not that bad once you get used to it. One of the tests we did involved smelling the samples to work out how much to dilute it by for the test.
you need a license to install an AC unit. EPA section 608 a (I think) of the Montreal Protocol. It takes about $200ish to get the license (the test is pretty easy and the units aren't super complicated), about 2k worth of equipment (initial investment), and the refrigerant can be thousands of dollars for a 30lb tank, or as low as 200 for a 30lb depending on what type of refrigerant is being used (410-a is the current juice, so just look up the current price as it jumps up in summer, and when supplies are limited). The typical new unit comes charged with enough refrigerant already in it to run the unit (supposedly. You always need a bit more). Time and labor to install a unit can vary wildly. An attic evaporator is an absolute pain and requires 2 people minimum. Your basic utility room evaporator with a condenser that's easily accessible outside can take about 2-5 hrs. 7 years ago an hvac tech in eastern USA made about 19 an hour with pretty regular overtime and generally an emergency pager for double pay on weekend calls. All of the bending over to remove 70-120lb residential compressors from units over 20 years blew out my back, so I can't do the work anymore. The people who regularly measure and determine size/airflow needs for the household and determine the tonnage you need to keep your house cooled to a certain amount under the outside ambient temperature. These guys make more money, but I wasn't one of those, so I don't know. The owner rakes in the cash because the business is something that can't be done by someone looking up a how-to video. They won't even sell you refrigerant or a charged condenser unit without a valid license. Some shops won't let you buy a capacitor without a license.
It isn't that hard to install an AC. Seriously, the shit you make is way more complicated than an AC. And with the knowledge of how it's done you can make cool stuff
Dude, that's the thing. I went to HVAC school and tried to get into the industry and they only wanna pay $16 or $17 an hour to start with shit hours. Ended up repairing commercial kitchen equipment and getting treated well and paid much better to start and I still get to use my school for the refrigeration side and occasional air conditioning stuff. It's pretty great.
It makes sense that going into trades would be a good way to make money nowadays. Lots of the Boomers that ran all the small businesses doing trade work have been retiring, so there's a shortage in lots of trades. You'll notice that almost any business which requires a worker to physically be where the work is being performed, most of that is dominated by small local businesses. It's very difficult for a national or multinational company to work with such a thing. Stuff like McDonald's only succeeds because they outsource it so that an awful lot of the actual work that goes into getting you a burger is done ahead of time somewhere else, namely all the automation machinery and such. Big companies usually provide value by solving distribution problems, but you can't really distribute a haircut or a plumbing job. Those just HAVE to be done right where the customer is. So if you tried to setup a national company, it would be extremely difficult to out-compete a smaller local competitor. Where are you going to optimize anything or provide any additional value? It would be easier to make a big company training plumbers than one actually doing plumbing work. A weird niche thing that is a money-making machine that I imagine most people don't even know exists is a company I worked for when I was in high school that processed mail. What they did was they would take all the mail a company was going to send each day, then sort it into the order a mail carrier would need to deliver it in, read the address on the label and add the +4 zipcode, and print those barcodes you see on mail envelopes, then they take it to the post office. The post office offers discounts if you bring them mail that is already sorted, barcoded, has the +4 zipcode, etc. Maybe like 4 cents cheaper per piece of mail. So they pass on 2 cents of the savings to their customers (other businesses), and keep 2 cents for themselves. They deal with big volumes of mail every day, and they make tons of money. One of these businesses exists in basically every city in the country, located directly next door or across the street from their post office. It would probably be impossible to get into it now, but it's a solid business for those who got there first. When discussing the $5 million question... you're not really looking at similar situations. You seem to be comparing a person who was just given $5 million out of the blue to someone who got $5 million by earning it or acquiring it through some other means (usually some other means because most rich people are criminals). The person who started a business or did something else that made them $5 million would of course continue doing that thing and increase their wealth not because they necessarily see the money as the goal but just because the thing they like doing, whether business or scams or whatever, makes money. Their "doing what they want" happens to be profitable. Even for those whose main goal IS money... goals do definitely shift as wealth grows. You might get to $5M and say 'ok, I am set for life'. What about your kids? Are you going to just drain the account and leave them with little and let them go at it on their own? Also, factor in the psychology. You look around and see TONS of people struggling in desperation for amounts of money much less than what you have. Survivor's Guilty kicks in and your brain needs an explanation of why you were spared the deprivation those people face. So you start thinking you are fundamentally 'better' in some ineffable way and deserve what you have, while the others deserve their lack. It's callous, but it is also a defense mechanism. In that case, your specialness should be preserved, and the best way to do that after you're dead is through a legacy and through your children. So now you need to build generational wealth. Once you have THAT sorted, and its clear your children will have an easy ride and be able to bring their talents to the world, the timeline you're looking for your wealth to cover just expands, and you end up needing more. Eventually you start to realize that because of the way our economic system is structured, once you have substantial wealth it is harder to lose money than it is to gain more. And the biggest threat you face is devaluation of the currency. Nations rise and fall, and your wealth is "dollars". If dollars become worthless, so too does your fortune. So your time horizon you're working with expands further, to try to figure out how to cope with regime changes, national collapses, etc. Making a DURABLE fortune is still an interesting challenge, and some people enjoy it. Then of course you probably might want to invest in your own culture, funding universities, museums, etc. Or maybe you just want to go to Mars or something else. With Zuck, he really shouldn't be that perplexing. He explained his thinking very early on in the rise of Facebook. Either nobody believed him, or they thought his ideas were so wrong and naive that surely he would grow out of them or something, but I've seen no sign of that. He wants to intentionally kill privacy because he believes privacy is a bad idea. He believes, ardently, that if all information about everyone is simply forced out into the public square, that society will take a mature, evolved view eventually and learn how to deal with all of the things like how to hire an employee when their Facebook is full of pictures of them wasted at parties. He's autistic and doesn't understand yet that other people really are truly different from him and their brains work differently. He thinks deep down that everybody has the capacity to take this sort of compartmentalized, mature view of everyone else. And so he continues with that goal unabated.
41:00 I think William's sense of scale on how much a million (or 5 million) actually is is quite off. Everyone he's asked this question to are basically immediately thinking about larger projects that require a lot of capital, the second you employ a few people (full time), a million dollar really isn't very much. So if you split said money into some for personal use, some for ambitious projects, you will end up with very little very quickly. With 5 million dollars, you can't buy a 5 million dollar house, it's expensive to be rich if it's not handled well, there's a reason why there's a graveyard of athletes with zero financial skills ending up bankrupt. If William wants an open sourced version of Solidworks or whatever, 1-2 million will get you maybe a few years of development? Before you know it you'll find yourself trying to get more money especially if the project itself doesn't generate much income to support itself at the start. I kinda like to distinguish money and capital, even though they're kinda the same thing, one is what you spend with, the other is what you use to build.
Remember that GDP per capita varies by countries within 2 orders of magnitude, so labor wise, 5 million can go a long way, just don't spend it where it's the most expensive. 5 million would also help improve whatever is the best open source alternative to solidworks by a lot, it's no small amount
fr or even just normal aspirations outside of large scale ambitions, like owning a house in certain states, helping family, running into unexpected medical expenses, the taxes that come with having that much just the principle of him saying that one shouldn't work to make any more money or maintain it and should be totally set "for life"--idk abt that being "responsible" with it as he says, would technically be striving to make more money out of it not a great litmus test if he said a higher number, for any average person in average middle class circumstances, id agree
i remembered something while reading your comments about being rich. there was one time during covid, the gov in my country gave some kinds of financial aid to those with below-average income. a post went viral where a millionaire said they need funding too because as you've said, "its expensive to be rich" and this person started listing all of their commitments namely(I dont remember) four bungalow, 8 sports cars, most expensive internet subscriptions for each house, this person's partner car loan, and some more financial draining hobbies and said that in the end he/she only has a little bit of money which was around the same amount of our average wages. everyone was sooo mad at that time like, why not invest in some passive income with that much money and possessions? and if not, you can live like us and still breathe. oh yeah but this person is a boss of a company so they have to pay their employees' wages thus i can kinda understand this person's hardship a bit. but still... 🤷🏼♂️
Weird, that's crazy expensive. In New Zealand it costs around NZD$1600 (US$1100) to get a 5kW heatpump installed, including the indoor and outdoor unit and all labour. The guy who did mine worked for a big company and he was a qualified electrician and qualified refrigeration technician
I think i'd move into a different apartment where there was more space for my pets and no fear of creepy neighbours trying to break in and i would move into a place where there was frequent hot water. I'd also maybe want a larger kitchen to cook for friends
I fell into a septic system leach drain as a kid when the concrete lid snapped in half and collapsed as i was walking over it. (don't worry, it was old and empty, had been disconnected for more then a decade). Looking back it's probably the closest I've come to dying. like it's unlikely but i can imagine if more of the dirt over the lid collapsed, and the lid broke into more then two pieces, and the pieces of the lid didn't jam half way down so i fell further, and i didn't remain upright, and i became trapped under one of the bits of concrete, maybe i could have been buried alive. Thankfully none of that happened and I was just suddenly left with just my head sticking out of a small hole in the ground, which i was able to climb out of.
Fusion issue: open registry editor and re-name the file, then try re-launching. I don't use fusion, but I have to do this with Solidworks from time to time and it fixes it and it appears to be a similar issue
You can almost hear the white noise in Nigel's head when they're discussing engineering
like an overheating pc XD
@@TG-su8fd You can see the elephant's toothpaste coming out his ears
I can hear it, cause that's also what's going through my head when they talk engineering
It’s just Brownian motion sounds with a faint accompaniment of the Wii Shop Theme (Empty Mall Version).
I love seeing Nigel have difficulty understanding basic engineering while everyone else has trouble with redox reactions. It's kinda wholesome.
I feel smart understanding both things but ADHD and hyperfixations will do that when you love chemistry and building shit out of parts and recycled electronics. Idk that I could fully explain both but like I have the background knowledge to understand what both things are at a basic level
understanding synchronous motors is not easy tbh
@@blockstacker5614 yeah I honestly didn't know that what they were called but I have played around with one
Great dynamic
Fuck redox, all my homies hate redox.
I messed with my audio settings to make it sound like you were podcasting from inside a septic tank and it has enhanced this experience
Oh my god you are so right it is so much better
I just realized Nigel is 30. He looks more like 18, it's bizarre.
Holy. I didn't know that, I just assumed Nigel was somewhere in his early 20's at most.
His Japanese genes going to work
What?
Nigel must have made a philosopher stone for youth
It's because he's part asian. Some Asians look 18 until they are 50
“Nigel, no one understands you like I do”
100% sure Nigel has a stalker. Nigel is going to start getting flowers, chocolates, and enriched uranium mailed to him
And stinky smells!!
I wonder who that would be 🤔
Hes going to get rocky road chocolate, melt it down, place enriched uranium in it then freeze and give it to them all
if he had that would probably be me
Can't wait for the uranium lit edible chocolate flowers
they talk about how people can't finish nigle's new video because of how long it is, but i think i've watched it through probably four times and the only time i couldn't finish it in one sitting was the first watch through because i had school work to do the day it came out. he's like my comfort youtuber so maybe that's why, but i can't imagine not finishing and rewatching his stuff
I def watched it all the way to. I thought it was good.
@@bczarrockbeast6264 yeah it was great, I’m not sure if he was going crazy or if he was really excited about this project but he sounded different in this video
It just seems like something a lot of people have problem with. I love a nice long video because I can just pop it on and churn out some code or get a bunch of smaller mindless projects in something like Minecraft knocked out while watching. Good way to turn the boring parts of something your doing into a much more enjoyable experience.
@@olivia-zh6ou i think hes always kinda low key crazy lol. Thats the appeal for me.
i watch them properly on release, but i watch them on repeat when i need to chill out, and sometimes when i need to be calm to sleep
Thank you Nigel for setting the record straight right away on the ventilator needs. It was not just a media frenzy... and Italy had to triage patients for them.
My family didn't drain our septic tank for the entire 20 years we had been there and it was so bad there were inches of old crusty poop blocking the drain hole that our septic guy had to drill the poop crust to be able to pump it. Probably the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed. Please drain your septic tanks regularly.
Same thing with your water heater.
Purge it from time to time, and change the galvanic rod every like 10 years.
@@sanjeev6677gaming nobody says that
@@fazehank5311 hm
We rent 😂
"drill the poop crust" is not something I thought I'd read today
"It's a fucking helicopter, eat my ass"
-William Osman, 2022
That's very 'Michael Reeves' 😂
podcasts with insights into nigels life are always my favorite
true!
I don’t really hear Nigel’s Canadian accent, EXCEPT when he says sorry, then his Canadian gets turned up to 11
Yeah there's about four distinct (English) Canadian accents but it's pretty common for our accents to be pretty weak. We generally have a pretty generic north American accent from my experience
Ontario south accent, Ontario north accent(basically just french), Ontario rural accent (also found in Saskatchewan, québécois English accent (Montreal) québécois french accent (diff than Ontario north) east accent excluding Newfoundland, Newfoundland, far west Canada, center Canada, and northern Canada.
That's the majority of them. Almost no one says aboot, it's more like abowet. But newfound and rural areas say aboot.
Sorry is usually a longer o unless ur from Ontario, then it's a 5050.
Other than that we really don't have an accent you can tell apart from northern states or the Midwest.
@@PhaythGaming Yep. My boyfriend is from the GTA. I find him and his parents accents mostly only come out in random words. I mostly notice word/phrase differences. He says "write a test" instead of "take a test", pylons, washroom, etc
@@ev3433 yep. Which happens everywhere (midwest saying ope, south saying role tide, etc.)
Bro sorry is 90% of a Canadian’s vocabulary.
These are so late at this point, it’s kind of funny. I was over here thinking “there’s ANOTHER new NileRed video?” And then realized “Oh it’s the video from almost two months ago”.
Thanks, man. Gloves into tobasco?
The real problem is that ventilators are actually much more complicated than everyone thinks. They don't just force air in and out on their own timing, they respond the the patient's natural breathing and make it easier, among many other things.
10:48 I have a video of my toilet BLASTING water out from the sewer so hard that it was spraying all over the ceiling. It took me a while to figure out how this was possible, but i eventually learned that the city will sometimes pressure test the sewer line on the utility side after a bunch of houses have had the house side of their sewer lines replaced. We had something like 5 houses in a row replace from the house to the main sewer line and the city had replaced a huge amount of clay pipe with modern plastic pipe. When they ran their pressure test, they screwed something up with allowed pressure to escape through my toilet. it was like a demon was escaping my toilet. if i had been sitting on the toilet when it happened, it would have hurt pretty bad, not to mention it was disgusting sewer gas smelling air being blasted out. The only way i got it to stop was running outside and sprinting up the street to the service truck and shouting that my toilet was exploding. The service guys look horrified and kept telling me that it wasn't possible. I went back inside to call the city and as soon as i walked away from them, they packed their shit up and hauled ass out of there lol
Can I see the video? It sounds insane.
upload the video dude!
i wana see this so bad XD
Ive ran lines to old clay sewer connects and they are so brittle its insane they wouldnt replace it in this case. We shoved our pvc pipe as far down it as we could and then concreted around it just to be sure.
Yup, I need to see this vid. Signing up to this comment section thread
Ventilators were in high demand because of our knowledge of the disease at the time, the treatment plans we were using and where that often got us (ventilator). However, they had a few significant milestones in how they treat that reduced ventilator frequency substantially (maybe like 80%) and then the mutations also made it less severe (but more transmissible, mostly).
Optimist: Solve people’s problems
Cynic: Exploit people’s weaknesses
Just sounds like the difference between a good person and a dick head person tbh
I am an exterminator working for a local company. I was making about 40k a year when I was doing general nuisance pests like spiders and ants. Switched to doing termites full time for the same company and now I make more than double what i was making.
Although I do perform the services and I get hourly, as well as making a labor fee per service completed, a lot of it is sales commission because I actually inspect and bid the homes as well. Spiders and ants are annoying, but termites are devastating.
I think what Will says is correct. If you can get rid of people's problems you can make a lot of money.
This made me think of states that regulate the towing industry. States had to put a cap on what a towing company can charge. It's an extreme version of the "make people's problems go away" idea.
Kevin is so cool, he's just immediately "bubble it through a column of water" such a simple way to do a pressure relief, easy to build, easy to understand, genius
When I was in high school, I worked summers at an HVAC company. Basically, it was the physically hardest job I’ve ever worked in my life. I’d rather move rebar than work in hot garages and attics. I learned a lot about electrical engineering though, but there’s definitely way easier ways to learn.
I learned a lot when I was a hvac tech for 3 years. I would of never understood electronics or the physics of heat and pressure. the 140f attics didn't bother me it was the climbing on to roofs on a fully extended ladder in 0f Temps
25 years in the field and it never gets better! You get used to the heat and the fiberglass, but the costumers never get better!
I worked a welding job in high school. Same story. Incredibly difficult physically, but gave me a skillset that I'll be able to use for the rest of my life. Also, my heat tolerance has become astronomical.
I’m a controls technician, and I’d rather be squeezed behind a heat exchanger in the middle of summer than dragging rebar in the middle of winter.
As a medic. I've been triaging for years now. Unfortunately sometimes I have to choose which patient gets what and which can wait etc. It sucks but you do your best.
As an unhealthy person, who is still technically young, comments like this make me grateful every day I am outside of the hospital.
Gambit is a medic?!?
@@ev3433 Of course Cheri, Gambit put down life of crime ta do good
Have them all tell jokes, and the funniest joke gets the first medical treatment and extra morphine.
Septic tank overflowed during a house party. In the morning dudes were looking at the aftermath guffawing at the turds on the lawn. But when I pointed out the tampon in the mix it was suddenly gross.
Nigel is the is the ying and yang of his own self. The professional Nigel is very particular, detailed, high standards, perfectionist. But the casual Nigel, drinks bubbly pop, complains a lot, drives a toyota, doesn't remember much, has low expectations. lol
zucc would never be honest about why he still runs facebook, he would say "because i want to keep doing good in the world and advancing technology"
The counter to Will's idea of receiving a huge sum of money at once is better than receiving it over several years is the TV show "The Lottery Changed My Life"
Human minds can't actually comprehend large numbers in the millions plus. We just have no way to tell intuitively how large numbers actually get after that. It's like volume, if you double the dimensions of something the volume increases by the cube of 2 (8 times), and our brains just don't seem to be very good at *getting* that. There are very few people that could have 100k+ in liquid assets without fucking it up and ending up broke, or worse off than they started. Always take the annuity. Always hire someone to manage the money for you. You'll spend more money on shitty financial decisions than you will on a good CPA/CFP. They'll put those winnings to work for you each time you get an annuity payout. You could multiply what you won a few times over by the end of your life easily.
the counter is basically taxes
The whole thing with ventilators was that the real useful kind of ventilator (which has to sense your desire to breathe and react to that. it's really fucking complicated) was really really rare relative to how many people they would normally have used them on based on how well they were breathing. But like, they have a shitload of shitty ventliators, as many as they wanted, but they're not actually helpful because how we breathe is really complicated and easy to make it worse with improper pressures. Like; they were saying "please do this just in case it might make things better for people triaged out of real ventilators" but then it went away when they realized that they were worse than nothing.
My family all sat and watched the whole NileRed video on a Friday night instead of watching a movie
I hava a good question for Nigel that might also be a good concept for a video, how much piranha solution will it take to convert all the poop in Kevin's septic tank into water ? And did anyone else had same idea of dissolving poop in their septic tank after seeing piranha solution. Will it be safe and how much will it cost compared to hiring someone clean the septic tank.
I don't really know but I think it would probably cost a shitload. pun intended.
Will is completely wrong saying the average person can handle $5 mil. I’m a financial advisor and have dealt with hundreds of people who have inherited massive wealth. The vast majority of them have NO IDEA how to manage it, it ruins their relationships and they blow it much faster than you’d think. Horrible take.
Your anecdotal personal experience is not evidence for the majority of people. That's not how it works.
@@EnlightenedSavage That's like saying a doctor's experience with patients isn't valid experience for understanding how to practice medicine. It's *literally* their specialized occupation.
@@EnlightenedSavage it’s what I do all day long every day and I’ve done in for close to a decade. I KNOW FOR A FACT, the vast majority of people can not handle receiving an enormous amount of wealth out of nowhere without assistance from a professional. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a naive fool. I’ve seen a countless number of people completely blow millions of dollars they receive through inheritance or other means in a matter of a couple years. All of those people were under the illusion that they could handle money.
@@Trahloc Exactly right. That’s the exact analogy I use with my clients. Everyone thinks they’re financial wizards when the market is great….. lol 😂
I think people don’t understand how dumb the average person is
Really enjoy the part that Nigel explained about the behind the scenes for his video, especially how much consideration he has to make about the volume. I can't wait whatever big project he is going to come out with.
I think that when the work you do gives you a sense of purpose the money you have in the bank doesn't matter. My mother kind of got into a similar situation when she was in her early 30s where she was forced to take an early retirement while still earning about half way in between the median individual income and the median household income in our area. Our expenses were low so that money went a long way. She had all the time in the world to do whatever she wanted but it was probably the most bored and miserable she's ever been because it gets old after a while and that sense of purpose gets lost. 10 years of that paired with good money management and now she's 41 and can pretty much permanently retire off what she saved and invested and live the rest of her life never having to lift a finger ever again. Still she's back working minimum wage in a field she's familiar with and the happiest she's been in a long time because she's being productive again. At the end of the day living life without that purpose just really isn't living. Its just wasting time until you eventually die. That purpose isn't always found in work though. For some people retiring early might give them a change to find what gives them purpose. My mother is working her way back up into opening her own company again like she did before early retirement when my father died. Running a company is the opposite of the stress free life she lived for a decade but its what she personally wants.
theres a local "label printing" company here that does exceptionally well because -and this may be the case for your local label printer as well -they're money launderers lol. Something to think about! There's no way they do THAT well
I grew up in a tiny town of like 500 people. I knew a really rich guy. He drove an old beat up ford ranger pickup and wore ratty clothes. His business was a US distributor for a specialized electronics company. All he did was relay shipments into the US. He sometimes had one employee, lol.
also helicopters are silly expensive. I'm working on my PPL right now and it's already expensive, about ~$7.5k for everything. Helicopters are devices that shouldn't fly, so of course they're expensive. With a plane you can rent them for ~$120-150/hr with fuel, which is relatively cheap if you do it a few times a year. Insurance is cheap for a plane.
41:13 - About 10 years ago I was pretty broke and lived in a tiny (shitty) apartment, my nextdoor neighbour (exact same place as mine) was a multi-billionaire, with a *B.* His car was worse than mine, his meals were worse than mine, his furniture... He was the sole owner of a chain of (UK) nationwide busineses. He spent his entire life making money, talking about money and working out how to make more money, right up until his death.
he was buyin cocaine n hokers every weekend
So will, sometimes we add contrast and sharpness to footage to get better tracks. It uses color contrast for tracking, so sharper edge objects are ideal. If you are using footage from a cinema camera (or cinema settings) they are intentionally set to be alot softer, because we can always add the sharpness / contrast later, but we cant take it out. Nigel: Hope you have fun with VFX! its a cool hobby!
As a physics buff with a strong electrical background this initial discussion on the ghetto ventilator hurts physically I could explain it so well for all three and we’d become friends lol
Tyvek is a vapor barrier. Also a great place to grow mold if installed improperly
Oh god, William just lives in a whole different reality. This episode is the one with the hottest takes
He certainly has some strange ideas about money and about how 'normal' people live
"I am ok with hording wealth" is such a shit take. A few million might not hurt but when we are talking billions it unequivocally hurts the economy for anyone besides other rich people invested in stocks. That money needs to circulate somewhere, and if it was to build a stupid vanity pond? So be it, blue collar workers are getting paid, end of discussion.
Just have to say that I've loved this podcast since the beginning and it has been especially great during Big Willy's hiatus. But, also I loved Allen's Michael Superbacker video so much, and it was awesome to see Allen, Kevin, and William together in such a funny situation. My sides were hurting. Just a general appreciation for the safety third crew and all their regular guests.
The ventilators didn't become a problem because they found that early intubation didn't help as much we thought it might. People had better outcomes without early intubation and so the ventilators ended up being used only on the sickest patients.
If this hadn't been the case, there would have been a significant shortage.
Yay something I know about!!!(HVAC contractor)
So here's what you do Kevin. You need a friend who installs air conditioners for a living and become his friend! That simple!
You need an ac guy, a plumber friend, and electrician friend, and a buddy with a truck! Those 4 friends (better if one counts for 2 or 3) will save you thousands over a lifetime!
Btw Kevin, you would fall backwards if you knew how much less a contractor pays for a system!
So that 3 or 4 thousand difference is more like 6 or 7 thousand dollar difference!
The most popular and the worst company should never be used. That's all I can say...
Best thing I ever did was make friends with my local mechanic. Now he's retired, but he still works out of his house garage lol. He's saved my car from many a disaster
this channel is one of my favorites right now. ive been binging lol, i skip where nigel isnt there. my comfort creator :')
Nigel when he doesn't speak: looks 12 years younger
Nigel when he speaks: has the maturity of a 40 year old
Love this contrast.
There's an amount of money where you are rich and comfortable. Then there's an amount of money where you have power. These billionaires aren't trying to increase their personal liberty through earning any more, it's about directing what happens in other people's lives.
Yess, I do really think many of them have god complex and are sure all problems would be solved if they were in charge
@@Simon-ku5fp like politicians?
@@Lnd802 Politicians are supposed to have been elected by the people to change the people's world for the people. Billionaires are bypassing the democratic system, they're not suppose to direct other people's life. One is not like the other.
@@Lnd802 some politicians at least mean well. It is categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire
@@m.f.3347 I agree. An arms dealer has higher moral ground than a billionaire. Might as well include some politicians 😂
I used to work with a guy who was a combat helicopter pilot with multiple tours during the Iraq war. In his retirement from the military, he wanted to do commercial helicopter work. So he had to recertify to commercial standards etc etc. Despite having flown helicopters upside down in a war zone, he had to do an asinine amount of hours to certify and it was going to take him years to be able to fly some people to the top of a mountain to ski down.
I've watched the full video of NileRed, the subject was captivating. He is like the Edward Elric of our universe.
1:10:36 "Use FreeCad!"
> Someone who has clearly not used FreeCad
As someone who's installed several ac units. After the instal and everything is level. You have the freon top up. Drilling holes into the house.
Nile’s comment about building a lake. I worked for a women in high school. She had a huge house and man made lake on her property. She and her husband had a phone answering server. But most their money came from… and the reason for the man made lake… was for their dogs. She trained hunting dogs for show. She also bread them or studded them out. One of her dogs was a champion and show winner estimated at 250,000$. 1/4 of a million for a dog. I love dogs but damn. She paid me really well too was really nice.
My boss knew someone when he was in school that has since made 10's of millions by just renting traffic cones to construction companies.
Also we have been contracted to work at a very exclusive golf club before and quite a few of the members fly to the club in their own helicopters, or in a hired helicopter from the nearest international airport so thats at least one thing you could use it for lmao
If i was just given $5mil, i would still keep my job, or at least a job. 100% im straight up spending $2mil on what i want, specifically land a build my own house. but after that i would still want a job in the career field im in right now because i actually really like my job (biomedical equipment maint. ) and frankly i would get bored.
That’s 3.5 mil after taxes. Spending 2 mil on what U want leaves you with 1.5 mil for land and a house. Not too much. And then you have no money invested. Also what do you mean about 2 mil on what u want… don’t you want the house and land??.
@@joedavid4545 so for one, im not assuming its prize money, im assuming there was a just a $5 mil deposit. Also the $2mill would be for material possessions that aren't likely to hold any value. Car, computer, gun parts, etc. And i already have a plan for land and a house and $1.5 mil would be more than enough, you clearly live in a city where a studio apartment costs $1,600/mo. I know where i can get vacant woodland for $1,000 an acre in the continental united states. No i'm not telling you where, stay in your fucking city.
every time nigel says "sourry" i am reminded that he is canadian
Facebook Toilet sounds like a Michael Reeves video lol
Keep it up big Willie!!! These podcasts are gold, but I hope you make videos again soon. I know that the 5% of comment haters messed you up, but just think about the other 95% of people that respect you and love your videos.
more like .5 %
@@alfredforbessealy524 This.
I love this Nile is explaining things well and the will compares it to the matrix
Plumbing and HVAC business make huge amounts of money, because they are incredibly annoying to deal with for a regular person without the special equipment. Other than that a lot of programming jobs are also about "making problems go away" but on the B2B side, all the business software companies like Salesforce or SAP make absurd amounts of money dealing with that stugg. I guess business auditing also falls into that category, those make just absurd money
I've never smiled more at a video... man god bless my recommended from helping procrastinate my lab report
Nah I agree with Nigel, installling HVAC would be a dope experience.
1:40 it's pretty damn useful. The largest killers on the field aren't bullets being fired at you, but shrapnel. And a lot of lethal shrapnel is blocked by relatively soft body armor. Then of course you want the plates. But there's a reason a lot of special forces just run soft armor.
What special forces only run soft armor? Like sure, its situational, but most pictures of special forces have them wearing hard plates.
Demolition Ranch has videos shooting various armor and fan made armor
I’m really enjoying these podcasts, love the random info I get every time! thanks for the content and hope you are all having a good day :)
Nice, "Have you seen this man?" meme on BackdoorScientist desktop.
I love watching all of Nigel’s videos. But my hyper focus is tuned in to science often. So I will put on video after video and watch Nile Red or Nile Blue all night. Thankfully it is the very best distraction when I have painsomnia, or I’m so anxious about nothing I can’t sleep.
Since discovering this podcast I am genuinely enjoying will, Kevin and several other channels I have learned about from here too :) so thank you so much for not only having an excellent series of videos with some of the most incredible minds, but also thank you for introducing me to all these wonderful worlds to escape to and enjoy! You have no idea how much it helps.
I think the reason the guy Nile was talking about got so rich is because he took advantage of covid-19 all the stickers on the windows floors of grocery stores where do you think they came from(I'm pretty sure the Canadian municipal government made them mandatory in some places or something)? The reason it looked like a warehouse is that he probably got them posted from china or vistaprint, etc
Very lucky
This is the only finance podcast I will ever listen to.
4:55 Having just made a bunch of code that automated creating 8 16x16 textures, this rings true. I spent three days writing a program that saved me 20m of work.
But it will save you the work over and over again and you can give it to other people to save even more time :D
*insert the relevant xkcd about the ideal time spent automating a project vs actual time spenting automating a project*
I seen the video was the length of a movie, so I allocated one of my movies watchings to that video instead. It doesn't have the same entertainment of a movie, but it has a great informational value. So it was an even trade off.
It’s a podcast bro what
1:29:05 Do you know what got me off, watching your video?
- What do you mean got you off?
First time I see Nigel being surprised. So funny. xD
There's this one guy in an area I camp in and I remember the name of his business because it's so good. His septic tank service is call "The Turd Burglar" and I refuse to call anyone else if I ever need septic service lmao
you guys have the most entertaining podcasts I can find by far!
If I was given 5 million dollars I'd still keep working.
I worked for a start up that made cheap, low maintenance analog ventilators for use in third world countries. Even these cheap motors were expensive, a few thousand dollars, and the reason is that it is very easy to hurt a person with a ventilator, and very hard to get medical equipment certified.
You can't tell Nigel is Canadian til he says sorry
Some hospitals had major issues with respirators because of over crowding and they were short on everything. Less probably in the states but other countries were really bad some areas like huge cities had issues.
The Goblin / Dragon brain from Will at the end. "It feels bad to see small amounts"
Yes Will. You want to horde.
Just saying, the best way to create a mechanical pressure release is with a spring-based mechanism, endcapped with rubber or cloth (or anything, and a certain strength threshold/spring constant. I wouldn't even begin to mess with non mechanical mechanisms to release pressure.
For the helicopter debate, just get a small plane. It’s cheaper.
I used to work in sewerage treatment and testing. It's honestly not that bad once you get used to it. One of the tests we did involved smelling the samples to work out how much to dilute it by for the test.
I did a new install septic system at a lake house with 9 toilets. Had a "Chopper" to grind whatever goes down a toilet before it gets to the Pitts.
You guys are like stoners on a good day . I love it
Crushed my toes at work a little while ago but the silver lining is I've finally had time to catch up on my favorite podcast
you need a license to install an AC unit. EPA section 608 a (I think) of the Montreal Protocol. It takes about $200ish to get the license (the test is pretty easy and the units aren't super complicated), about 2k worth of equipment (initial investment), and the refrigerant can be thousands of dollars for a 30lb tank, or as low as 200 for a 30lb depending on what type of refrigerant is being used (410-a is the current juice, so just look up the current price as it jumps up in summer, and when supplies are limited). The typical new unit comes charged with enough refrigerant already in it to run the unit (supposedly. You always need a bit more). Time and labor to install a unit can vary wildly. An attic evaporator is an absolute pain and requires 2 people minimum. Your basic utility room evaporator with a condenser that's easily accessible outside can take about 2-5 hrs.
7 years ago an hvac tech in eastern USA made about 19 an hour with pretty regular overtime and generally an emergency pager for double pay on weekend calls. All of the bending over to remove 70-120lb residential compressors from units over 20 years blew out my back, so I can't do the work anymore.
The people who regularly measure and determine size/airflow needs for the household and determine the tonnage you need to keep your house cooled to a certain amount under the outside ambient temperature. These guys make more money, but I wasn't one of those, so I don't know.
The owner rakes in the cash because the business is something that can't be done by someone looking up a how-to video. They won't even sell you refrigerant or a charged condenser unit without a valid license. Some shops won't let you buy a capacitor without a license.
It isn't that hard to install an AC. Seriously, the shit you make is way more complicated than an AC. And with the knowledge of how it's done you can make cool stuff
Thanks for the Birthday present guys.
Of course I just mean a lovely new podcast entry.
Dude, that's the thing. I went to HVAC school and tried to get into the industry and they only wanna pay $16 or $17 an hour to start with shit hours. Ended up repairing commercial kitchen equipment and getting treated well and paid much better to start and I still get to use my school for the refrigeration side and occasional air conditioning stuff. It's pretty great.
this is the only podcast i listen to and i love these
The most cunning companies in businesses will create a problem you don't even have and sell you the solution to it
Insurance!
It makes sense that going into trades would be a good way to make money nowadays. Lots of the Boomers that ran all the small businesses doing trade work have been retiring, so there's a shortage in lots of trades. You'll notice that almost any business which requires a worker to physically be where the work is being performed, most of that is dominated by small local businesses. It's very difficult for a national or multinational company to work with such a thing. Stuff like McDonald's only succeeds because they outsource it so that an awful lot of the actual work that goes into getting you a burger is done ahead of time somewhere else, namely all the automation machinery and such. Big companies usually provide value by solving distribution problems, but you can't really distribute a haircut or a plumbing job. Those just HAVE to be done right where the customer is. So if you tried to setup a national company, it would be extremely difficult to out-compete a smaller local competitor. Where are you going to optimize anything or provide any additional value? It would be easier to make a big company training plumbers than one actually doing plumbing work.
A weird niche thing that is a money-making machine that I imagine most people don't even know exists is a company I worked for when I was in high school that processed mail. What they did was they would take all the mail a company was going to send each day, then sort it into the order a mail carrier would need to deliver it in, read the address on the label and add the +4 zipcode, and print those barcodes you see on mail envelopes, then they take it to the post office. The post office offers discounts if you bring them mail that is already sorted, barcoded, has the +4 zipcode, etc. Maybe like 4 cents cheaper per piece of mail. So they pass on 2 cents of the savings to their customers (other businesses), and keep 2 cents for themselves. They deal with big volumes of mail every day, and they make tons of money. One of these businesses exists in basically every city in the country, located directly next door or across the street from their post office. It would probably be impossible to get into it now, but it's a solid business for those who got there first.
When discussing the $5 million question... you're not really looking at similar situations. You seem to be comparing a person who was just given $5 million out of the blue to someone who got $5 million by earning it or acquiring it through some other means (usually some other means because most rich people are criminals). The person who started a business or did something else that made them $5 million would of course continue doing that thing and increase their wealth not because they necessarily see the money as the goal but just because the thing they like doing, whether business or scams or whatever, makes money. Their "doing what they want" happens to be profitable.
Even for those whose main goal IS money... goals do definitely shift as wealth grows. You might get to $5M and say 'ok, I am set for life'. What about your kids? Are you going to just drain the account and leave them with little and let them go at it on their own? Also, factor in the psychology. You look around and see TONS of people struggling in desperation for amounts of money much less than what you have. Survivor's Guilty kicks in and your brain needs an explanation of why you were spared the deprivation those people face. So you start thinking you are fundamentally 'better' in some ineffable way and deserve what you have, while the others deserve their lack. It's callous, but it is also a defense mechanism. In that case, your specialness should be preserved, and the best way to do that after you're dead is through a legacy and through your children. So now you need to build generational wealth. Once you have THAT sorted, and its clear your children will have an easy ride and be able to bring their talents to the world, the timeline you're looking for your wealth to cover just expands, and you end up needing more. Eventually you start to realize that because of the way our economic system is structured, once you have substantial wealth it is harder to lose money than it is to gain more. And the biggest threat you face is devaluation of the currency. Nations rise and fall, and your wealth is "dollars". If dollars become worthless, so too does your fortune. So your time horizon you're working with expands further, to try to figure out how to cope with regime changes, national collapses, etc. Making a DURABLE fortune is still an interesting challenge, and some people enjoy it. Then of course you probably might want to invest in your own culture, funding universities, museums, etc. Or maybe you just want to go to Mars or something else.
With Zuck, he really shouldn't be that perplexing. He explained his thinking very early on in the rise of Facebook. Either nobody believed him, or they thought his ideas were so wrong and naive that surely he would grow out of them or something, but I've seen no sign of that. He wants to intentionally kill privacy because he believes privacy is a bad idea. He believes, ardently, that if all information about everyone is simply forced out into the public square, that society will take a mature, evolved view eventually and learn how to deal with all of the things like how to hire an employee when their Facebook is full of pictures of them wasted at parties. He's autistic and doesn't understand yet that other people really are truly different from him and their brains work differently. He thinks deep down that everybody has the capacity to take this sort of compartmentalized, mature view of everyone else. And so he continues with that goal unabated.
I have your shirt William. I am commenting because I know you are the one who reads the most comments 🤣 love the pod guys, keep it up !
Nigel's long videos are my favorites!!
41:00 I think William's sense of scale on how much a million (or 5 million) actually is is quite off. Everyone he's asked this question to are basically immediately thinking about larger projects that require a lot of capital, the second you employ a few people (full time), a million dollar really isn't very much. So if you split said money into some for personal use, some for ambitious projects, you will end up with very little very quickly. With 5 million dollars, you can't buy a 5 million dollar house, it's expensive to be rich if it's not handled well, there's a reason why there's a graveyard of athletes with zero financial skills ending up bankrupt.
If William wants an open sourced version of Solidworks or whatever, 1-2 million will get you maybe a few years of development? Before you know it you'll find yourself trying to get more money especially if the project itself doesn't generate much income to support itself at the start. I kinda like to distinguish money and capital, even though they're kinda the same thing, one is what you spend with, the other is what you use to build.
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Remember that GDP per capita varies by countries within 2 orders of magnitude, so labor wise, 5 million can go a long way, just don't spend it where it's the most expensive.
5 million would also help improve whatever is the best open source alternative to solidworks by a lot, it's no small amount
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or even just normal aspirations outside of large scale ambitions, like owning a house in certain states, helping family, running into unexpected medical expenses, the taxes that come with having that much
just the principle of him saying that one shouldn't work to make any more money or maintain it and should be totally set "for life"--idk abt that
being "responsible" with it as he says, would technically be striving to make more money out of it
not a great litmus test
if he said a higher number, for any average person in average middle class circumstances, id agree
i remembered something while reading your comments about being rich. there was one time during covid, the gov in my country gave some kinds of financial aid to those with below-average income. a post went viral where a millionaire said they need funding too because as you've said, "its expensive to be rich" and this person started listing all of their commitments namely(I dont remember) four bungalow, 8 sports cars, most expensive internet subscriptions for each house, this person's partner car loan, and some more financial draining hobbies and said that in the end he/she only has a little bit of money which was around the same amount of our average wages. everyone was sooo mad at that time like, why not invest in some passive income with that much money and possessions? and if not, you can live like us and still breathe. oh yeah but this person is a boss of a company so they have to pay their employees' wages thus i can kinda understand this person's hardship a bit. but still... 🤷🏼♂️
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Nigel is so shocked at the notion that William "got off" to his videos haha
oh if he knew how many actual gay guys like his videos
Weird, that's crazy expensive.
In New Zealand it costs around NZD$1600 (US$1100) to get a 5kW heatpump installed, including the indoor and outdoor unit and all labour.
The guy who did mine worked for a big company and he was a qualified electrician and qualified
refrigeration technician
I think i'd move into a different apartment where there was more space for my pets and no fear of creepy neighbours trying to break in and i would move into a place where there was frequent hot water. I'd also maybe want a larger kitchen to cook for friends
Yes a new episode!! Gotta go to work so I'll have to watch later...but it gives me something to look forward to! Thank you boys!🙌
I'm really sad Kevin didn't make a video about installing his own AC Unit. I feel like that would have been the most awesome video.
I fell into a septic system leach drain as a kid when the concrete lid snapped in half and collapsed as i was walking over it. (don't worry, it was old and empty, had been disconnected for more then a decade). Looking back it's probably the closest I've come to dying. like it's unlikely but i can imagine if more of the dirt over the lid collapsed, and the lid broke into more then two pieces, and the pieces of the lid didn't jam half way down so i fell further, and i didn't remain upright, and i became trapped under one of the bits of concrete, maybe i could have been buried alive. Thankfully none of that happened and I was just suddenly left with just my head sticking out of a small hole in the ground, which i was able to climb out of.
That's kinda terrifying😬
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Fusion issue: open registry editor and re-name the file, then try re-launching. I don't use fusion, but I have to do this with Solidworks from time to time and it fixes it and it appears to be a similar issue
As the onion once said ironically but what is unironically probably true, most people's retirement plan consists of finding a suitcase full of money
Nigel is a cute office dwelling creature