Howdy, I'm Tim Carter
And this is the S-the-Builder live stream for today, January 27th, 22
I'm glad you're here. And it's a pleasure to have you watch the live stream, even if you're watching it when it's not live
As that happens. and my goal is to hopefully share some information with you
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And so let's get started on the brick and mortar. What can happen sometimes, I don't get into the
main topic of the live stream for many, many minutes, and that's a mistake. Because you might
have tuned into the live stream or after the fact, you know, to hear about brick and mortar
Brick and mortar, it's really a big topic. Tens of thousands of people a month look into this topic
online. And they ask all kinds of different questions. And it's really kind of interesting because
some people, you know, the problem that I have, I think, is that I easily fall into this trap where I
just kind of assume that everybody knows, not so much knows everything that I know, but that they
have a more basic understanding of things. And, but a lot of people ask that what is brick and mortar
It as if they don even know And it really kind of an interesting question when you think about it You know there could be people who really don have a clue and for any number of reasons
And you start to wonder, at least from what I'm seeing in my email, more and more people are not getting a background in home repairs and how homes are built from their mom and dads then used to
and as a result, they just don't even know. So brick and mortar
Brick are, well, you know what? There's one right there right behind me
So let me get it, and I'll show you what a brick is. So this is actually a pretty standard brick
You can see about how big it is compared to my hand. It's really a paving brick
This is a brick that's meant to put in the ground and weather
And I actually had this one made. They did the letters with a laser, a high-powered laser that actually melted the clay to create that black glass
So that's melted rock. And it's really very, very durable. I mean, this would last hundreds of years outside
But this is a brick. And it's made from clay