
Jay and Christine need some improvements for their new home so they hired a contractor named Elon. Elon dresses like an Israeli soldier and loves the comedian Modi. Bobby calls Modi to help with the situation because Jay is afraid to negotiate with Elon. Jay wants to just overpay him and be done with everything. Besides being a funny comedian, Modi is highly skilled at flipping homes and dealing with contractors. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolf
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Big Jay Oakerson
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Bobby Kelly
Smooth radio.
Big Jay Oakerson
What is happening? Not only do you have two professionals in here, I mean, I only have one professional. Now you have two.
Bobby Kelly
Two professionals.
Big Jay Oakerson
Two professional broadcasters. There was one and a half, but.
Bobby Kelly
You'Re pulling it together. So strong.
Big Jay Oakerson
So strong.
Bobby Kelly
And by the way, in a sports analogy, this is good. It's contract season, so we got to show up.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm having a great second half. You know, it took me a minute to come from the Japanese league.
Bobby Kelly
Different level of stuff going on.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, dude, I was replacing a rod. You know what I mean? I had to show my shit. But here's the deal, buddy. This is why I'm teachable.
Bobby Kelly
More than teachable.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm pliable. I'm teachable.
Bobby Kelly
You are not only student, but you are yourself. Teacher in many ways.
Big Jay Oakerson
And I'm lovable.
Bobby Kelly
And damn lovable.
Big Jay Oakerson
There's a lot of lovable in this room, dude. Have you ever noticed that? No. No. Look, between us. Don't look right or left.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
Straight ahead, my friend.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
This lovable doesn't exist.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
On the sides of the road.
Bobby Kelly
Okay. Yeah. That's why we line it up. So we could just disappear in the level. And it's just we're surrounded by stars and just me and you. Like La La Land.
Big Jay Oakerson
La La Land. We look right and left, dude, we're gonna see trash on the side of the road. Resentment.
Bobby Kelly
We should do La La Land dance routines. It's a musical, right?
Big Jay Oakerson
Dude, you really. I can't. I still. Even last night, lying in bed, I just had a visual of you and your. Your goddamn legs up.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
Did you. Are you saying that and like you've missed it and you didn't realize how badly you wanted to see it again?
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I don't want to see it ever again. It's one of those things I wish I could unsee. Because I don't want to see you lying in bed with my wife with your legs fully spread with a tank top on.
Bobby Kelly
Don't present dawn into this situation. Now you're making it. Now you're getting angry at me. All fictitious situations.
Big Jay Oakerson
I wasn't angry at you. Never, never do I get angry at you.
Bobby Kelly
You're saying that if you walked in, you're concerned that you would find Dawn. Hang on. These pants aren't as stretchy. Okay. That I'd be like this.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
And dawn would be this way.
Big Jay Oakerson
If I walked in and dawn was blowing you with your legs straight, I would laugh hysterically. I'm like, what the are you doing, Bobby?
Bobby Kelly
No, it's not what you think.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I'd be like, exactly what I think. Why would you do this? What are you guys doing? Come on. First of all, you'd be like, it is a dry blow job. Bob, you were right. She really is in menopause.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. Goes. What's. Why is her mouth so dry?
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, God.
Bobby Kelly
This way you can get to hear.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm here as Chris. No, I don't want to get into this again. But anyways, it is. It is. I'm very excited about your home. I. I'm holding myself back because I really just want to be involved in it, and I feel like.
Bobby Kelly
Why are you holding back?
Big Jay Oakerson
Because I don't want to get in the way. Because I know when you move in, but there's so many things I want to tell you to get. You have to get.
Bobby Kelly
Please.
Big Jay Oakerson
That I want you to get for your house. But you have a turnkey, which is harder because you're not going.
Bobby Kelly
Now, cash your question.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yes.
Bobby Kelly
If I write a number down on a piece of paper.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
And show you. This is what the guy came with, but this is, without being too specific. Painting the whole thing. Got it. Repairing every repair needs to be done.
Big Jay Oakerson
Got it.
Bobby Kelly
Changing several fixtures.
Big Jay Oakerson
Got it.
Bobby Kelly
Putting up stone facade on a couple places and wood facade on a couple places.
Big Jay Oakerson
Got it.
Bobby Kelly
Really? Correcting every problem in the house with the exception of electric and one or two plumbing things.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay.
Bobby Kelly
I need a pen.
Big Jay Oakerson
I have one because I write.
Bobby Kelly
Thank you. I never have a pen on me. I have an idea. Stop. Gone.
Christine
It's also changing some flooring.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, is it?
Christine
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, yeah. Changing some flooring.
Big Jay Oakerson
What kind of flooring? Cement, epoxy?
Bobby Kelly
No, it's gonna be, well, painting, essentially. What floor? Ripping up carpet.
Christine
Putting down gym mats in the garage.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay. They had carpet in the garage.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. That's what they used as A gym. But carpet. It's just soaked in Jew sweat.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yuck.
Bobby Kelly
Wait, they're not Jewish. I don't know why I keep putting that on them.
Big Jay Oakerson
I thought you said juice. I didn't know you said Jew.
Bobby Kelly
Jew, huh?
Jacob
Are you doing a garage gym?
Bobby Kelly
Yeah.
Jacob
Nice. Are you putting the mat. Are you putting the tiles down? The rubber tiles?
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to Swole Academy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yep. I. I'm putting a garage gym in too.
Bobby Kelly
And I'm Gonna put a 24 hour camera on it so I can compete with Lewis for gay pictures on the Internet.
Big Jay Oakerson
Buddy. Can we. Can we one night just go in our gym work and just do a Instagram live double gym workout?
Bobby Kelly
Just both of us crank and we.
Big Jay Oakerson
Just go into the camera every once in a while and go, what's up?
Bobby Kelly
Absolutely. I want to make sweat faces like this and then have something that's like, it's all about the hard work or some shit. Some shit like that.
Christine
I just want to send Bobby the full list of everything he's doing. Plus.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay. Because I've done this. I've done this one, two. I've done this three times.
Bobby Kelly
Okay.
Big Jay Oakerson
I've done a complete kitchen, bathrooms, house electric, plumbing, all this stuff. Three times.
Bobby Kelly
When this is done.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yep.
Bobby Kelly
This is a new house.
Big Jay Oakerson
But you're not doing anything to the kitchen. The kitchen is staying.
Bobby Kelly
Cabinets, but there's some paint and some repairs in the kitchen.
Big Jay Oakerson
Fridge is staying.
Bobby Kelly
Yep.
Big Jay Oakerson
Keeping the fridge.
Bobby Kelly
Keeping the fridge.
Big Jay Oakerson
How many fridges do you have?
Bobby Kelly
Two.
Big Jay Oakerson
Good.
Bobby Kelly
One is one in the garage.
Big Jay Oakerson
You want to. Yeah, you got to be a 2 fridge. When you.
Bobby Kelly
I told this guy, by the way, he goes, what's the garage going to be for? I go, probably pulling the car in once in a while and whatever. And then he made such a big deal about the difference of what he'd have to do if we put a car in there all the time. That I was like, probably never put a car in here. So just change my answer.
Big Jay Oakerson
Don't put a card.
Jacob
You got a whole protein shake fridge. Because you get so swole.
Bobby Kelly
Probably. Yeah. Christine, that's correct. Correct. One shelf just for my protein, please.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, that's the fridge. Put the fridge in the garage. That's where your protein goes.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, in the protein fridge.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's where all my protein goes. And my Gatorade zeros and my. My ginger ale.
Bobby Kelly
Did you send Bobby the list?
Christine
No. You should want to send him the full list.
Bobby Kelly
God damn it.
Big Jay Oakerson
Shirley Temples. Remember those?
Bobby Kelly
I do.
Big Jay Oakerson
Those are good, right?
Bobby Kelly
Oh, seven up Shirley Temples.
Big Jay Oakerson
Seven Up. Shirley Temples.
Bobby Kelly
That was weird.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, because we didn't buy enough Diet Cokes because Dawn's a moron about mini Diet Cokes. And you guys all love Diet Cokes.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. Why. Why the mini sodas?
Big Jay Oakerson
Because she's.
Bobby Kelly
We're on a flight moron.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, she.
Bobby Kelly
No, I didn't say she's a moron. I did.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I did. Let's back it up. I. We got into a little mini fight over that.
Bobby Kelly
Over tiny sodas.
Big Jay Oakerson
No. No pun intended.
Bobby Kelly
Well, a tiny fight over a little sodas.
Big Jay Oakerson
I go. I go. Norton drinks seven of these himself, right? I go, I know. Big J likes them. I'm pret. If Big J's have one, Christine's gonna have one.
Bobby Kelly
Why would you buy Christine's? Actually in the throes of an addiction to Diet Coke. I'd say it's bad for someone who never drank it. I'd say first, many, many decade at least, of our relationship now very much super into Diet Coke.
Big Jay Oakerson
Diet Coke is the. One of the most addictive things ever. Colin Quinn is so addicted to Diet Coke. They have cans of Diet Coke at the Cellar for Colin Quinn, because he can't have it out of the tap. He has to have it out of the can. If you ever go to the cell and you want to Diet Coke, say, can I have a Colin Quinn Diet Coke?
Bobby Kelly
They're gonna say, no.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, they won't.
Bobby Kelly
I trash them pretty hard publicly.
Jacob
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
You know, he goes, this place fucking sucks. Hey, give me a free Diet Coke, and I want a can.
Big Jay Oakerson
The more you trash gnome, the more he likes you for some reason.
Bobby Kelly
That's fine.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's a weird thing. He loves you. He thinks you're a genius.
Bobby Kelly
They're monsters.
Big Jay Oakerson
They're not monsters.
Bobby Kelly
No, not to you.
Big Jay Oakerson
They're great to me.
Bobby Kelly
Did you send Bobby the thing?
Christine
I sent him the list, and I also sent him the material breakdown, and I'm sending him the additional things we're asking for Bobby.
Bobby Kelly
Also, let me say this as well. It's also time and place of when you got to know people. I think Liz is a doll. There's people who are terrified of Liz, like Esty. You know what I mean?
Big Jay Oakerson
But Liz is way meaner than Esti.
Bobby Kelly
No. Never to my life.
Big Jay Oakerson
Not to you or me. Like Patrice used to say, what's good for me is good.
Bobby Kelly
Right?
Big Jay Oakerson
Right. And Esti has been a sweetheart to me forever. Me and Esti have had our problems over the years, right? But me and Liz have had our problems.
Bobby Kelly
But Liz, has she ever looked at you? Like this esti. Because that's how she looks at me. She has, like, world domination down her nose at me.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, she has. I've had situations. I had to call her and be like, what the. What's going on?
Bobby Kelly
When I first moved to New York, the rumor was that she banged Rondell Sheridan. That was my favorite. That made me laugh so hard. Do you remember Rondell Sheridan?
Big Jay Oakerson
And you wonder why she has a problem with you.
Bobby Kelly
I'm not Rondell Sheridan.
Jacob
I don't know who that is.
Bobby Kelly
He was a comic from the 80s. He did a TV show for a minute.
Big Jay Oakerson
He was on Nickelodeon a lot.
Bobby Kelly
Yes. He was like, dad, because he was very clean comic.
Big Jay Oakerson
I actually opened for him at the Miami Improv back in the day, Coconut Grove. And I remember he was like, in between shows, he's like, let's take a walk. And I was like, okay. And I'm just walking with him down through the stores. And I remember he grossed me out because he bought sandals. And he wore. He was like. He was trying on sandals, and I was like, you. You're buying sandals? He's like, yeah. And he wore them on the next show. He had, like, open toe sandals. And I was just grossed out by his foot. I was like, this is. I don't like you anymore.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, you shouldn't. He also used to do a weird joke where he would talk about nice guy. He would say he looks like a gorilla. And then he would do the face. The McGilla gorilla. Seriously? That was like a bit of his. Which I was like. Even I was young. Seeing that, I was like, oh, boy. He's doing it in the most benign fashion. He doesn't mean anything racial by it. He's just talking about his face, particularly.
Big Jay Oakerson
I only laugh because you said it. And then I looked at his photo.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay, I got the list. All right, I got it.
Bobby Kelly
And I'm gonna hold you up a number. When you see. Okay, you see all the lists already.
Big Jay Oakerson
Hang on, let me look one more time. Okay.
Bobby Kelly
Boom, bing, bang, boom, zip, zap.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's a lot of stuff.
Bobby Kelly
A little bit of wood.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay, here we go. It's too much.
Bobby Kelly
Come on.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's too much.
Bobby Kelly
Come on.
Big Jay Oakerson
I could get a whole new kitchen done for that.
Bobby Kelly
I thought. It seemed we're having.
Big Jay Oakerson
Let me tell you what I. Okay. Let me tell you what I got done, right? And you tell me. I got wall taken out, open. Opened up the whole kitchen, whole kitchen demoed, redone electrical, bathroom ripped out, closet ripped out, wall put up, redone all the Floors upstairs sanded, redone. Downstairs bathroom, redone. Wall taken out in the bedroom to make the walk in closet. The closet stuff.
Bobby Kelly
Put up your cologne room.
Big Jay Oakerson
My cologne game's on. Fucking.
Bobby Kelly
The very room that sent your son down to the basement.
Big Jay Oakerson
How great is that cologne room, though?
Bobby Kelly
It's a good cologne room.
Big Jay Oakerson
I mean, it's nice.
Bobby Kelly
It's a nice cologne room.
Big Jay Oakerson
I had a cologne shelf put in the wall. Oof. It's great. All this stuff done. And then I think it was 40, 45. All new kitchen, two new bathrooms, electrical, lighting.
Bobby Kelly
That's so much more.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's. It's. If you think about what you're having done, there's no. You're not ripping anything out. You're not demoing anything. You're not redoing a whole new thing.
Bobby Kelly
No, there are some things.
Big Jay Oakerson
Did you ask. Let me ask you a question. Did you negotiate at all?
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, that's just enough. We haven't. Well, we've asked some questions. That was the initial price.
Big Jay Oakerson
He said I would try to get him. I would say 15.
Bobby Kelly
Well, we're giving them.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I wasn't giving a number. I was gonna say 15 million.
Bobby Kelly
Black Lou? Yes. Two questions. Yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
Does he know your profession?
Christine
Yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
You did? You told him?
Bobby Kelly
No.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, does he? Let me ask you another question.
Bobby Kelly
No, I did. Christine told him, I have to assume.
Big Jay Oakerson
Never tell them what you do.
Bobby Kelly
And then. And then I. He's. Here's the other big thing about saying no to this guy. I'm pretty sure he's awol. Israeli Mossad. This guy is so sweet. He is so nice. So lovable. Amazing with the dog. He is awesome. But he looks like if I said something wrong, he might like, Swayze ripped my throat out or something.
Big Jay Oakerson
Another question.
Bobby Kelly
Yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
What is he driving?
Christine
Toyota.
Bobby Kelly
Toyota Tacoma.
Big Jay Oakerson
A truck.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay. Truck is good.
Christine
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
If they pull up on a Cadillac, that means he's not doing the work. He's got a lot of money and he hires other people. But that means you're paying twice because he's. He's going to charge you $4,000 extra. He wants his cut, and he's going to charge the people who do it this much.
Bobby Kelly
Gotcha.
Big Jay Oakerson
So you don't want the guy in the Cadillac. You want the guy in the truck. That means he's going to be doing the work. That means the money's not going to.
Bobby Kelly
He's definitely doing the work.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay.
Bobby Kelly
He's a good recommendation from a good source.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay.
Bobby Kelly
And I believe he can get all. Because he also was able to tell us things. He was like, get an electrician for that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Did you get.
Bobby Kelly
Get a plumber.
Big Jay Oakerson
Here's the best part about when you get a Spanish guy, which I only go with now.
Bobby Kelly
They're terrified of you singing out of the country. This guy's not worried about that. If I make a threat like that, this guy will repel down behind me somewhere I'm not expecting and take my throat.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's not it. That is not.
Bobby Kelly
It's called an Israeli necktie.
Big Jay Oakerson
But no, it's because my cousin will do this. My. Like when we got our stuff, I needed my lawn mowed. He goes, my son, he does a lawnmower. He'll come. He just mowed the lawn and did all the stuff we need. The electrical here is kind of messed up. My. My cousin's coming. He does electrical. He's going to come and do it. You know what I mean? It's just like they know every. It's all in house. He's not going to be like, yeah, once you have to go get another guy. That's a whole nother thing. You know what I mean?
Bobby Kelly
That's the big deal, too, is this guy's doing all of that stuff.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's doing the plumbing, too.
Bobby Kelly
There's only one plumbing thing we need done. But every. All the work, all the paint, all the floor, all the everything.
Christine
We have to do wallpaper separately. There's a couple walls.
Bobby Kelly
We want wallpaper, but he's ready. He's prepping it for that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Why do you want wallpaper?
Christine
Is it the Christine just in two places.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is it the seventies?
Bobby Kelly
Christine wants wallpaper.
Christine
No, we're ripping down wallpaper in the bathroom.
Big Jay Oakerson
You gotta not. I can't.
Christine
You don't like that.
Big Jay Oakerson
You can't. You can't do Whitney cumming he fingers because I'm gonna throw up. Keep your hands.
Bobby Kelly
Was she Whitney Cummings fingering you?
Big Jay Oakerson
She was. She was the.
Bobby Kelly
She was giving. It's for you to zip it and then she's giving you.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's this thing that a lot of women are doing now. The power hands. It's three. It's the three fingers into the thumb and they suck you in.
Bobby Kelly
Can I give you a fun Christine thing?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
Because this is my new favorite impression. I haven't even got to unveil it yet.
Big Jay Oakerson
DJ Lou was just doing. He was just practicing the fingers.
Bobby Kelly
I haven't got a chance to do this yet. Who was on the meeting yesterday when Christine was in the car with me?
Jacob
All of us.
Bobby Kelly
All you guys were on the Meeting. She was trying to be quiet because she was in the car with me and I just heard a Christine, like, you know, her arbitrary laugh after things she says. It was her just going. She goes, yeah, well, that's what I thought was going to happen. She still has to hit the bumps. She goes.
Big Jay Oakerson
Christine, when did you pick up the AOC hands? The old Whitney Cumming fingers.
Bobby Kelly
Ever since they took away your right to abortion.
Christine
Like a lock it up motion.
Big Jay Oakerson
I've never. It's a. It's a woman's power move. I think it has.
Christine
My old roommate Emily used it all the time.
Big Jay Oakerson
The. The fingers.
Christine
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
What is it?
Big Jay Oakerson
It's a. It's a.
Christine
It's like enough.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, but you. You're doing it in the thing where you're.
Christine
I don't know why I did it though. What I was talking about.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, God, she's still doing it for a wallpaper replacement. Yeah.
Christine
Oh, because we're taking out there.
Jacob
It is so natural. We're taking out.
Bobby Kelly
So you shush and I'll tell you.
Christine
I was taking it out.
Big Jay Oakerson
You take.
Christine
Yes, we're taking out.
Big Jay Oakerson
I was taking it out. Is that.
Christine
No, I was reaching. I was reaching.
Bobby Kelly
No, I think she was. I think she was ripping down wallpaper. And then we'll be putting up new wallpaper.
Christine
No, we're putting up.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. Anyways, can I say this?
Bobby Kelly
Oh, my God, that's hilarious.
Big Jay Oakerson
This is going to be hard for you to do. It's going to be hard for you to do.
Bobby Kelly
And you should have Christine walk away from Christine forever.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, not that. That's not hard.
Christine
That's easy.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's easy. You have so much going for you right now. If there's any point, you should.
Christine
You could sell my closet to future prospects.
Big Jay Oakerson
Dude, I'll move in. Christine, you can move in.
Bobby Kelly
That closet is a good sell for the next girl for sure. You come in, here I go. Don't pay attention to all this witch shit. You could put up your tight little skinny dresses up here.
Big Jay Oakerson
You can rip those dream catchers down. They don't.
Bobby Kelly
Set those dream catchers off.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, dude.
Bobby Kelly
And if you want, she took Dawkins so you could sit on Dawkins perch and look up the back window. Hey, feel free to look out Dawkins window.
Big Jay Oakerson
Hey, I want you to do this. I don't think you can do it. You should be able to do it. And it's a hard thing to do. You got to negotiate. You got to go back. Listen, don't shake your head.
Bobby Kelly
I'm not Gonna do it.
Big Jay Oakerson
You listen to me.
Bobby Kelly
I've never done this once in my life.
Big Jay Oakerson
You have to negotiate with these guys.
Bobby Kelly
Here's how I feel. I negotiate this guy down $1,000. Now he goes, I don't give a. About this job or this work. That's exactly. Am I crazy, Lou? That sounds. No, I'm like, he's already gone. I. He's telling me I'm not worth the work I'll do, so I'll give him what I think.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's not true. That's your childhood trauma. Yeah, that's not it. I hang out with these guys.
Bobby Kelly
I know I was raped by a contractor.
Big Jay Oakerson
I hang out with these guys at the cigar lounge all the time.
Bobby Kelly
I'm telling you about how they fucking dick around with assholes like me.
Big Jay Oakerson
Exactly.
Jacob
He can't retroactively negotiate. He already agreed.
Bobby Kelly
No, no, wait a second.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, no, no, no.
Bobby Kelly
This guy also told me he smokes cigars. He made a big thing about the fact that he smoked cigars. So he's a cigar smoking flim flam man. You're telling me.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm gonna give you some cigars. I'll give you some really good cigars to give this guy too. I'll give you like a bag. Will you be like, hey, man, this my friend smokes cigars. Big cigar guy. You like these? I got you some cigars. He'll love it.
Bobby Kelly
These are shit. Are you setting me up or something?
Big Jay Oakerson
No.
Bobby Kelly
Are you sending me? Are these fucking gonna be? Are these like Palestinian cigars? You're gonna have me give him, and then he's gonna know, and then he's gonna really be mad at me.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm gonna. I'm teaching you how to be a big boy right now. Because you're a big boy now. You got a house, You're a homeowner. You understand? You gotta. You gotta just.
Bobby Kelly
A modest home.
Big Jay Oakerson
You gotta. It's not a modest. You outta your mind?
Bobby Kelly
It's definitely a modest home.
Big Jay Oakerson
Modest home for who? It's literally out of the loop.
Bobby Kelly
It's literally double the size of our small apartment.
Big Jay Oakerson
You have a. What is it called in the backyard. Would you call it pavilion? A pavilion? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Modest people have pavilions.
Jacob
I would push back on your. Your calling it a small apartment.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. No, I said my apartment now.
Jacob
Yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Christine
We don't have a small apartment.
Bobby Kelly
No, it's three total rooms.
Big Jay Oakerson
And you have a pavilion.
Jacob
Come by.
Bobby Kelly
We're talking about my apartment.
Big Jay Oakerson
But, but now you have a pavilion. You have a pool.
Bobby Kelly
It's not deep enough.
Big Jay Oakerson
You have a double garage. I mean, you are just a negative Nelly. I can't. You can be pleased at all.
Bobby Kelly
I am very pleased.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay, this is what you got to go. You got to go into it negotiating, man. You got to be like, look, man, I got a certain. I told you. I got a certain budget right now. We're going to need other things done, because here's what's going to happen. They're going to do all the stuff, and then they're going to find other stuff that needs done, and it's gonna be like, look, man, this happened, but we gotta. You want to take care of this, too? And that's gonna be another thousand. 1500. So when they say 17, they really mean 20.
Bobby Kelly
He's also. Am I answering this? Am I falling for something? Because when he was walking us around, he was also very quick to tell you the things. He was like, I wouldn't.
Christine
He said, don't spend money on.
Bobby Kelly
Don't spend money. He's like, don't spend money on painting this. He goes, this paint's good. This is, like, very. No, that's good that he's Places that I was like, specifically on my. Are you sure? I think we should. He's like, this is good pain. He's like, why would you just gonna make it look like this again?
Big Jay Oakerson
Like, no, no, that's good that he's doing that. He's saving you a couple bucks here and there, because he could just be like, yeah, that's more money. So that's good that he's doing that. But why is he doing. He's doing that?
Bobby Kelly
That's what I'm saying. Is that the flim of the flam.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's the flim of the flam. So what he's doing is. And this sounds like a righteous dude, by the way, because I've dealt with the Russians, I've dealt with the Italians. I've dealt with the white guy, the master carpenter white dude. You got to stay away from him. Yeah, he's gonna cost you a lot.
Bobby Kelly
This guy's straight from the Gaza, because.
Big Jay Oakerson
That guy defending the homeland and Jay did.
Christine
He was able to casually drop in that he was Jewish, which is nice.
Bobby Kelly
I did a. Jeez, are we the only two Jews in this town? He goes, no. He goes, you please hit me up. I get a rabbi for you. He started off being a rabbi, and I was like, oh, this rabbi. Okay.
Christine
I love when I met.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, a local rabbi.
Christine
When I met with him, I just thought he was so Confident when they was able to get everything done. So he met with me for like an hour. Then we went back with Jay.
Bobby Kelly
By the way, he also said he wouldn't want to give quotes or do anything until he had me there also, which I thought's a good move. I also think, do you know why when someone tries to take advantage of. Of the girl in the situation.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's Israeli and he talks to men, not to woman.
Christine
Why I can't negotiate with him.
Bobby Kelly
Probably realize that Christine's a dumb.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't like her fingers when she puts them together in a dominant little stunts.
Bobby Kelly
Jason, I will tell you if she two more times puts hands in face, I bite it off.
Christine
I think, Bobby, what you've been telling us to do the whole time is get multiple quotes. So I think I need to. I have somebody else that we know very well that's going to recommend. I think I need to go through everything with another person.
Bobby Kelly
I am not going to walk through that house again and point out everything.
Big Jay Oakerson
Please get a.
Bobby Kelly
Tell them the colors. I'm not doing that again.
Christine
I can do it.
Big Jay Oakerson
Get a Spanish guy. Please get a Spanish guy. Here's what you do.
Jacob
Give it to Christine.
Big Jay Oakerson
Jay, you got the, you got the Albanian or Israeli guy.
Christine
I have a list.
Big Jay Oakerson
Great. You get the white guy or Italian guy. There's levels to it. You know, the Spanish guys, they're always going to do it cheaper. They're going to do a great job and they're going to. They're going to have everything in house.
Bobby Kelly
I tell you something, nothing lowers my confidence in a person more than the confused face of a Spanish person. So a Spanish speaking person when I'm talking to them, when they show that like, oh. And then eventually kind of do like the. Oh, okay, okay. They did not know what I said. And they're just gonna make a move and hope that that's what I was talking about. This Israeli guy is not gonna do that. In fact, I'm pretty sure he'll bare hands kill a person.
Big Jay Oakerson
You can't talk to. You gotta talk to the main guy.
Bobby Kelly
Bobby, I'm nervous that this guy's gonna hurt me if I don't just give him the money. Can I just give him this money, please?
Big Jay Oakerson
No, this, this is what you do. You can't. You gotta step up right now.
Jacob
Bobby.
Big Jay Oakerson
What? Get your fingers. Jacob, if you do AOC fingers, I'm going to bite your fingers. Bobby, get your. Oh, I can't. Bobby, everybody's doing it.
Bobby Kelly
Bobby, you're freaking out right now.
Big Jay Oakerson
I can't do it. Stop. Black glue. Please don't do it, Bobby. Don't do it. Don't do it.
Bobby Kelly
You're skitsing out right now.
Big Jay Oakerson
Get your fingers down.
Bobby Kelly
It's just people trying to talk to you about something again.
Jacob
You have real life experience of having construction work done to your house many times, but for, I would say, 10 years, I've been watching Christine on the coast.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yes.
Jacob
So, okay, so you're equal. I think I know a little something about a little something.
Bobby Kelly
Okay.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Jacob
I've never.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's called your little apartment that you rent.
Jacob
Yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
You know how if I need bookshelves, I'll call you.
Jacob
But I don't know if I ever.
Bobby Kelly
If I find out the best place to frame a poster, give me a call.
Jacob
I'm your man.
Big Jay Oakerson
If I need a love seat that converts to a pullout, I'll give you Buzz.
Jacob
My point is.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Jacob
I've never seen her quote. I don't think she's done a reservation under $100,000. No, because it seems like Trump changed what, Jay.
Big Jay Oakerson
Because she's. No, because she's dealing with. You understand the first quote that they give you, you got to come back and be like, look, can you do it for 15? And he's going to go, no, okay, okay, I'll do it for 15. Just say, hey, dude, I gotta. You gotta. I told you.
Bobby Kelly
Think he's Gonna come down $27,000 on his price? Just keep making fictitious numbers. First of all, you think he's gonna come $46,000 below his price? I'm saying the price to meet me somewhere.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm just giving you a number so we can associate it so people can. I'm not giving the real number. I'm just saying the number that would be consistent to what you're gonna. What you're being paid, what you're being asked to pay. I'm just saying you should say, is there any. You got to go in. You got to do your part. He's doing his part. I want to make the most money I can, but give them a good.
Bobby Kelly
Bit, and then if it avoids. If I could handle this through text, I'd write, great start tomorrow.
Big Jay Oakerson
Look, you can do that. If you're happy with it, do it. But I would negotiate. Just. You got to come in. I have a budget. We got to do the pool. We have to do the backyard. We got to do this, this, and this. I have a certain amount of money I'm dealing with right now because of all the money I Put out. Is there any way you could do this for 15? There's gonna be other stuff. I know stuff. And he's gonna be like, okay, well.
Bobby Kelly
Let me tell you a thing that we're also running into. It's great because I just watched recently the American dad, where someone bets them that their relationship couldn't survive a home renovation of any kind. And me and Christina, I believe, are hitting our. We might be splitting up ways based solely of the modern versus the old of us and our age difference coming into play that. I really want the basement to have two walls of wood. Like wood. Look, panel. And don't make a face.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm sorry. Did I make a face? I didn't know it. Do it again. Do it again. Say it again. Just say it again. I'm sorry. I don't know what that was. Go ahead.
Bobby Kelly
Four walls of a basement. I want. You can't. You're making a face at four walls.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think I'm getting bell palsy.
Bobby Kelly
Dude spells palsy.
Big Jay Oakerson
That too. I'm getting both of them. I'm getting both palsies now. Go ahead. You are.
Bobby Kelly
Double up on your palsy. You want wood paneling along two walls. I think it brings a warmth to the room.
Big Jay Oakerson
It does not bring a black.
Bobby Kelly
Nice, nice.
Jacob
Like a herringbone. Like the ship lap type of thing.
Bobby Kelly
No, more like rustic looking, I believe.
Jacob
I need an example, by the way.
Big Jay Oakerson
Here's what it does with the. But if you do wood, it's going to make it a little darker. Right. I had all my floors up top were black.
Bobby Kelly
My studio will be there, too.
Big Jay Oakerson
Keep in mind, black wood floors. I was like, I love this black wood. I never said I love it. And then Don was of course now. And she said, we're lightning. They're going to be all light. And thank God, because it makes the whole place look bigger. So if you. I don't mind if you go darker wood, but it's going to make it look a little smaller.
Bobby Kelly
Walls.
Big Jay Oakerson
All right.
Bobby Kelly
And it'll feel warm.
Big Jay Oakerson
You know what you get? What we got for the kitchen? Acoustic wood paneling. They just put it up and it's acoustic, so it deadens the noise outside and inside. And it looks modern yet masculine.
Bobby Kelly
Perfect.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's what you get.
Bobby Kelly
Black. Leave your thoughts. Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Quick question with the price.
Bobby Kelly
Is there a time constraint on this? Could that be factoring into the price? Did you guys ask for it by a certain time?
Christine
Yeah, but it's. It's not.
Big Jay Oakerson
Like by next week, you have to get another person. Just get one More person to come in and give a bid. And you'll see, you'll be like this. He might come in lower and you'll be like, what were we thinking? Thank God. And he might do more or he might come in way higher. You understand? And then you'll be like, you know what, let's go. You got to get another bid. If you don't get another require, you.
Bobby Kelly
Don'T have to do all of that again.
Big Jay Oakerson
You don't. She can do it. Let her do it.
Christine
I was expecting it to be about double. What painting the whole house is.
Big Jay Oakerson
She's doing the fingers with a thing in her hand.
Bobby Kelly
She's turned completely.
Big Jay Oakerson
She is.
Christine
I was thinking it would be about double what painting the house would be. And it's about triple.
Bobby Kelly
Yep.
Christine
So that's why it was a little.
Jacob
Like, are you doing the backyard? Is the patio included in these renovations?
Bobby Kelly
There's nothing there.
Jacob
Your dream patio.
Bobby Kelly
Pavilion.
Jacob
You mean pavilion.
Bobby Kelly
Nothing. There's nothing to do in there.
Jacob
Oh, it's done. So you don't have to do the backyard at all?
Bobby Kelly
Nope.
Big Jay Oakerson
TV out there?
Bobby Kelly
Yep.
Big Jay Oakerson
Great. Welcome to Nadia Yada Island. Next on Nadia Yada Island.
Jacob
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Big Jay Oakerson
Get one line for only $25 a month with Autopay. Just bring your phone to Metro and experience all the data you want on.
Christine
The largest 5G network.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's nada.
Bobby Kelly
Yada yada.
Big Jay Oakerson
Only at Metro by T Mobile.
Christine
First month is $30.
Bobby Kelly
Bring your number and ID offer not available. If with Timo Blur with Metro in.
Christine
The past 180 days, I would just.
Big Jay Oakerson
I would say you gotta go into these. Look, we have a budget. Don't have to tell them the budget. I got a budget. I got a lot of stuff to do. I'm trying to work this out. Is there any can you do? How about don't even say a number? Can you do me a little better on this? And he's gonna go. He's going to say yes because he knows he's going to get you and he's going to do more. You're not paying that number. If you think you're going to pay that number and other stuff isn't going to happen.
Bobby Kelly
He said that?
Big Jay Oakerson
What?
Bobby Kelly
He told us that?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
So he goes, look, as things come, I go. When I fend them out, that's a starting point. Change.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's a starting point. So start the starting point a little lower so that, you know. So my Guy came to me in the kitchen. We got a brand new stove. We got this new electric stove because we were going to go gas and blah, blah, blah, blah. We just don. Found the new electric stoves. They heat up, they shut off quick. They're amazing. They. They convection, they air fry. They do all this stuff, right?
Bobby Kelly
This is how I feel about electric stoves. Is my face showing it?
Big Jay Oakerson
Dude, I, I. Dude, I feel you. When. When she said electric, I was like, I don't want electric. But the new electric stove is insane.
Bobby Kelly
No, that's great. You got the stove of a comedy condo in Columbus, Ohio.
Big Jay Oakerson
I feel you. But she assured me, and she was right, that the new electric stoves, the way they work and it's like the high end, whatever, it's like, it's really great, right? But we had to put a new wire in. And the guy was like, this wire cost 6. He said 500. Then he went, 600? It's going to cost you $1,600 to put the wire in. And I went, dude, what are you talking about? When you gave me, you know, I was like, I can do it for a thousand. And he's like, all right, I'll make it happen. So I got. Of course you can make it happen.
Bobby Kelly
He gave me the wrong wire, though.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, he was. No, he gave me the right wire, but he was.
Bobby Kelly
You think.
Big Jay Oakerson
So the wire cut. I. The wire cost 400, right? The work probably cost maybe 600 or 500 to do it. Then he added on his fee and gave the guy a little more money, and then I just took that money away, you understand?
Bobby Kelly
And sent his family back to Panama.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, Guatemala. But you got to negotiate, man. You can't. You got to go in. And the way I did it.
Bobby Kelly
I don't think this guy plays games.
Big Jay Oakerson
Bobby, can't be afraid of your contractor.
Bobby Kelly
He looks very scary.
Big Jay Oakerson
What do you. Is he John Wick? He's not going to kill you.
Bobby Kelly
He corrected my behavior with my dog several times.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't know. Just accept it then. Dude, I didn't know he did that.
Bobby Kelly
He corrected my.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is that your house?
Bobby Kelly
That's the pavilion.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay. The wood paneling up top is. Is that bringing you. Bringing that inside?
Jacob
Holy. That is nice.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's. Dude, you.
Bobby Kelly
You.
Big Jay Oakerson
That. That is not a common house.
Bobby Kelly
No, it is. That's not a common thing in the backyard. Pavilion.
Christine
We're really lucky to actually get kind of a modest house with all the features in the backyard that we wanted. Stop, Bobby. They're just my hands.
Big Jay Oakerson
I know, but they're doing the thing and it's driving me batty. I feel like you're giving a talk at this. Christine, enough with the hands about windmills. We need more windmills pavilion.
Bobby Kelly
So I don't know.
Jacob
Are you talking about, like that type of paneling, Jay?
Christine
The I'm trying to picture of it.
Big Jay Oakerson
Bring up acoustic wood paneling. Look, if he sees you like that.
Bobby Kelly
Acoustic wood paneling, please, I would just.
Big Jay Oakerson
Say you should learn to negotiate a little bit. Do not just say yes. Once you say yes, they know you're a pushover.
Bobby Kelly
I know. Once they see me negotiating, though, I think this Israeli guy is going to see me as a terrorist.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, he's not.
Bobby Kelly
And he does not negotiate with terrorists, buddy.
Big Jay Oakerson
He likes you. He already likes you. Even though.
Bobby Kelly
No, he doesn't like me. He likes that. I. And tell you, let me tell you a friendship. I overhand hard. He goes, you're a comedian, huh? He goes, what do you think of Modi? I go, I've known Modi for 20 some years. He's the best. He goes, yeah, he's so good. He's going, but he's everywhere now. Now I go, yeah, man. Modi's blowing up in my side. I'm going, is he? I have no idea.
Big Jay Oakerson
Here's your tea right here. And Modi's the best at it.
Bobby Kelly
Have Modi have gay sex with him.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, call Modi. Modi will tell you what to do. He is the best negotiator I know.
Bobby Kelly
No, Modi's. It's not going to tell me what to do. Can Modi just negotiate? If I have Modi call him, this guy will come in his pants. He likes Modi so much.
Big Jay Oakerson
Do it. I'm telling you, use everything you got to save money. Use it.
Bobby Kelly
But if this guy thinks for one second I'm playing games, dude, you're going to see. Christine's going to see a fucking red dot on my chest. And then all of a sudden, like, jay, what is. Is that a laser pointer? I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's back, buddy. I'm telling you, use Modi. Modi will negotiate. I'll tell you what.
Bobby Kelly
His name is Elon. But he says, elon, Alon. I know he's gonna hurt me.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's not gonna hurt you, dude. You gotta. They like, I think he's killed before. They like, alpha, don't be a beta. He's. He's. He's looking at you, trying to see if he could respect you or not. Right now. He's not respecting you. You call him up and go, everything's good.
Bobby Kelly
Why? Because I let him yell at me about the way I treat my dog.
Big Jay Oakerson
What did he say about the dog?
Bobby Kelly
I was trying to stop Dawkins from jumping all over him, and he informed me. He goes, stop it. She's fine. I like this.
Big Jay Oakerson
You got cucked.
Bobby Kelly
And I was like, okay, you.
Big Jay Oakerson
You fucking. You were in first gear.
Bobby Kelly
And then by the end of that, when she would be up his ass when he's trying to tell us something, I go, dawkins. And he look at me like. And I go, no, no, no. I'm just.
Big Jay Oakerson
You got alpha male.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, he was. I mean, he looked like a paratrooper. He was wearing, like a bomber jacket that had, like.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's just. It's just.
Bobby Kelly
I don't know.
Big Jay Oakerson
Here's what it is.
Bobby Kelly
I think he's wearing fatigues and boots. Like, the guy looked serious as shit.
Big Jay Oakerson
Buddy, you just don't hang out with men, huh? You don't hang out with men. He's just a man. I'm not a man. I'm a dude. You hang out with dudes. All your fucking guys have sex silly shit on and do silly shit and say silly shit. You just.
Bobby Kelly
I told him. But I started talking, too. I went in that same. The shower that has been the bane of my existence since the inspector laughed at me for asking who do I hire to caulk the thing. Ever since he laughed at me for that, I don't even bring it up. This guy saw bitch in my heart. Cause he goes. He goes, yeah. He goes, we're gonna need to caulk down there. I go, yeah. The guy told me I can do it. He was like, don't do it. He was like, stay. Keep your girly ass away from us before you break a nail.
Big Jay Oakerson
This is your first man friend.
Bobby Kelly
He's not my friend. I think he's more my boss.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's because that's how you feel when you meet your first man friend. You feel like they're the boss.
Bobby Kelly
Hey, daddy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. You need this guy. This is your first man.
Bobby Kelly
I go, you want to order pizza or do we not even eat stuff like that?
Jacob
You want to let him do that, Jay, you don't want a first time cock.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, yeah. Jacob knows about first time cocks.
Bobby Kelly
I agree.
Jacob
I'm an expert.
Big Jay Oakerson
I know you are. You live alone. You have a fancy life.
Jacob
On the weekends, I mean, they call me.
Big Jay Oakerson
I know they do.
Jacob
To Caulk.
Big Jay Oakerson
They. Of course they do. They call you the caulker.
Jacob
My whole family come over. I gotta redo this.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, yeah. Jacob, get over here and lay down some caulk.
Jacob
That's right. Clean.
Bobby Kelly
Mm.
Jacob
You wouldn't. I mean, expert, disease free.
Big Jay Oakerson
Don't caulk. Don't be a cock.
Jacob
It looks nothing worse than sloppy cock.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, I'm certain of that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Wow.
Jacob
It'll ruin the whole look.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, absolutely.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. Sloppy cock is no joke, right?
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. I'm just going to leave Christine home with sloppy cock the entire time when I'm on the road.
Jacob
Yeah, you want an expert?
Bobby Kelly
Yo, can I tell you something? In 1985, this bit would be murdering on terrestrial radio. Right now. We would be. The phone lines would be ringing. What are these guys saying? Double entendres. This game was wrapped up in phone wires.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I'm.
Bobby Kelly
We are. We're all getting fired. Listen, man, then there'd be a rally out in Times Square for us. Save Pop and J.
Big Jay Oakerson
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta. You gotta man up, bro. You gotta man up. Go up to him, walk right up to him, shake his hand firmly, but not too firm, not too light, and go. Hey, how you doing? What's his name again?
Bobby Kelly
Elon. I. I presented my hand to him when I met him.
Big Jay Oakerson
You have fingernail polish on.
Bobby Kelly
I curtsy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, you gotta take that off.
Bobby Kelly
He noticed it, I think.
Big Jay Oakerson
Of course he did.
Bobby Kelly
I think he saw it.
Big Jay Oakerson
We all do.
Bobby Kelly
I think he saw it in my big, long, beautiful eyelashes. And he fucking saw that he could just take me and bend me over.
Jacob
Think about it. First of all, your fingernail.
Big Jay Oakerson
There's nothing you can do about those beautiful eyelashes.
Bobby Kelly
I went this drawer. I've never had drawer trash before. I've always had trash that has to sit out and about in the house. Drawer trash. But the drawer for drawer trash doesn't stay shut. And I was like. I brought him over there. Like, I was showing him a major home repair. He's like, yeah, I'll put. Sure. And I was like. Because this. If you sit here and stare at it, you see it opens after a while and it's freaking me out. And he was like, sure. He's like, I'll fix that, dude.
Big Jay Oakerson
You got the voice.
Bobby Kelly
And he did a lot of that. Like, I was like. But I want to make sure he's like, I understand. I get like. He would do that. A lot of like, calm down, Tubbs.
Big Jay Oakerson
You're done, dude. You're already out of it. You can't have him talk to you like that.
Bobby Kelly
Can I tell you Something. I think I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna give him three more and make it a nice, even number. I think I'm just gonna make it a nice, even number. Let's just walk away from this. All friends. I also feel like this guy will be available at any time to correct or do any other job we need. And he's local.
Big Jay Oakerson
Did you.
Bobby Kelly
And this is a guy where you go, hey, there's everything I said that I was like, oh, man, I bought a house, and I guess this is how it's going to crumble into pieces. There's a crack that runs right along the seam of the roof in our bedroom that no one else have noticed on. He's just kind of like, yeah, it's. That's an easy enough thing as I'll make sure. He's like, I'll make sure I fix that. And I was just like, oh, how'd he get up there? I'm like, that's too scary of a tall ladder to do that. And he's just kind of like, yeah, it's no big deal. So I'm like, now I'll be honest with you. If he told me that alone was this entire price, I go, okay. I guess it's what it costs to have a guy get on a tall ladder in my house.
Big Jay Oakerson
Jake, did you. Can I ask you a couple questions?
Bobby Kelly
What?
Big Jay Oakerson
Did you wear the mittens when you met him?
Bobby Kelly
Ooh, Christine, did I wear mittens? No.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, God. Thank God.
Bobby Kelly
No, no.
Big Jay Oakerson
All right, listen, you gotta. You just gotta. I say, I suggest take the fingernail polish off.
Bobby Kelly
It's two ladies. Already seen it. Now he's gonna know. Now he's gonna think that I'm in my mind going, oh, that didn't attract him. Let me see if he likes me more all natural.
Big Jay Oakerson
Why don't you get fingernail polishes at the Israeli flag?
Bobby Kelly
Ooh. Now if I went blue and white.
Big Jay Oakerson
Blue and white, Blue and white, yeah.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, that's not a bad idea. Hanukkah nails.
Big Jay Oakerson
What's that?
Christine
Okay, hang on.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, that would want.
Bobby Kelly
No, no. So, no, that's gotta go. No, go back to that and pause it.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, you got a little storage room.
Jacob
Oh, I like that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Storage room like that. What is that?
Bobby Kelly
This is their stuff.
Big Jay Oakerson
What is that, a fake oven?
Bobby Kelly
So pause. Now, this right here, this happened twice in the house. This is very, very funny. And this happened a week ago when we are deep into owning this house already. Weeks and weeks in owning this house. We went down there and we go, you Know what? What I would like to keep here in this, the family room, is that the half wall upstairs or the half wall to go to the backyard, like the back door or the back wall and the front wall of the house. Half the wall is a, like, white brick facade that I was like, that's very nice looking. Like, I don't even want to cover that with too much stuff. And like the other day, like last week, we went over there, and I was like. Cause I do love this brick. It's wallpaper with pictures of bricks on it right there.
Christine
It's not even facade.
Bobby Kelly
It's not a facade at all. And that goes on both sides of that room. It's just wallpaper. It's sticker of brick. No idea. Then in the basement the other day, I go, I know I want to put my studio right in here. And I do like this wooden wall also. Wallpaper. The wood is wallpaper. It doesn't go all the way down to the floor either. It's not with done.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, looks good in the photo, though, doesn't it?
Bobby Kelly
Yeah, looks good in person. I thought we had wood and brick inside the house, of which we have neither. So those. That'll be. So that. And the one that you'd be standing at to take this picture. There you go. Right there. That will be done with actual facade that's involved in this price.
Christine
No, that we're just getting this. We're getting taken down and painted because it's going to be blocked by a couch. And you're correct, a crate.
Bobby Kelly
Anyway, we're not doing it there. But on the other side, we are here.
Christine
We're getting brick facade.
Bobby Kelly
But if. If Elon says we have to, I will.
Christine
Yeah, if mom thinks it's better.
Bobby Kelly
And then go to that other thing. The wood in the basement. It's a sticker. It's so infuriating. So get one accent wall. So here's what I want to do. I want to do that one wood. Wood. And then let the video go. And then that.
Christine
This whole back wall.
Bobby Kelly
And then to that.
Christine
We were gonna paint it.
Jacob
That's all.
Bobby Kelly
I think it'd look nice.
Christine
I said, I think it'll look very like.
Big Jay Oakerson
Can you bring up acoustic wood wall covering? Look at that in the kitchen. You know how they have that fake wallpaper brick?
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. Do you want to talk to this guy Bobby? Because I'm not bringing up any new ideas.
Big Jay Oakerson
I will. If you want me to do it, I can do it.
Bobby Kelly
Please do not piss off Elon.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm not gonna Piss him off.
Bobby Kelly
Now your Boston bullshit's gonna come out.
Big Jay Oakerson
I've done it so many times, dude. My contractor in New Hampshire, this guy's from the woods.
Bobby Kelly
What do you treat me like a sucker, dude?
Big Jay Oakerson
This guy. When. When I told him when the. The inspector was coming to the house to inspect the plans, the blueprints of what we were doing, I was like, barry, what if they don't. There was a new thing. I go, what if they don't approve this? He goes, what the fuck do you mean? I go, what if they don't approve this because it's not what it was supposed to be? He goes, he'll fucking approve it. If he doesn't fucking approve it, I'll light his fucking trees on fire. I was like, okay. He goes, la. He goes, last inspector didn't prove it. I went to his house, and I burnt the. I burnt. I burnt the pine. The pine trees. Two pine trees, Big ones. I lit him on fire.
Bobby Kelly
Is this what happens when you start smoking cigars of people?
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't know, dude.
Bobby Kelly
You find all this crazy shit about them, but I like. There's acoustic wood up there, dude.
Big Jay Oakerson
I just let Barry. I let him do whatever the fuck he wants.
Bobby Kelly
Mm.
Big Jay Oakerson
He goes, we got to do this. I'm like, okay, Barry. And I go, don, pay him. Me and Don are both scared, and I'm pretty sure he wants to Fuck. Don't. I'm 100% sure this guy, if he.
Bobby Kelly
Wants Christine, will just take her.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, I think Barry.
Bobby Kelly
Elon.
Big Jay Oakerson
I might let Barry have a go at dawn just to get some stuff done.
Bobby Kelly
I don't have any recourse or special set of skills that can solve this. If Elon takes Christine back to the.
Big Jay Oakerson
Motherland, you just gotta just hear the screams in the other room of pleasure.
Bobby Kelly
Yeah. I couldn't hear you. I couldn't hear you because of the acoustic wood.
Big Jay Oakerson
I can't hear you going, oh, God, Yes.
Bobby Kelly
Finally.
Big Jay Oakerson
Mazel tov. Mazel tov. A donal on the cherry coat.
Bobby Kelly
Christina. I knew I was deeper than that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Look it. That's acoustic wood pants. They have a bunch of different styles, but that goes right up on the wall, and it's acoustic, so when you do your studio, you won't hear some shit in the backyard. Look at that one in the middle. The one in the middle right over to the left. Down one right there. That's nice.
Jacob
Jay, is this also your music room?
Bobby Kelly
Yes.
Jacob
Oh, then you want to. You put that. You can rock out probably, and they'll know none of your neighbors are going to bitch like a bunch of pussies.
Bobby Kelly
A bunch of fucking stupid pussies.
Big Jay Oakerson
And that just goes up in paneling. So you buy a bunch of panelings and just stick it up on the wall.
Bobby Kelly
Now what do you think is going to throw it up to Christine and even 70k? Because I'm willing to do that. I'm willing to jump here.
Big Jay Oakerson
Can I give you another suggestion?
Bobby Kelly
Yes.
Big Jay Oakerson
Don't bought all the stuff. Find out what you need. You buy it because if they buy it, you're paying more money.
Bobby Kelly
Well, I was told that we thought we're paying less money because he gets like. They get contractor deals on certain things.
Big Jay Oakerson
But you buy it. Like Don went and bought the shower stuff, the tile. She went and picked up everything.
Bobby Kelly
This is so easy for you to say when you don't have to mix it up with this fucking guy, man. This guy means business and he means it bad. Okay? And he told me I have till tonight to get him this money.
Big Jay Oakerson
You can't pay him first.
Bobby Kelly
He told me I have to pay him the entire thing first.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, you don't.
Bobby Kelly
That's not what he said to me, buddy.
Big Jay Oakerson
You do not pay the entire amount. Are you crazy?
Bobby Kelly
Also, I don't know if you're supposed to, but he gave me the quote while he had my shirt like twisted up in his fist and pulling me close to him.
Big Jay Oakerson
You can't pay. Please tell me you're not paying him. You have to pay him a piece. He starts the job, then you pay him another piece in the middle that it's going well.
Bobby Kelly
No. He said cash money.
Big Jay Oakerson
Nope.
Bobby Kelly
In a bag.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, no.
Bobby Kelly
A duffel bag that I. And then there better not be any ink dye things in there or trackers.
Big Jay Oakerson
What about if you can't pay him up? You're not paying them all up front.
Bobby Kelly
First things first. He checked me and Christine for air tags. What do you think that was? It's before I get to numbers. Turn around.
Jacob
What about casually? If your friend Bobby just happened to be at the next negotiation with this guy? Yeah.
Bobby Kelly
There's no more in face negotiations with this guy. We're telling him yay or nay.
Big Jay Oakerson
First of all, I don't want anything to do with this guy. You get Modi over there.
Bobby Kelly
Maybe this is a job for Modi.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. A gay Jew.
Bobby Kelly
I never thought I'd say that my entire life.
Big Jay Oakerson
A gay Jew is not afraid of anything.
Bobby Kelly
He's not. No, no. You're hurting my friend's feelings.
Big Jay Oakerson
Call up Modi. Talk to Modi.
Bobby Kelly
Don't tell him like that.
Big Jay Oakerson
I know him. You want me to call him for you?
Bobby Kelly
Yes.
Christine
We're sick. Modi on this guy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yes, Modi will talk to the guy.
Bobby Kelly
Can Modi call the show right now?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yes.
Bobby Kelly
See if you can get me out of this. Not out of this. I guess a better price, but I gotta say, this all seemed fair when he said it to me. When the number was brought to me, I was like, I don't know. I'm not. I have no acknowledgement. I'm not rich. So this is not. Not a lot of money to me. It's just. It seems like a crazy amount of work that I was. That I thought I was gonna have to hire a bunch of different people for. And this guy assured me at knifepoint that that would not be the case.
Jacob
It seems, like I said, I watch TV shows and they don't seem to do anything under 100 grand. So this seems like a good price. No, but I didn't see the list. I didn't see the list.
Big Jay Oakerson
It is not a whole house remodel.
Christine
It is a whole house saying the 100 grand product.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, 100 grand is.
Jacob
No, she. She'll do a hundred grand on the kitchen alone.
Big Jay Oakerson
Listen. Yeah, but you're dealing with a TV show. You're not gonna know the real numbers. It's all fucking bullshit. I'm talking from. I've done it four times, actually. The tiny hose. I had a plot of land with nothing and had to build everything from scratch. Three homes, remodeling. I've done this so many times. You have to go in. I have a budget. You have to go in. Fake like you don't have money.
Bobby Kelly
Well, Christina already said. She said he's a comedian and he's been having an amazing few years. She oversold you.
Big Jay Oakerson
Can't I take my. Watch out.
Bobby Kelly
She gave all the big venues I played, but didn't say that I was opening for people. She's like, oh, this guy just shut down the Wells Fargo center in Penn. Penny. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is that the right number, Lou? Yeah. Lou, can you grab that? Make sure that's the right number? Modi's gonna call in right now and help you. We're gonna get you Jewish help right now.
Bobby Kelly
Thank you.
Big Jay Oakerson
You good?
Bobby Kelly
Yes, it's good.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's good.
Bobby Kelly
I need this Jewish help.
Big Jay Oakerson
Here's the deal, dude. You gotta. You can't just go. Yes. You have to stick up for your family.
Bobby Kelly
I said goodbye to this guy and almost assured him in my head that we'll Be seeing you again real soon. I. I showed my ass completely. And then I pulled the cheek aside for him. And then I winked with my asshole. Hey, Elon.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah? If you buy the stuff, whatever you can buy by yourself and have Jay.
Bobby Kelly
What you're gonna get fucking. We went to Home Depot the other day. I freaked out in five different aisles. And then we stared at toolboxes for tools we don't have yet.
Big Jay Oakerson
You don't do it. Have her do it.
Bobby Kelly
She was there.
Big Jay Oakerson
Christine was. Will do it. She'll go pick it up. You'll be good.
Bobby Kelly
Here's the problem with Christine. I walk everything. We walk by. I go. Because again, I'm like, these are the door knobs. We'll get. Let's pick up the E. Door knobs. And she's like, ah.
Big Jay Oakerson
And I'm like, I want to leave everybody. The great Mo's on the line. Very funny comedian and negotiator. No, Modi, it's me, Robert Kelly, and the great Jay Okerson.
Modi
What's up, boys?
Big Jay Oakerson
What's up, buddy? How are you?
Modi
Thank God. Doing well.
Big Jay Oakerson
Listen, I got it. We have a question. Look at.
Bobby Kelly
I. Wait, wait, wait. First, let me tell Modi why he's involved in this at all.
Big Jay Oakerson
I was just about to.
Modi
Okay.
Big Jay Oakerson
I was just about to.
Bobby Kelly
Okay.
Big Jay Oakerson
You. You've bought apartments. You've. You. I bought houses. It's a. It's a process and remodeling and getting contractors to come in. And I've said to Jay, you got to get more than one bid. You got to negotiate. You can't just go on what they say. But for some reason, Jay's having a hard time, and I really need you to help him right now. He has a contractor. He just bought his first home in Jersey. It's beautiful. He has to get a bunch of things done to it. Not major things, but a bunch of stuff. And he. The guy gave him a bid. And I said, the bid's a little high. You should negotiate that down a little bit. And he is frightened of this man, I believe, because he's in the Mossad.
Bobby Kelly
You said he definitely looks like it. And.
Modi
Oh, he's Israeli. He's Israeli.
Bobby Kelly
He's very Israeli. His name's Elon. And here's why.
Big Jay Oakerson
I told you, you gotta go for the Mexicans, dude.
Bobby Kelly
No, no, no. This guy's gonna get the job done for sure. But, Modi, why you can't. Was so Christine. And Bobby's already made a Christine for this. Christine told the guy when she met with him without Me that he was. That she told him that I was a comedian. So in the middle of our meeting with him the other day yesterday, he brings up. He goes. He goes, so you're a comedian. He goes, how do you feel about Modi? And then, Modi, I'm not gonna lie to you. I oversold our friendship real heavy. I think I even made suggestion that you'd pop by while they're doing work maybe and cheer him up during lunch.
Modi
At the truck.
Bobby Kelly
So. So I heavy oversold that he was very, very excited about me knowing you and then went on to give a price that Bobby says is pretty high, but I don't feel like this guy's down for negotiations. And I like that he's doing everything. Okay. Was it.
Modi
Was the word cash mentioned at all?
Bobby Kelly
No, cash wasn't mentioned. But can I say this? He's gonna do a job that would be. You'd have to do more for it if it was.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, if you do cash, you get a better deal. Yeah, if you do cash. If you go, look, dude, I'm gonna pay you all in cash.
Modi
If you pay in cash or part of it in cash, you do it. Not. Not that you have any cash. You guys, we don't work with cash anymore. Right, But. But I don't know. First of all, see, you have to see the whole broad. The whole broadcast picture. What? You don't have time to be there.
Bobby Kelly
Right, Right.
Modi
You need to know from someone that he's worked. That he's worked with if they were happy with the job and working with him.
Bobby Kelly
Yes, you have that. We do have that, Christine. Correct.
Modi
You have. Then that's. That's a big thing. If you found someone that had that work he worked with and they're happy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. What is his thing?
Christine
Oh, Ian, we just have the. We have a recommendation from somebody we trust, but not somebody that he's actually. I'm not sure if he's done work for that guy personally.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, boy.
Bobby Kelly
He showed me pictures.
Christine
Yeah, we saw pictures.
Bobby Kelly
I'm pretty sure one of them was Evander Holyfield's house. And he didn't do it, but still.
Christine
He also works on very nice houses.
Big Jay Oakerson
Which I like, which is not a good thing.
Modi
Okay, but the question is like this. He takes your job, he takes your deposit, and then he's working somewhere else and his guys can't come over. You need to see if he has other jobs happening. You to ask him, like, are we your priority once you take this job? Do you have anything else happen? Are you closing down Any other jobs? And how far away are they?
Big Jay Oakerson
Modi Jay's never going to say that to anyone.
Bobby Kelly
Christine will.
Modi
Oh.
Bobby Kelly
Christine doesn't care if this crazy Israeli gets to me.
Modi
What kind of work. What kind of work are you doing?
Christine
Bobby sent the list.
Big Jay Oakerson
Okay.
Bobby Kelly
Oh, yeah, Christine's list.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm going to send you the list.
Bobby Kelly
Bobby send you the list of the work.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's a lot of work. But hear this, hear this. He gave you a great thing so you can negotiate. How much can you do this for? If I pay you in cash? That's your negotiating thing? So out of the gate you can go, hey, you're going to be starting this, and this is your job, right? Like you don't have other stuff going on. How much. How much will you do this if I give you cash?
Bobby Kelly
I don't understand what the. Everyone keeps saying cash, but, I mean, we'd be end up, like, selling him anyway.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, if you give him cash, like, we pay in cash.
Bobby Kelly
A lot of the stuff, zero paper trail.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm not saying anything. Yeah, I'm just saying cash is king.
Modi
I'm just saying cash. Cash is king. To say we're not going to get. We're not going to embellish on that. But it's also, you really got to find out someone that he worked for. Even if you ask him, can you. Can you give me a recommendation of somebody you worked for? And don't even go see, how was working with him? Was he responsive? Did he come back to you? Did his employees always show up? And then when it's over, you know, there's a punch list at the end. You got to, like, make sure that the doorknobs set. That this is. That the light fixtures are all in. Was he available for that or like, once the big stuff was done, did he.
Big Jay Oakerson
You lost. You lost him? He's not even listening.
Bobby Kelly
I am listening.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's panicking. I am panicking right now.
Bobby Kelly
It's just. I told him. I told him I was Jewish, Modi. I told him that I was Jewish. It made a. It made him very excited. But then again, the emotional bullying, not his fault. Just the type of personalities we are. He then offered me access to his rabbi, which I think I accepted. And I haven't. I've never been to a synagogue in my life, I think, except for my friends, bar mitzvahs.
Modi
Who's this rabbi?
Bobby Kelly
That's a great question, Christine.
Modi
Doesn't matter.
Big Jay Oakerson
I sent you a list.
Modi
Where's the house? Where's the house?
Bobby Kelly
Where's the house, New Jersey.
Modi
Okay? So let me tell you one thing that we got this guy. Really?
Big Jay Oakerson
Really.
Modi
If you showed him somebody else's appraisal.
Big Jay Oakerson
I told him that, I said you should get another quote and the guy might come in lower. And then you show that guy the quote and he'll that they, they work it out.
Bobby Kelly
Now, am I held guilty when he asked me who gave you that quote? I give a name and that guy turns up dead. Because I do think this guy does not fuck around. You guys want to keep dicking around with Elon and I'm telling you, Elon, sorry.
Modi
First of all, just keep it, keep it in perspective. This is a man that installs toilets. So it's not like this isn't Mossad, okay? This is. He installs toilets just easy. He's not all that.
Bobby Kelly
Right.
Big Jay Oakerson
Jay thinks that's a front for what he really does.
Bobby Kelly
I'm pretty sure his yarmulke was made of Palestinian scalps.
Modi
Wait, he, he wears the yarmulke all the time?
Bobby Kelly
No, no, he has a shaved head and he was wearing a bomber jacket. It looked he could have been either, which is a strange look that these things do cross over. He could be high ranking military like combat Mossad or raging white supremacist. It just so happens that his look goes along more with like the Israeli military guy. Very nice. Very, very nice.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, here's the thing. He's gotta go cash. You gotta, you gotta get another bid and you gotta at least.
Bobby Kelly
When is this bid happening? I'm not going through all this again with somebody.
Christine
I'll go on Thursday.
Modi
You, you go, you get somebody to come in there who takes a look and says, and gives you another estimate. And then you show, you compare and you can show. If you like Elon more, you show a lawn what this guy says.
Big Jay Oakerson
My guy, if it's led. What? My guy? The guy I just worked with. You want the guy I just worked with.
Bobby Kelly
Who's your guy?
Big Jay Oakerson
My guy.
Bobby Kelly
Really? I want to just bring and show Modi off like a trophy.
Christine
How about now?
Bobby Kelly
I'll be happy to get on the.
Modi
Phone with this guy. I'll be happy to get on the phone with Elon.
Bobby Kelly
What's this price? If every, if every four days Modi shows up with bagels.
Big Jay Oakerson
Modi. I told him that he should kind of not, you know, be like cry poor, but be like, look, I got a budget. I have to stay in this budget. You know, I, I don't. You know, we just spent a lot of this money on this house we got.
Bobby Kelly
Already told him off. My high level extraordinary things I've done. I think she. Even when we got there, she was like, oh, he just got a hundred thousand on YouTube.
Big Jay Oakerson
Jesus Christ. You gave him all his resumes?
Bobby Kelly
He doesn't know.
Modi
He doesn't know. No, he doesn't know that stuff. He just knows that you're a comedian and he, you know me.
Bobby Kelly
I'll tell you what, though. Probably the most important thing for him to know.
Big Jay Oakerson
Here's the thing. You have Modi call and you go. Modi would be like, hey, make sure you, you know, give him a better deal. Modi can negotiate a little for you. Right, Modi?
Bobby Kelly
I think Modi, to make him squirm. The wrongs we must right. The fights we must win. The future we must secure together for our nation. This is what's in front of us. This determines what's next for all of us. We are marines. We were made for this.
Detailed Summary of "Home Improvement with Modi"
The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly
Release Date: January 24, 2025
In the episode titled "Home Improvement with Modi," hosts Big Jay Oakerson and Bobby Kelly embark on a humorous and insightful journey through the trials and tribulations of home renovation. The conversation is a blend of personal anecdotes, practical advice, and signature comedic banter, making it both entertaining and informative for listeners navigating their own home improvement projects.
The episode begins with Big Jay and Bobby exchanging playful remarks about their professional broadcasting status. Bobby remarks, “[01:10] I'm having a great second half,” signaling their collaborative spirit. They liken their dynamic to hanging out by a bonfire, setting a relaxed and candid tone for the discussion ahead.
Bobby shares his excitement about moving into a new house and the extensive list of renovations needed. He mentions tasks like painting, repairing fixtures, and installing stone and wood facades:
Big Jay responds by comparing his past experiences with renovations, emphasizing the complexity of such projects:
This exchange underscores the magnitude of home renovation and sets the stage for deeper discussions on managing such projects.
A significant portion of the episode delves into the challenges of negotiating with contractors. Bobby outlines his renovation needs in detail, while Big Jay offers strategies to handle negotiations effectively.
Key Points:
Multiple Bids: Big Jay advises getting multiple quotes to ensure competitive pricing.
Assertiveness: Emphasizing the need to be firm yet flexible in negotiations.
Payment Strategies: Discussing the pitfalls of paying contractors upfront and the importance of staged payments.
Bobby shares his unsettling experience with a contractor named Elon, who appears intimidating and unyielding in negotiations:
The hosts explore the tension between wanting quality work and managing budget constraints, highlighting the emotional and financial stress that can accompany home renovations.
Throughout the discussion, Big Jay and Bobby intersperse their conversation with humor, often poking fun at stereotypes related to different ethnic contractors. For instance:
Bobby recounts his frustrations in a comedic light, making light of the complexities and unexpected hurdles in home improvement:
This blend of humor not only entertains but also makes the daunting topic of home renovations more relatable and less intimidating for listeners.
A pivotal moment in the episode is the introduction of "Modi," who joins the conversation to provide expert advice on negotiating with contractors. Bobby explains his predicament:
Modi's Contributions:
Verification: Emphasizing the importance of checking a contractor’s reliability and asking for references.
Negotiation Tactics: Advising on how to approach negotiations without revealing financial constraints upfront.
Payment Methods: Discussing the implications of paying contractors in cash versus traditional payment methods.
Bobby and Modi engage in a back-and-forth dialogue where Modi provides actionable strategies, reinforcing the earlier advice from Big Jay on managing contractor relationships and ensuring projects stay within budget.
As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on the personal impacts of renovation stress on their relationships. Bobby mentions a TV show scenario where a relationship is tested by home renovations, humorously likening it to his own experiences:
The conversation winds down with continued playful banter, maintaining the episode’s light-hearted yet informative atmosphere. The hosts reiterate key takeaways about effective negotiation and maintaining composure during home improvement projects.
Bobby Kelly [03:58]: "If I write a number down on a piece of paper... painting the whole thing. Got it. Repairing every repair needs to be done."
Big Jay Oakerson [12:34]: "Does he know your profession? Yes... Never tell them what you do."
Big Jay Oakerson [22:36]: "Spanish guys, they're going to do it cheaper... they're always going to do it cheaper."
Bobby Kelly [35:07]: "He looks very Israeli. His name's Elon. And here's why..."
Big Jay Oakerson [45:33]: "You do not pay the entire amount. Are you crazy?"
Modi [52:04]: "You need to see the whole broadcast picture... ask him about other jobs he’s handling."
Modi [54:32]: "Cash is king."
"Home Improvement with Modi" serves as a comedic yet practical guide for homeowners embarking on renovation projects. The episode emphasizes:
Importance of Multiple Bids: Ensuring competitive pricing and avoiding overcharging by obtaining several quotes.
Effective Negotiation Tactics: Being assertive without revealing budget constraints, and not paying contractors upfront.
Verification of Contractor Reliability: Checking references and understanding the contractor’s workload to ensure priority.
Humor as a Coping Mechanism: Using humor to navigate the stress and challenges of home renovations.
The involvement of Modi adds depth to the conversation, providing listeners with expert advice that complements the hosts' personal experiences and humorous insights. This blend of professional guidance and relatable storytelling makes the episode both informative and entertaining, offering valuable takeaways for anyone facing the daunting task of home improvement.
Listeners are encouraged to apply these strategies in their own renovation projects, keeping the hosts' advice and humor in mind to navigate the complexities of home improvement with confidence and a smile.