Changing the Ceiling Fan in the Dining Room (April 2026)

It would interfere if you put this on? Uh, I can try it. Worst case scenario, we just got a plethora of rude comments saying, Oh my gosh, the audio cut out for 3 seconds and 24 minutes and 8 seconds. I didn't hear the word stop. I think you said stop. Can't get a break with these people. No. And you know, the worst part about it is it's a free video on the internet. If it's not perfect, it's a little to no budget, free production. It's the same thing when you get something free on the side of the road, and then you complain about it. Oh, this Lasko 3733 is a little got some dust on it. Would you believe people complain about me using these because they're too long? These make the job a million times easier. Oh, your screwdriver is 10 miles long. It's helpful to have. So this should go fairly quickly because the fans are already, or the fan we're going to install is already partially assembled. This is Kevin's fan. It's a Furry Mia's fan that we restored. The blades were painted over white. And we restored it with, I think you call it a draw liner. And it came out really good. We painted the cane a off-white color. Probably could have gone a shade darker. And then we painted the edge of the blade with a brown, which we tried to match what it would normally be. You can kind of see there's a brown on the edges. And for a first shot, this is pretty solid. I'll try not to mix up the hardware between the two. Your tripod is very creaky. It is. It sounds like your knees. Sad but true. Oh rats, I forgot a tool that we need. Which one? I need a nut driver for installing that one. Oh brother. Now I'm going to walk downstairs to go get it. And the microphone is going to go out of range. You're going to get 50 comments that people can hate. So when are you going to get sucked into ceiling fans too? I just feel like it's getting closer and closer. Especially with the junk that I have at home. You've probably seen it. How many ceiling fans do you have in your house? Only two. Oh, we can change that. And one doesn't work. I don't think I've ever seen the other one. Just the one that doesn't work. Bedroom videos is a different channel. Oh. Joking. Was this fan in the videos of like, I think I saw the thumbnail. It was like two blades, one blade. Same model but not this exact instance. I have a couple of these in old stock. Unfortunately, that kind of brain rot is what makes all the money around here. Which is frustrating because I can spend an hour and do a nice tutorial on how to install a rare new old stock vintage ceiling fan from 50 years ago. And it might get 1,000 views if that. And then you just take all the blades off and turn it on without the blades and it gets tens of thousands of views in a week. It's mildly infuriating. Oh, it is. We talked about this off camera with the vintage box fans. It's like you find something that's, like you said, pretty much new old stock and you're really pumped about it. And you're like, that's nice. Can you show me that power plus again? Yeah, but then if you take like an Alaska 3733, which is probably the most common fan on the planet. And you just turn it on in a window or something without even any explanation. Oh, 10,000 views. I think one of the comments you made in one of the videos a while back is you said, all my new fan videos pay for my vintage fans. They do. That's exactly how it works. Because people get mad that I'm filming something modern. And it's like, well, if you want me to be able to buy something that's older, better quality, I have no other choice. If you don't like it, then watch the old stuff so that it makes the money. The other thing that usually gets a lot of rude comments is I didn't turn the power off. One time I was packing up something. I can't remember what it was. The ship. And I was doing it on camera. I forget the whole context of the reason why. But all I remember about that video was I had people who worked in the packing industry just rip me a new one how I acted incorrectly. And all I remember was it was a vintage Panasonic oscillating fan that I found a good home for. And I know what I'm doing when it comes to packing stuff up. I know that they're fragile. And it got there and didn't break. But the comments. I had one guy. I worked as a shipping clerk for 30 years. So I don't know what to say to those people. Sometimes that's the best response. Yeah, I either write okay or thanks for the heads up. Glad I didn't have your boss. Maybe I should take the fun out of the comments and say, why is your screwdriver so long? And not so much this part, but when you talk about putting the blades on the motor, this makes it so much easier. I've got to get this fan up quick. The people that complain about the screwdriver have probably never installed a fan, because if you have, you would understand. And honestly, who really cares? Well, that's a like, seriously, somebody was doing a video and doing it by hand. I might be like, okay, well, it's taking a little longer. I'm just going to forward it fast forward a little bit. But who really cares? It's more to me. It's more about like, hey, how do you do this? And sometimes people use different tools I don't have. And they go, maybe that tool is better than what I have or et cetera. But no. And of course, people, I think we've had this conversation before, people complain about the use of the electric one. But if I do it manually, it takes too long. So what do you want me to do? I also get, I also get when I'm doing the fan videos and I'm trying to record the startup sound of the fan. So I'll have the, like the little ear muff on the microphone. And they'll say, I can't hear the wind noise. Why would you want to hear the wind? So then I say, I think I got this ridiculous circle where I was trying to do both at the same time with one microphone and the other microphone. Then I thought, it's just like, look, I can't, you can't please everyone all the time. I was just having that conversation with Eddie. I was like, you know, you can, you can please some of the people, some of the people, some of the time. That's it. Yeah. Oh, this might be the last time we see this fan because Kevin might be taking it back soon. Yeah. I really got sucked into that video of you guys putting this together or redoing it that day. It really came out tremendous. And that was a first too. I don't know of anybody else that's successfully restored blades like this. And it's a much needed tutorial because unfortunately people paint the blades all the time, which I guess is better than throwing the fan out, but it still kind of ruins it. And I feel like there was an art to what he was doing that day with those blades. I mean, a lot of patience. Well, you know, we make fun of him for working slow, which I can do because I work slow as well. But you can't argue with the results. Anything he does, it comes out perfectly the first time. It's great. You should only get two takes of it. Does one become part of the video of the day? If I was doing it, yeah. Which maybe we'll do that tomorrow because there'll be plenty of stuff to do tomorrow. Oh, yeah. Top secret mission. Secret destination. There actually are a lot of videos of that place already out there. Yeah. But I think it's cool about tomorrow because tomorrow is a weekday. Like, I feel like these things get slammed on weekends. Nah, it gets slammed by Friday. People come from quite a ways to go to these things. Is that big? Oh, yeah. This is the biggest one I've ever seen. I'm going to do this incorrectly because I didn't get the right tool. And if I don't get the right tool, the microphone is going to cut out and it's going to be a major problem. That's okay. You'll get yelled at for having the wrong tool. So instead, I'm going to opt to get yelled at for getting the wrong tool. Because at least that's valid. Yeah. Sorry, Kevin. This is the wrong tool to use. I got a message in the bag. We should just call him later. Yeah, we can call him later. We have a couple of telephones here we could use. I think I might have an idea, actually, with him. A video idea. Can we pretend to drop the fan while I put it up? You could do that. With said item I procured for him, I forget if he has an iPhone or not. He does not. Because I could have FaceTimed him and we could have done a checkout video of said item while he's on FaceTime with us. I used to have Zooms through said previous employer, unnamed, lousy company. But I don't have Zooms anymore. That was kind of handy, that Zooms thing. Yeah. We used Teams. I hate Microsoft Teams. I just got so used to it. It's like cat-cut, right? It's like what we had. The last two jobs had it. How was that? I just miss the days, for me, of like... I'm old enough that you go home from work and you don't hear from anything or anything until you go back to work the next day. Now, tools like Teams and whatnot, you just need to have your email and your phone and all. That was never an issue for me. I know it's not. I would disconnect 100% as soon as I walked out of the building. I'm surprised in your previous deal that they let you get away with that. They would not give us phones. They were too cheap. That's where their argument would fall apart. That actually became a serious point of contention because my texts would get yelled at for not answering the phone at certain points in the day. My return argument would be, these are on-site technicians, but you don't give them portable phones. That worked every time because, well, duh, if you don't give us a portable phone, how are we supposed to be available? Stupid. I've never seen such a gross display of incompetencies as I did towards the end of when I was there. Well, I kind of had a situation. I'm hiring people and I would say to my boss, who's the big boss, and I would say, hey, these guys are trying to call customers and everything. One person's located in Europe, the other's in Asia Pacific. That's an expensive call. But I would say they're using their personal cell phones. And I said, they're well-known people in the industry. What happens if they decide to leave? They have all that contact information. And it's like, oh, yeah, we should probably have company phones and this way we can just... Because if they go to work for a competitor and the customer doesn't know, the customer calls them and says, hey, I need more of XYZ product. Oh, I no longer work there, but I can get you something similar. It's just dumb. And people are making six figures a year and we can't give a cell phone. Well, there's also an expense factor, which I would harp on because we weren't making anywhere as near, not even half of a six-figure salary, which is really pathetic as a supervisor tech to not even be there. That's where I was. And so for me to not have or to have to supposedly use my own personal resources at the job on that salary? Nope, not gonna happen. That's unacceptable. And if I was a manager at that company where you worked, I would just say, well, we can't expect them to do that because it's just unreasonable. That was exactly what I said. I was one of the very few managers that actually defended the staff, which is why I was hated by the upper management but loved by the people that worked for me because I would stand up for the staff. And that was an argument I made all the time. You're going to nickel and dime the staff, then we're going to nickel and dime you right back and we're not going to use our personal funds. Not to mention, you get a customer, get your personal number, that's a weekend or evening nightmare waiting to happen. Right, and that was my point with my former employer too. And in that case, that was not my first rodeo. I had gone through this and changed policy before and either provided the option of a cell phone allowance or a company phone. Then they tried to say, well, if they use Teams on their phone and their phone is connected to Wi-Fi, there's no cost. Speaking of phones. Go ahead. Hello? What do you want? Can you hear me? No, I can't hear you. My ears are broken. How are you doing today? Awful. I had a horrible night's sleep. Any other questions? Hello? Speaking of phones. Yeah, the phone was an issue and then the cars were an issue as well because we were required to move between buildings and move equipment between buildings and so forth. You had to use your personal vehicles. And we were told to use our personal cars. They said, okay, that's fine. Are you going to pay for the gas? Sure, just submit a reimbursement form. So we record all the, this is earlier on, we record all the reimbursements and they all get declined. Oh, of course. So there I go, stirring things up. Why is it all declined? Oh, because it's less than X miles per trip. I said, well, who cares? If you go through X miles per month, what does it matter? It totals out. So after that, I said, nope, we're not using our, we're not using our personal vehicles anymore. So then we would use what was called inter-office mail or we would have the inter-office mail person come and pick up the computer. And this would delay the time because now it's just going on site. We have to set up a mail pickup, set up a mail delivery, blah, blah, blah. And the customer gets mad because it's taking too long to get the piece of equipment over there. And I go, why did it take so long? It didn't work anymore for a reason. Oh, my. And remember, this is not a, the business could have afforded to buy. Even a golf cart would have sufficed because these are all, you know, just in interior moves. That makes a lot of sense. I've seen campuses, you know, whether they're professional campuses or higher ed or whatever, use golf carts. Yeah, even just that would have cut that problem in 80%. But no. And they could have afforded it because you got, well, as we just said, all these people would be earning six-figure salaries, going on vacations, prepaid, this, that, and the other. What do they do throughout the course of the day? I could not tell you. I got to say, for not being a ceiling fan guy, this looks awesome. I really, really like it. Yeah, I like this fan too. Am I going to be kind of like the, I hear the joke on camera with Russ, like he doesn't collect box fans for fans. Is that going to be me with ceiling fans? Well, it depends if you deny it. See, he'll go buy fans left and right, but then say, no, I don't collect fans. But every time I'm at his house, oh, can you fix these fans? Well, I thought you don't collect fans. Yeah, I just, I like fans. He collects fans. And what's in air conditioners? Fans. This is true. Now, see how much better this is to have this long bit to be able to go right up in here, as opposed to trying to use, you know, something like this and then having it. No. Annoying. It's stupid. It would take too much time, way more time. Take even longer than it would take Kevin to get it on. Although in Kevin's defense, it would be done crooked the first time. This is true. And speaking of Kevin, I'm going to block the camera for a minute because he's not here to do it. You're here to take it. All right, now I just got to get the light shades. What kind of bulbs do you want to put in here? Oh, we need to put in the caisson bulbs in here. I was thinking the same thing. I just wouldn't know how to spell it. There's a certain words that. There's so many words and like common phrases that got ruined over the years from working in customer service. And like certain customers you can't stand would say certain phrases. And then you always think of that person every time you hear it, even though it's a normal everyday phrase. Absolutely. Speaking of Kevin, I was talking to him a while ago. And he's like, I can't stop laughing every time I hear in the caisson. I was like, why? He's like, what makes the whole thing funny? He's like, you're fairly well spoken. You say in the caisson. He's like, it's so funny. I had a teacher in high school. I still remember the guy's name to this day. And he would, he just had a, he was really, really smart. He was a physics teacher. And as a lot of times really smart people are, he was just very strange. And he would say, that's unfortunate all the time in class. And it never fit because it's like, it's physics. The heck is unfortunate about physics? But every single lesson he would figure out some way to say, oh, that's unfortunate. And so now whenever anybody says that, and it's usually in a circumstance where you don't want to be laughing about it. I can't help because I think of him and this, this physical, that's unfortunate. For absolutely no reason. One of my favorite college professors is this guy, Dr. Kitten. He's probably long retired now. He was self-made. He was one of my, my favorite professors are the ones who are, who were actually out in the profession, did it. And then later in life, in their career, they moved to being a professor or whatever, teacher. Yeah, those are definitely the best. And he had so many hands-on, like real world applications for the material. And I just, this guy, I made him, I switched to make him my advisor, but he was, he was strict. And I loved strict professors because I felt like, I don't know, I just liked the tough love. And he, if he thought you weren't paying attention, he would call on you, of course. And then he would say, okay, so, you know, why did this, you know, I had him for business law. I had him for a lot of courses. He would just say in a straight face, go out, stand in traffic, pull your pants down and bend over. Like, but he was like a very strict guy. So you were like, and by the way, this was like in the late nineties. You could not say that today. Oh, no way. I got to go downstairs and get some indiquescent bulbs. Okay. These blades are a very good match to the floor in here. It really is. Oh no, it's on the wrong direction. It's going to fall. There used to be a big thing on YouTube back in the late 2000s, ceiling fans running on reverse. Really? It was guaranteed to come out. Why is it on reverse? It's going to fall. Oh my gosh. It's going to fall. This is a very powerful fan. It looks pretty good in here. It looks really good.