Todd Miller:

I'm Todd Miller, of Isaiah Industries manufacturer of specialty metal

Todd Miller:

roofing and other building materials.

Todd Miller:

Today, my co host here on Construction Disruption is Ryan Bell.

Todd Miller:

Ryan, how's today going for you?

Ryan Bell:

Hey Todd.

Ryan Bell:

So far so good.

Ryan Bell:

How are you?

Todd Miller:

I'm doing well, you know, um.

Todd Miller:

By the time this show airs, hopefully we will know who our next president

Todd Miller:

is here in the United States.

Todd Miller:

Um, I'm pretty tired of political ads right now.

Todd Miller:

Um, but this will probably air just about the time of the

Todd Miller:

election or shortly thereafter, so.

Todd Miller:

Thanks a lot.

Todd Miller:

Uh, everyone will be in the future knowing what happened.

Todd Miller:

Well, shall we dive in today's show?

Todd Miller:

I'm excited.

Ryan Bell:

Yeah, let's do it.

Ryan Bell:

Let's get started.

Todd Miller:

Well, our guests today are Robert Bedard and Dylan Tinker.

Todd Miller:

Together, they are the visionaries and co founders of Moxie OID.

Todd Miller:

Today, Robert serves as CEO and Dylan is the chief, chief financial officer.

Todd Miller:

Moxie OID is the developer and manufacturer of a disruptive and

Todd Miller:

innovative material that, um, being produced with low energy

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converts sustainable forestry and agricultural fibers into a wide range

Todd Miller:

of engineered wood products based on an inorganic, uh, Based on an

Todd Miller:

inorganic polymer matrix composite.

Todd Miller:

That is a lot of words.

Todd Miller:

Well the best way that I know to kind of try to rephrase and boil that down

Todd Miller:

is that they produce a very sustainable material called Cerlos that replaces

Todd Miller:

wood and and even ceramic type products.

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But does not have the negative characteristics of some of

Todd Miller:

those materials, such as rot or cracking and breaking.

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And yet it's a very sustainable material.

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Resilient in all weather conditions, while also easy to work with and

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resistant to fire, mold, insects, and even water, this super material could be

Todd Miller:

the siding, roofing, even the structural material of your buildings tomorrow.

Todd Miller:

Uh, Robert and Dylan, welcome to Construction Disruption.

Todd Miller:

We look forward to learning all about Cerlos today.

Robert Bedard:

Well, thank you very much.

Robert Bedard:

It's a real pleasure to be on your show this morning.

Robert Bedard:

And with that type of an introduction, um, you know, it's a bit overwhelming

Robert Bedard:

and hopefully we can break it down and make it a little bit more simplified.

Robert Bedard:

So everybody can truly understand how Sirloaf's could be a real positive

Robert Bedard:

addition to their homes and us going forward with our environment.

Robert Bedard:

So thanks again for your consideration of having us on the show.

Todd Miller:

Very cool.

Todd Miller:

I've spent some time on your website and I am certainly

Todd Miller:

intrigued and anxious to learn more.

Todd Miller:

Um, so, um, With both of you on here.

Todd Miller:

I want to make sure you both have equal time to talk But i'm kind of

Todd Miller:

curious just to first know a little bit about both of yourselves and um

Todd Miller:

What your history is and what came what caused you to come up with Cerlos?

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, great.

Robert Bedard:

Hey, thank you again.

Robert Bedard:

Uh, yeah, I've been a serial entrepreneur all of my life.

Robert Bedard:

Um, you know, come from Vancouver, uh, Canada.

Robert Bedard:

Uh, there I started working with, uh, with banks in Canada, a new

Robert Bedard:

bank, and we built the bank across Canada and sold that and exited it.

Robert Bedard:

And from that, uh, again, being a serial entrepreneur, uh, started developing,

Robert Bedard:

uh, CRM and SAS, uh, for the general insurance industry long before those

Robert Bedard:

were ever, uh, acronyms and, and on exiting that, I bumped into a gentleman

Robert Bedard:

in the late 80s who claimed that he Develop the wood that didn't burn.

Robert Bedard:

Well, that was really a challenge to an entrepreneur and I really had to dive

Robert Bedard:

in deep and certainly, uh, from the late eighties, uh, and through the nineties

Robert Bedard:

and do today, I've dedicated both time and money, uh, in the development of this

Robert Bedard:

particular material to where we are today in the position to commercialize it.

Todd Miller:

Very interesting.

Todd Miller:

Well Dylan, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you

Todd Miller:

came to be where you are today

Dylan Tinker:

Thanks.

Dylan Tinker:

So, uh, my journey started, uh, farther away.

Dylan Tinker:

I've been in Asia.

Dylan Tinker:

Uh, I was in Asia for about 20 years in investment banking and hedge funds.

Dylan Tinker:

And, um, and, and I met Robert when he was going through raising capital

Dylan Tinker:

and I quickly realized that it was a very innovative, amazing project

Dylan Tinker:

that I wanted to be involved in.

Dylan Tinker:

So I've been helping out on the finance side, coordinating that for the last

Dylan Tinker:

five years, and it's been a great road.

Dylan Tinker:

We now have institutional capital in the company.

Dylan Tinker:

Recently, At One Ventures has invested, and they're one of the top climate tech

Dylan Tinker:

venture capital firms in, uh, in the U.

Dylan Tinker:

S.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, so it's been great working with, uh, with Dylan.

Robert Bedard:

Of course, being an entrepreneur, I'm always the gas, right?

Robert Bedard:

So 1 of the reasons why I wanted to make sure that Dylan was also on the call.

Robert Bedard:

And thanks today is is to make sure that, um, you know, the breaks are

Robert Bedard:

always with us to finance, right?

Robert Bedard:

Because the last thing I need him to do is get his knickers to not.

Todd Miller:

Well, we will do our best to keep our knickers

Todd Miller:

unknotted and move forward, but I think we're all interested now.

Todd Miller:

So tell us what, what is the product, tell us a little bit about it, how

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it's produced, what we end up with in the end and how it can be used.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, you bet.

Robert Bedard:

So our product, what we've done is we are the first to really

Robert Bedard:

produce a a mass market material.

Robert Bedard:

It is a brand new material and what we are doing is we are mineralizing biomass and

Robert Bedard:

and so really what that is, is whether it be scrap fiber from the forest industry or

Robert Bedard:

scrap fiber from the agricultural industry through a very proprietary process.

Robert Bedard:

We are actually mineralizing That fiber, and when we mineralize that

Robert Bedard:

fiber, we do a number of things is we densify the fiber, we actually sequester

Robert Bedard:

the CO2 in that fiber permanently, which of course gives us an extremely

Robert Bedard:

environmentally strong position.

Robert Bedard:

And from that we end up with an end product that by science is kind of

Robert Bedard:

what you would consider a cold ceramic.

Robert Bedard:

So a ceramic has longevity, has water stability, has fire resistance, a

Robert Bedard:

whole host of very positive attributes.

Robert Bedard:

The challenge is, is it's normally brittle and can break easy, but because we're

Robert Bedard:

stuffed with fiber, we've mineralized up to 75, 80 percent by volume in that.

Robert Bedard:

Panel of fiber, we work like wood, so you use standard carpentry tools, yet

Robert Bedard:

you have the performance of of a stone.

Robert Bedard:

So somewhat like the difference between a tree and a petrified tree.

Robert Bedard:

We manage how hard it gets.

Robert Bedard:

And that's how we have this performance product.

Todd Miller:

Very interesting.

Todd Miller:

So when you say scrap fibers, I'm assuming that that would be like

Todd Miller:

from other people's production of something and you're getting the scrap.

Todd Miller:

You're not going out into fields and picking up fiber and pieces

Todd Miller:

and perhaps pick up a skunk or possum or something along the way.

Todd Miller:

I take it.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, we certainly don't do that.

Robert Bedard:

So we, you know, of course, it's a mass produced product.

Robert Bedard:

So we need large volumes.

Robert Bedard:

So certainly we would, in many cases, take the residues from a lot of the

Robert Bedard:

forest industry, whether it be at their facilities and or, and basically what

Robert Bedard:

we can do is clean up the forest floors.

Robert Bedard:

So we can take all of the material that's on the bottom, the forest

Robert Bedard:

floors, take that wildfire fuel away and convert it into a sustainable,

Robert Bedard:

you know, Building material that produces a fire resistant water stable,

Robert Bedard:

uh, environment for the homeowner.

Todd Miller:

Very good.

Todd Miller:

So what is your process of commercializing Cerlos and bringing it to market?

Todd Miller:

Are you folks producing end products yourself or are you providing more raw

Todd Miller:

materials and licensing people for the products or what does that look like?

Robert Bedard:

That's a great question, Dylan.

Robert Bedard:

Um, do you want to address our strategy?

Dylan Tinker:

Sure.

Dylan Tinker:

So we have, um, if you look at our material, it's really the

Dylan Tinker:

first mass market green material that will be on the market.

Dylan Tinker:

We will be, we will cost, um, comparative to maybe an OSB or a plywood, same

Dylan Tinker:

with fiber cement, probably a little bit less than, um, existing materials.

Dylan Tinker:

So the building material sector in the U.

Dylan Tinker:

S.

Dylan Tinker:

is, Is enormous, right?

Dylan Tinker:

It's 450 billion.

Dylan Tinker:

And if you look at siding, roofing panels and decking

Dylan Tinker:

those four sectors, 450 billion.

Dylan Tinker:

So we can't address all of it, but with our own manufacturing facilities.

Dylan Tinker:

So what we've decided to do is to license our technology to some of the

Dylan Tinker:

leaders in each field to the leaders in roofing to the leaders and panels.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, and to the.

Dylan Tinker:

Leaders and deckings and structural integrated panels.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, and then keeping one sector for ourselves, which will be roofing

Dylan Tinker:

outside, which will be home siding.

Dylan Tinker:

So home siding, we'll make ourselves in some markets and we may license

Dylan Tinker:

and other markets, but the.

Dylan Tinker:

Largest reach that we will have will be through our licensing activity, so

Dylan Tinker:

you will see our brand, um, Cerlos, but you may see it in conjunction with

Dylan Tinker:

very familiar names that you will see at Home Depot and other places, and

Dylan Tinker:

there will be an educational component to this, um, consumers will learn a

Dylan Tinker:

lot of the benefits, um, but it will be sold, um, and manufactured through

Dylan Tinker:

some of the largest players in the sector who we're now negotiating with.

Todd Miller:

I'm curious, what, how does the weight of Cerlose compared to,

Todd Miller:

you know, wood or, or other materials that may replace, is it similar or,

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, so a great question.

Robert Bedard:

And yes, it is similar.

Robert Bedard:

The beauty of the of the new material is it is a platform technology.

Robert Bedard:

So, it's not just of 1 density or 1 thickness or 1 performance

Robert Bedard:

characteristic, each characteristic, whether it be cosmetic or structural

Robert Bedard:

as well as density is all variable through our platform technology.

Robert Bedard:

So, the beauty is, is we can we can really fit.

Robert Bedard:

Almost every, uh, void in the, in the, uh, building material industry today.

Todd Miller:

wow, I mean, this sounds fascinating, the more I hear, the more

Todd Miller:

I want to know, um, I'm, I'm kind of curious, I mean, what sorts of, I assume

Todd Miller:

you've done some advanced weatherization testing and different things to try to

Todd Miller:

predict the performance of the product or, you know, what does that look like from

Todd Miller:

a long term and performance standpoint?

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, so I mean, kind of the good news and the bad news with us is

Robert Bedard:

we're probably one of the oldest startups you've ever had on on online here.

Robert Bedard:

We've, we have been developing this technology for about 25 years.

Robert Bedard:

And so we even have materials that have been out there for 25 years, and

Robert Bedard:

they have shown no weather whatsoever.

Robert Bedard:

Actually, 1 of our centers and development centers is in the Netherlands.

Robert Bedard:

And it's there for a variety of reasons and one is they are

Robert Bedard:

certainly the leaders in many ways in building materials, but they're

Robert Bedard:

also very environmentally conscious.

Robert Bedard:

And so back in the 90s, very late 90s, we put some of these

Robert Bedard:

out kind of as garden gnomes.

Robert Bedard:

And, um, they have been there since that, and they still have the same

Robert Bedard:

color, uh, same shape, absolutely everything since the nineties.

Robert Bedard:

And the Netherlands has, it's almost like a rainforest, you know, and it has cold

Robert Bedard:

winters, hot summers, and a lot of rain.

Robert Bedard:

So, uh, the performance is spectacular and we have had independent.

Robert Bedard:

Uh, studies done as well, of course, freeze, thaw, and things of that nature.

Todd Miller:

So the color of the product is, I guess, what we call

Todd Miller:

a color through product then?

Todd Miller:

Um, it's not just a color coding or something on it.

Robert Bedard:

Absolutely, it could be a through color.

Robert Bedard:

So we, uh, with ours, we can, it's a natural product.

Robert Bedard:

The ingredients are natural.

Robert Bedard:

There's no, uh, really man made molecules in there.

Robert Bedard:

We can use natural, uh, minerals for dye, so we can have a

Robert Bedard:

complete, uh, through color.

Robert Bedard:

But as well, it's important to note that the product is pH neutral.

Robert Bedard:

So being pH neutral, you can use just any old standard paint, and if you want

Robert Bedard:

to have it be fluorescent or whatever you want to do, being pH neutral,

Robert Bedard:

it's very, very, very easy to paint.

Todd Miller:

Are there any challenges you anticipate bringing these

Todd Miller:

products to market, such as perhaps from building codes or such things?

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, so I mean, so far our challenge has been

Robert Bedard:

too good to be true, right?

Robert Bedard:

And of course, as I can see within your faces, as we have an opportunity

Robert Bedard:

to discuss some of the really positive attributes of the product, yet we're

Robert Bedard:

able to put it out at a low cost and still be environmentally friendly.

Robert Bedard:

The biggest challenge that we have faced to date is, is

Robert Bedard:

probably too good to be true.

Robert Bedard:

But having said that, When it comes to the codes, we believe with the

Robert Bedard:

platform technology, and that's what we're currently doing right now with

Robert Bedard:

some of these largest building material manufacturers globally, is we are

Robert Bedard:

tailoring the product right now to the specific needs that they need to meet and

Robert Bedard:

achieve all of the building codes that would be required for the application

Robert Bedard:

of the product in their sector.

Robert Bedard:

So, so far to date, we have not failed any of these product codes

Robert Bedard:

and we don't anticipate that as well.

Todd Miller:

Well, and in most cases, those are going to be performance based

Todd Miller:

codes, not necessarily just prescriptive.

Todd Miller:

And so, because they are performance based, if you perform,

Todd Miller:

then you're going to not going to, will not have any problems.

Todd Miller:

Makes sense.

Robert Bedard:

Absolutely.

Todd Miller:

How, you know, it, it still feels a lot like, and, you know,

Todd Miller:

of course, our company has been in the construction industry a number of

Todd Miller:

years as well, uh, dating back to 1980.

Todd Miller:

And, you know, we've always kind of been a little bit disruptive also, even though

Todd Miller:

metal roofing has been around, um, a lot of time, we do some unique things with it.

Todd Miller:

And, uh, and we find that, you know, there can be challenges.

Todd Miller:

This can be a tough industry, um, kind of set in its ways

Todd Miller:

and not real quick to change.

Todd Miller:

Um, how, any thoughts on how you overcome that, or you just

Todd Miller:

one bite at a time, I guess.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, it really is one bite at a time and we're very respectful

Robert Bedard:

of the industry and the fact that it really doesn't move that quickly and

Robert Bedard:

adopt that quickly, but we do think that we're certainly in a time now

Robert Bedard:

where we have to start making some changes, you know, environmentally,

Robert Bedard:

we have to start making some changes.

Robert Bedard:

In the performance, we have to start making some changes as our

Robert Bedard:

climate changes, our stresses change.

Robert Bedard:

And certainly all of the panel producers are looking for products that are that.

Robert Bedard:

Won't burn and certainly in flood areas, we're looking for products that

Robert Bedard:

won't deteriorate with water pressures and nothing against metal roofing.

Robert Bedard:

But of course, if you're in hail areas, it can be a challenge.

Robert Bedard:

And so if you take some of the positive, all of the positive

Robert Bedard:

attributes of what we have today.

Robert Bedard:

At a price point is probably going to be equal to or less than the

Robert Bedard:

existing products that are out there.

Robert Bedard:

We think adoption will be relatively rapid.

Todd Miller:

Yeah, no, it sounds like you got a lot of positives going for you.

Todd Miller:

Very cool.

Todd Miller:

Any thoughts as far as whether service might be more inclined to be used in

Todd Miller:

residential buildings or commercial industrial or do you not really

Todd Miller:

see any difference between this?

Robert Bedard:

Well, we, we really don't see a lot of difference between the 2.

Robert Bedard:

1 of the areas that we certainly do believe that will be quite a large

Robert Bedard:

adoption in industrial and commercial as well is in the structural insulated panel.

Robert Bedard:

We see that market sector growing considerably.

Robert Bedard:

We can produce a very good, uh, structural insulated panel.

Robert Bedard:

The panels for it, you know, water stability, fire resistance, a whole

Robert Bedard:

host of attributes that will make these panels very adoptable globally.

Robert Bedard:

Right.

Robert Bedard:

And so because making our product, uh, can use scrap fiber anywhere in the world.

Robert Bedard:

We're not sugar sensitive, so we do not care what the fiber comes from.

Robert Bedard:

Uh, we can be adopted globally and we can meet all of these challenges

Robert Bedard:

globally at a very competitive price.

Todd Miller:

Well, I love that hearing that with insulated

Todd Miller:

panels or structural panels.

Todd Miller:

I've been a big fan of that construction for a lot of years,

Todd Miller:

but yet one of the downfalls can be if moisture gets into those panels

Todd Miller:

and you got a big problem real fast.

Todd Miller:

Um, so that that is a very interesting need, I think.

Todd Miller:

So, um, you mentioned to, you know, the garden domes, any other projects

Todd Miller:

or anything you can point out to out there of where the product

Todd Miller:

is, or the material has been used.

Robert Bedard:

Well, I think Dylan, you made a white picket

Robert Bedard:

fence out of it, didn't you?

Dylan Tinker:

Yeah, we created a bunch of household small miniatures for fire

Dylan Tinker:

testing that all worked pretty well.

Dylan Tinker:

But to go back to your Um, structural integrated panels.

Dylan Tinker:

These, the SIPs are basically, for the audience, are pre made walls.

Dylan Tinker:

And, you know, these pre made walls is a, is an easier construction technique than,

Dylan Tinker:

you know, traditional, um, stick built.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, and as you mentioned, one of the main problems for this is really the, uh,

Dylan Tinker:

moisture, um, absorption and the majority of these SIPs are built with OSB or

Dylan Tinker:

plywood on either side or sometimes metal.

Dylan Tinker:

But to transport well, it should be some kind of a wood composite

Dylan Tinker:

on the outside, kind of the skin between the pre built wall.

Dylan Tinker:

One of the things that we provide is the ability to use our

Dylan Tinker:

material for the skin and even the insulation interior part as well.

Dylan Tinker:

But for the skin, it's quite unique because we, we are, uh,

Dylan Tinker:

do have fire resistance and, um, and water resistance as well.

Dylan Tinker:

So that's very unique and our products could really fit like hand in glove

Dylan Tinker:

into the, um, into the SIP market and could help revolutionize that business

Dylan Tinker:

and kind of bring it into the U.

Dylan Tinker:

S.

Dylan Tinker:

So we're really excited, um, with the focus on low cost housing, pre built

Dylan Tinker:

walls, um, our ability to use our product in these SIPs, um, is a good

Dylan Tinker:

boon for us, um, as well as the industry.

Dylan Tinker:

Right now, when you build these SIPs with OSB or plywood, You know, you have to code

Dylan Tinker:

it on site, then you need another layer of probably fiber cement or something.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, with us, that one layer can be basically the same as three layers.

Dylan Tinker:

The, the sip layer, the water, maybe the water prevention

Dylan Tinker:

layer, and the fiber cement.

Dylan Tinker:

So, can knock down a number of things.

Todd Miller:

Wow, that makes a lot of sense.

Todd Miller:

And yeah, you're right.

Todd Miller:

That can also be a great answer to our housing shortage.

Todd Miller:

Um, being able to construct buildings so much faster that way as well.

Todd Miller:

So, um, I love it.

Todd Miller:

Well, gosh, I, I, I'm getting just as optimistic about the future of

Todd Miller:

Cerlos as you guys obviously are.

Todd Miller:

Um, kind of tell us a little bit though, what your vision might be

Todd Miller:

of, of the future and, you know, how this, uh, hopefully will all play out.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, well, we certainly, uh, we are just on the cusp of, of,

Robert Bedard:

uh, converting from, uh, research and development into commercialization

Robert Bedard:

and, and certainly as, as we are discussing, we are in discussions with,

Robert Bedard:

uh, a number of the largest building material manufacturers, uh, globally.

Robert Bedard:

And we are currently under an MOU to build our own.

Robert Bedard:

Manufacturing facility for citing.

Robert Bedard:

So we see a rollout relatively soon through these particular

Robert Bedard:

major building material producers and through our own process.

Robert Bedard:

I mean, we, we recognize that we can't boil the ocean.

Robert Bedard:

We recognize that these things take time.

Robert Bedard:

But we certainly believe that with the adoption of our technologies to these very

Robert Bedard:

large building material manufacturers, that their endorsement behind these

Robert Bedard:

products and what tests that they have done so far with their installers

Robert Bedard:

have all been very, very positive.

Robert Bedard:

And we believe that the rollout, uh, will be a relatively smooth, um, uh,

Robert Bedard:

relatively well adopted and certainly very timely as, as, you know, I, every

Robert Bedard:

day I get in the news, I see some house being destroyed by fire or water or

Robert Bedard:

whatever the conditions are, uh, we see, you know, using our product, uh,

Robert Bedard:

certainly helping the environment.

Robert Bedard:

Considerably by the sequestration of the, of the, uh, uh, C, uh, the carbon within

Robert Bedard:

the fiber and never hitting the oxygen and becoming CO2 to, uh, us saving fires.

Robert Bedard:

And then, of course, when houses burn, it also releases carbon and becomes

Robert Bedard:

CO2 plus all of the other poisons.

Robert Bedard:

Uh, we think the rollout is going to be very positive and

Robert Bedard:

we're really, really pumped.

Todd Miller:

Tell me a little bit about, I'm curious, the name Moxie is OID.

Todd Miller:

How you say it Moxie OID.

Robert Bedard:

what the OID stands for is Observe, Innovate, and Develop.

Robert Bedard:

And we went under that a while back.

Robert Bedard:

So one of the major ingredients within our process, within our,

Robert Bedard:

uh, our mineralization, the mineral is magnesium oxide.

Robert Bedard:

And so the MOXIE came from magnesium oxide is where that came from.

Robert Bedard:

And so that MOXIE and then OID, observe, innovate, develop.

Robert Bedard:

And the Cerlos name was just a made up name.

Robert Bedard:

Uh, we can use any, uh, surrealistic fiber.

Robert Bedard:

So because of that, uh, we just thought that most people wouldn't

Robert Bedard:

want to, you know, say that, and so we shortened it to Cerlos and that's

Robert Bedard:

how Demoxy and Cerlos came to be.

Todd Miller:

Awesome.

Todd Miller:

Very cool.

Todd Miller:

Well, um, we really are.

Todd Miller:

Thanks so much guys.

Todd Miller:

This has been very informative.

Todd Miller:

Um, we're kind of close to wrapping up what we call the business end of things.

Todd Miller:

Then we have a little bit of fun also, but, um, is there anything that we

Todd Miller:

haven't covered yet today that you wanted to be sure to share with our audience?

Dylan Tinker:

Well, the one thing I'd like to mention about CIRLOS is that, um,

Dylan Tinker:

you know, it may, it may look like, um, A traditional, uh, board when, uh, fiber

Dylan Tinker:

cement board when you were to go into buy it at a Home Depot, um, but you will find

Dylan Tinker:

it with our logo, uh, of Solos, um, but it comes, it implies a lot of important

Dylan Tinker:

things that not only are we green and carbon neutral, but also it has a lot of

Dylan Tinker:

advantages for, you know, the installers.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, currently, fiber cement is carcinogenic and the dust of the

Dylan Tinker:

fiber cement carries with it a lot of risks, basically for, um,

Dylan Tinker:

if too much of it is inhaled.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, and of course, you need special saws and special equipment.

Dylan Tinker:

So all of our material, doesn't matter what it is, if it's roofing or

Dylan Tinker:

something, or panels, but you'll be able to use traditional, um, carpentry

Dylan Tinker:

material, uh, carpentry tools.

Dylan Tinker:

And we think, we think that'll be a strong advantage, um, for installers.

Dylan Tinker:

And also there's no health risks at all.

Dylan Tinker:

So between the health and the tooling aspect of it, and the fact that it will

Dylan Tinker:

be at or lower than existing prices.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, and offer additional features like water and fire prevention resistance.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, we expect adoption to be quite quick.

Todd Miller:

Well, it sounds like a huge plus over fiber cement.

Todd Miller:

I remember the first time I was on a fiber cement project and I was just shocked

Todd Miller:

by, you know, the water having to keep everything wetted down and wear masks.

Todd Miller:

And it was just, I was like, this is crazy.

Todd Miller:

Um,

Dylan Tinker:

Exactly.

Dylan Tinker:

And on some sites, you have to, you have to throw away 20 to 30 percent

Dylan Tinker:

because of, of breakage as well.

Dylan Tinker:

And breakage is another factor that you don't have to

Dylan Tinker:

worry about with our product.

Todd Miller:

Very good.

Todd Miller:

Well, this has been great.

Todd Miller:

Very informative.

Todd Miller:

Before we close out or and have you give us your information, I have to

Todd Miller:

ask if you're willing to participate in something we call rapid fire questions.

Todd Miller:

So, uh, we got 2 of you, so we'll allow both of you to answer,

Todd Miller:

but these are 7 questions.

Todd Miller:

Some are serious.

Todd Miller:

Some are a little more silly.

Todd Miller:

All you have to do is give the response that comes to mind.

Todd Miller:

So are you guys up to the challenge of rapid fire?

Dylan Tinker:

Sure.

Todd Miller:

Great.

Todd Miller:

Well, we will alternate asking questions.

Todd Miller:

You want to ask the first question and give you both an opportunity to answer.

Todd Miller:

You want to ask the first question, Ryan?

Ryan Bell:

Yeah, I would love to.

Ryan Bell:

Question number one, what is a product or service you have

Ryan Bell:

purchased in recent memory that has been a real game changer for you?

Todd Miller:

And it can't be Cerlos, although I love that one.

Robert Bedard:

It's the first thing that came to mind.

Robert Bedard:

So I had to back off and try to give Dylan an opportunity, but, uh, I

Robert Bedard:

would, for me, I would have to say it was, um, uh, and, uh, Starlink.

Todd Miller:

Oh, okay.

Todd Miller:

Yeah.

Todd Miller:

We've had a couple of other people answer that.

Todd Miller:

Very good.

Todd Miller:

Anything come to mind for you, Dylan?

Dylan Tinker:

Usually I've moved houses myself.

Dylan Tinker:

I just moved house.

Dylan Tinker:

So, uh, a full, um, uh, uh, moving service saved my back and, uh, body a lot.

Dylan Tinker:

So I would just be more traditional and say that.

Todd Miller:

I love that and that is something I have sworn next time I move,

Todd Miller:

I am not personally lifting anything.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, I say that to everybody I know.

Robert Bedard:

I add to Dylan.

Robert Bedard:

Don't ever call me to paint or move.

Robert Bedard:

I

Todd Miller:

Okay, question number two.

Todd Miller:

Um, would you rather live without internet access or Starlink

Todd Miller:

or without air conditioning?

Dylan Tinker:

I think it depends on where you live and Robert lives in Vegas.

Robert Bedard:

live in Las Vegas.

Robert Bedard:

I am going to say without Starlink.

Dylan Tinker:

Yeah, well, it depends on who wins the election.

Dylan Tinker:

Starlink may not be up for too long.

Dylan Tinker:

But, um, so I, I, I would keep the, I'd keep the internet because, uh, in Southern

Dylan Tinker:

LA here, the temperature is more mild.

Dylan Tinker:

But if I lived in Vegas where Robert was at 120, I'd probably

Dylan Tinker:

keep the air conditioning.

Todd Miller:

Air conditioning.

Todd Miller:

I gotcha.

Todd Miller:

Good answers.

Ryan Bell:

Question number three.

Ryan Bell:

If you had to eat a cray, what color of cran would you choose to eat?

Robert Bedard:

Well, that is interesting.

Robert Bedard:

What's really interesting is the pronunciation of crayon.

Robert Bedard:

See, I'm from Canada.

Robert Bedard:

I couldn't figure out what you were saying at first, right?

Robert Bedard:

So, if I was to pick, I'd have to say green because my mother

Robert Bedard:

always told me to eat the green.

Todd Miller:

Good answer.

Dylan Tinker:

Yeah, I think I was actually thinking green as well.

Dylan Tinker:

Just somehow psychologically, maybe it would, uh, it would

Dylan Tinker:

be repelled less in my body.

Robert Bedard:

And nothing influenced by your clothing either.

Todd Miller:

I was gonna say you're dressed in green today,

Todd Miller:

Dylan, so that may be your color.

Todd Miller:

Next question, um, what is a skill that you think is undervalued in today's world?

Todd Miller:

A skill, you know, an ability that is undervalued in the world today.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, I think, uh, traditional trades, um, you know,

Dylan Tinker:

it's been shown that there's a.

Dylan Tinker:

Especially with Ivy League, just regular university costs going through the roof,

Dylan Tinker:

there has been a huge shift in the U.

Dylan Tinker:

S.

Dylan Tinker:

to trade schools and community schools.

Dylan Tinker:

Now that, uh, you know, tradesmen can earn very high six digit salaries, and you

Dylan Tinker:

can You can actually enter the workforce without debt or significant debt.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, there's been a very rapid change in, in, in the thinking of, of trade schools.

Dylan Tinker:

And I think it's very important in the U.

Dylan Tinker:

S.

Dylan Tinker:

now.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, I agree.

Robert Bedard:

I would say in mind the mechanic too, like a mechanic.

Todd Miller:

Mm hmm.

Robert Bedard:

You know, we're certainly moving away from, uh, mechanics doing

Robert Bedard:

what mechanics used to do and just getting into, you know, um, automated processes

Robert Bedard:

that do the repair automatically.

Robert Bedard:

I just don't see, I don't see myself or my children, um, you know,

Robert Bedard:

rebuilding a Tesla 30 years from now.

Robert Bedard:

You know, like, I'm kind of a car buff and I've restored, had a lot of cars restored.

Robert Bedard:

I don't see my kids restoring a Tesla 35 years from now, but there you go.

Todd Miller:

that'll be interesting to see how that plays out for sure.

Ryan Bell:

Okay.

Ryan Bell:

Next question.

Ryan Bell:

Um, if you could bake a blueberry pie with any person dead or

Ryan Bell:

alive, who would you choose?

Robert Bedard:

would have to choose Dylan Tinker because I've had his blueberry pie.

Dylan Tinker:

You don't get double points there.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, Oh, uh, bake a blueberry pie, um, with anybody.

Dylan Tinker:

Uh, actually Abraham Lincoln was famous.

Dylan Tinker:

Uh, there's some famous stories of him and blueberry pie.

Dylan Tinker:

So I would actually, that's who I'd have a conversation with.

Todd Miller:

Very

Ryan Bell:

Good choice.

Todd Miller:

I need to, I need to check out these stories about a

Todd Miller:

Blinken and blueberry pie though.

Todd Miller:

Okay.

Todd Miller:

Well, we're going to stay with the food motif right here.

Todd Miller:

Next to last question.

Todd Miller:

What is your favorite meal?

Robert Bedard:

Oh, for me, I would have to say it's probably

Robert Bedard:

Thanksgiving meal, turkey dinner.

Todd Miller:

Very nice.

Todd Miller:

Good one.

Dylan Tinker:

Yeah, favorite meal.

Dylan Tinker:

Interesting.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, yeah, I would think, I would just say Christmas.

Dylan Tinker:

Uh, we have Christmas dinners, uh, and that's, that's when, uh, the 15 of us

Dylan Tinker:

and the extended family get together.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, that's when I show off my inability to cook, uh, real food.

Dylan Tinker:

So, I would say Christmas.

Ryan Bell:

Okay.

Ryan Bell:

Final question.

Ryan Bell:

This one's a little more serious here to wrap things up.

Ryan Bell:

What would you like to be remembered for at the end of your days?

Dylan Tinker:

Well, I take, uh, helping to create with Robert and the

Dylan Tinker:

team, uh, you know, the, the first, uh, green building material, which

Dylan Tinker:

is what we're discussing of Cerlos.

Dylan Tinker:

And Cerlos, you know, can make a very strong environmental,

Dylan Tinker:

um, benefit to this world.

Dylan Tinker:

And, you know, 20 percent of CO2 emissions are in the building material sector.

Dylan Tinker:

Um, maybe we can make a dent on that and she'll help our kids.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah, I agree with Dylan.

Robert Bedard:

I, you know, I'm also very, uh, a family type person and I think it's

Robert Bedard:

extremely important, um, to instill with our family or with my family anyway,

Robert Bedard:

certainly safety in the environment.

Robert Bedard:

Right.

Robert Bedard:

And I think I have embedded that within our family and, and they.

Robert Bedard:

Um, you know, we all look forward to, uh, as Dylan's saying, the implementation

Robert Bedard:

of this particular material, because I think it will provide both.

Robert Bedard:

I think it will provide a significant improvement and help.

Robert Bedard:

Certainly, we don't, we certainly won't do it in my generation and probably

Robert Bedard:

not my kids generation, but if we can can still that in our families

Robert Bedard:

and continue it for generations.

Robert Bedard:

We will solve this environmental problem and we will provide, uh,

Robert Bedard:

safer, uh, and better buildings to work in and, and live in.

Todd Miller:

Well, those are noble causes.

Todd Miller:

I applaud you both and applaud what you're doing with your business here as well.

Todd Miller:

So, um, Robert and Dylan, thank you so much for your time today for our folks

Todd Miller:

who want to get in touch with you or learn more about Moxie OID or Surlus.

Todd Miller:

How, uh, give us some ways they can do that.

Robert Bedard:

Sure, you bet.

Robert Bedard:

Go to our website, Moxie ID M-O-X-Y-O-I d.com or cerlos.com, C-E-R-L-O s.com.

Robert Bedard:

And on there, we'll give our contact details and our phone

Robert Bedard:

numbers, or just info at moxioid.

Robert Bedard:

com.

Robert Bedard:

And we'll certainly get back to you right away.

Robert Bedard:

And again, gentlemen, thank you so much for the opportunity to be able to, uh,

Robert Bedard:

to present our particular material to you and those who will be listening.

Todd Miller:

Well, that sounds good.

Todd Miller:

And I know I found both of you pretty easily on LinkedIn, uh, so

Todd Miller:

folks can find you there as well.

Todd Miller:

Well, um, I forgot to say at the beginning of the show that we were doing our

Todd Miller:

challenge words, but I think the audience is kind of used to that at this point.

Todd Miller:

So, uh, each of us had something we were challenged to work into the conversation,

Todd Miller:

and I think we all were successful.

Todd Miller:

Ryan, your word was,

Ryan Bell:

Well, I had a phrase, which was bake a blueberry pie

Todd Miller:

it in there with your challenge, your rapid fire question.

Todd Miller:

Good job.

Ryan Bell:

and was almost too easy.

Ryan Bell:

I mean, that was a setup with those rapid fire questions.

Todd Miller:

Robert, you got yours in right off the bat.

Todd Miller:

Your phrase you had to work in was.

Todd Miller:

Yeah,

Robert Bedard:

you're right.

Robert Bedard:

I had to get it out of the way.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah.

Todd Miller:

that's sometimes that's the best way to do it.

Todd Miller:

And Dylan, you got yours.

Todd Miller:

Actually, I think Robert got yours in before you did, but.

Dylan Tinker:

tried to get three extra points by mentioning everyone's special

Dylan Tinker:

words, but, uh, that actually just set me up for mine, so it made my job easy.

Todd Miller:

And you had white picket fence.

Todd Miller:

Good job.

Todd Miller:

Yeah, there are no extra points for getting one word

Todd Miller:

in, let alone all of them.

Todd Miller:

But, uh, you know, good try.

Todd Miller:

And I had the word skunk, um, which I, uh, uh, that was just really odd how

Todd Miller:

I worked it in, but I got it in there.

Robert Bedard:

Yeah.

Robert Bedard:

Well, you threw a possum in there with it, if I recall.

Todd Miller:

I did.

Todd Miller:

I did.

Todd Miller:

I thought I might as well had to add another animal.

Todd Miller:

Well, thank you guys both again so much for being on the show.

Todd Miller:

We really appreciate it.

Robert Bedard:

You bet.

Robert Bedard:

A real pleasure.

Todd Miller:

We thank our audience for tuning into this episode of

Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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Todd Miller:

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