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
Todd Miller: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.
Todd Miller:But does not have the negative characteristics of some of
Todd Miller:those materials, such as rot or cracking and breaking.
Todd Miller:And yet it's a very sustainable material.
Todd Miller:Resilient in all weather conditions, while also easy to work with and
Todd Miller: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
Todd Miller: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.
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