Euhomy Ice Maker and AquaTru Water Filter: What Craig Learned Using Both

This is episode number 362 of The Homeowner Show. Whether you're DIY or looking to hire, we're here to help you find the best information and options for you and your home. My name is Kevin Hackett, and here with me is Craig Williams.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The Homeowner Show. We are so glad that you could join us for an early morning edition of our live Homeowner Show here in the studio. you doing, Kev?

Oh, pretty good. I've already started without the, uh, you know, the welcome, like, slide. Oh, they were just looking at me the whole time.

I was just looking at you.

Yeah, you know, people, it is what it is. Yeah, but, uh, man, this first time I think we've ever recorded this early.

I think so.

I think so.

Yeah, it just— but it had to be done. It was— I have a big trip coming up. I'm going to be gone for, like, a little more than a week.

Yeah.

And so we just had to get some stuff knocked out, and we need to make sure and Talk to everybody before it's too late.

That's right.

So you want to you want to hit some football real quick?

Yeah.

You got your tech gear on there.

Well, of course. Real quick.

I'm drinking. Look.

Okay. Bull Sarge right here. Okay.

I'm hanging in there.

Hanging in there.

Yeah.

Well, you're gonna have to. So real quick before I do that, we're live on our website right now.

Oh nice.

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So, yeah. And one of the, a lot of people have been signing up for the newsletter.

Yeah.

I mean, a bunch.

Sure.

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Yeah, no, it's, it's new. It's at the bottom of the, uh, the homepage. Sign up right there. Super simple.

Certainly I'm signed up. Like, I got an email the other day and I was like, hey, look, we came out with an episode.

I signed you up.

I'd completely forgotten.

Yeah, yeah, I signed you up. Yeah. Uh, no, let's talk about football. Uh, it was an interesting week. Um, couple of big dogs lost.

Yep. Um, my old alma mater being the big one.

Well, one of the big ones. Yeah. But probably the one that should— like, that was the most surprising loss, which was Kentucky beating—

Yeah, that was probably the most surprising one.

Now, I will say, like, just the week before, Alabama played Kentucky.

And they played them pretty tough.

And played well. And Saban was saying on, on game day that every time they went to Kentucky, it was tough.

Right.

And they went to Kentucky and they kind of had a tough time.

Yeah.

The difference is Kentucky went to Kyle Field and they walloped. Yeah, they— I mean, 31 to 21, it was a, it was a walloping.

Oh yeah. Well, and they had to catch up to get to— yeah, to get to 21.

Yeah. Well, and I didn't get to see this game this, this week. So what was your—

It was brutal, man. Like, it, uh, I, I think there's a couple issues going on. Um, I think I think everyone needs to be honest and just say that Marcel is overrated.

Okay.

Um, like he peaked.

I mean, I, I, it's funny cuz I, I've said this a few times that I'm like, I think he's overrated. And you're like, well, we'll see.

Yeah. And I think we're seeing, but of course, because I think, I think everyone likes to believe that there's potential to get better.

Oh, and there, well, there should be potential to get better, but I think, I think he's at the top of his, I think you're right.

I think, I think last year he was at the, the top of his game.

Well, because here's why. I think people have figured him out.

Yeah. Well, here, here. Okay.

If you shut down his run game, mm-hmm, you're, you're gonna, 'cause he doesn't have the best arm.

No. I mean, he's, well, he's got a good arm. He's just not accurate.

That right?

Yeah. Um, and he's Dak Prescott. Okay.

Yeah.

No, I think, I think he's probably better than 75% of quarterbacks in college football. Okay, but that's—

that 25% is the top 25.

I think he's at the bottom of the 25%.

Sure.

But like, I don't— but I don't think he's gonna get any better, and that's the problem.

Yeah.

Um, I also don't think that they're— you know, they, they went, uh, because Colin Klein was the, the OC last year. You know, he left and went to Kansas, and they seem to be doing okay.

Yeah.

Okay. This year. Yeah. I don't think this guy knows how to play in the SEC. Yeah.

So I will tell you that you, you, what you were saying, talking about, you know, you think maybe he's peaked. It's the, you know, the quarterback thing, yada yada. I, you're only ever gonna be as good as your quarterback coach is able to get you.

Mm-hmm.

And, and the OC is obviously calling those plays. But if you talk to people that are coaches, and we've got some friends that— mutual friends that have been lifelong coaches or whatever, they'll tell you like, that guy's not going to be great because the quarterback coach is not great. It's a very interesting scenario with all of that.

Yeah.

And I don't know what the quarterback coach is like at A&M, but where Reed is where he's at.

Well, and it also, it's the same issue year after year, man. It's like they spend gobs of money to get really, really good. They have a stable of incredible athletes.

Oh yeah.

But they were getting gashed with the run. And here's the other, and this is the other thing that was making me frustrated is we were gashing them with the run. And then we just quit.

Right.

And you heard me complain last time about our running backs.

Right.

Like, I don't, I don't think highly of our running backs, but like they were gashing Kentucky and I'm like, well then just beat the ever-living bejesus out of 'em.

Keep doing it. Yeah.

Do it till they make you stop.

Yeah.

Then throw it.

Right.

We have less chance for him to throw an interception the more we run the ball.

Right.

And the run's working. So do the thing.

Yeah.

So I, you know, I don't, but like, I'm not a, I'm not a professional football strategist or anything like that.

Sure.

But like I can, I can look at it and be like, that was working.

Right, so keep doing that. Do that until it's not. So the other big game was the LSU-Ole Miss game, which was awesome. Which was so good. So, and mainly just because the whole Lane Kiffin thing. I mean, the way he left Ole Miss was—

He's a tool.

He is. And, you know, the most important person in the room is Lane Kiffin.

And I would've said that even if he stayed at Ole Miss.

Right, no, I agree. He's been told since he was in Tennessee. But, um, that being said, uh, they— I mean, Ole Miss just beat them.

Oh yeah.

And they wanted it more. They just wanted it more.

And, uh, well, I think I heard somebody talking about there's something to be said about a— what is it, like 6th-year Trinidad Chambliss?

Yeah, yeah.

Like, yeah, he's, he's an NFL player.

Yeah. You're right. You're right. And, and it's one of the reasons that they're like, look, you do have a certain number of years.

Have you seen the, um, the Cheez-It cracker commercial?

Uh, I don't think so.

Where they're talking about expanding eligibility?

Uh-uh. No. Oh, that sounds great.

And there's, they, they're all like discussing it in like a, in a, it's like a sunken couch and they're all kind of sitting around discussing expanding eligibility.

Okay.

And they said, well, let's, let's give the guy another year. And it's like this man in his mid-80s with like the flapper football helmet.

Oh my goodness.

And he is like, I wanna get out there and crack some skulls. And they're like, let him in.

So good. That's funny. That's funny. Well, um, so yeah, that was, that was a big game. Uh, you know, I, I'll just say, just because I am a Tech fan, they, they, uh, who'd they play? They played Houston. Oh, that one. And, and, and honestly, like, Houston looked pretty good. Yeah. And, and Tech looked okay. I, I was not— there was still tons of stuff that I'm like, what is happening?

Yeah, that's the one where I was texting you where, um, who's the quarterback for U of H? Yeah, Weigman.

Weigman, yeah.

Oh, because he was, he was A&M backup guy or whatever.

Yeah.

Super, super talented kid.

And he's— yeah, he's good.

Because I was always texting, I was like, this kid's out for blood.

Yeah. No, no, no, no, he, he played really great. Houston's got a good team. I mean, They're, they're a top 25 team and they deserve to be. Um, so, you know, it came down to a 2-point conversion that they, you know, Houston didn't convert.

And, uh, dude, that was, that was a crazy call.

Why? It was just so close. It wasn't like, if you go, like, as soon as I saw it, I was like, that's not close because his knee hit and then he, and then he lunged. And that's where, that's where he tried to extend the ball. Mm-hmm. He was, the ball was closer to the 1-yard line than the goal line. Like if you go back and look at it, I watched it a bunch.

Like it was, it was difficult to tell because there were so many bodies in front of his knee.

Yeah.

If you, and like if you look at it from that angle, it looks like he gets the ball over the line or it touches the line.

Yeah. No, it's not even close. What do you mean it's not even close? It's not even close.

It's obviously close.

No.

Well, like to say that it wasn't close is so stupid because they had to do the replay for like 5 minutes. Well, yeah, because Like, yes, you can say it now.

No, in the moment, I'm telling you, I immediately saw it and I was like, all right, good, he's not in.

There's no way that you knew that in the moment.

I did.

You're such an arrogant jerk.

Nope, it's true. Either way, uh, dude, they ran the replay on that for like— Oh, I know.

5 minutes.

I'm aware.

Thank you, babe. You got tacos. You can't have a taco now until you concede the point.

No, I like— seriously, I You can see—

I know that you can see in the replay.

Yes.

That's what I'm saying. Like, it was the reason they had to watch the replay is because it was so close.

Well, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm totally fine with them doing the replay. Uh-huh. But as soon as I saw the— like, I don't know what took him so long, because as soon as I saw the slow-mo of it, I was like, he's, he's way short. Like, way short. Way short. Yes.

You make it sound like he's like the 2, the ball was at the goal line.

We eventually, it was at the goal line. We can argue about this later, but, um, either way it was, it came down to a 2-point conversion. And I'm, I'm, I'm not saying they made the wrong call. Well, they didn't. I know that. But either way, my point is it was a close game.

What? That's true.

It was a close game. Well, the majority of the game it was close.

I, I actually don't think I don't think Houston— I don't— I mean, the way Tech was playing, I don't think Houston should have had that much of an opportunity to come back into it.

No. Well, because at the end of the game, Tech had gone up 8, which was a crazy thing. They— so they go down the field to score, go up 6, and they get 2 offsides penalties in the, uh, in the extra point and are just kind of run it in, get 2 points. So they're up 8, and Tech just lets them be like this stupid prevent defense of like, oh, here's 15 yards, here's 12 yards, here's 11 yards. And it's just like, what? And they drove down the field like it was nothing. So they shouldn't have ever really been in that position. I agree with you. But, um, but yeah, it, it was— there's still some holes in Tech. Tech, for, for all the hype, Tech has a lot of things to fix.

Well, so you, I, I'm glad you brought that up because it was something I wanted to, for all of my A&M fans, the, the reason I think it's going to be a brutal year.

Yeah.

Is here's, here's 2 stats for you. And I think you can fact check me on this.

Okay.

Um, I think they have had control, like time of possession. I think they've owned in every single game. Except for Arizona State. I think Arizona State had longer time of possession in that game. I think they controlled time of possession in the Kentucky game. And I think on the year they have 10 yards of penalties.

Yeah.

So, and so like the, like, yeah, typically if you can, if you can keep your penalties low and control the ball, you should win. You should win the game. Yeah.

And they didn't.

Well, so, and then the Arizona State game. I don't think they had any penalties, maybe 5, if that.

Yeah.

And they didn't have time of possession and they won. Um, but that one that didn't look like they should have won either.

Right. So like, yeah, they're, so they're averaging almost 35 minutes a game, which is more than half.

Right.

I mean, that's an average.

Did you look up the penalties?

I didn't look up penalties.

Um, I think they're like— I want to say they've had like 10 yards, and like, I think there's been like 2 5-yard penalties that they've had all season long so far.

Yeah, I'm looking right now, see if it comes quickly. Um, it shows that during the season of 2026, 3 games, 11 penalties for 90 yards.

For 90 yards? Yeah, that doesn't sound right.

That— but still, for total out of 3 games, it must be—

it must be rolling in all the games at the end of 2026 from last year.

It may have. Yeah, I mean, it, it, it's showing that, um, yeah, I, I don't know. I'd have to dig into that a little bit. But, uh, it says during the 2026 college football season, 11 penalties for 90 yards. Either way, that at 90 yards over 3 games, that's, that's not much.

No.

And you're averaging over half of the time. Yeah, they should be doing better. But I mean, like, look, they, they could come back. I mean, they— here's the thing. I think they're— I think they got punched in the mouth this last week. They're not going to be happy about that. And look who they have this week.

Uh, Louisiana. They got to go. But like, this is, this is, this is the other thing I looked at this season. I was like, okay, we got to go to LSU 2 years in a row, right? That's stupid.

Yeah, I don't, I don't understand how that works. You should never have to go to this.

Are they gonna have to come to us for 2 years in a row?

Well, that I don't know. That's— I mean, unless you're— unless you've chosen to do like these off— like neutral site games where y'all played Arkansas for 7 years.

It's, you know, the Cotton Bowl, which the first time it's not, it's gonna be at our house, right?

Which like, yeah, not that it matters. Arkansas is terrible. They are so bad. Uh, so anyway, yeah, it— I don't understand the going to the same place 2 years in a row. That, that doesn't make sense to me.

Um, so anyway, we, we have 3, uh, short little doodads that we've had, uh, acquired here at the Williams property, um, that I thought were worth mentioning. Um, what is this?

What you got?

Okay, that makes more sense. I, I, I just looked it up and it said that there was like 8 penalties for 75 yards just in that first Missouri State game. That was the B squad. Oh, so they've had 15, 15 yards essentially called against them.

Gotcha. I don't know, that, that's just— again, it's not much.

Right.

You're playing solid football at that point.

Right. Okay, so like 75 of those penalty yards came in the Missouri State game where they won 50 to nothing. I don't count those.

Right.

So Arizona State, 5 yards. Kentucky, 10 yards. So 15 yards. I was off by 5.

Okay.

Anyway, so okay, here's what we got. Let's do this one first 'cause this is, it's actually here in the studio. This is the AnoWeave. I don't even know how to say it. Oh, um, AnoWeave. Um, it's an air gun.

An air gun. Show it, like, hold it up just a little bit. There you go.

Yeah, so, and so it's got like a little LED light, and you can actually swap out the, the tip on this thing. It has a nozzle, the nozzle. So it's got like a brush attachment, it's got an inflator attachment, um, and it has 3 speeds. And then it's USB-C rechargeable.

Nice.

So it's got a little heft to it because of the battery.

Right.

And most of the motor is right up here on top, but it's not super heavy. So like, I know you were looking at it going like, I could fill up like an air mattress when I'm camping.

Yeah, probably.

You could.

Yeah.

And I'd have to check and see how long the battery life is on it, but it is powerful.

Yeah. So it's got 3 speeds on it, right? Right.

So you You know, hold it till the light comes on, and then you can pull the trigger.

Right?

On off. Sorry, but like then you click the other button to.

Oh my! Oh, I feel that.

So, and I forget how to turn the light on, but it has a little LED light. There's a buttons. There's only two buttons. So like I'm sure there's like who knows. There's a way to turn the light on. I don't remember.

Yeah. Well, I held the. Well, I, when I did it, I accidentally did, I held the trigger. Mm-hmm. Until the light came on.

Let's see if it does it, but it's not working now.

Or maybe double-click it. There it is. There it was. Yeah.

Double-click the, the on/off button once you have the thing powered up.

Yeah.

So pretty cool.

Yeah, that, that's a, that's a neat little deal, but you bought it specifically to clean things with, right?

Yeah, I, so I bought it like, like with the, uh, like the RODECaster that we have here in the studio, like it gets dusty. And so like you can put like that brush attachment and just clean the dust off. Yeah, I have a bunch of old electronics that just need a good, good cleaning. I initially bought it to clean out the, uh, USB-C, uh, port on my iPhone, but then I read later on that you're not supposed to do that. But you can pick this thing up for, I think it was $35 on Amazon.

Okay.

Um, not too shabby.

Yeah.

Um, so cool little addition to some camping gear or, you know, doing electronics work.

Yeah.

Um, It has, it has like 5 different attachments, little bag that it comes in. So cool little deal. Um, the, the other thing is, uh, the YouHomie, uh, ice maker.

Oh yeah, you, we were talking about this, uh, a couple of weeks ago, I think.

Yeah. Yeah.

All right.

So I actually went, I went over to the, uh, the, the guest houses, which is where we installed it. Um, and somebody had left the lid up and so all the ice was melted.

Oh no.

I was like, oh, come on guys. Um, but this is, it's about the size of a dishwasher. And so you could, you could fit it underneath as like an under-counter ice maker, but it makes 100 pounds of ice a day.

All right.

Um, uh, really? And so you would—

100 pounds?

Yeah.

That's a lot.

It's a lot of ice.

Yeah.

Well, it sounds like a lot of ice.

Well, but I mean, yeah, but how many people are using 100? I understand, 100 pounds of ice is not as much as you think because if you go to, like, if you go to the convenience store and get a 10-pound bag of ice, I mean, it's a decent-sized bag of ice.

It's a decent, yeah.

You get 10 of those. Now you can't get them all at once. All at once. That's the thing. That's the problem.

So it has the ability to make 100 pounds of ice a day.

There you go.

I think in the, uh, in the holding tank or whatever you want to call it, I think that'll hold probably like 30. Okay. 30 pounds of ice at a time. But it'll— so, so what that means is it can refill that cavity 3 times a day.

Okay. And so how do you hook that up? Like, because it's indoor, right? I know where you have it over in your—

It's— you use the same hookup you would for like a refrigerator ice— I mean, refrigerator water supply.

Okay.

I used— we had a washer and dryer over there at one point in time that we just got rid of, but we still had the water hookup. So I just converted the cold water hookup to the, to the ice maker.

That makes sense.

So now I will— the only— and here's a couple of things. You can adjust the density of the ice, meaning how long it actually freezes before it drops.

So you can make it softer or harder.

And the softer you make, the quicker it melts.

Sure.

Um, which, which is— will become important in a minute.

Okay.

Um, so it has— I mean, you just, you can turn it off. I mean, and just, you know, use it when you need it.

Sure.

Um, which I think is actually a better strategy for this thing. Like, if you can, if you can plan when you need the ice, it's better to just use it when you need it rather than just let it sit there.

Right.

Um, which is, I think, is true of most ice makers.

Sure.

Which I think is why this, this size is great for most homeowners. Um, because most people just don't need more than 30 pounds of ice at a time, right? Yeah, it, it fills up like my large cooler. Like, I can, I can put a layer of ice in that big cooler to, you know, cool off some drinks.

Okay.

And it's plenty of ice for that. It's not filled the cooler, but it puts in enough. It's enough. Yeah. So, okay, I got it because my employees come through and, you know, like, they were working out in the the heat all the time.

Sure.

And I encourage them to keep a cooler on the truck, keep some water in there, keep some Gatorade in there.

Right.

And it's just better if you keep it cold. I mean, like, who wants to drink a warm Gatorade?

Right.

So that's what it's for, but we also use it for parties and different things like that. So the big thing to know about it though, well, there's a couple things. One, have a plan for the drain.

Oh, okay.

And what I mean about by that is a lot of these more expensive ice makers actually have a pump that will pull the water out as it melts.

Okay. All right.

This does not have that. It's gravity fed.

Oh, okay.

And so if you don't have a drain line that's beneath it, you're gonna have to figure out a way to manually drain it.

Oh, and then does— so does it automatically stop working if it's full?

Yes.

Kind of like a, uh, a like a dehumidifier, for example, has like a float in it.

Yeah, it's a float valve that basically stops it from making ice.

Sure.

So, and it does it with water or it does it with the ice.

Okay.

So that's important to know. The other thing is it's not refrigerated.

Oh.

Now it's refrigerated in the sense that it's making ice.

But then it's just like a cooler.

Yep.

And so it's gonna melt.

It's gonna melt.

Okay.

And that's why I was saying earlier, it might be better just to turn it on and off when you need it rather than just— unless you're just gonna be using it every day, kind of like what we do.

Sure. Because otherwise, it's just gonna be running. Right.

Which, which I went over there to check it right before the show, and it was, it was wide open. Someone had gotten ice in it.

And so it melted. It all melted. So this is not dissimilar to one of those countertop ice makers in the fact that it's not refrigerated, just melts and refreezes, melts, refreezes, melts, refreezes.

Well, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't reuse the water.

But it doesn't reuse use the same water.

No.

Which is what the countertop ones do. And it's kind of nasty. I was gonna say that to me, and that, that's, that is the reason that I've never gotten a countertop ice maker because I'm like, it just uses the same water over and over.

Um, which I mean, I guess if it has like a filtration system or something, I don't know. But like, it doesn't seem, it doesn't seem right to me. No, I don't like it.

No, I don't either.

So anyway, it, you can pick it up on, I bought it off Amazon. It's $252. Oh yeah, right now. I mean, like, it's on sale. It's usually like $300 something. It's 20% off right now. Um, and they have a couple other ones, but the big one that I bought, it's, it's $252 right now.

Okay.

Um, I, I'd recommend it. I mean, sure. I think for like most homes, it's gonna be better than— I mean, it's not as nice as like one of those drawer system ice makers. Sure. You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

Yeah. Um, those, those, because those are refrigerated, right?

Yeah.

It's gonna keep the ice cold forever. But like, you also run into problems with like frost and So I like this one. I'm actually thinking about, we're planning on eventually remodeling that kitchen over there. I'm thinking about making it an under-the-counter.

Oh, you could.

Because right, the safety check that I have on it right now is it comes with a flex hose out the back for the drain. And you can't ever turn the drain off, by the way.

Oh, okay.

So you gotta have a place for that water to go.

Has to drain.

So I just, I just put it down the washing machine drain line. That was right. That was right there.

Yeah. So I guess that's another question is, I mean, you've got the drain line right there. Can you tee off of another existing, like if you've got a refrigerator next to it, can you tee off of the water line?

Oh yeah, you can.

I'm just wondering how that works.

It's just, I mean, you just go buy a splitter.

Yeah.

So that's no, that's no big deal.

So if you're wondering how am I gonna get water to it if I've already got, only got one water supply, you can just tee off of it.

Yeah, that's, that's simple, simple plumbing right there.

Easy, easy to do. And then, yeah, use it. I mean, your, your dishwasher has a drain, right? It drains into your sink most of the time, right? And so—

But the, the, the issue with this one is you got to have it up high enough where that drain line allows gravity to push the water through.

Sure.

Because the way mine works is I had to I had to buy a platform to put the ice machine up on, and it's still not high enough to get it up into that drain line. So I have the drain line there just as a safety precaution so that the water doesn't go someplace. Okay. And if it gets enough water in there, it does push it to where it will event, but not all of it.

Right.

So when it, when it's like this, I gotta go in there with a 5-gallon bucket now.

Oh, and just dump it.

And just, yeah.

You just scoop it out and—

No, no, no. I just, I take the drain line out.

Oh, okay. Okay.

And put the bucket on the floor.

Yeah.

And it just drains the whole thing.

Yeah.

No, and it takes like 5 minutes.

Sure.

It's not hard. It's just annoying. Yeah.

Yeah. Come on, kids.

So, but like, if it's full of ice, I mean, like, it'll, it'll stay there for a good long, good long while. I've had it stay full of ice for 3 days.

It's pretty good.

So, and that's without it Refrigerator.

I mean, if you're in an air-conditioned room, right, it's got a cooler. I mean, it is insulated inside that thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's, it's like, I think it's a great buy. I, you know, I don't know that I would put it out on my patio.

Yeah.

Unless I was only going to be using it when I was going to be out there.

And sure.

But like, then you're going to have to wait and at least plan ahead. It probably needs 3 or 4 hours to fill the whole thing up. Um, which is not bad. You just have to plan ahead. But like, also, I, I just wouldn't want it outside. Like, it'd get dusty and dirty.

You could put it on a timer.

It does have a timer.

Oh, it does?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, well, there you go. So, I mean, I was even thinking just a wall timer or a smart plug.

Well, even if— wait, if you had that, you'd still have to go turn it on.

Oh, it does? Okay. Like, you can't just It doesn't, it doesn't receive power and turn on when it receives power?

No.

Okay.

No, it's got— it's too sophisticated for that.

Like, you—

because you have adjustments for the ice.

Sure.

The density of the ice, how long it freezes, all that kind of— you gotta, you gotta set it.

It doesn't, it doesn't preset or whatever?

No.

Okay. Not at $252. It does a lot, right? But at $252, it's not doing all that.

Now, if it— if they did like an upgrade where there was like an app that you could— yeah, you know, that then it would probably be doable. But I don't— it doesn't have that.

Sure. So I mean, but if it's got a timer, does it not come on and off if you have the timer set?

I have never used the timer.

Okay.

Um, I know it has one.

Okay.

I just haven't ever used it because it doesn't— it doesn't make any sense to me.

Okay.

Because we just use it all the time.

Yeah.

Um, so I just haven't messed with it.

Sure.

Um, Somebody else, if they know, I'm gonna chime in. But yeah, it's just not something I've played with, and like, I just don't see the benefit of it, honestly. Yeah, so that makes sense because I mean, like, you, you literally just have to go turn it on.

Yeah, press the button. Yeah, that's it.

Okay, um, so that—

we got one more thing, right?

The Aqua True.

The Aqua True.

So of the 3 items, they did send us this. Um, so they didn't They don't— they haven't paid us to, like, talk about it. They just sent it to us and said, hey, try it out.

Right.

Um, and it's, it's a fantastic water filter. It's reverse osmosis.

Mm-hmm.

Carb— I mean, like, it's got all the bells and whistles.

So they have a couple of different filters. Did you get the carbon filter or the alkaline mineral filter?

The carbon.

So the only difference, if you're wondering, I looked, is the alkaline filter, which is another $20 to buy, is, uh, it, it adds alkalinity, which is a thing that lots of people want these days. But anyway, carry on.

Yeah, so, um, this, this thing was a little bit of a chore to set up.

Okay.

Um, because it has 3 filter cartridges in the back, um, and those have to be changed out pretty regularly.

Oh, okay.

Um, I forget the regularity on it. Let me see if it says here. Okay, so it— well, it says they last about 24 24 months. Oh, which is 2 years, which is long enough to forget that you need to do it.

That's true.

So, but it does, it filters out a bunch of stuff that most other ones don't, like microplastics, arsenic, lead, all those, you know, arsenic. That's what, yeah.

I kind of, I was kind of hoping to keep that in my, you know what that is? Because you never know. Like, you need to know, like, hey, it's your turn to drink today.

That's a spin the old revolver.

That's the old— it reminds me of The Princess Bride. It's the old cup trick.

I didn't know arsenic was an issue in water. I didn't either. Yeah, but apparently you're—

It's the first time I've ever heard that.

You've been drinking it all along, apparently. Yeah, and, uh, nitrates, it filters that out. So it's, it's a, it's a really great filtration system.

Yeah.

Um, Here, here's my beef with it.

Okay.

You have to, it has 2 tanks on it.

All right.

You have to wash those tanks every week. Oh, soap and water. Take 'em off. You can't put 'em in the dishwasher.

Oh, they're not dishwasher safe.

I don't know that they're not dishwasher safe, but if you read the instructions, it says don't put them in the dishwasher.

Hand wash only. Okay.

Hand wash only.

Okay.

So you got that.

Yeah, well, that's a big deal.

Um, and then it just doesn't hold that much water.

Okay, so it is interesting that you said that. I was curious because I knew you were kind of like on the fence about this thing. When, whenever I looked at the reviews, almost every review I saw was, I have to refill it all the time. Yep. All the time. Yeah.

Like you, you will, especially in the day and age where everybody's got a Stanley.

Yeah.

Which I do.

Sure.

I keep, I keep one in my truck all the time because I need water.

Right.

And I don't want to be refilling. Like I, it will re— I can't fill my Stanley up twice.

What?

Right.

Well, so one of the comments I saw was, I wish I would've gotten the carafe, which is the lesser model.

Right.

Like the one that you got, the AquaTru Classic. Mm-hmm. It's $420, $475 to buy. The AquaTru Carafe is $375. So it's $100 less.

Right.

So technically, it's the lesser of the models. Now, I'm sure that it does, it just doesn't do some of the things that the other one does, most likely. Right. But people are saying, I, it, there's just not enough water. That's the biggest beef. Yeah.

I don't, I don't know if the carafe Actually holds that much more.

It may not.

I'm trying to look, but the but the point is still there, right?

It's like people want it to hold more. People want more water.

Yeah, I'm trying to look and see if it says how much it holds. Do do do do do.

Yeah, I mean, I would be I'd be interested because I know the probably one of their biggest competitors Brita, right? Sure, my guess. And Brita is one of the ones that doesn't filter out some of these things.

So, okay, I'm looking at the— it, it probably holds maybe just a little bit more.

Okay.

But I don't think, I don't think that is going to— here, here's gonna be the big difference. I don't think that system is going to filter the water as thoroughly as, as this one.

Okay.

I think that's good. 'Cause I'm looking at, I'm, I'm looking at it going, there's, Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna open it up, make sure I'm—

What does it— it may not have the 3.

It doesn't.

The 3 filters as much. This one has the 3 filters. It probably just has one.

It's, it says it's making the same claims on the about it that it— microplastics, nitrates, arsenic, lead. I'm like, okay, no, it does. It does.

It has 3 filters.

It has the 3. Yeah. So, and maybe, okay, so it's a 64-ounce carafe.

On there, which is half a gallon.

Let's see what's the other one. Pull it up here. Oh, it's on here.

Technical. 0.75 gallons. So it, it holds more. The, the, the, the classic holds more because if it's 3/4 of a gallon 64 ounces is a half gallon. Yeah.

Okay. So it holds, it holds more water. Um, so, but like, it's still just not that much.

Yeah. I mean, especially if you've got more than 2 people in your home.

Well, and so here's, here's, it's kind of, it's kind of weird how it works, honestly. You put water into the filler tank. Okay. And then it will, cycle that water through, but not all of the water from the filler tank gets into the drinking tank. Oh, so you only get out of the water that you put in about 2/3.

Oh, that makes sense.

And so then you have to take that out. It's almost like gray water from your RV. Dump that, you dump that, you fill it back up again. And then It—

okay.

And, and so, but like, it's the same thing every time.

Interesting.

Um, so, so it's, it's a lot of maintenance.

Yes.

And I like—

obviously pretty big countertop, countertop space.

Yeah, it's— I mean, it's like the size—

Like a Keurig?

No, it's bigger than that.

Bigger than— okay.

No, it's, it's— no, it's like the size of like 3 Keurigs.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, it's, it's pretty big.

It's big.

I mean, it's, it's almost as wide as my ice maker.

Oh.

And the only reason I know that is because I have them sitting right next to each other.

Okay.

And I know the dimensions of that shelf.

Uh-huh.

And the ice maker fits perfectly, and the AquaTru just has a little bit of room on either side of it.

Oh, interesting.

So it takes up quite a bit of space.

Um, how long does it take to actually filter the water? Like, before you're like, I've got enough to fill up my cup? How long does that process take? Because a Brita— if I, I've had Brita for a long time, I mean, it takes some time.

Yeah, to filter through. I'd say it's somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes.

Okay. Yeah.

Um, and so like, if you need water like right— if you look, if you are just dead set on having like the cleanest water, cleanest drinking water, yep, this is probably the, the beast for you. Like, it just does.

Unless you're gonna do like a full-on RO system under your sink.

Yeah, and I think they even have that.

Oh, okay.

Um, that you could, you could install. Um, so, but like, I think something like this would be like if you're a renter.

Hmm.

You know what I mean? Like, you don't wanna spend all that money to improve somebody else's property, but you still wanna have clean drinking water. Um, this, this may be the way to go for you.

Yeah.

But like, again, takes up a lot of counter space. You have to wash it every single week.

Right.

And like, they're, they're very insistent about that. So something must be happening Sure. That it just needs to be washed every week.

Yeah.

Um, and it's— there's like a caveat in the, in the instructions. It was like either every week or however often you refill it this many times, something like that.

Okay.

I just remember looking at it, I was like, I don't want to do that.

Yeah.

Like, I'm a set it and forget it guy.

Yeah.

Like, if you tell me I've got to wash something every week, I'm out.

Yeah.

And it could be like the best product in the world. I just, I don't want to have I'm not interested in that kind of maintenance.

Yeah. So just FYI, for less money, it's $395. So almost $100 less, you can get their under-sink system. Yeah. And it stores 1.7 gallons at a time and it'll do 54 gallons a day.

Okay.

So That's truly gonna be your better option.

Now, does that— you put that like on a separate water spigot, I guess? You do. Yeah. Yeah.

So a lot, you know, there's, there's multiple ways to do it. If you've got like a granite countertop, just drill another hole.

Sure.

And then put it in.

So, um, so I'm interested. I haven't looked up the specs on it, but like the way I've always determined whether or not people, when I walk into their home, Golly, there's like a little bug. Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Um, people are serious about their, their water. Get out. Golly, it's like crawling all over my mic. It's like this little gnat.

Come on, man.

Um, the Berkey water filters.

Oh yeah. Uh-huh.

Like the big metal— you've seen these?

Yeah.

Like, I, I know I'm in like a homeschool house when, when I see a Berkey. You know what I mean?

Yes, I do.

And I don't know what it is about those.

Right.

There doesn't seem to be any power going to them. I think they're just like, it's just like a water filter.

I think so too.

Like maybe charcoal, something like that.

Yeah.

That's what I've always seen associated with people who are serious about drinking clean water.

Sure.

And those things hold a bunch of water.

They do.

But I think they're like $1,000 a pop or something. Yeah.

That's a lot.

Is that— yeah, am I—

I think you're right.

Am I?

Yeah, I'm guessing they're, they're expensive.

Um, and that's what I mean when I say, like, when I, when I see those, I'm like, okay, you're taking this seriously, right? Um, I will tell you, like, just the mechanics of this thing and the, and the filters that I had to install and, like, all the steps I had to do to put the whole thing together, it's a serious water filtration system. Yeah, like, you're—

it does, it does what it has set out to do as far as filter your water really, really well.

Yep. Yeah, and that's what I mean. Like, if you're serious about it, this is probably a good way to go and you don't wanna do the under-sink thing.

Yeah.

Which, I mean, like, if you're not, if you don't have any plumbing skills and you don't wanna mess with that or you don't feel like hiring somebody to do that, this is probably a good alternative to that. But again, lots of counter space, lots of maintenance.

Yeah.

So the water tastes good.

That's good. Yeah.

So I mean, like, I don't know that I, I don't know that you could convince me to spend $400 on this though. Sure.

Well, it's not, it's not $400, it's $475. It's almost $500.

Well, it's on sale right now.

Oh, okay. Yeah.

So usually it is $475, right now it's $400.

Okay.

So, but like, again, like if you're serious about it, probably a good way to go.

Yeah.

And apparently they have a smart version that comes with an app.

And I think that's $50 more.

I think the app like will tell you to like refill it or like, hey, you need to change the filters. I imagine that's what it does. I don't have that version, so I can't really speak as to what the app does.

Well, and it's very difficult. If AquaTru is listening, it's very difficult to know the difference based on the website. what the difference is in the two, right? And what the app actually gives you access to. Like, it doesn't— I don't find anywhere on there that shows me that information. So maybe add some information. Sure.

So that'd be helpful. So, but it has, it has really good reviews. So again, I think this is like speaking to a very specific group of people, right? Um, and there's people who out there are fanatic about Oh yeah. Microplastics in their water. Oh yeah. For me, I grew up on a well, man.

Oh yeah, me too.

So I just, it's just not never been in my—

Yep.

Now I'm not now.

Yeah.

I would love to be eventually.

We are. I love it. Yeah.

Until the power goes out and you're outta town.

Well, the power goes out, I'm outta town.

Dude, I was literally talking about you last night. I was at a rodeo.

Okay.

And this gal that we ride with, was telling me, uh, they lost power in Tomball yesterday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Oh man.

And she was getting the report that they weren't gonna get it back till right about now.

Oh wow.

And, and she was telling me, she's like, I, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I've got a barn full of horses and I'm on a well and I don't have a way to hook up.

Yep.

I don't have a generator to hook up to my—

You gotta get a generator, man.

And I was like, look, if you get, if you get in a tight spot, call me. I'll come. I'll bring the generator.

Yes.

We'll, we'll hook it up. Yes. It's not hard.

No, but you have, yeah, you, you have to, if you are on a well, I'm, I'm telling you this right now. If you are on a well and you don't have a generator, you are setting yourself up for disaster. For disaster. Because we live in a, in a world where water, not only do we need it for our own selves, you need it for your toilets. You need it for your cooking. You need it for your animals.

Yeah.

Like you, you've gotta have the water and that's, I was shocked. I was genuinely shocked whenever we moved there to find out that they didn't have a generator when they'd been on a well. That well was dug whenever the house was installed.

Right.

Installed? Built.

Built.

Um, the water well was installed when— anyway, it was dug at that point. And I'm like, why? I don't understand why they— but they didn't. And Now we just roll our generator out there and it'll, it'll do what it needs to do.

Have you, have you heard any of the conspiracy theories around water in Texas here lately?

Uh, no.

So there's some, there's some, there's some interest. Well, one, you've got the data center, uh, conspiracy about how they're gonna steal all the water.

Sure.

Um, and, uh, okay, so, so there's that one. I, I wanna come back to that one because I get frustrated when people Talk about that one.

Yeah.

Um, and then there's the other one where they're talking about these investors who are building communities closer and closer to other communities and are tapping into these aquifers. And there's like, even our neighborhood, I— there was a post in our neighborhood Facebook group the other day. It's like, hey, we need to pay attention to this because this guy's trying to build something next to us and he's going to steal our water.

Right.

So like, there's this whole thing. I've heard of that. These guys tapping into these aquifers that, you know, communities have been using for years and years and years. and are just going to dry them up and we're going to be without water. Um, which, I mean, if you ever watched The, um, The Big Short—

I have watched it.

That was the end of that movie, was like, the next thing's water. Um, and he may be right.

Maybe right. Um, although if you keep drilling, there's more water. But anyway, yeah, not always.

So, but the— I, I recently found out that all these most people that are concerned about these data centers are getting that information from TikTok.

Oh, of course.

And this is what I think some people need to understand. I'm not saying that data centers are good.

Okay.

Okay? I'm not making that argument.

Right.

The argument I am making is that there is a race for AI and data Like there was a race to the moon back in the '60s.

Yes, that's true.

Okay, whether or not you believe that we went to the moon is a whole other issue, but there was a race to the moon and it was a technological race. We have the same race going on right now with China.

Right.

Okay, and China would love nothing more than to convince the American populace that data centers are bad so that they can have all of them.

Yeah.

That's what's going on.

Right.

And so all this stuff about how we're gonna lose all our water, it's just not true.

No.

It's propaganda.

It is.

That's being dispersed from China to convince Americans that data centers are bad.

Right.

And again, I'm not making the case that they're good. I'm just telling you—

That's what's happening.

If you're getting your information from TikTok and Instagram, look somewhere else. And you're not actually researching this, look into where that information's coming from. What's the source?

Right.

And it's not good.

No, it's not.

Because they want to win that war.

Of course. And at this rate, they will.

They will.

And because I, you know, I'll just say like, there, there, I know that you, you might feel like there's a lot of people who are just bypassing whatever system you think is set up. Mm-hmm. But there's a lot of people that aren't gonna let those things go in if it's gonna drain the water supply. Right. It's just, you, you don't like a city of Abilene. Mm-hmm. Where they're putting in a big data center there. They're not gonna go, oh, you're gonna steal all our water. Please put that in. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like there, there are people that know what they're talking about who are making these decisions.

So, and I, and, and AI is not the problem.

No.

Like that's the other thing is everyone's like, these are evil AI data centers. And I'm like, look, AI is not the thing that's going to win this technological war. People don't understand it's gonna be robotics and quantum computing.

Correct. Yeah. The robotics, The robotics specifically, I, I think that's gonna be really interesting.

It already is interesting.

Uh-huh. I mean, I, I'm still, I, we'll see if my prediction holds, but my prediction is still that robots, like home robots will be free to own and you'll just buy a subscription.

Yeah.

That's, that's for whatever you want.

I guarantee you that's where Elon's brain is right now.

I, I, yeah. I just, I, we don't know because he hasn't come out and said that, but like, that's just my prediction. Why wouldn't it? Like, I want the sushi module, or I want the dog cleaning up, you know, after their poop module. You know what I mean?

Like, what's the add-on?

What's the add-on? Another $2 a month? Give it to me.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? That's, that's what I think is coming.

But he's also smart enough. He could get it coming and going. I mean, he did the same thing with Tesla. He did the same thing with Starlink. Yep. You bought the model and then you pay for the subscription. That's right. Tesla, you bought the model, then you pay for the subscription.

Yeah. You're not wrong.

Um, and he'll probably do the same thing with the robots.

Yeah. Why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't he?

No. Anyway, anything else?

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