In this episode of the Construction Disruption podcast, Todd Miller and Ryan Bell of Isaiah Industries welcome Robert Bedard and Dylan Tinker, co-founders of MOXY OID. Robert and Dylan discuss the development and commercialization of CERLOS, a sustainable material made from forestry and agricultural fibers. The material boasts impressive attributes, including fire resistance, water stability, mold resistance, and more.
They also cover their strategy for bringing CERLOS to market through licensing and partnerships, its potential impact on the building materials industry, and the environmental benefits. Tune in to learn about this groundbreaking product and its transformative capabilities for the construction sector.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Host Greetings
00:43 Meet the Guests: Robert Bedard and Dylan Tinker
00:58 Understanding CERLOS: A Revolutionary Material
02:38 The Journey of the Founders
05:03 Production and Commercialization of CERLOS
07:39 Market Strategy and Adoption
10:26 Performance and Testing of CERLOS
12:22 Challenges and Future Vision
24:15 Rapid Fire Questions
31:15 Conclusion and Contact Information
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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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