TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: The Repair Cafe

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who says not tell me something good.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey, this is Paul. I'm the repair guy.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Everyone, it's Paul. On tell me something good. He said
something about a repair guy. You know that way this
Obviously you're a listener of the show, yourself a kto
morning crute shirt if you tell us something good? Paul,
what do you mean you're a repair guy?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Please? I've got a lot of colleagues and we show
up at places like libraries and churches. You bring something in,
if you can carry it, we will try to fix
it and we usually succeed.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
WHOA, I love it and it's free, right, Paul, where's
this that.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
We are in New Jersey? It is a pop up
event in a library or a church hall right right
on a given Saturday or maybe a Sunday, A bunch
of us will show up and we'll bring our toolboxes.
Walk in with your lamp, your stuffed animal, and we
will we will work to fix it.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
So anybody that has anything that's broken shows up and
if they can carry it into your pop up, you
repair it. You and your gang, your repair gang, repairs
it for free. Squad, your repair squad.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
That is totally right.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
You know you're saving people money, so instead of just
throwing it out and buying something new, and you're helping
the environment. Nothing in the landfill, right.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
You would think that some of the things that people
would drive up with you must have a line of people.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
We do have lines. I would say the average thing
is about half an hour, but there are lines.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
The free repair guy on tell me something good. Let's
face it, Paul, you didn't call in for the k
T Morning Crew T shirt. You called in because you
probably got some pop up this weekend that you want
to promote.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Please tell me there's something up Paul's sleeve.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Here I do. I have an ulterior motive.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'll be going back to the one in Ridgewood at
the public Library this Saturday from one to four and
I'll be sharpening knives and anything else that people ask
me to do.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
No kidding. So Ridgewood, New Jersey, right there, right, Ridgewood.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
New Jersey at the public library.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Paul, I'm looking at this list online here for the
repair cafe at the Ridgewood Public Library one to four
o'clock on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh, you look it up online online.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
But here's the thing. This list of things that you'll
fix lamps, bikes, small furniture appliances, sewing, jewelry, knife sharpening, mechanical.
I mean, there's nothing that you can't fix this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
So we carry in usually a big box of sockets
and wires so that we can fix lamps because it's
so down popular. All right, all.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Right, tell me something good. You know, every time we do,
tell me something good.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Gang.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
As you know, we get some of the craziest phone
calls from people that do amazing things. Especially I love
these things for the community. It's free. It's the free
repair guy and his whole team, his whole gang, his
own squad. There's going to be showing up Ridgewood, New
Jersey at the Library Public Library.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
There you go one twenty five North Maple Avenue. A
giveness man a k T Morning for a T shirt.
Thank you, Paul hey Wall, Thank you, mister Frexing hey Man.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I believe you guys every morning break show