August 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Mold vs Hotels! You may not believe what you hear in this segment with Mold Mentor!
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
If you're curious about anything when it comes to controversial issues,
politics or even outside of politics, stand and speak. Look
it up on YouTube. Lad Delcard is in with us
today and he is every single month along with Zach Duffy,
and Zach Duffy has one of the coolest businesses. But
I don't know too many people who would choose to
(00:36):
work around mold every day of your life.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But you did. I did, yeah, and now I'm paying
for it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
But lessons learned, so always improving and changing our processes
to match what we know about mold.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Do you think there's more mold in people's homes and
businesses than they even realize?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Mold, you know, is more closely related to human beings
than bacteria or viruses.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
What do you mean.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's a living organism first of all, and it has
defense mechanisms, and we are the main predator for mold.
Animals don't know what mold is, so they're not trying
to kill it, but humans are trying to kill it.
So mold has is always on the run, hiding from us. Yes,
there's a lot of it out there that people don't
know about.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
The hotel things got me freaked out.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Because you know how many people stay in hotel.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I know I travel a lot, and you're telling me
it was so bad you had to leave.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
If you ever walk into a hotel room, Yeah, start
sniffing right away, you know, I mean like just you know,
like taking use your from your sense of smell.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Now you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm not talking romantic sniffing. I'm talking walking, not talking
Joe Biden sniffing.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Close your eyes so you can smell the environment slightly,
if there's anything damp, anything that seems off. There's a
good chance that a hotel room above yours has leaked
in the past, and the room you're now in has
seen the brunt of the water damage behind the wallpaper
in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And they don't want to spend the money to fix it,
so they cover it and they hide. It's right, And
you're talking about any hotel, I mean luxury hotels to
like just.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
A matter of time, really, Yeah, find the newest hotel
you can find.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, and oh that's probably true. That's good because it
hasn't had time right for mold to develop yet.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Right. Well, holiday inns, I've had good exposed experience in
Hilton's is where I tend to go when I try.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To hide mold really well, then I have not ran
in any isser.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What do you do, though, Zach, to get it out
to gone away with it?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, mold should never be sprayed and attempted to kill it.
It should be removed from the property. That's one of
the defense mechanisms of mold is to produce poison to
try and get rid of us for spraying it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So if you, if you, if.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You irritate it or make it mad, or turn the
lights on, all of these things are being studied, but
they're known to cause mold to produce the micotoxins the poison.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
So what does that do to you? Over time? It
kills you, I assume. But like, what do you if
you get infected with mold? What do you look for?
Do you have like rashes? Do you breathing issues?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Where does Yeah, the list is so long. It can
show up as so many things. Respiratory, it really attacks
the nervous system and that can show up in so
many ways. But mold, the micotoxins circulate through your body.
They just stay in your blood and circulate, and the
more exposed you have, the higher.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The levels can be read.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I believe so. Is lead tested for it in blood?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think it is, yeah, yeah, but genetically some people
don't detox very well, and so just depending on who
you are, it can make something.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Next hour you can bring in up.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But you know what, here's what bothers me and I
think most cases you can see mold. You can see
it growing at some parts of the house, a corner
of a bathroom, the ceiling floor, whatever, down in the basement.
But I bet there's things that there's mold and you
can't see it with the naked eye.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Sometimes what you can see is the tip of the
iceberg and the water is coming from behind that layer
that's starting to show the mold, and maybe that behind
that layer has seen a lot more water, and so
sometimes by the time it shows up visibly, it's already
been going on for a long time.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Another case is maybe not.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I had a house one time, then behind it the
ice maker leaked and I saw a mold. I went
to a big box store bought some mold spray, and
I me fannished, because you're you're looking at them nuts,
And we sprayed it down real good. We got some
throwaway rags, we scooped it all up, did it three
or four times, and it never came back. But you're
(04:37):
going to tell me it was still there, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, the microtoxins might still still have been there. But yeah, no, the.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Mold is always a symptom of a moisture problem. So
if the water problem persists, it didn't it'll mold will
come back eventually.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So even though we thought we killed it all and
the leak is fixed, it still could come back.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
No, it won't come back if it's if it's dry.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But what's there is there and may not have been
removed professionally. They could.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Oh it wasn't it was right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But you're so needed because it's such a big problem
for so many people, whether they want to admit it
or not. And people shouldn't feel bad if they find
mold in their house. You probably find it in some
of the nicest upscale neighborhoods and homes.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Mold.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, it shouldn't be embarrassing. It's really the result of
the building process or the maintenance. I guess people get
embarrassed if they think that they allowed the mold to grow.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, or like bed bugs, you can't help it. Rich
people get bed bugs too. That's what Lonnie Alonzo comes
on talks about, So mold. Anyone could get mold, doesn't
matter what scale you're at.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
All right, And one of the things I'm trying to
develop is a species of bed bugs that eat mold.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I can turn them loose.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Actually, that'd be really that you can do that, right.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, But there are mold sniffing dogs for like twenty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You can get a dog put through some.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
They cause a lot of confusion just sniffing them all.
I don't know more.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, no, he just probably detects it. And then you know,
I mean look at it. Look how strong a dog's
noses they can They have, you know, fire prevention dogs
doing the same thing.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Sure to find bodies ten feet under the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So you've had the go ahead you have for work
in restaurants, because I would assume restaurants get quite a
bit won't eat there, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, Yeah, it's Businesses sometimes can be tough because it's
a business and so people are businesses trying to make
money and to pay for you know, high end service
is not always designable.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Let me ask us do you have a service that
they can do a monthly twice a year where they'll
pay you a fee and you come out and inspect
so they don't have to run into that process.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They just keep the preventive measures.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
They don't know what they're looking at. I don't know
mold from a bogger on the floor. You do, so
I'm thinking if you like that, Yeah, like like a
roosters for example, they would probably hire you to come
to every store every six months just to make sure
because you could say, you may have something going on right.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Here, pay me now or pay me later, and if
you pay me later, it's going to be a lot
more money.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We do have a subscription based mold inspection mold testing
a model where based on the frequency, the rates are discounted,
and people with certain health conditions are really into that
because they have to catch mold before it becomes serious
because it can really attack their Oh.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, people are scared of mold. I mean people have
died from it. You don't want to scare people and
be whatever a freak about it, but it is true.
You breathe it in too much. It gets in your lungs,
you're done right. Yeah, So, what is the best way
for someone to reach out to you if they think
they might have a mold problem or they just want
to do preventive measures.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Mold Mentorohio dot com. You can submit a online request
and we'll get a hold of you right away. Our
lovely Jade will reach out. She lives in our big
on At school district and handles all of our clients.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So mold Mentorohio dot com. And you know what, it's great.
It's so great to support local businesses, you know, scratch
my back eye scratchers. Now that we're living part time
in Indian Lake, I like to buy gas there. I
like to go to the little mom and dad grocery store,
the diners. It means something when you can support your
(08:25):
own and especially for our sponsors, Boots, we really appreciate well.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We take pride in you guys, and honestly, you guys.
Everybody we affiliate with, we have a relationship with. And
that's what I want. Someone to call me at the
car show yesterday and say, hey, I used your mold guy.
He did a good job. They never get you right,
you know. But but whoever comes to me and they
always say, you know that Mendy and you talk about
that one dude. It's always something like that. But then
I sit there, I'm like, wait, so we have a
(08:52):
good relationship with all our sponsors, and most radio shows
don't do that. I hate somethings other shows I do,
and I hear others. I'm like, this can't say anything.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But I love that you two do the show with
us every month. You come from two different worlds, but
then you don't because you guys have known each other.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
For how long.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Ago? Our world's collided during collid election. Yeah, we definitely
put our.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Heads together when you were running. Yeah, that's how Aladin
I met. I sat down.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
He was like an undercover operative, it seems, and he
knows if you decide to run and quit the NF beep.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He goes, I will get you elected.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Trump if you.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Something.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You're on school board and you don't have to answer this.
So you But if a boy nowadays identifies as a girl.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
He was going to say, if a boy nowadays.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But what happens.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's just say Westerville North has a trans dude and
he's going to join the girls volleyball team. Isn't the
new laws prohibiting it from doing that. Yeah, but what's
the school supposed to do because your school, what are
they supposed to do? What about the teachers that are
pushing them back?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Because right now, every district's different, right exactly?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, there's something about are you familiar with the volunteer thing?
Like if volunteers now to be approved in a school
district have to watch some video and and agree that
if a student confides and said volunteer that they have
some transgender thoughts or issues, that that parent or that
volunteer has to out.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
The student to staff school staff. They can no longer
be kept a secret.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I like how parents should have the most control
over their children. It makes no sense to let a
district raise your kid without parental I don't even.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Know where to start on that. So, okay, we're gonna
break
If you're curious about anything when it comes to controversial issues,
politics or even outside of politics, stand and speak. Look
it up on YouTube. Lad Delcard is in with us
today and he is every single month along with Zach Duffy,
and Zach Duffy has one of the coolest businesses. But
I don't know too many people who would choose to
(00:36):
work around mold every day of your life.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But you did. I did, yeah, and now I'm paying
for it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
But lessons learned, so always improving and changing our processes
to match what we know about mold.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Do you think there's more mold in people's homes and
businesses than they even realize?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Mold, you know, is more closely related to human beings
than bacteria or viruses.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
What do you mean.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's a living organism first of all, and it has
defense mechanisms, and we are the main predator for mold.
Animals don't know what mold is, so they're not trying
to kill it, but humans are trying to kill it.
So mold has is always on the run, hiding from us. Yes,
there's a lot of it out there that people don't
know about.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
The hotel things got me freaked out.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Because you know how many people stay in hotel.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I know I travel a lot, and you're telling me
it was so bad you had to leave.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
If you ever walk into a hotel room, Yeah, start
sniffing right away, you know, I mean like just you know,
like taking use your from your sense of smell.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Now you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm not talking romantic sniffing. I'm talking walking, not talking
Joe Biden sniffing.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Close your eyes so you can smell the environment slightly,
if there's anything damp, anything that seems off. There's a
good chance that a hotel room above yours has leaked
in the past, and the room you're now in has
seen the brunt of the water damage behind the wallpaper
in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And they don't want to spend the money to fix it,
so they cover it and they hide. It's right, And
you're talking about any hotel, I mean luxury hotels to
like just.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
A matter of time, really, Yeah, find the newest hotel
you can find.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, and oh that's probably true. That's good because it
hasn't had time right for mold to develop yet.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Right. Well, holiday inns, I've had good exposed experience in
Hilton's is where I tend to go when I try.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To hide mold really well, then I have not ran
in any isser.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What do you do, though, Zach, to get it out
to gone away with it?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, mold should never be sprayed and attempted to kill it.
It should be removed from the property. That's one of
the defense mechanisms of mold is to produce poison to
try and get rid of us for spraying it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So if you, if you, if.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You irritate it or make it mad, or turn the
lights on, all of these things are being studied, but
they're known to cause mold to produce the micotoxins the poison.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
So what does that do to you? Over time? It
kills you, I assume. But like, what do you if
you get infected with mold? What do you look for?
Do you have like rashes? Do you breathing issues?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Where does Yeah, the list is so long. It can
show up as so many things. Respiratory, it really attacks
the nervous system and that can show up in so
many ways. But mold, the micotoxins circulate through your body.
They just stay in your blood and circulate, and the
more exposed you have, the higher.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The levels can be read.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I believe so. Is lead tested for it in blood?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think it is, yeah, yeah, but genetically some people
don't detox very well, and so just depending on who
you are, it can make something.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Next hour you can bring in up.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But you know what, here's what bothers me and I
think most cases you can see mold. You can see
it growing at some parts of the house, a corner
of a bathroom, the ceiling floor, whatever, down in the basement.
But I bet there's things that there's mold and you
can't see it with the naked eye.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Sometimes what you can see is the tip of the
iceberg and the water is coming from behind that layer
that's starting to show the mold, and maybe that behind
that layer has seen a lot more water, and so
sometimes by the time it shows up visibly, it's already
been going on for a long time.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Another case is maybe not.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I had a house one time, then behind it the
ice maker leaked and I saw a mold. I went
to a big box store bought some mold spray, and
I me fannished, because you're you're looking at them nuts,
And we sprayed it down real good. We got some
throwaway rags, we scooped it all up, did it three
or four times, and it never came back. But you're
(04:37):
going to tell me it was still there, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, the microtoxins might still still have been there. But yeah, no, the.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Mold is always a symptom of a moisture problem. So
if the water problem persists, it didn't it'll mold will
come back eventually.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So even though we thought we killed it all and
the leak is fixed, it still could come back.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
No, it won't come back if it's if it's dry.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But what's there is there and may not have been
removed professionally. They could.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Oh it wasn't it was right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But you're so needed because it's such a big problem
for so many people, whether they want to admit it
or not. And people shouldn't feel bad if they find
mold in their house. You probably find it in some
of the nicest upscale neighborhoods and homes.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Mold.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, it shouldn't be embarrassing. It's really the result of
the building process or the maintenance. I guess people get
embarrassed if they think that they allowed the mold to grow.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, or like bed bugs, you can't help it. Rich
people get bed bugs too. That's what Lonnie Alonzo comes
on talks about, So mold. Anyone could get mold, doesn't
matter what scale you're at.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
All right, And one of the things I'm trying to
develop is a species of bed bugs that eat mold.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I can turn them loose.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Actually, that'd be really that you can do that, right.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, But there are mold sniffing dogs for like twenty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You can get a dog put through some.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
They cause a lot of confusion just sniffing them all.
I don't know more.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, no, he just probably detects it. And then you know,
I mean look at it. Look how strong a dog's
noses they can They have, you know, fire prevention dogs
doing the same thing.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Sure to find bodies ten feet under the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So you've had the go ahead you have for work
in restaurants, because I would assume restaurants get quite a
bit won't eat there, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, Yeah, it's Businesses sometimes can be tough because it's
a business and so people are businesses trying to make
money and to pay for you know, high end service
is not always designable.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Let me ask us do you have a service that
they can do a monthly twice a year where they'll
pay you a fee and you come out and inspect
so they don't have to run into that process.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They just keep the preventive measures.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
They don't know what they're looking at. I don't know
mold from a bogger on the floor. You do, so
I'm thinking if you like that, Yeah, like like a
roosters for example, they would probably hire you to come
to every store every six months just to make sure
because you could say, you may have something going on right.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Here, pay me now or pay me later, and if
you pay me later, it's going to be a lot
more money.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We do have a subscription based mold inspection mold testing
a model where based on the frequency, the rates are discounted,
and people with certain health conditions are really into that
because they have to catch mold before it becomes serious
because it can really attack their Oh.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, people are scared of mold. I mean people have
died from it. You don't want to scare people and
be whatever a freak about it, but it is true.
You breathe it in too much. It gets in your lungs,
you're done right. Yeah, So, what is the best way
for someone to reach out to you if they think
they might have a mold problem or they just want
to do preventive measures.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Mold Mentorohio dot com. You can submit a online request
and we'll get a hold of you right away. Our
lovely Jade will reach out. She lives in our big
on At school district and handles all of our clients.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So mold Mentorohio dot com. And you know what, it's great.
It's so great to support local businesses, you know, scratch
my back eye scratchers. Now that we're living part time
in Indian Lake, I like to buy gas there. I
like to go to the little mom and dad grocery store,
the diners. It means something when you can support your
(08:25):
own and especially for our sponsors, Boots, we really appreciate well.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We take pride in you guys, and honestly, you guys.
Everybody we affiliate with, we have a relationship with. And
that's what I want. Someone to call me at the
car show yesterday and say, hey, I used your mold guy.
He did a good job. They never get you right,
you know. But but whoever comes to me and they
always say, you know that Mendy and you talk about
that one dude. It's always something like that. But then
I sit there, I'm like, wait, so we have a
(08:52):
good relationship with all our sponsors, and most radio shows
don't do that. I hate somethings other shows I do,
and I hear others. I'm like, this can't say anything.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But I love that you two do the show with
us every month. You come from two different worlds, but
then you don't because you guys have known each other.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
For how long.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Ago? Our world's collided during collid election. Yeah, we definitely
put our.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Heads together when you were running. Yeah, that's how Aladin
I met. I sat down.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
He was like an undercover operative, it seems, and he
knows if you decide to run and quit the NF beep.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He goes, I will get you elected.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Trump if you.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Something.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You're on school board and you don't have to answer this.
So you But if a boy nowadays identifies as a girl.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
He was going to say, if a boy nowadays.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But what happens.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's just say Westerville North has a trans dude and
he's going to join the girls volleyball team. Isn't the
new laws prohibiting it from doing that. Yeah, but what's
the school supposed to do because your school, what are
they supposed to do? What about the teachers that are
pushing them back?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Because right now, every district's different, right exactly?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, there's something about are you familiar with the volunteer thing?
Like if volunteers now to be approved in a school
district have to watch some video and and agree that
if a student confides and said volunteer that they have
some transgender thoughts or issues, that that parent or that
volunteer has to out.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
The student to staff school staff. They can no longer
be kept a secret.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I like how parents should have the most control
over their children. It makes no sense to let a
district raise your kid without parental I don't even.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Know where to start on that. So, okay, we're gonna
break
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