S2E4: Maine Cabin Masters (Ryan & Ashley)

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Maine Cabin Masters (from Magnolia Network)

Builder Chase Morrill teams up with his sister and brother-in-law to save and transform outdated cabins deep in the remote woods of Maine. From historic cottages to camp cabins, they give these properties the restoration they’ve needed for decades.  The Maine Cabin Masters are helped by family and friends to save and transform abandoned cabins buried deep in the remote woods of Maine into modern homes that still honor their history.

Maine Cabin Masters (from Kennebec Cabin Company):
“Preserving Memories Across Our Home State”

The Maine Cabin Masters’ unique brand of humor, resourcefulness and creative flair have created a devoted fan following of the show. The cast would be the first to tell you an equally deserving co-star is our great State of Maine. Viewers from around the world are falling in love with Maine’s natural beauty and authentic lifestyle.

There’s no shortage of work for Chase and the team, who specialize in renovating rustic cabins and camps all over our great State. Working alongside his sister, brother-in-law and best friends, the Cabin Masters work closely with homeowners to lovingly renovate and preserve beloved properties for future generations to enjoy.

Learn more about the Maine Cabin Masters at mainecabinmasters.com and kennebeccabincompany.com and follow them on Social Media

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Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (00:51):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I tell you what, I can’t be more fired up and excited for our guests. I mean, here’s the thing, Tim and I want to put this out there to the universe. I am well traveled. Okay. I’m fancy. I know you are just like that. And I speak all over to hundreds of people, thousands of people in every audience. And the thing I’m recognized most for is, oh my gosh, Travis, you were on that TV show. I’ve seen you on one of my favorite TV shows, main Cabin Masters. And I’m like, yeah, but I also, okay. Yeah, they do these other things too. Those guys are crazy. They’re so awesome. And that’s all they ever say. I’m like, no, they’re amazing people. They’re like, yeah, what are they like in real life? And Tim, we get the chance today to talk to two of the superstars, Ryan and Ashley, and I just want to take time to say, Hey, welcome to the show you winners, and thanks for taking time to talk with us today.

Ashley Morrill (01:42):
Oh my word. Thanks for having us. We’ve been trying to connect with you for a while now, so this is exciting

Ryan Eldridge (01:46):
To be here. We’re very glad to be here.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (01:48):
Well, absolutely. And keep it very serious here. Very buttoned up. So I do have to ask, did you guys grow up together? Let’s start back where the story starts at. Where’d you grow up at?

Ryan Eldridge (01:59):
You want my version? She hates it. No.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (02:02):
Yeah, I want to hear it.

Ryan Eldridge (02:03):
So I’ve known that I’ve knew of her for a long time. She’s from Augusta and I’m from Gardner, and as you now know, big rivalry Travis.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (02:11):
Yeah, Rams and Tigers.

Ryan Eldridge (02:12):
Yeah. And I moved back from out west about, God, geez, a long time ago now, maybe in my mid early thirties. Moved back here and was working, and then Ashley was friends of friends and she moved back from out west and we just had hitting off and we were close friends. I had a girlfriend or two there. She had a boyfriend or two, and we were just good friends and she broke up with a boyfriend. I had a house with extra room, and she needed a place to stay. So they abbreviated a version of the story is she moved in as a roommate, but as soon as she started crossing the hall, she became the girlfriend.

Ashley Morrill (02:46):
And I can’t stand it when he says I crossed the hall.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (02:50):
Right, right. No, I get that. I get that. Well, that’s awesome. I have a lot of questions and there’s some that are real serious, but I don’t want to get into those quite yet. I got to ask, what’s your favorite food? I think everybody out there wants to know what your favorite food is.

Ashley Morrill (03:02):
Pat’s pizza.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (03:03):
Pat’s Pizza. There you go.

Ashley Morrill (03:05):
Hands down.

Ryan Eldridge (03:06):
I love Mexican food. Just the typical run of your mill. It’s not fancy. Southern California. I just like making Mexican every Tuesday.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (03:16):
There you go. Well, that’s good. And then, okay, so I got to ask, what were you doing out West Ryan? What were you out west for?

Ryan Eldridge (03:23):
I went out west skiing for a couple of winters. I was in Steamboat Springs and I was in Jackson Hole,

Ashley Morrill (03:28):
And I was off living in Colorado doing the same thing. We’re just a hundred miles away.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (03:33):
Oh my gosh. So you guys kind of had the same story, so you guys were relatable. So when you guys were not sleeping at night and both in your rooms as roommates, you were like, oh, I forgot. I want to talk to him about Colorado. And that’s why you had to cross the hall to have the comfort level common. Sure. That’s what I was doing. Yeah, I get it. You were just asking his opinion or advice or a question about the old days. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Yeah,

Ashley Morrill (03:56):
Exactly.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (03:57):
Yeah. Now everybody knows that actually you’re the legit star of the show. There’s boss. Yeah, the boss. That’s what I mean. Sorry. And in charge. So before the show happened, what were you guys doing? Just I guess, how did the show come about? Because there’s a backstory to that too.

Ashley Morrill (04:14):
Well, I mean, before this show started, I had a little HomeGoods antique sort of shop down in Hollowell with my sister-in-Law. So we did that for years. And my dad would bring in all this furniture and my brother would make this furniture and bring it in, and then we would have other new and used goods, and we always had an eye for it. And meanwhile, chase and Ryan were off working independently doing their own contracting businesses.

Ryan Eldridge (04:44):
And yeah, what’s neat is that Chase and Ashley and her dad was, they were doing picking and Barnboard stuff before it was big. And I always say they were like a year or two before Facebook and social media or their store probably would’ve still been there, but they were doing all this before it got on tv. And their family’s always been known for being resourceful and very crafty, reducing, recycling, up, cycling, cross cycling side, cycling down, cycling, you name it. They’re not throwing anything away. What happened is our niece’s best friend’s mother, typical main way, got a call from a production company who were doing cold calls, looking for people who did that, builders who did that. The main way of using what you got, making it work and doing it yourself. Long story short, chase came into the job site, oh, you guys want to be on tv? We’re like, oh yeah, maybe some funny squares were there. You know what? We didn’t believe him. We went in for, it wasn’t a Zoom interview, what was it back then? Skype. We went in for a Skype interview, January. I mean, we didn’t even know what it was. Jedi looked like he just came out of the woods, burley and wrestled a bear. We all had

Ashley Morrill (05:53):
What’s changed,

Ryan Eldridge (05:54):
10 layers of Carhartts

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (05:55):
On Yeah, I was going to say, I’m not sure anything changed for Jedi, but yeah, anyway, sorry. So 10 liters of Carharts.

Ryan Eldridge (06:00):
It was the middle of generator all had the look, and she just loved how we talked and she

Ashley Morrill (06:05):
Loved the accents. That’s what sold the show, I think.

Ryan Eldridge (06:08):
Yeah. So then she’s like, yeah, we’ll get back to you. Well, sure enough, we did a pilot for the History channel called Lost Cabin Hunters, where we went up to the ash, which is six, seven hours away from here for three weeks at a time, twice. And the premise of that show is we were searching and fighting our way into these old cabins and getting all the materials there and trying to save them. And it was amazing. And we wrote that off as, wow, we got to do a pilot. We never in a million years thought anything else would happen, ever. And then Pilot Air, there was so many other good shows come out, it didn’t get picked up and we were happy. Okay, that was that. And then about, oh, maybe three or four months later they called and three, want to try something else? We think you guys are great. So that’s where the Cabin Masters idea came up. And it was great because we’re not driving up five hours in the woods. We’re not struggling. There’s cabins everywhere. It’s really, really found a good match, as you know.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (07:04):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And then I know that your earlier shows you fixed up a lot of things and people had the budget for what they could do, but the cabins you fix up now are completely different than where you started, and you’ve always done a great job like Cuba Island with Jack there. That is absolutely fantastic.

Ashley Morrill (07:22):
Yeah, we kind of had to learn, there’s a certain honey spot where we do have timeline. We do have to be able to fit in a certain amount of cabins per season. So if we have a really high budget and a really long timeline, we wouldn’t be able to create all the episodes. So we just had to start working within those.

Ryan Eldridge (07:43):
And that first couple of seasons, we had to beg Steel Bar to get trust us. It’s a lot.

Ashley Morrill (07:49):
You’d be like, oh, we have this TV show coming up. Do you want us to redo your cabin and can you give us $40,000

Ryan Eldridge (07:53):
And the keys and leave?

Ashley Morrill (07:55):
And you get to make no decisions.

Ryan Eldridge (07:56):
And you guys, to be honest with you now, it’s like we just try to go do some of those, the really slower budgets and we try to do some of the higher budgets. We try to do it all because in theory, we could cherry pick and just do the easy ones, but that’s not right. That’s not what we do. We love saving history. So a lot of it just goes into logistics. Oh yeah. Try to do a couple more that are really complicated and once in a while sprinkle it. Maybe a nice easy one, but we really struggle as you grow, you want to stay true to your roots too.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (08:28):
Oh, absolutely. That’s a big thing with me and what I do. I want to make sure I’m still the same genuine person I was. I didn’t know you guys growing up. Right. I’m a Michigan guy, but I can tell you the people that I’ve met in the beginning is the same people I know now. You guys are absolutely fantastic. Well, we appreciate, is there any builds that stood out that really, I’m not fishing for the Travis Mills Foundation build, but I’m saying any ones that, did you tear any walls open and find something just so amazing, or was there anything that really blew you away?

Ryan Eldridge (08:54):
Well, we found, what’s cool is we don’t have a plan when we’re doing these Chase’s. Mind is just thinking, but we don’t have a set plan. And when we kind of do the demo, it kind of reveals which direction we’re going to. It’s almost like doing ant reverse archeology or something like that. You can look at like, oh, that corner was built in the thirties. There’s not a lot of nails. The material’s a scam. And then that thing was built on a Friday afternoon. You can definitely tell, but they’re all really interesting. What I’ve really liked to have seen, how the crews have developed over time, things that we used to lose sleep on and just drive us fool a second nature. Think

Ashley Morrill (09:35):
There was a lot of sleep left on your deck and your deck comes up often because it’s definitely the largest and most impressive deck we’ve ever done.

Ryan Eldridge (09:45):
I’m very proud of that. What an amazing project. And we were not ready. We built nice decks before, but a project to that size with 12 or 15 people, we went from AA to double to major league, and then of course we decided to picture for man.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (10:01):
And again, I wasn’t trying to build up my, I just meant there’s other builder probably. I mean Bell Island came out absolutely awesome, the win there. He’s ecstatic about what you guys did.

Ashley Morrill (10:12):
When I tell you this though, I’m not kidding. We do the repack episodes where it’s the best of, and I’m pretty sure that you come up quite a bit in these episodes just because the enormity of that deck and how impressive and structurally sound and all that it was. And plus being for you and your foundation.

Ryan Eldridge (10:29):
It’s the first time we saw the power of the TV show, to be honest with you. We teamed up with our TV show and all the great stuff you’ve done, and people bent over backwards and donated so much stuff. And it really was like us going into this bigger caliber general contracting stuff. That’s when we first started with techno posts. It was really a major step for that. I’m not just saying that because we’re on your show, but it does stand out as a major moving

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (10:52):
Point. No, I absolutely. And when you said the post, I was sitting there going like, yeah, that gentleman that was out there with those tech posts, like techno posts was just insane. How did you guys connect? Did you reach out to them or did they reach out to you for

Ryan Eldridge (11:03):
The work? He’s from the Up and coming Manchester, Maine. This little stretch between Manchester East Winthrop, it’s booming. Yeah. How we found out Mike’s from Manchester, just a local business and

Ashley Morrill (11:15):
I didn’t even know that.

Ryan Eldridge (11:17):
We just used them the other day. They can do those things right through Frost. It was amazing.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (11:20):
Yeah, I mean it’s incredible. And I will tell you that your guys’ deck was so solid and sturdy. I’m not supposed to talk about it, but again, that the structure of the actual cottage, which you guys didn’t deal with, would’ve tipped over because the ground shifted so much and it was such an old structure. We had to remodel it. The deck held it from tipping over, it would’ve sunk on the right side.

Ryan Eldridge (11:44):
Oh no.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (11:45):
And it had nothing to do with what you guys did. You guys actually saved it without knowing you saved it. And I don’t think we’ve ever talked about that, but we tore the floor up in that building and people just kept putting floors over it, the past owners, and we got down to where it was actually part of a bowling alley for her. And there was actually like what? Yeah, it was part of Elizabeth a’s bowling alley and there’s actual no way flooring like bowling wood floors that we had. That’s crazy. Yeah,

Ashley Morrill (12:10):
That’s pretty cool.

Ryan Eldridge (12:12):
Isn’t it amazing all the history around here, just of that building and the local building, it just blows my mind. It’s just so awesome to see.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (12:20):
It’s amazing how Mainers and I am sure it’s the same in other places, but they’ll reuse products or they’ll modify products rather than tearing down and building new. Do you find that a lot in what you’re doing in these cabins?

Ryan Eldridge (12:31):
Yeah, my brother-in-Law and my father-in-Law, that’s what they did. It’s part of the reason the show got where it was is because of the influence of my father-in-Law. And I’d hear stories about them going into all these contractors up and down, these big developers up and down the coast that main knew to call them and they would come in and stake everything, really scavenge it right down to used smoke stained logical outlets. We’ve done everything we’ve taken. I mean,

Ashley Morrill (12:58):
They’ve got some really valuable stuff too. Some of that old wood you can’t find anywhere.

Ryan Eldridge (13:03):
I, I’m not talking bad about, it’s amazing because you sound like you are, we’ve used stuff that Chase picked years ago and we can’t find something that’s period time dated. He knows where it is, but I often struggled with being at Colby College and ripping up old hardwood Floyds, you know how hard that is. And going through my mindset just worth it. And after you get in the groove and it is, it’s so much value in saving stuff.

Ashley Morrill (13:33):
He’s talking about the episode where Kobe athletic department, they had to tear down the whole entire structure, all the buildings because they had a flood. And so they called us up and said, you guys can go up there and take whatever you want. You have a couple days. And so Chase got a crew of 20 to 30 people and we went up there and we all just ripped and tore and took railings. I mean, everything you could think of the basketball court, the,

Ryan Eldridge (13:58):
And we’re still using stuff from there to this day and we’ll still be using stuff for that.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (14:02):
Well, what I liked was with you guys doing all this stuff and making this stuff real popular when we to down or tore some doors out and tore half a building down at the property out there at the foundation, there was these door handles and they’re like, crystal door handle. And I was like, whatcha you going to do with those? And someone was like, that’s like 30 to 50 bucks a door handle if you sell that. And they were throughout the whole entire house. There you go. And I’m like, my mom had a bunch of these growing up. This was in my house when I was kid. Made a fortune. Yeah, that’s some gas money right there. So how do you guys find your cabins? Does the TV show now help you do that or are you guys doing this still doing it on your own kind of grassroots? So

Ryan Eldridge (14:40):
I said when it started out the first season we did 10 and it was so hard to get 10. We had a bag steel borrow. My mother-in-Law bought one. We talked a couple other friends into doing ’em. And over time we built, we have an application on our website and it’s up to about we over 3,500. Isn’t that crazy? 3,500 applications? That is

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (14:59):
Crazy. And I tried to get ’em to do a few, but they told me no, Tim, they were too busy. Somebody told you No, that’s amazing. And then I also wanted them to help build the white duck. I was like, Hey, you guys are up next door. Is there a chance of this? I know you guys’ crew has been building.

Ryan Eldridge (15:14):
No, we wanted to,

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (15:15):
But at the end of the day, I mean, it’s awesome how well it’s going. Is there anything that you didn’t expect the TV show was able to give you? Obviously you’re famous now and everybody will stop you in the airport and stop you here and there and get pictures and you do a lot of selfies, but was there anything that you didn’t expect that came out of it that was a huge benefit? One

Ryan Eldridge (15:32):
Thing that really I didn’t see coming is that when we bought this property, we wanted do it for a retail store. And I worked in restaurants my whole life growing up. I was a carpenter. Ashley did too, and I always wanted just to have a little place. And as we built this place, I didn’t realize how powerful the show was. Like this is a tourist trap. We are a tourist trap

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (15:53):
Here. I’m actually banking on it, Brian, I want people to go see you.

Ashley Morrill (15:56):
Hello. We’re banking on you as well.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (15:59):
Nope. Nope. And then we are

Ryan Eldridge (16:00):
Going to compliment each other like peanut butter and jelly. You

Ashley Morrill (16:03):
Know it. Yeah, it, that’s the exciting thing about it is when you go places, sometimes people want to stop one place for an appetizer or something and then just want to continue on. So it’s great when you have a couple, two or three things in one area so they can be like, oh, check out this. Well, now we can head down and check out Travis Mills.

Ryan Eldridge (16:22):
There’s power in numbers.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (16:24):
That’s right. And there’s more things coming. That’s awesome. That’s the beauty of it. When people stay with us at the marina there and I’m like, Hey, have you ever heard of Main Cab Masters? They’re like, well, yeah. I’m like, they’re right up the road. You should go check ’em out. I mean, you give me a destination to send people and then their hopes is they’ll run into you. And the best part is a lot of times they’ll run into you not to tell your secret that you guys actually hang out there because it’s something that you’re very proud of and you love being at. But there’s people that have stayed with us or stopped in and asked us, like you and me and Cab Masters. I’m like, yeah, just up the road. You got to go check ’em out. So I mean, it’s a really cool and neat attraction. I mean, we’re

Ashley Morrill (17:01):
Excited to be able to do the same for you. Oh,

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (17:03):
Thank you. Well, yeah, but

Ashley Morrill (17:04):
I mean, as you know, everyone’s always asking, what should we do? Where should we go? Where should we eat while we’re in Maine? What needs to happen? So I’m actually trying to put together a list of all the local Rs and craftsmen restaurants, everything, like places that are connected to the show right around local. So when people come in, they’ll have a little guide where they could go and check out all the different places that are featured or people that we endorse.

Ryan Eldridge (17:29):
Yeah, you’re lucky you got that place going. You’re just going to have to give me your home address, but now we don’t

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (17:33):
Have to. Oh yeah, yeah, no, you come right out of the house. That’s the big deal. You know where I live at? I’m just down the road from your camp where I’m at. It doesn’t matter. I

Ryan Eldridge (17:40):
Know we know. I’ll show. Your wife has told you just how amazing it is. All the energy in this area and the young people are staying here. Everyone just left when we were younger and it’s just so great for all of us to be a part of it. And then they’ll go in Augusta and see what they’re doing on downtown Water Street. And there’s a lot of really talented restaurateur, businessmen, craftsmen artists sticking around here and it is pretty awesome.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (18:03):
We’re excited to join the party with you guys, but make no mistake about it. I understand that you guys are the bell of the ball. You’re the prettiest in Manchester and people, like you said, the power of the show, people drive from all over and you guys didn’t bring out the gentleman from Colorado to serve lobster rolls or Oh yeah. You had trucks and cars down the road. We’ve seen that’s just awesome.

Ashley Morrill (18:24):
The farthest away I think we’ve seen on Alaska license plate, Alaska any given day during summer. I mean, it’s just like everywhere. Tennessee, Texas, north, they come from everywhere and it’s really cool.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (18:37):
My next question was how far away they were and Travis beat me to it, but when people are coming up here, are they staying or are they coming up and moving on?

Ashley Morrill (18:46):
Nope, they’re making Maine a destination spot. They’re coming here just to tour the state and to check out all the places that they’ve seen. They do connection companies. A really good job showcasing the state of Maine.

Ryan Eldridge (19:00):
They’re staying in Central Maine though some too. It’s a little bit of both. We’re here, I’m hearing a lot of stories about people saying their VRBO have been rented so much in the last couple of years, all the places around Augusta. But on the other side, I hear people, oh, we took a day trip out from York, or we took a day trip out from UNK or we came over from our harbor. So it’s just all over the gamut

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (19:22):
And you don’t see it. We do have the Lakes region up this way, but you just don’t hear, always hear people talking about Freeport and Bar Harbor and Portland and the coast.

Ryan Eldridge (19:31):
It really has become a destination. There’s a lot of options now, which is

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (19:34):
Great. That’s another side effect of the show, I guess, right? Yeah, actually it’s been great. We sold four of the six cottages off. The lady that’s bought the second cottage down, she went on their website and their, yeah, the interaction. She’s like, Hey, I have this place one mile from, and she was rented all summer and people kept staying there. That’s awesome. And then she was like’s,

Ryan Eldridge (19:54):
So

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (19:54):
Cool. Yeah, so we all promote each other. That’s the best part.

Ashley Morrill (19:56):
They really, really are looking for cabins that are close locally local to our headquarters. So that’s great to hear.

Ryan Eldridge (20:03):
And I’ve been working with Mike Cleary on Cabin three, helping him with permitting stuff, and I want to get my hands on that because supposedly there’s a rail car under there. Oh, no kidding. We’re trying and trying to get that approved for an episode. The biggest thing is we have to do it when the Mar’s not there because it’s pretty busy for audio and visual. So you might see us next year about this time, hopefully cranking away over there.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (20:25):
Ryan, how much of your show is, do they script it for you or are you guys just given carte blanche to do whatever you

Ryan Eldridge (20:32):
Want? It’s not scripted. The only time it’s scripted is when they ask us to explain something like an audio segue in regards to the storyline. It could go hundreds of ways and we have no idea until it airs.

Ashley Morrill (20:44):
Yeah, we’re going to just our us and then they will see something within what we’ve done for the day and then there you go. They’re going to take off and run with it.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (20:53):
Do you think it’s more fun making the show and not making the show, but rebuilding this house and getting to see the things you can do with it? Or is it better to see their reaction when their family campus saved and then it’s structurally sound? Great question because we’ve seen some emotional reveals and I’m just wondering what’s the better feeling when you guys all get to work together as friends and just come up with some creation? Or is it seeing their reaction or maybe it’s both? I don’t

Ashley Morrill (21:17):
Know. For me, it’s definitely the reaction just because so many of these camps, a lot of ’em, we haven’t done that much to it. We just structurally made ’em so they’ll be able to enjoy them for another 50, a hundred years. We try to keep them as their camp feeling as possible. We are not trying to change it up. We still want them to feel like they’re still going to camp the same camp that they knew for the last 50 years. So when they come back and they just realize that they’re going to be able to bring their families there and they’re going to be able to enjoy it, they cry all the time that I’m crying and it’s a whole happy cry situation.

Ryan Eldridge (21:54):
We were talking earlier about the size of the projects and what we really, really love to do is just a budget is between 30 and $50,000. It’s a lot of these people that couldn’t afford it themselves and family camps in Maine, it’s all the aunts, uncles, siblings. So all these people pool in a little bit of money and they get to do their camps. So they never thought it would happen, and they’re so grateful. There’s less they expect, they just happy so that the expectations aren’t as high as someone with a bigger budget. So we kind of find our little Honeywell of what to do, but just seeing grateful how grateful people are, that’s the best thing about it.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (22:30):
What a rewarding experience I can imagine. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it’s amazing changing people’s lives every day. Then you guys not only change them, you would be doing it regardless, but you’re also able to showcase it and show, Hey look, this is the good we’re doing out there. And didn’t Magnolia buy the network? So you guys are on Magnolia now?

Ryan Eldridge (22:47):
Yeah, we are. That’s gone. Well, it’s funny. Everyone’s asking us all these messages, why would I play on my tv? Where do I DV this? Where do I do? We have no clue.

Ashley Morrill (22:58):
We are just on the tv. We do not have any decisions on any of that when it airs, where it airs when something goes wrong.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (23:07):
I appreciate you guys taking time to talk with Tim and I about everything yet going on, and it was great to get both of you, two of the superstars, one boss and one worker, and we know who that is.

Ryan Eldridge (23:16):
You know who the

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (23:17):
Boss is. I’m so grateful for your time and what you’re doing for the community, and I hope you guys keep up the great work. I’m sure you will. I can’t tell you how good it was. You watch people on TV and they’re from Maine, so you obviously you’re going to watch the show, but you guys are as real in person as you are on that show, and I appreciate that about you and I appreciate what you’re doing. It’s a great show. I got one more question for you before we have to end, but are you guys into it for a lot more years? Do you have a contract out there? How much longer do people get to watch this show?

Ryan Eldridge (23:46):
We at least got a couple more years than us. We can tell you that.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (23:50):
Awesome, awesome. Good. Thank you for that.

Ryan Eldridge (23:53):
Keep on our social media. I’ll let you’ll see all the big things coming up. Oh,

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (23:56):
Absolutely. Or I’ll just come down and have a drink with you.

Ryan Eldridge (23:57):
Yeah. We are at nine 15 Western Avenue in beautiful downtown Manchester and online, main cabin masters.com and our social media platforms, the woodshed, Ken at Cabin Company and Cabin Masters. Well

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (24:12):
Done. Absolutely. Hey, thanks you guys so much. I appreciate it. Appreciate your friendship and for you coming on. Take care. Have a wonderful day. Thank you.

Ryan Eldridge (24:19):
See you guys.

Travis Mills and Tim Eisenhart (24:20):
Well, Tim, it’s hard to carry on anymore spats or grudges with you. I mean, after hanging out with them, I will forgive you for whatever I was mad about. They’re so positive. It’s a delight. Talking to those two. They’re wonderful. And it’s funny, they literally are just a mile away or maybe less than a mile away. They have their restaurant, the woodshed, and you can go there, have a drink, they’ll be roaming around there when they can and it’s just, they’re wonderful people. So you’ve been in there obviously to eat to the woodshed? Yeah. Yeah. They have sandwiches and they have named after people. There’s about eight different choices and then they have a plethora of beverages, mostly adult, but they have a gift shop and some pretty cool stuff they do. And if anybody goes up to there, they can just go there and hang out and then they can drive on down the road about two miles, come to the White Duck Brew Pub, my restaurant.

(25:10):
And it’s cool to have ’em so local and so close and also be so famous. Like I said, people pick me out of the crowd, but then I thought maybe something I said was so great on my presentation, maybe they saw a video. No, they saw their episode on Main Cab Masters. That’s the thing about them. People get on TV and it feels like they change their personality. You feel like they’re somebody else. When the camera turns off, they’re exactly the same in person as they’re on tv. That’s commendable. The Down to Earth record everyday people. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. But everybody, we appreciate you tuning in and letting us talk to you and tell these amazing stories. We just want to say to the peoples of listening, we appreciate you. You’re awesome as well as instead of saying, see you later, because we, because we’re not going to see you later. Yeah, we’re not. And I’m tired of whispering over to Tim after I say that like an idiot like Tim, we’re not going to, we’re see. We will talk at you later. You have big bunch of winners. Have a great day. Take care.

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