How To Wax Your Floors Without Slipping And Severing Your Spine

Author Jerry Bloom visits Today Now to explain how you can make your kitchen floor shine without falling and paralyzing yourself for life.
00:00:00.000,00:00:03.000 Captions by www.SubPLY.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00:00:00.830,00:00:02.330 Today Now 00:00:16.420,00:00:17.590 Welcome back to Today Now. 00:00:17.780,00:00:19.780 You know, I just love cleaning my kitchen. 00:00:20.190,00:00:21.690 And what makes for a cleaner looking kitchen 00:00:21.890,00:00:23.390 than a freshly waxed floor. 00:00:23.790,00:00:25.330 That's true, but, you know, it could be a little bit more difficult 00:00:25.530,00:00:27.100 to do that than just plain mopping. 00:00:27.490,00:00:29.630 However, the shine is absolutely brilliant, 00:00:30.060,00:00:31.160 and it can last for weeks. 00:00:31.600,00:00:34.140 And our next guest is here to show us how to do it right. 00:00:34.570,00:00:38.370 Jerry Bloom, author of "Floor Waxing, the Do's and Don't's 00:00:38.770,00:00:40.270 You Absolutely Must Not Forget" 00:00:40.710,00:00:42.850 Hi, Jerry. - Hi. It's great to be here. 00:00:43.510,00:00:45.680 Thanks for joining us. Jerry, I think this floor 00:00:46.110,00:00:48.380 looks a little dull. Let's give it a good wax. 00:00:48.780,00:00:50.980 How do we get started? - Okay, first side Jim and Tracey, 00:00:51.420,00:00:53.820 the thing I really wanna stress is safety. 00:00:54.250,00:00:55.990 Okay. You don't want to wear slippery shoes. 00:00:56.580,00:00:58.560 Put on a pair of work shoes, - Okay. 00:00:58.760,00:01:00.230 or a pair of tennis shoes, in the very least. - Okay. 00:01:00.690,00:01:04.820 Wearing a pair of ten year old loafers with no treds is definitely a bad idea. 00:01:05.100,00:01:06.130 Okay, so everybody hear that? 00:01:06.330,00:01:08.600 We got our safety shoes on, now what? 00:01:09.070,00:01:11.740 Okay, just apply a very thin layer of wax. 00:01:12.240,00:01:15.440 You want to avoid any pools because that can do nothing 00:01:15.840,00:01:18.040 but increase the possibility of an awkward fall 00:01:18.480,00:01:19.950 that will change the way you look at the world 00:01:20.380,00:01:21.550 and the world looks at you. 00:01:21.980,00:01:23.810 Oh, that's a good tip. What's next, Jerry? 00:01:24.010,00:01:25.270 Okay. Could you hand me that rag, please? 00:01:25.650,00:01:27.550 Oh, here. Sure. Absolutely. - Thanks. 00:01:27.990,00:01:29.090 There you go. - There we go. 00:01:29.960,00:01:32.330 Now, if you do wax yourself into a corner, 00:01:32.930,00:01:36.500 try and not jump over the wax floor into the hallway. 00:01:37.100,00:01:38.030 No jumping. - Oh. 00:01:38.740,00:01:41.370 But if you do jump, try and avoid missing the floor 00:01:41.830,00:01:43.970 by several feet and falling backwards into the counter. 00:01:44.570,00:01:47.310 And if you do fall backwards, try and avoid 00:01:47.740,00:01:49.680 severing your fifth thoracic vertebrae, 00:01:50.080,00:01:52.880 because that's one of the ones that controls most of the body functions 00:01:53.350,00:01:54.720 you take for granted every day. 00:01:55.320,00:01:56.920 It looks like we're getting a little anatomy lesson here. - The ones you don't truly 00:01:57.120,00:01:59.920 appreciate until they're gone. - I hope you guys are all getting these 00:02:00.420,00:02:02.450 wonderful tips we're hearing here this morning. - Now if you do 00:02:02.860,00:02:05.200 sever the fifth thoracic vertebrae, make sure 00:02:05.390,00:02:06.490 that while you're laying on your back 00:02:06.690,00:02:08.390 staring up at the ceiling for five hours 00:02:08.590,00:02:09.830 waiting for someone to find you, 00:02:10.260,00:02:12.030 don't start blaming your misfortune on your wife. 00:02:12.600,00:02:15.000 Oh, that would be difficult for me to do, wouldn't it? 00:02:15.200,00:02:18.200 Even if it was her job to wax the floor but she asked you to do it instead. 00:02:18.410,00:02:20.340 So, really, it is her fault that you're now trapped 00:02:20.540,00:02:22.610 in a prison-like body. - Jerry, it's so great you do this. 00:02:23.010,00:02:23.910 But this can only lead to resentment, 00:02:24.340,00:02:25.940 which will ultimately lead to an ugly divorce, 00:02:26.550,00:02:29.050 and some of the loneliest, darkest years of your life. - Okay. 00:02:29.660,00:02:31.190 Alright, Jerry I tell ya, most men don't even know 00:02:31.380,00:02:32.850 how to load a dishwasher. - Oh, come on! 00:02:33.290,00:02:34.690 That's not true. - It is too. 00:02:35.090,00:02:36.160 Hey, Jerry. Give me that mop. Let me show her 00:02:36.560,00:02:38.130 that I know how to push the mop around the floor. 00:02:38.560,00:02:39.830 No, no, no, I can do it. - No, no, no, no really. 00:02:40.260,00:02:42.460 I gotta prove to Tracey that I'm not some male chauvinist. 00:02:42.660,00:02:44.130 No, no, no. It's all I can... - Let me have the... 00:02:44.330,00:02:47.130 No. This is all that I have. Get away. 00:02:47.770,00:02:48.840 Jerry Bloom, everyone. 00:02:49.270,00:02:50.980 Now you stay right where you are because coming up, 00:02:51.410,00:02:52.630 after the commercial break, we're gonna find out 00:02:52.830,00:02:55.550 which one of these eight children who needs a heart transplant 00:02:55.980,00:02:56.810 is actually gonna get one. 00:02:57.270,00:02:58.250 Stay with us. 00:02:59.050,00:03:05.120 Still Ahead This Hour... Turning your fallout shelter into a sex dungeon.