Introduction to Refillable Caulking

this christy idaho painter here on paint live tv today i got a special guest with me matt tomen from tower sealants and we've got uh a really cool interview we're gonna be talking about a really cool product that tower is coming out with or has actually already come out with an eco-friendly refillable caulking gun so stay tuned for this interview in this video if you want to see some new technology in the caulking world so i've got matt here we're going to be talking a little bit about um caulking today and it's something that we use almost every day in painting so matt um who are you what do you do here what's your role here at tower sealants yeah well chris first thanks for coming to join us we appreciate you flying across the country to to spend some time with us uh again my name is matt i'm in a new product development role here at tower i've been here since the beginning of the year and predominantly i'm focused on driving uh some new innovation there's been some great ideas some great products uh some chemical technology that towers had uh available for a period of time and they've been fortunate enough to where they've been growing with their current customer base that a lot of these great new innovations have just been sitting over on the shelf or on the side and so my job is to to bring this to life and figure out you know what the painters need and what the market demands and how we fill that additional space so how long have you been with tower sealants now is this a new role or is it it's a new role that was developed uh coming in and i've been here since the beginning of march and uh prior to that i was with a large paint manufacturer and in the industry a little over a decade yeah so you've been in the paint industry um uh product related industry for quite some time now so i think you got a lot of experience doing this um so is can you give me a fun fact about uh yourself about me uh i'm gonna put you on the spot i'm a little calmer now i have a wife and three kids but i spent quite a few years skydiving that was my passion and so uh a little after the second child before our third was born i i decided it was time to hang that up and maybe someday we'll revisit that and start so and so skydiving and you've obviously survived so yeah every time i i'm i'm an adrenaline junkie and so um and i think most skydivers probably are too but um skydiving is one thing i don't think i would ever do it's not as exciting as caulk so all right so uh we do…