0:01

I apologize if I sound weird or start to sound

0:03

weird because I just sneezed a whole bunch of times.

0:05

I have this like thing, I don't know if I

0:07

ever told you guys this, but I either sneeze three

0:10

times or like 30.

0:12

I think I remember what you may be talking

0:14

about this. Man, like the other night

0:16

I something I was holding one of my cats that's

0:18

what it was. I got

0:20

some cat hair up in my nose and easily

0:23

25 sneezes just I

0:25

mean in in about a minute like it's

0:27

just one after another and it's

0:30

a terrible feeling. So if I sound

0:32

bad I apologize that's why. I'm just

0:35

sneezy. How are

0:37

you guys? What

0:39

were you sneezing from this morning?

0:41

I don't know. Breathing?

0:44

I'm not really sure. It was it

0:47

was the three variety so it wasn't

0:51

terrible. Yeah I was just just doing

0:53

a general health check here. Yeah

0:56

yeah no I just I just

0:58

sneeze sometimes. I got a

1:00

little bit of a cold this morning. I started with two days

1:03

ago and I thought it was gone but now it's back a

1:05

little bit. So I'm

1:07

a little bit nasally myself so

1:09

I apologize in advance. It's

1:12

okay. I'm gonna be muting a

1:15

lot just to blow my nose and stuff. I

1:17

must say that watching the clips are interesting. The clips

1:19

that came up this week a lot of people love

1:22

the clips of me talking about my dad which was

1:24

great. Sometimes I see those clips and I want to

1:26

throw my phone in the toilet. It

1:29

wasn't this week. Why is that? I

1:34

don't know. I just forget half the things I say on

1:36

here and I watch like did I just say that? Oh

1:38

my god. Oh man I forget a hundred percent of the

1:41

things I say. I'm gonna blog. I'm gonna send these messages

1:43

and I'm like what? Oh yeah.

1:46

So not only am I reminded of them I get

1:49

to see myself with sleepy eyes talking about him in

1:52

my groggy voice. But they're

1:54

really nice and I get lots of compliments about

1:56

the things we talked about about my dad so

1:58

it was really sweet. So just

2:01

a general thank you to everybody that

2:03

sent beautiful, kind messages. And

2:06

a lot of the fans knew my dad personally, so

2:08

they shared stories of when they met him that I

2:10

didn't even know, which was really nice. You know, my

2:12

dad would bump into fans all the time on Long

2:14

Island, and they would not recognize him and talk to

2:16

him. So that's really sweet. So

2:18

thank you for that. And for

2:20

those that are curious, the ceremony is on

2:22

December 8th, which would be today. Tower's

2:24

funeral parlor is going to be two viewings in the

2:26

afternoon and then in the evening. And

2:29

then tomorrow we have a family thing, so

2:31

it's basically tomorrow, meaning the Saturday afternoon. But

2:34

that's it. And the reason a lot

2:36

of people went to the Tower's funeral

2:38

parlor last Friday, thinking

2:41

that was the time it would have been exactly one

2:43

week later, was logistics with

2:45

my brother and his kids from California.

2:48

And that's really what it was all about, logistics.

2:50

And when everybody can get it together to come at the same

2:52

time. That's why. Gotcha.

2:57

But besides that, I had

2:59

a pretty busy week, even though I haven't been doing too

3:01

much social media. I kind of got, I

3:03

got, the other night I

3:05

was making a part for one of the bells that I

3:07

made. And I did a long

3:09

little story about how I could make the toggle at

3:11

the top that would hold the shackle. So I did

3:13

a long story on that. That was fun. Remember,

3:17

like three years ago, I said I want to make

3:19

a bell? Mm-hmm. Well,

3:22

now, now I've made three in

3:24

various states of looking

3:27

good. One being

3:29

horrible and one being pretty, pretty

3:31

okay. One in the middle being a lot of pop

3:33

marks and stuff. I

3:36

haven't been showing them off too much. Well, I showed the ones off

3:38

just a couple of days ago because they didn't have the inscription in

3:40

them. They get an inscription in them,

3:42

which is a first ceremony that takes place next week. And

3:46

last night I peeled, I had it in the etch

3:48

and I pulled it out of the etch. And it

3:50

was nearly perfect except for one letter had a leak

3:52

under it. So when the etch gets under the letters,

3:55

it etches everything it touches. So

3:57

the letter, the date is on it.

4:00

the three and the 23 has like

4:02

a big pock mark on it. It

4:07

looks like something that was recovered from the ocean. That's really, you

4:09

know, what can you do? The

4:13

bell is about a ceremony that has something to do with the

4:15

ocean. So I'm not getting

4:17

paid for it. It was really just me volunteering my time. And

4:20

so the one that I showed my friend who requested

4:22

I make it, he's like, see if you can get

4:24

it better. And so that's when I started Monday morning

4:27

by casting a whole new one. Polishing

4:29

it that day and etching

4:31

it last night. So in two days I did what it

4:34

took me weeks to do because

4:36

then I was, the most important lesson in

4:38

all of it is having

4:40

fumbled my way through all of it,

4:43

now having the tech to be able to go, okay,

4:45

today I'm gonna make a bell. And

4:47

I did it. Whereas three years ago I said,

4:49

I wanna make a bell. And I had no

4:51

idea where to go with it. I was super

4:53

nervous. And I say it all

4:56

the time, if you're not jumping into

4:58

a project, there's

5:00

something unconsciously that you're afraid of. Most

5:03

often it's unconscious, sometimes it's very conscious.

5:06

But there's something in the process that's scaring

5:08

you. And there was a lot to

5:10

this process that was scaring me. Even

5:12

right up until Monday morning when

5:14

I had the mold ready, I made the mold

5:17

out of pectromons and

5:21

packed the mold, flipped it over. I was all working

5:23

alone because there was nobody around. And

5:25

the mold gets heavier and heavier. And this mold may be

5:27

60, 70 pounds of sand in

5:31

this big huge box that's like at

5:33

least one foot in each direction. And

5:37

flipping it over and hoping the mold doesn't

5:39

collapse inside because there's a big cavity in

5:41

there. Getting it ready and

5:43

then melting the bronze. And then Mike, my

5:45

guy who's working on my barn, my neighbor,

5:48

Mike drove by the barn because he was working at

5:50

the back barn. So I said, Mike, you

5:53

got about an hour? He's like, yeah, why, what's up? He's

5:55

like, can you help me pour this bell? He's like, yeah, sure. So

5:58

he got all excited to help me. And

6:00

he had a little bit of experience doing it on

6:02

a smaller scale, so he's always very helpful. He's

6:05

a great guy. And so Mike hung out with me. And

6:07

I was thinking in my head, how can I pour about

6:09

20 pounds of bronze alone? It's usually

6:11

a two-man operation. I was like weighing it out, thinking

6:13

about it. And then he showed up. So

6:17

that was fun that he helped me. And so

6:21

there it is. So the long and

6:23

short of it is gathering information, gathering

6:25

knowledge is just incredible when you have

6:27

it. And it's scary when you don't.

6:30

And sometimes you know what you know, and sometimes you don't know

6:32

what you don't know. And if

6:34

there's usually a hiccup in a system, it's usually because

6:36

you're just not confronting the

6:38

whole picture. It happens to me all the

6:40

time. It's interesting

6:42

because I know you do some

6:44

things multiple times, but like most

6:47

of us, a

6:50

lot of the things you do, you do them one time. And

6:53

then maybe you won't do it again for

6:55

multiple years or whatever. But this one, you've been

6:58

like incrementing on a little bit. And

7:01

you've been able to solve and then

7:03

immediately go back or pretty closely

7:05

go back and do it again. And

7:08

that's a big benefit that I guess none of us really

7:10

get very often with what we do. Well, you know what

7:12

it is? To be perfectly

7:14

honest, I was challenged by

7:16

my buddy Mike, who for

7:19

lack of a better term, he ordered this for

7:21

the ceremony. And

7:25

I said, okay, cool. I had been wanting to do

7:27

it. This will be a perfect excuse to do it.

7:29

It's somewhat of a prestigious event. It's a historical event

7:31

that we're going to be involved in. And he invited

7:34

me to come to the event. And

7:37

I'm going to be the guy that's going to have

7:39

to explain the pockmark on the number three to every

7:41

single person. I was like, wow, you made this spell.

7:43

I'm like, yeah, but you see the number three is

7:45

really, you know, it looks great. You

7:48

know, we're going to forget every other thing I did except

7:50

for the little pockmark on the number

7:52

three. Explain it

7:54

to 400 people in two weeks. You

7:57

shouldn't even be mentioning it here. You

8:00

know how it is. You do

8:02

like a beautiful in line. Like this one piece didn't fit perfect,

8:04

so I had to fill it with resin. That's

8:06

great. I didn't even notice that till now that you point it out. That's all I

8:09

see. So

8:12

being pushed against the wall got

8:15

my fire going. Whereas I would

8:17

have been like, I'll

8:19

do that one day when the mysterious

8:21

hiccup figures itself out, which it never

8:23

would have. Right, yeah.

8:26

Because I didn't challenge myself. And

8:29

then, so I learned three

8:31

processes in doing this. The

8:34

old traditional method of the sand one is the

8:36

one that ultimately for me was successful. The first

8:38

one was a failure. I

8:40

was trying to cast the bell with all the inscriptions

8:42

raised on it. And that didn't work.

8:44

I was trying to do a full-on lost wax technique

8:46

like a proper bronze cast. And the

8:49

method I was using was for making jewelry. Anything

8:52

under like one pound. And here I'm trying to cast

8:54

something that's like 15 pounds. So

8:56

the mold kept breaking. And the melted

8:59

bronze would pour out of the cracks. In

9:02

fact, we were mixing up the, we melted the bronze

9:05

and Mike was helping me at the time. I fed

9:07

Mike who ordered the bell. He

9:10

goes, you think we have to worry about those cracks? I

9:12

go, it'll be fine. It'll probably cool off right when it

9:14

hits those cracks and seal up. We

9:17

poured in like 15 pounds

9:19

of bronze, just seeped through the tiny little crack.

9:21

It just made a huge puddle. Just like it

9:23

came right out like oil. And

9:25

like just started to fire on the grass.

9:28

I guess the crack is really important to

9:30

close up. So

9:33

that was a failure. But

9:35

then the third process. So

9:38

that was a big chunk of plaster with a negative

9:40

in it that I baked out in the kiln. But

9:43

the proper way to do broadcasting is to take

9:45

a wax figure or whatever it is with all

9:48

the sprues on it. For casting

9:50

and the cup at the top. And

9:52

dip it into a slurry and create a

9:54

ceramic shell around the whole thing. So that

9:56

when you finally bake it, you

9:59

have. Let's say it's the shape

10:01

of a snowman. So when you're done, you basically

10:03

have this the shape of a snowman. The mold

10:05

looks like the shape of a snowman, but it's

10:07

a quarter inch thicker. It's like

10:09

a coffee cup. Once it's all

10:11

baked and all the wax is baked out. Now that

10:13

is a proper mold for bronze casting. And then once

10:15

the bronze cures, once you pour it in and it

10:17

cures, you just chip it off with a chipping hammer.

10:21

And then that's the proper way. So I'm

10:23

getting a five gallon bucket of

10:25

the two-step process, two five gallon buckets of

10:27

the two-step process to make those type of

10:29

molds. So now it's pushing me in

10:31

a whole new direction which I didn't expect

10:33

to go in. I didn't think I could properly do

10:35

that with my facility here.

10:38

And I have to look at

10:40

online and see some other people doing these small scale

10:43

ceramic castings. I said there's no way I can't

10:45

be, there's no way I shouldn't be able to

10:47

do that. And so I ordered up. Are you

10:49

doing that for the bell or for just something?

10:51

I will try it only because it's just like

10:53

a challenge at this point. But it's

10:55

not necessary. It's just really for anything else. I have

10:57

other ideas I want to do. The

11:01

first thing I do want to do is years ago somebody

11:07

put out a thing called the no lathe

11:09

pen challenge. Everybody had to make a pen

11:11

out of something with

11:13

no lathe. And I made a little clay sculpture of

11:15

a man that's standing with his arms out like this.

11:18

It's like a little like molded, it almost looks like

11:20

it's kind of stop action, stop

11:22

animation. And I want

11:25

to take the original casting I have of him, make

11:27

him in wax and do a couple of bronze castings

11:29

of him. So that's going to be the first

11:32

project. It's small obviously it's the size of a pen with

11:34

arms and legs. So that's a simple little casting

11:36

that I could do without

11:38

a two-man pour. Just

11:41

a few ounces. So I'll

11:43

probably experiment with that just to get my my

11:46

toes in the water there with that type of

11:48

ceramic molding. And it's small enough you can

11:50

go in to kill them easily. So the

11:52

two men pick them up and drop them off. So

11:55

I'm going to start with that. So I'll show all that process

11:57

as I get into it. But I wouldn't have got into that.

11:59

I wouldn't open that door. if I didn't go down this

12:01

route with the whole challenge of myself on the bell. And

12:03

I wouldn't have turned the corner if Mike didn't say,

12:06

hey, can you make me a bell for the ceremony that's

12:08

coming up for this historic moment in time?

12:10

I was like, wow, I'm honored you asked. I said, I don't

12:12

think I could do that. He goes, yeah, you'll figure it out.

12:15

Okay. And so here we go.

12:17

And it's funny, I showed him bell number two the

12:19

other day and he goes, it's pretty good. He goes,

12:21

make another one. And I was like, oh. And now

12:24

you're out of the landing here. He goes, you know

12:26

how to do it. Now make another one. I

12:28

was like, okay. Okay. And

12:31

I got to hand them off to him. He's going to be

12:33

at my dad's ceremony. So I have to hand them off to him then.

12:37

And I was like, all right, I'll have it for Friday. And

12:39

that's why I jumped right into it early this week. So

12:43

I'll send you guys pictures of the inscription. Awesome.

12:49

David, what are you even up to? I've

12:52

got a few things going on. I'm finishing

12:54

up a video now of, it was supposed

12:56

to be 10 Christmas gifts.

12:58

You can still make before Christmas.

13:02

And turns out it's a little

13:04

hard to design and

13:06

make 10 different things in three days.

13:08

So it's probably

13:10

going to be seven or eight things you

13:12

can make. Time just sounds

13:14

better in a thumbnail. But it's

13:19

funny, even if you're doing little crafty

13:21

gift things, I always

13:23

underestimate how long everything is going to

13:25

take. And so that's

13:27

the video we're finishing up this week that

13:30

will be out this weekend. And

13:33

then at the other

13:35

house, I

13:37

was going to start the

13:39

bed for the bedroom that we're

13:41

working on, but the bathroom renovation

13:44

is going faster than expected. And

13:46

the guy that's working on it has it down

13:49

to the studs. And so I got

13:51

to make the vanity for that. So I got to switch gears and

13:54

make the vanity for that bathroom. The

13:58

floors in the house just got got

14:00

all refinished and so

14:02

I really couldn't go over there for like a

14:04

week and a half while he was working on

14:06

it and then the smell of polyurethane was so

14:08

bad I couldn't stand being there for more than

14:10

10 minutes. And

14:16

then so for the other

14:18

for that budget shop I

14:21

bought a bunch of tools a

14:23

few a couple months ago

14:25

I did a I bought a bunch of cheap Amazon

14:27

tools and one of those tools was a when circular

14:30

saw and I was very surprised on

14:32

how well built this cheap circular saw

14:34

was and it's one of the cheapest

14:36

circular saw that you can get on

14:38

Amazon and then some

14:40

people have some comments saying when make some really

14:43

good stuff you should look into more of the

14:45

tools. I don't

14:47

remember like 30 bucks or like

14:49

no it was more more than that but

14:52

it was a corded one too so and

14:57

a bunch of people are like when make some really good budget

15:00

friendly stuff and so I went and

15:02

I bought all the one

15:04

tools like table

15:07

saw, planer, joiner, miter

15:11

saw, a bunch

15:13

of other things and I just it's

15:16

all of those are going into the budget shop but

15:18

I'm going to do a video kind of like reviewing

15:20

all of them and so

15:22

that'll be that'll be kind of fun.

15:25

I've got some good use with the table saw we were

15:28

for the Christmas gift stuff I wanted to use

15:31

some inexpensive tools just

15:34

to kind of show that anybody could

15:36

do this with a few basic tools.

15:38

So I've been using the one table

15:40

saw and it's so weird coming from

15:42

the big luxury saw stop table saw

15:45

to working with a little contractor saw which I

15:47

don't have a lot of experience with and

15:50

it's really hard to get the fence in

15:52

the perfect spot and then when you're angling

15:54

the blade like the saw

15:56

stop you can just crank it until you

15:58

get the perfect angle. Angle and

16:01

then lock it down with the contractor saw

16:03

you yet. You're physically moving this thing in

16:05

a Inner

16:07

radius and then lock it down and it's and I

16:09

got that little digital angle gauge on the blade it's

16:12

so hard to get it right on the right on

16:14

the nose and The

16:17

the worst thing about them is that you're

16:19

always pushing them around. Yeah material You

16:21

gotta lock them into something or screw them to something. Yeah,

16:23

why should push them and they just push away and and

16:27

the things that you don't think

16:29

about like the edges are sharp and so

16:31

like you nick your hand on something and Yeah,

16:35

and and the saw stop everything is Smoothed

16:38

over, you know, it's really is

16:40

a luxury table saw and

16:44

then Where are some of the other things?

16:46

I was taking notes

16:48

while while working with it but

16:52

Yeah, so that's that's that's what's going on. I've I'm

16:56

gonna review a bunch of cheap tools

16:58

from the perspective of a very privileged

17:02

fancy tool guy Interesting

17:05

so I have a question about the review

17:07

thing or you know your

17:09

thoughts on this So I

17:12

was talking Recently

17:14

with somebody about Review

17:17

videos and how I feel

17:19

like there's a place I've never I've never

17:21

really done a review video I mean I

17:23

put together a 3d printer along like many years

17:25

ago and kind of showed the process but it

17:28

wasn't really a review as much as just build

17:31

process or something, but So

17:34

I was talking about review videos and

17:36

how I think there's potential for

17:39

me to do To

17:42

talk about certain tools that I'm using

17:44

in in like the review context But

17:47

it feels like doing what I

17:49

see as reviews by other people

17:51

wouldn't fit on The

17:54

main channel. Mm-hmm. I don't

17:56

know if I'm saying that correctly. It's the

17:59

thing I watch I just Oh, yeah, that's

18:01

the that looks like it's the one Jimmy

18:04

So the the thing that I

18:06

see other people do as a review is

18:08

not really what I would think would fit

18:10

with us But I feel like there's some

18:12

value in me talking about the experience of

18:14

yeah, I'm using a thing And

18:18

I'm trying to figure out exactly What

18:20

that looks like whether it's just a

18:22

straight like I'm gonna review this object,

18:25

right? Or if it's Let's

18:27

talk about these types of objects and I'm gonna happen to

18:29

talk about this one in my context board or whatever so

18:31

for me and I had a big conversation the other day

18:34

about how that

18:36

would work and Where that would go?

18:39

Because my my first tendency is like to

18:41

protect our main channel and not do anything

18:43

there that I absolutely know is not gonna

18:45

perform I mean a lot of

18:47

stuff doesn't perform, but I think it might but

18:49

I don't want to put something there I know is not gonna perform but

18:52

then his perspective was well

18:55

make it in a way that Is

18:58

more intriguing to people and doesn't look like

19:00

a straight, you know object

19:02

X review Yeah, so what is

19:05

your how are you gonna go

19:07

about that? Like what though if you have all these tools

19:09

that are all the same color, they're all right name brand,

19:11

right? I'm gonna be like here's what

19:13

I think. How do you do that? Well, I'm

19:16

not really a review person either I've I've

19:18

done very little reviews on my channel over

19:20

the last 10 years and I

19:27

I'm and I'm not gonna do

19:29

a straight review and I've

19:31

got this series on my channel called I

19:33

bought where I buy the

19:36

cheapest tools on Amazon I Bought

19:38

the cheapest tools on Timu or

19:40

I bought every Facebook ad and

19:42

they do well And I

19:44

think they do well because it's

19:46

kind of a spectacle like oh this

19:48

dude bought every single Facebook ad So

19:50

there's there's that hook with that and

19:53

so my top

19:55

it's over the top right and We

20:00

We are in a position where

20:02

we can do that. That's our

20:04

unfair advantage is because we, you

20:06

know, we'll get 100,000 views or

20:08

more on

20:11

these videos. We are making

20:13

money. We're getting AdSense. We have that privilege

20:15

of doing that. So we

20:17

have that unfair advantage of being able to do

20:19

that. So I'm taking that

20:22

kind of approach with the OneTool. I'm not making a

20:24

video just on the table saw.

20:26

I'm making a video on the air entire

20:28

product line. Nobody's done that.

20:30

Anybody can buy a $150 table saw

20:33

and make a review on it. So

20:36

not many people can buy all of them. I'm

20:39

talking like I'm so privileged and

20:41

I get that. But so that's how

20:44

I'm making it into a spectacle. There's

20:46

um... I'm picturing

20:48

like cribs and all your tools that can be

20:51

parking on them. And you curve driveway and you're

20:53

like walking up on them with a big one.

20:55

It's like laying in bed in his bed, covering

20:57

his power tools. But

21:00

there's a purpose of me getting, me

21:02

buying these sheep tools so they can all go into the budget.

21:05

So they're actually serving a purpose and not just like

21:07

I'm not just wasting money and and

21:11

that and then there's my own perspective on

21:13

this because I do have big tools. I

21:15

normally work with big tools in a nice

21:17

shop. Because

21:20

a lot of times when you

21:22

see a review on a product,

21:24

it's coming from maybe someone who

21:26

is a little bit more budget friendly or

21:28

maybe it's somebody who you know, if you're

21:33

doing a review on a 3D printer and

21:36

all you do is 3D printers, you're

21:38

gonna watch that review because that dude's

21:40

an expert and that or it's

21:45

we're all gonna have our own unique

21:47

perspective. Plus, the reason these are going,

21:50

the reason I would suggest putting on the main

21:52

channel is and it

21:54

gives me more time to work on the

21:57

bigger projects. You know, a bad

21:59

thing. And that's part of my. thinking too. Yeah a

22:01

bathroom vanity is not something that I can

22:03

just make in two days and then move

22:05

on to the next thing. This bathroom vanity

22:07

is going to take a week or two

22:11

and doing a simple video

22:13

that I can shoot in an entire

22:15

day gives me more

22:17

time to work on the bigger projects and

22:20

I have found that people project-based

22:25

videos people want to see bigger stuff and

22:27

not the smaller stuff. So my little crafty

22:30

things that I've done for 10 years, crafty projects

22:32

don't work anymore. That's why I'm doing

22:34

10 of them for this Christmas video. It's more of

22:36

a spectacle and so you

22:39

have an amazing unique perspective. I

22:41

would just use that for your

22:44

reviews and maybe figure out a

22:46

way where you're not calling

22:48

it a review. You know it's

22:50

your take on companies. Yeah

22:53

the expectation that goes with that word

22:55

is probably the thing that I

22:57

internally want to push back on you know

22:59

I'm not comfortable with so yeah. And a

23:01

review sounds boring. Like a

23:04

review video is usually a utility

23:08

like I'm gonna buy this tool, I'm gonna find

23:10

your review on it, I want to see how

23:12

it works and I don't

23:15

want to make a boring video. I want to

23:18

do something I'm excited about so you

23:20

know I try to find that

23:22

angle that's gonna work for me and also

23:24

for my audience. Yeah so

23:27

one of the reasons that

23:30

this has come up to me recently is because

23:32

I got a couple of new

23:34

3D printers. It's probably been six months ago or

23:36

something. One of them I ordered like

23:39

two years before that and it finally showed up and

23:42

it's gigantic. It's like

23:45

the biggest printer I have ever had

23:47

by a large margin and

23:49

it's fantastic. Like it works

23:52

perfectly every single

23:54

time. It's great and so I

23:56

really want to tell people about why I

23:59

legitimately like Like I paid a lot

24:01

of money for this printer and I'm so glad that

24:03

I did. You know what I mean? It's not

24:05

like, let's see how far I can push

24:08

this thing. It's like, wow, it blows me

24:10

away. I want other people to know that it's

24:12

worth the money. At the

24:14

same time, I got a printer from a

24:16

company that just, they reached out and

24:18

they said, hey, can we send you this printer for you

24:20

to try out? No expectation. You don't ever

24:22

have to talk to us again. The

24:24

end. Sure, I mean, I guess

24:26

so. Because it was one I was curious about. It's

24:29

also fantastic for an entirely different set

24:31

of reasons. And

24:33

so that kept me thinking about,

24:35

these are both good things that I acquired

24:38

different ways for different

24:40

reasons. And it feels

24:42

like I should be telling somebody about my

24:45

excitement about them rather than just like,

24:48

I'm just gonna hoard these printers and hide them

24:50

and occasionally show them in a thing. And

24:53

I think because I have these

24:56

two machines that are excellent and do

24:58

exactly what I want them to do, I've

25:01

been printing stuff like crazy

25:03

lately. And I don't show most of it,

25:05

because I needed, did

25:07

I show you these trays before? Cool.

25:10

No, those are cool. So I started, this has been

25:13

done. I didn't come up with this idea. But I

25:15

wanted a tray. If

25:17

you're watching the video, you can see this tray. It's

25:19

just a really simple little plastic

25:22

tray. And I found a model for

25:24

one of these. And then I realized, oh, I wish

25:26

it was a different size. But if I scale the

25:28

whole thing, the proportions will be weird. So I just

25:30

modeled one and it's parametric infusion.

25:32

So I can just, I want it to be 10

25:35

inches square. And it just scales up all of,

25:38

everything stays the same except for the bottom part,

25:40

bottom size. So

25:43

I did that. And then I was like, if I

25:45

can scale it correctly, easily

25:47

with the parameters, then I should just be able to

25:49

make them so that they nest. So

25:51

I just changed the size. And

25:54

now I have like nesting little trays that

25:56

fit in that little groove and they don't

25:58

slide around. Then I

26:00

started going oh wait if I could do that then I could

26:02

do this and I can embed magnets or I can make clips

26:04

So that they lock together on the outside and then I can

26:06

make a desk organizer that goes right here in front of my

26:08

keyboard you know, and I'm just like Like

26:11

idea after idea after idea. Mm-hmm. And

26:13

this is all off-camera

26:15

not project work, but

26:17

I'm using these printers and Finally,

26:20

it's so funny because I'm finally becoming

26:23

the person that everybody thought I was

26:25

in regard The

26:27

3d printers right, you know, everybody just assumes

26:29

like yeah If you have a 3d printer

26:32

then you just 3d print everything and I've

26:34

always been so resistant to it Like it

26:36

needs to be used sparingly or I don't

26:38

know And so

26:40

now I'm like cool. I got a bunch of these

26:42

batteries. These need a thing to go in I'm gonna

26:44

model this and make a little battery holder. That's actually

26:46

what's on the printer right now is battery Yesterday

26:50

I did battery holders for a different battery and

26:54

My point is I'm just finding Okay,

26:56

here's another example There's another

26:59

thing I wanted to talk about. I

27:01

needed these these these drives. I got

27:03

these drives and I didn't

27:06

want to pay for the enclosures So I found

27:08

the model of the enclosure and started printing enclosures

27:10

for them and then I realized I had like

27:12

ten of them So then I

27:14

modeled and printed a little holder for the

27:16

drive. That's well, and it's just like oh,

27:19

yeah I can make anything I can make

27:21

anything And I know if josh

27:23

is listening right now. He's probably rolling

27:25

his eyes because he that's what he did

27:29

right but I

27:32

can see it's it go

27:34

ahead I can see that you are Excited

27:38

about that because it solves a problem

27:40

and it feels so good to

27:43

make something like that And that's exactly

27:45

what your viewers want to see They

27:48

want to see you be excited to make something. Yeah

27:51

Yeah, yeah, that's what I think you

27:53

did doing the video is showing all those things you did

27:55

plus come up with 20 more That

27:57

are seemingly useless but useful And

28:01

it's weird because... Make it tray for one spoon. It

28:04

feels like it would be a review for

28:06

those printers, but the fact of the matter is, I

28:10

like those printers. I'm glad that I have those

28:12

printers. The fact that those printers just work, the

28:15

fact that they are invisible in the process is

28:18

the reason that I'm excited about being able to make

28:20

this stuff. Because then I don't have

28:22

to design a tray and then fight with a printer for five

28:24

days to get it to actually do the thing that I want

28:26

it to do. They just work. I

28:29

sent this to the printer. I sent those

28:31

battery holders to the printer before

28:33

I hit record. And I

28:35

haven't gone in there to look. I can hear it going. I

28:37

know it's working. I know it's going to be fine. Yeah, you

28:39

can hear it. Sorry.

28:43

But I think that's the thing. It's that

28:45

they're invisible in the process. So it makes

28:47

the process way more productive or

28:49

useful or something. I don't know. So

28:51

I'm trying to figure out how to

28:54

take that idea and figure out

28:56

if it needs to be wrapped around a specific

28:59

item, a tool, or if maybe it's

29:01

about the idea and not about the

29:03

tool. And the tool is just a

29:05

little actor in the story. That's

29:08

where I'm at with that. And so I'm trying to figure out

29:11

how to do it and how to be able to do it

29:13

in the future. If I come up with another,

29:15

I stumble

29:17

across another tool that I want to talk about,

29:19

but I don't want to just be like, hey,

29:21

let's review the new item, whatever, whatever. It

29:25

needs a hook, not only for the viewers,

29:28

but it needs a hook to make you

29:30

excited about making the video. True.

29:32

Yeah. Yeah. And

29:34

I think I also wonder if those types

29:37

of videos for me, if

29:39

the meat of it, the excitement of it,

29:41

the thing of it is like a

29:44

minute or two minutes or you

29:46

know what I mean? I'm not sure if it's, if

29:49

there's enough there to really peek into it.

29:51

Yeah. That

29:53

is the challenge of being a YouTuber

29:55

is trying to figure out how

29:58

to turn that minute excitement into

30:00

a full video that

30:03

because saying

30:05

you're excited about something doesn't necessarily translate

30:08

to being excited about something. You have

30:10

to problem solve and you have to

30:12

figure out how to show that excitement

30:14

in a video. Yeah.

30:17

And that's the challenge. And Jimmy,

30:20

yeah, that tool was $30 some dollars. It was

30:22

$39 and 12 cents for that

30:24

circular saw. Yeah, it was really for a

30:26

circular saw? For a circular saw. And it's

30:28

well built. Most stuff is very, corded stuff

30:31

is very cheap these days. Like very inexpensive.

30:33

Not necessarily cheap, cheap, cheap. But inexpensive because

30:35

nobody's buying it. Before

30:38

you, before moving on, I

30:40

do have a question. My SawStop table

30:43

saw, it's a three horsepower. You

30:45

turn it on, most of the

30:47

noise that you hear is the blade spinning

30:50

and pulling and pushing that air. It's

30:54

a really quiet machine. When

30:56

I turn on the tiny little

30:58

WEN table saw, the benchtop table

31:00

saw, it is insanely loud. Like

31:03

I can't even turn it on. Before I

31:05

even cut wood, I have to have your protection on.

31:07

It's so loud. Why is this

31:09

benchtop tool so much louder than a

31:11

three horsepower table saw? That's

31:14

a good question. Maybe it's dampens quite a bit and

31:16

all the steel and the weight. Yeah. Yeah.

31:19

That's what I was going to say. Dampens into the ground potentially.

31:21

Yeah. I mean you

31:24

have a lot less vibration with a cast

31:26

iron top and steel base and all that

31:28

stuff is just holding it down versus

31:30

thin metal on thin legs or

31:32

whatever. It's just those little parts

31:35

are shaking. It's like

31:37

my Land Cruiser. Like the white one is

31:39

pretty quiet because it's tight. The green one,

31:41

it sounds like you're driving a box of

31:43

hammers because everything is every piece.

31:49

By the way, do you have your white Land Cruiser back yet? Let

31:55

me tell you a story Jimmy. I've

31:59

tried. not to I know we've talked

32:01

about it a whole bunch of times. Yeah. I've

32:03

tried not to let it is now.

32:06

Yeah, it's the fourth member. I've tried not

32:08

to give every little detail about the process

32:10

because I know it's obnoxious to people who

32:13

like talking about his dumb car again, it

32:15

never comes back. Okay,

32:18

so couple weeks ago, I think

32:21

I told you they had the engine in it's running,

32:23

they were driving it around and they found that it

32:25

was losing power at like 40. And so they were

32:27

trying to figure that out. So I let

32:30

them do that for a while didn't talk to him for

32:32

a couple weeks. I called him yesterday. He

32:35

goes, he goes, you

32:37

are well we we took the head off. I'm

32:41

like, okay, brand new engine rebuild you

32:43

just took the head off. Right

32:46

turns out what he thinks is happening.

32:48

It's losing power at 40 once it

32:50

heats up and it starts smoking at

32:53

40. And then the engine around this. No,

32:56

this is the shop putting it in. But

32:58

but the engine rebuilder is this subcontractor.

33:01

Yes. Yes. So

33:03

and he was like the guy that built the

33:05

engine like he's really good. And he we

33:08

never have any problems with the stuff that he

33:10

you know, so it's possible that there's a problem

33:12

with the build that on his end, but it's

33:14

unlikely because he's really good. So they're setting up

33:17

blaming the block. No,

33:19

they're blaming the head. So he thinks the

33:21

block is good. He thinks there's probably a

33:24

crack in the head that when they pressure

33:26

test it is not visible because it's cold.

33:29

But then when it heats up, the steel

33:31

in the head expands, the crack

33:33

opens and then moisture gets in.

33:35

And I don't after

33:37

that he was just like, I don't know, jargony

33:40

stuff. So he

33:43

was like, well, we have two options.

33:45

We can either send the whole block

33:47

we can pull the engine. No, and

33:49

send it back to the guy and

33:51

have him fix it. Or we

33:53

still have your old engine. The

33:55

head on the old engine was fine. It threw a rod

33:57

it didn't mess the head up. So he was like, we

34:00

can pull the head from the old engine, put

34:02

it on the new block. Theoretically,

34:04

if that's the problem, it will be fine. If that's not

34:06

the problem, then we'll have to pull the whole engine and

34:08

send it back to him with a new head, which means

34:11

we'll have to pay for some of that

34:13

work to be done twice. And so

34:16

he was basically just like, this thing's a pain

34:18

in my butt. In the time that I've been

34:20

working on your engine, I've put like four other

34:22

ones into other vehicles and I've just, you know,

34:24

they're moving through and how

34:27

is so how is the

34:29

how are they? Have you given them any money?

34:32

Are you paying? I have an auto pay and

34:35

they take out the $1,000 every month.

34:37

No, I gave them 1500 bucks at the beginning.

34:41

This is a year and a half ago, you gave

34:43

him 1500 bucks as like a down

34:46

payment, whatever. And

34:48

he told me it was going to be in

34:51

the range of he said, Oh, it'll probably be

34:54

somewhere between like four and $7,000 depending

34:57

on how much they have to do

34:59

the engine. Most of it is on

35:01

the nose nine, the shop, the machine

35:03

shop end of things. He didn't know

35:06

their cost exactly based on the build.

35:08

He had a pretty good idea of his own labor. And

35:11

then after a year, I started complaining about it. And

35:14

he was like, well, yeah, no, we're still waiting. I'll

35:16

give you a discount on our labor whenever

35:19

we get it. And

35:21

then a couple of months ago when

35:23

I called, I was talking to another guy there.

35:25

And I said, you know, I'm worried about how

35:27

much this is going to cost because you guys

35:29

have had it for a really long time, you're

35:31

continuing to work on it. It was on a

35:33

lift for like a month and a half eating

35:35

up one of their lifts where

35:38

they could be working on other cars. And

35:42

he was like, Oh, no, no, no, you know, Travis

35:44

is not going to charge you any more than what

35:46

he told you upfront. And you know, it's whatever

35:49

he reassured me that that would not be an issue. But

35:51

the fact of the matter is until I go

35:54

up and get the keys in my hand, I'm not going

35:57

to know what they're going to totally touch me for. So

35:59

I am scared. As

36:01

one of the top listeners of this podcast, every

36:05

single episode, I've listened to every single one. As

36:07

one of the top listeners, I want

36:09

you to call them every Tuesday so

36:12

when we record on Wednesday, you can report.

36:16

Okay. Updates. All right. I

36:19

don't think there'll be that much to report.

36:21

And to be honest, I've been trying, I

36:23

mean the guy's really responsive and stuff and

36:26

I don't want to bother him to the point

36:28

to where he's like, oh, it's this guy again.

36:30

I'm just not going to tell him anything. He's

36:32

already there. Or avoid the phone call. Well, you

36:34

know, I thought he was there because he is

36:36

kind of short when he talks, you know,

36:38

like he's very just like, yeah, a bit of it.

36:42

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

36:44

Yeah. But when I was talking to him

36:48

yesterday, he was like taking his

36:50

time to explain what the problem was and what he

36:52

was worried about and what he thought the options were

36:54

and everything. And he was like, here, I'm going to

36:56

give you my personal number. If

36:59

you find anything on the forums or if you

37:01

put out information for something that I can't find

37:03

or whatever, please text me links so that I,

37:05

you know, he's trying to get the right information.

37:07

Does he know that you have this outlet? I

37:11

don't believe so. Does

37:13

he know? I don't think it would matter. It's not

37:15

like, it's not like I'm going to go to YouTube

37:17

and be like, hey, everybody, don't go to this one

37:19

shop that's on the corner across from Best Buy. I

37:22

would have. I mean, I haven't really

37:24

been. I do this every once in

37:26

a while. People who know me know me that

37:28

I make YouTube movies and stuff. And I

37:30

always kind of dabble with the idea of like, like

37:33

Ken, for instance, he's my stonemason who's doing the

37:35

house down the block. Ken is

37:37

absolutely has no interest in being on camera. But once

37:39

in a while when he sees himself on camera, he

37:41

gets excited. His daughter, I know his daughter is his

37:43

assistant. She gets excited. So

37:46

I don't explicitly say you're going to be on camera, but every

37:48

once in a while now he's now he's involved. He'd be like,

37:50

do you want to film this before I put the stone? I'm

37:52

like, yeah, actually. You know, but

37:55

like a garage like this, I'd say, hey,

37:58

I go, you know, I'm not trying to brag or anything. but I'm a

38:00

YouTuber and I got a big channel and I got a big

38:02

fan base and I want to kind of show

38:04

the process and If

38:07

you guys are okay with me showing the process and film a

38:09

little bit You know you guys might get in a video that

38:11

gets a quarter million views That would

38:13

tickle their fancy and get them a little I mean I

38:15

would set it up like that And then another thing this

38:17

is a tip to either you or whoever else is listening

38:20

Whenever I get into something like for instance I did

38:22

all that road work in the back that road work

38:24

in the back was $40,000

38:26

I built a road that comes around and connects all

38:28

the barns It was $40,000 it was 800,000

38:33

pounds of stone to create this road that ended

38:35

up being like about 200 yards long and

38:39

A big open field between the two barns in

38:41

the back So it's kind of like you come

38:43

through my property and it's all overgrown weeds and

38:45

then all of a sudden boom you're in this

38:48

big open area and It's

38:51

off the road. You can't see it So

38:53

I did this whole thing I Knew

38:55

it was going to be expensive I didn't know how much it was going to be

38:58

but I thought it was going to be like 35,000 But

39:01

because we use so much rocket ended up going to 40,000 but

39:05

the reason I bring that up as an example is I

39:07

gave him 10 to start and Then

39:10

trucks just kept coming and then I got nervous and

39:12

this took about three months Trucks

39:14

just kept coming and I was like here's another 10

39:18

Right because I don't want it I don't want to

39:20

feel the pain later and Trucks just kept coming and

39:22

then the grab like head help you want to go

39:24

to here do it and we had a land survey

39:27

map the road so that it would have the right

39:29

curves for drainage and everything we was done properly and

39:32

and I

39:34

gave him another 10 and Then

39:37

a five and over the course so I didn't wait till

39:39

the end to have to write a big giant check that

39:42

was gonna be painful Thankfully,

39:44

I had the money and you know money was coming in

39:46

this time last year. So I was able to pay for

39:48

it, but That

39:50

idea of waiting for the big Gut

39:54

punch always scares me so

39:56

I always pay guys as I go.

39:58

I mean I can't I can't remember

40:00

an example where I work with a complete stranger like

40:03

you're working with someone that doesn't have any

40:05

awareness of who you are. When

40:07

I go into AutoZone and stuff like that, these guys

40:09

see me coming all the time, but they don't know

40:11

who I am. They think I'm just some idiot New

40:14

Yorker that bought a farm up here and doesn't know

40:16

how to start a car because I'm constantly coming in

40:18

there and buying starter fluid from these guys. You guys

40:20

still gasoline in here? Yeah. Like, you got any more

40:22

starter fluid? The other day when I bought 10 cans

40:24

of starter fluid, they put in every vehicle that I

40:27

have, every lawn mower. So

40:29

every lawn mower, every ride-on mower, every tractor, everything

40:31

is going to have a can of starter fluid

40:33

like sitting next to the carburetor. I've got a

40:35

tire string to it. Yeah,

40:39

so I kind of tempt it just this way.

40:42

It's almost like a Mexican standoff. It's like

40:45

you guys could write your own story. You want to

40:47

make it bad? You're going to make it bad. You

40:49

want to make it good? You're making good. It's

40:52

up to you. Yeah,

40:54

I mean, I mean, it's too late now. But you come

40:56

at it with like a fun, hey, you guys want to

40:58

be part of the process? I'm going to show how you

41:01

guys do this because I'm learning and I don't know how

41:03

to fix an engine and I want to learn with you

41:05

guys. I did tell him at the beginning that when I

41:07

thought it was going to be six weeks, I was like,

41:10

yeah, I'm probably going to make a video about this. That's kind of

41:12

all I said about it. I'm going to make a video, but I

41:14

was wondering if I could come in and just shoot some of you

41:16

like putting it in and stuff like that. And

41:18

he was like, yeah, sure, I guess. Like,

41:21

whatever. That's his demeanor. Sure,

41:23

you can. You can. Well,

41:26

this reminds me of a funny story. Like a year

41:28

and a half later and I never do this reminds

41:30

him of a very funny story. Albany

41:34

Steel, who I would go in and

41:36

buy steel, go in and buy steel, go in and buy

41:38

steel. I never said, hey, because every guy that works there,

41:40

you see him once, you never see him

41:42

again. The counter guy, Bob, eventually started

41:44

being there more often and he retired. Now there's a

41:46

new guy. But the counter

41:48

guy began to know me and Taylor because we were constantly

41:50

coming in there and buying steel. And

41:53

then somebody there recognized my name and started

41:55

telling everybody I make YouTube videos. But

41:58

early on when I used to go there. I

42:01

had a cutout I had them cut out these letters

42:03

for me for a bullet bourbon sign the half-inch thick

42:05

steel And I said hey, can I

42:08

film the process? I make YouTube videos guy went

42:10

absolutely not No one's allowed

42:12

in the back. I was like, can I give you

42:14

the camera and you know, no filming

42:16

at all and Then when

42:18

the video went up and they saw like I just like

42:20

I was like, oh I went to this place and they

42:22

cut The letters they wouldn't let me see how it was

42:24

done They were like, oh,

42:26

oh wow. Like they realized what an opportunity

42:28

they missed And I didn't

42:31

badmouth them. I was just like, all right Absolutely,

42:33

cuz it's like highly industrial and plus, you

42:35

know, they just they're just old-school They don't

42:37

understand the power of the internet. They still

42:39

though their website looks like it was

42:41

made like, you know It's you ever

42:43

see the like the pixelated websites. It looks like

42:45

that. Yeah So

42:48

they didn't understand the potential

42:50

and now a couple of the guys do

42:52

so When I call in

42:54

and make an order like oh, what are you making?

42:57

You making something fun? You know, I'm like, yeah You

42:59

know, sometimes the female operators recognize but

43:05

I got to know Bob the most who retired but

43:07

the point I make it is is You know, sometimes

43:09

these people just don't realize the potential and then you

43:12

know, like if you go I'm making a video. He's

43:14

like, okay That's cute Everyone's

43:16

got Facebook, you know, like you say

43:19

no, no, no. No, I have five million

43:21

followers. I Would be

43:23

like look this is my Instagram. This is my you

43:25

know, you're not a good bragger Bob Some

43:27

living you know, I'm absolutely not Would

43:32

rather go in like with the hood on and be like, hey,

43:34

can you just do this thing for me? I'll

43:38

pay you in six years from now. Yeah Yeah,

43:41

I would go in there. I would go in there

43:43

with my phone open to my thing that accidentally says Yeah,

43:53

this is my channel by the way, this is if you want to

43:55

be in a video this is Two

43:58

million really? Yeah,

44:00

it's nothing. Hey, it's no

44:02

big deal. I'll be pointing it out to you

44:04

because it's no big deal. Yeah. Yeah,

44:07

so I don't know about the car. I don't

44:09

know. I

44:13

was telling Jenny yesterday, I'm honestly, I hate

44:16

that I'm over it, but I'm kind of getting over it.

44:19

Because I really do love that vehicle and I've

44:21

been looking forward to it. But

44:23

at this point, it's been so long that,

44:25

you know, I

44:28

haven't driven it in a year and a half. I

44:30

haven't, like, I'm beginning to be like, well, like,

44:32

what's the point? It's just... What's

44:34

annoying is there's somebody in the audience that could take

44:36

that car and get it running in a weekend, get

44:38

it perfect. Like I have

44:40

a, when I took over Aaron's space,

44:43

when Aaron passed and I took over his space

44:45

in my little complex, it's like a little 1000

44:48

square foot garage, and I ended

44:50

up subletting it to this kid Silas,

44:52

who's a tiny town forage. He's an

44:54

amazing knife maker. He's unbelievable. Young, he's

44:56

only, he's like a little mini Alex

44:58

Steele. He's probably 21 now. But

45:02

he started renting the place a few years ago

45:04

and he's an amazing, but on top of

45:06

that, he's an incredible mechanic.

45:09

He has a little Volvo and he's always dirty. I

45:11

go, what are you doing? He's like, oh, I just

45:13

put the other engine in the Volvo tonight. I'm like,

45:15

what? He's like, yeah, it only took me a few

45:17

hours. He pulls the engine out and puts a new

45:19

engine in. And then, like, the other day they have

45:21

a Suburban and

45:24

him and his friend Mike, I go, we're going to take the

45:26

engine out of the Suburban. We're going to put it in that

45:28

pickup truck. I'm like, really? When are you

45:30

going to do that? I want to watch. He's like, I don't know.

45:34

I'm like, probably going to be in bed.

45:36

But these type of guys exist where to them

45:38

it's no big deal and it's fun. Yeah,

45:41

this guy's, you know, obviously making a making

45:43

a dollar, but I'm

45:45

putting it out there because Bob won't ask because Bob doesn't

45:47

tell anybody. He's got 5 million followers. I

45:50

don't have, what are you talking about? I don't have

45:52

5 million followers. How many do you

45:54

got? So

45:56

I'm just,

45:59

I'm just. pick on you Bob but if

46:01

there's somebody in the audience that wants to come

46:03

and rescue Bob's car some geek engine guy. See

46:06

here's the deal you have to break into the shop you

46:09

have to steal the car that won't drive and then take

46:11

it somewhere and fix it. That's a good video right there.

46:15

That'll get you five million followers right there.

46:17

Yeah. Now I'm just fantasizing like let's say

46:19

imagine a scenario where you just buy your

46:21

car at a hawk you just buy it

46:23

back whatever and maybe it runs

46:25

and it only goes 40 miles an hour you buy

46:27

it back okay cool. He gets it you get a

46:29

discount because it's not where it's supposed to be you

46:32

get it back and then you make a movie with a fan that

46:35

is would love to fix it just to

46:37

hang out with you and do it and just

46:39

you know that's a fantasy.

46:41

So this way you don't lose I'm trying to help

46:43

you from losing your heart for your favorite car.

46:46

Yeah I appreciate that and yeah I mean that

46:48

is like kind of a worry is that you

46:50

know I really do like this thing and I've

46:53

said it before as much as I've never been

46:55

a car person I'm a car person now and

46:58

specifically for Land Cruisers and

47:01

I don't want to lose that because I

47:04

enjoy it and what's funny is that you

47:07

know you're talking about those people that can just like I'm

47:09

gonna pull an engine and put in a new engine or

47:11

I'm gonna just replace this giant thing or whatever. I want

47:13

to be that person. I want to

47:15

be able to do that. I'm interested enough in

47:19

car stuff now knowing

47:21

that my knowledge level is absolutely like 0.0001 but

47:23

I want it to be higher and I regret

47:25

the fact that I

47:30

took this thing to somebody else to do. I

47:32

really wish that I had kept it and

47:34

spent a year and a half learning how to do

47:36

the same work myself but even if it was in

47:38

the exact same state that it is right now I

47:41

would have the knowledge of all of this stuff. I

47:43

see this is a perfect montage. This is a perfect

47:45

montage in like an 80s movie. Well but I can't

47:47

get that year back. That's not like

47:50

a montage. We'll start

47:52

now. You buy the

47:54

car at a hawk with the 40 mile

47:56

an hour limit. You bring it to

47:58

somebody who's listening right now.

48:00

He's looking at the radio right now going,

48:02

that's me, it's me, it's me, it's me.

48:04

I've got messages from the guy. I know

48:06

who you're talking to. I hear me. And

48:11

then you do this thing where you

48:13

hold this belt loop while he pulls

48:15

the engine out and you help him

48:17

and you wipe all the

48:19

lifters off and he's telling you what to do.

48:22

I could imagine the montage now. And

48:25

then in the end you drive off in the sunset going

48:28

43 miles an hour. You're

48:31

42 miles an hour. Speaking

48:36

of cars, I spent last week, not last

48:38

week, last week on Thursday I spent the

48:40

entire day, I did the body work on

48:42

the gear that I was talking about doing

48:44

the video and I just

48:48

did body filler and sanding and

48:50

stuff all day long. And

48:53

it was such a

48:55

weird day because I was making

48:57

a video about the process, about the

48:59

process being a lot of

49:01

work and very little to show for it. You

49:03

know what I mean? And so I knew going into it,

49:05

I'm going to be working really hard all day long and

49:08

I'm going to get to the end and it's going to

49:10

look like I did absolutely nothing. So you should

49:12

bring it back to original unless you're like making it into

49:14

a fish or something for a parade. No,

49:17

I'm bringing, but I mean, yes, it is

49:19

closer to being done, but visually

49:21

it looks exactly like

49:23

it did. It just, you know,

49:25

the spots of body filler are slightly different

49:27

shaped or in different places or whatever. But

49:31

it was weird because I worked on,

49:33

I think my

49:35

technique got better for applying filler and

49:37

sanding and stuff like that throughout the

49:39

day. So it was good. But again,

49:42

you can't see that. But

49:44

I worked all day and very little changed

49:48

even from like feeling like I had

49:50

any sections done or close to done

49:53

or anything. You know, I just didn't

49:55

get it. And then the last hour,

49:57

the back quarter panel, there's There

50:00

was just tons of stuff and I hammered a bunch of

50:02

it out and I did a whole bunch of work to

50:04

it. Still wasn't close. So it's a dead body filler. And

50:07

in the last hour, this

50:09

big section, like three

50:11

feet wide, went

50:14

from like just terrible

50:16

to hey, like this

50:18

is almost there. Like

50:20

I could see the curve was back. It

50:23

wasn't curve with dents. It was, oh,

50:26

the curve's there now. The compound, the

50:28

big sweeping, you know,

50:30

it's not done. It's definitely

50:32

not sanded well enough yet,

50:35

but it wasn't terrible. And

50:38

after a day's worth of work, in

50:41

that last little bit, all of a sudden

50:43

feeling like, oh wait, like this is progress.

50:45

I can see progress right here. It felt

50:47

really cool. And oddly

50:50

enough gave me more desire to do, I wanted

50:52

to stay for like into the night and just

50:54

do more body filler, but I had stuff I

50:56

had to do. So I'm

50:58

really anxious to get back out there

51:00

and spend some more days like that

51:02

of just with the camera off and

51:05

just move it along and just really push

51:07

each one of those sections. And I did

51:09

the thing again where at the end of

51:11

the day I went around the entire vehicle

51:14

with Sharpie and just everything

51:16

I saw just make

51:18

a tick mark or make a circle

51:20

around it or whatever. And the number

51:22

of those things, there's still big areas that

51:24

have to be done, but the number of

51:27

little things that I haven't done anything with

51:29

is getting smaller and smaller and smaller and everything is

51:32

getting a little bit better and a little bit better,

51:34

you know. And there were

51:36

a few sections that are completely done, like

51:38

small. You're

51:41

muted, Jimmy. Your camera's

51:43

off, Bob, I think. I

51:45

see, nope, I see them. No, I

51:48

don't know. They're weird these days.

51:50

Okay, I can't see. But anyway,

51:54

it's moving along and there's still a long way to go,

51:56

but it is actually really gratifying to get some work in

51:58

and I want to do it. more of this

52:00

stuff, you know to move it along It's

52:04

good. Did you even mention

52:06

what video you're working on next? Mmm,

52:10

I did not try to think what

52:12

that is How the

52:14

give video is the next one that will be

52:16

out actually that yeah And

52:19

it's it's a different type of video because it's I

52:21

was doing one thing a bunch of

52:23

times So it's like a lot of body filler and

52:25

a lot of standing. So I tried to make

52:28

the video a

52:31

little different in that it's broken up from

52:33

like work talking work talking work talking but

52:35

the talking is My

52:39

wife is in and out of the door over there and

52:41

it's slamming so I apologize but The

52:44

talking is like I answered questions and then I

52:46

talked about You

52:48

know different things and so it's a different feel we

52:51

also have a different editor for this one and I

52:56

We have a new editor that we're working with

52:58

and so I went to them and said here's

53:00

a bunch of footage We've

53:03

trained you up on doing project videos and this

53:05

is not a project video. So here's

53:07

a bunch of different types of footage It's

53:09

a different tone video You don't have to

53:11

follow the guide that we gave you about

53:13

how video should be so be

53:15

creative so we'll see how this video

53:17

turns out because you

53:19

know, it's kind of like maybe not

53:21

fair to the editor to give them so much

53:23

freedom and expect them to do what you

53:26

know something really good, but I'm

53:28

interested to see how that's gonna turn out so

53:31

that's the next one and then After

53:33

that I'm working on I mean

53:36

right now I'm working on a big light

53:38

fixture for over our kitchen table And

53:40

this has been something I've been wanting to do for a long time

53:43

We tried to find you know, we did the whole kitchen.

53:45

We have this big long table

53:47

in there right in front of

53:50

two big windows and It's

53:52

in a corner and

53:54

we've been trying to find a light fixture to go there that

53:56

fits the Format of the

53:58

table but fits in front of windows and

54:00

we have not had any luck for a

54:02

couple of years now. So I finally decided

54:04

I'm just gonna make something and

54:08

it's either gonna look really awesome

54:10

or terrible and I have no

54:12

idea which. Either way I'm excited

54:15

about making it and I've got

54:17

it all figured out theoretically. So

54:20

at this point it's just a matter of

54:22

some welding and some electrical and some

54:24

laser work and stuff but yeah.

54:27

I'm a little

54:31

bit anxious about it because it may just look

54:33

dumb. It's a big thing that's

54:35

gonna take a long time and it's a lot

54:37

of like yeah I don't know. We'll

54:39

see. That's what

54:42

I'm working on. And

54:45

that puts us at almost an hour. I

54:48

thought I was gonna have a video this week I'm not sure.

54:50

I still have all day today and tomorrow. I

54:53

don't know. I might have something but maybe I probably

54:55

won't. I got too much from my mind. Yeah

54:58

I think that's forgivable. Yeah. You don't have to

55:00

do videos all the time. And

55:04

it's getting to that part of

55:06

the year where I mean

55:09

outside of your situation. That

55:11

part of the year where like I'm ready to wrap

55:13

stuff up. I'm ready to kind of like you

55:17

know take a Christmas break or something.

55:21

And the difficult thing about what

55:23

we do is the best ad revenue of

55:25

the year is this month. So if we

55:28

take a break like the big break. We're

55:30

kind of missing out you know. Yeah. Best

55:33

ad revenue this month and then next

55:35

month and then the following two are

55:37

the worst. So yeah it's always a

55:39

good time to take advantage of December

55:42

but you can only do

55:45

what you can do. Taking a break in

55:47

January actually makes more of a mess for

55:49

us probably. The first week of January I'm

55:51

going to take a chair class with Greg

55:53

Pennington. He's the chair guy that April and

55:56

Anne have always showed. It's a good dude. I met him

55:58

one time when I was down in Nashville. So

56:00

me and a few guys are going to go down to

56:02

a chair making class starting on like

56:04

the second or maybe the third in

56:07

Nashville for a week. So that should be fun. You

56:09

driving or fun? I think I'm going to fly. Me

56:11

and Derek is going to come. I think Derek is,

56:13

he hasn't confirmed yet, but if Derek comes, I

56:16

might fly with him out of Boston. And

56:18

then Patrick is going to be there too. Patrick's going to drive.

56:20

So Patrick will drive home anything we make. Just

56:23

because I'd have to leave and

56:25

you know, it would add like three extra days

56:27

to the trip. I was

56:31

going to say, you could come through here and hang out. I

56:33

mean, if it's fine, whatever, you know, no

56:35

big deal. Doesn't hurt my feelings. It's fine.

56:38

I'll come help you pull the head. There you go. Okay.

56:41

There you go. You can help

56:44

me steal my car back. As

56:46

they're arresting me, I'd be like, look, I

56:48

have two million followers. You can't put me

56:50

in jail. Haven't you seen my,

56:52

don't you know who I am? Yeah.

56:55

Cool. Um,

56:58

you guys got anything else this week? No.

57:01

No, that's it. We were going to talk about what

57:03

we're going to be like when we're old men, but we could do

57:05

that in a week. I totally forgot about that. We actually had a

57:07

topic. We'll save it. We did. Like

57:11

how we picture ourselves as old men. So that'll be

57:13

next week. Yeah. And

57:15

we'll forget next week too. Yeah, we will. Yeah,

57:17

exactly. All right. Well,

57:20

um, let me thank our Patreon supporters. We have a

57:22

new, new supporter this week. Mike Ryan jumped

57:24

on at the top tier. Big

57:28

thanks to Nick for hopping on and helping out the

57:30

show. Along

57:32

with Nick is Corey Ward, Albers Woodworks,

57:34

Works by Solo, Chad from Man Crafting,

57:37

Chad's Custom Creations, Rich at Low

57:39

and Design, Odin Leathergoods, Sean

57:41

Vekner, Scott at Dad at Yourself DIY, the

57:43

new JK Workshop, Warren Works, Michael Mnedgen, the

57:45

Web Ranch Specialties and Crabtree Creative. But there's

57:47

a whole bunch of other people. Mike,

57:53

uh, let's see, we haven't had anything about in a

57:55

while. Samuel Gable. There's

57:57

a bunch of people that help us out over on Patreon.

58:00

They all get the after show. Thank

58:03

you everybody. Thank you, thank you.

58:06

Is more show after this often

58:08

secret stuff or other

58:11

stuff? Jimmy tells us about

58:13

all of his TV show opportunities and... There's

58:16

something brewing. Oh boy. It's very small, but it's brewing.

58:18

Very small, I'll tell you about it. Is it a

58:20

coffee show? Because that would be a fantastic pun if...

58:22

Nope, nope, nope, nope. Oh, that's a bummer. Nope, nope,

58:24

nope. Anyway, if you want to get the after show...

58:27

It's about cars. It's about making cars that only go

58:29

40 miles an hour. Cool.

58:34

I got a new idea today. You can

58:36

find out about that if you get the

58:38

after show by going to patreon.com/making it,

58:41

and you can help us out. We

58:43

appreciate it. Or don't. That's

58:46

cool. That's all right. Whatevs.

58:49

So, yeah, there we go. You guys got anything to

58:51

recommend this week? I'm going to go with...

58:53

I'm going to look for something. I'm

58:56

nearly positive. I've mentioned him before, but

58:58

he continues to make great videos where I

59:00

learn something, and that's Stumpy Nubs. And

59:03

he just has a... It's obvious he has a

59:06

lot of experience in what he does, and he's

59:08

just got great tips, and

59:10

I like his angle of

59:13

approaching videos. So,

59:15

Stumpy Nubs. I watch most of Stumpy's

59:17

stuff. He's

59:19

good. He really digs into the trolls. He has

59:22

fun with trolls. He'll make a

59:24

video, and then make a video about the trolls in that

59:26

video. Oh, wow. He does good with

59:28

it. I'm going to talk about... There's

59:31

a great little channel called Speed Bump Garage. This

59:33

young kid, he's like maybe... It probably looks like

59:36

he's 12 or 15 maybe, 13,

59:38

and his dad owns a junkyard, and his dad... This

59:42

is the video that I saw. It's probably old at this

59:44

point if you follow him. His dad said,

59:46

you can have any one of those cars out there

59:48

that you can get started. So he picked an old

59:50

Ford Ranchero and got it started, and now he's working

59:52

on that car. Plus, the kid seems

59:54

to really know exactly everything. He reminds me

59:56

of Derek Bieri from Vice Grip,

59:58

because the kid is... very smart he knows how to do

1:00:00

everything he's only like 12 years old and he's got the

1:00:02

confidence of a 50 year

1:00:05

old man it's amazing he's really

1:00:07

really entertaining to watch check out

1:00:09

speed bump garage and then also

1:00:12

Marquez Brownlee's review on the Cybertruck

1:00:14

yeah oh I haven't watched that

1:00:17

yet yeah he's amazing he's

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just such a pleasure to watch if you don't watch

1:00:21

Marquez Brownlee I will never own the reviews on everything

1:00:24

I can't say I'll never I have

1:00:26

no interest in Android phones

1:00:28

but I will watch his reviews on Android

1:00:30

phones because he's so good at what he

1:00:33

does he really is

1:00:35

amazing he's just like it's the way he presents

1:00:37

he's just such a pleasure to watch and the

1:00:39

way it's filmed is amazing it's

1:00:41

just like it's like watching a computer talk about a

1:00:43

computer he's

1:00:47

kind of a little bit more personality

1:00:49

than a computer no but I mean

1:00:51

he's like he's like he's almost like

1:00:53

AI he's like so he's presents so

1:00:56

perfectly pleasantly pleasantly

1:00:58

pleasantly that's the right word I just

1:01:02

I watch him doing reviews and I'm like if

1:01:04

I had to do that review I'd be stumbling

1:01:06

and um and stuttering I'm just saying oh and

1:01:08

he just knows so much about everything which is

1:01:11

crazy because that's his business but

1:01:13

him reviewing the car is funny talks about the seams

1:01:15

on the body paddles and everything

1:01:21

this is interesting seeing those

1:01:24

giant paddles on the Cybertruck he talked a

1:01:26

little bit about how they they stamp them

1:01:28

just the guys at the factory told them

1:01:31

that they're stainless so they have to stamp

1:01:33

them over stamp them so

1:01:35

that when they bounce back they bounce back to the right

1:01:37

shape that they want to stay at because

1:01:39

if you stamp them to the shape that you think

1:01:42

that they're gonna stay at they'll bounce back a little

1:01:44

bit because stainless is that that type of material and

1:01:47

everything if you notice the car has just

1:01:49

big broad flat panels whereas a regular car

1:01:51

has multiple bends in it and

1:01:54

a multiple bend panel you step

1:01:56

it stays that way because it has all these angles

1:01:58

working against one another Those

1:02:00

big broad panels on the cyber truck are just

1:02:02

big long flat things Yeah,

1:02:06

and the interesting thing about that video is

1:02:08

he talks about that that springback and He's

1:02:11

like there's no way that this can

1:02:13

be consistent between vehicle to vehicle You're

1:02:15

probably gonna find right bigger panel gaps

1:02:17

on one than the other. Yeah Yeah

1:02:23

Interesting I'll have to check

1:02:25

it out. I don't wait. I can't wait to

1:02:27

see whistling diesel destroy. Oh my gosh. Yes You

1:02:33

Know it's coming Well,

1:02:37

so mine is is I don't

1:02:39

know it's derivative of last week's so

1:02:41

last week I was talking about the

1:02:43

documentary Beckham Which I

1:02:46

had at the time had only watched the first episode

1:02:48

of I watched we watched the entire thing since then

1:02:50

It's very good. Like I

1:02:52

didn't know a lot about that guy and I'm pretty impressed with that

1:02:54

guy He

1:02:57

he's a very He's

1:03:00

a measured way of talking you

1:03:02

can tell he didn't talk a whole lot But he's very

1:03:04

careful about what he says and I mean it was edited

1:03:06

too, you know So that could have something to do with

1:03:08

it. But anyway, it was a really good thing. But then

1:03:11

we found that There

1:03:14

was also a show on Disney Plus where

1:03:16

it's called save our squad and that's

1:03:18

so the recommendation for this week is save our squad

1:03:21

And it's about him going back to the club that he

1:03:23

played at when he was at like 10

1:03:25

years old or 11 years old or something like that and

1:03:30

this These boys who

1:03:32

are I guess he they're probably 12 13 He's

1:03:37

going back to kind of mentor a bunch

1:03:39

of young boys in East London and We've

1:03:42

only watched a couple episodes of it so

1:03:45

far But it's really cool seeing somebody who

1:03:47

has been wildly successful and has lived a

1:03:49

life the at that age Decided I want

1:03:52

to play for Manchester United and then like

1:03:54

a couple years later started playing for Manchester

1:03:56

United and then did Ever

1:03:59

and then on to to this awesome team

1:04:01

and this awesome team and played

1:04:03

in the World Cup and captained the

1:04:05

England team and you know

1:04:07

like he just like kept outdoing himself

1:04:10

and he started at this place where somebody

1:04:12

invested in him and so now he's going

1:04:15

back and he's investing in the employees. Yeah

1:04:17

and it's neat to see you know it's just

1:04:21

it's like a feel good you know

1:04:24

it's just a good show and

1:04:27

so the place that we're at

1:04:29

my wife and I are at in life is

1:04:31

we're surrounded by soccer we're surrounded by our kids

1:04:34

and other kids who are trying

1:04:37

to decide how dedicated they want to

1:04:39

be to something that they love like

1:04:41

is it going to be a thing they do now

1:04:43

for a little while or is it going to be

1:04:46

a thing that they really pursue to see how far

1:04:48

it can take them and so

1:04:50

it's interesting talking to our kids

1:04:52

about work ethic

1:04:55

and effort and when that effort

1:04:57

is diminishing

1:04:59

you know like you can throw yourself at

1:05:01

something really hard but at some point you

1:05:03

have to decide whether it's actually worth that

1:05:05

effort or you think you got a Beckham

1:05:07

in the clan? Oh I

1:05:09

don't know about that but I think I

1:05:12

think it's just like with their schooling you know

1:05:14

if they work hard enough it can give them

1:05:16

opportunities to do other things and so

1:05:18

I think not that they necessarily going to be

1:05:20

a Beckham being

1:05:25

having to work ethic to stay

1:05:27

hard at something can give them other opportunities

1:05:29

and so it's interesting talking to them about

1:05:31

that stuff and then seeing a show a

1:05:33

couple of shows that are about somebody

1:05:36

really just digging in and working hard

1:05:38

at something that they enjoy doing and

1:05:42

it taking a really long time too this isn't just

1:05:45

like I worked hard this summer and now I have

1:05:47

this trophy you know

1:05:49

this is all about long-term effort and

1:05:51

long-term investment I'm talking about my kids

1:05:54

and so having a couple of these shows show

1:05:56

proof of that is I don't know

1:05:59

that's good That's good, and it applies

1:06:01

to the thing that they're interested in so it makes a

1:06:03

lot of sense, but anyway go check that

1:06:05

out It's good show both of them are good You

1:06:09

guys got anything else hmm. I

1:06:11

think that's it okay next week. We'll talk

1:06:13

about being old men Well

1:06:16

last but I know is week next week My

1:06:19

next week will be over. Yeah Well,

1:06:23

thanks for listening everybody and see you next time.

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Thank you Thank

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you Love

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you