Live Q&A and Sword Prop Show and Tell with Adam Savage (June 23, 2020)

hey hey hello everybody am i live am i live okay it looks like I'm live hi oh my gosh wait wait I've been running around here trying to get ready for this broadcast and I forgot a drink I forgot to taste the cool drink it's a little warm in San Francisco right now hi everybody Adam Savage here in my cave it is what is today's date it is Wow my phone doesn't automatically tell me in a day no it's just telling me anyway what is the date at the 22nd 23rd it's June 23rd thank you guys for joining me a couple of weeks ago for the super chat and thank you for joining me today for today's super chat look at that chat window flowing past I am going to try and answer some of your questions today well I'm going to successfully answer some of your questions well successful for my standpoint I don't know if it'll be successful from your standpoint but that is what today will be spent doing I'm going to begin with a Show and Tell like I did last time I thought I would show you I talk about swords and movie props and I've made some swords untested but I don't know that you've seen and you've heard about that there are different types of stunts and hero non hero props made for Phillips so there's close-up hero camera stuff right like whenever you saw Aragorn or Boromir sword and Lord of the Ring when you ever saw close-up that was a real steel sword that was made us finally as Peter and could make it but when they're in battle in there hacking away at each other those were probably rubber swords and there's a big gamut in between those two poles so I thought I'd show you a little bit of what that gamut might look like so here what I have is excuse me I have here a stunt sword from I think from the Scorpion King that's the rock film and it's that this is how you use it this is a stunt sword from that film and it's lovely it is it is made of a hard urethane rubber this might even be polyuria I'm not sure it is bendable I believe it probably has a steel spine in it but it is made to be less than harmful when actors are running towards each other and clacking their swords together I also possess in my collection this now this looks the same in fact there's so many ways in the image these two swords look functionally identical except that this is much more of a close-up sword because it's actually made of metal it's cast aluminum which means it's heavier so my suspicion is is that this was used for more close-up scenes they get real sound on the on the on the day of they get sounds these clanging into each other but for your basic non stunt trained actors you give them these rubber things in fact we've heard this from Wetty and from other stunt people more stunt people are injured by rubber weapons than any other kind of weapon which makes sense it's like most accidents occur one mile from your house because that's where you do most of your driving most of the fighting is with rubber swords that's the way I'm assuming this this number breaks down I'm not sure it is funny to feel the difference between these two things you could actually see you could imagine an actor being like having spent a day with this Oh also that's the other thing is this is really heavy and there are ways in which directors absolutely love to give their actors heavy props because they feel and look real as the actors utilize them on screen there's also a great reason to give actors fake blades almost every samurai sword you see in the movie is made of aluminum and that means that the the actor is handling them they look much stronger because they're moving the aluminum's lighter by half I think and they're moving it with what looks like a lot more strength but in fact simply because the aluminum is lighter this is funny in this case the aluminum is heavier but that's it's cast aluminum now where do you get cast aluminum done that I'm not sure about this seems to me like one of those things that like if they're somewhere and the Caucasus Mountains shooting that they found some local place to do aluminum casting that's entirely how films sometimes work however the the parity between these two pieces leads me to believe that this was actually cast off of one of these and that would be the sensible way to do it you don't want to try and replicate an aluminum casting to a to a resin casting you'd rather go in the other direction there is my little show and tell some movie prop history not prop history but sort of prop breakdown I guess how's everyone been doing how's the house the lockdown treating you how's the slowly opening up treating you yeah that's the real one right I was pleased I will say personally for me I was pleased when I went to the protests that I have not suddenly been turned into an agoraphobic someone who fears crowds certainly crowds are to be feared however I here in the Mission District in San Francisco I saw complete ubiquity in masks wearing every single person was wearing a mask that made me feel very safe it made me feel very well taken care of as part of the community of mask wearers the Bay Area's kovat numbers they're there they're hard to pin down but it feels like we're in a space where people are taking it seriously most people wear your masks wear your masks it is literally the least you could do it is such a tiny inconvenience for the reward if we all wore masks we would kill this thing that's not a political statement that is a scientific fact born by study and research and data yeah there's my PSA where your masks and now I think I will answer some of your lovely questions you can see I actually just want to point out you can see behind me here a masterpiece of engineering this is one of the this is one of the helmets made for the movie alien covenant by my friends at FB FX and I it's just one of my favorite pieces of my collection I've been just like refining it that's what sometimes when I come in here and I don't have a any okay like Mondays in Tuesdays are like my logistic days that's lots of meetings lots of phone calls lots of just like buttoning down the details so I rarely have time on a Monday or Tuesday and sometimes even a Wednesday to take care of anything substantive so I have little projects like this where I can just pull it out and there's some bits and bobs to add to it and some things to do to make it accurate I've got a list near it and I'll just pull that out spend some time doing that between the meetings it's kind of like the way I down regulate but here we go oh here we go break build repeat Chad is the first super chatter today Thank You Chad we appreciate your support your support in this super chat helps keep tested running and we really appreciate it the fact is the entire tested team is employed and working full-time all of us from home we miss working together the our check-in calls it's like more and more everyone's kind of getting a little more distant from the camera sort of like sitting there looking longingly remembering what it's like that work in an office yeah but that your support during this super chat helps us keep the lights on and keep everyone working we really appreciate it Chad says any new or unheard-of maker who have caught your eye who are some of your mentors in the film industry you would recommend studying thank you and all the tests and staff for the resources you teach us new youtubers I actually let me just see here I'm just gonna double check my subscriptions let's see I just subscribed to a channel wait did I subscribe to that channel no that's not the one it doesn't tell me what the more recent ones I signed out before are I subscribed to over 50 YouTube channels obviously you know there's a lot there's a lot to go over I've been watching tons and tons of Machinists making things this the the covert lockdown has all been about the precision of my machines and this has been like just a recurring theme so I've been watching tons of machining videos of people cutting threads we have a thread cutting one day build coming up this month I keep going back to clickspring because I find Chris so comforting I find those beautiful close-ups he films of the builds he does really comforting new and unheard of makers that caught my eye is a great question and we're gonna bookmark this and when we release some videos later on this week cut from this we will include some links because I didn't prepare for that question but it is a great question and deserves a good answer who are some of your mentors in the film industry well my my first real boss in the film industry was Jamie Hyneman my partner on Mythbusters but my first mentor in the film industry was Jamie's partner the late and no less great Mitch Romanowski those of us that were lucky enough to work with Mitch Mitch was an unbelievable font of knowledge and incredible problem-solving abilities Mitch ran the shop for the night before Christmas and just because maybe it's been a while since I've talked about The Nightmare Before Christmas picture this movie in your head you realize that it's stop-motion animated puppets and then it's important to remind yourself about this movie that every single puppet was stop-motion animated and every single thing their eyes and ears and face and mouth did in every frame was adjusted and often sculpted separately for that frame so for every word Verbier ssin mouth movement of every character in The Nightmare Before Christmas there was a separate sculpt that was sculpted cast engineered to fit on the original puppet and then painted the work is jaw-dropping the amount of human years of labor in a movie like Nightmare Before Christmas directed famously by Henry Selick produced by Tim Burton a lot of people think that Tim directed it but he did not Henry Selick went on to do films well uh like James and the Giant Peach and Coraline wait nope did Henry do Coraline I might be getting that wrong we'll double check that for a second at any rate mitch ran the shop that built all these tens of thousands of tiny pieces of each character and all the hand props and sets and the pieces of all of those nightmare was a multi-year project and because it was so dense in terms of the amount of products and pieces and and and bits and bobs that it needed they hired every model maker in the Bay Area which is actually the reason that Jamie hired me in the early 90s because everyone was employed by Mitch forked on nightmare so thank you to nightmare for that Mitch came over after after working on peach he came over and partnered up with Jamie and they formed what ended up becoming m5 officially they took over colossus old studio and turned it into their own business and Mitch died a few years ago and we had a lovely memorial for him Henry was there a lot of our old ILM buddies Fon Davis and I were both really close with Mitch and man mitts just had weird wonderful bits of knowledge I remember him explaining to me and I really don't think it was self-serving even though Mitch was a dedicated smoker he's like cigarette smoke helps kick cyanoacrylate glue yeah I mean that's the kind of thing that someone only tells you at 4:00 in the morning during an all-nighter Mitch was also not only a mentor in terms of the physical process of making for the film industry but also for the mental calisthenics you go through so we're working on a owens-corning Superbowl commercial and it's 4:00 in the morning the shoot is in four hours were literally working up formulations for casting with silicones so that it is finished at the very moment we need it you know it's an all-nighter you're pulling an all-nighter you're you're barely human at that point at 4:00 in the morning and Mitch turns to me and we're both sort of like slaving away at the stuff to get it ready by the time the crew shows up and he says yeah at this point you get really philosophical and you remember it's just an effing commercial and it doesn't really matter this was my boss saying the correct and most important thing which is you bust your ask to get these things done but the stakes aren't life-and-death they're film and this is film and you've signed up for this level of stress which is one of the things that those of us who work in film we love the level of stress that the industry provides but at the end of the day you just make him a thing it's again the stakes aren't life-and-death that's what he reminded me at that moment thank you for that question I like talking about Mitch yeah I cut my teeth on a lot of builds with him learned a tremendous number of small amazing little details Mitch Mitch was a born teacher he was cranky he was morose he was he had a dark sense of humor but he was lovely I loved that I loved that guy and I'm sad he's gone Sam folks asks hi Adam I was excited to meet you and show you my giant mechanical wings I made at Kansas City planet comic-con hopefully we can see you in August well I hope so I'm not sure what cons are gonna be happening in August but we'll see but giant mechanical wings giant mechanical wings been on my mind a lot but then you know that because you're telling me about yours I there's so much to talk about about giant mechanical wings but because it's in the works because it's it's percolating I was gonna say percolating I was gonna work too hard for that word because they're percolating in here I'm going to leave the discussion of giant mechanical wings to the side because hopefully by the end of this year you will see some giant mechanical wings from this shop I'm not sure whether it's part of a costume or a build or both but wings are awesome and actually wings are awesome and they've been on my mind because one I read Walter Isaacson's Walter Isaacson's incredible biography of the Wright brothers which is incredible and more than that the story of the Wright brothers is so good I feel like my history teachers in high school well we're like they were leaving money on the table from a narrative standpoint let's just put it that way because when you learn about the Wright brothers you learn oh these two bicycle mechanics watched birds for a long time and then they built the first airplane that's like that's what a lot of people know about the Wright brothers do you know that their very first airplane prototype flew on its first try what do you know that they spent years breaking apart each piece of the plane and testing each one individually and solving each problem as they went before joining them all together in that first prototype but here's my favorite fact from the Walter Isaacson biography Kittyhawk which they chose because they wrote to all the weather stations for the US whatever was that then the US federal weather agency and asked where wind was high and steady and there was a lot of sand and all these people wrote back to them and Kitty Hawk was where they decided to go but let me just explain how far away Kitty Hawk was even though it's on the Outer Banks of Carolinas it was still two days to get there from the nearest like civilized port you had to like go to the mirror civilized port and then take a sailboat there it was so remote that most of the population of Kitty Hawk was descendants of shipwreck survivors wrap your head around that but never I dare is like an HBO show shipwreck survivors provided the largest population of Kitty Hawk that's how far away it was from the rest of United States and they went there for years yeah there's so much cool stuff in that and that's been making me think about wings because during the lockdown my wife and I and my mom and I have we spent a ton of time at Golden Gate Park and we've been watching the herons the grey herons the blue herons and the cormorants and all the other beautiful birds at Golden Gate Park yeah and we've become kind of bird obsessed so we've been doing a lot of bird-watching and when you do a lot of bird-watching you start also watching how they take those wings and not only fold them out and take off but also how they fold them back and that's also been percolating in my head Auguste McKenna says now that RadioShack and it's wonderful electric project drawers are a thing of the past where do you go to source your all your electronic project electronics well Amazon for the most part did Yuki for the hard to find stuff there are a bunch of robot building marketplaces that are fabulous for exactly the kind of components I need but for the most part since I'm not I'm not a real electronics person like I know how to make a battery make a light go and I can probably get a circular potentiometer in there to adjust the brightness but that's about the limit of my electronics knowledge you know I can read a meter for continuity and for voltage but when we start to get into resistance some I need to start looking up charts and everything so that's a long way of saying I have most of what I need here recently I needed some bigger potentiometers for for adjusting motor speed and brightness of bulbs and I purchased a few and that's kind of how I deal with it here I'm like okay usually I use six to 12 volts sometimes five volts so let me get some potentiometers that can handle a reasonable amperage at those voltages and then I'm kind of covered for a couple of years probably I I miss the RadioShack drawers but here's what I don't miss about the RadioShack drawers you would go to RadioShack it you'd be like alright I'm getting this thing going and I need for 8000 resistors and I guarantee you that every time you went to RadioShack they'd have three I just never found the exact number of the thing that I needed at RadioShack it was always one or two less and that's almost worse than not having it frankly you know when RadioShack was sort of like circling the drain they reached out to Jamie and I as a we started some discussions to be spokesmodels to help the SHAC as I think they were looking for pivoted reboot and we thought we would be perfect for that I don't know where those discuss those discussions never led to anything but that would have been fun right what I really like to do is to have someone like RadioShack call up and say how do we serve the maker community yes and that would be the question I'd like to answer because frankly that's where RadioShack I mean you know RadioShack was still where when they were still here even a few years ago they were charging like fifteen bucks a piece for a rewritable DVD DVD CD right like that kind of stuff yeah okay I don't have to spend the rest of this Q&A trashing RadioShack I missed them I wish there was something like them online is where I find all of my electronic stuff Shannon Miller says I just want to support the team and thank you for all the great product all the great content Thank You Shannon I really appreciate it by the way I'm wearing another piece of tested product this beautiful this beautiful illustration of my journal few nariyal rickshaw for spa whoo I'm just I I just I'm recharging spots batteries today for the first day in a few weeks because I wanted to see him go it's been a while and yeah it's funny I just said this we had to move over to the storage space by the way when I was building this this rickshaw everybody had tests it had the same had the same initial response they went wow it looks great but you could tell there was something else on their mind yeah it looks great and it turned out that the other thing on their mind was cuz it's getting tight in here it's getting harder e is what is what's happening and we managed to find space for the rickshaw over in my storage space and on my t-shirt h atl capital h aval h @ LH Adil H trying to see if there's a pun there but I can't find it Adil H wants to know hey Adam I'm a teacher my hat is off to you and we'll be running some maker like classes next year for 13 to 16 year olds any beginner projects you think would be cool to take the students through keep being awesome yes I totally have a beginning maker project for 13 to 16 year olds this right here is this this everyone's got some of this at home corrugated cardboard it makes the world go round it literally travels around the world it helps make the world go round and it's in you have tons of this in your basement every single day we all have crap tons of cardboard and it is the gateway drug to making this is a fantastic structural material its corrugated so it's got two sides but it's mostly air so it's lightweight when you join it together with hot glue or PVA glue like Elmer's or an all-purpose glue like do Co you could glue it together with rubber cement if you want it is about one of the most important prototyping tools I can in my head and what I would suggest to you is to make a helmet using cardboard and then turn that into a pattern and have the kids make some helmets that they can decorate themselves what there's my suggestion there's a curriculum dish you could have them make a cockpit so I I have a cockpit here at the shop I shot a show-and-tell with it recently so I'm not gonna tease what it is because it's a thing you haven't seen before but I've always loved cockpits I'm the first one I made was made out of cardboard and my mom's in my parents guestroom closet and all the cockpit layouts of almost all the NASA spaceships from The Mercury to Gemini to Apollo to Space Shuttle era the cockpit layouts of all of those ships are things you can download in PDF form they are they are I have a blow-up from lunar replicas over there I think the Apollo command modules cockpit yeah yeah I think that is you could download one of those cockpits from from any resource online that has pictures of the layouts of NASA cockpits and cut and make those out of cardboard another thing to consider ya put cardboard cardboard construction glue guns are inexpensive glue hot glue is it expensive that's my favorite thing to use with corrugated cardboard I've actually I'm currently internally in my head working on a one day build that is actually a couple of pieces of furniture for my house and this is dense cuz it's not just shop furniture it's got to work like for humans right not just shop people this is like the difference between carny folk and regular folk and so in the construction of this I want to make sure the size is exactly right so I am gonna mock-up these two pieces of furniture out of corrugated cardboard put them in sit you see how they feel before deciding upon the final dimensions I still use car gated cardboard for prototyping on a weekly basis yeah it's great stuff um good luck alte age that sounds like a fun class to teach millennial max wants to know my boyfriend Oh Ren loves your videos and part of his workshop burned down recently Oh Shh I'm so sorry oh he's having a hard time some words of encouragement would mean a lot to Orin okay the first thing when I tell you is Tom Sachs said this great thing to me years ago he said every artists biography has a chapter in it called the fire this this terrifies me right because look I think about losing this place on a fairly frequent basis I'm a blessed encounter I spend a lot of time kind of assessing my situation and looking at it and basically being thankful for the resources and thankful for the things I'm thankful for and I prognosticate about what are the worst things that could happen and among them or this place burning down my words of encouragement man is that that sucks to lose your shop I'll bet if you lost the shop that it is not the tools or the shop necessarily individually that you are sad about losing but there are pieces from the shop that are now gone that really matter to you because tools are tools you can replace tools and materials too you know in fact a shop is a place where you can actually do that in that exact space and to be honest if this place burned down I I would miss all of this stuff to be sure this is a refined group of tools I've spent my whole life putting together but that's not to say I couldn't do it again life and limb is more important that nobody I hope and trust that nobody was hurt in this fire that took half your shop part of your shop and if that's the case then that is a real blessing that nobody was harmed you know I I've lost things from time to time and I remind myself when I do lose them that they're just things that they aren't people and we lose people it's it's it's much harder but that's the fallacy of false equivalence I don't mean to say that Lauren you can feel better because no one was hurt everybody has to deal with loss we will all deal with loss we will all lose the most important people to us this is this is what life is this is the first noble truth I go back to the thing I said a few weeks ago during one of these live broadcasts read letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke because he talks about sadness and by extension I think mourning in that book and he advises that in that state of being sad to be what he says lonely and attentive so I encourage you over and to be lonely and attentive and really consider about the loss and consider about the rebuilding because on the other side of every loss is is a reconstruction right we reconstruct our lives without the person who meant something to us being there we reconstruct our spaces without the things that we had but those things don't define us they're just stuff that's around reflects us but it doesn't tell us who we are that is a tough one I hope that the reconfiguration and rebuilding of the space yields you a shop that is even better than the one that was harmed by the fire yeah I really hope that's true Chris winters says I recently discovered your can man live forever oh can you live forever yes the discovery curiosity special not a question per se but could you talk a bit about that yes I can hang on I'm gonna get a prop to talk about that so when I made this production they made me really old and to make me really old yeah this is me really old I'm gonna reveal it to make me really old they hired my friends at Industrial Light Magic to build the sets and the props and just all my old work colleagues working on that show it was really really fun I and my friend Danny Wagner was an amazing sculptor and artist sculpted the old version of me now in order to give him the best reference material I gave him pictures of my father only a few weeks before he passed my dad died in 1998 in late in the year in 1998 and I managed to go see him in the in the VA hospital he was in just a couple weeks before he passed and I had some pictures of that visit and I supplied them to Danny and he used those in conjunction with photos of my face to create 120 year old me and so here is 120 year old Adam hold on there we go this is the show until I should have done oh yeah oh look there we go yeah yeah I love this makeup I love it's so weird he's getting a little sticky up here I think I had a wing up there that some it caused a little bit of silicone ages funny I'm just gonna have to get a little powder on there yeah I wore this for an entire day it took five hours to get into this makeup like they say right you know you and they say it's up to five hours to put on makeup um and then I think about the fact that I did this for one day Gary Oldman when he was when he did the Winston Churchill biopic he had it was I think four plus hours for that makeup every day for 50-plus days of shooting do that is freaking intense wow that's totally weird up there up front so yeah the I can live forever shoot was also really fun that was produced by John Hendricks one of the or the founder of John is an amazing mind it's smoked before I met him I was thinking what kind of a man starts a network what is what what is that person like and then you meet him and you're like oh this is the kind of person who starts a network there's just a level of charisma and camaraderie in Hendricks it's lovely and that's filled all the way through my experience with the production of I can live forever the production team was very interested in my take on their original script I had some ideas about stuff that they hadn't considered that we put into the episode it felt lovely and collaborative the whole way through that was that was a nearly ideal visiting another production while in the middle of my own production kind of experience which is always fraught it's always fraught the first time I did the first time Jamie and I did Craig Ferguson's show he said this lovely gracious thing to us as when we finished he says it was that okay did you like that because I hate being on any show that's not mine and this is totally true when you have a TV show you love that show you love that family you feel comfortable in that space and you visit somebody else's TV show and there's no comfort you think that because it's the same industry there might be some but no it's always weird you're you step into some other reality so to step into the reality if I can live forever team and have them work with my old friends from ILM have my friends from ILM making props based on me and my face and my head I have several other pieces from the production in my collection here and yeah I will do some show and tell us of that over the next few weeks I think I've got at least two other pieces that I can cover on that front thank you for that great question one wheel burnout wants to say hello Sam from Germany hello Germany how are you I have some great friends there Germany is I a Germany for the first time three years ago uh the host and creator of ologies one of the best podcasts you might not know about Aly Ward and I were hired to host a thing for GE and we traveled around the world doing some stuff for GE and we got to spend like ten days in northern Germany literally like along the coast of the North Sea ending up in Amsterdam it was a great shoot it was a lot of fun but really mostly so much fun hanging out with the German people and spending time in Berlin beautiful city amazing and some of the cities in northern Germany awesome yeah we had a great time there so hello back to Germany I hope to visit your country or any other place that's the San Francisco when it's safe to do so oh man hey Luna replicas hi guys they asked you guys are amazing keep up the great work my question what's the most important way to inspire people to start making producing art and removing barriers to personal expression well I don't know about sports but I can see a softball when it's thrown to me hmm listen the best way to encourage other people to get excited about the stuff that you're excited about is zero gatekeeping listen to me people gatekeeping never did anything for the world you might have spent a lot of time learning how to do the thing that you want to do and if somebody else picks it up quickly don't poop on them don't tell them that there's one right way to be the juggler gamer unicycular card player or whatever the hell the thing is that you do when you get keep even subtly actually especially subtly you're telling someone that they don't belong in this club and there's so much dumb and useless gatekeeping I've seen gatekeeping and I've talked about this before in them in the cosplay community there's gatekeeping about whether 3d printing is really the work and anybody who's ever 3d printed something and then painted it to make it look great I'm looking at you Darryl Maloney and all the other builder and and all the other wonderful makers who do this knows that it's a huge amount of work there's no cheating with 3d printing it doesn't it makes some things easier and makes other things harder it takes out some work it takes out a lot of work it takes out a lot of work and reduces the threshold to entry for making cool stuff but there is still a threshold to entry there's still a lot of work that you have to do so if somebody says they want to try the discipline that you do they say to you that they'd like to learn how to do that thing you might feel inclined to even subtly make it seem like it's more difficult than it might be or you might just in your discussion about it highlight the things that are difficult that you had to learn to get there and I want to submit that if you're doing that for some ego reason to let someone know that you worked hard to get where you are you're wasting your time because that's not the point of that interaction they are saying to you I have an interest and that interest from them is a beam and it's shining somewhere and when you say oh it's really hard to it's really hard to make your own wine I mean we've been doing it for eight summers but man it takes a lot of when you start to do that you're actually you're telling them that they that you're gatekeeping that's what you're doing even if you're doing it subtly you're gatekeeping and that's you shouldn't be doing that yeah that's it you shouldn't be dating anytime you are drawing a line in the sand to keep someone at a your club your gatekeeping and I think that that's wrong I don't think that we as humans were built to do that I you know when we consistently utilize that wonderful phrase if I have seen farther it is only because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants that is the antithesis of gatekeeping that's how the scientific community works that's why it's so messed up thing scientific publishers charge so much to view those papers when they were publicly funded that's a its own form of dumb gatekeeping but that's a different subject and i don't want to get off on a rant luna replicas max thank you guys so much i love your stuff so much and i know you want to talk soon and i will your masks the lunar replicas masks which have a little wire in the nose now dudes you guys are really making my making my month with those they're super comfy my hope we love them over here and test it if you don't know about lunar replicas go to lunar replicas calm they make space artifacts and replicas of things from the American space program but most of they're just super enthusiastic and they want to share that enthusiasm lunar replicas is the opposite of gatekeeping go to their website buy some of their stuff support this local endeavor it's well I mean it's a it's a small concern so small group of people making wonderful things to spread the enthusiasm around not to me makes the world a better place K 3 n1 k 3n 1k k 3n 1k kenick I don't know they ask hi Adam any interest in aquariums I find making the environment growing aquatic plants and keeping fish very satisfying just curious if you've ever had any experience thank you for everything umm I like everyone like a lot of people I've had aquariums in the past and they're a lot of work they are a ton of work that that's that that was my experience of aquariums but they're also like you know they're wonderful microcosms and I in my in my late teens in New York I remember one whole year I spent with a little aquarium I kept getting algae and it took me forever to realize that I was getting algae because I had my aquarium in the window and the Sun was just too powerful and growing lots of algae I recently came across a post on Reddit that showed a picture of an underwater aquascape and it was like roll it look like Narnia it looked like Narnia and in a fish tank and so there are all these people that do aquas aquascaping landscaping yeah aquascaping within fish tanks I had no idea that certainly made my maker brain be like oh that looks like so much fun I mean I haven't yet done a Google search for Bioshock fishtank but I'm sure it exists yeah there's some cool stuff you could play with out there with that so no it has been 30 plus years since I've had any been anywhere near a fish tank except for the ones that we would use occasionally on Mythbusters to teach goldfish how to remember stuff but I am also a I I admire the work and stick-to-itiveness of people who do keep aquariums and if you do keep aquariums don't buy illegal coral that is a bad thing to do for the world Emily ii asks i've been a fan of Mythbusters since first grade now I'm going to college for tech theatre woohoo I'm hoping to get my masters in puppetry Arts yes I'd love to know more about your experience with puppetry you should ask because just the other day I was who was I chatting with Oh was i chatting with i was chatting with somebody and we were oh I know I was talking to some of my friends from the expanse and we were just we were on a big multi person chat and I decided to replace myself with my own doppelganger wait hold on hold on I got to get this right just a second oh here we go almost almost tested we're super puppet obsessed over here intestine we love puppets we love puppeteers we love everything of puppetry one of my new friends Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer I took her workshop when I was at org camp in Chicago in February yeah puppets a we stand the puppets over here at tested and this is one made for me by a Mythbusters fan we did we covered this on tests at a while ago we'll include a link yeah well include a link in the comments and this is a professional puppeteers version of me using some fur for the beard he doesn't shave his cheeks as much as I shaved mine no but yeah I have a whole puppet a heaven puppet rack of puppets I have a couple of Kermit's I have a couple of yeah I have some puppets made by puppeteers I admire and on tested I know I'm not puppeteering him because I just I wasn't thinking about actually doing puppeteering you aren't no I wasn't very I'd love to do more puppeteering that's definitely the truth and I'd love to get braver about doing it because when I took the class from Mary Robinette at org camp it certainly showed me how way deeper and more intense and difficult than I thought it was it actually can be and also how rewarding because you get to see some of the results right there on camera as they were guiding you to camera type puppeteering it was awesome okay I'm gonna put you away really yeah I am all right all right yeah it's all the so we're just I'm gonna end up with an entire but they end up with like a rogue's gallery of versions of me that's not our sophistic at all Mary Cab lab creations says much love from one creator to another prolific words of wisdom sir thank you I appreciate that Andrew Irvine says this time would have been darker without you thank you Andrew I feel the same I actually feel the same way doing these broadcasts from the cave has been this great anchor my mom watches them every week I couldn't remind her this morning that this is broadcast and so I'm not sure she's watching right now but she will watch the roof she will watch the cut when it's done it has felt really nice to regularly have this interaction with fans and so it has also made the Celeste art time for me the listing method and you're welcome future Adam from your book have really helped me could you talk about those ways of being please well so andrew is mentioning some of the organizational strategies that I utilize in my life and the ways in which I codified how it utilize those in the book I wrote last year called every tools a hammer the first aspect of that is the list making I love making lists and I make lots of them when I have something with a lot of little components to it list making is often the only way I the list is the whip and a chair with which I tame the lion of a project there's your rhetorical flourish and I specifically make my lists with little check boxes here we go here's one that's just some stuff I was shooting last week you can freeze frame it if you want to and see some of the stuff that might be coming up on test and soon but like that's what I do I make a little check box on the side then when I finish that item I color it in and when I look at a whole bunch of colored in items it generates momentum for me for me personally it makes me feel like I'm getting stuff done and when I feel like I'm getting stuff done I feel more energy towards keeping getting stuff done but you had another part of that you're welcome future Adam right that's the other one is shop cleanliness and I have to admit the shop cleanliness has fallen off a little bit during coke and yet it's also picked up yeah both both have happened in sort of equal measure there's been more days when I have worked right up until it was time to go home and have dinner and I've left the shop just untouched and come in the next day and continued my project it's been a lot more days like that than I used to at the same time I'm doing a lot more cleaning as I go because the shop is I know it it might look large on camera but when you're in here especially when you're in here with another person which I haven't been in a while but it's a small shop and it when you start to cover the tabular surfaces the horizontal services with stuff it gets tiny in a hurry and for me to keep up the pace of making that I've been doing during the lockdown it's been really vital that I clean as I go sometimes it means I lose tiny little parts which I did just this morning I lost some tiny little I lost this tiny little circle that belongs in the back of the Covenant helmet ins I know it's down there somewhere and I haven't found it yet it's hard to find because it's kind of the same color as my floor anyway the Thank You future Adam is part and parcel of a philosophy about keeping your shop clean but also about doing anything you don't anything I don't want to do I don't mean you I mean me this all works for me your results your mileage may vary but whenever I don't want to do something like clean the shop at the end of the day and I never want to clean the shop at the end of the day let's be honest I occasionally if I have wrapped my project and I feel super good about it and it's awesome then cleaning the shop is great but under almost every other circumstance any kind of ambivalence for me about my build or it's not done or kicked my ass then I never want to clean up at the end of the day and the way I do it is I think about what it's gonna be like to come in tomorrow and walk into this clean shop and when I walk into the clean shop it says to me that past me thought of me at that moment and I and at that moment when I walk into the shot I'm grateful and so present me who doesn't want to clean up the shop thinks about the gratitude future me will feel for that shop being clean and then it helps me clean that that works for me again we all have our weird subroutines we run to survive the world and some of them we have to ferret out and get rid of others work great and we can share them with each other how to tell the difference between the two well I'll spend the whole rest of my life on that problem Toby twists says I read your book during a very difficult time and it helped me out I'm really glad as a maker trying to navigate life the best that I can he would like to say thanks for not only sharing skills but benevolence as well well Thank You Toby twist I really appreciate that I hope that the difficult time you were having has passed for now I'll remind you that it'll show up again yeah we are we are all on the it's a wave right it's a wave milkshake wants to know are you a big reader I am a big reader but it's been really hard to read books during a lockdown I don't know my brain just has not been has not been in the space for reading lately but what is your favorite book series and/or genre impossible to give a definitive answer to that because changes constantly but I'll give you some answers to that have you read the expence series by James sa Corey um you know I haven't actually read those books I slave ish and feverish lover of the show is one of the best shows on television and I am savoring waiting to read those books James sa Corey is a friend of mine or the two writers that make up James sa Corey are friends of mine maybe I should say James sa Corey are friends of mine that's what I should say he says oh I want in continuing going right yeah sorry favorite books I I read everything I read nonfiction I mean fiction I read classics among classics I would tell you read Moby Dick it's weirdly modern from its tone it's incredible it's a beautiful book read Washington Square by Henry James holy you've never seen someone packed so much information in two sentences as Henry James read Dickens man I read Tale of Two Cities a couple of years ago and it blew my frickin mind reading it for the first time since grade school it made I wept the last ten pages it's completely transformative for the longest time I said my favorite book was a hundred years of solitude it really that was one of the first pieces of literature I read as a young person that made me feel collect connected to literature in a way like in my late teens I was reading Milan Kundera I was reading a lot of science fiction Stanislaw lamb Piers Anthony and McCaffrey that kind of stuff and I was reading a lot of science fiction and fantasy and then coming across Hundred Years of Solitude which grabs you from the very first sentence and never lets go yeah I read that book I've written I've read that book like three times over the years funnily enough Jamie Hyneman will also list that as one of his all-time favorite books and Jamie and I also both read all of Carlos Castenada back in our late teens it might have been something to do with the recreation so that we enjoyed as late teenagers but Castaneda famously a anthropologist apologist who wrote a bunch of books that are they're shite on anthropology they are wonderful on allegory that's the way I'll refer to Castaneda's books over the past few years I have loved the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child one of my airplane guilty pleasures I read all the patrick o'brian novels that Jack Aubrey Steven master in books there's 22 of them this year like I said I read Walter Isaacson's biography he's a wonderful biographer also Ron chernow their bag refer of Hamilton Washington and grant all three of those books are insanely great and if you're liking the history read some Jay Winik WI and I K I think waited April 1865 is incredible yet he's written some history's so I love that kind of nonfiction i read historical fantastical nonfiction this year Colson whiteheads the Underground Railroad will blow your freakin mind that's magnificent that's one of the last books I was actually able to finish stand-up maths beautiful book humble pie yeah I've listed him that yeah oh oh and yeah if I have a favorite author I'm gonna list this two favorite authors I have and they're connected Raymond Chandler and Haruki Murakami they're connected I don't know which I I'm not going to talk about their connection Murakami's very much a clearly influenced by Chandler especially as early books the great sheep chase really worth reading oh my god Michael Chabon Shaima and read anything by Shay bond read motherless Brooklyn oh yeah that's not shame on that is let them Lisa Jonathan Lee some incredible motherless Brooklyn this amazing Fortress of Solitude by blowing there you go there's some books that's a nice list and Toby twists actually had a question okay oh no he didn't great Thank You Toby and thank you milkshake for that great question Nicholas Esposito says love watching your work what is the square footage of your work space of my work space of my work space yeah let's see here's how we're gonna answer that I'm gonna measure a cross let's see give or take okay that's seven feet to that wall from here and the other side of this workspace is yeah so okay so this dimension it's about 15 feet give or take which I believe means that this dimension is going to be probably about 30 feet hold on a second stay here this way I tell you something funny yeah I am so every tape measure in the world has a number written down here on the tape measure that tells you this distance so that you can bring your tape measure up to something and add that number to the tape measure to the number to the last number you can see on the tape measure every tape measure has this and I never use it because when I look down at a tape measure well how do you add how do you see that mark I'm not looking directly down on the mark here I'm not there's a tape measure in the way of the very mark I'm trying to look at so yes technically I guess that's 14 inches and to that I added 3 and I get 17 from here to here but that's just way too inexact for me and when I when I met my wife and we've built our lives together one of the things I have learned about missus don't try this is she is a person who adds this number to the last number she sees on the tape measure and she doesn't understand why it drives me crazy and it's like whatever works for you is totally fine I just can't do it it's like the the the maker in me the the the the precision part of my brain wants to carry my tape measure right up to the edge of a thing and estimate that little curve and figure out how long the thing is I don't like bringing this thing into the corner it's just for some reason it doesn't it doesn't work for me but you weren't asking about that you weren't even asking you about the things that my wife and I disagreed about you're asking how big the shop is and I'm here to tell you 15 by 30 it's perfect for one person who never builds anything bigger than like a chair but it'd be nice if it was a bigger place yeah I my dream one of my dreams is to have a space big enough that I could pull my landcruiser in and work on it in the shop this is something I've only ever been able to do once in my life so wait you asked the square footage I was just giving you measurements what is 15 by 30 100 450 score 450 square feet there you go yes absolutely totally I can continue I have support I have tested support sitting over at the table we're all wearing masks in proximity but um we are occasionally entering some of the same spaces I'm taking off my mask to do this broadcast from here and then I'll put it back on em 750 says Adam you emailed me years ago just to say you love the design of an ROV I built it's great that is that as big as you are you take the time to reach out to makers thank you from everyone you've inspired well thank you I'm so glad it's nice to hear that when I had a previous interaction years ago I did not somehow crap the bed by being a jerk I there are not many occurrences of me being a jerk in the past I mean we all were but no I'm glad for that and yeah I like doing that I love it I actually Simone Simone told me that someone gave her this wonderful advice about being famous I said when you're famous and you run into someone who likes your work you've been given a magic wand with which to make their day just by like being nice and attentive and present with them and everything you do above that is gravy and it's really really true there's a way in which that I'm you say as big as you are I mean on say I'm just a person right like any one of us and I suffer like everybody but the the interactions that I get to have with fans where I can ping someone on Twitter and say this is a beautiful construction the thing you built with your kid is lovely this idea is fantastic and when I get the feedback that that generated momentum for them that just like makes me so happy years and years ago when I first worked in special effects I I may have told the story during one of the live broadcast before but I'll tell it again I realized I had these new skills I was learning more and more about making things precisely and mmin of me and so I decided to use those skills to make my second model of the Blade Runner pistol and while I was making it it took me weeks and I spent weeks in my house like sanding and sanding and sanding and making this thing really perfect and at the time one of my closest friends somebody I was speaking to a couple times a day said randomly out of nowhere hey I think that thing that you're working on the Blade Runner gun I think that's really cool I think that's a neat thing that you're doing and I think your idea to make it into a kit and sell it is is also really neat and I can't tell you how much that meant to me not just from that person although that one person that was that was significant to hear from them but also just a random encouragement and so yeah I I've gotten so much from the encouragement of the people around me like my wife loves my cosplay she's not a cosplayer she doesn't have any interest in putting on a costume and that's fine but she loves that I love it and encourages me to to delve into that love and that encouragement is really real and important so thank you for that I'm really glad that you were happy with our interaction from years ago know that I love I love that process I love reaching out pinging people and telling them that I like what they're doing Russ Etheridge asks Your Enthusiasm is an inspiration to me and to so many thank you I'm a recent father do you think your creativity changes with Parenthood well and so much as everything changes with Parenthood here's the thing on parenthood my might here's my description of what Parenthood felt like to me the moment I saw my kid remember in the matrix when they're up on the roof trying to get Morpheus and neo says can you fly that and Trinity says tank I need to learn how to fly a Huey and he goes bird but she goes okay let's go and runs okay that seemed that's what happened in my head when I saw my kids for the first time like I saw them and I was like oh I understand everything my parents did and said not quite but yeah Parenthood totally changes everything it changes where your energy goes it changes how you distribute it it changes how you work on it with your partner it changes everything so how did I incorporate that change that's what I think your question is sort of getting at and the answer is it wasn't easy I didn't take the I didn't take to it I didn't there were aspects of it I still found really hard and it wasn't until about eight months in that I felt like I went through the process to give over to it there's right though so let's say something's happening that you're not super comfortable with like it's raining it's raining and you don't have a hat on and you're getting wet and you're sitting there going this really sucks this rain is pouring on me it's fogging up my glasses I don't like it that's one way of thinking about the rain the other way of thinking about it is well I have no protection so I'm gonna get rained on this is what's happening this is very Buddhists frame this is what's happening it took me about eight or ten months of my kids being infants to get to thee this is what's happening and fall in love with the work fall in love with the triage that is raising an infant the constant bivouacking the vomit the bodily fluids from the baby and from everybody else and there the world is packed with people who don't feel like they got enough time with their parents because their parents were off doing other stuff and I didn't want to be that kind of parent and the world is also full of people who feel like they're who felt like their families got in the way of their own creativity and I'm it's really important to me to not live live that distinction because I don't I think it's a false distinction so yes the kids are gonna change everything and for the first like you're a new parent yeah you're a recent fun parent you just got to give up any semblance of like a future plan for the first like year they're just trying to kill themselves every moment and you have to have a hundred percent focus you and your partner both can never lose focus which is exhausting and then you start to get out of that phase and baby starts to smile and starts to be cool and then you start to like build the life with the kid and that's when you could achieve that life work balance between the stuff that you do for yourself and for your art and the stuff that you do for your family and to me when all those things work in concert with each other rather than against each other life feels much better that being said that balance wasn't easy for me to find and has not always been easy for me to find and I've grappled with it in different ways through every relationship I've had good luck it's super rewarding my kids are 21 now they're freaking delightful human beings it's lovely and I'm still parenting as much as I ever did it yeah it's already rendered asked I think it's already rendered has already asked and not this time but I think I recognize that username maybe not do you have a 3d printer if so what make it model I do not personally own a 3d printer I know yeah I we have some 3d printers that tested I utilize those occasionally but no I don't possess the 3d printer not to say that I won't it's not to say that I won't because there's still lots of stuff I want to make and it gets more and more frankly I think I might move towards something like a form printer like a resin printer rather than an SLA printer but again I'm not sure we'll see Connor Franklin says O'Connor Franklin Leland Connor Franklin 3 two-syllable name's Connor Franklin Leland says that they met me in 2017 and I said I met you in 2017 and showed you my staff of raw headpiece not a euphemism yep a headpiece tattoo if you were to get a pop-culture or more specifically a prop culture tattoo Oh what would you maybe get look part of me has always loved the Trump Loy tattoos where it looks like the skin is peeled away so there's part of me that's always wanted appeal away view into the terminators exoskeleton or Luke's hand from Empire Strikes Back that's the first one that occurs to me I did recently rewatch season four of the expanse and I love all the belter tattoos and that and frankly some of them are really nifty and I was thinking good something on that like somewhere on the I mean I don't want to do this that's not that's not me that's I'm not that guy I'm not that guy that's the first one that comes to mind the Trump Lloyd the Trump Lloyd tattoo but a prop culture tattoo is it's not something I've actually considered as a subject matter to put on my mind my my physical canvas thank you for the thank you for the idea cuz that's definitely something I'm going to be thinking about hmm okay let's see Jasmine Miller says me and my dad we're watching your microscope optical light and noticed that you forgot the o-ring when you are reassembling did you ever put it back no okay so in a shop log jam is Tom Sachs's beautiful name for the for the pile or bin of stuff that has too many categories to easily sort but it's not worthless enough to throw away and I have a log jam over here there it is so this is one of my log jams this actually that's my phone you stay OOP okay you stay there and all right let's get now the o-ring for that for that microscope is sitting there and it's just waiting for me to get up the energy to pull that thing off pop it in and put it back in but sharp eyes nicely done Jasmine I recently had I was actually recently this morning I was at my eye doctor and they were using one of those slit lights to look at some debris they were removing the final bit of steel from my eye because I was cutting hot steel on my mill and I didn't use enough eye protection that's on me I will I will but I was thinking about the microscope my eye doctor was using and I was thinking about that microscope and I was thinking I really want to know what it looks like to look at someone's eyeball through one of these things Heather celsa says thank you for keeping us company during quarantine is the ornament on top of the rickshaw a cane topper I don't know if I missed that in a video but it caught my eye it is not a cane Tupper it's a lamp chunk um I have a drawer somewhere in this cave called lamp chunks and it's pieces of chandeliers and lamp parts that I have collected over the years let me tell you something about lamp parts because they are a rich mine for making stuff especially prop inch if you had to make a scepter a king's scepter for a fantasy king or a real King man go to the lamp store and start assembling it out of all that threaded rod and all those pieces with the same holes in them yeah lamp parts are awesome the issue I have in lamp Parts is when people sell them on Etsy or eBay they tend to charge way too much for the brass stuff and sure that's totally understandable it's brazos you sell it by weight or whatever but whenever I come across like a box on the street full of lamp crap I pick it up and sort it and put it into the lamp chunks box because lamp chunks have been very fruitful including that top ornament on the on the top of the on the top of the rickshaw also the lights on either side are made of lamp chunks that I collected years ago yeah lamp stuff is really great oh I'll tell you I made a scepter out of lamp parts for the episode in which Mythbusters was replicating the safe explosion from the movie the score took me a while to pull that out of the mental palace Frank Oz directed Edie Norton and Marlon Brando who was famously a real pain in the ass on that shoot and they break into a safe by using water and water pressure and we did the same but in order to have an item in our safe that we didn't know if we'd be destroyed or not I made a scepter out of lamb parts and I still have parts of that scepter around here somewhere Pandora's pen Duras asks do you like the Mad Max franchise have you built some props from this franchise thanks for the inspiration big fan from Chile hello chill a nice see you I do love the Mad Max franchise when I was a kid Mad Max the road warrior played almost constantly on HBO second only to Beastmaster but then that's what HP l stands for hey these Masters on the Mad Max franchise is really important George Miller the idea that the same guy made the road warrior Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and fury road and also the babe movies I tell you a secret the first Mad Max movie Mad Max the earliest one I can't watch it anymore I find it too upsetting I find it too gritty and too disturbing I can't get past it all I see is that shot of him looking at the field with his wife and his kid too far away for him to help and I can't go near it spoiler alert but the road warrior is super seminal important it introduces me to Bruce Spence and Australia national treasure the gyrocopter the feral kid oh my god yeah the colony so I have actually a pretty complete Mad Max costume that I've never finalized I wore a bunch of it for the episode in which Jamie and I made the car out of a motorcycle or the motorcycle out of a car yeah it was a motorcycle out of a car I was wearing a bunch of parts of my Mad Max costume but they haven't been fully tied together I even have the correct leg brace and boots they're all in a thing not just never gotten around to tying it all together and one of the reasons is I've never found the exact right sawed-off shotgun to go with the costume I have something that's close but I haven't gotten that like perfect perfect replica and it's sort of pissed me off to not get around to finishing that costume but obviously look everybody who makes stuff is kind of somewhere in their heart of hearts is a little bit of a prepper in them so it's not hard to put yourself into a Mad Max type scenario in which resources are limited and you must make the best possible use of them that you can which is effectively the subject of the Mad Max franchise so that resonates very deeply with me as a maker and George Miller man one of my heroes but Mad Max fury road is just a freakin masterpiece and so is babe holy crap what an amazing film I was just listening oh yeah I put on some Peter Gabriel the other day and in the playlist came up that'll do Pig his song from babe yeah lovely Depp t 203 says you and a testing crew are keeping me motivated thanks for all you guys do we never tire of hearing that that is our whole raise on debts that is the reason we are here is to keep you inspired that that's the that's the goal the goal is no gatekeeping showing you as many different wonderful makers as possible as many different intersections into making in the creative process as possible and it means a lot when we hear that it lands that it has some resonance because like the satisfaction I get from this discipline from this creative discipline is paramount it's it's it informs everything that I do and being able to spread that around just feels it feels like a guilty pleasure because get to watch someone else enjoy the same kind of thing that you did and maybe they jumped into it because you showed them how easy it was man it's this not many feelings that are better than that the Nets rack I'm not gonna try that one again says thank you for being who you are thanks for all the great content that you've made through the years best wishes to you and yours from Denmark Denmark well hello far away over there it's a little late isn't it it's almost like midnight in Denmark I believe I don't have a Denmark knock on the wall but I'm just doing the rough math in northern Europe from here ooh Ryan de Gotha was just texting me some fun pictures of stuff he's working on I can't wait to look at it and that's what makes me inspired right so just know that all your friends who are makers are also trading stuff with each other I just made a beautiful thing for a friend of mine who's a maker down and down in the Los Angeles area and he got it this morning and texted me that he got it opened it up and loves it it's really exciting enthusiasm is the opposite of a zero-sum game it's like love the more you give away the more you have iron spine 481 asks have you ever thought of making a rifle comparison to your Blade Runner blaster well that's funny I have a two barrel shotgun version of the Blade Runner blaster that was part of a replica prop form built run most of it's made in machined out of aluminum and it's beautiful and in order to do it properly I'm doing it slowly so it's not going to be a one-day build for a while because I'm gonna do a lot of pre work on it before I get it to the point where I can assemble it but it's a fabulous execution of the Blade Runner aesthetic as a double-barreled shotgun it's really really nicely done I am sorry at this moment in time I do not have the the makers name in my head I am NOT norm Chan who seems to have the name of everyone he's ever met in every movie he's ever seen cast crew and director in his head maybe it's just he's got a younger brain than I am than I have that's what I'll say that's the reason I cannot remember the makers name off the top of my head I apologize but um yes I am currently working on a shotgun version of Deckard's blaster and I think I'm gonna have to make a brand new box for it because it's not gonna fit in the one that I made I'm out of room in that one let's see Lee Marsh you mentioned model railroads in your books have you done anything on this since your youth this has been my job for 26 years for 26 years your job has been modeled railroads that's awesome no I have not done anything with model railroads since I was 15 that's when I got a model railroad set I made even been younger may have been 12 or 13 yeah I think I was younger because I meant I bought to model train books and then my dad and I made a train station together from plans from this book and it was the first time I built an architectural type model out of paper from the plans of something and it was really a really great learning experience and two days ago I was actually looking at Z scale trains mm-hmm I was thinking about Z scale I was thinking about a discrete train set and they certainly make them in Z scale they make briefcase trains they tend to be quite expensive and I was toying around with the idea of diving into that world the problem is is that like there's a lot of like initial things to get before you start to build out the world and I love working in a super miniature scale I love the idea of it so it's clearly it's clearly happening in here that like that I want to do that but no I haven't done anything train related in a long time but maybe soon who knows oh oh hey someone just sent us value for a tip about tape measures thank you very much I guess somebody didn't know that they had the number here again I can't use that number can't do it you tell me now I just I can't do it my wife thinks I'm crazy she's like it's right there it's telling you just add it to the thing and I'm like I know I just won't trust the thing I can't see it can't I can't do it I'm curious about your job for 26 years what is it job um many many years ago and I think probably 96 I went down to the Pomona Toy Fair in Anaheim and there's a gigantic train set down there where they take donations I don't know what scale it's in that's beautiful the random Museum of here in San Francisco also has a wonderful train set I've always loved it when I see big train sets I loved the weird news story that came out about Rod Stewart being a train enthusiast Neil Young owns Lionel trains I think he still owns Lionel trains does he probably does ya know train sets are awesome did I just jump back into train sets I did no yeah what does a job working on train sets like that sounds like that sounds really really fun let's see Oh Lee Marsh replies he builds locomotives his five-year-old son is learning how to use a lathe damn that's that's awesome when I when I visit what a workshop down in New Zealand one of Richard Taylor's side passions is seven and a half inch gauge steam trains and through Richard I have witnessed amazingly dozens of these trains over the years and yeah it's funny because as I've been as I've been dialing in my machine parts I've met many of the makers of these trains - and you know you I'd like meet a guy who's sitting on top of a twenty five hundred pound ten foot long working steam train that he built from scratch and I said how long does this take you he said twenty-one years and seven months and I'm like wow that is amazing I love that you know the number like a prison sentence but you say it with such joy so as I've been dialing in my machine tools I've been thinking about these these older gentlemen who make these trains that I met and thinking yeah that totally could be me I could totally dive into a whole universe of making working internal combustion engines on these machines because they totally can build those things I also you know what the the the the paper model of the bath house from spirited away that I built a good portion of on tour a few years ago we did it as a repeating tested series that I never finished because I never finished the model actually I still have what I built and I have all the remaining pieces I've just never gotten around to finishing it it is roughly a Cho scale actually and so I have a train car that is pretty close to the train car from spirited away and what I'd love to do is when I eventually finish the bath house from spirited away I'd love to have the train go somewhere right it should go to you Bob a sister's house it's the most beautiful sequence in that movie hmm sometimes I play that soundtrack here in the cave just to kind of live in spirit it away for a while okay last question Lance W wants to know if I have a unique hard to find tools that I use all the time in projects Lance if I had one on the top of my head I'd be using it as a as a tool tip right now but since I'm shooting tool tips constantly is there a hard-to-find tool I use all the time I don't think so I don't think there is a hard-to-find tool that I use all the time I think almost everything and I use on a regular basis is pretty not esoteric but it's an interesting metric so I'll think about that it has now been officially ninety minutes since I started so I am going to wrap up just to make sure there's nothing else no I think that's it um thank you to everyone thank you for supporting tested our team helping us keep the lights on thank you for your enthusiasm thanks for letting us know that we were able to transfer some of our enthusiasm to you telling us that simply completes that loop it's like an electrical circuit where we're all making stuff nothing could be better than that thank you for watching thank you for inspiring me during this time and thank you for wearing your masks and taking care of each other masks is how we get through this taking care of each other is how we get through this I love you guys have a wonderful couple of weeks and I'll see you at some point in a couple of weeks thanks guys bye all right here we go end stream hoop end

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