I love how wonderfully supportive Adam is of his viewers. He never tells people that he doesn't like their ideas. Instead he focuses on the positive aspects and urging them to follow and develop their dream. Truly inspirational. The world needs more Adams.
72 years old, now retired. Spent 50 years as a welder/fabricator, hyro. mechanic building and repairing equipment and trucks. was a good living, sort of miss it. Really enjoy your show.
It's always super heart-warming to hear Adam talk about welcoming everyone into making, and about sharing knowledge ,and being supportive of each other. The world needs more of this attitude in general. It's also true what he said about enthusiasm: It's like love, it multiplies when shared! :)
Living alone Your Video's have helped me through the last 4 months in isolation, I am SOOOO jealous of that workshop, I just don't have the space in my current place but hopefully moving and a main priority is space for a decent size workshop, thank you so much for all the videos you have been truly inspirational and a support, thank you
Hi Adam, A hopefully helpful trick to find tiny parts, which hide on a floor of the same color: Dim the general light and place a slim flashlight like a maglite on the floor, and turn the beam over the floors area - even smallest tiny bits will cast a very noticeable shadow (and btw this helps as well to "scan" the area very concentrated without distraction.)
The only thing that I would is my line of work not because I don't want people to share in my passion of emergency medicine but because I know the stress that it'll take on your body, mind and soul. Adam keep up the solid work with being a light in these trying times
I've literally never herad anybody mention "The Poet's Guide to Life" and yet it's my favorite book. I was shocked and so happy when you described the section on loss. Thank you for sharing this book and advice - I believe it's genuinely helpful.
If you have a shop, please please please get a master switch installed at the entrance that powers-up your entire shop. A switch you can flip off your way out and flip on your way in to power up all the outlets/lights in your shop. Having a master switch will vastly reduce the chance of a fire starting when you're not there. Shops often have old equipment, overloaded powerstrips, flammable substance etc. When you leave the power should be off everywhere.
I am blown away by your mention of Piers Anthony, I have never met anyone else to date who has read his work, I absolutely loved his Incarnations of Immortality series!
I am hoping that, at some point, the Tested crew will put together and publish Adam's sketches as a book because people would surely love to see maker's sketches and notes for the builds.
On having children, I like this conversation from Lost in Translation: Bob: "The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born. " Charlotte: "Nobody ever tells you that. " Bob: "Your life, as you know it... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk... and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life."
These videos are just getting better and better. I feel very lucky to be able to witness them as they come out. Would make my world if I had Adam ever messaged me to say that what I was making was awesome.
I love that you are working on wing design. Of all the styles of wings, owls amaze me most ( king fishers are a close second). I watched a great comparison of how much noise different birds make in flight and the owl is essentially silent. As a mechanical engineering technologist the structure of owl wings is fascinating. Aesthetically they are majestic as well. They strike me as a great example from nature to examine while you consider making a pair of wings for yourself.
sharing this: "The comfort of a soluble problem" don't remember where i heard this but it fits for the makers among us, love your show for so many reasons, it makes this time of worry and turmoil a bit more tolerable while we are together.
Adam!! You should really watch and work with Alec Steele! He is a young blacksmith, but he his a monster builder, and is really doing well. He does everything from swords to fine jewelry. I think you would enjoy doing a one day build with him.
Please continue bringing raw content like this, love how the video starts with Adam running off screen :) It’s like having a window into Adams shop, and it’s incredible
at 23:14 Adam starts talking about using cardboard for making, modelling and prototyping. I found a YT playlist on (I think) reddit that had 148 projects, many of which were cardboard-based. czcams.com/play/PLmikw45YEhFy2HDZgn2CcMP1nTJidwzSF.html
As a parent, your children will surprise you. When they are born, you need to adjust your priorities. You become a gardener of sorts. Those children are seeds, but they don’t come in a packet labeled with what kind of flower or plant they are. Your job is just to water them, give them some sunshine. I am somewhat of a maker, which is partially why I am a fan of this channel! Of course, I’d love for all my kids to have the same passions that I have, but that is not the way it works. Thankfully, one of my sons is an amazing maker! I actually live more vicariously through him and what he does. He even works with a local company that builds puppets and animatronics . Currently, due to the pandemic, he and many of his coworkers had to be put on furlough. But that freed him up to build things with wood as a side project. So it’s fun to see the things that he builds. But it’s also fun to see what his brothers are becoming. Still young, to some extent, they like their video games, as it seems most teens and young adults do. But they do like their outdoor adventures, a passion they share with me. I may not be skilled at Subnautica or whatever game they are playing, but we enjoy a good camping trip together... and hopefully rafting, if this new year allows for such activities. So parenting is less of a distraction, and more of a course correction, in my opinion. Keep up the great work Adam! A fan of yours and the whole Myrhbusters All Stars! Kari, Grant 😞, Tory, Jamie, Jessie 😞, etc...
hi Adam, i was listening to this while i was working on modifying a chair to my liking. Really enjoyed the video so much so that i got much more done than i had thought going into it. just another couple of hours ill be done with it.
The last question was "Is there a hard-to-find tool that you use every day?" Adam couldn't think of one, or if he did think of this couldn't mention it because of the tool itself...It is lack of ego. His welcoming and supportive demeanor stems from his lack of "ownership rights", like when he was speaking against 'gatekeeping' while trying to encourage others in the makerspace, as well as acceptance of his limited amout of control over anything that is not himself or his actions, like when he said "This IS what is happening" when speaking hypothetically of getting rained on. The knowledge that love doesn't get split but instead multiplies might be the tool that allows these other tools to exist in the first place, and so it might be considered the best one (that isn't as common to find as I would like to here on our little sphere).
Literally the second you mentioned the measurement on the tape measurer I jumped up to grab mine and check it out... even had to rewind to verify the location to be sure, but mind actually does not have this feature. Future plan: grab calipers and scribe that measurement onto the back of my tape measurer
Love what you do especialy The tools you have shown this is coming a tradesmen of 38yrs, my favorite is still the blade runner gun . Your humor has made me laugh so hard it helps with what we are going thru THANK YOU
I also wanted to comment on "No Gate Keeping"... I pretty much agree with openly sharing your knowledge with others who become interested however, there are a couple of exceptions that I do employ on occasion... the first is "Clear and Present Danger"... this usually only applies to people you might already know and involves when they start showing interest in something inherently dangerous without caring about proper precautions and training (like rocketry) and you know that they are and have been distinctly careless in many things and especially in not respecting danger (like lathe or milling without proper glasses or shields!).. Those are people I will actively try to dissuade until they prove their dedication to being safe because I would like to keep them whole and healthy! The second type is when you have been working on a project for quite a while and you talk about it too openly and somebody swoops in and makes said project, based upon your work, and sells it for nothing more than profit (not actual interest) and prevents you from recouping your investment. Normally, after recovering most of the money I spent plus a little more to help fund the next project, I freely share... but keeping your cards close to your chest before releasing the project information and details can make the difference between continuing to be an independent maker and surrendering to the normal "hourly" job market!
So glad I heard "Anne McCaffrey" ;) my favourite author of my teens and early 20s. I've 2 copies of the 30th anniversary edition of Dragonflight (only 1000 printed). Just spent the last year or more reading almost my entire collection of her books.
My house burnt to the ground in Jan of 82. Six people my family all made it out. Stuff is stuff. It can come and go. Lives can't be replaced. Dont get attached to mertial things. They can parish in a blink of a eye.
Adam and the team, Kudos for the content and keeping yet another human sane. Your builds are helping me to try and tackle some projects I never thought I would be good at...I’m not, but climbing the learning curve is giving me more and better ideas. Thanks a bunch!
I went to see Nightmare Before Christmas when it premiered in Portugal, and before the opening song ended my jaw was on the floor. It's one of my favorite animated films ever and I hold it very dearly in my memory. It was also one of the first movies I went to see with my girlfriend, now my wife for over 20 years. So yeah, lots of good feelings come with that movie.
Fish tanks/aquascaping does not take a lot of time! At least it doesn't once you get a planted tank established, then the little ecosystem mostly takes care of itself. It's so rewarding to watch it evolve and keep everything living inside of it happy! My 20g has fish, snails, shrimp and frogs and despite that I never have to clean algae and I only do partial water changes once a month.
That gatekeeping discussion was on point. Nobody would remotely pretend Jamie and Adam approach problems the same, yet neither would anyone deny they're both brilliant. 48:26 for Thank You Future Adam - this is just a note for me when I show other people.
Theres always a way - some way, to avoid needing to, "estimate the curve". I absolutely cannot use that tape measure feature either- dont trust it. It's been amazing getting to know a bit about Adam in these past couple months. What a great quirky and sweet person.
My favourite thing to tell staff when they were stressed about our work (social research) was "no one will die as a consequence of anything that we do or fail to do". Like Mitch - ultimately, it doesn't matter.
Aquariums! Super easy- just get a butt load of snails. Litteraly haven't cleaned mine in YEARS, I do a water change once a month and stick the nozzle for the water suck thing in the gravel to suck up the poo and that's it! Snails make your life easy
I always miss out on the live streams so I'm just going to drop my question here for all: Do you talk out loud to yourself while building things? Because I do. It's a mnemonic device of sorts I guess that makes it easier to internalize the process and construction of whatever I'm making.
Right? When Adam said about making mechanical wings, I was totally expecting him to reference Brazil seeing as it's one of his top 5 films and has been a huge inspiration for him as a maker - but he didn't, I guess he was in the reverie zone thinking about beign in the park with his family watching the Herons and Cormorants and other birds.
Adam, you should totally head south down the peninsula to Redwood Shores and check out Jameco Electronics! They have a huge online warehouse, but you can also just walk in, fill out a form, and a runner will go back and grab everything you want, it’s awesome! They also have a bunch of greebly grab bags and fun kits in the lobby that are perfect for projects and kids!
Adam, it's great to see this more raw/stream-of-consciousness stuff, not 'packaged' and slick in the usual American style. Makes for much more relatable content for a Kiwi bloke like me :-)
That bit about stuntmen injuring themselves more with rubber swords than metal ones reminds me of the statistics that show that if you give police non lethal ammo, they are more likely to shoot at suspects. Or that bare knuckle boxers are less likely to get brain damage than those with gloves. So I think it's a mental barrier thing. You hesitate more and think more about the blows you give and take with the hard and heavy stuff. You get more relaxed about swinging and whacking away at people when you don't expect it to be as harmful. As I'm typing this I imagine a city planner misunderstanding my intent and starts to remove railings on roads to make drivers drive safer and police armourers issuing depleted uranium ammo to cops so they really hesitate to shoot people. All I meant was that sometimes making things safer makes people less careful. But safety is to be pursued nonetheless because, in general... It does work as intended.
Any time something can be automated well, e.g. by using 3D printing, that just gives you more time to spend on something that cannot be automated well.
The part where "Jazmin" comments about the microscope piece Adam apparently never put back (in a past episode)... that crack up during his realization of what she was talking about lmao wholesomely hilarious
As a former Radioshack employee who managed a location that stood for 2 decades, I can enlighten you why the Radioshack Reboot failed. My original manager had been with the company since the start. and he knew we were in a death spiral long before it started, he noted the following things: the entire corporate office in the last 10 years of the company had replaced all of its staff with young new hires. When I had been with RS for 4 years, I had more time with the company than any single person at the corporate HQ. All this young talent had something in common, they weren't good at what they did. They had degrees, but they didn't have knowledge or experience to back it up. As a result they started destroying the company when it had already been at a financial lull. They placed items the elderly would purchase on the top shelf, and rewrite the price sticker and label to be font size 6 or smaller. They would stop carrying key things that we were known for having, and we turned into a cellphone store. Heres the crazy thing about that, we knew it was a bad decision. Years before, RS purchased a cellular company in Texas and tried to make it profitable, it couldn't be done, nor could it be done on the backs of the big 3 (ATT, Verizon, Sprint). We tested the waters and knew it was failure, yet we stopped doing everything radioshack does, and we just became cellphone outlets to move units for the big 3. As a result the company burned all of its money and died. the TL/DR: Radioshacks corporate HQ replaced every single person with young unexperienced people. Not a single person in corporate management in the last 10 or so years, actually knew what a radioshack was. and those are the people who dictated what every store put on its shelves, how the store was organized, the future direction of the company, the whole thing. Why this was allowed to happen, I'll never know. My boss was PERFECT for going to corporate and leading the company, at the time he was within 15 years of retirement age, was one of longest running RS managers, and was honestly overqualified to be manager of a retail store. The knowledge and experience that RS needed was there the whole time, and in direct communication with corporate. Corp just turned over everyone so fast, they forgot who they were.
Hey Adam, I just wanted to thank you so very much for doing everything you do. I’ve been a large fan of yours for a very long time. I’m an AFOL and love watching you build Lego!
my favorite bit of movie sword trivia is the swords used by kevin costner and alan rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and how they used two different sized swords in the scene where rickman uses robin hoods fathers sword so when the two actors handled them they would appear clumsier in Rickmans hands because that sword was larger and the one handled by costner was smaller so it would appear easier for him to handle (pardon my grammer and wordy sentence structure)
Wearing masks will slow the virus down but it's not going to stop it. It's especially not going to stop it when people don't even wear gloves. A healthy lifestyle and understanding of nutrition as well as understanding at least a basic sense of how viral infections work combined with masks and gloves would be the proper method of defense.
I would not mind that rant, to be honest. But I think you got the point through, and I could not agree more. Coming from a historical craft background I have heard a lot of gate keeping from everything to what exact tools to use, and how hard it is to learn these crafts and so on. Same thing when I started with performing with fire, there was a lot of secrecy in what fuel to use, how to do things and all that. Me I gladly explained what to use (if nothing else, you avoid people trying to breath fire or using highly combustible/explosive fuel and ending up hurting them self or others). I tell anyone I meet that wants to know how to make things, that just makes more people make things, nothing else. To me, that is the real meaning of sharing is caring.
Adam, I can't trust the tape either. I need to measure at least 3 times forwards and backwards before I'm satisfied with the measurements. If not 4 or 5 times for those things that are Super Critical. Even when the measurements aren't critical, and I'm being lazy, I can't trust it.
HOLY SHIT i tried the cig smoke trick lol it totally works! blowing the smoke on doesn't really work, but the smoke that comes straight off the ember dries it instantaneously. Planning on quitting next month, but i'll enjoy this trick until then haha ;)
Dear Adam love these chats but I have a question about the format..... Can we get recorded live feed of this also as a podcast when it's posted on CZcams.... The thing is I'm having to watch it in bits becouse of famely ( 3 boys and wife ) responsibilitys.... It occurred to me that I have plenty of time when I do my job as a mail man to listen to it then....it would be a nice distraction addition to the existing podcast.... Hope you can make it so thanx love the work....
When radioshack went down I got $1,100 worth of components at 90% off. I still have much of it, even got my a little mechanical throw switch Dr. Frankenstein style!
@@coreymonday1375 I don't know why they did that, it really didn't change much on our stores where I live. The old stores looked fine, nothing wrong with it. The "remodel" was when I stopped shopping there
@@MattManProductions i agree with you but ill tell you it was obvious to me that radio shack was ran by idiots because the remodel ruined my favorite store aswell they use to sell these small rc cars called xmods and you could upgrade everything on the car ...motor shocks tires suspension...ect and and me and my friends would draw a race track on the floor and would race each other and it was a blast and after the remodel they stopped selling all rc cars thats when i stopped going to radio shack and the crazy thing is i got paid very well to remodel these stores ...and if your curious no i didn't have anything to do with designing the remodel all i did was get the plans and hire a team to make the design happen but your absolutely right they ruined them
Hi Adam! If you’re a fan of the 1989 Batman film, I would recommend doing a one day build of the LEGO UCS Batmobile. It will definitely be a challenge but I’m sure you’re capable.
Re Gatekeeping - This. So much. I admit to have been absolutely the *worst* gatekeeper that ever shat on an enthusiasm. Once you start doing that, it is incredibly hard to stop it. It is a seductive self-praise. But the worst is recalling with deep, crawling humiliation, all the times one has been "that jerk". Just dont even start
Actually i dont often patreon because i have other things i do loke that but this is a good tome to do that. Keep our artists in work and employed while in iso.
Adaam you mentioned model railroads can i recomend a few layouts tosee once this is over two in sanfran would be the Baz Boyz zscale modular layout then Jack Burgess is Yosemite valley this is about 95% scrach built and is finished further afield the Colorado model railroad museums huge layout Miniture wonderland in Hamburg germany this one for the amazing miniture engerneering and finally The Pendon museum in the u.k.
ADAM PLEASE...if you or the team read this, can you please tell me where you picked up using the amazing word ‘shite’ as someone from the uk it really stands out as being solely a British variation...I’m really interested...
I love how wonderfully supportive Adam is of his viewers. He never tells people that he doesn't like their ideas. Instead he focuses on the positive aspects and urging them to follow and develop their dream. Truly inspirational. The world needs more Adams.
Comes with experience in the creative industry I imagine
imagine Adam as president...... he can fix anything
@@alwebster4092 Yes and the things he can't fix, he seeks out the experts and listens to them!
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72 years old, now retired. Spent 50 years as a welder/fabricator, hyro. mechanic building and repairing equipment and trucks. was a good living, sort of miss it. Really enjoy your show.
It's always super heart-warming to hear Adam talk about welcoming everyone into making, and about sharing knowledge ,and being supportive of each other. The world needs more of this attitude in general. It's also true what he said about enthusiasm: It's like love, it multiplies when shared! :)
Adam I love to hear you answer questions and sharing your knowledge while I work. So happy you're doing your thing still. Have a great day!
Living alone Your Video's have helped me through the last 4 months in isolation, I am SOOOO jealous of that workshop, I just don't have the space in my current place but hopefully moving and a main priority is space for a decent size workshop, thank you so much for all the videos you have been truly inspirational and a support, thank you
Hi Adam,
A hopefully helpful trick to find tiny parts, which hide on a floor of the same color:
Dim the general light and place a slim flashlight like a maglite on the floor, and turn the beam over the floors area - even smallest tiny bits will cast a very noticeable shadow (and btw this helps as well to "scan" the area very concentrated without distraction.)
Hard day at work. Get some food. Sit on your couch, eat and listen Adam rambling about stuff. 5/5 best way to relax.
The only thing that I would is my line of work not because I don't want people to share in my passion of emergency medicine but because I know the stress that it'll take on your body, mind and soul. Adam keep up the solid work with being a light in these trying times
I've literally never herad anybody mention "The Poet's Guide to Life" and yet it's my favorite book. I was shocked and so happy when you described the section on loss. Thank you for sharing this book and advice - I believe it's genuinely helpful.
If you have a shop, please please please get a master switch installed at the entrance that powers-up your entire shop. A switch you can flip off your way out and flip on your way in to power up all the outlets/lights in your shop.
Having a master switch will vastly reduce the chance of a fire starting when you're not there. Shops often have old equipment, overloaded powerstrips, flammable substance etc. When you leave the power should be off everywhere.
I am blown away by your mention of Piers Anthony, I have never met anyone else to date who has read his work, I absolutely loved his Incarnations of Immortality series!
i love going to sleep listening to his voice not sure why so soothing
Hehe same with lockpickinglawyer
He has the energy of a five year old the day after Halloween! Take care Adam!!
1. Try playback at 2x.
2. Profit.
3. You're welcome!
I am hoping that, at some point, the Tested crew will put together and publish Adam's sketches as a book because people would surely love to see maker's sketches and notes for the builds.
On having children, I like this conversation from Lost in Translation:
Bob: "The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born.
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Charlotte: "Nobody ever tells you that.
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Bob: "Your life, as you know it... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk... and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life."
Adam after asking if he is live immediately runs to get something. Ahh Adam
Classic Adam!! 😍😅
Adam things.
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These videos are just getting better and better. I feel very lucky to be able to witness them as they come out. Would make my world if I had Adam ever messaged me to say that what I was making was awesome.
I love that you are working on wing design. Of all the styles of wings, owls amaze me most ( king fishers are a close second). I watched a great comparison of how much noise different birds make in flight and the owl is essentially silent. As a mechanical engineering technologist the structure of owl wings is fascinating. Aesthetically they are majestic as well. They strike me as a great example from nature to examine while you consider making a pair of wings for yourself.
Watching this after the podcast about and the loss of Grant Imihara really hits hard 😭
sharing this: "The comfort of a soluble problem" don't remember where i heard this but it fits for the makers among us, love your show for so many reasons, it makes this time of worry and turmoil a bit more tolerable while we are together.
Adam!! You should really watch and work with Alec Steele! He is a young blacksmith, but he his a monster builder, and is really doing well. He does everything from swords to fine jewelry. I think you would enjoy doing a one day build with him.
Please continue bringing raw content like this, love how the video starts with Adam running off screen :) It’s like having a window into Adams shop, and it’s incredible
Adam, you're about 8 years older than me, but I can relate to the "Hey, Beastmaster's On!". I've just never heard that HBO acronym before. I LOLed.
at 23:14 Adam starts talking about using cardboard for making, modelling and prototyping.
I found a YT playlist on (I think) reddit that had 148 projects, many of which were cardboard-based.
czcams.com/play/PLmikw45YEhFy2HDZgn2CcMP1nTJidwzSF.html
As a parent, your children will surprise you. When they are born, you need to adjust your priorities. You become a gardener of sorts. Those children are seeds, but they don’t come in a packet labeled with what kind of flower or plant they are. Your job is just to water them, give them some sunshine.
I am somewhat of a maker, which is partially why I am a fan of this channel! Of course, I’d love for all my kids to have the same passions that I have, but that is not the way it works.
Thankfully, one of my sons is an amazing maker! I actually live more vicariously through him and what he does. He even works with a local company that builds puppets and animatronics . Currently, due to the pandemic, he and many of his coworkers had to be put on furlough. But that freed him up to build things with wood as a side project.
So it’s fun to see the things that he builds. But it’s also fun to see what his brothers are becoming. Still young, to some extent, they like their video games, as it seems most teens and young adults do. But they do like their outdoor adventures, a passion they share with me. I may not be skilled at Subnautica or whatever game they are playing, but we enjoy a good camping trip together... and hopefully rafting, if this new year allows for such activities.
So parenting is less of a distraction, and more of a course correction, in my opinion. Keep up the great work Adam! A fan of yours and the whole Myrhbusters All Stars! Kari, Grant 😞, Tory, Jamie, Jessie 😞, etc...
hi Adam, i was listening to this while i was working on modifying a chair to my liking. Really enjoyed the video so much so that i got much more done than i had thought going into it. just another couple of hours ill be done with it.
what a genuine thoughtful insightful, enthusiastic caring, individual you are Adam
You have a real gift of gab brotha. It's actually calming and soothing. I Love listening to you. Very interesting. Thanks dude!
Adam you are an awesome dude! Love your work so much, and you have inspired me since Mythbusters and still do!
Thank you Adam, you are so inspiring for me almost everyday! keep safe
The last question was "Is there a hard-to-find tool that you use every day?" Adam couldn't think of one, or if he did think of this couldn't mention it because of the tool itself...It is lack of ego. His welcoming and supportive demeanor stems from his lack of "ownership rights", like when he was speaking against 'gatekeeping' while trying to encourage others in the makerspace, as well as acceptance of his limited amout of control over anything that is not himself or his actions, like when he said "This IS what is happening" when speaking hypothetically of getting rained on. The knowledge that love doesn't get split but instead multiplies might be the tool that allows these other tools to exist in the first place, and so it might be considered the best one (that isn't as common to find as I would like to here on our little sphere).
Literally the second you mentioned the measurement on the tape measurer I jumped up to grab mine and check it out... even had to rewind to verify the location to be sure, but mind actually does not have this feature.
Future plan: grab calipers and scribe that measurement onto the back of my tape measurer
Loved the gate keeping segment. Literally every time I do something so I kinda closet do it and don't talk about it.
Love what you do especialy The tools you have shown this is coming a tradesmen of 38yrs, my favorite is still the blade runner gun . Your humor has made me laugh so hard it helps with what we are going thru THANK YOU
I also wanted to comment on "No Gate Keeping"... I pretty much agree with openly sharing your knowledge with others who become interested however, there are a couple of exceptions that I do employ on occasion... the first is "Clear and Present Danger"... this usually only applies to people you might already know and involves when they start showing interest in something inherently dangerous without caring about proper precautions and training (like rocketry) and you know that they are and have been distinctly careless in many things and especially in not respecting danger (like lathe or milling without proper glasses or shields!).. Those are people I will actively try to dissuade until they prove their dedication to being safe because I would like to keep them whole and healthy! The second type is when you have been working on a project for quite a while and you talk about it too openly and somebody swoops in and makes said project, based upon your work, and sells it for nothing more than profit (not actual interest) and prevents you from recouping your investment. Normally, after recovering most of the money I spent plus a little more to help fund the next project, I freely share... but keeping your cards close to your chest before releasing the project information and details can make the difference between continuing to be an independent maker and surrendering to the normal "hourly" job market!
So glad I heard "Anne McCaffrey" ;) my favourite author of my teens and early 20s. I've 2 copies of the 30th anniversary edition of Dragonflight (only 1000 printed).
Just spent the last year or more reading almost my entire collection of her books.
My house burnt to the ground in Jan of 82. Six people my family all made it out. Stuff is stuff. It can come and go. Lives can't be replaced. Dont get attached to mertial things. They can parish in a blink of a eye.
Adam and the team, Kudos for the content and keeping yet another human sane. Your builds are helping me to try and tackle some projects I never thought I would be good at...I’m not, but climbing the learning curve is giving me more and better ideas. Thanks a bunch!
I went to see Nightmare Before Christmas when it premiered in Portugal, and before the opening song ended my jaw was on the floor. It's one of my favorite animated films ever and I hold it very dearly in my memory. It was also one of the first movies I went to see with my girlfriend, now my wife for over 20 years. So yeah, lots of good feelings come with that movie.
I had some concrete work to do today and this show kept me company the whole time. Thanks.
Fish tanks/aquascaping does not take a lot of time! At least it doesn't once you get a planted tank established, then the little ecosystem mostly takes care of itself. It's so rewarding to watch it evolve and keep everything living inside of it happy! My 20g has fish, snails, shrimp and frogs and despite that I never have to clean algae and I only do partial water changes once a month.
That gatekeeping discussion was on point. Nobody would remotely pretend Jamie and Adam approach problems the same, yet neither would anyone deny they're both brilliant.
48:26 for Thank You Future Adam - this is just a note for me when I show other people.
Theres always a way - some way, to avoid needing to, "estimate the curve". I absolutely cannot use that tape measure feature either- dont trust it. It's been amazing getting to know a bit about Adam in these past couple months. What a great quirky and sweet person.
The “Gate Keeping” speech was excellent. Preach on, Brother Savage. 👍🏻
"Here's what the thing about parenthood: You remember in the Matrix?"
-Adam Savage, and only Adam Savage
"I put on some Peter Gabriel the other day..."
My favourite thing to tell staff when they were stressed about our work (social research) was "no one will die as a consequence of anything that we do or fail to do". Like Mitch - ultimately, it doesn't matter.
"Hey, Beastmaster's On" made me really laugh, I remember those days.
Aquariums! Super easy- just get a butt load of snails. Litteraly haven't cleaned mine in YEARS, I do a water change once a month and stick the nozzle for the water suck thing in the gravel to suck up the poo and that's it! Snails make your life easy
ClickSpring is amazing. You should check out “This Old Tony”. Awesome and HILARIOUS videos of machinists.
Jager1726 he already knows about click spring
Abom79's got some machining-chops too. Another Adam !
Adam is the cure during this pandemic lol
I always miss out on the live streams so I'm just going to drop my question here for all: Do you talk out loud to yourself while building things? Because I do. It's a mnemonic device of sorts I guess that makes it easier to internalize the process and construction of whatever I'm making.
The mechanical wings Jonathon Price wears in Terry Gilliam's Brazil are pretty incredible
Right? When Adam said about making mechanical wings, I was totally expecting him to reference Brazil seeing as it's one of his top 5 films and has been a huge inspiration for him as a maker - but he didn't, I guess he was in the reverie zone thinking about beign in the park with his family watching the Herons and Cormorants and other birds.
Adam, you should totally head south down the peninsula to Redwood Shores and check out Jameco Electronics! They have a huge online warehouse, but you can also just walk in, fill out a form, and a runner will go back and grab everything you want, it’s awesome! They also have a bunch of greebly grab bags and fun kits in the lobby that are perfect for projects and kids!
Adam, it's great to see this more raw/stream-of-consciousness stuff, not 'packaged' and slick in the usual American style.
Makes for much more relatable content for a Kiwi bloke like me :-)
That bit about stuntmen injuring themselves more with rubber swords than metal ones reminds me of the statistics that show that if you give police non lethal ammo, they are more likely to shoot at suspects. Or that bare knuckle boxers are less likely to get brain damage than those with gloves. So I think it's a mental barrier thing. You hesitate more and think more about the blows you give and take with the hard and heavy stuff. You get more relaxed about swinging and whacking away at people when you don't expect it to be as harmful.
As I'm typing this I imagine a city planner misunderstanding my intent and starts to remove railings on roads to make drivers drive safer and police armourers issuing depleted uranium ammo to cops so they really hesitate to shoot people. All I meant was that sometimes making things safer makes people less careful. But safety is to be pursued nonetheless because, in general... It does work as intended.
Any time something can be automated well, e.g. by using 3D printing, that just gives you more time to spend on something that cannot be automated well.
You wore a t-shirt on Mythbusters once that I would have recreated for the puppet: “I reject your reality TV and substitute my own.”
I've said it before and I'll say it again... somebody has to do a supercut of Adam running out of the frame and back again.
The part where "Jazmin" comments about the microscope piece Adam apparently never put back (in a past episode)... that crack up during his realization of what she was talking about lmao wholesomely hilarious
As a former Radioshack employee who managed a location that stood for 2 decades, I can enlighten you why the Radioshack Reboot failed. My original manager had been with the company since the start. and he knew we were in a death spiral long before it started, he noted the following things: the entire corporate office in the last 10 years of the company had replaced all of its staff with young new hires. When I had been with RS for 4 years, I had more time with the company than any single person at the corporate HQ. All this young talent had something in common, they weren't good at what they did. They had degrees, but they didn't have knowledge or experience to back it up. As a result they started destroying the company when it had already been at a financial lull. They placed items the elderly would purchase on the top shelf, and rewrite the price sticker and label to be font size 6 or smaller. They would stop carrying key things that we were known for having, and we turned into a cellphone store. Heres the crazy thing about that, we knew it was a bad decision. Years before, RS purchased a cellular company in Texas and tried to make it profitable, it couldn't be done, nor could it be done on the backs of the big 3 (ATT, Verizon, Sprint). We tested the waters and knew it was failure, yet we stopped doing everything radioshack does, and we just became cellphone outlets to move units for the big 3. As a result the company burned all of its money and died.
the TL/DR: Radioshacks corporate HQ replaced every single person with young unexperienced people. Not a single person in corporate management in the last 10 or so years, actually knew what a radioshack was. and those are the people who dictated what every store put on its shelves, how the store was organized, the future direction of the company, the whole thing. Why this was allowed to happen, I'll never know. My boss was PERFECT for going to corporate and leading the company, at the time he was within 15 years of retirement age, was one of longest running RS managers, and was honestly overqualified to be manager of a retail store. The knowledge and experience that RS needed was there the whole time, and in direct communication with corporate. Corp just turned over everyone so fast, they forgot who they were.
Imagine typing your entire autobiography and getting exactly zero likes.
Hey Adam, I just wanted to thank you so very much for doing everything you do. I’ve been a large fan of yours for a very long time. I’m an AFOL and love watching you build Lego!
Mark Miller from Carpinteria? Hi Mark, it has been 50 years. Always thought you were a great guy.
Even after actually working at RadioShack, i totally agree with Adam about their tack if they want a "come back"
my favorite bit of movie sword trivia is the swords used by kevin costner and alan rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and how they used two different sized swords in the scene where rickman uses robin hoods fathers sword so when the two actors handled them they would appear clumsier in Rickmans hands because that sword was larger and the one handled by costner was smaller so it would appear easier for him to handle (pardon my grammer and wordy sentence structure)
Hi Adam I am your biggest fan and I have loved your work and energy ever since the early days of mythbusters! ❤️
As an aside I would also love to hear a list of books on making stuff. That would be rad
This!
Wearing masks will slow the virus down but it's not going to stop it. It's especially not going to stop it when people don't even wear gloves. A healthy lifestyle and understanding of nutrition as well as understanding at least a basic sense of how viral infections work combined with masks and gloves would be the proper method of defense.
Been a fan since the first myth busters and tested .keep up the good work and projects
Lamps also use the strangest thread pitches. I have a strike point on the pommel of a tomahawk that I had to dig deep to make work.
thanks for all the instruction for weathering really works for home decore making me a hero for family project
I would not mind that rant, to be honest. But I think you got the point through, and I could not agree more. Coming from a historical craft background I have heard a lot of gate keeping from everything to what exact tools to use, and how hard it is to learn these crafts and so on. Same thing when I started with performing with fire, there was a lot of secrecy in what fuel to use, how to do things and all that. Me I gladly explained what to use (if nothing else, you avoid people trying to breath fire or using highly combustible/explosive fuel and ending up hurting them self or others).
I tell anyone I meet that wants to know how to make things, that just makes more people make things, nothing else.
To me, that is the real meaning of sharing is caring.
Adam, I can't trust the tape either. I need to measure at least 3 times forwards and backwards before I'm satisfied with the measurements. If not 4 or 5 times for those things that are Super Critical. Even when the measurements aren't critical, and I'm being lazy, I can't trust it.
HOLY SHIT i tried the cig smoke trick lol it totally works! blowing the smoke on doesn't really work, but the smoke that comes straight off the ember dries it instantaneously. Planning on quitting next month, but i'll enjoy this trick until then haha ;)
My shop cleanliness suffers. One day I will get my shop under control.
I had to go check my tape measure, had no idea that it had a measurement on it.
I cannot find a book by Walter Isaacson about the Wright Brothers. Please clarify if you see this question. I enjoy Adam's book recommendations.
A freshly cleaned work space is an invitation to creativity!
Adam, you need to visit the union terminal museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, lots of model trains there
Adam is just the best.
Can you make a Graboid (Tremors) special?
Dear Adam love these chats but I have a question about the format..... Can we get recorded live feed of this also as a podcast when it's posted on CZcams....
The thing is I'm having to watch it in bits becouse of famely ( 3 boys and wife ) responsibilitys.... It occurred to me that I have plenty of time when I do my job as a mail man to listen to it then....it would be a nice distraction addition to the existing podcast....
Hope you can make it so thanx love the work....
It's always a good idea to model your projects in CAD - or Cardboard-Aided Design.
Carry on!
When I saw the scorpion king sword in the thumbnail I thought it must be some sort of Klingon sword
6:46 and now it’s 2023. It’s still rumbling on in the UK.
When radioshack went down I got $1,100 worth of components at 90% off. I still have much of it, even got my a little mechanical throw switch Dr. Frankenstein style!
I loved radio shack!
I used so many supplies from radio shack and never had a problem finding parts
I loved radio shack too my old job untill they went bankrupt was remodeling radio shacks from texas to new york
@@coreymonday1375 I don't know why they did that, it really didn't change much on our stores where I live. The old stores looked fine, nothing wrong with it. The "remodel" was when I stopped shopping there
@@MattManProductions i agree with you but ill tell you it was obvious to me that radio shack was ran by idiots because the remodel ruined my favorite store aswell they use to sell these small rc cars called xmods and you could upgrade everything on the car ...motor shocks tires suspension...ect and and me and my friends would draw a race track on the floor and would race each other and it was a blast and after the remodel they stopped selling all rc cars thats when i stopped going to radio shack and the crazy thing is i got paid very well to remodel these stores ...and if your curious no i didn't have anything to do with designing the remodel all i did was get the plans and hire a team to make the design happen but your absolutely right they ruined them
He seems very genuine and nice person. Bless him :3
Hi Adam! If you’re a fan of the 1989 Batman film, I would recommend doing a one day build of the LEGO UCS Batmobile. It will definitely be a challenge but I’m sure you’re capable.
Re Gatekeeping - This. So much. I admit to have been absolutely the *worst* gatekeeper that ever shat on an enthusiasm. Once you start doing that, it is incredibly hard to stop it. It is a seductive self-praise. But the worst is recalling with deep, crawling humiliation, all the times one has been "that jerk".
Just dont even start
can't always replace vintage tools, or handed down tools.
Actually i dont often patreon because i have other things i do loke that but this is a good tome to do that. Keep our artists in work and employed while in iso.
You said you like watching makers on you tube but what about restoration channels? Tysy tube is one of my favorites.
Adaam you mentioned model railroads can i recomend a few layouts tosee once this is over two in sanfran would be the Baz Boyz zscale modular layout then Jack Burgess is Yosemite valley this is about 95% scrach built and is finished further afield the Colorado model railroad museums huge layout Miniture wonderland in Hamburg germany this one for the amazing miniture engerneering and finally The Pendon museum in the u.k.
amazing and inspiring QA in the right moment :) thank you !!!
Road Warrior did play a lot on cable. I loved it too. :-)
i bet if you sent Oran a tool it would be inspiring and 1 heck of a pick me up!
A hard to find tool that you use all the time: a 10MM socket.
I wish I could buy them in bulk.
There are companies that sell multi-packs, but I don't think they're good brands.
Anne McCathery is a very nice person. I meet her and her son at DragonCon in 2008
Stuff made here is a great channel
ADAM PLEASE...if you or the team read this, can you please tell me where you picked up using the amazing word ‘shite’ as someone from the uk it really stands out as being solely a British variation...I’m really interested...