Michae - Safety Third 54

I guess Michae doesn't take any L's.

My favourite podcast starring Willia, Nige, Kevi, and Michae

I feel Reeves and Nigel would make the perfect storm of insane content if they worked together lol

Nigel: makes jokes Everyone: in their own world not getting them William: wait a minute- Nigel: that was the joke!!

Lol when Nigel said "yeah why don't you post anything?" The first time that was CLEARLY a joke.

I just love the juxtaposition of unhinged, swearing Michael next to the polite, slightly shy Nigel.

As a middle school stem teacher I had lathes, chop saws, welders and everything. I stopped teaching but I found out i had so many students become engineers because they loved my class. Definitely miss it.

My brain melted listening to them discuss nominal dimensions. I listen to this podcast to keep my brain nice and smooth.

Imagine my disappointment at no new Michae video...

High schools be like "Wood shop is too dangerous. Join the football team."

wood boards are measured by their rough cut size, the ones you buy in the store have been planed on all sides to make them smooth. Before they are planed, the boards are the given size.

Sometimes I feel like Nigel is just there to "do something" but I'm glad Will convinced him to do the podcast and stay in it. Those two are just <3

I don't have the technical knowledge of the 4 guys sitting here, but I'm a carpenter and listening to them talk about woodworking puts a smile on my face. When they really get into what they do, I can't understand half of the technical speak. But then they start talking about a jointer, and how it's just a bunch of horizontal blades spinning REAL FAST to flatten/square wood, and I get it. I don't know, feels good.

Mick is my fav guest this far! sad to not have mlek as a host on the pod

In a history class I got really ballsy in a 3 page report, in the middle I addressed the teacher how skeptical I was that he would read this far. He Never talked to me about it, and I passed the class fine.

as a literature girl i'm always a little bit lost but i still really love this show! your conversations about how cool it is to build shit & how lame it is to read shit are completely flipped in my circles, but it's always nice to dip my toes into a world i'm not familiar with. and learn what a jointer is. fucking terrifying. one day i will be the home depot lesbian i have always wanted to be because of this podcast

The safety concern with a drill press is work holding. If your material is small enough to clear the rear pillar, and isn't secured with a vice or jig, and if the bit you are using is wide enough to overcome your hold on the material, it can grab the material and turn it into a crappy helicopter. As you see, a lot of variables have to line up, but the first time it happens is hard to forget.

Lmfao, I had a friend argue with me once that cursive was important for school, but learning to read a clock wasn't. My thoughts were essentially that while we don't use analog clocks much in day to day, it's essentially a way to teach kids both about how the passage of time works (because otherwise an hour just magically ends at 60, and a day ends after two twelve hours lol) as well as relating to helping kids understand angles and stuff, which is incredibly important for geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. He literally never gave a reason for why cursive was good. Even people who say stuff like cursive is faster, it's like, a) only if you're really good at it, and b) only if your penmanship is good enough AND the person can even read cursive to begin with lol.

“You could swap that with a Hayabusa engine” Jesus Christ Michae is a genius

I grew up in Washington, and in my highschool experience is extremely similar to William's and Michaels. Teachers "holistically grading" papers, learning the absolute b.s. that the public school system is, spamming word counts with white font. It's actually kinda nostalgic listening to this conversation.