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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto — 534 episodes
535: Not Invented Here
534: A Mummy Has a Lot of Air In It
533: Little Tickle in My Knee
532: Attacked with Ideas
531: Using My Bad Finger... For Good.
530: If No Disasters Happen...
529: Annnnnd We're Back!
528: Grippy Bits
527: The Answers Are IN The Work
526: Maybe It Doesn't Really Matter
525: All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
524: Some Weird Mental Anchor
523: We Didn't Podded
522: Koo Koo Koogley
521: Excited For The Future of My Chickens
520: They're Plywood, Don't Tell Anybody...
519: Eel Fork Hands
518: Oh, I Can Let My Shoulders Down
517: Imagine Making That Much Art
516: This Career is Like Magnet Fishing
515: I Heard You Like Spoil boards...
514: It’ll Sit There Like a Treadmill
513: Snow Day
512: Hurdle Me
511: It HAS to Happen
510: My Office is a Mess, My Head is a Mess… Everything’s a Mess
509: I Flippity Doo’d It
508: The Trampoline is at Zero
507: Jimmy is the Weird Uncle
506: The Fun is in the Glue Up
505: I Stuck My Head Into a Tornado
504: Tentpoles in My Head
503: It’s Made Me a More Fearless Maker
502: That’s The Perfect Amount of Strangers
501: If They’re Looking at the Details… then the Seafood is HORRIBLE
500: Making It Live in Boston
499: Just Remember The Spark…
498: I’m Like a Dog
497: This Title Should Be Illegal
496: Forensic Wire Work
495: Blow on a Wishy Puff
494: Jumping on the Refrigerator, While We Can
493: It’s Like Doing a Head Transplant…
492: The Gap
491: A Mouth Like a Torn Bag
490: A Croissant of Rust
489: Pet The Cat
488: Sodas and Financial Literacy
487: You’re Wrong, and Right!
486: If I Had $300, I Could Do That Too
485: A Loaf of Bread With a Car Front On It
484: No One Sees Your Underwear…
483: There Are Two Wolves Inside Me…
482: Boxy, but Good
481: It Lost It’s Fun…
480: My Head Is A Tennis Match
479: The One
478: Know When You’re Learning, and When You’re Earning
477: The Print Dialog Box
476: That’s What You Do Do
475: I Like a Weighty Utensil
474: The Doublemint Gum Remote Control
473: Send Me A Screengrab, My Phone’s Not Working
472: Sunk Cost Fallacy
471: One Zombie Hand
470: I’m Gonna Spend It On Tools and Cars…
469: It’s My Fault, But Also Your Fault
468: The Gap
467: Making Art Into The Sunset
466: This is My Workshop Trumpet
465: YOU SLICED UP ROB?!
464: YOU ARE A VIRUS
463: You Do It To Yourself
462: I’M KING OF THE TURKEYS!
461: Check Out My Immune System!
460: Everything Is Going To Be OK
459: Words for Your Tombstone
458: YouTuber-Y
457: Horse Poopie Smell
456: *cough* SELLOUT *cough*
455: Put The Knots In
454: Getting Dressed With A Door Open
453: Half Made Zippy-Something
452: I Wish I’d Thought of That
451: I Never Put a Quarter In Ms. Pacman
450: Sabbati-cool
449: Like Walking Through A Room In The Dark
448: There’s No Slow Piano
447: Summer Camp
446: Nixon Riding A Unicorn
445: Look For The Lightning Bolt
444: Folding Time Back On Itself
443: Challenge My Skeleton
442: Pigs and AI
441: Wooden Shoes For A King
440: Big Wheels for Humans
439: The Right Side Of The Grass
438: It Feels Like a Big Boy Saw
437: This is a terrible thing to say…
436: In Case I Saw A Witch Fly By
435: I Still Eat Like A Jerk
434: Caboose Factory
433: Enough Is Too Much
432: The Windowlicker Room
431: Like An Angry Chicken
430: I Want This Finish To Be Drinkable
429: The Fabric of Your Lungs
428: Free Chocolate & HACKZ
427: Today Bob
426: Entitled Ducks
425: David Picciuto 7th Period
424: Cooler Than Skateboards
423: Accountabili-buddies
422: Fumble My Way Through It
421: Dad
420: People Who Cut Wood
419: Trying To Make A Sandwich On A Rollercoaster
418: What Do You Do With An Empty Room
417: Special Old People Shoes
416: Ichabod’s Big Boy Pants
415: Everything In Its Right Place
414: Every Video Is Someone’s Career
413: Coocooooon
412: A Daily Meeting, Once A Month
411: De-Ionized Bubble Reducer
410: Now You’re Just A Weirdo!
409: Teach Me in 10 Words or Less
408: If You Build It… Some people might come.
407: Mutant Cough
406: Willy Wonka Is THE ONLY THING
405: What If We Put Sunglasses On It?
404: If You Don’t Get Gas Now, You Might Become A Skeleton
403: Life Gets Complicated, Enjoy The Ride
402: I Let The Dog Pee On The TV
401: It’s Never Too Late To Put Wheels On Something
400: Are We Done Yet?
399: There’s Gotta Be Someone in Toledo That Likes You
398: The Australia
397: The Gift Curtain
396: A Little Chicken Puncture
395: Rowing Spoons and Ice Sticks
394: You Grow Into Being a Human
393: Digging Into The Cemetery
392: We Can Design Our Way Out of This
391: He’s the depressed, mean one
390: It’s Like a Headline Waiting to Happen
389: The Potential Of An Empty Table
388: Zoom Out
387: Put it in Your Own Way
386: Crossfade Your Problems
385: How Do You “YouTube-ify” it?
384: Finally! A use for Spencers!
383: Don’t hold back
382: Shmorts and shmeels
381: Hey Bob, it’s Chuck. You’re fired.
380: Big Jug Handle in the Woods
379: Pop-balls and curve balls
378: De-truckulation
377: GOATS, small and giant
376: This one only has four utters
375: $52,000,000
374: Tiny Forks
373: I’m afraid people will know how dumb I am
372: I became addicted to making things
371: Should I be doing more? I’m fine.
370: The Gizmocity Factor
369: It’s like having your grandparents at a rock concert
368: But that’s it… and..
367: It looks like the picture on the box
366: Who do you think you are?
365: The Gut Punch
364: All of that from a faulty hose…
363: Leave a responsible mess
362: If there’s nobody else on that throne….
361: It’s complicated
360: That’s not very maker-y of you, is it?
359: Grandpa’s Old CNC Machine
358: Ackerman, Ackerman, Ackerman
357: If you had a huge piece of gum and you put it in a sock…
356: Another “dead bird in the refrigerator” story…
355: I am the prop
354: The trade off
353: The emotional weight of bank accounts
352: I was in the ER last night…
351: That’s it, we’re not going to finish.
350: I might have actually ruined the car
349: We’ve had a series of ducks…
348: Swimming with icepicks
Episode 347: My finger looks like a hammerhead shark
Episode 346: Having Fun
Episode 345: Back from WorkbenchCon
Episode 344: The ROI in Q4
Episode 343: Maker Fatigue
Episode 342: Alligator Food & Olive Juice
Episode 341: I’m a urinal expert
Episode 340: Twist-to-Lock T-Handle Weld-Mount Retractable Spring Plungers
Episode 339: EGO
Episode 338: “New” Hot Tub Money
Episode 337: Embrace your inner crotchety old man
Episode 336: Take the hug…
Episode 335: Straining my elbow, patting myself on the back
Episode 334: Diagnosed as an artist
Episode 333: Thanksgiving “Break”
Episode 332: Plywood is good
Episode 331: Wigglesaw
Episode 330: Mr. Try-it-all
Episode 329: Well, actually Bob….
Episode 328: Happy Anniversary!
Episode 327: …you would hit them in the head with a whiskey bottle.
Episode 326: You can always sell a drumset…
Episode 325: How do things work?
Episode 324: FRANK IPPOLITO IS HERE!
Episode 323: Car Couch Potato
Episode 322: The only horse toilets around
Episode 321: SO THAT’S WHY THEY CALL IT A WINDSHIELD!
Episode 320: I’m an idiot, help me…
Episode 319: I never do that all the time
Episode 318: Remembering Aaron
Episode 317: One of the loudest sounds you can hear…
Episode 316: The Bubble
Episode 315: The hearse cemetery
Episode 314: You have to trick yourself
Episode 313: I could go for a Maker Faire about now…
Episode 312: Triple forward back flip
Episode 311: There… I fixed it.
Episode 310: Thank you, Brain!
Episode 309: A thousand decisions
Episode 308: How are you doing?
Episode 307: Use this thing-ama-jiggy to cut this doo-hickey
Episode 306: Dude…. perfect
Episode 305: Trust the trash
Episode 304: Harm Reduction
Episode 303: How am I gonna pay for that?
Episode 302: Dungeons and Dragons in the snow
Episode 301: Diresta Doubtfire
Episode 300: The Final Episode, this month.
299: I’m coming to see you, Elizabeth!
298: Problem solving and drop ceilings after 40
Episode 297: I’m not sick, just 53
Episode 296: Harpsichord nerds
Episode 295: It’s like feeding a rhinoceros
Episode 294: Bwhu, bwhu, bwhu, bwhu
Episode 293: My pants are here!
Episode 292: Diminishing Returns
Episode 291: I’m just the pretty face
Episode 290: What’s important is that you made something.
Episode 289: Country backhoe doctor
Episode 288: It’s in the air
Episode 287: That’s the problem I’m looking for, but with wiener dogs..
Episode 286: Did he look like this? Are the eyebrows right?
Episode 285: The Opti-grab
Episode 284: Speaking of wiener dogs…
Episode 283: I look like a coal miner who’s ready for war…
Episode 282: On the edge of the mosh pit
Episode 281: I got a turkey on my paper yesterday
Episode 280: It’s great to have a few extra brains around
Episode 279: Making things for making things
Episode 278: Black, White, Shiny Metal, Rusty Metal
277: Phase 2, set it on fire.
Episode 276: You just put that fire out because it’s your job
Episode 275: It’s nice, but can we do it like this?
Episode 274: Fold time back on itself
Episode 273: An Incredible Island of Goodness
Episode 272: Play stairway to Heaven on the trumpet
Episode 271: Dowels Per Inch
270: Chicken Dissertation
Episode 269: Everything is an opportunity, to make a keychain.
Episode 268: Welcome to New York, Dave.
Episode 267: My fingers are like the pads on a dogs feet.Episode 267: My fingers are like the pads on a dogs feet.
Episode 266: Slap the stop button with 4 minutes to go
Episode 265: Typography-ologists
Episode 264: The whole focus here is to not slide off the roof
Episode 263: Making as Therapy
Episode 262: Mixed Making Metaphors
Episode 261: Our Favorite Tools
Episode 260: Polyurethane Chunk
Episode 259: Pretty alright woodworking
Episode 258: Jimmy is a crazy cat lady
Episode 257: Lathing around
Episode 256: Dirtbags
Episode 255: AND WE’RE LIVE!!!
Episode 255: AND WE’RE LIVE!!!
Episode 254: Inch everything along
253: YouTube turns you into a potato
252: Bad habits and baby voices
Episode 251: Wood and heavy metal-y
Episode 250: It makes you look like a wet diaper
Episode 249: Italian trumpet aquarium
Episode 248: The old man and the leaky pipes
247: Wake up big fella
Episode 246: Under Pressure
Episode 245: You’re 32, it’s time to move out of the house.
Episode 244: Recharging
Episode 243: PIVOT!
242: Sometimes you make art…
Episode 241: Sketching with a Bandsaw
Episode 240: Thumbs and forks
Episode 239: We have the best horses ever…
238: Fun fun create time record time
237: Winter and Anvils
236: Video Moments
Episode 235: Dreams of Modified Tools
Episode 234: The party outside the window
Episode 233: English Accent Classes
Episode 232: The future is X-ray guns
Episode 231: Gok-Art
Episode 230: It’s a Beard of Bees
Episode 229: Jimmy made a laser bandsaw.
Episode 228: A Mushroom with an Apron
Episode 227: YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT!!!
Episode 226: Living up to the hype?
Episode 225: My great, great Grandad’s R2-D2!
Episode 224: Jumping-in-furing-out-i-tiv-ness
Episode 223: Efficiency and batarangs
Episode 222: Kafaffafaafaaa
Episode 221: I bought a racetrack
Episode 220: Giant Plasma Table Hands
Episode 219: Really? Plastic? Really??
Episode 218: Rotten Onion Soup
Episode 217: I don’t own a 10lb mouse
Episode 216: A love letter to MAKER FAIRE
Episode 215: iCharcoal pad pro computer
Episode 214: Blacksmithing and space helmets
Episode 213: LIVE from Maker Faire Bay Area!
Episode 212: I get to work on vacation!
Episode 211: Uncle Joe
Episode 210: You can’t bring your mother with you everywhere you go.
Episode 209: London English European Show
Episode 208: Eat that Frog
Episode 207: Hop-a-long
Episode 206: Spring cleaning for my face
Episode 205: Thinky Pad and Wippy Pen
Episode 204: The Maker Knife with Giaco Whatever
Episode 203: So and So Johnson
Episode 202: Jury Duty
Episode 201: Tipping Point
Episode 200: Making It 200 Live (not really)
Episode 199: Jimmy for mayor!
Episode 198: We make mistakes
Episode 197: The hammerhead alligator
Episode 196: PMA
Episode 195: Sometimes I go out and talk to the chickens…
Episode 194: You just gotta do it.
Episode 193: It’s like when you see a dog wearing clothes.
Episode 192: Different or better with Evan & Katelyn
Episode 191: Heavy metal keeps you young
Episode 190: Keeping it Fresh
Episode 189: The seed of an idea
Episode 188: Robots that will kill you
Episode 187: It’s like opening a whole bunch of pistachios
Episode 186: Soupy mud vs Firm mud
Episode 185: Rube Goldberg of Mistakes
Episode 184: Jimmy wants to make a robot.
Episode 183: I Don’t Care
Episode 182: Been trying to sell out for years
Episode 181: Jimmy’s Shopping Voice
Episode 180: 50ish-esque
Episode 179: It’s a napkin holder… WITH A LASER.
Episode 178: The Audience Journey
Episode 177: A lot of hats that you shouldn’t wear
Episode 176: Pretend you’re talking to a martian or a 3 year old.
Episode 175: Identity
Episode 174: The Flying DiRestas
Episode 173: Concrete Bandsaw
Episode 172: The Jimmy Way
Episode 171: Ant Insurance
Episode 170: Elephants
Episode 169: Jimmy is a huge Hello Kitty fan.
Episode 168: 222
Episode 167: Hoopty-scoop
Episode 166: Opie Matlock
Episode 165: Don’t let it beat you.
Episode 164: The Crow’s Nest
Episode 163: Live Edge Bowling Ball
Episode 162: An eyeball, tongue, ear and 2 big thumbs
Episode 161: Snakes & Glue Bottles (with Evan & Katelyn)
Episode 160: The Cadillac of trailers
Episode 159: Drowning in cardboard
Episode 158: Jimmy.. destroyer of mailboxes.
Episode 157: Wizard Robes
Episode 156: C in Sea
Episode 155: Brain tornado-ing and pretzels
Episode 154: You like screen grabs?
Episode 153: Thinking hard about thinking hard
Episode 152: I’m in my jam jams, at the laser.
Episode 151: Balance vs Balancing
Episode 150: Call me Pocket Hole
Episode 149: Stop, Start, Continue
Episode 148: It’s not enough to kill you…
Episode 147: You never know, you never know…
Episode 146: Don’t clear your throat
Episode 145: GOBBLE GOBBLE
Episode 144: Who knows where we’re going today
Episode 143: ROBOTS!!
Episode 142: Crabs
Episode 141: Jimmy Two-Shows
Episode 140: Social Schmedia
Episode 138: Rethinking Priorities
Episode 137: Where’s my broom?
Episode 136: I can’t. I’m busy.
Episode 135: Get Jimmy a 78 ft 2×4
Episode 134: THE SHOP OF THE FUTURE!!!!!
Episode 133: LASER BANDSAW (with William Osman)
Episode 132: The bottleneck
Episode 131: Monopoly and safety
Episode 130: Let’s talk about pants
Episode 129: Benjamin Buttoning
Episode 128: Little Teepee Party
Episode 127: Jimmy is a giant goldfish
Episode 126: Expect the unexpected
Episode 125: My backup phone(s)
Episode 124: The Cloud.
Episode 123: No.
Episode 122: So, you had a bad day…
Episode 121: Moving It
Episode 120: We don’t have a toaster
Episode 119: Buffing and grinding
Episode 118: The point of no return
Episode 117: What’s your favorite … ?
Episode 116: Winging It
Episode 115: Questioning each other
Episode 114: What keeps you from productivity?
Episode 113: You’ve changed…. Change is good
Episode 112: Not even wearing pants…
Episode 111: Choose one thing..
Episode 110: Amateur Hour
Episode 109: Taking a vacation from the vacation you live
Episode 108: Being fearless
Episode 107: That sounds wiener dog shaped too…
Episode 106: You’ve always got more options…
Episode 105: What if everything goes right?
Episode 104: 8 Band Saws, 5 Radial Arm Saws, 2 Milling Machines…
Episode 103: Looking Back, looking ahead.. yet, again.
Episode 102: CN-Cheese
Episode 101: Hot news in the library world
Episode 100: Live From Boston!
Episode 099: Out of your control.
Episode 098: I don’t want to break the baby.
Episode 097: At your own risk…
Episode 096: A fish does not look like a bar of soap.
Episode 095: Tandem Horse
Episode 094: Being a hoarder is a big job…
Episode 093: Change is hard
Episode 092: Good Clean Fun with Nick Offerman
Episode 091: Getting the help you need.
Episode 090: Purpose
Episode 089: Avoiding the task at hand
Episode 088: Making your mark
Episode 087: Maybe it’s time to change directions
Episode 086: Questioning each other
Episode 085: Sometimes I’m really into the laser.
Episode 084: Cutting down a tree with nothing on…
Episode 083: Learn how to learn.
Episode 082: I buy a lot of hammers…
Episode 081: Let’s just get through the next 10 minutes
Episode 080: Go where you don’t fit
Episode 079: A ramekin is a little dragon…
Episode 078: Sometime the cookie floats
Episode 077: Learning up close
Episode 076: The Process (Maker Faire 2016)
Episode 075: Interviewing each other
Episode 074: They’re not gonna take away your birthday
Episode 073: Eyeball trauma
Episode 072: Back FROM Maker Faire
Episode 071: Back to Maker Faire
Episode 070: Kryptonite, Taxes and the Powerball
Episode 069: Legacy
Episode 068: Love Handles and Bald Spots
Episode 067: Awww, look at that poor little piece of rope
Episode 066: Trampolines, testing and structure
Episode 065: A mallard is a tool you use when you do chisel work
Episode 064: Pat the bushes of my brain
Episode 063: $2000 to start over
Episode 062: Totally bananas
Episode 061: Time and tools and lathes and apps
Episode 60: Don’t match your socks
Episode 059: Bobcats & Bologna sandwiches
Episode 058: Important Forks
Episode 057: brainstorming
Episode 056: #freetools
Episode 055: Job Insecurity
Episode 054: The end goal.
Episode 053: Follow through
Episode 052: Looking back, Looking ahead (again)
Episode 051: There’s much trouble in the fuselage
Episode 050: Good Days
Episode 049: TV
Episode 048: Bad days
Episode 047: Jack of all trades
Episode 046: Going all Howard Hughes
Episode 045: Just what we need… another YouTuber with a backhoe.
Episode 044: If I was going to shoot the side of a barn…
Episode 043: Tell us how you really feel, Jimmy..
Episode 042: All over the place, again.
Episode 041: I wanted to be Batman
Episode 040: How does content creation change you?
Episode 039: Emergency Penguin
Episode 038: Before the first cut
Episode 036: Precision & Accuracy
Episode 035: 47,793 unread messages
Episode 034: WAELDER
Episode 033: More listener questions
Episode 032: Listener Questions
Episode 031: Brainstorming
Episode 030: Productivity.geocities.com
Episode 029: How to be a sellout
Episode 028: Signs
Episode 027: Simplify
Episode 026: The next five years…
Episode 025: Staying playful
Episode 024: What makes you happy?
Episode 023: Style & Uniqueness
Episode 022: Keeping the hustle
Episode 021: Maker Faire and the gas mask guy
Episode 020: Open source ideas
Making It #019: Learning to teach
Making It #018: All over the place
Making It #017: Organization
Making It #016: Perfect vs profit
Making It #015: Gilligan’s Workshop
Making It #014: Why
Making It #013: Be Curious
Making It #012: Handmade?
Making It #011: Making movies
Making It #010: If it looks straight….
Making It #009: Fears and Doubts
Making It #008 : Who inspires us
Making It #007 : Failure
Making It #006 : How do I quit my job, and do what you do?
Making It #005: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Making It #004 : Getting Started
Making It #003 : Goals (and LASERS)
Making It #002 : How Materials and Tools Inspire Creativity?
Making It #001 : Where Does Creativity Come From?