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replicate what you're going to be wearing.

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So this is one that I made
where I made a model of it.

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And then it's like sand casting.

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So it's like two.

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It almost looks like a book,
but there's sand on the inside

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and you make the impression in the sand,

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and then you close it up like that
and it's facing upward,

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and then you have a hole at the top,
and you pour the wax or the molten metal.

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But it's sand doesn't like.

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Yeah, it's sand.

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So it doesn't it like, has it not move.

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It doesn't.

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You pack it.

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So it's very, very compact okay.

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So you make the impression,
you open it back up, you take the wax

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model out and then you close it back up
and there's a hole at the top.

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And then you just pour from your crucible.

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So you could take like silver scraps.

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Like I could take this
and put it right in the crucible.

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And then you put some borax in
and melt it out,

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and then you pour it
in the top of the mold, the sand.

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Mold.

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Do you have, like, jewelry that you've
been wearing that you don't like anymore?

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And then you kind of melt it back
down again?

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Yeah.

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So that's my next
step is going to be basically taking

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all of the early, early pieces that I made
that I don't like anymore.

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And I'm just going to take them apart,
take the gemstones out and

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basically take the silver out,

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put it in a crucible and melt down.

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That's my next step
because I have so much right now.

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It's just like all the scraps that I have.

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Okay.

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So yeah, so it's accumulated
for probably like five years now.

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So who else swears like,
do you give stuff away?

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Do you sell it. Do you usually sell it?

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Okay.

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On my Instagram is like a big one
or yeah, I would say add

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some more on Instagram than anywhere else,
but I have a website.

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I just don't really advertise it
as much as I should.

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I don't know if I've been on your website
and I think I, I should have yeah.

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It's Leo Moon design, so. There you go.

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We'll say that again at the end. Yeah.

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And that's cool.

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So my stuff's up there, trying to do more

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vendor events
this summer and the spring time.

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I actually have a vendor event coming up.

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It's with service master,
but it's not our office.

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It's the Waterbury office.

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And it's

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a fundraising event for,
like, burn victims and.

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Oh, cool. Yeah.

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All right, that's. A good. Cause.
That's good.

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I could send you the details.

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Yeah. Some details. Yeah, yeah,
we talked about that.

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That's cool.

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So we were talking about necklaces.

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Do you do necklaces or not?

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I can yeah,
I don't do the chains themselves.

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That'd be complicated.

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Yeah, I don't usually do the chains.

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Like, usually I'll buy, like a silver
plated chain and then I can make pendants.

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Okay.

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So pendants are usually very similar
to like the rings

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where if it's a gemstone ring,
I can make like

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you basically take a flat sheet
and then you take some bezel wire

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and you wrap
the bezel wire around your stone,

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and then you obviously take the stone out
so you don't burn it,

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because you have to torch everything.

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Everything has to be a certain temperature
for the solder to flow.

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So you torch it

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and you take so you take the bezel wire

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and then you solder it onto a flat sheet.

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And then there's like.

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What's file a flash sheet.

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A flat sheet.

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Oh flat.
So it's like a flat sheet of silver.

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So like it almost
looks like a like piece of paper.

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Imagine a piece of paper
that looks like silver.

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Okay. Yeah.

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All right.
How much do you spend on silver?

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I used to spend a lot,
like, flashy is, like, pretty expensive.

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Okay. But it takes me a while.

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It depends on, like,

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the size of the gemstone,
because, like, the bigger the gemstone.

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So, like, say, this is like a flat sheet.

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Say, this is like, the size of right here.

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Yeah.

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You take your gemstone and you
put it on here, and then you cut it out.

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Okay.

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And then you would
wrap bezel wire around it.

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So it depends on how big your stone is.

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Okay. Yeah.

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So you don't make a ring

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and then like figure out
what you have to have this.

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You have to know
how big the stone is first

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and kind of do all that stuff
before you even start. Yeah.

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I mean generally
like you can use any size stone

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and like your actual base
could be any size, but

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I guess, like,

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I guess you could do any size,
but like the bigger it's

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if you have a huge stone, then
you might want to change up your design

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for the actual,
Which we'll call it, because I like that.

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That's cool. It has like.

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It's pretty thick.

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It has like, like a, like texture on it.

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Yeah.

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And it

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but then it's not all the way round and
it's like kind of smooth on the other end.

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Yeah.

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So the, the idea behind this one was
I wanted to do like a crocodile theme.

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So I took a piece of wax and basically

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carved it out with files
and made the design.

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And honestly,
it didn't come out that good at first.

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And then I just afterwards
when it came out, I filed it.

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I started making like more impressions
here and then I polished it out.

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You do the filing when it's hardened or
you have do when it's a little bit soft.

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Still.

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I do it when it's hardened. Okay. Yeah.

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Because it's like a diamond.

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I forget what you call

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it, like diamond blade or okay.

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It's like a high grit file
where it's just like.

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It's pretty effortless. Gotcha.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Yeah. I'm not like a professional.

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I just kind of mess around in the studio
like last night

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I was doing one, and it's like, heart,

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basically her ring.

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So I'm literally just messing around

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and it's actually coming out pretty good.

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Like when you're making the wax part
and you're carving it out.

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My favorite part,
it looks pretty crappy in the beginning.

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Like when you first get it to look,
you know, it's pretty rough shape,

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but then you can, like, touch it
with the torch and it obviously melts

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a little bit, but it makes it, like,
really crisp and divine.

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You can't see like the file marks,

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whereas like with silver, when you're
filing something down, it looks rough.

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But then you like take your polishers,
which is like a Dremel tool.

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Can you like ruin silver?

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Can you like overheated or burn it?

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Or you can, not ruin it, but

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you get like burn marks basically.

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So like, read, burn marks on the silver.

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But like, I

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always have that
because like when you're soldering, like

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you have to reach a certain temperature
for the star to flow.

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So it's going to make it like look red or
black or all sorts of like discoloration.

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But then you put it in an ultrasonic
cleaner, which is basically a solution.

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They call it pickle solution, and it's

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citric acid and water.

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So there's like the measurements you do.

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Oh I think it's like like a third cup
citric acid

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and then like three cups of water
and the ultrasonic cleaner vibrates.

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And that

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acid will actually remove
it'll like basically strip

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the whole entire thing,
the whole entire silver piece.

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So it almost looks a weight
when you pull it out.

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Okay.

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And then from there

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you polish it with like a Dremel tool.

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So I have different dremel bits.

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It's like a lot of investment.

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It is. It's a lot of investment.

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But it's a hobby that I really I love I,

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I always it's therapeutic for me.

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Yeah. Good. I could see that.

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Yeah.

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Like you're in the space
and maybe a little music or something

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when you're hanging out in your,
the wine or something.

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Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

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That was me last night making, wax.

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Yeah, but trusting the process
is, like, super important for me

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because I used to get so discouraged

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at first,
and I'm like, I'm awful at this. And

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all my all my pieces look like garbage.

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And then I just kept at it.

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And I've noticed such a difference.

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And you have. Yeah.

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So is there like a technique you like,
try to do like a year ago or something

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and you couldn't do it
and now you're sort of figured out and.

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Yeah, the polishing.

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Oh really?

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Polishing is the hardest part for me.

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Really.

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You would think that'd be like,
just polish polishing.

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Yeah. Well, there's different set of.

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So basically you use a Dremel,

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which like you have your dremel
and then you have your dremel bits

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which are all different
kinds of dremel bits.

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Basically polishers.

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Some of them are really hard.

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Some of them are very fine,
like almost like common.

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And then so you have your bits
and then you have

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your polishing compounds,
which are all different grits.

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So like you use a rougher grit.

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They call it red rouge for like a really,
to kind of get out to scratches

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is like the really defined, like,

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imperfections, I guess.

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And then you move on to this,
like bluish compound.

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I don't know its exact name,
but that's what I use.

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Second and it polishes it up so nice.

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But I found that the casting

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polish is like so much easier.

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It's like, oh, literally mirror or like.

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Oh. Nice.

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Very nice.

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Yeah, yeah. I've never had this polished.

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I don't, I don't really want to.

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I think it would take away because I like
that it's dark, but it has a contrast.

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And then this one, when I brought it
because I had to have it sized,

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it was like filthy and so gross. Yeah.

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And he shined it up.

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It's cool.

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It's, It's got like,
signs of the zodiac and stuff on it.

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And know if I showed you that.

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Yeah, it's pretty cool.

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So could you do would you work, could you
do something like that or would you.

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I mean, that's I could.

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It would take a very long time.

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Yeah. Something like that.

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You basically. I wonder if.

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I, they had to cut it

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and then make it bigger.

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So there's like, you know,
you could probably see that.

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But they did a good job.

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They did a good job.

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Oh you think it's casted.

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It's hard to tell.

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Like right now I'm looking for like
a soldering joint and I don't see one.

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Oh that's good.

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So yeah.

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Then they polish that out or.

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Because they did
have to add material to it I think.

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Are they.

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Because I don't think
they could stretch it

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because it was originally a pinky ring
and I made it bigger.

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Yeah. You can usually always size up.

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Yeah.

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But sizing down you basically
have to cut it and remove material.

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Yeah.

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So sizing up, you know,
I guess it depends on your method.

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Like there's a bunch of different methods
for everything silversmithing.

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Like you can do

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a million

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different other things and achieve
the same result in silversmithing.

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So it's like people
have all different methods.

248
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So you kind of just like find your own.

249
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Because it's a kind of a soft metal.

250
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Right?

251
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So it's pliable
and you can, stretch it or whatever.

252
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Yeah. Yeah.

253
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So like for me, if I was going to size up,
I would take, a mandrel,

254
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which is like a metal rod looking thing
where it goes like,

255
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bigger and hammer down.

256
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Okay.

257
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And like, that makes the silver thinner,
but you can size it up.

258
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So I had a size this one up like a ton,
but because it's so thick,

259
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I can size it up a lot.

260
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Less so.

261
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But it will go just get thinner.

262
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Yeah, I would just get thinner.

263
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All right.

264
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But if I was going to size it down,
I would have to cut it.

265
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Okay.

266
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And then for a move
a little bit of material,

267
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whether I file it or cut some off.

268
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And then reason for the joint.

269
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Was the first thing you made.

270
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The first thing I made was a ring.

271
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And honestly,
I don't know if I still have it.

272
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It was.

273
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I bought a bunch of cheap cabochons
on Amazon.

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Or what's.

275
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It's like a gemstone, basically,
but it's like rounded,

276
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which I actually just started to learn
how to do that too.

277
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Okay.

278
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So you basically I don't know
if it's real or not,

279
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the first one that I made,
but it was like a, a blue stone

280
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and it's round at the top
and then flat at the bottom.

281
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So you wrap the bezel wire around it.

282
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Okay. And I make it all right.

283
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It's cool. Yeah.

284
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I know it's probably
so hard for you to like.

285
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I'm trying to like, yeah, picture
all this. Are going to have to.

286
00:13:24,136 --> 00:13:25,671
Yeah.
You have to send me some pictures with it.

287
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If you have pictures of like,
you make and stuff.

288
00:13:27,373 --> 00:13:29,708
Yeah. So do you have any pictures of you
making stuff?

289
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You have pictures of finished products?

290
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Obviously I do, I have a picture
on my phone's another room,

291
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but I do have a picture of a cabochon
that I made.

292
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It's a picture, Jasper. Okay.

293
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Because I joined the lapidary Center.

294
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So the Gem and Mineral Club in Meriden

295
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and Bristol has a gem in Mineral Club,

296
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and you basically pay $10 a year.

297
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I think it was 10 or $15 a year.

298
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And you have access to 
the Lapidary Center, which is like

299
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thousands of dollars of machinery
that you can just go.

300
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And oh, that's cool. Man.

301
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So that's a whole other story.

302
00:14:15,721 --> 00:14:18,257
If you want to get into it,
you can get to it.

303
00:14:18,257 --> 00:14:20,993
But, well, I don't even know
really what any of that is.

304
00:14:20,993 --> 00:14:23,762
So lapidary.
It's like how you make cabochons.

305
00:14:23,762 --> 00:14:26,732
So it doesn't really help much. But

306
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so, okay,

307
00:14:29,668 --> 00:14:33,472
so say you're going to like,
walk down the street and you find like

308
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a really cool rock and you're like, wow,
that's like really interesting.

309
00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:45,517
It could be like feldspar, could be like
a garnet, or it could be whatever.

310
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And like, I could do that.

311
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Pick up a rock from the side of the road
and bring it to the lapidary center,

312
00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:58,364
and you slab it
so you could basically cut it

313
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into little slices,

314
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and then you turn it into something for,

315
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gemstone, where it's like a lot of,

316
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the machinery cab
King is like what I want.

317
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That's like my dream machinery.

318
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But you basically have,
like, grinding wheels.

319
00:15:22,021 --> 00:15:23,222
Okay.

320
00:15:23,222 --> 00:15:26,825
So you first, the first step
would be to, like, take a saw.

321
00:15:26,992 --> 00:15:29,461
It's like a saw that drips water.

322
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So you take your rock and you slab it.

323
00:15:33,165 --> 00:15:35,567
You know, could you do any
I mean, you could do any rock, but.

324
00:15:35,567 --> 00:15:39,371
Yeah, you could pretty much do any rock
except there's like limitations

325
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for the gem and mineral show or club.

326
00:15:43,442 --> 00:15:48,814
So like the limits there,
you can't use resin, which is like

327
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basically the reason for their limitations

328
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is that they dispose their.

329
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The scraps and dust just outside.

330
00:16:00,859 --> 00:16:06,632
So it has to be like, sustainable, like,
It can't.

331
00:16:06,699 --> 00:16:08,267
Happen. So it can't be like tiger's eye.

332
00:16:08,267 --> 00:16:10,970
It can't be like toxic material.
What's tiger's eye?

333
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:15,841
Tiger's eye is a gemstone that is toxic.

334
00:16:16,108 --> 00:16:21,480
It is apparently toxic in dust form
like malachite is toxic.

335
00:16:21,780 --> 00:16:23,582
Is malachite that like.

336
00:16:23,582 --> 00:16:25,217
It's like greenish.

337
00:16:25,217 --> 00:16:27,286
That you can
you find that like an everyday rock?

338
00:16:27,286 --> 00:16:29,888
Like around not around here. Okay.

339
00:16:29,888 --> 00:16:32,458
Think that's stuff you find like
sometimes you find.

340
00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:34,994
I remember when I was a kid,
I would find any break this rock.

341
00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:36,562
Quartz probably.

342
00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:38,831
Quartz maybe that it would be like this
like cool.

343
00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:40,466
Like it's sometimes it's kind of thin.

344
00:16:40,466 --> 00:16:42,668
Was like paper thin like shiny.

345
00:16:42,668 --> 00:16:45,704
Yeah. It was probably. Oh, maybe it was,

346
00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:49,341
Oh, there's a lot of different.

347
00:16:49,341 --> 00:16:50,476
I can't remember it.

348
00:16:50,476 --> 00:16:52,644
Has it, like, crumble really easily.

349
00:16:52,644 --> 00:16:53,512
I think it crumbles.

350
00:16:53,512 --> 00:16:56,515
I can't think of the name,
but I know what you're talking about.

351
00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:59,184
I'm not an expert in rocks yet either.

352
00:16:59,184 --> 00:17:00,285
Okay.

353
00:17:00,285 --> 00:17:04,957
But, around here, you can find quartz.

354
00:17:04,957 --> 00:17:06,225
You can find garnets.

355
00:17:06,225 --> 00:17:08,660
Garnets are a big thing in Connecticut.

356
00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:11,663
Southbury, South. Poor.

357
00:17:11,830 --> 00:17:16,735
You can find a lot of garnets
there, like a reddish stone.

358
00:17:17,236 --> 00:17:20,305
A lot of times
you'll find, like, small ones

359
00:17:20,305 --> 00:17:23,909
like to get garnets.

360
00:17:23,909 --> 00:17:28,814
A lot of people will, like, sift,
almost like gold, gold panning.

361
00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:32,451
So they'll pan it and they'll find, like,
little tiny garnets.

362
00:17:32,518 --> 00:17:33,285
Like, where would you fall?

363
00:17:33,285 --> 00:17:35,287
Like in the rivers or something?

364
00:17:35,287 --> 00:17:38,290
Rivers.
I do find a good stuff on the beach.

365
00:17:38,624 --> 00:17:41,293
Yeah. Agates are a big one on the beach.

366
00:17:41,293 --> 00:17:44,563
Like like like the Great Lakes.

367
00:17:44,563 --> 00:17:47,633
You can find a lot of really cool agates.

368
00:17:49,268 --> 00:17:49,668
Yeah, I

369
00:17:49,668 --> 00:17:52,971
guess are really cool because you can see,
like, the ribbon ING on them.

370
00:17:52,971 --> 00:17:55,040
So, like,
if you're looking for a cool rock,

371
00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,709
like a big indicator
is like the ribbon ING.

372
00:17:57,709 --> 00:17:58,977
Oh, I've seen rocks like that.

373
00:17:58,977 --> 00:18:01,046
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I usually keep them or something or.

374
00:18:01,046 --> 00:18:03,382
Yeah, whatever.
Those are cool. Yeah. That's cool.

375
00:18:03,382 --> 00:18:06,318
But commonly, just like quartz,

376
00:18:06,318 --> 00:18:09,321
there's all different kinds of quartz,

377
00:18:09,421 --> 00:18:12,324
I guess.

378
00:18:12,324 --> 00:18:14,326
Do you buy most of your rocks?

379
00:18:14,326 --> 00:18:15,661
Do you, do like or did you,

380
00:18:15,661 --> 00:18:17,763
do you find stuff
and then like, oh, this is kind of cool.

381
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:18,730
I want to make something out of it.

382
00:18:18,730 --> 00:18:19,164
Yeah.

383
00:18:19,164 --> 00:18:21,033
I used to buy a lot of them.

384
00:18:21,033 --> 00:18:23,735
Turquoise is a big one that I buy.

385
00:18:23,735 --> 00:18:26,004
I can't find turquoise around here. No.
Yeah.

386
00:18:26,004 --> 00:18:28,640
You'd have to go out
to, like, Colorado or Arizona.

387
00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,775
Okay. Yeah.

388
00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:32,778
The person I buy it from
is based in Colorado.

389
00:18:32,778 --> 00:18:34,012
Okay.

390
00:18:34,012 --> 00:18:37,015
But, Yeah,
you can find a lot of cool stuff.

391
00:18:37,483 --> 00:18:40,652
So your favorite is, is is what is it
like working with,

392
00:18:40,819 --> 00:18:44,823
like, stones and, like,
making rings out of stones and stuff?

393
00:18:44,823 --> 00:18:46,391
Or are you just, like, doing
just like the ring?

394
00:18:46,391 --> 00:18:48,861
Like just silver? All 100% silver.

395
00:18:48,861 --> 00:18:50,462
You don't really have a favorite yet.

396
00:18:50,462 --> 00:18:55,167
I would say
I always love the silversmithing

397
00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:58,604
because it's more forgiving
than anything else.

398
00:18:59,004 --> 00:19:02,174
I mean, honestly, like lapidary,

399
00:19:02,174 --> 00:19:05,310
I'm still so new with it, but it's.

400
00:19:05,310 --> 00:19:06,812
That's the cutting of the.

401
00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:09,848
Cutting on the stone
and grinding it down,

402
00:19:09,848 --> 00:19:14,520
making it into a
the on is what they call. It.

403
00:19:14,553 --> 00:19:17,089
Okay. But I find that it's

404
00:19:18,524 --> 00:19:20,392
like I enjoy it a lot.

405
00:19:20,392 --> 00:19:20,626
Yeah.

406
00:19:20,626 --> 00:19:24,029
But I find that it's like a little bit
more challenging, probably because I'm new

407
00:19:24,530 --> 00:19:27,900
and I also don't have that many
the material for it.

408
00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:30,802
Yeah, I've been collecting rocks lately.
So okay.

409
00:19:30,802 --> 00:19:34,039
Hopefully find some more nice rocks.

410
00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:36,808
Summer's coming. Yeah.

411
00:19:36,808 --> 00:19:41,580
Like down by mystic and South Paw.

412
00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:44,550
You can find some cool rocks on the beach.
Yeah.

413
00:19:44,550 --> 00:19:47,553
When you're out driving around for work
you can like take a break and go.

414
00:19:47,553 --> 00:19:48,387
Yeah.

415
00:19:48,387 --> 00:19:53,592
Some people I've watched videos
on YouTube of people that there was a guy

416
00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:57,963
that found this really cool rock in
like an Ikea parking lot.

417
00:19:57,963 --> 00:19:59,431
Like you can find them anywhere.

418
00:19:59,431 --> 00:20:02,401
It just depends on, you know, if you know

419
00:20:02,401 --> 00:20:05,637
what's good and like,
it doesn't even have to be that good.

420
00:20:05,637 --> 00:20:08,106
Like, I was at the Lapidary Center.

421
00:20:10,175 --> 00:20:10,542
Oh. Was

422
00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:13,612
like a couple weeks ago,
and one of the people

423
00:20:13,612 --> 00:20:17,583
there was made a beautiful cabochon
out of feldspar.

424
00:20:17,583 --> 00:20:21,386
He was like, this is like one of the most
common rocks that you'll find.

425
00:20:21,386 --> 00:20:22,788
And it looks so beautiful.

426
00:20:22,788 --> 00:20:26,525
Like he made it into a nice cabochon,
like some jewelry.

427
00:20:26,925 --> 00:20:29,161
I guess once you start, like, looking
just like anything, right?

428
00:20:29,161 --> 00:20:32,698
If you start sort of paying attention and
looking around, you'll notice stuff that

429
00:20:34,132 --> 00:20:35,701
people,
I mean, don't even know it's there.

430
00:20:35,701 --> 00:20:37,736
Yeah. You start to pick up on it. Yeah.

431
00:20:37,736 --> 00:20:38,770
Like 100%.

432
00:20:38,770 --> 00:20:41,106
I was not much actually.

433
00:20:41,106 --> 00:20:44,710
You know, it's kind of interesting
because like as a kid I used to

434
00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:48,480
hunt for rocks, like in the same way

435
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,483
where my dad, like, built these little

436
00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:55,320
we called them rock shops or like,
smash open Rocks.

437
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,191
And you would find, like,
look at the crystals inside.

438
00:20:59,191 --> 00:21:05,530
A lot of it was probably corvettes
and yeah, not very expensive stones.

439
00:21:05,731 --> 00:21:06,798
But it's cool. It's in there.

440
00:21:06,798 --> 00:21:07,966
Anything. It's just a stone. Right.

441
00:21:07,966 --> 00:21:09,268
And you busted open.

442
00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:11,003
Yeah. There's like surprises in there.

443
00:21:11,003 --> 00:21:12,604
Yeah. So I was always fun.

444
00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:14,139
Just like smashing rocks.

445
00:21:14,139 --> 00:21:15,140
Yeah, yeah.

446
00:21:15,140 --> 00:21:16,975
That's cool.
You have brothers and sisters?

447
00:21:16,975 --> 00:21:17,342
I have.

448
00:21:17,342 --> 00:21:20,279
Two sisters.
They smash rocks with you? Yep.

449
00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:21,847
And we used to sell them for, like.

450
00:21:21,847 --> 00:21:24,850
You know, get out. Piggy banks.

451
00:21:24,916 --> 00:21:28,387
And we use, just basically traded

452
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,723
our stones for pennies and.

453
00:21:31,823 --> 00:21:33,992
Oh, that's cool. Dimes.

454
00:21:33,992 --> 00:21:35,961
If they're, like, really nice,

455
00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:39,498
you know, looking rocks,
we would sell them for more expensive.

456
00:21:39,564 --> 00:21:41,633
Like,
what would you sell me in our backyard?

457
00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:43,769
So it's like side of the road.
People would stop.

458
00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:46,905
No, it was more like our neighbors
because, like, we had,

459
00:21:46,905 --> 00:21:50,676
like, a pretty tight knit, 
neighborhood growing up.

460
00:21:50,676 --> 00:21:52,010
So, like, we knew all the kids.

461
00:21:52,010 --> 00:21:54,980
There's kids all over in my street.

462
00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:58,283
So they would come over
and it was mostly among us.

463
00:21:58,317 --> 00:21:59,985
That's kind of cool. Yeah.

464
00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:02,087
So yeah, you're growing it now.

465
00:22:02,087 --> 00:22:04,056
Now you're selling full on jewelry.

466
00:22:04,056 --> 00:22:04,489
Yeah.

467
00:22:04,489 --> 00:22:06,358
It's kind of funny
looking back on it, though,

468
00:22:06,358 --> 00:22:08,493
like I used to be really into it
when I was a kid.

469
00:22:08,493 --> 00:22:11,396
And now I'm pretty much
doing the same thing on

470
00:22:11,396 --> 00:22:15,934
not like a larger scale,
but like, more polished scale.

471
00:22:15,934 --> 00:22:17,469
I. Guess.

472
00:22:17,469 --> 00:22:18,370
So where's your shop?

473
00:22:18,370 --> 00:22:20,872
It's like been your apartment or house
or wherever.

474
00:22:20,872 --> 00:22:21,606
My house?

475
00:22:21,606 --> 00:22:23,342
No, not my house. My parent's house.

476
00:22:23,342 --> 00:22:24,776
Yeah. So my parents.

477
00:22:24,776 --> 00:22:29,081
But I have, an art room
where I have, like, my desk.

478
00:22:29,114 --> 00:22:29,815
Okay.

479
00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:32,751
And that's all I need, really is my desk.

480
00:22:32,751 --> 00:22:37,322
I have, like, a table and a desk
and all my stuff that I just make art.

481
00:22:37,322 --> 00:22:38,390
Well. Nice.

482
00:22:38,390 --> 00:22:40,225
So what do you play?

483
00:22:40,225 --> 00:22:42,094
You keep folks awake when you're like.

484
00:22:42,094 --> 00:22:45,097
Sometimes when I'm hammering,
it depends on what I'm doing.

485
00:22:45,297 --> 00:22:48,667
Like, casting isn't as noisy,
but like, when I'm doing, like,

486
00:22:49,034 --> 00:22:53,505
actual silversmithing,
like soldering and manipulating metal,

487
00:22:53,505 --> 00:22:55,140
I'm like, banging around.

488
00:22:55,140 --> 00:22:56,441
So I can't really do that. I like a lot.

489
00:22:56,441 --> 00:22:58,877
And I don't know. Yeah.

490
00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:02,280
But I like to stay up late
and work on our.

491
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:07,185
And I get to like, the like is all
I usually do, all the steps

492
00:23:07,185 --> 00:23:10,322
until I start to like need to bang
and I'm like, okay, I'll like wait

493
00:23:10,322 --> 00:23:11,289
till the morning. Yeah.

494
00:23:11,289 --> 00:23:14,426
Like bang around. In the sun.

495
00:23:14,626 --> 00:23:16,328
There's something you do every day.

496
00:23:16,328 --> 00:23:17,028
Pretty much.

497
00:23:17,028 --> 00:23:21,032
I try, but usually it'll be like,

498
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,436
my goal is like once a week

499
00:23:24,436 --> 00:23:26,571
to get a piece done.

500
00:23:26,571 --> 00:23:29,141
So I should be doing it more

501
00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:31,176
aggressively.

502
00:23:31,176 --> 00:23:32,144
Yeah.

503
00:23:32,144 --> 00:23:33,879
One piece a week is my goal.

504
00:23:33,879 --> 00:23:35,280
Yeah. That's good.

505
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,150
So mostly rings, some pendants.

506
00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:39,217
Yeah. Right.

507
00:23:39,217 --> 00:23:40,619
Earrings or earrings.

508
00:23:40,619 --> 00:23:42,354
Yeah. There you go. That's a good one.

509
00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:44,222
I did a chain once.

510
00:23:44,222 --> 00:23:47,559
I try to Cuba Cuban link chain.

511
00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:49,828
And what's what's that?

512
00:23:49,828 --> 00:23:53,999
It's basically, a form of chain.

513
00:23:53,999 --> 00:23:56,635
There's so many different ones. Like,
I don't even.

514
00:23:56,635 --> 00:23:58,570
Know what this one is.

515
00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:00,472
Yeah, that would be like.

516
00:24:00,472 --> 00:24:01,239
This is really.

517
00:24:01,239 --> 00:24:01,873
Like, you could

518
00:24:01,873 --> 00:24:03,942
you could make that, but, like,
how would you make

519
00:24:03,942 --> 00:24:06,211
if you somebody said like,
make me one of those chains.

520
00:24:06,211 --> 00:24:07,913
Like,
you'd have to buy like some I'm guessing,

521
00:24:07,913 --> 00:24:09,881
like really thin wire
and just sort of braid it.

522
00:24:09,881 --> 00:24:11,016
Is that how it would be done?

523
00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:12,951
So the way I made.

524
00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:13,318
Yeah.

525
00:24:13,318 --> 00:24:17,556
Like this would be very, very thin wire.

526
00:24:18,390 --> 00:24:23,395
So like probably like 24 gauge wire.

527
00:24:23,428 --> 00:24:24,329
Probably way,

528
00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:26,531
way thinner than that.

529
00:24:26,531 --> 00:24:29,534
Because this is like really, really thin.

530
00:24:30,168 --> 00:24:31,670
Like a thread like a. Yeah.

531
00:24:31,670 --> 00:24:32,838
Sewing thread type.

532
00:24:32,838 --> 00:24:35,540
Like, I don't even know
how you would solder this without it.

533
00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:39,778
Like because you mentioned before, like,
can it get destroyed like.

534
00:24:39,945 --> 00:24:41,279
A. Jump ring?

535
00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:42,581
If you're going to try to solder

536
00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:45,884
jump ring together,
it could completely like disintegrate.

537
00:24:45,984 --> 00:24:46,318
Okay.

538
00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:49,321
You have it at a too high heat.

539
00:24:50,789 --> 00:24:52,691
Because you could like, heat it up
and it would just like, so yeah.

540
00:24:52,691 --> 00:24:53,391
Go away.

541
00:24:53,391 --> 00:24:54,960
Yeah. Basically.

542
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,830
But it's actually kind of interesting,
like, because it doesn't really go away.

543
00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:03,301
It just kind of like will like,
not be a perfect circle anymore.

544
00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:08,039
So that's like a big thing.

545
00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:12,644
But what's interesting is
I discovered this, like Whaley,

546
00:25:12,644 --> 00:25:14,446
I feel like
this is like a very basic, like,

547
00:25:14,446 --> 00:25:18,517
silversmithing thing, but I just kind of
like, was messing around and I realizes

548
00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:22,420
if you take, like, scrap silver
and you take a torch to it

549
00:25:23,221 --> 00:25:26,391
on a soldering block, obviously
because you want to be safe.

550
00:25:26,391 --> 00:25:29,761
But if you just keep torching it
and you get it to high heat,

551
00:25:29,794 --> 00:25:31,930
it'll just turn into a bar.

552
00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:38,003
So like, you could take like this,
I mean, this probably wouldn't work,

553
00:25:38,003 --> 00:25:42,674
but it had it would have to be like
a, like basically a piece of silver.

554
00:25:42,674 --> 00:25:46,811
Like it could be like a scrap piece,
and then you torture it

555
00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:50,882
and then it just like, turns into a ball
if you just keep torching it.

556
00:25:50,916 --> 00:25:53,151
Really? Yeah. Like a wooden, like

557
00:25:54,686 --> 00:25:56,821
melt and dribble all over the place.

558
00:25:56,821 --> 00:25:59,925
So like it would
if you have it on a soldering block,

559
00:25:59,925 --> 00:26:03,461
like a flat surface soldering block,

560
00:26:03,461 --> 00:26:07,032
it would turn into a circle
like a perfect circle.

561
00:26:07,632 --> 00:26:09,901
It's actually really cool.
That's really cool.

562
00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:14,339
But you're heating it with like, dude,
you buy like the direct fire to it or.

563
00:26:15,106 --> 00:26:16,408
Yeah. It turns into a ball.

564
00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:19,077
Yeah it does. It's really small.

565
00:26:19,077 --> 00:26:22,147
So a lot of people will use that as like

566
00:26:22,147 --> 00:26:25,383
an embellishment,
like they'll do tiny little silver balls.

567
00:26:25,383 --> 00:26:27,752
I was like how do people do that.

568
00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:30,722
Because I see it online,
other silversmiths

569
00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:34,759
and I'm like looking online
like how do I like buy a silver ball?

570
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:38,730
And then I like realize that they're just
taking a little piece of silver

571
00:26:39,364 --> 00:26:41,800
and torching it
and turning it into a ball.

572
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,169
So they're not cast like that
ring or something.

573
00:26:44,169 --> 00:26:45,470
They're just they just torch it like that,

574
00:26:45,470 --> 00:26:47,405
and then you would polish it and smooth it
out, whatever.

575
00:26:47,405 --> 00:26:48,306
And then you're ready to go.

576
00:26:48,306 --> 00:26:52,544
It's pretty much yeah,
yeah it's mo sometimes it comes out

577
00:26:52,544 --> 00:26:56,147
like pretty polished,
but if you're going to put it on a piece,

578
00:26:56,147 --> 00:26:58,116
like you just polish it out
with the rest of the.

579
00:26:58,116 --> 00:26:59,851
Could you make a necklace with those?

580
00:26:59,851 --> 00:27:03,021
With those maybe. That'd be cool.

581
00:27:04,322 --> 00:27:05,790
Just like a bunch of like silver.

582
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,726
Yeah, yeah.

583
00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:10,528
Or like or like, like half to be like hat.

584
00:27:10,528 --> 00:27:12,263
And then the rest
would be like a chain or something.

585
00:27:12,263 --> 00:27:12,597
Yeah.

586
00:27:12,597 --> 00:27:16,267
There's like certain chains
that look like that where it's like a ball

587
00:27:16,267 --> 00:27:20,405
and then it's like, 
like a piece of wire in between.

588
00:27:20,505 --> 00:27:23,575
Yeah. And you make a necklace out of it.

589
00:27:23,575 --> 00:27:27,512
I don't know if that's how they make it,
but I've seen similar chains before.

590
00:27:28,780 --> 00:27:31,383
So do you like
you probably learn, like, a lot

591
00:27:31,383 --> 00:27:34,886
just from doing just, like,
any art or craft or anything.

592
00:27:34,886 --> 00:27:35,320
Yeah,

593
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,456
but do you like, like, look at YouTube
videos, like, how do you do that.

594
00:27:38,790 --> 00:27:40,625
Yeah. Yeah.

595
00:27:40,625 --> 00:27:43,561
Like especially the Lapita
like when I'm learning something new like

596
00:27:43,561 --> 00:27:44,729
polishing I like

597
00:27:45,730 --> 00:27:48,733
I learned just by watching videos.

598
00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:49,367
Yeah.

599
00:27:49,367 --> 00:27:53,972
Even like I want to say like six months
before I made an investment

600
00:27:53,972 --> 00:27:57,542
in like all the material
I was watching videos, like

601
00:27:57,542 --> 00:28:01,680
just watching people make rings
and that's how I.

602
00:28:02,047 --> 00:28:04,349
They just started.

603
00:28:04,349 --> 00:28:05,450
When did you start?

604
00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:07,819
Did I ask you that? I'm just,

605
00:28:07,819 --> 00:28:11,389
I started probably about five years ago.

606
00:28:11,423 --> 00:28:12,323
Could I say.

607
00:28:12,323 --> 00:28:15,326
Just you kind of want to do it since.

608
00:28:15,427 --> 00:28:18,963
Yeah, I would say the reason I did it was

609
00:28:19,831 --> 00:28:22,100
someone had asked me,

610
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:26,371
I okay, so initially I was doing, like,
resin work,

611
00:28:26,371 --> 00:28:30,542
so I was making, like,
I was pressing flowers, making, like,

612
00:28:30,975 --> 00:28:35,346
ashtrays and pendants,
but I would buy the pendants.

613
00:28:35,447 --> 00:28:38,717
And then someone asked me, like, do you,
would you make this into a ring?

614
00:28:39,084 --> 00:28:41,252
So I ended up buying, like on Amazon.

615
00:28:42,187 --> 00:28:43,521
Like,

616
00:28:43,521 --> 00:28:46,691
basically a ring with like the bezel cup.

617
00:28:47,192 --> 00:28:47,392
Okay.

618
00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:50,462
So it's like basically a circle
and I just like bought

619
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:53,732
that, off Amazon

620
00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:58,470
and then just did
like the put the resin in the bezel

621
00:28:58,470 --> 00:29:03,208
and did the dried flowers in there
and let it sit.

622
00:29:03,208 --> 00:29:06,978
And it looked great, but I was like,
can I just do this myself?

623
00:29:06,978 --> 00:29:08,046
And then I kind of, yeah,

624
00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:12,784
just started researching it
and kind of just went from there.

625
00:29:12,784 --> 00:29:13,585
And here you are.

626
00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:15,954
Just get
how far you think you're going to go.

627
00:29:15,954 --> 00:29:18,456
You don't know. You just like doing it
now. Like this isn't.

628
00:29:18,456 --> 00:29:23,762
I think my new thing
is probably going to be silver casting.

629
00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:24,262
Okay.

630
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:29,634
Because
like you have so much more creativity,

631
00:29:29,968 --> 00:29:32,971
there's more that you can do.

632
00:29:33,638 --> 00:29:37,542
I mean, I guess I could do a lot
with regular silver spoon thing,

633
00:29:37,542 --> 00:29:40,545
but I would say casting is a big
one for me.

634
00:29:40,612 --> 00:29:45,950
Like, I want to get really into that
and hopefully chains do more chains.

635
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,953
But it's so time. Consuming.

636
00:29:49,521 --> 00:29:52,490
Would you be doing
would you do other stuff like

637
00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:55,760
that's not jewelry like like figurines or.

638
00:29:56,294 --> 00:29:57,595
Probably I mean, I could.

639
00:29:57,595 --> 00:29:58,630
See those would be cast, right?

640
00:29:58,630 --> 00:30:00,598
I would think. Yeah, probably.

641
00:30:00,598 --> 00:30:04,803
Like I saw someone do for silver casting.

642
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:09,941
They did like a chess set, which is crazy
because that's a lot of silver.

643
00:30:09,941 --> 00:30:14,913
But you can, like, make the impression
in the sand for all the chess pieces.

644
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:16,948
So he did that.

645
00:30:16,948 --> 00:30:20,285
So that you could you could so you could
use, like, actual chess pieces.

646
00:30:20,285 --> 00:30:21,452
But if you want to do an original

647
00:30:21,452 --> 00:30:24,889
like figurine thing,
you'd have to make that out of wax.

648
00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:29,828
Or it's really
just the impression people use wax

649
00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:32,430
because they can

650
00:30:32,430 --> 00:30:36,034
kind of build on it, and
it's like an easier material to work with.

651
00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:39,037
But like,
I've seen people take like a tooth

652
00:30:39,537 --> 00:30:42,874
and make the impression
all about the impression.

653
00:30:42,874 --> 00:30:44,609
So like, you can really do anything.

654
00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:47,612
Like I could make a cast out of.

655
00:30:47,745 --> 00:30:49,247
I don't know.

656
00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:51,349
I could redo this ring,

657
00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:55,353
you know, by
putting this actual ring in the sand.

658
00:30:55,787 --> 00:30:59,524
And that impression is
what's going to be felled by silver.

659
00:30:59,557 --> 00:31:01,025
I'll find some. I'll find some for you.

660
00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:02,794
Yeah. You may cast for me.

661
00:31:02,794 --> 00:31:04,662
Yeah, you can pretty much do anything.

662
00:31:04,662 --> 00:31:05,496
I find. Some.

663
00:31:05,496 --> 00:31:10,368
Most things, but there's like, lost wax,
which is like a different form

664
00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:15,473
of wax casting, which you can get really,
really fine details in there.

665
00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:18,176
Okay. You can't really do with sand. Yeah,

666
00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:21,212
but I don't know how the sand. So.

667
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:23,581
But can you, do you reuse the sand.

668
00:31:23,581 --> 00:31:24,682
Can you like.

669
00:31:24,682 --> 00:31:27,118
Okay.

670
00:31:27,118 --> 00:31:27,986
Yeah.

671
00:31:27,986 --> 00:31:30,822
You can reuse it a bunch of times
basically.

672
00:31:30,822 --> 00:31:33,391
So the sand

673
00:31:33,391 --> 00:31:36,361
trying to see how I can explain this.

674
00:31:36,961 --> 00:31:40,298
The sand basically it's like burned

675
00:31:40,632 --> 00:31:43,968
like when you take it out after it's
been casted,

676
00:31:43,968 --> 00:31:48,740
there's like a little burnt piece
around the actual impression.

677
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:51,743
You could just scrape it out
and reuse the sand.

678
00:31:52,677 --> 00:31:55,213
So you can keep reusing the sand
as many times as you want.

679
00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:57,982
So like, it's got to be like
some sort of special fine grained sand.

680
00:31:57,982 --> 00:32:00,151
I think it's. Like.

681
00:32:00,151 --> 00:32:01,185
Oh, I wish I knew the name.

682
00:32:01,185 --> 00:32:04,022
It's not like Home Depot playground sand.

683
00:32:04,022 --> 00:32:06,624
No, no, no,
it's like very specific type of sand.

684
00:32:06,624 --> 00:32:09,727
Yeah, but it's a lot of fun. Yeah.

685
00:32:09,727 --> 00:32:10,295
That's cool.

686
00:32:10,295 --> 00:32:11,896
Yeah, I could see
that would be kind of fun

687
00:32:11,896 --> 00:32:13,298
because you could make the
you make the item

688
00:32:13,298 --> 00:32:15,934
or you figure out what it is,
you brainstorm, like what I want to make.

689
00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,568
And then you can either make it or find it

690
00:32:18,636 --> 00:32:18,937
and then

691
00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:22,674
you're like, yeah, you pour
the molten, silver in there.

692
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:24,842
People get really creative with it, too.

693
00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:28,746
Like I saw
someone do like a human to earrings.

694
00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:30,014
Really.

695
00:32:30,014 --> 00:32:34,052
Just, like, took like a human tooth and,
like, made the impression

696
00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:38,756
and then made them into, like, studs
and, like, that's pretty crazy.

697
00:32:38,756 --> 00:32:41,125
Like, it's like that's going home. Yeah.

698
00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:41,859
So, like, you could.

699
00:32:41,859 --> 00:32:43,995
I would think they'd hang though,
like a human tooth.

700
00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:44,662
What would be.

701
00:32:44,662 --> 00:32:46,731
And it depends on the size of the tooth
I think.

702
00:32:46,731 --> 00:32:47,966
Yeah.

703
00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:50,234
But it was a bigger tooth
like the roots and everything.

704
00:32:50,234 --> 00:32:51,769
Gotta be kind of cool.

705
00:32:51,769 --> 00:32:54,205
I thought it was a pretty cool thing.
Yeah.

706
00:32:54,205 --> 00:32:56,341
So I pretty much
do a lot of different things.

707
00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:59,944
Like. Yeah, the creativity is endless.

708
00:32:59,944 --> 00:33:02,814
Like you could do whatever you want.
Yeah. That's wild.

709
00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:05,083
Now, what about other metals?

710
00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:07,185
I think we talked about this
last time I saw.

711
00:33:07,185 --> 00:33:09,187
Yeah. Like gold.

712
00:33:09,187 --> 00:33:10,488
Gold is gold.

713
00:33:10,488 --> 00:33:12,123
Harder to work with? And silver.

714
00:33:12,123 --> 00:33:15,460
I don't do gold casting,
but I think you need to use.

715
00:33:15,460 --> 00:33:17,295
I think it has a higher melting point.

716
00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:20,498
And I think you have to use
a certain type of solder.

717
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:26,437
Okay, so it's a little different,
but like 9 to 5 silver,

718
00:33:26,437 --> 00:33:32,243
like when you're casting you add like,
a little bit of copper in it.

719
00:33:32,243 --> 00:33:32,777
To make it.

720
00:33:32,777 --> 00:33:33,511
Okay.

721
00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:36,514
Five because like silver itself is pretty,

722
00:33:37,115 --> 00:33:42,120
not like malleable,
but it's like not as hard.

723
00:33:42,286 --> 00:33:43,321
Okay.

724
00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:46,324
So most silver jewelry have like.

725
00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:47,492
A little bit of copper and a.

726
00:33:47,492 --> 00:33:49,193
Little bit just a okay.

727
00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:51,062
Can you buy

728
00:33:51,062 --> 00:33:54,065
like different qualities of silver.

729
00:33:54,298 --> 00:33:55,566
Like to work with.

730
00:33:55,566 --> 00:33:58,036
Yeah. You can buy like point.

731
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:03,708
So like the bezel wire
that I use is like .999.

732
00:34:03,708 --> 00:34:07,745
It's like a fine silver
but it's still silver.

733
00:34:07,745 --> 00:34:12,750
It's just like more flimsy
than regular silver.

734
00:34:13,317 --> 00:34:17,088
And then there's like 9 to 5,
which is like hard or silver.

735
00:34:17,088 --> 00:34:17,922
Okay.

736
00:34:17,922 --> 00:34:21,359
But like gold is like pretty

737
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:24,896
like malleable like gold itself.

738
00:34:24,929 --> 00:34:29,700
You can, like, take up its scratches
and I'm sure

739
00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:34,072
they add certain things to it
to make it harder, like silver.

740
00:34:34,172 --> 00:34:37,141
Now you said you added borax.

741
00:34:37,141 --> 00:34:38,309
That's like that cleaner.

742
00:34:38,309 --> 00:34:40,611
Like that's what is it like. It's like.
It's like powder or.

743
00:34:40,611 --> 00:34:42,914
Powder stuff and people clean with it.
And I've heard that.

744
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,583
Yeah. Does that like burn away.
Does it stay in there. Like.

745
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:46,851
And why do you add that.

746
00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:49,921
So it removes the impurities

747
00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:53,191
of whatever you are casting.

748
00:34:53,191 --> 00:34:57,361
So you'll actually see
the impurities on the crucible.

749
00:34:57,962 --> 00:34:58,863
So it's kind of cool.

750
00:34:58,863 --> 00:35:02,133
Like you can see like all these
different colors in the Crucible

751
00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:07,371
because it's like removing
all those impurities from the silver.

752
00:35:07,371 --> 00:35:11,209
So like when you're casting it, silver
is like what's left.

753
00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:16,047
So people out copper to make it more hard.

754
00:35:16,848 --> 00:35:18,916
But the borax is. What pulls out.

755
00:35:18,916 --> 00:35:21,419
So it'll pull it out and leave it behind.
That's wild.

756
00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:24,122
Yeah, that's really interesting.
That's really cool.

757
00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:25,490
You still like surprised? Like,

758
00:35:26,591 --> 00:35:28,626
oh my
God, I can't believe that worked her.

759
00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:29,894
Yeah, sometimes.

760
00:35:29,894 --> 00:35:31,596
Sometimes it doesn't work right away.

761
00:35:31,596 --> 00:35:33,931
And so like redo it.

762
00:35:33,931 --> 00:35:37,435
So it's like trial and error
a lot of the time it's

763
00:35:37,435 --> 00:35:42,673
not very like it's
not like there's a lot of room for error.

764
00:35:42,740 --> 00:35:43,407
Gotcha.

765
00:35:43,407 --> 00:35:45,143
Yeah, yeah.

766
00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:47,612
What I mean,
so are you artist like naturally.

767
00:35:47,612 --> 00:35:51,215
Is this something that's sort of like
do you like, draw or paint or.

768
00:35:51,616 --> 00:35:53,151
I'm not really into painting my.

769
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:55,052
Sister or something, okay?

770
00:35:55,052 --> 00:35:56,521
My sister's a big painter.

771
00:35:56,521 --> 00:36:00,124
Or she's like, 
graphic design artist, screen

772
00:36:00,124 --> 00:36:03,127
printer, but

773
00:36:03,161 --> 00:36:04,729
my mom's always been artist.

774
00:36:04,729 --> 00:36:07,365
My dad's artistic.

775
00:36:07,365 --> 00:36:11,102
He's, he does his driveway
crack, Phil, basically.

776
00:36:11,302 --> 00:36:13,638
And he's like, this is an art.

777
00:36:13,638 --> 00:36:16,073
So he gives, he fills, cracks.

778
00:36:16,073 --> 00:36:17,408
Yeah, for a living.

779
00:36:17,408 --> 00:36:19,844
And you have to make them look pretty. Do.

780
00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:21,212
And I've done it for him before.

781
00:36:21,212 --> 00:36:24,382
Not like the actual crack fell, but
there's like a whole process behind it.

782
00:36:24,382 --> 00:36:28,085
And I've helped him
with, like filling the, cracks

783
00:36:28,085 --> 00:36:33,191
with rocks and things and he,
he claims to be a big artist.

784
00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:34,025
All right, too.

785
00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:37,728
So I think our family is
just very creative in general.

786
00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:39,130
Nice. Yeah.

787
00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:41,599
What's your mom do? Art wise?

788
00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:46,537
So art wise, she has always been involved,
like, as kids, like in the art.

789
00:36:46,537 --> 00:36:49,774
Art, classrooms.

790
00:36:49,774 --> 00:36:52,143
And things should always volunteer. Okay.

791
00:36:52,143 --> 00:36:53,711
Help us that way.

792
00:36:53,711 --> 00:36:57,648
So, I mean, she's an insurance agent now,
but she was very,

793
00:36:57,648 --> 00:37:00,751
like, into the arts,
when we were growing up.

794
00:37:01,252 --> 00:37:04,055
So she was always like,
volunteering in the classroom.

795
00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:04,822
Let's go.

796
00:37:04,822 --> 00:37:07,491
Yeah. No, I think it's fun.
It's fun. I still got my kids like,

797
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,995
drawings and whatnot.

798
00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:13,998
Yes. Of course. Yeah. And some of them.

799
00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:17,068
My daughter still kind of
does some art stuff.

800
00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:20,471
And then, 
my son is actually my oldest son

801
00:37:20,471 --> 00:37:24,075
just got a job
with an asphalt testing company.

802
00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:27,078
Oh that's cool. So it's similar.

803
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:30,214
Yeah, I he'll go and, like,
pull core samples and like,

804
00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:32,083
it's quite it's like fascinating.

805
00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:34,118
It's like, kind of like
the jewelry stuff was like I had no idea.

806
00:37:34,118 --> 00:37:38,089
It's like there's a lot involved and,
it's like heat and material

807
00:37:38,089 --> 00:37:41,325
and pressure and kind of same thing.

808
00:37:41,459 --> 00:37:41,926
Yeah.

809
00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:45,496
My dad is like, big on the asphalt thing.

810
00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:47,431
Yeah. That's wild.

811
00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:50,468
He does the whole crack full and makes

812
00:37:50,468 --> 00:37:53,571
it look really nice for those cracks.

813
00:37:53,571 --> 00:37:56,340
So I was like parking lots and nice.

814
00:37:56,340 --> 00:37:57,341
The whole. Nine.

815
00:37:57,341 --> 00:37:58,609
Is it his business or.

816
00:37:58,609 --> 00:37:59,677
Oh nice run out.

817
00:37:59,677 --> 00:38:00,211
Shout out.

818
00:38:00,211 --> 00:38:01,579
Driveways by Doug.

819
00:38:01,579 --> 00:38:04,515
Driveways by Doug.
All right, all right. That's cool.

820
00:38:04,515 --> 00:38:06,584
All right I feel like that is part of it.

821
00:38:06,584 --> 00:38:12,156
It's like my family
being so involved in art and music too.

822
00:38:12,556 --> 00:38:15,059
Like, my grandpa is a drummer.

823
00:38:15,059 --> 00:38:17,094
He used to do like, weddings and my. Okay.

824
00:38:17,094 --> 00:38:20,231
Oh, it's a big drummer. My cousin.

825
00:38:20,598 --> 00:38:23,868
We're also like really into,
like the music stuff.

826
00:38:23,901 --> 00:38:26,904
Yeah. I was into like the creative.

827
00:38:26,937 --> 00:38:29,573
Yeah. World.
Yeah. We're talking about that.

828
00:38:29,573 --> 00:38:31,909
What, what, you saw a band
recently? What the heck was it?

829
00:38:34,045 --> 00:38:37,048
The last band I saw trying to think

830
00:38:38,616 --> 00:38:42,720
as, Because you're in heavy.

831
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,189
I think you're in kind of heavier.
Meaning it was knocked loose.

832
00:38:45,189 --> 00:38:48,159
Was the last, last band I saw.

833
00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:50,361
Oakdale. Okay.

834
00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:53,497
My sister
likes to bring me to concerts, so.

835
00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,300
Yeah. You like heavy stuff, though, like.

836
00:38:56,300 --> 00:39:00,204
Yeah, yeah,
but not all, like, I'm very broad.

837
00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:02,206
Okay. Like, very,
very broad with my music.

838
00:39:02,206 --> 00:39:04,742
Tastes like I'll listen
to, like, heavier stuff like Korn.

839
00:39:04,742 --> 00:39:06,844
Slipknot. Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah.

840
00:39:06,844 --> 00:39:10,181
But I also listened to like, Bonnie Fair.

841
00:39:10,181 --> 00:39:11,816
And like, I don't know, that.

842
00:39:11,816 --> 00:39:13,217
Acoustic, Okay.

843
00:39:13,217 --> 00:39:16,220
Stuff are also listened to like rap and.

844
00:39:16,487 --> 00:39:18,389
All right, all. Sorts of. Stuff.
That's good.

845
00:39:18,389 --> 00:39:20,725
I don't define myself by like one genre.

846
00:39:20,725 --> 00:39:22,560
I think there's a lot. Yeah. So

847
00:39:23,728 --> 00:39:26,530
be, you know, appreciative of.

848
00:39:26,530 --> 00:39:28,566
Yeah. There's a lot of music out there.

849
00:39:28,566 --> 00:39:31,001
Yeah. I, shout out, I'll do a shout out.

850
00:39:31,001 --> 00:39:33,471
There's this place called the Juke Up
in deep River.

851
00:39:33,471 --> 00:39:35,973
I just discovered the open in December.

852
00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:37,541
So it's like a music venue.

853
00:39:37,541 --> 00:39:39,410
They have a little bar,
and it's kind of like loungy.

854
00:39:39,410 --> 00:39:42,313
And there's no, like, seat. It's not a
I mean, it's not like a bar bar.

855
00:39:42,313 --> 00:39:45,449
It's like they have a room with a bar,
but then they have a whole separate area

856
00:39:45,449 --> 00:39:46,550
where the bands play.

857
00:39:46,550 --> 00:39:48,619
It's small. It's like as big as this room.

858
00:39:48,619 --> 00:39:50,287
The space.

859
00:39:50,287 --> 00:39:53,758
And, yeah, this shows sound systems.

860
00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:54,024
Great.

861
00:39:54,024 --> 00:39:55,526
And that's fun.

862
00:39:55,526 --> 00:39:58,095
You've been to the place
next to Crosspoint.

863
00:39:58,095 --> 00:40:00,231
I remember
we went to the Shoreline Chamber.

864
00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:02,233
Were you at?
Oh, yeah. You were at that one.

865
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,835
No, I didn't, I saw that I've heard of it.

866
00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,338
I have never been there.
Apparently they do live music. Yeah.

867
00:40:07,338 --> 00:40:08,539
Friday. What's it called?

868
00:40:08,539 --> 00:40:11,242
I don't know,
I don't remember the name of it.

869
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:12,643
Oh. Feels is bad.

870
00:40:12,643 --> 00:40:13,778
I shouldn't even have mentioned.

871
00:40:13,778 --> 00:40:16,480
No, we'll think of it. No,
because it's on the tip of my tongue.

872
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,383
Or think of it.
It's like one word. I think. Like it.

873
00:40:20,851 --> 00:40:21,352
I don't know,

874
00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:24,388
but I think they just got,
like, new owners or something.

875
00:40:24,388 --> 00:40:27,625
And I've been meaning to go.

876
00:40:27,625 --> 00:40:29,326
But they do live music too.

877
00:40:29,326 --> 00:40:31,262
Anywhere with live music is really cool.

878
00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:32,463
Yeah.

879
00:40:32,463 --> 00:40:35,733
No, I've heard of it
because the guy who was on the show,

880
00:40:35,766 --> 00:40:37,735
Mike Lewis, plays there sometimes.

881
00:40:37,735 --> 00:40:40,571
I'm pretty sure I've seen him.

882
00:40:40,571 --> 00:40:42,506
I've been there, but I don't know. Yeah.

883
00:40:42,506 --> 00:40:43,874
Anyway, I'm sorry. We'll figure it out.

884
00:40:43,874 --> 00:40:44,508
Yeah.

885
00:40:44,508 --> 00:40:47,511
The place next across point in Branford,
whatever that's called.

886
00:40:47,545 --> 00:40:48,312
Go there.

887
00:40:48,312 --> 00:40:49,547
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

888
00:40:49,547 --> 00:40:51,849
Get out in Branford.

889
00:40:51,849 --> 00:40:54,752
Yeah, we'll think of it. Yeah. Right on.

890
00:40:54,752 --> 00:40:57,288
So, what other kind of,

891
00:40:57,288 --> 00:41:00,357
like, jewelry paraphernalia
do you have to make?

892
00:41:00,357 --> 00:41:01,292
So you got a torch?

893
00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:03,994
You got, like,
some sort of small anvil thing, right?

894
00:41:03,994 --> 00:41:05,930
Yeah. So I have, like, a vise.

895
00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:10,367
I have a soldering block, I have files.

896
00:41:12,403 --> 00:41:13,170
What else?

897
00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:16,173
How much are you, money
wise, invested in here?

898
00:41:16,574 --> 00:41:19,577
So my initial investment trade,

899
00:41:19,910 --> 00:41:23,547
my initial, like when I first got,
like, to make a ring,

900
00:41:24,381 --> 00:41:28,786
I spent about $500 total on, like,

901
00:41:29,553 --> 00:41:34,458
silver wire, flashy soldering,
black torch.

902
00:41:35,192 --> 00:41:36,427
It's not terrible.

903
00:41:36,427 --> 00:41:38,762
What else did I buy?

904
00:41:38,762 --> 00:41:40,064
Tweezers.

905
00:41:40,064 --> 00:41:42,633
Like, pick the actual silver piece.

906
00:41:42,633 --> 00:41:46,337
Ultrasonic cleaner.

907
00:41:48,205 --> 00:41:51,008
What else?

908
00:41:51,008 --> 00:41:51,976
I'm trying to think of?

909
00:41:51,976 --> 00:41:54,979
What other materials.

910
00:41:55,412 --> 00:41:57,248
Oh. Citric acid.

911
00:41:57,248 --> 00:41:59,850
Okay, what's that for? The cleaning.

912
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:02,253
Yeah,
it's like the pickle solution, basically.

913
00:42:02,253 --> 00:42:06,156
So it, like, turns a piece away
and it, like, strips it of all the heat,

914
00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:09,894
discoloration.

915
00:42:09,894 --> 00:42:14,265
And what, you ever, like, burn yourself?

916
00:42:14,565 --> 00:42:17,001
Yeah, plenty of time. Yeah.

917
00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:22,673
Well, the thing for me is, like,
I'll be kind of careless sometimes,

918
00:42:22,673 --> 00:42:27,278
so, like, I'll be working on a piece
and it won't be, like, super hot.

919
00:42:27,278 --> 00:42:28,612
Like I can tolerate it.

920
00:42:28,612 --> 00:42:32,016
Like I see it get, like, red,
and then it's like,

921
00:42:32,016 --> 00:42:36,420
not red anymore, and, like,
kind of starts to look like silver again.

922
00:42:37,521 --> 00:42:38,122
And, like,

923
00:42:38,122 --> 00:42:41,158
when I have to move it,
sometimes I'm like, okay.

924
00:42:41,158 --> 00:42:42,660
I'm just gonna.

925
00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:47,831
Touch it and I can tolerate it
because, like, it doesn't feel as hot.

926
00:42:48,132 --> 00:42:50,834
But then the next morning I'll wake up
and it'll be like a huge.

927
00:42:50,834 --> 00:42:53,837
Blistering my thumb. So I do that.

928
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:56,407
Yeah, I've done with the cast iron.

929
00:42:56,407 --> 00:42:58,642
I'll put cast
iron out on the on the grill,

930
00:42:58,642 --> 00:43:01,645
then I'll bring it inside
with, you know, potholder or whatever.

931
00:43:02,046 --> 00:43:05,382
Then I'll put on the stove
and then I got to move it.

932
00:43:05,382 --> 00:43:08,018
It's like a minute later
and I forget that.

933
00:43:08,018 --> 00:43:11,055
I just pick it up and I like,
you know, burn my hand.

934
00:43:11,322 --> 00:43:12,756
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

935
00:43:12,756 --> 00:43:14,158
That's like the same thing.

936
00:43:14,158 --> 00:43:18,028
It's like you don't feel like
it's that hot until you wake up

937
00:43:18,028 --> 00:43:19,897
and you're like,
wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

938
00:43:21,932 --> 00:43:24,068
So I do that a lot.

939
00:43:24,068 --> 00:43:27,071
When I have, like, solder.

940
00:43:27,137 --> 00:43:29,206
Yeah. The actual silver.

941
00:43:29,206 --> 00:43:32,843
But like, realistically, you really only
need like a soldering block,

942
00:43:33,544 --> 00:43:36,547
which is like
you could just get, like a solder, like,

943
00:43:37,381 --> 00:43:40,384
soldering block or a charcoal block.

944
00:43:43,187 --> 00:43:46,256
Basically, like, you can clean it.

945
00:43:46,256 --> 00:43:48,492
You don't even need an ultrasonic cleaner.

946
00:43:48,492 --> 00:43:51,061
You can use, like, tumbler.

947
00:43:51,061 --> 00:43:53,631
Some people do that.

948
00:43:53,631 --> 00:43:56,233
So if somebody wanted to, like,

949
00:43:56,233 --> 00:43:59,336
it would be a good investment,
including, like, enough material

950
00:43:59,336 --> 00:44:03,474
to make, like a half dozen rings
or some nice pieces of jewelry.

951
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:05,609
But it would be the initial investment,
you think?

952
00:44:05,609 --> 00:44:08,612
Probably like,

953
00:44:10,214 --> 00:44:11,882
I would say in today's

954
00:44:11,882 --> 00:44:15,619
economy, probably like close to $500.

955
00:44:15,619 --> 00:44:17,588
Okay. Honestly. All right. Because like,

956
00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:21,992
I mean, if you want to make, like,
one ring,

957
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:25,295
you'd really just need,
it would be hard to make one ring.

958
00:44:25,829 --> 00:44:27,564
You probably make

959
00:44:27,564 --> 00:44:29,466
if you made stacker rings.

960
00:44:29,466 --> 00:44:31,669
Like, if you bought like, a wire.

961
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,171
It really depends on
what kind of wire you're getting.

962
00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:38,809
Like for just getting, like 16
gauge sterling silver wire from Amazon.

963
00:44:38,809 --> 00:44:42,680
It's probably like I think
the price of silver changes so much, but

964
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,150
like probably like roughly $30

965
00:44:46,150 --> 00:44:49,153
for like a full.

966
00:44:49,186 --> 00:44:49,687
Foot and a half.

967
00:44:49,687 --> 00:44:51,889
And what would you do with that wire.

968
00:44:51,889 --> 00:44:52,690
So you cut it.

969
00:44:52,690 --> 00:45:00,731
So you would measure out
like 58mm is usually like a size seven.

970
00:45:01,231 --> 00:45:06,637
So you take a wire
and then measure it out to like 57mm.

971
00:45:06,637 --> 00:45:08,939
And then it's like just

972
00:45:10,274 --> 00:45:12,743
like a piece of wire.

973
00:45:12,743 --> 00:45:15,713
And then you shape it like you will.

974
00:45:15,713 --> 00:45:17,581
You don't even really have to shape it
right away.

975
00:45:17,581 --> 00:45:20,551
You would just take that
and like put the joint together

976
00:45:21,151 --> 00:45:25,622
and then solder that joint together
and then you would shape it on a mandrel.

977
00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:28,792
So I guess you need a soldering block,

978
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:34,098
silver wire, a torch.

979
00:45:36,166 --> 00:45:37,701
You'd probably need a. Yeah.

980
00:45:37,701 --> 00:45:39,737
See this is where it gets like hard.

981
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:41,739
You probably do need a lot.

982
00:45:41,739 --> 00:45:46,577
You need your, 
ultrasonic cleaner or piccolo solution.

983
00:45:46,577 --> 00:45:50,047
And how big would the ring
how thick would the ring be, though?

984
00:45:50,047 --> 00:45:51,014
If it's just.

985
00:45:51,014 --> 00:45:54,017
This just 16 gauge, it would be, like,

986
00:45:55,185 --> 00:45:56,353
real.

987
00:45:56,353 --> 00:45:58,789
Probably real fun. Yeah.

988
00:45:58,789 --> 00:45:59,590
Like that ring.

989
00:45:59,590 --> 00:46:01,425
Like the one you've been showing me like.

990
00:46:01,425 --> 00:46:02,059
This that.

991
00:46:02,059 --> 00:46:04,495
That's cast. Right. So that's different.

992
00:46:04,495 --> 00:46:07,231
Yeah. That would be.

993
00:46:07,231 --> 00:46:09,800
Because I couldn't imagine a ring
being made out of what I have.

994
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,168
It would be really thin.

995
00:46:11,168 --> 00:46:12,536
Yeah. Wire.

996
00:46:12,536 --> 00:46:16,206
I mean it depends like 16
gauge wire is like pretty standard.

997
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,342
Did you see.
Is that where you started like making.

998
00:46:18,342 --> 00:46:19,710
Yeah. Rings out of that. Yeah.

999
00:46:19,710 --> 00:46:22,412
I started with like 16 gauge. Okay.

1000
00:46:22,412 --> 00:46:27,451
I think about that size
which is like not that not that thin.

1001
00:46:27,584 --> 00:46:29,253
Right. It actually goes down.

1002
00:46:29,253 --> 00:46:32,222
So like if I was going to do like 18 gauge
that would be thinner.

1003
00:46:32,222 --> 00:46:33,991
Right? 20 gauge. Thinner.

1004
00:46:35,826 --> 00:46:37,861
You can do like half round

1005
00:46:37,861 --> 00:46:42,032
which is like round on the top,
flat on the bottom,

1006
00:46:42,232 --> 00:46:45,235
which I like, I usually like to do like,

1007
00:46:45,702 --> 00:46:48,438
you know, ten gauge, eight gain.

1008
00:46:48,438 --> 00:46:49,306
Okay. Yeah.

1009
00:46:49,306 --> 00:46:50,007
It's going a little thicker.

1010
00:46:50,007 --> 00:46:52,309
Yeah. Okay.

1011
00:46:52,309 --> 00:46:54,812
Yeah that's cool. But you like casting.

1012
00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:57,381
You'd rather do that
now. Casting is my favorite. Yeah.

1013
00:46:57,381 --> 00:46:59,750
Yeah yeah. That's because it's like fun.

1014
00:46:59,750 --> 00:47:05,556
You can like make your design
and then pour.

1015
00:47:06,123 --> 00:47:10,027
Yeah I think that's the fun
part is like mixing all the metal and.

1016
00:47:10,694 --> 00:47:12,663
Yeah. Nice.

1017
00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:16,166
Any requests like people like,
besides somebody mind you, to make

1018
00:47:17,134 --> 00:47:19,303
I'll put a stone or something
like the first one, but

1019
00:47:19,303 --> 00:47:22,306
any requests lately
of some people want you to make stuff?

1020
00:47:23,507 --> 00:47:24,141
Yeah.

1021
00:47:24,141 --> 00:47:26,276
I had, someone reach out to me.

1022
00:47:26,276 --> 00:47:29,713
Last week,
which I haven't had a chance yet,

1023
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,817
but she bought these
this pair of earrings that I.

1024
00:47:34,318 --> 00:47:36,220
They're like dangle earrings.

1025
00:47:38,155 --> 00:47:38,355
They're

1026
00:47:38,355 --> 00:47:42,092
basically had some pearls on the bottom

1027
00:47:42,292 --> 00:47:47,164
with, like, some silver chain, like,
probably about this, like, size.

1028
00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:51,134
It was like the first pair

1029
00:47:51,134 --> 00:47:54,338
of dangle earrings that I've ever made.

1030
00:47:55,205 --> 00:47:58,208
So I was like, I guess she lost one.

1031
00:47:58,475 --> 00:48:02,379
So she was looking for, one more.

1032
00:48:02,379 --> 00:48:04,681
And I was like,
I was just about give you the two

1033
00:48:04,681 --> 00:48:08,418
because, like, you supported me for, like,
so many years.

1034
00:48:08,485 --> 00:48:11,555
And, yeah,
they're basically dangling earrings.

1035
00:48:11,822 --> 00:48:12,389
Let's go.

1036
00:48:12,389 --> 00:48:15,392
There like, like the wire.

1037
00:48:16,426 --> 00:48:17,527
Like loop.

1038
00:48:17,527 --> 00:48:19,096
I'm not going to, like, describe it.

1039
00:48:19,096 --> 00:48:21,031
I kind of get it. Dangle earrings. Yeah.

1040
00:48:21,031 --> 00:48:23,033
They kind of like, glue it
and they go through and they. Yeah.

1041
00:48:23,033 --> 00:48:23,934
Yeah I get. You.

1042
00:48:23,934 --> 00:48:24,334
Yeah.

1043
00:48:24,334 --> 00:48:28,305
So they're like, yeah, they dangle
and then there's like

1044
00:48:28,305 --> 00:48:30,340
little pearls at the bottom.

1045
00:48:30,340 --> 00:48:33,343
So that's probably
what I'm going to do this weekend.

1046
00:48:33,577 --> 00:48:35,312
Cool. Like dangles.

1047
00:48:35,312 --> 00:48:36,213
Will be good weekend for.

1048
00:48:36,213 --> 00:48:41,551
My last request, but I'll be bending
a little bit this summer.

1049
00:48:41,885 --> 00:48:44,021
So yeah. So,

1050
00:48:45,589 --> 00:48:48,592
Stony Creek
Farmers Market, I gave you that info.

1051
00:48:48,725 --> 00:48:49,693
Do you reach out yet?

1052
00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:52,663
No, not not yet.

1053
00:48:53,163 --> 00:48:56,133
I've just been so busy, it's hard to like,

1054
00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:00,170
do, art and, like, work full time.

1055
00:49:00,570 --> 00:49:00,938
Yeah.

1056
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:04,341
Like, You know, the work thing
gets in the way, don't it?

1057
00:49:04,508 --> 00:49:05,642
Yeah. It's aggravating.

1058
00:49:05,642 --> 00:49:09,212
Especially when we have networking
meetings at night and I'm.

1059
00:49:09,212 --> 00:49:11,415
Like, yeah. Tired after.

1060
00:49:11,415 --> 00:49:14,451
So it's hard to like, do it every day
and stay consistent with it.

1061
00:49:14,651 --> 00:49:16,386
Yeah.

1062
00:49:16,386 --> 00:49:19,389
But I try the weekends are my my time.

1063
00:49:19,389 --> 00:49:21,625
Yeah. I got to get you info for New Haven.

1064
00:49:21,625 --> 00:49:22,626
I think you do. Yeah, I think you do.

1065
00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:26,863
Well there for not only your
where you work for, but your jewelry too.

1066
00:49:26,863 --> 00:49:29,866
You could talk about it there. Yeah. Yeah.

1067
00:49:29,933 --> 00:49:32,502
Talk about the Madison chamber
a little bit.

1068
00:49:32,502 --> 00:49:33,637
Yeah I don't, I don't do there.

1069
00:49:33,637 --> 00:49:35,372
I've been to one of their
meetings so I'm not a member.

1070
00:49:36,740 --> 00:49:40,110
I just, I don't, I just haven't,
I don't know seven there.

1071
00:49:40,110 --> 00:49:42,879
Okay. They're pretty good. Are they.
All right.

1072
00:49:42,879 --> 00:49:44,014
Are you got to say that right.

1073
00:49:44,014 --> 00:49:45,749
No, no, they are good.

1074
00:49:45,749 --> 00:49:47,451
No I know, I know Don, I know Don.

1075
00:49:47,451 --> 00:49:49,853
Don was cool
when I first joined, shoreline.

1076
00:49:49,853 --> 00:49:52,322
She was the she's whatever person.

1077
00:49:52,322 --> 00:49:54,891
Yeah. Now she's the.
She runs that one over there in Madison.

1078
00:49:54,891 --> 00:49:55,292
Yeah.

1079
00:49:55,292 --> 00:49:56,426
You know, they're pretty good.

1080
00:49:56,426 --> 00:49:58,395
She, organized.

1081
00:49:58,395 --> 00:50:03,066
It was like a press sort of thing where
there was, like, political leaders, like.

1082
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:04,034
Okay.

1083
00:50:04,034 --> 00:50:07,004
And so it was actually really interesting
to, like,

1084
00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:09,072
watch about what's going on and.

1085
00:50:09,072 --> 00:50:10,640
Like, yeah.

1086
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,477
So that was cool and kind of sit in on.

1087
00:50:13,477 --> 00:50:14,411
Yeah.

1088
00:50:14,411 --> 00:50:15,479
Now she's got a cool history.

1089
00:50:15,479 --> 00:50:17,314
She's from New York, I guess she was.

1090
00:50:17,314 --> 00:50:19,916
She worked at some big like marketing
firm in New York for a while.

1091
00:50:19,916 --> 00:50:21,385
And then her and her husband relocated.

1092
00:50:21,385 --> 00:50:22,786
I can't remember
why they came to Connecticut,

1093
00:50:22,786 --> 00:50:24,621
but they relocated for some, some reason.

1094
00:50:24,621 --> 00:50:28,158
And, you know, she's at
she's killing it over at Madison.

1095
00:50:28,158 --> 00:50:29,860
So, yeah, she. Does a great job.

1096
00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:31,161
And she also appreciates,

1097
00:50:31,161 --> 00:50:35,098
like the arts and crafts 
she does picked up on really quickly.

1098
00:50:35,098 --> 00:50:38,402
Like I was able to talk about like
that was one thing that she,

1099
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:43,040
when we do our, like, little speeches,
she was like,

1100
00:50:43,073 --> 00:50:47,477
say a little bit more about yourself
or like one thing that you enjoy

1101
00:50:47,477 --> 00:50:52,816
and like something that's different,
like outside of your normal, like 9 to 5.

1102
00:50:52,916 --> 00:50:56,653
So that was really not something
you see every day.

1103
00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:58,488
And so would you talk about jewelry
making?

1104
00:50:58,488 --> 00:51:00,257
Yeah. Yeah.

1105
00:51:00,257 --> 00:51:02,159
What would I talk about? I don't know.

1106
00:51:04,327 --> 00:51:06,096
Going out to see music maybe.

1107
00:51:06,096 --> 00:51:08,899
What else do I do. All I do is work. Yeah.

1108
00:51:08,899 --> 00:51:11,868
Where is your favorite,
like music venue in Connecticut?

1109
00:51:11,868 --> 00:51:13,837
The Duke Place.

1110
00:51:13,837 --> 00:51:14,304
Yeah.

1111
00:51:14,304 --> 00:51:16,239
I mean, well, okay,
that's more like a club.

1112
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:20,911
So if it's like a full on music venue,
like a theater type place or anything.

1113
00:51:21,144 --> 00:51:24,147
So, I do like College Street Music Hall.

1114
00:51:24,414 --> 00:51:27,050
Yeah. If we're looking at bigger,
if we're going to bigger theaters.

1115
00:51:27,050 --> 00:51:31,621
So when I was in school,
I went to southern and it used Cosby.

1116
00:51:31,721 --> 00:51:34,191
It was called, was it the Palace Theater?

1117
00:51:34,191 --> 00:51:35,592
I think it used to be called
Palace Theater.

1118
00:51:35,592 --> 00:51:36,726
And then they closed down,

1119
00:51:36,726 --> 00:51:39,729
and then I moved away,
and I came back like 20 years later

1120
00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:42,632
and they renamed, you know, College Street
means, am I going to go?

1121
00:51:42,632 --> 00:51:44,401
They didn't change anything.
They like change the name.

1122
00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:46,002
It's the same the balcony still like.

1123
00:51:46,002 --> 00:51:49,005
Yeah, like ship bounces
when people are dancing up there.

1124
00:51:49,339 --> 00:51:49,873
Yeah.

1125
00:51:51,341 --> 00:51:51,608
Yeah.

1126
00:51:51,608 --> 00:51:52,709
So know it's a great theater.

1127
00:51:52,709 --> 00:51:54,377
So I like that place.

1128
00:51:54,377 --> 00:51:57,380
Oh actually one of my favorite places is

1129
00:51:59,583 --> 00:52:00,917
What's it called. The.

1130
00:52:00,917 --> 00:52:04,421
It's the old tennis
venue down in New Haven.

1131
00:52:05,021 --> 00:52:07,491
It's the Yale is. No it's Yale.

1132
00:52:07,491 --> 00:52:08,158
Yeah. It's the.

1133
00:52:08,158 --> 00:52:09,426
Yeah. It's like near there.

1134
00:52:09,426 --> 00:52:11,428
It's called the

1135
00:52:11,428 --> 00:52:14,064
Music Summit in New Haven. Wow.

1136
00:52:14,064 --> 00:52:14,598
This is great.

1137
00:52:14,598 --> 00:52:16,600
Are going to be a lot of good information
in no.

1138
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,001
Words or fail to.

1139
00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:21,037
Call the, New Haven Music Bowl or.

1140
00:52:23,039 --> 00:52:25,509
Oh, I'll have to put it in
a, maybe I'll put in a description

1141
00:52:25,509 --> 00:52:27,277
or something like a link to it. But yeah.

1142
00:52:27,277 --> 00:52:29,446
So it's I saw I've only been there once.

1143
00:52:29,446 --> 00:52:32,449
I saw Billy Strings there. So it's,

1144
00:52:32,883 --> 00:52:33,984
I guess it's tennis, right?

1145
00:52:33,984 --> 00:52:37,954
I, I've never been to a tennis match,
but the seats are like stadium seating,

1146
00:52:37,954 --> 00:52:40,390
but it's a lot. Sort of. It's
not as steep.

1147
00:52:40,390 --> 00:52:42,492
It's a little bit more shallow
and there's a lot more room.

1148
00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:46,763
And and the music was great.

1149
00:52:46,763 --> 00:52:48,932
I mean the sound was amazing.
It was so cool.

1150
00:52:48,932 --> 00:52:51,935
It was like in the middle of Covid
and we're all like spread out.

1151
00:52:53,069 --> 00:52:55,405
And then I see these people are starting.

1152
00:52:55,405 --> 00:52:59,643
There's like ushers are talking to people
and everybody's moving around.

1153
00:52:59,643 --> 00:53:00,944
I'm like, what is going on?

1154
00:53:00,944 --> 00:53:03,180
So they finally come to us
and they're like,

1155
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:05,448
yeah, hey,
if you want to, you can like move forward.

1156
00:53:05,448 --> 00:53:08,251
So we all we're all scattered,
we all move forward.

1157
00:53:08,251 --> 00:53:10,854
And I was just like,
it was such a good show, Billy Strings.

1158
00:53:10,854 --> 00:53:12,422
If you ever get you can see Billy Strings.

1159
00:53:12,422 --> 00:53:13,456
It's amazing.

1160
00:53:13,456 --> 00:53:15,091
It's awesome. So that was cool.

1161
00:53:15,091 --> 00:53:16,860
So that's my. Favorite.
I have to insert the.

1162
00:53:16,860 --> 00:53:18,929
Yeah, I'll have to get
I have to say something.

1163
00:53:18,929 --> 00:53:20,830
Music Bowl in New Haven.

1164
00:53:20,830 --> 00:53:22,666
There's probably
a lot of people know about it. It's yeah.

1165
00:53:22,666 --> 00:53:24,334
Yeah I like yeah.

1166
00:53:24,334 --> 00:53:27,370
Like come
I spit it out, you know, I'll, I'll,

1167
00:53:27,437 --> 00:53:29,306
I'll put in, I'll put it
in the description.

1168
00:53:29,306 --> 00:53:34,544
Fun fact, though, I wouldn't be alive
if Toad's place in exist,

1169
00:53:34,945 --> 00:53:37,714
because that's where my parents now
was, so.

1170
00:53:37,714 --> 00:53:38,381
That's cool.

1171
00:53:38,381 --> 00:53:40,217
Yeah. Toes, I forget about Toad's place.

1172
00:53:40,217 --> 00:53:42,285
I saw a lot of good shows there.

1173
00:53:42,285 --> 00:53:43,587
But they there.

1174
00:53:43,587 --> 00:53:45,622
Yeah.
I don't know what they do over there now.

1175
00:53:45,622 --> 00:53:46,856
I've been there in forever.

1176
00:53:46,856 --> 00:53:48,792
They still do shows, but, yeah.

1177
00:53:48,792 --> 00:53:52,262
I've been there like a couple of years ago
for movement.

1178
00:53:53,196 --> 00:53:56,499
It's another band, Heavy, like.

1179
00:53:56,733 --> 00:53:57,601
Okay.

1180
00:53:57,601 --> 00:54:01,504
I mean, they know I would say
they're like alternative.

1181
00:54:01,771 --> 00:54:02,172
Yeah.

1182
00:54:02,172 --> 00:54:06,176
Me, I just discovered,
righteous continental.

1183
00:54:06,710 --> 00:54:08,545
They do like Texas blues.

1184
00:54:08,545 --> 00:54:11,948
Like, Stevie Ray Vaughan influenced off
little Jimi Hendrix stuff.

1185
00:54:12,282 --> 00:54:12,949
That's.

1186
00:54:12,949 --> 00:54:15,952
That's why I saw them at at the juke,
the place in, deep River.

1187
00:54:16,786 --> 00:54:19,356
So good.
I mean, this kind of far, isn't it?

1188
00:54:20,757 --> 00:54:22,592
I don't know, half hour.

1189
00:54:22,592 --> 00:54:24,661
So it's not terrible. Yeah, it's right up.

1190
00:54:24,661 --> 00:54:25,428
I thought that was like.

1191
00:54:25,428 --> 00:54:25,895
Yeah, just.

1192
00:54:25,895 --> 00:54:29,266
It's Old Saybrook, and you, you take
a left on route nine and it's it's right.

1193
00:54:29,299 --> 00:54:30,834
It's like right off the road
I forget nine.

1194
00:54:30,834 --> 00:54:33,837
It's like in the valley.
Is that the valley?

1195
00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:35,472
Like Darby orange.

1196
00:54:35,472 --> 00:54:37,107
No, no, the other way.

1197
00:54:37,107 --> 00:54:38,575
Oh, it's. The other. Way. Yeah.

1198
00:54:38,575 --> 00:54:39,309
Oh nine. Yeah.

1199
00:54:39,309 --> 00:54:42,312
That's really true. It's like part. Of.

1200
00:54:42,445 --> 00:54:43,680
The valley. Am I wrong?

1201
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,915
No, no, because the valley is. Yeah.

1202
00:54:45,915 --> 00:54:48,184
Naugatuck and Ansonia.

1203
00:54:48,184 --> 00:54:49,753
Ansonia like Durbin.

1204
00:54:49,753 --> 00:54:52,222
Yeah. Old Saybrook is up. We got.

1205
00:54:52,222 --> 00:54:53,957
Where are we now? We're Branford.

1206
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:55,892
Right. So it goes. It goes.

1207
00:54:55,892 --> 00:54:57,794
Branford. Guilford. Madison.

1208
00:54:57,794 --> 00:55:00,063
Clinton. Westbrook. Old Saybrook.

1209
00:55:00,063 --> 00:55:01,364
So it's up by it's up.

1210
00:55:01,364 --> 00:55:03,967
It's up close to New London.
It's on the way to New London.

1211
00:55:03,967 --> 00:55:06,036
I really should know. Yeah, you do now.

1212
00:55:06,036 --> 00:55:06,603
There you go.

1213
00:55:06,603 --> 00:55:06,903
Sorry.

1214
00:55:06,903 --> 00:55:09,306
I've been in Connecticut my whole life,
and I just

1215
00:55:09,306 --> 00:55:12,676
there's just some towns
that, like, sound like they're really far.

1216
00:55:12,676 --> 00:55:13,143
Like.

1217
00:55:13,143 --> 00:55:14,644
Yeah, yeah.

1218
00:55:14,644 --> 00:55:17,414
Essex. Yeah. That's anywhere
in, like, Fairfield County.

1219
00:55:17,414 --> 00:55:19,683
I'm like, I can't even like, think.

1220
00:55:19,683 --> 00:55:21,284
Yeah, that's a whole different.

1221
00:55:21,284 --> 00:55:23,620
That's a whole different world down there.
Yeah.

1222
00:55:23,620 --> 00:55:25,055
Did you ever want
to move out of Connecticut?

1223
00:55:27,057 --> 00:55:29,893
I would, I'm scared to, though.

1224
00:55:29,893 --> 00:55:32,062
Do you? Yeah.

1225
00:55:32,062 --> 00:55:35,899
I've been here my whole life, but,
yeah, I had a plan and never happened.

1226
00:55:35,932 --> 00:55:37,801
Just so I'm still here.
But I think about it.

1227
00:55:37,801 --> 00:55:40,503
But I'm here.
I got my studio here, and my bad.

1228
00:55:40,503 --> 00:55:41,104
I'm like, I'm not.

1229
00:55:41,104 --> 00:55:45,542
Maybe something, but I the my plan now
is to just travel more like vacation.

1230
00:55:45,542 --> 00:55:48,445
More like go on like long, like leave for.

1231
00:55:48,445 --> 00:55:49,813
Yeah, like a month.

1232
00:55:49,813 --> 00:55:52,082
Where would you move to, though,
if you could move anywhere?

1233
00:55:52,082 --> 00:55:55,051
I don't know, South like Florida.

1234
00:55:55,218 --> 00:55:56,619
Like out of the country.

1235
00:55:56,619 --> 00:55:59,622
South like Central America.

1236
00:56:00,123 --> 00:56:01,157
South.

1237
00:56:01,157 --> 00:56:03,126
It's the climate
so nice down there. But I don't know.

1238
00:56:03,126 --> 00:56:04,728
I mean, that's

1239
00:56:04,728 --> 00:56:05,362
who knows.

1240
00:56:05,362 --> 00:56:06,996
I think it's. Possible, but who knows.

1241
00:56:06,996 --> 00:56:08,865
To like Virginia.

1242
00:56:08,865 --> 00:56:09,165
Yeah.

1243
00:56:09,165 --> 00:56:11,701
Maybe because I heard it's like, really?

1244
00:56:11,701 --> 00:56:15,872
Well, I've been there for a wedding
and it was actually very beautiful.

1245
00:56:16,773 --> 00:56:17,741
They have like.

1246
00:56:17,741 --> 00:56:20,276
Wow, bars and all that. Good.

1247
00:56:20,276 --> 00:56:21,811
So I was yeah.

1248
00:56:21,811 --> 00:56:24,180
What was it's
like my first time in a while.

1249
00:56:24,180 --> 00:56:25,882
What was a great. Yeah.

1250
00:56:25,882 --> 00:56:28,451
They're like,
it's like Cumberland Farms, right.

1251
00:56:28,451 --> 00:56:30,954
We have up here.
It's like that's the Wawa. Yeah, yeah.

1252
00:56:30,954 --> 00:56:35,425
But like Cumberland to point out
because they like, kind of make your food

1253
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:39,062
like, I had like a breakfast burrito.

1254
00:56:39,062 --> 00:56:41,531
Where at a Walmart. Wawa.

1255
00:56:41,531 --> 00:56:43,133
They make it at Wawa I think.

1256
00:56:43,133 --> 00:56:47,237
So I ordered it and then I don't know
what happened after that.

1257
00:56:47,237 --> 00:56:48,872
I haven't been to one in forever.

1258
00:56:48,872 --> 00:56:50,206
Yeah, yeah.

1259
00:56:50,206 --> 00:56:52,809
Wawa. It's a great name.

1260
00:56:52,809 --> 00:56:53,376
It's a good name.

1261
00:56:53,376 --> 00:56:56,179
Well, I've never been on a plane. Though,
so I don't travel.

1262
00:56:56,179 --> 00:56:57,914
Oh, really? Yeah.

1263
00:56:57,914 --> 00:56:59,649
I'm telling my kids, like,
get your passport.

1264
00:56:59,649 --> 00:57:01,151
So, like, I'm not going anywhere,
so it doesn't matter.

1265
00:57:01,151 --> 00:57:03,720
I just, like, get them
because they last, like ten years.

1266
00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:04,621
Yeah.

1267
00:57:04,621 --> 00:57:07,590
And that way you have it
because you never know.

1268
00:57:07,624 --> 00:57:09,759
Like something might happen. Yeah.

1269
00:57:09,759 --> 00:57:12,495
You already have an opportunity
to go somewhere where you have to leave.

1270
00:57:12,495 --> 00:57:13,263
Yeah.

1271
00:57:13,263 --> 00:57:15,965
I think when you. Need to leave the.

1272
00:57:15,965 --> 00:57:16,866
Country. Yeah.

1273
00:57:16,866 --> 00:57:17,634
Yeah.

1274
00:57:17,634 --> 00:57:20,837
No, but no planes or planes are I.

1275
00:57:21,070 --> 00:57:21,371
Yeah.

1276
00:57:21,371 --> 00:57:23,440
I mean I've been I don't I'm not a

1277
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,543
I like traveling
but I don't like the traveling part.

1278
00:57:26,643 --> 00:57:27,377
Yeah.

1279
00:57:27,377 --> 00:57:31,047
Like the airplane
I just, I could do without that whole TSA

1280
00:57:31,047 --> 00:57:33,183
and security and taking my shoes off and

1281
00:57:34,150 --> 00:57:36,352
getting patted
down every time I go through security,

1282
00:57:36,352 --> 00:57:38,988
for some reason, every time,

1283
00:57:38,988 --> 00:57:39,656
every time, it's.

1284
00:57:39,656 --> 00:57:43,092
Like a little like someone
who's, like, causing trouble.

1285
00:57:43,226 --> 00:57:44,994
Yeah, yeah.

1286
00:57:44,994 --> 00:57:47,197
So, yeah,
I could do with all that. Yeah. Yeah.

1287
00:57:47,197 --> 00:57:48,364
I haven't even.

1288
00:57:48,364 --> 00:57:51,367
Traveled. But I would love to visit Japan.

1289
00:57:51,534 --> 00:57:53,970
Okay. Yeah.

1290
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:57,440
It's like my one place
that I think I want to see

1291
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,577
before I die, but
that's like a huge plane ride that's like.

1292
00:58:00,577 --> 00:58:01,778
That's really far.

1293
00:58:01,778 --> 00:58:02,312
Yeah.

1294
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:05,281
I mean, but why Japan?

1295
00:58:05,281 --> 00:58:06,216
The food.

1296
00:58:06,216 --> 00:58:09,385
Okay. The culture. Okay. Sightseeing.

1297
00:58:09,552 --> 00:58:10,854
That's cool.

1298
00:58:10,854 --> 00:58:11,354
Yeah, yeah.

1299
00:58:11,354 --> 00:58:14,357
I'm a big sushi person.

1300
00:58:15,058 --> 00:58:18,695
And cherry
blossoms, cherry blossom season.

1301
00:58:18,695 --> 00:58:20,697
I heard it's like a really good in Japan.

1302
00:58:20,697 --> 00:58:23,700
Yeah, really. Go see the cherry blossoms.

1303
00:58:24,033 --> 00:58:27,504
They're supposed to do
the cherry blossoms in New Haven

1304
00:58:28,671 --> 00:58:31,608
and Worcester Square or whatever
it's supposed to be.

1305
00:58:31,608 --> 00:58:34,744
I think last weekend got rained out
whenever they canceled it this year,

1306
00:58:35,612 --> 00:58:36,746
so that's too bad.

1307
00:58:36,746 --> 00:58:38,581
I'm supposed to snow.

1308
00:58:38,581 --> 00:58:41,017
To it's awful snow.

1309
00:58:41,017 --> 00:58:42,185
Sorrow.

1310
00:58:42,185 --> 00:58:43,853
Weather tomorrow.

1311
00:58:43,853 --> 00:58:45,989
And that's what I heard tomorrow morning.

1312
00:58:45,989 --> 00:58:48,324
I don't know, that was like.
Now that's awful.

1313
00:58:48,324 --> 00:58:49,325
Told me that today.

1314
00:58:49,325 --> 00:58:52,328
Yeah I can't I'm
not I'm done with that cold.

1315
00:58:52,962 --> 00:58:54,430
Yeah. No snow.

1316
00:58:54,430 --> 00:58:55,932
It is too late to snow. It happens.

1317
00:58:55,932 --> 00:58:58,801
But now like I'm like okay with that.

1318
00:58:58,801 --> 00:59:03,306
As long as the rest of April was like
65, like it's supposed to be.

1319
00:59:03,306 --> 00:59:03,740
Yeah.

1320
00:59:03,740 --> 00:59:06,309
Not this 40 degree nonsense, I know. Yeah.

1321
00:59:06,309 --> 00:59:09,345
I honestly feel like
it's like half the time it's.

1322
00:59:09,345 --> 00:59:13,082
They say snow and it's just rain,
so I don't believe anything anymore.

1323
00:59:13,383 --> 00:59:16,419
Yeah, I know
you just got to wake up and figure it out.

1324
00:59:16,586 --> 00:59:18,421
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1325
00:59:18,421 --> 00:59:20,657
So we'll say there's probably going to be

1326
00:59:20,657 --> 00:59:23,960
like if there is, it's
probably like a wet rain.

1327
00:59:24,694 --> 00:59:26,462
If anything rains usually wet though.

1328
00:59:27,764 --> 00:59:28,298
Yeah.

1329
00:59:28,298 --> 00:59:31,234
Sometimes it's like fluffy in.

1330
00:59:31,234 --> 00:59:32,969
Rain or snow.

1331
00:59:32,969 --> 00:59:34,704
Well the snow.

1332
00:59:34,704 --> 00:59:35,939
Yeah.

1333
00:59:35,939 --> 00:59:39,042
If it's not like well sometimes it's like,
oh I like.

1334
00:59:39,075 --> 00:59:39,943
You said wet rain.

1335
00:59:39,943 --> 00:59:42,946
Yeah I meant wet snow. Okay.

1336
00:59:42,979 --> 00:59:45,982
Please cut that out.

1337
00:59:46,249 --> 00:59:49,452
I mean, just being, Yeah,
I got a little brain fart.

1338
00:59:49,552 --> 00:59:50,053
That's all right.

1339
00:59:50,053 --> 00:59:51,154
It's been a long day.

1340
00:59:51,154 --> 00:59:53,489
Yeah. It's okay. I'm sorry.

1341
00:59:53,489 --> 00:59:55,992
I don't have a lot of running around to
do. Yeah.

1342
00:59:55,992 --> 00:59:57,760
What was your schedule today like?
Where'd you go?

1343
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,063
What was your route today?

1344
01:00:00,063 --> 01:00:06,469
This morning, I went to a job where we are
doing, like, odor mitigation.

1345
01:00:06,703 --> 01:00:10,540
So, raccoons got into,

1346
01:00:10,540 --> 01:00:15,545
a house and basically got in
through the crawlspace

1347
01:00:15,778 --> 01:00:18,781
and pooped everywhere.

1348
01:00:18,848 --> 01:00:20,817
Oh, gross. Yeah.

1349
01:00:20,817 --> 01:00:23,653
Which, like, is very dangerous,
by the way.

1350
01:00:23,653 --> 01:00:25,421
Raccoon poop.

1351
01:00:25,421 --> 01:00:27,357
It has, like, roundworm in it.

1352
01:00:28,691 --> 01:00:31,294
All. The time, which can kill you.

1353
01:00:31,294 --> 01:00:34,297
It's like a parasite
that will eat your brain.

1354
01:00:34,497 --> 01:00:36,966
Yeah, but how would you like.

1355
01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:40,103
How would it like
you have to, like, ingested one.

1356
01:00:40,103 --> 01:00:40,703
Yeah.

1357
01:00:40,703 --> 01:00:46,042
So if you, it can come up like
if you're cleaning it and there's dust.

1358
01:00:46,042 --> 01:00:49,812
So like, say it's dirt, like in
a crawlspace, like unfinished crawlspace.

1359
01:00:51,981 --> 01:00:55,251
And you inhale it, you can contract it.

1360
01:00:56,219 --> 01:00:57,620
So. Oh, wow.

1361
01:00:57,620 --> 01:00:59,789
So you got to wear, like,
hazmat suits and whatnot.

1362
01:00:59,789 --> 01:01:01,991
Whole hazmat. Yeah, it's.

1363
01:01:01,991 --> 01:01:04,394
Gonna be a big job,
but we scoped it out this.

1364
01:01:04,394 --> 01:01:05,294
Morning.

1365
01:01:05,294 --> 01:01:08,231
What else did I do today?

1366
01:01:08,231 --> 01:01:11,300
I did another docu sketch,

1367
01:01:12,035 --> 01:01:15,038
which is like a 360 camera.

1368
01:01:15,838 --> 01:01:18,841
Basically scoping from room to room.

1369
01:01:20,743 --> 01:01:22,912
The loss of a job.

1370
01:01:22,912 --> 01:01:25,948
So I did that on, water last job today.

1371
01:01:25,948 --> 01:01:27,750
This afternoon.

1372
01:01:27,750 --> 01:01:28,685
So. Yeah.

1373
01:01:28,685 --> 01:01:29,419
All right.

1374
01:01:29,419 --> 01:01:30,453
The raccoon poop, though.

1375
01:01:30,453 --> 01:01:31,454
It's good to know.

1376
01:01:31,454 --> 01:01:33,990
Yeah, definitely don't handle it yourself.

1377
01:01:33,990 --> 01:01:34,691
Is there any other.

1378
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:38,294
I mean, all feces are bad,
but that one's like rat poo.

1379
01:01:38,661 --> 01:01:41,731
Okay. Yeah. Rat poop is not a good one.

1380
01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:45,301
Very dangerous.

1381
01:01:45,301 --> 01:01:47,370
Yeah. That's like,

1382
01:01:47,370 --> 01:01:50,173
there's another name for it, I don't know.

1383
01:01:50,173 --> 01:01:51,941
Yeah, we don't have to.

1384
01:01:51,941 --> 01:01:53,776
But it's pretty bad.

1385
01:01:53,776 --> 01:01:57,547
So, like, any sort of, like,
wildlife droppings.

1386
01:01:57,547 --> 01:02:00,383
Definitely like mice poop. Like.
But that's just like.

1387
01:02:00,383 --> 01:02:03,352
I mean, you can't, you know,
you want to wash your hands, but.

1388
01:02:03,352 --> 01:02:06,089
Yeah, you definitely it's.

1389
01:02:06,089 --> 01:02:09,092
But that's can't be like,
it's not as bad as, like.

1390
01:02:09,158 --> 01:02:11,360
Raccoon, raccoons, bats.

1391
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,429
Yeah.

1392
01:02:13,429 --> 01:02:16,232
Any wildlife really?

1393
01:02:16,232 --> 01:02:18,134
Any wildlife poop?

1394
01:02:18,134 --> 01:02:18,601
Any poop.

1395
01:02:18,601 --> 01:02:21,337
I think we're just going to go any any.

1396
01:02:21,337 --> 01:02:22,105
I think we just need to.

1397
01:02:22,105 --> 01:02:25,274
Seek a professional
or do your research before.

1398
01:02:25,274 --> 01:02:27,376
I think any poop is bad.

1399
01:02:27,376 --> 01:02:29,178
I don't handle it.

1400
01:02:29,178 --> 01:02:32,081
Yeah, yeah,
I think we'll just stick to that one.

1401
01:02:32,081 --> 01:02:34,250
Yeah that's good.

1402
01:02:34,250 --> 01:02:36,486
Yeah. Anything else going on.

1403
01:02:36,486 --> 01:02:39,055
And then we'll go drink
some more wine or something.

1404
01:02:39,055 --> 01:02:39,722
Yeah.

1405
01:02:39,722 --> 01:02:46,195
So this weekend
I have to pay some hail or

1406
01:02:47,530 --> 01:02:49,866
pay some hail bill some.

1407
01:02:49,866 --> 01:02:55,104
Hey, my mom volunteers
for this horse rescue in North Branford.

1408
01:02:55,104 --> 01:02:59,442
It's called all the King's
Horses and Gray organization.

1409
01:02:59,442 --> 01:03:01,177
They rescue horses.

1410
01:03:01,177 --> 01:03:03,513
Well, she's going to be doing this week.
To get your mom on.

1411
01:03:03,513 --> 01:03:07,517
I know I should,
or should get Mary to one that,

1412
01:03:07,583 --> 01:03:11,921
she runs, the rescue.

1413
01:03:12,021 --> 01:03:14,524
Okay. She would be great.
That'd be cool to talk to.

1414
01:03:14,524 --> 01:03:15,825
Yeah. What's it called?

1415
01:03:15,825 --> 01:03:17,827
All the king's horse rescue.

1416
01:03:17,827 --> 01:03:19,529
That king's horses should. Reach out to.

1417
01:03:19,529 --> 01:03:21,130
Her. All the king's horse rescue.

1418
01:03:21,130 --> 01:03:22,732
You can. Yeah. You'll have to connect me.

1419
01:03:22,732 --> 01:03:24,300
Yeah, because they're horse.

1420
01:03:24,300 --> 01:03:25,234
That's a good name.

1421
01:03:25,234 --> 01:03:27,904
Because she, like, she goes out west.

1422
01:03:27,904 --> 01:03:30,773
Yeah. I'd love to talk. To 
King. And great.

1423
01:03:30,773 --> 01:03:35,211
Like, rescues, horses, wild mustangs.

1424
01:03:35,211 --> 01:03:39,549
And she rescues
horses from, like, slaughter.

1425
01:03:39,615 --> 01:03:43,920
Wow. 
And where do the horses end up at her.

1426
01:03:44,554 --> 01:03:48,090
Like, she rescues them from, like,
slaughter house, right?

1427
01:03:48,457 --> 01:03:50,426
Sometimes. And then like.

1428
01:03:50,426 --> 01:03:54,397
But she come all the way back here
to Connecticut and they're in northward.

1429
01:03:54,430 --> 01:03:54,997
Okay.

1430
01:03:54,997 --> 01:03:58,000
So at her barn,

1431
01:03:58,100 --> 01:04:02,772
she basically rehabilitates them
and then adopts them out

1432
01:04:02,972 --> 01:04:06,542
if they're like, okay, adoptable,
if they're like.

1433
01:04:06,542 --> 01:04:09,545
Sort of people to people, like,
pay her a fee

1434
01:04:09,545 --> 01:04:13,916
to get the horse or question like,
how does she get I think.

1435
01:04:13,916 --> 01:04:16,485
She like just adopts our
I don't think she charges.

1436
01:04:16,485 --> 01:04:18,421
Them because it. Looks for like a loving.

1437
01:04:18,421 --> 01:04:19,288
That's really cool.

1438
01:04:19,288 --> 01:04:20,022
Yeah.

1439
01:04:20,022 --> 01:04:22,525
Like race horses to like end of life
race horses

1440
01:04:22,525 --> 01:04:24,760
because that's probably a big one.
The horse is not going to make any money.

1441
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:26,295
They just need to just get rid of it.

1442
01:04:26,295 --> 01:04:26,596
Yeah.

1443
01:04:26,596 --> 01:04:30,333
There's a racehorse now at the barn
that was abandoned.

1444
01:04:30,366 --> 01:04:35,738
She had some sort of dental issue
and they stopped

1445
01:04:36,472 --> 01:04:39,242
using her basically because she wasn't

1446
01:04:39,242 --> 01:04:44,080
pretty enough for the,
like, racehorse lifestyle,

1447
01:04:44,513 --> 01:04:48,251
which is really sad
because it's abandoned and.

1448
01:04:48,351 --> 01:04:50,119
Like, what do you mean abandoned?
They just like.

1449
01:04:50,119 --> 01:04:52,722
They just said,
you are not good for us anymore.

1450
01:04:52,722 --> 01:04:54,657
And I, I don't know if it was like that.

1451
01:04:54,657 --> 01:04:58,794
She was sent to I don't know where
they got her from, but they basically

1452
01:05:00,263 --> 01:05:01,564
she a lot of them are

1453
01:05:01,564 --> 01:05:05,868
like, like skin and bones.

1454
01:05:05,935 --> 01:05:08,604
Wow. She gets them. So that's crazy.

1455
01:05:08,604 --> 01:05:14,610
Abandoned a lot of cases
or neglected, abused.

1456
01:05:14,644 --> 01:05:17,146
So she's a good person to reach out to.

1457
01:05:17,146 --> 01:05:19,415
That's very cool.
That's good for her to be.

1458
01:05:19,415 --> 01:05:20,316
Doing this weekend.

1459
01:05:20,316 --> 01:05:22,251
Is baling some.

1460
01:05:22,251 --> 01:05:26,422
Hay. There's, like a semi truck of hay.

1461
01:05:26,989 --> 01:05:30,693
We bring up to the attic and stack it.

1462
01:05:30,860 --> 01:05:33,396
Yeah, it's going to be a process.
That'll be good.

1463
01:05:33,396 --> 01:05:36,399
It's going to be not a good day tomorrow
to do that.

1464
01:05:36,465 --> 01:05:37,300
I think it's Sunday.

1465
01:05:37,300 --> 01:05:39,101
Oh, Sunday to. Be clear.

1466
01:05:39,101 --> 01:05:40,569
I think it's going to be snow.

1467
01:05:40,569 --> 01:05:42,004
You know. No snow.

1468
01:05:42,004 --> 01:05:44,073
Yeah. It's going to be warmer on Tuesday.

1469
01:05:44,073 --> 01:05:45,241
Yeah. Anyway.

1470
01:05:45,241 --> 01:05:46,342
Well that's cool.

1471
01:05:46,342 --> 01:05:46,742
Be fun.

1472
01:05:46,742 --> 01:05:48,377
But I'll definitely connect to it. Yeah.

1473
01:05:48,377 --> 01:05:49,745
Connect me to because.

1474
01:05:49,745 --> 01:05:52,348
Otherwise, not much going on.

1475
01:05:52,348 --> 01:05:55,351
Yeah. I'm
probably making some art tomorrow.

1476
01:05:56,519 --> 01:05:57,153
Yeah.

1477
01:05:57,153 --> 01:05:58,387
Nice. All right.

1478
01:05:58,387 --> 01:06:00,456
Anything else going on in your life?

1479
01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:00,890
I mean, time?

1480
01:06:00,890 --> 01:06:04,427
No, no, I had I had a job tomorrow
that got postponed because of the weather,

1481
01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:06,395
so I'm doing that. So that's good.

1482
01:06:06,395 --> 01:06:08,564
So I'm going to hang out
and find something to do.

1483
01:06:08,564 --> 01:06:11,567
Maybe I'll find a show or something
to go to tomorrow night and do that.

1484
01:06:12,168 --> 01:06:16,539
But yeah, I'll probably come here
and do work

1485
01:06:16,539 --> 01:06:19,542
like I always do on the weekend,
come in for a few hours and clean up

1486
01:06:19,675 --> 01:06:22,678
and get set for, some more podcast.

1487
01:06:22,678 --> 01:06:24,046
So we got going on next week.

1488
01:06:24,046 --> 01:06:25,848
Yeah, well, podcasts you have.

1489
01:06:25,848 --> 01:06:27,917
So, let's see, what do we have next week?

1490
01:06:27,917 --> 01:06:30,987
We have, well, we have,

1491
01:06:30,987 --> 01:06:34,023
Feni talks with friends,
but that's up in West Hartford.

1492
01:06:34,323 --> 01:06:36,092
So that's, Eric Feeny.

1493
01:06:36,092 --> 01:06:39,095
He does, a nonprofit where

1494
01:06:39,362 --> 01:06:42,331
families that are suffering like tragedy,
like a loss or something.

1495
01:06:42,331 --> 01:06:43,733
He just helps them financially.

1496
01:06:43,733 --> 01:06:45,634
Okay. So, you know, it's.

1497
01:06:45,634 --> 01:06:47,103
Yeah, it's a really good car to start.

1498
01:06:47,103 --> 01:06:50,906
He's a, third
grade teacher, and one of his students

1499
01:06:51,574 --> 01:06:54,343
father died years ago,
and he wanted to do something.

1500
01:06:54,343 --> 01:06:55,811
So he just did, like a GoFundMe.

1501
01:06:55,811 --> 01:06:58,080
And then, like, the next year,
another parent dies

1502
01:06:58,080 --> 01:06:59,849
who did the same thing,
and he realized, you know,

1503
01:06:59,849 --> 01:07:02,718
you raised all this money on GoFundMe,
but then when he went to cash out,

1504
01:07:02,718 --> 01:07:05,354
like they would take a piece of it,
he's like, well, that's no good.

1505
01:07:05,354 --> 01:07:07,256
So then he kind of started just doing it.

1506
01:07:07,256 --> 01:07:07,957
And people donate.

1507
01:07:07,957 --> 01:07:10,393
He does, fundraisers
and things like that.

1508
01:07:10,393 --> 01:07:13,929
And he's on episode 130.

1509
01:07:15,231 --> 01:07:16,532
I think we just recorded 133

1510
01:07:16,532 --> 01:07:20,436
or 130 hours Monday, something like that
anyway, or somewhere in there anyway.

1511
01:07:20,436 --> 01:07:21,504
So there's that one.

1512
01:07:21,504 --> 01:07:24,740
And then here we have, 
what's good with John and Joyce?

1513
01:07:25,041 --> 01:07:29,278
You can catch that show every Wednesday
morning on all your podcast channels,

1514
01:07:29,311 --> 01:07:31,080
what's goes to Johnny Joyce.

1515
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:33,049
And they talk about
just about what's good.

1516
01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:34,383
So it's a little bit spiritual.

1517
01:07:34,383 --> 01:07:35,851
It's a little it's very optimistic.

1518
01:07:35,851 --> 01:07:38,821
You know, how to sort of,

1519
01:07:38,921 --> 01:07:41,490
think about things just better.

1520
01:07:41,490 --> 01:07:44,393
So songs trouble
and you just like have good,

1521
01:07:44,393 --> 01:07:46,562
better thoughts and they have guests on
and things like that.

1522
01:07:46,562 --> 01:07:48,964
So that's a really good positive show.

1523
01:07:48,964 --> 01:07:52,068
Next week
we also have Prideful Connections,

1524
01:07:52,068 --> 01:07:56,772
which is a podcast that helps, basically
is kind of like an educational thing

1525
01:07:56,772 --> 01:08:00,709
for transgender people
who are trying to figure out, you know.

1526
01:08:00,910 --> 01:08:03,079
Navigate that navigate and world.

1527
01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:04,313
Exactly. It's exactly what it is.

1528
01:08:04,313 --> 01:08:08,784
So we did our first episode last week,
and we have our second episode,

1529
01:08:08,818 --> 01:08:12,221
this week, really good people.

1530
01:08:12,221 --> 01:08:16,325
So there's two people, there's Tony and
Sarah that they usually have a guest on

1531
01:08:16,325 --> 01:08:20,129
and they talk about, 
whatever that gets involved in.

1532
01:08:20,129 --> 01:08:22,231
And yeah, so that's a really good program.

1533
01:08:22,231 --> 01:08:24,567
That's what that sign is over
there, obviously.

1534
01:08:24,567 --> 01:08:28,137
And then we have, Touchstone Talks,
which I think she's recording.

1535
01:08:28,137 --> 01:08:30,139
Oh my God, she's recording Thursday
I think.

1536
01:08:30,139 --> 01:08:34,143
So they help people transition
out of owning a business.

1537
01:08:34,143 --> 01:08:37,580
So like there's a CEO or somebody owes
a large but usually larger businesses.

1538
01:08:37,947 --> 01:08:40,316
Where do they sell it?
Do they shut it down?

1539
01:08:40,316 --> 01:08:43,352
Do they merge so they help them
with that whole transition over the years.

1540
01:08:43,352 --> 01:08:45,888
So when they leave,
they're they're set up.

1541
01:08:45,888 --> 01:08:47,523
And then there's this one.

1542
01:08:47,523 --> 01:08:48,023
Yeah.

1543
01:08:48,023 --> 01:08:50,493
Which is 
which is kind. Of a very busy week.

1544
01:08:50,493 --> 01:08:52,595
So it's a busy week. Yeah.
I was talking to Steph.

1545
01:08:52,595 --> 01:08:54,230
I was like,
I think it's pretty chill next week.

1546
01:08:54,230 --> 01:08:55,531
She's like no.

1547
01:08:55,531 --> 01:08:58,167
Yeah. So yeah. So it's busy. Next week.

1548
01:08:58,167 --> 01:09:02,538
So so where is this going to be streaming
on where I can I see. My so this this.

1549
01:09:02,738 --> 01:09:03,105
All right.

1550
01:09:03,105 --> 01:09:07,543
So this show that we're on now is called
Dave's Open Mic.

1551
01:09:07,743 --> 01:09:10,112
I used to be called behind the brand.

1552
01:09:10,112 --> 01:09:12,982
So you're going to see this on Spotify

1553
01:09:12,982 --> 01:09:16,051
and Will and all the other podcast
channels as well as YouTube.

1554
01:09:16,085 --> 01:09:18,921
Cool. So I think you have. Sorry.

1555
01:09:18,921 --> 01:09:24,593
No, it will be posted,
for last Friday of this month.

1556
01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:26,695
I think Usman will post it.

1557
01:09:26,695 --> 01:09:28,964
Not 100% on that, but I'll send you out.

1558
01:09:28,964 --> 01:09:31,066
I'll get I'll send you out there
so you can share it out.

1559
01:09:31,066 --> 01:09:32,034
Yeah, yeah.

1560
01:09:32,034 --> 01:09:34,904
I'm still trying to figure out
a new schedule because it's my show.

1561
01:09:34,904 --> 01:09:36,672
I sort of fit it in in between
everything else.

1562
01:09:36,672 --> 01:09:38,307
So it's been a little bit sporadic.

1563
01:09:38,307 --> 01:09:39,375
So I don't really have a schedule.

1564
01:09:39,375 --> 01:09:41,043
So I'm trying to figure out a schedule.

1565
01:09:41,043 --> 01:09:42,745
How many episodes do you have so far?

1566
01:09:42,745 --> 01:09:44,680
Well, under the new name,

1567
01:09:45,648 --> 01:09:47,583
I'm going to let you in on a little secret
what I'm going to do.

1568
01:09:47,583 --> 01:09:48,017
Right.

1569
01:09:48,017 --> 01:09:53,189
So, I've done like 24 or 5 apps
somewhere in there of behind the brand.

1570
01:09:53,222 --> 01:09:53,522
Yeah.

1571
01:09:53,522 --> 01:09:54,924
So I think the last five, 4

1572
01:09:54,924 --> 01:09:58,060
or 5, I'm going to incorporate
into the new branding of Dave's Open mic.

1573
01:09:58,260 --> 01:09:58,561
Okay.

1574
01:09:58,561 --> 01:10:00,362
So this

1575
01:10:00,362 --> 01:10:03,532
technically is episode one,
but I think it's going to end up

1576
01:10:03,532 --> 01:10:05,534
being episode like five.

1577
01:10:05,534 --> 01:10:06,235
Okay.

1578
01:10:06,235 --> 01:10:07,303
So cool.

1579
01:10:07,303 --> 01:10:09,271
Yeah,
we're going to cheat a little bit. Yeah.

1580
01:10:09,271 --> 01:10:11,440
But I can get involved. Yeah, yeah.

1581
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:14,076
And that was very confusing to Corinne.
Yeah.

1582
01:10:14,076 --> 01:10:15,411
Because no, you're a great cook.

1583
01:10:15,411 --> 01:10:17,580
About like

1584
01:10:17,580 --> 01:10:20,049
things that are so visual

1585
01:10:20,049 --> 01:10:23,052
that like, it's hard to like,

1586
01:10:23,152 --> 01:10:26,422
you know, describe it in words like, well,
what I do.

1587
01:10:26,422 --> 01:10:29,325
Oh, it's hard to like.
Yeah. And also, I hope I

1588
01:10:30,693 --> 01:10:31,827
wasn't moving around too.

1589
01:10:31,827 --> 01:10:32,661
No. You're perfect.

1590
01:10:32,661 --> 01:10:33,362
No it's good.

1591
01:10:33,362 --> 01:10:35,698
So yeah. No the mics move.
So that's totally fine.

1592
01:10:35,698 --> 01:10:37,199
Yeah. No that's cool.

1593
01:10:37,199 --> 01:10:38,534
So thank you so much.

1594
01:10:38,534 --> 01:10:41,270
This was this was fun.
I was looking forward to it for a while.

1595
01:10:41,270 --> 01:10:44,073
And I hope you had a good time,
because I did. Yeah, I learned a lot.

1596
01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:47,042
I learned about raccoon poop,
and I learned about learn about.

1597
01:10:47,042 --> 01:10:49,044
You can reuse sand for.

1598
01:10:49,044 --> 01:10:51,313
Yeah, mere molds and things like that.

1599
01:10:51,313 --> 01:10:52,548
Yeah. Cool.

1600
01:10:52,548 --> 01:10:52,982
All right.

1601
01:10:52,982 --> 01:10:56,585
For anyone that's trying to be
a silversmith, it's definitely possible.

1602
01:10:56,585 --> 01:10:57,820
It's just it quite.

1603
01:10:57,820 --> 01:10:59,054
It can be pricey.

1604
01:10:59,054 --> 01:11:02,057
Yes. Yeah. Like, give them your,

1605
01:11:02,358 --> 01:11:04,994
contact info, Instagram and websites
and all that kind of stuff.

1606
01:11:04,994 --> 01:11:10,466
So my Instagram is
Leo Moon Designs underscore

1607
01:11:10,833 --> 01:11:15,404
and then my website is Leo
Moon designs.com.

1608
01:11:15,571 --> 01:11:16,705
Cool. All right.

1609
01:11:18,140 --> 01:11:18,974
Thank you very much.

1610
01:11:18,974 --> 01:11:21,677
This was fun.
Thank you so much for having me.

1611
01:11:21,677 --> 01:11:22,611
You're welcome. See everybody.