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E65 - Double rainbow bat signal
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Denis is back from the happiest place on earth. Jerid almost quits knife making.. but we both keep on keeping on! Come listen in!
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Transcript
00:00:11
echo_blades
No pressure.
Introduction and Light Banter
00:00:16
Denis Tyrell
Hello everybody, this is Dennis Terrell of Terrell Knifeworks and you are listening to the Triple T for Knife Makers podcast. I am back from the happiest place on earth to be in my shop, which is the, I guess the second happiest place on earth. so And with me as always is Jared, who is at work but all of the time, never in the happiest place on earth, but he persists.
00:00:41
Denis Tyrell
How's going?
00:00:41
echo_blades
I do. What's up, buddy? How are you?
00:00:43
Denis Tyrell
ah I'm good.
Personal Finances and Relationship Dynamics
00:00:45
echo_blades
I still would like to just ask you know you to officially answer Toby's question of why I wasn't even invited.
00:00:45
Denis Tyrell
I'm good.
00:00:54
echo_blades
Not that I could have went, but...
00:00:54
Denis Tyrell
and Because it was it was a family thing for Kim's birthday, and we just don't like you that much.
00:01:02
echo_blades
Apparently. I thought it was funny, though. He was like, that's your my second home. And I was like, that's not... ah Apparently my second home is very expensive. What
00:01:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah, that was, i could have gone to Mexico for the what we paid for that trip, for the family to go for three days. And Kim paid for most of it, so.
00:01:23
echo_blades
you mean Kim paid for most of it?
00:01:26
Denis Tyrell
we we haven't separate but We don't have joint accounts or anything.
00:01:30
echo_blades
What?
00:01:32
Denis Tyrell
No.
00:01:33
echo_blades
How does that work?
00:01:34
Denis Tyrell
She's got her money and I have my money. i pay certain bills and she pays certain bills.
00:01:38
echo_blades
Oh my God. Maybe I've just been married too long. Cause haven't had, yeah. All my money is not my money.
00:01:47
Denis Tyrell
It's actually it's easier this way because then when I spend money on tools, it's not coming out of the general fund.
00:01:47
echo_blades
That's.
00:01:55
echo_blades
You guys don't have like a general general fund. It's just two complete separate things.
00:01:58
Denis Tyrell
No.
00:01:59
echo_blades
That's weird to me. I don't know why that's weird to me, but.
00:02:01
Denis Tyrell
i when we When we first started, um you know, living together.
00:02:05
echo_blades
Cheers.
00:02:06
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Drink your tears. um I asked her if she wanted to combine, but, you know, she didn't want to. She had been a single mom for so long that she wanted control of her own money. So that was fine.
00:02:22
echo_blades
Well, to be fair, um i wasn't clean when Lynn and I got married. and And think after a few years of us being together, we probably of brought probably were married.
00:02:36
echo_blades
Anyways, I got, because, you know, we don't make good decisions. I didn't make good decisions when I was, you know, back in the day. And I decided to fight with the bank.
00:02:50
Denis Tyrell
Oh, I'm sure that went well.
00:02:52
echo_blades
Oh, it was great. So I got pissed off at him because of like overdraft charges. And, uh, so I switched banks and I left a little bit of money in this one, but for whatever reason, I had this and gym membership that I had completely forgot about and they kept digging.
00:03:00
Denis Tyrell
Mm-hmm.
00:03:10
echo_blades
It was like 16 bucks a month. It was super small. So it ding, ding, ding, ding. And then when the, finally the funds were depleted, I got, uh, a notification that was getting overdraft charges. And somehow it was like 300 to 400 bucks negative on this account.
00:03:26
echo_blades
And I just, I decided to tell the bank how to, where to go and how to get there. And then they kindly told me that, you know, if you don't pay us our money, we're going to put you into collections and put me on something called check systems.
00:03:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:03:42
echo_blades
wonder if there's any other degenerates.
00:03:44
Denis Tyrell
I don't know what that means.
00:03:46
echo_blades
It's like the nationwide blacklist for checking accounts. I could not get a checking account for like six years.
00:03:56
Denis Tyrell
Wow.
00:03:57
echo_blades
I was the fucking the bank that I switched to go to one day.
00:03:57
Denis Tyrell
I thought they give children checking accounts.
00:04:06
echo_blades
I went in to go get money and they said, oh no, your account's closed. And I go, what do you mean? They go, oh, well, you're on, you're on check systems. i go, what the fuck does that mean? They're like, well, somebody, one, one bank closed your account put you on this thing. And now you can't have, butt you can't have an account. I'm like, but I have one with you. Like, and then they were like, yeah, no, you don't anymore. And I was like, well, give me my money.
00:04:23
echo_blades
And then they were like, no, we have to make sure you don't any, like, cause you're, you're a scumbag. Like that you're just like a known repeat offender of having insufficient funds, which wasn't really the case, but.
00:04:36
echo_blades
So by default, I had to couple up with Lynn and for as long as I can remember 20 plus years now, I've just been we've been joint and it was it was pretty bad.
00:04:49
echo_blades
But yeah, so it is pretty foreign to me, but but my my own doing.
00:04:54
Denis Tyrell
Well, speaking of bank woes, I once, this is why I will never again have a Kohl's account. You know, Kohl's, the department store. went
00:05:03
echo_blades
This shit is good. Sorry to cut you off, but like,
00:05:06
Denis Tyrell
What is it? Like, I know it says Tiger Tears, but what's in it? Like, what does it taste like?
Product Reviews and Fan Interactions
00:05:10
echo_blades
it's like, and this is bad because, you know, I'm in and recovery, but it's it's ah like a hoppy sparkling water.
00:05:22
echo_blades
So it's got a, it's got, what is it saying here It's kind of dark in here.
00:05:23
Denis Tyrell
oh
00:05:27
echo_blades
Strata hops. Yeah. Strata hops. Zero alcohol, no calories, dry hops, but it's kind of like a very, very hoppy kind of taste. But the first time I was like, but now I'm starting to dig it like really really good. By the end of the first can, i was like, I like it.
00:05:45
Denis Tyrell
and Nobody understood that little pause you just did. by yeah The one where you just made a face and you know this is radio and nobody understood that.
00:05:49
echo_blades
Which one?
00:05:54
Denis Tyrell
Jared's
00:05:55
echo_blades
I think that went completely, completely everyone. yeah We have to use the theater of the mind here, Dennis. So all they do is imagine.
00:06:04
Denis Tyrell
jared's making faces at me like and instead of saying things like people are understand that.
00:06:09
echo_blades
I didn't even realize I did that. And then I have this note here that said, where is it? It's kind of down here a little bit, but it was like, I kind of miss Dennis.
00:06:20
echo_blades
Kind of.
00:06:21
Denis Tyrell
And you just scratched it out?
00:06:21
echo_blades
And I'm erasing it right now.
00:06:26
Denis Tyrell
Oh, man.
00:06:27
echo_blades
But anyways, back to what you're...
00:06:29
Denis Tyrell
It was not important. it was
00:06:31
echo_blades
Anyways, yeah. So you guys got good joint checking accounts. That's great.
00:06:36
Denis Tyrell
Yes, we do.
00:06:36
echo_blades
And she paid for the trip, which is weird.
00:06:38
Denis Tyrell
yeah yeah yeah most Most of the tickets.
00:06:38
echo_blades
Oh,
00:06:40
Denis Tyrell
but we got Because cam Cameron is active military, so we got the tickets... at like, I think they were almost 50% off.
00:06:51
echo_blades
oh wow. Well, that's good for Disney.
00:06:52
Denis Tyrell
Um, but he can only get six tickets and there was nine of us. So I had to buy like three extra, like my boys and you know, it was like 1200 bucks for those two tickets just for the boys.
00:07:05
echo_blades
Yeah, no, it's not it's not cheap.
00:07:06
Denis Tyrell
It's crazy, but okay.
00:07:08
echo_blades
Well, it's good. How was the trip? it Was it good? Was it fun?
00:07:11
Denis Tyrell
So I got a whole bunch to tell you about this trip. First of all, Okay, on the way, you're not gonna believe this, on the way down, so we're driving down, it's like, telling for everybody else, it's like a five hour, or five and a half hour drive.
00:07:25
Denis Tyrell
And if you hit traffic, it's like, yeah, it was like just over six hours, was a bunch bullshit traffic.
00:07:25
echo_blades
With no traffic. Yeah, no traffic. Yeah.
00:07:32
Denis Tyrell
Anyway, we're in this bullshit traffic, and this white Honda, and dont I don't know. I just remember it was a Honda because I remember I was trying to catch up to the guy after. I mean, you'll understand why.
00:07:44
Denis Tyrell
So someone one comes up beside me and I see this girl in the passenger side. So they come up on my left and she's in the passenger side and she's holding her phone up and she's waving her phone and she's kind of showing me her phone. And I'm like, what the?
00:07:59
Denis Tyrell
And then she kind of moves off and then it added just as she's almost out of my, um, you know, past me, I realized she's showing me one that there, she's watching one of my Instagrams because I'm driving the Jeep and it says Tyrell Knifeworks on the side.
00:08:18
echo_blades
Oh, wow.
00:08:20
Denis Tyrell
And I just had this confused look on my face, but as soon as she got past me, I figured it out. And then I felt bad and I tried to catch up to them so I could at least wave at them. So, If you're listening and you saw me on Highway 5 on the way to Disney, ah send me a message. Maybe I'll send you something.
00:08:37
echo_blades
That's great.
00:08:37
Denis Tyrell
Because I felt bad for not waving and saying hi, but I thought that was really cool.
00:08:42
echo_blades
That is pretty cool, actually.
00:08:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Some waving me down on the highways now.
00:08:48
echo_blades
Must be tough, buddy.
00:08:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. But so we got to Disney
00:08:50
echo_blades
That is pretty
00:08:54
Denis Tyrell
like so we drove down saturday we went to disney on sunday so may the 4th we're at disney and okay i know there's some star wars fans out there i get it i like star wars too but there's some really weird people at disney on may the 4th like really fucking weird uh and apparently
00:09:01
echo_blades
cool. Be with you.
00:09:21
Denis Tyrell
All of the Jedis are now 300 pounds because, and they all carry plastic swords around the park the entire day.
00:09:24
echo_blades
Yes.
00:09:30
Denis Tyrell
and don't get it. But yeah, weird people.
00:09:32
echo_blades
Sabres or swords?
00:09:33
Denis Tyrell
to What's that?
00:09:35
echo_blades
Lightsabers or swords?
00:09:37
Denis Tyrell
Lightsabers.
00:09:38
echo_blades
Okay.
00:09:39
Denis Tyrell
um But we had a good time. We, we as soon as we got in the park, we raced to literally ran from, we were there at open and we ran to rise of the resistance because we knew we weren't going to get on any other time. And we got on it. Like it was like a half hour wait as soon as we got the park, which was pretty good.
00:09:59
Denis Tyrell
But, um, yeah, we had a great time. Spent three days at Disney, which is three days is too much. Two days is good because the first day and we had park hoppers. So we were hopping between the two parks and,
00:10:16
Denis Tyrell
I felt like we almost did every ride the first day because we were just like heads on fire, especially my boys.
00:10:22
echo_blades
Yeah, but it is but it is like heads on fire, right?
00:10:23
Denis Tyrell
Yeah,
00:10:25
echo_blades
Because you have one one nerdy person in your crew that knows the app and can figure it out. We got to do this. And then become hella pushy and annoying. and
00:10:33
Denis Tyrell
yeah yeah, that that was...
00:10:33
echo_blades
Or they really they really lead the way and it works out great, but that hardly ever happens.
00:10:39
Denis Tyrell
Well, my son, Logan was like on a mission. Like he didn't want to waste one minute there and he's on the app glued to the app.
00:10:43
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:46
Denis Tyrell
He's like, Hey, in, in eight and a half minutes, we can get another lightning pass. And not I'm like, and he's booking lightning passes for like the other end of the park with no regard to like, Hey, it's, you know, we're going to be ended walking 50,000 steps today.
00:10:50
echo_blades
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:57
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:11:03
Denis Tyrell
If we do what you want to do.
00:11:04
echo_blades
Right.
00:11:05
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, I felt I was tired after that first day. So we are three days is a long time at Disney by we were really dragging ass like the end of the second day and like day three, we really slowed down quite a bit.
00:11:22
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, it was a good trip.
00:11:24
echo_blades
That's cool.
00:11:25
Denis Tyrell
It was great.
00:11:25
echo_blades
Yeah.
Golfing Mishaps and Reflections
00:11:26
Denis Tyrell
It was first time in a while we had all of the kids together. We had a couple of great pictures. In fact, most of the time, You know, you're standing in line and they're like, oh, how many? Oh, two, four. And we're like nine um for the different rides. So, yeah.
00:11:43
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it was good.
00:11:44
echo_blades
It is cool. One time we went with, I have a pretty good big crew that we go there with back in the day when the kids were younger.
00:11:46
Denis Tyrell
But.
00:11:52
echo_blades
And one day we all wore our A's jerseys, the whole crew. And it was like during playoff time. And it was pretty cool. It was a good time because it's angels territory, you know?
00:12:03
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:12:04
Denis Tyrell
No, Kim made us wear, we had to wear Star Wars t-shirts on May the 4th, any kind of Star Wars. And then um on her birthday, everyone wore Disney shirts, like whatever, Mickey, whatever.
00:12:18
echo_blades
Right, right.
00:12:20
Denis Tyrell
So, yeah, we didn't have like the whole matching family shirt.
00:12:21
echo_blades
Nice.
00:12:25
Denis Tyrell
you We weren't geeking out quite that much, but.
00:12:28
echo_blades
That's lame. This is my 50th Disney trip family. Yeah.
00:12:35
Denis Tyrell
I am the one that was lead. I, I am for some reason know exactly where everything is in Disney. Um, and we went like last year, but I don't know, I can find anything and, you know, I always know which direction to go in Disney. So I was the one that was always leading everybody.
00:12:53
Denis Tyrell
But, um, yeah, yeah, it was good.
00:12:54
echo_blades
Nice. Well, that's cool.
00:12:58
echo_blades
No, we lost half of our four listeners. That's cool. Thank you.
00:13:03
Denis Tyrell
But it was really fun the week before. So we left the what the Saturday. that The Sunday before ah when Cameron actually arrived at our house because we all drove down. and he um He's in the military. He's in the Navy.
00:13:19
Denis Tyrell
And um so he joined us for a week and had him in the shop. um He wanted to make, he had all these grandiose plans. I made him pick one.
00:13:32
Denis Tyrell
ah So he wanted to make a U.S. Navy boarding axe or a Navy boarding axe. I didn't even know what that was. He had to show me a picture.
00:13:43
Denis Tyrell
um But that was fun. We spent two days making that.
00:13:48
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:13:49
Denis Tyrell
And he burned the fuck out of his hand. Yeah.
00:13:52
echo_blades
I thought that was, that was funny. Cause I didn't think it was funny, but like I had just got there right after he'd, he'd done it. I meant to tell you too, like, I don't know why Navy people are generally small.
00:14:06
echo_blades
They live in small quarters. and like but and And then i just pictured picture the guy was bigger. And hes he's he's Kim.
00:14:13
Denis Tyrell
No, Cam's, Cam's, he's a small guy.
00:14:14
echo_blades
He's like, yeah. And it all made sense. I was driving home. I was like, hmm. But yeah, the old grab the but hot thing on the anvil on.
00:14:24
Denis Tyrell
He, he, he didn't even grab it He was, he I had, i had just taken something out of that. I was holding something in tongs. Uh, I don't know what the hell I was doing, doing whatever. It's what we were forging. I was holding it in the tongs and then I put the tongs on top of the anvil.
00:14:40
Denis Tyrell
Well, he didn't just go and grab the tongs. He went and like leaned up on the anvil, ah get like against the anvil with his hand.
00:14:48
echo_blades
Oh, yeah.
00:14:50
Denis Tyrell
So he put all his weight down on the hot end of those tongs.
00:14:55
echo_blades
Oh, geez.
00:14:56
Denis Tyrell
um And I was like, well what were you doing? He's like, I don't know. i um So yeah he yeah, he burnt himself. And and then...
00:15:08
Denis Tyrell
The, yeah, the next morning i was kind of, you know, I was giving him tasks to do on the axe and I was working on the, the, um, the dagger. I was doing the keyhole.
00:15:20
Denis Tyrell
I was trying to press in the wood while he was working on. So I'm already stressed. And, uh, then he dumps. The, you know, the bucket that I have under the grinder, well, I guess he didn't, and whether he hooked, he didn't hook it on right or something like that, dumped pretty much the entire bucket on the floor of the shop while I'm trying.
00:15:32
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:15:40
echo_blades
Oh, fuck.
00:15:42
Denis Tyrell
And I'm already like in a bad mood because I'm on like attempt number three, trying to get the keyhole to work.
00:15:46
echo_blades
Right.
00:15:48
Denis Tyrell
So I'm a little snappy at this point. And then he dumps the entire bucket of water.
00:15:52
echo_blades
Right.
00:15:52
Denis Tyrell
And I felt bad. I was like, I had to like apologize after and say, you know, I was a little, you know snippy, but. I was under some stress. But um yeah, we did we did manage to finish his axe, and that was really cool.
00:16:09
echo_blades
It came out cool.
00:16:10
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it was.
00:16:11
echo_blades
I think I never saw it actually put together, but I did see the head pretty much done.
00:16:19
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it it looks, for those who don't understand what I'm talking about, a boarding axe looks almost um much more like a tomahawk than an axe.
00:16:26
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:16:28
Denis Tyrell
um And it's got these special little I don't know, teeth facing backwards at the back half of the blade ah to i don't ah to like pry things or something. mentioned, and it's got a spike at the other end.
00:16:43
Denis Tyrell
don't know. But it was fun. It was fun to build.
00:16:48
echo_blades
Nice.
00:16:49
Denis Tyrell
He liked it. So how are you?
00:16:51
echo_blades
Cool.
00:16:52
Denis Tyrell
and I listened to the show last week. Good job.
00:16:55
echo_blades
Oh, thank you. Thank you. i was we got We got some pretty good good feedback from it all. um
00:17:01
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:17:02
echo_blades
I really enjoyed, you know, the obvious joke is it not having you there, but um the being with, ah I wanted to like get Ryan to talk about him.
00:17:15
echo_blades
Cause of, you you know, you think, you know, somebody and you, you know, you interact with them over the years and then, you know, somebody that has a podcast, I was thinking like how much actually didn't know about like, you know, specific him and which is great because he's genuinely a dude that does not want to talk about him.
00:17:15
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:17:35
echo_blades
And, uh, so I got, I got to put the screws to him a little bit and like that, but it was interesting and i enjoyed We had a great conversation and, um
00:17:45
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you don't hear Ryan talk a lot about his life, about his wife and his kids and his home life very much.
00:17:45
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:17:51
Denis Tyrell
And, uh, right.
00:17:51
echo_blades
Yeah. The fucker has a moat. I mean, is that not the coolest thing in the world? I almost like was kicking myself for not like going more moaty on him, but yeah, he's an emote.
00:18:03
Denis Tyrell
Ryan, the king behind in his castle behind his moat.
00:18:05
echo_blades
Yeah. King in the castle, king in the castle.
00:18:09
Denis Tyrell
But all I was thinking through like most of that at that episode is that no one needs to let him off the leash a little more often.
00:18:10
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:18:18
echo_blades
Yeah, that was the the whole thing. I was like, yeah, I'm just going to try to get him to go. so And I'm not going to cut him off because we only have like four four listeners after this show. So, you know, it was good.
00:18:31
echo_blades
No, it was a good time, though. I'm glad we finally got to to finish up that crossover. and I hadn't realized it had been so long since we'd intended get that done.
00:18:39
Denis Tyrell
Right, yeah, because we did we did two weeks of crossovers, but with four people, we can't all, the math doesn't totally math, getting that to work.
00:18:46
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't. I thought it was hilarious that he was, he said he was boycotting the show, but he said it on an episode of Hustle and Grind that I haven't heard.
00:19:01
echo_blades
So I was like, that's, I didn't though.
00:19:02
Denis Tyrell
No, I heard it. I remember when you said it.
00:19:04
echo_blades
So I thought it was great that, you know, he's boycotting the show, but I didn't know. So
00:19:10
Denis Tyrell
It's like a tree falls in the forest, we didn't hear it.
00:19:12
echo_blades
yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:19:15
echo_blades
But yeah, that was cool. So, uh, yeah, that was cool. Um, I feel like I'm a Zen caster master now.
00:19:22
Denis Tyrell
Good.
00:19:23
echo_blades
Um, I did have to reference the, the instructions one time though, but, uh,
00:19:28
Denis Tyrell
I forgot I sent you instructions.
00:19:28
echo_blades
Thankfully i don't, yeah, I don't, I don't delete email, so I have it forever. Kind of like the maker's mark, but yeah. What did I do this week? Oh, I golfed this week.
00:19:39
echo_blades
I did, I had a tournament on Saturday and man, there's only one thing worse golfing bad. It's having an extremely long day out there. So when you, when I go with this group, this league, um so I'm, I like to go out as early as possible.
00:19:57
echo_blades
So, sun's barely coming up. I want to be teeing off and I want to be done by 11. eleven um if I can, and then be on my way home too. So I can still have, you know, an afternoon here at the house to do whatever lately. Cause I'm old as fuck now.
00:20:12
echo_blades
Uh, it's like take a nap and try to recoup from rigorous golf. But, um, we teed off at like 10 40 at 12 40.
00:20:24
echo_blades
at twelve I was on hole number seven. That's two hours, two hours for seven holes.
00:20:30
Denis Tyrell
Two hours?
00:20:33
Denis Tyrell
Wow.
00:20:33
echo_blades
It was just like, go hit.
00:20:36
Denis Tyrell
Was there people in front of you? Is that why?
00:20:37
echo_blades
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was like backed up like three groups.
00:20:40
Denis Tyrell
Well, I thought you were just hitting a 12 on every...
00:20:40
echo_blades
It was no, no, I wish. Um, but I like to golf, you know, pretty fast so I can get, you know, things aren't going right, you can work things out by, you know, doing it.
00:20:54
echo_blades
But when you start and stop, start and stop, then you start and think about it. But as shitty as I golf, um, we got up to 18. and think we finished at four 30. It was a long fuck. it was like so every bit of six hours to get this around in.
00:21:07
echo_blades
Um, but we cruise up to 18 and I look at my score and I'm, I'm sitting at 94 and I'm like, Holy shit. Like, I just don't, if I just don't double this hole, I'm going to.
00:21:21
Denis Tyrell
Oh, you're cruising up to 18. I see what you mean.
00:21:23
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:21:24
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, okay.
00:21:24
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. So I had 94 and I was like, no, that there's, this is bad. I've been, this has not been good. um And then I was like, oh shit, all I got to do is, you know, not, not double this thing and I'll, and I'll break a hundred. It was a good surprise. And I doubled it.
00:21:39
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:21:42
echo_blades
But in like good fashion, though, too, I ended up like just missing the putt for 99. But it was a trip. It was a good day. um It wasn't this week, but the the week before...
00:21:57
echo_blades
or I don't know, a couple of weeks ago I was golfing and I get a text from my son and our family, we share our locations with GPS with each other.
00:22:07
echo_blades
So we know where everybody's at. This little fucker text me. Why are you in the bunker? In the middle of my round. like
00:22:17
Denis Tyrell
Dick.
00:22:18
echo_blades
I was fucking dying. I couldn't believe he did that. Like it was pretty dim. That a pretty good one. I wasn't in the bunker by the way, but. i thought that was funny. and I forgot to to talk about it, but yeah.
00:22:31
echo_blades
So that was cool. That was Saturday. Took up my whole day. And then Sunday was Mother's Day, and Lynn just wanted to to chill, kind of
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00:22:44
echo_blades
have an easy day. So I got in the shop a little bit, but I almost quit and knife making this week.
00:22:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:22:50
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:22:50
Denis Tyrell
do Do tell.
00:22:51
echo_blades
I was working. I've been Again, I have a lot of things going on, right? a lot of things in different stages. And I keep trying to prioritize. Maybe I'm trying to finish stuff, finish stuff, finish stuff, and stuff. And it's just – apparently it's just not in my nature, right? So I do as much as I can on one thing until I'm like I want to go back inside.
00:23:11
echo_blades
So then I'll switch to something else. um But there was somebody – I can't remember why, but – oh, I started – I randomly came across this podcast, um our our YouTube thing about um this retired Navy SEAL, ah Jocko. Have you ever heard of him? Jocker wil will it Wilkins, Willits or something like that.
00:23:33
echo_blades
Anyways, big ass dude, retired Navy SEAL, kind of like Joe Rogan-ish type thing.
00:23:35
Denis Tyrell
know
00:23:40
echo_blades
But I watched this documentary on him. And this dude, every morning... on social media, he'll, he'll, uh, on Instagram, he takes a picture of his watch at like 4 30 AM. He gets up every day at 4 30, which I get up at, you know, between four and 4 32, but he's like getting up to go work out and do all this stuff.
00:23:59
echo_blades
And his whole thing was just about like motivation and, um, but more importantly, discipline, like he says, you know, you do motivation won't get you to do things that you don't want to do.
00:24:10
echo_blades
Discipline will. And for whatever reason that just, that, that mantra, that, that,
00:24:17
echo_blades
whatever that shit's called, um, was kind of sticking with me. So every time I was like trying to bitch out, um, I started thinking about that. So I moved on to something else. So we, we had that handle for the hidden tang that I was working on.
00:24:30
echo_blades
It was still a block. And I was like, I'm just going to go, you know, work on that. So I shaped that. Um, and to be honest with you, I was having, it was really enjoyable. I was like, for the first time during this build,
00:24:46
echo_blades
Um, after I had kind of roughed it out and shaped it, um, I started to see like what I wanted to see versus what made.
00:24:55
Denis Tyrell
Mm-hmm.
00:24:56
echo_blades
Right. I'm kind of I'm happy with how how it it came out, but I never really had a vision of what I wanted it to be. Like as much as i how many handles you've seen. um i think one of the, my, the most feared question that anybody can ask me is like, well, what do you want to do?
00:25:12
echo_blades
on a bill. Like, I can't tell me how many times that you and I have had that, that same thing. You're like, okay, well, what do you want to do? I'm like, I don't fucking know. Like, i just, I don't know. i just don't like a lot of times I'm just kind of winging it and I don't really have that, that creative direction. that's, that's an admirable trait of yours is like you have,
00:25:30
echo_blades
direction and you see things and you're like striving to go. It's you have a picture of it in your mind. um And a lot of times I don't. So I end up with, you know, like a free flow form kind of making approach to things.
00:25:43
echo_blades
But when i so when I got the knife shaped and I was starting to feel it in in and handle it and stuff, I was like, oh, okay. So now I actually know the next time what I want to do, like how I wanted to see, how I wanted to you know feel.
00:25:56
echo_blades
um And that was really cool. So it was ah one of those cool moments of of making for me where you're doing something kind of just by blind faith almost, and then you see it like,
00:26:09
echo_blades
Ah, and so I was sanding it and I did kind of square that, the block up a lot better than that was a couple of jokes we were having a couple of weeks back about me not being able to square anything up, but I was seeing that. And um so I ground in the, ah chamfers and,
00:26:28
echo_blades
And I started sanding it and it wasn't quite right. Like things were kind of off and then I was making it worse as I was sanding it. Cause I'd seen some people will, you know, put it in a vice and sand it with a stick.
00:26:40
echo_blades
Other people put it on a stone and just kind of, you know, run the handle against on a, on a surface.
00:26:45
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:26:47
echo_blades
And somewhere in between one of those two methods, I, got cattywapus on some things and the symmetry kind of came out. um But as I was trying to you know fix that up, I tried to take it out of the fucking vice and bloop, it pops out of my hand, falls onto my shop floor and the bolster pops right off.
00:27:09
echo_blades
And I just lost it. Like you want to talk about like, ah it might as well been like a bucket of ferric acid or something on my concrete. Like I fucking lost it.
00:27:20
echo_blades
I was so pissed. And for whatever reason, I was like, it was like doom and gloom.
00:27:22
Denis Tyrell
okay
00:27:25
echo_blades
Like I just, the whole, like I put all this work into this thing and I got to start over now and I'm going to have the guard. You're like, didn't, it just like, it just trained and negativity just like came on and,
00:27:36
echo_blades
So I did end up just getting pissed off and going inside and eating something or something. And then I went back out and I tried to grind some bevels on another knife.
00:27:47
Denis Tyrell
Hmm, probably a bad idea.
00:27:47
echo_blades
And it was bad. Yeah, it was not good. And I... I was like just really, yeah i wasn't patient. I kept bumping into the platen.
00:27:58
echo_blades
um I was doing, I got to fix my, I got, I think I got to take, for whatever reason, my Tobin jig is not platen. And then the jig is kind of, it's getting on an angle.
00:28:09
Denis Tyrell
It's awful, but yeah, that'll mess you up.
00:28:10
echo_blades
Yeah. So,
00:28:11
Denis Tyrell
You've got to fix that.
00:28:13
echo_blades
Yeah. So, um, and I was kind of trying to like free ball and work that. And then I nicked the middle of the blade and then I was like, fuck it. So I went back to the rest and, uh, while I was on the rest, I just, I don't It just, didn't, it wasn't taking my time.
00:28:30
echo_blades
And I had too big of a gap between the rest and the platen. And I dumped the edge down and it got the fuss, scared the shit out of me, dinged my knife up.
00:28:33
Denis Tyrell
oh you got the wedge
00:28:39
echo_blades
And yeah, I'm surprised that thing didn't get torture tested. I was, I was angry. And then I was just like, that's it. I'm done. I'm never going to do this again. And, uh,
00:28:48
Denis Tyrell
and it started with the bolster thing which wasn't even that bad of an issue
00:28:52
echo_blades
Yeah. And then when I was inside, though, like while I was eating, I was like, well, I mean, I know I could fix it I can glue it. And then I'm like, but I'm no like I'm always like sometimes i have this like paralyzing fear of ah
00:29:07
echo_blades
I believe I know the answer. Like I'm like 99%. Like we didn't do anything today that I hadn't thought of. It's just, I was afraid that maybe I was like going to miss a step or do something and it was going to be like, you know, unfixable or something like that.
00:29:22
echo_blades
So I made it 10 times worse in my head than it actually was. Right. And then plus the the bevels and everything else, like the grinding.
00:29:27
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:29:29
echo_blades
So it was a bit, it started off really well, like one of like a really good afternoon. and then it ended up with me like, that's it. I'm done. i'm going to sell everything I have. And I'm going to like I was, it was, it was bad.
00:29:43
echo_blades
it it It went from like super, you know, on, on a cloud and down to like, I'm done.
00:29:51
Denis Tyrell
It gets back to that, you know, For me, and you say about how a yeah I pre-think about, um well, this dagger is the first one I've done in a while where I did not have a plan.
00:30:04
Denis Tyrell
Beyond it was going to be ah keyhole. Beyond that, i I do not have a plan. Like for almost every one of my knives, I have a design and knife print. This one, I did not have a design.
00:30:15
Denis Tyrell
i was winging it for pretty much everything. I didn't know what the quillians were going to look like. I didn't know what the pommel was going to look like until... This morning where I finalized what the Quillians and the pommel and all that stuff was going to look like, but I'm lying in bed last night knowing that I was going to make the Quillians today.
00:30:26
echo_blades
Right. Right.
00:30:35
Denis Tyrell
So the Quillians tap into the, so this is like where my mind goes.
00:30:35
echo_blades
right
00:30:42
Denis Tyrell
Cause I have to figure out how, what is going to be the order of operation?
00:30:46
echo_blades
right
00:30:46
Denis Tyrell
Cause this is, I spent six hours on the lathe today. That was my day pretty much on the lathe, turning those quillians and that thing, trying to figure out how was going to do this. What is the order of operation? It's got a ball at one end. It's got threading at the other. How do I do this without taking that out of the, uh, the lathe?
00:31:06
Denis Tyrell
Um, anyway, so the little, uh, everything going around in my head. So I get it. I know exactly what you mean about things getting frustrating.
00:31:18
Denis Tyrell
Everything went well today, actually, but. I know what what it's like when things don't.
00:31:20
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:31:23
echo_blades
Yeah. And it's been a while. Cause I mean, and I have to remind myself too, is that, you know, I haven't, I haven't been in the shop much. So like the, the reps aren't there. Like, you know, it's just, it's just part of the process, whatever process I'm in, that's what I'm in.
00:31:38
echo_blades
um and i don't, I don't have a lot of patience, especially for the stage of where everything is at. It's all, it's really at the lame parts of hand sanding and, you know, finishing trying.
00:31:47
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:31:48
echo_blades
So I'm trying to like get over that hump to where I can get, motivated. So I thought, you know, grinding the bevels would be something good to just mindlessly go after it. But that was not, I was not in the good, in the right headspace for that.
00:32:01
echo_blades
But yeah.
00:32:02
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I got to be in a really like positive mental space to do bevels.
00:32:06
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:09
Denis Tyrell
Like after you let ah after you left, um you know, we had dinner and then I was like, oh, I went out there or before dinner.
00:32:09
echo_blades
I mean, time and time.
00:32:16
Denis Tyrell
Sorry, went out in the shop. I and had an hour and I wanted to do the final bevels on that dagger. And I was in a good spot, you know, took my time and I knew I could get it done. And I was like on the like the.
00:32:28
Denis Tyrell
the final grit, right? I'm, you know, getting everything.
00:32:29
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:32:32
Denis Tyrell
But if I'm not in a good headspace, I don't like to do grinding.
00:32:35
echo_blades
No, I shouldn't have done it. But again, and then earlier in the week, I had to have ah handful of knives that I just needed to sharpen. so um I did that.
00:32:46
echo_blades
I sharpened up the, the maker's camp slicer thing.
00:32:50
Denis Tyrell
Mm-hmm.
00:32:51
echo_blades
That's just been sitting in my shop dull. So I sharpened that up the other day. That's a funny story is that for whatever reason, um like I love the sharpening attachment and going on the grinder, but I got the the wicked edge.
00:33:06
echo_blades
And right now anyways, it's like, I'm finding this little peaceful zone of using that.
00:33:15
echo_blades
get slicer, which is pretty long, right? So I got to kind of go in stages on it. And, and, and
00:33:22
Denis Tyrell
That's when the wicked edge is not fun.
00:33:24
echo_blades
it's not yeah it was But again, like I'm choosing to do this, and i and i and I was aware of everything that I was doing, except that everything that I've been sharpening has been ground really thin.
00:33:36
echo_blades
And this is not really an exception, but so I've always used the 200 stone to start. I didn't even fucking realize, Dennis, that inside the base, there's two fucking stones.
00:33:49
Denis Tyrell
There's an 80.
00:33:53
Denis Tyrell
ah ah
00:33:55
echo_blades
Of like 40 and 80 or some ridiculously low.
00:33:58
Denis Tyrell
50 and 80.
00:33:59
echo_blades
but Yeah. it And I looked in there and I was like, you motherfucker.
00:34:04
Denis Tyrell
no
00:34:04
echo_blades
I've sharpened like fucking eight knives on that thing without ever even knowing that. I'm like, oh my God, what a dumbass I am. I probably ruined the 200 stone just going over and getting after it for all along.
00:34:16
echo_blades
But yeah.
00:34:17
Denis Tyrell
That's why I bought those, those 50, 80 stones because, um, it was taking forever to, uh, to sharpen, like, set the Apex with the 200.
00:34:26
echo_blades
Set that. Yeah. Set that initial vote. Yeah.
00:34:29
Denis Tyrell
But that those the 200 the ones that it comes with.
00:34:29
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:34:32
echo_blades
Yeah. Cause yeah. Then I just never looked in there. I don't even know why i even noticed them this time, but it was, it was funny. um So i sharpened that. I finished up your, your guys's knife.
00:34:45
echo_blades
um And
00:34:48
Denis Tyrell
which Which I used today to cut up some tomatoes at dinner.
00:34:52
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:34:52
Denis Tyrell
ah That thing's sharp as fuck.
00:34:55
echo_blades
Yeah, it is sharp.
00:34:56
Denis Tyrell
Super thin. I love it.
00:34:57
echo_blades
Nice. Good.
00:34:58
Denis Tyrell
Yes, very nice.
00:34:59
echo_blades
I'm glad it got used. How did, how did you like the, the, ah the grip tech?
00:35:03
Denis Tyrell
It was very, very good. It did not slide out of my hand once. it's really It feels really nice. and And that's a pretty small knife to begin with, so you do need something kind of grippy on it.
00:35:12
echo_blades
Yep. Yep.
00:35:15
Denis Tyrell
So, yeah, that's it is my first time. I mean, I've held blocks, but it's the first time I've really held and used a knife with Griptek on it.
00:35:24
echo_blades
Nice.
00:35:24
Denis Tyrell
um And I love it. it's ah It's cool stuff. So if you guys want to check out some really cool handle material, go check out um Grip Tech and get yourself some of that. I'm looking for the ad that I'm doing a terrible... So go go to Rock Solid Scales, ah get yourself some Grip Tech and use the discount code triple t ten um TTT10.
00:35:51
Denis Tyrell
It's good stuff. I love it.
00:35:53
echo_blades
Yeah. And, uh, yeah, not only do they have grip tech, but they got, you know, regular stabilized wood epoxy, they got all kinds of stuff. So, uh, make sure you go check out that website and, um, show them some love. And like Dennis said, use the triple T 10, uh, discount code, um, for 10% off. Uh, I enjoyed it. I, I was showing the knife to,
00:36:15
echo_blades
a coworker today and he wouldn't let it go. just like, and I was actually getting irritated because like, I'm happy to show people the things I'm working on, but when they're done, like I get really apprehensive about, cause like you give it to regular people.
00:36:32
echo_blades
They're going to start touching the blade and put their fingerprints.
00:36:35
Denis Tyrell
They start shaving hair off their arms.
00:36:36
echo_blades
Yeah. They start doing like, Oh, you know, you know, and he I'm like, it's sharp dude. and And he like starts flicking the edge with his finger. I'm like, Oh God, you're going to fuck. Like pull a Rick moment on me.
00:36:48
echo_blades
But um yeah, he he would not stop like... rubbing the handle and like you know it was just like really intrigued with the with the grippiness of the of the grip tech and then i was like bro i'm like you're gonna smudge and dirty this fucking thing up and i gotta to give it to to the owners tonight like let it go you weirdo but uh no it was good and then you know uh so yeah grip tech for the win for sure um i'm looking forward to the to the next build that i'm gonna do with that And then ah to get that nice, to bring out the the luster on it, I used the Pelican oil, which worked a lot better on that.
00:37:26
Denis Tyrell
Nice.
00:37:28
echo_blades
For me, anyways, to my preference was the Pelican oil really, really brought out the colors on that as opposed to the wax. um So if you're in the market for some premium wax for all kinds of your waxy needs, go check out Travis Haynes at Pelican Paste.
00:37:47
echo_blades
ah He's got hard wax, soft wax, the Pelican oil that I'm talking about, hand solve, hand soap, and a bunch of other stuff coming. I think he's debuting some...
00:37:59
echo_blades
new things at Bladeshow, too.
00:38:03
Denis Tyrell
Very cool.
00:38:03
echo_blades
He's got got some like a challenge coin deal that he's put up on his website. You can purchase a challenge coin, get some discounts, get access to some stuff there at Bladeshow.
00:38:16
echo_blades
He's trying to raise some money to fund the trip ahead of time for, for Atlanta. um But yeah, Pelican paste, you can use the discount code triple T 10 for 10% off ah your purchase there.
00:38:30
echo_blades
um And yeah, go show Travis some love. i'm looking forward to, to seeing him and all the ah cool stuff he's bringing in Atlanta along with everybody else. But yeah, it's Travis's moment right now. So back off.
00:38:45
echo_blades
Yeah. And then ah the I don't know why. So last week's episode, Ryan was telling me that he used the Pelican paste to bed a tang. And for whatever reason, I, I, yeah, I, I was just like, Oh my God, that's, that's so genius.
00:38:56
Denis Tyrell
I've done that. i' done that
00:39:04
echo_blades
And like, like, and he was looking at me like, bro, this isn't like anything new. He said it like three times. And I was like, no, no, no, yeah like that's that's great. Let's talk about it. Because I'm trying to, you know, all the different uses you can do, you know, the for the wood handles, for hammers, for, you know, your rest, like all the stuff that Pelican Pace is good for. it um And you can also use it for bedding tangs. And then, anyways, I was reading the notes today and and I see it in here and I'm like,
00:39:34
echo_blades
wait minute that's yeah like you're supposed to use wax to and i'm like motherfucker like i don't know it was like it was like the most amazing genius thing to me last week or whatever it was and i'm like oh i feel kind of stupid here so my bad ryan even though you're not listening
00:39:39
Denis Tyrell
Well, you...
00:39:54
Denis Tyrell
I have used wax in the past. i've I find you have to definitely use a soft wax like Pelican Paste. Like if you use some of like the carnauba wax or something like like the harder waxes,
00:40:06
echo_blades
Right. Right. Right.
00:40:07
Denis Tyrell
it doesn't spread as evenly and you'll miss a spot. And then that spot will stick like fuck. And it can, I personally use Vaseline, um, just cause I find it releases a little easy and yes, you got to clean it out and you know, you just dump a little acetone in there and it comes out.
00:40:25
Denis Tyrell
Um, but the, I have used, um, wax, but, uh, I'm running low on, uh, on the Pelican paste soft wax.
00:40:25
echo_blades
right
00:40:33
Denis Tyrell
So I don't use it for that, but, uh, um Yeah, of course, you can definitely use it for that.
00:40:39
echo_blades
You can, but it's unfortunately Ryan was not the first person to think of that.
00:40:40
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:40:44
echo_blades
So my bad.
00:40:46
Denis Tyrell
no
00:40:48
echo_blades
um Yeah. So finished all that stuff up and, you know, so again, had had and fairly productive week ah past couple of weeks anyways, in the shop.
00:40:59
echo_blades
It's been good to actually have some time and making some time to, to get in there. And so, and I was happy to get that, get a knife done and now at the door. so Yeah, it was pretty good.
00:41:13
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. I, when, when I was working on that, um, uh, keyhole, I definitely had some trials and tribulations.
00:41:23
Denis Tyrell
I wasn't ready to quit knife making, but I was, I was definitely pissed off.
00:41:26
echo_blades
Mm-hmm.
00:41:29
Denis Tyrell
And, um, one of the, like, I thought I went through a good 15 minutes of, oh my God, I'm going have to scrap this build. And I've been working on that build for like over a month.
00:41:41
Denis Tyrell
Um, And this is of course the part that I was dreading, but I was following, um, I forget who I forget who's credited for this method, but the method of you do your keyhole and then you grind the inside of the keyhole at a one degree angle.
00:42:02
echo_blades
Is it the Chaco dude?
00:42:04
Denis Tyrell
No, he credited somebody else. And if it's one of the Brazilian guys, I think, um, for coming up with this method.
00:42:06
echo_blades
Gotcha.
00:42:08
echo_blades
OK. OK.
00:42:11
Denis Tyrell
but they grind a one degree angle and then you press the wood from, which is odd. i You press the wood from the one from the wide side towards the narrow side.
00:42:24
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
00:42:25
echo_blades
okay
00:42:26
Denis Tyrell
Well, I didn't start with like a big block. Like it was relatively narrow around like the outside of the keyhole kind of thing. Like the thickness was like probably ah less than a quarter and a quarter of an inch in a couple spots.
00:42:41
Denis Tyrell
So when I pressed, and I didn't realize this until my second attempt, my first attempt had ah like three big gaps. Second attempt, and like you got to microwave the block and get the block of wood and get it warm and press it in and da, da, da, da.
00:42:58
Denis Tyrell
Second attempt, I had gaps in the same areas and I couldn't understand why. And then I realized that because I took some measurements and And me pressing the wood in was spreading the, because it was at an angle, it was actually spreading out the steel.
00:43:18
echo_blades
Oh. Yeah.
00:43:19
Denis Tyrell
Because it's at a, it's like a wedge, right? And it was wedging out the, the steel, which was now causing a gap. Uh, and then once I realized that I'm like, fuck it, remove the one degree, ah reground the inside of the keyhole.
00:43:38
Denis Tyrell
And then instead of microwaving the block, like I kind of placed it and then I, which, you know, somebody wants to use this technique. It actually works. I sat there with a heat gun and heated up the block with the heat gun as I was pressing it in.
00:43:54
echo_blades
Huh?
00:43:55
Denis Tyrell
And, and I use my vice on the mill because it has like a big flat face. Um,
00:44:01
echo_blades
Would you call me? Oh, no. Good.
00:44:04
Denis Tyrell
and, uh, and that worked. And it worked pretty flawlessly, actually. There's no gaps. It's a perfect fit up. So, um yeah. But there was it was really touch and go there for like 15 minutes, I thought.
00:44:18
Denis Tyrell
um Because it was spreading, I'm like, oh, shit. This is never going to work. It's going to keep doing this. And I had to do some problem solving. And, yeah.
00:44:29
echo_blades
That's cool.
00:44:30
Denis Tyrell
But.
00:44:30
echo_blades
I got a bunch of messages that I let you off the hook when you were talking about pressing or fitting your wood into something. And i was like, guys, i can't i can't I can't nail them all, but i I'm sorry for me.
00:44:41
Denis Tyrell
Well, a couple of those we had already said to each other, like when we when I told you in the shop, we were like, oh yeah, that one's too easy.
00:44:45
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, i got I got rung up a little bit over that, so.
00:44:53
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:44:55
echo_blades
But.
00:44:55
Denis Tyrell
But I'm glad to have that dagger. Like actually all the piece, the whole thing i showed you when you were here today, all of the pieces are done now. And I just did the final grinding.
00:45:06
echo_blades
the Quillians look fucking awesome, dude. Like, yeah, I was like, I was holding the knife and i was messing with you with the the whole, like, how does the handle feel thing?
00:45:08
Denis Tyrell
Good. Thank you.
00:45:16
echo_blades
But when I was looking at those, was like, those things look awesome.
00:45:21
Denis Tyrell
And I had to do those separately.
00:45:24
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:45:25
Denis Tyrell
There's had two of them and had to make them look identical. So though that's why I was like six hours on the lathe today.
00:45:32
echo_blades
I impressive, impressive, dude. those they came out really good and they look cool too.
00:45:37
Denis Tyrell
i think they're looking better when they're black.
00:45:37
echo_blades
Like, yeah, for sure.
00:45:38
Denis Tyrell
So yeah.
00:45:40
echo_blades
For sure. So it's coming together nicely, man.
00:45:43
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:45:43
echo_blades
I'm, I'm digging it.
00:45:44
Denis Tyrell
I'm I have that calendar in the back of my head of exactly. I i got to get the dagger done this week. Um, and get that out there so that I got folders to, I got finished work on folders that I'll probably be able to do in a week.
00:46:00
Denis Tyrell
Should easily be able to do in a week. And then I got sheaths for like six knives to do.
00:46:07
echo_blades
Ooh, I got to do a couple too.
00:46:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And actually it reminds me, I got to order some leather. um and then I got to sharpen a bunch of knives. So, and I want to have three or four days of breathing room.
00:46:15
echo_blades
I got a bunch.
00:46:20
echo_blades
Yeah. I can see that. Yeah. The, one of the, the last things I have to do on the, on ah the intrepid I was showing you too, for whatever reason, I,
00:46:31
echo_blades
I always forget this. And I think you actually mentioned this on one of your like beginner series videos a few months back, whenever that was. But um ah while I'm sanding the blade, always like, I think the spine where the handle is that gets attention by default of, you know, shaping the handle.
00:46:57
echo_blades
I always fucking forget, for whatever reason, to do this the top side, the spine um the blade.
00:47:04
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
00:47:04
echo_blades
And etched this thing, in ah and it's an AEBL knife, and I etched it with Gator or Piss Heavy.
00:47:05
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:47:13
echo_blades
And I have some decarb on the top there. So I got to redo this etch. um But yeah, i've I've just been kicking myself for like... And it it would never...
00:47:27
echo_blades
really if it was just doing a satin finish, I would never, cause it's, it's, it's sanded, but it's not, not apparently not very well.
00:47:30
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:47:36
echo_blades
I don't know. Uh, but I was just kicking my head about, not kicking my head, kicking myself about, you know, like following the process. And why does that particular area just like elude me? Cause would be really close to being done with that thing. I'd just have to buff the handle now, and but now I gotta go do all that stuff. But speaking of, uh, of gator or piss heavy, um,
00:47:55
echo_blades
And all of the other premium etchants that Baker Fortune Tool has, those are all ah ready and rocking. I think that I saw some video of them shipping out. So, um yeah, go put your order in for the Gator Piss Heavy for that really blacked out finish. The Gator Piss Max for stainless steel um and the good old fashioned reliable.
00:48:20
echo_blades
um standard Gator piss for regular Damascus, um as well as all their awesome ah pattern welded steel that they do. This week's drop is a copper, my Damascus core in both surge and rainbow.
00:48:36
echo_blades
It's ah probably gone now every day. Every it never gets old for me to say that again, but ah one day someone's going to be sleeping on.
00:48:44
Denis Tyrell
It shows that those guys are in business to move product.
00:48:49
echo_blades
Yes. Um, and, and there's obviously a bunch of people taking advantage of the, the Baker fortune tool app, uh, that gets you one day early access to all of the drops. So, um, if you're not doing that, go download the app, take advantage of that, load up the cart with a bunch of, uh, awesome steel, um, gator piss and all the other cool stuff they have.
Tool Talk and Supplier Mentions
00:49:10
echo_blades
And you can use the just discount code, triple T 10 for 10% off.
00:49:14
echo_blades
That's TTT 10.
00:49:17
Denis Tyrell
I was ah talking to Parker. i had Parker in the shop today because he's making some scoops for Blade Show. um But we were talking about, yeah, if I had, if things go extremely well and have some extra time, um um may do a couple of couple more folders, like the SandTiger folders, one like the one you have and he has.
00:49:38
echo_blades
Yep. Tiger tears folder.
00:49:40
Denis Tyrell
and i And I have some that... some of that um stainless Damascus that we made with Koi. And I would like to use that.
00:49:52
Denis Tyrell
i And I was just wondering to myself, when when is he going to be in production on his stainless line? I'm going to grill him about that at ah Blade Show and see what his ETA is for that.
00:50:03
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:05
Denis Tyrell
And I think maybe, i don't know, he's got a new product coming out, um but he said it was imminent, but I haven't heard much about it, so I'm waiting. Maybe he's going to announce it at Blade Show.
00:50:18
echo_blades
Maybe, maybe not. We don't know, but we know you don't.
00:50:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:50:23
echo_blades
So yeah sorry. yeah, that's kind of cool. feel like I'm flexing, but yeah.
00:50:30
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:50:32
echo_blades
So bigger forge and tool. Um, looking forward to see coin the boys here in a couple of weeks now. That's going to be awesome.
00:50:41
Denis Tyrell
You know, it was fun to come home. So one of the other things when I was with Cam, we cut we tried to cut that that steel for his axe on my janky bandsaw.
00:50:50
echo_blades
Oh yeah, that's right.
00:50:54
Denis Tyrell
And it seized up the one that I thought I had fixed with the with the new bearing, which it turns out I don't think it was the bearing. But I got so pissed off, I ordered a jet bandsaw, like, right there.
00:51:09
Denis Tyrell
And then when I got home from Disney... There's my brand new.
00:51:13
echo_blades
New tools on arrival.
00:51:14
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. i And after using that thing, man, I don't know why I waited so long to buy. ah
00:51:21
echo_blades
Because you're a cheap ass. That's why. Let me just tell you. You're a cheap ass.
00:51:25
Denis Tyrell
Because I was thinking, at oh, the old one works. The new one is so awesome. the The liquid cooled, um like the flood coolant for this.
00:51:32
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:51:37
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:51:38
Denis Tyrell
Oh, it's so nice.
00:51:39
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:51:40
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:51:41
echo_blades
That's cool. That's cool.
00:51:42
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:51:43
Denis Tyrell
and And I got a new rest for my disc grinder too, a tilting rest for my disc grinder.
00:51:43
echo_blades
new
00:51:43
echo_blades
New tools are awesome. Nice. All vulnerable, huh?
00:51:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:51:50
echo_blades
Very cool.
00:51:51
Denis Tyrell
So it was like Christmas day when I got home. It is the second and happiest place on earth.
00:51:57
echo_blades
Yeah, that is cool. I think the only thing I bought that came that I was stoked about was I got this little.
00:52:00
Denis Tyrell
But.
00:52:06
echo_blades
Okay. All right. Use your imagination, guys, but it's like a little claw that you can screw into the top of your golf club.
00:52:20
echo_blades
and And it's a ball picker upper.
00:52:22
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah.
00:52:23
echo_blades
So I've officially joined the old dudes thing where I am.
00:52:27
Denis Tyrell
You don't want to bend over to pick up a book?
00:52:27
echo_blades
I don't want to bend over and pick my ball up up to the hole. yeah So I got this little $6 attachment thing on the bone that that I screwed in the top of my putter. And it works great. It works so good that a couple of times I plunge it in the hole, pick the thing up, go back, stick my my club back in my bag. And then I get up to to the next hole to tee off. And i'm like, where the fuck is my ball? it's still It's in the bottom of my bag in the putter.
00:52:55
echo_blades
In the little holder thing that threw me for a loop for while.
00:52:57
Denis Tyrell
You old fuck.
00:52:59
echo_blades
It's so awesome.
00:53:01
Denis Tyrell
I would definitely have one of those. I think they're cool.
00:53:02
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. They're bad-ass. I got another lame butter thing too, but I got the putter buddy it's called. So yeah, it's like this little, and the, the crazy thing is i wasn't even going to talk about it, but I think it is, is that it is a, like, it's like I don't know.
00:53:12
Denis Tyrell
The putter buddy.
00:53:23
echo_blades
quarter inch, three eights. don't know. There's some round bar that somebody's twisted. And basically you, it has like a U shape. um You, you, you stick it into the ground and it, you know, comes out vertical and there's like a a little like you thing at the top of it where you can take like a couple of wedges and your putter. Cause when you're walking up to the green, you have to lay them down on the ground and the grass is wet. Your grips get wet.
00:53:52
echo_blades
So you can actually like prop them up on the, on the, uh, it's really cool actually, but you need them.
00:53:55
Denis Tyrell
That is so lame.
00:53:58
Denis Tyrell
Why don't you leave in your bag?
00:54:01
echo_blades
Like sometimes you, you don't know if you need a 56 or a 60 or, you know, you never know what you're going to wear your balls.
00:54:06
Denis Tyrell
um Okay, so it's because you're using a cart.
00:54:07
echo_blades
my
00:54:10
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:54:10
Denis Tyrell
okay
00:54:11
echo_blades
Fine. I'm not walking. You crazy. Yeah. I did. God damn mine. I'm picking, I'm buying attachments so I don't have to bend over to pick my ball up. You'd think I'm going to walk. ah What is wrong with you, dude?
00:54:23
echo_blades
Yeah. But the whole time like i ordered it and then I so i started thinking about it i'm like, why didn't I just make this? um I'll show it to you.
00:54:29
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you should have made it a Damascus and stainless copper.
00:54:33
echo_blades
Great idea. Yeah. I mean, all you do is it with the induction forge, just fucking heat up a couple spots, make a couple twists and bends, and could have made my own. Yeah.
00:54:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, if you you could have put a little sign in your golf cart, putting it for sale.
00:54:45
echo_blades
Yeah. um Somebody would probably be mad, but yeah, it looks looked pretty damn easy to make. And I was like, fuck man. I don't know why i didn't do that, but um yeah. All right.
00:54:58
echo_blades
I don't know how I got there, but I did.
00:55:00
Denis Tyrell
Lost opportunity.
00:55:02
echo_blades
It is a lost opportunity. um So I got to go back to Washington in a couple or next week.
00:55:09
Denis Tyrell
Next week?
00:55:10
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:55:11
Denis Tyrell
Does that mean you're going to miss a show?
00:55:13
echo_blades
No, I'm going Wednesday to Friday, so we'll be fine.
00:55:14
Denis Tyrell
No.
00:55:18
echo_blades
But I've been, I think I told Steve last week, whatever. Anyways, so I was going to um hook up with our buddy Steve ah Lockwood.
00:55:33
echo_blades
Lockhart?
00:55:33
Denis Tyrell
Lockhart, Lockhart.
00:55:34
echo_blades
Yeah, yeah, Lockhart. um And he was kind enough to make me this jig thing that we were going to try to connect with the next time I was up there. And you were kind of saying, hey, you should go fishing. So he actually hit me up and he's like, dude, you should totally ask me to go fishing.
00:55:51
echo_blades
And I was like, well, yeah, I mean, that was obviously I was going to get, you know, a little appreciation for the jig first before I hit you up for something else. But I'd love to because that's that's I absolutely love to to fish. So um we were going to try to put something together and then but it just turns out that he was kind of not ranting but going on and on and about how the the game and fishing wards and all that crap up there have like very they regulate the the times and the seasons for things. It's like super weird. Like you can just get these random windows where you can go after this particular fish. But
00:56:32
echo_blades
It turns out salmon is on the week that I'm there.
00:56:37
Denis Tyrell
Oh, nice.
00:56:38
echo_blades
Nice. So we're going to go out on the, on the Colombian and I mean, we're going to go fishing. um Hopefully we catch, but yeah. So I'm stoked about that.
00:56:48
Denis Tyrell
You could, you could, bulb well, you can't literally, but it looks like you could almost hit a golf ball into the river from where he, where his house is.
00:56:48
echo_blades
It's going to work out.
00:56:57
echo_blades
Oh, really?
00:56:57
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah. He's really close.
00:56:59
echo_blades
That's cool.
00:57:00
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:57:00
echo_blades
Yeah. So I think ah I'm going to fly in on Wednesday, go to the office for a second and then head back and we're going to go out. So I'm stoked about that.
00:57:11
echo_blades
I've never been salmon fishing. know there's a couple of times out here in Sacramento area. You can try to get them.
00:57:18
Denis Tyrell
Oh, it's nothing like there, though.
00:57:19
echo_blades
Yeah, no, it's no, not, not a chance.
00:57:21
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:57:21
echo_blades
So I'm stoked about that. So looking forward to that, this little bright spot to having to travel again, right before I got to come back and then, we leave to Atlanta. Not, I think I one more week after that, but yeah, that'll make a four trips there this year.
00:57:35
Denis Tyrell
Uh, at least one more.
00:57:43
Denis Tyrell
Wow.
00:57:45
echo_blades
It's pretty crazy, but um yeah, so stoked about that. And then who do you got for maker spotlight?
00:57:53
Denis Tyrell
Um, i I know we've talked about this person, but he's got a new account. So, uh, I figured I would bring up Mr. Spencer Sanderson and no longer at heavy forge is now Sanderson steel.
00:58:12
echo_blades
What?
00:58:12
Denis Tyrell
So, uh, if, uh, he changed his whole branding away from heavy forge to Sanderson steel. So his Instagram is now Sanderson. That's S A N D I S O N underscore steel.
00:58:27
Denis Tyrell
That's steel with two E's. Um, ah Sanderson steel because the whole thing of him making his own steel and he still got the same logo of the big muscly arm.
00:58:37
Denis Tyrell
But, um, yeah, he decided I'm all for it. I think having your, uh, your name in your, uh, in your forge name or maker's mark or whatever is always a good idea. So I was all for it when he posed the question, should he change his, uh, the name of his, like not only, I think he's changing his YouTube channel and everything. So, yeah.
00:58:59
echo_blades
Oh, wow. That's cool. Apparently i already follow that page. So I don't know how I missed it, but I'm on board.
00:59:04
Denis Tyrell
yeah Well, because it was Heavy Forge before, so he just re renamed it.
00:59:10
echo_blades
Oh, it's the same, but he changed it.
00:59:12
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:13
echo_blades
Gotcha.
00:59:14
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:59:14
echo_blades
Okay, cool. I thought he like made a new account.
00:59:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:59:17
echo_blades
I was like, that's dangerous.
00:59:19
Denis Tyrell
No, no. Same account, but has rebranded it to Sandison Steel.
00:59:24
echo_blades
Nice.
00:59:25
Denis Tyrell
So, what and yeah, he's, I'm wondering when his beer is going to come out, because he's got his own beer coming out from Anchorage Forge.
00:59:34
echo_blades
Oh, cool.
00:59:34
Denis Tyrell
I'm wondering when that's going to get released.
00:59:41
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I don't think it's actually been released yet. but
00:59:46
echo_blades
But I am really enjoying this.
00:59:47
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:59:48
echo_blades
These Tiger Tears. They're they're badass.
00:59:52
Denis Tyrell
yeah I see Gabe got a big mention in Blade Magazine this month.
00:59:52
echo_blades
It is badass.
00:59:56
Denis Tyrell
Got a whole spread.
00:59:57
echo_blades
He got a big mention, but not only that, but he flew to, i think, New Zealand.
01:00:02
Denis Tyrell
No, Austria.
01:00:02
echo_blades
Some Austria. Sorry.
01:00:04
Denis Tyrell
He's at the Austrian, was at the Austrian knife show.
01:00:05
echo_blades
Austria knife. Yeah. Flew over there and won an award and came back home. So congrats, bro. That's that's awesome.
01:00:12
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:00:12
echo_blades
That knife is a banger anyways. That's almost cheating.
01:00:15
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Plus he's got one of his knives on the cover of Blade Magazine this month. So he's hitting it on all fronts.
01:00:19
echo_blades
That guy he's on fire, dude.
01:00:22
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:00:23
echo_blades
He is on fire. If there is one maker that we have right now that just like come shooting out of, you know, the obscurity into just awesomeness, it's Gabe.
01:00:35
echo_blades
That's been amazing to to watch, man.
01:00:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, definitely, definitely on fire.
01:00:37
echo_blades
He's got a lot of cool things going on. But um
01:00:44
echo_blades
that was not the guy I was going to talk about. I have... our buddy Justin Miller at a Florida man forge.
01:00:58
echo_blades
Everybody's favorite, uh, Florida man, Mr. Justin Miller. Um, ah guy he's got a bunch of cool things and he's always doing really awesome stuff.
01:01:08
echo_blades
Um, and the funny dude, if he's a great follow, um I oftentimes just kind of like, uh, watching him go back and forth with, uh,
01:01:21
echo_blades
the guys on Facebook every now and again, they, him and Nick and Nate, they, they go back and forth and lot of good times in there. But he has, he made Brent this big ass chopper.
01:01:38
echo_blades
And it is one of my favorite knives that I've seen and held. um And I think it, it is just because it's, it's,
01:01:49
echo_blades
Very rarely do you see a knife and like it kind of invokes everything about the maker. Right. But when I held this thing, like I immediately, that's who I thought of. And I like asked him who he who made it. And he's like, yeah, that's Justin.
01:02:04
echo_blades
Cause it's just, it's finished the way he does his work. It is just a bad-ass knife and Justin, I want one. So yeah, there you go. But it it was really cool. So, um but yeah, he's always doing really cool shit. Hello, blacksmith. Got a fucking badass shop.
01:02:22
echo_blades
um Was even featured in the local news thing about, you know, the the art of blacksmithing not too long ago. did ah Did a good interview there. um But yeah, so I just want to shout out our buddy, Justin Miller from Florida Man Forge. He's got 2,199 followers.
01:02:41
echo_blades
Um, and, uh, yeah, that's it. So go, uh, check out, uh, Spencer and Justin. And if you're not following them, get out from under the rock.
01:02:55
echo_blades
You, you guys are on under. And, uh, if you are following them, shoot them a message tell them you heard them here and tell them the boys at triple T say, what's up?
01:03:04
Denis Tyrell
with a
01:03:05
echo_blades
What?
01:03:07
Denis Tyrell
You know who's not under a rock?
01:03:09
echo_blades
Um, I have a guess, but,
01:03:11
Denis Tyrell
Frank. Frank's never under a rock. That man is up and around.
01:03:16
echo_blades
Yes, he is.
01:03:16
Denis Tyrell
And like ah like Ryan said last week, the most dapper man at Blade Show.
01:03:22
echo_blades
For sure.
01:03:23
Denis Tyrell
ah
01:03:23
echo_blades
Definitely the most dapper man in a skirt.
01:03:26
Denis Tyrell
Hey, don't call it a skirt to get offended.
01:03:30
Denis Tyrell
It's a kilt.
01:03:31
echo_blades
oh Oh, thank you. Thank you. i'm just yeah I'm just a dumb Mexican. i don't know these things.
01:03:36
Denis Tyrell
But if you need a hammer, you got to go check out Frank at Two Bastards Texas Smithian Supplies. um He will get you set up. I still remember the first time I told you, but we talked about him on the show. And I remember saying, yeah, he had like 12 hammers around his kilt. And I could not figure out what was holding up that kilt.
01:04:04
Denis Tyrell
He was the same last year, maybe not quite as many, but definitely go check out Two Bastards for all your hammer needs, your straight peens, cross peens, curvy peens, because, Jared, ain't it?
01:04:19
echo_blades
I don't know, man. I heard it one time and it just sticks with me because it is grand to have a fat peen in your hand.
01:04:29
Denis Tyrell
That's right.
01:04:30
echo_blades
Yeah. Little birdie told me that one time.
01:04:33
Denis Tyrell
A little birdie.
01:04:34
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:04:35
Denis Tyrell
And I am very much looking forward to seeing our buddy Lawrence Lake at Maritime at Blade Show. But Lawrence Lake from Maritime Knife Supply.
01:04:47
Denis Tyrell
i was just talking to Lawrence the other day, ah getting a little order placed from ah from him to get some new belts. And yeah, looking forward. ah Yeah, don't be pointing at yourself.
01:05:01
echo_blades
It's the worst deal I've ever not been a part of.
01:05:06
Denis Tyrell
Uh, but, uh, looking forward to see Lawrence. He's always, uh, cool to hang out with. Good guy to know and a good guy to do business with. so you need anything, um knife related, steel abrasives, tooling, you name it like epoxy. He's a, it surprises me every time I go on that website and, uh, I look for stuff that like he, he had those, uh, the DROs for your drill. He had all the kinds of stuff up there.
01:05:35
echo_blades
I always end up going into the tool section and just like picking a random thing that I don't need that, but I don't have. and Apparently I don't have a protractor. So that's in my cart right now.
01:05:47
Denis Tyrell
ah protractor.
01:05:49
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:05:50
Denis Tyrell
I've had so, I remember when I was, I did the, the, um, copper katana and I accidentally called a protractor. I've been at, okay, folks, I've been out of school for a long time, even though I'm a math major and I confused protractor with compass.
01:06:07
Denis Tyrell
And I said compass and I've, I've been corrected so many times. I'm like, yeah, yeah it was just a, an editing issue. I should have said,
01:06:16
echo_blades
I don't think I've ever used a protractor. So not only do I not have one, but I don't, i don't think I've ever used one.
01:06:19
Denis Tyrell
but
01:06:22
Denis Tyrell
I've probably used one four times in the last five years for knife making.
01:06:27
echo_blades
Yeah. But you know where you can find it?
01:06:30
Denis Tyrell
Maritime knife sp supply.
01:06:31
echo_blades
That's right.
01:06:32
Denis Tyrell
I didn't know that, but now I do.
01:06:32
echo_blades
Whether, whether it's high demand or just, you kind of just want to have something else in your shop. Go check out Lawrence. from Maritime Knife Supply. And yes, I am looking forward to seeing our good buddy here pretty quick.
01:06:48
Denis Tyrell
I had to buy a new tool just yesterday. you're going to laugh at this one. I had to buy a ball turner.
01:07:01
echo_blades
Enlighten me. ah Roll me up here with this thing, because I have no idea what a ball trigger would be.
01:07:03
Denis Tyrell
ah ah a ball turner.
01:07:09
echo_blades
Is like a titty twister?
01:07:09
Denis Tyrell
the
01:07:11
Denis Tyrell
It's a lathe tool for turning those perfect spheres, like the ones for the dagger. I didn't just magically do those. i needed a ball turner.
01:07:23
echo_blades
That's fantastic.
01:07:24
Denis Tyrell
I had to turn balls.
01:07:27
echo_blades
Oh my God. While I was golfing in, in Mel Penis at Valley Springs golf course in the back, in the back 40, somewhere in the back nine, there was ah whole gang of people doing the Dennis Terrell Turkey call.
Humorous Wildlife Encounters
01:07:51
Denis Tyrell
Were they actually turkeys?
01:07:52
echo_blades
Everywhere. Everywhere. was just like, I turn around and I say, oh yeah.
01:08:02
Denis Tyrell
but
01:08:02
echo_blades
I didn't have my phone with me and like close enough. Like it would I'd go up to the tee box and see and I would just hear them just, you know, going off. It were actually turkeys or some animal, but I, dude, I couldn't, it just didn't work out to i my phone. Cause I would have ran over to the side of the fence to record this and made a great reel.
01:08:22
Denis Tyrell
ah just look look look Look what I got right on my, I didn't even realize it was right in front of me.
01:08:26
echo_blades
yeah it's missing something ain't it but yeah I was laughing I wish I had my phone to make make the reel because I have been like hey Dennis it was fantastic but yeah I need a haircut really bad barbers and my
01:08:27
Denis Tyrell
Protractor.
01:08:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:08:44
echo_blades
barber's in my
01:08:45
Denis Tyrell
I don't want to go to to Atlanta with you, you shaggy old...
01:08:49
echo_blades
Yeah, I'm part of the fucking animal crew. What's up, boys? It's been ah it's been a solid six weeks right now. I'm on my barber's MIA for a while, and I don't think he's coming back for a couple weeks.
01:09:00
echo_blades
so I don't know.
01:09:01
Denis Tyrell
What do you're barber's MIA?
01:09:03
echo_blades
he I went to go book an appointment and three weeks ago, and i couldn't ah can get hold of him. so I got a random text from him saying that he was stepping away for a minute, but he'll back in a couple weeks.
01:09:14
echo_blades
but I was like, well shit, man, are you going make me go somewhere?
01:09:16
Denis Tyrell
Is your hair that complicated? Someone else at the place can do it?
01:09:19
echo_blades
I'm super... Yeah, I don't... Yeah, I don't... Very particular about what chair I sit in So...
01:09:31
echo_blades
I had this... die I went to a place...
01:09:32
Denis Tyrell
He has that special touch that you like? Is that one
01:09:35
echo_blades
Dude, yeah. It's the massage...
01:09:36
Denis Tyrell
does he Does he do the inseam?
01:09:38
echo_blades
It's the massage at the end. Yeah, it's really good. It gets good. I'm like, could you do my eyebrows? And he's like, yeah. Do you want anything else? And i'm like...
01:09:50
echo_blades
I mean, like, how comfortable are you with me?
01:09:55
echo_blades
it manscaping on the menu or what? you too Yeah, but I went to the same person I went like for probably 10 plus years before i switched over this. and The only reason why I did that was because of COVID.
01:10:06
echo_blades
Everybody was shut down and he was cutting hair in his garage. So, uh, yeah, I don't just walk into random places to do that. So, uh, and then, yeah, I think we, we paid all the bills and
01:10:21
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. You know what? i'm I'm actually really happy. We did the sponsors in the reverse order that we normally do. We need to do that more often because we're usually always doing them in top to bottom.
01:10:31
echo_blades
yes, it worked top to bottom.
01:10:36
Denis Tyrell
We
Weather and Creative Inspirations
01:10:37
Denis Tyrell
need to change it up.
01:10:37
echo_blades
Yeah. We need slap it up, flip it and rub it, flip it around. Get those sponsors from the other side.
01:10:42
Denis Tyrell
I'm going flip it around and do doggy style.
01:10:44
echo_blades
yeah
01:10:48
echo_blades
Yeah, that's good thing. So one last thing before we go here, ah it randomly rained this morning.
01:10:55
Denis Tyrell
It did. I was happy because I planted a garden over the weekend.
01:10:56
echo_blades
It's,
01:10:58
echo_blades
Oh, pretty cool. Good for you. But yeah, so it's been kind of randomly heating up. ah It's been nice. It's been, you know, like Bay Area hot, like in the miserable, like low 80s.
01:11:11
echo_blades
Horrible, horrible. Absolutely. But ah that's that's a 20 degree, you know, increase in temperature from our preferred 70, right? Even though that's 10, but whatever.
01:11:24
echo_blades
ah ah Any math majors there might have caught that, but...
01:11:29
Denis Tyrell
I don't know what you're talking about.
01:11:30
echo_blades
I said low eighties and I said 20 degrees different from our preferred seventies.
01:11:34
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
01:11:37
Denis Tyrell
and
01:11:38
echo_blades
Anyways, it rained this morning and I was on my way into work and i go through this beautiful mountain range.
01:11:44
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
01:11:47
echo_blades
I live probably about as country as I can get from, from the city ah before you actually go into like the, the agri agricultural and farmlands and shit.
01:11:58
echo_blades
So I have a nice little mountain range that I go through that for the wintertime, it's about to end. It's about to turn into the fucking brown mountains of, you know, crap.
01:12:07
Denis Tyrell
Oh, it's already brown.
01:12:08
echo_blades
Yeah. ah But when it's green, it's really nice. But I go through and what do I see through the mountain range? Double rainbows.
01:12:21
echo_blades
Double rainbows. So I took that opportunity, came up with this little thing all by myself, and I texted a select few people. Hey.
01:12:30
Denis Tyrell
What? I wasn't the only one? i feel slighted now.
01:12:31
echo_blades
Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. theres There's be other people that are slighted, but I texted a handful of people because I thought it was hilarious. I just I was so proud of myself. I go, hey, man, I i saw your ah your send a picture of the double rainbows and said, hey, are you OK?
01:12:47
echo_blades
I saw your bat signal this morning.
01:12:48
Denis Tyrell
Did you send that to Rick?
01:12:50
echo_blades
No, fuck, I forgot about Rick.
01:12:51
Denis Tyrell
no
01:12:53
echo_blades
Fuck.
01:12:53
Denis Tyrell
That was the one you should have sent it to. to
01:12:56
echo_blades
Oh, Rick, you'll get yours tomorrow.
01:12:58
Denis Tyrell
All
01:13:00
echo_blades
It's going to be the gift that keeps on giving. i
Episode Wrap-Up and Appreciation
01:13:03
Denis Tyrell
and
01:13:03
echo_blades
said it to a handful of people, but it was pretty fucking funny.
01:13:06
echo_blades
So, yeah, that's that's the ah the name of the the episode is freaking Double Rainbow Bat Signals.
01:13:14
Denis Tyrell
all right. we'll We'll use that.
01:13:19
Denis Tyrell
all right all right the bat signal is off
01:13:19
echo_blades
yeah Yeah, let's get out of here.
01:13:26
echo_blades
Yes.
01:13:33
echo_blades
We do have ah really good theme song. There's not a single person other than us that doesn't just jam out when this is up. They're just like, boom, boom, boom. boom And that's a wrap.