#111 Gary Katz the legend
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Summary
Legendary carpenter Gary M Katz joins the guys. Gary shares that his true passion was writing fiction and fell into carpentry to support himself. He talks about losing everything, writing a book that changed his life, respecting yourself and SO MUCH more. Tune in for an instant classic!
Where to find our guest:
@garymkatz1 on Instagram.
THISisCarpentry.com
Where to find our hosts:
Nick Schiffer @nsbuilders on Instagram and YouTube
Tyler Grace @TRGHomeconcepts on Instagram
John Hourihan @heresjohnnyh & @vintagebuilders on Instagram
Follow The Modern Craftsman on Instagram @the.moderncraftsman
Music:
"Dessert" by Nate Gusakov
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? It is Modern Crafts and Monday and guess what? We all got new |
| 0:09.1 | microphones shipped to our house. We're doing it remote, and this week we have Gary Katz. |
| 0:14.4 | It's true. It is true. On the episode. That was a pretty |
| 0:25.0 | you know I was like hey you want to be on the part yeah I'll be on the podcast |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, I was like sweet here's here's the link to our schedule. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, I just I just booked a time. I'm like, this is going really well. Yeah. |
| 0:35.0 | No, we talked, we talked about everything. The collapse of 1980 was really interesting to me and how he essentially lost everything and what what that did for him as a person as well as in the industry, but maintaining enthusiasm all the way up to today, which he has |
| 0:59.4 | been a massive support and influence to our industry and if you guys haven't read one of |
| 1:08.8 | his articles I would ask you to fact-check that because I bet you have. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, I just it was a really good podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | I just, the enthusiasm he used that word and that was kind of his word but you can just |
| 1:26.6 | tell by his voice and talking to him how excited he still is for this and I think that that was that was kind of the best other than him |
| 1:36.0 | owning a pod a bobcat and being a jiggolo at some point I think was that |
| 1:40.9 | exact word well he you say enthusiasm was his word, but I think Bichin might have been in his other words. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, Bichin was his word. |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah, I like that. |
| 1:50.0 | He had really good energy. |
| 1:52.0 | All right guys, stay tuned. |
| 1:54.0 | Mr Gary Katz, how are you today? |
| 2:00.0 | I am good. How about you, all of you? I'm good how about you all of you I'm good John |
| 2:06.5 | awesome Tyler I can't complain well I could probably I probably could afford to complain a little but it could be worse. |
| 2:12.6 | You'll definitely complain on this podcast. |
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