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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

487: You're Wrong, and Right!

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Design, Crafts, Leisure, How To, Arts, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about distracting yourself on purpose. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta Working on the boot go-kart David Picciuto Did not get the Coke machine Bob Clagett Went to BrickWorld Chicago Links: The Man Issue What we’re watching: David Pick of the Week: Bagel Run / $35 Guitar Pick Jimmy’s Pick of the Week: Vice Grip Garage Bob’s Pick of the Week: NeatBricks Special thanks to all of our patrons on Patreon for supporting this episode! Especially: A Pretty Big Deal Inc. APBD.com Mattias Garnow Crabtree Creative Michael menedjian Warren Werks The New...

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0:00.0

The other day I was out of town and we've had a lot of rain.

0:07.0

I don't know if you guys have had a lot of rain this year.

0:09.0

Yeah.

0:09.6

Raines every day?

0:10.3

So much rain.

0:11.8

But I was out of town and we had this downpour of rain within, I think it was around 30 minutes or something.

0:19.5

But the water came up down the street from us, the low point or something, but the water came up, down the street

0:22.6

from us, the low point in the neighborhood, the water came up about two feet higher than it had

0:27.9

and got over the road. And we're talking like, in the ditch, probably five feet of standing

0:34.6

water. It was a ridiculous amount of rain. All over town flooded. We had a bunch of problems. We had, there was a place like in the next neighborhood over where the water was moving so fast that it broke the gas meter off the side of a house and caused a gas leak. I don't even understand how that happens.

0:54.8

There must have been some rust happening there or something already,

0:57.2

but we had a ridiculous amount of rain.

1:01.3

And so our pool was covered in mud, the entire top of the cover.

1:06.0

Like, I think I told you guys,

1:07.7

we have one hill coming down towards the pool and one hill going away from the pool and we got sod down on the downhill part and so the sod's getting lots of rain. That's great. The other side is just washing out.

1:21.5

Completely covered the pool cover in like probably I don't know quarter inch of mud just just end to end you know and the

1:30.9

water came in so fast that it filled up the cover which is about four or five inches below the concrete

1:38.6

filled that up dumped it into the pool and so all of this mud just went into the pool oh so the mud

1:45.9

i'm thinking the mud can just breeze over you could just hose it off it's kind of entrapped

1:50.0

well it normally would but there was so much water that it lifted it up over the ends of this pool

1:55.2

cover it's kind of like a hammock kind of think of it that way and just dumped it in the pool so we've been cleaning i

2:02.9

would say my wife has been really cleaning i haven't i wouldn't wasn't here but yeah we've

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