Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast for Saturday, April 15th. My name is Chris Salimoni. I'll be your host today. Now hopefully you've already done your taxes, but if not, well, you're already kind of too late on them, so I guess just sit back, kick up your feet, and enjoy the podcast.

Then afterwards you can panic.

Since we were talking about last week,

with the weekend shows we're gonna be a little bit more loose in the format,

you know, kind of experiment with things

and find the right tone and eventually I'm sure we'll lock it in but for now as

you've probably already noticed since I'm the only one talking there's no Ben and

no Mike today so instead I'm joined by Will Walker from the YouTube channel William Walker Company.

Will go ahead and say hi to the fine people.

Hey guys, thanks for having me on.

So what we're going to do today is just, can I have a one-on-one interview conversation style format, answer some of your questions, and just have a good time in general.

So for those of you who aren't familiar, Will is a fellow Ytuber, Woodworker, Maker, and you know what, instead of having me kind of fumble my way through telling

you what he is, why don't I let him tell you in his own words?

So, Will, who are you and what are you doing?

My name is Will Walker. I am a professional photographer and

woodworker. So growing up I built houses with my dad. He's a general

contractor so I learned a lot about the trades there. Then when it was time for me to go away

to become an adult I went off to I went off to art school for photography and for the last 11 years I've been shooting

weddings and portraits and some commercial work and then when it was time to build my own house for me and my wife I went

ahead and built a shop in the basement where I started filming the things that I was making because I already had my

photography equipment my photo gear and then it just started kind of growing from

there I started to do videos as to generate local buzz,

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