Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast for Saturday, May 27th, 2017.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Mark Spagnolo, who some of you might know better as the

Wood Whisper.

And I gotta say, this was a pretty special one for me. I've been a

fan of Marks for as long as I've been woodworking or well longer I guess

actually. So it was really awesome to get to speak with him and as you'll hear in the

audio I was either nervous or my

adrenaline was going or I don't know what it was but definitely had me talking like

the micro machines guy on a few occasions. Anyway this episode bounces around

from Seinfeld to Woodworking to YouTube, business models,

fart humor, and well, I'll just shut up and let you listen, so enjoy.

All right, I'm here with Mark Spagnolo, aka the Wood Whisper.

Mark, thank you for joining us, or me I guess.

Yeah, thanks for having me, man.

This is a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, it's awesome to meet you.

I've been watching you for years, so it's pretty crazy.

Surreal. Man, I'm a fan of your stuff too. to meet you I've been watching you for years so it's pretty crazy so real one

I'm a fan of your stuff too so it's cool for me as well that's awesome so I know

you've been interviewed dozens of times and I'm sure you get kind of sick of

answering the same question so I'll try to kind of avoid the origin story stuff but that said I do want to kind of start the conversation just by going back in time a bit to when I first found you so when I found you was about 2008 probably I was really just

getting interested in woodworking and didn't have any tools, hadn't really ever even cut a piece of wood or anything,

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