Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker podcast for Thursday, July 20th, 2017, otherwise known as Ugly Truck Day.

It's a Guy Thing. That's the whole name. I wasn't adding on that. It's a guy there.

Yeah, I've had an ugly truck. I know Ben you have a Prius right?

And an accurate. Yeah, it's my sister's car. We sort of use it sometimes and the deal with the accurate

I just ended so they took it back. But I think I'm right. I think we're going to do something

else with them soon. Okay, so do you have a truck for yourself?

Nope.

I use zip car, which, so I'm literally 100 feet or actually 100 feet from a subway station.

So, like I'm in the city, so it's like, yeah.

So it takes me in Boston, like traffic so bad now that driving anywhere is pretty much a disaster.

So, yeah, if I'm going to my office in downtown Boston, it takes me like 10 minutes. Nice.

But I was thinking about getting a little beater, you know, beat-up truck to just haul stuff around, but.

Yeah, they're nice to have.

I didn't have a truck until like I got one about a year ago just because I was so

sick of like every time I wanted to use plywood I had to go get it and I had to like

really like plan things out or you know get things cut to fit it in my car and I was like I'm just gonna get a truck that way I can just go get like five sheets out of time and just throw them in the back of the garage and not have to worry about it.

Yeah, for the first like two years of making things I was driving a Nissan Maxima.

That is not great for hauling lumber.

But it can fit like eight foot boards because the seats lay down and you can send it through

the like center

you have to the window but yeah then then after a while I bought a truck for like

2,000 bucks it was a beater truck and I used that for a few months but then I've gotten a new

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