Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast. Today is Thursday, March 29th, 2018, otherwise known as

Smoke and Mirrors Day. I'm Chris Salimony and with me as always our Mike Montgomery and Benueda.

Hello. What's up? Happy to be here.

Smoking mirrors.

Yep. So I know Mike can break one of those multiple times.

Our entire friendship is just smoking mirrors. It's all for the

podcast. It's all a facade. It could come crumbling down at any time.

Exactly. How's it going in Joshua, too, you guys? Good. It's good. We've been cranking out a lot of projects. I mean, you

get sick of each other yet? Not really. We got separate rooms, so it's not like, you know,

it's not like we're on bunk beds. It's not stepbrothers. Although parts of it are close. Yeah a little bit.

No, it's going good. I got my older brother, Nate, is here and Jesse's like back and forth between here and

Santa Barbara so from the homemade modern side we got a ton of projects cooking

so while we're waiting on permits and foundations for the shipping container houses, I have them just really producing a ton of content for the more typical sort of DIY furniture builds for homemade modern.

So it's been great having more people around also with different skill sets.

My brother has spent like the last eight years

sort of building out a ranch and farm in Argentina.

So he's used to building in really adverse conditions with very few tools. So he's just having a field day cranking through projects with all sort of brand new, you know, up-to-date tools and materials.

So he's working on a couple really cool wood and steel projects, some coffee tables,

some benches, a dining table, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Jesse's just about finished with a outdoor theater, which we teased on Instagram.

Oh yeah.

Which, you know, the projects for goal zero which makes those

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