Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker podcast. Today is Thursday April 26, 2018,

otherwise known as National Pretzel Day. I'm Chris Alimony and with me as always

are Mike Montgomery and Ben Uyeda.

What's up? Hey, how's it going? Happy to be here.

You guys loving them pretzels or what?

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

Yeah, Seinfeld vote.

I'm gonna leave it there. I was gonna talk pretzel buns, but I don't even need to now.

Let's just move right on. Let's just get out of there. So the Rockler Plywood challenge has officially begun. I've seen some people working on stuff and I've even seen one entrant

Johnny builds. Yeah, someone who have been really thinking ahead on this one. I'm glad that we teased it a couple weeks ahead. That was really cool.

He said in the video, I watched the video this morning, I think he said that we were talking about it

early and he was like 90% certain it was going to be a plywood project and so he just like started

prepping it and just kind of like held off on putting a video out until he knew for sure that's what it was and that's why he was so far

ahead of the game but it was I don't know if you guys have had a chance to watch it

It just came out a couple hours ago, but definitely everybody go check it out. It's a really cool build

He built two dining chairs all out of plywood and he really highlighted the the ply layers in it.

Yeah, shout to Johnny Builds. I was just looking at it on Instagram earlier and it is it is really really high- end and nice looking so yeah right out of the gate crushed it

awesome job and you know I think it's kind of it's kind of smart to he got it

early because he's getting as you know I think there's a few I'm seeing about I'm

looking at the feed now I'm seeing quite a few finished projects and that's a great way to sort of get a lot of

attention through this challenge because people are clicking you know as they're

posting progress photos they're going to

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