3D Printing, Theme Parks, Content Creation, Charity, Project Management - MTM #24 Brady_Meets_World

In this episode of 'Meet the Makers' where we explore the creative journey of Brady from 'Brady Meets World,' known for his 3D printing expertise and diverse interests. Discover how his work with the Wounded Warrior program introduced him to 3D printing, and gain insights into his favorite projects and equipment. The conversation also delves into his eclectic hobbies, from archery to theme parks, and the challenges of creating social media content. Additionally, learn about the influential #3DPrintCares initiative, aimed at helping those in need with 3D-printed items, and the future goals of formalizing this charity effort. Tune in for a rich discussion about creativity, innovation, and supporting the community.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:17 Brady's Journey into 3D Printing
00:49 Archery and Adaptive Equipment
02:07 3D Printing Misconceptions and Accessibility
05:43 Diverse Hobbies and ADHD
07:52 Theme Park Adventures and Social Media
13:29 Navigating Social Media and Online Personas
22:02 3D Printing Community and Brand Loyalty
26:52 Helmet Printing Tips and Techniques
31:53 Large Scale Projects and Future Plans
33:37 Getting Hooked on TV Shows
34:13 Balancing Content Creation and Life
36:10 The Realities of Project Management
39:26 Essential Tech for Content Creators
48:42 The Future of 3D Printing
49:37 Navigating Social Media and Content Creation
59:00 3D Print Cares: Making a Difference

Transcript

riverside_kaitlyn__ jul 13, 2024 003_misfit_printing's s 
[00:00:00] Welcome back to Meet the Makers, I have a great guest with us here today, we have Brady from Brady Meets World, you guys probably know him from all over social media, but Brady, so excited to have you here today. I'm super stoked to be here this is actually One of my bucket list podcasts.
Likewise, you're a bucket list guest and couldn't be more excited to have you. So I'll kick you off with the question that I really start everybody off with it, which is how did you get into 3d printing and just making things in general? Okay. Yeah, so that's a simple one.
Actually it's twofold. If I have a, if I have a second. So first and foremost, I'm a big geek, right? You can tell by my office if you're on video, and if not, I'm surrounded by nerd stuff, right? And I'm a father of six. And I just could not afford to get the geeky stuff that I wanted.
I started looking into 3d printing and we're talking back in the days of the Ember Ender twos. So it was pretty expensive still to get into, I thought that I could print what I wanted. And then part two was I was working with I'm a big archery guy and I was working with wounded warrior program.
And I made a statement. saying, if you can get here, I can teach you to [00:01:00] shoot. I can teach you to shoot archery. We had a lot of people that were blind. Vision impaired people. And so we had to start producing adaptive rigs for them to be able to shoot archery with.
we were going from a full wheelchair stand all the way down to havingdifferent things that they can feel with the back of their hand the fastest way for us to be able to do that was in CAD and then be able to mock it up and then print it and then see if it would work and then go from there.
So that's where I really started to get into 3D printing and actually got into the design side of things. And so that's how I got involved with 3D printing. I've heard you talk in different content that, you've been like into archery and like outdoors and stuff, but I didn't know that was like how you got into things.
If you don't mind me asking, not to age you here, but how many years would 

you say about you've been 3D printing for now? So I don't remember what would that be like five, six years? Something like that. I think so. Yeah. That was before my time, but yeah, the timeline sounds about right there. 
 I wanted to get into it and I researched it, but the cost of getting like a rep wrap printer like a rat rig printer. And back in the day it was just too much. And [00:02:00] I didn't know anybody in the, in. That could print me the parts or anything like that. So it was about the end or two.
So I'd say six, seven years ago. Yeah, that's it's still to this day. A lot of people, I think because things used to be so expensive back in, they have that misconception that it's like this really expensive hobby to get into now. I see you have, I can't tell if it's the A1 or the A1 mini behind you, but I see you've got that thing running.
That's like a great entry level piece for people to get into now. Yeah. So it's the A1 mini. And I swear by this one weirdly enough, I work from home and that's the only printer that I have running when I'm on big conference calls and stuff like that.
And I think it's the perfect, perfect 3d printer to get into. Like it's super easy to use and it's super easy to maintain. I love that printer. It's like probably my favorite. A lot of people since that printer have come out like even people who have excellent carbons and Other bamboo printers.
I hear really great things about that printer I don't have one yet, but it's definitely on my short list of things to get but coming back to that project that you did with Wounded Warrior. It's really interesting to hear. I think area of 3D printing that so many people see us printing Fluxies and different, stuff around our house. I don't hear a lot [00:03:00] of people talk about more of the accessibility side. And I guess Areas where 3D printing can really, I think, whether it's people with disabilities or whether it's people who are just, looking for some more accessible options. I don't see it happen as much in the day to day
 Did you Have any background in 3D printing anything around it at that time? Or was that the first project you really took on like that? Yeah, no, that was the first project I took on like that. And it was out of pure necessity, right? So we were building things out of metal.
I'm a hands on person. I'm a big DIY person and we were building things out of 

metal. And then what would happen is that so great example was I was in Scott Bluff, Nebraska on a store built. And I went into an archery shop and there was a guy that had a TBI and he, his hands were bound up and he was in a wheelchair and I was like, and he goes, yeah, working in a archery shop is cool, but I wish I could shoot. 
And of course, like you, we've talked before, and you've seen my content. I just looked at him and was like, why the fuck can't you? And of course I let my mouth run away. And he goes, what do you mean? Look at me. And I'm like, that's not an excuse of why you can't shoot archery. [00:04:00] And so I went back home and probably spent 800 to 1, 000 in, in metal of mocking up 4 or 5 different things.
And then that's when I realized it was time that I needed to be able to. Make smaller mockups and then weld them together after I'd figured it out. So it was out of pure necessity and out of monetary value. That rig only cost me if I just picked the one iteration to the mark three that I made that would only cost me like 200 bucks and like scrap metal I could found around.
But again, I spent three times that because I didn't have a way to mock anything up. I think even just from a prototyping and mocking up standpoint, that's another thing that. 3D printers these days, they get a bad rap from a lot of people who don't use them of, they could be wasteful or things like that.
And if you've ever like sourced products or if you've ever developed products you know how Much goes into those. So yeah, 3d printing across the board, I think is really good for those prototyping. It's like on mass for anything. I absolutely hate it when people talk about 3d printing being wasteful, 
right. Because I don't know of a hobby. That's not wasteful. Unless your [00:05:00] hobby is like cleaning up oceans.
Okay, cool. Good for you. I do that every time I dive, but it's not my hobby. so yeah, I don't know what hobby isn't like wasteful when it comes to certain things. If you're a painter, how much paint do you waste? How many brushes do you waste? If you're a 3d printer, of course you have all the poop in the PLA and everything like that.
Or if you're, if you shoot. Like how much are you wasting? So yeah, I always find it funny when people talk about hobbies being wasteful. I haven't found a hobby yet. I really think that anybody who wants to say that anything is 

wasteful, I think you can always look back at yourself and find something that is not super great that you're doing. 
But no, I do, I think for whatever reason, the internet has just really loved to villainize 3d printers over the last couple of years. Yeah. I've cut my fair share of it recently. So yeah, I get you. Yeah. Now you mentioned diving and I feel like you're very diverse.
You have from what I've seen, like endless amounts of hobbies. are there any other hobbies that you have where 3D printing kind of intersects with that for you? I don't know if we have enough time for this. I'm a veteran of Afghanistan war. I was there for 18 months. I was a medic and [00:06:00] some pretty heavy combat. So I have adult onset ADHD and it's pretty bad and it's, I have to medicate for it. And plus I have to find things to consume my time. So yeah, when it comes to being well rounded, I think it's more, I'm just more squirrel about things, right?
Like I'm easily distracted. So I would say if I had to pin in, in reference for time, my top five I would definitely say 3d printing social media. I don't like for me, social media is more of a hobby, even though I've monetized it, like it's not anything I can quit my job over.
It's not something I can do professionally. And then I would say going to theme parks. I love going to theme parks. It's like one of my favorite things to do. It's like my daughter and I's like we're two peas in a pod when it comes to that, I gotta figure out how to break into that.
And put that on my social media. Like I have, I'm not joking you. I probably have seven hours of B roll for like theme park stuff. I'm intimidated to actually post it. I know that sounds weird because I'm not like a guy that gets intimidated, but there's so many things like that.
And then I would say archery and hunting is a big one for me. I love free diving and diving when I can get out of, we're [00:07:00] both in landlocked States. So if I can get out of Colorado, I love snorkeling and diving. I love shooting. I love riding my one wheel surfing a matter of fact, this weekend, I'm going out with a buddy and going wake surfing and I've talked to big games, so hopefully I can perform on that.
And you'll see me crashing on a tick tock for sure. Yeah. And then just building stuff. I like getting involved in as many things as I can. And then when it 

becomes serious, like too serious, then I don't want to do it anymore. Except for a few. Like social media and 3D printing has been like the ones that have stayed. 
Yeah, social media, it's a fun one. It's funny hearing you say that. You weren't so sure about Disney style content. I haven't been to Disney in many years. It used to be like our family tradition. We would always go, I loved it. I grew up, I was definitely a Disney kid. And for whatever reason, I've gotten sucked into the Disney algorithm side where half my content that I see is Disney stuff.
And I feel like you could definitely fit in. I would love to see the Disney side of your content. I think I would definitely push you into doing that. So I actually have some new content coming up. And I'm okay with even sharing it if you want to hear about it. And I have, I think it's going to be a phenomenal idea and [00:08:00] I'd love to bounce it off you.
So my daughter and I, we love going to theme parks and of course we're in Colorado, right? So we're not close to anything. We're pretty much centrally located from any theme parks, like big theme parks that you can get to. So her and I are talking about doing a 24 hour day trip to a theme park.
So basically what we're going to do is we're going to set a date like, Hey, so I'm going to buy a ticket to Florida and then the day before I'm going to do a video where it's going to have a survey and the survey is going to allow people to pick one of four parks. So then when we get to the airport, before we get on the plane, that's the park that we're going to go to, right?
We're gonna let people pick it. And then what we're going to do is, so we're going to leave here at like midnight. Okay. Get in at seven in the morning in Florida or California, and then go to the park that people pick right. Then give people like an option of what three rides do we have to ride?
And then just do the video of like us doing that. And you can get back before midnight the same day or the next day. And do 24 hour road trip or 24 hour trip to [00:09:00] something park. I absolutely love it. Instantly what comes to my mind. Some kind of mix between The Amazing Race and Disney, which already I'm on board for, but I feel like that would be a super fun thing, and super fun for engagement, too.
I don't know, anybody who's been to Disney before, I feel like everybody has just their favorite attractions, or, any of those parks. Knowing that you're, big 

theme park junkies, do you have, a favorite park, and do you have a favorite ride at said park? So I amthis might be boring for you, but I grew up in Florida I still attach theme parks to memories. 
my mom passed away roughly 11 years ago now from breast cancer. And her, It's a small world at the Magic Kingdom. Yeah. And so to this day that is my favorite ride. That's my daughter's favorite ride. And so Magic Kingdom is by far my favorite just from a nostalgia standpoint.
I'm really digging Universal Islands of Adventure. I dig it a lot. It's really good. They have really good roller coasters, like the Velocicoaster and stuff like that. The Hulk Harry Potter, all that kind of stuff. But it's a little more adult oriented and I'm not like, just like running over kids all the time.
If I want a [00:10:00] drink, I can go have a drink if I want to. Universal, they've upped their game and I'm really excited for that new Epic Universe that's coming out that new big park that they got. for the longest time, I felt maybe it was, again, because growing up I had always gone to Disney and that was like our family tradition, but I always felt like Disney was really like, Had the stronghold on the best theme park.
And then it seems like over maybe the last decade, universal, I don't know if it was when Harry Potter world came out or I don't know, it just seems like they've really, like you said, up their game. And every time I see content around it I haven't been there in, I couldn't even tell you almost 20 years, but yeah, it looks like it's a good time there, so that's definitely my bucket list to get organized.
I was trying to organize a bunch of 3d printers to meet up for, they have this thing called an Orlando and former meetup and maybe we should look at it for 2025. Even though 25, 2025 is already stacking up and we'll talk about that later, but I got some pretty cool trips coming in 2025, but they do this, like the Orlando informer, which is a newspaper.
They basically rent out universal for a night. And so I was like, Oh, that'd be great. So from eight to two in the morning, you have the thing part to yourself, [00:11:00] all you can eat, all you can drink. And I'm like, I thought that would be really cool. And I missed all of the 3d print con things this year.
And I've gotten so much help for that, but I was like let's meet up at the Orlando informer numbers. No, like we were doing this, that, and the other 

thing. And I'm like, yeah, let's do that. That's fine. Yeah, no listen, that sounds like the most fun that you could possibly have. 
Plus, with all the 3D printing people, I feel like you can't go wrong there. That sounds like a recipe for, I don't know if it's a recipe for fun or a recipe for disaster, but there would definitely be Like I want people that hate me there too.
Like I would love it because I want to sit next to him on a roller coaster and just record their face being pissed that they're sitting next to me the entire time. Who do you think who do you think that person, if you had to pay to call out one person from 3d printing, who do you think that person would be?
That doesn't like me. Oh, I don't see. Yeah. I don't know if it's friendly, but I don't have a problem. I would say, I think it's that North side 3d designs. I don't even remember their name, but they got into a debate with lightspeed about things.
And I know he can be a little obtuse [00:12:00] sometimes. So Yeah but the thing is, weirdly enough and somebody said it and I thought it was so profound that no matter how abrasive he gets, he still helps people it might not be the way that you want to be helped, but it's definitely abrasive.
But yeah, him and I went back and forth and I would try to help him out. I was like, Hey man, I would really take that video down. I'm not big for taking videos down, but like when you screw up hard, you might want to take it down. and then, so it just kept going back and forth.
And then, I don't block people. So I think you know that I don't block people ever. But it was vitriol to say the least. back in the day I took a long break from social media for the 3d printing community because I basically got ousted hard out of the 3d printing community back in the day.
And so those people probably still hate me. They're not even around anymore, but they probably still hate me for sure. Yeah, I've only been in the 3D printing community for about two years now and I always go on social media and say how much I love the community and how friendly it is people always say, there was a bit of a time of turmoil in there Anytime you're on the internet, there's always gonna be the crazies that come out, I've heard that over the years, [00:13:00] there's been some turmoil in the 3D printing side of things.

Dude, I got doxxed in everything. It was bad. I got mysterious packages sent to my house. Get out. Confronted in the store. Oh, yeah, for sure. And it was because I was taking away people's livelihood. My whole channel was about if you go early on in my 3d printing, I was basically, people had Patreon set up to help people fix 3d printers and like tips and tricks and stuff. 
And I was doing it all for free. Yeah. On tic tacs. Yeah. People for free, but yeah, it's no, it's. It's weird how sometimes you can unexpectedly make enemies, there's been so many times where I've posted a video and I just thought it was like the most innocent fun thing, and you never know who's gonna be upset by it yeah, the internet's certainly a crazy place And rebranding too, by the way.
I rebranded and that was pretty polarizing to say the least. And then I made a video where I made a in support of pride helmet. And that was the most polarizing thing that I have ever done as a creator. And I'm still getting hate for that. And the there are people that like you and I are friends [00:14:00] with that have unfollowed me and stuff I'm not going to call anybody out, but yeah.
Yeah, it's wild that whole I know you had a thread of videos about it honestly, it's surprised me. Cuz again I think about so many people I interact with and I tend to like to think of people and like The best like possible that everybody's just here to have fun and everybody's here to just like Enjoy 3D printing it always surprises me when Having an opinion Can make people not even be willing to talk to you simply By associating with people On TikTok, I've had people who had to Unfollow me or won't talk to me it's really crazy, I would assume as adults, we could all just get along, but unfortunately, it doesn't always seem to be the case The crazy one was like, it's somebody we're both friends with and we're still friends don't get me wrong.
They're like, I just unfollowed you because I don't want to see that on my page. And I'm like, I get that. But here's the thing. I don't know if you've noticed this, but in social media as a whole, there's this new trend of having to describe to people or announce that you're [00:15:00] out, right?
Like when I don't want to see something, I just unfollow somebody. But there's this new thing now where people are doing whole videos on I'm unfollowing this person or they're leaving comments. I'm unfollowing this person. who cares? Yeah, bro. Yeah. I don't get it. I think some people don't have lives outside of the internet, maybe, and that just becomes, I don't know.
A high degree of importance in their life of announcing everything that is going 

on and I think that's a tough way to live. Again you, I'm sure you can relate, but as somebody who makes content, there was definitely a time when I was younger and would make content and, getting negative comments would just destroy my day. 
I'd be like, so upset about it. I'd be bustering about it. I couldn't stop thinking about it. And I'm definitely at a point in my life where I just could not give a fuck. I don't care what anybody has to say at this point. I'm like, listen, I'm just going to live my life. And if you like it, great.
If you don't like it, that's fine. I think again you would think like a lot of, as people are adults that would be on the same page with that, but it's just not, I think people really get sucked into that whole world of comments and online [00:16:00] personality. Where was your mark?
Where was your mark when you just stopped fucking Karen? About, like, all the Karens on the internet? It's hard to say for me. I really don't think there was like a set, there wasn't like any set thing that happened for me. I always say I started making content when I was literally 13.
I started on YouTube back when, I was on YouTube so early back there wasn't even likes or dislikes, there was star ratings on videos. It was like, a whole different world back then. And, I had always made content never that successfully or that well, and I always transitioned into these different things and I think it was more so when I got into 3D printing.
It was like the first time that I don't even want to say it was successful, but it was the most success I had ever had with social media. And it was the first time where I would have videos that would, get enough views where People would comment on, just like every opinion about me and the good thing about that is people would comment all these like crazy things and nothing changed in my real life like my real life was still like went on as normal Everything was fine.
And I think that was like honestly [00:17:00] really Good to happen in that aspect because it's for better or for worse transferred into other aspects of my life where I really just don't fucking care like, obviouslyI want to, be a good person and be nice to people. But at the end of the day I'm going to live my life.
And that I think that was like a good. A good thing to be able to to get to in life. Cause it wasn't always there for me. For sure. And you get more obtuse comments than I do for sure. Here's the thing is and for anybody watching, let's 

not pull any punches here. Misfits is a very pretty girl as well. 
And I'm sure you get like those gross comments too. I don't get those. Like I get them every once in a while, but you never know. Maybe you do. Yeah. So every once in a while I'll get a thirst trap comment, If you were Oh, it sucks. Like when I did that whole Cody wolf thing, that Cody Roberts wolf thing.
I got so many comments of oh, I can't believe you had a wife in your video. That's really a bummer. It makes me sad. And I'm like, Oh okay. Maybe this is what it feels like, but you guys get like gross comments, like pretty girls on the internet get gross comments. And that would drive me absurd.
Like that would drive me [00:18:00] absolutely up a wall. Like a hundred percent. Yeah, it's I, again, it always comes back to I think the People just disconnect people on the internet from being real humans. Like again, like there, there's things that people leave in my comments where I'm like, I know you would never in a million years say this to my face in real life, but just because there's that wall of you're seeing me through my phone, like people feel comfortable.
Seeing wild things of every degree and again, I'm sure this is no not news to you I'm sure you experience this too. But yeah it's again like one of those things where I feel like if you don't make content It can be easy to look at somebody and think maybe oh, they get comments all the time We're like it doesn't matter but like I even if I don't respond to every comment I still read every comment and I still see The wild things that people will say.
So yeah, I think that's if there's one thing I could communicate to people who don't make content, it's that we are still like real people. I think you and I take a different tact at it though, right? Cause let's be real. Like we've talked to people within our community.
And they are not the [00:19:00] same person that you see that's so true. If you and I sat down at a table, take the mics out. It doesn't matter. We're having the same conversation that we're having right now. Actually, it'd probably get more inappropriate than it is now, but I think there's no rules, but at the same time, we're still a little more reserved than what we would be in real life.
Yeah. But what's weird is if you meet some of the people that I've met, I'm like, Oh my gosh, you are totally not the person that I thought you were in real life. Like great example. I know we've talked about it before, but Lightspeed is 

exactly the same person that you get in real life that you do in online. 
Same with a Zoltan, Bensky those people, right? Like they are exactly the same people, but there are other people that I've met. Like I was even outside of the 3d printing space where I was like, Oh, I wish I wouldn't have met you. It's totally different. Yeah. I think and that is I, that's always something I say I don't go to events for 3D printing and things like that I'm lying.
I have a little more of a crazy out there persona and in real life I will say like I'm a pretty shy reserved person until I get to know you and then all butts are off then we're back to fucking wild. But yeah, I [00:20:00] think that is an interesting thing and I don't know if you feel this way at all, but like I do think everybody has a little bit of a Elevated version of themselves that they are for social media, like a little happier, louder.
Maybe you don't feel that way. But I do think then there's like a whole different world of people who they're just like a completely different person online. And yeah, I think there's definitely levels to it. I will tell you for the most part, what is what you get with me.
I'm more tame. To be honest with you, I'm more tame on social media than I am in real life. That I will say responded to what people said to me online the way I would in real life. I would have been canceled a long time ago, like a long time ago. And then I think the other thing too, is I think there's a difference between the way I look too, by the way.
And I found that out. So I guess I look like typical vet bro. Side of the political spectrum, dude. And so I think like when I talk about certain things, people get Oh, wait a minute. I thought you were this way. And cause I'm a hunter and yeah, stuff like that.
And I used to have a big [00:21:00] American flag that got my videos taken down all the time. Like more than my bow in the background. But weirdly enough, I think people think the way I look is a certain way. I guess it's the beard. JC tells me it's the beard all the time, but I don't know.
for the most part, what is what you get. For the most part, people just don't see the bad side, right? Like the PTSD ragey side sometimes. I think that's another interesting thing that I've learned over the years is that people are very quick to, if you're associated with one thing, I think people are so quick to categorize, what you must completely be about.

, when people get to know me more, I think sometimes they're surprised about that just because I like some things doesn't mean I like other things. And people are so complex and I think we're. So quick, especially these days, to just throw somebody in a box and be like this is what they must be like. 
especially again, like online, I think, people get so tribal and the second that they realize that you don't agree with this thing, but don't agree with that thing. It's again, it's crazy. Absolutely. One of the most crazy things that you bring up, like tribalism is like one of the number one things that's killing America.
I'm sorry. it's horrible. And [00:22:00] I don't want to get politicky, butit's really not politic for me. It's even in the 3d printing space. if you're bamboo, like all other printers suck. If you're in a cubic, all other printers suck. And like right now, there's this big war between Prussia and Bamboo and all this other crazy stuff.
And boy, I made a mistake of dipping my toes into that. And that was bad idea. Bad idea.it's crazy how tied into just something like a 3d printer brand people will get, but exactly that. I started on unders I've learned along as I made my content like my first content was my first month 3d printing people saw my entire journey I started out and all my content was about how I Loved my under and how I thought it was so cool It was exactly what I needed at the time.
I got a bamboo and so many people were upset with me. They were like, How could you ever get that printer? Why would you get it? The Ender's actually better because of XYZ. I was like, I'm not going to come on here and lie and say that the Ender's better when it's not. it just isn't. I still liked it and it served the purpose that I needed at the time.
And it was exactly, it was a great printer for me at the time. It's just funny how it's, people [00:23:00] can't, people really want you to be just like on their team. I think the thing that boggles my mind right now is the so you can tell I'm getting hyped up. It boggles my mind right now is that people try to like skew facts about things to describe their feelings instead of just being like, I like this and it doesn't matter.
And that was like my video about it was something like this. you cannot like when you look at the specs of a machine, right? That doesn't change, like it doesn't change based on how you feel. The spec is what it is. And if you go by 

specs. You can't compare a Prusa, Mark three to an X one. 
It's just, it's not comparable. You can compare it to an a one, right? But now we're also talking about like a huge Delta between the price, right? Like an a one's 500 bucks or 400 bucks. And you're talking to Prussia's 1200, 1300 bucks, not assembled. I don't understand why people always have to try to factualize their feelings.
 Look man, just feel a certain way and be a certain way. it's okay just to not like somebody because you don't like somebody right? Yeah or [00:24:00] something I've only been 3d printing for a couple years now But like when I first came into 3d printing the x1 carbon had just come onto the market It was new.
It was cool. Not a lot of people have it like, I would see like it's boy in space and Uncle Jesse would I'd see their videos, but not a ton of people had them, and the perception I got at that time was that the Prusa people were, like, they were on top. They had the best machine.
They were, the cool kids, and I think maybe for some of those people it was, like, a little hard to let that go of loving their Prusa. At least that's the perception that I've gotten from those people. Yeah, for sure. and that's okay. That's totally okay that people feel that way.
But at the same time I don't know. I've always been big on I want tech to grow. And like the invention of the bamboo, like I was, I'm not gonna lie. I was really hesitant about getting into bamboo. I think I was, I think I got into bamboo after you, to be honest with you. Did you? 
Yeah. I've had them for about a year now. Is that about when you got yours? Yeah. So probably about a year or so, probably about the same time. I was a big any cubic guy. Like I was all about any cubic and boy, they've really let me down over the last probably six months.
The [00:25:00] firmware upgrades to the Cobra two max is just like awful, but weirdly I was totally against bamboo for a while. And then I got one and I was like, okay, let me just see what it's about. Same reason why I got a. K1 Max, like everybody was hating on it and I was like, let's see how bad it is.
And it's actually weirdly enough out of all the printers I have, it's my favorite printer. What is it about that printer that you like? Is it the size or what do you 

like about that printer? Size, speed. Once you get rid of the slicer it's super, super easy to use. It's no really different than a bamboo. 
And I'll be honest with you. I'm really beginning to hate multicolor. It's just, it's wasteful. It takes forever. And I can accomplish the same thing in half the time if I just print everything and then glue it together. Yeah. I got the AMS when I got my bamboo, and it was one of those things that for the longest time I had my Ender for about a year, before I got this printer.
And I would see everybody and I'd be like, that's so cool. I feel like I'm missing out. I feel like if only I had the capability, I'd print all this cool stuff. And honestly, I hate my AMS. I hate doing multi color. I hate how long it takes. I hate how long it takes. [00:26:00] Much extra junk is coming out of my printer and yeah, I don't know I know a lot of people like they love it.
They swear by it. It's not for me it's a huge hot take right but I think multicolor, you know it's good for somebody like my wife that wants to make like ornaments for Christmas or something, right? So It does have its place, but realistically for what I do, making helmets and fidgets and stuff like, there's no point, absolutely zero point.
Or even prototyping. For sure, yeah. I know you're known for you're the king of fidgets, but I feel like you make a lot of helmets, too, and I hear people calling you the king of helmets, but No, I'm not. I know you've said like you've recently got some helmets in the mail from really cool creators and you said oh, you'd never be able to make it.
And I don't know, I believe in you. I feel like you could, but do you have any kind of like hot. Takes or hot tips for people who are looking to get into helmets. Cause that's a question I get a lot, actually, is like a lot of people in the comments are looking to get into helmets specifically.
So do you have any advice for people looking to get into that? Yeah. So two one, if you're sizing a helmet, just drop it through the build plate and only print part of the helmet. And you can size it that way. Everybody [00:27:00] uses these programs and like guest methods and calipers and all this other stuff.
I'm like, dude, find the helmet you want, drop it down to where your head's the biggest, right? So it's like between the back of your head and your temple and drop it down and just print like four or five lines and stick the dang thing on your head. It's the easiest way to do it. So that's one, right?

So if you're sizing a helmet, I have videos on it. If you're sizing a helmet, that's the easiest, fastest way to do it. Print like 10 lines, 15 lines and put it on your head and it'll tell you if it's going to fit. if you're finishing a helmet and this is something that I just found out all of this sanding and primer filler and all this other crap that people have been using in Bondo and everything else has now gone away. 
And all of the pros are just taking what you would use for a resin printer, painting it on the helmet, curing it. Sanding it and they do that five or six times and you get a perfect mirror finish on it every time. Yeah, man, I wish I would have known that one. I don't know if you saw, but I did a helmet swap with Jake DeRosa [00:28:00] and it took me like a year to do, which is embarrassing.
But. Yeah, that the sanding and the priming and the million of different supplies that I used to do that whole process with, it was a total nightmare. It was a learning process, so I learned a ton along the way, but yeah, towards the tail end of it, then I started getting people in the comments and they were telling me about exactly what you said there for the resin.
So yeah, that's if I ever get back to doing helmets, which, I don't know that I will, because it was a painful process. And then you got a helmet from Jake DeRosa, which has been doing that for a year and a half, two years now. Has been doing the UV resin. Like he lives right down the road from me.
And I went there and I was like, man it takes me forever to finish the helmet. It takes me a month and a half, two months to finish a helmet. He's dude, it takes me like four hours. Yeah. They're so cool. He does such a great job painting it. I don't know if you saw he's redoing his like maker room and he just repainted his whole logo on the wall.
He's a talented dude. Very cool. He is. And he's got a baby coming pretty quick. I know. I'm so excited. It's a girl. I'm so excited. I can't wait. He's going to be a good girl dad. So I called Alex six [00:29:00] months ago. He was like, do you, what do you think I'm gonna have? I'm like, girl, I didn't even have to watch the full announcement video that he had.
As soon as I saw it come up, I was like, yeah, I know it's a girl. So yeah. Yeah. like leading up to this, watching through, I was creeping through all your content to prepare for this, but Oh no, I saw some cringy stuff. Nothing too bad, just the usual. But one of the other things that I heard you talking about in regards to helmets and printing them out, and maybe I misunderstood, 

because it doesn't seem like it would work, but I think you said that you don't print your helmets with supports? 
Did I misunderstand that? No, so I don't print them with center supports. So you never support the center of a helmet unless it's like a cone head type thing. Even then, yeah, very rarely do you ever support the center of a helmet. And the reason why you don't is because the fastest way to get a layer shift at height is the nozzle hitting the support.
Supports have a tendency to move, right? And they so what will happen is here's a support sitting here for people who are just listening. A support is like a long thing that you can print on top of, and they have a tendency to sway. And when they sway, one of the sides will actually lift up.
And [00:30:00] so it'll be higher than what it was. And when we're talking about 0. 2 millimeters, that's not a lot of space. So when it flexes up, the nozzle will hit it and it will cause the nozzle to jump. And you don't need to support, a dome type helmet, right? Because it just puts layers on tops of the layers.
The inside of it looks a little screwy, but I have way less failures that way, and I waste way less material. So the only thing I support is usually like where the eyepieces are, or if the helmet is cut to where it's not, it wouldn't sit flat. Yeah, that was an interesting tip for me, cause, I don't have a large enough printer to print it all in one piece I was printing it individually, but I know for other prints that I've done before where it's like a similar shape to that I've had those layer shift issues and it's always a bitch when you know, you're laying down that 15 hour print and right towards the end, you get that layer shift at the top.
So I was curious to try that. You have a P1P too though. So there are a lot of helmets that you can actually print, like Mando helmets are pretty good. Big buckets, right? There are huge buckets, but like right now with your P one P, you could totally print a Deadpool helmet. You could print a Wolverine helmet that would fit.
There's a lot of different helmets that you could fitSo don't count out [00:31:00] your P one P cause there's a lot of helmets that you could print on there. And then there's. Helmets that I can't even print on my K1 Max, that I would literally have to go to like my Cobra 2 Max to print like a Gladiator helmet or something like that.
I'd have to go to a huge format printer to be able to print it. Yeah, that's it's 

funny you say, and it's funny you said that about the sizing too, because that was something I guess I didn't take into consideration was not only how large the Mandalorian helmets are, I just. Grab the file off of I think I got from Galactic Armory And I just ran the file right as it was and when I melded it all together I was like man This thing is massive and like I would put it on my head and it would have all this room to wiggle around so You know, obviously it was just going to Jake's and it was just going to sit on a shelf But I definitely think had I been printing it for my head I really could have gotten away with printing it smaller, 
So that's true. I got this huge nose that I got to make up for helmet. So usually the head is loose and then the nose is nice and tight. Keeps it on there. For sure. 
Do you have any kind of large scale projects that either you're working on secretly or that you're hoping to get into at some [00:32:00] point so yeah, I got to actually and I'm just trying to decide between the 2 the 1st 1 is I want to do a full scale not working, but I want to do a full scale.
Wally. I love Wally. Oh, like love Wally. Yeah. And I like with Wally. I was really worried about skills. So I think I've upped those a lot and I've figured it out now to where like I can really like make a go at it like with airbrushing and stuff like that. You'll definitely be seeing that.
But again, for content, especially for short form content, making a big project sucks. Because People want to see the next iteration. So I'm thinking about just like recording it and then dropping it. Or except for, on podcasts or stuff. Cause again, there's nothing you can ask me that I'm not going to tell you. So yeah, that, and then the other one is, I don't, do you watch Game of Thrones? I don't, I feel like I, I feel like I'm the only person in the world who has not seen Game of Thrones.
Yes, I like, I'll text you later. Cause I'm going to, I'm going to be on you about this. But they have this new show called house of dragon and this guy's armor, this Damon Targaryen's armor is probably the coolest armor set I've [00:33:00] ever seen. It's like medieval, but dragony and like fantasy.
And so I would love to do a Damon Targaryen full armor set, like full armor set would be awesome. Hopefully by the time that you're working on that project, hopefully I've at least started a game of thrones. Cause yeah I've had multiple people get on me on that one for not of watching it.

I'm historically like I almost watch no like standard TV. So I'm always completely out of the loop with any cultural thing that's happening. 
Yeah. I think it's right up your alley because No matter how famous the person is, they're not safe on the show. They could be there or they couldn't be there. it is like twist after twist, and each show is almost like a movie. To be truthful, it's awesome.
Yeah, I've heard people say that they get really invested in certain characters, and then they're just gone. it gets pretty wild. So I definitely think I would like it. I just need to sit down and dedicate the time to watching it. Now one quick warning. It does get a little risque.
That show gets a little risque and I, by the way, a lot. That's okay. Yeah, I'm sure I can handle it. But yeah, there's a lot of shows. [00:34:00] I always sayI'm waiting until maybe I'm, maybe this is a bad strategy, but I'm waiting until I'm like old and can't do any of my other things that I want to do to watch like all the greatest TV that's ever happened.
So maybe I just need to dive into that one early. But yeah, that's been on my list. I think the reason why I've gotten into shows now, and it seems to be a common occurrence in the 3d printing space, at least, is that I probably only sleep like four hours a night. That's about it.
Like, when you get to midnight, 1 o'clock in the morning, there really is not much to do. I'll sit there and be seen in a helmet or editing content or because, I don't, okay, real quick, I have to ask you, do you shoot every day or do you just shoot one day and have five or six videos in case you don't want to do shit later on in the week?
For me I think a lot of people have they're like, I post a video every day, no matter what, and I'm, I wish I could be that person, I'm not. I know. I will have days where I'm like super inspired, and I'm just having so much fun, and I'll make five videos, and I like post them all that day, because I literally, I get so excited, and I can't wait to post them.
But then there's like two weeks will go by, and I'm just like, I'm not [00:35:00] feeling it. I'm not inspired and I don't make anything and like I think for a while on here I wa I was trying to like I was like every day I have to make content and there would be like videos that I'd make and like You could just tell I was like I wasn't feeling it and I was like why am I like this isn't my job This I've no reason 

why I have to be doing this. 
So I've just recently let myself if I'm Not feeling it, and I know I'm not gonna make anything good. I just don't make anything I don't really have any set schedule. But, to answer your question, sometimes it's one video a day, and sometimes it's none, and sometimes it's ten.
Yeah. So I was big on trying to post once a day, but now it's at least if I post a couple of times a week, I'm good. And, I still record if I'm feeling it, I'll sit down and record five, six videos and then I'll just save them and then post them out throughout the time.
Because being a full time student, full time dad, full time Content creator I'm just running out of time. the point that I was getting to was, it's just funny to me because all across the board, people are so crazy about posting content and oh, I haven't heard from you for a couple of days.
And I'm like, dude Cut me a break. But anyway, so while I'm like [00:36:00] editing videos, like I'll sit down and edit like six or seven videos and I'll watch a show or something like that. That's how I got into watching shows because normally throughout the day, I don't have time. There's no time.
No, it makes sense. I didn't know that you were a student. What are you what are you a student of right now? You want to talk about one of the most lackluster things on the planet we've talked before, we talked before the show, I'm a senior project manager for a pretty big tech company.
And I don't have a project management degree. And how big companies work is Q1 comes around, people start getting laid off and you have to try to make yourself as a reduction in force proof as possible. And I didn't have degrees. So I was like, Oh crap, I need to get a degree.
My business management degree doesn't really do anything for me nowadays. Cause it's like basket weaving at this point. You know what I'm saying? Like it was like a lib art, lib arts degree, like 10 years ago. Now that's basically what business is. So I'm finishing up my project management degree.
And so we're like, currently right now I'm taking 26 credit hours a semester. No, hold on, I was lying. 24. I'm taking 24. I'm taking double full time. I haven't been in school for a long time, but that's still a shit ton of work if I'm [00:37:00] 

remembering correctly. Yeah. That's like a whole full time thing. 
That's a lot. we have similar. I I do product management for my profession. And I likewise, I had no background in it. I hada psychology degree, which is even less helpful in that field. And really not helpful for anything if you want to be employed, but yeah.
 I think it, you said it's boring, but I think it's good for people to hear about it, at least for me, like product management or project management, because I never had heard about that growing up. I didn't even know that was an option until I'd been working at my company and they had approached me and asked if it was a field that I wanted to get into.
I think I spent a lot of time when I was younger and kinda coming out of college just having no idea what to do with my life. I still don't know. I don't think anybody knows. But I think for people who maybe are looking for something that is a little more unique and lets you dip your toes into a lot of different areas.
I think both those fields are like really cool fields to just explore. And they're just not things that I hear people talk a lot about. And so if you're a [00:38:00] younger person listening, maybe explore product management and project management. Cause I think they're bothpretty cool fields out there.
And weirdly enough, I do both. To be truthful, I do both. So I do incentives for a large tech company. So I use incentives to drive the front line, but realistically I work with product teams every day about how do we make this product viable to the front line?
So I work with product managers all the time of it's tech. And tech, like people will come out with the dumbest thing in the world. And then everybody just trying to make that product, like the most amazing. And the good thing is that I'm a, at least from a project management standpoint, I can have that honest conversation with them going Hey, this is not going anywhere.
And then, the other thing too, is it's great is like being a small time, but not mine, like minor content creator, right? Having I think anybody over 10, 000, 15, 000 on Tik TOK following, like you've at least figured out something, right? Like you're doing it.

And you figured out something and have a following. One thing that it's nice to be able to talk about is like with my company is I can go back and go, Hey. [00:39:00] You guys are marketing this to content creators. There's not a content creator on the planet. That's going to use that. Like not one. Yeah. I'm like, that's not where you're going with this. You need to be talking to like moms or this is just such a niche product. Like it's going to be a Casey Neistat. Nobody else is going to use it. Nobody else is going to spend, 5 grand on this camera. I'm just not going to make room in my budget to afford that. If a camera's over a grand, I'm not buying it. I'm sorry. I'm not buying it. Speaking of cameras, I feel like you've got, you've always got quite the tech stack in your videos. You've always got a wide array of interesting products and tech items that I've never heard of before. 
And I'm like a similar boat to you. If it's over, I'm not buying if it's over a thousand dollars, I personally film every single thing on my cell phone. I used to be very into photography and I had a bunch of DSLRs andpeople often ask and say Oh, what camera should I get?
I want to get into this. Do I need to buy an expensive camera? And I always say like the best camera you have is whatever's going to make it the easiest for me. That's my phone. But for you, I'm curious, like you seem to have a [00:40:00] lot of different kind of devices that you use. So do you have any kind of, maybe if you could only have a couple pieces of equipment, like what would you roll with for your setup?
If I could only have, let's say I could only have one camera. It would be my phone. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be my phone. A hundred percent, invest the money in a good phone. Yeah. So more of your Samsung Galaxy side or your iPhone side. Yeah. Get the best phone that you can afford before you go and spend 600 bucks on a camera.
Six, 700 bucks on a camera. I am a huge. Audio person, right? If I was going to take any money outside of my phone for content creating, it would be go get a mic. Even if it's the cheapest mic out there, go get a mic. But if you're willing to spend a hundred, 120 bucks, I think that's the number one leveler for content across the board is getting a mic.
And so whether it's like a I have the DJI system, but it came with my, what we'll talk about here in a moment, I think if you spend a good money, like on a newer or Holly land or something like that, it's going to up your content. And matter of fact, I just proved it with [00:41:00] helping one makes he, he did a 

video with me and he was like, I was like, dude, you got to get a mic. 
And he's it's just not in the budget. I'm like, I'm sending you one. Like you're a good buddy of mine. I'm going to send you a mic. A hundred percent up to his game. Okay. But let's talk about if I had to pick if I had to leave the house with a couple so I use cameras but I would a hundred percent tell anybody if it's in the budget, the Osmo pocket three.
And I would show you it, but I'm actually using as a webcam right now. So it's a webcam, it's a vlogger cam. It does landscape, it does portrait mode. It does everything. It literally does everything and it fits in your pocket. I never leave the house with that thingright after this, I'm gonna go pick up a new camera for long form content because I've been told that I need to get into that, 
And so I'm gonna listen to the masses. But I'm going to go pick up a Sony ZV, I don't know, the ZV E10 or something, whatever it is. I can never keep up track with the numbers on those, but yeah, I hear those are good. And here's the thing is that people will probably fillet me on this, right? But realistic, if I had to leave the house with just one [00:42:00] camera, it would be my Pocket 3.
I just, in anybody that talks to me, I'm very passionate about it. It has good battery life. It comes with a mic. It comes with a stand. Ready to roll and DJI has such a good company that like they take feedback really well. So take, for example, like the gimbal, like right now I still have active tracking on the camera right now as we're talking, but as you can see, I can move around in the screenshot and it's not moving in the background.
Like they take all of this stuff and it's just specifically made for content creating. And so the only thing about it is it's a little weak, right? Cause it has like. Gimbal built on top. So for other stuff when I'm in the rain or if I'm riding my one wheel or I'm hunting or something like that, I have an Osmo action for.
And that's what I take with me. But if I had to leave the house with anything it'd be my pocket three, or just my phone with a mic. There's a lot of things to unpack there. First of all, if you ever watch my content, you probably want to throw your phone across the room.
Cause I just use my, phone microphone. I haven't gotten into audio, but I always see a lot of people run the DJI mics and they seem to be great. So that's [00:43:00] always in the back of my head. I'm like, I should get one, but I'm such an ease of use person.

Like I literally just Want to sit down and try to film my video. And it's literally no extra work to plug in the microphone, but I don't know. It is another step, there's something that you don't know about though. I'm sure you don't know my mics record my audio. 
Whether the mic is disconnected from the camera or not, right? So if I'm like recording something and for some reason let's say I have this, like wifi anomaly in the house where like it screws up the audio or whatever, I can actually just upload the audio into CapCut with my mic and put the audio and sync it to my mouth.
Yeah. So I'd never have an audio problem. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Now coming back to, it's the Osmo 3 that you have to, am I getting the right model there? Yeah. For that, that, now that's another one that I've been like curious about, I looked into before and I think my dad has one, he's, he loves like little tech items like that.
He's a big DJI fan as well, but how do you find your your data transfer is with is the process easy? Is it wireless? Do I need to move SD [00:44:00] cards around? How does that process work with that camera? Yeah. Completely wireless. The app is super fast. So when I get done recording videos for me to upload, let's say that I did I had a very motivated day and I did 5 videos for me to upload all of those shots whether, let's say they're all minute and a half or small shots into a minute and a half Three minutes for me to upload them to my phone and they go right into my photo Gallery in order of shot from top to bottom.
So yeah, no that's why I got it Like that's why I'm a little worried about the Sony like the Sony requires like a data transfer and also the crap This literally is just on my phone. I'd never edit on a computer unless it's now I don't edit it on a computer. I'm just gonna let you guys know Yeah, that's like it's, I mentioned it earlier, but like before being on Tik Tok, I was always a YouTube person and that was like where I got away from doing content for a while is as dumb and as simple as it sounds like I hated moving my files around.
I hated just like editing on a, like I hated that I had to sit at my [00:45:00] computer and edit. I love now everything I do, like I use CapCut to, and I can just. Sit on my couch and do it and it's so seamless and easy, but yeah that was like the thing that I just hated moving those files around.
Oh, yeah, it's awful it was the same when I had it under that was probably the thing I love the most about the bamboo is just like Sending the file right to my 

printer and not having to move around SD cards. It's, I don't know what it is about SD cards. 
It just drives me nuts. It's probably cause I always lose them in my house. I always misplaced them. And for all you haters out there that are listening right now and they're like, Oh, that's just lazy. Fuck you, dude. I'm sorry. I know it's coming. And you know what? Like I could care less because those are the same people that are like.
Oh back in the day when I was hunting, I used to use a red flannel and a pair of jeans. And I'm like it's gotten better back in the day and the world existed, lights are pretty cool, dude. So yeah, those are also the people who don't make content who are going to be like, Oh, it's so lazy that you wouldn't do that.
Private account, the private account. when you're talking about tech when you're talking about camerashere's another hot [00:46:00] take I absolutely hate it. And I'll never buy another one again for the exact reason that we're talking about the Insta360 360 camera.
I'll never buy one again. It's just such a pain and the files are so huge. the only real way to edit them is on a computer. You can do it on your phone and it's available, but it's just so hard to do. There's no point in having it.
I like the idea of it, like that I don't have to worry about where the camera is shooting at. So if I was brand new to doing content or doing just shooting videos and stuff like that. Maybe I'll be able to get into it, but I'm so used to now worrying about like ISO values and like exposure values and where are my cameras pointing?
I don't need something that I can just pull out of my pocket, stick in my mouth and ride a rollercoaster with, right? Like it's right. when the Insta360s came out, all my favorite creators, I'm a big Casey Neistat fan, I feel like he talked about it a ton of people that I loved they were really hypin it, I was like, so cool, I got my boyfriend one, he was getting into content at the time, and he thought it was gonna be like, hard content and things like that, and, I think he's used it once.
I don't think it, like you said it's just, it's not I don't want to say it's a [00:47:00] gimmick, but I just feel like it wasn't it was cool when it came out and it was like cool in its time. And I feel like some people still love it, but yeah, it's just it's, it wasn't something that ever caught on for either of us.

I think it's the same as like an AMS though. Like the AMS was like super cool in the beginning. And I'm like, Oh, you know what? Don't hear, funny thing about the AMS. Actually real quick, let me just finish my thought. I'm sorry. Like again, I get sidetracked. It's like AMS, right? 
Like I was super stoked about multicolor and then turn right around. And now like I try to avoid multicolor at all costs. But where I was going to go with that is that one thing I would love to see them adapt from the AMS to one of these single color units is how easy it is to load filament and unload filament from the AMS.
Like, why haven't we got there yet? Cause the K one max is horrible. Oh my God. It's so you have to fish it up the side and then you have to fish it around, like into this thing, and then it has this like hard 90 into the hot end. And I always end up having to take it off and like kind of stick it in there.
And then you have this like weird little lock mechanism and everything. I'm like, dude, why can't I just put it near a hole and it just [00:48:00] sucks it in. And I know that's what she said. You know what I'm saying, right? 
Cause it was really only like a week when I got my P1P. I got the AMS at the same time, but I was like scared to hook it up. I don't even know why, but I was just running with a single color. And even on the P1P, it's like the same thing. It's you got to like string it through the back and it's weird.
And like you said, like why can't it just suck it out? I don't know. I feel like that should be. Technology that we could figure out here, I should be able to put it close and goes and just takes it in. I don't get it. And now we're looking at these like big Delta type printers with the arms and everything like that.
And you have to fish that sucker all the way through and down. And I'm just like, can we get one? That's just I take a roll out, throw a roll in. It's good to go. Yeah. Yeah, I hear a lot of people talk about, 3D printers are gonna be like, it's gonna be like a microwave.
Everyone's gonna have one in their house. And I think until we figure things like that out, like just, it's so easy, I don't think it's gonna be that. Like I, I really do think unless you're just somebody who loves to tinker and loves to make stuff I don't think most people are [00:49:00] fucking with that.

I don't think people want to Be doing all these extra things. I know a lot of people are really going home with that in the next couple of years, everyone's going to have a 3d printer and it's going to explode, but I think we're still quite a ways out from that. I think we're a decade out at least because like you're, it's going to take two or three and you're in product management, right? 
Like it's going to take two or three years just to dispel the feeling of the fact that it's super expensive and it's super hard to do. Yeah. You would have figured the bamboo would have done like for all the people that want to say that we're on the way. Sure. But we're probably only about 8 percent there because people are scared of bamboos and they're like a cricket nowadays.
Yeah. As far as use wise. Yeah. Yeah. I know we're coming up on time here, so I want to keep you too long, but there's just a ramping up. I know we've talked a lot about social media in general, 
TikTok, you clearly did TikTok way longer than I followed you for becauseit's only been a couple years that I followed you for, but your presence online, I feel like you just have a very likable and a very put together presence online. And I don't know if content is something that was always natural for [00:50:00] you, or if it was always easy for you.
But it feels like, you seem like you're very natural on camera. And I think that's something a lot of people struggle with and struggle to get people to, Be tied into what they're doing. How have you gotten to where you're at with your level of content and what advice do you have for people who are looking to still get into content?
So first and foremost, I'm my worst critic, right? Nothing that I can do is good enough for Brady, right? For Matt Brady. That's my first name for everybody listening in. So if guys, everyone, Matt Brady. So I can never live up to it. So it's almost like an M and M effect, right?
Nobody can say anything worse to me than what I say in my head, three inches from a mirror, right? Which is true. And I know that's dark, but it's true. And so the second thing was, is that I, look at my old videos that I'd never take down a video. People can go see my old cringy videos and how bad they were.
And everybody's going to go through that, right? Like you have to keep shooting and keep shooting in order to start. Catching your niche and like really starting to find your center. I have a video coming out [00:51:00] either tonight 

or tomorrow. I got to shoot it actually, where somebody was saying they want to see me where I'm not like hyped up. 
And I'm just literally going to take a fidget and go. This is a fidget that I like. And and prove to everybody, they don't want to see me not hyped up. Yeah. No, I think everybody has those jitters. I don't know for you, cause I, I, you and I, we do a lot of in office shootings cause this is where we work, this is where we can get new content, like on a.
Between conference calls, I can shoot a quick video, right? Yeah. But there's three things about social media. One that makes me nervous. And then two things that I just like to wrap up. If you want to get into social media, these are the two things you need to listen to. Is first and foremost, I am so nervous shooting in public.
It is like the most awkward thing in the world. Do you feel the same way? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how people get over that and it's one of those things where in the back of my mind I can be like, this is going to be a cool video and people are going to like, enjoy this or it's going to perform well or whatever.
And it doesn't matter how much I hype myself about it. I even create plans going into it. [00:52:00] I'm like, okay, I'm going to go to the store and I'm going to pull it out here and I'm going to, I have this whole plan. And I get there and I'm suddenly so what if somebody sees, where I live, I'm technically in Phoenix, but on the outskirts.
So it's a smaller town and, it's not LA. There's not content creators running anywhere. So everywhere. So I think maybe because I never see people in Phoenix. Public doing it. It seems weird. But it's never been something I've gotten accustomed to.
Yeah, it's super weird, right? So like when I'm recording and I'm like going, Oh my God, everybody's watching me. So now I'm putting on two performances, right? Which is just too much for me to like process. I did a video where, you know, that viral video where you jump over the camera and you end up somewhere else. Weirdest thing ever to shoot in the middle of a crowded DIA airport is jumping over this damn camera. weirdly enough, I got 20 followers out of it because like people came up and they're like, Oh, I want to see the end result of that video.
And I'm like, okay, cool. But yeah, so I think people are more into it than in your 

head. I think it really is just one of those things I build up in my own head and it's really not a thing. But okay, so let's talk about the two things though, that people should leave with one, your [00:53:00] content is going to suck in the beginning. 
I promise you, it's going to suck. You just got to get over it and you got to post it. And when I say post consistently, meaning don't post once and think that you're going to get a billion followers from it. It happens, but the likelihood of that happening is very rare. It's taken me, yeah.
4 years to get to 20, 000 followers. Now, don't get me wrong. I just started like promoting my tick tock. But realistically, just posting videos is not going to, posting videos once every like month or so. It's not going to help you. And then 2. My biggest pet peeve, my biggest pet peeve in the world I have three, but this is my biggest pet peeve is people, when they say they don't have time, I don't have time to post videos, right?
I don't have time to make videos. I'm like you sure spend a hell of a lot of time liking my videos. And I enjoy that. And thank you. But in that same amount of time, you could have shot a video and posted it. everybody has this like crazy excuse, right? Oh, I work on the top of antennas in the middle of the Midwest.
And I spent four days up there and I'm like, okay, cool. Shoot three videos before you go, dude, or shoot videos up there. I think people [00:54:00] always have this idea in their head that their life is so boring. And I literally think I've, maybe there's some boring people out there actually, but I think most people have unexpectedly exciting things in their life.
I think a lot of people, and I get most people can't like, take their camera to work with them, but I think there's so many people who have such interesting jobs where I, those are some of my favorite videos to watch really the curtains pulled back and you just get to see all those things that you always wondered.
it's boring to that person because they do it every day of their life. But I, that's my favorite content. My favorite content, like truth be told, my favorite content right now is watching people that like okay. First of all, let me say my least favorite content and people need to stop posting it.
Cause it is the most, it is the worst content in the world is people who are smug about things like, I hate it. Like I absolutely detest that content is people who are like very smug and you're going to tell me how things are. I'm like, bro, I'm 

over it. And it seems to be really [00:55:00] bad in tech any kind of tech posting. 
But anyways, as I digress my favorite right now is like watching people that I can tell that are nervous. And I love promoting their videos. Like I love so my new favorite person, and if you don't follow him, you should write right after this podcast as a guy that goes by, his name is Josh, but he goes by dork Vader.
And. He is absolutely like in the 3d printing space my favorite person to watch right now. Okay. Absolutely favorite person to watch I'm not gonna call out the reasons why but I think that you and I are on the same wavelength of like why I like to watch them and When you watch them text me like just watch two videos.
Okay, and if you don't like them don't follow them, but like Number one, he adores you, by the way. He's definitely one of your followers. But at the same time, when you see why I follow him, you're gonna be like, oh my god, this kid is he's putting himself out there, hardcore, and I love it. I love watching his videos.
That and [00:56:00] Wan Makes. Wan Makes is another person, because he's a very patient teacher and he's teaching everybody right now, like how to do these finishing jobs on helmets and stuff he literally says the same thing over and over in a live and has he's like Akuma mods, right?
Where Akuma mods answers the same question like a thousand times. And at the same point, you still get the same answer every single time. I'm not that way. I'm like, bro, I answered that five minutes ago. Like I can't help you, dude. Yeah. I'm excited to check out that account. I can already just by what you're describing, I can already tell I'm going to be excited about that.
So that's exciting for me. Yeah. Dork Vader, love Dork Vader. He is like my favorite content creator right now. And if I could give that kid like a million followers, I wouldn't a second before I'd ever give them to me because. He deserves every one of them and I love him. And I say kid, I think he's like 23, 24 years old, I think.
a funny thing you mentioned is like people like Akuma, they can answer the same question over and over again. And I think that's it's a hard thing for me. Not that I don't want to answer the same questions over and over.

I feel like sometimes I make the same videos over and I feel like [00:57:00] maybe people are sick of it, but then I have to remind myself there's billions of other people out there who have never heard this before, never seen it before. But that's been like a hard thing for me is like, Not, I don't want to say hard, it's not hard, in terms of deciding what content I am and I'm not going to make are people sick of hearing me say the same thing over? 
And I guess like thinking of his content, I never get sick of him saying the same thing over and over again. And Matt's one of the nicest, coolest guys in the world. And for the most part, like what you get online is what you get there too. And he, I don't think people realize he is not doing any of this for clout.
He is literally just trying to drive the 3d printing space forward. And that's all he's trying to do. And legit, he's probably in, in my book, the greatest kept secret in the 3d printing space. To be truthful cause he doesn't have the same following as like Joel Telling, which Joel Telling is great guy, Ben, great guy uncle Jesse, hot rod, hippie.
Like they have these big, huge followings. Yeah. But if and again, I'm not knocking it, but like a lot of their video content is Hey, look what I made. Hey, look what I did. Look at this. 3d printer where Akuma [00:58:00] is look what I did. And now I'm going to take you through on how to do this.
And it's, I don't know, the guy dedicates his life. Like what a total servant leader he is. I wish I could ever be that I'll never be that person. I'm just not gonna be that person. I think there's a lot of content that you do that, in a variety of different ways.
it gives back and you might not even realize it, but I definitely, I think you fall into that category too. Like with, 3D print cares and stuff like that. but yeah, I take it differently. Like I do social media because I'm just trying to bring a smile to someone's face.
If someone leaves 10 times dumber watching my content, but it has a smile on their face, I'm good. Like I'm Andy from the office. Not Andy from the office, Andy from parks and rec. Like it's impossible to embarrass me. I embarrass myself. Just to make somebody's day. So if somebody watches one of my videos and one person in the world smiles, I'm happy with it.
And I could care less about how many followers I have, or I could care less how many people want to send me nasty comments and stuff like that. As long as 

one person smiles. So for sure. Yeah, I promise. This'll be the last thing I ask you. No, [00:59:00] you're fine. For people who might not know, can you just tell us a little bit about 3d print carriers? 
Cause it was something I wanted to ask you about, and we've We started a million different directions. Can you just talk a little bit about that? Yeah. So 3d print cares was a hashtag I started three years ago, four years ago. And it was just because I love giving back, right? Like I love giving back.
I don't have a material possession like want, right? If tomorrow somebody needed my 3d printer not saying that it would just give it nimbly bimbly, but if somebody needed this, I would give away everything that I have. I'd give you the shirt off my back.
I don't care. As long as I was in a position to be able to replace it. So I started 3d print cares. Cause I'm like, do we do all this cool stuff? And there are so many people out there that can't afford this stuff. And I think a lot of people don't walk down the street in their own town or they look at people like, say that are like homeless or people that are down on their luck or people that are living in a Hubble in a home, I'm like, In my head, I'm like, have you ever stopped in just at somebody's house and seeing their yard, they're fucked up and gone.
Hey, [01:00:00] can I help you with the yard? This is too much for one person to handle, right? Let me help you or stop with a homeless person and find out what their actual story is. Everybody thinks that somebody is homeless is that they're like this drugged out, alcoholic bad decision making person.
And then come to find out these people have these crazy good stories. And. A lot of people are just genuinely in need of help. And so I started 3d print cares and I found orphanages, right? So a little bit about me, my wife and I, we have three kids that we had together and then we adopted three kids as well.
And then we're also the family that takes in all these other kids that are like extended family too. So ultimately if I looked at, Kids that look at me as a dad type figure. Besides our three and then the three that we adopted, which are my six probably another four outside of that, treat my wife and I as parents. And I hate, I'm getting choked up. I hate that there are kids out there that. Don't have access to a family. Fuck water, fuck food, everything [01:01:00] else like that. You can feed somebody till they're obese, right? You can give somebody water until they're pissing clear.

There's so many people that don't get love and don't get somebody to help guide them through this like crazy world. And I'm not saying that I've done it right. Misfits. I'm not saying I have, but. I have lessons that I can teach, my, my friends and family and kids. And sometimes they just need love. 
And I can't go to every orphanage in the world. I can't visit hospitals, but, I print all these things that I mean, what does 1 dragon cost? What does it really cost? A buck and a half maybe? And so I started that and I was like, hey, so we just, Did this send to a couple of orphanages.
And then again, I took that break from social media just because like it got to be a little bit too much and I didn't want my family in danger and stuff like that. It got a little hot and then lightspeed brought me back. Lightspeed and Zoltan kind of brought me back to social media and they were like, Hey, we need you back.
And I was like, okay, cool. I came back. And then I met Bensky and I actually, weirdly enough he's one of my best friends and we've never met in person. And he goes, if you could do [01:02:00] anything with social media, what would it be? Okay. And I was like, I'll bring back 3d print cares. I'd bring it back because I love that program.
I love helping kids and people. And he goes let's do it. And so we had the young man that needed that he was suffering of cancer and he needed he wanted toys for him and his friends in the cancer ward to play with. And so I stayed up for, God, I think I stayed up for three days straight with like minimal sleep, like probably an hour and a half, two hours of sleep at night and just constantly doing videos.
 ultimately I think that kid got like almost a U Haul full of toys to play with him and his friends. but it presented a need because it basically became a logistic nightmare straight out of the gate as far as want the kid to have a lot of stuff, but it's just way too much.
And so and there was no way for people who do this professionally to claim these stuff. So like now we're standing it up as a five Oh one. And I don't mean to out you, but you were one of the first people I came to of Hey, we have to put together a board of people. Are you interested in, you said, hell yeah.
And I've just gotten pushed back on certain things right now. Like standing up a podcast was way harder than I thought it was going to be. But yeah, so 

[01:03:00] we're going to get back onto that more middle of the month. And so the board looks really good and I'm glad that you're on board with it and we're going to turn it into an actual charity. 
And I actually have one of the first things that we're going to reach out to people for, and it's not even going to be printing things. It's going to be person reached out to me. They were involved in a drive by shooting, completely innocent drive by shooting. They were shot in the head and they were a big time gamer and streamer.
And now they only have use of one hand. And they were wondering if somebody in the 3d printing space could design a way to use a one handed PlayStation controller. And I'm excited to launch that. And so I was waiting for. the whole charity to get pushed through, but at the same time, I think I'm probably just going to this weekend, just do a video on it.
No, it's it's so sad to hear that, but knowing the people. In this community, I'm confident that there's going to be a lot of really cool things that people come out for that. And it's one of those things that's not that what happened with the little boy who had cancer isn't great.
But that's something that like, once that file is out there you, there's no limit to like how many people that helps. [01:04:00] And again that's one of the really cool things about 3D printing is it really you, I feel like you never know how far like the reach of something like that goes.
So that's super cool. I think we take for granted all the time, like how cool it is, what we do, right? Like it's super cool that I wanted a G. I. Joe light box and I just made it. If I want a fidget toy, because I'm nervous about going on Misfits podcast, I can just print one right before it and I can play with it while I'm talking to her, cause it was a bucket list podcast that I was going on.
And so when people see it, they think it's completely unobtainable and it's not for them. but if we can send something, it cost me a buck or two. I waste that every day, right? I waste a buck or two every day. And if I can send that Somebody and it makes their day again.
It's just like content. If I can make one kid smile or one person smile or give something to somebody that they haven't had. My day's fulfilled, man. My day's fulfilled. No, absolutely. there's a million other things I could talk to you about, but I think that's a good, we'll have to do this again at some point, butI 

so appreciate you coming on here and just talking to us. 
Talking through [01:05:00] everything for people who, for whatever crazy reason, aren't following you on places yet, where can they follow you of what you're currently doing? And it sounds like maybe you're engaging into some more longer form content soon. So what do you have coming up on that side of things?
My main account is Brady meets world on Tik TOK. It's the only Brady meets world. So you don't have to worry about brady means world 1965 or something like that. I'm sure it will change, but right now it's pretty miss world on Tik TOK. And it's the same across, right? So Instagram, YouTube, everything else.
But I would suggest, go check out Instagram and YouTube, but I don't really post anything on there. I'm going to start now. I'm going to take that a little more seriously. And then God I hate to say a podcast though. Misfits. Cause like I'm on your podcast and I don't want to plug a podcast.
Please. we also have a podcast. It's called basically us. And it ismy friend Bensky and I we took the Seinfeld approach. It's not really about 3d printing. it is just more a podcast about everything and nothing all at the same time, just us going through life and what we noticed.
And so take, for example, we talked about camping and We talked [01:06:00] about wish the movie last time and, just stuff like that, getting ready for a vacation. But we, we don't avoid anything. And so we'll talk about everything. So basically us and that's available wherever podcasts are available.
And even also on YouTube, where if you want to watch the video of us, I don't know why people would want to stare at our ugly mugs, but if they want to cool. Again, thank you so much again for everything you do in 3D printing and thank you for coming on here today. It was a pleasure getting to know you more and talking through you and with that said, that is Meet the Makers.