The CWB Association Welding Podcast
The CWB Association Welding Podcast
Episode 200 with Daniela Torelli and Max Ceron
The CWB Association brings you a weekly podcast that connects to welding professionals around the world to share their passion and give you the right tips to stay on top of what’s happening in the welding industry.
Join us in celebrating our 200th episode with all of our members and listeners from around the world and relive some of our most cherished memories! Over the past four years, the CWB Association Welding Podcast has transformed from a small project into a trailblazer in the podcasting world. As we reflect on this journey, we express our gratitude for the loyal listeners and supportive advertisers who've fueled our growth, and share our ambitious plans to continue exploring new avenues in the welding universe. Reaching our 200th episode is not just a celebration, but a testament to our vibrant community.
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Speaker 2:Happy welding hello and welcome to another episode of the cWB Association Welding Podcast. My name is Daniella Torelli and I am here, the podcast manager and welding technical advisor here at the CWB Association, and I am sitting in the wrong seat. I'm here with Max Aron. I've stolen the show. We have a very special episode today that we are going to be recording here in person at the Association for Women in the Metal Industry Conference, awmi. We are in Nashville, tennessee, my favorite. I'm so excited to be here because, you know me, I love some country music. Max, how are you today?
Speaker 1:I'm fantastic.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me. It took us about 20 minutes to start because it is not easy to be sitting in this seat. As Max has just made it clear to me, it's my third time now Third time.
Speaker 1:Are we counting the time you stole the mic with Kevin? Yeah, yeah, that was yeah, Okay, all right. Yeah, that's three times yeah, so it still does not get easier, even though there's like nobody else in this room.
Speaker 3:You stole the mic with kevin, yeah, yeah that was yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's three times yeah, so it's. It still does not get easier, even though there's, like nobody else in this room, as soon as you are sitting, the seat and all the cameras are looking at you and, of course, my boss next to me is nerve-wracking as can be well, I hope I can make this easier for you by being a good guest thank you so much, max, for being here with me today. I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule.
Speaker 1:No problem.
Speaker 2:So we are here at the AWMI annual conference. Today is our podcast recording day. We've recorded a few episodes already and we've got some more afterwards and this afternoon. And this is our first time at their annual conference and we so far are having a great time. The conference doesn't really kick off until tomorrow. Um, so we've got two days of some tours, networking events, panels, keynotes. I mean it's gonna be a blast and, as you've kind of mentioned in some previous episodes, um, this is really like our first time where we're actually going to be able to sit and enjoy and listen and actually educate ourselves, because normally we're so busy we're running around to doing all the things with the podcast and all your speaking presentations and you're not speaking. At this conference we're actually going to be able to sit in the audience and take it all in, which is super exciting pumped so excited.
Speaker 2:So we have some really great episodes for everybody and I mean I personally am just so excited to be here I mean, even when you're looking in the, the hotel lobby it's filled with women and to be at um, you know, at a conference that is primarily going to be women. There are, of course, male members of AWMI, but primarily it's going to be women and you know we're both going to learn so much being here. So I'm super pumped. We're super pumped to meet the rest of the Toronto chapter because we are part of the Toronto chapter, of the Toronto chapter, because we are part of the Toronto chapter and also the our association is a part of a corporate sponsor, of a WMI organization. So you know, as two not-for-profits associations coming together and networking and bonding and and coming up with crazy ideas of things that we can do together. We've already done, you know, so much together already and we're really really looking forward to doing more, and so this is the the right place to be. Are you pumped?
Speaker 2:cool is this when I get to talk, sorry seeing that once, like the nerves kind of you know I'm italian, we talk so much like it's just the nerves kind of cool off, and then I just ramble and I don't stop. So this is, you know it's gonna go by real quick, max off. And then I just ramble and I don't stop. So this is you know, it's gonna go by real quick, max as we've talked, and you know that's actually something that's come up in the previous podcast today of you know the few women that we've had in that seat. They were so nervous, so so nervous.
Speaker 2:And you know, one of the ladies said you know, she's been in the industry for so many years and she shouldn't be nervous, but she is, it's a nerve wracking thing to do, and Becky Dolan made a great point of saying because of AWMI, I'm able to sit in the seat confidently and you know the resources and the education that they provide to their members of training, of you know building confidence in mentorship.
Speaker 2:So you know, this is the point of me. Doing this too for myself is so that I kind of get over my fear of public speaking. And you know, talking into a microphone, I mean, it's nerve-wracking to anybody to really do it, it doesn't matter your gender, it is a nerve wracking thing. So that was one of the things that got brought up today in some of the recent podcasts of mentorship and those tools to help you grow personal and professional as well. So, yeah, here we go, correct. So, anyways, this is a super exciting episode that we are bringing to our listeners because it is our 200th episode. I feel like I should know how to do the buttons, but I don't remember. But, but this is so exciting. When we actually celebrated our 100th episode, we recorded it at fabtech in chicago two years ago.
Speaker 1:I'm drawing a blank yeah no, two years ago would have been uh might have been atlanta, yeah yeah two years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, two years ago, fabtech we do 50 a year, so let's do the math, yeah so yeah, and I, I recorded you, I, I, I interviewed you and so we thought you know better, keep that tradition alive. And every 100 episodes, uh, I at least get two years to practice and to get my you'd never tell yeah, you never tell the 20 minutes. It took me to start, but you know we're uh. So at our 100th episode, I interviewed you and we asked our listeners to provide us with questions. Right.
Speaker 2:We really wanted to change it up. I wanted to change it up this year.
Speaker 1:This is all you. This is me.
Speaker 2:So we are going to do a little bit of a podcast trivia of you know, know, looking back at all the episodes that we've done 200 to test Max's memory, to see if he remembers the episodes and the guests that we've recorded.
Speaker 1:It's hard because that is 200 guests and we meet so many and outside of all the people we meet in our normal work.
Speaker 2:Yes, life and we've got more.
Speaker 2:I mean even just to say, right now we've got a whole bunch in the queue in the lineup and more people that are reaching out every day to be on the podcast, which is amazing, and you know we, before we even start into the trivia, we really gotta throw back to. You know all the hard work of our team and you know, shout out for our social media, um, our whole marketing team. You know, really, without them and and our crew, that we have our pod squad. I like to call everybody you know, my Monday meeting emails.
Speaker 2:You know, without everyone's hard work this really wouldn't be possible. And I shout out to our listeners without everyone downloading and sharing all of you we really, really appreciate and we wouldn't be here without you. And then also our advertisers. We've grown in our advertisers and in our industry support, um skills, canada, now awmi. Our advertisers are Canada Welding Supply, joseph Gases, canoweld and Miller Electric. Without you, we are able to travel and make sure that we are front and center of what's coming up in the industry and being at these events and sharing experiences and these people that we meet with our listeners, which is so key in what we do. So a shout out to everybody, shout out Thank you, listeners.
Speaker 2:So, which is so key in what we do, so um a shout out to everybody really appreciate it, and it's cool to look back now that we are in our in our senior years, in our sunset episodes? Yes, to us it's our fifth season, as we like to call it um, but it's. It's been well for me. It's been as a podcast manager since 2021 which is now three years, which is wild. Um for you, it's been four years more than a bit for a bit yeah, which is, you know, wild, because I kind of came in once, it was already already rolling and I was just you know, gotta put my flavor flavor on it oh, wow, okay, yeah I really don't do much.
Speaker 2:Max is all the hard work. I just, you know, press buttons that's not true.
Speaker 1:That's not true.
Speaker 2:You do a lot of hard work yeah, but uh, it's kind of cool to see, even in my three years of being here, um to see how much we've grown you know. Check out this fancy backdrop that we have.
Speaker 1:Thanks to our graphic designers at CWB the microphones, the camera setup, the software, the full-time editor marketing team, I mean there's a whole machine. Uh, that helps the show come out and sound great and look great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and our advertisers. You know when you guys started the podcast.
Speaker 1:We had zero.
Speaker 2:Zero, nobody knew about it. That's right. I remember, yeah, when we went to Our first time we brought the podcast in person was at Fabtech Chicago 2021. And nobody, like it was like, was like, oh, we got the podcast, like it was, uh, I think that that show really kind of brought it open and yeah and there really wasn't other podcasters, I mean our junkies yeah, shout out, jason.
Speaker 2:Um, you know there wasn't really that many that actually had a present, whether it was on the show floor or in a meeting room, or you know us, we were walking around with our microphone, um, and it's cool to even see the industry of. You know that a lot of companies are realizing the importance of podcasts and how valuable of a platform it is. Um, and there's a lot more podcasts that are out there which we love.
Speaker 1:We love seeing that, um, and we've collaborated with numerous of them which is it's the fastest growing media uh avenue in the world right now. So yeah, and that's all because of us no but it's fun being a
Speaker 2:guest you can say whatever you want, we're just gonna beep it out later wow, I don't believe we might have to do some editing.
Speaker 2:But no, I mean it's, it's just cool to see, I mean, these new cameras that we have. Uh, hopefully the video quality is better and, um, you know, we had our cell phones, that we, you know we really had to kind of figure it out as we go and we had our little pop-up banners and and I'm which we still do, we still do, we still do when it's figure it out as we go and we had our little pop-up banners and I'm which we still do, we still do we
Speaker 2:still do when it's needed and you know we had the issue at Fabtech in. Orlando and our beautiful banner.
Speaker 1:Hurricane Milton ate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it got lost in the UPS realm. So this actually just showed up on Monday and picked it up and hit the hit the plane on, uh, on tuesday. So, uh, we were fortunate that we were able to get a new one in time. So, but it just goes to show, kind of, how much we've grown and changed over the years, so which has been awesome, and you know that we are celebrating our 200th episode.
Speaker 2:We also hit a very important milestone, uh, which is we hit 50 000 downloads yeah and since I actually prepared for this episode two weeks ago, we're actually at 52 000 downloads oh good so in two weeks. You know we were actually past that and we're at 52,000 downloads.
Speaker 1:Next stop 100K.
Speaker 2:Yep, we have our milestones that we keep thriving towards and keep aiming towards. So looking back, max, what did you envision when you first became the host of the CWB Association Welding Podcast? Obviously, whenever we start any kind of project, you have your, you know, your thrives. You're not just jumping into it without a plan. Um, have we surpassed the plan? Did you even think this was possible? Of how much we've grown in a short period of time?
Speaker 1:uh, yeah, I mean yes and no, I dream dream big. I mean I always dream big, so I like to dream big so that things don't shock me when they do well and I don't really believe in failure. So I think that the podcast has organically grown as the industry has grown. We try to keep it organic and honest. We don't edit, we don't cut. We try to keep it organic and honest. We don't, uh, edit, we don't cut, we try to keep it as real, don't provide questions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we try to keep it as real as possible and and I think that that is just gonna stand on its own Uh, do I see more? Yeah, I can. I can see bigger still. Um, I can see more growth. I can see different angles. I can see more growth. I can see different angles. I can see things changing, things evolve over time. There's going to be a day where I'm not going to be the podcast host. Right, there's things like that oh, back up, back up.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't say you, I mean, we may find someone, but there's always You're just not allowed to leave.
Speaker 1:There's always an evolution of how these things work out. So I'm very proud of this podcast and, you know, to be honest, I'm really proud of how we managed to do the podcast and do it so well when we're in the midst of actually running an association on the other end of it. So this is like just a piece of all the work we do and it's the piece that people see a lot of, but it's because it's visual and it's out there in the media. But this doesn't mean that we're not doing our day-to-day jobs, which is also a lot.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes it is. We had these discussions today where we're both like I feel like we need a week off if anyone can figure out how I can take a week off.
Speaker 1:I'd be very interested into knowing how we're just not allowed.
Speaker 2:It's just, but it's good. I mean it's better to be busy than not to be busy. I mean if we didn't have any programs running, what's the point of us like, what's the point of us being here if we're not giving back to our membership, if we're not promoting and advocating for the skill trades and the welding industry. So I mean we're doing all right.
Speaker 1:Well, look at the other podcasts that we've forced other people to pick up their game, right Like when we started. It was our junkies and us and you know tips and tricks and there's a couple out there. No one was really doing the conference circuit. We kind of got into the conference circuit with the podcast. We were the first ones to do a live off the floor and actual like lights on blah, blah, blah. Then we did the cross pods and then we did like a live audience cross pods. All of these were new, never done at conferences. So you, you know, trying to be innovative and I mean, now go to fabtech and there's you know eight podcasters out on the floor and there's people booking rooms all over the place and setting up their footprints and uh, you know, I feel like we were kind of the ogs. So I mean time goes quick. It's only been four years. How og can you be in four years?
Speaker 2:but yeah, this is still kind of new, right. Yeah, yeah, we, yeah, we have our milestones, I mean it just goes to show.
Speaker 2:You know, 50,000 downloads and 200 episodes later and you know, in less than five years, which is amazing. So we were thriving. We hope, you know, next year to hit up some new conferences. We've kind of done the same ones now for the last few years. Conferences we've kind of done the same same ones now for the last few years. So you know, now next year, kind of looking at where else can we bring the podcast, uh, you know, in canada or north america stories, right.
Speaker 2:So we've got to find the stories, and stories are everywhere yeah, yeah, and it's the the point of highlighting those personal journeys and their careers. And we've had so many students that you know listen to the podcast and um students that you know listen to the podcast and um professors that you know listen to the podcast and share it with their students. And you know, I I still always go back to that comment that we got the. I think we had an educator email us saying that you know, they use the podcast in their classroom and they make it into a presentation and you know, pick an episode. What did you learn? What did you know?
Speaker 2:Um, and it's that's what we love to see, because we're highlighting personal journeys, but we're also highlighting those career opportunities and those tips and tricks and how somebody got from point a to point b and maybe point c and d and e and wherever they, you know, wherever they got to. But it's uh, you know, that's that's why we're here to do it and I think we've done a great job so far and and we really appreciate again all to our, our listeners and advertisers because we we've got some plans for for next year well, you're the podcast manager, so you're gonna have to let me in on these plans at some point waiting for my budget to be approved me too yeah all right all right we are getting ready all right before we get into our trivia questions.
Speaker 2:I think now is a great time. We're gonna take a break for our podcast advertisers. Um, so make sure you tune in, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back and we're gonna take a message. We're to listen to the message from our advertisers. Thank you.
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Speaker 2:Start filling your cart with welder confidence and we are back here on the cwb association welding podcast celebrating our 200th a huge achievement and a milestone and we're so proud of it. And we are here in person at the AWMI Annual Conference in Nashville, tennessee. Max, what do you think so far? Am I doing a great job?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, there's always things that can be done better. You're doing well. You are trying to.
Speaker 2:I don't have my hands in the air.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're doing good with your hands. You haven't hurt yourself yet, which was good, because you've already done that twice today. Yeah, well, good job.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you, max, make sure we're going to document this for my review.
Speaker 1:I am.
Speaker 2:Making notes, okay, so we to document this for my review. I am making notes, okay, so we talked about why we're here yeah we've, you know, established, you know 200 episodes 200 episodes so cool, shout out to our listeners if you're 200 years old, also cool. But I don't know if I'd want to be I do really yeah I want to be a vampire.
Speaker 1:I want to forever, really.
Speaker 2:Isn't there technology now. That is like trying to preserve you Like cyborg stuff?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 2:I'm not down 100%.
Speaker 1:I think the universe needs forever Max.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, your wife is like no, thank you. Yeah, she's not gonna sign up it's like done, watch you, might, you know, while you're sleeping.
Speaker 1:You never know no, it's a good way to go all right, we are gonna get into our trivia all right, trivia my questions here and for the record this is mean because I have a terrible memory so if I, if I forget anyone or misspeak. It's 100% not my fault.
Speaker 2:You'll never live it down.
Speaker 1:Well, I will eventually. But people forget.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, we only have 12 questions, so you will survive. We got this. We're going to make it. I'm going to go easy on you, dory. First question, super easy one, if you cannot remember this, wait, is there points or?
Speaker 1:something, or do I get a prize? No, wow, okay, good incentive, here we go all right.
Speaker 2:Do you remember who your very first podcast guest was and when was it released?
Speaker 1:well, wouldn't my first guest have been adam sebastian? No, no, who was it? Oh no, who was my? No, it was uh kevin. Was it kevin? It was kevin waugh, wasn't it. I knew it was a local boy Because I would have picked on my local friends first. It would have been Kevin Waugh and it would have been in October Of November Around, then Maybe August or September, somewhere towards the end of the year, I think.
Speaker 2:After a rough start.
Speaker 1:Yeah of 2020. September 9th 2020 okay, I said end of the year.
Speaker 2:September is pretty close it'll be said october, november.
Speaker 1:Well, those are. They'll end with embers.
Speaker 2:It's close, all right, half points, half and actually an interesting fact, that episode is our most downloaded episode of all time. Well, it still is our number one downloaded episode, which is really cool to see.
Speaker 1:I mean you know, we know kevin, he's an awesome guy and uh, we've done a few episodes with him now yeah, we've brought him into the fold, we've done projects with him, yeah, and I mean he's, his career is blooming on its own, so it's good yeah, so I mean shout out kevin r306 we miss you.
Speaker 2:Hopefully we'll. We'll see you soon, maybe.
Speaker 1:Uh, okay, that's like a half a mark, because okay, I'll take a half all right I didn't do very good in high school, so I'm good with half marks okay.
Speaker 2:Well, I wanted to embarrass myself a little bit, see if you how good you remember this, because I feel like this is an easy question oh boy, so I already know what it is
Speaker 2:before I worked for you and you actually interviewed me on the podcast. I didn't even know you, nothing. It was like a hey, we have a new staff member here at cwb. Uh, you know, pretty cool, you should interview her, and so you asked me to be on the episode. I was, uh, episode 15 to be exact okay um, and I embarrassed myself so badly that I begged you after the episode to please remove that section of the episode.
Speaker 2:I did not and Max right away was like nope, it's good, I'm like, but I'm, I'm a new CWB staff. Like why, why, you gotta do me like that. And because we're the raw, real story it's still there in that episode and I cringe every time someone brings it up or if I listen to it. You know when I when it was released, it was so what's the question? Okay, so do you remember? Do you remember? Oh gosh, do you remember what the welding program name was that I got wrong?
Speaker 1:West the West Program.
Speaker 2:Do you remember what it stood for?
Speaker 1:The Welding Training.
Speaker 2:Sound like me in the episode? Yeah, that's exactly what she did. She was the coordinator for the. West Program Whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, back it up, okay, back, back it up, okay. So when I first started at cwb, I was the assistant program uh educator, coordinator I forget the full title was, but yeah, assistant welding instructor, I think that's what it was, and so I was. I was freshly new, I think when we actually did the interview.
Speaker 1:It was like my first week it had just finished your first week of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it was freshly new and in the way that the job came up, it happened all very quickly, and so it's. Yeah, it was called West Welding Employment Skills Training. Oh, there we go yeah and you asked me that question what does West stand for? And I froze, froze, so bad. And I laughed I will never live it down. So now I know that acronym off the back of my head.
Speaker 1:The program doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2:It doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1:Because of the.
Speaker 2:Niela, no Government funding ran out, but it was a great program and you've actually met some of the West students. And we have new programs that are just like it, that are fantastic we have and shout out to all the the west students that came through that program. We I've seen them a few times at fabtech and and I love seeing them.
Speaker 1:One of them works at cwb now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a different program that was different program but um, it's really cool to see you know over the years while when people take take advantage of those government-funded programs and then they thrive afterwards and through their career. So love, love, seeing that. All right, we already talked about this. This should be an easy one. Where was the very first place we took the podcast to record in-person episodes?
Speaker 1:Before you or after you?
Speaker 2:After me. We never took the podcast oh no, oh, double trivia. I uno'd you back come on, where did you take the podcast before me? Nowhere no, you didn't. You're trying to trick me see what you're doing there. Yes, it was 2021 correct, with a little bit of attitude in there yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was trying to get me. I don't know, and I'm pretty sure that was only a few weeks before I even started as a podcast manager.
Speaker 1:Like I, was still fresh yeah, you had never done anything like that before. No, like I don't even think you well, you had never been to a fab tech. Uh, like, I don't even think you well, you had never been to a fab tech uh, fab tech canada.
Speaker 2:I had been when I was in the industry, um, but I had never been to a fab tech us, which is, and that was pandemic too, which was wild even so you know traveling with covid kits and and all the masks. And that was the time frame when, if you got COVID, you had to stay isolated in your hotel for two weeks. And that was nerve-wracking. I mean that whole week I lost UPS, lost our boxes, and you're like where are they? And I'm like I don't know, it was a whole.
Speaker 1:I was walking around on a wife beater and no that's different. Oh whoops, oh see, now look.
Speaker 2:Coming back to haunt you. Yeah, so in Chicago 2021, that was the first time we met Ray Ripple. We interviewed her. We met. Stephanie. We interviewed David Madero, ivan Eller. We also also we had that weird little room yes, yeah, uh, greg culp and alex jordan, we had a really great yeah, baby face alex oh, don't be mean why he does have a baby face.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, it's good alex is awesome though.
Speaker 2:Shout out alex, check out his channels, um, but yeah, that was really like our first time meeting everybody and that was the first time you met, I think, um jason becker in person too in person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he helped me get the podcast off the ground, though before it got big, before you. Yeah, I reached out to him online to be like yo, I want to start a podcast, can you help me? And he was super helpful, told me what type of gear to buy, what I should do, how to stream it, and he gave me lots of advice and now you're that person giving advice to others, we're still we're still homies yeah, we, we love jason and we'll still do multiple cross pods, you know together and and now we have other podcasters in the mix too, which is awesome yeah, we grown we've grown so nice.
Speaker 2:All right, question number four four. Okay, episode 61. We celebrated block history month with a special guest from the east preston empowerment academy. Who was the guest?
Speaker 1:that was my man, frederick crawley, from the east coast you are correct and he is now working with the Nova Scotia chapter. Last year they did that wonderful program where they did that training.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:For all black people. It was a whole black class on aluminum welding and they all graduated and got employed.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God Amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, without those people in the industry, like that's, that's how you succeed and how you keep growing.
Speaker 1:So he was also part. His family was connected to the Underground Railroad and the loyalists of original black slaves of North America.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a really good episode, so if anybody has not listened to episode 61, I encourage you to do so. Um, okay, how you feeling so far?
Speaker 1:I'm five for five or four and a half of five so we're getting there.
Speaker 2:We're getting there. Okay, this one you should know, and if you don't, we're gonna have to have a discussion afterwards. Okay, what are the dei theme months we strive to represent and advocate for each year, and it's I'm going to go by this year because we actually added a new one into the fold.
Speaker 1:Oh, so there's a lot because I believe, I believe with that, I believe in advocacy. I volunteer, not just with your, I volunteer a lot of stuff, uh, starting at the beginning of the year, so January, february, so that's Black History Month is March.
Speaker 2:Yep February.
Speaker 1:February and then March is Women Empowerment. It's also May Day, yep, april. April's nothing, because it's school.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's April. What's new that we added into the mix this year? Okay, april what did we highlight in april max?
Speaker 1:was that women's? No april our chapter member oh yeah, volunteer month april is volunteer.
Speaker 2:National volunteer appreciation month.
Speaker 1:Right, okay so.
Speaker 2:I'm down a point. It was new this year, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's where we help spotlight volunteers in our community.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and our membership yeah.
Speaker 1:And then May is. I don't know what May is.
Speaker 2:I'm kind of enjoying you watching.
Speaker 1:Struggle, yeah, my brain is June is pride, may is.
Speaker 2:So far we don't have anything in the month of May, not yet.
Speaker 1:June and July August we take off for the for the season. I mean we still work and do podcasts, but we don't do any dei then july august it's vacation season yeah, in september there's another one in there, yeah what did we celebrate? Well, there's national hispanic month in september, but we didn't do it officially for dei this year no, but who knows, maybe next year, yeah, um so we always on september 30th right, we have to do reconciliation episode.
Speaker 2:There you go, so I got three out of five on that, so okay yeah, so yeah, right now we, you know we have five that we always aim to make sure that we advocate for, and we've had some really great episodes.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And we still stay in connect with those and connections and we've had a lot of feedback on those episodes which are truly important that we have on our channels. But, yeah, we have some.
Speaker 1:Love always wins. Yes.
Speaker 2:And we definitely can look at see what else we can add into that. Um, you know we always want to. We want to advocate for every unrepresented community in the skilled trades and the welding industry.
Speaker 1:And we're always looking for more guests. Yes, if you know anyone in those groups, yeah, let us know. We'd love to interview them.
Speaker 2:Yep, let us know, we'd love to interview them. Absolutely, shout out Okay. Question number six this is also an easy one.
Speaker 1:You say that. When teachers say that, you know it's going to be hard.
Speaker 2:You don't get this one, okay, what two podcasts did we start a new tradition at Fabtech USA with CrossPod. What are the two podcasts?
Speaker 1:cross pod with who what dark junkies. And welding business owners online welding business. Welding business owners podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and this year we added torch tails. Uh, frankie vargas yeah, into the fold. And who knows, maybe next year we'll switch it up again yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1:We'll see. I don't want to do five. I feel like that's too busy.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, but we can.
Speaker 1:We can switch it up fire everyone and we'll just go back to two.
Speaker 2:You're the podcast manager hey, maybe we're gonna be on the big fabtech stage maybe I've already been on the big fabtech stage.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm saying for the podcasters, our podcaster forum.
Speaker 2:Maybe we have five people, but it's on the big stage.
Speaker 1:You never know yeah, you know, go big or go home, I could probably make that happen.
Speaker 2:No, not a bad idea there's a sme, there's a great idea, so, uh, we're gonna circle back on that one. I think, uh, I think that's one to strive for. Okay, what are we on? We're on number seven all right, here we go. In episode 73, we met and interviewed beth kitson at the nascc steel conference in 2022 denver yes, that's correct. What or what organization was she from? That has led to many more collaboration opportunities for us. Hmm. This is the easiest, as they come.
Speaker 1:Was it? Is it? Is it AWMI? Is it the Association for Women in the Metal Industries? You are correct, sir the very very organization in which we are, in their conference hotel right now.
Speaker 2:Wow, I was kind to you. I threw in the easiest one possible.
Speaker 1:I like how you said easiest, like a WWE wrestler.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's it, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1:How am I doing?
Speaker 2:could be better could be my passing to be determined, but uh could be better okay, let's see, I got six more I had to also look back and think hard too so you probably, like you probably, wouldn't have known either I researched, yeah, and I got no heads up, so yeah, so I was like we're doing this and I have papers that I printed yeah, you got like notes and stuff. I got a coffee that's the point of being the guest yeah, no, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:You know the host has their notepad and their pen and we're going at it. Okay, number eight, Known for his welding humor and technical demonstrations on social media to help grow the welding community. In episode 123, we interviewed the Doctor of Welds. Who is it? Who is the doctor of wells?
Speaker 1:I don't know people he taught me how to Texas dance at is it Austin?
Speaker 2:is it Austin shout out Austin, shout out Austin from wellcom he's awesome, he's awesome, he's awesome and he's a good dancer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very handsome young man too. He does well, he's got nice hair.
Speaker 2:Are you jealous of his hair?
Speaker 1:I'm not, but some people maybe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he, you know, he's doing great things. And. I always enjoy watching his videos. You know he sells manyitty.
Speaker 2:They're very witty and he comes up with like the funniest stuff and I'm like that is that is hilarious and very useful tip very useful. And he's not just funny, he knows what he's talking about and he's done lots of demonstrations. I mean wellcom. They go all over the place as well, um, we also enjoy working with them and yeah and yeah, they're a great team over there. So, yes, you got that one right. Good job. Okay, number nine we have interviewed two WorldSkill Team Canada welding competitors. Who are they?
Speaker 1:Winners.
Speaker 2:Winners. Oh sorry, competitors, welding competitors, who have we interviewed?
Speaker 1:Well, the two winners that have been on the show have been Adam Sebastian and Ben Rainsforth.
Speaker 2:You got that right. Good job, shout out, adam I work with those guys?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we help them. Yeah, we have a full episode with Ben and Adam as well, but the most recent one was with ben, who just got third in the world for welding, canada, number three in the world behind china and korea, which it's hard to beat them pretty damn good, pretty damn good how do you think you would do if you uh got to go to world?
Speaker 4:skills.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:If young Max over here had the opportunity when, how old did they have to be? Like 20?
Speaker 1:They have to be under 21. Okay, so 20-year-old Max, if he, I would have been welding for three years but I had never gone to school. I didn't apprentice, I did it the dumb way. I think I would have done okay, except for the TIG. Because dumb way I think I would have done okay, except for the tig, because I wouldn't have had really any experience with it at that point. But then again they train so if I would have been in a training scenario.
Speaker 1:You were like and I was getting yeah, I feel like I would have not done as well as them. I mean, I was always a good welder, but I was never the best welder, right right, you were the efficient welder. Quick. I like to plan, I'm a planner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which nothing, nothing wrong with that. I think I'd be cool to go. I'd love like one day If I would have known any of those things. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like I just, I just was focused on making a paycheck.
Speaker 2:Didn't think about any of all that cool stuff that I could have done. Yeah, oh, I always like anytime. I'm like my cousin who was in high school.
Speaker 2:It's like encourage get involved with your provincial skills and like we've gone now to I mean, I've only gone to a few now, but the national skills, canada competition like it's insane and like you, until you go you don't realize like how insane how big it is and all these young students that are competing at this level and you know they're the top of their, of their class and they're you know of their, field of their field and then you're there with one other person from another province, from every other province, competing against you and like that's wild to think about, that you're and if you ever get a chance to go to worlds oh
Speaker 2:times a hundred, like it's insane do we have room in the budget?
Speaker 1:you know I've been to one. I've been to one. Maybe I'm looking forward to going another one where's the next did?
Speaker 2:have they released where the next one's gonna?
Speaker 1:be shanghai oh I believe it's in Shanghai, China, which I've always loved, dreamed of going to China. There you go. I don't know if I'd survive. Yeah, you're kind of a I'm a picky eater. Yeah, I didn't want to say it on air, but you might starve to death in China, I'm aware.
Speaker 2:I'm aware, I don't think I would.
Speaker 1:I feel like I would yeah, I'm sure you can find chicken, tendies and spaghetti somewhere in.
Speaker 2:China, Do they have McDonald's oh? Yeah, there you go. Some nuggets and fries were good, I could survive off that.
Speaker 1:maybe Come back with scurvy, but you'll be fine.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, on that topic of Skills Canada, okay. All right, question 10. Okay, so this year we recently just released our second season of the Skills Canada series. Can you guess how many in total episodes have we released?
Speaker 1:Between the two.
Speaker 2:Between the two? Yeah, which is a lot 31. So close, so close.
Speaker 1:The correct answer is 32 episodes.
Speaker 2:I thought it was 16 and 15, no, so season one was 14 episodes and season two was 18 episodes we work too hard but I mean that and that's 18 um experts and competitors. We did and that's all from different traits, like all the different fields. So I mean there's a lot two languages yes, and in english and french. That was our first time that was hard first time having a french host shout out.
Speaker 2:Kevin, he did a great job. I mean, as we know, it's a nerve-wracking. You know that was his first time really doing it yeah, he was much like you were, yeah today and we couldn't. We couldn't help him because we couldn't understand what he was saying yeah, just to be desolate that was my one line in all of quebec, over and over. Yeah, all I knew um, we both need to work on on perfecting our french yeah. On our Francais yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that was, you know, the first time. We, you know, even our editor, we got those episodes edited in French and the marketing, the logos, the write-up, the transcripts, everything Holy. Yeah, but I mean that's. We live in Canada.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we learned, we had the support, we we learned, we had to support.
Speaker 2:We learned, we support even Spanish as well. We've done some Spanish episodes. So we're always growing and learning and I think it was a success. And, who knows, next year we're calling you back, kevin, maybe.
Speaker 1:Well, where is it next? It's in Regina. There ain't going to be no French episodes in Regina. We're going to have to have some honky tonk. There'll be some line dancing one down there.
Speaker 2:Can you line dance? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I can do all dances.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I want to see that. You've seen me dance.
Speaker 1:I'm smooth.
Speaker 2:Hard pass All right, we're getting near the end here.
Speaker 1:Max 11?.
Speaker 2:We're on number 11. 11, all right, more to go. You were surviving. I'm putting the hand away.
Speaker 1:I'm acing it.
Speaker 2:I'm acing it you're doing all right. You're doing all right. I I put in some easy ones in there for you okay um last year, we released an episode celebrating black history month with three special guests of welding apprentices from halifax who took a chance on what program and from what company? Okay so the company is irving Shipyards. Yep.
Speaker 1:And the program Program. Oh, I don't know if I remember the name of the program. It's not one of ours, is it no? No, it's not.
Speaker 2:It's a wonderful program that irving shipyards does. It's called the pathways to shipbuilding program okay, yeah, I dropped it if anyone's interested in more information, you can find it on their website. But that was another great episode that was fun.
Speaker 1:You know young people coming in, not sure what to do, get in with the program and then at the end of the program you have a job waiting for you. I mean, what more do you want?
Speaker 2:yeah, um, and it's. It's kind of fun, I like, when you have more than one guest on the podcast it's tough though it's. I'm sure it's tough for you to navigate, but for um and I mean I'm just speaking on behalf of our listeners it could I could be wrong, but it's fun, you know, watching it like I like seeing many faces on the screen and on youtube. We, you know, we release video as well, not just the audio version. So, um, I like it. I don't know. I think it creates more conversation.
Speaker 2:It creates, you know, everybody has a different voice and a different journey and a story and uh, it's kind of cool when they, all those different journeys, come together with you know whether they're in a one program yeah, common thread. Um, it's just nice. Instead of having to listen to three different episodes, you get so much in just one, so it's it's nice when we do it once in a while yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 1:Just I I always really focus on making sure everyone has the same amount of speaking time. Some people always speak more than others that's true it's true, okay this is the last one last one, I'm sitting at about 78 in my mind I don't know calculations. You watch the the tape here well, I didn't see a rubric, so I don't know how legit this is.
Speaker 2:So it will not be on your review, don't worry. All right, in episode 129 you talked to polish canadian visual artist, printmaker and founder, who is an inspiration to the immigrant and queer community. Who was it?
Speaker 1:agata agata yeahatha was an awesome guest.
Speaker 2:I want to meet her in person. I had so much fun with that episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll never forget her. Her story was very inspiring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very, very inspiring. That's another one. Please make sure if you have not had a chance to listen to it.
Speaker 1:From Poland to Ireland, from Ireland to Canada. You know welder and artist now and just a wonderful story and and like a tragic, a hard story you know. So there's. There's inspiration there to see people you know battle through tough times and come out the other side, so it was good it was.
Speaker 2:She was very inspirational yeah, I really hope that we, you know cross paths with her and we actually get to meet her in person we're gonna reach out.
Speaker 1:If you don't ask, you don't get. We gotta find her that's for sure.
Speaker 2:She's not too far where's she? She's uh in the uh toronto area is she gta yeah? All right, I just have a little other, a few other questions. What? Okay, you said 12, but now it's going extra questions as my my young son son would say trick, yeah, okay, no, I just I love, I just want to throw this one in there because it's I know it's hard to choose well you're gonna ask me for my favorite episode. I can't do that I can't do that I know there's so many.
Speaker 1:There is like I mean every yeah. I'll put it this way my favorite episode is the one I'm about to record. Oh. Because I'm excited to see what I'm about to find out. That's true, right? So, I see people coming in and log in, whether it's online or in person in front of me, and first of all, I have to get them to relax, yeah. Then I have to get them to kind of put their guard down. A little chit chat you've seen me do it a million times now yeah and uh.
Speaker 1:and then I just get them to start talking, and uh, the whole point of me as a podcaster is for me to talk as little as possible and have them do as much talking as possible, because it's about their story and I just want to put in my two cents here and there to make them feel like I'm understanding, I'm following, I'm listening and I like that process, you know, and I've been working on that process for a long time, right right, I mean, I guess I've done a terrible job. You're new, you're green, you're green.
Speaker 2:Max got two words in this episode as long as I passed. Yeah, yeah, no, you passed. It's a great answer and I know it is. I was even looking back just being like because I listened to every single episode. I listened to it too in our editing process and then I also listened to it while I'm driving, as do as anybody. You know we have uh, I have it in my, my loop um and uh, it is hard. It is hard to choose because there are so many. I do want to highlight just a recent one that I just listened to um, that we had a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2:Um is the one that we had with the ladies from murray swelding oh yeah, that was fun they were super cool, you know, having there was a couple generations there, yeah, yeah, I just that was just a really important awesome gift shout out to everybody there at my uh forrest's welding.
Speaker 1:Yeah I mean I wish we had it the cup, the keychain. You have all the swag, all the cool stuff.
Speaker 2:I didn't deserve it, thank you oh yeah, I wish we had it here on the table.
Speaker 1:Like it would be so cool, but um yeah, it was a feature at my halloween party. Oh was it everyone dug it, I love it.
Speaker 2:I wish that we could put an actual microphone in it. It was like a mic, we can. I scoped it out oh, did you it's honestly check out max's social media? I know you, you shared it and posted it, but I mean, well done um beware of my social media, though.
Speaker 1:It's not just welding pepperoni it's also my turtle, so you've been warned I just love.
Speaker 2:I love when a company promotes, I mean here we are again. It just kind of goes back into the theme of why we're here. You know, at awm is a no conference and and to see, you know, a company in a small town in the north of Ontario to promote and advocate and actually support and provide those mentorships and opportunities.
Speaker 2:They weren't just on their podcast, we had them featured in our World Magazine and I think it's just so awesome to see such young females working at a type of company like that and they're just all for and they're actually providing that support for women, because something that gets talked about at every conference we go to.
Speaker 2:You know the 5% you know of women skilled trades and we have not improved that number. And it's you know we do so many programs and work into. You know the foundation we have the Women's Steel Camps and you know the Mind Over Metal Camps and you know so many different associations promote women in the steel and welding industry and it's you know the retention how do we, once we get them through the doors, how do we keep them there? And you know, from what we heard from in that episode with Maurice Welding, you know you're seeing it right there.
Speaker 1:You know it's that's how you do it. That's how you do it.
Speaker 2:And it's a great example, and I mean companies, anybody like that's a perfect example to listen to and I just I wanted to highlight that because it really like.
Speaker 1:So you were hoping I'd pick that episode. No, no, that was my most recent one.
Speaker 2:I mean, oh my God, we've had so many great guests and that was just one of the most in the last few weeks that I've listened to and that we had on the podcast. That kind of really.
Speaker 1:On the what.
Speaker 2:On the podcast.
Speaker 1:On the what.
Speaker 2:On the podcast. There we go, there we go. Sorry on the what on the podcast. There we go, sorry, sorry. Um. Now we talked about other podcasters out there and and even not actually the last fab tech um, some new ones getting into that are just starting out and you know they're dipping their toes into it.
Speaker 2:And if they could say, hey, they were able to ask max a question, um, what tips or tricks or suggestions could you offer? Somebody you know off the street said hey, max, I want to start a welding podcast, or I want to start a plumbing podcast or trade podcast, whatever, whatever it may be. Um, what piece of advice would you give them?
Speaker 1:well, number one make sure it doesn't already exist. So find uh, find your angle. I mean, there could be a million podcasts on plumbing and every single one of them could be different. So you just got to make sure you find your niche. And in order to do that, look at yourself, because you don't want to talk about right? So do look at what you know and then that's, that's your connection to the podcast. Number two keep a release schedule and stick to it. Right, if you're gonna do once a month, you do once a month, we do. We want twice a month is twice a month, but once you go, you got to stick to it, because if you catch a follower, you got to hold a follower. So you slip up, they're gone, they don't come back. Right, so you got to stick to it, because if you catch a follower, you got to hold a follower. So you slip up, they're gone, they don't come back. Right.
Speaker 1:So you got to make sure that once you got them on the hook, you keep the content coming. So it's uh, it's gotta be, uh, it's gotta be a gig. And I mean, I get that lots of people just like to do a couple podcasts and try it out for fun. That's, that is what it is. But if you're looking to do it for reals, um, you got to figure out your niche. Are you fitting it? What you can contribute, and then that schedule is because then you got to build the brand right. You got to have the whole brand, like, we got our brand, we worked on it and, um, the art junkies, wellcom, tips and tricks, uh, towards all the big podcasts out there, they'll get a brand. Me and jason, for example, we talk about this. All the big podcasts out there, they're all at a brand. Me and Jason, for example, we talk about this all the time. We'll interview the same person and get two different stories because we come from it from different angles, right.
Speaker 2:So it's, you don't wear that out, you can just roll with that for a long time great piece of advice because we yeah, we keep running into and and connecting with other podcasters and we like doing podcast swaps. You know maybe on their episode and you know they are on our episode, so we love doing that and we're always welcome to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're openly swapping podcasts.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't want to put it that way. Now, if anybody that's listening to this episode, you know wherever they are in the world, because we've had guests from all over the world I mean, I feel like we need a map and like fun yeah yeah, and then, like every time, we have a guest from a different area put a pin in it, put a pin in it I think, I feel like we need to do that because we've had germany, switzerland, chili, the us, canada.
Speaker 2:There was some other ones on there drawing a blank. Yeah, you don't even know others others anyways, and I'm like, I feel like we need to strive to get somebody from every country in every you want to hit every country in the world I feel like that'd be so cool yeah that would be neat you have to learn some other languages.
Speaker 1:We'd have to make them all, yeah speak english, which is a little bit rough, but yeah, yeah, but I think it's really cool.
Speaker 2:Google ai, we could work that through you never know, in the next few years we can have a whole actually that would be kind of neat, like like a universal translator, like star trek, oh yeah there is um. I don't know what app it was, but my brother, he tricked my whole family um whatever he used. He sounded like him he recorded a whole video of him talking in english, but it translated, in his mouth, into italian and like the words coming.
Speaker 4:It was perfect, like he tricked my grandparents, and like the words coming it was perfect, like he tricked my grandparents.
Speaker 2:He tricked my parents and I was like no, no, no, no, this guy no parley, uh, italiano, like he doesn't. No, he doesn't speak italian, and uh, but it was so believable well, that'd be.
Speaker 1:You know I'm down for tech, I love tech, so we'll see what the tech brings, because I mean, even with the podcast and what we're doing at the association, we're always looking for upping our tech game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so quick question before we wrap up the episode here. Anyone that's listening if they want to be a guest on our podcast, how do they reach out?
Speaker 1:DM me on social media, askmax75. Reach out to the CWB Association. We have an info at cwbassociationca email or just go to our website, cwbassociationorg All our information's there and reach out to us. Or I mean, you got local chapters across Canada. We got connection points all over the place and they all funnel back to us.
Speaker 2:Perfect. Well, thanks so much, Max. You've been a great sport on this episode and I passed and thanks so much again to our listeners for tuning in. Please make sure you are sharing, downloading, liking, commenting. We have a new text feature. Send us a text you want to. You know we love feedback. Uh, got any questions? We'll answer them during an episode, so feel free to text us as well. You can find that on our Buzzsprout page and thanks so much, max.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2:Thanks and again a big shout out. You know all of our listeners and our advertisers Canada Welding, Supply, miller Electric, joseph Gases and CannaWeld. We couldn't do it without you, so we'll see you next time.
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