Ben KamonGuest
I mean, I was on sick leave for the first time since my self-employment, I think.

And you always learned that in an apprenticeship that when you're chisels and punching hardened steel with a hammer, for example, that that's pretty dangerous and that you always have to dress your chisels, right? yeah so i was exactly mushroom mushroom no mushrooming um i was uh punching out from my power hammer the die key you know the the wedge the hardened wedge yeah it's hardened steel and i was punching it out for that purpose i made myself just for that purpose a soft annealed hammer like mild steel essentially because i used i used copper before and i used brass because i knew theoretically people would use that stuff but it both turned out to be too soft the wear was just crazy when you hit it with copper i mean copper just obliterates more or less instantly it's it's ductile it stays stays together but it just doesn't translate any force and brass kind of splits apart but the wear is pretty crazy as well so i made myself a a bigger soft annealed hammer for that purpose thinking exactly

the thought in mind that i don't want those splinters or shrapnel you know shooting off of that of that die key anyways i hit it with that softened hammer and what shoots off is a 22 bullet right in my forearm No, that was funny as well.

But at that time, since it didn't hurt as much as it turned out to be, you know, as deep as it was in, I thought maybe it just cut me open and ricocheted off of my forearm.

And after that, I was pressing around the wound because I was thinking... you know when you get those little um metal shavings in your finger or wood wood chips they yeah they hurt quite a bit even though they are very small and just superficial right and i was thinking if you've got shrapnel in your forearm it will hurt like crazy that was my my logic it didn't hurt i was pressing around didn't hurt i went back to work you know then later on i thought maybe try a magnet maybe magnet sticks because when it's still in there maybe the magnet will stick i did videotape all of that and put it in my stories because i found it yeah i found it interesting anyways magnet didn't stick um and then i went back to work again and and and a little while later half an hour or whatever i remembered one of those metal detectors you know you would use for when you drill a hole in your in your wall at your home just to check for Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I was on sick leave for the first time since my self-employment, I think.

And you always learned that in an apprenticeship that when you're chisels and punching hardened steel with a hammer, for example, that that's pretty dangerous and that you always have to dress your chisels, right? yeah so i was exactly mushroom mushroom no mushrooming um i was uh punching out from my power hammer the die key you know the the wedge the hardened wedge yeah it's hardened steel and i was punching it out for that purpose i made myself just for that purpose a soft annealed hammer like mild steel essentially because i used i used copper before and i used brass because i knew theoretically people would use that stuff but it both turned out to be too soft the wear was just crazy when you hit it with copper i mean copper just obliterates more or less instantly it's it's ductile it stays stays together but it just doesn't translate any force and brass kind of splits apart but the wear is pretty crazy as well so i made myself a a bigger soft annealed hammer for that purpose thinking exactly

the thought in mind that i don't want those splinters or shrapnel you know shooting off of that of that die key anyways i hit it with that softened hammer and what shoots off is a 22 bullet right in my forearm No, that was funny as well.

But at that time, since it didn't hurt as much as it turned out to be, you know, as deep as it was in, I thought maybe it just cut me open and ricocheted off of my forearm.

And after that, I was pressing around the wound because I was thinking... you know when you get those little um metal shavings in your finger or wood wood chips they yeah they hurt quite a bit even though they are very small and just superficial right and i was thinking if you've got shrapnel in your forearm it will hurt like crazy that was my my logic it didn't hurt i was pressing around didn't hurt i went back to work you know then later on i thought maybe try a magnet maybe magnet sticks because when it's still in there maybe the magnet will stick i did videotape all of that and put it in my stories because i found it yeah i found it interesting anyways magnet didn't stick um and then i went back to work again and and and a little while later half an hour or whatever i remembered one of those metal detectors you know you would use for when you drill a hole in your in your wall at your home just to check for Yeah, exactly.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.