
The Impractical Machinists
Hosted by Patrick and Cameron and Brad and Bradley and Cam and Pat · Practical Machinist
5.0from 150 ratings
- 60
- Episodes
- 52
- Transcribed
- 150
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 15M
- YouTube views
About The Impractical Machinists
Welcome to The Impractical Machinists, a podcast for machinists’ who are creative, innovative and a cut above the rest. Join hosts Bradley, Cameron, and Patrick as they discuss everything from CNC machining, tool innovations, shop floor challenges, business strategies, and the latest trends and techniques shaping the industry. Our episodes provide valuable insight and actionable tips from real machinists that you can apply in your own shops. Whether you’re a veteran machinist or just starting out, tune in and turn up the productivity on your machining operations.
- Publisher
- Practical Machinist
- Category
- business · business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Jul 2024
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
52 of 60 episodes have a transcript.

6 Oct 2026
Things Are Changing in Our Shops… Fast

22 Sept 2026
We Took The Impractical Machinists to IMTS… Here’s What Happened | 58

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
My First IMTS… What Am I Getting Myself Into?
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My First IMTS… What Am I Getting Myself Into?
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] When you're walking through those places, you have all these different companies with all these different solutions for all these different problems. And sometimes they have solutions for problems you didn't even know you had. And so that's one of the things I'm always keeping an eye out for. oh that would make things way faster or easier for us or more mistake proof or whatever it is and you didn't even know it existed and didn't know it even could be a problem for you that's smart Cam never thought of it that way do you guys think there's like some trends that will like just kind of dominate the show like what's new or what have we seen on social media that's been like popular lately I'm sure in the software side, we'll probably see a lot of AI stuff. […]
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- Justin Webb
- Scott Walrath
- Brad Jacob
- Taylor Jenkins
- Ron Gobbels
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 14,998,887
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 46 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 104 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100
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- Quality
- 56
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts The Impractical Machinists?
Patrick and Cameron and Brad and Bradley and Cam and Pat host the show. Published by Practical Machinist.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Impractical Machinists take guests?
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