What is up, a welcome back. Do you feel better make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. And this week it's Test Cut Tuesday. You designed it last Tuesday. The patrons got to watch me make it into a cut file. It may have been long and painful, but it's a cut file. It was like 90 minutes to me. Sorry. Anyway, so now we're gonna paint it, put it together and see if it actually works. So how many of you are back this week? Simply because you want to see how the design turned into a, like completed cut file, completed project, I guess. Went from a vision in my head, or Kim's head, to a sign. Well this isn't, this evolved. It wasn't exactly what was in my head. Because originally I didn't want the flamingo, but it was, but I couldn't get the flowers to work right at the top and the bottom. I think we'll do another one and just put the three flowers that are here at the bottom. Well I was gonna do, I was gonna, I still got the other one that we all did. The flowers, the flowers in the surfboard, so. I mean, I guess you could put a surfboard. But what if I'm not a surfer? I might not put a surfboard on my door, but I would put, What if I put a surfboard with a bite taken out of the back, I just don't get it. Do you want a shark one? Are we going out of focus? Yeah, on autofocus. All right, is this it? So you just show them what we got. Let's see what we're doing. All right, this is what the final design looked like. Turned out to be, and now we're gonna paint it today. So let's see how it looks. It looks like we need all the pinks and all of the greens. So, well, before we dive into the project, I can actually start on the project. Is the background just white? Yes.  It's so big that I don't even know what it is. You don't even know what it is? Oh, I want to advertise. She is. Well, I mean, just let everybody know. I thought you were talking about how we put screen on the laser, is that what's cool? Oh yeah, screen on the laser is pretty cool. We actually did it. I'll come back to that. My honeycomb was very dirty, so. Including it is a pain. Yeah, you need a little, you know what you need? You need a little splash screen to come up for the lives, and every Tuesday in May. Oh, yeah, something like this thing? Yes. Like this little guy here? Yes. We'll put the thing up that you're getting ready to tell them about. Yes. So, everybody that's here, we'll talk about it again. I'm going to wait until we get a little oil. I guess I'll talk about it now, but for those of you early birds, I'm going to talk about it again when we are halfway through this project. Garrett jumped in early. Oh, well, we can wait. We can tease it now. No, everyone, most of these guys probably already know. We've talked about it and talked about it, joked about it, talked about it. That's way too much pain. I think it started as a joke. Way, way too much pain. Do you think it is? You think so? I would, I do think so. It's a giant puddle. He loves to waste paint. There's no paint wasted here. It's going to barely cover it. That's what I'm thinking. So, it's finally time. We did talk to the travel agent and we have booked a block of rooms, so a reserve, a block of rooms, on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship for February 24th of 2024. And so, we are all going on a group cruise. Group cruise. This will be our first cruise. We've talked about lots of options for these cruises, but since this is our first one, and we don't know what it's really going to be all about, it's just going to be Garrett and the crew here. Me, Garrett, me, Garrett. Me, Kim, Tanner. Courtney. Maybe Courtney. She was hemming and hawing yesterday. I think she's nervous about going on a cruise is what I think is happening there, but. She saw the movie Titanic. Anyway, so you'll be stuck with our home crew and what we're thinking right now, we just really just reserved the block of rooms. So, I don't really have a good itinerary of the things. I got things cooking. That we're going to do, yeah. I got things cooking. We could talk lasers. We could talk marketing. We can talk fun. Yeah, so, but I think it's going to be a great opportunity if you have a small business and you're doing what we're doing, whether you're starting out or you're super experienced, I think that it'd be a fun time to network with other like-minded, small business owners. And I think it would be a super opportunity to get on board, have a great time and network with other people and then. You kind of trapped with everybody for like two days. You just, if you want to find somebody, they can't get away. We're stuck out to sea. So, it'll be five nights and we'll have the opportunity to network, have a couple of sessions, network some more. And then, of course, during the day, there's excursions and fun time. I don't know if any of you guys, I've never been to Western Caribbean. The what? The Western Caribbean. How do you say it? Caribbean. Caribbean. I've never been to, what is it? Costa Maya, Mexico. Oh, I've never been to Mexico. So, it'll be a new experience for us. We'll do some excursions. So, if you want to join us, we are asking, well, to reserve this block of rooms, we have to have a $100 deposit by the end of May. So, we've got a good 31 days or now it's 30 days to get in your $100 deposit. So, start thinking about it. You only need a $100 deposit now. I think the rest is due at the end of November or something like that. 90 days before we set sail, something like that. So, start saving your money. It's a super. Set sail. But that's what we'll be doing, why is that funny? It's funny. Anyway, it gives a thought to it. We would love to have a whole group of people right now. We have 30 rooms blocked. Are they near each other? No, I don't think so. I don't know, though. I mean, we could ask Jesse that. So, go look on all our social media. We're posting it everywhere. We're gonna keep posting it everywhere. Give some thought to it. Do a little research and come out and join us. We want at least those 30 people to come out and join us. I think it'll be a great time. Yeah, I think it'll be. All right, and I haven't said hello to anyone. So, let's come back out here. Hi, Tyra. Tyra, I think it's you. It's either you or Chris, one of you. I think it's you, Tyra, that has mentioned every time we talk about using the makeup sponges, you always say, or you could use a car wash sponge. Well, I'll tell you, we did try the car wash sponge, and it works great. So, my little tip of the day for everyone is you can purchase. It doesn't leave bubbles? It did not. So, you can give it a try today. Purchase these little car wash sponges. Super cheap. I cut them into, I don't know, tons of different squares in here. And I got, I don't know, at first glance, probably, what is that? Five, five, two, 15, 20, 30. At least 30 sponges out of this thing for, well, I guess both sponges cost me like $2 and something. So, 60 sponges worth like two bucks. So, it's definitely, we are certainly going to be using these in our workshops. It'll save us a ton of money. Yeah, definitely. So, you just gotta cut them up yourself. Wasn't hard, I just did it with a pair of scissors. Yeah, you can shoot them at people. So, who else out there? Mandy, hi, Mandy. I've seen all your designs. You've been posted to the top tier patrons group. They're beautiful, I love these colorways. And we're all inspired by your colorways. So, thanks for sharing, keep sharing them. Hi, Bob. Hey, Bob. Caroline. This is the first one I've been able to make when it started. Oh, it's a good one, Caroline. It's gonna be a good one. Hi, Wiley. Joe just made his first sign out of some scrap wood. Oh, cute. Looks good for a four-year-old. Yeah, I remember from last week. J.J., checking in from Barely Breezy, 81 degrees, and Glen Rose, Texas. Wow, 81 degrees. Wiley says it's overcast in 58 here in Seaford. Yeah, it's like high 60s here. So, actually a very nice day. Yeah, it's pretty good. Lori's here. Hey, Lori, I saw your post on the giant three-foot buffalo. Have you seen it? I don't know, I didn't see it. Is it painted? Yeah, she's got it painted. The thing was heavy. Like, when it was done, it was beautiful. She knows, she actually... I gave you options. Yeah, you probably saw that. Yeah, like, why do I have six layers? I gave you options. But, that's what she said. She had posted on Facebook. Now this person wants to hang it on the wall. It is pretty heavy. Yeah, it's heavy. Let's see. Can't wait to see it all done, yep. Oh, Jason made it. What's up, Jason? Jason, we're at Earsbird and we were talking about you today. We were doing the whole go-and-get. Yeah, go-and-get. I was like, if Jason were here right now, he'd tell me, go and get Kim. Chris says, hello, group, formerly known as hangers. I don't know. We can be the cruising crafty crew. No, we're not gonna be that either. And then I can be the captain of the crew. Scott popped in and said, he can't stay on today. He just wanted to say, hey, and let us know he's booking his crews tomorrow. Oh, sweet, it's gonna be a good one we were just talking about.  If you've already booked your crews, pop in there and let people know if you're on today. Don't brag, be humble. Got y'all on mute, so she said she's stuck in a meeting. Hello from Chicago. Don is in Chicago. Windy city. I don't know why I got it. Helen said, I totally spaced on holding your calls. Oops. A shark week hanger, yes. I literally was just talking about that earlier. I said we needed a shark one because one of these was cutting and when I first glanced at it, I thought it was a shark fin. And I was like, why don't we have a shark hanger? Oh, hi, Lois. Lois popped in to say hello. Lois, we were thinking about you. Yep, we were talking about you.  Took a note, we'll do a shark. All right, real quick. Got a shark. Look, I made this bottom piece. You took it off the laser, right? Yes. Yeah, you see how I separated them all so you can paint them all different colored greens. Yeah, I love that. So you don't have to worry about it. And it's like a little bit of a puzzle to put them together. Yeah, it's a little bit of a puzzle to put it together, but. We could do it. Oh, we have a new thing for you guys. Everyone actually, anyone on the website. We're gonna start posting the assembly instructions on our blog, on our website. So everything new will get an instruction sheet, the paint colors we're using, and how to put it together. Yep, and we're gonna try to do a little video of each one, too, to put up there. Yeah. So we committed to doing that. Oh, that's what I was going to tell you. That got chopped off a little bit. It does. It's the leaf, see? See the score mark? It's the leaf. What do you mean? The leaf gets chopped off there. This little, why is there an inset here? Oh, because it's flower, but right here, it tipped up. Anyway, it's not important. Oh, I have an idea, look at that. It gets covered up. Nah, yeah, you won't even see that. Yeah, it's gonna get covered up. All right, so I'm gonna start separating my colors. Those are the same color green. Let's see, hello, it's Carla. It's pretty, this is dark green. Hi, Carla, yeah, Lori said very heavy. Yeah, very heavy. She said go and get. Christian, yep, Christian already booked his. What are boy productions? Have you guys used the darker brown MDF before and was it hard to work with? Yes, we have used it before. And everybody in here could tell you that, too. It sucks, pardon my French. It is hard to work with. Look on our Facebook page, all the details are there. And I think Christian said it was $100 per person. But the prices you see on that sheet are for a two-person room with all the taxes and fees. So nothing else gets included into that. And I think it's per person, but I honestly am not 100% sure. I'd have to ask Jesse, or you can call Jesse. If you guys have any questions, Jesse, our travel agent friend, his picture and details are right up there. Do not hesitate to call him. And he told me to make sure. Easy to talk to, totally understands. Yeah, he's very easy to talk to, easy to, very friendly. And he said, just have him call me, Kim. As a matter of fact, I don't want you answering any questions because that might get it wrong. So don't hesitate to reach out to Jesse if you've got questions. Yes, Robert, good question. Are you buying quarter-inch MDF at a big box store or from a supplier? We're using a supplier. You may need to use a supplier because you can get MDF at a big box store. And maybe you were sending that to Wooder Boy, but we always found the darker MDF. We have to flip through and find the light boards if they had it. And sometimes they didn't even have it. And it was just the darker board. As a matter of fact, one of our suppliers has HDF, high-density fiberboard, and we were going to give that a try, but it's so dark in color that no one's even taken a... We got it last week. Yeah, last Tuesday. And nobody's even attempted to cut it yet because everyone is certain that it's not gonna cut through. Well, everything that we've been cutting we've needed. So I don't wanna send it out to somebody. I don't know. I have a feeling it's gonna be smoky and get a little charry looking. Yeah, well, we just do some cuts, you know? A box, a circle, you know, just to see what it'll do. I guess so. I just don't like glossy. Mandy, these don't really look as glossy as you might think that they do. And I don't love glossy paint either, but for these signs, the glossy paint works well because of a couple of reasons. One, the flatter it is, the harder it is to paint and get a clean line.  It's easier to clean. There you go, it's easier to clean. It's easier to clean if it's got that sheen on it. So you might not want gloss. And I didn't start, everything I started with was flat. I started everything with flat and I have eventually gone to gloss because, one, it looks better on the sign, not on your walls, but does look better on the sign. And two, it's much more forgiving on the sign. So that's my two set. I feel like it's probably a little more water resistant being glossy. Just a feeling that I have. I don't have any hard proof, no hard data. All right, all right. So I think I'm caught up on questions. What can I do to help you? So you've got your backer done. And you've got a plan for these greens. He's using all the shades of green, which is cool. All the greens. I love it. You don't have to use a sponge over the whole thing, you know, you can use a roller. Yeah, I might switch to a roller. This sponge things for the birds. Although I already do have all the paint. I don't want to waste the paint, either. Make yourself a little paint palette. Yeah. What are you doing next? Next, after this, I'm going to go for a walk.  Yeah, go for a walk. Where's that dark green? I don't see the ruler for that. I tried to grab all the little ones that I saw. Well, I didn't see it out there either, because I looked. I'll just use the new one we may not have. Well, we don't use that green very often. Yeah, I wish I had a second set of paint for in here. We have to bring our paint in from the other room. Yeah. Every time. And today, I grabbed the colors that I thought we needed. It was me. You hear the problem? You? Shh. You know, I feel about that, so I can't. Not a huge tear was whipped in. All right, I'll do. Whoa, what's happening? You're just jumping in. You're just painting things? Yeah. You don't even know what's happening here. What's this? All right. Don't, yeah, don't get him started. First thing you painted, sabotage. You're going to leave that the bright green. All right, what else gets dark green? Anything? No, just that one leaf. That's it. And then these little guys are going to be lime green too? Yeah, those are also lime green. I guess I could have done them at the same time, but. Oh, it's okay. I'm going to get the roller out. I didn't bring baggies in here again, because I forget if I use a new roller, I need a baggie. I know. I want to do these out front again, only because it was easier out there, but we would get visitors while we were out there. Yeah, how many times did somebody Amazon walk in or just different people would just show up? People looking for their car. Yeah, at the car, at the hotel company next door, or two doors down. Three doors down? Two doors down. I get it. I'm going to say, whoa, step back from that ledge, my friend. I have a little thing. It's not about painting in the lines, it's about painting the layers. What's your new tagline? Yes, Garrett says it's our new tagline. It's not about painting in the lines, it's about painting those layers and gluing it together. Yeah. She was saying it during workshops. I was like, that is brilliant. This one. What are you doing? I'm painting it green. You're doing some more perfection right there. That's just another layer, another coat, second coat. All right. Is that all the green? Look at you. You go together a lot faster than I thought. Yeah, I think it is too. Oh wait, this is this way. Wiley says, take it from someone who sells paint. Flat paint's only good on a ceiling. It wipes off like chalk and leaves smudges. Flat exterior will get chalky over time. Yep, satin or semi-gloss for kitchens and bathrooms because of water spots due to condensation. And since these are going to be outdoors. Yep. They'll be out in the elements. Flat and eggshell will collect moisture and Cosmol. Okay, good information. That's it, look at that. Now I have data to back it up, although my data is a random person on the internet. She's not random. Talk to her every week. Amy Baker, I'm late. Oh, Amy with the tiny hands. She says, I'm late but I retire from my day job next week, March 1. Well, next year? Next? Second time. Oh, next March 1, I read it wrong. I retire from my day job next March 1. Great. Is it rude to take a crafting cruise a week or so before retiring? No. No? Why, why would it be? Amy, what are they gonna do if you do? Fire you? Oh well, tell my mom the same thing. She's on her last year. I mean, this is how I would like to spend my last day at the job, tanned and relaxed. Well, she will, yeah, I guess, I don't know. What is that, 24th to the 29th? What do you do, come in for one day and say bye to everyone? Yeah, that's totally how you do it. Deuces. That's how it goes. I'm doing flowers now. Yeah. I'm doing flowers. All right, so what are we doing with these flowers? I think, are they all pink? Are you trying to stick with the pinks here? I don't care, I don't know. What do you guys think? Should I, he's got them all pink here in the design, but I still think this one should be red. The main one should be red. This one should be dark pink and then this one should be light pink like it is.  One red, but it's not the red you're thinking of. This is not the red you're thinking of. All right, I need some votes there. Do you want me to go get the red? Oh. Go get the red. I don't think I have any responses yet. I want some votes, but yeah, I think if they're... You're looking for that red? I am looking for this red. Ain't no big surprise. All right, but I do think we'll use dragon fruit, red and pink. What do you guys think? Can you see that? And then we'll decide what goes, that flower that goes up at the top. We could decide what we're gonna do with that one. I think that one's gonna be, I think it should be red as well. What's red? We're doing more red. And he said coral, persimmon. What was, I don't even know what color persimmon is. Sounds persnickety. Well, I was in on what I said, what about these colors? A red, a light pink, and a medium pink. And then decide what's up here. Yeah, cool. I think that light pink should be up there again. Well, it's gonna be very close to the, let's just put it together and decide. Oh, what color is the? Flamingo. Flamingo. Usually I do flamingo in this color here. Should we do flamingo and flamingo?  How about that? How about this? I could do exuberant in red and light pink. And then I do the flamingo in this pink. What pink is that, dragon fruit? Yeah. Sounds great to me. What colors is a wing gonna be? This. That pink? Uh-huh. Is it gonna come back in with a pinky wing? A pinky wing. A pinky wing. Made yourself laugh. Made myself laugh. Melinda says out of focus. Is it out of focus? Is it?  Look. Is it all out of focus? Are we out of focus now? No, just the overhead. Can you fix that? Do you need to set focus on the main camera? And then I don't know how you fix the overhead. Maybe there was too much going on. Maybe if I just went overhead it'll pick up. I like your positivity there, but I don't know that that's the case. Look at that, it's so clear now. My laptop doesn't look bad. Well, I thought maybe there was too much going on with a picture-in-picture and it's streaming. So I got rid of that and we'll see how it does. All right. What am I painting this pink? These two flowers? No, stop with this one. This one we're gonna wait and see. But for this one is- There's a wing. There's a wing. There's a wing. Yes, yes. Okay, catch it. I'm back on board. Speaking of on board, I'm very afraid of crews. That's all I'm gonna talk about until I get on the boat now. Boat days. The boat days. Do you know how hesitant I was to go on a cruise? I had no want to go on a cruise. That was all me originally. I was like, I have been on a cruise. He was in a Navy. And then guess what? It's not the same. Yeah, it is not the same. I was like, I've seen it all already. Water's water. Water's water. But water's a lot better when there's drinks and shows and trivia. Yeah, just entertainment. Just walking around, having a good time. And the ice cream cones. A lot of ice cream cones we had. None in the Navy. No ice cream cones in the Navy. Oh, I threw that away. What was that, Raeve? Yeah, that roller was a roller. It was a real funky. Ain't it funky? I think this pink's gonna need two coats. So is this one. Two coats. All right, and then I don't, what are those little things? Gonna be yellow? Yeah. Cheerful or sunflower? Uh-huh. Well, that was an ore. I don't know, which one? A lot of both. I'm saying sunflower. Me too. I was thinking sunflower as well. Same page. Just gonna sponge this. Little dab will do you it.   Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. Michael's Fabwork. Michael says hello. Something, Michael. You've been busy too. Seen all your signs? Oh, yeah. Super busy. Michael did the ribbon rack, right? Yeah, that's right. He did the ribbon rack. He's got the little lion. Yeah, Garrett loves your little lion cat. I look at my cat. And I don't think she looked the same.  She doesn't have the same physique.   Don't tell her I said that. Yeah, look at it, he's feeling guilty. Mandy says, I would be an anxious mess the whole time. Oh no, you wouldn't. What, on the boat? Yeah. Oh, you forget you're on a boat after, I don't know, by dinnertime. Yeah, by dinnertime. By dinnertime the day you pull out. You'll forget. And the midnight buffets. Oh yeah, the midnight buffets. My midnight buffet consisted of pizza and an ice cream cone. My lunch consisted of french fries and an ice cream cone. No, somebody wants to know, are you gonna use a whisper brush to accent your flowers? Oh. No, but could you show me yours and teach me? I could try it, if you want to do it. I have one out there. Just have it. I'm in. I'm gonna put this over here. We're gonna use the globe trick, we're gonna use the last one. What's your globe trick? The one I don't have a bag in. I use a rubber glove. Oh, the old rubber glove trick. I got a lot of jokes, but we're gonna keep this PG-13. All right, so you wanna start your flamingo? Maybe give me a couple of little pieces. This one's really not too hard to paint. We haven't even put tape down yet. I thought it was gonna be a lot. I was like, here he goes again. Oh, here he goes again. I tried to keep it easy. I even mentioned you while I was doing it. What did you say? I was like, Kim doesn't wanna paint in limes and she doesn't want it to be too confusing or too little. When I was cutting up the back piece for all the leaves. Yep, I had you in mind, babe. You know. I mean, the only little pieces there is those two. Yeah, I think so. That's it. And if you wanna count that. Oh, here, what color are his legs? Cheerful, I'll do those in that bright yellow. I lost mine, whoa, I'm back. I need to do both legs though, don't I? Yeah, come and get that leg. You guys enjoyed my parody the other day when I posted this video, this file. If you like big, pink flamingos. Kim says she knew it right away. Yeah, what was the first line? I knew it, whatever the first line was. I was like, yep. I'm getting caught in the paint. Oh, yeah. I feel like big, pink flamingos and getting caught in the paint. And getting caught in the paint, yeah. Well, he knows I like that song, so he knew it was gonna resonate with me.  I know, I can tell you where one is if you would like to get one. Sure. Out by, in the warehouse, by the sink. Wow. There's one on the table right there. It's not that far. All right, well, I will tell you, well, this does great on the large surface. I'm not loving the texture, it's leaving on the legs. I might have to use a little sponge for that, which I did bring. I think because it's so tiny, it's a little too porous.  He got a fancy beak with this one. Oh, here's the one. Yeah, I was wondering about you, Helen, if you wanted to do something like that, Helen said she's gonna call Jesse tomorrow and have him start running a list of singles on the cruise who wanna book together with other singles so that we can get a discount, yeah. Oh, okay, I was gonna send someone off with that. That's a good idea. I couldn't find like a wispy brush, so I was gonna try to do this. No, no. I think it'll totally work. I think what you just want is a little line in here. I don't think you want wisps of anything. All right, his idea was this, this is terrible. You're gonna ruin it. It's pink, really pink. Oops, that was a little dark. Is that wispy? Is that wispy in it? It doesn't feel like you're feeling it. Looks more like you're filling the driveway. Yeah, and you wanna hold it up? There's my wisp. What do you think? You think I had too much paint? I'll try it again. Hold on, we'll wisp it some more. It's okay, it's paint. I'll come back in and paint it. All right, I tried. Where's that red? Where's that red dollar? The red roller. The red roller. Wait, should I dab it so it looks wispy? I feel like we're just gonna roll it. Oh no, my wisps. Oh, they're still kind of there. Yep, they're just still there. All right, that's how my wisps look now. Can you see it? I don't know if they can see it. All right, but here's what I'm thinking. You do it. You're gonna be better at this than I am. I just knew that the brush, your idea wasn't gonna look, it wasn't what I had in mind anyway. Okay, I'm doing that thing too. What are you doing over there? What's happening? Let me see if I can. Is something wrong? No. All right, come on. Let's get this thing done. Hold on, I'm looking for my mouse. So I can zoom in, there you are. Oh, you were trying to zoom in so they can see. Yeah, I just noticed we were very far away. Why are we so far away this time? I don't know. All right, what color is my flamingo? Your flamingo is dragon fruit, which is, I'm working on my, oh, never mind. Dragon fruit. Oh, what color is this guy over here? Please tell me somebody else out there knows what's going on. What do you mean? A hundred times I told you we will wait at the end, I'm not sure what color that should be because it's going to be next to the... I thought we were close to the end. Well, I gotta dry fit it together so I can see. How do you have this guy? Yes. That's actually with pink. Hmm, gotta really work on this. Yeah. It's really hard to... Gotta work it. You want it too deep? No, it's not rolling. Yeah, hold on. It needs to be cleaned. I'll just take it off. Just pull it back. You don't poke on it because it was green. Yeah, the whole thing. Because I made it like scratchy lines in it because it wasn't rolling, so I dragged it across. Oh, scratchy lines. All right, well, while you're waiting for that, here's a... Oh, you want me to try to whisper it again? Yeah, and I think it's just lines, kind of accent lines that go in these. Okay. Let me see what I'm saying. Sure. Do we need more paint? I don't know. Oh, well, you zoomed it. A minute ago, I was like, how come we're so far zoomed out? I don't know. Now there's picture on picture. So like right here? Yeah. Oh, but now it's not as focused. No. No? No, I don't think you need to... Like that? Well, I don't think you need to whisper it out. So what am I doing? Just drawing a thing? Yeah. Okay, sure. Not at all. But okay. Yeah, a little more paint on it. Like... Well, then it's going to be even darker. Uh-huh. How's your technique different? It's not at all what I wanted. Okay. Paint them in there, and then put a coat of red on again. Okay. There you go, you fixed it. Bad idea. But there we go. I tried to add a little... I don't know how well you guys can see that. And it's fixed. Should now I add a little to this one? Oh, yeah. No, I wouldn't. I mean, now we messed up one, we might as well mess them all up. Kind of thing? Should I mess this one up? I'll try messing this one up. There you go. And then do you need another coat on your backer? A little one coat garret? I don't know what you think. It looks pretty good, right? It does, actually. I could go with it. But you do need to add some black on this welcome. Let me do that real quick. While you mess that up. Yeah, let me mess this up. I don't need to be messing two things up at once, Kim. Well, I'll use another plate. All right, what's happening out here? What's that looking like? Maybe just make flour a coral to offset the flamingo. Yeah. Well, how am I gonna make coral? What is that? That's orange. I think it's the color of the mango. With orange in it? No, I think this is close to coral, isn't it? Isn't it? No. Isn't it, Governor? No, coral has a lot of orange in it. Yeah. I thought coral was like teal. No. What color is that? That sounds like it goes into the sea. What are some teal colors that sound like they go into the ocean? Aqua? No. That was too obvious, Kim. Here, I feel like I could pull it up right here. I don't know. No need. It was like a, isn't it like a popular pure one color? Oh, that's coral? Yeah. See, it's a pinky orange. Pinky orange. So I'm with her, I like that. I just, let's see, how to make coral. Yeah, just add a little orange in here. Maybe I should put this roller away so I don't get paint on it. It says a mix of red and orange, which ultimately means red, yellow, oops, an ad popped up, hold on. Whoop, that was a lot, I'm glad I did it over there. Orange, red, and white, we're making a mixing stick. Yeah, I made a stir stick. Hold on, can they see what you're doing? Yeah. Back in closer. Yeah, but you need a lot more orange, I think. Yeah, it's pretty close, more orange, yes. All right, Mandy. Okay, that's not bad, mm-hmm. All right, I'm gonna spend it on. Yeah. So I don't need a little more. Tab it on. Okay, you got it, you got it, you got it. I've got this. All right, I don't know, your picture and picture is hiding it, do it over here. Yeah. Ooh, it's hard to see, hard to see. All right, wait a minute, I lost you guys. Let's see if I can find you again. Here we are. Coral is the color of salmon, yeah. Oh, okay, salmon. I'm on board now. Orange mixed with light pink. What do we do, dark pink and orange? It's not bad, though. Pink. Oh, there you go, what do you think? I wouldn't say the silo is, it's like we're already roomies. All right, they said the color was perfect, all right. What do you think about my wisps? I think they're fine. They're fine, they're not bad. Yeah. Should we paint over that? No, let's put it together. I could always paint over an average together, I think. All right, maybe not. Let's start assembling. I gotta touch up that light, that looks gross. Actually, I need a little piece of sandpaper. Would you have any sandpaper? Oh, here's a sanding block, yeah. Oh, here's a sandpaper. Oh, there you go. Here's a sanding block. Oh, perfect. It just looks so chunky, I think I need to fix it. It's glue time. We've been kind of quiet, we've been very focused on this one. We're trying to make their vision come true. Oops. Yeah, this team effort, you wanted to be, everybody to be impressed. Yeah. What you guys did, what did you do? I don't want it to be, what did you do? What did you do?  All right, I can't wait to see it to come together. Yeah, me too. You didn't want to dry fit it, you really just gonna watch it come together, huh? No, I have faith, I've got to have faith. Don't, don't, I heard it coming. Baby, look, I don't know all the words. Here, anybody going on the cruise? Oh my goodness. I love this, listen, everybody listen up. Anybody who's going on the cruise? I don't trust you. Garrett has never done karaoke before, never. No, I'm not doing karaoke, I've been to karaoke. I have tried, he wants to do, here's the thing, he wants to do karaoke. I would love to do karaoke. See, he wants to do it, but I have never been able to talk him into it. Because every time I've gone, they're like professionals up there, they're professional singers. That's good, right? Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, there have been times where they're, there haven't been professional singers and I just cannot talk him into it. Like just that last cruise we were on, well, what about that guy and his two friends that stayed up there like the whole time? We were on Women Tuesdays to call out Garrett on Tuesdays. I'm not calling you out, I just want them, I want someone to convince you to do something that you already want to do. So we go out on a comfort zone. Yeah, to get out of your comfort zone. What am I missing over here, it's a whole lot, leave the whisk, they look good. Helen's making conversation. If I'm not, they're talking about what you do when you cut off people. Oh, like on the highway? What does he mean? Yes, Bulldog Hustle, it's for two people. I'm trying to get down to the karaoke comments, here they come. The price is based on two people, so prices for each. No, what you see for each of the prices that you listed are for two people in a room, double occupancy room. So it is for, oh. Didn't Christian just do it? Yeah, well, let's just ask Jesse. Maybe I don't want... To be giving out wrong info? A wrong info, yeah, I don't want to give out wrong info. You're not a travel agent. What do I know? Jesse said, stop it, don't answer questions, have them call me. He said, don't talk to the press. You know what, I'm gonna let that go. Melinda said, when my husband, my husband is a DJ and has systems in three clubs that he does karaoke in. Well, all right. That is my dream job. Yeah, see, and it is his dream job. He really wants to be a DJ and he's good with music. He really is, he's made our playlist for the wedding and every time people come here to do the workshops, they're always like, I love the music here, so I think he'll be good at it.  I'm sure he doesn't sing karaoke, he just DJs karaoke. He might to get everyone warmed up. It's not, me and he said, wait, there's karaoke on the floating death prison. It is far, far from a floating death prison. It is, I can't tell you what a good time it is. Helen said, Garrett, brah, we'll make sure you get up there. No, this is the one, oh, I didn't know, I didn't, okay. All right, well it's gonna be Coral now. Give Garrett a few shots and haul his butt up there. I tried, Lois, I'm serious, I tried to get him up there and when the time comes, he's all for it. Like we go to karaoke all the time. I pick out a song. Yeah, he even goes through the book and picks out like several and then still won't get up there and do it. Get hooked up with Jeff, he sings, I do not. You need a club with a skateboard ramp for Garrett. Oh, totally. Totally do that one. We were just playing in our warehouse ramps. Lois said her go-to was walking after midnight. Oh, that's a good one. Yep. Anything, Mandy says anything Alanis Morissette or Adele or my go-tos. Adele, I wouldn't even attempt that. All right, we're gonna have to see it. I tried to get him to do Islands in the Stream, which was, that's the song, no, no, no, no, you were doing the other, the, nevermind. Anyway, I did try and get him to do Islands in the Stream. I thought I had him, he was so close and then this other drunk guy was like, well, if he won't do it with you, I'll do it with you. And ultimately I said no, but I should have just gotten up there and done it because to be honest, I've never done karaoke. I put myself on blast. I don't like how you put me on blast. Well, I don't, I mean, I guess I do want to do it, but neither of us have been brave enough to do it. Terry says, start by having karaoke at your shop to help you get out the nerves. We said that too. I want a karaoke machine here at the shop. All right, Terry, you guys are gonna have to come back up and do it with us. There's one of my Amazon cart. Wiley says, pair more songs for me. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I could do a little, what's your name? Haley something. I'm just throwing a blank. Christian said any song where he could use tiny hands as props. Yeah, I'll do a. I'm gonna do a low song. I'll do blister in the sun. What's, why? Big hands in there, you're the one. Oh yeah. Bulldog hustle. I've never done karaoke either, but I've been practicing in the shower just in case I get up the courage. Yeah. I've been practicing in the shower for 40 years. Yep. Maybe longer, right? That's as far back as I can remember. Garrett and Kim, Helen says we will do Bohemian Rhapsody. It's so much fun to sing. Oh yeah, I'm sure everyone gets into that one. I totally sang along with the last person they did. Oh, Haley Williams, that's it. Terry says I just did karaoke at work last Friday. Oh man, he says, if I go on the cruise I'll do my heart will go on. No. Yes. No. Perfect. Garrett do tequila. Yeah, look at that, that one's looking good. Look at that. I'll totally do tequila. I'll just do the Pee Wee Herman rendition. No. Another one of my favorite movies right there. He does. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. He, yeah. It is Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Do you like how I'm just chitty chatting? You're doing all the work. I like this job. I don't mind it. I've got the good edge. He keeps me busy. Cute Diana says hello from Surprise, Arizona. Oh, I'm surprised you're here. Oh yeah, Tabatha says drink two equals sweet home Alabama. Drink three equals living on a prayer. I will join you on either of those or both. Or both. I say that now and then I'll check it out. You're gonna say we're both wet. Oh no. Do I need to fix that little bit of yellow right there? Yeah. I think it needs another. I have tried. I've been over that thing like four times. I'll do it again. With the yellow. The legs, yeah. You might have to beep up. He might need a little fatter leg. No. He's a flamingo. Christian says the layers on this one are awesome. Thanks. Steve says one of the best movies, Garrett. Pee Wee's Big Adventure, right? Totally. I mean. All right, here you go. Don't stop now. It's got everything. Don't stop leaving. He was Big Adventure. He's got Adventure, Bikes, The Alamo, Large Marge. Those, was it Rune Goldberg machines? I mean, get all the makings for a classic. All right, I just hit this yellow again. So heads up when you pick it up.  Do you know another good movie? A good movie that's- Oh, now you guys got him started. A good movie that's got a surprisingly awesome soundtrack. Oh, everyone, no. I already know what he's gonna say. Who knows Garrett's favorite movie? That's where he's going with us. Oh, no, no. This is my third favorite movie. Oh, okay. My first favorite movie is Rad. That has the ultimate soundtrack. That is the ultimate movie. It's totally underrated. It's got everything. But we learned that the guy, Bill Allen, from Who Plays Crew Jones from Rad, is doing a tour this year, movie screening, and then meet and greets and stuff. And so we're gonna go find him and we're going. This is definitely, I'd say it was your birthday present, but your birthday's already passed. So it could be next year's birthday present. I'll accept. Did I miss where the cruise was leaving from? It's leaving from Galveston, Texas. G-Town. Lori says, we were at a wedding and you had to pay to have someone sing karaoke. You had to pay more to get out of it. They wanted me to sing Brick House. And I was like, ain't no way. Ain't no way not gonna happen. That would have been hilarious, Lori. Tyra says she can't wait to make this one. Her sister-in-law will love it. Oh, what about Bill and Ted's excellent adventure? Oh, that's a good one. Probably my top 20. Christian said, yep, that scene, send me an angel in the school gym. Yep. He could do the whole thing. I can do the whole thing. I can do every move in the entire movie except the back flip, but it's been tried. I was able to do the whole beginning in sequence back in the day. Ooh, cool. Bonnie says, we've done Cosmow and Costamaya, Costamaya, Cruise. Summarine excursion was awesome and the jungle truck was a lot of fun too. Awesome. I love a good excursion. Oh, you got another vote for Wayne's World. Oh, Wayne's World? That's okay, one. Let's get a good soundtrack. But the best movie with the undercover good soundtrack, Dumb and Dumber. Got a good soundtrack, another great story, so many one-liners. Yes, this thing looks awesome. Is that it? That is it. Yeah, turn it around. You don't have to hold it up yet. Whoa. Uh-oh. What's loose? What fell? This guy. Something's on the mood. Oh, this one wasn't glued on. Oh, now I totally forgot his wing. Where's his wing? Oh. He's like a one-winged dove now. Totally, that was in my head too. I was singing that in my head and I was not gonna sing it out loud. You wanna place this thing where it goes? Lost Boys, Steve said Lost Boys. Oh, Lost Boys. That's a good one, another good soundtrack. That was a good one. This one is stunning. Oh, Helen said your signs will never cease to amazing. Doing Patreon is well worth it, it is. Yeah, I showed you guys how I did this sign. You guys were there when we designed it. I just made it, made it. You guys were there when we designed it and now you're here when we put it together and our top tier patrons were there when we made it a co-file. I don't want the wing to slide. Oh, I was gonna say you're holding it weird. It'd be like a one-winged angel right there. It'd be fine, hold it up. She's not going anywhere. Look at that, awesome. Hold it still, hold it still. Showing dimension. And hold it straight. Other way, like that, a little bit more, uh-huh. Yeah, look, yeah. Yeah, looks good. It looks awesome. Let's see if it works. Great design, can't wait for that golf sign, Garrett. Did you see, Garrett? So I'm gonna go do mine. I haven't done mine yet. Actually, I don't know if I'm gonna do mine. We're doing a video this week, five tips, techniques to make your door hangers pop and we've got to paint like five door hangers right before we leave today. Gonna paint five door hangers. But we're gonna make them pop. Do we have anything left to tell them? Do you wanna reiterate what's happening? All right, I know we've talked about it the whole video, I mean the whole live, but I have to kind of keep pressuring this and keep letting everyone know because you gotta get those, what is it, deposit in by 531. We do have a cruise coming up, February 2024. Everybody come with us. We're gonna do a whole group cruise. We're gonna have some sessions. We're gonna have some meet and greets.  Just really gonna kind of bring this tribe together. But in order to get the pricing that we have right now for this block of rooms that we have reserved, you have to get that deposit in by 531. So that's why we're pushing it. It's gonna go push it really hard in the month of May. And real good, push it real good.  All right, go ahead. Go ahead with your mirror, I see. All right, so we're about out of time. I'm gonna have a little bit of time to say hi to Karen and Lois and Diana and Mandy and Christian and Karen, Tracy, Juanita, Wiley, Tyra, Michael, Steve, Bob, did I already say Tyra? Yes. Tyra, Tabitha. Who else? Jason, Helen, of course Helen. Diane, did you get Diane? Patricia. I know she's from Surprise, Arizona. Oh, that's cool. All right. All right. And with that, we're about out of time. So we will see you on Friday. We're gonna show you five ways to make these door signs pop. Our five favorite ways to make these door signs pop. Well, one new way. I'm learning something new and I'm gonna show you guys. Yeah, one new way. So fingers crossed on that one. It might be four. Nope, I'll get it figured out by then. All right, we will see you guys on Friday.


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the midst of the fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on even greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and its peoples, whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific Basin. This broadcast series comes to you as another public service, the drama of the past and present, of the millions of people who live around the world's greatest sea, where the east at last meets the west. Thailand, the enslavement of a free people. United itself on being the only independent nation in the far east, the land of free men. Today, that freedom is gone. Thailand is allied with Japan against the United States and Britain. And the man who holds the whip hand over Thailand is the little Hitler, the Wang Pibul Sangram. Our determined to get back our territory, we will get it back. Every effort will be made to achieve this end without force. But if force is inevitable, war will be waged with a minimum of bloodshed. People saw what means the same as Heil Pibul, which the Wang Pibul Sangram has ordered said, the same as Heil Hitler has said in Germany. The Wang Pibul rose from obscurity to a power in Thailand in the space of ten years. Went through many of the same steps as Hitler during this rise. In 1935, the Wang Pibul stood before the mirror in his room, combing his hair. He called his personal servant. How might you go? Yes, Luang Pibul. Wait to me in my head. Yes, Luang Pibul. What are you doing? Put down that piece. Keep looking into the mirror. How might you go? Take that piece away from my back. Now, you cannot escape. Hey! Hey! You cannot escape, Luang! You cannot escape! Luang Pibul escaped his servant, but two more attempts were made to assassinate him. By forceful steps, he rose from the rank of Major to Colonel, then to the post of Minister of Defense. Like Hitler, he organized the youth movement that could effectively be used as Hitler used his brown-shirted stormtroopers. He became Field Marshal, then Premier, the Fuhrer of the Thailand people. Luang Pibul has concentrated all the power of Thailand in the hands of the Army and Navy. You mean in his own hands? We still have a Constitution on paper only. Does our people's assembly mean nothing? The people's assembly knows better than to oppose the will of Luang Pibul. But what about our rights? We are free people? All your town, Luang Pibul, has long years. With Japan's encouragement, Luang Pibul defied and threatened the European powers in the Far East. As Hitler declared that all Aryans should be included in a greater right. So Luang Pibul declared, We must bring under Siamese domination not only the territories which Siam has been compelled to yield to France, but also those regions with populations of Thai race which are now subject to the control of Britain and China. This fellow is following Hitler's pattern exactly. Yes, he not only wants back the territory taken from Siam, but he wants a lot more. More than he's entitled to, if you ask me. Nice idea. Claim all the territory that's inhabited by the population of the Thai race. The destiny of the Pantai movement is to include all our people in one nation. We must extend the frontiers of the Siamese kingdom until this has been achieved. In 1949, Siam changed its name to Thailand. That same year, the war broke out in Europe. Luang Pibul declared that Thailand would remain neutral. In 1940, after the fall of France, Japan moved into French Indochina. Subsequently, Japan, pursuing her policy of courting Luang, made a gift of six states in Indochina, Burma and Malaya to Thailand. Observers in the Far East saw the trend of events to come. Whatever happened to Luang's neutrality? Are you referring to his propaganda blasts against the United States and Britain? Yes. We went over to the Japanese camp quick. He's not over there yet. He knows the people are not with him. Well, he's preparing them for the step he's going to make. You can be pretty sure of that. You have to remember that the Thailanders don't like the Japanese any more than we do. A lot of them don't like Luang either. Well, I say watch him. He wouldn't be taking these propaganda potshots at Britain and the United States just for fun. Something's in the wind. Something was in the wind. On December 8th, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, waves of Japanese bombers swooped down on Bangkok, the capital of Siam. Japanese bombers are carrying out a raid in force on Bangkok. The city is being blasted. Japanese alias forces are invading Thailand in the Nick and the Lele Peninsula. The invasion started before daylight, and great numbers of troops are landing in... The Wang people delivered Thailand to Japan, and with its conquest, the Japanese won a key position from which it was to drive southward to take all Malaya and Singapore, and westward to take all of Burma. The people of Thailand, the land of free men, had lost their freedom. For six centuries they had fought for it, guarded it against adventurers, repulsed invaders to preserve it. Their legends perpetuate the name of the fabulous hero who freed his people from the Khmer's. His name was Phra Ruang, and he lived many, many years ago. Phra Ruang was a simple boy. He earned the living by cutting water from the springs at Laburi to Angkor Thong. But he carried so much water to the king in ordinary baskets that the people at the palace were afraid of him. They said there was something dangerous about one who could transport so much water. They watched him, and soon his friends told him that the king was about to seize him. Phra Ruang got away just in time. He ran away to the Sokotai monastery, and there he meditated on the plight of his people. He talked to his fellow Thais and stirred them up against the king. A Khmer general with many soldiers came out to put down the unrest among the Thais. But Phra Ruang and another Thai chieftain defeated the Khmer. Phra Ruang won the freedom of the Thais. And so Phra Ruang became king of the Thai kingdom of Sokotai. In the 1500s, the Portuguese came to the Far East. A hundred years later, Dutch ships and merchants began to visit them. Relations with European powers were established. We welcome you to Siam. This is the Siamese king, Akatatsara. We regard your presence as an envoy of your country here in Siam as homage from your government. We are honored. We beg that you remain with us long. Embassies were set up in Siam by the Portuguese and the Dutch. Soon the English came, and following them the Japanese came in large numbers. And in the years to come, the United States was to learn something of the nature of dealing with Siamese royalty. I don't understand it, Smith. You are my interpreter. Why do the Siamese officials refuse to permit us to see the king? I don't know, Mr. Ballestier. All I would say is that we could not see the king. Well, something was wrong. I could feel it. I interpreted everything you said just as you said it. We had our credentials. Yes, I had them right in this box in my hand. Don't they realize that I have come all the way across the Pacific from the United States to make this new trade treaty with them? Yes, yes, they understand it, Mr. Ballestier. How, dear, trade relations have always been pleasant. They signed the first treaty that the United States concluded with any Asiatic power just 17 years ago, and they knew that I was coming to conclude this treaty with them. Could it have been because they were not satisfied with the first treaty? No. Well, they themselves called the treaty that Edmund Roberts signed with them in 1833 a treaty of amity and commerce to last as long as heaven and earth shall endure. Yes? Ballestier, a gentleman is here to see you, Mr. Stuart Ridge. Stuart Ridge? Yes, he says it's about your visit to the palace today. That's strange, isn't it? Well, send him in. Yes, sir. Smith, do you know anyone named Stuart Ridge? No. No, I don't think I do. Stuart Ridge. Oh, perhaps he's that fellow from the British office here. Right in this way, Mr. Stuart Ridge. Thank you. Mr. Ballestier, I'm Alec Stutridge from the British office. Oh, yes, yes. How do you do? Mr. Smith, how do you do? How do you do, sir? Mr. Ballestier, I understand you had some difficulty getting to see the king this morning. We did not see the king. And you had the same experience that James Brook had recently under the same circumstances. The officials refused to permit him to see the king? Yes. You had your credentials with you? Yes. Yes, I had them. I had them right in this box in my hand. And I had an umbrella in the other hand. You didn't regard the Siamese as interferious, did you? No. Now, we were very careful about that point. I'm afraid that's what Sir James Brook did, unthinkingly, of course. Oh, yes, of course. But Sir James insisted on his title. That wasn't very tactful, Mr. Stuart Ridge. We sensed that later. But there must have been something more. He had a feeling that we offended them by our lack of respect. Though that was the last thing we intended. Hmm, that gives me a clue. Perhaps they were offended by our lack of ceremony in presenting our credentials. If you'll pardon my saying, so gentlemen, I'm afraid that's it. It intimated that Sir James' credentials were only from the Governor General of India and were dated two years before. Yes, but they were credentials, weren't they? Yeah, but the fact that they were not from the British king made them think that we did not regard the Siamese court as sufficient importance to bring credentials from the king. I see. They hold any documents sent by the king in high reverence, giving it the same honors as the king's person. I see. So when Smith entered with our credentials in a box in one hand and an umbrella in the other, they must have felt that we did not regard our credentials very highly and so they would not. Yes, and this explains why neither Britain nor the United States was able to negotiate a new treaty. The coldness of the Siamese toward the foreigners was not to pass until a new king ascended to the throne of Siam, King Mongkut. Then gradually, Siam was opened to foreign commerce and Siamese ambassadors were sent to Europe for the first time since the 17th century. But Siam was not to make real progress toward nationhood until the coronation in 1873 of the young king Chulalongkorn. From far and wide for the ceremony. Well, let's stop here. We'll be able to see here. Yes. The procession will come right by this point. It's like a great holiday. It is a great day. Such pageantry. I've never seen anything like it. All the years I've been here in Bangkok. What are those men over there in those yellow robes? Those are monks. They come from all the shrines here. Is every one of those gaily colored spires a shrine? Most of them. And what are those vertical signboards hanging in front of all those shops? Those are signboards of Chinese merchants. There are many of them here. Such a crowd of people. What is that fellow over there? He's a boat dweller. Bangkok has a complicated network of canals.  Is that so? Yes, indeed. And the new king Chulalongkorn often stops and speaks to them on the streets or along the canals. He comes right out and mixes with his people. We've often seen him riding through the streets, stopping and chatting with people. I've heard he's a very colorful person. Well, he's traveled outside of Sam quite a good deal. Visited Singapore, Java, India. That shocked many of the officials in his court, but it's had a great influence on his thinking. It will probably have a great influence on his future policy also. Oh, here come the elephants. Look at those elephants. Oh, they're decked out. Yes. This is really the land of the white elephant. Look at the colors and those trappings. Such elegance. Good heaven. I've never seen such a recession irrelevant. Looks like the royal palanquin.  And look at that golden umbrella over it. That looks like the new king in the throne, Chulalongkorn. There's three, six, nine. Why, there are 12 men carrying it. Yes, it's very heavy. Yes, it's the royal palanquin, all right. Good heavens, what splendor. The richness of that throne. And that umbrella must be real gold. It probably is. Is that really Chulalongkorn? Why, it's hardly more than a boy. It's Chulalongkorn, all right. He's just a young man, but a very bright one. He's the first Siamese king to say that his duty is to rule, not for himself, but in the interests of his people. Oh, hello, counsel. Did you see the king? I just saw him passing his palanquin. He's very impressive. Did you hear about his proclamation just after the coronation? Why, no, we didn't. He has abolished prostration in the royal presence and has abolished slavery. Abolished prostration? And abolished slavery in Siam? Why, it's incredible. Counsel, that young king is going to be remembered for a good many centuries to come. Chulalongkorn adopted this rude foreign policy. He saw that Siam could not stop the European powers if force were used. But that Siam could prevail as an independent nation if he played off two equal adversaries. Accordingly, he played off Britain against France. Britain held Burma on his west frontier. France held Indochina on his east frontier. But after the turn of the century, another rival rose to dispute Britain's influence in Siam. This was Germany. Germany made political advances, Siam with commercial enterprises, and sought to get a foothold on one of the gulf islands. And then, in many American cities... Say, now that crowd of people over in front of the journal office. Yeah, something must have happened. Let's go over there. Did you see that headline there? Why, it's unbelievable. What does it say? Can you see it? Yeah, just see it. It says, a Japanese naval squadron under Admiral Togo has destroyed the Russian fleet in the Pacific. War has broken out between Russia and Japan. The Russian fleet! The repercussions of the Russo-Japanese war shook the Far East. Japan emerged as a power in the Pacific and replaced Germany as Britain's chief rival in Siam. And more than this, Japan's victory had a far-reaching psychological effect on Siam. Ambitious Siamese said... The European nations are not invincible after all. No. There is no reason for Siam to be overawed by the European nations. We must take a bolder stand against the foreigners. Yes, Japan has shown their way. Yes, and by following Japan's example, Siam can retain her independence. The Siamese were right. Increasing attention was shown to Siam via the powers. In 1909, there was a great Austro-Hungarian celebration in Siam, and the Siamese received more attention than they had ever received since the first day a European set foot upon their soil. In the court of Siam... Who is that being presented to the king now? That is the French commander of the Indo-Chinese forces, and that was a British admiral who was presented just a minute ago. They say there's a Chinese delegation waiting to see the king, and the Prince Regent of Brunswick is here. Yeah, living battleships in the harbor? Battleships? Yeah. There are three German warships in many Japanese and French cruisers and English ships. Then perhaps we ought to keep our independence. Perhaps, but there are still rumors that Britain and France will someday partition Siam. The importance of Siam was beginning to emerge, but meantime, apprehension within Siam was growing. A new king, Rama VI, came to the throne in 1910. Discontent smoldered. A plot to kill the new king was discovered, and when World War I broke out, Siam became the focal point of pressure from both adversaries. This is King Rama VI. But as your ministers, your royal highness, we must advise you that France is exerting great pressure upon us from Indochina and Britain from Burma. We are squeezed between them. And there is another important factor, your highness. Speak. Both Britain and France are charging that Siam is the center of German intrigue, which they say is radiating throughout the entire Far East. That cannot be true. Germany is of far less importance to Siam than Britain and France. What do you mean by that? If Siam should join the Allies, we could then confiscate all German interests in Siam. And perhaps get important treaty concessions at the peace table. But that would mean a declaration of war. Technically? Yes. There is one other important consideration, your highness. Our indebtedness to England and France? England and France are now our allies. If Siam should not declare war on Germany, then England and France might move in on us from Indochina and Burma and set up a protectorate over us. You see, your highness, it might be a distinct advantage for Siam to declare war on Germany. Rama VI took Siam into World War I against Germany. And when the balance sheet was struck at the peace table, Rama's ministers were proved right. Siam saved herself from becoming a protectorate of England and France. She emerged from the conflict without having suffered a single military casualty and with no war debt, whatever. Siam's importance on the Pacific scene was rising. Rama VI died in 1925 and young King Brigadier Park ascended to the throne. Brigadier Park, who had many such glittering titles as The Brother of the Moon, The Half-Brother of the Sun, The Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas, came to the United States in 1931 for an eye operation. He had heard the rumblings for constitutional government in his own country before he left. And in the United States, he said, I am most interested in the practical workings of democracy. I want to see whether voting really expresses the will of the majority. I want to learn about the form of voting and how political campaigns are conducted. At home in Siam, the rumblings were growing louder. Rumors were right. King Brigadier Park is in favor of giving us a constitution. But the princes are against it. King Brigadier Park has cut down on the number of civil service jobs and that's why he has so many enemies. I heard that the ones in the civil service are organizing because all the key positions are held by princes. They say that certain elements of students and officials are organizing to make some certain drastic change. The rumblings grew, but few people, and the government took them seriously. On June 24, 1932, King Brigadier Park was away from the capital at Bangkok, enjoying himself at the seashore. Your Majesty. What is it? Why are you so excited? This, this letter. You know what is in it? The one who brought it, King Brigadier Park. He said he came as an agent of the people's party. Mm-hmm. It is the will of the people's party that you remain on the throne of Siam as constitutional monarch. If your royal highness finds this impossible, then another king will be chosen from the royal family and placed on the throne in your stead. I have heard it whispered, Your Majesty. I was afraid. Your Majesty. Yes, General? King Brigadier Park. The people's party has taken possession of the throne hall and the throne hall square in Bangkok. Taken possession of the throne hall? Where is the chief of staff? He is touring the northern provinces and the admiral of the navy as at sea. The people's party timed it well. They are holding the princes of the Supreme Council in the throne hall, and they have issued this manifesto. These are demands of me? They say these are the principles of the people's party. The aims of the new regime shall be the maintenance of national independence, peace, public security, the improvement of economic conditions. The people's government guarantees popular government for the people's welfare, education, and equal rights for all. And the abolition of the privileges of the princes. Oh, what do they wish of me now? That you accept this manifesto within one hour. One hour? The members of the royal family in Bangkok are in the hands of the people's party. My family? The people's party will hold them responsible for any countermeasures that might be taken. We shall accept. We have long favored a constitutional government. This year, 1933, Leuang Thibault rose through the welfare of events of this land which was struggling to reconstitute itself. Frisadi Poc abdicated in 1935, and his nine-year-old nephew, Ananda Mahidol, was proclaimed king. The way was now open for Leuang Thibault. We will fight to win back our lost territory. All the people of the Thai race must be included in one nation. We will extend the frontiers of the Siamese kingdom until this has been achieved. With control of Thailand's armed forces, this little Hitler of the Far East took his nation into war on the side of the Japanese against the United States and Britain. With this act, the six centuries of Thai independence came to an end. The Thai people became unwilling collaborators of Japan. But in Washington, D.C., the Thailand minister to Washington has rejected the action of his government in accepting the terms of Japan and has organized a free Thai movement to express the voice of the enslaved people of Thailand. Today, with the tide of the war and the Pacific turning against Japan, Leuang Thibault sits uneasy as the dictator of Thailand. The growing Allied might looms like a menacing shadow over him. The land of free men is stirring in its own behalf. Leuang Thibault himself has eloquently revealed the state of his security in his pronouncement. The enemy has tried his best to throw our country into confusion by instigating internal dissension, which, if we fall into his trap, will ruin our country. I beg you not to believe in enemy propaganda, nor an evil rumor. I want you to know that our country is confronting a precarious military, economic and financial position. I have been reproached that my ministers are men of dishonorable character. Not only does the enemy hate me, but the Thai people hate me as well. Leuang Thibault Sangram is learning that he who sits with the devil must have a long spoon. Neither he nor the Japanese have been able to crush the fierce love of independence of the Thai people. Both Leuang Thibault and the Japanese are being undermined from within Thailand by the Thai people and from outside by the growing free Thai movement, which is spread from Washington to London to New Delhi. And these factors, coupled with the strategic importance of Thailand, promise to make Thailand important in the coming operations in the war in the Pacific. You have been listening to the Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations as a public service to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the cost currents of life in the Pacific Basin. A reprint of this Pacific Story program is available at the cost of 10 cents. Send 10 cents in stamps or coin to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. The address again, University of California Press, Berkeley, California. Written and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso. Your narrator, Gain Whitman. The program came to you from Hollywood. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


Greetings. Good morning. It's Lucina. We can get started with the CI Working Group meeting in just a few moments as there may be a few more folks who would like to join. All right. It's 10.05. We can get started. My name is Lucina Stricko and I've been doing project management for the CI Working Group and the CrossCloud CI team. I've posted the meeting agenda and notes for this call into the chat and also a copy of today's slide presentation has been shared in the chat window as well. I'll pass it over to Taylor if you'd like to introduce yourself and then we can popcorn. Introduce everyone on the call and get started. Thanks, Lucina. Yeah. I'm Taylor Carpenter and I provide a little bit of development and ops dev on the team and working with Denver. Denver, are you with us? Yeah. I'm here. Okay. Great. I'm going to go ahead and see if. Hey, Taylor. Dan just joined. I'm not sure who else we have and what you want to cover. Hello. Hello. Hi. I'm Shashi from Huawei. This is the first time I'm attending this bar group and I just want to get myself updated with this bar group basically. We have a downstream projects who use CI which is more or less based on Kubernetes testing for tools. So we are looking for some alternatives in that direction. I just want to get updated myself with the CNC of CI working group. Great. Welcome. Sure. Thanks. Dan, your audio was a little cut out as you came in. I couldn't quite hear everything. Was there something? No, I was just saying that I'm here, but I didn't have anything I needed to cover. Okay. No problem. Okay. Well, let's see. So happy to have anyone join that wants to listen and participate to see what's going on. So if anyone has something they would like to talk about, a topic specifically, the CI working group, there's a shared document with agenda notes, so feel free to add anything on here, maybe even for the next time when we prepare that and happy to have you join in on that. Thanks, guys, participating on some of the things that we're working on on the CrossCloud CI team. So I'll jump right into that. So the updates from the CrossCloud CI team and the project that we're working on. So for those of you that are there. Just before we dive in, could I just ask the Huawei folks, because they previously had had a site up CNCF dot build that was based on container ops. And I was just curious what the status of that was. Absolutely. I think I don't have much info about that, Dan, as of now. So I'll get to that probably next time. Okay. Okay. If maybe you could send an email to the CNCF CI mailing list, I'd love to hear it. If you guys have either discontinued the project or are taking it in a different direction or anything. Sure. Thanks. Awesome. Okay. So this is the current team, CrossCloud CI development, doing development. So Denver, some of y'all have maybe met previously, Watson has been doing API development and some front-end development, Josh Smith doing front-end dev, and then Lucina and myself who have met now. So this is current team and the meeting notes I talked about before, those are linked off of the CI working group GitHub page. So since last meeting, we have had a couple of demos and meetings with some folks, Camille. We went through the current status, hadn't had an update with her in nearly a year. It seems like it's been quite a while. That was good to catch up with her. We're going to be following up to get more of her feedback. Lucas, we had a meeting last week talking about QBedman and how ADM, how we could add that in as a potential plug-in for doing Kubernetes provisioning. The system now uses custom provisioning on all the clouds. So we had some feedback on where QBedman is right now, what type of support, and then some directions that are going. We also received a bunch of, I guess, more detailed specifications and what we could look into to see if it's going to work right now or if we need to have some further conversations. So that's on our list and then we'll be having some follow-up conversations with Lucas. From the cross-cloud software stack itself, from the CI system, the pipeline, as we've been increasing and moving towards the production release at the system, we've been working through, it's starting getting really rapid on resource usage. So we actually had to reach out to the cloud providers, get a bunch of that increased as we're pushing through all of the different environments and testing. And seeing that, that will tie in with some conversations, Dan, with some of the folks like for the IBM and Bluemix stuff that you're aware of. Blinkerd, as we're refactoring to work with the new system as it's split out, fixing some issues on some of the existing projects. We've had some items for upstream changes like core DNS. There was, I guess it was right at the end of the last, on the edge of the last meeting, there was upstream for Kubernetes that was fixed as well. And then on packet, there's been limitations with resolving resolution on the clusters because packet doesn't provide any type of DNS service or anything else internally. So we have a discovery cluster that works with the deploys and allows us to work around some issues with bootstrapping and other things. So that's in place and working. So packet was offline while we put that and it's back re-enabled and working as far as a test cloud provider. On the dashboard itself, the part of the 3AM scheduling is the client for triggering and controlling the back-end CI system and handling stuff like when is the new Kubernetes master build done and complete and ready to provision and then run through and collect all the status and stuff. So this is part of that. So the trigger client for doing all those pieces and then the next step, I'll get to in a minute on the 3AM. Integration tests, we've been doing a lot of integration tests across the whole system. So this is going from dashboard all the way down through the CI system and completed quite a few of those. And then as we're moving towards production D1O, there's a lot of bug fixes that we're working on, a lot of them are related to integration stuff like timeouts. So one of the items that we ran into was when you're doing a lot of deploys, app deploys and then running tests on top of each other and the state of the dashboard. So working through those sort of things. And this is really going to be affected more when we start increasing the number of times the dashboard is updated. It's seeing those and let's see. So then we get to in progress. Fluent D was a little bit higher on the priority list previously. It's been lower, but it was partially done. This year the builds were working. So the remaining items, there's a couple of remaining items to test, but the big thing was refactoring it to support the new app deploys. That's been completed and it's ready to test. So we'll be finishing that out and it'll be coming in the next couple of weeks or so. The last, some of the last items for V1O are the running the scheduled job. This is what runs at 3 a.m. and every day to do builds for all the active projects, do provisioning to all of the active clouds with the latest stable and head of Kubernetes. So this will be using the new trigger client and stepping through and running for each of the pieces. And then one thing that we need to update and work on is the related to all this will be clearing out all the resources. So after the 3 a.m. job, with all the work that we've done, there's quite a few pieces that we need to tie in to actually run and clear out those. Some of this ties in with development. How long do we want something F and available and then which ones do we want to be cleared out immediately? So that'll be probably post launch as far as V1O to complete that so pretty soon after. And let's see, I think that's it and then what's next? So the V1 release and we're looking at completing this, these items, targeting this week. So it's going to be this by end of week, I think we're going to be pretty comfortable with a launch. Want to talk with you, Dan, as well, to see how we want to do that and any items that you want to make sure are in there. And this is going to include a release 210 with the CI system. So this has a lot of the parts that are allows to do integration with other groups like ONAP for the build system itself. And it's working internally, so it'll be public on that. And then we can start working with other folks to take advantage of those parts. The back end API system integrated to that. And then the projects and clouds planning to have for that launch. So coming in the future. So we're planning on being at KubeCon and we have an intro that we would like to do that's pretty close to what we've done in the past, a little bit of updates with what's production launch. The deep dive we're hoping to focus more on working with projects as far as integration and then start getting feedback. We actually have a live working session for that, so getting ready for that. We'll be updating all the documentation across all the different repos to be able to help people to just step in and start how would they add their project, how could they contribute. So there's going to be a lot of that just after release. And then the next big focus is going to be on app supporting a some of the components, the master service orchestrator. We're planning on targeting that component and getting it running on all the active clouds and doing the integration with them. We have a couple of clouds, BlueMix should be coming online and then OpenStack is pretty close based on work that we've done with folks on that end. So that should be pretty soon after. And then we've got quite a few demos and discussions that we want to have. So the GitOps side, we've done some review on that. We're trying to write something up on how we're actually already using some of the processes and ideas that are being talked about from GitOps. And we'd love to talk more about that. And then it would be nice to get a, I think one of the requesters to have someone from that end talk as well. So let's see. We have quite a few other demos we need to catch up with on the storage working group. The packet plus arm was deferred. So try to follow back up with Ed and see if he's available yet. And then as I mentioned, OpenStack will be following back up with Chris Hodge once we retarget integrating the code that he wrote. So he wrote most of the OpenStack provisioning code and essentially we need to update it and pull it into the new release and then we'll follow up with him. Why do we need to update the code? I thought that he would update the OpenStack code after we release the 2.0. He could, I think most of it was pretty close and so we were going to go through and see. I think it would be if there's anything major, then maybe we push that back to him. It could be pretty minor. We merged his code into a branch that was pretty close to the current. So Denver and I were going to dig through that and see if it's pretty short to update and then deploy. If it is, then we'll do it. If not, then we'll push back to Chris and allow him to retarget. So some upcoming events that we're planning on attending in some fashion, the Mobile World Congress and helping with ONAP as Dan, Cross Community Infrastructure, the face-to-face network, CICD and ONS, North America and then coupon, which we're talking about before. Any questions, other questions? So I don't quite understand when you think the dashboard is going to be live. I think that we should be through getting all the, I guess, the production by fixes and everything else that we've been working on the last couple of weeks this week. So I think we'll be up and ready by end of week as far as those parts and probably want to check in and we'll have it running at 3 a.m., like actually by tomorrow we'll be running, going through and seeing what's the results, what's the results. Okay. I'm very eager to see that. Pretty close. Okay. If there's nothing else, if anyone have any other items they want to talk about outside of what we have here. So the next working group meeting is February 13th. This is where you can get involved as far as the CrossCloud CI or the CI working group. There's a CNCFCI public list, CNCFCI working group has information as well and this slide deck was shared in the channel and we'll add those to the notes as well. Thanks everyone. Okay. Thank you. See you all next time. Thank you. See you all.