Thank you very much. I'm very glad to be here. I was in the United States only a week ago, and that's why I feel rather free, because I'm not going back for another several months. I don't think I have to be afraid that I'll be stopped at the border, saying that you said that about our country, so I'm going to be very honest today. Now, I'll talk about US-China, China, Japan, and US-China. The manner of Trump administration is something little bit more than a lot of us expected. However, it is true that there are elements that has to be said sometime, like IPR. I thought we had gone through that in 70s and 80s, and Japan was told a lot, and we call it Gaiatsu, the foreign pressure. I thought, why is it not said to Chinese? Is it too big to complain? So I'm not trying to defend everything that Mr. Trump has been saying, but there's some truth in that as well. However, one concern is that there's some similarity between maybe Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump. That is, they want to hear only about what they want to hear from the surroundings. So that's something we have to be concerned. Japan, China, now we are moving. Prime Minister was in Beijing yesterday, greeted very warmly. First time in seven years. It's China that has changed because of the international environment. They have come around to us, I think. And I think it's very good. Now the keyword is from competition to cooperation. However, we will not change partners. One example, Pew Research Center of the United States had a research issued on October 1, only three weeks ago, in which they asked around in many countries of the world which would be the leader in the future, China or United States. Only two countries in the world said, people said, more than 80% of people said it should remain as United States. They asked in France, they asked in UK, they asked in Germany, they asked in back, Thailand, Korea, everywhere. Only two countries. That was United States and Japan. So Japan, Japanese people still have a big confidence in United States because of, I think, the values, freedom of speech, democracy, human rights, which we don't share 100% with China. Third, Japan, US relations. I think it's pretty good because we've been able to manage problems. Bilateral issues, we have just agreed on trade on goods. And it's pretty that US opted out from TPP, UNESCO, Paris Accord. But I think we are going to do by ourselves with other countries like minded countries and we can wait for United States to change mind and come back. It's not maybe this administration, but next administration. And we can wait. So like the movie 50 years ago, Shane, the movie Shane, I'm always saying, in the end, young boys calling out to Shane come back in the wild while arming. And I think we always say, America, come back. I think I really think we can do that in two, three years. Lastly, a lot of people think that America has been so stable a partner and it has moved. I don't take that view. So maybe Americans would like to divide me, challenge me, but look what happened in 1971 to 72. Mr. Nixon suddenly changed to dollar gold policy. He changed China policy. All of us were shocked because we were following blindly. United States, when Britain and France has already moved out and supported Beijing, but we were behind. In 1990s, when North Korea was doing some bad things, Mr. Clinton said, we're going to give like water reactor to North Korea. What happened? Korea and Japan followed. Bush came out and said, Bush 43 said no way. And Bush started the Rock War. Britain, I'm sorry, France and Germany said no. US and Japan followed. Mr. Obama came out and said that was wrong. Now Mr. Trump is saying everything that Mr. Obama did was wrong. So when US comes out and say, hey, we are going to play tango, we are going to say waltz, let's play waltz. The disc jockey is always United States. And we were dancing. And I think maybe the next leader will change the music and will change the tone. So I think we can wait. And one last thing is that Americans are very smart people. They know that the world institution that is made by United States, the most beneficiary is United States. That's why US economy is so good. So they'll wake up sometime. Thank you. That's wonderful. Thank you very, very much. It is true. I think the United States is a very difficult partner. Very difficult date, very hard to predict. It has lots of mood swings. That continues. Anyway, thank you very much.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Dr. X-17, Dustin Campbell, and Tim Deputy. Coming up on DTNS, Apple gets a 10-year contract for all Major League Soccer matches, Adobe makes Photoshop free on the web, and Meta now offers a setting to garble the voices of strangers in Horizon Worlds. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Flag Day in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. Happy Flag Day. It's Judy Whitman. I'm Sarah Lane. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us, technology contributor to ABC News author and host of The Tech, John Stephanie Upprey. Hey there. Is the day really Flag Day? It is, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, happy Flag Day. Whatever Flag you flag. Imagine if Tom was like, no, it's not. I just made that up. Now, Flag Day is when Mike Claiborne, a longtime St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster says, start paying attention to the standings. Don't pay attention to baseball standings before Flag Day. Wow, he uses Flag Day as a metric. Yeah, that's his metric. So be like Mike Claiborne, I guess. Quick fun fact. Yeah. I live in a community right outside of Philadelphia called Yaden, Pennsylvania. And the creator of Arbor Day is from here. Really? Yeah. I couldn't tell you his name, but we have a whole big citywide celebration every year for it. And yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm glad to see that Arbor Day gets some love out there. That's good to know. Yeah. All right, let's start off with a few tech things you should know. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced that the company will lay off nearly 1,100 people, which is about 18% of its workforce. Coinbase quadrupled in size over the last 18 months. Lay it off employees will lose access to company services and email immediately, but get a minimum of 14 weeks of severance pay with an additional two weeks for every year of employment. This might sound familiar to you because Coinbase is not the only company laying off people. Redfin and Compass also announced today layoffs of about 920 people collectively today, citing surging mortgage interest rates. WhatsApp is adding a feature in beta that lets users move chat histories, contacts, and your other WhatsApp data from Android to iOS. No more losing your history if you switch phones. It'll be a part of Apple's move to iOS tool. Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer on June 15th for most remaining versions of Windows that supported it, i.e. on the desktop will be disabled and replaced with Microsoft Edge. However, Windows 7 extended support, Windows 8.1, and all versions of Windows 10 long-term service clients, IoT and server will continue to make Internet Explorer available for the time being, i.e. 11 will continue to get security patches for those platforms as well. So it's not dead yet. It's mostly dead, Tom. Exactly. Battery company called Our Next Energy, or Microsoft Edge, but it's mostly dead, Tom. It's mostly dead, exactly. Battery company called Our Next Energy, or ONE, O-N-E, announced a partnership with BMW to bring its Gemini Dual Chemistry Battery Pack to a prototype BMW I-X-E-V by the end of the year. One's battery will use two types of cells and is experimenting with different electrode chemistries to reduce the use of cobalt, nickel, graphite, and lithium. It may offer three different sizes, including the low-end version at the same cost as current nickel and cobalt-based batteries, but here's the clincher if it works. ONE thinks its battery can almost double the I-X's range from 324 miles to more than 600. Mozilla will make its total cookie protection feature on by default for desktop Firefox browser users. The feature keeps cookies isolated to the side on which they were created to prevent tracking, and the feature launched in 2021, but users had to turn it on at the time. Now, on by default. All right. Let's talk a little more about what's going on at Adobe. Yeah, cool stuff. Adobe made some announcements. Photoshop is getting a neural filter that can clean up old photos or photos that, I don't know, just need a little help, removing scratches, restoring color, that sort of thing. Adobe Lightroom, which can adjust images, will get the ability to handle video for the first time. You can color grade footage and trim down the beginning and end on Lightroom if you use it. Yeah, so the Lightroom thing is available in one version of Lightroom, but it's even more simplistic than this, so that's kind of nice. If you're a photographer who has a video clip, it's really not going to be useful for long versions of video, but that neural filter, that's cool for taking old photos that Roger was telling us before the show. You could do all of that stuff in Photoshop, but what's cool about this is it's one button. You can just click it. Yeah, I use Photoshop pretty regularly. I have certain things that I have to use it for, but I'm not great at it. I have my little tricks, but I probably use Photoshop like 15% of what it is capable of. Something like this is one of the things that I want to use it for at the absolute most, so I can see a lot of people being happy about this. Yeah, that's a super cool feature. The Lightroom thing, I thought that was like super niche. I was like, what? Anybody really need to do this? For real ever? I don't know why. With all the other tools available to do that kind of thing, why are we adding that feature to Lightroom? I don't know. I'm going to give it a go.  Could be. Yeah, which doesn't disprove the fact that that's very niche, even if that were it. We got another big one here. Adobe is testing a free web-based version of Photoshop in Canada with intentions to open it up to everybody, but right now Canadians get it. Adobe says the service is intended to be a freemium service at some point, but the core features will always be available for free to try out. More sophisticated features will eventually go behind the paywall. Adobe launched the web version of Photoshop back in October, but it's only been for subscribers up till now. It offers basic edit tools. It offers layers. They've been adding more features to it as they go, but Adobe is pitching it as being more than just a collaboration tool. When they first launched it, they said, this is for making small tweaks and annotations if you're sharing photos with each other, but it looks like they're now saying we want it to be an entryway. We want people to try Photoshop for free on the web. You could use it on a Chromebook, for instance, and then want to use it more and maybe eventually become a paying customer. Yeah. I mean, as somebody here, I paid $10 a month for Photoshop on Creative Cloud, and I feel that it's worth it because it's a very robust tool, even though I'm not that creative Photoshop. My first reaction was like, why does Canada get everything first? My second was like, okay, well, what exactly does Photoshop offer that I'm not using right now that is free, fully free, where I would say, okay, let me pay for this because I like it so much and I'm using certain tools that they're going to keep me back from on the free version. I just have such disdain for the entire freemium model. I mean, I know this is capitalism, but it always feels like bait and switch to me where you're getting people invested in using this particular tool under the auspices of it being free and then flipping that switch when they need it the most. And I think people that can pay for software kind of already do for the most part and you would just be, I think, hamstringing some people that actually could benefit from a truly free version of the software. Yeah, it depends on how they do it, right? And I guess that's part of the Canadian test is for us as consumers to be able to see that too. So Canadians, let us know. I think if it works like a free trial where it's like, this is how it works, if you like it and you suddenly are like, oh, I want to get more advanced than paying for it, that seems fair to me. It's free to use basically, but if you're becoming an advanced user, then go ahead and kick us a few bucks. If it's more like you're talking about Stephanie where it's like, oh, you could use it for a couple of things, but you won't be able to finish them because you're missing an essential thing, then yeah, that's not cool. I don't like that either. And as much as that whole sweet cost as is, it's just like, dude, what are you doing here? How much is this even going to cost? Why even bother? Let this be the one altruistic thing you do, Adobe. Seriously. Well, in entertainment news, if you like soccer, Apple and Major League Soccer or MLS announced a 10-year broadcasting deal that makes the Apple TV app the home of all MLS matches. MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Tuesday that the league has the youngest, the most diverse, the most digitally native fans anywhere in the world. Some matches will be freely available to anybody with the Apple TV app, while the rest, including the MLS and Leagues Cup will be part of Apple TV Plus, which is $4.99 per month. Yeah, there's some interesting things about this. It's a global deal, so they're getting the rights worldwide, which is different than how sports leagues typically sell broadcast or streaming rights. They usually go country by country, region by region. MLS will also be allowed, and in fact, Apple isn't being encouraged according to ADQ. Apple has encouraged this. MLS will strike deals to simulcast matches on linear TV. My guess is they'll probably do this in local markets to say, oh, your local regional sports network or maybe your local broadcast channel will be able to show a match even if it is on Apple TV. So there won't be blackouts on this for, again, for select matches. Apple's ADQ also said the deal is a huge opportunity for both of us because it's a partnership. It's not a rights deal. Sounds like a rights deal to me. Sounds exactly like a rights deal. What's the definition of a rights deal? This is interesting. When I read this, the first thing I thought about was that that whole thing that Saudi Arabia is doing with some of the professional golfers here in the United States that had to leave the PGA to play in that live tournament. I don't know if it's live or LIV or those are Roman numerals. But it kind of reminded me of that and the idea that these major sports organizations are kind of up to the highest bidder basically at this point and I guess there's nothing wrong with that but it just, I don't know, it just made me question a little bit the motivations from the MLS. I know why Apple would want this to happen but it's like now people won't be able to see some of the matches and it kind of ruins that experience for those folks. But why won't they be able to see the matches? Well, the ones that get behind the Apple TV Plus. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, like they'll be limited in some way. There would be a lot of free ones but not all of them will be free. Some of them will be $5 a month. Unlike how sports viewing has gone up until this day. I was going to say, I don't think that's that much I don't know that that's that much different than what we get now where you have to pay a cable subscription that sometimes is a lot more in order to get just a limited number. This is you're paying $5 a month for Apple TV Plus which gives you all of Apple TV Plus and gives you access to the MLS stuff and they're not blacking out local broadcasts so it's possible you might get some local broadcasts available without even having to have Apple TV. I mean, I get what you're saying, Stephanie but I feel like compared to where we are now it's still probably an improvement. I wonder about how this plays out everywhere else around the world where soccer is way more popular and what type of access do Europeans and everybody else have to the games in general and will they be impacted? I don't know. Supposedly it's $5 a month wherever you live in the world if you can get Apple TV you can get it.  How much access do they have to the games now? This is our league the US league, they probably have to pay a lot. They probably have to pay some specialty providers so I would think this would bring it down if they're even interested because they have better soccer over there anyway. Yeah, a friend of mine who is much more into soccer than me I asked him about this this morning and he was like this is amazing but this is also something that he doesn't have to discover because he already has an Apple TV he's familiar with Apple TV Plus you know, if you care about a sport enough to figure it out you're going to figure it out. You're going to figure it out. This is kind of similar to what the NFL did with Prime. Yeah, where they did the Thursday night games on Amazon Prime Video and now that's the only way you can get them is Amazon Prime Video. Yeah, I think one of the objections I'll expect to hear people say is like well I don't have an Apple device and it's worth pointing out if you don't already know this that the Apple TV app is available on the web it's on Roku, Fire TV, Google TV, Samsung, LG, Sony, Visio, Panasonic, Hisense, PlayStation, Xbox it's even available on cable boxes from Xfinity and Sky and Free and BTV so it's available if you want to install it and you've got one of those devices. Alright, US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a company called Rune Labs to offer software called Strive PD. This tracks the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. So it uses Apple's Movement Disorder API and an Apple Watch with the Apple Watch sensors to track things like Tremors which is one of the main symptoms of Parkinson's and it also lets patients add symptom reports and medication usage on their own. Strive PD is meant to let clinicians track a patient's progress and monitor changes. So this is through your doctor. This is not like an app you download and pay a subscription for. It provides a better look than patient recall and can be used to fine tune medications. It will also help enroll patients in clinical trials to develop new treatments and bring those to the market more quickly. Rune Labs is not the only company working on this sort of thing with the Apple Watch. The Verge notes a company called Cerebellia is also developing an app related to Parkinson's as well. But what Perk my ears about this it's a service going to the doctors that treat this to help them rather than a service trying to get you to pay $5 a month to maybe come up with useful data but then they'll leak out on the internet anyway. So they're not doing that last thing is what is what I'm pointing out. I think this is I think this is this is good. I think this is significant and it's interesting. Now this is super cool. I was just thinking that you know I hope there is a way or someone could figure out a way to get Apple Watches into the hands of folks in low income communities that have Parkinson's because I mean you know this is this is wonderful and there's already an app I believe there's already an app that does this for on the smartphone but if there was some way to do some sort of partnership to get more Apple Watches into more hands so that they could take advantage of the software that be great. Especially as these kinds of devices get used for more of these kinds of things and not even just the Apple Watch you can work for Fitbits and other devices from Samsung and others too to be able to say hey this is going to be able to help health in general let's make it available let's figure out how to get it into people's hands like you're saying I think that's great. Yeah sometimes it kind of becomes a conversation of like well yeah everybody with Parkinson's disease would love to have an Apple Watch but you know how many actually have them so yeah I I've got I have another friend story a friend of mine's mother has Parkinson's and I sent her this article this morning and I said just you know about this and she goes oh yeah yeah she's on the list so I think it's a I think this is somewhat slow going because the the Food and Drug Administration saying okay we're good with Strive but Strive then say okay we're good with you patient because you have all you have all the the symptoms that are necessary for this to work is is you know there's there's some moving parts here that's a really good point the news here is the FDA approval that doesn't mean magically it appears on everybody yeah right yeah well folks if you're feeling social get in touch with us the DTS audience is available or we are available to the DTS audience I should say on DTS show on twitter and DTS pics PIX on instagram well meta is introducing some new features for it's VR products VR enthusiasts listen up VR safety tools announced in March are now rolling out to the Oculus app at dashboard let's parents and guardians see a teens list of friends list of apps blocked apps on the on the account parents can also be headset time and get alerts when apps are purchased so more or less just making sure that they know what the teens are doing on VR teens can also request permission to buy age restricted apps so before we get to the other the other aspect here which is that horizon worlds thing I teased at the top of the show this this feels unremarkable is there anything of note here Stephanie I know you follow this space pretty closely like it it just feels like kind of minimum expected stuff for it is the bare minimum unfortunately but but when you hadn't done the bare minimum you know stepping up to that I guess feels like progress to folks it's funny the the part about the the parental controls have to be initiated through the teens account I think is still lagging behind what most of the other platforms do with the exception of Instagram they were mentioned in this article as well they just flipped it so that the parents can actually send a teen a request and say hey you have to you know you gotta let me get access to your phone to get these parental controls in place so we'll see if they do something similar to that for the Oculus but yeah I don't know why Meta wants to take these baby steps as it relates to how parents can parent their kids and their devices alright let's talk about the other go ahead Sarah sorry I was just gonna say it's probably because Oculus has become so popular especially with young people that the company was like huh we didn't really think about that we should probably make sure that teens are a little bit safer than they have been in the past they never do alright Meta's Horizon Worlds VR chat app is launching in the UK adding that Canada and the US and getting new options for voice chat right now voice chat is on by default that's not changing you might be like oh yeah they need to turn that off no it's still on by default when you enter Horizon Worlds but you're getting a new setting called voice mode over the next few weeks that will let you disable that so you can say I don't want to hear anybody talking to me unless they're my friend that I've approved I don't want to hear them or even I think more interesting you'll have an option called garble voices from strangers garble voices lets you know a person is talking by playing what Meta describes as unintelligible friendly sounds we can all do our version of that later and then if you want to hear what that person is saying you can raise a hand to your avatar's ear to temporarily hear them without having to add them as a friend and decide if you want to have a conversation I get when garble mode is on an icon will appear above your avatar of an ear crossed out to indicate that you're unable to hear people I assume that happens if you've disabled it altogether as well but I don't know well here's what and Stephanie I don't know how much VR you know you're doing on a daily basis I play a lot of VR exercise games not in horizon worlds but I know what it is and I know it's a way for people to meet friends all over the world just like any other place on the internet right it's just a VR version of that the unintelligible friendly sounds from somebody who might not actually be friendly towards me it's kind of it's an interesting choice it is I'm like what is that even you know the idea of it and even the idea that you would raise your hand to speak I feel like the realist in me I'm already thinking through ways to abuse this picture because you know you could have two people sort of tag teaming someone you know you raise the hand to listen to one thinking that they're going to say something you know normal when this other person now you know starts shouting and yelling and screaming at you that that was the thing I was like you know you should be able to do that individually if you're going to be able to do it at all you should be able to do it individually with the people that you're not friends with like it seems like if you have the garble on everybody you're not friends with as garbled so I think you should be able to kind of toggle that on without having to raise the hand just because there may be someone you want to speak to but there may be somebody you don't want to speak to in the same room at the same time and you're going to you know I could just see that going left very very quickly. Yeah I agree with you there should be an unmute setting for individuals in a particular chat room that you're like I don't want to go so far as to put them on my friends list permanently and every time I run into them but I've raised my hand I found out that you know they're not they're not crazy and they're saying interesting things but I don't have to keep my hand up to listen to them either so yeah it would be nice if there was a middle ground it's a it's a it's an interesting way to solve a problem of of because I assume if you turn it off entirely it's like you just don't know they're talking right you you wouldn't have any indication so this is a way to let you know like hey people are saying something to you you can decide if you want to take the risk of listening or not and that seems a lot of distracting to go ahead you're just hearing garbled but it's friendly there you go I mean a lot of this when I you know at first I was like what are they doing and then I was like you know this isn't unlike what social networks have been trying to solve for many many years is okay you know is somebody my friend great you know we talk back and forth maybe I don't want to add them as a friend but they can DM me maybe they can't do either of those things and that is just the VR world we're in now yeah I'm imagining it like simlish some kind of you know but very friendly yeah but very friendly I'm gonna have to try this out friendly garbling yeah you're gonna make my VR headset on later on just friendly garbling you know same now I have to see have to see how it works everybody send me we're gonna start unfriending each other just so we can hear garbling unintelligible stuff send it to me well something that you also might be interested in is a company called motos based out of Boston developing something called the paper laptop which has a black and white electronic paper display you might say what is that well it's like like a kindle the team says that great battery life less eye fatigue and better visibility and bright sunlight is it's cool because the majority of laptop users really are using their devices for things like emails spreadsheets word processing and other text-focused tasks not really you know rich stuff where a e-paper obviously excels and the battery life is really good too web browsing will obviously be different without a full color screen but motos has done work on an e-paper monitor that can achieve 60 frames per second refresh rates making scrolling web pages and full speed video playback very smooth this is still in the development phase but that video they showed of the prototype was pretty impressive to me if you're like they played video it they're like well we're working on dithering in grayscale right now so it doesn't look great but it worked like the refresh rate was enough that it actually worked and the other thing I thought was fancy about it is it could just scroll and do forms and pretty much all the things I used my chrome book for it could do and it's going to have like a month-long battery life because it's an e-ink screen I signed up for the survey I was like alright I want to find out more about this I'm into it I'd be curious what the specs of the laptop are going to be did they say that anywhere in there now because they're still just developing the display technology that's going to make a difference and it's like you know is this different than a reader with the keyboard addiction like could you just could you fashion this out of a Kindle like currently no because the refresh rate is abysmal on a Kindle that that's their secret sauce right okay well it could be a thing I was I was pleasant I was pleased to hear them talk about the idea of this being a way to distract you because grayscale in your phone is largely agreed as a way to not use your phone so much so I like that they put that in there because I think that's probably going to be an actual significant selling feature for this for this thing yeah yeah if you don't need to play video games you know this could be the thing well I think a lot of us myself included you know what I first read the story this morning I was like what no a laptop that doesn't have color but how many how many things do I really need that for sure rich video definitely so even though video is working on the modest laptop the paper laptop but most things most of my day-to-day things are you know task oriented work stuff yeah and I think that yeah especially if you're well I don't know who's doing a lot of traveling in these days but as as the world sort of comes back to life I think that you know this starts to be really attractive to folks who are you know on the go and yeah the battery life in particular is a big selling point all right let's check out the mail bag let's do it this one comes from josh josh says thought it was interesting he's talking about yesterday's show that rich mentioned that authors could put notation on each word so that an audiobook AI could read the words and then place emphasis where the author desired reminded me of any kid who's had to learn to chant from the Torah and the notations on each word that teach you the appropriate musical notes it's called trope a four thousand year old solution to a modern problem hey so sometimes the old ways are best right yeah nothing new under the sun that's great and then Bode host of the kilowatt podcast wrote in and said hey if you're interested in an affordable electric vehicle with solar panels we were talking about the big expensive one yesterday that's coming from who was it oh man I'm blanking on the name suddenly but yeah we were talking about the big expensive one that's coming that's like two hundred thousand euros Bode says how about the APTERA it's a two-seater three-wheeled vehicle with solar panels it's not quite an apples to apples comparison in some states it's classified as a motorcycle motorcycle the light year thank you Bode the light year zero is got a big price difference the base model of the APTERA starts at twenty five thousand nine hundred dollars for two hundred fifty miles the max out APTERA claims a range of a thousand miles and with all the options it would cost you fifty thousand seven hundred dollars which is still a quarter of the price of the light year zero production of the APTERA should begin soon if it hasn't already is there a top speed on that thing because that thing looks pretty cool yeah I mean it's a two-seater right so you're this is not high capacity but yeah it looks like like that you know it's least can get zero to sixty miles per hour in three and a half seconds so yeah that's decent well thank you to Bode thank you to Josh and thank you to everybody who writes in with questions comments feedback all the things feedback at dailytechnewshow.com is where to direct your email our way thank you in advance we love your feedback also thanks to Stephanie Humphrey for being with us today 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What's good Josh the Bull rocks back again with another video. So this video was requested to me by silent Johnny one on Twitter You wanted me to check this out good old JR the Jim Ross story full career documentary. We got to check this out man JR I I'm gonna stand on this. He is the voice of wrestling He has always been in my opinion the voice of wrestling, you know, you think of some of your favorite WWE moments for me personally He was the guy now. I know some people say, oh, you know, they prefer WCW commentary or what night or whoever's commentary But when you really think about it, man, he was the guy that made some of these legendary moments That much better because of his commentary and how he delivered what he was saying on the microphone He made you believe in their feud and JR is a legend is a goat Love you JR. So this should be a good one, man. So appreciate all love and support man. Let's get right into this video I'm excited about this If in ring wrestling is the music we listen to his fans then commentary is what provides the lyrics and Arguably no one in the history of the business has ever been better at this than Jim Ross Well, there have been many greats of the past and present like Dornan Soli Bobby Heenan or moral Ronaldo It's pretty safe to say that no one single announcer has achieved as much behind the booth as good old JR With him providing some of the most iconic calls in wrestling history all while giving a real sports Like feel to the often pantomime mask proceedings But how did he get to this level of greatness? Well, join us today as we take a deep dive into his entire career journey So far in good old JR the Jim Ross James William Ross was born on January 3rd 1953 in Fort Bragg, California But would move to Westville, Oklahoma at a young age And it was there that he would find an early passion for sports as a member of both his high school baseball team and football team But that wasn't to say it was As he would also do well academically while studying at Westville High being at points a member of the National Honor Society, the president of the student body and vice president for the future farmers of America In fact, so highly regarded was he by the FFA that in 1970 They would award him a state degree after which James would successfully run to be the vice president of the entire northeast district Damn said farming was never going to be a career He would fall into for long as by then he had already fallen in love with the world of pro wrestling And while he didn't want to step in the ring himself exactly the broadcasting experience He'd picked up while at college was enough to see him get an in with the local NWA Tri-state territory as an announcer as well as that though Jim would also do some work as a referee Okay, carrying out dual roles up until the point that Bill Watts purchased the territory in 1977 and decided to rebrand it as Mid-South Wrestling and Upon realizing how much savvy the Oklahoma had for the backstage side of the business then Watts would promote him to the roles of both lead play-by-play announcer and vice president of marketing Very like he you can tell he was like he was destined for greatness, bro And whatever he wanted to do, that's that's awesome to see bro You can tell just his upbringing and how he's making moves. That's awesome or how he was making moves Wanting to prove he was worthy of the position Jim I like that set to work on trying to put on the best performance He could every night something he was able to show when soon after this he got to call his first NWA world heavyweight title match Featuring Rick flair and Ted D. Biassi Wow After that the commentator would get an offer of a job with Jim Crockett promotions with him jumping ship Then and providing color commentary alongside David Crockett and Tony Shavani He would continue to keep up as JCP later morphed into world championship wrestling And of course for most men having a full-time job as a wrestling announcer as well as the many backstage hats He was beginning to carry would be enough not for Jim Ross though because in 1992 Right as his career was reaching new heights with WCW He would spend a season working as a radio announcer for the Atlanta Falcons. Wow Particularly hard transition for him to make because as a sports aficionado He'd always called wrestling as such giving any match He was there for a sense of legitimacy that few others could match and with him continuing to work his way up the corporate ladder Well, he was doing this Jim would soon find himself in the position of head of broadcasting at WCW a role Which often saw him butt heads with the company's newest commentator and future executive vice president Eric Bischoff That was why despite having a solid position in the company when Bischoff got the top job in 1993 Ross would request his release feeling then that the heat between the two men would surely stifle his progression going forward So needing to find new work quickly, especially as around this time Rick flair had introduced him to Jan the woman He would later marry Wow Out from his Turner broadcast in contract and went right over to WWE to start a new chapter of his career and Making his an auspicious debut there at April 4th WrestleMania 9 he would be introduced to this new audience while wearing a toga something Which was in keeping with the Roman theme of that particular show Still silly outfit or not Ross did get to do what he did best that night Calling the matches as they came and proving to fans that he was just as good as Bobby Heenan who he was sharing the booth with And that's awesome be taken off the commentary desk for paper views with Vince McMahon at this point believing that his accent was To Southern Jim would continue to work alongside Heenan on wrestling challenge up until the point that his announced partner would leave the company in December of that year So looking for something new to do then the Oklahoma would suggest the idea of radio WWE to his boss a broadcast that would call the action of WWE paper views for those who didn't have a chance to see it themselves Unfortunately though this never really took off and so by February of 1994 Ross would be fired from the company for the first time After he'd suffered his first bout of Bell's palsy. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I do remember that being Being something that's been brought up Plenty of times. Yeah, they they let him go. That's all man. They Visit the time didn't realize Who he had on commentary, but he he ultimately realized in the end, bro The voice of wrestling. I'm gonna keep saying that condition that causes temporary paralysis on one side of the face But refusing to let this keep him down He would jump over to Smoky Mountain wrestling where he would work for a while supplementing this by returning to his radio announcer duties with the Atlanta Falcons and When Vince McMahon was indicted by the US government as part of the steroid trial in 1994 and was no longer able to continue on as a commentator for raw He would call JR up and asked him to return to the fold something which the announcer did for the next few months Teaming up with Randy Savage on the booth up to the point that Vince Randy Savage man at that point However, JR would find himself fired for a second time after he'd allegedly been caught leaking information to wrestling journalists such as Dave Meltzer Damn luckily, this wouldn't stick for long and after another brief tour of that jacket is wild Jim would return to WWE in 1994 though this time largely being relegated to working on syndicated WWE programming a position He would stay in over the next two years Yes, it wasn't until 1996 that he would return to the main announce team alongside Vince McMahon and Jerry the King Waller and around that point He would actually become more of an on-screen character too as he would infamously turn heel getting into heated segments with the boss That's all the Oklahoman claimed to still be in contact with Kevin Nash and Scott all former WWE superstars who had recently jumped to WCW and After spending weeks telling everyone that he was about to bring them back into the fold under his management Then something he was apparently doing so as to get revenge on McMahon for firing him in the past JR would reveal the new and improved version of the duo on the September 23rd episode of raw Of course as soon as they came out to the ring though It immediately became clear to fans that this wasn't the haul and Nash that they remember No, this was two entirely different wrestlers trying to portray their gimmicks of diesel and razor-move the great value versions I'm feeling that as he owned the IPs and could simply recast the gimmicks if he wanted The boss had tried to pull a fast one on fans But yeah, we're having none of it Of course and as the on-screen agent behind this storyline Ross took the brunt of their booze going forward Thankfully, then the fake diesel and razor storyline wouldn't last long and by the end of the year the two copycats played by Glenn Jacobs and Rick Bogner respectively would largely have been dropped from TV Recognized how quickly the whole thing was failing. I don't know how they thought that was gonna work That's yeah, you you own the the IPs, but you really thought that was gonna work Who really was gonna buy into that that that's that's funny, bro So trying to recover from this Ross would return to the commentary desk as he became not only the play-by-play announcer for raw But also for shotgun Saturday night superstars and action zone, too And how lucky this was then as it was right at the point the company was beginning to explode in popularity Something which was largely down to stone-cold Steve Austin the anti-hero every man who had captured the hearts of fans everywhere Yeah, and who Jim himself would form a close friendship with in real life And this would often show itself on screen as Ross became something of a cheerleader for the rattlesnake Yeah in this period delivering now iconic calls such as he's stomping a mud hole and walking it dry Yeah, he's tougher than a two-dollar steak and the ever-popular stone cold stone cold But that wasn't to say it was just Austin who got the benefit of Ross's shine Because everyone on the roster was happy to have him calling their matches as alongside his broadcast partner Jerry Lawler He provided the soundtrack to some of the most memorable moments of the 90s and early 2000s. I said this at the beginning of the video his voice Set the tone for a lot of the matches Imagine some of our favorite matches without his commentary. It wouldn't hit the same You wouldn't remember it the same but because his commentary Elevated the story and what was happening in the match. It made it something that you'll always remember Mankind falling off the cage for the love of mankind like that That is something we will always remember because of JR's commentary. You killed him. He's he's dead You know I'm saying like that's what we're thinking as he's watching fantastic moments such as his hilarious delivery of son of a bitch Mysterious higher power in 1999 His call of climb the ladder kid Famous as Jeff Hardy was on the verge of winning the undisputed title from the undertaker in 2002 And of course his commentary work during the dead man and Mick Foley's Helen They probably have to at the blur for YouTube reasons probably most memorable quotes included by God They've killed him as God is my witness He is broken in half and will somebody stop the damn match Yep, sadly though this period wouldn't be all positives for JR as for a period at the end of 1998 and leading into 1999 he would have to leave the commentary booth temporarily when he suffered a second bout of Bell's palsy following the death of his mother When he finally did return to work after that in March of 1999 He would have a new enforcer by his side that being Dr Death Steve Williams a figure who'd long been feared in the wrestling world for his legitimate tough guy credentials And so hoping to manage Williams career path going forward Ross had convinced McMahon to position him as a potential next top challenger to Steve Austin something which seems to be progressing just fine up until Vince Russo created the brawl for all one of the worst ideas Which saw a group of competitors Dr. Death included take part in a series of shoot fights on TV But despite hoping that their newest signing would win this Williams would end up getting legitimately knocked out by Bart gun in the second round With this pretty much killing his aura as a monster dead and causing any plans for him to get a run with Austin to be nicks Yeah, pretty much some shoe fights Didn't didn't really plan out paying out too. Well So after that JR would settle back into his old role of primarily being an announcer Working on both raw Smackdown and even in regional broadcasts of Vince McMahon short-lived XFL in 2001 As well as this Ross would occasionally hit the ring himself Usually alongside his real-life best friend Steve Austin as part of whatever angle the rattlesnake was involved in that month Mm-hmm And further using his notoriety as the voice of the Attitude era Jim would branch out from there when he got the role of Lance Russell a wrestling announcer in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon around this time On top of that he would also release two WWE themed cookbooks Can you take the heat the WWE is cooking and JR's cookbook as well as releasing a range of his own barbecue sauces, too But for all his forays in the movies football literature or food It would be wrestling where his main focus continued to lie and by the time the Attitude era was drawing to a close in 2001 Ross was already being considered by many to be the greatest wrestling commentator of all time And this was a reputation. He would continue to keep up heading into the ruthless aggression era Even if by this point it was clear that McMahon was looking to replace him still feeling that his southern accent made him sound to Rastlin for his tastes. So as Michael Cole gradually became the voice of WWE TV I'm not gonna lie to you. I did enjoy Michael Cole's like when he started getting into commentary You know Michael Cole. I definitely did enjoy it. It was it was interesting. I enjoyed it I enjoyed Michael Cole in tasks on commentary was actually pretty cool. I enjoyed that a lot on SmackDown it wasn't until like I Want to say right when the Miz was getting like getting his push That's when he started to get real cringe and annoying and anonymous general manager I get it probably wasn't his idea But he was definitely getting mega cringe and annoying and you can tell the lines. They were force-feeding him was Awful like annoying and not memorable, but as of later years Michael Cole has he he's settled in his place He's not as cringe. He's definitely more enjoyable as Delete commentator now. I will say that JR would begin to segue back into corporate backstage duties as he became the executive vice-president of talent relations around here and often thankless role that saw him have to deal with the issues of all the performers on the roster and bear the brunt of their frustrations So thankless was the job in fact that come 2005 Ross would have stepped down from the role and not long after that He would be kayfabe fired from the company again when Linda McMahon sent him packing this time on the October 10th 2005 edition of raw the reason for this as it turned out was because he was taking time off to undergo colon surgery Something which WWE would host segments making fun of in the weeks that fall Yes, Vince McMahon would carry out a number of examples of antagonism against his top dancer over the years and for Ross's part He would try his best to ignore it and get on with his job a job Which by this point mainly saw him balance producing commentators from backstage Well also returning to the booth for shows like raw Saturday night's main event and occasional pay-per-views such as WrestleMania 22 So to thank him for all his years of service to the industry then in 2007 he would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by none other than Steve Austin himself Rightfully so after that he would open up his own restaurant J.R.'s family barbecue in his home state of Oklahoma All well back on TV. He would be drafted over to Smackdown in 2008 Something which Ross himself was not happy about and didn't know was coming ahead of time Damn and come October of 2009 things would get worse as after suffering a third bout of Bell's palsy He would be removed from his role as a regular TV commentator all together with him from there Only making the occasional guest appearance behind the booth for shows such as old-school raw November 2010 and WrestleMania 27 in April 2011 the ladder of which he'd been specifically requested for by Triple H in the Undertaker as they were having their end-of-an-arrow match Yeah, they if that match doesn't work as well if J.R.'s not calling it. I'm just being honest with you I'm getting goosebumps. Just thinking about that match that match should have been the end of the era It obviously wasn't but that match does not work. Let's J.R.'s calling it. Just it just doesn't work very show doesn't work By 2012 Improvement would come though as with Triple H having then taken over the job of head of talent relations He would hire J.R. to work as an advisor and scout within his department going forward Sending him out from there to scour the indies and the colleges for the best up-and-coming talent that could become future WWE superstars as well as this in 2013 Jim would add to his many hats when he started coaching and producing new Announcers who were learning the craft at the WWE performance center Imparting his decades of wisdom onto these recruits there in the hopes that they one day may be able to fill his large shoes Of course that wasn't to say he'd been gone from TV all together by then because when Jerry Lawler suffered a heart attack around this time Ross would fill in for him as a commentator during his absence on top of that He'd return once more in January of 2013 as well to call the steel cage match between John Cena and Dolph Ziggler Sadly though, this would be one of his last appearances as at a panel set up to announce the roster of the then upcoming WWE 2k14 video game soon after he would get into trouble when he allowed Rick flair to start telling drunken stories about the death of his son Oh, that said when you see the actual footage It's clear that it wasn't J.R.'s fault and there's no way he would have been able to regain control of the situation Even if he tried yeah, and it wasn't exactly as if 2k seemed upset about the whole incident either Still Vince McMahon would fire Ross once again following the incident with many believing that he had just been looking for an excuse to Do so as he felt the Oklahoman was getting a little too long in the tooth by that now and if true What a silly decision this was yeah Arguably the greatest commentator of all time But one of the most savvy men backstage to J.R. Still had a wealth of value to provide to any company And so with WWE's doors being closed He took these skills over to the world of other sports next calling a boxing event for Golden Boy promotions in May of 2014 a battlegrounds MMA show alongside Shao Sanen in October of the same year and Taking up a role as a contributor for Fox Sports.com's coverage of NCAA football on top of all that as well It's this he would enter the burgeoning wrestling podcast world when around the same time He teamed up with the dawn of wrestling podcasts himself Conrad Thompson to create the Ross report with this being renamed grilling J.R. And following much the same format as Thompson's other shows with the likes of Bruce Prichard Eric Bischoff and Tony Shivani But even with all the success he was finding the in-ring wrestling world wasn't ready to let him go just yet And so in January of 2015 the Oklahoma boy would make his new Japan pro wrestling debut when he acted is one of their English Language commentators for that year's Wrestle Kingdom show a couple of weeks after this and it was announced that Ross had Signed a contract with the company to announce the weekly access TV show in America going forward with this allowing him to put on some great work Again as his legitimacy perfectly fit in with the more sports style presentation of NJPW If this doesn't motivate you when one door closed you open up another one that's the personification of J.R Doesn't matter how many times the door was closed in his face. He opened up another one He made opportunities for himself because of the work he put in He's a legendary commentator There's no way you don't let that voice be heard in any promotion in any sport if he knows about it He's well informed about it. He can do it. That should be our motivation, man When they close a door in your face, you open up another one You drop kick open another one and you do what you got to do man. I love it, bro Love this and while he wasn't doing this He would be providing commentary for the likes of what culture pro wrestling and world of sports wrestling in the UK, too Working the former alongside his old friend and colleague Jim Cornette Come March of 2017 However, tragedy would strike as Jim's wife Jan would be involved in a head-on car accident With her immediately being put on life support as a result of this and dying two days later So sad this was a devastating moment Losing the love of his life so abruptly So wanting to help him through this hard time the wrestling industry rallied around him with both fans and industry Insiders offering support and well wishes in the days that follow Oh, they're so sad For us the best way to deal with his grief was to throw himself back into his work and recognizing he needed this WWE would bring him back to act as play-by-play announcer for the main event of 33 the following month with this one seeing the undertaker take on Roman Reigns in what at the time many felt would be the dead man's Retirement match. Yeah, I thought it was gonna be that it was announced The gym had signed a new two-year deal with the company from there as he would periodically return to the booth for things such as the May Young classic raw 25 and WrestleMania 34 Once his contract ran out in March of 2019 JR would choose not to resign believing then that he still had it in him to be a full-time announcer and that by staying with WWE He would be missing out on the opportunity to do so Thankfully, then there was another company starting around this point Who would agree with him and that would be all-elite wrestling A.W. Yes in April of 2019 The upstart promotion announced that they had signed Ross to a three-year contract to act as part of their commentary team where he would now be working alongside Excalibur and his old colleague Tony Shavani and There Ross has managed to find a second lease on life and introduce himself to a whole new generation all over again Sure, some have criticized him for not being as sharp as he once was and for the most part He now tends to take a step back and let Excalibur handle play-by-play Yeah The fact remains that he's right about still having a lot to offer as for any lapsed fans tuning into TBS on a Wednesday night your sound of his voice alone could be enough to draw them in Mm-hmm And it looks like he's going to remain in that position for the foreseeable future as after recently going through a health scare That saw him have to undergo radio therapy. So it's a treat skin cancer He's been given the all-clear again with this allowing him to return to doing what he does best Yes, when it comes down to it Jim Ross probably is the greatest wrestling commentator at all time Said it facts remained that well Gordon solely was fantastic He never had the iconic calls that JR did and while Bobby Heen and his a legend Mm-hmm can't quite match up to the work that everyone's favorite Oklahoma has given us over the years He has the ability to make average matches feel good. Yeah matches feel great Yeah, and when he gets the chance to call a great match He makes it sound like an instant classic every time Every single day like any other one that weaves you into the narrative of about as if you were right there with him And that's a role that spot on underestimated as spot on the day without him The wrestling world might never have had the lyrics it needed when it needed them the most Well, guys, this is awesome, bro.  I'm made a I'm subscribing to the channel. I'm liking this video. I definitely got to check out some more wrestling Russell with Andy. This is awesome. I think some of you guys have been asking me to check this out like his channel out Bro, this is cool. This is so cool the type of working dedication he put into this video Y'all go subscribe right now to wrestle with Andy. I'm definitely gonna be checking out some more I may want to check out this bottom line with the Steve Austin story. This is it got me hype man. This was great JR I don't care what nobody says. He is the voice of wrestling That's what I'm gonna put as this thumbnail the voice of wrestling himself JR without his commentary Out his voice a lot of the matches we love do not work. I'm sorry They they're great on their own, but they don't they don't hit as well without his commentary without his voice Selling the match. Ah, man. We love you JR. I will always say this JR is the best to ever do it, bro. He is the goat comment down below. Let me know. What was your favorite? Commentary from JR on it doesn't matter which match with segment. Let me know, man Let's just celebrate what he's done for the business and continue to celebrate what he does Going forward man, but appreciate all love and support bro to ADK. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next week. Peace


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox, and I am doing such a fun video today. It's actually kind of a mixture of a traditional video, DIY, so I'm giving you your DIY fix, but it also has a fun element to it. Excuse me. Sorry, the plane decided to really just fly on by at the moment. It's literally been a minute. Oh my God, it's so flying! So now that the plane is done and it's departed, so basically the fun element to this is that the three projects I'm creating in this video are actually gifts for you guys. So a while back I hit 200,000 subscribers, actually not even a while back. It was pretty recently, and we are currently at 320,000 subscribers, which is absolutely crazy, but I did a giveaway for 200K. I gave away five Amazon gift cards. I also gave away three custom DIY projects, and it's just taken me a while to get around to creating these projects. A lot of my DIY projects I create for myself, or for my friends, or my family, but I love that these ones are actually for you guys, so I have to make them extra good and extra fresh, of course. One of the winners actually lives in Santa Monica, so I'm going to be bringing her her DIY project because it's a little bit larger scale, so at the end of the video, you're going to see me bringing her her project, which is super fun. I already created it. I hope that she loves it. And last but not least, before jumping into today's video, this one is in partnership with HelloFresh, and I've actually created many videos in the past with HelloFresh. I love, love, love their service and just everything that they offer, which I will talk about a little bit later in the video. All right guys, so I pulled out my phone here because I actually wanted to pull up the email threads between each of the winners, just to kind of give you guys like a preface before actually doing the project. So our first winner was Bridget Camiskey, and I'm really excited. She actually said, I sent my little like intro email, and then she said, hi, thank you so much for picking me. I'm so excited. Some of my favorite projects you've done have been your circle plant holder, the wall hanging from the same Urban Outfitters video, and the most recently I've been obsessed with the basket like that you've created. And I said, hi Bridget, yay, so excited to be working on this with you. Okay, I love all those ideas. Could you possibly scroll through Pinterest and see if you have any other home decor or DIY projects that you like, or anything that you wanna like implement in your home, any elements that you like, such as wood, any color palette, whatever it might be. And Bridget responded and said, hi, I definitely need a jewelry organizer. Right now it's just all piled together. And then she said, I like the idea of some sort of wall hanging jewelry organizer and can look through Pinterest to find ideas if you like. And I said, that sounds great. And she actually sent a couple of really great Pinterest items. So I'll just put them on the screen for you guys so you can see, but there are these three images here. And I personally absolutely love this one. I hope you guys can kind of see that. So I'm gonna be recreating this exact jewelry holder because I love the vibe of this. It's very mid-century modern, but it also kind of has a kind of retro vibe to it as well. I really, really like it. And I'm gonna also try to find a proper credit to the original creator of this. So I will link that below. But we are gonna be creating this jewelry, but we are gonna be creating this jewelry, but we are gonna be recreating this jewelry organizer for Bridget. The thing I love about this first project is it's actually super affordable to recreate. So I just got a couple pieces of wood at Joanne's fabrics in the raw wood section. I got three long dowels, and I also got this 24 inch by three inch piece of wood. So what I'm starting off by doing is just marking three inches up on each side of the wood and then creating a diagonal line to the corner. And I'm using just a handsaw just to saw this into a diagonal shape. It looks a lot like I'm doing this like super vigorously, but I swear to you guys, it was super easy. The wood was very, very thin, but also at the same time, pretty sturdy. And nice quality. So that is exactly what I did on either side to create these diagonal edges. But if you do have some form of power tool, feel free to use that as well. So the next step I wanted to do was actually create the actual rods that are gonna go across this jewelry holder. So I cut them again, looking vigorously cut, but these are the exact sizes that I cut the rods into. You're going to need one larger one for the center, two medium sized ones, and then two small ones. It kind of cascades almost into a diamond shape. And I'm using a little bit of espresso wood stain. I just got this at Home Depot. And I'm just staining this piece of wood because that is the original inspo photos color. And I love, love, love this color of stain. I typically don't like dark stains, but this one is so pretty for some reason.  And then I went ahead and took my cut pieces of dowel and we are going to be gluing these down. So how I did this was I actually used a ruler to find the center point, which was 12 inches. And I did a bead of glue across the center. I'm using a quick hold, like industrial grade adhesive. I laid down my first and longest rod and then I used a ruler to make sure that it was equal on either sides. And I repeated the process down and up. I think there is about three inches of space in between each section, but you can variegate this or I just said variegate. I don't think that's a word. Vary this up as you would please and just create your very own. And then I added a hanging loop on the backside just to hang it up and that finished off this project. All right. So typically I don't share my break times with you guys, but because this video is in partnership with HelloFresh, I just wanted to share with you guys the meal that I am creating today. If you do not know, HelloFresh makes cooking meals at home super easy regardless of how good you are in the kitchen. So don't worry about that because I am not a good chef. And the thing I love the most about HelloFresh is that it gives you the perfect amount of ingredients along with a really great recipe card to create your meal. So you're not having any leftover produce or leftover meat, whatever it might be, which is my issue when I cook is that I buy too much stuff and then I end up not using it. So it's really great that they give you the perfect amount of stuff to use. This also is really nice because it kind of gives you brand new options every single week of food with chef curated seasonal recipes that are delivered to your door every single week. And the great thing is that you can easily change up your delivery days or food preferences and even skip a week if you need to do so. So I have been a humongous fan. I have been using HelloFresh for quite a long time. And I just absolutely love again how it gives you the perfect amount of food. The meals are super amazing quality and they're also typically made for two people. So I share it with my roommate or I share it with my friends. Today I was actually over at my friend James's house. So we ended up eating this ravioli and it was really, really incredibly amazing. And not to mention HelloFresh is from $5.66 per serving. Yes, like super affordable. And you can get eight meals free by going to HelloFresh.com and using my code lonefox80 for a total of $80 off of your first month. So our next winner's name was Leah and I'm really excited. I emailed her the intro email and she responded and said, with all the amazing stuff you create, it's just so hard to pick. I really love your throw pillow designs, painted bottles and trays, or even a vintage picture from the thrift store that has been redecorated, which I love all those concepts. And I said, hi, Leah. Oh, I love those ideas. Do you have any specific colors or textures that you like in your space? Do you like raw wood, marble, cement, also any inspo photos you can find on Pinterest that would be great to gear me in the right direction. And she said, I really, really love textured pillows with leather, navy, black and white, or mustard yellow. So I kind of kept all those in mind and I'm actually going to be creating Leah a very textured and fun pillow, completely DIY. And I really love the outcome of this pillow. So let me just share with you guys what I created for Leah. For Leah's project, we are starting off with a pillowcase. Now this is one of the square pillowcases from Ikea, but I actually sewed it down to be a rectangle shape because I wanted it to be a nice rectangle shape just for this accent pillow.  I love it. And I just cut down a piece of this fabric. Now this exact fabric is from Joanne's fabrics. It's left over from one of my older videos I did. It was the DIY school supplies. And basically this pillow is a whole ton of gluing down different strands to create fun textures, shapes, patterns, designs, and just a ton of interest. So I'm starting off by gluing down the strip of fabric. And by the way, guys, the fabric dries clear and it also is literally like a liquid seam. This stuff is not gonna come off, so do not worry. And I glued down a piece of rope at the bottom into five different sections. And now I'm going in with some yellow yarn because she did mention that she loved mustard yellow. And I'm just doing like a back and forth kind of, it's not a weave, I don't even know what this is. Back and forth little pattern with this yarn. This just adds a nice block of color. And that's kind of what I'm creating here is a color blocked section. So I next went in with a white yarn and just the same exact thing repeating that process all the way down, going up and down, back and up. You can also create spirals if you wanted to. That was a thought I had, which end up doing it a little bit, you're gonna see. And then I also just really varied the chunkiness of my yarn. I love, love, love how thick this yarn is. I think this gives it a very macrame look without actually having to macrame, which is nice. And then I finished off the top with a nice border of macrame rope. And then in the center section here, I legit did a squiggly line of yarn. And I just wanted to add some interest to the center. And then what I did was I glued little spiraled sections of the same colored yarn in between the squiggles. And I think it turned out so cute. I love the way that this looks. I think it totally finished off the pillow and I'm obsessed with the outcome. I think that she's gonna love it as well. And it definitely fit all of her color and kind of texture needs. And last but not least, we have the larger scale DIY project of this video. And this is for Brooke. And this is the girl that actually lives in Santa Monica, which I was so excited about. We actually have a very long email chain between us because we were like talking for a while. So I sent Brooke the intro email just like basically letting her know that she won the giveaway. And she's like, awesome, this is so great. I actually live in Los Angeles. And then I emailed back and said, just sit along some inspo photos or maybe if you have a set of items that you would like for your space to let me know exactly what you need. And Brooke actually attached her Pinterest. And she just wrote a very long message. She said, I attached my Pinterest board that contains both the aesthetic I'm currently working on for my space and some DIYs that I have pinned that I thought were pretty neat. My intentions are to blend a bit of boho industrial while still remaining light and airy. As far as things I like for my space, I'm a whole whopping three weeks into living in Los Angeles. Congrats, Brooke. Now you're probably like six months because I took so long to film this video. Basically she needs something really nice and decorative for her space. So we ended up talking a while, I looked over her pin board and I actually asked her if I can create one of the larger scale projects on her pin board and bring it to her in person. And she said that that sounded amazing. So I actually did just that. I kind of reconfigured it just a little bit and I am so excited for you guys to see this project. So let me share with you guys what I created for Brooke. Jumping into our last project for Brooke, this one was one that was a bit more advanced and a bit more time consuming but I'm obsessed with the outcome. So I used this really pretty light gray felt fabric from Jordan's fabrics. I also used some polyester batting and then I also ended up using this little side table I found on Amazon, which I will link below for you guys. So what I'm starting off by doing is cutting five inch wide sections of the felt and I actually left the length of this to just be however long the bolt of fabric was. So I don't even know how long they were but you're basically just gonna want them to span across the width of your side table. So I cut out a ton of these five inch wide sections and these are what we end up having. I bet you they were about five inches by maybe three feet and then what I did was I folded them in half all the way down and I went along with my sewing machine and sewed right against the edge. So we are creating these little tubes of felt fabric by repeating this on our sewing machine. So sewing down the sides and you can definitely use pins if you feel comfortable to hold this felt together but honestly felt is a very thick fabric. So I kind of felt comfortable just doing it with my hands. This is what we end up having and you're gonna repeat this for all of your strips. I used a total of about five strips for this entire stool. And then once you are completely done we're gonna wanna flip these inside out so that the seam is on the inside. So I used a wooden dowel and I basically just kind of caught an edge of the fabric and then I rolled it over itself. This literally looks like some weird like intestine or something, I'm sorry, but it's spooky season so why not? And I basically inverted this to where the seam now is on the inside and we just have a nice little tube of felt. So what we are doing is we're gonna stuff this tube with some of our polyfill and you can grab this from an old pillow, you can buy some at JoAnne's, whatever you wanna do and I used my dowel to stuff it down and another key tip is to really massage the polyfill once it gets into its section. That way you're not left with any hard sections or any soft sections, it's just very even throughout. So that's exactly what I did with all of my strips is I stuffed them with the polyfill, used a dowel to push it down and we are basically creating these nice fluffy long felt ropes.  So it doesn't have to be perfect because this is actually going to be stapled onto the bottom side. So do not worry because what we're gonna do is use a staple gun to basically reupholster the side table into a stool. So I'm going around and adding a ton of staples. Please feel free to be generous with the staples. I definitely did on my part, I added a ton of them to make sure it was nice and sturdy and then what you're gonna wanna do is leave a little bit of an opening and you're going to want to stuff that with polyfill. So I just wanted to create almost like a half dome shape on top of the stool and give it a little bit of a comfortable element prior to actually attaching our little ropes that we did. So I basically reupholstered this table into a miniature stool and now what we're doing is we're adding our ropes. So I'm adding two staples in the backside taking our little felted rope thingy and going across the center section, as shown here, flipping it over to the backside, pulling out some of that fluff and then going over it with my staple gun and stapling it into place. And I actually did have to cut off some excess but do not worry, I use that excess on the stool as well because as you work from the center out the pieces actually do get smaller and I'm just butting them up to each other and creating these strips of like fluffy felt and I think it looks so pretty and modern and just nice and I love how it looks also handmade as well. I just think it looks really nice in the end. So I'm doing my staple gun, adding a ton of staples, add as many as you'd like. It's gonna be on the underside so don't worry about it and repeat the process. So as you can see, I have three strips here. I'm now adding the fourth strip as well. So I'm repeating this process. I'm on the other side now just creating a new strip and in the end, this just looks so, so cute. You can really, really customize this. Maybe even think about doing it with a velvet. I think that would be super pretty or a different color of felt. You can also weave them as her original kind of inspo photo was but I really liked the ending result of this and the strips and I just screwed in the legs and that finished off the stool. All right guys, so I just made it to Santa Monica and I just had to sit broke. I'm really excited because I made for that DIY stool that you guys saw and well, I don't know who I'm cruising to right now. Which was so exciting and she lived in Santa Monica so that this is perfect because I lived decently close so I was like, I can literally make you something larger scale you know and then just bring it to you so it's easier and more fun. I took inspiration from your Pinterest board and there's this one item that I really like. I kind of altered it a little bit. Fully DIY'd, I sewed the whole thing and I'm like- How did you do that? Like I made it with felt and then cut strips and then sewed them together and then stuff them and then sewed it here and then like stapled it all together. Ooh, I'm so excited. I made it in a gray because I thought it was like neutral. No, that's perfect. And like fit your style. You said you liked industrial boho, right? Yeah. Yeah. Really good and fun. But yeah. This is good. Finish little stool. This is exciting. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so excited. I'm not done with Brooke yet. So I remember that she had emailed and said that she did, I thought that you did something interior wise but you did it, you did architecture right? Yeah, so it depends on the job. So it's like her job kind of. I used to work in education so I built colleges and elementary schools and now I'm doing it here because that's not due to apartments and that's what I rent as well. Okay, somewhere like, like residentially kind of things. Now I do, yes. That's so cool. I wanted to feature that because I thought it was cool that she did like architecture slash interior as well. So guys, that was my video today. I hope that you enjoyed this one. It was so fun and I definitely want to do this every time I do a giveaway. I want to do some kind of video like this because I love the concept and idea of this. So if you like it as well, please give it a thumbs up and make sure to subscribe to my channel and click the little bell icon next to the subscribe button. That way you're notified when I upload brand new videos. I really hope that everyone loves their prizes. I'm actually going to be shipping them out right after I finish this outro here. So those are going to be going out to the winners and I'm excited to see them in their space. I'm going to ask them to get like snap me a photo or something and I'll make sure to share them with you guys on my Insta story. So follow along over there. I hope I didn't sound very nasally in this video. I'm literally so congested right now. I feel like everyone in the world is. It's just fall season, you know, like, but that was my video today. I hope that you enjoyed. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day, everybody. And maybe you will be the winner of one of my next giveaways as well. So stay tuned, keep watching. Check out some of my old videos.  Have an amazing day. I love you all so much. Bye guys.