This is a story about a bicycle factory. It's about the lost connection with the people who make things and the failings of economics to help us understand value. I took my son to visit a small factory in France. I was going to watch a bicycle being built. He was going to watch from a safe distance. Bernard, a master craftsman with nearly 30 years' experience, began by selecting the tubes, the steel rods that he would join to make the frame. As the cutting began in the clash of machine and metal, I began to see the beauty in the process, a process in which some parts were done precisely to the fraction of a millimetre and some parts were done by eye. Then something unexpected happened. As I watched my son, he began to stand closer and closer. He was soon transfixed, and I began to wonder how many things in his life has he ever seen being built before? Most of the things in his life arrive finished, pre-packaged. Doesn't that make it harder for him to understand what things are worth? I know that in economic terms something can be worth $10 one moment, $0.10 the next. But that's not what we think of when we think of value. We're asking what does it mean, what's its value to us? What's it really worth? What transforms something from a commodity into something we cherish is how it makes us feel. And when we understand how something's made, we understand the work that people have put into things. When we get that, we get a unique personal connection. And when we have a personal connection, something amazing happens. We get a value that even though we add it to the product, it comes back to us. And the bonus is it can keep coming. Over time it doesn't diminish with use. Now my bicycle was being made by some master craftsmen and women, clearly. But the same thing is true for cookies baked by a child. Your feelings for the child enhance the cookie. You add your emotions to the mixture. In general, our enjoyment of a product is a combination of its objective criteria, its price, fit for purpose, expected lifespan, plus subjective values that we put on the thing. And this is where a connection with the maker comes in. Now we live in a society where we've lost most of these connections. We don't buy bread from a baker, we don't buy milk from a farmer. And I'm not saying to find happiness, we have to become agrarian traders. But what I am saying is that when we can make a connection, connection between our things and the people who make them, we get a number of real benefits. Number one, we enjoy things more. For the same price, we get more out of them. Two, they last longer because we tend to take better care of things that we like. And three, we buy less stuff because it's more fulfilling to be surrounded by things that we really appreciated. Now for my son, this was just a short trip to one factory. But hopefully he'll grow up to see that the things in his life carry the fingerprints of the people who've made them. Thank you very much.


What's up everybody, once again it's Brandon and Shawn and we gotta talk about Lil Baby and Gunna and why Drip Harder is doing them numbers. This project hit hard its first week. In its first week it did 130K equivalent album units, hit the number 4 spot on Billboard 200 albums chart and was the most streamed album of the week with 164.63 million streams. To put that in perspective, Quavo and Travis Scott's Huncho Jack-Jack Huncho did 90K its first week and the streaming portion equated to about 105 million first week streams. So they beat it by at least 60 million streams and Quavo and Travis Scott are far bigger than Lil Baby and Gunna. But gauging the reception of both projects it seems the biggest reason is most likely replay value. And that's what I really want to talk about in this video mostly. Why did that project work so well between them? So obviously they're both QC artists and interesting enough one of the songs that really reflects this project is actually a song that's not even on the project but it really set the stage and that sold out dates. First of all it just kind of symbolizes the fact that they're rising together at the same time. No doubt that they're already successful but I'm sure if you ask them or their teams they have a lot of potential and a lot more star power in them. And then the fact that they spend legitimate time together just adds to their chemistry. And sold out dates Lil Baby raps me and Gunna back at it again. We just in New York double dating with twin. He kind of reflects on moments like this throughout the project which we'll get into but that leads to another thing that helps with their chemistry. They both have the school of future and young thug about them. The influences are definitely clear as they're still finding themselves as artists but because they both have that similar sound production wise it just meshes to the point if you really didn't know who they were or you aren't a real listener you wouldn't know which one is which but one of the obvious tells which also helps them in their chemistry is the fact that they have two different pockets.  Gunna on the other hand is more melodically strong and he about that fashion. If they were both in New York rappers Lil Baby will be Brooklyn and Gunna will be Harlem. Lil Baby gets a little bit deeper into his pocket and songs like close friends where he's obviously talking to a girl the whole time kind of chronicling their relationship. He was even telling that story and sold out dates when he was talking about him and Gunna being in New York and then of course with Gunna you always gonna get some V-Lone. Of course with Gunna you gonna get V-Lone left and right. He might get some off-white sprinkled on but that man got V-Lone and sold out dates. He has V-Lone and off-white V-Lone. He mentions V-Lone and Belly and even in Belly Lil Baby raps. I got Gunna with me rocking V-Lone Supreme. The production is already gonna be strong you knew that because QC don't play but these dudes really are a gene when great mesh sonically. They have similar sounds they have legitimate chemistry because apparently they really cool and they talk about different subjects they got different pockets. So listen that's the kind of stuff that I love to see when we talk about collaborations. You're probably gonna get a lot more replays from me. Lil Baby's heavy with his lyrics and his verses and you already have somebody who's more melodically heavy like Gunna versus somebody like Travis Scott and Quavo. Both of them are chorus kings. They're melody mavens. They have the same skill set. Comparing that to a group like the Migos which is a constant collaboration but all of them have different strengths. But that's just my opinion. What do you think about Drip Harder? Do you like their project in the first place and why do you think it works so well? Other than that if you like this video go ahead and hit that like button if you like it. If you might as well share it if you're not subscribed. You know what to do. Hit that subscribe.


If you haven't heard, there's a Southwest Actors Conference happening this fall in Arizona and Bella Hibbs, the casting director, one of the casting directors at Good Faith Casting, actually put it all together and if you can go then maybe you can help me go and I can tell you how it went, what it's all about and you can see if it's worth it for you to go in the future. It will be September 23rd and 24th and the location is conveniently about a 15 minute drive from the Phoenix airport. The first night is going to be a mixer with actors, agents, managers 5 30 to 7 30 p.m. But we will have agents from Arizona, managers from LA, casting directors from LA, agents from Texas from New Mexico. This is going to be an awesome opportunity for any actor in the Southwest who just wants to learn and grow. The second day will be the bigger day.  So she has her own agency, Dewan Johnson, who is an actor and he also helps actors book from self tape audition. So anything self tape, he has a bunch of tips on it. And Heidi Dean, which you have most likely heard of because she does share a lot of information online. After that, there's going to be a lunch. And if you got a VIP ticket, you are going to be having lunch with casting directors, agents, managers. There's only 24 of those tickets. So it does seem like a good opportunity to be able to have a one on one. After that, just over three hours of more seminars, again, that you can choose from different breakout rooms. Education is very much at the forefront of this conference. Then some final remarks from keynote speakers. And that's it. So we're bringing in some amazing teachers and speakers that will do lessons in the morning. And then in the afternoon, we're going to have a panelist with agents, casting directors and managers from all across the Southwest. So who is this good for anybody over 18 Bella has said that she wants to develop it and in the future have something for people under 18. In general, the information is geared towards an actor who does have some experience. You don't have to have an agent. You don't have to have a manager. You anybody can technically sign up, but know that the teachers are going to be speaking to a little bit higher level of an actor who has at least maybe auditioned, who's maybe done a couple of things, even if that's student films or in the work or local commercials. If you are somebody who's thinking about getting into acting and maybe want to go to this to learn more, you might just get a little bit overwhelmed. If you're brand new and you're still like, I still want to come to this. Heck yeah, maybe come on. But make sure you do a little bit of research beforehand. That way you can kind of prep yourself mentally. How much does it cost? I'm going to share with you the prices with taxes because they're definitely going to pile up. And I have to say this is an investment. If you think about it, if you make one good connection book, one good job, then your investment is going to be returned, but it's not a guarantee. So please don't put yourself in debt in order to go to this. Wait and go when you actually can. It's $452 with 86 cents for the general admission ticket. If you want a VIP ticket, which comes with the lunch and the goodie bag $625 with 54 cents, then the hotel, they do have a deal that is $142 per night. So for the two nights with taxes, it'd be $319.70. There are rooms with two beds. If you want to split it with somebody, then if you're like me and you don't live in Arizona and need Ubers and airplane tickets, for me, it's going to be around $450. So if you can't make it, but maybe want to see what it's like from an actor's perspective, I am actually going to try and fundraise $1,500 to cover all of these fees as soon as possible, because I do want to get those VIP tickets and be able to share with you the details to see if you think that VIP ticket is worth it. So if you're interested in that, I have a link in the description. Even if you can donate a dollar, it would be really, really appreciated. And again, I want to buy my tickets as soon as possible because they only have 24 VIP tickets. And last time I checked, I think there were only like 10 left. In the meantime, if you want to learn a critical skill in acting, I have a video here on how to get really good at memorizing. And then at the end of every video, I also feature a channel that I think you should check out. You should see D for Darius. He has a lot of really cool filmmaker information.


Fy lawer, y glasiau a'r ystod, a bod yn ystod i'r gwaith o'r agor, yn ystod i'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gwaith, ond yna'r ddechrau'r gwaith yn ystod i'r gwaith. Felly, byddwn i'n gweithio'r ddweud o'r ystod o'r gweithio'r gwaith yn ystod i'r ei ddweudio'r cartwnid, oherwydd mae'r gweithio'r cyllid. Mae'r Gweithio'r Gweithio'r Gweithio'r gwaith i'r Eisex er fydd yw'r cyfforddol i'r cyflwyto ar gyfer cypl â ypwynd 2015 a bydd hyn yn ddefnyddio'r cyflwyto ar gyfer cyllidion Cymllus Felly mae'r cyfrannu'r fawr yn golygu, mynd i'n bwysig o gydag cyflwyto â'r cyflwyto Hydiwch, dyf wedi am Yma'r cyfrannu i'r cyfrannu cyflwyto ac yn ystgrifedd yn ddechrau ac rwy'n gwybod yn ymgyrch i'n argyflei'r cyfrannu Mae'n eu ffordd am yr ystyried gweithio, yw'r cyhoedd, roedd yn gwneud yn gweithio, gyda siaradau â'r cyflwyngau. Mae'r pethau wedi arlawni, ac yn ymweld a'i gwneud baradwyd i'ch gael ymlaen i'r cyflwyngau hynny. Nid o'r rhaglen o'r cyflwyngau hynny. Yn ymweld, mae'r cyflwyngau hynny'n gweithio? Yn ymdwy'n gweithio. First of all, ychydig i chi wedi gwneud o'r cyflwyngau i'r cyflwyngau cyflwyngau. I'll be showing you how I came to use WordPress, why I love it, how I use it, and some of the things that I've got badly wrong that would have been useful to know at the start. Next, coders, developers and other people doing highly technical things. I'm hoping that whilst I'm unlikely to provide you with any brand new insights into the inner workings of WordPress that a user's perspective will be interesting for you. So see me as a case study, a guinea pig, and if I don't talk about the aspects that interest you, do ask me about them in the question time or afterwards. And then, latecomers, those who turned up to the wrong room, etc. I'll be showing some cartoons so I hope you enjoy them. As you can see, I've only drawn an audience of three and the dotted lines are a lazy cartoonist trick for drawing everyone else. So, first of all, some disclaimers. Firstly, I'm not going to teach you how to draw cartoons or how to be a cartoonist, but in case anyone does want to know, this is the cartoon creation process simplified version. Disclaimer two, never take technical advice from a cartoonist. I had a lot more hair when I drew this cartoon. It's not that I'm not technically competent, but I'm a cartoonist, not a WordPress specialist. And a third and final disclaimer. This talk is not intended to say, look at me, aren't I brilliant? Look what a success I've made of everything. Whilst I've had some successes which I'll be talking about in the next 10 minutes, I've also made a lot of mistakes and I'll be telling you about some of those too later on in the talk. So, first of all, a couple of examples of my work, just so we know what kind of thing I do, so which might help to help you to understand what I'm talking about later on. So, first of all, this is one for freelancers, locations of this year's tax paperwork. And this is how I organise my desk. So, just to give you an idea of where I keep everything on my desk. Now, I do a lot of cartoons of a kind of church theme and this is one that I did for the newspaper I draw for, called The Hierarchy of Biscuits. And hopefully it makes sense even if you're not in that particular world. So, we've got the gold foil wrapped double chocolate deluxe for the dignitaries. Then we've got the digestive and the chocolate chip cookie, Bourbon, custard cream, ginger nut. Then at the bottom, those pink wafer ones, the nice biscuit, the malted milk and the rich tea. So, I draw about all sorts of different topics, some more serious than others. And this is one that I've done, I did a few years ago about food banks. So, this was in 2013. Perhaps we need to ask why this is happening. And just to give another example of one on a topic, this is a climate change cartoon about those who are most responsible, least vulnerable versus those who are least responsible, most vulnerable. So, that just gives you an idea of the kind of work that I do. So, how did I start using WordPress? Well, my story begins in 1996. Oasis were topping the charts, it was the Atlanta Olympics and I was starting to draw cartoons at a college in Dorset. So, this was my room in the college and it was on a corridor that lots of people had to walk down. And so, I'd post the cartoons that I had drawn on my door and people would stop and read them. And I suppose this for me was my pre-internet, at least for me, example of a website in that I would post them on the door, people would stop and look at them. And just to give an example of the kind of cartoon quality, you know, the artwork's a bit flaky, but this is the kind of thing that I was drawing. So, suddenly he pulled the cord on his ejector seat. This is fitting in a lecture. So, at the time I had a car, this is the best photo of me taken in the 1990s. Now, I no longer needed the car. I had a friend who had a computer who no longer needed the computer, so we did a swap. So, with my new 14K modem, I connected to the internet and before long, I learned a bit of HTML and put a website up on GeoCities, which will mean something to a few of you but not to others. And so, I was able to put cartoons and other nonsense online. Fast forward to 2002, I met lots of brilliant creative people, one of whom was a friend, became a friend Chris Taylor from Yorkshire and he started, he and I started a community blogging site. And so, this is my earliest example, one of my early examples of blogging. This is all still pre-wordpress, but for me at the time, this was an amazing technological advancement to be able to put my cartoons online. So, my cartoons were gradually becoming a bit more popular, seen online. And to cut a long story short, eventually I sent some off to a newspaper who agreed to publish them and so I had a way into being a full-time cartoonist. So, just to give an example, I was drawing a lot of church-themed cartoons at the time and here is an example of one. This will be entirely nonsensical to you if you're not in that world, but this is the kind of thing I was doing. The artwork had still not really improved that much. This is about bishops standing in the corner. So, around this time, I heard about a new piece of software called WordPress and so I began a new cartoon blog using it. And here we have my, this is my early, this is my WordPress website in approximately 2005. And it went on to be absolutely central to the way that I made my living. And I'll say a bit more about that in a few moments. But first of all, I want to say why I love WordPress. Now, it's always tricky to know if you have new material, if you're a band, you have a new song, do you play it at the beginning? Do you save it up and will the crowd like it? So, this is a brand new cartoon that nobody has seen apart from Ross, my proof reader. And so, here goes. It's 20 panels so I'm going to run through them quite quickly. So, this is 20 reasons to love WordPress. It's easy to learn. Well, fairly easy. There's no need to edit code. A community built it and keeps it going. You can install it in five minutes. Search engines love it. It's great for mobile phones. There's always somebody, someone to help with problems. You can use plugins to do lots more. Over 25% of all websites use it. It does a lot more than just blogging. You don't need to be an expert to update your site. There are many brilliant free themes. You can update a site from anywhere. People can comment and interact. Your data is on a site you own. It's great for pictures, audio and video. It updates automatically for security. You can have multiple users. You can impress your friends with a beautiful website and it's free. This is my 20 reasons to love WordPress cartoon that I will shortly put on my website. Now, I want to show you how WordPress is central to the way I make my living as a cartoonist. Now, this is a pie chart that my accountant desperately wants to see once every year. So, this is a very approximate breakdown of how I make my living. So, I do cartoons for regular clients who I've built over the years, who I do for all the time. Then, I've got one-off commissions from people who've often seen my work on one of my sites, license sales, which I'll explain in a minute what that means. Then, book advances and royalties. So, the books are on my site and sometimes the people who commission the books have seen me online and then merchandise. So, how does this work in practice? Now, I've got five ways that a cartoonist can use WordPress and I hope this would be applicable to other creative industries as well. There may well be more than five, but these are the ones that I thought of. One additional disclaimer, I've only used three and a half of these five methods. So, I'm going to demonstrate each one with one of my own websites where applicable. So, first of all, blogging, which I have already talked about a bit, and this is my cartoon blog. So, over the twelve years I've had a blog on WordPress. It has contained a mixture of serious news, cartoons about serious news, the latest work I've been doing, competitions and a certain amount of messing around as well. The benefits of the blogging approach, it puts you in the centre of a community of like-minded people whilst enabling you to show off your work. There's a lot more I could say about blogging, that's probably a whole other talk, but my main advice for bloggers is be interesting in whatever way. I don't do so much now as other parts of my work has grown, but blogging has been absolutely central to what I've been able to do. So, secondly, using WordPress for a stock image site, and this is something I do. So, this is CartoonChurch.com, which is my cartoon licensing site. Now, every local parish church has something called a parish magazine. This is usually an A4 photocopy booklet with a pastel-coloured cover. And I supply cartoons to make parish magazines more interesting. And so, having done weekly cartoons for twelve years, I've built up quite a back catalogue. So, selling licences is one of the ways that I make my living. I've been using WordPress to do this since 2005, but the advent of membership plugins has made this so much easier. It means that I can automate, for instance, the process of sending out renewal emails to people and that kind of thing. And that has made a huge difference to me. And I'll talk a little bit more about membership plugins in a few moments. So, example number three is a portfolio website. And this is my example. It's not the most shining example of a brilliant design, but this was a site I put online a few years ago to showcase my cycling-themed cartoons. Now, social media and particular Facebook has been a vitally important, has been very important in the success of this venture. And I could talk a lot more about social media. But again, this is probably a separate talk. But I, despite social media, I still see it as absolutely crucial to have a website which is your own base on the web where people can always find your work and you're not relying on a third party service. So, as a result of this website and putting cartoons online, cycling cartoons online, I've drawn cycling cartoons for all sorts of different clients and I spent a significant chunk of 2016 writing and drawing a book on the topic. And here we are, and this book will be out in June. And it wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't had a WordPress site that I was able to put everything up online and the publishers discovered my work online. And so, I have a lot to be thankful on that front. So, fourth, membership sites. Whilst I've used membership plugins to help me run my licensing, I've not yet run a full membership website, but I'm working on one. And here we have the work in progress. Brilliant site, not yet built, cartoons and member benefits. Now, a lot of artists are using a site called Patreon to fund their work where people pledge a certain amount of money each month and in return get benefits. So, they maybe see your work first or they get downloads or they get merchandise in return for making a payment. So, I thought I don't need to be paying Patreon fees. I can do this myself using WordPress. It should be entirely doable. So, watch this space. It's a work in progress. And number five, using WordPress to sell online. There are brilliant plugins like WooCommerce that allow you to sell, but I must confess that I haven't yet used them as I sell most of my merchandise through third parties. So, I tend to link to other places that sell what I do rather than selling on my own website. These are a few of the things that I sell books and 2000, all sorts of bits and pieces. So, I wanted to talk a little bit about themes and plugins. As somebody who has been to a couple of previous word counts, I found it really useful to get practical tips on useful plugins and themes that other people have found useful. So, first of all, themes. And my main advice here is let your content shine. And this is probably a more important principle than any specifics about particular themes. So, for me, for my work, I need something that will allow an image of about 700 pixels wide. That's sort of about the minimum size at which it's viewable online. So, the theme needs to accommodate that. And I don't want too much of the distraction. So, I don't want too much design in the theme because I want my cartoon to be the most interesting thing on the page. I definitely don't want a heading over an image which a lot of themes have, which is great for some people but not for a cartoonist. But of course, for you, it will be different depending on the kind of work that you have and what you need. There are cartoon-specific themes but I've never found one that particularly suits my kind of work and I could list some of these but you can Google them just as well as I can. So, I thoroughly recommend paying for a theme. Free themes are a great way in and it means anyone can get going with a word press site but if you're going to be using it for a business site then it will pay for itself many times over to have one that's been professionally designed of a good quality. So, for me, I've been looking for modern simple themes without too much to distract and also by somebody that I trust and I've used Genesis themes by Studio Press. I do love their designs and also a theme called Generate Press by Tom Osborne with very simple lines and the ability to customise. I will put the links to these. I'm afraid they're not on my slides owing to slight incompetence on my part but I will put the links on my website after this talk. So, plug-ins, membership plug-ins as I've already discussed. The one that I use is called Member Press and I'm trying out a plug-in called Restrict Content Pro for my new website. There's a guy called Chris Lima who writes a blog and he has his finger on the pulse of the membership plug-in world if that interests you and again I'll put the link to his site after this talk. So, secondly, Page Builders. I recommend a bit of caution as some are better than others and obviously if you build too many pages using them you can find yourself with problems in the future if you've relied too much on a plug-in for how your website looks. But, for me, they are very useful for doing front pages and just a few pages on my website. So, the ones I've used is Page Builder by Site Origin and I'm currently experimenting with one called Beaver Builder. I will put a link to an article by Pippin Williamson called All About with a Comparison of these different Page Builders. So, recent posts now some of you may know other ways to achieve this but for me using a plug-in which shows a list of cartoon thumbnails has been absolutely brilliant for me and while researching for this talk I discovered that the plug-in that I use has been discontinued and therefore probably isn't one I should be using so I won't recommend it to you and this demonstrates the importance of reviewing your plug-ins every now and then. Then I use sharing plug-ins which is essential for somebody doing visual work you want people to be able to share what you do on social media and there are many of these available I tend to go for ones that fit the design of the particular site you know they're like the buttons as they fit with the design and allowing me to customise the text for the Twitter link. Then just to heap everything else together quite a lot of other plug-ins so I use one to convert my old GIF images to JPEGs I use an image optimiser so my cartoons load quickly on mobile phones I use SEO plug-ins backing up plug-ins and a few others which I won't list. So, some lessons learned. First of all find your niche. Now this is in my opinion key all-purpose advice for making it as a cartoonist as well as for having a successful website. It's really hard to be the number one current affairs cartoonist in the world but once you narrow it down to one issue so just give an example housing or the environment or cartoons about a particular interest say golf or classic cars once you choose a topic a niche it becomes a lot more achievable and I think it's the same with websites so if you are writing or drawing about something that is specific it's far more possible to be a significant player in that world so for me historically I've drawn a lot about churches now I do a lot about cycling and then I have other possible things that I know about that I may do cartoons about in the future so my second lesson learned and this was learned the hard way choose a good host like many things in life you get what you pay for now I started out with a really inexpensive host and it didn't go very well. The site would go down sometimes for days on end and you couldn't talk to them on the phone emails took longer and longer to be replied to and it was incredibly embarrassing explaining to people why my site was down yet again but I stuck with them for years because the prospect of changing host was for me at the time too big a process to even contemplate but I'm pleased to say that now I have WordPress specific hosting from a host who I found to be very reliable I can talk to them on the phone night or day and I do both and they know what they're talking about so I would definitely recommend that you choose somebody who is a good host for your site security matters so in the past fortunately quite a number of years ago I was hacked a combination of cheap hosting and not taking care to update everything and at the time it was a huge headache so my advice is keep everything up to date and pay a bit more for security take care with plugins one thing I learned was that some plugins take rather greater server resources than others and one of the reasons my site went down a lot was in fact my own fault I learned in hindsight that I was using plugins that were hammering the database and I don't really understand the technical details of why exactly but my understanding is they were making lots of requests to sort of back things up and that that kind of thing so my advice is beware of using too many plugins and beware of using settings that are going to cause a strain on the server now you may need to talk to somebody a bit more expert than I to understand the specifics of what that means but that was a lesson that I had to learn the hard way the great news is that despite my various technical problems I've always found lots of people who are willing to help so for me this has often meant Twitter as I have used Twitter a lot but also the word press forums or the forum of whatever plugin I've been having problems with and the room here where you can go for advice is absolutely brilliant and I was in there yesterday so it's great to know there's lots of people who can help you and in return help other people so most people that you meet in everyday life don't know how to make a website and you do so if you're a professional web developer obviously you will need to charge for your services but for those of us who aren't why not help people so encourage somebody to have a first play on wordpress.com or help a fellow business owner with a problem now I've got one other lesson that I thought of after I've done my slides which is be generous but not too generous and by this I mean I've had a lot of benefit from posting cartoons online and letting people see them without paywalls without charging them to see them but also there also comes a time when you can't give absolutely everything away because you need to make a living so it's finding a balance between being generous with your content but also finding ways that you can make it pay as well so challenges for me at least and this is an example of a challenge nothing works with anything else sorry about that so first challenge for me is code now as my as wordpress isn't my main thing I don't understand as well as many of you what goes on under the hood but fortunately this is my in-depth graph on the subject how often a wordpress user has to deal with actual code you know when I started it was a lot you had to there's all sorts of little jobs that could only be done by going and changing some code but gradually things have improved for me at least and now plugins can do a lot more and so this is really a former challenge rather than the current one second for me and this is a big issue has anyone brought bought themselves a brilliant domain years ago but never got around to doing anything with it and they keep on paying a ten at a year so this is me I have too many ideas for new directions that I can take my work in and I buy the domain and possibly set the site up and then that's it so for me it's a case of thinking what am I focusing on so I mean these are the websites I've shown you but as well as this of course I'm doing lots of drawing commissions think about merchandise so it's knowing how to where best to focus your time and your energy and I suppose I have been guilty of letting some of my projects slide a bit because I've gone on to something new and exciting now SSL this is a huge huge one for me and I have a cartoon to illustrate the task I must undertake is towering over me like a great big monolith it is too big to contemplate so I think I will go and have a little look at the internet this is this could apply to lots of things but this has been my approach to SSL it seems like a huge thing that I am afraid to tackle fortunately I've received a lot of really useful advice over this weekend so this is now not quite so much of a challenge as it once was but it's still something that is something that I need to face and do creativity staying fresh without getting worn out so I love what I do but the demand to be funny all the time sometimes comes at a cost and sometimes on a rainy Monday morning when you have a deadline at 2 p.m. to come up with a joke and a way to illustrate whatever you're drawing about and can be challenging in the same way staying creative with regard to websites sometimes can be difficult so in conclusion the main thing that I want to say to everyone involved with WordPress is thank you you've made it possible for me to do what I do it's not always plain sailing and there are times when say an error message comes up or my site runs slowly or a plug-in won't update and I could list minor gripes but fortunately now they are minor and they are occasional not the norm so thank you to everyone involved in WordPress and to anyone considering using WordPress for your business or creative endeavour I would entirely recommend it and I hope my experiences have been of some use do ask me more so thank you everyone my slides should by now possibly have miraculously appeared on my website otherwise they are online at speaker deck and I will be tweeting the reasons to love WordPress cartoon shortly any questions yeah we've got some time for some questions so if you could read your hand if you have a question and we'll get a mic over to you and then you can ask your question we enjoyed your chat and the lovely cartoons are very funny and it's just a suggestion really I was just wondering if WordPress could commission you to do a lovely logo for the back of next year's t-shirt thank you anybody else I have a question and roughly how long does it sort of take to do like a cartoon I wouldn't know a clue it depends on whether I have a how long it takes me to have an idea there because that is the the the most difficult part of it so I generally think if I'm doing something some of the ones I've shown you I sort of would set aside a day to think up the idea to rough it out to to ink it in sort of finally so a lot of it for me is writing as well as drawing so it's the writing behind it that needs to be right for the um the artwork is an easy bit yeah he's telling a story aren't you with it so yeah any other questions hi thanks for that that's really good um the church and cycling seem quite random topics to have picked yeah I was just wondering what took you to those places well to be a cartoon to do good cartoons I think you need to really know your topic and those are things I know about so um I've been a church goer since I can remember so I know quite a lot about the inner workings of that world and cycling is my um my what I love to do so um I know about bike racing I know about using a bike to get from A to B and those are things that I know I know enough about the subject to understand where the humour is and I think that's that's important so yes they are a bit strange but I think I've always found it important I've had my most successful work when I've done a niche topic like that rather than tried to do something to you know political doesn't usually work for me so well yeah it won't work do you find it difficult to find inspiration and how do you make sure that you don't re-attract this similar cartoon that you did last year or the year before uh well sometimes it's quite handy to you to do the same cartoon you did the year before because people don't have very long memories so sometimes you can get away you can get away with it um but yes I probably do reuse the same things um sometimes as for inspiration it's just living life really that you know listening to people talking reading you know everything is potentially a source of inspiration have you ever considered an alternative to WordPress use something else to build a website well in the early days I I used it I tried other blogging software so I used blogger and I used movable type but no not I think because I'm doing something else because I'm doing cartooning not building websites once I've sort of learnt something I want to stick with it and um I haven't found anything else that has all the same has the same 20 benefits so I think we've got one over here and then there's one at the back as well so if you don't go to the back and I'll I'll do this one first hi I was just wondering how you get an idea onto a website so the process it so presumably starting off by drawing and then scanning how do you get it yeah so so now I do my work digitally so I draw everything on an iPad um so that's my process since last year so then it's just very much a case of uh saving the file as a jpeg and then uploading it as you would with any other image onto WordPress so it's it's very straightforward in the in the old days I would um draw everything by hand scan it and then you'd have an image file that you could then then upload does that answer yeah thank you uh yeah Dave it was a great great talk um I was just wondering how since uh you've got obviously got a lot of imagery on your site and everything like that how it how Google plays with it um does it play nicely um do you have to make sure you include lots of words with it in order to get um so referenced when I was blogging very regularly um then I did call very well in Google because I had the text to go with it and I often got a lot of links to blog posts which um these days um I suspect I'm not there's more competition around so I suspect not quite so well and I probably could do better on that front if I'm to be honest um I probably do need to pay more attention to my SEO than I do but it's um it's it's one it's one thing in a long list of priorities for me and quite often the the cartoon I need to get done by tomorrow afternoon is the is the pressing thing so Mike is that on yes my question kind of leads on from that how do you because you're doing word presses and add on to your main job how do you divide up how do you say I've done enough on that on the website now I'm going to have to do this and do you have a pie chart a bit like the one for your accountant on where your time goes yeah well if I did have a pie chart there'd be a procrastinated probably be you know that would be quite a large chunk um I probably do spend too much time on word presses the truth be told I probably should spend more time actually doing my job but because I do really enjoy I have come to really enjoy you know playing with it experimenting um you know trying new plugins different different things so I do I love doing it I love working with word press so uh if anything I'd probably spend too much time you know I should probably focus what the point I made about focusing I should probably just focus on one or two websites and do them really well but I just enjoy it too much and I keep on coming up with new ideas I think we've got time for one more question maybe a couple anybody on the back what was your approach when people use your images without permission or yes so people using images without permission it's it can be a problem occasionally I send somebody an email and say you know in an extreme case I might um send somebody an email and say you know you shouldn't be using this the more of a problem is when people um put things on social media uncredited which sometimes happens and that is a bit frustrating because something can really take off on on social media and you get no benefit whatsoever and that is for me as a creator that is a bit frustrating um and I have had instances where people have um like even cut off my name and shared you know shared something online but I do try now to make sure that um when I post on Twitter or Facebook that I always have in the image I always have my credit right quick quick one last one what do you see um what do you see your cartoons going in the future like in five years where do you want to be that's a very good question and I'm I'm sort of open to different directions at the moment I'm um I've got this cycling book coming out in June and um I've got no idea how that's going to go I'm hoping that that will be very popular and that will open up new new ideas um new possibilities sorry for me um but otherwise you know I've always got um new ideas at new sites so I can't really answer that question yeah I'll have to wait and see but thank you okay thanks again today let's give another round of applause great talk okay so it's


Welcome, Bilal. You played olgogiria and you won today. Tell us something about the game. I think it was a quite good game for me. I played my preparation and I got a better position after the opening and the decent game was easy for me to play. Yeah, yeah. So it was a smooth game for you. Yeah, fairly smooth game. Well, let's get down to the game and have a look. Okay, Bilal, having a look at your game here and of course what you do now in this Queen's Gambit Decline is G4, which I'm thinking of calling G for Gibraltar because this is the fashionable move here in the Battle of the Sexes because you played it in a different position. Yeah, two times in this tournament. But this one is much more orthodox or well-known at least. This G4 in the Nimzo was novelty. This one is new. Sorry, this isn't new. This is a well-known one, which you might play again later today. Tralia, I prepared this G4 against Uska two rounds ago, but she didn't play this line. So I keep it for today. So Yovie Huska was lucky. She got away with that one. Okay, so what happened next? She played C5. C5, yeah. Human move, I think. Yeah. And I took here. And here the only move is H6. Really? Yeah. Or she has to know Nd7. Yeah. But it's quite difficult Nd7 because I can take on d5 and she has to sacrifice the pawn. Right. Take here. I think she can take here, I think. It's quite complicated. Yeah. Or she has to play H6. Or H6, okay. So in that position, H6 and stop this. Because g5 is coming like in the game. Sure. But just playing Castle is... Castle, yeah. Here I'm already better here. So this is already known. This is the fact that Castle is not good in this position. Yeah, it's not good. Yeah. It's the mistake. I'm surprised. Okay. 24. Take, take, take, take. Here I knew that the best move is H3. And I can take or play Ng4. I think I had the choice. Thank you. Yeah. Or I can take also. Yeah. But it's much better for me already. Still better for you. Yeah. What's that based on? Why is it better for you? Because I have one pawn up. One pawn up and you know. That's it basically, isn't it? Yeah. And I can play Bxg2 and my pieces are more active. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So she played Nx6 and I think I had to play Bxg2. And now she plays E3. She has to try something. Yeah, Nx4. Take, take. She has to take. And here I was not sure if I have to take and play Bxp3 or Bxp3 immediately. Maybe it's possible to play like this way. Yeah. Okay. But I was quite, quite happy after... Captures. Captures. She has to take. Take, take. So we reach this nearly an end game. Well, it's pretty much an end game already. And you have an initiative here, don't you? Yeah. My king is in the center. My Bxp is strong. Yeah. The files. Yeah. This bishop is... Yeah. She cannot move, yeah. This bishop. Yeah. Bishop can't move. So the rook cannot move also. Yeah. But also this pawn is very strong. This g5 pawn. It cramps the king side, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So should we skip later on in the game? Where would you like to go to? Yeah. I think, yeah. Just here when she played this, I played 2-1 and I think this was the biggest mistake. Oh, okay. Okay. I think she, sorry. Yeah. She had to play bishop d7. Okay. And I wanted to play B4. And I was thinking like this kind of position. Take, take, take, take, rook b1. And my idea is to come this way. Okay. Chase after this. Yeah, yeah. A pawn here. And my king is already coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your king is somewhere. If you move the rook, your king can come on c5. King is very key here, isn't it? My king is already ready for action. It's my best piece, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the key to your position, isn't it? That key. Okay. So she played rook e8, which is a bit passive. Yeah. And now do we want to jump to maybe later in there was some interesting move later in the game? Yeah. I don't know when. So I just jump in at random. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Let's try it. Okay. I'll just make some moves. Tell me when to stop. Yeah, bishop here. I think it's just winning for me. Yeah. This pawn is hanging. The pawn's hanging, yeah. Yeah. Your rooks are very good. Your bishop's great. Yeah. Just play bishop d3. Yes. 2 straight b5. Yeah. Because my bishop was there, attacking g7. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of a double threat. Yeah. This bishop d3 was a good move, I think. Right. So king f7 and b5 and the bishop has to run back here. Yeah. Here I was not sure how to finish. I played this. Bishop g6 is coming because she has to play this. And here I wanted to play rook b8. She would be waiting for me at g7. But I played rook d5 and this rook taken. Oh, yes. And then I have 2 pawns. And silver. So it's over. I think she resigned here. She resigned in that position. Nice game. Yeah. Good point for the boys. Yeah. Well played. Thank you. Thank you.


I've got a secret, I need you to find out. We love to spit out. Yeah, be my guest. I'm so sorry, I've not grossed any of you out. I just lost my list. It took me so long to make this list that I gotta do it again. Just put them in the same position. I don't even know how to start this. I'm like regretting agreeing to this already. Okay. And you called me out yesterday for the pop. We recently posted on Instagram for ideas on what we can do for ride challenges. And someone had suggested, and I'll link them down below who suggested this or on the screen. So when it suggested we ride the best coasters in the park from best to worst. Again, this is the best coasters in the park. And whatever number we rank them, we have to ride them that amount of times. So Craig and I came up with our list and what has to happen is we have to agree on them. So Craig, we're gonna go over our list. I'll go first and you go. And then we have to rearrange them. We have to argue and fight, which is best to worst. So comment down below from one to 10, the best, again, keyword best coasters in the park. We're not riding best to worst. We're riding the 10 best coasters in the park and ranking the 10 best coasters in the park. So at number one, I have Yukon, number two, I have Leviathan, number three, I have Behemoth, number four, I have Mindbuster, five, Vortex, six, Thunder Run, seven, Dragonfire, eight, Backlot, nine, Wild Beast, and 10, Time Warp. Flight Deck didn't make the cut. No, it didn't. For best coasters. Okay, one, Yukon, two, Behemoth, three, Leviathan, four, Vortex, five, Mindbuster, six, Dragonfire, seven, Wild Beast, eight, Backlot, nine, Flight Deck, and 10, Time Warp. So we differ a lot, this is gonna be hard. Okay, so why don't we agreed on Yukon? Behemoth is definitely better than the Wild Beast. Not this season. And you know Behemoth was my favorite last season. Is Behemoth is better than Yukon? No. Behemoth is better than Yukon. The trims? Behemoth. No, it can't. It is. No, it is. Leviathan's got so much more speed. Yeah. Because it runs more. It's Behemoth. No, it can't be, eh? It's Behemoth. No. And that's my baby. Behemoth is a lot.  It's not. Then I rode Behemoth again. But the last couple of times we were here, the trims were like, it's stacking, the trims are hitting hard, it's hardly making it over the hills. We're not getting air time. Like I almost like, I'm close. If the ride keeps getting worse, I'm close to putting Vortex and Mindbuster above it. Yeah. I don't know, I'm really not enjoying it this season. But we're not gonna get over this time. We're gonna be stuck at number two. Number two, we're stuck at number two. We can't even get past number two. Well, I'll tell you now, take that thing, Thunder Run off that list immediately. No. Thunder Run is like. It's not a roller coaster. Someone's back there pushing it a lot. Okay, how about this? I'll give you Behemoth at number two if you let me keep Thunder Run on this list. Oh no, I'll change Leviathan then. Okay, so we're changing Leviathan. You don't have to change anything. Oh right. I'm like typing to change it. Okay, so the number three is Behemoth. Number four, we differed again. I put Mindbuster. Okay, no, that's wrong. How? Mindbuster's been riding so long this season. Mindbuster and Vortex. But Vortex has been so mediocre this season so far. It's cold. And Mindbuster's better. It's cold. That's not a ride. Do you remember that? That's not the, cold isn't the problem with the ride. That's the problem with Canada. Do you remember the air time we got on that one hill? Where like I literally like almost literally see. And then that's it. That was it. Okay, you let me have Leviathan. So I'll let you have this. So number four, we'll switch to Vortex. Or I'll switch to Vortex. That means Mindbuster's number five. So number six, Thunder Run. No, you're taking that off now. So what did you have at number six? I didn't have dragon flyer at number six. Okay, I can somewhat agree with that. Although I haven't ridden it this year so that one might change. Okay, so what do you have at number seven? Cause my list is now completely like. Wild Beast. You like Wild Beast over Backlog stuff, right? Yeah. Wild Beast this season or Backlog. So I can't really like. I mean it's rough, don't get me wrong.  Okay, so number seven's Wild Beast. Number eight is Backlog. What did you have at number nine? Cause I had Wild Beast at number nine. I had Flight Deck. Flight Deck at number nine. You like Flight Deck better than Time Warp? Time Warp's a little more comfortable. Flight Deck above Time Warp. Flight Deck above Time Warp. You realize that you are forcing us to ride Time Warp and Flight Deck 10 and nine times.  I'll change it, they're both equally horrible. So I can change it. Okay. So I'll put Flight Deck at 10 and Time Warp at nine. Time Warp at nine, Flight Deck at 10. But that means I just checkmated myself into riding my least favorite coaster at 10 times. Yeah, you did. Ugh. Can you lift these? Thank God. Okay, so a lot of you might be wondering why we kept the fly off the list. There's something special about the fly. The fly is definitely better than a lot of things on the list. I'm keeping the fly off the list for a different video. And it's something important to me because it's something that happened last season as a little hint. So that's why the fly's on this list. The fly would have been above some of these. So stay tuned for that because that's gonna be a sentimental video for me. I'm screaming on the swing. It's a swing. And then some people might ask us about the bat. Yeah, so we rode the bat earlier this season and we both got hurt. We were with someone else that got hurt as well and we're talking hurt. It was not comfortable. It hurt us. I don't wish to go on that ride at all this season. I actually, we had rode Flight Deck Challenge before we ridden the bat. And we both agree that the bat is actually now the worst ride in the park. Like that thing needs to go first. I've never been more hurt on a ride.  My poor legs. It's the vertical loop too, especially going backwards. I don't know what it is. It's not that good this season. Comment down below if you guys have ridden it and experienced it. Backseat didn't help anything. I know. So this is one of many ride challenges. We're gonna be doing these bi-weekly throughout the whole season. You literally look like you're... I'm just looking at this list. I know, like now that we finished the intro to the vlog and the challenges, and you guys are requesting longer vlogs which is opposite as to what I thought was gonna be the case. I was making super short vlogs. Yeah, 20 minutes. Short. The recent ones have been like four minutes, four or five minutes. That's because we get the camera out twice because of the weather. Yeah, that's true. The weather's been absolutely terrible. But yeah, stay tuned. We're gonna be riding these rides. We're gonna be vlogging our experience. If one of us gets sick. Oh, the punishment.  The punishment. The whole reason we're doing this. Okay, so for every ride, so let's say for example, flight deck we're riding 10 times. If we can't keep up that 10 times, let's say Christian, because we know Christian's gonna be on that, doesn't make it. I can see the look you're giving me on the camera. I know. If Christian doesn't make it or I don't make it, it's a teaspoon of hot sauce. A teaspoon of hot sauce. I disagreed with it. And then someone in our Discord server yesterday was like, well then, I guess you're staying on the ride. Like, I guess you gotta ride it. Which makes sense. So it has to be a valid punishment. I said the teaspoons. What do you mean, someone? No, but the member, Kelton, said you have to ride it. And I guess if you're, I guess keep riding it if you don't have the punishment.  I know.  I find, literally cotton candy spicy. I just got the weirdest one. Cotton candy? I'm just trying to make an example. I find like the smallest little thing spicy. This is not spicy. I find peppers spicy. You know, like the pepper. Yeah, when I make my scramble, the eggs, I have too much pepper. It's spicy to me. I guess we're gonna go start this challenge. We're gonna ride it from best to worst. Thank goodness. Thank you. We're gonna start the day on a good note. Yukon Stryker, our favorite crew in the park as well. A little shout out to them. They are literally the best crew in the park. Absolutely killing it. They're absolutely amazing. They're friendly. The best crew I've seen in the park, period. But that doesn't say much because they both came from the Leviathan last season. So that's not overshadowing anyone else. Everyone else is doing a fantastic job. We're having a great season so far. But yeah, you literally look like you pay light. I'm just keep looking at our list and the number of times that we gotta sit down and re-ride. That's flight deck 10 times. Time warp nine times. Backlot eight times. Rethinking this. I'm gonna pass on amusement insiders to you. I quit. All right, we'll be back. We're gonna go ride these rides now. Some people are suggesting we go eat first. No, no, no, no, no. I know you. You're not gonna handle any of this. I know I'm gonna win. You're gonna have more teaspoons of hot sauce than I will. That's not much of a problem though. So you created a punishment that better suits you. Yeah, but I did also get the spiciest hot sauce I could find. So of course it's gonna hurt.  I know, right? And then they also like his lipstick idea, too. And they're already commenting that I should be the one to wear lipstick. I haven't even lied to him. I haven't even lost the challenge yet. I saw someone go Brendon wears lipstick and Gregor gets a haircut. You are getting to that point where you're gonna need a haircut. I know, that's why my hood on. Okay. I'm looking at you Con and I'm like, at least we're starting the day good. And then I'm looking off to my left and you really forced me to put time warp and flight deck on this list. Thunder Run isn't a roller coaster. I feel like this video should be sponsored by Advil or Tylenol or something. Oh my goodness. Thank God we have free healthcare in Canada. All right, on that note, we're out of here. This is a performance. So ride number one, easy. We rode it 15 times yesterday. So one time today, easy, easy. The ride challenge so far is extremely easy. Easy, easy. So we're off to Leviathan. That's two rides we have to get on Leviathan. We should get an Uber in the park. I know, right? We have Uber. All the way down there and then come all the way back for Behemoth. It's okay. That's tea. Right there. Tea? We're being shouted at right now. Okay, so Leviathan it is. Two times on Leviathan. That will also be easy. Yeah. It's going to start to get harder and harder as the day goes on. Three times on Behemoth. Okay. I guess we'll up to you after Leviathan. Great. Are you ready? Yeah. Okay. The whole park smells like a certain plant. Today, doesn't it? You said that the guy with the f***ing hat. I said that a little good. That was perfect timing. Anyways. All right, off to Leviathan. Did I start it? Yes. I think I started it. Oh god, I didn't see anything. You're not tall enough. Okay. There we go. Okay, so we just got off our three rides on Behemoth. It's rank three. That's not bad. Okay. The ride, the ride is trimming. So, not our favorite. But, oh copyright. So we just got off ride number three. We did a minute ago and then the music kind of ruined all that. Yeah, copyrighted music. So, yeah. Okay. Not bad, right? This is weird holding a camera and walking forward. Right? All these strange look. Anyway. Okay. So far so good. I'm not feeling sick. Are you feeling sick? No. Let's use the bathroom then. Oh. I didn't do that. Next is Vortex number four. Vortex, right? You won that. So Vortex number four. I would have put my buster here. That's because you don't want to walk all the way over there and back. That's exactly why I placed it there. He knows me. And music. Yay. Again. So Vortex it is. Third time being interrupted by music. Right? When did we turn into six legs? Blasting music everywhere. Look at my arms. Look at all the looks we get. So four times on Vortex, right? Yeah. I'm not, we're not going to get sick on this though at all. This will be fine. We're going to get injured. We're going to start to get hurt and sick on the Five Rides Online Buster next. Leviathan's been down all day so far. It doesn't look like it's going to open as you saw earlier. A lot. Not my problem. Yeah. Vortex is fine. I'm not worried about it. My buster is going to be the one that starts to hurt. A lot. A lot. Are you ready for my buster after this? I like my buster though. It's you that doesn't like my buster. My buster. The one I'm really not looking forward to is Wild Beats. You've been trying to get me on that all season now. I know. And now? You don't have much of a choice. Yeah. You know what? My arch nemesis dead ahead. The fly. I can't even tell if it's in the picture but you know what? That's fine. All right. Krega are you ready? Four rides on Vortex. We'll be back. Okay. Four rides on Vortex. Not bad. We're still ready to go. Four rides on the four sides. Oh. One right here. Okay. Now we're heading to Mind Buster. Are you ready? I'm so sad. What? Mind Buster. Five rides. Five rides on Mind Buster. Yes. I really like Mind Buster this season but I have a feeling this is going to change. It's going to change. Yeah. I just don't think it's going to be open. They're testing Leviathan so we might be able to make up those two rides. But it's got water nummies on it. Okay. So we're heading over to Mind Buster. We'll do the five rides. It's got little Brendon's on it. I'm literally going to fight you. I'm going to make sure I staple you on every single ride on Mind Buster. I keep getting sandwiched. Okay. We're going to take a quick bath and break and then we're going to Mind Buster. I didn't think they needed to know that. I think they wanted to know that. Okay. I'm at a breath. I know. Vortex is running great today. That was better than we've had before. Before it was like kind of like slow. Okay. We'll be back after Mind Buster. Five rides on Mind Buster. Bye. Okay. What was that for? That laugh. Okay. We just got on Mind Buster five times in a row. How are you feeling? Perfectly fine. You're feeling fine? You're not. The last two got me. But I'm still good. My hair is starting to show what's happening to us. I'm fine though. Okay. So what would you... Out of full suggestion, the middle row of each train is definitely the best, right? Yeah. For airtime, the back row is insane going down that first row. I like this ride this year. Which is so weird. My back doesn't. Your back. I love how your back is hurting more than mine. Like I'm the like old guy here. Okay. So what's next? Dragonfire. Dragonfire is next. Six times Dragonfire. We wrecked at six. Six times Dragonfire. Here we go. Are you ready? That one's going to hurt.  I don't know. I haven't been on it this year. I think I'm going to get sick. Yeah. Backlot makes me sick. Sick. That's seven. Yeah. What's eight? What's eight then? Nine and ten is time warp and flight deck. So what's eight? What are we doing eight times a week? Oh, Wild Beasts is somewhere there. Wild Beasts is somewhere in there. I think Wild Beasts is seven. That's my least favorite ride in the park. Okay. So Dragonfire it is. Oh man. So far not so bad though, right? No. It's not too bad. Not too bad. Huge improvement on Linebuster. I have to keep giving it credit.  Right? You could tell it's getting to us. We're so calm. Like it's getting to us. Yeah. Like the energy's going downhill. Like by the end. Yeah, I know. By the end of today you're going to be dead. Yep. That's the goal. I don't think any of us are going to end up taking teaspoons of hot sauce though. I was thinking about that and I was realizing that you've got to go backwards so. Oh yeah. See, I can't even hold the camera up straight. All right. We're going to go. We'll be back. Dragonfire's next six times. Okay. So we were on our way to Dragonfire. Leviathan's open. It's been closed all day. We're going to get our two rides on Leviathan to make up for it. Is it only one train? Seems like it's only one train. It's one or two. Oh, it's one. One train offs. Okay. So we're going to get our ride now. Two rides on Leviathan and then we're heading over for six rides on Dragonfire. At least it's a break. This is going to be a breeze. This is like a break almost. I know. Thank God. All right. We'll be right back. Okay. Two rides on Leviathan. So bright. Right? That was actually fun. That was the fastest riding experience I've had on Leviathan. Yeah. It trimmed us hard and we still got airtime. Crazy. That's the first time I've experienced airtime with trims. So, yeah. Right? At Behemoth. We're going to go do Dragonfire six times now. I'm not looking forward to it. Yeah. That's probably going to start making us a little more upset. You're probably like witnessing us get more and more kind of like done with the day. Depressed. Right? Throughout this experience. But so far I'm not sick. It's fine. It's fine so far. That's going to change quickly though. Yeah. What's your favorite ride so far? Yukon. Still? Yes. Okay. Leviathan's kind of like, I don't know that experience. Leviathan's gone ahead of Behemoth now. Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, so I was right. Yeah. I was right. I was hoping you would pick up on that. Okay. So Dragonfire. Yeah. All right. See you soon. Okay. We were riding Dragonfire. We only got four rides on it. The ride is much more worse than we gave it credit for. That ride, I hate that ride now. That's bad. Like headache, vertical loops need to be redesigned. On that note, Krega, what shape is the loop? A circle. No, you didn't say that on the ride. It's a perfect circle. Yeah. He thought it was a perfect circle in your shed. Whoops. We are getting looked at. So it's not a perfect circle is it? No. So I was right again. Okay. So what happened while we were on Dragonfire? Describe it in your way. So we were going up the lift and everything was nice. It was nice day, nice weather. It wasn't too cold. And we get to about halfway and it kind of felt like something just snapped and it was a really loud bang and now the ride is closed. So yeah, we got to four rides out of six and something broke on the lift hill. Because basically it was like the loudest bang I've ever heard on a roller coaster. It was like metal on metal bang. The lift slowed down exponentially. And now it's broken. And now it's broken. So we can't complete the six on this. Not our fault. Not our fault. Unsafe ride. I'm kidding. But yeah, we're going to go over to Wild Beast seven times. And hey, life. We're starting to feel it now. Yeah. That wasn't even six rides either. I know. That's what's scary. So you ready? Nope. Seven rides on Wild Beast. We're not going to survive this one. This is my least or was. I should say was because I haven't been on it this year. Craig says it's better-ish. But my least favorite ride in the park was definitely Wild Beast. So this is definitely going to be traumatizing. It's not better. Yeah. A part of me is like, please status. Please status. Please status. If you use that, it's nice. I guess that's how it works. All right. Here we go. We'll keep you posted. Go, go, go, go, go. Wait. Do that again. Go, go, go, go. Come play again, please. Go, go, go, go. Literally, that's what they sound like. Craig. Yes. You seem fine. I'm perfectly fine. No. Yeah. Okay. We got to like, when did I question chickening out? Three. Really? Yeah. There was a moment where I was trying to debate between hot sauce and this. Yeah, that was the third ride. This is the worst ride in the park. It's official. Like this is not a ride. This is going to change. Every time we get on with another ride, it's going to change. This is the worst ride. I probably have bruises on my legs. I'm going to, if I get home and that's there. I'm going to take pictures and post them because I'm hurt. Hurt. I look like it. My face looks terrible. And you're fine? Yeah. No. I'm A-OK. That's not fair. I'm not going on this ride for the rest of the season. That's it. We're doing a ride challenge on it. No, no, no, no. We just did one. Seven times. Seven times. Okay. So what's next? Put on this Helix every time. I get headaches on this thing every time. You don't like it either, right? No. So... He's last. Backlot. Yeah, here we go. Last two. Last three. I said last few, I think. Oh, yeah. Maybe. Okay. Well, we're going to Backlot. And not the cafe. I wish it was the cafe. I could go for food right now. We're going to Backlot's Duncoaster. Don't remind me. There was something you said earlier. What did I say? About the fireworks show. Yeah. The park closes at... Here, let me get my film. The park closes at eight, and the fireworks are at ten. So Craig is under the impression that the park makes you vacate the park, and then they hold the fireworks show? They do. No. Yes. What is this nonsense? What is it? Sunday? Oh, it's open till ten. Oh, so who's right again? This is strike number three. Say it. Yeah. I just want to go home. Okay. It's five thirty. Craig. Hey, what? Hi. Explain what happened. I gave up on the last ride. Craig, explain what happened. I gave up on the last ride. I gave up. How many? How many did you miss it on? One. One, okay. I'm dead. This ride is not nearly as bad as we thought, but continuously through that helix. It's bad. I was perfectly fine after Wild Bees. Perfectly fine though. And now this. XX. XX. XX. What rides next? They're time warper flight daggers. I don't remember. I don't remember my first name at this point. My sunglasses, I'm seeing like eight dimensions. How do you remember what my first name is? Your first name? Yeah. Yeah, you're dead. You look like completely done for. Pretty bad. I have a bad headache. We survived. Now we're off to Time Warp, right? Yeah. Nine times on Time Warp. Are we going to survive? Nope. We hadn't done it. That's typical. We haven't done what happened. Alright. Nine times on Time Warp. We're not going to survive. We're going to go. Bye. Listen, it sounds like a Krusty Krab. It sounds like what? A Krusty Krab. How does it sound like a Krusty Krab? I don't know. But if you would ever walk into a Krusty Krab, it would sound like this. Okay, hold on one second. Why is it every time we approach this ride, you say the weirdest things? Like what does a Krusty Krab sound like? I don't f***ing know. I did not mean to say that. Oh. That's like an extra spoonful of hot sauce just for swearing. You already got to take one hot sauce, so we're about to do this nine times. Are you ready? Do I look ready?  You know, you can bail at any time you are not being forced to do this. I have been certain that little warning, no Kregas were harmed in the making of this. This is so bad. Oh, here we go. I'm going back. So you did, you did the ten rides on this successfully. I can't, I can't do this ride. I can't, I don't know what's worse. Flight deck or this? We've got to go do flight deck ten times. Everything is just bad right now. Ten times. You ready? Do I look ready? I've got to take one shot of hot sauce. He's got to take one shot of hot sauce. That's not really fair because you handle hot sauce so much better than I do. Wait, are we putting hot sauce in our food or are we literally just eating it? Isn't it one tablespoon? It's teaspoon first off. Are we eating it or putting it in our food? I originally agreed to food. Okay good, I thought we were eating it. By itself. No. You're crazy. Can you even do that? Not safely. Oh yeah, so it's got to be on the chicken fingers is what I thought we agreed on. Yeah.  I can hear the death machine behind us. We still died before the challenge. I have a feeling compared to the time where we'll be able to complete this. I'm walking, like I'm literally, I can't walk and my arm can hardly hold this up by the way. It hurts. So bad. This isn't fair. I say it's not fair and this is like literally like our doing, like we didn't have to do this. No, you're right, we didn't. Yeah. Here it comes. Now we can just stay on this thing like continuously, there's not a soul on it. Oh, there's two people on it. We'll be able to complete this quickly. Yay. We're literally struggling to hold this up right now. Do you have anything to say about today? We're not doing a ride challenge for a while. Like we're taking, we're taking a two week break. I might throw up, dude, before we go on this. Okay, we'll be back. We're going to take a second and we're going to go ride flight deck. Stay tuned. You look dead.  You literally look like, yeah, like are you going to go clean backlog cafe with your hair? Yeah. Okay. Time warp's worse, right? Yeah, definitely. How much worse? We just did this one. Worse than not. Wait, that doesn't make any sense. It's worse than not. We can't form proper sentences? Oh God. I need Advil. Okay. I need cheese. Time warp's worse. Yes. Worse. Worse. Worse. Okay, so hold on. I'm switching arms. I'll put BP. We're not going on time warp or flight deck for the rest. For a while. For a while. Yeah, you say for the rest of the season, but I already know our butts are going to be back on those things within the next two weeks. I know, because now we've got to do the worst rides in the park challenge, but we're not doing that for like four weeks. We're going to do a different ride challenge. Think of something else. Yeah. So I guess you'll, in the next shot, you'll see us eating food and hot sauce. You should have just done top five. Why did you do ten? The top ten is getting a little out of hand. Yeah, it's not too much on the body. I'm five. I'm normally on pale, but like I look like a ghost. My eyes are probably bloodshot too. I feel like a ghost. What do you mean probably? You can just look in the camera. It's not that hard. I have poor vision. Can you tell him I'm always squinting? Okay. Do you have any words of wisdom?  So that's my wisdom. This is Apex's idea. Do you remember this morning? Wait, when do we get here? They can hardly hear you. Remember earlier when we were sitting over there? Remember earlier when we were sitting over there? Yeah. All happy? Yeah. Only that we could see us now. Yeah, and it started off good too. We were like, yeah, Yukon striker, yeah. I got off a wild beast all fine and dandy. I know. We're so out of energy right now. I can't even hold the camera. I can't even hear Craig and I'm beside him. So you guys might not even be able to pick him up. What was your least favorite ride today? Backlot. Backlot? Backlot did it. Backlot did this. Time warp for me. Time warp was my least favorite, I think.  Oh, we sit and give up on like a good ride. Like backlot. That's not a good ride. They probably closed. Where are we going? Yukon. It's probably closed. No, we're going to end up on Yukon. We have to end up on a positive note. There's no such thing as positivity after today. That is it. That scream in the background is literally my head right now. You know what?  I'll give you that, Craig. Craig, you're honestly a trooper. Craig had today honestly suggested we do extreme sky flyer. He thinks he's ready to conquer that fear. So we'll be doing that soon. I'm actually really impressed. Hit that like button in support of Craig conquering his fears this summer because we have a lot of trips coming up. Craig is doing a lot of challenges. I mean the good news is like rides that I couldn't fit on last year I'm fitting on. And I'm not even able to celebrate that yet. Like I haven't like celebrated it fully. A lot of people don't know but yeah, well we're going to ride Yukon. They closed in like two seconds. We'll be back. Okay Craig. We just got last ride of the night on Yukon Striker. I feel like that's like a thing amongst coaster YouTubers. They do like that hashtag last ride of the night. After it broke down. Yeah. And we got stuck on it. Again. The team's amazing. Maintenance was there like within like minutes and the ride was up and running again within minutes as well. So, super awesome. Craig is distracted by the they're transferring mind buster into the transfer shed. Copyright music. Be right back. How was today? Uh, painful. Painful. Ended on a positive note. Last ride of the night on Yukon. Were like the last ones leaving the park literally like security's right behind us. Not happy. Yeah, she's nice. We were just stuck on Yukon. It's not our fault. Okay, so how would you rank the rides? After riding them all? I think everything is just gone to number 10 except for Vichy Mith, Leviathan and Yukon. That's the thing with this park. We were talking about it. It's an amazing park. I love the park. It's really well themed. Like up there amongst my favorites because I'm biased. But there's a lot of mediocre coasters that all rank. All bad. Yeah. They all just hurt. Like and now it's Yukon, Leviathan, Vichy Mith and then I would say mind buster, vortex and then everything else is just 10. High ride music. So we're about to do the punishment. Hot sauce. Okay, can we see this hot sauce thing? No, could you just drop it? I just dropped it. Welcome to my car. Hot sauce from hell. Beyond hot. The world's hottest hot sauce. That's a lie but... Look at that focus. Right? Okay, there we go. So one teaspoon. Put my car on park first. Oh my God. One teaspoon on a chicken nugget from McDonald's. We don't even have a teaspoon. I feel like Trisha Paytas right now. I feel like Joey's World Tour. Okay. Oh my God. You do the honors. I don't know what one teaspoon is. Don't make fun of me. I do know what it is. Okay, do a cap full. That's similar to a teaspoon. We're just going to guess this. If you put more on mine, I'm going to crucify you. That's about right, right? Okay, go. They can't even see it. Okay, it's on. Are you going first? Are you okay? No, put yours on at the same time. Oh my God. We're about to die. Okay, so basically... That's too much. He chickened out of... What was it again? Backlot. And I chickened out of... Mine's overflowing. That's a lot. Oh my God. Okay, I'm Irish. No, starch is not spicy. This is too much. Okay. No. Okay, so... I don't know what we do here. My heart's racing. I don't want to do it. I don't eat spices. Oh my God. Okay, smell it. Yours is about to drip on you. Oh, it smells horrible. Like spicy. You should not have put this much. You said a teaspoon. That's not a teaspoon. Oh my God. I actually would prefer the lipstick at this point. Walking around Wonderland with lipstick on. It's upstairs and you'll get it. Oh my God. People are going to comment again like... Okay. Are you ready? Three, two, one, go. I'm just going to hold this. Oh my God. Is that mine? That's not mine. This is mine. I'm not even swallowing it all yet. My tongue... Are we allowed to spit out? Yeah, I'd be my guest. I'm so sorry. If that grossed any of you out. It's not that spicy. I'm Irish. Oh my God. That made it worse. That made it worse. It's coke. What do you expect? I thought that would help. No, you'd want water or milk. Milk? Oh, it's getting worse. Yeah. Why is that? I don't... This is why I don't eat spices. I'm pissed. Oh my God. Okay, my eyes actually don't... They feel like they're watering. Oh my God. I can go for another one. You're... Okay, that's not even fair. This challenge was in your favor. I'll eat another one. Okay. That's why I said lipstick because that makes fun of both of us. Oh my God. The pop is making it worse. I'm so glad. I was with the chicken out of... Backlot. I couldn't handle another one of this. My mouth is red on the inside. Like red red. It's not even that spicy. I'm Irish. Everyone who's Irish is coming in the other section. I can handle spices. I can feel it. It's like burning my skin. Oh my God. I'll eat another one if you think it's not fair. Okay, eat another one. Okay, set it up. Why do I have to set it up? Ew. I'm not having another one. Mm-mm. You take that hot sauce with you back to your Italian family. Thank you. I'm gonna go have some mashed potatoes at home. This challenge was not fair. You set me up. I could have gotten hot hot sauce. I mean, it's spicy. It's not really spicy. You eat spice, right? I don't know how that's worded. Not really, not often. The worst part right now is it feels like I'm breathing fire. Like I'm not dying anymore but my mouth is red. My mouth is on fire. It feels like I'm breathing fire.  It's really not that spicy. The extra ride on Time Warp would have been better than this. Yeah, probably. But you know what's funny? People overreact on YouTube videos.  Okay, but like because it was hurting but you know what I mean? When I watch YouTube videos and they're like dying, dying that's an overreaction. This is only a habanero and it's on my finger. Like it's not end of the world. I even feel like I can handle hotter. Hotter, hotter. Let's go. I could have regret that so much. Okay. I didn't say that. I'm going to edit that part out. Let's go hotter. No, no, no, no. Hot, hotter. No. No, no, no, no, no. It's time for you to go. You want hotter. It's time for you to go. You want hotter. It's time for you to go. You want hotter. No. You want... Okay, take a sip out of that. Why? I had two. Oh, I just took you out of the shot. I had two. My car looks so good. Fancy. Okay. I couldn't handle that right now. My mouth is burning. I'm fine. I'm not dying. Like other YouTubers may make it seem. But this is a lovely angle. I'm never filming on this angle again.  Like a pale circle with hair. Like I know I'm overweight, but this makes me look really overweight. Circular. I'm literally a pale circle with sunglasses and hair on right now.  Okay, well... You can keep the hot sauce. The next punishment I guess is lipstick or some sort of thing or hotter hot sauce. You guys comment down below. What do you want the punishment to be next time for us? Comment down below some unique punishments.  Lipstick. I don't know why you want lipstick so much. It's the one that will affect both of us. You just know because I have social anxiety. That's why you're suggesting it. You would walk around the park.  No, but like you're more brave. You could literally care less. Grow a pair. Okay. That's the end of this vlog. We are taking a break from ride challenges for a bit because we actually were falling behind on our Yukon Stryker rides. Yeah. Tomorrow is Yukon Stryker Day. I don't know when this vlog comes out. Tomorrow from filming today is Yukon Stryker Day. We're going to ride Yukon Stryker all day. Why don't you just say the date, Brendan? What is today? 14. The 14th. Okay, so on the 15th it's Yukon Stryker Day. We're just going to ride Yukon all day.  You got me on Wild Beast. You need to have hot hot sauce. It's been a blast. You can keep it. No, thank you. You take that out of my car right now. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. You take that. No, I don't want that.  Why'd you develop an accent for that? I don't want hot sauce. Hot sauce. I need to go home.  And then go to Wonderland all day tomorrow again. Take the hot sauce. No, I don't want the hot sauce. Take it back to your Italian family. They like spices. I'm from the Irish. You know, we've got bad teeth. And we have horrible diets. And we don't like spices. Honestly, it wasn't that bad. We should have made it worse by flipping it over and then... Yeah. Sorry. It wasn't that bad. I can get hotter to a point where... Okay, well then get hotter. Okay, I'll get hotter. If you want hotter, I'll get hotter. How much hotter can you get with this scale or whatever? This is like 50 to 250. You can go to 2 million. No. No. Next lipstick. I think 5 million is pepper spray. No. 5 million is pepper spray. Yeah, let's spray pepper spray into our mouths. I'm trying to like... No, there's peppers hotter than pepper spray is what I'm saying. People do this for fun? I don't think it's fun, really. But yeah. The punishment was already riding some of Wonderland's worst rides. You mean best rides. Today was the list of best ones. I can't wait to see you at Cedar Point.  That's gonna be my playground. I should implement a punishment on every ride. Okay, it's been a blast. A code blast. See you tomorrow. I gotta get my bag and my wallet. Oh no, I kept your wallet. Alright, thanks for watching guys. Comment down below other suggestions you have for ride challenges. Lipstick. Comment down below punishments that you want for those ride challenges. Lipstick. Thanks for watching guys. Hopefully this has been a long vlog. All of you have been requesting long vlogs. And I think this one after editing should deliver. Thanks for watching guys. Bye. Are you gonna say bye? Oh, bye.