What is up, welcome back to Test Cut Tuesday. This week is like another fresh off the laser cook. If you followed us on our top tier patrons Facebook group, you know Garrett was looking for a vote this morning. You mean late morning? Yeah, late morning, like 11 o'clock. I closed it out at like one. And so I let everybody vote. I gave five choices. It was a lettuce though with a snowman. It was, there's some hoos in this house. There was the leg lamp. I forgot what the other two were. You had five choices. Yeah, I had five choices. But everybody voted and bam, this is what we came up with. We're doing the leg lamp and the lettuce snow snowman. I'm kind of stuck on this leg lamp, but I'm also kind of nervous, especially with the fishnets. I tried, but I hope you put a little, yeah, a little border around it.  That's perfect. I don't know, I haven't, Tanner cut it. I haven't even seen it yet. I haven't removed the tape.  I can kind of see the back. I don't want to look though. I'm a little nervous. All right, so I may not be able to see everyone's comments, but they did come through the chat this time. So Patricia said, I need that snowman. That was before we even showed her we were doing a snowman, so that's good. That's good. Jeff's from Cyprus, Texas is here. Jeff. Walter from Tacoma, Washington, Donna from Moorsville. I need to know when David's on. 3D printer, David. Jason said he's prepping for the craft show, but had to take a break because I can't miss this. Oh, yeah. Keep prepping. Watch and prep, Jason, watch and prep. Actually, Jason had a question in our top tier patron about what's the inventory about how much signage to bring. Do you have any tips or tricks? You've kind of put me out on the spot. I'll let you think about it. We'll come back to it then. Well, yeah, I've got a couple things I can tell you. You forgot a couple of things I can tell you. It's like the craft fair mafia. Ashera from Antigua. Oh, Antigua. Jenny's happy that we have the snowman. Yeah, there is. Lynette says hi from Houston. Go, Astros. Go, Astros. Yeah, I guess they are one of the world series the other night. So last night, the night before, I don't know, I was focused more on the power ball. Yeah, yeah, I was ready to win it. I was ready to win it. I was going to share the will. I don't have my little, I don't get where's the plate. Oh, your trucker plate. Trucker plate, you know, it's been a mess in here. Yeah, what's under that? Is that a regular plate? Regular plate. Can you see if you can? Stour the area. You know, I know where it is. It's on the second shelf for that table over there. I put it over there to purposely be able to find it. All right, I'm going to start painting. You better get started. Yeah, mine's a little more. Jennifer says hi, hangers. What's up, hangers? Let's see. Try to make it easy to assemble. Techie, grandma. I know you know how you need it. So, see how easy it is to assemble. I want to make sure it's in the way that it cheats. Student app says hi from sunny South Carolina. I'm so ready for the cold weather.  I know. No, quiet, push now. Nobody wants that cold, cold weather. Melinda says hi from Michigan. What color is this? This is like real red. I think I'm going to use real red. Oh, Michigan. Definitely real red. It'll get cold there. Is that real red? Uh-huh. Yep. And then Lois says, how was our craft show? It was great. It was a really good craft show. A really good show. A really good show. You guys can watch the painting while she talks about the really good craft. Move around. Get out of the way, Kim. Go on now. I like how he's put himself in the middle. So funny. You get out your way show stopper. Go on. So I don't know if you guys saw any of our social media. But last week's video, we did an 8 by 10 booth.  Our cabin. Cabin, yeah, our log cabin, our wood cabin. Anyway. And that was cute. And it was great, except when I got there, instead of the booth being 8 by 10, it was 10 by 8. And we built an 8 foot roof. So I could not extend that to 10 feet. Couldn't make it 2 feet wider. But we just so happened to have this cement column on the far right-hand side of our 2 foot, in our 2 foot space. It was like a 2 foot column. Yeah, it's like a 2 foot column. On the right-hand side of our craft space. The width of one of the wagons. Yeah, so we had to shrink the depth of the booth and make it 8 feet deep. So it was 8 feet wide and 8 feet deep. We were in a tiny little box. But the other 2 feet, we were able to use that for storage of the wagons and more signs. And we were able to put a little infographic right in front of it, so you didn't know it was there.   So that's the bright side of the 8 by 8 booth. Otherwise, it was very small in there. Yeah, very claustrophobic. We had a little bit of drama because. We had to use metal stools because there wasn't room for our regular chairs. Yeah, we couldn't use our normal. Here, go hit this right here. And that's right there. And then that right there. You get them paint eyes. You're good. So we didn't have, yeah, we sat on these little metal stools for 3 days. But there wasn't a lot of standing Friday. It was pretty busy Saturday. 25 hours each day. And it was a long time. For Garrett, it felt like 25 hours a day. It was pretty busy on Friday. Saturday, it was crazy busy. And then Sunday, it was busy for a little spurt in the middle of the day. And then it just kind of tapered off throughout the day until 5 o'clock. But we met our goal. So that was great. And then in the top tier, patron Facebook group, that's so cute. Thanks. We had some questions about, what was I going? I'm sorry, I got distracted. You got distracted with the cuteness. I did, I think I did. So yeah, yes, like that. Or from the inside, that was the way I would do it. Yes, there you go. Give me the tips. Yeah, just helping you. So what was I going to say? Something that up to your patrons? Are you going to tell them something? Oh, what were our best sellers? That's what they're going to say yet. Jason asked what were the best sellers. So I pulled a little report. And I put a little list in there. If you're a top tier, what sold the most for us? And I put them kind of in order from. So that's cool.  But the ones that we sold multiples of, I went ahead and made sure I put up there. Oh, so many people. Tammy from Tennessee. Oh, Tammy from Tennessee, I like it. I like the. Andrew from Orlando. Another one. Jennifer says, y'all are keeping me company while I work on stocking tags today. Yeah, well, we're glad to be here for you. Joan from Reno. Christine's from St. Petersburg Tropical Storm coming through the rain. Hope it's just a light storm. Yeah, hope it's not too bad. Not too much flooding. Sherry Defton from Ontario, Canada. Sherry, my Canadian peeps. Wax on the snow. Did the roof hold up with all the snow? I was touching go, touching go for a while. Very funny. Oh, well, speaking of that, Hermes is hi, Kim F. Garrett. I think it meant Kim and Garrett. I was like, wow. Get out of gate, bang, bang. What was that? Oh, so speaking, did it hold?  Oh, go ahead. How many people saw our social media? So the glue, we use a little store bond. Up and over. Just a dab here in the year to hold that. Which one is this? Highless, they're both cheerful. Oh, sweet. Yeah, yeah. To hold a little dab of glue to hold that snow onto that metal roof. And then, oh, look at this. So here's our little snowman. Yeah, the same tape.  You want to see it? And I'll save some weight. You said the elf was a little heavy. Yeah, the two layers of the elf was very heavy. So we cut the inside of this out. Which is what, the inside of this? Yeah. Yeah, why do you even cut that? So that you'll have a nice even frame. The glue around, on around. I guess I didn't need it. It's an extra cut time in there. It's a little scar.   Extra cut time. And then let it snow is almost all one word. So that makes that easier. An eye, I guess you couldn't attack the eye. I couldn't. I was thinking about going back and attaching it. So anyway, as we were, let me tell you about our booth drama. So when we were setting it up, we put the glue and used that to keep the snow on. But one of our older daughters, Isabel, went to hand him the glue and take the little white cap off of it. But what she did was end up breaking the whole tip off of it. And so it just had a hole in the top. And Garrett was able to do what he, that's, what's happening, that thing is swimming. It's not spinning. That's probably the roller. Yeah, this one looks pretty clean. Oh, I was gonna pull it down a bit. If the handles get too much glue on the tops here, if there's too much glue on this part of the handle, it's hard to get the little rollers on and off. And then they don't want to roll.  Super easy to scrape it off. But anyway, so he broke the glue. We put the, he put the glue, she put the glue back down on the little checkout counter. And that was great. But then Garrett was like, ooh, that's gonna get broken.  So I'm gonna hide it up underneath on the top shelf. So nobody knocks it over. That's right. Nobody knocked it over that day. That day. So we left. We came back the next day. I'm organizing the booth in the morning, making sure I know where everything is. And then I didn't know that that little bottle was open in the back corner. Oh, nice. What? It'll be perfect. You tell the story. Can't get you a plate here. Wipes it up. I got a plate. No, it's too much. You're wasting the banana. I was fine until you moved it. Well, I was rolling it. Saboteur. There. So, sorry, you guys. I'm so sorry. So it's open. It's underneath. It's on the shelf. I go to reach in and I'm cleaning some stuff up. Well, I knocked it over, except I didn't know I knocked it over. I didn't even know it was in there. And it proceeds to pour over the top shelf, drip down to the second shelf where the money box is. Luckily it was not dripping into the money box. It was on the backside of the lid of the money box. Then it dripped down onto that shelf, then down onto the floor. So it took me an hour or two before I even, I kept smelling glue, smelling glue. And then I finally figured out what had happened. And then- It was right about the time she got the munchies. She figured it out. I was told him I was like, I am clearly losing brain cells here because it was so strong. By the time I knew what had happened, it was like completely consuming the booth. So I set it up and then I couldn't really wipe it down. I just thought, well, it'll dry, this stuff to dry so fast. But you know what? It didn't dry that fast. What I found was when I finally put a little postcard over some of that glue, it needed something to bond to, I think. Because as soon as I did that, the smell started to go away. I just think it wasn't, it just hung around a lot longer. That smell hung around when I didn't have anything on it. As soon as I put that little postcard on it, it seemed to dry up and I could breathe again. It was so strong. So that was my super long snow story. Snow story. Yeah, snow story. No, it was not over. When we were taking the roof off, it kept getting stuck in the drill. Spinning snow around. Yeah, he kept trying to take the roof, unscrew the roof pieces from the legs and it just kept getting wound up in that drill. But we got out of there quick. It was a pretty quick breakdown. It went very smoothly. Been a minute, I can't. Let it go to sleep. Let's see if it could spill down. So. Kathy from South Carolina. Melissa said, I'm so excited about the leg lamp. Up, Tom and Leanne. How you doing, guys? It's Tom and Leanne. Watching and painting. Brian says, need you a roller scraper? Yes, you need a, yes. Might be a little easier. An old credit card works great. Ooh, that's good. Mm-hmm. He said now. Hey, but the fishnet came out, okay? Ooh, that's a tight fishnet. Yeah. All that up so they could see. Oh, I was trying to get the last one. Oh, that's a little piece of that. There's a pencil right there. A penchant. Or you could use, oh, here. Oh, no. I thought it was a poker tool, but it's not. Yeah, it's not pretty good. John says hi from Chicago, Virginia. I'm just from Facebook and said hi. Joey says, my husband would love the lead lamp for his family movie. Thanks, Brian. Brian says he loves watching us. I hope you liked the big long-winded story I just gave. We had like 10 breaks in between. Like a razor blade burger? Yes. I gotta scrape it on out. Scrub it on out. It's gonna save it. Put that over there.  You can't see us at all. Oh, yeah. We're back. Down in the corner. Do you all have a list of colors that you use in all of your projects? We, for each project, no. Because the idea is that you can paint them how you like. But I can. I do have it for some of them, those that I do workshops with. I do have them. And if you mean a full wall of colors, then yes, we put that in our Patreon group. And it's listed in there. Just search for Sherwin Williams. Jason says, I think we're gonna add these to our list for the show. I'll give you feedback on our sales, too. Oh, okay, great, yeah. So I'm going to add these as well. Because, oh, that's one of the reasons why, I don't get asked about the let it snow, but let it snow is happening. Because so many people with this snowman asked me for a snowman. And you know what else? Yeah, look at that. Look at that, that's great. Yeah, you can see it. It's a little thin, but it works. It'll work, that'll do pig, though. Yeah, hold it up like that. Look at that, that's so great, you're good. Nice job. Oh, thanks, babe. So, so many people asked me for a snowman. And so many people asked, well, do you know our NOEL, the stacked NOEL, the N-O-E-L that we did, kind of like the home? Like two lives ago. Well, probably a little longer than that. I have it over there that I can show you guys, but everyone thought, so it says N-O and an E-L at the bottom. Every time they saw it, they thought the E-L was start of the word elf. And they were like, oh, is this an elf one? No elf. And I was like, no elf, yeah. We hate elves. And I was like, no, it's not an elf one, even though. And then I finally realized why they kept saying it. I thought it was because of the font. And then I realized, oh, no, it's the E and the L and the font kind of combined. It does look like it might be the start of the word elf, but it is not. And so now I'm thinking we need to have an elf one. Well, an elf one that says, that has that E and the L. Give out elves. We'll shoot on site. Yeah, I don't want to say no elf. No elf. No. But then every time I look up, like what others have done with elves, I can't find a really good one. I mean, then I started thinking, well, do we make it look like Buddy the elf? And I would like to do that, but I haven't found anything, no real good inspiration. Other than, a lot of them said, what is it? Sing, sing loud and clear to hear for Christmas cheer or something along what everybody says there. I did see that and I thought I could do something with that. That's my other one. So two things could really came out of that one is I needed a snowman. I didn't have anything with a snowman on it. And I needed, and I would love to take that elf one or the no elf one and make it an elf. I think we do need one that says, why? Do you want to hear some feedback on your leg here? Yeah. When I first saw the leg, I thought, uh-oh, Garrett scorched the leg and he is in so much trouble. Nope, it's his fishnets or her fishnets. It looks okay.  See Karen, she have to catch the replay. I'm wanting to get into making face in the hole boards or other terms, face booth boards. Whatever they call it. I don't know, what's a face booth board? Somebody tell me what that is. Oh, face in the hole boards.  So you think that's what that is? Yeah, I don't think it is. What else would it be? Face in the hole. Maybe.  Lois does the leg came out awesome, great job Garrett. You must be a leg man, great attention to detail. Yeah, it took me a really long time. I had a great model though. I'm so glad my mirror alignment is on point for those fishnet stockings, yes. Yeah, it's going to be. And then yes, buddy the elf, buddy the elf. Bye buddy, hope you find it down. What's up? The yellow seems thin. Well, not with the way you're putting it on. Well, that's what I'm saying, it seems thin. I mean, I'm lopping it on like. Still. What do we always say? When in doubt, go out more on. No, no, that's not it. Something similar to that. It's like real close, right? Jason said, just so you all know, Melissa that responds on Facebook is my wife. She's scared to join the monthly calls. I know somebody else said something about being scared to join the calls. Don't be scared. I thought she was your stalker. We are like, who's this lady? He's a fun group and Jason doesn't mind talking. Yeah, you can jump in there. I think most people do. They're pretty good about speaking up and joining in. Everybody's nice. We have very few bullies that join the call. Leanne says, how concerned are we about the paint going over the edge when you put it on? Barry, I don't want it to go over the edge. And if I do get, if it does go over the edge, we clean up the edge with a Sharpie paint pen. Oh, there you go. Wow. Sharpie paint pen right here. I think it's trying to focus in on that a little bit. You can get those on Amazon. Here he says, so five shoot your eye out. I added acrylic lenses, engraved with sundial, and 50 cent compass on the gun stock. Wow, nice. I thought about engraving that stuff. I don't know. I painted the lenses with silver and then masked them off and then engraved and cut the lenses out separately. They look pretty cool. Pretty cool, but do you say so myself? Oh, is that black? Yeah. Let me get some of that while you get it out. There you go. Thanks. I'm going to do these separately. Oh yeah, now with the black on it. It really looks good.  It's going to go to the side. Oh, you're getting crazy, huh? Well, you're lucky because I changed the file. No, I'm asking. Because this would go here. I don't know. It goes up here. Oh, it goes like that. There's only one layer. So it stands up. That was because this one was meant to be merged with this layer to give the carrot support. I did go back and do it after I sent it to Tanner. I noticed that I was like, ooh. So I did go back and do it.  I can just leave them like this or something. Yeah, you can leave them like that. There is a flat spot on them. OK. And I didn't score the face at all, so you can face them how you want, unless you did want to score marks. OK. But I thought maybe you might want to get creative. Yeah. Maybe he lost an eye in a street fight. Oh. I don't know. Poor guy. I've seen Frosty. He was shady. So we only have a few handles. Do you only have? Yeah, I only have two. You can have this one back. I'm done. OK. You need to do your fringe in black? No. Do you have a fringe layer? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I already did the fringe there. I did it. I was thinking, I don't know what to make this stuff. White, I guess. All right. I'm going to do the base of his scarf here in Krabby Apple. And then I'll do the top part and bright red. Give it the little two-tones. Luke. What else do you? Can I help? No. Oh, it's Cluner. Harry is Cluner. He's on his phone. Cool. We'll take this. OK. I guess I need white. OK, boy. Steve said he was nervous at first to get on the call, but everyone was nice. Yeah. OK. Lori says what she missed. She's late. Lori, we're doing the snowman. We'll let it snow. Hold up. Put it over here. Let's snow snowman. And Garrett, he's got the good one today. Doing the leg lab. Doing leggy. Hold on. I tried to make it look like a 1940s ad. So I did a little 1940s ad research. I'm going to pick the one that looked like popcorn that I like. And I just kind of made it look like the popcorn ad or replaced it all with the whole fragile age stuff. And oh yeah, white is for me next to orange, where it has snow me a nose, and then a little brown, which I think is maybe in the other room. It's going to be messy. Would that be the same? That would be the same. He said, buddy, I don't know. Lois said, Helen LOL, but I don't see what she said. Thank you for finding it. Chantal says, hello, hello. Hello, Chantal. How's it going? You can tell this is the first time Garrett's done this. He's really trying to figure out, where's your tape? You want me to put you some tape down?  Want to keep consistent with our techniques. Grab your roll just in case if I need to grab the brown. OK, yeah. I think I am going to tape. I'm definitely going to need to tape it when I get the letters. I thought these were big enough, where I wouldn't have to tape them. Stick into the roller. Have a more wet roller. I'm just thinking and I'm feeling disappointed, because I'm going to have to put multiple of them. He's feeling different than we did. I am. It wouldn't be bad if I could just paint it. Just like if I could click on it and make it white. Like you do when you design it and keep moving? Yeah. The painting is slowing me down in this whole thing. Sweaty. That snowman piece looks like the slime ghost on the Ghostbusters. Oh my gosh, he sure does with his arms. Look at that, that's so funny. Yeah, should I do him in green? Should I do him in lime green? Yeah, I'm sorry, I've got to go get the, oh I can't, we can't both leave. I've got to get the brown, the brown roller. Courtney's in there. I looked up and I was like, oh wait, we're both going to walk away. Is this stained or a brown roller? That is stained, for sure. How do I get on a roller? I don't know, is that what's graced in? Probably. I don't know, I guess it's an option. I hadn't tried that before. Anybody done any staining with these foam rollers? I guess you could. This is brown paint and it's all stained. I don't really know what that is. No wait, where are you going with those? No. No, we don't snack on our lives.  I'm still using it now. I could have been snacking, but now I'm painting. Can I help you set up? No, you've taken over my paint. Oh, this was your tape? Did I take over your tape? No, no, no, no, no, it was for you. And it's for you. Somebody said this looks like that green. Look in the, look in the- Oh, slimer? Yeah, did you hear it? Now look at it, look at it up there in the monitor. Can you see him? Because he looks exactly like that. I'll be doing a ghost picture as one next year then. Yeah. This is my base for slimer. Slimer, no sliming. That's swiping. Hey, Chris. Hey, hangers, just got here. Happy Test Cut Tuesday. Happy Test Cut Tuesday. It feels like, what was the name? Say no more, no more. What was that? Empire Records. Oh. That came Rex. Yeah, Rex Manning Day. Rex Manning Day. Yeah, every Tuesday is like Rex Manning Day. Actually, every Tuesday is like, okay, what are we doing for the live? I don't know. What designs are close? Because, you know, there's always so many that are in progress. Even more. Everyone's saying hi to Chris now. Little. What is this? How are they friends? Hey, do you like the white? I think I'm done with it for now. I would like the white. You need a little help here. I'll be able to help you soon. Do you like, you might be struggling a little. Nah, I'm good. It's just, the painting takes so long. It's my third coat of paint. Even something else. So I'll tell you, you know, right now we're still using the Sherwin-Williams paint. I told you guys we're working on our own paint label, which we got some tests in and we're using those colors to see if we like them. This bright yellow is one of them because this is one of those ones you need multiple coats with. But if you are using the Sherwin-Williams paints in the interim, or you try our paints, we found that the duration, so the highest end Sherwin-Williams paint in the duration in white is a great, it has great coverage, but it is very expensive. So I can't decide whether it's worth it or not. So I just wondered if any of you guys have trouble with getting a good coat. Like the white takes three or four coats sometimes and that slows the process way down. Yeah, we'll go up a little bit. Yeah, I'll never guarantee it, because you know we can't stop them afterwards. What? They're so awesome. They're a little bit messy. I feel like my time... Well, I think it's time to clean up your edges before you glue them together, but we don't always have that kind of time. So we put it together and kind of show you what it looks like. You know what I need to do about it. I'm more worried about, does it all fit together and look cool? So I just try to muscle through the painting. Muscle through. Yep, muscle through. How are the three painting? Gotta put in the time, Kim. No shortcuts. No shortcuts here. Here's another trick that I use. Sometimes when you're painting, your backer gets a little, if you've got an older roller, starts to feel a little chunky. You can feel like... Don't y'all feel a little chunkier when you get older? Little bits in the paint. And I'll come through and hit it with a little sanding block and knock all that off and make it nice and smooth. You don't see one handy. A sanding one? Here, just toss it. It's perfect, like literally landed right on there. This one's got a little blue on it. So that's between coats. And that didn't really take off anything. It did just smooth it out nice and smooth for me. Nice and smooth. Nice and smooth. Like my leg, though. All right, 439, if you wanted a time check. Okay, I'm almost ready. I'm not, I'm not ready. Do the weight. I'm gonna try to keep it so that only my backer's open. Yeah, I don't have a... I feel like I'm in a ramped meeting space. This is like... Come on, move over there.  Painting in a foam booth. It would be like painting in our craft space, because that's the campus. Yeah, exactly. There we go. There's two coats of blue on there. Looks like I gotta touch up on the black, because I splattered blue on it. Oh, I might use that blue. What do you think? I'm gonna use... I gotta do this with lettering on these letters. Oh, man. I guess put all these letters on there. Any plans for BuddyDL? That's funny, Shelley. We were just talking about that. Everybody kept thinking my no-else sign was the beginning of the word elf. They could see the EL, they ignored... Because of the bow, they ignored the N-O. So I do think we wanna do some sort of BuddyDL sign. I tried to work on that yesterday, but I couldn't come up with a good idea. Yeah, that's hard to do. Well, because you can't make... You know, I can't make his face. So do I just use the words? And then I've seen the outline of the hair kinda been done, so I didn't wanna do that. Yeah, been done. Been done. ABD. Thanks, Lois. Yeah, if you guys are joining us, don't forget to hit that like button. And if it's your first time, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. You do this every Tuesday. Every Tuesday, energy's a little low today. Sorry, it's not always as low. My stomach hurts. Yeah, here it's not feeling great. I had a salad today. Yeah, I was like, want me to bring you a salad? And then it didn't really work out so well. So I think I'm allergic to lettuce. That is a vegetable. Yeah, that's what I said. I'm not even rejecting the vegetable. That's what I said too, and I said, are you rejecting the veggies? Oh, yeah, good question, Helen. I mean, Lois, sorry. I saw Helen's comment right above yours. Guess what Lois asked? How did shitters fool you? Oh, that's a good question. I was gonna say, you complain about my painting, but it was my sign that went for the most amount of money this weekend. I mean, people were clamoring for my artwork. Yes, so we didn't bring it on Friday. We forgot and left it here, and I was like, no big deal. We'll just bring it tomorrow. Tomorrow's the busiest day anyway. So we did, Garrett brought it when he came back, dropped us off, and then came back a few hours later. So probably around 11 or 12? Maybe it was 12 or one. Maybe it was close until early afternoon. And so he brings it back, and we hang it up in the back of the booth. As I'm hanging it. Yes, somebody was like, oh, how much is that?  Yeah, I was looking for somewhere to dab it off. Here you go, right here. Great, thanks. She said, how much is that? And I said, oh, that's not for sale. That's just for fun, you know? I just wanted to draw some attention and make conversation. And she was like, oh, okay, well, I saw it from back there. I just thought that would be really cool for my camper. And then I was like, oh, yeah, well. Oh, yeah, for the camper. Uh-huh, I was like, oh, for the camper. And then the next lady was inching around her because the booth was full at this point. And she's like, ooh, how much is that one? I really like to have that one. Can you ask them how much that is? And the guy between the girl that just asked and the girl in the back, there's a guy between them said, it's not for sale. So he replies for us. And she was like, oh. And then he's back there. As soon as they leave the booth. So, yeah, well, just the one. The other lady's still working her way out of there, right? Yeah, she wasn't even all the way gone. He says, would you, how about double? Would you consider taking double? Because she said, what would it cost? And I was timid and hawing right then. I was like, mm, I don't know. In my head, I was thinking $100. Yeah, I was thinking that. You know, $100 and then you can have it because I don't really want to get rid of it. And he goes, how about double? That's one 10, which take one 10 for it. And I looked at him and I said, yes, we will. So we brought it and it was only there. For a minute or two? Yeah. A commercial break? 10 minutes, maybe.  Yeah, I never. Maybe five minutes, maybe. My hand came off of it. I saw the $100 and my hand went back onto it. So if you are wondering if you should make that sign, I think that you should. But what was neat about it, and we're gonna do this again at the next one, is we only brought one. And he said, Garrett said, I'm gonna make two, like one for Friday and one for Saturday, and then just bring them each day. Oh yeah, because the guy was, the guy, as he was checking out, he kept saying, one of a kind. Oh yeah. One of a kind. Is it one of a kind? Yes, he did. And when the lady was in the back, somebody in the back, I heard them say, oh, I was gonna ask how much of, do they have any, I hope they have another one or something like that. Anyway, he said, they don't. And I just paid double for this one. And he walked out. He was very proud of his. It's his favorite movie, he said. His super high end purchase. What color blue are you using? Oh, this is a. Dynamic blue. Dynamic blue. Here, you wanna go picture in picture so they can kind of see you again. Oh yeah, yeah. There you go. It's hard to see on the tape though. Anisa Key is watching from Colorado. And so is Darlene. All right. I need like. I didn't see that. Lunar, I didn't see your question. I must have missed it. I'm just ignoring you. And to know I totally missed it. Back on my PC, did you answer my question on using eighth inch MDF for second layers of Eddie's RV? Would that be too thin? I don't think so. I think that would work. Yeah, I think that would be good. Lois said, that's great. You could have done a silent bidder situation. Those two great at craft shows. Those two great at craft shows. Yeah, maybe. Maybe that would have been kind of fun. This is a. Yeah. Silent bid. Put your number down here. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you. It's really, really cool looking. It looks great. And I don't feel that for everybody. Didn't win. Why? That's how silent auctions work. Right. But everybody bid on it. Cause they wanted it. It looks like one of a kind. And then I don't know. I feel that. All right. I need to go grab that little bit of pink over there. And then I could put mine together. I'm just about ready. I think I got to do. I got to paint the leg of color. Lois, I think I'm about ready to. Put it together. I think everything's painted. Yeah. I have to do the leg. And then I think I'm ready. I'm ready. Man, making this leg lamp.  And I was like, wow. This is pretty booty-licious. My pink is about dead. I think. You can hand me that. Wait, no, I'm taking it. No, it's for the make-up. It's just. Shhh. See, on paper plates. I think I'm about ready. I'm just about ready. I'll just use a part of Garrett's here. Yeah. I'll give it a little glow. Well, speaking of that little glow, Helen just asked, could you do a little tutorial on how you did all that shading? Oh, and what? On the RV. Oh yeah, I can do that. A little rest up. Yeah. Yep. Do you remember what colors you used? I know you said it at the end of the live. Yeah. But really get in there and show them close because you gotta do it anyway. So if you were gonna make another one, you could really just like. Yeah, I'm supposed to make one tomorrow. So I'll be tomorrow. I'm supposed to make two tomorrow. I got everything. Yellow like it's glowing lamp. Oh, great job. Hold it up close. Can you see? Can you see how he had the darker yellow and then filled it in with a little lighter yellow to give it that glow? Ooh. Ryan said he's taking extra time with that leg. Yeah. Yeah. Me and this leg go way back. Oh, someone said using, mentioned using cinnamon or coffee grounds for the rest. But then would I have to seal it after I use those? That they come in and seal them? Yeah.  I could try that. It's pretty easy to make the fake rest at night. A little bit of spa. Oh, is it aqua? What is it aqua duck? Little bit of knockout orange. First I went in with the knockout orange. Little bit of knockout orange on a pretty dry sponge. And then I went back in over top of it with an even drier sponge of the aqua duck. And then I went back in with the original color of the gray. Somebody said do you have a leg up on me today? Nah, she's just pulling my leg now. I can see. Blin-blam. I love it when a plan comes together. I almost missed my chair. Yeah. It's slippery. I don't have a leg to stand on. I don't even have a leg to stand on. All right, I think I'm about ready to assemble. Carlos says, question about the Merry Christmas Santa hat sweater file. I'm having trouble with the small squares from the snowflakes. Uh-huh. They cut into individual squares. I tried downloading the file several times and no luck. Is there something I'm supposed to be changing prior to cutting? No, it should be cut ready. No, they should cut out, I think. Oh, the little squares they cut out. Yeah, all the little squares. Can you grab that one right there and I could show them? Yeah. So we have it on the wall over here. He's gonna hold it over here. Oh, I'm gonna hold it over here. See the little squares? We keep them cut out. Is that what you mean? Red glitter, the high heels. There's no place like home. That's a different movie, right? What was I going to get? I was going to get some. Oh, I'm sorry, I totally distracted you. I need a black sharpie thing. Is that a black sharpie thing? Yeah, it sure is. You need my leg lamps and edges. I'm gonna take my time. I'm gonna follow the curve of her leg here. I didn't do too bad. On the edges on this one, pretty good. Looks good. I wanna see it put together. Man, I looked at some of those when I was making this one. I just went out there to see other leg lamp things. Kind of like the Grimchant.  Then I saw some stinkers on there, too. It's stinkers. I saw some little chunky thighs. Yeah. They tell no lies. Is it gluten? You can tell. Yeah, it's gluten. It's quite. Oh, you guys can't see what I'm doing. The giant brown. I'm doing all my stuff. There we go. I didn't have these back. Scarified. It's just scarified. Now, I see that the picture shows two layer buttons. Yeah. Two, two layer buttons. Uh-huh. Oh, I think I have two layers. That's on. I have these round holes here, but I think those were for his cheeks. No. Are these his cheeks? Yeah, those are his cheeks. Oh, I painted it backwards. All right, don't do what I did. These little pieces, I don't even see them best, these round pieces are the base for these round pieces of the buttons. So, I don't know, I think, gotta go back and paint these. Hey, I'm looking at it. I'm gonna steal your glue for a minute. Momentarily. Oh, you're good. Nope, I thought you needed to paint the backer. I would have just left the backer there as yellow and then laid this on top, like and not fill the pieces. So, you can really see the lines of the lap. She, see what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. I'm gonna try it on the next one. Do you have any designs with figure skates? My sister clicks figure skates. Helen Seconds figure skates. I actually started one, like a year ago. I found it last night, last thing. Yeah, I found the Nitton's and the figure skate one. I might need to use a little paint. Whoa, bless you. The kids are home today because they were voting. So they're working today. By Helen, I mean they're here working. I got to come back to painting a little dab and that's the little soft one here. And where did my sponge get in? I threw everything to the side. I think I was done. My fingers are already sticky. They're sticky as well. That's it. My phone won't recognize me. Every time I put my thumb on the phone, I'm gonna be like, new phone who dis? Cause it doesn't recognize my face ever. Every time it does the old who you. It's me open up. What's the magic word? What's the width of the burlap on your bows? I think it's six and a half inches. Oh, you mean the width, not the toe. So it's like six and a half by nine. You ready to see this glue trick? I put glue on the plate. You don't miss it. Here it's getting comfy with that leg. We have to start calling him Ralphie. Yeah, it's a favorite part of the sign for sure. Yes, I kept looking at the picture and it looks different. Thank you. I'll pull the two cuts out of the trash, LOL. Our all pieces cut out a quarter eighth inch. We're using quarter inch. And he's using this one. Helen says, mittens and figure skates. I've already bought the ripping for it. I was being ambitious. Oh, you knew it was coming. Who's got the trucker horn? I don't know if you guys could... Oh, Sarah cut it out. The other one, the other one cut it out. What's your name? Who are you? Are you mine? Get to the table. We're gonna try this again. Hey, there's my leg. What do you think? It's pretty tight already, huh? What? What are you looking at? That one part looks like she's got a snag. She's got a run in her hose. Why? See, I broke the back piece when I was trying to get out this little square. Oh, you guys gotta be careful. Too rough, but they're a little hot. When they're hot. They mean hot. They just need a second coat. That's what we forgot about. No, it looks okay. Sweet thing, second coat. You're okay. All right. Good to me. All right, then I'm gonna start putting mine together. All right, make it happen. What's happening? Can you have me that pink sponge over there so I don't waste one? Thanks. Oh, no. No, I painted my cheeks black. I'm gonna have to fix them real quick. I really got confused. You might have to get no cheeks right now. How are you gonna paint those pink ones real black? Flip them over. They should be identical. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Cause I just took one and then did reflect and put it on either side. Okay, good idea. It's all gonna come together very fast now. Well, until it hit a little tiny. All right, he was right. I just flipped him over and slapped the little pink on there. Looks good. I think I can put my thumb in a little more. Are we sharing glue? We are. Couples that share glue together, fight over the glue. Yeah. I mean, that's, I thought I was gonna say stay together. Sliding in at the tail end. Hey, Jerry, thanks for joining us. Does the burlap backer have a wire? No wire. No wire, Bob. Oh, man. I think I threw away a piece that I needed. Big Rick says, Garrett, my man, man. What's up, Big Rick? My man, man. What's up? Pull this off in one drop. Do, do, do, do, do. Stay. That's okay. I needed two A's and I think I threw one away. I'll keep you there for now. What do you mean? Where's the other A? I don't know. I don't know what happened to it. Oh!  Nope, we have company, can you guys hear that? Exciting sounds for it. Yeah, I think I'm missing an A. Keep going, we'll get the, we get the gist, it's literally about to grab it. Got it. Do you guys have another glue bottle over there so they could toss me? You have one? Oh, well, yeah, she was, that's okay. I can go grab one from the other room. Cancel it, me down. Not even with a little sabotage. Oh, okay. I thought I messed up on the words now. Oh, these little skinny- Oh, I do have the A. Sorry, what do you think about those things? Just gonna say I use dots. Well, dots. Oh, wait a minute. It's major award. Kim just saw that movie for the first time last year and today she was trying to tell me he doesn't remember him saying it's a major award. Well, what I said was, that's not the part people remember. It's the part I remember. That, and what did he say? It was electric sex glowing in the window. That's what it should have said. No. Electric sex glowing in the window. That was the part that I thought was hilarious. All right, my tip to you guys, if you're putting the snowman together, put, let it snow on first and then come back and add the snowman. Don't do it the way I did it. I'm gonna choke myself with this thing. Wow, he is really drinking loudly. He's thirsty. It's only thirsty during the live. I'm gonna try and take you all out at one time. That's not gonna work. But I was able to leave a little glue dot spot so I can put it in. Leave a little glue for you. I'm gonna need you to score this. This is not it. You don't wanna wing it? You don't want people to make their own face? No. I mean, not for me. You guys can vote on that one. Cold teeth are gonna be a mess.  I don't know what I'm saying. I think I have one, oh man. Just say I think I have one piece left of glue. And I am done. Yep. You wanna come over here and join the party? Like, oh, you know I do. You wanna come over here and answer questions for me since I'm gluing? Love how the snowman goes together. Yeah, I mean, pretty good. Don't you get the hang of it? Like I said, I put the words on first. That seemed to be better. And I feel like I need a place for the teeth. Any teeth, what? What is it? What is that? It's a, it's a cold smile. Like if a snowman had teeth, I would run. That's, that's how you can, that's it.  What are you supposed to be then? It's like a charcoal smile. It's a charcoal mount. Just a little smile. You wouldn't know that down here in Virginia. Have you ever built a snowman down here? Of course I have. We've built? Yeah, some court. We've got two of them before. We know what it looks like once. We know what it looks like for two days at a time. I think I've set it in some great care. I think that was, I know what you, I know that you, that we built that egg. I think it was like 2000, wasn't it? I don't know about these eyes. I think they're too small. They're gonna break right off. You may have a different one. He's supposed to be looking upward. Beager. Wow, man. I don't think I've paying attention and I lost the bottom of my exclamation point and my, my eye. Looky mistake. Mistake. Beager award. All right, I think I'm done with mine. Let's go blue mine. All that is on, I'm gonna have done. He's cute.  Oh, and I lost my apostrophe. Man, that was just the ramshambles getting this thing out again. The unsecured cardinal wing drives me nuts. I know, Jason. I know exactly what you're talking about. We all do in this room. The top wing of the cardinal in the believe in the magic of Christmas. Won't you say now? Exactly. And. What's wrong with it? Yeah, what's wrong with it? Jason's, Helen says the bottom of the wing lined it up with the bottom of the cardinal. There's a little notch it lines up with. Yeah. Yeah. Who understood his eyes look fine? Molly did do that. Let me see. What is it? Yeah, this notch, that's where the cardinal wing perfectly makes fun of it. Yeah, come and show them one too. We happen to be painting one and making kind of a mess of it. Hold it up.  This notch right here and this wing right here, they'll line up, you can slide that over and it'll line up perfectly, perfectly right here. But isn't there, what's behind that dark wing? Nothing. And look underneath. Dark wing, duck. Other way, go other way, other way, right there. Right there. What is that? There is also, you could, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. That's where I'm lining up. That's where I'm lining up. Yeah. You see that? That should be, I think maybe it should be red so that the wing sits over it. You have that little white bit right there in between these two. This red lines up with that white bit. Sorry about that. Yeah. Marianne has an idea for Buddy to, what if you do his legs and shoes as the trunk bottom and use, I like smiling in the shape of a triangle tree and his hat as a tree topper. Let me see. And it's the trunk bottom. Yeah, I get it. That could work. And I like smiling in the shape of a triangle tree. I like the bell tower. And his hat as a tree topper. Oh, okay. Yeah, I like the. Yeah, uh-huh. Like the, what is it? My Christmas collars or something? Santa collars. I paint under the not-to-red or sharpie in black. Yes, that's what I would do too. Yes. Santa Tay is here. Hi, Tay, if you're here. Tay. OCD kicks in real quick. It sure does. All right, Garrett. Almost. Get in there. Can you kind of see? I'm at the top. And then I lost all of my apostrophe, my dot. All right, for purposes of today's video, I think you're okay. Let me turn this so that you can see it. Look at that guy. Isn't he cute? Whoa, look at this. So these are two new door rounds that we're doing. This is what we started with. It's amazing, right? And then we popped it out and made it look like. There we go. We can't see it. I don't have enough space. And then Garrett is just about there. You want me to jump in and help you? No, I already got them glued. And I think the double hang-ins might, this calls melee. What do you guys think? I'm gonna really want some feedback on this. I was like, I don't know. It's way different than anything I've seen, any of the other designs I've seen. But like Garrett said, he knew it was supposed to be set in the 40s. And this kind of is a 40s. Yeah. Add, throwback, add. Yeah, I took it from a 40s ad for popcorn. In the 1940s ad for popcorn, and I just put the fragility stage. Helen, that's exactly what I thought. And he was not having it. Helen said, I'm shocked you didn't make the snowman all off. All good things, all good things. All good things. Another Kim Sabotage attempt. What, when I tried to help him with his letters? Oh yeah, he says every week that I'm trying to Sabotage his project. Dude, it's jealousy. Oh good, you're getting some good feedback on it. Are you gonna make this one? What do you think? It's, it's, she's thick. He's got, he's got multiple layers. We might have to set this one in here. I think that might be. This might be a hundred dollar one right here. This is a lot of layers. We might be able to inset some of that. I guess though, yeah. I was just trying to make sure that I didn't have to paint anything. What would that will do you? For now, you can hold it up. You're never gonna be dry. Lunar says I already sold a lamp one. You need to put that on Patreon as a Patreon SVG right now. There you go. Like now. So straight, yeah. There you go. Go back to your overhead so you can really see it. It's a little bit closer to you. Yeah, no. No. Here. All right, you do it. Yeah. You do it. Like that, so you can really see it. Far away. No, and I want to see it far away. I'm trying to, I might drop it. I'm trying to sabotage him. Yeah. All right, turn it up. This way a little bit. You see the layers. Look at that. Thick leg. It's like, yeah. It's like the size of a real leg. I should put this one on. Tick-tock. Make this one a thirst trap. Feels great when you'll shoot your eye out. Yeah, it seems like that one needs to be quarter inch later. It's not eighth inch. Other way around. It needs to be eighth inch. Yeah, it needs to be eighth inch later. Because it's so thick. I think this would cut out a lot better with eighth inch. Yes, those fishnets. I know. Look at those things. Sometimes, some angles, it's hard to see through there. They're so tight. You might have to make them a little bit bigger. I don't know. Because it's kind of hard to see in there. I think they just need to be eighth inch. Eighth inch. And the colors are popping. Astra says your colors are popping. Thanks. Yeah, I was trying to keep it. Art Deco style. Yes. Art Deco style. Keep it of that theme. I even researched the fonts that they used back then. So this is of period font. Period. Period piece. Yeah. It's fan art period piece. We get some of these out of the way so you can actually see. All right, yep. So now that I know that everything works, I'll put the files up on Patreon and then I'll put them up in the store. What did I say? Patron. Patron. Put them up on there. But the Patron. Wrong. Wrong P. Plunary will go on Patreon. He'll put it up there. Yeah, I'll get it up there like right after this. Yeah, he got it. I wanted to test them before I put them up. Especially this one. Aloha, Michaela. Aloha. I guess that's from Hawaii. Very cool. All right. Oh, what blue color did I use? Oh, I used spa. Oh, wow, yours looks good. It does look good. I'm looking at it now. Yeah. It's got to even look at yours yet.  I was just staring at it, staring at my own. Spa. I don't know if you can see that very well. You might get it closer. There you go. That's the blue I put in the background line. All right. Test pass. Yeah, I think he's cute. Yeah, you need a good job with his mouth. And I don't think he needs bigger eyes. I think those are fine.   Does it look like a little thing? Like that little thing right off of there?  Go on now. Get out of here, lefty. Let's see if you guys can see they're just tiny, tiny little flippers. I think we can make them bigger. I'll make them a little bigger. Then I'll put the files up on the store and I'll give them to the patrons. You know what this needs and I don't have a chance to do it. So when you make it before you put it together, go out and spray this with a little glitter back there for snow in the background. Oh man, you know what? My backer needs glitter. Anything we made with glitter sold first. So if you can add glitter like on the welcome trees that we do that has the buffalo plaid trees, it says welcome in gold and then snowflake cut out at the bottom. Definitely take the gold welcome and put it with gold glitter on it. What else do we add glitter to? The deer head. Yeah, the deer head. Remember during the hurricane sale, somebody was like, oh, I would like that if I had a glitter deer head. I did, I glittered it. We glittered it and every one of those sold right away.  I glittered that one. Yeah, we glittered the background of that one. So add glitter where you can add glitter. I promise to help sell them. Yeah, just draw the tension to it. All right, I think this would be good. I think I would have glued it all together, cleaned up the edges, then glued it to the back of it. That's a good idea, yeah. Yeah, that's how I would do it again. But I don't know, I like it. I like it that poppy. Well, you can save that one for us. It's not that heavy. It's not any heavier than like one of the other. I don't know, probably. I'm gonna make like two more to bring to the show. I have two of the ship shows. Oh, there's the one. Oh, that's great. Patricia said she's gonna get some hangers for me and my grandkids to do over Christmas break. Yeah. Two easy ones for a six and nine year old. Yeah, the let it snow. Well, the other let it snow, the one that just has let it snow, a backer and a couple of snowflakes from the bottom. That's not fun. That one's an easy winter one for after Christmas. I'll come up with an easy Olaf. I want an easy Olaf, that would be great. I will. Awesome, need a bow left for my wife. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. I know I keep saying it, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna. One day. I'm gonna. Oh, not heavy. Let me see. Oh, it's not heavy. Actually, this is not heavy.   Yeah. I'll weigh it. It's a little heavier because the snowman is two layers. So, see that? But wasn't there a cut out, like the body is hollow. Yes, I left the body out. Make it a little lighter. A little lighter. I can make it even more hollow. I know, Astra, Friday Show can just be a bow tutorial. Perfect, because I'm looking for a fast video. Oh yeah, because we are out of time. We don't know what this week's video is and we have so much to do before we have to set up for our craft show. Thursday at noon. Cover everything. Color theory, the dovetailing, what brands you get, what you refuse to use, everything. Okay. In-depth bow tutorial. Done. Done and done. Now it should be easy to edit too. Yeah, all right. Thanks. That was a good suggestion. I don't know what we're gonna do yet. I don't know what we're gonna do yet. All the time. Producer Helen for the same, right? Yeah, totally, was that Helen again? Yeah. Helen, we need to get big enough so that we can just hire you. Yeah. You just come work here. You're gonna have to let the school go and tell them you gotta come work for it. Yeah, sorry. You gotta craft all day. Gotta craft, gotta craft and to do. All right, say bye, Garrett. Bye, everybody. And we will see you on Friday where we'll do it, build it and bow it. It's gonna be a bow tutorial. It's easy. That's an easy one. I don't even have to be involved. Oh, it's gonna make you do the bow. Oh. Okay. I don't enjoy bowing this, but I'll do it. Build it and make it. All right, everybody. We will see you next week where we'll do another test cut Tuesday. And then we'll see you on Friday where we'll be doing a bow tutorial. And we'll be releasing an after show, giving you a little more detail behind our last craft show. Give you guys all the details up on the Patreon page. So, love you guys. We will see you later. Patrons, hangers, you know we love you and we will see you on Friday.


When seeking a romantic partner, what qualities might they possess that you find simply irresistible? Do you value their wit or physical prowess? Could it be their charisma or sense of mystery? Or maybe the secret behind their power over your heart is the answer you believe they represent, an answer to a deep pain that is as alluring as it is fatal. Because in Alain Gerrodi's 2013 erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake, one man is about to test such a theory to the point of personal destruction.  After catching the eye of another man, Michel and his partner, Franck quickly becomes infatuated. But once he witnesses Michel drowning said partner in cold blood, his attraction only increases, to the point where his desire to be with Michel becomes all-consuming, causing him to ignore the peril he finds himself in whilst he begins a physical relationship with the killer. In terms of setting, Stranger by the Lake's world is entirely self-encompassing, with only the water and its immediate surrounding area acting as the sole backdrop of the story. As such, this gives the beautifully photographed location with its lush verdant woods and almost fantastical aura, a gay garden of Eden where time and the outside world seemingly does not exist, a place in which Franck and the other souls explore with a carefree naivety in the film's first act. However, once the chilling murder is committed, the lake itself takes on a far more foreboding presence, with added realism achieved thanks to the production's minimalist sound design, recorded entirely on location with no musical score. This realism is further enhanced thanks to the natural depiction of promiscuous gay sex that takes place, presenting an assortment of male characters in all shapes, sizes and ages, as well as the awkward almost business-like way in which the men browse each other for a potential quick thrill, without any artistic direction that condones or condemns the sometimes dangerous consequences that such behaviour can lead to. A danger that Franck himself refuses to see as his attempts to fervour his sexual relationship with Michelle into something more romantic repeatedly fail, providing for us, albeit fictionally, a sad, cinematic microcosm of one of the modern tragedies afflicting gay men in the world today, a crisis of loneliness, making those of us so inclined to ponder how close we are to the Franck of the story in our own lives and how far our own loneliness will take us to the strangers we wish to meet.


The UK boarding school's week is around the corner. We'd like to find out more about what this means. Please stay with us because we have a conversation on this all-important school's exhibition. And Nigeria Sports Ministry is to spend 1.480 billion on refreshments and others in 2023 according to details of the country's budget for the year. Are these expenses out of place? Please stay with us for a conversation on this. And now the press will bring you in-depth analysis of today's major newspaper headlines. You're welcome to the Breakfast & Plastic. We have got a beautiful Friday morning, a last edition for this week, and we're ready to give you interesting conversations. So please stay with us. Grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee or water if that's what you'd like to take in the morning and relax and have the best of a morning breakfast program on TV. My name is Kofi Bartels. As usual, we start off with a trending segment where we look at stories and conversations that have been trending online and we bring them on television to talk about. Well, the first one here happens to be a press release by the Independent National Electoral Commission. I mean, last night I was scrolling through my timeline and I saw the statement put out by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Don't forget the permanent voter card is prerequisite for every single voter in Nigeria. The exercise called Continuous Voter Registration has been on for some time and it was suspended. There was a deadline, lots of Nigerians, millions of Nigerians rushed to meet that deadline so that they could register to vote in the forthcoming elections in 2023. Now it's been time for the registered voters, those who are newly registered, to collect their permanent voter cards and that's what the Independent National Electoral Commission going by its timetable has set out to do. Well, the exercise started in Ernest and has been on. The commission released a timetable earlier, excuse me, for this exercise and of course it was expected to end on the 22nd of January 2022. Of course the ward level is where the distribution of the cards or the collection of the cards is on now. They had moved from the local government level to the ward level. It was on and was expected to end on January 16 but that has been extended to January 22 according to the Independent National Electoral Commission. The local government collection was on or the card collection of the local government level was on. This suspended it to take the cards to the ward level where it will be closer to the registered voters who could not make it to the INEC local government offices. Well, that was expected to end on the 23rd of January 2022 but it has been extended by the commission for seven more days. All right, for six more days I beg your pardon to the 29th of January. Let me read the excerpts. I can read the whole thing I will of the press release by the Independent National Electoral Commission. This is what it says, extension of timeframe for collection of permanent voters cards nationwide. It says at its regular meeting held today, Thursday 12th January 2023, that was yesterday, the commission deliberated on a number of issues including the ongoing collection of permanent voters cards PVCs nationwide. The commission is encouraged by the turnout of registered voters and the surge in the number of collected PVCs across the country. It says in some of the states as many as 100,000 PVCs were collected in the last five days since the devolution to the ward level started on Friday the 6th of January 2023. The statement continues. The commission is determined to ensure that registered voters have ample opportunity to collect their PVCs ahead of the forthcoming elections. That's for this reason, the timeframe for the collection of PVCs is extended by eight days instead of ending on Sunday 22nd January 2023. It says the collection of PVCs will continue until Sunday the 29th of January 2023. So that's for one more week. It says at the moment the period of collection is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily including Saturdays and Sundays it says as a result of this extension the statement continues. There is a consequential adjustment of the collection by location as follows. As we already said the ward level of course extended by one week from Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd January, Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd January. That's six days, six days. And of course collection at local government levels will resume Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th January. So it was to end on the 22nd of January and it's been extended. At the local government level it was to end the entire exercise because they were meant to go back from the ward to the local government level. Officers of I like to continue distribution was to end on the 22nd of January. Extending it so it's going to continue from the 23rd to the 29th. That is seven more days, all right? Seven more days, that's seven more days. Then we look at the collection at the ward level it was meant to end on Sunday the 15th of January, the 15th of January. So they're going to continue from that. So it's been extended from the 15th to 22nd. All right, so it will continue Monday 16th to 17th Tuesday Wednesday 18th and so until the 22nd of January. Now the statement ends with two more paragraphs. Please permit me to read those two paragraphs. It says meanwhile that the commission is investigating allegations of extortion by officials at some of the collection centers and inducement by someone's crippler's voters to circumvent the processes in order to obtain the PVCs. Those found culpable will face disciplinary action and or prosecution. Don't forget we've had complaints by Nigerians. It's been a subject of discussion and conversation on this program. We're meant to have INAIC spokesman yesterday, the Deputy Director of Information and Voter Education. He didn't show up. Faisal Sukhoi, Faisal Sukhoi, we're listening, we're expecting you. So hopefully we can have him soon. So I think the commission has done well to take at least one paragraph to address the complaints by Nigerians. But it continues. It says similarly, the commission is disturbed by allegations. The commission is disturbed by allegations. We can just see that on our screen one more time. Of discriminatory issuance of PVCs in some locations. It says this is against the law in all bona fide registrants. All bona fide registrants are entitled to their PVCs and to use them to vote on election day in any part of the country where they are registered. It says resident electoral commissioners have, I'm just going to go to the next page, been directed to ensure that no such practices occur nationwide and that immediate disciplinary action or to take rather immediate disciplinary action against violators. This is for the record, the commission has printed all 13,806,441 PVCs for all new, rather valid registrants as well as applicants for transfer or replacement of cards. Nevertheless, it says issuing officers should compile any complaints about none availability of cards and forward them to their immediate supervisors for the attention of resident electoral commissioners who shall compile and forward them for necessary action. So that's that. I think it's good that the commission has noted the complaints by Nigerians, both registered and unregistered.  Looking at taking time to address the issue of extortion, this is real. Anything we're doing in this country, especially when government is involved, somehow corruption will find its way into that thing. I call corruption the big C. Somehow corruption will find its way into that thing.  Governor Iqazou is not doing well. But the thing is, yes, we have the government on one side, but the people are also a problem. And I think the people are the biggest problem because, look at this, they, I think Greg didn't ask any INEC official to collect money. So I sat down and said, hey, today, I have to make money from this thing. This is my almost job from here. And then they collected money to give people what is their right. What is their right? Or someone goes and says, oh, I am number 110 on this queue.  Put me, give me, put me first. It's from the people because they don't like to queue. They don't like to queue. They don't like to queue. I remember very clearly when I wrote my jam. You know, I wrote jam once. And I aced it, very simple. I went to get my results. A jam official in the jam office in the city where I was living at the time said I should give him something. So he shows me my result, you know. And that for me was one of the moments that really, really pained. I felt the pain for the country. I felt the pain for the country. I was determined not to give him a kobo, a kobo. And they were doing it to a lot of... So it's in jam. Okay, let's leave the education sector because I will talk about universities. National ID cards, should we talk about that? National ID cards that are meant to be free.  They are meant to be free, right? National ID cards are meant to be free. People are paying to get national ID cards. It's an open secret. 2000, someone in the studio said to me, 2000, Karama, 2000. National ID cards are meant to be free. You know, and these people will have stood up and said we need to make money from this day. You know, and then they're making money. The president didn't send them. The governor didn't send them. The minister didn't send them. So we need to also realize that we the people, we are the biggest problem this country has. Before the leaders, okay? Before the leaders. Because if the leaders are going around, the people can say no. And you see some people who say, oh yes, yes. You know, so it's unfortunate. Then of course we look at the politicians. You know, the election, the commission also looked at people who are influencing their officials. You know, sometimes IPTII, you know, IPTII, because they go through a lot. There was an official of INEC, if you remember, I think last year, in Aquabomb State, who was taken to court by the commission because he sat down in a computer room, computer office, and was shifting people, you know, moving voters from one polling unit to the other. Maybe a politician paid him. Even if it's a politician who pays, I didn't know part of the people. You know, so we need to realize that there's a lot of work to do. You know, a lot of work to do. You know, I saw a comment on Instagram. What's the name of that Nolulu doctor who married two wives, second wife? You, you literally, yeah.  You put up a comment on that post on Instagram. And this time I wasn't talking about women matter.  Don't allow any politician to give you money.  He said, see, most times it's not a politician who are looking for people to give 5,000 Naira. He said in his experience, the people are the ones who are asking, demanding. Say, give me, give me. Like Wiki said, give me, give me. You know, that's people are asking for these money. So sometimes I PC our politicians, you know. Anyway, Wiki said, give me, give me, give me power. All right, anyway, we have to leave it at that. So we need to, hopefully, I think, can surmount these challenges. I mean, you know, sometimes we read it too much into what happens. So I think they're trying to scuttle the elections, blah, blah, blah. You know, we read, sometimes, read too much into Southeast Asia. If there are irregularities in the names, in some things are happening, then we realize that it's not a policy of anything as a commission. It could be someone, someone trying to do something, but it's not a policy of anything as a commission from Abuja to disenfranchise anyone. Okay, so let's be careful so that we are not deceived. I think we'll move on from that. Let's look at another one. This one also was a surprise. It got a lot of tongues wagging indeed, you know. But yeah, it got a lot of tongues wagging. It got people talking because this one has been someone close to the hearts of a lot of people, especially as the 2023 elections are concerned. I'm talking about the immediate past director general of Labour Party's presidential campaign council, former aid to former president, two former presidents, PDP's Roushagumon Basinjo, who taught his card, PDP, at one time, and PDP's Godok Jonathan as well. It was an aid to both of them. It was a yard or a Basinjo, and a check. But anyway, Doyo Kupa is his name, and he now has been reformed. His own guy, PDP member, he left PDP and said, I won't do it again, and went to Labour Party. And overnight, Doyo Kupa became a hero, sort of, but of those who want to make Nigeria better. It is well. Only for EFCC to remind him, and remind all of us that he has a case connected to the so-called quote, dasuki money. EFCC had to bring everybody back to reality that this man, or, don't forget, he has a case connected to dasuki money. Do you guys remember that some money was loaned, taken as loan, all right? Humongous amount of money by the federal government of Nigeria, and they've been investigating the misuse of and misappropriation of those funds. And EFCC's, you know, activities with Labour Party came to a grinding halt.  We easily forgive. Nigerians are forgiving. It's good, it's good. I'm not saying Kupa is not interested in making Nigeria better. No, you know, but sometimes it's good to remember some of these things. Anyway, the man went to court, he was found guilty, all right, and then he was given a sentence with an option of fine, which he was able to promptly pay. But some Nigerians asked, questioned, what are the, there was a moral right, or was the right for him to continue as the presidential campaign council director for a Labour Party, a party that wants to change Nigeria since he's been found guilty of corruption. And he promptly, with all respect to the man, give him his respect in a cut cut for him. He stepped down. Okukbe was, what did he do? He was at the airport, Mutala Mohamed Airport. We thought the case was over. We thought he would be allowed to move on with his life, you know, maybe campaigning behind the scenes for Labour Party and trying to make Nigeria better. Only for us to hear that he was arrested by the Department of State Services, or is it the State Security Services, or is it the Department of State Security Services, whichever it is, he was arrested by them on the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He's been released according to the DSS, he was arrested by mistake. I thought, you know, I can tell you guys that every day, when you think you've seen it all, these guys approved to us that, no, we haven't seen it all. They said he was arrested by mistake or arrested erroneously. And if not have happened is what they said. He was arrested at the Mutala Mohamed International Airport. Yesterday morning, was it yesterday? Yes, yesterday morning. And he said his passport had long been withheld by the Federal High Court in Apuja, even before finding him guilty of violating sections of the Money Lundering Act, you know, that attracted his sentence. You know, he got two and a half years in prison with an optional fine. So he's an ex-convict, you want to call him that. So anyway, the EFCC, according to a cookware, the EFCC officials, officers in Lagos and Apuja have apologized for the mistake erroneously made in his arrest. All right, he went on Twitter to say, quote, I was arrested and detained at the Mutala Mohamed International Airport Lagos this morning on my way to the UK for medicals years after my passport was withheld by the Federal High Court in Apuja. I just left the EFCC office where the senior and younger officers in Lagos and Apuja apologized to me for the error. All right, and according to the action the cookware asked if it was an occupational hazard if it was an occupational hazard. Okay, so that's that, that's that. A cookware's spokesman, sorry, the DSS spokesman, Dr. Afonaya, Peter Afonaya confirmed the arrest and said that a cookware's interception was at the instance of the EFCC, and when they got him, when they picked him up, he was arrested, he was handed over to the EFCC. This is what the DSS spokesman said, Dr. Peter Afonaya, quote, Daniel Cookware was intercepted at the DSS, by the DSS at 10 o'clock one of the Mutala Mohamed International Airport Lagos this morning at the instance of the EFCC. He has long been handed over to the EFCC which requested for the action. It later turned out that it was based on an EFCC watchlist request issued over six years ago but the anti-graft agency said it released a cookware soon after that because the watchlist request had expired. So I don't know, is it that the DSS would just pick anyone up because the EFCC is picking him up? If this watchlist request had expired because they had a case before the Federal High Court and all that involving the EFCC or because the EFCC had taken him to court, does the DSS just pick anyone up? Do they have a mechanism for checking to be sure that okay, we're not going to go use the resources of state and the personnel of state to do what we shouldn't because this is embarrassing to say the least for the DSS. Let's see what the EFCC is for now. But for the DSS, this is really embarrassing. Don't they have an internal mechanism to be able to cross check these things to be sure about what they're doing so that they don't make mistakes because this is really embarrassing? Well, what is the EFCC saying? That one is another level of embarrassment. Now, Wilson Wajiren is the head media and publicity for EFCC. Hi, Wilson. In a statement titled Interception of Donio Cucpea, the EFCC said, quote, the DSS today, January 12th, that was yesterday, informed the Commission of Interception of Dr. Donio Cucpea, former presidential advisor at the Motala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos. It says the service acted on a watchlist request issued on July 18, 2016. Over six years before his recent conviction at the Federal High Court, it says, quote, the Commission was in the process of formally lifting the watchlist in the process before its interception and will expedite action in this regard. So that's that. Some people are not taking this story, really. Some people are saying it's still part of the tactics by the agencies of state to harass members of the opposition. You remember some time, some months ago, the little party was claiming that, in fact, they weren't claiming it was true, that the airplane was grounded, that private jet that was lifting its officials from one part of the country to another for a campaign was grounded. We've seen, you know, even the PDP also complained about victimization, which hunting by officials or agencies of state. So is this another display of the power of incumbency? Yes, it is. It's a display of the power of incumbency by the APC, the run federal government of Nigeria, to try and, you know, ruffle the feathers of opposition parties in their way or in a bid to, you know, make sure that they have an advantage or the advantage ahead of the election. What happened to the NMPP government-ship candidate, I think, was it in Karnu state or Kaduna state or Sokota state? It was also something to look at, when the DSS officials acted on the orders according to some reports of the wife of the head of the DSS, Madam Bicci, to pick up a government-ship candidate of one of the party's NMPP. So these things give people some reason to think that, you know, the APC run federal government is using the agencies of state for political purposes to ruffle the feathers of the opposition. For instance, a lawyer to do your Cooper, his name is Toluba Balei, went on Facebook to say that when will this harassment stop? Who is after Dr. Okope? As of today, the man has no case to answer. So that's why he said and all that. If it's indeed an error, I mean, why would it take so long for the EFCC to professionally do their job of updating their watch list, of updating their watch list? What happened to the man in the process of arresting him? I mean, maybe Okope should go to court and file, who knows? Maybe he should file. He should file for damages, yes. Maybe he should file for damages. I mean, I don't know. I'm sure DSS are watching, they watch all the stations, so I'm sure they're watching this one. But I don't know who is going to, I think it would be against EFCC, you know, for abusing his fundamental rights of the country. So does this mean Okope missed his flight? Who is going to pay for the bill of booking another flight? So maybe he should write a letter, love letter to EFCC. Tell them, hey, people. We have to go. We have to go. Let's quickly take the next one. This is a story of a fake police commissioner who was arrested in Lagos. According to the criminal investigation of the Lagos command, they said they arrested a 55-year-old man or Luolia Kande for allegedly impersonating the commissioner of police railway command. What an irony, commissioner of police railway command. People don't know we have police commissioner for railway, police commissioner for NPA. When we hear that terrorists are attacking the rail stations and all that, you know, sometimes we forget that there's a police commissioner. The 55-year-old man or Luolia Kande is said to have alleged or have impersonated the commissioner of police railway command Yetunde long. Is it long or long? Anyway, he defoded an 80-year-old man of 250 million now. It's a very funny story. The CPE railway command Yetunde confirmed the arrest of the news agency of Nigeria and she said she got a call from CPE Franco Mba, who is a former force spokesman on the matter. And the victim's wife, the one who was defoded of 250 million there in the name of Madam Yetunde the CPE called Franco Mba, former spokesman of the Nigeria police, to intimate him of an alleged plan by one CPE long to demand millions of now from her husband so as to drop a petition on the table against him. So this is the plot that played out. But fortunately CPE Franco Mba told the woman okay, he knows Yetunde, so he will call her and find them because he said he was sure that she cannot make such a mischievous demand. And I'm happy that Yetunde's name will be cleared. I don't want to be a professional police officer like Yetunde's so I want to go smearing her name in the mud like that. So Kudos to Franco Mba. Kudos to you. It's a big plus for the woman, the man's wife. Who called, excuse me, who called the CPE Franco Mba to ask him, do you know this about the CPE? Because sometimes people just will Patrick monies like this because they are afraid of getting to trouble or they don't want any issue with the police without making findings, without verifying. And I think it's a lesson we can all learn that we need to. For the 55 year old man, I don't know, he didn't respect his age. And he went to do something like this. It's quite sad. But that's the much we can take on this. We have news in the paper review segment up next. Stay with us.


Guy who I was sharing studio space was doing an album compilation of vintage surf music and he had contacted, or the art director had contacted, Leroy Granison got a big stack of his photos. And once I saw those, I went back to that place in time saying, God, I remember that photo. And these are so cool. And there's got to be a book here somehow. I like to say, you know, for almost 40 years or 40 plus years, I've been going to the flea market at 530 in the morning. I get up at 530 and I'm usually on there at 630 because you have to, if you want to get the best stuff, it's when they're pulling it out of their cars. And so over the over the years, I've developed relationships with these folks.  And so we've struck up conversations and they'll say, well, what are you looking for? And then they know what I'm looking for. So then they'll start when they find stuff, they'll hold it for me. And they won't let it out to someone else. So that's the good thing of the repetitiveness.  I still really enjoy it. It's, it's, it's one of those things that I look forward to every Sunday because you don't know what you're going to find.  What are you going to find this week? That's a little bit of a problem only because my, my collecting range is really broad. Inevitably, I'll bring something home. In those, those 40-some years that I've been looking, I think I've only come back from the flea market with nothing twice. The other aspect was I, I loved the history behind the objects. They just weren't appealing visually, but it was also the history that was behind it. So when I started finding stuff that related to LA's history in terms of paper, that fed even more. It's like, wow, I didn't know that that place existed, but it was on a match cover. It was on a brochure or was in a scrapbook that I found, and that kept spurring, you know, more interest. One that would be the most, most interesting to me would be the history of night clubs in Los Angeles because that had all the, you know, my parents' stories could be incorporated into that. I was discovering, you know, playbills and catalogs and photographs. And I specifically went to the library looking for that stuff and talking to the librarians and they would leave me to other places and other archives and going to microfilm and sitting for hours and hours and hours in front of the microfilm machine trying to find all of the history of all these night clubs by virtue of the newspaper. So that was kind of my zen moment with being to go to the microfilm room and spend eight hours straight getting up looking at microfilm. Then, you know, I would find the newspapers at the flea market and then there were the, the microfilm would be the ads and I would buy the newspaper and I'd have the actual ad.   It's an end, in turn, I've tried to make books out of those so that what I've discovered then becomes public information. I don't want to hoard it. I don't want to have it in a box. I don't want to hide it.  That really is something that's really the heart of what it is that my collecting, you know, and telling is all about. When I kind of ended officially my studio time in the early 2000s and focused strictly working for Toschan, then, you know, those collections became the core of what I was doing for Toschan in terms of publishing books and still is to this day. So all of that stuff, you know, works its way into books for primarily for Toschan. And when they're throwing stuff out or at the flea market, someone will say, ah, no, no, no, we can't throw that away. You know, I saw that in a book. Seven years ago, an internet Toschan, I pulled him once he was done with his internship and said, do you want to work for me? And he said, yes. And so for seven years, he's been documenting and scanning and databaseing the stuff. And after seven years, he's probably through about 20% of the collection. Benek and I were talking about ideas to do for books. And I said, you know, there's this guy who's probably in his 80s, and he did like the coolest surfing photography in the 60s. And I think, you know, his work could make really a great book because we had been working on a book with Julius Shulman, who is an architectural photographer. And Benek likes to work with older guys and kind of find these hidden archives and bring them to the forefront. And so I thought, man, you know, Granus might be a really good person for him to, you know, take a look at. So I showed him the photos that I had still kept. And so I went down to Carl's Baton. He was in a trailer with his wife. And so we had a conversation.  And would you be interested in maybe doing a book? And I was aware that he already had a book on his surfing photography, but it was done by surfers, which was a little bit different than what I was thinking of because I saw in his photos, surfing culture, the skateboarding stuff, and the fashion shots, and the cars, and all the other really kind of cool stuff from the 60s that most people related to, because that was what people were looking at. This was kind of the key stuff. And so he said, yeah, we can do a book. So we put a deal together. And that book came out first. And that was highly successful. Guys who were surfers said, you know what, that's one of the best books on surfing that we've ever seen. And it's because it came from a perspective of someone who wasn't a surfer. Because you saw stuff that surfers aren't going to see. And I said, I knew what I was looking for. I mean, I knew exactly what I wanted that book to be. And I knew that Granis had this cool stuff that everybody who, if you're a surfer or not, you relate to that kind of stuff. So I hooked him up with a gallery in West Hollywood who started selling his prints for $3,000 to $10,000 a piece. And so that was something I was very proud of in terms of taking this kind of obscure surfing photographer and who was living in a trailer and selling prints for $10, $15, $25 to a guy who was recognized as one of the pioneers of photography, surfing photography, and took him to a place that he made a lot, a lot of money and was recognized in a much wider scope by people. The Getty was thinking about buying his stuff. He got a show, this show in West Hollywood was huge. He sold out. He got a full page in the New York Times. He got a full page in the LA Times, a gallery in New York picked him up and still sells his stuff. So it was, that was very satisfying to see this guy who was kind of a, you know, hidden from everybody. And all of a sudden, you know, in the kind of twilight years of his life was recognized and made a lot of money and he died a happy guy.


Doggerland was a section of land that connected Britain to continental Europe thousands of years ago, stretching from what we now call the east coast of Britain to what we now call the Netherlands, the western region of Germany, and the Danish peninsula of Jutland. In other words, 10,000 years ago, Britain wasn't an island, now submerged beneath the depths of the North Sea. Doggerland was home to humans during the Mesolithic period, with hunter-gatherers enjoying the produce of this land, where the fish hunted and collected berries and nuts. In fact, human footprints have been found on the seabed of the North Sea, and at one point, Doggerland was considered to have the richest hunting and fishing grounds in Europe. Archaeological interest was sparked in 1931, when a fishing trawler dragged up a barbed antler point that dated back thousands of years. Numerous boats have since dragged up remains of mammoths and even lions, as well as tools and weapons used by the inhabitants of Doggerland. Following the last glacial maximum that ended around 20,000 years ago, ice gradually melted in the climate warren. As the ice melted, rivers, lagoons, and heavily-wooded areas began to take shape on Doggerland, attracting both animals and humans alike. Rising sea levels gradually made Doggerland less and less inhabitable, until it was finally flooded around 6,500 to 6,200 BC, and it sunk into the North Sea. It was finally wiped off the map by a tsunami, known as the three-storeiga slide, which were submarine land slides in the Norwegian Sea, with the resulting tsunami rippling out across the seas, and it was thought to reach North America in under three hours. Considering the ferocity of this tsunami, it is no wonder that it wiped Doggerland off the map. Today, very little of Doggerland remains. There is, however, in a shallower region of the North Sea, a large sand bank called Doggerbank, known to fishermen for having an abundance of fish. Doggerbank and Doggerland get their name from Doggers, and no not them kind of Doggers if you're from Britain. In this context, Doggers means medieval Dutch fishing boats, especially used for catching cod, although I'm not 100% sure on the exact pronunciation. Despite all the debate over lost islands such as Plato's Island of Atlantis, whether real or invented, what we can say for sure is that Doggerland is a real historical and archaeological land mass that did exist and was in fact swallowed up by the sea, sometime around 8,000 years ago. Thanks for watching. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you would like to support this work, all the links are in the description below. You can support me through Patreon, buymeacoffee.com or donate through PayPal. You can also spread the word to your friends and family about this channel. Please also subscribe and hit the bell to turn on notifications. Like I say, thanks for watching. I'll speak to you next time.