The internet's not up to it. Maybe. Still nothing here. I think there was an email that tells it we're live. I think we're working. Are we? Eight people. 14. There you go. Gareth, hope, hi Gareth. How are you doing? I'm gonna put this up. As usual, this is a shaky start to the live stream. Skater Guy 52 evening, Paris.  But that's a long story. So we're going to have some of this bricklaying live stream, but it wasn't very good. So you've got evening from Other? Other. Evening. How do you well, Gareth? We're doing lots of bad ourselves, thank you. That's all behind that, isn't it? Yeah, don't look at the image, the chat's what's caught up. Well, it go bigger. It's the same size either way. Oh, is it? Yeah. All right. So anybody else have a good Christmas or did your family get COVID like ours did? It was a very strange one for us. Mind you, we went off to Sweden on Boxing Day, didn't you? I avoided the COVID, yeah. But yeah, the Instagram is up now, so. Cool. Is this working? Yes. There you go. Doug, hi guys. What have you done to my mate Martin? Have you bricked him up in the cavity in Levington? I tell you what, I was thinking exactly the same. I think he's been locked in the cell by his wife over Christmas. He's been very quiet since just before Christmas. So what should we chat about? You're asking me? I don't know what to talk about.  Well, I've got 27 now. So if you've not said hello, just stick in the comments and say hi. Thank you so much. Thanks, Opha. I'm saying Opha right, am I? I'm just assuming I'd say Opha. Oh yeah, Opha 75. Thanks for that. Glad you liked them. Yeah. Well, I guess we could give like a little update, give an update since our last live. So obviously. Our last live is from Levington Spa. Well, we're still in Levington Spa. We are. So since then, obviously, we've had Christmas, so hope everyone's had a nice Christmas. Hi, Imran. Sorry, I'll just keep it up with the comments. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Yeah, I've got a comment in. Look how I'm in a sec. Yeah, there's a few coming in now, but it's your curtain. Hi, Richard, thank you. Still going well down south as Gareth is. Yeah, thank you. So Gary, hello from our little videos. Why do Briggies sometimes pick up a brick and then chuck it away? Is it the feel of it or the look of it? Usually the look of it. So obviously, like what we're doing at the moment, the extension, we've got to have really nice facebricks. So if there's too many cracks or if it's chipped or doesn't look good enough, it just has to get tossed to either just go back to the skip or to be used as a common brick inside or something. If you see us on an A&E video throwing a brick away, it's very rare because each brick on this job, every brick has to be cut down to 73 mil. So every brick has been picked, graded, taken to the saw, cut down and loaded on the scaffold. So if it's made to the scaffold and it's still not good, it's very rare because they've been so particular on this job with these bricks. There's no bad ones going in. And like I said, the bad ones don't even make it onto the scaffold. But normally if you see a brick, I hate throwing bricks away, but we used to use common bricks on the internal walls, but we're not used to do that anymore. So common bricks have to... Generally, if we have chipped bricks, we try to use them below ground so we can use them up on our own jobs. But a lot of site where you just see thousands of bricks just go in the skip, which is criminal. And unlike on walls, we'll try and put them in pillars, don't we? Yeah.  In internal corners, you get the chips into the internal corners. Or what we've been doing as well is because it's English bond, this extension, all the any of the bad faces, if they've got good header faces, we can just use them for the head of brick instead. Yeah, because it's English bond, you've obviously got, I think, one course is about 36 bricks, isn't it? Yeah. And it's about, which are 72 headers. Yeah, listen to this. So today, this morning, I was doing the counting up just to see what we needed. So we've got the two sides are up to lintel height, which is already 10 foot high. The lintels are 10 feet high. The lintel height is 10 foot high. So, and we've got two sides up there and we've got the pillars halfway up to lintel height. So we've already got a couple thousand bricks in and we need, so we're using like, we're using some different bricks. So we've got like some reclaimed and some originals. We need 446 more reclaimed headers, 206 more reclaimed structures, 483 more original headers and 185 more original face brick. And that's just to get up. Get to the parapet. Yes, get to the parapet. And that doesn't count the inside of the parapet, which is going to have some face work as it comes out of the roof. So there's another load of bricks to go in there as well. So there's a double brick. But there'll be divisions I should think on the inside. Right. Which aren't going to be seen. That's fine. Or you'll just see them from the bedroom upstairs. Yeah. But, if you're watching this stream now and you're not subscribed to Build with A&E, then if you like our stuff, go over to Build with A&E and subscribe to them because we've been here since mid-November now. So we've actually been in a couple of videos. We're in the Christmas special and we're in the, they've just done a bricklaying special about a week or two ago. And that's a great video because Tommy does all the filming and the editing. He's just a genius. All right, so let's catch up with it. So, G will now then wads. How are they well? Good, G? Dave Cook, hi lads. Good to see you. Wads, your next big job. Continue in this extension. Yeah, another month. We've signed on for another month. Yeah. Imran? Imran Hussain, yeah. Imran Hussain. Steve Maman, how are your boys doing? Good, thank you. All right, yeah. Yeah, Charles. We're just being kind. Well, the weather's cold, so we can't work outside but there's plenty of internal walls, lintels to knock in, sorry, doors to knock out, lintels to put in, doors to break up, there's plenty to keep us busy, so. It's just weird how we just throw in a lintel job. Like, usually we have a whole day for a lintel job and we just did one. That's what organization is. Everything's on site already, isn't it? Yeah. Charles Stubb, hi guys. Love watching your videos. Thank you very much, Charles. Thanks, Charles. Imran, Alex, you gotta let your dad win the show. I don't have a problem with him running it. It's just him interrupting me. It's my problem. Gary again, I watch another brick on YouTube and he could throw four or five bricks away in a row and you're like, why? Sometimes being fussy, well, in the end it pays off because. Yeah, if he's that fussy, it means it's gonna be a nice one. Yeah.  Evenings, it's Shaun. Glenn. Shaun. PB, hi guys. Hi, PB. Justin. Brickwright building and landscaping. That's Justin. Justin, as you say. Evening lights, hope all is well. Top team, great videos. Good luck. Cheers, Justin. I think you'll have an idea what we're gonna hint at later. So, Shane, Taylor, what area are we from? We're from Lancashire. Southwest Lancashire between Wigan and Liverpool. Not Lemington Spa. Some strange person called Sarah Zinn. Hi, Sarah. I'm throwing heart emojis everywhere like she knows us. Hi, Sarah. Give Daisy a kiss from us. Dibert, if Fred did know. Yeah. Kept those bricks from them chimney to have made a fortune. How are you doing? Exactly, yeah. Nowadays, everything just goes in a crusher, doesn't it? It's very hard to get reclaim bricks nowadays because it's cheaper to crush it and sell it on as hardcore. Yeah. It's bonkers. Richard Long Shalon, giving us the thumbs up. Thank you, Mr. Shalon. Gareth liking the new tops. Alex, great to see you. Thrive since you both started the channel. The knowledge is flowing these days, absolutely. Oh, yeah, we've not really showed the merchandise properly. It's not been in the video properly, yeah. Well, this isn't merchandise. This is our official clothing, but we're gonna try and get some more merch made like this. Yeah. Because I guess that's one thing we can announce. We've got cheap t-shirts. They've just got the logo on the back. Transfer logo on the back. We've got 15 of them just for work. But then when we got down here, A&E are fully branded. They've got the hats, the hoodies, the fleeces, everything. So we thought we need to smarten up a bit. So when we went back, the week after we got down here, we got these delivered. And then when Christine came down to stay, she brought them with us. So they're good quality polo shirts. So we've got the polo shirt, the logos up on the breast side, look a bit more official. And it's embroidered. Yeah, embroidered. So it's gonna last YouTube and Instagram. And obviously the big logo on the back. That's the good one. Nice and bright. That's been, I've washed that in the wash machine last night and it's not shrunk. No. So I've managed not to kill them. Yeah. But yeah, and then obviously later, I'll discuss more about more things to come. Yeah. With our collaborator. Sarah, Dary, Richard, Gareth, Sean. Izzy. Where is he now? Oh, is Izzy on? Yeah. Hello, Izzy. Hello. I think you'll be getting a call soon as well. Yeah. Sandy Halliburton. Thanks guys, love the videos. Keep up the good work. Spent a lot of time working as a child. So really get you guys. Thank you very much. You'll understand what we're talking about there. Gary again, I love watching videos of people doing different trades, like plaster electricians, carpenters, et cetera. And if a job is done right, it's like a piece of art. That's why I wanted to be a bricklayer. So is that Gary? Yeah, that was Gary. Well, if you haven't already, just get subscribed to Bill Zaney because they do everything. They just do big projects, like top-end projects. So when we were asked to come and join him, it was like a no-brainer. I think I commented about 18 months ago, but I'd used to work for you guys. And I think Tony must have been chipped. You talked about personally? Yeah, yeah. Gareth and Andy like the gear, thank you very much. Yeah, made up with them actually. So, yeah, I'll tell them now. So, my, so obviously we need more, we're gonna get more stuff designed, like more official clothes for us and more merchandise for the channel somehow, some way, like probably just like this, but without the air, Instagram and YouTube. And then all that.  Don't forget we're gonna get the one that says where's your tie wires. Yeah, yeah. We wanna, yeah, just before I say this, we wanna get a share that says where's the tie wires, because obviously so many people like to comment that we don't use tie wires, even though we do. So it's become more of like a bit, it's more of a meme now than anything. So we wanna capitalize on that.  Because we don't take easy jobs on. But yeah, so my girlfriend is gonna be doing, it's called a LIA project. She's gonna be like working experience. Like she's gonna be like our intern for like a few weeks. And she's doing an art director course. So we're gonna get her to do some art directory things for the channel. Like to polish the channel basically. To polish the channel up, yeah. She's gonna design some clothes, design merchandise first, design new clothing, tidy up the channel as dad said. She might get out to have a haircut. Hey, she likes my puffy hair. You crippled that one. But yeah, so she's gonna be like dusting up the channel a bit, making us look more professional and yeah, going through our hard drives to see what's on there. Yeah, it's a lot of art directory stuff. So it's like a win-win. She gets to help us out and we get to help her out, so. She's cleverer than me. Oh yeah, she's very clever. A lot clever than us. And my T-shirt by the way is... God, you just crunched them. That's my fat boy, Selina, merchandise from when we went to see them. Oh, it's got me this for Christmas. So it's the NHS font. The money from these T-shirts went to the NHS. Oh, Stuart's on. Hello, Stuart. Hi, Stuart. He's the fastest sleeper watching through closed eyes. I was gonna say, he was looking after Daisy. Worked up wizards. Hi, guys. I hope all is well. Hi. Thank you. Shane. Yeah, Shane. Take my half to Alex and myself and my dad. I'm very close like yourself, but we can never work together without arguing. Oh, we've been nearly at that a few times.   Where's the tie-wise little novel? Hope she can mix. I'll teach you the ratio, five to one to one. Gary, what a tie-wise never got the reason for them. I suppose it's like mesh when bricklaying. So the tie-wise you put in cavity walls, so when you've got a block, blockwork, brickwork, and nothing in between, insulation. So the tie-wise... Tie the walls together. The walls together, as I say. So you put them in, let me try and just grab this in a good way. So there's your brick. You put your tie-wire on, and then you put your brick on top.  So it stops the walls from falling down. It's strength from the wall. Just a little stainless steel ties. Yeah. And then you can also use them when tying corners together sometimes. Yeah. Or like, ideally you use brick-toe for that, which is like... Mesh. Like mesh, yeah. It looks like chicken wire a little bit, but... I think even that's a bit out now that you've got like railway track things now, stainless steel. You can use that instead of brick-toe. All right. Brick-toe tends to rot a bit. Right, but long story short, it's a way of keeping the walls. Yeah, if you built two walls in the house, there'd be no tie-wise. Over time does that. So the tie-wise stop them doing that. Yeah. Darren, hello lads. They say it's recycling to crush the bricks, but surely using them to lay again would be most environmentally friendly in a bit. They're a bit of brick. Love your videos. Keep well. Thank you. Cheers, Darren. I totally agree. Yeah. It's very... Brick manufacturing is very CO2-heavy. You know, like the CO2 footprints. So making them and baking them, obviously, in the ovens and not the ovens, the kilns. And all these bricks are discontinued now as well, so it's hard to get matches on, like, old buildings now. Look at this, in this extension. It's hard to get matches on new buildings. Yeah. You know, since 2008, I can't remember how many. There's a lot of factories closed down.  They don't make it anymore. Sometimes they don't believe you. That you're just pulling the fast one, but it's true. It's very hard to match bricks. Charles, question, guys. I see on other channels when a roll of foam is used in expanding joints. Hope that makes sense. Doesn't that affect the structural integrity of the two walls where they join the foam? That's called an expansion joint. So it's basically a break in the brickwork and it's to stop cracking. Because it's every 10 meters, isn't it? 7.2, I think. Oh, OK. Minimum. So every, like, so every so often. Maximum. Yeah, maximum's like, obviously when the ground moves, the wall will move with it. So if there's all one continuous wall, it'll crack. It'll crack eventually. So the expansion joints, like, keep it so the wall can move a bit and not crack so much. And it's a big stretch of wall. Don't forget the heat and the frost. The thing coming, expanding contract with the heat and the cold. And what the expansion joint is, is obviously it's like a buffer that way. And in between that, you've got slip ties, which is just a flat tie with three holes at one end that tie into the mortar. And then the slip tie goes through into the other skin into a plastic sleeve. So if the walls do move, the ties will move laterally, but they won't move that way. So the walls can't move. Sorry, the walls can't move away that way, but they can move that way. The walls still bonded together, but it's a little break to stop it from breaking. Yeah, I mean, even 10 millimetres, if it moves 10 millimetres, it'll crack. Gary, best way to test a good worker is they can make a good cup of coffee. Yeah. I'm fired then. I can't have my coffee to crack. There's a total stranger on, saying, is Monday already? Who's that? There, this person. Oh, Mark, Mark. Oh, it's there, is it? I've got to go in. I'm going to get, I'm going to get me reading glasses. Excuse my pyjamas. I think that's going to be a T-shirt as well, eventually, Mark Who. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You should make merchandise for that, Mark. You don't have a shirt. It just says Mark Who. Or just like a name tag, Mark. Question, Mark. Question, Mark. Hey. You've got to read Gareth White's name. You've got to tag him for a live stream from Mark. Yeah. Now I can read the comments. Says, look at them bad boys. Oh, yes. Mr. Incredible.  What, whatever, pyjamas? Yeah. Cool pyjamas. What have we got? I might use that a lot. Charles, thanks, guys. Hey, Mark, have you threw your shell away? Or is it on standby? I don't know, Gareth knows, but what's his name? What else have we got to talk about? There's something going to be happening. Oh, yeah. And I'll keep it happening on about A&E, but obviously that's what we're working at the moment. So just keep your eye on A&E on Instagram and YouTube because they're teasing something that's coming up this year. We can't talk about it ourselves yet until we've given the go ahead. But it's definitely something very exciting. And it's, how can you describe it without giving it away? There's just something coming up, and you've got to keep your eye on A&E to find out what it's going to be. Yeah, it's going to be big, and it's going to be exciting. And that's it for now, isn't it, really? Yeah, yeah. Izzy's telling us to tell them all. You'll find out soon enough, Izzy. You may find out yourself, Izzy, so. Yeah, for good now. Izzy's done all sort of things. He likes a bit of oak, doesn't he? Evening, Clive. Evening, Clive. What is he becoming a carpenter now? He's doing a carport out of oak, but like big King Truss is like big stuff like this. Yeah. Anyone else who's watched Mark Pegg will get that. Time for a brew greeting from Ireland. Hello, Jared. Hi, Jared. Gareth wants a tea. You've had your teas. He's been to you, that's all you're getting. No, still got the whole bean you joined up with, though. Got a really big stone extension soon. Stone. Is it random, coarse, or what is it? Real stone. I expected it as real stone at your end. It's all coarse concrete around here, isn't it? Yeah. Back home. Here is Buddy Marble now. No, it's limestone. Oh, Marble, depending on what you're doing with the one. Yeah. And then we run out of your stuff doing that. Oh, I didn't even notice I was nearly run over. We should have used sewage word and grazed him just to give him a graze. You don't need to give me an excuse to have some time off. Well, stop and say hello, because that reminds me, Marty Glover. He's not in the chat at the moment, but he's one of our loyal subscribers, and he kept saying in the comments he was going to pop in. A couple of weeks before Christmas he came up, didn't he? Yeah. His partner came and found us at the front, so we had a little chat with him and got a picture. You saw, I'll try to find a picture of him in the centre over. OK. Gary, the only thing about the training to do is a trade a lot. The only thing about the training to do is a trade a lot of it is in the classroom being dyslexic, don't help. So rather learn what working. Yeah, and in the classroom it's just health and safety now, at least it was for me. I hardly learnt anything practical. The only time I did learn practical stuff was when I was doing the practical work. Yeah, so I know what you mean. It's difficult to learn in the classroom, because obviously you can't teach someone how to be a good bricklayer just through paper on a computer screen. You've got to pick it up yourself. Like Liam today, we finally got a chance to put Liam on the trial, because Paul had been doing all the cutting of these bricks for us, so his hand's been freezing. Fingers falling off. Yeah, having a miserable time cutting bricks in the cold, so we finally got him to a... He blocked up the door for us today, so that was a nice little thing for him. Yeah, so we were giving him tips today. Yeah, so we were finally giving him some proper training. Mark, yes, the real stuff, things about five different sizes to mix up random, haven't done it for years, so it should be fun. Sounds fun. Mad BBTK, better just keep doing the job and you will get good. Practice makes perfect. Exactly, yeah, I'm still improving. So am I. And this job, we've done so many things that we've never done before. I've been at it 36 years and I've done loads of new stuff on here. Like doing 10 foot doors. 10 foot doors, yeah. Let me just get this picture, I'm just getting it sorted out. Do you want me to do it? Yeah, I'll sort it. You've already clicked on crop, now you can do it. You've already clicked on crop, you can do it. Do what? Crop it. I don't want to crop it, I want to spin it. Then go back, oh my God, just passing it. I know. There you go. Got it. Yeah, we've not cropped it yet. Well, you come and talk and I'll sort it. This is taking off an email by the way, that's right. Why didn't you save the email there? There you go. There he is. There's your camera. That's Marty, Marty Glover and with me and Alex. That was nice to meet him. So I said I'd give him a shout out, so he sent an email, he took the picture, so he emailed the picture over to us. Couldn't you save the email? You didn't have to take a screenshot of the email. No, it's not, it spins around, it's sat sideways on the email.  Oh, it's done now anyway. Can you believe I'm the brains of the outfit? You didn't want to save it because it was rotated, did you mean you shot it rotated? I edited it to rotate it then. You could do that with, oh my God. Where were we? Ever done Bricky Work abroad? There's been to Lemington Spa, haven't there? That's the most abroad we've been, yeah, down south. That's the most abroad we're ever going to go as well. Never go abroad, no. We're going abroad for holidays. Gary Pendergrass, the one thing about the trip, oh, I've done that. You missed it, we missed one out a little. So you missed that one.  Hi, Chris. Hi, Mum. Thanks for joining us. That's Christine, my wife, Alex's mum, who's coming down to visit tomorrow. Oh, everybody knows who Mum is in this chat. Mark does because she's rolling in for not going to the dentist last time. She's infamous, classrooms don't learn anything, school never let me anything. Exactly, yeah. After saying that though, Paul turned you all the basics. Yeah. He did all that for me. I had your work running stuff in, but he could take your time and get it. Yeah. But the technical, like the classroom side bit was just... The classroom side isn't long enough. Yeah, it was just common sense stuff in health and safety. So, there's someone behind us. I don't say that. Yeah, I'm actually an old woman. Someone near, then? Hi, Leah. Alex, the old man is a handful, isn't he? Oh, you've no idea, buddy. Oh, you've no idea.   Oh, my God. Come here. Give me a kiss. What I've had to put up with today, in the last half an hour, the three minutes before this, my God. I've been in my Tesco room. He's had to skip his shower because the apprentice is on eight o'clock, so we don't really want to go on... Nine o'clock. Nine o'clock. We don't really want to go on too late.  Walks in front of the TV while I'm in the tournament. Gets masked, kicked. Because he just walks his way... He just walks his way through. Set up a live stream. Yeah. We sat on the couch and never sit on this couch. No. This is the clean couch. Yeah. Mum's asking how Mark's tooth is. One for Leah. I got thrown out of tech because I crashed a powered wheelbarrow into a Ford Cortina. So you dive it out for these people who don't know where Ford Cortina is. That was my first car, that Ford Cortina. T-Redge. I think it's T-Redge. Yeah. It was... It must have been about a 1985 model. Maybe even older. Only had it eight days, somebody nicked it. Yeah, it's good now. His tooth is fixed. My problem's my neck at the moment. I've got a rash. Where is it? His dreaded scarf. No idea. You had it last. Because I think I've all... Obviously me, I had a reaction to the scarf, I think. So I've had a bloody rash for two weeks now. Two weeks today. Yeah. It's going down like it's not as itchy, but I know it's there. Allergic to polyester fibre, apparently. Acrylic it was. Acrylic. Same thing, isn't it? I've no idea. And to be fair, we didn't wash it, did we?  Rhino build, hi boys. Evening rhino. That's a point. I've not mentioned the giveaway, all the 20,000 subscribers. That's the main reason, Ronnie. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's the main reason, Ronnie. I thought you said we weren't ready for it all yet. No, no. We've got three people on board today, officially. Oh, okay. Well, what's the next time? Go when you're told. The mom says. Go where? To the dentist. Yeah. Well, yeah, obviously, as we're coming close to 20,000 subscribers, we're going to do another giveaway. And we've got a few, so far, you said three, right? Three official sponsors for the giveaway. We've got three official collaborators that we're going to take part in helping us with the giveaway. So when we get even closer to the time, when we hit the 20, we'll give the details of what you need to do. Yeah, we're going to win. We'll do it on Community Post on YouTube, and we'll put it on Instagram as well. Yeah. So, like, you can enter on both, but, like, they'll, like, you'll have the two platforms to, like, see what you have to do. Yeah. We haven't got a big giveaway like last time. Last time, Ock sent us a load of tools. BT sent us a load of tools. But we haven't even asked those this time, because obviously they've given us a load of stuff already. So we're currently trying out some stuff by RhinoBuild. And if you're on Instagram, you'll see them all over Instagram. They're just coming out with all, like, all the clamps and the profile stuff. They're doing multiple stands. So they send us a couple of those out to give a try. So they'll be coming up in a video soon. And the Brick Lifters, Brick Carriers. Yeah. A pair of them. And they're going to give us a bundle. So that's one of the giveaways is some Rhino gear. And what we're going to do is when we draw it, whoever wins, they'll just give their address to Rhino, and they'll send them the stuff direct, rather than send it to us and then we'll send it on to you. Same with, what's that? The Club Place? M Store. M Store PPE. M Store PPE. They're giving us some gloves and some safety goggles and some stuff. And Richard Fitzgerald is giving us a pair of Fitzbrick clamps, which as you know are very popular, and everyone wants to get on with a pair of them. So that'll be one of the giveaways as well. Matt B hopes he wins it. Yeah. Same again. All three. Whoever we pick, whoever wins gives their address to them. Well, if they give it to us, we'll give it to them. Yeah. And we've got a W Rose trowel, an S-ring Brick Hammer. We've got a few coils of IMEX line. We can go into more detail as well at the time.  Oh yeah, but there may be more stuff to come. Oh yeah. And basically we've got a box of stuff. It's not brand new stuff. The trowel, the hammer and the line. It's not brand new.  It's not brand new, but it was kindly given us to by Rodion. So it's like, it's off a celebrity. It's a celebrity trowel and hammer. They've not been used. I think the trowel might have been used, but the hammer's not been used. It's just pre-owned. So it's like a couple of little marks on it. But it's good stuff. Sandy, just listening to you guys. Steve, if you've been in the trade for 36 years, plus you will have no doubt built using sand that my father pulled out from the big sand quarry in Standish. Yeah, I know where that is actually. I think it's still, I'm not sure it's still going or not, but I know exactly where you mean that is. Yeah. Yeah. Mark, was it Switzerland? No, I went to Sweden. So I went to Sweden to go see me and my girlfriend. We did Gorthia Towers, the big hotel. We did Lisberg, the University, like just like went around Gothenburg and then went back to her's for like the rest of the vacation. And then she's coming here in March. March? Yeah. Going to have a loyalty cow diviner the way they're hopping in backwards and forwards. We were looking into that. Yeah. One way you can just like, Gary, just for a laugh, have you ever got a camping gas stove on to say and had a lot of, had a hot meal or like a fry up on site, maybe during the winter? Well, we have a fry up Friday on her. Oh yeah. A build a day in here. It's a tradition that's called fry up Friday. And then in the afternoon, it's tidy Friday. So the job gets completely spotless, ready for the following week. And the fry up we all get, we all like someone like Liam will get everyone bored. He gets the order and then they all go and pick up our, they go pick up our breakfast. He gets a bacon roll, but everyone else gets a proper fry up. The fourth stuff. Oh, they get the money's worth, don't they? Um, Max says we'll do, might be, can I have them, can I have them Googles on where they're now? These, if you've got my prescription, you can, yeah? These are my, glasses, glasses. Prescription, safety glasses from spec savers. Somebody asked us about them this week, actually. Yeah. Yeah, these are prescription safety ones, which were my regular ones for a long time because I sat on my other ones. We've got some good ones now. Look at that. Those brick carries are great. My mum was called Wayne. Lawrence, hi guys. Hope you're well, Steve. What car did you pass your driver's test in? It was. Oh my God. I can't remember the car. Tesla.  Right. And it was a mini Metro. Do you drive a mini? A mini Metro. A mini is cool. Mini Metro's are just probably the uncoolest car you'll ever come across. And we actually, we actually bought a mini Metro. At least you went, at least you went, at least that wasn't what you were driving on when you went, mum. No. She probably wouldn't have talked to you. No. The one, the one I was driving when I met your mum was even less cool than that. It was Nissan Bluebird. Oh. And it's green, line green. What do you yell, Dad? Christian has a red XR3. Gareth, you've got to love Christian. Oh yeah. I do. Can't wait to see her. We all can't wait to see her. Izzy, that's awesome. One of the OGs of bricklaying on YouTube. What's that? What does OG mean? Original. I'm missing what that means. Have I missed a comment? That's all from one of the OGs of bricklaying on YouTube. I'm 53, Izzy. You'll have to explain that one. Mark, next one I'll stay. She doesn't sound near.  And it's a 10-day walk. What is? Oh, Google. To Sweden. Yeah. When we were looking up, we got clicked on walk and it's a one mistake. It's a 10-day walk. What is it, to our flight? If that. So it's nothing big for flying. No. How much is a flight? I think for her to come here is like 60 quid. And then she's obviously added on the priority board in Fastpass in Manchester. Oh, yeah. They were a wish for sure. I bet you were pleased you no longer own one. What the, I'm guessing you didn't mean the metro. Well, the amount of times that car broke down on us. But it was cheap and it just got us free. Well, most of the time it got us free to be. You mean? I'll never forget it. It never even made to the top of the street. Izzy means Rhodian. Ah, Rhodian. He's an OG. So he's one of the originals. Yeah. Obviously we all know why Rhodians had a bit of a backseat on the Brit Lane. And he was, he wasn't, he wasn't really, he was talking about not bothering Brit Lane anymore. But obviously it's, it's all pretty fluid with Holly at the moment. So whatever he does, but he's got some quality content up and he's always supported us so much. Oh yeah. He's a proper friend. Yeah. I mean, we popped into his house and he's popped to us when he was up at, up at the lake. So he popped in on the way back. That was lovely. That he's such a nice bloke as well. Hopefully we'll be seeing him again later on. Yeah. That's the point. I wonder if Tony's going to contact him about that. I have to see. Give him a nudge. What time is it now? Because we've got, okay, half past. Yeah, Rhodians. Yeah. We've got half an hour then, haven't we? Yeah. Yeah. Rhodian very kindly gave us, he took us to his shed so that he can have these. I won't be using these.  Yeah. There's too, too much stuff for us to use. So, Yeah. He gave us the, the W Rose Trowage, I think it's an 11 inch filly. It's massive.  It's horrible. It's, it's all, it's just, I mean, I'm used to an ox, which nobody likes, but I'm used to it. And then it's nothing like it, is it? And I can't stand the bump cap that sits, sticks on the end of the, the handle. And then the, he also gave us a, a 10 inch London pattern, Marshall Town with the leather handle, which is very nice. Alex is going to give that a go. And he gave us a 11 inch Philadelphia Dura Cork handle, Marshall Town. I'm going to give that one a go. They're both a bit dirty, but what, my Marshall Town's down to 10 inch now, so ready for a change. Izzy's disgusted at your ox trow. And a Roy Boy, he said, easy on Steve, I passed my tests in this sand bluebird and my first car was a cream Metro and he loved it. Good taste. Same cars. God, there were tanks running in them in this sand bluebirds. Mine was a B register, it was one of the older shaped ones and it was just like a big, boxy tank. It looked like a Cortina, but it was the same colour as that, that sick emoji that, Izzy's put, that's the colour. It was the same colour as that. Lawrence asks, what's our next vlog out? Next vlog. Well, the next video is up on Monday. Monday's, Monday's is going mad. It's got 17,000 views. So, it's usually of its own. It's tailing off towards the end of it, but that one's doing okay and plus we've done a live now. So, it's going to be Monday. Speaking of that, Nia wants us to do a proper vlog. Right. Like from like when we get up. Right. Like our routine, going to work and then like our routine, she wants like a full. Alright. Like vlog thing, like us, like the people behind the channel kind of thing. Alright. So, just like a one day in the life of us, apparently. Right, so it's going to give you a good night. I thought we could probably cut it there. Gary, an old classic car and one I would love to have is a Ford Capri. Capri. Capri. Capri. Capri. Capra. Capra. Capra. Capra son. No, as you said that Ford Capri. Capri. That's how, Del Trotter. Not Del Trotter. Yeah, this Del isn't it? Yeah, Del Trotter. Had a Capri gear. Used to say like that on the only fills Norses. Yeah, an awesome car. Yeah. They were very, they were the sporty cars back then, weren't they? I think Nancy had one of them. Dead long bonnet on them. Gary, there's not like a bit of Vox. Vox is he? Gary, the Pratmobile as Ronnie used to call it. Yeah. And Lauren says they're worth good money now. Yeah, anything like that. Capris. Yeah, anything like that. Well, anything classic worth money now, isn't it? Retro is back in style. On all fronts. Shame I'm not, I'm Retro. I'm 53 now, so I'm counted as Retro now. Yeah, you got your cool music taste, you got a prodigy. Well, yeah. Fatboy Slim. Fatboy Slim, Kamal Kubrick. You've got the proper music taste. Yeah. You still build Lego. Yeah. This envelope there, we used to call the African cabs as cars. Do you know what? The seats, I remember the seats, they were like sofas, like upholstered sofas. And it was dead comfy, but it's like dead soft suspension, but it's like no power in it, too lead drenching and no power. But I love that car. I don't even know why, but I loved it. Gary, yeah, the beautiful car, like the Ford Mark 1s, I don't know what that means. Yeah. I'm not a car person. Yeah, the Ford, the Mark 1 Cortina, and the Mark 1 Escort, were lovely. Stibular levels, but love my 10 in jocks, says Gary. Yeah. It's a good trial, it's just, the only thing that lets it down is that bloody bump cap that falls out. Yeah, it's durable enough for its price. Yeah. Which is strange, because the bump caps used to be good, because like my old ox had the proper bump cap which would never go away. The mouldy tangle. And now, they just pop off if you're like, if you're not careful. It's just a round hole with a square peg and then just pops in the end of the trial. If you're like whacking something with it, it works loose and if you don't notice it, it's gone. Yeah. Like a lost one on site but Jamie found it once, didn't he? Yeah. Just turned up with the bump caps. He said, look what I've found. But once it's gone off the trial, you've lost the end of it and the balance has gone. Yeah. So it's ruined. And it will never stay on again after that as well. Once it falls off, once it's done. I did take that up with Ox and say you need to improve the handle but they've never bothered. Mum, I'll actually go learn to drive this year for sure. Definitely. Like, I'm not a post, I'm not a post to learn to drive. Like, I say this every time, every time I've gone to do it, I do want to do it. I do want to learn to drive and I am going to. I promise.  I think he's on about the Ox trials. I see. Never got, never got on with it. Gareth says, is he? What was the maximum number of courses you can build with bricks and blocks before you have to stop using four to one? Says, um, Lombard.  Oi oi, even in D&J? Oh, is that Dave or Stevie? I think D&J, that's Stevie, I think. I think Dave has his own name. Thanks for joining us. Izzy, I can start grabbing you to work. Yeah. Once I pass. He wouldn't get me in short on that van. Pride and joy. We've had it a year into next week. We've had it a year. I can't believe that. Gary, I want to get my motorcycle because I'm nearly 26. I can get my A license. And if I pass it, I can drive any motorcycle no matter the power or size of the engine. Just be careful. Yeah, be careful. Yeah. You can get a side car maybe. D&J, do you manage to get your auger sorted? I was watching that for you. You've got a good outcome of that. Lawrence, Alex, learning to drive now across the small fortune. Oh, I can imagine. I can imagine since COVID as well, the boy's shooting the prices up. When I learned it, I think it was 650 an hour. Right. It's a point of view more than that now. Just a bit. Gary, D&J, I love your videos. Oh, absolutely. Again, anyone, if you've not subscribed to D&J, get on with it. Get a great channel, D&J. And then, again, D&J, you'll know what we're hinting about. So it's who else I said before? Well, they won't know what we're hinting about, because they've not been here when we were saying anything. Oh, no. We've been teaching something big that's happening this year. And we think, well, we know you know what we're talking about, because we've also fired a question to you in your Q&A as well, which you responded to. It's cheaper to buy a house, Gary. So it's to Lawrence about the lane to drive. Yeah. I'd better get saving them. That's the cheaper, isn't it?  Yeah. When you freshly passed. Yeah. I'm starting to learn my way around how everything works and everything. I've just found out what the clutch was this morning. And neutral. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, every time I'm in the car, Mum gives me a little look-so-vis and tells me like stuff to do. See, Chris wants to teach him in our car, but our car's an automatic. So he learns in an automatic. That's all he can drive. Whereas if you pass your test in a manual, you can drive automatic or manual. So I'd rather you learn to know in a manual. I bet if I wait a year, I could probably just get a bit test slowly forward there. Everyone just don't need to drive. But you have got all like a Wally.  A Tesla van. Lombardist, thank you. Lawrence. I was just responding to a, he just went to Gary. I was like, I was trying to read that word which is Gary's last name on the thing. Oh, yeah. I think someone over here with the motorcycle, the gear, the insurance, except for about 3,000, maybe 4,000 euros at low waters. Jesus. God.  So you don't get manual electric cars, obviously. So like I say, everyone's going to be going automatic. Well, they're supposed to be future-proofing all the new builds now, aren't they, with like electric in the garage just to charge the cars? Except ours. Except ours, yeah. They were very reluctant. I didn't want to future-proof our house. Well, they gave us the electric in the end in the detached garage. And they just took a few spare off their socket in the kitchen so we can never put an electric charger in because it needs to feed right back to the meter. But they wouldn't do that because it's about 30 yards of armor cable. So they just did on the cheap, which is, as you know, we won't go on about them lot again. No. The people who we bought our house off are the people we worked for for 12 months. About that company? Yeah. So we should learn in our car, Mom says. It's got to be manual for your test and you can drive both, says Lawrence. Thank you, Lawrence. There you go. See that, Christine? Lawrence agrees with me. I think you're getting sure for service car, then. I said, so why don't you teach me in our car? And she won't do it? No. When building a pike, that's the longboard. How do you work out the height and to set the apex point? You don't. You get told. You can't just make anything out of it. Your architect or your engineer will tell you that. And now we've worked at the timber, don't we? Yeah. If we're building a lean-to, then we'll get a nail or whoever's doing a roof to put a temporary spot when we work to that. And even on site, we did that. We got the joiners to give us one just so we could get set up and work to it. It's easier to work off what's going to be there. Because in that way, you physically can't mess it up. If you haven't got the roof up there, you can't guess it. So you can build pretty and just step it back. But you've got to go back and piece it all up and do more pieces. All the little pieces cut. Obviously, some breaks may need to be cut. Yeah. Absolute nightmare. Mark, Mark's yielding. Steve, I thought an established brickie like you would have a staff and level rather than a two-foot level. A staff and level, what's that mean? Do you mean laser level? We want one. I'm established. I'm not minted. That's the difference. You're talking fact, 300, 400 quid for a cheap laser level. Builder, then he's got a, what make is it? What makes the level? What level? Tony's level. Healthy. Hilty. They've got a hilty. I'm sure it's about 1,200 quid, but it's just the best. We've used loads on site. But this thing, the target, some of them tell you how far you've got to go. But this thing goes down to like 40 mil, doesn't it? Yeah. Very accurate. So it's to the millimeter, but when you're going up and down, you're not guessing by the tone. It actually tells you up or down by how much. Yeah, mark on the laser level. Yeah. I'd like to get one, but it's a lot of money to show up. And we don't. It's not something we'd use a lot. Whereas we did use them a lot in the foundations, but they were the ones we worked for, supplied the laser level. So we didn't need them on ourselves. But I said to you yesterday, wasn't it? I think we could do a getting a laser level. Yeah. Yeah. Like I feel like the jobs that we do when we need one, it'd probably just be so much more like in the last video, yeah, just doing that. Yeah. It's definitely a thing, but it's just a lot of money to show up on tools. Yeah. Just like a deposit for a Florida holiday, that's the way I look at it. Plus we've got a garden that's an absolute disgrace. We've been in two years now, done nothing to it. And we need a porch. So it's kind of down the priority. You've poked the burn out. I bet mum will talk about that now. Let's see. So Davey Emra, hi, Stephen. Nice to see you. Say thanks for sharing your videos. Love your channel. Well, thank you. Thank you, Davey. Thank you. Gary. Gary, get a manual so you can hop in any van or car and drive if you go and get a license for it automatic. Then you kept drawing the automatic which most people drive manuals. Yeah. It's like anyone's passed the test at Bill's A&E. You throw an occasion to go and pick some gear up. Yeah. That's if you wouldn't be able to do that. No. And what's the result? Clive water level takes some beating. Yeah, it's true. That water level, you don't get much more. I get no water level. You don't get much cheaper. Jack Ranger, living the channel, keep up the good work. I hope you both had a good Christmas. Thank you. We did it till lunchtime, didn't we? Once we had Christmas dinner, that's when everyone started feeling ill. Because not through my dinner, through COVID. Well, thankfully, me and Deb most have dodged it. We dodged it. Well, I ran away from it. Yeah, you went to Sweden out of the way. Christine's still recovering from COVID, from Christmas Day. She's going to have the long COVID effect now for a while. Sarah Stewart and Daisy had it for a few days. I think days are just the day, wasn't she? Yeah. Which she was by Christmas Day.  Her first Christmas and she got COVID. So that's one we won't forget. Mark, oh, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark, so... What's mom laughing at? I think because I said maybe about the porch and the... Porch and the garden. Maybe she's laughing. Maybe she's laughing at the fact she said we need to do it. Oh, Izzy's going to get some food. OK, so thanks, Izzy. See you later. Enjoy. Thank you, Izzy. Thanks for tuning in. Mark's still on the cheap level, just can't get my wallet out when the other works. Exactly, yeah. If it ain't broke, you're going to replace it yet. That's true. It works, yeah. Although we're worth a lot of level on that concrete. Yeah, I don't know. I've never get them that right. It's hard to get it right, isn't it? We got a laser. One more. Great. Thank you, Stephen. I like to keep the content going. Thank you very much. I might go back to pegs. Yeah? Yeah, just thin pegs. Indian water level always works as Mark fielding. I don't want Indian water levels. But it's just a grey. I'm sure he'll tell us. Don't be level cheap enough, boys. Yeah, trouble is my eyes are going. Justin, I won't be able to see the lines lining up. You did don't be level in college, didn't you? No. Oh, I know. It's like mirrors. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like self-leveling. I think I did it properly with Kieran and Gary. Oh, yeah, they had one, didn't they? They had one, Pierre. Yeah. And in the VR game, the years I got to hold one, throw it around in VR. All right. Yeah, Mum says the joke you made about the garden so hilarious. Yeah, Justin, same Steve. God, I haven't used the dump. I haven't used the dumpy level since then. But before that, when it made me apprenticeship, we had a dumpy level. Because laser levels didn't didn't exist back then. I think we can use it in college. But obviously, like, I don't think we used it. When I used it with the other class after I was taken away from them. Yeah. I got separated from them. See, that's the good thing about doing the foundation. She's the laser level there. Yeah. I've used it a lot. Lawrence, you two are great guys and really enjoy how easy you make the brick laying look. I'm sure it is not. Tell you what, this brick work hasn't been easy. With the blade cutting the bricks down and having... It has to be millimeter perfect. Yeah. Our pillars had to get taken down because we were so focused on getting them like plumb and straight that they were it was five mil off. Ten. Ten. Yeah. So it's you've got three doors, two pillars and we went out by 10 mil, which meant the two outside doors are the same size, but the big ones were smaller. So it was like, drop it, start again. But, um... Oh, it's Katie. Don't forget me when you're famous. What? Cousin Katie. Who are you? This is, yeah, this is my cousin, Dad's niece. Yeah. Hello, Katie. Um... Yeah, so we've got a second chance to get it right. Gary says, off-camera, what are your favourite hobbies? Well, you like to just watch YouTube. YouTube is my hobby, isn't it? I watch it and I spend a lot of time editing. Yeah, my hobby's... Xbox, they're doing Lego every now and then when we can. Flying to Sweden. Yeah, flying to Sweden, talking to me, obviously. Um... I used to go fishing a lot. I used to go every weekend. I've took him up the lakes a couple of times. Been up the lakes with Christine. Um, he's took me farther than a couple of times. Um... But it's just sort of fizzled out, isn't it? Well, it's just like, we've just not been going with... Eric as much, has we? No, I haven't been out for a long time. But I go pike fishing, so it's not like... It's very... It's hit-and-miss as you catch anything and I've just got a bit bored. And if I go fishing, I feel like I'm wasting time. Your patience has kind of gone a bit thin lately. Yeah. I'm at the patience for it now. You can't even play Nintendo 64 anymore? No. That's just tragic. No. And yet I can sit there for hours editing videos. But you don't edit them, do you? Well, when I can stay awake. He edits his videos and he just watches YouTube instead. It's your fault, D&J, if you're still here.  Yeah, you're getting hours away. You get a good hour of them, boys. It's a lot of time, but you can't miss them. Like, I dare you be entertaining. I just found a toenail on that. Oh. So, how's it feel, Gareth? Back in my apprenticeship, my mentor showed me how to use a water level, but Buddy thing had an airlock, pole bugger, so we had to do some funny stuff to get bricks level on that footing. I think we're showing you... To get the pig out. What was the level where you just angle like something on a piece of string? That's a plumb bob. Plumb bob, yeah. Wes, show me that. Yeah, that's for getting a vertical line. Yeah, Wes, show me that, because that's when we were doing the pillars for the drum loads. Yeah. Funny enough, Alex saying that about a plumb bob, I said to Brian at work yesterday, I said, Brian, have you got a plumb bob so we can rebuild in a wall up in one of the rooms? Obviously, we had to hit the wall up, the existing wall above. I said, have you got a plumb bob? He said, no. He said, we've got a laser. Next to me, it clicks it on, puts it on the floor, and it just shines a laser. A little laser square. Done, and you just mark, put your pencil mark on, it's done. Fantastic. I've never seen one of them used before. Laura, it's the difference between professionals and us amateurs. Gary, pike fishing, you could be there for a month and not catch a cold. And not catch a cold, don't mind a pike. Exactly. I mean, my personal best is 24-6, I think. Mum was then 11 pounder. 11-10. And Christine had a 16-pound-10 up on Bass and Thrake with her, Eric, our fishing guide. And that was funny, because I've got a picture of me holding next to her on the boat. And she's like that, nearly falling out of the boat, trying to avoid this big fish she's just caught. That was great, though, though, that 11-pounder. We put it on a cope, remember? Yeah. Yeah, so did it for us, didn't we? Yeah. She put the picture of it on a cope for him. Me and David were big at 11-pound pikes. That was good, that, because that was out of a canal. Yeah. So a 11-pound pike out of a canal, wasn't it, Dad? And just a pass-by took the picture for us. Yeah, yeah. Mark, do we play golf? We play the crazy golf at Oldham Towers. Yeah. And at Disney, when we can. I've had the golf clubs. I sold my fishing tackle when I was younger. And I bought, I got a full set of golf clubs, pin-seeker, I remember they were called. And I used to spend more time throwing them around. I remember falling in the puddle. It wasn't good for my stress level, so I sold my golf clubs and bought my fishing tackle back. Right. I'm just putting it out there. We're left to start wrapping up. It's almost apprentice time. All right, eight minutes. So, we'll do a quick wrap-up now. Make handy plastering and decorating.  Tied to a bit of woodwork, as well. Robin, Cleavitt, Cleavitt uses one as builds. Oh, yeah. We never use a tripod and we never use a staff. Well, nine times out of ten, we'll just use a level. Just clamp it to a level. Katie's not happy that she lost one of her old towers. I got a good hole in one then. I got a really good one. That was good because it was busy so the plenty of people saw it as well. Yeah, it was the mush, it was like a big... You got two in a row? Yeah, I got two in a row. It was the big... Did you get one of Hex? Yeah, I got it on Hex. Two hardest holes. Hex, the hardest hole in the mush. The two hardest holes, I got a hole in one. I was, yeah.  And it's busy so there's people queuing up for next homey also and get the hole in one. I couldn't fit my head through the door. Andy Jackson says, Hi, Steve Nikes, we're both based. What areas do we cover? We're in Lancashire and we're very... We're trying to stay within like 20 minutes of our area. None other than that. I think I'm talking so many about a job in Hindley, which is 20 minutes away. That's about it. I've spent... You've spent that long... I've spent 24 years travelling around for work, going all over the place. Not travelling as in working away, but like... Like a lot of work. Our trips like Paulton and back and like... Yeah, 10 hours a week in the van. Busy motorways and that's that. Not into that. So now we don't do sight work anymore. We can choose where we work. So we get enough work on our doorstep. We don't need work to start working further for the work to idle. Fire blaster, Royoi. Royoi, Fire blaster. Gary, if you like golf, you should try pitching put. You might like that better anyway, shorter. Yeah. Used to be one of them yourself, but... Lee, good to see your channel going from strength to strength. Guys, thank you very much. Yeah, I reckon we're going at 20,000 this month. Fingers crossed. I'm not going to say that name, because if you say it all put together, say it's one of them, one of them naughty ones. I think it is anyway. Guys, what would you call a facing brick that is fully finished all the way around? No idea. A really good brick. What does that mean? Fully finished. Lancashire, I'm Yorkshire, says Mark Fielding. War of the Roses. Yeah, Mark. Mark, what's his name? Mark, erm... No, Mark Fielding said that. Yeah, Mark, what's his name? Mark who? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, he's from Yorkshire. That's why he won't buy a new laser, because he's from Yorkshire. Good luck, guys, out in the cold, hard. It's time of year. Best... Oh, yeah, good... All the best you're just in, too. We're not so bad, because we're working indoors at the moment inside the house, so we're getting by. Yeah. And there's a man coming to service the heater tomorrow, so we're getting a big diesel heater firing up tomorrow. We get well looked after by Tony. Yeah. We're going to have to wrap up, I'm afraid, sorry. Yeah, it's a short one for us this, but, yeah, look at Mark laughing.  Well, this is true. Tony's very persuasive, but what a phone to work for. This is an exception being three hours away from home. Yeah, it's an absolute honour to work for these guys. Mark's feeling says we're not tight. Mark acts as you are. Right, so those are just a little quick ones. Yeah, there's a little quick one. We're going to do another one. We're going to, when we hit 20,000, we're going to organise a bit more towards when we've done it, and then a few weeks after, we're going to do a live and we'll do a draw live. We'll use one of these random number generators this time, instead of me writing post-it, and it looks like last time. Marty Glovers has bedtime. No, Marty, right at the end. That's Marty, we showed you a picture of. You've been starved tonight, Marty. See you later, my good day. Moonman guitar, hi, Gents. Hi, Moonman. I'm sorry, we're glad we're going now. Yeah, Friday, oh, no. It's apprentice time, so we've got to see who gets fired this week. Yeah, Moonman guitar, you'll have to go back and watch this one. But thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks everyone who tuned in and watched. We'll see you on Monday. We're going to keep teasing you with this thing. Yeah. Yes, see you tomorrow, yeah, see you tomorrow, mum. And if you're not watching the apprentice, go on to YouTube and subscribe to Build With A&E. And us? Well, they're already watching us, aren't they? These might be new people. Well, if you are, subscribe to our channel. Help us get that 20, but make sure you go to A&E because the BritLine video is fantastic. Shall we do it? Yeah, so thank you very much. We'll catch you in the next one. Well, we'll see you all Monday for the premiere. Yeah, thanks a lot. See you.


I will literally be here forever. How many times have you not been there for yourself? Today, we're gonna talk about how to destroy the negative self-talk that's going on in your head so that you can start being positive, you can start creating the life that you want to and you can start having a beautiful, beautiful existence because if there's one thing that I know after coaching thousands and thousands of people is that as sad as it is, we don't speak to ourselves the way that we should. We don't speak to ourselves in a way that's loving, we don't speak to ourselves in a way that builds ourselves up and we don't speak to ourselves the way that we would want someone else to speak to us. So why do we do it? And today I'm gonna talk about how to stop the negative self-talk. I'm gonna go through an exercise with you so hopefully you can have some pen and paper near you. If not, mentally make sure that you're checking off boxes and mentally write these things down as we go through them. But I'm gonna go through an exercise with you to talk about how to destroy the negative self-talk and then what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to show you how to start talking to yourself the way that you truly want to talk to yourself as your mother would talk to you, someone loving would talk to you and so that's what we're gonna dive into because it's kind of sad but we're way too negative, we're way too down on ourselves and that's something that absolutely 100% needs to change and as I said, if you have a pen and paper, please go grab that pen and paper, you could put me on pause, if you're watching me, if you're listening to me, whatever it is, you could put me on pause, go get a pen and paper, just go through this really quick exercise with me. I think it'll be massively eye-opening for you and so here's what I want you to do. If you're driving your car, obviously please don't write anything down, take a mental note. I want you to write down some of the negative stuff that you say to yourself, write it down and if you need to pause me, pause me. Go ahead, give yourself two minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes, what's some of the negative stuff that you say to yourself?   Those love handles are disgusting, right? We're gonna, don't worry, we're not gonna be negative this whole time, we're gonna turn it all around but I wanna make sure that we go through this and do this right.  What are the things that you're saying to yourself? Write them down, be open, honest and vulnerable. If you need to burn this piece of paper by the time we get done today, completely cool. No big deal but I want you to write down all of the negative things that you say to yourself right now.   What was it that you were saying to yourself? I want you to write that down or think of that moment right now.  Write it down, okay? Now here's what I want you to do. I want you to take that sheet of paper, okay? Take that sheet of paper, look at it real quick.  But the younger they are, the better because the more innocent they are. And I want you to walk over to them and I want you to say the things on that sheet of paper to them. Go ahead, do it. I'll be here waiting for you.  Nobody would ever want to be with them. You'll be alone forever. Go ahead, try it, no? Why not? Oh, okay, it's okay to say to yourself but it's not okay to say to somebody else, is that what you're saying to me? Is that what you're thinking in your head? Because I'm reading your mind telepathy, telepathically, I guess?  So why? Why? Why do you say them to yourself? What good is it doing to say all of these negative things to yourself, to talk down to yourself? What good is it doing? What positive has ever come from speaking to yourself that way? You would never talk to someone that you love the way that you talk to yourself. And to be honest with you, probably never even talk to your enemies the way that you talk to yourself. You're nicer to your enemies than you are to yourself. Think about that one for a second. Let that one sink into your subconscious. I'll give you a pretty good example. Think about this for a second.  She just went out of her first date. It was a blind date, right? Maybe let's say it's a Tinder date. Not a blind date. She goes out on a Tinder date and the guy leaves, she's super into him. She's like, man, he's cute. He's got a great job. He's nice. He's got a great body. He's sexy, whatever. She's into him, right? And she's like, well, at the end of the day, she's like, I really love to see you again. And he's like, actually, I'll be honest with you, you're just not really my type. So I don't think that's gonna happen. And she's distraught. She's not happy about it. She feels down upon herself.  Brring, brring, brring. Hello? You answer the phone. She tells you the whole situation. Oh, he was so cute. He was great. I don't know what happened. We were getting along so well. I was thinking about how great it would be to start dating him to go on a second date. Whatever it is, she tells you all about him. And then he said that he's not interested in me. Would you ever go, oh, let's say her name's Michelle. Oh yeah, of course, Michelle. It's because you're fat. It's because you're ugly. It's because that mole on your face. It's because you're really not that smart. It's because of the fact that you'll probably be alone forever. You're unlovable. I don't know why anybody would date you in the first place. It makes sense that people have cheated on you in the past. Would you just go in on her like that? No, nobody would.  But I would assume that anyone listening to this would not do that. So why would you do it to yourself? Because at that point in time, your friend Michelle, what does she need from you? She needs love. She needs support. She needs you to be there for her. How many times have you not been there for yourself? How many times have you not shown up as the best friend to yourself? Because if anything, more than anybody else, you should be your number one fan. You should be your biggest supporter. You should be your best friend. You should be the one that is there that always has your back. You can always have the friends and the family members and all of those people have your back, but you should be your biggest fan. So if you would never talk to your friend Michelle when she calls you after her terrible Tinder date and she's so distraught, you'd never speak to her like that.  Why would you speak to yourself that way? It does nothing for you. It does nothing for the world. Because the better that you are, the better the world is. So you're actually being extremely selfish by being so negative of yourself because not only are you not getting the amazingness out of yourself that you could get, the world is not getting the best version of you as well. Hey, if you're enjoying this video, do me a favor and hit that like button down below. It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. So how do we fix it? Because this is something that all too common, two, two, two, too many people do. Well, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take out that pen and paper again.  That is the last time that you are going to see that piece of paper. I would recommend having a fire ceremony for it. We used to do this before with our limiting beliefs when I was younger and the first sales company I was in, we would write down all of our limiting beliefs and then we would burn them.  We would burn them and watch them burn and go, that's the last time that I'm ever going to say that to myself. Take a picture, tag me on Instagram, RobDialJr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R, of you burning your limiting beliefs and the negative things that you say to yourself. Take a picture and share it. Have a fire ceremony for the negative self-talk so you can never have it again. Now we're gonna have that blank sheet of paper and what are we gonna do with that blank sheet of paper? You guessed it. I want you to write down all of the things that you want to say to yourself. All the things that you would want a great friend or a great spouse or significant other to say to you.  You're perfect just the way you are no matter how you are.  Go ahead, you can pause me. I'll be here literally forever. I will literally be here forever. That's the way the internet works. If you pause me and leave me for the next six hours and push play, I'll still be here at the exact same point. So if you wanna pause me, pause me. Write down all of the things that you want to say to yourself, that you would want a supportive person to say to you to make you feel better.  And what I want you to do is this. I want you to take a picture of that with your phone. So you have it with you at all times. Next time you feel down on yourself, I want you to look at that picture on your phone. You know what else I want you to do? I want you to take out your favorite three to five things on that piece of paper. I want you to write them with a dry erase marker on your mirror.  Do it, go for it, tag me in this as well on Instagram. You know what else you should do? Take some sticky notes, the neon sticky notes, the bright pink and put those sticky notes with those affirmations, you're beautiful, you're smart, whatever it is, put them everywhere. So you see them all of the time.   You need to literally brainwash yourself to rewire the negative self-talk so that you can start talking to yourself the way that you want to talk to yourself.  It's not weird, it's not. People might think that it's weird, it's not weird. I don't think that it's weird because why would you not do something like this? Why would you not try to build yourself up? Why would you not be obsessed with yourself?  Like we're taught those types of things. Oh no, you definitely shouldn't love yourself as much as you do.  I'm full of myself?  You? Someone else?  So I need to love myself before I can fully love somebody else. It's not narcissistic, it's not obsessive. What it is, it's loving, it's supportive. It's building a great foundation of confidence. That's what it truly is. Think about that for a second. I wanna tell you a strategy that one of my friends went through. About nine months ago he realized that he didn't love himself and he said that if you would have gone up to him and asked him, hey, you know, let's say his name's John, hey John, do you love yourself? He'd be like, yeah, of course I love myself. And then he went through these journeys of work and work and work in himself and he realized he didn't fully love himself at all. And so he had this idea of I should tell myself that I love myself. And so what I'm going to do, and this is what I recommend you do, and this has been a massive journey for him and it's been huge in his self-love process. It's been almost a year now, he's been doing, he's a completely different person.  And I have, he got this from one of our friends who's a really deep worker in this space, gets completely naked, look at himself in the mirror, sets his timer for five minutes and completely naked, no clothes, looks himself in the eyes and says, I love you. I love you. John, I love you. And he says it over and over and over again and some days it's easy and some days it's a struggle. And he's like, why is this a struggle? Why is this so hard? And things will come up, memories will come up, things he hasn't processed, traumas, events that happened in his past will come up. And guess what? He has to work through it and it's a journey of self-love. And you might say, why would you do it naked though? Because that's you fully showing up to yourself.  You can't be fully seen until you allow yourself to fully see yourself. So it's a journey. I remember when I was younger and I first heard about saying I love you inside of the mirror, I thought I was kind of crazy.  I'll take this journey. And I didn't have much confidence. I wasn't born with confidence. I was very unconfident up until I got into a sales company where I had to work on myself and do a lot of personal development and read and go to conferences and grow. I pushed myself. And I remember somebody came in and gave a speech to us and said, listen, what you should do every morning is look yourself in the mirror and say, I love you 100 times every single morning. My friend does it. He sets five minutes on his phone. That might be even easier. But I would sit there and I would say, I love you. I love you. Rob, I love you. I love you. I love you. And I would say it over and over and over again. And then one day I just forgot to do it. I did it for months and months and months and months. And one day I just forgot to do it. And the next day I forgot. And I forgot and I forgot and I forgot. And then years down the road, I went, somebody came up to me and said, why do you have so much confidence? Where did it come from? And I was like, I don't know where the hell it came from because I haven't always been this way. And then snout myself back into that moment. I went, oh my God, I've told myself I love you thousands and thousands and thousands of times. My girlfriend makes fun of me because I talked to myself in the mirror and I'm like, damn, you look good today. I say that to myself. It was just something that I learned to do. I don't even have any, I don't even know what negative self-talk is anymore because it doesn't even live in my brain. It used to, but I rewired it. I don't even know I was rewiring it. It just ended up happening and it's a beautiful thing to live that way. Everybody deserves to live that way. You should be your biggest fan. Not your mom, not your spouse, not your brother, sister, anybody else. You should be your biggest fan.    Because ultimately, if you don't love yourself, if you're not showing up fully for yourself, you're not showing up fully for the world. You're not showing up the great you that you could be. The world needs you to show up in a powerful way. The world needs more powerful people more than ever. Could you be one of the people that step up? Could you be one of the people that give love to yourself and also give love to others? Think about it. You're worth it. I promise you that. You deserve it, but more than anything else, you actually need it. We need the self-love. We need more people that are confident, that are able to do the things they need to in the world. We need you to love yourself and you need you to love yourself. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you wanna learn even more about mastering your mind, click right here and watch this video as well. You are chemically addicted to your negative thoughts.


In this presentation we will reconcile our year end payroll forms and in essence double check that they've been filled out correctly. So we have here our forms 941 and the W3. These are the two forms that we can use to reconcile each other and make sure that the two forms have been filled out correctly. We can double check in other words our quarterly form by tying it out to the W3 and vice versa. Check the W3 to the quarterly forms. Remember what these quarterly forms are doing is they are calculating the three main taxes which are the FIT, federal income tax for the employees, the social security tax for employees and employer, and the Medicare tax for employees and employers. This is going to be done on a quarterly basis so we've got January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, or quarter for


Hey everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and it's that time of the year again to do the everyday carry thing About once a year I just like to update this to see what I'm currently carrying now because you know if you're anything like me your everyday Carry thing is gonna shift from time to time in place to place. So this is currently my system It's the best one I found yet. I'm actually pretty happy this iteration I don't foresee a lot of changes, but hey, you know that can always come and This is what I got. I hope it gives you some ideas first thing first I do carry a Glock 19 Have an RMR on there. It's a TLR 5 by Streamlight and I did put an apex trigger in here Honestly, not super impressed with the apex trigger I don't think it's worth it if you got a gen 4 or 5, but that's just me and this is in a Philister GL TLR 7 Holster Been rocking this holster for a while and I enjoy it I might switch to maybe go back to the T-Rex arms deal, but by and large I like this holster side note There's a lot of things now where I see like on Twitter Whatever people carrying these little tiny pocket guns and the PL 365 XL and whatever I don't have any time for that.  This is actually by Bravo Concealment. I don't think they make this anymore But this is a really nice kydax pouch. I really like that thing a lot that all rides on the Megpole El Tejas belt. I've had this thing for like, I don't know four or five years now It's been a great bout love it some other things that I'm carrying right. This is the Streamlight ProTac 2LX I like this light. It's been very helpful Would recommend that light gone through the wash multiple times still survived This is the Streamlight Microstream USB light and I use this just for little task lighting This is my defensive light right so I don't really ever use that unless I had due to save my life Or I need to like see something at night because I'm walking out to my car And I'm afraid of what's in that corner or whatever something like that This one is just everyday task stuff, right? I just dropped something and it's dark I can't find it or I need to find my keys because I just dropped them in the snow or whatever This is just everyday task stuff to protect this light so that it has battery when it needs it Really like this light. You can buy like six of these. They'll always serve you well I happen to have a pen in here. These are my favorite pens actually. This is the PaperMate InkJoy gel 0.07. Really like that pen. You should get one I am like rocking a Leatherman wingman Been having that for a couple years big fan of that. I will say the clip on this isn't that great So I just stuff it all in my pocket. I don't utilize the clip every time I've sat in like a deep chair and I had this in my pocket It's it slipped out. So I don't do that anymore. I just let it ride in my pocket, but it works This is the Blackhawk B warned. This is kind of my defensive blade I would probably at some point shift to a straight or a fixed blade and not a folder But I'm still figuring that out. I'm not a knife guy in general But I do carry this folder blade and I never had to use it for anything, but it's super sharp So that's nice. I carry my wallet and my phone for whatever it's worth I do because I'm a cool gun guy. I guess I do have the Magpul wallet. They make it out of this I don't know what this is Material, but I really like this wallet. It's actually really skinny. I'm a big fan of skinny wallets That's just me. You do you last but certainly not least is my med setup So this is probably the biggest thing that's changed between this video and last video So I carry the ratchet tourniquet and the reason I carry this one and not a cat or Anything else is because this one folds the flattest and I can ride it in my front pocket out of any other Tourniquet that I've tried so that's why this one ends up winning I really like it for that reason that it's got this buckle, which is kind of obnoxious But I usually put this in towards the top right so I put it in my pocket like that and the buckle seems to not interfere So I'm a big fan of this tourniquet because of how skinny out flat I can fold it in general and it rides my pocket the most comfortable Unlike a cat that's then gonna have all that rough Velcro and it's gonna get scratchy and whatever this doesn't have any of that And I really like it. So this is the ratchet R2 tourniquet. I believe is what this is called. Let me check Yeah, this is the I think it's the R2 or ratchet tourniquet. It's got the website on here M2INC.biz So you can go check that out if that is something that interests you And then what I've gone to for a med kit is this dark angel pocket med kit now This is not a full-size i-fac, but it is convenient because it fits in your pocket pretty well So it just has this little case here, which is just kind of a protective case And then in here is this vacuum sealed med kit and in here you have a one quick-clot dressing a four-inch roll dressing a pair of Hyperfin a pair of hyphen compact vented seals like chest seals a main compression a mini compression bandage and gloves So you don't have like a nasal pharyngeal airway or a chest decompression. You know like it's not a full i-fac But it's enough to be able to stop bleeding and seal the box, right your chest cavity So I have been a big fan of that and I would Recommend this to you because again, it's one of the best ones that I've been able to find that actually fits in my pocket And I'm actually going to carry I've tried carrying other med kits I really don't want anything around my ankle And so this is kind of the one that I've landed on and it's rides in my front pocket pretty comfortably Now I'll be honest when I'm home and I'm you know when I leave my house This goes with me when I'm home sometimes this just stays in my dresser Just the tourniquet it makes it in my pocket because I don't want to be carrying a bunch of stuff I'm just gonna be sitting in my house. So you have to decide for you But I will say this is probably my biggest change This is probably the thing that I have enjoyed the most in the past I don't know four or five months since I've started carrying this and I don't plan to stop anytime soon Hope that's helpful. Hope that gives you some ideas Do brave deeds and endure


Let's turn to the topic of world peace, the book Better Angels of Our Nature. It will be available afterwards. Let me ask you a general question. Let's say it were possible by spending ten thousand dollars and devoting a few months of your life to it that any person on earth could blow up a significant part of a major city. They could buy something, some kind of explosive. It would cost them ten thousand dollars. How long would it take before someone actually did this? Anywhere on earth? Anywhere on earth. Seven billion people on earth. Any one of them that can come up with the 10k and have a desire to do it, which is not most people of course, but how long would it take before this would happen? Oh, I have no idea.  Like Hiroshima. Someone on earth anywhere. Maybe not too long, but I don't know. I couldn't really prophecy that. But let me then work back from that and ask you about your optimism, the debt piece. Is it then your belief it will never be that cheap to blow things up? You know, I don't know. My optimism doesn't consist of prophecy in that sense. That is my optimism consists of looking at what has happened and noting that first of all that the pessimistic view is factually incorrect, namely people believe that we're living in unusually violent times and we're not. What, how to project that into the future is a separate set of questions and there are many unknowns that I just I'm not arrogant enough to know the answer to. It's something that we could debate. We could explore them, but but I am not an optimist in the sense of saying, well, let's just extrapolate the curves in the future without asking questions like that. Maybe you could at least try to talk me out of my pessimism. Okay. What I see is that through the course of history as societies become wealthier, they also find destructive power is cheaper. Now for most people, even today, the destructive power at their hands, while it can be quite terrible, it's not enough to take out a major city or start a war. But the price of destructive power has been falling for as long as we've had economic growth. And it's hard for me to think of exceptions to that trend. So if I expect economic growth to continue, I expect we'll get in a world in some way a bit like my $10,000 question, how long would it take? And I worry that will happen a few times. And then we will cycle into some fairly significant form of disorder. And that's my default prediction. I don't quite mean to prophesize it. But I take that to be what one normally would expect. And I'm happy for you to talk me out of that. But what's the weakest premise in the chain I've given you? Well, I guess there are two, two. One is that every form of physical accomplishment follows an exponential curve of getting cheaper and cheaper. For example, plane travel hasn't gotten faster and faster. If you extrapolate from the Wright brothers to, say, 1957, then it is totally leveled off. In fact, if anything, it might be a little bit slower for a number of reasons. So it is not necessarily true that there'll be a $10,000 nuclear weapon. I'm not an expert on nuclear proliferation, but my reading is that there isn't. You still need the thousands of centrifuges and so on. So that's one, at least, topic to explore. Again, I'm not an optimist in saying, oh, relax, it'll never happen. But on the other hand, I think it's very easy. I think it's too easy to be a pessimist and to say that I can imagine bad things. Therefore, they are certain, which I think has been a default in a lot of our discourse. The other is, how much of a desire is there for that kind of destruction? I think the rate limiting step on terrorist destruction is how many people think that it's a good idea to cause a lot of damage for no particular reason. There could be Tsarnaev brothers in this audience, and there could be a pressure cooker that would blow up in the next few minutes. I don't think there will be, but clearly there's no technological or economic impediment to that. The amount of violence that we see is not limited by cost of technology. It's limited by the number of people who think that it would be a good idea to blow a lot of stuff up for no reason other than attracting publicity. And there are certain kinds of violence that are so pointless that just no one really wants to do it. One of the reasons that we've gone now more than 70 years without a nuclear weapon being used in war is that they're just not terribly useful as weapons to accomplish anything.  That's presumably why North Korea wants them. But they haven't been used on the battlefield because leaving a huge radioactive crater is just not a very coherent war goal. You could imagine some apocalyptic cult where destruction for its own sake is so desirable that they would do anything possible. And we don't know how many people like that there are. Let me try. We don't know how many people like that there are, and I don't know the answer.