What's up everybody welcome to hot makes right here on hot makes we are back to Well, I'm back from Murph. Caleb's Caleb's still back from Murph. I'm back We are we already gonna start rubbing it in wow All right, and we're gonna be talking about that today Yeah, sorry. I don't mean that's all right. No, that's the whole episode is the event that I didn't go to so that's why I'm glad I'm here It's not rubbing in that you didn't get to go Mike said hi by the way from atomic Um, oh good. I did talk to him for I wish I was there to see him. Yes. He said like dang it I wish he was here and he said yeah, he told me to tell you hi next year will be twice as fun It will be extra epic. We'll go for like a week or something. Yeah Yeah, it was 10 seconds. Yes. Um, hey everybody just so you know everything we talked about We'll be in a link in the description below in the Google Docs I did not put it in there yet because I forgot today. So it's not there yet, but it will be after the show Also, if you so well inclined you can hit up the PayPal for a donation There's a link in it in the chat that'll be going or do but we do we're monetized now and you can hit us up with a sticker Any of that stuff right down there below us Yeah music that says we miss you he had it he had a death racer there Yeah, awesome awesome awesome awesome. We'll talk about all that in a minute. Also channel subs. We're doing good. We're still yeah, we're still Doing good. It looks like I think it's up. I don't know. We're still uh, yeah, it's updated. It's updated almost 1200 That's not terrible It could be better But it could also be a lot worse, right? So yeah, thank you so much for being here I Won't apologize ahead of time. I am very tired today. So I'm like I'm trying to interact But I'm also like my brain is fried at the moment Justin says his death racer survived does that mean a lot of them didn't if he feels the need to call that out We will we will talk about that that we'll get there I will I will tell you that I forgot to bring mine in to show you But it is in three pieces So there's nice. Yeah, that's three times the you know, you can spread it out. It's three times the death three times the The attack angle so you can yeah dealt the formation. Whatever. I don't know how that works Geno, I see that comment. I see we're gonna go over that too We're gonna talk about that you might have oh, I like where this is going. I Like where this is going, you know, so there's that You know, but it was a good show. Let's first talk about the totality That was Murph. Yeah, so take kind of take me through Kind of take me through like how the weekend. Yeah, it was Friday Friday was start set up, right? Well, if you were there Thursday night in true Murph unorganized fashion, you could show up and set up No, I knew that A few people Denise I think was there and a few other people, but Yes, it was supposed to be on Friday at noon in True Murph fashion It was Friday when you got there after they got there really is what it was So, you know, it didn't really matter because I was driving down Steve and I were driving down Sam and a tripod were already there and They jumped in they got our spots and we were good It was it was super fun, but that's how it started everything started with a setup It was you know, it was cool. They got everything ready. We had a huge banner this year. I'm working on Yeah, that was sweet as Giant was it like 20 feet? Oh No, it wasn't 20 feet Sam would know for sure But what is going on here come on Google I say refresh King of dead air. Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on Oh, I hope all of Google doesn't freeze. Did I just you just froze but you're like I must be Oh, no, it's too funny. Hang on. I'm in a shot. What's going on here? I'm taking a screenshot of this.  I Betcha.  Oh, no, is it just me? This is uncomfortable. I don't like this. I Think it's just me. Oh This is awkward. I Wasn't even at the show here. Oh, you can Hello Jimothy Jim Mediah Hello, he said he can hear me, but he's not saying anything. I think he's messing with me Yeah, it's Caleb makes now fantastic. I don't know what to talk about because I wasn't at the event So it's not even about me What do we do here? I Hang on a second. We will be right back. I don't know The answer to that is I don't know I guess I could just answer questions, but I don't know what I mean I'm not that interesting. I don't have a lot of But yeah, I don't know if we're actually gonna go to earth or not We were talking about it if and it feels kind of weird like Because we've gone to Murph Last we went to Murph last year and I've been to Murph every single year So the idea of missing Murph and then going to earth Just feels like I've done it feels like I haven't I don't know It feels like I haven't been loyal to the thing that I've been a part of since its inception But oh Jim is in our Google doc right now. I wonder if he's gonna send me a message in there Just like type in the title, but yeah, I don't know if we're going to earth or not It'd be cool if we did but at the same time it's kind of like a bittersweet kind of thing Finding way to get there is the biggest thing honestly Battlecry best show ever. Thank you. I appreciate it.  He's back. I was just starting to enjoy this Yep. Hey, can you hear me? What happened? Can you hear me? Yeah Good. Okay. Can you hear me? Well, the were you messing with me because I was talking I was talking and then you said you could hear me and then you didn't respond I could hear you the whole time until my piece You just muted you're muted I can't hear you can you hear me? Okay, well, you just all right back to answering questions. Oh now All right, there we go. There we are right So, yeah, I could hear you and then all of a sudden my PC blue screen, but everything was like completely Wow You just muted again What is going on there? You there yeah, are you doing that? No, I'm not I swear to God. I am not I'll watch this thing all of a sudden on my side. It's going like mute mute, yeah, yeah, so anyways I think what happened was I was talking This is like a creality event I don't know what happened there, but I hope you had fun Sam. Um, so anyway, it was fun Yes, yes Yes Um, so anyways, yeah, we had fun. We went in we loaded up. I got a I have a picture I gotta pull up all the other stuff now because it's all gone, but let me see here So what happened? You were trying to pull up the pictures and your computer froze escape Let's say I think they were in an escape room recently. Oh, that's cool So we had the nice booth Sam tripod and I had a huge banner Great great Sam is the mastermind behind all of that. So thank you so much for And time into that stuff Sam. He had shirts We had all the stuff. So it was really cool Um Can you hear me? Yeah, okay, just make it sure All right, go for it. What would you know? No, I asked if you could hear me. That's Can you hear me? Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah, can you hear me? I can't hear me. So So, yeah, we went in we loaded up. We had fun So this was on Friday. Yeah Friday. Um, okay, and I'm reopening all of the things that closed on Me so give me one second. But but yeah, we um, you know, we got set up I didn't really have a ton to bring in and then You know, we I was yes, and we can hear you Hey We can hear you to music dad So, yeah music dad showed up. What was that? That was cool We met a ton of good people like always the event was it was full I mean all the tables were I don't think there wasn't any One or two empty tables Now everybody's asking if we can hear him, right? Yeah, um, RC RC maniac wants to know if he can hear him Can I hear me? Can I hear me? It's it's just kind of strangely Interest-pective. Yeah. Yeah You know and and we just we got everything going that was Friday night everybody hung out We all went to a very late dinner At Where the heck where we went up? We went to Chili's and Welcome to Chili's hot to Chili's we didn't know how many people were going to Chili's and and how many people were already there There's probably already 10 15 people there maybe maybe 12. That's cool. And we showed up with 20 more and We took up a whole side of a restaurant and and Chili's didn't know what to do because they didn't have enough staff And they did the girls did a really good job Based on the situation that they got handed but I tell you when they're like is there a festival in town? And I was like yeah, it's a furry festival. Do you didn't know that and You were there for the furry festival, too. I didn't know you stopped by that one. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, yeah, that's what I told them and he's like well really I like yeah sure now I told later. It was a 3d printing thing, but um But that was a lot of fun, but it took forever Justin tripod came in and Justin said oh great leg a lost his ear That's a good one. Um, all right, that is a good one Got everything backed up here. So yeah, we I mean it was it was a good time Friday was a good setup day Good eating out talking to a bunch of people meeting new people You know how it is on Friday, right?  I'm checking.  Oh, you're gonna love this I took a screenshot to hang on. I bet. Yeah, I'm gonna love it Um chromed uh, she leaves is young. Uh, it was it was good once everybody got all their food That's a good stuff right there. That is a good spot to pause So, um beautiful. Thank you for that Overall overall, let's just start there very good show Okay, busy um typical nerf fashion unorganized and freaking hot Um, was it warm not to mention the tornado warnings, you know that came in yesterday afternoon Awesome, but that that would be amazing to go all the way up there for uh for murph And have torn and for us to have tornado warnings. We would probably be crying like Well, it was it was after we um, we actually drove through the storm that came back through goshen when I was leaving And uh, it was interesting But but I mean like whatever happened with the hotel situation because wasn't there uh Wasn't there a hotel situation before you guys went there was I anyone in the chat who can let us know I know and I know uh tim's tim's wife christa like what made a facebook post about like some sort of crazy Fiance whatever shoes. Yeah, they're working on it free wife yes I know she made a facebook post about one of the hotels that like overbooked and then double booked and then just like totally screwed up Yeah, they they got a call um friday evening And they were like hey, um christa Okay, tim got a call saying we we we canceled your rooms because we overbooked and he's like uh, what so he went to the hotel and We'll just say he got his rooms Yeah, but I don't know about anybody else. I know there was a Um, there you go. The quality in was shut down Um, and still booking. So I'm hoping nobody got screwed by that. Um, I had a Okay, I got really lucky Super cute little air bnb Actually really cheap for two people Did you and uh, did you and steve snuggle? We didn't there was two rooms with two beds. So So what did you do with the extra bed? Oh, well, you know, I had a luggage has to go somewhere You had to have your furry your furry friends come over from the conventions I mean, um, yeah, it was it was uh, it was a good show though. I mean Again, I posted on twitter today if they would just get somebody who would organize the event It would be a hundred times better because it really was rough There was a lot of new sponsors a lot of new people that we hadn't met before Um But it's just like everybody says the same thing Um, you can't get a hold of them.  Here's the email to prove it like stuff like that What's going on there if they would just get their crap together Um, and and like the other two events in the in the country It would be that place would be awesome and and and if they could do you think air conditioned building That would be like the cherry on the top of the orio cake because It was awesome buddy.  Caleb Yeah, when they're you're in there for an hour and you're already pouring sweat. I mean and and in It but but other than that like I don't want to because it was an awesome experience I don't want to say that so so that's all I'm going to say about that Um, I know Denise is offered her services to build a website Uh for either super cheap or free to help them organize it all stuff like that I just haven't taken her up on it and you know, do you think so? This is going to be an interesting situation. I think I know you wanted to move off of this, but I have some Have some thoughts. Yeah I think it's gonna be an interesting situation because mirf was kind of the first one that started the whole rr The whole rep rap festival kind of like chain And the first year that it happened it didn't it had like I think if I remember correctly We had like less than a thousand people and then and then the second year that it happened It went up to like 2,000 people and it just kept growing from there So it was like eight people or 10 people on a barbecue driveway, right? Well, yeah, I mean, that's how whether or not you count that. Yeah I guess you could say yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the first yeah, but um It's the I don't know the the eight people in a barbecue is about the same Organization I feel like it has now and and I'm wondering if because it's such a I think there's gonna be this weird separation where because it's such a popular and well-established event it's gonna keep happening but but So I don't think it's gonna die off because there's no organization But I also think that something Is gonna happen at some point and I don't want to curse it But I feel like something is gonna happen at some point where the popularity and growth of the event is gonna overshadow The lack of of organization and something bad is gonna happen somebody's gonna get hurt or somebody's gonna get end up in some sort of legal trouble of some sort and then It's all gonna pop and explode Yeah, and I'm concerned about that. Oh, trust me. We'll get to the getting hurt part. Um Because yeah, so, uh, you know a bunch of people have chimed in It was great. They did have a crack all the fans on the top all the doors open Um, it was just you know, it is it's murph. It's hot. At least it wasn't wet on the floors. That's that's a good thing. Um, we had Um, Dan Adams.  Oh, yeah, and then he was amazing the red solo cups and hand them out until it ran out. Um, That's awesome. Also also, uh, ben heck y'all remember ben heck Um, he was there and he was out there. He brought his grill Standing on the sun's side of the building where everybody was parked and cooking Uh where it was like 90 degrees on saturday And he cooked breakfast for us. He cooked, uh, lunch, I think on the grill. He cooked bacon I mean like he cooked a whole bunch of stuff both days as well. So thank you, uh, dan Adams. Thank you dan I'm sorry. Um Ben heck. Hey, there he is Yeah, the dude gumbo was amazing. I was like, hey, I'll pitch in the cost of a whole pot Go make another pot. You know, yeah He's like, no, we'll do it tomorrow because he already he was like i'm done with the sun He was cooked cooked as well, but Um, yeah, this the the cider dan Adams had um Ben had bacon. Yeah, he made um ben heck made um egg cheese and um Uh Corned beef sandwiches like right on the flat. He brought a flat top griddle. It's what it was like a grill flat griddle though And like that's that's the cool stuff we needed and then um a shout out also to obi co The company obi co for bringing like 60 pizzas in Saturday night, um, they sponsored pizzas beer and and and they brought a keg That's awesome. It was a half barrel, maybe um, and then they brought they bought like 60 pizzas and they also bought a whole bunch of pop and um Thank you. Thank you for that. It was great pizza. Um, and and we can't thank you guys for that So so like overall Right overall community amazing event really good a lot of people um I have no idea the number maybe mirf could tell you um and the last Yeah, they they did obi co did demo some new stuff. It's awesome. They're training a new nozzle cam. That's going to be pretty cool Okay, that's cool. And then um, so Uh, what was the last pinball machine cooker? What is that? Was that something? I don't know Okay If I if there's there, maybe I missed it. Um Pez pez Liz says I had cookies but people ate them super fast dang it. I didn't even know Um, but but dinner was amazing friday though The community was awesome all weekend people fed people the drinks all over In true or fashion. I mean or mirf fashion because Can't get away with both of those things at the other events Right, that's true.  You have community members cooking gumbo and like meals for people And honestly that is that is so mirf because it's taking place on a fair in a fairground and a forage fairground in the middle of nowhere Right there Yeah, that's what it sounds. It sounds like a tailgating event. How that would be on I can see that like exploding next year now that somebody has shown. Oh, we can cook something You know People are already talking dan adam said they're doing it again next year Ben he said if he's gonna come he'll he'll cook again next year I was like, what are you up to these days? In a way that makes it very unique Yeah, yeah, and he's like, I'm just cooking Yeah So, um, Amish donuts we did pick up some Amish. Yep, correct donuts. I have two left at the house Um that I got home big jano says he heard a few people were camping at the fairgrounds Maybe that's what it turns. We're basically, you know what we're doing. This is slowly turning into a uh, uh nerdy maker, uh, like, uh What's that event that takes place in the desert? Yeah, like burning man burning man. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, that's what this is where it's turning into a An ain't that man, but they're allowed to so you could bring your trailers and stuff and and camp in that's awesome Are we parking you know in our reparking and stuff? Um, but but the thing is like that's what mirf Is right. It's it the other two festivals are are awesome festivals And this year I was really if this was really bad attendance I was like going in thinking and we'll see how this goes next year after this year They're not going anywhere. They just need to get themselves together is what they do Which just we just start calling it the mirf family reunion. That's what it felt like Is that what it felt like? Especially because we wanted to sell each other three months ago So we usually don't get that right? I wish I was there. I was so sad all weekend.  I see we get up saturday morning Very quick story my belt squeals when we go to leave. I'm like, oh no. Why is my belt squealing? That's weird Get up to to the was it still holding your pants up at least rise and roll bakery? Yeah, I had to take my belt out. Get up to the rise and roll bakery and I see big jano Um in there we go And uh, he's getting his donuts. We're getting our donuts Then I'm like, we're gonna hit walmart and we'll be There We get to walmart.  Oh, no and see what's going on Popped the hood coolant sprayed in the engine bay Oh, no watching the end. Uh, you kind of looking because the truck was off. I see a puddle behind the, um Basically the water pump pulley Which connects to a fan clutch.  And Turn the truck on the fan pulley is doing this On the belt. I'm like, that's supposed to be right. Not good. Yeah. Yeah So we called around can't find a mechanic on a saturday morning because everyone closes at noon and by this time it's 10 o'clock or something, right? Yeah 9 45 10 o'clock and they're like, we don't have time or we close at noon Or they just don't answer their phone So we're like, well screw it one of the mechanics is like you're probably fine Just keep keep an eye on the temp and put a bunch of water in it if if you feel like it's pouring And it wasn't it wasn't pouring out. It was just like a trickle or maybe a little leak, right?  I'm like, wait This looks like a dealership and then I see a jeep and I'm like, this is a jeep. This is a dodge jeep ram dealership Turn in there park Go into the service center, which is still open. It's about 11 o'clock. I'd say And I'm talking to the guy and he's like, hey, we can't do it today. We close at noon Let me see if I even have the part We don't have the part the part's back in el corn where we just we just we're at rise and roll bakery, right?  We can't do this till monday morning like first thing maybe And I'm like, that's not cool because I'm leaving tomorrow Is there anybody you can recommend like anywhere, you know, that's open that could help us Um, and he's like, give me a second come goes in the back comes back out like five six minutes later And there's one of the mechanics from the back. He's like, hey, this is dallas We close at noon, but dallas doesn't have anything going today He's willing to fix it in the parking lot Wait a minute. Fantastic.  Can I can I keep the door open for the air the service writer? Thank you so much if you're watching you're probably not but if you are Yeah, he says like, hey man, um, I'll keep a door open for you Just close it when you leave, you know that kind of thing That's awesome. So we go get all the parts we come back Call up tripod's wife who comes and rescue us. Thank you so much by the way And then uh, dude fixed the put a new Water pump fan clutch thermostat and belt in in like two hours Damn, okay. That's cool. And and and I gave him, uh, he only asked for 200 bucks I was like 250 bucks. He flushed my radiator for me like all the coolants and everything like just because So I gave him like that's awesome looks and I gave him an ender five s1 Um, because I had it with me and I gave him Another rose 3d printer that for his brother. I don't even know what that printer is I just had the box here and I wanted to give it away and I just I came back to pick it up with a roll of uh, atomic black PLA There you go.  He shows up at the event brings his printer We get it working for him. We got the firmware updated. Get it. That's awesome. And today He's like, what's the best printer for under a thousand bucks? I'm hooked. I'm gonna give this one to my girlfriend I need to buy another one already He's literally had it printing for barely over 24 hours.  You said first one's free second one's gonna cost you Well, no, I said listen. He just said I want something easy something fast Um faster than this. I said p1p went on sale for 5.99 today. I saw that. Yeah, I saw you posted that. That's awesome Do it jump on my feel like the p1p is worth it and buy it It is 5 000 worth it over the k1. No offense to the k1 lovers out there Um, but at five nine the p1p compared to the Compared to the so that makes it like half the cost of the x1, right? Like almost exactly half the cost Uh 600 of the x1 and the x1 carbons a little more Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. 100 so do it. Um Yeah, uh, I but he's super pumped. He's already printing like octopus His second print was like a flexi octopus. He's sending me pictures. That's awesome. Thank you If you're watching dallas, thank you so much, man. I really appreciate it. I hope your little guy loved those cars David wilson. Hope you're here with me. I haven't oh, he I see he said p1p in the chat. Thank you Uh, I got a jump for one second to david wilson who sent me a box of cars Um, which a lot of went to dallas and he has a four-year-old kid because I wanted to share the wealth david. Also, David David sent me this You gave it to chris riley to uh, send to me That's cool. This thing is gorgeous, man. It's got usbc plug in the back here Okay, so it plugs in straight usbc Uh, and this that's awesome freaking Gorgeous, so that is so much. Um David wilson for that and for all the cars Um, and drop some more stuff off with chris riley. He loves when you drop stuff off on his uh porch same Same FOMO is real Yeah um, also, I just saw Uh, let's see who I just saw Someone say they just got in and and I thought it was offset It was offset. Yep offset maker lab jump in. Yes. Yep You guys thank you so much Um, where did that go? Yeah, there is raced This weekend without you guys. I wasn't even planning on racing. I brought my stuff But my racer I haven't touched it since earth So I was like, I don't know if it'll drive and they're sitting on Friday. Okay. We're bored. Bring it over here So They we flipped out the gears In true fashion He pulls out the grinder sticks it between his legs and grinds down the axle a little bit Like that's awesome. Straight straight grinding fashion. They have the I mean Yeah, you gotta grind it, right? Um, and uh, you know Sets up the uh the death racer and Um And I won so by the way, I won the main event on saturday death racer. Oh, what did they put in there? They put something it sounds like they put something in there. It sounds like offset put something in there that uh, Oh, yeah, give you an unfair advantage. Oh, definitely. Yeah, it was love And it's made with love orio dust. Um Yeah orio dust.  They fixed it up puts we put some new gears in That's awesome. We put some new heat sets into some spots. I didn't have them before And uh, man that thing that thing held up until it got bucked off a giant robot, which we'll talk about in a minute But I do have to say yes, Caleb um There is nothing Oh, is this what I think it is cooler Then this gift from offset maker lab. Yeah, I love this I love it This this rivals david wilson's clock except where it's a completely different category The clock is like freaking amazing This is so fun. This is like a death racer amazing, right? So this is jim. Doesn't it doesn't it Tatch to a death racer so you can tote it around. Oh, yeah. Oh, man Death racer it's supposed to move up and down. Um, I think it's currently stuck great. I'm not gonna break it though It may have been broken broken in battle. We'll just say that Um Man, oh and it has a oh it has a warning thing on the back too. Just like an actual Amish buggy So it has uh has me this is the actual Many that he he inserted orio Crushed orio's in while it was printing.  Yeah, that's the one That's the mini jim with the crushed orios. He actually the other one in here broke its legs. It was like a tripod jim Um, oh man that one in on the back. It had the Amish buggy warning and then I put the special puppet research um That's that's uh sam Had these puppet research. I'll let you figure out what that is. I love that. I need one I need one and uh I love that so, um This one actually came out alive I can't say that the same for sam's pink one that he let me ride. I may have used the as a like a battering ram But but thank you. Um, it's held again. That's the same one. It's held together with glue. Oh, okay. Good. Um, yeah but yeah, um Jim has the same size of clock as tripod's garage. Yeah, who's is nicer? Uh, I don't know who's is nicer, but I can tell you which one I like better I like this one better because it's mine Um, that's why I like I like that. Uh Joel went out of the way to capitalize clock. So we knew yeah And andems you're welcome man. No problem on that. I saw your comments a minute ago. Um, but yeah So some amazing gifts this shirt. Um addy, uh, we tripod's daughter was making More I'm pointing tripod's garage merch. So I got this sweet shirt. That's cool.  I picked up the hat Oh, man. I need a hat. Yes. I need a tripod hat. I've been since I shaved my head I didn't ask for it. I paid for it. Um, I need a tripod hat The child Yeah, yeah, and it just says coffee I need on the back Fantastic doing that And I also got a mug. Um, I'm not gonna take that out Um, also fix some dudes watching Uh, thank you fix some dude And last but not least Andrew council of andrews Oh, yeah Uh, I got a couple of these left Oh, I did not have had a shot of uh tequila In these so so you put the little tiny red The red solo cups sit in here the little ones. Oh the little oh, that's cool. Hmm. I love that Focus out of my face. There we go. Oh That's awesome. So really sweet there. Um, I got so much. That's how I look after tequila Yeah, yeah So much cool stuff and the shots were yeah, the shots were good I haven't had a shot at tequila since I was in Mexico and it'll probably be the last one For a long time either, but uh, we won't go into that story. Um I got but yeah, all the stuff. It was awesome, man. Um Super cool gifts from everybody. I can't wait to go next year Meeting people from the community Um Again dallas, thank you for fixing my truck. All right. I gotta show you some stuff sam I mean, I just called you sam. I saw sam in the middle of the picture. I gotta show you some stuff Caleb real quick. Okay. I want to see some cool stuff. Yeah. Yeah, show me. I don't know You see the side What is going on? Is that a printer on that is a literal Full-size robot with a voron Uh, I want to say 2.4 maybe on there. Is it printing? Uh, it's not printing currently But it's um, it's now in there. Was it capable of printing while driving? It is Yes, what? That's amazing Got down. What's up? Also, so when how far do we go with these death rates because that's not even a death racer No, so this is the printer with wheels and these guys were there and the night before um, they were giving us some like first looks kind of they were doing some testing because There was so much wi-fi interference that during the day on saturday, um, it got um It got crossed up and it didn't fail safe. It didn't shut off and drove into somebody Um, and so they were doing some testing with it, right? Yikes. Um, so we we were outside the night before and sam's like, hey Uh, what do you think about bringing this to the death race tomorrow? Um, let me do this real quick. Look at that thing Yeah Are you kidding me? Yeah. Yeah. I like that the doors are just flopping around everywhere Dr. Dave who also saved the drag racer that I destroyed the on saturday Um, because the door were the doors ever attached or was it just meant to flop around like that? There's supposed to be magnets on them Watch this So, so yeah, um, I love this So we got it. We got a preview on saturday night and sam's like, dude, you got to bring that to the death race. It'll be awesome So, um, I don't there's that's amazing. You can find the video tag me or chat me because what I did was well That thing was out destroying things. I threw my death racer on top of it And I asked first. I made sure it was okay And then this is so this this explains I saw a comment earlier that said your death racer fell off of a fridge. This explains why So it drove around like a bucking bronco. My death racer went flying off and then exploded into three pieces. Um, all that hard work Trust me. There was every vehicle I touched this weekend ended in destruction Including your car included including my car So this was uh, this was the second. No, this was the race I raced sam um, I want to preface this by saying Um, I forgot that the controls on this drag racer were backwards on a regular remote control You pull the trigger to go forward you push to go reverse This one was set up push go forward pull to go backwards and I okay told that in my fault I was told that but I forgot in the heat of a moment Or you didn't listen So I was just telling everybody that the day before on saturday. I may have hit the crowd and broke it in half um, and so Uh, I don't know. I don't remember if this shows the destruction or not But let's see We're getting them reset up All right, here we go Oh, this isn't the one I screwed up my throttle. This is yeah, I was gonna say I just skip to the second time Yeah Boom. Yeah, mine went away left into the crowd hit a chair and for the second time in two days I blew up that um I blew up that uh dragster the first time it literally was hanging in pieces Apparently that is not that was not the race sam raced uh the right car against you. Yeah, that wasn't that wasn't the right race that you're right. Um It might have been I want to see the destruction this one right here. This is the one where I failed to hit the the Oh boy. Yeah, see I failed to hit nice because I went the wrong way and then oh, there's a crowd Let me spin this way. Oh, there's a crowd over here, too Man, you were aiming for them. Uh, no Yeah, you're right. I hit I got I I won the death race on saturday and I also won the drag racers if you count Um, yeah, that's that's true. I won the drag racers if you count the most people hit because Well, that's not yeah Extra points if their shoes are still on Now actually the second day someone got hit straight on with a drag racer that lost communication And uh, I actually got them. So yeah, yeah Oh, seriously. Yeah So here's here you go. Here's a little more picture of uh, that's so much look at all the What's all the what are the orange things on the ground? Parts. Oh these these were darts. So um, so the war on shooting taylor, uh, and uh Who was it taylor and dave? Um, I think from the war on team I can't remember who's shooting that day had the these high powered nerf guns and they were trying to shoot the heads off of the racers That was a fun part.  That's really fun. Yeah, it was it was a lot of fun but they kept shooting us like across the You know Across things sam sam. Uh, you're here. I know now, but earlier I talked about having a wealth still Because he shot me so close with that thing. Um, which was fair game fair game. Yeah Um, yeah, tripod's racer was glued together. I think um, like very very much glued together um Let's see Man, this looked like it was so much fun. Um, oh, yeah, here you go. The puppet research uh photo in front of prusa There's t-shirts too. Yeah, baby Sam you got to tell me where I can get this stuff. I need these Uh I would I kind of was hoping he would show up, but he didn't show up. Okay. Um next Uh zombie hedgehog. He had to oh, so are we on hot makes now? Is that what's going on here? I mean kind of I mean, we're just going through stuff, right? We're just talking. That's fine I'm good with that. Um, he says he has one there for you by the way Nero and steve were shooting us. There you go. Thank you. I couldn't remember where he's here. I don't know where here is Well, it's it's back in back in the u.k. Sam's in Illinois. I believe still so, um, austin zombie hedgehog Who's that anyway? I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea that Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. So he wanted to point out that jason from ldo brought out the smart orbiter v3 It's not just the orbiter extruder any or orbiter. Um Orbera Boom Yeah Man, that's pretty. It's it's sick and it's like so small. It's it's gorgeous at first when you pulled it up I thought I was looking at some sort of like Small engine. So I have I behind me. Um, actually I have an orbiter sitting right over here that I'm gonna use for that rat rig. I'm building and it doesn't it's just the orbiter Um And it doesn't have the hot end on it. You know what I mean? So that's really cool. That is all together in this one Man That's awesome. This is the voron teams big shout out to dr. Dave who saved my drag racer Uh, I literally broke the back half of the drag racer off um During saturday's race and okay, we've jumped in and reprinted it overnight Um, that's awesome faster than overnight on his voron, but it was overnight Um, it sounds like dude. It sounds like the entire weekend was you breaking things and other people fixing it for you Yes, takes a team maybe takes a village upset upset for the win Um, I can't even play I can't even say tripod fix it this year because they fixed his too. Huh? Huh tripod? Yeah um Anyway, fantastic Yes, in the usa.  Yes Was hue forge there? um, they weren't there, but they had On the on the uh, where there were a lot of bad some stuff, but on the polymer table They had a feature of that and then a whole bunch of things. I think awesome. Correct me if i'm wrong was e in there I don't know. I never met them, but if if he was yeah, um They fixed you right they fixed uh music dads too. They were like that's awesome through And also I want to point out They were also the one he had those those um wheels that like allowed it to strafe Go sideways and forward and all the omni wheels Yeah And he got it. Yeah took the CAD files for the ones he bought And broke it down and made them printable That's awesome. Put all the files out for everybody. So thank you so much. That was a lot of work Um, I might just say now you don't want to do that If you stay hey, just come down to just come down to Arkansas and we'll Yeah, well, we don't well, we don't have any work for you to stay right now You definitely don't want to do that because you might get taken out. Um, wow Oh, what else do we got here? Oh, here we go bar. I'll make you pancakes. Just some dragsters. There you go Caleb has one bed so you can sleep with him. Um, I uh another buggy Another buggy That's fun It's a polymaker buggy man Who what is that one that's got like is that brass? What is going on there? Why is it shiny the filament the filament color? Yeah Yeah, it's just the the color. Yeah, that's cool. That one didn't race but It's too pretty to race Oh, I saw this one. Did you which one I don't even know which one this is I just the fly through So we're like right to the right right here. So he they missed us in this first shot, but Maybe that was intentional. No, this is not the one that I saw also The fan is real close Yeah, I was gonna yeah, so it was in the same building as it was last year This was uh, is this edge of 3ds? I think this might have been Technical expertise more like a redneck hacking tripod. Yeah Yeah, this is edge of 3ds. I gotta say this um, so it was the same building as last year and uh Yeah, same building as last year as you can see all tables This was uh, either was that another drone that just flew by? Yeah, probably that one of the event organizers had the micro drone like a mini and um, it was funny because taylor Or or nero 3d. They were shooting it out of the air with a dart gun Like as it would go by they were like And shooting it out of the air didn't end up hitting it. Oh, yeah Oh, did it break and see us to the left a whole bunch of tables? I don't know when this was if he's watching he could tell us but um Yeah, I mean it was full all the way around almost no empty tables. That's awesome. And uh Oh, what was that? Oh, there's another drone Yeah, that's fun. So I mean Kind of panning around to show you boom What is this a shame says the stable one just wiggled. What what does that mean? I don't know I don't know this was a fly down. I'm guessing of all three Yeah, he's going. Oh, that's close That is close Oh, someone had a death racer down there That's fun We had more than one impromptu death races in the in the aisles by the way, of course, of course, which was a heck of a lot of fun So, yeah, a little fly through um It was a lot of fun. I I mean That's cool. Thank you so much scott. Here's nero's uh nero's version of what happened here Um Oh Wow Yeah, what is going on there that thing is launching them that thing just a lot. Oh, yeah If it once it got a hold of it would what is that like is that like foam? That thing is launching those things it it's almost like uh It has those things from pinball.  Um, Scott, you're right. I was right next to um taylor and he was shooting Uh scott's drone full force like right under it and it wouldn't even blink like it didn't even bother it at all um, that's amazing Dan has some really cool footage. I'm gonna try to find it in a second here. Oh, yeah, this is good stuff here So taylor took hid delta. He was given away and strapped it on a backpack and they walked he walked around with me That's great That's fantastic. FL sun Um super racer strapped on his back. I have it wasn't I'm assuming it wasn't printing Um, no it was literally like really sketchy strapped on a back. Um That's great. I can find this picture real quick for you because it was Hilarious, yeah here There you go So you just had it like strapped wrapped around it and stuff I love that Um So that was pretty funny. Let's see. Oh chuck. Yeah chuck hella buck was out He had to leave saturday afternoon, but we had some uh good times and good discussion. Thank you chuck And he he got the best race of the day film like this is the closest one where both of them actually finished of the day Oh, and it knocked in oh, that's one actually knocked Dan's camera nice That's uh, that duskin kicked up is cool Uh Yeah, and it knocked Dan's camera over and oh, I see that. Yeah Uh, there you go. This is what happened after let's see if I let's see if I can zoom this in You look like you look like a guy from the south on a dating profile holding his fish Yeah, I I tell you what everyone's like, let's take a picture and I love pictures. Uh, except for I'm pouring sweat hot We've been outside for an hour in the sun You know, uh, but look this is the back end of the the drag racer. It's not supposed to be like that And then this is all the guts hanging out of the entrails And literally this this blue cat six cable cat five cable ran to the front of the racer in the beginning It ran up to the servo way up in the front, but it's all what is it? Oh, hang on. Hang on. What do I see in the background there? Is that an edge of uh desk t-shirt edge of desk shirt? Yeah, that's awesome Offset maker lab, right? That's that's what we got going on there. Um, But yeah, so that was that was that Good stuff Andrew we had a council meeting. Um, I was the only one to show up and I'm not an Andrew Are you an honorary Andrew now? I guess so Uh Yeah, there you go How many Andrews do you have to have show up for it to be like an actual? I guess just at least one, right? And as long as it's Andrew if it's Andrew Rogers Yeah, is that Andrew prime now because Like that's the because he held his first meeting Okay Oh, yeah, so the second day of my racer I don't know if I have a picture Someone out there probably does um the second day the drag racer Hit a chair and busted all up and I the wheels like in the front were busted off and stuff So I put the oh man rear spoiler, which I also busted off at the same time Under the front like a like a sled and I drove it all the way back to the table like that Fantastic hilarious. All right. So this was the second best. It wasn't me I want to point that out dan. I was not racing here Um, is this uh, are we gonna see the camera fall? Yeah, this is a different one or maybe it was the same one. Let's see No, this is a different one, but there's like, oh Oh Hey, you put that camera there, you know Like you put that camera there expecting something to happen. Oh, yeah He said there's a bounty on it. Uh, well, I think he said there's not a bounty on it in the beginning of the race But I'm gonna go with he said there was um, I thought I thought this showed Oh here So here here we go. I don't know how far it is though So this is a full race session I don't remember. This is day one. So this okay This is the one where mine went spectacularly wrong if it if it loads I just don't know who's racing here. Oh No, that's steve steve did awesome. He didn't lose a single race really Um, that's cool. That was me walking back Uh, so Oh, yeah, this is this is the good one. Let's see if I can full screen this So I'm on the right. I have the white racer on the right Shout out to uh, how to tech how to texan how to texas now. I'm gonna forget Um, but those guys were awesome. They let me race their extra racer And this is the one where I uh, forgot Oh Geez dude And that was straight for the crowd. That wasn't even the good race. Hang on. Let's see Um, let's see if I can find the good one. So that was the other angle of the one where you went straight into the crowd I went straight and you said you had the late start every time I raced. I just want to point that out How are you so bad at this? I would say it's the car. Oh, there's the one that stands around It's the sun was in my eyes. Yeah. Yeah There is this me again That looks like your butt.  Yeah, um Let's see here Here we go. Here we go 78 people watching this is going to be glorious. I just want to point it out This is that he said he said crash it spectacular Spectac I can't even say Crash it good. We'll just say that crash it good. Um And I hear and says it was the tequila Don't drink and drive sir Don't drink and drag and just sent The clip of it. Yeah All right. Here we go I had no steering for a second. They had to fix that After the first race I was like, hey guys, you got to fix your steering Honestly, not having steering probably would have held you out Uh, maybe thanks offset maker lab. I appreciate that If anyone uh, how to texan goes to It, um, instagram and looks at offset maker labs, uh, or ryan reads, um I I absolutely love that guy. I wish I would have wish I could have hung out with him this weekend. All right. Here we go Brian's awesome. How many people do I take out? I don't know if I've seen this angle yet. Oh, I corrected it. I corrected it. Oh, no Oh, you missed me actually hitting Everybody on the rest of the side there. That's where I totally It hit, uh, whatever I like how you it's right off screen. Look at that.  They just Yeah, I did like a 360 there. Did you see that? Total 360 and then it went into the crowd Fantastic Watch that was that was skill. I could have almost finished with a 360. Hmm. Is that flying? It's falling with style Fantastic, we we definitely had some battles inside. Oh man, look at that Same here, dude. Same here um Yeah, he they definitely were like, oh, where's Caleb and I was like he couldn't come he didn't want to see you Um, no, that's not the case Uh uh Don't do that to me Like seriously, so thank you guys offset. Um, thank you to the Texans Like the whole community around the drag racers around the um death racers And everything like they came together people with printers were printing parts when they broke like all over the event It was really cool. So that's that's what we needed. Yeah, thank you. Thank you Um, monsoon josh, it was drifting. Thank you. How fun would it have been to have like the uh, the printer Uh, the the voron that was in there like annihilating death racers printing more death racer parts like replacement parts for the one It was currently breaking. Yeah. Uh, yes, uh, that would have been super cool Is what it would have been and I gotta do I do have to point out that scott did burn up Three death racers on saturday after we had a shot at you Yeah, and on that note dan an idea for the drag racers to make it a little safer. Nobody wants to hear that Nobody wants that What's what's your idea? No, we don't want to hear it. We want them to be dangerous They're supposedly right now. We're waiting on final proof. I believe it's gonna be at earth Um, I'm really hoping they'll let us I don't know if they're gonna let us But it would be sweet if they let us go on the track like they have an actual running track like rubber track Oh, that'd be amazing. Do actual like loops you could actually lanes with lanes, you know Oh, yeah And it's like right outside the doors basically of where we are in earth So can we get um, can we get bumpers installed like when you're bowling for your lane? Yeah, keep it a keep you from knocking people out. I actually thought about, um What if we set up, uh, it would be no fun because why? Um barricades for the dragsters. Nice Um, fantastic. I thought about what if we just ran um Like a heavy piece of wood on each side and like a thick piece of rope Or actually two thick pieces or one all the way down And then you like connect your drag racer in with a carabiner And it would be like a line But what I mean is it would be a loose line but a line that way So then you're not really stirring steering it though.  You're right. There was a track meet last year Uh, striped straw bales. Yeah, there you go for the drag race next year You should make your own drag racer and and call it ankle biter This I'm doing it. Atomic. That'd be fun. Atomic is sponsoring my drag racer for earth Really ankle biter it might have to work. That'd be great, right? Oh, when did you have that conversation sir while you were there?  That's awesome talking to john. We were talking before And I uh, I was like, hey, uh, I didn't respond because I you know, I didn't know what project I wanted to do And I knew I was going to see you hopefully now and we talked and I was like, I have an idea.  Yeah Cool. No offense to polymaker. You rock. I got you.  We'll find out what actually happens because as you know A lot of talking sometimes nothing happens with that crowd, but we'll find hey, it's okay Not too long from now. We'll find out about a week before the event happens. So it'll be good. Exactly zipline No zipline dragsters would be kind of fun. Um pixel printers got home awesome Another building. Yep. We were talking about that briefly on um Yeah, yeah, earth will be in the docking bay if we docking bay 94 docking bay. It's gonna be like down into the wall Like oh, yeah, that's isn't that where you had it last time? Yeah. Yeah Nice as I've seen your soldering skills. Good luck Oh god, uh, hey ryan, um, I know you're watching. I hope you're watching ryan or steve. Um Oh my god, I totally forgot Her name the other the girl. That's what you get. Let me know in the chat I totally forgot her name now. She was actually controlling the the fun one. Um anyways Uh, I I implore you employee employ you guys to build me the crazy tracks I have no idea what's going on. I'll sponsor it That was a lot of words just jumbled together and a couple things that might have resembled sentences And I have no idea what you're talking about. Thank you kim is her name. I I totally law I was like ryan steve Oh my god, I forgot because they introduced someone new too by the way like was it another steve? Maybe I don't know. There was another guy with you. Oh Oh, do you see this comment? Wow, I didn't cause an injury to any girl You said that somebody lost their, uh, lost some blood over this It wasn't me It wasn't me. All right, calm down shaggy No, um, one of the texans lost control of the car and hit Uh, the car like disconnected from the radio and it went into the crowd straight like had on somebody But I don't think the one I did caused injury Not that I know of and that's the story i'm sticking to. I don't know. I'm hearing differently insurance. It wasn't me. Um, I'm hearing differently The car on the counter it wasn't me. This would be crazy Okay, wait, no can't afford five motors yet. That's gonna be crazy five Micro racers. Oh, that'd be fun Steven Pearson jeremy. Oh, there you go or i motors jeremy. Nice. There you go So they had they had another person with them. It was jeremy, uh, and jeremy was the other jim Let's see Can I take jim anywhere? Yeah, I would have hit tripods like but it was already gone. So it went right under him.  I'm looking forward to going next year. I really am you the cycle got hit twice I didn't know that there was a guy having your cycle. Yeah um That was cool So so what's funny is um Tripods wife was at the end of the track and during one of the races She actually had to put one of her legs up to let the go let the racer go under her And I was like, look, she's doing her best tripod like because she had one of her legs up Proof of interestration in license Only a few people maimed at this event Oh god It was fun. Um, let me know in the comments if you went real quick We got I know we're we're way behind here. Um, but let us know in the comments. What was your favorite part? We're going to give you just a couple minutes to chat if you were there. What was your favorite part? Would you see what you love? Um, but Yeah, Caleb, um and some hearts broken hearts broken. Yeah hearts broken girl that won one of the drag racers a little a younger girl Yeah, I got a shout out. She broke it immediately. Um And they taught her how to fix it when I came back The one that I destroyed on saturday. She she put it back together for me Like that's awesome how to fix it. She sat there behind the table her dad let her and they taught her and she put mine back together for me So that was pretty cool Sam says it was fun if you didn't get hurt by jim Hey, I got hurt by sam. I got a welt to prove it It hit me and I rippled I was like See that in slow motion Oh, man this time loved everything so many cool people.  You've been wiping it out. Totally emotional damage A mosh on all damage. Yeah. Yeah, man. I uh Oh somebody made a custom guitar hero controllers and played supermire 64 with it That was awesome. Man this show it's okay I'm so upset that I didn't go this year. I wish I would um mitch is on tweet on Twitter mitch posted on twitter and on the twitter and it was awesome. They were like Yeah, it was awesome. That's amazing Built custom. Yep. Um show show show. Let's see seeking and making new friends. Yeah, awesome Drag race is probably safer to stand behind barriers. Um Sorry, I didn't mean to take that over from you Yeah, I already showed that one. Mitch won another v zero. I thought you were gonna give that to me. Thanks, mitch. Um, wow Meeting everyone in 3d K2 kevin. Oh no, I left it at home. I got laid by k2 kevin. Um, excuse me. Awesome. Yeah first night It was great. Oh, did he give you a lift? Yeah, all right. He had he had like a lay, but it was made of k2 clips Oh nice and maker deck swag all on what it was awesome. That's awesome at home on my dresser. Dang it Uh chris riley. Yeah, he had full size printed guitars along with an amp that had some pretty cool printed stuff on it And a picture of him was a lot younger playing which was cool That's awesome A lot a lot uh, yeah, he played his printing Um Nice I'm actually I just recently started so I had a friend come over yesterday. We started working on a making a guitar body Nice. Mm-hmm. I'll be posting that progress on that here soon No, we're not printing it. We're making it out of actual like alderwood. Oh nice Mm-hmm. We did uh, we glued up some test pieces and we made a pattern for the cnc and everything and He's I don't think he's active on twitter. So I'll be posting some progress on that It's just something to do. He he wanted to work on it and the guys were the people were staying with the family We're staying with right now have a nice wood shop. So I figured what the hell might as well, right? Well, thank you It sounds like it's a lot of fun.   Um, that's dan adams and sam Nice That's uh, dini stl. Denise. I don't know why I did not focus on her face Um, there you go. There you go. So I gave um one of my printers to to scott He wanted to play with a delta. So he's he did a shoulder picture We he only had it up there for like five minutes because we took so so many pictures here Um, look at sam's face in that one Yeah Mitch said his body hurts so much afterward He got he got laid too much Yeah There you go, huh? Sounds strange when you call it a sweaty drag race. Yeah Feels like we should be wearing I didn't know Courtney was there too. Yeah You know who else came and I totally forgot to introduce myself and say hi and I missed out Um, louis louis diggers louis 3d. Are you serious aria dragon? Huh, huh? Yeah. Yeah, she was there. I'm very sad I'm jealous. I forgot to go over and talk to her.   There we go. That's the one I was looking for There we go. Buggies. Mm-hmm. That's a buggy stack. So I that's a buggy stack Um, broke the should feel the butt. Can you fit? Can you put things in the buggies? You know Can you fill them with crack donuts our idea? No, our idea was to fill fill this R like the orio express Um with actual orio. So when it got hit like orios would spill out Yes, that would have been amazing Yeah, it sounds like something you got to do for her Uh, let's see 76 Um, there you go a little stacked Orio express. I don't know where these pictures end. So hey, there you go moist The team behind the master racer Uh, I just want to point out that all three of them won, uh, best in show I think for a second great place. Look at the bulldozer down there. That was awesome Tread on them Oh, yeah, look at all they're all broken right now, but um, yeah The what's funny is someone's like, oh the The thing can come up and it can block the head But I can tell you from firsthand experience He's slower and I definitely took him out. So it doesn't matter if there's a thing that can block his head because you can get him Uh, by the way, oh, yeah, and I took out back to the Um, uh, what did I take out back to the future? I had paybacks for earth because he got me in like 20 seconds at earth. So I got him too. Yeah That's awesome. Yeah, so that was that was pretty cool Next year, man, uh, my buddy steve who came along Next year, I want to make sure that drag racer And as long as everything is good with the housing situation But Scott set up this racer and it just was on rails It was so fast straight down the line. That's awesome. Of course.  There you go. Hookie cad. Um, she was wearing mitches, uh Which is printer That's awesome. There's a picture there All right, I'm done. I know we're way over but I've just it's just so I think uh, I think next year I want to try to Uh, make it to every rep rat festival Obviously, we're going back to remerf. I'm not gonna miss I'm not gonna miss murph next year and then try to make sure that I make it to earth and then whatever else shows Well, I don't know if I would make it to the one in the uk, but Wait, wait, I found it council of andrews uh nominating andrew as president That's fantastic alpha, uh the andrew andrew prime Yeah, it's not really because he's I think the only andrew in that picture, but I see a chris travis um Let's see. I don't remember who the hat person in the hat was Who the henry's henry's down behind steve's head. Um Yeah, good stuff, man Yeah, I think I'm done showing pictures time to board my flight. Liz fly safe It was great to see you and hope your arms don't get tired And uh, yeah, hope hope the dad's got you to the airport safe Royal know me that's right. That's right. It was real know me. I forgot Thank you. Jason was there. Yes. Jason was in that picture. I told you Um space that too, but all right. We were way late. Yeah, she just uh followed me recently Royal know me Yeah, yep. Yeah. There she is. Okay. I knew I was like, I can't remember I'm sorry I recognize the hat dude. Dude Oh my god Stop clicking it. I'm clicking it. I got this. Oh, man Caleb, we need we need pictures of what you did all weekend. I Uh, was it just a blank screen? Oh, actually, I do have something that I could Show well, I'm not gonna run across the office to get it, but I did something cool. I did do something cool I'll post it and I'll tag hot mix and we'll show it next week Nice. All right. I know we're late. We got to get going. Um, yeah But next week. Thank you. Next week. We got uh, Fred or fr 3d. We still don't know how to pronounce it Out loud, but the 3d printing on july 3rd on july 10th. We have retro maker joining us Um, and we do again. I did this last week again. We have somebody lined up for the 17th Uh, I need to add that to our schedule so we can actually announce it. It was in it's I have it on the Yeah, never mind. We'll figure it out Awesome. Well, everybody. Thank you guys so much for being here on another hot mix if you uh came to murph this past weekend It was awesome to see you all and I hope I got time to say hi to everybody I never feel like I have enough time to talk to everybody. Um, They never like hey, I'll come back to your booth. Give me a minute and I never see you again So I apologize if I did that to you But thank you so much for being cool coming up and saying hi for racing Keeping the death racers and the drag racers alive because I really feel like the community is like grabbing those um events and turning them into like Serious like fun events and they are just just a ton of fun Yeah Again, it was it was great to see everybody jano great to see you man And give everybody hugs because a lot of people wanted hugs. So it was awesome to give out a lot of hugs too. So um Yeah, David David Wilson didn't show and still won. That's right. I forgot you brought Uh tripod brought his clock to the creality function last night in one second place with the best Or something awesome Uh, Dan's a hugger. Yeah. Yeah. I hope the anniversary went great dan happy anniversary by the way um Happy anniversary. Yeah. Yeah, but We'll see you guys. All right. Let's call it. Yeah I'm uh, I'm running out of energy I'm just looking I make sure I didn't forget. I probably have so much stuff. I didn't show tonight, but that's okay Um, thank you all. We'll see you guys soon next week with fr 3d or fred fred. We want to say uh Talk to you guys later. Have a good night. All right. Have a great week and we'll see you later You know what? Hey, you know what I just realized I put I put the technical difficulties banner underneath us when you went out of stream earlier and I never flipped it back Yeah, it's a the entire stream has said technical difficulties Oh, well, not anymore. I mean, I guess I'm on the stream. So there's always uh technical difficulties just in I can't it's harder to keep track of things when you're on it Welcome to the midwest goodbye. Call us out. Why don't you that is the midwest goodbye. All right. Bye guys See you later. All right. Bye


So, in 2006, I was asked by the government of Bolivia to help decolonize the education system using ICTs or information and communication technologies. Is the volume okay? You see, the government of Bolivia had been going through a revolution. Aval Morales, the first indigenous president came into power after months of protests and riots, after years of stagnant economic growth, and decades of minority rule. The population of the country is majority indigenous, and at the time, the population was among the poorest in the world, and yet the government didn't reflect or represent the majority of the population in the country. With Aval, this completely changed. And our task was to eliminate all of the references of Spanish culture and history from the education system. This was meant to institutionalize somehow the new political era. This meant that we reviewed all the curricula, we reviewed all the textbooks. It was a big job. And very quickly, we realized that it wasn't going to work. The teachers and students protested, schools were completely ill-equipped to deal with this transformational change. And instead of achieving the political objective, we ended up politicizing the education system and the technology that we were using to implement it. This is a photograph from the inauguration of Aval Morales. And I tell this story because I think it's an object lesson in how radical political politics can discord technological innovation. It creates a Frankenstein. It creates unexpected results. It places a political agenda above the needs of the people that the program is meant to help. And this is a lesson that I've learned many times over the course of my career. I have worked primarily as an advisor to governments on economic and education policy projects in the developing world, for the United Nations, for the Harvard Institute for International Development, for several countries directly, including Kenya, Rwanda, Namibia, Ghana, Ethiopia, India, and of course, Bolivia. And in the course of that work, my colleagues and I were often impeded by certain structural issues over which we had no influence. And in 2015, I started looking at blockchain as a potential way to deal with some of these systemic issues, that eventually it could help in environments with weak institutions, with a lack of access to the financial system, with a lack of privacy, a lack of identity, or even a lack of economic independence. So I come to blockchain not so much as a developer, not at all, in fact, and not as an investor, but really as a humanitarian, as someone who, based on my previous experiences, is looking for ways for this technology to help in parts of the world where other things have not. And this brings us to the topic of today, which is opportunities for collaboration between Ethereum 1x and Ethereum Classic, which, in case you don't know, have a bit of a complicated history.  Let's focus on technological innovation together. I'm also here to say that the Ethereum Classic community is wholeheartedly ready to be a full and constructive partner with the Ethereum community. I invite you to work with us to collaborate and focus on this innovative technology together. We're already starting to do this, and I'll talk about some of the projects we have going on in a bit. First I want to reiterate that we are committed to working with the Ethereum community. We share history, values, DNA, and increasingly technical functionality. We're committed to the future of both Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. And while Ethereum Classic will remain as a proof-of-work chain, there's ample opportunity for collaboration between the two. We all know that ETC was established in response to the DAO hack. And while this is important, it's impossible to remain a viable blockchain if you're defined simply by what you're against. You have to have your own identity. You have to have your own vision. For Ethereum Classic to survive and grow, it has to evolve. It has to collaborate. It has to grow. And so we're starting with our nearest sibling, Ethereum, to try to do that. In my outreach to the Ethereum community so far, I've met a number of really smart, interesting, creative people. I've made new friends. At the same time, I've gotten a lot of questions, healthy, thoughtful, tough questions. And so what I'd like to do is help answer some of those questions. And I'd like to tell you at least five things that I think you need to know about Ethereum Classic that will help you consider my invitation to collaborate with us. We established ETC Labs in 2008 after about a year of research and thinking. We operate an accelerator in San Francisco. And we have a dev team that maintains the blockchain. Our mission is essentially to build high-quality technology, to create communities of value, and to fulfill the social promise of blockchain. I'll talk a bit more about those in a minute. The one question we consistently get, or most often get, is why are you doing this? What's the motivation? And to put it simply, we have a deep and abiding commitment to the potential of Ethereum Classic and Ethereum. To these public blockchains that are truly unique, transformative, and will have, I think, enormous impact in the future. It's not really more than that. Most recently, I was dean of the, a dean at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, a pretty comfortable and steady job. I left that because I felt like this was an opportunity to shape how this technology will be implemented and how it will impact people's lives. I've staked my career and my reputation on this mission. So I'm in it, and we're here to fulfill it. I'd like to say we couldn't do this work without the partnership of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, Bob Summerwell and Yaz Kuri, I think you're here somewhere. Thank you for your help, your full partners in everything we're trying to do. The first thing I'd like you to know about Ethereum Classic is that despite what you might read on Twitter, it's growing. By external measures, the hash rate has grown, you know, about 40,000% since 2016. The community has reached about 15,000 members in Asia alone. There's probably another 5,000 or more in the US. And I think it's refreshing to see that these two key metrics show an increase at the same time that the market cap has declined since December 2017. This means that the growth is organic. It means there's fundamental things about the blockchain that people are seeing beyond speculative investment. It's also growing by internal measures. Our dev team is hard at work. You know, when ETC was first established, there were a few resources. There were not a lot of developers to build or to share. It took a while for the blockchain to really get itself organized, to get the community to a point where it could actually innovate. But more recently, that's changed. Our roadmap consists of maintaining compatibility with Ethereum. In the past, this was perhaps a default choice, but now it's a strategic one, so that we can be in a position to cooperate more fully. In September, we implemented the Atlantis hard fork, which adopted the Byzantium changes from Ethereum to Ethereum Cossack. We're well on our way to adopting the Agata hard fork, which will bring the Constantinople changes to Ethereum Cossack. And later in 2020, we'll do the same with Istanbul and so on. At the same time, I'm pleased to say that we're also pursuing several projects that we think are forward-looking and innovative, that will contribute to both ecosystems. The second thing I'd like you to know about Ethereum Cossack is that we're here to collaborate and contribute. And I'm pleased to announce three partnerships that represent this commitment. And the first is Gitcoin. Gitcoin is deploying on Ethereum Cossack. In 2020, we will have a regular series of hackathons and bounties that will be available to both the Ethereum Cossack and Ethereum communities. And as I understand it, this is the first cross-chain deployment for Gitcoin. So a warm and hearty welcome to Ethereum Cossack. And for Ethereum Cossack, this is the first platform for crowdfunding developer projects. And we feel like with Gitcoin, it's with a trusted partner in the right way. Another partnership that we're pleased to announce is Swarm. As of yesterday, ETC Labs and Swarm will be working together to help develop their prototype and help implement their roadmap. We've had a chance to spend a good deal of time with the team. We're comfortable and excited about what they have planned. And we'll be contributing both funding and developer resources to help them achieve it. The third partnership that I'm pleased to share is that ETC Labs and Block have announced and will launch BlockCod Connect. This is a managed infrastructure service that will help developers build on top of Ethereum and Ethereum Cossack. It'll be available to both networks. It will provide a single API with support for DApps and Wallets and Endpoints, and it'll be free for the first two years. There's also an enterprise plan available. Ethereum Cossack needs this infrastructure in order to grow. We can't really grow without it. And we thought, if we're building it anyway, why not add on some extra and share it with the Ethereum community as a gesture of goodwill? It really represents an expression of our commitment to making sure the developers have what they need to build. And I'd like to thank Block and recognize Matt Lam, who's here from Block today for their cooperation with us in this. We look forward to launching this in early 2020, and I hope you'll use it. The third thing I'd like you to know about Ethereum Cossack is we're committed to building high quality technology, especially if it helps address fundamental long-term questions that we're all trying to answer. One example of this is our collaboration on developing a prototype for a stateless client solution with Alexei Akunov. I'll let Alexei talk about his work. He can do that in much greater detail and much more accuracy than I ever can. But we're really pleased to be associated with this project. And I should say that this isn't about advancing Ethereum Cossack. This is about working with leading developers who are answering the big questions. This is something we're interested in. We think it helps everybody, and we think that this project fits squarely into one of those big questions. A second project that we're engaged in is looking at ways for Ethereum Cossack to help address some of the scalability issues in Ethereum. And what we've done is started a research project to find a way to use Ethereum Cossack as a short-term data availability layer for Ethereum. This grew out of a blog post from Vitalik over the summer on Ethereum Research. And given ETC's 14-second block time and lower gas fees, this seems like a viable solution. There's obviously some challenges. But we think that it's a promising start. We'll start with fly client support to reduce gas costs for ahead of verification. But fly client support is not enough on its own to solve the problem. We have to think carefully about proof-of-work verification and what that means and what we can do with that to prevent bloat in the network. So please stay tuned for more news about this project as we develop it. If you're interested in learning more or if you're interested in collaborating with us on it, please let us know. It's being led by Isaac Artis, who's a member of our core development team. We're also supporting the EVM infrastructure with LLVM. We aim to provide front-end support for programming languages beyond Solidity, and to provide LLVM-based tooling for developers. We're adding support for Rust, for C, and C++, and we can add other languages as well. This will enable the LLVM infrastructure to support EVM along with IWAZM, and making a future, you know, full-proof chain for developers. The project is led by Alan Leaf, also from the ETC Labs dev team, and he's here at the conference, so if you want to see a preview of the compiler or you want to learn more about it, please talk to him. And then the last part of our commitment to building high-quality technology is really the core dev team. We're organized into three groups, the client team, which works on the protocol in partnership with Chainsafe, the EVM team that works on LLVM and other projects in partnership with Second State, and then the tooling team, which has launched OpenRPC and the J3 of tools. I should also mention that we partner with WhiteBlock, which develops, you know, a test net and a live sandbox for things before they go to main net. The next thing I'd like you to know about Ethereum Classic is that we're committed to creating communities of value. And by communities of value, I mean creating value through financial and data independence. The kind of which you can only derive from peer-to-peer censorship-resistant, trustless exchange. We're also committed to communities of value that rely on the kind of integrity that you can only get from a public blockchain. One concrete example of this is the accelerator that we operated in San Francisco. We've hosted more than 20 projects over the last year in our space there. We provide equity investment, we provide business development, tech development support. In addition to that, we've invested in over 30 projects and partners throughout the year. And these are not ETC specific. They may benefit ETC, but more generally we're interested in helping the ecosystem grow and develop. Here's a sample of some of the projects. I won't talk about all of them, certainly. I'll just highlight two. So Saldo operates a stablecoin peg to the Mexican peso that enables immigrants in the U.S. to get their payments home to Mexico without the cost and time required with other payment services. Or Original My, which uses the blockchain to record notarized documents, notarized signatures, and voting outcomes in Brazil to reduce corruption. If you want to learn more, I can share this later. And then the last thing I'd like to share about Ethereum Classic is we're committed to fulfilling the social promise of blockchain. People define this in different ways. We define it, I think, in a unique way. We think a lot about how the technology, while it's important, needs to fulfill a social and economic need. It's the only way that it will see mass adoption. And in thinking about that need, we consider three fundamental transformations taking place in the globe today. This is a map of the global distribution of population by the year 2050. And it demonstrates the first transformation, which is demographic. By 2050, there will be about 9.8 billion people on the planet. The majority of those people will live in developing countries in Asia, South Asia, and Africa. At the same time, that concentration of population will coincide with mass urbanization. So for the first time, most people will live in a certain part of the world, in a certain sense. The second transformation is financial. Most people in this part of the world will not participate at all in the formal economy. They'll earn their living in the informal economy. They probably won't have bank accounts. They probably won't earn a paycheck or pay taxes in the way that many of us, or at least some of us, do today. And the third transformation is digital. I think you're probably all familiar with that, and being here today is a testament to your recognition that the digital transformation taking place currently is going to continue and change the way people engage with each other and the world. For us, this all paints a picture of a world where the majority of the population will live in areas where the necessary infrastructure isn't in place, where they won't make use of the current financial system as it's currently constructed, and where their lead digital lives. They may live in the edge of cities without regular electricity or plumbing. They may not get a paycheck, but they'll have a mobile phone. To me, this is an exceptional use case for blockchain, and it's a long-term use case, one that we should start building towards today, and I hope we can start building towards that together. To sum up, I would just like to reiterate our commitment to collaborating with the Ethereum community. We're here for the long term. We're sincere about this collaboration. We mean it. You know, the Ethereum community is, to my mind, one of the most creative and innovative communities in the world. It's strong. It's resilient. Look what you've built. I think we have something to contribute, and I think the community here has something to gain from our contributions. Please come and work with us. Get to know us, and I hope that you and me and my colleagues from Ethereum Classic into the Ethereum community. Thank you.


From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. The World Health Organization says there has been an increase in the number of children in developing countries who weigh too much. In African countries, the WHO says the number of overweight or obese children is two times as high as it was 20 years ago. Around the world, about 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2011. Doctors use height, weight and age to measure whether a person is underweight, normal, overweight or obese. Weight and obese children are more likely to become overweight and obese adults. They are also at risk of developing health problems like diabetes and heart disease. Francesco Bronca is the director of the WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. He says governments should consider providing vitamins for children and they should have policies on how food is marketed to children. But reducing the number of overweight children will not be easy. The goal is difficult to meet even in wealthy countries. Scientists say lowering obesity rates is especially complex in countries that also have high rates of infectious diseases. But the WHO has some basic solutions. The organization says people should eat less fat, sugar, salt and processed food. This can be replaced with more fruits and vegetables and increased physical activity. These goals are especially important for children. The WHO also says mothers should breastfeed their babies for at least the first six months if possible. The current goal for the WHO's World Health Assembly is to prevent any increase in the percentage of overweight children in the next 12 years. For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villareal.


Thunderbird is a pretty big open source project, and yet I feel like KDE is actually bigger. That said, let's give a quick look at the income numbers. In 2022, KDE earned 280,000 bucks, that's a lot. Instead, Thunderbird, just Thunderbird, not Mozilla, has earned 6.4 million bucks. That's 23 times higher. They managed to receive $4 million just during December 2022. You might say, ok, but KDE mostly earns through donations. Thunderbird might have some companies giving them money. Except nope, they earned 6 millions just in donations. And yeah, donations are 99.9% of the rent venue, compared to 65% for KDE. So last important number, Thunderbird received donations from 300,000 users. Just wow. So these donations allowed Thunderbird to expand its staff from 15 to 24 members. A substantial portion of the donations, almost 80%, was allocated towards those personal costs. The remaining funds were medically distributed across various essential domains, such as administrative expenses, bank charges for donations, personal management, legal and tax advice, and IT infrastructure, that was difficult to say. But how was all of this possible? Well in an effort to bolster community engagement and financial support, Thunderbird initiated a series of measures towards the end of 2021, which continued to have a significant impact throughout 2022. The primary channels of engagement included more frequent blog posts, daily interactions across social media platforms, but we'll get to that, and a novel in-app donation appeal. These initiatives not only facilitated a two-way conversation between the Thunderbird team and its communities, again more on this later, but also contributed to a significant surge in financial support, as we've so strengthening the project economical foundations. The life as a non-native English speaker is difficult. Towards the end of 2021, Thunderbird introduced a first of its kind in-app donation appeal, something that few apps do, like its first of its kind, which continued to resonate throughout 2022. This initiative not only provided an easy avenue for the community to financially support a project, but also served as a platform to actually explain how those donations would be utilized and benefit the project, and ultimately the community. This is the reason behind that amazing $4 million figure during December, that's the month when Thunderbird decided to send an notification to all users asking for some donations. This video, by the way, isn't sponsored, nobody pays for it, except, again, through donations. Yes, that's right, I also need to have a first of its kind in-video donation appeal to make sure that this channel can grow as fast as Thunderbird, I wish. But we're actually a team of multiple people working on this project, with each video taking one hour to script, one hour to record, and even more to edit, and then half an hour to publish everything. All of this works if I can hit the monthly goal of 1000 years roughly, and you can see a floating above my head the current situation. If you'd like to tip something, I've got Patreon, Kofi, Libra, PayPal, and so on, and if you do get special content as well, so it's a win-win. Now that I have secured my $6 million a year, let's get back to Thunderbird. The project started using new social networks such as Mastodon in 2022 as well. It started producing a podcast called Thundercast, which already has 15 episodes at least. In the podcast, developers explain how the project will grow and what new functionalities will be added. The social media accounts are very active, frequently posting memes and retweeting all the cool stuff that random users do on Thunderbird. On top of that, the account thanks each person that publicly says, hey, I just donated to a project. I know it doesn't seem like much, but it really helps. If I have to indicate who I really think need the social media strategy, I would point my finger at Jason Evangelou, that's not how you pronounce it, I'm really sorry about that. Who also, by the way, hones the Linux for everyone YouTube channel, he joined the social media team roughly one year ago, maybe a bit more, and just a few days ago the team doubled in size with, I am not getting this name correct, Monika Ayans Madon, previously employed at Canonical and Ubuntu Community Conceal member. I mean, that's quite a team. Of course there's a blog as well, and this includes, yes, announcements, but it also features a monthly blog post covering all the work in progress for, as an example, the merge of Thunderbird and K9 Mail, I'll talk about that later on. Even more, there's a newsletter as well, which again contains all the plans of the project with mock-ups and ideas, this makes sure that users can actually give feedback on what is going on at all times, and I think that from a promotional point of view, the team has done a perfect job, taking a project that many people, including the project itself, they state that, third was that, and reviving a strong and vibrant community around it with constant communication with the users, ten out of them. By the way, let me flex here, Thunderbird does follow me on Twitter, so I'm just that famous, that at the same time we saw a very big rebranding operation. Again, just a few years ago, it felt like Thunderbird was dying, the project then decided to kill that idea entirely with a new logo, a complete big redesign called Supernova, which is a great branding name, and even starting the work towards some major features like Android support and the ability to synchronize emails between devices. So let's talk about this in more detail. Let's start with the logo. This is the logo, made by none other than John Hicks, which again I mispronounced, I swear, who's the author of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos?  The logo redesign announcement shows of a monochromatic version as well, since Android has an option for that. I think it's again a ten out of ten operation, while thought drives the modern point home, while still keeping the branding somewhat consistent with a friend application Firefox. Then we have the full redesign, code named Supernova. Let's very quickly go through all the important features. Firstly, there's the modernized cards view, which introduces a vertical layout for the message list, emulating a more modern mobile interface list with multi-line support. This is complemented by a dynamic unified toolbar that changes based on the active tab or space, offering customizations to better suit individual for workflows. There are so many. If I need to pick one, I would say the customization aspect, in particular because there are a lot of users or our current user that they put Thunderbird on a pedestal for how customizable it is, but it's actually not. The redesign extends to an intuitive app menu, which is now keyboard accessible, streamlining navigation for a faster and easier user experience. Additionally, the calendar has seen design improvements, featuring a more pleasant color palette. Totally agree with that. An improved mini month layout and other minor tweaks to modernize its look and feel. Supernova has also introduced elegant density control, something at Katie we would like to have, but that's not easy to do, allowing the user to easily adjust the density setting and font sizes throughout the application with just a single click from the new app menu. This is especially useful for those working with multiple monitors and varying system display resolutions. In terms of organizational features, sortable folder modes have been introduced, giving users more control over how the folders are displayed. Users can now sort folder modes and display all tags in the folder pane and toggle local folders on and off, contributing to a more organized and streamlined user interface. A new eye catching tags view has been added to the folder pane, enabling users to quickly jump to custom color coded tag categories, which can significantly speed up the process of finding and filtering messages. The address book too has seen improvements with a new tabular view and improved edit button, delete buttons and better accessibility. Speaking of accessibility, Supernova has made substantial strides in improving keyboard navigation and and and screen reader accessibility throughout the application. This includes expanded capabilities to navigate mail content and buttons using the tab and arrow keys. And lastly, Supernova is not a one off update, but represents a continuous evolution with a promise of many more improvements to existing features and the introduction of brand new ones like Thunderbird Sync in the near future. Now you might ask what's the point of Thunderbird Sync? Probably you just use Thunderbird in your computer and you don't really need to synchronize between different devices. But what if you also used Thunderbird on your phone as well? The aspiration to extend Thunderbird beyond the desktop began actually quite some time ago, 2018, when the Thunderbird when the Thunderbird product manager Ryan Lee Saibs, Sipis, met with Christian Ketterer, come on. The project maintainer for K9Mail, an open source Android email client. They aimed to find a collaborative ground within the two projects to deliver an enhanced email experience across platforms, ensuring that the final product adhered still to the open source and user respectful and fitting for power users and desiring for customizations and rich feature set. Of course, K9Mail officially joined the Thunderbird family without second thoughts with a name expected to change to Thunderbird on Android after reaching specific development milestones.  Even cooler, this means that K9Mail will improved by a lot too. The redesign of K9Mail introduces a new message view aimed at better organization and key information highlighting. Some new UI elements include swiping gestures for message navigation, account indication via color coded chips, a reply action button with the additional action in the overflow menu and organizational labels for messages. Users can tap the gray area in a message to open a bottom sheet containing additional message details and reception receipt, recipients information. Users are also invited to join the ongoing K9Mail beta to experience new features and the visual improvements above mentioned first hand with releases available on GitHub, Play Store and, of course, after it. That's it for the mobile part of things right now. Again, if you're interested, there's monthly blog post about this, which is wow. But of course, there's even more features that get routinely discussed and announced with the community. Just taking the last tweet of the project, Thunderbird wants to implement Firefox translate within the email client, meaning that you would be able to translate conversations without actually sending this conversation to anybody, not even Google, which is wow. This feature has been announced with a clear deadline, which is the first quarter of 2024. So pretty soon to finish off. Since I'm a big kitty person, I do want to say that I think he has a lot to learn from this approach that Thunderbird has taken, especially the idea of sending notifications just one time every year after a major update to say, hey, we would love it if you could, you know, donate something. Sure, there is a risk of appearing annoying, but I think the vast majority of users would be fine with it since it's a way to directly help out the project.  It would be awesome to manage to hire some of them. I do have to say, though, that we do have a very nice fundraising page right now. See, Kitty has sporadic donations, but also members who donate at least 100 bucks every year to the project. For the announcement of LASMA 6, we decided to make a fundraising specifically about members since we only had 50, with the goal of reaching 500. What I like of the page is that it explains in great detail why to donate, how to donate and the perks that you will receive and how KDE will use the money. We already gained 120 members to a total of 170, which translates to at least 12,000 bucks every year, but probably even more. So, yeah, I'm proud of that page. I did nothing. I did nothing to it, to be clear, not thanks of me, but it's cool that we have it. Thanks, Karl and Paul and the Prometheb. Regarding everything else, though, I just have to say to Jason, which I hope is pronounced Jason Jason and not Yasun, I don't know Jason and the Thunderbird social media team and the project leader and the developers, wow, you managed to take a project that I never considered particularly important and you made it one of the most interesting success stories in the open source world. That's quite a feat.