Hi you guys, I'm Lindsay welcome to my channel inside the hem if you're new here and just joining me for the first time for The Royal Wedding so long then welcome I hope that you like everything that I have to bring to you over the next eight weeks I believe Today's video kicks everything off and I am so excited to show you what I have found We are gonna be working on a new look six five two six, which is a really gorgeous fit and flair dress It has two different bodice options as well as an option for a lace overlay And then has three different skirt options. We have a knee length where the mini length and then we have a high low hem so today's video is all about fabric and Ready-to-wear inspiration that I have been able to source all across the internet So we are going to kick things off with some fabric inspiration. I hope you like what I have to show you All right, so according to our pattern Onbelope we do have some options for suggested fabrics So on here they recommend Brocade, chins, crepe-backed satin, damask, dupeonis, satin, satin, shantung, and taffeta They also recommend border print fabrics to achieve a look like this one where the bottom of the dress is Kind of a different pattern than the top of the dress This is all one cut of fabric and it's just you know printed that way and then also lace for VUB bodice and sleeves and waistband can all be done in lace as well So I thought it would be neat to take a look at some different swatches and to kind of get a look at some of these Fabrics that they suggest but I also wanted to give you guys some options as well So we'll kind of go through a bunch of different types of fabrics here that I think would all work for this pattern Okay, so the first few I have here are all what is called jacquard and jacquard is really just Named for the loom that it's woven on It's named after the person that invented the wulum. I can't remember their name, but it's mr. jacquard um and basically the Identifying factor of that loom is that instead of the fabrics being woven and then the pattern being printed on top a jacquard wound loom actually Weaves the pattern into the actual fabric so you'll notice on all of these the pattern is Woven in and it's not just printed on top, which is really neat because for some fabrics Made on the jacquard loom for example the mask It can be two-sided so it's reversible So you have this one here with the blue background and then on this side you have the more beige background And this can create, you know a really beautiful Kind of garment like our dress if you were to for example put the bodice in one version and in the skirt In another you could really play around with one cut of fabric using the mask Which is really fun and interesting This is what they call brocade Brocade usually has some metallics woven in and again it can be reversible So this one has a lot more of the the white cottony part and this side has more of the metallic part So again, you could you know combo this on your dress and do one side for the bodice and another side for the skirt Which I think is really fun and obviously very versatile And these are also a type of brocade, but this one is like Textured in a way I guess this one's textured too because it's metallic and the metallic part does feel different than the cotton part But this one's actually raised like you can feel a bit of you know Texture whenever you run your hand across it And so these all let's see this came from joanne I this is the same fabric that I did my ballet dress in if you guys remember that around the holidays So you know what that went? I mean and the pattern that I used is kind of similar to this one so you could get an idea of what this looks like This one I got from fabric comm Here is the information if you want to jot that down pause the video But I'll have it linked in the description box below as well And then both of these came from style maker fabrics So if you go to their site and you type in the search bar 12021 or 12011 You'll be able to find both of these, but I just thought all of these prints were beautiful for a Wedding type event or any kind of springy event Obviously these lighter colors may not be great for a wedding because you don't want to upset the bride and being in something you know this this white But if you're doing a graduation or you know, maybe even a baby shower or something like that I think this would be perfect This your card with the light blue and taupe background. I just think is so gorgeous this to mask And then these two I mean you can't go wrong with like a big bold red Wink wink hint hint to something later And roses and florals, you know, they're just so perfect for a wedding But these could also whereas I feel like this one is more of a daytime Event this one too. I feel like these are nighttime events maybe because of the black background I'm not sure but so here are some options for you guys that cover a few that were mentioned on our pattern envelope So we've got a whole variety of jacquards here, including to masks and brocades So those are some fun options some others that I pulled are um What are they they are satins? Satins are usually a hundred percent cotton with maybe a small percentage of Lycra or some kind of stretch in them because they usually are stretchy hence the name stretch satin And that just makes for a really comfortable dress, you know We have this this midriff bodice here and let's say you were going to a wedding where it was being served And you wanted to have some extra, you know room to grow for your food A stretch that team is a really good option because you know, it'll move it'll grow with you So here are a few options that I have This one is a really beautiful print the thing about satins is that I mean you can find them in so many different Beautiful beautiful and versatile prints. So this one is a huge Floral print you can see the the width of that flower is almost as big as the the Screen here, but it has, you know huge huge floral print, which I think would be beautiful For our skirt because it is so big and voluminous and even D that has the longer skirt in the back You just know that you're going to get such a beautiful swatch of this Large floral print on your skirt back, which is really nice. This one is style maker fabrics 1 1 2 2 4 She also has these lemons, which are really fun Maybe not for a wedding, but you know for some kind of garden party or daytime event Even with a jean jacket. This would be very, you know, just regular old daytime wear even to the office Maybe 1 1 8 6 2 is your item number on that one again Has some beautiful stretch to it, but you can see that The backside is this is printed on, you know, it's not woven in like our jacquards are so You will be able to see this white on view d whenever you're walking So that's something to keep in mind For sure certainly the reversible jacquards that I showed you earlier would be perfect for view d because even If you saw the wrong side, it's still pretty and it's just the reverse of the front side So that's something to keep in mind This is one that This is the one that came in second place for me And this was like my runner-up that I almost got to make my version in I'm still not convinced that I'm not going to make A version in this. Um, I just love the navy background with the bright pop of the floral I just think that that is so pretty But they're ultimately the reason why I didn't choose it is because it felt like so many other dresses that I have And I really wanted this one to be special So I opted for to not get this one, but It may still end up in my stash Um, and then oh and the item number on that is 1 1 8 7 1 From style maker fabrics. This one came from joanne or I'm not sorry. Not joanne. Um fabric.com And I just loved the beautiful blush pink background In a lot of the inspiration photos and images that I found This pretty blush pink color being as it was last year's pan tone color of the year There's just a lot of ready to wear in this color And so I thought it would be neat to draw some inspiration from that But it has like these very large cranes on it. So it's kind of got like a bit of an asian vibe going um Which may be your thing. Who knows? Um, but I just thought this one was really really beautiful again stretch satin And all of these are gonna give you the item number Here's the information on that if you want to grab a screenshot go ahead Otherwise, it'll be linked in the description box But all of these I'm not sure how much it's gonna. Yeah Have a subtle little shine to it, which is really nice for you know when you're outdoors Um, and you're doing an event outside, you know, the sun is definitely going to pick up on all of that sheen Which is really really beautiful. This one has a lot less than the pink does Um, this one also isn't super shiny, but you can still see the light catching it ever so slightly Um, maybe the darker colors it just blends in more But there is some some sheen there and if you remember me talking about my um that navy and cream striped dress that I made That I loved working with so much that was Cotton stretch satin. So this is going to be very beginner friendly fabrics to sew with it's going to be easy to press You know easy to make these, you know gorgeous pleats and everything is going to hold its shape really well for like the bodice like this So I just thought that satin was a really good option as well um, another one that the pattern Um suggests is crepe black satin and crepe back satin is exactly what it sounds like It is two fabrics kind of molded together One is satin and one is crepe So you can see here that there are kind of two different shades This is our 2018 pan tone color of the year. That's kind of royal Violet and I just thought that would be Stunning for a royal wedding. I just think that you will stand out so much The thing about this color is a lot of people are kind of like, oh, I don't know. It's like great Like I'm going to look like you know baruchas all from from charlie and the chocolate factory But I think it looks gorgeous on so many skin tones. So that's why I swatched this one and again similar to our Um the mask and the first brocade. I show you it's reversible So you could have a little bit of fun doing Maybe the bodice and the skirt in the crepe and then the um the midriff and the um belt In the satin I think that that would be really nice or you could do the entire bodice In the satin and the skirt and the crepe or vice versa. You know, you could have a lot of fun You know mixing things up With a different using both sides of this and again like I pointed out before with view d um the the Wrong side of the fabric is going to show So it will be nice to have you know one of the other still be beautiful whenever you're walking or the wind catches you or whatever It'll still look really really nice so something that the um pattern envelope did not suggest but I thought was a really good option Actually is ponti knit So ponti knit is a knit. Um, but it's a very structured and stable knit I mean this is just about as stretchy as that um Stretch satin is so if you want something really really comfortable to wear um, I would highly recommend a ponti knit and you know similar to the um The stretch satin's it comes in a variety of colors and tons and tons of prints So you would be able to find something for whatever it is that you are making this garment for whether It's a wedding or you know any other kind of event that you have you'd be able to find a print or a solid color That would work really well and unlike the stretch satin. This looks good on both sides So you'll remember our satin is printed on one side and not the other So this side, you know, you really want really would not want to show that Um, but on a ponti, you know, even if it's printed on this side This side of it is still going to be woven in that solid color So it would still look okay if you had to see the wrong side of it And then I also grabbed just a swatch of lace that I had so that you could see what it would look like if you layered Some lace on top of this and I mean red and black is like Pretty quintessential romance love. I even get like a kind of a south american vibe going with it um But I just think that, you know, those look really good together. It's a floral lace I can't remember where I got it. I just have a a small piece of it But um, if you layer these on top of each other, you get some dimension and you just it really can transform The fabric so you could do um like I've suggested before the bodice just like view b the bodice Um in the layered part the sleeves would be just in the lace and the skirt would be just in the ponti knit So that is something that um, I think would be gorgeous for an event You don't have to use ponti to make view b obviously you can use any solid um with the lace um over the lace overlay over top of a solid but um But here is, you know, a gorgeous red and black So I also wanted to show you what I am using And it is this Oh my gosh, right? So it's a little bit outside of my comfort zone, but I just fell in love with the red and the white It just felt so fresh to me. Um, this is a cotton satin. It's from style maker fabrics I will leave a link in the description box because I don't have the item number on me right now Um, but um, it's already been washed up. It's ready to go ready to be cut and I really just Love it. You can see with my hand how big these poppies are And I just think that this is going to make a beautiful yet romantic Um, yet totally wearable dress, um, I have some plans obviously to dress it up And then I have plans to dress it down and for me and my lifestyle That's what's most important is that this isn't just relegated for one event for me That it is, you know wearable in many different situations in my life So This is what I have for our fabric inspiration for new look 6526 So hopefully with all of this that I've pulled today, you can get some Idea of kind of what direction do you want to go in? Do you want to go in the super fancy direction? Like with the jacquards or the crate back satin or do you want to go in sort of a casual direction? Or you can even go in this totally wearable Ponty direction, which I think um is just really really really versatile So here are all of my fabric recommendations Coming up next. We are going to have some Inspiration photos for you that I found On the internet so you can see kind of what these look like whenever they're made up in a dress That's similar in style to the one that we will be making together So stay tuned for that So first up is our jacquard inspiration. Here are four images that I found Just so you know, all of these inspiration images are posted on my pinterest page Under the board For the royal wedding so along so you can find them all there if you want some more information about them But I included the one on the far left because it felt like the most like our Style lines of the dress that we would be making And I loved how they did the ribbon in a contrasting fabric. I thought that that looked really really nice Um, the second one reminded me a lot of that damask that I showed you in the fabric portion of this video So you can get an idea of you know, just how special and unique damask looks whenever it's sewn up into a fit and flare dress The third image here, I chose because I think Um instinctively I would have thought to not do the sleeved version of the pattern Out of jacquard, but after seeing this one I think that it can be made in a really cute and modern way mostly by Raising the hemline of the skirt So I feel like if you're going to do a longer sleeve in the jacquard Then you need to have a shorter skirt to kind of balance out the absence of skin showing Um, you can see here too that this one is made into a crew neck. So it's not even a v-neck I'm not so sure that's as much of an issue as just you know making sure to make it in a mini skirt length and I just think that that's adorable and I wouldn't have thought Um originally so I wanted to throw that one in there And then the fourth one looks almost exactly like That brocade that I showed you the version that had the black and red one and then the Gray and black one. It looks just like that. I would be surprised if they weren't the same fabric, right? Um So I just thought that that one looks really elegant and beautiful as well I love the gray and black Version in a dress more so than I did in just the swatch So I wanted to include that here so you could see what that looked like sewn up But in general the things that you're looking for If you're going to sew a jacquard dress is really the the shine of it The crispness of it and then the fullness that you're going to get in your skirt I don't think any of our other fabrics are going to provide as much structure and fullness as the jacquards will So if that's what you're looking for then go find a a jacquard that you love Okay, next up we have our cotton sateen inspiration And I pulled these four pictures because I just wanted to show how completely versatile cotton sateen prints And solids were I wanted to show just how you could use the pattern Of the fabric um to your favor and even create your own pattern So that's what I that's why I chose the first one because those white stripes are very easy to Hack into your skirt pattern pieces to kind of create your own Striped pattern and sateen is really great to use for this because it is so easy to sew with and so easy to press You're going to get beautiful crisp seam lines, which make that really beautiful The second one I wanted to show because a that fabric is gorgeous But also because you can see in the skirt How they decided to inset a piece of mesh and that is very very on trend right now Um, and so I wanted to show you how you could make it work for a wedding type event as well Where it's not too much, but just enough um and provides a little bit more visual interest for an all over printed dress uh, the third one I chose because They were able to get a bit of a fuller skirt in this one And I would not be surprised to find out that they had some kind of crinoline Underneath to kind of Help the dress billow out a little bit But you can see from the other versions just how the sateen likes to lay closer to the body than the Jack card does that we saw in the previous collage And then the third, I mean, I'm sorry the fourth picture there is a Border print and I like how instead of how the pattern envelope did it from him To neckline. I thought this was nice to put all of the visual interest into your waistline Especially if you have an hourglass figure, this is going to be a really beautiful figure Figure flattering look for you. So here are four inspiration pictures using cotton sateen Here is our paunty inspiration You can tell from the four photos here just how Comfortable and casual paunty fabrics really are Um, I was surprised to see that I couldn't find a ton of printed panties because I feel like when we go fabric shopping They're kind of a dime a dozen But in ready to wear not so much, but I did love the sleeved versions One and three and then also the fourth one So I felt like that was a good use of view I guess be of the pattern Where you could use the sleeve that make it look really nice the floral version in In the first picture there is is really beautiful and really perfect for a wedding You could dress it up with some gold accents and you would be ready to go But still very very comfortable The second first the second picture there I chose because I liked how they added the little bow embellishment To the neckline and the collar detail bows are like all the rage right now You're seeing it on all the runways and even in the Oscars that were on on sunday Um, you just see bows everywhere. So I thought that was a really cute detail And then I chose the very last picture the fourth one because it just was so Versatile I mean that's just the perfect little black dress Some people say black dresses are bad luck to wear to a wedding. So maybe you want to keep that in mind I've never heard that before but then again, I don't attend a lot of fancy weddings So maybe that's why but I just love a simple chic little black dress and think everyone Deserves to have that in their wardrobe And here are our gorgeous lace inspiration dresses, aren't they all just so Beautiful and perfect for a royal wedding. Um, I had a hard time again finding Dresses inspiration dresses where only the bodice was done in lace Um, the only one that I could find that was even close is the third image here And it looks like the bodice is done out of a stretch bonded lace where the lace is already adhered to a fabric Rather than an overlay like our pattern is is instructed So you're gonna have to kind of use your imagination a little bit here But I loved the one on the left the very first picture because if you look really closely you can tell That the underlining of the dress is actually navy And then the lace overlay is this beautiful burgundy. Again, the sleeves are left completely Bare underneath with no underlining, which is exactly how our pattern is constructed And it's thought that was a really neat fun Kind of youthful modern way to do lace with the contrasting fabrics That is very inspirational to me and I will have that in the back of my mind for a long time. I think Um, the second picture there I chose because they shortened the sleeve and I feel like that adds another Design element that you know, you might make it look a little bit younger than with the the full sleeve And I also love how they did the satin ribbon for the belts or for the sash instead of the Self fabric like our pattern recommends. So I wanted to show that to you as an option The third one I mentioned kind of before it's going to get that's more of what our pattern is going to look like When you do the lace only in the bodice the midriff and the sleeve and then do the skirt in a separate fabric For what it's worth that skirt fabric and bow belts there are made from shantung So if you're wondering what shantung looks like that's it. It's kind of like similar to a Dupione or something like that It's solid and kind of shiny with the sheen to it But kind of drapey earth and some of our drake cards that we've seen earlier And then the fourth picture I thought was really beautiful again They're doing that inset on the skirt With the mesh and I liked the solid Belts done on the outside of the lace that I'm sure that that's the same fabric as the underlining there You're not going to get the same neckline design with our pattern But you can achieve a very similar look to this one and that color is just Gorgeous. I love a baby blue for a wedding or for any springtime event And here we are at our last collage of inspiration pictures I couldn't think of a more creative name So I'm just calling this collection other But it's really the mixed bag of everything else that I really loved that I thought would suit our pattern really well But didn't belong in any of the other categories. And I think that's because this one The dresses here are really all about the embellishments in a way and also tweaking small little details to create a standout garment So we have the first picture there where they use the lace trim along the center front neckline a little bit of the Midriff and also on the hem and I just thought I mean yes That one's a lot more low cut than our dress is going to be But I still think that if you did lace trim on our version That you would still be able to achieve a very Stunning look just like this dress here. I love the classic black and white But if you are going to make this dress for a wedding you you would definitely want to stay away from white But you could come up with a combination of a ton of other colors Even a black dress with white trim would be would be better But I just loved the simple addition of that lace trim and how that elevated the look of that dress so much I also want to say based on how those pleats are done that that's a pontine knit the Or a scuba knit more precisely So if you're into that kind of look then check out scuba nits I chose the second one because it's color blocked and also it was one of the few dresses I could find that had that high low hem of view d in our new look pattern So I love the idea of doing the bodice and midriff and one color and then the skirt and another bold Color and how they match the shoe to the skirt. I just thought the whole thing was very very elegant So if you're going for something a little bit more black tie a less Like daytime garden type wedding. I think this would be a stunning stunning look The third picture I threw in because this is also a border print similar to the cover of our a pattern envelope as well as the Print that I showed you a couple of slides ago But this is done in a way where the bodice has the border And then the skirt has the border and then the middle of your body is the solid So I just wanted to show you another option there This is also a unique border print because That is some kind of satiny probably polyester fabric And then the border print is actually like a bonded velvet or something um, so it is much more elegant and less um novelty print like Then the other versions that you have seen this one feels like an elevated elegant border print Which you don't see very often And then the fourth option you're probably thinking what the heck lindsay that's just like a little black dress But if you look closely you can see that they scalloped the hem of the skirt Again, a very very simple detail an easy hack to do for your dress But adds a very sweet sweet detail That will elevate your look and help you stand out at whatever event you're going to Well, there you have it Those are the fabrics that I love for this pattern as well as some really great ready to wear inspiration that I was able to find So hopefully through seeing both of those you are able to narrow down possibly Exactly what kind of dress and the the end result that you want to go for for your particular event So I'm going to be posting videos for the sew along every single wednesday noon eastern standard time So join me back here next wednesday where we're going to go over making a muslin and assessing fit So that your pattern is perfect before you ever even cut into your fashion fabric So until next wednesday. 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Can let us know what the the proper way is to approach media also He can let us know what our criticisms were that were incorrect Yeah, it'd be good if you did that first before just saying that they were nitpicks Maybe one example would be nice, but you know, maybe I'm asking people can't do one example Is getting abused in this comment section since when did we accept that nitpick was someone doesn't die when they should have Like, oh, that's a nitpick Hmm Interesting Bizarre I'm not saying that this show is good in any way, but it does seem like you guys choose to nitpick when there's no Reason to do so if you don't like something you make sure you don't like it I noticed that with your downward thrust video you made up your mind that you don't like him So everything he says whether good or bad true or false you try to pick apart not a good look Comes across very petty and even a little envious. Oh We actually Like we're watching his videos get better over time. That's something that happened. Yeah Yeah, that really makes sense.  Yeah, I think he's cool I also think that he's made a lot of good videos now And it was really neat to know that on if I've 100 the I think I said I pinpointed it at the the three video game Video he made where he was talking about Mario 64 and two other games I was like that felt like the video that a thing started change and he was like that was the video He'd made decisions to change odd He would like said this what he does was just like don't know feels like we're just reacting honestly Yeah, and I'd like to remind people that woman is a show that I think everyone would agree that we hate quote-unquote With the way they're using the word hate in this comment section, right? We hate that show unequivocally not giving it a single chance. What happened the first time we saw a scene that we Thought was actually good.  I killed Lucia's box I Was the winning lottery ticket for a bunch of punks who needed to keep their own ass at a chair Yeah, I made it We thought that it might actually be good and yeah It's something we almost to the end of the show But we got a good scene and we were focused and concentrating this shows gives us nothing We can't actually like react until we absorb information like that's how it works Of course, there'll be mistakes like the idea that this format is unfair to bad though I find that so funny like leave that format of watching it is unfair to Mando. Yeah, I that's kind of That's not fair speaking of batwoman you call this a disaster and you call bad woman a disaster So this is equal to bad woman in your eyes so far. Yeah Kind of it's about at the same level. Yeah, it just has a better budget But ultimately it's pretty much exactly the same better package lower the budget of the show. It's batwoman No shit, okay, but you'll call me a sequel lover if I say that this is a okay fine TV show with good effects Yeah, that's good effects does I'd say the opposite a lot of people who are desperate to get away from the sequels We'll latch on to anything no matter how mediocre you're like hating the sequels with a passion will likely fuel a love for this show You guys are always so on the fence and objective, but you've come just the When are we ever on the fence? Yeah, we have some pretty strong opinions about some pretty beloved things Yeah, I don't even know all of them. I don't even know that we've ever consumed something and said I'm not sure what I think about it I think eventually we pretty much have opinions on everything as for objective. I mean just point us to where we were wrong Yeah, again one thing one one. I don't know why I just pointed at my camera. That's not on but You've become just the opposite side cinema sins for God's sake.    Could it be that you simply enjoy the show and you're annoyed that we are ripping into it I'm sorry the TV show you like is crap get over it I agreed this all came off like a cinema since video. This is honestly on par and not objective criticism This is not any way near bad woman levels. You can criticize almost any show movie the way are in this video Well, you could criticize it with the standard, but they won't all come out as bad as this No, if you took Batwoman and increased the budget by a lot This is what you'd get Mandalorian is Batwoman with a budget I will concede that I think Batwoman is worse and the argument I would give is that there's a bigger frequency of issues usually But like we're literally talking the difference between two and three like a And I was point I would be like Mandalorian's like a low three.   Oh, you broke those down well, but this one Nah, it's like I don't know what to say It's interesting how it always tends to be the thing that you specifically like and then all of a sudden It's been poorly handled, but when it's something that you agree is shit like the sequel trilogy It's good criticism especially after the thing we just saw with Mando just sprinting down a hallway Tanking like a hundred blaster shots No, that's good you just nitpicking that he survives that miraculously corrupt angel says they always focus on the writing true At least for the most part true and the writing in this episode was utter trash true This is referring to the episode one as it is with the entire show true Kind of yeah pretty much you yourself said you agree with most of what they said so I'm confused about the vitriol in your comment I don't notice any difference in how they treated this than anything else they review in this format Certainly not bad woman. Oh corrupt angel what a legend Who notices consistencies then the follow-up they note stuff and I do agree that this stuff is there But they somehow immediately say that it's bad They don't say why it is as if it's self-evident pit droids bad. Why not explain? Oh, that was like an I don't even think that was bad. We just kind of laughed at them What we laughed at the fact that he goes back to these very same pitch droids where he wasn't okay with oh, yeah Yeah, this is a tiny payoff of a pathetically executed arc. Yeah, I guess so I'm if that's the confusion I thought it was self-evident when we went over it what we were criticizing that moment Yeah, cuz we said oh because now he likes droids. Yeah, I even play the clip in the edit where she's like he likes droids now I feel like there are more planets Does he allow the droids to fix time because he's just right now. Yeah, please. We'll let them have at it The crest needs a good once over. So we like droids now.  It wasn't pit droids bad. That's not all we said I would almost say that's a bad faith reframing of what we were talking about the next one's fun I'm left. Yeah, let's go to bad not explained. Do we need to explain? Let's do it because this is the thing if any comments end up saying we're being condescending It's like I'm sorry you were asking us to explain things we thought were obvious So leaving Yoda behind anywhere is bad just in the Star Wars universe filled with people who are looking to take You like kidnap eats or destroy there's a bounty out He's done all kinds of things to all kinds of people there's people with fobs chasing them all the time He sacrificed his position and a lot of the relationships He had literally because he couldn't bring himself to kill a kid or to allow the kid to be led to death So the idea that he just lets it waddle around while he walks in different places He has no expectation of safety and it's fucking dumb. It annoys us every time he does it And so when he leaves it with a carer, we're like, huh, thank you. Oh, yeah, good job smart speaking sign language bad We never said that was bad. We just think it's bizarre that of all the languages that he would learn Tusken Raider sign language is among them like wow that that's really weird Surely there are more common languages that would come in handy for like commerce and a sorted list of other reasons Why not Tusken Raider sign language, which is like learning Swahili. Also, I still remember the exchange I point out. Hey, if there's a lang like a vocal language attached to it. What's the point in the hand movements? Wait, if you can just speak to the sign language And then rags says maybe they can join you need them both Like you need to work on your listening comprehension what you heard there isn't me saying this is a flaw and rags saying yes That is true. This is a flaw. It was me asking out of curiosity Why you'd need something and then I'm supplied a relatively reasonable reason and then it ends with really this is hello Greedo level almost his name isn't good enough to be in our comment section Hello Greedo, he's at that level of he never says anything Worthwhile with the exception of we can make fun of it and mock it and discuss how bad it is. Oh, man I love this show really wish these guys didn't hate it Yeah, yeah to which to which somebody else says I like it too while noticing all the writing flaws it has It's okay to like things and criticize it at the same time. Also. Oh my god And then this is the guy who keep I've seen this person in other comments Jesse It's a bit tis me to speak over all of the dialogue and shit over everything they see he's right I want to clarify right we've highlighted This is a possibility with the format if we're laughing at something dumb and then a character has a really quick Throwaway line that explains something that we thought was a flaw really and we miss it Yeah, that can happen if you could point out some of these lines That would be really helpful, but you know what else happens, you know, that's gonna blow their mind You're ready for this sometimes we miss lines of dialogue that would make the episode worse. Yes I am almost certain that that is the case So we do what we can and this is a format that people love So like the idea that this format's untenable unless I guess the preferable thing would be we all watch the episode separately Listen to it intently and then record this knowing what happens and then we can comment live on it because we'll have all the information We got But they do that with Batwoman 2 plus it still doesn't fix the stupid shit with the plan Like just have an explosive banter and boom you win all the good points. So then this is this thread takes a turn I feel like everybody is just too scared to disagree with Rags First off, they should be I'm always right on the army roogs Wow I bought hell dive was two days ago. It was because I was scared of Me up if I don't I like the idea that an episode hits credits and we're all silent waiting for Rags to decide And then Rags is like what do you guys think we'll go? Oh? Yeah, it's like you're sitting in a room with Stalin. It is like I want to hear your ideas Well, I think you know, maybe maybe if we cut down a bit on the purges that no And you know I have never delivered a hot take that Rags had nothing to do with I've never delivered criticisms on my own Yeah, all of those were submitted to me in triple kit sign Dated and then I signed and dated them as well return them to you and then you were allowed to give your opinion You see Rags is like that shark and where those little fish that swim next to the shark What do you mean by that I? Did not even mention the rags in my original comment So I'm not sure why you wrote that directed at me I can explain it so they highlighted that we speak over everything and then someone counted with but they were right and then he counted with the skin of Rags Not really what the composition was going but alright You mean a banter with explosive strap to it it blew up in the the dragon stomach and throat and fried its organs when it exploded How's that stupid? It's pretty clear Rags despises this show more than anyone else on the panel And I've seen what happens multiple times when people in chat try to disagree with Rags So I believe that Mola and crew know it's better just to not and go along with it So first of all it's something really really stupid. I'm gonna let them know why I've fought with chat This is why I say I'm just the lightning rod of hate When when friggin I do it it's it's mostly forgotten a couple episodes later, but when you do it it's added to a list It is tallied and it is cataloged for later reference man. I wonder what it's on my list now.  That's not a thing. No never happened I've always conceded if ever Rags and I differ because I know better than to question his his mighty brain I hate to appeal to this, but hey chat This person is right that we disagree with you and you should be happy that we do that You shouldn't be unhappy that we do that. I'm willing to believe I'm willing to believe the majority of chat agree with that by the way They they want us to disagree with them if we think they're wrong and vice versa and the presence of a disagreement Doesn't mean the opposition is wrong. It simply means the discussion goes on because it always goes on There is discussion rather than nothing at all like oh, yes, all right. No, you're right guys. It's fine There's nothing wrong with this. It's also great. We all have our opinions and we all like, you know We can like like yeah, that's that's a great conversation to be having all the time Like my really good on real life friends.  I can't do conversations about movies with them I wanted to clarify as well It's gonna be some people who are like why are you treating this like the whole comment section against you? Someone's gonna say that I'd be like absolutely not these aren't the most popular comments They're just really interesting ones to look at because some people are just just not happy But this one is 49 likes. I wonder if you could give it a give it a read their rank I wonder if we're starting to see the tfa effect on the Mandalorian as in everyone was so hyped when it started out thinking Yes, this is what real Star Wars is supposed to feel like and then in retrospect all the writing issues become more clearly apparent And all the fans will turn on the series whenever it reaches the breaking point Based on some of the setups in season two so far. I wouldn't be surprised. Hmm Yeah, I don't mean the right part is that people will pretend like they always thought it was bad when they were actually Really on That's gonna be a really funny part It started out bad it continues to be bad if it assassinates a character even once I think it'll be over They are relying right now on not having touched doing that very self-contained But we still got boba fat, you know This is what I mean They're bringing in a whole bunch of people So I think it's only a matter of time before they piss everyone off and then everyone's gonna be like You know, Mandalorian wasn't really that good to begin with. Yeah, I never really I was never a true fan honestly Uh, I get the negative points and agree with a lot of them But man, whenever you come to this channel, you know, it will just be just negatives All video constructive criticism is great, but just criticism is tiresome Are all the liquids in this universe blue? That was a joke Like I just couldn't help but notice that all the liquids in this universe are blue So you've highlighted something that I absolutely love it's some it's some juicy irony when you watch us Play with an episode and then when we get to this important stuff We highlight it and we get small stuff We make some jokes whatever and your response is you guys are nitpicking Here's an example of you nitpicking and you nitpick Like that's not even a criticism It's just a comment because of an observation that all of the liquids around here seem to be blue No Well, this is the thing how weird would it be if it was just a clear liquid We'd be like, whoa, what is that water? Is it water in the Star Wars universe? Well, it's clearly bad. It's not blue clearly gone past its expiration point.  It's nothing like what I was expecting Yeah, obviously there's way more to come.  They just hate They're just the hate mongers of the toxic brood watch ifa gaming. They're really really good. Yeah They're pretty chill and exciting in terms of what's coming next. We're all very very upbeat A lot of the time we're covering so many shit We will compare it to something that's good and that would be an example of us praising something Exactly Don't know what else to tell you other than I think it's because we're covering Mandalorian Yep, I think this is just a thing that people like and so um, all of a sudden the criticisms that we give to other things Just magically don't count with this show speaking of this show. Are you guys ready for episode four? Oh, yeah, I'm watching already.  Who knows? Remember bounties There must be some mistakes. I can bring you in warm Or I can bring you in cold You brought him in cold and that's why we're going so far back right now Flashbacks confuse me. Unfortunately, we probably shouldn't watch previously at this point because that means that blue good dude is coming back Right. That's the only reason they would have showed us that.  He's so great He's stoic rags. All of his lines are just the same. Well, didn't he say no at one point? Maybe Oh Georgia Now this is Star Wars Let's try this again. You have the wire At what point do you get a new ship the red wire? I'm sorry. Well, show me the red wire. You're going to plug that red wire where the blue wire You know, it would be really really helpful for parenting if they could see your facial expressions in this in order to He he's having baby Yoda engineer his ship. Yes, put the red one where the blue one was How do you normally do this? So I don't know away from each other. Make sure you why would you design a ship so that you can't access its important parts?   Oh, it's the marshal there. She's marshal now. All right. Well good things getting shot right now This was an odd choice of attack. Yeah, why didn't you shoot this guy? Does she not have her own gun? I guess they're not shooting anymore. Uh, yeah, they stopped doing that.  Shoot her in the legs the shooter in the non part. Uh, all right, then Good job. Okay. Well, that was Oh, she does have a gun. Oh, sorry. She does have a gun. All right. How is every fight dumb? I'm not even surprised. I don't I just don't understand how every single fight can be dumb. I really miss Like I want to star wars where there's like nice people engaging in diplomacy And they live in not squalor and they have nice food and they talk to like aristocrats I would love to see like an upper class star wars All right, those guys got fucked up and they saved the ferret so that's cool Maybe that's what I missed so much about the prequels is that there was like nice places How come every place is a shithole? Hmm Well, this is the wild west, you know star wars, but it was nice the wild west was nice There was like indoors and they were clean and there was nice food and cores with big tits He legit looks better without that.  I think he looks better without Let's fix this man ship. I wanted as good as new Then you could go back to live in your squalor shitting fast at home because this is star wars There's mando been taken good care of you, huh? Has he's he's thrown you into the bowels of his ship and given you random wires That's a bit electrical. Do you have it?  No, I think it's still there.  I myself have been steeped in clerical work Marshall doom.  I have like no Is that a school The hidey and way. Oh, we changed the cd bar into a school You didn't need schools before that's what I mean. I have no concept of time. How long has it been gone? The place is occupied by the empire.  Is that the thing with a huge bounty on its head? I want to go home Come on Really? I feel like this isn't safe enough. Hey guys Yeah, I feel like 12 kids are not going to stop someone who wants to come and take him Wherever I go, he goes unless it's cool or unless it's why are there only humans in this class? Why aren't there more aliens because if they're aliens, they'd be evil. Why is the food blue? Is everything I would like to clarify that this was a joke. Are they just macaroons those things colored blue told they are Is he gonna use the force or something?  Oh my god Mithril here is taking care of my book since it was a polywag But then he disappeared one day after a bit of creative accounting magistrate cargo was generous enough to let me work off my debt 350 years, but who's counted?  Let me know Jesus christ I made some bad investments.  I would be like new republic.  This is been here in probably It's got a skeleton crew, but for some reason it hasn't been abandoned Mando, I just want them off my planet Your planet you control one city. I don't understand the state of affairs. I don't get it. Our planet's just like a city What if we spent more than one episode on this planet, you know, like actually spend a while Wait, this is the team we're doing it with you guys I'm not gonna. You don't have a security force or like police or you have to have a security Overload the reactor and get the hell out of that. What you referred to it as his planet.   They're melted Well, it's probably not rated for lava imperial trash hit me up on the calm We could set up a rendezvous time you park your gills right there until I say otherwise Okay, how does 30 more years off your debt sound? It was weird that he threatened him with a bribe You know what I mean? Like how does 30 more years sound and you're like, oh, thanks Why didn't you take an engineer and not your accountant? Oh Yeah, I mean, yeah No worry guys, I applied the electricity look lady. This is rated for light plumbing and such you're lucky. I impact it at all Are you are you coming in or what? I'll take my chances down here. Thank you Well, when the lava tide comes in give us a holler. We'll drop you a room Well, what about the speeder? Oh, you need that to get back. Doesn't that need to be moved? Does it float above lava and if sorry he could it's Why did they build too hot for you to be there? Why did they build a base here? Mars troopers useless if we drain the cooling lines this whole base will go up in a matter of minutes Okay, you know how much we can get for this on the black market and it's gonna get vaporized like the rest of this base Now let's go. I don't know. I feel like you might need that for your security. Yeah, it seems pretty useful Yeah, why do we want to blow up everything? Why don't we want to make it?  Do you know why they're useful? Like stuff is useful to have especially if you're like a fledgling new planet Like stuff is good to have we about to watch a million stormtroopers get shot down again This guy gets a holster where the stormtroopers don't all right, I guess they just got into the control room Accountant you take the rear. I feel like we've done this 17 million times. Use the code cylinder It was like you could have just done that. Yeah Instantly points kind of man.  Why don't you give the person with the jetpack this job? What is this? Look at how awkward this is these are the controls for the reactor. What is this cartoon shit? I feel like this lava pit would be a really nice design feature, you know It really it really goes great with the drapes this lava.   They're making him do this You can blow up the whole base with one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He typed a few things I feel like there would be like a locked door there or maybe you'd need to approval from every single head You need like cards codes. It wouldn't be possible. It shouldn't really be possible Calling reinforcements so they could die too.  Oh, I'll do whatever you tell me to just let me live. Hello. Hello Are those snokes? Doesn't look like No, this isn't a military operation. This is a lab I mean, we need to get into this and figure out what's going on. What about the reaction? Do it I feel like he brings up a decently important point. Sadly the body rejected the blood I highly doubt we'll find a donor with a higher M count though I recommend that we suspend all experimentation I fear that the volunteer will meet the same regrettable fate we proceed. We have Exhausted our initial supply of blood. The child is small and I was only able to harvest a limited amount We would again require access to the donor. This must be an old transmission.   Why are you done even even he got one?    Can we do something else? If these fights were interesting all right, then I would like to watch them But they're not interesting stormtroopers show up. They stand in the middle of a room. They get shot. We proceed Oh, she gets to do a wrestling moves or rather ufc moves, right? Uh-oh You're shot Oh, no Amanda look out.  Okay What are you guys doing? Oh my god Guys your job to do hey remember how I brought up where's he getting jackpat fuel from? It's the re it recharges overnight. It's oh sweet. Yeah, it's powered by quantum fuel rods Oh, they last forever dangerous Why load your weapons? I was gonna walk into battle unloaded but all right It's only two you should be able to kill them pretty quickly You you you're trapped.   She just ran across the open there and they didn't need Okay, not even cover fire. Yeah Remember this thing we pointed out earlier. It is now going to be the payoff for us to blast away All right. She has access to it. I guess cool No, put it in. No, no, no put it between the storm troopers in them.   Okay, let's ram it. Oh, don't Oh my god, they jumped out of the way. I'm so proud of them. Oh wow, okay That is not how your ship should have landed Even how they were falling No, they were falling Oh, can you do that with those things?  Yes I guess yeah, they really want to go get Oh, wow Wow Jesus, how did the empire ever conquer anything? All right Wow I don't even like my brain.  Yeah Well, Ray would have shot them in one shot. Yeah Yeah, those little blasters ain't doing anything to the stability The speed is on going to do any damage at all. Yeah, what's their plan here? The stakes are so low I know, right Just wait for them to kill themselves again. Just just pick one dude. What are you doing? Well, that's her close for him to hit now They were though. He just didn't shoot with them for ages.  And now the other guy's like on the roof.  Yeah, oh Wow, why wouldn't you turn around like ages ago? What is your oh my god? I've lost them, but I'm still only looking to the back because I'm all right Oh, they got time fighters too.  Why are you turning around that make no sense? Wow, what doesn't look like he's aiming at them. Wow, you start also that thing can lock on Why don't you try lock it? Oh my god What do you Jesus Christ old man? Wow Oh god Try this be my guest. Yes, please. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, anyone give the accountant the guns Like how do you lock on you think this ship can go faster than tie fighters? All right The tie fighters are probably going slow just to keep you in their line of sight Oh, look he locked on look he shot one because he locked on Oh, but it's gonna crash in how did shooting it speed it up? Oh, I guess they lost their cannons Oh, well, I guess now it's up to mando. I guess all odds. Maybe there's a fourth Now is the time for a massive maneuver left right?  Do you think so, right? Also, there's no way the ship is ready again. Yeah, there is repairing a ship Dude, they had a half an hour Yes Also, there were three ships. Tie fighter not doing anything I feel like it's significant that the second ship was either lost or dude. This ship is actually pristine again I'm shocked. It's back to normal so they could use the original model. Don't worry.  How all right, he tried spinning Look at this triumphant music So again, is this a filler episode?  You're probably my biggest complaint with the show Well, good luck flying my friend Dude, that episode was literally let's say hello to those characters from the other season How long after the razorcrest jumped out? I never said anything about a razorcrest Transponder law. Come on. Give me a break The control droid can't tell apart anything pre-empire That's retarded though.   If something does come to mind I'll be sure to send you a grant. That is if you're ever out this far So it's like the the new republican charge or is he in charge? What? I don't know According to records, you're quite a soldier If anybody warrants my chain code, I'll rot in a cell for the rest of my life I thought you were a veteran I've been a lot of things since most of them carry a life sentence If I so much as book passage on a ship registered to the republic, I'm I have a ship According to records, you're quite a soldier Actually, you did something that warrants the death penalty or but we forgot about that from I'm not enjoying it says here. You're from alderaan. I served during alderaan. Did you lose anyone? Planet exploded I lost everyone I'm sorry for your loss What was the point of that scene? So it's like a quick and easy way to establish that she would be very sad about who she's lost Yeah, uh imagine all the useless stormtroopers in here Hundreds and hundreds of useless stormtroopers What do you have for me? Oh, no, oh no, the evil well rewarded in the new era. I didn't think he's actually He planted a device on our hero ship The tracking beacon has been installed on the razor crest.  Oh written by john favro that explains it Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I didn't know that he was a director. So, um rags said something man along the lines of What are these people with the tracking fobs? I guess they just Oh, are we gonna all the empire? Are they just not ever ever gonna mention it and just hope it goes away? Is that what the planet they never ever mention it? Are they going to completely ignore the fobs in this season? The answer is yes Yeah, the point where they're established that they've put a tracker on his ship to find baby yoda Despite all of the fobs leading to baby yoda. Yeah, I guess those are just not around anymore All right, then. All right. Remember the whole reason he went back at the end of the season one Was that he couldn't escape them Who's he tracking? the kid Then they'll keep coming Yes, right. He was like the fobs. They'll always find me.  You saw what happened on sorghum They'll keep sending hunters He didn't blow him up really like he only killed a couple In reference to the rest of them and now they like you don't have to put a tracker on the ship in order to Be able to find baby yoda's like oh you guys have this whole other. Oh, okay. That's fine And yeah, uh getting lots of they're up to no good vibes In this show references to like lofty things. Oh, what could they be talking about? Oh, you know things aren't aren't the same. There's people doing stuff You gotta stop them put the tracker on there's clones. There's creepy troopers Who knows what moff Gideon's up to we could be dealing with uh, they tried to inject baby yoda blood into people to make them I don't know Jedi's And there you are being bored outrageous. I am so sick of getting of storm Stormtroopers getting shot.  Remember they um They were pretty special in season one for a moment We would praise the for presenting the arbor as old and rusted.  What do you think in terms of uh, how's that episode rank with the rest? It's just mush. It's like this and the last one were mush. Yeah, this is sort of kidding.    They die repeat until Suddenly that's no longer something they can do and then oh look we got speeders that crash into each other As they just send the mountain slope So hilarious lame. That was one of the best moments. There's been a couple of best moments these episodes are so lame Like if the fights were interesting and the stormtroopers were competent and they were just getting outmatched, but it's It's just turning into sludge Yeah, it is a bit. Yeah, but at least the next episode is apparently the great one. Oh, wow All right, but that wasn't very good Yeah, I agree Goodbye We are so hype and invested in the show right now. It's so great. I love it. Uh, see you for Yeah Yeah, next time So that's a bit picky we are I'll show you how chill I am you fuckers Oh my god Like surely they know that their speeder shots aren't gonna do anything to that when they chase it Like it was Oh What do you have for me what you bring me


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Hey, this is James from trial, Ontario Canada. You look watching trucker Josh blocks Good morning friends and Frontemies, how's it going? Oh, we got it. We got a leak We got a leak The whole needs a little spit shine one second one second Hold on guys hooking up the step deck. I got to go and Pick something up in Ross or Manitoba Bring it to one sec Pick it up in Ross or and bring it into Winnipeg and then come back here pick up a trailer a roll tight bring it into Bozerger Come here you why are you? Why are you leaking air? Try that. It's still leaking. I'm gonna have to do some convincing one second one second first thing in the morning You're messing with me What's going on here? Need a little bit more spit. I know it's a little gross, but it works I don't know why It does Try that one second told you okay. Here we go This is the trailer. It's gonna be my friend for the morning. I got these rocks off of there Why are there rocks on the deck? Don't want those bouncing off and going through someone's windshield. Oh They wouldn't it wouldn't like me very much and I prefer it when people like me.  There you go go down there with your friends That's how I saw another one over here. I did And one up there, too It's all this mud from okay, there's a couple up here That's where you belong okay. Oh I missed one. How do they miss these big rocks? Okay Let's go pick up our freight. I Wanted to be on the road already, but here we are trucking. That's how it goes. Oh Kick these tires here. Did I kick these on the way past? I don't remember so I'm gonna kick them again. I Kick them with my steel toes like that just to make sure that They're filled with air and not just any air compressed air premium compressed air don't want any flats because If the inside tire is flat the outside tire will hold it up, right and just by looking at it You can't tell got to the go there and kick it or hit it with a hammer or something or a tire whacker singer just to make sure that has air in it headed westbound on the south perimeter around Winnipeg and Everybody seems to be a little bit A little bit calmer than usual on the highway I Did already almost witness one rear end at the last traffic light People aren't watching ahead of them and when the light turns red traffic in front stops for the red light, right people do that The people behind them weren't paying attention and people behind them weren't paying attention People behind them weren't paying attention and by that point you can't even see that there's people stopping at the front of this whole line And suddenly one after another slam on the brakes one two three four and they just about pile up into each other But nobody hit anybody So there's nothing to report, but it was close All it takes is one person not paying attention and then everybody behind them is just assuming they're paying attention, right? never assume Or if you are going to assume just assume nobody knows what they're doing on the road That's what I do and I still get close calls every now and then Even when you expect everyone to do the dumbest thing they could possibly do it still surprises you when they actually do it Look at this oversized load up here. That is a huge front-end loader But at least they have it on a truck running down the perimeter in rush hour most days This is like a Winnipeg thing most days these tractors They just drive down the highway in the lane at you know, whatever their top speed is 30 mile an hour or 25 mile an hour whatever it is and They fly they drive down the highway traffic coming up behind them in rush hour at like 65 mile an hour a hundred kilometers an hour And there's in the lane just 30 mile an hour Almost every day you see that it's nice to see them actually transporting it properly on a trailer You know so they can keep up with traffic Because that's usually where the accidents happen when people aren't expecting a slow-moving vehicle And they're not paying attention and then bad things happen, but for some reason in Winnipeg The front-end loaders especially in wintertime when they're clearing snow and stuff to get from here to like over the river I guess the only way to get over the river or the quickest way for them is just to go on the highway and They they won't drive on the shoulder. They'll drive right in the lane, which is Dangerous in my opinion or what do you guys think? I haven't seen that anywhere else, but here in Winnipeg. It's a Winnipeg thing So that last load was pretty simple it was like six kids whatever just brought him into Winnipeg I'm hooked up to 547 now. This one's going to Boziger Once I have my own truck running here Beginning of June. I won't be switching trailers every day like this and doing multiple loads. I'll Be hooked on to a trailer and doing regional which is You know it could be it's sort of flexible I don't know where they need me to go as a regional driver, but we'll find out as we go It's not gonna be super long haul. I'm not gonna be gone for weeks at a time. I'm joining their regional fleet. So we'll We'll see I should be home on the weekends, but You know if I need the money and ain't to work I can always work through the weekend But it'll be back to a more of the old-school kind of trucker Josh vlogs on the highway diesel will be with me again every day and I'll be able to show you the life of an owner operator Here keystone We are trying to attract owner operators to come and work here So I figure this is a great way to show you From an owner operators perspective what life will be like here So I bought a 2008 Kenworth W900 flat top 244 inch wheelbase I'm gonna save the rest of all of the Reveal for when I actually get the truck Not too sure when the possession dates going to be yet, but it'll be next week sometime And as soon as I have it I got to bring it over here to our shop. They got to get the right decals on it Get it licensed get plates on it get it registered get the if-to-stickers all that stuff working And then it'll be coming home to my shop What a day it will be Truck I've wanted since I was eight years old Finally coming home with me So to Sam excited is an understatement very excited and I think I'll have a very good position I'll have the same dispatchers same Load gods that I'm working with except just instead of you know doing city work and being home every night I'll have my sleeper behind me on the Kenworth and We're doing overnights all the time I'm not too sure yet exactly how many nights. I'll be gone at the time. I know some of you have asked that already I don't know I Don't we'll find out as we go Fine by the seat of my pants just a little bit here no idea what I'm doing I Bought trucks before But this one's different The one Volvo I had leased through the company here. So the paperwork was very minimal Well, there's all the paperwork there that had to be there, but it was done through work here So I didn't have to go find financing on myself on my own It's Kenworth. I had to go find find the financing on my own the freight liner the first truck that I bought we bought off my cousin's dad and That was $15,000 back then this truck is a little bit more the market is a little spicy right now for buyers It's a you pay a little bit more for trucks than you used to But this truck has sentimental value to me as well It had more value to me than the next person probably this was the specific truck that I was looking for the exact one Almost down to a T the only difference we can talk about this more later once I actually have the truck But the only difference the only thing I compromised on was the engine. I wanted a cat C15 single turbo engine This has a Cummins ISX in it But it's pushing almost 700 horsepower It's a beast Like 690 horsepower he showed me the dino sheets and everything this thing is a monster So that's okay. Plus Cummins are being manufactured. They're a lot more popular than cat engines nowadays So I figure it'll probably be easier to get parts and stuff. I Don't know the engine wasn't a deal-breaker for me It was just I was kind of hoping for a cat but no 700 horsepower Cummins. I'll take it too.   I'm very excited about it. Very very excited. This is a Let me big day big moment for me and Brit is completely on board with the two I talked with her about it before I even started considering it She's on board as long as I'm on regional I can't be gone for weeks at a time and I don't want to be we're trying We're starting a family and we got that process started now So I want to be home as much as I can while at the same time Sort of living my dream as well like my dream is to be a dad have a good family Have a Kenworth W 900 Take my kids with me trucking take my wife with me trucking sometimes. That's that's you know a Piece of the dream So we're we're shooting for it now. I'm going for it dove in I Don't want to get to the end of my life one day and regret Not giving it a good shot So the wife's on board. I'm definitely on board It's gonna be an adventure. We still got our savings going on for our house We're gonna build a house within five years or so or in about five years around 2027. That's all still in the works. Everything is just Everything is rolling along the tracks here All we got to do is just keep her on the tracks right and make sure she doesn't derail there somewhere For now I got this trailer behind me I got a little bit of time yet before I have to leave and I'm gonna bring this out to Bozer and that'll be it for today This load is taking me north of Bozer Little northeast of Winnipeg Very close to Cotter's country. I love this area Everything's slowly starting to turn green though. You can see it on these trees off to the left here already We're getting there just coming up after this light pole Look at that. Oh I wish that this time of year wasn't so quick, you know, everything's gonna turn green We're gonna go to sleep wake up and there'll be snow on the ground I saw a video from Norway the other day and they already had like flowers and green stuff everywhere I thought Norway is supposed to be like as cold as here if not colder Why do they get nice weather already? I got about 15 minutes to my customer Hopefully we can unload this quick And that'll be the only things I'm doing today. I'm not sure what tomorrow is planned yet, but tomorrow is Friday Of course this delivery is down a gravel road I just washed the truck yesterday man. What is it? Was it dirty? When I did those loads the other day with the drive down those mud roads Truck got so dirty So I spent like an hour Or more cleaning it off yesterday Looks like I'm gonna be washing the truck again today What can you do right? You gotta gotta get her done. We've got some mud coming up over here Yeah, I can't avoid it all. I'm just gonna have to wash it again today I try to keep it clean, you know Oops Hey, you don't want to slow down too much here. It's gonna get a little soft We're running start at this one I'm just gonna send it. It's too late. It's too late She's dirty I was trying to go slower, but I can't go too slow. I don't want to sink in Just my luck. Oh well Good thing I got that nice pressure washer Thank you. You know who you are. It was actually a gift I really appreciate it Been using it every day Send it Come on Just signed my life away I signed the lease on the truck Ah It is real. It is go time. I bought a truck So I'm guessing uh taking possession of it next week We've still got to determine what day because there's a bunch of work being done to the truck yet There's be there's new transmission fluid going in new diff fluid A new clutch a new bumper on the front He's getting it polished I think that's been done already. It's looking great Uh, but but what else is getting done? There's a few other things that are getting done before I Before I take it as conditions of the sale and uh They said it takes about a week for the financing to all go through like for the funds to be transferred Because banks are slow So what is this Thursday today? So by next Thursday, hopefully the funds will have gone through and been released That means on friday or saturday. I should be able to pick it up next week A mixture of excitement and anxiety. It's a weird feeling Sometimes it's more anxiety and then the excitement pulls me back over to that side Then the anxiety pulls me back over this way and then Whoo, like I'll say in the other day buying a truck is uh is a bit of a gamble Uh, you could make a lot of money Or you could lose a lot of money But hopefully we'll be like somewhere right in the middle and we'll just make some good money Who am I kidding? Let's hope let's let's go for let's go big Let's hope we make a lot of money. The truck seems to be really good. It's had immaculate care and maintenance I trust the guy who's selling it and uh, I trust the uh, the people here who have been doing the maintenance on it All the maintenance history on the truck over the last six years is available Uh, every single fuel up the old the driver took uh wrote it down neatly and recorded fuel mileage every single piece of maintenance Had all the paperwork ready to show the the rebuild the engine's been rebuilt that 600 000 kilometers ago complete in frame so that was uh What 600 000 kilometers that's what 300 600 000 kilometers is about 380 000 miles Uh, it's what's on that brand new engine brand new in frame so, uh I'm feeling good. I'm feeling confident about the truck I feel good. I made a good decision. I feel it's just now now the the the reality sets in and I've got to pay for this truck because Contrary to popular belief, I didn't have the entire funds for the entire truck just sitting in a bank account and just paid in cash Wouldn't that be awesome? No, no, I had to get the help of some financiers. So uh, I gotta pay them back. I hate debt I'm not opposed to debt because debt is necessary to gain the capital needed to Invest and make more money. You need money to make money. So sometimes debt is necessary to make money The point now is that I have to pay that debt back I have to I have to get that down to zero. We've gotten our credit cards down to zero almost completely now We've gotten a lot of our other debt down to zero We're doing good. We're in a good spot And i'm confident with the industry where we're at right now I know fuel is high, but I also know that the rates are high as well. Uh, I know that it's a crazy crazy time to be getting into this But I don't know how to explain this. I'm following my gut I have a good gut feeling about this. This is going to be good I don't know how you guys feel about gut feelings and stuff, but I always say follow your gut most times It's telling you to do something for a reason and uh I'm nervous.  This market is crazy right now Not too sure what's going to happen flying by the seat of my pants just a little bit But I've also it's it's like an educated guess what I've been doing an educated estimate an educated gamble I've looked into it and I think this is going to be good. I think this is going to be good I can't wait to show you guys the truck. It's beautiful. It's beautiful Oh, it's gonna look so good in the shop. It's gonna look so good in there I'm excited. I'm excited So there's no going back from it now You know, we haven't heard Britt's opinion on this truck yet What do you think I'm excited for you Are you excited? Are you okay with this? Yeah, as long as you don't go long haul again. Regional's fine. Long haul? Uh-uh No No dice So I did clear it with her before I went and bought it Numerous times. Yeah, I wanted to make sure that she was going to be okay because I know that once we sign this Uh, I'm locked in now. It's a 42 month term And then at the end there's a little buyout yet and then it's all mine But it's pretty much yeah in 42 months. That's when all of this the financing will be complete So for that amount of time I'm going to be uh Stuck doing what I'm doing unless if I were to sell it But I really don't want to sell this truck because this is a truck I've always wanted and I want to keep uh, I want to actually rebuild it from the ground up and make it a new old truck So regional it is I'm gonna be jumping on to our regional open deck division with it and uh, we'll be starting hopefully june 1st So that's coming up quick. I've got about a week until then so I got about well. It's a long weekend this weekend So I got tuesday friday saturday, you know tuesday friday saturday tuesday wednesday thursday friday of work yet And uh, so I'm just waiting to take possession of it. The truck is being safetyed and like I said a bunch of other work being done to it quickly First uh on condition of sale And from what I understand it's all mostly done already. We're just waiting for maybe the clutch Let's get finished and the new bumper to go on the front And then we can arrange possession that should be uh, probably late this week. I'm thinking but and new couches Every time I turn around in here. I'm just like wow Yeah, we went big We were just waiting for our income tax from this year to come through and I'd put away a lot of money uh from uh four taxes And it turns out we had a little bit of a return yet And so we used all of that cash and uh, we got our IVF on the way There's another oh, we could probably do an update on that soon in the next couple of days Just uh, there's one more procedure. She's got to go through yet and then that's On the road And I won't be far away from home. I'm not going too far. I'm not going long haul over the road But uh overnight's I guess overnight's maybe two nights at a time three nights. I don't know what they're gonna do But I'll be home on the weekends How you like your chair? It's very comfortable. It looks comfortable Oh it is That's hers and that one's mine Both pretty much exactly the same except that one's attached to the coach And this one rocks. It's for when we have the baby. She's got a rocking chair The baby that doesn't even exist yet, but we'll get there. We have planned our whole lives around it yet. So Or already we planned our lives around it already him or her for now. I'll just swaddle wiener Swaddle him rock him practice.  You have to sit completely on my lap He doesn't look impressed. Well, don't don't have too impressed All right guys, well, we'll talk to you in tomorrow's video. We'll see you later


I'm curious how do you view the revision of those trade deals? Is this the fool's game? Is it a way to put that more protectionism because you say it's taking away free trade? I mean all those negotiations in Japan, Korea, Alina, I mean Mexico, Canada How do you view them totally inefficient? They're supposed to bring norms, you know at a certain level I mean they're supposed to bring some good at some some areas or you don't find them useful at all For the case of Korea US FTA revision, Marcus already told nothing much But one thing we could have gained a lot from that course FTA because original agreement says Within I mean from 2021 25 percent tariff on pickup truck will be gone But through this re-negotiations this 2021 is extended to 2041 Okay, so you know we don't produce and export anything any pick up truck yet to to us But we lost a lot of potential Benefits out of this kind of re-negotiations. So we are moving away from more free trade Marcus and then Carl. So The NAFTA agreement was 25 years old And there was all kinds of things like digital commerce that really didn't even exist when it was negotiated So you could make the argument that it was sort of like an old house that needed some refurbishing and if you had had The kind of government that existed in the United States for the previous three generations What would have come out of that process would have been far from perfect But it would have been a kind of rational attempt to bring the rules more into alignment with the actual way commerce was operating and you could But what happened was that effort a Lot of it was focused on the Trans-Pacific partnership Because it was simply a bigger deal Canada and Mexico were already members. So when we got TPP We would basically be sort of cleaning the now really mixing metaphors, but we would sort of be cleaning the whole house When Trump pulled us out of TPP that caused the trade diversion Problems I alluded to earlier with respect to say pork in the Japanese market but it also meant that we had to now do those things within the context of NAFTA and a Government that wanted to fix up those things probably could have done a better job But this government is fundamentally protectionist So it used that opportunity to do things like alter rules of origin that had the effect of making that agreement Pulling the agreement away from free trade rather than moving it ever closer Carl no, I only wanted to add that I think that the EU in its efforts to Conclude bilateral trade agreements genuinely wants to open markets. I think so and there are new Issues beyond tariffs. I mean all the what is happening in the trades in the services sector This is all liberalizing, but you know that there's a lot of opposition to trade deals in Europe today And in France especially I mean population doesn't understand them And it's it's a hard thing to to explain nowadays why it would be good eventually level playing field It's just it's not working people are not buying it anymore. I think in Europe. It has a different issue than in other places in Europe It's about the fear to lose influence on standards and the fear that there is no democratic legitimacy in in the changes and Of course the secrecy of it too. Yeah, and of course distributional concerns. Yeah, I think what What we have seen over over the last 30 years or so you certainly during the period of Hyper globalization is an increase in inequality Sometimes very clearly measured in the United States sometimes not that obvious like in United like in Germany There were since 2005 numbers are not actually moving anymore But perceived inequality has gone up quite a lot And so if you look at the research that exists of populism there seems to be a link and many believe that the trade openness access a base opening up trade access a base that problem it creates it creates losers and There's a very strong opposition Politically to to allow these these these losses to occur in periods of political fragility I think that is maybe in Europe the most important argument right now that Many would believe that the for example Mercos who agreement is actually a good thing. It actually helped us rain in Bolsonaro in his you know make him Abide by the Paris agreement for example, but the you know Fragility the political fragility within Europe makes it difficult to create users that would then you know support populist parties and wreck wreck havoc In ways that we don't want Sure, I mean your argument like a free trade is not welcomed by friends or you I think this is a traditional Issue I taught the international trade for many many years But when I come to the part of political economy trade policy, you know gains from trade It's spread all over the people whole population whole industry But the loss of the difficulty Out of a market opening is Concentrating on certain sectors that they can unite themselves and make a demonstration They can do lots of other things so politicians looking at this to side who you know politicians will take which part protectionist Polo systems is much better for their election. So now you mentioned about losers, you know I think you know politicians comes in then populist When the wind they lay on election, we were just before going back to you Marcus. I'd like to welcome you Mr. Wadahabi, thank you for being here and we were talking about free trade agreements And I know you have a great experience on the Japanese US trade agreement It would be nice for you to share with us Sure what you think we were talking about convertions of economies It's not exactly your point of view, I think if you might tell us how what you felt about the renegotiation Negotiation between us and Japan May I make intervention now? Well, sorry to be late. I thought that this session will start at 4 p.m. Oh, that's wrong. That was from 4 to 5 30 So I thought it's not a whole presentation because we're just going back and forth You know, just just answer through this question. I will answer to others afterwards. No problem Okay, there's a positive side and negative side of this most recent Japan US trade agreement first of all from Japanese perspective it was quite a Good agreement because we could avoid the imposition of 25% You know duties on Japanese cars to be imported to the United States from Japan So that's one thing and the negative side is that This will reduce the chances opportunities for United States to come back to the TPP So that's that's a negative side. Do you think it's a good thing? Oh bad thing You mean all together that's that's fine, but kind of a negative side is that Since you know the United States has been looking for Japanese agriculture market now United States got some Access you know improved access of US agriculture products to Japanese market. So that will reduce opportunities for United States to come back to TPP original TPP that is TPP 12 So Marcus Nolan who's sitting next to you was disagreeing on the terrace. Maybe he can explain why yeah So I do not believe that this agreement spares Japan from the Section 232 case on automobiles and the potential tariff. I mean Prime Minister Abe wanted that commitment, but he hasn't gotten it What the two sides have said is that there is a phase one of the negotiation? Which has been which has been announced, which is a limited number of tariff cuts or tariff cuts on a limited number of sectors But that but the key point is it actually doesn't do that It doesn't spare the Japanese automobile industry now There's going to be a phase two of the negotiation and perhaps at that point Japan can extract that commitment But it hasn't thus far and the other thing I would just make a minor point You know in the previous discussion we were we were discussing the US Mexico-Canada agreement as though it existed It's been negotiated, but the legislation hasn't been passed in the United States and the issue we face now is that The House of Representatives is controlled by the Democratic Party the speaker Nancy Pelosi If you just went and polled the congressman You smack up or whatever you want to call it could probably pass the House of Representatives But Pelosi wants to keep in kind of in step with whoever the eventual Democratic presidential nominee is going to be If it looks like that's going to be Joe Biden or somebody like Beto O'Rourke who have pretty moderate views on trade Legislation can move forward, but if it looks like it's going to be Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren She's going to hold back on that legislation. So even in the case of this agreement We've negotiated agreement, but the United States hasn't actually passed the implementing legislation Additional collateral damage that might come from the EU US agreement and that is the WTO once again because of It's article 24 that actually says that free trade agreement should cover Substantially all trades. So if you just pick what is easy for you and leave the rest then That might be violating article 24 and no who cares the US administration certainly not but we thought the Japanese would actually care and And in that sense, you know, that's that's a negative on that agreement at least in my in my view It doesn't cover substantially all trade and it doesn't take the tariffs to zero either one Well, actually, you know, I worked as a Economic affairs officer at the WTO secretariat some time ago dealing with article 24 and actually, you know after the you were around negotiations You have more precise term in you know in terms of say for instance Those FDA or customs union agreement should be concluded within the reasonable period of time and that has been defined as 10 years so you see maybe this agreement will come into force But in 10 years time that's considered to be reasonable lengths of time So if both Japan and the United States can agree to reach Higher level of coverage of this agreement that we find with WTO